Chapter Summaries

Mother Tong discovered a DNA report indicating that Qian Le Le was Tong Yao’s child and accepted Qian Wanyu and Tong Yao’s relationship after Qian Wanyu privately explained their history. Tong Yao signed a publishing contract with Situ Xu, while Qian Wanyu left Zhang Yanqing’s entertainment proposal unresolved; the chapter ended with Qian Wanyu pulling Tong Yao into the shower.

• Mother Tong confronted Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu with a DNA report showing a 99.99% probability that Qian Le Le was Tong Yao’s child, and Qian Wanyu privately reassured her about her love for Tong Yao.
• Mother Tong apologized for meddling, accepted their relationship, and invited Qian Wanyu, Tong Yao, and Le Le to stay with her after renovations.
• Photos of Tong Yao, Qian Wanyu, and Le Le went viral and boosted the café’s business, while Zhang Yanqing visited to propose filming there and praised Tong Yao’s drawings.
• Situ Xu arrived to negotiate publication of Tong Yao’s comics, and Tong Yao signed Gu Zheng’s contract after Qian Le Le showed she could remove her socks and stand on the sofa.
• Qian Wanyu suspected Zhang Yanqing’s café proposal was an attempt to recruit her into entertainment, agreed to attend dinner with Situ Xu alongside Tong Yao, and later pulled Tong Yao into the bathroom while showering.

Qian Wanyu invited Ninth Sister to bathe with her and admitted she had a gift for her. She recalled watching Ninth Sister in the mirror, which stirred her desire.

• Qian Wanyu looked at her soaked clothes and thought Seventh Sister had become naughtier.
• Qian Wanyu suggested that she and Ninth Sister bathe together.
• Qian Wanyu remembered watching Ninth Sister in the mirror and told her she had a gift for her.

Dongfang Minghui secretly followed the elusive consciousness Qian Wanyu had been searching for and helped uncover an underground passage beneath the Cass Tribe. She and Qian Wanyu followed a war song through the passage and reached an underground chamber, where the singing grew louder.

• Qian Wanyu searched the Cass Tribe for the hidden consciousness while Dongfang Minghui treated a beastchild and went fishing with her.
• Dongfang Minghui secretly followed Qian Wanyu's search, overheard Karu and Cass discussing someone who would never return, and tracked the elusive consciousness to the mountain boundary.
• Qian Wanyu found a concealed opening beneath the stream, and Dongfang Minghui learned from a tree that an old passage connected the mountains.
• Dongfang Minghui persuaded Qian Wanyu to take her through the underwater passage, with Little Lecher's help getting her through the water.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui passed piles of decomposed bodies and heard a war song whose power stirred their spiritual energy.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui followed the singing into a spacious underground chamber as the song grew louder.

Qian Wanyu broke through the wall blocking the secret chamber after hearing a strange song, and Dongfang Minghui saw a pair of whitish eyes through the hole.

• A demonic-sounding song and the rattle of chains came from behind a wall in the secret chamber.
• Qian Wanyu retreated to a safe distance and drew the Water-Thunder Whip.
• Qian Wanyu summoned Heavenly Thunder and blasted a hole through the stone door with the whip.
• The singing stopped, and Dongfang Minghui crouched to peer through the hole.
• Dongfang Minghui looked up and saw a pair of whitish eyes.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu explored a torture chamber, uncovered clues about a chained beastman and Karu’s family, and traveled with the Cass Tribe to the winter trading market. The chapter ended when Qian Wanyu drove off a beastman who tried to claim Minghui as a slave.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found a chained beastman in a torture chamber, where Minghui discovered poisons resembling the one in Qian Ziyan’s body and Qian Wanyu recognized the restraints as the Nine-Ring Chain.
• Dongfang Minghui suspected Karu or Cass might be connected to Qian Ying’s missing descendant, and Karu later revealed that the frozen beastman in the ice cellar was his father.
• Karu told Dongfang Minghui how he and Cass had overthrown Kata and founded the Cass Tribe, then arranged for Galen to help her find medicinal herbs.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui joined Karu’s group on the journey to the winter trading market, where Qian Wanyu continued studying the Nine-Ring Chain’s formations.
• At the market, a beastman tried to buy Dongfang Minghui as a slave, and Qian Wanyu struck him with her whip before a guard patrol member stopped the fight.

