Arc 9Flight from Kunlun

Li Yichen rescued Bai Binger from Qin Ming’s formation and brought his companions through a series of underworld and earthly encounters. After taking Xiao Nan and Xiaobei under his protection, he reached a night market with Mo Yurou, where a lottery dispute drew Officer Wang’s attention.

  • Li Yichen opened a Netherworld Gate as Qin Ming’s formation engulfed Kunlun, then shielded Bai Binger and escaped with her while Qin Ming’s disciples reported them dead.
  • Meng Po welcomed Li Yichen’s group, gave them gifts, and accepted Xia as her disciple before Li Yichen departed with Bai Binger and Atamu.
  • Li Yichen caught Qin Ming after he fled, spared the Kunlun disciples at Bai Binger’s request, and forced them to swear silence before showing them the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
  • Li Yichen reunited with Mo Yurou, helped recover her stolen belongings, and met Xiao Nan and her brother Du Xiaobei, whom he persuaded to join them for cultivation and school in Jinling.
  • After locals falsely accused Du Xiaobei of stealing jade, Mo Yurou drove them off, and Li Yichen used his flames to transform and heal Xiao Nan before a SWAT team arrived and opened fire.
  • Mo Yurou revealed her Bureau 9 credentials, Xiao Nan healed the injured children, and Li Yichen’s group prepared to travel onward as the four families assembled their forces elsewhere.
  • At the night market, Li Yichen helped Mo Yurou win a 200,000-yuan scratch-card prize, but the shop owner hid the winning ticket and threatened him with a knife before Officer Wang recognized them.
Chapters 201–225 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 201A man's promise

Li Yichen opened a Netherworld Gate as Qin Ming’s Southern Bright Fire Formation unleashed a flaming Vermilion Bird. He saved Bai Binger from the fire and took her with him through the gate, while Qin Ming’s exhausted disciples assumed the pair had perished.

  • Li Yichen began opening a Netherworld Gate while Little Fairy struggled to hold back the formation’s flames.
  • Qin Ming completed the Southern Bright Fire Formation, and a flaming Vermilion Bird shattered Little Fairy’s ice barrier as Ouyang Hai, Atamu, and Xia escaped through the gate.
  • Bai Binger refused to leave the Sect, but after Little Fairy was knocked through the gate, she kissed Li Yichen and faced the advancing flames.
  • Li Yichen shielded Bai Binger with black-and-white flames, promised to protect her, and persuaded her to leave with him through the Netherworld Gate.
  • The formation burned for nearly a quarter of an hour before Kunlun’s disciples exhausted their spiritual power and the flames dissipated.
  • Qin Ming’s disciples found no trace of Li Yichen or Bai Binger, and Qin Ming told them to claim they had slain the demons before returning to the Secret Realm.

Ch. 202Meng Po's Residence

Li Yichen and Bai Binger arrived at Meng Po's Residence instead of Black and White Impermanence's mansion, where Meng Po welcomed them and reunited Li Yichen with Ouyang Hai and the others. Meng Po gave Ouyang Hai a dual cultivation manual that Cui Jue had left as collateral.

  • Li Yichen and Bai Binger appeared in an old-fashioned bedroom, and Meng Po arrived to greet them.
  • Meng Po took Bai Binger outside and revealed that she was the legendary Meng Po, thousands of years old.
  • Meng Po led Li Yichen through her courtyard, where he saw skeleton dogs, and then brought him to Ouyang Hai and the others.
  • Ouyang Hai asked whether Meng Po was Li Yichen's hidden mistress, then awkwardly called her Grandma Meng before she told him to call her Meng Po.
  • Meng Po gave Ouyang Hai a dual cultivation manual that Cui Jue had left with her as collateral.

Ch. 203Meng Po takes a disciple

Meng Po offered to take Xia as her disciple so Xia could cultivate in the underworld, earn merit, and eventually reincarnate. Li Yichen helped persuade Xia to stay, and the chapter ended with Bai Binger showing him the powerful gifts Meng Po had given her.

