Chapter Summaries

Bai Su was forced to shed blood alongside the controlled merfolk Jiao Yue to fuel the Everlasting Flower, while Su Jiu’s group waited for the Silver Moon Star Sea to appear. At midnight, the sea revealed its legendary silver moon and stars, and Su Jiu asked Xia Jue why the villagers celebrated.

• A man told Bai Su that her blood could help connect the Azure Realm to Swallowing Heaven and threatened Chen Yan if she refused.
• The man introduced Jiao Yue, a controlled merfolk cultivator, and forced her to lead Bai Su to the pool.
• Jiao Yue and Bai Su shed blood into the roots of the Everlasting Flower, and Bai Su began to lose consciousness after seeing a black-cloaked figure behind the man.
• Su Jiu’s group discussed their search, and she realized Silver Snow’s real purpose was not finding the strange plate.
• At midnight, spatial power transformed the sky and sea into the Silver Moon Star Sea, prompting Su Jiu to ask Xia Jue why the villagers celebrated.

Xia Jue explained that the Silver Moon Star Sea had appeared because it was overlapping with the Sea of Ignorance, and he believed a violent storm would soon reveal more about the merging spaces. Beneath the sea, Silver Snow and Yin Ze found the whirlpools had grown stronger and left Silver Star behind to train as they continued toward their goal.

• Xia Jue told Su Jiu that the Silver Moon Star Sea and the Sea of Ignorance were overlapping, and he expected to confirm his theory after the coming storm.
• Silver Snow, Silver Star, and Yin Ze entered the underwater world, where whirlpools and their cutting blades threatened even spiritual qi barriers.
• Silver Snow stopped Silver Star at a middle depth and told him to train there while he and Yin Ze continued deeper.
• Silver Snow and Yin Ze reached the seabed and discovered the whirlpools had grown stronger and more numerous than before.
• Yin Ze found that the plate they had seen on their previous visit was gone, but Silver Snow urged him to focus on their real objective.

Yin Ze and Silver Snow uncovered a pit of cultivators’ bones beneath the sea while Si Lishen brought Yao Yan to the Silver Moon Star Sea. At the village, Xia Jue played for Su Jiu before Si Lishen attacked her, and Su Jiu fought on despite their immense difference in cultivation.

• Yin Ze fell through collapsing sea sand into a pit filled with human bones and magic treasures, and he and Silver Snow began searching it before nearby whirlpools returned.
• Yao Yan revealed how he had escaped the Savage Wilderness by bargaining with Si Lishen, who had brought him to the Silver Moon Star Sea to find Su Jiu.
• Xia Jue played a soothing flute melody for Su Jiu, then warned that an enemy was approaching as Si Lishen arrived to assassinate her.
• Xia Jue stopped Feng Qi, Ning Fan, and the others from intervening, insisting that Su Jiu face Si Lishen and show her limits despite his void refinement cultivation.
• Su Jiu survived Si Lishen’s opening strike and evaded his attacks while countering with ice techniques, making him more determined to kill her before she grew stronger.

Su Jiu held her own against Si Lishen until he drew the Holy Demonic Sword, whose overwhelming power left her badly wounded. When the sword spirit began fighting Si Lishen for control, Su Jiu withdrew to recover while Xia Jue and the others prepared to face whoever survived.

• Su Jiu adapted to Si Lishen's attacks and gradually wounded him while conserving her spiritual qi, surprising the onlookers.
• Si Lishen revealed the Holy Demonic Sword, and Xia Jue identified it as the stolen original that Si Lishen had replaced with a fake at Windforest Star River.
• Si Lishen unleashed the sword's demonic power, and Su Jiu used a Void Talisman to survive the blast but was left badly injured and nearly out of spiritual qi.
• Xuejing Spirit and Purple Ultimate urged Su Jiu to attune, but she noticed Si Lishen's demonic qi fluctuating and returned to Xia Jue's side.
• Su Jiu explained that the Holy Demonic Sword had taken control of Si Lishen, and Xia Jue and Ning Fan prepared their forces to wait for the struggle to weaken them.
• Xia Jue told Su Jiu to recover while the others prepared to deal with the sword spirit or Si Lishen, and she sat down to meditate.

