Chapter Summaries

Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong discussed Chi Tian’s strength and Yun Xiwu sought advice on increasing her romantic fate with Yang Lingrui. As the Unreturning Wind Cave opened and the cultivators entered, Chen Yang arrived at the Divine Mausoleum and joined Wu Chang, anticipating Ling Rui’s move.

• Yun Xiwu told Jiang Yinkong that Chi Tian had fought Long Yuan, who entered seclusion afterward, and Jiang suspected Chi Tian was exceptionally strong.
• Yun Xiwu asked Jiang Yinkong to calculate her romantic fate with Yang Lingrui, and he revealed a method to strengthen their scant affinity.
• The spatial power at the Unreturning Wind Cave subsided, and Venerable Tian Shuo cleared the remaining fractures and opened its entrance.
• Yang Lingrui entered the Wind Cavern with Yun Xiwu’s group and headed toward the agreed meeting place to wait for Chi Tian.
• Chen Yang was drawn to the Divine Mausoleum, where Wu Chang greeted him, and Chen said Ling Rui’s move would make for a good show.

Wu Chang explained to Chen Yang how the rumored Divine Arrival True Person had prompted the righteous path to encircle the Demon Soil, and confirmed that Bai Di’s Demon Children were a contingency plan. In the Unreturning Wind Cave, Bai Sanli gained the trust of two righteous cultivators and learned where Gold Ranking prodigies had gathered.

• Wu Chang told Chen Yang that the righteous path’s sudden pressure on the Demon Soil followed rumors about the Divine Arrival True Person, and Chen Yang recognized the Demon Children as a contingency prepared by Wu Chang and Bai Di.
• Bai Sanli traveled with two Great Sect disciples in the Unreturning Wind Cave while concealing his Demonic Dao identity and displaying only restrained strength.
• Bai Sanli helped the disciples subdue a purple wind mass, was wounded by their joint attack, and accepted a healing pill and a share of the treasure.
• Bai Sanli asked the disciples about the Gold Ranking prodigies, and they showed him a newly discovered relic where the prodigies were currently gathered.

Bai Sanli killed two Great Sect disciples after they shared directions and a map, then traveled to the Wind Cavern. In the Divine Mausoleum, Chen Yang learned more about Wu Chang’s divine arts and reflected on their contest, while Bai Sanli arrived at a gathering of powerful cultivators and noticed two unfamiliar figures.

• Bai Sanli thanked two Great Sect disciples for their directions and map, then killed them after they parted and absorbed their blood vitality.
• Bai Sanli used the Cleansing Turbidity divine art to conceal himself and traveled toward the Wind Cavern.
• Wu Chang told Chen Yang that he knew several divine arts and could currently use five, and Chen Yang inferred that Wu Chang and Bai Di were awaiting the Demonic Dao’s counterattack.
• Chen Yang considered his contest with Wu Chang and resolved to judge their paths by victory on the board rather than by interfering outside it.
• Bai Sanli reached the gathering at the Wind Cavern, recognized several cultivators, and wondered about a masked cultivator in white and his unremarkable companion.

Bai Sanli entered the hidden inheritance intending to assassinate Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong, but he first searched for wind-path opportunities. Chi Tian then recruited him for a team gathering wind cultivators to open a hidden area near the prodigies, giving Bai Sanli an unsuspected route to his targets.

• Bai Sanli learned that Yang Lingrui had become a powerful Gold Ranking prodigy and considered him a possible assassination target.
• Jiang Yinkong sensed Bai Sanli among the cultivators and warned Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu, who decided to follow their plan and wait for him to reveal a flaw.
• The five True Intent Cultivators opened the spatial fold, and Yun Xiwu and the other cultivators entered the hidden inheritance.
• Bai Sanli searched for wind-path opportunities, obtained two items, and prepared to face seven approaching cultivators led by Chi Tian.
• Chi Tian recruited Bai Sanli into a team that needed twelve accomplished wind cultivators to open a hidden location, and Bai Sanli welcomed the chance to get close to his targets.

