Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiang and Zhu Yu argued over her plans to fill a harem before she was abducted by Demon Cultivators, who mistook her for the Demon King. After Zhu Yu arrived, Ning Xiang used the captors’ broken gourd to trap their leader, and Zhu Yu confronted her about calling herself a cross-dressing pro.

• Ning Xiang told Zhu Yu she planned to fill her harem, and he revealed that he had been able to hear her thoughts since they first met.
• Zhu Yu sealed Ning Xiang’s spiritual power and kept her awake until she was exhausted; the next morning, she remained angry with him.
• A dark figure abducted Ning Xiang and her Communication Talisman in a gourd while Zhu Yu was meeting with Mingyuan.
• Ning Xiang convinced the Demon Cultivators that she was the Demon King by pointing out their supposed similarities, until their Great Demon called her bluff.
• Zhu Yu arrived at the Lotus Palace, and Ning Xiang knocked out the Demon Cultivators with her Sledgehammer.
• Ning Xiang explained that she had broken the gourd’s mouth, then used it to suck the Great Demon inside; Zhu Yu caught her as she tried to escape and asked if she was a cross-dressing pro.

Ning Xiang, Zhu Yu, and Mingyuan fought the Ghost Lord’s forces after learning he was on the Tianyuan Continent. The heavenly divine beast Cui Han arrived and attacked them with a treasure vase, leaving Ning Xiang to identify its Golden Crow Brightflame.

• Ning Xiang questioned Ji Yun, and Mingyuan used the Soul-Seizing Technique to learn that the Ghost Lord was on the Tianyuan Continent.
• A fresh wave of demon beasts attacked, and Ning Xiang, Zhu Yu, and Mingyuan stayed to fight together.
• The Purple Tenuity Domain’s tribal chiefs urged their forces to capture Zhu Yu and Mingyuan alive, while Ning Xiang fought with her Azure Sea Sword and Thunderclap Pearls.
• Mingyuan killed several great demons, Zhu Yu battled the demon beasts, and Lei Aotian trampled a black-backed roc that had targeted Ning Xiang.
• Cui Han arrived as the Ghost Lord’s Right Envoy, and Zhu Yu shielded Ning Xiang from the fiery serpents released by Cui Han’s treasure vase.
• Ning Xiang recognized the attack as Golden Crow Brightflame.

Ning Xiang drove Cui Han away with her treasures, then learned how Zhu Yu had met Mars Star Lord and disappeared from the Tai Bai Domain. She awoke in a cold jade palace before Mars Star Lord, who said he would kill her despite her resemblance to someone he knew.

• Ning Xiang used the Azure Sea Sword, Four Spirits Life-and-Death Fan, and self-growing soil to repel Cui Han and the demon beasts.
• Ning Xiang, Zhu Yu, and Mingyuan argued over her rescue, and Mingyuan accidentally tangled their hair before cutting off a lock for his Storage Ring.
• Zhu Yu revealed that Mars Star Lord had trained him for a hundred and ten years, given him the pearls for his God-Subduing Twin Maces, and urged him to believe in the light.
• Mingyuan and Zhu Yu realized Ning Xiang had vanished from the Tai Bai Domain when they could no longer contact or track her.
• Ning Xiang awoke in an icy jade palace, where Mars Star Lord appeared and declared that he would kill her despite her resemblance to someone else.

Ning Xiang fought the Mars Star Lord, Lord Yuyi, who recognized her Golden Crow Brightflame and seemed to see someone from his past in her. The Ghost Emperor rescued her, while Cui Han revealed that the Mars Star Lord had sent the Open-Mind Beast after Zhu Yu and Mingyuan.

• Ning Xiang used her Golden Crow Brightflame to stop Lord Yuyi’s attack, and he said only one person had ever subdued it before her.
• Lord Yuyi pressured Ning Xiang with his divine power, but stopped when she saw a vision of a woman holding a sword like the Azure Sea Sword.
• Ning Xiang fought back with the Azure Sea Sword, but Lord Yuyi caught her strike before the Ghost Emperor appeared and intervened.
• The Ghost Emperor asked Lord Yuyi to help oversee the Underworld, and Lord Yuyi refused before vanishing.
• Cui Han told Lord Yuyi that he had sent the Open-Mind Beast to capture Zhu Yu and Mingyuan, while Lord Yuyi examined the hand burned by Ning Xiang’s Golden Crow Brightflame.

