Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu restored the trapped souls, then pursued Yuan Yu after he severed his bond with the Soul-Locking Book and discovered he was killing people to heal his injuries. Silver Star revealed why Yuan Yu had been wounded and joined the hunt; as the group set off, Yun Huanling said the Heavenly Secret Sect had summoned him home, leaving Su Jiu unsure whether she was speaking with A Huan or A Ling.

• Su Jiu returned the uncorrupted souls to their bodies, and several unconscious people, including Second Young Lady Tan and Zhuzi, awakened.
• Yuan Yu severed his connection to the Soul-Locking Book, but Su Jiu followed the trail and found a murdered cultivator whose heart had been taken for Yuan Yu's healing.
• Silver Star appeared and revealed that Yuan Yu had been gravely injured by a backlash while turning the Soul-Locking Book into an evil object, then used human essence and heart blood to recover.
• Silver Star returned the Soul-Locking Book to himself and offered to lead Su Jiu's group to Yuan Yu, while Su Jiu decided to question him afterward about Silver Snow.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu that the Heavenly Secret Sect had summoned him back and that he might be unable to leave for a long time; his question about whether she would miss him left her unsure whether he was A Huan or A Ling.

Yuan Yu fled after Su Jiu killed the Soul-Locking Book's spirit, then hid in a forest cave and recovered by consuming a Golden Core cultivator's heart. Su Jiu and her companions found him and broke his barrier, but his claim that the Painting Spirit would die with him made Su Jiu hesitate as the confrontation continued.

• After Su Jiu killed the Soul-Locking Book's spirit, Yuan Yu suffered severe backlash, abandoned the artifact, and escaped by killing a Golden Core cultivator for his heart's blood.
• Yuan Yu hid in a demon beast's cavern behind an illusion barrier, while the Wind Spirit traced his whereabouts through the forest vegetation.
• Su Jiu shattered the barrier with one strike and confronted Yuan Yu over his cannibalism and heretical cultivation.
• Yuan Yu accused the righteous sects of neglecting heretical cultivators, but Yun Huanling rejected his claims and Yun Chao attacked him.
• Yuan Yu warned that the Painting Spirit would die if he died, and Su Jiu did not stop Yun Chao from striking him.
• Yuan Yu described the Painting Spirit's trust in him and her reluctance to help him harm others, and Su Jiu stopped feeding spiritual qi into her sword.

Su Jiu forced Yuan Yu to sever his ties with the Painting Spirit, but the Painting Spirit helped him teleport away. Su Jiu revealed that Enforcement Hall disciples, including Ning Fan, were waiting nearby, then left for Peaceful Village while Yun Huanling and Silver Star bickered over her.

• Yuan Yu offered to free the Painting Spirit in exchange for Su Jiu sparing him and promising not to seek him for an hour, and Su Jiu swore an oath with added conditions.
• Su Jiu caught Yuan Yu trying to deceive her and froze his shoulder with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword until he severed every bond with the Painting Spirit.
• The Painting Spirit used spatial power to help Yuan Yu escape, and Su Jiu explained that Enforcement Hall disciples and Ning Fan were positioned nearby to intercept him.
• Silver Star teased Yun Huanling by arguing that he and his uncle were unsuitable for Su Jiu, and the two exchanged insults.
• Su Jiu sent Yun Chao a voice transmission that she was going to Peaceful Village and would return in half an hour.

Su Jiu helped Zhuzi awaken, erased his memories of being trapped in a book, and gave Tongzi a pill to extend his life before leaving Peaceful Village. Meanwhile, Ning Fan acted on Su Jiu’s request for help and captured the wounded heretical cultivator Yuan Yu.

• Su Jiu found Zhuzi awake but confused by memories of being trapped in a book, and used spiritual qi to help him recover.
• Su Jiu erased Zhuzi’s memories of the nightmare, leaving him unaware of why he had feared her.
• Su Jiu told Tongzi that his essence blood could not be recovered, then gave him part of a Life-Extending Pill to restore some of the years he had lost.
• Su Jiu departed as Tongzi went to meet Zhuzi at the gate.
• Ning Fan organized an ambush after learning Su Jiu needed help, and captured the wounded Yuan Yu himself.

