Chapter Summaries

Qin Yi heard Zheng Yunyi’s case for cooperation and learned how the Scheming Sect’s rival factions had shaped the Immortal Palace plot. Zheng Yunyi revealed that the younger faction planned to summon four fiendish souls, leaving Qin Yi to weigh their alliance against the threat.

• Zheng Yunyi explained that he had lured the Witcher into attacking so he could kill him and offer Qin Yi a Testimonial of Submission.
• Qin Yi challenged Zheng Yunyi over his past schemes, and Zheng Yunyi argued that their conflicts had been struggles between opponents rather than personal vendettas.
• Zheng Yunyi described the Scheming Sect’s old faction plan to use the sects’ resistance to bring Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace back under its influence.
• Zheng Yunyi said Heavenly Mystery Child expected both faction plans to fail and intended the battlefield to expose and eliminate ambitious members of the younger faction.
• Zheng Yunyi revealed that the younger faction sought to blood-sacrifice youths and summon the souls of Chaos, Taotie, Qiongqi, and Taowu for the Four Fiends Control Array.

Zheng Yunyi explained the Witch God Sect’s blood-sacrifice scheme and offered Qin Yi a way to reach its Main Altar, while Qin Yi raised doubts about the Witch God Sect’s role. After Zheng Yunyi left to investigate, Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng assessed his motives, and the hall’s illusion ended as the Wooden Figure returned.

• Zheng Yunyi explained that the Soaring Cloud battles’ released energy opened the Heaven-Severing Door at a level that limited the Blood Nether Realm’s dangers and the fiendish soul they could summon.
• Zheng Yunyi offered Qin Yi a map of the traps and proposed that Qin Yi ambush the Witchers while he acted as an insider at the Main Altar.
• Qin Yi questioned whether the Witch God Sect might intervene and asked what marrow it had sought, prompting Zheng Yunyi to admit he did not know and promise to investigate.
• After Zheng Yunyi left, Cheng Cheng said he had been sincere but was chiefly protecting his position, while Heavenly Mystery Child had separate concerns for the sect.
• Qin Yi tried to comfort Cheng Cheng and Li Qingjun, but they threw him to the ground; the illusion then vanished, and the Wooden Figure returned with the Yin Illusion Sand.

Qin Yi and his companions gathered Yin Illusion Sand and prepared for the dangers surrounding the Main Altar while Qin Yi recovered from his injuries. Elsewhere, Lu Longting encountered a wounded Ting Feng, who revealed himself to be a demon after trying to ambush him.

• Li Qingjun collected the Yin Illusion Sand, and Liusu explained how it could make her spear techniques harder to predict.
• Cheng Cheng pressed Qin Yi about the women he had seen in the illusion, and Li Qingjun joined in before Qin Yi was beaten and began refining her spear.
• Qin Yi considered the uncertainty surrounding the Main Altar and took a medicinal pill to treat his injuries while his companions waited.
• Lu Longting emerged from a yin formation and worried that the dangers of the realm could claim many of the explorers.
• Ting Feng offered Lu Longting a pearl and asked for protection, but Lu Longting sensed his attempted attack and drew his sword.
• Ting Feng transformed into a horned demon covered in Blood Markings, revealing a huge fanged mouth across his lower abdomen.

Lu Longting was ambushed by deceptive vicious souls and nearly killed before Qin Yi arrived with Cheng Cheng and Li Qingjun to rescue him and Tai Puzi. The group regrouped, and Qin Yi kept a Yin Soul Pearl that Liusu needed for her recovery.

• Lu Longting fought a vicious soul, then was betrayed and wounded by a disguised disciple who revealed himself as another monster.
• Tai Puzi tried to save Lu Longting with his Soul Lamp, but Lu Longting mistakenly attacked him and cut his ribs before recognizing him as real.
• Qin Yi, Cheng Cheng, and Li Qingjun arrived, and Qin Yi destroyed the two monsters with Soul Arrows.
• Cheng Cheng healed Lu Longting and Tai Puzi while Qin Yi agreed to guard them as they recovered.
• Lu Longting found a Yin Soul Pearl, and Liusu asked Qin Yi to keep it for a pill that could restore her soul power.

