Chapter Summaries

Thirteen killed a Gray Spirit Fox Clan cultivator and took the second inheritance weapon, leaving only the weapon held by Eleven. To help both Dark Guards escape, Xue Fuyao weakened the barrier so outsiders would discover the secret realm, and fighting erupted as the Moon Fox Clan tried to force its way inside.

• Thirteen followed Xue Fuyao's directions, killed a young man from the Gray Spirit Fox Clan, and took the weapon from his Storage Bag.
• Xue Fuyao confirmed that Eleven held the last weapon and decided to let outsiders into the secret realm so Eleven and Thirteen could escape unnoticed.
• Xue Fuyao sent a Gu Worm to weaken the sealing barrier, allowing a trace of aura to lead newcomers to the secret realm.
• Yue Tian arrived with the Moon Fox Clan, claimed the inheritance, and threatened the Spirit Fox Clan.
• The Moon Foxes and Spirit Foxes began fighting over entry to the secret realm.

Xue Fuyao left the Inheritance Secret Realm with Eleven and Thirteen, uncovered the Nine-Tailed Fox’s soul-possession scheme, and distributed powerful weapons before sending them away. She stayed in Demon Race territory to collect demon crystals and fulfill her promise to Bai Ze, while a chained remnant soul sensed her arrival and stirred.

• Moon Foxes entered the Inheritance Secret Realm after discovering its restrictions had weakened, and Eleven and Thirteen escaped with the inheritance before the Spirit Foxes arrived.
• Eleven explained that a Nine-Tailed Fox had moved the Sword Cultivator’s inheritance into its own secret realm after destroying the original one.
• Xue Fuyao removed glowing stones from three weapons, revealing artifacts stronger than Supreme-Grade Spiritual Artifacts, then gave the saber to Thirteen and the blue-green fan to Eleven.
• Xue Fuyao realized the three inheritance stones held parts of the Nine-Tailed Fox’s soul, designed to merge inside a recipient and enable soul possession.
• Xue Fuyao sent Eleven and Thirteen away and remained in Demon Race territory to seek demon crystals and fulfill her promise to Bai Ze.
• A chained, weakened remnant soul with white hair and golden pupils opened his eyes, sensed something in the distance, and murmured, “At last...”

Xue Fuyao found the hidden top-grade demon crystal vein and confronted Yan Da, a Giant Mole, to negotiate with his clan. Yan Da went to report her offer to his elders, while Xue Fuyao warned him not to flee.

• Xue Fuyao recalled how a Giant Mole’s betrayal would eventually expose the vein and bring the White Tiger clan to seize it.
• Xue Fuyao searched the forest with the Heavenly Eye and spotted Yan Da.
• Yan Da emerged from an underground cave and tried to flee when Xue Fuyao appeared before him.
• Xue Fuyao caught Yan Da with a stream of water and offered to make a deal with his entire clan over their demon crystals.
• Yan Da agreed to consult his elders, and Xue Fuyao warned him that she would find him again if he ran.

Xue Fuyao arranged to exchange Monster Cores and other supplies for the Great Mole Rat Clan’s Top-Grade Demon Crystals, persuading the clan chief to keep mining for a month. She secretly placed Positioning Talismans on the goods to locate the underground vein, leaving the trade underway.

• Xue Fuyao sent Yan Da back into the tunnels after preparing Monster Cores tainted with concealed killing intent.
• The chief of the Great Mole Rat Clan met Xue Fuyao and agreed to trade the clan’s Top-Grade Demon Crystals for Monster Cores.
• Xue Fuyao showed the chief several Monster Cores, and he began bringing out the clan’s stored demon crystals.
• The chief returned with Storage Bags of demon crystals and said the clan would keep mining; Xue Fuyao told him she would stay for a month.
• Xue Fuyao offered pills, talismans, Formation Disks, and spirit medicines as further trade goods, secretly marking them with Positioning Talismans to track the vein.

Xue Fuyao used the demon crystals traded from the giant moles to build a hidden formation and extract their top-grade demon crystal vein. After a severe underground tremor, she secured the vein and waited to honor her month-long agreement, but no giant moles appeared.

• Xue Fuyao followed the tracking talisman underground, disguised herself as a giant mole, and located the demon crystal vein beside an underground river.
• She returned to the surface and spent a month burying the crystals delivered by the giant moles to create a concealed formation.
• Xue Fuyao activated the formation, causing violent tremors underground that knocked the mining giant moles off their feet.
• She stored the extracted demon crystal vein in her Storage Bag and stayed another day to keep her agreement with the giant moles.
• Xue Fuyao saw no giant moles and wondered whether something had happened.

