Chapter Summaries

The Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance investigated the Clear Wind Sect after capturing Wu Lingwei and uncovered several bandit cultivators tied to the Heavenly Sound Valley massacre. Li Yunjing then confronted Wu Yunzhi over the attack on Mo Xuan and Shui Yao and Feng Feilong’s murder, leaving Wu Yunzhi cornered by conclusive evidence.

• Sikong Ying told Wu Yunzhi that his father, Wu Lingwei, had been captured as a bandit cultivator and ordered the Clear Wind Sect to cooperate with an investigation.
• The Immortal Alliance assembled its forces and examined the Clear Wind Sect’s cultivators, uncovering several bandits who had taken part in the Heavenly Sound Valley massacre.
• The Immortal Alliance cleared Wu Yunzhi during its examination, but Li Yunjing accused him of sending people after Mo Xuan and Shui Yao because they had entered the Golden Core cave abode.
• Li Yunjing also accused Wu Yunzhi of killing Feng Feilong, prompting the gathered cultivators to demand answers.
• Wu Yunzhi avoided responding as Li Yunjing said the Immortal Alliance had conclusive evidence against him.

Sikong Ying dissolved the Clear Wind Sect and distributed its remaining wealth, while Li Yunjing received several valuable items from the treasury. The chapter left Li Yunjing with the key to a Golden Core cave abode, which he planned to explore for treasures useful to the Luozhen Sect.

• Sikong Ying arrested Wu Yunzhi and dissolved the Clear Wind Sect, explaining that its ties to bandit cultivators had brought it under the Immortal Alliance’s scrutiny.
• Sikong Ying arranged generous severance payments from the sect’s treasury, then invited Li Yunjing to inspect what remained.
• Sikong Ying gave Li Yunjing the Earth Mother Compassionate Bamboo, and Li Yunjing also took a Soul Storage Jar to feed his Netherworld Serpents.
• Sikong Ying gave Li Yunjing the key to a Golden Core cave abode, and Li Yunjing accepted it with plans to search the abode for useful treasures.

Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan and Shui Yao that the Clear Wind Sect had disbanded and gave them the key to the Golden Core cave abode. The three entered the mountain and examined its formation, which Li Yunjing found was complex but not especially high-grade.

• Li Yunjing asked Mo Xuan to find a winemaker for the Kui Tribe's spirit wine recipe.
• Li Yunjing gave Mo Xuan and Shui Yao the key to the Golden Core cave abode and explained that the Clear Wind Sect had disbanded, with those who had hunted them imprisoned.
• Mo Xuan urged Li Yunjing to use the key immediately, and the three teleported to the mountain containing the cave abode.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao led Li Yunjing to the buildings on the summit and recalled how the Clear Wind Sect had pursued them after they escaped.
• Li Yunjing examined the three-layer formation around the buildings and determined that its nested layers were complicated, though not particularly high-grade.

Li Yunjing studied the Golden Core cave abode’s formations and advanced to become a second-grade formation master, then prepared Hu An and the Luozhen Sect disciples for the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm. The group traveled to Xunxian Town and boarded the Immortal Alliance’s flying ship as they awaited the realm’s entrance.

• Li Yunjing admitted he could not yet break the cave abode’s formations and decided to enlist Hu An’s help in studying them.
• After more than half a month of practice, Li Yunjing completed a second-grade Wind Thunder Formation and became a second-grade formation master.
• Li Yunjing gave Hu An a first-grade formation plate and charged him with helping protect the Luozhen Sect and Departing Maple Sect disciples in the secret realm.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Martial Aunt had summoned them to Xunxian Town, and the Luozhen Sect group set out with eight chosen disciples.
• At Xunxian Town, Li Yunjing led the disciples aboard the Immortal Alliance’s gigantic flying ship and gave them instructions while they waited for the secret realm entrance.

Li Yunjing learned that the Five Towns Grand Competition would take place in three months and that Xunxian Town faced a difficult contest after falling behind the other towns in strength. He agreed to compete for Xunxian Town, leaving Mo Xuan aware that the Luozhen Sect could also suffer if the town ranked last.

