Chapter Summaries

Leng Qingqiu apologized to Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun as part of Duan Shuyun’s plan to steer them toward supporting Mu Liuxi as Inner Court manager. Yun Yao misunderstood the scheme and declared she should manage the Inner Court herself, prompting Meng Yutong to question her confidence.

• Leng Qingqiu apologized to Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun, while Duan Shuyun asked Leng Qingyun to put their past feud behind them.
• Duan Shuyun suggested Mu Liuxi manage the Inner Court while she and Meng Yutong went into seclusion, but Yun Yao volunteered to take over household matters instead.
• Yun Yao told Leng Qingyun she believed the apology was a ploy to secure Mu Liuxi’s authority, and Leng Qingyun agreed to help Yun Yao win the position.
• Mu Liuxi reported that Yun Yao had believed the ruse and was seeking Jiang Caiyan’s support.
• Meng Yutong announced she planned to recuperate in Lin Heng’s Small World, and Duan Shuyun and Leng Qingqiu backed Mu Liuxi as acting manager.
• Yun Yao objected and claimed she was the most qualified to manage the Inner Court, and Meng Yutong asked whether she thought herself stronger than Mu Liuxi.

Yun Yao tried to claim authority over the Inner Court, but Meng Yutong and the senior sisters turned her boast into a trap. After Yun Yao chose both offered items, the others forced her to swallow Leng Qingqiu’s Anti-Lust Pill, and Lin Heng arrived as she fell.

• Yun Yao bragged about her strength and offered to manage the Inner Court, prompting Meng Yutong and the senior sisters to test her.
• Leng Qingyun, Jiang Caiyan, Zhao Wanqing, Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingqiu appeared to support Yun Yao, then called her Ancestor Yao and accused her of disrespecting Meng Yutong.
• Meng Yutong offered Yun Yao the Heavenly Edict Token or a pill, but Yun Yao took both and declared she could manage the household and prove herself.
• Meng Yutong ordered the others to seize Yun Yao, and Leng Qingqiu revealed the pill was an Anti-Lust Pill that would prevent Yun Yao from dual cultivating.
• Leng Qingqiu made Yun Yao swallow the pill, and Lin Heng arrived after Yun Yao had fallen; Meng Yutong called out to him as he tried to sneak away.

Lin Heng explained that Mu Li had brought a treasure map and revealed that the Female Emperor had sent her to provoke Meng Yutong. Meng Yutong flew into a rage, then grabbed Lin Heng by the ear and took him away.

• Lin Heng arrived to find Yun Yao bound after being forced to take Anti-Lust Pills, and Meng Yutong said Yun Yao had been punished for her misconduct.
• Meng Yutong decided to enter seclusion in Lin Heng’s Small World and questioned him about his day with Mu Li.
• Lin Heng explained that Mu Li had brought a map revealing hidden treasures belonging to the Central Domain’s Immortal Path forces.
• Lin Heng revealed that the Female Emperor had also sent Mu Li to provoke Meng Yutong by threatening to cuckold her.
• Meng Yutong flipped a table, insisted she was not angry, and dragged Lin Heng away by the ear.

Meng Yutong punished Niu Moqiu for mocking her, while Yun Yao realized her senior sisters had set her up and was left under a cultivation restriction. The next morning, Lin Heng visited Leng Qingyun before going to check on Yun Yao, who had been lying motionless in her wooden house.

• Meng Yutong returned and slapped Niu Moqiu for badmouthing her, then warned the other women to be more careful.
• Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi carried Yun Yao onto a table and warned her to obey Second Senior or risk a harsher restriction.
• Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing suggested that Duan Shuyun and the others had tricked Yun Yao into being punished, and Yun Yao realized they were right.
• Lin Heng learned Meng Yutong had gone into seclusion and decided to visit the Black Soil War Zone, but stopped to see Leng Qingyun first.
• Leng Qingyun told Lin Heng that Yun Yao had spent the day lying motionless in the wooden house, and Lin Heng went to check on her.

