Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiaojiao reunited with her missing fellow disciples in the Ghost Domain and learned that an unknown force, not Zuo Kexin, had moved them. As gray mist caught up with the fleeing group, her senior brothers left her protected beside another person and urged her to warn Yu Cheng if he woke.

• Lin Jiaojiao revealed herself to the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples, who recognized her and discovered that she had lost her cultivation.
• A senior brother carried Lin Jiaojiao as the group fled, and she explained how she had sought help and returned after Zuo Kexin moved the others.
• Lin Jiaojiao learned that an unknown force had moved the disciples and that Zuo Kexin lacked the power to create the two doors.
• Gray mist caught up with the group, and Lin Jiaojiao's senior brother gave her a Fire-type Spirit Stone, set her down, and apparently placed a defensive formation around her.
• Another senior brother left someone beside Lin Jiaojiao and told her to warn Yu Cheng about the dangers of the Ghost Domain if he woke.

Chu Luohen rescued Lin Jiaojiao, Hu Yucheng, and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples from a deadly ghost mist. After destroying the Ghost Mist Spirit, he recognized the trapped disciples as the people they had come to rescue and told Lin Jiaojiao and Hu Yucheng to leave with him.

• Lin Jiaojiao sensed Hu Yucheng beside her while the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples fought vengeful ghosts in the gray mist.
• Chu Luohen split the ghost mist with his sword after sensing the people trapped beneath it.
• The Ghost Mist Spirit threatened Chu Luohen, but he used a seventh-tier Purification Talisman to make the mist tremble and plead for mercy.
• Chu Luohen destroyed the ghost mist, and the rescued disciples bowed and thanked him.
• Chu Luohen recognized the disciples as the people they had come to rescue and told Lin Jiaojiao and Hu Yucheng to go.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling searched for a way out of the Ghost Domain, and Su Jiu realized they should return to the place where someone had torn through space to enter it. Meanwhile, Chu Luohen’s group continued searching with the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples, and the newly awakened Hu Yucheng tried to thank Chu Luohen.

• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling fought through more vengeful ghosts, but Yun Huanling exhausted himself and said he could not find anything unusual with his divine sense.
• Yun Huanling explained that he had escaped the Ghost Domain before by finding a teleportation array in a cave after A Huan killed a powerful ghost.
• Su Jiu considered why she could detect no other people or traces in the forest, and Yun Huanling suggested they might not be in the same place as the others.
• Su Jiu recalled that damaged space could have a weak point and decided to return to the place where someone had torn through space to enter the Ghost Domain.
• Su Jiu told Yun Huanling that if they found no clue there, she would use a Space Teleportation Array despite the risk of being sent far away.
• Hu Yucheng woke while Chu Luohen led the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples in search of an exit, then tried to get down to thank Chu Luohen, who told him to stay put.

After rescuing the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples, Chu Luohen and Ning Fan reunited and agreed to search for Su Jiu while leading everyone toward the Teleportation Array. Ning Fan said he had found a way out nearby, but the group would rest first and keep looking for their missing junior sister.

• Lin Jiaojiao comforted Hu Yucheng about her ruined dantian and meridians, while Chu Luohen privately questioned their innocence and endured their long conversation.
• Chu Luohen and the others continued killing vengeful ghosts as they traveled, while Lin Jiaojiao and Hu Yucheng contributed nothing and kept talking.
• Ning Fan arrived with the Shadow Pavilion and Enforcement Hall disciples, then told Chu Luohen that Su Jiu was not with them.
• Ning Fan said the exit was nearby, but Chu Luohen and Ning Fan rejected the suggestion that Su Jiu had already left without leaving a clue.
• Ning Fan proposed taking the rescued Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples near the Teleportation Array to rest while the group continued searching for Su Jiu, and the disciples agreed to trust him because Chu Luohen trusted him.

Ning Fan and Chu Luohen left the others at a teleportation array to search for Su Jiu and Yun Huanling, while Su Jiu investigated the hidden spatial rupture that brought Yun Huanling to the Ghost Domain. She concluded that they were in an overlapping space and could not reopen the rupture without help from someone equally skilled on the other side.

• Ning Fan led the group to a cave containing a blue teleportation array, where Chu Luohen noticed Dao Lord Qing Ci following them and questioned when he had joined.
• Ning Fan told the disciples to recover in the cave, then he and Chu Luohen left to look for Su Jiu and Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu examined the spot where Yun Huanling had seen a man emerge and found a faint, point-like weakness in space that she could not open alone.
• Su Jiu explained that the Ghost Domain around them might be an overlapping space rather than the real Ghost Domain, and said she had become certain after they encountered no one else.
• Su Jiu asked Yun Huanling whether he had known the Ghost Domain lay behind the two doors they had seen earlier, and he denied knowing it.

