Chapter Summaries

Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Yang tracked the evil cultivators to Shuangyu City, where they found a formation draining the city’s cultivators to empower their enemies. They began breaking the formation so Han Yang could locate and rescue Liao Ziqian, but the outcome remained uncertain.

• Yunxi learned from Zhusheng that two adults and a child had stopped in the mountains and gone to a nearby city to plant an Evil Seed in the child.
• Xun Kun took Yunxi and Han Yang to Shuangyu City, where Yunxi discovered an Evil Formation draining the vitality and cultivation of everyone inside.
• Han Yang confirmed that Little Ice Cicada was in the city, and Yunxi assigned him to find Liao Ziqian once the formation broke while Xun Kun controlled the cultivators’ divine souls.
• Yunxi spread her Thunder Domain over Shuangyu City and struck the blood-red formation with violet lightning.

Yunxi and Xun Kun fought the evil cultivators who had taken Liao Ziqian and turned Shuangyu City into an empty city during the battle. After Yunxi depleted her spiritual energy and withdrew her domain, Xuanyuan Wei appeared and crushed the false Mahayana cultivator with one punch.

• Qiu Mo recognized the Heavenly Demon Palace's distress signal and sent news of it back to the palace as nearby cultivators headed toward Shuangyu City.
• Yunxi shattered the Evil Formation while Xun Kun attacked the evil cultivators with his Soul Bell and Han Yang searched for Liao Ziqian.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun defeated the female cultivator, but a male cultivator's sword clash with Yunxi injured her and destroyed one-third of Shuangyu City.
• Yunxi sent the surviving city cultivators out of her domain, then fought the male cultivator and pierced his defenses with the Cold Frost Profound Ice Needle carrying Ziyan.
• Xun Kun told Yunxi that Han Yang had found Liao Ziqian but could not move him, and Yunxi withdrew her domain after exhausting her spiritual energy.
• Xuanyuan Wei struck the male cultivator down with one punch, and Xun Kun bowed to him and called him Master.

Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Yang found Liao Ziqian contaminated by an evil blood technique and learned that he faced death or becoming an evil cultivator. Yunxi offered him a dangerous third path, and the chapter ended with Liao Ziqian needing to decide whether to endure it.

• Xuanyuan Wei recognized Yunxi and stayed behind to interrogate the captured evil cultivator while Xun Kun and Yunxi followed Han Yang to Liao Ziqian.
• Han Yang explained that evil cultivators had killed the City Lord's Mansion cultivators and used their blood to contaminate Liao Ziqian's foundation and Meridians.
• Yunxi burned away the blood pool with Ziyan, and Xun Kun found that Evil Qi had already contaminated Liao Ziqian's Meridians and Dantian.
• Yunxi explained that Liao Ziqian could choose a third path: seal part of the Evil God's body inside himself, endure Exotic Flame to cleanse the Evil Qi, and seek a cure in the Immortal Realm, despite the risk of losing himself or dying.
• Liao Ziqian said he would rather die than endanger his sect, then listened as Yunxi laid out the dangers of the third path.

Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Yang risked using Demonic Qi, an Exotic Flame, and the Little Ice Cicada to save Liao Ziqian from Evil Qi and help him begin cultivating. Liao Ziqian successfully entered the Dao, and the group left the City Lord's Mansion to explain what happened to Xun Kun's master and the innocent cultivators of Shuangyu City.

• Liao Ziqian chose to risk the painful Qi Introduction, and Yunxi moved the group to a room in the City Lord's Mansion.
• Xun Kun guided Demonic Qi through Liao Ziqian while Yunxi used Ziyan to burn away the Evil Qi and Han Yang soothed him.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun protected Liao Ziqian's Spiritual Root as they expanded his Dantian and opened his sea of consciousness.
• Han Yang had Little Ice Cicada merge with Liao Ziqian's newly formed divine consciousness.
• Liao Ziqian expelled impurities and reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining, successfully entering the Dao.
• Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Yang left the City Lord's Mansion with Liao Ziqian to give Xun Kun's master an explanation.

Xun Kun explained the battle in Shuangyu City and warned the Demon Realm about evil cultivators targeting gifted disciples. In private, he revealed why Liao Ziqian mattered, and Yunxi proposed that if the Evil God’s body possessed him, they could seal it within him and send the problem to the Immortal Realm.

