Chapter Summaries

After failing to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage, Su Fuxi received a mission to deal with a demonic entity in Pingzhou and killed the cultivator behind it. She discovered a jade slip and banner linked to the Netherworld Sect and considered taking a disciple at the upcoming recruitment assembly.

• Su Fuxi failed her second attempt to form a Nascent Soul, fell to the Late Golden Core Stage, and received a stabilizing pill and a mission from Sect Master Li Yuanqing.
• Su Fuxi traveled to Pingzhou and destroyed a demonic skull that had attacked two Azure Cloud Sect disciples.
• Su Fuxi pursued and killed the black-clad cultivator controlling the skull, then collected his Golden Core, jade tablet, and storage bag.
• Su Fuxi found a Soul Banner and a jade slip describing an outer-sect Netherworld Sect cultivation method, and wondered whether the dead cultivator had stolen them.
• Su Fuxi decided to keep the unmarked storage bag and considered taking a disciple at the upcoming recruitment assembly.

Su Fuxi discovered that the orphaned Lin Sui possessed an extraordinary golden light of fortune and took him as her personal disciple. After releasing the villagers’ souls and helping him bury his parents, she carried him toward the Azure Cloud Sect, while Lin Sui vowed to stay by her side.

• Su Fuxi found Lin Sui grieving over his parents and saw the rare golden light of fortune above his head.
• Lin Sui agreed to follow Su Fuxi, and she found that most of his innate spiritual apertures were already open before making him her personal disciple.
• Su Fuxi released the villagers’ souls from the Soul-Refining Flag and helped Lin Sui bury his parents.
• Su Fuxi carried Lin Sui on her flying sword toward the sect and comforted him by saying he could visit home in the future.
• Lin Sui secretly admired Su Fuxi and vowed to honor her as his master and remain at her side.

Su Fuxi formally accepted Lin Sui as her personal disciple and took him to her secluded home in the Azure Cloud Sect’s back mountains. After she helped him across a frightening rope bridge and taught him about deadly restrictions, Lin Sui resolved to become strong enough to stand beside or surpass her.

• Su Fuxi introduced Lin Sui to sect master Li Yuanqing as her personal disciple and successor.
• Su Fuxi led Lin Sui toward Cloud-Capped Peak and warned him to avoid unfamiliar paths and restrictions.
• Lin Sui struggled across the swaying rope bridge over a deep abyss, so Su Fuxi turned back and took his hand.
• At the bridge’s end, Su Fuxi demonstrated a lethal restriction by crushing a stone against its invisible barrier.
• Su Fuxi explained how spiritual power could help Lin Sui sense restrictions, and Lin Sui resolved to grow stronger than her.

Su Fuxi took Lin Sui as her disciple, arranged for him to live at Chongming Pavilion, and then secretly decided to cultivate his body as a potential vessel for possession. After choosing a painful body-tempering technique, she went alone to Purple Flower Valley Market and was recognized by a hooded female cultivator.

• Su Fuxi let Lin Sui sleep in her room, forgot to provide food, and later rushed him to a herb steward after he fainted from hunger.
• Su Fuxi asked Wang Yuan to recommend a servant, accepted his relative Wang Xiaohu, and left Lin Sui in their care for two days.
• Su Fuxi repaired her Golden Core and considered taking Lin Sui's body, which she believed was ideally suited for possession.
• Su Fuxi bought a copy of the Nine Transformations Blood Refinement technique to strengthen Lin Sui's body, disregarding the pain it would cause him.
• Su Fuxi traveled to Purple Flower Valley Market, where a hooded female cultivator recognized her despite her disguise.

Su Fuxi visited the market to buy materials, pills, and new clothes for Lin Sui, then returned to Azure Cloud Peak to begin teaching him cultivation. The chapter ended when Lin Sui admitted he could not read the disciple handbook she had given him.

• Su Fuxi met Zhou Mu at the market and bought his One-Horned Frost Jiao core and blood, arranging monthly trades for more demonic beast blood.
• Su Fuxi gathered the herbs she needed for Lin Sui and bought fifty mid-grade body-refining pills, spending a large number of spirit stones.
• Su Fuxi bought Lin Sui two sets of brocade clothes and returned to Azure Cloud Peak.
• Su Fuxi found Lin Sui reading the disciple handbook, told him she would teach him the cultivation mantra the next day, and gave him the new clothes.
• Lin Sui told Su Fuxi that he could not read.

Su Fuxi taught Lin Sui to read and write, gave him a qi refinement formula, and comforted him through a nightmare. After Lin Sui began cultivating on his own, Su Fuxi sensed a distinct fluctuation of spiritual qi in Chongming Pavilion.

