Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi discussed whether to preserve or inherit the Duxuan Sect’s legacies, then admitted they felt an unusual friendship forming. Jian Cunyi warned that the last person who made him feel this way was the Diviner, leaving Lin Yu to consider the danger before they began searching for the sect’s inheritances.

• Lin Yu urged Jian Cunyi to explore the Duxuan Sect and consider leaving its legacies and ritual artifacts untouched, but Jian Cunyi said they should be inherited and put to use.
• Jian Cunyi told Lin Yu that his own strength depended on finding the right path, not acquiring more [Items], and agreed to inspect any discoveries for things he could use.
• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi admitted they felt comfortable with each other and might become friends, while Lin Yu refused to endorse Jian Cunyi’s plan to bring people from the Ten Realms into the real world.
• Jian Cunyi said there was an equal chance they might become close friends or mortal enemies, because the last person who made him feel so at ease was the Diviner.
• Jian Cunyi reaffirmed that he intended to kill the Diviner, then suggested they search for the Duxuan Sect’s legacies.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi reached the Duxuan Sect’s Transmission Pavilion and found two strangely fresh corpses on its steps. Unable to explain how the men had died or remained unrotted for centuries, they agreed to continue with their original plans and investigate further if more clues appeared.

• Jian Cunyi guided Lin Yu through the Duxuan Sect toward the Transmission Pavilion and planned to use divination before borrowing or taking its texts.
• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi found two black-clad men dead on the pavilion steps, their bodies bearing bizarre chest and abdominal wounds.
• Jian Cunyi reasoned that the corpses must have entered the sect centuries earlier because its protective formation had remained intact, though the bodies appeared to have died recently.
• Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu examined the bodies with spiritual powers but found no clear clues beyond faint traces of power and signs that the men had been martial practitioners.
• Jian Cunyi proposed that they visit the pavilion first and investigate the deaths later, noting that the men’s clothing and turbid blood and qi suggested they may have practiced sinister arts.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi investigated the two suspicious corpses outside the Duxuan Sect’s Transmission Pavilion, then used a divination to learn they could take only six manuals. Their search was interrupted by a hidden intruder, whom Jian Cunyi struck down with a bronze bell.

• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi suspected the dead black-clad figures had practiced demonic methods and entered the Transmission Pavilion to look for manuals and clues.
• Jian Cunyi divined that they could take six cultivation manuals from the pavilion.
• Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu began choosing manuals, but a bamboo book fell from a nearby shelf, revealing someone else was inside.
• Lin Yu spotted a pitch-black figure, and Jian Cunyi rang his bronze bell to knock the hidden intruder from the ceiling.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi discovered a black-clad woman hiding in the Duxuan Sect’s Transmission Pavilion and learned she had been trapped there for a month. Lin Yu threatened her to make her talk, and she warned that a terrifying being in the sect would emerge during “Yin Time.”

• Jian Cunyi swept aside the bookshelves and found a black-clad woman who had fallen from the ceiling, then healed her injuries.
• The woman accused Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu of attacking her, while Lin Yu challenged her reasons for hiding in the pavilion.
• The woman revealed she had been trapped in the sect for a month and mentioned that the place changed between “Yang Time” and “Yin Time.”
• Lin Yu pretended to be a demonic Daoist, disarmed the woman’s smoke bombs, and grabbed her as she tried to flee.
• The woman warned Lin Yu that a terrifying being lurked in the sect and that only she could help them face it during “Yin Time.”
• Lin Yu struck at the woman but spared her, removing her face covering and leaving her thanking him for her life.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi pretended to be demons to frighten the woman in black into revealing what was happening at the Duxuan Sect. She described a deadly Yin Side overlapping the ruins, and Jian Cunyi’s exaggerated threat accidentally terrified her into offering more cooperation.

• Lin Yu told Jian Cunyi that his demonic act was an act, and explained he was using fear to make the woman in black cooperate quickly.
• Jian Cunyi warned that people in the Prison Mountain Realm might risk their lives to oppose demons, while Lin Yu said he also wanted to confirm she had no demonic connection.
• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi agreed to continue posing as demons, with Jian Cunyi staying aloof while Lin Yu handled the intimidation.
• The woman in black explained that the Duxuan Sect’s Yang Side periodically overlapped with a blood- and demon-filled Yin Side that swallowed visitors; of her original group of eighteen, she was the only survivor.
• Lin Yu threatened to refine the woman in black as blood food, and Jian Cunyi improvised a gruesome threat about eating human organs.
• The woman in black broke down in terror and insisted she was too sour, smelly, and tough to eat.

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.