Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai saved Ghost Li, Li Xiaoyu, and Lu Xueqi after Bi Yao was pulled into a Space-Time Interlayer with the Asura Demon God's core. She revealed Bi Yao was still alive and said Ghost Li’s two secret manuals might help them find a way to reach her.

• The pitch-black energy core overwhelmed the Joyous Union Bell and dragged Bi Yao into the closing spatial rift as Ghost Li and the others fell from the sky.
• Xiao Bai arrived and used her demonic force to catch Ghost Li, Li Xiaoyu, and Lu Xueqi before they struck the ground.
• Xiao Bai explained that Bi Yao had survived but was trapped in a Space-Time Interlayer, prompting Ghost Li to awaken and vow to save her.
• Li Xiaoyu restrained Ghost Li and promised to help him rescue Bi Yao, while Xiao Bai explained that the interlayer had no fixed coordinates or entrance.
• Xiao Bai said the two secret manuals Ghost Li possessed might point toward a path to the Space-Time Interlayer.

After the victory over Asura, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi led the surviving righteous disciples home while Ghost Li remained behind, mourning the girl in green who had vanished into a Space-Time Interlayer. As the Divine Land celebrated the heroes and the Green Cloud Sect’s rise, Daoist Daoxuan grew wary of Li Xiaoyu’s power and mysterious Wine Gourd.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi surveyed the devastated battlefield, then led the surviving disciples away to bring their fallen companions home.
• Ghost Li stayed among the ruins, staring toward the vanished space rift as a woman in white silently accompanied him.
• The Ghost King Sect’s destruction ended the Demon Sect’s place in history, while the Green Cloud Sect and the three young heroes gained fame across the Divine Land.
• Daoist Daoxuan watched Li Xiaoyu through an ancient bronze mirror and feared the uncontrollable power of his Wine Gourd.

Daoist Daoxuan ordered Xiao Yicai to watch Morning Sun Peak after hearing rumors about Li Xiaoyu’s mysterious gourd. In the Wilderness ruins, Xiao Bai told Zhang Xiaofan that the Ancient Well might lead to Bi Yao’s trapped soul, leaving him determined to study two secret manuals for clues.

• Daoist Daoxuan felt a crack in his Dao heart as his thoughts stirred his suppressed Immortal-Slaying Demonic Obsession.
• Xiao Yicai warned Daoist Daoxuan that rumors about Li Xiaoyu’s gourd could damage the Green Cloud Sect’s reputation, and Daoist Daoxuan ordered him to secretly monitor Morning Sun Peak.
• Zhang Xiaofan sat with the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod while Xiao Bai waited beside him, and hope for Bi Yao’s return began to restore his resolve.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked Xiao Bai how to enter the Space-Time Interlayer, and she explained that the Joyous Union Bell was temporarily protecting Bi Yao’s soul from its chaotic energy.
• Xiao Bai told Zhang Xiaofan that the Ancient Well might connect to the Space-Time Interlayer, but she did not know where it was.
• Xiao Bai suggested that Witchcraft Fragments and Ghost Path General Outline might contain clues, and Zhang Xiaofan resolved to master both manuals.

After the Ghost King Sect and the other major Demon Sect factions collapsed, infighting and the return of ancient powers plunged the Demon Sect into turmoil. Jin Ping'er used the upheaval to unite most of its remaining forces under her leadership, then turned to the Demon Sect’s ancient faith to bind them together.

• The Ghost King's death and the destruction of the Wilderness Sacred Hall left the Demon Sect’s major factions shattered and its smaller factions fighting for power.
• Ancient Demon Sect inheritors emerged from seclusion, deepening the chaos.
• Jin Ping'er preserved the Joyous Union Sect’s strength by allying with the righteous path and arranging a secret understanding with Li Xiaoyu and the Green Cloud Sect.
• Jin Ping'er won the support of the Sacred Hall Guardian Clan’s Great Elder by promising to restore the worship of the Nether Holy Mother and the Heavenly Fiend Bright King.
• Jin Ping'er gathered the Sacred Hall Guardian Clan and many smaller factions, who began calling her the Holy Maiden.
• Jin Ping'er resolved to unite her opportunistic followers through shared faith in the Nether Holy Mother and the Heavenly Fiend Bright King.

Jin Ping'er founded the Holy Mother Sect and rallied Demon Sect disciples to follow her, while Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Green Cloud Mountain after defeating Ghost King and destroying Asura. As Li Xiaoyu sensed Daoist Daoxuan’s unease, Shang Zhengliang and Master Shuiyue arranged a private wedding ceremony to make up for the one war had interrupted.

