Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya accompanied Jiang Lingzi and four other sect leaders as they investigated the Lin Family affair. They discovered that the Lin Family Head was alive but unconscious and seemingly without magic power, a golden core, or a primordial spirit; Jiang Lingzi was interrupted before explaining where she had been found.

• Jiang Lingzi welcomed Liu Zhengran, Suoluo, Fairy Green Lotus, and Granny Fudi to the Lin Family compound, where Li Xiaoya joined their meeting.
• Jiang Lingzi identified Li Xiaoya as a disciple of Heavenly Venerable Daoling, and the gathered cultivators exchanged compliments before discussing the Lin Family affair.
• Jiang Lingzi revealed that the Lin Family Head had survived but could not speak, then led the group to see her.
• Li Xiaoya and the others saw the unconscious female Lin Family Head, whose magic power, golden core aura, and primordial spirit seemed absent.
• Liu Zhengran asked where Jiang Lingzi had found the Lin Family Head, but a disciple announced that two Golden Core Stage Cultivators from their sect had arrived, and Jiang Lingzi led everyone out.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Zhang Cai and Dong Santong while the cultivators gathered to investigate the Lin Family murders. He and Dong Santong sparred, and the group then headed down the peak to attend to their serious business.

• Jiang Lingzi led the group to meet Zhang Cai and Dong Santong, who had arrived to investigate the bloody murders.
• Zhang Cai recognized Li Xiaoya and teased Dong Santong about his appearance, prompting the old friends to trade jokes.
• Dong Santong challenged Li Xiaoya and attacked with white light blades, but Li Xiaoya's golden barrier blocked them.
• Dong Santong used Light-Shadow Body Art to evade Li Xiaoya's Flame Blades and counterattacked, then claimed victory after tapping Li Xiaoya on the back.
• Zhang Cai stopped their sparring, and Jiang Lingzi led everyone down toward the foot of the peak.

Zhang Cai examined the Lin Family Head and concluded that she had survived by hiding during the massacre, then pursued the murderer. After the group discussed the case, Zhang Cai took the jade slip from Li Xiaoya to retrieve what Heavenly Venerable Daoling wanted, while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong left to talk privately.

• Jiang Lingzi recounted how he found the Lin Family Head alive but unconscious, with her cultivation and soul gone.
• Zhang Cai examined the Lin Family Head and inferred from her uninjured body and bloodied palm that she had witnessed the massacre, hidden, and gone after the murderer.
• The group discussed the massacre and cultivation before Jiang Lingzi arranged accommodations for them.
• Zhang Cai privately asked Li Xiaoya why he had come and urged him to return because the murderer was dangerous, but Li Xiaoya chose to stay.
• Zhang Cai took the jade slip to retrieve what Heavenly Venerable Daoling wanted, and Dong Santong summoned Li Xiaoya to a private conversation.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong raced away from the Lin Family estate, then fought for nearly an hour without either gaining the upper hand. Their sparring ended when Li Xiaoya sensed an unknown person nearby, and both pursued a blue streak of light toward the estate.

• Dong Santong challenged Li Xiaoya to a flying race, but Li Xiaoya steadily caught up with him.
• Dong Santong attacked with dozens of powerful, self-restoring clones, while Li Xiaoya smashed many of them with his strength.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong traded attacks for nearly an hour, but Dong Santong hid his true body and neither could defeat the other.
• Li Xiaoya released a sweep of pale blue rings and sensed someone else nearby.
• A blue streak burst from the ground toward the Lin Family estate, and Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong set off after it.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong gave up pursuing a mysterious cultivator, then reunited over wine while their allies waited at the Lin Family estate. Zhang Cai secretly retrieved a dark-gold box, and Dong Santong told Li Xiaoya that Liu Xian'er had repeatedly searched for him.

• Li Xiaoya stopped chasing the fast-flying cultivator, and he and Dong Santong flew back while catching up about their masters and Zhang Cai.
• At the Lin Family estate, Liu Zhengran, Suoluo, Fairy Green Lotus, and Granny Fudi agreed to follow the Heavenly Dao Sect's lead and hold an exchange gathering.
• Zhang Cai used the distraction caused by Little Poison Lump to enter the tower, retrieve a dark-gold box, and hide it in his Storage Pouch so he could claim merit and return to the mountain.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong drank together on a high mountain, joking about Dong Santong's food and Li Xiaoya's looks.
• Dong Santong told Li Xiaoya that Liu Xian'er had gone down the mountain several times to search for him, startling Li Xiaoya and making him spill his wine.

The Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators searched for the missing Lin Family head and the murderer, but found no clues. The Lin Family head woke and revealed that the attacker was a monster, then began to describe what she had seen.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong returned late and claimed they had followed a suspicious cultivator who had gone to meet his sweetheart.
• The gathered cultivators reported that their searches had found no trace of the Lin Family head or the murderer.
• Liu Zhengran proposed inviting a Nascent Soul Realm senior to examine the Lin Family head, but a disciple announced that she had awakened.
• Zhang Cai and the others rushed to the Lin Family head's room, where she said she had damaged her vitality using a secret art.
• The Lin Family head revealed that the murderer was not human and described it as a monster that had destroyed her family.
• Jiang Lingzi set up a Soundproofing Formation, and the Lin Family head questioned why Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong had stayed when they were Core Condensation Stage juniors.

The Lin Family Head recounted how a powerful humanoid monster attacked the Lin Family estate and slaughtered its cultivators. She activated the Five-Element Sword Formation as the monster flew toward her.

• The Lin Family Head received Head Steward Lin’s distress talisman and rushed back to find the estate under attack.
• Recognizing the monster as the murderer who had attacked the Lu Household and the Zhang Household, the Lin Family Head activated five elemental pillars for the Five-Element Sword Formation.
• The monster spoke, summoned a dozen black flying swords, and killed the cultivators retreating toward the Lin Family Head, including Head Steward Lin.
• The Lin Family Head attacked with her green flying sword, but the monster struck it aside with a punch and damaged the magic treasure.
• The Lin Family Head activated her golden token, making the five pillars shine as the monster charged at her.

The Lin Family head used the Five-Element Sword Formation against the humanoid monster, but he endured its attacks and destroyed the formation’s pillars. The monster then flew after the fleeing family head.

• The Lin Family head marked the monster with a token, summoning the formation’s homing sword blades while an aged voice observed the battle.
• The sword blades wounded the monster and battered his defenses, but he discovered the mark guiding them and tried unsuccessfully to remove it.
• The monster escaped the blades and smashed the red and blue pillars, causing the corresponding swords to vanish.
• The Lin Family head considered detonating herself, then abandoned the plan and fled when she realized it might not kill the monster.
• The monster destroyed the remaining pillars, broke the Five-Element Sword Formation, and pursued the Lin Family head.

The Lin Family head revealed that the injured demon was hiding in the Demon-Sealing Mountain Range, and the group prepared to hunt it down. After Zhang Cai accepted her proposed bounty on their behalf, Li Xiaoya imitated the aged voice she had heard, shocking her with his apparent knowledge of it.

• The demon failed to find the Lin Family head and flew east, unaware that a tiny green speck was following it.
• The Lin Family head told Zhang Cai and the others that the demon had entered the Demon-Sealing Mountain Range to recover, and Jiang Lingzi surmised it needed Golden Core cultivators' cores for its Demonic Path cultivation.
• The Lin Family head offered a hundred million spirit stones for the demon's death, but Zhang Cai opposed a public bounty and declared that their group would take the reward and hunt the demon themselves.
• The Lin Family head gave Zhang Cai a Jade Slip marking the demon's location, then asked whether someone was doing well; Zhang Cai reassured her and told Li Xiaoya to come out.
• Li Xiaoya imitated the aged voice the Lin Family head had heard, and she cried out in shock, asking how he knew that voice.

Li Xiaoya told Zhang Cai that the monster’s voice matched a Devil Race figure connected to Ma Weiqi, while Zhang Cai concealed the suspicion from the other sects. Zhang Cai organized an immediate hunt with only Golden Core Stage cultivators, but Li Xiaoya insisted on joining.

• Li Xiaoya recognized the voice that the Lin Family head remembered, and Zhang Cai sealed her inside the house with a formation while they spoke privately.
• Zhang Cai revealed that the Lin Family head was Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s daughter, and Li Xiaoya suspected the monster was connected to Ma Weiqi and the Devil Race.
• Zhang Cai and Li Xiaoya joined Jiang Lingzi, Liu Zhengran, Dong Santong, and the others in the main hall to discuss pursuing the injured monster immediately.
• Zhang Cai said the Lin Family head could not recover in time and proposed that only Golden Core Stage cultivators go after the monster, leaving the Core Condensation Stage disciples behind.
• Li Xiaoya stood up and firmly declared that he would go with them.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong joined Zhang Cai’s group in pursuit of the fiend, whose trail led them to the Demon-Sealing Mountain Range. After finding the fiend’s abandoned cave and splitting up to search, the two encountered a mysterious female cultivator who had followed them.

