Chapter Summaries

Wu Fei and Jing Fanyu left the great inheritance tomb after claiming its treasures and returned to their sects, where Wu Fei revealed the haul to the Buddha Spirit Sect’s leaders. The chapter ended with him naming over a hundred Mysterious Lightning Fruits and twenty ancient Mysterious Lightning Wood trees among the treasures he and Jing Fanyu had taken.

• Wu Fei and Jing Fanyu left the inheritance grounds, then used teleportation tokens to exit the small world after all the inheritances had been claimed.
• When they emerged, both auras surged to the Spirit Transformation Stage, and the other cultivators suspected they had taken the inheritance grounds’ treasures.
• Wu Fei returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect with Jingguan and pointed out that his teleportation token could still be used to enter the tomb.
• On Moon-Questioning Peak, Jing Fanyu asked Wu Fei about the ink-black xiao on his Buddhist beads, and Wu Fei said it was a gift from a friend.
• The factions decided to keep the teleportation tokens and allow selected disciples to enter the small world each year, while Wu Fei returned to the Buddha Spirit Sect.
• Wu Fei admitted to Jingguan and the elders that he and Jing Fanyu had entered the grounds early and taken many treasures, including over a hundred Mysterious Lightning Fruits and twenty Mysterious Lightning Wood trees more than fifty thousand years old.

Wu Fei gave the Buddha Spirit Sect the remaining Mysterious Lightning Wood and prepared prayer beads for Yin Fan, but followed him to a remote village when Yin Fan abruptly left. Wu Fei helped Yin Fan stop a spreading gray mist with a golden arrow, and Yin Fan returned to question whether Wu Fei had left his room.

• Wu Fei gave the remaining Mysterious Lightning Wood to the Buddha Spirit Sect and made prayer beads for Yin Fan.
• Yin Fan arrived at Wu Fei's room to collect the prayer beads, then abruptly left after sensing an urgent matter.
• Wu Fei secretly followed Yin Fan to a remote village, where Yin Fan pinned a gray-mist-emitting figure with his spirit sword.
• Wu Fei used the Silent Dust Pearl to fire a golden arrow that pierced the mist alongside Yin Fan's sword and helped overcome it.
• Yin Fan returned to Wu Fei's room, recognized the golden arrow, and asked whether Wu Fei had left.

Wu Fei investigated a massacre in Clear Heart Village and discovered that the village’s ancestral hall had a plaque made from life-extinguishing wood. As his Exquisite Heart reacted uneasily to the village, Wu Fei began to suspect the hall concealed something, while Yin Fan remained hidden in his ink-black xiao.

• Wu Fei told Yin Fan that the gray mist repelled his spiritual power, and they suspected it might be hostile to the Exquisite Heart and Silent Dust Pearl.
• Wu Fei recalled his master’s guarded reaction when asked about the Silent Dust Pearl and wondered whether his own origins were unusual.
• After a report of a massacre in Clear Heart Village, Wu Fei accepted the task of investigating it.
• Wu Fei sent Kuzheng to reassure the villagers and found that the ancestral hall’s plaque was made from life-extinguishing wood.
• Wu Fei told Kuzheng and the village chief that the sect had secured the village with a spirit array, while his Exquisite Heart continued to feel uncomfortable there.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan investigated the ancestral hall in Clear Heart Village, where the Silent Dust Pearl triggered a fall into a sealed, empty space. After wandering there for days, Yin Fan told Wu Fei that being trapped with him was not so bad.

• Wu Fei learned that the ancestral hall plaque had been hanging for over two hundred years, matching his own age and raising his suspicions.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan returned at night and entered the ancestral hall, where the Silent Dust Pearl reacted to gray mist.
• The ground opened beneath them, and Wu Fei caught Yin Fan with his Buddhist beads as they fell into a hidden space.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan found themselves trapped beneath Clear Heart Village and agreed to seek a way out before the Heavenly Dao Assembly.
• After walking through the empty space for several days, Yin Fan told Wu Fei that being trapped with him was not so bad.

Wu Fei provoked Yin Fan by revealing his hidden peak Mahayana cultivation, but an eerie city and its Buddhist chanting interrupted them and saved Wu Fei when his Exquisite Heart faltered. After meditating for two months, Wu Fei recovered and learned that a mysterious voice had given Yin Fan a token and directions to the exit.

