Chapter Summaries

Master Wei Jian explained that the Great Rui Ancient Capital Divine King Palace Ruins were sealed inside Nine Cold Mountain, and Lin Yu used the Talisman Earth Escape Armor to take him and Qin Siyu into the mountain. Master Wei Jian recognized the armor as his late senior brother’s work.

• Master Wei Jian said there were three Great Rui royal palaces and identified the lost Ancient Capital Divine King Palace as the one sealed after a powerful demon ravaged the old capital.
• Master Wei Jian deduced that Great Rui had sealed the palace and demon inside Nine Cold Mountain by using its earth veins.
• Lin Yu revealed that he knew of the Taiqing Daoist Sect’s Earth-Covering Mountain-Destroying Sealing Array, surprising Master Wei Jian and prompting Qin Siyu to realize how Lin Yu had learned about it.
• Master Wei Jian offered to forge an implement to enter Nine Cold Mountain, but Lin Yu said he could not wait and produced his Talisman Earth Escape Armor.
• Lin Yu took Master Wei Jian and Qin Siyu through the mountain’s rock with the armor, and Master Wei Jian recognized it as his late senior brother’s handiwork.

Lin Yu used the [Talisman Earth Escape Armor] to search Nine Cold Mountain with Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian, strengthening it so it could amplify his perception. He found a vast, powerful site and brought them to what appeared to be the Great Rui royal palace, where hundreds of armed guards surrounded them.

• Master Wei Jian recognized the [Talisman Earth Escape Armor] as a creation of his late senior brother and deduced how it could enhance perception during earth traversal.
• Lin Yu made Master Wei Jian’s explanation real, giving the armor perception-enhancing abilities, then carried Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian through Nine Cold Mountain while stopping so they could breathe.
• After about two hours, Lin Yu sensed a powerful force and led the others toward it, communicating with them through a voice-transmission technique.
• Lin Yu brought Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian into a vast, dark chamber and illuminated a towering palace wall with his torch.
• Lin Yu revealed that they were already inside the palace and that hundreds of armored guards had gathered around them.

Lin Yu revealed that the armored Dark Guards were Living Gu created through Ancient Gu Arts and showed how to evade them by masking the living with their foul blood. He left Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian with a way to pass through the Royal Palace without facing the guards head-on.

• Master Wei Jian identified the Dark Guards’ reversed armor and weapons as funerary artifacts, while Lin Yu sensed that the beings inside were unusual Yaomo.
• Lin Yu extinguished the torch and fought in the darkness, bringing down nearly twenty Dark Guards before capturing one with water ropes.
• Lin Yu opened the captured guard’s armor, and Master Wei Jian explained that its occupant was Living Gu refined from a human through Ancient Gu Arts.
• Lin Yu explained that the guards targeted the living out of resentment and yearning, while he could appear dead and evade their attacks.
• Lin Yu gathered the foul blood and told Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian to cover themselves with it so they could move through the Royal Palace unnoticed.

Lin Yu led Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian through the Old God Royal Palace Ruins, where he sensed a vast ancient seal and suspected the Diviner planned to release what it contained. He found a small building that served as an entrance to a folded portion of the palace.

• Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian climbed out of the corpse-blood, and Lin Yu led them past Dark Guards that no longer attacked.
• Lin Yu explained that he had followed a formation beneath the palace and identified it as a seal far greater than others he had encountered.
• Lin Yu suspected the Diviner intended to release the existence sealed beneath Nine Cold Mountain, though the palace's history did not add up.
• Lin Yu sensed that a formation had folded away part of the palace and enlarged the remaining spaces to conceal the gap.
• Lin Yu stopped at a small pavilion-like building and touched its door, revealing it as the entrance to the folded space.

Lin Yu led Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian through a Heavenly Dao array that concealed a vast underground Palace, where the group headed toward the structure at the convergence of the earth veins. On the way, Master Wei Jian tried to arrange a match between Lin Yu and Qin Siyu, but Qin Siyu falsely claimed they had slept together, prompting Lin Yu to correct her.

