Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui returned to the Thousand Family with Bai Xuan, whose birth father was Mo Lu, and Qian Wanyu agreed to negotiate with the Mo Family for the prescription. At the Mo Family residence, Qian Wanyu provoked Mo Lu with evidence about the person who had caused Mo Chen’s death, and the confrontation turned violent.

• Dongfang Minghui told the Small Courtyard that Bai Xuan was Mo Lu’s son, while Qian Wanyu comforted her and they discussed her Man-Eating Grass and its white spider silk.
• Dongfang Minghui secured the Old Madam’s approval for Qian Wanyu to negotiate with the Mo Family, then encountered Qian Zhuoqian and learned that Qian Zhuoyin had been released from confinement.
• Qian Wanyu told Bai Xuan she knew his origins and offered to reveal them if he cooperated; she then brought him, Dongfang Minghui, and Cai Qing to the Mo Family residence.
• The group witnessed signs of Mo Lu’s cruelty, including a bloodied victim and grisly pastries, before Mo Lu arrived and Qian Wanyu asked him for a medicinal formula.
• Qian Wanyu told Mo Lu that another person had been responsible for Mo Chen’s death and offered an envelope identifying the culprit; Mo Lu attacked, and Cai Qing and Bai Xuan shielded her.

Qian Wanyu negotiated with Mo Lu to uncover the truth behind Mo Chen’s death, secure the medicine formula, and enlist Mo Lu’s help in rescuing Bai Xuan’s adoptive father. After the Mo Family publicly delivered gifts to the Thousand Family, Qian Wanyu’s group left for training while Qian Zhuoqian arranged for Qin Mu to follow them.

• Dongfang Minghui’s Man-Eating Grass swallowed the dead hands in Mo Lu’s hall, and Qian Wanyu forced Mo Lu to accept her terms by threatening to destroy her first letter.
• Qian Wanyu gave Mo Lu clues identifying the cousin who had plotted Mo Chen’s death, then revealed that Bai Xuan was his living son and tied learning Bai Xuan’s whereabouts to rescuing the White-Clad Guest from the Blood Baleful Alliance Forbidden Grounds.
• Qian Wanyu persuaded Mo Lu to send the medicine formula to the Thousand Family publicly, and the next morning the Mo Family delivered the formula and many gifts before Dream Capital’s watching crowds.
• Dongfang Minghui visited Qian Zhuoyin before leaving, gave her potions, and warned her to avoid being alone with Lu Peng, whom Qian Zhuoyin said Qian Zhuoqian wanted her to marry in her place.
• Qian Wanyu’s group departed the Thousand Family that night to train, and Qian Zhuoqian arranged for Qin Mu and two of her people to follow them.

Key events

• The chapter opens by noting that Qian Zhuoqian’s intentions are unclear.
• It then states that her aim is to strike Qian Wanyu a devastating blow.

Characters and interactions

• Qian Zhuoqian is portrayed as hostile toward Qian Wanyu and intent on harming her.
• Qian Wanyu is identified as the target, but does not appear or respond in this excerpt.

Themes

• Intrigue and concealed motives: Zhuoqian’s plan is mentioned, but its details remain unknown.
• Family rivalry: The conflict is framed as one between members of the Qian family.

Qian Wanyu’s group entered Sharp Blade Mountain, where a cursed treasure chamber separated them into strange trials. Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu reunited with Lü Xing and Wood on the second level after awakening new powers and enduring what felt like months apart.

• Li Yunan led Qian Wanyu’s group to Sharp Blade Mountain, where Wei Junlan and his Blood Baleful Alliance companions joined them, followed by Qin Mu’s party.
• In the mountain’s treasure chamber, moths attacked those who touched the chests, and Bai Xuan fought them until Dongfang Minghui persuaded him to abandon his blood-scented sword.
• As the group climbed through thickening mist, everyone was separated into individual trials; Dongfang Minghui was overwhelmed by spiritual energy, while Qian Wanyu awakened her metal attribute.
• Dongfang Minghui practiced Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers to control her surging spiritual power, advanced to Level One Spirit Warrior, and reunited with Qian Wanyu.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui appeared beside Lü Xing and Wood, who said they had waited five or six days for them.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui were separated by the strange mountain’s trials, each facing dangers and discovering new abilities. As they searched for a way through, Toothless found the Dark-Type Beast Tiger’s den and befriended an ostracized White Tiger cub.

