Chapter Summaries

At Su Mianmian and Jin Chen’s Dao Companion ceremony, Su Jiu’s presence and the Fire Banner Birds’ spectacular sedan-chair procession drew attention. The ceremony was interrupted when the Heavenly Dawn Sect, the Vast Righteousness Sect, and the Wenren Household arrived and accused the Su Family of breaking Su Mianmian’s betrothal.

• Lan Shuangshuang and the surrounding cultivators recognized Su Jiu and praised her beauty, while Lian Xiaochuan rebuked a disciple for making lewd remarks about her.
• Two Spirit Transformation Stage Fire Banner Birds carried Su Mianmian’s sedan chair, after Su Jiu arranged the favor in exchange for their feathers.
• Su Mianmian and Jin Chen completed their Dao Companion rites as the Twin Fish Jade Pendant shone brightly.
• A Flying Boat bearing the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s emblem arrived, and Hong Ling wanted to attack its occupants before Long Aotian restrained her.
• Ning Hai welcomed the visitors, but the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s Fifth Elder refused to disembark and claimed that Su Mianmian had been betrothed to the Wenren Household first.
• The Su Family Head began to rise angrily after the Fifth Elder accused the Su Family of dishonor.

The Wenren Household and Heavenly Dawn Sect publicly accused the Su Family and Su Jiu of wrongdoing, using allegations about old marriage agreements, Su Mianmian’s conduct, Su Jiu’s origins, and Su Qingqing’s cultivation to turn the crowd against them. Su Jiu and her allies recognized that the accusations were coordinated, but the chapter ended with public suspicion growing as the elder invoked the lost immortal pool spring.

• The Su Family Head explained that the century-old marriage agreement with the Wenren Household had been dissolved, but a Wenren elder claimed the agreement still applied to another Su daughter and implied he meant Su Jiu.
• Feng Qi struck the Wenren elder with a wine bottle, while Su Mianmian and Su Jiu rejected the Wenren Household’s demand and Su Jiu warned Mianmian not to retaliate publicly.
• The Wenren elder presented a wounded disciple and accused Su Mianmian of crippling his cultivation, prompting the crowd to question her as Jin Chen and Su Jiu comforted her.
• The Wenren elder alleged that Su Jiu was a half-demon who brought misfortune to rivals and bewitched her companions; Su Mianmian, Lie Wushuang, and Gu Ningyun defended her.
• Gu Ningyun suspected a powerful force had coordinated the accusations, while the Wenren elder claimed Su Qingqing’s rapid advancement came from the immortal pool spring and left the crowd increasingly doubtful.

Su Jiu exposed the evidence behind the accusations against the Su Family Sisters and revealed that the Wenren Household's dead Guest Elder, Wenren Qingtang, had been a Heretical Cultivator. The Wenren Elder denied knowing this and called Su Jiu a liar, while the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Ning Hai explained that the Azure Tide Sect had removed the life-for-cultivation curse from the Immortal Pool Spring, and Hong Ling accused the Wenren Elder of coordinating with the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
• Su Jiu confronted the ragged disciple and showed records and marked jade slips proving that he had stolen and sold the sect's cultivation methods.
• The disciple admitted the theft but blamed the Azure Tide Sect for not giving him enough resources, and the Heavenly Dawn Sect's Fifth Elder secretly knocked him unconscious when he tried to speak.
• The Fifth Elder apologized for acting rashly, but the Wenren Elder continued accusing the other Su Family Sisters.
• Su Jiu said Wenren Qingtang had originally been a Heretical Cultivator, and the Wenren Elder denied it and called her a witch.

Su Jiu exposed Wenren Qingtang as a heretical cultivator and defeated the Heavenly Dawn Sect and its allies after they tried to frame her and the Azure Tide Sect. The Enforcement Hall detained the defeated group, while Feng Qi explained how the former Vast Righteousness Sect disciples and the Wenren Household had joined the plot.

