Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu met Yin Ze, Silver Snow, and Silver Star to discuss their investigation into the storybooks, which had spread across the Azure Mist Continent and caused trouble in a sect. A book describing a world without cultivation led Su Jiu to suspect Zheng Qilong was behind the storybooks, while Xia Jue had left to pursue a lead on Zheng Qilong.

• Su Jiu heard that the forty-nine-day tribulation had transformed much of the Spiritflight Continent into ocean.
• Yin Ze, Silver Snow, and Silver Star told Su Jiu that storybook sellers were difficult to find, but their investigation suggested someone was directing them.
• Silver Star explained how a sect disciple had imitated a romance storybook by confessing her love to her master and trying to flee after he rejected her.
• Su Jiu read The Iceberg Master and His Charming Disciple, disliked it, and told the others to burn the storybooks.
• Silver Snow described how The Domineering CEO's Little Wife depicted a complete mortal world with inventions such as guns and airplanes, and Su Jiu wondered if that world existed.
• Su Jiu suspected Zheng Qilong was creating the storybooks and recalled that Xia Jue had left the sect after finding a lead on him.

Su Jiu and her companions traveled by Flying Boat across the blackened sea left by Swallowing Heaven’s destruction, while Jiao Chen struggled to recover after surviving the lightning tribulation. When Su Jiu sensed a familiar aura, she landed and found the injured merman king on the shore.

• Hongguang realized Zheng Qilong’s Fate Star had dimmed, and Su Jiu’s companions discussed capturing him to learn the Demon-Subduing Land’s secrets.
• Su Jiu and her companions chose a Flying Boat to reach the Shangyin Continent and discussed how the Azure Realm’s denser spiritual qi would widen the gap between cultivators’ aptitudes.
• Jiao Chen awoke injured on the shore, healed what he could, and sheltered behind a rock to recover while hoping to find Jiao Yue.
• Su Jiu and her companions crossed the polluted sea, and Silver Snow observed that Su Jiu seemed to be distancing herself from everyone.
• Su Jiu sensed a familiar aura beneath the Flying Boat, landed on the shore, and recognized the injured figure as a merman.

Su Jiu reunited with the badly injured Jiao Chen, helped him find treatment, and parted ways with him after giving him supplies to search for his family. At a city clinic, she encountered the dying Bai Su and learned that Bai Su had been rescued by Yao Yan, a former sect master who was keeping her alive to hear her stories.

• Jiao Chen woke and attacked reflexively, but Su Jiu blocked his weakened art and recognized him as the Merfolk Tribe's king from Swallowing Heaven.
• Jiao Chen told Su Jiu that he planned to search for his father and sister, while Su Jiu questioned him about the destruction of the Everlasting Flower and learned his father had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Su Jiu gave Jiao Chen Magic Treasures and talismans, took him to a clinic on the Shangyin Continent, and left him in the care of a healing cultivator.
• Su Jiu encountered Bai Su at the clinic and agreed to hear her out; Bai Su was now a mortal whose health was failing after losing her essence blood and cultivation.
• Yao Yan introduced himself as the former sect master of the Succubus Sect and explained that he had found Bai Su on the shore and saved her in exchange for the stories she promised to tell.

Su Jiu learned that Bai Su had been captured and drained of her essence blood by a gray-haired man who resembled the dead Wenren Qingtang, a clone whose original body might be the mastermind. As Su Jiu investigated Bai Su’s arrival in this world, she and Silver Snow concluded that Bai Su’s soul had entered a body whose original soul was already gone, though the cause remained unknown.

• Yao Yan told Su Jiu that Bai Su was near death after surviving heavenly thunder and losing her essence blood, then Su Jiu asked Bai Su about the black-cloaked man who had captured her.
• Bai Su described the gray-haired man, and Su Jiu drew his likeness; Silver Snow recognized him as resembling Wenren Qingtang, while Su Jiu revealed that Wenren Qingtang had been heretical clone and that she had killed him.
• Bai Su recalled that a second black-cloaked person had appeared without detectable spiritual qi fluctuations, leaving Su Jiu with no clear way to track him.
• Su Jiu asked about Bai Su’s storybooks and learned that Bai Su had died in a car accident before waking in the Bai Lineage, while Zheng Qilong was the other known Outsider and also had a bracelet.
• Silver Snow judged that Bai Su probably had not possessed the body, and he and Su Jiu reasoned that its original soul must have been extracted first; Bai Su said her investigation had found no sign that the Bai Lineage was involved.

