Recaps

Ye Shaoxuan defeated Huangfu Zhenlou in the martial arts competition, but Huangfu Xian broke the rules to save his son, triggering a battle between their factions. Su Qiao joined the fight against Huangfu Xian as Sheng Chi led the Demon Sect to the perimeter, waiting for the imperial court to arrive.

• As the final bouts began, Ye Shaoxuan kicked an opponent off the platform and challenged Huangfu Zhenlou.
• Ye Shaoxuan and Huangfu Zhenlou fought with fists and swords, and Ye Shaoxuan won despite his weaker stamina.
• Huangfu Xian secretly struck at Ye Shaoxuan, but Fortress Lord Ye and Su Qiao blocked the attack, and Su Qiao pulled Ye Shaoxuan to safety.
• Fortress Lord Ye attacked Huangfu Xian, while Ye Shaoxuan charged Huangfu Zhenlou again and their followers clashed.
• Sheng Chi withdrew the Demon Sect to the outer perimeter, and Su Qiao flew onto the platform to confront Huangfu Xian.

Su Qiao confronted and killed Huangfu Xian at the Martial Arts Convention, while Ye Shaoxuan killed Huangfu Zhenlou. As the two men fell, a force of three hundred imperial assassins attacked the Training Ground, leaving Su Qiao to face the court’s attempt to wipe out the martial artists.

• Su Qiao sent Ye Zhongli away to investigate the imperial court’s influence among the sects and martial artists.
• Su Qiao challenged Huangfu Xian and overpowered him in a clash of palms before cutting his throat and kicking him from the platform.
• Ye Shaoxuan killed Huangfu Zhenlou as he tried to reach his father, Huangfu Xian.
• Three hundred black-clad men carrying chain-linked Butterfly-shaped Flying Daggers appeared and attacked the crowd.
• Su Qiao recognized the attackers as agents of the imperial court targeting the martial artists.

Su Qiao and the united martial artists defeated the imperial court forces at the Martial Arts Convention, exposing Gathering of Sages Villa and Huangfu Xian as agents of the court. Ye Zhongli became Martial Arts Alliance Leader, and the jianghu’s retaliation against the government reached the Son of Heaven.

• Su Qiao warned that the attackers were from the imperial court and led the charge against their leader as Ye Shaoxuan summoned his allies.
• The martial artists discovered that Gathering of Sages Villa was an imperial court stronghold and that Huangfu Xian had served the court as Alliance Leader.
• Su Qiao and the united martial artists defeated the imperial forces in a bloody battle, with Su Qiao earning the name Female Demon.
• Ye Zhongli became Martial Arts Alliance Leader, and the jianghu turned its hatred toward the imperial court and Imperial Family.
• Martial artists retaliated by setting fire to government offices and officials’ homes, and the reports eventually reached the Son of Heaven.

Su Qiao returned to the Demon Cult to establish new rules, and Ye Shaoxuan followed with a matchmaker and betrothal gifts to propose. They married at the Demon Cult headquarters, while Lin Hanyan, imprisoned in the water dungeon, fainted after hearing the news.

• Su Qiao suppressed opposition as she established new rules for the Demon Cult.
• Ye Shaoxuan brought a matchmaker and betrothal gifts to the Demon Cult to propose to Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao announced that she and Ye Shaoxuan would marry at the Demon Cult headquarters and barred outsiders from attending.
• The martial world learned that Ye Shaoxuan was the master of Reincarnation Hall, and Ye Zhongli, Lin Zhongxuan, and his wife attended the wedding.
• Lin Hanyan heard that Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan had married and that her parents attended, then spat blood and fainted in the water dungeon.

Su Qiao confronted the imprisoned Lin Hanyan and threatened to make her suffer as a poison-testing subject. Lin Hanyan agreed to explain her hatred in exchange for a quick death, revealing that she resented Su Qiao for inheriting their family’s favor and the man she loved.

