Chapter Summaries

Tian Linger and Luo Yunji fought across Dragon Head Peak, pulling Lin Jingyu and Zhang Xiaofan into the chaos before the Big Bamboo Peak disciples separated them. Tian Buyi took the subdued strange beasts back to Big Bamboo Peak, where he found Su Ru had already punished the two troublemakers.

• Tian Linger and Luo Yunji fought on Dragon Head Peak, and Lin Jingyu and Zhang Xiaofan were drawn into the battle.
• Song Daren and the other Big Bamboo Peak disciples restrained Tian Linger and Luo Yunji and took them away.
• Tian Buyi offered to take the subdued strange beasts back to Big Bamboo Peak, and Daoxuan agreed.
• Tian Buyi used the Heart-Slaying Lock to bind the beasts and left with Lin Jingyu to help him.
• Tian Buyi found Su Ru had made Tian Linger and Luo Yunji kneel before the ancestral portrait, then scolded them while Zhang Xiaofan reassured Lin Jingyu that this was routine.

Lin Jingyu watched Luo Yunji and Tian Linger resume their usual bickering after their marriage, while Azure Cloud’s leaders argued over Big Bamboo Peak’s techniques and accepted its improved cultivation methods. Later, Luo Yunji’s antics with Zeng Shushu left Lin Jingyu wondering what he had missed during his years of cultivation.

• Lin Jingyu was surprised to see Luo Yunji and Tian Linger dining together peacefully after Tian Buyi’s earlier anger, while Su Ru enjoyed the family meal and scolded the newlyweds for bickering.
• Azure Cloud’s peak chiefs debated the techniques Luo Yunji, Tian Linger, Lin Jingyu, and Tian Buyi had used, and Shuiyue rebuked them for demanding Big Bamboo Peak’s methods without contributing their own.
• Daoxuan True Person silenced the argument and had Xiao Yicai bring a box of Big Bamboo Peak’s improved cultivation methods, which the other branches could copy if they wished.
• Luo Yunji gave Zeng Shushu strange beasts from Dragon Head Peak and Wind Return Peak, then took Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu to roast rare beasts from Wind Return Peak’s garden.
• After Zeng Shushu mourned the eaten beasts, Luo Yunji beat him, and Zeng Shushu agreed to a deal for three chances to enter the inn at Sanfu Town.
• Lin Jingyu asked Zhang Xiaofan about the inn as the others headed back, feeling he had missed a great deal by spending years focused on cultivation.

Luo Yunji’s outrageous behavior caused trouble across Azure Cloud Sect and the Imperial City before Tian Buyi sent him away, leaving Big Bamboo Peak quiet again. At Kongsang Mountain, Yan Hui and Killing Monk confronted Nian Laoda and demanded his decision amid the Holy Sect’s growing factional conflict.

• Zeng Shushu and Lin Jingyu envied Zhang Xiaofan’s experiences in the Sea of Nether Domain, while Luo Yunji angered Shuiyue by asking every female disciple on Small Bamboo Peak to marry him.
• Su Ru scolded Luo Yunji, and after he caused complaints from several Azure Cloud branches, Tian Buyi sent him to the Imperial City for discipline.
• Luo Yunji abducted the Little Imperial Grandson and took him to Two Mountains, while the emperor welcomed the State Preceptor’s lively visits to the palace.
• Wu Dayi and the others returned to Two Mountains with most of the ancient strange beasts, and Su Ru missed the bustle Luo Yunji had brought to Big Bamboo Peak.
• Yan Hui and Killing Monk confronted Nian Laoda at the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Bats and pressed him for his decision as conflict among the Holy Sect’s factions intensified.

Zhang Xiaofan accepted the Blood Refining Hall’s surrender and brought Wild Dog Daoist to Imperial City after Wild Dog insisted he deserved to die for his loyalty to the sect. At the Prince’s Mansion, Wild Dog mistook Liao Xing for Luo Yunji, who had apparently tricked Liao Xing many times over the years.

