Recaps

Ning Ke accepted the quest to investigate the destruction of the Flowing Cloud Sect and chased after Lou Yunxiao when he left for the dangerous Secret Realm alone. He found Lou Yunxiao hurting himself to suppress his desire to keep Ning Ke safe, and told him to stop hiding what he wanted.

• The system gave Ning Ke a main quest to enter the space that devoured the Flowing Cloud Sect with Lou Yunxiao and uncover the truth behind its destruction.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao he would accompany him, but Lou Yunxiao refused and flew off toward the Secret Realm.
• Ning Ke chased Lou Yunxiao, and Wugou followed them while Shen Yan'er stayed behind with the others.
• Lou Yunxiao told Ning Ke not to come closer, then hid in the woods and bit his hands to restrain his overwhelming longing for him.
• Ning Ke found Lou Yunxiao, recognized that he was rejecting him out of fear for his safety, and treated his injured hands.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao to stop saying things he did not mean and promised to do the lying for him.

Ning Ke reassured Lou Yunxiao and disguised the source of his foxfire, then followed him to help Wugou confront Yongjie over a treasured staff. Wugou revealed his hidden cultivation and trapped Yongjie, then offered Lou Yunxiao temporary use of the staff if he sent his demonic energy into Yongjie’s sea of consciousness.

• Lou Yunxiao confessed that he wanted Ning Ke to stay by his side, and Ning Ke agreed while privately wishing the promise were true.
• Lou Yunxiao noticed Ning Ke’s protective blue flames and asked where they came from, so Ning Ke claimed the Fire Lion Clan had given them to him.
• Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao found Yongjie trying to seize Wugou’s staff, and Lou Yunxiao rushed in to defend Wugou before asking for the staff as payment.
• Wugou revealed that he had been suppressing his cultivation and reached the mid-spirit transformation stage, shocking Yongjie and Ning Ke.
• Wugou trapped Yongjie in his Killing Formation, and Lou Yunxiao held a sword to Yongjie’s neck while Wugou offered to lend him the staff if he sent his demonic energy into Yongjie’s sea of consciousness.

Wugou joined Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao on their journey into the Secret Realm after helping kill Yongjie. The three entered together but were separated inside, where Lou Yunxiao encountered a vision of his mother and Ning Ke and Wugou were swept through a violent stormy sea.

• Lou Yunxiao turned Yongjie into a demon with transferred demonic energy, and Wugou killed him before Lou Yunxiao burned his body.
• Lou Yunxiao gave Wugou’s staff to Ning Ke, and Wugou confronted Ning Ke for leaving him behind before insisting on joining the trip.
• Ning Ke, Lou Yunxiao, and Wugou reached the Secret Realm entrance and stepped inside together as Ning Xiaoxiao arrived too late to follow them.
• The Secret Realm separated the three: Lou Yunxiao fell into a golden spiritual pool and embraced a water-formed image of his mother, Bai Wanru.
• Ning Ke and Wugou were battered by giant waves in a stormy sea, and Wugou regretted following Ning Ke into the Secret Realm.

Ning Ke and Wugou endured the violent sea before reaching land in a secret realm that Ning Ke recognized as the Demon World. A departing spirit called him the Demon Venerable and asked him to save them, leaving Ning Ke to suspect that the Flowing Cloud Sect’s destruction had been deliberately arranged.

• Ning Ke and Wugou were battered by the storm and waited three days on a reef before setting out again.
• Ning Ke revealed his original appearance, and Wugou said he did not believe Ning Ke had destroyed the Flowing Cloud Sect; Ning Ke admitted he did not know what had happened.
• Ning Ke and Wugou reached land beneath a purple-red sun and found their cultivation suppressed.
• Black-mist demon creatures attacked them, but Wugou used the Buddha Lotus Lamp and chanted a sutra to calm and disperse them.
• Ning Ke realized they had entered the Demon World and suspected someone had deliberately made it swallow the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• A fading spirit recognized Ning Ke as the Demon Venerable and asked him to save them before disappearing.

Ning Ke entered the Flowing Cloud Sect’s main hall and was somehow transported ten thousand years into the past, where he became a powerless white fox. After a swordsman named Immortal Master Lou rescued him, Ning Ke realized the man looked exactly like a grown-up Lou Yunxiao.

