Chapter Summaries

Xue Fuyao absorbed the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon, harvested the valley’s oldest spirit medicines, and framed the Zhang Family Triplets by leaving their aura behind. After collecting Monster Beast corpses for the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet, she disguised herself and pursued one of the triplets.

• Xue Fuyao fed her blood to the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon until it turned red and merged into her body, then harvested the valley’s oldest spirit medicines and two golden tea trees.
• Xue Fuyao disguised her aura as the Zhang Family Triplets’ and used a Teleportation Talisman to leave as the barrier faded.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the valley after medicinal spiritual energy drew people and Monster Beasts, where Zhang Hongzhi faced suspicion over the harvested medicines and the aura attributed to his family’s Cultivation Method.
• Xue Fuyao harvested the remaining spirit medicines for the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet and waited until the others left before collecting the Monster Beast corpses.
• Xue Fuyao pursued one of the triplets, disguising her appearance, aura, and voice while changing into black men’s clothes and restoring her cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Xue Fuyao followed the Zhang Family Triplets into the Demon Beast Forest, where she gathered treasures and discovered Fenghua Mushrooms. She reached the forest’s inner boundary and began a stealthy attack on a powerful beast guarding Soul-Nourishing Wood.

• Xue Fuyao entered the Demon Beast Forest, lost the Zhang Family Triplets’ trail, and collected ancient trees and ordinary Monster Beasts.
• Xue Fuyao hid as a blue-robed Kunlun Sect cultivator killed a Monster Beast, then took its carcass after the woman left.
• Xue Fuyao found and gathered three Fenghua Mushrooms, recognizing their value as ingredients for Jade Beauty Pills.
• Xue Fuyao concealed her aura with Broken Jade and collected spirit medicines, spirit fruits, and Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Xue Fuyao spotted a peak Foundation Establishment Realm Monster Beast guarding the Soul-Nourishing Wood and chose to attack it by surprise.

Xue Fuyao followed the Zhang Family triplets to a cave containing three Innate Sword Embryos and waited for Zhang Hongzhi to emerge before killing him and taking his treasures. She left disguised as a yellow-dressed cultivator, pleased that the triplets’ combined strength had been crippled.

• Xue Fuyao tracked the Zhang Family triplets and watched Zhang Hongzhi kill a Scorpion-Tailed Lion after raising his cultivation with a Zhang Family Secret Technique.
• She learned through the Heavenly Eye that three Innate Sword Embryos were inside the cave and waited outside for three days while Zhang Hongzhi completed its trials.
• When Zhang Hongzhi emerged, Xue Fuyao killed him with a golden streak, causing Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Qizhi to sense his death and howl in grief.
• Xue Fuyao searched Zhang Hongzhi’s body, took the three sword embryos and the contents of his Storage Space, and discarded his belongings and ring.
• She sprinkled Beast-Attracting Powder on Zhang Hongzhi’s corpse, erased her traces, changed her appearance, and left in a yellow dress.

Xue Fuyao infiltrated a waterfall cave, took the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Liquid and Mystic Jade Paste, and killed the sleeping Golden Core Water Jiao. She left the Demon Beast Forest and began searching for the Divine Spirit Fruit, though the powerful beasts guarding the realm’s opportunities made the search dangerous.

• Xue Fuyao discovered a Golden Core Water Jiao guarding the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Liquid in a cave behind a waterfall.
• Xue Fuyao slipped into the cave as an insect, fed the resting Water Jiao a Potent Sleeping Pill, and collected the liquid and the more precious Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Jade Paste.
• Xue Fuyao killed and butchered the helpless Water Jiao, keeping its meat and blood for food and Jiao Dragon Wine.
• Xue Fuyao left the Demon Beast Forest and decided to spend the remaining half of her time in the Secret Realm searching for the Divine Spirit Fruit.
• Xue Fuyao found no trace of a Divine Spirit Fruit Tree in the forest, and the powerful Monster Beasts guarding its opportunities could defeat even a group of cultivators.

