Chapter Summaries

Qin Yi reunited with Meng Qingying in the Land of Chaos, where she had come to kill a rival in her sect’s succession struggle. She agreed to help him find the Heavenly Heart Lotus, but at Peek Heaven Peak they discovered that Tai Huang Jun was the Daoist they had fought earlier.

• Meng Qingying revealed that she had ambushed her Senior Brother and come to eliminate him before her sect’s succession struggle.
• Qin Yi offered to help Meng Qingying kill her rival after he returned from finding medicine, and she agreed to accompany him to Peek Heaven Peak.
• Meng Qingying warned Qin Yi that the Profound Yin Sect might share origins with Great Joy Temple and suggested its remnants could be hiding in the Land of Chaos.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying reached Peek Heaven Peak and found Tai Huang Jun cultivating beside the lotus pool.
• Qin Yi recognized Tai Huang Jun as the Daoist they had fought and grabbed Meng Qingying to flee.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying were trapped by Tai Huang Jun in a mountain-spanning fire array, where he tried to bargain for the secret of Qin Yi’s chaotic power. After Tai Huang Jun released Meng Qingying and wrongly assumed she had abandoned Qin Yi, Qin Yi found a way to strike the array’s weak point, while Meng Qingying revealed she had never truly left.

• Qin Yi carried Meng Qingying away, but Tai Huang Jun trapped them inside a blazing grand array spanning several mountains.
• Tai Huang Jun told Qin Yi that the Heavenly Heart Lotus was in the Profound Yin Sect and demanded to know about the chaotic power on Qin Yi’s body.
• Qin Yi offered to reveal his secret only after Tai Huang Jun released Meng Qingying, and Tai Huang Jun mistook their concern for proof they were a couple.
• Tai Huang Jun released Meng Qingying, who appeared to flee, while Qin Yi spotted the array’s weak point and struck it with his Wolf Tooth Club.
• Meng Qingying returned with a star-lit dragon and revealed that her Myriad Images of the Universe had kept Tai Huang Jun’s array from trapping her.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying forced Tai Huang Jun to call a truce after their combined power threatened him, and he offered an uneasy alliance over the Heavenly Heart Lotus. As Qin Yi and Meng Qingying left, Tai Huang Jun revealed the lotus could awaken unusual bloodlines and insinuated Qin Yi was an unworthy partner, prompting Meng Qingying to give him a sidelong look.

• Tai Huang Jun found himself pressured by Qin Yi and Meng Qingying's trump cards and agreed to discuss a truce rather than risk destroying his mountain.
• Tai Huang Jun proposed trading Qin Yi a Burning Flame Fruit for a flower of the Heavenly Heart Lotus, which he said was held by the Profound Yin Sect.
• Tai Huang Jun explained that Qin Yi's fusion of martial and immortal cultivation approached primal chaos and warned that others might target him over it.
• Qin Yi thanked Tai Huang Jun, took Meng Qingying's hand, and prepared to leave.
• Tai Huang Jun told Meng Qingying that the Heavenly Heart Lotus could awaken unusual bloodlines and suggested Qin Yi was not worth keeping as a partner, making her glance at Qin Yi.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying traveled together by flying vessel, discussed their past relationships and the loneliness of the immortal path, and agreed to cooperate at the Profound Yin Sect. They planned to seek Qin Yi’s medicine and pursue Meng Qingying’s Senior Brother while concealing Qin Yi’s identity, and Qin Yi joked about posing as Qi Wen’s younger brother, Qi Wu.

• Meng Qingying teased Qin Yi about his relationships with female demons, then took a drink from his Poetry Wine Drifting gourd.
• Qin Yi told Meng Qingying he could not imagine who would accompany him on future travels, while she said she did not need a Dao Companion.
• Meng Qingying explained that they had succeeded against Tai Huang Jun by working together and proposed cooperating at the Profound Yin Sect.
• Meng Qingying warned Qin Yi to hide his Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace affiliation because the Profound Yin Sect might shelter Great Joy Temple remnants.
• Qin Yi learned her Senior Brother was named Qi Wen and joked that he could enter the sect as Qi Wu, Qi Wen’s younger brother.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying traveled to the Profound Yin Sect, where Qin Yi used rare yin and yang spirit stones to persuade someone inside the sealed sect to arrange a secret meeting. They headed east to wait at a mountain stream, while Meng Qingying apologized for not realizing how wealthy Qin Yi was.