• Ning Ke sensed a powerful presence near the vanished Flowing Cloud Sect and separated from Wugou to investigate alone.
• Ning Ke entered the sect’s main hall and woke up in the past as a white fox with no cultivation.
• Two cultivators threatened a mother and daughter, and Ning Ke attacked one of them to protect the pair.
• A swordsman rescued the mother, daughter, and injured Ning Ke, then treated the fox’s wounds.
• Ning Ke recognized Immortal Master Lou as the spitting image of a grown-up Lou Yunxiao.

Ning Ke followed the system’s quest to stay by Lou Yunxiao’s side and was taken home as his pet fox. There, he met Lou Yunxiao’s mother, Bai Wanru, who initially wanted to eat him but agreed to let him stay.

• Ning Ke realized that the Lou Yunxiao of ten thousand years ago might be the later Lou Yunxiao’s reincarnation, and the system issued a quest for him to stay by Lou Yunxiao’s side.
• Ning Ke avoided being adopted by Fangfang and persuaded Lou Yunxiao to take him instead.
• Lou Yunxiao brought the mother and daughter to Red River City, then carried Ning Ke to his residence.
• Bai Wanru mistook Ning Ke for food and wanted his fur, but Lou Yunxiao threatened to stop doing household chores if she harmed him.
• Lou Yunxiao declared that Ning Ke would stay with him, while Bai Wanru wondered whether the fox might become her son’s future partner.

Ning Ke accompanied Lou Yunxiao as he cooked and learned that Bai Wanru was risking her health to forge the Buddha Lotus Lamp to fight the demons. After Ning Ke comforted Lou Yunxiao, the family ate together, and Lou Yunxiao gave the fox even more of Bai Wanru’s fish.

• Ning Ke followed Lou Yunxiao to the kitchen and revealed his name, prompting Lou Yunxiao to start calling him A Ke.
• Ning Ke sensed Bai Wanru’s great spiritual energy and recognized her as a powerful Artifact Refiner.
• Bai Wanru collapsed after a forging attempt, and Lou Yunxiao confronted her about the toll her work on the Buddha Lotus Lamp was taking on her.
• Bai Wanru explained that she wanted the lamp to stop demons from slaughtering people, and Ning Ke nudged Lou Yunxiao until he agreed to let the matter rest.
• Lou Yunxiao served Ning Ke half his fish, then gave him more when he finished it, leaving Bai Wanru with less of her meal.

Ning Ke learned more about Lou Yunxiao’s power and the danger surrounding Red River City, then grew closer to him while seeking comfort from a terrifying storm. The next morning, Ning Ke followed Lou Yunxiao to the privy and secretly caught a glimpse of him.

• Ning Ke sensed that Lou Yunxiao had likely reached the Tribulation Stage and reflected on how he and Bai Wanru protected Red River City.
• When a violent storm frightened Ning Ke, he burrowed into Lou Yunxiao’s arms, and Lou Yunxiao cuddled him and thanked him for choosing to stay by his side.
• Ning Ke fell asleep in Lou Yunxiao’s embrace after Lou Yunxiao promised to stew chicken for him the next day.
• The next morning, Ning Ke followed Lou Yunxiao to the privy, despite being told to wait outside.
• Ning Ke pretended to chase his tail so he could turn around and secretly look at Lou Yunxiao.

After Lou Yunxiao teased Ning Ke while he relieved himself, Bai Wanru mistakenly suspected her son had an unusual interest in the fox. Lou Yunxiao later took Ning Ke to Qingqiu Fox Mountain and asked the Fox Lord to let them through its barrier.

• Lou Yunxiao caught Ning Ke watching him relieve himself, then teased the fox into peeing in front of him until Bai Wanru walked in on them.
• Bai Wanru fussed over Lou Yunxiao for several days before asking if he had an unusual taste for Ning Ke; Lou Yunxiao denied it and reminded her that Ning Ke was male.
• Ning Ke sulked and barely ate, so Lou Yunxiao apologized and offered to take him out for a stroll.
• Lou Yunxiao carried Ning Ke south beyond the city to Qingqiu Fox Mountain and respectfully asked the Fox Lord to open the barrier.

