Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiang and her companions were trapped at sea by a demon beast force led by Bai Xi, who wanted to take them to her master as guests. Bai Xi subdued them despite Ning Xiang’s refusal, and Ning Xiang saw her parents rushing to help before she lost consciousness.

• Yu Tingchao hid the group inside his painting artifact, but they emerged underwater beside the fallen mountain as demon beasts closed in.
• Ning Xiang used her Water-Avoidance Pearl to protect herself, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao, and the group climbed onto the mountain and dried off.
• Dozens of demon beasts surrounded the group, and Bai Xi appeared, recognizing the disciples as followers of True Lord Qingchen and Ning Xiang as someone she had met before.
• Ning Xiang recognized Bai Xi as the person who had helped steal a strand of her soul twenty years earlier, and Ning Hui demanded that Bai Xi return it.
• Bai Xi said her master had sent her to invite the group as guests and might return Ning Xiang’s soul, but Ning Xiang refused to go willingly and told Ning Hui their parents were coming.
• Bai Xi released demon fog that stopped the group from circulating spiritual energy, and Ning Xiang saw her parents hurrying toward them before she fell unconscious.

Ning Xiang and Su Lang tried to escape their cell, then used flattery and a surprise attack to capture their guards and question them. They learned the demon cultivators sought the Eastern Sea’s spirit spring and that Bai Xi served the Ghost Lord as the Heaven-Splitting Python’s younger sister.

• Ning Hui offered to sacrifice himself so Ning Xiang and the others could escape, but Ning Xiang and Su Lang made Paper Puppets and tried to dig out with Earth-Digging Talismans.
• Ning Xiang and Su Lang discovered restrictions blocked their escape, so Ning Xiang charmed the guards while Su Lang bound and dragged them into the cell.
• Ning Xiang questioned the guards and learned their master had sent them to steal the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s Array Manual and seize the Eastern Sea’s spirit spring.
• The guards described their master as a powerful human cultivator who controlled demon beasts and had a beast-controlling son.
• The guards revealed that Bai Xi was a snake demon serving the Ghost Lord and the younger sister of Lord Heaven-Splitting Python.

Ning Xiang and her companions escaped the underground prison, defeated the resurrected Fu Yunsheng, and fled from Bai Xi and A Tan. At Tianxuan Island, Lu Qingchen learned Ning Xiang had been captured, collapsed while fighting Demon Beasts, and woke to find her beside him.

• Ning Xiang and her companions disguised themselves as Demon Cultivators with stolen Demon Cores and escaped the prison.
• Ning Xiang, Su Lang, and Ning Hui joined forces to kill the resurrected Fu Yunsheng after he tried to provoke Su Lang into a duel.
• Bai Xi and the masked A Tan confronted the group, but Ning Xiang trapped A Tan in flames and the companions escaped.
• Lu Qingchen learned from Yu Zhengrong that Ning Xiang, Ning Hui, Yu Tingchao, and his eldest disciple had been captured, then fought Demon Beasts with renewed fury.
• Lu Qingchen froze a Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beast, collapsed, and dreamed of killing Ning Xiang before waking to find her at his bedside.

Lu Qingchen realized that the Ning Xiang before him was an illusion and was killed when he attacked it. Meanwhile, the real Ning Xiang and her companions escaped a Demon Domain formation with self-growing soil from the Old Demon King, then continued searching for a way out.

• Lu Qingchen rejected the false Ning Xiang, stabbed her with the Canglang Sword, and was fatally pierced by a hand wreathed in baleful energy.
• Ning Xiang, Zhou Ruoxue, Su Lang, Yu Tingchao, Ning Hui, and Bai Yueguang recognized that they were trapped in another formation and found their Communication Talismans could not reach anyone outside.
• Ning Hui froze the venomous snakes surrounding the group, but the forest turned dark and the ice melted into poisonous black water.
• Ning Xiang summoned Little Nine to carry everyone above the water, but the bird hit a barrier that prevented it from flying higher.
• Ning Xiang used self-growing soil from the Demon King's storage necklace to absorb the black water, allowing the group to land on dry ground.