  • Meng Po gave Atamu a Jade Token to ward off evil ghosts and gave Little Fairy a piece of millennium cold marrow.
  • Meng Po asked Xia to become her disciple and explained that staying in the underworld could help Xia accumulate merit and return to the cycle of reincarnation.
  • Li Yichen persuaded Xia to stay with Meng Po, promised to visit her, and agreed to check on her parents.
  • Xia agreed to stay, and Meng Po promised Li Yichen that she would take good care of her.
  • Bai Binger showed Li Yichen the Autumn Water Sword and Seven-Colored Flowing Radiance that Meng Po had given her, and Li Yichen told her to accept them.

Ch. 204Going back for revenge

Li Yichen returned with Bai Binger to confront the Kunlun disciples who had tried to kill them and planned to label her a traitor. After Qin Ming abandoned his companions and fled, Li Yichen pursued him through a spatial rift and blocked his escape.

  • Li Yichen gave Balu to Meng Po so she could arrange for him to be reborn into a decent family, then left with Bai Binger and Atamu through a Spatial Gate.
  • Qin Ming told the Kunlun disciples to report that Bai Binger had betrayed the Sect and died in the flames.
  • Li Yichen and Bai Binger returned to the cavern, where Li Yichen mocked Qin Ming for twisting the truth.
  • Qin Ming used a talisman to flee and ordered the other Kunlun disciples to hold off Li Yichen; the disciples realized he had abandoned them and attacked.
  • Li Yichen engulfed the disciples in black flame, told Bai Binger and Little Fairy to watch them, and set off after Qin Ming.
  • Li Yichen emerged from a spatial rift in front of Qin Ming in the snowy mountains and blocked his escape.

Ch. 205Don't let it happen again

Li Yichen defeated Qin Ming and returned to the cavern, where Bai Binger had freed the exhausted Kunlun disciples from the black flames. He warned Bai Binger not to do it again, then threw the bound Qin Ming to the ground.

  • Qin Ming attacked Li Yichen with a blood-fueled secret sword, but Li Yichen swallowed its explosive strike in a spatial rift and bound him with Black Chains.
  • Senior Sister Liu begged Bai Binger to spare the Kunlun disciples, and Bai Binger used the Autumn Water Sword to extinguish the flames.
  • The Kunlun disciples’ barrier collapsed after the fire went out, leaving them exhausted but alive.
  • Li Yichen returned to the cavern, told Bai Binger not to let her mercy put them at risk again, and threw Qin Ming onto the ground.

Ch. 206No escaping punishment

Li Yichen spared the Kunlun disciples after Bai Binger pleaded for them, but he refused to let Qin Ming escape without punishment. Qin Ming survived, yet Li Yichen’s strike left him helpless and unable to speak.

  • Li Yichen agreed to spare the Kunlun disciples if Bai Binger called him “hubby,” and she did so to save them.
  • Li Yichen ordered the disciples to swear an oath before leaving, then refused Qin Ming’s plea for mercy.
  • Qin Ming begged Bai Binger to spare him, and Li Yichen struck him twice for calling her Binger.
  • Bai Binger pleaded for Qin Ming’s life and warned that the Sect would investigate his disappearance.
  • Qin Ming promised a blood oath, so Li Yichen spared his life but struck his spine, leaving him twitching and unable to speak.

Ch. 207Hell Descends

Li Yichen summoned a terrifying vision of the Eighteen Levels of Hell to frighten the Kunlun disciples after they swore not to reveal what happened or harm Bai Binger. The disciples watched Zhao Si undergo Tongue-Pulling Hell, and two fainted as his tongue was repeatedly torn out.

  • Li Yichen made the Kunlun disciples swear a binding oath to keep silent and never make an enemy of Bai Binger.
  • Li Yichen formed hand seals and used “Hell Descends” to transport the disciples into a realistic vision of the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
  • A judge sentenced Zhao Si to Tongue-Pulling Hell for spreading malicious gossip that destroyed Zhang San's family.
  • The fiend bound Zhao Si to a pillar, tore his tongue in half, and then ripped it out by the root after it regrew.
  • Two female Kunlun disciples fainted after witnessing Zhao Si's punishment.

