Chapter Summaries

Meng Anli questioned Yuan Jin about the Three Corpses Demon, Netherflame Night Demon, and Soul-Splitting Demon Python as she considered how to take revenge. Their conversation ended when the group found an injured beauty, and Meng Shiwan rushed to see if she was her sister.

• Meng Anli asked Yuan Jin about the Three Corpses Demon's status and allies, then learned that Netherflame Night Demon and Soul-Splitting Demon Python were at odds.
• Yuan Jin described Netherflame Night Demon's powers and Soul-Splitting Demon Python's weaknesses and preferences, giving Meng Anli ideas for her revenge.
• Meng Anli hid her tea set when Meng Shiwan entered the carriage, while Yuan Jin took her closeness as a sign that she trusted him.
• Meng Shiwan worried aloud about her missing older sister, but Yuan Jin dismissed her question and turned to talk to Meng Anli.
• A young man announced that they had found an injured beauty, and Meng Shiwan immediately rushed out to identify her.

Meng Anli used a magically controlled double to expose Meng Shiwan’s cruelty while Yuan Jin watched through a Water Mirror. Meng Shiwan mutilated the double and stabbed its dantian, while Meng Anli realized Netherflame Night Demon’s intervention had spared her the same fate.

• Meng Anli and Yuan Jin found the injured-looking double, and Meng Shiwan offered to take her away and give her Floating Life Water.
• Meng Anli instructed the double to go with Meng Shiwan, then showed Yuan Jin their carriage through a Water Mirror.
• After the carriage curtains closed, Meng Shiwan threw the double down, bound her, and gouged out both of her eyes.
• Meng Shiwan slashed the double’s face, then stabbed her dantian as Yuan Jin watched in horror.

Meng Anli revealed that the woman Meng Shiwan tortured was a dying illusion, then left as the Three Corpses Demon punished Meng Shiwan. After Zuo Yuan explained that Meng Anli was Great Emperor Dangmo’s only disciple, Yuan Jin rushed to warn his father that the Demon Realm could face war.

• Meng Shiwan destroyed the fake Meng Anli’s inner core and broke both her hands while demanding that she beg for Floating Life Water.
• Meng Anli stopped Yuan Jin from intervening, then revealed that the woman in the Water Mirror was about to die and split Meng Shiwan’s carriage apart.
• The Three Corpses Demon arrived, discovered that Meng Shiwan had tortured the fake Meng Anli to death, and attacked her for disobeying his order to keep Meng Anli alive.
• Meng Anli asked Yuan Jin to point her toward the Soul-Splitting Demon Python, but they encountered Zuo Yuan, who was rushing to save Meng Anli.
• Zuo Yuan explained that Meng Anli was Great Emperor Dangmo’s only disciple, and Yuan Jin flew off to warn his father and ask the Demon Lord to prepare for war.

Meng Anli concealed her survival from Yuan Jin and persuaded him to seek the Soul-Splitting Demon Python for another way to revive her. They found the python, who revealed herself as Liu Rumeng and drew Meng Anli into an illusion with her zither music.

• Zuo Yuan explained that he had obtained Floating Life Water from the Soul-Splitting Demon Python after Meng Anli was struck by Netherflame Night Demon, but arrived too late.
• Meng Anli revealed herself to Zuo Yuan, told him to keep her survival secret, and asked whether he had seen her four friends; he had not.
• Meng Anli caught the struggling Yuan Jin and convinced him not to warn the Demon Realm about her apparent death until they had consulted the Soul-Splitting Demon Python.
• Zuo Yuan led Meng Anli and Yuan Jin to a dark river, where the Soul-Splitting Demon Python emerged and transformed into Liu Rumeng.
• Liu Rumeng teased Meng Anli about becoming beautiful, then used zither music to draw her forward against her will.

Meng Anli encountered several men in the forest, including two succubi who pursued her, before Zhang Xiuqi guided her across the grassland. After she mistook his attempt to protect her from a tiger for an attack, they continued to his home, where an old woman waited at the entrance.

• Meng Anli met a red-clad man who flirted with her and a white-clad man who offered her his entire fortune and declared they should marry.
• A black-clad man named Zhang Xiuqi warned Meng Anli that the men were succubi and offered to take her to his home.
• Zhang Xiuqi turned and stabbed toward Meng Anli with an arrow, but she dodged and struck him with her palm.
• Meng Anli realized Zhang Xiuqi had been aiming at a tiger behind her, then knocked the tiger down when it attacked him.
• Zhang Xiuqi picked up the tiger and led Meng Anli to his home, where an old woman stood waiting by the yard entrance.

Meng Anli stayed with Zhang Xiuqi and his blind mother, then discovered Zhang Xiuqi was an incubus who had trapped her in an illusion. She accepted his seduction-arts challenge and resisted the incense by focusing on reuniting with her family and finding her companions.

