Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu and her companions met with Bright Moon School Sect Master Qian Ling to discuss joining forces against the Water Moon School. They left with Qian Ling’s agreement to contribute her sect’s strength, while Su Jiu kept the details of the Water Moon School’s wrongdoing to herself.

• A Bright Moon School disciple invited Su Jiu and her companions to meet Sect Master Qian Ling, while Huo Yun remained stunned by the revelation that Qi Song descended from the Divine Race.
• The Bright Moon School disciples explained that Shui Rao'er had sent people to South City after her Personal Disciple’s Soul Lamp went out, though Su Jiu’s group suspected Qi Song was the true target.
• At the Bright Moon School’s main hall, Qian Ling admitted that her sect had been waiting for a chance to deal with the Water Moon School.
• Su Jiu refused to cooperate unless Bright Moon School’s upper ranks helped confront Shui Rao'er and the Elders, warning that the neighboring sect would be left exposed if the Water Moon School retaliated.
• Qian Ling agreed to contribute her sect’s strength, and Su Jiu said the Azure Tide Sect had intervened because the Water Moon School used the Demon Mirror to harm its disciples.

Su Jiu pieced together that the Water Moon School's immortal pool spring might be part of a Heavenly Star Rotation Technique formation and planned to seize the last Mirror Fragment before the sacrifice. Meanwhile, Li Yishi began confronting Ming Yun after realizing she had pushed him into the formation.

• Su Jiu mapped the Teleportation Arrays and realized the immortal pool spring lay inside the Water Moon School, where resentful qi might serve as a formation point.
• Su Jiu suspected the Water Moon School's hidden struggle involved only one necessary Mirror Fragment, while Lan Fang Ziyi raised the question of whose fate would be exchanged with Qi Song's.
• Yun Huanling calculated that the sacrifice would be most favorable the day after tomorrow, so Su Jiu decided their group would act that night.
• Huo Yun and Qi Song stayed at the Bright Moon School while Su Jiu and the others departed; Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling suspected Huo Yun planned to flee with Qi Song.
• Ming Yun failed to catch Mu Ran, and Li Yishi questioned Ming Yun about her history with Sect Master Shui and why she had brought him to the formation.

Ming Yun told Li Yishi that she needed him to retrieve an egg from a dangerous forest, revealing that the plan was meant to help Shui Rao'er and alter someone’s fate. Li Yishi learned that Shui Rao'er had secretly agreed to the scheme after her cultivation methods ravaged her lifespan, and he realized his master had been part of it all along.

• A Message Talisman interrupted Ming Yun as Li Yishi pressed her to explain what she wanted.
• Ming Yun asked Li Yishi to retrieve an egg from a trap-filled forest, explaining that only his supreme-yang birth horoscope could suppress its yin qi.
• Ming Yun revealed that Shui Rao'er did not know Li Yishi had been brought to retrieve the egg, and that another person was working with Shui Rao'er behind the plan.
• Ming Yun warned that refusing to retrieve the egg could mean Shui Rao'er would die, prompting Li Yishi to demand an explanation.
• Fate explained that Shui Rao'er's cultivation method had consumed her lifespan and left her weaker than an Out-of-Body cultivator should be.
• Ming Yun revealed that saving Shui Rao'er was only part of the scheme and that the group also intended to change someone's fate configuration, leading Li Yishi to realize Shui Rao'er had participated in the plan.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen followed Brother Wu’s map toward the Water Moon School, but Su Jiu suspected that someone had planted the route as bait. After sending Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi away to seek help if they did not return, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen faced the danger ahead.

• Li Yishi understood that Ming Yun had held back from confronting the Bright Moon School because her cultivation was strong on the outside but hollow within, and he asked what he should do.
• Su Jiu’s group followed the map Brother Wu had hidden in Huo Yun’s Message Talisman toward secluded points near the Water Moon School.
• Su Jiu noticed that Brother Wu had gathered the map’s information suspiciously quickly, checked the talisman’s aura, and told Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi to withdraw and seek help if she and Chu Luohen did not return within two hours.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen discussed whether a hidden mastermind was using Shui Rao'er as a pawn and luring them toward the final fragment as bait.
• Su Jiu resolved to continue down the dangerous path to obtain the fragment, but Chu Luohen suddenly attacked the space behind her with an ice-element art.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen found the hidden courtyard and discovered that someone had led them there through a series of calculated clues. The person behind the door revealed a connection to Chu Qianqiu, and Su Jiu demanded to know why they had been lured in.

