Chapter Summaries

Qin Yi and Liusu discussed the ascended immortals and their hidden search for fragments, while the demons explored the ancient tomb. The discovery of patterns beneath the giant python’s skeleton left Cheng Cheng unable to decipher them.

• Qin Yi questioned Liusu about the immortals’ motives, and she said she was still seeking evidence about why they had preserved the Demon Race.
• Liusu speculated that the immortals had been recovering from injuries and had secretly sent people to search for scattered fragments.
• Ye Ling showed Qin Yi the giant python’s faint Soaring Serpent bloodline, and Cheng Cheng said Ye Ling needed to study its Art of Terrifying Gods and Ghosts.
• Cheng Cheng described how the secret art had defeated her, and Qin Yi teased her about the Demon Race’s loss of ancient knowledge.
• Ying Li and the others moved the python skeleton and revealed strange patterns on the stone slab, which Cheng Cheng could not decipher.

Cheng Cheng’s demons discovered that ancient demon marks described a technique that could awaken traces of ancient bloodlines, but their scholar was injured trying to decipher it. Qin Yi recognized the marks as ancient talisman runes and began analyzing them, leaving Demon City dependent on his help.

• The old mountain goat deciphered enough of the demon mark to reveal a technique that could awaken ancient bloodline traits across different races, then fainted from the strain.
• Cheng Cheng treated the injured scholar and, despite Ying Li’s objections, prepared to analyze the dangerous mark herself.
• Cheng Cheng called Qin Yi and Ye Ling over, and Qin Yi drew a demon mark and explained that he understood ancient talisman runes.
• Qin Yi warned Cheng Cheng that the technique could be dangerous and negotiated for affection in exchange for lifting his mental restriction.
• Qin Yi pulled Cheng Cheng close and kissed her in front of the demons, who recognized that Demon City needed his help deciphering the bloodline technique.

After the cavern’s treasures were secured, Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng set aside their conflict and walked together through the rift valley. Qin Yi played “Phoenix Seeking Phoenix,” and they embraced and kissed, leaving behind their roles as ruler and human for a moment.

• Ye Ling returned to secluded cultivation to study the Soaring Serpent’s secret arts, while the demons carried away the cavern’s treasures and the giant python’s bones.
• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng left the cavern together, and Cheng Cheng wrestled with her anger, affection, and embarrassment over his challenge to her authority.
• Qin Yi took Cheng Cheng’s hand and suggested they walk together without turning their relationship into a contest of conquest.
• Cheng Cheng cleared the mist from the valley, and she and Qin Yi talked about exploring the world and their responsibilities before sitting beneath a tree.
• Qin Yi played “Phoenix Seeking Phoenix” on a leaf as birds gathered around them, and Cheng Cheng kissed him before they embraced and kissed passionately.

Ying Li worried that Qin Yi’s growing influence could reshape the Demon Race’s power structure, while Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi enjoyed a rare, carefree outing together. The chapter ended with Cheng Cheng pulling Qin Yi into the secret hot-spring chamber beneath Fragrant Aroma Hall so he could learn to filter Demon Power’s influence.

• Ying Li warned a subordinate that Qin Yi’s importance to Demon City left them no standing to oppose him, even as he questioned whether the Demon Race should hope Qin Yi’s abilities had reached their limit.
• Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi returned to the royal palace after their outing, and she asked whether he had deliberately used emotional tricks on her.
• Qin Yi explained that he had pitied Cheng Cheng because he sometimes confused her true form with her more fragile human form, and Cheng Cheng took his hand and led him toward Fragrant Aroma Hall.
• Qin Yi asked how the Demon Race filtered Demon Power’s influence on wild nature, and Cheng Cheng offered to take him to the hall’s secret chamber and hot spring.
• Cheng Cheng pulled Qin Yi down the hidden passage and followed him into the chamber, saying she would soak in the hot spring too.

Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng teased each other in the hot spring before speaking honestly about his intentions and her fears for their relationship. Cheng Cheng indulged him, and Qin Yi realized the spring could protect life and filter harmful influences before their trip to the earth vein.

• Qin Yi teased Cheng Cheng by taking off his robes, and she kicked him into the hot spring when he joked about showing her his Wolf Tooth Club.
• Cheng Cheng explained that Ye Ling had told her about Qin Yi’s old sayings, and Qin Yi admitted that she was close to his heart.
• Cheng Cheng entered the spring clothed and tested how far Qin Yi intended to take their relationship; he assured her he would not damage her dignity and wanted equality in their cooperation.
• Cheng Cheng confessed that she feared Qin Yi might push the human-demon divide beyond repair, and Qin Yi playfully insisted she bathe him.
• Cheng Cheng indulged Qin Yi, who sensed that the hot spring could extend life and cleanse harmful influences before they entered the earth vein.

Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng grew closer, and Cheng Cheng prepared to strengthen Demon City’s forces with a bloodline secret art while Qin Yi cultivated for their coming battles. Cheng Cheng then set about weaving Qin Yi a new robe and ordered her ministers to provide rare materials.

• Qin Yi asked Cheng Cheng to weave him new clothes, and she promised to finish them while he cultivated.
• Cheng Cheng selected elite demons to test the bloodline secret art, and Ying Li reported that two of one hundred Azure Hawks awakened faint ancient bloodlines with no deaths.
• Cheng Cheng entrusted Ying Li with managing the secret art and warned the ministers not to meddle in her private relationship with Qin Yi.
• Cheng Cheng ordered the ministers to find fine Azure Cloud Brocade and provide belly fur and blood so she could weave Qin Yi's robe.

After cultivating for forty-nine days in the Main Earth Veins, Qin Yi broke through to the fifth layers of Bone Forging and Soaring Cloud, while Liusu sensed an ancient resonance in the demon veins. He left seclusion to rejoin Cheng Cheng and Ye Ling as they prepared to explore the Soaring Serpent Remnant Soul.

• Qin Yi absorbed Demon Power in the Main Earth Veins, considered the limits of relying on it, and broke through to the fifth layers of Bone Forging and Soaring Cloud after forty-nine days.
• Liusu observed the demon veins, sensed their resonance with its phantom, and reflected on creating life and opposing those who hoarded the world's Spiritual Energy.
• Qin Yi left the earth veins and learned that the lead fox guard had awakened a second tail and that Ye Ling and Cheng Cheng were preparing to investigate the Soaring Serpent Remnant Soul.
• Ye Ling told Cheng Cheng she had found courage to enter the remnant soul because Qin Yi was there, and Cheng Cheng scolded her for the remark.
• Cheng Cheng showed Qin Yi his finished green robes, and Qin Yi discovered Ye Ling had added a conspicuous row of the character "righteous" before catching her as she tried to sneak away.

Cheng Cheng gave Qin Yi a powerful robe made from the demons’ materials, and he named it the Myriad Demons Magic Robe. The group returned to explore the Soaring Serpent secret realm, but Qin Yi revealed that the mist concealed the remains of an ancient battle and another remnant soul.

• Cheng Cheng presented Qin Yi with a magic robe whose materials and enchantments gave it powerful defenses and enhancements.
• Qin Yi named the robe the Myriad Demons Magic Robe and embraced and kissed Cheng Cheng, while Ye Ling’s mishaps interrupted them.
• Cheng Cheng led Qin Yi, Ye Ling, and Demon City’s Core Condensation elites back to the mist surrounding the Soaring Serpent secret realm.
• Qin Yi said the site was not merely the home of the Teng Snake Remnant Soul but the remains of an ancient battle between immortals and gods.
• Qin Yi explained that Soaring Serpent had perished alongside an opponent and suggested that the opponent’s remnant soul could belong to a Qi Tu.

Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling entered the fog-shrouded domain to investigate the Soaring Serpent Remnant Soul, resisting its attacks as they advanced. They uncovered the entwined corpses of the Soaring Serpent and Qi Tu, where the remnant soul summoned a sea of heavenly fire and Liusu urged them to attack.

• Qin Yi ordered Ying Li and the other demons to guard the area while he, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling entered the fog.
• Cheng Cheng used her golden ring and Ye Ling transformed into a black serpent to break the vertical pupils’ soul attack, then Cheng Cheng struck the pupils with her ring.
• Qin Yi caught Ye Ling when the domain’s crushing pressure weakened her and tucked her into his protective robe.
• Cheng Cheng countered the Soaring Serpent Heavenly Fire, while Qin Yi’s flute quelled the soul-rending laughter and cleared the fog with Heaven Collapse.
• Qin Yi’s group discovered the entwined Soaring Serpent and Qi Tu corpses, and the Soaring Serpent Remnant Soul engulfed them in heavenly fire as Liusu urged them to smash it.

Qin Yi, Ye Ling, and Cheng Cheng fought the Soaring Serpent and Qi Tu remnants, but Qin Yi’s contact with the serpent’s spirit showed him a vision of their ancient origins. The vision ended with both creatures dying after being caught in the aftermath of a clash between immense powers.

• Qin Yi and Ye Ling attacked the Soaring Serpent while Cheng Cheng used her soul power to turn Qi Tu’s laughter against it.
• Qi Tu pecked the Soaring Serpent’s skull, and Cheng Cheng’s golden ring severed its head before the skull lunged back at them.
• Cheng Cheng and Ye Ling helped Qin Yi hold off the flying skull, while the serpent’s gaze tried to strike Qin Yi with the Art of Terrifying Gods and Ghosts.
• Qin Yi grew enormous and struck the serpent’s spirit platform with the Wolf Tooth Club, causing both him and the remnant spirit to fall into a strange vision.
• Qin Yi saw a figure bind the Soaring Serpent and Qi Tu together, after which the two fought until a great clash’s aftershocks killed them.

Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng watched Ye Ling awaken a connection to the ancient Soaring Serpent and receive its inheritance without consuming its remains. Cheng Cheng then realized the secret realm’s treasures may have been harvested, leaving them to suspect something was wrong with the place.

• The Soaring Serpent and Qi Tu skeleton resumed fighting after the serpent sensed the Wolf Tooth Club’s aura and briefly restrained its savagery.
• Ye Ling felt drawn to the Soaring Serpent, and Cheng Cheng identified the pull as a bloodline resonance from an ancestor.
• Ye Ling transformed into a Soaring Serpent and received fragments of ancient arts, cultivation methods, and the Past Saints Heaven Opening Art.
• The Soaring Serpent demanded that Ye Ling eat its bones to complete her bloodline, but she refused and chose to study the Demon Marks on them instead.
• Cheng Cheng noticed that the secret realm lacked mature Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures despite its age, and Qin Yi realized the fully grown treasures might have been harvested.

Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi uncovered signs that humans had turned the Rift Valley into secret realms for raising demons and harvesting treasures. Cheng Cheng concluded that the demons could break the restrictions, awaken their ancestors’ power, and reclaim the valley before their kin were taken.

• Cheng Cheng sent Ying Li and the others to search the area, and they found only young treasures and impure Demon Phosphorus Stones.
• Qin Yi recalled human-managed secret realms and suspected that demons across the Rift Valley were being raised for their cores, blood, and bodies.
• Liusu told Qin Yi she had already considered that demons might be kept as livestock or mounts, leaving Qin Yi distressed for Cheng Cheng and her people.
• Ying Li and the others reported that the treasures were all under two hundred years old, and Old Mountain Goat inferred that the next harvest cycle would begin within months.
• Old Mountain Goat urged the demons to hide in Demon City, but Ying Li objected that waiting could leave Cheng Cheng and their kin to be captured.
• Cheng Cheng proposed breaking the artificial restrictions, freeing their ancestors’ spirits, and restoring the Rift Valley as the demons’ homeland.