Lou Yunxiao brought Ning Ke to Qingqiu, where the foxes revealed that Ning Ke was their missing Saint. The Fox Lord Jiu Yuan challenged Lou Yunxiao to leave Ning Ke with the clan, but Lou Yunxiao insisted that he needed Ning Ke and promised to protect him until he died.

• A You and A Li recognized Ning Ke as the Fox Clan Saint and let Lou Yunxiao enter Qingqiu after a voice from the mountain stopped them from attacking.
• The foxes gathered around Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke, excited that their missing Saint had returned.
• Jiu Yuan summoned Ning Ke onto his lap while Lou Yunxiao explained that he wanted to learn Ning Ke's origins and help him take human form.
• Jiu Yuan recalled a dream in which Heaven's Way said Ning Ke had gone to find his destined savior and instructed the clan to help any cultivator Ning Ke brought back.
• Jiu Yuan told Lou Yunxiao to leave Qingqiu without Ning Ke, but Lou Yunxiao said he wanted Ning Ke as a friend and needed him.
• After Jiu Yuan questioned whether he could keep Ning Ke safe, Lou Yunxiao promised that no one would hurt Ning Ke while he was alive.

Ning Ke unlocked the ability to take human form while bathing in the hot spring, and Lou Yunxiao proved himself to Jiu Yuan in a daylong sparring match. After Jiu Yuan agreed to let Ning Ke leave with him, Ning Ke pulled Lou Yunxiao into the spring and asked whether he still liked his appearance.

• Ning Ke stood up for Lou Yunxiao, and Jiu Yuan took them to a hot spring to unlock Ning Ke’s ability to speak and take human form.
• Jiu Yuan challenged Lou Yunxiao to test his strength, and their evenly matched sparring ended in a draw.
• Jiu Yuan allowed Ning Ke to leave with Lou Yunxiao after Ning Ke took human form.
• Lou Yunxiao turned away and offered Ning Ke clothes, but Ning Ke lured him close and pulled him into the hot spring.
• Ning Ke pressed himself into Lou Yunxiao’s embrace and asked whether he still liked how he looked.

Ning Ke received the Storage Ring, fan, and Bone Whistle from Jiu Yuan before returning with Lou Yunxiao to Red River City, where they found Bai Wanru sheltering a mysterious old man. The old man offered Bai Wanru insight into forging the Buddha Lotus Lamp, while Ning Ke noticed signs that the man was near death and a look of guilt in his eyes.

• Lou Yunxiao nearly confessed his feelings to Ning Ke, but A You interrupted them by calling them to dinner.
• Before Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao left the Green Hills, Jiu Yuan gave Ning Ke his familiar Storage Ring, fan, and Bone Whistle, raising the storyline repair progress to 40%.
• Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke returned to Red River City and found Bai Wanru with an old man who had fled a city turned into a human farm by the Great Demon.
• Bai Wanru welcomed Ning Ke in his human form, and the group agreed to let the old man stay in their home.
• Ning Ke overheard the old man advising Bai Wanru on forging the Buddha Lotus Lamp, then saw the signs of decay in the man's hand at dinner.
• Ning Ke ate the food the old man gave him, missing the anguish and guilt in the old man's expression.

As Nan Lou’s Great Demons expanded south, Lou Yunxiao sought allies while Bai Wanru forged the Buddha Lotus Lamp and Ning Ke received manuals containing the ancient methods for sealing the demons. Lou Yunxiao believed he had secured Zhang Minghe’s support, but Zhang was actually Nan Lou in disguise, who planned to torment him by destroying everything he cared about.

• The refugees’ reports confirmed that Nan Lou and his twelve powerful Great Demons had conquered the north and were enslaving humans and demons as they expanded toward Red River City.
• Lou Yunxiao searched for powerful allies, Bai Wanru worked to forge the Buddha Lotus Lamp, and Ning Ke hunted demons and helped bring refugees to the city.
• An old man gave Ning Ke heaven-grade talisman and array manuals whose designs matched the Demon-Sealing Talisman and Heaven’s Way Formation used to seal the Great Demons.
• In Famous Mountain City, Lou Yunxiao accepted Zhang Minghe’s promise to gather tribulation-stage cultivators for an alliance, believing Bai Wanru’s Buddha Lotus Lamp would help them fight the demons.
• After Lou Yunxiao left, Zhang Minghe revealed himself as Nan Lou, who explained that he wanted to make Lou Yunxiao watch his loved ones suffer before killing him.

