Chapter Summaries

Su Yi stepped forward to protect Lingzhen and the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood from the five Ghosts surrounding Vast Sun Peak. He wielded Lingzhen’s staff to kill the One-Eyed Ghost Monarch, leaving the other Ghosts stunned.

• Lingzhen and Xie Yunyan left the main hall to confront the Ghosts, while Su Yi followed them outside.
• Blood Demon Madam and the Azure Blood Ghost King demanded part of the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood and threatened to kill everyone if Lingzhen refused.
• Su Yi rejected the Ghosts’ terms, took Lingzhen’s Black Wooden Staff, and moved her behind him.
• The One-Eyed Ghost Monarch attacked Su Yi with a giant axe, but Su Yi’s staff strike melted the weapon and badly burned him.
• Su Yi swept the staff again and split the One-Eyed Ghost Monarch in two, incinerating him as the others watched in shock.

Su Yi used the Mao Sun Spirit Staff to defeat the Ghosts attacking Vast Sun Peak and awakened the Ghost Gate Heavenly Forbidden across Peach Capital Mountain. The forbidden flames destroyed the Ghosts throughout the mountain, leaving the black-robed girl to witness Su Yi's power.

• Su Yi explained the Pleiades Sun True Meaning to the black-robed girl and learned she had not received the Mao Sun Divine Seal Art.
• The Azure Blood Ghost King, Blood Demon Madam, Ancient Corpse Scholar, and Bloodthirsty Bat King attacked Su Yi and the people at the ruined hall.
• Su Yi struck with the Mao Sun Spirit Staff, burned the Bloodthirsty Bat King to ashes, and drove the surviving Ghosts to flee; Junior Brother Yue lost his right leg to the bat king's filthy blood-red light.
• Su Yi raised the staff and activated the power beneath Peach Capital Mountain, causing the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood and its roots to blaze with divine flames.
• The Ghost Gate Heavenly Forbidden engulfed Peach Capital Mountain, incinerating the fleeing Ghosts and the other evil entities as a five-colored rooster crowed above the phantom peach tree.

Su Yi defeated the demons on Mount Tao Capital, learned why Lingzhen had been guarding the mountain alone, and left her the means to protect it. After taking heartwood to make a Non-Drowning Boat, he traveled to Cloud Song City and prepared to board a treasure ship bound for the Ghost Snake Clan’s Heavenly Cliff City.

• Su Yi activated the Ghost Gate Heavenly Forbidden and destroyed the demons threatening Peach Capital Mountain.
• Su Yi learned from Lingzhen that her Master had left after receiving a secret letter and taken a Non-Drowning Boat made from the Divine Wood’s heartwood.
• Lingzhen explained that Ghosts had escaped their sealed domain eighteen years earlier, and Su Yi promised to teach her the Mao Sun Divine Seal Art.
• Su Yi left Lingzhen the inheritance and a token before departing with a section of the Divine Wood’s heartwood.
• Three days later, Su Yi reached Cloud Song City in Ghost Region and sat in a tavern aboard a Cloud Tower Treasure Ship bound for Heavenly Cliff City.

Su Yi learned that damage to the Yin Yang Road had stranded cultivators in the Nether Capital, including Little Yezi, and thrown the Ghost Snake Race into a succession crisis. As the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship set sail, Tu Yong and a violet-robed youth boarded to travel discreetly, while Su Yi had already left the tavern.

• Cultivators aboard the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship discussed the damaged Yin Yang Road and the upheaval in the Nether Capital.
• Su Yi learned that Featherfall Spirit Emperor, Little Yezi, had been missing in the Nether Capital for centuries and that the Ghost Snake Race's branches were moving to choose a new clan leader.
• Su Yi worried that returning Ye Xun to the divided Ghost Snake Race would place him in danger and wondered whether Ye Nanzheng remained there.
• A sickly lean man, Tu Yong, and a violet-robed youth arrived at the dock and chose the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship to avoid being watched near teleportation formations.
• Tu Yong and the youth boarded the ship, which departed, and Tu Yong noticed that Su Yi had left the tavern.

On the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship, Su Yi learned that the Ghost Snake Race was in turmoil and decided to investigate when they reached Heavenly Cliff City, while keeping the impulsive Ye Xun out of trouble. Three days later, a mysterious black-dressed young woman approached Su Yi on the ship’s viewing platform, but he ignored her.

