Chapter Summaries

Wu De, Fahai, and the Illusion Butterfly Demoness continued their uneasy partnership as they explored a long-sealed corridor in the Demon Suppression Division. They entered despite the demoness’s warning, and Fahai soon cried out that they had found a Spider Demoness.

• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness explained that she and Wu De and Fahai had agreed to cooperate, though their search goals differed.
• The demoness warned that the corridor had been sealed for at least a century and its dangers were unknown.
• Wu De insisted they investigate and told the demoness to follow with the lamp, while Fahai sensed a sour, musky smell.
• Wu De and Fahai removed the planks and entered the corridor, with the reluctant demoness following behind.
• Fahai cried out that they had encountered a Spider Demoness.

Old Ape endured Ma Fei, Wang Tie Zhu, and Lamborghini repeatedly knocking him and asking whether he was the Great Sage, leaving him bitter because he could not discover the important answer. When the others left the Corpse Burning Room, the Jade Clear Brocade Mink returned carrying a faintly glowing object that looked like a sword hilt.

• Ma Fei and Wang Tie Zhu took turns knocking Old Ape and asking whether he was the Great Sage, while every answer failed to satisfy them.
• Lamborghini joined in and nearly trampled Old Ape to death with three hooves.
• After the others left, Old Ape saw the Jade Clear Brocade Mink return through the smoke vent near noon.
• The mink landed in a beam of sunlight carrying a faintly glowing black object shaped like a sword hilt.

Little Sable hid a sword hilt infused with Yin Sha Qi beneath Qin He’s bedding, and Old Ape recognized it as coming from the Demon Suppression Division. Meanwhile, Wu De, Fahai, and the Illusion Butterfly Demoness reached a newly flooded passage deep inside the Division, where the water threatened to make their exploration more dangerous.

• Little Sable hid the blackened sword hilt beneath Qin He’s bedding and warned Old Ape before leaving through the smoke vent.
• Old Ape examined the sword hilt and recognized the Yin Sha Qi as coming from the Demon Suppression Division.
• Wu De and Fahai fought through waves of demons and ghosts while the Illusion Butterfly Demoness watched their powerful techniques.
• Wu De, Fahai, and the Illusion Butterfly Demoness reached a vast underground expanse of pitch-black water.
• Fahai noticed that the water in the passageway seemed to have surged in only recently.

Wu De and Fahai traced the newly flooded passage to the City Moat, where Fahai recognized the taste of the dead cow from the Corpse Burning Room. Outside, Lamborghini was surrounded by four Masked Guests seeking to capture it for the Heaven Punishing Bureau.

• Wu De noticed the passage water had just arrived and asked Fahai to identify its source.
• Fahai drank from the water, identified it as City Moat water, and said he tasted the dead cow from the Corpse Burning Room in it.
• Lamborghini emerged from the City Moat, displaying the changes it had gained from sharing in Great Immortal Green Ox’s Thought Power.
• Four Masked Guests surrounded Lamborghini and threw nets at it, intending to take it to the Heaven Punishing Bureau for a reward.

Lamborghini Bull escaped a Glass Cage ambush by Masked Guests from the Heaven Punishing Bureau and killed three of them with its escape techniques and powerful attacks. Nearly drained of true essence, it took the Glass Cage and fled toward the Corpse Burning Room while the Masked Guest leader remained at large.

• The Masked Guests trapped Lamborghini Bull in four interlocking Glass Cages, hoping to claim a reward for capturing a False God or its accomplice.
• Lamborghini Bull used Earth Escape to vanish from the cage and charge two Masked Guests, killing them both.
• The Masked Guest leader recognized Lamborghini Bull's escape technique and ordered the group to retreat.
• Lamborghini Bull used Bull Stomp to defeat another Masked Guest, whose attack had failed to pierce its hide.
• Lamborghini Bull picked up the Glass Cage and ran toward the Corpse Burning Room as its true essence neared exhaustion.

Lamborghini told Qin He that Heaven Punishing Bureau agents had tried to capture it, prompting Qin He and Wei Wu to respond to their arrival in Lin'an City. The chapter left Wei Wu ordering the surviving agent captured and the dead sent to Corpse Burning Room No. 7.

