Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu returned to the Medicine Gate to exchange herself for Su Mianmian, whom the Medicine Gate Master had kept as a guest. She and Chu Luohen agreed to wear Spirit-Sealing Bracelets, leaving the exchange unresolved.

• The Eighth Elder told the Medicine Gate Master that the Azure Tide Sect had concluded its investigation and came to take Su Mianmian home.
• Su Jiu left the Wind Spirit and Snow Sprite with the Azure Tide Sect, then traveled with Chu Luohen through the ruined, blood-soaked city beneath the Medicine Gate.
• Su Jiu arrived at the mountain gate and agreed to exchange herself for Su Mianmian.
• The Medicine Gate Master presented Spirit-Sealing Bracelets to Su Jiu and Chu Luohen as a condition of the exchange.
• Chu Luohen put on his bracelet, and Su Jiu prepared to put on hers despite the Fifth Elder's warning.

Su Jiu put on the Spirit-Sealing Bracelet to secure Su Mianmian’s release, leaving herself without spiritual qi among hostile rogue cultivators who coveted her body. After Su Mianmian reunited with her, she learned Su Jiu had surrendered herself and resisted being sent away; the chapter ended with her threatening a rogue cultivator who mocked her sister.

• Su Jiu put on the Spirit-Sealing Bracelet, and the Medicine Gate Master and nearby rogue cultivators saw her as powerless prey.
• Rogue cultivators discussed exploiting Su Jiu for her flesh and blood, while the Fifth Elder and the other Azure Tide Sect members grew angry at their lewd remarks.
• Su Mianmian returned, reunited with Su Jiu, and was examined by the Eighth Elder, who confirmed she was recovering from her injuries.
• Su Jiu told Su Mianmian and the Azure Tide Sect disciples to leave while she handled the rest, and Su Mianmian realized Su Jiu had lost her spiritual qi.
• A rogue cultivator told Su Mianmian that Su Jiu had traded herself for her release, and Su Mianmian drew her Long Whip and threatened him.

Su Jiu faced the Medicine Gate Master after he used her Spirit-Sealing Bracelet and the suffering of demonic-qi victims to justify keeping her in the Medicine Gate and taking her flesh and blood. When Dao Lord Dongcheng urged the crowd to seize her by force, the Medicine Gate Master confronted him as both sides prepared to fight.

• A man pointed out Su Jiu's Spirit-Sealing Bracelet, and Su Mianmian realized that Su Jiu had made herself vulnerable to save her.
• Su Jiu pushed Su Mianmian toward the Eighth Elder and denied having promised to stay in the Medicine Gate, despite the Medicine Gate Master's demand that she remain seven days.
• The Medicine Gate Master claimed Su Jiu's flesh and blood could treat people infected by demonic qi and appealed to the rogue cultivators to support keeping her.
• Su Jiu challenged a disciple who praised her while ignoring the Azure Tide Sect's destruction, and the rogue cultivators offered promises in exchange for her help.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng urged the crowd to attack and take Su Jiu's flesh and blood; Yun Chao and his companions and the Azure Tide Sect's disciples prepared to defend her.
• The Medicine Gate Master confronted Dao Lord Dongcheng as both groups readied themselves for battle.

The Medicine Gate Master and Dao Lord Dongcheng maneuvered against each other while the sects and rogue cultivators fought over Su Jiu. Su Jiu confirmed that her blood could cure demonic corruption and hinted that she knew the Medicine Gate Master's secret, leaving the battle raging and the true purpose of his plan exposed to suspicion.

• Dao Lord Dongcheng accused the Medicine Gate Master of disguising his desire for Su Jiu, while the Medicine Gate Master admitted he wanted her for himself and asked the others not to damage her.
• Su Mianmian, Yun Chao, Liu Zhiyan, and the others clashed with the rogue cultivators, and Liu Zhiyan kicked away a man urging them to capture and divide Su Jiu.
• Protected by the Fifth Elder's formation, Su Jiu questioned the Medicine Gate Master's motives and mentioned his dead disciple Jiang Qi, unsettling him and drawing Dao Lord Dongcheng's attention.
• Su Jiu confirmed that her flesh and blood could cure demonic corruption and heal wounds, but denied rumors that it could increase cultivation, intensifying the fighters' desire to seize her.
• Su Jiu asked the Medicine Gate Master about his Nine-Turn Reincarnation Cycle Technique, making him fear she knew his plans, while Dao Lord Dongcheng became suspicious; the battle continued without serious injuries among the three sects' disciples.

