Chapter Summaries

Zhu Qingling absorbed the Curse Sources of hundreds of Demon Generals and, with Shangguan Bo, Zhang Nu, and Wei Ran forced to serve her, marched on Eastern Flower City. She slaughtered the city’s demons and ascended to immortality, then concealed her newly increased power.

• Zhu Qingling absorbed the Curse Sources and Curse Source Qi of the Demon Generals, strengthening herself and the Nine Palaces Ball.
• Zhu Qingling harvested more than five hundred Demon Generals while Shangguan Bo watched helplessly and Zhang Nu and Wei Ran assisted her.
• Zhu Qingling made Shangguan Bo lead her toward Eastern Flower City, absorbing high-grade demons along the way and ordering her companions to kill the lower-grade ones.
• Shangguan Bo, Zhang Nu, and Wei Ran took positions around Eastern Flower City while Zhu Qingling hunted down demons attempting to escape.
• Zhu Qingling destroyed Eastern Flower City’s demons and ascended to immortality, then concealed her immense aura.

After absorbing the energy of nearly one hundred thousand demons, Zhu Qingling became a Martial True Immortal and headed south to challenge the Frost Demon King. She defeated Leng Shuang almost instantly, leaving the battle’s outcome clear before anyone could react.

• Zhu Qingling reached the rank of Martial True Immortal, tore open the void with one grasp, and decided to investigate the Origin Land.
• Zhu Qingling surveyed the ruined Eastern Flower City while Mu Jianlan and the Council watched her broadcast and discussed humanity’s fragile defenses.
• Shangguan Bo feared Zhu Qingling’s growing strength and resolved to show his loyalty rather than flee.
• Zhu Qingling and her group traveled south to Frost Giant City, where Shangguan Bo urged Leng Shuang to surrender.
• Leng Shuang rejected Shangguan Bo’s warning and challenged Zhu Qingling, who ended the battle almost instantly.

Zhu Qingling defeated Leng Shuang instantly, destroyed the demons in Frost Giant City, and advanced to the Martial Human Immortal stage by absorbing their Curse Source. She spared Leng Shuang and made her help search for the Origin Land, then set out with her companions for the Western Territory.

• Zhu Qingling defeated Leng Shuang in an instant, while the broadcast of the battle thrilled people across human cities.
• Zhu Qingling and her companions wiped out roughly eighty thousand high-grade demons in Frost Giant City, and Zhu Qingling advanced to the Martial Human Immortal stage.
• Zhu Qingling spared Leng Shuang on the condition that she help find the Origin Land, and Leng Shuang agreed while secretly seeking a way to learn Zhu Qingling’s secret technique.
• With Leng Shuang’s help, Zhu Qingling’s group nearly exterminated the high-ranking demons in the Southern Demon King’s Domain.
• Zhu Qingling and her companions headed for the Western Territory, ruled by the Demon King Lux.

Zhu Qingling reached Satan King City, forced Lux to surrender, and harvested the demons there to strengthen herself. After Lux nearly lost control, she subdued him with a painful blow and continued her campaign through the demon-filled Western World.

• Zhu Qingling arrived at Satan King City with Leng Shuang, Shangguan Bo, Zhang Nu, and Wei Ran, and Lux surrendered rather than fight her.
• Zhu Qingling ordered Shangguan Bo, Leng Shuang, Zhang Nu, and Wei Ran to control the city gates, while Lux helped them slaughter the demons in the city.
• Zhu Qingling drained the city's seven hundred Demon Generals and tens of thousands of superior demons, gaining more than twenty Curse Sources and increasing her strength.
• Lux grew enraged by his subordinates' curses and prepared to vent his fury, but Zhu Qingling struck him down and warned him not to lose control again.
• Zhu Qingling left Satan King City with her group, while Lux suppressed his anger toward Shangguan Bo and followed her.

After Zhu Qingling’s forces wiped out the Western demons, they reached Ghost Forest King City to confront Kuisen and open the Origin Land. They captured the real Kuisen despite his refusal to cooperate, and the Origin Land emerged as water rich in powerful Curse Sources.