• A week after their wedding, Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan visited Lin Hanyan in the water prison.
• Su Qiao told Lin Hanyan that death would be too easy and threatened to use her to test poisons.
• Lin Hanyan begged Su Qiao to kill her, then offered to explain her actions if Su Qiao let her go.
• Su Qiao refused to release Lin Hanyan but pretended she might grant her a quick death if she told the truth.
• Lin Hanyan confessed that she hated Su Qiao because she was born a few breaths later and lost the right to inherit the Sect Leader’s position.
• Lin Hanyan said she also resented that everyone favored Su Qiao, including the man she loved, and constantly compared her unfavorably with her sister.

Su Qiao questioned Lin Hanyan about her resentment and learned that Lin Hanyan believed her elder sister had arranged her death to secure the Sect Leader position. Su Qiao explained that Huangfu Zhenlou and his son were purging the Lin Family, leaving Lin Hanyan stunned as Su Qiao called for someone to come out.

• Lin Hanyan said she hated Su Qiao because everyone favored her elder sister, and Su Qiao urged her to reflect on why people disliked her.
• Lin Hanyan explained that after their father was ambushed and passed the Sect Leader position to Su Qiao, Huangfu Zhenlou had killed her, whom he supposedly mistook for Su Qiao.
• Lin Hanyan accused Su Qiao of arranging her death to eliminate a rival and draw out hidden enemies.
• Su Qiao said Huangfu Zhenlou and his son had attacked the Lin Family for the imperial court and would likely kill its members regardless of whom they encountered first.
• Su Qiao suggested Huangfu Zhenlou may have intended to kill both sisters, then told someone to come out.

Su Qiao crippled Lin Hanyan and followed Lin Zhongxuan and his wife to the Kunwu Sect, where they believed their daughter was possessed. The shaman declared Lin Hanyan tainted by an evil spirit and prescribed a forty-nine-day ritual to drive it out.

• Su Qiao shattered Lin Hanyan’s meridians, crippled her martial arts, gave her medicine, and handed her to Lin Zhongxuan and his wife.
• Su Qiao agreed to travel with Ye Shaoxuan, while Sheng Chi temporarily took charge of the Demonic Cult.
• After more than twenty days of travel, Su Qiao and the others reached the Kunwu Sect near the frontier.
• Lin Hanyan woke at the sect and insisted she was Lin Hanyan, but Lin Zhongxuan and his wife believed she was a ghost possessing their daughter.
• The shaman declared Lin Hanyan tainted by something unclean and ordered her fingers and toes bled for forty-nine days before she was cleansed in a special liquid.

Su Qiao stayed at the Kunwu Sect, where Lin Hanyan’s parents and Ye Shaoxuan worked to restore her sense of taste. After she and Ye Shaoxuan began roaming the martial world, they found an abandoned baby and returned to the Flying Eagle Fortress, where Madam Ye had given birth to a daughter and could no longer conceive.

• Su Qiao decided to remain at the Kunwu Sect to see the results of Lin Hanyan’s treatment and explore the surrounding mountains.
• Lin Hanyan’s parents and Ye Shaoxuan worried over Su Qiao’s inability to taste food, and Du Heng later helped her develop a prescription that restored her sense of taste.
• Du Heng’s frequent discussions with Su Qiao made Ye Shaoxuan jealous, and Ye Shaoxuan began guarding her constantly and bickering with Du Heng.
• Su Qiao left the Kunwu Sect with Ye Shaoxuan, and the two roamed the martial world, occasionally helping people they encountered.
• Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan found an abandoned baby boy and returned to the Flying Eagle Fortress, where Madam Ye had given birth to a daughter and was unable to conceive again.

After Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan welcomed a son, they left their families and traveled to the capital, where they repeatedly raided the imperial palace and other powerful households. Years later, Su Qiao died before Ye Shaoxuan, who grieved bitterly and began arranging an honorable funeral for her.

