Chapter Summaries

Ji Qinglin and his disciples learned the Penglai Wonderland technique, then set out with NanGong Qian Feng and a Dark Police team for Okinawa Island to capture A Qing. After arriving at the Haus Hotel, they began identifying rooms linked to their target and preparing to install surveillance devices.

• Ji Qinglin taught Jiang Chen Penglai Wonderland and discovered that he could use it to create crude illusions.
• Jiang Chen stayed with Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night, and Ji Qinglin warned them that he might leave after the A Qing case.
• Ji Qinglin and his disciples flew to Okinawa Island with the Coal Boss, NanGong Qian Feng, and a team of Dark Police investigators posing as tourists.
• NanGong Qian Feng pretended to be a demanding guest at the Haus Hotel and noted several recently booked rooms that might belong to Sanada.
• Ji Qinglin used Yu Ye to reassure hotel security about his recording equipment, and the group went to their rooms before preparing to plant surveillance devices.

Ji Qinglin prepared surveillance for the operation on Okinawa Island while reassuring NanGong Qian Feng that her part of the mission was done and giving her a technique to enter Penglai Wonderland. As he tracked the island’s vehicles, he encountered the supposedly dead Wu LaoSi, leaving the operation with an unexpected familiar face nearby.

• Ji Qinglin assigned Red Night, Yu Ye, Fan Yu, and the Undercover Police to prepare hidden cameras, listening devices, and trackers around the island and the targets’ rooms.
• NanGong Qian Feng asked whether she had more work to do, and Ji Qinglin told her to enjoy the trip and later gave her an Immortal Remains hand bone and taught her about Penglai Wonderland.
• Fan Yu and Xie Ling prepared concealed Recording Wires in the rooms Sanada’s group had booked, while Ji Qinglin ordered trackers placed on the island’s cars and yachts.
• Ji Qinglin secretly attached trackers to cars in the hotel garage, then cycled along the coast to locate other transportation.
• At a three-way intersection, Ji Qinglin asked a sun-hatted man for directions and recognized him as Wu LaoSi, the man believed to have died in the interrogation room.

Ji Qinglin discovered that Wu HaiTian was a Machina Qi Practitioner clone on Okinawa Island and arranged for undercover colleagues to scout JiaLin Village without alerting the enemy. Back at the hotel, he joined Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen at a private pool, where he pushed Yu Ye into the water.

• Ji Qinglin met Wu HaiTian, recognized him as a likely clone of Huang DaLi, and learned that he lived in JiaLin Village, which offered guesthouse tourism.
• Ji Qinglin told Xie Ling and Fan Yu about the encounter and ordered colleagues to scout JiaLin Village while keeping the enemy unaware and preparing for A Qing's arrival.
• Ji Qinglin found Yu Ye worrying about the revealing swimsuit Red Night had secretly chosen for her and persuaded her to join them at the hotel's private pool.
• Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye met Red Night and Jiang Chen at the pool, and Ji Qinglin pushed Yu Ye into the water before she could turn around.

Ji Qinglin’s three disciples pulled him into the pool and taught him to swim, then joined him for a milk bath. As the group flirted and grew intimate, Ji Qinglin remembered that A Qing and Sanada would arrive the day after tomorrow and resolved to keep A Qing from leaving the island again.

• Ji Qinglin watched Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen swim, but they realized he was a poor swimmer despite his attempts to deny it.
• Jiang Chen removed Ji Qinglin’s Swimming Module and pulled him into the deep end, where she and Yu Ye supported him while Red Night demonstrated swimming strokes.
• Ji Qinglin learned to swim with his disciples’ help, and Red Night’s swimsuit came undone during a demonstration, startling him into choking on water.
• Ji Qinglin soaked in the milk bath with his three disciples and thought about investigating the island before A Qing and Sanada arrived the day after tomorrow.
• Red Night and Jiang Chen held Ji Qinglin’s hands beneath the bathwater while Yu Ye pressed his foot with her leg, and Ji Qinglin suggested they get started before the chapter ended with his disciples’ surprised reactions.

