Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu confronted Pei Ji after the Grand Void Sect holy son tried to intervene on behalf of the Ye Family. The chapter ended with Bai Yu asserting the Blood Prison Dynasty’s authority and threatening to take everyone at the banquet for interrogation.

• Lu Wangshu asked Mo Qingwu about Bai Yu, and Mo Qingwu praised him while suggesting Guan Yue knew what she was doing.
• Pei Ji asked Bai Yu to release the Ye Family, citing its ties to the Grand Void Sect and the Holy Heaven Dynasty.
• Bai Yu agreed that the Ye Family’s case should be resolved, then announced they would be executed the next day and demanded that Pei Ji hand over Ye Nian-ci.
• Pei Ji accused Bai Yu of being ruthless and arrogant, but Bai Yu dismissed Pei Ji’s status and declared that the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s affairs were not for the Grand Void Sect to decide.
• Bai Yu threatened to take everyone at the banquet back for interrogation unless he received an explanation.

Bai Yu confronted Murong Qingyu and Pei Ji over the royal family's banquet, then had the Black Feather King overpower Pei Ji. After Mo Qingwu pleaded for Pei Ji, Bai Yu agreed to spare him only if he handed over Ye Nian-ci and visited the Ye Residence.

• Bai Yu demanded an explanation from Murong Qingyu and the Holy Heaven royal family for the banquet and threatened to investigate their involvement.
• Pei Ji challenged Bai Yu, and the Black Feather King suddenly seized him and smashed him into the floor.
• The Black Feather King revealed his peak Tribulation Crossing strength, leaving Pei Ji and the Grand Void Sect's Dao-protecting elders unable to retaliate.
• Mo Qingwu pleaded for Pei Ji, citing the Pei Family's kindness to her and Meng Bingyan.
• Bai Yu agreed to spare Pei Ji if he handed over Ye Nian-ci and went to the Ye Residence.

Bai Yu forced the Grand Void Sect’s Yin-Yang Elders to help find Ye Nian-ci and took the injured Pei Ji into custody after the Hongmen Banquet. Murong Qingyu was left disgraced and punished by Murong Jie, while Mo Qingwu decided to visit the Ye Family and watch over Pei Ji.

• Mo Qingwu said Bai Yu had helped Meng Bingyan settle a karmic debt, while the Yin-Yang Elders insisted they knew nothing about Ye Nian-ci.
• Bai Yu demanded that the Grand Void Sect find Ye Nian-ci and said Pei Ji would stay with him; the Black Feather King tortured Pei Ji until Elder Yang agreed to help.
• The Black Feather King sealed Pei Ji’s inner realm and dragged him away with Bai Yu, who warned Murong Qingyu that they would meet again.
• Mo Qingwu said she would go to the Ye Family and keep an eye on Pei Ji, while the Yin-Yang Elders and the other guests left the hall.
• Murong Qingyu collapsed after Bai Yu left, and Murong Jie slapped her, removed her from favor, and confined her to the Princess’s Residence for three years.
• Murong Qingyu accused Murong Jie of never valuing her, and he rejected her claims as delusions.

Bai Yu stripped resources from Pei Ji’s cave-heaven and defended his actions to Marshal Qi, arguing that the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s strategic importance justified bringing it under the Demon Prison Army’s influence. Qi Tongzhi questioned Bai Yu’s motives and his connection to Luo Ning, leaving Bai Yu bewildered.

• Bai Yu ordered the Black Feather King and others to extract as many resources as possible from the captive Pei Ji.
• Xu Yingxue warned Bai Yu that his actions had turned the Holy Heaven royal family against him, while Bai Yu noted that Marshal Qi was contacting him.
• Qi Tongzhi angrily confronted Bai Yu over his unauthorized incursion into the Holy Heaven Dynasty and the rumors implicating Qi.
• Bai Yu claimed the Holy Heaven Dynasty might be colluding with the Grand Void Sect, though he admitted he had no evidence yet.
• Bai Yu argued that taking control of the dynasty’s vital trade route would benefit the Demon Prison Army and deny the Eldest Prince a valuable asset.
• Qi Tongzhi asked about Bai Yu’s relationship with Luo Ning and the Luo Family, and Bai Yu said they had merely met by chance.

Murong Qingyu traded the Demonic Dragon Mystic Blood Ginseng for the Wild Beast royal family's forbidden Beast-Transforming Heaven-Howling Art after her allies abandoned her. She then told Ye Nian-ci that they were both trapped and demanded the truth about the soul helping him, still seeking a way for them to escape.

