Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu and the others faced a collapsing cave after the demon spirit triggered the destruction of the connection point. Su Jiu and Xia Jue opened temporary teleportation arrays to send the cultivators outside, though their destinations were uncertain.

• Xia Jue told Su Jiu that the Dustless Continent cultivators had settled into the sect and were improving their crafting skills through training.
• The demon spirit returned to Fang Dong's body, reclaimed the Demonic Sword, and challenged Su Jiu after the Demonic Sword began to lose to Purple Ultimate.
• Su Jiu warned everyone to protect the connection point, but the demon spirit snapped its fingers and caused the cave entrance and surrounding ground to collapse.
• The Snow Sprite confronted the demon spirit, which admitted that it wanted Fang Dong to die so it could gain freedom from their contract.
• Su Jiu and Xia Jue activated temporary teleportation arrays, and Enforcement Hall disciples and several rogue cultivators entered them despite the risk of landing somewhere dangerous.
• As the cave continued collapsing, Xia Jue led Feng Qi into his teleportation array.

Su Jiu trapped and weakened a counterfeit demonic sword after discovering it was a forged replacement for one of the Holy Demonic Swords. The sword revealed that its master had taken the real third sword, but it could not remember who its master was.

• Su Jiu sent Gu Ningyun, Yun Chao, and the others away while she stayed to face the demonic sword; Yun Huanling refused to leave.
• Su Jiu wounded the demon spirit with Purple Ultimate, weakening it and damaging its true body as the cave shook.
• The demon spirit tried to flee, but Su Jiu trapped it in a golden cage and used Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water to purify its demonic qi.
• The sword claimed to be the third of the three demonic swords, but Su Jiu identified it as a counterfeit and forced it to confess.
• The sword revealed that it was made from scraps left after the Holy Demonic Sword split into three, and that its master had taken the real third sword.
• The sword said its memories of its master were sealed and that it could no longer remember the master's identity or face.

Su Jiu destroyed the Demon Spirit and escaped Windforest Star River with Yun Huanling, leaving the Teleportation Array open for Xiao Yan and Fang Dong. The mountain’s collapse exposed the danger surrounding the area, as Scarface and the other seal guardians learned that the Enforcement Hall was approaching and debated unleashing the magic beasts.

• Su Jiu killed the Demon Spirit, and she and Yun Huanling departed through the Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Yan rescued the unconscious Fang Dong and escaped through the array before the mountain collapsed.
• The mountain’s collapse shook Windforest Star River, and the twelve seal guardians discussed the Restricted Zone and their plans around the black-and-red stone.
• Scarface dismissed concerns about their scheme, while the youngest female cultivator questioned whether it was safe and worth continuing.
• Xia Yun arrived with Vast Righteousness Sect disciples and reported that the Enforcement Hall’s Hall Master had come to Windforest Star River.
• The elders debated whether to use the magic beasts, while the young female cultivator warned that doing so would leave them no defense.

Xia Yun learned that the Vast Righteousness Sect elders had fought the Enforcement Hall and hoped Xia Jue would die in the coming operation. In a cave, Yun Huanling found the unconscious Su Jiu and tried to kiss her, while his other self fought him from within his consciousness.

• Xia Yun realized the Vast Righteousness Sect elders were wary of the Enforcement Hall but did not fear it, and privately hoped Xia Jue would perish so he could control the Xia Household.
• Yun Huanling woke in a dark cave, recalled being struck by a boulder during the teleportation, and reset his dislocated ankle.
• Yun Huanling found Su Jiu unconscious beneath a fissure and moved in to kiss her.
• Yun Huanling's other self ordered him not to touch A Jiu, and the two argued over whether Yun Huanling had the right to approach her.
• Yun Huanling dismissed the other self's objections and leaned toward Su Jiu, intending to steal a kiss.

Su Jiu confronted Yun Huanling’s newly emerged secondary personality, who explained that he had split off during Yun Huanling’s torment in a sealed Hundred Ghost Grotto. The secondary personality revealed that Yun Huanling had searched for Su Jiu after she disappeared and left the story with A Huan asserting that he existed to protect Yun Huanling and kill.

