Chapter Summaries

Xing Hao tried to flee after his past betrayals were exposed, but Lan Yue’s inner voice revealed how he escaped the Southern Spirit Sect’s Immortal-Binding Cord. After learning his escape method involved a Devil Race transformation manual, Lan Yue pieced together a hidden truth and announced her deduction.

• Xing Hao pretended to be his own younger brother and tried to flee, but Lan Yue’s inner voice revealed that the Southern Spirit Sect had previously captured and bound him.
• Lan Yue’s video showed Xing Hao gnawing at the Immortal-Binding Cord for over half a month before escaping by transforming into a tiny silver needle.
• Lan Yue bought the cultivation manual and discovered it was the Devil Race’s Thirty-Six Transformations, which could disguise its user as any object.
• Lan Yue recalled the clues, pointed, and declared that there was only one truth.

Lan Yue accused Ling'er, the Greenstone Sect Master's adopted daughter, of being the Devil Race mastermind behind the parasitized disciples. As the Southern Spirit Sect realized the truth, Ling'er revealed that the Four Great Demon Domains had underestimated their sect.

• Lan Yue pointed past Xing Hao at Ling'er and accused her of being the culprit behind the Devil Race plot.
• Lan Yue linked Ling'er to the planted rumor about Xing Hao, the trembling fingers of the parasitized disciples, and her unlikely claim that she had restrained them herself.
• Elder Duanmu backed Lan Yue's claim that Xing Hao practiced a demonic cultivation manual, while Lan Yue used the revelation to support her suspicions.
• Yun Xi, Li Bai, and the other hidden disciples emerged and praised Lan Yue's deduction.
• A Southern Spirit Sect elder realized Ling'er was the Devil Race member they had been seeking, and Ling'er admitted the Four Great Demon Domains had underestimated the Southern Spirit Sect.

Lan Yue and the Southern Spirit Sect discovered that the Greenstone Sect had been infiltrated by the Devil Race, but the possessed sect master and Xing Hao transformed into conscious nascent soul late stage fighters. As the elders engaged them and thousands of possessed disciples attacked, Qing Zhu tried to evacuate Lan Yue and the others.

• A disguised Devil Race woman revealed herself, freed the possessed disciples, and sent them after Lan Yue and her companions.
• Lan Yue fled while Southern Spirit Sect disciples charged in to protect her and fight the attackers.
• The Greenstone Sect disciples began transforming, and the sect master and Xing Hao both rose to nascent soul late stage while retaining consciousness.
• The Fifth Elder assigned the Southern Spirit Sect elders to fight the sect master and Xing Hao, ordered the others to battle the disciples, and told Qing Zhu to evacuate Lan Yue and her companions.

Lan Yue and the Southern Spirit Sect fought the parasitized Greenstone Sect disciples, who were suddenly defeated by a powerful golden formation. Elder Duanmu identified it as Lan Yue’s formation, leaving her wondering how the formation she had distributed became so destructive.

• Jiang Li and the other senior disciples fought the Greenstone Sect disciples, who could reattach severed limbs and evade fire talismans.
• Lan Yue, Yun Xi, and Wu Tianyu used spirit artifacts to attack the pursuing disciples, but several enemies reached the Demon-Sealing Formation.
• A golden formation covered the Demon-Sealing Formation and destroyed the parasites’ hold on the Greenstone Sect disciples; the female devil fled through a Demon Abyss Rift, while two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators were captured.
• Lan Yue and her companions wondered who had created the golden formation, and the elders arrived asking about its power.
• Elder Duanmu arrived with the unconscious Xing Hao and told Lan Yue that her formation had exceeded all expectations, prompting her to question whether it was really the formation she had given them.

Lan Yue discovered that the Ancient Era formation could weaken demonic energy and possibly purify parasitized Greenstone Sect disciples, leaving them unconscious and bald. While the disciples were bound for safety, Lan Yue, Yun Xi, and their companions began planning to make a fortune selling Hair-Growth Pills.

