Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui gave Qian Wanyu the Soul Infant Fruit, then began gravity training with her as Qian Wanyu prepared an Arena challenge to recruit teammates. After Li Yunan defeated Qian Wanyu and joined the team, Dongfang Minghui rejected his advances at Qian Wanyu’s request, while Wei Junlan offered a way to make Li Yunan leave her alone; the chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui debating whether to meet him in the Little Grove.

• Dongfang Minghui gave Qian Wanyu the Soul Infant Fruit, which Qing Mo recognized as an ingredient that could help repair his soul.
• Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui to the Gravity Crush Room, where Dongfang Minghui trained under tenfold gravity and gradually increased the pressure over the next two days.
• Dongfang Minghui made Qian Wanyu combat outfits, and Qian Wanyu began an Arena challenge to recruit teammates under rules barring full teams and anyone unwilling to accept a Potion Master.
• Li Yunan challenged Qian Wanyu after she had won fifteen matches, defeated her, and joined the team; Qian Wanyu asked Dongfang Minghui to make clear that she did not like him.
• Dongfang Minghui rejected Li Yunan, but he vowed to protect her from afar, and Wei Junlan later promised a lasting solution if she met him in the Little Grove.
• Dongfang Minghui finished watching the third day of Arena matches without seeing Wei Junlan and wondered whether she should go to the Little Grove.

Dongfang Minghui hurried away after the competition to handle something, hoping to make someone back down and leave her team before the training expedition. Qian Wanyu followed her to the grove after Dongfang Minghui tried to shake her off.

• Dongfang Minghui decided she had to make the trip and persuade him to recognize the odds and back down.
• Dongfang Minghui told Seventh Sister she had something to take care of and left first.
• Qian Wanyu watched Dongfang Minghui hurry away, handed over the remaining matters, and followed her.
• Dongfang Minghui circled the academy to shake off her pursuer before heading toward the grove.
• Qian Wanyu followed Dongfang Minghui and remarked that her wings had grown strong enough to fly on her own.

Dongfang Minghui fled Qian Wanyu after a staged encounter with Wei Junlan, but Qian Wanyu found her, learned Wei Junlan was a woman, and drew a confession of love from her. The pair reconciled, then Qian Wanyu discovered a jade-pendant fragment linked to the Dongfang Family and suspected a hidden watcher had followed them; the chapter ended as they encountered Li Yunan.

• Dongfang Minghui met Wei Junlan in the Little Grove, where he embraced her to make Li Yunan believe she was taken, and she discovered that Wei Junlan was a woman disguised as a man.
• Qian Wanyu saw them together, attacked Wei Junlan, and Dongfang Minghui escaped to the Thieving Strange Hand's Small Courtyard.
• Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui, carried her back, and questioned her about Wei Junlan before Dongfang Minghui confessed that she liked only Qian Wanyu.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui kissed and embraced outside the courtyard, but a shadow watched them and fled when Qian Wanyu noticed.
• Qian Wanyu found a jade-pendant fragment matching her own and suspected that someone connected to the destroyed Dongfang Family had been spying on them.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu encountered Li Yunan outside the Pharmacy Institute the next day.

Li Yunan proposed recruiting more people for the team because the academy might assign them a mission soon. Dongfang Minghui learned that something had happened outside, but he did not explain what it was.

• Li Yunan acted as if nothing had happened and smiled at Qian Minghui.
• Li Yunan suggested recruiting more people for their team in preparation for a possible academy mission.
• Dongfang Minghui questioned why they needed to recruit so soon.
• Li Yunan asked whether Dongfang Minghui had heard any whispers about events outside.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Li Yunan what major event had happened after Seventh Sister shook her head.

Dongfang Minghui discovered a way to counter the Black Herb’s mist and prepared for an expedition to investigate the spreading living-dead poison. When the infection reached the border town of Homecoming, Qian Wanyu’s team set out early, suspecting it had spread from the magic beast forest.

