Chapter Summaries

At the Spring Welcome Banquet, Long Jianji took the Winter Palace throne before Miss Snow appeared as the newly appointed Winter Palace Token. Xu Yi recognized her as Xue Zihan, and their reunion began as he intercepted Long Jianji’s wine; Xue Zihan had attended hoping to pass him news of Qiu Wa.

• Chancellor Gui let Long Jianji take the Winter Palace throne and arranged seats for King Tu and Chancellor Niu.
• Chancellor Gui introduced Miss Snow as the new Winter Palace Token, stunning the banquet guests and startling Xu Yi.
• Long Jianji approached Miss Snow and offered her a cup of wine.
• Xu Yi snatched the cup before Xue Zihan could take it and offered her the first cup himself.
• Xue Zihan recognized Xu Yi but concealed her feelings, having attended partly to tell him news of Qiu Wa.

Xu Yi confronted Long Jianji over the wine cup, while Xue Zihan helped calm the situation by praising Love Seeker and explaining her preference. As Xu Yi learned that Qiu Wa might be trapped inside the ice peaks, he and Xue Zihan began exchanging information secretly, leaving him desperate to find her.

• Xu Yi stepped forward to take the wine cup, and Feng Jiu angrily rebuked him while secretly trying to protect him from Long Jianji.
• Xue Zihan urged Long Jianji not to take offense, saying she would drink Xu Yi's wine first because she honored talent over royal status.
• Long Jianji learned Xu Yi was Love Seeker and let the offense pass, then challenged him to say what he would do if Long Jianji kept the cup.
• Wen Bin entered and mocked Xu Yi, praising Long Jianji's literary reputation and accusing Xu Yi of using stolen Literary Fame to bully him.
• Feng Jiu transmitted a warning to Xu Yi, who realized voice transmission still worked in the Winter Palace World and privately asked Xue Zihan about Qiu Wa.
• Xue Zihan told Xu Yi that Qiu Wa might still be inside the ice peaks and that she had accepted the Winter Palace Token to investigate, though Long Jingtian had not revealed the location.

Xu Yi tried to find a way to protect Xue Zihan and search for Qiu Wa while facing accusations that he had stolen his fame. Long Jianji set up a literary contest against Wen Bin and Fan Xingyun, with Xue Zihan’s Talisman Art book and his rare Two Hearts Know talisman as prizes.

• Xu Yi urged Xue Zihan to leave the dangerous Winter Palace and asked how she had concealed her demonic aura, while she reassured him that she was safe.
• Wen Bin, Fan Xingyun, and Meng Changtian publicly accused Xu Yi of fraud and plagiarism, and Long Jianji challenged him to explain himself.
• Xue Zihan offered a volume of Talisman Art as a prize, hoping to give Xu Yi an opportunity to obtain it.
• Long Jianji revealed his second-grade, second-level unusual talisman, Two Hearts Know, and offered it as the contest’s wager.
• Xue Zihan agreed to accept the talisman if Xu Yi lost, and Long Jianji proposed that Wen Bin and Fan Xingyun compete against Xu Yi while he set the subject.

Long Jianji challenged Xu Yi, Wen Bin, and Fan Xingyun to compose poems that could be read backward, hoping to expose Xu Yi as a fraud. Xu Yi quickly succeeded, overturning the accusation, while Long Jianji tried to avoid handing over Two Hearts Know; Xu Yi’s next words left him stunned.

• Long Jianji presented his reversible poem and challenged everyone to imitate it within half a cup of tea.
• Fan Xingyun and Wen Bin recognized the poem’s backward-reading trick, conceded, and praised Long Jianji.
• Xu Yi wrote a reversible poem in a few dozen breaths, and the crowd rejected the claim that he had stolen his literary fame.
• Wen Bin and Fan Xingyun were shaken, while Long Jianji argued Xu Yi’s rushed poem was not worthy of Two Hearts Know.
• Xu Yi agreed that his poem’s quality was not high, prompting Long Jianji to boast that his own had taken an hour to write.

