Chapter Summaries

Yun Xiwu chose to remain in the Place of Hidden Treasures for up to twenty years to protect Yang Lingrui and gather his scattered Primordial Spirit. The Fuyao Sect approved her decision, supplied resources and spatial protection, and sealed the realm’s entrances while she began her vigil.

• Yun Xiwu explained that Yang Lingrui needed constant protection and that her Azure Nether Wind Breath gave her the strongest affinity for gathering his Primordial Spirit.
• Yun Xiwu said Yan Qing was better suited to become Chief Disciple, and a Fuyao Sect elder left to seek the Sect Master's decision while Yun Xiwu guarded Yang Lingrui.
• Chi Tian and Jiang Yinkong departed, and Yun Xiwu began gathering Yang Lingrui's Primordial Spirit in the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• The Fuyao Sect elder returned with the Sect Master's approval, a high-grade treasure to stabilize the space, and three spiritual veins to sustain Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui.
• The Fuyao Sect cultivators sealed the realm's entrances, leaving Yun Xiwu to remain with Yang Lingrui until his Primordial Spirit could be restored.

The Wind Chasing Ceremony ended, and a grieving Northern Wind Cultivator vowed to make the Fuyao Sect pay for his younger brother’s death. In Unreturning Wind Cave, Chen Yang reflected on Yun Xiwu’s feelings for Yang Lingrui and approved of the two growing closer.

• The Fuyao Sect collected twelve Unreturning Wind Breaths, awarded their owners Wind Dao principles and Fuyao Decrees, and declared the Wind Chasing Ceremony over.
• The Northern Wind Cultivator mourned his younger brother at the Wind Cavern and vowed to make the Fuyao Sect pay for what happened.
• The Northern Wind Cultivator revealed talismanic patterns on his fingers, vanished, and reappeared in a different body with a searing true-fire aura.
• After the Wind Cavern closed, Chen Yang, Yun Xiwu, Yang Lingrui, and Stone Immortal Venerable remained in the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• Chen Yang recalled that Yun Xiwu had feelings for Yang Lingrui and was pleased that she had stayed for twenty years.

Chen Yang welcomed Yun Xiwu’s devotion to Yang Lingrui and used his clone’s time in the Unreturning Wind Cave to study spatial laws. Meanwhile, a month-long aurora disrupted Canglan Continent, and Jiang Yinkong’s calculation ended with a warning that the heavens were about to change.

• Chen Yang decided Yun Xiwu was an ideal match for Yang Lingrui and resolved to grant them a True Intent-grade opportunity once he reached the True Intent Realm.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion announced that Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui had remained in the Wind Cavern for twelve years to pursue a major opportunity.
• A month-long aurora covered Canglan Continent, halted the sun-and-moon cycle, and left the great factions unable to contact the Upper Realm or explain the phenomenon.
• Jiang Yinkong used the Yantian Mirror to calculate the cause of the celestial abnormality and collapsed after warning that Azure Waves’s heavens were about to change.

Jiang Yinkong’s divination produced the prophecy “Stone Shatters Heaven Shocks,” which the Yantian Palace Venerables debated without understanding. At Lingxiao Dao Academy, Zhuang Xuanji prepared to ascend to the Void Realm and, after giving her disciples parting instructions and gifts, asked Luo Qianchou about the Upper Realm.

• Jiang Yinkong’s divination caused the Yantian Mirror to reveal the four-character prophecy “Stone Shatters Heaven Shocks.”
• The Yantian Palace Venerables debated whether the prophecy foretold a talented cultivator or an upheaval, then decided to convene the Canglan Righteous Path leaders.
• Zhuang Xuanji summoned Ye Chenfeng, Luo Qianchou, Long Zhu, and Chi Tian and announced she would enter the Void Realm the next day.
• Zhuang Xuanji gave her four disciples guidance and a Magic Treasure Pouch each, then dismissed Ye Chenfeng, Long Zhu, and Chi Tian.
• Zhuang Xuanji manifested before Luo Qianchou and asked the Martial Ancestor what the void Upper Realm was truly like.

