Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiang and Mingyuan waited out a demonic beast’s ongoing tribulation in a cave, teasing and provoking each other as her injured ankle healed. When they finally prepared to leave, Mingyuan cornered her and asked whether he could kiss her.

• Ning Xiang woke in Mingyuan’s arms, kicked him away, and then watched a storm erupt as a demonic beast underwent tribulation nearby.
• Ning Xiang contacted Yu Tingchao, who vowed to rescue her, while Mingyuan said he would wait for the boy’s challenge.
• Ning Xiang tried to make Mingyuan perform a belly dance with a Paper Puppet, but he destroyed it and offered to teach her alchemy or artifact refining instead.
• After three days in the cave, Ning Xiang told Zhu Yu that Mingyuan had abducted her and promised to become a male stripper to support her.
• Ning Xiang agreed to let Mingyuan continue their unfinished encounter, then poked his chest until he caught her hand.
• Mingyuan cornered Ning Xiang against the cave wall, held her chin, and asked, “May I?”

Ning Xiang reunited with her companions in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave and learned that demon beasts were attacking all three domains while the Beast Taming Sect pursued the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. As the group hurried toward the blood-burning red lotus, Jiang Miaomiao was dragged into the ground, and Ning Xiang and Xia Buyan tried to save her.

• On their fifth day in the cave, Ning Xiang reunited with Ning Hui and the others, and Mingyuan accompanied them as they searched for the blood-burning red lotus.
• Ning Su reported that beast tides were ravaging the Tianyuan Continent, that the Beast Taming Sect had attacked them, and that Mu Jianying was gravely wounded while Bai Yueguang was cursed and bound.
• Ning Xiang learned that the Hundred-Flower Continent was also under attack, with demon beasts targeting the Qin Household's sword manual for the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Mingyuan explained that the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation derived from the Demon-Subduing Sword Formation, while Ning Hui urged Ning Xiang to return quickly to the Eastern Sea.
• As the group struggled through shifting sickly trees, Jiang Miaomiao sank into the ground, and Ning Xiang and Mingyuan used their weapons to try to pull her free.
• Ning Xiang refused to abandon Jiang Miaomiao, and Xia Buyan offered to save her while Ning Xiang insisted he would need her approval to marry her.

Mingyuan and the others encountered a corpse wraith that tried to trap them in its cavern and claim them as brides and nourishment. After Mingyuan subdued it with a sack, Ning Xiang demanded to know where its parents were.

• Mingyuan used Soul-Rending to open the mire and Ning Xiang rescued Jiang Miaomiao, then the group decided to leave the cavern after Xia Buyan sensed dense corpse baleful intent.
• Ning Xiang scolded Laifu for kicking a watermelon rind into a skeleton, and the skeletons then transformed from the sickly trees and closed in on the group.
• Ning Xiang charged toward the cavern, where her flames forced the hidden creature to emerge as a tiny, fanged being.
• The creature called itself a ghost and sent skeletons to attack, while Ning Hui froze the nearest ones and Su Lang identified the creature as a corpse wraith that could not be killed.
• The corpse wraith declared that the women would become his brides and the men would feed his skeletal army, but Mingyuan trapped him in a sack and Ning Xiang grabbed him by the collar.

Ning Xiang lectured the Corpse Wraith into letting them go, then exposed Ning Hui for taking spirit stones from Mingyuan and collected the money. As they searched for the blood-burning red lotus, Xia Buyan spotted something behind them.

• Ning Xiang scolded the Corpse Wraith for spitting at her and taught him the Core Socialist Values until he promised to behave.
• The Corpse Wraith followed Ning Xiang and the others, but Ning Xiang called him ugly and useless until he cried and agreed to mend his ways.
• Ning Hui reminded Ning Xiang that she had played house with Zhong Xuan as a child, undermining her boasts to the Corpse Wraith.
• Ning Xiang accused Ning Hui of accepting spirit stones from Mingyuan, then demanded and received nine million spirit stones from him and twenty million from Mingyuan.
• Ning Xiang wondered whether they would encounter the demonic beast undergoing tribulation, and Xia Buyan urged her to look behind them.