Ch. 208A tour of hell

Li Yichen brought the Kunlun disciples on a tour of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, where the horrors left them terrified and unconscious. He ended the tour early and returned to the limestone cavern, satisfied that the disciples would think twice before opposing him again.

  • Lu Zhidao recognized Li Yichen and arranged for Jingxigui to guide him and the Kunlun disciples through the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
  • Jingxigui showed the group Scissors Hell, where a condemned employer had his fingers repeatedly cut off for abusing his workers.
  • Jingxigui led the group through the remaining levels, and the sights in Steamer Hell made the disciples vomit and Bai Binger faint in Li Yichen's arms.
  • Li Yichen ended the tour, rewarded Jingxigui with spirit money, and asked him to pass on a message to Lu Zhidao.
  • Back in the limestone cavern, Li Yichen watched the disciples wake in distress and thought they would no longer dare oppose him.

Ch. 209What are you looking at?

Li Yichen let Bai Binger’s Kunlun companions leave with a cover story, then brought her to a hotel, where Little Fairy interrupted their tender moment. Meanwhile, Mo Yurou’s dinner debt put her in danger when a group of men demanded she spend the night with them.

  • Senior Sister Liu told Li Yichen that the Kunlun group would claim Qin Ming had fallen off a cliff during a Demon Sect ambush, and Li Yichen let them go.
  • Li Yichen put the unconscious Ouyang Hai and Atamu into his Space Ring and took Bai Binger and Little Fairy to the city.
  • Bai Binger woke as Li Yichen tried to cover her with a blanket, and Little Fairy crashed through the hotel window and interrupted them.
  • Bai Binger thanked Li Yichen for sparing her senior brothers and sisters, while Little Fairy watched and complained about snacks.
  • Mo Yurou failed to reach Li Yichen to pay for her meal, and the restaurant’s men demanded that she spend a night with them in exchange for the food.

Ch. 210I've Got It So Bad

Mo Yurou escaped from men who tried to force her to accompany them, then blamed Li Yichen for her predicament. Two days later, Li Yichen and Bai Binger shared an intimate farewell in Kunlun Mountain before he headed back to Jinling and she stayed to care for her master.

  • Mo Yurou tricked the men by pretending Li Yichen had arrived, attacked them with hot soup, and escaped into an alley.
  • Mo Yurou hid from her pursuers and cried as she lamented losing her bag and being bullied because Li Yichen had not brought her along.
  • Two days later, Li Yichen chased Bai Binger across Kunlun Mountain, caught her using spatial magic, and asked her to return with him.
  • Bai Binger told Li Yichen she had to stay until her master's injuries healed, but promised to find him in Jinling afterward.
  • Li Yichen and Bai Binger spent the night together at a hot spring, and Bai Binger decided to join him once her master recovered.
  • The next morning, Bai Binger flew away on the Autumn Water Sword, and Li Yichen called after her to tell him if she became pregnant.

Ch. 211A miserable tale

Li Yichen reunited with Mo Yurou at a Hotan breakfast stall and learned she had gone hungry after traveling there alone and losing her belongings. He then remembered that Ouyang Hai and Atamu had been trapped in his Space Ring for three days, and rushed them to the stall for food.

  • Li Yichen met the filthy, starving Mo Yurou at a breakfast stall, and she recognized him and clung to him in relief.
  • Mo Yurou ate eagerly and explained that she had secretly traveled to Hotan, where her phone and bag were stolen after she fell asleep at an inn.
  • Li Yichen remembered that he had left Ouyang Hai and Atamu in his Space Ring for three days and found them barely breathing in an alley.
  • Li Yichen carried Ouyang Hai and Atamu to the stall, and Mo Yurou called for food when she learned they were starving.

Ch. 212The Heaven-Peering Mirror

After hearing Ouyang Hai recount their recent adventures, Mo Yurou asked Li Yichen to help find her missing wallet, phone, and ID card. Li Yichen used a Heaven-Peering Mirror to locate her bag, and they arrived at a dilapidated house where a young girl answered the door.