Yun Huanling explained to Su Jiu how the ghost faces and star maps on two doors formed nodes that created the overlapping space trapping them. Su Jiu realized they could escape only by destroying a node, but the doors were now beyond their reach.

• Yun Huanling revealed that the shifting ghost faces on the doors were vengeful ghosts from the Ghost Domain fused with fate stars used to suppress them.
• Yun Huanling explained that the two doors looked similar but held different star maps, and that he had only recently understood their role in the trap.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu that the doors were external nodes, like the tree in the Miasma Forest, and that the overlapping space forced those trapped inside to meet again.
• Su Jiu deduced that the two star maps merged after they entered, forming the node and creating the whirlpool that swept them into the overlapping space.
• Su Jiu concluded that escaping required destroying the node, but the doors were inaccessible and seemed to leave them no chance of survival.

Su Jiu discovered that Chu Luohen could communicate with her across the overlapping space and had also found its weak point. Following his instructions, she used her innate origin qi to weaken the spatial barrier while he worked from the other side, leaving her wondering where his innate origin qi came from.

• Su Jiu discussed how to escape the overlapping space with Yun Huanling before Chu Luohen contacted her by voice transmission.
• Su Jiu described her surroundings, and Chu Luohen confirmed that she was in an overlapping space and proposed breaking through its weak point together.
• Chu Luohen told Su Jiu to send her innate origin qi into the weak point while he handled the other side.
• Su Jiu released a blaze of white light that repelled nearby vengeful ghosts and began thinning the weak point.
• Su Jiu sensed innate origin qi coming from the other side and wondered where Chu Luohen had obtained it.

Su Jiu reunited with Ning Fan and the severely injured Chu Luohen after the overlapping space collapsed, then treated Chu Luohen while trying to understand what had happened. On the journey back, Yun Huanling called Chu Luohen a thief, and Chu Luohen accused Yun Huanling of being one too, leaving Yun Huanling speechless.

• The barrier shattered, merging the two spaces and bringing Su Jiu together with Ning Fan and the unconscious Chu Luohen.
• Su Jiu treated Chu Luohen and learned from Ning Fan that Chu Luohen had guided their journey, while Chu Luohen refused to explain how he had found Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu sensed a faint wisp of innate origin qi in Chu Luohen's dantian as he secretly opened his eyes.
• Yun Huanling's killing intent briefly surfaced toward Chu Luohen, and Su Jiu noticed his strange behavior.
• After Chu Luohen recovered most of his strength, the four set off, and Yun Huanling called him a thief.
• Chu Luohen retorted that Yun Huanling was a thief too, and Yun Huanling fell silent for the rest of the journey.

Su Jiu and the others returned to the Cave entrance, where Yun Huanling confronted Dao Lord Qing Ci about overlapping space and his failure to help them escape. Dao Lord Qing Ci explained his assignment and left, while Su Jiu was left more wary of him and more certain that Yun Huanling was hiding something important.

• Dao Lord Qing Ci met Su Jiu, Ning Fan, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen at the Cave entrance and invited them inside.
• Yun Huanling asked Dao Lord Qing Ci about overlapping space and challenged him for leaving them trapped there.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci said his assignment was to accompany the Enforcement Hall disciples searching for Xia Jue, and that helping them escape had not been part of it.
• Su Jiu questioned why Dao Lord Qing Ci kept following them, and he defended himself by saying he could not sense spatial laws and had wanted them to gain experience.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci left, and Su Jiu reflected on her growing wariness of him and Yun Huanling's concealed secrets.
• Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen both urged Su Jiu to leave, then exchanged hostile glances before she finally departed.

Su Jiu examined a teleportation array and calculated that it led back to the cave they had entered, confirming that the group remained inside the time domain. Chu Luohen revealed that the Ghost Domain had been forcibly fused with the time domain, while Su Jiu’s doubts about Yun Huanling’s recovery and hidden abilities deepened.

• Su Jiu returned with Chu Luohen and found Hu Yucheng and the other Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples badly injured from their encounter with ghost mist.
• Yun Huanling recognized the cave as the place where he had first found a teleportation array, and Su Jiu noticed that its patterns had changed.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling studied the array, and his quick deductions made her suspect he already knew more about it than he admitted.
• Su Jiu calculated that the directional array would return them to their original cave because they were still inside the time domain.
• Chu Luohen explained that the Ghost Domain was fused with the time domain and that Su Jiu could not summon spirits lacking a divine soul bond with her.