Ning Fan and the Enforcement Hall cornered Yuan Yu, but his spatial escape was stopped by a formation that exposed the Painting Spirit. The Painting Spirit tried to give Yuan Yu her life essence, and Su Jiu arrived as the spirit explained that she could accompany her no further.

• Ning Fan trapped Yuan Yu with his Phantom Blood Blade while the Painting Spirit refused Yuan Yu's pleas for help after their contract ended.
• Su Jiu learned that Yuan Yu had been caught and warned Ning Fan that the Painting Spirit could escape through space.
• Yuan Yu vanished just as Ning Fan ordered his death, but Ning Fan activated a formation that disrupted the Painting Spirit's spatial arts and revealed them both.
• Ningets Fan's Phantom Blood Blades pierced Yuan Yu, and the Painting Spirit began transferring her life essence to him despite the transfer's near-certain failure.
• Su Jiu arrived and angrily confronted the Painting Spirit, who said she could accompany Su Jiu only this far.

After the Painting Spirit died, her final gift strengthened Su Jiu’s perception of spatial laws and left her unconscious for half a month. While her friends went to fight the demonic cultivators, Su Jiu confronted Little Gift about its secrets and then sensed a disturbance near the tattered book.

• The Painting Spirit died beside Yuan Yu and left a golden thread that merged into Su Jiu, sharing her memories and strengthening her innate gift for sensing spatial laws.
• Su Jiu learned through the Painting Spirit’s memories that Yuan Yu had tortured her before deceiving her with years of gentleness, and she grieved as their shared emotions faded.
• Yun Huanling and the others brought Su Jiu to an inn, where she remained impossible to wake for half a month as demonic cultivators began invading the Spiritflight Continent.
• The cultivators left to reinforce the front while Yun Huanling and two Enforcement Hall disciples stayed behind to guard Su Jiu; Silver Star asked to be notified when she awoke.
• Inside her consciousness, Su Jiu challenged Little Gift to reveal what it remembered about her origins, but Little Gift refused to answer.
• Su Jiu learned from Purple Ultimate that the demonic cultivators were attacking border cities, then sensed a disturbance near the tattered book and vanished toward it.

After waking from the Painting Spirit’s gift, Su Jiu learned that the Night-Gathering Sect and many others had abandoned the fight against the demonic cultivators. She joined Da Shen and Xiao Shen on a mission to reinforce vulnerable cities, leaving Yun Huanling behind after cruelly rejecting him.

• Su Jiu watched the stormy sea in the moving picture and sensed that the cloaked figure’s dangerous actions might change the Azure Realm before she woke.
• Yun Huanling and two Enforcement Hall disciples told Su Jiu that the Night-Gathering Sect had fled, many other sects had followed or surrendered, and several border cities had already fallen.
• Su Jiu insisted on joining Da Shen and Xiao Shen to reinforce vulnerable positions, then told Yun Huanling that he was weak and a burden before dismissing his feelings for her.
• After Yun Huanling left in anguish, Su Jiu ignored Little Pearl and the Snow Sprite, inscribed several eighth-tier formations, and set out with Da Shen and Xiao Shen.

Su Jiu and Da Shen and Xiao Shen reached a city devastated by demonic cultivators and fought their way into the City Lord's Residence. Su Jiu killed the demonic forces, purified the city's demonic qi, and set out with her companions for the next city.

• Su Jiu learned that the city lord had cooperated with the demonic cultivators, who had slaughtered the city's residents to make room for their own people.
• Su Jiu, Da Shen, and Xiao Shen killed the guards at the City Lord's Residence and pressed inside as the demonic cultivators prepared to fight.
• The demonic cultivator leader took the city lord hostage, but Su Jiu dismissed him as a traitor and killed him.
• Su Jiu lured the demonic cultivators into gathering together, then killed them all with a barrage of ice spikes before the leader could escape.
• Su Jiu used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl to purify the city's demonic qi and told Da Shen to lead the group to the next city.

The Night Demon Sect's master ordered Si Lishen to kill Su Jiu and sent Wei Ren to the Spiritflight Continent, while Su Jiu returned to Peace City during a demonic attack. The chapter ended with Su Jiu saving the city lord from losing her arm and joining the battle.

