Chapter Summaries

Han Qianxue and Qing Mo's allies overwhelmed the Dragon Family, crippling Long Weihai and killing several of its Immortal Emperor ancestors. The remaining patriarchs faced annihilation, and Biyao destroyed one attempting to self-destruct, but her Chinese Paladin shattered in the process.

• Han Qianxue taunted Long Weitian after defeating him, while An Nanyue ambushed Long Weihai and crippled his cultivation.
• Lei Yanche crushed Long Weihai's limbs and destroyed his ability to speak, leaving him helpless.
• Liu Yurou sent Da Bai, Yinzi, Glaze, and the little Azure Luan into battle as six Dragon Family ancestors emerged from their ancestral grounds.
• Liang Bing, Kesha, He Xi, and the others attacked the ancestors, killing two and forcing the survivors into desperate fights.
• Biyao, Youji, and their allies cornered another patriarch, who tried to self-destruct, but Biyao annihilated him with One Thought: Lethe.
• Biyao's Immortal Emperor-grade Chinese Paladin cracked and crumbled to dust after her attack.

Qing Mo and his companions destroyed the Dragon Family, then parted from Lei Yanche before spending a century cultivating in Ink Pavilion. As they prepared to enter a new world, Youji and Yueji were chosen to accompany Qing Mo.

• Biyao used Qing Mo's self-created One Thought: Lethe sword move, leaving the Dragon Family's three remaining ancestors too shaken to attack.
• Qing Mo's women killed the three Dragon Family ancestors and slaughtered the family; Qing Mo tracked down the survivors and cast them and the dead members' souls into the Nine Netherworld, while Han Qianxue kept Long Weitian for herself.
• The Dragon Family's fall brought wealth to Qing Mo's group and elevated An Nanyue's An Family; Qing Mo then refused Lei Yanche's request to keep following him and departed with his women.
• Lei Yanche was comforted by An Nanyue and Qi Lin, resolved to ascend to the God Realm, and hoped to meet Qing Mo again.
• After a hundred years in Ink Pavilion, Qing Mo's women prepared to split up across four worlds, and Youji and Yueji drew the lots to accompany him to the next world.

Qing Mo sent his companions to four different realms, then traveled with Youji and Yueji to the Celestial Spirit Immortal Realm after a month of revelry. There, they found the dying Holy Son Su Yu, whose memories revealed how his fellow disciples and beloved junior sister had betrayed and abused him.

• Qing Mo assigned his companions to the Cloudtop, Celestial Spirit, Sky Vault, and Fierce Wasteland realms, and Jingming pleaded for mercy before he teased her and let her go.
• Liu Yurou and the others departed with Jade Pendants, while Qing Mo stayed behind for a month of partying with Angel Leng, Youji, Yueji, Haruhara Ikumi, and Qu Bingyan.
• Qing Mo, Youji, and Yueji arrived in the Celestial Spirit Immortal Realm and sensed a faint aura at the bottom of an abyss.
• The trio found the gravely wounded Su Yu, who asked them to deliver an immortal herb and a message to Liu Ruyan and his junior disciples at the Carefree Sacred Land.
• Qing Mo read Su Yu's memories and learned that Ye Feng had framed and exploited him, while Liu Ruyan, Immortal Venerable Bai Li, and the other disciples had believed the accusations.

Qing Mo took control of the dying Su Yu and restored him, intending to teach him how to command respect in Carefree Sacred Land. After raising Su Yu’s alchemy rank and returning to the sect, Qing Mo punished a menial disciple who insulted the Holy Son, beginning his campaign against the sect’s ungrateful disciples.

• Qing Mo revealed Su Yu’s history of being exploited and framed by Carefree Sacred Land, then agreed to save him and teach him to stand up for himself.
• Qing Mo entered Su Yu’s sea of consciousness, took control of his body, healed him, and raised his cultivation to the Half-Step Immortal Venerable Realm.
• After a month, Su Yu became the youngest eighth-rank alchemist in the Celestial Spirit Immortal Realm and declined other factions’ invitations while keeping their communication jade talismans.
• At Carefree Sacred Land’s mountain gate, a menial disciple cursed Su Yu for failing to supply pills and artifacts, and Qing Mo struck him down and crushed his spine.
• Qing Mo rejected Su Yu’s pleas to forgive the disciple, crippled the man’s cultivation, and kicked him ten thousand li away, killing him.

