Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu confronted A Meng to learn where the nightmare demon was, while A Meng accused her of causing her unstable divine soul and forcing her to remain in the Demon-Subduing Land. The chapter ended with Su Jiu denying that A Meng's soul had been disturbed before the nightmare demon took her, and A Meng refusing to listen.

• Su Jiu pressed the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword to A Meng's neck and demanded to know where the nightmare demon was.
• A Meng claimed Su Jiu could not bring herself to kill her because she felt guilty about what had happened in the past.
• A Meng explained that she stayed in the Demon-Subduing Land for A Yan and practiced Dao cultivation because her unstable divine soul could not withstand a violent demonic technique.
• A Meng accused Su Jiu and the Upright Sects of destabilizing her divine soul with the aftershocks of their fight when she was a baby.
• Su Jiu said A Meng's divine soul had not been disturbed before the nightmare demon swept her away, but A Meng cut her off and insisted she could judge what had happened herself.

Su Jiu confronted A Meng over her blame for the Nightmare Demon’s imprisonment, while A Meng remained convinced that Su Jiu was responsible for her suffering. Outside the barrier, a pack of demon-seed-controlled nine-tailed foxes charged toward the waiting cultivators.

• Su Jiu apologized to A Meng for failing to save her as a child but refused to admit to causing her divine soul’s instability.
• A Meng blamed Su Jiu and the others for forcing the Nightmare Demon into the Demon-Subduing Land, and Su Jiu said she did not regret their decision.
• Yun Huanling worried about Su Jiu inside the barrier, while Yang Guo urged him to trust her strength.
• Ning Fan, Chu Luohen, and the others sensed demon aura and saw a pack of nine-tailed foxes charging toward them.
• Yang Guo and another cultivator recognized the foxes as members of the Nine-Tailed Tribe whose consciousness had been lost to demon seeds.

Chu Luohen and the others fought the demon-seed-controlled Nine-Tailed Foxes with unusual urgency while the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples struggled to survive. When three disciples tried to break Su Jiu’s barrier, its backlash killed them, leaving Hu Yucheng grieving as the battle continued.

• Chu Luohen attacked the Nine-Tailed Foxes first, and Yang Guo and Ning Fan warned Yun Huanling not to mention Silver Snow or the Nine-Tailed Foxes in front of Su Jiu.
• Yun Huanling and the others joined the increasingly difficult fight against the demon-seed-controlled foxes.
• A wounded Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciple regretted following the others, while Hu Yucheng wished he had used Su Jiu’s Teleportation Array to leave sooner.
• Lin Jiaojiao wondered whether removing the demon seeds could awaken the foxes, and several disciples decided to seek help from Su Jiu behind the barrier.
• Three Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples hurled sword qi at Su Jiu’s barrier and died from its backlash, leaving Hu Yucheng heartbroken as the fighting continued.

Yang Guo and the others struggled against demon-seed Nine-Tailed Foxes that rapidly healed from most attacks, while Chu Luohen was able to kill them. After Chu Luohen revealed that innate origin qi prevented their wounds from healing, Hu Yucheng became distracted by what the revelation implied and nearly died.

• Yang Guo sent disciples to help the overwhelmed Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect, while Lin Jiaojiao sobbed over the consequences of their involvement.
• The Nine-Tailed Foxes regenerated from severe wounds, and Yang Guo and Ning Fan agreed that the group needed another way to fight them.
• Hu Yucheng asked why the foxes could not heal wounds inflicted by Chu Luohen, after Lin Jiaojiao noticed the difference.
• Chu Luohen explained that innate origin qi stopped the foxes' regeneration, and the Buddha Child wondered whether A Jiu had given Chu Luohen that ability.
• Hu Yucheng grew stunned by the revelation and nearly got struck by a fox, but an Enforcement Hall disciple rescued him and warned him not to become a burden.

Hu Yucheng sent Lin Jiaojiao and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples away but stayed as Chu Luohen struggled to fight the Nine-Tailed Foxes. As Chu Luohen neared his limit and the others argued over why he refused to stop, a sinister sandstorm suddenly trapped and killed the foxes, revealing demon seeds inside them.

• Hu Yucheng activated Su Jiu's Teleportation Array Disc and sent Lin Jiaojiao and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples back to their sect while he remained behind.
• Chu Luohen continued fighting the Nine-Tailed Foxes until his innate origin qi began to run out, and Yun Huanling warned that he could not replenish it.
• Ning Fan urged Chu Luohen to rest, but Yun Huanling argued that Chu Luohen was risking his foundation and questioned whether he wanted to draw more power from Su Jiu.
• A sinister wind swept through the battlefield, causing the demon-seed-controlled Nine-Tailed Foxes to flee.
• The windblown sand trapped and sliced apart the foxes, and demonic seeds rolled from their bodies.