Su Jiu helped Silver Snow, Silver Star, and Yin Ze escape a living whirlpool that had formed from the seabed currents, then trapped it in an array. As Feng Qi pressed the group to explain what they had taken and how they would protect the village, Silver Snow agreed to show Su Jiu the object in hopes she could find a solution.

• Su Jiu and Feng Qi flew over the sea to meet Silver Star, Silver Snow, and Yin Ze as a huge whirlpool pursued them.
• Su Jiu struck the whirlpool with a powerful talisman, then used binding talismans to trap it while it re-formed.
• Su Jiu sensed spatial power in the whirlpool’s azure gas and reasoned that it might be unable to follow them onto land.
• Feng Qi warned Silver Star and the others that the whirlpool could endanger the village and demanded to know what they had taken.
• Silver Snow told Yin Ze to let Su Jiu see the object, believing she might find a way to deal with the danger.

Su Jiu helped the newly awakened Artifact Spirit of the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl recover its vessel and discovered that the Sacred Artifact would only respond to her. Silver Snow revealed that he needed the pearl for a serious, dangerous purpose and promised to explain once they reached shore.

• Yin Ze explained that the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl lay in a spatial fissure between the Silver Moon Star Sea and the Sea of Ignorance, where its Artifact Spirit controlled a dangerous whirlpool.
• Su Jiu approached the half-formed spirit and used her innate origin qi to communicate her goodwill and request; the spirit collapsed the whirlpool and returned to its vessel.
• The pearl rejected everyone but Su Jiu, while Little Pearl explained that Sacred Artifacts requiring innate origin qi could become Immortal Artifacts through ascension.
• Silver Snow forcibly caught the pearl, which dimmed its glow, then asked Su Jiu to help because it would only listen to her.
• Su Jiu asked what Silver Snow needed the pearl to resolve, and he promised to tell her after they reached shore; Yin Ze worried that his uncle was confiding in an outsider, but Silver Snow said Su Jiu was not one.

The demonic sword took control of Si Lishen and fought the Enforcement Hall disciples until their formation broke. Su Jiu and Xia Jue used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl and World-Cleansing Liuli Pagoda to subdue the sword, and Su Jiu ended with a question for the captured demon spirit.

• Xia Jue and the Enforcement Hall disciples watched the demonic sword’s black patterns spread across Si Lishen until it took control of his body.
• The possessed Si Lishen fought the Enforcement Hall formation, injuring disciples while Xia Jue waited for them to weaken the sword.
• Su Jiu returned with Silver Snow and two companions as the formation broke, then used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl with Xia Jue’s World-Cleansing Liuli Pagoda to repel the demonic qi.
• Little Pearl warned Su Jiu that the sword spirit was escaping, so Su Jiu bound the sword and Si Lishen with the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl.
• The sword spirit’s red patterns attacked Su Jiu, but Xia Jue’s World-Cleansing Liuli Pagoda destroyed them; Su Jiu then drove the sword spirit out of Si Lishen and surrounded the demon spirit with allied spirits.
• Su Jiu asked the demon spirit whether it would return to its original body or answer a question.

Su Jiu learned that the three Holy Demonic Swords were once one weapon and handed the two swords in her possession to Xia Jue. As Swallowing Heaven began to emerge beneath the Silver Moon Star Sea, she realized it was about to explode and prepared to evacuate the people with Teleportation Array Discs.

• The demonic sword spirit explained that the three swords had once been one, and Su Jiu bound the sword and gave it to Xia Jue to seal.
• The overlapping spaces grew unstable, and Su Jiu spotted a black-cloaked figure whose actions matched the vision in her book.
• The black-cloaked figure split the sea, then vanished as a deep trench opened and the surrounding space shook.
• Su Jiu recognized the rising black shape as Swallowing Heaven and realized its explosion could destroy much of the Spiritflight Continent.
• Xia Jue asked Su Jiu for spare Teleportation Array Discs, and she produced more than a dozen to help evacuate the people.

As Swallowing Heaven neared its explosion, Su Jiu, Xia Jue, Ning Fan, and Feng Qi organized the evacuation of Spiritflight Continent’s residents using teleportation arrays. Su Jiu completed one intercontinental array before the flooding forced them to evacuate the village, while the wider rescue effort continued with some residents refusing to leave.