• Lin Yu opened a hidden passage and explained that a Heavenly Dao array concealed the Palace within a vast underground cavern.
• Lin Yu, Qin Siyu, and Master Wei Jian saw a black Palace surrounded by water and decided to approach it because the arrays and earth veins converged there.
• Master Wei Jian volunteered to scout ahead, and Lin Yu joked that Qin Siyu should lead when they entered the Palace.
• Master Wei Jian asked whether Lin Yu was betrothed and offered to act as Qin Siyu's elder to arrange a match between them.
• Qin Siyu claimed that she and Lin Yu had slept together in Martial Town, and Lin Yu kicked her and clarified that they had only shared a room.

Lin Yu discovered that the black water surrounding the Royal Palace contained souls and extracted them from a sample, revealing that it was Cold Jade Spring Water. Qin Siyu learned the water might help cure someone close to her of Fire Poison, and ended the chapter by asking Master Wei Jian whether his matchmaking offer still stood.

• Lin Yu, Qin Siyu, and Master Wei Jian felt an uncanny chill while crossing the floating stone bridge and traced it to the surrounding water.
• Lin Yu used his Water Control Technique to draw out a sample and sensed that it contained the souls of beings from the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Master Wei Jian suggested the water might be Cold Jade Spring Water, but explained that its dissolved souls made it unusable for medicine.
• Qin Siyu revealed she had sought a cure for someone close to her who suffered from Fire Poison and apologized for getting excited about the water.
• Lin Yu extracted the souls from the sample, and Master Wei Jian confirmed the purified water was Cold Jade Spring Water.
• Qin Siyu thanked Lin Yu and asked Master Wei Jian whether his matchmaking offer still stood, while Lin Yu told her to get lost.

Lin Yu, Qin Siyu, and Master Wei Jian discovered an ancient array in the Great Rui Royal Palace, reinforced by the Dao Ancestor to seal a powerful unknown entity. Lin Yu suspected the Diviner planned to release it and proposed investigating the array and the events beneath it, despite Master Wei Jian’s warnings.

• Qin Siyu accepted the cold jade spring water from Lin Yu, which could help restore her elders and fellow villagers.
• Master Wei Jian questioned why the spring water was filled with souls, and the three proceeded cautiously toward the Royal Palace.
• Inside the ruined Palace, they found sixteen inscribed stone steles arranged in a hexadecagon, which Master Wei Jian recognized as the Dao Ancestor’s work.
• Lin Yu explained that the Dao Ancestor had reinforced an older array and sealed something there, which the Diviner might be trying to release.
• Lin Yu proposed searching the array for the Diviner’s planted interference and investigating what was sealed beneath it.
• Master Wei Jian warned Lin Yu that uncovering the secret could bring a curse or karmic backlash, but Lin Yu said he could bear one more.

Lin Yu used Karma Threads beneath the Dao Ancestor’s array and learned that Great Rui’s founding emperor had built the underground palace as a mausoleum and seal. The chapter ended with Lin Yu revealing that the emperor had sacrificed his life, body, and dynasty to suppress a terrifying existence.

• Lin Yu entered the circle of stone steles and used Karma Threads to reach a living being beneath the palace.
• Lin Yu saw visions of Great Rui’s emperor overseeing the palace’s construction, brutal rituals, and its descent underground.
• Lin Yu sensed a higher existence notice him, and the Dao Ancestor’s stone steles shook as he returned to himself.
• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian that the palace had always been built to sink into Nine Cold Mountain as the emperor’s mausoleum.
• Lin Yu explained that Great Rui’s founding emperor had used his life, body, and dynasty to seal a terrifying existence.

Lin Yu learned that the Great Rui emperor had sacrificed himself to seal the Demon Ancestor, Gan Duo, beneath Nine Cold Mountain. The Diviner revealed his plan to free Gan Duo and trapped Lin Yu with activated black jade stones that cut off energy flow.