• Qian Wanyu and Lü Xing compared what they had experienced, then found Qin Mu’s dead companions before continuing up the steps with Dongfang Minghui.
• Dongfang Minghui fell into a chamber of bronze soldiers and, after three days, learned to immobilize them with Flying Needles before passing through a stone door into a bone-filled room.
• Qing Mo identified the mountain as possibly being True-False Mountain, and Qian Wanyu fell into a prison chamber where she found a corpse resembling Dongfang Minghui in a Cold Jade Coffin.
• Qian Wanyu escaped the prison, rescued Situ Hao from a Dark-Type Beast Tiger, and followed the beast to a valley where she fought off its monkey-like companion.
• Dongfang Minghui met Li Yunan and Mu Sheng while searching for Toothless, and agreed to wait for Mu Sheng to finish cultivating before they looked together.
• Toothless tracked Qian Wanyu’s scent to the Dark-Type Beast Tiger’s cave, found three cubs, and shared its Teething Stick with the bullied White Tiger.

Toothless awakened its fire element while protecting Wei Junlan from two Thousand Family servants who tried to seize it and a white tiger cub. After Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui rescued them, Qian Wanyu led Ninth Sister to uncover the treasure Toothless had buried.

• Toothless returned with a tiny white tiger cub, buried a treasure near Qing Mo's Barrier, and waited with the cub on the first level of Sharp Blade Mountain.
• Bai Rou fought Qin Mu, and Wei Junlan reached the first level after advancing to a third-level Spirit Warrior and escaping a wind-element magic beast.
• Aunt Qin and Aunt Fang tried to take Toothless and the white cub, then attacked Wei Junlan when he recognized them as Thousand Family servants.
• Toothless was knocked into a pillar, awakened its fire element, and burned the moths surrounding it as Qian Wanyu arrived and helped rescue Wei Junlan.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Wei Junlan and Toothless, then followed Qian Wanyu to the spot where Toothless had buried something and began digging.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui stayed behind in Sharp Blade Mountain to hold off a swarm of magic beasts while the others escaped, then fought a powerful earth-element beast as Qian Wanyu prepared to break through. Their companions returned to the Thousand Family and asked the Old Madam to rescue them, and she sent Cai Qing to lead a larger group back to the mountain.

• Dongfang Minghui was burned by a black bead Toothless had uncovered, and Qing Mo identified it as a Dark-Type Soul Pearl before Qin Mu collapsed nearby; Qian Wanyu let Minghui treat him once, and they left him a potion.
• The group found that Situ Hao, the Grand Elder, and Bai Xuan were still missing, but Bai Xuan and the Grand Elder soon emerged with an unconscious Situ Hao and warned everyone to flee from the approaching magic beasts.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui stayed behind to buy time while Li Yunan sent the others out; a swarm of moths poured into the passage, and the fleeing group escaped just before the entrance collapsed.
• The others waited outside overnight, then returned to the Thousand Family when Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui failed to emerge; Wei Junlan gave Bai Xuan his adoptive father's sword, and Bai Xuan explained that a level-nine beast had injured the Grand Elder.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui fought through the magic beasts until a level-eight earth-element beast emerged; Little Lecher restrained it, and Qian Wanyu devoured its energy core and prepared to break through.
• Bai Rou and the others told the Old Madam that Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui were trapped inside Sharp Blade Mountain, and the Old Madam ordered Cai Qing to take more people and bring them back.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui escaped Sharp Blade Mountain, reunited with their companions, and awakened Situ Hao after Dongfang Minghui’s spiritual power triggered a violent rebound. At the Thousand Family, Wei Junlan accused the family of arranging his ambush, and the Old Madam confronted Qian Zhuoqian, who blamed the dead servants for the attack.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found the false mountain’s exit and escaped while the Thousand Family’s search party prepared to break open Sharp Blade Mountain.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui reunited with their companions, and Qian Wanyu promised to keep herself alive while asking the team to advance and retreat together.
• Dongfang Minghui’s spiritual power rebounded against a powerful force inside Situ Hao, causing him to awaken and cough up blood before screaming when he realized he was exposed.
• Cai Qing summoned Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui to the main hall, where Wei Junlan accused the Thousand Family of sending Aunt Fang and Aunt Qin to attack him and demanded an explanation.
• The Old Madam promised Wei Junlan an answer within three days, then questioned the Thousand Family members about the attack and confronted Qian Zhuoqian, who claimed she had sent the servants to protect Qian Wanyu.

