Vol. 18The Nine Cold Mountain Gambit

Lin Yu pursued the Diviner through the Duxuan Sect and Nine Cold Mountain, uncovering schemes involving demons, the Emperor, and the Diviner. He escaped with Qin Siyu and learned that their plan concerned the Great Rui Ancient Capital Divine King Palace Ruins.

  • Lin Yu purified part of the God of Desire’s Authority and learned that Lin Zhao’s lingering consciousness remained, then entered the Prison Mountain Realm with Jian Cunyi to pursue the Diviner.
  • Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi found a hidden Duxuan Sect trove and learned from Qin Siyu that the sect periodically overlapped with a deadly Yin Side.
  • Lin Yu helped Jian Cunyi expose and defeat Living Foot, then discovered the Diviner’s role in the demons’ cooperation and the sect’s trap.
  • Lin Yu escaped with Qin Siyu while Jian Cunyi fought Leng Jing, whose Heart Domain turned corpses into a Flesh Tree that began consuming him.
  • Jian Cunyi revealed his Humanity Authority and faced Leng Jing’s Heart Domain before a Mutated Resurrection Coin disrupted Leng Jing’s power.
  • Lin Yu and Qin Siyu escaped Cold Cicada’s pursuit with Zhu Qiansi’s help and reached Nine Cold Mountain, where Qin Siyu found the captive artisan Wei Jian at Ten Thousand Flowers Cave.
  • Lin Yu gave Meng Qingjun the Desire Origin and manipulated him and the Yaomo into fighting Cold Cicada and the Snake Yaoguai.
  • Lin Yu captured Cold Cicada’s soul, uncovered his meeting with the Emperor and the Diviner, escaped Nine Cold Mountain, and learned from Wei Jian that their plan concerned the Great Rui Ancient Capital Divine King Palace Ruins.
Chapters 1701–1800 Read from Ch. 1701

Arc 69Desire and Duxuan Secrets

Lin Yu secured the God of Desire’s cooperation and discovered evidence that Lin Zhao was not completely dead. He then entered the Prison Mountain Realm with Jian Cunyi to pursue the Diviner, but their search for supplies led them into the Duxuan Sect and its dangerous alternating Yin Side.

  • Lin Yu purified part of the souls contaminating the God of Desire’s Authority and secured his cooperation in exchange for further purification.
  • The God of Desire probed Lin Yu’s desires, encountered a terrifying woman’s power, and surrendered his hidden asset locations after Lin Yu demanded compensation.
  • Lin Yu identified Lin Zhao’s lingering consciousness as the source of the backlash and planned to gather her scattered Soul Fragments.
  • Lin Yu entered the Prison Mountain Realm with Jian Cunyi and obtained supplies from Hunyuan Dao Palace by presenting himself as Yun Jushi’s disciple.
  • Jian Cunyi identified Nine Cold Mountain as the site of the Diviner’s arrangements and accompanied Lin Yu to search for a hidden sect trove nearby.
  • Jian Cunyi opened the hidden Duxuan Sect’s protective formation and felt memories and emotions from the senior whose legacy he had inherited.
  • Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi found two strangely wounded corpses outside the Transmission Pavilion and discovered a black-clad woman hiding among its manuals.
  • Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi posed as demonic practitioners to intimidate the woman, who revealed that the sect periodically overlapped with a blood- and demon-filled Yin Side that had killed her companions.
Chapters 1701–172525 summaries Read

Arc 70The Duxuan Sect Demon

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi uncovered Living Foot’s grip on the Duxuan Sect, defeated it, and exposed the Diviner’s scheme. Lin Yu escaped with Qin Siyu while Jian Cunyi faced the Diviner, whose Heart Domain turned the battle against him.