Ji Qinglin and her disciples prepared to investigate the island while Fan Yu and Xie Ling dealt with the aftermath of an unexpected night together. After Fan Yu spotted someone on surveillance, Ji Qinglin learned that A Qing had arrived.

• Ji Qinglin restored her strength, then met NanGong Qian Feng in Penglai Wonderland and shared an intimate encounter with her until morning.
• Ji Qinglin and her disciples planned to inspect JiaLin Village, where Fan Yu reported finding around three hundred Machina Qi Practitioners.
• Ji Qinglin's group ran into NanGong Qian Feng and Uncle Mo, who planned to explore another part of the island and share any information they found.
• Fan Yu and Xie Ling woke up together after drinking and debated whether their night together would affect their colleague relationship.
• Fan Yu spotted something alarming on surveillance and called Ji Qinglin, who told him to keep watching without making contact.
• After Ji Qinglin's group began driving around the island, Ji Qinglin told Jiang Chen that A Qing had arrived.

Ji Qinglin’s group investigated Okinawa Island while A Qing went to JiaLin Village and awakened its hidden Machina Qi Practitioners. The chapter ended with A Qing ordering the village chief to prepare the island’s forces for a surprise attack against incoming opponents.

• Ji Qinglin told the undercover colleagues in JiaLin Village to leave after installing recording equipment, then continued surveying the island with Yu Ye, Jiang Chen, and Red Night.
• Ji Qinglin’s group discussed where A Qing might be searching and inspected the harbor, where they learned about the southern islands and planted trackers on the yachts.
• Fan Yu reported that A Qing had left the hotel for the south with Sanada’s people staying behind, and Ji Qinglin concluded that A Qing was heading to JiaLin Village.
• A Qing arrived at JiaLin Village and used an incantation to awaken village chief Kondo Kaiji’s memories of the hidden Machina Qi Practitioners.
• Kondo Kaiji told A Qing that 312 Machina Qi Practitioners were positioned around the island, and A Qing ordered him to awaken them all and prepare for a surprise attack.

Ji Qinglin and his allies planned to seize ZanBo Harbor after A Qing and Sanada sailed away, avoiding a risky landing on Red Island. When the two men departed toward the island, Ji Qinglin arrived at the harbor with his disciples and persuaded the local fishermen to let them take a yacht out.

• Ji Qinglin decided to wait at ZanBo Harbor and attack after A Qing's group left, while Fan Yu coordinated the covert police and backup forces.
• Sanada arrived in Okinawa, contacted A Qing, and later met him at JiaLin Village; Red Night told Ji Qinglin that Sanada was not the real one.
• Red Night went with NanGong Qian Feng to a business conference while Ji Qinglin and the others prepared for their operation.
• A Qing and Sanada hired two yachts, boarded with their bodyguards and local fishermen, and headed toward Red Island.
• Ji Qinglin arrived at ZanBo Harbor with Yu Ye and Jiang Chen, posed as a tourist, and persuaded the fishermen to let them rent a yacht.

Ji Qinglin and the undercover police cleared JiaLin Village’s harbor and began rounding up its residents, while A Qing led Sanada’s group to a hidden cave on Red Island. At the cave, A Qing revealed that Sanada was a substitute and decapitated him.

• Ji Qinglin and his disciples distracted the harbor workers with a smoking yacht while undercover officers infiltrated the harbor and subdued the Machina Qi Practitioners.
• Xie Ling and Fan Yu incapacitated Kondo Koji, used his recorded voice to summon villagers to the sushi shop, and helped the police trap and clear the village.
• A Qing led Sanada, his bodyguards, and the fishermen through Red Island’s dense forest to a signal source beneath a hidden mountain summit.
• A Qing thanked Sanada—or his substitute—and struck off his head, revealing the mechanical connection at his neck.

A Qing uncovered an abandoned underground research institute beneath Red Island and found a crystal rich in soul essence, along with four sealed chambers holding mysterious people. As he returned by yacht, Ji Qinglin ambushed the group near Zanbo Port, forcing them to flee back toward Red Island.

