Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi killed Du Tianxing with a combination of the Devil's Great Curse, Dragon Defense, and the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword, then used the Devil network to spread the curse through the Du Family. As another Nascent Soul Cultivator fell, the Du Family ancestor emerged and demanded to know who was attacking his family.

• Du Tianxing sent the Golden Core Cultivators to fetch the ancestor and tried to break the restriction, but Wang Qi intercepted his attack.
• Wang Qi killed Du Tianxing with the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword, and the Shaggai Insect infected him with the Devil's Great Curse.
• Du Tianxing resisted being controlled and destroyed the Shaggai Insect interface, but the curse network persisted and spread to the fleeing Golden Core Cultivators.
• Wang Qi expanded the Devil network and prepared for another Nascent Soul Cultivator, explaining that the Shaggai Insects were only interfaces for the network.
• A second Nascent Soul Cultivator emerged from the Du Family and was struck by Wang Qi's waiting Quantum Cloud Sword Qi.
• The Du Family ancestor roared as he sensed the attack and demanded to know who was trying to wipe out his family.

Wang Qi fought Du Ba Wu, the Nascent Soul ancestor of the Du Family, using his powerful defenses, elusive movement technique, and Five Pestilence Total Curse. After repeatedly infecting Du Ba Wu and exposing a flaw in his defenses, Wang Qi charged in with Crescent Moon as another swarm of Shaggai Insects attacked.

• Du Ba Wu appeared and attacked Wang Qi with his Natal Treasure flying sword, which Wang Qi cracked with a strike empowered by the strong interaction force.
• Du Ba Wu struck Wang Qi at close range, but Wang Qi’s enhanced defenses blunted the blow and left Du Ba Wu’s arm numb.
• Du Ba Wu filled the area with frost and moonlight to obscure Wang Qi’s vision and spiritual sense, but Wang Qi evaded his attacks with the Unfathomable Body Technique.
• Wang Qi sent swarms of Shaggai Insects through openings in Du Ba Wu’s defenses, forcing Du Ba Wu to sacrifice vitality and allowing the curse to enter his meridians.
• After the curse weakened Du Ba Wu and exposed a flaw, Wang Qi charged alongside Crescent Moon as another swarm of Shaggai Insects surged forward.

Wang Qi defeated Du Ba Wu and the other Du Family cultivators, then used Du Ba Wu’s lie-detecting technique to confirm the threat of a Heavenly Sword attack on Shenjing. He sent Du Bin to warn Zhao Qingfeng and the Great Liang imperial family, while the Du Family accepted Wang Qi as its new master.

• Wang Qi’s combined techniques overwhelmed Du Ba Wu and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators, and Du Bin fell to his knees when he saw his ancestor defeated.
• Wang Qi recovered from the battle and used Shaggai Insects carrying Flame of Life to revive and protect the Du Family members.
• Wang Qi ordered Du Ba Wu to test his statements with the Yan Yue Sect technique, and Du Ba Wu confirmed that Wang Qi believed he was saving the family and that a Free and Unfettered Cultivator might come to kill him.
• Wang Qi’s statement that the Immortal Alliance might destroy Shenjing showed Du Ba Wu an image of a Heavenly Sword attack, convincing him the threat was real.
• Wang Qi gave Du Bin Du Ba Wu’s lineage token and told him to report what he had heard to Zhao Qingfeng and the Great Liang imperial family, while keeping the encounter secret.
• After Du Bin left, Du Ba Wu told the Du Family’s Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators that their family had changed masters.

Wang Qi expanded his Devil's Great Curse research by infecting the Piaoyun Chen Family with the Shaggai system, then enlisted Zhao Qingfeng and Prince Yi Sheng to help protect Divine Capital. Feng Luoyi confronted him over spreading the curse but allowed him to continue, while secretly sealing two Heavenly Swords aimed at the city.

