Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu planned to infiltrate the Mo Family and destroy a formation concealing a Death Spirit Master, while using the auction to draw Mo Lu away. At the auction, Dongfang Minghui lured Spirit Exorcists toward the hidden threat, and the Light-Soul Bells began ringing before the chapter ended.

• Qian Wanyu delayed setting the wedding date so Lance could witness it, and she and Dongfang Minghui learned that Bian Lingyun had been a remnant soul tied to the Heavenly Sound Helmet.
• Qian Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui, Qian Yiling, and Qian Ziyan planned to use Qian Yiling to distract Mo Lu while Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui broke the Mo Family's formation.
• Qian Yiling invited Mo Lu to the auction and told him that Qian Wanyu would marry a young woman, while Qian Ziyan helped Dongfang Minghui stage a chase to meet Situ Hao and the Spirit Exorcists.
• Dongfang Minghui claimed a Death Spirit Master was nearby, prompting Situ Hao to gather Spirit Exorcists in the Northern District and order them to watch for the Signal Flare.
• Dongfang Minghui warned Situ Hao that the Death Spirit Master was targeting her, and the Light-Soul Bells began ringing throughout the city.

Dongfang Minghui noticed that her own Light-Soul Bell had not rung because she had sealed it, while Situ Hao’s bell and the bells behind him rang. She realized a Death Spirit Master had appeared before Seventh Sister and Pig Immortal Grass finished breaking the formation.

• Dongfang Minghui saw that her sealed Light-Soul Bell had not rung.
• Situ Hao’s bell rang, followed by the bells of those behind him.
• Dongfang Minghui identified the presence of a Death Spirit Master.
• Dongfang Minghui worried that Seventh Sister and Pig Immortal Grass had not finished breaking the formation.

Qian Wanyu broke Mo Lu’s blood-sacrifice formation, accidentally unleashing a death seed that devastated Dream Capital, and later returned safely to the Thousand Family. Dongfang Minghui realized Meng Ruo Yu was targeting her, prompting Qian Wanyu to confront her for hiding the truth; the chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui following Little Light into Qian Zhuoyin’s courtyard as it dug beside the plants.

• Qian Wanyu entered Mo Lu’s sacrificial blood formation and found its formation eye while Qian Yiling and Qian Ziyan stalled Mo Lu.
• Qian Wanyu’s attack on the formation released a death seed, and Little Fatty rescued Situ Hao as death aura engulfed much of Dream Capital.
• Little Fatty brought Situ Hao to the Thousand Family, where Dongfang Minghui learned Qian Wanyu was still missing and worried over the casualties.
• Dongfang Minghui warned that death seeds might be hidden elsewhere, and Qian Wanyu later returned with Ding Ding and Pig Immortal Grass.
• Dongfang Minghui told Qian Wanyu that Meng Ruo Yu was seeking her because the Dream Family had betrayed the Longevity Clan; Qian Wanyu grew angry that she had concealed this.
• Dongfang Minghui followed Little Light into Qian Zhuoyin’s courtyard and found it digging beside the plants.

Little Lecher wondered whether the strange creature had sensed a Death Seed in the Thousand Family residence when Qian Zhuoyin approached. The chapter left the discovery unconfirmed.

• Little Lecher said the creature had found something, but it was not Toothless.
• Little Lecher wondered whether there was a Death Seed in the Thousand Family residence.
• Qian Zhuoyin came up behind them and asked what they were doing.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu investigated the strange withering in Qian Zhuoyin’s courtyard and uncovered a death-aura-tainted bone fragment. Qian Zhuoyin returned and claimed it was her sister’s leg bone, accusing Qian Wanyu of destroying her last keepsake.

• Qian Zhuoyin questioned Dongfang Minghui about the Thousand Family Back Mountain trial, and Dongfang Minghui admitted that she had killed Qian Zhuoqian.
• Qian Wanyu warned Dongfang Minghui not to visit Qian Zhuoyin alone and agreed to discuss the matter with the Old Madam.
• Situ Hao brought about a hundred people afflicted by death aura to the Thousand Family gate, but Dongfang Minghui initially said she could not treat them.
• Qian Wanyu suspected death seeds had been hidden in the Thousand Family Back Mountain and gained the Old Madam’s approval to investigate and evacuate the family if needed.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu searched Qian Zhuoyin’s courtyard with Little Light and found a bone fragment buried in a wooden box beneath the withered plants.
• Qian Zhuoyin returned, identified the fragment as Qian Zhuoqian’s leg bone, and accused Qian Wanyu of destroying her sister’s keepsake.