• Xun Kun recounted how he, Yunxi, and Han Yang rescued Liao Ziqian and defeated the evil cultivators in Shuangyu City.
• Xun Kun urged Xuanyuan Wei and the other cultivators to publicize the threat and protect talented disciples from being targeted.
• Xuanyuan Wei questioned Xun Kun privately, and Xun Kun explained Liao Ziqian’s significance and how he had treated him while keeping the Ice Soul Cicada secret.
• Xuanyuan Wei argued that Liao Ziqian might be vulnerable to the Evil God’s body as he grew stronger, while Xun Kun defended keeping him where they could watch him.
• Yunxi suggested sealing the Evil God’s body inside Liao Ziqian if it possessed him, then sending him to the Immortal Realm for a solution.

Yunxi explained her plan to use Liao Ziqian as a vessel to seal the Evil God's body, while hoping the Weiling Realm could eventually ascend and restore the seal. After Xuanyuan Wei examined Liao Ziqian and advised Xun Kun on caring for him, Liao Ziqian woke and affirmed that he was still himself.

• Yunxi told Xuanyuan Wei she intended to inscribe sealing runes on Liao Ziqian and trap the Evil God's body inside him, then use the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation to weaken it.
• Yunxi argued that returning fallen little worlds to their original positions and raising the Weiling Realm's rank could stabilize the seal, and Xuanyuan Wei revealed that the Evil God's body in the newly ascended Yangxi Realm had already been unsealed and disappeared.
• Xuanyuan Wei explained that a devil cultivator with the Heavenly Demon Body had led Yangxi Realm's ascension and that Demon Realm forces were fighting the evil cultivators there.
• Xuanyuan Wei told Xun Kun to care for Liao Ziqian and help him establish his Dao heart, while still preparing precautions against the Evil God's body.
• Xuanyuan Wei examined the sleeping Liao Ziqian, confirmed that Xun Kun had driven out the Evil Qi, and instructed him to leave the Exotic Flame inside until Liao Ziqian could circulate his cultivation technique.
• Liao Ziqian woke three days later, smiled at Xun Kun, and said that he was still Liao Ziqian.

Xun Kun and Yunxi prepared to take Liao Ziqian to the Heavenly Demon Palace, where he could begin cultivation and later serve as a seal against the evil cultivators. On the journey, they encountered Qiu Mo and his fellow disciples, who asked for help rescuing poisoned companions from the Miasma Jungle.

• Han Yang explained that Liao Ziqian had reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining, and Xun Kun advised him to master his new power before formally cultivating.
• Ranxi proposed strengthening Liao Ziqian's body before inscribing sealing runes on his skin, and Yunxi agreed to accompany him and Xun Kun to the Heavenly Demon Palace.
• After five days in Shuangyu City, Xun Kun, Yunxi, and Liao Ziqian set out for the Heavenly Demon Palace, while Han Yang departed after giving Liao Ziqian an Ice Soul Cicada for protection.
• As they traveled through the Demon Realm, Xun Kun guided Liao Ziqian's cultivation and told him that Han Yang had only been teasing him when he offered to take him as a disciple.
• Qiu Mo told Xun Kun that a cultivator had controlled Magic Beasts and lured his group into an ambush in the Miasma Jungle, where several disciples were poisoned despite taking Detox Pills.

Yunxi treated eight Heavenly Demon Palace disciples who had been tainted by Evil Qi while Xun Kun investigated the Miasma Jungle and failed to catch the attacker. The disciples’ conflicting descriptions of the ambusher left the group unsure what the culprit had looked like.

• Xun Kun took Qiu Mo and Yue Shanshan into the Miasma Jungle while Yunxi examined the poisoned disciples.
• Yunxi discovered that Renzhou and the others were afflicted by Evil Qi rather than poison, and used Ziyan to expel it from all eight disciples.
• Liao Ziqian happily petted Lili while Yunxi stayed with the recovering disciples.
• Xun Kun returned without finding the attacker, and Yunxi explained how the Evil Qi had entered the disciples’ bodies.
• Qiu Mo and Yue Shanshan drew different faces of the ambusher, and another disciple claimed the attacker had been a female cultivator.