  • Ouyang Hai told Mo Yurou about their encounters with ghosts, Kunlun disciples, Meng Po, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
  • Mo Yurou said her wallet, phone, and ID card were missing, and Li Yichen agreed to help find them.
  • Li Yichen brought out the Heaven-Peering Mirror and had Mo Yurou use a drop of blood and her memories to reveal her bag.
  • Li Yichen adjusted the mirror's view and pinpointed the bag in a shabby room on the outskirts of the city.
  • Li Yichen and Mo Yurou reached a dilapidated house, where a young girl opened the door.

Ch. 213I Suggest You Be Kind

Mo Yurou and Li Yichen discovered that Xiao Nan had mistaken them for her brother’s creditors and offered them her savings. Mo Yurou promised to pay for Xiao Nan’s schooling, and the chapter ended when Xiao Nan’s brother rushed in with a jade stone and revealed a super speed ability.

  • Xiao Nan offered Mo Yurou and Li Yichen her savings so they would not trouble her brother over a debt.
  • Xiao Nan told Mo Yurou that her parents had died in a flood and that she had stopped attending school because the family lacked money.
  • Mo Yurou promised to cover Xiao Nan’s school fees and living expenses, and Li Yichen gave her money for Xiao Nan.
  • Xiao Nan’s brother returned with a piece of jade worth three hundred yuan, saw the broken piggy bank, and swiftly pulled Xiao Nan away.
  • Mo Yurou recognized that Xiao Nan’s brother had a super speed ability.

Ch. 214Healing Ability

Li Yichen and Mo Yurou discovered that Xiao Nan had a healing ability and was exhausting her life force whenever she healed her brother. Mo Yurou offered to take the siblings to Jinling to learn cultivation, and Li Yichen challenged the boy to a bet to persuade him to go.

  • The boy confronted Mo Yurou and Li Yichen, while Xiao Nan urged him to welcome them and treated the wound on his forehead with her healing ability.
  • Xiao Nan became dizzy after healing her brother, and Li Yichen realized that using her ability left her exhausted.
  • Li Yichen and Mo Yurou explained that Xiao Nan was burning through her life force and that cultivation could help her store energy.
  • Mo Yurou offered to take the siblings to Jinling for cultivation training and school, but the boy suspected a trick.
  • Li Yichen proposed a bet: if the boy lost, he would go with them to Jinling.

Ch. 215A Bet Is a Bet

Li Yichen bet a piece of Seed Jade against Du Xiaobei, then beat him in a race and revealed he had plenty more jade. Xiaobei jokingly staked his sister after challenging Li Yichen to produce ten pieces, and Li Yichen did so, leaving Xiaobei wailing that he had lost her in a bet.

  • Li Yichen offered Du Xiaobei a valuable piece of Seed Jade as a wager, and Xiaobei agreed to race him.
  • Du Xiaobei chose Li Yichen as his opponent, and Mo Yurou refereed the race to a distant dead tree.
  • Li Yichen gave Xiaobei a ten-second head start, caught him repeatedly, and carried him back before he reached the finish line.
  • Xiaobei offered the Seed Jade back, but Li Yichen let him keep it and produced a second piece.
  • Xiaobei challenged Li Yichen to produce ten pieces of Seed Jade and jokingly staked his sister, and Li Yichen laid out ten pieces before him.
  • Xiaobei wailed that he had lost his little sister in the bet.

Ch. 216A Walking Trouble Magnet

Li Yichen prepared to take Xiaobei back to Jinling, but Xiaobei's fight with local children drew their families into a confrontation over Li Yichen's Seed Jade. The group charged at them, leaving Li Yichen to deal with the trouble Xiaobei had stirred up.

  • Li Yichen told Xiaobei to pack so they could travel to Jinling, and Xiaobei said he would miss the friends he had made by fighting them.
  • More than twenty locals arrived with several injured children, and Xiaobei admitted he had beaten them after they refused to give him a piece of blue-and-white seed jade.
  • The adults noticed Li Yichen's Seed Jade and, with Panghu's mother's help, falsely accused Xiaobei of stealing more than ten pieces of Red Skin, White Flesh jade.
  • The leader demanded that Li Yichen hand over the stones, while Xiaobei refused and challenged the group to take them.
  • The locals charged, and Xiaobei hid behind Mo Yurou while calling on Li Yichen to handle the situation.