Qing Mo controlled Su Yu’s body and punished disciples who disrespected him before confronting Ye Feng over the cave dwelling that belonged to Su Yu. After Qing Mo disrupted Ye Feng’s cultivation, Ye Feng tried to blame Su Yu, but Su Yu turned his appeal to broad-mindedness back on him, leaving him speechless.

• Wei Heng and his companions insulted Su Yu and tried to harass Youji, so Qing Mo broke Wei Heng’s arm and legs, crippled another disciple’s cultivation, and forced the others to submit.
• Qing Mo punished an outer disciple who had demanded Su Yu apologize, then made the gathered disciples affirm that his treatment of Wei Heng was proper.
• Qing Mo criticized Su Yu for living in a thatched hut while Ye Feng occupied Su Yu’s cave dwelling, which Liu Ruyan had borrowed and never returned.
• Qing Mo took Youji and Yueji to Su Yu’s cave dwelling and shattered its formation, disrupting Ye Feng’s cultivation and injuring him.
• Ye Feng accused Su Yu of disturbing him out of jealousy over Liu Ruyan, but Su Yu reminded him that Ye Feng had repeatedly interrupted his own cultivation.
• Su Yu echoed Ye Feng’s claim that a broad-minded disciple would overlook a trivial disturbance, leaving Ye Feng unable to object without contradicting himself.

Qing Mo took control of Su Yu’s situation in the Carefree Sacred Land, rebuffed Ye Feng, and prepared the Sea of People Pavilion as a trap for the people he planned to punish. The next day, Liu Ruyan and Ye Feng arrived with Law Enforcement Hall disciples, and Qing Mo woke ready to begin his game.

• Ye Feng eyed Youji and Yueji and tried to have them taken to the Law Enforcement Hall, so Su Yu slapped him and ordered him to return to cultivating.
• After Ye Feng left, Qing Mo revealed his true appearance, sealed Su Yu inside his sea of consciousness, and settled into Su Yu’s cave abode with Youji and Yueji.
• Qing Mo recalled that Ye Feng was protected by an Immortal Emperor ancestor and that the Carefree Sacred Land’s leaders had allowed Su Yu to be humiliated as Ye Feng’s whetstone.
• Qing Mo carved the Sea of People Pavilion, summoned Red Clad, and assigned her to rule within it and torment the people he sent there.
• Liu Ruyan and Ye Feng arrived with more than ten Law Enforcement Hall disciples, but Qing Mo’s isolation formation kept them from entering the cave abode.
• Youji alerted Qing Mo to the visitors, and he declared that the game of tormenting scum had begun.

After reclaiming his cave abode, Su Yu confronted Ye Feng, Liu Ruyan, and the Law Enforcement Hall disciples, then killed one disciple and took the rest to the Law Enforcement Hall. Elder Zhou Tianyi accused him of abusing his power, but Su Yu began exposing Wei Heng’s memories as evidence.

• Su Yu challenged Liu Ruyan’s claim to his cave abode, slapped her, and struck down the Law Enforcement Hall disciples who demanded that he kneel and pay compensation.
• Su Yu killed the disciple who had led the attack, then accepted the others’ explanation that Ye Feng had brought them to investigate his maids and accusations from Wei Heng.
• Su Yu slapped Ye Feng for failing to greet him, made the group bow, and brought Youji and Yueji with them to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Zhou Tianyi accused Su Yu of harming disciples and harboring fiends, ordered guards to seize him, and demanded that he hand over his maids and cripple his own cultivation.
• Su Yu pulled Wei Heng toward him and revealed a light curtain showing Wei Heng’s memories of the previous day, calling the technique the Great Memory Recovery Technique.

Su Yu killed Wei Heng and Zhou Tianyi in the Law Enforcement Hall, then took Liu Ruyan to the Liu Clan and exposed the clan’s hostility. The Liu Clan prepared to attack him, but Su Yu accused them of falling into the demonic path, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Su Yu killed Wei Heng and the outer sect disciples who had helped frame him.
• Zhou Tianyi attacked Su Yu, but Su Yu overwhelmed him with a True Distant Fist Intent and killed him with a second punch.
• Su Yu invited Liu Ruyan to visit her family, and she secretly warned the Liu Clan about his changes and strength.
• Su Yu arrived at the Liu Clan with Youji and Yueji, then killed Cai Lian'er and seized her soul.
• Liu Yunyang threatened Yueji, while Su Yu accused Liu Ruyan’s family of falling into the demonic path.

