Chapter Summaries

Lou Sheng and Ye Wanqing witnessed Chong Mo’s tenderness toward Ouyang Yanyu, after which Chong Mo ended his engagement to Ye Wanqing. Ye Wanqing insisted on the breakup despite her Master’s initial refusal, and by the end of the chapter she had withdrawn from the Sect’s gossip and focused on preparing for the Grand Tournament.

• Lou Sheng and Ye Wanqing found Chong Mo brushing crabapple petals from Ouyang Yanyu’s hair, and Lou Sheng confronted him about his engagement.
• Chong Mo stopped Ye Wanqing from checking Ouyang Yanyu’s pulse and demanded to break off his engagement to her.
• Ye Wanqing accepted the breakup, and Chong Mo left with Ouyang Yanyu while Lou Sheng stayed beside Ye Wanqing.
• After Ye Wanqing insisted on the breakup and knelt for three days, Lou Sheng told True Lord Pinglan the reason, and he agreed to end the engagement.
• The Sect learned that Chong Mo and Ouyang Yanyu were together, while Ye Wanqing avoided them and spent her time watching Su Jiu practice swordsmanship.

Ye Wanqing’s encounter with Su Jiu lifted her spirits and helped her improve her cultivation before the Grand Tournament. As the Azure Tide Sect departed for Peaceful City, Su Jiu chose to travel separately and remained determined not to join the tournament.

• Su Jiu tested Ye Wanqing with suppressed early Golden Core strength, then warned her to stay alert after Ye Wanqing cheerfully praised her.
• Su Jiu smiled at Ye Wanqing, easing her gloom, and Ye Wanqing returned to practicing her arts with renewed energy.
• Over the next two days, Ye Wanqing’s strength improved, while Su Jiu heard rumors about Ouyang Yanyu and Chong Mo but chose not to judge or get involved.
• The Azure Tide Sect set out for the Grand Tournament in Peaceful City with more than a hundred disciples and elders aboard its Flying Boat.
• Su Jiu declined to board the Flying Boat and planned to reach Peaceful City on her own, while Ye Wanqing and Lou Sheng explained that the extra disciples were there to cheer.

Su Jiu explored Peaceful City and learned that the Curse Spirit Sect was offering a reward for two pills. When the pill vendor and his accomplices tried to rob her outside the city with a sheet of curse script, Su Jiu froze and shattered it.

• Su Jiu wandered Peaceful City’s market but found little useful information.
• At the Mission Tokens, Su Jiu learned that the Curse Spirit Sect sought a Great Restoration Pill and a Lifespan Pill, and heard about its curse arts.
• Su Jiu introduced herself as a member of the Azure Tide Sect, then left after noticing people following her.
• Outside the city, the pill vendor and more than a dozen stall owners confronted Su Jiu and demanded her belongings.
• The robbers brought out curse script, but Su Jiu froze it and shattered it with a snap of her fingers.

Su Jiu questioned the rogue cultivators who had tried to rob her and learned that they bought their curse scripts from a market seller who had recently appeared more often. After Little Pearl exposed the group’s claim that they had never killed anyone as a lie, Su Jiu demanded that their leader take her to the seller, but he refused and she withdrew her sword.

• Su Jiu trapped the rogue cultivators behind an Ice Wall and questioned them about the curse script they had used.
• The leader said they had bought the script from a market stallholder who had been appearing frequently ahead of the Grand Tournament.
• The leader explained that the group had been robbing people for a year to save money for a place on the Hongsheng Heavenly Road.
• Little Pearl told Su Jiu that the cultivators had lied about never killing anyone, though they showed no signs of deep murderous karma.
• Su Jiu asked the leader to take her to the curse-script seller, but he refused, so she held her sword to his neck before withdrawing it.

Su Jiu brought Xiao Fan to her after learning he was a curse master, while Xiao Fan’s history revealed the Curse Spirit Sect’s strange poverty and his struggle to earn money without angering the Heavenly Dao. Their first exchange ended with Su Jiu correcting his assumption that she was older.

• Su Jiu intimidated the robbers into taking her to the curse master, explaining that she only wanted to ask him about curse arts.
• The chapter recounted how the Curse Spirit Sect’s disciples faced a deadly karmic pattern, chronic poverty, and strict limits on their ability to earn spirit stones.
• Xiao Fan cautiously tested whether he could sell more than ten curse talismans and, with Peaceful City busy ahead of the Grand Tournament, began selling them freely.
• Xiao Fan declined the robbers’ invitation to join their planned robbery, then watched as they returned with Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu asked Xiao Fan whether he was a curse master, and he confirmed it before she revealed that she was forty and he was fifty-seven.