Luo Qianchou told Zhuang Xuanji about the Eastern Region and advised her before her journey beyond Canglan. The next day, Zhuang Xuanji ascended to the Void Realm without a tribulation, leaving Canglan’s cultivators in awe.

• Luo Qianchou explained that he had traveled to the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion and revealed his plan to reincarnate and cultivate anew.
• Zhuang Xuanji told Luo Qianchou that the Canglan Immortal Intent had spoken to her, and he advised her about navigating the Void Realm and the domains beyond it.
• Zhuang Xuanji said she would leave Canglan the next day, choosing to leave a little regret behind rather than prolong her stay.
• Luo Qianchou told Zhuang Xuanji to visit the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion after reaching the Void Realm to learn the secret he could not yet reveal.
• Zhuang Xuanji ascended to the Void Realm, and the Mystic Insight Venerables across Canglan watched as she broke through without a tribulation.

After Zhuang Xuanji ascended from the Canglan Continent, the fortune tied to her settled upon Chen Yang and helped him complete his spatial Dao comprehension. Chen Yang broke through to the True Meaning Realm and told Yang Yuanliu that the Su Family’s fruit was ready to be picked.

• The Azure Waves Venerables reflected on Zhuang Xuanji’s departure, while the Canglan Continent faced the changes Jiang Yinkong had predicted.
• Chen Yang received a sudden surge of fortune, and Ku Yun explained that it had likely returned to the world when its former possessor left the continent.
• Chen Yang concluded that Zhuang Xuanji had ascended to the Void Realm and used the fortune to finish comprehending spatial Daoist Magic.
• Chen Yang ended the month-long aurora, broke through to the True Meaning Realm, and received congratulations from the Yang Clan cultivators.
• Chen Yang sent Yang Yuanliu a message that the Su Family’s fruit was ready to be picked.

Chen Yang prepared to take the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine while Su Dingcang was away, and the Yang Clan gathered allies to confront the Su Family. Their move drew the attention of the Northwest’s other powers, who questioned whether the Yang Clan had a just cause to attack.

• Chen Yang planned to exploit Su Dingcang’s departure for the Central Region and seize the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine, while keeping his role in the Su Family’s past disaster hidden from Nangong Jinghe.
• After Yang Yuanliu reported the situation, Murong Zhenlin sent the Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s two True Intent Cultivators to support the Yang Family’s actions.
• The Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai, together with two True Intent Cultivators from the Donglai Sect, arrived above the Su Family’s grand formation without hiding their auras.
• Other Northwest True Intent Cultivators followed the four allies and realized that the Yang Clan was preparing to move against the Su Family.
• The observers worried that an attack without a clear justification would make the other powers fear that the Yang Clan might seize their resources next.

Yang Lingqing arrived with Xue Qingluan and Chen An to address the Yang Clan’s attack on the West Vein Spirit Mine. Backed by Chen An and several Northwest factions, she accused the Su Family of demonic crimes and announced a campaign to eliminate it.

• Duan Yun left the watching factions and joined Huo Yuan and the others, choosing to stand with them before the Yang Clan arrived.
• Yang Lingqing and Xue Qingluan arrived with Chen An, a Central Region cultivator who introduced himself as a Rogue Cultivator repaying a debt to the Yang Clan.
• Chen An yielded the central position to Yang Lingqing, leading the Northwest True Intent Cultivators to suspect he followed the Yang Clan’s command.
• Yang Lingqing handed jade slips to five cultivators and declared that the Yang Clan, Donglai Sect, the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, and Chuyun Pavilion would banish evil and eliminate harm in the Northwest after verifying the Su Family’s demonic crimes.

Yang Lingqing persuaded the Northwest factions to join the assault on the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine, and Chen Yang demonstrated his formidable spatial Daoist Magic against the Su Family’s protective formation. The formation began to collapse, while the Northwest cultivators recognized the Yang Clan’s rising power.

