Chapter Summaries

In the Cave Chamber Area, Cheng Cheng pinned Qin Yi and offered to use dual cultivation to heal his injuries and let him experience the region’s mysteries, despite the risk to her own cultivation. Liusu considered intervening, then decided to watch and see whether Qin Yi could regain his lucidity and nourish Cheng Cheng in return.

• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng entered the Cave Chamber Area, where Cheng Cheng said its green light would suit her cultivation.
• Liusu darted into the dark green depths while Qin Yi, unable to sense her, suggested they leave.
• Cheng Cheng pinned Qin Yi against the cave wall, kissed him, and explained that she regarded their visit as entering the bridal chamber.
• Cheng Cheng offered to use a dual cultivation method to heal Qin Yi and give him insight that could help his future breakthrough into the Radiant Sun realm.
• Liusu weighed the risk to Cheng Cheng’s cultivation and decided to wait and see whether Qin Yi could turn the exchange to their mutual benefit.

After forty-nine days in Kun Peng Purple Mansion, Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng emerged and resumed developing the rift valley, with Qin Yi becoming the demons’ trusted commander. Over the following months, he refined his many treasures and gained great prestige, though Cheng Cheng still had the upper hand in their private contests.

• Qin Yi assessed the gains from forty-nine days of cultivation with Cheng Cheng, while Cheng Cheng realized her human form was close to collapsing from neglect.
• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng hurried to Brocade Embroidery Workshop, where Human Form Cheng Cheng had collapsed, and Qin Yi proposed pills to strengthen her.
• Cheng Cheng gathered the elites and resumed exploring the rift valley, while Qin Yi led the demons through battles, restrictions, and formations.
• Over three months, Qin Yi refined his weapons and treasures, absorbed the Vermilion Bird Flame, and prepared for further cultivation.
• The demons put Qin Yi first and gave him whatever he wanted, but Cheng Cheng still overpowered him in some of their private battles.

After another fruitless battle, Qin Yi returned to the Brocade Embroidery Workshop with Ye Ling and found Human Form Cheng Cheng waiting for him. On the Demon City's All Saints Festival, Cheng Cheng tried to get some time alone with Qin Yi, but Ye Ling repeatedly interrupted them and was eventually thrown out.

• After the battle, Qin Yi traveled back with Ye Ling, who clung to him and asked him to play with her.
• Human Form Cheng Cheng explained that the All Saints Festival was a matchmaking festival, and Ye Ling admitted the festivities would begin that night.
• Cheng Cheng sat in Qin Yi's lap and discussed her rapid cultivation progress and plans to advance further.
• Ye Ling found a bedroom poem, prompting Cheng Cheng to take it away and challenge her to learn painting instead.
• Cheng Cheng drew a pig and a dead sheep; after seeing the sheep, Qin Yi threw Ye Ling out of the workshop.
• Outside, Ye Ling asked Little Ghost whether she was stupid, and Liusu reassured her that cultured matters were beyond her too.

Cheng Cheng balanced court factions while defending her order to close Demon City's Flesh Market, which had drawn resistance from demons who valued eating human flesh. The debate remained unresolved as demons challenged whether the city still needed Qin Yi and questioned what flesh-eating demons would eat instead.

• Cheng Cheng teased Qin Yi about Ye Ling calling him big brother, then the two became intimate after bathing.
• At court, Cheng Cheng assigned the Prime Minister to plan for raising young beasts and ordered Hawk Commander to organize other bloodline awakeners into an elite camp.
• Cheng Cheng arranged to trade with the Thousand Mountains Alliance for Blazing Flame Stone and ordered spies to watch the Profound Yin Sect.
• A Bei Demon challenged Cheng Cheng's decision to shut down the Flesh Market, arguing that demons should take revenge on humans for past oppression.
• Humble Origins and Ying Li defended the ban on eating humans, but other demons protested that they needed meat and questioned what they would eat instead.

