Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan were stopped by a powerful banyan tree demon demanding emperor's nectar, so they set out to find some. After they left, Silver Snow revealed he had arranged the encounter because he had been waiting for Su Jiu.

• Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan avoided an attack of Wind Blades from an awakened banyan tree, and Su Jiu recognized Ning Fan's Phantom Flying Blades.
• Su Jiu apologized to the tree demon for disturbing its sleep and asked to pass, but it demanded a bottle of emperor's nectar.
• Chu Luohen and Ning Fan stopped Su Jiu from attacking and told her emperor's nectar could be found in the mountains.
• Su Jiu and her companions left to search for emperor's nectar.
• Silver Snow emerged from behind the tree and admitted he had told it to stop Su Jiu, while the tree demon complained that he would not give it his own emperor's nectar.

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan fought a group of powerful demon beasts, and Su Jiu and Chu Luohen were injured before the survivors rested by a fire. Chu Luohen later explained that the Netherworld Flower at the auction had lost its medicinal properties, a fact A Jiu had told him.

• Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan were ambushed by more than a dozen fifth-tier demon beasts and two sixth-tier Wind Spirit Demon Beasts.
• Su Jiu trapped and killed one Wind Spirit Demon Beast, but the other attacked her from behind and injured her.
• Chu Luohen fought and killed the second Wind Spirit Demon Beast while Ning Fan finished off the fifth-tier beasts.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen recovered beside a fire, and Chu Luohen felt remorse for failing to prevent Su Jiu's injury.
• Ning Fan asked Chu Luohen about the Netherworld Flower at the auction, and Chu Luohen said A Jiu had told him it had lost its medicinal properties.

Chu Luohen and Ning Fan discussed their reasons for coming to Netherworld Ravine and the Emperor’s Nectar, while Su Jiu recovered quickly overnight. The group encountered a clumsy nine-tailed fox cub on Thousand Fox Mountain, and Chu Luohen tried to attack it before Su Jiu intervened.

• Ning Fan told Chu Luohen he had come to Netherworld Ravine seeking a Dark Black Stone, and Chu Luohen said he knew someone who could locate the Emperor’s Nectar: the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.
• Su Jiu woke the next morning with most of her internal injuries healed, and Chu Luohen attributed her swift recovery to her constitution.
• A white fox cub ran into a tree, fainted, and revealed itself to Su Jiu as a nine-tailed fox with a possible connection to Silver Snow.
• Su Jiu picked up the cub, which blushed and nestled into her arms after waking.
• Chu Luohen summoned the Scarless Sword to attack the cub, but Su Jiu turned aside and stopped him.

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan traveled toward the Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes’ dwelling and found it sealed behind a powerful formation. When Su Jiu recognized the fox in her arms as Silver Snow, he stopped pretending to be an ordinary little fox and spoke to her.

• Su Jiu soothed the little fox, but Chu Luohen grew jealous and tossed him into a Spirit Beast Pouch.
• The group reached a waterfall that had not been there before, and Su Jiu and Chu Luohen realized it concealed a high-tier defensive formation.
• Chu Luohen explained that the formation could block Message Talismans, while he and Su Jiu suspected Silver Snow had created it after something happened to the Nine-Tailed Tribe.
• Chu Luohen released the little fox, who ignored the waterfall and leaped into Su Jiu’s arms instead of guiding them inside.
• Su Jiu called the fox Silver Snow and tossed him to the ground when he kept pretending not to understand her; Silver Snow then addressed her as “My Little Nine.”

The Three-Tailed Fox Demons in Yin Fox Cave rejected the Third Elder and His Highness’s offer to join a mission, remembering how they had been betrayed after the failed rebellion six years earlier. His Highness and the old man left empty-handed, while the imprisoned foxes regretted turning against the Nine-Tailed Tribe.

• The old man urged the Three-Tailed Fox Demons to serve His Highness in exchange for a chance to join the High-Ranking Fox Tribe and leave Yin Fox Cave.
• A red fox and a gray fox reminded the others that Shen San and the Third Elder had manipulated them into rebelling, then blamed them and imprisoned them after their defeat.
• The old man promised to plead for the foxes to avoid returning to Yin Fox Cave if they performed well on the mission.
• His Highness arrived, attacked the red fox with his demon aura, and released him when the other foxes threatened to retaliate.
• His Highness and the old man left without securing the foxes’ cooperation, and the foxes lamented their lost freedom and blamed themselves for following Shen San.