Zheng Yunyi questioned the Witchers’ ritual plans as Qin Yi and the rescued disciples reached the Main Altar. The Witchers prepared an ambush in the trapped outer hall, but Qin Yi sent Wooden Figures ahead to dismantle its mechanisms.

• Zheng Yunyi challenged the Witchers over their uncontrolled monster, their sacrifice requirements, and their disagreement with the Witch God Sect.
• A Witcher explained that Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow could forge a body for an Ancient Fierce Soul, but finding it would take time they preferred to spend summoning four fierce souls.
• After learning Qin Yi and his companions had reached the outer hall, the Witchers sent followers to lie in ambush and capture them.
• Qin Yi urged the rescued disciples to leave, but Fan Rongzhi and Tai Puzi insisted on looking for their missing fellow disciples.
• Qin Yi sent Wooden Figures into the outer hall, where they began dismantling its traps and stunned the waiting Witchers.

Qin Yi and his companions reached the altar where the Witch God Sect held their fellow disciples captive and prepared a sacrifice to summon Qiongqi. After the witchers immobilized the group and fouled their magic, Qin Yi revealed an airship and aimed its cannons at the statue.

• Qin Yi and his companions dismantled the altar’s mechanisms and forced the witchers to open a direct path through the outer hall.
• Qin Yi’s group reached the summit and saw the Qiongqi statue, blood markings, and six captives sealed in blood spheres, including Zheng Yunyi.
• Qin Yi asked the witchers to name their terms, but their leader revealed that he intended to sacrifice the group along with the captives.
• The witchers’ ritual neutralized the group’s magical treasures and Gale Wind, then immobilized everyone.
• Qin Yi summoned an airship beneath his feet and aimed its cannons at the Qiongqi statue.

Qin Yi and the others tried to stop the Witchers’ ritual, but the Witchers began summoning Qiongqi’s Fierce Soul before completing the blood sacrifice. The ritual produced a powerful Demonic Beast that attacked both sides, leaving the remaining Witchers and Qin Yi’s group facing a threat they could not control.

• Qin Yi and his allies fought the Witchers, but hostage threats kept them from attacking freely, and Qin Yi failed to smash the statue.
• The leading Witcher revealed that placing the Saint Jade first would let Qiongqi’s soul choose victims until it had killed twelve people.
• The Saint Jade drew blood qi into the statue, but black smoke and phantoms emerged and swept the six Witchers near the altar away.
• The phantoms formed a Demonic Beast, which smashed one Witcher into a pulp and sent the remaining Witchers fleeing.
• The Demonic Beast’s blood rain began dissolving a Witcher into the ground, forcing him to sever his own arm.

Qin Yi used the Blood Jade Fragment to restore the Blood Jade and learned from Liusu that it could refine the Blood Nether Realm’s monstrous manifestation into Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow. As the Witchers tried to seize the jade and the monster broke free, Qin Yi faced its attack with the Zhan Guang Sword.

• Qin Yi realized the monster was a manifestation of the Blood Nether Realm and warned the Witchers that Qiongqi’s emerging fierce soul would make it unstoppable.
• The Witcher explained that the complete Saint Jade could reverse the summoning, and Qin Yi supplied the Blood Jade Fragment while the sect disciples restrained the monster.
• Qin Yi and Liusu studied the Blood Markings and learned that the restored Blood Jade could serve as a vessel to refine the monster into Nether Marrow.
• The Witchers began reversing the ritual, but they attacked Qin Yi to take the Blood Jade, and he dodged while the monster shattered the disciples’ restraints.
• The monster turned on Qin Yi and swung a mountain-sized fist at him as brilliant light gathered around Qin Yi and the Zhan Guang Sword.