• After learning Zhang Xiaofan had come to Kongsang Mountain, Nian Laoda surrendered, then drank and talked with Yan Hui and Killing Monk.
• Zhang Xiaofan arrived in the Ancient Cave, where the Blood Refining Hall veterans recognized him and their disciples laid down their weapons.
• Wild Dog Daoist told Zhang Xiaofan he would not surrender and asked to be killed, explaining his loyalty to the Blood Refining Hall.
• Zhang Xiaofan gave Wild Dog the Black Heart Token and took him with the Blood Refining Hall disciples to meet the Ghost King at Mount Huqi.
• Zhang Xiaofan brought Wild Dog to Imperial City, where Wild Dog saw Liao Xing with his newborn son and mistook him for Luo Yunji.

Zhang Xiaofan reunited with Liao Xing and Luo Yunji, then brought Wild Dog Daoist to meet the spirit of Blood Refining Hall’s founder, Blackheart Elder. The chapter ended with Lin Jingyu cultivating inside a green cocoon at Heaven-Reaching Peak while Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi discussed his progress.

• Zhang Xiaofan learned that Little Junior Brother was at the Imperial Palace and caught up with Liao Xing about their family and old companions.
• Luo Yunji returned and greeted Zhang Xiaofan, who explained that he had brought Wild Dog Daoist to meet Blackheart Elder.
• Luo Yunji released five Yin Spirits, and Blackheart Elder identified Wild Dog Daoist as ugly before Zhang Xiaofan revealed that Blackheart Elder was Blood Refining Hall’s founder.
• Wild Dog Daoist doubted the claim, then abruptly knelt and bowed to Blackheart Elder as his ancestor.
• Lin Jingyu cultivated beneath a green cocoon at Heaven-Reaching Peak while Daoxuan praised his progress and Tian Linger complained that it was slow.

Tian Linger accidentally revealed that Big Bamboo Peak’s Dragon Slayer Art had multiple moves, surprising Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi. The next day, Lin Jingyu joined the younger disciples at Jade Purity Hall, where they learned the sect planned an expedition to the Western Dead Marsh for experience.

• Tian Linger questioned whether Ghost and God Slayer was only one move, then let slip that Dragon Slayer Art had more than one move before fleeing with Lin Jingyu.
• Daoxuan decided to visit Big Bamboo Peak to ask about the Dragon Slayer Art and told Wan Jianyi that his injuries had mostly healed.
• Lin Jingyu met Qi Hao at Jade Purity Hall after being summoned by Daoxuan, and Qi Hao told him the gathering was good news.
• Lin Jingyu greeted Song Daren, while Zeng Shushu and Wen Min arrived and discussed Big Bamboo Peak’s improved cultivation method.
• Qi Hao explained that the sect’s summons concerned the Western Dead Marsh and that outstanding younger disciples would go there for experience.

Azure Cloud sent its outstanding disciples to investigate rumors of a treasure in the western marshlands, while Song Daren learned Tian Linger had left for the Imperial City with Bi Yao. The chapter ended with Zhang Xiaofan relaxing among the bamboo with two puppies until Zheng Dali found him.

• Xiao Yicai announced that Azure Cloud disciples would travel west to investigate a rumored treasure and watch for Demon Sect activity.
• Qi Hao urged Lin Jingyu to restore Dragon Head Peak's pride, and Song Daren said Zheng Dali would represent Big Bamboo Peak in his place.
• Song Daren learned from Lin Jingyu that Tian Linger had gone to the Imperial City with Bi Yao, and reassured him that Luo Yunji would make events unpredictable.
• Zhang Xiaofan played with two puppies in the bamboo grove until Zheng Dali came looking for him.

Zhang Xiaofan returned to Big Bamboo Peak with puppies and Spirit Wine, then asked Tian Buyi for advice before heading to the Western Swamp. Meanwhile, the Ghost King learned Bi Yao was missing, and Bi Yao met Tian Linger near the Forbidden Spirit Land.

• Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali brought Big Yellow's pups and Spirit Wine to Tian Buyi and Su Ru at Big Bamboo Peak.
• Su Ru decided to retrieve Big Yellow after Zhang Xiaofan said Fourth Senior Brother had considered having him neutered.
• Tian Buyi told Zhang Xiaofan to stay safe when he traveled to the Western Swamp.
• The Ghost King learned Bi Yao was missing and discovered she had drunk one jar of Spirit Wine and hidden the other.
• Mr. Ghost left the Ghost King Sect Headquarters to seek the hidden Spirit Wine, while Qinglong asked him to save some.
• Bi Yao and Tian Linger met near the Forbidden Spirit Land after Tian Linger hurried down the mountain.