The Ghost Emperor told Ning Xiang that her junior brother had vanished from the Book of Life and Death and advised her to return to the starting point, while warning her that rebuilding the Demon-Subduing Formation would require a living sacrifice. Lord Yuyi attacked Ning Xiang, and Zhu Yu arrived to protect her before divine chains pierced him.

• The Ghost Emperor explained the history of the Kongtong Seal and the former Mars Star Lord, a woman who resembled Ning Xiang and had died with her body and soul destroyed.
• The Ghost Emperor said Ning Xiang's junior brother was beyond his jurisdiction and pointed her toward returning to the starting point, then explained how she could reconstruct the Demon-Subduing Formation at the cost of a living human sacrifice.
• Lord Yuyi ambushed Ning Xiang after the Ghost Emperor left and wounded her with wind blades and arrows of light.
• Zhu Yu arrived and caught Lord Yuyi's arrow, then declared that Lord Yuyi was not the Mars Star Lord.
• Lord Yuyi noted that Zhu Yu had lost his power, and divine chains pierced Zhu Yu's shoulder and heart as he covered Ning Xiang's eyes and told her not to look.

Ning Xiang dreamed of Zhu Yu’s youth and learned how the goddess who raised him had given him the Fire-Illuminating Pearl and Water-Reflecting Pearl before disappearing. After waking at Tangli Cottage with the pearls, Ning Xiang absorbed their energy, reached core formation peak, and faced tribulation lightning.

• Zhu Yu teleported Ning Xiang away from Lord Yuyi and suggested Lord Yuyi wanted the Fire-Illuminating Pearl and Water-Reflecting Pearl.
• Ning Xiang dreamed of the goddess finding young Zhu Yu, saving him, and guiding his cultivation over many years.
• The goddess gave Zhu Yu the Fire-Illuminating Pearl, the Water-Reflecting Pearl, and self-growing soil before leaving and never returning.
• Ning Xiang woke at Tangli Cottage as Su Lang, Jiang Miaomiao, and Wen Maimai watched over her.
• The two pearls released their energy into Ning Xiang, advancing her from late core formation to core formation peak.
• Tribulation lightning struck as Su Lang raised a Defensive Formation around Tangli Cottage and stood guard over Ning Xiang.

Ning Xiang endured twenty-one days of tribulation and overcame a heart demon to successfully form her nascent soul, while Lu Qingchen secretly took the lightning in her place. She emerged to learn that demon beasts had attacked the Profound Heaven Sect, leaving Martial Uncle Fuming dead and Second Senior Brother gravely injured.

• Su Lang called Lu Qingchen to Tangli Cottage after Ning Xiang began an unexpectedly early Nascent Soul Formation.
• Ning Xiang resisted a heart demon that showed Zhu Yu dying, recognized the false God-Subduing Mace, and regained her senses.
• Lu Qingchen secretly endured Ning Xiang's tribulation lightning for twenty-one days with True Lord Shaowei's help, then told him to keep it from Xiangxiang.
• Ning Xiang successfully formed her nascent soul and discovered that two of Zhu Yu's repaired Five-Colored Stones were shining again.
• Jiang Miaomiao and Wen Maimai told Ning Xiang that demon beasts had attacked the Profound Heaven Sect, Martial Uncle Fuming had died, and Second Senior Brother was gravely injured.

Ning Xiang reached Azure Nether Valley amid the spreading beast tide and learned how the Cultivation Realm had fallen into chaos. After finding her injured mother and gravely wounded Second Senior Brother, she hunted the demon beasts responsible and followed one to the Ghost Lord’s palace.

• Jiang Miaomiao told Ning Xiang that the Northern Ten Continents had fallen, the Hundred-Flower Continent had burned, and the Eastern Sea islands were sinking as the beast tide devastated the Cultivation Realm.
• Ning Xiang found Mu Fang'ai with a twisted ankle, made her drink reheated pig trotter soup, and then visited the unconscious Xie Feihong, who had been badly wounded protecting his fellow disciples.
• Ning Xiang gave Jiang Miaomiao talismans for protection and went alone into the mountains to find the demon beasts that had attacked Xie Feihong.
• Ning Xiang killed several demon beasts, took their demon cores, and forced a surviving beast to lead her toward the Ghost Lord.
• After the demon beast activated a Teleportation Array and brought her to the Ghost Lord’s palace, Ning Xiang killed him and took his demon core despite his belief that she had promised to spare him.