• Su Jiu insisted that Chu Luohen let her help, and he followed her into a secluded courtyard arranged as a five-elements formation.
• Su Jiu realized the pond’s three apparent fish were masses of spiritual, demonic, and resentful qi, then heard someone invite them inside.
• Su Jiu tried to draw the Mirror Fragment from the pond, but her spiritual qi vanished into the water.
• A voice behind the courtyard door teased Su Jiu for probing the pond, while Chu Luohen challenged the speaker’s elaborate scheme.
• The speaker recognized Chu Luohen as Chu Qianqiu’s disciple and claimed Chu Qianqiu owed him a face and a life.
• Su Jiu dismissed the speaker’s ancient grievance and asked why he had lured them there to talk.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen were trapped by the masked man, who revealed he could watch events outside Xi He City and showed Qi Song and Huo Yun being attacked by demonic creatures. The chapter ended with Huo Yun fighting the fast, clawed monsters in the air.

• The masked man sensed Su Jiu’s attempt to set a formation, suppressed her spiritual qi, and invited her and Chu Luohen to watch two performances.
• The masked man showed Su Jiu a moving scene outside Xi He City, where Qi Song and Huo Yun were traveling together.
• Qi Song explained that he had left the Luoqi Divine Race to find someone and had decided to leave Xi He City after his five-year prediction failed.
• Two strange demonic creatures confronted Qi Song and Huo Yun, and Qi Song urged Huo Yun to flee because the attackers wanted to capture him.
• Huo Yun pushed Qi Song aside, dodged the monsters’ claws, and took to the air with his flying sword.

Huo Yun and Qi Song fought two monsters that learned their opponents’ moves, but Huo Yun suffered fatal injuries while destroying one with a magic treasure. As Huo Yun lay dying, he told Qi Song to leave Xi He City and stop trusting and helping everyone indiscriminately.

• Huo Yun discovered that the monsters could learn his attack patterns, keep up with him in the air, and intercept him with calculated strikes.
• One monster wounded Huo Yun, and he used a powerful spiritual-qi dragon to kill it while injuring the other, leaving himself severely weakened.
• Qi Song tried to heal Huo Yun, then defended him from the remaining monster as Huo Yun watched him with affection.
• An immense force pulled Qi Song away, and Huo Yun stabbed the remaining monster with a glowing magic treasure as it pierced his chest, destroying it before he collapsed.
• Qi Song fed Huo Yun a pill and tried to heal him, but Huo Yun’s injuries did not improve.
• Huo Yun told Qi Song to leave the area, wait until the chaos in Xi He City ended before returning, and stop trusting or helping people indiscriminately.

As Huo Yun died in Qi Song’s arms, Qi Song relived their shared memories while Su Jiu watched the events unfold on a scroll. The first story ended with Qi Song captured, and the scroll began showing the search for Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi.

• Huo Yun thanked Qi Song and apologized before dying in his arms, and Qi Song’s memories of their time together surfaced.
• Su Jiu tried to summon her sword, but Chu Luohen stopped her as two men in black separated Huo Yun and Qi Song and bound Qi Song with a Spirit-Locking Chain.
• The male cultivator declared the first story over and turned the scroll to events near the Water Moon School, where Su Jiu struggled against her restraint to save Yun Huanling.
• Two men in black searched for Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi, and one released a Spirit-Seeking Insect to track them by the venom on his sword.
• Su Jiu realized the men had wounded one of her companions with Spirit-Seeking Insect venom and suspected Yun Huanling had used the Qimen Arts to evade them.

Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi tried to escape two Water Moon School pursuers, but Yun Huanling had to use a Teleportation Array to save Lan Fang Ziyi and was captured. A man watching the events in the painting remarked that Yun Huanling had managed to let one person escape, though he regretted having one fewer person to torment.

• Yun Huanling and Lan Fang Ziyi realized the Water Moon School pursuers were tracking them, and Lan Fang Ziyi began running out of spiritual qi.
• Yun Huanling transformed himself and Lan Fang Ziyi into blades of grass, but the pursuers found them with a Spirit-Seeking Insect.
• Yun Huanling sprang out to protect Lan Fang Ziyi, trapped the pursuers in a formation, and began activating a Teleportation Array.
• Yun Huanling teleported Lan Fang Ziyi away just as the pursuers broke through the formation, then collapsed from exhaustion and was bound with a Spirit-Locking Chain.
• The man watching the painting praised Yun Huanling for helping one person escape and lamented that he had one fewer person to play games with.

Mask Man forced Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, Yun Huanling, and Qi Song into a formation game, promising to return the Mirror Fragment if they escaped and demanding one of them if they failed. Before entering the Teleportation Array, Su Jiu confronted him and deduced that he was from the Heavenly Secret Sect and had orchestrated the events surrounding Ming Yun.

