Chapter Summaries

Li Yan defeated the golden-armored giant with the Soul-Destroying Water, captured its true form—a cracked golden hairpin—and sealed it inside Tuban. After treating his injuries, he broke through the formation and fled, still wary that danger remained.

• Li Yan watched the golden-armored giant's body vanish, leaving a cracked golden hairpin and several treasures behind.
• Li Yan drew the hairpin into Tuban, sealed it beneath layers of restrictions and talismans, and added a seal formed by the laws of heaven and earth.
• Li Yan collected the giant's other treasures, swallowed half a True Essence Pill, and used silver light to heal his wounds and restore his severed arm.
• Li Yan reflected on how he had concealed his abilities and used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to land the Soul-Destroying Water attack.
• Li Yan unleashed Prison Breaker, broke out of the formation, and fled into the distance.

Li Yan reached the mountains at the edge of the underground formation and found a glowing violet-gold mark that might lead to an exit, but he hesitated to risk triggering another trap. Instead, he searched the dead golden-armored giant’s spatial artifacts for a way out and the Strength Soul Gu, finding neither so far.

• Li Yan reached the mountain boundary and decided to return toward the place where he had been teleported before making further plans.
• Li Yan found a glowing violet-gold line beneath an overhanging rock and worried it might lure him into another formation.
• Li Yan reconsidered his options and searched the golden-armored giant’s storage and Spirit Storage Space artifacts for tools that could control the formation.
• Li Yan broke the powerful divine-sense imprints on the artifacts and suffered backlash to his sea of consciousness.
• Li Yan found no Strength Soul Gu in the two Spirit Storage Space artifacts and began inspecting the remaining storage artifacts, which held spirit stones and mostly metal-element materials.

Li Yan discovered that a teardrop-shaped pendant opened the purple-gold formation, revealing a purple vortex and a golden-lit figure seated beyond it. After seeing the figure and fearing it was the true master of the place, he fled, but when no one pursued him, he considered other possibilities and flew back toward the pendant.

• Li Yan searched the golden-armored giant’s belongings and found a purple-glowing teardrop-shaped pendant among the treasures.
• Li Yan struck the pendant from a distance, and its purple beam activated the purple-gold lines, opening a vortex where the boulder had been.
• Li Yan sensed a cross-legged figure wrapped in golden light beyond the vortex and fled, leaving the pendant behind.
• When no one followed or showed any sign of pursuit, Li Yan wondered whether the figure was dead, in a profound state of cultivation, or merely an inert object.
• After the vortex vanished and the boulder reappeared, Li Yan flew back toward the pendant.

Li Yan entered the purple vortex to attack the injured cultivator he believed was healing by absorbing Ye Yuhong’s soul. He saw the cultivator’s face and recognized her as the little girl in the blood-red dress he had encountered years earlier in the cyan world.

• Li Yan decided to enter the purple vortex while the cultivator was distracted and left his incarnation controlling the pendant to keep the passage open.
• Li Yan found Ye Yuhong unconscious above a golden-light-shrouded cultivator, whose power was drawing in Ye Yuhong’s soul.
• Li Yan concluded that the cultivator was using Ye Yuhong’s soul to recover from an injury and focused on killing her before she could react.
• Li Yan used spiritual power in his eyes to see the cultivator clearly and was shocked to recognize the little girl he had met in the cyan world.

Li Yan discovered that the little girl in the yellow dress could withstand his attacks and seemed far stronger than the girl in the blood-red dress. He returned to the cave and used his divine sense to transport the unconscious girl into a heavily restricted cage in Tuban.

• Li Yan attacked the little girl in the yellow dress with his Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes, but her body repelled the strike without waking her.
• Li Yan fled through the purple vortex, confirmed that the girl had not pursued him, and returned to inspect her again.
• Li Yan saw that his spikes had pierced her dress but left her unharmed, and he failed to damage her soul with the Five Immortals Sect secret art, "Soul-Entangling Lure Kill."
• Li Yan used his divine sense to send the little girl in the yellow dress into a mountain beneath Tuban, where he formed a cage around her.
• Li Yan placed restrictions and talismans on the girl, then began communicating with the supreme laws of heaven and earth.

Li Yan imprisoned the Yellow-Dressed Girl in Tuban after realizing she was unconscious and absorbing souls to heal a severe injury. He remained uncertain whether she or the golden-armored giant was master and servant, and ended by checking on the still-unconscious Ye Yuhong.