Tian Linger left the mountain to meet Bi Yao, prompting Su Ru to worry about the danger of her ties to the Ghost King Sect and about Luo Yunji’s influence on the group. In the Imperial City, Luo Yunji brought Jin Ping'er to find Xiaohuan, while Li Tang'er judged the young women who arrived at the Prince's Mansion to have poor taste.

• Tian Linger told Bi Yao she had come down the mountain to gain experience and meet her, while Su Ru hurried after her and scolded Tian Buyi and Lin Jingyu for letting her go.
• Su Ru warned Lin Jingyu that Tian Linger's friendship with Bi Yao could lead to accusations of collusion with the Demon Sect, and feared Luo Yunji would draw him into danger.
• Luo Yunji traveled through the Imperial City with Jin Ping'er and learned that Xiaohuan was there, so he ordered Jin Ping'er to take him to her.
• Li Tang'er told Liao Xing she wanted to visit Sanfu Town, while he complained that Luo Yunji might abduct their son San'er.
• Bi Yao and Tian Linger arrived at the Prince's Mansion, where Li Tang'er privately decided the four young women had poor taste.

Luo Yunji traveled west with Long Zi and Dahei to hunt Yellow Bird, then rescued four poisoned Acacia Sect disciples along the way. He let the women join his group, but told them they would have to work and serve him.

• Bi Yao and Tian Linger failed to persuade Luo Yunji to travel west, but Long Zi lured him along with the promise of roasted Yellow Bird wings.
• Luo Yunji rode Long Zi west with Dahei, leaving Wild Dog Daoist and Jin Ping'er behind and frustrating Bi Yao and Tian Linger.
• On the way, Luo Yunji and the Quadruplets found four unconscious Acacia Sect women and revived them with White Elixirs.
• The women thanked Luo Yunji, and he asked if they were married before offering to find them husbands.
• After the women said they had been separated from their group, Luo Yunji let them follow him and ordered them to gather firewood, build a stove, and serve him.

Luo Yunji led the Quadruplets and four Acacia Sect disciples through the swamp, relying on the Black Water Mystic Snake and dragons to cross its dangers. After collecting strange creatures and plants, they found a wooden wall and began searching for its entrance.

• Luo Yunji had the Acacia Sect disciples use repellent root juice, then summoned the Black Water Mystic Snake to carry the group deeper into the swamp.
• Luo Yunji and the dragons crossed a miasma zone, and the Quadruplets used White Elixirs to save the poisoned Acacia Sect disciples for the second time.
• Luo Yunji ordered the Quadruplets to capture a carnivorous flower and the bird that ate it, then told the Acacia Sect disciples to carry his collected goods in their clothes.
• Long Zi and Dahei split up to search for the Yellow Bird while Luo Yunji led the others through the strange landscape, gathering more loot.
• Feng Dian noticed a wooden wall, and Luo Yunji directed the group to search along it for a door.

Luo Yunji discovered that the towering wooden wall was a giant tree, then flew with Dahei to help Long Zi fight the Yellow Bird. The battle left the ancient beasts struggling to injure the agile bird, and Luo Yunji began considering retreat.

• Feng Feng explored beyond the wooden wall while Luo Yunji and the others waited, and Luo Yunji realized the wall was a giant tree.
• Dahei found the Yellow Bird, so Luo Yunji left the others behind and flew toward it on Dahei.
• Luo Yunji saw Long Zi fighting the Yellow Bird and joined the battle with Dahei and Little Dragon.
• The Yellow Bird dodged Luo Yunji's Dragon Slayer Art, while its tough feathers and hide resisted the group's attacks.
• Long Zi tore off several of the Yellow Bird's feathers, letting Luo Yunji wound its exposed skin slightly, but the bird shattered his attempts to freeze it.
• The Yellow Bird's beak and claws repeatedly injured Long Zi and Dahei, and Luo Yunji began thinking about retreating.

Luo Yunji escaped from the Yellow Bird after its stomach began dissolving him, then the battle outside the Dead Swamp remained at a stalemate. Meanwhile, Tian Linger, Bi Yao, Jin Ping'er, Xiaohuan, and Wild Dog Daoist entered the swamp to search for Luo Yunji.

