Chapter Summaries

After naming his sword Lightning Glow, Qi Yan tested his combat abilities in the sect’s Furious Sand Illusion Realm and accepted Jing Chuan’s invitation to investigate a possibly haunted family tomb. As Qi Yan and Jing Chuan prepared to pursue the mission, a group of nuns arrived at the troubled clan’s residence offering help.

• Qi Yan emerged from seclusion, practiced with his sword, and named it Lightning Glow.
• Jing Chuan took Qi Yan to the Furious Sand Illusion Realm, where Qi Yan easily defeated a sand demon and a swarm of scorpions with his sword and lightning arts.
• Jing Chuan invited Qi Yan to join a team investigating a clan tomb where a corpse might have reanimated, and Qi Yan accepted for the spirit stone reward and combat experience.
• A group of nuns arrived at the clan residence and offered to help with its haunting.

Qi Yan and Jing Chuan arrived to investigate a haunting at the Wang Family tomb, where they encountered Wuzheng and her nuns investigating as well. A mysterious voice sealed the chamber and made falling stones target only the nuns, prompting them to accuse the Heavenly Evolution Sect of trying to kill them.

• Wang Tong let Wuzheng and her nuns inspect the Wang Family burial ground after the Heavenly Evolution Sect failed to arrive for days.
• Jing Chuan and Qi Yan arrived just as the nuns entered the tomb, and Qi Yan suspected they had come to investigate the sect.
• Qi Yan and Jing Chuan met Wuzheng's group in the tomb's outer chamber and learned they had been investigating the haunting.
• A chilling soul-voice spoke, the stone door slammed shut, and falling rocks targeted only the nuns.
• The nuns accused the Heavenly Evolution Sect of trapping them, and Qi Yan warned them that something was trying to provoke a fight.

Qi Yan and Wunian became separated from the others inside the chaos formation, then joined forces against a spear-wielding ambusher in the tomb. After they drove him off, Wunian protected Qi Yan from Wuzheng, leaving their companions stunned.

• Jing Chuan opened the inner stone door, triggering the formation and scattering everyone through the tomb.
• Qi Yan found Wunian and persuaded her to cooperate, then they headed toward the main burial chamber while discussing the altered tomb and its earth veins.
• Wunian sensed and blocked a witch curse, but a spear-wielding ambusher attacked her, so Qi Yan intervened.
• Qi Yan and Wunian combined their attacks, wounded the ambusher, and forced him to retreat before Qi Yan helped the injured Wunian.
• Wuzheng arrived with Jing Chuan and attacked Qi Yan, but Wunian stepped between them and told her senior sister to stop.

Qi Yan and Wunian uncovered that a masked attacker had used the Essence-Draining Incantation to siphon power from the Wang Family burial ground’s earth veins, while making the Heavenly Evolution Sect look responsible. Wunian left after Qi Yan promised to help identify and avenge the attacker, whom he suspected was a sect member aiding a smear campaign before the grand competition.

• Wunian healed an injured nun and determined that the burial chamber showed traces of witchcraft rather than corpse refinement.
• Qi Yan described the spear-wielding attacker, and Jing Chuan realized the clues could implicate the Heavenly Evolution Sect, though the attacker might be framing it.
• Wunian examined the corpse and asked Qi Yan to stay behind with her so they could privately investigate the curse.
• Qi Yan identified the Essence-Draining Incantation, and Wunian deduced that the corpse had been used to channel the earth veins’ power to the caster.
• Qi Yan suspected the attacker was a Heavenly Evolution disciple seeking to reach Golden Core and helping smear the sect before the grand competition.
• Wunian admitted her group belonged to Dharma Mystery Nunnery, and Qi Yan urged her to think more carefully and promised to avenge the sneak attack.

Qi Yan and Wunian recovered a witch-treasure formation core and repaired the burial chamber’s earth veins before parting ways. After collecting his mission reward, Qi Yan missed Jiang Jinyue, who suddenly appeared and confronted him about the nun and an earring.

• Wunian found the formation core beneath the coffin, explained its uses, and gave it to Qi Yan to help him trace its origins.
• Wunian corrected the earth veins, and she and Qi Yan argued about her life as a nun before leaving the chamber.
• Wuzheng questioned Wunian about her private time with Qi Yan, while Jing Chuan complained that he had struggled against Wuzheng and resolved to train for the tournament.
• Qi Yan collected his mission reward with Jing Chuan but remained distracted by thoughts of Jiang Jinyue.
• Jiang Jinyue appeared before Qi Yan, questioned him about a little nun and a woman's earring, and ordered him back to the peak.

Jiang Jinyue confronted Qi Yan about his remarks concerning a nun and Yun Ranyi, then met Yun Ranyi to negotiate the Yun Clan’s alliance with the Heavenly Evolution Sect. The chapter ended with Jiang Jinyue demanding that Yun Ranyi stay away from Qi Yan.

• Jiang Jinyue dragged Qi Yan to his cave abode, questioned him about the nun and Yun Ranyi, and heard his account of the Dharma Mystery Nunnery mission and its ambusher.
• Jiang Jinyue told Qi Yan that she had helped Yun Ranyi during a dispute over a mineral vein, after Yun Ranyi sought the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s protection.
• Jiang Jinyue met Yun Ranyi at the city lord’s residence and discussed the Yun Clan’s proposed alliance and protection arrangement.
• Jiang Jinyue asked the Yun Clan to tie down two factions involved in the mining dispute and demanded that Yun Ranyi stay away from Qi Yan.