• Su Jiu stopped Yun Huanling from kissing her, pinned him by the throat, and identified him as a secondary personality.
• The secondary personality told Su Jiu that he had split from Yun Huanling and that the primary personality had tried to keep his past secret.
• Fifty years earlier, Yun Huanling went to the Azure Tide Sect after the two continents joined and learned that Su Jiu was missing.
• Yun Huanling saw that Su Jiu’s Soul Lamp still burned, then searched for spatial rifts after elders divined she was trapped somewhere inaccessible.
• Yun Huanling entered a rift into the sealed Hundred Ghost Grotto, where the Vengeful Ghosts tormented him until his fixation on seeing Su Jiu brought forth A Huan.

Su Jiu learned why Yun Huanling’s secondary personality had emerged and confronted A Huan about returning control of the body. Yun Huanling revealed that reintegration might be impossible unless A Huan willingly agreed, and Su Jiu urged him to find a way out before his Senior Brother and the Enforcement Hall found them.

• A Huan refused to give Yun Huanling control of the body unless Su Jiu kissed him, so Su Jiu punched him and Yun Huanling switched back.
• Yun Huanling asked how Su Jiu had recognized A Huan as his secondary personality, and she explained that his use of the Nine-Bend Compass proved he shared Yun Huanling’s divine soul.
• Su Jiu warned Yun Huanling that A Huan’s growing soul power could weaken him until he disappeared, while Yun Huanling admitted that only A Huan’s willing return might allow them to reintegrate.
• Yun Huanling said he had never regretted the split, since it had allowed him to survive and see Su Jiu again, and he hoped a future opportunity might reunite them.
• Su Jiu told Yun Huanling to stop dawdling and find the exit before his Senior Brother and the Enforcement Hall found them.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling explored a barrier maze beneath Windforest Star River and discussed Yun Huanling’s mysterious headaches, dream, and possible past life. Their search led them to a cavern where the Painting Spirit became entranced by a portrait and began drawing spiritual qi from it.

• Su Jiu identified the maze as a barrier in underground waterways beneath Windforest Star River, and she punished the Snow Sprite for talking back by keeping it off her head.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu that he had begun seeing spirits after a strange dream and that his headaches had grown especially frequent when the two halves of the Azure Realm merged.
• Su Jiu suggested that Yun Huanling’s dream and headaches might be tied to his memories or a past life, but he said the Heavenly Secret Sect had divined that he was a new soul.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling sensed an unusual aura from a nearby cavern, and the Painting Spirit left Su Jiu without explanation to enter it.
• Su Jiu found the Painting Spirit fixated on a portrait of a white-clad figure beneath a starry sky and pulled her away after noticing spiritual qi flowing from the Painting Spirit into the painting.

Su Jiu exposed the Painting Spirit’s plan to nourish the person in her painting with stolen life force, and fought him after he emerged through his Life-Bound Treasure. The Painting Spirit escaped with her master, leaving Su Jiu grieving the end of their bond as Yun Huanling tried to cheer her up.

• Su Jiu revealed that the Painting Spirit planned to use their shared bond to drain life force and resurrect the painter, who had been communicating with her through paintings.
• The Painting Spirit refused Su Jiu’s offer to return to her side and defended her master, so Su Jiu attacked the scroll and drew out the painter, who had attached himself to his Life-Bound Treasure, a brush.
• The brush summoned magic beasts from the cave’s paintings, while the Snow Sprite, Little Pearl, and Su Jiu fought them; the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl weakened the beasts and forced the painter to flee.
• The Painting Spirit left through a single-use teleportation painting with her master, who ordered her to sell him to a large mortal family and later spy on Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu and her companions left the cave, and Yun Huanling used a talking Mechanism Bird to coax a small reaction from her while the spirits mocked him.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling discovered that an ancient star map depicted the celestial upheaval from fifty years ago, raising the possibility that its maker possessed precognition. They opened the door to a dust-filled stone chamber and found star maps surrounding an empty circular sinkhole that Yun Huanling recognized as the Nightfall Cold Pool.