Xue Fuyao followed a heavenly omen to a medicinal garden containing the Divine Spirit Fruit Tree and five nearly ripe fruits. As Monster Beasts gathered, she captured the Golden Bee Queen and prepared to compete for the treasure.

• Xue Fuyao concealed herself as Ye Qinxuan and Ye Qinfei fled from a swarm of Golden Bees, then continued toward the direction they had come from.
• Xue Fuyao spotted a multicolored omen in the sky and followed it, fighting or avoiding Monster Beasts drawn toward its source.
• Xue Fuyao reached a multicolored barrier and saw an enormous medicinal garden with the Divine Spirit Fruit Tree and five nearly ripe fruits inside.
• The omen blazed across the sky, and Xue Fuyao hid and captured the Golden Bee Queen in a white porcelain bottle.

Xue Fuyao hid as the sect disciples and monster beasts gathered outside the barrier, then discovered a gap and slipped into the medicinal garden. Inside, she found extraordinary treasures, including a Seven-Haze Lotus and a silver spirit tree, while the Divine Spirit Fruits continued to ripen.

• Xue Fuyao concealed herself when the monster beasts and disciples from the Yuanji Sect and Kunlun Sect arrived, and realized the beasts had gathered for the Divine Spirit Fruit.
• The two sects agreed to join forces against the monster beasts, while Gu Nian searched for Xue Fuyao and Zhang Yizhi accused her of having been eaten by a beast.
• Xue Fuyao watched Zhang Yizhi brood over his younger brother's death and decided to stay hidden while she waited for the barrier to disappear.
• The Heavenly Eye revealed a gap in the barrier, and Xue Fuyao transformed into a flying insect and slipped inside.
• Xue Fuyao entered the medicinal garden and saw a Seven-Haze Lotus and a silver spirit tree among its treasures.

Xue Fuyao harvested spirit medicines and Camellia Trees inside the barrier, then rushed to the Divine Spirit Tree as the barrier fell. Three Divine Spirit Fruits vanished before she could reach them, so she took one of the remaining fruits and fled with a Mutant Spirit Mouse, then returned toward the tree in disguise no longer.

• Xue Fuyao dug up spirit medicines and Camellia Trees while the barrier held, but could not approach the Divine Spirit Tree before its fruit ripened.
• As the barrier disappeared, Xue Fuyao reached the Divine Spirit Tree before the arriving sect disciples and Monster Beasts, and three Divine Spirit Fruits vanished.
• Xue Fuyao grabbed one of the remaining Divine Spirit Fruits, seized a Mutant Spirit Mouse, and escaped with a Teleportation Talisman as the others blamed her for the missing fruit.
• Xue Fuyao put the unconscious Mutant Spirit Mouse in a box, removed her disguise, and headed back toward the Divine Spirit Tree.

Xue Fuyao suspected the Mutant Spirit Mouse had taken the Divine Spirit Fruits, then gathered spirit medicines and parts of the Divine Spirit Tree while the disciples pursued the last fruit. The Medicinal Garden’s barrier reappeared and vanished with the garden, leaving Xue Fuyao to suspect it moved through space and the sects to suspect one another over the missing fruits.

• Xue Fuyao recalled the Mutant Spirit Mouse as a possible explanation for the vanished Divine Spirit Fruits and returned to the Divine Spirit Tree after finding the other disciples gone.
• Xue Fuyao gathered spirit medicines, broke off a branch from the Divine Spirit Tree, and collected some of its leaves.
• Gu Nian and the others returned battered from their pursuit of the last Divine Spirit Fruit, with Yan Changxi unconscious and a butterfly-wing fragment on his clothes; Xue Fuyao gave them healing pills.
• Gu Nian urged the Yuanji Sect disciples to gather spirit medicines before the Secret Realm closed, and Xue Fuyao stored her harvest in a new Storage Ring.
• A beast roared, the Divine Spirit Tree glowed, and the Medicinal Garden’s barrier reappeared; Gu Nian led everyone outside before it enclosed the garden and vanished.
• Xue Fuyao used the Heavenly Eye to detect spatial fluctuations and suspected the garden moved, while Gu Nian and the Kunlun Sect each suspected the other of taking the four Divine Spirit Fruits.