Qin Yi used the Qian Yuan Magic Treasure Zhan Guang to weaken the demonic beast, then joined Liusu in refining it into Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow. As the Witch God Sect’s He Guihun attacked and imprisoned the Witchers, he planned to seize the Nether Marrow by breaking the Seven Stars Array with Qiongqi.

• Qin Yi unleashed Zhan Guang, draining his Mana and weakening the demonic beast, then ordered everyone to form an array and protect themselves.
• Cheng Cheng arranged Tai Puzi and the others into a Seven Stars Array while Qin Yi remained outside it.
• Tai Puzi activated the Soul Lamp, Liusu entered the demonic beast’s spiritual platform, and Qin Yi pressed the blood jade to its brow so Liusu could begin refining Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow.
• He Guihun of the Witch God Sect swept the altar with blood waves, trapping the Witchers while Cheng Cheng’s Seven Stars Array protected Qin Yi’s group.
• He Guihun explained that he intended to use the fiendish soul and Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow to create a fiendish demon, and planned to have Qiongqi break the array.

He Guihun used the ongoing sacrifice ritual to kill the trapped disciples and prepare to summon Qiongqi while Tai Puzi’s group held their Seven Stars Array. Their counterattack failed to finish him, but Qin Yi broke free and arrived as He Guihun fought off their attacks.

• Tai Puzi and the others realized He Guihun was a Huiyang expert whose strength had been compressed to enter the realm, and Cheng Cheng told them to hold their formation while Qin Yi fought the Demonic Beast.
• He Guihun resumed the sacrifice ritual, killing Spirit Cloud Sect disciples and Witchers to light the blood lamps as Tai Puzi cursed him.
• When He Guihun targeted Zheng Yunyi, Zheng Yunyi revealed his escape was a deception and attacked, giving the Seven Stars Array a chance to strike.
• He Guihun used two captured disciples as a shield to nullify the array’s attack, then fought off Zheng Yunyi’s tricks and further Seven Stars strikes with a white banner of wronged souls.
• Qin Yi broke free and brought his Wolf Tooth Club down toward He Guihun.

Qin Yi and his allies trapped He Guihun in a demon Nine Palaces Array and shattered his soul banner and Soul Lamp, leaving him near defeat. As He Guihun began a desperate ritual to fill the twelfth blood lamp with himself, Qin Yi pressed the blood jade onto the altar.

• Qin Yi obtained the inferior Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow, but Liusu exhausted her soul power and fell asleep, leaving Qin Yi nearly out of strength.
• Cheng Cheng directed Qin Yi to form a Nine Palaces Array, and Zheng Yunyi joined the other fighters in surrounding He Guihun.
• The array amplified Li Qingjun's spear and the others' attacks, while Tai Puzi's Soul Lamp destroyed He Guihun's resentful souls and damaged both his banner and the lamp.
• He Guihun tried to escape the array, but its shifting formations trapped him, and the group battered him until he collapsed, bleeding.
• He Guihun struck his own heart and began an incantation to fill the twelfth blood lamp with himself, so Qin Yi pressed the blood jade onto the altar.

Qin Yi failed to stop the ritual, but Cheng Cheng transformed into Chenghuang and killed the weakened Qiongqi. Afterward, Cheng Cheng left for Demon City, while Qin Yi and the others remained behind.

• Qin Yi used the blood jade and his remaining strength to try to halt the ritual, but the final blood lamp lit and Qiongqi struck him down.
• Cheng Cheng transformed into Chenghuang and charged Qiongqi, revealing her full strength as a demon king.
• Chenghuang defeated Qiongqi with Sun and Moon Trample, tearing the three-bodied beast apart.
• The cultivators drew their weapons against Cheng Cheng, but Qin Yi angrily defended her, and Cheng Cheng told him the realm was expelling her.
• Cheng Cheng chose to return to Demon City, asked Li Qingjun to care for her alpaca, and vanished after criticizing the other cultivators.

