Chapter Summaries

Qin He killed a Level Three Netherflame Beast and a Night Watchman, then took their belongings and hid in a cave to burn the corpse. As he waited for the fire to finish, the Netherflame Beast’s associates began searching for whoever had taken it.

• Qin He examined the dead, impoverished Night Watchman, collected the spoils, and quickly left with both corpses.
• Four black-clad men arrived and found the Netherflame Beast dead; their Third Master ordered them to discover who had taken it.
• The men went to the Netherflame Beast’s lair, expecting to find its mate.
• Qin He cleaned the Night Watchman’s mutilated corpse, fitted it with wooden prosthetic limbs, and burned it in his concealed cave.
• Qin He waited through the cold night, planning to return to the city at daybreak as the corpse became charred remains.

Qin He witnessed the life of Cheng Dayuan, a Cheng Family retainer who was betrayed and sent to Sin City to take the blame for his young master's killing. Cheng Dayuan joined the Night Watchmen but died in the wilderness, and the Soul-Snatching Shadow Lamp awarded one High-grade Spirit Stone.

• Cheng Dayuan's father hoped his son would rise in status, but Cheng Dayuan had ordinary talent and became a lackey to a Cheng Family young master.
• After years of mistreatment, Cheng Dayuan reached the peak of the Wheel Sea Realm using scraps of the young master's resources.
• When the young master killed a Wang Family descendant, the Cheng Family chose Cheng Dayuan to take the blame and promised him a reward.
• The Wang Family sent Cheng Dayuan to Sin City, where he joined the Night Watchmen and died in the wilderness two months later.
• The Black Robed Man recited Cheng Dayuan's fate, and the Soul-Snatching Shadow Lamp awarded one High-grade Spirit Stone.

Qin He returned toward Sin City with a level-three evil’s corpse, attracting the greed of fellow Night Watchmen. When one man attacked, Qin He hurled the corpse at him.

• Qin He rested beside Cheng Dayuan’s burning corpse, keeping a Safety Talisman in hand as he slept.
• Qin He woke to Cold Crows near his cave, shot three of them, and gathered them before setting out with the camel beast’s corpse.
• Three returning Night Watchmen spotted Qin He’s prize and considered robbing him, but hesitated after hearing it was a level-three evil.
• More Night Watchmen joined the road and watched Qin He, each waiting for someone else to attack first.
• A burly man with a blade charged Qin He, who swept the camel beast’s corpse at him like a meteor.

Qin He used the camel beast to knock a knife-wielding Night Watchman flying, then deterred the gathered Night Watchmen from attacking and left with the prey. He chased the injured man toward the City Pass and claimed his abandoned blade by sealing it with a Spirit Severing Talisman.

• Qin He hurled the camel beast into the knife-wielding man, whose blade bent under the impact and sent him tumbling away.
• Qin He warned the Night Watchmen that he would relentlessly pursue whoever attacked first, and their threats failed to make anyone move.
• Qin He walked off with the camel beast as the knife-wielding man swallowed pills and fled toward the City Pass.
• Qin He kicked the abandoned blade into the air and used a Spirit Severing Talisman to sever its bond with its owner.

Qin He returned to Sin City after the one hundred and twenty-eighth night patrol and witnessed the Night Watchmen’s brutal enforcement of their rules. The patrol survivors entered the city, while one man who had fled from a Level Four evil creature was executed at the gate.

• Sin City’s gates opened at dawn, ending the one hundred and twenty-eighth night patrol, and Qin He entered carrying a camel beast’s corpse.
• Qin He saw that nearly half the Night Watchmen who had set out were missing, most presumed dead in the wilderness.
• A Night Watchman told the inspectors he had returned after encountering a Level Four evil creature near a stele and begged for mercy.
• A white-robed inspector invoked the Night Watchmen’s Ten Slashes and killed the man for returning with an unlit patrol token.
• The other Night Watchmen handed over their tokens and continued into the city without further concern for the dead man.