Su Yu and his Immortal Emperor maids overwhelmed the Liu Clan, and Su Yu used the Sea of People Pavilion to slaughter its members despite their pleas for mercy. He left the Liu Clan’s fate unresolved as he sent Liu Jianhong into the pavilion after deciding the boy could become a future threat.

• The Liu Clan activated its grand formation and attacked Su Yu, but Yueji revealed her Immortal Emperor aura and forced everyone to their knees.
• Yueji beat Liu Yunyang while Liu Tianhao and the Liu Clan Ancestor begged Su Yu to spare their clan.
• Su Yu presented the Sea of People Pavilion as a righteous treasure and unleashed its black qi on the Liu Clan, killing many members.
• Liu Ruyan and the surviving Liu Clan members pleaded for mercy as the black qi consumed their clansmen.
• Su Yu tested Liu Jianhong’s loyalty by killing his father, Liu Tianyi, and asking whether he would seek revenge; Liu Jianhong denounced his father to survive.
• Su Yu judged Liu Jianhong a future threat and sent him directly into the Sea of People Pavilion.

Su Yu forced the surviving Liu family members into the Sea of People Pavilion, then returned to the Carefree Sacred Land with Liu Ruyan chained behind him. When Lin Yu publicly accused him of humiliating Liu Ruyan, Su Yu turned the accusation against him and demanded that he strike his heart meridian to prove his innocence.

• Su Yu praised Liu Wentian's defiance, then ordered Yueji to throw him into the Sea of People Pavilion; he sent the other surviving Liu family members there as well.
• Su Yu mocked Liu Ruyan's attempt to seduce him, gave her an iron chain, and led her back to the Carefree Sacred Land with Youji and Yueji.
• Lin Yu confronted Su Yu over Liu Ruyan's treatment and tried to rally gathered disciples against the Holy Son.
• Liu Ruyan said she had willingly asked Su Yu to treat her that way, but Lin Yu continued denouncing him and called for the Law Enforcement Hall.
• The Law Enforcement Hall disciples fled when they learned Su Yu was involved, and Lin Yu tried to leave before Su Yu stopped him.
• Su Yu accused Lin Yu of disrespecting and slandering the Holy Son, then demanded that he strike his own heart meridian to prove his innocence.

Su Yu killed Lin Yu after exposing his attempt to frame him, then went with Liu Ruyan to Mist Cloud Palace after Immortal Venerable Bai Li summoned Cloud Head Peak’s inner disciples. When Bai Li demanded that Su Yu cripple himself, he revealed an eighth-grade alchemist token, leaving her speechless and Ye Feng jealous.

• Su Yu rejected Lin Yu’s pleas, killed him, and imprisoned his soul in Sea of People Pavilion before dismissing the frightened disciples.
• Immortal Venerable Bai Li summoned the inner disciples to Mist Cloud Palace, and Su Yu arrived leading Liu Ruyan on a dog leash.
• Bai Li condemned Su Yu for humiliating Liu Ruyan, killing Zhou Tianyi and the outer disciples, and bringing back two maidservants, then ordered him to cripple himself.
• Su Yu admitted to the killings and revealed an eighth-grade alchemist token, explaining that he had passed the rank examination in Moon's End City.
• Ye Feng accused Su Yu of possibly stealing the token, repeating the kind of slander he had used against him before.

Su Yu defended himself against Immortal Venerable Bai Li’s accusations and used his value to Carefree Sacred Land to force her hand. He left Mist Cloud Palace with Liu Ruyan, announced an indefinite seclusion, and sealed his cave, leaving Bai Li panicked about the consequences.

