Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang bought a little girl from a group selling children and discovered that her memories had been erased and a seal concealed her Poison Qi. After caring for her, he asked Thousand Poison Venerable to name her, and the old cultivator told him to give her the Ji surname and acknowledge her as his younger sister.

• Ji Wuchang paid five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for the little girl, prompting Lu Bingliang and others to buy the remaining children.
• Ji Wuchang examined the girl and found a seal hiding her Poison Qi and damage from the erasure of her memories.
• Ji Wuchang bought the girl clothes, shoes, food, and accessories, while Zhou Xiaoxiao helped her bathe and change.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao remarked that Ji Wuchang seemed unusually experienced at caring for children, and he recalled Ji Zhiyi and the child she had likely given birth to.
• Ji Wuchang asked Thousand Poison Venerable to name the girl, and Thousand Poison Venerable told him to give her the Ji surname, treat her as his younger sister, and not pursue her romantically.

Ji Wuchang, Zhou Xiaoxiao, and the little girl visited Five Plains City's black market while knowing they were being followed. Ji Wuchang gave the girl a storage bracelet, and Zhou Xiaoxiao insisted they keep browsing as their pursuers waited outside.

• Zhou Xiaoxiao warned Ji Wuchang that they were being followed, and he said he had known since leaving with the little girl.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao led Ji Wuchang and the girl to the black market, where they paid five low-grade spirit stones each and received masks.
• A Half-Step Supreme Realm man and four companions waited outside, planning to rob Ji Wuchang and sell the girl.
• Ji Wuchang gave the little girl a silver storage bracelet, and she thanked him for the first time.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao continued browsing the stalls and persuaded Ji Wuchang to stay until they had seen them all.

Ji Wuchang and Zhou Xiaoxiao left the black market with the little girl, and Ji Wuchang had his Dark Night Beast kill the men pursuing them. He named the girl Ji Yunjin and promised to care for her, while Zhou Xiaoxiao grew suspicious of his motives and asked about his origins.

• Ji Wuchang secretly released the Dark Night Beast, which killed Ma Qunshan and his men as nearby cultivators watched the aftermath.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao guessed that Ji Wuchang had arranged the killings, and he calmly admitted it.
• Ji Wuchang named the little girl Ji Yunjin, promised to find her a powerful master, and comforted her when she feared her poor aptitude would disappoint him.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao suspected Ji Wuchang was planning to raise Ji Yunjin for improper reasons and decided she would tell Senior Sister Yu Ling.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao revealed that she and Yuchi Lingling came from prominent clans in Heavenly Sword Province, and Ji Wuchang said he came from a small sect in Boyun Province.

Ji Wuchang explained how he became Yu Ling’s junior brother and asked Zhou Xiaoxiao about Nan Cai’er’s family, but Zhou Xiaoxiao mistook his questions for romantic interest. Nan Cai’er and Yuchi Lingling overheard their conversation, and Nan Cai’er left to teach Zhou Xiaoxiao a lesson.

• Ji Wuchang told Zhou Xiaoxiao that Yu Ling had joined Yunchuan Academy in the southwest and that they became fellow disciples of its dean.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao guessed that the academy’s dean was a Supreme Realm Ninth Level Peak expert and believed she had solved the mystery.
• Ji Wuchang asked which province Nan Cai’er came from, and Zhou Xiaoxiao explained that the Nan Family had moved from Great Immortal Province to Southern Wilderness Province.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao accused Ji Wuchang of pursuing Nan Cai’er and offered to help him meet her, so Ji Wuchang angrily denied having any interest in her.
• Nan Cai’er and Yuchi Lingling overheard the conversation from the second floor, and Nan Cai’er decided to teach Zhou Xiaoxiao a lesson.

Ji Wuchang watched the Thousand Poison Venerable treat Ji Yunjin and make her his disciple after her Innate Poison Physique flared up. The Thousand Poison Venerable explained that she would need to consume poison pills and absorb Poison Qi to awaken her physique and survive.