Cheng Cheng faced resistance to her ban on demons eating humans, and Qin Yi decided to establish humans as an equal race in Demon City. He challenged the demons in court to prove their claim through strength and offered to lose if any attack touched him.

• Cheng Cheng concluded that demons would not stop eating humans through persuasion and planned to enforce her ban by force.
• Qin Yi learned why demons treated humans as food and went to court to speak for humanity.
• Qin Yi confronted the Bei Demon for claiming he was no longer needed to explore the rift valley and threatened to exclude the bei clan from his expeditions.
• Qin Yi argued that humans deserved equal standing among Demon City's races and challenged the wolf and bei demons to oppose him.
• Qin Yi invited every dissatisfied demon to attack him and declared that he would lose if any attack touched him.

Qin Yi crushed the demons who opposed making humanity a recognized race in Demon City, forcing them to submit. After Cheng Cheng settled the matter, he stayed behind to celebrate the festival with her in the Golden Hall.

• Sixteen or seventeen demons challenged Qin Yi’s proposal, and Qin Yi revealed the Demon Slaying Sword to make them fear him.
• Qin Yi wounded the demons with the sword, then subdued the Bei Demon and Wolf Demon and bound them together as a mocking display.
• When a tiger demon attacked, Qin Yi struck it into the sky with his Wolf Tooth Club, and the remaining demons surrendered.
• Qin Yi demanded that humanity stand alongside the demon clans in Demon City, and no one dared object.
• Cheng Cheng ordered Humble Origins to arrange humanity’s recognition as a race and ended the court session.
• Qin Yi approached Cheng Cheng on the Dragon Throne, and they prepared to celebrate the festival together.

Qin Yi celebrated the All Races Couples Festival in Demon City with Human Form Cheng Cheng, while her fox form and Ye Ling joined them as pets. When demons challenged the human couple, Qin Yi drank a barrel of liquor and displayed a sword dance that lit up the sky, calling on the city’s humans to come outside.

• Human Form Cheng Cheng drove Demon Form Cheng Cheng away, but Ye Ling suggested the demon king turn into a fox so Qin Yi could carry her unnoticed.
• Cheng Cheng transformed into a white fox and curled up in Qin Yi’s arms, while Ye Ling coiled around his shoulder and fought with her.
• Qin Yi, Chenghuang, Ye Ling, and Human Form Cheng Cheng went to Demon City Central Square as demons celebrated the festival and humans cautiously stayed indoors.
• A demon challenged Qin Yi’s calm stroll, so Qin Yi drank a whole barrel of fierce demon liquor and drew Zhan Guang for a sword dance.
• Qin Yi’s sword qi outshone the fireworks and filled the sky, after which he urged the humans of Demon City to come outside.

Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng celebrated as Demon City’s humans were officially recognized as an equal race, while a visiting Daoist condemned the supposed human Demon Empress for helping the demons. After Humble Origins announced the end of human slavery and new cultivation opportunities, the humans hailed the Queen, leaving the Daoist eager to make her his Dao Companion.

• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng danced at the festival, then left the crowded plaza and found demons mating along the riverbank.
• A masked human Daoist questioned Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng about associating with demons and warned that Demon City could become a threat again.
• The Daoist denounced the human Demon Empress for aiding the demons, unaware that Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng were the King and Queen he discussed.
• Humble Origins announced that Demon City’s humans would become an official race, receive cultivation methods, and be freed from slave status, while eating humans would become a capital offense.
• The humans of Demon City emerged and cried, “Long live the Queen!” as Qin Yi asked the Daoist what he had planned to do if he met the Demon Empress.
• The Daoist said he wanted to ask the extraordinary woman to become his Dao Companion.

Qin Yi learned about the upcoming Qian Sect Tournament and grew eager to leave Demon City and join it, while Cheng Cheng struggled with the thought of his departure. Qin Yi reassured her that her human body could travel with him, and she resolved to cultivate it until she could ride the clouds.

• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng gave Tai Puzi the joking Daoist titles Stick Wielder and Riding Stick Free Person, and the white fox struck him with five bolts of thunder after he called her a pet.
• Qin Yi shared demon wine with Tai Puzi, who explained that the Qian Sect Tournament would bring together Qianyuan sects near the Da Qian Kingdom in about half a year.
• Qin Yi became eager to enter the tournament, while Cheng Cheng realized he would eventually leave Demon City and secretly ordered demons to remove Tai Puzi.
• Demon cultivators hurled Tai Puzi away, and Qin Yi asked Cheng Cheng if she did not want him to leave.
• Qin Yi told Cheng Cheng that her human body could leave Demon City with him, and she promised to cultivate it until she could ride the clouds.
• A dead snake on the ground lamented that it had no human body, and Liusu remarked that neither did she.

Qin Yi stayed in the Rift Valley to cultivate and help the humans, while Cheng Cheng happily prepared to leave with him after the Qian Sect Tournament. As he began planning a period of seclusion, Cheng Cheng revealed that Saint Dragon Peak at the valley’s eastern edge might hold something that would interest him.

• Cheng Cheng drew Qin Yi back to Brocade Embroidery Workshop, where she used her Chenghuang form and a fox-eared human form to entice him.
• The next morning, Cheng Cheng learned that Qin Yi had gone to Clan Headquarters to expound the Dao to the humans.
• Cheng Cheng learned that an investigating Daoist had gone to Saint Dragon Peak but failed to enter, and she ordered the Rift Valley’s guards to keep outsiders from infiltrating.
• Qin Yi returned and fed Cheng Cheng porridge while explaining that he planned to cultivate in seclusion until he reached the Soaring Cloud Sixth Layer.
• Cheng Cheng told Qin Yi about Saint Dragon Peak, the Rift Valley’s eastern border beside the Eastern Sea, and the possibility that the mountain concealed something unusual.

Qin Yi completed a soul-forging breakthrough in Kun Peng Purple Mansion and discussed his next steps with Liusu. As they left seclusion, Liusu revealed she had identified seven rare things that might help her reshape her body.

• Qin Yi absorbed the Purple Mansion’s soul-force baptism and reached Soaring Cloud Sixth Layer.
• Liusu explained that Qin Yi’s soul had been nourished but still needed true forging to advance further.
• Qin Yi planned to strengthen his Bone Forging at the earth vein and considered taking a fragment from Saint Dragon Peak.
• Liusu said reshaping her body might require seven difficult-to-find things, and Qin Yi eagerly offered to help her find them.
• Qin Yi and Liusu bickered as they left Kun Peng Purple Mansion and plunged into the royal palace’s earth vein.

After a hundred days of seclusion, Qin Yi emerged having reached the sixth layer of Soaring Cloud and worried about how slowly future breakthroughs might come. Cheng Cheng showed him how she had reached Soaring Cloud in a year and transformed Demon City and the Transverse Rift Valley into a flourishing demon realm protected by a vast formation.

• Qin Yi emerged from seclusion after one hundred days and reflected on how much his sixth-layer breakthrough had depended on rare opportunities.
• Qin Yi visited Cheng Cheng at Brocade Embroidery Workshop and learned she had reached Soaring Cloud in about a year by rapidly accumulating resources.
• Cheng Cheng proposed using dual cultivation to reinforce her weak foundation, prompting Liusu to complain from Qin Yi’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Cheng Cheng took Qin Yi to survey Demon City, where myriad demons, human-style buildings, and thriving settlements had replaced its former barren landscape.
• Qin Yi sensed that Cheng Cheng and the demons had connected the secret realms into a vast formation capable of resisting Wuxiang cultivators.
• Qin Yi praised Cheng Cheng’s achievements, and she said that Demon City was the Peach Garden they shared.

Cheng Cheng and the Demon Race searched for a way into Saint Dragon Peak, while Ye Ling warned that the mountain was filled with dangerous resentment. Qin Yi learned that entering the sealed mountain required a powerful Qianyuan blade, and Cheng Cheng offered to merge her two bodies to reach the Demon Emperor Realm temporarily.