Yunxi and Xun Kun investigated an attack that had been staged to frame Yunxi, then brought Liao Ziqian to the Heavenly Demon Palace for his entrance trial. At the palace, Yunxi recognized a blue-eyed cultivator from her past and attacked him, but Xun Kun stopped her when the Heavenly Demon Palace's Old Ancestor arrived.

• Yunxi and Xun Kun found that the attackers had used faces from Yunxi's past and copied her features to make the ambush look like her work.
• Xun Kun sent Qiu Mo and the disciples to report the incident, then hurried toward the Heavenly Demon Palace with Yunxi and Liao Ziqian.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun discussed the evil cultivators' likely plans for the Ancient Battlefield and agreed that Xun Kun should protect Liao Ziqian until his Dao heart was established.
• A month later, Xun Kun's Flying Boat reached the Heavenly Demon Palace, where Liao Ziqian began his entrance trial by climbing the staircase alone.
• Yunxi recognized a blue-eyed cultivator on the staircase and attacked him with her Divine Soul Stab and Wind Snow Domain.
• Xun Kun warned Yunxi that the Heavenly Demon Palace's Old Ancestor had arrived, and Yunxi withdrew her domain.

Ranxi injured a Heavenly Demon Palace disciple she believed was an evil cultivator, and Xue Yu challenged her claim while preparing to punish her. Xun Kun defended Ranxi and the Kunmo Sect, and Xuanyuan Wei warned Xue Yu not to threaten the sect’s stability.

• Ranxi attacked a male cultivator at Shou Zheng Hall and left him badly injured before Xue Yu appeared and pressured her with his divine sense.
• Xuanyuan Wei arrived at Xun Kun’s request, and Ranxi explained that she had attacked the man because she believed he was an evil cultivator.
• Xue Yu said the injured man was an ascended cultivator from the Yangxi Realm with an innate Heavenly Demon Body, while Ranxi claimed she could prove he was an evil cultivator’s reincarnation.
• Ranxi promised to heal the man and help him reach the Void Refining stage if she could not prove her claim, while Xun Kun argued that the cultivator’s unknown past warranted caution.
• Xun Kun reminded Xue Yu that the Kunmo Sect had joined Heavenly Demon Palace at the Palace Master’s invitation, and Xuanyuan Wei warned Xue Yu against undermining the sect’s stability.

Yunxi presented evidence that Huangfu Zhenghong was connected to an evil soul and warned that his actions could be part of a plan to reunite the Evil God's body. When Ruofeng moved to inspect him, Huangfu Zhenghong tried to flee, and the hall erupted into a struggle over his remaining arm and escaping souls.

• Xuanyuan Wei stabilized the captured cultivator and brought him to the main hall, where Palace Master Moyong and Ruofeng joined the inquiry.
• Yunxi showed an Imprint Jade recording of the evil soul clone that had inhabited Wei Yunqing, and she and Xun Kun explained its role in her sister's actions.
• Xue Yu disputed that the recording proved Huangfu Zhenghong was an evil cultivator, while Yunxi argued that his weak cultivation and the circumstances of his ascension were suspicious.
• Yunxi warned that evil cultivators might seek to reunite the Evil God's body in the Spirit Realm, prompting Ruofeng to reach for Huangfu Zhenghong.
• Huangfu Zhenghong vanished in an attempted escape, and Xuanyuan Wei struck him while Yunxi and Xun Kun pinned down two escaping divine souls; Xue Yu seized the intact arm as Xuanyuan Wei trapped him within his domain.

Yunxi and the others exposed an evil cultivator hiding inside the Heavenly Demon Palace and fought to seal the Evil God's arm. Xue Yu escaped with the arm, and Yutang Fengxin ordered the Demon Realm to issue a wanted notice for him.

• Ruofeng exposed the disguised Huangfu Zhenghong as an evil cultivator, and Yunxi captured his divided soul in the Soul-Collecting Mirror.
• Ruofeng, Yunxi, and Xun Kun entered Xuanyuan Wei's domain and joined him in fighting the Evil God's arm.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun combined spiritual and demonic power in their sealing runes, weakening the arm until it could no longer resist.
• Blood Old Demon seized the weakened arm and escaped with it, prompting Xuanyuan Wei to curse him.
• Yutang Fengxin learned that Xue Yu had escaped with the arm and ordered Ruofeng to issue a wanted notice across the Demon Realm.