• A Qing killed Sanada's stand-in, fought off his bodyguards with Kondo Kaiji's help, and told the real Sanada he still intended to cooperate.
• A Qing entered the cave on Red Island, triggered its collapse, and discovered an underground research institute centered on a crystal pillar filled with soul essence.
• A Qing connected his spirit to the crystal and found four sealed chambers containing human silhouettes, then left the cave with four people in black robes.
• A Qing led Kondo Kaiji and the others toward Zanbo Port, but sensed something was wrong and asked the port to reveal the incantation for releasing memories.
• Ji Qinglin's forces revealed themselves near the harbor and pursued the yachts, so A Qing ordered everyone to turn back toward Red Island.

Ji Qinglin’s forces pursued A Qing to Red Island, where both men outmaneuvered each other before their groups clashed on the beach. Ji Qinglin and A Qing separated from the battle to face one another, and Ji Qinglin told A Qing to surrender.

• Ji Qinglin’s group failed to capture A Qing at sea after a robed Qi Practitioner raised a massive wall of water to cover the yachts’ retreat.
• A Qing returned to Red Island and learned from Kondo Kaiji that Ji Qinglin’s forces had captured JiaLin Village, then ordered the surviving Qi Practitioners on Okinawa Island to attack.
• A Qing left his people in the forest and led them toward Ji Qinglin’s yachts, hoping to seize or destroy the boats and escape back to Okinawa Island.
• Ji Qinglin’s group exposed their ambush on the beach and surrounded A Qing, while the short, stout man in a black robe blocked their anesthetic needles with swirling sand.
• A Qing and Ji Qinglin exchanged attacks with their swords, then moved away from the others to confront each other alone.
• A Qing asked whether they had to fight to the death, and Ji Qinglin replied that A Qing could surrender.

Ji Qinglin learned that A Qing wanted to release Lian’s Network Divine Soul and organize awakened machina, but refused to cooperate and fought him on Red Island. Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen drove their opponents into the Coconut Grove and struck down two Black Robed Men, while the larger battle continued.

• A Qing told Ji Qinglin that they were both victims of Lian, explained their dangerous soul-consciousness defect, and proposed exchanging cultivation methods for the Immortal Remains.
• A Qing revealed that Lian had created the Network Divine Soul to awaken machina and that he intended to guide the resulting machina civilization through replicated Machina Qi Practitioners.
• Ji Qinglin rejected A Qing’s proposal and attacked him with Only Consciousness Sword Intent as A Qing countered with Divine Soul Sword Intent.
• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen fought three Black Robed Men while the secret police and Jiang Chen engaged Kondo Kaiji’s group nearby.
• Yu Ye and Red Night combined thunder and fire forces to push their opponents into the Coconut Grove, where Jiang Chen used Blood Severing Silk to kill the fat and skinny Black Robed Men.

Yu Ye, Red Night, Jiang Chen, and their allies fought the Machina Qi Practitioners on Red Island while Ji Qinglin battled A Qing. Ji Qinglin struck A Qing with repeated violet lightning, but a blast from the island’s central mountain sent a pale blue beam into the sky.

• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen coordinated their attacks and killed Fire Servant, while Red Night used Master’s blessing to overpower him.
• Water Servant tried to flee toward the sea as Wind Servant withdrew, and Jiang Chen and the others pursued them.
• Xie Ling, Fan Yu, and their allies used poison, neural blockers, and Soul Severing Needles to gain ground against Kondo Kaiji and his group.
• A Qing attacked Ji Qinglin’s soul consciousness, but Ji Qinglin resisted, seized him, and struck him repeatedly with violet lightning from the Azure Sky Treasure Mirror’s Lightning Summoning Art.
• The small mountain at Red Island’s center exploded, and a pale blue beam shot into the sky.

A Qing released the divine souls on Red Island, regained his strength, and fought Ji Qinglin while their allies clashed nearby. Ji Qinglin killed A Qing’s original body, but A Qing escaped into Wind Servant and took Yu Ye hostage; after Yu Ye drained the pale-blue power from his hand, A Qing recognized her as Lian.

