Chapter Summaries

Qin Xi and Li Rui heard that the Snow Fox Clan’s chief had been imprisoned, but Qin Xi warned Li Rui against getting involved. Back at their lodging, Qin Xi learned that Li Rui’s attendants seemed abnormal and reminded Yu Xue of Ancestor Hongjun.

• Qin Xi and Li Rui overheard cultivators say that the Snow Fox Clan’s chief had been imprisoned and the clan had become desolate.
• Li Rui urged Qin Xi to investigate, but Qin Xi warned him that the Primordial World was governed by the strong preying on the weak and that they should avoid unnecessary trouble.
• Li Rui sent two cultivators to investigate and said he believed Qin Xi would not stand by and do nothing.
• Qin Xi asked Yu Xue, Qirui, and Sweet Potato whether they had noticed anything strange about Li Rui’s cultivators.
• Yu Xue said the cultivators never changed their expressions and resembled Ancestor Hongjun, while Sweet Potato said he could not see their true forms.

Qin Xi suspected that Li Rui’s companions were duplicates created with Duplication Talismans and decided to verify Li Rui’s intentions. While Li Rui investigated the Snow Fox Clan Leader’s imprisonment, Qin Xi sent Qirui to investigate it independently and privately discussed his suspicions with the Chat Group before Li Rui approached his room.

• Yu Xue agreed with Qin Xi that the people around Li Rui resembled duplicated versions of Ancestor Hongjun, and Qin Xi decided to speak with Li Rui after his investigation.
• Qin Xi assigned Qirui to investigate why the Snow Fox Clan Leader had been imprisoned, and Qirui left without revealing the task when he encountered Li Rui.
• Qin Xi reopened the Chat Group and told its members that he suspected Li Rui’s companions had been duplicated with Duplication Talismans.
• Qin Xi ended the Chat Group conversation when he sensed someone approaching, and Li Rui called out to ask whether he was asleep.

Li Rui told Qin Xi that his cultivators were copies made with Duplication Talismans he had bought in the Demon Realm, and asked Qin Xi for help because they had begun acting strangely. He revealed that they had initially shown no Karmic Debt, leaving Qin Xi to wonder what had changed.

• Li Rui visited Qin Xi late at night, but said his subordinates investigating the Snow Fox Clan had not returned yet.
• Li Rui admitted that the cultivators serving him were copies and showed Qin Xi several Duplication Talismans.
• Li Rui explained that he had bought the talismans from a cultivator in the Demon Realm.
• Li Rui asked Qin Xi for help, saying the copied cultivators had begun disappearing and reappearing and sometimes carried Karmic Debt.
• Li Rui insisted the copies had originally shown no Karmic Debt and glanced anxiously toward the door.

Li Rui told Qin Xi that strange copies of cultivators kept following him, and Qin Xi suspected Masked Man’s talismans created copies that drained their masters’ spiritual power. Qirui returned after being discovered while investigating the Snow Fox Clan Leader’s imprisonment, and his unexplained exhaustion left Qin Xi with another troubling mystery.

• Li Rui told Qin Xi that copied cultivators had been following him despite his orders, and Qin Xi promised to help.
• Sweet Potato noticed Li Rui’s aura had grown weaker, prompting Qin Xi to suspect Masked Man’s talismans made copies that absorbed their masters’ spiritual power and might eventually devour them.
• Qirui returned from investigating the Snow Fox Clan Leader’s imprisonment and admitted the people at the Snow Fox Clan’s residence had discovered him.
• Qirui explained that he had fallen asleep in his Invisibility Cloak, which someone from the City Lord’s Mansion accidentally pulled off.
• Qirui said he had been unusually dizzy, tired, and sleepy lately, and Qin Xi told him to rest until the next day.

Qin Xi noticed that Qirui’s spiritual power was draining and asked Sweet Potato to watch over him. After Sweet Potato discovered that Qirui’s Fire Bead had grown hotter and brighter, he planned to tell Qin Xi, but the next morning Li Rui woke Qin Xi with another insistent knock.

• Qin Xi asked Sweet Potato to keep an eye on Qirui because his spiritual power was draining unusually fast.
• Sweet Potato went to Qirui’s room and stayed with him after they traded insults.
• Sweet Potato woke when Qirui’s Fire Bead grew hot, and he noticed it had become brighter and warmer than before.
• Qirui put the Fire Bead away and fell asleep again, while Sweet Potato decided to tell Qin Xi about it in the morning.
• Li Rui knocked frantically on Qin Xi’s door early the next morning, irritating Qin Xi.

