Chapter Summaries

Xue Fuyao investigated why the fox cub had reacted so strongly to Qing City's Monster Beasts and discovered Blood Gu wrapped around a Red-Feathered Chicken's heart. The chapter left her with evidence that something unusual was happening to the beasts in Qing City.

• Xue Fuyao learned that Qing City revered the Ye Household, whose ancestor had once saved the city from a Beast Tide.
• After the fox cub became distressed on the street, Xue Fuyao suspected it had smelled something connected to Qing City's many Spirit Beasts and Monster Beasts.
• Xue Fuyao bought two One-Horned Rabbits and two Red-Feathered Chickens, then examined them in a secluded courtyard.
• Xue Fuyao found that the four Monster Beasts had unusually slow heartbeats and showed little reaction to the fox cub.
• Xue Fuyao dissected a Red-Feathered Chicken and identified a flesh-like layer wrapped around its heart as Blood Gu.

Xue Fuyao investigated the Ye Household and discovered that Blood Gu were spreading through Qing City and that the household had arranged an assassination attempt against her. She ambushed a Ye Household convoy carrying cultivation supplies and began inspecting its cargo.

• Xue Fuyao found Blood Gu inside the hearts of Monster Beasts and suspected they were being raised as food for a powerful Gu Worm.
• Xue Fuyao learned that the Ye Household's strongest member was a Nascent Soul patriarch and used the Gu Bell to gather information through Gu Worms across Qing City.
• Xue Fuyao discovered that the Ye Household had prompted the Qiu Family to arrange an assassination attempt against her because she was an outstanding person with the surname Xue.
• Xue Fuyao learned that a shipment of cultivation resources from Tianshui City was headed to the Ye Household and decided to take revenge by targeting it.
• Xue Fuyao's Golden Bee incapacitated the Ye Household guards and convoy workers on the road to Qing City, and she inspected the cargo after finishing them off.

Xue Fuyao robbed a Ye Household supply caravan, then hunted down a group of its disciples searching for Purple Moon Foxes. She killed the guards and five core disciples, discovered the Ye Household practiced Gu cultivation, and realized its broken jade tokens would likely bring investigators after her.

• Xue Fuyao took the Ye Household caravan’s supplies, searched the dead guards’ Storage Bags, and burned the bodies to erase the evidence.
• Xue Fuyao followed the Ye Household disciples into the forest and found them attacking a pregnant female Purple Moon Fox and her mate.
• Xue Fuyao used bloodthirsty vines to drive off the guards, allowing the Purple Moon Foxes to escape.
• Xue Fuyao bound and killed the guards, searched the five core disciples’ souls, then killed them and took their Storage Bags.
• Xue Fuyao found a blood-red Gu Worm egg and learned from the disciples’ memories that the Ye Household practiced Gu cultivation and would discover their deaths through shattered jade tokens.

Xue Fuyao avoided the Ye Household’s investigators and stayed outside Qing City while they reported the deaths of two young-master candidates and other clan members. The Ye Household’s leader suspected an internal killer, but the household was thrown into further turmoil when a shipment of cultivation resources went missing.

• Three Golden Core cultivators arrived at the battlefield and concluded that a person, not a monster beast, had cleaned it up.
• Xue Fuyao decided to let the Ye Household experience the threat of assassination and remained outside Qing City to avoid suspicion.
• The three cultivators reported the deaths to the Ye Household, whose members realized two young-master candidates and a gu master were among the missing dead.
• The Ye Household’s leader demanded that the killer confess and threatened punishment at Reflection Cliff, but no one stepped forward.
• A steward reported that the shipment carrying the household’s supplies and cultivation resources had failed to arrive and could not be found.

The Ye patriarch investigated the missing cultivation supplies and ordered his family to stay inside the city, then learned that Ye Bufan had already left with guards and Deacon Elders. Xue Fuyao ambushed Ye Bufan’s party outside Qing City, and when the two Golden Core cultivators demanded an explanation, she told them the Ye Household owed her a life.

• The Ye patriarch questioned his clansmen about the missing goods and ordered them not to interfere while he handled the hidden attacker.
• A woman told the Ye patriarch that Ye Bufan had left Qing City with guards and two Deacon Elders, prompting him to send people after his son.
• Xue Fuyao spotted Ye Bufan’s procession outside Qing City and chose to attack him and the Foundation Establishment guards first.
• Xue Fuyao used Shattered Star and Darkness Withering to strike Ye Bufan, while her attack killed most of the guards.
• Xue Fuyao revealed herself and fought the two Golden Core cultivators as they tried to protect Ye Bufan.
• When the cultivators asked who she was and how the Ye Household had offended her, Xue Fuyao said they owed her a life.