• The Night Demon Sect's master blamed the losses in the border cities on underestimating their opponents, Si Lishen's failure to kill Su Jiu, and the Succubus Sect's refusal to cooperate.
• The sect master ordered his followers to seize the Succubus Sect's treasure, kill Yao Yan, and have Si Lishen deal with Su Jiu.
• Si Lishen delegated the mission to Wei Ren, who led a group of demonic cultivators toward the Spiritflight Continent.
• Qiu Yinong and Gong Wusheng discussed the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect's departure from the Spiritflight Continent and wondered why the Night Demon Sect had sent Wei Ren there.
• Su Jiu returned to Peace City and froze a demonic cultivator's saber before it could cut off the city lord's arm.
• The city lord resumed fighting beside Su Jiu, while Da Shen remarked on her determination.

Su Jiu helped Peace City defeat the Demonic Cultivators, then traveled with Da Shen, Xiao Shen, and Silver Star to check the next cities. Silver Star revealed that his youngest uncle’s clues led to the Silver Moon Star Sea, and Su Jiu reunited with Wei Yu and Yun Chao among a large group of injured sect disciples.

• Su Jiu froze and destroyed the Demonic Cultivators attacking Peace City, then accepted the City Lord’s heart-demon oath and urged her to remain committed to protecting the city.
• Su Jiu explained to Da Shen why she had not used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl in Peace City, and the group flew on to another city.
• Su Jiu found Silver Star, who had killed the Demonic Cultivators there, and learned that he had found clues about his youngest uncle in the Silver Moon Star Sea.
• Silver Star told Su Jiu the location of his youngest uncle, and she agreed to take the clues without promising to travel there with him.
• Su Jiu’s group landed in the next city and found Wei Yu and Yun Chao with many injured sect disciples, revealing why she had not encountered sect cultivators in the previous cities.

Su Jiu and the others discovered that the demonic cultivators had attacked ahead of schedule, suggesting a traitor had exposed their plans. Su Jiu waited for the spy’s associates to arrive, then protected the disciples in a formation as she and Wei Yu confronted the powerful demonic cultivator Wei Ren; the fight began with Wei Ren’s followers unsure what to do.

• Yun Chao recounted how he and Wei Yu had fought through cities where many residents and sect disciples had died, and the survivors realized the demonic attack had come much earlier than expected.
• Su Jiu suspected that a traitor among the Dao cultivators had revealed the sects’ plans, while Yun Chao admitted that he and his Martial Uncle also suspected a spy but could not identify one.
• Su Jiu told Yun Chao to wait, and a powerful demonic cultivator’s arrival under dark clouds confirmed that the spy was likely still among the gathered disciples.
• Su Jiu raised a golden formation to shield the disciples, then joined Wei Yu in facing the newcomer, whom Wei Ren identified as a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator.
• Wei Ren mocked the protected Dao cultivators and attacked Su Jiu and Wei Yu with black chains, but they evaded him while his followers stood idle.
• Wei Ren rebuked his followers for failing to attack the Dao cultivators, and their minor leader pointed out that a formation blocked their way.

Inside the formation, Yun Chao exposed a Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciple as a spy after he repeatedly urged the others to leave and fight. The spy escaped during a cloud of black mist but was killed by the Spirit Transformation cultivator outside, leaving everyone with a stark warning about the danger beyond the formation.

• Yun Chao challenged the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciple for trying to coax the injured cultivators out of the formation, and the disciple accused Yun Chao of being a spy instead.
• Yun Chao called for them to swear heart-demon oaths, while a Heavenly Music Pavilion senior sister backed him and the others began doubting the disciple.
• The Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciple tried to flee, but his junior brother caught him and exposed his attempt before the crowd.
• The disciple threw an object that filled the formation with black mist, then vanished when the mist cleared.
• An Enforcement Hall disciple revealed that the missing spy had been killed by demonic qi outside the formation and warned that a Spirit Severing cultivator could not resist a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Su Jiu and Wei Yu continued fighting Wei Ren while demonic disciples tried and failed to break Su Jiu’s formation. Wei Yu defeated the attacking demonic cultivators and questioned the survivors about why they had joined the demonic path, while Su Jiu’s endurance in the clash with Wei Ren remained unexplained.