Ning Xiang and her companions encountered a powerful Ao Yin and a Corpse Wraith in the Skeleton Forest while searching for blood-burning red lotus. The Ao Yin set off to kill the Old Demon King, and the Corpse Wraith led the group toward the flower after Ning Xiang promised to consider staying with him.

• Ning Xiang threw Soul-Rending into the Ao Yin’s mouth, and the creature challenged Mingyuan after recognizing him as the Demon Venerable.
• Mingyuan defeated the Ao Yin, which pledged its allegiance; he ordered it to kill the Old Demon King and bring back his head.
• The group remained trapped in the Skeleton Forest, where the Corpse Wraith invited Ning Xiang to play hide-and-seek in exchange for releasing her companions.
• Ning Xiang bargained with the Corpse Wraith for directions to blood-burning red lotus, and it revealed its true form and led the group onward.
• Xia Buyan mistook Ning Xiang’s knowledge of the Twenty-Four Characters for fan devotion, and Mingyuan knocked him away from her.

Ning Xiang and her companions reached the red lotus karmic flame, where the blood-burning red lotus grew. Despite the danger, she decided to enter the flames herself to obtain it and save her master.

• Ning Xiang tricked the Corpse Wraith into carrying Soul-Rending, which crushed him, but he reformed and agreed to lead the group to the blood-burning red lotus.
• The Corpse Wraith led them toward the lotus and warned that only someone with a fire spiritual root could subdue the karmic flame and pluck it.
• Mingyuan offered to retrieve the lotus, but Ning Xiang stopped him because he lacked a fire spiritual root and insisted the task was hers because her divine soul had caused her master's injury.
• Ning Xiang gave her companions a series of instructions in case she did not return, then walked toward the red lotus karmic flame.
• Yu Tingchao caught Ning Xiang's wrist, and she told him she would make Iceberg Lu reflect on his life by demonstrating her own virtue.

Ning Xiang entered the Red Lotus Karmic Flame with the Cold-Soul Pearl and endured visions of her past with Lu Qingchen to retrieve the blood-burning red lotus. She returned safely but passed out after making Mingyuan carry her under the weight of Giant Spirit Talismans.

• The Corpse Wraith told Ning Xiang that the Cold-Soul Pearl could protect her briefly in the Red Lotus Karmic Flame, and she revealed she already had one.
• Ning Xiang entered the karmic flame while Mingyuan and the others waited outside, and Mingyuan stopped the Corpse Wraith from leaving.
• Ning Xiang reached the blood-burning red lotus, endured memories of Solitary Light Peak and piercing Lu Qingchen's heart, and drew the karmic flame into the Azure Sea Sword.
• Ning Xiang placed the blood-burning red lotus inside her golden core, weakening the Red Lotus Karmic Flame, and emerged after the others feared she was lost.
• Mingyuan carried Ning Xiang after confirming she was unharmed, but she passed out after secretly covering herself with Giant Spirit Talismans.

Ning Xiang recovered at Chaohua Palace while Zhu Yu and Mingyuan fought over her, then set out for the Eastern Sea. Her Heaven-Question post about the two men went viral, leaving her mortified as the rivals confronted her aboard the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel.

• Zhu Yu scolded Ning Xiang for endangering herself to obtain medicinal ingredients, then tried to take her back to the Purple Tenuity Domain and keep her away from Mingyuan.
• Ning Xiang rested at Chaohua Palace while Zhu Yu and Mingyuan repeatedly fought at her bedside, then prepared to return to the Eastern Sea.
• Xing Dahai encouraged Mingyuan to pursue Ning Xiang and promised to manage the Tai Bai Domain in his absence.
• On the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel, Jiang Miaomiao showed Mingyuan Ning Xiang’s viral Heaven-Question post about the two men fighting over her.
• Ning Xiang hid behind Zhu Yu and begged him to protect her, but Zhu Yu confronted her about wanting to balance her relationships with him and Mingyuan.

Ning Xiang returned to Tianxuan Island with the blood-burning red lotus and reunited with her family, while the Eastern Sea’s demonic aura continued to worsen. After visiting Ning Hui and Lu Qingchen, she learned that Zhu Yu, Mingyuan, and Qin Ge had started fighting and rushed to intervene.

