Recaps

Shi Lan used her remaining lottery chances to obtain Bedroom Arts and a replica Purple Tenuity Seven-Star Halberd, then swallowed the Wash-Dust Pill. Its agonizing effects left her body covered in blood and impurities, while Shi Feng grew alarmed outside her room.

• Shi Lan drew Bedroom Arts from the system lottery and discovered it was an incomplete dual-cultivation technique.
• Shi Lan drew the Purple Tenuity Seven-Star Halberd, and the system identified it as a crude replica of the Great Emperor of the North Pole, Purple Tenuity's nine-star weapon.
• Shi Lan declined the medicinal meal Zique brought and swallowed the Wash-Dust Pill.
• Shi Lan endured intense pain as the pill remade her body, then watched blood and impurities seep from her skin.
• Shi Feng heard Shi Lan's distress, entered the courtyard, and unlocked her room with Xiantian True Qi after she refused to let him in.
• Shi Lan retreated to the bathroom and told Shi Feng she was bathing, and he fell silent outside the door.

Shi Lan decided to leave Tenglong City after the system ordered her to depart within three days, and she planned to escape Shi Mansion that night. Before leaving, she returned the Vajra Divine Fist manual to Su Lanyue and asked her mother to take care of herself.

• After the Purification Pill changed her appearance, Shi Lan received a quest ordering her to leave Tenglong City within three days or face a random punishment.
• Shi Lan concluded that she needed to leave Shi Mansion, but realized her house arrest and guards would make escaping difficult.
• The next morning, Shi Lan toured Shi Mansion to learn its layout and decided to escape that night before she had to carry her stored equipment.
• Shi Lan visited Su Lanyue, returned the Vajra Divine Fist manual, and said goodbye without revealing that she planned to leave.
• That evening, Shi Lan asked the kitchen to prepare dry rations and returned to her room.

Shi Lan secretly left the Shi Mansion and fled Tenglong City, while Shi Feng quietly followed and alerted Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue. After resting at an inn and buying a horse, Shi Lan rode west, away from Tenglong City.

• Shi Lan packed clothes, supplies, and silver, climbed over a low courtyard wall, and tried to leave the Shi Mansion, but Shi Feng found her.
• Shi Feng warned Shi Lan that she would soon be caught, but when she ran anyway, he followed her at a distance and sent a letter to Shi Tianlu.
• Shi Tianlu received Shi Feng's letter and sent two letters from Jiuxiao City.
• Su Lanyue ordered a search for Shi Lan, then called it off after receiving Shi Feng's message that Ah Lan was safe.
• Shi Lan reached a small town, rested at an inn, bought a black horse, and rode west.

Shi Lan reached a ruined temple and met Song He, who was escorting two merchant's children west to escape demonic beasts overrunning Baiyang City. When steelback wolves attacked the guards outside, a creature burst from behind the temple statue and sprang at the young pair, and Shi Lan struck it with her long case.

• Shi Lan saved her lottery chance and traveled west until she found a ruined temple where she could rest with her exhausted horse.
• Song He and his guards arrived with the merchant's two children, and Song He told Shi Lan that demonic beasts had overrun Baiyang City.
• Song He warned Shi Lan that demonic beasts were spreading farther west, but she stayed on her route and settled down to sleep lightly.
• Steelback wolves attacked the group in the night, and Song He guarded the temple entrance while the guards fought outside.
• A huge shadow emerged from behind the ruined statue and lunged at the young man and woman, so Shi Lan knocked it into the wall with her long case.

Shi Lan and Song He helped defeat an iron-backed wolf that attacked Lu Chengye and Lu Lingshan, while an unseen expert had already killed more than ten wolves outside the ruined temple. At dawn, Shi Lan discovered that her horse was missing.

• Shi Lan dodged the iron-backed wolf’s pounce and kicked it, then Song He killed it with his blade.
• Shi Lan and Song He found more than ten iron-backed wolves slain with a single slash behind the stone statue, but the unseen expert did not answer Song He’s call.
• Lu Chengye and Lu Lingshan thanked Shi Lan, and Lu Chengye admitted he had panicked because he had not cultivated righteous qi.
• Song He reported that two people were badly injured and several others had minor injuries, while the group’s losses remained limited.
• Shi Lan went outside near dawn to check her horse and found it gone, with only its broken reins left behind.