• The Snow Sprite admitted she had beaten Yun Huanling after he provoked her, and Su Jiu realized their quarrel had been an attempt to cheer her up.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling found a carved star map on a door, and Yun Huanling recognized it as the sky’s arrangement during the continental upheaval fifty years earlier.
• Su Jiu determined the carvings were at least ten thousand years old, and Yun Huanling suggested their maker might have possessed precognition.
• Little Pearl explained that the Time-Reversal Mirror could reveal the past and future, but using it to see ten thousand years ahead would require a hundred years of Su Jiu’s innate origin qi.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling opened the doors and found a vast stone chamber with an empty circular sinkhole and star maps covering its walls.
• Yun Huanling recognized the chamber as the Nightfall Cold Pool.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling discovered that the cave’s broken Transfer Array and star maps connected to a blood-sacrificed Demonic Sword and the separation of the continents. Su Jiu’s clues led them to suspect that the Heaven-Connecting Tower had been deliberately erased from people’s memories because the Azure Realm’s Heavenly Dao was flawed, leaving Yun Huanling shaken by the possibility.

• Su Jiu examined the broken Transfer Array and concluded it had been used before it failed, leading Yun Huanling to suspect that the sealed Demonic Sword had undergone a blood sacrifice and was loose in the world.
• Yun Huanling studied the cave’s star maps and determined that they depicted the continents separating ten thousand years ago, while one unexplained feature matched a Hidden Star Map Su Jiu had recorded at the Hongsheng Heavenly Road.
• Su Jiu proposed that the unexplained star map might relate to the destruction of the Heaven-Connecting Tower, and Yun Huanling realized that he and those around him had almost entirely forgotten the Tower.
• Su Jiu suggested that the Heavenly Dao’s laws were flawed and might be suppressing memories of the Heaven-Connecting Tower; Little Pearl confirmed that it remembered nothing about the Tower, and Yun Huanling was left questioning his faith in the Heavenly Dao.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling interpreted a hidden star map, and Su Jiu reasoned that its creator and the person who set a sinkhole beside it had been enemies. After they escaped through a well, they were surrounded by magic beasts, and Su Jiu fought desperately as Yun Huanling also struggled against his opponent.

• Yun Huanling accepted Su Jiu's theory that changing Heavenly Dao laws caused the chaotic celestial phenomena, while Little Green admitted her guesses were half right and half wrong.
• Su Jiu concluded that the star map's creator and the person who placed the sinkhole there were enemies, and Yun Huanling agreed to report the Hidden Star Map to his sect.
• Su Jiu found a hidden exit, and she and Yun Huanling followed a passage to a well and climbed out.
• Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, the Snow Sprite, and Little Pearl fought a pack of powerful magic beasts surrounding the well.
• Su Jiu killed one beast but was badly wounded by the others, and Purple Ultimate refused her request to use attunement.
• Su Jiu sensed unusual spiritual qi from Yun Huanling and sent ice blades toward the beast attacking him.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling fought off several magic beasts, then concluded that the creatures in the secret realm might not be true magic beasts because they could learn and self-destruct. After Su Jiu and Yun Huanling concealed themselves to recover, the chapter shifted to Xia Jue, who faced three magic beasts without showing fear.

• Su Jiu and A Huan defeated their opponents while Little Pearl and the Snow Sprite fought elsewhere, but the last magic beast facing Su Jiu began gathering energy to self-destruct.
• Su Jiu warned the others to retreat, and Yun Huanling raised a defensive barrier before they escaped the blast.
• Su Jiu reasoned that the magic beasts could learn and remember, and told A Huan that their behavior and the docile creatures in a nearby Restricted Zone suggested some were not real magic beasts.
• Little Pearl said it needed to rest, while the Snow Sprite asked Su Jiu for the remaining soft jade blue crystal so it could grow stronger.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling set up barriers and formation disks, then vanished from the wilderness to recover.
• Xia Jue faced three magic beasts while holding the Jade Flute and watching them with an amused smile.

