Chapter Summaries

Ji Qinglin sent Red Night to face Lu Bing, hoping the two would stage a close contest and keep their group safe. Their match began behind a screen of steam and water, where Lu Bing secretly told Red Night to make Ji Qinglin wait for her.

• Ji Qinglin explained his plan to Red Night, who agreed to fight Lu Bing in exchange for a favor from him, Yu Ye, and Jiang Chen if she won.
• Red Night made a dramatic entrance using her Wandering Soul Walking Fire technique, and Kong Wei recognized her as the fighter who had defeated four members of Immortal Path Biology.
• Lu Bing agreed to count the match as Red Night's victory if she could beat her in technique, and the final Dao debate began.
• Red Night opened with Chaotic Blades Fire Burial, and Lu Bing turned the flames into steam and concealed them both with a swirling water mist.
• Lu Bing reached Red Night inside the mist, complained that Ji Qinglin should wait for her, and guided Red Night's hands upward as a powerful strike split the mist apart.

Red Night defeated Water Hero Lu Bing in a staged match that concealed their cooperation, winning one move with a soul-body sword strike. Lu Bing acknowledged the loss, leaving Four Seas Trade poised to overtake Immortal Path Biology in the Dao Pledge Convention’s overall score.

• Lu Bing and Red Night spoke privately inside the Water Mist Storm, agreeing that Lu Bing would lose while she investigated Red Night’s past.
• Lu Bing and Red Night staged a fierce battle, and Ji Qinglin reassured Yu Ye and Jiang Chen that Red Night was likely safe while discussing plans for the match’s aftermath.
• Red Night used steam to conceal her attacks, then broke through Lu Bing’s defense with Condensing Soul into Blade and held her sword intent at Lu Bing’s throat.
• Lu Bing conceded that Red Night had won the match, as the spectators recognized her victory over one of the Nine Heroes.

Red Night defeated Lu Bing in the fifth match, securing Four Seas Trade’s victory despite Kong DeCheng’s protests. After the dispute shifted to the Dao Pledge Convention Committee, Ji Qinglin took an exhausted Red Night to the lounge, where he began treating her fire-force injuries.

• Lu Bing admitted defeat, and He Wei declared Red Night the winner of the fifth match and Four Seas Trade the overall victor.
• Kong DeCheng challenged the result, but Ji Qinglin directed the dispute to the Dao Pledge Convention Committee, and Kong left to deal with police raids on Immortal Path Biology’s black factories.
• Kong DeCheng advised NanGong Qian Cheng to seek help from his second brother to alter their father’s will, while NanGong Wang praised Ji Qinglin and said he hoped Kong would defy the result.
• Back in the lounge, Red Night celebrated with Ji Qinglin, then collapsed from overusing fire-force and developed painful red veins in her soul-body legs.
• Ji Qinglin carried Red Night to a bed, explained her condition, and began temporary treatment after Yu Ye and Jiang Chen went to guard the lounge.

Ji Qinglin treated Red Night’s damaged soul-body meridians in the lounge while Yu Ye kept visitors away by claiming he was injured. After the Dao Pledge Convention, NanGong Qian Feng returned to Four Seas Trade to handle the aftermath, where NanGong Qian Xing tried to introduce her to someone.

• Ji Qinglin used Tribulation Fire to heal Red Night, increasing their bodily contact to speed up her recovery.
• NanGong Qian Feng arrived to see Ji Qinglin, but Yu Ye told her he was being treated for injuries and refused to let her enter.
• NanGong Qian Feng apologized, left Qi Practitioners to guard the lounge, and returned to Four Seas Trade to prepare against Immortal Path Biology.
• Representatives and disciples from the four associations stayed behind, discussed the battle, and praised Ji Qinglin and his disciples.
• NanGong Qian Feng worried about Ji Qinglin as she traveled back, while Uncle Mo reassured her he would be fine.
• NanGong Qian Xing greeted NanGong Qian Feng outside Four Seas Trade and said he had someone for her to meet, but she refused to stop and went inside.

Ji Qinglin rallied the Four Associations to unite against Immortal Path Biology, while Xie Ling reported that the Black Factories had been dismantled. NanGong Qian Feng discovered her father had staged her test and abandoned Four Seas Trade, leaving with the Immortal Remains promised to Ji Qinglin.