Chi Tian brought thirteen wind-path cultivators to the Hidden Treasure Square Stele so Yang Lingrui could test which ten were qualified to help open it. After two candidates failed, Yang Lingrui offered an extra opportunity to the three who lasted the longest, leaving the remaining cultivators focused on the test.

• Chi Tian gathered thirteen wind-path cultivators and brought them to the Hidden Treasure Square Stele, where Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu were waiting.
• Yang Lingrui insulted the candidates, then apologized after Yun Xiwu rebuked him; Bai Sanli judged him to be an arrogant, spoiled prodigy.
• Yang Lingrui gave each candidate a ball of Two Forms Divine Wind to test their mastery, and one cultivator failed after three breaths.
• A second cultivator failed about fifteen breaths later, leaving eleven candidates competing for the ten available places.
• Yang Lingrui promised an additional opportunity to the three candidates who could control their wind balls the longest.

Yang Lingrui screened Wind Dao cultivators by making them maintain wind clusters, then awarded the three who lasted longest before sending ten others to activate the stone stele. Bai Sanli drew Yang Lingrui’s attention with a skillful wind-net technique and explained that his unorthodox training had left his foundation unstable.

• Yang Lingrui’s promise of an additional reward unsettled the cultivators, and two failed to maintain their wind clusters.
• Bai Sanli concealed his true ability while using a wind net to envelop Yang Lingrui’s wind cluster, impressing Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu.
• After the rankings were decided, Yang Lingrui awarded the top three streams of wind breath and gave first place the Wind Cavern treasure Unreturning Wind Breath.
• Yun Xiwu arranged for the ten remaining cultivators to take part in the stone stele opportunity, and Bai Sanli was placed near Yang Lingrui.
• Yang Lingrui told Bai Sanli that his wind-net technique was clever but unstable, and Bai Sanli said his self-taught methods had weakened his foundation.

Bai Sanli concealed his identity while Yang Lingrui questioned him, then the Hidden Treasure Square Stele transported the group into ancient ruins. Separated from the others, Bai Sanli followed Jiang Yinkong to a secluded shrine but sensed a trap and realized his past actions had exposed him.

• Bai Sanli gave Yang Lingrui a prepared account of how he acquired his Wind Dao cultivation method, while Yang Lingrui watched him without strongly suspecting him.
• The Fuyao Sect elders activated the Hidden Treasure Square Stele, which spun out of control and transported the cultivators into a well-preserved ruin.
• The stele scattered the cultivators across three regions, leaving Bai Sanli with Jiang Yinkong and several Wind Dao cultivators.
• After exploring together, the group agreed to search separately, and Bai Sanli concealed his aura and followed Jiang Yinkong to a secluded place of worship.
• Bai Sanli sensed something was wrong, concluded that the mission had been arranged as bait, and traced his discovery to a broken sword he had failed to destroy after killing a sword cultivator near Yanlai City.

Bai Sanli recognized Jiang Yinkong’s proposal to split up as a trap and avoided the suspicious signs of treasure in the ruins. After returning, he remained concealed, while Yun Xiwu selected five cultivators for further investigation, revealing that she had created the treasure phenomena to lure him out.

• Bai Sanli realized Jiang Yinkong’s unusual proposal to split up could expose him, abandoned his assassination plan, and explored the ruins cautiously with other wind-path cultivators.
• Bai Sanli learned that Yun Xiwu had separated from her companions while Yang Lingrui kept three cultivators close as scouts.
• When a treasure phenomenon appeared, Bai Sanli and another cultivator avoided it, but an elderly cultivator who had missed the Unreturning Wind Breath went to investigate.
• Bai Sanli and his companion avoided later treasure phenomena, gathered lesser wind-path treasures, and were transported out after fifteen days without exposing his identity.
• Two Fuyao Sect elders examined the returning cultivators, then gave the ten wind-path cultivators tokens as rewards for opening the Square Stele.
• Yun Xiwu selected five cultivators, and Bai Sanli learned that she had caused all three treasure phenomena to lure him into a trap.