• Wu Fei revealed his peak Mahayana cultivation to Yin Fan, and an evil aura surged toward them soon afterward.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan used the Silent Dust Pearl and Blazing Cold Sword to hold back gray mist until an eerie city appeared.
• Wu Fei's Exquisite Heart began to fail, but sutra chanting from the city calmed it and helped raise his state of mind.
• Wu Fei meditated for two months and five days while Yin Fan stayed beside him, and the city vanished after its voice gave them directions west to the exit.
• Wu Fei examined the soul-nourishing jade token and suspected its giver had a connection to the Buddha Spirit Sect.
• Yin Fan leaned against Wu Fei and suggested they discuss certain things now that he had recovered.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan left the hidden space and discovered a Blazing Cold Tree at the bottom of a freezing pool in Falling Maple Mountain. Yin Fan kept the tree, and the two prepared to part ways, with Wu Fei returning to the Buddha Spirit Sect and Yin Fan to the Northern Region.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan each revealed that they knew the other had concealed a Mahayana cultivation, then set aside the subject and used the token to leave the hidden space.
• After the token and exit vanished, Wu Fei noticed something beneath a deep pool, and he and Yin Fan descended into its frigid depths.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan found a Blazing Cold Tree, and Yin Fan dug it up with its roots and surrounding soil.
• Yin Fan said he could not bear to let Wu Fei go, but Wu Fei dismissed his words as a joke.
• At Falling Maple Mountain, Wu Fei told Yin Fan to return to the Northern Region to refine the tree while he went back to the Buddha Spirit Sect, lest their connection become known.

After returning to the Buddha Spirit Sect, Wu Fei learned that strange activity in the Flame Spirit Realm had moved the Heavenly Dao Assembly forward. At Flame Spirit Mountain, he reunited with Jing Fanyu, noticed Liu Yuexuan’s hostility, and followed her when she slipped away during the gathering.

• Wu Fei discovered that the token from the mysterious space beneath Clear Heart Village had reappeared as a pattern on his wrist, then hid it beneath his skin.
• Kuzheng told Wu Fei that the Heavenly Dao Assembly had been moved forward by ten days because of strange phenomena in the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Jingguan brought Wu Fei and the Buddha Spirit Sect disciples to Flame Spirit Mountain aboard the Empty Cicada Flying Boat.
• Wu Fei gave Jing Fanyu a new string of Buddhist beads and noticed Liu Yuexuan watching them with hostility; Jing Fanyu said Liu Yuexuan had become dao companions with Qi Gu.
• After the assembled disciples listened to the seniors expound on the Dao, Wu Fei saw Liu Yuexuan leave and rose to follow her.

At the Heavenly Dao Assembly, Wu Fei prevented Liu Yuexuan from tampering with the Dao Comprehension Tea, but Jing Fanyu was exposed as Devil Venerable Yin Fan anyway. Yin Fan revealed his identity and confronted his former master over the massacre of Heavenly Clear City.

• Wu Fei stopped Liu Yuexuan from reaching the Dao Comprehension Tea, and Jing Fanyu urged them to return for the lecture.
• During the lecture, Demonic Qi erupted from Jing Fanyu, revealing his Devil Venerable Yin Fan identity and mid-Mahayana cultivation.
• Yin Fan confirmed his identity to the assembled cultivators and showed his Devil Venerable robes and mask.
• Yin Fan told the Heavenly Sword Sect's sect master that he had fallen to the demonic path while his master watched Devil Cultivators slaughter the people of Heavenly Clear City.

Wu Fei defended Yin Fan before the sects and offered himself to the demon, allowing Yin Fan to carry them into the Flame Spirit Realm. There, Yin Fan revealed he was also Junior Brother Jing, and Wu Fei accepted him without judgment.

• Wu Fei declared that Junior Brother Jing was not evil, and Jingguan backed his disciple’s choice to deliver all living beings.
• Cang Xiao attacked Wu Fei and Yin Fan, but Yin Fan’s Blazing Cold Sword shattered Cang Xiao’s lifebound spirit sword.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan he would deliver him by offering his body to the demon, and Yin Fan carried them through the entrance to the Flame Spirit Realm.
• The three Tribulation Transcendence Stage seniors let the pair enter, warning that the realm would close for a month and then remain shut for two hundred years.
• Inside the Flame Spirit Realm, Wu Fei recognized the prayer beads and mask he had given Yin Fan and accepted that Yin Fan and Junior Brother Jing were the same person.
• Wu Fei placed the white mask on Yin Fan and told him it was a perfect fit.

Wu Fei agreed to accompany Yin Fan to the Devil Domain, while righteous sect leaders gathered outside the Flame Spirit Realm to hunt Yin Fan. Wu Fei remembered how Yin Fan’s family and the people of Heavenly Clear City had been slaughtered while the righteous leaders watched, before they later took him in as a disciple.

