Recaps

Madam Qianrou and Jingming discussed the Demon Race’s desperate alliance with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and their plan to stall its demands. In the dungeon, Jingming recognized their prisoner as Lin Bai, leaving them alarmed by the consequences of having captured him.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race had allied with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to seek a path to revival, and she and Jingming planned to delay the palace and offer it worthless remains instead of their treasures.
• Jingming told Madam Qianrou about Lin Bai’s talent, his position as the Tianshui Sect’s Holy Son, and the protection he had received from Chu’s strongest expert.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Lin Bai was being held in Verdant City’s dungeon, and Jingming agreed to identify him.
• Jingming looked through the cell’s ventilation hole, saw Lin Bai, and confirmed that he was the man he had described.
• Madam Qianrou and Jingming realized that capturing Lin Bai had put their plans in serious danger.

Lin Bai realized that someone in Verdant City had recognized him and suspected the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was involved in the Hunter's Realm. Madam Qianrou awakened Verdant City's City Lord, who agreed to give the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace ten King Grade Bloodlines to secure its help with the teleportation formation, and then asked about her second matter.

• Lin Bai deduced that the person watching him might belong to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and secretly used his devouring power to damage the formation in his collar.
• Madam Qianrou left Jingming and went to awaken Verdant City's City Lord after Lin Bai's identity was exposed.
• Madam Qianrou told the City Lord that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's envoy demanded the alliance's promised treasures and threatened Verdant City.
• The City Lord recalled the Demon Race's agreement to provide rare materials and King Grade Bloodlines, then ordered Madam Qianrou to offer ten King Grade Bloodlines in exchange for help completing the teleportation formation.
• Madam Qianrou accepted the costly decision, and the City Lord asked what her second matter was.

Madam Qianrou told the awakened City Lord that Verdant City had captured Lin Bai, the Tianshui Sect Holy Son and Wolf Marquis who possessed the Supreme Avatar. The City Lord ordered her to try to recruit Lin Bai while preparing to abandon Verdant City, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Hunting Realm hunt had led Verdant City to capture Lin Bai, whose ties to Tianshui Sect and the Chu royal family made him a threat to the city.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Lin Bai possessed the Supreme Avatar, prompting the City Lord to recognize him as a rare prodigy and consider the coming age of great contention.
• The City Lord ordered Madam Qianrou to offer Lin Bai benefits and seek his cooperation, but to kill him and blame the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace if he refused.
• The City Lord said Verdant City would relocate to the nearly completed Barren City and instructed Madam Qianrou to keep his awakening secret while he took charge.
• The City Lord ordered Madam Qianrou to hand the Demon Race envoys the city's accumulated reserves and cultivated talents so they could take them outside.

Lin Bai reassured the captured disciples that Verdant City would likely spare them and explained his suspicions about the city’s plans. Madam Qianrou summoned him and tried to charm him with a moonlit dance, but Lin Bai remained wary and dodged her staged fall.

• Lin Bai told the imprisoned disciples that their status made it unlikely Verdant City would kill them, and he speculated that the city might be capturing outsiders to produce half-demons.
• A jailer summoned Lin Bai to meet Madam Qianrou, and Lin Bai reasoned that Verdant City would try to recruit him before resorting to killing him.
• The jailer escorted Lin Bai to a waterside pavilion, where Madam Qianrou danced beneath the moon and arranged food and wine for him.
• Lin Bai identified the dance as an attempted honey trap and warned Madam Qianrou not to waste her effort.
• Madam Qianrou leaped toward Lin Bai and pretended to stumble into his arms, but Lin Bai dodged her.

Lin Bai resisted Madam Qianrou’s attempts to seduce and threaten him, so she offered him a place among her allies and promised a king-level variant species bloodline. She explained the Demon Race’s origins and bloodline inheritance, leaving Lin Bai listening to an account whose truth remained uncertain.

• Madam Qianrou tried to bewitch and threaten Lin Bai, but he stayed calm and asked why she had summoned him.
• Madam Qianrou admitted that she wanted to kill Lin Bai, then offered to speak openly after her usual methods failed.
• Madam Qianrou invited Lin Bai to join her group and promised benefits, including the bloodline of a king-level variant species.
• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race descended from five progenitor clans that ruled different regions around the Heaven and Earth Immortal Mountain.
• Madam Qianrou said the five clans interbred with other races, creating variant species whose traits were passed down through bloodlines.

