Chapter Summaries

Qian Xin stormed the Library Pavilion’s Third Level and killed Li Gou before ordering the Water Moon School disciples to slaughter the weakened prisoners. As the battle turned against them, Huo Yun secretly protected the blind Qi Song, while a jealous cultivator drew attention toward the Fourth Level door and forced Huo Yun to choose whether to expose himself.

• Qian Xin led his group into the Library Pavilion after the female cultivator removed the barrier, and they discovered that the Third Level seal had been broken and the prisoners released.
• Li Gou tried to win Qian Xin’s favor by claiming he had tried to stop the escape, but Qian Xin snapped his neck and ordered everyone else killed.
• The Water Moon School disciples fought the weakened prisoners on the stairs, wounding or crippling several of them as the Red-Robed Woman watched Su Jiu and her companions work on the seal.
• Huo Yun recognized the blind Qi Song and discreetly blocked Water Moon School disciples from reaching him.
• A jealous male cultivator steered his companions toward Qi Song, then claimed the prisoners breaking the Fourth Level seal had to be stopped.
• Someone rushed toward the Fourth Level door, and Huo Yun feared that blocking Qian Xin would reveal his attempt to protect Qi Song.

Huo Yun protected Qi Song from Qian Xin, then joined Su Jiu and the others after the Fourth-Floor Door opened and released black miasma and vengeful souls. On the Fourth Level, Su Jiu discovered that Demon Mirrors and a formation blocked the way to the Fifth Level, leaving the group to find a safe way forward.

• Huo Yun intercepted Qian Xin to protect Qi Song and refused Qian Xin's offer to help him escape.
• The Fourth-Floor Door opened, releasing black miasma and numerous vengeful souls into the Library Pavilion.
• Su Jiu found Qi Song and invited him and Huo Yun to join her group, then killed two vengeful souls with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword.
• Su Jiu used her otherworldly eyes to discover that mirrors imprisoning vengeful souls filled the Fourth Level and that a formation blocked access to the Fifth Level.
• Huo Yun warned Qi Song to ignore any voices from the Demon Mirrors.

Su Jiu and the others became trapped in the Library Pavilion with Qian Xin’s group as vengeful souls attacked everyone inside. Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought off the spirits, while Qian Xin and others noticed the unusual power in Su Jiu’s sword; Qian Xin secretly sent a fine white thread toward it.

• After Su Jiu and the others opened the seal, the Library Pavilion’s doors and windows vanished, trapping everyone inside with the black mist and its vengeful souls.
• As the spirits killed and wounded cultivators, Qian Xin’s group stopped fighting each other and focused on surviving.
• Su Jiu trapped a spirit attacking Qian Xin with her ice spiritual qi, and Qian Xin thanked her while realizing she was his mission target.
• Yun Huanling explained that a vengeful soul could amplify a cultivator’s power before eventually taking over their body.
• When another spirit attacked Huo Yun, Chu Luohen knocked it down with a Buddhist spirit artifact and Su Jiu destroyed it with her Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword.
• After a cultivator noticed a flash of gold in Su Jiu’s sword light, Qian Xin sent a fine white thread toward the sword.

Su Jiu realized that a powerful soul had escaped from a shattered mirror and possessed Li Gou, whose strength had surged toward the Spirit Severing Stage. With her spiritual qi running low, she fought to hold him off as Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi attacked from the sidelines.

• Qian Xin probed Su Jiu with his divine sense, but she detected him, warned him to stop prying, and left with Chu Luohen following her.
• Su Jiu examined the shattered mirror fragments and explained that an uncontracted soul could escape when its mirror broke.
• Li Gou, driven by resentment and a mirror's promise to help him, shattered it and absorbed the escaped soul into the space between his brows.
• Su Jiu and the others recognized that the mirror's soul had possessed Li Gou, whose cultivation was nearing the Spirit Severing Stage.
• Li Gou attacked Su Jiu, who struggled to defend herself while conserving her remaining spiritual qi; Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi's attacks did little damage.
• Yun Huanling stopped attacking and summoned the Compass.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen defeated Li Gou, and Su Jiu trapped and purified the vengeful soul that escaped from him. The group investigated the mirrors on the Library Pavilion’s fourth floor, and Su Jiu explained how they formed the formation before Huo Yun asked why the eight connected mirrors had not attacked them.