• Yin Fan revealed that he intended to abduct Wu Fei to the Devil Domain, and Wu Fei agreed to go with him.
• Yin Fan reminded Wu Fei of his promise to visit the highest mountain in Heavenly Clear City and see the night view, and Wu Fei said he had not forgotten.
• Wu Fei recalled that righteous leaders had watched Devil Cultivators slaughter Heavenly Clear City because of a prophecy.
• Wu Fei remembered that Yin Fan’s father had hidden him, and that the surviving boy witnessed his family’s deaths and the righteous leaders’ indifference before they took him as a disciple.

Wu Fei used an Illusion Pearl to temporarily trap Cang Xiao and the other pursuers, giving him and Yin Fan a chance to travel toward the Devil Domain. After Yin Fan sought reassurance about their flight together, a strange sea vortex pulled them underwater and dispersed Wu Fei’s protective spiritual Qi.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan escaped the pursuing Mahayana cultivators, and Wu Fei secretly left an Illusion Pearl in their extinguished fire.
• The Illusion Pearl activated and drew the pursuers into an illusion of their deepest fears, buying Wu Fei and Yin Fan several days of peace.
• Yin Fan asked whether Wu Fei regretted fleeing with him, and Wu Fei reassured him before agreeing to visit the Devil Domain.
• Yin Fan realized Wu Fei had trapped Cang Xiao and the others, but did not press him for details.
• Wu Fei noticed the sea below them was unnaturally still, then a sudden vortex sucked him and Yin Fan underwater and dispersed their spiritual protection.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan were swept through the vortex into a hidden space beneath the seawater, where they found an altar rich in Spirit Liquid and Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. After gathering the treasures and giving Yin Fan a Spirit Stone, they set out to find a way back before the Flame Spirit Realm closed, and Yin Fan asked how Wu Fei knew about his spirit body.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan passed through the vortex’s center and landed in a hidden space separated from the seawater by an invisible barrier.
• Wu Fei examined the altar, discovered its Spirit Liquid, and collected it along with the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones covering the area.
• Wu Fei gave Yin Fan a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone to help his Myriad Spirits Body absorb Spiritual Qi.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan left the altar to search for a way out before the Flame Spirit Realm closed, and Yin Fan asked how Wu Fei knew about his spirit body.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan found a quiet courtyard in the peach grove, where dao companions Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai welcomed them with tea and sword techniques. Lu Feiyuan revealed that he and Yun Huai were remnant souls with missing memories, confined to the area around their cottages for a thousand years.

• Wu Fei explained that his Exquisite Heart was sensitive to the tomb’s ghost qi, and Yin Fan said he was grateful Wu Fei had not treated his spirit physique as an object of study.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan heard fighting beyond the peach grove and found Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai sparring with bamboo swords.
• Yin Fan entered a state of enlightenment while studying the pair’s sword techniques, and Wu Fei sensed an inexplicable closeness to them.
• Lu Feiyuan introduced himself and Yun Huai, then brewed tea using a technique that reminded Wu Fei of his martial uncle’s lessons.
• Wu Fei realized the tea was pure spiritual qi and suspected the couple were remnant souls.
• Lu Feiyuan confirmed that he and Yun Huai were remnant souls with missing memories, unable to stray more than a hundred paces from their cottages, and said no one had found them in a thousand years.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan discussed the possible connection between Lu Feiyuan, Yun Huai, and the Buddha Spirit Sect while staying overnight in the bamboo cottages. Wu Fei left at dawn after secretly recording Yin Fan asleep.

• Wu Fei learned that Lu Feiyuan had once been a Buddhist cultivator, though Lu had never heard of the Buddha Spirit Sect.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan stayed in one cottage together, and Yun Huai remarked on their deep bond.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan suspected Lu Feiyuan and the sutra-chanting figure beneath Clear Heart Village's ancestral hall were seniors of the Buddha Spirit Sect whose memories had been altered.
• When Yin Fan kept watching him, Wu Fei covered Yin Fan's eyes with red silk, which Yin Fan left on through the night.
• At dawn, Wu Fei found Yin Fan asleep, recorded his sleeping face with an image-recording stone, and left the cottage.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan uncovered a formation beneath the peach grove and found that the Silent Dust Pearl fit its central space. Activating it revealed Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls and began teleporting Wu Fei and Yin Fan away.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan tested the peach branch and realized the trees were absorbing spiritual qi and sending it underground.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan combined their powers to uncover a formation beneath the peach grove, with each peach tree serving as a formation node.
• Yin Fan recognized the formation’s center as resembling the black iron sphere from the inheritance tomb, and Wu Fei identified it as the place for the Silent Dust Pearl.
• Wu Fei placed the Silent Dust Pearl into the formation, causing blue light to spread, the peach trees to turn to dust, and illusory figures of Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai to appear.
• Wu Fei realized the formation would teleport them away, and Yin Fan wrapped Wu Fei’s Buddhist prayer beads around his own wrist before the teleportation began.

