Chapter Summaries

Qiaoqiao learned that the sect was betting on her failing the secret realm trial, so she wagered ten thousand Spirit Stones that she would pass. Yue Liuqin confronted her over Chen Wanqian’s expulsion, and Qiaoqiao’s blunt response left Yue Liuqin speechless.

• Wen Zhi gave Qiaoqiao a massive spirit-herb compendium to study for the secret realm trial.
• Wen Zhi and Qiaoqiao saw Fairy Peilan confess on the sect forum to deceiving Wen Zhi, and Wen Zhi felt ready to make new friends.
• Qiaoqiao found a forum wager predicting her failure and bet ten thousand Spirit Stones that she would pass.
• Yue Liuqin confronted Qiaoqiao about getting Chen Wanqian expelled, and Qiaoqiao thanked her before asking if she was Chen Wanqian’s friend.

Qiaoqiao learned to identify spirit herbs with Wen Zhi and found a rare seventh-grade Yang-Restoring Grass, which she sold for 110,000 Spirit Stones. When Xuan Sheng came to collect it for Yue Liuqin, Qiaoqiao demanded that he say she would pass the trial before she would sell it to him.

• Yue Liuqin challenged Qiaoqiao to a bet about the secret realm trial, wagering that Qiaoqiao would fail and humiliate herself.
• Wen Zhi took Qiaoqiao near Hidden Plum Peak and taught her to identify spirit herbs and estimate their value.
• Qiaoqiao led Wen Zhi to Elder Chen's former hiding place for Spirit Stones, but they found only ruins and no treasure.
• Wen Zhi discovered a seventh-grade Yang-Restoring Grass where Qiaoqiao had been crouching, and Qiaoqiao sold it to a buyer for 110,000 Spirit Stones.
• Xuan Sheng arrived to collect the herb, and Qiaoqiao told him she would sell it only if he said she would pass the trial.

After Qiaoqiao offended Moonlight Peak, Shen Ji put her through a month of intense training so she could win the sect trial and claim its Foundation Establishment reward. As the trial began, Qiaoqiao insisted she was ready, while her seniors worried about her chances and Xiao Tingyu handed her ten suits of mystic-grade armor.

• Qiaoqiao split the hundred thousand Spirit Stones with Wen Zhi, and Xuan Sheng left after predicting she would fail the trial.
• Shen Ji ordered Qiaoqiao to train daily in hunting Demon Beasts and identifying spirit herbs, explaining that first place earned Spirit Wind Immortal Dew.
• A month later, Qiaoqiao described her training lessons in her own unconventional way, leaving Shen Ji worried about how she would fare in the secret realm.
• Xiao Tingyu offered Qiaoqiao ten suits of mystic-grade armor, and Shen Ji learned that his second junior sister belonged to the wealthy Xiao Household.

Qiaoqiao entered the secret realm trial determined to defeat Yue Liuqin, while the elders watched through water mirrors and Bai Fu observed her from the Flowing Cloud Hall. As Qiaoqiao prepared to attack a rabbit demon with her flowering branches, Yue Su mocked her from the crowd.

• Wen Zhi asked Qiaoqiao whether she had memorized the Compendium of Spirit Herbs, and Qiaoqiao credited Third Senior Sister’s memory-enhancing pill.
• At the secret realm entrance, Yue Liuqin and her Moonlight Peak followers mocked Qiaoqiao, and Yue Liuqin vowed to take first place.
• Qiaoqiao told A Xue she would defeat Yue Liuqin inside the secret realm, then entered while carrying white plum branches.
• Qiaoqiao reached the western outskirts, collected a second-tier spirit herb, and raised her branches to attack what she thought was a rabbit demon.
• Bai Fu watched Qiaoqiao through a water mirror as elders doubted her choice of weapon, and Yue Su scoffed at her.
• Qiaoqiao gathered momentum and thrust out a flash of sword light.

Qiaoqiao accidentally wounded Tingxi, a repeatedly failed trial-taker, and persuaded him to team up with her. After they gathered points collecting spirit herbs, they encountered a Howling Wind Beast, and Qiaoqiao stepped forward to face it.

• Qiaoqiao mistook Tingxi’s crooked ponytail for a rabbit demon and struck him, then apologized and gave him Spring Recovery Pills.
• Tingxi revealed he had failed the trial six times, and Qiaoqiao cheered him by saying she had failed ten times.
• Qiaoqiao and Tingxi introduced themselves, formed a team, and set a goal of taking first place in the trial.
• The pair collected spirit herbs and earned several dozen points as Tingxi realized they might pass the trial.
• Qiaoqiao and Tingxi entered a Howling Wind Beast’s territory, and Tingxi urged her to run before she pushed him aside and prepared to face the beast.

