Chapter Summaries

Li Ang reluctantly accepted Sutier as his companion after she threatened to kill herself and proved her resolve by setting off a Talisman. Later, Zhong Yi learned Sutier was twenty-three and heard her ask Li Ang to take her as a disciple, prompting him to reveal that he was a Demon Cultivator.

• Sutier insisted that Li Ang take responsibility for her after saving her and said she would die if he abandoned her.
• When Li Ang rejected her because she was too young, Sutier drew blood on a Talisman, triggering an explosion that destroyed half his room.
• Li Ang moved with Sutier to a new inn, where the innkeeper accepted their cover story as a father and daughter.
• After the movie scene ended, Zhong Yi asked Sutier her age and learned she was twenty-three.
• Sutier asked Li Ang to make her his disciple and teach her to become strong like him.
• Li Ang told Sutier he was a Demon Cultivator, and his Behavior score rose.

Zhong Yi accepted Sutier’s request to become his disciple and resolved to find her a righteous path to cultivation. Lu Ze’s training system encouraged players to explore quests and warned that teaching Sutier demonic methods could lead to tragic endings.

• Sutier asked Zhong Yi to teach her to become strong so she could avenge her little brother, and Zhong Yi refused to let her fall into the Demon Path.
• Zhong Yi recalled town quests that might provide Sutier with spiritual medicine and a righteous cultivation method, then agreed to train her.
• Sutier happily went to prepare a drink, while Zhong Yi told her to bring goat milk instead of wine.
• Lu Ze’s game design allowed players to train Sutier through quests, purchases, or demonic methods, with the latter leading toward a bad ending.
• Players discussed Sutier’s training on the Illusion Realm Forum, where several described her tragic fate after they taught her demonic cultivation methods.

Lu Ze revealed that he had used his own Cybersoul as the Heavenly Dao guiding the many player-specific worlds of This Demonic Cultivator Is Not Too Cold toward the same ending. In separate Illusion Realm worlds, Zhou Yue, Li Moran, and Zhou Qiaoling each trained Sutier in their own way.

• Lu Ze explained to the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that he had drawn on its surrounding runes to create a formation that guided the Illusion Realm's branching worlds toward a common ending.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao realized Lu Ze had made himself the Illusion Realm's Heavenly Dao after repeatedly dying in it to obtain his own Cybersoul.
• Zhou Yue killed three ferocious beasts with a dagger and Hand Crossbow, then urged Sutier to imitate his technique.
• Li Moran made Sutier endure a waterfall while practicing the Goddess Sword Heart Art and left ginger tea ready for when she could no longer bear it.
• Zhou Qiaoling told Sutier to beg from a wealthy-looking man so she could steal his wallet, calling the theft training for an assassin, and then complained when her Behavior score fell to zero.

In Mu Yawen and Zhong Yi’s Illusion Realms, Sutier trained in basic combat and learned poison knowledge, while Zhong Yi struggled to secure the best cultivation resources for her. After failing the Chen Family quest again, he headed to buy pills but stopped to take on a hidden Go quest he had previously forgotten.

• Mu Yawen taught Sutier horse stances and punches, insisting that fists were the hard truth.
• Zhong Yi quizzed Sutier on poisonous ingredients and patiently taught her various forms of knowledge, including poison-making and formations.
• Sutier asked Zhong Yi when he would temper her body and guide her into cultivation, and he admitted he still had not cleared the difficult Chen Family quest for high-grade pills.
• Zhong Yi failed the Chen Family quest again and decided to buy lower-grade pills and cultivation methods with the money he had earned from assassin missions.
• An old man called Zhong Yi over for their promised Go match, and Zhong Yi accepted the hidden quest.

Zhong Yi obtained an ancestral Body Tempering pill formula and prepared a medicinal bath for Sutier, whose teasing flustered him. The bath ended with Sutier completing body tempering and reaching level 1.

• Zhong Yi defeated the old man at chess and received the Lost Body Tempering Pill Formula as his wager prize.
• Zhong Yi gathered the ingredients, commissioned the pills, and prepared the medicinal bath for Sutier.
• Sutier teased Zhong Yi from the bathing room, and he tried to calm himself by reciting a mantra.
• Sutier pretended the medicine was hurting her, prompting Zhong Yi to rush inside before she revealed the prank and splashed him.
• Sutier successfully completed body tempering and reached level 1.

