Chapter Summaries

Chu Yunzhe, Gu Nian, and Xue Fuyao distracted the Longevity Aristocratic Clan with a staged attack, drawing its Grand Elders away from the damaged Mountain-Guarding Grand Array. While the clan was in chaos, the three began raiding its members’ private treasure stashes.

• Chu Yunzhe gave Xue Fuyao talismans and instructed her to wait for his signal while he and Gu Nian prepared to act.
• Explosions damaged the Longevity Aristocratic Clan’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, prompting its members to summon the Grand Elders.
• At Chu Yunzhe’s signal, Xue Fuyao threw the talismans, which turned into convincing imitations of precious treasures and lured the Grand Elders away from the clan.
• Xue Fuyao reunited with Gu Nian and Chu Yunzhe, who explained how his secret talismans worked.
• Gu Nian led the group to the clan members’ private stashes, and the three began collecting treasures from one hidden location after another.

Xue Fuyao escaped the Dead Sea after the raid and examined the treasures she had taken from the Reclusive Aristocratic Clans. The Demon-Suppressing Bracelet devoured much of the cultivation resources, and Xue Fuyao saw something inside it that she did not recognize.

• Chu Yunzhe warned that their pursuers had caught up, so Xue Fuyao, Gu Nian, and Chu Yunzhe used Teleportation Talismans to escape separately.
• Xue Fuyao reached an unfamiliar place outside the Dead Sea, hid in a cave, and spoke with Gu Nian, who warned her not to openly use the stolen goods and said the Longevity Aristocratic Clan's location had been exposed.
• Xue Fuyao sorted through the haul, kept a Crossing-Tribulation Shuttle, Soul Jade, and two protective magic artifacts, and sent many other items into the different space.
• The Demon-Suppressing Bracelet knocked Xue Fuyao's hand away and swallowed more than half the cultivation resources before burping and pretending to be an ordinary bracelet.
• Xue Fuyao threatened to throw the bracelet into a latrine, looked inside it with her golden eyes, and spotted something surprising.

Xue Fuyao cultivated in the Different Space and broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, though her techniques remained just short of their next level. After disguising her cultivation and leaving her companions behind, she returned to the cave unaware that someone had already broken through the formation outside.

• The Demon-Suppressing Bracelet changed inside and asked Xue Fuyao to feed it members of the Devil Race, so she sent the request to Ying Jiu and Fifteen.
• Xue Fuyao brought cultivation resources into the Different Space and attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xue Fuyao shattered the barrier and reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while the Creation Coolness Formula and the Sainthood Formula advanced to the late third level.
• Xue Fuyao lamented the resources she had consumed, disguised her cultivation as Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and left her companions and three fish in the Different Space.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the cave and found that Big Treasure was sniffing toward the distance, unaware that someone had already broken through the formation outside.

After escaping the Dead Sea, Xue Fuyao discovered that her Teleportation Talismans had taken her to the Eastern Continent. She left Windleaf Formation for the dangerous Wind-Thunder Plains, unaware that someone had ordered her to be followed.

• Xue Fuyao found evidence that someone had broken into her cave, then learned from her Gu Worms that the Longevity Aristocratic Clans had returned to the Dead Sea and Qin Zhao had escaped.
• Using a Compass, Xue Fuyao reached Windleaf Formation and learned that Wind City lay beyond the Wind-Thunder Plains, with the Feng Household's boat offering the safest crossing.
• A group of locals tried to corner Xue Fuyao, but she struck their reaching hands with her umbrella and escaped into the crowd.
• A man who witnessed the encounter identified Xue Fuyao as someone from the Southern Continent and told his companions to follow her quietly.
• Xue Fuyao left Windleaf Formation and saw the storm clouds and lightning covering the Wind-Thunder Plains.

Xue Fuyao reached the waystation near the Wind-Thunder Plains, learned about the Wind-Thunder Divine Boat, and paid for herself and Bai Xi to board after the fare rose to two hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones. As they headed for the boat, Bai Xi warned her about a notorious deadbeat at the waystation.

• Xue Fuyao met Bai Xi, who explained that the charred-looking boat was the Wind-Thunder Divine Boat and could safely cross the lightning-filled plains.
• Bai Xi told Xue Fuyao that rising lightning had caused the fare to increase repeatedly, and Xue Fuyao learned it now cost two hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Xue Fuyao bought two tickets and offered to cover Bai Xi's fare, while Bai Xi promised to repay her.
• A shifty-eyed middle-aged man clung to the waystation owner's leg and begged for a free ride, but the owner tried to shake him off.
• Bai Xi warned Xue Fuyao not to respond if the notorious deadbeat tried to talk to her.

