Chapter Summaries

Yun Che and the Yun Clan elders attempted to revive Lady Sovereign Yun Si, but the Soul-Tracing Secret Rite instead brought forth her adopted son Ji Shuo, reborn as a newborn named Yun Qing. Yun Si’s presence vanished after naming him, leaving Yun Che to wonder who would raise the child.

• Yun Che and the elders called for Yun Si to return, and the Soul-Tracing Ancient Formation responded by summoning a strange soul.
• Yun Si revealed that the soul belonged to her adopted son Ji Shuo, whom Yun Che recognized as his aunt’s son and the elder brother of His Majesty.
• Yun Che and the elders accepted Yun Si’s choice, and Ji Shuo’s soul merged into the formation as a newborn infant.
• Yun Si named the child Yun Qing and departed, while the elders welcomed him into the Yun Clan.
• Yun Che looked at the crying infant and realized no one had decided who would raise him.

Yun Qing regained his lost memories and realized Yun Si was missing after restoring them, but the Immortal Court Seal could not reach Brother Huang. He found his younger relatives unconscious and began waking them so they could help him search the Ghost Realm.

• Yun Qing recovered his memories of Yun Si, Ji Shuo, and his past as Qing Yun, then woke on the abandoned Red Gauze Opera Stage.
• Yun Qing noticed Yun Si was gone and concluded she was preparing to do something dangerous, so he tried unsuccessfully to contact Brother Huang with the Immortal Court Seal.
• Yun Qing jumped off the stage despite his weakened body and found Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Tianluo unconscious in a heap.
• Yun Qing used the Clear-Mind Soul-Calming Art to slap Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Tianluo awake, telling Yun Tianluo he would explain later.

Yun Qing gathered the Yun Clan and hurried toward the Nether River, while Yun Huang was blocked from entering the Ghost Realm again and forced to revisit memories of his past. The memories revealed how Azure Jade became the Immortal Court’s ceremonial sword.

• Yun Qing woke the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan and ordered them, along with Yun Tianluo, to follow him to the Nether River, calling Yun Tianluo his cousin’s grandson.
• Yun Jinglei teased Yun Tianluo about the sudden change in his generational standing, and Yun Tianluo struck him with his folding fan.
• Yun Huang tried for a fifth time to enter the Ghost Realm, but the passage rejected him and subjected him to forced enlightenment.
• Yun Huang recalled that, after reaching the peak of power as Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, he began to think again about his mother, Yun Si, and his elder brother, Ji Shuo.
• Yun Huang took Azure Jade from his mother’s treasury and hung it in the Immortal Court’s main hall, where it became the court’s ceremonial sword.

Yun Huang realized Yun Si had likely been preventing him from entering the Ghost Realm, but the Netherworld Path vanished when he tried to cross it, and Yun Qing did not answer his calls. Concluding that the Ghost Realm had sealed itself off, Yun Huang set out for the Heavenly Origin Western Territory to open another way in.

• Yun Huang realized Yun Si might have intended to stop him from entering the Ghost Realm, and he ordered the Netherworld Path to open.
• The passage vanished, leaving Yun Huang astonished as the Ghost Realm shut him out.
• Yun Huang called Yun Qing through their karmic connection, but received no answer from beyond the Netherworld Barrier.
• Yun Huang concluded that the Ghost Realm had been completely sealed off and decided to open another path himself.
• Yun Huang headed for the Heavenly Origin Western Territory, where Yun Qing and the others had entered the Ghost Realm.

Yun Si watched Gui Lingyue perform a ghost opera as they discussed whether he had carried out her plans, while Yun Ruyi tried to keep Lin Muyao from seeing the ghost too clearly. The performance abruptly stopped at its most beautiful moment.

• Gui Lingyue performed a ghost opera for Yun Si and Yun Ruyi beside the Nether River.
• Yun Si asked Gui Lingyue whether everything was done, and he assured her it was before she accused him of secretly keeping things for himself.
• Gui Lingyue ignored Yun Si’s accusation and continued singing about parting and death.
• Lin Muyao tried to get a better view of Gui Lingyue, but Yun Ruyi pressed her back into the Fortune Pouch and warned that she might fall into the Nether River if she saw his face clearly.
• Gui Lingyue abruptly stopped spinning onstage at the height of his performance.

Yun Si confronted Gui Lingyue after he deliberately let Yun Qing and the others escape, and admitted that leaving him alone had been her fault. Gui Lingyue accepted her teasing, then rearranged the Ghost Realm so Yun Qing’s group could not reach the Netherworld’s depths.

• Gui Lingyue revealed that the children had escaped, and Yun Si asked whether he had let them go on purpose.
• Gui Lingyue challenged Yun Si about leaving everyone behind to face her chosen ending, while Yun Qing and his companions approached from afar.
• Yun Si said that leaving her beloved alone in the world had been her fault, easing Gui Lingyue’s gloom.
• Gui Lingyue shifted the Ghost Lands and redirected the Ghost Road, ensuring Yun Qing and his companions would not reach the Netherworld’s depths.