The Nightmare Demon revealed why Chu Luohen had been killing the Nine-Tailed Foxes and disclosed that Silver Snow had died and Su Jiu had nearly died in the same battle. Yun Huanling was shaken by what he learned, while Ning Fan promised to explain the past privately after they dealt with the fox corpses.

• After the Nine-Tailed Foxes died and left low-rank demon seeds, the hidden Nightmare Demon claimed it had saved the group.
• Chu Luohen identified the voice as the Nightmare Demon, and it attacked his injured shoulder, breaking a bone.
• Yun Huanling defended Chu Luohen, and the Nightmare Demon revealed that Chu Luohen had been trying to protect Su Jiu from blame and painful memories.
• The Nightmare Demon said the Chieftain of the Nine-Tailed Tribe had died and Su Jiu had nearly died in the same battle, leaving Yun Huanling devastated.
• Yun Huanling asked Ning Fan about what had happened, and Ning Fan promised to explain privately while warning him not to mention it in front of A Jiu.
• Yun Huanling suggested that they clear away the fox corpses.

Su Jiu used the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl to purify the dead Nine-Tailed Foxes and their demon seeds, despite the danger of exhausting her innate origin qi. As Chu Luohen and Ning Fan watched for the Nightmare Demon, Chu Luohen confronted A Meng and forced the demon to reveal itself.

• Su Jiu recognized that the Nine-Tailed Foxes were beyond saving and asked Little Pearl to cleanse their remains.
• Su Jiu surrounded herself with a barrier and poured her innate origin qi into the Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl, dissolving nearby foxes and demon seeds.
• Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen realized that Su Jiu's purification was consuming her strength, while Chu Luohen and Ning Fan watched for an attack.
• Chu Luohen noticed A Meng watching Su Jiu with malice and suspected she was connected to the Nightmare Demon.
• Chu Luohen drew the Scarless Sword and attacked A Meng, but black miasma appeared and formed into the Nightmare Demon.

The Nightmare Demon confronted Chu Luohen and the others while Su Jiu purified the foxes, then tried to bargain for the Soul-Suppressing Pearl and her departure. When he attacked Su Jiu with Black Miasma, her innate origin qi dispersed it, leaving him to realize his Arts could not reach her.

• Chu Luohen forced the Nightmare Demon out of hiding, and Yang Guo defended his actions as A Meng criticized him.
• Ning Fan joined Chu Luohen, and the Nightmare Demon weighed the risks of fighting them while Su Jiu remained occupied.
• The Nightmare Demon offered not to interfere if Su Jiu handed over the Soul-Suppressing Pearl and left after purifying the foxes, but the others refused to yield.
• The disciples split into groups to protect Su Jiu and confront the Nightmare Demon, who threatened to fight rather than coexist peacefully.
• The Nightmare Demon sent Black Miasma toward Su Jiu, and Yang Guo used Purification Talismans to stop two of its five streams.
• Su Jiu's innate origin qi dispersed the remaining Black Miasma, and the Nightmare Demon realized his Arts could not affect her from a distance.

The group prepared to break the barrier hiding the Nightmare Demon before Su Jiu weakened, while Yang Guo persuaded Hu Yucheng to return to someone who would sacrifice everything for him. Hu Yucheng left after breaking free of Yang Guo’s hypnotic influence, as Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling began working on the barrier.

• The Nightmare Demon escaped with A Meng into the barrier after Chu Luohen’s sword qi shattered his shield.
• Ning Fan urged the group to break the barrier before Su Jiu’s purification left her vulnerable, and Chu Luohen said he needed another person proficient in formations.
• Yun Huanling volunteered to help Chu Luohen, accepting the danger because he wanted to protect Su Jiu.
• Yang Guo reminded Hu Yucheng that someone beside him had risked her cultivation and life for him, prompting him to leave and return to her.
• Hu Yucheng thanked Yang Guo before departing through the Teleportation Array, and Yang Guo realized he had broken free of her hypnosis.

Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling broke the barrier, while Su Jiu's Innate Origin Qi surged and purified most of the demon seeds. As the Nightmare Demon returned, the Buddha Child stood between it and Su Jiu, while Dao Lord Qing Ci disappeared.

• Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling synchronized their hand seals to break the barrier, and Su Jiu's petal and eyes briefly shone as her Innate Origin Qi rose.
• Chu Luohen found Su Jiu unharmed and noticed that she had purified most of the demon seeds without showing strain.
• Yun Huanling destroyed the unguarded courtyard gate, and Ning Fan led the disciples inside while the Buddha Child stayed outside with Dao Lord Qing Ci.
• The Buddha Child questioned Dao Lord Qing Ci about why he had not broken the barrier himself, but Qing Ci gave an evasive answer before vanishing.
• The Nightmare Demon emerged from a demon crow, and the Buddha Child shielded Su Jiu and challenged it after Qing Ci disappeared.

The Buddha Child fought the Nightmare Demon while Su Jiu’s purification ritual neared its end, leaving her unprotected and still unconscious. Chu Luohen and the others realized they had been lured away by a clone and hurried back after destroying it, while the Nightmare Demon sensed its loss.

• The Nightmare Demon attacked the Buddha Child as Su Jiu’s protective golden radiance faded and the purification ritual neared completion.
• Chu Luohen and the others fought a weakened Nightmare Demon in the courtyard and noticed its strange, evasive behavior.
• Chu Luohen discovered that A Meng’s room held a straw puppet with a talisman, revealing that the group had been fighting a clone.
• Ning Fan, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen destroyed the clone and rushed toward the courtyard gate.
• The Nightmare Demon sensed that its clone had been destroyed and wondered how quickly the others had dealt with it.

Dao Lord Qing Ci stopped the Nightmare Demon from taking the unconscious Su Jiu, but A Meng insisted on possessing her as a new vessel. The Nightmare Demon yielded and sent A Meng's soul into Su Jiu's body.

• The Nightmare Demon knocked the Buddha Child down and approached the unprotected Su Jiu with A Meng's soul beside him.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci appeared, stopped the Nightmare Demon from touching Su Jiu, and said he would not let anyone take her.
• A Meng demanded that the Nightmare Demon send her soul into Su Jiu before her own soul scattered in seven days.
• The Nightmare Demon finally gave in and sent A Meng's soul through Su Jiu's celestial crown.

The Nightmare Demon put A Meng’s soul into Su Jiu’s body, prompting Chu Luohen to attack him and demand that he free A Jiu. The Nightmare Demon evaded the attacks, confident A Meng would suppress Su Jiu’s consciousness and complete the possession.

• Chu Luohen sensed that Su Jiu’s aura had changed and demanded to know what the Nightmare Demon had done to A Jiu.
• The Nightmare Demon taunted Chu Luohen and revealed that Su Jiu might leave the sect after she woke.
• Chu Luohen attacked with the Scarless Sword, cracking the Nightmare Demon’s Black Miasma shield and sending Sword Qi into his meridians.
• Chu Luohen demanded that the Nightmare Demon get A Meng out of A Jiu’s body, but the demon evaded further attacks and refused.
• Yang Guo realized A Meng was attempting Soul Possession, while Yun Huanling recalled A Jiu’s earlier account of the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, Yan, and Su Qingqing.

Yun Huanling realized that A Meng and the Nightmare Demon had planned to lure Su Jiu for her body, while Su Jiu fell unconscious after exhausting her innate origin qi. A Meng entered Su Jiu’s vast sea of consciousness to devour her consciousness, and she finally approached a strange point of light that she believed was a memory fragment.

• Yun Huanling concluded that the Soul-Suppressing Pearl had been a pretext for A Meng and the Nightmare Demon to target Su Jiu for Soul Possession.
• Su Jiu collapsed from exhausting her innate origin qi, and Little Gift and the Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water discussed her recovery and accelerated growth.
• Little Gift sensed an intruder in Su Jiu’s sea of consciousness and went to confront it as A Meng entered with the Nightmare Demon’s help.
• A Meng found Su Jiu’s sea of consciousness vast and luminous, then set out to find and devour Su Jiu’s consciousness.
• A Meng descended through the seemingly endless sea, found no memories, and swam toward an unusual point of light.

A Meng watched Su Jiu’s memories reveal the truth about her abduction and began doubting the grievances that had shaped her choices, but she refused to abandon her plans. As A Meng searched the depths of Su Jiu’s sea of consciousness, Little Gift decided to turn her desire to possess Su Jiu against her.

• A Meng saw memories showing Su Jiu’s concern after the Nightmare Demon abducted her and wondered whether Su Jiu had tried to save her.
• A Meng blamed Su Jiu and the Azure Tide Sect, then struggled with her guilt over treating Su Qingqing and Yan as pawns before recommitting to her path.
• The Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water complained that A Meng still wanted to kill Su Jiu, and Little Gift chose to make A Meng’s wish to possess Su Jiu come true.
• A Meng reached the bottom of Su Jiu’s sea of consciousness, detected where Su Jiu’s consciousness lay, and swam toward it.

