Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu led her companions through the dangerous formations and demon beasts to reach the Phoenix Egg. As the cave collapsed and Bai Su fell into the cavern, Su Jiu used Su Mianmian’s blood to make the egg acknowledge her as its master first.

• Su Jiu broke the third-tier Hollow Bamboo Formation, suffering numerous wounds before reuniting with Su Mianmian, Li Yaran, and Jin Chen.
• Su Jiu insisted on continuing along the dangerous path, and the group fought through a horde of first-tier demon beasts.
• Su Jiu’s group reached a blazing cave and found a red-glowing Phoenix Egg in a huge nest.
• The cave began collapsing, and Su Jiu cut Su Mianmian’s hand and pressed it against the egg to make it acknowledge its master.
• Bai Su fell into the cavern, but the Phoenix Egg had already accepted Su Mianmian’s blood and did not absorb hers.

Su Jiu and her companions escaped the collapsing cave with the Phoenix Egg, which bonded with Su Mianmian before Bai Su could claim it. After emerging in the Azure Tide Sect’s Secret Realm, Bai Su confronted Su Jiu, while Su Jiu left the Phoenix in Su Mianmian’s care.

• Su Jiu told Su Mianmian to store the Phoenix Egg, then protected the group with Golden Bell Shield talismans as the cave collapsed.
• Bai Su demanded the Phoenix Egg, but Black Stone told her that Su Mianmian had bonded with it first.
• Su Jiu and the others climbed out of the cave, and the Azure Tide Sect disciples recognized Bai Su as an intruder from the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
• Bai Su drew her Spirit Sword and accused Su Jiu of taking her Phoenix, while the disciples prepared to defend their personal disciple.
• Su Jiu explained that the Phoenix suited Su Mianmian’s fire spiritual root and could protect her, leaving Li Yaran astonished that Su Jiu gave it away.

Su Jiu returned to Ice Veil Peak and achieved Foundation Establishment, revealing her extraordinary body and vast sea of consciousness. Her breakthrough sent a wave of cold across the Azure Tide Sect, while the elders suspected that the black vapor that took Bai Su was an avatar of the creature sealed beneath Great March Mountain.

• Hong Ling offered Su Jiu her protection, and the elders discussed the black vapor that had carried Bai Su away, suspecting it came from the sealed creature beneath Great March Mountain.
• Su Jiu returned to Ice Veil Peak, gathered ice spiritual qi, and compressed it in her dantian until she successfully achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Su Jiu discovered that her dantian’s liquid had turned silvery white, her cultivation technique had advanced, and her body had translucent meridians, crystalline bones, and an ocean-sized sea of consciousness.
• Su Jiu saw a silver scale and the Green Bud floating above her sea of consciousness, and the bud waved its leaves at her.
• Su Jiu’s breakthrough sent cold air through the sect, drawing notice from Ning Hai, Hong Ling, Su Mianmian, and the elders, who anticipated preparing more gifts for rising disciples.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Su Jiu prepared to leave Ice Veil Peak and received gifts and advice from her master, martial uncle, and Sect Leader Ning Hai. Ning Hai assigned her to lead a team to reinforce the seal on the Nightmare Beast in Great March Mountain near her hometown, Peace City, and she asked to have another disciple report back so she could continue traveling afterward.

• Chu Mojin returned to Ice Veil Peak, congratulated Su Jiu on reaching Foundation Establishment, warned her to stay cautious outside the sect, and gave her a Storage Ring filled with spirit stones.
• Su Jiu examined the bracelet her martial uncle had left, finding books, a superior-grade Spirit Sword named Purple Ultimate, protective clothing, and shoes, then concealed the valuable items beneath ordinary clothes.
• Su Jiu visited Blazing Flame Peak, where Hong Ling gave her three bags of fruit from Su Mianmian, who had entered seclusion.
• Sect Leader Ning Hai summoned Su Jiu to Heavenly Origin Hall, gave her a Storage Bag of supplies, and explained that personal disciples received missions from the sect's leaders.
• Ning Hai assigned Su Jiu to lead a team to reinforce the seal on the great demon Nightmare Beast in Great March Mountain, and Su Jiu asked whether another disciple could report the mission's completion while she continued exploring.

Su Jiu returned to Peace City with Azure Tide Sect disciples and rescued the Su Family from attackers paid by Bai Su. She reunited with her family and gave them resources to strengthen their cultivation, while preparing to confront Bai Su's family the next day.

