Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qian watched Yun Yun open the Gate of Life and Death, where resonance with its Eight Trigrams Gate determined who could enter. Yun Yu failed the trial with only twenty percent resonance, leaving Yun Yang and Xiao Qian still to be tested.

• Great Elder Yun Leng announced that Xiao Qian, Yun Yang, and Yun Yu had received places in the trial.
• Xiao Qian noticed Yun Leng’s unsettling attention and exchanged friendly smiles with Yun Yang and Yun Yu.
• Yun Leng stressed the trial’s importance, and Yun Yun opened the Gate of Life and Death.
• Yun Yun explained that a candidate needed to illuminate at least sixty percent of the Eight Trigrams Gate to qualify.
• Yun Yu tried to resonate with the gate but illuminated only twenty percent and was declared to have failed.

Yun Yang failed the Gate of Life and Death Resonance trial, but Xiao Qian’s delayed response rapidly exceeded the sixty-percent requirement and illuminated the entire gate. The gate continued shaking at full resonance, leaving the Misty Cloud Sect gathering stunned.

• Yun Yang reached only thirty-percent resonance and failed the trial.
• Yun Yun called Xiao Qian forward as the crowd watched with high expectations.
• Xiao Qian’s dou qi initially produced no visible response, prompting doubts among the onlookers.
• The Gate of Life and Death began trembling and its resonance rapidly passed thirty, forty, and sixty percent.
• Xiao Qian’s resonance climbed to eighty percent and then illuminated the entire gate, stunning everyone present.

Yun Shan secretly tampered with the Gate of Life and Death to send Xiao Qian inside for the Hall of Souls, but its suction also dragged in Nalan Yanran. Yun Yun was left fearing the two would not survive the dangers within.

• Xiao Qian triggered a resonance as powerful as the founding patriarch Yun Potian's, stunning the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Protector Wu told Yun Shan he had arranged matters inside the Gate of Life and Death, and Yun Shan agreed to send Xiao Qian in after receiving help advancing to Dou Zong.
• Yun Shan secretly sent seals toward the gate, causing it to open abnormally as Yun Yun sensed danger.
• Yun Yun's Wind Thrust failed to stop the gate's suction from pulling Xiao Qian inside.
• Nalan Yanran rushed to help Xiao Qian, but the gate's suction caught her too and drew them both inside.
• Yun Yun realized the pair could not leave until they broke through an entire major realm and feared they would be killed by the powerful entities within.