Zhong Yi raised Sutier through daily quests and side quests in the Illusion Realm, growing attached as her cultivation advanced. The movie resumed with Li Ang visiting Li Yougan for his accumulated mission payments, then ended with Sutier telling Li Ang she had fallen in love with him.

• Zhong Yi supervised Sutier’s goat-milk drinking and tended the rootless plant, while Sutier suggested planting it by Dawn Lake Shore.
• Zhong Yi pursued side quests to gather rewards that would improve Sutier, and she teased him about his repeated promises to seize immortal fate.
• Players raised Sutier in personalized ways, and Zhong Yi’s Sutier reached level 30 before the Illusion Realm resumed movie playback.
• Li Ang returned to Li Yougan’s restaurant to ask for more than a decade of mission payments, and Li Yougan warned him to be careful of women.
• Li Ang drove away a local thug who was trying to chat with Sutier, then brought her home, where she told him she had fallen in love with him.

Sutier confessed her love to Li Ang, leaving him conflicted before he set out on a difficult assassination mission. Zhong Yi completed the mission despite a distracting DEBUFF and emerged thinking of Sutier, with a new task to buy her a gift.

• Sutier told Li Ang she had fallen in love with him, and Li Ang struggled to respond before leaving for an assassination mission.
• Zhong Yi regained control and tried to return to discuss Sutier’s confession, but a behavior score penalty forced him to focus on the mission.
• Zhong Yi discovered that Li Ang’s attributes had fallen because of a distracted DEBUFF caused by Sutier’s confession.
• Zhong Yi endured repeated failures and Li Ang’s distracting inner thoughts before defeating the mission’s Boss after two days in Illusion Realm time.
• Zhong Yi left the mission thinking about Sutier, and his main quest updated to buying her a gift.

Zhong Yi chose a crystal-colored Fairy Skirt for Sutier, but her actions while he was away led to them being expelled from the inn. After Sutier asked Li Ang to help avenge her family and he refused, she declared that she wanted either love or death.

• Zhong Yi bought Sutier a crystal-colored Fairy Skirt and returned to find the innkeeper confronting him over Sutier calling Li Ang her lover.
• The innkeeper and his waiters threw Zhong Yi and Sutier out, and Zhong Yi learned that Sutier had overheard Stan's office location while retrieving money from her old home.
• Zhong Yi and Sutier found a new place to stay, where he stitched his wound while Sutier prepared to ask for his help.
• Sutier offered Li Ang four Silver Notes to kill Stan and three others from the Demon Suppressing Division, but Li Ang refused and warned her against revenge.
• Sutier wept and told Li Ang that she wanted either love or death.

Zhong Yi stopped Sutier from playing a deadly crossbow game in the Illusion Realm, unlocking the ability to take her on quests. Meanwhile, Demon Slaying Legend led the voting, though Zhang Yuxian grew uneasy about the unexpectedly low turnout.

• Sutier loaded four poisoned bolts into a Hand Crossbow and challenged Li Ang to a life-or-death game, saying she would stay with him if she won.
• After Sutier confessed her love and aimed the crossbow at her temple, Zhong Yi grabbed her wrist and made the shot hit the ceiling instead.
• Sutier declared that she had won, and the system updated the main quest to raise her to Level 50 while allowing Zhong Yi to bring her on quests and share experience.
• Li Ang applied for a temporary assassin identity for Sutier, and they began working together on dungeons, quests, and town exploration.
• Players fiercely debated Li Ang’s refusal to avenge Sutier as voting began, while Demon Slaying Legend held a large lead over Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm.
• Zhang Yuxian and Yang Zhengxin celebrated Lu Ze’s apparent decline, but Zhang Yuxian noticed that fewer people than expected were voting.

Zhong Yi and other players trained Sutier for assassination missions in their illusion worlds, each using different methods. The chapter ended with Li Moran completing a mission so swiftly that Sutier begged her to teach her swordsmanship.

• Zhong Yi guided Sutier through an assassination plan, then disguised himself as a Hua after refusing to let her play one.
• Sutier entered the target’s private room disguised as a serving girl, but the young master and his bodyguard trapped her.
• Zhong Yi crashed into the room in his Hua disguise to rescue Sutier.
• In Mu Yawen’s illusion world, Sutier practiced striking acupoints, and Mu Yawen demonstrated how to kill the bodyguard.
• In Li Moran’s illusion world, Sutier noticed the commission’s target among a group of drinkers after Li Moran had silently cut their throats.
• Li Moran told Sutier she would teach her when they returned.