Shen San tried to use the foxes trapped in Yin Fox Cave as scapegoats and sent demon beasts to kill Chu Luohen and his companions, but both plans failed. Su Jiu and her companions met Silver Snow, who revealed that he was using a Shadow Clone.

• Shen San ordered an elder to secretly break the Barrier around Yin Fox Cave and let any escaping foxes flee, intending to make the breach look accidental.
• A subordinate reported that the demon beasts Shen San had sent after Chu Luohen and his companions had all been killed, including two sixth-tier beasts, one by a female Azure Tide Sect cultivator.
• Shen San learned that the female cultivator had killed one of his beasts and worried that killing Chu Luohen and his companions would be even harder.
• Su Jiu confronted the shrunken Silver Snow, who said he had come to welcome her and explained that his form was a Shadow Clone created by his second Innate Art.
• Chu Luohen eyed Silver Snow with hostility, while Silver Snow resented him for keeping him from approaching Little Nine.

Silver Snow explained how Su Jiu could use his fox-tail mark to contact him, then provoked Chu Luohen into a fight. The chapter ended with Silver Snow telling Chu Luohen that he and Su Jiu had spent five years alone together in the Seal Grounds.

• Silver Snow admitted he had forgotten to activate Su Jiu’s mark and reinforced it so they could contact each other through their divine senses.
• Su Jiu noticed Silver Snow seemed exhausted and asked about his injury, while Silver Snow pleaded for her to hold him.
• Silver Snow sprang toward Su Jiu, and Chu Luohen drew the Scarless Sword and attacked him.
• Silver Snow easily dodged Chu Luohen’s strikes, assessed his aptitude, and wounded him as the fight grew more dangerous.
• Silver Snow used Secret Voice Transmission to remind Chu Luohen that he and Su Jiu had spent five years alone together in the Seal Grounds, intensifying Chu Luohen’s desire to defeat him.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen encountered Silver Snow and his uncle, then learned that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes also sought the Netherworld Flower to cure a tribesperson. Silver Snow admitted he wanted to catch up with Su Jiu, while she refused to give up the flower and pressed him about trouble within his tribe.

• Chu Luohen fought Silver Snow until an elder arrived and stopped them, then introduced Silver Snow as his missing nephew and welcomed Su Jiu and the others inside.
• The elder opened a hidden entrance behind a waterfall, and the group returned from Netherworld Mountain, including the bloodied Yin Ze.
• Yin Ze told his grandfather that savage beasts had driven them back before they could obtain the Netherworld Flower, which was the only remaining cure for Sang Sang's illness.
• Su Jiu asked Silver Snow why his tribe needed the flower and learned that it was meant to save a sick tribesperson.
• Su Jiu told Silver Snow that she would help his tribe but would not give up the Netherworld Flower, then asked what he had stopped her for.
• Silver Snow said he had missed Su Jiu and wanted to catch up, but became more serious when she challenged his explanation.

Silver Snow warned Su Jiu that Netherworld Mountain was dangerous, but she remained determined to find a Netherworld Flower to save Su Mianmian. At the Nine-Tailed Foxes’ ancestral home, the old man asked Chu Luohen to protect his tribe and privately warned him to be wary of Silver Snow.

• Silver Snow deduced that Su Jiu planned to go to Netherworld Mountain and warned her about the Ghost Cultivators there, but Su Jiu said she would go anyway to save someone.
• Su Jiu admired the Nine-Tailed Foxes’ beautiful ancestral home while Chu Luohen listened to the old man’s request to protect the younger members of his tribe.
• Ning Fan learned that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes were dwindling from an incurable illness and that Yin Sang had been comatose for three years after contracting it.
• The old man asked Silver Snow to fetch emperor’s nectar, and a scarlet gleam flashed in Silver Snow’s eyes as he turned away.
• After Silver Snow left, the old man warned Chu Luohen that Silver Snow had been strange since returning a few years earlier and advised him to keep his distance.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen accompanied a Nine-Tailed Tribe elder to investigate Yin Sang’s worsening illness, where Su Jiu discovered a strange qi affecting the young fox. Ning Fan identified it as darkness stone, which could drain spiritual qi and life force as well as repair powerful formations and barriers.

• A Nine-Tailed Tribe elder warned Su Jiu that Silver Snow’s return had coincided with worsening troubles in the tribe.
• A fox reported that Yin Sang was coughing up blood, and Yin Ze and the elder brought Su Jiu and Chu Luohen to see him.
• The physician said Yin Sang had only two months left, and Yin Ze questioned a Six-Tailed Tribe maid about Silver Snow’s visit to the room.
• Su Jiu used her Otherworldly Eyes and saw withered-yellow qi turning black around Yin Sang.
• Ning Fan identified the qi as darkness stone and explained that it could drain spiritual qi and life force or be used to repair high-tier formations and seal barriers.