• Yang Lingqing accused the Su Family of blood sacrifice and slaughtering mortals, giving the alliance justification to attack its spirit mine.
• Chen Yang volunteered to lead the assault and displayed spatial Daoist Magic that impressed Huo Yuan, Jia Huarai, and the Donglai Sect cultivators.
• The Yingxian Gate patriarch led the Northwest True Intent Cultivators in approaching Yang Lingqing and pledging their respect to the Yang Family Patriarch.
• Yang Lingqing welcomed the Northwest cultivators with humility and asked for their future assistance.
• Chen Yang formed a True Word Talisman and pressed it against the Su Family’s grand formation.
• Chen Yang commanded the talisman to ignite, and cracks spread across the formation until it neared collapse.

Chen Yang shattered the Su Family’s grand formation, allowing the Northwest cultivators to break it and uncover evidence of the Su Family’s blood sacrifices. They destroyed Su Huayan’s lingering vengeful spirit, leaving the West Vein Su Family finished whether or not Su Dingcang returned.

• Chen Yang damaged the Su Family’s grand formation with a single spell, then let Huo Yuan and the others continue the assault.
• Huo Yuan and four other True Intent Cultivators dismantled the formation in three hours, and the Northwest cultivators erased the released bloody Baleful Intent.
• The cultivators saw the deathly aura in the West Vein Spirit Mine and realized Yang Lingqing’s accusations against Su Dingcang were true.
• Su Huayan’s vengeful spirit emerged from the mine, and the cultivators recognized him as a former Su Family True Intent elder.
• Huo Yuan and the other cultivators attacked and erased Su Huayan’s spirit, then paid their respects as the West Vein Su Family became history.

After the Su Family’s formation fell, Yang Lingqing led the division of its remaining wealth among the allied factions. She left the story with the Yang Clan setting the terms for its growing influence in the Northwest, while Chuyun Pavilion offered to take only whatever remained.

• Yang Lingqing invited Chen An to choose something from the West Vein Spirit Mine, but Chen An declined, citing his debt of gratitude to the Yang Clan.
• Donglai Sect requested the Su Family’s Purple Qi Profound Crystals, and Yang Lingqing granted them after checking that the other factions had no objections.
• Huo Yuan requested a share of the Su Family’s resources, and Yang Lingqing promised that the Yang Clan would make up any shortfall from the mine’s future output.
• Duan Yun said Chuyun Pavilion would wait until the other factions had divided the spoils and then take what remained.
• Yang Lingqing warned Duan Yun that the Yang Clan would claim everything it was entitled to, and Duan Yun accepted that outcome as repayment for the Yang Clan’s past aid.

After the Yang Clan settled the division of the Su Family’s remaining wealth, Chen Yang inspected the depleted West Vein Spirit Mine and revealed a new divine ability. He then used Through the Secluded Path to remove the entire mine and surrounding land, leaving a vast abyss behind.

• Yang Lingqing promised compensation from the West Vein Spirit Mine’s future output to Chuyun Pavilion, and the Western forces entered the mine to inspect it.
• Chen Yang confirmed that the four spirit mine cores remained and explained that his Spirit Gathering ability could restore the mine within five years.
• Chen Yang revealed Through the Secluded Path, which connected the pocket-heaven spaces inside his true body and Stone Body Clones.
• Donglai Sect found the Ziyun Spirit Crystal vein but could not remove it without making it lose its spirituality, while Tiger Chasing found little wealth left behind by Su Dingcang.
• Chen Yang began uprooting the West Vein Spirit Mine, then used Through the Secluded Path to remove it along with the surrounding mountains, rivers, and earth.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators watched as the mine disappeared, leaving a deep, pitch-black abyss.

Chen Yang transferred the West Vein Spirit Mine into his spatial treasure, and Yang Lingqing arranged for the Yang Clan to safeguard the Donglai Sect’s Purple Qi Profound Crystal vein. With the Northwest powers gathered, Yang Lingqing led Chen Yang and Xue Qingluan to the Lanyue Sect, where she announced the Northwest Yang Clan’s arrival.