• Murong Qingyu confronted Huang Ling after the Wild Beast Domain refused to help her against Bai Yu and the Black Feather King.
• Murong Qingyu traded the Demonic Dragon Mystic Blood Ginseng to Huang Ling for the Beast-Transforming Heaven-Howling Art, then began plotting to use it.
• Murong Qingyu told Ye Nian-ci that the Black Feather King was at peak Tribulation Transcendence and that her backup plans had abandoned her.
• Murong Qingyu warned Ye Nian-ci that the Grand Void Sect's Yin-Yang Elders wanted to hand him to Bai Yu in exchange for Pei Ji.
• Murong Qingyu insisted she had not regretted helping Ye Nian-ci and demanded to know about the soul residing within him and what it had left behind.

Ye Nian-ci told Murong Qingyu that Di Xian'er had revealed his Nine-Orifice Spirit Veins, and Murong Qingyu pretended she would help him escape. She betrayed him and, intent on using his talent with the Beast-Transforming Heaven-Howling Art and Great Medicine to challenge Bai Yu and seize the throne, began to attack him.

• Ye Nian-ci explained how he found Di Xian'er and learned he possessed the rare Nine-Orifice Spirit Veins, with one orifice awakened.
• Murong Qingyu promised to send Ye Nian-ci away and offered to help him recover through dual cultivation.
• Murong Qingyu stabbed Ye Nian-ci's dantian with a Demon-Breaking Needle, suppressing his magical power.
• Murong Qingyu revealed she wanted the secret of Ye Nian-ci's spirit veins and planned to use him with the Beast-Transforming Heaven-Howling Art and Great Medicine to defeat Bai Yu and claim the throne.
• Murong Qingyu approached Ye Nian-ci with a jade blade and chain, saying she would eat him, as he screamed in terror.

Bai Yu offered to house Di Xian'er in his grotto-heaven and asked her to teach pill refinement in exchange for support. Di Xian'er revealed that she was the Butterfly Dream Pill Immortal, leaving Lu Wangshu stunned by her identity.

• Di Xian'er recognized the Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture and praised Bai Yu's mastery of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Bai Yu offered to help Di Xian'er regain a physical body and asked her to refine pills and train talented people in his grotto-heaven.
• Di Xian'er said Yu Linglong had the talent to learn pill refinement and reminded Bai Yu that he also held inheritances from the Immortal Medicine Emperor and the Azure Emperor.
• Bai Yu agreed to let Di Xian'er guide Yu Linglong and said he would find other promising people when he went out to gain experience.
• Di Xian'er revealed that she came from the Upperstream and was once known as the Butterfly Dream Pill Immortal.
• Lu Wangshu recognized Di Xian'er as the legendary Pill Saint of the Snow Domain.

Lu Wangshu recounted Di Xian'er’s history with the Immortal Medicine Emperor, while Bai Yu discussed his ambitions for the Holy Heaven Dynasty with Lu Wangshu and Mo Qingwu. Meanwhile, Murong Qingyu appeared at the Wang Residence, revealed her terrifying power, and began consuming the Wang Family.

• Lu Wangshu explained that Di Xian'er had challenged the Immortal Medicine Emperor, later inherited the Azure Emperor Scripture he had used, and never got to face him again after the great calamity.
• Di Xian'er asked Bai Yu to spare Ye Nian-ci, then withdrew into the grotto-heaven; Lu Wangshu and Mo Qingwu explained that they had come because of Pei Ji and Mo Qingwu’s wish to visit.
• Lu Wangshu guessed that Bai Yu was targeting the Holy Heaven Dynasty, and Bai Yu invited her to join him; she declined on behalf of Compassion Tranquility Retreat but agreed to observe.
• At the Wang Residence, Wang Rulong reflected on Murong Jie’s troop movements and the Zhou Family’s efforts to approach Bai Yu as Murong Qingyu suddenly appeared.
• Murong Qingyu asked whether the Wang Family would follow her original plan, then used black water to bind Wang Rulong and drain his life and spiritual power.
• Wang Rulong realized Murong Qingyu had reached Tribulation Transcendence as black water spread throughout the Wang Residence.