• Lan Yue searched the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda's records and found an incomplete Ancient Era formation record that described detecting the Devil Race.
• Jiang Li showed the elders that the defeated Greenstone Sect disciples had lost their fangs and hair, and Elder Duanmu suspected the formation had weakened their demonic energy.
• Elder Duanmu gave the group Demon-Binding Ropes, and Lan Yue's companions tied up the unconscious disciples before the formation could fade.
• Yun Xi proposed making Hair-Growth Pills to sell to the bald disciples, and Lan Yue joined her in imagining a fortune from future demand.
• Wu Tianyu, Wu Tianya, Yuan Shuo, and Li Bai each offered to help with the Hair-Growth Pill business as the elders watched with amusement.

After the Southern Spirit Sect’s formation removed the demonic energy from the Mysterious Leaf Sect disciples, the group discovered they had all gone bald. Yun Xi and the other little ones sold them Hair-Growth Pills, but the chapter ended with one buyer accusing Ma Yi’s pills of not working after an elder’s hair grew back.

• Lan Yue uncovered the bald Mysterious Leaf Sect disciples hiding beneath the ground, and the little ones prepared Hair-Growth Pills to sell them.
• Elder Duanmu and the other elders learned the Mysterious Leaf Sect group had hidden from the demonic energy in a pit, and the Fifth Elder explained that the formation had saved them but caused their baldness.
• The Fifth Elder brought the Mysterious Leaf Sect disciples to Yun Xi’s stall, where she charged a hundred mid-grade spirit stones per Hair-Growth Pill.
• The Mysterious Leaf Sect elder scolded disciples who complained about the price and bought ten pills, while another disciple, Ma Yi, sold his own pills for a hundred low-grade spirit stones each.
• Southern Spirit Sect senior brothers and sisters bought Yun Xi and Lan Yue’s remaining pills at a friendship price, and a Mysterious Leaf Sect disciple then complained that Ma Yi’s pill had not worked because an elder’s hair had already grown back.

Yun Xi’s Hair-Growth Pills caused a sensation after the Mysterious Leaf Sect discovered their remarkable effects, and Lan Yue revealed she had five more Demon Cores to make additional batches. The youngsters put their plans to profit on hold to find a way to awaken the unconscious Greenstone Sect members, and Lan Yue used the system to boost her intelligence.

• The Mysterious Leaf Sect elder and disciples grew thick hair from Yun Xi’s pills, while Ma Yi’s customers remained bald and demanded answers.
• Yun Xi claimed the pills contained a scarce spirit herb, and the Fifth Elder realized they had sold pills made with ten-thousand-year-old ingredients for far too little.
• The Mysterious Leaf Sect disciples swarmed the elder who had bought ten pills, while Southern Spirit Sect members thanked Yun Xi and Lan Yue for the bargain.
• Yun Xi told her friends that she had used a Demon Core, and Lan Yue revealed she had five more from parasitized Greenstone Sect disciples that had exploded in her space.
• Lan Yue entered the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda to search for a way to awaken the unconscious Greenstone Sect members, while Yun Xi searched Daoist Dan’s pill formulas for a remedy.
• Lan Yue asked the system to add points to her intelligence so she could search more effectively.

Lan Yue helped the elders investigate the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda and discovered her gossip had earned her 2,000 points, motivating her to resolve the inheritance quickly so she could travel and find more gossip. As she secretly exposed the elders’ embarrassing pasts, she found a mystery about the Scarlet Moon Sect Master’s daughter.

• Lan Yue found an incomplete Awakening Formation and gave it to Elder Duanmu to study, while Yun Xi shared a demon-core pill recipe for restoring the body.
• The elders brought Lan Yue and the others to the Southern Spirit Sect to study the inheritance together, and Lan Yue noticed her points debt had fallen from 27,000 to 25,000.
• Lan Yue realized gossip at the Greenstone Sect had earned her 2,000 points and decided to work hard on the inheritance so she could seek gossip elsewhere.
• Lan Yue studied the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda with the elders while secretly digging into their gossip and uncovering their embarrassing pasts.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master slipped away before Lan Yue could investigate her, but Lan Yue learned that she had no Dao Companion and wondered how she had a daughter.

