Chapter Summaries

Qian Wanyu recruited the Dark Elf Mo Han to lead her group toward a gathering place of Death Spirit Masters, while Jian Tongyao learned how Qian had controlled the elves and why Mo Han resisted her restrictions. After seven days of attacks and losses, they reached the Purple Demon Mountains, where a tree began telling them what had recently happened there.

• A Dark Elf broke free of Qian Wanyu’s restriction and attacked, so she used Soul Search on him and ordered the other elves to bring him along.
• The elf awoke, agreed to follow Qian Wanyu, and revealed his name was Mo Han; she told him to lead them to a gathering place of Death Spirit Masters.
• Qian Wanyu explained to Jian Tongyao that the black worms were secondary worms used as a medium for her restrictions, and that Mo Han had likely overcome hers because of a prior soul-sea restriction or strong mental power.
• Over seven days, several groups attacked the elves, leaving fewer than nine survivors and killing the two puppet elves.
• The group entered the Purple Demon Mountains, where Little Lecher recognized the forest and a large tree began recounting recent events there.

Qian Wanyu took Jian Tongyao back to the cave where their relationship began, and the two reminisced before returning to camp. There, a Lightning Mouse appeared to steal roast meat, and Qian Wanyu suggested asking it to help them.

• Qian Wanyu led Jian Tongyao to their old cave in the Purple Demon Mountains, where they recalled their past and kissed.
• Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao returned to camp, where Ding Ding had caught several magic beasts for roasting.
• A Lightning Mouse darted in and stole the cooked meat while Ding Ding fought it for the food.
• Jian Tongyao recognized the Lightning Mouse and remembered that it had once given her eggs when birds chased her.
• Qian Wanyu told Jian Tongyao to ask the Lightning Mouse to do something for them instead of demanding payment.

Qian Wanyu battled the Guardian of the Purple Demon Mountains, then persuaded the Beast Master to return to sleep. Afterward, the Lightning Mouse arrived, apparently seeking a reward for the task Qian Wanyu had given it.

• Jian Tongyao worried that the Lightning Mouse had misunderstood Qian Wanyu's instructions, but Qian Wanyu insisted it would return.
• Qian Wanyu sensed the Guardian of the Purple Demon Mountains approaching and sent Jian Tongyao away with Ding Ding as a stampede swept through the mountains.
• Qian Wanyu fought the Guardian for three days while Jian Tongyao, Little Lecher, Ding Ding, and the dark elves waited at a distance.
• Qian Wanyu aimed her Reincarnation Bow at the Beast Master of the Purple Demon Mountains and convinced him to go back to sleep.
• The Lightning Mouse appeared before Jian Tongyao and beckoned, seemingly asking for its reward.

Jian Tongyao reunited with Toothless and Little White Ball while investigating the living dead magic beasts and sent them to help Qian Wanyu. She began cultivating in a lake, where Ding Ding captured a huge water-type magic beast, but it then went berserk with the Longevity Cauldron and toppled trees around the lake.

• Jian Tongyao and Little Lecher found signs of deliberate burnings and living dead magic beasts, then tracked Toothless and Little White Ball to a river channel.
• Toothless and Little White Ball burned the living dead magic beasts with true fire, and Jian Tongyao reunited with them and warned that their flames were drying up the Purple Demon Mountains' water sources.
• Jian Tongyao sent Toothless and Little White Ball to find Qian Wanyu and help gather the living dead magic beasts, while she went to find water and cultivate.
• At a lake, Ding Ding caught fish while Jian Tongyao cultivated, then discovered an enormous water-type magic beast and moved it into the Longevity Cauldron.
• Ding Ding began tumbling uncontrollably with the Longevity Cauldron, knocking down trees as Little Lecher failed to restrain it.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu escaped a powerful water-element beast after Ding Ding accidentally trapped it in the Longevity Cauldron. They found a private cave and resumed their dual cultivation, leaving Ding Ding behind with a cave full of fish.