• Mask Man brought Qi Song and Yun Huanling before Su Jiu and Chu Luohen, then proposed a formation game with the Mirror Fragment and one of their companions at stake.
• Mask Man removed the Spirit-Locking Chains, but Yun Huanling attempted to attack him and was thrown into the Barrier by his Robe-Clad Protection Art.
• Mask Man summoned a Teleportation Array, and Su Jiu and the others entered it after she questioned him about Huo Yun, Brother Wu, and his arrangements in Xi He City.
• Mask Man confirmed Su Jiu's deduction that he was from the Heavenly Secret Sect, and she accused him of using Ming Yun and her parents as pawns.

Su Jiu confronted a masked man about his thousand-year scheme to capture her and exchange her fate with Ming Yun’s, then entered the formation. Afterward, the masked man revealed his scarred face and vowed revenge on Chu Qianqiu, while Heavenly Secret Sect diviners foresaw upheaval in the Azure Realm within seventy years.

• Su Jiu deduced that the masked man was a reclusive senior of the Heavenly Secret Sect who had used the Demon Mirror to lure her and gather resentful qi.
• Su Jiu concluded that the man had prepared his scheme for at least a thousand years and suspected he wanted to exchange her fate with Ming Yun’s.
• The masked man did not answer how he had learned Su Jiu’s birth horoscope, and Su Jiu entered the formation after reminding him of his promise.
• The masked man removed his mask, revealed the scars covering the right side of his face, and vowed revenge on Chu Qianqiu.
• At the Heavenly Secret Sect’s Distant Lookout Platform, the elders and a young blue-robed man performed divinations and predicted that upheaval would strike the Azure Realm within seventy years.

The elders of the Heavenly Secret Sect discussed fortunes across the Azure Realm, but the Grand Elder could not divine the Vast Heaven Continent. Yun Jing warned that trouble might center on the Demon-Subduing Land, then revealed that his nephew Yun Huanling could be in danger; a bloodied figure burst in before Hongguang could ask for more.

• Hongguang and the elders reviewed the other continents and found no signs of upheaval greater than past incidents.
• The Grand Elder announced that the heavenly secrets of the Vast Heaven Continent were obscured, so he could not divine its fortunes.
• Yun Jing suggested investigating the Windforest Star River Secret Realm and the forest near the Demon-Subduing Land, and shared rumors of a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox nearby.
• Hongguang suspected the Demon-Subduing Land might be where the turmoil began, while Yun Jing considered that the chaos might already be underway.
• Yun Jing said the Nightfall Cold Pool was fine but his nephew Yun Huanling might be in trouble, and a bloodied person stumbled into the Distant Lookout Platform.

Lan Fang Ziyi arrived at Hongguang’s sect, prompting Ning Hai to learn that the Demon Mirror plot targeted Su Jiu and to alert the other sects. Trapped in the Water Moon School’s space, Su Jiu challenged Qi Song to stop surrendering to despair, while Yun Huanling urged him to grow up and seek revenge.

• Lan Fang Ziyi collapsed after warning that a junior brother was in trouble, and Hongguang sent a message to the Azure Tide Sect.
• Ning Fan delivered Xia Jue’s letter to Ning Hai, revealing that the Water Moon School had created the Demon Mirror as bait to target Su Jiu.
• Ning Hai ordered the other seven great sects to be told that the Water Moon School created the Demon Mirror.
• Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, Chu Luohen, and Qi Song found themselves alone in the space connected to the Water Moon School, where a mysterious voice promised them trials and gifts.
• Su Jiu goaded Qi Song about Huo Yun’s sacrifice, and Qi Song admitted he wanted revenge but felt powerless.
• Yun Huanling warned Qi Song that he would become the Mask Man’s tool unless he changed, telling him it was time to grow up.

Su Jiu and her companions confirmed that the Library Pavilion had been stripped of its books, mirrors, and Teleportation Array, though Yun Huanling’s divination showed they remained on the Azure Mist Continent. They found a chaotic formation in a misty forest and realized that unraveling it link by link could be dangerous.

• Qi Song regained his resolve to live on and carry forward Huo Yun’s share of life as well as his own.
• Su Jiu and the others searched the deserted Library Pavilion and found its Teleportation Array and hidden star map missing.
• Yun Huanling used his Compass to divine that the group was still within the Heavenly Dao’s laws, and Chu Luohen suggested the masked man had exploited a loophole in them.
• Qi Song proposed exploring places they had not yet visited, so the four left the pavilion and headed in the opposite direction from their earlier route.
• Su Jiu and her companions sensed a formation where spiritual qi and demonic qi intermingled in a lush, empty forest.
• Yun Huanling warned that the chaotic formation would have to be deciphered link by link and might contain linked Killing Arrays.

Su Jiu chose to enter the dangerous formation with Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling, leaving Qi Song behind after he urged her to go. As the three entered, Qi Song blessed them and realized Su Jiu was the person his tribespeople had sent him to find.