As disappearances and rumors plunged Holy Heaven City into crisis, Bai Yu’s group concluded that someone in the royal family had consumed Pei Ji’s Great Medicine and become a dangerous monster. Bai Yu ordered the takeover of the city and set out for the royal palace with Pei Ji, Mo Qingwu, and Lu Wangshu.

• Reports confirmed that the Zhou and Wang Families and the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s army had vanished, while the Xu Family prepared for battle.
• Bai Yu questioned Pei Ji, who admitted he had given someone one seventh-grade Great Medicine and an unknown amount of sixth-grade Great Medicine.
• The Black Feather King said the disappearances required power beyond what she could wield unnoticed, and Xu Yingxue suggested Great Medicine had transformed someone into a devouring monster.
• Bai Yu agreed that someone in the royal family had become a special monster and ordered the plan to take Holy Heaven City to begin.
• Bai Yu assigned Xu Yingxue and Xu Yingyue to cooperate with the Heavenly Demon Army and ordered Yan'er, Linglong, and Xuansu to seize the city’s industries and pacify its people.
• Bai Yu told Pei Ji, Mo Qingwu, and Lu Wangshu to accompany him to the royal palace.

The Heavenly Demon Army invaded Holy Heaven City and took control of its defenses while Bai Yu and his companions entered the royal palace. There they found Murong Qingyu had massacred the royal family and risen to the eighth level of Tribulation Transcendence, and she threatened to use the city’s people as nourishment before revealing an immortal artifact.

• Dugu Yan announced that the Heavenly Demon Army had taken over the Holy Heaven Dynasty, while Xu Yingxue led troops to control the city’s clans and vital routes.
• Bai Yu led the Black Feather King and the others into the apparently undefended royal palace, where Mo Qingwu grew uneasy and warned Pei Ji to contact his Dao Protector.
• Bai Yu’s group found Murong Qingyu on the throne amid the skins of the court officials and the corpses of the royal family and dynasty-protecting ancestors.
• Murong Qingyu revealed that she had reached the eighth level of Tribulation Transcendence and vowed to capture Bai Yu and make the Holy Heaven Dynasty nourish her rise.
• Murong Qingyu drew a bronze sword that the Black Feather King recognized as an immortal artifact, and Bai Yu ordered his companions to throw Pei Ji at her.

Murong Qingyu revealed that the Great Medicine and the Mysterious Edge Sword had raised her to the eighth level of Tribulation Transcendence, and she vowed to sacrifice the Holy Heaven Dynasty to forge Void Refinement. The Yin-Yang Elders, the Black Feather King, and Bai Yu attacked her, but her rapidly increasing power overwhelmed their first assault as the Black Feather King suspected she possessed a special constitution or Divine Pupil.

• The Black Feather King hurled Pei Ji toward Murong Qingyu, but the Yin-Yang Elders appeared and shielded him from her sword strike.
• Murong Qingyu revealed her eighth-level Tribulation Transcendence cultivation, the Great Medicine's power, and the Mysterious Edge Sword's evolution into a true immortal artifact.
• Murong Qingyu threatened to sacrifice everyone in the Holy Heaven Dynasty, while the Yin-Yang Elders put Pei Ji in their inner heavens and agreed to fight alongside the Black Feather King.
• The Yin-Yang Elders and the Black Feather King attacked Murong Qingyu, while Bai Yu sent the Blood Dragon Thunder Gu to aid the assault.
• Murong Qingyu shattered the elders' sword formation and repelled the Black Feather King's spear, prompting the Black Feather King to summon a violet spear phantom.
• The Black Feather King sensed that Murong Qingyu's strength could keep doubling and suspected she had a special constitution or Divine Pupil.

The Black Feather King fought Murong Qingyu, but Murong’s Nine-Orifice Spirit Veins and other powers began to awaken, putting the battle in doubt. As Murong’s strength continued to rise, Bai Yu summoned the Divine Baleful Gu to empower the Black Feather King.

• The Black Feather King unleashed her full power and clashed with Murong Qingyu, while the Yin-Yang Elders tried to prepare a seal.
• The Black Feather King struck Murong Qingyu with a golden pillar of light, but Murong countered with a corrosive swamp and wounded the Black Feather King.
• Murong Qingyu’s Nine-Orifice Spirit Veins awakened, and the resulting force caused the Yin-Yang Elders to suffer a violent backlash.
• Di Xian’er explained that Murong Qingyu had devoured Ye Nian-ci and combined the Nine-Orifice Spirit Veins with the Beast-Transforming Heaven-Howling Art and the Great Medicine.
• Bai Yu summoned the Divine Baleful Gu, intending to strengthen the Black Feather King.