• Jian Tongyao found Ding Ding buried upside down in the ground, and Little Lecher explained that Ding Ding had trapped a powerful beast in the Longevity Cauldron.
• Qian Wanyu freed the beast, which flooded the mountains, and she, Jian Tongyao, and Ding Ding fled back to their cave.
• Qian Wanyu warned Jian Tongyao that the beast was one of the Purple Demon Mountain Lords and told her not to provoke it again.
• Ding Ding dumped a heap of fish into the cave, so Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu left to find another place for dual cultivation.
• In a nearby cave, Jian Tongyao kissed Qian Wanyu, and the two began cultivating together as Qian Wanyu sent spiritual power into her body.

Jian Tongyao trained against magic beasts in the Purple Demon Mountains to strengthen her foundation after advancing rapidly through dual cultivation with Qian Wanyu. After the group left for the Golden Star Empire, they found townspeople fleeing from the nine dark elves, and Qian Wanyu later slipped away with the others at midnight while Jian Tongyao waited.

• Jian Tongyao discovered she had advanced to late-stage Spirit Warrior after dual cultivating with Qian Wanyu and decided to temper herself through battle.
• Jian Tongyao lured magic beasts with grilled meat and fought them repeatedly, suffering serious wounds as she trained over the next three months.
• Qian Wanyu arrived and announced it was time to leave the Purple Demon Mountains; she urged Ding Ding to cultivate so it could stay with Jian Tongyao.
• After Jian Tongyao awoke from three days of enlightenment, she reunited with the nine dark elves and departed with the group for the Golden Star Empire.
• Townspeople fled when the group entered a town, so Qian Wanyu had the dark elves conceal their wings and change into ordinary clothes.
• At midnight, Jian Tongyao discovered Qian Wanyu and the others had quietly gone out, while Little Lecher told her to wait for their return.

Qian Wanyu returned with Wenren Liangzhi under her control and led the group to Snow Capital City, where they settled into an inn as danger seemed to gather around them. Jian Tongyao asked to inspect the thousand-thread silk, but Qian Wanyu turned the moment into an intimate encounter.

• Qian Wanyu returned at dawn with Mo Han, the dark elves, and Wenren Liangzhi, whom she controlled with refined thousand-thread silk.
• Jian Tongyao worried that Wenren Liangzhi might escape Qian Wanyu's control, and Qian Wanyu explained that he was a pawn of Sheng Wenze.
• The group reached Snow Capital City, took rooms in a shabby courtyard, and assigned Wenren Liangzhi to share with Little White Ball.
• Toothless and Little Lecher argued and fought over their room assignments before Jian Tongyao sent everyone to patrol because the night would not be peaceful.
• Jian Tongyao pulled Qian Wanyu into their room to examine the thousand-thread silk, but Qian Wanyu undid her belt and teased her about dual cultivation.

Qian Wanyu investigated Sheng Wenze’s hidden lair in Snow Capital City and discovered it was connected to the Royal Academy. She ordered Wenren Liangzhi to gather the people planted there while Jian Tongyao went to seek out Situ Hongying.

• Qian Wanyu comforted Jian Tongyao as Mo Han and the others fought off probing mercenaries through the night.
• Qian Wanyu took Wenren Liangzhi to locate Sheng Wenze’s lair, leaving Toothless, Little White Ball, and the others behind.
• Wenren Liangzhi led Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao through a hidden passage from North Street into a room inside the Royal Academy’s Ice Hall.
• Qian Wanyu ordered Wenren Liangzhi to summon the Academy’s planted people individually over the next three to five days.
• Qian Wanyu sent Jian Tongyao to visit Situ Hongying, and Ding Ding agreed to protect her.

Jian Tongyao returned to the Royal Academy, reunited with Blue Star Dream, and learned that Situ Hongying had become a living dead after testing a potion on himself. She began treating him but told Bai Rou that she would focus on cultivating and staying with Seventh Sister rather than carrying the burden of saving everyone.