• Jin Ping'er proclaimed the end of the Demon Sect’s Four Major Factions, established the Holy Mother Sect, and was cheered as its first-generation Holy Maiden.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi reported to Daoist Daoxuan that Ghost King had been slain, Asura destroyed, and the Wilderness unrest quelled.
• Li Xiaoyu noticed wariness and fear behind Daoist Daoxuan’s welcoming expression and worried that they would soon become opponents.
• Shang Zhengliang and Master Shuiyue invited Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi to change into their wedding clothes for a simple ceremony.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi gratefully bowed to the two elders and went to prepare for the ceremony.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi completed their wedding ceremony with Shang Zhengliang and Master Shuiyue as witnesses. Meanwhile, Daoist Daoxuan gave in to his Demonic Obsession and resolved to eliminate threats to the Green Cloud Sect, as Li Xiaoyu sensed the growing hostility from him.

• Master Shuiyue gave Lu Xueqi a Tear Bamboo hairpin and blessed her marriage to Li Xiaoyu.
• Shang Zhengliang warned Li Xiaoyu to cherish Lu Xueqi, and Li Xiaoyu vowed to protect her.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi bowed to Heaven and Earth, their elders, and each other in their wedding ceremony.
• Daoist Daoxuan watched the couple through an ancient bronze mirror while his Demonic Obsession urged him to see Li Xiaoyu as a threat.
• Daoist Daoxuan accepted that he feared Li Xiaoyu and decided to eliminate any threat to the Green Cloud Sect or his position.
• Li Xiaoyu sensed that the hostile gaze following him came from someone powerful within the Green Cloud Sect and suspected Daoist Daoxuan.

Li Xiaoyu entered seclusion to study the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and prepare for a possible conflict with Daoist Daoxuan. He transformed the gourd’s destructive Asura Power into Vitality Power and emerged to reunite with Lu Xueqi.

• Li Xiaoyu told Lu Xueqi he was entering seclusion because he sensed a coming conflict, and she promised to wait for him.
• Li Xiaoyu entered the restricted meditation chamber on Morning Sun Peak and explored the gourd’s chaotic inner world.
• Li Xiaoyu guided the bound Asura Power, realized that destruction could lead to rebirth, and allowed the power to engulf him.
• The Asura Power transformed into Vitality Power, and a drop of life-filled emerald liquid formed inside the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• Li Xiaoyu emerged from seclusion and met Lu Xueqi beneath a tree.

Li Xiaoyu emerged from seclusion and used energy from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to revive a withered peach tree, then learned that the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain had fallen. He volunteered with Lu Xueqi to help face the spreading demonic calamity, despite Master Shuiyue's objections.

• Li Xiaoyu revived a dead peach tree with emerald energy from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and shared its ripe peaches with Lu Xueqi.
• Three days later, a bloodied Green Cloud Sect disciple reported to Daoist Daoxuan that the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain's miasma had spread, corrupted the outpost and nearby towns, and turned the stationed disciples into monsters.
• The disciple said he had sensed an aura connected to the Asura Demon God, while a messenger reported that corrupted Demon Remains threatened nearby towns and resisted Heavenly Sound Temple's arts and Subduing Demon Array.
• Li Xiaoyu entered Jade Purity Hall with Lu Xueqi and volunteered to help, but Master Shuiyue objected because they had recently endured a major battle.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi set out for the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain to uncover and purify the corruption, while Daoist Daoxuan secretly hoped to test Li Xiaoyu and expose his hidden abilities. They found the land overrun by demonic energy and learned that its Demon Remains could endlessly revive, leaving Li Xiaoyu ready to try another approach.

• Lu Xueqi and Li Xiaoyu insisted on taking responsibility for the crisis, and Master Shuiyue reluctantly told them to return alive.
• Li Xiaoyu invoked his old ten-year agreement as he volunteered to investigate and purify the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain; Daoist Daoxuan granted his request while intending to test him.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi reached the demon domain and found its scorched landscape saturated with corrosive demonic energy linked to Asura's power.
• Lu Xueqi destroyed the Demon Remains with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Technique, but they reformed from the land and multiplied.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Demon Remains would keep returning while the land's demonic energy remained, then offered to try a solution.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi purified the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain, but the strain and pressure drove Li Xiaoyu into qi deviation as his inner demon tempted him to abandon the world. Lu Xueqi reached into his consciousness and urged him to wake, reminding him she would always stand by him.