• Wang Qi refined the Shaggai system and sent a Shaggai Insect to the Piaoyun Chen Family to gather more test data.
• Zhao Qingfeng and Prince Yi Sheng met Wang Qi, who warned that Divine Capital was in danger and secured their agreement to follow his instructions.
• Wang Qi left the Du Family while Chen Feng continued experimenting on a separate path toward the Anti-Devil's Curse.
• Feng Luoyi rebuked Wang Qi for spreading another Devil's Great Curse through Divine Capital, but let him continue after hearing his justification.
• Feng Luoyi sealed East Phoenix's "Huanghua" and Pine and Cypress's "Severe Winter" among the Heavenly Swords aimed at Divine Capital.

Wang Qi suspected the Immortal Alliance might destroy Divine Capital and turned the city’s factions against one another while secretly using the Du Family to advance his research. The chapter ended with Zhao Qingfeng planning to seize Du Family disciples for study, exactly as Wang Qi intended.

• After leaving the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, Wang Qi and Zhen Chanzi discussed why Feng Luoyi had tolerated his actions and whether Wang Qi himself might be an excuse for the Immortal Alliance to destroy Divine Capital.
• Wang Qi monitored the Du Family through the Devil’s network and overheard Zhao Qingfeng and Yi Sheng conclude that Divine Capital was doomed and that they needed to discover how Wang Qi had gained leverage over the Immortal Alliance.
• When Zhao Qingfeng suspected Wang Qi was controlling the Du Family with the Devil’s Great Curse, Wang Qi used Plan Eleven to manipulate the conversation and send a message through the curse network.
• Du Zhengxing warned Zhao Qingfeng about Wang Qi, the Du Family, and the azure spirit bodies, but the curse’s restriction made him collapse before he could explain further.
• Wang Qi prompted Zhao Qingfeng to believe that Gu insects with azure spirit bodies were involved, leading Zhao Qingfeng to plan to seize Du Family disciples for study and unwittingly help Wang Qi outsource his research.

Wang Qi left Chen Youjia to investigate a possible transformation of the Holy Light God that could reveal how the Devil's Great Curse changed. He reached the special terminal known as Holy Sword, Azure Blue Fury, while promising Chen Youjia that they would survive and visit her family.

• Wang Qi considered how releasing the third Devil's Great Curse could provide researchers and Divine Capital cultivators with data and help slow the curse's spread.
• Chen Youjia sought comfort from Wang Qi because she missed her family and feared that Divine Capital might be destroyed.
• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia discussed surviving, visiting her family, and their future together before Jarvis announced a high-priority projected situation.
• Wang Qi left Chen Youjia and raced toward the outskirts after learning the Holy Light God might undergo a major transformation.
• Wang Qi followed the Five Pestilence Total Curse network and located the special terminal Holy Sword, Azure Blue Fury.

Du Gui united Silver Dawn’s members into a new sect, Heaven’s Hall, by telling them a fabricated history of Holy Light and promising a hopeful future. Wang Qi witnessed the change and found that the Holy Light God transformed from a starry sky into a giant surrounded by stars, then intercepted some of its power.

• Du Gui told the runaway children about the founders Anu and Tyrael, the Seven-Headed Dragon Demon, and the holy sword’s inheritance.
• Du Gui urged the children to abandon the Du Family’s old ties and cultivate Holy Light together, and the Silver Dawn members agreed to join them.
• Silver Dawn ceased to exist as a separate group and became part of the newly founded Heaven’s Hall.
• Wang Qi arrived, observed the gathering, and used the Tianyi Spirit Jade to investigate how the sect’s reorganization had affected the Holy Light God.
• The Holy Light God’s starry illusion collapsed into a giant that spoke by creating stars, and Wang Qi realized Holy Light had become the words of a sage before intercepting some of its power.

Wang Qi sent Holy Light God data for analysis while using divine power and engineered rumors to provoke Shenjing’s factions into investigating the Devil’s Great Curse. As panic spread and cultivators began sharing research, the curse united them in a way Wang Qi had not intended.