• Ji Yunjin’s illness flared up, and black Qi spread across her body as the Dark Night Beast avoided her touch.
• The Thousand Poison Venerable examined Ji Yunjin, gave her a poison pill that stopped her pain, and accepted her as his disciple.
• The Thousand Poison Venerable gave Ji Yunjin the Heaven-Locking Coffin as a protective gift, and she fell asleep.
• Ji Wuchang questioned the Thousand Poison Venerable about the poison pill, and he explained that Ji Yunjin had an Innate Poison Physique that needed toxins to awaken.
• The Thousand Poison Venerable told Ji Wuchang that without awakening her physique, Ji Yunjin would die, but that mastering it could eventually make her immune to toxins.

Ji Wuchang agreed that Ji Yunjin would leave with the Thousand Poison Venerable, who planned to train her in poison and medicine. After rejoining Nan Cai'er, Yuchi Lingling, and Zhou Xiaoxiao, Ji Wuchang left the city with them to investigate where Yuchi Lingling's older brother had encountered trouble, while several groups secretly followed.

• The Thousand Poison Venerable told Ji Wuchang he would take Ji Yunjin and train her, and Ji Wuchang accepted his plan.
• Xiao Xueguang secretly witnessed the Thousand Poison Venerable and realized why Ji Wuchang had bought Ji Yunjin.
• Nan Cai'er and Yuchi Lingling questioned Zhou Xiaoxiao, who recounted Ji Wuchang killing the people who had followed them and speculated that he had bought Ji Yunjin because she was beautiful.
• Yuchi Lingling told Ji Wuchang that the group was ready to leave, and the Thousand Poison Venerable took the sleeping Ji Yunjin into the Heaven-Locking Coffin.
• Ji Wuchang told the three women that Ji Yunjin had left with her new master, and they set out to find where Yuchi Lingling's older brother had encountered trouble.
• Several groups appeared on the city walls and followed Ji Wuchang and the three women after they left the city.

Ji Wuchang refused to follow Nan Cai'er and Yuchi Lingling into the abyss, then descended alone after they left and disguised himself. He found himself in a hidden space beneath Five Plains Peaks and came upon Hua Yunlong fighting a giant python.

• Yuchi Lingling and Nan Cai'er told Zhou Xiaoxiao and Ji Wuchang to stay outside while they went into the dangerous abyss.
• Ji Wuchang declined to join the women, criticized their treatment of him to Zhou Xiaoxiao, and then entered the mist alone.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao spotted several groups descending into the abyss, reported them with a voice transmission stone, and kept Ji Wuchang's descent secret from the two women.
• A hidden array transported Ji Wuchang to a separate space beneath the abyss, where he disguised himself and followed signs of battle.
• Ji Wuchang found Hua Yunlong fighting a peak seventh-rank giant python, and Hua Yunlong vowed to defeat it after being knocked back and spitting blood.

Hua Yunlong fought the giant python with the Hua Household Ninefold Slash, but the beast began transforming into a flood dragon and triggered a Lightning Tribulation. As Ji Wuchang watched the tribulation, Hua Yunlong weighed whether to flee or risk staying near the cave he believed held yin soul flowers.

• Hua Yunlong struck the giant python with the first and second slashes, wounding its tail but failing to bring it down.
• Hua Yunlong unleashed the third slash, severing the python's tail, while Ji Wuchang copied the Hua Household Ninefold Slash and checked in for twelve years of cultivation.
• The wounded python spewed cold Qi and began transforming as four claws emerged from its belly, prompting Hua Yunlong to recognize it was becoming an eighth-rank ferocious beast.
• Thunderclouds gathered, and Hua Yunlong retreated before the Lightning Tribulation struck the python.
• Hua Yunlong debated leaving or waiting for the weakened newborn flood dragon, while Ji Wuchang watched the tribulation from a distance.

Ji Wuchang watched Nan Cai'er confront a group of newcomers while a giant python underwent its tribulation and transformed into a flood dragon. He followed Hua Yunlong into the dragon’s cave, where they found a rare plant with yin soul flowers.