• An Immortal Alliance disciple summoned Li Yunjing to a meeting where Wang Qianxue explained that the Five Towns Grand Competition would decide how resources were allocated among the towns.
• Wang Qianxue described Xunxian Town's weak position, while Li Yunjing learned that Giant Elephant Town and the other towns had grown stronger since the last competition.
• Wang Qianxue privately asked Li Yunjing to participate, explaining the competition's realm-based matches, five-day point system, and limit of ten participants at each cultivation stage.
• Li Yunjing agreed to compete for Xunxian Town and said he also hoped to gain practical combat experience.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan about the competition, and Mo Xuan noted that the Luozhen Sect would be affected if Xunxian Town came last.

Mo Xuan decided to enter the Five Towns Grand Competition, and Li Yunjing advised him to choose a powerful Foundation Establishment Law Technique. At the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm, Li Yunjing met the representatives of the five towns and was invited to the Wangtian Jin Household’s birthday celebration, weighing the cost against the chance to build a valuable connection.

• Mo Xuan agreed to enter the Five Towns Grand Competition, and Li Yunjing urged him to select a powerful Law Technique before the event in three months.
• An Immortal Alliance disciple announced that they had reached the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm, and Li Yunjing and Mo Xuan went onto the deck to see the entrance and representatives from the other towns.
• Wang Qianxue led the Xunxian Town party to the Heaven-reaching Tower, where the representatives of all five towns gathered and True Person Di Ang greeted them.
• Han Qingyun introduced himself to Li Yunjing, thanked him for saving Jin Xiaofeng, and invited him to the Wangtian Jin Household’s eight-hundredth birthday celebration.
• Li Yunjing considered the expense of attending and bringing a suitable gift, but saw the invitation as a chance to build ties with the powerful Wangtian Jin Household and potentially open a Luozhen Treasure Pavilion in Heaven-Gazing City.

After the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm opened, Hu An led seven Luozhen Sect disciples inside and followed Lü Hong’s advice to stop by a stream. They found eight Treasure Fish and recovered valuable treasures, including first-grade blood essence, before deciding to bring their finds back to the sect.

• Di Ang recognized Li Yunjing and urged everyone to focus on the soon-to-open Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm.
• The gate opened, and Hu An led seven Luozhen Sect disciples into the realm while Li Yunjing, Mo Xuan, and Shui Yao waited outside.
• Hu An landed beside a stream after Lü Hong recommended resting and checking their map.
• Gu Xuan spotted eight Treasure Fish, and the group killed them before they could escape.
• Lü Hong found first-grade blood essence in one fish, while the other seven yielded valuable treasures, including a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone.
• The eight disciples stored the treasures and resolved to hand them over to the Luozhen Sect unless they needed to use them.

Li Yunjing sensed something unsettling about the Worry-Free Fortress cultivators, who secretly pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Devil Sect. Inside the secret realm, Hu An and the other Luozhen Sect disciples found three Five-Colored Lotuses and began carefully harvesting them.

• Li Yunjing noticed that the Worry-Free Fortress cultivators made his Golden Core tremble, though True Person Liu sensed nothing unusual.
• The Worry-Free Fortress group withdrew to a corner and argued before their leader declared their pledge of allegiance to the Heavenly Devil Sect.
• Hu An and the other seven disciples followed a stream, found water essence stones, and reached a small lake.
• Lü Hong recognized three first-grade Five-Colored Lotuses and organized the group to collect them.
• Hu An set up a Water-Avoidance Formation as he, Lü Hong, and Wang Shanming carefully began removing the lotuses.

After Lü Hong and his companions took the Five-Colored Lotuses, a crab demon emerged and attacked them. Lü Hong arranged for the disciples to fight it in turns for experience, and Gu Xuan and the disciple surnamed Zhao held it at bay with their ranged attacks.