Bai Su told Su Jiu that a voice urging her to act as the world’s protagonist may have been the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, and described how her storage bracelet’s contents and ownership had changed. After Bai Su died, Yao Yan buried her, and Lu Tianqi and Ran Chao learned she had been a Child of Destiny and regretted failing to use her.

• Bai Su told Su Jiu she had felt controlled at the Azure Tide Sect and suspected the Heavenly Dao Consciousness had tempted her with the belief that she was the protagonist.
• Bai Su explained that her bracelet’s storage space had become inaccessible and appeared to have passed to a male demonic cultivator, while Su Jiu recognized that it was tied to Bai Su’s fortune and life.
• Su Jiu left pills for Bai Su, then departed with Silver Snow and wondered where the original Bai Su’s soul had gone and what the Heavenly Dao intended.
• Bai Su died two months after Su Jiu left, and Yao Yan buried her and mourned that she had passed away before finishing her story.
• Lu Tianqi and Ran Chao appeared at Bai Su’s grave, realized she had been a Child of Destiny, and regretted not making use of her.

Lu Tianqi and Ran Chao failed to find Bai Su’s bracelet and planned to reclaim the Ran Lineage’s belongings from the Azure Tide Sect. Su Jiu returned to Fox Mountain, learned more about the Vermilion Luan Tribe’s losses in the ancient war, and reached the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s Back Mountain to help remove the demon seeds from her companions.

• Lu Tianqi and Ran Chao dug up Bai Su’s grave but found neither her bracelet nor anything useful in her Storage Bag, so Ran Chao resolved to seek help from his master and reclaim the Ran Lineage’s belongings.
• Su Jiu arrived at Fox Mountain with Silver Snow, Yin Ze, and Silver Star, where they encountered the mountain’s animals and saw Hong Zizhuo undergo a tribulation.
• Yin Ze explained that the Vermilion Luan Tribe had nearly been wiped out in the war ten thousand years earlier, and Silver Star fell silent after learning how much they had sacrificed.
• Su Jiu explained that the Grand Elder’s high-rank demon seed was sustaining his life, but removing it would not erase the heart demon or restore who he had been.
• Su Jiu reached the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s Back Mountain and saw the weakened foxes held in separate caves as Silver Snow introduced her as the person who would help remove their demon seeds.

Su Jiu removed Yin Li’s demon seed in front of the Nine-Tailed Tribe, proving she could help them and shifting their doubts toward hope. After recovering, she prepared to treat the skeptical young fox, who remained hostile as the chapter ended.

• Several nine-tailed foxes doubted Su Jiu could remove their demon seeds, while Yin Li volunteered to be treated first.
• Su Jiu placed Yin Li in a talisman-covered cage and used pale blue needles to draw out and destroy her demon seed.
• Yin Li confirmed the demon seed was gone, and the watching foxes reacted with astonishment; Silver Snow sent her to rest before she could claim Su Jiu as her sister.
• Su Jiu recovered her strength and learned from Little Pearl and Little Green that the Azure Realm’s spiritual energy had greatly increased, while Little Gift urged her to cultivate faster.
• Silver Snow released the young fox who had doubted Su Jiu, and the youth demanded that she hurry up and treat him.

Su Jiu refused to help the Nine-Tailed Tribe after its members questioned her abilities, then followed Silver Snow deeper into the cavern. Silver Snow tested her with the tribe’s love-scent and discovered that she seemed to have no emotional roots, leaving Su Jiu to consider her strange origins and search for her missing parents.

• Su Jiu refused to treat the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s Grand Elder until its members apologized, and Yin Ze explained that she was helping for free out of consideration for Silver Snow.
• Su Jiu realized Silver Snow had secretly extended the cavern path, and the two teased each other before Silver Snow pinned her down to test his love-scent.
• Silver Snow used his tribe’s courtship scent and pupil art on Su Jiu, but she remained unmoved.
• Silver Snow explained that Su Jiu’s lack of emotional roots meant she might never develop feelings for anyone and suggested that her soul was not normal.
• Su Jiu admitted she had long suspected something was unusual about herself and told Silver Snow about her search for her parents.

