Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying led the group through the Hidden Moon Forest to its central stone forest, where they found traces of missing cultivators and broke a powerful barrier. Inside, Fu Shuangjiang reunited with his master and other trapped leaders, but Sang Ying noticed that their feet—and now his—were turning to stone.

• Su Fuyun questioned Sang Ying about finding the path, and Jiang Zhuoxue and Fu Shuangjiang rebuked her before she followed them onward.
• Sang Ying led Jiang Zhuoxue, Fu Shuangjiang, and Su Fuyun to the central stone forest, where Fu Shuangjiang recognized two missing elders' faces embedded in pillars.
• The group reached a barrier beyond the stone forest, and Fu Shuangjiang used his Ice Spirit Root to break it.
• Fu Shuangjiang rushed inside and found his master, Elder Zhou, and other missing leaders alive, while Elder Zhou angrily questioned why he had come.
• Sang Ying noticed the trapped cultivators' feet were turning to stone, and Fu Shuangjiang discovered that his own shoes had begun to petrify.

As Fu Shuangjiang and the others were petrified in Hidden Moon Forest, Elder Zhou explained how a mysterious treasure and disappearances had led to the forest’s present danger. Gu Shu recognized the supposed evil thing as Gu Wangchuan’s sword, leaving the group with a startling clue about the force behind the calamity.

• Su Fuyun panicked as she turned to stone, and Sang Ying knocked her unconscious while Fu Shuangjiang asked Elder Zhou why powerful cultivators were trapped.
• The sect master of Sword Frost Cliff and Elder Zhou argued with a Limitless Sect cultivator over whether the forest’s danger was tied to an old debt of sin.
• Elder Zhou explained that rosy light had struck Hidden Moon Forest centuries earlier, drawing treasure seekers toward its changed central region.
• Elder Zhou recounted how disciples, elders, and later cultivators vanished after entering the central region, and how a strange beast tide brought him back to investigate.
• Elder Zhou said that everyone who had encountered the evil thing had turned to ash, but Gu Shu angrily identified it as Gu Wangchuan’s sword.

Sang Ying learned that the evil object in the stone forest was a fragment of Gu Wangchuan’s sword, Sever the Heavenly River, and decided to retrieve it despite the danger. The trapped cultivators opened a passage for her, and the fragment called out to her as it trembled.

• Gu Shu told Sang Ying that the object was a fragment of Sever the Heavenly River and recounted how Gu Wangchuan had cast the sword into the lower realms when he ascended.
• Sang Ying declared that she would enter the darkness and remove the supposed evil object, despite Fu Shuangjiang’s warning.
• The mighty cultivators agreed to help Sang Ying and combined their remaining spiritual power to open a passage through the barrier.
• Sang Ying saw a rust-covered piece of iron inside the passage as it vibrated and injured the cultivators with its force.
• The fragment spoke to Sang Ying, saying it had waited for her for a long time.

Sang Ying entered the barrier, learned that the black mist was Demonic Qi, and began pulling the Sever the Heavenly River fragment from the earth. As she did, Demon Beasts erupted from the Hidden Moon Forest and raced toward the human world, while a disciple at Sword Frost Cliff spotted a vast horde approaching.

• Sang Ying cut apart the black beast formed from the black mist and entered the barrier after the crack closed.
• Gu Shu told Sang Ying the mist was Demonic Qi and urged her to pull out the Sever the Heavenly River fragment and make it her sword.
• Sang Ying grasped the fragment and began pulling it from the soil, causing strange changes across the central Hidden Moon Forest.
• Fu Shuangjiang watched Demon Beasts burst from the black soil and charge out of the forest, while Elder Zhou warned they were heading toward the human race.
• A child at Sword Frost Cliff insisted the beast tide would soon end, then a female cultivator spotted a vast horde of Demon Beasts advancing through dust clouds.

Sang Ying struggled to draw the corrupted fragment of Sever the Heavenly River from the earth, pouring her blood and spiritual power into cleansing it as the beast tide overwhelmed the defenders. Golden light burst from the Hidden Moon Forest and halted the Demon Beasts, while an upper-realm sword immortal sensed the familiar sword’s return.

• Dong Fuzhu saved Fang Chi from a Crimson Feather Bird, and the two fought together to drive back the Demon Beasts.
• Hai Tingzhou, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin used formations to kill Demon Beasts while Ji Fucang and Luo Jin dealt with the strongest ones.
• Luo Jin worried that Fu Shuangjiang and the others would not survive, while Ji Fucang and the Jimo Household brothers rebuked him for worrying about their sect’s holy maiden.
• Sang Ying’s bloodied hand struggled to pull the fragment free as Gu Shu urged her not to let go and to cleanse Sever the Heavenly River of Demonic Qi.
• As Fu Shuangjiang and the other defenders faced imminent defeat, Sang Ying poured her spiritual power into the sword fragment and unleashed golden light that stopped the beast tide.
• An upper-realm sword immortal sensed Sever the Heavenly River’s presence rising from the lower realm and smiled.