• Lü Hong, Wang Shanming, and Hu An removed the three Five-Colored Lotuses and stored them in Lü Hong’s small pot.
• A crab demon at Intelligence Awakening Perfection erupted from the lake and attacked the Luozhen Sect disciples.
• Lü Hong told the disciples to take turns fighting the crab demon and sent Gu Xuan and the disciple surnamed Zhao forward first.
• The disciple surnamed Zhao used his Fire Dragon Flag while Gu Xuan attacked with her flying sword, but her strike bounced off the demon’s shell.
• Gu Xuan and the disciple surnamed Zhao kept the crab demon at a distance, preventing it from gaining an advantage.

A crab demon escaped into a lake while Lü Hong asked Hu An to draw it out, but outside the secret realm the Heavenly Devil Sect trapped the righteous cultivators in a grand formation. Li Yunjing suspected Worry-Free Fortress had helped set the trap and sought Rogue Person Baixiao in Carefree Heaven for help.

• The crab demon shook the ground to prevent Gu Xuan and the disciple surnamed Zhao from standing firm, then escaped into the lake, and Lü Hong asked Hu An to use a formation plate to lure it out.
• Worry-Free Fortress cultivators planted four black flags around the secret realm, activating the Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation and sealing the lake beneath a black barrier.
• The righteous cultivators recognized the formation and panicked as it began turning spiritual energy into Devil Qi.
• Li Yunjing told Wang Qianxue he suspected Worry-Free Fortress, and Di Ang led senior cultivators from the five towns in a secret plan to seize and interrogate its members.
• Wang Qianxue contacted the Immortal Alliance for reinforcements, while Li Yunjing entered Carefree Heaven and sought out Rogue Person Baixiao.

Li Yunjing sought help in Carefree Heaven and was led by Rogue Person Baixiao to an underground market where cultivators hired themselves out. After learning that righteous cultivators were trapped at Grand View Mountain, Li Yunjing chose five Nascent Soul cultivators to hire and considered whether to hire a Spirit Transformation High Person who demanded a rare life-saving pill.

• Li Yunjing asked Rogue Person Baixiao where he could hire helpers in Carefree Heaven, and Baixiao led him to the Worry-Relief Shop.
• The shopkeeper admitted Li Yunjing and Baixiao to an underground marketplace where the Dragon-Tiger Society arranged hires for cultivators and other beings.
• Li Yunjing told a market broker that Devil Cultivators had trapped righteous cultivators at Grand View Mountain with the Heavenly Devil Sect's Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation.
• The broker provided records for thirty-five cultivators active near Grand View Mountain, including five Nascent Soul cultivators and one Spirit Transformation High Person.
• Li Yunjing decided to hire all five Nascent Soul cultivators but hesitated over the Spirit Transformation High Person's demand for a Three-Lives Life-Restoring Pill.

Li Yunjing hired five Nascent Soul Cultivators to protect Mirror Lake after learning that low-grade origin essence could pay for them. He returned to find that the Devil Cultivators had wiped out Five Dao Mountain and sent forces into the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm, leaving the Luozhen Sect disciples inside in danger.

• Rogue Person Baixiao told Li Yunjing that low-grade origin essence was worth fifty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones per piece, so Li Yunjing paid the Dragon-Tiger Society fifty pieces to hire five Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Li Yunjing used the Dragon-Tiger Society token to contact the five Nascent Soul Cultivators and ordered them to hide at Mirror Lake and report what they observed.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that the Devil Cultivators had suddenly wiped out everyone from Five Dao Mountain.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Martial Aunt and the others had taken control of Worry-Free Fortress's people and learned that Devil Cultivators had entered the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm through another entrance.

Lü Hong and the Luozhen Sect disciples rescued five Departing Maple Sect cultivators who were fleeing demonic-path attackers armed with Yin Ominous Thunder. After leading the group away and stopping so the wounded could recover, Lü Hong and the others remained unaware that a zombie-like cultivator was pursuing them.

