Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong obtained the Six-Ding Divine Fire from Taishang Laojun and sold it to Qin Xi through the Chat Group. Qin Xi fused the fire with his Law of Fire, strengthening it and gaining control over it, though its heat had already caused panic throughout the Snow Fox Clan.

• Sun Wukong thanked Taishang Laojun, took the Six-Ding Divine Fire, and left without causing trouble.
• Sun Wukong told the Chat Group that he had obtained the fire and relayed Taishang Laojun's warning that it could set its surroundings ablaze.
• The Chat Group listed the Six-Ding Divine Fire in the Commodity Mall, and Qin Xi bought it for five hundred thousand Merit points.
• Qin Xi hesitated to use the fire directly on the Blood-Sucking Fly because he feared it would destroy the Snow Fox Clan.
• The Six-Ding Divine Fire's heat spread across the Snow Fox Clan, alarming its members and making Yu Xue wonder what treasure Qin Xi had acquired.
• Qin Xi fused the Six-Ding Divine Fire with his Law of Fire, increasing its strength and allowing him to control it.

Qin Xi extinguished the fire and returned to treat Qirui, whose condition had become critical. While Qin Xi worked, Li Rui arrived hoping to see him, prompting Yu Xue and Sweet Potato to speculate about his intentions.

• Qin Xi used the Six-Ding Divine Fire to finish weakening the Blood-Sucking Fly, then reunited with Yu Xue and hurried to Qirui.
• A Snow Fox Clan member reported that the fire had gone out without damaging the cultivators' lodging, making the Clan Leader wary of Qin Xi.
• Sweet Potato told Qin Xi that Qirui had grown resistant to the Spirit Roots and was barely alive.
• Qin Xi sent Yu Xue and Sweet Potato outside while he treated Qirui.
• Li Rui came looking for Qin Xi, but Yu Xue stopped him from entering, and he left to wait.
• Yu Xue and Sweet Potato wondered whether Li Rui had unusual intentions toward Qin Xi.

Qin Xi saved Qirui by helping him absorb the Blood-Sucking Fly's core, and Qirui woke up weak but recovering. Yu Xue fed him sweet potato porridge and realized she had missed their usual bickering while he was ill.

• Qin Xi placed the Blood-Sucking Fly's core in Qirui's mouth and guided spiritual energy into him until Qirui absorbed it and regained warmth.
• Qirui woke up and asked Qin Xi what had happened, while Qin Xi told him to rest and assured him that everything was resolved.
• Qin Xi told Yu Xue to make sweet potato porridge for Qirui, then returned to his room to rest.
• Yu Xue brought Qirui porridge and teased him about causing trouble, then admitted she had grown unused to the quiet while he was sick.
• Yu Xue left to let Sweet Potato have his porridge, and Sweet Potato dashed off as soon as she came out.

Qin Xi checked on Qirui, who had recovered, while Sweet Potato sulked because Qirui had eaten all the sweet potato porridge. Yu Xue made Sweet Potato another pot, but his talk of dual cultivating with her left her startled, and he still insisted they could learn to make more delicacies together.

• Qin Xi visited Qirui and found that he had nearly recovered.
• Qirui explained that he had eaten all the sweet potato porridge, making Sweet Potato angry.
• Sweet Potato went to Yu Xue, who cooked him another pot of porridge.
• After Sweet Potato praised Yu Xue's cooking, he suggested they dual cultivate so she could make porridge for him forever.
• Yu Xue tried to dissuade Sweet Potato by promising there were many other delicacies to discover, but he suggested they dual cultivate and learn to make them together.

Yu Xue rejected Sweet Potato’s feelings, leaving him hurt and angry. Qin Xi explained how Blood-Sucking Fly larvae in Qirui’s Fire Bead had drained his blood essence, gave him a safe replacement, and then found Yu Xue looking upset.

• Yu Xue told Sweet Potato that she did not like him, and he left her place without finishing his porridge.
• Qirui asked Qin Xi what had caused his condition, and Qin Xi explained that Blood-Sucking Fly larvae in his Fire Bead had drained his blood essence.
• Qin Xi gave Qirui a Fire Bead with the larvae destroyed, and Qirui accepted it after learning it was warmer than before.
• Qin Xi and Qirui went to Yu Xue’s place and found her looking dejected, with Sweet Potato gone.
• Qin Xi asked whether Qirui had upset Yu Xue, and Qirui protested that he had only just arrived with Qin Xi.