• Ning Xiang suggested that the powerful figures talk things out, then proposed they fight instead; she learned Zhu Yu had defeated the Ao Yin, who then accepted Zhu Yu as his master.
• The Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel carried Ning Xiang and the others through the thickening demonic aura toward Tianxuan Island, and Ning Xiang noticed her senior brother showing signs of reaching Nascent Soul Formation on Penglai Island.
• Ning Xiang reunited with Ning Pingzhang, Mu Fang'ai, and Ning Hui on Tianxuan Island, then shared snow with Ning Hui and sent Lei Aotian to spray snow into his mouth.
• Ning Xiang visited Lu Qingchen and promised not to reclaim the spirit stones he had swindled from her, calling them her betrothal gift.
• Zhu Yu and Mingyuan fought demon beasts across the Eastern Sea, while Yu Tingchao returned to Penglai Island to help with its affairs.
• After Ning Chuan returned with the jade-leaf stoneheart grass and the group gave their materials to Qin Ye and True Lord Shaowei, Jiang Miaomiao warned Ning Xiang that Zhu Yu, Mingyuan, and Qin Ge were fighting, so Ning Xiang hurried over.

Ning Xiang stopped Zhu Yu and Mingyuan from fighting Qin Ge, then promised to accept Qin Ge’s punishment. As Qin Ge reminded her of a childhood promise, Ning Xiang realized her father was missing and learned Mingyuan might have hurt him.

• Ning Xiang stopped Zhu Yu and Mingyuan from attacking Qin Ge, sent Zhu Yu away, and ordered Mingyuan to write a self-criticism.
• Ning Xiang apologized to Qin Ge and offered to take Zhu Yu and Mingyuan’s punishment, but Qin Ge said she could owe him for now.
• Qin Ge placed a Begonia Hairpin in Ning Xiang’s hair, and she reminisced about their childhood games at the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Qin Ge asked whether Ning Xiang remembered a promise she had made as a child and told her to ask Uncle Ning about it.
• Ning Xiang noticed her father was missing and asked Mingyuan whether he had hurt him; Mingyuan answered evasively.

Ning Xiang fled Zhu Yu after tricking him with Mingyuan’s Soul-Devouring Whip and went to Penglai, where she met Yu Tingchao. He asked her to reward his patrol work by giving herself to him.

• Ning Pingzhang blamed Mingyuan for hurting his back and face, then urged Ning Xiang to win Qin Ge over and have children with him.
• Ning Xiang watched a recording of Zhu Yu dancing, and Zhu Yu caught her and demanded an explanation.
• Zhu Yu revealed that Ning Xiang’s Master-Servant Contract did not control him and asked her to dance for him.
• Ning Xiang tied Zhu Yu up with Mingyuan’s Soul-Devouring Whip and escaped using Gale Talismans.
• Ning Xiang met Yu Tingchao while he patrolled the waters near Penglai, and he asked her to give herself to him as a reward.

Ning Xiang agreed to accompany Yu Tingchao to the Lower Primordial Festival, then left him to guard Senior Brother through his Nascent Soul tribulation. She returned to help Lu Qingchen take the dangerous Pure-Nurturing Pill, only to learn that the treatment required her to bathe him and continuously heat the medicinal bath.

• Yu Tingchao asked Ning Xiang to climb Broad Marsh Tower with him for the festival offerings, and she agreed after he reminded her that she had already rejected him once.
• Ning Xiang visited Secluded Bamboo Courtyard, recognized the signs of Senior Brother's Nascent Soul tribulation, and set up formations and defensive talismans to protect him.
• After Uncle Shaowei reported that Lu Qingchen's Pure-Nurturing Pill was ready, Ning Xiang left Lei Aotian to guard Senior Brother and returned to Tianxuan Island.
• Ning Xiang found Jiang Miaomiao and Xia Buyan pretending to mourn Lu Qingchen in hopes of gaining more of his inheritance, while Jiang Miaomiao joked that she wanted to become his wife.
• Shaowei explained that the Pure-Nurturing Pill had to be dissolved into a medicinal bath, with Lu Qingchen immersed naked while the Red Lotus Karmic Flame kept the bath boiling dry, and left Ning Xiang to care for him.