Xu Yi revealed that his poem could be transformed into dozens of poems by shifting its starting character and reading it backward, winning King Yongdong’s wager and the Two Hearts Know token. Niu Tongtian and Tu Kun then arranged to challenge him in calculation, hoping to use him to draw out Long Jingtian and curb his rising reputation.

• Xue Zihan showed the hall how to shift the poem’s starting character and read it backward, revealing that every character could produce another poem.
• King Yongdong conceded the wager and gave Xu Yi the Two Hearts Know token, while Xue Zihan handed him a mustard seed.
• Xu Yi overheard Niu Tongtian urging Tu Kun to use the new Winter Palace Token to draw out Long Jingtian and challenge Xu Yi’s literary prestige.
• Xue Zihan encouraged Xu Yi to accept Tu Kun’s challenge and seek a treasure as his reward.
• Tu Kun challenged Xu Yi to a contest in calculation and said he would ask Xu Yi’s master for help if Xu Yi could not solve his problem.

Xu Yi accepted Tu Kun’s rigged Five Elements pieces challenge to win a rare Fire Tunic, relying on his physical strength rather than demonic power. After Tu Kun magically pinned the metal piece, Xu Yi transformed into an enormous ape-like beast and lifted it into the correct position.

• Xu Yi asked for a rare Fire Tunic as the reward, and Xue Zihan agreed to Tu Kun’s mathematics test.
• Niu Tongtian exchanged high-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones with Long Jianji for a rare Fire Tunic, which Tu Kun offered as the prize.
• Tu Kun arranged the Five Elements pieces out of order and challenged Xu Yi to restore them, while Xue Zihan warned him that each piece weighed hundreds of thousands of catties.
• Xu Yi gripped the metal piece and made it tremble, shocking the crowd with his strength.
• Tu Kun used magic to pin the metal piece in the air, then challenged Xu Yi to make it tremble again.
• Xu Yi transformed into an enormous ape-like beast and lifted the metal piece into its correct position beside the wood piece.

Xu Yi defeated Tu Kun and claimed the Fire Tunic, then accepted Niu Tongtian’s challenge after learning its reward involved taking Xue Zihan to Remembering Cliff. He studied Niu Tongtian’s star chart but conceded, leaving its thirteen unconnected points circling in his thoughts.

• Xu Yi revealed his immense strength, prompting Xue Zihan to ask whether he had won, and Tu Kun’s defeat was confirmed.
• Long Jianji explained how to use the Fire Tunic, and Xu Yi accepted it from Niu Tongtian.
• Niu Tongtian challenged Xu Yi to solve a star chart, offering high-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones or asking Xue Zihan to sit for a portrait at Remembering Cliff.
• Xu Yi agreed because Remembering Cliff lay outside the Winter Palace World, and Xue Zihan trusted his decision.
• Xu Yi saw the star chart’s structure in his mind but could not connect its final thirteen points, then conceded the challenge.

After Niu Tongtian invited Xue Zihan and the others to Remembering Cliff, Xu Yi helped arrange for her to leave the Winter Palace World despite Gui Lun’s objections. The party set out on Feng Jiu, with Xu Yi riding alongside Xue Zihan, while Niu Tongtian, Long Jianji, and Tu Kun traveled with them.

• After the Spring Welcome Banquet resumed, Xu Yi tried to slip away but Niu Tongtian invited him, Xue Zihan, Long Jianji, and Tu Kun to visit Remembering Cliff.
• Xu Yi urged Xue Zihan to accept, and she agreed after recalling that she and Xu Yi still needed to find Qiu Wa.
• Gui Lun objected to Xue Zihan leaving the Winter Palace World, but Long Jianji overruled him and the group departed.
• Outside the Winter Palace World, Long Jianji offered to carry Xue Zihan, but she summoned Feng Jiu in his golden bird form instead.
• Xue Zihan let Xu Yi ride with her on Feng Jiu, who flew alongside Niu Tongtian after overtaking Long Jianji and Tu Kun.