Qin He passed his night patrol inspection after killing a Netherflame Beast, though White Yama questioned his unlikely account and warned that its mate would hunt him. Qin He sold several monster corpses and bargained with Hu Fu over their price and the weapons he had brought back.

• Qin He reported that he encountered the wounded Netherflame Beast away from his patrol point, and White Yama approved his patrol while warning him about the beast’s mate.
• Qin He collected ten low-grade spirit stones and carried the Netherflame Beast through Sin City, ignoring merchants who tried to buy it cheaply.
• Qin He brought the Netherflame Beast, Three-eyed Demon Ape, and cold crow corpses to Hu Fu’s shop and demanded a fair offer.
• Hu Fu offered 340 spirit stones for the corpses, then tried to buy Qin He’s saber and broken sword at low prices.
• Qin He challenged Hu Fu over the broken sword’s value, and Hu Fu raised his offer to ten spirit stones.

Qin He visited Sin City's artifact shop to buy a heavy, sturdy weapon and found an unfinished weapon that suited him. He bought it for four hundred spirit stones after haggling with the junior shopkeeper.

• Qin He went to the artifact shop after earning four hundred spirit stones.
• Qin He asked the junior shopkeeper for a heavy, sturdy weapon, saying it did not need to be an artifact or magical treasure.
• The junior shopkeeper showed Qin He a crude, unfinished long-handled weapon that Sin City's smiths could not forge into shape.
• Qin He tested the weapon and pointed out its flaws while negotiating the price.
• The junior shopkeeper lowered the price from six hundred to four hundred spirit stones, and Qin He accepted.

After buying a weapon and necessities, Qin He returned to his poor home in Sin City, where the cost of survival forced ordinary Sinful Immortals into dangerous work. The men whose Netherflame Beast he had taken planned to kill him at midnight, while a City Lord's Mansion official separately ordered an investigation of the beast.

• Qin He spent most of his Night Patrol reward on a weapon, food, and wine before returning to his rented house.
• Three black-clad cultivators identified Qin He as a solitary body cultivator with no known backing and arranged to attack him at midnight.
• A man in white atop the City Pass ordered an armored soldier to investigate the Netherflame Beast and bring back its corpse.

Shopkeeper Hu Fu tried to profit from his old con man rival Dao Bu Er by selling him an overpriced weapon. Dao Bu Er bought a long saber for eighty spirit stones and hurried away, leaving Hu Fu convinced he had been tricked again.

• Dao Bu Er visited Hu Fu’s shop, where Hu Fu angrily recalled how Dao Bu Er had swindled him two months earlier.
• Dao Bu Er said he wanted to buy a weapon, and Hu Fu brought out several weapons, including flawed ones, hoping to recover his losses.
• Dao Bu Er rejected the earlier weapons before Hu Fu showed him a long saber he had just acquired.
• Dao Bu Er immediately agreed to Hu Fu’s price of eighty spirit stones, took the saber, paid, and fled.
• Hu Fu inspected the spirit stones, then realized the saber had been Dao Bu Er’s bonded weapon and lamented that he had been tricked again.

Qin He was ambushed at home by three masked men who blamed him for killing their Netherflame Beast. He fought back with his unfinished Four-Unlike, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Qin He tried to shape his heavy, pitch-black Weapon Blank, but fire and hammer blows failed to alter it.
• A poisoned Green Needle pierced through Qin He's wall, but he caught it between his fingers.
• Qin He confronted three masked men, who claimed the Netherflame Beast he had killed belonged to them.
• The men revealed they had lured away the patrol and charged at Qin He while suppressing their Origin Power.
• Qin He grinned and swept the Four-Unlike toward the three attackers.

Qin He fought three Dao Palace Realm men without using Origin Power and relied on overwhelming strength and precise timing to break through their attacks. After critically injuring one opponent, he launched himself at another as the battle continued.