• Su Jiu learned that the Nightmare Beast's seal had last been reinforced seven years earlier by a group led by Liu Liu Xing'er, and that the Sect Leader suspected Bai Su had taken one of its manifestations.
• Su Jiu arrived at the Su Family residence and drove back the people attacking her family with Sword Qi.
• Su Jiu revealed that she was a member of the Su Family and reunited with Madam Su and the Su Family Head.
• The attackers said Bai Su had returned with resources and offered Spirit-Gathering Pills for injuring or killing Su Family members; Su Jiu ordered them to leave and announced she would visit the Bai Lineage the next day.
• Su Jiu gave her family magical treasures, Talismans, medicinal pills, and Foundation Establishment Pills, and urged the Su Family Head to attempt foundation establishment.

Su Jiu learned that Liu Xing'er had deceived the Su Family into fighting Nightmare Beast avatars during the Great March Mountain mission, then protected the Su estate and prepared to confront the Bai Lineage. The chapter ended with the Head of the White Household anxiously searching for Bai Su, who had left the estate.

• Su Jiu reunited with Su Qingqing, who recognized her as Sister A Jiu.
• The Su Family Head revealed that Liu Xing'er had falsely invoked the Azure Tide Sect's authority to make the clans fight Nightmare Beast avatars and conceal her mistake.
• Su Jiu protected the Su estate with a Formation Disk and warned Bai Lineage Zi to tell the truth when he returned.
• Su Jiu gathered the Su Family disciples injured by the Bai Lineage and led a group to the Bai Lineage's gates before dawn.
• The Head of the White Household learned that Bai Su had left the estate and angrily demanded to know why no one had stopped her.

Su Jiu confronted the Bai Lineage over its attacks on the Su Family, punished the disciples responsible, and warned the household against harming her family again. She then left for Great March Mountain with Bai Jiazi to locate the Sealing Formation and investigate the possibility that the Nightmare Beast’s seal had weakened.

• Su Jiu challenged the Head of the White Household over the bounty on the Su Family and threatened to place a richer bounty on the Bai Lineage.
• The Head of the White Household admitted Bai Su and several disciples were responsible, but revealed that Bai Su had fled; Su Jiu ordered the other attackers punished by their victims.
• Su Jiu warned the Bai Lineage not to harm the Su Family again, then formally said farewell to Madam Su and the Su Family Head.
• Bai Jiazi used a compass supplied by the Sect Leader to locate the Sealing Formation on Great March Mountain.
• Su Jiu and the group reached the formation’s location, where they began investigating the seal after the Sect Leader suspected a Nightmare Beast Clone had escaped.

Su Jiu and the other cultivators uncovered and reinforced the Grand Sealing Formation, while an old man forced a Heavenly Secret Sect disciple to divine the location of a woman carrying a scrap of cloth. After Su Jiu reported Liu Xing'er’s past crimes to the Sect Leader, she parted from Bai Lineage Zi and continued her Trial Journey.

• Su Jiu and the cultivators carefully exposed the layered Grand Sealing Formation, and Bai Lineage Zi explained its fragility and how it contained the Nightmare Beast.
• An old man forced a frightened Heavenly Secret Sect disciple to divine the location of the scrap of cloth’s owner; the disciple said she was near Peace City and heading toward Li City.
• After three days, Su Jiu and the group finished reinforcing the Grand Sealing Formation, and Su Jiu told Bai Lineage Zi that Liu Xing'er should face the consequences of her actions.
• Su Jiu used a Message Talisman to report Liu Xing'er's past crimes to the Sect Leader, with Bai Lineage Zi providing his account.
• Su Jiu declined to return with Bai Lineage Zi, bade farewell to the disciples, and continued her Trial Journey.

Su Jiu investigated the Ran Lineage’s slaughter in Li City and learned that the Zhao Household was connected to the clan by marriage. After hearing that girls had been disappearing at night and the Zhao Household was suppressing the news, she became more determined to investigate the Zhao Residence.

• Su Jiu learned from a hawker that the Ran Lineage had been slaughtered in Li City seven years earlier and that a witness had seen three flying shadows, one carrying something that glowed green.
• Zhao Yanhe introduced himself as the young master of the Zhao Household, hinted that his nephew had been born shortly before the Ran Lineage’s extermination, and invited Su Jiu to visit his residence.
• Su Jiu declined Zhao Yanhe’s invitation but suspected that he was trying to draw her attention and decided to investigate the Zhao Residence that night.
• The innkeeper warned Su Jiu that girls aged ten to sixteen, especially those from out of town, had been disappearing and that the Zhao Household had suppressed the news.
• Su Jiu thanked the innkeeper and resolved to investigate the Zhao Residence, suspecting it concealed secrets and might have informants nearby.

Su Jiu infiltrated the Zhao Household and was captured after discovering its alliance with demonic cultivators. Imprisoned with abducted girls and a wounded Heavenly Secret Sect disciple, she learned that Lin Miaomiao had uncovered the Zhao Household’s treason, while Li City’s clans seemed unaware of the missing girls.