The Old Madam settled the dispute with Wei Junlan by punishing Qian Zhuoqian, offering weapons, and granting Blood Baleful Alliance disciples two places in the Thousand Family Back Mountain trials. Qian Wanyu claimed the Reincarnation Bow despite badly injuring her hands, while Dongfang Minghui chose a mechanized Silk Fan; as the qualifiers approached, Minghui grew puzzled by Little Ball’s unusually rapid growth.

• Dongfang Minghui overheard that the Old Madam had ordered Qian Zhuoqian punished and refused to let anyone plead for mercy.
• The Old Madam sparred with Qian Wanyu, then apologized to Wei Junlan with a choice of weapon and two trial places for Blood Baleful Alliance disciples; Wei Junlan accepted the settlement.
• Dongfang Minghui chose the Silk Fan, while Qian Wanyu struggled to lift the Reincarnation Bow and finally claimed it with Qing Mo’s help, leaving her hands badly injured.
• The Old Madam sent Qian Wanyu a Restoration Pill, and Dongfang Minghui treated her hands before warning their companions to be wary of Qian Zhuoqian.
• Qian Zhuoqian, still resentful, considered arranging an accident for Qian Wanyu during the qualifiers.
• As the qualifiers neared, Dongfang Minghui noticed Little Ball had grown teeth unusually quickly, but she and Qian Wanyu postponed looking into it until afterward.

The qualification tournament began with Qian Wanyu defeating Mu Lei and Meng Yixiao defeating Bai Rou, who suffered a mysterious, severe injury. Dongfang Minghui was told Bai Rou had recovered so she could focus on her own match, but her friends concealed how critical Bai Rou’s condition was as Minghui entered the arena.

• A young woman tried to take Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu’s seats, then returned with her Eldest Senior Brother, who killed a Thousand Family Guard before Qian Wanyu fought him and Cai Qing’s guards arrested the troublemakers.
• Meng Yixiao defeated Zhou Wei with his ice techniques and revealed his silver hair, while the group left after watching his match.
• Mu Sheng used Little White’s Concealment to weaken Li Ruo and win, while Qian Wanyu defeated Mu Lei after revealing her metal spiritual power.
• Bai Rou fought Meng Yixiao with her saber, but collapsed after he unleashed overwhelming ice power; Qian Wanyu carried her away as Situ Hao forfeited his match.
• Bai Rou continued vomiting blood despite treatment, and Qian Wanyu sent Mu Sheng to tell Dongfang Minghui that Bai Rou had awakened so Minghui would compete without worrying.
• Dongfang Minghui entered her match still uneasy, while Mu Sheng and Lü Xing hid the truth about Bai Rou’s critical condition.

Dongfang Minghui won her match against Night Eagle but later learned he had died, while she discovered and absorbed an Adhesion Worm that had been tormenting Bai Rou. As the worm rapidly developed inside her, Qian Wanyu arranged to face Meng Yixiao in the arena, where the chapter ended just as he entered to meet her.

