Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu was trapped in a room of mirrors by a voice that tried to reveal her deepest self, but Little Gift intervened and shattered the visions. The voice claimed to be a mirror monster before disappearing, leaving Su Jiu convinced someone else was behind the trap.

• Su Jiu found herself in a mirrored room with no visible exit, and an unknown voice warned that damaging a mirror would injure her too.
• The voice invited Su Jiu to see her true self, and a mirror showed a cold, emotionless woman who resembled her.
• Little Gift surged through Su Jiu's mind, distorting and shattering the mirror before the voice could reveal more.
• Another mirror shattered before forming an image, and the voice admitted it could not probe Su Jiu's secrets.
• Su Jiu questioned the voice about its identity, the temple, and the village, but it claimed to be a mirror monster before all the mirrors broke and the voice vanished.
• Su Jiu saw the door and windows reappear and suspected that someone else had been controlling the voice.

Su Jiu entered another mirror courtyard and found the Snow Sprite under the Mirror Monsters’ control. She fought to survive and tried to restore its senses, while the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword intervened; the battle continued after the Snow Sprite’s conjured sword shattered.

• Su Jiu entered the right-hand stone door and found herself in a courtyard identical to the one she had left.
• A blizzard burst from the room, and Su Jiu realized the Mirror Monsters had controlled the Snow Sprite with their power.
• Su Jiu tried to use their contract to restore the Snow Sprite, but it wounded her with sharpened snowflakes.
• The Snow Sprite formed a snow sword resembling the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword and charged at Su Jiu.
• The Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword appeared and fought the Snow Sprite, eventually shattering its conjured weapon.
• The Wind Spirit called for the Snow Sprite to wake up, but Little Pearl said it could no longer hear them.

Su Jiu freed the Snow Sprite from the influence of a mirror-filled room, and he confessed his violent past before asking to change their contract. After the courtyard thawed, Chu Luohen and Enforcement Hall Disciples arrived, and Su Jiu began comparing their experiences of the courtyards.

• Su Jiu used their contract to restrain the Snow Sprite and drew black energy from him until he regained consciousness.
• The Snow Sprite explained that a voice and mirrors had driven him to relive his past killings, and he apologized for his past and for hurting Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu forgave the Snow Sprite on her own behalf, and he asked her to change their contract.
• The ice melted and revealed two identical stone doors; before Su Jiu chose one, the other opened and Chu Luohen arrived with Enforcement Hall Disciples.
• Da Shen asked about Su Jiu's injuries, and she learned that the others had been trapped together in a courtyard with rooms they could not enter.

Su Jiu explained that the rooms in the temple could reveal a person’s deepest memories and erode their divine soul, then reasoned that the village might be both false and real to those trapped inside it. A violent tremor interrupted her explanation as a rift appeared in a nearby stone gate.

• Da Shen told Su Jiu that he and the others had been trapped in a sealed courtyard until Chu Luohen appeared, and that they could not enter one of its rooms.
• Su Jiu explained that the inaccessible room was one of the temple’s strange memory rooms, like the mirror-filled room where the Snow Sprite had lost its senses and attacked her.
• Su Jiu asked why the villagers could weaken the cultivators and provoke them, then suggested that everything in the village might be false yet real to those experiencing it.
• Chu Luohen clarified Su Jiu’s reasoning for Da Shen and the Enforcement Hall disciples, but a violent tremor shook the courtyard before she could explain further.
• A rift opened in the nearby stone gate, and faint light seeped through.

After the formation collapsed, Su Jiu and the others discovered the Temple’s true entrance and a tower pavilion where the Deity was enshrined. As the group prepared to enter, Su Jiu left the badly injured Ning Fan outside with Chu Luohen.

• Su Jiu explained that the mirror rooms were the eyes of the altered Four Symbols Infinite Grand Formation, and the formation collapsed when Ning Fan and the others emerged.
• Ning Fan came out injured, and Su Jiu caught him before Chu Luohen took him aside and told Su Jiu to set up a Defensive Barrier.
• The formation shattered, revealing that the group had remained at the Temple entrance, where a swinging pendulum caused a tower pavilion to appear.
• Yang Guo sensed no other people or living creatures, and Su Jiu decided the group should enter the pavilion to meet the Deity.
• Su Jiu told Chu Luohen and the semiconscious Ning Fan to wait outside while she led the others toward the pavilion.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen entered a tower pavilion after leaving Yang Guo and the others outside with instructions to seek help if they did not return. Inside, they fought off a room full of mirror monsters, then discovered the pavilion blocked their Divine Sense from reaching beyond its closed door.