• Zhang Xiuqi brought Meng Anli to his home, where his blind mother welcomed her and spoke about the former relationship between Soul-Splitting Demon Python and Netherflame Night Demon.
• Zhang Xiuqi’s mother said she once considered having him become Soul-Splitting Demon Python’s disciple, while Meng Anli worried about Liu Rumeng and Netherflame Night Demon’s past ties.
• After dinner, Meng Anli recognized Zhang Xiuqi as an incubus when he tried to seduce her, and he transformed their surroundings into a palace and Crown Prince Shaoguang.
• Zhang Xiuqi challenged Meng Anli to withstand incense that stirred desire for half an hour, promising to let her go and meet Soul-Splitting Demon Python if she succeeded.
• Meng Anli saw a vision of her loved ones gathered on Chongwu Mountain and focused on finding her mother and companions until her gaze cleared.

Meng Anli returned from Zhang Xiuqi’s illusion and persuaded Liu Rumeng to help save her friends from the Netherflame Night Demon. Liu Rumeng resisted until Meng Anli threatened to take Zuo Yuan along, then the chapter ended with Liu Rumeng exasperated by Meng Anli’s two earnest allies.

• Meng Anli saw through Zhang Xiuqi’s illusion, declared that she had no interest in romance, and was sent to Liu Rumeng’s residence.
• Meng Anli teased Liu Rumeng by saying she liked women like her, then explained that she and Yuan Jin had come to ask for help saving Meng Anli and her friends.
• Yuan Jin told Liu Rumeng that Meng Shiwan had tortured Meng Anli to death, while Meng Anli said the Netherflame Night Demon had abducted Zhu Rongyao and three others.
• Liu Rumeng asked what she would receive for helping, but Meng Anli threatened to take Zuo Yuan to face the Netherflame Night Demon if Liu Rumeng refused.
• Zuo Yuan and Yuan Jin offered to help Meng Anli, and Liu Rumeng called them idiots before laughing in exasperation.

Meng Anli entered the Netherflame Night Demon's sea of fire to find her friend and discovered how to extinguish it with a cloth pouch of Dragon Horse urine. After she put out the flames and confronted the demon, he threatened to reveal another power, but Meng Anli seized Liu Rumeng and prepared to leave.

• Meng Anli paid Liu Rumeng two chests of Eastern Pearls, and Liu Rumeng agreed to help her find her friend.
• Liu Rumeng gave Meng Anli, Yuan Jin, and Zuo Yuan fire-warding beads before they entered the Netherflame Night Demon's sea of fire, where the group became separated.
• Meng Anli realized she was circling through the flames and found that splashing the fire's roots with Dragon Horse urine put them out.
• Meng Anli enlarged the cloth pouch and covered the sea of fire, extinguishing it and exposing a palace where the Netherflame Night Demon and Liu Rumeng emerged.
• The Netherflame Night Demon demanded to know how Meng Anli had extinguished his flames, then threatened to use another power, so Meng Anli seized Liu Rumeng and held her in her arms.

Meng Anli rescued the badly wounded Zhu Rongyao from the Netherflame Night Demon's hall while Liu Rumeng kept the demon distracted. The group escaped and headed north to find their other friends, reaching the Bone Dragon's city of bones.

• Meng Anli demanded that the Netherflame Night Demon release Zhu Rongyao, while Liu Rumeng distracted him and helped Zuo Yuan escape.
• Meng Anli and Zuo Yuan found Zhu Rongyao bound and badly injured, gave him a pill, and waited for his wounds to scab over.
• Meng Anli, Yuan Jin, Zuo Yuan, and Zhu Rongyao slipped away after finding Liu Rumeng and the Netherflame Night Demon gone.
• As they traveled north, Meng Anli tactfully suggested that Zuo Yuan might share roots with the Soul-Splitting Demon Python, and Yuan Jin observed that the Netherflame Night Demon loved Liu Rumeng.
• The group reached the Bone Dragon's bone-built city, where Yuan Jin explained that the Bone Dragon killed prisoners of war from the Six Realms and even turned on his own people when enemies ran out.

Meng Anli and her companions entered the Bone Dragon’s city to find A Yao, but a swarm of demon moths attacked them. They drove the moths away with Zuo Yuan’s unexpected fire, and Yuan Jin noticed Meng Anli’s arm had regenerated.

• Meng Anli, Yuan Jin, Zuo Yuan, and Zhu Rongyao entered the eerily deserted city and encountered a chestnut that burst into demon moths.
• Meng Anli and her companions fought off the moths, and Zuo Yuan carried them to a courtyard as the swarm grew larger.
• A demon moth bit Meng Anli’s arm, forcing her to cut away the corrupted flesh while she protected Yuan Jin.
• Meng Anli urged Zuo Yuan to turn his rage into fire, and his flames drove the demon moths away.
• Yuan Jin saw Meng Anli’s arm regenerate and questioned her, while Zhu Rongyao complained that Yuan Jin was not caring for his injury.

