Recaps

Ning Xiang stayed at Mingyuan’s Chaohua Palace while waiting five days for the Ten Thousand Demons Cave to open, determined to find medicine for Lu Qingchen. Mingyuan tried to make their time together romantic, but their outing ended with Ning Xiang using his treasured blade to butcher a wild boar for a meal.

• Ning Xiang refused Mingyuan’s offer to become his disciple and insisted she would seek the blood-burning red lotus to save Lu Qingchen, though the Ten Thousand Demons Cave would not open for five days.
• Mingyuan arranged a welcome banquet at Azure Sky Courtyard, but Ning Xiang found the garish dancing unbearable and nearly left.
• Mingyuan took Ning Xiang flying on his griffin, Honghong, and hoped their ride would feel like a date.
• Honghong swooped down to catch a wild boar, delighting Ning Xiang, who asked to eat it.
• Ning Xiang used Mingyuan’s Soul-Rending to slaughter the boar and prepared it for roasting, easing Mingyuan’s irritation with the smell of the cooking meat.

Ning Xiang spent the night with Mingyuan at Butterfly Spring, where his jealous interference and her attraction to him led to an awkward, affectionate evening. The next morning, Mingyuan mistook her admiring gaze for a desire to spar, ruining the moment.

• Mingyuan invited Ning Xiang to feel his abs, but Honghong dragged him out of the tent before she could.
• Ning Xiang drank Autumn Dew White, quickly got drunk, and fell asleep leaning against Mingyuan as he watched the stars.
• Mingyuan listened to Ning Xiang’s messages from Zhu Yu, Yu Tingchao, Su Lang, and Qin Ge, then deleted them out of jealousy.
• Mingyuan carried the sleeping Ning Xiang into the tent, while Honghong wondered why he tolerated her closeness.
• The next morning, Ning Xiang admired Mingyuan practicing with his Fangtian Halberd, but he assumed she wanted to spar and offered to critique her moves.

Ning Xiang learned that Mingyuan had been using Jiang Miaomiao’s matchmaking advice to court her, then uncovered Xia Buyan’s schemes and the tragic ending of a novel about her. The chapter left her facing an enraged Yu Tingchao as he arrived in the Tai Bai Domain.

• Ning Xiang criticized Mingyuan for caring only about fighting, then learned that Qin Ge and her third brother had gone to the Hundred-Flower Continent while others returned to the Profound Heaven Continent.
• Jiang Miaomiao sent Mingyuan a booklet of courtship advice through Xia Buyan, and Mingyuan began bringing Ning Xiang flowers, cooking for her, and inviting her to dinner.
• Ning Xiang overheard Xia Buyan telling someone that she and Mingyuan were close, discovered he had summoned Yu Tingchao, and beat him for interfering.
• Ning Xiang used the Dream-Eating Tapir to question Xia Buyan about the novel’s ending and learned that its protagonist and her husband sacrificed themselves to seal the Ghost Lord.
• Ning Xiang asked whether the Langhua Sword was the required magical treasure, then saw Yu Tingchao fly toward her in a fury.

Ning Xiang tried to explain why she had left, but Yu Tingchao’s jealousy and flirtation left her trapped between concern and confusion. After recalling how she had saved him and Jiang Miaomiao in the past, she was pulled into a forceful kiss by Yu Tingchao.

• Mingyuan confronted Yu Tingchao, who asked Ning Xiang why she had left without telling him, and Mingyuan claimed she had chosen him instead.
• Ning Xiang asked Mingyuan to beat Yu Tingchao, but Yu Tingchao pretended to be injured, prompting her to make Mingyuan apologize.
• Yu Tingchao reminded Ning Xiang of the scar on her palm and said some of his memories felt as though they belonged to someone else before falling asleep while holding her hand.
• Ning Xiang recalled how she and her fellow disciples had rescued Yu Tingchao and Jiang Miaomiao from a Joyous Union Sect cultivator, and how she was wounded saving Yu Tingchao.
• Yu Tingchao woke, teased Ning Xiang about looking at him, pulled her into his arms, and kissed her despite her attempt to push him away.

Ning Xiang and her companions traveled to Skull Mountain to enter the Ten Thousand Demons Cave in search of the blood-burning red lotus. As they prepared to go inside, Mingyuan questioned whether she was risking the journey because she could not let Lu Qingchen go, but she left him without an answer.