• Su Jiu broke the Zhao Household’s Concealment Array, fell into a Spirit-Binding Net, and confronted Zhao Yanhe and a demonic cultivator seeking revenge for his junior brother.
• Zhao Yanhe revealed that the Zhao Household traded favors with demonic cultivators, and the old man ordered Su Jiu locked up as a medicinal ingredient.
• Zhao Household disciples threw Su Jiu into a basement and restrained her with a Spirit-Locking Chain.
• Su Jiu found several abducted girls and a badly wounded Heavenly Secret Sect cultivator among the prisoners.
• Lin Miaomiao told Su Jiu that she had discovered the Zhao Household exchanging letters with the Heavenly Demon Sect, and feared her father was being deceived.

Su Jiu questioned the Heavenly Secret Sect cultivator who had divined her whereabouts and learned he could undo her Spirit-Locking Chain. He freed her, restoring her spiritual energy and summoning Purple Ultimate, while revealing that his master had pushed him to cultivate by constantly praising Su Jiu.

• Su Jiu recognized that the Heavenly Secret Sect cultivator had tracked her using a scrap from her robe and deduced that he was a Personal Disciple who had sneaked out.
• The cultivator offered to unlock Su Jiu's Spirit-Locking Chain in exchange for her taking him back to the Heavenly Secret Sect, and she agreed.
• The cultivator used his Destiny Compass to force the Spirit-Locking Chain open, warning Su Jiu that the demonic cultivator would sense it.
• Su Jiu regained her spiritual energy and summoned Purple Ultimate, impressing the captive girls and revealing her identity to the cultivator.
• The cultivator complained that his master had driven him to run away by constantly comparing him to Su Jiu, whose master Chu Mojin often visited the Heavenly Secret Sect to talk about her.

Su Jiu battled the demonic cultivator while Zhao Yanhe tried to use the imprisoned girls as hostages. In the basement, Lin Miaomiao saw through Zhao Yanhe’s attempt to make them doubt Su Jiu, leaving the girls less inclined to surrender.

• The demonic cultivator abandoned his cave and rushed to the Zhao household, where Su Jiu confronted him and fought him to a standstill.
• Zhao Yanhe ordered his men to bring out the prisoners so he could use them to force Su Jiu to stop fighting.
• Su Jiu’s golden formation burned the men who tried to reach the prisoners, and Zhao Yanhe went to the basement to inspect it.
• Zhao Yanhe told the girls that Su Jiu had fled, but Lin Miaomiao challenged his claims and pointed out that he had arrived without the demonic cultivator.
• Lin Miaomiao mocked Zhao Yanhe, and the girls’ doubts began to fade as they laughed at him.

Lin Miaomiao exposed Zhao Yanhe’s lies and kept the captives inside Su Jiu’s protective formation while Su Jiu fought the demonic cultivator. Su Jiu destroyed his gourd and killed him, but his dying words warned that the Heavenly Demon Sect would target her.

• Lin Miaomiao accused Zhao Yanhe of colluding with demonic cultivators and warned the captives that Su Jiu had prepared the formation to protect them.
• A frightened female cultivator considered surrendering, but Lin Miaomiao and a male cultivator persuaded her that Zhao Yanhe would not spare her.
• Zhao Yanhe left after failing to convince the captives, while Su Jiu continued fighting the demonic cultivator despite her wounds.
• Su Jiu discovered that her ice spiritual qi prevented the demonic cultivator’s severed arm from healing and used Ice Binding Talismans to contain the black qi from his gourd.
• Su Jiu destroyed the demonic cultivator’s cloak and pierced his gourd with an Ice Arrow, causing the black qi to disperse and the cultivator to die.
• The dying demonic cultivator warned Su Jiu that the Heavenly Demon Sect would set its sights on her.

Su Jiu rescued the captive girls and slaughtered the Zhao Household members tainted by demonic cultivation. As the disciple she spared offered to reveal a secret from seven years earlier, Su Jiu paused to hear him out.

• After killing the demonic cultivator, Su Jiu ordered the Zhao Household servants to bring everyone to the Front Courtyard and freed the captive girls.
• Su Jiu declared that the Azure Tide Sect would reject Zhao Household disciples, then killed a youth who had practiced demonic cultivation.
• Three Zhao Household foundation establishment cultivators attacked Su Jiu, but she defeated and killed all three.
• Lin Miaomiao encouraged the rescued girls to seek entry to the Azure Tide Sect in three years, and several decided to try.
• Su Jiu killed Zhao Household disciples tainted by demonic qi until the last one begged to live and offered to reveal a secret from seven years earlier.

Su Jiu learned how Zhao Yanhe’s dealings with demonic cultivators led to the Zhao Household’s ruin, then set off with Yun Huanling after rescuing him. She suspected he was connected to the hidden Yun Household and laid down rules for their journey.