Xue Fuyao killed one of the Ye Household’s Golden Core cultivators, then used Explosive Gu Worms to attack the household while robbing its shops. The Ye Household’s Nascent Soul cultivator emerged from seclusion as the explosions continued.

• One Golden Core cultivator fled after using his companion to block Xue Fuyao’s attack, and Xue Fuyao killed the wounded man who remained.
• Xue Fuyao looted the bodies and went to Qing City, where she used the Gu Bell to send evolved Explosive Gu Worms toward the Ye Household estate.
• The Explosive Gu Worms detonated throughout the estate, causing fires, collapsing buildings, and killing and injuring Ye Household members.
• While the household was distracted, Xue Fuyao robbed its shops and warehouses of their goods.
• A Nascent Soul Realm aura erupted from the Ye Household as its cultivator ended her seclusion, and the explosions were still continuing.

Xue Fuyao escaped Qing City after devastating the Ye Household, while Ye Chan emerged from seclusion with her breakthrough interrupted and her foundation damaged. To take revenge without confronting the household directly, Xue Fuyao prepared a fake cultivator’s ruin as bait, leaving valuable but weakened medicines and pills inside.

• Xue Fuyao detonated her remaining Explosive Gu Worms, concealed her aura with Broken Jade, and escaped while Ye Chan chose to protect the Ye Household.
• Ye Chan discovered that the attack had ruined her breakthrough opportunity and damaged her foundation, then learned that a lone Gu master had planted the Explosive Gu Worms.
• Ye Chan realized the attacker was likely targeting the dying Supreme Gu and angrily berated the Ye Household disciples for failing to notice the worms.
• After leaving Qing City, Xue Fuyao decided to lure the Ye Household with a staged cultivator’s ruin and retrieved two aged Pill Formulas.
• Xue Fuyao built and disguised a cave in the mountains, then left weakened ten-thousand-year-old spirit medicines and Huayang Pills inside as bait.

Xue Fuyao lured the Ye Household into a cave containing pill formulas, then returned to Yuanji Sect and prepared to enter seclusion. The chapter ended as she settled into cultivation with unusual ease.

• After waiting three months, Xue Fuyao activated a formation to draw the Ye Household to a cave she had prepared.
• The Ye Household’s Nascent Soul cultivator and her people entered the cave, where Xue Fuyao had left two pill formulas for them.
• Xue Fuyao rode Xiao Yan back to Yuanji Sect and reunited with her master, Xie Yichu, on Green Bamboo Peak.
• After bathing in spirit liquid, Xue Fuyao spent half a month securing her cave abode and told her companions and Shadow One she would be unreachable.
• Xue Fuyao began her first proper seclusion and immediately entered a state of cultivation.

Xue Fuyao emerged from two years of seclusion with her cultivation advanced and her foundation solid. Her master Xie Yichu sent her to attend the Blazing Sun Holy Land’s Dao Companion Ceremony, which was only three days away.

• Xue Fuyao cultivated for two years, noticing strange points of light associated with people but eventually ignoring them.
• Xue Fuyao emerged from seclusion at the Late Golden Core Stage, examined her changed appearance, and thanked the Brocade Spider for making clothes from Divine Beasts’ feathers and scales.
• Xue Fuyao reunited with Big Treasure, Xiao Yan, and the fox cub, then visited her master on Green Bamboo Peak.
• Xie Yichu praised Xue Fuyao for enduring two years of seclusion and sent her to attend an invitation in his place.
• Xue Fuyao set off with Xiao Yan and learned that the invitation was for the Blazing Sun Holy Land Holy Son’s Dao Companion Ceremony with the Heavenly Sword Sect Sect Master’s daughter.

Xue Fuyao arrived in Blazing Sun City for the Blazing Sun Holy Son’s Dao partner ceremony and reunited with Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi. Jimo Xiubai told her about the Rabbit Tribe’s attacks on Central Continent disciples, and she asked what had happened to Su Yang and Yang Tianqi.

• Xue Fuyao reached Blazing Sun City after urging Xiao Yan to travel quickly, then put him into her Spirit Beast Pouch and explored the scorching city.
• Xue Fuyao met Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi in a restaurant and explained that she had come to the ceremony because her master had received the invitation.
• Jimo Xiubai suggested that Xue Fuyao join an unnamed matter he had discussed with Jimo Yunqi, and Jimo Yunqi agreed.
• Jimo Xiubai told Xue Fuyao that the Rabbit Tribe had attacked gifted disciples from dozens of Central Continent factions about half a year earlier.
• Jimo Xiubai said warnings about the attacks had reached Su Yang and Yang Tianqi, but they dismissed them after nothing happened at first, and Xue Fuyao asked what became of them.