Su Mianmian’s protection kept the Azure Tide Sect and the other three sects unharmed as the rogue cultivators were devastated. Dao Lord Dongcheng accused the Medicine Gate Master of secretly protecting the Azure Tide Sect, and the battle’s survivors were killed when they tried to flee.

• The rogue cultivators discovered that the Azure Tide Sect and the other three sects had suffered no serious injuries, while their own side had lost most of its fighters.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng’s attack on a Jade Sword Sect disciple was crushed by an invisible force, and he suspected the Medicine Gate Master was responsible.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng seized a Medicine Gate disciple and accused the Medicine Gate Master of protecting the Azure Tide Sect and conspiring against him.
• The Medicine Gate Master denied the accusations and blamed Dao Lord Dongcheng for the attacks and his collusion with the devil race.
• The combatants stopped to listen to the two men argue, but screams broke out when fleeing rogue cultivators were killed; the gathered survivors then examined the corpses.

Rogue cultivators accused the Medicine Gate Master of killing those found dead, and their suspicions sparked a battle with the Medicine Gate. As the fighting continued, Su Mianmian told Su Jiu she wanted them to rebuild the Azure Tide Sect after the calamity, while Su Jiu’s hand paused in her hair.

• The Medicine Gate Master found that the dead cultivators had suffocated, but Dao Lord Dongcheng accused him of murdering them and began fighting him.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng claimed the Medicine Gate Master wanted to betray the others and win the Azure Tide Sect’s forgiveness, while the Medicine Gate Master insisted the deaths were meant to turn them against one another.
• The Medicine Gate Master unleashed a deadly bamboo-leaf art, wounding Dao Lord Dongcheng, and the Medicine Gate and rogue cultivators continued fighting as the other sects watched.
• As disciples on both sides suffered injuries and deaths, Su Mianmian left the defensive formation to join Su Jiu.
• Su Mianmian told Su Jiu that they should rebuild the Azure Tide Sect together after the calamity, and Su Jiu’s hand paused as she stroked her hair.

Su Jiu revealed that she had been killing the cultivators trapped with them and punished those who had persecuted the Azure Tide Sect. She left the surviving Medicine Gate disciples alive while declaring that she would rebuild the Azure Tide Sect with Su Mianmian.

• Su Mianmian asked Su Jiu to rebuild the Azure Tide Sect together, and Su Jiu agreed, though Su Mianmian sensed distance between them.
• A Medicine Gate disciple died after crossing a boundary, convincing many fighters that the Medicine Gate had not caused the earlier deaths and that no one could escape.
• The Medicine Gate Master accused Su Jiu, but she evaded his attack despite wearing a Spirit-Sealing Bracelet and then killed another disciple who had insulted the Azure Tide Sect.
• Su Jiu revealed that the bracelets were not stopping her power and recounted how the other cultivators had forced the Azure Tide Sect to be razed and used its disciples to lure her out.
• Su Jiu bound the rogue cultivators in the air and killed many of them, then spared the surviving Medicine Gate disciples because their sect master had not taken them to besiege the Azure Tide Sect.

Su Jiu confronted Dao Lord Dongcheng and the Medicine Gate Master, revealing that both had joined with Demon Seeds. After surviving their attacks and stopping their escape, she destroyed Dao Lord Dongcheng’s conscious Demon Seed.