In three Illusion Realm worlds, Sutier bonded with different versions of Li Ang as they faced demon potion, awkward fights, and questions about money and age. Zhong Yi promised that Sutier would keep on winning, while the worlds’ connections to later events remained unresolved.

• In Zhou Yue's world, Sutier recognized the demon potion among the loot and burned it, recalling how it had destroyed her family.
• In Zhou Qiaoling's world, Sutier burned the demon potion despite Zhou Qiaoling's regret over losing valuable loot, then asked whether saving money could help her fulfill her wish.
• In Zhong Yi's world, Zhong Yi burst through a window to protect Sutier but landed badly and was beaten by a sneak attack before they cleared the instance.
• Zhong Yi stopped Sutier from drinking wine and gave her goat milk instead.
• Sutier declared that she had won because Zhong Yi had first carried out an assassin mission at age twenty, and Zhong Yi promised she would keep on winning.

Zhong Yi and Sutier took a high-risk assassination job, only to face an old man who used Demon Potion to break through to Foundation Establishment. With Sutier in danger and his defenses failing, Zhong Yi used the Blood Curse and temporarily reached Foundation Establishment himself.

• Zhong Yi found Sutier's diary and read several entries before she caught him and took it back.
• Sutier delivered a new high-risk assassination job, and Zhong Yi brought her to a remote mountain forest to find their target.
• The old man trapped Zhong Yi and Sutier inside a Barrier array, then used Demon Potion to break through to Foundation Establishment.
• As the old man's attacks overwhelmed Zhong Yi's defenses, the Blood Curse Skill and a jar of Pure Blood became available to him.
• Zhong Yi crushed the jar and used the Blood Curse to protect Sutier, temporarily breaking through to Foundation Establishment.

Zhong Yi helped Sutier grow stronger, then watched Li Ang prepare to leave her and take on a dangerous job alone. The main quest updated, sending Zhong Yi to complete the assassination and avenge Sutier.

• Zhong Yi used a forbidden art to defeat the old man, completed the quest, and raised Sutier's level to 50.
• Sutier told Li Ang about her grief and hopes of taking revenge herself, then fell asleep holding his hand.
• Li Ang secretly left their room and asked the restaurant owner to give Sutier his money if he died.
• Li Ang told Sutier he needed to go alone and left with his assassin's gear.
• The main quest updated, tasking Zhong Yi with completing the assassination job and avenging Sutier.

Zhong Yi discovered Sutier had gone alone to avenge her little brother and entered the Demon Suppressing Division to rescue her. He escaped with her after silently killing the guards outside Stan’s office.

• Zhong Yi killed two Demon Suppressing Division subordinates and concluded that their leader, Stan, was the real target.
• Zhong Yi returned to find Sutier gone and discovered her note saying she did not want to have nightmares anymore.
• Zhong Yi realized Sutier had gone to take revenge alone and hurried to the Demon Suppressing Division to rescue her.
• The Illusion Realm showed that Stan had recognized Sutier in disguise and captured her, but postponed killing her when he heard his subordinates had been murdered.
• Zhong Yi infiltrated the Demon Suppressing Division, killed the guards outside Sutier’s room with throwing knives, and carried her away as she clung to him.

Zhong Yi and several other players watched Sutier model the gifts they had chosen for her in their Illusion Realms. Sutier’s romantic advances caused Zhou Qiaoling’s behavior score to fall, while Li Moran promised Sutier she could someday become a sword-wielding immortal.

• Zhong Yi watched Sutier wear the Fairy Skirt he had given her and awkwardly admitted that he liked it.
• Mu Yawen praised Sutier in heavy custom armor, explaining that wearing it would help her cultivation once she could move freely.
• Zhou Yue gave Sutier an expensive Official Immortal Garment, and her teasing about being his little sister led him to stumble through an explanation.
• Zhou Qiaoling saw Sutier in a bridal gown and was forced by a mysterious power to reject her proposal, so she declared that romance would be forbidden in the gang.
• Li Moran showed Sutier a custom pale blue gauze dress, and Sutier dreamed of wielding a sword like an immortal before Li Moran promised that day would come.

