Chapter Summaries

High God Yufeng and Emperor Lord Beichen discussed whether Yun Hua’s love for the Demon Venerable could make him happy. In Yuyao Palace, Yuyao awakened and faced her parents’ criticism, then worried that Linyuan would never pay attention to her again.

• Emperor Lord Beichen argued that loving someone could bring happiness even if that love was not returned, and High God Yufeng recognized her son’s temperament in herself.
• High God Qionghua treated Yuyao’s injuries and scolded her for acting recklessly and leaving evidence behind.
• High God Yunhe rebuked High God Qionghua for teaching Yuyao in a way that could harm her cultivation.
• Yuyao complained about her parents’ arguments and regretted failing to keep Yun Hua in the Lost Land, though she did not regret her actions.
• Yuyao told High God Qionghua that Linyuan hated her and asked what she should do.

High God Yunhe and High God Qionghua discussed Immortal Maiden Yuyao’s thirty-thousand-year punishment in the Far North Bitter Cold Land, while Yuyao challenged her parents’ judgment and compared her sentence with Yunhua’s. The chapter ended with Yuyao demanding to know why they were treated differently.

• High God Yunhe insisted that Yuyao must serve her thirty-thousand-year sentence, though High God Qionghua worried the harsh land would damage her cultivation.
• High God Yunhe explained that the punishment was lenient compared with the Lost Land and said Yunhua’s injuries had left the Heavenly Empress unwilling to show further mercy.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao overheard her father and accused him of thinking her punishment was too light.
• Yuyao compared her sentence with Yunhua’s punishment for loving the Demon Venerable, and High God Qionghua said their situations and mistakes were different.
• Yuyao demanded to know how she and Yunhua were different.

Immortal Maiden Yuyao confronted High God Yunhe about her jealousy of Yun Hua and her resentment over Divine Lord Linyuan’s feelings. High God Yunhe warned that her obsession could lead her to an Inner Demon, but she remained unwilling to accept Su Qiao’s happiness.

• Immortal Maiden Yuyao ranted that Yun Hua surpassed her despite making little effort and that Linyuan preferred Yun Hua over her.
• High God Yunhe told Immortal Maiden Yuyao that love could not be forced and urged her to give up on Linyuan.
• High God Yunhe warned that Linyuan’s rapid rise and pride could leave his state of mind unstable, while Yun Hua had grown more composed and resilient.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao insisted she could not accept Linyuan pursuing a woman she considered vulgar and overbearing.
• High God Yunhe called Immortal Maiden Yuyao mad and questioned why she kept interfering in Linyuan’s choices.

Su Qiao cultivated in seclusion after fusing her divine soul with the Threads of Emotion and successfully ascended from High Immortal to God-Human. Meanwhile, Yuyao reacted bitterly to the news, and Ye Jinghan returned to the Demon Palace to recover his memories.

• Yuyao told High God Qionghua she did not want to go to the Far North Land, and Qionghua advised her to use her injuries to delay the decision.
• Su Qiao entered seclusion at Yun Hua Palace to stabilize her divine soul and prepare to advance.
• After a day and a night, Su Qiao ascended successfully, drawing the Heavenly Emperor, Heavenly Empress, and eight High Gods to Yun Hua Palace.
• The Heavenly Empress sent everyone away so Su Qiao could consolidate her cultivation, while Yuyao spat blood in fury upon hearing of the ascension.
• Ye Jinghan returned to the Demon Palace with Gu Nanyi and followed a mysterious pull toward its largest palace, intent on recovering his memories.

Ye Jinghan recovered his memories by merging with the clone he had left in the Demon Palace and remembered his past romance with Su Qiao. He was left overwhelmed by the pain of her disappearance and the belief that she had abandoned their promises.

• Ye Jinghan merged with his clone in the Demon Palace to recover his memories and searched them for Su Qiao.
• Ye Jinghan remembered meeting Su Qiao while they searched the Demon Realm for spirit herbs and stones, then traveling together and falling in love.
• Ye Jinghan recalled that their opposing identities had not come between them, and that Su Qiao had returned to the God Realm after being summoned.
• Ye Jinghan remembered waiting for Su Qiao in the Demon Realm for a long time, but she never returned or sent word.
• Ye Jinghan thought of Su Qiao's later indifference, felt a wrenching pain, and glared at the sky as his eyes turned blood-red and a baleful aura surrounded him.

