Chapter Summaries

Li Mo and Feng Sheng were summoned to the Council Hall, where Fu Shouci instructed them to investigate Lü Rongrong and stop her marriage to Feng Chen if necessary. The sect leaders planned to seek evidence against the Immortal Silence Tower, and Li Mo and Feng Sheng set out for the Feng Family well supplied with protective items.

• Li Mo and Feng Sheng received Xiao Jixue's message and went to the Council Hall to meet Fu Shouci and the other elders.
• Fu Shouci told Li Mo to expose Lü Rongrong's suspicious behavior to the Feng Family or prevent Feng Chen from marrying her.
• Bai Wuxia proposed involving her grandmaster and the Two Arts Sect to pressure the Immortal Silence Tower and uncover evidence of its ties to the Demon Clan's remnants.
• Fu Shouci ordered Li Mo to accompany Feng Sheng to the Feng Family and protect her, while Jiang Mei joked that Li Mo could use his handsome face to charm Lü Rongrong.
• Fu Shouci, the Peak Masters, and Xiao Jixue gave Li Mo and Feng Sheng techniques, talismans, pills, and other supplies for their journey.

Xiao Jixue’s affection for Tang Yan increased as he watched over him and offered to help him regain his cultivation. The two went to Artifact Peak’s competition, where Xiao Jixue prepared food and Peach Blossom Wine for Tang Yan, leaving him warmly reminded of someone from his past.

• Xiao Jixue saw Tang Yan reading beneath the peach blossom tree, and his affection for Tang Yan rose as he struggled to understand his feelings.
• Xiao Jixue promised to find Tang Yan a cultivation method and invited him to watch Artifact Peak’s competition.
• Disciples followed the pair to Artifact Peak, where several brought snacks to enjoy while watching the competition and gossiping.
• Xiao Jixue prepared pastries, fruit, and Peach Blossom Wine for Tang Yan, who recognized the wine’s familiar taste and recalled someone’s thoughtfulness in his past life.
• Tang Yan praised the wine, and Xiao Jixue offered to give him several more flasks.

Tang Yan’s private gossip revealed that Li Qingrong’s future husband, Peng Liangyi, would destroy her family and ruin her life. Li Qingrong left to act against him, while the system announced it had detected even more shocking gossip.

• Tang Yan recognized Li Qingrong as Wei Lianyi’s friend and learned that she was destined to suffer at Peng Liangyi’s hands.
• Tang Yan revealed that Peng Liangyi exploited Li Qingrong for money, then would seize the Li Family and Azure City, kill her family, cripple her, and sell her to the Drunken Red Pavilion.
• Li Qingrong resolved to stop Peng Liangyi before he could harm her family and quietly left to take care of it.
• After Tang Yan finished eating, the system announced that it had detected the most explosive gossip it had ever encountered.

Tang Yan learned that Han Zhongjin was a terrifying predator who mutilated male cultivators, and the gossip horrified everyone listening. The system hinted that Han Zhongjin had done something even worse, leaving Tang Yan and the spectators in suspense.

• Han Zhongjin arrived at Artifact Peak, and Xiao Jixue shielded Tang Yan while warning him not to get close to the Artifact Peak elder.
• Wei Lianyi felt intense revulsion toward Han Zhongjin and left for the Law Enforcement Hall, suspecting he might be a demon spy.
• Fu Shouci joined Xu You, Jiang Mei, and the others in the void to watch the competition and hear Tang Yan's gossip.
• Han Zhongjin began assessing Li Jiang, Liu Yunsheng, and Jiang Xiao as they prepared to refine Superior Magical Treasures.
• Tang Yan revealed through his thoughts that Han Zhongjin was a man who cut off male cultivators' genitals, horrifying the spectators.
• The system confirmed the gossip and hinted that Han Zhongjin had done something even more perverted, leaving Tang Yan and the listeners shocked.

Tang Yan’s thoughts revealed that Han Zhongjin was suspected of abducting male disciples, castrating them, and preserving their body parts at a secret base. The disciples and Han Zhongjin’s own apprentices were horrified, while Han Zhongjin mistook their fearful glances for admiration and began appraising them.

• Fu Shouci and the disciples connected Han Zhongjin to the disappearances of nearly ten male cultivators from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Tang Yan read the system’s gossip that Han Zhongjin castrated male cultivators and preserved their parts at his secret base.
• The revelations horrified the disciples, including Han Zhongjin’s apprentices Liu Yunsheng and Jiang Xiao.
• The system hinted that Han Zhongjin had other perverted habits, leaving the crowd even more alarmed.
• Han Zhongjin mistook the disciples’ covert glances for admiration and inspected the male cultivators as though selecting merchandise.

Tang Yan uncovered that Han Zhongjin had been luring, abusing, and castrating male disciples, while concealing his crimes behind his reputation in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. Fu Shouci and Bai Wuxia prepared to capture him, and Tang Yan learned that a missing disciple was being held in Han Zhongjin’s hideout.