• Su Jiu used high-grade talismans while Chu Luohen fought Li Gou, and together they battered him to death.
• Su Jiu trapped the black qi escaping Li Gou in her ice spiritual qi and purified the vengeful soul.
• A cultivator suggested Su Jiu spread her spiritual qi throughout the Library Pavilion, and Chu Luohen killed him with a sudden sword strike.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling searched the walls for clues, then returned and discussed the mirrors with Lan Fang Ziyi and the others.
• Su Jiu explained that eight mirrors served as formation pillars and that the vengeful souls inside them could control ten other mirrors; Huo Yun asked why they had not attacked.

As vengeful souls and black miasma surged through the fourth level, Su Jiu used spirit-cleansing pool water to repel them and protect nearby cultivators. Lan Fang Ziyi and Qian Xin raised Soul-Purifying Formations, and Lan Fang Ziyi charged a Water Moon School disciple one hundred thousand spirit stones for shelter.

• The vengeful souls and negative energy erupted, drawing cultivators toward the mirrors as Su Jiu recovered and infused her spiritual qi with spirit-cleansing pool water.
• Su Jiu struck two Water Moon School disciples with ice spiritual qi, clearing their heads and opening a path through the miasma.
• Lan Fang Ziyi and Qian Xin deployed Soul-Purifying Formations that destroyed weaker vengeful souls.
• A Water Moon School disciple asked to enter Lan Fang Ziyi's formation, and Lan Fang Ziyi demanded one hundred thousand spirit stones under a Heavenly Dao contract.
• The disciple agreed, entered the formation, and saw the pursuing vengeful soul vanish; he then realized Su Jiu had inspired Lan Fang Ziyi's scheme.

Su Jiu froze the pillar mirrors to restrain the vengeful souls while Yun Huanling prepared a Heavenly Secret Sect method to break the ancient Demon-Trapping Formation. As Su Jiu’s spiritual qi dwindled, Yun Huanling began spreading a web of glowing lines from the position he had calculated.

• Su Jiu used Thousand-Mile Ice Seal to freeze every mirror except the eight pillar mirrors.
• Yun Huanling placed eight rune-covered spirit fir tokens according to his compass, and the tokens caused the vengeful souls intense pain when they touched them.
• With the mirrors suppressed, the cultivators weakened most of the vengeful souls, while Su Jiu’s ice spiritual qi held the mirrors in place.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling explained that the formation was a modified Demon-Trapping Formation with a moving formation eye, making reckless destruction of the mirrors dangerous.
• Yun Huanling moved to the position he had calculated, and glowing lines began spreading outward from him.

Yun Huanling broke the formation on the fourth level, opening a staircase to the fifth, while Su Jiu collected the dangerous mirrors to purify later. The group found a Teleportation Array on the fifth level and entered it.

• Yun Huanling maintained his hand seals through violent tremors until the formation settled, the mirrors went still, and a staircase appeared.
• Qian Xin warned his subordinate to obey him and called out the man's personal grudge against Huo Yun.
• Yun Huanling swallowed a pill, and Su Jiu used her spiritual qi on the mirrors before freezing them and storing them for later purification.
• Su Jiu challenged Qian Xin over whether the mirrors belonged to the Water Moon School, and he denied the claim before she led her companions up to the fifth level.
• Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, Yun Huanling, their companions, and Qi Song entered the Teleportation Array at the center of the fifth level.

After emerging in Xi He City's Southern Woods, Su Jiu and her companions were ambushed by Qian Xin and the Water Moon School disciples. As the battle escalated, Brother Wu revealed that Qian Xin had called for reinforcements and urged Huo Yun to get everyone to South City, while he stayed behind to uncover the Water Moon School's secrets.