• Ji Qinglin credited the Four Associations with the victory and urged them to unite against Immortal Path Biology’s monopoly and high prices.
• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen whispered that Ji Qinglin’s stirring speech made him sound like a pyramid-scheme leader.
• Xie Ling told Ji Qinglin that the Black Factories had been uprooted and Kong DeCheng had returned to headquarters; Ji Qinglin ordered him to collect evidence and report to Third Sister.
• NanGong Qian Feng found NanGong Wang alive and learned that he had staged the crisis as a test to make her Four Seas Trade’s leader.
• Angry that her father had put Qi Practitioners’ lives at risk, NanGong Qian Feng resigned from Four Seas Trade and left to visit Ji Qinglin.
• NanGong Wang gave NanGong Qian Feng the Immortal Remains she had promised her friend.

NanGong Wang offered NanGong Qian Feng the Immortal Remains and help against Immortal Path Biology, while Ji Qinglin resumed the investigation into Kong DeCheng and distributed the seized Black Factories among the associations. After returning to the General Store to rest, Ji Qinglin was visited by NanGong Qian Feng, who brought him something she believed he needed.

• NanGong Wang offered NanGong Qian Feng the Immortal Remains as compensation and proposed secretly helping her target Immortal Path Biology.
• Cui SanMei explained that authorities had restricted the investigation into Immortal Path Biology, and Ji Qinglin clarified that he meant to pursue Kong DeCheng rather than destroy the company.
• Ji Qinglin told Lei Qiong and Pei Ruohai to have their associations take over the confiscated Black Factories in their territories.
• Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store with Yu Ye and Red Night, then fell asleep while his disciples teased each other.
• NanGong Qian Feng arrived with Uncle Mo and opened a Rosewood Box containing eight Blue Pills, which Red Night recognized as a dual-cultivation remedy.

NanGong Qian Feng brought Ji Qinglin a Rosewood Box containing Immortal Remains and found him asleep, leading to an awkward embrace and kiss before he woke. She explained her father had faked his death to test her, and Ji Qinglin urged her to compensate the Dao Pledge Convention participants; the chapter ended with him opening the box and mistaking its Blue Pills for the remains.

• NanGong Qian Feng revealed a hidden compartment in the Rosewood Box containing a section of Immortal Remains and carried it upstairs to Ji Qinglin.
• NanGong Qian Feng found Ji Qinglin asleep, hugged him, and was pulled into his arms and kissed before he woke.
• Ji Qinglin woke and questioned why NanGong Qian Feng was on his bed, and she claimed she had come to deliver Immortal Remains.
• NanGong Qian Feng told Ji Qinglin that her father had faked his death to test her ability to manage Four Seas Trade and apologized for the risks caused by the Dao Pledge Convention.
• Ji Qinglin urged NanGong Qian Feng to provide sufficient compensation and offer the participants a different explanation for the convention.
• Ji Qinglin opened the Rosewood Box, saw the Blue Pills, and asked which part of the immortal they were.

Ji Qinglin accepted a bone-tempering piece of Immortal Remains from NanGong Qian Feng and discussed Four Seas Trade’s plan to remove Kong DeCheng from Immortal Path Biology. After NanGong Qian Feng kissed him and left, Ji Qinglin was confronted by someone threatening him from behind.

• Yu Ye and Red Night practiced movement techniques with Uncle Mo while Ji Qinglin examined the contents of NanGong Qian Feng’s box.
• NanGong Qian Feng revealed that the Immortal Remains was a piece of shinbone that could strengthen bones, and Ji Qinglin accepted it along with the box.
• NanGong Qian Feng told Ji Qinglin that her father planned to use Four Seas Trade’s shares to oust Kong DeCheng from Immortal Path Biology, and she invited Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night to a Gratitude Banquet.
• NanGong Qian Feng kissed Ji Qinglin, called it a service included with the box, and left with Uncle Mo.
• After Red Night asked whether they still needed to worry about Kong DeCheng, an unseen person pressed something icy against Ji Qinglin’s head and threatened him.