Jiang Jinyue reported Yun Ranyi’s decision and Qi Yan’s discoveries to Mu Xunzhen, who suspected trouble within the sect and ordered Jiang Jinyue to guide Qi Yan. Jiang Jinyue returned to find Qi Yan cooking and agreed to train him so he could confront the fellow disciple he believed had ambushed them.

• Jiang Jinyue told Qi Yan that Yun Ranyi had agreed to join the Heavenly Evolution Sect, and Qi Yan suspected new developments had changed her plans.
• Jiang Jinyue reported Yun Ranyi’s actions and Qi Yan’s findings about the Wang Family to Mu Xunzhen, who said she would deal with anyone responsible for disciples killing one another.
• Mu Xunzhen questioned Jiang Jinyue about her feelings for Qi Yan, praised his rapid cultivation, and instructed Jiang Jinyue to guide him.
• Jiang Jinyue found Qi Yan cooking and told him that Mu Xunzhen had assigned her to train him.
• Qi Yan said he wanted the ability to knock out the teeth of the fellow disciple he believed had ambushed them, and Jiang Jinyue promised him special training.

Mu Xunzhen recalled how she had survived her Golden Core trial and accepted confinement after elders blamed her for her senior brothers’ injuries. Meanwhile, Jiang Jinyue tutored Qi Yan in spell control and promised him a reward if his practice satisfied her the next morning.

• Mu Xunzhen remembered baiting two attackers during her Golden Core trial, using their momentum to send them into venomous beasts, and leaving without the Heart-Nourishing Lotus.
• Eldest Senior Brother accused Mu Xunzhen of pushing him and Third Senior Brother into danger, but she challenged his claims and denied the elders’ accusations.
• The elders sentenced Mu Xunzhen to one month of confinement on Chaotic Spirit Mountain, and she accepted while thinking of Qi Yan.
• Jiang Jinyue made Qi Yan practice striking a purple lightning crescent, exposing his poor spell control and teaching him that mastering his techniques supported his cultivation.
• Jiang Jinyue told Qi Yan to keep practicing and promised a reward if she approved of his progress the next morning.

Qi Yan independently grasped how lightning arts worked and improved his Lightning Attraction Technique, then grew alarmed when Little Crybaby described her confinement and her parents’ deaths. He urged her to escape or hide, suspecting her sect might be dangerous.

• Jiang Jinyue challenged Qi Yan to understand lightning’s essence on his own and offered to let him hold her hand if he succeeded in one night, then kicked him back to his cave abode after he reacted dismissively.
• Qi Yan reasoned that lightning arts used magical power to guide electric charges, then made his Lightning Attraction Technique strike from a point only inches above the ground.
• Little Crybaby told Qi Yan that her trial had ended with her third senior brother dead, her eldest senior brother missing an arm, and her confined in a cave filled with oppressive aura and strange sounds.
• Little Crybaby revealed that her parents had been sect members who died before her master took her in, prompting Qi Yan to suspect that her senior brothers’ mistreatment was connected to her past.
• Qi Yan urged Little Crybaby to flee if possible or use illusion arts, witchcraft, and concealment techniques to hide herself.

Little Crybaby survived an apparent assassination attempt in the cave and won permission to travel while the Law Enforcement Hall investigated. She and Qi Yan discussed the danger beneath the cave and their future cultivation plans, and Qi Yan recognized the Space-Chaos Pearl on her list of needed materials.

• Little Crybaby used a hair substitute and an illusion to test the cave’s soul-bewildering summons, then hid as a sword strike pinned the substitute outside.
• Elder Wu and the other elders arrived; after Xie Zhenzhou identified the corpse as a substitute, Little Crybaby revealed herself and said she might have died without her precaution.
• Elder Wu granted Little Crybaby permission to travel, and the elders left the investigation to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Little Crybaby returned to her cave abode and cried to Qi Yan, who advised her to leave Seven Kills Continent and focus on cultivating after warning that demons might be connected to the cave.
• Little Crybaby proposed that she and Qi Yan cultivate the Concordance Pact together, then planned to travel to Heavenly Concord Continent for materials and a calculation-enhancing implement.
• Qi Yan noticed the Space-Chaos Pearl on Little Crybaby’s materials list and connected it to the spatial distortion he had experienced in the Wang Family tomb.

Qi Yan identified the pearl left by the Wang Family mausoleum attacker as a rare Witchcraft implement, then impressed Jiang Jinyue by independently learning the principles of the Thunder Method. Their promised hand-touch turned into mutual teasing and tension, and Jiang Jinyue gave him another day to master compound techniques in exchange for the possibility of further rewards.

• Little Crybaby agreed to leave her cave abode early after Qi Yan warned her to conceal her whereabouts and lay a false trail.
• Jiang Jinyue identified Qi Yan’s pearl as a Space-Chaos Pearl and said it was likely artificially refined through Witchcraft.
• Qi Yan realized the Foundation Establishment attacker at the Wang Family mausoleum might have received the pearl from a senior, suggesting more people in the Heavenly Evolution Sect secretly practiced Witchcraft.
• Jiang Jinyue arrived at dawn to inspect Qi Yan’s practice, and he demonstrated that he had independently grasped the Thunder Method’s principles.
• Jiang Jinyue and Qi Yan held hands, then traded embarrassed and flirtatious remarks while she pinned him on the ice-jade bed.
• Jiang Jinyue told Qi Yan to explore compound Dao Arts by combining his Ice Chill or Witch Incantation with the Thunder Method, offering possible further rewards if he mastered them within a day.