• Su Jiu told Dao Lord Dongcheng and the Medicine Gate Master to reveal their Demon Seed forms, and the Medicine Gate Master transformed through his symbiotic bond with one.
• Su Jiu explained that her Innate Origin Qi let her escape the Spirit-Sealing Bracelet, while Dao Lord Dongcheng also transformed and admitted he had been among the corpses at the Life-and-Death Tree.
• Dao Lord Dongcheng and the Medicine Gate Master attacked Su Jiu with demonic arts, but she emerged unharmed from the smoke.
• The Medicine Gate Master seized an Azure Tide Sect disciple as a hostage and tried to flee, while Dao Lord Dongcheng also attempted to escape; Su Jiu immobilized them both.
• Su Jiu dissolved the Demon Seed that burst from Dao Lord Dongcheng’s body with Innate Origin Qi.

Su Jiu revealed that the Gray-Clothed Man had deceived the Medicine Gate Master about the Nine-Turn Reincarnation Cycle Technique and confronted him over the destruction of the Medicine Gate. The Medicine Gate Master passed the sect leadership to Tang Wuchen, leaving the disciples fearing what he would do next.

• Su Jiu told the Medicine Gate Master that the Nine-Turn Reincarnation Cycle Technique was incomplete and required a willing sacrifice stronger than the other two participants.
• The Medicine Gate Master realized the Gray-Clothed Man had used him and that resurrecting Jiang Qi had never been possible.
• Su Jiu confirmed she would kill the Medicine Gate Master and pursue the Gray-Clothed Man, then asked whether he regretted abandoning the Medicine Gate's purpose.
• The Medicine Gate Master admitted that Tang Wuchen had warned him before, but his heart demon had prevented him from listening.
• Tang Wuchen arrived at the bloodied Main Hall, and the Medicine Gate Master appointed him the new sect master, alarming the disciples.

The Medicine Gate Master took his own life after reflecting on how his mistakes and resentment had led him into a secret pact with the devil race. Tang Wuchen carried his master away, and the Azure Tide Sect left the Medicine Gate grounds without further bloodshed, though the two sects were unlikely to associate again.

• The Medicine Gate Master ended his life, believing his death would protect the Medicine Gate, and the disciples mourned him.
• Su Jiu used her innate origin qi to erase the demonic markings on the Medicine Gate Master's face and destroy the demon seed inside him.
• When a Medicine Gate disciple blamed the Azure Tide Sect, Tang Wuchen said they had mistaken cause and effect and reminded the disciples that their own collusion with the devil race had begun the conflict.
• Tang Wuchen carried his master's corpse away and excused himself from seeing the visitors out.
• The Fifth Elder and Eighth Elder led the other sects out of the Medicine Gate without anyone being harmed, and Su Jiu looked back toward Tang Wuchen as she departed.

Su Jiu prepared to enter the Forbidden Zone, despite Su Mianmian and her old friends trying to stop her. She sent the Azure Tide Sect disciples away with her supplies and explained that the others would die in the Zone without arts tied to the laws.

• Qin Ming planned to slay demons, Yun Chao planned to return his disciples to their sect, and Lan Fang Ziyi revealed he intended to enter the Forbidden Zone with Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu admitted she was going to the Forbidden Zone, and Chu Luohen said he would accompany her and protect her.
• Su Mianmian tried to take Su Jiu back to the Azure Tide Sect, but Su Jiu made her drowsy, handed her Storage Ring to her, and asked the elders to care for her.
• Su Jiu watched the Azure Tide Sect disciples leave and said goodbye, believing everything would be over by the time Su Mianmian woke.
• Yun Chao and Qin Ming offered to join Su Jiu, while Lan Fang Ziyi persisted in his plan; Su Jiu and Chu Luohen warned them that the Forbidden Zone's law powers could kill anyone without related innate arts.

Su Jiu explained the dangers of the Forbidden Zone and convinced Yun Chao and Qin Ming to leave and help cultivators fighting the demonic beasts. Lan Fang Ziyi then asked her to bring Yun Huanling back, and Su Jiu warned she might not be able to change his fate.

• Su Jiu explained that unpredictable spatial gates in the Forbidden Zone could snatch people away before she or Chu Luohen could save them.
• Lan Fang Ziyi questioned how Su Jiu knew about the gates, apologized for prying, and admitted that pressure over the Heavenly Secret Sect had made him suspicious.
• Su Jiu urged Yun Chao and Qin Ming to help cultivators fighting the demonic beasts, and they bid her farewell.
• Lan Fang Ziyi asked Su Jiu to bring Yun Huanling back, and she said she could only do her best.
• Lan Fang Ziyi asked whether even Su Jiu could not save Yun Huanling, then remarked that she seemed to know his true identity.

