Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi crossed the desolate forbidden zone, where she sought his help reaching a Blood Phoenix inheritance, while he learned that she still worried about him and carried his child. They witnessed Ku Di escape from five monks of Silent Abyss Temple, leaving Zhou Qing questioning whether Ku Di or Ku E had truly fallen into demonhood.

• Shen Han Yi used two puppets to sing beneath the Crooked Neck Jujube Tree, which revealed the ghost ship holding the trial key.
• Shen Han Yi led Zhou Qing through the Ancient Mine toward the hidden place guarded by the Human Emperor Shroud, but he persuaded her to wait until its cocoons hatched.
• Zhou Qing realized Shen Han Yi's child was his and resolved to protect them while keeping his Number One identity secret.
• Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi saw terrifying mine creatures attack cultivators as they followed Shen Han Yi's safe route deeper into the Ten Thousand Mines.
• Jue Chen, Jue Jing, Jue Ming, Jue Yuan, and Jue Zhen fought Ku Di, who broke free and fled into the forbidden lands.
• Zhou Qing wondered whether Ku Di or Ku E had fallen into demonhood and what Ku Di had taken from Silent Abyss Temple.

Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi used an Eight Times Post to survey the Desolate Forbidden Zone’s Third Stage, where they discovered four Form Transformation Divine Medicines, Zhou Qing’s Second Uncle, and an Inscription-Level Divine Power. After Shen Han Yi asked how to make another viewing post so she could search for Zhou Qing, they parted, and Zhou Qing continued toward the Shen family.

• Shen Han Yi led Zhou Qing deeper into the Desolate Forbidden Zone, and her request for a long-distance viewing talisman triggered the appearance of an Eight Times Post.
• Shen Han Yi used the post to view the Third Stage’s blood-red plains and found four Form Transformation Divine Medicines gathered with a dried corpse fused to a Tree Stump.
• Zhou Qing recognized the white-haired old man in the scene as his Second Uncle, who tried to entice the Purple Jade Ginseng, vine-haired woman, and Snow Infant Fruit with treasures.
• Second Uncle took a black scroll from the Three-Flower Dried Corpse and appeared to identify it as containing an Inscription-Level Divine Power.
• The injured divine beast fought Su Minghe, then fled as Su Minghe pursued it, leaving the blood-red plains empty.
• Shen Han Yi asked Zhou Qing how to refine an Eight Times Post so she could search for him; he promised to give her one someday, then returned to his body and continued toward the Shen family.

After reaching Fifth Tail, Zhou Qing learned more about Shen Han Yi’s painful family history and worried that her powerful family would make it difficult to pursue her. He reunited with Second Uncle, who revealed that he had spent more than a hundred years in the Desolate Forbidden Land and produced a mysterious black scroll for him.

• Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi continued observing forbidden creatures through the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace while avoiding Si Kong Yan, and Zhou Qing eventually reached Fifth Tail.
• Zhou Qing learned about the Shen family’s influence and Shen Han Yi and Shen Yunzhou’s strained relationship with their father, Shen Juefeng.
• Zhou Qing recognized Second Uncle at an inn by his familiar golden annotation and followed him until he revealed his identity.
• Second Uncle and Zhou Qing reunited warmly, and Zhou Qing recounted his adventures while Second Uncle shared that he had spent more than a hundred years in the Desolate Forbidden Land and met a powerful big brother.
• Second Uncle produced a jet-black scroll, and Zhou Qing recognized it with a start.

Zhou Qing received the Great Luo Demon Sealing Seal from Second Uncle and learned that his uncle had become a Silver Rank Killer for the Blood Pact Pavilion. After they traveled to Fifth Tail’s inner region, Second Uncle eagerly prepared to visit the Shen Family and meet the family he believed Zhou Qing would marry into.

