Recaps

Jimo Qing helped Sang Ying pose as his younger sister, Jimo Zanxing, at the gathering, while the Gong Household prepared to execute the captured ice dragon Cang Lian. As Cang Lian triggered a formation and escaped his cage, he struck the Gong family head and his son with his tail.

• Jimo Qing brought Sang Ying to his seat and asked her to continue pretending to be a Jimo family member to deter Gong Chengsi.
• Jimo Qing introduced Sang Ying to the gathering as his younger sister, Jimo Zanxing, and sent the curious guests away when she grew uncomfortable.
• The Gong Household brought out the Dragon-Slaying Platform and prepared to chain Cang Lian, while Gong Chengsi demanded the dragon eyes his father had promised him.
• Cang Lian triggered the formation disk in his claw as the guards approached, and Sang Ying sensed the formation activate.
• Cang Lian vanished from the cage in a flash of light, reappeared before the Gong family head and Gong Chengsi, and slammed them with his tail.

Sang Ying helped Cang Lian escape the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly, and his parting words turned the assembled cultivators against the Gong Household. Jimo Qing promised to keep Sang Ying's involvement hidden, while the Gong father and son were left facing the crowd's threats.

• Cang Lian broke free, attacked the cultivators who had bid on him, and wrecked much of the venue as Jimo Qing protected Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying destroyed the trap formation cores, allowing Cang Lian to activate his formation disc and teleport away after thanking Gong Zhi.
• Jimo Qing's younger sister accused Gong Zhi of plotting to unify the Immortal Spirit Realm, prompting the cultivators to surround and condemn the Gong father and son.
• Jimo Qing promised Sang Ying that he would shield her from suspicion, and Sang Ying pledged to help him in the future if she could.
• The Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly ended with the cultivators threatening the Gong Household, leaving the Gong father and son with their guards.

After Elder Xiao tried to recruit Sang Ying, Jimo Qing persuaded her to visit the Jimo Household as his daughter, giving her ten days to settle her affairs. News of the Gong Household’s disgrace spread, while the Jimo Household head learned of his new daughter just as his wife hurried to meet him.

• Elder Xiao praised Sang Ying’s talent and invited her to join Ten Thousand Daos Born, but Jimo Qing pulled her away and warned her against the sect.
• Jimo Qing urged Sang Ying to visit his parents and become part of the Jimo Household, and she agreed to go in about ten days.
• Su Fuyun learned that the Gong Household had become a target of the Immortal Spirit Realm’s major powers and ordered her maid to send away the Gong Household’s third young master.
• The Jimo Household head heard that Sang Ying had become his daughter, then learned his wife was already coming to congratulate him.

Gu Huaiwei sought Elder Buyun’s divination and learned that he would find his reincarnated sword-spirit friend at Fantou Mountain and take her as his disciple. Years later, after raising Su Fuyun and choosing her over Sang Ying, Gu Huaiwei was crippled and thrown into a pool in the Devil Realm, where he wondered if Su Fuyun had abandoned him.

• Gu Huaiwei asked Elder Buyun how to find his reincarnated sword-spirit friend, and Elder Buyun told him to meet the first girl he encountered at Fantou Mountain ten years later and take her as his disciple.
• Elder Buyun ordered his disciples to find and assist the person bearing heaven’s mandate in the Twin Orchid Realm thirty years later, then died; his youngest disciple later freed the imprisoned disciples and escaped.
• Seven years after the prophecy, Gu Huaiwei found Su Fuyun at Fantou Mountain and accepted her as his first disciple.
• Gu Huaiwei grew troubled by Su Fuyun’s changed nature but continued to protect her, choosing her side over Sang Ying.
• After Gu Huaiwei’s Dantian was crippled, two people carried him to a pool in the Devil Realm and threw him in, saying Su Fuyun had abandoned him.