Niu Tongtian brought Xue Zihan to the Two-Forget Stone, where he painted her and drew Long Jingtian into a confrontation over the Green Demons. After Long Jingtian’s Winter Palace master token shattered, Niu Tongtian attacked him.

• Niu Tongtian raced with Feng Jiu to a sea-surrounded cliff, where Xue Zihan posed on the Two-Forget Stone while he painted her.
• Tu Kun prepared to leave with Xue Zihan, but Niu Tongtian announced that Long Jingtian had arrived.
• Long Jingtian appeared and ordered Xue Zihan to return with him, while Long Jianji greeted his eldest brother coldly.
• Niu Tongtian warned Long Jingtian that Green Demons had reached the East Sea and urged the four factions to unite against them.
• Long Jingtian’s star-speckled jade master token shattered, signaling that the Winter Palace World’s entrances and exits had been sealed.
• Niu Tongtian attacked Long Jingtian and drove his jade-green hand through the protective yellow light into his abdomen.

Niu Tongtian revealed that he had been infected by the Green Source Infection and summoned twelve golden-armored demons to attack Long Jingtian. Long Jingtian recognized their Hun Tian Sword Formation as the work of the Green Demon King, while Feng Jiu fled with Xu Yi and Xue Zihan and Long Jianji left the battle.

• Niu Tongtian escaped Long Jingtian's strike and declared that the Green Source Infection was the Demon Race's original power.
• Tu Kun, Long Jianji, and Feng Jiu demonstrated that they were not infected by unleashing attacks.
• Niu Tongtian shattered a jade token and summoned twelve golden-armored demons, then joined them in attacking Long Jingtian.
• Long Jingtian used the Tian Han Ling to counter their assault, but the thirteen demons unleashed Asura Death Qi and broke through his clouds.
• Long Jingtian recognized the Hun Tian Sword Formation and asked who the Green Demon King was.
• Tu Kun fled to summon help, while Feng Jiu carried Xu Yi and Xue Zihan away and Long Jianji left the battle.

Xu Yi, Xue Zihan, and Feng Jiu were pursued by Long Jianji and Tu Kun, who wanted to seize the Winter Palace Token. As Long Jianji closed in, Xu Yi took Xue Zihan hostage, leaving Feng Jiu furious and the pursuers facing an unexpected standoff.

• Xu Yi realized Xue Zihan could not leave the Demon Domain and agreed to stay with her, while Feng Jiu warned that Long Jianji and Tu Kun were approaching with reinforcements.
• Long Jianji and Tu Kun arrived with their followers, and Long Jianji persuaded Tu Kun to let him claim the Winter Palace Token in exchange for future favors.
• Long Jianji invited Xue Zihan to come with him, but Xu Yi pressed a Frost Blade to her neck and declared that he was taking her hostage to save their lives.
• Feng Jiu stopped flying and angrily challenged Xu Yi, but held back rather than expose himself or risk his life.

Xu Yi used Xue Zihan as leverage to force Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and their attendants to swear life-oaths against harming him and Feng Jiu. He then broke his own oath, letting the giant bird carry Xue Zihan away while the others were bound by their vows.

• Xu Yi threatened to cut Xue Zihan with Frost Blade unless Long Jianji and Tu Kun guaranteed his safety.
• Xu Yi demanded that Long Jianji and Tu Kun swear life-oaths, then swore an oath himself to return the Winter Palace Token.
• Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and their attendants swore the oaths Xu Yi had prepared.
• Xu Yi removed Frost Blade from Xue Zihan’s neck and admitted that he had broken his oath for the Winter Palace Token.
• The giant bird shielded Xue Zihan with its golden feathers and flew away, leaving Long Jianji and Tu Kun unable to pursue her.