• Jian Tongyao used a potion master's robe to pass the patrol and returned to her courtyard, where she reunited with Blue Star Dream and the spirit plants.
• The medicine attendant mistook Jian Tongyao for a spy and summoned patrol squads; Ding Ding took their weapons and captured the guards in the Longevity Cauldron.
• Jian Tongyao met Yong Xing, Situ Hao, and Bai Rou, then learned that Situ Hongying had tested her potion on himself and lost his mind to the living-dead poison.
• Jian Tongyao examined Situ Hongying and instructed Situ Hao to give him diluted potion regularly and safely destroy the poisoned water.
• Bai Rou asked Jian Tongyao to keep the severity of Situ Hongying's condition from Situ Hao, and Jian Tongyao declared that she would devote herself to reaching Seventh Sister and living for herself.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu investigated the Pharmacy Institute Back Mountain, where Jian Tongyao encountered an ancient Longevity Tree and slept for a month. After learning the tree had chosen her to carry on its inheritance, Jian Tongyao said goodbye to Situ Hongying and her friends before leaving with Qian Wanyu to pursue Sheng Wenze.

• Situ Hongying woke and confirmed that the jade pendant Jian Tongyao carried had a purpose, but he became agitated when she proposed returning to the Back Mountain.
• Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao sneaked into the Pharmacy Institute Back Mountain, passed its spirit-plant defenses, and entered the chamber opened by the jade pendant.
• Jian Tongyao saw life-force motes around the great tree, while vines attacked Qian Wanyu and wrapped Ding Ding in a cocoon; the tree then carried Jian Tongyao high into its branches, where she fell asleep.
• Qian Wanyu told Jian Tongyao she had slept for a month and explained that Situ Hongying identified the tree as the Longevity Tree, a Sacred Tree from the Upper Realm whose inheritance he had intended Jian Tongyao to carry on.
• Jian Tongyao learned that Bai Rou had given birth to Dian Dian, then visited her master and friends and said goodbye before leaving with Qian Wanyu to destroy Sheng Wenze's lair.

Qian Wanyu led Jian Tongyao toward Death Valley as they encountered signs of a spreading illness and prepared for a possible confrontation with Sheng Wenze. Near Death Valley, Ding Ding spotted Little Light, and the group found it fighting frenzied magic beasts.

• Qian Wanyu explained that they were heading to Death Valley to destroy one of Sheng Wenze’s lairs, while Jian Tongyao restrained herself from trying to save the suffering people along the road.
• Toothless and Little White Ball told Qian Wanyu that Mo Han had gone berserk after someone tried to summon him, and Qian Wanyu suspected a secret art had triggered it.
• The group found a village where everyone had died of what seemed to be the same illness, burned the corpses and houses, and continued onward with warnings to be careful about food and water.
• As they neared Death Valley, Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao discussed Little White Ball’s feelings for Toothless and the obstacles their relationship might face.
• Ding Ding excitedly led Jian Tongyao toward Little Light, where Toothless found it fighting frenzied magic beasts and threw a fireball at them.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu encountered Little Light and a group of Qilin Holy Beasts, then made peace with them and prepared to enter Death Valley. The next day, the holy beasts’ sudden rallying cries and the sound of charging hooves drew the group to a startling scene.

• Toothless and Little White Ball were attacked by Light-Type Holy Beasts, while Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao were surrounded by their kin.
• Qian Wanyu fought off the holy beasts with death aura, and Jian Tongyao reunited with the grown Little Light after Ding Ding found it.
• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light and the other holy beasts to let their group pass toward Death Valley, and the group agreed to rest before setting out.
• The following day, Qian Wanyu heard Little Light and the holy beasts calling, and the group hurried after them to witness a shocking scene.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu watched the Light-Type Holy Beasts use a golden barrier to purge Death Valley’s death aura, while Qian Wanyu explained that she intended to control the Death Spirit Masters and restore balance. When the barrier failed as the sunlight weakened, they fought off the attacking black shadows and helped the exhausted holy beasts escape.