Yunxi explained to Yutang Fengxin why she suspected Huangfu Zhenghong had orchestrated the Yangxi Realm’s ascension to reach the Evil God’s body, and the group confirmed Liao Ziqian was safe. The chapter ended with Fengxin discovering Yunxi had obtained the Lei Family’s Profound Thunder Purple Flame, prompting Xuanyuan Wei to laugh at the family’s losses.

• Yutang Ruofeng left to issue a wanted notice for Xue Yu, while Moyong went to inform the sect disciples about his treachery and the Evil God’s body.
• Yunxi recounted her encounter with Huangfu Zhenghong and explained why the Yangxi Realm’s ascension made her suspect his ambitions and connection to the Evil God.
• Xun Kun returned with Liao Ziqian, who had been teleported to the plaza during the sect-protecting formation’s activation and had not been taken by Xue Yu.
• Yunxi said her seal could restrain the Evil God’s arm only temporarily, while Xun Kun believed Xue Yu had been too occupied fleeing to take Liao Ziqian.
• Yutang Fengxin noticed the Profound Thunder Purple Flame around Liao Ziqian’s Spiritual Root, and Yunxi explained how she had obtained it in the Weiyu Realm.
• Xuanyuan Wei laughed that the Lei Family had lost its Exotic Flame to Yunxi after already being swindled by her Old Ancestor.

Yunxi settled into the Heavenly Demon Palace and learned from Lili and Dian Dian that Xue Yu was plagued by a Heart Demon while Huangfu Zhenghong’s soul had an ominous deep-blue color. She resolved to destroy the powerful soul fragment trapped in her Soul-Collecting Mirror and suspected Xue Yu would eventually seek the Evil God’s arm.

• Xuanyuan Wei explained Haoran’s conflict with the Lei Family, and Yunxi realized Lei Hongxuan had entered the Lower Realm’s Secret Realm to recover the family’s depleted resources.
• Fengxin sent Yunxi to stay at Guest Peak with Xun Kun, while Liao Ziqian returned to Xuanyuan Peak with his master.
• Lili warned Yunxi that Xue Yu had a Heart Demon, and Dian Dian suspected he had stolen cultivation to pursue a breakthrough.
• Lili described Huangfu Zhenghong’s soul as an unfamiliar deep blue, while Dian Dian admitted he had been too afraid to inspect him closely.
• Yunxi reasoned that Huangfu Zhenghong had orchestrated the Yangxi Realm’s ascension to conceal his plans and reach the Heavenly Demon Palace, but her intervention had exposed him.
• Yunxi decided she would destroy the trapped soul fragment and concluded that Xue Yu would likely use the Evil God’s arm to extend his life and pursue ascension.

Yunxi learned more about Xue Yu and the Evil God from Taolin, a Peach Blossom Spirit, while the Heavenly Demon Palace investigated the evil cultivators’ infiltration. Xue Yu remained at large, hiding in an abandoned demonic stone mine and refining an arm.

• Taolin told Yunxi that Xue Yu, known as Blood Old Demon, used heart's blood to cultivate and had turned to taking it from cultivators.
• Taolin asked to speak with Yunxi’s bamboo plant pet, but Yunxi sent him back into his true body after he glared at her.
• Yutang Fengxin ordered the Heavenly Demon Palace’s grand formation to stay open and gave the Peak Masters three days to investigate their peaks.
• Yutang Fengxin sent Yutang Ruofeng to investigate Xue Yu’s peak and ordered the True Venerables across the regions to stay alert.
• Xue Yu hid in a tunnel in an abandoned demonic stone mine and refined an arm.

Xue Yu stole the sealed arm and planned to slowly refine the power he believed belonged to the Evil God. As the Heavenly Demon Palace hunted for him, Xun Kun borrowed Lili so he could investigate possible spies at Xuanyuan Peak with Liao Ziqian.

• Xue Yu studied Ranxi's unusual sealing talismans and considered abducting her to help unseal the arm.
• Yutang Ruofeng led the Molten Flame Hall disciples in sealing off Xue Yu's mountain and searching the Heavenly Demon Palace for the traitor.
• Xun Kun visited Yunxi and asked to borrow Lili so he could inspect Xuanyuan Peak for spies among its new disciples.
• Yunxi agreed, and Liao Ziqian eagerly left with Lili after being told he could take the spirit pet for two days.
• Xun Kun told Liao Ziqian to climb Xuanyuan Peak without demonic power while carrying Lili as extra weight.