Xue Fuyao arrived in Black Rock City to gather information before pursuing revenge. Bao Xiaobao told her about recent events and revealed that Dragon Star Tower seemed to be backing a faction among the humans while searching for something unknown.

• Xue Fuyao left after the underground tunnels collapsed and the Giant Moles remained trapped.
• Xue Fuyao arrived in Black Rock City and offered Bao Xiaobao a top-grade demon crystal in exchange for information.
• Bao Xiaobao described the Green Snake Clan’s missing stone slabs, an inheritance secret realm, and the toad family’s eldest daughter.
• Bao Xiaobao said Dragon Star Tower seemed to be colluding with the humans and backing a human faction to search for something unknown.
• Xue Fuyao suspected that Dragon Star Tower’s faction was the Nine Lakes Merchant Guild and considered the new information.

Xue Fuyao went to Dragon Star Tower after learning many of its people had left for the Sky Fox Mountain Range, hoping to take advantage of their absence. She obtained a magic artifact containing three Lotus Petals and left before the interested couple could claim it.

• Xue Fuyao exchanged some of her conspicuous top-grade demon crystals and disguised herself to shake off two tails following her.
• Xue Fuyao entered Dragon Star Tower and learned from a maidservant that many people had gone to investigate activity in the Sky Fox Mountain Range, though the person in charge remained.
• Xue Fuyao sensed a Lotus Petal on the second floor and hurried toward it as a man and woman bought up the surrounding goods.
• Xue Fuyao bought a defensive magic artifact containing three Lotus Petals for a thousand high-grade demon crystals.
• Xue Fuyao put the artifact away and prepared to leave after the woman admired it and her companion glared at her.

Xue Fuyao bought the entire batch of Butterfly Eggs at Dragon Star Tower, then discovered two demons were following her and captured them. She searched the weasels’ souls to learn who had sent them.

• Xue Fuyao left Xian'er and her companion and went to the third floor of Dragon Star Tower to look for Lotus Petals.
• A middle-aged man told Xue Fuyao that the Valley of Ten Thousand Butterflies had offered Butterfly Eggs to Lord Dragon, including two eggs from the Butterfly King.
• Xue Fuyao bought all the Butterfly Eggs for one hundred thousand high-grade demon crystals.
• After leaving Dragon Star Tower, Xue Fuyao noticed someone following her and entered an alley, where she realized the pursuer had lured her into a trap with knockout drug.
• Xue Fuyao pretended to collapse, then knocked out two weasels when they entered the alley and carried them away.
• Xue Fuyao searched the two weasels’ souls to find out who had sent them to follow her.

Xue Fuyao learned that Huang Xianxian had sent two weasels to abduct her, then raided the Dragon Star Tower and killed its Black Rock City branch leader, Qiu Yin, for her past betrayal. On the top floor, she ran into Bai Ling, who revealed that the Dragon Star Tower had captured her after she tried to buy a spirit medicine.

• Xue Fuyao read the memories of two weasels and discovered that Huang Xianxian had sent them to abduct her.
• Xue Fuyao returned to Black Rock City, drugged the Dragon Star Tower, and killed its staff, guards, and residents while collecting their souls and bodies.
• Xue Fuyao killed Qiu Yin, the branch leader who had sold her to the Demon Race in her previous life.
• Xue Fuyao went to the top floor to take resources and encountered Bai Ling.
• Bai Ling explained that she had come seeking a spirit medicine for an ancient formula, but the Dragon Star Tower had captured her and planned to sell her.

Xue Fuyao and Bai Ling looted Dragon Star Tower and parted ways, but the next morning the tower’s survivors’ accounts led to a warrant for a Human woman. Xue Fuyao stayed in Black Rock City to watch for danger to Bai Ling and investigate the growing chaos.

• Xue Fuyao and Bai Ling stripped Dragon Star Tower of its valuables, exchanged medicines and demon crystals, and separated.
• Xue Fuyao burned her clothes, cleaned Big Treasure and their loot, then returned to the inn through the Teleportation Array.
• The next morning, the Rooster Shopkeeper told Xue Fuyao that Dragon Star Tower had been emptied and that witnesses had identified a Human woman as the culprit.
• Xue Fuyao realized she had forgotten that the released prisoners could expose Bai Ling, and chose to remain in Black Rock City in case Bai Ling needed help.
• Xue Fuyao learned that three other households were searching for people connected to the previous day’s events, then sent Gu Worms to gather information near Dragon Star Tower.