• Jian Tongyao nearly walked toward the holy beasts’ barrier until Qian Wanyu pulled her back and warned her not to approach.
• Qian Wanyu explained that light could not eradicate darkness and revealed that she wanted to bring the Death Spirit Masters under control to restore stability to the Three Great Empires.
• As the sunlight shifted and the holy beasts’ strength waned, their Light-Type Energy Barrier weakened and shattered, releasing attacking black shadows.
• Qian Wanyu and Little White Ball tore apart the shadows, while Jian Tongyao sent Ding Ding to protect the holy beasts.
• Jian Tongyao urged Little Light to lead its kin away, and the holy beasts nuzzled her in gratitude before leaving.

Jian Tongyao discovered that a river in Death Valley held abundant water-element spiritual power, then a Qilin Holy Beast carried her to its cave after nightfall. Her companions pursued her through a night attack by Death Spirit Masters, and she was left wondering why Little Light had brought her to the cave.

• Jian Tongyao followed a Qilin Holy Beast to a clear river and found she could cultivate using the water's abundant spiritual power.
• Jian Tongyao cultivated beside the river while the Qilin Holy Beast guarded her and kept Qian Wanyu at a distance.
• After nightfall, the Qilin Holy Beast seized Jian Tongyao and galloped away, prompting Toothless, Qian Wanyu, Mo Han, and the others to chase them.
• Toothless's fireballs set trees alight as Death Spirit Masters attacked with black mist, and Qian Wanyu warned that the flames could draw more enemies.
• The Qilin Holy Beast brought Jian Tongyao to a cave, where Little Light dragged her inside among the resting holy beasts.

Jian Tongyao spent the night protected in Little Light’s cave while Qian Wanyu and the others fought Death Spirit Masters outside. At dawn, Little Light’s father revealed the sacred beasts’ dire situation, and Qian Wanyu decided to test a new idea that night.

• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light to let her leave the cave, but Little Light kept the barrier closed and sheltered her through the night.
• Ding Ding tore through the light-type barrier briefly, then Little Light repaired it and purified a wisp of death aura.
• At dawn, Qian Wanyu and the others reunited with Jian Tongyao, and Little Light’s father appeared in human form.
• Little Light’s father explained that attacks happened constantly and led Qian Wanyu to a field of sacred-beast remains.
• Qian Wanyu’s death aura vanished in the field, so Jian Tongyao pulled her back before she went farther.
• Qian Wanyu told Jian Tongyao to return to the cave after dark and said she would test a new idea that night.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu tried to persuade Little Light’s father to change how the Qilin Holy Beast clan protected Death Valley, while Qian Wanyu used the beasts’ burial ground to repel the black mist. The senior finally heard Qian Wanyu’s proposal, but erupted when she revealed that Sheng Wenze had many lairs across the Seven-Colored Continent.

• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light’s father to discuss a lasting solution, but he stayed hidden among the holy beasts.
• Qian Wanyu led the group to the holy beasts’ burial ground, where the remains’ light energy destroyed any black mist that approached.
• Qian Wanyu surveyed the burial ground while Little White Ball and the others fought the black mist through the night.
• At dawn, Qian Wanyu called Little Light’s father out and said she had a way to prevent the clan’s crisis from recurring.
• Qian Wanyu asked whether the clan could leave Death Valley, then explained that Sheng Wenze had dozens or hundreds of other lairs.
• Little Light’s father flew into a rage, transformed into a holy beast, and began digging furiously while Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu backed away.

Qian Wanyu prepared a formation at the Sacred Beast Burial Mound to trap Sheng Wenze, while Jian Tongyao guarded their allies and the controlled dark elves. Qian Wanyu then left with Toothless and Little White Ball to scout Death Valley, and Jian Tongyao waited anxiously to learn whether Sheng Wenze would take the bait.