Ning Xiang used the red lotus karmic flame to heal Lu Qingchen while keeping watch over him for three days, and learned that Heaven-Question users had begun gossiping about her real-life relationships. Lu Qingchen awoke and kissed her, leaving their relationship at an unexpected turning point.

• Ning Xiang agreed to heal Lu Qingchen by soaking him in medicinal broth heated with the red lotus karmic flame, and secretly recorded him before beginning.
• Ning Xiang watched over Lu Qingchen for three days and discovered that Heaven-Question users were shipping her with Zhu Yu and Mingyuan and speculating that she was the red-robed War God.
• Ning Xiang asked her eldest brother to clean up Heaven-Question, but he persuaded her to tolerate the gossip because it was earning him millions of spirit stones.
• Ning Xiang covered Lu Qingchen when the medicinal liquid had been absorbed, unaware that he had opened his eyes.
• Lu Qingchen mistook Ning Xiang for a dream, drew her close, and kissed her gently.

Ning Xiang learned that Lu Qingchen’s body could last until the Ghost Gate opened, then avoided her embarrassment by leaving him behind. As the Eastern Sea prepared for the Lower Primordial Festival, Yu Tingchao confessed his feelings and kissed her, leaving her heart unsettled.

• Lu Qingchen woke and kissed Ning Xiang before losing consciousness again, while his magic kept her imprisoned beside him until True Lord Shaowei released her.
• True Lord Shaowei said Lu Qingchen’s body would remain intact for two months and that they would need to enter the Underworld when the Ghost Gate opened to retrieve his soul.
• Yu Tingchao mistook Ning Xiang’s bloodied lip for evidence that Lu Qingchen had taken liberties with her, then carried her back to rest and kissed her temple as she slept.
• Ning Xiang spent the following days with Qin Ge, while Ning Pingzhang guarded her from Mingyuan and Zhu Yu and Yu Tingchao tried to learn cooking to compete with Qin Ge.
• On the Lower Primordial Festival, Yu Tingchao applied Dark Fragrance Allure between Ning Xiang’s brows; after she accidentally left a kiss mark on his cheek, he kissed her and confessed that he liked her.

Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao celebrated their wedding with the people of the Eastern Sea, sharing a kiss and releasing sea lanterns. After the festivities, they went to Yu Tingchao’s private island, where he told Ning Xiang he wanted to teach her how to make the bells ring.

• Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao arrived at Broad Marsh Tower, where the islanders performed a nuo ritual and Yu Tingchao completed the wedding ceremony.
• Yu Tingchao took Ning Xiang down to join the dancing crowd, caught her when she stumbled, and kissed her beneath her veil.
• Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao released sea lanterns and made wishes before he invited her to his private island.
• Ning Xiang accepted Yu Tingchao’s invitation after receiving a message from the Old Demon King, and they rode the Wind Qilin to the island.
• Yu Tingchao embraced Ning Xiang from behind and offered to teach her how to make the bells ring.

After spending the night with Yu Tingchao, Ning Xiang returned to Tianxuan Island and was caught by Zhu Yu, who insisted on taking her back to the Purple Tenuity Domain. She revealed that she was carrying Ming Old Dog’s child, leaving Zhu Yu furious and ready to kill him.

• Yu Tingchao teased Ning Xiang after their night together, then escorted her back to Tianxuan Island and told her to leave her door open that night.
• Ning Xiang tried to explain herself to Qin Ge, then went to her room and was captured by Zhu Yu with the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Zhu Yu demanded that Ning Xiang return with him to the Purple Tenuity Domain and asked what style she wanted for her wedding dress.
• Ning Xiang said she would come later, explaining that her family could protect her and that she was carrying a child.
• Zhu Yu celebrated the prospect of a tiger girl until Ning Xiang said the child was Ming Old Dog’s, prompting him to vow to kill him.
• Ning Xiang tried to calm Zhu Yu by comparing his narrow-mindedness unfavorably with Ming Old Dog and her Senior Brother.

