Chapter Summaries

Wang Baishun and Little Fish turned the tables on Gun Qiandao and his gang, killing them and taking their resources. He freed their hundreds of enslaved workers from their control marks, then ordered them to gather resources for him under guard.

• Little Boss, River Boy, and their allies emerged from the water as Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals surrounded Gun Qiandao's group.
• Gun Qiandao's companions blamed him and tried to separate themselves from his plan, but he urged them to seize Wang Baishun as a hostage.
• Wang Baishun ordered his allies to leave the slaves alone and kill the attackers, and they slaughtered Gun Qiandao and his companions.
• Wang Baishun and the others collected nearly a thousand Storage Rings from the bodies.
• Wang Baishun told the freed slaves to hand over eighty percent of the resources they gathered, and they agreed.
• Wang Baishun sent the slaves to search for resources under the watch of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals.

Wang Baishun and the nine clans of Great Ocean Lake formally swore a Heavenly Dao contract, binding the clans as subjects of the Great Qin Dynasty in exchange for safe passage out of the Secret Realm. The contract took effect, leaving the assembled demons ready to enter the outside world while onlookers regretted missing the chance.

• The Carp King presented the nine clans’ assembled members to Wang Baishun, who praised their strength and welcomed them into the Great Qin Dynasty.
• Wang Baishun revealed that he was Qin Fu Su, crown prince of the Great Qin Dynasty, and swore to lead the clans safely out of the Secret Realm and treat them as subjects.
• The Carp King and the other clan leaders swore loyalty to the Great Qin Dynasty and shed essence blood as the clans joined their oath.
• The Heavenly Dao sealed both sides’ oaths into a contract, formally establishing the bond of sovereign and subject.
• The nine clans rejoiced at their coming departure, while the watching clans envied them for seizing the opportunity.

Wang Baishun offered to take clan members whose cultivation talent had stalled into the Secret Realm to seek opportunities, while protecting the others in a Divine Artifact Pocket World. After a chaotic rush of volunteers, the clans settled on just over seven thousand participants, divided into rotating groups of a little over a thousand each.

• Wang Baishun revealed that he was the crown prince and asked the clans to call him Young Master Wang.
• Wang Baishun proposed that members whose talent had reached its limit accompany him into the Secret Realm while the rest waited safely in a Divine Artifact Pocket World.
• The Nine Great Clan Chiefs announced that participation would be voluntary, and Little Fish, Little Boss, River Boy, Fierce Shrimp, and other disciples stepped forward.
• Tens of thousands of clan members, including ancestors and young disciples, volunteered, but the Carp King and the other chiefs spent hours sending most of them back.
• Wang Baishun and the clan chiefs chose just over seven thousand members and divided them into seven rotating groups of a little over a thousand.

Wang Baishun opened the Little Pearl Realm and began moving clans into its abundant but power-suppressing world. When the Turtle Chancellor and other Demon Race leaders asked to join the Great Qin Dynasty after initially refusing, Wang Baishun demanded harsher terms, leaving them undecided.

• Wang Baishun opened a passage into the Little Pearl Realm, where the clans found a lush world with abundant spiritual energy and cultivation suppressed below the Great Unity Realm.
• The Carp King and other leaders guarded the passage as their clans entered, while members of other clans tried to slip inside.
• The Turtle Chancellor and leaders of the Tilapia and Fighting Fish Clans asked the Carp King to seek Wang Baishun's permission for them to join the Great Qin Dynasty.
• Wang Baishun offered to take them on the original terms only if they surrendered seventy percent of their resources and fought on the front lines for opportunities in the Secret Realm.
• The Turtle Chancellor and the other leaders balked at the terms, while the Carp King returned to Wang Baishun without pressing them further.

Wang Baishun forced the hesitant clans of Great Ocean Lake to accept his demand for ninety percent of their resources in exchange for leaving through the Little Realm Pearl. Twelve clans ultimately agreed, and he was astonished by the immense wealth they had accumulated over countless ages.

• Wang Baishun raised his demand to ninety percent of the wavering clans’ resources and threatened to close the Little Realm Pearl’s passage.
• The Turtle Chancellor and other clan leaders accepted the terms and returned to gather their belongings.
• Three days later, more than twenty clans arrived, but many leaders balked at swearing that they had handed over ninety percent of their resources.
• Wang Baishun sent away the clans that refused to comply, leaving twelve clans to sign contracts and join his group.
• Wang Baishun selected a little over a thousand relatively strong clanspeople and opened the passage for the clans to enter the Little Realm Pearl.
• Wang Baishun inspected one clan’s resources and found enormous stores of spirit stones, cultivation methods, pills, weapons, and other treasures.