Su Jiu exposed Xiao Fan’s true age and cultivation, then asked him to examine the ancient sealing curse afflicting her. Xiao Fan could not lift it but agreed to take her to the Curse Spirit Sect after learning she was Su Jiu of the Azure Tide Sect.

• Su Jiu revealed that Xiao Fan was fifty-seven and at the Golden Core Stage, while the stallholders rebuked him for claiming to be seventeen.
• Su Jiu asked Xiao Fan about his Curse Arts and had him examine the curse on her wrist.
• Xiao Fan identified the curse as an ancient sealing curse merged with Su Jiu’s bloodline, but admitted he could not lift it.
• Su Jiu deduced that Xiao Fan belonged to the Curse Spirit Sect and explained how the stallholders’ information helped her find him.
• Xiao Fan agreed to take Su Jiu to meet the sect’s seniors after asking her identity, and she introduced herself as Su Jiu of the Azure Tide Sect.

Su Jiu arrived at the impoverished Curse Spirit Sect and asked its elderly sect leader to remove a curse. The sect leader identified it as a powerful sealing curse suppressing both Su Jiu’s talent and possibly her bloodline, but said it required a Spirit Transformation-stage Curse Master and a day of supreme yang to remove.

• Xiao Fan brought Su Jiu to the tiny, dilapidated Curse Spirit Sect, whose disciples were away earning money after the Heavenly Dao lifted its restriction three months earlier.
• Su Jiu met the elderly sect leader, who briefly lost her dignified composure while admiring Su Jiu’s valuable belongings.
• Su Jiu asked the sect leader to examine the curse inside her, and the sect leader detected an unusual sealing curse woven through her bloodline and meridians.
• The sect leader explained that removing the curse required a Spirit Transformation-stage Curse Master or higher and a day of supreme yang.
• Su Jiu learned that the curse might have suppressed a special bloodline as well as her talent.

Su Jiu learned that her sealing curse could only be broken by a cultivator above spirit transformation, the caster’s death, or her own advancement to spirit transformation. At the Curse Spirit Sect’s dusty Library Pavilion, she found that her jade slip was missing half of the third curse-breaking method and obtained the complete version.

• The Old Lady explained the sealing curse and the conditions needed to break it, while Su Jiu asked to consult a curse-breaking manual.
• The Old Lady led Su Jiu and Xiao Fan to the neglected Library Pavilion, where Su Jiu cleaned it with a supreme-grade Dust-Cleansing Talisman.
• Su Jiu compared her jade slip with the sect’s copy and discovered that half of the third curse-breaking method was missing from hers.
• The Old Lady confirmed the missing content, and Su Jiu suspected that someone had deliberately altered her jade slip before she arrived in this space.
• Xiao Fan sensed Su Jiu’s intimidating aura and wondered whether her cultivation surpassed the Sect Master’s.

Su Jiu received the Jade Slip she needed and discovered that a strange Storage Bag held her attention. She bought it from the elder for thirty thousand spirit stones, leaving him to transfer its contents while insisting they were his to keep.

• Su Jiu learned that she needed to reach the Spirit Transformation Stage before she could lift the Curse Arts afflicting her and awaken Little Gift.
• The Old Lady welcomed Su Jiu back and introduced her to the returning disciples as a big client.
• Two Golden Core disciples fought over who was worthy of Su Jiu, then left the sect courtyard to settle it.
• Su Jiu watched the elder's Storage Bag and offered to buy it, raising her bid to thirty thousand spirit stones.
• The elder accepted the deal and began transferring the spirit stones inside, insisting that the bag and its contents belonged to him.

Su Jiu traced Qi Song’s Storage Bag to a mountain path and learned that a blind adopted son of the Fang Family would compete in the Healing Cultivators’ Grand Tournament as Fang Song. The chapter revealed how Qi Song had been taken in by the Fang Family, begun making pills to heal his eyes, and left for the tournament with them.

• Su Jiu paid the Elder thirty thousand spirit stones to take her to where he had found Qi Song’s Storage Bag.
• Su Jiu learned that the path led to Clearwind Town and heard that the Fang Family’s blind adopted son would represent them at the tournament in Peaceful City.
• The Fang Family disciples warned each other to call Qi Song “Fang Song” in public as they arrived in Peaceful City for the tournament.
• Qi Song recalled waking in the Fang Family’s home after falling into the Spatial Curse three months earlier and deciding to heal his eyes.
• Qi Song used herbs from his Storage Ring to make pills, and a Fang Family Junior Disciple reacted in shock after seeing what he was working with.

Qi Song joined the Fang Family’s procession to compete in Peaceful City, hoping victory might help him find Su Jiu and Chu Luohen. At the inn, the Fang Family encountered a room dispute involving the arrogant Sixth Lord of the He Family, whose attendants boasted about his talent and chances of winning.

