Chapter Summaries

Mei Hongyu discovered Li Yan had been swept into her isolated space and nearly killed him before recognizing him. She used her treasured frost Pills to suppress the fire poison consuming his body, but after a day he remained unconscious and the flames had only partly weakened.

• Mei Hongyu sensed a wind pillar that might lead outside, but it vanished before she could enter it.
• She found an injured cultivator whose wounds were rapidly healing and prepared to kill him before he awoke.
• Mei Hongyu recognized the unconscious cultivator as Li Yan and stopped her sword just before it struck his head.
• She examined Li Yan and found his body engulfed in flames while his source spiritual power struggled to resist them.
• Mei Hongyu fed Li Yan frost Pills, but after one day he was still unconscious and the flames had diminished by only a little over twenty percent.

Mei Hongyu used her Wind Illumination Art to combine her power with Li Yan’s black water-attribute magic and suppress the fire poison ravaging his body. After enduring days of exhaustion and pain to clear the final flames, she saw Li Yan awaken and take a defensive stance.

• Mei Hongyu exhausted her fire-poison remedies and discovered that her Wind Illumination Art strengthened Li Yan’s black magic enough to extinguish patches of flame.
• Mei Hongyu positioned the unconscious Li Yan and spent six days directing her power through his body, fighting the spreading fire poison while replenishing her strength with pills.
• Mei Hongyu cleared the flames from Li Yan’s wounds and focused on the last stubborn patch near his Dantian.
• Mei Hongyu’s pill toxins flared as she forced her power onward, and a surge of Li Yan’s black magic submerged the remaining flames.
• Li Yan abruptly sat up, and Mei Hongyu greeted him as he instinctively raised his defenses.

Li Yan awoke in a desolate secret realm with Mei Hongyu, who had saved him after his battle with the silver-haired old man. After five months of recovery, he had regained less than forty percent of his strength and decided to learn more about their situation before continuing.

• Li Yan woke in a cave, recognized Mei Hongyu, and recalled fighting the silver-haired old man before losing consciousness.
• Mei Hongyu told Li Yan he was safe in an uninhabited secret realm, then left to refine the pill toxin in her body.
• Li Yan examined his injuries and realized Mei Hongyu had likely rescued him, while traces of the old man's Nascent Soul fire and wind-element power remained in his body.
• Li Yan set up formation flags and took Pills to recover from the damage to his spiritual power, meridians, Dantian, and sea of consciousness.
• Five months later, Li Yan had recovered less than forty percent of his strength, but his Dantian and sea of consciousness had stabilized, so he decided to investigate the situation.

Li Yan recovered from his injuries and reunited with Mei Hongyu in a barren, blue-lit secret realm where they had both become trapped. After learning about the realm and Mei Hongyu’s repeated attempts to find a way out, Li Yan proposed that they explore the dark blue halo together.

• Li Yan finished recovering, changed into blue robes, and thanked Mei Hongyu for saving his life.
• Mei Hongyu mistook Li Yan for Jiang at first and was reminded of a blue-robed youth from her past.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu exchanged accounts of how they had arrived in the secret realm while withholding details about the Desolate Moon Continent.
• Mei Hongyu guided Li Yan around the barren realm and described the dark blue halo, the blue-light gorge within it, and her dangerous attempts to pass through.
• Li Yan examined the halo with his Divine Sense and asked Mei Hongyu whether it might lead outside.
• Li Yan proposed that he and Mei Hongyu enter the halo together.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu investigated the dark azure halo and the places where wind pillars had appeared, but found no way out. Li Yan gave Mei Hongyu spirit stones and Pills so they could recover before trying the halo again, and she was astonished by the storage ring he gave her.

• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered the dark azure halo together, reached the thirty-li mark, and withdrew after Li Yan sensed a dangerous aura and judged that he needed to recover.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu searched the two places where wind pillars had appeared, but his attempts to find passages or break restrictions revealed no exit.
• Li Yan concluded that the two places were one-way entry nodes and proposed that they recover before investigating the halo again.
• Li Yan gave Mei Hongyu a storage ring, spirit stones, and Pills to help her heal and support their next attempt to escape.
• Mei Hongyu accepted the ring, examined its hundred-zhang space, and was startled by the mountain of spirit stones inside.