• Ning Xiang covered the bite mark Yu Tingchao had left at the corner of her mouth and set out with the others for the Ten Thousand Demons Cave.
• Mingyuan immobilized Yu Tingchao and sent him to the cabin, then offered Ning Xiang a chest of cultivation books and tried to teach her alchemy during the trip.
• Jiang Miaomiao gave up on matchmaking Ning Xiang with Mingyuan and decided to pair her with Yu Tingchao instead.
• The group arrived at Skull Mountain, where Ning Xiang burned a path through the ominous forest with her heartfire.
• Mingyuan asked whether Ning Xiang was entering the cave because she could not let Lu Qingchen go, but she urged everyone to hurry inside as the wind began to rise.

Ning Xiang’s group reached the Ten Thousand Demons Cave while waiting for midnight, fighting off ghosts and passing the time with games. The chapter ended with Mingyuan drawing a dare to perform a belly dance.

• Ning Xiang and the others traveled through Skull Mountain on their mounts, where she explained the ghost flames scientifically and dispatched several ghosts.
• Jiang Miaomiao reminisced about Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao, prompting Yu Tingchao and Mingyuan to compete over who had the deeper bond with Ning Xiang.
• The group arrived at the Ten Thousand Demons Cave without trouble and waited for midnight.
• Ning Xiang won spirit stones from Xia Buyan at cards, and Xia Buyan proposed playing truth or dare to win them back.
• Mingyuan drew the first big joker, chose dare, and found a slip telling him to do a belly dance.

During a game of dares, Ning Xiang made Mingyuan dance, while the others were drawn into embarrassing challenges. Mingyuan then carried Ning Xiang and kissed her through her veil, leaving them both caught in the moment.

• Ning Xiang used a paper puppet shaped like Zhu Yu to demonstrate a belly dance, and Mingyuan reluctantly followed with stiff movements.
• Jiang Miaomiao chose a dare for her next round, and Xia Buyan had to recite “Ode to the Goose” while holding Yu Tingchao’s finger.
• Yu Tingchao struck a seductive pose and delivered his assigned line while Ning Xiang wished she had made him strip.
• Ning Xiang answered that she missed her father most, then Mingyuan drew a dare to carry someone of the opposite sex and kiss them.
• Mingyuan swept Ning Xiang into his arms and kissed her through her veil as Yu Tingchao objected and Xia Buyan insisted they follow the rules.

Ning Xiang and her companions continued their game, which led to an unexpectedly revealing call with Su Lang. As the Ten Thousand Demons Cave opened at midnight, Ning Xiang was pushed into it despite trying to avoid repeating the novel’s events.

• Ning Hui performed an embarrassing dare, then secretly offered Mingyuan his approval to become Ning Xiang’s brother-in-law for ten million spirit stones.
• Ning Xiang said she wanted to date without settling down, then drew a dare to message the first man in her Communication Talisman that she was pregnant with his child.
• Jiang Miaomiao messaged a merman, while Ning Xiang sent the same message to Su Lang and heard his panicked, supportive response.
• Ning Xiang and Su Lang spoke warmly for a quarter of an hour, and Xia Buyan tried to end their call as midnight approached.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Cave opened, and Ning Xiang was pushed down into it.

Ning Xiang found herself trapped in a luxurious formation and destroyed its clam-demon core to escape. Mingyuan protected her from the demon’s final attack as the illusion collapsed.

• Ning Xiang learned that her companions had landed elsewhere and discovered that the jade palaces were part of a formation.
• Ning Xiang indulged in the palace’s lavish comforts before deciding to destroy the formation’s core so she could search for the blood-burning red lotus and save Lu.
• Ning Xiang lured the clam demon into opening its shell, then pried it apart and removed its blood-red demon core.
• Mingyuan shielded Ning Xiang from the clam demon’s blood mist and killed the demon with Soul-Rending.
• The clam demon’s death caused the formation to collapse, and the jade palaces crumbled around Ning Xiang and Mingyuan.

Ning Xiang and Mingyuan took shelter in a cavern after she injured her ankle, where Mingyuan cared for her and struggled with her thoughts about other men. They spent the night together, leaving Mingyuan unsettled by Ning Xiang’s feelings for her senior brother.

• Ning Xiang injured her ankle, so Mingyuan carried her through a narrow passage into a cavern and treated her wound.
• Ning Xiang contacted Yu Tingchao, and Mingyuan massaged her shoulders; their suggestive conversation prompted Yu Tingchao to charge outside before Xia Buyan and Jiang Miaomiao stopped him.
• Mingyuan promised to search for the blood-burning red lotus after they found Ning Xiang’s second brother, while Ning Xiang asked him for a bedtime story or song.
• Mingyuan kissed Ning Xiang after she praised her senior brother, then overheard her thoughts about kissing that brother herself.
• Ning Xiang fell asleep and rolled into Mingyuan’s arms, waking him again.

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.