Xue Fuyao and the others left the Qingfeng Secret Realm, where the Yuanji Sect and Kunlun Sect sect masters dealt with the Zhang Family elder’s accusation over his grandson’s death. On the journey back, Xue Fuyao learned how she might obtain a Portable Medicinal Garden and recognized that Elder Tan’s daughter had a twin sister whose unusual fate could complicate matters.

• With the Qingfeng Secret Realm about to close, Xue Fuyao gave Gu Nian pills, and the group was forcibly ejected half an hour later.
• Gu Nian apologized to Xiao Fansheng for failing to bring back the Divine Spirit Fruit, but he reassured her that she had secured half of it and many spirit medicines.
• A Zhang Family elder demanded that the Yuanji Sect and Kunlun Sect hand over his grandson’s murderer, but Sect Master Qian dismissed his accusation, and Xiao Fansheng left with the Yuanji Sect.
• Xue Fuyao asked Xie Yichu how to obtain a Portable Medicinal Garden, and he told her about Elder Tan’s sect mission offering one for a thousand-year-old root-reforming grass.
• Xue Fuyao realized Elder Tan’s daughter had a twin sister with a single fire Spiritual Root, and that the sisters’ unusual fates meant one benefited whenever the other suffered.

Xue Fuyao exchanged thousand-year-old Root-Reforming Grass for a precious Portable Medicinal Garden and moved her spirit medicines into it. After sharing a Silver Spirit Tree with her master, she discovered that Tan Jing was seeking even older Root-Reforming Grass to reshape her spiritual root.

• Xue Fuyao submitted thousand-year-old Root-Reforming Grass at the Mission Hall and received a necklace containing seven Portable Medicinal Gardens.
• Xue Fuyao refined the garden, transplanted her spirit medicines into it, and planted one Silver Spirit Tree outside her cave abode.
• Xue Fuyao gave the other Silver Spirit Tree to Xie Yichu, who rewarded her with a pile of fine things.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the Mission Hall and ignored a task seeking ten-thousand-year-old Root-Reforming Grass.
• Tan Jing rejected lesser Root-Reforming Grass and sought a ten-thousand-year-old specimen after hearing about the secret realm's medicinal garden.

Xue Fuyao advanced her cultivation after absorbing a Divine Spirit Fruit and discovered that the unconscious Mutant Spirit Mouse had stolen and hidden the missing fruits along with many other treasures. She contracted the mouse and decided to keep it as her own.

• Xue Fuyao overheard that Ye Qinxuan and Ye Qinfei had survived the Golden Bees’ poison but suffered severe injuries, and learned they might recover if suitable treasures were found.
• Xue Fuyao pretended to enter seclusion, ate the Divine Spirit Fruit, and advanced from the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Xue Fuyao used her blood to make the Golden Bee Queen acknowledge her as its master.
• Xue Fuyao squeezed the unconscious Mutant Spirit Mouse’s cheeks and found the three missing Divine Spirit Fruits, along with many other treasures.
• Xue Fuyao decided the Mutant Spirit Mouse was too valuable to sell and formed a contract with it.

Xue Fuyao realized that her Mutant Spirit Mouse had awakened the Treasure-Seeking Mouse bloodline, named it Big Treasure, and brought it to the Yuanji Sect Market to test its abilities. She discovered that Big Treasure reacted to ordinary goods because it had never encountered them before.

• Xue Fuyao fed the Mutant Spirit Mouse pastries and deduced from its hoarded treasures that it might have awakened the Treasure-Seeking Mouse bloodline.
• Xue Fuyao gave the mouse a Divine Spirit Fruit, watched its fur turn silvery gray, and named it Big Treasure.
• After leaving seclusion, Xue Fuyao said goodbye to Xie Yichu and went to the Yuanji Sect Market with Big Treasure.
• Big Treasure urged Xue Fuyao toward a stall of Fasting Pills, but she learned that its pill bottles were ordinary.
• Xue Fuyao tested Big Treasure at other stalls and realized it reacted to ordinary goods because it had never seen anything beyond spirit medicines and Monster Beasts.

