Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu watched the Azure Tide Sect face a hostile crowd that blamed it for the Azure Realm’s suffering and demanded Ning Hai appear. Ning Fan emerged in the sect master’s robes and challenged the crowd’s stated reasons for gathering, while Hong Ling accused them of hiding their true intentions.

• An Azure Tide Sect disciple nearly rushed out to fight, but his senior brothers and sisters stopped him as a man outside the formation insulted Ning Hai and blamed the sect for the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s fall.
• The crowd called for Ning Hai to come out, and the man accused him of raising Xia Jue and hiding a demonic beast.
• Two former Azure Tide Sect elders, Feng Qi and Ning Fan’s discovered demon seed hosts, joined the crowd and falsely accused the sect of collaborating with demonic beasts.
• Rogue cultivators speculated that Xia Jue had used demon seeds to control the Enforcement Hall and the disciples who remained in the sect.
• Ning Fan appeared with peak masters and elders in sect master’s robes, and Su Jiu realized Ning Hai had passed the position to him.
• Ning Fan asked whether the crowd had gathered because the Azure Tide Sect raised Xia Jue, and Hong Ling said their real intentions were obvious.

Ning Fan and Hong Ling faced a mob that demanded the Azure Tide Sect open its defenses, while the recording revealed the attackers’ greed and the Grand Elder’s betrayal. The sect’s killing array slaughtered many assailants, but the elders watched the growing blood energy, hinting at an ominous turn ahead.

• Hong Ling called out the attackers for fearing Xia Jue and using the crisis as an excuse to plunder the Azure Tide Sect.
• Ning Fan shook the mountain range with his power, scattering the attackers and exposing the Grand Elder hiding among them.
• The Grand Elder claimed he had left the sect after discovering its secrets and accused Hong Ling of lying about his mission.
• A Heavenly Dawn Sect disciple urged the crowd to storm the sect, and the attackers began striking its protective formation.
• Ning Fan’s formation counterattacked with a killing array, and rogue cultivators died outside the mountain gate.
• Su Jiu noticed that several elders were watching the blood and its energy as the fighting continued.

Su Jiu watched a recording reveal how Dao Lord Li Xiang used the Demon Realm's Blood-Mending Art to destroy the Azure Tide Sect's protective formation. After learning that the mortal world had become a purgatory of war, she confronted her doubts about her choices and the fate of the sect.

• Su Jiu explained that the Blood-Mending Art could locate and devour formations' eyes, and she identified Dao Lord Li Xiang as the person using it.
• The Wind Spirit recognized Li Xiang as the instigator who had turned rogue cultivators and small-sect disciples against the Azure Tide Sect, and Su Jiu realized he was no longer human.
• Ning Fan sensed the sect's protective formation failing, led the Azure Tide Sect disciples away, and watched the mountain range collapse inward.
• Su Jiu learned that the survivors had been relocated beneath the desert's quicksand and asked Little Pearl whether there was news of Moglis and Samo.
• Su Jiu viewed the remaining Recording Stones and saw that war and suffering had spread throughout the mortal world.

Su Jiu learned that the sect was struggling to treat wounded disciples and that Purification Pills could not remove demonic qi from those infected by Demonic Beasts. Li Ran explained the infection’s stages and revealed that demonized cultivators were either killed by the Sect Master or took their own lives, leaving the group facing the grim cost of the ongoing crisis.

• Su Jiu noticed that the connected caves were crowded with exhausted, wounded disciples and that the Pill Refining Room had no protective formations because they had been sent to the front lines.
• Li Ran and Qi Song told Su Jiu that Purification Pills could not cleanse demonic qi from infected companions.
• Su Jiu recalled encountering similar Demonic Beasts in the Demon-Subduing Land and said that purification required arts involving innate origin qi.
• Li Ran explained that demonic qi infection progressed from discomfort near the wound to fused qi in the meridians, then to demonization and loss of reason.
• Li Ran said that infected people nearing demonization usually killed themselves or left the sect, while the Sect Master executed those who did not act in time.