Su Jiu learned that the Heavenly Secret Sect had chosen to sacrifice Yun Huanling to save the Azure Realm, and she vowed to rescue him. Meanwhile, Yun Huanling awoke in chains with Xia Jue, who used the Azure Realm’s worsening crisis to force him toward negotiation.

• Lan Fang Ziyi told Su Jiu that his sect had decided to abandon Yun Huanling to save the Azure Realm, and Su Jiu promised to rescue him.
• Lan Fang Ziyi left Su Jiu, who planned to enter the Forbidden Zone with Chu Luohen to find Feng Qi, the Sect Master, and Xia Jue.
• Yun Huanling watched Xia Jue stab Su Jiu, struggled helplessly against his restraints, and later lost consciousness as someone carried him through Teleportation Arrays.
• Yun Huanling awoke in darkness, recognized Xia Jue, and furiously demanded to know why he had hurt Su Jiu.
• Xia Jue refused to answer Yun Huanling’s accusations and said he would negotiate once Yun Huanling calmed down.
• Xia Jue reminded Yun Huanling of his mission and warned that the Azure Realm’s cultivators were running out of time, leaving Yun Huanling silent.

Yun Huanling agreed to become the Heaven-Connecting Tower again after Xia Jue revealed that Su Jiu could take his place and used her safety to secure his cooperation. Afterward, the Gray-Clothed Man confronted Xia Jue, who rejected her attempts to claim a mother-son bond and walked away.

• Yun Huanling asked whether Su Jiu was alive, and Xia Jue confirmed that she was.
• Xia Jue told Yun Huanling that Nine-Petal Frostflow could replace the Heaven-Connecting Tower and explained that Heaven Beyond Heaven could not freely interfere with the Azure Realm.
• Yun Huanling agreed to become the Heaven-Connecting Tower on the condition that he could see Su Jiu one last time, and Xia Jue accepted.
• Yun Huanling asked how Xia Jue had identified him, and Xia Jue explained that he had suspected him after Spirit Transformation and tested him through Wenren Qingtang.
• The Gray-Clothed Man told Xia Jue she had watched him fool Yun Huanling and called herself his mother, but Xia Jue dismissed her and left.

Li grew uneasy about the approaching opening of the Demon Gate after Xia Jue rejected her plans, while Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought their way through demon-infested cities to the Forbidden Zone. There, they confronted Dao Lord Bei Kui, Dao Lord Long Kuo, and other demon-seed-controlled cultivators as battle became imminent.

• Li recalled how she had deceived Xia Jue with promises of power and immortality, though she had intended to sacrifice him, and worried that the approaching Demon Gate brought danger.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought demonic beasts across devastated cities, and Su Jiu sent the Azure Tide Sect locations where survivors needed rescue.
• After nearly a month of clearing beasts, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen reached the Forbidden Zone and found demon-seed-controlled cultivators guarding its entrance.
• Su Jiu recognized Dao Lord Bei Kui and Dao Lord Long Kuo as former Azure Tide Sect members buried beneath the Life-and-Death Tree's coffins, and warned Chu Luohen that they had willingly merged with demon seeds.
• Dao Lord Bei Kui declared the Azure Tide Sect gone and forbade anyone from entering the Forbidden Zone, while Su Jiu and Chu Luohen prepared to fight.

After waking with a mysterious surge in cultivation, Su Jiu confronted Dao Lord Bei Kui and the cultivators who had joined the demons, then fought them alongside Chu Luohen. Their battle turned in their favor, while Qin Ming and Liu Zhiyan continued slaughtering demonic beasts elsewhere.

