Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao left Han and Lan Yi to find the teleportation platform to the God Realm, where she summoned the Earth God for help. The Earth God recognized her as the Great King and explained how to activate the platform, leaving Su Qiao bewildered by her title.

• Han rejected Lan Yi's claim that Su Qiao had deceived him and accused Lan Yi of lying.
• Han grabbed Lan Yi by the throat and demanded that she return with him to the Demon Palace so he could recover his memories.
• Su Qiao grew tired of waiting and used magic to flee toward the God Realm.
• Su Qiao found the teleportation platform but could not activate it, so she called for help and summoned the Earth God.
• The Earth God addressed Su Qiao as the Great King and told her to place an identity token on the platform to return to the Heavenly Realm.

Su Qiao returned to the God Realm after identifying the Golden Tablet in her Jade Gourd and using it to activate a teleportation platform. She recognized the gate guards and threatened them into keeping her return secret.

• Su Qiao dismissed the little old man and searched her Jade Gourd, finding a Golden Tablet that looked like an identity token.
• Su Qiao placed the Golden Tablet in the teleportation platform and arrived at a heavenly gate in the God Realm.
• Xiang Bei and Xiang Nan recognized Su Qiao as the Little Ancestor who had returned from undergoing a tribulation.
• Su Qiao surveyed the God Realm and warned Xiang Bei and Xiang Nan not to report her return.

Su Qiao headed toward life in the Divine Realm while Ye Jinghan returned to the Demon Realm and recovered his memories. Remembering how he and Su Qiao had fallen in love, Ye Jinghan was left furious at her.

• Xiang Bei backed down when Su Qiao asserted herself, and she looked forward to life in the Divine Realm.
• Ye Jinghan discovered Su Qiao had disappeared and flattened the hill in anger.
• Unable to find Su Qiao or a way to the Divine Realm, Ye Jinghan returned to the Demon Palace with Lan Yi and the others to recover his memories.
• Ye Jinghan merged with his main body and recovered memories of his past with Su Qiao and across the three thousand planes.
• Ye Jinghan remembered how he and Su Qiao had grown close while exploring, hunting for treasures, and sharing their interests, then fallen in love after more than a year.

Ye Jinghan remembered how Yun Hua had rejected and nearly killed him after returning to the God Realm, leaving him bitter and wounded. Lan Yi entered his palace to check on him and reported that most of the Ten Great Demon Lords hoped he would return safely, while he asked about the situation outside.

• Ye Jinghan recalled waiting for Yun Hua, then storming into the God Realm and being attacked by the eight High Gods.
• Yun Hua appeared, injured Ye Jinghan, and kicked him from the Demon Punishing Platform into the Endless Abyss.
• Ye Jinghan blamed Yun Hua for his suffering and snapped at Lan Yi when she entered the palace.
• Lan Yi said the Ten Great Demon Lords were worried about Ye Jinghan, though one or two might be plotting.
• Ye Jinghan asked Lan Yi about the situation outside.

Ye Jinghan punished Lan Yi for insulting the woman who had betrayed and hurt him, insisting that no one but himself had the right to judge or harm her. He expelled Lan Yi from the palace, and she left vowing that he would regret it.

• Lan Yi warned Ye Jinghan not to trust people from the Divine Realm, especially the woman he loved, and claimed she would guard against anyone plotting against him.
• Ye Jinghan struck Lan Yi, then forbade her from speaking ill of the woman and said he would not let anyone else insult or bully her.
• Lan Yi asked why Ye Jinghan treated her so harshly, and he reminded her that she had once attacked the woman in the Small Plane.
• Ye Jinghan swept Lan Yi out of the palace in black mist, and she transformed into a bird and flew away after promising he would regret it.

Ye Jinghan wondered whether Su Qiao had been forced to hurt him, but his resentment over her actions kept him from going to find her. Meanwhile, Su Qiao returned to Yun Hua Palace, where her maids believed she was still undergoing a tribulation.

• Ye Jinghan worried that Su Qiao was in danger after being banished to the Lost Land, then reminded himself that she had wounded him and left him for dead.
• Ye Jinghan returned to the palace, determined to find out whether Su Qiao had also been heartless toward him in the Small Plane.
• Su Qiao followed her instincts and fragments of memory until she found Yun Hua Palace.
• Liugu dropped a plate in shock when she saw Su Qiao, and Su Qiao stopped the maids from calling out.
• Jingxiang asked why Su Qiao had returned before her ten-thousand-year tribulation was over, leaving Su Qiao stunned.