Su Jiu joined Qi Song and Li Ran in the Pill Refining Room, where Qi Song tried to save a gravely wounded cultivator whose injuries exposed a dispute over forbidden demon hunting. Ning Fan explained that Xia Jue and Hui were now in the Linnan Region, where they had created layers of barriers that ordinary cultivators could not navigate.

• Su Jiu learned that even demonic cultivators were affected by the demonic qi released by demonic beasts, then followed Qi Song and Li Ran to the Pill Refining Room after a summons.
• Qi Song examined a dying cultivator and began treating him after learning that pills had failed to stop his bleeding.
• Qi Song accused the injured cultivator’s companions of concealing what they had done, and Li Ran revealed that they had entered the Forbidden Zone.
• The Fifth Elder admitted that the Forbidden Zone was an open secret, and Ning Fan explained that ordinary cultivators were forbidden to enter it.
• Ning Fan told Su Jiu that Xia Jue and Hui were in the Linnan Region, where they had laid overlapping barriers that confused ordinary cultivators.

Su Jiu learned that Xia Jue had become a pure demon and that Ning Hai had disappeared after investigating altered memories tied to Dao Lord Qing Ci. After Feng Qi revealed he had entered the forbidden zone alone to bring Xia Jue back, Su Jiu decided to prepare to go after him.

• Ning Fan warned Su Jiu that Xia Jue had merged with part of the Heavenly Dao consciousness and could no longer be treated as their former Senior Brother.
• Ning Fan told Su Jiu that Ning Hai had vanished after handing over the Sect Master position, and that evidence suggested he had gone to the forbidden zone to find Xia Jue.
• Ning Fan explained that searches for Xia Jue in the forbidden zone had left most people missing or fatally injured.
• Su Jiu received Feng Qi's Command Token and message, in which Feng Qi said he had entered the forbidden zone alone to bring Xia Jue back and left the Enforcement Hall to her if he died.
• Ning Fan confirmed Feng Qi's Soul Lamp and Soul Tablet were intact, and Su Jiu said she would go to the forbidden zone because Feng Qi and Yun Huanling were there.
• Ning Fan explained that dao cultivators and demonic cultivators had begun working together against the demonic beasts, though the demonic cultivators remained restricted within the sect's cave.

Su Jiu learned that the Forbidden Zone’s demonic beasts could overwhelm even demonic cultivators and heard how dangerous the area was. Despite Qi Song’s warnings about the Azure Tide Sect’s precarious state, she insisted on entering the Forbidden Zone to rescue people, then asked whether Qi Song had examined her during her two-year unconsciousness.

• Ning Fan explained that the Demon Realm’s demonic qi could demonize demonic cultivators, stripping them of reason while increasing their strength.
• Qi Song treated an injured man, stopped his bleeding, and warned that he could not guarantee the man would wake.
• Qi Song explained that the Forbidden Zone’s demonic beasts were far stronger than those outside and that many who entered became lost or died in strange ways.
• Su Jiu admitted she planned to enter the Forbidden Zone to bring out the Sect Master, Feng Qi, and Yun Huanling.
• Qi Song angrily warned Su Jiu that the Azure Tide Sect was isolated and weakened, but Su Jiu insisted she could handle the Forbidden Zone.
• Su Jiu revealed that her cultivation had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and asked Qi Song whether he had examined her while she was unconscious for two years.

Su Jiu learned how her body had recovered while she was unconscious, then went to help Chu Luohen heal in the grotto. As they discussed traveling to the Forbidden Zone, she told him that her nature meant she would eventually forget him, leaving their feelings unresolved.

• Qi Song told Su Jiu that her pulse and heart had recovered, her meridians had widened, and she had absorbed spiritual qi while she slept.
• After leaving Qi Song, Ning Fan, and the two elders, Su Jiu entered the grotto and thanked Chu Luohen for saving her.
• Chu Luohen told Su Jiu that she no longer needed to call him Junior Granduncle and agreed to let her help him recover.
• Chu Luohen said he would accompany Su Jiu to the Forbidden Zone, or the former Linnan Region, and asked whether she would grieve if he disappeared.
• Su Jiu said she would be sad if Chu Luohen died but would eventually forget him because Nine-Petal Frostflow had no heart.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen met the souls of Dao Lord Zhi Yue and Dao Lord Zhi Jing, who explained the past attempt to bring down the Demon Realm and Li’s role in raising catalysts. Dao Lord Zhi Yue began revealing how Zhi Jing’s death was connected to Li’s plans and the Fortune-Transferring Pearl.