Lan Yue revealed how the Scarlet Moon Sect Master became a demon king in the Eastern Region after disguising herself as a chicken demon. The footage blurred as she and a snake demon slipped under the covers, leaving Lan Yue frustrated by the system’s restrictions.

• Wan Xing arrived to thank the Southern Spirit Sect, but the Scarlet Moon Sect Master tried to take her away before Lan Yue’s gossip could reach her.
• Wan Xing heard Lan Yue’s inner voice and refused to leave, forcing her mother to hide nearby with her.
• Lan Yue described how the young Scarlet Moon Sect Master traveled to the Eastern Region disguised as a demon and bought badly made chicken wings after failing to find eagle wings.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master rescued a snake demon, gathered followers, and became a demon king by leading her faction into territorial fights.
• The footage blurred as the snake demon slipped under the Scarlet Moon Sect Master’s covers, and Lan Yue gave the system a one-star review for the restriction.

Lan Yue revealed that the Scarlet Moon Sect Master had fled the Eastern Region while pregnant with Teng Snake’s child, leaving Teng Snake to believe she had died. The revelations exposed Teng Snake’s grief-stricken battles and graveyard, while the Scarlet Moon Sect Master and Wan Xing reacted to the discovery.

• Eagle Five suspected the snake demon in Lan Yue’s scene was Teng Snake, and Pink Little Snake dismissed the resemblance because it was face-blind.
• Wan Xing asked the Scarlet Moon Sect Master whether she was part snake demon, and her mother tried to explain herself.
• Lan Yue revealed that the Scarlet Moon Sect Master had fled the Eastern Region while pregnant with Teng Snake, a great demon who ruled one of its factions.
• Lan Yue explained that Teng Snake mistook his wife’s discarded wings for proof she had been killed, buried them, and named the grave for the strongest demon king and her child.
• Eagle Five realized Teng Snake’s floods during battles might have been caused by his tears, while the Scarlet Moon Sect Master nearly toppled over upon hearing about her grave.

Wan Xing reassured the Scarlet Moon Sect Master about her half-demon heritage, while her mother fled to escape the embarrassment of being exposed. In the Eastern Region, Teng Snake considered an alliance with devils who offered to resurrect his deceased partner, but a gossip broadcast revealed a startling claim about his identity just as the deal was about to begin.

• Wan Xing comforted the Scarlet Moon Sect Master, who vanished to avoid facing the Southern Spirit Sect and Scarlet Moon Sect.
• The devils offered Teng Snake their Netherworld Lamp and claimed it could revive his deceased partner, Yueyue.
• Teng Snake tested the lamp with a century-dead chicken demon, whose ghost appeared before fainting in fright.
• Teng Snake complained that the devils were ugly and worried they might scare Yueyue and their unborn child when he revived her.
• A Voice Transmission Stone broadcast gossip claiming Teng Snake was actually a Southern Region sect master with a daughter and that his floods were tears, leaving the devils bewildered.

Snake Nine and the demons heard that Yueyue might be alive, and Teng Snake was overwhelmed with joy, flooding the Eastern Region with his tears. Meanwhile, Wan Xing reached Spirit Moon Peak under the curious stares of everyone she passed.

• Snake Seven told Snake Nine that Teng Snake's other half might be alive and that someone had seen Yueyue.
• Teng Snake cried with joy, flooding the wooden house and carrying the demons and devils out onto the water.
• A devil called the news a Human Race conspiracy, but the demons shoved the devils underwater with Demon Stones.
• Snake Nine revealed that he had secretly taken the Netherworld Lamp, and the demons pretended the devils had carried it away.
• Another wave swept the demons back into the water as Teng Snake cried harder.
• Wan Xing reached Spirit Moon Peak after bidding farewell to her mother and found everyone watching her with eager curiosity.