• Xia Jue presented Wenren Qingtang's White Jade Ring, and Su Jiu crushed it to reveal implements used by heretical cultivators.
• The Heavenly Dawn Sect's Fifth Elder tried to excuse Elder Wenren's accusations, but the guests turned against them and Elder Wenren renewed his claims about Su Jiu.
• The Fifth Elder attempted to flee aboard the Flying Boat, but Su Jiu broke its Protective Shield and attacked the vessel.
• Su Jiu's side beat the visitors, and the Enforcement Hall took the Heavenly Dawn Sect, Wenren Household, and Vast Righteousness Sect disciples into custody.
• Feng Qi told Eleventh that former Vast Righteousness Sect disciples had joined the Heavenly Dawn Sect to retaliate over the Windforest Star River incident, while others likely used the Wenren Household to provoke the Azure Tide Sect.

Peace City’s prosperity was disrupted by the arrival of Su Family members from the main household, who tried to assert control over the branch. When a main-household young master attacked Su Yisheng, the fight moved to the outskirts, where a striking female cultivator appeared among the onlookers.

• Refugees from the chaotic Vast Heaven Continent crowded into Peace City, driving up housing prices as they sought places to settle.
• The Su Family’s main household arrived and claimed the branch household were its slaves, while some members settled in nearby residences.
• At a teahouse, a richly dressed main-household young master demanded Su Yisheng’s game and struck him when he refused.
• A Nascent Soul rogue cultivator intervened, but the young master ordered his guards to fight and then pursued Su Yisheng toward the city outskirts.
• The fighters clashed outside Peace City, and an exceptionally beautiful female cultivator appeared among the spectators, startling residents who recognized her.

After the Dao Companion Ceremony, Su Jiu learned that Yun Huanling had vanished in the Linnan Region, possibly after finding the entrance to Heavenly Cloud Mountain. On her way to the Su Family, she stopped a fight in Peace City, reunited with Yu Jin, and discovered that a Red Thread Curse was restricting his cultivation.

• Su Jiu brushed off Lie Wushuang's teasing about finding a Dao Companion and told Xia Jue she would visit the Su Family before heading to the Linnan Region.
• Xia Jue told Su Jiu that Yun Huanling had disappeared in the Linnan Region, and Su Jiu's message talisman could not reach him.
• Su Jiu spotted a fight on Peace City's outskirts and recognized that one combatant belonged to her family.
• The richly dressed opponent became distracted by Su Jiu, allowing Yu Jin and the others to defeat his guards and bind the captives.
• Su Jiu recognized the disguised Yu Jin, examined the Red Thread Curse restricting his cultivation, and urged him to explain himself to the female cultivator who had cursed him.

Su Jiu agreed to connect Yu Jin with someone who might remove his cursed red thread and learned that the Yu Household planned to relocate to Peace City. After Su Yisheng defeated an arrogant cultivator, Su Jiu returned to find the so-called main household bullying her family and intervened to protect them.

• Su Jiu agreed to put Yu Jin in touch with someone who understood curse arts, and Yu Jin explained that the Yu Household planned to move to Peace City because the Spiritflight Continent faced danger.
• Su Yisheng defeated the ornate-robed cultivator, and Su Jiu ordered him to bring the wounded man back so the family could settle the dispute.
• The main household demanded control of the Su Family's residence and resources, and its leader threatened the original family members when they refused.
• The old man attacked a Su Family elder, but Su Jiu blocked the strike with an Ice Wall and pierced the old man's shoulder with an Ice Spike.
• Su Jiu challenged the main household's leader and revealed that she had returned with her father, leaving him alarmed by her strength and defiance.

Su Jiu drove the main-family elders and disciples back with her cultivation and formations, then exposed the old man's attempt to seize the branch family's residence and bargain with her father. The old man tried to pass off the conflict as a test, but Su Jiu brought in his bound grandson A Qiong, whose attack on someone else's prey had triggered the dispute.

• Su Jiu rebuked the main-family visitors and turned a disciple's ambush back on him, prompting more than a dozen disciples to chase her from the hall.
• The old man bound Su Jiu's father and the elders with wind chains, hoping to use them as leverage, but Su Jiu returned after trapping his disciples in her formation.
• The old man demanded that the branch family leave, along with Azure Tide Sect admission quotas, spirit stones, and formation disks; Su Jiu refused and broke his Wind Chain when he threatened the Fifth Elder.
• The old man claimed the confrontation had been a test and asked to house his people in the Su Family residence, but Su Jiu told him to stop acting.
• Su Jiu had A Qiong and two other captives brought into the hall, and Yu Jin explained that A Qiong had injured someone to steal their prey; the old man blamed the incident on children's horseplay.

