Recaps

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi pressured Guan Yeshan into joining them as a guide, then followed her to the second floor of the Transmission Pavilion to search for valuable Duxuan Sect techniques. With the dark hours approaching, they began selecting rare methods while considering which ones would best complement their existing abilities and legacies.

• Lin Yu threatened Guan Yeshan but agreed to spare her for now, and she promised to guide them in exchange for a chance to survive.
• Guan Yeshan introduced herself as a member of the Eight Desolations Martial Arts School and revealed that Guan Jingyang and Chen Ru were her uncle and aunt.
• Jian Cunyi questioned Guan Yeshan about her unusually effective concealment technique, and she said it came from neither her school nor her family.
• Guan Yeshan warned them that the dark hours would arrive in about an hour and led them to the second floor, where the rarer techniques were kept.
• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi agreed to start with the rare methods, hoping to find techniques that suited their abilities and complemented their existing legacies.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi explored the sealed collection of advanced cultivation methods, while Guan Night Orchid demonstrated the talismans that let her bypass formations. After Lin Yu chose not to press her about the talismans’ source, Jian Cunyi selected a cultivation method, and Lin Yu revealed he planned to choose books by how they felt in his hands.

• Jian Cunyi disabled the bookshelf’s formation, then reactivated it at Lin Yu’s request so Guan Night Orchid could demonstrate her method of bypassing it.
• Guan Night Orchid used two talismans to pass through the formation and retrieve a jade slip, while Jian Cunyi explained that they aligned her energy with the formation.
• Lin Yu accused Guan Night Orchid of concealing the talismans’ origins, but Jian Cunyi advised him to leave the matter alone to avoid provoking her.
• Lin Yu agreed to stop questioning Guan Night Orchid, and he and Jian Cunyi returned to selecting cultivation methods.
• Jian Cunyi chose one cultivation method, while Lin Yu rapidly handled books and said he was judging them by feel rather than reading them.

Lin Yu chose five cultivation books from the Transmission Pavilion despite Jian Cunyi’s warnings, while secretly recording all twenty-seven books with the Ancient Notebook. As the sky darkened with the approaching Yin Time, Guan Night Orchid led them outside and found two corpses on the steps.

• Lin Yu selected five books, and Jian Cunyi recommended two while warning him about the risks of the other three.
• Lin Yu revealed that he trusted his choices, then stored the books and Ancient Notebook in his belt after recording the remaining books’ contents.
• Jian Cunyi asked whether Lin Yu had memorized the books, and Lin Yu denied it before they joked about cultivation and McDonald’s.
• Guan Night Orchid reported that her watch had been uneventful, then hurried Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi out of the Transmission Pavilion as the sky turned blood-red.
• Guan Night Orchid saw two corpses on the steps, and Lin Yu calmly asked whether they had been her companions.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi followed Guan Yeshan to an open pavilion, where Yin Time began and the Duxuan Sect warped under the influence of a powerful demon. Seeking a way to deal with the threat while conserving Jian Cunyi’s strength, Lin Yu grabbed Guan Yeshan and headed outside with her.

• Guan Yeshan recognized the corpses as Feng Xu and Hu Pingzhou, but was confused when Jian Cunyi detected demonic qi in them.
• Guan Yeshan led Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi to an octagonal pavilion and said they would be safe inside it.
• When Yin Time began, the buildings around them warped, and Jian Cunyi sensed a demon at least as powerful as a Twelve-Guans demon.
• Lin Yu offered to confront the unknown demon so Jian Cunyi could preserve his strength, then questioned Guan Yeshan about surviving the Yin Side.
• Lin Yu grabbed Guan Yeshan by the collar and carried her out of the pavilion, telling Jian Cunyi to prepare to support them.

Lin Yu took Guan Night Orchid into the Yin Side, where he found the bodies of her companions and exposed her deception. He identified the woman as Qin Siyu, though her purpose and what happened to the group remained unknown.