Golden light destroyed the black mist and ended the Demon Beast calamity, freeing the cultivators trapped in the stone forest and saving the Black Tortoise Realm. Sang Ying discovered that the broken sword had merged into her body, then faced suspicion from the Limitless Sect elder before its sect master confronted her.

• Golden light dissolved the barrier and black mist, restored the petrified cultivators, turned the Demon Beasts to sand, and freed Elder Haojing and Elder Linyin from their stone pillars.
• At the encampment, the boy reunited with his senior sister and brother, believing Sang Ying had ended the calamity.
• Sang Ying found that Sever the Heavenly River had vanished into her body after she pulled it free, and Gu Shu suggested she might once have been its sword spirit.
• Fu Shuangjiang thanked Sang Ying for saving the Black Tortoise Realm, while the other cultivators questioned her about the broken sword.
• The Limitless Sect elder accused Sang Ying of keeping the sword, but Elder Zhou defended her until the sect master arrived and fixed his gaze on her.

Sang Ying defused the sect masters’ demands to inspect her sword and secured their protection for the journey out of Hidden Moon Forest. As the group prepared to leave, Su Fuyun learned from her jade pendant that Sang Ying had the treasure and was ordered to lure her toward a powerful Demon Beast to seize it.

• Sect Master Wu and other leaders demanded to see Sang Ying’s sword, but Sect Master Ji objected and defended her.
• Sang Ying showed them Floating River, then asked the cultivators to protect her as they left Hidden Moon Forest instead of giving her gifts.
• The petrified people revived, and the enlarged group prepared to depart; a notorious Devil Cultivator was killed by those he had wronged.
• Jiang Zhuoxue stayed close to Sang Ying, while Su Fuyun woke and learned that Sang Ying had entered the small barrier and the broken sword had disappeared.
• The jade pendant told Su Fuyun that Sang Ying had the treasure and instructed her to steer Sang Ying toward a high-level Demon Beast so she could take it.

Su Fuyun used beast-luring powder to provoke the Demon Beasts and tried to make Sang Ying their prey so she could seize Sang Ying’s fortune. As the beasts attacked, Su Fuyun shoved Sang Ying toward their jaws, leaving the others too late to intervene.

• Su Fuyun scattered beast-luring powder around the resting place and secretly sprinkled it on Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying warned Jiang Zhuoxue that Su Fuyun had put something on her and said it was time to settle things between them.
• The powder drew the outskirts’ Demon Beasts toward the party, and Fu Shuangjiang recognized that someone had used beast-luring powder.
• Su Fuyun moved behind Sang Ying as the party fought off the beasts, then shoved her toward the jaws of several concealed sixth-tier Demon Beasts.
• Fu Shuangjiang called out in alarm as Sang Ying fell toward the beasts, while the mighty experts could not reach her in time.

Sang Ying fought off the Demon Beasts, then faced Su Fuyun’s accusation that she had scattered Beast-Luring Powder to lure them in. As the cultivators demanded that Sang Ying prove her innocence, she smiled and prepared to make them pay too.

• Sang Ying used her Floating River Sword to freeze dozens of Demon Beasts and help drive the beasts away.
• Fu Shuangjiang warned the group that someone had deliberately used Beast-Luring Powder to endanger them and urged everyone to find the culprit.
• Su Fuyun accused Sang Ying of scattering medicinal powder and spilling it on herself, turning some of the disciples against Sang Ying.
• Fu Shuangjiang defended Sang Ying, but a Limitless Sect elder demanded that they inspect her skirt for Beast-Luring Powder.
• Sang Ying met the crowd’s scrutiny with a smile, intending to make Su Fuyun and the others pay.

Sang Ying agreed to have her enchanted robe inspected for Beast-Luring Powder and demanded apology gifts from anyone who had falsely accused her. After the elders found no powder, she accused Su Fuyun of suspicious behavior and asked them to inspect her too.

• Fu Shuangjiang defended Sang Ying and challenged the cultivators to inspect everyone's Storage Bags, while Su Fuyun's tears turned suspicion against Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying agreed to the inspection and demanded apology gifts if she was proven innocent; Sect Master Wu accepted her terms.
• Elder Zhou and the Limitless Sect elder inspected Sang Ying's enchanted robe and found no Beast-Luring Powder.
• Jiang Zhuoxue quietly acted against Su Fuyun, then returned to Sang Ying and told her the show could begin.
• Sang Ying pointed out Su Fuyun's suspicious movements around the camp and asked the elders to inspect her as well.