• Wang Qi mailed a piece of Tianyi Spirit Jade to Feng Luoyi’s research institution and continued studying the Holy Light God’s power.
• Zhao Qingfeng told the banished immortals that Wang Qi had used divine power to control the Du Family and ordered them to capture Du Family disciples for investigation.
• Chen Feng learned that Wang Qi had spread another Devil’s Great Curse, objected to his reckless experiments, and ultimately agreed to help develop the Anti-Devil’s Curse.
• Zhao Qingfeng realized the divine power Wang Qi had given the Du Family was also a kind of gu art and vowed to steal Wang Qi’s research and destroy him.
• Rumors that Wang Qi could turn people into believers spread through Shenjing, prompting cultivators to abduct Du Family disciples and search for countermeasures.
• As fear and infection spread, cultivators broke their tradition of keeping research secret and joined forces to study the Five Pestilence Total Curse.

Divine Capital’s Ancient Method Cultivators formed a vast research effort to refine the Devil’s Great Curse, while Wang Qi built an infectious countermeasure designed to control the curse network. His system remained unfinished, but Chen Feng reported that Zhao Qingfeng had devised a safe method to refine the curse’s power.

• Jarvis and the Five Pestilence Total Curse network helped Divine Capital’s Ancient Method Cultivators share ideas and coordinate research into the Devil’s Great Curse.
• Chen Feng proposed experiments, and Chen Youjia organized the results as researchers developed incantations that began to weaken the curse.
• Wang Qi designed an infectious Anti-Devil’s Curse that would use the curse network to suppress its effects on every infected person.
• Wang Qi’s progress stalled because his control system remained unstable and incomplete, and Divine Capital had little time left.
• Chen Feng told Wang Qi and Chen Youjia that Zhao Qingfeng had created an incantation that could safely and steadily refine Devil’s Curse power.

As Divine Capital prepared for a quiet New Year under the Heavenly Sword’s threat, Du Chun chose revenge over seeking help and accepted a new cultivation method from Zhen Chanzi. Chen Feng, Wang Qi, and Chen Youjia paused their work on the Deity program to share New Year’s Eve together, knowing the danger remained.

• Du Chun reflected on his Lineage’s destruction and asked Zhen Chanzi about switching to the Outer Dao so he could seek revenge.
• Zhen Chanzi offered Du Chun a cultivation method designed to resist the Yan Yue Sect’s gu technique, and Du Chun accepted it.
• Chen Feng explained that the method adapted from the Tianyan Tulu could evolve and might eventually help Divine Land resist Devil’s Great Curse.
• Wang Qi warned Chen Feng that long-term resistance would not solve the immediate danger posed by the Heavenly Sword.
• Chen Feng persuaded Wang Qi and Chen Youjia to take a break from perfecting the Deity program, and the three shared wontons for New Year’s Eve.

Wang Qi struggled to accelerate research into refining the Devil's Curse while Shenjing's infection continued to spread. Ai Qinglan arrived to take Chen Feng home for the New Year, but after he refused, she asked to stay in the dangerous city, leaving him alarmed.

• Wang Qi monitored the God-Refining Demon-Transforming Heart Art's evolution in Du Bin, Du Chun, and three Nascent Soul Cultivators, but judged the research too slow.
• Ai Qinglan visited Wang Qi's courtyard and pounced on Chen Feng, overpowering him in a prolonged contest of strength.
• Ai Qinglan said Chen Feng's parents missed him and tried to take him home, but Chen Feng refused because her past visits had brought pressure to arrange their wedding.
• Ai Qinglan apologized and agreed not to force Chen Feng to go home, then asked to stay in Shenjing, prompting Chen Feng to shout no.

Chen Feng tried to make Ai Qinglan leave Divine Capital by challenging her to a fight with Wang Qi’s help. The battle began, and Ai Qinglan’s Flame of Life and Pulse Spirit Root overwhelmed their opening attacks.

• Chen Feng rejected Ai Qinglan’s offer to take him away and insisted she leave Divine Capital, but she refused and challenged him to defeat her.
• Chen Feng explained Ai Qinglan’s abilities to Wang Qi and planned for Wang Qi to exploit a single opening with the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng prepared for battle as Ai Qinglan seized control of the surrounding spiritual energy and resisted them with her Flame of Life.
• Chen Feng attacked Ai Qinglan with the Soulshake Curse while Wang Qi struck from above with the No-Error Sword Net.
• Ai Qinglan absorbed Chen Feng’s soul attack and countered Wang Qi with a regenerating Flame of Life whip whose evolving transformations suppressed his swordsmanship.