Xiao Yan discovered that the magic beast keeping her and the unconscious Fang Dong trapped could speak, then watched it overpower a group of cultivators who tried to attack it. As another white-clad cultivator approached, the beast grew impatient, leaving the encounter unresolved.

• Feng Qi found Xia Jue after Xia Jue had easily defeated the magic beasts, and the two set off to find the others.
• Gu Ningyun struggled against two powerful magic beasts and began considering escape after her attacks failed to stop them.
• Xiao Yan tried to flee with Fang Dong, but the magic beast blocked her path and kept them nearby without attacking.
• A group of injured cultivators arrived and provoked the magic beast, which fought them without killing them and then trapped them behind a Demonic Qi Barrier.
• The magic beast spoke aloud, confirming Xiao Yan's suspicion, as a bloodied white-clad cultivator approached.

Yun Chao encountered a sentient magic beast that warned cultivators away from the Windforest Star River’s depths, while Su Jiu and Yun Huanling followed the changing spiritual qi toward its core. After taking a dying cultivator’s key and finding signs of slaughter, Su Jiu repelled an ambushing magic beast that tried to flee.

• Yun Chao arrived as rogue cultivators surrounded a magic beast, which recognized him and warned everyone not to go farther because they were too weak.
• Yun Huanling watched Su Jiu awaken, then followed her as she explained how the spiritual qi’s flow and attributes pointed toward the Windforest Star River’s core.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling found a dying cultivator who gave Su Jiu a diamond-shaped key and asked her to save others and beware the magic beasts before he died.
• Su Jiu buried the cultivator and kept the key, then continued onward with Yun Huanling past magic beast corpses and bloodstains as the forest grew unnaturally quiet.
• A magic beast ambushed Su Jiu, but she blocked it with Ice Spikes and pursued it with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword when it fled.

Su Jiu and the others encountered magic beasts that behaved unlike anything in the records, while Si Que and the Buddha Child rescued Gu Ningyun from two of them. The Buddha Child announced that he had found something, and Yun Chao realized that the magic beast fighting him was avoiding his attacks as if helping him practice.

• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling noticed that the magic beasts ambushing them showed strange behavior and seemed capable of reason.
• Xia Jue found Su Jiu and offered to accompany her, but she urged the group to move on rather than search for Yun Chao and Gu Ningyun.
• Si Que and the Buddha Child rescued Gu Ningyun, and they discovered that a purified magic beast left behind flesh and blood instead of disappearing.
• Si Que invited Gu Ningyun to travel with them after his Martial Uncle warned that others would soon arrive.
• The Buddha Child stopped along the way and said that he had found it.
• Yun Chao fought a magic beast that kept dodging without attacking, and he realized it seemed to be giving him practice.

A violent gale swept through the Inner Perimeter of the Windforest Star River as magic beasts vanished, leaving Yun Chao and the other cultivators fighting for survival. At the seal’s heart, Li Jun learned that the eleven seniors had recalled the beasts and realized she was trapped among people who distrusted her.

• The magic beast refused to let Yun Chao pass, but offered to let him and the other cultivators turn back; it recognized him as a Flowing Radiance Sword Sect disciple without explaining how.
• Many rogue cultivators left, while those who stayed were caught in a savage gale that wounded them and prevented escape; the magic beast vanished as black mist.
• Magic beasts throughout the Windforest Star River disappeared, and Su Jiu, Xia Jue, Feng Qi, Gu Ningyun, and Si Que sensed that a larger disturbance was approaching.
• A gale formed across the Inner Perimeter, and Si Que warned Gu Ningyun that it was too late to flee.
• Li Jun recalled how Scarface had grown suspicious when she tried to leave the seal’s heart, while the seniors discussed the returning wind forest and the Enforcement Hall cultivators caught inside.
• Scarface confirmed that all the magic beasts had been recalled before the wind forest formed, and Li Jun felt threatened by the seniors’ attention.