• Second Uncle gave Zhou Qing the Great Luo Demon Sealing Seal after Zhou Qing agreed to let him be the child’s grandpa, and Zhou Qing endured the scroll’s violent transmission of its three seal arts.
• Second Uncle revealed that he had released the Image Stones about the Three-Flower Dried Corpse and joined the Blood Pact Pavilion as Silver Rank Killer number Forty-Seven after rescuing one of its killers.
• Second Uncle teased Zhou Qing about his feelings for Shen Han Yi, and Zhou Qing admitted he only suspected she was pregnant and warned his uncle to keep the matter secret.
• Zhou Qing and Second Uncle traveled for half a year to Fifth Tail’s inner region and prepared to visit the Shen Family.
• Second Uncle reasoned that the Shen Family’s other branches might make trouble over Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi, while Zhou Qing insisted she was not yet his wife.

Zhou Qing and Second Uncle disguised themselves as array masters and sought refuge with the Shen family so Zhou Qing could investigate Shen Han Yi’s crisis. As they impressed the gate guards, Shen Lieyang confronted Liu Ruoshuang over hiring assassins to kill his niece, and she revealed their family’s role in the death of Shen Han Yi’s mother.

• After Zhou Qing failed to reach Lu Yaoyao, Second Uncle suggested sneaking into the Shen Manor, but Zhou Qing decided to enter the Shen family openly as an array master.
• Second Uncle transformed himself into a young man named Si Yunyai, while Zhou Qing used a blood ginseng bead to disguise himself as the middle-aged rogue cultivator Qing Zhou.
• Qing Zhou revealed his thirty thousand Spirit Seals at the Shen family gate, and the guards hurried inside to report his arrival.
• Shen Lieyang accused Liu Ruoshuang of hiring the Blood Pact Pavilion to assassinate Shen Han Yi.
• Liu Ruoshuang warned Shen Lieyang that Shen Han Yi might have uncovered the truth about her mother's death and reminded him that he had helped cause it.

Liu Ruoshuang and Shen Lieyang confronted the fallout from the attempt on Shen Han Yi, while rival Shen Family branches competed to recruit Zhou Qing, an Array Master with Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals. Zhou Qing chose to enter the family as an Attendant rather than join a branch, and the Third Branch gathered to receive him.

• Liu Ruoshuang told Shen Lieyang that the assassin's use of her Liu Family dowry flame could be part of a plot to implicate them and force a conflict over Shen Han Yi's succession.
• Liu Ruoshuang learned that a powerful array master had arrived at the Shen Family gate and hurried to meet him, but Su Yurou arrived as well.
• Zhou Qing revealed his Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals and asked the Shen Family to help him advance, prompting both madams to offer support and gifts.
• After Second Uncle warned him to avoid becoming tied to one branch, Zhou Qing asked to reside as a Shen Family Attendant, and Liu Ruoshuang and Su Yurou agreed.
• News of Zhou Qing's arrival spread through the estate, and the Third Branch's core figures gathered to welcome him.

Zhou Qing settled into the Shen Family estate and was courted by its branch mistresses while searching for Shen Han Yi and seeking to strengthen himself. After First Madam Shen Lin arranged for him to study the artistic conceptions of the family’s cultivators, Zhou Qing began receiving groups of them in his hall.

• At the banquet, Zhou Qing and Second Uncle were welcomed into the Shen Family, and Second Uncle displayed his five thousand spirit seals as a Level Three Array Master.
• Second Uncle secretly checked Zhou Qing’s chambers for eavesdropping restrictions, and Zhou Qing planned to locate Shen Han Yi while trying to contact her through the Communication Jade Slip.
• Su Yurou brought Morning Dew and Evening Frost to serve Zhou Qing, and he accepted them while secretly placing a restriction around his chamber.
• Liu Ruoshuang gave Zhou Qing a valuable piece of Profound Nether Cold Jade, which he accepted after recognizing its use as an array core.
• Madam Shen Lin told Zhou Qing that Shen Han Yi lived away from the estate and offered to gather cultivators so he could study their artistic conceptions.
• The next morning, Zhou Qing welcomed seven Severing Spirit Realm cultivators into his hall, then began receiving groups of Transformation Spirit Realm cultivators as Second Uncle organized the queue.