Madam Qianrou explained to Lin Bai how bloodlines and ancestral reversion shaped the Demon Race and variant beasts, and revealed that humans might obtain demonic innate divine abilities through King Grade Bloodlines. She said Verdant City was founded for experiments, leaving Lin Bai asking what those experiments involved and why human martial artists had been captured.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race and variant beasts valued bloodlines because ancestral reversion could restore powers inherited from their ancient ancestors.
• Madam Qianrou linked the Chu imperial family's variant-beast tiers to bloodline grades and said only King Grade Bloodlines could inherit innate divine arts.
• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that humans could cultivate techniques derived from demonic powers, but a King Grade Bloodline offered only a fifty percent chance of awakening an innate divine ability.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Verdant City had been founded to conduct experiments, prompting Lin Bai to ask why the city captured human martial artists.

Madam Qianrou explained that Verdant City captured human martial artists to sustain the Demon Race and conduct bloodline experiments, then demanded that Lin Bai join them under threat of death. Lin Bai agreed but negotiated conditions, and the city lord secretly ordered Madam Qianrou to offer him a King Grade Bloodline in exchange for bearing a child with her.

• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that Verdant City had captured human martial artists for reproduction and injected variant bloodlines into unborn children to help them achieve Return to Ancestry.
• Madam Qianrou asked Lin Bai to join the Demon Race while armed demons surrounded the waterside pavilion, and Lin Bai agreed to avoid being killed.
• Lin Bai demanded that he keep his human body and receive a King Grade Bloodline immediately.
• Madam Qianrou resisted giving him the bloodline until the city lord secretly ordered her to agree, on the condition that she bear offspring with Lin Bai.
• The city lord told Madam Qianrou that their child might inherit Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar as well as the Demon Race's bloodline power.

Madam Qianrou accepted the City Lord’s plan to bear Lin Bai’s child, hoping the child would inherit his Supreme Avatar and the Demon Race’s bloodline and one day help her take revenge. She offered Lin Bai a King Grade Bloodline in exchange, and the chapter ended with Lin Bai questioning whether a child could truly inherit his Supreme Avatar.

• Jingming grew impatient while Madam Qianrou spoke with Lin Bai, but an old Demon Race man warned him not to act rashly because of the powerful forces behind Lin Bai.
• The City Lord urged Madam Qianrou to bear Lin Bai’s child, and she agreed when she thought of using the child’s potential to gain revenge.
• Madam Qianrou offered Lin Bai a King Grade Bloodline if he would couple with her and let her bear his child.
• Jingming cried out in protest and tried to rush from hiding, but the old Demon Race man restrained him.
• Madam Qianrou explained that she hoped their child would inherit Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar and combine it with the Demon Race’s bloodline, leaving Lin Bai doubtful that such inheritance was possible.

Lin Bai rejected the Demon Race’s demand that he have a child with Madam Qianrou, refusing to let his child be raised as their weapon. The city lord gave him until the Hunting Realm hunt ended to reconsider, and Lin Bai remained determined to protect any future child from the Demon Race.

• Lin Bai remembered Ye Suxin and the child he had lost, then told Madam Qianrou he would not agree to have a child with her.
• Lin Bai explained that he would not let his child become someone else’s tool or sword, and challenged Madam Qianrou to take his head if she insisted.
• Lin Bai revealed that the city lord of Verdant City had been watching, and the city lord said Lin Bai could reconsider before the Hunting Realm hunt ended.
• The city lord allowed Lin Bai to move freely within Verdant City as long as he did not leave.
• The city lord explained that the Demon Race wanted a child with Madam Qianrou so it could raise the child to be loyal to them, strengthening Lin Bai’s resolve to refuse.
• Madam Qianrou agreed to arrange a quiet residence for Lin Bai.

Madam Qianrou led Lin Bai through the Demon Race gathering in Verdant City and explained her Fox Clan heritage and the origin of her charm art. She brought him to a secluded courtyard inside the City Lord's Mansion.

• Madam Qianrou led Lin Bai past Demon Race experts, including the hostile Jingming, who said he hated Lin Bai because he was human.
• Madam Qianrou denied being fickle, showed Lin Bai her vermilion chastity mark, and explained that Demon Race bloodlines made chastity and same-race marriage especially important.
• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that she cultivated the Red Dust Severing Path, a Fox Clan method created by a woman who killed the human spy she had loved.
• Madam Qianrou briefly revealed her fox form and brought Lin Bai to a secluded courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion.