Yu Xue worried that she had hurt Sweet Potato by rejecting his request to dual cultivate, so Qin Xi gathered them together to talk. Sweet Potato explained that he only wanted to stay with Yu Xue forever and thought her not liking him meant she hated him.

• Yu Xue told Qin Xi that Sweet Potato had asked to dual cultivate with her and that she had rejected him.
• Qin Xi realized Sweet Potato had misunderstood Yu Xue’s words and brought her and Qirui to talk with him.
• Sweet Potato turned away from Yu Xue and Qirui, but Qin Xi provoked him into joining the conversation.
• Sweet Potato explained that dual cultivating with Yu Xue seemed like a way to stay with her and the others forever.
• Sweet Potato said he had become angry because he thought Yu Xue not liking him meant she hated him.

Yu Xue cleared up Hongshu’s misunderstanding, and Qin Xi reassured him before taking the group to meet the Snow Fox Clan Leader. The Clan Leader asked Qin Xi to judge a competition, then pressed him about the secret art behind the recent heat in the Snow Fox Clan.

• Yu Xue explained that she liked Hongshu as an older sister, and Hongshu admitted he feared losing the group as he had lost his mother.
• Qin Xi promised to protect Hongshu, and Yu Xue gave him Sweet Potato Porridge.
• Yu Xue and Hongshu told Qin Xi that the Snow Fox Clan Leader had come looking for him, so Qin Xi decided to visit after Hongshu ate.
• The Snow Fox Clan Leader welcomed Qin Xi and asked him to serve as a judge in the clan’s upcoming competition.
• Qin Xi questioned the Clan Leader’s motive, and the Clan Leader asked about the secret art Qin Xi used to cause the recent extreme heat.

Qin Xi agreed to display his secret art at the competition and asked the Snow Fox Clan Chief to let him meet the former female chief, who was the man's wife. After leaving the clan, Qin Xi encountered Li Rui, whose repeated attempts to see him had led Sweet Potato to suspect Li Rui wanted to dual cultivate with him.

• Qin Xi agreed to show his secret art at the competition and asked to meet the former female Snow Fox Clan Chief.
• The Clan Chief said his ill wife had surrendered her position and promised Qin Xi could see her on the day of the tournament.
• After Qin Xi and his companions left, the Clan Chief angrily discussed Qin Xi's request with a subordinate, then said he would let his wife meet him.
• Qin Xi's group ran into Li Rui on the way back, and Sweet Potato said Li Rui had repeatedly sought Qin Xi out and looked sad when turned away.
• Li Rui complained that he had been unable to see Qin Xi, while Qin Xi worried that Li Rui wanted to dual cultivate with him.

Qin Xi misunderstood Li Rui’s farewell as a romantic confession and hurriedly rejected him, but learned that Li Rui had only stayed to escape the puppets. Li Rui agreed to remain a few more days after Qin Xi told him about the Snow Fox Clan competition, and promised to keep Sweet Potato’s ability to talk secret.

• Li Rui told Qin Xi he had been worried when he could not find him, and Qin Xi tried to make clear that they were not suited to be together.
• Li Rui explained that he had come to say goodbye because he was leaving, and that he had only approached Qin Xi to shake off the puppets.
• Qin Xi told Li Rui about the Snow Fox Clan’s upcoming competition and the clan leader he had asked to bring the real leader.
• Li Rui decided to stay a few more days and offered to treat Qin Xi and the others to a meal.
• Li Rui was startled when Sweet Potato spoke, and Qin Xi asked him to keep Sweet Potato’s secret; Li Rui agreed before leading them to eat.

Qin Xi told Li Rui that Blood-Sucking Fly larvae had been hiding inside a Fire Bead and could threaten cultivators who used them. The two recognized that warning everyone across the vast Primordial World would be difficult, and Qin Xi was left looking for a solution.

• Qirui ate an enormous meal while Li Rui and the others watched, and the group then returned to where they were staying.
• Qin Xi showed Li Rui Yu Xue’s Fire Bead and asked whether he had seen one before.
• Li Rui explained that he stayed warm with a fire-powered garment he had found during a training expedition.
• Qin Xi revealed that a Blood-Sucking Fly inside the Fire Bead had drained Qirui’s vital blood and that he had burned the adult flies and spent days destroying a larva.
• Li Rui warned that infected Fire Beads could endanger cultivators, but said they could not gather everyone in the Primordial World to destroy them.
• Qin Xi acknowledged the problem and tried to work out how to resolve it.

