Recaps

Lou Yunxiao regained his sight after the Underground Palace collapsed and found Ning Ke dead beside the stone tablet. He realized Ning Ke had sacrificed himself to reinforce the seal and defeat the Great Demon, and he begged him to wake up.

• The Underground Palace collapsed, exposing its ruins as rain fell over the desert, and Lou Yunxiao woke with his sight restored and his heart beating again.
• Lou Yunxiao searched the ruins and found Ning Ke beneath a stone slab, lifeless and soaked in blood.
• Lou Yunxiao confessed that he loved Ning Ke and promised to make him a sachet, then discovered Ning Ke's eyes were gone.
• Lou Yunxiao saw the empty wound in Ning Ke's chest and the runes on the stone tablet, realizing Ning Ke had reinforced the seal and faced the Great Demon alone.
• Lou Yunxiao gathered Ning Ke into his arms and begged him to wake, lamenting that they could no longer escape and go home together.

Ning Xiaoxiao and the Sword Sect disciples found Lou Yunxiao holding Ning Ke’s dead body at the ruined Underground Palace. After defending Lou Yunxiao from accusations, they joined him as he set out to take Ning Ke home.

• Ning Xiaoxiao arrived at the Underground Palace and learned that Ning Ke had died after giving Lou Yunxiao his eyes to save him.
• Lou Yunxiao blamed himself for Ning Ke’s death, while Ning Xiaoxiao urged him to live as Ning Ke had wanted.
• When disciples accused Lou Yunxiao of killing Ning Ke and threatened to purge the Sword Sect, Ning Xiaoxiao struck at them and formed a sword formation to protect him.
• The Sword Sect disciples stood with Ning Xiaoxiao, declaring that they trusted Lou Yunxiao and would not let outsiders purge their sect.
• Lou Yunxiao admitted he had been possessed and stabbed a disciple, then had Pale Silver stab him in return before explaining that Ning Ke died reinforcing the Great Demon’s seal.
• As the rain stopped, Lou Yunxiao carried Ning Ke into the sunlight and asked Ning Xiaoxiao to take their junior brother home with him.

After completing the second quest stage, Ning Ke returned to the Demon Realm and tried to recover from his torture by sleeping among his eight remaining tails. In the Secret Realm, Lou Yunxiao washed Ning Ke’s lifeless body and begged him to return to life, leaving Lou Yunxiao grieving over the wish Ning Ke still owed him.

• Ning Ke learned that the second stage was complete but Time Reversal would continue until he finished the final step, then hugged his tails and fell asleep.
• Lou Yunxiao removed the lingering demonic energy from Ning Ke’s body while Ning Xiaoxiao watched.
• Ning Xiaoxiao told Lou Yunxiao she planned to leave the Secret Realm with the Sword Sect disciples and asked him to look after her brother.
• Lou Yunxiao carried Ning Ke to the river, undressed him, and washed his body by hand.
• Lou Yunxiao embraced Ning Ke and used his owed wish to beg him to come back to life.

Ning Ke watched Lou Yunxiao grieve over his corpse, then dressed up and left his bedchamber to enjoy his freedom as Demon Venerable. He discovered that the original owner had a large harem, whose members immediately argued over where to take him to eat.

• Ning Ke watched Lou Yunxiao cuddle his corpse through the Red Cloud Sword and insisted that Lou Yunxiao should move on.
• Ning Ke chose a red gauze dress from his wardrobe and admired how beautiful he looked in it.
• A crowd of handsome men and beautiful women rushed toward Ning Ke and called him Lord Demon Venerable.
• The harem members explained that they had missed Ning Ke while he stayed in seclusion and asked to spend time with him.
• Ning Ke suggested they go out to eat, and the harem members argued over which city and restaurant to visit.

Ning Ke enjoyed a lively day in the Demon Realm before Xiao Lü was demonized and killed Xiao Lan. After destroying the demon and cremating the bodies, Ning Ke faced the reality of the deaths ahead, while Yin Feng comforted him.