Yun Yao confronted Lin Heng about the Anti-Lust Pills that had sealed her cultivation shortcuts, then agreed to prove her talent by advancing through her own efforts. Lin Heng sent her into his Small World to cultivate and promised Leng Qingyun time alone after checking on Bai Yi.

• Lin Heng found Yun Yao distressed in her room and confirmed that he had possessed three Anti-Lust Pills but had not fed them to her.
• Yun Yao blamed Lin Heng for failing to warn her about the pills and lamented that she could no longer use dual cultivation to advance quickly.
• Lin Heng reassured Yun Yao that the seal could motivate her to prove her ability by reaching the Spirit Transformation stage herself.
• At Yun Yao's request, Lin Heng sent her into his Small World to cultivate in seclusion.
• Leng Qingyun suggested spending time alone with Lin Heng, and he agreed to meet her in three days after checking on Bai Yi.

Bai Yi used his talisman to send demon souls into the Underworld, prompting Luo Qi to leave Ultimate Bliss and intervene. As the battle against the Contract Beast Clan neared its end, Bai Yi challenged a Demon King, was swiftly beaten, and called for Uncle Prison to save him.

• Bai Yi’s Double Fish Talisman opened Rebirth Bridge during the battle, sending demon souls into the Underworld and causing widespread damage.
• The three Rakshasas decided to ask Xiao Muyu to stop Bai Yi, but Luo Qi volunteered to go to the mortal world instead.
• Luo Qi dismissed her brother’s warnings about losing Nether Lifespan and departed for the battlefield.
• Bai Yi insisted on joining the final battle against a Demon King despite Dugu Feng warning that he was outmatched.
• The Demon King shattered Bai Yi’s Heaven-Earth Chessboard and left his talisman dim; Bai Yi fled injured and shouted for Uncle Prison to save him.

Bai Yi was saved from the Demon King by Uncle Prison, while Lin Heng encountered Luo Qi after the Nine Heavens Sword reacted to someone emerging from the Rebirth Bridge. Luo Qi brought Xiao Muyu’s warning that Lin Heng’s Peach Blossom Calamity was still unfinished, leaving him wondering who else it could involve.

• Uncle Prison rescued Bai Yi from the Demon King, and Martial Man and Smoke Ghost chastised him for showing off.
• Lin Heng noticed the Nine Heavens Sword trembling and followed a shadow from the Rebirth Bridge, where he found Luo Qi instead of Xiao Muyu.
• Luo Qi explained that Xiao Muyu had stayed behind because she did not want to interfere with Lin Heng’s human-world karma.
• Luo Qi told Lin Heng that Xiao Muyu said his Peach Blossom Calamity had not passed and that the person involved was someone other than the Female Emperor.
• Luo Qi went to deal with Bai Yi, whom her Netherworld companions wanted to punish for causing trouble there.

Lin Heng speculated about which woman might be tied to his Peach Blossom Calamity, then celebrated after the Demon Race yielded the road to the Central Domain. At the victory banquet, Little Senior Sister asked him to keep their agreement, while Senior Niu quietly moved to outmaneuver Qingyun.

• Lin Heng considered Little Yueli, Murong Ziyan, Jiang Qian, and Wei Yanxianlan as possible sources of his Peach Blossom Calamity, but judged Little Yueli and Murong Ziyan the likeliest candidates.
• After five hours of fighting, Dugu Feng and the Demon King stopped without a decisive winner, and the Demon King withdrew his tribe a hundred li after a summons from the Demon Venerable.
• Lin Heng celebrated the Human Race opening the route to the Central Domain and received a bottle of Spirit Transformation True Blood from the Green Fox Clan.
• Little Senior Sister asked Lin Heng to honor their agreement, and he agreed to meet her after she washed up.
• After Dummy left, Senior Niu exchanged a knowing look with Duan Shuyun, who understood that Qingyun would struggle to compete with Junior Sister Niu.