• Shenwu calmed the frightened demons in Chen Yang’s grotto-heaven and inspected its arrays after the secret realms joined around the enormous mineral vein.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators praised Chen Yang’s spatial treasure, while Yang Lingqing arranged for the Yang Clan to safeguard the Donglai Sect’s crystal vein until it could be separated.
• Chen Yang and the other cultivators sealed the mine pit, and Yang Lingqing noted that the Lanyue Sect was the only foremost Northwest power yet to arrive.
• Yang Lingqing invited the Northwest cultivators to accompany her to the Lanyue Sect, but had them wait outside its mountain gate while she, Chen Yang, and Xue Qingluan approached.
• Yang Lingqing used Chen Yang’s spatial voice-transmission art to announce that the Northwest Yang Clan had come to call.

Yang Lingqing, Xue Qingluan, and Chen Yang confronted Lanyue Sect, where Chen Yang overwhelmed Yue Wuxiang’s powerful moon technique with one finger. Yang Lingqing revealed that the Yang Clan had come to kill Yue Wuxiang eventually, but for now Xue Qingluan would discuss the Dao with his daughter.

• Ding Xiu and Chang Chengsheng emerged to greet the visitors, but Chen Yang’s True Word Talisman forced them to retreat into Lanyue Sect’s protective formation.
• Chen Yang’s yin lightning clashed with Yue Wuxiang’s Formless Moon Wheel Kill, devastating the surrounding land before Chen Yang erased the technique with one finger.
• Yue Wuxiang appeared and asked whether Yang Lingqing had brought Chen Yang to kill him.
• Yang Lingqing said the Yang Clan did intend to take Yue Wuxiang’s life, but not yet, and explained that Xue Qingluan had come to discuss the Dao with his daughter.

Yang Lingqing challenged Lanyue Sect to a duel to the death between Xue Qingluan and Yue Shuwang, with Tan Qianheng overseeing the fight. When Yue Shuwang appeared, Xue Qingluan sensed that something was wrong with her and demanded to know what Yue Wuxiang had done.

• Yue Wuxiang recognized Xue Qingluan, who reminded him of her former Senior Sister, Yue Shuwang.
• Yang Lingqing proposed a duel to the death over the Dao, declaring that the Northwest needed only one moon-path Heavenly Talent.
• Yue Wuxiang accepted the duel and asked Tan Qianheng to oversee it, with the gathered cultivators as witnesses.
• Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai discussed Yue Wuxiang's confidence, while Chen Yang and Yang Lingqing trusted Xue Qingluan to win.
• Yue Wuxiang summoned Yue Shuwang, and Xue Qingluan sensed that her former Senior Sister had been changed by what Yue Wuxiang did.

Tan Qianheng enclosed Yue Shuwang and Xue Qingluan in a conch-shell arena for their discussion of the Dao, where Yue Shuwang revealed an astonishing rise to the Late-Spiritual Connection Realm. Chen Yang discovered that Yue Wuxiang had altered Yue Shuwang’s Primordial Spirit to force her rapid advancement, leaving her without a complete human heart as the duel continued.

• Tan Qianheng created an arena above Lanyue Sect, sealed it inside his conch-shell treasure, and projected Yue Shuwang and Xue Qingluan’s duel into the sky.
• Jia Huarai sensed that Yue Shuwang had reached the Late-Spiritual Connection Realm, and Huo Yuan wondered whether Yue Wuxiang’s apparent madness had begun earlier than he thought.
• Yang Lingqing told Chen Yang that Yue Shuwang felt like a puppet, and Chen Yang confirmed that her Primordial Spirit had two holes made by external means.
• Chen Yang secretly entered the conch-shell treasure and saw the two black spots on Yue Shuwang’s Primordial Spirit, identifying them as evidence of Yue Wuxiang’s intervention.
• Chen Yang concluded that Yue Wuxiang had stripped away Yue Shuwang’s emotions to accelerate her cultivation, sacrificing her future potential on the Dao.

Yue Wuxiang’s plan to stake Lanyue Sect’s future on Yue Shuwang came into focus as Xue Qingluan and Yue Shuwang entered their Dao debate. Inside the debate’s illusory realm, Xue Qingluan recognized that Yue Shuwang had lost her former vitality and faced her as a hollow shell.