• Lin Yu dragged Guan Night Orchid deeper into the Yin Side and entered a distorted former ancestral hall.
• Lin Yu found eleven corpses in the hall, bringing the total he had seen to thirteen, and Guan Night Orchid reacted with fear.
• Lin Yu accused Guan Night Orchid of hiding how the Yin Side had killed her companions and threatened her with Spider Silk.
• Lin Yu used a corpse’s weapon-callused hands and Guan Night Orchid’s finger-technique calluses to show that she was not the real Guan Night Orchid.
• Lin Yu identified the woman as Qin Siyu, and she stopped pretending to be Guan Night Orchid.

Lin Yu deduced that the disguised Guan Night Orchid was Qin Siyu, who had been imitating Li Nian to appear harmless. Qin Siyu revealed her true intentions by attacking Lin Yu, but he evaded her and summoned the God of Desire, leaving her stunned by the power behind him.

• Lin Yu identified the woman as Qin Siyu after recognizing that her performance copied Li Nian's mannerisms, and she admitted she had tried to conceal her identity.
• Qin Siyu recognized Jian Cunyi as Daoist Master Xingyi and explained she had disguised herself because she practiced unorthodox arts and did not trust herself around him.
• Qin Siyu said she might be the one who wanted to harm Jian Cunyi, then suddenly attacked Lin Yu with fast, True Essence-infused strikes.
• Lin Yu used his spirit form to evade Qin Siyu's attack, then summoned the God of Desire's phantom behind him.
• Qin Siyu recognized the golden light as the Six Desires Demon Lord's power, and Lin Yu told her the figure was the Demon Lord's master.

Lin Yu confronted Qin Siyu with the God of Desire and learned that a demon had cursed her and her companions, forcing her to lure Daoist Master Xingyi into the Yin Side. He used the God of Desire to temporarily weaken her curse, but Qin Siyu responded with such convincing shock and gratitude that Lin Yu accused her of still acting.

• Lin Yu revealed the God of Desire to convince Qin Siyu that he could help protect her from the demon threatening her.
• Lin Yu deduced that Qin Siyu had been coerced, and she showed him the curse marks spreading across her body.
• Qin Siyu explained that the demon's curse had consumed her companions and forced her to keep a Daoist Sect expert trapped in the Yin Side.
• Lin Yu asked the God of Desire to sever the curse's connection to its caster, and the golden light temporarily weakened the curse.
• Qin Siyu reacted with apparent disbelief and gratitude, but Lin Yu accused her of continuing to act.

Lin Yu questioned Qin Siyu about the demon that had trapped her and learned how her group had entered the Duxuan Sect. He suspected their apparent coincidence was a trap aimed at Jian Cunyi, and the chapter ended with him asking Qin Siyu about her relationship with Li Nian.

• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu he could see through her practiced emotional displays, and she admitted she habitually showed reactions that benefited her.
• Qin Siyu explained that a demon seemed to be everywhere in the Duxuan Sect and had made her companions uncontrollable after they awoke, while Lin Yu’s intervention had temporarily suppressed its curse on her.
• Qin Siyu described how three groups had coincidentally gathered to explore the Duxuan Sect, but Lin Yu said the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord’s power over destiny could manipulate coincidences.
• Lin Yu suggested that the demon had spared Qin Siyu and lured the martial artists into the sect as part of a trap aimed at Jian Cunyi, whose connection to the demon’s former master made him a threat.
• Qin Siyu recognized that Lin Yu had leverage over her and agreed to trust him; as they prepared to leave, Lin Yu asked what her relationship with Li Nian was.

Lin Yu learned how Qin Siyu and Li Nian became friends through a week-long contest of theft, while using their history to better understand Qin Siyu. As they returned to the pavilion, Jian Cunyi revealed that the demon was likely connected to the ancient demon Living Foot.

• Lin Yu asked Qin Siyu about Li Nian and explained that he knew her real name because they came from the same world.
• Qin Siyu recounted how she and Li Nian competed for seven days after both targeted the Twelve-Story Moon Liuli Night Pearl in Talin Town, then returned each other’s stolen belongings.
• Qin Siyu said she narrowly won the pearl and became close friends with Li Nian after Li Nian hid beneath her carriage seat and praised her skills.
• Lin Yu asked whether Qin Siyu still had the pearl, then concluded that she knew little about the demon troubling the Duxuan Sect.
• Jian Cunyi emerged from meditation and told Lin Yu that the demon was most likely connected to the ancient demon Living Foot.