• Ning Ke dined with his harem in a Demon Clan city, then returned to the demon palace with a new book from Yueya.
• Yin Feng returned from inspecting the Southern Region and noticed Ning Ke looked unwell.
• Ning Ke and Yin Feng rushed to the rear courtyard, where demonized Xiao Lü was devouring Xiao Lan.
• Yin Feng restrained Xiao Lü, and Ning Ke destroyed the escaping demonic energy with foxfire.
• Ning Ke pieced together Xiao Lü and Xiao Lan's bodies, cremated them, and realized the world was not a game.
• Yin Feng wiped the blood from Ning Ke's hands and reassured him that he had avenged Xiao Lü and Xiao Lan.

After seeing Lou Yunxiao’s unstable grief through a water mirror, Ning Ke learned he had to become a monk to help rid Lou Yunxiao of his demonic thoughts. He organized the Demon Clan’s leaders to prepare against the devils and search for the Great Demon’s ancient seal, then Yin Feng questioned whether Ning Ke had used an avatar while in seclusion.

• Yin Feng reported that devils had possessed demons in the south and appeared in the Demon Palace, and Ning Ke ordered stronger guards and a meeting with every clan leader.
• Ning Ke watched Lou Yunxiao confess his love beside Ning Ke’s corpse in an Ice Coffin, and Xiao Yuan explained that Ning Ke had to become a monk to cleanse Lou Yunxiao’s demonic thoughts.
• Yin Feng gathered the Demon Clan’s leaders, and Ning Ke taught them formations to expel devils and ordered them to find the site where Heaven’s Way had sealed the Great Demon.
• Ning Ke told the leaders to search for a stone stele matching his drawing, seal off the area if they found it, and report it to Yin Feng.
• As Yin Feng escorted Ning Ke back to his bedchamber, he asked whether Ning Ke had used an avatar while in seclusion.

Ning Ke rushed to Ning Family Village after his divine sense link to Silver Gray broke and saved the villagers from a demon-corrupted bear, but he had to burn the villagers’ possessed loved ones. As the four sect masters arrived and questioned why the Demon Venerable was there, Ning Ke faced the grief caused by his actions.

• Yin Feng deduced that Ning Ke had used a clone to investigate the Great Demon’s ruins, warned him to be careful, and gave him spirit liquid to help him recover.
• While chatting with the young demons, Ning Ke thought of Lou Yunxiao when asked whether he liked anyone, then sensed that Silver Gray’s strand of divine sense had burst and rushed toward Ning Family Village.
• Ning Ke arrived as Silver Gray defended the villagers from a demon-corrupted bear and rescued the injured wolf cub before crushing and burning the bear.
• Ning Ke burned the possessed villagers’ bodies, including the husband of Ning Xiaoxiao’s Adoptive Mother, and was shaken by the villagers’ grief.
• Silver Gray comforted Ning Ke as the four sect masters arrived and asked why the Demon Venerable was there.

Ning Ke confronted the four sect masters after they accused him of killing the Flowing Cloud Sect, then faced Lou Yunxiao, who attacked him with all his strength. Ning Ke knocked Lou Yunxiao down and called him trash.

• Hong Yao, Gao Ze, Wei Qinghai, and Abbot Wujue accused Ning Ke of killing the Flowing Cloud Sect members and prepared to take him down.
• Ning Ke admitted killing the Flowing Cloud Sect members and overwhelmed the four early Tribulation Stage sect masters with his spiritual pressure.
• Lou Yunxiao arrived despite Gao Ze's warning, and Ning Ke withdrew his spiritual pressure when he noticed him.
• Lou Yunxiao attacked Ning Ke with the Pale Silver Sword, but Ning Ke shattered his strike with a sweep of his fan and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Ning Ke stood over the injured Lou Yunxiao and called him trash.

Ning Ke confronted Lou Yunxiao and provoked him into a furious outburst, then drew the sect masters away from Ning Family Village to fight in an open area. While Gao Ze learned that Ning Ke had saved the villagers, he reminded Ning Xiaoxiao that the truth about the Flowing Cloud Sect remained unknown and that she need not take sides in Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke’s feud.

