Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan and Lin Zaixing searched the Nine Hells and discovered a village of Yaksha Slaves who slaughtered and ate human captives. After learning more about the Nine Hells’ brutal inhabitants, Fang Qianyuan decided to approach the village and arrived with Lin Zaixing and Zuoqiutang amid a blizzard.

• Fang Qianyuan and Lin Zaixing discussed how the Nine Hells’ demon baleful intent could affect visitors and spirit creatures.
• Fang Qianyuan’s Golden-Plumed Splitfeather Roc found a village of barbarians, whom Lin Zaixing identified as descendants of abducted humans transformed into Yaksha Slaves.
• Fang Qianyuan watched the villagers sacrifice, butcher, and roast human captives, and Lin Zaixing explained that the Yaksha Slaves survived by eating humans and other creatures.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that fighting to protect the Heavencrystal Snowfield was worthwhile and asked whether they could communicate with the villagers.
• Fang Qianyuan caused a blizzard over the village, then arrived with Lin Zaixing and Zuoqiutang riding Splitfeather Rocs.

Fang Qianyuan and Lin Zaixing learned they had arrived in the Ye'e Tribe’s territory and headed for the city of its third princess, Ye'e Mannali. The chapter left Mannali admiring her reflection and lamenting that no man was worthy of her.

• Fang Qianyuan questioned the kneeling Yakshas, and Lin Zaixing inferred they lived near a powerful Yaksha ruler.
• Lin Zaixing questioned an old man and learned the group was in the Ye'e Tribe’s territory, near Ye'e Mannali’s fief.
• Lin Zaixing told Fang Qianyuan that Ye'e Mannali was famed for her beauty, so Fang changed course toward her city.
• Fang Qianyuan and his companions flew openly across the territory, frightening the Yaksha War Generals they passed.
• Ye'e Mannali admired herself in a mirror and sobbed that she was too beautiful for any man to deserve her.

Ye'e Mannali lured five human captives into declaring their love, then chose the scholar and ate his heart. Back in their cell, the Daoist warned the others that the Yaksha Tribe could use a Secret Art of Love to drain souls, and that the scholar had become Mannali’s food.

• Ye'e Mannali asked five abducted men whether she was beautiful and whether they loved her.
• Mannali bewitched the scholar into professing that he loved her most and sent the other captives away.
• Mannali tore out and ate the scholar’s heart, then ordered his body taken away and plain boiled meat brought to her.
• The yakshas returned the remaining captives to their cell, where the Daoist said the scholar had likely been eaten.
• The official and merchant doubted the Daoist’s warning, while the farmer appeared frightened and believed him.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions reached a Yaksha city, where he and Little White unleashed devastating ice attacks on its defenders. A Yaksha Prince named Ye'e Mannali confronted them, then realized Little White was a Heaven-Tier powerhouse.

• Fang Qianyuan and his companions arrived at the Yaksha Royal City, where Little White's presence brought snow and bitter cold.
• Fang Qianyuan froze the advancing Yaksha War General and nearby soldiers with Heaven Crystal Ice Mystic Light.
• Little White used Wind Blade Frost Sword to kill most of the Yaksha Warriors in the area.
• Ye'e Mannali, a Late Stage Earth Rank Yaksha Prince, charged out from the palace to confront Fang Qianyuan.
• Ye'e Mannali halted in fear after recognizing Little White's hundred-zhang Dharma Aspect as Heaven Tier.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White cornered Ye'e Mannali, the Yaksha King they had been seeking, and overwhelmed her with ease. They left her alive and headed for the palace, with Ye'e Mannali limping after them.

• Ye'e Mannali sensed Fang Qianyuan's Heaven-Tier power and tried to flee back to her palace.
• Little White struck Ye'e Mannali aside after Lin Zaixing identified her as their target, and Fang Qianyuan ordered Little White to spare her.
• Ye'e Mannali tried to escape through the streets, but Fang Qianyuan's indistinguishable figures blocked her in every direction.
• Fang Qianyuan crushed Ye'e Mannali with an invisible force, leaving her badly injured and unable to fight back.
• Little White dug Ye'e Mannali out of the ruins, and Fang Qianyuan left her alive as he flew toward the central palace.
• Ye'e Mannali recovered enough to struggle out of the ruins and limp after Fang Qianyuan.

Fang Qianyuan subdued the yakshas and confronted Ye'e Mannali, demanding their submission while revealing that he expected her father, Ye'e Sudiluo, to respond. As Ye'e Mannali tried to charm him with her innate mind power, Fang Qianyuan learned how the yakshas cultivated emotional forces and asked what power her father wielded.