Ning Xiang and the others searched for the core of the Nine Nether Array, and Yu Tingchao identified its location. After Su Lang struck the core with the Langhua Sword, Ning Xiang found herself alone in a strange corridor until Yu Tingchao answered her call.

• Su Lang explained that the Nine Nether Array had one real core and eight false ones, and Yu Tingchao proposed using the Eastern Sea's terrain to locate it.
• Ning Xiang followed Su Lang and Yu Tingchao, and Yu Tingchao determined where the array's core lay.
• Su Lang promised Ning Xiang he would return alive, then attacked the core with the Langhua Sword and released a burst of golden light.
• Ning Xiang awoke in a strange corridor, could not find the others, and heard Yu Tingchao answer when she called for him.

Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao found themselves on Ghost-Crying Island, where they encountered Mingyuan and bargained for his help escaping. Mingyuan began explaining the island’s ghostly murals as they set out to leave and reunite with Ning Xiang’s senior brother and the others.

• Unable to contact her companions, Ning Xiang learned from Yu Tingchao that they might be on the lost Ghost-Crying Island, and she teased him with a fake ghost scare before Mingyuan appeared.
• Ning Xiang told Mingyuan that Bai Xi had abducted them and the Nine Nether Array had separated them from Senior Brother and the others.
• When Mingyuan demanded payment to guide them out, Ning Xiang bargained for the right to touch his abs whenever she wanted, and he agreed to take both her and Yu Tingchao.
• Mingyuan asked Ning Xiang to transform into a small animal so he could hold her, but Yu Tingchao pulled her away and objected.
• Mingyuan identified the island’s murals as the Hundred Ghosts Compendium and described Vishabha, while Ning Xiang wondered whether the Ghost Lord was connected to the ghosts.

Mingyuan explained how the Hundred Ghosts had ravaged the Eastern Sea before he suppressed them beneath Ghost-Crying Island, and Ning Xiang led her companions through the island’s haunted corridor with surprising ease. The group continued deeper inside and encountered vivid murals that embarrassed Yu Tingchao.

• Mingyuan recounted how the Hundred Ghosts slaughtered cultivators across the Twelve Islands before he trapped them beneath Ghost-Crying Island, which later sank underwater.
• Mingyuan warned Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao about the Vengeful Ghosts, but Ning Xiang easily smashed or drove off the ghosts that approached them.
• Ning Xiang had Yu Tingchao gather ghosts so she could send them out carrying paper likenesses of her companions, and she recruited other ghosts to serve as her mount, musician, and attendant.
• The corridor narrowed until Ning Xiang had to dismiss the ghosts, and the three continued past mirror-smooth walls.
• Ning Xiang admired the walls’ explicit murals, stopped Yu Tingchao from looking, and then offered to record the images and send him a copy.

Ning Xiang and Mingyuan encountered enchanted murals while Su Lang searched for her on a mysterious island. As Lu Qingchen recovered from a grave wound and Xia Buyan and Jiang Miaomiao were swallowed by a demon-toothed shark, Yu Tingchao began acting feverish beside Ning Xiang.

• Ning Xiang secretly recorded the murals, planning to sell them, while Mingyuan warned her that their pigments could affect the senses.
• Shaowei healed Lu Qingchen with a Jiangyun Continuity Pill, but noticed black energy within it; Xia Buyan and Jiang Miaomiao were then swallowed by a demon-toothed shark.
• Su Lang and Zhou Ruoxue reached a supposedly thirteenth island, where Su Lang protected them from vengeful ghosts and bewitched murals.
• Su Lang sensed Ning Xiang nearby and hurried toward her, while Ning Xiang mistook Yu Tingchao's feverish state for the Demon Venerable heating the air and stopped him from opening his robes.

Ning Xiang, Yu Tingchao, and Mingyuan escaped the illusion-filled chamber and discovered that the Hundred Ghosts King’s wedding ritual had selected Mingyuan and Yu Tingchao as husbands. They agreed to investigate whether the king had the Soul-Calming Pearl, and Mingyuan proposed hiding Ning Xiang in his sleeve.