• Tang Yan read that Han Zhongjin dressed as a woman to lure male disciples out of the sect, then violated and castrated them.
• Tang Yan learned that Han Zhongjin had turned against a close friend after his confession was rejected and had tried to kill the friend’s beloved in a secret realm.
• Fu Shouci told Bai Wuxia, Jiang Mei, and the others that they would lure Han Zhongjin out and seal off the void to capture him.
• Tang Yan read that Han Zhongjin had become impotent after an injury in the secret realm and that his crimes were linked to several missing disciples.
• Tang Yan learned that the recently missing disciple was being held in Han Zhongjin’s secret hideout, then tugged on Xiao Jixue’s sleeve as he considered how to alert his master.

Tang Yan’s thoughts exposed Han Zhongjin as a Demon Clan mole raising an Evil Being with abducted disciples, prompting the hidden elders to prepare to act without alerting him. Han Zhongjin then ordered Liu Yunsheng to leave the sect soon, while Liu and Jiang Xiao realized they were in danger.

• Xiao Jixue quietly told Tang Yan that the Sect Leader and Bai Wuxia already suspected Han Zhongjin, and Tang Yan pretended to be shocked.
• Tang Yan’s thoughts revealed that Han Zhongjin was secretly raising an Evil Being with abducted disciples and intended to use it against the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Bai Wuxia nearly confronted Han Zhongjin, but Jiang Mei stopped him from risking the suspect’s escape.
• Tang Yan’s thoughts exposed Li Jiang as Han Zhongjin’s accomplice and revealed that Liu Yunsheng and Jiang Xiao were innocent but targeted as future victims.
• Han Zhongjin told Liu Yunsheng to leave the sect in a couple of days, and Liu accepted after realizing the elders were watching Han Zhongjin.

Tang Yan left the artifact-forging competition with Xiao Jixue, while Fu Shouci and the other elders confronted Han Zhongjin over a missing Artifact Peak disciple. After defeating and binding Han Zhongjin, they took him to Pill Peak for Xu Yi to perform a soul search.

• Tang Yan grew bored watching the artifact-forging competition, so he left with Xiao Jixue to return to Purple Dawn Peak.
• Fu Shouci and the other elders brought Han Zhongjin to Artifact Peak Hall under the pretense of discussing the missing disciple.
• Han Zhongjin tried to flee when Fu Shouci turned hostile, but the elders sealed the area and Fu Shouci defeated him.
• Bai Wuxia trapped Han Zhongjin in a golden net, and Fu Shouci accused him of being involved in the disciple's disappearance.
• The elders rejected Han Zhongjin's denials and decided that Xu Yi should perform a soul search, then escorted Han Zhongjin to Pill Peak.

After Xu Yi discovered the horrifying crimes Han Zhongjin had committed, Fu Shouci led the Ten Thousand Swords Sect in a nighttime assault on Han’s concealed estate. They destroyed the Evil Being, rescued more than a hundred captives, and brought a blind, confused prisoner back to the sect.

• Fu Shouci asked Xu Yi to search Han Zhongjin’s soul, and Xu Yi discovered that Han had fed cultivators to an Evil Being and had been directed by an unknown Demon Clan member.
• Xu Yi reduced Han Zhongjin to a crippled, witless state and ordered Fu Shouci to attack the estate that night.
• Fu Shouci brought Jiang Mei, several Peak Masters, powerful disciples, and two Tribulation Transcendence Dao Venerables to the town, where Jiang Mei broke the concealment formation.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Sect defeated the town’s defenders by dawn, and Fu Shouci destroyed the horrifying collection in Han’s main hall.
• Xiao Jixue found Qiu Ling alive but tortured, while the sect searched the town and rescued more than a hundred captured or lured cultivators.
• Fu Shouci killed the Divine Incarnation-stage Evil Being, and the sect found a blind, confused man imprisoned in its quarters and took him back to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

Li Qingrong tracked Peng Liangyi to the Drunken Red Pavilion after hearing gossip about him and caught him boasting about exploiting her and seeking other women. She beat him publicly in the street while the crowd cheered.

• Li Qingrong arrived at the Peng residence with ten Divine Incarnation guards and demanded to know where Peng Liangyi was.
• When Peng Liangyi's parents claimed he had left on an errand, Li Qingrong went to the Drunken Red Pavilion instead.
• The madam led Li Qingrong upstairs, where she overheard Peng Liangyi boasting that he used her for resources and planned to control her after marriage.
• Li Qingrong kicked open Peng Liangyi's door, sent him through a window, and continued beating him in the street.
• Peng Liangyi begged for forgiveness as the crowd and the Drunken Red Pavilion's madam encouraged Li Qingrong to keep kicking him.