Su Jiu and Su Shi exposed the Twelfth Elder’s betrayal and reclaimed the Su Family Great Seal. Su Shi invoked his authority as family head to punish the Twelfth Elder, leaving him terrified as the sentence was about to be carried out.

• Yu Jin criticized the Twelfth Elder’s double standards, and Su Jiu slapped him while defending her disciple.
• Su Shi arrived and revealed that the Twelfth Elder had stolen the Su Family Great Seal and abandoned the main household during the battle against demonic cultivators.
• Su Shi explained that only the family head’s successor could activate the seal, then summoned it from the Twelfth Elder’s storage bag.
• The Twelfth Elder attacked Su Shi, but Su Jiu threw him aside and caught the seal as it burst free.
• The Twelfth Elder tried to sow distrust between Su Jiu and the Su Family, but Su Jiu rejected his accusations and affirmed her bond with her family.
• Su Shi exposed the Twelfth Elder’s failed elder trial and announced that, though he would spare his life as his father had requested, he would impose the next punishment under the clan rules.

Su Jiu helped Su Shi defeat the Twelfth Elder, then offered him medicine and resources as he grieved his family’s fall and revealed the Luo Household’s betrayal. After Su Jiu reassured him that he had known nothing of the Vast Righteousness Sect’s crimes, she reinforced the Su Family’s defenses; the Twelfth Elder and his followers left Peace City to recover outside its walls.

• Su Shi destroyed the Twelfth Elder’s dantian with Su Jiu’s help, and Su Jiu’s group threw the Twelfth Elder’s disciples and granddisciples out of the Su Family residence.
• Su Jiu gave Su Shi medicine and a Storage Bag of resources for his injured family, and Su Shi revealed that the Luo Household had sold information to the Heavenly Devil Palace and the Succubus Sect.
• Su Jiu warned Su Shi not to let his hatred consume him and believed his claim that he knew nothing of the Vast Righteousness Sect’s schemes; Su Shi broke down in tears.
• Su Shi said his life would belong to Su Jiu after he took revenge, while Yu Jin left to arrange for the Yu Household’s arrival; Su Jiu reinforced the Su Family’s Defensive Formation.
• Su Yisheng explained that he had chosen to stay with the Su Family, and Su Jiu assured the Su Family Head that letting the Twelfth Elder’s group go would not cause trouble.
• After hearing townspeople mock him, the injured Twelfth Elder ordered his followers to leave Peace City and recover outside it.

After the Twelfth Elder died, resentful qi followed his disciples and infiltrated their consciousnesses. Su Jiu returned to the Azure Tide Sect, learned that the Enforcement Hall members had left on missions, and departed with Qi Song and Li Ran; meanwhile, Lian Xiaochuan confronted Lan Shuangshuang over his missing painting of Su Jiu.

• The Twelfth Elder's disciples abandoned his corpse and argued that his death had resulted from cultivation deviation and Su Jiu's ice poison, while black resentful qi crept into their seas of consciousness.
• Su Jiu visited the empty Enforcement Hall, and Yang Guo told her that the Hall Master and Feng Qi had left on a mission connected to Xia Yun and that the Hall Master might later search for Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu set out with Qi Song and Li Ran aboard her Flying Boat after learning that Su Mianmian was in secluded cultivation.
• At the Outer Gate, Lian Xiaochuan accused Lan Shuangshuang of taking his painting of Su Jiu, and he rebuked her admirers for defending her without asking whom she truly liked.
• Lan Shuangshuang recalled taking Lian Xiaochuan's painting and burning it, while deciding she did not regret the act despite possibly losing him as a follower.

Su Jiu and Qi Song traveled toward the Linnan Region to search for Heavenly Cloud Mountain, where Yun Huanling had disappeared. Along the way, they found Su Household Disciples controlled by resentful qi, and the chapter left them assessing the danger with a Ruler of Breath.

• Lian Xiaochuan rejected Lan Shuangshuang and left after she denied taking Su Jiu's painting, while her admirers defended her.
• Su Jiu told Qi Song that the curse arts had been dispelled after she killed the person who cast them, though she suspected someone else had been behind him.
• Su Jiu explained that she was taking the group to the Linnan Region to search for Heavenly Cloud Mountain and find Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu spotted several Su Household Disciples below, slowed the Flying Boat, and descended with Qi Song while Li Ran stayed aboard.
• Qi Song used his Heart Discernment to interrupt the disciples' zombie-like advance, and the leader awakened and accused Su Jiu of bringing them there.
• The leader used a Ruler of Breath, which turned reddish-black halfway along its length as it detected resentful qi.