Lin Bai settled into the courtyard Madam Qianrou prepared for him, then used a sacrificial formation to summon the crow from the Hunting Realm. The crow abandoned a looted treasury in the Chu imperial capital and entered the void to reach Lin Bai.

• Madam Qianrou offered Lin Bai a King Grade Bloodline if he agreed to her request, but she refused to explain why she was called Madam Qianrou.
• Lin Bai decided to use his agreement with Verdant City’s leaders only to buy time and planned to leave the city as soon as possible.
• Lin Bai secured the courtyard with formations and activated the crow’s blood-sacrifice summoning formation using treasures from his Storage Bag.
• The crow sensed Lin Bai’s summons while looting a small lineage’s treasury and broke through space to enter the void.
• The Wei lineage’s treasury guard discovered that the crow had stolen most of its treasures and alerted the horrified higher-ups.

Lin Bai recovered from his injuries while investigating the City Lord's Mansion and learning more about its half-demon residents. After leaving the mansion to explore Verdant City, he settled into a tavern and ordered its reputedly restorative Ten Thousand Bones Wine.

• Lin Bai used healing pills to recover while examining the City Lord's Mansion, where wary residents avoided him.
• Lin Bai observed that half-demons formed most of the mansion's population and suspected they were the Demon Race's test subjects for bloodline experiments.
• Lin Bai concluded that the City Lord was stronger than someone in the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm and hoped the Crow would locate the hidden King Grade Bloodline.
• After his injuries improved, Lin Bai left the City Lord's Mansion and explored Verdant City's crowded streets, where he saw Demon Race members and half-demons.
• Lin Bai sat down at a roadside tavern and ordered a jug of Ten Thousand Bones Wine after the waiter described its healing effects and suggestive benefits.

Lin Bai drank Ten Thousand Bones Wine at a roadside tavern in Verdant City while Madam Qianrou secretly monitored him. A human waiter revealed that the Demon Race crippled some captured humans’ cultivation and used them as reproductive tools, leaving Lin Bai worried about Chen Yunjie and the others.

• Madam Qianrou ordered her hidden agent to watch Lin Bai and then went to the tavern where he was drinking.
• Lin Bai discovered that Ten Thousand Bones Wine was potent healing liquor and continued drinking despite its intense spiciness.
• Lin Bai declined the waiter’s offer to invite women from Rainbow Immortal Pavilion and questioned him about his family’s history in Verdant City.
• The waiter said his grandparents had been Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artists who took thousands of years to have children.
• The waiter revealed that the Demon Race crippled some captured humans and used them as tools, prompting Lin Bai to worry about Chen Yunjie and the others.

Lin Bai learned how Verdant City handled captured martial artists and how its Hunter’s Hall trained elite Hunter Warriors. He discovered that the Hunter’s Hall’s academies and warriors lived around or inside the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Lin Bai learned that Verdant City imprisoned or killed captured martial artists according to their status and strength, and that its walls and surrounding mist made escape dangerous.
• The waiter told Lin Bai that Hunter Warriors earned merit for capturing martial artists and could exchange it for treasures and pills.
• Lin Bai learned that the Hunter’s Hall recruited young martial artists into successive academies, supplying resources to those who passed each examination.
• The waiter explained that most Hunter Warriors were half-demons and that failed candidates usually took ordinary jobs, married, and raised children for Verdant City.
• The waiter told Lin Bai that the Hunter’s Hall academies and Hunter Warriors lived near or inside the City Lord’s Mansion, explaining the young martial artists Lin Bai had seen there.

Lin Bai learned more about Verdant City's bloodline resources while drinking with the waiter, then relied on Madam Qianrou to pay for his wine. The chapter ended with a wounded man's unstable cultivation drawing a crowd to Madam Qianrou, who was asked to intervene.

• Lin Bai heard that Verdant City's cultivation resources came from blood extracted from an exotic species and suspected the rumors supported what Madam Qianrou had told him.
• Lin Bai waited for Crow, drank Ten Thousand Bones Wine without money to pay, and told the waiter that his payer had not arrived yet.
• Madam Qianrou arrived, paid for Lin Bai's wine, and ordered ten more jars; Lin Bai confirmed that the waiter's information matched what she had told him.
• Madam Qianrou asked whether Lin Bai had considered her proposal, but he refused and she told him he had time to decide.
• A crowd rushed toward the City Lord's Mansion with a badly wounded man whose cultivation fluctuated wildly, then knelt before Madam Qianrou and sought her help.