Qiaoqiao used a High Antiquity sword form to defeat a Howling Wind Beast, impressing the elders and silencing Yue Su. Yue Liuqin then stole Qiaoqiao’s prey and defended herself with the same argument her father used to justify the theft, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Qiaoqiao drove a Howling Wind Beast into a crater with Slay the Star River, earning praise from the elders and a rebuke from Yue Su.
• Qiaoqiao went to claim the trapped beast, but Yue Liuqin killed it with her Law Treasure and took the points.
• Qiaoqiao accused Yue Liuqin of stealing her prey and pointed out the Sword Qi she had left on the beast.
• Yue Liuqin insisted that the trial rewarded strength, and Qiaoqiao reminded her that those were Yue Liuqin’s own words.
• Shen Ji criticized Moonlight Peak, while Yue Su defended his daughter and disparaged Ethereal Peak’s disciples, angering Xiao Tingyu and Wen Zhi.

Qiaoqiao learned that Tingxi was Yue Liuqin’s younger brother, Yue Tingxi, and heard how their father had abused and disowned him. She also discovered that Yue Liuqin had entered the trial with an illegally smuggled Earth Grade Seven Stars Compass, leaving the elders appalled at Yue Su.

• Yue Liuqin mocked Tingxi for associating with Qiaoqiao and revealed that he had been cast out of the Yue household.
• Tingxi admitted that Yue Liuqin was his older sister and tried to leave, but Qiaoqiao stopped him.
• Qiaoqiao recalled that Yue Su had favored Yue Liuqin, punished Yue Tingxi for her injuries, forced him to heal her with his heart’s blood, and then disowned him.
• Qiaoqiao thought Yue Su’s schemes had come to nothing and revealed that he had secretly given Yue Liuqin a Seven Stars Compass to help her win the trial.
• Qiaoqiao realized Yue Liuqin had used the compass to locate Demon Beasts and steal her kill, while the elders learned Yue Su had smuggled an Earth Grade Law Treasure into the trial.

Qiaoqiao continued through the secret realm with Yue Tingxi, despite his ties to Yue Liuqin, and discovered that Moonlight Peak disciples had been stripping the area of spirit herbs to hinder her. The pair ended the day with almost no points and learned Yue Liuqin had ordered the sabotage.

• After defeating the Howling Wind Beast, Qiaoqiao cut up the tangled demonic vine and stored it, then told Yue Tingxi she did not blame him for being Yue Liuqin’s brother.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi searched for spirit herbs, but found the nearby plants already harvested and footprints left behind.
• Qiaoqiao found a Moonlight Peak disciple’s waist token in the weeds and realized Yue Liuqin had sent her disciples ahead to take the spirit herbs.
• After a day of searching, Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi had gained no points beyond what they had collected at the start, and Yue Tingxi apologized for dragging her down.

Qiaoqiao led Yue Tingxi to the cliff where Yue Liuqin was battling two Startled Owl Birds, intending to collect points and watch her rival suffer. After Yue Liuqin used an earth-grade Law Treasure to wound one bird, Qiaoqiao claimed its points while Yue Liuqin was too injured to stop her.

• Qiaoqiao took Yue Tingxi deeper into the secret realm to find fourth-rank Demon Beasts and brought him to the cliff where the Startled Owl Birds were attacking Yue Liuqin and Xuan Sheng.
• Yue Liuqin’s disciples fell in battle, and she was driven to the cliff edge after the birds proved more aggressive than she had expected.
• Yue Liuqin threw her Seven Stars Compass at an attacking bird, destroying the earth-grade Law Treasure and injuring herself, Xuan Sheng, and the birds.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi appeared as Yue Liuqin lay injured, and Qiaoqiao gathered Sword Qi to claim the wounded Startled Owl Bird’s points.
• Yue Liuqin protested that the bird was hers, but Qiaoqiao pocketed its five hundred points and told her she should have protected her prey.

Yue Tingxi hesitated over whether to save Yue Liuqin, while Qiaoqiao warned him about her past betrayal. Yue Liuqin fell from the cliff and escaped the secret realm with her Spirit Root ruined, as Mu Liuyun confronted Yue Su over the Earth Grade Law Treasure.

• Yue Liuqin clung to the collapsing cliff and called for Yue Tingxi to save her.
• Qiaoqiao reminded Yue Tingxi that Yue Liuqin had abused and betrayed him, and he stopped before helping her.
• Yue Su cursed Yue Tingxi for hesitating, but Immortal Venerable Wanghan's killing intent silenced him.
• Yue Liuqin lost her grip as the Startled Owl Bird struck her with vengeful fire, and she crushed her wooden token to leave the secret realm.
• Mu Liuyun questioned Yue Su about the Earth Grade Law Treasure, while a medical cultivator reported that demonic fire had destroyed Yue Liuqin's Spirit Root.