• Dongfang Minghui bound Night Eagle with vines and poisoned him, then defeated him after he attacked her with lightning; she gave the Rakshasa Mercenary Corps the antidote and left with an injured hand.
• Dongfang Minghui examined Bai Rou, found a hidden Adhesion Worm, and accidentally transferred it into her own body while trying to remove it.
• Qing Mo identified the worm as a mind-controlling, spiritual-energy-feeding Adhesion Worm, and Qian Wanyu arranged to replace Meng Yixiao's opponent with herself.
• Dongfang Minghui learned that Night Eagle had died after the match, and Qian Wanyu promised to investigate while assuring her she was not to blame.
• The Adhesion Worm rapidly grew inside Dongfang Minghui, so Qian Wanyu put her to sleep and left Lü Xing and Wood to watch over her before going to fight Meng Yixiao.
• Qian Wanyu faced Meng Yixiao before a packed arena as Mu Sheng and Li Yunan watched from the stands.

Qian Wanyu faced Meng Yixiao in the arena with her Water-Thunder Whip charged with unusually powerful lightning. Meng Yixiao claimed he knew her before the match began.

• Qian Wanyu stood motionless in the arena as purple lightning crackled through her Water-Thunder Whip.
• The referee retreated several steps to avoid the pressure and the whip's reach.
• Meng Yixiao smiled, made a strange gesture, and told Qian Wanyu that he knew her.
• Qian Wanyu slightly lifted the corners of her lips, eager to trample him before the crowd.

Qian Wanyu defeated Meng Yixiao and used his blood with Insect-Beast Incense to draw Adhesion Worms out of Dongfang Minghui and Bai Rou. After Dongfang Minghui won her match against Ji Xiaoxiao, Mu Sheng told her that Ji Xiaoxiao had died, leaving her stunned.

• Qian Wanyu revealed four elements and defeated Meng Yixiao, then collected his blood for treating Dongfang Minghui.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui lured an Adhesion Worm out of Dongfang Minghui and discovered several more infesting Bai Rou.
• Dongfang Minghui drew the Adhesion Worms out of Bai Rou, and Qian Wanyu warned the group that Meng Yixiao might be targeting competitors entering the Thousand Family Back Mountain.
• Dongfang Minghui defeated the fire-element Spirit Master Ji Xiaoxiao with poisoned Flying Needles and gave the referee an antidote for her.
• Mu Sheng rushed to Dongfang Minghui and told her that Ji Xiaoxiao had died, leaving her shocked.

Key events

• Someone begins to ask Mu Sheng whether he knows how Ji Xiaoxiao died.
• The question comes before the speaker has had time to say something else, leaving the moment unresolved.

Character developments

• No clear development is shown yet; Mu Sheng’s response is not included.

Significant themes

• Unanswered questions and suspense: Ji Xiaoxiao’s death is raised as a mystery.
• Interrupted communication: The opening suggests urgency or a conversation cut short.

Character interactions

• An unnamed speaker directly questions Mu Sheng about Ji Xiaoxiao’s death.

Dongfang Minghui won her fourth match after defeating an assassin hired to kill her, then qualified for the back mountain when her fifth opponent failed to appear. As she investigated a possible way to reverse Wood’s Living Dead condition using Lü Xing’s blood, Bai Rou awakened and began explaining why she had used Cutting Off the Firewood against Meng Yixiao.

• Dongfang Minghui’s opponent forfeited her third match, and Qian Wanyu reassured her that she believed the earlier deaths were not caused by her Flying Needles.
• Fang Meng and the Rakshasa Mercenary Corps confronted Lü Xing and Wood, but Dongfang Minghui restrained them with Vines after defeating an assassin in her fourth match.
• Dongfang Minghui’s fifth opponent failed to appear, allowing her to qualify, while Qian Wanyu received information that the bodies of Ji Xiaoxiao, Night Eagle, and the assassin had been transferred to the imperial household.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered that drops of Lü Xing’s blood had changed Wood’s Living Dead tissue sample, collected more of Lü Xing’s blood, and began an experiment to test its effect.
• Situ Hao announced that Bai Rou had awakened, and Qian Wanyu asked her why she had used Cutting Off the Firewood during her fight with Meng Yixiao.