Su Jiu and Silver Snow reached the frozen Grand Elder and discovered that a high-rank demon seed had consumed nearly his entire body. Su Jiu began removing it with the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl, but the task proved far more demanding than expected, and the chapter ended as she summoned Silver Snow’s Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl to try it.

• Silver Snow dismantled his illusion realm, and he and Su Jiu reached the cave’s deepest chamber, where the Grand Elder remained frozen inside her old barrier and formation.
• Su Jiu sensed that the Grand Elder was conscious and learned from Silver Snow that he had opened his eyes twice while trapped.
• Silver Snow urged Su Jiu to treat the Grand Elder without thawing him, and Su Jiu found that a high-rank demon seed had occupied ninety percent of his body, leaving him unlikely to survive its removal.
• Su Jiu used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl and ice needles to attack the demon seed, but the seed’s size and strength consumed much of her energy while the Grand Elder writhed in pain.
• Little Pearl and Little Green warned Su Jiu that using two sacred artifacts together could drain her origin qi, but Su Jiu summoned the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl anyway.

Su Jiu nearly exhausted herself using two sacred artifacts to sever the Demon Seed’s branches from the Grand Elder, then left to recover after Silver Snow’s teasing and the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s apologies. Meanwhile, divination across the Nine Provinces Continent had stopped working, drawing desperate diviners to the Heavenly Secret Sect as the cause remained unknown.

• Su Jiu controlled the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl and the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl together, then stopped before exhaustion overwhelmed her and severed the threads attached to the Grand Elder.
• Silver Snow examined Su Jiu and warned her about the danger of pushing her body too far; after she caught him pretending to check her pulse, she threatened him with her sword.
• Su Jiu left the cavern with Silver Snow, and the Nine-Tailed Tribe’s elders and youths apologized for their earlier arrogance before she agreed to return at noon the next day.
• After Silver Snow left, Su Jiu recalled that the Demon Seed’s surface seemed to move as though preparing to sprout new branches, but she could not tell whether exhaustion had deceived her.
• The Heavenly Secret Sect and the Yun Household discovered that they had both lost their divination abilities, and Hongguang asked the Azure Tide Sect to investigate the other diviners.
• Divination arts and fate-star readings failed across the continent, and frightened diviners gathered at the Heavenly Secret Sect seeking information and a way to survive.

Divination cultivators gathered at the Heavenly Secret Sect to seek help after losing their abilities, while the sect and the Yun Household struggled to decide how to protect them. Yun Qingge proposed that the cultivators form their own groups, and Yun Huanling left to find Su Jiu and ask why she had begun ignoring him.

• Divination cultivators complained about losing their abilities and described how former friends had abandoned or mistreated them.
• Yun Huanling rebuked several cultivators for gossiping about the Heavenly Secret Sect and the Azure Tide Sect, then decided to seek out Su Jiu and left the mountain.
• Hongguang dismissed a proposal to shelter everyone at the Heavenly Secret Sect, and Yun Qingge suggested that the cultivators form small groups to protect themselves.
• Hongguang learned that Yun Qingge was thirty years old, had reached the nascent soul realm, and was Yun Huanling's younger cousin.
• Hongguang gave the gathered cultivators direction, the Yun Household declined his offer of guest rooms and departed, and a Message Talisman appeared before him.

Su Jiu cured the last two Nine-Tailed Foxes with low-rank demon seeds, leaving only the Grand Elder untreated. She told Silver Snow she planned to go to the Demon-Subduing Land and identified Zheng Qilong’s dangerous pearl as the Fortune-Transferring Pearl.

• Yin Li and Silver Star nearly fought before Silver Snow swept them away, and he warned them not to disturb Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu treated two Nine-Tailed Foxes in one day, leaving only the Grand Elder’s demon seed to remove.
• Yin Li recalled how Su Jiu’s clear eyes convinced her to trust and support the cultivator.
• Su Jiu told Silver Snow she planned to go to the Demon-Subduing Land after treating the Grand Elder.
• Silver Snow described Zheng Qilong’s deadly pearl and his escape from more than thirty high-ranking cultivators.
• Su Jiu identified Zheng Qilong’s pearl as the Fortune-Transferring Pearl, which could absorb people’s fortune.