Liu Jiaojiao’s Golden Spear and Iron Horse Sect disciples learned that Wang Lie and Li Kui had trapped Cao Feng’s group, but she refused Ruan Yaying’s demand to rush to their rescue while the sect was exhausted and outnumbered. The chapter ended with the disciples discovering Liu Jiaojiao’s severe back wound and gathering to treat her.

• A disciple reported that Li Kui had turned the bodies of fleeing cultivators into puppets and that Wang Lie’s force of over six thousand had trapped Cao Feng, Xu Wei, and about three hundred others in a canyon.
• Ruan Yaying urged Liu Jiaojiao to attack Wang Lie’s forces, but Fang Zheng and Zheng Qiang warned that their exhausted group had only about thirteen hundred disciples and could not contact Dian Ba or Hua Shuo.
• Liu Jiaojiao ordered the group to rest and recover before deciding what to do, and Ruan Yaying reluctantly sat aside.
• Liu Jiaojiao removed her armor, revealing blood-soaked clothes and a large wound across her back, and the disciples rushed to treat her.

Wang Lie and Li Kui’s forces plundered the canyon palaces while keeping Su He’s group trapped inside a defensible passage. Su He and Auntie Red opened a magnificent hall filled with treasures and a seated female corpse, but the doors slammed shut behind them.

• Wang Lie and Li Kui gathered more than eight thousand cultivators, claimed the canyon palaces for their ranks, and left a few hundred people watching the passage.
• Wang Lie’s forces failed to break through Cao Feng and Xu Wei’s defenses, so they focused on plundering the palace and tormenting Liu Zhuer, Xu Xiuer, and the others outside.
• Cao Feng and the other defenders rotated their watch, while Su He searched the ruin freely and filled more than a hundred Storage Rings with resources.
• Su He dragged Auntie Red into gathering treasures, and the two women chased and tickled each other before opening a palace hall together.
• Su He and Auntie Red found mountains of treasures, a female corpse on a throne, and twenty-four stone generals, then discovered the doors had shut behind them.

Su He and Auntie Red encountered the Moon Emperor, the former ruler of the Yin Moon Kingdom, who revealed herself and offered Su He her legacies and resources if she became her disciple. Su He was captivated by the promise of even greater riches.

• Auntie Red sensed someone watching them but found no one, so she and Su He resumed gathering resources.
• An invisible presence touched Su He, and she turned to find herself kissing a chilling woman floating in the hall.
• The woman identified herself as the Moon Emperor and boasted that she had ruled the Yin Moon Kingdom and once reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor level.
• The Moon Emperor offered to teach Su He supreme cultivation methods and give her the palace’s resources if Su He took her as her master.
• Su He’s eyes lit up at the promise of more resources, and she tightened her grip on Auntie Red’s chest, making Auntie Red cry out in pain.

Su He accepted the Moon Emperor as her master to gain the Dark Moon Kingdom’s legacies, but the Moon Emperor used the inheritance to invade her body and seize her Succubus Sacred Physique. Auntie Red was trapped outside the energy barrier as the Moon Emperor found Su He’s divine sense in her vast sea of consciousness.

• The Moon Emperor’s aura pressed down on Su He, but Auntie Red dispelled it with her jade sword.
• Su He questioned the Moon Emperor about her downfall and bargained for the opportunities and treasures of the Dark Moon Kingdom.
• Su He agreed to become the Moon Emperor’s disciple and sat on the meditation cushion to receive a supreme cultivation method and the Moon Emperor’s remaining essence.
• The Moon Emperor revealed her plan to possess Su He’s Succubus Sacred Physique and entered her sea of consciousness, while Auntie Red failed to break through the energy barrier.
• The Moon Emperor searched Su He’s immense sea of consciousness, found her divine sense avatar on a Lotus Platform, and rushed toward her.

The Moon Emperor tried to possess Su He, but Su He revealed she had anticipated the attack and subdued her with divine treasures. The Moon Emperor was left helpless as Su He demanded that she become a servant or face a soul search.

• The Moon Emperor attacked Su He, but the Nine-Turn Divine Lotus shielded her until the Moon Emperor shattered its barrier with Moon Slash.
• Su He opened her eyes and struck the Moon Emperor with three Soul-Destroying Needles, then bound her with six Soul Chains.
• Su He explained that she had recognized the Moon Emperor's possession plot from the room's setup and the way she had focused on Su He.
• The Moon Emperor offered resources, wealth, and control of the stone statue puppets in exchange for her life, but Su He refused and threatened to search her soul.
• Su He tore away the Moon Emperor's clothes and seized the two concealed daggers, leaving the Moon Emperor unable to resist.