• Wang Shanming and the Luozhen Sect disciples finished eating the crab demon they had killed, and Lü Hong stored its shell before leading them toward Moon-Gazing Gorge.
• A blast shook the secret realm, and Lü Hong initially ordered the group to avoid the disturbance, but he stopped when he heard a Departing Maple Sect disciple call for help.
• Lü Hong and the others rescued Feng Lixuan and four companions, and Feng Lixuan explained that demonic-path disciples had attacked their group with Yin Ominous Thunder.
• Lü Hong led the combined group away from the battlefield, while a pale cultivator with protruding fangs followed their trail, craving their Essence Blood.
• The groups stopped a hundred li away so Feng Lixuan and his companions could treat their wounds, and Wang Shanming asked Lü Hong what they should do next.

Lü Hong and Feng Lixuan’s groups faced He Yan, a Blood Zombie Palace disciple who used the Heavenly Zombie Art, inside the secret realm. Outside Mirror Lake, Li Yunjing learned that a Dragon-Tiger Society cultivator had found four formation flags that might break the grand formation.

• Feng Lixuan proposed warning and uniting the righteous cultivators, while Lü Hong pointed out the difficulties of choosing leaders and assigning responsibility.
• Hu An spotted an approaching Devil Cultivator, and He Yan arrived, revealing his desire to use Hu An and Wang Shanming to advance his Heavenly Zombie Art.
• Feng Lixuan identified He Yan and warned that his Heavenly Zombie transformation made him dangerous, so Lü Hong and Feng Lixuan each led a small group to fight him from a distance.
• Wang Qianxue briefed Xunxian Town’s cultivators outside the secret realm as they endured the threat of the Devil Cultivators’ grand formation.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator told Li Yunjing that he had found a formation flag at each cardinal point, and Li Yunjing laughed at the suggestion that destroying them might break the formation.

Li Yunjing ordered five Nascent Soul cultivators to destroy the unguarded formation flags trapping righteous cultivators. At the Heavenly Devil Sect, He Pingxin waited for the rescue attempt to create an opening for planting undercover agents, while his elders questioned whether the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil’s claims about the White Bone Daoist’s remains could be trusted.

• Li Yunjing told the five Nascent Soul cultivators to destroy the Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation’s four flags, and they agreed.
• At the Heavenly Devil Sect, Martial Uncle Ba asked He Pingxin when the sect would act, and He Pingxin said they would wait for Heaven-Gazing City, the Azure Dragon Sect, and Level Mountain Dao to attempt a rescue.
• Martial Uncle Wei questioned whether the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil had told the truth about the White Bone Daoist’s remains being on the Five Aggregates Plain.
• He Pingxin recalled that the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil had raised his cultivation and shared Devil Dao methods before directing him to search for the White Bone Daoist’s remains and a clue in the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm.
• He Pingxin explained that the sect had trapped cultivators at Mirror Lake to exploit the expected rescue and plant undercover agents, while Devil Dao factions and the White Bone Immortal Sect searched for the remains.
• The bald Old Devil warned that the plan would be wasted if righteous Dao cultivators obtained the clue first.

Lü Hong and his companions defeated the transformed He Yan, then searched his belongings and found a Foundation Establishment Pill made from human ingredients. They rested at Crescent Moon Pool, where Lü Hong explained why righteous cultivators could not use the pill.

• He Pingxin reassured the Old Devil surnamed Wang that the demonic disciples were prepared and argued that the Heavenly Devil Sect could gain an advantage by planting an undercover agent.
• Lü Hong and his companions recovered their Qi after He Yan collapsed, and Hu An used the Wind Blade Formation to decapitate him when he suddenly sprang up.
• Lü Hong and Feng Lixuan burned He Yan's remains, collected his belongings, and led the group to Crescent Moon Pool to gather spirit water.
• Feng Lixuan found a Foundation Establishment Pill among He Yan's treasures, but recognized it as a human pill intended for Devil Cultivators.
• Lü Hong explained to Hu An that demonic cultivators refined such pills using five people with particular virtues in their fate, so righteous cultivators could not use them.

