Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying booked passage to Yao Zhou, bought Gu Shu a Spiritual Qi-filled jade pendant to live in, and prepared for the voyage with Jiang Zhuoxue. Three days later, they boarded the spirit ship, heading toward a Yao Zhou whose calm surface concealed danger.

• Sang Ying booked a room on Captain Wu's spirit ship to Yao Zhou for a hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Sang Ying bought a jade sword pendant at the All Under Heaven Pavilion, and Gu Shu moved into it.
• The shopkeeper told Sang Ying that his master would also travel to Yao Zhou, and Sang Ying agreed that meeting him would be a pleasant twist of fate.
• Sang Ying bought provisions and prepared for the journey while Jiang Zhuoxue asked her to cook sweet-and-sour fish.
• Sang Ying, Jiang Zhuoxue, and their companions boarded Captain Wu's spirit ship and set sail for Yao Zhou.

Su Fuyun worried about returning to her injured master, but the jade pendant urged her to cultivate and obtain the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly attendee list from the Gong Household. Meanwhile, Sang Ying boarded a Jimo Household flying boat bound for Yao Zhou’s main city, where its young master planned to investigate the assembly and possibly help the dragon targeted by it.

• Su Fuyun asked the jade pendant when she could return to the Twin Orchid Realm to see Gu Huaiwei, but it rebuked her for neglecting cultivation and reminded her that she had schemed to become his disciple.
• The jade pendant promised to seek a way to bring Gu Huaiwei to the Immortal Spirit Realm and told Su Fuyun to get the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly attendee list from the Gong Household’s third young master.
• Sang Ying accepted the boat owner’s help and paid for a place aboard the Jimo Household’s flying boat to Yao Zhou’s main city.
• The Jimo Household’s young master told his steward he wanted to see how the Gong Household brought about its own destruction at the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly.
• After recalling an earlier Dragon-Slaying Platform survivor who had upended the cultivation world, the young master considered helping the dragon and preventing the Immortal Spirit Realm from becoming another Nether Treasury Realm.

Sang Ying arrived in Yao Zhou with a Jimo Household caravan and watched Mara Gate disciples extort docking and entrance fees from them. When the disciples threatened the Jimo Household, Jimo Qing intervened and revealed his identity, leaving them terrified.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that the quiet man in blue was a direct descendant of the Jimo Household, and Rogue Cultivators avoided attacking the flying boat because its caravan was associated with Jimo Qing, Spirit Prefecture's Blood Rain.
• At Yao Zhou's main city, two Mara Gate outer disciples demanded a docking fee and took the caravan leader's Storage Bag.
• The same disciples demanded entrance fees at the city gate and tried to charge the caravan extra after the leader identified it as belonging to the Jimo Household.
• After the leader warned the disciples that the Jimo Household would not tolerate their behavior, a flash of white light sent the two men flying.
• Jimo Qing stepped forward, mocked the Mara Gate's arrogance, and revealed his name, causing a disciple to turn deathly pale.

Jimo Qing confronted the Mara Gate disciples who had extorted his caravan and demanded that the two offenders be left in his household’s hands. Sang Ying entered Yao Zhou’s main city unnoticed, declined the caravan leader’s offer of lodging, and set out to find a place to stay.

• The jade-token disciple recognized Jimo Qing as Spirit Prefecture Blood Rain and apologized for the Mara Gate disciples’ actions.
• Jimo Qing refused reconciliation and asked to keep the two injured outer disciples so his household could teach them a lesson.
• The jade-token disciple agreed to leave the two men behind and cleared the way for Jimo Qing’s caravan to enter the city.
• Sang Ying slipped through the city gate unnoticed by the Mara Gate disciples.
• Sang Ying declined the caravan leader’s offer to stay at the All Under Heaven Pavilion and went to find lodging on her own.

Jimo Qing recognized Sang Ying’s potential and ordered his people to protect her from a distance, while Sang Ying investigated the Mara Gate’s mysterious cultivation method. The chapter ended with Gate Master Qi considering a way to give mortals Spirit Roots, unaware that it would cost them something important.

• Jimo Qing told his group leader that Sang Ying’s future was boundless and ordered him to watch over her without interfering or letting her notice.
• Sang Ying rented a secluded courtyard in Yao Zhou, layered it with defensive formations, and heard Jiang Zhuoxue explain how Gate Master Qi founded the Mara Gate.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that Qi’s talented daughter had died after practicing the Mara Cultivation Method, and Sang Ying suspected the method was actually a formation.
• Gate Master Qi asked a black-clothed woman whether her method could give someone a Spirit Root, while she concealed that gaining one would make the person lose something more important.