• Li Xiaoyu used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s Vitality Power to restore the corrupted land and purify the Demon Remains, while Lu Xueqi watched in amazement.
• Over several months, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi advanced through the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain, restoring its land and fighting off Demon Remains.
• Purifying the ancient, demonic core regions and sensing Daoist Daoxuan’s hostility left Li Xiaoyu increasingly exhausted and strained.
• During a stormy night, Li Xiaoyu’s suppressed emotions erupted, and he fell into qi deviation as his inner demon appeared in his consciousness.
• The inner demon tempted Li Xiaoyu to surrender and take revenge, but Lu Xueqi’s voice and energy reached him, urging him to wake and promising to stay by his side.

Lu Xueqi rescued Li Xiaoyu from his inner demon, and their shared love led them to swear the Oath of the Dao Heart and become Dao companions. They began testing whether they could circulate Spiritual Energy between their bodies through their new soul connection.

• Lu Xueqi shielded Li Xiaoyu's soul, helping him break the black chains and restore his Dao Heart.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi comforted each other by the campfire and promised to face every danger together.
• Their minds, Dao Hearts, and Spiritual Energy resonated as they embraced.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi each swore an oath to protect and support the other's path, and the Great Dao fused their souls and Spiritual Energy.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi recognized their new connection as Dao companions and began sending Spiritual Energy through it.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi restored the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain through their growing strength, then returned to Green Cloud Mountain. Daoist Daoxuan led Li Xiaoyu to Illusion Moon Cave Abode and revealed the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword, setting up the conflict Li Xiaoyu had feared.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi used dual cultivation to deepen their understanding of the Great Dao, and Lu Xueqi broke through into the Taiqing Realm.
• For half a year, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi purified the Heavenly Fiend Demon Domain by day and cultivated together at night, restoring the land and allowing displaced people to return.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Green Cloud Mountain and reported that their mission was complete.
• Daoist Daoxuan praised Li Xiaoyu, then asked him to come alone to discuss an important matter; Li Xiaoyu accepted despite Lu Xueqi's concern.
• Daoist Daoxuan opened Illusion Moon Cave Abode and revealed the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword, whose destructive aura shocked Li Xiaoyu.

Daoist Daoxuan demanded Li Xiaoyu hand over his Wine Gourd and cripple his cultivation, then attacked when Li Xiaoyu refused. After Li Xiaoyu revealed he had reached the Taiqing Realm, Daoxuan summoned the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword to kill him.

• Daoist Daoxuan accused Li Xiaoyu of hiding the Wine Gourd’s power and demanded he surrender it and cripple half his cultivation.
• Li Xiaoyu refused, rejected Daoxuan’s accusations, and condemned him for yielding to jealousy and fear.
• Daoist Daoxuan attacked Li Xiaoyu, but Li Xiaoyu deflected his strike with the Autumn Water Sword.
• Li Xiaoyu revealed that he had reached the Taiqing Realm, shocking Daoxuan and intensifying his fear and jealousy.
• Daoist Daoxuan summoned the Zhu Xian Sword, and the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword flew from the cave’s seven-colored radiance into his hand.

Daoist Daoxuan used the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword and Green Cloud Mountain’s spiritual veins to unleash the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against Li Xiaoyu. Li Xiaoyu remained defiant as a destructive rain of swords descended on him.

• Daoist Daoxuan’s sword strike overpowered Li Xiaoyu and wounded him, while Daoxuan remained steady in the Illusion Moon Cave Abode.
• Li Xiaoyu realized Daoxuan was drawing power from the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword and the spiritual veins beneath Green Cloud Mountain.
• Daoist Daoxuan activated the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, sending seven-colored beams from the Seven Peaks into the sky.
• Master Shuiyue and the other Green Cloud Sect leaders sensed the formation and raced toward Heaven-Reaching Peak to stop Daoxuan.
• Daoist Daoxuan swung the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword, unleashing a rain of destructive energy swords toward the trapped Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu used the Wine Gourd to swallow the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and refined its power into nourishment, gaining strength as the emerald liquid protected the gourd’s inner world. Daoist Daoxuan, consumed by the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword’s Demonic Obsession, prepared a final strike against him.

• Li Xiaoyu poured his remaining Cultivation into the Wine Gourd, which swallowed the rain of swords and neutralized the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Xiaoyu struggled to control the formation’s destructive power inside the gourd, while it threatened to consume the Vitality Power and collapse his inner Chaos World.
• The emerald liquid released a vast force of vitality, dissolved and refined the sword power, and helped Li Xiaoyu’s Cultivation soar.
• Li Xiaoyu told Daoist Daoxuan he could now stop the Zhu Xian Sword, which Daoxuan had once swung at Xiao Fan.
• Daoist Daoxuan, overcome by rage and the sword’s Demonic Obsession, poured his Cultivation, blood essence, and soul into the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword for a final strike.