Shi Lan traveled onward after parting from Lu Chengye and his companions, and the wolf meat helped her cultivation advance to the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm. When a hidden protector killed a tiger demon that was attacking refugees, they mistook Shi Lan for the one who saved them, then turned wary when she corrected them.

• Shi Lan declined Lu Chengye’s invitation to travel with his group, accepted a horse and wolf meat from Song He, and rode away alone.
• After eating the wolf meat, Shi Lan’s cultivation improved rapidly, and she discovered that her Root Bone had risen to 8, likely because of the Dust-Cleansing Pill.
• Shi Lan encountered more demonic beasts and refugees as she traveled, while noticing the same charred wounds on beasts that suggested someone was secretly protecting her.
• Shi Lan hurried toward the sound of a tiger demon attacking refugees, but an unseen attacker killed it before she arrived.
• The refugees mistook Shi Lan for the powerful figure who had killed the demon and bowed to her, then became wary and threatened her when she explained that she had not done it.

Shi Lan fought off refugees who tried to rob her, then traveled alone and stopped in a valley for the night. A seductive woman appeared at her campfire, leaving Shi Feng to suspect she was either a demon king or a wandering ghost.

• Refugees surrounded Shi Lan and demanded her horse and supplies, but she knocked them down with her riding crop and rode away.
• Shi Feng watched Shi Lan leave, then cut up the tiger demon's corpse with sword energy, spreading the smell of blood.
• Shi Lan rested by a brook, practiced the Jade Forging Art, and rode on until night forced her to camp in a valley.
• A beautiful woman in black gauze appeared beside Shi Lan's fire and asked whether she was lonely and whether Shi Lan found her beautiful.
• Shi Feng watched from the darkness and suspected the woman was either a demon king in human form or a wandering ghost.

Shi Lan encountered a spiritual entity in a valley, which the Heavens Reincarnation System reclaimed to restore some of its functions. With Shi Feng protecting her on the road, she hunted demon beasts, trained, and broke through to the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

• Shi Lan used the Heavenly Eye Qi-Observing Technique to see that the eerie woman was a spiritual entity, and the system absorbed it into her body.
• Shi Feng revealed that Shi Tianlu had secretly ordered him to protect Shi Lan and prevent her from heading west.
• Shi Lan learned that the spiritual entity's energy could restore some functions of the Heavens Reincarnation System, but chose to leave the suspicious valley unexplored.
• Shi Feng began hunting Xiantian Realm demon beasts for Shi Lan, who strengthened herself by eating their meat and practicing the Jade Forging Art and simulated battles.
• After half a month of training, Shi Lan shattered the barrier to the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm and tested her strength with the Vajra Divine Fist.

Shi Lan and Shi Feng learned that the Demon Race had overrun much of the Chengtian Domain and reached Starfall City, where the Demon Suppression Army had taken control. After hearing that a nearby city had fallen to a beast tide, they decided to leave for the Shengwu Immortal Sect.

• Shi Lan and Shi Feng saw a cavalry troop of the Demon Suppression Army pass by, so Shi Feng warned that a beast horde might be near and they changed course northeast.
• Shi Lan and Shi Feng encountered increasing numbers of patrols and learned that a Demon Emperor’s attack had led to the fall of numerous strongholds, turning the Chengtian Domain into a battlefield.
• Shi Lan and Shi Feng reached Starfall City, where an innkeeper told them the Demon Suppression Army had requisitioned supplies and most residents had fled or been evacuated.
• Shi Feng gathered information and urged Shi Lan to leave the next day because Huangsha City had fallen to a beast tide.
• Shi Lan agreed to travel with Shi Feng toward the Shengwu Immortal Sect, about ninety thousand li away.

Shi Lan and Shi Feng traveled through Chengtian Domain, witnessing the devastation caused by demonic beasts and growing refugee migrations. When a Golden Flame Eagle attacked them from the sky, Shi Feng sent Shi Lan away from the fight and prepared to face the beast alone.

• Shi Feng and Shi Lan left Dianxing City on his flying saber and passed a vast, injured refugee migration guarded by the Demon-Suppressing Army.
• For more than half a month, they traveled past refugee groups and a ruined battlefield, and Shi Lan devoted herself to cultivation as the danger in Chengtian Domain weighed on her.
• A Golden Flame Eagle attacked, its cry disrupting Shi Lan's qi and injuring her as Shi Feng dove toward the ground.
• The eagle's talons shattered the saber's barrier and drove it into a crash, so Shi Feng wrapped Shi Lan in Xiantian True Qi and threw her clear.
• Shi Lan ran to avoid hindering Shi Feng, who emerged from the crash and attacked the Golden Flame Eagle with a blade aura.