• Ji Wuchang concealed himself and observed Nan Cai'er and six newcomers arrive as the python faced its Lightning Tribulation.
• A young man demanded Nan Cai'er's name, but she insulted him and revealed her Supreme Realm Second Layer presence, forcing him to back down.
• The python completed its transformation into a flood dragon amid the falling lightning.
• Ji Wuchang noticed Hua Yunlong sneak toward a cave and followed him, while a Supreme Realm First Level man also headed after them.
• Ji Wuchang reached the cave’s end and saw Hua Yunlong looking at a pool where a plant bore two bloomed flowers, one bud, and a mark where another flower had been picked.

Ji Wuchang secretly took a Yin Soul Flower for Ji Yaoyao and discovered a mysterious fire-attribute egg in the spiritual pool. After concealing the pool and Yin Soul Tree, he left the cave and found Hua Yunlong undergoing a Lightning Tribulation amid a gathering of cultivators.

• Hua Yunlong picked a Yin Soul Flower, but a Supreme Realm First Level man attacked him and drove him away from the pool.
• Ji Wuchang revealed himself and gave the second Yin Soul Flower to Ji Yaoyao, who said it would restore her Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang found a fist-sized egg beneath a barrier, used Threefold Space to retrieve it, and placed it in a box with pills to nourish it.
• Ji Wuchang concealed the spiritual pool and Yin Soul Tree behind a barrier, then left the cave.
• Outside, Ji Wuchang saw Hua Yunlong undergoing a Lightning Tribulation while the flood dragon remained caught in its own tribulation; two companions had joined the man pursuing Hua Yunlong.

Ji Wuchang watched the experts flee when a second, more powerful flood dragon arrived, then followed an old woman and a young man from a branch of the Ji Family. He learned they sought the inheritance of Ji Xiaozhan to regain their place in the main family, and the youth’s plans to marry Ji Zhiyi filled him with murderous intent.

• Several experts plotted to take Hua Yunlong’s remaining Yin Soul Flower after his lightning tribulation.
• The flood dragon summoned a companion, and the approaching flood dragon’s Supreme Realm third-level presence drove the gathered experts to retreat.
• Ji Wuchang followed the old woman and youth while Xiao Xueguang watched him and marveled at his mastery of Threefold Space.
• The old woman explained that her branch sought Ji Xiaozhan’s inheritance to return to the Ji Family’s main lineage.
• The youth declared that he would claim the inheritance and hoped to marry Ji Zhiyi, prompting Ji Wuchang to consider killing him.

Ji Wuchang discovered that Ji Jingxi and Ji Liangliang had led him to a barrier concealing a Ji Family senior’s inheritance, where Yuchi Lingling’s younger brother was trapped. Suspecting that her group’s protectors and hostile factions were nearby, Ji Wuchang accepted Thousand Poison Venerable’s offer of a weakening poison and waited for a chance to use it.

• Ji Wuchang learned that Ji Jingxi and Ji Liangliang belonged to a branch expelled from the Ji Family and were seeking a senior’s inheritance at Five Origins Peak Abyss.
• Ji Jingxi and Ji Liangliang reached a barrier surrounded by nearly a hundred people, and Ji Wuchang saw a building and millstone behind it.
• Ji Wuchang recognized Yuchi Lingling and Nan Cai'er among the crowd and spotted Yuchi Lingling’s younger brother sitting near the millstone, pale and weakened.
• Ji Wuchang deduced that four Supreme Realm Fifth Level protectors were guarding Nan Cai'er and the others, and suspected the Zhan Clan and Myriad Souls Hall were also lurking nearby.
• Thousand Poison Venerable offered Ji Wuchang a bottle of Gentle Breeze Sinew and Bone Softener, which would weaken everyone in a ten-thousand-zhang radius.
• Ji Wuchang took the poison bottle and agreed to use it, but told Thousand Poison Venerable he first needed to find an opportunity.

