Chapter Summaries

Li Xian planned to confront Wei Qinghuang with the false Precious Lotus and recruited Yue Pingfeng’s Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon to help him. After Tao Xiangrong showed him the dragon-tendon Treasure-Binding Rope, he arranged to meet the Nine Ghosts that night, and seven of them had gathered as the chapter ended.

• Li Xian decided to risk approaching the Commandery Princess with the false Precious Lotus and seek allies rather than flee Jade City.
• Tao Xiangrong showed Li Xian the dragon-tendon rope, which had strange strengthening effects and had accidentally become a Rope Pellet; Li Xian named it the Treasure-Binding Rope and bound it around his saber.
• Li Xian secretly followed Yue Pingfeng and used their meeting to recruit the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon, offering them a share of the dragon corpse in exchange for following his commands.
• Li Xian gave Yue Pingfeng a dragon scale as proof of his access to the enemy and arranged a midnight meeting at the abandoned temple.
• Yue Pingfeng summoned his brothers, and seven of the Nine Ghosts had gathered by nightfall as murderous intent began to build.

Li Xian persuaded the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon to help him seize the dragon corpse from Commandery Princess Wei Qinghuang, then chose Mad Snake Mountain as the site of an ambush. He prepared the mountain and sent the nine ghosts into hiding, leaving his plan ready for its next step.

• Xiao Cheng and the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon discussed Yue Pingfeng's lead on the dragon corpse, then agreed to meet Li Xian.
• Li Xian demonstrated his resolve, showed the ghosts a dragon scale, and negotiated their help in exchange for three shares of the corpse.
• Li Xian revealed that Wei Qinghuang controlled the dragon corpse and proposed luring her out so the nine ghosts could capture her; Xiao Cheng agreed to follow his orders.
• Li Xian studied his martial arts, discovered how his Stand Firm, Become a Jiangshi trait hardened his body, and selected Mad Snake Mountain for the ambush.
• Li Xian buried the Heavenly Secret Lotus on Mad Snake Mountain and sent instructions for the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon to hide near a banyan tree.
• The Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon concealed themselves on Mad Snake Mountain, and Li Xian left the Blue-Heavens Long Dream Tower to put his plan into action.

Li Xian confronted Wei Qinghuang at Eaglefoot Manor after defeating Song Shi, then refused to surrender the Precious Lotus without guarantees that she would leave him alone. He exposed her claim that the lotus was fake as a bluff, leaving the commandery princess openly furious and the four attendants hesitant to seize him.

• Li Xian defeated Song Shi in a brutal fight at the Sun-Hiding Residence, but Qingyao, Huang Su, Lü Ya, and Hong Luo surrounded him and escorted him to Wei Qinghuang.
• At Eaglefoot Manor, Li Xian criticized Wei Qinghuang's painting, and she burned it before demanding to know where Wang Yan and the Precious Lotus were.
• Li Xian said he had the Precious Lotus but would not hand it over unless Wei Qinghuang swore to leave him alone; he claimed her suspicion had made him hide it elsewhere.
• Wei Qinghuang said the Precious Lotus was a fake and ordered her attendants to seize Li Xian, but he argued that she still needed it, provoking her into open fury.

Li Xian tricked Wei Qinghuang into negotiating for the hidden Heavenly Secret Lotus after her searches failed, then persuaded her to accompany him with her maids in shackles. At the banyan tree, he uncovered a lotus while the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon waited in hiding.

• Wei Qinghuang ordered Li Xian confined in the Four Mountains Abode and sent experts to search for the Heavenly Secret Lotus, while Li Xian secretly left hairs to monitor events outside.
• Qingyao brought Li Xian pastries and wine, and he spent his confinement eating, sleeping, and practicing martial arts as Wei Qinghuang's searches repeatedly failed.
• After three days, Wei Qinghuang agreed to spare Li Xian if he revealed the lotus's location, and he arranged for her and her four maids to wear Profound-Sinking Ancient Shackles during the retrieval.
• Li Xian led Wei Qinghuang and the maids from Eaglefoot Manor through Jade Pillar Mountain and up a secluded path, where Wei Qinghuang sent Huang Su to retrieve the treasure.
• Li Xian dug beneath a banyan tree and revealed a blue cloth bag containing the Precious Lotus, while the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon remained concealed nearby.