• Lamborghini reported that it had killed three Heaven Punishing Bureau agents and that a fourth had escaped, then gave Qin He their Glass Cage.
• Qin He examined the Glass Cage and told Wang Tie Zhu to have Ma Fei retrieve the bodies from the City Moat.
• Wei Wu learned that the surviving agent was still within the Capital City's territory and ordered his capture and interrogation.
• Wei Wu ordered the three bodies sent to Corpse Burning Room No. 7, intending to remind Qin He about the reward he had not received.

Qin He maintained faith by granting selected prayers, including blessings for Yang Yanshu, Gu Lan, Xin Ruxue, and Xin Rushuang. The chapter ended when Niu Chengan delivered the freshly killed Masked Guest, who had tried to harm Lamborghini, and Qin He considered how to reward Wei Wu.

• Qin He selected prayers from the Mysterious Little Notebook and granted thirteen wishes and twenty-six Blessing Techniques while skipping many others.
• Qin He saw that Wu Hansan wanted his dick to grow three inches longer and that Du Ziteng wanted his dantian repaired, but he could not help either of them.
• Niu Chengan arrived with a coffin on the Crown Prince's order and said its occupant had tried to harm Qin He's cow.
• Lamborghini identified the corpse as the Masked Guest from the Heaven Punishing Bureau, and Qin He realized Wei Wu had acted swiftly.
• Qin He wondered what reward to give Wei Wu, who had not prayed for anything.

Qin He examined four corpses and an ancient sword hilt while Little Sable returned with Fahai’s Demon Subduing Pestle. The two objects came from the same underwater location in the Demon Suppression Division, leaving Qin He intrigued by what else lay there.

• Wang Tie Zhu and Ma Fei brought back three badly damaged corpses, and Qin He ordered the beasts to begin their work.
• Qin He showed the group a blackened object that Old Ape said the sable demon had brought back.
• Little Sable arrived carrying a weapon, and Lamborghini recognized it as Fahai’s Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Little Sable indicated that she had found Fahai and the ancient sword hilt at the same underwater location.

Qin He and his companions explored the City Moat beneath Lin'an City and discovered vast mountains of bones that exposed centuries of the city's buried crimes. They found a layer of demon remains among the human bones, suggesting the Demon Race had once occupied Lin'an City for a long time.

• Qin He followed Little Sable into the City Moat with Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini, descending past the Still Water Layer.
• Qin He used the Thousand-Mile Eyes Technique and saw immense, glowing mountains of bones covering the riverbed.
• Lamborghini touched the bone pile, causing part of it to crumble into dust, and Wang Tie Zhu explained how corpses had accumulated there over centuries or millennia.
• Wang Tie Zhu pointed out a layer of demon remains, and Qin He concluded that demons had once lived in Lin'an City on a massive scale.
• Qin He reflected that the deepest slaughter came not only from conflict between races but also from deception and violence within a race.

Qin He and his companions disturbed a swarm of Nether Creatures beneath the riverbed, but stopped driving them away when an ancient voice revealed they guarded the dead. Shore Flowers then bloomed across the bone mountain, revealing the legendary Path of Fire Illumination and Guiding Road.

• Wang Tie Zhu warned Qin He that something was moving inside the bone pile, and the disturbed Nether Creatures emerged in swarms after Lamborghini touched the bones.
• Wang Tie Zhu and Qin He used the Duo'e Dharma Scripture to suppress the Nether Creatures, forcing many to retreat into the bone mountain.
• An ancient voice told Qin He to stop, saying that the nether shore protected living beings and the place was guarded by the dead.
• The Nether Creatures hid as blood-red Shore Flowers bloomed across the bone mountain.
• Wang Tie Zhu recognized the flowers as the legendary Path of Fire Illumination and Guiding Road, stunning him and Qin He.

Qin He disappeared into the Path of Fire Illumination, while Wang Tie Zhu, Lamborghini, and Little Sable continued toward the secret place in the Demon Suppression Division. They found a deep hollow in the bluish stone and a fresh skeleton marked with a pawprint matching Little Sable’s.