Wan Xing reunited with her mother, Red Moon, and decided to stay at the Southern Spirit Sect to enjoy the gossip. Meanwhile, Lan Yue’s gossip system revealed how many points she had earned, and the North Ridge Holy Lord ordered Elder Wan to secure a place studying the Central Sacred Land’s legacy by any means necessary.

• Wan Xing found Red Moon hiding in a tree, and Red Moon explained that she planned to stay until the gossip about her died down.
• Wan Xing saw through her mother’s excuse and chose to stay with her to enjoy the Southern Spirit Sect’s gossip.
• Lan Yue checked her system and realized that the Scarlet Moon Sect Master’s gossip had earned her a large share of her points.
• The North Ridge Holy Lord failed to reach the missing Holy Son and told Elder Wan to keep investigating while sending more people to study the legacy.
• The North Ridge Holy Lord urged Elder Wan to let Baili Xingzhou and Nangong Ye use their looks to persuade the Southern Spirit Sect, leaving Elder Wan stunned by the order.

Elder Wan learned that Nangong Ye had been tied up after sparring with the Southern Spirit Sect's Sect Master, thwarting his plan to recruit him for the inheritance negotiations. Meanwhile, Lan Yue finished browsing the North Ridge Sacred Ground visitors' gossip, and Luan Ning offered to supply her with even more gossip and points.

• Elder Wan learned that the Southern Spirit Sect's Sect Master had tied up Nangong Ye after sparring with him, so he abandoned his shortcut for approaching the sect about the inheritance.
• Lan Yue feasted on the North Ridge Sacred Ground visitors' gossip and earned 3,000 points, then discovered she had read all their available gossip.
• Lan Yue's inner voice made the Southern Spirit Sect and nearby sect visitors fear that she would turn her attention to their gossip next.
• Luan Ning told the others that fleeing would not help and urged them to accept Lan Yue's gossip feasts for the Southern Spirit Sect's benefit.
• Luan Ning revealed that she had prepared her own gossip and collected gossip from other sects on jade discs to give Lan Yue.

Luan Ning brought Lan Yue fresh gossip about her real uncle, an outer-sect elder who was mistakenly buried while practicing a breathing technique. The story left Lan Yue and Silver Snow eager to hear what happened when he woke up.

• The Southern Spirit Sect disciples followed Luan Ning’s suggestion to divide up gathering gossip from neighboring sects.
• Luan Ning visited Lan Yue and revealed that the Sixth Elder was not her real uncle; her actual uncle was the elder in charge of outer sect affairs.
• Luan Ning explained that her uncle had practiced the Divine Turtle Breath-Holding Art for so long that someone mistook him for dead and buried him.
• The elder’s disciples and outer-sect members mourned him, and the sect brought gifts to his disciples, unaware he was alive.
• Lan Yue asked eagerly whether Luan Ning’s uncle woke up, while Silver Snow listened with her.

Luan Ning told Lan Yue how her uncle climbed out of his grave and beat his sworn enemies, then shared more sect gossip. Lan Yue discovered she could borrow a thousand points every day, the system withdrew in dismay, and Yun Xi announced that people from the Greenstone Sect had arrived to buy Hair-Growth Pills.

• Luan Ning told Lan Yue that her uncle’s sworn enemies fought at his memorial, kicked in his grave, and were chased and beaten after he climbed out.
• Lan Yue enjoyed Luan Ning’s story and heard her share gossip about nearby sects.
• Lan Yue checked her points and learned that the system would let her borrow a thousand points once a day.
• The system realized Lan Yue could use the daily borrowing rule to accumulate points and withdrew into its shell.
• Yun Xi told Lan Yue that the Greenstone Sect visitors had woken up and arrived with spirit stones to buy Hair-Growth Pills.