• Su Jiu found a demonic contract mark on Zhao Yanhe’s corpse and considered visiting the Black Market.
• The girls said farewell to Su Jiu, and Lin Miaomiao promised to join the Azure Tide Sect in three years.
• Yun Huanling introduced himself, and Su Jiu suspected he was a direct-line descendant of the Yun Household on Nameless Island.
• Su Jiu told Yun Huanling he must stay with her and perform divinations once his vitality recovered, while leaving a third rule for later.
• Yun Huanling said he had been imprisoned for about two months, and Su Jiu bought clean clothes and changed before continuing their journey.

At the Heavenly Secret Sect, Hongguang and a young man debated whether a newly deviating Red Star threatened the Azure Realm and agreed to investigate secretly. On the road to Dawn City, Su Jiu and Yun Huanling were stopped by three suspicious robbers, and Su Jiu let them take her Storage Bag.

• Hongguang worried that the Red Star would bring calamity and predicted the Child of Destiny would soon stray from its course.
• The young man warned Hongguang against inciting panic, and they agreed to search for the people connected to the Red Star in secret.
• Hongguang noticed a silver karmic thread linking the Red Star to one of its surrounding stars.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling traveled toward Dawn City and encountered three cultivators pretending to be robbers.
• Su Jiu handed over her Storage Bag, suspecting the two crude robbers were servants of the refined cultivator among them.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling reached Dawn City after she killed a group of bandits carrying concealment stones, then hired a poor boy named Dapeng to guide them through the city. As Yun Huanling asked what interesting events had happened lately, they began exploring the prosperous metropolis.

• Su Jiu killed a dozen bandits and found stolen goods, including numerous concealment stones, in their Storage Bags.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling joined the queue to enter Dawn City, where Zhou Haotian tried to claim he was exempt from the rules but was forced to queue.
• After entering the bustling city, Su Jiu and Yun Huanling hired the frail guide Dapeng for fifty Spirit Pearls.
• Yun Huanling asked Dapeng whether anything interesting had happened in Dawn City lately.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling explored Dawn City, bought concealment stones, and learned how to obtain invitations to its auction. After hearing that the boy who guided them had a seriously ill mother, Su Jiu offered to see her.

• The boy told Su Jiu and Yun Huanling that Dawn City's auction began in two days and required an invitation.
• Su Jiu bought ninety concealment stones from a stallholder, while Yun Huanling bought ten, and learned that a nearby mineral vein supplied the city.
• The boy explained that Su Jiu could seek an auction invitation through the Black Market, whose entrance appeared at midnight.
• The boy asked whether Su Jiu could exchange his ten spirit stones for medicine for his sick mother, and Su Jiu offered to go see her.

Su Jiu examined Dapeng’s ailing mother and refused her request to take the boy away, while Yun Huanling recognized her bracelet as a keepsake from his dead Senior Brother Tian. As they left, Su Jiu and Yun Huanling came upon two men arguing over whether to pawn a sword for the Dragon Whisker Fruit auction.

• Dapeng brought Su Jiu and Yun Huanling to his family’s hut, where Su Jiu found that his mother’s illness stemmed from grief and a weakened will to live.
• Dapeng’s mother asked Su Jiu to take him away and offered her family’s bracelet, but Su Jiu refused to take the boy.
• Yun Huanling recognized the bracelet as a Storage Bracelet connected to Senior Brother Tian, whose soul lamp had gone out three years earlier, and kept it as his senior brother’s keepsake.
• Su Jiu left Dapeng’s mother a bottle of pills, and Yun Huanling gave the family a thousand spirit stones.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling saw two young men arguing outside a pawnshop because one wanted to pawn Azure Cloud to buy a Dragon Whisker Fruit at an auction.

Su Jiu reunited with Qin Ming and Liu Zhiyan in Dawn City and learned they needed money to bid on a Dragon Whisker Fruit for someone in their sect. She lent them a hundred thousand spirit stones and planned to visit the Black Market with Yun Huanling before the auction.

• Liu Zhiyan spotted Su Jiu and Yun Huanling outside a pawnshop where Qin Ming was about to pawn his Azure Cloud Sword.
• Su Jiu revealed that she had reached Foundation Establishment two months earlier, astonishing Qin Ming and Liu Zhiyan.
• Liu Zhiyan asked Su Jiu to lend them a hundred thousand spirit stones so they could bid on a Dragon Whisker Fruit, and she gave them the money.
• Qin Ming offered Su Jiu an auction invitation, but she said she and Yun Huanling would try their luck at the Black Market instead.
• Qin Ming introduced himself and Liu Zhiyan to Yun Huanling, who recognized Qin Ming as the Jade Sword Sect's famed Senior Disciple.