• Cheng Cheng led Ye Ling, Ying Li, and the Demon Race elites to Saint Dragon Peak, where they could find no entrance to the sealed mountain.
• Ye Ling sensed powerful resentment within the mountain and urged Cheng Cheng to leave, but Cheng Cheng decided to wait for Qin Yi.
• Qin Yi arrived and learned from Liusu that the seal had been laid by her old adversary, who had left a passage into a place saturated with resentment.
• Liusu warned Qin Yi that anyone entering needed a Qianyuan-level blade to survive, so Qin Yi advised the group not to enter.
• Cheng Cheng proposed merging her two bodies to maintain the Demon Emperor Realm briefly, asking whether that would meet the requirement.

Cheng Cheng failed to merge her human and demon bodies until Qin Yi used dual cultivation to overcome their resistance, allowing her to become a Demon Emperor for a brief time. As the demons bowed to her, Qin Yi opened a hidden entrance on Saint Dragon Peak, and he, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling entered the final link of the Transverse Rift Valley with Liusu shielding them from resentful spirits.

• Cheng Cheng explained that her human body resisted merging with her true body, and Qin Yi proposed dual cultivation as the solution.
• Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi spent the night behind gauze curtains while the demons stood guard.
• Cheng Cheng emerged with her bodies merged, and the demons, including Ye Ling, knelt before her as the Demon Emperor.
• Qin Yi used the Door Opening Talisman to reveal a hidden cave on Saint Dragon Peak.
• Cheng Cheng ordered Ye Ling to enter with her and Qin Yi while the other demons guarded the area.
• Liusu enveloped Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling in soul-mist to protect them as they entered the final link of the Transverse Rift Valley.

Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and Ye Ling fought through the cave’s resentful spirits and encountered the sealed dragon’s resentful soul. Liusu’s Past Life Dream Recall stirred the dragon’s forgotten memories, leaving its hatred unsettled and a clearer thought beginning to emerge.

• Cheng Cheng used Sun and Moon Trample while Qin Yi and Ye Ling helped repel the regenerating ghostly faces, and the group pressed deeper into the cave.
• A phantom dragon claw struck Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi, but stopped before Ye Ling and withdrew when it saw that she held no hatred in her heart.
• The dragon explained that its resentful soul guarded an object by turning attackers’ resentment against them, and admitted it remembered little beyond its hatred.
• Liusu’s Past Life Dream Recall reached the dragon and quieted its roar, causing it to recall memories more meaningful than hatred.
• Liusu complained that the dragon was remembering the wrong things, while the dragon said a forgotten woman’s face was beginning to come back to it.

Qin Yi and his companions met the Dragon Soul, which rewarded Cheng Cheng and Ye Ling with ancient teachings and transformed Ye Ling’s bloodline. The Dragon Soul agreed to give Qin Yi the door fragment if he could prove he could protect it, and summoned a resentful spirit to test him.

• The Dragon Soul spoke gently with Ye Ling and Cheng Cheng, explaining how past intruders had been corrupted by its resentment and how their reverence had allowed them to enter safely.
• The Dragon Soul passed the complete Past Saints Heaven Opening Art and many cultivation insights to Cheng Cheng, while giving Ye Ling a drop of divine dragon blood that turned her into half dragon and half snake.
• The Dragon Soul recognized the door’s aura on Qin Yi and asked why he wanted the door; Qin Yi said it might help him lift the seal someday.
• The Dragon Soul agreed to give Qin Yi the door fragment if he proved he could protect it, then brought in a resentful spirit around the early Huiyang stage to test him.

Qin Yi passed the Dragon Soul’s trial and received its guarded fragment and an Innate Creation Bone that could help Liusu rebuild its body. After the group left the Transverse Rift Valley, they faced an uncertain path toward uncovering the past, while Qin Yi gained Dragon Nature that could conceal some of his unusual powers.