After the Contract Beast Clan retreated, Lin Heng led his forces toward the Central Domain while Dugu Qingyang’s group debated how to support the campaign. Dugu Qingyang chose to head south and help defend Dao Palace City, while Murong Ziyan circled toward Falling Snow City to secure the Immortal Sea Summit.

• Lin Heng ordered his divisions to resume the Northern Expedition, and Yu Ling returned with her clansmen to help maintain the route through the Demon Domains.
• Dugu Zixuan pointed out Dragon Sea City, and she and Dugu Yifeng argued over how her son had captured it.
• Dugu Zhengyuan offered Dugu Qingyang the choice of joining Lin Heng in the Central Domain or helping the Nine Dust Alliance at Dao Palace City.
• Dugu Qingyang chose to head south, explaining that Lin Heng’s surprise attack depended on the Nine Dust Alliance and Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office delaying the Immortal Clan’s Supremes.
• Dugu Qingyang and the others prepared to operate outside Dao Palace City, while Murong Ziyan led her remaining forces toward Falling Snow City to stabilize the Immortal Sea Summit.

On the Cloud Boat, Lin Heng tried to spend time with Little Senior Sister, only to discover that Leng Qingqiu had disguised herself as Dummy. The discovery led to a chaotic confrontation involving the real Dummy, Duan Shuyun, and Zhao Wanqing, and Lin Heng stayed behind with Leng Qingqiu to mediate the sisters’ conflict.

• Lin Heng worried about dividing three days among his companions and went to Little Senior Sister’s room.
• Lin Heng realized the woman in the bath was Leng Qingqiu pretending to be Dummy.
• Lin Heng opened a cabinet and found Duan Shuyun, Zhao Wanqing, and the bound, gagged Dummy hiding inside.
• Dummy called for help, but Leng Qingqiu teased her and said Yun Yao was in seclusion.
• Lin Heng asked Duan Shuyun and Zhao Wanqing to leave so he could mediate between Leng Qingqiu and Dummy, and they slipped away.

As the Cloud Boat fleet traveled onward, Lin Heng and Leng Qingyun's teasing contrasted with the lively antics aboard the ships. Luo Qi explained to Bai Yi how the Marriage Ledger tied them together and undermined his belief that he was destined to inherit the Mandate of Heaven, leaving him shaken.

• Lin Heng and Leng Qingyun teased each other after Senior Niu died, while the Cloud Boat fleet continued its journey.
• Martial Man and other cultivators gambled at mahjong, and one losing player started a fight.
• Luo Qi told Bai Yi that their marriage fate had appeared in the Marriage Ledger after Bai Yi, Lin Heng, and Chen arrived, perhaps because of the Double Fish Talisman.
• Luo Qi said Bai Yi would have no women other than her and mocked his comparison with Lin Heng.
• Luo Qi explained that powerful lineages on the Ancient Burial Immortal Star made Bai Yi an unlikely choice to inherit the Mandate of Heaven's will for the Fourth Epoch, and Bai Yi's confidence collapsed.

Bai Yi questioned why the First Epoch had reached the Immortal Realm before the other epochs and raised the possibility that its arrival was tied to darkness and calamity. He left Lin Heng to consider the mystery, but Dugu Yueli interrupted their tea, prompting Lin Heng to send Bai Yi away.

• Luo Qi told Bai Yi that Lin Heng’s Humanity Domain was powerful enough to suppress opponents, while humanity’s strength came at the cost of a short lifespan.
• Bai Yi barged into Lin Heng’s cabin, where Lin Heng was drinking tea with Mu Liuxi hidden nearby, and told him the epoch game’s participants were working to solve problems from their own eras.
• Bai Yi argued that the First Epoch’s early arrival and connection to darkness and calamity made its purpose mysterious, since the intervening epochs had left no trace of its passage.
• Bai Yi revealed that Lin Ziqing belonged to the Humanity lineage, but Lin Heng said he already knew.
• Dugu Yueli knocked and entered the cabin, and Lin Heng eagerly told Bai Yi to leave while Mu Liuxi remained hidden.

Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that the Great Wall Dao Palace barrier had already fallen, then revealed he had prepared a fallback city for her father and his allies. Dugu Yueli learned that Lin Heng had anticipated the danger and built a place where they could hold off the Immortal Clan.

• Bai Yi stormed out after judging Lin Heng to be a disloyal flirt, and Mu Liuxi reprimanded Lin Heng for pursuing Dugu Yueli.
• Dugu Yueli reported that four Supremes were attacking the Dao Palace barrier and feared her father’s forces could not hold out.
• Lin Heng warned Dugu Yueli that her father and the others might die, making her worry about the consequences of his plan.
• Lin Heng joked about having kidnapped Dugu Yueli before, then revealed that the Dao Palace barrier had already been broken.
• Lin Heng explained that he had sent Bai Yi and the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office to build a fallback city between Falling Snow City and the Dao Palace for Dugu Wuwu’s forces to defend.

Lin Heng explained how he had used the new city and his reputation to shield the Nine Dust Alliance from the Immortal Clan, then traded teasing remarks with Dugu Yueli and Mu Liuxi. The story shifted to the Tusu Demon Domain, where Duan Shuyun offered a plan to cross into the Central Domain unnoticed.

• Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that he had built the new city as a decoy to make the Immortal Clan hesitate while the Nine Dust Alliance sheltered there.
• Dugu Yueli admitted she could not match Lin Heng's schemes and left after he teased her about being unable to beat him in a fight.
• Mu Liuxi scolded Lin Heng for keeping his hand on her head and warned him to behave himself around Senior Mu Li and Dugu Yueli.
• Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi agreed that she and First Senior Sister would visit him that night to whisper in private.
• At West River Mouth, Duan Shuyun proposed a way for the group to cross into the Central Domain without alerting its watch towns.

Duan Shuyun proposed using Demon Beasts to distract two Watchtower Towns while the group seized a foothold, and Bai Yi agreed to help carry out the plan. Across the river, the Old Lin Family grew impatient while waiting for the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office to arrive.

• Duan Shuyun explained that Yaoyao’s Demon Beast and the other demons could create a disturbance at West River Mouth to draw attention away from a Watchtower Town.
• Lin Heng agreed to follow Duan Shuyun’s plan and threatened Bai Yi with being made Chief Eunuch Bai until Bai Yi agreed to help her.
• Duan Shuyun and Bai Yi gathered Little Red, Xiao Lan, Xuexue’s big red fox, four little foxes, four pig demons, and a leopard to carry out the diversion.
• Su Wanyue followed Duan Shuyun, while Lin Heng told the others to rest and regroup until the order to cross came.
• In First Watch Town, the Old Lin Family and several unfamiliar people grew impatient as they waited for the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office, and one young man joked about kidnapping Saintesses.

Lin Yi sent Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang across the river while Xiao Lan and Xiao Red drew the attention of the Central Domain’s forces. After Bai Yi taught Xiao Lan to prolong the fight by acting despicably, the two Lin juniors were caught by the patrol, and Jiang Caiyan slapped Lin Xiaobai.

• Lin Yi recognized the Demon Beast attack as Lin Heng’s signal and sent Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang across the river with an identity token.
• Xiao Lan battled the forces from Second Town and Third Town, bit off a Nascent Soul cultivator’s arm, and escaped into the river while Xiao Red struggled to fight.
• Bai Yi explained to Xiao Lan that she should injure her opponents and retreat so more cultivators would come, allowing the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office to cross unnoticed.
• Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang crossed the river but were seized by Leng Qingqiu, Jiang Caiyan, and the two Holy Maidens of the Su Family.
• Lin Xiaobai flirted with the women, and Jiang Caiyan slapped him before saying she already had a man.