• The demonic disciples attacked Su Jiu’s formation, then traded insults with the Dao cultivators inside and injured themselves against its protective shield.
• Wei Ren became distracted by the demonic disciples’ antics, giving Su Jiu and Wei Yu an opening to wound him.
• Su Jiu abandoned most of her defenses and held back Wei Ren’s chains with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword for an hour without showing strain.
• Wei Yu killed a demonic cultivator who charged him, then accepted the others’ pleas for mercy and spared those whose bloodshed remained within his tolerance.
• Wei Yu questioned the surviving demonic cultivators, and Ning Fan helped him identify a man who had lied about why he became a demonic cultivator.
• The man said he had switched from Dao cultivation because he could not endure being robbed, then implied that Wei Ren had decided to bring them to kill Dao cultivators.

Su Jiu outmaneuvered and killed Wei Ren, prompting warnings that Si Lishen would seek revenge, but she intended to face him herself. As the others departed, she learned her senior brother was in the Silver Moon Star Sea and wondered what connected him, Feng Qi, and Silver Snow to the place.

• Wei Yu crippled the demonic cultivators’ cultivation and released them, while Su Jiu used frost to immobilize Wei Ren and destroy his primordial spirit.
• Ning Fan and the Heavenly Music Pavilion’s eldest senior sister warned Su Jiu that Si Lishen would avenge Wei Ren, and Wei Yu and the eldest senior sister offered her aid.
• Su Jiu declined their offers, saying she might reach her senior brother before Si Lishen could act, though she privately planned to confront Si Lishen herself.
• As the sect disciples prepared to leave, Xiao Shen told Su Jiu that her senior brother was in the Silver Moon Star Sea.
• Su Jiu thought about Silver Snow, Feng Qi, and her senior brother being in the Silver Moon Star Sea, then recalled the painting scroll in her sea of consciousness.

Xia Jue and Feng Qi investigated the Silver Moon Star Sea, where villagers warned outsiders away from a supposed treasure beneath the sea. Xia Jue suspected the villagers were hiding something and connected the legend to Swallowing Heaven, leaving the group to await the full moon the next night.

• Xia Jue led Feng Qi and the Enforcement Hall disciples into a village beside the Silver Moon Star Sea, where the locals explained that outsiders came seeking treasure described in fabricated storybooks.
• Feng Qi questioned the villagers about the books, and they said a full moon supposedly revealed an entrance to a treasure-filled space beneath the sea, though most visitors who searched for it never returned.
• Xia Jue told Feng Qi that the villagers knew too much and might be hiding something, while their warnings against treasure hunting seemed sincere.
• Xia Jue recalled a teahouse account that Swallowing Heaven had vanished from the Sea of Ignorance and suggested the creature might be connected to the Silver Moon Star Sea legend.
• Feng Qi said the sea shone at the full moon each month before storms plunged the sky into darkness, and Xia Jue said they might learn more the next night.

Su Jiu and Silver Star entered a lawless city while searching for Silver Snow, and Silver Star discovered that Su Jiu carried the mark of his youngest uncle, which was reserved for a lifelong partner. When a local extortionist threatened them, Su Jiu killed him with one strike, leaving the frightened townspeople to realize she was the Azure Tide Sect disciple known for wielding the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword.

• Da Shen and Xiao Shen left after Su Jiu mentioned Silver Snow, hiding their role in concealing his appearance from her years earlier.
• Silver Star explained that Su Jiu's hand bore his youngest uncle's unique mark, which could be removed only if he died and was customarily reserved for a lifelong partner.
• Su Jiu and Silver Star entered a disorderly city and encountered A Da, who falsely accused them of taking his Great Restoration Pill and demanded valuables.
• A Da threatened to kill them, and Su Jiu killed him with a single strike of the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword.
• The onlookers recognized Su Jiu as a powerful Azure Tide Sect disciple and worried that she might report the city's lawlessness, with some deciding to leave and train elsewhere.

Su Jiu and Silver Star bought books from a stall run by the missing former Fourth Elder, whom Su Jiu recognized but chose not to disturb. As Silver Star’s hand mark grew brighter and they neared their destination, Silver Snow and Yin Ze waited for him in a courtyard and agreed to keep certain matters from him.