Meng Anli infiltrated the demon moths and followed them to the Bone Dragon’s palace, where she discovered the Bone Dragon had a portrait of her. The Bone Dragon’s apparent search for her left her wondering whether the Three Corpses Demon knew she had faked her death.

• Meng Anli turned Yuan Jin, Zhu Rongyao, and Zuo Yuan into piles of white bones, then transformed into a demon moth and told the others to wait.
• Meng Anli joined a swarm of demon moths, convinced their crooked eyes explained why they flew sideways, and earned the leader’s trust by pretending to be named Li.
• Meng Anli followed the demon moth leader to the Bone Dragon’s palace, where the Bone Dragon and the Demon Moth King were playing chess.
• The Bone Dragon asked Shang Zhengrong whether the three devils they had captured included a woman matching a portrait, and Meng Anli recognized herself in it.
• Meng Anli wondered whether the Three Corpses Demon had revealed that she was supposedly dead to the Bone Dragon.

Meng Anli disguised herself as a Demon Moth and persuaded the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King to leave the city to abduct Meng Shiwan, the Demon Realm’s number one beauty. She secretly warned Zhu Rongyao that the Bone Dragon was outside the city, then returned to the two kings, who struggled to spot her because she kept flying diagonally.

• Meng Anli disguised herself as a fighting rooster and told the Bone Dragon that Meng Anli had died, prompting him to contact the Three Corpses Demon and learn that Meng Anli’s death might lead to rebellion.
• Meng Anli praised Meng Anli’s younger sister as the Demon Realm’s number one beauty, and the Bone Dragon persuaded the Demon Moth King to abduct her.
• Shang Zhengrong named Meng Anli Ming, and she led the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King out of the city.
• Meng Anli flew away and contacted Zhu Rongyao to tell him the Bone Dragon had left the city.
• After waiting a quarter of an hour, Meng Anli returned, and the Bone Dragon struggled to see her because she flew diagonally ahead.

Meng Anli led the Bone Dragon to Meng Shiwan, who was captured and taken to Bone City. There, they discovered A Yao had already been rescued by three Bone Demons claiming to act on the Bone Dragon’s orders, and the Bone Dragon ordered the city sealed.

• Meng Anli led the Bone Dragon through a town, where Shang Zhengrong killed demons who attacked them.
• The Bone Dragon dismissed Meng Shiwan as less beautiful than the girl he had kidnapped, and Meng Anli realized he meant A Yao.
• Shang Zhengrong captured Meng Shiwan while Meng Anli was held back, then the Bone Dragon took them to Bone City.
• The Bone Dragon found A Yao’s cage empty and learned that three Bone Demons had taken her away a quarter of an hour earlier.
• The Bone Dragon ordered the city gates sealed as Meng Shiwan woke and insulted him, prompting the Demon Moth King to slap her.

Meng Anli whipped Meng Shiwan and used magic to make her relive memories of torturing Meng Anli in a past life. The Three Corpses Demon arrived and secured Meng Shiwan’s release by revealing her status as Great Emperor Dangmo’s disciple and future Crown Princess of the Heavenly Realm.

• Meng Anli struck Meng Shiwan with a barbed whip while the Demon Moth King and Bone Dragon watched and encouraged her.
• Meng Anli used Meng Po’s magic on the whip, causing Meng Shiwan to remember torturing Meng Anli in a past life.
• The Bone Dragon tore flesh from Meng Shiwan, and the Demon Moth King ate it before the Three Corpses Demon rushed in and shielded her.
• The Three Corpses Demon said Meng Shiwan could not die because she was Great Emperor Dangmo’s disciple and future Crown Princess of the Heavenly Realm.
• The Demon Moth King ordered the Bone Dragon to let Meng Shiwan go, and the Bone Dragon angrily complied.

Meng Anli disguised as Mingming helped the Demon Moth King conclude that the Three Corpses Demon had allied with the Heavenly Realm, prompting the Demon Lord to plan a march to reclaim Sister Wen’s daughter. As the demons suspected Meng Shiwan might be that daughter, Meng Anli left with Shang Zhengrong to search for the girl who had been taken, hoping to find her friends first.

• The Three Corpses Demon made Meng Shiwan vanish, leaving only a pool of blood, and Meng Anli suggested that he had colluded with Great Emperor Dangmo and the Heavenly Realm.
• The Demon Moth King contacted the Demon Lord, who said he would use the rebellion as an excuse to march on the South Heavenly Gate and snatch Sister Wen back.
• The Demon Lord realized Meng Shiwan might be Sister Wen’s daughter, while the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King worried they had harmed her and decided to let the Demon Lord judge for himself.
• The Bone Dragon told Shang Zhengrong to find who had forged his order and taken the girl, and Meng Anli went with Shang Zhengrong, determined to reach her friends first.