Li Xian’s trap against Wei Qinghuang collapsed as the Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon joined the fight, but Wei Qinghuang revealed overwhelming power and killed several of them. As Shadowless attacked Li Xian, a strange omen of yin thunder and passing ghosts appeared, bringing his dangerous trump card into play.

• Huang Su tried to seize the Precious Lotus, but Li Xian, Xiao Cheng, and Yue Pingfeng ambushed her, severed her arm, and took the lotus.
• The Nine Ghosts of the Heroic Dragon surrounded Wei Qinghuang’s attendants, and their formations battled until the ghosts used the Ghost-Nurturing Body-Transfer Formation to empower Xiao Cheng.
• Xiao Cheng’s ghost body broke the women’s Thunder Sound Bell Formation and advanced on Wei Qinghuang, who killed Bookish Eighth, Fourth, Yue Pingfeng, and Second, maimed Seventh, and forced the survivors to kneel.
• Peng Laojiu revealed that Li Xian had lured the ghosts with the promise of a dragon corpse, and Li Xian admitted he had possessed the corpse and used it as bait to turn the plot against Wei Qinghuang.
• Wei Qinghuang ordered Shadowless to attack Li Xian, but he used his Double Pupils and Grand Self swordsmanship to block its strikes.
• Wei Qinghuang sensed yin thunder and a hundred ghosts passing through the sky, while Li Xian’s Divine-Ghost Malevolent Garment threatened to bring on the Ghost Doctors’ deadly possession calamity.

Li Xian used ghosts and illusions to survive Wei Qinghuang’s attacks, while she and her injured attendants endured a Hundred Ghosts Crossing in a blood formation. After the ghostly domain ended, Li Xian tricked Wei Qinghuang into lowering her guard and wounded her with a palmfire strike before escaping.

• Li Xian used Heart Corrosion, heart resonance, and Golden Light Escape to evade Shadowless, then escaped its sword technique by creating an illusion of his death.
• Wei Qinghuang gathered her injured attendants and tried to leave Mad Snake Mountain, but the group repeatedly circled back and encountered yin soldiers and ghosts.
• Wei Qinghuang explained the Hundred Ghosts Crossing and had Qingyao, Lü Ya, Hong Luo, and Huang Su draw an Eight Trigrams Ghost-Repelling Method with their blood.
• As sinister rain repeatedly damaged the formation, Wei Qinghuang used her own blood to restore it until the ghostly storm finally ended.
• Li Xian appeared disguised as Li Jinkui, dispelled the illusion when Wei Qinghuang grew suspicious, and struck her with Palmfire Scorching the Heavens.
• Wei Qinghuang was badly wounded and vowed to remember Li Xian as he escaped in golden light.

Li Xian’s attempt to kill Wei Qinghuang failed, but he gravely wounded her and escaped to hide with Tao Xiangrong as Jade City launched a manhunt. While the Blue and Red Factions moved against each other over the Precious Lotus, Li Xian cultivated in hiding and reached the Third Realm.

• Li Xian ambushed Wei Qinghuang with the Profound Flame Palm and arrows, but Shadowless blocked the arrows; Wei Qinghuang survived with severe injuries and sent up a flare for help.
• Wei Chu found Wei Qinghuang and took her back to Eaglefoot Manor, where Li Shichun treated her and recommended extreme-yang treasures; Wei Chu gave her his Profound Yang Precious Jade.
• Li Xian returned to Jade City, erased traces of his residence, and hid at Tao Xiangrong’s Peach Residence after telling her how he had wounded Wei Qinghuang and escaped Shadowless.
• Bai Zhengcheng, Liu Longhai, and Bai Qinghao searched for Li Xian after evidence accused him of murdering Lei Chong; when they found him missing, the city issued a bounty and sealed Jade City.
• Rumors spread that the Blue Faction had obtained the Precious Lotus, prompting the Red and Blue Factions to make their moves while Tao Xiangrong sheltered Li Xian and supplied him with Essence Treasures.
• Li Xian cultivated in hiding with Tao Xiangrong’s support and entered the Third Realm.