Su Jiu drew the black-and-yellow energy from Yin Sang and purified it, briefly improving his condition, while Yin Ze remained desperate for a cure. Silver Snow arrived as Yin Ze accused him of causing his brother’s illness, and his appearance stunned nearly everyone in the room.

• Su Jiu absorbed the black-and-yellow energy from Yin Sang and purified it with her Innate Origin Energy.
• The physician observed Yin Sang’s sudden improvement but said the illness remained mysterious and the Netherworld Flower might be the only solution.
• Yin Ze tried to rush out to find Silver Snow, blaming him for Yin Sang’s worsening illness, but the old man stopped him.
• Silver Snow entered and asked Yin Ze which wandering ghost he thought had possessed his uncle’s body.
• Silver Snow’s beauty captivated the maid and others, while Su Jiu remained unmoved and Chu Luohen watched Ning Fan.

Silver Snow challenged the accusation that he had harmed Yin Sang and proved he could not have been the figure seen entering Yin Sang’s room. The failed accusation revealed that someone might be trying to harm Yin Sang and frame Silver Snow, while Yin Ze apologized for blaming him.

• Yin Ze accused Silver Snow of worsening Yin Sang’s condition based on the maid’s account, but the old man stopped him from making further accusations.
• Silver Snow insisted they examine the evidence, and the maid described the white-robed, silver-haired figure she had seen.
• Silver Snow reminded Yin Ze that Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes could transform their appearance and asked him to check the hot spring guard’s records.
• Yin Ze received confirmation that Silver Snow had not been at Yin Sang’s room, realizing someone might have tried to harm Yin Sang and frame Silver Snow.
• The old man told Yin Ze to apologize, and Yin Ze apologized to Silver Snow for falsely accusing him.

After the culprit was executed, Silver Snow explained how the Chieftain had undermined his authority and turned the tribe against him. As Yin Ze confronted his grandfather over the Three-Tail Clan’s attacks, Silver Snow asked Su Jiu to wait so he could leave the tribe with her, but Chu Luohen refused and the group departed.

• Silver Snow told Su Jiu that rumors had made him unpopular after he was framed for setting up the tribe’s protective formation.
• Yin Ze accused the Chieftain of tolerating the Three-Tail Clan’s attacks and revealed that they had ambushed him at an auction.
• Yin Ze left with a group through the formation, while the Chieftain remained behind.
• Silver Snow asked Su Jiu to wait a few days so he could settle one last matter and leave the tribe with her.
• Chu Luohen refused, and Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan left without Silver Snow.

Silver Snow secretly investigated Shen San after Yin Ze confronted him over attacks on the Nine-Tailed Tribe, and learned that Shen San had concealed the truth about the escaped prisoners. Silver Snow followed Yin Ze after discovering Yin Ze had stopped beneath a tree instead of joining the search.

• Silver Snow decided to act quickly before Su Jiu disappeared again.
• Yin Ze confronted Shen San over the ambush on his younger brother, but Shen San denied knowing about it.
• Shen San learned that the prisoners in Yin Fox Cave had escaped, and Yin Ze agreed the escaped Three-Tailed Foxes might be responsible for the attacks.
• After Yin Ze left to pursue the escapees, Shen San admitted to a servant that his own faction had not harmed Yin Ze's brother.
• Silver Snow's avatar overheard Shen San and confirmed his suspicions, then followed Yin Ze and found him sitting beneath a tree.

Yin Ze and Silver Snow discussed the Chieftain’s strange changes and the illness spreading through the Nine-Tailed Tribe. Silver Snow revealed that the Chieftain had been possessed by a demon seed, leaving Yin Ze to face the danger within his family and tribe.

• Silver Snow met Yin Ze in the woods and acknowledged that he had been pretending to be foolish to survive within the tribe.
• Yin Ze asked whether Silver Snow and the Chieftain had clashed ten thousand years earlier, and Silver Snow said the Chieftain’s aura had changed.
• Silver Snow connected the Chieftain’s changes and the tribe’s growing illness to a demon seed, and Yin Ze decided it was time to settle things.
• Silver Snow explained that demon seeds magnified their hosts’ desires and could not be destroyed, then described how they had been sealed in the Demon-Subduing Land.