• Li Yan used Tuban's earth spiritual energy to seal the Yellow-Dressed Girl inside its space.
• Li Yan concluded that the Yellow-Dressed Girl's soul was badly injured and that she was absorbing Ye Yuhong's soul to recover.
• Li Yan reasoned that the golden-armored giant might be either the Yellow-Dressed Girl's servant or her master, but found evidence for neither theory conclusive.
• Li Yan took comfort that the golden-armored giant was dead and the Yellow-Dressed Girl was imprisoned, then saw that Ye Yuhong remained unconscious.

Li Yan secured Ye Yuhong as a potential hostage and test subject, then explored the cave abode built around the Yellow-Dressed Girl’s chamber. Unable to find the Strength Soul Gu, he headed for the cave abode’s main gate and left the unknown exit for later.

• Li Yan sealed Ye Yuhong and stored him away, considering how he might use him to threaten Luo Beixi or test ways to break cultivation restrictions.
• Li Yan used the water-drop-shaped pendant to open a hidden Stone Gate and entered a larger cave abode, realizing the pendant could open its secret chambers.
• Li Yan cautiously searched the chambers with black beetle Gu, finding mostly empty rooms and collecting the pills and materials from the golden-armored giant’s suspected cultivation chamber.
• Li Yan found no sign of the Strength Soul Gu and decided to investigate the cave abode’s main gate before risking the other exit, which might lead to the vast golden space.

Li Yan was unexpectedly pulled through the cave abode gate and teleported to a remote cliff beside a raging sea. He realized the hidden entrance required special hand seals to reveal and activate, and suspected the teleportation was designed to help the cave abode’s owner escape or remove intruders.

• Li Yan tested the water-drop pendant and his own magical power against the cave abode gate, but neither opened it.
• The gate suddenly pulled Li Yan inside and teleported him through a sequence of shifting scenes.
• Li Yan emerged on a reef beneath a cliff, where ordinary waves parted around him.
• Li Yan examined the cliff and recognized that a concealed formation had hidden the teleportation entrance.
• Li Yan flew to the cliff top and concluded that the location was remote and the formation required special hand seals.
• Li Yan considered that the gate’s teleportation formation might have been built for the owner’s escape or to send intruders away.

Li Yan settled in a secluded underwater location after abandoning his search for the possibly nonexistent Strength Soul Gu, intending to obtain the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk cultivation method from Luo Beixi. He opened Luo Beixi’s purple jade slip and discovered that Luo Beixi had been investigating a past atrocity and left instructions concerning Youhuang.

• Li Yan decided not to return to the dangerous underground valley and instead flew deep beneath the sea to find a safe place.
• Li Yan established protective arrays, changed his appearance, and examined the two jade slips Luo Beixi had given him.
• Li Yan blocked the purple jade slip’s divine-sense attack and broke through its restriction.
• Li Yan read Luo Beixi’s message to his master, in which Luo Beixi apologized for disobeying instructions and described evidence linking four red-cloaked figures to his investigation.
• Luo Beixi asked his master to care for Youhuang if she awakened, tell her he had gone missing, or send her on her way.

Li Yan read Luo Beixi’s two jade slips and learned that the man’s unconscious younger sister, Luo Youhuang, had driven his search for the Strength Soul Gu. The siblings’ bond and Li Yan’s memories of Bai Rou made him question whether to Soul Search and kill Luo Beixi and Ye Yuhong, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Li Yan read Luo Beixi’s purple jade slip and learned that Luo Beixi had secretly investigated a suspected murderer, while asking his master to protect Youhuang and conceal his possible death.
• Li Yan read the white jade slip and realized Youhuang was Luo Beixi’s unconscious younger sister, and that Luo Beixi had left to seek a way to help her recover.
• Li Yan concluded that Luo Beixi had sought the Strength Soul Gu because something might have gone wrong with Youhuang’s soul, and considered Ye Yuhong’s possible role as a Soul Cultivator.
• Li Yan recalled his own sister and Bai Rou as he absorbed Luo Beixi’s anguish and protectiveness toward Youhuang.
• Li Yan’s resolve to Soul Search and kill Luo Beixi and Ye Yuhong wavered as he weighed the danger of sparing Luo Beixi against the cost of acting on compassion.

Li Yan searched Luo Beixi’s soul to learn whether he and Ye Yuhong had meant to use him as a blood sacrifice, and discovered Luo Beixi’s loving family history. Luo Beixi’s memories reached the start of a trial between the White Devil Race and the White Bone Sect, leaving the cause of his family’s calamity unexplained.