• Ning Ke mocked Lou Yunxiao and challenged the Four Great Sect Masters, prompting Lou Yunxiao to draw both swords and cry that he would kill Ning Ke.
• Hong Yao and Abbot Wujue joined Lou Yunxiao, and Ning Ke led them away from the village to fight somewhere less cramped.
• Gao Ze questioned Silver Gray and the villagers, learning that Ning Ke had arrived in time to save them from the demons.
• Silver Gray claimed Ning Ke had reached the village quickly because he had left a trace of divine sense on the wolf in the Demon Realm.
• Ning Xiaoxiao asked whether Ning Ke had murdered Lou Yunxiao’s family, and Gao Ze said the truth about the Flowing Cloud Sect was still unknown, though Ning Ke had caused Lou Yunxiao’s injuries and blindness.
• Gao Ze told Ning Xiaoxiao to repay Ning Ke’s kindness if she could, but not to blame herself for the feud between Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke.

Ning Ke fought four sect leaders, but an illusion of Lou Yunxiao’s accusations briefly left him vulnerable before Lou attacked him. Ning Ke subdued Lou and helped restore his reason, then left after Gao Ze called off the fight, while Lou remained intent on revenge.

• Ning Ke battled Hong Yao, Abbot Wujue, Wei Qinghai, and Gao Ze as they trapped him in an illusion realm, a sealing array, and talismans.
• Hong Yao’s illusion showed Ning Ke an anguished Lou Yunxiao accusing him of deceiving him, and the vision distracted Ning Ke long enough for it to wound his shoulder.
• Lou Yunxiao entered the illusion realm and attacked Ning Ke, who broke his wrist, knocked him down, and held him by the throat.
• Ning Ke secretly used divine sense to balance Lou Yunxiao’s spiritual and demonic power, helping him regain his reason.
• Gao Ze said the sect leaders had learned Ning Ke came to eliminate a demon and let him leave, while warning that the Flowing Cloud Sect would still hold him accountable.
• Ning Ke departed after telling Lou Yunxiao he would await his revenge.

Lou Yunxiao struggled with the possibility that Ning Ke was his sister, but chose to cling to his hatred and revenge. At Ning Family Village, Ning Xiaoxiao urged him to bury her brother, while Lou Yunxiao insisted on keeping A Ke’s body by his side forever.

• Lou Yunxiao dismissed his suspicions about Ning Ke and told Gao Ze he would avoid him until he was strong enough to take revenge.
• Ning Xiaoxiao buried the villagers’ dead, carved her adoptive father’s name into his headstone, and vowed to destroy Demon.
• Ning Xiaoxiao asked Lou Yunxiao whether Ning Ke resembled her brother, but Lou Yunxiao angrily rejected the comparison.
• Ning Xiaoxiao urged Lou Yunxiao to bury Ning Ke’s body, arguing that no one could revive him and that he had not returned her brother’s feelings while he was alive.
• Lou Yunxiao declared that A Ke belonged to him in life and death, then walked away, leaving Ning Xiaoxiao to mourn her brother and call Lou Yunxiao mad.

After his battle with Lou Yunxiao and the villagers’ deaths, Ning Ke accepted his guilt and began the third stage of his mission by disguising himself as a monk. He gained entry to the Buddhist Order as Mingxin, while Wugou recognized that his karma matched Ning Ke’s.

• Ning Ke treated his shoulder wound with foxfire, acknowledged his guilt, and decided to take the tonsure and join the Buddhist Order.
• Abbot Wujue ordered the Buddhist elders to investigate Ning Ke, while Wugou wondered why Ning Ke shared the karma of Benefactor A Ke, whom Wugou had seen die.
• Ning Ke arrived at the Buddhist temple disguised as Mingxin, a monk seeking to join the order.
• Wugou recognized Mingxin’s karma as identical to Ning Ke’s, though he sensed no hostility from him.
• Ning Ke praised the Buddhist Order and presented gifts, persuading Abbot Wujue to accept him and arrange his lodging.

Ning Ke disguised himself as a monk to find the Buddha Lotus Lamp, but Wugou recognized both his true identity and his other disguise. Wugou revealed that he possessed the lamp and offered to give it to Ning Ke on one condition.