Lu Bing visited Ji Qinglin, Red Night, and Yu Ye, revealed that Red Night had been a medical supervisor at Wild God Technology, and left to investigate her past. After Lu Bing departed, Ji Qinglin privately learned the truth: Red Night had once led Wild God Technology.

• Lu Bing arrived at the General Store, accepted Ji Qinglin’s apology, and warned that Kong DeCheng might retaliate and Immortal Path Biology remained a threat.
• Lu Bing told Red Night she had been a medical supervisor at Wild God Technology and promised to investigate why she had lost her memories.
• Lu Bing left to catch an early flight, telling Ji Qinglin to keep Red Night and Yu Ye out of danger.
• After Red Night and Yu Ye went upstairs, Ji Qinglin met Lu Bing privately and challenged her explanation of Red Night’s past.
• Lu Bing disclosed that Sanada had once been Red Night’s subordinate and that Red Night had been the previous person in charge of Wild God Technology.

Ji Qinglin learned from Lu Bing that Red Night had been Wild God Technology’s former director, Xiao Qinghong, and considered the mystery surrounding her escape. Back at the General Store, Red Night rejected any desire to reclaim her old position, and Ji Qinglin teased her by declaring that she should get used to his revenge on Wild God Technology.

• Lu Bing told Ji Qinglin that Red Night had once led Wild God Technology as Xiao Qinghong, and that Sanada and other shareholders might have helped overthrow her.
• Lu Bing explained that she had searched for Red Night after the laboratory disaster but found only ruins and corpses, and she promised to investigate while keeping Red Night’s identity secret.
• Ji Qinglin reasoned that an unknown force might have helped Red Night and Yu Ye escape and erased or altered their records, then secretly checked Wild God Technology’s website and found Xiao Qinghong’s photograph.
• Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store and asked Red Night whether she wanted to reclaim her position; Red Night said she wanted her memories and justice, but did not want to risk returning to Wild God Technology.
• Ji Qinglin pinned Red Night down and joked that she should get used to his revenge, while Yu Ye turned off the light instead of helping her.

NanGong Wang revealed that he was alive and backed NanGong Qian Feng’s claim to Four Seas Trade’s shares, leaving Kong DeCheng unable to avoid compensating the Dao Pledge Convention wager with his own shares. Afterward, Ji Qinglin tried to test the Immortal Calf Bone, but the Immortal Spine in the trash can unexpectedly rolled toward him.

• Kong DeCheng tried to challenge NanGong Qian Feng’s qualifications by alleging that her inheritance was based on a forged will.
• NanGong Qian Feng showed three wills that stripped NanGong Qian Cheng of his inheritance and said his pledged shares were invalid.
• NanGong Wang appeared alive, confirmed that he had made the wills, and upheld NanGong Qian Feng’s account.
• NanGong Wang said Immortal Path Biology’s major shareholders had agreed to use Kong DeCheng’s shares to cover the shortfall and remove him from his position.
• Kong DeCheng slammed the table and left the meeting as NanGong Wang explained that the companies would appoint a new person in charge together.
• Ji Qinglin began testing the Immortal Calf Bone, but the trash can holding the Immortal Spine toppled and rolled toward him.

Ji Qinglin was drawn into his inner realm by the Immortal Spine and struggled against a blood sea as Yu Ye and Red Night tried to free him. After the spine transformed and Ji Qinglin returned to the bedroom, he remained out of control and bit Yu Ye.

• Ji Qinglin discovered that the Immortal Spine reacted to his qi force, then it flew into his hand and pulled him into his inner realm.
• Ji Qinglin tried to hold back the rising blood sea while Yu Ye and Red Night attacked the spine to make him release it.
• Ji Qinglin blocked their attacks and threw Red Night onto the bed, absorbing the women's fire and thunder force during their combined strike.
• The Immortal Spine turned clear blue, but Ji Qinglin remained blood-red and unresponsive; Yu Ye realized he did not resist her when she approached without hostile intent.
• Ji Qinglin suddenly grabbed Yu Ye by the neck and bit down.

Ji Qinglin resisted the Blood Sea energy within his inner landscape and recovered with Yu Ye and Red Night’s help. He concluded that the Immortal Spine could induce a dangerous frenzy, then teased Yu Ye after she and Red Night offered to help keep him under control.