• Li Yan decided to search Luo Beixi’s soul, but resolved to spare him and Ye Yuhong if neither had intended to kill him.
• Li Yan performed the Soul Search and learned that Luo Beixi had grown up loved by his parents and close to his younger sister, Youhuang.
• Luo Beixi fell in love with his mother’s female disciple, and their families expected them to become Dao companions after he formed his Nascent Soul.
• The White Devil Race arranged to send selected cultivators to a disciple exchange and trial hosted by its ally, the White Bone Sect.

Luo Beixi's parents took their disciples and daughter Youhuang to an auction while returning from the alliance trial, where masked attackers slaughtered them and stole most of the treasures. The attackers escaped, leaving the White Devil Race and the city to investigate the massacre.

• Luo Beixi's parents took three disciples and Youhuang to the alliance trial while Luo Beixi remained in seclusion.
• A Bone Sect Body Integration Realm cultivator demanded Luo Beixi's prospective Dao Companion as a concubine, and her parents angrily refused.
• On their return journey, Luo Beixi's parents heard that an auction would offer a Great Fruitless Fruit and brought their group to the auction house.
• Attackers sealed the auction house and killed Luo Beixi's parents and one of his father's disciples; his prospective Dao Companion was gravely injured, while Youhuang was knocked unconscious.
• The attackers escaped after stealing sixty percent of the auction treasures, and the city later paid compensation while investigators pursued the case.

After his family was killed in a carefully planned attack, Luo Beixi learned that Youhuang suspected the tragedy was connected to a White Bone Sect powerhouse and a rumored Great Fruitless Fruit auction. He investigated through his master, who found no auction listing or clear evidence but agreed to keep searching.

• The attack killed Luo Beixi's parents and prospective Dao companion, while Youhuang and two others survived; the culprits escaped despite a pursuit.
• After recovering, Youhuang told Luo Beixi that the White Bone Sect powerhouse had once tried to take his prospective Dao companion as a concubine, and that his parents had traveled to the city after hearing the Great Fruitless Fruit would be auctioned.
• Luo Beixi and his father's injured disciple suspected the attack had been arranged, but lacked the strength and influence to investigate.
• Luo Beixi devoted himself to cultivation under his master in the Holy Devil Palace and, after forming his Nascent Soul, revealed his suspicions.
• Luo Beixi's master found that the Great Fruitless Fruit had not been auctioned and that the suspected powerhouse and his disciples had no apparent opportunity to carry out the attack.
• Luo Beixi's master found no proof but promised to continue investigating, while warning Luo Beixi to remain silent about the suspicion.

Luo Beixi learned that Youhuang’s worsening condition came from an injury to her fourth spirit, and a ghost cultivator technique helped suppress it. As he continued seeking answers about his parents’ deaths, his senior brother was killed, leaving his master to warn that Luo Beixi might now be in danger too.

• Luo Beixi’s master discovered that Youhuang’s fourth spirit had been damaged by lingering force from a vicious spell and warned that direct treatment could kill her or leave her an idiot.
• A Soul Cultivator in the Holy Devil Palace judged that treating Youhuang’s established injury was too risky, so Luo Beixi’s master arranged for her to cultivate a ghost cultivator technique instead.
• Youhuang’s symptoms eased as her cultivation improved, while Luo Beixi’s investigation into his parents’ deaths stalled for lack of evidence.
• Luo Beixi’s surviving senior brother reached Spirit Transformation, investigated the deaths in secret, and later died outside, prompting Luo Beixi to suspect that he had been murdered.
• Luo Beixi’s master warned him that his and his senior brother’s investigations may have exposed his intentions, and that the people responsible could now target him.

Luo Beixi and Luo Youhuang continued cultivating after their senior brother’s death, but Youhuang’s soul condition worsened again as she advanced. After their master found rising blazing yang power in her soul, he could only tell her to stop cultivating until a traveling soul cultivator returned.

• Luo Beixi devoted himself to cultivation while Luo Youhuang recovered through ghost cultivator techniques and eventually reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Luo Beixi kept the senior brother’s death and his suspicions about their parents’ killers from Luo Youhuang, who formed plans of her own.
• Luo Youhuang’s consciousness became muddled during cultivation and later episodes grew more frequent after she reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Luo Beixi examined Youhuang and brought her to his master, who found that the blazing yang power in her soul had increased again.
• Luo Beixi’s master could not find the sect’s soul cultivator expert and ordered Youhuang to stop cultivating until the expert returned.

Luo Beixi struggled to save Luo Youhuang after her soul injury relapsed, searching for the rare Strength Soul Gu and a stronger Soul Cultivator as her condition deteriorated. He also secretly investigated his parents’ deaths, while the White Bone Sect expert remained trapped at the Integrated Body Early Stage.