• Li Yunan described how Hao Xiu’s hunting team found vacant-eyed, rotting students in the forest and fled after Li Yang’s light revealed their decay.
• Dongfang Minghui identified that Little Lecher’s sap combined with Pig Immortal Grass’s juice could absorb the Black Herb’s mist, then formed a temporary contract with Pig Immortal Grass.
• Situ Hongying assigned Situ Hao to assist Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu, and Mu Sheng and Bai Rou joined their team.
• After reports said the poison had infected an entire village and spread into a border town, Dongfang Minghui and her companions left the academy ahead of schedule.
• The team reached Homecoming Town after nearly half a month and stopped at a nearby village to investigate Dongfang Minghui’s suspicion that the poison had spread from the magic beast forest.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui descended into a strangely quiet village and prepared for danger, suspecting its residents had been infected. The chapter ended as Qian Wanyu warned everyone to watch out.

• After they landed, everyone released their spiritual power and found the village unnaturally silent.
• Qian Wanyu drew her Water-Thunder Whip, while Dongfang Minghui readied Flying Needles and Plum Blossom Nails.
• Li Yunan paired with Bai Rou, Situ Hao paired with Mu Sheng, and Dongfang Minghui stayed with Qian Wanyu.
• Dongfang Minghui wondered whether the whole village had been infected.
• Qian Wanyu warned everyone to watch out.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui discovered that four hostile village children were secretly caring for dozens of Living Dead in an underground hideout. After one child was scratched by the Living Dead and became infected, Dongfang Minghui treated the marks, leaving the group uncertain about his condition.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui searched the deserted village, found four children who attacked them, and later let them go so they could follow the children back at night.
• The group tracked the children carrying magic beast corpses to underground tunnels, where they found dozens of captive Living Dead being fed meat.
• A child attacked Dongfang Minghui, and Qian Wanyu was scratched while rescuing him from the Living Dead; Dongfang Minghui cleaned and treated Qian Wanyu's wound.
• The group brought the child back to the village, where he began convulsing, and Dongfang Minghui found black handprints on his wrists and ankles.
• Dongfang Minghui rubbed away the marks with medicinal juice, after which the child's symptoms subsided and he lay quiet, while the others wondered whether to untie him.

Dongfang Minghui decided to keep the boy under watch after the living dead scratched his limbs, while she investigated how her medicinal juice had healed his black wounds. Mu Sheng then noticed something wrong with the boy’s wrist.

• Dongfang Minghui refused to risk giving the boy a larger Magic Beast and decided to leave him lying still.
• Dongfang Minghui said they needed to monitor the boy because the living dead had scratched his limbs.
• Dongfang Minghui planned to study the connection between the living dead and the black mist, and why her medicinal juice had made the boy’s wounds disappear.
• Mu Sheng spotted something wrong with the boy’s wrist and called Dongfang Minghui over.

Dongfang Minghui cared for Qian Wanyu’s infected wound and helped defend the village’s Living Dead from a plan to destroy them, while a Potion Masters’ Guild member revealed how the infection had devastated the village. The man began explaining his own situation, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• Dongfang Minghui kept watch over Mu Sheng, discovered Qian Wanyu had a fever, and treated the infection in her leg before both women fell asleep.
• Li Yunan reported that the group had agreed to eliminate the village’s Living Dead, but Qian Wanyu argued that they should try to save them, and Dongfang Minghui prepared a suppressive potion with Situ Hao’s guidance.
• Dongfang Minghui and Bai Rou discovered a boy trying to take Situ Hao to the Living-Person Tomb, rescued Situ Hao, and captured an infected man wearing the Potion Masters’ Guild emblem.
• The infected man described how Purple Wolf Academy students became cannibals, attacked the villagers, and spread the infection, and how Potion Masters later found the village and tried to contain the Living Dead.
• The Potion Masters’ Guild man began to explain that he had tested the medicine on himself, but the chapter ended before he finished.

The man told Dongfang Minghui that he had never found a way to stop the living dead from spreading infection. He offered her his research records to help her develop a potion, but she felt overwhelmed and did not take the spatial ring.

• The man admitted he had never stopped the living dead from spreading infection.
• He asked Dongfang Minghui whether she was a Potion Master from the Pharmacy Institute, and she said yes.
• He offered her his spatial ring, which contained his research records on the living dead.
• Dongfang Minghui shook her head, feeling weighed down after hearing his story.

Dongfang Minghui and her companions fought the living dead, exposed an infected Potion Master’s deception, and clashed with students from Sacred Feather Academy. After the two groups reconciled and shared information about the outbreak, they agreed to travel to Homecoming Town that night.