• Ji Qinglin separated the Blood Sea from his Qi Sea Cloud Disk, investigated its effects, and suppressed the energy until he could hear the world outside again.
• Ji Qinglin instinctively grabbed and kissed Yu Ye beneath her collarbone, and Red Night cautiously helped carry him to the bed.
• Ji Qinglin regained consciousness and told Yu Ye and Red Night that the Immortal Spine had driven him into a frenzy.
• Red Night explained that Ji Qinglin had absorbed the flesh on the Immortal Spine, and Ji Qinglin warned them to store the remains safely.
• Yu Ye and Red Night offered to help restrain or awaken Ji Qinglin if the power overwhelmed him, and he pinned Yu Ye while Red Night went to draw the curtains.

Ji Qinglin learned that Kong DeCheng had taken research data and prohibited products after losing control of Immortal Path Biology, so he prepared to investigate Kong’s villa. Kong DeCheng arranged a final operation against Ji Qinglin with Sanada’s help, while Ji Qinglin’s group watched the villa and waited for a signal.

• Ji Qinglin used the Immortal Calf Bone to Quench Bones for Yu Ye and Red Night, then began the same treatment for Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen told Ji Qinglin that Kong DeCheng had been forced from power, taken research data and prohibited products, and gathered Qi Practitioners at his villa.
• Ji Qinglin decided to investigate Kong DeCheng’s villa that night under the pretext of finding Immortal Path Biology’s missing prohibited products.
• Kong DeCheng persuaded Sanada to assist him in a final operation against Ji Qinglin in exchange for research results, then ordered his Death Soldiers to act the next day.
• Kong DeCheng gave Kong Wei evidence against Wild God Technology and told him to leave the villa and avoid the operation.
• Ji Qinglin’s group watched Kong Wei leave and chose not to capture him, waiting instead for Ji Qinglin’s signal.

Ji Qinglin and his disciples planned a midnight investigation of Kong DeCheng’s villa to recover stolen prohibited products and uncover his preparations. Jiang Chen led the official-looking visit inside, where both sides prepared to drug and capture the other.

• Ji Qinglin’s group monitored Kong DeCheng’s villa and decided to investigate it under the pretext of searching for missing Immortal Path Biology supplies.
• Jiang Chen insisted on entering first, while Ji Qinglin stayed outside and Xie Ling and Fan Yu joined her as support.
• Xie Ling gave Jiang Chen and Fan Yu Self-Seclusion Pills and planned to use Drunken Immortal Powder inside the villa.
• Kong DeCheng let Jiang Chen, Xie Ling, and Fan Yu enter, secretly ordering the Death Soldiers to activate the villa’s sleeping system and capture them.
• Jiang Chen and Kong DeCheng exchanged polite greetings and entered the closed living room, each side expecting its drugging plan to incapacitate the other.

Jiang Chen and her companions exposed Kong DeCheng’s plan to use enhanced Death Soldiers and fought their way through his villa until Ji Qinglin arrived. Ji Qinglin drew out Kong DeCheng’s confession, then ordered the forces surrounding him to arrest him.

• Jiang Chen, Xie Ling, and Fan Yu pretended to succumb to the bewitching drug, then attacked when A Da tried to seize them.
• Kong DeCheng ordered his Death Soldiers to stop the group, and Jiang Chen discovered that A Da had enhanced himself with Pulse Shock Drink.
• Xie Ling and Fan Yu disrupted the coordinated Death Soldiers, but A Da and A Er drove the three back until Ji Qinglin’s sword intent intervened.
• Yu Ye and Red Night blasted the coordinated attackers aside, allowing Jiang Chen, Xie Ling, and Fan Yu to regroup with Ji Qinglin’s force.
• Ji Qinglin asked Kong DeCheng to confirm his role in the attacks on Ji Qinglin and his disciples, recording Kong DeCheng’s admissions.
• Ji Qinglin ordered his force to take Kong DeCheng and his people down.

Ji Qinglin and the covert police attacked Kong DeCheng’s villa, where they fought his enhanced Death Soldiers. After blood awakened the suppressed power inside Ji Qinglin, he turned the tide by killing two Death Soldiers with flaming sword strikes, leaving Kong DeCheng to realize Ji Qinglin had hidden his strength at the Dao Pledge Convention.