After a cultivator was found as a dried corpse, Qin Xi identified a Blood-Sucking Fly as the likely killer and rushed to hunt the escaped insect before it could claim more victims. As reports of attacks spread through the city, an unidentified man learned that the bug drained its victims’ vital blood.

• Qin Xi and the others heard that a cultivator had died with his body dried up and went to inspect the corpse.
• Qin Xi spotted a hole in the room’s window and concluded that an adult Blood-Sucking Fly had escaped through it.
• Qin Xi ran out to find and kill the fly, while Li Rui warned that destroying it would not resolve the danger posed by the many Fire Beads in the city.
• After hearing that someone had been killed by an insect in the street, Qin Xi headed toward the fly, and Li Rui and the others followed him.
• A subordinate reported to an unidentified man that a bug that sucked human vital blood had appeared in the city and left its victims as dried corpses.

Qin Xi and his companions confronted a giant Blood-Sucking Fly in the city district, trapping it and attacking it with fire. The fly weakened, but Qin Xi warned that its apparent exhaustion might be an illusion.

• A Blood Fox Clan man learned that Qin Xi and the others had gone to confront the giant bug and hoped it might kill Qin Xi.
• Qin Xi warned his companions about the powerful Blood-Sucking Fly and assigned Qirui to combine his Qilin fire with Qin Xi’s Law of Fire.
• Qin Xi asked Li Rui to restrain the fly with her chain and had Gu Xue maintain a barrier around the district.
• Li Rui chained the fly in place while Qin Xi and Qirui attacked it with fire, and she ate Qin Xi’s Merit Sweet Potato to restore her strength.
• Qirui noticed that the fly had grown weak, but Qin Xi cautioned that its apparent weakness might be an illusion.

Qin Xi and his companions fought the Blood-Sucking Fly until they finally burned it to ashes. Afterward, they discussed whether a mother insect controlled the other flies, but did not know who had released them or how to find it.

• Qin Xi told Qirui to stay alert while the cultivators returned to watch the fight, and a subordinate reported that flames and a barrier hid the battle from the man using the Snow Fox Technique.
• Li Rui wondered whether one Blood-Sucking Fly was a mother insect whose death would kill the larvae in other Fire Beads, but Qin Xi said they did not know where to find it or who had released the flies.
• Gu Xue suggested the Masked Man might be responsible, but Qin Xi dismissed the idea based on the man's past methods.
• Qin Xi and his companions continued fighting and, near nightfall, burned the Blood-Sucking Fly to ashes; Qirui then complained that he was hungry.
• A man with an ugly face approached Qin Xi and said he had arrived too late to help.

After Qin Xi refused the Snow Fox Clan Chief’s invitation, he hinted that he suspected the man had an ulterior motive. Qin Xi then planned to collect and destroy the cultivators’ Fire Beads, but his late-night announcement at the inn met with anger from the awakened guests.

• Qin Xi accused the Snow Fox Clan Chief of arriving only after the danger had passed, and the Clan Chief invited Qin Xi and his companions to eat at the clan’s compound.
• Qin Xi refused the invitation and left with Qirui and the others, while the Clan Chief watched them go with a vicious look.
• Qin Xi told Qirui he would not explain his suspicions until he had confirmed them, then asked everyone to collect and destroy the cultivators’ Fire Beads.
• Qin Xi and the others stopped to eat before returning late to the inn.
• Qin Xi struck a gong to wake the cultivators and announce something important, prompting angry complaints that Li Rui tried to calm.

Qin Xi warned the gathered cultivators that their Fire Beads carried Blood-Sucking Fly larvae that were draining their vital blood, and he gave them safer replacements. He asked them to help collect other cultivators’ Fire Beads the next day so they could be destroyed.

• Qin Xi told the cultivators that the Blood-Sucking Fly he had destroyed was not the only one and that their Fire Beads carried its larvae.
• The cultivators examined their Fire Beads, found moving veins and eyes inside them, and confirmed they had been feeling weak and sleepy.
• Qin Xi had Yu Xue and the others distribute replacement items and collected the cultivators’ Fire Beads.
• Qin Xi asked the cultivators to warn others and bring their Fire Beads to him, and they agreed to help.
• Qin Xi put the collected Fire Beads into his space and added another barrier to protect himself from the larvae.