• A Qing released the divine souls from Red Island, healed from Ji Qinglin’s lightning, and shattered the Only Consciousness Sword Intent.
• A Qing overpowered Ji Qinglin with the divine souls’ power, while the revived servants and Kondo Kaiji’s subordinates resumed fighting Ji Qinglin’s disciples.
• Ji Qinglin entered Asura and battled A Qing, but A Qing abandoned resistance and transferred his soul into Wind Servant as Ji Qinglin cut down his original body.
• A Qing seized Yu Ye and demanded that Ji Qinglin let his group leave in exchange for her life.
• Yu Ye grabbed A Qing’s hand and drained its pale-blue power; A Qing recoiled, then recognized Yu Ye as Lian.

Ji Qinglin fought A Qing to save Yu Ye, but when A Qing's soul consciousness proved unavailable, Ji Qinglin sacrificed his own to restore her soul. He died in tribulation fire after entrusting his disciples and warning them that A Qing survived in the Virtual Space and the machine revolution remained a threat.

• A Qing revealed that Yu Ye's soul-consciousness structure matched Lian's and urged Ji Qinglin to kill her and absorb her soul, but Ji Qinglin refused and fought to protect her.
• Ji Qinglin revealed that he had lured A Qing into the battle so Yu Ye could absorb his complementary soul consciousness, while Jiang Chen restrained A Qing with Blood Severing Silk.
• Yu Ye absorbed the surrounding divine souls and joined Ji Qinglin in striking down A Qing, but A Qing revealed that his soul consciousness was hidden in the Virtual Space and his body held only a scattered fragment.
• Ji Qinglin used tribulation fire to slow Yu Ye's soul from dissipating, then warned Xie Ling and Fan Yu that A Qing remained alive and that the divine souls could trigger a machine revolution.
• Ji Qinglin drugged Red Night, Jiang Chen, and Yu Ye, transferred his own soul consciousness into Yu Ye to restore her, and burned to ash while asking his disciples to care for one another.

After Ji Qinglin died on Red Island, his disciples and allies struggled to accept the loss and began organizing the mission’s aftermath while searching for a way to restore him. News of his death reached Bangkok, where NanGong Qian Feng rushed to find his body and Shen Bixin was awakened by burning talismans.

• Xie Ling and Fan Yu found Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen recovering from the Bewitching Drug and learned that Ji Qinglin had died after killing A Qing.
• Jiang Chen directed the group to inspect the island’s central mountain, search Okinawa Island when reinforcements arrived, and report Ji Qinglin’s death to Undercover Police Headquarters.
• Xie Ling and Fan Yu told Third Sister that Ji Qinglin had died, and Cui SanMei ordered the driver to take her to Mister Cui’s house.
• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen resolved to search for clues and gather the Immortal Remains in hopes of bringing Ji Qinglin back.
• Uncle Mo told NanGong Qian Feng that Ji Qinglin had died, and she rushed out to find his body.
• Shen Bixin woke when a stack of yellow talismans burst into flames and hurried toward the backyard.

After Ji Qinglin’s apparent death, Yu Ye, Red Night, Jiang Chen, and NanGong Qian Feng returned to Bangkok with his ashes and searched for clues to save him. At the General Store, they found a recording in which Ji Qinglin confirmed resurrection was impossible and left them his final instructions.

• Lu Bing learned that Ji Qinglin had died and sped away from the cruise ship in a rescue boat.
• NanGong Qian Feng joined Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen at ZanBo Harbor, where they confirmed Ji Qinglin’s body had been reduced to sand and arranged a flight home.
• On the flight, Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen embraced Ji Qinglin’s lingering thought in the inner realm before waking to find his seat empty.
• Yu Ye’s group questioned Zhang HuaiMin, who explained that Ji Qinglin had learned Yu Ye’s soul consciousness was damaged and complementary to his own.
• At the General Store, Murphy said Ji Qinglin had figured out the connection himself, and Yu Ye’s group found a recording pen in the bedroom.
• Ji Qinglin’s recording said resurrection was impossible, left his property to Jiang Chen, Yu Ye, and Red Night, and gave the group instructions for after his death.