Mei Hongyu was stunned by the vast wealth of mid-grade spirit stones and sixth-grade Nascent Soul-nourishing Pills Li Yan gave her, then used them to advance her cultivation. After fully healing, Li Yan set out with her to investigate the dark-green barrier and seek a way out of their strange space.

• Mei Hongyu discovered that Li Yan had given her a mountain of mid-grade spirit stones and several sixth-grade Pills that nourished the Nascent Soul.
• Li Yan recovered from his injuries over several years while Mei Hongyu cultivated with the gifts and rapidly advanced her late Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Li Yan left his cave and asked Mei Hongyu whether she was ready to investigate the dark-green light barrier.
• Mei Hongyu joined Li Yan, and he instructed her to remain within his defensive perimeter and help only if necessary as they flew toward the barrier.
• Li Yan reflected on how his Five Immortals Sect techniques and mastery of the Five Elements could help him sense dangers in the space of chaotic currents.

Li Yan deduced that Luo Gucheng had traced him through Amuer and suspected that the sect was secretly seeking the Five Immortal Sects. Worried that the sword cultivators might uncover more about him, he decided to go to Luo Gucheng, then continued through the azure gorge with Mei Hongyu.

• Li Yan reflected on the two sword cultivators who had nearly killed him and pieced together how they might have followed clues from Amuer to the Lost Continent.
• Li Yan suspected Luo Gucheng wanted to find the Five Immortal Sects for itself and decided he could no longer wait to investigate the sect.
• Li Yan spread his protective spiritual radiance around Mei Hongyu and brought her along through the gorge.
• Li Yan pierced the azure light humanoid with golden flying needles, destroying it and causing the azure world around them to collapse.
• Mei Hongyu watched Li Yan advance through the gorge and realized that the powerful azure humanoids would have left her with no hope of escape alone.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered a pitch-black fissure and discovered a vast karst cave with a deadly vortex of black light that appeared to be a spatial severance. Li Yan tested the vortex with a powerful golden hammer while shielding Mei Hongyu, but the danger remained unknown.

• Li Yan investigated the fissure and warned Mei Hongyu that he might put her into his spirit-storage pouch if the danger required it.
• Li Yan brought Mei Hongyu into the fissure, where they forced their way through invisible resistance and emerged at the edge of a vast hollow cave.
• Mei Hongyu identified the slowly rotating black-light vortex below as a possible spatial severance after it shredded her Divine Sense.
• Li Yan summoned a massive golden hammer, connected it to himself with spiritual power, and sent it into the vortex while raising a green-rune shield in front of them.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu tested the enormous black-light vortex and concluded that its tearing power was deadly, then tried to fly toward the cavern ceiling as a possible exit. The vortex suddenly surged and dragged them back down, leaving Li Yan struggling to shield them and flee its force.

• Li Yan sent a golden hammer and then a defensive red coral artifact into the black-light vortex, severing each spiritual tether as the vortex rapidly destroyed them.
• Li Yan warned Mei Hongyu that they could not touch the vortex, and they decided to investigate the azure light above the cavern as a possible exit.
• Li Yan carried Mei Hongyu upward, but the vortex accelerated and unleashed tearing force when they had risen only about a zhang.
• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to cut through the first surge, then stood on the shears and deployed the Fuxi Disk to block further attacks.
• The vortex's force overwhelmed Li Yan's ascent, and he and Mei Hongyu began descending before he could reach the cavern wall.

Li Yan rescued Mei Hongyu from the black-light vortex by using the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes and lost his connection to the Fuxi Disk. They discovered a newly revealed path leading to the cavern’s green light, but could not determine whether it was a natural formation or a trap.

• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to pull himself and Mei Hongyu away from the vortex while the Fuxi Disk was swallowed.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu landed against the cavern wall, and the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes returned to his control as the vortex stopped attacking.
• Mei Hongyu spotted a narrow, spiraling path that had appeared along the cavern wall and led toward the green light above.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu examined the path and debated whether it was a trap, with Li Yan judging the odds evenly because the vortexes seemed natural but the path’s endpoints looked deliberate.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered a narrow, mist-covered mountain path that suppressed Divine Sense and attacked anyone who strayed beyond its edge. Li Yan led the way forward, but the pair had not yet found an exit or learned how far the path extended.

• Mei Hongyu set off to investigate the mountain path, and Li Yan followed when she vanished into the restriction.
• Li Yan found himself on a slick, narrow path bordered by a sheer wall and a mist-filled abyss where the black-light vortex lay.
• Li Yan used his movement technique to reach Mei Hongyu, and violent attacks shot from the abyss when he briefly extended beyond the path.
• Li Yan warned Mei Hongyu to stay within the path and led her forward under his defensive barrier.
• Li Yan realized the curved cave walls prevented them from flying directly to an upper section of the circular path.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu encountered a blood-red-dressed girl blocking the foggy mountain path. Li Yan discovered she had no soul and blasted her into the mist, but her strange resilience left him uncertain what she was.

• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu cautiously advanced through the fog until they found a blood-red-dressed girl sitting across the path.
• The girl begged Li Yan to take her away, but he shot her through the forehead with his Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• The girl continued speaking and walking despite the wound, and Li Yan realized she had no soul.
• Li Yan struck her with a Soul-Sundering Slash, which had no effect, then punched her and sent her flying into the fog.
• Li Yan recognized that her body had withstood his powerful punch far better than it had resisted the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.

Li Yan fought the blood-red-dressed little girl on a narrow mountain path, struggling against her uncanny speed, strength, and ability to vanish from his Divine Sense. After disrupting her access to the power of heaven and earth and breaking her golden sword, he redirected its broken tip toward her eye.

• The little girl in the blood-red dress ambushed Li Yan, but Mei Hongyu warned him of her position, allowing him to counter her attack with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• The girl forced back Li Yan’s Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, then recovered from being struck and charged at him with an arm transformed into a golden sword.
• Li Yan used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disrupt the laws of heaven and earth, weakening the girl’s attacks and helping his two Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes break her sword.
• Li Yan redirected the broken sword body and struck it with his fist, sending its sharp tip toward one of the girl’s eyes.

Li Yan fought the blood-red-dressed little girl on the mountain path, struggling to defend against her elusive close-range attacks while Mei Hongyu warned him of danger. He finally wounded her with a Flame-Feather Meteor Arrow, sending her into the fog, and prepared to test whether soul power could affect her.

• Li Yan deflected the little girl's attacks and repeatedly drove her back, but could not seriously injure her as Mei Hongyu watched their clash.
• The little girl attacked Li Yan from the fog while a second strike emerged from warped space ahead, and Mei Hongyu warned him just in time.
• Li Yan disrupted the laws of heaven and earth and used his knee to deflect the little girl's elbow, but her golden spike nearly pierced his heart.
• Li Yan bent backward to evade the spike, then counterattacked with a Flame-Feather Meteor Arrow that struck the little girl's back and sent her into the fog.
• Li Yan spread his soul power to probe the little girl and considered testing whether soul arts could affect her.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu survived the blood-dressed girl’s attacks and tried to understand how she had sensed the danger. Li Yan decided they must leave the mountain path, relying on Mei Hongyu’s warnings as the hidden enemy waited for another chance to strike.

• Li Yan asked Mei Hongyu how she had sensed the girl’s true attacks, and Mei Hongyu said her perception was connected to her constitution.
• Mei Hongyu privately recalled that cultivating the Wind Clarity Art had greatly heightened her danger sense, a secret she had shared only with her deceased Dao companion.
• Mei Hongyu sensed no immediate danger, and Li Yan reasoned that the injured girl had withdrawn to seek a better opportunity for a sneak attack.
• Li Yan theorized that the intelligent girl was a powerful puppet left behind by a cultivator who had either died or disappeared, then asked Mei Hongyu to warn him of danger ahead.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu continued up the mountain path while Li Yan reasoned through the blood-red-dressed girl’s nature and how to defeat her. After Mei Hongyu warned him of an attack ahead, the girl ambushed them again, and Li Yan met her golden greatsword with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike as she forced it toward him.