Su He subdued the Moon Emperor and accepted her as a servant, then spent three days absorbing her energy and inheritance. She woke at the peak of the Great Vehicle Realm, reassured Auntie Red that she was herself, and the Moon Emperor’s remnant soul emerged as the three continued their awkward encounter.

• Su He forced the Moon Emperor to agree to become her servant, then continued tormenting her despite her protests.
• Auntie Red waited outside, fearing the Moon Emperor had possessed Su He and wondering whether the sovereign-subject contract had changed hands.
• After three days, Su He awoke with the Moon Emperor’s knowledge and energy, and her cultivation had reached the peak of the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Su He proved her identity to Auntie Red by teasing her about what had happened when she entered Su He's sea of consciousness.
• The Moon Emperor’s remnant soul emerged, and Su He called her over as Auntie Red protested.

The Moon Emperor showed Su He and Auntie Red her vast private treasury and explained the power and damage of the twenty-four surviving puppets. Su He learned the puppets could eventually be repaired, but the group could not do so with their current strength.

• The Moon Emperor described the spirit herbs, pills, weapons, cultivation resources, and spirit stone veins stored in her two Little Realm Pearls.
• Su He praised the Moon Emperor and hugged and kissed her, while Auntie Red was stunned by the treasury's wealth.
• Su He asked about the twenty-four puppets, and the Moon Emperor explained they had once been part of a stronger group of thirty-six and could unleash nearly Emperor Grade strength despite their damage.
• The Moon Emperor said the puppets could be repaired with ores and powerful divine souls, but Su He and her companions lacked the strength to do it now.
• Su He decided they could repair the puppets gradually, then inspected them with Auntie Red.

Su He gathered the palace’s resources and offered Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor divine medicines to restore their damaged souls before preparing to refine new bodies for them. After learning their souls’ flame and yin-cold attributes, she set out the matching treasures and began preparing two Furnace Cauldrons, leaving them ready for the body-refinement process.

• Su He and her companions plundered the palace’s resources, and the twenty-four puppets came back to life without their artifact spirits.
• Su He offered to refine bodies for Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor, but the Moon Emperor explained that their incomplete souls and missing ingredients made it difficult.
• Su He teased Auntie Red about possessing Xu Xiuer or Liu Zhuer, then revealed four Emperor-grade treasures to restore the women’s souls.
• Auntie Red chose the spirit-concentrating flower and Spirit-Nurturing Pill, while the Moon Emperor chose the soul-returning herb and Soul-Shaping Pill.
• Su He learned that Auntie Red’s soul was flame-attribute and the Moon Emperor’s was yin-cold, then filled two Furnace Cauldrons with matching divine materials.

Su He guarded Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor as they healed their souls and slowly refined medicines, while Cao Feng and the others worried about her disappearance. Outside the passage, Li Kui and Wang Lie’s forces tortured Liu Zhuer and Xu Xiuer to lure the trapped cultivators into a fight, and both sides ended the chapter trading insults.

• Su He set the twenty-four puppets to guard Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor, then used emperor-grade spirit liquid to begin refining medicines in two Furnace Cauldrons.
• Cao Feng, Xu Wei, and the others discussed their recent breakthroughs and grew anxious after five days without hearing from Su He.
• Li Kui and Wang Lie gathered more than ten thousand cultivators outside the passage and tortured Liu Zhuer, Xu Xiuer, and the others to provoke Cao Feng’s group.
• Li Kui forced Liu Zhuer to call for Jin Shui, but Jin Shui could only challenge Li Kui to release her, and Li Kui refused to duel him.
• Cao Feng’s group and Wang Lie’s group shouted insults at each other while the captives continued to suffer.

Su He helped Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor forge new bodies from divine medicinal ingredients after their souls recovered. The two women awakened powerful sacred bodies and settled into their new forms, while Su He began teasing them in their cauldrons.

• Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor thanked Su He after their souls recovered, and the Moon Emperor boasted about protecting them once she reached the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• Su He, Auntie Red, and the Moon Emperor combined the divine medicinal ingredients and objects into a gelatinous mass for the new bodies.
• Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor entered their respective embryos, which replicated their forms, and they were reborn in their new bodies.
• Su He placed them in Furnace Cauldrons filled with Spirit Liquid to help them adapt, and Auntie Red awakened the starfire sacred body while the Moon Emperor awakened the cold moon sacred body.
• Su He reached into the cauldrons to inspect their new bodies, and Auntie Red and the Moon Emperor fought back by grabbing at her.

Fatty Zhang and his companions hid from Zhao Yi, Su Shan, Huo Shan, and their followers, who kept tracking them despite their efforts to escape. Jie Kong and the others urged their senior brothers and sisters to leave them behind, but Tao Yang and Xie Li refused; the chapter ended as the pursuers surrounded their hiding place and demanded their surrender.