• Yue Wuxiang planned for Yue Shuwang to reach Spiritual Connection Perfection and use Yue Lansheng as the foundation for her attempt to prove the Dao.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators watched the Dao debate, while Huo Yuan declared that the Yang Clan could not lose once it had acted.
• Xue Qingluan entered an illusory memory of the day she became Yue Shuwang’s companion cultivator.
• Xue Qingluan saw Yue Shuwang’s vacant gaze and realized the lively person she had once admired was gone.
• Chang Chengsheng named Xue Qingluan Yue Shuwang’s companion cultivator and ordered her to obey Yue Shuwang’s arrangements.

Xue Qingluan outmaneuvered Yue Shuwang’s attempts to obstruct her cultivation and announced that they would settle their struggle for the Dao at the Moon Gazing Platform. She then traveled to Solitary Moon Mountain and met Yang Lingrui and Yang Linghu, whose family had escaped Yue Shuwang’s extermination order.

• Yue Shuwang sent Xue Qingluan to fight Demon Beasts with three of her followers, and Xue Qingluan returned alone after the other three died.
• Yue Shuwang tried to hinder Xue Qingluan’s cultivation with chores and assignments, but Xue Qingluan advanced to Qi Gathering Perfection alongside her.
• Yue Shuwang showed Xue Qingluan a fake head and learned that Xue Qingluan had already built ties with Solitary Moon Mountain and understood her plans.
• Xue Qingluan told Yue Shuwang to meet her at the Moon Gazing Platform on the fifteenth of the next month to settle who stood above whom.
• Xue Qingluan went to Solitary Moon Mountain and was greeted by Yang Linghu and Yang Lingrui of the Songshan Yang Family.

Xue Qingluan revisited an illusory past with the Yang Family, where she encouraged Zhao Qi and foretold Yang Yuanhong’s future, before returning to face Yue Shuwang in their final Dao contest. The battle began beneath the full moon, with Xue Qingluan meeting Yue Shuwang’s killing technique using a more profound moon art.

• Xue Qingluan spent several days with the Yang Family in the illusion, meeting its members in their youth and guiding Zhao Qi in cultivation.
• Xue Qingluan told Zhao Qi he would reach Core Formation and become the master of an immortal mountain, then showed Yang Yuanhong a moon-shadow dragon and foretold his future.
• Xue Qingluan searched the Yang Clan's Forbidden Ground for her Immortal Venerable but found no trace, then left the illusion and returned to the Lanyue Sect.
• At midnight beneath the full moon, Xue Qingluan and Yue Shuwang began their final Dao contest at the Moon Gazing Platform.
• Yue Shuwang attacked with Lone Moon Falls Upon the World, and Xue Qingluan countered with Firefly Moon Shines Bright, drawing on the full moon to amplify her technique.

Xue Qingluan battled Yue Shuwang in the night sky, overcoming her moon techniques with the Jade Rabbit’s power as Yue Shuwang burned her life force to reach the Spiritual Connection Realm. The chapter ended as Yue Shuwang unleashed her ultimate attack and Xue Qingluan answered with Moon Ash Burns Heaven.

• Yue Shuwang abandoned her failing manifestation, entered the Essence Condensation Realm, and shattered Xue Qingluan’s moon technique.
• Yue Shuwang attacked with Moon Waterfall, but Xue Qingluan summoned the Jade Rabbit and entered its fusion state, scattering the attack.
• Xue Qingluan battered Yue Shuwang and exploited the damage moon technique power inflicted on her incomplete soul and spirit.
• At midnight, Yue Shuwang burned her life force to raise her cultivation toward the Spiritual Connection Realm, while Xue Qingluan prepared to meet her without risking a life trade.
• The Jade Rabbit blessed Xue Qingluan with the full moon’s power, and Xue Qingluan ignited it into moonfire as Yue Shuwang completed her breakthrough.
• Yue Shuwang unleashed Formless Moon Wheel Slaying, and Xue Qingluan gathered her moonfire to cast Moon Ash Burns Heaven.