• Su Yi told Ye Xun about the Nether Capital’s upheaval, the damaged Yin Yang Road, and Ye Yu’s capture, then planned to investigate the Ghost Snake Race after reaching Heavenly Cliff City.
• Ye Xun insisted Su Yi could protect him, so Su Yi knocked him unconscious and sent him back into the Azure Green Seed.
• Tu Yong reported the passengers aboard the ship to the sickly lean man, who ordered him to escape with Ye Boheng if anything went wrong.
• Three days later, the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship stopped at Angle Ruler, where a black-dressed young woman boarded.
• On the viewing platform, the black-dressed young woman approached Su Yi and tried to start a conversation, but he ignored her, making her smile fade.

Su Yi thwarted an assassin sent by the Blood Pheasant Demon Clan and learned that the Black Skirt Woman had secretly planted a Spirit Lock poison gu in Yue Rong. The next morning, he accepted Yue Rong’s green date and confronted the Black Skirt Woman again as tensions rose aboard the treasure ship.

• Su Yi warned Yue Rong to avoid speaking with strangers after discovering that the Black Skirt Woman had planted a Spirit Lock poison gu in her.
• An assassin disguised as an attendant attacked Su Yi with a Ghost Mist Heart Devouring Curse, but Su Yi subdued him and learned he had acted on orders from his clan’s Saintess.
• The assassin’s blood-red forehead mark consumed him and formed a Vertical Eye Demon Lotus Seal; Su Yi recognized the Blood Pheasant Demon Clan and destroyed the attack.
• The next morning, Xie Kuiju introduced himself as an elder of the Nether Spirit Sect and explained Yue Rong’s background to Su Yi.
• Yue Rong gave Su Yi a cleaned green date in gratitude, and Su Yi accepted it.
• The Black Skirt Woman approached Su Yi to talk, but he warned her that she would die if she continued pursuing her scheme.

Su Yi confronted a black-dressed Blood Pheasant Demon Clan descendant who had planted a poisonous gu in a little girl and unleashed a soul-rending bell across the treasure ship. Nineteen Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators surrounded him, while Ye Tianqu realized the hidden forces had originally targeted him; Su Yi calmly wagered he could defeat them in three finger snaps.

• Ye Boheng questioned why his father, Ye Tianqu, insisted on returning a treasure to Heavenly Cliff City, and promised he would not let Ye Tianqu or Tu Yong come to harm.
• The black-dressed girl admitted she had planted the Soul Locking Poisonous Gu in the horn-braided Little Girl to refine her soul into a gu spirit, and Su Yi demanded that her main body appear.
• The girl rang her silver skull bell, causing people across the treasure ship to suffer soul-shattering pain, but Su Yi struck her with Sword Qi, destroyed the bell, and wounded her wrist.
• Nineteen hidden Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators gathered around the girl, who revealed that her group had intended to capture Ye Tianqu before turning their attention to Su Yi.
• Su Yi told the Little Girl to close her eyes and declared that he would wipe out the gathered enemies in three finger snaps.

Su Yi annihilated the attackers aboard the Cloud Tower Treasure Ship in three finger snaps, saving Ye Tianqu and the others. After the passengers fled, Ye Tianqu apologized for drawing Su Yi into the attack, while Ye Boheng objected.

• The girl in black ordered nineteen Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators to attack, and Ye Tianqu and Tu Yong rushed to defend the ship.
• Su Yi used the Grand Five Elements Domain Suppression Sword to crush the attackers’ treasures and kill all nineteen cultivators.
• The girl in black fled after casting a secret talisman, but Su Yi swept away its Blood-colored Thunder and killed her with a sword strike.
• Su Yi told Xie Kuiju to take the children and leave; Xie Kuiju departed with them, including Yue Rong.
• The shaken passengers fled the ship, and Ye Tianqu apologized to Su Yi for involving him in the attack.
• Ye Boheng argued that his father had no reason to apologize and claimed they would not have been in danger even without Su Yi.

Ye Boheng confessed that he had secretly negotiated with Xiang Tian, believing she would protect his family and become his Dao Companion, but Su Yi revealed she was still alive as a powerful Emperor. Xiang Tian attacked Su Yi, who shattered her imperial strike with a single sword slash.