Qin Yi agreed to help the demons oppose the people who had imprisoned their Ancestor Saints, explaining that he would stand by his friend even against powerful enemies. He broke the Moon Fire Restriction and freed the Vermilion Bird soul, which mistook him for an ancient-blooded visitor from heaven before asking whether he was a Soaring Serpent’s husband.

• Qin Yi reassured Cheng Cheng that he would help because the enemies had offended someone important to him, and he insisted that aiding the demons did not make him a traitor to humanity.
• With Liusu’s guidance, Qin Yi used the demons’ attributes to break the Moon Fire Restriction, suffering an injury as the starry barrier disappeared.
• Ying Li emerged carrying a young Vermilion Bird, and Cheng Cheng entered to communicate with the freed Ancestor Saint’s soul.
• The Vermilion Bird soul berated the demons for their weakness, sensed ancient blood in Qin Yi, and asked whether he was Ye Ling’s husband.
• Cheng Cheng declared that Qin Yi was her husband.

The Vermilion Bird explained how bloodlines, reproduction, and humanity fit into the ancient order of the myriad races, then identified Qin Yi as a valuable human partner for producing half-demons. The demons’ interest in him alarmed Qin Yi, but the Vermilion Bird thanked him by giving him Vermilion Bird Flame.

• The Vermilion Bird told Cheng Cheng that Qin Yi was a better match for the Soaring Serpent and explained that humans were simply one of the myriad races.
• The Vermilion Bird explained that unions between powerful bloodlines rarely produced offspring, while mixed unions could dilute bloodlines across generations.
• The Vermilion Bird described ancient humans closest to the Dao and recalled an arrogant woman it called the Nose-Hole Person.
• The Vermilion Bird said Qin Yi’s bloodline made him valuable for producing half-demons, prompting Cheng Cheng, Ye Ling, and the other demons to stare at him hungrily.
• The Vermilion Bird gave Qin Yi a ball of soul-fire containing Vermilion Bird Flame.

Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi began linking the rift valley’s mystic realms to protect the Demon Race, but learned that a Qian Yuan enemy might already be coming. As they flew back, an unseen enemy targeted Qin Yi with a Soul Arrow.

• Cheng Cheng chose to open the rift valley’s mystic realms and connect them as sources of power, while Qin Yi reasoned that their enemy was likely no stronger than Qian Yuan.
• Cheng Cheng stopped the work so Qin Yi could recover, and assigned Ying Li to raise the Little Vermilion Bird.
• Qin Yi asked the Vermilion Bird to watch over them on their return, realizing the enemy might attack before the months they had expected had passed.
• Cheng Cheng carried Qin Yi away, and Ye Ling chased after them after the Vermilion Bird teased her about not being Chenghuang’s husband.
• An unseen enemy watched Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi, decided Qin Yi’s death would halt the Demon City’s expansion, and launched a Soul Arrow toward Qin Yi’s Sea of Souls.

Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and the Vermilion Bird unleashed their strongest attacks against a Qian Yuan cultivator, gravely injuring him but leaving them near exhaustion. After Qin Yi appeared to sacrifice himself to the cultivator’s sword, he returned and helped Cheng Cheng and a snake land a decisive blow.

• The Vermilion Bird, Cheng Cheng, and Qin Yi struck the newcomer with flames, moonlight, soul attacks, and magical treasures, sending both sides crashing back.
• The newcomer recovered enough to attack Qin Yi with a small sword, and Cheng Cheng stepped in front of him.
• Qin Yi dragged Cheng Cheng aside and plunged into the sword light, apparently giving his life to protect her.
• Cheng Cheng attacked the newcomer with moonlight and Demon Power while a snake’s roar disrupted him and its tail struck his face.
• Qin Yi reappeared and smashed the back of the newcomer’s head with the Wolf Tooth Club, leaving the Qian Yuan cultivator stunned.

Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling survived their fight against a powerful Qian Yuan Level enemy, whom Liusu captured and searched for information. As Ye Ling treated the unconscious Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng in the secret chamber, Liusu examined the captive and helped her handle an awkward surprise.

• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng recovered from the battle while Ye Ling cried, and Cheng Cheng urged her to take them for treatment.
• Ye Ling hid the captive Qian Yuan Level powerhouse in Cheng Cheng's Ice and Fire Secret Chamber and refused other healers entry.
• Liusu instructed Ye Ling to treat Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng and searched the captive's memories, learning that he knew little about the Celestial Pivot Divine Palace's secrets.
• Liusu kicked the captive and called him useless, while Ye Ling trembled at his lingering pressure.
• Ye Ling discovered Qin Yi's hidden snake while applying ointment, and Liusu told her to continue treating him.

Qin Yi recovered from his battle injuries and visited the imprisoned Qian Yuan captive with Liusu, who explained how she planned to conceal his capture from the Heavenly Palace. They left the captive alive as a source of cultivation materials and discovered that Qin Yi had gained a Qian Yuan-level magical treasure.

• Qin Yi woke in the secret chamber, learned that the Qian Yuan captive had been locked in the Secret Prison, and realized his injuries left him unable to act.
• Cheng Cheng gave Qin Yi privacy to visit the captive, and he met Liusu in the dungeon.
• Liusu explained that she had copied the captive's soul art and sent the Heavenly Palace a false message to delay suspicion.
• Liusu said she would keep the captive imprisoned and harvest his blood, flesh, and other materials, and Qin Yi did not object.
• Liusu reminded Qin Yi that the captive's Qian Yuan-level magical treasure had made him rich again.

Qin Yi inspected his spoils and learned that the damaged Demon Slaying Sword could be reforged, while the Zhan Guang Sword and a fragment of the ninth chapter of Chaos Origin offered new powers to develop. Liusu urged him to recover at the Kun Peng Purple Mansion with her and Cheng Cheng, and Ying Li’s greeting revealed that the demons now respected Qin Yi as their Peerless Demon Queen.

• Qin Yi discovered that the Demon Slaying Sword had cracked, and Liusu suggested reforging it into a more practical weapon with lower Mana consumption.
• Qin Yi examined the Zhan Guang Sword and learned that it contained compressed energy that could be strengthened with additional materials.
• Qin Yi read a fragment of the ninth chapter of Chaos Origin, which specialized in soul techniques, and learned that the Creation Golden Chapter was its second chapter.
• Liusu recommended that Qin Yi heal at the Kun Peng Purple Mansion with her and Cheng Cheng instead of returning to the Ice and Fire Secret Chamber.
• Qin Yi left the dungeon and encountered Ying Li, who called him Queen and explained that Cheng Cheng had ordered the defenses strengthened in his honor.

Cheng Cheng brought Qin Yi back to Kun Peng Purple Mansion and explained its cultivation regions and inheritances. They entered the Ming Tang Area, where Qin Yi asked to see the Cave Chamber, and Cheng Cheng agreed to take him there.

• Cheng Cheng explained that Kun Peng Purple Mansion contained the Ming Tang, Cave Chamber, and Purple Mansion areas, each suited to different stages of cultivation.
• Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi revisited the cave where he had once defended her, and she reflected on his fearless willingness to risk his life.
• Cheng Cheng opened the Golden Gate with her altered formation and led Qin Yi into the Ming Tang Area.
• Cheng Cheng warned Qin Yi to avoid the deeper, more mentally pressurized parts of the Ming Tang Area, but he asked to enter the Cave Chamber.
• Cheng Cheng agreed to enter the Cave Chamber with Qin Yi.