• Qin Yi showed the Dragon Soul his powerful weapons and treasures, persuading it to send a weaker resentful spirit for the trial.
• The Dragon Soul recognized Qin Yi’s extraordinary cultivation arts and gave him a drop of blood that granted Dragon Nature, allowing him to disguise some of his powers.
• The Dragon Soul handed Qin Yi the fragment and an Innate Creation Bone, believing someone else might need the bone more than it did.
• The Dragon Soul warned the group to leave, and its hatred erupted across the region after they exited the cave.
• Cheng Cheng reflected on the Dragon Soul’s unspoken past as the group realized their exploration of the Transverse Rift Valley had ended.
• Cheng Cheng comforted Qin Yi, and the group departed while Ye Ling asked about his Dragon Nature.

As the snow settled over Demon City, Qin Yi reflected on how the rift valley had changed him and worried about the danger ahead and Liusu’s search for the Seven Things. He planned to leave after a few more days of rest, while Cheng Cheng decided to experience the human world despite Ye Ling’s warning that it would be painful for her.

• Qin Yi watched the snowfall and concluded that the oppression and hatred of the rift valley had changed his temperament, so it was time to leave.
• Qin Yi realized Liusu had not known which Seven Things it needed until the Innate Creation Bone gave it a lead, and he worried that gathering the required treasures would be difficult.
• Qin Yi considered the Heavenly Beings’ overwhelming advantages and the Palace Lord’s warning about a possible great calamity, but knew he was too weak to do much beyond prepare.
• Cheng Cheng asked Ye Ling whether the Wolf Tooth Club and its Little Ghost might bring Qin Yi trouble, and Ye Ling said Qin Yi would never abandon the spirit.
• Cheng Cheng told Ye Ling they would probably leave after resting a few more days, and Ye Ling warned that the human world would be painful for Cheng Cheng.
• Cheng Cheng fell silent at Ye Ling’s warning, then decided she should experience what Qin Yi felt in Demon City.

Liusu explained the rare materials needed to restore her body, while Qin Yi and the others shared a lighthearted moment over a snowman. Humble Origins brought Qin Yi a clue about the outsider who told the Xiao King of the Startling Dragon Jade Pendant, and Cheng Cheng decided to accompany Qin Yi to meet Southern Li’s princess.

• Liusu told Qin Yi that restoring her body required several rare Innate materials and Chaos Fire, then agreed to consider substitutes rather than insist on the highest-tier ingredients.
• Liusu struck Qin Yi into a hole after he teased her, and Qin Yi later admired the snowman Cheng Cheng and Ye Ling had made.
• Cheng Cheng froze the snowman into an ice statue depicting Qin Yi and the others together.
• Humble Origins told Qin Yi that a powerful horse demon had visited the Xiao King’s palace and likely delivered the information about the Startling Dragon Jade Pendant.
• Cheng Cheng asked about the human youths’ cultivation, then told Qin Yi she would accompany him to meet the Southern Li princess.

Li Qingjun and Qin Yi intervened when bandits and corrupt government soldiers threatened a fishing village, then helped the villagers escape the chaos of Da Qian. Qin Yi agreed to take them to Southern Li and planned to visit Dragon Abyss City afterward.

• Li Qingjun crossed the sea and killed the bandits attacking a fishing village, despite her Senior Brothers warning her not to meddle in state affairs.
• The arriving government army bound the villagers and tried to kill them, but Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng stopped the soldiers from the skyship and beat them down.
• Qin Yi told Cheng Cheng that he had helped hasten Da Qian’s collapse, and she said the country’s suffering was not his fault.
• The villagers broke free and rebelled against the soldiers, and Qin Yi urged them to join a reliable Rebel Army or support a better lord.
• Qin Yi offered to take the villagers to Southern Li, where Xie Yuan and the Nanming Lihuo Army protected the people, and then planned to visit Dragon Abyss City.