Xue Fuyao rode the Wind-Thunder Divine Boat into the changed Wind-Thunder Plains and spotted an anomaly. When passengers fell overboard during a fight, she jumped after them and headed toward the anomaly.

• Xue Fuyao learned from Bai Xi that the Wind-Thunder Plains had been struck by stronger lightning for half a year.
• The Waystation owner sent the passengers aboard the Wind-Thunder Divine Boat, and its middle-aged steersman rowed it into the plains.
• Xue Fuyao weathered a lightning strike, used her Heavenly Eye to locate an anomaly, and prepared to investigate it.
• A fight on the boat sent one of the seven newcomers overboard, and his companions jumped after him.
• Xue Fuyao jumped from the boat, landed apart from the others, and headed toward the anomaly while Bai Xi stayed aboard.

Xue Fuyao discovered that tiny purple bugs entered people as they breathed, devoured their cultivation, and attracted increasingly powerful lightning. After watching the others use different ways to deal with the bugs, she was spotted and called out by the group.

• Xue Fuyao used her Heavenly Eye to see purple bugs feeding on an unconscious person's cultivation and lying dormant in the others' meridians.
• Xue Fuyao realized the Red Carnelian Earrings had expelled any bugs that entered her body, and deduced that the bugs came in through breathing and attracted lightning.
• Xue Fuyao watched a Jade Token melt the bugs inside two people and restore their damaged meridians, while others forced their bugs out through their palms.
• The group noticed Xue Fuyao's position and called to her, saying the lightning had revealed where she was hiding.

Xue Fuyao learned that the purple bugs were Wind-Thunder Beetles after killing Sima Yun and the other cultivators who had tried to sacrifice her. From Sima Yun’s memories, she discovered that the group had come seeking a treasure rumored to be emerging in the Wind-Thunder Plains.

• Xue Fuyao refused to join the group’s effort to find a way out of the Wind-Thunder Plains.
• A Wind-Thunder Beetle burst from the unconscious cultivator, and Sima Yun shoved Xue Fuyao into its path.
• Xue Fuyao destroyed the beetle and the others inside the corpse, then confronted Sima Yun for pushing her.
• Sima Yun offered Xue Fuyao his Storage Bag, but she read his memories and killed him, his servant, and the other four cultivators.
• Xue Fuyao learned that Wind-Thunder Beetles entered cultivators through their breath and that the group had come seeking a treasure rumored to appear in the plains.

Xue Fuyao investigated the Wind-Thunder Beetles on the Wind-Thunder Plains and fought off swarms that disguised themselves as savage beasts. After disguising herself as a beetle and slipping through a barrier, she was stunned by what she saw beyond it.

• Xue Fuyao discovered that the Wind-Thunder Beetles inside the bodies she had found were dead, examined one, and concluded it was an ordinary Spirit Beast changed by its environment.
• Xue Fuyao learned from Sima Yun's memories that Wind-Thunder Manor and other factions had entered the plains to pursue the opportunity there.
• As the lightning grew stronger and the surroundings turned dark and unnaturally silent, Xue Fuyao put Clear Breeze away and advanced cautiously with Water Silk beside her.
• A giant snake made of Wind-Thunder Beetles attacked Xue Fuyao, but she split it with Nirvana and burned the insects with her spirit-mind purifying flame.
• Xue Fuyao fought off more beetle swarms disguised as Monster Beasts, then transformed into a Wind-Thunder Beetle and slipped through a barrier blocking them.
• Xue Fuyao reached the other side of the barrier and was stunned by the sight before her.

Xue Fuyao discovered a mutated, dragon-shaped Eternal Evergreen Vine and waited with other cultivators for the lightning clouds guarding it to disperse. When they finally cleared, she used the Bloodthirsty Vine and Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine to approach the enormous Spirit Plant, while the other cultivators realized someone was trying to claim it.

• Xue Fuyao recognized the purple, lightning-wreathed plant as a mutated Eternal Evergreen Vine and estimated it was more than a hundred thousand years old.
• Xue Fuyao watched newcomers get struck by the vine's World-Destroying Divine Lightning and realized the other cultivators were waiting for the dark clouds to disperse.
• Xue Fuyao spent half a month waiting and used the Bloodthirsty Vine and Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine to prepare beneath the ground and try to befriend the Eternal Evergreen Vine.
• When the sky cleared, Xue Fuyao sent the two vines to attack and release poison while shielding the Eternal Evergreen Vine's roots.
• The waiting cultivators recognized the Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine and Bloodthirsty Vine, retreated, and speculated about cross-species symbiosis as Xue Fuyao reached the Eternal Evergreen Vine's side.

Xue Fuyao bonded with the Eternal Evergreen Vine and escaped as it cracked, leaving its shell behind. While the cultivators fought over the ruined clearing, a swarm of agitated Wind-Thunder Beetles gathered beyond the barrier.