• Su Jiu discovered that her cultivation had risen dramatically while she was unconscious, though she did not know whether Little Gift or Bian Si's light orb had caused it.
• Su Jiu condemned Dao Lord Bei Kui and the other traitorous cultivators for abandoning their sects for the demons' promises of longer lives and purer spirit roots.
• Su Jiu declared that she would carry out Cleansing the Sect and attacked the traitors alongside Chu Luohen.
• Qin Ming and Liu Zhiyan fought demonic beasts elsewhere as the blood-red sky and distant battle shook the earth.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen coordinated their attacks, wounding several opponents and forcing Dao Lord Bei Kui to panic as baleful qi began taking root in his heart.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought in seamless coordination while the demon seeds made their opponents increasingly impatient and prone to baleful qi. Su Jiu’s ice arts secretly caused two attackers pain and disrupted their spiritual qi, leaving them unable to strike.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen battled dozens of opponents with flawless coordination, while their enemies’ lack of teamwork caused them to obstruct one another.
• Su Jiu noticed that the demon seeds in two cultivators and Dao Lord Bei Kui were stirring their emotions and draining their patience.
• Su Jiu sent thin ice blades through the battlefield, and the surrounding cold began affecting her opponents despite their spiritual qi.
• Two cultivators preparing a sneak attack were overcome by stabbing pain and intermittent spiritual qi, preventing them from casting arts.
• A nearby cultivator questioned the two men, who said they felt countless needle-like stabs despite seeing no attack from Su Jiu.

Su Jiu weakened her opponents with the cold from her ice blades, but Dao Lord Long Kuo and Dao Lord Bei Kui used a starry domain to turn the situation around and trap the cultivators. Long Kuo approached Su Jiu and began explaining why he and Bei Kui had left the Azure Tide Sect, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Su Jiu’s ice blades spread a debilitating chill among the cultivators, and Dao Lord Long Kuo warned everyone to watch out for them.
• Su Jiu appeared behind an attacker and killed them with a frost blossom, then explained that the cold air was slowing everyone down.
• Dao Lord Bei Kui and Dao Lord Long Kuo created a starry domain that dispelled the chill and immobilized the gathered cultivators.
• Su Jiu recognized that the domain showed their command of the laws, while Long Kuo and Bei Kui faced complaints from those trapped inside it.
• Long Kuo approached Su Jiu and said he had given the Azure Tide Sect a chance before explaining that he and Bei Kui had sought a way to extend their dwindling lifespans.

Dao Lord Long Kuo and Dao Lord Bei Kui revealed their hatred for the Azure Tide Sect and attacked Su Jiu and Chu Luohen in their domain. As they unleashed the demon seeds inside the disciples, Su Jiu noticed that the seeds in the two Dao Lords were different from the others.

• Dao Lord Long Kuo formed a spiral blade from the stars and attacked Su Jiu with the power of the laws.
• Su Jiu blocked the blade with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword and fought back inside Long Kuo and Bei Kui's domain.
• Dao Lord Bei Kui attacked Chu Luohen, who broke free of the laws and quickly gained the advantage.
• At Bei Kui's call, Long Kuo abandoned the spiral blade and used a hand seal to make the demon seeds inside the disciples grow and threaten their consciousness.
• Su Jiu examined the demon seeds with her otherworldly eyes and discovered that those inside Long Kuo and Bei Kui were different from the others.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought Long Kuo and Bei Kui’s demonized cultivators, who detonated themselves in a devastating blast. Long Kuo and Bei Kui believed their enemies had died, but Su Jiu and Chu Luohen survived behind a ninth-tier defensive formation and confronted them.

• Long Kuo revealed that Li had made the others expendable pawns and activated their demon seeds, while Su Jiu and Chu Luohen attuned for battle.
• The demonized cultivators attacked with demonic qi, and Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought them while Long Kuo and Bei Kui watched from behind.
• As the cultivators’ strength dwindled, Long Kuo and Bei Kui used hand seals to send them charging at Su Jiu and Chu Luohen with their defenses raised.
• A familiar voice made Su Jiu freeze just before the demonized cultivators detonated, causing a blast that shook more than half the Azure Mist Continent.
• Long Kuo and Bei Kui prepared to leave, but their flying swords shattered and Su Jiu’s sword light stopped them.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen emerged alive within a ninth-tier defensive formation, and Long Kuo realized they had survived the explosion.