Su Qiao returned to Yun Hua Palace and concealed her arrival from the Empress while she tried to understand her missing memories. As she explored the palace with little Fourth, fragments of her past began to surface.

• Liugu mistook Su Qiao's return for the end of her tribulation, but Su Qiao stopped her from reporting it to the Empress.
• Su Qiao ordered Liugu and Jingxiang to keep her return secret and guard the palace gate against visitors.
• Jingxiang and Liugu discussed Su Qiao's past punishment, forbidden relationship, and tribulation as they took up their posts.
• Su Qiao carried sleeping little Fourth around Yun Hua Palace, found her Imperial Bedchamber, and began recovering more memories from familiar surroundings.

Yunhua restored her sealed Threads of Emotion and recovered her lost memories, then heard Jingxiang and Liugu discussing her absence. The chapter left her maids defending her against the implication that she was at fault, while criticizing Immortal Maiden Yuyao.

• Yunhua broke the seal on the crystal ball and guided her Threads of Emotion back into her body, recovering her lost memories.
• Jingxiang and Liugu stopped discussing Yunhua when Caiwei and Muxue approached with flower baskets.
• Caiwei and Muxue said that Immortal Maiden Yuyao liked fresh flowers and reassured the maids that Princess Yunhua would return safely.
• Jingxiang stopped Liugu from explaining herself and said that Yunhua was kind and would return safely.
• Liugu criticized Immortal Maiden Yuyao's apparent purity and said Yunhua had no interest in Divine Lord Linyuan.

Caiwei and Muxue disparaged Princess Yunhua while praising their mistress and wishing she had paired with Divine Lord Linyuan. They knew Yunhua’s powerful family and master made her dangerous to offend, and Muxue ended by wondering what Linyuan had seen in her.

• Muxue and Caiwei criticized Princess Yunhua’s reputation and claimed her parents and master protected her from punishment.
• Caiwei and Muxue praised their mistress’s character, family, and cultivation, saying she suited Divine Lord Linyuan better than Yunhua did.
• Muxue condemned Yunhua for leaving Linyuan for the Demon Venerable, and Caiwei warned her not to discuss it where anyone might hear.
• Caiwei reminded Muxue that Yunhua’s return could bring trouble for them and their mistress, and Muxue agreed not to provoke the princess.
• Muxue reflected that Yunhua was too powerful and reckless to offend, then wondered what Divine Lord Linyuan had seen in her.

Su Qiao overheard two Minor Immortal Maids discussing Princess Yunhua’s past and learned how she and Ye Jinghan fell in love, were separated, and came to mistrust each other. Her memories revealed that Ye Jinghan had come to the Divine Realm despite her warnings and was gravely hurt after fighting its Eight Great Divine Lords.

• Caiwei worried that Princess Yunhua’s return would cause trouble now that Divine Lord Linyuan was with their mistress, while Muxue argued Yunhua would have to follow the Heavenly Realm’s rules.
• Su Qiao secretly followed the two Minor Immortal Maids and overheard their conversation.
• Su Qiao recalled that, while using the name Su Qiao, she had met Ye Jinghan, who used the name Shi, in the Demon Realm, and the two had fallen in love.
• After their identities were revealed, Yunhua was summoned back to the Divine Realm and warned Ye Jinghan through secret messages not to come for her.
• Ye Jinghan came anyway, believing Yunhua had betrayed him, and fought the Divine Realm’s Eight Great Divine Lords, who left him increasingly severely injured.

Su Qiao recalled how she had been punished and exiled after being framed for her relationship with Ye Jinghan, and realized Immortal Maiden Yuyao had exposed her out of jealousy. Back in the Imperial Bedchamber, she decided to settle the score and chose a black whip.