Xue Fuyao learned that the Rabbit Tribe’s attack had left many human disciples poisoned by Moon-Gazing Eel venom, which could only be neutralized with the eel’s flesh. As she considered the coming conflict with the Demon Race and her own plans to go there, Jimo Xiubai invited her and Jimo Yunqi to visit Blazing Sun Market.

• Jimo Xiubai explained that the Rabbit Tribe had used Moon-Gazing Eel poison in its revenge attack, and Jimo Yunqi said eating Moon-Gazing Eel flesh was the only way to neutralize it.
• Jimo Xiubai described how the poison slowly destroyed its victims, but Jimo Yunqi silenced him by stuffing pastries into his mouth.
• Xue Fuyao reflected that the incident could lead to an even greater war with the Demon Race and remembered her promise to rescue Bai Ze’s remnant soul.
• Jimo Yunqi apologized after learning Xue Fuyao was an orphan, and she told him she had stopped caring about the dead.
• Jimo Xiubai returned and suggested that the three of them visit Blazing Sun Market to look for artifact-refining materials.

Jimo Xiubai brought Xue Fuyao and Jimo Yunqi to Blazing Sun Market, where a convoy of captured demons suddenly went berserk and broke out of their cages. After helping stop the attack, Xue Fuyao recognized the cultivator Tan He and wondered whether she had reunited with Elder Tan.

• Jimo Xiubai persuaded Jimo Yunqi to bring him and Xue Fuyao to Blazing Sun Market.
• Xue Fuyao learned that demons had recently attacked villages near Blazing Sun City and noticed that the wounded prisoners seemed to have been forcibly transformed from monster beasts.
• The demons in the convoy went berserk, shattered their cages, and attacked the crowd.
• Xue Fuyao and Tan He killed demons as cultivators and escorts put down the breakout.
• Xue Fuyao recognized Tan He as Tan Qingshan's youngest daughter and wondered whether she had reunited with Elder Tan.

Xue Fuyao searched the Blazing Sun City Market for materials to have concealed weapons forged and found a reclusive smith whom she recognized as the legendary Divine Artifact Smith Tu. She pressed him to take the commission and revealed a store of rare materials, leaving him astonished by what she carried.

• Xue Fuyao realized she had become separated from Jimo Xiubai and his brother, then continued exploring the Market alone.
• After failing to find suitable ores at the stalls, Xue Fuyao visited a quiet shop known for its skilled artifact refiner.
• A towering man emerged from the workshop and denied being the finest refiner, but Xue Fuyao recognized him as the mysterious Divine Artifact Smith surnamed Tu.
• Xue Fuyao insisted that Tu forge concealed weapons for her, despite his refusal and concern that her elders might object.
• When Tu pointed out that she had brought no materials, Xue Fuyao produced a large collection, including divine beast bone and several top-grade artifact-refining materials.

Xue Fuyao hired Master Tu to forge a magic artifact using a Bai Ze Horn and Divine Beast materials, then sold her surplus forging materials in Blazing Sun City. After receiving 8,900 mid-grade Spirit Stones, she encountered Gu Nian.

• Xue Fuyao offered Master Tu Divine Beast Bone as payment, and he agreed to forge a magic artifact for her.
• Xue Fuyao named the Bai Ze Horn as the artifact’s main material and provided half a Divine Beast skeleton; Master Tu went into seclusion to begin forging.
• Xue Fuyao sold a large batch of forging materials to a shop in Blazing Sun City for 8,900 mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Gu Nian found Xue Fuyao, and Xue Fuyao greeted her as senior sister.

Xue Fuyao met an impostor wearing Gu Nian’s face, pretended to trust her, and learned she was being drawn into a dangerous scheme at the Blazing Sun Holy Land. Xue Fuyao suspected the impostor was the phantom thief Thousand-Faced and left with her while awaiting reinforcements.

• Gu Nian appeared beside Xue Fuyao and said she had come to deliver a congratulatory gift and visit her.
• Xue Fuyao told Gu Nian she had sold surplus spirit artifacts, while concealing her suspicion that Gu Nian was an impostor.
• Gu Nian asked Xue Fuyao to help with a dangerous task and secretly whispered instructions to her.
• Xue Fuyao feigned trust in Gu Nian and agreed to follow her instructions as they left the city.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that Thousand-Faced had stolen the Blazing Sun Holy Land’s supreme treasure in her previous life and suspected the impostor was the phantom thief.

Xue Fuyao realized the apparent Senior Sister Gu Nian was likely the Thousand-Faced Thief, who was preparing a large teleportation formation to steal the Blazing Sun Holy Land’s treasure. She secretly disrupted his preparations, then went with Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi to the Holy Land, where she recognized Tan He.