A man who had been stopped by the guards spoke with an accomplice about a plan to target the Cass Tribe and create conflict with the guards. The accomplice blamed Leon for interfering, and the man proposed how to carry out the plan.

• The man checked that no one was following before speaking quietly to someone waiting at a corner.
• He said the guards had arrived too quickly to stop him.
• The other person complained that Leon interfered in too many things.
• The man proposed killing people from the Cass Tribe and stirring up hostility between them and the guards.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu watched the Beast Tribe’s brutal arena fights before Saya was accused of killing guard Leon, whom Dongfang Minghui saved. After Qian Wanyu uncovered evidence that someone had engineered the shooting, Leon woke and was released; the chapter ended with him studying Dongfang Minghui’s drawing of the disguised culprit.

• Karu led Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu to the Combat Arena, where they saw humans forced to fight magic beasts for the Beast Tribe’s amusement.
• Little Lecher stopped a beastfolk from stealing Lü Xing, then the group learned that a scuffle at their tent had left guard Leon with an arrow in his chest and Saya under arrest.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Leon while Qian Wanyu questioned witnesses and learned that a disguised man had shoved Saya, causing the arrow to fire.
• Dongfang Minghui revived Leon, who agreed to hear Karu’s account, and Barry released Saya and took the troublemakers away.
• Dongfang Minghui drew the disguised attacker from Lien’s description, and Leon studied the portrait to see if he recognized the culprit.

Leon recognized the man, though Karu could not remember him, and Karu asked where they might have met.

• Karu asked Leon to think carefully about where he might have seen the man before.
• Leon said he knew who the man was.
• Karu asked Leon who he was.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui rescued Wei Junlan and Xuanzhu from the Combat Arena, whose hidden master belonged to the Azure Mist Sect. They reunited with Karu in a Dwarffolk hut, where Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan remained unwilling to explain what had happened to them.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui confirmed that Norbert was staying with the Tuxia Tribe, then Dongfang Minghui enlisted Karu in a plan that sparked a fight between the Tuxia Tribe and the Erjia Tribe.
• Lien found a bloodstained Nine Palace Diagram carrying Wei Junlan's request for help, and Karu revealed the location of the Combat Arena's real base.
• Qian Wanyu entered the base through a well and found Wei Junlan, while Little Minghui and Karu joined the rescue and helped free Xuanzhu and the transformed prisoners.
• Qian Wanyu fought a Spirit King from the Azure Mist Sect as Little Minghui led the others through the well and escaped with Karu's help.
• Karu hid the group in a hut in Dwarffolk territory, where Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui reunited with Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan, who refused to explain what had happened.

Dongfang Minghui found Wei Junlan distressed and asked what had happened to him. The chapter ended before he answered.

• The others said they would go outside and give Dongfang Minghui and Wei Junlan time to talk.
• Dongfang Minghui got off the stool and crouched in front of Wei Junlan.
• Dongfang Minghui cupped Wei Junlan’s face and asked what had happened to him.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu reunited with Wei Junlan, who was suffering increasingly dangerous transformations after being forced to drink Merfolk blood. As they investigated the threat behind the Combat Arena and considered how to protect the Beast Tribe from a human war, Minghui tried using her own blood to save Wei Junlan but promised Qian Wanyu she would not harm herself again. The chapter ended with Minghui asking Little Lecher why her blood could not save him.