• Xue Fuyao tried to persuade the hesitant Eternal Evergreen Vine to leave with her, offering protection from the Wind-Thunder Beetles and help with its growth.
• When the cultivators outside realized the vines were not protecting the Eternal Evergreen Vine, they attacked, and Xue Fuyao used the Bloodthirsty Vines and the Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine to strengthen the shield.
• Xue Fuyao cut her palm, formed a connection with the Eternal Evergreen Vine, and drew it into her body, but cracks spread across its surface.
• Xue Fuyao escaped the different space and hid nearby as the cultivators fought among themselves; she concealed her aura while the vine's remaining shell began to crumble.
• Three cultivators remained standing, but Xue Fuyao noticed a vast swarm of Wind-Thunder Beetles gathering outside the barrier and forming and dispersing into Monster Beasts.

Xue Fuyao left the failing barrier, returned to the Eternal Evergreen Vine after it was breached, and watched cultivators and Wind-Thunder Beetles battle over its remains. An elderly Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator offered to lead everyone out, while Xue Fuyao kept an eye on the crowd.

• Xue Fuyao used the different space to move away, then followed a group of cultivators back toward the Eternal Evergreen Vine.
• The barrier collapsed, and cultivators and Wind-Thunder Beetles fought over the Vine's remains.
• Xue Fuyao noticed a Qi Refining cultivator who collected many fragments while avoiding notice and targeting the beetles.
• After the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators killed many beetles, Xue Fuyao took a palm-sized fragment and thanked a senior.
• An elderly Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator offered to lead the crowd out, and Xue Fuyao watched everyone's movements.

Xue Fuyao boarded the Heaven Seal Elder’s Spirit Boat and was forced to hand over her Myriad Ages Changqing Vine fragment in exchange for a dubious IOU. After arriving in Wind City, she and another woman who had also been cheated entered the same restaurant, where Xue Fuyao discovered her companion was female.

• Xue Fuyao boarded the gigantic black Spirit Boat after seeing others leave, then a maidservant demanded that she sell her vine fragment to the Heaven Seal Elder.
• The maidservant offered Xue Fuyao only a paper promising one hundred low-grade Spirit Stones, with no signature or seal, and the other passengers received similar IOUs.
• Xue Fuyao put the paper away and began considering how to retaliate against the Chen Household.
• Xue Fuyao and the woman she had noticed earlier disembarked in Wind City and entered the city together during its Lantern Festival.
• The two women sat at the same restaurant table, and Xue Fuyao realized that her companion was a woman.

Chen Lin revealed that she planned to exploit the Chen Household’s ongoing conflict with a vengeful rogue cultivator and asked Xue Fuyao to help seize supplies. Xue Fuyao heard the plan, agreed to act within the next few days, and was left facing her two-headed snake’s question about whether Chen Lin could be trusted.

• Chen Lin revealed her identity and persuaded Xue Fuyao to hear her out by proposing cooperation against the Chen Household.
• Chen Lin explained that a rogue cultivator had spent nearly ten years taking revenge on the Chen Household and had grown from Qi Refining to the Golden Core stage.
• Chen Lin said she planned to use the rogue cultivator’s next attack as cover to steal supplies being sent to the Chen Household through a Teleportation Array.
• Chen Lin explained that she needed Xue Fuyao’s help coordinating from outside and described how the rogue cultivator had once used collateral-branch disciples to smuggle Explosive Talismans into the household.
• Xue Fuyao asked when they would act, and Chen Lin said it would be within the next few days before the Chen Household ran out of resources.
• After Chen Lin left to gather more information, Xue Fuyao’s two-headed snake emerged from her sleeve and asked whether she trusted Chen Lin.

Xue Fuyao explored Wind City while waiting for Chen Lin, then learned that Chen Lin planned to steal cultivation supplies from the Chen Household that night. After discovering the operation was a trap, Xue Fuyao warned Chen Lin to call it off, but an intruder entered her room with a bottle containing a pink house centipede.

• Xue Fuyao visited Wind City's market, avoided a swindler's attempt to grab her, and found the Eastern Continent's goods uninteresting.
• Xue Fuyao received word from Chen Lin that the theft would happen that night and learned through her gu worm why Chen Lin intended to leave the Chen Household.
• Xue Fuyao discovered that the Chen Household's supplies were bait for a rogue cultivator and had the gu worm warn Chen Lin to cancel the operation.
• An intruder climbed through Xue Fuyao's window, was trapped in a cage of spiritual power, and opened a bottle holding a pink house centipede.