• Su Fuxi discovered Lin Sui could barely read, then taught him sect rules, his name, and the first fifty characters of the Thousand Character Classic.
• Su Fuxi placed the qi refinement formula in Lin Sui’s mind and told him to memorize it within three days.
• Lin Sui fell asleep while trying to memorize the formula and relived the black mist’s attack on his village in a nightmare.
• Su Fuxi dispelled Lin Sui’s nightmare, warmed and dried him, and removed the dark circles beneath his eyes before leaving when he clung to her hand and called her Mom.
• Lin Sui woke, realized Su Fuxi had comforted him, and began reciting the formula and cultivating through the night.
• Su Fuxi practiced techniques in her sea of consciousness and sensed a distinct fluctuation of spiritual qi in Chongming Pavilion.

Lin Sui began cultivating and broke through fourteen spiritual apertures, but nearly died when he recklessly damaged his meridians. Su Fuxi saved him, then prepared a beast-blood medicinal bath to lay the foundation for his body-tempering cultivation.

• Lin Sui drew spiritual qi into his body and opened eleven spiritual apertures before a reckless attempt to reach the thirteenth caused qi to rampage through his meridians.
• Su Fuxi guided her spiritual power into Lin Sui to disperse the dangerous qi, and he later broke through his fourteenth aperture before stopping at his limit.
• Su Fuxi confirmed Lin Sui had ten innate spiritual apertures and sent him to find Wang Xiaohu for breakfast.
• Su Fuxi hunted beasts and gathered their blood, then prepared a medicinal bath with herbs and body-tempering pills.
• Lin Sui reluctantly climbed naked into the blood bath and began circulating the Breathing Art at Su Fuxi's direction.

Lin Sui rapidly advanced to the Qi Refinement Second Layer, impressing Su Fuxi, who gave him a storage bag and began teaching him a lethal cultivation technique. Su Fuxi had secretly altered a copied technique with a cauldron imprint, while telling Lin Sui that the God-Slaying Finger would help him survive.

• Lin Sui absorbed the medicinal bath and entered the Qi Refinement First Layer as Su Fuxi marveled at his talent.
• Su Fuxi examined a Netherworld Sect technique and copied a modified technique onto a jade slip, adding a cauldron imprint for Lin Sui.
• Lin Sui broke through to the Qi Refinement Second Layer while asleep, and Su Fuxi checked that he was unharmed.
• Su Fuxi took Lin Sui to the Quiet Contemplation Terrace, gave him a storage bag, and introduced the God-Slaying Finger.
• Lin Sui questioned whether the technique required killing, and Su Fuxi explained that cultivation demanded ruthlessness and promised to take him down the mountain for training.

Su Fuxi taught Lin Sui the Remnant Star Sword Art and studied the Netherworld Sect’s Soul Refining Art while he cultivated. After three days in seclusion, she found that Lin Sui had reached the third layer of Qi Refining and praised his talent before taking him to prepare for his second blood bath.

• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui jade slips, taught him the Remnant Star Sword Art, and arranged daily academic lessons with Wang Yuan.
• Sect Master Li Yuanqing told Su Fuxi to bring Lin Sui to the spiritual-root testing assembly in nine days and assured her that Lin Sui would remain her disciple.
• Lin Sui studied the sword art, read and destroyed the jade slip containing the God-Slaying Finger, and reflected on how cultivation had changed his life.
• Su Fuxi deciphered the Soul Refining Art, considered the dangers of refining soul banners, and added a second golden seal and seventh spiritual-sense whip to her sea of consciousness.
• After three days, Su Fuxi found that Lin Sui had reached the third layer of Qi Refining and the first layer of the Remnant Star Sword; she praised him and took him to prepare for his second blood bath.

Su Fuxi took Lin Sui into the mountains to train him in the God-Slaying Finger by fighting a pack of wolves. Lin Sui killed the wolf king, gained slaughter qi, and began learning to process demonic beast materials as Su Fuxi prepared their meal.

• Su Fuxi brought Lin Sui to a wolf valley and threw him into the pack, ordering him to fight without help unless his life was in danger.
• Lin Sui fought the wolves, suffered wounds, and awakened his killing nature, drawing slaughter qi as he killed them with the God-Slaying Finger.
• The wolf king tried to flee, but Lin Sui blocked its escape and killed it after it pinned him down in their fight.
• Su Fuxi healed Lin Sui and told him to collect the wolf king’s blood, inner core, hide, and bones; she let him keep the inner core.
• Su Fuxi asked Lin Sui to gather firewood, then prepared skewers of wolf king meat for lunch.