• Chu Luohen left Ning Fan with a Shadow Pavilion disciple and accompanied Su Jiu into the pavilion, while Su Jiu told Yang Guo and the Enforcement Hall disciples to wait outside and gave them the Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen entered the tower and found moving mirrors attacking them with piercing beams of light.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen used their swords to redirect the beams and coat the mirrors in ice, stopping the attack.
• Chu Luohen identified the mirrors as mirror monsters and said they had also interfered with the Four Symbols Infinite Formation.
• Su Jiu discovered she could not sense any auras outside the pavilion through the closed door.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen explored the temple and uncovered signs that the Mirror Monsters and the Four Symbols Infinite Formation were tied to the old man’s world. After Su Jiu identified the old man as an evil spirit, he asked whether he had made a mistake.

• Su Jiu killed a Mirror Monster and found an ancient Longevity Hymn carved behind its mirror.
• Su Jiu questioned Chu Luohen about her origins and what he had seen in the mirrored room, but he denied knowing anything and claimed the room had no effect on him.
• Chu Luohen shattered the remaining mirrors, and the two climbed to the peaceful second floor, where they found an altar and a stone statue.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen confronted the statue, and it transformed into an old man who resembled the Village Chief.
• Su Jiu said she had recognized the old man as an evil spirit after experiencing the Four Symbols Infinite Formation, and he asked whether he had made a mistake.

Su Jiu exposed the old man’s village as a constructed world made from his mirror-like true body, where villagers who had died long ago believed they had attained eternal life. The old man revealed that he was once the spirit of a cultivator’s Life-Bound Treasure, and his story ended with him discovering his master and contract were gone.

• Su Jiu pointed out that the villagers’ unchanged ages and ancient speech revealed flaws in the old man’s world.
• Su Jiu suspected the old man was trapping them rather than killing them, and wondered what he feared and whether he served another master.
• The old man admitted the villagers had once longed for eternal life and said their greed had helped shape what he became.
• The old man recounted how a kind cultivator protected his mischievous Life-Bound Treasure spirit until a calamity drove them from their Sect.
• After the cultivator and spirit were gravely injured while fighting evil fiends, the spirit slept and later awoke to find its contract gone and its true body discarded in the Jungle.

The Mirror Spirit revealed how it avenged its master's death by trapping the village souls in an endless cycle and feeding on outsiders. It also admitted that blood demon dew empowered it through a deal to keep Su Jiu and her companions trapped, leaving Chu Luohen questioning whether the spirit itself was real.

• The Mirror Spirit explained that it had killed the villagers and the jealous Senior Brother responsible for its master's death, then sealed the villagers in a village inside the mirror.
• The Mirror Spirit said it posed as a deity, bound the villagers to it with a contract, and repeatedly reset their memories to keep them trapped for ten thousand years.
• The Mirror Spirit revealed that blood demon dew weakened Su Jiu's abilities and that it had accepted the substance in exchange for trapping her group.
• Su Jiu drew the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, but left to check on her companions when the Mirror Spirit challenged her to do so.
• Chu Luohen stayed behind and asked whether the Mirror Spirit was real, since its illusions could not be distinguished from reality.

Chu Luohen destroyed a clone of the Mirror Spirit, while Su Jiu returned to find Ning Fan and four disciples attacking their companions under a mirror’s influence. The Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl subdued and cleansed them, and Su Jiu began treating Ning Fan as she investigated a mysterious door.

• Chu Luohen identified the Mirror Spirit as a clone, destroyed it with the Scarless Sword, and left the tower pavilion, where the stone statue had disappeared.
• Su Jiu found the Phantom Blood Blade attacking the crowd while Ning Fan and four disciples from the Enforcement Hall and Shadow Pavilion fought under a bewitching influence.
• The Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl enveloped the five afflicted disciples in cleansing light, allowing Da Shen, Xiao Shen, and the others to restrain them as their eyes returned to normal and they collapsed.
• Su Jiu examined Ning Fan, gave him two pills, and learned from Yang Guo that the four disciples had emerged from a door in the wall and attacked their companions.
• Su Jiu asked where the door had appeared, suspecting that it had vanished after the Mirror Spirit used it.