Sang Ying learned a High Antiquity Teleportation Array from Jiang Zhuoxue and prepared escape routes before the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly. As the assembly approached, she remained unaware that forces from all sides had infiltrated Yao Zhou's main city.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that he could teach her a small-scale Teleportation Array and use an array disc for the second end of the escape route.
• Sang Ying struggled with Jiang Zhuoxue's instruction until she shut herself away for ten days and mastered the array.
• Sang Ying set up a Teleportation Array in the courtyard, engraved another on an array disc, and tested that she could teleport back from around Yao Zhou's main city.
• Sang Ying established more arrays in secluded places inside and outside the city and gave extra array discs to Jiang Zhuoxue and Green Vine.
• Forces from all sides infiltrated Yao Zhou's main city as the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly drew near.

Sang Ying attended the Gong Household’s Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly in disguise, where the imprisoned dragon was revealed to be Cang Lian, the Ice Flood Dragon she had met in the Qishan Secret Realm. The chapter ended as Sang Ying recognized the scarred dragon in the iron cage.

• Two Golden Core cultivators discussed the captive dragon while guards whipped it and secretly collected its blood.
• Sang Ying disguised herself and went to the assembly venue with Jiang Zhuoxue, who was unsettled by the oppressive atmosphere.
• Jiang Zhuoxue identified the stern cultivator from Ten Thousand Daos Born among the gathering’s prominent guests.
• The Gong Household head announced that the assembly’s purpose was to slay a dragon, and chains hoisted an iron cage from the pond.
• Sang Ying recognized the scarred ice dragon in the cage as Cang Lian, whom she had met in the Qishan Secret Realm.

Sang Ying learned that the Gong Household had stolen Jiang Zhuoxue’s dragon eyes and planned to expose its scheme while rescuing Cang Lian. As the Gong Household auctioned off Cang Lian’s body and lowered his cage into the water, Sang Ying secretly altered a formation plate to save him.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that the Gong Household’s Illusion Piercer used dragon eyes, revealing why he had come to the Immortal Spirit Realm to seek revenge.
• Sang Ying proposed making the assembled cultivators believe the Gong Household intended to use the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly to kill them all.
• The Gong Household auctioned Cang Lian’s bones, heart, claws, skin, flesh, and scales, even accepting a cultivator’s daughter as a stake.
• Sang Ying began altering a formation plate so she could rescue Cang Lian.
• The Gong Household head announced that Cang Lian would be dealt with and divided at the Dragon-Slaying Platform, then had his cage lowered into the water.

Sang Ying infiltrated the Gong Household’s underground water prison and reached the badly injured Cang Lian, who recognized her as his friend. She gave him array plates and instructions to escape and retaliate, while Jimo Qing spotted a familiar figure and hurried after them.

• Jimo Qing rebuffed the Gong Household head’s attempt to befriend him and left after spotting someone familiar.
• Guided by Jiang Zhuoxue, Sang Ying slipped past the Gong Household’s patrols and reached the guards at the lowest level of the bunker.
• Jiang Zhuoxue used Green Vine to restrain the two guards while Sang Ying tried to wake Cang Lian.
• Cang Lian attacked Sang Ying until she revealed her true appearance and showed him the dragon scale and a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• Sang Ying gave Cang Lian two array plates and told him to escape the cage, attack the people who sought his horn and heart, and take revenge on the Gong Household.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue prepared to help Cang Lian escape, then Sang Ying was stopped by Gong Chengsi while returning to the venue. Jimo Qing claimed her as his little sister and escorted her inside, while Gong Chengsi was left furious.

• Sang Ying partially cut Cang Lian's chains with the Dragon Abyss Sword, and Jiang Zhuoxue soothed him and gave him a drop of his blood.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue slipped past the guards, but Gong Chengsi stopped Sang Ying and accused her of being involved in his guards' collapse.
• Sang Ying traded insults with Gong Chengsi as he ordered his guards to seize her.
• Jimo Qing arrived and called Sang Ying his little sister, then confronted Gong Chengsi when he questioned their relationship.
• Sang Ying urged Jimo Qing to return to the venue, and the two left Gong Chengsi seething behind them.

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.