Ning Xiang stayed in the Eastern Sea despite Zhu Yu’s wish to take her to the Demon Domain, and she continued helping defend the islands as demonic beasts multiplied. When an attack overwhelmed her, Qin Ge appeared and swiftly killed the beasts.

• Ning Xiang refused to return to the Demon Domain with Zhu Yu, and they agreed to meet again before she gave him an answer about their relationship.
• Zhu Yu placed a Tracking Curse on Ning Xiang’s Pallas's Cat necklace, while Ning Pingzhang said he would allow her to travel with Zhu Yu but still needed time to judge him.
• Ning Xiang stayed on Tianxuan Island as demonic beasts threatened the Eastern Sea, helped the cultivators fight, and visited the unconscious Lu Qingchen each day.
• Mingyuan hurried back to the Tai Bai Domain, and Ning Xiang wondered who was behind the attacks affecting multiple domains.
• Ning Xiang was surrounded by demonic beasts outside Tianxuan Island, and an azure-winged canglan bird knocked away her Spirit-Gathering Pill.
• Qin Ge pulled Ning Xiang behind him and used a jade-green vine to defeat the birds and extract their demon cores.

Ning Xiang learned that the Ghost Gate would open the next evening, and she prepared to descend into the Ghost Realm with Mu Fang'ai and the others to retrieve Lu Qingchen's soul. As they set out, Qin Ge joined her aboard Zhu Yu's flying building, and Ning Xiang blurted out that her mother had warned boys to stay away from pretty girls.

• Ning Xiang accepted demon cores from Qin Ge, who asked her to call him Brother Qin, though she settled on Senior Brother Qin.
• Ning Xiang and the others learned that Bai Xi had reached the Hundred-Flower Continent and that demonic forces were attacking sects across the Tianyuan Continent.
• Mu Fang'ai announced that she would enter the Ghost Realm through the Sea of No Delusion with Ning Xiang and her brothers, while Qin Ge was told to accompany them.
• Ning Xiang said goodbye to Lu Qingchen and comforted Jiang Miaomiao before summoning Zhu Yu's extravagant flying building.
• Qin Ge stood beside Ning Xiang on the flying building, and she told him that her mother said boys should stay away from pretty girls.

Ning Xiang and her companions entered the Underworld through the Ghost Gate, but the Ghost Emperor separated Ning Xiang from the others. He showed her a vision of the Cultivation Realm in catastrophe and gave her the Book of Life and Death, which revealed her recorded lifespan and death date.

• Ning Xiang grew uneasy when she could not reach Yu Tingchao, then saw a fissure open in the seabed beneath the Netherworld Flame.
• Ning Xiang and her companions disguised themselves as ghosts and got past the gate guards by acting like the red-haired ghost.
• Ning Xiang and the others entered the Underworld palace, where a black-armored man said the Ghost Emperor had been waiting for them.
• The black-armored man took Ning Xiang to a chamber and left the others behind.
• The Ghost Emperor showed Ning Xiang a vision of the Cultivation Realm devastated by Demon Beasts and gave her the Book of Life and Death.
• Ning Xiang read that her lifespan ended at twenty-eight and that she would die on the twenty-fifth day of the first month in the gengwu year.

Ning Xiang entered the Underworld to find Lu Qingchen’s soul, knowing her lifespan had reverted to twenty-eight and she had less than four months left. After rejecting a false Lu Qingchen, she faced another version of him who asked whether she hated him so much that she wanted him dead.

• The Ghost Emperor told Ning Xiang that her lifespan had changed back to twenty-eight and permitted her to search the Underworld for Lu Qingchen’s soul as punishment for trespassing.
• Ning Xiang asked the Dog System for advice on winning Lu Qingchen over, then decided she would save him so he would be grateful to her.
• Ning Xiang fought off lecherous ghosts in the Underworld and chased a figure resembling Lu Qingchen, but lost sight of him.
• A false Lu Qingchen tried to lure Ning Xiang with promises of seclusion, but she recognized him and stabbed him with the Azure Sea Sword.
• The false Lu Qingchen dissolved into killing intent, and another Lu Qingchen appeared and pointed the sword at his own heart, asking if she hated him that much.