• After Chu Luohen recovered, the hidden souls appeared and Dao Lord Zhi Yue introduced herself and Dao Lord Zhi Jing to Su Jiu.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yue explained that Yun Chong had removed the Heaven-Connecting Tower, preventing the Demon Realm from truly descending ten thousand years earlier.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yue said the Buddha Child had rescued the souls from the Taiji Secret Realm two years earlier, and warned that the weakening seals made the current crisis more dangerous.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yue revealed that Li had cultivated Bai Su and Zheng Qilong as catalysts, and Su Jiu realized Xia Jue might know he was the current catalyst.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yue explained that Zhi Jing had survived the ancient war, hunted Li, and secretly sabotaged her efforts to raise catalysts.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yue asked Su Jiu whether she remembered the Fortune-Transferring Pearl.

The chapter explained how the false Heavenly Dao and the Gray-Clothed Man manipulated events, and how Su Jiu and Xia Jue ultimately thwarted them. In the Linnan Region, Li then offered the Sect Master a way to resurrect his disciple, requiring Su Jiu's flesh and blood.

• The false Heavenly Dao and the Gray-Clothed Man colluded to seize control and bring the Demon Realm, killing Dao Lord Zhijing after he uncovered their plans.
• Li altered the Fortune-Transferring Pearl with the false Heavenly Dao, while Dao Lord Zhijing entered dormancy in the cave after his death.
• The true Heavenly Dao sent Su Jiu back through time, and Su Jiu and Xia Jue later weakened the false Heavenly Dao before Xia Jue devoured it.
• In the blood-soaked Linnan Region, the Sect Master demanded that Li fulfill her promise after he helped bring down the Azure Tide Sect.
• Li offered to resurrect the Sect Master's disciple and named Su Jiu's flesh and blood as the required medicinal catalyst.

Li persuaded the former Medicine Gate Master to use Su Jiu in a life exchange to resurrect Jiang Qi, while privately plotting to discard him and use someone else against Su Jiu. Su Jiu then stopped Mo Yan from killing Lie Changfeng and used her Innate Origin Qi to purge the demonic qi from his body.

• Li told the former Medicine Gate Master that Su Jiu's nature as an Outsider made her ideal for exchanging lives, and urged him to hurry before the Heavenly Dao repaired more of its laws.
• The Medicine Gate Master left to pursue the exchange for Jiang Qi, while Li watched him go and revealed she intended to dispose of him and had prepared a gift for Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen learned that the elders and peak masters had gone to seal the Three Great Secret Realms while the other disciples took on dangerous missions to clear demonic beasts.
• Su Jiu returned to where she had awakened and found Shu Bai, Mo Yan, and Lie Changfeng as he struggled against demonic qi and asked them to kill him.
• Su Jiu blocked Mo Yan's sword and channeled her Innate Origin Qi into Lie Changfeng, purifying the demonic qi and circulating the energy through his body.

Su Jiu used her innate origin qi to save Lie Changfeng from demonization, then prepared to leave for the Forbidden Zone to confront the source of the crisis. After bidding farewell to Ye Wanqing and Ouyang Yanyu, she departed with Chu Luohen, uncertain whether she would ever return.

• Su Jiu cured Lie Changfeng, who reflected on Zhou Xing’s death and was left temporarily weak from the treatment.
• Su Jiu gave Shu Bai and Mo Yan Purification Talisman Scrolls and told them she planned to go to the Forbidden Zone.
• Shu Bai and Mo Yan tried to dissuade Su Jiu, but Mo Yan ultimately urged Shu Bai to trust her.
• Su Jiu encountered Ye Wanqing and Ouyang Yanyu, said she would probably be gone a long time, and exchanged farewells with them.
• Su Jiu left with Chu Luohen while Ouyang Yanyu and Ye Wanqing headed back to prepare for their next mission.