• Su Yi prompted Ye Boheng to reveal that he had met Xiang Tian of the Blood Pheasant Demon Clan and agreed to hand over the treasure in exchange for his family's safety.
• Ye Boheng admitted that he loved Xiang Tian and blamed Su Yi for killing her incarnation, while Ye Tianqu grew furious and distressed.
• Su Yi explained that the dead Xiang Tian was only an incarnation and predicted her main body would arrive soon.
• Xiang Tian appeared in the sky with the aura of an Emperor, ignored Ye Boheng, and confronted Su Yi.
• Su Yi teased Xiang Tian about her promise to become Ye Boheng's Dao Companion, and Ye Tianqu knocked his humiliated son unconscious.
• Xiang Tian attacked Su Yi with a blood-red palm, but Su Yi drew his sword and shattered the attack, astonishing her.

Su Yi fought the Black Skirt Woman, an emperor of the Blood Pheasant Demon Clan, and revealed that his Spirit Wheel Realm cultivation concealed overwhelming strength. He defeated her secret soul art and captured her, leaving Ye Tianqu and Tu Yong stunned.

• Su Yi clashed with the Black Skirt Woman, matching her emperor-level attacks with his sword despite his Spirit Wheel Realm cultivation.
• The Black Skirt Woman summoned her Silver Short Halberd, but Su Yi’s swordsmanship gradually forced her onto the defensive.
• Su Yi unleashed his full strength and wounded the Black Skirt Woman, prompting her to use the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lightning Draw.
• The Black Skirt Woman’s soul-targeting secret art failed against Su Yi, whose Nine Hells Sword protected his sea of consciousness, and its destruction injured her through backlash.
• Su Yi inflicted numerous wounds on the Black Skirt Woman and stopped her escape by seizing her by the neck.

Su Yi captured the Black Skirt Woman and learned that the Ghost Snake Clan was embroiled in a succession dispute after Ye Yu became trapped in Nether Capital. He discovered that Jiang Yingliu had ordered the attack on Ye Tianqu, and revealed that he intended to seek her out.

• Su Yi captured the Black Skirt Woman and brought her, Ye Tianqu, and Tu Yong to a lakeside retreat.
• Ye Tianqu explained that the Ghost Snake Clan was divided over choosing a new clan head while Ye Yu remained trapped in Nether Capital, and that four Ancestral Jade Seals were required for the selection.
• Ye Tianqu said he was traveling to Heavenly Cliff City with his branch’s Ancestral Jade Seal when his whereabouts were leaked and he was attacked.
• Su Yi questioned the Black Skirt Woman, who revealed that Jiang Yingliu had ordered her to target Ye Tianqu.
• Su Yi connected Jiang Yingliu’s involvement to Bi Mo’s schemes in the Ghost Snake Clan and said he was going there to find her.

Su Yi agreed to oppose the Ghost Snake Race’s plan to appoint a new clan leader, took custody of its Ancestral Jade Seal, and set out for Heavenly Cliff City with Ye Tianqu, Tu Yong, and the captive Black Skirt Woman. In the city, Jiang Yingliu prepared to attend the clan assembly, hoping to reclaim the Three-Inch Heavenly Heart, the treasured Dao sword her Grandmaster had left with the Ghost Snake Race.

• Su Yi dismissed Jiang Yingliu as unqualified to oppose him and told Ye Tianqu to explain the Black Skirt Woman’s past promise to become Dao Companions with Ye Boheng when his son awoke.
• Su Yi accepted the Ancestral Jade Seal from Tu Yong and promised to return it after resolving the Ghost Snake Race’s affairs.
• Su Yi knocked out the Black Skirt Woman and headed with Ye Tianqu and Tu Yong toward the Ghost Snake Race’s ancestral city, Heavenly Cliff City.
• At Earthflame Peak, Jiang Yingliu learned Xiang Tian had not returned and decided the Ancestral Jade Seal only needed to appear at the Ghost Snake Race’s assembly on the fifteenth of August.
• Jiang Yingliu summoned Elder Huang of the Profound Yellow Sword Pavilion to accompany her to the assembly and vowed to reclaim the Three-Inch Heavenly Heart.