• Wei Junlan tore at his scales and battered himself during a transformation until Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu restrained him, and Xuanzhu explained that captors had forced a blue potion on him.
• Wei Junlan told Dongfang Minghui that he had pursued Xian into Beast Tribe territory, where she planned to provoke a war between humans and the Beast Tribe; Qian Wanyu suspected the Azure Mist Sect was involved in the wider conspiracy.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui explored the Dwarffolk market, traded healing pills for a flute containing a formation, and discussed their feelings for each other.
• Wei Junlan and Qian Wanyu discussed building ties with Cass to counter attempts to incite conflict, while Dongfang Minghui explained that she needed to find the Elf Clan to save Lü Xing.
• Love Flower and Qing Mo warned that Merfolk blood was killing Wei Junlan, and Xuanzhu revealed that he had suffered the transformations in her place.
• Dongfang Minghui mixed her blood with Wei Junlan's, but Qian Wanyu stopped her and made her promise not to hurt herself again; Minghui then asked Little Lecher why her blood could not save him.

Dongfang Minghui learned that saving Wei Junlan might require exchanging one life for another, then killed a beastman who attacked her and was taken to the Guard Team's headquarters. Karu arrived to bring her back, but she refused to leave the room where she was studying Wei Junlan's blood.

• Qian Wanyu arranged for the Dwarffolk to forge weapons for the Cass Tribe in exchange for Dongfang Minghui brewing healing potions.
• Little Lecher told Dongfang Minghui that Wei Junlan could only be saved by exchanging one life for another, while Wei Junlan revealed that he knew he was dying and asked her to look after Wei Junyi.
• Wei Junlan underwent another beast transformation and nearly strangled Xuanzhu before Qian Wanyu subdued him; he had reached the peak of ninth-level Spirit Warrior.
• Dongfang Minghui wandered alone through the Trading Market, killed a beastman who attacked her, and Barry took her to the Guard Team's headquarters.
• Karu and Leon came to retrieve Dongfang Minghui, but she refused to leave because she wanted to continue studying Wei Junlan's blood.

Barry and the others tried to persuade the Little Witch to stay with the guard unit, but she threatened to kill Barry. Barry demanded to know what had gotten into her.

• Barry and the others tried to convince the Little Witch to stay with the guard unit.
• The Little Witch threatened to kill Barry.
• Barry asked what had gotten into her.

Dongfang Minghui stopped blaming herself for Wei Junlan’s condition and began investigating his mixed blood and beast transformations, while Qian Wanyu supported her and revealed their relationship to Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan. The chapter left them with a possible source of help: Karu suggested Master Larkin, a solitary man who hated humans.

• Leon explained that Brewer had tried to abduct the Little Witch, clearing her of the accusation that she killed him, and Karu went to retrieve her.
• Qian Wanyu rejected the idea of sacrificing herself to save Wei Junlan and urged Dongfang Minghui to start over by treating him as an ordinary patient; Dongfang Minghui then questioned Wei Junlan and learned he had been forced to drink red and blue blood.
• Qian Wanyu confessed that Dongfang Minghui was the love of her life and kissed her in front of Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan, shocking them both.
• Dongfang Minghui examined Wei Junlan’s blood and began refining pills, while Qian Wanyu and Xuanzhu recorded his increasingly strong beast transformation; Karu identified features resembling the eagle clan and Merfolk.
• Karu told Qian Wanyu that Master Larkin might know how to ease Wei Junlan’s transformations, but warned that the man hated humans.

Summary

Kalu gives Qian Wanyu a full account of what he knows about Master Lajin. Afterward, uneasy about what he has told her, he suggests they look for another way forward.

Character developments and interactions

• Kalu shares his knowledge openly but appears worried about the situation and doubts their current approach.
• Qian Wanyu listens to Kalu’s account; no response from her is shown in this excerpt.

Themes

The passage hints at uncertainty and caution: learning more about Master Lajin has not necessarily made the path ahead clearer.