• The infected Potion Master tried to seize Dongfang Minghui, but she and Qian Wanyu subdued him and took his ring, which contained records about the living dead.
• The group fought the living dead while Dongfang Minghui waited for three escaped children; an attacker named Geng Shan burned Little Lecher’s vines before Qian Wanyu and Bai Rou forced him to retreat.
• Geng Shan returned with five Sacred Feather Academy students, and their team fought Qian Wanyu’s group; vines, bewildering mist, and Flying Needles incapacitated the newcomers.
• After the students awoke, Li Weifeng introduced his team and explained that Sacred Feather Academy had sent them to stop the infection from spreading.
• Qian Wanyu described the village’s dead villagers, the infected Potion Master, and the children’s role in penning up living dead; both groups agreed to head to Homecoming Town that night.

Dongfang Minghui was abducted by a powerful stranger while Qian Wanyu and the others fought the living dead in Homecoming Town. Qian Wanyu discovered a town-wide Yin-Yang Formation and began investigating the Sacred Feather Academy group, while Xian reacted sharply after learning Qian Minghui had been taken.

• Dongfang Minghui smelled a foul stench in Homecoming Town, and a stranger evaded her hidden weapons and abducted her as the group rushed to investigate a scream.
• Qian Wanyu, Bai Rou, Li Yunan, Situ Hao, and Mu Sheng fought intelligent living dead, then returned to find the inn’s occupants missing.
• Qian Wanyu concluded that a Yin-Yang Formation governed Homecoming Town’s day-and-night cycle and suspected someone controlled the mutated living dead.
• Qian Wanyu confronted Li Weifeng’s group, warned them that scratches could spread the living-dead infection, and ordered her companions to keep the group from interfering.
• Qin Mu and Xian arrived at the inn, where Qin Mu learned Jin Jing and Li Zhu had been infected.
• Xian learned from Li Weifeng that Qian Minghui had been abducted and abruptly demanded to know what kind of person had taken her.

Xian reacted angrily when Li Weifeng explained what had happened to the Qian sisters in Homecoming Town. She denied knowing them but hinted that she knew two members of the Dongfang Family.

• Xian clenched her fists and asked whether the Qian sisters had been abducted.
• Li Weifeng wondered why Xian cared about the sisters and explained what had happened that day.
• Li Weifeng asked whether Xian knew Qian Wanyu and her sister.
• Xian denied knowing anyone in the Qian family and smiled bloodthirstily as she thought of two people from the Dongfang Family.

Dongfang Minghui found Lü Xing in Homecoming Town and cured the death aura consuming his spiritual power, then returned to Qian Wanyu during a battle against the living dead. The fight escalated when Geng Shan attacked Qian Wanyu, Li Weifeng was struck by her Essence of Thunder, and Xian accused Qian Wanyu of harming a child.

• Dongfang Minghui discovered that Wood had brought her to Lü Xing, examined Lü Xing's wound, and used Love Flower potion to remove the death aura.
• Lü Xing revealed that his Life Tree branch had spent much of its vitality protecting him, and agreed to return to the Royal Academy with Dongfang Minghui and Wood.
• Qian Wanyu's group met Qin Mu and Xian in Homecoming Town and agreed to compete in killing red-eyed living dead.
• Qian Wanyu and her companions fought the living dead, while Dongfang Minghui arrived and reunited with Qian Wanyu.
• A living dead man injured Xian, prompting Geng Shan to attack Qian Wanyu; Li Weifeng shielded him and was struck by Qian Wanyu's Essence of Thunder.
• Xian accused Qian Wanyu of viciously attacking a child, and Qian Wanyu challenged her right to judge.

Qin Mu conceded defeat to Qian Wanyu and prepared to leave with Xian, but first revealed that his cousin was responsible for the destruction of the Dongfang Family.

• Dongfang Minghui worried that Qian Wanyu had injured Li Weifeng too badly and noticed Xian and Qin Mu arriving together.
• Qin Mu agreed that he and Xian had lost the wager and accepted their defeat.
• Xian complained that her throat hurt, and Qin Mu carried her away.
• Qin Mu stopped and told Qian Wanyu that his cousin had wiped out the Dongfang Family.