Fan Nanjun believed Gu Huaiwei had been killed in the Devil Refining Pool, while Sang Ying reunited with Cang Lian and agreed to keep him with her under a contract. The chapter left Cang Lian poised to become Sang Ying’s companion, provided he behaved.

• Fan Nanjun learned that Gu Huaiwei had sunk into the Devil Refining Pool and believed the former righteous-path leader was finally dead.
• Sang Ying returned to Cang Lian, who thanked her for rescuing him and asked where she had obtained the pure dragon blood.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that the blood was his, and Cang Lian recognized him as the Blood-Robed hero he had admired since childhood.
• Cang Lian said he wanted to stay with Sang Ying, and she worried that his hostility toward humans would cause trouble.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and the others urged Sang Ying to protect Cang Lian by keeping him close, and she agreed to make a contract if he behaved.

Sang Ying and Cang Lian formed a Soul Contract, which restored Cang Lian’s injuries and caused Sang Ying to advance to the Golden Core Late Stage. Her advancement drew attention from powerful households across the main city, while she resolved to seek guidance at the Ten Thousand Daos Born.

• Gu Shu shared the Soul Contract method from the sword spirit’s memories, and Sang Ying prepared the formations for Cang Lian.
• Sang Ying and Cang Lian completed the contract, which the Heavenly Dao acknowledged with a golden mark between their brows.
• Cang Lian regained his human form after Sang Ying’s Spiritual Qi healed his injuries, while the return flow of his Spiritual Qi drove Sang Ying’s cultivation from Golden Core Early Stage to Golden Core Late Stage.
• Spiritual Qi surged throughout the main city, prompting Jimo Qing and other households, including the Mara Gate, to investigate Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying emerged from the formation and resolved to visit the Ten Thousand Daos Born, while Jiang Zhuoxue noticed her growing determination.

Sang Ying traveled with Jimo Qing to Rizhao City, where the Jimo Household prepared to welcome her as their daughter. As they awaited her arrival, the household head and Fu Yinqiu warned each other to keep the troublesome people in the western courtyard from disturbing her.

• Jimo Qing praised Sang Ying for her breakthrough and cautioned her to remain careful and humble.
• Jimo Qing took Sang Ying aboard a large Jimo Household flying boat bound directly for Rizhao City.
• The Jimo Household head and Fu Yinqiu discussed their excitement about welcoming Sang Ying and the room and clothes they had prepared for her.
• Fu Yinqiu reminded the household head that Sang Ying had saved her life by sending the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• Fu Yinqiu ordered the household head to keep the people in the western courtyard under control, while he agreed and recalled how they had used an old family debt to gain influence.

Sang Ying arrived in Rizhao City and was warmly welcomed by the Jimo clan head and his wife, who asked her to become their daughter. She agreed to stay for a few days and let them present her as family, but trouble began the next morning when a young master barged into her courtyard.

• Jimo Qing brought Sang Ying to the Jimo Household in prosperous Rizhao City.
• The Jimo clan head and Fu Yinqiu enthusiastically welcomed Sang Ying and invited her to become their daughter.
• Sang Ying declined adoption because she still hoped to find her missing parents, but agreed to stay and accept the Jimo Household’s protection in public.
• Sang Ying shared a meal with the Jimo family and was shown to a room attended by the mortal maid Yinhuan.
• A young master barged into Sang Ying’s courtyard early the next morning, starting trouble.

Sang Ying confronted Young Master He after he damaged her courtyard and attacked Yinhuan, then had him sent back to the western courtyard. While Fu Yinqiu dressed Sang Ying, Jimo Qunfang arrived to complain that her younger brother had been wronged.

• Sang Ying stopped Young Master He from striking Yinhuan and told Yinhuan to report the incident to Jimo Qing.
• Sang Ying immobilized Young Master He when he tried to stop Yinhuan, then had a servant carry him back to the western courtyard.
• Fu Yinqiu dressed Sang Ying and changed her hair ornaments before Jimo Qunfang demanded to see her.
• Jimo Qunfang told Fu Yinqiu that her younger brother had been carried back to the western courtyard and was crying, prompting Fu Yinqiu to prepare to answer the complaint.