• Fang Qianyuan froze the resisting yakshas, and Little White's arrival kept the others from advancing.
• Ye'e Mannali entered the hall and found Fang Qianyuan seated on her throne; Lin Zaixing identified him and demanded the Civil Register, the treasury, and her allegiance.
• Ye'e Mannali warned that her father, Ye'e Sudiluo, was an Emperor Venerable, but Fang Qianyuan welcomed the prospect of his arrival.
• Fang Qianyuan sent Zuoqiutang and Little White to search for captives while Ye'e Mannali approached him with her seductive charm.
• Lin Zaixing explained that Ye'e Mannali's innate divine ability manipulated the mind power of love, and Fang Qianyuan asked what power Ye'e Sudiluo cultivated.

Fang Qianyuan resisted Ye'e Mannali's Heart-Demon Illusion, leaving her spirit and sense of self badly wounded. Lin Zaixing suggested that Fang Qianyuan could take advantage of her weakened state to subjugate her, while rescued prisoners arrived and recognized Fang Qianyuan.

• Ye'e Mannali tried to bewitch Fang Qianyuan with a seductive illusion, but he shattered it and struck down her spiritual form.
• Ye'e Mannali collapsed in fear, and Lin Zaixing explained that her failed attack had wounded her primordial spirit.
• Lin Zaixing urged Fang Qianyuan to make Ye'e Mannali his slave while her will was weak, and Fang Qianyuan asked whether it would work.
• Zuoqiutang and Little White subdued the resisting yaksha guards outside the Palace.
• A group of ragged prisoners entered the hall, recognized Fang Qianyuan, and asked what had happened to Mannali.

Fang Qianyuan exposed Ye'e Mannali's hold over the captives and ordered her to gather them while more rescued people arrived at the hall. He assigned Lin Zaixing to organize the survivors and commanded Ye'e Mannali to make the Yaksha in the city surrender or face death.

• Captives who adored Ye'e Mannali accused Fang Qianyuan of hurting her, and Lin Zaixing realized she had made them fall genuinely in love with her.
• Fang Qianyuan questioned Ye'e Mannali, then ordered her to gather the infatuated captives for his arrangements.
• Ye'e Mannali whipped the captives into line and sent them to await Fang Qianyuan's judgment.
• A group rescued by Zuoqiutang arrived, recognized Fang Qianyuan, and begged him to save them.
• Fang Qianyuan left the survivors in Lin Zaixing's hands and ordered Ye'e Mannali to make every Yaksha in the city surrender.

Fang Qianyuan organized the captives in the city and prepared them to rise up and escape, then learned that Ye'e Sudiluo was approaching. He ordered Ye'e Mannali to clear the city and flew east to confront her father alone.

• Ye'e Mannali gathered captives and slaves from across the city, and Fang Qianyuan ordered Lin Zaixing to select cultivators and martial practitioners for the first rescue group.
• Fang Qianyuan struck Ye'e Mannali when she protested losing her captives, then Lin Zaixing organized nearly a hundred Human Rank Spirit Tamers under Jing Xiuming and Wang Mi.
• Lin Zaixing reported that more than a hundred thousand civilians remained in the city, and Fang Qianyuan told the captives to seize the yakshas' weapons and food stores before rising up.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed Ye'e Sudiluo approaching and ordered Ye'e Mannali to send the city's yaksha soldiers and generals into the wilderness before the battle.
• Fang Qianyuan flew east with Ye'e Mannali, then went ahead alone to meet Ye'e Sudiluo, the Ye'e Tribe's Emperor Venerable.

Fang Qianyuan faced the Yaksha Emperor Venerable Ye'e Sudiluo and withstood his attacks through his immortal nature. Sudiluo’s second strike crushed Fang Qianyuan’s body into a golden, mercury-like sphere, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Fang Qianyuan introduced himself as an Azure Cloud Sect cultivator and challenged Ye'e Sudiluo to remember him.
• Ye'e Sudiluo formed a massive Dharma Body and struck Fang Qianyuan with an enormous palm.
• Fang Qianyuan’s immortal nature protected him from the blow, shocking Ye'e Sudiluo.
• Ye'e Sudiluo attacked again with the Black Tortoise True Art, crushing Fang Qianyuan into a glowing golden sphere.

Fang Qianyuan survived Ye'e Sudiluo's devastating attacks because the Heavenly Gang Golden Mystic Pill's medicinal power had helped him cultivate immortal nature. After Fang Qianyuan counterattacked and froze Ye'e Sudiluo, the veteran fled the battlefield, leaving Ye'e Mannali stunned.