• Ning Fan proposed using Spiritflight Continent’s existing teleportation arrays while Su Jiu made additional fixed-point arrays, and Xia Jue assigned the disciples cities to evacuate.
• Su Jiu inscribed fixed-point teleportation arrays as Enforcement Hall and Shadow Pavilion disciples departed to warn residents and move those willing to leave.
• When the village began flooding, Ning Fan took its residents aboard a flying boat, and Su Jiu completed one intercontinental array before they reached another city.
• While Su Jiu recovered, Feng Qi and Ning Fan deployed the array and bound rogue cultivators who tried to damage it and scam them for compensation.
• Enforcement Hall disciples and local cultivators evacuated residents across Spiritflight Continent, but they left behind people who continued refusing to cooperate.

Su Jiu and her companions escaped the Spiritflight Continent as Swallowing Heaven exploded, triggering a calamity that shook the Azure Realm and disrupted the Heavenly Secret Sect’s divinations. After returning to report the disaster, Su Jiu explained that the Azure Realm’s Heavenly Dao was striking at life from the compressed world as foreign invaders.

• Feng Qi freed the bound cultivators, and Su Jiu’s group teleported away after explaining that they had moved the city’s residents to safety; the freed men followed them through the formation.
• Su Jiu and her companions witnessed the explosion from another continent, while Little Gift stirred, Su Jiu’s facial mark briefly showed nine leaves, and Little Green watched her with a strange gaze.
• Tribulation lightning destroyed the Heavenly Secret Sect’s compass at the Distant Lookout Platform, and the Grand Elder said the Heavenly Dao had warned them to stop observing.
• Chu Luohen reached Spirit Transformation at Ice Veil Peak but returned emotionally hollow, leaving Chu Mojin troubled by his changed demeanor.
• Half a month later, Su Jiu and Xia Jue reported to the sect with Silver Snow present, and Su Jiu explained that the Azure Realm’s Heavenly Dao viewed Swallowing Heaven’s lifeforms as foreign invaders.

Su Jiu and Xia Jue explained Swallowing Heaven’s impending destruction and revealed a mysterious cloaked man might have caused its explosion. After a demonic cultivator stole the Demonic Sword, Su Jiu recognized him as Zheng Qilong, while Chu Luohen and Su Jiu’s Spirit Transformation advances surprised the Azure Tide Sect; the chapter ended with Su Jiu confiscating Su Mianmian’s storybooks and demanding she improve her cultivation.

• Su Jiu explained that the Azure Realm’s heavenly tribulation would likely kill nearly all the beings from Swallowing Heaven, though some might survive using rare treasures.
• Xia Jue said a prophetic dream had led him to investigate Swallowing Heaven and identified a powerful black-cloaked man as the last person seen before its explosion.
• A True Disciple reported that a demonic cultivator had stolen the Demonic Sword from Nightfall Cold Pool, and Su Jiu recognized the sketched thief as Zheng Qilong.
• Ning Hai assigned the Enforcement Hall to capture Zheng Qilong and retrieve the sword, while Xia Jue took responsibility for revealing the prophetic dream.
• Chu Luohen ignored Su Jiu, then Chu Mojin revealed that Su Jiu had reached Spirit Transformation before Chu Luohen; both declined Ning Hai’s offer of a ceremony.
• Su Jiu confiscated Su Mianmian’s storybooks and warned that she would punish Jin Chen if Mian Mian failed to improve her cultivation.

Su Jiu learned why Silver Snow needed the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl and agreed to help him investigate it, while he took on the mystery of the storybooks. At Ice Veil Peak, Chu Mojin realized that Chu Luohen’s growing understanding of the Heartless Dao had made him emotionally distant, and he regretted how he had once let that path take hold.

• Su Jiu and Silver Snow discussed the storybooks’ strange otherworldly content, and Su Jiu suspected Zheng Qilong might be behind them.
• Silver Snow told Su Jiu he had repeatedly entered the Demon-Subduing Land to rescue his tribespeople, many of whom had died or been corrupted by demon seeds, and explained that he sought the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl to save those who remained.
• Silver Snow warned Su Jiu to be careful around Chu Luohen, but she defended her senior brother and agreed to accompany Silver Snow on his search.
• Su Jiu learned Silver Snow’s tribespeople were on Fox Mountain and, unable to travel because of the tribulation lightning, gave him books to investigate while she handled sect matters.
• Silver Star and Yin Ze found Silver Snow with Su Jiu and scolded him for getting too familiar with her before escorting him away.
• At Ice Veil Peak, Chu Luohen dismissed the need to miss Su Jiu, and Chu Mojin suspected Chu Luohen had fully comprehended the Heartless Dao and regretted letting him follow it.

