Chapter Summaries

Tang Yuehua wrote a story about Bai Yuemei that revealed her own longing for an all-consuming love, then was overcome by guilt and tried to calm herself with her Pure Heart Sutra. A poisonous red fog filled the hotel, and Wolf Bandits captured her after she collapsed.

• Tang Yuehua bathed according to her strict rules and began writing Bai Yuemei's backstory, which closely mirrored her own life.
• Tang Yuehua imagined Bai Yuemei's destined lover as a powerful, domineering Black Dragon Douluo and poured her own romantic desires into the fantasy.
• Tang Yuehua realized how deeply she had immersed herself, wept, and recited her Pure Heart Sutra to ease her shame.
• Tang Yuehua noticed a pale-red fog outside and heard Od warn her that Wolf Bandits were attacking.
• Tang Yuehua opened her door, inhaled the poisonous fog, and collapsed as Wolf Bandits entered the hotel and prepared to carry her away.

Blood Shadow inspected the women captured by his Wolf Bandits to find offerings for His Majesty Yazi, rejecting Azure Erosion’s and Azure Fang’s selections before choosing three women taken by Azure Demon. After learning the captives were Tang Yuehua, Xue Ke, and Xue Yun’er, Blood Shadow refused to release them and said their status made them suitable for Yazi.

• Blood Shadow heard the commanders’ raid reports and asked them to identify women suitable to offer to His Majesty Yazi.
• Blood Shadow rejected Azure Erosion’s unusually plump selections and Azure Fang’s two dark-skinned captives.
• Blood Shadow approved Azure Demon’s three chosen women and raised his merit to special-class excellence.
• Azure Demon identified the women as Tang Yuehua, Xue Ke, and Xue Yun’er, whose powerful backgrounds could bring trouble.
• Blood Shadow refused to release the three women and invited Azure Demon to hear why their status suited His Majesty Yazi.

Blood Shadow outlined Yazi’s plan to raid cities, frame the Four-Armed Ape Bandits, and use an imperial princess and a royal princess to pursue power within the Heaven Dou Empire. The Wolf Bandits began carrying out his orders, while Noricia City’s leaders argued over the raid and Huo Qi furiously condemned their failure to protect the captives.

• Blood Shadow explained that the Wolf Bandits would retreat into the mountains after the raid and leave the Four-Armed Ape Bandits to bear the blame.
• Blood Shadow revealed Yazi’s plan to impregnate the imperial princess and royal princess and eventually infiltrate the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Blood Shadow ordered Azure Demon to plant evidence and deliver disguised women to the Ape Bandits, Azure Fang to take treasure and women to the city and alert the clans to retreat, and Azure Erosion to guard the three beauties.
• Blood Shadow left to help Blood Red hunt Dragon Giant Hero as the three Blue Bandits set out to carry out their orders.
• At Noricia City’s council meeting, the city lord and Spirit Hall representatives disputed responsibility for the slow response and discussed raids in Golden Rice and Radiant Moon.
• Huo Qi smashed a teacup and threatened to report the officials for negligence if anything happened to the princess.

Huo Qi and the others sought help rescuing Xue Ke, Xue Yun'er, and Madam Yue after Wolf and Ape Bandits abducted them, while Dugu Bo prepared to enter the Western Wilderness. Dugu Yan joined him, and the chapter ended with Chu He urging Xu Huxiao to work as a caravan guard.

• Ya Qing urged Noricia City's leaders to reinforce their defenses and bring in Soul Sage reinforcements, and Reynard said Dugu Bo had been summoned to rescue the captives.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Xue Yun'er had been captured and that he would go to the Western Wilderness to help Prince Xue Xing's daughter.
• Dugu Yan persuaded Dugu Bo to let her accompany him into the dangerous Western Wilderness Depths.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan flew toward the Western Wilderness in a green poison cloud.
• Chu He tried to recruit Xu Huxiao as a Western Wilderness caravan guard, praising his strength and promising his own skill at avoiding bandits.

Xu Huxiao traveled with a bridal caravan through the Western Wilderness while Chu He explained the region’s customs and tried to persuade him to go door-walking. Having spent two months hunting Wolf Bandits while cultivating, Xu Huxiao learned that Ah Yin had located Yazi’s lair, Sacred Wolf City, and prepared to end his search.

• Chu He told Xu Huxiao about husband-sharing and door-walking, describing the Western Wilderness women’s customs and urging him to enjoy them.
• The caravan stopped for the night, and Xu Huxiao received word from Ah Yin that she had found Yazi at Sacred Wolf City.
• Xu Huxiao reflected on his two months traveling with caravans, killing Wolf Bandits, collecting three Bloodthirsty Berserk Soul Bones, and improving his cultivation.
• Old Dong and the other caravan workers joked about door-walking and shared stories of their exploits while Xu Huxiao listened.