• Qin He walked into the flower flames along the Path of Fire Illumination and vanished as the Shore Flowers melted away.
• Wang Tie Zhu suggested that the beasts continue to the secret place, and Little Sable led the way across the riverbed of bones.
• Little Sable guided Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini up the bluish stone wall, while the aquatic beasts hiding in its hollows cowered from it.
• Little Sable stopped at a deep hollow and swam inside with Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini following.
• Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini saw a fresh skeleton in the hollow whose skull bore a claw mark matching Little Sable’s front paw.

Wang Tie Zhu and Little Sable discovered a vast, ruined Taoist Divine Temple beneath the canal, hidden beyond the cave where Little Sable had killed a powerful Catfish Demon. They reached its entrance and found signs that it had once drawn many worshippers, but its identity and the reason it sank remained unknown.

• Wang Tie Zhu spotted the Catfish Demon's remains, and he and Lamborghini realized Little Sable had killed a Wheel Sea Realm Water Demon.
• Little Sable led Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini through the winding cave to a newly dug gap, but Lamborghini was too large to enter and stayed behind.
• Wang Tie Zhu transformed into his turtle form and followed Little Sable through the gap into a vast, dark underground space.
• Wang Tie Zhu discovered a ruined temple with a shattered stone statue whose missing upper half had been cut away by a sword stroke.
• Wang Tie Zhu and Little Sable reached the temple's stone gate and saw its worn threshold, suggesting the temple had once received many worshippers.

Wang Tie Zhu and Little Sable encountered Wu De and Fahai at the submerged ruins of a Taoist temple, which Wu De suspected was the Dao Ancestor’s ritual ground. The water then vanished and the ruined temple began restoring itself, as if time were flowing backward.

• Little Sable and Wang Tie Zhu saw Wu De and Fahai sinking into the flooded space with rocks in their arms.
• Wu De and Fahai mistook Little Sable for a demon, and Little Sable knocked Fahai’s Demon Subduing Pestle away before the groups parted.
• The two groups met again beneath the water outside a ruined Taoist temple, where Fahai raised his Golden Bell Shield and Wu De urged everyone to talk.
• Wu De recognized the temple as a possible ritual ground of the Dao Ancestor.
• The water rapidly receded as the broken temple, surrounding walls, and barren land began returning to their former state.

Golden-armored soldiers annihilated a city and destroyed its temple after the temple’s Daoist guardian resisted them, then buried the ruins and took half of the Sculpted Deity Image. After many years, life returned under a new dynasty, and the chapter ended with the world having completed a cycle.

• Golden-armored soldiers arrived at the temple and used Soul Banners and Mount Beasts to kill and devour the city’s inhabitants.
• The soldiers invaded the temple, but the Daoist’s Illusory Shadow drove them back with the enshrined longsword.
• A colossal Hand of the Deity destroyed the temple, shattered the longsword, and took half of the Sculpted Deity Image.
• The golden-armored soldiers buried the temple ruins beneath a formation, and the city and its inhabitants vanished from history.
• Wild grass and monsters filled the lifeless city until a dynasty rose again and people gradually returned.

Wang Tie Zhu learned that Wu De’s temple had belonged to Daoist Immortal Lingyun, then joined Wu De and Fahai as they explored its ruins. They found the temple’s founding maxim carved on a fallen pillar, while Fahai remained concerned about recovering his Demon Subduing Pestle.

• Wang Tie Zhu asked Wu De whether the Dao Ancestor in the Illusory Shadow was Daoist Lingyun, and Wu De confirmed that their ancestor was titled Daoist Immortal Lingyun.
• Fahai asked Wang Tie Zhu to have Little Sable return his Demon Subduing Pestle, but Wang Tie Zhu said it was on his cow, which could not enter.
• Wu De asked where Wang Tie Zhu had entered, and Wang Tie Zhu answered that he had come from the City Moat, disappointing Wu De and Fahai after their long detour through the Demon Suppression Division.
• Wu De and Fahai floated toward the temple gates, and Wang Tie Zhu followed them inside.
• Wang Tie Zhu uncovered carved markings on a fallen pillar, and Wu De identified them as part of Lingyun Temple’s maxim about aspiring to soar and keeping an unyielding heart.