• Ye'e Sudiluo's attack stimulated the pill's remaining medicinal power, and Fang Qianyuan restored himself unharmed.
• Ye'e Sudiluo unleashed a blood-ray attack that began eroding Fang Qianyuan's immortal nature.
• Fang Qianyuan counterattacked with several techniques, but Ye'e Sudiluo's black defensive membrane blocked his strikes.
• Fang Qianyuan used his ice power to encase Ye'e Sudiluo in armor of ice and freeze much of his body.
• Ye'e Sudiluo broke free of some of the ice and fled, while Ye'e Mannali watched in disbelief.

Fang Qianyuan drove Ye'e Sudiluo away and left Ye'e Mannali to realize that he planned to invade the Asura Realm. At the Heavencrystal Snowfield, Azure Cloud Sect gathered its forces and promised protection for the campaign.

• Fang Qianyuan chose not to pursue Ye'e Sudiluo, intending instead to bring his army into the Asura Realm while Sudiluo focused on him.
• Ye'e Mannali waited for Fang Qianyuan’s return and realized that he planned to invade the Asura Realm; Fang Qianyuan did not explain his purpose.
• At the Heavencrystal Snowfield, Azure Cloud Sect stewards briefed the assembled Spirit Tamers and warriors on the expedition’s protections, spoils, and merit exchange.
• Yang Xia learned from Old Lin that the sect’s protection against stronger enemies rested on its experts, and that Fang Qianyuan might personally provide Heaven Tier protection.
• Yang Xia and the other recruits anticipated entering the Asura Realm, confident they would face Yaksha Warriors of their own rank.

Young Spirit Tamers crossed the World Gate toward the Asura Realm as Fang Qianyuan prepared to expand his campaign against the Yakshas. The expedition’s next stage depended on the incoming corps and on the whereabouts of Ye'e Shilazheluō.

• Yang Xia and the other young Spirit Tamers eagerly joined the campaign, trusting Fang Qianyuan and hoping to earn his favor.
• Azure Cloud Sect stewards and Heavenly Craft Institute officers opened the formation, and an elder summoned a Void Sandworm to carry the squads safely through the World Gate.
• Yang Xia's squad entered the Void Sandworm, while Wang Ran and the others also set off through the rifts.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to the Ye'e Tribe's Royal City and told Zuoqiutang that Ye'e Sudiluo had escaped after their fight.
• Fang Qianyuan told Lin Zaixing to prepare for the first wave of the Expeditionary Corps arriving from the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
• Ye'e Mannali told Fang Qianyuan that Ye'e Shilazheluō had disappeared with subordinates and was reportedly attacking the Otherworld.

Ye'e Sudiluo, badly wounded by Fang Qianyuan, sought help from a mysterious being sleeping in a black coffin. The desiccated corpse woke and heard his request to deal with an enemy he could not defeat.

• Ye'e Mannali told Fang Qianyuan that Ye'e Shilazheluō had vanished after an apparent mishap while traveling through the void and offered to use their bloodline connection to find him.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted Ye'e Mannali's offer and ordered her to locate Ye'e Shilazheluō.
• Ye'e Sudiluo suppressed the frost damage Fang Qianyuan had inflicted on him, though much of his essence-blood vital energy remained depleted.
• Ye'e Sudiluo entered a hidden grotto-heaven beneath a valley in West City and approached a black coffin on a Stone Altar.
• A desiccated corpse emerged from the coffin, and Ye'e Sudiluo asked it to act against an enemy he could not handle.

Fang Qianyuan’s main force arrived in Ye'e Mannali’s Royal City, where he assigned his subordinates to secure the territory and prepare to transport its people and resources. A faint sense of danger led him to question Ye'e Mannali, who revealed that her father had hidden a remnant of the Ancient Cultivators.

• Elder Hong brought the main force safely through the void, and the Warriors from the Spirit-Taming World gathered near the Dao Marker.
• Zuoqiutang received the arriving forces, and Wang Ran and Ding Yuanlong met Fang Qianyuan in the stone hall.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered his subordinates to garrison the city, move its people and resources to the Heavencrystal Snowfield, and expand their control cautiously.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed an approaching danger but concealed his unease from the others.
• Fang Qianyuan asked Ye'e Mannali about other powerful figures, and she revealed that her father was hiding a remnant of the Ancient Cultivators.