After five wounded Hunter Warriors reported attacks near Verdant City, Lin Bai recognized the likely attackers as Tuo Baxin and seven Soul Refinement Sect disciples. The City Lord decided Verdant City could not be saved and ordered an evacuation to Barren City, while Madam Qianrou asked what to do with Lin Bai.

• Madam Qianrou questioned five injured Hunter Warriors, who reported that one powerful martial artist had wounded two of them and seven attackers had drained the cultivation power of the other three.
• Lin Bai suspected Tuo Baxin had wounded the first pair and the Soul Refinement Sect disciples had attacked the others, but he denied knowing who had entered the space.
• Madam Qianrou took Lin Bai to the City Lord's Mansion and arranged for people to watch him before reporting the attacks to the City Lord.
• The City Lord identified the attackers as likely top Holy Sons and Soul Refinement Sect disciples, then ordered Madam Qianrou to prepare an evacuation from Verdant City to Barren City.
• Madam Qianrou agreed to arrange the evacuation and asked whether Lin Bai should be taken to Barren City.

As Verdant City began evacuating its core members, Lin Bai guessed that Tuo Baxin and the seven Soul Refinement Sect martial artists had reached the city. The seven were soon cornered at the eastern gate, where a battle broke out, while another mysterious Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artist continued to evade the Hunter Warriors.

• The City Lord ordered Madam Qianrou to give Lin Bai three days to submit, then take him to Barren City or kill him during the evacuation.
• Madam Qianrou ordered Verdant City's core members to begin evacuating ahead of the ordinary martial artists.
• Lin Bai learned that Tuo Baxin and the seven Soul Refinement Sect martial artists had survived and reasoned that they might have reached Verdant City.
• A mysterious martial artist secretly explored Verdant City but repeatedly escaped the Hunter Warriors pursuing him.
• The Hunter Warriors surrounded the seven Soul Refinement Sect martial artists at the ruined eastern city gate, and a half-demon charged at them, starting a battle.

Lin Bai watched Verdant City’s mysterious City Lord annihilate or capture the Soul Refinement Sect’s seven disciples, revealing power at the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm. Tuo Baxin then arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, wary of Lin Bai and asking what kind of place Verdant City was.

• Lin Bai watched the Soul Refinement Sect’s seven disciples fight Verdant City’s Hunter Warriors and attempt to escape.
• Verdant City’s City Lord summoned a giant turtle shadow that swallowed the seven disciples and the space around them.
• Lin Bai realized the City Lord possessed at least Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm power and worried that the Demon Race might change how it dealt with him.
• Tuo Baxin arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, and Lin Bai explained that he had been captured and fitted with a collar.
• Tuo Baxin remained suspicious of Lin Bai’s comfortable life in captivity and asked him to explain Verdant City.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin reunited in Verdant City, compared their experiences, and agreed to work together to seek the Demon Race’s treasury and King Grade Bloodlines. As the City Lord’s Mansion emptied and Lin Bai grew wary of an approaching crisis, the Crow finally arrived.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin recounted how they had each survived the aberrant creature and reached Verdant City.
• Tuo Baxin proposed that he and Lin Bai find the Demon Race’s treasury and share the King Grade Bloodline, and Lin Bai agreed to wait for his arriving friend before acting.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin recognized the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm demon as their greatest obstacle and agreed to stay in contact while planning carefully.
• Tuo Baxin quietly left the City Lord’s Mansion, while Lin Bai noticed that demons were abandoning its courtyards and feared a storm was coming.
• Lin Bai sensed someone watching him near his residence, called out for the Crow, and greeted it when it landed on his shoulder.

Lin Bai learned that the Chu Kingdom's army was investigating the formations near Verdant City and devised a plan to use its arrival against the demon race. He sent Crow to find the city's treasury and recruit the imperial army, then told Tuo Baxin to prepare for the coming opportunity.

• Crow told Lin Bai that he had encountered the Chu Kingdom's army inspecting formations near Verdant City.
• Lin Bai explained that the demon race had created Verdant City to extract a King Grade Bloodline and attempt to Return to Ancestry.
• Crow agreed to search for Verdant City's treasury, then leave and lead the Chu Kingdom's imperial army into the hidden world.
• Lin Bai told Crow they would divide any treasures by their own abilities, but required him to report the treasury's location first.
• Lin Bai sent Tuo Baxin a message to prepare, and Tuo Baxin smiled after hearing the news.