Ning Xiang forced the Ghost Lord to contact Cui Han, who took her to Lord Yuyi at the Southern Fire Virtue Mars Palace. There, Lord Yuyi showed her Zhu Yu and Mingyuan imprisoned and tortured, then demanded she choose which one to save.

• Ning Xiang threatened the Ghost Lord with the Fire-Illuminating Pearl and the Water-Reflecting Pearl, but learned that he could regenerate and that Cui Han delivered messages for the Mars Star Lord.
• Cui Han arrived and brought Ning Xiang to Lord Yuyi at the Southern Fire Virtue Mars Palace.
• Ning Xiang refused to hand over the pearls until Lord Yuyi agreed to release the captives, threatening to destroy the pearls with the Kongtong Seal.
• Lord Yuyi showed Ning Xiang Zhu Yu and Mingyuan bound in divine shackles and revealed that they had been tortured for twenty-one days.
• Lord Yuyi told Ning Xiang she could take only one of them and had to choose whom to abandon.

Ning Xiang learned she was Yinghuo after breaking free of Lord Yuyi’s God-Sealing Chains and defeating him with Golden Crow Brightflame. She found Zhu Yu and Mingyuan imprisoned below the hall, but Qin Ge stopped her from killing Lord Yuyi.

• Ning Xiang fought Lord Yuyi, who bound her with God-Sealing Chains and revealed his resentment toward Yinghuo and his desire to destroy the Fire-Illuminating Pearl and Reflecting Water.
• As Lord Yuyi tried to kill her, Ning Xiang relived Yinghuo’s memories of her love for Lord Xijing, her conflict with the Heavenly Emperor, and her betrayal and death in the Heavenly Court.
• Ning Xiang recognized herself as Yinghuo, absorbed power from the Fire-Illuminating Pearl, broke the chains, and burned Lord Yuyi with Golden Crow Brightflame.
• The collapsing divine hall exposed a hidden chamber where Ning Xiang found Zhu Yu and Mingyuan barely alive in cages.
• Qin Ge caught the tip of Ning Xiang’s Azure Sea Sword as she tried to kill Lord Yuyi, who recognized him and laughed.

Qin Ge rescued Ning Xiang from Lord Yuyi and brought her and the badly wounded Zhu Yu and Mingyuan to Azure Nether Valley for treatment. As Ning Xiang lay unconscious, news arrived that the demon beasts were preparing to attack the Tianyuan Continent and that Tingchao was alive.

• Qin Ge bound Lord Yuyi with the God-Sealing Chain and gave him to Ning Xiang to torment before turning him over to the Thunder Department.
• Ning Xiang collapsed from her injuries and the strain of holding a heavenly god's cultivation, so Qin Ge carried her and dragged Lord Yuyi, Zhu Yu, and Mingyuan to Azure Nether Valley.
• Ning Pingzhang and his sons saw Ning Xiang's condition, while Mu Fang'ai and the others grieved over her and the wounded men.
• Zhou Ruoxue and the other healers treated Ning Xiang as Qin Ge used a restoration art to heal Zhu Yu and Mingyuan.
• Shaowei announced that the demon beasts had abandoned the Eastern Sea and planned to attack the Tianyuan Continent, and that Tingchao had survived and reached core formation.

After Qin Ge healed Ning Xiang, she recovered and reunited with Zhu Yu and Mingyuan during a rare seven-day truce. On the snowy night before New Year's Eve, Ning Xiang arrived at Solitary Light Peak and heard a young man greet her: “Senior Sister, long time no see.”