• Qin He met the three men’s coordinated strike with the Four-Unlike, knocking their magic artifacts away and staggering them.
• The Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man ordered the others to use their hidden power, and the three men surrounded Qin He with their Origin Power attacks.
• Qin He narrowly dodged the needle rain and Short Knives, then threw the Four-Unlike into one black-robed man and caved in his chest.
• Qin He sent two Short Knives toward the remaining men and charged at the second black-robed man.

Qin He killed the second black-clad man by driving him into the weapon embedded in the ground, then used a Lightning Talisman to bluff the Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man during their clash. The two fighters ended up facing each other again after Qin He was forced back more than a hundred steps.

• Qin He used flying knives and a barrage of punches to drive the second black-clad man backward toward the weapon stuck in the ground.
• Qin He seized the weapon and smashed through the second black-clad man's Body Protection Aura, killing him.
• The Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man attacked Qin He with the Blood Needle, forcing him to brace with the Four-Unlike.
• Qin He produced a Lightning Talisman, making the Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man retreat and defend himself.
• Qin He tucked the inactive talisman away, and the two fighters faced each other again after he had been driven back more than a hundred steps.

Qin He drove off the Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man after defeating two of his companions, then turned to loot the corpses. Meanwhile, City Patrol Division officers Xiao Wujiu and Liang Qi discussed the clash and learned that someone from above had arrived, possibly because of the rumored invasion by a hundred thousand Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.

• The Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man lost confidence in fighting Qin He and tried to take away the two black-clad corpses.
• Qin He charged at the group, forced the Sharp-Eyed Black-Clad Man to retreat, and let him flee after he threatened revenge within a month.
• Qin He admitted he had little Origin Power left and decided not to use his conspicuous trump card near Guan City.
• Qin He inspected the two corpses and looked forward to looting more black-robed figures in the wilderness.
• At a tavern, Xiao Wujiu and Liang Qi discussed Hong San's failed operation and planned to demand double the tea money for the disturbance.
• Xiao Wujiu told Liang Qi that someone from above had arrived, and Liang Qi raised the rumor that a hundred thousand Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had descended.

Qin He looted two men he had killed, then burned their bodies as Sin City required. The shadow play revealed that they were cousins from Nest City who had brought down six factions through betrayal and intrigue before ending up in Sin City.

• Qin He took the men’s artifacts, spirit stones, and talismans, then prepared their corpses for burning.
• Qin He stitched the corpses’ wounds, closed the eyes of one whose corpse risked rising, and burned both bodies with coal and firewood.
• The shadow play showed that the cousins had turned against their sect over minor grievances and colluded with enemy gangs to destroy it.
• The cousins repeatedly switched alliances, using espionage and schemes to bring down six factions while advancing to the Dao Palace Realm.
• After their victims joined forces to investigate, an expert helped frame the cousins, and they were sent to Sin City.
• The Black Robed Man judged the cousins for their treachery and the ruin they had caused.

Qin He used a Body Tempering Pill to strengthen his weakened body, then considered whether to cultivate the crude Evil Qi Art despite his resistance to evil cultivation. He was left weighing the risks of trying it after losing access to Primordial Spirit Energy and most of his strength.

• Qin He recognized the Body Tempering Pill as low-grade but useful for his weakened body and swallowed it.
• Qin He endured intense burning as the pill expelled impurities from his body.
• Qin He found that his strength had increased by around ten percent and that his vitality and senses had improved.
• Qin He examined the Evil Qi Art and recalled that Great Immortal Green Ox had always hunted evil cultivators.
• Qin He considered trying the art because he could no longer sense spiritual energy and had lost nearly all his strength and merit.

Qin He repaired the flawed Evil Qi Art and successfully cultivated it, but detected that it stirred harmful desires in his heart. He stopped the circulation and expelled the evil qi, concluding that the art still could not be cultivated.