Su Jiu arranged a way for Hu Yucheng and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples to leave the Ghost Domain, explaining that the time domain’s laws prevented her nondirectional teleportation arrays from escaping it. Hu Yucheng accepted the arrays for use after they left and reflected on how far he had fallen behind the geniuses he once competed with.

• Su Jiu asked Hu Yucheng what his injured group planned to do, and he said they would retreat the way they had come.
• Ning Fan advised the disciples to use Thousand-Mile Divine Movement, but Hu Yucheng worried that Lin Jiaojiao, now a mortal, could not activate a talisman.
• Su Jiu gave Hu Yucheng two nondirectional teleportation arrays and explained that the time domain’s laws would keep them inside it.
• Hu Yucheng realized that Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen understood matters beyond his group’s knowledge.
• Hu Yucheng remembered his youthful arrogance toward less-talented disciples and accepted that time and the other geniuses had left him behind.

Su Jiu and the others reached the center of the time domain after discovering blood demon dew left from Zuo Kexin and a star map depicting human purgatory. The chapter ended with Su Jiu confirming that the secret chamber was the domain’s center.

• Hu Yucheng confessed his guilt to Lin Jiaojiao, and she reassured him that she was content they had reunited.
• Su Jiu and the others returned from the mirror space and found black blood demon dew identified as Zuo Kexin’s, suggesting the time-domain master had given it to her.
• The group continued through a bone-strewn passage and reached a stone door bearing a star map that Yun Huanling assessed as depicting human purgatory.
• Su Jiu urged Yun Huanling not to lose himself in speculation and said they should try to prevent human purgatory from becoming reality.
• Su Jiu opened the stone door, examined the secret chamber, and confirmed it was the center of the time domain.

Chu Luohen revealed a golden totem of the four sacred beasts, prompting Su Jiu to learn that Little Green was an Azure Dragon whose true body was the Dustless Continent’s spirit vein. Little Green linked the Vermilion Bird clan’s destruction to the anomalous Phoenix Egg Su Jiu had once destroyed, leaving her to suspect that the egg and the sacred beasts’ fate were tied to a struggle involving the Heavenly Dao.

• Chu Luohen expanded a golden sun wheel and transformed its markings into images of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
• Little Green awakened in Su Jiu’s Sea of Consciousness and revealed that he was an Azure Dragon whose true body was the Dustless Continent’s spirit vein.
• Little Green explained that the four sacred beasts each guarded a region, but the Vermilion Bird and her lineage had been wiped out after their spiritual connection was severed.
• Su Jiu realized Little Green had followed her with a purpose and had misled her by claiming to be a spirit drawn to her aura.
• Little Green suggested that the Phoenix Egg Su Jiu had destroyed might originally have been a dead egg and that its appearance could have triggered the Vermilion Bird clan’s destruction.

Su Jiu learned that the Phoenix Egg’s chance of survival might depend on the Vermilion Bird clan, then joined Chu Luohen, Yun Huanling, Ning Fan, and Dao Lord Qing Ci in an attempt to overlay their domains onto the time domain. As Ning Fan revealed his terrifying slaughter domain, Hu Yucheng realized he had badly underestimated the Shadow Pavilion’s Pavilion Master.

• Little Green told Su Jiu that the Phoenix Egg’s only hope might be the Vermilion Bird clan sacrificing its bloodline, then fell asleep after warning her that she might have to decide the outcome of the game.
• Su Jiu noticed that Chu Luohen, Yun Huanling, and Dao Lord Qing Ci had also sensed the laws, while Ning Fan remained focused on Chu Luohen’s golden totem.
• Chu Luohen summoned four pillars of light and instructed Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, Ning Fan, and Dao Lord Qing Ci to enter them and release their domains.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen released their Snowfall Domains as the four cultivators began overlaying their domains onto the time domain.
• Ning Fan released a slaughter domain that overwhelmed the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples, and Hu Yucheng recognized that he had mistaken Ning Fan for a mere figurehead.

As Su Jiu and the others expanded their domains, the mountain collapsed, but their attempt to break the time domain continued. Yang Guo’s group remained safe beneath a golden shield while Hu Yucheng reprimanded his disciples for doubting their rescuers.

• Yun Huanling’s black-and-white domain joined the other three, and their expanding power shook the mountain.
• The Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples questioned Yang Guo’s assurance that they would be safe, so Hu Yucheng rebuked them and demanded they trust their rescuers.
• Falling rocks struck the golden shield protecting the group as Yang Guo explained that the Enforcement Hall had prepared for the collapse.
• The mountain collapsed, but four pillars of light blasted the falling rocks away, leaving everyone unharmed beneath the shield.
• Su Jiu and the others continued forming hand seals, and Yang Guo explained to Lin Jiaojiao that the time domain remained and they could not leave yet.
• Hu Yucheng privately suspected that his group had been bait to lure Su Jiu and the others.