Su Jiu exposed the Twelfth Elder’s resentful soul, which had been hiding inside his Eldest Senior Brother, and revealed that the disciples had killed their Master for his possessions. The disciples turned on one another while Su Jiu and Qi Song watched, leaving the Twelfth Elder’s revenge unresolved.

• The Eldest Senior Brother claimed the Ruler of Breath had purified the resentful qi, but Su Jiu blocked the disciples from leaving and challenged his explanation.
• Su Jiu trapped the group in a formation, forcing the resentful qi out of the Eldest Senior Brother as a human-shaped shadow.
• Qi Song realized the Ruler of Breath could not purify the qi because it was hiding inside its owner, and Su Jiu identified the shadow as the Twelfth Elder.
• The Twelfth Elder accused his disciples of killing him and taking his Storage Bag, prompting them to blame the Eldest Senior Brother.
• The Twelfth Elder possessed the Eldest Senior Brother, who woke and argued with the other disciples as they accused one another.
• Qi Song asked Su Jiu to stop the disciples from fighting, but Su Jiu refused.

Su Jiu destroyed the Twelfth Elder’s resentful soul and left the surviving disciples to settle their own conflict, then boarded a flying boat with Qi Song and Li Ran. Meanwhile, Yun Huanling woke alone in a strange, spirit-rich mountain realm and began searching for a way out so he could find Su Jiu.

• The Twelfth Elder incited his disciples to fight, while Su Jiu and Qi Song recognized that he was seeking strength by provoking unjust deaths.
• Su Jiu used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl to purify the Twelfth Elder’s resentful soul, then revived one dead disciple with a Soul-Restoring Pill.
• Su Jiu and Qi Song found Li Ran crawling near the flying boat, brought him aboard, and headed for the Linnan Region as the surviving disciples resumed fighting.
• The disciples’ leader won the renewed battle, but was left barely alive after many people died.
• Yun Huanling awoke beside a stream in an unfamiliar mountain realm, found that his Message Talisman could not reach Su Jiu, and flew uphill to search for an exit.
• Yun Huanling spotted a familiar-looking creature that quickly vanished, but continued onward because he wanted to reunite with Su Jiu.

Su Jiu, Qi Song, and Li Ran entered the Linnan Region and hired A-San to guide them through its naturally formed barriers and formations. After Su Jiu revealed her skill at detecting barriers, she questioned whether A-San was a formation arts artist, and he offered a dubious excuse.

• Su Jiu questioned why the Linnan Region, despite its pure spiritual qi and gentle terrain, had no sects, and A-San offered to guide her group for ten spirit stones.
• A-San led Su Jiu, Qi Song, and Li Ran to a giant rock that concealed a barrier entrance, and Su Jiu pushed the rock aside herself.
• Su Jiu entered the barrier with Qi Song and Li Ran, then declined A-San's offer to return her fee after he learned she understood formations and barriers.
• Su Jiu noticed that the land and sunlight inside the barrier differed from the area outside and asked A-San how many barriers and natural formations the region contained.
• Su Jiu asked whether A-San was a formation arts artist, citing how skilled artists plan safe routes through unfamiliar formations, and A-San claimed he knew the barrier too well to need one.

Su Jiu discovered that the formation guide A-San had learned from was likely her master, Chu Mojin, then intervened in a fight between the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect and the Azure Tide Sect’s Enforcement Hall. The clash ended with Thirteen claiming Elder Song had a demon seed and needed to be detained, while Elder Song’s companion angrily demanded evidence.