Ch. 217Let me touch it

Mo Yurou drove off Brother Hu’s gang with a pistol, while Li Yichen and the others prepared to leave for Jinling. After discovering that Xiao Nan needed about twelve hours to recover, Li Yichen said he had a way to leave without waiting for her to wake.

  • Mo Yurou fired at a rock to prove her pistol was real, forcing Brother Hu and his gang to retreat.
  • Mo Yurou promised Xiaobei a gun in Jinling, while Li Yichen declined her suggestion that he join her family’s Special Department.
  • Brother Hu decided to report Li Yichen and Mo Yurou to the criminal investigation unit, coaching the children to claim they had been robbed and beaten.
  • Xiaobei packed his belongings, but Li Yichen told him to leave them behind because they could not take them on the plane.
  • Li Yichen examined the sleeping Xiao Nan and explained that she would need about twelve hours to recover; when Mo Yurou asked whether they should wait, Li Yichen said he had a way to leave sooner.

Ch. 218Reporting to the Police

Brother Tiger and his companions reported Li Yichen and Mo Yurou for armed robbery, prompting Captain Liu to prepare an armed team. Meanwhile, Li Yichen tried to use a strange white flame to heal Xiao Nan, and he showed Xiaobei that it could restore life to a dead branch.

  • Brother Tiger brought his injured companions and children to the SWAT headquarters and told the officers that a man and woman had robbed them at gunpoint.
  • Captain Liu questioned Brother Tiger, confirmed the children's injuries, and ordered Team One to prepare to leave.
  • Li Yichen approached the sleeping Xiao Nan and formed a white flame in his palm.
  • Xiaobei blocked Li Yichen from using the flame near Xiao Nan until he could prove it was safe.
  • Mo Yurou brought back a dead poplar branch, and Li Yichen used the flame to make it turn green and sprout leaves.

Ch. 219The SWAT Team Arrives

Li Yichen used his life flame to heal Xiao Nan, whose inborn healing energy absorbed the flames and transformed her. The transformation ended with Xiao Nan floating in the air as a fairy-like figure, just as Xiaobei announced that the SWAT team had arrived.

  • Mo Yurou watched Li Yichen use his flame to treat Xiao Nan and noticed that Xiao Nan's body was absorbing it.
  • Li Yichen discovered that Xiao Nan's milky-white healing energy was merging with his flames and summoned more when her transformation began to falter.
  • Xiao Nan's White Lotus Mark formed as she grew taller, her hair lengthened, and her appearance changed dramatically.
  • Mo Yurou asked Li Yichen to use his flames to make her prettier, and he teased that they could enhance her breasts.
  • Xiaobei burst in and announced that the SWAT team had arrived, then mistook the transformed Xiao Nan for a fairy and asked where his sister was.

Ch. 220Too Arrogant

Xiao Nan awakened looking much older, while Li Yichen and Mo Yurou faced a SWAT team that had arrived after Brother Tiger reported them for armed robbery. After officers opened fire, Li Yichen stopped and removed the bullets, and Captain Liu discovered Mo Yurou’s Bureau 9 special-agent ID.

  • Xiao Nan came out of the white light, greeted Xiaobei, and noticed that her clothes no longer fit.
  • Li Yichen realized that the failed robbers had called the police, and he accompanied Mo Yurou outside to meet the arriving SWAT team.
  • Brother Tiger identified Li Yichen and Mo Yurou to Captain Liu, who ordered them to raise their hands and cooperate.
  • Mo Yurou tossed her ID wallet toward Captain Liu, but a sniper fired and the officers unleashed a barrage of gunfire.
  • Li Yichen pulled Mo Yurou into his arms and halted the bullets in midair before dropping them to the ground.
  • Captain Liu picked up Mo Yurou’s ID wallet and saw that she was a special agent with China’s Bureau 9.

Ch. 221A little suck-up

After Captain Liu learned Mo Yurou was a Bureau 9 agent, he accepted responsibility for the incident and prepared to arrest Brother Tiger and his group. Before leaving, Xiao Nan pleaded for the children’s families and healed Fat Tiger’s injuries, revealing another power.