• Lin Yu explained that the Great Rui emperor’s body remained fused with the array and earth veins after his soul had vanished, and that he had sacrificed himself to seal a catastrophic Yaomo.
• Master Wei Jian and Qin Siyu wondered what the Dao Ancestor’s later array was protecting, and the Diviner’s voice revealed that the Demon Ancestor, Gan Duo, had merged with the Prison Mountain Realm’s malice and been imprisoned beneath the two mountains.
• Lin Yu recognized the Diviner’s voice and warned Master Wei Jian and Qin Siyu while preparing to defend himself.
• The Diviner appeared as an array-made duplicate and admitted that he wanted to release Gan Duo to gain access to an authority he sought.
• The Diviner redirected the earth veins, causing the black jade stones to spread over Lin Yu and immobilize him by cutting off energy flow.

Lin Yu discovered that the Diviner had used his arrival to begin a plan to free the Demon Ancestor Gantuo by corrupting the Great Rui emperor’s sealing formation. Lin Yu freed himself and tried to save Qin Siyu, but the Diviner revealed that she had been dead for some time, and her blood began to destabilize the formation.

• The Diviner explained that he had used the Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord’s blood to awaken Gantuo beneath Nine Cold Mountain, while the Great Rui emperor’s formation held the Demon Ancestor back.
• The Diviner revealed that Lin Yu’s arrival was part of his plan: Lin Yu’s blood relationship to the emperor could let him corrupt the emperor’s body, the formation’s Array Eye.
• Lin Yu shattered the black crystals, attacked the Diviner, and freed Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian.
• Qin Siyu collapsed in Lin Yu’s arms as her qi, blood, and soul rapidly faded.
• The Diviner spoke through Qin Siyu, revealed that she had been dead for some time, and her blood seeped into the jade, making the ancient formation shake violently.

The “Diviner” revealed that he had targeted Qin Siyu for her imperial bloodline and shredded her soul to use in his plan. Lin Yu challenged the Diviner with a mix of lies and truths, then declared that he would keep Qin Siyu alive.

• The “Diviner” sealed Master Wei Jian against a wall and told Lin Yu to give up trying to stop him.
• Lin Yu learned that the Duxuan Sect plot had been arranged to bring Qin Siyu to him, while Brother Cunyi served as a distraction and possible target.
• The “Diviner” explained that Qin Siyu was a direct descendant of the Great Rui emperor and that her blood could help corrupt the emperor beneath the seal.
• Lin Yu claimed he had anticipated the Diviner’s tampering with Qin Siyu’s soul and argued that she was not truly dead, citing the Death game’s judgment of Max.
• The “Diviner” admitted that Qin Siyu’s shredded soul could not be saved by his own methods, and Lin Yu revealed his shattered soul’s aura before declaring he would keep her alive.

Lin Yu used his Fraudster abilities and a transformed pocket watch to reverse Qin Siyu’s recent death and halt the destruction of her soul. After restoring her with Soul Power and life force, he brought her back to consciousness, though she woke believing she was about to die.

• Lin Yu combined his Professional Items and stored effects to make his claim that Qin Siyu would live on take effect.
• Lin Yu broke the Repaired Mist Pocket Watch with the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver, infused it with a stored time-reversal effect, and received a new Reversal Pocket Watch.
• The Diviner sensed the higher powers backing Lin Yu and chose not to attack, then questioned whether saving Qin Siyu was worth the cost.
• Lin Yu explained that Qin Siyu was a decent person and a useful contact, and that saving her also let him test a method that might help restore Lin Zhao.
• Lin Yu used the Reversal Pocket Watch to gather Qin Siyu’s scattered soul and reverse her body to the moment her soul had begun to shatter.
• Lin Yu halted the shattering with his Fraudster ability and infused Qin Siyu with Soul Power and life force; she sprang up, crying that she did not want to die.