Fang Qianyuan dismissed the threat posed by two Ancient Cultivator Survivors, while Yang Xia and Ding-Class Thirty-Sixth Squad explored the Asura Realm. After finding a Yaksha village where villagers were eating people, Chang Wei ordered his squad to conceal themselves and report the location.

• Fang Qianyuan told Ye'e Mannali that the defeated general and the Survivor were no threat.
• Yang Xia joined Ding-Class Thirty-Sixth Squad and rode east with them to search for Yaksha settlements.
• Old Lin and the others joked during the journey while Chang Wei let them ease the tension.
• The squad spotted a Yaksha village where about a hundred Yakshas were eating people.
• Chang Wei judged a direct attack unwise and ordered everyone to dismount, suppress their auras, and report the village.

Fang Qianyuan learned that the yakshas’ rule was disorganized and tribal, while Yang Xia’s squad received orders to capture or kill yakshas and details of the rewards for taking them as slaves. Yang Xia reflected on the limited choices of rogue cultivators and focused on earning enough resources to advance himself and A Hu.

• Fang Qianyuan checked reports from the expedition and questioned Ye'e Mannali about the people under her rule.
• Lin Zaixing explained that yakshas lived in primitive tribes and that their armies were gathered from temporary conscripts and marauders.
• Chang Wei assembled the remaining members of Yang Xia’s camp and announced their mission to capture or kill yakshas, along with rewards for qualified slaves.
• Old Lin and Old Yun discussed whether the slave-capture rewards justified the danger and effort.
• Yang Xia compared the prospects of rogue cultivators with those of sect disciples and resolved to focus on gathering resources for A Hu and his own advancement.

Chang Wei led the squad in an ambush against Yaksha Warriors hunting near a canyon, and the Spirit Tamers killed most of them. Yang Xia saved Shui Lingyue from a charging Yaksha Warrior but was badly wounded before the squad brought the enemy down.

• Chang Wei chose to ambush the Yaksha Warriors along their route to the canyon, where they hunted near Void Rifts.
• Chang Wei and the squad launched a surprise attack, killing many Yaksha Warriors with spells, arrows, Ironclad Rhinos, and Spirit Creatures.
• Yang Xia saw a Yaksha Warrior overpower his Blazing Mountain Tiger and drive back the Gray Wolves.
• The Yaksha Warrior charged at Shui Lingyue, and Yang Xia knocked her down to protect her but took a claw wound across his back.
• Yang Xia's Blazing Mountain Tiger struck the Yaksha Warrior, and the squad's attacks finished him off.

After the battle, Yang Xia earned rewards in Chang Wei’s raids and received Shui Lingyue’s advice and a powerful weapon. She also told him the Warrior Administration was recruiting, leaving him hopeful that he could transform his prospects as a rogue cultivator.

• Shui Lingyue used the Diamond Blossom Fairy to treat the wounded, while Yang Xia recovered from serious injuries sustained in battle.
• Yang Xia and the others followed Chang Wei on raids and captured more than forty Yakshas, earning captives, a Merit Token, and Cash Spirit Jade.
• Shui Lingyue warned Yang Xia to save his Merit Token for rare rewards and lent him the Moonlight Blade, which could unleash three Gang Edge Slashes.
• Shui Lingyue told Yang Xia about the Warrior Administration’s recruitment and the chance to exchange more than twenty Merit Tokens for a warrior transformation.
• Yang Xia considered how becoming a warrior could give him a path to influence and standing despite having no sect or clan backing.

Yang Xia grew closer to Shui Lingyue while Yang Zhengxiong repeatedly tried to drive him away. During a patrol, Yang Zhengxiong argued that their different backgrounds made a future together impossible, leaving Yang Xia to question whether he and Shui Lingyue were truly destined to be together.

• Shui Lingyue encouraged Yang Xia to pursue a place in the sect and explained that Warriors had gained greater acceptance.
• Yang Zhengxiong accused Yang Xia of pursuing Shui Lingyue and warned him to stay away, but Yang Xia refused to back down.
• Shui Lingyue explained that her family and the Yang Household were close, but she regarded Yang Zhengxiong only as a distant cousin.
• Over the following days, Shui Lingyue often sought out Yang Xia, while the jealous Yang Zhengxiong repeatedly demanded that he keep his distance.
• Yang Zhengxiong arranged for Yang Xia to join him on patrol and argued that Yang Xia's poverty and status made a future with Shui Lingyue impossible.
• Yang Xia was stung by Yang Zhengxiong's words and wondered whether he and Shui Lingyue were destined to be together.