• The Fang Family accepted Qi Song’s offer to compete for them, and he took the name Fang Song as their newly adopted son.
• Qi Song walked with the Fang Family toward the Grand Tournament and spoke with Fang Xing about the eldest Senior Sister.
• The Fang Family arrived at their reserved inn and found the innkeeper arguing with a domineering cultivator over rooms.
• Onlookers recognized the cultivator as the He Family’s illegitimate son and learned that he was the Sixth Lord of the He Family.
• The Sixth Lord’s attendants praised his talent and declared him the likeliest winner of the pill competition, provoking laughter from the inn’s guests.

He Liu tried to force the Fang Family to give up their rooms at the inn, and his arrogance sparked a confrontation. Su Jiu recognized Qi Song and realized He Liu’s exceptional cultivation talent explained why Madam He had worked to ruin him, but the fight remained unresolved.

• The Fang Family’s eldest Senior Sister collected the keys to their rooms, and He Liu demanded that she hand them over.
• A female cultivator in the inn pieced together how Madam He had pampered He Liu into arrogance, then Su Jiu recognized Qi Song across the room.
• He Liu overturned a table when the Fang Family ignored his demand, and the Fang Family disciples challenged the He Family’s conduct.
• A He Family lackey claimed He Liu had a ninety-percent fire spiritual root, a pill-refining talent, and a crimson sun physique, prompting Su Jiu to understand Madam He’s motives.

He Liu’s attempt to seize rooms at the inn ended with him beaten and arrested, putting his Grand Tournament eligibility in jeopardy. Qi Song reunited with Su Jiu, introduced her to Fang Qin and the Fang Family disciples, and left with her to talk privately.

• The He Family Matriarch considered He Liu a threat because he could compete for the patriarch and Young Master positions, but she could not kill him outright.
• When Fang Qin refused to hand over the inn key, He Liu ordered his men to take it, and the Fang Family disciples fought them while Fang Qin protected the guests with a barrier.
• The enforcement squad arrested He Liu after the witnesses testified, and Fang Xing warned him that starting trouble could disqualify him from the tournament.
• A group of He Family members watched He Liu being taken away, mocked him, and then left when their silent companion ordered them to go.
• Qi Song reunited with Su Jiu, introduced her to Fang Qin and the Fang Family disciples, and reassured Fang Xing that his promise would stand.
• Fang Qin led the Fang Family disciples away, and Su Jiu asked Qi Song to come with her upstairs.

Su Jiu reunited with Qi Song in Peaceful City, returned his Storage Bag, and gave him the complete Curse-Dispelling Technique while explaining the Spirit Transformation requirement for breaking her Sealing Curse. Qi Song also revealed that the Heavenly Dawn Sect had accused Su Jiu’s Junior Granduncle, Chu, of stealing the Scarless Sword, and she learned he had once been rescued by the sect.

• Su Jiu brought Qi Song to her room, returned his Storage Bag, and learned the Curse Spirit Sect had emptied its valuables before returning it.
• Su Jiu gave Qi Song the complete Curse-Dispelling Technique and explained that her Sealing Curse could only be dispelled by a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator or by her reaching that stage herself.
• Qi Song told Su Jiu he had come to Peaceful City to repay the Fang Family and search for Chu.
• Qi Song reported that the Heavenly Dawn Sect claimed Chu had stolen its greatest treasure, the Scarless Sword, and had come to recover it.
• Su Jiu recognized the Scarless Sword as the weapon forged for Chu and learned that the Heavenly Dawn Sect said Chu had repaid the sect’s kindness with ingratitude after its disciples rescued him.

Chu Luohen woke in the Heavenly Dawn Sect, escaped after discovering its people wanted to marry him to Miss Jiang and coveted his sword, and left a bag of treasures as repayment. The Sect Master ordered a manhunt for him, hoping to seize more of his belongings without killing him.

• Chu Luohen woke as two disciples tried to take his Scarless Sword, then learned the Sect Master had agreed to make him Miss Jiang's husband.
• Chu Luohen left a Storage Bag containing ten Magic Treasures and spirit stones, then escaped under a Concealment Breath Talisman.
• Chu Luohen overheard disciples discuss Miss Jiang's fixation on him and flew away from the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
• A disciple found Chu Luohen missing and brought his Storage Bag to the Sect Master.
• The Sect Master declared Chu Luohen a thief and ordered him killed on sight, while telling an Elder he wanted his treasures rather than his life.

Chu Luohen learned that he had arrived in a different Azure Realm and fled Heavenly Dawn Sect disciples who had been ordered to capture him for the Scarless Sword. In the city, Lou Sheng confronted Chong Mo over his treatment of Ye Wanqing, and Chong Mo’s insult left her questioning who he had become.