Su Yi reached Heavenly Cliff City and went to Auspicious Cloud Pavilion, where Ye Zishan and the Ink Dress Girl sought help with the Ghost Snake Race’s looming clan-leader nomination. After the pavilion owner refused them, Su Yi confronted him as the “Old Butcher,” startling the usually impassive man.

• Su Yi told Ye Tianqu to seek him at Auspicious Cloud Pavilion if trouble arose, then entered Heavenly Cliff City.
• Ye Zishan and the Ink Dress Girl asked the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner to intervene in the Ghost Snake Race’s turmoil, but he refused.
• The Ink Dress Girl revealed that her Old Ancestor was Ye Yu, the Featherfall Spirit Emperor, and the pavilion owner said Ye Yu would return to settle the matter.
• Su Yi offered to help resolve the turmoil if Ye Zishan and the Ink Dress Girl answered his questions, but they doubted him.
• Su Yi called the pavilion owner “Old Butcher” and asked about repaying debts of life, causing the owner to lose his composure.

Su Yi revealed enough to the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner to make the reclusive expert recognize a connection to Su Old Freak, while learning that Ye Donghe was pushing the Ghost Snake Race’s clan-chief selection to gain access to its Ancestral Forbidden Ground. The chapter ended with the Pavilion Owner recognizing Su Yi as Su Old Freak and reacting with shock and excitement.

• Su Yi drew a mysterious diagram in wine, stunning the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner, then questioned Ye Zishan and the Ink Dress Girl about the Ghost Snake Race’s leadership crisis.
• Ye Zishan said Ye Donghe was leading the clan-chief selection, Ye Nanzheng had gone to the Great Wilderness, and the main branch suspected Ye Donghe wanted to enter the Ancestral Forbidden Ground.
• Su Yi reassured Ye Zishan and the Ink Dress Girl that their fears would not come to pass, and they left to prepare other ways to counter Ye Donghe.
• Ye Zishan told the Ink Dress Girl that the main branch had asked Yue Shi of the Firelight Divine Palace to intervene, and warned her to keep the request secret.
• The Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner closed his establishment early, shared wine with Su Yi, and asked whether Su Old Freak had sent him.
• Su Yi called the Pavilion Owner Old Butcher and asked whether he had overcome a barrier in his Dao heart, prompting the Pavilion Owner to recognize him as Su Old Freak.

Su Yi persuaded Shang Tianque to help quell the Ghost Snake Race’s unrest, promising to free him from the shadow in his Dao heart afterward. Meanwhile, Ye Donghe imprisoned Ye Tianqu and interrogated his companions to learn where the Ancestral Jade Seal had gone, then prepared to send Tu Yong to Auspicious Cloud Pavilion.

• Su Yi and Shang Tianque recalled their past and agreed that Shang Tianque would help with the Ghost Snake Race’s troubles in exchange for Su Yi restoring his freedom.
• Ye Tianqu told Ye Donghe that he had entrusted the Ancestral Jade Seal to a friend and refused to reveal its location.
• Ye Donghe sealed the hall and ordered Ye Tianqu thrown into the dungeon.
• Ye Donghe’s men seized Tu Yong and Ye Boheng, and Ye Donghe used Soul Searching on Ye Boheng to learn about Su Yi and Auspicious Cloud Pavilion.
• Ye Donghe told Tu Yong to go to Auspicious Cloud Pavilion and carry out a task.

Ye Donghe sent Thirteen and Tu Yong to retrieve the Ancestral Jade Seal from Su Yi, while Ye Zishan learned that Su Yi might be the main branch’s ally. When Thirteen threatened Su Yi outside Auspicious Cloud Pavilion, the pavilion’s owner appeared to confront him.

• Ye Donghe ordered Thirteen to accompany Tu Yong to Auspicious Cloud Pavilion and warned him not to provoke its owner.
• Ye Zishan refused to give up against Ye Donghe’s plans, then realized Su Yi might be Ye Tianqu’s ally and hold the final Ancestral Jade Seal.
• Ye Donghe announced to the elders that Thirteen and Tu Yong had gone to retrieve the seal from Su Yi, and invited them to wait for their return.
• Tu Yong asked Su Yi for help after reporting Ye Tianqu’s detention and Ye Boheng’s Soul Search, while Thirteen waited outside the pavilion.
• Thirteen confronted Su Yi and threatened him, but the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner appeared in front of Thirteen and called him a cat or dog running wild on his turf.