• Ning Ke arranged to share a courtyard with Wugou, who admitted he had recognized him as the Demon Venerable.
• Ning Ke threatened Wugou to keep his identity secret, but Wugou saw through the act and revealed he also recognized Ning Ke as A Ke.
• Wugou promised to keep Ning Ke's identity secret and asked to stay by his side as an observer, and Ning Ke agreed.
• Ning Ke told Wugou he sought the Buddha Lotus Lamp, and Wugou revealed that he possessed it.
• Wugou offered to give Ning Ke the lamp if Ning Ke agreed to do as he said from then on.

Ning Ke trained as a monk under Wugou and joined a Demon-Slaying Team bound for Northern Tour City, where he reunited with Lou Yunxiao and his former acquaintances. He introduced himself to Lou as Mingxin, determined to hide his identity.

• Abbot Wujue praised Mingxin and Wugou, then agreed to send them on a Demon-Slaying Team to prepare for the growing attacks across the Human Realm.
• On the Flying Ship, Ning Ke thanked Wugou for helping steady his mind and admitted he hoped to use Lou Yunxiao to return home.
• Wugou revealed that he had seen death in both Ning Ke's and A Ke's futures.
• Ning Ke and Wugou arrived in Northern Tour City, where Zeng Xi and Zhang Chen explained that the Pill Sect was examining demon-affected corpses using Demon-Dissipating Pills to prevent them from becoming living dead.
• Zhuang Yusheng, Ning Xiaoxiao, and Lou Yunxiao arrived; Zeng Xi warned Zhang Chen not to question Lou about his regained sight.
• Ning Ke greeted Lou Yunxiao as Mingxin and asked him to call him by that name.

Ning Ke, disguised as the monk Mingxin, encountered Lou Yunxiao, who was still grieving his supposed death and searching for him. After Lou sensed A Ke nearby through the Red Cloud Sword, Ning Ke concealed himself, but Lou ended the chapter certain that A Ke was beside him.

• Lou Yunxiao sensed the Red Cloud Sword tremble and searched for A Ke, while Ning Ke silently stopped the sword from recognizing him.
• Ning Xiaoxiao wept over her brother's death, and Ning Ke comforted her before returning the Red Cloud Sword to Lou Yunxiao.
• Lou Yunxiao seized Ning Ke's wrist and demanded to know why he had lost everything he loved, then released him after Wugou intervened.
• Zeng Xi told Zhang Chen that Lou Yunxiao's junior brother had died saving him and that people suspected Lou had loved him.
• Zhuang Yusheng confronted Lou Yunxiao on the rooftop, and Lou declared that A Ke was not dead and was right beside him.

Lou Yunxiao killed a demon disguised as a night watchman, then tested whether the monk Mingxin was Ning Ke in disguise. He confirmed that Mingxin’s forehead mark was a seal, leaving him convinced he had found A Ke.

• Lou Yunxiao killed the demon disguised as a night watchman and absorbed it, alarming the city guards.
• Zhuang Yusheng explained to the guards that Lou Yunxiao could absorb demonic energy and identified him as a Sword Sect immortal.
• Ning Ke arrived disguised as Mingxin and performed rites for the dead night watchman while Lou Yunxiao watched him closely.
• Lou Yunxiao repeated Ning Ke’s earlier words about appreciating beauty, making Ning Ke suspect he had been recognized.
• Lou Yunxiao touched Mingxin’s forehead mark, realized it was a seal, and concluded that Mingxin was A Ke.

Ning Ke tried to understand how Lou Yunxiao had recognized him, while Lou Yunxiao grew more convinced that Mingxin might be A Ke. After Ning Ke offered to refine Demon-Dissipating Pills, Lou Yunxiao pressed Wugou for information, and Wugou asked whether he wanted Mingxin to be A Ke.

• Ning Ke wondered how Lou Yunxiao had recognized him, while Lou Yunxiao recalled Mingxin's behavior, the Red Cloud Sword's obedience, and A Ke's familiar scent.
• Ning Ke woke to Zhang Chen's pill furnace exploding, and Zeng Xi explained that the failed Demon-Dissipating Pills threatened the group's preparations for war.
• Ning Ke volunteered to refine the pills, hoping to distract Lou Yunxiao from his suspicions, and the others split up to investigate the city, woods, and Living Dead.
• Lou Yunxiao questioned Wugou about Mingxin's past, but Wugou gave him little useful information.
• Lou Yunxiao asked whether Mingxin was A Ke, and Wugou replied by asking whether he wanted him to be.