Lin Yu resurrected Qin Siyu, stopping the corrosion of the array core, but the Diviner revealed that Demon Ancestor Gan Duo had weakened the Dao Ancestor’s sixteen-stele array. A hidden passage connected the ruins to the Duxuan Sect, and the Diviner used it to reach Lin Yu before collapsing the array.

• Lin Yu resurrected Qin Siyu with the [Repaired Mist Pocket Watch], and she realized he had saved her again.
• The Diviner said he had arranged for Lin Yu to bring Qin Siyu because the Dao Ancestor’s array would have exposed the Diviner’s true body to the Dao Ancestor.
• Gan Duo’s demonic power broke through the Dao Ancestor’s sixteen-stele array, revealing a hidden passage between the Great Rui Ancient Town and the Duxuan Sect.
• Lin Yu saw Jian Cunyi and the Diviner fighting amid the ruined Duxuan Sect and realized the other array was hidden inside Living Foot.
• The Diviner escaped Jian Cunyi aboard a wooden boat as the spatial passage carried him to Lin Yu in the Royal Palace ruins.
• The Diviner formed a hand seal and caused the entire array to collapse.

The Diviner, Leng Jing, trapped Lin Yu and Qin Siyu and tried to kill Qin Siyu, but Lin Yu revealed that the God of Desire could enter Azure Sea Sky Dome. The God of Desire attacked Leng Jing with his Authority, but Leng Jing resisted the resulting visions and claimed that desire was the power he had chosen to master.

• The Diviner detonated his formation to escape Jian Cunyi’s sword strike and began attacking Lin Yu and Qin Siyu.
• The Diviner used Gold Seeker to amplify a Thunder Art, but Lin Yu blocked it with Azure Sea Sky Dome.
• The Diviner used his Heart Domain and Compass to enter Azure Sea Sky Dome, then pinned Qin Siyu with golden light and seized her by the throat.
• Lin Yu revealed that the God of Desire could appear inside Azure Sea Sky Dome, and the God of Desire emerged to attack the Diviner.
• The God of Desire’s Authority brought Leng Jing visions of people condemning him, but Leng Jing resisted and said he had chosen to master desire.

Lin Yu deduced how the Diviner had resisted the God of Desire, but the Diviner marked Lin Yu’s soul and unleashed an unformed Authority of Life to erode it. Lin Yu recognized the threat and brought out Fang Qing’s [Error] to counter it.

• Lin Yu explained that the Diviner had used the [Fragment of Fate] to redirect desire’s influence toward fulfilled desires from his past.
• The Diviner cast a hexagram, reached into Lin Yu’s soul, and left a soul fragment there despite Lin Yu’s attempt to crush his hand.
• The Diviner transferred a higher-order power from his White Cubic Box into the fragment, causing it to expand and erode Lin Yu’s self-awareness.
• Lin Yu recognized the power as an unformed Authority of Life, similar to the method used by the Gray Domain to create the Authority of Life.
• Lin Yu summoned the Seven-Colored Mosaic Crystal, Fang Qing’s [Error], and sent it into his soul.

Lin Yu foiled Diviner’s attempt to erase his consciousness, but Diviner transported Qin Siyu back to the center of the damaged formation. Lin Yu and Hannah restored the formation and brought Jian Cunyi through, then Lin Yu summoned Yun Fengyang as reinforcements, leaving the two sides poised to fight.

• Lin Yu used [Error] to eject the Diviner Soul Fragment and its unformed authority from his soul, resisting Diviner’s attempt to overwrite his consciousness.
• Diviner used the earth vein to transport Qin Siyu to the center of the Sixteen Stone Steles while Lin Yu was slowed by the Compass.
• Hannah used the evolved [Reversal Pocket Watch] to restore the destroyed formation, allowing Jian Cunyi to arrive and shelter Qin Siyu and Master Wei Jian.
• Diviner warned that three Demon Lords and the Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord were coming, but Lin Yu summoned Yun Fengyang with [Guest Appearance Invitation].
• Yun Fengyang joined Jian Cunyi and prepared to fight Diviner as Lin Yu warned him not to let Diviner escape.

