Chapter Summaries

Li Qi learned that the demonic sects considered him their Holy Son and that Li Xue Ren was fighting Bone Demon to protect him. After fleeing toward Ingenious Manor, Li Qi was ambushed by Wan Ping of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, but he struck back as Wan Ping tried to bind him.

• Li Xue Ren rejected Bone Demon's demand to hand over Li Qi, revealing that the Holy Son was meant to be a sacrifice for the Dust Cleansing Platform.
• Li Xue Ren and Bone Demon fought with insect-shaped and bone-shaped astral energy while Li Qi quietly escaped toward Ingenious Manor.
• Bone Demon revealed that other demonic sects had sent people after Li Qi, then blocked Li Xue Ren from pursuing him.
• Li Qi detected poison in the air, pretended to succumb to it, and let Wan Ping believe he was helpless.
• Wan Ping introduced himself as a Fourth Rank Innate master of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and moved to capture Li Qi, who suddenly drew two daggers and attacked his throat.

Li Qi fought Wan Ping, a fourth-rank martial artist from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and overcame his poison and superior cultivation with puppets and talismans. After a fire talisman crippled Wan Ping, Li Qi froze him and shattered his body.

• Li Qi survived Wan Ping's poisons with the help of the Undying Heart Scripture and a Detoxification Pill, then attacked him with threads.
• Wan Ping used his Ten Thousand Poisons Hand to corrode Li Qi's threads, but Li Qi trapped him in threads from hidden Wooden Spider Puppets.
• Li Qi fired a talisman from a crossbow-like mechanism, and the fire spell exploded around Wan Ping when he broke free and dodged.
• Wan Ping survived the blast but was engulfed in flames, so Li Qi froze him with more talismans and shattered his body with threads.

Li Xue Ren defeated Bone Demon’s immediate threat and reunited with Li Qi, while Li Wenxin and Zhang Yuan investigated the demonic energy near Ingenious Manor. After Li Qi questioned his grandfather’s identity and cultivation, Li Xue Ren began explaining how an Ancient Book Fragment let him change his cultivation method.

• Li Xue Ren stopped fighting Bone Demon and hurried to the explosion site, while Bone Demon fled before the Grandmasters arrived.
• Li Wenxin and Zhang Yuan found traces of two fighting Demonic Path Grandmasters and realized several demonic practitioners might have infiltrated the area.
• Li Wenxin recognized the Second Rank Grandmaster who had taken Li Qi as his father, Li Xue Ren, and told Zhang Yuan that Li Xue Ren would not stay to help them.
• Li Xue Ren examined Li Qi at an inn and confirmed that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect had not poisoned him.
• Li Qi asked who Li Xue Ren was, and Li Xue Ren identified himself as the fifth-generation Manor Lord of Ingenious Manor and explained his Insect Demon title.
• Li Xue Ren said an Ancient Book Fragment had given him the confidence to change his cultivation method, prompting Li Qi's interest.

Li Xue Ren explained how he discovered the Heavenly God Formless Technique and why the Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect had chosen Li Qi as a Holy Son for the Dust Cleansing Platform. He gave Li Qi the technique to examine, leaving Li Qi wary of his sudden kindness but curious about how it might help perfect the Undying Heart Scripture.

• Li Xue Ren recounted finding the Heavenly God Formless Technique in an ancient ruin and discovering that it let him change cultivation methods without losing strength.
• Li Xue Ren explained that the technique adapted to his fighting styles and helped him hide among demonic sects, where he uncovered the Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect's secret about the Dust Cleansing Platform.
• Li Xue Ren told Li Qi that the Dust Cleansing Platform required Holy Sons and Saintesses as sacrifices, and that the Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect had chosen Li Qi.
• Li Qi suggested that the survivors of the ritual might gain power rather than simply be sacrificed, and Li Xue Ren promised to protect him before handing over the technique.
• After Li Xue Ren left to keep watch, Li Qi questioned his motives, then examined the technique and considered whether it could help him perfect the Undying Heart Scripture.

Li Qi rejected the Heavenly God Formless Technique because it depended on this world's Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, then argued that another demonic sect member was hiding in Ingenious Manor. When Zhang Qi's disciples cordoned off Ten Mile Inn, Li Xue Ren recognized a contagious poison and hurried Li Qi away, leaving the outbreak's scale uncertain.