Ning Ke recognized that the attacks on Northern Tour City had damaged a massive formation and ordered the city evacuated before its five elemental arrays could be destroyed. Lou Yunxiao ignored Ning Ke’s attempt to send him elsewhere and demonstrated that he could wield fire.

• Wugou urged Lou Yunxiao to discover Mingxin’s identity for himself, while Lou Yunxiao remained troubled by the possibility that Mingxin was A Ke.
• Zeng Xi and the others reported strange growths of ghost soul grass and found that attacks on twelve residences had left traces of arrays arranged around Northern Tour City.
• Ning Ke refined Demon-Dissipating Pills, examined the array rubbing and city map, and realized the twelve locations matched a formation he had seen in the Underground Palace.
• Ning Ke ordered the evacuation of Northern Tour City and assigned himself and four others to guard the five elemental arrays while they called for reinforcements.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao to guard the water array with Liuli, but Lou Yunxiao stayed beside him and showed that he could play with fire.

Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao searched the Liu Residence for missing Junjun and learned that Second Concubine was a demon who had eaten a maid. After Second Concubine slaughtered the household and confronted them, Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao prepared to fight her.

• Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao found Junjun hiding beneath a bed, where she told them Second Concubine had eaten the maid Huang Ying.
• Master Liu left the residence with his concubines, and Second Concubine killed the concubines, Master Liu, and the other members of the household.
• Ning Ke promised to protect Junjun and Madam Liu, and Junjun gave him a fire-attribute spirit stone that triggered a side quest to reinforce Northern Tour City's Five Elements Formation.
• Lou Yunxiao sensed approaching demonic energy, and Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao went outside to face Second Concubine.
• Second Concubine revealed herself as a demon and declared that she would sacrifice Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao to the formation.

Demons attacked Northern Tour City as Ning Ke and his companions struggled to protect civilians and defend the Five Elements Formation. With the city sealed off and Lou Yunxiao facing the demoness, Ning Ke considered removing the seal on his true body but tried to avoid exposing himself.

• Lou Yunxiao confronted the Integration-stage demoness while Ning Ke set up six defensive formations and warned the others to avoid stronger demons.
• Ning Xiaoxiao found the metal-element spirit stone, then attacked a Spirit Transformation-stage demon despite Mingxin's warning not to fight stronger enemies.
• Zeng Xi discovered ghost soul grass attacking the city gate and led the Pill Sect disciples in using fire while civilians evacuated.
• Zhang Chen fought the ghost soul grass beside the city guards, severed his own foot to stop it from draining his spiritual energy, and helped hold the line until the evacuation ended.
• The ghost soul grass sealed the city behind a massive dome, leaving Ning Ke and the others unable to receive help as Ning Ke weighed removing his seal.
• The demoness attacked Ning Ke, but Lou Yunxiao intercepted her with his swords and vowed to protect him.

Lou Yunxiao revealed his demonic power to protect Ning Ke and killed the demon woman guarding the Fire Array, while Ning Ke worked to reinforce the formation. The woman regenerated and summoned the other array demons, but Ning Xiaoxiao arrived and announced she had killed Number Five.

• Lou Yunxiao fought the demon woman with his divine swords, then unleashed demonic energy and began absorbing hers.
• Xiao Yuan told Ning Ke that Lou Yunxiao’s demonized behavior came from trauma and that a future task involved using the Buddha Lotus Lamp to make him more normal.
• Lou Yunxiao wounded and dismembered the demon woman while Ning Ke reinforced the Fire Array, then hacked her body into pieces.
• Lou Yunxiao carried Ning Ke into the air as ghost soul grass erupted from the ground with over a thousand corpses impaled on it.
• The demons guarding the Water, Earth, and Wood Arrays arrived, and the demon woman regenerated from the blood and flesh as she asked where Number Five was.
• Ning Xiaoxiao arrived wounded and declared that she had already killed the demon guarding the Metal Array.