Inside Zhong Yi's Illusion Realm, Sutier teased Zhong Yi, persuaded him to share her bed, and left to buy goat milk the next morning. Zhong Yi heard the danger signal at the door and grabbed his dagger, then heard a second knock pattern that made him remember Sutier's words about love.

• Sutier teased Zhong Yi about a love song and told him it meant, “I love you.”
• Sutier persuaded Zhong Yi to sleep beside her, and the two went to sleep together.
• Li Ang woke in a cinematic sequence and reminded Sutier of their signal: three short knocks and one long meant danger.
• After Zhong Yi regained control, the main quest updated and he waited in bed for Sutier to return.
• Zhong Yi heard three short knocks and one long, grabbed his dagger, and then heard a second knock pattern as Sutier's words echoed in his mind.

Zhong Yi rescued Sutier from the Demon Suppressing Division and sent her through a tunnel while he stayed behind to fight. When he discovered that his Blood Curse had been sabotaged and suspected Li Youqian of betraying him, he rushed to eliminate the soldiers before Sutier could reach the restaurant.

• Zhong Yi took a squad leader hostage and forced the Demon Suppressing Division to exchange him for Sutier, then escaped back into the inn with her.
• When the soldiers attacked, Zhong Yi found a weak point in their formation and opened a tunnel for Sutier to flee with his green plant.
• Zhong Yi sent Sutier through the tunnel alone, promising they would meet again, and stayed behind as the enemy breached his defenses.
• Zhong Yi tried to use Blood Curse but learned that a spell had ruined the blood, and he concluded that Li Youqian had betrayed him.
• Zhong Yi drank a Blood Potion and attacked the soldiers, determined to kill them before Sutier reached the restaurant.

Lu Ze hinted that the Illusion Realm’s ending could help the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao recover its power, then turned his attention to a judging event. In Zhong Yi’s Illusion Realm, Stan poisoned and cornered Zhong Yi, but Sutier took a fatal blade meant for him and revealed she knew he had lied to her.

• Lu Ze told the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that the story’s ending might help it recover its power, then left to attend the judging event on the Immortal Abyss Continent.
• Zhong Yi struggled against the experts attacking the inn and tried to activate [Blood Curse] with the Demon Suppressing Division soldiers’ blood.
• Stan revealed that the soldiers’ blood had been rendered unusable and poisoned Zhong Yi, leaving him weakened and close to death.
• Stan prepared to kill Zhong Yi, but Sutier stepped in front of him and was pierced by the runic blade.
• Sutier told Zhong Yi, whom she called Li Ang, that she knew he had lied about taking her away, then collapsed into his arms as a prompt offered him usable righteous blood for [Blood Curse].

Sutier died in each player's Illusion Realm after taking a fatal sword strike, leaving Mu Yawen, Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Li Moran devastated. Her death advanced the story to its final stage, where every player chose to use the Blood Curse.

• Sutier died in Mu Yawen's Illusion Realm after asking whether becoming stronger would have saved her.
• Sutier told Zhou Yue that meeting him had been her greatest luck and gave him all her luck before dying.
• Sutier revealed her saved wish money to Zhou Qiaoling and asked her to live well and protect Li Ang.
• Sutier told Li Moran that she had seen a Sword Immortal the day Li Moran opened her door and let her in, then died.
• The story entered its final stage, and every player chose to use the Blood Curse.

Zhong Yi defeated Stan but found Sutier dead, then discovered a hidden choice that let him bring his real body's power into the Illusion Realm. The chapter ended with Zhong Yi choosing how much of his cultivation to use to rewrite the ending.

• Stan delighted in Sutier's death until Li Ang unleashed an aura as strong as or stronger than his own.
• At the Demon Slaying Assembly, Zhang Yuxian mocked Lu Ze's Illusion Realm while Lu Ze waited for its hidden ending to appear.
• Zhong Yi killed Stan, then carried Sutier's body out of the inn and grieved over her death.
• A hidden prompt asked Zhong Yi whether he wanted to save Sutier, and he answered yes even if it cost him his life.
• The Illusion Realm offered Zhong Yi the chance to bring some of his real body's cultivation into the realm to rewrite the ending.