Nan Lou impersonated Zhang Minghe and arranged to lure a demon into a trap by announcing an alliance against the Great Demons. In Red River City, Ning Ke learned that Bai Wanru planned to sacrifice half her soul to activate the Buddha Lotus Lamp, a secret he concealed from Lou Yunxiao.

• Nan Lou ordered a demon in Red River City to wait, then disguised himself as Zhang Minghe and summoned cultivators to gather in Zhongze City to fight the Great Demons alongside Lou Yunxiao.
• Lou Yunxiao returned to Red River City and found Ning Ke dressed in a red Immortal-Floating Dress; he pinched Ning Ke's sensitive ear before Bai Wanru teased him and took them out to explore the city.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao that Bai Wanru had completed the Buddha Lotus Lamp, while hiding her plan to pour half her soul into it to unleash its power.
• Ning Ke agreed with Lou Yunxiao's praise of Bai Wanru while concealing his knowledge of her dangerous sacrifice, thinking that he was destined to be a liar.

Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao shared a quiet evening before Lou Yunxiao promised to reveal a secret after defeating the Great Demon. As Lou Yunxiao left to gather cultivators for the battle, Ning Ke stayed behind to guard Bai Wanru while she began refining the Buddha Lotus Lamp.

• Ning Ke played the flute for Lou Yunxiao by the river, and Lou Yunxiao said he would tell Ning Ke something after they defeated the Great Demon.
• Lou Yunxiao bought materials to make a sachet, hiding them from Ning Ke and promising that Ning Ke would learn all his secrets someday.
• Zhang Minghe reported that the cultivators had agreed to gather in Zhongze City in five days, and Lou Yunxiao prepared Red River City's defenders for the coming battle.
• Ning Ke set up arrays and talismans to protect Red River City, then watched Lou Yunxiao depart for Zhongze City.
• Ning Ke activated a courtyard barrier so Bai Wanru could refine the Buddha Lotus Lamp, and he hurried away after she teased him about marrying Lou Yunxiao.

Ning Ke struggled with his feelings for Lou Yunxiao as four Great Demons attacked Red River City to destroy Bai Wanru and the Buddha Lotus Lamp. After the demons shattered the city’s defenses and found Bai Wanru refining the lamp, Ning Ke stood between her and Nan Yi.

• Ning Ke reflected on his admiration and affection for Lou Yunxiao, while the old man hinted that he had wronged Ning Ke by bringing him into this world.
• Four Great Demons descended on Red River City, where Human Clan cultivators raised the defensive array and the City Lord ordered residents to evacuate.
• Nan Yi ordered the demons to destroy the Buddha Lotus Lamp, kill Bai Wanru, and turn the city’s residents into living dead.
• The Great Demons shattered the city’s array, killing residents with their pressure, while Ning Ke kept protecting the courtyard with his own barrier.
• Nan Yi found Bai Wanru refining the Buddha Lotus Lamp and attacked her, but Ning Ke blocked the strike with the Bone Fan and vowed to keep him away from her.

Lou Yunxiao discovered that Nan Lou and the other eight Great Demons had infiltrated Zhongze City, then rushed toward Red River City after learning four demons had been sent to kill Bai Wanru and its residents. Bai Wanru awakened and overwhelmed Nan Yi and Nan Er with the Buddha Lotus Lamp and her Forging Hammer, but a hand reached up from beneath her and grabbed her ankle.

• Lou Yunxiao learned that Nan Lou and eight other Great Demons had disguised themselves as the city lords and revealed they had taken control of Zhongze City.
• Nan Lou told Lou Yunxiao that four Great Demons had gone to kill Bai Wanru and destroy the Buddha Lotus Lamp while slaughtering Red River City.
• Lou Yunxiao fought his way out of Zhongze City and raced toward Red River City as Nan Lou and the other Great Demons followed him.
• Ning Ke desperately tried to protect Bai Wanru from Nan Yi, but she awoke, wielded her Forging Hammer, and used the Buddha Lotus Lamp to suppress the demons.
• Bai Wanru battered Nan Yi and Nan Er until a hand emerged from underground and seized her ankle.