After Bai Ling escaped Black Rock City, she asked Xue Fuyao to search for two rare spirit plants. Before leaving the city, Xue Fuyao followed her Compass to a pawnshop where its reaction suggested the goose egg she sought was nearby.

• Xue Fuyao checked the Gu Worms’ reports and learned that Dragon Star Tower had been massacred and stripped of its treasures, while two Lineages were confronting Huang Xianxian.
• Bai Ling told Xue Fuyao she had escaped Black Rock City and asked her to search for Seven-Star Grass and Black Spirit Ear, offering a share of the medicine she would prepare.
• Xue Fuyao agreed to search, then checked out of her inn the next morning and toured the area around Dragon Star Tower.
• Xue Fuyao followed the Compass to a pawnshop and discovered that its owner’s original form was a large white goose.
• Xue Fuyao asked to see the shop’s Monster Beast eggs, and the owner led her to an incubation room as the Compass reacted intensely.

Xue Fuyao bought a goose egg with a trace of Heavenly Sparrow bloodline and used demon crystals to accelerate the gosling’s growth. She stayed by a stream to wait for it to hatch, while Big Treasure watched her fish roast and Fox Cub slept.

• Xue Fuyao bargained with the pawnshop owner and bought the supposedly unhatched egg for five hundred mid-grade demon crystals.
• Xue Fuyao used her Heavenly Eye to see the gosling inside and noticed a group of bedraggled Giant Moles before leaving Black Rock City.
• Xue Fuyao fed the egg top-grade demon crystals, accelerated the gosling’s growth, and formed a contract by dripping her blood onto the shell.
• Xue Fuyao spent over a thousand top-grade demon crystals helping the gosling grow, but it still did not hatch, so she decided to wait a few days.
• Xue Fuyao made the egg a nest of demon crystals beside her campfire as Big Treasure stared at the roasting fish and Fox Cub slept.

After the Goose Egg hatched into a hungry gosling that Xue Fuyao named Big White, she set out to follow an intermittent pull toward Bai Ze’s trapped remnant soul. A month later, the guidance vanished again, and she watched a Golden Lion’s Flying Spiritual Artifact lose control and plummet nearby.

• The Goose Egg absorbed the Demon Crystal’s remaining energy, hatched, and Xue Fuyao named the gosling Big White.
• Big White ate a stalk of spirit medicine, and Xue Fuyao put it and Big Treasure into her Spirit Beast Pouch before setting out to find Bai Ze’s remnant soul.
• Xue Fuyao followed an unseen pull, repeatedly losing and regaining its guidance, and informed her master that she had reached the Golden Core Stage so he would not force her into seclusion.
• After a month of traveling, Xue Fuyao stopped when the guidance disappeared again and saw a flock of birds collide with a golden Flying Spiritual Artifact.
• A bird was sucked into the craft’s propulsion system, causing the Flying Spiritual Artifact to emit black fumes and plummet as Xue Fuyao watched.

Xue Fuyao camped in the forest after abandoning her investigation of the golden Flying Spiritual Artifact, then encountered its crash survivors, who had tracked the scent of her roast chicken. When Old Huang tried to buy Big White and threatened her after she refused, Xue Fuyao kicked him away and trapped the group in a formation of Demon Crystals.

• Xue Fuyao stopped to camp after the unseen guidance disappeared and let Big White forage and guard her.
• A group of about a hundred people emerged from the woods, including survivors from the crashed Flying Spiritual Artifact, drawn by the smell of her roast chicken.
• The group’s leader decided they would rest nearby, and Old Huang approached Xue Fuyao to demand a price for Big White.
• Xue Fuyao refused to sell Big White, then kicked Old Huang away when he threatened her.
• Xue Fuyao formed a Demon Crystal formation around the group, and their leader offered to apologize and asked her to calm down.

Xue Fuyao trapped and killed a group of 119 cultivators and demons who had harassed her, then followed the Unseen's guidance toward Bai Ze's remnant soul. The guidance soon turned faint and erratic, leaving her wondering whether the place holding it was moving.

• Xue Fuyao confronted the group for failing to stop their companion from troubling her and trapped them in a Spirit-Severing Barrier.
• The group attacked the barrier, but it absorbed their spiritual energy and suppressed their cultivation, leaving them unable to break out.
• A young man claimed he had found the formation's core, and Xue Fuyao killed him with a beam from a demon crystal before he could finish speaking.
• Xue Fuyao used the Heavenly Eye and more beams of spiritual energy to kill the rest, then counted 119 souls in the Heavenheart Bottle.
• Xue Fuyao dismissed the barrier, took the group's Storage Bags, burned their bodies, and left to follow the Unseen's guidance.
• The guidance grew faint and intermittent, and Xue Fuyao wondered whether the place trapping Bai Ze's remnant soul was moving.