Fu Yinqiu punished Jimo Qunfang and sent Sang Ying to explore Rizhao City, where Sang Ying discovered that the Tuyao Flowers on Myriad Phenomena Mountain contained unusually violent Spiritual Qi. On the way back, Sang Ying heard about a missing ordinary man and suspected the case might lead her to the truth about the flowers.

• Fu Yinqiu confined the West Courtyard for three months after Jimo Qunfang tried to blame Sang Ying for offending someone.
• Fu Yinqiu invited Sang Ying to explore Rizhao City, and Sang Ying went with Yinhuan to Myriad Phenomena Mountain to see the blooming Tuyao Flowers.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue discussed the flowers' unnaturally abundant Spiritual Qi and suspected someone powerful had suppressed concerns about it.
• Sang Ying decided she wanted to learn the truth because the flowers' Spiritual Qi might endanger Rizhao City.
• On their way back, Sang Ying heard a woman plead with a City Lord's residence guard to find her son, who had disappeared after coming to the mountain three days earlier, and memorized the woman's face as a possible lead.

Sang Ying investigated the Tuyao Flowers and Myriad Phenomena Mountain in the Jimo Household’s records, while the West Courtyard family plotted to drive her away. She suspected Jimo Hong had been made an accomplice by someone seeking the household head’s position and decided to question a woman who might know more.

• Zhang Huizhen blamed Jimo Qunfang for Fu Yinqiu confining the West Courtyard family, and Jimo Qunfang argued that her mother was the reason Fu Yinqiu had never adopted her.
• A young man told the family to stop bickering and said they should find a way to drive Sang Ying out.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue searched the Jimo Household’s records and learned that a former household head had established a formation on Myriad Phenomena Mountain and that Tuyao Flowers had later grown there from a single seed.
• Gu Shu suggested Jimo Hong had planted the flowers to destroy Rizhao City and frame the household head, but Sang Ying reasoned that he was more likely an accomplice promised the household head’s position.
• Sang Ying decided to stop searching the books and go ask the woman they had met earlier.

Sang Ying investigated Chen Liu’s disappearance by visiting his mother and learned that other people had also vanished in Rizhao City. She used a tracking spell on Chen Liu’s clothing, and the resulting light butterfly led toward Myriad Phenomena Mountain.

• Jimo Qing learned that Sang Ying was researching Myriad Phenomena Mountain, while the Jimo family head suspected she had discovered something there and allowed her to continue investigating.
• Sang Ying left the Jimo residence with Jiang Zhuoxue and the others to visit Chen Liu’s mother in Rizhao City’s mortal district.
• Sang Ying disguised herself as a city guard and questioned Auntie Chen, who explained how Chen Liu went missing after visiting Myriad Phenomena Mountain.
• Auntie Chen told Sang Ying that several other families had reported unexplained disappearances, prompting Sang Ying to decide she needed to inform Jimo Qing.
• Sang Ying cast a Tracking Instruction on Chen Liu’s clothing, and she and Jiang Zhuoxue followed the glowing butterfly toward Myriad Phenomena Mountain.

Sang Ying discovered an array beneath the Tuyao flowers while investigating Chen Liu’s disappearance, then traced twelve missing mortals in Rizhao City. Jimo Qing revealed that cultivators had also been vanishing from the city, leaving Sang Ying with evidence of a much broader mystery.

• Sang Ying and her companions uncovered a spiritual array beneath the Tuyao flowers, but only Sang Ying could see it.
• Sang Ying searched the mortal district and found twelve missing young adults whose families had little influence and no connections to cultivators.
• Sang Ying showed Jimo Qing the missing mortals’ information, and he shared records of cultivators who had disappeared from Rizhao City over the past three months.
• Jimo Qing explained that the missing cultivators had vanished without leaving the city or renewing their rental leases.