Bai Wanru used the Buddha Lotus Lamp and lightning to defeat the two Great Demons, but her mortal wounds left her dying in Ning Ke’s arms. Before she died, she entrusted him with the lamp and he vowed to destroy the demons.

• Nan Yi regenerated and revealed that the Great Demons could draw flesh and blood from beneath the city, while Bai Wanru struggled with a severe chest wound.
• Bai Wanru summoned heavenly lightning and, with the Buddha Lotus Lamp sealing the demons’ escape, smashed both Great Demons with her Forging Hammer.
• Bai Wanru told Ning Ke that the failed sacrifice had damaged her soul and completing the Buddha Lotus Lamp would cost her life.
• Bai Wanru asked Ning Ke to use the lamp to protect himself, while Ning Ke promised to honor her by wiping out the demons.
• As Bai Wanru’s consciousness faded, Ning Ke pretended to be Lou Yunxiao so she could hear her son’s voice before she died.

Bai Wanru died after forging the Buddha Lotus Lamp, and Lou Yunxiao arrived too late to see her alive. Learning from Heaven's Way that the world's incompleteness and Demon's birth stemmed from his and his sister's actions, Ning Ke vowed to save the world but withdrew from Lou Yunxiao, until Jiu Yuan appeared to confront Nan Lou's demons.

• Bai Wanru died in Ning Ke's arms, and the Buddha Lotus Lamp absorbed her power as Lou Yunxiao rushed to her side.
• Ning Ke confronted Heaven's Way, who explained that the world's incompleteness had caused Demon to be born and asked Ning Ke to connect people's fates and destroy Demon.
• Ning Ke blamed himself for the world's suffering, promised Heaven's Way he would keep fighting, and pulled back when he wanted to comfort Lou Yunxiao.
• Nan Lou arrived with the other great demons and revealed that they had turned half of Red River City's inhabitants into living dead to torment Lou Yunxiao.
• Jiu Yuan appeared and burned the living dead to ashes with foxfire before confronting Nan Lou and the other demons.

Jiu Yuan and cultivators from Zhongze City reinforced Red River City, giving Lou Yunxiao the strength to resume fighting. After Heaven's Way sacrificed himself to empower Lou Yunxiao's Twin Swords, Lou Yunxiao killed Nan Yi and charged at Nan Lou and the other Great Demons.

• Cultivators from Zhongze City arrived to help Lou Yunxiao, and he regained his resolve while holding the Buddha Lotus Lamp.
• Jiu Yuan healed Ning Ke and comforted him, then urged Lou Yunxiao to stand up and fight.
• Lou Yunxiao apologized to Ning Ke, and Jiu Yuan told him they still had a chance to win.
• Heaven's Way channeled his remaining strength into Lou Yunxiao's Twin Swords before his body crumbled away.
• Nan Yi and Nan Er returned to Nan Lou's side, but Lou Yunxiao swiftly killed Nan Yi with the empowered swords.
• The Buddha Lotus Lamp formed a domain that suppressed the Great Demons as Lou Yunxiao attacked and vowed to keep killing them until they could no longer revive.

Ning Ke chose to break the seal on his cultivation so he could join the fight against the Great Demons, while the ten-day battle left Lou Yunxiao and Jiu Yuan badly wounded. Nan Lou devoured the fallen Great Demons to restore his strength, but Lou Yunxiao struck back with Heaven's Way Qi before Jiu Yuan warned him of danger behind him.

• Jiu Yuan transformed into his nine-tailed form and sent Nan Lou and the Great Demons away from Red River City while Lou Yunxiao pursued them.
• A Li brought Ning Ke to Green Hills and began undoing his seal in the Demonic Power Pool, despite warning him that the process would cause lasting harm.
• For ten days, cultivators and members of the Demon Clan fought the demons across the land as Lou Yunxiao and Jiu Yuan battled Nan Lou and the Twelve Great Demons.
• Nan Lou devoured the fallen Great Demons and restored his strength as Lou Yunxiao and Jiu Yuan were left near exhaustion.
• Lou Yunxiao used Heaven's Way Qi to sever Nan Lou's right hand, then heard Jiu Yuan warn him to watch his back.