• Meng Qingying explained the Profound Yin Sect’s strange landscape, extreme-yin cultivation, and unusual customs to Qin Yi.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying arrived at the Profound Yin Sect and found its entrance sealed by a grand array.
• Qin Yi displayed enormous extreme-yin and extreme-yang spirit stones, prompting someone inside the gate to speak with them.
• Qin Yi refused to enter the sect and negotiated for a meeting outside instead.
• The man inside directed Qin Yi and Meng Qingying to wait at a mountain stream a hundred li east of the sect.
• Meng Qingying apologized for underestimating Qin Yi’s wealth as they traveled to the meeting place.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying infiltrated Profound Yin Sect by accepting a corrupt steward’s offer to help them steal the Heavenly Heart Lotus. As they began scouting the sect, Meng Qingying warned that their goals might conflict, and Qin Yi recalled a possible clue to why her Luck Dragon could not protect her.

• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying met a made-up Profound Yin Sect steward at a mountain pool and learned he could not personally authorize the Heavenly Heart Lotus.
• The steward offered to help them steal the lotus from his Martial Grand-Uncle in exchange for two yin spirit stones, and Qin Yi agreed.
• The steward led Qin Yi and Meng Qingying through a secret passage into Profound Yin Sect and left them in his Cave Dwelling.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying discovered that the steward’s cave was decorated like a lurid dressing room and dungeon.
• Meng Qingying sent a strand of hair to scout and told Qin Yi that obtaining the lotus might prevent her from killing Qi Wen.
• Qin Yi proposed that they support each other, then recalled Tai Huang Jun’s remarks about special harmonies as he considered why Meng Qingying could not draw on the Luck Dragon’s fortune.

Meng Qingying used Penetrating the Netherworld to investigate the Profound Yin Sect and learned where Qi Wen was recovering, while Qin Yi and Liusu studied the sect’s cultivation method. They decided to question the effeminate Daoist about why the sect had taken Qi Wen in, just as he returned to the Cave Dwelling.

• Meng Qingying used Penetrating the Netherworld to confirm that the effeminate Daoist was alone at the valley entrance and overheard disciples discussing Qi Wen.
• Meng Qingying learned from the disciples’ conversations that Qi Wen was healing in a chamber behind the main hall, a heavily guarded location.
• Qin Yi and Liusu secretly examined a hidden compartment’s cultivation method, and Liusu devised a new yin-yang secret art based on the Great Joy Paradise Sutra.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying agreed to get the reason for Qi Wen’s welcome from the effeminate Daoist, and Qin Yi asked whether Qi Wen had a brother named Qi Wu.
• The effeminate Daoist returned to the Cave Dwelling.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying negotiated with Yu Fuzi to steal the Heavenly Heart Lotus while concealing their identities. Meng Qingying revealed that she was the fugitive from the previous day and insisted on pursuing her own mission separately.

• Meng Qingying introduced Qin Yi as Qi Wu and challenged Yu Fuzi's suspicion that he was connected to Qi Wen.
• Yu Fuzi explained that the Profound Yin Sect was helping Qi Wen despite internal opposition, then proposed that Qin Yi distract the disciples guarding the Heavenly Heart Lotus while Yu Fuzi took it.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying considered using the lotus theft to draw out the sect's experts, but Meng Qingying chose to approach Yu Fuzi's Martial Grand-Uncle herself.
• Yu Fuzi returned and said his Martial Grand-Uncle was occupied with dual cultivation, but Meng Qingying demanded to see him instead.
• Meng Qingying revealed the Asura Yin Underworld Fire Mark and admitted she was the fugitive from the previous day, while Qin Yi's lotus theft remained genuine.