Dongfang Minghui discovered that the white cub was an awakened Dark-Type Spirit Beast and Qian Wanyu formed a contract with it, while Toothless attacked it after sensing its nature. After the rematches, Dongfang Minghui began treating Wood with Lü Xing’s blood, but Wood’s pain caused the tub to shatter.

• Bai Rou told Qian Wanyu that Meng Yixiao had concealed a sinister second element, and Qian Wanyu urged her to recover before facing the rematches.
• Dongfang Minghui found that Toothless and the white cub had grown, then saw Toothless attack the cub after it seemed to influence her with its eyes.
• Qian Wanyu confirmed that the cub was a Dark-Type Spirit Beast and formed a contract with it after Dongfang Minghui agreed to let her raise it.
• Bai Rou, Situ Hao, and Mu Sheng returned from the rematches, where their opponents had inexplicably made their victories easier.
• Dongfang Minghui used Lü Xing’s blood in a medicinal bath to try to restore Wood’s awareness, but Wood howled in pain and shattered the tub.

Qian Wanyu and the others were awakened by a loud commotion in the courtyard. She grabbed the Water-Thunder Whip and kicked open the door.

• Someone shouted at Lü Xing to get out of the way.
• The noise in the courtyard roused Qian Wanyu and the others from cultivation.
• Qian Wanyu drew the Water-Thunder Whip and kicked the door open.

Dongfang Minghui treated Wood’s living-dead transformation and helped restore his skin and speech before joining the trial on Third Peak. There, her group seized a rare spirit medicine and poisoned the attackers, while Meng Yixiao arrived to reject their plea for help.

• Qian Wanyu and the Old Madam restrained Qian Ziyan after his violent reaction, allowing Dongfang Minghui to begin treating him with Lü Xing’s blood and Love Flower’s leaf juice.
• After three days of detoxification, Wood’s skin improved and he spoke Lü Xing’s name, while Dongfang Minghui completed the first course of treatment.
• Dongfang Minghui and her companions entered Third Peak for the trial, where Night Wolf warned them that they would meet as enemies.
• The group intervened when six attackers killed members of another team over a Ghost Doll, seized the plant, and poisoned the attackers with Dongfang Minghui’s venom.
• Meng Yixiao arrived as the poisoned men begged for help and refused to save them, calling them too weak to be his dogs.

Meng Yixiao killed six people with parasitic worms that drained their spiritual energy and life force, then found several silver needles and identified them as Dongfang Minghui’s. The story left the cause of the needles’ presence unexplained.

• Meng Yixiao smiled and sent ten nearly invisible white threads into the six people.
• The threads grew into parasitic worms and drained the six of their spiritual energy and life force.
• The six died frozen in place, and the wind revealed their clothed skeletons.
• Meng Yixiao picked up several silver needles and said, "Dongfang Minghui."

Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and their companions discovered a strange cold pool that Qing Mo identified as the Three-Life Mirror, then jumped in to search for those it had swallowed. The group became scattered across different realms, and Dongfang Minghui reached a misty battlefield where Qian Wanyu and Wood were fighting a level-seven Triangle-Horned Rhino Beast.

• Li Yunan explained that the Life-Extending Pill drew cultivators to the Thousand Family Back Mountain, and Toothless led the group to a Ghost-Face Fruit growing above a cold pool.
• Toothless swallowed the Ghost-Face Fruit and became trapped in the pool, whose strange force also began dragging Dongfang Minghui, Little White Ball, and others toward it.
• The cold pool engulfed Dongfang Minghui, Mu Sheng, Lü Xing, and Toothless, while Qian Wanyu and the remaining companions learned that the pool was a Three-Life Mirror and jumped in after them.
• Dongfang Minghui landed on a vast grassland with Little White Ball, discovered that her other companions and contracted demon plants were missing, and walked into thick white mist.
• Dongfang Minghui heard Qian Wanyu and Wood fighting a level-seven Triangle-Horned Rhino Beast, pushed through the mist, and spotted them from atop a mound.