Ning Ke helped Lou Yunxiao defeat Nan Lou ten thousand years in the past, but Lou Yunxiao destroyed his own soul to stop Nan Lou’s possession, and Jiu Yuan used a forbidden art to preserve a chance for his reincarnation. After ten thousand years, Nan Lou returned through Lou Jing and orchestrated the Flowing Cloud Sect’s massacre; Ning Ke killed the corrupted sect and crippled the young Lou Yunxiao, telling him to hate him.

• Ning Ke arrived in time to help Lou Yunxiao seal Nan Lou’s severed limbs with inscribed steles and a Heaven’s Way Formation.
• Lou Yunxiao split the Three Realms and then destroyed himself to eliminate Nan Lou, while Jiu Yuan gathered his scattered soul with a forbidden art.
• Ning Ke guarded Jiu Yuan, helped establish peace between humans and demons, and spent six thousand years cultivating before becoming the Demon Lord.
• Ten thousand years later, Ning Ke learned that Nan Lou had possessed Lou Jing, corrupted the Flowing Cloud Sect, and planted a demon worm in Lou Yunxiao.
• Ning Ke fought Nan Lou, then burned the demonized people at the Flowing Cloud Sect and destroyed young Lou Yunxiao’s cultivation and eyes to stop the demon worm’s spread.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao to hate him and said he would wait for Lou Yunxiao to kill him.

After recalling the devastation he caused ten thousand years ago, Ning Ke broke down at the ruins of the Flowing Cloud Sect and collapsed. Wugou and Gao Ze found him, and Wugou asked Gao Ze to investigate the hall.

• Ning Ke pushed open the hall doors, found Bai Wanru's charred skull and Thunderclap Sword, and was overwhelmed by visions of her death and Lou Yunxiao's bloody end.
• Ning Ke suffered a severe emotional crisis, vomited dark blood, and remembered his little sister and the home he had left behind.
• Ning Ke revealed his identity to Wugou and Gao Ze, then lost consciousness, hoping Gao Ze would kill him and avenge Bai Wanru and Lou Yunxiao.
• Wugou examined Ning Ke and found that he was not in serious danger, while Gao Ze reported that he sensed no other powerful cultivator in the hall.
• Wugou asked Gao Ze to investigate the hall, insisting that Ning Ke had not lied about a Mahayana Stage cultivator being there.

Gao Ze investigated the Flowing Cloud Sect’s ruins and, after Wugou revealed Ning Ke’s identities and past deeds, began to understand that the Demon Venerable had never intended to harm anyone. As Ning Ke remained unconscious, he dreamed of the losses and pain that had left him wanting only to finish his mission and return home.

• Gao Ze examined the Flowing Cloud Sect’s charred remains and broken stele, found traces of demonic aura, and suspected a Great Demon had escaped beneath the hall.
• Gao Ze decided to stay the night with Wugou and the unconscious Ning Ke rather than search for Lou Yunxiao in the dark.
• Wugou told Gao Ze that Ning Ke had also been Gao Ze’s disciple A Ke and the Buddhist Order’s Mingxin, and described how Ning Ke had repeatedly saved others.
• Gao Ze recalled A Ke’s kindness and reconsidered his hostility, then asked Wugou why Ning Ke had done so much; Wugou said Ning Ke only wanted to go home.
• Ning Ke dreamed of Lou Yunxiao, Bai Wanru, Jiu Yuan, and the losses he had endured, and felt that completing his mission and dying would be his only release.

Lou Yunxiao reached Integration with Bai Wanru’s help and found the other half of his jade pendant, then hurried to see Ning Ke. Ning Ke revealed the truth about the Flowing Cloud Sect’s destruction and asked Gao Ze to keep his identity as the Demon Venerable from Lou Yunxiao.

• Lou Yunxiao endured the thunder tribulation in the spirit pool, where Bai Wanru’s lingering presence helped him break through to Integration.
• Bai Wanru led Lou Yunxiao to the other half of the jade pendant she had made for him and his elder sister, and he decided he needed to retrieve the matching half.
• Ning Ke came to his senses and told Wugou that he remembered how the Flowing Cloud Sect had been wiped out and believed he owed Lou Yunxiao his life.
• Ning Ke told Gao Ze that a Great Demon had possessed Lou Jing, demonized the sect’s disciples, and escaped after Ning Ke burned them with foxfire.
• Ning Ke returned to Mingxin’s appearance and asked Gao Ze not to tell Lou Yunxiao that he was the Demon Venerable.