Qin Yi urged Meng Qingying to abandon her dangerous plan to assassinate Qi Wen, but she refused to place her future in another person’s hands. With Yu Fuzi’s help and Qin Yi’s transformation technique, Meng Qingying entered the Profound Yin Sect disguised as a disciple and headed toward Qi Wen’s location.

• Qin Yi considered the risks Meng Qingying faced and offered to help her challenge Qi Wen later with support from the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace.
• Meng Qingying refused to depend on Qin Yi’s promises, and Yu Fuzi offered to help her infiltrate the Profound Yin Sect in exchange for spirit stones.
• Qin Yi paid Yu Fuzi with a top-grade water-element spirit stone and transformed Meng Qingying into a burly woman.
• Meng Qingying took a Profound Yin Sect disciple token and entered the sect without attracting attention.
• Meng Qingying made her way toward Qi Wen, determined to rely on herself rather than give up the chance to kill him.

Qin Yi and Yu Fuzi reached Tianyu Peak to steal the Heavenly Heart Lotus, while Qin Yi learned that the Profound Yin Sect’s revered Pu Xiang Zhenren supposedly possessed ancient knowledge and had a scandalous history with Tai Huang Jun’s Dao Companion. Their plan stalled when Pu Xiang Zhenren emerged from his Cave Dwelling, leaving them facing a Huiyang cultivator beside the lotus pond.

• Yu Fuzi tried to reassure Qin Yi about Meng Qingying and explained that he had supported her both as an investment and to keep her from exposing him.
• Yu Fuzi told Qin Yi that Pu Xiang Zhenren had lived for tens of thousands of years and brought the Profound Yin Sect its Ancient Yin-Yang Fusion Method, while Liusu doubted the story.
• Yu Fuzi revealed that Tai Huang Jun’s Dao Companion had run off with Pu Xiang Zhenren during Tai Huang Jun’s century in seclusion and taken belongings with her.
• Qin Yi and Yu Fuzi concealed themselves near the lotus pond and spotted five Heavenly Heart Lotus, along with two disciples cultivating nearby.
• Yu Fuzi urged Qin Yi to pay him before attempting the theft, but Qin Yi hesitated to harm the disciples by searching their souls.
• Pu Xiang Zhenren walked out of his Cave Dwelling and lamented that he needed a fresh Dao Companion, putting Qin Yi and Yu Fuzi’s plan in jeopardy.

Qin Yi impersonated Yu Jingzi to ask Pu Xiang Zhenren for a Heavenly Heart Lotus, but Liusu erupted in rage at Pu Xiang Zhenren’s boasts and triggered a violent attack on Tianyu Peak. As alarms and flames erupted elsewhere in the sect, Qin Yi rushed to seize the lotus and wondered whether Meng Qingying’s plan had also reached its climax.

• Qin Yi abandoned the idea of stealing the lotus and disguised himself as Yu Jingzi so he could approach Pu Xiang Zhenren.
• Yu Fuzi left to distance himself from the scheme, and Qin Yi met Pu Xiang Zhenren on Tianyu Peak.
• Pu Xiang Zhenren offered a Heavenly Heart Lotus in exchange for a woman and explained that he had opposed sheltering Great Joy Temple’s powerful cultivators.
• Pu Xiang Zhenren boasted that he had slept with Wuxiang and Taiqing cultivators, enraging Liusu, whose attack knocked him and the nearby disciples unconscious.
• Qin Yi raced toward the pool to take the lotus as the summit’s restrictions sounded alarms and an explosion and fire broke out near the sect’s main hall.

Meng Qingying infiltrated Qi Wen’s Secret Hall and discovered that Qi Wen and the Profound Yin Sect had prepared a trap for her. She escaped the ambush and used the chaos at Tianyu Peak to kill Qi Wen with Netherworld Hellfire.