After Beast-Luring Powder was found on Su Fuyun’s robes, the group blamed her for endangering them and left her alone in the Hidden Moon Forest. Sang Ying later appeared before her with a spirit sword and said she had come to take her life.

• The elders found Beast-Luring Powder on Su Fuyun’s robes, and witnesses accused her of acting suspiciously and pushing Sang Ying during the Demon Beast attack.
• Sect Master Wu let Sang Ying decide Su Fuyun’s punishment, and Sang Ying chose to leave her behind in the forest rather than kill her.
• Sect Master Wu expelled Su Fuyun from the party and tossed her deeper into the forest, while she planned to contact Luo Jin for rescue.
• Su Fuyun sheltered alone overnight, trusting her Law Treasure and formation plates to protect her until Luo Jin arrived.
• Sang Ying appeared beside the sleeping Su Fuyun with her spirit sword and announced that she had come to take her life.

Sang Ying trapped Su Fuyun and killed her after destroying the jade pendant’s black-mist guardian. The chapter ended with Sang Ying erasing her memories of Su Fuyun and leaving her dead.

• Sang Ying ambushed Su Fuyun at night and trapped her in a formation that concealed them from outside detection.
• Su Fuyun failed to break the formation, and Sang Ying severed the meridians in both her legs.
• Su Fuyun offered to reveal Mara Gate secrets and gave Sang Ying the jade pendant, saying someone had prompted her earlier actions.
• The jade pendant released black mist that formed a giant beast, but Sang Ying pierced it with golden light and shattered the pendant.
• Sang Ying killed Su Fuyun with a sword strike, then crushed her memories of their past.

Sang Ying killed Su Fuyun and returned to camp with Jiang Zhuoxue, while the Mara Gate’s soul stone briefly went dark and returned with an eerie blue-green glow. Later, Su Fuyun’s corpse revived under the control of someone else.

• Luo Jin felt his inexplicable attachment to Su Fuyun vanish, while the Mara Gate’s soul stone went dark and then reappeared glowing blue-green.
• Sang Ying left Su Fuyun’s cold corpse behind and used a Teleportation Array to return to camp, where Jiang Zhuoxue helped conceal her secret.
• Jiang Zhuoxue gave Sang Ying a Red-Eyed Rabbit to disguise the scent of blood before they joined the others at the campfire.
• Fu Shuangjiang approached Sang Ying and tried to ingratiate himself with her, while Jiang Zhuoxue recognized his romantic interest.
• Demon Beasts found Su Fuyun’s corpse, but the body killed them and picked up her shattered jade pendant.
• Blue-black Qi flowed from the pendant into the corpse, and when the woman opened her eyes, an entirely different person had taken over her body.

Sang Ying and the others escaped the Hidden Moon Forest and returned to the camp, where cultivators joyfully reunited with those they had feared lost. As Sang Ying greeted her fellow disciples, Luo Jin demanded to know where the Limitless Sect’s saintess was.

• The group left the Hidden Moon Forest and hurried back toward the camp, where the waiting cultivators had remained.
• He Xiu claimed Sang Ying and her companions had nothing to do with ending the beast tide and suggested Sang Ying was probably dead; Fang Chi stopped Dong Fuzhu from attacking him, while Lan Fusheng proposed secretly beating him with a sack.
• Fang Chi spotted the returning cultivators, and the camp rushed out to welcome them.
• He Xiu was startled that the people who entered the Hidden Moon Forest had returned, then hurried out to greet the Limitless Sect’s leaders and elders.
• Sang Ying reunited with Fang Chi and the others, and Dong Fuzhu told her another beast tide had erupted after she left.
• Luo Jin asked Sang Ying where the Limitless Sect’s saintess was.

Luo Jin demanded to know what had happened to Su Fuyun, but Sang Ying and the others revealed that Su Fuyun had harmed and framed them before being left in the forest. As the conflict with the Mara Gate came to light, Jiang Zhuoxue remembered an unresolved debt in the Black Tortoise Realm.

• Luo Jin questioned Sang Ying about Su Fuyun’s disappearance and concealed that Su Fuyun had already contacted him.
• Dong Fuzhu rebuked Luo Jin, and Ji Fucang confronted him when he threatened Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying told Luo Jin that the Mara Gate owed everyone an explanation, and Jiang Zhuoxue and Fu Shuangjiang supported her.
• Fu Shuangjiang revealed that Su Fuyun had used Beast-Luring Powder to harm others and frame Sang Ying.
• Luo Jin apologized on behalf of the Mara Gate, but Sang Ying said she had already taken revenge and left Su Fuyun in the forest.
• Jiang Zhuoxue remembered the person who had taken all his dragon scales and looked toward the sect master of the Limitless Sect.