• The Heavenly Dawn Sect Master declared the Scarless Sword stolen and offered a Spirit Artifact for Chu Luohen’s living capture.
• Chu Luohen learned from townspeople and a map that this Azure Realm and its Heavenly Dawn Sect were unfamiliar, then escaped disciples searching the town and flew toward Peaceful City.
• The Sect Master sent disciples to Peaceful City to retrieve Chu Luohen and allowed his daughter to accompany them after she repeatedly insisted.
• Su Jiu and Qi Song went their separate ways, with Su Jiu searching for Chu Luohen and Qi Song returning to the Fang Family’s group.
• At a market stall, Chong Mo accused Ye Wanqing of taking something Ouyang Yanyu wanted, and Lou Sheng broke the hairpin before mocking Chong Mo and confronting Ouyang about Ye Wanqing’s former fiancé.
• Chong Mo called Ye Wanqing and her allies sect lapdogs, and Ye Wanqing asked whether that was how he saw his fellow disciples.

After Chong Mo stormed off from his confrontation with Ye Wanqing, Su Jiu watched the Azure Tide Sect’s disciples prepare for the Grand Tournament. At the pill-refining arena, she saw Qi Song finish a batch of golden pills marked with faint white rings, catching the attention of a Medicine King Valley disciple.

• Lou Sheng confronted Chong Mo, who left the Sect with Ouyang Yanyu after Ye Wanqing told him to stop forcing himself to stay.
• Lou Sheng embraced Ye Wanqing, while Su Jiu quietly left them to resolve their own affairs.
• The Grand Tournament began in Peaceful City, and Su Jiu went to the pill-refining arena to keep an eye on Qi Song.
• A Medicine King Valley disciple explained how shutting off hearing could reduce distractions during pill refining and described the separate competitions for Sects and aristocratic clans.
• Qi Song steadily completed his pills, and the Medicine King Valley disciple stopped to examine their golden color and faint white markings.

Qi Song qualified for the next round with a superior-grade pill, and a mysterious Medicine King Valley disciple defended him from a jealous competitor. After Qi Song concealed his identity as Fang Song, the two exchanged a promise to meet in the finals, while the eliminated disciple failed to rally the crowd against them.

• Qi Song received a qualification token after refining a superior-grade pill, and a fellow disciple accused him of succeeding only through luck.
• A refined, unnamed Medicine King Valley disciple defended Qi Song by mocking the other disciple's repeated furnace explosions.
• The Medicine King Valley disciple discussed pill refining with Qi Song, and Su Jiu recognized him as the same mysterious man who had earlier explained Hearing Concealment.
• When Fang Xing's gaze warned him not to reveal his identity, Qi Song introduced himself as Fang Song, and the man agreed to exchange names when they met again.
• The Medicine King Valley disciple said he would wait for Qi Song in the finals, while the eliminated competitor tried to turn the crowd against them and was left standing alone.

Su Jiu overheard Zhang Xiang and his sister searching for the Medicine King Valley's successor, then split up with Qi Song to look for Chu Luohen in Peaceful City. The Fang Family joined the search, and Fang Cen revealed that the Heavenly Dawn Sect was also seeking Chu Luohen, accusing him of stealing its supreme treasure.

• Zhang Xiang's sister urged him to help find the Medicine King Valley's successor so they could save their master, and Su Jiu overheard them.
• Su Jiu sent Qi Song to search north while she searched south, and she gave him a portrait and identifying features of Chu Luohen.
• Fang Xing offered the Fang Family's help, and Qi Song handed them Su Jiu's portrait of Chu Luohen.
• Fang Cen recognized Chu Luohen from a painting held by Miss Jiang of the Heavenly Dawn Sect, whose members claimed he had stolen their supreme treasure.
• Fang Cen warned Fang Xing to watch his words about the Heavenly Dawn Sect, then hoped Qi Song could help the Fang Family obtain two more Hongsheng Heavenly Road entry slots.

Jiang Xiaomeng struggled to choose between searching for Chu Luohen and competing for a place on the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, then ordered her followers to hire searchers while the others went to compete. At the formation competition, Su Jiu spotted someone familiar as the contestants neared the end of the inscription stage.

• Jiang Xiaomeng’s followers searched the eastern part of the city for Chu Luohen, whom they called “that little thief.”
• A male cultivator reminded Jiang Xiaomeng that missing the afternoon competitions could cost her a chance to enter the Hongsheng Heavenly Road seven years later.
• Jiang Xiaomeng ordered one follower to arrange a search and sent the others to compete.
• Su Jiu passed the formation arts arena and stopped after spotting someone familiar.
• Several contestants who had failed or barely managed to complete their formations left or considered withdrawing.