Li Rui lured Qin Xi into a room with dangerous cloned cultivators, hoping to trap him, while the cultivators attacked and absorbed Qin Xi’s spiritual power. Yu Xue and Qirui stopped Li Rui from escaping, leaving him to await Qin Xi’s judgment.

• Li Rui told Qin Xi that the cloned cultivators seemed ready to kill him, and Qin Xi went to inspect them.
• Li Rui shut Qin Xi inside the room with the cultivators and apologized, revealing that he had lured him into a trap.
• The cloned cultivators attacked Qin Xi, absorbed his spiritual power, and fused together after he destroyed them, growing strong enough to reach the Sage realm.
• As onlookers gathered, Li Rui tried to flee the inn, but Yu Xue and Qirui stopped him.
• Li Rui begged to be released, but Yu Xue refused, and he was forced to wait with her and Qirui for Qin Xi to emerge.

Qin Xi destroyed the enlarged Copy Cultivator with the Law of Fantasy and picked up the tattered talisman it left behind. After Li Rui tried to flee, Qin Xi had him brought back to the room so he could explain why he had schemed against him.

• Qin Xi faced the enlarged Copy Cultivator as his pressure darkened the sky and made nearby cultivators struggle to breathe.
• Yu Xue gave Sweet Potato a badge that let him resist Qin Xi's pressure, while Qirui refused to release the suffering Li Rui.
• Qin Xi used the Law of Fantasy to shatter the Copy Cultivator and collected the tattered talisman it left behind.
• Qirui brought the fleeing Li Rui to Qin Xi, who told him to get up and return to the room to talk.
• Qin Xi sat down and waited for Li Rui to explain, while Li Rui looked guilty and struggled to speak.

Li Rui confessed that he had targeted Qin Xi to rid himself of the Copy Cultivators and had arranged the earlier attempt to steal Qin Xi’s Snow Lotus. Qin Xi learned that the Snow Fox Clan Leader was controlled and that her primordial spirit was involved, while she remained imprisoned with the man claiming to be her husband.

• Li Rui explained that the Copy Cultivators had reacted to Qin Xi at the Snow City auction, so he chose Qin Xi as the person onto whom he could transfer them.
• Li Rui admitted that he had incited cultivators to steal Qin Xi’s Snow Lotus, and Qirui angrily condemned him before Qin Xi reminded Qirui that they had benefited from the treasures.
• Li Rui said he had truly come for the Primordial Spirit Pill and revealed that the Snow Fox Clan Leader was controlled, with the primordial spirit reportedly on her.
• The Snow Fox Clan Leader sensed Qin Xi’s pressure and hoped the powerful newcomer could free her from her cage.
• A man entered the Snow Fox Clan Leader’s room, dismissed her hopes of rescue, and claimed he was her husband, while she insisted her husband had died long ago.

Qin Xi met Hu Feng, the man who had imprisoned the Snow Fox Clan Leader and followed Qin Xi’s pressure to find its source. Hu Feng claimed to lead the Snow Fox Clan, while Qin Xi recognized his likely deception but chose not to expose him.

• Ling'er regretted saving the man who had become a demon and brought trouble to the Snow Fox Clan, while he vowed to find and kill whoever had released the powerful pressure.
• The man ordered his followers to watch Ling'er and led Snow Fox clansmen toward Qin Xi’s location.
• Qirui, Yu Xue, and Qin Xi discussed whether the approaching man had come because of Qin Xi’s pressure, then the man called out asking to meet its source.
• Qin Xi came out and admitted that he had released the pressure, and the man introduced himself as Hu Feng, the Snow Fox Clan Leader.
• Qin Xi recognized that Hu Feng was likely the man who had imprisoned the real clan leader, but asked what business he had without exposing him.

Qin Xi accepted the supposed Snow Fox Clan Leader’s invitation and followed him into the Snow Fox Clan, where he discovered that the man had poisoned the food prepared for his guests. After Qin Xi exposed the poison, the man praised his abilities, leaving Qin Xi to challenge the Clan Leader’s treatment of guests.

• Qin Xi accepted the supposed Clan Leader’s invitation to visit the Snow Fox Clan despite Yu Xue’s concern.
• Qin Xi and his companions entered the crude-looking Snow Fox Clan, where the clansmen seemed afraid of their leader.
• The man invited Qin Xi to sit and claimed he only wanted to befriend a capable cultivator, but Qin Xi pressed him to explain his real purpose.
• The Clan Leader had food brought in, and Qin Xi knocked away the food Qirui was about to eat.
• Qin Xi dropped a piece of food and watched it turn into black smoke, revealing that it was poisoned.
• The Clan Leader laughed and admitted he had underestimated Qin Xi, who challenged him over the Snow Fox Clan’s treatment of guests.