Yun Xiwu dismissed Yang Lingrui from the group and reclaimed his Azure Wind Token after confronting him about his treatment of other cultivators. After she left, Yang Lingrui tried to recruit the remaining Wind Dao cultivators, while Bai Sanli realized that Yang's behavior had disrupted the Fuyao Sect's screening trap.

• Yun Xiwu told Yang Lingrui to explore the Wind Cavern alone and reclaimed his Azure Wind Token, saying he needed to reflect on his conduct.
• Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, the five Wind Dao cultivators, and the two True Intent Cultivators departed, leaving Yang Lingrui behind.
• Yang Lingrui struck Chi Tian when his attendant tried to speak, then stopped the five Wind Dao cultivators from leaving.
• Yang Lingrui invited the five cultivators to travel with him and testify on his behalf, but three declined and were allowed to leave.
• Bai Sanli realized Yun Xiwu had taken Yang Lingrui's token because his actions had disrupted the Fuyao Sect's demon-catching screening.

Yang Lingrui suspected Bai Sanli of being a Demon Child and kept him close by pretending to invite him on the journey through the Wind Cavern. Bai Sanli accepted, unaware that Yang Lingrui had chosen him as a hidden hook, and the story left them traveling together with the other wind-path cultivator and Chi Tian.

• Yang Lingrui pressured Bai Sanli and the other wind-path cultivator until both agreed to travel with him.
• Yang Lingrui reviewed how his tests and observations had narrowed his suspicions, noting Bai Sanli's sudden change in behavior inside the Square Stele Ruins.
• After leaving the ruins, Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu exchanged information with Jiang Yinkong, revised their list of suspects, and separated the less suspicious people from the two main suspects.
• Yang Lingrui kept Bai Sanli and the other wind-path cultivator with him, while Yun Xiwu took the five people who were less suspicious.
• Yang Lingrui led Chi Tian, Bai Sanli, and the other wind-path cultivator into the Wind Cavern, unaware to Bai Sanli that he was being used as a hidden hook.

Yang Lingrui led Chi Tian, Bai Sanli, and another wind-path cultivator into an unmapped region of Unreturning Wind Cave, using his Two Forms Divine Wind to locate a hidden remnant. They entered through a fissure he cut in the fierce-wind barrier, which closed behind them.

• Chi Tian warned Yang Lingrui that the map ended at the fierce-wind barrier, while Bai Sanli secretly planned to kill his companions and take the map.
• Yang Lingrui used his Two Forms Divine Wind to probe the barrier and find the location he remembered from secrets he had uncovered in the Azure Wind Token.
• Chi Tian praised Yang Lingrui and slighted Senior Sister Yun, so Yang Lingrui slapped and rebuked him before the others.
• Yang Lingrui manifested the green-faced Ghost King and used its giant axe to cut a fissure through the barrier.
• Yang Lingrui led the other three into the hidden remnant, and the fissure sealed shut behind them.

Yang Lingrui, Bai Sanli, Chi Tian, and another Wind Dao cultivator discovered and harvested a vast trove of Primal Wind Breath crystals. As they fled the treasure land after Yang Lingrui realized the crystals had supported its ceiling, the space began to collapse, delaying Bai Sanli’s plan to kill the others.

• Yang Lingrui sent Chi Tian to collect a glowing crystal, and Chi Tian shattered the wind blade it unleashed, revealing that the crystals contained high-quality Primal Wind Breath.
• Yang Lingrui, Bai Sanli, and the other Wind Dao cultivator gathered the crystals, with Yang Lingrui claiming most of them as they explored deeper.
• At a spatial rift, Yang Lingrui divided some of his gains between Bai Sanli and the other cultivator before the four headed back.
• Bai Sanli used the Divine Stone to confirm no True Intent Cultivator was present and prepared to attack the others.
• The ceiling began to loosen, and Yang Lingrui used the Two Forms Divine Wind to carry the group toward the entrance, warning that removing the crystals had destabilized the space.