Ai Qinglan overwhelmed Wang Qi and Chen Feng in a sparring match, adapting her whip to Wang Qi’s swordsmanship and resisting their strongest attacks. Chen Feng conceded, and Ai Qinglan revealed that only her maiden’s heart could hinder her in battle.

• Ai Qinglan’s evolving double-helix whips adapted to Wang Qi’s No-Error Sword Net and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Chen Feng used the Human Dao’s legal force to attack Ai Qinglan’s mind, but she broke the illusion and knocked him away.
• Wang Qi struck Ai Qinglan with the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword, piercing her head, but her wound healed almost instantly and she continued fighting.
• Ai Qinglan countered Wang Qi’s sword and suppressed Chen Feng in close combat, leaving both unable to defeat her.
• Chen Feng conceded, and Ai Qinglan withdrew her whips before explaining that she had removed her ability to feel pain.
• Ai Qinglan teased Chen Feng and declared that her maiden’s heart was the only thing that could hinder her in battle.

Wang Qi and Chen Feng argued over whether Ai Qinglan should join their dangerous Anti-Devil's Curse research, while Chen Feng struggled to decide what to tell her. That night, Wang Qi showed Feng Luoyi a model in which the curse overwhelmed humanity and then asked to bring another person into the research.

• Ai Qinglan settled into the back courtyard, and Chen Feng told Wang Qi that her powerful body did not mean her spirit could not be hurt.
• Wang Qi proposed recruiting Ai Qinglan, but Chen Feng objected because their research put its participants at risk; Chen Youjia returned and reminded them they still had a mission.
• Ai Qinglan teased Wang Qi and Chen Youjia, then Chen Youjia took Wang Qi away to work through calculations and simulations with her.
• Wang Qi reported to Feng Luoyi that the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique could not stop the Devil's Great Curse from spreading through the population in the model.
• Feng Luoyi gave Wang Qi research papers and described how experts across Divine Land were helping with his problems.
• Wang Qi asked Feng Luoyi if he could bring one more person into the Anti-Devil's Curse research.

Du Ba Wu sought the Great Lian royal family’s help with the curse in his soul, but recognizing that Wang Qi had already shaped the spell they offered, he fell into despair and became more deeply corrupted. Wang Qi turned that despair to his advantage while working to connect the Devil’s Great Curse network to ordinary computational devices, until Chen Youjia identified his latest delivery as Rouge House’s standard flying sword.

• Du Ba Wu received a spell from Yi Xuan Sheng and Zhao Qingfeng, then realized it followed the same principle as Wang Qi’s more powerful divine ability and that the royal family was under Wang Qi’s influence.
• Du Ba Wu’s despair intensified the Five Pestilence Total Curse’s erosion, and Wang Qi ordered him to focus on cultivating the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique.
• Zhao Qingfeng warned Yi Xuan Sheng that Du Ba Wu’s reaction was suspicious, while their conversation revealed their distrust and disagreement over pursuing immortality.
• Wang Qi continued developing a protocol to connect ordinary computational devices to the Devil’s Great Curse network, hoping to shift control to the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm.
• Chen Youjia brought Wang Qi a delivery of computational device components and noted that its crimson-bladed, emerald-hilted flying sword was standard issue from Rouge House.

Wang Qi and Chen Youjia secretly used an inhalant to push Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan toward reconciliation, while Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan finally spoke honestly about their feelings and his Dao. They agreed to return to their childhood home after the project, with only fifteen to twenty days left before Heavenly Sword destroyed Divine Capital.

• Wang Qi explained that the incense burner held a mood-enhancing drug and planned to use it to improve Chen Feng's work and help him reconcile with Ai Qinglan.
• Ai Qinglan drew Chen Feng away to test his progress, and Chen Youjia stopped Wang Qi from surveilling them before they went out to eat.
• Chen Feng woke beside Ai Qinglan, found the incense burner beneath his bed, and realized Wang Qi had interfered.
• Ai Qinglan held Chen Feng back as he tried to confront Wang Qi, and Chen Feng explained that his commitment to being a good person was his own Dao.
• Ai Qinglan apologized for failing to understand him, and the two reconciled and agreed to visit their childhood home after the project.
• The chapter ended with roughly fifteen to twenty days remaining before Heavenly Sword destroyed Divine Capital.