• Zhu Qingling’s forces finished sweeping away the Western demons, and humans across civilization celebrated her victory as golden threads of faith gathered.
• Zhu Qingling collected the faith and taught Zhu Qingling how to forge a Faith Golden Body while warning her not to place her soul inside it.
• At Ghost Forest King City, Lux attacked a false Kuisen and returned with half a corpse, but Zhu Qingling identified the body as an illusion and obtained the Sigh Curse Source from it.
• Shangguan Bo and Leng Shuang drove the real Kuisen into the open, and Zhu Qingling captured him after knocking him down with her sword.
• When Kuisen refused to reveal how to find the Origin Land, Zhu Qingling ordered the three Demon Kings to use him in the opening ritual.
• The three Demon Kings formed the Four Spirits Formation, splitting the earth and unleashing water whose pure Curse Source energy astonished Zhu Qingling.

Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling explored the Origin Land, where Zhu Qingling absorbed its exceptionally pure Curse Source Qi and discovered a single strange drop of water at its deepest point. As Ding Ling helped her refine the surrounding Curse Sources, the four Demon Kings fled with Kuisen, leaving the true Origin Land still to be claimed.

• Ding Ling recognized that the Origin Land was connected to the Curse Source Origin and ordered Zhu Qingling to absorb its power.
• Zhu Qingling plunged into the spring while the four Demon Kings absorbed the pure Curse Source Qi from outside its depths.
• Lux pressed Kuisen to reveal his survival methods, and Kuisen warned the other Demon Kings to flee before Zhu Qingling finished.
• Kuisen led the Demon Kings away and struck Zhang Nu and Wei Ran, after which the other three Demon Kings killed them and joined Kuisen.
• Zhu Qingling reached the deepest part of the Origin Land, where Ding Ling spotted a single multicolored drop distinct from the surrounding water.
• Ding Ling helped Zhu Qingling refine the many Curse Sources in the living water as they prepared to reach the strange drop.

Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling spent more than a year refining the Curse Source Water in the Origin Land, and Ding Ling ultimately transferred the dead water into his incarnation in Uncle Nine's Original World. Zhu Qingling returned to humanity after the Four Demon Kings had fled, while Ding Ling's clone remained with her.

• Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling refined the Origin Land's Curse Source for seven days and watched for the Four Demon Kings, while Ding Ling discovered that Kuisen had hidden powerful clones and wanted to die to escape Zhu Qingling.
• After the living water was cleansed, Zhu Qingling reached the Earth Immortal realm and helped Ding Ling approach and refine the immense drop of Curse Source Water.
• Ding Ling used his incarnation's soul to control the water through Zhu Qingling and spent more than a year refining it, discovering that it was dead water whose energy had spawned the world's demons and monsters.
• Ding Ling transferred the refined water into his incarnation, where it released energy that could sustain his growth, and the incarnation then left Uncle Nine's Original World.
• Zhu Qingling returned to the Origin Land, confirmed that humanity's monitoring spacecraft were still watching, and emerged after the Four Demon Kings had fled and rescue attempts had failed.

Zhu Qingling emerged from the Origin Land and swept northward, destroying demons with precise, curse-laden sword strikes as humanity watched. She reached the Arctic Continent, where the four Demon Kings were hiding beneath the Penguin Demon Emperor’s palace, and Kuisen warned Shangguan Bo and Lux that she had arrived.

• Humanity celebrated Zhu Qingling’s return and canceled its rescue plan as she left the Origin Land and headed north.
• Zhu Qingling traveled through northern cities, killing demons with sword strikes that spared buildings and terrain, while humanity’s livestream viewers praised her.
• Demons across the region fled Zhu Qingling, and she continued her purge until she reached the Arctic Continent.
• Zhu Qingling’s target, the four Demon Kings, remained hidden beneath the Penguin Demon Emperor’s palace, while Shangguan Bo and Lux considered venturing outside.
• Kuisen told Shangguan Bo and Lux that Zhu Qingling had arrived in the Arctic Continent, leaving them shocked and asking how he knew.