Jian Cunyi identified the demon haunting the Yin Side as a Living Foot, a parasitic ancient demon that fed on human hearts. Lin Yu and Qin Siyu revealed their true identities and circumstances, and the chapter ended with Lin Yu explaining that his desire-related power came from a friend who had subdued the being above the Six Desires Demon Lord.

• Jian Cunyi explained that Living Foot demons parasitized human hearts and that the demon creating the Yin Side was likely one of them.
• Qin Siyu admitted she had known Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi were not demons and had concealed her identity; Lin Yu identified her as the cat burglar Qin Siyu, not Guan Night Orchid.
• Lin Yu explained that the Living Foot demon had cursed and bewitched Qin Siyu, prompting Jian Cunyi to forgive her and offer to examine the curse.
• Jian Cunyi detected the aura of the Six Desires Demon Lord in Qin Siyu, and Lin Yu explained he had used desire-related demonic power to suppress her curse.
• Lin Yu said a friend had found and subdued the being above the Six Desires Demon Lord in the Nether Void Realm.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi investigated the demon Living Foot in the deserted Duxuan Sect and concluded that the sect had used it to power its protective formation. Qin Siyu was shocked by their discovery as the group prepared to face the ancient demon.

• Jian Cunyi explained that Zhu Ming had subdued the fallen deity behind the Six Desires Demon Lord, and warned Lin Yu not to underestimate the being's power over desire.
• Lin Yu told Jian Cunyi that Qin Siyu and her companions had found sixteen bodies, and suggested they might have been lured to the sect to awaken Living Foot.
• Jian Cunyi said Living Foot had likely been dormant in the Duxuan Sect for centuries and that the martial artists may have served as sacrifices.
• Lin Yu reasoned that Living Foot had been brought into the sect before its destruction and might be part of the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Jian Cunyi confirmed that the formation sealed a Great Demon and drew power from it, while Qin Siyu reacted with shock at the sect's use of a living demon.

Jian Cunyi explained that the demon Living Foot had awakened and begun taking control of the Duxuan Sect’s protective formation, trapping Qin Siyu and the others inside. Having seized part of the formation, he revealed a route out but chose to stay and confront the demon, and Lin Yu and Qin Siyu decided to help him.

• Jian Cunyi explained that the ancient Duxuan Sect had used Living Foot as the foundation of an illusion formation because it could parasitize True Spirits and bewitch minds.
• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi concluded that Living Foot had begun eroding the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation after consuming sacrifices, and that it was responsible for trapping Qin Siyu and the others.
• Jian Cunyi used his control of the formation to reveal a winding path out of the Duxuan Sect, reassuring Qin Siyu that they could escape.
• Jian Cunyi said he would remain to suppress Living Foot and prevent it from becoming a greater threat, while Lin Yu volunteered to stay and help.
• Qin Siyu chose to stay as well, saying she wanted revenge for her dead companions and hoped to help Jian Cunyi confront the demon.

Jian Cunyi began his attempt to seize the Duxuan Sect’s formation and destroy or reseal the ancient demon, assigning Lin Yu and Qin Siyu to close any escape routes. Lin Yu swiftly carried Qin Siyu to one of Jian Cunyi’s markers, where they witnessed the extraordinary power behind his efforts.

• Qin Siyu questioned how she and Lin Yu could help, and Jian Cunyi explained that they should seal or destroy the formation’s escape routes while he fought the demon within the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Jian Cunyi launched his attack, summoning talismans and formation flags as the Duxuan Sect’s formation shook and the demon cried out in fear.
• Lin Yu summoned the Myriad Laws Dao Banner and took Qin Siyu toward a marker; a beam of pure qi erupted from the sect’s southeastern corner as the demon recognized Jian Cunyi as a threat.
• Lin Yu picked Qin Siyu up and flew with her at incredible speed to the marker, leaving her astonished by his ability to fly.
• At the marker, Lin Yu realized Jian Cunyi’s pillar of pure qi rivaled a Taiqing Sect Forbidden Art and understood that Jian Cunyi could kill the demon rather than merely seal it away.