Ai Qinglan scolded and struck Wang Qi for endangering lives and violating research protocols, then examined his research materials and found a way to improve the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique. She began combining its past versions and offered to deal with Wang Qi’s Devil God system.

• Ai Qinglan punched Wang Qi for disregarding the value of life and demanded that he hand over his research materials.
• Ai Qinglan read the research and criticized Wang Qi for pursuing plague techniques that could strengthen the Devil’s Great Curse.
• Ai Qinglan explained that the Tianyan Tulu depended on accumulated change and asked Wang Qi for every version of the cultivation technique.
• Ai Qinglan represented the technique’s versions as genetic-like chains and began joining them to preserve useful redundancies.
• Ai Qinglan offered to help Wang Qi settle the Devil God system.

Ai Qinglan used her Pulse Spirit Root to integrate Wang Qi’s Shaggai Insect and Devil’s Great Curse systems into a new cultivation method, while Xiao Baishuang uncovered the Du Family’s connection to it. Wang Qi concealed his influence over the Exiled Immortals and decided to seize the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline.

• Ai Qinglan explained how her Pulse Spirit Root could create molecular logic gates, then used it to connect and integrate Wang Qi’s systems into the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique.
• Ai Qinglan finished the integration after more than three hours, and Wang Qi and Chen Youjia praised her breakthrough.
• Xiao Baishuang tortured and killed a Du Family Golden Core Cultivator, learning that Du Ba Wu had entered seclusion after distributing an unfamiliar cultivation method to core family members.
• Zhao Qingfeng recognized the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique as a specialized variant of the Tianyan Tulu and ordered Linzi to cultivate it.
• Wang Qi infected the Exiled Immortals’ mana with Five Pestilence Total Curse power to conceal the Thousand Illusion Spell and Dao Heart Pure Yang Mantra.
• Wang Qi decided to seize the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline once Ai Qinglan finished updating the cultivation method and god system.

Wang Qi used the Circle Theory and Du Chun to gather data while the Anti-Devil’s Curse research neared completion. In the imperial palace, Zhao Qingfeng discovered that the banished immortals’ Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique could refine curse power, revealing that their own method had already been used against them.

• Wang Qi continued modifying the god within the Circle Theory and gathering data to advance the Anti-Devil’s Curse of the Second Type.
• Du Chun trained under Zhen Chanzi, unaware that Wang Qi and his allies were guiding his cultivation and monitoring him through the jade pendant.
• Chen Youjia told Wang Qi that Ai Qinglan expected to finish a new round of research that day, and Wang Qi headed back as the city remained under martial law.
• Zhao Qingfeng reprimanded Yi Xuan Sheng and Prince Dan Yi Qi after their attempt to cure an infected guard failed.
• Lin Xiaoyun demonstrated that the Refining Spirit, Transforming Devil Great Technique could refine curse power, and Zhao Qingfeng realized the technique had turned their own method against them.

Zhao Qingfeng and the other exile immortals discovered that Wang Qi’s curse power had infiltrated them and decided to refine it before launching their great plan. Meanwhile, Wang Qi and his allies began installing an anti-curse god into the Devil’s Great Curse network as the Divine Capital neared a crisis point.

• Lin Xiaoyun used Zhao Qingfeng’s spell to filter his mana, revealing that Wang Qi’s curse power had also contaminated Zhao Qingfeng and the Yi family members.
• Zhao Qingfeng ordered the group to stop thinking about their great plan, refine the curse, and prepare to launch the plan as soon as they reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Wang Qi had Jarvis monitor the infected exiles while he and Ai Qinglan finished programming the god system, with Chen Youjia and Chen Feng designing its network connection and Divine Body.
• Wang Qi and his allies extracted the Devil’s Great Curse power, joined it with a prepared memory unit using Ai Qinglan’s Flame of Life, and began installing the god system with the Myriad Immortal Mirror’s support.