Xue Fuyao bought supplies for raising spirit plants and refining Fasting Pills, then left the sect and discovered a man following her. After ambushing and crippling him, she used the Soul-Searching Art and learned Ye Qinfei had sent him.

• Xue Fuyao hid Dabao in a Spirit Beast Pouch and bought seeds, spirit fruit trees, and ingredients for Fasting Pills.
• Xue Fuyao left the Yuanji Sect and noticed a poorly concealed man following her, whom she suspected was connected to Ye Qinfei and Ye Qinxuan.
• Xue Fuyao lured the man into a forest, ambushed him with a Spirit-Breaking Crossbow and Explosive Talismans, and shattered his dantian.
• Xue Fuyao questioned the crippled man, then used the Soul-Searching Art and discovered that Ye Qinfei had sent him.

Xue Fuyao discovered that the Zhang Family had sought something from the Xue Clan and spread a rumor about a cave-abode ruin to cause them trouble. In Flowing Cloud City, she recognized Jin Chengxin and suspected his meeting upstairs concealed a secret about his younger female cousin and child.

• Xue Fuyao learned from Ye Qinfei's memories that the Zhang Family had taken over the Xue Kingdom to obtain something from the Xue Clan, and she suspected she had taken it from the Imperial Palace.
• Xue Fuyao killed Ye Qinfei, took his Storage Bag and Sheepskin Map, then sent Shadow One and the others a rumor about a Spirit Transformation cultivator's cave-abode ruins.
• The rumor spread and grew into claims of an Integrated Body Realm inheritance, forcing the Zhang Family to share the ruins and face accusations that they had hidden the real treasure.
• In Flowing Cloud City, Xue Fuyao listened as people discussed the rumor until Jin Chengxin entered and silenced the teahouse.
• Xue Fuyao recognized Jin Chengxin and recalled that he was supposed to marry the Zhang Family's eldest young lady, but had come to meet his younger female cousin and child.

Xue Fuyao discovered that Jin Chengxin had secretly fathered children with several lovers in Flowing Cloud City and used the restaurant to support them. She transformed the lovers and their children into rats, then disguised herself as the Zhang Residence's head steward and coerced them into helping ruin Jin Chengxin and Zhang Qingluan's wedding.

• Xue Fuyao learned from Jin Chengxin's memories that he had several lovers and children in Flowing Cloud City, and saw Lin Yingrou leave the restaurant with Jin Yiyi.
• Xue Fuyao followed Lin Yingrou and Jin Yiyi home, made them unconscious, and used Broken Jade to transform them into rats.
• Xue Fuyao caught the remaining lovers and children, turned them into rats, and locked each in a separate cage in a dark room.
• Xue Fuyao disguised herself as the Zhang Residence's head steward and terrified the captive rats by claiming the Zhang Family had ordered her to dispose of them.
• Xue Fuyao offered to spare the rats if they helped ruin Jin Chengxin and Zhang Qingluan's wedding, and they agreed.

Xue Fuyao discovered that the Xue Clan’s hidden treasure included a mysterious petal and the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame, which may have motivated the Zhang Family’s hunt for her in her previous life. She then began targeting the Zhang Family’s foundation in Flowing Cloud City and found the item she had come to seek at a market stall.

• Xue Fuyao left hallucinogenic incense burning near a caged group of Jin Chengxin’s ordinary lovers and went to an inn to inspect the items she had taken from the Imperial Palace.
• Xue Fuyao found three blue-green petals in an array-protected box in the imperial treasury, and they merged into the petal she wore around her neck.
• When Xue Fuyao touched a strand of white jade hand beads from the box, it crumbled and revealed the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame, a powerful flame that would only choose a master from its previous master’s bloodline.
• Xue Fuyao suspected the Zhang Family had hunted her in her previous life for the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame and resolved to destroy their foundation before they could rise further.
• Xue Fuyao searched a busy market in Flowing Cloud City, found the item she sought among a stall’s ores, and offered to buy everything there.