Ji Wuchang deceived the gathered experts into believing someone had entered the secret realm, then secretly spread poison as a Supreme realm sixth-level expert arrived. The newcomer was Zhan Gu'an's powerful Dao protector, leaving Yuchi Lingling and Nan Cai'er worried that they could no longer control the situation.

• Ji Wuchang used the Thousand Poison Venerable's power to pose as a half-step Supreme and told the gathered experts that a man had entered the secret realm the day before.
• Ji Liangliang and Ji Jingxi urged the crowd to attack the barrier, while Yuchi Lingling and Nan Cai'er tried to stop them.
• As a powerful presence approached, Ji Wuchang threw a porcelain bottle that shattered and released poison unnoticed by the crowd.
• A flood dragon arrived carrying Zhan Gu'an and his Dao protector, whose aura revealed him to be a Supreme realm sixth-level expert.
• The Thousand Poison Venerable identified Zhan Gu'an and told Ji Wuchang that the poisoned Dao protector could be defeated.
• Yuchi Lingling and Nan Cai'er realized the arrival had disrupted their plan to enter the secret realm with Yuchi Weida.

Zhan Xuetu forced the gathered cultivators to attack a deadly barrier, while Ji Wuchang concealed himself among them and recognized the barrier’s Yin-Yang power. Nan Bai Long challenged Zhan Xuetu by invoking the Nan Family, leaving Nan Cai'er and her elders alarmed as the confrontation escalated.

• Zhan Gu'an searched the crowd for Ji Wuchang, then focused on the barrier and the chance to obtain the Ji Family legacy.
• Zhan Xuetu ordered everyone to attack the barrier or die, and the crowd obeyed under his Supreme Realm Sixth Level pressure.
• The barrier’s white beams killed several cultivators, including two Supreme Realm First Level experts, but Zhan Xuetu threatened those who stopped attacking.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the beams as condensed Two Qi of Yin and Yang and joined the attack to avoid drawing Zhan Xuetu’s wrath.
• Zhan Xuetu singled out Nan Bai Long for refusing to attack, and Nan Bai Long identified himself as a member of the Nan Family and challenged him.
• Nan Shengquan tried to apologize for Nan Bai Long, but Nan Bai Long rebuked him and insisted no one could order the Nan Family around, alarming Nan Cai'er and her elders.

Zhan Xuetu attacked Nan Bai Long and his companions with the Battle Dragon Heaven-Overturning Seal after Nan Bai Long defied him. As Nan Cai'er fled with Nan Bai Long, Zhan Xuetu’s attack overwhelmed Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Nan Cai'er urged Nan Bai Long to apologize to Zhan Xuetu, but Nan Bai Long refused and boasted that the Nan Family’s elders would protect him.
• Zhan Xuetu condemned the Nan Family’s arrogance and unleashed the Battle Dragon Heaven-Overturning Seal against Nan Bai Long.
• Nan Bai Long panicked and begged Nan Cai'er and the elders to save him, while Yuchi Lingling and two elders retreated from the attack.
• Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang transformed into enormous giants and struck at the golden seal as Nan Cai'er escaped with Nan Bai Long and Nan Feng followed.
• The golden seal shattered Nan Shengquan’s and Nan Shanyang’s palm imprints, and its two dragons engulfed them.

Zhan Xuetu overwhelmed Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang, then demanded that the Nan Family kill Nan Bai Long to settle the matter. Nan Bai Long begged for help while Nan Cai'er and the two elders struggled with how to respond.

• Zhan Xuetu's strike blasted Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang into blood mist, and they re-formed before retreating to Nan Cai'er and Nan Bai Long.
• Ji Wuchang realized that even his escape techniques could not save him from a Supreme Realm sixth level expert who sealed space.
• Zhan Xuetu mocked Nan Bai Long for soiling himself in fear and declared that he would kill him despite the Nan Family's status.
• Nan Shanyang apologized and offered compensation, but Zhan Xuetu demanded that the Nan Family cut off Nan Bai Long's head.
• Nan Cai'er considered using her father's Jade Slip, while Nan Bai Long begged her and the elders to save him.