Su Fuxi taught Lin Sui how to refine Slaughter Qi into crystals, gave him a jade slip of basic techniques, and trained him to gather beast blood. After Lin Sui endured an intense medicinal bath and passed out, Su Fuxi helped him absorb its power while privately planning to use his body as her future vessel.

• Su Fuxi demonstrated how to refine Slaughter Qi into Slaughter Crystals, and Lin Sui refined all seven of his strands into crystals.
• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui a jade slip of basic techniques and imprinted the Thousand-Li Earth Escape technique into his spiritual platform.
• Lin Sui killed a black bear with one sword and collected its blood while Su Fuxi cultivated nearby.
• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui a Body-Tempering Pill and taught him the Body-Tempering Art before he soaked in the medicinal bath.
• Lin Sui's body endured severe pain as the pill, the technique, and the Wolf King's essence blood intensified the bath's effects, and he eventually fainted.
• Su Fuxi guided the medicinal power through Lin Sui, washed and carried him to bed, and privately hoped he would willingly sacrifice himself as her future body.

Lin Sui learned that the Ancient Zhou Dynasty might hold a cure for Su Fuxi’s blindness and devoted himself to training before the spiritual aptitude testing assembly. His test revealed a Heavenly Spirit Root, and Su Fuxi claimed him as her personal disciple and took him away.

• Lin Sui asked Wang Yuan about Su Fuxi’s blindness, and Wang Yuan said the Ancient Zhou Dynasty might have a way to treat it.
• Lin Sui trained in swordsmanship and spells, gathered beast blood with Su Fuxi, and broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.
• Su Fuxi warned Lin Sui to restrain his strength during the spiritual aptitude test, fearing he would shatter the dynasty-provided crystal.
• Lin Sui’s test produced an ice-crystal phenomenon and nine starry vortices, revealing his Heavenly Spirit Root.
• Su Fuxi declared Lin Sui her personal disciple and took him away from the assembly.

Su Fuxi took Lin Sui to the sword pool, where he used a strength talisman to draw out a sword despite his weak cultivation. The sword escaped its restraints, but its weight knocked Lin Sui to the ground and pinned him beneath it.

• Su Fuxi registered Lin Sui as a core disciple and brought him to the sword pool to choose a treasured sword.
• Lin Sui probed the sword pool with his spiritual power and sensed a sword deep inside that he could not pull free.
• Su Fuxi sent her last Vajra warrior paper talisman onto Lin Sui, greatly increasing his strength.
• Lin Sui used the added power to pull the ancient, talisman-covered longsword out of the sword pool.
• The longsword crashed down on Lin Sui and pinned him, and Su Fuxi rushed over to help him.

Lin Sui recovered from the sword pool and began refining his body with demonic beast blood under Su Fuxi’s guidance. Half a year later, she took him to the Demonic Beast Mountain Range to test his skills against a Ghost-Faced Spider, where he discovered it feared fire.

• Su Fuxi carried the unconscious Lin Sui and the talisman-bound sword out of the sword pool, and Li Yuanqing glanced toward it from the main hall.
• Lin Sui woke after a day and a night, learned the sword was too heavy to use for now, and followed Su Fuxi’s instructions about cultivation and the talismans.
• Su Fuxi began Lin Sui’s second blood-refining transformation with Frost Jiao essence blood and set his daily training schedule.
• Over the next half year, Lin Sui reached the third transformation, consolidated his cultivation at the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, and grew taller.
• Su Fuxi brought Lin Sui to the Demonic Beast Mountain Range and told him to fight a Ghost-Faced Spider.
• Lin Sui struggled to damage the spider, then used fire to burn its silk and drove it away.

After three years of training with Su Fuxi, Lin Sui survived his Foundation Establishment lightning tribulation and refined an extraordinary black sword. Back at Azure Cloud Sect, he received the sect master's blessing and wondered whether Su Fuxi valued him only for his talent.

• Lin Sui killed the Ghost-Faced Spider and refined the Slaughter Qi it produced during their three-year training expedition.
• Su Fuxi brought Lin Sui to the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, where he endured nine bolts of tribulation lightning and reached Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Sui completely refined the black sword in three days and followed Su Fuxi back to Azure Cloud Sect.
• Li Yuanqing welcomed Lin Sui as a new Foundation Establishment cultivator and gave him a second-tier Spirit-Concentrating Pill.
• On the rope bridge, Lin Sui asked Su Fuxi why she had taken him as her disciple, and she said she wanted a disciple and did not want his talent to go to waste.

Lin Sui struggled with his aptitude and received instructions and gifts from Su Fuxi before she entered seclusion. Six years later, Su Fuxi finished refining a Restriction Flag, obtained sword intent for herself and Lin Sui, and set out to take him to the Forgotten Land after refusing a senior brother’s proposal to become Dao companions.