After Qin Yi defended Cheng Cheng from the other cultivators’ accusations, he chose her over fame and his reputation, then escaped with Li Qingjun as the collapsing plane fell apart. Qin Yi fainted from exhaustion after opening a way out, leaving Li Qingjun to carry him to safety while the others scattered.

• Gu Xin and Tai Puzi challenged Qin Yi for doting on Cheng Cheng, and Qin Yi defended her by recounting how she had saved them.
• Qin Yi rejected Tai Puzi’s offer to protect his reputation, saying he wanted Cheng Cheng more than fame or a brilliant future.
• As the plane began collapsing, Lu Longting urged everyone to escape, and Qin Yi opened a Sky Curtain with a World-Breaking Bomb.
• Qin Yi fainted from his injuries and exhaustion, so Li Qingjun carried him through the Sky Curtain as the plane collapsed.
• Li Qingjun rebuked the others, and the survivors emerged and scattered in shame.

Li Qingjun struggled to find help for the unconscious and severely injured Qin Yi, while Tai Puzi and the others debated whether to conceal his actions from their sects. The story left Lin Rushan pursuing Qin Yi to seize the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow, with Gu Xin forced to lead him there.

• Li Qingjun found Qin Yi gravely wounded and unconscious, then flew toward a distant landmark because she could not find her way across the sea or treat him.
• Tai Puzi urged Fan Rongzhi, Lu Longting, and Moyu Zi to hide Qin Yi and Cheng Maiden’s involvement from their sects, and they agreed to do what they could.
• Lu Longting admitted his jealousy of Qin Yi, while Tai Puzi maintained that his personal debt to Cheng Maiden did not change his view of demons.
• Gu Xin told Zheng Yunyi that they could jointly brand Qin Yi a demon accomplice, but Zheng Yunyi declined to help him and left to report to his Master.
• Lin Rushan learned that Qin Yi carried the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow, seized Gu Xin by the collar, and ordered him to lead the way to Qin Yi.

Li Qingjun brought the exhausted Qin Yi to a secluded island, where the Yellow-Shirted Woman healed him and learned the Witch God Sect was involved in his injuries. When Gu Xin and Lin Rushan arrived in pursuit, the woman trapped them in a deadly illusion and began cutting Gu Xin with ink-shaped blades.

• Li Qingjun found a cabin on a small island and asked the Yellow-Shirted Woman to treat the unconscious Qin Yi.
• The Yellow-Shirted Woman gave Qin Yi a pill and said he needed three days and nights of undisturbed rest.
• Li Qingjun told the woman that Witch God Sect members had been behind the events that left Qin Yi overexerted.
• The Yellow-Shirted Woman sensed someone approaching and told Li Qingjun to stay inside as she went to meet them.
• Gu Xin and Lin Rushan flew toward the island to pursue the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow, but Lin Rushan vanished when they entered its range.
• Gu Xin became trapped in a desolate illusion, where the Yellow-Shirted Woman's ink-written word "Kill" struck him with blade-like force.

Lin Rushan and Gu Xin died after Ju Yunxiu trapped them in her painted world. Li Qingjun stayed with Ju Yunxiu while Qin Yi recovered, then caught Ju Yunxiu kissing him.

• Lin Rushan tore open the painted world, but a green-clad girl slapped ink onto his face and dragged him back inside, where he died.
• Li Qingjun watched Lin Rushan and Gu Xin die, then accepted Ju Yunxiu's offer to stay while Qin Yi recovered.
• Ju Yunxiu examined Qin Yi's injuries and reflected on how he had risked his life for her.
• Ju Yunxiu kissed the unconscious Qin Yi, and Li Qingjun entered the room and caught them.