• Huo Yun watched Qi Song leave, and after the cultivators entered the Teleportation Array, star maps appeared across the fifth floor.
• Lan Fang Ziyi identified their arrival point as Xi He City's Southern Woods, but Qian Xin attacked Su Jiu and ordered his people to capture her and kill the others.
• Chu Luohen fought Qian Xin with Sword Qi, while the clash injured nearby Water Moon School disciples and former prisoners.
• Brother Wu told Huo Yun that Qian Xin had sent a Message Talisman to summon Water Moon School reinforcements and urged him to lead the others to South City.
• Brother Wu stayed behind to search for the Water Moon School's secrets, then kicked Huo Yun out of the path of a sneak attack.
• Huo Yun killed the attacker and received Brother Wu's warning to hurry everyone away.

Su Jiu used an illusion realm to turn four Water Moon School disciples against each other, restoring much of her spiritual qi while they fought over their reward. She then attacked the remaining Water Moon School disciples, and Qian Xin noticed the carnage while still battling Chu Luohen.

• Su Jiu dismissed Qian Xin's plea for help from his sect as a useless trump card and trapped the disciples pursuing her in an illusion realm.
• Su Jiu appeared to lie helpless, and four Water Moon School disciples carried her back to Shui Rao'er for a reward of spirit stones and magic treasures.
• The four disciples fought over the reward, secretly allied against their strongest companion, and then turned on one another until all three survivors died.
• Su Jiu watched the disciples kill one another and used the time to recover seventy percent of her spiritual qi.
• Su Jiu drew the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword and killed the Water Moon School disciples around her as Qian Xin noticed the fallen bodies while fighting Chu Luohen.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen defeated Qian Xin, and Su Jiu questioned him about the vengeful-soul fragments and the Water Moon School’s mirrors. Qian Xin revealed that the final fragment was at the altar and that a masked man had led him to them, but Su Jiu spared him knowing he had no way back to the school.

• Chu Luohen took over the fight after Su Jiu recovered, while Su Jiu blocked Qian Xin’s Thunderstorm Talisman with a fifth-tier formation.
• Su Jiu trapped Qian Xin in her Snow Domain and used her otherworldly eyes to learn that the final fragment was at the altar and that the Water Moon School had distributed mirrors among the Eight Great Sects and smaller sects.
• Qian Xin told Su Jiu that a masked man had revealed their location, but he did not know where the altar was.
• Yun Huanling sent a Message Talisman after Su Jiu signaled him, and he pointed out that the Water Moon School had abandoned Qian Xin.
• Su Jiu released Qian Xin and let him live, leaving him to realize that the secrets he had revealed had cut off his path back to the Water Moon School.

Su Jiu's group returned toward South City, while Qi Song rejected Huo Yun's apology and fled from their unresolved past. At the Water Moon School, Shui Rao'er entered a secluded courtyard and demanded an explanation from the person inside.

• Huo Yun caught Qi Song aside, and Qi Song insisted he had come only for the investigation and had deliberately left his eyes untreated as a reminder of past betrayal.
• Huo Yun apologized but stayed silent when Qi Song asked for the reason behind what had happened, so Qi Song left and fled when Huo Yun asked whether he had missed him.
• Shui Rao'er arrived at a secluded Water Moon School courtyard, where A Chen initially blocked her entrance.
• Shui Rao'er pressured A Chen until the person inside let her enter, then demanded an explanation and was told her manner of speaking was inappropriate.

Shui Rao'er confronted Hong Ming over his control of the Water Moon School and the sacrifices required by their plan, while A Chen privately struggled with his loyalty to Hong Ming. In South City, Su Jiu and Qi Song met Hu Jing, who explained that she had discovered the Water Moon School’s secret, but the chapter left her account unfinished.