Zhu Qingling found the four Demon Kings hiding in the Arctic Ice Palace, killed them, and stripped the Arctic Demon Emperor and the region’s monsters of their power. She took the Penguin Demon Emperor with her as a pet, while humanity celebrated the end of the demonic threat.

• Shangguan Bo, Lux, and Leng Shuang learned that Zhu Qingling had arrived and accused Kuisen of using clones and curses to manipulate them.
• Zhu Qingling defeated the Arctic Demon Emperor, split the iceberg open, and exposed the four Demon Kings’ hiding place.
• Shangguan Bo, Lux, Leng Shuang, and Kuisen knelt before Zhu Qingling, who killed them all with one sword strike.
• Zhu Qingling drained Penguin’s Curse Source Qi and removed the cultivation of monsters throughout the Arctic Continent, then took Penguin along to protect her from the polar bears.
• A machine airship broadcast the Demon Kings’ deaths, prompting celebrations across the human world as people praised Zhu Qingling and sent her golden faith.

Zhu Qingling and Ding Ling swept the world of demons and Curse Source, helping humanity reclaim territory and establish new cities. They tracked Kuisen to a human settlement, where Ding Ling captured him after Zhu Qingling’s attack exposed him, leaving the nearby people at risk of turning into demons.

• Zhu Qingling traveled across the northern lands, killing demons while Ding Ling drained Curse Source from their remains and machine airships marked locations where imprisoned humans needed rescue.
• Mu Jianlan joined Zhu Qingling, and Shenzhou troops began claiming and settling the reclaimed demon cities; Ding Ling helped Zhu Qingling appoint City Lords and give them bloodline-bound weapons.
• After several months, Zhu Qingling finished eradicating demons across the world and headed to the East Sea, where she destroyed Kuisen’s hundreds of powerful clones.
• Ding Ling located Kuisen’s true body hiding in human form among prisoners on Rainbow Island, and Zhu Qingling pursued him after he appeared as a little girl in Liang City.
• Kuisen dodged Zhu Qingling’s sword and fled through the crowd, triggering the transformation of nearby people into demons; Ding Ling pulled Kuisen into the Infinite Mirror Sea World and knocked him down while Zhu Qingling drained the emerging Curse Source Qi from the people.

Zhu Qingling defeated Kuisen, left the future world after empowering Mu Jianlan, and returned to Xiang Shaolong’s era two years later. She reunited with Meng Weici and began demonstrating her supernatural abilities as proof of her account.

• Zhu Qingling saved the infected residents, captured Kuisen, and left him for scientists to study after draining his Curse Source and Curse Source Qi.
• Zhu Qingling taught Mu Jianlan the Martial Dao True Understanding and helped her reach Shattered Void before departing in the repaired time machine.
• Mu Jianlan destroyed the time machine and its records to prevent anyone from traveling into the past, then promised to pass the martial arts on to her father, Mu Zhengpin.
• Zhu Qingling returned to Xiang Shaolong’s era at a later point in time and told Meng Weici about her journey to the future world.
• Zhu Qingling used Frost Curse to summon floating ice around Meng Weici after Meng Weici doubted her story.

Zhu Qingling returned to the Immortal Palace Base and learned that unruly Players had been abusing Native women and defying Meng Weici. She killed Han Sheng and more than a hundred attacking Players, while Han Sheng headed to Haitang District with his underlings to retaliate in the Real World.

• Meng Weici told Zhu Qingling that the Immortal Palace held forty million Natives, but rebellious Players had undermined capture missions and abused Native girls.
• Zhu Qingling and Meng Weici found Han Sheng and his followers tormenting Princess Zhao Qian of Zhao and other Native women.
• Han Sheng threatened Zhu Qingling and proposed that she become his girlfriend, so she cut off his head when he refused to stop.
• Han Sheng revived twice, and Zhu Qingling killed him each time; more than a hundred of his followers attacked her, but her Nine Palaces Ball blocked their powers and her sword killed them.
• Han Sheng called his underlings in the Real World and set off for Haitang District to retaliate against Zhu Qingling.