Diviner escaped Lin Yu, Jian Cunyi, and Yun Fengyang by collapsing his contracted Heart Domain, abandoning his plan to release the Demon Ancestor. The others turned to repairing and reinforcing the formation, and Qin Siyu identified the unconscious Master Wei Jian as an expert who could help repair its stone steles.

• Diviner judged that fighting Jian Cunyi and Yun Fengyang was too risky, contracted his Heart Domain, and escaped despite their attempts to stop him.
• Yun Fengyang and Jian Cunyi discussed Diviner’s strange escape and agreed to prevent his plans from succeeding in the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Jian Cunyi and Yun Fengyang decided to repair and reinforce the formation imprisoning the Demon Ancestor.
• Yun Fengyang learned that Jian Cunyi had mastered much of the Duxuan Sect’s Formation Dao legacy and noted that an artifact refiner could help repair the damaged steles.
• Qin Siyu pointed out the unconscious Master Wei Jian as a leading artifact refiner, and Lin Yu said he had picked him up by the roadside.

Yun Fengyang treated Master Wei Jian and joined him and Jian Cunyi in designing a stronger array to reinforce the seal trapping the Demon Ancestor. Lin Yu and Qin Siyu could not follow their technical discussion, so they stayed out of the way.

• Yun Fengyang examined Master Wei Jian and declared that the Ghost Forging Lineage could help create powerful array artifacts.
• Yun Fengyang used Qin Siyu’s poisoned throwing needles to treat Master Wei Jian, restoring his health and waking him.
• Master Wei Jian learned that his healer was the legendary Yun Fengyang and agreed to help forge array artifacts.
• Jian Cunyi showed Yun Fengyang his proposed array, and the two began revising its design with Master Wei Jian’s help.
• Lin Yu and Qin Siyu admitted they could not contribute to the array discussion and decided to wait aside.

Jian Cunyi, Yun Fengyang, and Master Wei Jian worked on strengthening the grand array while Lin Yu told Qin Siyu that she had died and could only remain alive by leaving this world with him. The chapter ended with Lin Yu offering her a choice and holding out a [Collar].

• Jian Cunyi, Yun Fengyang, and Master Wei Jian discussed ways to make the grand array more durable and control the flow of spiritual energy with array flags.
• Qin Siyu admitted she could not understand the array discussion, and Lin Yu shared a compressed biscuit with her.
• Qin Siyu revealed that Chu Liuxiang was her idol, and Lin Yu told her that the legendary thief was fictional.
• Lin Yu revealed that he and Daoist Master Xingyi came from another world and said Qin Siyu would likely have to leave this world with him.
• Lin Yu explained that Qin Siyu's soul remained shattered after he revived her, and his Soul Power was keeping her alive.
• Lin Yu told Qin Siyu that she could live only by leaving with him as his follower and dependent, then gave her the choice while holding a [Collar].

Lin Yu secured Qin Siyu’s agreement to become his follower and leave the Prison Mountain Realm with him, while she asked to visit her village first. With Jian Cunyi confirming the Diviner had left the realm, Lin Yu prepared to go, and Yun Fengyang gave him a strand of Pure Qi containing useful information.

• Qin Siyu accepted the [Collar] and became Lin Yu’s follower, forming a mysterious bond that prevented her from intending to harm him.
• Qin Siyu asked to return to her village to share Cold Jade Spring Water and check on the Village Chief, and Lin Yu agreed.
• Jian Cunyi confirmed through the Heavenly Dao’s will that the Diviner had left the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Lin Yu said he could handle the Diviner’s ally Cold Cicada and its three Snake Yaoguai Demon Lords, and promised to slay ten Yaomo for Yun Fengyang.
• Yun Fengyang sent a strand of Pure Qi into Lin Yu’s soul and told him to examine what it contained.