• Su Jiu deduced how the shifting barrier worked, and A-San explained that a traveling formation arts artist had taught his group the patterns for the Linnan Region’s formations.
• A-San recalled that the artist had called himself the Ice Immortal, leading Su Jiu to suspect he was her master, Chu Mojin, and resolve to keep their connection secret.
• Su Jiu spotted Lin Jiaojiao and Hu Yucheng near a fight between three Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect seniors and three Azure Tide Sect Enforcement Hall disciples, then rushed in to stop them.
• Su Jiu used a talisman and her Snowfall Domain to block the attacks and restrain both sides so they could explain the dispute.
• Lin Jiaojiao and Hu Yucheng explained that the Enforcement Hall had tried to seize Elder Song without giving a reason, and Elder Song said his group had fought back in self-defense.
• Thirteen said Elder Song had a demon seed planted inside him and had to be detained, prompting Elder Song’s companion to accuse the Enforcement Hall of making baseless claims.

Su Jiu exposed Elder Song as a demon-seed carrier when he tried to flee the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl. The Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect agreed to let the Enforcement Hall take him to Endless Peak, though the demon seed could not be safely removed.

• Hu Yucheng refused to hand Elder Song over without proof, while Qi Song failed to sense a demon seed through Elder Song's concealment treasure.
• Su Jiu used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl to test Elder Song, and he broke free with internal injuries and tried to flee.
• The Pearl exposed demonic qi and weakened the seed in Elder Song's dantian, but Su Jiu withdrew it when the seed began draining his life to survive.
• Thirteen explained that the demon seed could not be removed safely and that carriers were imprisoned on Endless Peak.
• Hu Yucheng apologized to the Azure Tide Sect and ordered Elder Song taken away, declaring that the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect no longer recognized him as an elder.

Su Jiu used her innate origin qi to destroy a high-rank demon seed after it killed Elder Song and tried to infest his dao companion, revealing a possible way to eliminate demon seeds. The discovery gave the Enforcement Hall new hope, while Xia Jue’s journey back to the Linnan Region faced worsening delays and ended with a golden streak arriving before him.

• Su Jiu protected Elder Song’s dao companion as the demon seed drained Elder Song’s vitality and tried to enter her dantian.
• Thirteenth and two Enforcement Hall disciples trapped the demon seed in a formation disk, and Elder Song’s dao companion fainted after seeing his corpse.
• Su Jiu sensed her innate origin qi reacting to the seed and channeled it into the disk until the seed withered and vanished.
• Thirteenth sent two Message Talismans, while an Enforcement Hall disciple explained that destroying a seed inside its host could kill the host as well.
• Eleventh warned Xia Jue that rough seas could keep them from reaching the Linnan Region on time, and a golden streak of light landed before him.

After learning that Su Jiu could eradicate demon seeds, Xia Jue ordered Feng Qi to guard the Demon-Subduing Land, while Ning Fan prepared to speed up his work. Su Jiu joined Thirteenth and the Enforcement Hall disciples to search for Yun Huanling, but their party was overwhelmed by demon beasts at the second-to-last barrier.

• Xia Jue told the Enforcement Hall disciples that Su Jiu had found a way to eradicate demon seeds, then assigned Feng Qi to guard the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Ning Fan learned that Su Jiu was in the Linnan Region and urged his subordinate to pick up the pace after confirming their wedding gifts had been delivered two months earlier.
• After three days of recovery, Su Jiu joined Thirteenth and the other Enforcement Hall disciples to search the two barriers they had not yet explored for Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu's group parted ways with A-San, who then charged two returning cultivators one hundred spirit stones to guide them.
• At the second-to-last barrier, Su Jiu's group was attacked by a large horde of demon beasts, and Thirteenth looked to the other Enforcement Hall disciples for a way to handle their numbers.

Su Jiu and the others survived a Demon Beast tide, then discovered that the distant mountain range was a mirage concealing Heavenly Cloud Mountain’s location at Red Maple City’s Back Mountain. Thirteen led the group there, warning Su Jiu that the sentient red maple tree protecting the city and mountain must not be harmed.

• Su Jiu and the others retreated toward the Teleportation Array as Demon Beasts attacked, and three newcomers arrived before the array could be used again.
• Su Jiu spotted a masked man holding a xiao flute who seemed connected to the beast tide, then the beasts suddenly withdrew.
• After leaving the barrier, the Enforcement Hall members and Ghost Market cultivators continued searching together for Heavenly Cloud Mountain.
• Su Jiu recognized that the distant mountain range was a mirage, and Thirteen used a crystal sphere to reveal Red Maple City’s Back Mountain as its real location.
• Thirteen led Su Jiu and the others toward Red Maple City and explained that a sentient red maple tree had protected the city and mountain for a thousand years.