• Su Qiao remembered knocking Ye Jinghan into the Endless Abyss, hoping the passage to the Demon Realm Abyss would let him survive.
• Su Qiao recalled that the divine realm had punished and exiled her, after which she split her soul into fragments and hid her weakened body in the Lost Land.
• Su Qiao concluded that Immortal Maiden Yuyao had revealed her relationship with Ye Jinghan because of resentment and jealousy.
• Su Qiao vowed to make her enemies pay for the forty-nine Divine Whip strikes and searched the Jade Gourd Space for a whip.
• Su Qiao selected a long, pitch-black whip.

Su Qiao went to Yuyao Palace to take revenge on Immortal Maiden Yuyao, bringing Jingxiang and Liushu along and warning them to keep quiet. She confronted Yuyao and struck her with her whip, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Su Qiao decided to vent her anger before attempting a breakthrough and set out to exact revenge.
• Su Qiao ordered Jingxiang and Liushu to follow quietly, warning that they would be sent to sweep toilets if they caused trouble.
• Su Qiao and the two maids entered Yuyao Palace and found Immortal Maiden Yuyao tending to a White Jade Orchid.
• Yuyao was startled to see Su Qiao, who accused her of expecting Su Qiao to have died and swung her whip at her.

Su Qiao attacked Immortal Maiden Yuyao with a powerful whip and chased her through the courtyard. Yuyao realized she still could not match Su Qiao, who had grown stronger despite spending eight thousand years in the Lost Land.

• Su Qiao struck Immortal Maiden Yuyao with Ye Jinghan’s whip, which pierced through the defenses of her Immortal Robe and caused her intense pain.
• Su Qiao ordered Jingxiang and Liushu to guard the courtyard and keep others from interrupting her fight with Yuyao.
• Jingxiang and Liushu agreed that Yuyao must have offended Su Qiao, and Jingxiang prepared to stop Caiwei and the others from entering.
• Su Qiao continued whipping Yuyao as she fled, while Yuyao threatened to fight back and revealed her killing intent.
• Yuyao realized that despite cultivating for eight thousand years, she still could not defeat Su Qiao, whose progress had remained astonishing even after her time in the Lost Land.

Su Qiao finished whipping Immortal Maiden Yuyao forty-nine times, leaving her gravely wounded in the courtyard. As Yuyao accused her of abusing her status, Su Qiao considered exposing and ruining Yuyao before killing her.

• Su Qiao taunted Immortal Maiden Yuyao over their old tournament and continued the whipping, insisting all forty-nine lashes had to land.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao complained that Su Qiao was acting above the Heavenly Laws and the rule of law.
• Jingxiang and Liushu fought Caiwei and Muxue outside the courtyard gate.
• Su Qiao completed all forty-nine lashes, leaving Immortal Maiden Yuyao barely clinging to life with her robe in tatters and her body covered in wounds.
• Su Qiao dismissed Yuyao's claim that she lacked authority to punish her and considered ruining Yuyao's reputation before killing her.

Su Qiao beat Immortal Maiden Yuyao and hinted that Yuyao was involved in the punishment that had nearly broken her bones. High God Qionghua arrived, believed her daughter’s account, and threatened to discipline Su Qiao on the Empress’s behalf.

• Su Qiao kicked Immortal Maiden Yuyao down again and reminded her that she had once endured forty-nine lashes from the Divine Whip.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao denied responsibility for Su Qiao’s suffering and grew flustered when Su Qiao suggested she knew what Yuyao had done.
• High God Qionghua arrived with Minor Immortal Maids, and Jingxiang and Liushu apologized for failing to stop them.
• High God Qionghua helped Yuyao up and demanded to know why Su Qiao had attacked her.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao claimed Su Qiao had attacked her without cause, and High God Qionghua threatened to teach Su Qiao a lesson on the Empress’s behalf.
• Su Qiao coldly flicked the black whip in her hand.

The Heavenly Empress arrived just as Su Qiao was about to fight the Flower Clan Leader and defended Yunhua. Su Qiao explained her missing memories, then accused Immortal Maiden Yuyao of secretly undermining her, prompting Yuyao and the Flower Clan Leader to demand proof.

• The Heavenly Empress descended with two Minor Immortal Maids and ordered the Flower Clan Leader not to discipline Yunhua.
• The Flower Clan Leader protested that Yunhua had attacked Yuyao, but the Heavenly Empress blamed Yuyao for provoking her.
• Su Qiao explained that her memories had returned after she merged with the Threads of Emotion sealed in the God Realm.
• Su Qiao accused Immortal Maiden Yuyao of holding a grudge and using underhanded tricks against her since losing to her in the arena ten thousand years earlier.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao denied the accusation, and the Flower Clan Leader demanded that Su Qiao provide evidence.