• Qin Ge healed Ning Xiang, but Little Nine exposed her as she woke, and their awkward encounter led Ning Xiang to bite Qin Ge while everyone walked in.
• Ning Xiang pretended to remain ill so she could enjoy being cared for, then rushed to see Zhu Yu and Mingyuan when they woke.
• The cultivators and Demon Beasts agreed to a seven-day truce, and Mingyuan and Zhu Yu returned with Ning Xiang and the others to the Profound Heaven Sect.
• On the snowy night before New Year's Eve, Ning Xiang followed Su Lang to Solitary Light Peak after True Lord Shaowei promised her a surprise.
• Ning Xiang found a young man waiting beneath a covered walkway, and he greeted her, “Senior Sister, long time no see.”

Ning Xiang returned to the Profound Heaven Sect and celebrated the New Year with her family, fellow cultivators, and disciples. As Lu Qingchen prepared to confess his feelings while they watched fireworks, Wen Maimai called them in for hot pot.

• Ning Xiang reunited with Yu Tingchao, then exaggerated her heroics to the cultivators who welcomed them back.
• Ning Xiang hid from Zhu Yu and Mingyuan at the Ning Residence, where she spent the night with her family before attending the sect's New Year's ceremony.
• The Sect Leader praised Lu Qingchen's teaching and assigned him ten Foundation Establishment Realm disciples, but Lu Qingchen had Su Lang and Yu Tingchao drive them away, prompting Ning Xiang to complain to the Sect Leader.
• Ning Xiang discovered the Sect Leader secretly reading "The 10,001st Divorce" and decided the Profound Heaven Sect's future looked bleak.
• Ning Xiang and Xie Feihong started a snowball fight with Uncle-Master Fuming's young son, and Lu Qingchen punished Xie Feihong after a snowball hit him.
• Lu Qingchen stood with Ning Xiang watching fireworks and worked up to confessing his feelings, but Wen Maimai called them inside for hot pot.

Ning Xiang celebrated New Year’s Eve with her companions, got tipsy, and caused trouble with a parrot before the gathering turned to divination. Qin Ge received a Fate Card declaring that what he sought could not be attained, but resolved to pursue it anyway; the next morning, Ning Xiang greeted Su Lang in the snow.

• Ning Xiang joined the Solitary Light Peak feast, avoided Jiang Miaomiao’s poetry-filled food hoarding, and sat beside Su Lang as Qin Ge reminded her of a promise from twenty-four years earlier.
• Su Lang drank many toasts for himself and Ning Xiang, then drunkenly praised her under the moonlight while she returned the compliment.
• After two kakapos drank her Rose Dew, tipsy Ning Xiang tried to roast Xiangxiang with Golden Crow Brightflame, and Lu Qingchen rescued it at the cost of its newly regrown feathers.
• When Wen Maimai suggested a Tarot Cards game, Qin Ge held a Fate Card he had divined for himself that read, “What you seek cannot be attained,” then crushed it and decided to force his way forward.
• Ning Xiang woke at Tangli Cottage to find New Year’s gift money beneath her pillow, then greeted Su Lang outside in the snow.

As demonic qi and ghost qi spread across the Cultivation Realm, Ning Xiang learned that the Ghost Lord carried a fragment of Demon God Houqing’s soul and that defeating him might require the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation. After days of mounting losses, Senior Brother told her that the Profound Heaven Sect had forged the formation, leaving her facing the possibility of another sacrifice.

• Qin Ge caught Ning Xiang at the Underworld entrance and explained that she and Xi Jing had once sacrificed themselves to seal Demon God Houqing.
• Qin Ge revealed that Yuyi had hidden a fragment of Houqing’s soul, which had fused with the Ghost Lord, and warned Ning Xiang that the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation required a Jade Spirit Body.
• Demon beasts attacked across the Cultivation Realm, forcing sects and cultivators of many ranks to unite while casualties mounted.
• Ning Xiang fought alongside the cultivators, remembered fallen fighters including Luo Hanzhen and Mu Jianying, and offered Bai Yueguang spirit stones before taking them back when he misunderstood her intentions.
• Demon beasts besieged the Profound Heaven Sect as ghost qi overwhelmed its disciples and the Soul-Calming Pearl weakened.
• On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, Senior Brother told Ning Xiang that the Profound Heaven Sect had forged the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation.

Ning Xiang learned that the Dog System had sent her back under the wrong script, then left Su Lang unconscious and went to confront the Ghost Lord. She began absorbing his ghost qi, leaving him horrified as the battle continued.

