Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin learned that Wenren Yue, a Bixi demon, had come to the cave seeking the Heavenly Oracle Glazed Flower. After Wenren Yue revealed a route out of the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] and plotted to report them to the Demon King, Zhang Yuan killed him.

• Wenren Yue mistook Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin for the cave’s former occupants, then recognized Xie Jingxin as the Sword Saint and feared they had killed the Flood Dragon, He Chuan.
• Zhang Yuan subdued Wenren Yue and learned that the cave had belonged to He Chuan, while the White Tiger Wu Yan was suspected of taking the Heavenly Oracle Glazed Flower.
• Zhang Yuan asked Wenren Yue how to leave the palace, and Wenren Yue revealed that a spatial rift lay fifteen hundred li east of the tree hollow.
• Wenren Yue secretly planned to report Xie Jingxin to the Demon King for a bounty, but Zhang Yuan saw through his scheme and said he would kill him.
• Zhang Yuan beheaded Wenren Yue, who died threatening that the Demon King would seek revenge.

After Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin killed Wenren Yue and He Chuan, [Returning God] pursued them and shattered their Golden Carriage. They landed by the river and prepared to fight him, with Xie Jingxin confident she could kill him again.

• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin killed Wenren Yue and He Chuan, then Zhang Yuan delivered their souls and learned how to reach the other Demon King Palaces.
• [Returning God] emerged from the river to avenge his subordinates, so Zhang Yuan summoned the Golden Carriage and fled with Xie Jingxin.
• [Returning God] caught up and cleaved the Golden Carriage apart with his three-pronged Long Halberd.
• Zhang Yuan struck [Returning God] with primordial heavy water, but the Ghost Deity quickly recovered and attacked again.
• Xie Jingxin blocked [Returning God]'s halberd, but he shattered the carriage and sent them falling toward the river.
• Xie Jingxin caught Zhang Yuan and landed safely with him on a rock, then told him she had killed [Returning God] before and could do so again.