Su Jiu prepared to accompany Silver Snow to the Demon-Subduing Land while investigating the growing signs that the Heavenly Dao favored Zheng Qilong. She then tried to remove the demon seed from the Grand Elder, but found that the seed had regrown and could not be trapped by the chain or cage; she began considering another way to deal with it.

• Su Jiu explained the Fortune-Transferring Pearl to Silver Snow, who questioned why Zheng Qilong had escaped Heavenly Dao punishment and warned that the Enforcement Hall mission might be difficult.
• Silver Snow decided to accompany Su Jiu to the Demon-Subduing Land, and Su Jiu later gave him a Jade Slip containing the Breath-Discerning Art.
• Su Jiu entered the cave and used her Otherworldly Eyes to discover that the high-rank demon seed had regrown branches inside the Grand Elder despite the suppressing chain.
• Su Jiu corroded the new branches with her innate origin qi, but the self-aware demon seed hid inside a mass of black miasma in the Grand Elder's dantian.
• The Grand Elder refused to cooperate, and Su Jiu explained to Little Pearl that killing him and trapping the seed would likely fail because the chain, cage, and array could not truly suppress it.

Su Jiu froze and extracted the Grand Elder’s dantian to suppress the dangerous demon seed, then took it with her to keep it dormant. After she left with Silver Snow, the Black Miasma entered the Grand Elder’s corpse and revived him, and he vowed that everyone would die.

• Su Jiu explained that the demon seed might escape and choose Silver Snow, Yin Ze, or Silver Star as its next host.
• Little Green proposed extracting the Grand Elder’s frozen dantian, and Silver Snow offered to do it, but Su Jiu decided to act herself.
• Su Jiu froze the Grand Elder’s dantian, killed him, and suppressed the demon seed when it stirred, exhausting her innate origin qi.
• Little Green warned Su Jiu to replenish the ice with innate origin qi every month and not to attack the demon seed unless she could destroy it in one blow.
• Silver Snow learned that Little Green was a clone of the Spirit Vein Spirit, argued with it, and followed Su Jiu as she left to recover.
• After Su Jiu and Silver Snow departed, the Black Miasma entered the Grand Elder’s corpse and revived him; he promised that they would all die.

Silver Snow took Su Jiu to his private hot spring, where he tried to persuade her to set aside her burdens and relax. Su Jiu resisted his illusion but agreed to have fun with him after they captured Zheng Qilong, leaving Silver Snow hopeful as he played music outside the spring.

• Silver Snow brought Su Jiu to his private hot spring and shared Peach Blossom Brew with her.
• Silver Snow used an illusion to reveal Su Jiu's buried desire to rest, but Su Jiu broke free and warned him not to use an illusion on her again.
• Su Jiu admitted she might be exhausted but said she needed to focus on capturing Zheng Qilong first.
• Silver Snow happily proposed that they travel together and relax after capturing Zheng Qilong, and Su Jiu agreed.
• Silver Snow tried to pass himself off as drunk so he could join Su Jiu in the spring, but she kicked him out and placed talismans around the barrier.
• Silver Snow watched the moon outside the barrier and played a gentle melody that Su Jiu heard from the hot spring.

Su Jiu left the hot spring after Yin Li brought news that the resurrected Grand Elder was attacking the Nine-Tailed Tribe. She confronted him as Silver Snow struggled to protect the tribe, and identified him as a living puppet empowered by his master.

• After three peaceful days, Yin Li arrived badly injured and told Silver Snow that the Grand Elder had returned and was attacking the tribe.
• Silver Snow rushed to the Nine-Tailed Tribe, while Su Jiu gave Yin Li a Great Restoration Pill and followed after confirming she would survive.
• The Grand Elder’s demonic qi and laughter drove tribespeople berserk, forcing Yin Ze and Silver Star to restrain their companions as Yin Li fled for help.
• Silver Snow confronted the Grand Elder, who revealed his hatred and mocked Silver Snow while using fierce winds to wound him.
• Su Jiu arrived and ignored Silver Snow’s attempt to send her away, then called the Grand Elder a living puppet wielding power borrowed from his master.