Shen Yunzhou returned to the Shen family, mistook its activity for a massacre, and learned that Master Qing Zhou had arrived. After Lin Jingtang urged him to help the family secure Zhou Qing’s support, Zhou Qing broke through to the Severing Spirit Realm Middle Stage in secret with Second Uncle’s Broken Bowl.

• Shen Yunzhou hid outside the Shen family gate until Da Congming explained that an Array Master with Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals had arrived, then he went inside to seek Master Qing Zhou.
• Shen Yunzhou saw the family branches competing for Zhou Qing’s favor and secretly tried to record an image of him before Lin Jingtang stopped him.
• Lin Jingtang asked Shen Yunzhou to obtain his sister’s Four Color Array for his cousin’s breakthrough, but he claimed it was a one-use item she had not deciphered.
• Lin Jingtang warned Shen Yunzhou that the Shen family needed Zhou Qing’s help to stay powerful, and Shen Yunzhou agreed to pass the request to his sister.
• Seven days later, Zhou Qing’s spiritual power surged toward a breakthrough, so Second Uncle used the Broken Bowl to conceal him while he cultivated.
• Zhou Qing reached the Severing Spirit Realm Middle Stage and gained an initial ability to draw on the four powers of the Four-Colored Strange Flower.

Shen Han Yi warned Shen Yunzhou not to trust the Shen family easily, then privately reacted with nausea while worrying about Zhou Qing, who remained lost in the void. Meanwhile, Zhou Qing repaired four sabotaged Shen family arrays and realized the branch heads may have staged the damage to bind him more closely to the family.

• Shen Han Yi told Shen Yunzhou to distrust even their aunts, declined to explain her plans regarding Third Aunt, and asked whether anyone had news of Zhou Qing; after he said there was none, she vomited and held her abdomen once he left.
• The three Shen branch heads asked Zhou Qing to repair their unstable Family Protection Array, and Shen Lieyang led him and Second Uncle to its damaged southeast array platform.
• Zhou Qing discovered through Daily Appraisal that Shen Tianhong had deliberately damaged the array and was a Fourth-Level Array Master, but he repaired it anyway using his Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals.
• The three branch heads asked Zhou Qing to repair three more platforms, and he restored all four by sunset before declining their banquet invitation.
• Zhou Qing told Second Uncle about the sabotage, and Second Uncle reasoned that the Shen Lineage had staged it to test Zhou Qing and make him feel invested in the family.

Lu Yaoyao suspected that the Shen Family’s newly arrived Array Master, Qing Zhou, was her missing Senior Brother Zhou, while Zhou Qing prepared to uncover Shen Han Yi’s whereabouts. Yan Luo, Zhao Muye, and Yu Yan all arrived to meet the mysterious master, and the chapter ended as the doors to Quiet Heart Hall opened.

• Second Uncle reassured Zhou Qing and shared his hard-won advice about surviving the Cultivation World.
• Lu Yaoyao recognized that Qing Zhou read backward was Zhou Qing and urged Shen Yunzhou to help verify whether the Array Master was her Senior Brother.
• Shen Han Yi warned Lu Yaoyao not to visit the Shen Family in person, then left with Shen Yunzhou to investigate Qing Zhou.
• Yan Luo arrived at the Shen Family, claimed he needed a place to recover, and offered a Four-Colored Restriction method to gain a meeting with the Array Master.
• Zhao Muye and Yu Yan arrived seeking the Array Master, and Shen Tianhong led them and Yan Luo toward Quiet Heart Hall.
• The doors to Quiet Heart Hall slowly opened just as Shen Tianhong was about to announce the visitors.