Su Jiu reunited with Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen after advancing to Spirit Transformation, and revealed that her innate origin qi could remove demon seeds. She gave the Heavenly Demon-Subduing Pestle to her master for the Ghost Market disciples, but left Ice Veil Hall upset by Chu Luohen’s coldness as Chu Mojin prepared to accompany her to see Xia Jue.

• Su Jiu returned to Ice Veil Peak, and Chu Mojin welcomed her while reflecting on his past motives and guilt toward her and Chu Luohen.
• Chu Mojin treated Su Jiu and Chu Luohen to iceflame jade dew, then asked about her plans; Su Jiu said she would help remove demon seeds at Endless Peak.
• Su Jiu explained how she discovered she could use innate origin qi to remove demon seeds, alarming Chu Mojin because the Ghost Market and Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect knew about her ability.
• Su Jiu handed the Heavenly Demon-Subduing Pestle to Chu Mojin to give to the Ghost Market disciples, and agreed to visit Xia Jue with him.
• Su Jiu asked Chu Luohen whether she had upset him, but he criticized her emotional fluctuations, so she left Ice Veil Hall without saying goodbye.
• Chu Mojin caught up with Su Jiu at the Enforcement Hall and gave her storage rings filled with high-grade magic treasures, pills, and spirit stones.

Su Jiu entered the Enforcement Hall’s prison searching for Xia Jue and discovered a hidden world behind a red door. There she found Chu Luohen’s discarded seven emotions and six desires, who urged her to leave and claimed his original self had cast him aside as part of cultivating the Heartless Dao.

• Chu Mojin showed Su Jiu his treasures, then waited outside the prison after guards barred him from entering.
• Su Jiu entered the Enforcement Hall’s prison and used her divine sense and Otherworldly Eyes to discover three hidden doors.
• Su Jiu opened the red door and entered a dark space containing beings sealed inside transparent boxes.
• Su Jiu recognized one imprisoned presence as resembling her junior granduncle, and Chu Luohen identified himself as a martial niece’s relative.
• Su Jiu guessed that Chu Luohen was the seven emotions and six desires her junior granduncle had cast aside, but Chu Luohen told her to leave.
• Chu Luohen said his original self had abandoned his emotions and desires to cultivate the Heartless Dao, insisting Su Jiu should not take it to heart.

Su Jiu entered the black door and learned that the Enforcement Hall had developed chains that could suppress demon seeds. She used her innate origin qi to destroy one, revealing a possible way to save the demon-seed-infected people, though the effort left her weak.

• After Su Jiu left the dark red doors, the imprisoned black aura wondered whether its original self might ever call it back, while the other box dwellers mocked its hopes.
• At the black door, the Xuejing Spirit identified the carved creature as an Eight-Eyed Killer, and Little Pearl realized it had forgotten much of its past.
• Su Jiu entered and met Xia Jue, Feng Qi, and several Enforcement Hall disciples beside three people suffering from terminal demon seed infestation.
• Xia Jue explained that the golden chains could suppress demon seeds, and Su Jiu asked to test whether her innate origin qi could destroy one.
• Su Jiu's innate origin qi turned the demon seed white until it crumbled into powder, but the effort exhausted her spiritual qi.
• The Enforcement Hall disciples saw a chance to save their afflicted companions, and Xia Jue named the new chains Little Gold.

Su Jiu entered the golden door with Xia Jue and discovered the Memory Tree, which recorded the Azure Tide Sect’s hundred thousand years of history. Xia Jue hinted that she was suited to succeed him as Enforcement Hall Master, but Su Jiu resisted the role and returned the Profound Spirit Command Token; she then reflected on the sect’s harsh treatment of Outer Gate conflicts.