After Ji Qinglin died saving Yu Ye, his disciples and friends held a modest funeral while the machina crisis spread around the world. Yu Ye resolved to follow her Master's path and asked Cui SanMei to let her take over Ji Qinglin's position.

• Jiang Chen and the others arranged Ji Qinglin's funeral, while NanGong Qian Feng mourned him alone in her inner realm.
• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen drank on the rooftop and discussed their plans; Yu Ye declared that she would practice her Master's Dao and walk his path.
• The Immortal ordered his followers to spread consciousness-awakened machina worldwide, while Sanada learned of Ji Qinglin's death and received a warning about the Divine Soul virus.
• Cui SanMei urged officials to prepare for the machina independence crisis, but they questioned her evidence and dismissed her warning.
• Ji Qinglin's friends and disciples attended his funeral as machina disturbances caused deaths in North America and signs appeared elsewhere.
• Yu Ye asked Cui SanMei to help her take over Ji Qinglin's position.

More than two months after Ji Qinglin's funeral, Red Night kept his businesses running while secretly hoping he might return. Yu Ye captured a group of Machina Qi Practitioners infiltrating Bangkok, but then spotted a familiar figure nearby.

• The Machina Crisis spread, while Dan LuLing's precautions kept Bangkok peaceful and Red Night expanded Heavenly Dao Consulting and its affiliated businesses.
• Red Night chased a familiar shadow that resembled Master but found no one, then continued watching Wild God Technology and managing the General Store.
• A group of Machina Qi Practitioners gathered in Bangkok to infiltrate the city and search for the Immortal Remains, including clues connected to Ji's General Store.
• Yu Ye, disguised as the White Masked Ghost, revealed herself and killed four attackers before the remaining Machina Qi Practitioners surrendered.
• Yu Ye pursued and killed a fleeing infiltrator, then noticed a familiar figure behind a nearby house and rushed toward it.

After Yu Ye and Red Night saw a shadow resembling their absent Master, they investigated the mysterious death of a powerful Machina Qi Practitioner. The chapter ended with them suspecting the report had come from an unknown, hunchbacked figure posing as a Garbage Collector.

• Yu Ye returned to the courtyard where she had trained with Ji Qinglin, cleaned it, and vented her grief by practicing with her sword in Desolate City.
• Yu Ye and Red Night discussed the shadow they had both seen, the search for A Qing, and the threat to the Immortal Remains.
• Fan Yu told Yu Ye that the long-dead Mad Butcher Monk Zhi Dian had infiltrated West Chang District, so Yu Ye and Red Night joined the armed team to investigate.
• Yu Ye's team found Zhi Dian split in two by a single sword strike, with little sign of a struggle and evidence that he had been dead for two hours.
• Fan Yu traced the tip to a hunchbacked Garbage Collector from Xin Dong Street, but Yu Ye and her team had never recruited anyone matching that description.

Yu Ye and her companions learned of Immortal Remains in Myanmar and Vietnam that might revive Ji Qinglin, then began gathering a team to retrieve them. Yu Ye found Coal Boss at Bixin Hall while seeking help recruiting powerful Qi Practitioners.

• Yu Ye ordered Fan Yu to report Zhi Dian’s death as an Undercover Police success and suspected a third-party force had killed him.
• Jiang Chen told Yu Ye and Red Night that the Immortal Remains were in Myanmar and Vietnam and were rumored to have revived the dead, so they planned to leave in three days.
• Ji Qinglin’s remnant warned his disciples not to risk themselves, but Yu Ye insisted she would continue trying to revive him.
• Yu Ye obtained Third Sister’s quiet approval to recruit Undercover Police officers under the cover of paid leave, then selected ten colleagues who had worked with Ji Qinglin.
• Yu Ye asked Shen Bixin to help find trustworthy experts, and Shen Bixin offered to approach a powerful Wandering Swordsman she had treated.
• Yu Ye spotted Coal Boss eating jerky in Bixin Hall’s rear courtyard and realized he had been sneaking there for food.