Xu Yi broke the pursuers’ standoff by attacking two demons who had secretly violated his life oath, revealing a devastating sword technique. As the demons accused him of conspiring with the Green Demons, Xu Yi’s mastery of the Hun Tian Sword left Feng Jiu and the others stunned.

• Xu Yi told Feng Jiu to fly toward the Winter Palace World, then sat in meditation while Long Jianji and Tu Kun’s groups followed them.
• The brown-robed old man secretly urged the demons to help kill Xu Yi and seize the Winter Palace Token, and the red-robed middle-aged man agreed, breaking his oath.
• Xu Yi attacked both oathbreakers with Seven Thousand Swords, surprising Long Jianji and Tu Kun.
• The brown-robed old man scattered Xu Yi’s Sword Qi, but it split into countless intersecting strands that formed cages.
• Tu Kun recognized the Hun Tian Sword and accused Xu Yi of being a human cultivator allied with Niu Tongtian and the Green Demons.
• Feng Jiu realized Xu Yi had somehow mastered the Hun Tian Sword alone, a technique that Niu Tongtian needed thirteen demons to wield.

Xu Yi deciphered and used the Hun Tian Sword to trap Long Jianji and the other demons, then escaped with Feng Jiuru and Xue Zihan. He reunited with A Li and used the Two Hearts Know talisman to establish long-distance thought communication, learning that their connection reached at least 8,700 li.

• Xu Yi deciphered the final style of the Hun Tian Sword and used it to cage Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and the other Great Demons, though he could not injure them.
• Xu Yi unleashed further sword cages, then urged Feng Jiuru to fly west with him and the others; the demons did not pursue them.
• Xu Yi summoned A Li and introduced him to Xue Zihan, who was reminded of Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi activated the Two Hearts Know talisman on himself and A Li, allowing them to communicate through their thoughts.
• Xu Yi sent A Li west while Feng Jiuru flew east, and used the Starry Sky Sea-Gazing Technique to measure their separation at 8,700 li before calling A Li back.

Xu Yi freed Feng Jiu from the Water Source Mark, then persuaded him to travel with the group under Xue Zihan’s authority. Using the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique and a Boundary Barrier Pearl, Xu Yi found the concealed entrance to the Winter Palace World, where the group hid from a passing troop.

• Xu Yi had A Li remove Feng Jiu’s Water Source Mark and offered him his freedom, but Feng Jiu warned that he and Xue Zihan could be branded traitors.
• Feng Jiu urged Xue Zihan to leave Xu Yi, but she said she had her own plans and Feng Jiu agreed to carry the group again if he took orders from her.
• Xu Yi sent A Li back to the Demon Domain and directed Feng Jiu southeast and west until they entered the Winter Palace World.
• Xu Yi raised a Boundary Barrier Pearl to conceal the group, explained that he had located the hidden entrance, and Xue Zihan offered to show him the Winter Palace’s treasures.
• Xu Yi ordered Feng Jiu to fly higher when a troop swept past below, and the concealed group remained unnoticed among the clouds.

Xu Yi, Xue Zihan, and Feng Jiu discovered East Sea demons captured by Niu Tongtian’s Green Demons, then Xu Yi used the Hun Tian Sword to free them. He left the remaining fight to the rescued demons and continued toward his destination.

• Xu Yi and Xue Zihan discussed Niu Tongtian’s plan and the danger facing Long Jingtian and the East Sea Demon Race.
• Feng Jiu spotted a group of captured East Sea demons, including the Seventh Princess, being escorted by Green Demons.
• Xu Yi attacked with the Hun Tian Sword, killing the weaker Green Demons and trapping the stronger ones in a sword domain.
• Xu Yi’s Sword Qi cut the captives’ spirit ropes and freed them.
• Xu Yi told Feng Jiu to move on, leaving the rescued demons to deal with the trapped Green Demons.