Ye Jinghan recalled how the woman he loved had abandoned him and how he endured years of waiting before breaking their promise and entering the High God Realm to find her. He remembered forcing her to appear, only to find her cold and changed, and was left with the pain of losing the life they had once promised each other.

• Ye Jinghan remembered rising from the Endless Abyss and gradually allowing the woman’s kindness to matter to him.
• The woman abandoned Ye Jinghan and left him waiting for her return, despite their promise to stay together.
• Ye Jinghan eventually broke their agreement, entered the High God Realm through the God-Demon Well, and was gravely wounded by its eight High Gods.
• Ye Jinghan wreaked havoc across the High God Realm until the woman appeared before him.
• Ye Jinghan found the woman cold and unfamiliar, and her words and gaze made him feel that their former closeness had been a dream.

The Demon Venerable recalled how Su Qiao had rejected him and cast him into the Endless Abyss, then learned that she had been punished and exiled for their relationship. After sensing her soul split and guessing she had entered the Three Thousand Minor Planes, he pursued her and arranged for Little Four to search for and protect her.

• Su Qiao had once promised to marry the Demon Venerable, but later mocked him and knocked him from the Demon Punishing Platform.
• The Demon Venerable survived the Endless Abyss and returned to the Demon Realm, then learned Su Qiao had been punished and exiled for violating the Heavenly Laws.
• When Su Qiao's divine soul split, the Demon Venerable sensed her danger and began searching for her in the Three Thousand Minor Planes.
• The Demon Venerable created a clone to remain in the Demon Realm and pursued Su Qiao, but her fragmented soul severed their Soul Contract connection.
• The Demon Venerable had Little Four infiltrate the administrator's system and search for Su Qiao while protecting her.

Ye Jinghan recovered the memories of his many reincarnations and learned that he had once been the first Abyssal Demon and Demon Ancestor. As he anticipated returning to confront the God Realm, he remembered Su Qiao’s senior brother, who had supposedly been going to marry her.

• Ye Jinghan recalled threatening the plane’s administrator and agreeing to erase his memories so Su Qiao would have to find him.
• He remembered sensing Su Qiao and using the Ancient Soul Contract to follow her across planes.
• After his Soul Fragments reunited with his incarnations, Ye Jinghan’s memories of his past lives began to return.
• Ye Jinghan recalled being born from turbid energy in the Demon Realm Abyss and leading the Demon Realm in an attack on the God Realm.
• Ye Jinghan considered the surviving Ancient Great God and imagined how Su Qiao might react to his true identity.
• Ye Jinghan remembered Su Qiao’s senior brother, who had supposedly been going to marry her.

Ye Jinghan recovered more memories of his past conflict with the God Realm and resolved to take the woman he loved back, even if it meant fighting the God Realm again. He searched the ancient stone collection in his palace, but only recalled parts of his distant past and the War between Gods and Demons.

• Ye Jinghan remembered that Emperor Lord Beichen, the God Realm’s God of War, had once led the Eight High Gods against him.
• Ye Jinghan blamed himself for humiliatingly pursuing a woman who had betrayed him, but decided he would not give her to anyone else.
• Ye Jinghan vowed to defeat the God Realm again, this time without underestimating its people.
• Ye Jinghan returned to the hall and entered the palace’s secret chamber, where he cleaned the dusty room and examined his collection of stones.
• Ye Jinghan recalled building the chamber and collecting stones after arriving in the Demon Realm, but remembered little else besides his crushing defeat in the War between Gods and Demons.

Ye Jinghan restored his Demonic Core and sought news of Su Qiao, who had returned to the God Realm. When Lan Yi could not provide her whereabouts, he warned her that he had no use for useless followers.

• Ye Jinghan remembered how kindly Su Qiao had treated him in the Small Plane and insisted to himself that she had truly cared for him.
• Ye Jinghan entered a hidden secret chamber and recovered strength from his Demonic Core.
• After emerging, Ye Jinghan asked Lan Yi whether Su Qiao had sent a letter, and Lan Yi said she had not.
• Lan Yi told Ye Jinghan that the God Realm had sealed Su Qiao's whereabouts, leaving them unable to find her.
• Ye Jinghan grew irritable and reminded Lan Yi that he never kept useless people.

Su Qiao became a god-human and tried to make peace with Ye Jinghan, while he considered leading the Demon Race against the God Realm if she abandoned him. She was left wondering how to keep their relationship without provoking a war between their hostile peoples.