• Lin Sui sat glumly in the rain until Su Fuxi brought him back to the pavilion, gave him a protective umbrella, and told him a secret realm would open in seven years.
• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui a soul-refining technique and a soul flag, then entered seclusion while instructing him not to disturb her without good reason.
• After six years, Su Fuxi completed her Restriction Flag and discovered that Lin Sui was not in the sect.
• Su Fuxi received two strands of sword intent from Li Yuanqing, keeping one for herself and the other for Lin Sui, and agreed to take him to the Forgotten Land.
• Su Fuxi refused her eldest senior brother’s request to become Dao companions, then left to find Lin Sui, irritated by the proposal.

Lin Sui was chased through the Demonic Beast Mountain Range by a Golden Core elder who wanted his sword, until Su Fuxi emerged from seclusion and killed the pursuer. After checking Lin Sui’s injuries and scolding him for risking his life to protect an umbrella, she helped him gather the scattered souls and began preparing a new soul banner.

• A yellow-robed Golden Core elder pursued Lin Sui for three days and attacked him to seize his sword.
• Lin Sui used his Earth Escape Technique, a soul banner, and a defensive talisman to escape, but the elder’s attack nearly struck him.
• Su Fuxi appeared, killed the elder, seized his soul, and refined it into a new soul banner for Lin Sui.
• Su Fuxi checked Lin Sui’s injuries and scolded him for not using his umbrella to protect himself.
• Su Fuxi and Lin Sui gathered the vicious souls scattered when the old banner was destroyed, and Su Fuxi refined a new soul banner.

Lin Sui refined a powerful soul banner while Su Fuxi prepared him for their dangerous trip to the Forgotten Land. They traveled to the Purple Flower Valley market, where Su Fuxi bought long-range sensing bells and Lin Sui unexpectedly crossed paths with Mu Qingqing.

• Lin Sui fused eleven slaughter-aura crystals into the Golden Core soul commander, strengthening it and making the other souls submit to it.
• While Lin Sui spent three months refining the banner, Su Fuxi guarded him and made him a concealment restriction flag.
• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui the sect master's sword intent, which he branded and placed in his sea of consciousness.
• Su Fuxi and Lin Sui reached the Purple Flower Valley market and bought silver bells that could sense each other across ten thousand li.
• Mu Qingqing offered to cut the bells' price to five hundred spirit stones, but Lin Sui defended Su Fuxi's right to pay; the assistant instead sold them for five thousand five hundred.
• Su Fuxi and Lin Sui left the shop, exchanged awkward words about Mu Qingqing, and continued buying supplies and materials.

Su Fuxi and Lin Sui prepared for their journey to the Forgotten Land while refining their magic treasures and advancing their cultivation. After Lin Sui revealed a new sword inscription, Su Fuxi recognized it as a sword spirit.

• Su Fuxi gave Lin Sui supplies and the moon bell, and he agreed to accompany her to the Forgotten Land.
• Su Fuxi studied a beast-taming method from the Golden Core elder’s belongings and recorded its soul restriction for later study.
• Su Fuxi refined Golden Ring Wood into her lifebound sword and named the strengthened blade Embroidered Gold.
• Lin Sui met Su Fuxi after reaching Late Foundation Establishment and asked whether they would travel with the other elders; Su Fuxi said they would not.
• Lin Sui told Su Fuxi that he had activated the Mystic Sword’s second sword intent and revealed a sword inscription, which she identified as a sword spirit.

Su Fuxi discovered that Lin Sui’s repaired sword, No Falsehood, had a hidden sword spirit and warned him to keep it concealed. On the journey to the Lost Land Secret Realm, Zha Wuren joined them and proposed that Su Fuxi become his Dao companion; she refused and secretly developed killing intent toward him.

• Su Fuxi identified the sword spirit within Lin Sui’s blade as No Falsehood, stopped it from harming her, and told Lin Sui to nurture it and avoid using it openly.
• Su Fuxi and Lin Sui left the sect, where they encountered Zha Wuren, who insisted that they travel with him toward Wood Crane on his flying boat.
• Zha Wuren invited Su Fuxi into the main room and left Lin Sui outside, then explained that he planned to prove his Dao again in the secret realm.
• Zha Wuren asked Su Fuxi to become his Dao companion, but she refused and told him not to raise the matter again.
• Zha Wuren said he would bring the proposal up again after the secret realm, and Su Fuxi’s intuition turned her refusal into concealed killing intent.
• Su Fuxi left the main room and returned with Lin Sui to cultivate, while Zha Wuren watched her go with a cold smile.