• Meng Qingying slipped into Qi Wen’s Secret Hall and found him recovering while a woman sat nearby.
• The woman revealed herself as Qi Wen’s senior brother, who had become a woman to deceive Meng Qingying, and trapped her with Shadow Prison.
• Xuan Hao Zhenren appeared and attacked Meng Qingying after Qi Wen urged him to kill her before the succession battle began.
• Meng Qingying escaped the trap, but Xuan Hao Zhenren’s disciples surrounded her until a Star Dragon appeared and scattered them.
• Xuan Hao Zhenren pursued Meng Qingying as an enemy-attack alarm sounded from Tianyu Peak, distracting the guards in Qi Wen’s hall.
• Meng Qingying reappeared before Qi Wen and burned him to ashes with Netherworld Hellfire.

Qin Yi disguised himself as Pu Xiang Zhenren and rescued Meng Qingying from Xuan Hao Zhenren’s grasp. As the Star Dragon carried them away, Qin Yi charged into Xuan Hao Zhenren’s Radiant Sun spell to keep it from reaching the injured Meng Qingying.

• Meng Qingying was wounded and captured after Xuan Hao Zhenren’s icy attack stopped her escape and sealed her cultivation.
• Qin Yi disguised himself as Pu Xiang Zhenren, persuaded Xuan Hao Zhenren to hand Meng Qingying over, and secretly broke her restraints.
• Qin Yi struck Xuan Hao Zhenren, and Meng Qingying summoned the Star Dragon to carry them away as the hall collapsed.
• Xuan Hao Zhenren pursued them with a powerful ice-and-fire spell, and Qin Yi leapt from the Star Dragon to meet it head-on.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying escaped Xuan Hao Zhenren with the Star Dragon, but their injuries left them stranded in a lake. A monk who recognized Qin Yi confronted them at a mountain cave, possibly offering answers about the Profound Yin Sect and Great Joy Temple.

• Qin Yi broke through the fire dragon and struck Xuan Hao Zhenren with his Wolf Tooth Club, then Meng Qingying pulled him onto the Star Dragon as it fled.
• Xuan Hao Zhenren pursued them but was trapped in a Void Bagua, while Meng Qingying passed out and Qin Yi suffered severe internal injuries.
• With Meng Qingying unable to guide the Star Dragon, it descended toward a lake, and Qin Yi fell into the water while trying to carry her away from it.
• Qin Yi spotted a restricted cave dwelling by the shore, where a monk emerged, recognized him, and reacted with anger.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying survived an attack by a monk, but were left bound together while injured. After Meng Qingying woke and escaped the restraints, she turned her attention to taking revenge on Qin Yi.

• The monk tried to capture Qin Yi and Meng Qingying, but Meng Qingying's Star Dragon struck him down when his prayer beads touched her.
• Qin Yi used his Wolf Tooth Club to smash the monk's dantian and Qi Sea, then joked that the club was a flying sword.
• The Wolf Tooth Club left Qin Yi bound, and Meng Qingying woke beside him and teased him before kissing him.
• Meng Qingying used a spell to escape the bindings and moved to the Star Dragon, leaving Qin Yi tied up alone.
• Meng Qingying gave the monk a pill to keep him alive, then crippled him so he could not escape.
• Meng Qingying crouched in front of Qin Yi and asked how she should take revenge on him.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying’s teasing turned into a jealous confrontation over Minghe, but they set it aside when the monk Cihe woke. They questioned him about why Great Joy Temple’s remnants were hiding in the mountains, leaving his answer pending.

• Meng Qingying inspected Qin Yi’s ring, found a Daoist Scarf and bellyband associated with Minghe, and accused him of being involved with her.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying bound each other, then Qin Yi escaped his weaker restraints and apologized for what he had said at the Profound Yin Sect.
• Meng Qingying asked whether Qin Yi truly wanted her, but the monk Cihe woke and interrupted their conversation.
• Qin Yi and Meng Qingying confronted Cihe, who admitted he had tried to seize the Cauldron and begged for his life.
• Qin Yi asked why Great Joy Temple’s remnants were hiding in the mountains instead of at the Profound Yin Sect.

Qin Yi and Meng Qingying learned that Heavenly Mystery Child and Xuan Hao had conspired to kill Cheng Yuan, likely seeking to fuse their cultivation and create a path to Qian Yuan power. After Meng Qingying killed Cihe, they entered his cave to recover, where she asked whether Qin Yi’s shadow reflected Buddha, fiend, or her.