• Qin He found more than twenty errors in the Evil Qi Art, including flaws that would cause Qi Deviation or halt cultivation at the True Essence Realm.
• Qin He reshaped the art, correcting its cultivation path and rebuilding the parts that could distort a cultivator’s nature.
• Qin He circulated his revised Evil Qi Art and absorbed abundant evil qi from Sin City, reaching the first level of evil qi entering the body.
• Qin He sensed faint killing intent, destructive desire, and a desire for control rising within him.
• Qin He stopped cultivating, dispersed the evil qi in his body, and decided the art still had to be discarded.

After Qin He drew the baleful aura into his body, a huge vortex briefly appeared above Sin City before vanishing, and the White-robed Scholar ordered a deadly purge. The City Patrol Division began killing people across the city, while Qin He watched from a house and realized the cordon might reach him.

• Qin He drew the baleful aura into his body as a massive vortex gathered above Sin City and the City Pass, then disappeared before the White-robed Scholar could locate its source.
• The White-robed Scholar ordered the City Patrol Division to surround squares ninety-four through ninety-seven and leave no one alive, claiming a great evil had infiltrated the city.
• Armored soldiers and mounted messengers announced that the Sinful Immortals were plotting rebellion and imposed a citywide curfew as the purge began.
• Qin He watched city guards encircle the nearby streets and kill people, suspecting the supposed rebellion was a pretext for collective punishment.
• Qin He realized the expanding cordon could reach his house and considered himself lucky to have avoided being caught in the purge.

After the City Patrol Division’s bloody operation, Qin He paid off soldiers who questioned him about the fighting near his hut. He then signed up for night watch and learned that his assigned post, Northwest Pillar 270, had already claimed three Night Watchmen who never returned.

• Qin He denied taking part in the fight outside his hut and claimed two black-robed figures had fought there.
• Qin He gave the City Patrol Division soldiers a hundred spirit stones, and they warned him to avoid the encircled areas.
• Qin He went beneath the City Pass to sign up for night watch as the reward rose to twenty-five spirit stones.
• The clerk assigned Qin He to Northwest Pillar 270, where he saw a large red marker showing that three previous Night Watchmen had failed to return.

Qin He encountered Ye Tai, the trafficker known as Da Yajin, who revealed that White Yama had taken the Netherflame Beast’s corpse and proposed a hunt for its mate. Qin He heard the beast might have given birth and was offered a chance to inspect Pillar 270 before the hunt, but the chapter left their deal unresolved.

• Ye Tai approached Qin He and offered information about what was happening at Pillar 270.
• Qin He rejected Ye Tai’s attempts to befriend him, but stopped when Ye Tai said White Yama had secretly taken the Netherflame Beast’s corpse.
• Ye Tai brought Qin He to a soundproof teahouse room to discuss a deal.
• Ye Tai proposed that he and Qin He hunt the Netherflame Beast’s mate and split the proceeds equally.
• Ye Tai said the female beast might have given birth and offered to arrange an inspection of Pillar 270 before the hunt.

Qin He joined Da Yajin’s patrol group, then learned that a hundred thousand Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were rumored to be descending. The number unsettled Qin He because he had brought a hundred thousand Green Ox Disciples with him, and he pressed Da Yajin for more information.

• Da Yajin told Qin He that the Netherflame Beast had been tampered with by a Fugitive of Sin and hinted that Qin He was already connected to the matter.
• Qin He agreed to join Da Yajin, and eighteen members of Da Yajin’s group left the City Pass together on patrol.
• Da Yajin chatted with Qin He during the journey and asked where he had come from, but Qin He ignored his probing questions.
• Da Yajin said rumors spoke of a hundred thousand Outer Realm Heavenly Demons descending, and Qin He suspected they might be his Green Ox Disciples.
• Qin He asked when the Heavenly Demons would arrive, worried that his disciples might still be separated from him.