Su Jiu exposed the Grand Elder as a living puppet controlled by a powerful enemy and broke the field trapping the Nine-Tailed Tribe. The controller emerged from a void rift as Wenren Qingtang, and Su Jiu faced him with Silver Snow at her side.

• Su Jiu identified the Grand Elder as a living puppet and revealed that someone else controlled him.
• The puppet's master took control, while Su Jiu urged Silver Snow to get the Nine-Tailed Foxes to safety.
• Su Jiu used the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword to break the field, and Silver Snow led the injured foxes away.
• Su Jiu questioned the master about Red Maple City, the madwoman on Heavenly Cloud Mountain, and Swallowing Heaven, while revealing that Bai Su was still alive.
• The master opened a void rift, and Su Jiu recognized him as Wenren Qingtang as Silver Snow took her hand and stood beside her.

Su Jiu confronted a gray-clothed demon who revealed that demons had infiltrated the human world and that the Demon Seed could awaken demonic cultivators. As the demon prepared to kill her, Su Jiu detected the spatial rift where he was hiding, though she remained badly outmatched.

• The gray-clothed man told Su Jiu that the heavenly secrets were sealed and admitted he had schemed to kill her because she might become an obstacle in the future.
• The gray-clothed man attacked Su Jiu with a red-and-black spear, while Silver Snow fought the Grand Elder, whose severed head reattached itself.
• Su Jiu recognized that the gray-clothed man was a demon who could steal talents and disguise his aura, and he revealed that demons had been sealed or had mingled among humans.
• The gray-clothed man took the Demon Seed and explained its role in awakening demonic cultivators, while Su Jiu ordered Little Pearl and Wind Spirit to assist Silver Snow.
• The gray-clothed man vanished into a spatial rift, and Su Jiu used a Spatial Expansion Formation to confirm its location.

Su Jiu discovered how to sense the gray-clothed man's attacks through threads of consciousness, but she could not overcome his superior cultivation and exhausted all her spiritual power. Silver Snow arrived after defeating the Grand Elder and found Su Jiu badly injured, leaving them facing the still-unharmed spatial traverser together.

• Su Jiu shut her eyes and sensed malicious threads that let her anticipate the gray-clothed man's attacks, then used the Snowfall Domain and the Snow Sprite to try to strike him.
• The gray-clothed man evaded Su Jiu's counterattack and renewed his assault, leaving her severely wounded and draining her spiritual power.
• Little Pearl and the Wind Spirit aided Silver Snow against the Grand Elder, whose corpse was repeatedly cut apart and corroded until he was destroyed.
• Silver Snow received a warning that Su Jiu was in danger, swallowed pills, and hurried to her aid.
• The gray-clothed man attacked Silver Snow when he reached Su Jiu, and Su Jiu used the Ice Cloud Hairpin and Ice Silk Net to protect them as they retreated.
• Su Jiu told Silver Snow that the gray-clothed man traversed space, and Silver Snow realized her exhausted spiritual power likely came from using her domain.

Su Jiu and Silver Snow were trapped in the Black Miasma by the gray-clothed man, who wounded Silver Snow as they tried to escape. Su Jiu used her blood to attack the demon and deduced the limits of his spatial travel, but as he struck at her, a bloodstained hand pierced his chest.

• Su Jiu and Silver Snow endured repeated attacks, and Silver Snow admitted he had asked Hong Zizhuo for help while promising he knew a way to escape.
• Silver Snow transformed into his fox form and carried Su Jiu toward the edge of the Black Miasma, but they circled in place and he was badly wounded.
• Su Jiu used her blood to repel the Black Miasma and formed Blood Needles that forced the gray-clothed man to reveal himself.
• Su Jiu reasoned that spatial travel restricted the gray-clothed man's ability to use powerful arts, then used the Blood Needles to prevent him from striking Silver Snow.
• The gray-clothed man dismissed Su Jiu as exhausted and attacked her with a sword of Black Miasma, but a bloodstained hand burst through his chest.