• Xia Jue led Su Jiu through the golden door and told her the Azure Tide Sect had existed for one hundred thousand years.
• Su Jiu saw the Memory Tree’s glowing droplets reveal memories of sect members and scenes from her own childhood.
• Xia Jue explained that the tree recorded the sect’s history and had helped the Enforcement Hall investigate cases.
• Xia Jue said Su Jiu was the most suitable person to succeed him, but Su Jiu said she wanted to live freely and tried to return the Profound Spirit Command Token.
• Xia Jue persuaded Su Jiu to keep the token, whose hidden authority let its holder depose the Enforcement Hall Master.
• Su Jiu questioned the sect’s failure to protect Outer Gate disciples, and Xia Jue confirmed that the sect generally allowed their conflicts unless someone died.

Su Jiu accompanied Xia Jue and Chu Mojin to Endless Peak, the Azure Tide Sect’s forbidden grounds, where she used her innate origin qi to remove demon seeds from three recently infected cultivators. Afterward, Hong Sheng promised to keep her ability secret and repay her kindness if she ever needed him.

• Su Jiu explained the events in the Linnan Region to Chu Mojin as they flew with Xia Jue toward Endless Peak.
• Xia Jue led Su Jiu and Chu Mojin through Endless Peak’s concealed barriers and explained that its inner barrier confined demonic qi and demon-seed carriers.
• Feng Qi introduced three recently infected cultivators, and Su Jiu began removing their demon seeds with her innate origin qi.
• Su Jiu purified all three demon seeds and explained that the first two cultivators would need Marrow-Cleansing Pills and time to recover.
• Hong Sheng thanked Su Jiu and vowed to guard the secret of her ability and repay her kindness.

Su Jiu discovered that one of the cultivators brought for treatment harbored a concealed high-rank demon seed that had been exploiting multiple hosts. The demon seed revealed itself in the Enforcement Hall’s restraints, and Su Jiu warned that removing it could not restore the man to his former self.

• After meditating, Su Jiu examined three more cultivators and asked Xia Jue whether a person could host a demon seed twice.
• Su Jiu recognized that the last male cultivator’s damaged meridians and lost time pointed to a concealed high-rank demon seed that had previously used other hosts.
• When the man denied Su Jiu’s accusation, Feng Qi separated his cage from the others, and the demon seed rapidly filled its host with tendrils and demonic qi.
• Su Jiu explained that the high-rank demon seed had hidden its tendrils and could beguile victims into depravity, while the man remained tainted in mind and heart.
• The man challenged the restraints, but Feng Qi’s chains held him; Su Jiu then warned Xia Jue that removing the demon seed would not restore the man to his former self.

Su Jiu used her innate origin qi, aided by the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, to destroy a mature high-rank demon seed, leaving its host alive but badly injured. After recovering, she chose to continue removing demon seeds from the prisoners at Endless Peak, beginning with a nervous female cultivator.

• Su Jiu restrained a male cultivator and aggressively corroded his mature demon seed as it fought its host and ravaged his body.
• The Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword supplied Su Jiu with innate origin qi, allowing her to annihilate the last trace of the demon seed; the host survived but lost consciousness.
• The female prisoner agreed to have her early-stage demon seed removed, while the male prisoner remained wary and waited to see what happened.
• Chu Mojin questioned Xia Jue about keeping Su Jiu at Endless Peak for weeks, but Su Jiu later explained that she wanted to ease the sect's burden by treating the prisoners.
• After recovering, Su Jiu began removing the female cultivator's demon seed and reassured her that she would be all right.

Yao Yan explored the market beneath the Azure Tide Sect and learned that the sect had banned storybooks because they could harm cultivators. After the Enforcement Hall burned a seller’s stock, Yao Yan secretly pocketed a booklet left behind.

• The Night Demon Sect Master worried that the weakening tribulation would expose Si Lishen’s death and leave him to conceal the loss while searching for Yao Yan.
• Yao Yan watched a boy confront a storybook seller for allegedly harming his older sister through her obsession with the books.
• Azure Tide Sect Enforcement Hall disciples arrived, burned the seller’s storybooks, and seized his storage bag despite his protests.
• A female cultivator told Yao Yan that the Azure Tide Sect protected the city and had recently discovered that storybooks could poison the spirit platform and cause cultivation deviation.
• The boy followed the seller away with murderous intent, while Yao Yan spotted a booklet lodged in a wall and slipped it into his storage bag.