• After Ye Shaoxuan claimed the child as his and Su Qiao's, Fortress Lord Ye celebrated his grandson with a three-day feast.
• Lin Zhongxuan and his wife visited Su Qiao, and they discussed whether she would take over as Sect Leader of the Kunwu Sect.
• Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan said farewell to both families and set off for the capital to confront the Old Emperor's schemes.
• Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan raided the Imperial Palace and the homes of princes and ministers, repeatedly eluding the capital's guards.
• Su Qiao died before Ye Shaoxuan, who mourned her and carefully arranged her funeral.

Su Qiao struggled with the uncertainty of what would happen after her death and whether she would ever see Ye Shaoxuan or Little Four again, until she and Little Four decided to take a gamble. A year after Su Qiao’s funeral, Ye Shaoxuan gave his affairs to their adopted son and spent his final years living beside her grave.

• Su Qiao worried about death, her origins, and being separated from Ye Shaoxuan and Little Four, while her health and spirits steadily declined.
• Little Four shared Su Qiao’s fear of an unforeseen change and hoped they would remain together.
• Su Qiao and Little Four decided to take a gamble despite not knowing what would happen.
• A year after Su Qiao’s funeral, Ye Shaoxuan handed his affairs to their adopted son and built a bamboo hut beside her tomb.
• Ye Shaoxuan prepared meals for two and spoke to Su Qiao’s grave each day until he died peacefully beside it.

Su Qiao woke up trapped among blood-draining Demonic Vines in a dangerous world and found that Little Four had taken a strange new physical form. She recognized the vines from the Cultivation Plane, but Little Four could not reach her, leaving Su Qiao to find a way to escape.

• Su Qiao woke up bound by black vines, and they surged toward her when she struggled.
• Su Qiao called for Little Four, then spotted it hopping among the vines in a small, spiky black body.
• Su Qiao recognized the vines as Demonic Vines that drained blood, though they could not penetrate her body.
• Little Four said it could not reach Su Qiao and told her to kill the vines herself.
• Su Qiao asked for Great Strength Pills, then remembered her sword.

Su Qiao and Little Four escaped a sea of Demonic Vines and reached a dangerous, desolate landscape. They decided to search for living creatures and learn Su Qiao’s identity in this world.

• Su Qiao freed herself and Little Four from the Demonic Vines with the Golden Long Sword.
• Little Four spotted a Gobi Desert to the west, and Su Qiao carried him through the vines toward it.
• Su Qiao and Little Four escaped the vines and found themselves between a barren desert and strange woods.
• Little Four admitted he did not know where they were, but reassured Su Qiao that they were together.
• Su Qiao noticed traces of people and animals nearby and decided to find living creatures and discover her identity.

Su Qiao discovered that her body was an energy clone and decided to find her main body to learn the truth about her identity and scattered Soul Fragments. She and 444 remained puzzled about their origins, but Su Qiao expected an exciting journey ahead.

• Su Qiao questioned why she had none of the body's memories, and 444 discovered that her body was an energy clone containing a trace of its owner's essence blood.
• 444 explained that creatures wanted to consume Su Qiao because absorbing her could make them stronger.
• Su Qiao decided to find her main body and believed that would explain her identity and the scattered pieces of her Soul Fragment.
• Su Qiao wondered whether she was undergoing a tribulation and asked 444 about its identity and strange appearance.
• Su Qiao encouraged 444 to keep going and said she felt things would become exciting.

Su Qiao and 444 explored a gloomy, desolate landscape, and Su Qiao reassured 444 that its strange new form would become mighty as it grew. They spotted a group of unusual people chasing a man, and Su Qiao went to investigate.

• Su Qiao walked along the woods with 444, avoiding the Gobi Desert because they needed food.
• Su Qiao comforted 444 about its changed appearance, and 444 decided it would grow strong enough to protect her.
• Su Qiao and 444 found the trees and strange dark-colored plants growing denser as they traveled.
• 444 spotted a group of strange-looking people chasing a man, and Su Qiao decided to take a closer look.