Shi Feng killed the Golden Flame Eagle but was badly injured before a beast tide arrived and trapped him and Shi Lan. A shapeshifting Demon King seized Shi Lan and transported her to her carriage, leaving Shi Feng a mile away.

• Shi Feng wounded the Golden Flame Eagle with his saber, then killed it by pinning it to a cliff.
• Shi Lan warned Shi Feng about the approaching beast tide and pulled him into a desperate attempt to flee.
• An invisible spatial barrier stopped Shi Feng and Shi Lan in midair, causing Shi Feng to crash and worsen his injuries.
• The beast tide revealed a shapeshifting Demon King, who immobilized Shi Feng and Shi Lan with solidified space.
• The Demon King licked Shi Lan's wrist, then transported her to the carriage and left Shi Feng standing a mile away.

Shi Feng awakened his saber intent and fought the demons surrounding him, but the Demon King easily shattered his attack. As Shi Lan watched helplessly, the Heavens Reincarnation System introduced itself to her and offered help.

• The Demon King crushed the snow leopard, then released Shi Feng from her restraint while keeping Shi Lan captive.
• Shi Feng remembered his life and Shi Lan, steadied his resolve, and gathered his Xiantian True Qi.
• The Demon King sent two seventh-layer wolf demons against Shi Feng, and his saber aura tore them apart.
• The Demon King recognized Shi Feng's saber intent, attacked him herself, and shattered his phantom saber image.
• Samsara, the backend of the Heavens Reincarnation System, spoke inside Shi Lan's mind and offered to help her.

Shi Lan surrendered control of her body to Samsara, but the Empress Cultivation System’s hazard-elimination protocol briefly interrupted the takeover before Shi Lan suspended it. As Shi Feng fell unconscious, Samsara took over Shi Lan’s body, saved him, and confronted the fleeing girl.

• The girl shattered Shi Feng’s gathered momentum, broke his blade, and battered him as he repeatedly charged her.
• Samsara tried to take control of Shi Lan’s body, but the Empress Cultivation System activated its hazard-elimination protocol until Shi Lan ordered it suspended.
• The girl froze Shi Feng just before he struck her, and he lost consciousness as his blood and energy reached the level she wanted.
• Samsara, acting through Shi Lan, unleashed a massive palm strike that forced the girl to dodge, then stabilized Shi Feng’s injuries.
• The girl fled using spatial power, and Samsara dismissed her attempt to escape as a display of meager skill.

Shi Lan used Reincarnation’s power to kill the demon king and escape with the gravely wounded Shi Feng. She took him toward a nearby city, where he woke in a cave and heard her account of their rescue.

• Shi Lan killed the demon king with a giant palm, drove off the beasts, and carried Shi Feng away with the halberd case and bundle.
• Shi Lan regained control of her body and learned from Reincarnation that Shi Feng was near death, though Reincarnation claimed it could only keep him alive.
• Shi Lan changed course toward a city and, after covering little ground by nightfall, sheltered with Shi Feng in a cave.
• Shi Feng woke and asked where they were, and Shi Lan told him that a passing cultivator had killed the demon king and rescued them.
• Shi Feng noticed the White Crane Skirt beneath him but said nothing, while Shi Lan returned to the fire and he reflected on how much she had changed.

Shi Lan carried the feverish Shi Feng to Twin Moon City and brought him to a medical hall for treatment. The doctor warned that Shi Feng was close to death, while the doctor’s granddaughter began tending Shi Lan’s severe wound.

• Shi Lan discovered her cultivation had reached the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm after Samsara’s energy lingered in her body.
• Shi Lan found Shi Feng burning with fever, carried him out of the mountains, and reached Twin Moon City at dusk.
• Shi Lan forced her way past a medical hall’s queue after the burly man tried to make her pay twice and then block her entry.
• The old doctor examined Shi Feng and said his damaged organs and shattered breastbone left him unlikely to survive without a legendary panacea.
• The old doctor prescribed medicine for Shi Feng’s fever and asked Yue'er to rebandage Shi Lan’s wound.
• Yue'er washed Shi Lan’s deep arm wound and asked why she stayed calm despite the pain.

Shi Lan and the injured Shi Feng received treatment at a clinic in Shuangyue City, where Shi Lan learned that wild beasts had been attacking people. She was shocked to discover that Du Baisheng had never heard of demon beasts, despite their invasion, and wondered why the Demon-Suppressing Army was concealing the danger in the city.