A Meng devoured Su Jiu’s consciousness and took control of her body, then went to the Azure Tide Sect with the Nightmare Demon. She struggled to remember how she had escaped the Demon-Subduing Land and was left unsure where to find Su Qingqing.

• A Meng took over Su Jiu’s body after devouring her consciousness, while the Nightmare Demon revealed that he had killed Chu Luohen, Ning Fan, Yun Huanling, and the others.
• A Meng told the Nightmare Demon she wanted to visit the Azure Tide Sect, and they traveled there together.
• At the sect, A Meng was greeted as Senior Su but could not remember how she had left the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Su Mianmian rushed to embrace A Meng, who reflexively threw her to the ground and then apologized.
• Su Mianmian told A Meng that Su Qingqing was waiting for her and left, but A Meng did not know where to find Su Qingqing.

A Meng followed disciples to visit the injured Su Qingqing, but Qingqing exposed her disguise and the sect surroundings dissolved into mist. A Meng saw her original face in a mirror and was left confronting what had happened to her possession of Su Jiu’s body.

• A Meng overheard disciples discussing Su Qingqing’s injuries from a demonic beast and realized she could not remember where A Yan had gone or when they had parted.
• A Meng followed two disciples to Su Qingqing’s room and tried to act like Su Jiu when the gathered Azure Tide Sect disciples made way for her.
• Su Qingqing clasped A Meng’s hands and questioned whether she knew why Qingqing had been injured, prompting A Meng to notice gaps in her memory of time.
• A Meng asked when Su Qingqing had been hurt, and Qingqing answered that A Meng should know before calling her by her true name.
• White mist erased the surrounding disciples and buildings, and a mirror showed A Meng her original face instead of Su Jiu’s.
• Su Qingqing stood behind A Meng as she panicked over her reflection and insisted she had successfully possessed Su Jiu’s body.

Su Jiu awakened in her Sea of Consciousness and confronted Little Gift and the Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water about trapping A Meng in an illusion. She revealed that A Meng had never taken her place and explained that A Meng’s soul was in danger of dissipating as the illusion continued.

• Su Jiu surprised Little Gift and the Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water, then learned the Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water had gained clear consciousness after they left Heavenly Cloud Mountain.
• Su Jiu realized A Meng’s soul was growing thin and asked whether Little Gift intended to destroy it; Little Gift called the illusion A Meng’s deserved punishment.
• Su Jiu shattered the illusion’s mirror and appeared before A Meng, who mistook her for another phantom and tried to walk away.
• A Meng summoned her ordinary Spirit Sword instead of the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, while Su Jiu revealed that the Life-Bound Treasure recognized her soul and that A Meng had been in an illusion all along.
• Su Jiu warned A Meng that the illusion was wearing down her soul and explained that it had begun when A Meng thought she reached the bottom of Su Jiu’s Sea of Consciousness.

Su Jiu released A Meng from the illusion realm and resolved to forgive her one final time, while the battle with the Nightmare Demon neared its end. A Meng then revealed that Su Jiu still had not found her Eldest Senior Brother, hinting that their opponents had gained the upper hand.

• A Meng accused Su Jiu of manipulating her by giving her hope and then forcing her to face reality, while Su Jiu silently accepted the blame.
• Little Gift urged Su Jiu to stop punishing herself for the past, and Su Jiu said she would forgive A Meng one last time.
• Su Jiu expelled A Meng's soul from her body and woke as Chu Luohen, Ning Fan, and the Nightmare Demon fought on.
• Su Jiu noticed the wounded Azure Tide Sect disciples, the badly injured Buddha Child being tended by Yun Huanling, and Dao Lord Qing Ci watching the battle.
• A Meng told Su Jiu that she had not found her Eldest Senior Brother, and Su Jiu realized that A Meng knew why the group had come.

Su Jiu stopped Chu Luohen and Ning Fan from destroying the Nightmare Demon, trapping it because it might know Eldest Senior Brother Xia Jue’s whereabouts. The Nightmare Demon refused to answer, leaving Su Jiu and the others to face its defiance.

• Su Jiu called out A Meng for assuming her soul possession would succeed, then frightened her with a sword strike that showed how vulnerable her soul body was.
• Su Jiu interrupted Chu Luohen and Ning Fan’s killing blow against the Nightmare Demon, explaining that she needed it alive because it might know Eldest Senior Brother’s whereabouts.
• Su Jiu trapped the Nightmare Demon in a golden array of talismans and explained that it and A Meng had both misjudged their situations.
• The Nightmare Demon admitted Su Jiu wanted information about Xia Jue and demanded that she ask for its help.
• Yang Guo rejected the Nightmare Demon’s provocation and called it a prisoner, but it argued that it had no reason to talk whether it lived or died.