Lin Yu used Abyssal mana to disrupt the formation corrupted by Living Foot, then turned its nexus into crystal rings for Qin Siyu to steal. After the formation collapsed, he let Qin Siyu keep the rings and offered her any more they made.

• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu to follow his instructions and steal the formation nexus once he exposed it.
• Lin Yu converted the formation’s true essence into chaotic Abyssal mana, disrupting its operation and crystallizing around its core into sixteen thorny rings.
• Qin Siyu swiftly stole the rings, and the formation began to collapse, causing the surrounding ground to cave in and spiritual energy to erupt.
• Lin Yu praised Qin Siyu’s skill, and she asked what method he had used to create the rings.
• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu she could keep and sell the rings as decorations, and offered her any more he made.

Lin Yu and Qin Siyu destroyed Living Foot’s escape formations, and Qin Siyu explained why she stole and what she hoped to do with the money. With the formations sealed and Daoist Master Xingyi silent, Lin Yu told her to wait because Xingyi’s fight with the demon had reached a critical point.

• Lin Yu and Qin Siyu destroyed every subsidiary formation Jian Cunyi had marked as Living Foot’s escape routes, and Qin Siyu collected the black magic-crystal rings.
• Qin Siyu offered to return the rings after learning they might be valuable, but Lin Yu told her to keep and sell them.
• Qin Siyu explained that she made her living as a thief because she needed money to support herself and repay the villagers who had cared for her as an orphan.
• Qin Siyu asked what they should do now that every gap was sealed and Daoist Master Xingyi had gone quiet, and Lin Yu said to wait because Xingyi was fully occupied fighting the demon.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi defeated Living Foot by erasing its consciousness, ending the curse on Qin Siyu and restoring the Duxuan Sect. Qin Siyu joined them on their journey to Nine Cold Mountain to seek medicine for her village, where everyone had suffered fire poison since a Great Demon passed through eleven years earlier.

• The Duxuan Sect’s formations redirected Living Foot until it vanished, and the sect returned to normal.
• Qin Siyu’s curse faded, and Lin Yu withdrew the power of Desire he had used to suppress it.
• Jian Cunyi revealed that he had erased Living Foot’s consciousness and collected its body to make pills and magical artifacts.
• Qin Siyu asked to travel with Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi to Nine Cold Mountain, seeking Taiyin moonlight grass and cold jade spring water.
• Jian Cunyi offered to help Qin Siyu find the ingredients or treat the fire poison afflicting her loved ones.
• Qin Siyu explained that a Great Demon passed through her village eleven years earlier, leaving everyone there, including newborns, afflicted with fire poison.

Lin Yu and Qin Siyu discussed her village’s fire-poison crisis while eating the rations she had stored in the Duxuan Sect. When they found blood and demonic traces outside the storeroom, Lin Yu realized a new demon had appeared inside the sect without Jian Cunyi detecting it—or that Jian Cunyi might be unable to stop it.

• Jian Cunyi promised Qin Siyu he would visit her village and try to help its people after repairing the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Qin Siyu explained that she stole to support villagers suffering from fire poison, then took Lin Yu to the storeroom for food.
• While eating, Lin Yu told Qin Siyu that Jian Cunyi wanted to resettle Prison Mountain Realm commoners in his world, and Qin Siyu noted that the Daoist Sect had kept the plan quiet.
• Qin Siyu heard a rustling outside and led Lin Yu out, where they found a drag mark and flecks of blood.
• Qin Siyu detected residual demonic energy, and Lin Yu suspected a new demon had evaded Jian Cunyi’s perception or that Jian Cunyi could not deal with it.

Lin Yu identified the tracks as belonging to newborn Gu-Heart Snake Demons that had hatched from the martial artists killed through Living Foot’s cooperation with them. When more than a hundred snakes appeared, Lin Yu signaled Jian Cunyi and warned that the Diviner was disguised among them.