Meng Anli slipped away from Shang Zhengrong’s cockfighting outing and reunited with Zhu Rongyao, Lu Yao, Yuan Jin, and Zuo Yuan. She disguised them as demon moths so they could leave the city, then returned to Shang Zhengrong after his white rooster won.

• Shang Zhengrong took Meng Anli to a cockfighting stall, where she predicted the white rooster would win and persuaded him to bet on it.
• After the white rooster won, Meng Anli secretly contacted Zhu Rongyao and followed his directions to a courtyard where he, Lu Yao, Yuan Jin, and Zuo Yuan were hiding.
• Meng Anli transformed the four into demon moths and taught them to cross their eyes to imitate the creatures’ poor eyesight.
• Meng Anli led the disguised group back to the cockfighting grounds, where Shang Zhengrong celebrated his winnings and offered her the silver.
• The stall owner accused Meng Anli of seeking more than silver, but she denied it, and Shang Zhengrong defended her and blamed the owner’s complaint on the changed odds.

Meng Anli and her companions tried to escape the city, but the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King revealed they had been watching them all along. To save Lu Yao and the others, Meng Anli agreed to become a Bone Demon and followed the Bone Dragon to Bone Stream.

• Meng Anli persuaded Shang Zhengrong to delay their hunt, then secretly led Lu Yao and the others toward the city gate.
• The group attacked the Bone Demon guards, but the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King appeared and stopped Meng Anli's magic.
• Meng Anli realized the Great Kings had concealed the city's residents and offered herself in exchange for Lu Yao and the others' freedom.
• The Bone Dragon demanded that Lu Yao stay, but Meng Anli volunteered to become a Bone Demon instead.
• The Bone Dragon accepted Meng Anli's offer and told her to accompany him to Bone Stream.

Meng Anli endured the bone steps’ agonizing trial to reach the milky pool and begin becoming a Bone Demon. As the pool rebuilt her limbs, demonic qi entered her body, leaving her transformation uncertain.

• Bone Dragon offered Meng Anli the chance to become a Bone Demon by climbing 206 steps and entering the pool, and she asked him to let her friends leave first.
• Meng Anli knocked Lu Yao unconscious, asked Zhu Rongyao to save Guang Ling and the other captive, and began climbing after Bone Dragon sent the others away.
• The steps painfully corroded Meng Anli’s body, but she kept climbing despite losing her toes, fingers, and limbs and receiving no answer from her Big Brother or master.
• When Meng Anli nearly gave up, Bone Dragon and the Demon Moth King discussed letting her descend, but she chose to continue toward the pool.
• Meng Anli reached the pool, where the milky water purified her bones and began rebuilding her limbs, but demonic qi seeped into the water and entered her body.

Meng Anli absorbed demonic energy, broke through to Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal and Demon King ranks, and gained the demon moth clan’s doppelganger ability. She fought the Bone Dragon, cut him apart, and faced him again after he revived as a colossal dragon.

• Meng Anli absorbed the demonic energy as it corrupted her, then endured Heavenly Lightning and broke through to Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal and Demon King ranks.
• Meng Anli discovered the Demon Speech Incantation and used its doppelganger ability to create ten copies of herself.
• The Demon Moth King fled as Meng Anli and the Bone Dragon fought through his palace and into the city.
• Meng Anli merged her copies, severed the Bone Dragon’s head, and tore his body into four pieces.
• The Bone Dragon reassembled as a colossal dragon, challenged Meng Anli to fight again, and launched bone spikes at her.

Meng Anli realized that Netherfire, the Bone Dragon, and the Demon Moth King had strengthened her through painful trials, then revealed her identity and declared she would rebel against the Demon Lord. She set out with her companions to find Guang Ling and Ziqian, while the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King went to watch the Demon Lord.

• Meng Anli defeated the Bone Dragon, learned that his trials had reshaped her flesh and bones, and thanked him for helping her grow stronger.
• Meng Anli reunited with Lu Yao, Zhu Rongyao, and Yuan Jin, revealed she was Great Emperor Dangmo's disciple and had become a demon, and told Yuan Jin she intended to rebel.
• Yuan Jin offered to have his father recommend Meng Anli as Left Protector, but she rejected the offer and said she wanted to become Demon Lord; Yuan Jin flew away after declaring he would not spare her on the battlefield.
• Meng Anli told Zuo Yuan about his parents and gave him the chance to leave, but he chose to stay with her despite the danger.
• Meng Anli, Lu Yao, Zhu Rongyao, and Zuo Yuan set off to find Guang Ling and Ziqian, while the Bone Dragon and Demon Moth King decided to watch the Demon Lord.