• Fatty Zhang, Tao Yang, Lin Hao, and the others treated their wounds and lamented that nearly sixty of their group had died in the Secret Realm.
• Xie Li suspected that Wu Donghao, Huo Shan, and their disciples were pursuing them to seize the opportunities they had gathered.
• Jie Kong, Zhan Bufan, and Xuan Chengzi urged their senior brothers and sisters to leave them behind so the group could escape.
• Tao Yang, Xie Li, and the others refused to abandon their junior disciples and vowed to escape together.
• Zhao Yi, Su Shan, and their followers found and surrounded the group, taunting them and demanding they surrender Zhang Zhe, Lin Zihan, and the others.

Tiger Roar and Xie Li’s group escaped an ambush, but more than eight thousand disciples from multiple factions pursued them through the Secret Realm. As Liu Xue tried to persuade Xie Li to surrender Lin Zihan and the others, Xie Li severed their friendship and returned Liu Xue’s necklace.

• Tiger Roar stunned Zhao Yi’s attackers with his roar, allowing Tao Yang, Xie Li, and the others to break through and flee.
• Zhao Yi, Su Qing, Wu Donghao, Huo Shan, and Dou Se led their followers in pursuit, joined by more than a dozen factions seeking the group’s suspected riches.
• Liu Xue called on Xie Li to hand over Lin Zihan and the others, citing her sister Liu Yue’s death and their old friendship.
• Xie Li blamed Liu Yue’s death on her choice to enter the Life-and-Death Arena, denounced Liu Xue for joining Zhao Yi, and ended their friendship.
• Xie Li returned the necklace Liu Xue had given her, then kept fleeing while Liu Xue continued calling after her.

Zhao Yi’s forces relentlessly pursued Tao Yang’s wounded group, while Dou Se’s taunts revealed that Ye Rulan had sacrificed herself to save Zhao Bufan from the Corpse Puppet Sect. The group remained on the run as Zhao Bufan learned the truth about Ye Rulan’s fate and was overwhelmed with guilt.

• Zhao Yi rejected Liu Xue’s objections and led his forces in pursuit, while Tao Yang’s group fought back and used the terrain to try to escape.
• Dou Se and his companions mocked Zhao Bufan, claiming Ye Rulan was about to become Li Kui’s concubine.
• Zhao Bufan angrily denied that Ye Rulan would marry Li Kui, drawing questions from Fatty Zhang, Lin Yong, and the others.
• Dou Se revealed that Ye Rulan had held back the Corpse Puppet Sect and begged them to spare Zhao Bufan when he fled.
• Dou Se explained that Ye Rulan had agreed to become Li Kui’s Furnace Cauldron a year later in exchange for Zhao Bufan’s safety.
• Zhao Bufan trembled and bled from his clenched hands as he realized Ye Rulan had sacrificed herself for him.

Zhao Bufan and the others fled into a mountain forest with several factions in pursuit. Meanwhile, Wang Baishun forced more demon clans to submit and led his growing army toward the Snake Demons to confront the Seven-Colored Snake Demon.

• Zhao Bufan resisted his urge to turn back for revenge, and Tao Yang, Xie Li, and the others escaped into the mountain forest as their pursuers split up to chase them.
• Wang Baishun sent the Eagle Clan Chief to investigate the approaching commotion while forcing the White Tiger King and her clan to submit.
• Wang Baishun continued gathering demon clans under his rule, bringing his following to more than five thousand demons from dozens of clans.
• After learning that the Seven-Colored Snake Demon had injured his envoys and insulted him, Wang Baishun ordered the Snake Demons surrounded and set off to confront her.

Tao Yang, Xie Li, and their companions fled into a cave and struggled to hold off Zhao Yi’s forces while Fatty Zhang and others searched for another exit. Outside, Wu Donghao and Huo Shan joined the pursuit, and Dou Se arrived with Corpse Puppet Sect disciples as their motives remained unclear.

• Fatty Zhang spotted a cave, and Tao Yang led the group there as Zhao Yi’s forces closed in.
• Tiger Howl and the others broke the cave’s entrance formation, then fortified the entrance against Zhao Yi’s attacks.
• Tao Yang assigned Pan Sheng and the other injured disciples to recover while he and Xie Li defended the cave, and Fatty Zhang’s group went deeper to look for another exit.
• Zhao Yi assured Wu Donghao that Tao Yang’s group would not escape, while Wu Donghao and Huo Shan kept their own target secret.
• Dou Se arrived with Corpse Puppet Sect disciples and asked Wu Donghao to let him retrieve a junior brother from Tao Yang’s group.