Li Qingjun discovered that the elegant island host was Qin Yi’s Senior Sister, Ju Yunxiu, and the two women traded barbed remarks before settling into a cordial understanding. After Li Qingjun recounted the Blood Nether Realm and accepted a spear technique from Ju Yunxiu, Ju Yunxiu reflected on how their lives had diverged from the book she once read and sent Li Qingjun to rest.

• Li Qingjun recognized Ju Yunxiu as Qin Yi’s Senior Sister and exchanged pointed, teasing remarks with her about Qin Yi.
• Ju Yunxiu asked Li Qingjun to recount what happened in the Blood Nether Realm, and Li Qingjun explained the pursuers and their apparent interest in the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow.
• Ju Yunxiu concealed the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow in a painting after confirming it was the piece of blood jade Li Qingjun had found.
• Ju Yunxiu gave Li Qingjun a jade slip containing a vicious spear technique and said Li Qingjun was best suited to remain by Qin Yi’s side when he traveled.
• Ju Yunxiu told Li Qingjun that she had once read about her and Qin Yi as a couple in a book, then urged Li Qingjun to rest.

Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun discussed how Qin Yi’s ties to demons might affect the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace, weighing personal morality against conflicts between peoples. Ju Yunxiu assured Li Qingjun that the Palace would support Qin Yi, but Qin Yi woke and immediately faced questions about his relationships with the Witch and others.

• Ju Yunxiu teased Li Qingjun about wanting to share Qin Yi’s bed, then invited her to discuss demons over tea.
• Li Qingjun described her conflicting views: demons who did no evil should not be slain, but racial enmity could make coexistence difficult.
• Ju Yunxiu argued that demons could be treated as disciples or mounts through domestication, and that Qin Yi’s strength and the Palace’s backing would determine who had the final say.
• Ju Yunxiu assured Li Qingjun that the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace would stand with Qin Yi, provided he was raising Chenghuang rather than bewitched by her.
• Qin Yi woke and declared that he was raising Chenghuang, prompting Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun to demand explanations about a bloodstained handkerchief, a bellyband, and his ring.

Qin Yi explained that a hidden mastermind had engineered the Demon Calamity, and he and Li Qingjun resolved to judge people by their actions rather than their race. He revealed a mysterious door to Li Qingjun and told Ju Yunxiu he was ready to investigate the dangerous place indicated by their painting.

• Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun teased Qin Yi about his past with his Senior Sister until he changed the subject by mentioning secrets behind the Human-Demon War.
• Qin Yi said an ancient victor of the war between immortals and gods had used the Dragon Soul’s resentment to cause the Demon Calamity and exploit demons.
• Li Qingjun said they should follow their hearts, punish evildoers, and protect the good, and Qin Yi promised they would do so together.
• Qin Yi gave Li Qingjun a Black Box and sent her into Ju Yunxiu’s aura-sealing Trial Painting World, where she discovered a door.
• Qin Yi told Ju Yunxiu he missed her, then said they should investigate the dangerous place their painting pointed to, possibly by way of Penglai Sword Pavilion.

After Qin Yi recovered consciousness, Li Qingjun and Ju Yunxiu learned more about the treasure fragment and worried over his condition and his relationships. Ju Yunxiu returned from speaking with Mo Wuzi to find Li Qingjun treating Qin Yi with dual cultivation.

• Li Qingjun told Ju Yunxiu that the fragment could halve a Martial Cultivator's cultivation time, and Qin Yi explained why Ye Bieqing wanted it.
• Ju Yunxiu told Qin Yi to rest, then went to the Immortal Palace encampment to discuss rumors about his relationship with a demon with Mo Wuzi.
• Li Qingjun admitted she felt insecure among the people around Qin Yi, then asked whether dual cultivation could help him recover.
• Li Qingjun began dual cultivation with Qin Yi while Qing Cha waited outside and heard strange sounds.
• Ju Yunxiu returned and caught Li Qingjun with Qin Yi, and Li Qingjun insisted that she was treating him too.