Xue Fuyao rejected the Gu Clan man’s insistence that she was their Holy Maiden, then considered how to use her mutated Myriad Ages Changqing Vine. Chen Lin abandoned her plan for the day and contacted Xue Fuyao to ask for resources so she could leave the Chen Household.

• A Gu Clan man called Xue Fuyao the Holy Maiden because she possessed the Silver-Thread Gu Bracelet and Gu Spirit, but she denied being their Holy Maiden and told him to send someone who could understand her.
• The man claimed the Gu Clan had 312 members at her command, then escaped through Xue Fuyao’s Restraining Formation and left through the window.
• Xue Fuyao realized the Gu Clan had reappeared, secured her room, and drew her mutated Myriad Ages Changqing Vine into her body to absorb its harmless energy.
• Chen Lin abandoned her plan because of her build but still sought resources to leave the Chen Household and survive as a rogue cultivator.
• Chen Lin contacted Xue Fuyao through tea writing and asked for cultivation resources, while Xue Fuyao said stopping her earlier had saved her life.

Chen Lin recruited Xue Fuyao to help her retrieve the Chen Household’s hidden cultivation resources, and Xue Fuyao agreed to a sixty-forty split. After Xue Fuyao effortlessly drove off the Golden Core Stage Wind-Thunder Leopards, Chen Lin opened the bloodline formation, took the resources, and fled before her household could arrive.

• Chen Lin offered Xue Fuyao a share of the Chen Household’s hidden resources in exchange for help luring away the seal beasts, and Xue Fuyao accepted sixty percent.
• Chen Lin led Xue Fuyao to a secluded valley where two Golden Core Stage Wind-Thunder Leopards guarded the Chen Household’s bloodline formation.
• Xue Fuyao used her whip to fling both Wind-Thunder Leopards away, shocking Chen Lin with her strength.
• Chen Lin activated the formation with her bloodline and gathered the cultivation resources inside.
• Chen Lin hurried out of the valley and warned Xue Fuyao to leave before the Chen Household arrived.

Xue Fuyao left Chen Lin after her master summoned her to the Mortal Realm to help with the failing barrier between the Mortal and Cultivation Realms. Xie Yichu asked whether her father had left her anything resembling the Kongtong Seal, and Xue Fuyao realized her Imperial Jade Seal might be its missing form.

• Xue Fuyao gave Chen Lin sixty percent of their haul, then left when Xie Yichu urgently summoned her to the Mortal Realm.
• Xue Fuyao returned to find the barrier trembling despite the efforts of more than a thousand high-level cultivators.
• Xie Yichu asked Xue Fuyao whether her father had left her anything important, and she said she had carried belongings with her when she escaped.
• Xie Yichu explained that the Kongtong Seal's spirit remained in the Mortal Realm while its form had been taken away by the Xue Clan.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that her Imperial Jade Seal looked like the Kongtong Seal and realized it might be the missing form needed to restore the barrier.

Xie Yichu used Xue Fuyao’s blood to reveal the Kongtong Seal’s true form, then sent her back to the Cultivation Realm before the seal could be restored. There, Xue Fuyao rescued Pei Yu from people demanding the item she carried, and Pei Yu offered it to her.

• Xue Fuyao brought out the Imperial Jade Seal, and Xie Yichu realized it was the Kongtong Seal’s sealed physical form.
• Xie Yichu used Xue Fuyao’s blood to remove the seal and reveal the Kongtong Seal’s original appearance.
• Xue Fuyao asked whether Xie Yichu and Xiao Fansheng intended to sacrifice themselves to stabilize the barrier, and Xie Yichu sent her back to the Cultivation Realm.
• Xue Fuyao found a group led by a young man threatening Pei Yu and drove them away with her Golden Core Stage pressure.
• Pei Yu asked Xue Fuyao to take her away, then revealed the valuable item she had been protecting.

Xue Fuyao took Pei Yu in and discovered that the rust-covered bottle Pei Yu had given her was a hidden treasure with a strong life aura. After reuniting with Gu Nian at an inn, Xue Fuyao introduced Pei Yu to her, while Pei Yu realized her pursuers had come looking for her but failed to recognize her.

• Pei Yu gave Xue Fuyao the rust-covered bottle, and Xue Fuyao found that it absorbed spiritual power.
• Xue Fuyao gave Pei Yu clothes and a Supreme Marrow-Cleansing Pill, then used her spiritual power to reveal the bottle's original green surface and intricate patterns.
• Xue Fuyao met Gu Nian at the inn and told her about the Kongtong Seal, and Gu Nian warned her to keep the matter secret.
• Xue Fuyao introduced Pei Yu to Gu Nian, and Gu Nian assured Pei Yu that the Yuanji Sect would protect her.
• A group of men entered the inn looking for Pei Yu, but they left without recognizing her because her appearance had changed.