Silver Snow revealed to Yin Ze that Yin Sang had never been ill and might be behind the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s disappearances, then asked Yin Ze to trust him and watch what he did. Silver Snow also shared clues with Su Jiu, who arrived with Chu Luohen and Ning Fan, and Ning Fan asked why Silver Snow had summoned them.

• Yin Ze questioned why Silver Snow had kept his suspicions about Yin Sang from the tribe, and Silver Snow explained that no one would have believed him and that he planned to leave once the matter was settled.
• Yin Ze realized that the tribe members who fell ill had disappeared while Yin Sang remained, and Silver Snow confirmed that Yin Sang had never been ill.
• Yin Ze asked what he should do, and Silver Snow told him to do nothing and watch what he did.
• After Yin Ze left, Silver Snow called out Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan from behind a tree and teased Su Jiu for coming.
• Su Jiu thanked Silver Snow for the information about the Demon-Subduing Land and the demon seed, while Chu Luohen objected to Silver Snow clinging to her.
• Ning Fan asked Silver Snow whether he had summoned them merely to share information.

Silver Snow asked Su Jiu and her companions to capture the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s Chieftain for the tribe, then led them back to find the peach grove consumed by black mist. He confronted his uncle after discovering the devastation, leaving the cause of the destruction unresolved.

• Silver Snow asked Su Jiu and her companions to capture Yin Ze’s grandfather, the current Chieftain, on behalf of the Nine-Tailed Tribe so Yin Ze could take his place.
• Silver Snow told Su Jiu that the Chieftain had been involved in the attack that injured him while he set up the protective formation.
• Su Jiu and her companions returned with Silver Snow and found the protective formation gone, black mist covering the peach grove, and no living beings remaining there.
• Silver Snow revealed his true body and lamented that he had thought the Chieftain would spare some of the tribe’s younger members.
• Silver Snow sensed someone near the edge of the grove and demanded that his uncle explain what had happened.

Silver Snow confronted the Nine-Tailed Tribe chieftain over the missing tribespeople and learned that the old fox had taken them to the Demon-Subduing Land, believing its demon seeds granted eternal life. Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Silver Snow fought the demon-seed-controlled chieftain, and Silver Snow revealed that the seed was draining the old fox’s cultivation.

• The old fox appeared in the ruined Peach Grove and admitted he had taken the missing Nine-Tailed Tribe members to the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Silver Snow asked Su Jiu and Chu Luohen to protect his tribespeople while Ning Fan vanished to search for them.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen refused the chieftain’s demand to stay out of the dispute and declared they had come on behalf of the Azure Tide Sect.
• The chieftain attacked Su Jiu with black flames, but she dodged while Silver Snow challenged him over his demonic transformation.
• Silver Snow joined the battle in his true form and explained that the demon seed had drained the chieftain’s cultivation, not his lifespan.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen battled the Nine-Tailed Tribe chieftain, whose cultivation and flames had been corrupted by a conscious demon seed. The chieftain survived Su Jiu’s Ice Explosion Talisman, but his blackened markings and pupils revealed that the demon seed had taken complete control.

• Silver Snow explained that conscious demon seeds preserved their hosts’ vitality while eroding their cultivation and arts, and that the chieftain’s black flames showed he was infected.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen coordinated their attacks and wounded the chieftain with crossing sword qi.
• The chieftain charged at Su Jiu, but silver threads and Chu Luohen’s sword qi forced him to retreat and throw two fifth-tier Thunderstorm Talismans.
• Su Jiu evaded the chieftain’s renewed attack and struck him with an Ice Explosion Talisman, which blasted away patches of his fur but failed to kill him.
• The chieftain’s facial markings and pupils turned completely black, signaling that the demon seed had fully invaded him.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought Old Fox as he tried to advance and unleashed darkness aura made from a demon seed and darkness stone. Su Jiu’s icy spiritual qi erased the aura, leaving Old Fox stunned.

• Su Jiu interrupted Old Fox’s advancement with silver threads, then mocked him for expecting a fair fight between enemies.
• Chu Luohen blocked Old Fox’s attack on Su Jiu with a formation disk, but Old Fox turned on Silver Snow and bit his neck before escaping.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen pursued Old Fox with ice and sword arts, forcing him to unleash a black sphere of darkness aura.
• Chu Luohen struck the sphere with ice-infused sword qi while Su Jiu secretly added her own ice spiritual qi.
• The darkness aura hissed, smoked, and vanished under the icy-blue vapor, leaving Old Fox shocked.