Zhou Qing and Second Uncle hosted envoys from the Yan and Zhao Families while probing the Shen Family’s secrets, then uncovered a lead to the missing mirror surface of the Avici Karma Fire Mirror in the Desolate Forbidden Zone. After comparing their Ultimate Weapons, Second Uncle concluded Yan Luo carried an imitation and decided he wanted it, while Zhou Qing agreed to find a way to take it.

• Zhou Qing accepted Yan Luo’s gift and heard Zhao Muye offer the Zhao Family’s support, while the White Elephant Demon Emperor seemed to recognize something about Zhou Qing’s disguise.
• Zhou Qing and Second Uncle discussed secretly killing Liu Ruoshuang and soul-searching her to learn what happened to Shen Han Yi.
• Zhou Qing showed Second Uncle the incomplete Avici Karma Fire Mirror, and their two Ultimate Weapons reacted when Second Uncle brought out his complete black bell.
• Second Uncle connected the mirror’s missing surface to a Black Snow Mountain in the second level of the Desolate Forbidden Zone, and Zhou Qing agreed they should search for it.
• Second Uncle concluded Yan Luo’s lamp-shaped treasure was an imitation Ultimate Weapon and said he wanted it, so Zhou Qing promised to find a way to obtain it.

Shen Han Yi returned to the Shen residence and reunited with Zhou Qing, who revealed that he was alive and promised to become a good father and husband. As they discussed his escape from the void, Shen Han Yi and Zhou Qing noticed Shen Tianhong’s spying Gu worm and pretended to discuss array techniques.

• Shen Han Yi and Shen Yunzhou arrived at the Shen residence, and Su Yurou urged Shen Han Yi to keep Master Qing Zhou with the Shen Family.
• Second Uncle discovered that Shen Han Yi was pregnant, then arranged for her to meet Zhou Qing alone in the Quiet Heart Hall.
• Zhou Qing revealed his identity to Shen Han Yi, apologized for his absence, and promised to become a good father and husband.
• Shen Han Yi asked Zhou Qing how he had escaped the void, while Second Uncle kept Shen Yunzhou outside the hall.
• Shen Tianhong sent a Gu worm to spy on Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi, so they pretended to discuss array techniques.

Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi uncovered new evidence linking the Shen family’s branches to the attack on her mother and the massacre of the Flying Bandit Alliance. Shen Han Yi agreed to investigate her Second Aunt openly while Zhou Qing stayed hidden to help her.

• Before leaving, Shen Han Yi warned Zhou Qing not to interfere in the Third Branch’s affairs, and Zhou Qing promised she would not face the danger alone.
• Second Uncle received a Blood Pact Pavilion assignment and left the Shen residence, evading the two Transformation Spirit Realm cultivators secretly sent to follow him.
• Lin Jingtang tried to steer Shen Han Yi toward using an ancient array disk to keep Master Qing Zhou with the Shen family, but Shen Han Yi continued to Quiet Heart Hall with it.
• Shen Han Yi showed Zhou Qing an Image Stone depicting a masked figure slaughtering the Flying Bandit Alliance, and Zhou Qing used Daily Appraisal to identify Shen Lieyang as the killer and Su Yurou as the sender.
• Shen Han Yi revealed her suspicion that Shen Lieyang had cultivated a Second Nascent Soul, and Zhou Qing questioned why the evidence had surfaced now and who had hired the Blood Pact Pavilion assassin.
• Shen Han Yi decided to question Su Yurou face-to-face and agreed that Zhou Qing would remain hidden as her ally.

Shen Han Yi confronted Su Yurou over an Image Stone and learned that Shen Lieyang had ties to the Flying Bandit Alliance, while Su Yurou claimed she had only watched events unfold. Meanwhile, Second Uncle traced the employer who hired Blood Pact Pavilion to kill Shen Han Yi to the Shen Family, and Zhou Qing prepared to reveal good news to her.