Sang Ying and Jimo Qing investigated the disappearances in Rizhao City and connected the suspects to Wen Heyu, a missing Golden Core cultivator. Sang Ying’s discovery of a Spirit-Locking Formation beneath Myriad Phenomena Mountain revealed that the Jimo Household’s ancestor had hidden a Spirit Stone mine there, and that someone may have covered it with tuyao flowers to steal it.

• Sang Ying noticed that Wen Heyu was the only Golden Core cultivator among the missing, and Jimo Qing explained that he had vanished after arranging to meet a Rogue Cultivator.
• Jimo Qing showed Sang Ying the suspicious Rogue Cultivators who had entered Rizhao City and revealed that one had sold Wen Heyu’s high-grade Law Artifact at the Jimo Household’s auction house.
• Sang Ying told Jimo Qing that her tracking butterfly had led her to the tuyao flower sea, where she uncovered a formation carved into Myriad Phenomena Mountain.
• Jimo Qing recognized the formation and brought Sang Ying to the Jimo household head, who identified it as their ancestor’s Spirit-Locking Formation.
• Sang Ying and the Jimo household head concluded that a Spirit Stone mine lay beneath the flowers and that someone had planted them to conceal the mine and target the Jimo Household.

In Rizhao City, the Jimo Household planned to stop the Tuyao Flowers and rescue captives from the Spirit Stone mine while Sang Ying volunteered to infiltrate it. Disguised as a weak Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator, she entered the city, where the mine's guards identified her as a new “miner” and prepared to act the next day.

• In Eternal Night City, Jimo Hong ingratiated himself with a powerful man and promised that the Jimo Household would sell only his spirit wine if Hong became household head.
• Sang Ying told Jimo Qing and the Jimo household head about her suspicions of Jimo Hong, and they discussed the captives, the Tuyao Flowers, and the Spirit Stone mine.
• Fu Yinqiu offered to have her Gu cultivator friends deal with the Tuyao Flowers, while Sang Ying volunteered to infiltrate the mine as a rogue cultivator.
• After repeated persuasion, the Jimo household head and Fu Yinqiu agreed to let Sang Ying attempt the infiltration.
• Three days later, Sang Ying entered Rizhao City disguised as a timid Foundation Establishment cultivator named Sang Ye.
• A guard in the Myriad Phenomena Mountain mine reported that they had found a new “miner” and that they would move the next day.

Wen Heyu endured harsh conditions in the mine and tried to protect his fellow prisoners from the guards. A newly arrived female cultivator accidentally scarred a guard, who blamed her and watched her with resentment, while she secretly revealed a cold glint in her eyes.

• Wen Heyu helped a weakened young miner after a guard whipped him, but his companion urged him not to provoke the guards.
• Wen Heyu and the other miners ate thin gruel as the steward brought in a bound female cultivator.
• The head guard ordered the female cultivator to work, and his whip accidentally struck another guard when she tripped over a rock.
• Wen Heyu pulled the female cultivator away from the commotion as the steward scolded the head guard.
• The injured guard returned with a scar and blamed the female cultivator, who secretly flashed a cold glint in her eyes.

Sang Ying, posing as the miner Sang Ye, learned that the mine held a rich vein and that dozens of guards protected it, so she enlisted Jiang Zhuoxue to help watch them. Liu San took her to a secluded tunnel under the pretense of escorting her to the latrine, then attacked her.

• Wen Heyu warned Sang Ye that Liu San seemed to hold a grudge against her and told her to stay close to the others.
• Sang Ying learned from Jiang Zhuoxue that the mine likely contained Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and was guarded by thirty men, including at least ten Golden Core cultivators.
• Sang Ying asked Jiang Zhuoxue to watch the Golden Core guards, and persuaded him to help by hinting that she could affect his food.
• During the evening rest, Sang Ying asked to use the latrine, and Liu San volunteered to escort her.
• Once they were alone in an abandoned tunnel, Liu San declared he was sending Sang Ying to the Western Paradise and grabbed her by the throat.