• Su Yu slapped Ye Feng and explained why his alchemist token could not plausibly have been stolen, then argued that he had disciplined Ye Feng to keep him from offending the Alchemy Association.
• Su Yu defended his relationship with Liu Ruyan and justified killing Wei Heng, Zhou Tianyi, and other disciples by citing Bai Li’s own past slaughter of a sect on Ye Feng’s behalf.
• Su Yu rejected Bai Li’s demand that he dismiss his maidservants and said he would stop contributing pills, formations, and immortal artifacts to Carefree Sacred Land.
• Su Yu left Mist Cloud Palace with Liu Ruyan and announced that he would enter seclusion for an undetermined time.
• Su Yu sealed his cave and activated an isolation formation, while Bai Li feared that the sacred land’s leaders would blame her for losing his support.

Qing Mo entered a new world and forced its Heavenly Dao to withdraw a lightning tribulation and offer him treasures as compensation. After erasing everyone’s memories of the upheaval, he discovered he had arrived in the Southern Song era of White Snake: Afloat and reached Lin’an.

• Su Yu ordered Youji to fetch Frost Star Plum and Yueji to find and beat Ye Feng’s ancestor, then left Da Bai to guard Liu Ruyan while he traveled to another world with Little Tail and Yinzi.
• Qing Mo emerged from a spatial passage above a mountain, where the world’s Heavenly Dao summoned a massive lightning tribulation against him.
• Qing Mo released a trace of Great Dao power, making the Three Realms tremble, and the Heavenly Dao withdrew the tribulation and offered him treasures and a portion of its origin.
• Qing Mo erased the inhabitants’ memories of the upheaval and restored the damage, while Little White and Little Green continued toward West Lake without realizing what had happened.
• Qing Mo learned that he had arrived in the Southern Song era, recalled troubling events from Chinese history, and reached Lin’an’s city gate with a meaningful smile.

Qing Mo met Little White and Little Green in Lin'an, recognized their connection to Xu Xian, and demonstrated his overwhelming power before promising to help them. That night on West Lake, he reunited with the sisters and offered to teach them the Youth Edition Somersault Cloud.

• Qing Mo saw Xu Xian return Little White’s dropped hairpin and recognized the sisters and Xu Xian’s past-life bond.
• Qing Mo revealed that Little White and Little Green were snake demons and used World in the Palm to shrink Little Green before releasing her unharmed.
• Xu Xian met Little White and Little Green on West Lake, but the wine fragrance from Qing Mo’s boat made him pass out drunk.
• Little White and Little Green joined Qing Mo, who gave Little Green a bottle of Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon and promised to bring a wedding gift when Little White married Xu Xian.
• Qing Mo offered to teach the sisters a modified spell used by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven: the Youth Edition Somersault Cloud.

Qing Mo befriended Xu Xian and the snake sisters, helped Little White and Xu Xian marry, and offered the sisters magical instruction. After opening a shop in Lin'an, he caught a rat demon trying to poison a well and recruited him to work there.

• Qing Mo met Xu Xian and Li Gongfu, then encouraged Li Gongfu to meet Little White and Little Green.
• Little White paid Xu Xian’s debt to Abundant Joy Tower, and Li Gongfu accepted her as his sister-in-law.
• Little Green visited Qing Mo repeatedly to read comics and drink his wine, and Qing Mo gave her a Jade Pendant containing a Somersault Cloud spell for Little White.
• Qing Mo attended Xu Xian and Little White’s wedding, then gave Little Green a choice of martial and magical techniques to learn.
• Qing Mo opened a shop selling modern goods in Lin'an City.
• Qing Mo caught a rat demon preparing to poison a well and offered him a job at his shop.

Qing Mo opened a successful shop selling luxury goods with the help of five rat demons, then promised to help Xu Xian earn money for a medical clinic. He proposed that Xu Xian develop a medicine for wealthy men with sexual troubles, leaving Xu Xian tempted but uneasy about profiting from medicine.

• Qing Mo named the rat demon Su Ye, recruited four more rat demons, and trained all five to manage his shop.
• The shop opened and drew crowds of wealthy women, earning Qing Mo more than a hundred thousand taels in half a day.
• Little Green confronted Qing Mo about the rat demons and a woman's voice, then learned the voice came from a Recording Stone and heard his reasons for hiring demons.
• Little Green told Qing Mo that Xu Xian wanted to open a clinic but lacked money, and Qing Mo promised to help him earn it.
• At Xu Xian's home, Qing Mo proposed that Xu Xian make a pill for wealthy men with sexual problems, and Li Gongfu urged Xu Xian to accept the plan and use the profits to treat the poor.