• Shen Han Yi threatened to search Su Yurou's soul, and Su Yurou admitted she had given her the Image Stone to stir up trouble in the Shen Family.
• Su Yurou revealed that Shen Lieyang had acted through a clone during the Flying Bandit Alliance incident, but denied involvement in the attack on Shen Han Yi's mother or the Blood Pact Pavilion contract.
• Second Uncle planted a tracking mark on the Blood Pact Pavilion contact and followed him to identify the employer who had ordered Shen Han Yi's assassination.
• Second Uncle and Zhou Qing discovered that the tracked employer was inside the Shen Family, and the tracking mark began moving toward the hall where the family heads had gathered.
• Second Uncle and Zhou Qing focused on Shen Yunlan as the likely employer after she and the other family heads departed with Yan Luo and Zhao Muye.
• Shen Han Yi visited Zhou Qing, and after Second Uncle left them alone, Zhou Qing asked whether she wanted to hear some good news.

Shen Han Yi agreed with Shen Juefeng to kill the uncles who threatened her, while Zhou Qing and Second Uncle lured Shen Yunlan away from the Shen estate. At the mountain range, a five-colored restriction appeared, leaving Shen Yunlan stunned.

• Shen Han Yi told Zhou Qing about her past, and he comforted her as she struggled with whether to avenge her mother without harming the Shen family.
• Shen Juefeng revealed that he had feigned muddleheadedness for years and agreed with Shen Han Yi to kill those who had gone too far.
• Zhou Qing arranged for Shen Yunlan to accompany him to an ancient restriction, while Shen Han Yi and two black shadows slipped out of the Shen family's forbidden ground.
• During the journey, Shen Yunlan secretly prepared against being followed and planned to claim the treasures he expected inside the secret realm.
• At the mountain range, five pillars of light formed a vast restriction, which Shen Yunlan recognized as the Five-Colored Restriction.

Zhou Qing and Second Uncle trapped Shen Yunlan inside a Five-Colored Restriction and fought him with their strongest powers. After Shen Yunlan revealed his Eternal Azure Emperor Realm, Zhou Qing broke it by analyzing its structure, then began gathering his Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals into a lightning spear as the battle reached its climax.

• Second Uncle activated a Five-Colored Restriction that prevented Shen Yunlan from escaping through space for three hours, and Zhou Qing confronted him over hiring the Blood Pact Pavilion to assassinate Shen Han Yi.
• Zhou Qing and Second Uncle attacked Shen Yunlan together, but he used the Nine Yin Soul Devouring Ring, blood bone spears, and a pill to withstand their assaults.
• Second Uncle unleashed the Annihilation Heavenly Net, shattered Shen Yunlan's bone abyss, and drove him to reveal his Eternal Azure Emperor Realm.
• Inside the realm, Second Uncle held back the forest's vines while Zhou Qing analyzed its laws and broke the Intent Realm, leaving Shen Yunlan severely injured.
• Zhou Qing gathered his Thirty Thousand Spirit Seals into a violet-gold lightning spear, preparing to finish Shen Yunlan.

Zhou Qing and Second Uncle defeated Shen Yunlan, extracted his Blood Crystal, and escaped before his powerful father’s mark could expose them. Meanwhile, Yu Yan learned that Yu Zhu had arranged to meet her supposed savior, unaware that the man was Yan Luo.

• Zhou Qing wounded Shen Yunlan with his Blood Phoenix divine power, and Second Uncle followed with the Nine Tribulations Thunder Talisman Scripture, leaving Shen Yunlan near death.
• Second Uncle bound Shen Yunlan’s Seven-Colored Nascent Soul, and Zhou Qing refined Shen Yunlan’s ruined body into a Blood Crystal before Second Uncle destroyed the Nascent Soul as Shen Canghai’s voice emerged from it.
• Zhou Qing and Second Uncle fled through a Spatial Rift, while Shen Yunlan’s extinguished soul lamp prompted the Shen Lineage to sound urgent bells.
• Yu Yan received Yu Zhu’s message about meeting her longtime lifesaving benefactor and left Zhao Muye and Bai Xiang to help her cousin.
• Yu Yan told Bai Xiang to keep Zhou Qing’s identity secret from Zhao Muye, and Bai Xiang agreed to restrain him if necessary.
• Yu Zhu fawned over Yan Luo in his cave abode, calling him her mysterious savior and praising him as one of the Yan Lineage’s Four Great Geniuses.