• Li Xiaoya insisted on joining Zhang Cai’s search, and Dong Santong joined him after demonstrating his improved divine ability.
• A monster carrying a rune-covered disc followed its glowing red mark to a ruined structure deep in a distant mountain range.
• Zhang Cai’s group traveled to the Demon-Sealing Mountain Range, found demonic qi there, and used Jiang Lingzi’s treasure to approach the fiend’s cave invisibly.
• The group found the cave empty but discovered purple bloodstains and lingering demonic qi, so Zhang Cai split them into separate search parties and assigned Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to watch the outskirts.
• Li Xiaoya sensed someone approaching, and he and Dong Santong hid before recognizing the blue-lit follower as the female cultivator who had watched their match; Dong Santong flew out to confront her.

Li Xiaoya and his companions discovered the fiend’s lair in a ruined mountain passage and entered to investigate, with Blue Ice joining them. Deep inside, the fiend prepared a vast blood formation and waited for the group to arrive.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong confronted Blue Ice, who denied being the famed Blue Ice Fairy, before Zhang Cai’s whistle summoned them toward the mountains.
• Zhang Cai and the others found a ruined entrance emitting demonic qi, and Blue Ice asked to accompany them inside.
• Suoluo led the group into the passage, where they concealed their auras and advanced through empty, ruined chambers as the demonic qi grew stronger.
• Deep inside the cliff, the fiend used a purple bottle to draw a huge blood formation around an expanding black orb and invited the approaching group to their deaths.

Li Xiaoya and the others were caught in a cave-in while approaching the demon and took shelter beneath Zhang Cai’s Dragonhead Ingot. After the collapse stopped, a strange howl rose from underground, leaving them facing a new danger.

• Li Xiaoya suspected that Blue Ice was Xian'er, but the passage suddenly began collapsing before he could ask her.
• Zhang Cai led the group back, and Suoluo blasted through a blocked passage with his monk’s-spade Magic Treasure.
• When the hall roof gave way, Zhang Cai enlarged his Dragonhead Ingot to hold it up, and the group gathered beneath it.
• Blue Ice froze falling boulders while Suoluo smashed others, and Li Xiaoya caught a massive boulder with his bare hands to shield everyone.
• The group braced the boulder overhead and waited out the collapse, then heard a strange howl from deep underground.

The cultivators were trapped underground with the newly freed Sting Demon General, summoned by the humanoid monster through a formation. After the Sting Demon General overwhelmed Zhang Cai and attacked the others, his scorpion tail pierced Dong Santong, leaving the group in grave danger.

• The ground collapsed beneath Zhang Cai and the others, revealing a vast underground formation and two monsters.
• The humanoid monster summoned the Sting Demon General by completing the formation and sacrificing five golden cores, while the Devastation Devil Lord ordered him to kill the nearby humans.
• The Sting Demon General struck Zhang Cai with his saber and sent him crashing into the cavern wall.
• The Sting Demon General immobilized Liu Zhengran's sword and repelled Suoluo's monk's spade, then pierced Dong Santong with one of his tails.

Zhang Cai and the others launched a desperate group assault on the Sting Demon General, but their attacks failed to bring him down. As the fight left Granny Fudi badly injured, a second monster appeared behind her and pierced her chest.

• Dong Santong escaped the Sting Demon General's tail strike by re-forming his clone, while Granny Fudi attacked with her red pearl and Zhang Cai prepared the Dragonhead Ingot.
• The Sting Demon General deflected the group’s attacks, damaged Granny Fudi’s pearl, and knocked her away with his saber.
• Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice joined the battle, and Blue Ice’s ice sword briefly slowed the Sting Demon General enough for Jiang Lingzi’s poisoned arrow to threaten his eye.
• A gigantic monster appeared behind the injured Granny Fudi, pierced her chest with its hand, and mocked the group for forgetting about it.

Feng Chenzi revealed himself as the Devastation Devil Lord and attacked Li Xiaoya’s group after killing Granny Fudi. As Dong Santong and Blue Ice joined the fight, the Devil Lord shattered Dong Santong’s Crescent Spade, while another scream rang out from the battle.