• Li Qi told Li Xue Ren that the Heavenly God Formless Technique could not serve his goals, though reading it had helped him refine parts of the Undying Heart Scripture.
• Li Xue Ren proposed taking Li Qi to Heavenly Physician Valley, but Li Qi refused, believing another demonic sect member remained in Ingenious Manor and was planning something.
• Li Qi reasoned that neither Bone Demon nor Wan Ping had killed Wei Xiong, so a third demonic sect member must be active in the area.
• Li Qi and Li Xue Ren saw Zhang Qi lead Ingenious Manor disciples to surround Ten Mile Inn.
• Li Xue Ren recognized that the poison killing people at the inn was contagious and rushed Li Qi away as blackened corpses were carried out.
• Li Qi realized the poison could spread into an epidemic.

After a deadly poison outbreak at an inn, Huang Wanmian identified the highly contagious Strange Poison Leaving None Behind and ordered Ingenious Town sealed. Li Qi supported the lockdown, while Li Xue Ren publicly took responsibility and concealed his true strength as part of their plan to lure the enemy into a trap.

• Ingenious Manor Disciples confirmed that the inn’s purple-skinned victims had died from a specially made Plague Poison and found no survivors inside.
• Huang Wanmian arrived in protective gear, examined the bodies, and ordered Zhang Qi to lock down the entire town.
• Li Qi revealed his identity to Zhang Qi in private and told him to follow Huang Wanmian’s order, so Zhang Qi closed the town gates.
• Huang Wanmian identified the poison as the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s Strange Poison Leaving None Behind, which was especially lethal to Postnatal Realm fighters and ordinary people.
• Li Qi and Huang Wanmian discussed the danger as Li Qi blamed the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and remembered Wan Ping’s role in setting the poison.
• Li Xue Ren announced that he had ordered the lockdown while displaying only Third Rank strength, continuing the plan he and Li Qi had made to lure the enemy into a trap.

Li Qi investigated who had poisoned two swordsmen with the Strange Poison Leaving None Behind and asked Li Qiao to help identify the culprit. Meanwhile, Li Xue Ren sought aid from the sects gathered at Ingenious Manor to contain the spreading poison, and they offered pills to help the townspeople.

• Li Qi persuaded Li Xue Ren to remain in town and take charge openly while concealing his Second Rank cultivation.
• Li Qi told Huang Wanmian that another Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple or Demonic Path member had likely poisoned the food at Ten Mile Inn, then went to find Li Qiao for help investigating the two victims and their recent conflicts.
• Li Xue Ren rebuked Li Wenxin and Zheng Qiuqing before turning the gathering at Ingenious Manor toward the spreading Plague Poison.
• Zhang Yuan and Master Liaoming offered to help maintain order but said they could not treat the poison, while Zhong Yunxin criticized their reluctance and donated a Snow Cloud Pure Heart Pill.
• Zhang Yuan and Master Liaoming each offered a pill after Zhong Yunxin's contribution.

Li Xue Ren and the others considered how to expose the Demonic Path Scoundrels hiding beneath the manor, while Zheng Qiuqing proposed impersonating the dead Wei Xiong to lure them out. As the Plague Poison spread through Ingenious Town, a young Xiantian expert tracked down Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple Qiu Chunhong, whose attempt to poison him failed.

• Li Xue Ren said he could not retrieve Li Qi soon and asked how they could make the hidden Demonic Path Scoundrels reveal themselves.
• Zheng Qiuqing proposed having someone impersonate the dead Wei Xiong, and the others understood how the ruse could draw out the Scoundrels.
• The Plague Poison infected several hundred more people, and Huang Wanmian and the Manor Disciples isolated the town's residents and restricted their movements.
• Qiu Chunhong, trapped in an isolation site, decided she had to escape before the Ingenious Manor uncovered her identity and demonic cultivation.
• A young man used Spider Puppets to bind Qiu Chunhong and confronted her as a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple.
• Qiu Chunhong claimed she had been coerced and tried to poison the young man with tea, but he drank it without being harmed and asked why she had not warned him.