• Du Yue'er treated Shi Lan's wounded left hand and told her to rest it for at least a month.
• Du Yue'er gave Shi Feng medicine, and Du Baisheng later found that his inner breath remained steady despite his severe injuries.
• Du Baisheng introduced himself and Du Yue'er, then told Shi Lan that wild beasts had recently grown violent around Shuangyue City.
• Shi Lan told Du Baisheng that she and Shi Feng had come from Tenglong City and were fleeing demon beasts.
• Du Baisheng said no one in Shuangyue City had heard of demon beasts in nearly a hundred years, leaving Shi Lan questioning why the Demon-Suppressing Army was concealing the danger.

Shi Lan learned that Shuangyue City’s city lord had concealed news of the Demon Race invasion and accepted a quest to uncover why. The next morning, black-armored soldiers tested Du Yue’er with a glowing stone, recorded her details, and warned the clinic not to leave the city; Shi Lan followed them.

• Shi Lan told Du Baisheng about the Demon Race invasion, and he explained that the city lord’s private troops had arrived while the city relied on the residence for outside news.
• Shi Lan worried about the danger around Shuangyue City and accepted Samsara’s side quest to uncover why the Demon Suppression Army was concealing information.
• Two black-armored soldiers arrived at the clinic and asked for Du Baisheng’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter.
• Du Yue’er touched a stone slab that glowed red, then answered the soldiers’ questions as one recorded her details in a ledger.
• The soldiers warned the clinic not to leave the city, and Shi Lan followed them from a distance.

Shi Lan followed the Demon-Suppression Army as its soldiers surveyed Twin Moon City, then learned that their recruitment drive was meant to bolster forces against demon beasts. She planned to investigate by joining, but found the city had been locked down so nobody could leave.

• Shi Lan watched the soldiers test residents with a stone slab and record those who produced black or red light.
• Worried by the soldiers’ visit, Du Baisheng prepared to leave Twin Moon City, but Shi Lan persuaded him to wait while she investigated.
• Shi Lan learned that the rare herbs Shi Feng had used for her cultivation cost thousands of taels, and realized he had understated their price.
• The soldiers posted a recruitment proclamation offering a hundred gold to those who passed selection for the City Lord’s private army.
• Shi Lan decided to check out the recruitment, but a masked soldier stopped her at the city gate and told her Twin Moon City was under lockdown.

Shi Lan learned that Twin Moon City had been locked down, then prepared for a selection at the City Lord's Estate that offered gold and entry into the City Lord's private army. The chapter ended as the first contestant stepped up to test his strength against a mysterious stone.

• Shi Lan learned from a restaurant owner that Twin Moon City was under lockdown and told Du Baisheng they could not leave.
• Shi Feng woke at the clinic, drank water, and told Shi Lan that joining the Demon-Suppression Army might earn them healing pills and a chance to escape.
• Du Yue'er changed Shi Lan's dressing and found that her wound had healed unusually quickly.
• Shi Lan went to the City Lord's Estate, where Nie Yangze announced a strength test offering gold and places in his private army.
• A burly man volunteered to be the first to strike the stone.

Shi Lan joined the Demon-Suppression Army recruitment test and passed with the second-deepest fist mark. She and the other twenty-five successful candidates entered the city lord’s residence and arrived before Nie Yangze.

• A burly man failed the fist-strength test, and black-armored soldiers beat another man who also fell short of the requirement.
• Yan Shan passed the test with a seven-inch-and-five-tenths mark, and only a handful of the martial artists who followed him succeeded.
• Shi Lan passed with a seven-inch-and-nine-tenths mark after adding strength to her punch, surprising the soldiers and drawing Yan Shan’s serious attention.
• The test ended with twenty-six people passing; a black-robed man ranked first, Shi Lan second, and Yan Shan third.
• A black-armored soldier led the successful candidates into the city lord’s residence, where they saw Nie Yangze seated in the great hall.

Shi Lan and seventeen other martial artists joined the Demon-Suppressing Army after Nie Yangze revealed that the demon beast calamity threatened Twin Moon City and offered to protect two loved ones per recruit. Shi Lan brought the injured Shi Feng back to the City Lord’s Manor, then joined the other recruits at a training ground, where an officer in distinctive black armor arrived.