Lin Heng questioned Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang, then agreed to the Old Lin Family’s plan to help the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office cross the river and capture First Town. He later revealed to Leng Qingqiu, Jiang Caiyan, and the Su Family holy maidens that the brothers were his cousins.

• Lin Heng sent Jiang Caiyan and the other women away, struck Lin Xiaobai for refusing to answer, and questioned Lin Yang about who had sent them.
• Lin Yang explained that Lin Yi sent them because Lin Tianhe could not leave Immortal Mountain, where the Old Lin Family was being watched.
• Lin Yang proposed that Lin Yi spread rumors in Second Town while the Imperial Office crossed to First Town and attacked its defenders from within and without at the eighth night watch.
• Lin Heng accepted the plan, freed Lin Yang, and warned the brothers not to provoke the Imperial Office.
• Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang saw Lin Heng with Leng Qingqiu, Jiang Caiyan, and the two Su Family holy maidens, then Lin Heng privately told the women that the brothers were his cousins.

Lin Heng told the women that his paternal family was the Changlin Clan and explained how his father and grandfather had concealed their identities and left Green Pavilion Sect. The women worried about how his mother and uncle would react, so Lin Heng went to ask First Senior Sister for advice as the group prepared to cross the West River.

• Lin Heng revealed that he was descended from the Changlin Clan and recounted how Lin Daochuan had faked his death and left Green Pavilion Sect to Lin Zhique.
• Leng Qingqiu and the others warned that Lin Zhique’s hidden identity and sudden departure could make Lin Heng’s mother feel deceived, but they could not agree on how to explain it.
• Leng Qingqiu suggested Lin Heng ask First Senior Sister for advice, and Lin Heng urged the women not to spread the news before going to find her.
• Lin Heng found Bai Yi teaching tactics to Demon Beasts and told him that the Changlin Clan was ready to receive them and that they would cross the West River at the eighth quarter that night.
• Bai Yi agreed to let the Demon Beasts rest, then screamed when he noticed Luo Qi had climbed onto his back.

Lin Heng watched the crossing turn dangerous when Xiao Lan was seized by a Return to Void expert, but Saint Ye appeared with a newly reforged body and sent Little Black to help. The chapter ended with Little Black unleashing a roar so powerful that everyone on the shore vanished.

• Lin Yi spread a rumor that demons were preparing to attack, drawing cultivators from the nearby towns to the riverbank.
• Elder Wang mocked the warnings and attacked the water, but Xiao Lan dragged him underwater before a Return to Void expert pulled her back.
• Saint Ye appeared before Lin Heng in a newly reforged, youthful body, and the two exchanged insults while Xiao Lan and the others drew the cultivators’ attention.
• Saint Ye sent Little Black to help Xiao Lan, and Little Black’s roar swept across the waterway and made everyone on the shore disappear.

Little Black revealed overwhelming power by subduing Xiao Lan, while Lin Heng’s forces took control of a Watchtower Town and questioned two Demon Suppression Office guards. The guards described the towns’ staffing and the Immortal Sects’ influence, leaving Bai Yi to compare their arrangement to outsourced labor.

• Little Black dragged Xiao Lan back after a roar that frightened the Fire Qilin and other demon beasts, and Saint Ye called its strength comparable to Lin Heng’s.
• The Old Lin Family killed the gate guards, opened the town gate, and helped the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office seize the town’s defenses and seal its gates.
• Lin Heng ordered captured Demon Suppression Office personnel brought to the office as prisoners and designated the building as the forces’ main camp.
• Two guards told Lin Heng that the three towns’ Demon Suppression Offices had roughly two hundred, six hundred, and three hundred people, and that the Immortal Sects’ influence was concentrated among senior officials and their subordinates.
• The guards explained that most personnel handled dangerous labor, prompting Bai Yi to call them outsourced workers.