Li Qi discovered that Qiu Chunhong had poisoned Ingenious Manor out of spite without understanding the Strange Poison, and he was about to kill her when Zhou Que intervened. Zhou Que demanded Qiu Chunhong’s release, but Li Qi challenged her and their fight began as she recognized him.

• Li Qi resisted Qiu Chunhong’s poison, learned she was connected to the Hundred Poisons Physique, and lied that he had killed Wan Ping.
• Qiu Chunhong failed to name the Strange Poison, revealing she had used it carelessly rather than as part of a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect plot, so Li Qi decided to kill her.
• Zhou Que arrived and cut the threads binding Qiu Chunhong, then claimed she had once been a Direct Disciple of the Cherishing Flower Palace.
• Li Qi questioned Zhou Que’s story and refused to spare Qiu Chunhong, prompting Zhou Que to attack him with the Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Li Qi broke through the weakness in Zhou Que’s palm technique, and she recognized him as he surged forward with his inner power rising toward the Fifth-Rank barrier.

Li Qi defeated Zhou Que after she revealed her scorpion-tailed demonic form, then captured Qiu Chunhong and handed her over to Huang Wanmian. The chapter left Qiu Chunhong bound and facing Huang Wanmian’s experiments.

• Li Qi fought Zhou Que and resisted the illusions of the Cherishing Flower Palace’s Hundred Flowers Cultivation Method.
• Li Qi trapped Zhou Que with threads, and she revealed her scorpion tail and attacked him with its venomous stinger.
• Li Qi bound Zhou Que with fire-oil-coated threads and burned her to death after realizing she was connected to the Demon Sect and the Ascension Immortal Cult.
• Li Qi restrained Qiu Chunhong and said he would not kill her because death would be too easy.
• Huang Wanmian arrived, and Li Qi handed Qiu Chunhong, who had the Hundred Poisons Physique, over to her.

Li Qi and Huang Wanmian dissected Qiu Chunhong and Zhou Que, uncovering clues about their unusual bodies while the Plague Poison in Ingenious Town came under control. Huang Wanmian revealed that the Six Great Sects might form an alliance against the Demon Sects, and she ended by telling Li Qi that his wedding had been postponed.

• Huang Wanmian dissected Qiu Chunhong and found a Poison Sac connected to her life, while Li Qi discovered that Zhou Que's body had a scorpion tail structure beginning at her coccyx.
• Huang Wanmian explained that pills supplied by the Six Great Sects had brought the Plague Poison under control, and she condemned Qiu Chunhong for nearly causing another catastrophe.
• Huang Wanmian told Li Qi that her master had called her back to discuss forming the Righteous Path Alliance and attacking the Demon Sects.
• Li Qi and Huang Wanmian considered whether Zhou Que had killed Wei Xiong and whether other young Righteous Path disciples might also be connected to the Demon Sects.
• Huang Wanmian told Li Qi to return with her to the Heavenly Doctor Sect and revealed that his wedding to the one from the Mysterious Sword Sect had been postponed.

Bai Yuzhu learned that her wedding to Li Qi had been postponed and rushed to follow him to Heavenly Physician Valley, while Bai Jinyan received an invitation to a Six Sects Martial Arts Gathering. On the road to the valley, Huang Wanmian told Li Qi about a recurring dream in which she called herself the Undead Race, a name Li Qi recognized from memories of his past life.

• Bai Jinyan explained that Ingenious Manor had postponed Bai Yuzhu and Li Qi’s wedding for three years because of the Plague Poison, and advised Bai Yuzhu to cultivate instead of visiting him.
• Bai Yuzhu learned Li Qi had gone to Heavenly Physician Valley and hurried out to follow him, while Bai Jinyan asked Lu Hun to protect her.
• Bai Jinyan received Dragon Martial Pavilion’s invitation to the Six Sects Martial Arts Gathering, where the six sects planned to discuss forming the Righteous Alliance.
• Li Qi traveled with Huang Wanmian toward Heavenly Physician Valley and studied the Heavenly Physician Canon while she examined the Poison Sacs.
• Huang Wanmian told Li Qi that recurring dreams had made her feel she had lived another life and that she had called herself the Undead Race.
• Li Qi recognized the name from images he had seen in his past life and was shaken by the possibility that Huang Wanmian’s dream referred to the same race.