Old Butcher protected Su Yi from Thirteen, tearing off the Ghost Snake Race servant’s arm and forcing him to retreat without the Ancestral Jade Seal. Thirteen reported back to Ye Donghe, while Jiang Yingliu decided to meet Su Yi at Auspicious Cloud Pavilion the next day.

• Old Butcher appeared beside Su Yi, seized Thirteen, and tore off his left arm after Thirteen tried to reclaim the Ancestral Jade Seal.
• Su Yi told Thirteen to inform Ye Donghe that he would bring the seal to the Ghost Snake Race on the fifteenth of August, and Old Butcher ordered Thirteen to leave.
• Thirteen returned to the Ghost Snake Race without the seal, and Ye Donghe grew furious when he learned Old Butcher had crippled him.
• Ye Zishan reminded Ye Donghe that Auspicious Cloud Pavilion protected its guests, and Thirteen urged him not to make an enemy of Old Butcher.
• Jiang Yingliu read Ye Donghe’s report and decided to visit Auspicious Cloud Pavilion the next day to meet Su Yi.

Su Yi learned that Jiang Yingliu, Bi Mo’s disciple and his own Grandmaster’s descendant, sought the Ghost Snake Race’s Ancestral Jade Seal. He refused her demand and planned to bring the seal to the Ghost Snake Race on August fifteenth, while keeping his suspicions about Bi Mo’s betrayal to himself.

• Su Yi finished tempering the Xuan Du Sword and ate breakfast at Auspicious Cloud Pavilion, where Old Butcher urged him to bring Ye Yu back from the Nether Capital.
• Jiang Yingliu introduced herself and demanded the Ghost Snake Race’s Ancestral Jade Seal in exchange for sparing Su Yi.
• Su Yi questioned Jiang Yingliu about Bi Mo’s role, then told her he would bring the seal to the Ghost Snake Race on August fifteenth and challenged her to take it.
• Jiang Yingliu left with a threat to destroy Su Yi if he failed to appear, unaware that he was her Grandmaster, the Xuan Jun Sword Master.
• Su Yi and Old Butcher discussed Bi Mo’s betrayal and the possibility that Ye Yu did not know the truth; Su Yi hinted that he had let Jiang Yingliu leave deliberately.

Su Yi accompanied the Ink Dress Girl to the Ghost Snake Race’s clan assembly at Lotus Terrace Peak, intending to deal with Ye Donghe despite her warnings about the danger. As they reached the Ancestral Hall Great Hall, Thirteen threatened him, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• The Old Butcher resolved not to provoke Su Yi again after Su Yi warned him.
• The Ink Dress Girl arrived at the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion on August fifteenth and asked Su Yi to accompany her to the Ghost Snake Race.
• Su Yi told her that he intended to deal with Ye Donghe, though she warned that the Supreme Third Elder might attack him.
• The Ink Dress Girl led Su Yi through Lotus Terrace Peak toward the Ancestral Hall Great Hall, where the clan assembly would take place.
• Thirteen warned Su Yi that the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion’s owner could no longer protect him.

Su Yi attended the Ghost Snake Race’s clan assembly with Ye Ruoxi, where the main branch faced ridicule and Ye Donghe moved to select a new clan leader. Yue Shi arrived to support the main branch and challenged Ye Donghe’s plan, but Su Yi doubted that the warning would change his mind.

• Su Yi entered the Ancestral Hall with Ye Ruoxi after warning Thirteen that he would later get a chance to throw his life away.
• The branch lineages mocked Su Yi’s youth and cultivation, while Ye Ruoxi defended him and found him a seat among the guests.
• Ye Zishan delayed the assembly until Yue Shi arrived, prompting the gathered figures to rise and welcome the Firelight Divine Palace elder.
• Ye Donghe announced that he would select a new clan leader using the three Ancestral Jade Seals he controlled, despite the main branch’s objections.
• Yue Shi warned Ye Donghe that proceeding without Ye Yu, Ye Tiandou, and Ye Qinghe could bring serious consequences, while Su Yi doubted the warning would sway him.