Nan Bai Long begged Zhan Xuetu to spare him, then blamed Nan Cai'er for his failings and demanded she sacrifice an arm for his life. Nan Cai'er's attempt to escape with an academy Jade Slip failed when Zhan Xuetu destroyed the passage, leaving her badly injured and hurtling toward her brother.

• Nan Bai Long knelt, offered his storage ring, and begged Zhan Xuetu to spare his life, while Nan Cai'er and the elders watched in anger and shame.
• Nan Bai Long accused Nan Cai'er of manipulating him and stealing his opportunities, shocking Nan Cai'er, Nan Shengquan, and Nan Shanyang.
• Zhan Xuetu offered to spare Nan Bai Long if Nan Cai'er cut off one arm, and Nan Bai Long accepted the bargain.
• Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang urged Nan Cai'er to agree, but she refused and crushed her academy teleportation Jade Slip.
• Zhan Xuetu twisted and destroyed the escape passage, sending its Gang Qi into Nan Cai'er and hurling her toward Nan Bai Long as she vomited blood.

Nan Bai Long severed Nan Cai'er's arm and was saved from her retaliation by Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang, leaving the siblings at odds. Yuchi Lingling then escaped into the secret realm with two others, and as Zhan Xuetu ordered everyone to attack the barrier, Ji Wuchang realized his poison was taking effect.

• Nan Bai Long cut off Nan Cai'er's arm, and Nan Cai'er attacked him until Nan Shengquan and Nan Shanyang intervened and sent her flying.
• Zhan Xuetu praised the spectacle, then agreed to let Nan Bai Long leave; Nan Shengquan apologized to Nan Cai'er and departed with him.
• Yuchi Lingling opened a passage into the secret realm and vanished through it with two others before Zhan Xuetu could stop them.
• Ji Wuchang used the Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to see four figures inside the barrier, including an old man giving a pill to the man in the square.
• Zhan Xuetu ordered everyone to attack the barrier, while Ji Wuchang recognized that the Gentle Breeze Sinew and Bone Softener was weakening their attacks.

Zhan Xuetu's assault on the barrier provoked a devastating burst of white light, which injured him despite his sacrifice of a flood dragon. Wengu Longping and the Myriad Souls Hall arrived, and she revealed her Resentful Soul Banner as she confronted Zhan Xuetu.

• The barrier unleashed deadly white rays at the attackers, and Zhan Xuetu struck it with a powerful sword slash.
• The barrier's light destroyed the flood dragon and injured Zhan Xuetu when he blocked its attack with his fist.
• Zhan Xuetu called out the hidden Myriad Souls Hall, and Wengu Longping arrived with two elders and Wengu Wuhua.
• Wengu Longping and Zhan Xuetu accused each other's factions of plotting against the Ji Family and the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty.
• Wengu Longping summoned her Resentful Soul Banner, releasing countless bound wronged souls.

Wengu Longping used the Resentful Soul Banner to destroy the barrier, allowing the cultivators to enter the secret realm and see the Ji Family elder’s inheritance site. Yuchi Lingling, Yuchi Weida, and their Dao protectors had already reached the building, while Ji Wuchang followed the others, confident that the inheritance was not yet theirs.

• Wengu Longping killed several cultivators with the Resentful Soul Banner, and others blew themselves up to escape its wronged souls.
• Ji Wuchang asked the Thousand Poison Venerable how to kill Wengu Longping, and the Venerable said he would poison her but warned that the banner would be difficult to counter.
• Zhan Xuetu provoked Wengu Longping into attacking the barrier, and her wronged souls gradually broke it at great cost.
• Wengu Longping and the other cultivators saw Yuchi Lingling, Yuchi Weida, and their two Dao protectors struggling toward the building’s doors.
• Zhan Xuetu and Wengu Longping rushed toward the plaza, followed by the Ji Family members, Nan Cai'er, Nan Shanyang, and the other cultivators, while Ji Wuchang followed at a measured pace.