Thirteen used his bubble-producing defensive treasure to shelter the Enforcement Hall disciples and other cultivators from the approaching gale, charging spirit stones for the barriers. As the storm swept everyone away, Su Jiu rescued the badly injured Yun Chao and learned Xia Jue had an exclusive secret for reading people by their breathing.

• Thirteen spent superior-grade spirit stones to put the Enforcement Hall disciples inside protective bubbles, then offered barriers to other cultivators for payment.
• A rogue cultivator tried to turn people against Thirteen, but Yang Guo challenged him and cultivators eventually paid for the bubbles.
• The gale swept the bubbles into the sky, while Su Jiu watched the rogue cultivator struggle to survive in his magic garment.
• Su Jiu spotted Yun Chao nearly dead in the storm and used Void Talisman Drawing to protect him; he then passed out.
• Xia Jue contacted Su Jiu through the Sound-Mixing Bell, recognized Yun Chao was unconscious from his breathing, and offered to teach her his exclusive secret.

Su Jiu and Xia Jue were swept through the sandstorm into the true Windforest Star River, where everyone lost their spiritual qi and became unable to use their treasures. Su Jiu discovered she could still use innate origin qi, while Yun Huanling reacted with shock to the stars before Su Jiu found him.

• Xia Jue helped Su Jiu realize that the sandstorm was shifting their positions, and Su Jiu followed the Sound-Mixing Bell to reunite with him and hand over Yun Chao.
• Xia Jue introduced Liuli, the World-Cleansing Glazed Pagoda's artifact spirit, and explained that she could locate places and had guided him through the storm.
• Xia Jue told Su Jiu that the true Windforest Star River existed in another layer of space and appeared about once every century.
• The sandstorm ended and carried Su Jiu, Xia Jue, and the other cultivators into a star-filled realm where their spiritual qi and access to Storage Bags disappeared.
• Su Jiu sensed innate origin qi in the Star River and filled Xia Jue's gourd with it, while Yun Huanling studied the stars and repeatedly calculated in disbelief.
• Su Jiu found Yun Huanling and called to him, bringing his attention back to her.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling entered a Fate Star and witnessed the final memories of Yun Huanling’s parents before returning to the Windforest Star River. There, the Buddha Child of Zen Sound Temple recognized Su Jiu, while reports of dangerous Fate Stars led everyone to turn to Yun Huanling for answers.

• Yun Huanling explained that the stars were the Fate Stars of the dead, then touched one and vanished; Su Jiu followed him into its space.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling witnessed the memory of Yun Huanling’s parents being killed by a Demon Beast, and Yun Huanling mourned them before returning with Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu returned to find Xia Jue, Feng Qi, and the Enforcement Hall disciples confronting Si Que and the Buddha Child, who asked to borrow Su Jiu’s help.
• Su Jiu recognized the Buddha Child as the little monk she had met at Zen Sound Temple’s mountain gates more than twenty years earlier.
• A wounded cultivator and his companion reported that some Fate Stars were dangerous and others could lead outside, prompting everyone to look to Yun Huanling for insight.

Yun Huanling identified his father’s Fate Star and explained the dangers of the Death Star Map as Su Jiu’s companion Little Gift awakened and taught her how to navigate it. Su Jiu rejoined the group, revealed that she could use spiritual qi, and prepared to lead them onward while a hostile cultivator watched her.

• Yun Huanling recognized his father’s Fate Star and told Feng Qi that he could distinguish Fate Stars from other stars but could not identify the exit.
• Yang Guo reported that False Fate Stars contained Magic Beasts and Demon Beasts, and Yun Huanling warned that non-Fate Stars were numerous and dangerous.
• Little Gift awakened as the Nine-Petal Frostflow Flower, told Su Jiu she could never take human form, and taught her a method for finding a way out.
• The Snow Sprite tried to provoke Purple Ultimate over Little Gift, but Purple Ultimate remained silent while Su Jiu learned the method.
• Su Jiu returned to the group and raised Ice Spikes, revealing that she could use spiritual qi; she then recognized the cultivator who had previously caused trouble for Thirteen.