Bai Yu used the Divine Baleful Gu to draw out the fate-changing forces while Black Feather King fought Murong Qingyu, who transformed into a nine-headed monster. Bai Yu fired a glass-like arrow that revealed auspicious and baleful forces, and Black Feather King emerged standing atop the monster’s middle head.

• Bai Yu enveloped the Divine Baleful Gu in karmic fire, causing it to devour his golden dragon of fate and leave him with a heavy, unsettling sensation.
• Black Feather King and Murong Qingyu exchanged fierce blows until Black Feather King pierced Murong Qingyu and burned away half her body.
• Murong Qingyu repaired herself with black water, transformed into a nine-headed monster, and clashed with Black Feather King's Godslayer attack.
• Bai Yu asked Mo Qingwu and Lu Wangshu for a powerful bow, then fired a glass-like arrow into the battlefield.
• The shattered arrow revealed Divine Baleful Intents and Auspicious God: Heavenly Pardon, sending black and white mist into Murong Qingyu and Black Feather King.
• As the shockwaves faded, Black Feather King was revealed standing atop the nine-headed monster's middle head.

The Black Feather King killed Murong Qingyu with the golden spear, ending the battle that left much of Holy Heaven City in ruins. Bai Yu secured Murong Qingyu’s corpse and gave the Mysterious Edge Sword to the Black Feather King, who urged him to reach Spirit Transformation soon.

• The Black Feather King struck Murong Qingyu with Godslayer, piercing her heart and destroying the nine-headed monster as its body shattered.
• The Black Feather King confirmed that Murong Qingyu’s soul had shattered, then retrieved the Mysterious Edge Sword from beside her body.
• Mo Qingwu and Bai Yu checked Murong Qingyu’s remains, while Dugu Yan’s Heavenly Demon Army protected survivors in the ruined city.
• Bai Yu stopped Nangong Xuansu from devouring Murong Qingyu and sealed the corpse inside a bronze coffin.
• Bai Yu gave the Mysterious Edge Sword to the wounded Black Feather King so she could refine it.
• The Black Feather King accepted the sword and asked Bai Yu to break through to Spirit Transformation as soon as possible.

After the Holy Heaven royal family fell, Bai Yu established the Feather Spirit Dynasty with Jing Linghan as its new empress, creating a route linking the Midstream and Downstream and strengthening his forces. He placed troops and powerful allies under Jing Linghan’s command, then offered Tang Hu and Demon Spirit Child responsibility for commerce.

• News of the Holy Heaven royal family’s destruction spread across the Blood Prison Dynasty, and the Demon Prison Army and National Preceptor’s Residence reached an agreement over Bai Yu.
• Jing Linghan took the throne with the Xu Family’s support, and the former Holy Heaven Dynasty became the Feather Spirit Dynasty.
• A teleportation array linking the Silver Moon Dynasty and the Feather Spirit Dynasty drew people and resources from the Downstream, revealing Bai Yu’s plan to expand his influence.
• Jing Linghan relied on the Heavenly Demon Army to maintain order as merchants and faction leaders crowded the new imperial palace with gifts.
• Bai Yu assigned twenty thousand Heavenly Demon Army soldiers, Black Tiger Elder, the other Spirit Transformation experts, and the Ghost Eight Immortals to serve under Jing Linghan.
• Bai Yu offered Tang Hu and Demon Spirit Child responsibility for the Feather Spirit Dynasty’s commercial affairs.

Bai Yu arranged for Demon Spirit Child, Tang Hu, and Jing Linghan to rebuild the Feather Spirit Dynasty and establish trade with the Fallen River. He then explained to the Black Feather King that using the Divine Baleful Gu had badly depleted his fortune, leaving him unable to cultivate safely or recover quickly.

• Demon Spirit Child and Tang Hu accepted Bai Yu’s assignment to oversee trade, while Jing Linghan agreed to govern the Feather Spirit Dynasty with five Spirit Transformation experts and the Ghost Eight Immortals.
• Bai Yu proposed using their Fallen River connections to recruit screened Great Apothecaries and trade for Great Medicine ingredients, and Demon Spirit Child agreed the plan was feasible.
• Bai Yu told the group to focus on rebuilding the dynasty before rushing into new ventures, and Jing Linghan led the others to learn their surroundings.
• After the others left, Bai Yu admitted to the Black Feather King that fortune backlash from the battle had left him drained and made cultivation and refining Murong Qingyu’s corpse too risky.
• Bai Yu explained that the Divine Baleful Gu had turned his fortune into an attack and said he planned to seek scarce materials to refine a Gu that could restore fortune.