• Su Jiu and Silver Star visited a bookstall, where a female cultivator argued over the prices before her Dao Companion left and she followed him.
• Su Jiu and Silver Star bought most of the stall’s books, and Su Jiu recognized the bookseller as the former Fourth Elder of the Azure Tide Sect.
• Su Jiu bowed farewell to the Fourth Elder and left without revealing that she knew him, while Xiang Li arrived and spoke with his master.
• Silver Star’s hand mark brightened as he and Su Jiu continued toward the person they sought.
• Yin Ze told Silver Snow that Silver Star would arrive soon and asked him not to tell Silver Star certain things; Silver Snow agreed to welcome him from his swing.

Su Jiu reunited with Silver Snow at the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s residence, where Silver Star’s urgent news about Si Lishen and the Silver Moon Star Sea interrupted their reunion. As they investigated a storybook tied to a dangerous real event beneath the sea, Silver Snow began explaining that the legend had happened in their city long ago.

• Yin Ze brought Su Jiu and Silver Star to Silver Snow, who rushed to embrace Su Jiu after seeing her again.
• Silver Star and Silver Snow argued over addressing Su Jiu and delayed discussing the Silver Moon Star Sea until they joined Yin Ze and Su Jiu in the main hall.
• Silver Star recounted that Si Lishen was pursuing Su Jiu, and Silver Snow warned that Si Lishen’s Void Refinement cultivation was stronger and more established than his own.
• Yin Ze and Silver Snow explained that they had mixed invented tales with true stories about the Silver Moon Star Sea to conceal dangerous information.
• Silver Star produced an old storybook about a fisherman and a magical plate, and Silver Snow revealed that its story was based on real events in the city.

Su Jiu returned Silver Snow's Jade Pendant and learned that Si Lishen had hunted him, then set out with Silver Snow, Silver Star, and Yin Ze for the Silver Moon Star Sea. Meanwhile, the Night Demon Sect learned that Yao Yan had appeared there, and a familiar figure volunteered to capture him; Su Jiu's group reached the fishing village where Senior Brother was staying.

• Yin Ze and Silver Snow told Su Jiu and Silver Star about the pearl-producing plate, the dangers of the true Silver Moon Star Sea, and its briefly appearing treasures.
• Su Jiu returned Silver Snow's Jade Pendant and learned that Si Lishen had hunted him at Red Maple Mountain three years earlier, though Silver Snow refused to explain why.
• Su Jiu declared that she had to go to the Silver Moon Star Sea, and Silver Snow, Silver Star, and Yin Ze went with her despite his warning not to enter the water.
• The Night Demon Sect's sect master argued against a frontal assault until the sect recovered the Spirit-Repelling Mirror, and a hooded disciple said Yao Yan had been appearing at the Silver Moon Star Sea.
• When no one volunteered to capture Yao Yan, a familiar figure entered the hall and offered to go.
• Su Jiu and her companions reached the fishing village near Senior Brother's lodging, where villagers compared their looks with those of the group that had arrived the day before.

Bai Su and Chen Yan were lured to the Sea of Ignorance by a Treasure Map and captured inside the False Heaven-Connecting Tower within Swallowing Heaven. Their captor revealed that he needed Bai Su’s outsider blood to sever the Everlasting Flower’s link to the Azure Realm and return Swallowing Heaven’s contents there.

• Bai Su traveled with Chen Yan, learned from a Heavenly Secret Sect elder that she had once been a Child of Destiny whose fortune another had seized, and later continued avoiding sect conflicts.
• Bai Su and Chen Yan found a Treasure Map on a demonic cultivator and followed it to the Sea of Ignorance, where a gigantic black fish knocked them unconscious.
• Bai Su awoke imprisoned beside the Everlasting Flower, discovered that a barrier blocked her escape, and failed to remove or damage the flower.
• A handsome man arrived carrying the unconscious Chen Yan, and Bai Su concluded he was not the black-cloaked figure who had brought them there.
• The man said he needed Bai Su’s blood because she was an outsider, then explained that it could sever the Everlasting Flower’s link between Swallowing Heaven and the Azure Realm.