Inside the trial secret realm, Qiaoqiao led Yue Tingxi to a cave where he received Xiaoyaozi’s legacy, while she discovered the remains of the Eastern Divine Pillar and met the Flowing Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor, Sword Immortal Liuyun. The chapter ended with Liuyun asking Qiaoqiao whether she had learned Slay the Star River.

• Qiaoqiao made Yue Tingxi scout through the mist and pushed him into a cave, where Xiaoyaozi offered to teach him the Innate Primordial Five Elements Technique.
• Yue Tingxi accepted Xiaoyaozi’s legacy, and Peak Master Yue collapsed after learning that the son he had driven out had found a great opportunity.
• Qiaoqiao accidentally fell into a lower level of the cave and found what the elders identified as the remains of the Eastern Divine Pillar.
• Qiaoqiao opened a stone door behind the altar and met Sword Immortal Liuyun, the Flowing Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor.
• Liuyun told Qiaoqiao that she had once been the master of Ethereal Peak and asked whether Qiaoqiao had learned Slay the Star River.

Qiaoqiao won the trial after receiving sword instruction from the Sword Immortal, then visited Yue Liuqin to make her honor their wager. Yue Liuqin posted her admission on the Jade Slip forum and accused Qiaoqiao of plotting against her, prompting Yue Su to strike her.

• The Sword Immortal taught Qiaoqiao two ancient sword forms, and Mu Liuyun told Yue Su that Yue Liuqin had lost her wager; Yue Su fainted in anger.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi gathered herbs and defeated Demon Beasts, finishing first and second in the trial with 1,000 and 800 points.
• Qiaoqiao thanked Yue Liuqin for the 500 points during her acceptance speech, and the injured Yue Liuqin fainted again in fury.
• Qiaoqiao visited Yue Liuqin with Yue Tingxi and insisted that she fulfill their wager, reminding her of the suffering Yue Tingxi had endured.
• Yue Liuqin made the required post on the Jade Slip forum, accused Qiaoqiao of deliberately plotting against her, and was slapped by Yue Su.

After Yue Liuqin revealed that Yue Tingxi had been falsely accused, Yue Su tried to bring his son back to Moonlight Peak. Yue Tingxi refused and joined Ethereal Peak as Ning Shuang’s disciple, leaving Yue Su behind in humiliation.

• Yue Liuqin told Yue Su that Yue Tingxi had not injured her and condemned Yue Su for falsely accusing him.
• Yue Su asked Yue Tingxi to return to Moonlight Peak, but Yue Tingxi walked to Qiaoqiao and asked to join Ethereal Peak.
• Yue Su tried to stop Yue Tingxi, but the sect master reminded him that Yue Tingxi could choose his own peak and that Yue Su had severed ties with him.
• Ning Shuang offered to take Yue Tingxi as her disciple, and Yue Tingxi accepted.
• Qiaoqiao and the others left with Yue Tingxi for Ethereal Peak to hold his discipleship ceremony, while Yue Su remained behind.

Qiaoqiao collected the bets she had won after taking first place in the trial, then attended Yue Tingxi’s discipleship ceremony and reported to Immortal Venerable Wanghan. The chapter ended with her telling her master she had been hurt and him asking where.

• Disciples from the other peaks paid Qiaoqiao their bets and tried to add her as a Jade Slip friend, but Shen Ji drove them off.
• Ethereal Peak disciples praised Qiaoqiao for winning the trial as Yue Tingxi completed his discipleship ceremony.
• Yue Tingxi secretly added Qiaoqiao to his closest friends on his Jade Slip.
• Qiaoqiao credited Shen Ji’s instruction for her victory, and Immortal Venerable Wanghan rewarded him with a sword manual from the library’s seventh floor.
• Qiaoqiao told Immortal Venerable Wanghan that she had been hurt during the trial, and he asked where.

Qiaoqiao earned permission from Bai Fu to attend the lantern festival after the sect master's birthday banquet, then reached Foundation Establishment during seclusion and went to the celebration with Elder Ning and Yue Tingxi. At Flowing Cloud Peak, she discovered a group of disciples beating and mocking a mute boy who was her senior brother.

• Qiaoqiao showed Bai Fu a small cut, and he gave her precious Nine Fragrance Jade Dew to treat it.
• Bai Fu invited Qiaoqiao to represent Ethereal Peak at Mu Liuyun's birthday banquet and granted her wish to visit Flying Kite City's lantern festival afterward.
• Qiaoqiao entered seclusion, reached Foundation Establishment, and emerged having also practiced the sword moves she had been taught.
• Qiaoqiao, the immortal crane, Elder Ning, and Yue Tingxi went to Flowing Cloud Peak with Ethereal Peak's birthday gift.
• Qiaoqiao heard disciples insulting her senior brother, then saw them kick and mock the silent boy as he curled around his Dantian.