• Lin Yu consulted the God of Desire, who identified the tracks and bloody residue as signs of newborn Gu-Heart Snake Demons from Miasma Hell.
• Lin Yu connected the demons’ reproduction to the mutilated corpses and concluded that they had used Qin Siyu’s companions as seedbeds with Living Foot’s help.
• Lin Yu persuaded Qin Siyu to confront the newly born demons, then used his Mental Power to find them hiding on the storehouse roof.
• More than a hundred Gu-Heart Snake Demons emerged, leading Lin Yu to realize the threat would be troublesome even with Jian Cunyi’s help.
• Lin Yu raised the Myriad Laws Dao Banner to alert Jian Cunyi and shouted that the Diviner was disguised as a snake among the demons.

Lin Yu summoned Jian Cunyi by claiming the Diviner was among the Gu-Heart Snake Demons, prompting Jian Cunyi to unleash Heavenly Tribulation Lightning that annihilated them. Lin Yu then revealed the Diviner had hidden a soul fragment inside one corpse using the God of Oblivion, and Jian Cunyi restrained him as he emerged.

• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu that the Diviner was more dangerous than Daoist Master Xingyi, and Jian Cunyi appeared through an avatar after hearing the name.
• Jian Cunyi opened the Duxuan Sect's protective formation and called down Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, spiritually annihilating the Gu-Heart Snake Demons.
• Jian Cunyi questioned Lin Yu about the Diviner's presence, and Lin Yu admitted he had lied to make Jian Cunyi arrive faster.
• Lin Yu detected the Diviner's concealed soul fragment in a corpse and ordered Jian Cunyi to restrain it; Jian Cunyi immediately bound and suppressed the body.
• Lin Yu explained that the Diviner's God of Oblivion could erase awareness of his existence, but the Ancient Notebook's memory backups let Lin Yu keep track of him.
• The corpse transformed into the white-haired Diviner, who greeted Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu while still bound by pure qi chains.

Diviner revealed that he had engineered the danger at Duxuan Sect to trap Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu, then arrived in his true body as the sect's formation was sealed by a blood-sacrifice formation. Lin Yu confronted him, vowing to destroy him before he could become a Deity.

• Diviner admitted arranging the Gu-Heart Snake Demons' cooperation with Living Foot and luring martial artists to Duxuan Sect, and revealed he had manipulated Qin Siyu into coming there.
• Diviner explained that Jian Cunyi had activated the Ten Thousand Bloods and Souls Living Sacrifice Forbidden Art by merging with the sect's formation, while an outer formation sealed Duxuan Sect.
• Diviner's true body appeared at the sect's main hall, and Jian Cunyi began trying to send Lin Yu and the others out while warning them to guard their minds.
• Lin Yu told Diviner that he had advanced to Tier 2 and challenged him, while Diviner threatened to capture or erase Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi.
• After Diviner threatened Senior Sister, Lin Yu vowed to kill him and prevent him from ever becoming a Deity.

Lin Yu faced the Diviner’s Soul-Seizing Bell and blood-summoning attack, but used the passage he had opened earlier to escape the Duxuan Sect with Qin Siyu. Jian Cunyi pulled his soul out of the formation to stop the Diviner from interfering, leaving the two men poised to fight.

• The Diviner felt inexplicable unease about Lin Yu, then used the Soul-Seizing Bell to incapacitate Qin Siyu and shake Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi.
• Jian Cunyi used Truth Company’s “Refreshing Spirit” mint candies to revive Lin Yu and Qin Siyu, and gave Lin Yu a bottle that could protect against the bell.
• The Diviner sacrificed his snake-demon avatar to strengthen the Blood Sacrifice Forbidden Art, sending a sea of baleful blood into the Duxuan Sect to threaten Jian Cunyi and block their escape.
• Lin Yu carried Qin Siyu and used a water sphere to reconnect Jian Cunyi’s passage through the sect’s formations, then vanished with her.
• The Diviner tried to stop Lin Yu with a compass, but Jian Cunyi knocked it aside with his wooden sword and revealed that he had forcibly pulled his soul out of the formation to confront the Diviner.