• Blue Wing Demon Lord transformed into a giant purple-blue bird and flew off to investigate Ye Jinghan’s identity.
• Ye Jinghan decided to wait for Su Qiao to contact him and threatened to lead the Demon Race into the God Realm if she never returned.
• Su Qiao completed her secluded cultivation, advanced to god-human, and had rumors about Immortal Maiden Yuyao spread through the God and Immortal Realms.
• Su Qiao sent Ye Jinghan a letter, but received no reply and suspected he was still angry after recovering his memories.
• Su Qiao worried that her relationship with Ye Jinghan, the Demon Venerable, could pit her against her parents and the God Realm.

Su Qiao resolved to cultivate so she would be strong enough to face Ye Jinghan and overcome anyone who might oppose them. She entered seclusion and ordered Jingxiang and Liushu to alert her immediately if they heard news of the Demon Venerable.

• Su Qiao regretted how helpless she had been eight thousand years earlier and returned to the cultivation room to train.
• Su Qiao worried briefly that Gu Nanyi, the Blue Wing Demon Lord beside Ye Jinghan, had feelings for him, but trusted Ye Jinghan not to betray her.
• Su Qiao told Jingxiang and Liushu not to disturb her during seclusion unless they received news about the Demon Venerable.
• Liushu asked whether the Demon Venerable would return to the God Realm, and Su Qiao said she did not know but wanted to hear about him immediately.
• Su Qiao decided that she and Ye Jinghan needed to become powerful enough to be together without interference, and Jingxiang stopped Liushu from asking more about their relationship.

Su Qiao entered secluded cultivation, unaware that Gu Nanyi had intercepted both of her secret letters to Ye Jinghan. Meanwhile, Immortal Maiden Yuyao met Gu Nanyi at the God-Demon Well, where Gu Nanyi began to reveal her plan.

• Su Qiao sent another secret letter to Ye Jinghan and entered secluded cultivation with Little Four, but Gu Nanyi intercepted both letters.
• Immortal Maiden Yuyao injured herself further while looking for a way to stay in the God Realm instead of being sent to the Far North Land.
• Yuyao secretly met Gu Nanyi at the God-Demon Well and demanded to know why Gu Nanyi had summoned her.
• Gu Nanyi mocked Yuyao about her injuries and impending exile, then stopped her from leaving to discuss something.
• Gu Nanyi leaned close and whispered the purpose of her visit to Yuyao.

Gu Nanyi forced Yuyao to carry out one last task by threatening to expose their past cooperation, while Yuyao warned that Su Qiao and the Demon Venerable might uncover the truth. As Su Qiao cultivated in seclusion, rumors spread through the God Realm that she and Divine Lord Linyuan would soon marry.

• Gu Nanyi threatened to reveal Yuyao's past actions unless she completed one final task, and Yuyao reluctantly agreed.
• Yuyao told Gu Nanyi they would have no further ties after the task and left, warning that Gu Nanyi would not always be able to laugh.
• Gu Nanyi worried that Su Qiao was not simple and hurried through the barrier into the God-Demon Well, returning to the Demon Realm.
• While Su Qiao cultivated in seclusion, rumors spread that she and Divine Lord Linyuan were about to marry.
• The rumors claimed Princess Yunhua had whipped Immortal Maiden Yuyao for pursuing Divine Lord Linyuan, and that she and Linyuan had reconciled after clearing up an old misunderstanding.

Gu Nanyi told Ye Jinghan that rumors claimed Yun Hua and Divine Lord Linyuan had reunited and were about to marry. Ye Jinghan rejected the claim, convinced Yun Hua had never loved Linyuan, while Yun Hua’s Minor Immortal Maids debated whether to interrupt her cultivation over the growing rumors.

• Yun Hua’s Minor Immortal Maids worried over rumors that she and Divine Lord Linyuan were secretly in love and might marry, though they knew she had rejected him eight thousand years earlier.
• Gu Nanyi hurried into the Demon Palace’s Underground Room while Ye Jinghan cleaned his collection of beautiful stones.
• Gu Nanyi claimed she had heard that Yun Hua and Divine Lord Linyuan were together again and about to marry.
• Ye Jinghan angrily called the rumor impossible and reasoned that Yun Hua would have chosen Linyuan long ago if she had loved him.