Su Qiao rescued a bloodied man from a group of strange creatures and learned they recognized the mark that appeared on her forehead as a Divine Mark. The chapter ended with her helping the injured man up and realizing his unusual appearance seemed familiar.

• Su Qiao followed the sounds of fighting and found a black-clothed man surrounded by dozens of strange creatures.
• Su Qiao charged in and used her sword to kill or injure many of the creatures, driving the rest to flee while calling her a figure from the Divine Realm.
• Su Qiao and 444 noticed the creatures dragged away the fallen bodies, apparently treating them as food.
• 444 suggested the fleeting mark on Su Qiao's forehead was a Divine Mark, and Su Qiao decided to investigate whether she came from the Divine Realm.
• Su Qiao heard the injured man's coughing, helped him up, and saw his blood-streaked face and deep purple-red eyes.

Su Qiao rescued an injured man and tried to learn who he was, but neither of them remembered their past. After he fainted, she carried him through the dangerous wilderness to find a safe place where he could recover.

• Su Qiao wiped blood from the man's eye, and he asked who she was.
• Su Qiao said she had no memories of this world and admitted she might have seen him before.
• Su Qiao warned that the blood could attract danger and urged them to leave, but the man fainted before he could finish speaking.
• Su Qiao caught the man, told Little Four to keep up, and carried him away at full speed.
• Su Qiao hoisted the man onto her shoulder and asked 444 to find a suitable place to shelter and treat him.

Su Qiao sheltered the injured man in a gray cave in the Gobi Desert and discovered his wounds had healed unusually quickly. When he awoke, he focused on Little Four, who feared the man might eat him.

• Su Qiao found a gray cave and used her sword to clear it and defend against dangerous creatures.
• Su Qiao noticed the man’s external wounds had healed while he remained unconscious, and wondered what kind of place they were in.
• Su Qiao hunted a wolf-like beast, made a fire, and roasted meat outside the cave.
• The man woke, warily scanned his surroundings, and came out to sit by the fire.
• Su Qiao offered the man meat, but he stared at Little Four, who bristled and insisted he was an ally.
• Su Qiao reassured Little Four and privately noted that his own appearance seemed more dangerous than the man’s.

Su Qiao fed the wary man she had rescued, and he ate the roasted meat hungrily before speaking to her. When she asked where he had come from, he pointed north across the desolate grassland.

• Xiao Si startled the man, and Su Qiao reassured them both that it would not attack him.
• Su Qiao offered the man roasted meat, and he snatched a skewer and ate it quickly.
• Su Qiao gave the man all five skewers, and he slowed down as he ate under her and Xiao Si's gaze.
• The man asked where they were, and Su Qiao said she did not know.
• Su Qiao asked where the man had come from, and he pointed north toward the sparse grassland.

Su Qiao and the amnesiac man entered a strange forest and encountered a crowd of animal-featured people who recognized her from a portrait. The crowd believed killing someone from the God Realm would let them escape the Lost Land, and Su Qiao prepared to fight while demanding answers.

• Su Qiao asked the man why people had tried to kill him, then invited him to follow her as she set out to find someone who could explain their surroundings.
• Su Qiao, the man, and 444 entered a sparse forest and came upon a crowd of at least seventy people with animal or plant features.
• A Fox-tailed Man identified Su Qiao, and a Black Bear-faced Man confirmed she matched a portrait and ordered the crowd to attack.
• The Fox-tailed Man warned that Su Qiao was from the God Realm and that others who had chased her had died.
• The Black Bear-faced Man declared that killing Su Qiao would let them leave the Lost Land, and Su Qiao raised her sword and demanded to know who they were.