• Nie Yangze gave the martial artists the choice to take their rewards and leave or join his force, and eighteen stayed to enlist.
• Nie Yangze revealed that the recruits would join the Demon-Suppressing Army and that each could bring up to two loved ones to safety.
• Shi Lan realized the limit meant she could bring only Shi Feng and left the manor under the watch of two Demon-Suppressing soldiers.
• Shi Lan returned to the clinic, reassured Du Yue'er and Du Baisheng that she was not leaving Twin Moon City, and took Shi Feng back to the manor.
• After settling Shi Feng into a room, Shi Lan went to the training ground, where the eighteen recruits gathered and an armored figure with crimson markings arrived.

Huangfu Yun explained why Shuangyue City’s people had to remain behind its walls and fight the demonic beasts, despite the likely fall of the city. He also revealed that a Skycloud Treasure Ship would evacuate talented children and their families before the defenders prepared to risk their lives.

• Huangfu Yun introduced himself as a centurion and told the eighteen martial artists that Shuangyue City had an eighty percent chance of falling.
• Jiang Li urged the Demon-Suppression Army to end the curfew and escort the people out, but Huangfu Yun explained that past evacuations had led to near-total losses and could trigger panic across the region.
• Huangfu Yun declared that Shuangyue City’s residents would live or die with the city, completing Shi Lan’s side quest.
• Shi Lan asked about the registered children and the stone slab, and Huangfu Yun explained that a Skycloud Treasure Ship would take talented children and eligible relatives to safety.
• Huangfu Yun said people with black Root Bone talent could board alone and people with red talent could bring one relative, then told the martial artists to prepare to leave their lives behind.

Shi Lan joined Huangfu Yun's Demon-Suppressing Army and learned that he had discovered she was a woman, but he promised not to revoke her two places aboard the Cloudsoar Treasure Ship. Jiang Li then asked to buy her second place, revealing that the spots could be transferred.

• Huangfu Yun distributed Demon-Suppression Tokens, and Jiang Li, Yan Shan, Shi Lan, and the other martial artists bound themselves to the Demon-Suppressing Army by offering their blood.
• Huangfu Yun welcomed the eighteen recruits and told them to cherish the next two days with their families before their armor arrived.
• Huangfu Yun privately told Shi Lan he knew she was a woman, assured her that her two shipboard places were safe, and warned her that she would receive no special treatment in battle.
• Shi Lan returned toward Shi Feng's room, where Jiang Li stopped her and asked whether she would sell him her second place aboard the Cloudsoar Treasure Ship.
• Jiang Li told Shi Lan that City Lord Nie had confirmed the places could be transferred.

Shi Lan traded with Jiang Li for spirit crystals and discovered that they greatly strengthened her through the Jade Forging Art. Huangfu Yun brought her repaired Demon Suppression Army armor and confirmed that her injured brother Shi Feng would need to recover after they reached the Shengwu Immortal Sect.

• Jiang Li offered Shi Lan twenty thousand gold and three spirit crystals for her place aboard the Cloudskimming Treasure Ship, and Shi Lan accepted the crystals while returning the gold.
• Shi Lan cultivated with one spirit crystal for nearly two hours, greatly increasing her strength and healing her arm, but the crystal was spent.
• Huangfu Yun brought Shi Lan a repaired suit of heavy black armor taken from a fallen comrade because Twin Moon City had no women's armor.
• Huangfu Yun examined Shi Feng, told Shi Lan that his severe injuries were not life-threatening, and said he could recover after they reached the Shengwu Immortal Sect.
• Shi Lan put on the armor and inspected her reflection in the mirror.

Shi Lan used two system draws to obtain Bone-Strengthening Pills and Cloudflying Boots, then broke through to the eighth level of Body Tempering Realm. After recovering and meeting Jiang Li’s family, she learned the Cloudsky Treasure Ship would arrive in Twin Moon City the next morning.

• Shi Lan drew Bone-Strengthening Pills and Cloudflying Boots, discovering that the boots doubled her speed and eased the weight of her armor.
• Shi Lan took Bone-Strengthening Pills through the night and broke through to the eighth level of Body Tempering Realm.
• Shi Lan found that her wound had healed, then washed and changed with help from two maids.
• Jiang Li brought his wife and children to visit, and his children knelt to thank Shi Lan for ensuring their mother would survive.
• Jiang Li told Shi Lan that the Cloudsky Treasure Ship would arrive in Twin Moon City the next morning, so he had brought his family to meet her in advance.