Yang Lingrui exposed Bai Sanli as the hidden wind-method Demon Child and used the collapsing Place of Hidden Treasures to force him to reveal his true strength. Bai Sanli opened a rift in the wind barrier, but a familiar voice warned him there was no way out.

• Yang Lingrui noticed Bai Sanli’s hesitation and recognized that he had been harboring killing intent.
• Yang Lingrui and Chi Tian separated Bai Sanli from the group during the falling boulders, and Bai Sanli struck Chi Tian aside to escape.
• Bai Sanli discovered that Yang Lingrui and the other wind-path cultivator had already left the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• Bai Sanli released his sealed blood qi and used the Blood Fiend Divine Wind to tear open a rift in the wind barrier.
• A familiar yet unfamiliar voice told Bai Sanli there was no way out.

Chi Tian and Yang Lingrui cornered Bai Sanli, who transformed himself into a Blood Fiend tribulation to attack Yang Lingrui. Yang Lingrui challenged him to a Dao struggle to interrupt the transformation, and their contest began in the form of a cricket fight.

• Bai Sanli recognized Chi Tian’s trap, refused his offer to turn from the Demonic Dao, and fought back as Chi Tian attacked him.
• Bai Sanli escaped through a crack in the fierce wind barrier, but Yang Lingrui ambushed him with a life-ending axe strike and joined Chi Tian in suppressing him.
• Bai Sanli dissolved into a blood cloud and began forming a tribulation aimed at Yang Lingrui, prompting Yang Lingrui to propose a dangerous plan to Chi Tian.
• Yang Lingrui dissolved himself into the Two Forms Divine Wind and challenged Bai Sanli to a Dao struggle, which Bai Sanli accepted.
• Inside the Dao struggle, Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli faced off with crickets in a vermilion lacquer basin, naming their fighters the “Yellow Wind Brave” and “Blood Wind Iron Cavalry.”

Bai Sanli and Yang Lingrui competed with crickets while discussing Bai Sanli’s disguise and the lack of a path back to the righteous side. Their contest continued with Yang Lingrui narrowly winning a round before Bai Sanli brought out a stronger insect, as Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, and the others arrived outside the hidden legacy.

• Bai Sanli told Yang Lingrui that Chi Tian had urged him to turn back, and Yang Lingrui explained that Meishan would kill him for his blood debt.
• Bai Sanli and Yang Lingrui drew their first cricket match and began a second round, in which Bai Sanli’s Young Master Wind Come defeated Yang Lingrui’s Savage Wind Madman.
• Bai Sanli asked Yang Lingrui how he had acted so convincingly, and Yang Lingrui explained that Bai Sanli’s disguise faltered because he lacked conviction and did not act as the real Bai Sanli would have.
• Yang Lingrui sent out Thousand Split General, and it narrowly defeated Bai Sanli’s Black Nightmare Wind Demon.
• Bai Sanli began the next round with Blood Sacrifice Demon Child, and Yang Lingrui answered with Sky Severing Swordsman.
• Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, and the others arrived outside the hidden legacy.

Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong entered the hidden treasury after learning that Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli were locked in a dangerous Dao struggle. Jiang Yinkong began calculating the precise moment to help Yang Lingrui capture Bai Sanli’s Primordial Spirit, while Chi Tian supplied him with qi and blood.

• Yun Xiwu learned that Yang Lingrui had returned to the hidden treasury and that his fate sign was entangled with the demon cultivator’s.
• Yun Xiwu persuaded the Fuyao Sect elders to let her and Jiang Yinkong enter first so they would not alert the demon cultivator.
• After entering, Yun Xiwu heard Chi Tian explain Yang Lingrui’s plan and warned Jiang Yinkong that they had only one chance to act.
• Jiang Yinkong used heavenly calculation to observe the Dao struggle and saw Bai Sanli’s scarlet wind phenomenon gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Yinkong suffered backlash as he calculated, so Chi Tian channeled his qi and blood into him to help him continue.