• Kong DeCheng ordered his Death Soldiers to attack Ji Qinglin, who drove the fight into the courtyard while the covert police surrounded the villa.
• Ji Qinglin fought eight Death Soldiers at once, but their enhanced bodies and Sword Control made them difficult to injure, while the other fighters struggled against their own opponents.
• After being cut and splattered with blood, Ji Qinglin burned his shoulder with tribulation fire and asked Yu Ye whether the Sword Sheath was safe.
• Ji Qinglin released the Blood Mist power awakened by the blood, taking on a crimson, armor-like aura and turning his sword blood-red.
• Ji Qinglin killed one Death Soldier with a flaming slash and killed a second with a broken blade that restored itself, shocking the remaining fighters.
• Kong DeCheng realized Ji Qinglin had not used his full strength at the Dao Pledge Convention.

Ji Qinglin cut through Kong DeCheng’s Death Soldiers while struggling to restrain the blood-fueled urge to kill. After Kong DeCheng impaled himself on her sword, Ji Qinglin found herself unable to move and learned he had prepared a trap for her.

• Ji Qinglin killed two Death Soldiers with single sword strikes, and the covert police urged the others to surrender.
• Jiang Chen worried about Ji Qinglin’s bloodlust, while Red Night and Yu Ye discussed how to help her control it.
• Ji Qinglin shattered her sword into fragments to wound six Death Soldiers, then killed another with a lightning strike and one with a punch.
• Kong DeCheng urged the remaining Death Soldiers to attack as Yu Ye and Red Night kept his loyal followers from intervening.
• Kong DeCheng charged Ji Qinglin and let her sword pierce him, then revealed that she had been doomed since entering the villa as Ji Qinglin realized she could not move.

Kong DeCheng used his poisonous blood to immobilize Ji Qinglin and the people nearby before exploding, unleashing the legendary Seamless Celestial Garment. Ji Qinglin and Jiang Chen survived the blast, but both were contaminated, and the chapter left them relying on Ji Qinglin's Tribulation Fire to hold the poison at bay.

• Kong DeCheng's blood poisoned the air, immobilizing Ji Qinglin, the Death Soldiers, A Da, and A Er, and Ji Qinglin urged everyone to flee.
• Jiang Chen tried to shield Ji Qinglin with her coat, but she was immobilized before Kong DeCheng exploded and sprayed deadly black blood across the villa district.
• The black blood rapidly dissolved four Death Soldiers and A Da, while A Er's attempt to amputate his contaminated arm failed to save him.
• Xie Ling identified Kong DeCheng's poison as the legendary Seamless Celestial Garment, which broke down anyone it touched.
• Ji Qinglin and Jiang Chen emerged from a black shell covered in Tribulation Fire, with Ji Qinglin pressing his burning hand to Jiang Chen's chest wound to stop the poison from spreading.

Ji Qinglin and Jiang Chen survived Kong DeCheng’s poisonous self-destruction, but Jiang Chen was left with a wound from the Seamless Celestial Garment that Ji Qinglin could only suppress with tribulation fire. They returned to the General Store to seek a cure, while allies searched for an antidote and the toxin continued to threaten them.

• Kong DeCheng’s poison killed four Death Soldiers, while Ji Qinglin used tribulation fire to stop Jiang Chen’s wound from spreading.
• Red Night ordered the covert police to capture the remaining Death Soldiers, and Xie Ling and Fan Yu arranged a vehicle to carry Ji Qinglin and Jiang Chen out of the poisonous blood.
• Xie Ling identified the poison as the Seamless Celestial Garment and warned that Ji Qinglin risked being poisoned if he kept pressing his tribulation-fire-covered hand against Jiang Chen’s wound.
• Yu Ye organized the search for treatment, and the group returned to the General Store so Jiang Chen might benefit from the Immortal Remains.
• NanGong Qian Feng mobilized physicians and poison experts, while Fan Yu and Xie Ling searched for clues and possible antidotes.
• At the General Store, Ji Qinglin kept his hand on Jiang Chen’s wound despite her protests, and his touch made her beg him to stop.