Xu Huxiao gave Chen Chang'an a sealed attack before leaving, then returned when Wolf Bandits and Ape Bandits threatened the convoy. He revealed himself to the gathered beasts as Dragon Giant Hero and prepared to confront them.

• Old Dong told the convoy about his unhappy marriage and why he valued his life as an escort.
• Xu Huxiao sealed a powerful Revisiting the Dragon attack in Chen Chang'an's palm and vanished.
• Chu He sensed danger, but poison miasma had hidden the approaching Wolf Bandits, who surrounded the convoy.
• Nearly two hundred Four-Armed Ape Bandits arrived, and their leaders Blacklight and Black Biao confronted Blood Shadow and Blood Red over Dragon Giant Hero.
• As the Ape Bandits charged the convoy, Xu Huxiao appeared, froze the beasts within his domain, put on his mask, and asked whether they had been looking for him.

Xu Huxiao used his Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Taming Domain and Shock Force's Slaughter to kill the Wolf Bandits and Ape Bandits threatening the convoy, then left Chen Chang'an a palm force that could protect him and help him become a Soul Master. After the convoy reached its destination, a future tragedy involving Chen Chang'an unfolded; Xu Huxiao later entered the Poison Miasma Zone with Ah Yin on the way to Sacred Wolf City.

• Blood Red tried to appease Xu Huxiao, but Black Biao and Blacklight attacked him with the Ape Demon Sky-Shattering Cannon.
• Xu Huxiao bound the attackers with his domain and killed all the Wolf Bandits and Ape Bandits with Shock Force's Slaughter, then departed on a golden dragon.
• Chen Chang'an thanked Xu Huxiao and vowed to become a true Soul Master, while Chu He found Gold Soul Coins and a note reading “Carriage fare.”
• After the convoy arrived, Chu He heard that Chen Chang'an's parents had died, the steward and bride had been killed, and Chen Chang'an had disappeared after leaving a blood-written confession.
• The narration explained that Xu Huxiao had left Chen Chang'an a palm force tied to the words “Revisiting the Dragon,” which could protect him and aid his cultivation whether or not he activated it.
• Xu Huxiao reached the Poison Miasma Zone with Ah Yin, who said her Blue Silver Grass Marks could not guide them through the poisonous mist, so they continued on foot toward Sacred Wolf City.

Tang Yuehua, Xue Ke, and Xue Yun’er endured the Wolf Bandits’ abuse until Xu Huxiao and Ah Yin arrived and wiped out the bandits. After rescuing the women and purging the lust flowers’ effects, Ah Yin began healing everyone in the valley.

• Tang Yuehua used her Noble Ring domain and the Pure Heart Sutra to help Xue Ke and Xue Yun’er resist the Wolf-Tiger Lust Flowers.
• Azure Erosion failed to restrain the lust-crazed Wolf Bandits and finally charged at the three women himself.
• Xu Huxiao and Ah Yin arrived, and Xu Huxiao’s Blue Silver Entanglement and destructive Shock Force annihilated the Wolf Bandits.
• Xu Huxiao used his Yang Origin Soul Power to purge the women’s abnormal sensations, while Tang Yuehua, Xue Ke, and Xue Yun’er became entranced by their rescuer.
• Ah Yin activated a wide-area Blue Silver Life Domain to heal the rescued women and the other injured people in the valley.

Xu Huxiao helped Tang Yuehua and Ah Yin heal the women rescued from the Wolf Bandits, then empowered Tang Yuehua’s Noble Ring Domain to cleanse their minds. The expanded domain began merging Xu Huxiao’s qi and blood with his Soul Power, revealing an unexpected use for the Noble Ring Domain.

• Tang Yuehua, Xue Ke, and Xue Yun'er thanked Xu Huxiao after recovering, and Xue Ke recognized him as Dragon Giant Hero.
• Ah Yin warned that the rescued women’s traumatic memories might leave them mentally broken, but Xu Huxiao said he could not erase their memories.
• Tang Yuehua offered to use her Noble Ring Domain to cleanse the women’s negative emotions, and Xu Huxiao joined his power with hers while Ah Yin deployed her Blue Silver Life Domain.
• Xu Huxiao amplified Tang Yuehua’s domain until it covered the valley, and the women’s despair began to fade under the combined domains.
• Xu Huxiao sensed that the Noble Ring Domain was causing his previously separate qi and blood and Soul Power to begin fusing.