Qiaoqiao rescued Fu Fengyuan from a group of sect disciples who were beating and humiliating him, then drove them off with help from A Xue. Afterward, she cared for her injured fourth senior brother and remembered how his cultivation had been crippled by blocked meridians.

• Qiaoqiao rushed in and knocked down the disciple about to kick Fu Fengyuan, then warned the group about the sect rules.
• The disciples mocked Qiaoqiao and Fu Fengyuan, and Wu Fang tried to lash Qiaoqiao with his whip.
• Fu Fengyuan caught the whip and told the wastrels not to touch Little Junior Sister, but Wu Fang burned his hand and the group attacked.
• A Xue descended and struck the wastrels down with Spiritual Qi feathers, while Qiaoqiao taunted them for ganging up on her.
• Qiaoqiao made Wu Fang kneel before Fu Fengyuan and gave her injured fourth senior brother wound medicine.
• Qiaoqiao recalled that Fu Fengyuan had once been cheerful, but blocked meridians had left him unable to use techniques and in recurring pain, so Elder Ning sent him to True Person Yao for treatment.

Qiaoqiao remembered how Fu Fengyuan’s torment would end in his suicide and cried, prompting her fellow disciples to defend him and confront his abusers. The group headed for the birthday banquet, where they found the wastrels preparing to drink together.

• Fu Fengyuan tried to leave so his junior sister would not be dragged into trouble, but Qiaoqiao’s tears stopped him.
• Qiaoqiao remembered that Fu Fengyuan’s injuries and abuse would drive him to pierce his Dantian and kill himself.
• Xiao Tingyu threatened Wu Fang, and Wen Zhi gave him Excruciating Pain Powder until he revealed where the wastrels had gone.
• Shen Ji took Fu Fengyuan with him to demand justice, and Qiaoqiao and the immortal crane joined them.
• The group arrived at the birthday banquet and saw the wastrels gathered beneath a peach blossom tree, where one boasted about his Flying Jade Wine.

Shen Ji and the others from Ethereal Peak defended Fu Fengyuan after Flowing Cloud Sect wastrels humiliated him, but Elder Chang arrived and ordered only their group to face punishment. Qiaoqiao recognized something about Elder Chang just as he moved to summon the Law Enforcement Hall.

• Shen Ji poured wine over a wastrel and kicked him down after he tried to celebrate with Sword Immortal Liuyun's wine.
• A Xue hid Qiaoqiao and the others behind an illusion while Qiaoqiao beat the wastrels, and Xiao Tingyu kicked one who insulted Fu Fengyuan.
• Qiaoqiao threatened the wastrels with Wen Zhi's Excruciating Pain Powder, and they swore heart oaths not to harm Fu Fengyuan again.
• Elder Chang shattered A Xue's illusion and listened as Wu Fang and the wastrels accused Ethereal Peak's group of causing trouble.
• Elder Chang ordered only Ethereal Peak's disciples to go to the Law Enforcement Hall, and Qiaoqiao stared at him, thinking that she remembered something.

Qiaoqiao revealed through her inner thoughts that Elder Chang planned to meet Immortal Lord Moonfall in secret while dressed in women’s clothes, prompting Ethereal Peak’s disciples and a growing crowd to follow him. Elder Chang reached the secluded willow in the back mountains, unaware that Qiaoqiao’s group—and his wife—were heading there too.

• Qiaoqiao remembered that Elder Chang wore women’s clothes to meet his lovers and revealed that he was hurrying to see Immortal Lord Moonfall.
• Elder Chang let the dispute with Wu Fang go and hurried away, while Qiaoqiao and her senior brothers and sisters decided to follow him.
• Qiaoqiao told people along the way that Elder Chang had an urgent matter, and more than a hundred people joined the group.
• Elder Chang changed into women’s clothes in a secluded room and went to the willow in the back mountains to meet Sword Lord Moonfall.
• Madam Chang heard that Elder Chang had an urgent matter and followed the crowd, leaving her freshly brewed medicine unattended.

Elder Chang’s secret rendezvous with Immortal Lord Moonfall was exposed when Qiaoqiao and a crowd of spectators caught him dressed as a woman. His wife immobilized him with silver needles and began tearing off his dress, leaving him helpless and exposed.

• Elder Chang dressed up and met Immortal Lord Moonfall beneath the great willow, where Moonfall praised his appearance and held him.
• Qiaoqiao arrived with hundreds of spectators, who saw Elder Chang posing seductively in Moonfall’s arms.
• Elder Chang panicked when the crowd recognized him, and Moonfall dropped him to the ground beside his wife.
• Elder Chang’s wife calmly asked if he had put on the wrong clothes and accidentally fallen onto Moonfall.
• Elder Chang’s wife took out medical scissors and said she would grant his wish to dress as a woman.
• Elder Chang’s wife immobilized him with silver needles and ripped his dress apart, exposing his legs.