After the Black Tortoise Realm recovered from the crisis, Sang Ying and her companions stayed for a victory banquet at the Limitless Sect. Jiang Zhuoxue slipped away to retrieve something from Sect Master Wu’s secret chamber and found a suit of black-scaled battle armor that answered his touch with a sorrowful dragon’s cry.

• Luo Jin concealed the truth about Su Fuyun’s disappearance and told the Mara Gate disciples to forget she had joined their trip.
• The Black Tortoise Realm repaired the damage, buried the dead, and entrusted Sword Frost Cliff’s Sect Master Ji with erecting the Longevity Stele.
• He Xiu led Sang Ying and the others to the Limitless Sect’s banquet, seating the Mara Gate disciples last after Luo Jin’s trouble with Su Fuyun.
• When Jiang Zhuoxue prepared to leave the banquet, Sang Ying offered to cover for him and gave him a small Teleportation Array.
• Jiang Zhuoxue entered Sect Master Wu’s secret chamber and touched a suit of black-scaled battle armor, causing a youthful dragon’s cry filled with sorrow to ring out.

Jiang Zhuoxue reclaimed his dragon scales and took the treasures from Sect Master Wu’s secret chamber while the banquet continued. After discovering the theft, Sect Master Wu realized the culprit was a dragon and vowed to hunt it down, unaware that Jiang Zhuoxue was among the guests.

• Jiang Zhuoxue absorbed the dragon-scale armor into his body, restoring his scales and strength.
• Sang Ying left the banquet to meet Jiang Zhuoxue, and they returned as Sect Master Wu noticed something was wrong and departed.
• Jiang Zhuoxue gave Sang Ying a Storage Bag filled with treasures he had taken from Sect Master Wu’s secret chamber.
• Sect Master Wu found the chamber emptied, including the armor, and ordered the elders to keep the banquet guests from leaving.
• Sect Master Wu identified the thief’s presence as dragon breath and told the elders that the culprit was a dragon.
• Sect Master Wu realized a dragon had reclaimed its own scales and resolved to capture it and take its skin and flesh.

Sect Master Wu used the Limitless Sect’s dragon teeth to lure the dragon who had stolen the Black Scale Battle Armor into a trap. Jiang Zhuoxue recognized the bait but stayed at the feast, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Sang Ying warned Jiang Zhuoxue that the Limitless Sect elders were searching for him, but he said they would find no traces.
• Sect Master Wu invited the visiting cultivators to remain for a feast where they could view the long-lost dragon teeth, making it difficult for them to leave.
• Ji Fucang reassured his junior brothers and sisters while privately suspecting Sect Master Wu had another scheme.
• Sect Master Wu told the elders he planned to use the dragon teeth to lure the dragon and recruit other sects to help capture it.
• At the treasure-viewing feast, Jiang Zhuoxue saw the snow-white teeth and felt their pull as their owner.

Jiang Zhuoxue stole the treasures displayed by the Limitless Sect, while Sect Master Wu grew suspicious of Sang Ying and tested her with a Dragon Breath Pearl. The pearl turned gray at Sang Ying’s feet, confirming Sect Master Wu’s suspicion.

• Jiang Zhuoxue remembered the pain of having his tooth pulled, and Sang Ying comforted him as they stayed to inspect the treasures.
• Jiang Zhuoxue stole everything displayed in the Limitless Sect’s hall, adding the loot to Sang Ying’s nearly full Storage Bags.
• Sect Master Wu promised the elders he would recover their treasures and then investigated who had left the banquet.
• Sect Master Wu suspected Sang Ying and ordered his disciple to retrieve the Dragon Breath Pearl.
• The Dragon Breath Pearl rolled to Sang Ying’s feet and turned gray as Sect Master Wu watched from the shadows.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue continued searching for his missing teeth while Sect Master Wu’s group plotted to seize the dragon they believed Sang Ying concealed. As the Immortal Spirit Realm group prepared to leave, an attacker ambushed them, and a scaled tail shielded Sang Ying from a lethal blow.

• Sang Ying picked up a bead that turned gray, but Sect Master Wu’s disciple snatched it away and later saw it return to its clear state.
• Sect Master Wu and the elders decided to capture the dragon they associated with Sang Ying and share it among the Black Tortoise Realm’s sects.
• The body cultivator sect master left after Sect Master Wu could not show the dragon tooth, and Sect Master Wu chose not to ask him to stay or inform Sword Frost Cliff of his plan.
• Sang Ying kept searching with Jiang Zhuoxue for his missing teeth and refused Fu Shuangjiang’s offer to help, fearing he might learn Jiang Zhuoxue’s identity.
• As Ji Fucang led the Immortal Spirit Realm group to board their flying boat, a stronger opponent attacked, injuring Ji Fucang and defeating Fang Chi and the others.
• A scaled tail shielded Sang Ying from the attacker’s final blow as weapons clashed around her.