• Shui Rao'er challenged Hong Ming over Qian Xin and the disciples, but Hong Ming insisted that she had entrusted him with authority and that sacrifices were necessary.
• Hong Ming warned Shui Rao'er that she could choose only between her life and her sect, and she demanded that nothing go wrong on the planned day.
• After Shui Rao'er left, Hong Ming asked A Chen whether he wanted to leave with her, but A Chen said he wished to follow Hong Ming forever.
• Su Jiu and Qi Song returned to the inn and found Hu Jing awake; Hu Jing thanked them for saving her and asked Su Jiu to return the mirror fragment.
• Hu Jing told Su Jiu that she had entered the Water Moon School as a formal disciple and accidentally discovered its secret, including cultivators being nurtured in a strange space.

Hu Jing recounted how the Water Moon School crippled and imprisoned her, and how she escaped through a dangerous formation. Su Jiu refused to return the Mirror Fragment, warning that destroying it could unleash its resentful qi on Xi He City, while Hu Jing explained that she would rather live as a mortal than pursue immortality.

• Hu Jing said the Water Moon School used Immortal Pool Spring to drain cultivators and prepared a sacrifice with an evil object, and that a fellow prisoner entrusted her with a fragment to destroy.
• Hu Jing explained that she escaped after an abusive female cultivator took her outside, where she wandered through a jungle filled with illusions and somehow passed through an Interlocking Harmony Formation.
• Yun Huanling and the others marveled at Hu Jing's unlikely escape, while Hu Jing secretly became drawn to Yun Huanling.
• Hu Jing asked Su Jiu to return the fragment, but Su Jiu refused and warned that its resentful qi could devour all of Xi He City if it were smashed.
• Hu Jing accepted Su Jiu's warning and said she had always wanted a mortal life spent pursuing meaningful things and traveling with a kindred spirit.

Hu Jing chose a mortal life, and Su Jiu gave her a formation disk to travel to a city of mortals. Qi Song returned to his medicine shop with Su Jiu and Huo Yun to end his five-year relationship with A Cen, whom Huo Yun identified as Ying Cen, Shui Rao'er's personal disciple.

• Hu Jing said she wanted to live among mortals, travel, and find a good man, then asked Su Jiu to destroy the mirror fragment.
• Su Jiu revealed her Azure Tide Sect Enforcement Hall token, and Hu Jing said she would establish an Enforcement Hall in the Mortal Lands.
• Su Jiu gave Hu Jing a formation disk that could teleport her to a city populated entirely by mortals.
• Qi Song told Su Jiu he wanted to face A Cen and say a proper goodbye, and he rejected her offer to walk away from the matter.
• At the medicine shop, Qi Song thanked A Cen for the past five years and said he was leaving, while Huo Yun revealed that she was Ying Cen, Shui Rao'er's personal disciple.

Qi Song rejected A Cen’s attempt to discredit Huo Yun, and A Cen revealed her feelings before taking an Explosive Pill and attacking Su Jiu’s group. As the battle began, Qi Song explained that the Water Moon School had blinded and surveilled him, and Lan Fang Ziyi realized Qi Song was the person he had suspected.

• A Cen tried to convince Qi Song that Huo Yun was an impostor, but Qi Song confronted her about the Water Moon School’s personal disciples and ended their relationship.
• Su Jiu revealed that she had exposed A Cen’s eavesdropping and that Qi Song had tested her, prompting A Cen to understand why Qi Song’s attitude had changed.
• A Cen attacked Su Jiu, raised her cultivation by swallowing an Explosive Pill, and confessed that she had fallen in love with Qi Song despite being sent to spy on him.
• Su Jiu struck at A Cen with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword as Chu Luohen and Huo Yun readied their Life-Bound Treasures, while Yun Huanling pulled Lan Fang Ziyi into a formation to keep him out of the fight.
• Qi Song told Lan Fang Ziyi that Water Moon School disciples had blinded him five years earlier and that A Cen’s rescue had been part of a plan to keep him under surveillance.
• Lan Fang Ziyi recognized Qi Song as the person he had suspected and concluded that the Water Moon School already knew Qi Song’s identity.