• Qian Wanyu persuaded Little Light's father to help lure Sheng Wenze into the Sacred Beast Burial Mound and power a Light-Type Energy Barrier at noon three days later.
• Qian Wanyu ordered Jian Tongyao to dig up the sacred beasts' remains, then arranged their bones into a formation within a formation.
• Qian Wanyu fought the night black mist while Jian Tongyao stayed inside the burial mound, and Qian Wanyu revealed Sheng Wenze had known of their arrival from the start.
• Qian Wanyu left with Toothless and Little White Ball to scout Death Valley, ordering Jian Tongyao to watch Mo Han and Wenren Liangzhi.
• Jian Tongyao had Ding Ding confine Wenren Liangzhi, Mo Han, and the other dark elves in the Little Black Room, then waited for Qian Wanyu's return.

Qian Wanyu and her companions entered Death Valley to lure Sheng Wenze toward the Sacred Beast Burial Mound, where Toothless and Little White Ball were attacked by an enormous skeletal soldier. Qian Wanyu confronted the creature, suspected it was Sheng Wenze, and left it furious after shattering its body with an arrow.

• Qian Wanyu led Toothless and Little White Ball through the deserted town and into the cave, then split from them to draw out Sheng Wenze.
• Toothless and Little White Ball fought the approaching Death Corps and an enormous skeletal soldier, but their attacks failed to stop it.
• Toothless fled with Little White Ball, then sent her ahead while she tried to lure the skeletal soldier toward the Sacred Beast Burial Mound.
• Qian Wanyu rescued Toothless, heard her account of the soldier's strange pauses, and suspected Sheng Wenze was controlling it.
• Qian Wanyu shot the skeletal soldier with her Reincarnation Bow, scattering its bones, but it reassembled and charged after her.

Qian Wanyu lured Sheng Wenze into the Light-Element Formation and fought him through repeated ambushes and a war of attrition, while Jian Tongyao and the others battled Death Spirit Masters outside. When Toothless arrived, Sheng Wenze attacked her in a skeleton body, giving Qian Wanyu a chance to draw him toward the Formation Within a Formation.

• Qian Wanyu used herself as bait to draw Sheng Wenze to the Sacred Beast Burial Mound and explained that he wanted the Elf Heart to restore or create a body capable of containing him.
• Qian Wanyu led Sheng Wenze into her Emperor-Slaying Formation, destroyed his giant skeleton body, and used the Light-Element Formation to consume his death aura.
• Jian Tongyao, Little White Ball, and Ding Ding stayed outside while Toothless and Little Light's father led the Light-Type Holy Beasts toward the formation; Jian Tongyao and Little White Ball then fought the Death Spirit Masters in town.
• Qian Wanyu endured Sheng Wenze's repeated attacks and countered his attempts to approach, using the thousand-thread silk's movements to detect him and exploiting the formation to wear him down.
• After Toothless arrived, a skeleton attacked her; Toothless burned it with her true fire and fled, while Qian Wanyu followed, hoping to lure Sheng Wenze into the Formation Within a Formation.

Qian Wanyu trapped Sheng Wenze in her dantian and fought him inside her soul sea while the light-element formation battered her body. Jian Tongyao helped stabilize Qian Wanyu’s spiritual power just as she began advancing, and the chapter ended with a Spirit Sovereign about to be born on the Seven-Colored Continent.

• Qian Wanyu used the light-element formation and the holy beasts’ attacks to expose Sheng Wenze, then baited him into her dantian and began fighting him for control of her soul sea.
• Sheng Wenze broke through Qing Mo’s defenses and entered Qian Wanyu’s soul sea, where Qian Wanyu and the soul-sound grass confronted him as the formation continued injuring her.
• After five days, Toothless brought Jian Tongyao into the formation, and Jian Tongyao entered Qian Wanyu’s soul sea and called out to her until she responded.
• Qian Wanyu began absorbing Sheng Wenze as her dark-element Spirit Bead started growing, and Jian Tongyao calmed it by guiding the five Spirit Beads into balance.
• Jian Tongyao emerged and told Toothless that Qian Wanyu’s advancement could have destroyed Death Valley, then realized a Spirit Sovereign was about to be born on the Seven-Colored Continent.