Chapter Summaries

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.

Jian Cunyi used his Fragment of Fate to borrow the Nature Authority from his future and counter Leng Jing’s flesh erosion. Leng Jing turned his Heart Domain’s full force on the borrowed Authority to make it real, while Jian Cunyi insisted that his status as an Immortal changed the stakes.

• Jian Cunyi used Demon-Slaying heavenly lightning to burn away the contaminated flesh temporarily, then revealed his twin-fish jade pendant, the Fragment of Fate.
• Jian Cunyi cracked the Fragment of Fate and drew its power onto himself, transforming the incomplete Fate Authority into the Nature Authority he was destined to obtain.
• Jian Cunyi used Nature to assimilate the flesh trying to consume him, while Leng Jing warned that a complete Authority could force him into becoming a False God.
• Leng Jing concentrated his Heart Domain on Jian Cunyi and tried to turn the borrowed Nature Authority from falsehood into truth.
• Jian Cunyi told Leng Jing that he had overlooked the fact that Jian Cunyi was already an Immortal.

Jian Cunyi used the Diviner’s Heart Domain to complete his Nature Authority and trap Leng Jing in a perception of every life in the Prison Mountain Realm. Leng Jing resisted the attempt to erase his sense of self and revealed that he had recognized the truth about Jian Cunyi’s Authority.

• Jian Cunyi thanked Leng Jing for helping him condense his Authority, then used it to merge his presence and attacks with the natural world.
• Leng Jing briefly perceived himself as part of every living being’s history in the Prison Mountain Realm and was overwhelmed by their lives and deaths.
• Leng Jing said the experience strengthened his resolve to become a powerful, immortal Deity rather than remain one insignificant life among many.
• Jian Cunyi revealed that he had shown Leng Jing the lives of all beings to trap and gradually erase his sense of self.
• Leng Jing called Jian Cunyi’s trap a formidable predicament but said he knew how to break it, adding that he had never believed Jian Cunyi’s claim that the Authority was Nature.

Jian Cunyi revealed his Human Race Authority, but Leng Jing countered it with an inexplicable power of death and trapped him. Just as Leng Jing prepared to leave and carry out his plans, Lin Yu used a Mutated Resurrection Coin to disrupt and absorb the death power.

• Leng Jing saw through Jian Cunyi’s disguise and identified his Authority as humanity, naming him the Human God.
• Jian Cunyi attacked Leng Jing with the forms of all living beings, but Leng Jing transformed his life power into death and began collapsing Jian Cunyi’s domain.
• Leng Jing admitted he could not kill Jian Cunyi, but used death and his Heart Domain to trap him with a decaying monster.
• Leng Jing said he would capture the Director, kill the girl, and carry out his plan, then turned to leave.
• A black-faced coin fell and poured death energy into Leng Jing’s power, making it lose control and return to the coin.
• Lin Yu appeared beside Leng Jing and identified the coin as a Mutated Resurrection Coin.

Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi confronted the Diviner after Lin Yu destroyed his borrowed power of death, but the Diviner acquired a new Authority and attacked Lin Yu. Lin Yu revealed that his apparent presence had been a disguise and that the God of Desire had arrived to help Jian Cunyi fight the Diviner.

• Lin Yu appeared beside Jian Cunyi and dispelled the traces of death that had threatened him, leaving Jian Cunyi unharmed.
• Jian Cunyi raised his Wooden Sword and prepared a powerful strike empowered by humanity, nature, and the Prison Mountain Realm's Heavenly Dao.
• The Diviner revealed a beating heart and used a [Fragment of Fate] to gain an unidentified Authority that transformed his Heart Domain into something like a Divine Kingdom.
• When the Diviner attacked Lin Yu with distorting power, Lin Yu said he was not really there and revealed that his body and soul had been disguised with ink and Soul Fragments.
• The God of Desire emerged from Lin Yu's disguise, agreed to cooperate with Jian Cunyi, and asked him to warn the Dao Ancestor not to strike him with heavenly lightning.

After escaping the Duxuan Sect, Lin Yu explained to Qin Siyu how the Azure Sea Sky Dome had carried them through the formations while Desire concealed their escape and helped Jian Cunyi battle the Diviner. Lin Yu and Qin Siyu headed toward Nine Cold Mountain, planning to find shelter for the night and possibly reunite with Jian Cunyi.

• Qin Siyu asked Lin Yu about the golden light over the Duxuan Sect, and he explained that the Azure Sea Sky Dome had taken them through the formations while Desire served as a smokescreen.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had left the God of Desire concealed inside the Duxuan Sect to assist Jian Cunyi against the Demon Lord and judged that the two currently had the upper hand against the Diviner.
• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu they would enter Nine Cold Mountain without Jian Cunyi if necessary and said he could use special life-saving methods there.
• Lin Yu suggested finding a village or town to stay in and waiting overnight in case Jian Cunyi could rejoin them the next day.
• Qin Siyu said she knew of a nearby village or town where they could rest.