• Feng Chenzi ambushed and killed Granny Fudi, and the Sting Demon General revealed that Feng Chenzi was a Devil Lord.
• The Devastation Devil Lord disclosed his hatred of Li Xiaoya and declared that the Demon Realm would invade the Human Realm again.
• Zhang Cai sent Dong Santong and Blue Ice to help Li Xiaoya while he prepared to face the more powerful Sting Demon General.
• The Devastation Devil Lord attacked Li Xiaoya with black flying swords, and Li Xiaoya fought them off with his Fire Dragon Sword before being driven onto the defensive.
• Dong Santong and Blue Ice coordinated attacks that forced the Devastation Devil Lord to dodge, but he shattered Dong Santong’s Crescent Spade and wounded him.
• A scream sounded from the other battle as Dong Santong spat blood.

Zhang Cai, Jiang Lingzi, Suoluo, and Fairy Green Lotus attacked the Sting Demon General, but his Black Orb killed Liu Zhengran after he rescued Fairy Green Lotus. Fairy Green Lotus fled the sphere, and Zhang Cai's Golden Beams knocked it away, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Zhang Cai and Jiang Lingzi attacked the Sting Demon General with Golden Beams and Dark Green Arrows while Suoluo engaged him with his Spade.
• Fairy Green Lotus sent a Giant Bird Whirlwind at the Sting Demon General, who pierced it with a Black Orb and sent the sphere toward her.
• Liu Zhengran shielded Fairy Green Lotus from the Black Orb, but it rebounded from the mountain wall and struck him, breaking his Golden Core and severing his body.
• The Black Orb pursued Fairy Green Lotus as she fled, and Zhang Cai knocked it away with four Golden Beams.

Zhang Cai’s group struggled to hold off the Sting Demon General while Blue Ice, Dong Santong, and Li Xiaoya wounded the Devastation Devil Lord. The Sting Demon General announced that his warm-up was over, and his cracked black sphere revealed a terrifying sight.

• Zhang Cai rescued Fairy Green Lotus from the Sting Demon General, leaving Suoluo struggling under the general’s close-range attacks.
• Blue Ice froze the Devastation Devil Lord, and Dong Santong vanished with the Shadow Body Art before striking the Devil Lord’s arm with his silver hammer.
• The shattered ice sword’s tip pierced the Devastation Devil Lord’s eye, while Li Xiaoya cut apart the black flying swords with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Dong Santong’s hammer was caught by the Devastation Devil Lord, who ordered the Sting Demon General to finish the others.
• The Sting Demon General broke free of Zhang Cai’s group, declared that the real fight was beginning, and cracked the black sphere above his head.

The Sting Demon General revealed the spiked armor concealed inside his black orb, gaining strength and turning the fight against Zhang Cai and the others. He launched attacks on Zhang Cai and Fairy Green Lotus, leaving her in danger as Suoluo shouted for her to dodge.

• Zhang Cai, Suoluo, Jiang Lingzi, and Fairy Green Lotus attacked the Sting Demon General together as he completed his spell and detonated the black orb around himself.
• Suoluo charged into the crater but was blasted into the opposite mountain wall, while the Sting Demon General emerged wearing spiked armor that strengthened him.
• The Sting Demon General merged his blade and spear into a Great Guandao and struck Zhang Cai, splitting his shield and driving him into the ground.
• The Sting Demon General launched the armor's spikes at Fairy Green Lotus; Jiang Lingzi's arrows and her treasures failed to stop them.
• Suoluo shouted for Fairy Green Lotus to dodge as the spikes continued toward her.

Li Xiaoya and his allies struggled against the Devastation Devil Lord and the Sting Demon General after Fairy Green Lotus was killed. Li Xiaoya damaged the Sting Demon General’s armor, but the furious general’s Scorpion Tails were about to strike him.

• The Sting Demon General pierced Fairy Green Lotus with his spikes, killing her, while Zhang Cai lay fallen and Suoluo survived wounded.
• Li Xiaoya rushed toward the Sting Demon General as Dong Santong’s Silver Hammer shattered against the mountain wall after striking his decoy.
• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong to distract the Devastation Devil Lord while he went to help Zhang Cai, then used the Devil Lord’s attack to propel himself toward the Sting Demon General.
• Blue Ice and Dong Santong exploited the Devastation Devil Lord’s weak divine sense to keep him occupied with ambushes.
• Li Xiaoya slashed through the Sting Demon General’s armor with the Fire Dragon Sword, wounding him and provoking him to lash his Scorpion Tails at Li Xiaoya.