Li Qi joined Heavenly Physician Valley as Yan Chuan’s direct disciple and obtained the Xiantian chapter of the Heavenly Physician Canon and a Human Meridian Chart. Studying the chart, he realized its key meridian nodes might let him perfect the second layer of the Undying Heart Scripture and progress quickly toward the Grandmaster Realm.

• Huang Wanmian asked Li Qi why he kept watching her, and he urged her to record anything unusual she noticed in her dreams.
• Yan Chuan welcomed Huang Wanmian back, mentioned the upcoming Six Sects Martial Arts Gathering, and took Li Qi to complete his admission to Heavenly Physician Valley.
• Li Qi received direct-disciple status, the Xiantian chapter of the Heavenly Physician Canon, and the Human Meridian Chart.
• Li Qi studied the chart’s key nodes and considered using them as the foundation for perfecting the second layer of the Undying Heart Scripture.

Li Qi advanced his Undying Heart Scripture and met Bai Yuzhu when she visited Heavenly Physician Valley. After being lured toward the forest by an Outer Sect Disciple claiming Yan Chuan was there, Li Qi exposed the guide as an Innate Realm cultivator.

• Li Qi used the Meridian Map to shape the second layer of the Undying Heart Scripture, rapidly opening his meridians and reaching strength equivalent to a fourth-grade martial artist.
• Huang Wanmian gave Li Qi a book recording the Dream Text and Images she had seen, then told him Bai Yuzhu had come to visit.
• Bai Yuzhu reunited with Li Qi, chatted with him throughout the day, and stayed behind when Yan Chuan summoned him.
• An Outer Sect Disciple led Li Qi toward the mountain forest instead of Yan Chuan's residence and claimed Yan Chuan was gathering herbs there.
• Li Qi struck the disciple, but the man landed unharmed, revealing that he had Innate Realm cultivation.

Li Qi killed an infiltrator from the Ascension Immortal Cult who had tried to contact him in Heavenly Physician Valley, then called Huang Wanmian to report the spy. The cult’s operatives learned that Black Snake was dead and resolved to capture Li Qi before the Ten Thousand Demon Dao could reach him.

• Li Qi recognized that the disguised Outer Sect Disciple was an Innate expert and demanded that he identify himself.
• The stranger tried to bargain and reveal who had sent him, but Li Qi’s Mechanism Spiders restrained him long enough for Li Qi to cut his throat.
• The dying stranger named the Ascension Immortal Cult, and Li Qi considered the cult’s influence while deciding to focus on perfecting the Undying Heart Scripture.
• Li Qi summoned Huang Wanmian so Heavenly Physician Valley’s chief disciple could help report the infiltrator to the sect’s leaders.
• In an inn, a Gaunt Old Man and a Black-Clothed Man learned that Black Snake had died and discussed Li Qi’s possible connection to other lost agents.
• The two operatives concluded that Li Qi was the last Holy Son their Cult Master had ordered them to capture before the Ten Thousand Demon Dao.

The Ascension Immortal Cult plotted to kidnap Li Qi at the Six Sects Martial Arts Gathering, while Li Qi learned he would travel there with Heavenly Physician Valley’s delegation. After discussing the cult’s spies and Huang Wanmian’s possible past life, Li Qi and the group set out for Dragon Martial Pavilion in the Eastern Province.

• The Gaunt Old Man and the Black-Clothed Strong Man planned to use an outside steward to lure Li Qi away and kidnap him during the gathering.
• Huang Wanmian told Li Qi that he had been ordered to accompany Heavenly Physician Valley to the Six Sects Martial Arts Gathering, and said the spy he had found was an Ascension Immortal Cult member with an unusual pill-shaped object in his body.
• Li Qi and Huang Wanmian discussed the cult’s infiltration, the Valley Master’s warning to Cherishing Flower Palace, and Li Qi’s suspicions about Huang Wanmian’s past life.
• Li Qi left Heavenly Physician Valley with Huang Wanmian, Bai Yuzhu, and the delegation of disciples and elders, bound for Dragon Martial Pavilion in the Eastern Province.