Li Xiaoyu tried to awaken Daoist Daoxuan from the Demonic Obsession consuming him, and Daoxuan finally lost his grip on the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword. At the Green Cloud Sect Ancestral Shrine, Wan Jianyi resolved to intervene and unleashed a powerful sword intent.

• Lu Xueqi arrived outside the shattered cave abode, and Li Xiaoyu told her to stay back while he spoke with Daoist Daoxuan.
• Li Xiaoyu reminded Daoxuan of his teachings and his duty to protect all living beings, stirring a moment of struggle in him.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword had exploited Daoxuan’s exhaustion, jealousy, and fear, and Daoxuan fell as the sword slipped from his hand.
• At the Ancestral Shrine, Wan Jianyi sensed the sword’s Demonic Obsession consuming Daoxuan and decided to break his oath to stop it.
• Wan Jianyi unleashed a mighty sword intent that shook Green Cloud Mountain and forced disciples flying toward the rear mountains to plunge from the air.

Wan Jianyi sensed the sword intent at the Ancestral Shrine and rushed to Illusion Moon Cave Abode, where his arrival stopped the possessed Daoist Daoxuan from killing Li Xiaoyu. He confronted his old friend as the ruined battlefield fell silent.

• Master Shuiyue sensed the familiar sword intent and hurried toward the Ancestral Shrine to see whether Wan Jianyi was alive.
• Li Xiaoyu held the unconscious Daoist Daoxuan after stopping his final strike, but the backlash left him severely injured.
• Lu Xueqi reached Li Xiaoyu and tried to support him as he struggled to recover.
• The Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword's Demonic Obsession possessed Daoist Daoxuan again, and he lunged at Li Xiaoyu.
• Wan Jianyi's white sword light stopped Daoist Daoxuan's claw and forced him back, giving Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi time to retreat.
• Wan Jianyi arrived from the direction of the Ancestral Shrine and quietly greeted his old friend.

Wan Jianyi revealed himself after Daoist Daoxuan’s failed use of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, ending Daoxuan’s rampage. Master Shuiyue confronted the man who had stayed hidden for a century, and Wan Jianyi turned everyone’s attention back to Daoxuan.

• The Chiefs and elders arrived and recognized the gray-robed figure as Wan Jianyi, who had been presumed dead for a century.
• Master Shuiyue was overcome by Wan Jianyi’s return, while Wan Jianyi urged the Demonic-Obsessed Daoxuan to stop.
• Daoxuan tried to raise the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword again, but the exhausted sword drained him, and he fell from the air.
• Master Shuiyue rushed to Wan Jianyi and demanded to know why he had left her waiting for a hundred years; he apologized but could not explain.
• Wan Jianyi told everyone to stop dwelling on the past and turned his attention to the trouble Daoxuan still posed.

Li Xiaoyu attempted to draw the Immortal-Slaying Demonic Obsession out of Daoist Daoxuan and purify it with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. After a day and a night, he was still enduring the dangerous process, badly weakened but holding on.

• Wan Jianyi warned that Daoist Daoxuan's Demonic Obsession would return when he awoke and insisted it had to be eradicated.
• Li Xiaoyu agreed to attempt the purification and asked Wan Jianyi, Shang Zhengliang, Tian Buyi, and Master Shuiyue to protect him.
• The four elders formed a protective barrier around Li Xiaoyu and the unconscious Daoist Daoxuan while Lu Xueqi stood beside Li Xiaoyu.
• Li Xiaoyu pressed his hand to Daoist Daoxuan's crown and used himself as a conduit to draw the Demonic Energy into his own body.
• The Immortal-Slaying Gourd swallowed the Demonic Energy as it passed through Li Xiaoyu, but the process continued for a day and a night, leaving him severely weakened.

Li Xiaoyu overcame Immortal-Slaying’s demonic obsession with Lu Xueqi’s support and used the Wine Gourd to devour the demonic energy within Daoist Daoxuan. The gourd cracked and its backlash left Li Xiaoyu unconscious, with his life uncertain.

• As Immortal-Slaying’s demonic energy pushed Li Xiaoyu toward darkness, Lu Xueqi embraced him and urged him to keep fighting.
• Li Xiaoyu broke free of his inner demon and focused his will on activating the Wine Gourd.
• The Wine Gourd devoured the crimson demonic energy, and Daoist Daoxuan’s condition began to stabilize as he seemed close to waking.
• The Wine Gourd cracked, sending a devastating backlash through Li Xiaoyu and hurling him into a mountainside.
• Lu Xueqi and the others reached Li Xiaoyu in the pit and found him bloodied, unconscious, and barely alive.