Su Jiu reached the Azure Tide Sect’s Teleportation Arrays and discovered that Jin Chen had been gravely injured and Su Mianmian had been captured by the Medicine Gate. As Su Jiu prepared to leave and rescue her, Su Qingqing desperately tried to stop her, and Yan urged Qingqing to explain what she was hiding.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen reached the Teleportation Arrays, where Su Qingqing and Yan arrived with a bloodied Jin Chen.
• Su Jiu treated Jin Chen, and Su Qingqing revealed that the Medicine Gate had colluded with demons and captured Su Mianmian.
• The Fifth Elder and Eighth Elder checked Jin Chen, then led others through a Teleportation Array to rescue Su Mianmian.
• Su Qingqing repeatedly tried to prevent Su Jiu from leaving, but Su Jiu insisted on going to help her sister.
• Yan challenged Su Qingqing to tell Su Jiu the truth, noting that the disciples who had gone outside would eventually return and reveal it.

Su Qingqing explained that cultivators were hunting Su Jiu for her supposedly miraculous flesh and blood, and Jin Chen revealed how Medicine Gate disciples had ambushed their group. The chapter ended with Su Mianmian having sent everyone else away through a Teleportation Array while she stayed behind as her captors began to break free.

• Yan criticized the Upright Sect cultivators for fighting among themselves and went inside with his disciples.
• Su Qingqing told Su Jiu that rumors about Su Jiu's ice skin and jade bones had led people to hunt Azure Tide Sect cultivators.
• Su Jiu suspected the Gray-Clothed Man had used the Medicine Gate to target her, possibly to obtain her flesh and blood for Jiang Qi.
• Su Jiu asked why Su Mianmian had been captured, and Jin Chen admitted that his injury had left their group vulnerable.
• Jin Chen explained that Medicine Gate disciples had disguised themselves as Heavenly Secret Sect disciples and used ointment to immobilize the group.
• Su Mianmian bound the attackers and sent the others away with a Teleportation Array, but stayed behind as the attackers began breaking free.

Su Mianmian regained her strength and tried to escape the Medicine Gate prison after an unknown disciple secretly helped her, but the silver-haired sect master caught her and destroyed her Teleportation Array. Tang Wuchen stopped his master from killing her, leaving Su Mianmian injured and still held as a bargaining chip.

• Jin Chen explained that Su Mianmian had stayed behind to save the others, and Su Jiu set out to rescue her as Su Qingqing warned her to be careful.
• While Su Mianmian was held captive in a drugged stupor, an unidentified Medicine Gate disciple gave her a pill, unlocked her door, and told her to escape through the nearby Small Woods without using spiritual power inside the prison.
• The disciple distracted the guards, and Su Mianmian regained her spiritual power, escaped her cell, and began activating a Teleportation Array in the Small Woods.
• The silver-haired sect master and his group arrived, destroyed Su Mianmian's array, and wounded her with a strike from his whisk.
• Tang Wuchen pleaded with his master to spare Su Mianmian because she was needed for an exchange with the Azure Tide Sect, and the sect master challenged Tang Wuchen over his concern for her.

Tang Wuchen defied the Medicine Gate Master to plead for Su Mianmian and urge his master to abandon his demonic alliance. The gate master rejected his pleas and prepared to kill him, but the Medicine Gate disciples intervened and began to take Tang Wuchen into custody.

• The Medicine Gate Master accused Tang Wuchen of betraying the sect and struck him repeatedly with his whisk, leaving him bleeding.
• Su Mianmian realized Tang Wuchen had saved her and noticed that some Medicine Gate disciples were distressed by the gate master's treatment of him.
• Tang Wuchen urged the Medicine Gate Master to recognize that the Gray-Clothed Man was using him and that Jiang Qi could not be resurrected.
• The Medicine Gate Master accused Tang Wuchen of fearing Jiang Qi would threaten his standing, then raised his whisk with murderous intent.
• A Medicine Gate disciple knelt and begged the gate master to spare Tang Wuchen, and the other disciples followed before one offered to take Tang Wuchen into custody.