Xue Fuyao followed a mysterious guidance through the forest until it was severed near a clearing, where she uncovered a hidden water pool and a black fish. After resisting the fish’s attacks and the powerful wind, she headed toward the wind’s source to confront the hidden presence.

• Xue Fuyao followed the growing guidance through the forest, but it abruptly vanished near a clearing marked by fresh footprints.
• Xue Fuyao resisted a false tentacle attack and used her Silver Needles to locate the concealed attacker, which unleashed a violent wind and suction.
• Xue Fuyao used Clear Breeze to withstand the gale and discovered that grass covering the clearing concealed water from the Heavenly Eye.
• Xue Fuyao removed the grass with her Storage Space and revealed a large black fish beneath the water.
• Xue Fuyao endured more tentacle attacks and walked toward the source of the intensifying wind.

Xue Fuyao exposed a strange fish that had been attacking her and realized a blue octopus on its head was controlling it. She trapped them both in a formation Barrier, and the octopus turned the fish blue and released poison, which Xue Fuyao said could not harm her.

• Xue Fuyao captured three giant fish in Spirit Beast Pouches and sent water, plants, and small fish into the wind source, causing the wind to stop and disgorge its contents.
• Xue Fuyao used a blue talisman to reveal a strange, four-legged fish with a blue octopus on its head.
• The strange fish resumed its powerful suction, but Xue Fuyao resisted it and found that her silver needles could injure the fish while her vines were swallowed.
• Xue Fuyao suspected the octopus was the fish’s weakness and saw it try to flee into the water, so she trapped herself and the fish inside a formation Barrier.
• The octopus pierced the fish with its tentacles, took control of it again, and released a poisonous odor; Xue Fuyao declared that poison had no effect on her.

Xue Fuyao killed the strange fish and its blue octopus, then followed the guidance to a black marsh where she discovered Bai Ze trapped in a shifting Different Space. After learning how to enter it, she sank into the marsh to reach him.

• Xue Fuyao crushed the blue octopus with her hammer, cut it into pieces, and stored the frozen remains for study.
• The strange fish disappeared and left behind a blue-green Monster Core, which Xue Fuyao put away without absorbing.
• Xue Fuyao followed the renewed guidance into a deathly marsh and heard Bai Ze's voice from a Different Space beneath it.
• Bai Ze explained that Golden Lions had anchored the Different Space with his golden hairs and told Xue Fuyao to enter as soon as he opened a passage.
• Xue Fuyao let Clear Breeze surround her and sank into the marsh until it swallowed her completely.

Xue Fuyao followed Bai Ze’s Inner Core through the Different Space and found Bai Ze bound to an ancient tree. With the Inner Core’s power, Bai Ze broke free, then refused to tell Xue Fuyao about her future.

• Xue Fuyao entered the Different Space, followed its underground river, and used Bai Ze’s Inner Core to guide her through the darkness.
• Xue Fuyao reached a glowing ancient tree wrapped in chains, where the Inner Core awakened Bai Ze’s illusory figure.
• Bai Ze used the Inner Core’s energy to shatter the chains, draining the ancient tree’s life until his soul became solid.
• Bai Ze told Xue Fuyao that bringing his Inner Core had made his escape seem easy and that he knew everything in the world, past and future.
• Xue Fuyao asked Bai Ze about her future, but he refused to answer.

After Bai Ze left, the collapsing Different Space sent Xue Fuyao to the Western Continent, where she confirmed her location and planned to return to the Southern Continent. A group of Buddhist Sect disciples then entered the restaurant, interrupting her plans to leave the next day.

• Bai Ze refused to predict Xue Fuyao's future, thanked her, and vanished, leaving her trapped in the collapsing Different Space.
• Xue Fuyao escaped the collapsing space and arrived in an unfamiliar place, where she concealed her appearance and changed her sex to male.
• Xue Fuyao used the Compass to find a town and carried a fragment of the chains that had imprisoned Bai Ze.
• At a restaurant, Xue Fuyao overheard patrons discussing fighting between the Golden Kingdom and the Cloud Kingdom and realized she was in the Western Continent.
• Xue Fuyao decided to head back to the Southern Continent, but several Buddhist Sect disciples entered the restaurant.