Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao accused Lin Hanyan of arranging years of torture and persecution, then revealed that she had deliberately leaked her whereabouts to expose Lin Hanyan’s connection to Xu Changsong. Lin Hanyan denied everything and begged her parents to believe her.

• Su Qiao accused Lin Hanyan of having her abducted and made into a Medicine Person, then spreading rumors that her flesh and blood could enhance cultivation and prolong life.
• Lin Zhongxuan and his wife questioned Lin Hanyan, who denied the accusations and claimed Su Qiao was jealous of her.
• The Kunwu Sect disciples demanded proof and accused Su Qiao of slander.
• Su Qiao revealed that she had deliberately passed news of her whereabouts to Xu Changsong so his contact with Lin Hanyan would expose her.
• Lin Hanyan denied colluding with the Demonic Cult and pleaded with her parents to trust her.

Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan as Lin Miaoyin, the Mystic Sound Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, and prompted Huangfu Zhenlou to question her about the attempts on his life. Yuechan testified that Lin Hanyan had ordered the Young Miss’s family and village killed, and revealed a past-life motive and a connection between Gathering of Sages Villa and the imperial court.

• Su Qiao accused Lin Hanyan of occupying her younger sister’s body and identified her as Lin Miaoyin, the Mystic Sound Pavilion’s Pavilion Master.
• Su Qiao asked Huangfu Zhenlou to question Lin Hanyan about the repeated assassination attempts and the poisoning.
• Yuechan testified that Lin Hanyan had ordered Gong Jun to kill the Young Miss and leave no survivors among the villagers who knew her.
• Yuechan revealed that Lin Hanyan had said Huangfu Zhenlou killed her by mistake in a past life, so she wanted revenge in this one.
• Yuechan added that Lin Hanyan had said Gathering of Sages Villa was linked to the imperial court and had targeted the Young Miss in the previous life.

Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan as an impostor who had supposedly schemed from childhood and ordered a village massacre, turning the crowd and Lin Hanyan’s parents against her. Lin Hanyan denied the accusations, then broke down and fled.

• Lin Hanyan attacked Yuechan, but Su Qiao protected her and struck back at Lin Hanyan.
• Yuechan swore that her testimony was true, making the crowd suspect Lin Hanyan.
• Madam Lin and Lin Zhongxuan questioned whether Lin Hanyan was really their daughter, while Lin Hanyan pleaded with them to believe her.
• Su Qiao accused Lin Hanyan of plotting since childhood and using Gong Jun to massacre villages, and the crowd said the accusations were terrifying but believable.
• Lin Hanyan screamed that she was innocent, then turned and ran.

Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan's forces captured Lin Hanyan after she tried to escape, while the Lin couple struggled to face Su Qiao's rejection. The martial arts factions were left uncertain how to treat Su Qiao and newly suspicious of Alliance Leader Huangfu Xian.

• Lin Hanyan threw Poison Powder at Su Qiao and was rescued by a group of martial artists.
• Ye Shaoxuan's forces, led by Xiao Wu, captured Lin Hanyan and drove off the Mystic Sound Pavilion rescuers, leaving only a few survivors.
• Madam Lin apologized to Su Qiao for failing to protect her, but Su Qiao said her only parents were her adoptive parents.
• Lin Zhongxuan reflected that he and Madam Lin had given up searching for Su Qiao and had no right to demand her forgiveness.
• The gathered martial artists questioned how to treat Su Qiao, then doubted Alliance Leader Huangfu Xian after hearing that Gathering of Sages Villa was connected to the imperial court.

After Su Qiao warned the martial artists that her blood was poisonous, no one dared to try to exploit her. With the Alliance Leader’s trust in question, the convention turned to choosing the next leader through martial arts, and Huangfu Xian planned to put forward his son, Huangfu Zhenlou.

• Su Qiao warned the gathered martial artists that her poison-refined blood could kill anyone who touched it, and nobody dared approach her.
• The Sect Leaders recognized that the convention could not remain deadlocked and asked Ye Zhongli how to proceed.
• Ye Zhongli proposed settling the dispute according to the rules through martial arts, and the Sect Leaders and Huangfu Xian agreed.
• Huangfu Xian decided that his son, Huangfu Zhenlou, would compete for the Alliance Leader position because Huangfu Xian’s own identity had come under suspicion.
• Huangfu Xian considered Ye Shaoxuan a serious rival because of his status and martial arts, while dismissing Su Qiao as an unlikely candidate.

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.