• Li Yan decided not to put Mei Hongyu inside Tuban and relied on her heightened perception to warn him of danger.
• Li Yan reconsidered the girl’s wounds, strength, and white light, then began to suspect a connection to the Undying Nether Phoenix and refining materials.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu flew farther up the mountain path, staying on it to avoid the black-light vortex.
• Mei Hongyu warned Li Yan as dense fog swept around a bend, and Li Yan immediately hurled a fireball into it.
• The blood-red-dressed girl burst through the flames and attacked Li Yan with a golden greatsword.
• Li Yan blocked the sword with the wind wheel formed by the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, but the girl’s runes began draining his mana as she forced the weapon downward.

Li Yan used dark-blue flames to exploit the metal puppet girl's weakness and drove her off the mountain path, though he failed to destroy her. He concluded that fire overcame her metal-element body, while Mei Hongyu joined him on the path.

• Li Yan lured the blood-red-dressed girl close, then unleashed dark-blue flames that clung to her golden greatsword and forced her to retreat.
• Li Yan used Phoenix Soars to the Heavens to catch the girl by the rock wall and strike her with a fist and flames, wounding her before she escaped into the fog.
• Li Yan watched the girl vanish beyond the mountain path and regretted that he could not pursue her or destroy her sturdy body.
• Mei Hongyu arrived and asked whether the girl feared fire, and Li Yan said she was likely a metal-element puppet vulnerable to fire.
• Li Yan reasoned that the Undying Nether Phoenix's cold flame had injured the puppet because fire overcame metal, and that Gui Ultimate Flame had confirmed her weakness.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu reached the end of the mountain path and found a vast azure light curtain. Li Yan tested it with his spear, triggering a barrage of azure projectiles that forced them to retreat down the path.

• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu continued onward after the little girl in the blood-red dress failed to reappear, reaching the end of the mountain path without further obstruction.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu examined the azure light curtain but could see nothing beyond its blue glow.
• Li Yan protected Mei Hongyu with his spiritual barrier and Guiyi Water-Parting Spike shield before probing the curtain with a black spear.
• The curtain trapped the spear, then brightened and shattered it, unleashing fragments and solid streams of azure light at Li Yan and Mei Hongyu.
• Li Yan shielded Mei Hongyu from the barrage, but the force battered his arms and drove them back beneath the steps and down the mountain path.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu survived the green-light attacks and prepared to break the restriction, but Li Yan stopped when the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief began acting strangely inside Tuban. He sensed the treasure's longing to leave, yet feared an awakened artifact spirit might be hiding a threat as Mei Hongyu asked whether another problem had arisen.

• Li Yan concluded they could not force their way through the restriction and planned to use his prison-breaking technique while Mei Hongyu followed behind him.
• Li Yan sensed the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief rising and striking the sealed cave where he had stored it in Tuban.
• Li Yan entered the cave with his Divine Sense and considered whether the treasure's strange behavior meant an artifact spirit had awakened.
• Li Yan sensed the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief's simple yearning to go out, but hesitated because releasing it might be dangerous.
• Mei Hongyu asked Li Yan whether another problem had appeared.

Li Yan used the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief to test the azure light curtain, but it pulled him and Mei Hongyu inside and then vanished with him. In the limestone cave, the little girl in the blood-red dress recognized a familiar aura in the light, but she could not pass through the barrier to pursue it.

• Li Yan realized the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief was drawn toward the azure light curtain and pressed it against the barrier.
• The Heaven-Stealing Kerchief dragged Li Yan into the azure light, and he sent Mei Hongyu into Tuban before disappearing.
• The little girl in the blood-red dress sensed a familiar aura in the azure light and flew toward the ceiling to retrieve it.
• The barrier repeatedly bounced the little girl back, and the aura vanished before she could reach it.
• The little girl remained trapped in the limestone cave, furious and despairing as she recalled that the azure light let other objects pass but blocked her.