• Yu Tingchao succumbed to the murals’ aphrodisiac effects, but Ning Xiang transmitted Nine Shao Music to him and restored his clarity.
• Mingyuan explained that the murals were illusions created by a Mirage Demon that had swallowed Ghost-Crying Island, and the group left the chamber to search for the Soul-Calming Pearl.
• Eight little ghosts appeared and announced that Mingyuan and Yu Tingchao would be taken as husbands for the Hundred Ghosts King.
• Ning Xiang persuaded Mingyuan and Yu Tingchao to go along with the wedding ritual so they could investigate the king and the possible location of the Soul-Calming Pearl.
• Mingyuan proposed turning Ning Xiang into a little darling and hiding her in his sleeve so she could accompany the two husbands.

Ning Xiang, Mingyuan, and Yu Tingchao were taken to the Hundred Ghosts King's Palace as bridegrooms, where Su Lang joined them after being captured by the palace's little ghosts. A black ghost mistook Ning Xiang for the Hundred Ghosts King and begged her forgiveness, leaving the three men stunned.

• Ning Xiang made Mingyuan and Yu Tingchao wear Wedding Garments before they boarded bridal sedans bound for the Hundred Ghosts King's Palace.
• Ning Pingzhang and Mu Fang'ai captured Bai Xi, who revealed that Ning Xiang's divine soul had escaped while Bai Xi carried it through the Eastern Sea.
• Little ghosts captured Su Lang and brought him to the palace as a third bridegroom, while Zhou Ruoxue stayed behind inside Su Lang's Defensive Formation.
• Ning Xiang, Mingyuan, Yu Tingchao, and Su Lang compared their experiences and decided to wait before confronting the Hundred Ghosts King.
• A black ghost entered to inspect the bridegrooms, saw Ning Xiang, and mistook her for the Hundred Ghosts King.

Ning Xiang met the Hundred Ghosts King, who looked exactly like her and was likely a lost wisp of her Divine Soul. The Hundred Ghosts King revealed a possible lead on the Soul-Calming Pearl, while Ning Xiang asked her to return and meet her parents.

• The Hundred Ghosts King burst into the bedchamber and startled Ning Xiang and the others with her identical appearance and a wound from the Canglang Sword.
• The Hundred Ghosts King explained that she had attacked Lu Qingchen because she kept dreaming he would kill her, and said she had escaped captivity before defeating the previous ghost king.
• Ning Xiang and the Hundred Ghosts King argued over whether cultivation could be balanced with spending time with handsome men.
• The Hundred Ghosts King said she had no Soul-Calming Pearl but had heard it might be on the Hundred-Flower Continent, and Ning Xiang asked Mingyuan to investigate and help reunite the two souls.
• The Hundred Ghosts King offered Ning Xiang half her harem, but Ning Xiang declined and asked her to meet her parents, leaving the Hundred Ghosts King shocked by the request.

Ning Xiang could not persuade the Hundred Ghosts King to leave Ghost-Crying Island, and the King forced her to choose one of three husbands. The chapter ended as Ning Xiang began to announce her choice.

• The Hundred Ghosts King explained that she could not leave Ghost-Crying Island and that her large harem had nothing to do with her pursuit of freedom.
• Mu Fang'ai and Ning Pingzhang caught shrimp while searching for their children, and a masked man rescued Bai Xi.
• Hanying asked Ning Pingzhang where Lu Qingchen was, and True Lord Shaowei revealed that Ning Xiang had emerged from Lu Qingchen's room after he was injured.
• The Hundred Ghosts King ordered Ning Xiang to marry one of Mingyuan, Su Lang, or Yu Tingchao, then began counting down.
• Ning Xiang blurted out, "I choose-" before the chapter ended.

Ning Xiang agreed to marry Mingyuan, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao under the Hundred Ghosts King’s watch, then followed her own heart when lifting the wedding veils. She chose Su Lang first, leaving Mingyuan jealous and Yu Tingchao resigned.