  • Mo Yurou ordered Captain Liu to resign, and he agreed before directing his officers to take Brother Tiger and his group to the Police Station.
  • Xiaobei told Xiao Nan what had happened, and Xiao Nan worried that Fat Tiger and the others would be left without their parents.
  • Xiao Nan asked Mo Yurou to release them, but Li Yichen explained that wrongdoing had to be punished and promised the children would be cared for.
  • Xiao Nan approached Fat Tiger and touched his face, making his bruises disappear in front of the stunned onlookers.

Ch. 222So awkward

Xiao Nan healed the children, and Li Yichen, Mo Yurou, Xiaobei, and Xiao Nan reunited with Ouyang Hai before preparing to travel back to Jinling. The chapter ended with Jiang Tianhao asking Steward Zhao whether he had news of Li Yichen.

  • Xiao Nan healed the children completely, moving Brother Tiger and his men to swear they would change their ways.
  • Li Yichen carried Xiao Nan away with Mo Yurou and Xiaobei, while their extraordinary abilities astonished Captain Liu and the others.
  • Li Yichen and his companions met Ouyang Hai, and Xiaobei awkwardly tried to make him his godfather after Ouyang Hai admired Xiao Nan.
  • Ouyang Hai booked the group flights to Urumqi and Jinling, and Mo Yurou took Li Yichen shopping for clothes for Xiao Nan and Xiaobei.
  • Jiang Tianhao asked Steward Zhao whether he had heard anything about Li Yichen.

Ch. 223Out in full force

Jiang Tianhao prepared to eliminate the Su, Jiang, Qin, and Shen Families’ forces while plotting against Ouyang Hai’s family. As the allied groups set out, Elder Wang left the Detention Center with Li Yichen’s Stone Token, while Li Yichen and Mo Yurou followed Xiaobei into a night market.

  • Jiang Tianhao learned that the four families would assemble their forces that night and ordered Steward Zhao to watch Ouyang Hai’s wife and daughter.
  • Old Master Su chose Su Liang to lead the Su Family’s forces, overruled Su Shengnan’s objections, and had her confined as the troops departed.
  • The Jiang, Qin, and Shen Families also sent contingents out from their estates.
  • Elder Wang learned Li Yichen had not returned from Hotan, accepted the Stone Token from Jiang Ruoyi, and left for the gathering.
  • Xiaobei led Li Yichen and Mo Yurou to a night market by following the smell of food.

Ch. 224Scratch cards

Li Yichen and the others enjoyed food at Hotan’s night market, where two officers revealed that they believed he and Mo Yurou were connected to Bureau 9. At a scratch-card stall, Mo Yurou lost all her tickets and dared Li Yichen to choose one for her, while he spotted something surprising among the remaining cards.

  • Li Yichen took Xiaobei, Xiao Nan, and Mo Yurou around the night market, buying them grilled meat skewers.
  • Two officers discussed how Captain Liu had quit and said the young visitors had powerful backing through Bureau 9.
  • Mo Yurou persuaded Li Yichen to buy scratch cards, and she, Xiao Nan, and Xiaobei each scratched a booklet.
  • Xiaobei won eighty-five yuan while Mo Yurou won nothing and tearfully challenged Li Yichen to pick a ticket for her.
  • Li Yichen used his spiritual power to examine the remaining tickets and froze when he noticed one that looked unusually lucky.

Ch. 225Greed at the Sight of Money

Li Yichen and Mo Yurou won a 200,000-yuan lottery prize, but the shop owner tried to steal their ticket. Li Yichen confronted him as a crowd gathered, and Officer Wang rushed over after recognizing the pair from Bureau 9.

  • Li Yichen held Mo Yurou's hand as they scratched the lottery ticket, and she won the 200,000-yuan prize.
  • Mo Yurou gave the ticket to the shop owner, who hid it and claimed she had not won.
  • Li Yichen took Mo Yurou's side and embedded a corner of a ticket in the table as he demanded the real one back.
  • The shop owner refused, revealed a watermelon knife, and challenged Li Yichen.
  • A crowd gathered, and Officer Wang recognized Li Yichen and Mo Yurou before rushing over.
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