Sang Ying killed Liu San and arranged for Cang Lian to impersonate him while she secretly worked to rescue the abducted cultivators and mortals. As insects destroyed the Tuyao Flowers on Myriad Phenomena Mountain, the Jimo Household head used the infestation as a pretext to order the flowers harvested.

• Sang Ying killed Liu San, had Cang Lian dispose of his body, and asked him to impersonate Liu San and possibly take control of the guard captain.
• Sang Ying returned to the miners with injuries, and Jiang Zhuoxue told her he had found the abducted cultivators alive, though fewer than five mortals remained.
• Sang Ying accidentally uncovered a mid-grade Spirit Stone, and a mortal noticed that she still had her spiritual power and began hoping he could return home.
• Cang Lian failed to fool the guard captain, killed him when he tried to report the deception, and took his place with a wooden-looking disguise.
• Insects ate through the Tuyao Flowers on Myriad Phenomena Mountain, and the Jimo Household head ordered the entire sea of flowers harvested to contain the infestation.

Jimo Hong returned to Rizhao City and saw that the Tuyao Flowers had been destroyed, while Sang Ying and Cang Lian worked to eliminate guards and protect their operation in the mine. After the guards discovered their minor leader and the Spirit Stones were gone, “Liu San” persuaded them to flee and offered them a way to make a profit first.

• Jimo Hong returned to Rizhao City and saw the bare ground where the Tuyao Flowers had been destroyed.
• Sang Ying disposed of another guard and planned to eliminate more guards and break the cultivators’ Spirit-Sealing Locks before the steward could escape with the Spirit Stones.
• Cang Lian, disguised as Liu San, helped dispose of the corpse and worried that the missing guards would draw attention.
• The guards searched the mine, found the minor leader’s room empty, and discovered that the Spirit Stones were gone.
• “Liu San” convinced the guards that the minor leader had fled with the stones, prompting them to plan their own escape.
• “Liu San” offered the guards a way to make a profit before leaving, and they turned to him for help.

Cang Lian, posing as Liu San, persuaded the miners to lure the steward into a trap by turning the Jimo Household against his men. Wen Heyu’s attempt to escape with the captives failed, while Sang Ying faced the problem of their Spirit-Sealing Locks and heard new news from Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Cang Lian, posing as Liu San, convinced the miners to send men to find the steward and reveal his subordinates’ activities to the Jimo Household.
• The guards left the mine to investigate, giving Wen Heyu and his companions a chance to consider escaping.
• Wen Heyu urged the cultivators and mortals to flee, but they refused because their Spirit-Sealing Locks left them vulnerable and the mortals feared the guards.
• Wen Heyu promised to find a way to save everyone, while Sang Ying decided not to comfort him and worried about the Spirit-Sealing Locks.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying she had good news.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue used their knowledge of Spirit-Sealing Stone to set a trap that exposed the Jimo Household’s illegal operation. Jimo Hong was lured into an alley and trapped, while the steward escaped toward the Spirit Stone mine, unknowingly leading Fu Yinqiu and a hidden man to its location.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that powerful Spiritual Qi could shatter Spirit-Sealing Stone, and Sang Ying prepared to use the abundant Spiritual Qi around her.
• The butler gave the Jimo household head a Jade Slip identifying the supposed culprits, and the head ordered Jimo Qing to capture them.
• Jimo Hong learned that the missing mortals had been found and hurried after Jimo Qing, but a servant misdirected him into an alley where a barrier trapped him.
• Jimo Qing dealt with the outsiders while letting the steward escape toward the Spirit Stone mine in Myriad Phenomena Mountain.
• A tiny flying insect tracked the steward, allowing a black-clad man and Fu Yinqiu to discover the mine’s location.