The speaker rejected the claim that the bone belonged to Qian Zhuoyin, recalling that Toothless's true fire had completely burned Qian Zhuoqian. The identity of the leg bone remained uncertain.

• She insisted that the leg bone could not have belonged to Qian Zhuoyin.
• She recalled seeing the Dragon Clan's true fire's power several times.
• She remembered that Toothless's true fire had burned Qian Zhuoqian until nothing remained.

Qian Zhuoyin was contaminated by a death-tainted bone, while Dongfang Minghui discovered a way to treat people afflicted by Death Aura and convinced the Potion Masters' Guild to help. When a second death seed erupted in North City, Qian Wanyu prepared to face the spreading Death Aura as the Spirit Exorcist Guild struggled to hold it back.

• Qian Zhuoyin grabbed a black bone buried in the courtyard, and its Death Aura began consuming her spiritual power until Qian Wanyu destroyed it and Dongfang Minghui treated her.
• Qian Wanyu questioned Qian Zhuoyin about the bone, and Qian Zhuoyin blamed her for Qian Zhuoqian's death before Old Madam confined her to her courtyard.
• Dongfang Minghui used the Heaven-Piercing Stalk's advice to devise a plan involving the Love Flower Seed and a Light-Type Healing Formation, then went to the Spirit Exorcist Guild to propose a joint effort with the Potion Masters' Guild.
• Situ Hao and Zhai Haofan helped Dongfang Minghui persuade the Potion Masters' Guild to open its doors, and the group treated people afflicted by Death Aura with her diluted potion and Light-Type Energy Barriers.
• A second death seed erupted over North City, and Qian Wanyu tried to send Dongfang Minghui back to the Thousand Family while the Spirit Exorcist Guild's exhausted members debated whether to retreat.

Qian Wanyu revealed herself as a powerful Death Spirit Master while helping contain the death aura erupting from the Mo Family, and Dongfang Minghui defended her against the Spirit Exorcist Guild. After the Thousand Family arrived and secured their protection, Mo Lu confronted Qian Wanyu over the destruction of his formation and estate, leaving their account unsettled.

• Qian Wanyu entered the death aura to help the exhausted light-type spirit masters, and the Radiant Sword arrived with Chu Lingge and reinforcements from the Moonwhite Empire.
• Dongfang Minghui defended Qian Wanyu against the Spirit Exorcist Guild, then injured Yin Cheng after he held her hostage; she agreed to save him in exchange for Chu Lingge honoring his debt involving the Radiant Sword.
• Qian Ziyan, Qian Yiling, and the Old Madam arrived, protected Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui, and forced the Spirit Exorcist Guild members to leave.
• Mo Lu confronted Qian Wanyu over her breaking his blood-sacrifice formation and the destruction of the Mo Family estate, while Qian Wanyu blamed the death seed beneath the formation.

Qian Wanyu asked Mo Lu to hear her out before getting angry at Ninth Sister. The chapter ended before she explained further.

• Mo Lu shifted his gaze to Ninth Sister.
• Qian Wanyu asked Mo Lu not to get angry yet.
• Qian Wanyu urged Mo Lu to hear her out first.

Qian Wanyu negotiated with Mo Lu and the Spirit Exorcist Guild over the spreading death aura while investigating Meng Ruo Yu’s connection to the Mo Family. Mo Lu identified Meng Ruo Yu as the person who planted the death seed, then attacked Qian Wanyu at the Thousand Family.

• Qian Wanyu promised to create a Blood-Sacrifice Formation within three months in exchange for Mo Lu leaving her and the Thousand Family alone, and Mo Lu followed her home.
• Qian Wanyu questioned Qian Yiling and Qian Ziyan about Meng Ruo Yu and learned that he had condemned Mo Chen’s cruel experiments on the Dream Family Seer.
• Zhai Haofan and the Spirit Exorcist Guild elders visited the Thousand Family, where Qian Wanyu offered to absorb the death aura and explained the Death Corps and death seeds.
• The Spirit Exorcist Guild debated Qian Wanyu’s proposal, but its members continued struggling to contain the spreading death aura, and Situ Hao left after refusing to lead the rescue teams.
• Mo Lu told Qian Wanyu that Meng Ruo Yu was the only person who could have planted the death seed, then suddenly attacked her.