Jian Cunyi fought Leng Jing after Lin Yu and Qin Siyu escaped the Duxuan Sect, using lightning and Karmic Fire despite his damaged soul. As he vowed to drag Leng Jing into eternal slumber, a sudden rain from the arcane formation began extinguishing the flames.

• Lin Yu and Qin Siyu escaped the Duxuan Sect, leaving Jian Cunyi free to confront Leng Jing.
• Jian Cunyi endured the Soul-Seizing Bell and struck Leng Jing with lightning from his Peachwood Sword.
• Jian Cunyi unleashed Karmic Fire, and Leng Jing accused him of refining living souls to master the technique.
• Jian Cunyi admitted his choices and vowed to kill Leng Jing, then fueled the Karmic Fire by burning himself.
• An arcane formation unleashed heavy rain that began extinguishing the Karmic Fire.

The Diviner used a Qimen Formation to draw water from Mist Island Realm's Absolute Sea and extinguish Jian Cunyi's karmic fire, then prepared another attack with power from the Black Marsh World. Jian Cunyi answered by activating his Heart Domain, Ascending to Immortality, and struck at the Diviner with a powerful sword wave that the chapter left unresolved.

• The Diviner revealed that his Qimen Formation had summoned water from Mist Island Realm's Absolute Sea to suppress the karmic fire.
• The Diviner explained that he had adapted Jian Cunyi's formation ideas to connect the Prison Mountain Realm's supernatural system to power from other realms.
• The Diviner began drawing power from the Black Marsh World for a new attack, and Jian Cunyi sensed that it could be fatal.
• Jian Cunyi activated his Heart Domain, Ascending to Immortality, gaining the divine rank that let him resist the Blood Fiend Formation and evade the witchcraft's lock.
• Jian Cunyi swung his wooden sword at the Diviner, unleashing a terrifying wave of sword energy.

Jian Cunyi and Leng Jing fought at the Duxuan Sect, with Jian Cunyi using his Immortal power and the Prison Mountain Realm’s Heaven and Earth Will against Leng Jing’s formation and Authorities. Leng Jing opened his Heart Domain, reversing heaven and earth and turning the dead into a growing Flesh Tree.

• Jian Cunyi’s sword strike forced Leng Jing to dodge at the exact moment it erupted, though it clipped several strands of his hair.
• Jian Cunyi followed with another sword strike and a golden Edict, then used the Prison Mountain Realm’s Heaven and Earth Will to seal the power Leng Jing borrowed from other realms.
• Leng Jing survived the weakened attacks by invoking the Authority of Life and the Authority of Storm, which restored his body and shattered most of Jian Cunyi’s lightning.
• Jian Cunyi challenged Leng Jing to open his Heart Domain, and Leng Jing warned that doing so could make the battle impossible to control.
• Leng Jing cast Heaven and Earth Reversed, Yin and Yang Reversed, transforming the Duxuan Sect grounds and reviving dead bodies that fused with demons into a growing Flesh Tree.

The Diviner activated his Heart Domain against Jian Cunyi, twisting the world and scrambling their positions and situations to turn Jian Cunyi’s attacks and defenses against him. The chapter ended with Jian Cunyi trapped beneath rapidly growing flesh that threatened to devour and assimilate him.

• The Diviner’s Heart Domain inverted the surroundings and used an unavoidable force to send Jian Cunyi flying toward a monstrous creature of flesh.
• The creature exploded into fragments that lunged at Jian Cunyi, who swept them away with his Pure Qi.
• Jian Cunyi found himself beneath the Diviner’s Qimen Formation and blasted it apart, only for its backlash to be redirected onto his soul.
• Jian Cunyi realized the Diviner had scrambled their situations, and the flesh engulfed the Diviner in the position Jian Cunyi had meant to face.
• The Diviner twisted events again, returning Jian Cunyi to his original position as the flesh’s growth accelerated and began consuming him.