Xue Fuyao obtained star meteorite for the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet and prepared to disrupt the Zhang Family’s wedding to Zhang Qingluan and Jin Chengxin. At the celebration, she entered as Elder Lingmu’s representative with a longevity-fruit gift and sensed spirit-transforming grass in her tea.

• Xue Fuyao bought a fist-sized piece of star meteorite for ten taels of silver and gave it to the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet, which stopped trembling.
• Xue Fuyao watched the Zhang Family leave the Yunlan Merchant Guild and avoided being noticed by one of them.
• Before the wedding, Xue Fuyao infiltrated the Zhang Family residence, sent in the Treasure-Seeking Mouse, and put ten-thousand-year-old spirit-transforming grass leaves into a kitchen well.
• On the twenty-third, Jin Chengxin eagerly watched guests arrive for his wedding to Zhang Qingluan, while Xue Fuyao entered under the name Fuyao with an invitation from Elder Lingmu.
• Patriarch Zhang welcomed Xue Fuyao after learning she had brought a thousand-year-old longevity fruit, and she sensed spirit-transforming grass in the tea served to her.

At Zhang Qingluan and Jin Chengxin’s wedding, Xue Fuyao’s plan to expose the groom’s secret unfolded when his lovers and children burst into the ceremony. Zhang Qingluan denied knowing them, but a guest proposed using a Bloodline Stone to test whether the children were Jin Chengxin’s.

• Xue Fuyao watched the guests and reflected that the longevity fruit she had prepared would drain its consumer’s lifespan and turn them into a puppet.
• Zhang Qingluan and Jin Chengxin began their wedding ceremony, but cries and commotion outside interrupted their final bow.
• Eight women and their children rushed into the hall, knelt before Zhang Qingluan, and begged her to spare them.
• Jin Chengxin recognized the women and children, while Zhang Qingluan tore off her veil and accused someone of arranging the scene to slander her.
• A guest pointed out that the children resembled Jin Chengxin and offered to use a Bloodline Stone to test their relationship.

After disrupting the Zhang Family wedding and plundering its stores, Xue Fuyao stayed in Flowing Cloud City as the Zhang Family sealed the city and searched for the thieves. She concealed her gains and went to buy supplies to hatch the Brocade Spider egg she received in exchange for the Longevity Fruit.

• Zhang Ming ended the wedding gathering and promised the Zhang Family would investigate, while Xue Fuyao tucked Big Treasure away after it returned with a haul.
• The Zhang Family exchanged a Brocade Spider egg for Xue Fuyao’s Longevity Fruit, and she planned to awaken the spider’s bloodline with Divine Spirit Fruit.
• Shadow Thirteen visited Xue Fuyao, and she warned him, Shadow Two, and the others not to act rashly or contact her.
• The Zhang Family sealed Flowing Cloud City after discovering the theft, while Xue Fuyao’s protective Token deflected a powerful pressure.
• Big Treasure revealed it had emptied the Zhang Family’s treasure vault, Library Pavilion, and Pill Pavilion, and Xue Fuyao praised it.
• As rumors spread and the city remained locked down, Xue Fuyao ate at a restaurant and then went to the Yunlan Merchant Guild to buy supplies for hatching the Brocade Spider.

After buying pure Spirit Liquid to hatch the Brocade Spider, Xue Fuyao left Flowing Cloud City after the Zhang Family ended its lockdown. At the gate, she encountered Jimo Xiubai, a young man she knew would later betray humanity, and his older brother Jimo Yunqi.

• Xue Fuyao bought thirty drops of the Yunlan Merchant Guild's purest Spirit Liquid while concealing her true plan from the Zhang Family's watchers.
• The Zhang Family blamed the city lockdown on a supreme treasure stolen from its vault, while guests privately speculated about the family's new son-in-law and the wedding scandal.
• After three days, the Zhang Family opened Flowing Cloud City's gates and let Xue Fuyao and the others leave.
• Xue Fuyao recognized Jimo Xiubai at the gate and recalled that he would become a Demon Race lackey and die three years before her previous-life death.
• Jimo Xiubai argued with Jimo Yunqi about the gate guards' suspicious stares, then noticed Xue Fuyao and brightened.