Key events

• Someone notices a pair of hands mottled blue and purple, recognizes them as poisonous, and urgently warns the Seventh Sister to watch out.

Character developments

• No broader development is shown in this excerpt; the warning suggests the Seventh Sister may be in immediate danger.

Themes

• The moment introduces danger and suspense, with poison as a threat.

Character interactions

• An unidentified speaker warns the Seventh Sister after spotting the poisonous hands.
  Only a brief opening fragment was provided, so the chapter’s wider events and character relationships cannot be determined.

Qian Wanyu detonated the third death seed on the Thousand Family’s back mountain and used Dark-Type Spirit Masters to absorb its death aura, forcing the Spirit Exorcist Guild to reconsider cooperating with her. While Dongfang Minghui remained confined to the estate, a battered mercenary group arrived with information to sell her.

• Qian Wanyu exposed Mo Lu’s alliance with Meng Ruo Yu, and Mo Lu warned that he would target Dongfang Minghui if she left the Thousand Family’s protection.
• Qian Wanyu refused Situ Hao’s request for Dongfang Minghui to treat people outside the estate, then told Xuanzhu she planned to detonate the third death seed to force the Spirit Exorcist Guild’s hand.
• Qian Wanyu detonated the death seed on the Thousand Family back mountain and had Dark-Type Spirit Masters absorb its aura, despite Zhai Haofan and Chu Lingge’s attempt to intervene.
• Qian Wanyu agreed to cooperate with the Spirit Exorcist Guild only after warning that she would massacre anyone who broke their agreement, and then joined the effort to reduce the death aura around the Mo Residence.
• Dongfang Minghui stayed in the Thousand Family estate and received a battered mercenary group whose commission to find Merfolk Tears had failed; one member offered to sell her important information.

Dongfang Minghui traded medicine for news of the Merfolk, then revealed that one mercenary had been infected by living-dead merfolk venom and made his group choose between saving him and keeping a death-aura remedy. As death aura spread through Dream Capital City, Qian Wanyu confronted Mo Lu and the Spirit Exorcist Guild’s dispute over infected children, while Situ Hao learned that Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui were lovers and saw Yin Cheng mistreat a mother searching for her son.

• Dongfang Minghui exchanged a potion that suppressed death aura for the mercenaries’ report that the Merfolk were expanding their territory and cooperating with human assassins.
• Dongfang Minghui identified the injured mercenary as infected by living-dead merfolk venom and offered to cure him in exchange for the death-aura potion; the captain took the potion and left his comrade behind.
• Cai Qing asked Dongfang Minghui whether she had truly been unable to save the mercenary, and Dongfang Minghui explained that she could not save everyone and told her a story about faith.
• Situ Hao and Chu Lingge heard the Spirit Exorcist Guild debate whether to kill or cripple children who had awakened dark-type spiritual power after death-aura exposure.
• Qian Wanyu forced hidden Light-Type Spirit Masters into the open, warned Situ Hao not to interfere, and dismissed him and Chu Lingge after they asked how to handle the children.
• Chu Lingge told Situ Hao that Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui were lovers, and Situ Hao later watched Yin Cheng shove away a mother searching for her son, Ye Shu.

Situ Hao could no longer tolerate Yin Cheng insulting a child born with death aura, and Chu Lingge also wanted to punch him.

• Yin Cheng said only filthy people could give birth to a child born with death aura.
• Situ Hao called out Yin Cheng in anger.
• Chu Lingge, standing nearby, also wanted to punch Yin Cheng.

Qian Wanyu forced the Spirit Exorcist Guild to release sixteen children with dark-type spiritual power, then fought Meng Ruo Yu when he appeared and was struck by Chu Lingge’s Radiant Sword. After Meng Ruo Yu’s apparent death, a living skeleton attacked the guild members, and Qian Wanyu returned to investigate the Radiant Sword’s renewed power.

• Qian Wanyu arrived at the Spirit Exorcist Guild, demanded the dark-type children, and threatened Yin Cheng until Zhai Haofan agreed to hand them over.
• The guild brought out sixteen children, including Ye Shu, while Qian Wanyu prepared to exchange them for Yin Cheng.
• Meng Ruo Yu appeared, and Qian Wanyu and Chu Lingge attacked him; the Radiant Sword cleaved him apart, while its sword qi wounded Qian Wanyu.
• A living skeleton formed from Meng Ruo Yu’s remains, drained several Light-Type Spirit Masters, and killed Yin Cheng as Chu Lingge asked Zhai Haofan to help him use the Radiant Sword again.
• Dongfang Minghui urged Qian Wanyu to stay home, but Qian Wanyu left the Thousand Family to investigate the Radiant Sword’s power and saw the skeleton attack another Light-Type Spirit Master.