Zhu Qingling rescued Zhao Qian from a group of Players, then told her and Meng Weici about the Male God she had secretly admired for years. After Zhu Qingling conjured an image of him to impress Zhao Qian, an elegant woman appeared and questioned whether he was only imagined.

• Han Sheng learned that Zhu Qingling had killed his Game World teammates with one sword strike, called off his revenge attempt, and told his lackeys they needed to plan carefully.
• Zhu Qingling helped Zhao Qian up after defeating the Players, while the frightened spectators scattered.
• Meng Weici discovered Zhu Qingling had a Male God and argued with her, warning that her beloved might be an unsuitable older man.
• Zhu Qingling took Zhao Qian home and promised to have Xiang Shaolong released, then insisted her Male God surpassed him.
• Zhu Qingling used the Illusory Realm Curse Source technique to conjure a lifelike image of her Male God for Zhao Qian.
• An elegant, intellectual woman appeared and asked whether Zhu Qingling had imagined the man.

Zhu Qingling reunited with Qin Qing, then rescued Wu Tingfang and freed Xiang Shaolong. Xiang Shaolong learned that the future world he came from had disappeared, leaving him shocked and desperate for an explanation.

• Zhao Qian introduced Qin Qing to Zhu Qingling, who revealed that the young man she had drawn was her beloved Master, whom she believed was a celestial.
• Qin Qing questioned Zhu Qingling about her celestial Male God and coaxed her into revealing details of their relationship before Zhu Qingling returned to Xiang Shaolong.
• Zhu Qingling used Ding Ling's Divine Medical Art to revive Wu Tingfang, who had nearly died while trying to save Xiang Shaolong.
• Zhu Qingling removed Xiang Shaolong's seals, and he woke to ask whether she had reached the future world.
• Zhu Qingling told Xiang Shaolong that his future world had disappeared, and he nearly collapsed as Wu Tingfang supported him.

After learning that the future world he remembered had vanished, Xiang Shaolong heard Zhu Qingling describe the dangerous future she had faced and became captivated by her beauty. He learned that Zhu Qingling secretly loved Ding Ling, then resolved to compete for her attention, but she had already left to capture Lian Jin and the others.

• Zhu Qingling told Xiang Shaolong that the future world had changed and selectively described its demonic threat, while Xiang Shaolong mourned the loss of his old future.
• Xiang Shaolong reunited with Wu Tingfang, then learned from Qin Qing that Zhu Qingling secretly loved a god named Ding Ling.
• Xiang Shaolong drank himself unconscious while grieving that Zhu Qingling loved Ding Ling, and Wu Tingfang stayed by his side.
• Xiang Shaolong told Wu Tingfang he would not pursue Zhu Qingling, though he remained jealous of Ding Ling and refused to accept his defeat.
• Xiang Shaolong went looking for Zhu Qingling the next morning, but Meng Weici told him he could never win her favor because she had already left to capture Lian Jin and the others.
• Meng Weici recalled asking Zhu Qingling to arrange a meeting with Ding Ling, and Zhu Qingling agreed to ask him after they logged off.

Zhu Qingling captured the remaining Natives in the Immortal Palace Territory with Shan Rou’s help, completing the mission and earning a reward that Ding Ling secretly refined. After the Natives were freed, Xiang Shaolong saw an image of Ding Ling and abandoned his pursuit of Zhu Qingling, resolving to become an immortal himself.

• Zhu Qingling captured Lian Jin on a distant island, drained his abilities, and returned him to Meng Weici before continuing her search for the other Natives.
• Lian Jin mocked Xiang Shaolong for pursuing Zhu Qingling, then described her immense power; Xiang Shaolong trained harder over the following month.
• Zhu Qingling found Shan Rou, who trusted her promise that the Natives would regain their world and revealed where several companions were hiding.
• The Players received notice that the mission was complete, and Ding Ling captured and spent months refining the reward bestowed on Zhu Qingling.
• After Xiang Shaolong took control of the Immortal Palace and the Natives were freed, Shan Rou visited Zhu Qingling, while Xiang Shaolong repeatedly tried and failed to approach her.
• Zhu Qingling showed Xiang Shaolong an animated image of Ding Ling, leaving him humbled and inspiring him to pursue immortality.