Yun Xi and Lan Yue sold Hair-Growth Pills and Purification Formation Disks to the newly awakened Greenstone Sect disciples, earning a mountain of spirit stones. The elders discussed the very different fates of Elder Xing and the Greenstone Sect's Sect Master, whose condition remained a mystery.

• Yun Xi sold her entire stock of special Hair-Growth Pills to the Greenstone Sect disciples, while Lan Yue sold over a thousand Purification Formation Disks.
• The elders approved of Yun Xi and Lan Yue earning spirit stones, recognizing their contributions to saving the infested disciples.
• Lan Yue celebrated the spirit stones as the empire she had built, while she and Yun Xi wondered why the Greenstone Sect's Sect Master and Elder Xing were absent.
• The Fifth Elder explained that Elder Xing's severe demonic infestation had destroyed his meridians and vitality, while the Second Elder said he had knowingly cooperated with the Devil Race.
• The Fifth Elder revealed that the Greenstone Sect's Sect Master was also losing cultivation but had intact meridians and vitality, leaving the elders puzzled about the difference.

Lan Yue's inner voice exposed the Greenstone Sect Master’s role in helping the Devil Race infest his sect, prompting the Southern Spirit Sect elders to plan wider investigations and prepare for the Four-Region Grand Competition. Meanwhile, a winged black snake flew into the mountains with two demon companions, then vanished from their sight.

• Lan Yue learned from the system that the Greenstone Sect Master had cooperated with the Devil Race and enabled the sect’s infestation.
• Greenstone Sect elders and disciples rushed to confront their unconscious Sect Master after learning he had betrayed them.
• The Sixth Elder speculated that the Sect Master had accepted the Devil Race’s offer because of his injuries, while the Second Elder condemned his actions and warned that the original novel foretold the deaths of human prodigies.
• The Second Elder urged the elders to contact the Four Regions’ sects, investigate for Devil Race control, and prepare for the competition.
• A winged black snake entered the mountains outside the Southern Spirit Sect with an invisible burrowing rat and a small green snake, then disappeared, leaving the two demons searching for their Demon Lord.

Teng Snake reached the Southern Spirit Sect to find his wife, Lan Yue, and slipped past its mountain-guarding formation by carrying an unconscious Little Hedgehog on his head. Inside the sect, he heard Lan Yue announce that she was looking for gossip and had found another update about the Fifth Elder’s family.

• Snake Seven realized that a winged snake who asked him for directions might be a Teng Snake Youngling and hurried to report it to his Young Master.
• Snake Nine reunited with Snake Seven and revealed that the Teng Snake Demon Lord was heading for the Southern Spirit Sect.
• Teng Snake watched Little Hedgehog pass through the sect’s formation and copied its trick, but entered unnoticed only after carrying the hedgehog on his head.
• Wan Xing spotted Teng Snake and hurried back to the Dust-Forgetting Sect, while Teng Snake briefly wondered whether he recognized her scent.
• Lan Yue announced that she was nearly done paying off her debt and wanted fresh gossip, then noticed another update about the Fifth Elder’s family.

Lan Yue revealed that the Fifth Elder’s youngest spirit cat, Dazhuang, had been secretly visiting Spirit Beast Peak. The Fifth Elder panicked over what might be happening to his cat as Lan Yue began to explain Dazhuang’s activities.

• Lan Yue’s inner voice identified the Fifth Elder as the owner of several spirit cats, leaving him and the other elders wondering what gossip she had uncovered.
• Lan Yue revealed that the Fifth Elder’s youngest spirit cat was named Dazhuang, and the Sixth Elder teased the Fifth Elder about the unusual name.
• Lan Yue called Dazhuang a winner at the cat life and said it wanted to give every “poop-scooper” a home, confusing the elders.
• The Fifth Elder feared someone had taken Dazhuang away to build houses and prepared to go find them.
• Lan Yue revealed that Dazhuang often went to Spirit Beast Peak to mooch food and drink.