The Medicine Gate Master killed a disciple who had tried to help Tang Wuchen, then ordered Tang Wuchen and Su Mianmian taken away when he learned leaders from three sects had arrived. Lan Fang Ziyi, Yun Chao, and Qin Ming waited in the Main Hall to demand an explanation from the Medicine Gate, while its disciples behaved suspiciously.

• The Medicine Gate Master stabbed a disciple through the chest and accused him of betraying the Medicine Gate, prompting Tang Wuchen to challenge the accusation.
• A Medicine Gate disciple reported that Lan Fang Ziyi, Yun Chao, and Qin Ming had arrived from the Heavenly Secret Sect, Flowing Radiance Sword Sect, and Jade Sword Sect.
• The Medicine Gate Master stopped trying to kill Tang Wuchen and Su Mianmian, ordered them escorted away, and warned the escorts against causing bloodshed.
• Lan Fang Ziyi, Yun Chao, and Qin Ming waited in the Main Hall under close surveillance, seeking an explanation from the Medicine Gate.
• Yun Chao criticized the Medicine Gate Master for keeping them waiting, while Lan Fang Ziyi mocked the sect and the visitors noticed the Medicine Gate disciples acting strangely.

Lan Fang Ziyi, Yun Chao, and Qin Ming confronted the Medicine Gate Master over his betrayal and collusion with demons. He mocked them and feigned innocence when visitors arrived, confident they lacked evidence and that the elders who might challenge him were away.

• The Medicine Gate Master arrived, and Qin Ming, Lan Fang Ziyi, and Yun Chao rejected his claim that their sects were still allies.
• The Medicine Gate Master denied ever truly betraying his allies, prompting the three visitors to realize the Medicine Gate may have deceived them from the start.
• Qin Ming explained that the allied sects had been unable to aid the Azure Tide Sect while they were defending themselves from demons, and that later searches found the Azure Tide Sect destroyed.
• Lan Fang Ziyi recalled his master's warning about the Medicine Gate and condemned its leaders for aiding devils and turning their life-saving treasures into weapons.
• When a group appeared outside, the Medicine Gate Master changed his manner, demanded that the visitors speak plainly, and relied on their lack of evidence and the absence of key elders.

Liu Zhiyan presented a Medicine Gate pill bottle containing demonic qi as evidence of the sect’s collusion with the devil race, but the Medicine Gate Master accused the Jade Sword Sect of framing him. As hostile visitors arrived and Dao Lord Dongcheng pressured Liu Zhiyan, the Azure Tide Sect’s Fifth Elder intervened, while onlookers renewed accusations against the Azure Tide Sect.

• Liu Zhiyan threw Medicine Gate pill bottles before the Medicine Gate Master and revealed demonic qi inside one of them.
• The Medicine Gate Master claimed the bottles could have been planted and defended his sect’s decision not to help the Jade Sword Sect during the Azure Realm turmoil.
• An unfamiliar group arrived, and its leader blamed the Azure Tide Sect and Xia Jue for the conflict.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng recognized Liu Zhiyan as a Jade Sword Sect disciple and used oppressive pressure to force him to his knees.
• The Azure Tide Sect’s Fifth Elder arrived and eased the pressure on Liu Zhiyan.
• Rogue cultivators noticed the Azure Tide Sect newcomers and accused the sect of colluding with demonic beasts.

The Azure Tide Sect elders faced slander and hostility as they arrived at the Medicine Gate. The Eighth Elder exposed Dao Lord Dongcheng’s ignorance of the front lines, while the Medicine Gate Master tried to deny responsibility for the sect’s destruction.

• The crowd accused the Azure Tide Sect of colluding with demonic beasts, and one witness stayed silent rather than challenge them.
• The Medicine Gate Master greeted the Fifth Elder and Eighth Elder as Dao Lord Dongcheng taunted the Azure Tide Sect.
• The Eighth Elder questioned Dao Lord Dongcheng about major demonic-beast incursions, and Lan Fang Ziyi explained that the named locations were among the worst-hit rifts.
• The Eighth Elder pointed out that Azure Tide Sect disciples were fighting at those locations, leaving Dao Lord Dongcheng unable to respond.
• The Medicine Gate Master asked why the Azure Tide Sect had come, then denied inciting the destruction of their sect, enraging the Fifth Elder.