• Luo Yunji entered the Yellow Bird's mouth with Little Dragon, but his Black Silk pierced and withered the creature's stomach walls, prompting the Yellow Bird to cough him back out.
• Dahei and Long Zi saw Luo Yunji emerge unharmed and realized he had been worried about losing the chance to eat the Yellow Bird's meat.
• At Great King Village, Wild Dog Daoist carried the women's bundles as Tian Linger, Bi Yao, Jin Ping'er, and Xiaohuan prepared to enter the Dead Swamp.
• Jin Ping'er warned Xiaohuan that the Dead Swamp was easy to enter but hard to leave, while Tian Linger promised to keep her safe.
• Wild Dog Daoist explained that he had come to find Luo Yunji, and the women said Luo Yunji might have gotten lost before reaching the swamp.
• When rain began, Wild Dog Daoist held an umbrella over Xiaohuan, and Bi Yao teased Tian Linger for thinking about her husband.

Zhang Xiaofan reunited with Tian Linger, Bi Yao, Jin Ping'er, and the others in the rain, then killed a fish monster that attacked them. Qin Wuyan of the Myriad Poison Sect appeared, leaving Zhang Xiaofan to confront an old enemy.

• Xiaohuan urged Zhou Yixian and Wild Dog Daoist to hurry beneath an umbrella as Bi Yao and Jin Ping'er continued to scold Zhou Yixian.
• Tian Linger recognized Zhang Xiaofan in the rain and introduced how she and the others had come together.
• Zhang Xiaofan sheltered the group with a Taiji diagram and gave Xiaohuan, Bi Yao, and Tian Linger packets of Candied Hawthorn.
• A fish monster attacked the group near a pond, and Jin Ping'er cut its water column while Zhang Xiaofan killed it.
• Zhou Yixian identified the creature as a fish monster from the Fishman Tribe, and Qin Wuyan of the Myriad Poison Sect appeared before Zhang Xiaofan.

Zhang Xiaofan’s group confronted Qin Wuyan in the Dead Swamp but left without fighting to preserve their plan. Meanwhile, the factions prepared for the coming struggle over a legendary treasure, and the three righteous sects camped near the Bottomless Pit as Lin Jingyu worried about Tian Linger.

• Qin Wuyan recognized Bi Yao and invoked his master’s agreement with the Ghost King and Madam Sanmiao to prevent a fight with Zhang Xiaofan’s group.
• Zhang Xiaofan pulled Tian Linger away and led Bi Yao, Jin Ping'er, and the others into the rain, leaving Qin Wuyan relieved but confused by their alliances.
• Yuyangzi gathered the Longevity Hall disciples in the Dead Swamp, determined to seize the treasure and restore his sect’s standing.
• Xiao Yicai, Faxiang, and Li Xun discussed their next steps after the Azure Cloud Sect, Tianyin Temple, and Incense Valley disciples met in the Dead Swamp.
• Lin Jingyu worried that Tian Linger had come to the Dead Swamp, while Zheng Dali reassured him that she would likely be traveling with someone.

Zheng Dali and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples turned the tables on Yuyangzi’s ambush by pretending to sleep and striking back. Meanwhile, Luo Yunji, Dahei, and Long Zi gave up on fighting the Yellow Bird for now and headed to Two Mountains to gather soldiers for a new project tied to Little Dragon’s growth.

• Zheng Dali told Lin Jingyu that Xiao Fan was kept near Yunji to prevent her and Little Junior Brother from causing trouble.
• Zheng Dali and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples sensed the hidden Longevity Hall forces and pretended to sleep, waiting for them to attack.
• Yuyangzi signaled the Longevity Hall disciples to charge, but Azure Cloud Sect fighters struck from within and behind the encirclement, revealing that Yuyangzi had walked into an ambush.
• Luo Yunji learned from Dahei that the Yellow Bird was stronger near the giant tree it guarded, so the group decided to wait there instead of fighting it.
• Luo Yunji proposed building a side residence on the giant tree and wanted to bring Two Mountains’ soldiers to construct it.
• Dahei and Long Zi agreed to return to Two Mountains to pick up soldiers after Luo Yunji mentioned finding a place for the Spirit Sea and gathering materials for Little Dragon’s spirit-gathering formation.