Ding Ling refined a mysterious ray of light with Zhu Qingling’s help, then left her behind in the Qin Dynasty Chronicles world, where Xiang Shaolong later discovered she had vanished. Back in the Real World, Zhu Qingling became a viral celebrity, and she ended the chapter by publicly hinting that she was in love with someone.

• Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling spent several months refining a ray of light that let Ding Ling remain in the Qin Dynasty Chronicles world indefinitely and connect to Uncle Nine’s Original World.
• Ding Ling logged out, and Zhu Qingling followed two days later, leaving Xiang Shaolong to find her room empty and mourn her absence for the rest of his life.
• Zhu Qingling returned to life with Ding Ling and her parents, passed university and graduate entrance exams with full marks, and drew renewed public attention to her achievements in the Immortal Palace Game.
• Netizens unearthed Zhu Qingling’s old post, argued over her first love, and debated which famous or wealthy men could pursue her.
• Zhu Qingling posted an image of a rabbit gazing at a starry flower with the caption “Secretly in Love with a Flower,” sending the internet into an uproar.

Netizens speculated about Zhu Qingling’s long-secret Male God while Meng Weici visited her and finally met Ding Ling. Meng Weici fell for him at first sight, then begged Zhu Qingling to tell her their story and let her stay the night.

• Netizens debated whether Zhu Qingling’s Male God was fictional, while news of her secret love spread online again.
• Meng Weici arrived at Zhu Qingling’s home in Haitang District and asked to meet the Male God she admired.
• Zhu Qingling called Ding Ling, who appeared briefly, greeted Meng Weici, and left to continue refining a strand of light.
• Meng Weici was stunned by Ding Ling’s appearance and declared that she had fallen for him at first sight.
• Zhu Qingling recounted her story with Ding Ling, and Meng Weici teased her before insisting on staying the night.

Meng Weici advised Zhu Qingling on pursuing Ding Ling, and Zhu Qingling publicly confirmed her love for him during a grocery-shopping interview. The interview made Ding Ling a major trending topic and launched a worldwide campaign to find him.

• Meng Weici stayed with Zhu Qingling and spent the night asking about Ding Ling and offering her advice on winning his affection.
• Zhu Qingling went grocery shopping with Meng Weici, and videos of her drew attention online.
• A reporter asked Zhu Qingling about her secret crush, and she confirmed that he existed and said she would date him.
• Zhu Qingling described Ding Ling as perfect and outstanding, then revealed his name and said she admired, liked, and loved him most.
• The interview went viral, and searches such as “Find Ding Ling Campaign” surged as Ding Ling’s public fame rose to that of major stars.

As the world searched for Zhu Qingling’s mysterious Male God, she confirmed that Haoshan Ding Ling was not him and said she would marry her Male God if he agreed. Ding Ling then brought Zhu Qingling, Meng Weici, Zhu Yong, and Jiang Enxi into the second mission world, where they found themselves in a desert near a city.

• Haoshan Ding Ling argued online that he was the best match for Zhu Qingling, but experts dismissed him because he had never helped her and had dated several women.
• Reporters questioned Zhu Qingling at the vegetable market, and she said she did not know Haoshan Ding Ling, that her Male God had never been in a relationship, and that she would marry him if he wanted.
• Haoshan Ding Ling’s hopes were dashed, and he lashed out at netizens while resolving to find out who the real Ding Ling was.
• Ding Ling learned that the refined light was part of an Immortal Palace Fragment and used it to pull Zhu Qingling, Meng Weici, Zhu Yong, and Jiang Enxi into the second mission world.
• The group appeared in a desert in a world combining technology and martial arts, and Ding Ling directed them east toward a large city.