• Cihe told Qin Yi and Meng Qingying that the Profound Yin Sect had killed the Great Joy Temple remnants and that only he had escaped.
• Qin Yi concluded that Heavenly Mystery Child had helped Xuan Hao set a trap for Cheng Yuan, while Meng Qingying suspected Xuan Hao wanted to fuse with Cheng Yuan or turn him into a powerful puppet.
• Meng Qingying explained that her Senior Brother had become a woman to gain their master’s favor and possibly obtain Meng Qingying’s power and appearance.
• Meng Qingying killed Cihe and took Qin Yi into the cave dwelling so they could recover from their injuries.
• After Qin Yi noticed their shadows merging on the Buddha statue, Meng Qingying asked whether his shadow was Buddha, fiend, or her.

After Qin Yi and Meng Qingying used Harmonious Union Pills to help their cultivation, Meng Qingying trapped them both inside the Lingering Bell and used dual cultivation to fuse with the Luck Dragon’s power. At dawn, she left Qin Yi with a question about how he would treat her and Minghe after their night together.

• Qin Yi gave Meng Qingying a Harmonious Union Pill and an antidote, and she used the pill while absorbing the Star Dragon’s luck.
• Qin Yi took a Harmonious Union Pill and found that it helped smooth the roughness in his Immortal Martial United Core, though its effects stirred his desire.
• When Qin Yi and Meng Qingying opened their eyes, Meng Qingying sealed them inside the Lingering Bell, whose pink mist overwhelmed their resistance.
• Meng Qingying and Qin Yi spent the night together inside the bell, using dual cultivation to complete the ritual fusion.
• At dawn, Meng Qingying told Qin Yi that he had been merely a Cauldron to her, then asked how he would judge closeness and distance when she and Minghe next stood before him.
• Meng Qingying departed on the Star Dragon, while Qin Yi watched her leave.

Qin Yi reflected on his encounter with Meng Qingying and the cultivation breakthrough it brought, then headed north to report the Profound Yin Sect’s situation to the Immortal Palace. He discovered that Xuan Hao Zhenren was guarding the only safe route back through the rift valley, leaving him trapped with Cheng Cheng waiting.

• Qin Yi realized that he had wanted his night with Meng Qingying and that their yin-yang cultivation cycle had advanced his cultivation through the fourth-level barrier.
• Liusu warned Qin Yi not to mistake Meng Qingying’s resolve for weakness or feel that he had wronged her, and Qin Yi worried about the consequences of her actions.
• Qin Yi decided to leave the Land of Chaos and send a flying message to the Immortal Palace about the Profound Yin Sect, while postponing any trade with Tai Huang Jun.
• Qin Yi flew north toward the rift valley, but Liusu warned him that Xuan Hao Zhenren and his people were guarding the safe descent route.
• Qin Yi realized Xuan Hao Zhenren had likely inferred his route from the Heavenly Heart Lotus and that he could not wait long because Cheng Cheng was waiting.

Qin Yi devised a way to draw Xuan Hao Zhenren away from the rift valley and slipped past the Profound Yin Sect’s defenses. He reached the valley with several Tengyun cultivators still guarding it.

• Qin Yi rejected returning to the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace for reinforcements and went to the Thousand Mountains Rogue Cultivator Alliance to seek help from Tai Huang Jun.
• Qin Yi met Yu Fuzi, paid him the spirit stones, and asked him to pass a message to Tai Huang Jun; Yu Fuzi agreed to the meeting but secretly reported Qin Yi to Xuan Hao Zhenren.
• Qin Yi set a trap in a mountain hollow, used a flesh-and-blood transformation as a decoy, and fled toward the rift valley.
• Xuan Hao Zhenren destroyed the decoy, then became trapped in the Zither, Chess, Calligraphy, Painting Sect’s riotous flower scroll and called for the rift valley to be guarded.
• Qin Yi laughed at Xuan Hao Zhenren’s mistaken belief that he was Qi Wu, circled beyond his divine sense, and charged toward the rift valley past its Tengyun guards.