Qian Wanyu arrived as Meng Ruo Yu drained a Light-Type Spirit Master of her life force, leaving only a skeleton. Meng Ruo Yu discarded the remains and walked toward Qian Wanyu.

• Meng Ruo Yu drained the Light-Type Spirit Master's life force until she became a skeleton.
• Meng Ruo Yu tossed the skeleton onto the ground.
• Meng Ruo Yu sensed Qian Wanyu's arrival and walked toward her.

Qian Wanyu trapped Meng Ruo Yu in a formation and destroyed his skeleton by absorbing the black substance clinging to his bones, but the substance resisted her attempts to refine it and caused her severe pain. Meanwhile, Dongfang Minghui grew suspicious that Qian Zhuoyin had been possessed after she showed a striking change in personality and hinted that the identity of the person who gave her a leg bone was a secret.

• Qian Wanyu used illusions and a formation to fight Meng Ruo Yu, while Qian Ziyan drew his attention and the others prepared the formation with Fire-Type and Light-Type Spirit Masters.
• Dongfang Minghui sent Situ Hao back with Cai Qing and twenty Fire-Type Spirit Masters, and Qian Wanyu entered the formation as its heart while Ding Ding tried to lure Meng Ruo Yu inside.
• Ding Ding broke Meng Ruo Yu's skeleton apart, and Chu Lingge, Situ Hao, and the Spirit Exorcists gathered their Light-Type spiritual power to attack the exposed half.
• Qian Zhuoyin visited Dongfang Minghui, could not remember whether she had used a potion, and called the identity of the person who gave her a leg bone a secret.
• Qian Wanyu recreated the ice cavern inside the formation, blasted Meng Ruo Yu apart, absorbed the black substance from his bones, and let the Light-Type Energy Barrier purify the remains.
• Qian Wanyu tried to refine the black substance attached to her own bones, but her dark-type spiritual power triggered unbearable pain.

The speaker realized the black things were unaffected and suspected Meng Ruo Yu had tricked them. Qing Mo asked what was wrong.

• The speaker noticed beads of sweat rolling down their forehead.
• The speaker saw that the black things remained unaffected.
• The speaker suspected they had fallen for Meng Ruo Yu's trick.
• Qing Mo asked in confusion what had happened.

Qian Wanyu returned after destroying Meng Ruo Yu and brought sixteen children with awakened dark-type spiritual power back to the Thousand Family, while Dongfang Minghui investigated Qian Zhuoyin’s strange behavior. Qian Zhuoyin revealed that Dongfang Minghui was her target and attacked her, but Dongfang Minghui escaped with Ding Ding as Qian Zhuoyin turned on the planted spirit medicine.

• Qian Wanyu left the formation, declared Meng Ruo Yu gone, and returned to the Thousand Family, where she reassured Qian Yiling and Lance.
• Ding Ding reunited with Dongfang Minghui, and Qian Wanyu brought sixteen dark-type children from the Spirit Exorcist Guild; five left while the others stayed at the Thousand Family.
• Qian Wanyu began teaching the eleven remaining children to release dark-type spiritual power, while Dongfang Minghui told her about Qian Zhuoyin’s suspicious interest in her spirit medicine.
• Dongfang Minghui planted disguised Love Flower Seeds to draw Qian Zhuoyin out, and Qian Zhuoyin arrived at the herb garden after Qian Wanyu pretended to leave.
• Qian Zhuoyin revealed that Dongfang Minghui was her target and attacked her with ice spiritual power, but Ding Ding smashed through the ice so they could escape.
• Qian Zhuoyin returned to the herb garden and spread ice over the spirit medicine, forcing Little Lecher to emerge from the soil.

Qian Wanyu caught Zhuo Yin in a golden net as she tried to flee. Dongfang Minghui recognized the net as nearly identical to the Golden Silk Net.

• Zhuo Yin sensed danger and turned to run outside.
• Qian Wanyu dropped a glittering golden net over Zhuo Yin from her hiding place atop the wall.
• Qian Wanyu accused Qian Zhuoyin of revealing her true nature.
• Dongfang Minghui eyed the net covetously, noting its resemblance to the Golden Silk Net.