Lan Fang Ziyi revealed that Qi Song was a descendant of the Luoxi Divine Race and explained why the Water Moon School had been monitoring him. Meanwhile, Ying Cen blamed Su Jiu for ruining her plan to take Qi Song away and attacked her in a rage.

• Lan Fang Ziyi told Qi Song that he had been identified as belonging to a secluded clan and that the Water Moon School had been watching him for its own purposes.
• Lan Fang Ziyi explained that Qi Song's people could conceal heaven's secrets, and Qi Song realized the altar and other events might involve him.
• Lan Fang Ziyi sent Hongguang a message that he had found a descendant of the Luoxi Divine Race, then assured Qi Song he would be safe with them.
• Ying Cen, who had loved Qi Song and planned to take him away from the Water Moon School, blamed Su Jiu for exposing her identity and ruining her plans.
• Su Jiu fought Ying Cen and told her that Qi Song would eventually have learned the truth regardless.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought Ying Cen while Huo Yun withdrew, and the spectators realized Ying Cen’s pill had kept her at full strength far longer than an Explosive Pill should. Su Jiu discovered that Ying Cen’s meridians and dantian were dangerously damaged and filled with chaotic spiritual qi, but Ying Cen broke free of Su Jiu’s Ice Binding Technique.

• Huo Yun withdrew when his spiritual qi ran low and watched Su Jiu and Chu Luohen coordinate their attacks against Ying Cen.
• After a quarter of an hour passed without Ying Cen weakening, Qi Song, Huo Yun, and Yun Huanling suspected she had taken a modified Explosive Pill.
• Lan Fang Ziyi realized that prolonging an Explosive Pill’s effects could make its already severe damage to the meridians and dantian even worse.
• Su Jiu used her Otherworldly Eyes and saw that Ying Cen’s meridians were cracked and stretched while her dantian contained chaotic five-element spiritual qi and demonic qi.
• Su Jiu told Chu Luohen that Ying Cen would eventually die from her condition, then trapped her with the Ice Binding Technique.
• Ying Cen broke out of Su Jiu’s Ice Binding Technique, astonishing Lan Fang Ziyi and Yun Huanling.

Su Jiu used the transformed Ice Silk Net to capture Ying Cen after the Immortal Pool Spring and a suspicious Explosive Pill drove Ying Cen into a deadly, mindless frenzy. Qi Song restored Ying Cen’s awareness, and she begged him to end her suffering.

• Qi Song explained that the Immortal Pool Spring had filled Ying Cen with spiritual qi of all five elements and was likely killing her, while Huo Yun suspected Shui Rao'er had given her the pill.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought Ying Cen, and Su Jiu wove the Ice Silk Net to restrain her.
• Su Jiu explained that she had changed the Ice Silk Net’s fixed form when it advanced and now had to weave it manually to make a net.
• Qi Song stopped Ying Cen’s rampage, gave her a pill, and restored her awareness.
• Ying Cen admitted she had lied to Qi Song and begged him to kill her quickly.

After Ying Cen’s death, Su Jiu learned that the Heavenly Star Rotation Technique required a sacred artifact or a descendant of the Divine Race to hide it from the Heavenly Dao. Qi Song revealed that he belonged to a fallen Divine Race, and Water Moon School agents blocked the group’s path.

• Huo Yun killed Ying Cen, and Qi Song sealed the clinic shut before leaving with the others.
• Lan Fang Ziyi found a cloth in Ying Cen’s Storage Bag that pointed to the Immortal Pool Spring, where the last Fragment was located.
• Su Jiu contacted Xia Jue, who confirmed the strange space lay within the Azure Mist Continent and explained what the Heavenly Star Rotation Technique needed.
• Qi Song admitted he was a descendant of the fallen perch divine race, and Lan Fang Ziyi said the Water Moon School had been watching him.
• The group headed toward South City's gate after sensing a commotion, but several people blocked their path.