Wu Fei discovered that Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls had been carried into the Silent Dust Pearl, deepening his suspicions about his origins. He and Yin Fan encountered Seven Luminaries Sect disciples seeking revenge, and Yin Fan denied killing their former sect leader.

• Wu Fei realized Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls were resting inside the Silent Dust Pearl and told Yin Fan that the clues might be connected to his origins.
• Yin Fan broke an illusion formation around a mountain, revealing cultivators from the Seven Luminaries Sect waiting to ambush them.
• Xiao Yi accused Yin Fan of killing the Seven Luminaries Sect’s former sect leader and said the disciples had come to avenge their master.
• Yin Fan asked whether Wu Fei believed the accusation, and Wu Fei said he did not think Yin Fan had killed the sect leader.
• Yin Fan admitted he had visited the sect leader’s cave abode but said the man had died from inner demons, prompting the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples to reject his claim.

Wu Fei exposed a hidden devil cultivator while Yin Fan explained the Seven Luminaries Sect leader’s death to his disciples. After learning Liu Yuexuan had directed the disciples to their path, Wu Fei and Yin Fan investigated the intruder and discovered he served Devil Venerable Mingyu, leaving them to decide whether to search his soul.

• Yin Fan gave the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples a recording stone that showed their sect leader had repented and that Yin Fan had not killed him.
• Wu Fei used the Phantom Step Golden Lotus and Silent Dust Pearl to reveal and knock unconscious a devil cultivator hiding nearby.
• Yin Fan praised Wu Fei’s martial technique, and Wu Fei answered his confession with a compliment while pretending not to understand its meaning.
• Xiao Yi told Wu Fei that Liu Yuexuan had informed the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples that Wu Fei and Yin Fan would pass that way.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan identified the intruder as a subordinate of Devil Venerable Mingyu and considered searching his soul for answers.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned through soul-searching that the Flame Spirit Realm had been breached after Yin Fan’s identity was exposed and crowds gathered there. Yin Fan revealed that Fu Hong, one of his subordinates, was connected to the breach, leaving Wu Fei wondering how the Spirit Transformation Stage Devil Cultivator had managed it.

• Wu Fei prompted Yin Fan to question the captured Devil Cultivator, who had committed atrocities under Devil Venerable Mingyu.
• Yin Fan returned and told Wu Fei that the Flame Spirit Realm had been breached.
• Yin Fan explained that news of his identity and the events at the Heavenly Dao Assembly had drawn cultivators and Devil Cultivators hoping to seize a share of the realm.
• Yin Fan said the three guardians of the Flame Spirit Realm had discovered a spacetime rift there.
• Yin Fan named Fu Hong as one of his subordinates involved in the events, and Wu Fei realized Fu Hong was connected to the breach.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned that Fu Hong had accidentally used Heaven-Shaking Thunder to open a breach into the Flame Spirit Realm, then encountered him fleeing righteous cultivators. They rescued Fu Hong and flew on, while Wu Fei secretly acted against the pursuers.

• Yin Fan explained that Fu Hong's Heaven-Shaking Thunder had struck an unstable spacetime rift and torn open the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan decided to leave the Flame Spirit Realm early and flew toward its exit on the Blazing Cold Sword.
• They encountered Fu Hong fleeing a group of righteous cultivators, including Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, and Fu Hong called on Yin Fan to save him.
• Fu Hong boarded the Blazing Cold Sword, while the pursuers stopped and denounced Yin Fan as devil spawn without daring to attack.
• Yin Fan flew away with Wu Fei and Fu Hong, and Wu Fei secretly sent golden light toward the righteous cultivators.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned that Liu Yuexuan and other cultivators had gathered at a mysterious altar to summon something against Yin Fan, so they decided to investigate. After playful exchanges and binding Yin Fan’s wrists with Buddhist beads, Wu Fei applied salve to the marks left behind.

• Fu Hong told Wu Fei and Yin Fan that a Heavenly Sword Sect disciple had discovered an altar where sect leaders and Devil Venerables had gathered.
• Wu Fei suspected the disciple was Liu Yuexuan and recalled stopping her from tampering with the enlightenment tea, while Fu Hong reported that the cultivators planned to summon something against Yin Fan.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan decided to go to the altar, and Fu Hong said the Buddha Spirit Sect’s leader was not there.
• Yin Fan held Wu Fei’s hand, and Wu Fei used his Buddhist beads to bind Yin Fan’s wrists before withdrawing his hand.
• Wu Fei applied scar-removing salve to the red marks on Yin Fan’s wrists.