After the righteous cultivators destroyed the formation trapping them at Mirror Lake, they found no Devil Cultivators nearby and wondered what the devil path had planned. At the Heavenly Devil Sect, He Pingxin learned that He Yan had died in the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm and was surprised by the news.

• Lü Hong warned the group that other Devil Cultivators might remain in the secret realm and urged everyone to stay cautious until it reopened.
• Li Yunjing coordinated five Nascent Soul Cultivators, who attacked and destroyed the Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation around Mirror Lake.
• The righteous cultivators escaped the formation, searched the area, and found no trace of Devil Cultivators; Li Yunjing kept the five Nascent Soul Cultivators hidden in case they were needed.
• An elder told He Pingxin that He Yan had died in the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm, and He Pingxin recalled He Yan’s talent and mastery of the Heavenly Zombie Art.

He Pingxin abandoned the Heavenly Devil Sect’s plan to plant an undercover agent after the Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation collapsed and the righteous forces became alert. As the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm neared its closing, Li Yunjing waited with Mo Xuan and Shui Yao while Lü Hong and the other trapped cultivators searched for a way out.

• He Pingxin learned that He Yan had died and that Bai Yutao was safe, then prepared with the three old devils to plant an undercover agent.
• An elder reported that the Heaven-Chaos Star-Shifting Profound Devil Grand Formation had collapsed and that Heaven-Gazing City and Level Mountain Dao had recalled their rescue forces.
• He Pingxin called off the infiltration plan and decided to wait for the secret realm to close, hoping Bai Yutao would obtain the clue.
• Xiao Tianxing arrived at Mirror Lake, praised Li Yunjing for his role in the formation’s collapse, and explained why the demonic path had to remain in balance with the righteous path.
• With one shichen left before the secret realm closed, Li Yunjing, Mo Xuan, and Shui Yao waited for Lü Hong and the others, while the remaining righteous cultivators inside gathered to discuss escape.

Lü Hong led the remaining cultivators to the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm’s exit, expecting the Devil Cultivators to ambush them, but they arrived without incident. Just as the last group prepared to leave, Devil Cultivators appeared, and Lü Hong proposed trapping them inside the secret realm.

• Lü Hong warned the cultivators that Devil Cultivators might be planning an attack and told Hu An that his formation plate could decide the coming battle.
• Hu An prepared to rely on the six top-tier first-grade formations on Li Yunjing’s formation plate, then rested with the others.
• Lü Hong led the group from Moon Valley to Eagle Plain, where they found no Devil Cultivators or traps and reached the exit safely.
• Cultivators from the Azure Firmament Palace and the Great Howl Monastery thanked and bade farewell to Lü Hong’s group as most people left the secret realm.
• As the final thirty cultivators prepared to depart, Devil Cultivators rushed toward the exit, and Lü Hong proposed intercepting them and trapping them inside.

Lü Hong and the other righteous cultivators trapped the Devil Cultivators behind an Impenetrable Fortress Formation and began fighting back. At Mirror Lake, Li Yunjing learned that Luozhen Sect disciples had saved cultivators from many powers, bringing the sect widespread recognition across the Five Aggregates Plain.

• Lü Hong persuaded the righteous cultivators to intercept the twenty-nine approaching Devil Cultivators instead of fleeing immediately.
• Hu An deployed an Impenetrable Fortress Formation around the thirty righteous cultivators, and the Devil Cultivators attacked it.
• Bai Yutao agreed to help kill Hu An in exchange for a Holy Devil Pill.
• Lü Hong called on the righteous cultivators to attack from within the formation while a Devil Cultivator battered its defenses.
• At Mirror Lake, Li Yunjing learned that Lü Hong and the other Luozhen Sect disciples had helped many cultivators survive the secret realm.
• You Yuan and leaders from twenty-three powers thanked Li Yunjing for the Luozhen Sect disciples' aid, spreading the sect's name across the Five Aggregates Plain.