Xu Yi and Xue Zihan entered Jinghuan Palace, where Xu Yi discovered that his jade token could open its gates and grant access to secret places across the seas. Xue Zihan showed him the calming seasonal worlds inside, and she quietly led him back into the Spring Scenery to prolong their time together.

• Xu Yi reassured the East Sea demons that Princess Long Qi need not fear, then examined the jade token Xue Zihan had given him.
• Xu Yi discovered that the token held sea charts, opened secret places, and served as a universal pass in the Winter Palace World.
• Xu Yi questioned Xue Zihan about Long Jingtian's intentions, but she declined to explain and said they had arrived at Jinghuan Palace.
• Xu Yi used the token to open Jinghuan Palace, and Xue Zihan explained that its four seasonal paintings were miniature worlds that calmed the mind.
• Xue Zihan left Feng Jiu in the Winter Scenery and led Xu Yi into the Spring Scenery, secretly savoring their time alone.

Xue Zihan led Xu Yi through Jinghuan Palace, where he learned about Long Jingtian’s trove and a five-vat formation that might have drained the Abyssal Chasm’s Fire Spirit Power. The chapter ended as Xue Zihan sensed Long Jingtian nearby and called for him to reveal himself.

• Xu Yi accompanied Xue Zihan through the Four Scenes Diagram, and they avoided Feng Jiu in the Winter Scene Diagram.
• Xue Zihan brought Xu Yi to Jingzhen Hall and offered him treasures, but he refused because he owed Long Jingtian and needed his help finding Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi noticed Xue Zihan spoke of Long Jingtian without gratitude and suspected Long Jingtian had bad intentions toward her.
• Xue Zihan led Xu Yi to Jingfa Hall, where he saw five vats gathering the powers of the Five Elements.
• Xu Yi suspected the Fire Spirit Power came from the Abyssal Chasm and worried that Long Jingtian had taken it.
• Xue Zihan sensed Long Jingtian and called on him to show himself, leaving Xu Yi startled.

Xu Yi reunited with Xue Zihan in the East Sea and confronted Long Jingtian, whose possessive control over her became clear. Long Jingtian’s jealousy erupted into violence, and Xu Yi struck first in his Dragon Elephant Aspect.

• Long Jingtian arrived at Jinghuan Hall, greeted Xue Zihan, and recognized Xu Yi as her old human friend.
• Xu Yi thanked Long Jingtian for saving Xue Zihan, then inferred that Long Jingtian had altered her body against her wishes.
• Long Jingtian offered to hold a banquet, but Xue Zihan cited the Winter Palace’s turmoil as a reason to refuse.
• Xu Yi challenged Long Jingtian about dressing Xue Zihan in demonic aura, and Xue Zihan tried to send Xu Yi away to protect him.
• Long Jingtian became enraged by Xue Zihan’s concern for Xu Yi, while Xu Yi transformed into a towering ape using the Dragon Elephant Aspect.
• Xu Yi brought his massive arm crashing down on Long Jingtian before he could finish accusing Xu Yi of having hidden schemes.

Xu Yi and Long Jingtian fought fiercely in the cave abode, matching strength until Long Jingtian struck Xu Yi with the Void-Splitting Hand. Xu Yi countered with the Hun Tian Sword, and the chapter ended as Long Jingtian used balls of light to break apart the sword formation.

• Xu Yi and Long Jingtian exchanged powerful blows, while Xue Zihan watched anxiously and tried to urge Xu Yi to retreat.
• Jealous of Xue Zihan’s concern for Xu Yi, Long Jingtian unleashed the Void-Splitting Hand and struck Xu Yi’s manifested ape body in the abdomen.
• Long Jingtian pursued Xu Yi, but Xu Yi summoned the Hun Tian Sword and briefly restrained him with its sword formation.
• Long Jingtian destroyed the formation with balls of light, while Xu Yi’s fire-powered Hun Tian Sword continued to sweep through the cave abode.