Luo Yunji left Dahei behind to search for traces of the Yellow Bird and led a large group from Two Mountains into the Dead Swamp. They reached the giant tree in the inner swamp, where the Prince discovered that Zhou Mu and Liao Ming had secretly joined the expedition.

• Zhang Xiaofan reunited Tian Linger with Lin Jingyu and Zheng Dali, then left to continue his work against the smaller Demon Sect branches.
• Luo Yunji handed the Yin Orb to the Quadruplets and hurried to Two Mountains with Long Zi to gather soldiers and companions for the trip to the Dead Swamp.
• The Prince, Du Bishu, He Dazhi, Wu Dayi, and others joined the expedition, while Luo Yunji arranged for the soldiers to wear red Mysterious Gauze cloaks.
• Long Zi carried the group to the Western Swamp, where they arrived atop the giant tree and marveled at its size.
• The Prince spotted Zhou Mu and Liao Ming among the soldiers and warned them to hide from Luo Yunji after they had been told to stay in Sanfu Town.

Luo Yunji and his companions struggled to subdue the Yellow Bird after it badly wounded Dahei, so they brought Wuluo’s body to the battlefield and tried using poisonous insects. The insects had no effect, and Zheng Qi eagerly offered to fight the bird himself.

• The Princess Consort arranged food for her granddaughter while the Prince took the awakened baby from her arms.
• Luo Yunji left the giant tree with Long Zi and hurried to the battle, where Dahei was badly wounded and the Yellow Bird resisted the Yin Orb’s Dark Water and Luo Yunji’s attacks.
• Luo Yunji failed to pull the Yellow Bird’s soul out with the Treasure Umbrella, so Wuluo told him she could help if he retrieved her body from Zhang Xiaofan’s Bamboo Bag.
• Zhang Xiaofan gave Luo Yunji the Bamboo Bag, and Wuluo reunited with her body before accompanying him back to the fighting beasts.
• Wuluo released poisonous insects into the Yellow Bird to stiffen and numb it, but the insects had no effect.
• Zheng Qi volunteered to challenge the Yellow Bird, while Luo Yunji doubted he could hurt it.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan struggled to hurt or restrain the powerful Yellow Bird, and Dabai identified it as a juvenile Nine Heavens spirit bird. Wu Dayi and the other senior brothers arrived to help, but the group had yet to find a way to stop it.

• Luo Yunji explained that attacks carrying Yin Spirits' aura could taint the Yellow Bird's meat, while Dahei, Long Zi, and Ice Technique had failed to restrain or hurt it.
• Dabai and Daoyan said the Yellow Bird was a juvenile Nine Heavens spirit bird and suspected the inner marsh's environment let it survive in the Human Realm.
• Luo Yunji sent the Quadruplets to fetch Wu Dayi and the other senior brothers, while Zhang Xiaofan tried Dragon Slayer Art and several other techniques without harming the Yellow Bird.
• Wu Dayi, He Dazhi, and another junior brother arrived after hearing Zhang Xiaofan was in trouble, then saw Dahei and Long Zi battling the Yellow Bird.
• Wu Dayi and He Dazhi discussed trying to hold the Yellow Bird still long enough for Luo Yunji to strike it with Dragon Slayer Art.

Wu Dayi and the others fought the Yellow Bird, but Luo Yunji’s failed sword technique and the creature in his Sea of Consciousness changed the battle’s course. The Yellow Bird recognized Luo Yunji as its master and shrank down as the group headed back to the great tree, where they met Zeng Shushu and Xiao Yicai.

• Wu Dayi and the others tried to surround the Yellow Bird, but its wings broke their formation until Du Bishu bound it with vines from Dice.
• Luo Yunji used Yu Qing Sword Art, but the Ice Sword shattered and the backlash left him injured.
• Zhang Xiaofan tried to attack the Yellow Bird, but a white light from Luo Yunji’s Spirit Court knocked him and Dahei and Long Zi away.
• Luo Yunji explained that the being in his Sea of Consciousness had stopped them from attacking, and the Yellow Bird then approached him as if acknowledging him as master.
• The Yellow Bird shrank to sparrow size and competed with Little Dragon for a place on Luo Yunji’s head as the group traveled back toward the great tree.
• Zhang Xiaofan’s group met Zeng Shushu and Xiao Yicai, who said they had become separated from Lin Jingyu, Zheng Dali, and the others in the miasma.