Qian Wanyu sought help for Wei Junlan from Priest Larkin, a mysterious healer who hated humans, while trading with the Dwarffolk for weapons and iron chains. The chapter ended with Larkin chasing Wei Junlan and Xuanzhu as they struggled to escape.

• Qian Wanyu visited the Trading Market’s hidden courtyard with Dongfang Minghui and asked its masked host for information about the Combat Arena’s operators and bases.
• Qian Wanyu tested Priest Larkin’s temper and discovered that he was a powerful Earth-Type Spirit Master who attacked humans.
• Dongfang Minghui completed the pills for the Dwarffolk, and Kurt recognized her helmet as part of the legendary Heavenly Sound Armor.
• Qian Wanyu traded Hemostatic Pills with Kurt for medicinal herbs and arranged to obtain special iron chains from the Dwarffolk.
• Qian Wanyu brought Wei Junlan and Xuanzhu to Priest Larkin, who flew into a rage and chased them with a knife.

She shoved Wei Junlan away and tried to stop Larkin with a cloud of black smoke. The smoke failed against him, and she realized he was a Dark-Type Spirit Master.

• She shoved Wei Junlan away and told him to go while she held Larkin off.
• Larkin raised his machete as Xuanzhu turned and hurled black smoke at him.
• The smoke failed to knock Larkin unconscious, and Xuanzhu identified him as a Dark-Type Spirit Master.

Dongfang Minghui sought Priest Larkin’s knowledge of Beast-Shifters and discovered he could remove the Black Herb from her skin, while Xuanzhu stayed with him to learn medicine. She then accepted a trade with the Guard Team’s mysterious lord to treat its unconscious captain, whose injuries resembled those caused by a Death Spirit Master, and Qian Wanyu caught her considering drawing her own blood.

• Larkin seized Xuanzhu, but Qian Wanyu intervened and knocked Wei Junlan unconscious when his transformation threatened to turn berserk.
• Xuanzhu chose to stay with Larkin, while Dongfang Minghui visited him and learned that he could remove Black Herb from her arm.
• Dongfang Minghui met the Guard Team’s lord and agreed to treat its unconscious captain in exchange for transaction information.
• Dongfang Minghui diagnosed the captain with severe internal injuries and a black palm print, then began treating her with medicinal baths and herbs.
• Qian Wanyu arrived and took the Finger Blades from Dongfang Minghui after catching her considering drawing her own blood.

Qian Wanyu found herself speechless after hearing why the patient still needed a medicinal herb and seeing the person on the bed.

• The speaker told Seventh Sister that the patient still needed one medicinal herb.
• The speaker said they had wanted to return sooner to see Seventh Sister.
• Qian Wanyu looked at the person on the bed and fell silent.

Dongfang Minghui sought a mature child immortal body to save Aunt Mo and joined Qian Wanyu’s group at Luno Swamp, where they fought Death Spirit Masters who were capturing the Spirit Medicines. After the group freed the child immortal bodies, Little Radish led Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu underground to meet Grandpa Mulberry Leaf.

• Qian Wanyu learned that Aunt Mo was gravely injured, while Dongfang Minghui explained that a child immortal body could restore her damaged organs and refused to use her own blood as a substitute.
• Leon brought back a sentient child immortal body, but Dongfang Minghui decided it was too young to save Aunt Mo and received permission from the masked lord to search for a mature one.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu traveled with Zhi Lan, Leon, Wei Junlan, and their companions to Luno Swamp, where Little Radish agreed to guide them to its ancestor.
• The group discovered black-clad Death Spirit Masters trapping child immortal bodies, and Qian Wanyu broke their formation while Dongfang Minghui and her Spirit Pets fought the attackers.
• Dongfang Minghui released the captured Spirit Medicines and asked Little Radish to find its ancestor, then she and Qian Wanyu followed a branch down into a fissure to meet Grandpa Mulberry Leaf.