Yang Lingrui admitted that he had entered the Dao contention knowing he would lose, while Bai Sanli revealed that his death would trigger a method that killed them both. As the final insect battle reached its climax, Yang Lingrui put on the Life Official Mask and called on Senior Sister Yun to act.

• Blood Fiend Marshal gained the advantage over Two Forms Judge as Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli faced off.
• Yang Lingrui told Bai Sanli that he had known he would lose and had initiated the Dao contention to delay him.
• Bai Sanli said his treasure would self-destruct if it sensed a True Intent Cultivator, killing him and implicating Yang Lingrui.
• Bai Sanli declared that their deaths were inevitable as Two Forms Judge launched its last charge against Blood Fiend Marshal.
• Yang Lingrui produced the Life Official Mask, put it on, and called for Senior Sister Yun to make her move.

Yang Lingrui revealed that his Dao battle had entangled his Primordial Spirit with Bai Sanli's, allowing him to redirect Bai Sanli's self-annihilation art onto himself. Bai Sanli realized too late that he had been deprived even of the death he had chosen.

• Yun Xiwu thrust the Azure Nether Longsword through Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli, locking their Primordial Spirits together inside the Dao battle.
• Bai Sanli activated his self-annihilation art and watched his physical body disintegrate, confident that his Primordial Spirit would soon perish too.
• Yang Lingrui pointed out that Bai Sanli's Primordial Spirit remained intact because a tiny Azure Nether Wind Breath concealed it from the destructive art.
• Bai Sanli saw that Yang Lingrui had vanished, leaving only the Life Official Mask, and understood that Yang Lingrui had transferred the self-annihilation art onto himself.
• Bai Sanli became afraid when he realized that even his chosen death was no longer within his control.

Bai Sanli discovered that Yang Lingrui’s fused Divine Wind had made him unable to destroy his own Primordial Spirit, and he submitted to the Life Official who appeared through the mask. After the Fuyao Sect captured him, the others found Yang Lingrui’s Primordial Spirit dispersed throughout the hidden realm, and Yun Xiwu said he had sought to prove his Dao.

• Bai Sanli tried to destroy his Primordial Spirit with the newly formed Divine Wind, but the gentle wind strengthened it instead.
• The Life Official appeared beside Bai Sanli, declared mastery over life and death, and received Bai Sanli’s submission.
• Two Fuyao Sect True Intent Cultivators arrived and imprisoned Bai Sanli’s Primordial Spirit in a magic treasure.
• Yun Xiwu protected Yang Lingrui’s body and placed the Life Official Mask over his face.
• A Fuyao Sect elder found Yang Lingrui’s Primordial Spirit dispersed throughout the hidden realm and said he might have completed his Dao.
• Yun Xiwu said Yang Lingrui had entered the Dao struggle to prove his Dao.

Yang Lingrui met the departing True Person Juesheng after achieving the Killing Dao by taking his own life, and assured him that his elders and friends would bring him back. Chen Yang ended his game with Wu Chang and left the Divine Mausoleum; after returning to his Stone Body Clone, he heard Fuyao Sect cultivators object to leaving Qiwu behind for twenty years.

• Yang Lingrui met True Person Juesheng in the pale land, and Juesheng realized that Yang Lingrui had achieved the Dao by killing himself.
• Yang Lingrui told Juesheng he was certain his elders and friends would save him, and Juesheng departed with his obsession fulfilled.
• Chen Yang asked Wu Chang about the game, accepted his sincere admiration, and left the Divine Mausoleum.
• Wu Chang reflected on Yang Lingrui's achievement, bowed toward the Canglan Divine Palace, and left the Divine Mausoleum area.
• Chen Yang returned to his Stone Body Clone and heard two Fuyao Sect True Intent Cultivators protest leaving Qiwu alone for twenty years.