As Heavenly Physician Valley's disciples explored the city, Li Qi and Huang Wanmian suspected Demonic Path forces might target him, while Bai Yuzhu mistook their concern for romantic jealousy. After Li Qi cleared up the misunderstanding, he detected suspicious signs in a steward who delivered a meeting message, leaving the group wary as they headed toward the city center.

• A Xiantian disciple suggested that Li Qi and Bai Yuzhu shop together while the others split off, but Huang Wanmian insisted they stay together because Li Qi might be attacked.
• Bai Yuzhu pulled Li Qi away and asked whether he liked Huang Wanmian, and Li Qi explained that Huang Wanmian was concerned about the Demonic Path.
• Huang Wanmian caught up with Li Qi and Bai Yuzhu, and the three agreed to shop near the city center and avoid the outskirts.
• A Heavenly Physician Valley steward told them that Wang and Zhou were waiting at the Guild Hall, then left after Huang Wanmian dismissed him.
• Li Qi noticed a strange musk scent on the steward and detected his unusually fast heartbeat and high body temperature, leading him to suspect something was wrong.

Li Qi went to the Guild Hall alone to confront the people who had lured him there and learn why the Ascension Immortal Cult was targeting him. He burst into their hideout and killed the Gaunt Old Man, while the transformed Black-Clothed Strong Man remained alive.

• Li Qi decided to investigate the Demonic Path plot himself and reassured Huang Wanmian and Bai Yuzhu before leaving for the Guild Hall.
• Li Qi checked the Guild Hall’s Record Book, found no suspicious entries, and headed into the courtyard.
• The Gaunt Old Man sensed Li Qi approaching alone, and he and the Black-Clothed Strong Man prepared for an ambush.
• Li Qi smashed through the door and used Exquisite Dexterity Without Trace to hurl the splinters at the two men.
• The Black-Clothed Strong Man transformed into a Tiger-man and blocked the splinters, but Li Qi stabbed the Gaunt Old Man in the throat and cut off his head.

Li Qi killed two Ascension Immortal Cult agents who had come to find the last unclaimed Holy Son of the Ten Thousand Demon Dao and learned that the Cult wanted to recruit him. As the Tiger-man died, he called Li Qi the Heaven's Favored One and warned that the Ten Thousand Demon Dao would kill him, leaving Li Qi puzzled by the rumor.

• Li Qi ambushed and killed the Gaunt Old Man, then judged that his strength could match a Late Fourth Rank Xiantian without relying on special items.
• Li Qi questioned the Tiger-man Strong Man, who revealed that he was an Ascension Immortal Cult Protector searching for the Ten Thousand Demon Dao's Holy Sons and wanted Li Qi to join the Cult.
• The Tiger-man pretended to recruit Li Qi while secretly preparing to kill him, then attacked with his claws.
• Li Qi blocked the Tiger-man's attack with his Mechanism Dagger, cut him open, and removed his Demon Core to stop him from self-destructing.
• Before dying, the Tiger-man called Li Qi the Heaven's Favored One and warned that the Ten Thousand Demon Dao would kill him; Li Qi wondered why the demonic path spread the rumor.

Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect Master Liu rejected Chai Bushun’s Supreme Golden Elixir and revealed that Li Qi was the only genuine name on the sect’s list of extraordinary talents. As Liu prepared to enter seclusion before a planned assault on the orthodox sects, Li Qi learned that Meng Xingqian’s admission of defeat had raised his Earth Ranking position.

• Chai Bushun offered Sect Master Liu a Supreme Golden Elixir, but Liu refused it and demanded that Zhao Yusheng personally apologize for taking the Holy Son Token.
• Liu told the black-robed elder that the Dust Cleansing Platform would cause trouble and that Li Qi was the only genuine name among the purported Holy Son candidates.
• Liu explained that he had used Li Qi as bait to draw out the Ascension Immortal Cult, then announced he would enter seclusion before the Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect launched a full-scale assault on the orthodox path.
• On the road to the Eastern Province, Huang Wanmian insisted that Li Qi must have reached the Fourth Rank after killing two Fourth Rank experts, but Li Qi denied it.
• Huang Wanmian told Li Qi that his Earth Ranking position had risen because Meng Xingqian admitted he had lost to him.