Wu De, Fahai, and Wang Tie Zhu discovered a Dust-Whipping Pearl hidden beneath the collapsed divine statue. Just as Wu De reached for it, Little Sable snatched it away, leaving the treasure in the sprite’s paws.

• A purple glow and sacred aura appeared inside the temple, and Wu De urged Fahai to investigate.
• The group followed the glow to the ruins of the fallen divine statue and found a Dust-Whipping Pearl beneath a column of murkiness.
• Wu De recognized the pearl as a rare Daoist treasure and excitedly climbed the sand mound to claim it.
• Little Sable flashed past Wu De, seized the Dust-Whipping Pearl, and landed on nearby broken bricks with it in its paws.

Wang Tie Zhu and Little Sable disputed Wu De’s claim to the Dust-Whipping Pearl, which suddenly acknowledged Little Sable as its master. Little Sable and Wang Tie Zhu fled with the treasure, while Wu De decided to complain to Great Immortal Green Ox.

• Wu De insisted the Dust-Whipping Pearl belonged to the Daoist sect, while Wang Tie Zhu argued it had been ownerless and Little Sable had claimed it first.
• Wang Tie Zhu told Wu De to call out to the pearl and see if it answered.
• The Dust-Whipping Pearl burst into violet light and spontaneously acknowledged Little Sable as its master.
• Wang Tie Zhu celebrated the pearl’s choice, and Little Sable departed with it as Wang Tie Zhu followed.
• Wu De said he would lodge a complaint against the outcome to Great Immortal Green Ox.

Qin He wandered through a chaotic expanse of Time Sacs and pondered the nature of Shadow Play before reversing time to leave for Xiao Yingniang’s performance at Sheng Hua Tower. A Black Robed Man later appeared, searched the expanse, and vanished after chanting a ballad.

• Qin He explored the expanse of Time Sacs and watched scattered fragments of lives unfold.
• Qin He wondered whether Shadow Play was an ordered segment of time and why it depicted the deceased.
• Qin He turned back to attend Xiao Yingniang’s afternoon performance at Sheng Hua Tower, reversing time until he had never appeared.
• A Black Robed Man emerged from floral flames and searched through the Time Sacs, stirring them into greater disorder.
• The Black Robed Man chanted a ballad about seeking a shore and time’s master, then disappeared into the ripples.

Qin He learned that Little Sable had taken the Dust-Whipping Pearl from Wu De and Fahai, then gave Little Sable a Cosmic Bag to carry it. He ordered the Demon Subduing Pestle returned to Fahai and said they should compensate the group for the pearl.

• Qin He questioned Wang Tie Zhu about the Dust-Whipping Pearl after Little Sable revealed that it had been snatched from Wu De and Fahai.
• Wang Tie Zhu explained what had happened, while Lamborghini complained that Wang Tie Zhu had abandoned it in the ruins.
• Qin He put the Dust-Whipping Pearl into a Cosmic Bag, fitted with straps like a backpack, and gave it to Little Sable.
• Little Sable tested the Cosmic Bag's ability to store and retrieve the pearl, then excitedly rubbed against Qin He.
• Qin He told Wang Tie Zhu to speak plainly and ordered Lamborghini to return Fahai's Demon Subduing Pestle, offering to compensate for the pearl.

Qin He received the Airdrop Technique and a Thunder Spirit Pill after burning four Heaven Punishing Bureau agents, then sent the pill to Wu De and the Demon Subduing Pestle to the monk and Daoist. He learned the Bureau’s approximate location and planned to visit it later.

• Qin He asked Wang Tie Zhu where the monk and Daoist had gone and worried that he could not return the Demon Subduing Pestle to them.
• Qin He received the Airdrop Technique, a Thunder Spirit Pill, and Merit from the four Masked Guests burned in the Purple Gold Gourd.
• Qin He used the Airdrop Technique to send the Thunder Spirit Pill to Wu De and the Demon Subduing Pestle to the monk and Daoist.
• Qin He inspected the remains of the Masked Guests and concluded that the Heaven Punishing Bureau was not righteous.
• Qin He learned the Heaven Punishing Bureau’s approximate location and decided to visit it later.