• Luo Beixi entered secluded cultivation, but months later his emergency jade slip shattered and he found Luo Youhuang unconscious and bleeding after her soul injury relapsed.
• A returning Soul Cultivator diagnosed a new crack in Luo Youhuang’s fourth soul and said the rare Strength Soul Gu or a stronger Soul Cultivator might save her.
• Luo Beixi searched unsuccessfully for the Gu and a stronger Soul Cultivator as Youhuang’s episodes grew more frequent and she eventually stopped waking.
• The Soul Cultivator taught Ye Yuhong a technique to soothe Youhuang’s soul and left soul pills, while making clear that her chances of recovery were poor.
• Luo Beixi continued seeking a cure and investigating his parents’ deaths, while the White Bone Sect expert remained stuck at the Integrated Body Early Stage for more than two thousand years.

After learning Luo Beixi’s tragic past and that he had come only to save his sister, Li Yan decided to spare him rather than break the restriction on his memories. He still planned to obtain the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk method through illusion, and began casting a spell on Luo Beixi.

• Li Yan discovered through Soul Search that Luo Beixi had been ambushed before and was driven by the need to protect Luo Youhuang and avenge his family.
• Li Yan found that the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk method was hidden behind a restriction in Luo Beixi’s sea of consciousness.
• Li Yan reconsidered killing Luo Beixi and resolved to spare him without breaking the restriction that might kill him.
• Li Yan chose to use illusion to make Luo Beixi reveal the method, then alter his memories while preserving their foundations.
• Li Yan formed runes with his soul power, and the green runes sank into Luo Beixi’s body.

Li Yan used a soul-sea illusion and illusion poison to make Luo Beixi relive the events surrounding the Strength Soul Gu, then let him awaken with his memories intact. Luo Beixi recognized Wang Xing as the powerful figure who had defeated the flaming giant and the Strength Soul Gu, and the chapter ended with Li Yan claiming he had also set his sights on the Strength Soul Gu.

• Li Yan cast a soul-sea illusion on Luo Beixi and spread Zhili illusion poison over him to make the dream more convincing.
• In the illusion, Luo Beixi dreamed that he had obtained the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk cultivation art to heal his younger sister.
• Luo Beixi recalled being trapped by an array, finding Junior Brother Ye captured by the Strength Soul Gu, and being beaten by the flaming giant.
• Wang Xing appeared, fought the flaming giant, and stopped the Strength Soul Gu before both enemies unleashed destructive attacks that knocked Luo Beixi unconscious.
• Luo Beixi awoke in a forest, recognized Wang Xing, and wondered why he had accepted the invitation despite their blood contract.
• Li Yan, speaking as Wang Xing, told Luo Beixi he had also set his sights on the Strength Soul Gu.

Wang Xing let Luo Beixi and Ye Yuhong leave after defeating the flame giant, but Luo Beixi realized Wang Xing was a powerful Soul Cultivator and begged him to save his younger sister, whose fourth soul had been damaged. Wang Xing questioned Luo Beixi about Ye Yuhong spying on his shop, leaving Luo Beixi convinced that Wang Xing had known about it all along.

• Luo Beixi realized the Strength Soul Gu had died with its master and feared provoking Wang Xing by reacting badly.
• Wang Xing returned the unconscious Ye Yuhong to Luo Beixi, told him to leave, and said he would not accompany him back underground.
• Luo Beixi inferred that Wang Xing had only pretended to seek the Strength Soul Gu and had spared them despite having no need to intervene.
• As Wang Xing prepared to leave, Luo Beixi knelt and begged him to save his younger sister, Youhuang, whose fourth soul had been damaged.
• Wang Xing asked whether Ye Yuhong had repeatedly used soul arts to spy on his shop, and Luo Beixi realized Wang Xing had already detected it.

Li Yan agreed to examine Luo Beixi’s younger sister Youhuang, whose fourth soul had been injured for years, but insisted they meet far from Saint Demon City and warned that the treatment could fail or kill her. A year later, Li Yan and Luo Beixi reached a remote location so Li Yan could attempt to help her.

• Luo Beixi pleaded with Wang Xing to save Youhuang and offered his life in return.
• Li Yan agreed to act outside Saint Demon City, demanded secrecy, and warned Luo Beixi that Youhuang might not survive the treatment.
• Luo Beixi accepted the risk without hesitation, then followed Li Yan’s instructions to recover while Ye Yuhong remained unconscious.
• Luo Beixi remembered a dream in which Youhuang said his cultivation technique could heal her, and he wondered if the dream had foretold what happened.
• One year later, Li Yan and Luo Beixi arrived more than a hundred thousand li from Saint Demon City, where Li Yan planned to examine Youhuang.