Qing Mo helped Xu Xian turn his medical knowledge into a profitable pill, allowing him to open Peacekeeping Hall and treat more people. As Little Green’s family life settled, Li Gongfu arranged a matchmaking session for her and had Qing Mo carried in as a candidate.

• Qing Mo persuaded Xu Xian that earning money from wealthy customers could support his family and help him treat more poor patients.
• Xu Xian developed the confidence-restoring pill, which became popular among nobles, and Qing Mo sent his share of the proceeds to Xu Xian through Li Gongfu.
• Xu Xian opened Peacekeeping Hall with the money, while Qing Mo sensed that Su Ye’s demonic aura might draw Fahai to them.
• Little Green complained that Qing Mo had not shared his spiritual rice, then learned that the wine he served her was made from spiritual herbs.
• Li Gongfu brought Little Green to Abundant Joy Tower for matchmaking, but none of the men suited her, and she kept comparing them to Qing Mo.
• Li Gongfu spotted Qing Mo buying osmanthus cake and ordered two constables to carry him into the matchmaking room.

Qing Mo rejected Little Green’s marriage proposal for the moment after revealing that he already had more than ten partners, leaving her to decide whether to join his family. On the third night, Fahai attacked Qing Mo’s rat demon workers and subdued Little Green, but Qing Mo arrived and freed her as he confronted the monk.

• Qing Mo told Little Green that he had more than ten partners and left her to decide whether to marry him; he said she should come to his residence within three nights if she chose him.
• Little Green spent two days distracted, then set out for Qing Mo’s residence on the third night.
• Fahai appeared in an alley and pursued the five rat demons, who fled to Qing Mo’s courtyard for help.
• Little Green confronted Fahai after he declared that all demons deserved death, but he defeated her and pinned her down with Buddhist seals.
• Qing Mo freed the rat demons from Fahai’s Golden-haired Roar and went to confront the monk.
• Fahai’s seals vanished as Qing Mo arrived, and Little Green got up with relief.

Qing Mo challenged Fahai’s belief that all demons deserved death by revealing that Nuwa was both the Mother of Humanity and a demon, driving the monk away in turmoil. Little Green entered Qing Mo’s courtyard, discovered his powerful pets and origins in another Immortal Realm, and chose to stay with him for the night.

• Qing Mo defended Little Green and his mouse-demon employees, then challenged Fahai to apply his rule against demons to Nuwa, who was also a demon and a Saint.
• Fahai fled in distress with the Golden-Furred Roar after Qing Mo forced him to confront the contradiction in his beliefs.
• Little Green followed Qing Mo into his courtyard and was terrified to find Yinzi, a silver dragon, grilling skewers with Little Tail.
• Qing Mo told Little Green that he had raised Yinzi and Little Tail as pets, had other divine beasts and women, and came from another Immortal Realm where he surpassed the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain.
• After eating and drinking with Qing Mo, Little Green asked him not to betray her and chose to stay the night; Qing Mo carried her toward his room.

Little Green confessed her relationship with Qing Mo to Little White, who agreed to support her despite the dangers of his world. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Qing Mo prepared to let Xu Xian face the sight of Little White’s true form, then attended Baoqing Workshop’s opera and revealed that its alluring Master was a nine-tailed fox.

• Qing Mo and Little Green spent the night together, and Little Green later hurried home, worried that Little White would be concerned.
• Little Green admitted to Little White that she had consummated her relationship with Qing Mo and intended to stay with him; Little White warned her about the dangers but ultimately supported her choice.
• The Dragon Boat Festival arrived, and Li Gongfu’s team won the dragon boat race while Qing Mo left with Little Tail, expecting Xu Xian’s death tribulation to unfold as in the original story.
• That evening, Qing Mo, Su Ye, Little Green, Little White, and Xu Xian attended an opera performance by Baoqing Workshop; Xu Xian poured Little White realgar wine.
• After Su Ye admired the Master of Baoqing Workshop, Qing Mo whispered that she was a nine-tailed fox whose tail had been cut off over a thousand years earlier, frightening Su Ye.