After leaving the Snow Fox Clan, Qin Xi returned to his lodgings, where Li Rui waited and tried to make amends. Sweet Potato then told Qin Xi he had discovered the cause of Qirui’s abnormal drowsiness, leaving Qin Xi wondering whether it involved the Fire Beads they had taken.

• Qin Xi took Qirui and Yu Xue away from the Snow Fox Clan, while the Clan Leader let them go and privately appeared to be making a plan.
• Li Rui waited at Qin Xi’s lodgings, and Qin Xi stopped Qirui from confronting him and accepted that Li Rui was not bad by nature.
• Qin Xi, Yu Xue, and Lin Xi discussed the Snow Fox Clan’s possible plans and treated the prospect of gaining its treasure casually, leaving Li Rui astonished.
• Qin Xi dismissed everyone from his room so Sweet Potato could speak to him privately.
• Sweet Potato told Qin Xi he knew why Qirui had been unusually drowsy and pointed to Qirui’s earlier complaint of cold and the Fire Beads they had obtained.

Sweet Potato told Yu Xue and Qirui that Qin Xi would enter seclusion to study the Fire Bead, which had been draining Qirui’s spiritual power and worsening his weakness. After Qirui went back to sleep, Yu Xue asked whether Qin Xi had gone into seclusion because of him.

• Sweet Potato explained that the crimson Fire Bead had been absorbing Qirui’s spiritual power, causing his drowsiness and weakness.
• Qin Xi decided to enter seclusion for several days to study the Fire Bead and find a way to change its nature.
• Sweet Potato told Yu Xue to refuse the visitor seeking the Snow Fox Technique until Qin Xi came out of seclusion.
• Sweet Potato warned Qirui to stay indoors and remove the Fire Bead, but did not tell him what it was doing to him.
• Qirui returned to his room and immediately fell asleep, and Yu Xue asked Sweet Potato if Qin Xi’s seclusion was because of Qirui.

Sweet Potato told Yu Xue that Qirui’s lethargy came from using the Fire Bead, while Yu Xue and the Valley Master remained unaffected because they had kept theirs in their spaces. Qin Xi examined his own bead and discovered moving, insect-like patterns that absorbed spiritual power, then asked the group to identify them.

• Sweet Potato explained that Qirui had become sleepy because he used the Fire Bead, unlike Yu Xue and the Valley Master, who had stored theirs away.
• Yu Xue tried to throw out her Fire Bead, but Sweet Potato stopped her and persuaded her to keep it until the Valley Master could decide what to do with it.
• Qin Xi examined his Fire Bead and noticed insect-like patterns moving inside it as they absorbed his spiritual power.
• Qin Xi started a group livestream and asked the others to identify the creatures inside the bead.
• Plain Reaper identified the creatures as Blood-Sucking Fly larvae that drained vital blood and caused lethargy, and said they did not produce heat.

While Qin Xi focused on the danger inside a pillar, Luo Hou suffered increasingly violent bouts of taboo Karmic Debt at the Heavenly Dao Dojo. He managed to suppress the latest attack and emerged to find Momo waiting with fish soup.

• Plain Reaper explained that someone had placed the Blood-Sucking Fly inside the bead, and Primordial Great Expert sent a red packet before leaving the livestream.
• Daoist Yang Mei found Luo Hou by the fishpond, and they and Momo talked about missing Qin Xi, Yu Xue, and the others.
• Luo Hou sensed something wrong with his body, returned to his room, and sealed it with barriers.
• Luo Hou endured a violent eruption of taboo Karmic Debt and suppressed it, though the attacks had been growing more frequent and threatened to rob him of his reason.
• Momo waited outside Luo Hou's room with fish soup, and Luo Hou reassured her that he was fine.

Luo Hou spoke with Daoist Yang Mei about the strange condition he had been hiding, while Yu Xue refused the Snow Fox Clan’s invitation to Qin Xi and fought the clan messenger. The chapter ended with Yu Xue and Qirui casually chatting as she battled the Snow Fox clansman.

• Momo brought fish soup to Luo Hou and Daoist Yang Mei, and Luo Hou praised her cooking.
• Luo Hou told Daoist Yang Mei that he had sensed something strange in his body before Valley Master left and that it had been happening more often.
• Daoist Yang Mei urged Luo Hou not to hide the problem from him again, and Luo Hou promised to tell him next time.
• A Snow Fox clansman invited Qin Xi to visit the Snow Fox Clan, but Yu Xue declined on Qin Xi’s instructions and said he would visit in a few days.
• The Snow Fox clansman attacked Yu Xue, who fought him while Qirui cheered her on and offered her carrots.