The overseer discovered that Zhao Ke had fled with the Spirit Stones, but learned that the guards had been tricked by someone impersonating Liu San and persuaded them to help destroy the mine. As the overseer’s forces attacked the miners, a hidden woman stopped their blades and revealed herself to face him.

• The guards subdued the overseer, who accused them of betraying their master, and they said his plans had failed and the Jimo Household would soon find the mine.
• The overseer learned Zhao Ke had supposedly fled with the Spirit Stones, then revealed that Zhao Ke was bound by a restriction that would kill him if he left the mine.
• The guards realized someone had impersonated Liu San and tricked them, but the impostor had already escaped; the overseer persuaded them to free him and promised them rewards.
• Cang Lian reached the miners ahead of the overseer, and Sang Ying asked him to protect the mortals while she stayed to help the miners break their Spirit-Sealing Locks.
• The overseer ordered the guards to kill the miners, but an unseen force stopped their blades; a drab-clothed woman stepped forward and addressed the overseer as her senior.

Sang Ying fought the mine overseer and his guards while Fu Yinqiu’s group discovered the hidden entrance beneath an ancient tree and began breaking its formations. After Green Vine secured the collapsing mine and trapped the guards, Sang Ying prepared to break the Spirit-Sealing Locks on the captives.

• Sang Ying’s Spirit-Sealing Lock vanished, revealing her Golden Core Late Stage cultivation, and she fought the overseer’s guards with help from Jiang Zhuoxue and Cang Lian.
• Fu Yinqiu followed the black-robed figure’s flying insect to the ancient tree, where Jimo Household formation cultivators began dismantling the hidden entrance’s formations.
• The overseer realized the Jimo Household had found the mine and intensified his attack while using talismans to collapse the tunnels.
• Sang Ying called Green Vine, which shored up the mine, gathered Spirit Stones for her, and bound the overseer and guards.
• Sang Ying told Wen Heyu and the other captives she would open their Spirit-Sealing Locks, then absorbed the Spirit Stones and readied her ice-edged Floating River Sword.

Sang Ying freed the miners from the mine and reunited with Fu Yinqiu, while the Jimo household head interrogated Jimo Hong about the plot. In Eternal Night City, a mysterious man learned that the plan in Rizhao City had failed and ordered his followers to conquer the city.

• Sang Ying used the mine’s Spirit Stones to empower Floating River and froze the overseer and his men, freeing the miners from their Spirit-Sealing Locks.
• Wen Heyu thanked Sang Ying, who told the freed miners it was time to go home.
• Fu Yinqiu told Sang Ying that the overseer and his men had been found frozen, while Green Vine and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to their usual forms.
• The Jimo household head questioned Jimo Hong, who offered to reveal the conspirator and take him to meet that person.
• A man in Eternal Night City learned that the plan in Rizhao City had failed and ordered his followers to conquer Rizhao City for him.

Jimo Hong’s confession set the Jimo Household on course to attack Eternal Night City, while Elder Xiao visited Wen Heyu and learned that Sang Ying had saved him. The Jimo Household asked Sang Ying to remain in Rizhao City and help Madam Yinqiu defend it while the family marched out.

• Elder Xiao visited Rizhao City, but Jimo Qing kept him from meeting Sang Ying.
• Elder Xiao reunited with Wen Heyu, who thanked him and said his ordeal had helped him grow.
• Elder Xiao invited Wen Heyu to join the expedition against Eternal Night City and told him that Sang Ying had rescued him from the spirit mine.
• The Jimo Household head and Jimo Qing explained Eternal Night City’s history and the threat it posed to Rizhao City and Spirit Prefecture.
• The Jimo Household head asked Sang Ying to help Madam Yinqiu defend Rizhao City while he and Jimo Qing led the expedition.
• Sang Ying agreed to use the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady identity and follow Madam Yinqiu’s instructions.