Bai Yu explained his designs for two fortune-related Gu that could counteract calamity, though their rare materials made them difficult to refine. Meng Bingyan arrived from Holy Spirit Mountain to discuss a Midstream outpost and noticed that Bai Yu seemed unwell.

• The Black Feather King offered to help Bai Yu search the Fallen River or Upperstream for materials, and Bai Yu described the Gloombright Mirror Toad and Fortune-Devouring Snake Vine.
• Bai Yu explained the rare materials required for both Gu, and the Black Feather King asked whether substitutes were possible; Bai Yu said they would not work well.
• A maid announced that a woman from Holy Spirit Mountain had come to see Bai Yu, and Meng Bingyan entered the hall.
• Meng Bingyan thanked Bai Yu for the Pei Family matter and explained that she had come as a representative of the Myriad Sword Sect to discuss a Downstream outpost connected to the Midstream.
• Bai Yu said the outpost could be discussed with Jing Linghan and promised to speak on the matter, while Meng Bingyan pressed him about his apparent condition.

Meng Bingyan told Bai Yu about the legendary Heavenly Feather Snake, which might restore his karmic fortune, and Bai Yu decided to investigate Holy Snake Mountain. He left the discussion eager to visit a disputed territory where he might also confront the Heavenly Snake Sect.

• Meng Bingyan explained that the Grand Void Sect's Fortune Koi could enhance karmic fortune, but Bai Yu said he did not need it and warned that obtaining one would be difficult.
• Meng Bingyan shared a rumor that Holy Snake Mountain had once birthed the Heavenly Feather Snake alongside the Nether Dragon Python, the ancestor of the Heavenly Snake Sect.
• Meng Bingyan explained that Holy Snake Mountain was open to paying explorers, but past searches had not confirmed the Heavenly Feather Snake's existence.
• The Black Feather King offered to lead an attack on the Heavenly Snake Sect, but Meng Bingyan cautioned that the creature's existence was only a rumor.
• Bai Yu decided to visit Holy Snake Mountain and joked about refining the Nether Dragon Python if he could not find the Heavenly Feather Snake.
• Meng Bingyan said the Heavenly Snake Sect belonged to the Wild Beast Domain and lay in disputed territory near the Blood Prison Dynasty, which excited Bai Yu.

Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan traveled toward the Heavenly Snake Sect, where they discovered snakefolk kidnapping Compassion Tranquility Retreat cultivators. The captives included the Sound Sect's Holy Maiden, Miao Yinling, whom Liu Mo planned to turn into a beast slave and deliver to the Wild Beast Imperial Palace.

• Bai Yu set out with Meng Bingyan, who chose to accompany him rather than return to the Myriad Sword Sect.
• After teleporting near the Heavenly Snake Sect, Meng Bingyan's Sky Seizing Bird sensed danger and landed in the mountain range.
• Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan investigated the area and found black-robed snakefolk transporting bound captives.
• Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan recognized the captives as Compassion Tranquility Retreat cultivators, including the weakened Miao Yinling.
• Liu Mo boasted that he had poisoned the captives and planned to offer them to the elders, then urged Miao Yinling to submit to him.

Meng Bingyan and Bai Yu rescued Miao Yinling and the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples from Liu Mo, then learned the disciples were undergoing beastification. Miao Yinling asked the pair to accompany her toward the Heavenly Snake Sect, promising them a valuable reward.

• Meng Bingyan attacked the snakefolk and killed Liu Mo, then freed Miao Yinling from her restraints and dantian restriction.
• Miao Yinling knocked out the affected disciples, sealed their meridians, and froze them in her cave heaven to slow their beastification.
• Miao Yinling explained that beastification transformed people into demons loyal to their controllers and said the Beast Transformation Pill could stop it.
• Miao Yinling told Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan that she had been ambushed after an expedition to Divine Mountain, poisoned, and seeded with beasts.
• Miao Yinling asked Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan to accompany her and promised them a reward, while Meng Bingyan wondered why Miao Yinling thought Bai Yu was a good person.