Qin Xi was overwhelmed by cultivators arriving to exchange Fire Beads after the Blood-Sucking Fly attack. As he and his companions worked through the crowd, the Snow Fox Clan leader visited, but Qin Xi brushed him off and returned to the exchanges.

• Qirui and Yu Xue woke Qin Xi when a crowd of cultivators gathered outside to exchange Fire Beads.
• Qin Xi came out, told the cultivators to line up, and gave Yu Xue and Qirui the prepared exchange items.
• Li Rui brought food and took over Qirui's work while Qin Xi and the others ate and discussed the crowd, which Qin Xi linked to the Snow Fox Clan's upcoming competition.
• The Snow Fox Clan leader thanked Qin Xi for helping protect the clan, and Qin Xi exchanged polite flattery with him.
• Qin Xi told the clan leader he was too busy to talk and suggested visiting the clan another time.

Qin Xi and his companions took the collected Fire Beads outside the city to destroy the Blood-Sucking Fly larvae before they could mature. As the larvae cried out in the flames, the group continued burning them, while an unknown figure followed them to the site.

• A man tactfully left after reminding Qin Xi about their upcoming match, and Li Rui told Qin Xi he found the man suspicious.
• After the day's cultivators had left, Li Rui reported that he had found a quiet place outside the city to destroy the Fire Beads.
• Qin Xi insisted that the group destroy the beads that evening because some Blood-Sucking Flies were close to maturing.
• An unknown figure followed Qin Xi and the others from their lodgings to the open space outside the city.
• Qin Xi and Qirui set the Fire Beads alight, and the group heard the trapped Blood-Sucking Fly larvae crying as they burned.

A man visited the imprisoned Snow Fox Clan Leader Ling'er after learning that the Fire Beads had been burned, while Qin Xi and the others stayed up tending the fire pit. Qirui’s appetite sparked another quarrel with Sweet Potato as the Blood-Sucking Fly larvae continued crying out.

• A subordinate reported that Qin Xi and the others had burned all the Fire Beads, and the man reacted with displeasure before dismissing her.
• The man visited Ling'er in her room, held her hand despite her protests, and ordered the guards to keep her from escaping.
• Ling'er wondered whether the person she had in mind had left the Snow Fox Clan, fearing the clan might be lost if he had.
• Qirui complained that the Blood-Sucking Fly larvae were still crying in the fire pit and asked Yu Xue to make Sweet Potato Porridge.
• Li Rui and Qin Xi discussed Qirui’s increased appetite since recovering, while Sweet Potato accused him of eating all his food.

Qin Xi and the others shared Yu Xue’s Sweet Potato Porridge while discussing the person who had followed them, whom Qin Xi identified as a subordinate of the current Snow Fox clan leader. Qin Xi invited Li Rui to travel with their group, and Li Rui said he would decide after the tournament.

• Yu Xue settled Qirui and Sweet Potato’s argument over food by making Sweet Potato Porridge for everyone.
• Li Ruibin asked Qin Xi about the person who had followed them, and Qin Xi said the follower served the current Snow Fox clan leader.
• Yu Xue served the porridge, and Li Rui tasted it and praised her cooking.
• Qin Xi invited Li Rui to travel with their group, but Li Rui postponed his answer until after the tournament.
• Qirui agreed that traveling together would be better than being alone.

Daoist Yang Mei helped Luo Hou endure a dangerous flare-up for three days, and the two emerged safely. Luo Hou offered to reward Momo and Daoist Yang Mei, leaving Daoist Yang Mei to agree to drink the Valley Master's wine with him.

• Luo Hou shut himself in his room after his condition suddenly worsened, and Daoist Yang Mei insisted on going in to help him.
• Daoist Yang Mei gave Momo a magical treasure to send for the Valley Master if they did not emerge within three days, then entered Luo Hou's room.
• Daoist Yang Mei suppressed the heat inside Luo Hou for three days and stopped him from losing his reason several times.
• Momo anxiously kept watch until Daoist Yang Mei and Luo Hou came out safely, and Luo Hou offered to grant her a request.
• Momo went to catch fish to make soup, while Luo Hou praised her and Daoist Yang Mei asked for a reward.
• Luo Hou offered Daoist Yang Mei wine, and Daoist Yang Mei agreed to drink while blaming Luo Hou if the Valley Master found out.