Ning Xiaoxiao revealed that she had killed a demon with the Demon-Sealing Talisman, while Ning Ke struggled to hide his identity from Lou Yunxiao. The remaining demons merged to restore the demon woman to peak integration, but as she attacked Ning Xiaoxiao, two men intervened.

• Zhuang Yusheng checked Ning Xiaoxiao's wounded hand and gave her healing pills, telling her she had done well.
• Ning Xiaoxiao explained that she used the Demon-Sealing Talisman to destroy the fifth demon, stunning the others and Ning Ke.
• Ning Ke insisted that Lou Yunxiao call him Mingxin, but Lou Yunxiao kissed his palm and continued calling him Mouse.
• The demon woman gathered the other demons' power and bodies, restored herself, and reached peak integration.
• The demon woman struck Zhuang Yusheng aside and lunged for Ning Xiaoxiao, but two men grabbed her before she could reach her.

Ning Ke reinforced Northern Tour City's four seals after Demoness triggered the formation, while the group kept her separated from her head and body. Wugou then used his staff and chanting to immobilize the Ghost Soul Grass, leaving Liuli wondering whether he meant to send everyone to the afterlife.

• Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao beheaded Demoness, and Zhuang Yusheng accidentally got splattered with her blood.
• Demoness regenerated her severed parts with Ghost Soul Grass, but Lou Yunxiao knocked her head away and Zhuang Yusheng, Ning Ke, and Lou Yunxiao kept batting it between them.
• Demoness activated the formations around Northern Tour City, but Ning Xiaoxiao revealed that she had reinforced the metal formation.
• Ning Ke used elemental spirit stones and blood-drawn formations to reinforce the other four seals, thanking Demoness for revealing their locations.
• Wugou used the Buddha Lotus Lamp in his staff to freeze the Ghost Soul Grass, then began chanting and tapping the ground as Liuli wondered whether he was sending everyone to the afterlife.

Lou Yunxiao defeated the demoness by absorbing her demonic energy, then rejected her accusation that he could never be a hero and declared himself a monster who would erase demons. After the array sealed the demon underground and Northern Tour City returned to normal, Zhuang Yusheng wondered whether the demonic energy had changed Lou Yunxiao’s personality.

• The demoness recognized the Buddha Lotus Lamp and a prophecy about the group, but Lou Yunxiao attacked and drained her demonic energy until she weakened.
• The demoness told Lou Yunxiao that absorbing energy from her victims made him a monster, but he said he never wanted to be a hero and vowed to eliminate demons.
• Lou Yunxiao cut down the demoness, and Wugou completed the ritual that sealed her underground and withered the ghost soul grass as dawn broke over Northern Tour City.
• Ning Xiaoxiao smiled with relief after helping defeat the demon, while Liuli complimented her and Wugou refused Lou Yunxiao’s request for his staff.
• Zhuang Yusheng questioned whether absorbing so much demonic energy had changed Lou Yunxiao’s personality.

After Lou Yunxiao defeated the Great Demon, its demonic energy continued to spill from him, and the group learned that an unknown Secret Realm had appeared at the Flowing Cloud Sect’s former site. Lou Yunxiao decided he had to enter it after hearing that his sect leader had already gone inside.

• Lou Yunxiao discovered he could no longer control the demonic energy he had absorbed, while the others mistook his strange behavior for the effects of consuming too much of it.
• Cui Xuecheng and the other Integration disciples arrived, heard how the group had slain the demon, and saw Yongjie fail to persuade Wugou to show him his staff.
• Shen Yan'er concealed Lou Yunxiao’s demonic energy with an illusion, and the Liu Residence’s surviving mother and daughter thanked Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao for defeating the demon.
• Cui Xuecheng took Ning Xiaoxiao to inspect the stone monument sealing the Great Demon, while Shen Yan'er told Liuli that the Sword Sect’s leader had entered a Secret Realm at the Flowing Cloud Sect’s former site.
• Lou Yunxiao learned that the Secret Realm admitted cultivators at the Spirit Transformation Stage and had no known way out, but he insisted that he had to go there.