• Chu Luohen warned that the chaotic formation could be deadly and argued that Qi Song should stay behind, while Su Jiu insisted on bringing him because the Mask Man might target him.
• Chu Luohen revealed that Su Jiu was the one whose fate the Mask Man sought to exchange, and he accused her of risking everyone’s lives to save Qi Song.
• Qi Song told Su Jiu he would wait safely outside and urged her to leave, and Su Jiu apologized before entering the formation with Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling.
• Qi Song used his magic staff to send pink light over the three cultivators as they approached the formation.
• After Su Jiu and the others vanished inside, Qi Song realized she was the person his tribespeople had sent him to find and hoped his blessing would help future searchers.

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Yun Huanling explored a misty formation and discussed how spiritual and demonic qi could be fused. They encountered a giant beast whose cultivation kept changing, and Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought it as Yun Huanling joined them.

• Yun Huanling learned that Su Jiu’s blessing prayer had cost Qi Song lifespan, and he regretted being harsh about abandoning him.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen explained that a chaos body or the magic treasure Rongxi could fuse spiritual and demonic qi.
• Su Jiu sensed a giant beast approaching through the mist and saw its cultivation fluctuate between nascent soul stages.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen dodged the beast’s attack and resisted its roar, which struck at the sea of consciousness.
• Yun Huanling drew his sword and charged into the fight, then cursed when he noticed the beast’s cultivation had changed again.

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Yun Huanling fought an unfamiliar monster that changed its cultivation and abilities several times before they killed it. Afterward, Su Jiu discovered that the formation around them prevented anyone from using Formation Disks, leaving the group unable to teleport out.

• Yun Huanling charged the monster, but it knocked his sword away and Su Jiu intervened before it could strike him.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought the monster as its cultivation shifted, and Yun Huanling discovered that his Formation Disk would not work.
• The monster raised its cultivation toward the spirit severing stage, hardened its fur, and launched powerful attacks against Su Jiu and Chu Luohen.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen struck together with their spirit treasures and killed the monster.
• Su Jiu found that spiritual qi could not enter her Formation Disk and realized the formation was preventing them from teleporting out.
• Yun Huanling asked what the monster was, and Su Jiu admitted that she did not recognize it either.

Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen examined the strange beast and discovered that it existed outside the five elements, while their speech and abilities were being restricted by an unseen observer. After finding four unusual beads in its ashes, the three turned back to the mist-filled Jungle and decided to study the chaotic qi currents for clues to the formation.

• Su Jiu recovered her spiritual qi and joined Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen as they examined the beast's shrinking, dissipating corpse.
• Yun Huanling used the Compass to determine that the beast fell outside the five elements, and Chu Luohen split its corpse open with a streak of sword light.
• The beast's blood turned into gray smoke and its body became ash, leaving four black-and-white beads that Yun Huanling could not put into his Storage Bag.
• Su Jiu discovered that her speech had been silenced, and the group realized an unseen person was monitoring them and restricting their abilities.
• Chu Luohen said they would have to deduce the formation's rules, and he closed his eyes to sense the chaotic qi currents.

Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen identified the foggy space as a Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation and activated its pillars to reveal the formation eye. They vanished with Yun Huanling’s Compass, while giant beasts and a mysterious figure appeared in the empty space.

• Su Jiu observed that fused demonic and spiritual qi circulated through plants in a repeating pattern, and the three realized it matched a Three Talents Formation.
• Yun Huanling used his divination treasure to locate formation pillars as Chu Luohen questioned whether the formation had more than three trees and stones.
• Su Jiu recognized that the space could be a Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation and found three additional stones with her divine sense.
• Su Jiu activated marks on six stones while Chu Luohen activated marks on six trees, sending beams of light into Yun Huanling’s Compass.
• A formation totem appeared beneath the three, and they vanished along with the Compass.
• Giant gray-furred beasts emerged, followed by a mysterious figure who sighed over the dead beast as the fog thickened.

The Mask Man manipulated Qi Song by claiming Su Jiu and the others had abandoned and deceived him, then revealed that the Heavenly Star Rotation Technique would exchange Su Jiu and Ming Yun’s fates. He offered Qi Song a chance to summon Huo Yun’s soul during the rite, leaving Qi Song with a reason to cooperate.

• The Mask Man visited Qi Song and suggested Su Jiu and the others had abandoned him and might have let Huo Yun die to make him return to them.
• Qi Song rejected the Mask Man’s accusations and learned that veiling the heavenly secrets would not kill him, though it would bring him bad luck.
• The Mask Man revealed that the rite would exchange Su Jiu and Ming Yun’s fates, shocking Qi Song.
• The Mask Man told Qi Song that placing one of Huo Yun’s belongings on the altar during the rite could gather Huo Yun’s soul.
• Qi Song rose and demanded that the Mask Man explain, while the Mask Man urged him to cooperate in the rite.