Yu Xue struck down a Snow Fox Clan member who tried to attack her, while Qirui collected the wagers from the onlookers. After the beaten fox returned to the clan and blamed Yu Xue, the man he reported to grew furious with Qin Xi, who remained secluded and suddenly felt a chill.

• A Snow Fox Clan member attacked Yu Xue, and she knocked him down before Qirui told him their Valley Master would meet the clan leader in a few days.
• Qirui collected the Spirit Stones and Spirit Treasures that the onlookers had wagered, then discussed their value with Yu Xue.
• Qirui worried that the Snow Fox Clan member would distort what happened, but Yu Xue believed the clan leader would hold back for now; Qirui returned to his room to sleep.
• Yu Xue wondered about Qin Xi's research, and Sweet Potato reassured her that the Valley Master would likely emerge from seclusion soon.
• The Snow Fox Clan member reported to his superior and blamed Yu Xue, prompting the man to threaten Qin Xi.
• Qin Xi sneezed in his room, felt a chill, and wrapped his clothes tighter.

Qin Xi discovered that an adult Blood-Sucking Fly had escaped the Fire Bead and was draining Qirui’s blood. He evacuated the others while confronting the insect, but one cultivator tried to return to his room.

• After roasting the Fire Bead for three days, Qin Xi killed the Blood-Sucking Fly larva inside and called Qirui, Yu Xue, and Sweet Potato to his room.
• When Qirui failed to appear, Qin Xi, Yu Xue, and Sweet Potato found an adult Blood-Sucking Fly beside Qirui’s bed.
• Qin Xi trapped the fly in the room while Yu Xue and Sweet Potato fed Qirui Spirit Roots to help revive him.
• Qin Xi increased his firepower and told Yu Xue to evacuate everyone and Sweet Potato to carry Qirui out.
• Yu Xue led the cultivators outside, but one of them dismissed her warning and tried to return to his room.

After a cultivator died entering the burning lodging, Yu Xue kept the crowd away while Qin Xi dealt with a dangerous bug inside. Qirui’s condition worsened outside, but his fingers twitched, giving Yu Xue hope that he could hold on until Qin Xi returned.

• A cultivator entered the building and died when it was engulfed in flames, and Yu Xue challenged the others to go in as the crowd fell silent.
• Li Rui asked whether Qin Xi was still inside, and Yu Xue assured him that Qin Xi was fine despite some trouble.
• The Clan Leader arrived at the burning lodging, and Yu Xue explained that Qin Xi was dealing with a big bug and had ordered everyone evacuated.
• Sweet Potato alerted Yu Xue that Qirui was breathing rapidly, so she rushed to check on him and ignored the Clan Leader.
• The Clan Leader noticed Qirui’s pale face and understood that Qin Xi’s actions were connected to his condition.
• Yu Xue urged Qirui to hold on until Qin Xi came out, and Qirui managed to twitch his fingers.

Qin Xi fought to subdue a powerful Blood-Sucking Fly while Yu Xue arranged shelter for the cultivators and Qirui. The cultivators settled in for the night, and Yu Xue stayed behind to wait for Qin Xi.

• Qin Xi trapped the late-stage Quasi-Sage Blood-Sucking Fly behind a barrier and attacked it with his Law of Fire, but it absorbed some of the energy and fought back.
• The Blood-Sucking Fly tried to drain Qin Xi's vital blood, then grew dozens of times larger when it failed to escape or defeat him.
• As night fell, the cultivators complained about having nowhere to rest, so Yu Xue asked the Snow Fox Clan Leader to find them a place to stay.
• The Clan Leader sent his subordinates to lead the cultivators to shelter, and Sweet Potato carried Qirui there on his back.
• Yu Xue stayed behind to wait for the Valley Master, while the Clan Leader returned to the Snow Fox Clan after asking her to invite him to visit.

Qin Xi’s fire failed to stop the Blood-Sucking Fly, so Wukong went to Taishang Laojun to request Six-Ding Divine Fire. Taishang Laojun gave Wukong the flame, warning him that it could turn a place into a sea of fire.

• Qin Xi opened a group Livestream while the Blood-Sucking Fly kept attacking him despite being surrounded by flames.
• Plain Reaper suggested that Wukong ask Taishang Laojun for Six-Ding Divine Fire to help Qin Xi.
• Wukong went to Taishang Laojun’s pill-refining room and asked him for the divine fire.
• Taishang Laojun gave Wukong some Six-Ding Divine Fire and warned him not to put it just anywhere.