• Ning Xiang declared she could handle marrying all three men, and the Hundred Ghosts King made them perform the wedding bows.
• The Hundred Ghosts King revealed that she had lifted the Puppet Curse before Ning Xiang bowed, then left Black Ghost to bring wedding-night props.
• Ning Xiang rejected Black Ghost’s tray of ropes, candles, and other props as the three men waited on the bed.
• Yu Tingchao teased Ning Xiang about abandoning them, while Mingyuan warned her to choose carefully and Su Lang promised to support her decision.
• Ning Xiang lifted Su Lang’s veil first and gazed into his eyes, prompting Mingyuan to tear off his own veil and Yu Tingchao to accept her choice.

Ning Xiang tried to settle the wedding-night sleeping arrangements with Mingyuan, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao, then woke from an erotic dream amid a strange fragrance that stirred their desires. After Su Lang's flute and Little Flower's noisy performance calmed everyone, the Hundred Ghosts King entered and said Su Lang's flute seemed familiar.

• Ning Xiang conjured her own bed, but Mingyuan pulled her onto his with the Soul-Devouring Whip, and Su Lang protected her when Mingyuan threatened to kill him.
• Mingyuan privately tempted Ning Xiang with the promise of touching his abs, but she retreated behind Su Lang after feeling guilty about Senior Brother and then heard Yu Tingchao claim his wound hurt again.
• Ning Xiang served a late-night snack, set up two tents alongside the beds, and fell asleep dreaming that Mingyuan, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao were competing for her affection.
• Ning Xiang woke thirsty and suspected Black Ghost had put an arousal aid in the incense, then asked Su Lang to play the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute while Little Flower made enough noise to dispel their restlessness.
• The Hundred Ghosts King entered the bedroom and told Su Lang that his flute music sounded familiar and that she thought she had seen his flute before.

Controlled Vengeful Ghosts attacked the Hundred Ghosts King's group, while Ning Xiang and her companions struggled to coordinate their defenses. Elsewhere, Ning Pingzhang sought a way to save Lu Qingchen and received news that the Tracking Talisman had located Bai Xi.

• The Hundred Ghosts King revealed that her subordinates had captured a fierce young woman, and Ning Xiang realized that Bai Yueguang and Senior Brother Ning were missing.
• Black Ghost warned that a great many ghosts had revolted, and the group fought the strengthened, controlled Vengeful Ghosts outside the bedchamber.
• Su Lang used the Four Spirits Life-and-Death Fan to block a Bladeworm Ghost's poison, while Ning Hui arrived carrying Bai Yueguang and reunited with Ning Xiang.
• Mingyuan's flames melted Ning Hui's ice attack, and Su Lang's fan blew heat and ash back at the group before Ning Xiang shielded them with the Starcloud Umbrella.
• Hanying told Ning Pingzhang that the Hundred Ghosts King might remove the ghostly energy around Lu Qingchen's heart, so Ning Pingzhang planned to take Lu Qingchen to Ghost-Crying Island.
• After Ning Pingzhang and True Lord Shaowei drove back the Demon Beasts, Mu Fang'ai told Ning Pingzhang that the Tracking Talisman had found where Bai Xi went.

Ning Xiang and her companions survived the ghost invasion, while the Hundred Ghosts King recalled her connection to Ning Xiang’s divine soul. After Mingyuan broke up the Hundred Ghosts King’s harem, Ning Xiang became caught between Mingyuan’s plans and her companions’ efforts to keep her close to them.

• Su Lang’s flute quieted the ghosts, and the Hundred Ghosts King remembered that she was part of Ning Xiang’s divine soul.
• The group returned to the sleeping palace, where the Hundred Ghosts King learned that Mingyuan had beaten up all 159 handsome men in her harem.
• Mingyuan persuaded the Hundred Ghosts King to dismiss her harem by warning that the Old Demon King would soon arrive.
• Mingyuan offered to take Ning Xiang to the Tai Bai Domain, but Yu Tingchao reminded her of her promise to stay with him in the Eastern Sea.
• Su Lang gave Ning Xiang the Four Spirits Life-and-Death Fan and pretended his scratches were serious, prompting Ning Xiang to support him.
• Su Lang cast a Puppet Curse on Zhou Ruoxue, making her tell Ning Xiang to take good care of him.