Ye Jinghan rejected Gu Nanyi’s claims about Su Qiao and revealed that he still expected her to explain and apologize for what happened eight thousand years ago. Gu Nanyi realized his memories from several million years ago had returned, but his lingering feelings for Su Qiao left her alarmed.

• Gu Nanyi accused Su Qiao of being unworthy of Ye Jinghan and said they might have married if her affair had not been exposed.
• Ye Jinghan warned Gu Nanyi not to judge his affairs, and she realized he had recovered his memories from several million years ago.
• Gu Nanyi reasoned that Ye Jinghan and Yun Hua were enemies and suggested he should not care for her.
• Ye Jinghan forced Gu Nanyi toward the door and told her to leave, insisting he did not believe Su Qiao had changed.
• Ye Jinghan resolved to wait for Su Qiao to explain and apologize for what happened eight thousand years ago.
• Gu Nanyi stopped the stone door from closing and insisted that the rumors about Su Qiao came from the High God Realm.

Gu Nanyi tried to turn Ye Jinghan against Su Qiao by accusing her of stealing Divine Lord Linyuan and whipping Immortal Maiden Yuyao, but Ye Jinghan rejected her claims and drove her away. Though he wanted to find Su Qiao, he decided to wait for her to apologize, while Gu Nanyi left determined to stop them from ending up together.

• Gu Nanyi told Ye Jinghan that Su Qiao had stolen Divine Lord Linyuan from Immortal Maiden Yuyao and viciously whipped her.
• Ye Jinghan struck Gu Nanyi into a stone door and said Su Qiao must have had a reason for whipping Immortal Maiden Yuyao.
• Ye Jinghan ordered Gu Nanyi to leave and threatened to throw her into the Endless Abyss if she disturbed him again.
• Gu Nanyi left the Demon Palace, resolved to prevent Ye Jinghan from ending up with Su Qiao, and flew away in her bird form.
• Ye Jinghan considered going to the Divine World to find Su Qiao but decided she should apologize first.

Su Qiao concluded that Immortal Maiden Yuyao was faking her illness to avoid going to the Far North Land, while rumors blamed Su Qiao for hurting her. She chose not to confront the rumors or her parents yet, and resolved to keep cultivating while trusting that the Demon Venerable would heed her message and stay away.

• Jingxiang and Liushu told Su Qiao about the events outside, and Su Qiao suspected Immortal Maiden Yuyao was pretending to be ill to remain behind.
• Liushu urged Su Qiao to expose the truth and punish those spreading rumors, while Jingxiang worried that Su Qiao's parents were allowing events to unfold.
• Su Qiao decided to stay put for now, saying she was no longer helpless as she had been eight thousand years earlier and that the Demon Venerable had changed too.
• Su Qiao said she had messaged the Demon Venerable and hoped he would not come, and she chose to ignore the rumors while continuing to cultivate.

Su Qiao decided to flee the God Realm with Jingxiang and Liushu, planning to hide in the Demon Realm, cultivate, and deal with Yuyao. Before leaving, she went to seek High God Nanting’s help for Little Four, but encountered Emperor Lord Beichen.

• Su Qiao told Jingxiang and Liushu they would leave the God Realm that night and head to the Demon Realm.
• Jingxiang worried they would be discovered, but Su Qiao insisted they had to go and resolved to cripple Yuyao’s cultivation before leaving.
• Su Qiao picked up the newly awakened but weak Little Four and went to find High God Nanting for help.
• Jingxiang followed Su Qiao, and they encountered Emperor Lord Beichen in the garden before reaching High God Nanting’s palace.

Emperor Lord Beichen warned Su Qiao that her relationship with Ye Jinghan, the Demon Venerable, would make her unwelcome and endangered in both the Divine Realm and the Demon Realm. He said he hoped to avoid facing her on a battlefield, but Su Qiao suspected he was hiding something.

• Emperor Lord Beichen called Su Qiao aside after she dismissed Jingxiang.
• Emperor Lord Beichen acknowledged that Su Qiao had become braver and reminded her that he had watched her grow up.
• Emperor Lord Beichen warned Su Qiao that the Divine Realm and Demon Realm would reject her relationship with Ye Jinghan and that she would be in danger.
• Su Qiao asked whether Emperor Lord Beichen had come because of her Senior Brother, and he denied it.
• Emperor Lord Beichen said he did not want to fight Su Qiao someday, and Su Qiao asked if he was hiding something from her.