  • Lin Yu exposed Qin Siyu’s disguise as Guan Night Orchid, learned that Living Foot had cursed and coerced her, and helped Jian Cunyi uncover the demon’s role in the Duxuan Sect’s formation.
  • Jian Cunyi fought Living Foot while Lin Yu and Qin Siyu destroyed the formation’s escape routes, allowing Jian Cunyi to erase the demon’s consciousness and end the Yin Side.
  • Lin Yu and Qin Siyu discovered newborn Gu-Heart Snake Demons, and Jian Cunyi annihilated them before Lin Yu uncovered the Diviner hiding in a corpse.
  • The Diviner admitted he had arranged the demons’ cooperation with Living Foot and lured the martial artists to the sect, then used the Soul-Seizing Bell and Blood Sacrifice Forbidden Art against Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi.
  • Lin Yu escaped the Duxuan Sect with Qin Siyu while Jian Cunyi remained to fight the Diviner, who revealed himself as Leng Jing.
  • Jian Cunyi resisted Leng Jing’s cross-realm attacks, sealed the borrowed power with the Prison Mountain Realm’s Heaven and Earth Will, and forced Leng Jing to unleash his Heart Domain.
  • Leng Jing inverted the battlefield, revived corpses into a growing Flesh Tree, and manipulated the battle until the flesh began consuming Jian Cunyi.
Chapters 1726–175025 summaries Read

Arc 71The Birthday at Ten Thousand Flowers Cave

Jian Cunyi revealed his Humanity Authority while Lin Yu and Qin Siyu escaped Cold Cicada’s pursuit and entered Nine Cold Mountain. Lin Yu infiltrated Meng Qingjun’s birthday gathering, while Qin Siyu met the captive artisan Wei Jian inside the cave.

  • Jian Cunyi transformed the Fragment of Fate into Nature Authority, but Leng Jing saw through his Humanity Authority and trapped him before a Mutated Resurrection Coin disrupted Leng Jing’s power.
  • Lin Yu and the God of Desire intervened in the conflict, then Lin Yu and Qin Siyu went to Martial Town while Jian Cunyi remained behind.
  • Cold Cicada attacked Lin Yu and Qin Siyu with a Hidden Snake, then summoned Snake Yaoguai and three Demon Lords to capture them.
  • Lin Yu summoned Zhu Qiansi, who fought the Demon Lords and helped Lin Yu and Qin Siyu escape, though Cold Cicada marked them for tracking.
  • Lin Yu took Qin Siyu to Nine Cold Mountain and used her mark to lure their pursuers, then disguised himself as a Yaomo and sought a cave dwelling.
  • Lin Yu met Giant Bear Great Sun and Furious Pig Howls at Heaven, convinced them he was not their enemy, and presented Qin Siyu as Meng Qingjun’s birthday gift.
  • At Ten Thousand Flowers Cave, Qin Siyu freed herself from the rabbit spirits and discovered the captive Wei Jian, whom Old Zheng identified as the Two Mountains and Six Hells’ Greatest Artisan.
Chapters 1751–177525 summaries Read

Arc 72The Nine Cold Mountain Gambit

Lin Yu manipulated Meng Qingjun and the Yaomo into fighting the Snake Yaoguai, then confronted Cold Cicada and uncovered the Emperor and the Diviner’s involvement. After escaping, Lin Yu learned that their plan concerned an ancient palace, which Master Wei Jian identified as the Great Rui Ancient Capital Divine King Palace Ruins.

  • Qin Siyu won Master Wei Jian’s trust and led him to the cave’s storeroom while Lin Yu and Qin Siyu looted Meng Qingjun’s dwelling.
  • Lin Yu revealed that Meng Qingjun was his nephew and gave him the Desire Origin, persuading him that it could help him avenge his mother.
  • Lin Yu lured Cold Cicada and the three Snake Yaoguai into an ambush, then staged his own death so Meng Qingjun would fight them.
  • Meng Qingjun fought the Jueshan Blood-Poison Demon Lord as Lin Yu’s deception and guidance awakened his power and rallied the Yaomo against the Snake Yaoguai.
  • Old Zheng and Lin Yu fought the Gu-Heart Soul-Seizing Demon Lord and the Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord while Lin Yu confronted Cold Cicada with the Ancient Notebook and captured his soul.
  • Lin Yu drew Cold Cicada and the Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord into a Karma Threads Illusion, where he discovered their meeting with the Diviner and the Emperor, leader of the Copper Furnace.
  • Lin Yu used the Ancient Notebook against the Emperor and the Diviner, questioned Cold Cicada about Sherlock’s murder, then escaped Nine Cold Mountain with another illusion.
  • Lin Yu recovered and examined the karma fragments, and Master Wei Jian identified the palace in the plan as the Great Rui Ancient Capital Divine King Palace Ruins.
Chapters 1776–180025 summaries Read
Volume 18 of 22
Volume 18 of 22