Su Qiao defeated the attackers and captured Fox Man, who revealed that an unidentified High Immortal had offered the Lost Land’s inhabitants a way out if they killed her. Su Qiao learned that the High Immortal’s identity remained unknown, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Su Qiao, Little Four, and the man behind them overwhelmed the attackers, while Fox Man fled and Little Four blocked his escape.
• Su Qiao captured Fox Man and threatened a wounded survivor to make him talk.
• Su Qiao showed Fox Man a portrait taken from the Black Bear-faced Man and asked who wanted her dead.
• Fox Man said an unseen High Immortal had distributed the portrait throughout the Lost Land and promised that whoever killed Su Qiao could leave.
• Fox Man explained that the High Immortal supplied people with necessities and appeared mysteriously, so the desperate inhabitants believed his promise.

Su Qiao questioned Fox Man about the Six Realms and the Lost Land, learning that she had been exiled to a barren wilderness beyond the realms. She asked how to escape, and Fox Man said no one had ever left alive except a High Immortal.

• Su Qiao asked Fox Man to explain the Heavenly Realm and the Lost Land.
• Fox Man described the Six Realms, their inhabitants, and their cultivation ranks.
• Fox Man explained that the Lost Land was a barren prison beyond the Six Realms where magic failed and survival depended on violence.
• Su Qiao lowered her sword and asked how they could escape.
• Fox Man said no one had ever escaped alive, apart from a High Immortal.

Su Qiao learned that the Lost Land lay beneath the Oblivion River and that escaping it was nearly impossible. After sparing Fox Man, she decided to search for her main body rather than look for a way out.

• Fox Man explained that the Lost Land was an independent space beneath the Oblivion River, sealed behind a barrier created by the Divine Ancestor.
• Fox Man said that anyone who touched the Oblivion River would vanish completely, and that the people hunting Su Qiao hoped she could help them escape.
• Su Qiao spared Fox Man, who left without helping his wounded companions.
• Su Qiao and 444 discussed their enemies and resolved to face them together.
• Su Qiao decided to search the Lost Land for her main body.

Su Qiao decided to travel north with the amnesiac man, suspecting that her main body was hidden in the Land of Extreme Cold. The man headed into the forest to find food before the long journey.

• The man insisted that he could follow Su Qiao, and she questioned how he knew he belonged to the Demon Race.
• The man explained that he had appeared in the north, where black soil and bugs gave way to a cold, snowy wasteland with no food.
• Su Qiao suspected her main body was hidden in the Land of Extreme Cold and decided to go north to find it.
• The man entered the forest with his wooden spear, and when Su Qiao stopped him, he explained that there was no food in the direction they were going.

Su Qiao, the man, and Xiao Si discovered that Xiao Si was a Spatial Demonic Beast rather than a system, then continued north to find his main body. After crossing grassland, swampy black soil, and Gobi Desert, they reached a frigid mountain range.

• Su Qiao hunted with the man and Xiao Si, and they gathered three carcasses before wolves arrived.
• Su Qiao stored the carcasses, and the man realized Xiao Si was a Spatial Demonic Beast whose power explained the spatial storage.
• Xiao Si learned that being a system was not his true nature and felt distressed about having been deceived.
• Su Qiao urged Xiao Si to travel north with them to find his main body and uncover who was behind the deception.
• After gathering supplies, Su Qiao, the man, and Xiao Si crossed the grassland, swampy black-soil region, and Gobi Desert, reaching a frigid mountain range about half a month later.

Su Qiao and Han traveled through the mountain range toward the ice plains, but Han repeatedly stopped to collect pretty stones. When Su Qiao asked about his past, Han remembered only that his name might be Han.

• Han stopped by a river to wash a large white stone, then clung to it because he thought it was pretty.
• Su Qiao persuaded Little Four to store the stone so Han would continue leading them through the dangerous route.
• Han stopped more than ten times to collect stones, frustrating Little Four and making Su Qiao suspect that collecting them was his real purpose.
• Su Qiao asked Han whether he knew his name, and he uncertainly answered, "Han?"
• Han could remember no other details about himself and shook his head.