Su Jiu realized the group was trapped in the Mirror Spirit’s mirror world and set out to find him, while protecting their unconscious companions. As she searched the village with Chu Luohen, she discovered that the villagers’ memories had been altered again and overheard them praising the Deity who had given them new life.

• Yang Guo noticed the southeastern door had vanished, and Su Jiu explained that they were trapped inside a mirror world with the Mirror Spirit’s clone.
• Su Jiu set up protective formations around the unconscious companions, helped Ning Fan steady his sea of consciousness, and told the disciples to search for the Mirror Spirit in pairs.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen searched the village together, and Su Jiu wondered what her Junior Granduncle was thinking.
• At the village entrance, Su Jiu questioned two villagers and learned that they no longer remembered the group’s earlier conflict or who they were.
• Su Jiu overheard villagers claiming that the Deity had given them a new life and that a village elder’s long survival proved immortality was possible.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen realized the Mirror Spirit had concealed its treasure by thickening the demonic qi, then encountered a villager whose consciousness was beginning to awaken. Su Jiu suspected the man was the soul of the Senior Brother who murdered the Mirror Spirit’s master, and she and Chu Luohen struck the Mirror Spirit as it tried to consume him.

• Su Jiu noticed there were no children in the village, and Chu Luohen suggested the Mirror Spirit had spared their souls.
• Chu Luohen explained that dense demonic qi had concealed the Mirror Spirit’s treasure and distracted them from its presence.
• An empty carriage rushed toward Su Jiu, but she stopped it with Ice Spikes and destroyed it with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen found the village man who had opposed them, and Chu Luohen said he was on the verge of awakening.
• Su Jiu suspected the man was the soul of the Senior Brother who murdered the Mirror Spirit’s master.
• The Mirror Spirit tried to consume the man, but Su Jiu and Chu Luohen attacked it with their swords.

Su Jiu used the power in her blood to destroy the Mirror Spirit’s blood demon dew, restoring her senses and revealing the spirit’s true appearance. The villager remembered that the Mirror Spirit had imprisoned and tormented him for ten thousand years, and she moved to destroy his soul.

• The Mirror Spirit attacked Su Jiu and Chu Luohen with a net of black mist, but they evaded it and cut openings through it with their swords.
• Su Jiu used her blood to empower the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, which made the black net convulse and dissolve.
• Su Jiu’s senses returned in the Mirror World, revealing the Mirror Spirit as a beautiful young woman.
• The villager awakened and recognized the Mirror Spirit, who admitted that she had imprisoned him for ten thousand years because he killed her master.
• The Mirror Spirit declared that the villager belonged to her and prepared to shatter his soul as he tried to flee.

Su Jiu ordered the Azure Tide Sect disciples to fight back against the Mirror Spirit’s puppet villagers, arguing that the creatures were no longer ordinary people and that the sect’s rules did not prevent them from defending themselves. While the battle unfolded, Su Jiu confronted the Mirror Spirit and asked it to release them, and it recognized her formidable otherworldly eyes.

• The Mirror Spirit summoned the village’s dead inhabitants as powerful puppets and sent them to attack the Enforcement Hall disciples.
• Su Jiu ordered the disciples to counterattack despite Yang Guo’s concern that she would bear responsibility for breaking the sect’s rules.
• Su Jiu explained that the villagers were no longer human and that the Mirror Spirit, not her, was responsible for their condition.
• The Mirror Spirit reflected on how Su Jiu’s judgment differed from its deceased master’s as the disciples fought the puppets.
• Su Jiu approached the Mirror Spirit and asked whether it would let them leave, and it warily acknowledged her formidable otherworldly eyes.

Su Jiu and her companions defeated the villagers and learned that the Mirror Spirit was the lost Realm of Reality, which had served the Mixed Mountain Sect. As its illusion collapsed, the Mirror Spirit admitted defeat and destroyed itself after saying it would go find its master.

• Su Jiu exposed the Mirror Spirit as the Realm of Reality, and it learned that the Mixed Mountain Sect had been wiped out ten thousand years earlier.
• The Shadow Pavilion disciples joined Su Jiu's group as the villagers were killed and the battle turned in their favor.
• The Young Attendant comforted the Mirror Spirit, and Chu Luohen explained that he had gained consciousness through the Mirror Spirit's feelings but would vanish with the mirror world.
• As the illusion collapsed, the Young Attendant asked Su Jiu to spare the Mirror Spirit, but she said it had to choose whether to let itself go.
• The Mirror Spirit confessed that it had coveted power and been deceived into taking Blood Demon Dew, then conceded defeat and said it would seek its master.
• Chu Luohen carried Su Jiu away from the mirror, which exploded as the mirror world disappeared.