Liao Ziqian’s test on Xuanyuan Peak was interrupted by several Evil Cultivators, and Lili exposed them and stopped one from possessing him. After Ruofeng asked to borrow Lili, she went to see Ranxi, while Liao Ziqian continued toward the mountaintop.

• Liao Ziqian climbed Xuanyuan Peak with Lili, and a female disciple revealed herself as an Evil Cultivator when Lili clawed her.
• Xun Kun explained the incident to Ruofeng, who sent Molten Flame Hall disciples to search the peak.
• An Evil Cultivator tried to possess Liao Ziqian, but Lili split the soul-light and Xun Kun destroyed it.
• Lili exposed another Evil Cultivator among the disciples collecting the corpse, and Ruofeng bound the impostor and summoned Tuoyu.
• Ruofeng asked Xun Kun to borrow Lili, then went to find Ranxi as Liao Ziqian resumed his climb.
• Ruofeng arrived at Yunxi’s courtyard while Yunxi was preparing a message jade slip for Han Yang.

Yunxi learned that Lili had helped Elder Ruofeng uncover spies in Heavenly Demon Palace, but an explosion at Xue Yu’s sealed cultivation peak left Ruofeng gravely injured. Yunxi began drawing Ruofeng’s divine soul out to stop an unknown soul thread from merging with it.

• Ruofeng borrowed Lili to search the sect, and Lili helped her locate rogue cultivator spies and suspicious disciples.
• Lili returned to Yunxi with a storage collar from Ruofeng and explained that Zi Qian had received a Winged Leopard cub in exchange for him.
• An explosion sheared off half the summit of Xue Yu’s peak, and Yunxi learned that Ruofeng had been seriously injured there.
• Fengxin explained that Ruofeng had triggered an array in Xue Yu’s secret chamber, damaging her divine sense and trapping an unknown soul thread within it.
• Yunxi warned that the soul thread would soon merge with Ruofeng’s divine soul, then used her Soul-Collecting Mirror to draw the soul out.

Yunxi used Ziyan to drive an Evil God’s remnant soul out of Yutang Ruofeng’s divine soul, learning that the soul fragment was tied to an ancient betrayal and a failed attempt to revive the Evil God. Ruofeng’s soul returned to her body, while Yunxi recovered from the effort and Xun Kun identified the remnant soul.

• Yunxi used Ziyan to attack the soul fragment inside Yutang Ruofeng, despite the danger to Ruofeng’s divine soul.
• The fragment took control of Ruofeng’s body and revealed that it was part of a God Venerable’s remnant soul gathered in an attempt to revive the Evil God.
• Yunxi argued that the Evil God could not truly return and accused the fragment of causing the death of someone they both knew.
• Yunxi’s words provoked the fragment, which withdrew from Ruofeng’s divine soul and vanished from the Side Hall.
• Yutang Fengxin returned Ruofeng’s weakened divine soul to her body, and Xun Kun caught Yunxi as she weakened from the effort.
• Xun Kun told Yunxi that the remnant soul had belonged to the Evil God.

Yunxi confirmed that Ruofeng’s soul thread had been removed and explained how the Evil God’s remnant soul might have been gathered. She and the others discussed the Evil God’s identity and the limits of restoring a fallen god, leaving Fengxin to question whether the Weiling Realm belonged to the Divine Realm.

• Fengxin’s physician and Yunxi confirmed that Ruofeng’s soul was clean but weakened, and advised that she recuperate somewhere rich in Demonic Qi.
• After leaving the hall, the Evil God’s soul thread entered Taolin, who briefly showed a strange reaction before appearing normal again.
• Yunxi proposed that Xue Yu had brought the soul thread from the Ancient Battlefield and that evil cultivators were trying to reassemble the Evil God’s divine soul.
• Yunxi explained that her words during the confrontation came from images she had seen during her ascension tribulation, and Fengxin and Xuanyuan Wei concluded they might have been a Heavenly Dao revelation.
• Yunxi explained that a new God Venerable would inherit a fallen god’s memories and duties, but not its divine sense, and said the evil cultivators could not gather every soul fragment in the Weiling Realm.
• Fengxin suggested that the Evil God would return to the Divine Realm if resurrected, and that the Weiling Realm might also be part of it.