As Verdant City's residents and treasures were prepared for relocation to Barren City, Lin Bai was summoned to Madam Qianrou's residence. She tried to seduce him with her arts and drugged incense, leaving him facing her advances.

• The City Lord told Madam Qianrou to prioritize moving the treasury's treasures and use the valuable Phoenix True Blood and Kunpeng True Blood to cultivate trusted clansmen in Barren City.
• Madam Qianrou reported that the Demon Race and Nine Underworlds Demon Palace envoys had already taken some mediocre King Grade Bloodlines, while the more precious bloodlines remained in the treasury.
• Lin Bai observed the City Lord's Mansion's hurried preparations and wondered whether Verdant City intended to flee or had another refuge in the Hunting World.
• Madam Qianrou invited Lin Bai to her residence, where she appeared behind gauze and used seductive arts and incense that seemed to contain a hallucinogenic drug.

Madam Qianrou tried to persuade Wolf Marquis to join the Demon Race by tempting him and threatening his life, but he refused to betray Chu. The chapter ended with her declaring the meal his last and preparing to carry out the threat.

• Madam Qianrou approached Wolf Marquis in a revealing gauze robe and tried to seduce him, but he stayed on guard and asked why she had summoned him.
• Madam Qianrou offered to serve Wolf Marquis for life if he joined the Demon Race, but he firmly refused, saying no reward would tempt him to betray Chu.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Hunter Warriors were lying in ambush outside and warned that she could activate the collar around Lang Zhirong's neck to kill him.
• Madam Qianrou pressed herself against Wolf Marquis from behind, but he threw her across the room with a burst of spiritual power.
• Madam Qianrou called Wolf Marquis stubborn and declared that the meal would be his final one.

Lin Bai turned Madam Qianrou’s execution meal into a trap, suppressing her and tearing off the collar that was meant to control him. He left her injured and powerless in the City Lord’s Mansion while an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Madam Qianrou secretly activated the formation in Lin Bai’s collar, but it had no effect.
• Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar suppressed Madam Qianrou, and he sealed her power, damaged her Dao Fruit, and severed her meridians.
• Lin Bai ripped off the collar and warned Madam Qianrou not to summon the Hunter Warriors waiting outside.
• Lin Bai continued drinking and refused to explain his plan while Madam Qianrou questioned him.
• A strange voice appeared in the room and chided Lin Bai for drinking with Madam Qianrou while it worked outside.

Lin Bai pressured Madam Qianrou while the raven reported that it had found Verdant City's treasury and warned the Imperial Clan, whose army had entered the Inner Earth World. The chapter left Lin Bai suspicious that Madam Qianrou was trying to trap him as someone outside awaited instructions.

• The raven landed on Lin Bai's shoulder, reported that the Imperial Clan's army would reach Verdant City within three hours, and described the treasury as being in a lake protected by experts and formations.
• A messenger outside Madam Qianrou's courtyard urged her to come to the council hall because something unexpected had happened.
• Madam Qianrou realized Lin Bai intended to seize Verdant City's treasury and feared that the Imperial Clan's invasion would devastate the Demon Race's base.
• Lin Bai stopped Madam Qianrou from speaking and ordered the raven to tell the messenger there was no need to act according to the plan.
• Lin Bai chose to give the opposite instruction because he suspected Madam Qianrou was setting a trap.

Lin Bai’s attempt to use the Crow to fool Madam Qianrou’s pursuers failed, and he faced twenty-five Hunter Warriors as Madam Qianrou escaped. His sword strike also revealed his location to Zhu Mo’s Zhao Xing Office army, which had been lost in the Mist Marsh while searching for an exotic species.

• Lin Bai had the Crow imitate Madam Qianrou’s voice, but a Hunter Warrior saw through the ruse and ordered the others to storm the room.
• Madam Qianrou broke free and escaped to warn the city lord, leaving Lin Bai to face the Hunter Warriors.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and Heaven Measuring Ruler, summoned four flying swords, and fused the Yellow Springs Demon Bone to strengthen himself.
• The Crow pointed out that Verdant City’s treasure vault was guarded and lay beside the city lord’s secluded cultivation site, so Lin Bai decided they should focus on escaping.
• Zhu Mo learned that a powerful exotic species was in the Mist Marsh, then spotted Lin Bai’s cyan sword intent and realized it could guide his army.