After the Mirror Spirit vanished, the story shifted to Yun Huanling, who traveled toward the Demon-Subduing Land and was ambushed by rogue cultivators targeting Heavenly Secret Sect disciples. He used the threat of his divine sense mark to stop them from attacking, then displayed his resources, leaving the group tempted by his wealth.

• Su Jiu found that the Mirror Spirit had vanished after the mirror's blast caused only superficial injuries.
• Yun Huanling changed course toward the Demon-Subduing Land after learning Su Jiu had gone there, but encountered repeated hostility toward Heavenly Secret Sect disciples.
• A band of rogue cultivators recognized Yun Huanling and tried to rob him, treating him as a wealthy target.
• Yun Huanling warned the band that his divine sense mark would kill whoever delivered the fatal blow, making the attackers hesitate.
• Yun Huanling sat down and spilled a heap of spirit stones and pill bottles onto the grass, drawing the rogues' greedy attention.

Yun Huanling used a Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill to sow distrust among the robbers, turning them against one another while their leader remained helpless. He decided not to spare the bloodstained men and thought of how quickly Su Jiu would have killed them.

• Yun Huanling offered the robbers the contents of his Storage Ring and tossed a Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill to Third Brother to decide who would receive it.
• Third Brother tried to keep the pill and accused Yun Huanling of having another, but Yun Huanling turned the robbers' suspicions back onto him.
• Third Brother opened the bottle behind a barrier, revealing a genuine ninth-grade Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill.
• The robbers argued over who should hold the pill and began eyeing one another with thoughts of violence, forgetting Yun Huanling and their leader.
• Yun Huanling approached the immobilized leader and decided the robbers would not be allowed to live, thinking Su Jiu would have slain them swiftly.

Yun Huanling watched greedy cultivators slaughter one another over a Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill, then revealed that the rogue cultivator who claimed it could not survive its power. He left the man dying in agony after explaining that he had more pills and had warned him not to covet what was not his.

• Yun Huanling killed the mob's leader and let the others fight over the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill.
• After nearly half a day of fighting, one badly injured survivor claimed the pill and confronted Yun Huanling.
• Yun Huanling pointed out that the man's shattered meridians and depleted dantian would soon kill him unless he swallowed the pill.
• The survivor swallowed the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill, and its spiritual qi overwhelmed his damaged meridians and tore through his body.
• Yun Huanling explained that the pill was genuine but deadly to a Nascent Soul Realm rogue cultivator, then showed him several more pills.

Yun Huanling traveled with the Buddha Child toward the Demon-Subduing Land and reunited with Su Jiu. Though Su Jiu tried to drive him away for fear he would be a burden, Yun Huanling insisted on staying by her side.

• Yun Huanling watched a man die, then met the Buddha Child, who recognized that Yun Huanling had fused with something and guessed he was heading to the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Yun Huanling and the Buddha Child traveled together for three days without encountering trouble.
• Yun Huanling found Su Jiu in a wilderness forest amid lingering spiritual and demonic qi, but Chu Luohen stopped him with the Scarless Sword before he could rush into her.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu he had returned and advanced, then asked her not to drive him away again.
• Su Jiu called Yun Huanling dead weight and told him to leave, but he insisted he would go to the Demon-Subduing Land with her.

After recovering from their injuries, Su Jiu’s group continued toward the Demon-Subduing Land, while Da Shen confronted Xiao Shen about his resentment and disobedience. Su Jiu’s party reached the destination without further mishaps, but the brothers’ disagreement over Xiao Shen’s place in the Enforcement Hall remained unresolved.

• Ning Fan woke and learned that Yun Huanling and the Buddha Child had joined Su Jiu’s group, while he and Su Jiu questioned the Buddha Child’s reasons for coming.
• Yun Huanling grew suspicious of Ning Fan and imagined that he was secretly trying to win Su Jiu’s affection.
• Su Jiu sent Da Shen and Xiao Shen back with the four injured disciples, and Da Shen accepted her orders despite Xiao Shen’s protest.
• Su Jiu, Ning Fan, Yun Huanling, the Buddha Child, and the others continued to the Demon-Subduing Land and arrived without further trouble.
• Da Shen asked Xiao Shen whether he resented being sent back and warned that he might not be suited to the Enforcement Hall because he had failed to obey orders.