Su Jiu and the others fused their four domains to overcome the time domain, causing the collapsing mountain and surrounding scenery to vanish. They emerged deeper inside the Demon-Subduing Land, where they realized they were lost among stronger demonic plants.

• Su Jiu secretly proposed fusing the four domains, and Yun Huanling, Ning Fan, and Chu Luohen agreed to follow her lead.
• Su Jiu fused the domains and found that Chu Luohen's aura joined hers without resistance, leaving her wondering what secrets he was hiding.
• The four struggled against the time domain until the mountain dissolved and the scenery around them changed.
• Yang Guo recognized that the four had succeeded, and Su Jiu and the others withdrew their domains and opened their eyes.
• Su Jiu determined that they were deeper inside the Demon-Subduing Land and could not locate its edge with her divine sense.
• Ning Fan warned that the demonic plants nearby were stronger than those they had faced before, alarming the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples and Lin Jiaojiao.

Su Jiu and the others traveled deeper into the Demon-Subduing Land, where she grew uneasy after the wind spirit left to scout ahead. When Su Jiu heard someone calling for help, Yang Guo rebuked the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples for jumping to conclusions, and Hu Yucheng reflected on their conduct.

• Yang Guo reassured Lin Jiaojiao that the demonic plants were manageable, while Yun Huanling observed that they seemed able to control their attacks.
• Chu Luohen urged the group to keep moving, and the wind spirit left Su Jiu to scout; Su Jiu felt uneasy, but her other spirits sensed nothing unusual.
• Su Jiu and the others traveled on through the mist as the demonic plants and beasts watched without attacking.
• Su Jiu heard someone calling for help, and Yang Guo criticized the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples for assuming another Time Domain awaited them.
• Hu Yucheng scolded his disciples and apologized to Yang Guo, resolving to seek the Azure Tide Sect's guidance if they returned alive.

Su Jiu ignored Dao Lord Qing Ci’s warning and followed a cry for help, finding a young woman trapped in a demonic swamp. As the group prepared to investigate, Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen clashed over his closeness to Su Jiu, while Yun Huanling privately accepted that neither he nor Chu Luohen would be the person she loved.

• Dao Lord Qing Ci warned Su Jiu that danger lay ahead, but she refused to turn back and continued toward the cry for help.
• Su Jiu and the others discovered a young woman with the bone age of seventy trapped in a demonic swamp, despite her cultivation being only at the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Su Jiu studied the woman and found her aura familiar, while Yun Huanling touched Su Jiu’s brow and she warned him not to do it again.
• Chu Luohen attacked Yun Huanling with an ice spike, but Yun Huanling blocked it with his formation disk.
• Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen exchanged cold words through divine sense, and Yun Huanling privately thought that Su Jiu would love neither of them.

Su Jiu rescued a young cultivator named Meng in the Demon-Subduing Land, where she claimed to live and gather medicinal herbs. Meng invited Su Jiu to her home, and Su Jiu agreed to go with Yun Huanling while the others stayed behind.

• Su Jiu pulled Meng from the mire, and Meng explained that she gathered purified demonic plants for medicine.
• Meng questioned how Lin Jiaojiao had entered the Demon-Subduing Land, unsettling Lin Jiaojiao and prompting Hu Yucheng to protect her.
• After Yun Huanling challenged her story, Meng admitted that she lived inside the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Meng introduced herself as A Meng and invited Su Jiu to visit her home; Su Jiu accepted.
• A Meng agreed to let Yun Huanling accompany Su Jiu, but said the rest had to wait outside her courtyard because her friend disliked crowds.

Su Jiu entered A Meng’s sealed courtyard and confronted her about using Su Qingqing to lure her there. A Meng revealed that Qingqing had guided her judgment and claimed to know a secret about Su Jiu’s origins, leaving Su Jiu unmoved as she asked whether she was curious.

• Yun Huanling warned Su Jiu to be careful and said the group would wait one hour before forcing their way into the courtyard.
• A Meng led Su Jiu inside, where Su Jiu identified the herbs as ingredients for Soul-Calming Pills and explained that her otherworldly eyes had revealed A Meng’s unstable soul.
• Su Jiu accused A Meng of using Su Qingqing to lure her and questioned whether Qingqing’s Uncanny Path Technique was connected to A Meng.
• A Meng admitted she had used Qingqing but denied intending to harm her, and Su Jiu challenged her account of driving Qingqing into danger.
• A Meng said she knew a secret about Su Jiu’s origins and asked whether Su Jiu was curious, while Su Jiu remained composed.