• Xue Fuyao recalled that the Blazing Sun Holy Land had recovered its supreme treasure, the Heart-Guarding Scale of a Pureblood Fire Dragon, before it vanished again.
• Xue Fuyao identified the fake Senior Sister Gu Nian as likely Thousand-Faced and recognized the Formation Disk he gave her as part of a large teleportation formation.
• Xue Fuyao hid several dozen Formation Disks around the city to interfere with Thousand-Faced’s plans, then returned and met Fox Cub, Jimo Xiubai, and Jimo Yunqi.
• Xue Fuyao persuaded the Jimo Brothers to accompany her to the Blazing Sun Holy Land, where the Blazing Sun Holy Son received them.
• Xue Fuyao noticed Tan He among the people at the Holy Land and recognized him as a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Xue Fuyao turned down Tan He’s request to help her reunite with Elder Tan and secretly placed a tracking bug on her. At the Blazing Sun Holy Land’s Dao Companion Ceremony, Xue Fuyao recognized the Heavenly Sword Sect Sect Master’s daughter as Thousand-Faced in disguise.

• Xue Fuyao welcomed Tan He into her room and guessed that she had come to ask for help.
• Xue Fuyao refused Tan He’s request, explaining that she could reunite with Elder Tan on her own and that Xue Fuyao did not want to get involved.
• Tan He left, and Xue Fuyao secretly sent a black ladybug with seven purple spots to follow her.
• Xue Fuyao attended the grand Dao Companion Ceremony between the Blazing Sun Holy Son and the Heavenly Sword Sect Sect Master’s daughter.
• Xue Fuyao sensed the aura she had left on Thousand-Faced and realized that the woman at the ceremony was an impostor.

At the Blazing Sun Holy Land's Dao Companion Ceremony, Xue Fuyao realized Shen Qianqian had arranged an explosion in the forbidden grounds, where a Heavenly Flame erupted. A second blast destroyed the Holy Land and injured Xue Fuyao, who then found a scorched piece of bark resembling a human face.

• Xue Fuyao asked Jimo Xiubai about Shen Qianqian and learned the marriage alliance was meant to help the declining Heavenly Sword Sect.
• An explosion at the Blazing Sun Holy Land revealed Earth Core Flame, and the Holy Land's leaders rushed toward the forbidden grounds.
• Xue Fuyao noticed Shen Qianqian smile and followed her toward the forbidden grounds.
• A flash of white light triggered another explosion that devastated the Blazing Sun Holy Land and injured Xue Fuyao.
• Xue Fuyao found a scorched, crumpled piece of bark shaped like a human face.

Xue Fuyao and the others assessed the devastation after a fire-attribute spirit stone vein beneath the Blazing Sun Holy Land was detonated. Xie Yichu identified a scrap she found as Rotwood Demon bark and suspected the Demon Race had been involved, leaving Xue Fuyao to consider the Holy Land’s old grudge against a Demon King.

• Xue Fuyao treated the wounded with healing pills while Jimo Yunqi and Jimo Xiubai recovered from their injuries and surveyed the ruins.
• Xue Fuyao told Jimo Xiubai that the explosion came from a detonated fire-attribute spirit stone vein beneath the Blazing Sun Holy Land.
• Xue Fuyao contacted Xie Yichu, who offered to come and get justice for her after hearing she had been injured.
• Xue Fuyao showed Xie Yichu a piece of human-shaped bark, and he identified it as coming from a Rotwood Demon.
• Xie Yichu said the Rotwood Demon was likely involved in the explosion but might have been plotted against, and he raised the possibility of a Demon Race plan.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that the Blazing Sun Holy Land had once captured two Purple Flame Lions, giving one of the Demon Kings a grudge against it.

Xue Fuyao joined Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi in searching the ruins of the Blazing Sun Holy Land for treasures. She recovered a piece of ten-thousand-year profound spirit marrow, but her search for the legendary supreme treasure continued.

• Jimo Xiubai invited Xue Fuyao to join him and Jimo Yunqi in treasure hunting at the Blazing Sun Holy Land ruins.
• The three reached the enormous crater left by the explosion, and Jimo Yunqi and Jimo Xiubai headed toward separate parts of the ruins.
• Xue Fuyao used her Heavenly Eye to find fire-attributed ten-thousand-year profound spirit marrow buried underground.
• Xue Fuyao used the bloodthirsty vine to retrieve the profound spirit marrow and store it in her Storage Space.
• Xue Fuyao searched the flattened ruins for the supreme treasure but found only a few broken magic artifacts.