Su Qiao confronted Immortal Maiden Yuyao, and Divine Lord Linyuan arrived to defend Yuyao before recognizing his returned Junior Sister. Linyuan tried to learn what had caused the fight, leaving Yuyao furious that he seemed more concerned about Su Qiao than his fiancée.

• Divine Lord Linyuan arrived and supported the injured Immortal Maiden Yuyao before recognizing Su Qiao as his Junior Sister.
• Su Qiao asked whether Linyuan had come to protect his lover, embarrassing him and prompting him to question her behavior.
• Linyuan reproached Su Qiao for attacking Yuyao, but Su Qiao said she only attacked truly vile people and told him to ask Yuyao what she had done.
• Linyuan pressed Su Qiao to explain what Yuyao had done, and Yuyao angrily demanded to know whether she or Su Qiao was his fiancée.

Su Qiao confronted Immortal Maiden Yuyao over secretly monitoring and trying to assassinate her, while Divine Lord Linyuan questioned Su Qiao about her relationship with the Demon Venerable. Yuyao could not explain how she knew about Su Qiao and Ye Jinghan in the Lost Land, leaving those present increasingly convinced of Su Qiao’s accusation.

• Yuyao reminded Linyuan of Su Qiao’s past punishment and accused Su Qiao of remaining close to the Demon Venerable in the Lost Land.
• Linyuan asked Su Qiao why she had renewed her ties with the Demon Venerable, and Su Qiao told him she had always regarded him only as an older brother.
• Linyuan warned Su Qiao that her relationship with a member of the Demon Race could bring her ruin, but she declined to explain further.
• The Heavenly Empress asked Su Qiao what Yuyao had done, and Su Qiao said Yuyao had sent people to watch and assassinate her.
• Su Qiao challenged Yuyao to explain how she knew about Su Qiao’s encounters and closeness with Ye Jinghan in the Lost Land.
• Yuyao failed to answer, and the onlookers began to believe Su Qiao’s accusation, though Linyuan still struggled to accept it.

Su Qiao accused Immortal Maiden Yuyao of having her watched and hunted in the Lost Land, and the Heaven Empress demanded an explanation for how Yuyao could leave a prison meant to be impossible to escape. The Flower Clan Leader defended her daughter, but the Heaven Empress insisted that they take the matter to the Main Hall.

• Su Qiao claimed Immortal Maiden Yuyao had sent people to monitor her and offered the Lost Land’s prisoners freedom in exchange for Su Qiao’s head.
• Divine Lord Linyuan questioned Yuyao, while the Flower Clan Leader pulled him away and denied the accusation.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao called Su Qiao a liar, but the Heaven Empress silenced her and asked how she had entered and left the Lost Land.
• The Flower Clan Leader argued that Yuyao lacked the cultivation to cross the barrier, and the Heaven Empress took Su Qiao’s side and demanded a discussion in the Main Hall.

Su Qiao recounted what had happened in the Lost Land as the Heavenly Empress called for the Heavenly Emperor and High Gods to address the prison's security. Divine Lord Linyuan learned that Su Qiao had survived by scattering fragments of her divine soul across the Three Thousand Minor Worlds, and she declared that it was time to settle old debts.

• The Heavenly Empress insisted that the matter be brought before the Heavenly Emperor and the High Gods, then asked Su Qiao to explain what had happened.
• Su Qiao told the Heavenly Empress about the dangers she had faced while away.
• Divine Lord Linyuan left without defending Immortal Maiden Yuyao, and the Flower Clan Leader covered her with a cloak and took her toward the Main Hall.
• Divine Lord Linyuan asked Su Qiao whether she had gone to the Endless Abyss, and she denied it.
• Su Qiao explained that she had split her divine soul into dozens of pieces and scattered them across the Three Thousand Minor Worlds to recover and evade pursuit.
• Su Qiao said she had returned to settle old debts, and Divine Lord Linyuan promised he would not let Immortal Maiden Yuyao go if she was responsible.