Dongfang Minghui learned that the Dongfang Family had been wiped out and met with Qin Mu to ask about her mother, but Geng Shan interrupted before Qin Mu could explain everything. After Dongfang Minghui opened her mother's sealed box and found a piece of cloth, Qian Wanyu began using Geng Shan’s feelings for Xian to draw information from him.

• Qian Wanyu left the living dead to Li Yunan and took Dongfang Minghui back to their lodging, where Lü Xing and Wood reunited with them.
• Dongfang Minghui learned that the Dongfang Family had been exterminated and that her mother was missing, while Qian Wanyu warned her that Xian might be Dongfang Lizhu in disguise.
• Qin Mu visited and apologized for Geng Shan’s attack, then arranged to meet Dongfang Minghui privately and claimed her mother had left a message about her true identity.
• Dongfang Minghui met Qin Mu at a restaurant, received a blood-sealed brocade box, and fought Geng Shan after he attacked; her companions captured him as Qin Mu left to deal with Jin Jing and Li Zhu’s escape.
• Dongfang Minghui opened the box and found a piece of white cloth, while Qian Wanyu questioned Geng Shan and offered to prevent Xian from becoming one of the living dead.

Geng Shan begged Qian Wanyu to save Sister Xian, believing she had lifesaving pills. Qian Wanyu warned that he might not agree to her conditions, and he promised to do whatever he could.

• Geng Shan asked Qian Wanyu what it would take for her to save Sister Xian.
• Qian Wanyu said Sister Xian was no relation or friend and that she had no reason to spend her pills on her.
• Geng Shan apologized for offending Qian Wanyu and begged her to save Sister Xian.
• Qian Wanyu warned that he might not agree to what she wanted him to do.
• Geng Shan said he would agree as long as it was within his power.

Qian Wanyu used Geng Shan’s memories and a staged infection to draw out the person posing as Xian, then fought and captured her outside Return Town. The captive’s real identity and the reason she targeted Dongfang Minghui remained unresolved when the group discovered that her neck bore no scratch marks.

• Xian repainted the marks on her neck to make her infection appear worse, while Qian Wanyu released Geng Shan after warning him about her condition.
• Geng Shan confessed his feelings to Xian, then watched the group stage Mu Sheng’s apparent infection and demonstrate Dongfang Minghui’s pills against the living dead poison.
• Geng Shan agreed to Qian Wanyu’s demand and submitted to a Soul Search, after which she instructed him to give Xian a pill and make her swallow it.
• Qian Wanyu disguised herself as Dongfang Minghui and met Xian, who revealed herself as a dark-type Spirit Master and attacked her with ice, illusions, and a giant Black Centipede.
• Qian Wanyu destroyed the Black Centipede, resisted Xian’s dark power and death aura, and captured her with the Water-Thunder Whip.
• Back at the inn, Bai Rou found no wound on Xian’s neck, despite the group having seen her grabbed by the living dead.

Lü Xing identified the woman as a Dark-Type Spirit Master as others discussed her healing. Xian regained enough strength to sit up, then smiled eerily at the people surrounding her.

• Lü Xing said the woman was a Dark-Type Spirit Master.
• Xian struggled to sit upright on the ground.
• Xian looked at the people surrounding and attacking her.
• Xian saw Wood behind Lü Xing and smiled eerily.

Qian Wanyu broke the formation trapping Homecoming Town, unleashing its Living Dead, and led her group toward the gate. Xian seized Dongfang Minghui as a hostage and began making a strange sound just as they reached safety.

• Qian Wanyu concealed Xian from Qin Mu, while Dongfang Minghui learned that her mother had warned her not to return to the Dongfang Family or investigate her origins.
• Qian Wanyu confronted Xian about her connection to Murong Qingyi and the attacks on Dongfang Minghui, but Qing Mo warned that Soul Search could trigger a deadly suggestion in Xian's soul sea.
• Qian Wanyu and Li Yunan found a Yin-Yang Mirror beneath the streambed and removed it, breaking the formation and awakening the Living Dead throughout Homecoming Town.
• Dongfang Minghui, Bai Rou, Lü Xing, Wood, and the others defended the courtyard until Qian Wanyu and Li Yunan returned, then fought their way toward the town gate with Xian captive.
• Xian grabbed Dongfang Minghui by the throat near the gate and threatened to kill her, then began making a piercing, strange sound as Qian Wanyu and the others faced her.