• Su Lang lied that he would not sacrifice himself, and Ning Xiang secretly knocked him unconscious and carried him to her room.
• Ning Xiang questioned the Dog System, which explained that her past actions had caused plot bugs and that it had bound her to the wrong script.
• Ning Xiang left the Thunder Qilin to guard Su Lang and flew away to find the Ghost Lord.
• Ning Xiang confronted the Ghost Lord and fought him with the Azure Sea Sword, using talismans to evade his attacks.
• The Ghost Lord summoned black wings and unleashed a fierce wind, but Ning Xiang appeared in midair and began drawing his ghost qi into herself.

Ning Xiang escaped the Ghost Lord after using Yuyi as a decoy, then returned toward the Profound Heaven Sect as a beast tide attacked. As the sect burned, Su Lang confronted the Ghost Lord in the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation while Qin Ge carried Ning Xiang away at Su Lang's request.

• Ning Xiang resisted the ghost qi and escaped the Ghost Lord by throwing Yuyi into the path of his Chaos Demon Axes.
• Ning Xiang met Lu Qingchen, whose Canglang Sword attacked her before he stopped it and tended to his wounded hand with her help.
• Ning Xiang and Lu Qingchen discovered a beast tide approaching the Profound Heaven Sect, and Lu Qingchen returned to reinforce the sect with the Illusory Spirit Mountains and Seas Map.
• Ning Xiang fought through the demon beasts on Little Nine and saw the Ghost Lord ravaging the burning Profound Heaven Sect as Su Lang confronted him.
• Qin Ge restrained Ning Xiang and carried her away at Su Lang's request while Su Lang trapped the Ghost Lord in the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation.

Ning Xiang sacrificed herself beside Su Lang to destroy the Ghost Lord, then woke with him in the modern Otherworld. After learning they would return to the Cultivation Realm in three months, she discovered she could hear Su Lang’s thoughts and assigned him all the housework.

• Ning Xiang poured her divine power into the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation, destroying the Ghost Lord and the Demon God at the cost of her life.
• Ning Xiang woke in a modern room, found Su Lang there, and reunited with him.
• Ning Xiang explained that they had been transported to the Otherworld and could return to the Cultivation Realm when the Teleportation Array opened in three months.
• Ning Xiang discovered she could hear Su Lang’s affectionate thoughts and kissed his cheek.
• The system gave Ning Xiang their legal identities, living expenses, and everything they owned in the Cultivation Realm before departing.
• Ning Xiang found the refrigerator empty and told Su Lang that he would handle all the housework.

Ning Xiang helped Su Lang explore the modern world, but his experiments caused mishaps and her teasing brought out his jealousy. She began a diary to record their three months together and planned to take him hiking the next day.

• Ning Xiang taught Su Lang to use the internet, and his searches led to adult advertisements that exposed the contraceptives the Dog System had left behind.
• Su Lang accidentally wrecked the kitchen while trying to bake Ning Xiang a cake, and she comforted him after hearing his thoughts about her childhood.
• Ning Xiang tried to persuade Su Lang to wear a short dress, but he covered her with his robe and admitted other people would look at her.
• Ning Xiang kissed Su Lang, ordered takeout, and started a diary to preserve their time together.
• Ning Xiang searched for romantic activities for couples and told Su Lang they would go hiking the next day.

Ning Xiang and Su Lang climbed a mountain to watch the sunrise, and Su Lang carried her through the night while recalling their shared past lives. After a freak storm soaked them, they hurried to a hotel, where Ning Xiang asked whether he remembered what happened at the Spirit Spring in the Eastern Sea.

• Ning Xiang took Su Lang by taxi to climb a mountain, and they bought supplies before setting off on foot.
• After Ning Xiang grew exhausted, Su Lang carried her up the mountain while she remembered how safe she had always felt with him.
• As Ning Xiang slept on his back, Su Lang recalled their past lives as the Star Lord of the Moon Mansion and Yinghuo, and told her that waiting for her had been worth it.
• Su Lang carried Ning Xiang through the night, and they watched the sunrise together before a bizarre storm struck only them.
• Su Lang took the soaked Ning Xiang to a nearby hotel to warm up, and she asked whether he remembered the Spirit Spring in the Eastern Sea and suggested doing something naughty.