Yan Luo killed Yu Zhu after using her to lure Yu Yan into a trap, but Zhou Qing intercepted Yan Luo’s attack and fought him in the wilderness. Zhou Qing gained the upper hand as Yan Luo recognized him as the man who had ruined his plans.

• Yan Luo revealed that he had manipulated Yu Zhu to lure Yu Yan to him, then killed Yu Zhu and took her Communication Jade Slip.
• After absorbing the Blood Phoenix Tribulation Crystals, Zhou Qing and Second Uncle tracked Yan Luo, but the mark on his token disappeared and they split up to search.
• Zhou Qing found Yan Luo battling Yu Yan, whose Azure Feather Heavenly Net domain shattered, and rescued her from Yan Luo’s black mist attack.
• Zhou Qing clashed with Yan Luo using lightning and his broken sword while Yu Yan tried to recover her strength.
• Yan Luo recognized Zhou Qing as the person who had ruined his plans, and Zhou Qing struck him with a thunder talisman and pressed his attack.

Zhou Qing defeated Yan Luo by using the Avici Karma Fire Mirror to break the Fate Lamp and burn Yan Luo with his accumulated karma. After Yan Luo recognized Zhou Qing as Master Qing Zhou and tried to surrender, Zhou Qing killed him with an Inscription-Level Divine Power, leaving Yan Luo's Primordial Spirit destroyed.

• Yan Luo used Hell's Myriad Bones Wither to transform into a giant skeletal demon, but Zhou Qing countered him with his Demon Subduing Golden Bones and Golden Crow Sky Burning Scripture.
• Yan Luo brought out the Fate Lamp and attacked Zhou Qing with chains of law, while Yu Yan fled after Zhou Qing ordered her to leave.
• Zhou Qing summoned the Avici Karma Fire Mirror, whose karmic threads broke the Fate Lamp's chains and bound Yan Luo, burning his soul with the karmic debt of his past deeds.
• Zhou Qing entered the mirror, revealed that he was Master Qing Zhou, and confronted Yan Luo with his blood phoenix Inscription-Level Divine Power.
• Yan Luo pretended to surrender, then attacked with a Blood Soul Spirit Slaying Talisman, but Zhou Qing destroyed the talisman with violet-gold lightning and killed him with the blood phoenix's strike.
• Yan Luo's Seven-Colored Nascent Soul fled, but the karmic fire engulfed it and burned his Primordial Spirit to ashes.

Zhou Qing killed Yan Luo and reunited with Shen Han Yi, where he learned that her father, Shen Juefeng, had secretly been protecting them and that the Shen family’s internal feud was more complicated than he expected. After sharing their secrets and discussing the baby, Shen Han Yi revealed that the child had kicked her.

• Zhou Qing confirmed Yan Luo’s death, collected his Storage Bag, and left with Second Uncle before others could investigate the disturbance.
• Yu Yan woke at Zhou Qing’s camp, learned that Yan Luo was dead, and left after Shen Han Yi arrived.
• Shen Han Yi told Zhou Qing that Second Uncle was dead and that the slovenly figure nearby was her father, Shen Juefeng; Zhou Qing admitted killing Shen Yunlan and endured Shen Juefeng’s crushing pressure without kneeling.
• Zhou Qing told Shen Han Yi that he had injured Yan Sen and his nephew at Kun Peng Palace, while Shen Han Yi explained her father’s investigation into the Shen family’s schemes and warned Zhou Qing not to get involved.
• Zhou Qing urged Shen Han Yi to return and see his junior sister, then awkwardly discussed her pregnancy; Shen Han Yi said the baby had kicked her that day.