Lin Yu and Qin Siyu reached Martial Town, a prosperous settlement built around martial arts and the resources nearby, which was also said to be the resting place of the legendary Martial God. Qin Siyu admitted she was wary of being recognized as a notorious thief, and Lin Yu promised to protect her before stopping her from stealing travel money.

• Qin Siyu explained that Martial Town thrived because nearby Zen Mountain and Deadwood Forest supplied martial cultivation resources and because the town hosted major martial arts schools and escort agencies.
• Qin Siyu told Lin Yu the local legend that the Martial God had died in Martial Town after driving demons back into the Two Mountains and might have left behind a martial arts legacy.
• Lin Yu and Qin Siyu entered Martial Town and saw its busy streets, filled with taverns, shops, martial artists, and branches of martial arts schools.
• Qin Siyu confessed she rarely visited Martial Town because her reputation as the thief Moon-Exploring Star-Plucking had earned her many enemies.
• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu he would protect her, but stopped her when she proposed earning their travel money by stealing.

Lin Yu took Qin Siyu to Jincheng Pawnshop to obtain money without resorting to theft, then negotiated an exchange that respected the ban on selling Daoist talismans. They left with fifty thousand coins, and Lin Yu explained that the manager had been hoping for this workaround.

• Qin Siyu asked how they would pay for lodging, and Lin Yu took her to Jincheng Pawnshop instead of letting her steal.
• Lin Yu offered high-grade talismans, but the manager said the Daoist sects forbade buying and selling them.
• Lin Yu asked for fifty thousand coins and offered the pawnshop a favor in return, proposing to craft talismans as repayment.
• Lin Yu explained that the Divine Speed Talismans could be used to repay other people's favors, and the manager agreed to the exchange.
• Lin Yu and Qin Siyu left the pawnshop with fifty thousand coins, and Lin Yu told her the manager had deliberately steered them toward the workaround.

Lin Yu explained how Daoist Sect members used favors to exchange for supplies, then stayed with Qin Siyu at a luxurious inn before their planned trip to Nine Cold Mountain. The chapter ended with Qin Siyu joking about sharing a bed and Lin Yu throwing a pillow at her.

• Lin Yu explained how Daoist Sect members and merchants used favors to exchange for talismans and other goods without openly violating sect rules.
• At Shengquan Inn, Qin Siyu admired their expensive courtyard room and worried they had spent too much of their fifty thousand coins.
• Lin Yu revealed that the talismans he had sold were initially counterfeits, but buyers' belief had made them real, leaving Qin Siyu convinced he was an exceptional expert.
• Qin Siyu hesitated over sharing the room's bed, so Lin Yu told her she would sleep on the floor; she quickly made herself a bed there.
• Qin Siyu joked that Lin Yu should sneak into her bed or let her sneak into his, and Lin Yu hit her with a pillow and warned her to stop talking nonsense.

Lin Yu stayed on guard in his inn room, suspecting the Diviner had sent someone to ambush him. After an unseen intruder slipped inside, Qin Siyu suddenly stopped breathing, and Old Zheng identified the attacker as a Hidden Snake demon.

• Lin Yu reflected on his growing strength and suspected Lin Zhao had left preparations to help him, perhaps anticipating his efforts to resurrect her.
• Lin Yu worried that the Diviner might target him while fighting Jian Cunyi and kept his Items and abilities ready for an attack.
• Old Zheng detected a concealed presence entering Lin Yu's courtyard, and Lin Yu suspected the Diviner was behind it.
• Lin Yu and Hannah concealed themselves in the room and prepared to surprise the intruder.
• A faint sound came from the window, then Qin Siyu's breathing stopped as an invisible force seized her throat.
• Old Zheng identified the attacker as a Hidden Snake, a demon from the Prison Mountain Realm.

Lin Yu learned about the Hidden Snake attacking Qin Siyu, wounded it with True Essence, and killed it when it tried to strike him. He suspected the demon had targeted Qin Siyu, though she could not remember offending the Hidden Snakes.

• Old Zheng explained that Hidden Snakes were powerful, intelligent demons whose racial talent concealed their bodies and energy.
• Lin Yu revealed himself and pierced the Hidden Snake, breaking its concealment and causing it intense pain with True Essence.
• Qin Siyu escaped the loosened coils, warned Lin Yu about the demon, and took shelter behind him.
• Lin Yu suspected the Hidden Snake had come for Qin Siyu because it was too weak to have been sent against him by the Diviner.
• The Hidden Snake feigned pain and lunged at Lin Yu, who anticipated the attack and killed it with a strike through its head.