Su Lang cared for Ning Xiang after she fell asleep and learned from the Hundred Ghosts King that the Ghost Lord was dangerous and might be connected to Ning Xiang’s missing divine soul. On Tianxuan Island, Hanying discovered her husband’s hundreds of unanswered messages before Zhu Yu arrived to help defend the island and asked after Ning Xiang.

• Ning Xiang treated Su Lang’s wounds, told him a story, and fell asleep after insisting he would never lie.
• Su Lang nearly kissed Ning Xiang but hurried away when he encountered the Hundred Ghosts King, who warned him to leave Ghost-Crying Island before the Ghost Lord’s people arrived.
• The Hundred Ghosts King explained that the Ghost Lord had stolen a magical treasure from the Underworld’s Ghost Emperor, had once severely injured the Demon Venerable, and might be searching for something that could defeat him.
• Hanying opened her Communication Talisman and found more than four hundred messages her missing husband had sent over the past year, including a recent message describing his diminishing periods of lucidity.
• Demon beasts attacked Tianxuan Island, and Zhu Yu arrived in a massive flying pavilion, rescued Hanying, and asked Ning Pingzhang where Ning Xiang was.

Mingyuan implanted a Life-Share Gu in Ning Xiang and revealed that he had known her from fifteen years earlier in the Eastern Sea. As demon beasts and vengeful ghosts overwhelmed the group on Ghost-Crying Island, Mingyuan sent Ning Xiang away and charged into the beasts.

• Mingyuan gave Ning Xiang a Life-Share Gu, then explained that their wedding ceremony made them husband and wife and that she had saved him fifteen years earlier in the Eastern Sea.
• Ning Xiang learned that demon beasts were swarming toward them, and Mingyuan said the Soul-Restoring Bell might help merge the Hundred Ghosts King's divine soul with him.
• The group left the palace and fought powerful demon beasts and vengeful ghosts, while Ning Xiang told Yu Tingchao to take Junior Sister Zhou and the others to the Twelve Islands for reinforcements.
• Crimson flame birds attacked with fiery feather arrows, forcing everyone to retreat toward the shore as the flames spread.
• Mingyuan pushed Ning Xiang into Su Lang's arms, ordered him to take her away, and charged into the pursuing demon beasts with Soul-Rending.

Ning Xiang remembered how she had first met Mingyuan before fighting beside him against the demon beasts on Ghost-Crying Island. After a rift swallowed Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao, the others tried to reach them, while a mysterious woman appeared to save Su Lang.

• Ning Xiang recalled rescuing a young Mingyuan from the seabed and receiving a Teng Snake tendon in exchange for milk tea.
• The Hundred Ghosts King revealed that Ghost-Crying Island's seal prevented anyone from leaving, and a demon beast horde attacked the group.
• Mingyuan killed Fu Ping and the Black Nether Bear, but the survivors were forced to flee as the island flooded with seawater.
• Ning Pingzhang, Zhu Yu, and Lu Qingchen approached the island, and Zhu Yu cleared the avian demon beasts from the sky.
• A chasm opened beneath Yu Tingchao and Ning Xiang; after Ning Xiang felt the pain of the Hundred Ghosts King, the rift dragged her underground and vanished.
• Lu Qingchen leaped into the ground after Ning Xiang, while a mysterious woman in a green dress saved Su Lang and greeted him as her senior brother.

Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao were trapped in a freezing underground pool while their companions searched desperately above. Ning Xiang found the unconscious Yu Tingchao and warmed him with her heartfire, then asked the Dog System for medical books and discovered it had supplied manuals about sex instead.

• Mingyuan and the others searched the icy waters for Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao, while Su Lang fought his distress and returned to the Cold Pool despite his injuries.
• Ning Xiang recovered from the freezing water and searched for Yu Tingchao with Little Nine.
• Ning Xiang found Yu Tingchao unconscious on floating ice, brought him ashore, and changed his frozen clothes after warming him by a fire.
• Ning Xiang used her heartfire to warm Yu Tingchao through a forceful kiss, though he remained unconscious.
• Ning Xiang asked the Dog System for medical books, but it conjured several books about married life and sex instead.