Recaps

Ye Hui embraced his devouring power and nearly killed a thug looting Yun Qing’s shop before Liu Niang drove the bullies away. Yun Qing revealed that the thugs had taken a Spirit-Gathering Jade Pendant, while Ye Hui wondered why he had struggled for a lesser treasure.

• Ye Hui stopped a bully from looting the shop and resolved that his devouring power was not evil.
• Liu Niang entered, frightened the thugs into leaving, and invited Yun Qing to her wonton stall.
• Yun Qing suspected that Liu Niang had powerful backing but chose not to investigate her.
• Ye Hui told Yun Qing that one of the items the bullies took had strong spiritual energy.
• Yun Qing identified the stolen item as a Spirit-Gathering Jade Pendant capable of nourishing the divine soul and stabilizing the meridians.
• Ye Hui regretted that he had not simply disguised himself as a thug and robbed the shop.

Ye Hui left to buy soy sauce, intending to steal back the jade pendant taken from Yun Qing's shop, but found the thugs threatening a young woman and killed two of them with his devouring power. The surviving leader revealed that yamen officers had already seized the pendant, leaving Ye Hui empty-handed.

• Yun Qing gave Ye Hui clean bedding and let him go out to refill the kitchen's empty soy sauce jar.
• Ye Hui filled the jug and headed to the back alleys to reclaim the jade pendant stolen from the shop.
• Ye Hui found three thugs cornering a young woman and killed two with his devouring power.
• Ye Hui demanded the jade pendant from the surviving leader, who said yamen officers had seized it.
• Ye Hui confirmed the leader was telling the truth and realized he had failed to recover the pendant.

Ye Hui killed the people in the alley with his Devouring Power and nearly silenced Niu Niu, but Yun Qing arrived and forbade him from harming West Street’s neighbors. Back at A Little Shop, Yun Qing reassured Ye Hui before asking about the opportunity he had sought, and Ye Hui admitted someone else had taken it.

• Ye Hui devoured the lives of the men in the alley while Niu Niu watched silently.
• Yun Qing arrived with food and asked Ye Hui whether he had gotten the soy sauce; Ye Hui retrieved it and followed him back to A Little Shop.
• Niu Niu returned to the braised meat shop, and Yun Qing noticed her as he left the alley with Ye Hui.
• Yun Qing told Ye Hui that Niu Niu was Aunt Chen’s daughter and ordered him not to harm any West Street neighbors.
• Yun Qing said he would not blame Ye Hui for thoughts he had not acted on, then asked whether his raid had brought him the opportunity he wanted.
• Ye Hui admitted that someone else had taken the opportunity first.

Ye Hui failed to reclaim the Spirit Jade Pendant, but Yun Qing gave him a superior jade treasure to nourish his meridians. At the Blackwater Mine, Lu Bing seized the pendant and set out for West Street, while Ye Tianchen prepared to investigate the mine for the Heavenly Pivot Sect.

• Yun Qing teased Ye Hui over his failed attempt to take back the pendant, then gave him a jade ornament to nourish his reconnected meridians.
• Ye Hui thanked Yun Qing, and Yun Qing warmed the wontons before Ye Hui ate.
• Lu Bing sensed the spiritual energy of the Spirit Jade Pendant confiscated by the bailiffs and took it from them.
• Lu Bing learned the pendant had come from a bully in Blackwater Town and ordered the bailiff to lead him there.
• At the Heavenly Pivot Sect, Ye Tianchen stood with Lin Muyao, Su Wanwan, and Red Ji as disciples discussed his trip to investigate the Blackwater Mine.

Yun Qing grew accustomed to Ye Hui’s meticulous service, then faced the arrival of Lu Bing, a Qi Refining cultivator who came to investigate a Spirit Jade pendant. Lu Bing entered A Little Shop and eyed Yun Qing with a predatory interest, while Ye Hui moved to protect him.

• Su Wanwan asked Ye Tianchen to stop in Blackwater Town to visit an old friend, and Ye Tianchen agreed to investigate the nearby mine there before going to the Purple Dusk Empire.
• Ye Hui served Yun Qing with such precise attentiveness that Yun Qing recognized the behavior as the same “Gentle, Soft, Fawning, Upward” approach he had once used on Yun Huang, but decided not to scold Ye Hui.
• Bailiffs led Lu Bing to A Little Shop, claiming its shopkeeper could explain the origin of a Spirit Jade pendant.
• Lu Bing entered the shop and inspected Yun Qing and Ye Hui, while Ye Hui stepped forward to shield Yun Qing.
• Lu Bing looked at Yun Qing with a filthy gleam and thought that, with training, he could become a peerless treasure.

Yun Qing toyed with Lu Bing after the cultivator tried to take him and Ye Hui, then secretly sent the encounter to Brother Huang. When Lu Bing ordered them seized, Ye Hui fought him despite his injuries, and Yun Qing flicked an abacus bead as Lu Bing prepared to strike.

• Lu Bing coveted Yun Qing and Ye Hui, and the bailiff claimed they were brothers to persuade Lu Bing to take them to the mine.
• Yun Qing pretended to entertain Lu Bing’s offer and sent a recording of the encounter to Brother Huang through the Heavenly Origin Cauldron.
• Yun Qing laughed at Lu Bing, who realized he had been mocked and ordered his men to seize the brothers.
• Ye Hui drove back the bailiffs, but Lu Bing struck him with spiritual power and injured his newly reconnected meridians.
• Ye Hui attacked Lu Bing with a carving knife, and Lu Bing prepared a palm strike as Yun Qing flicked an abacus bead.

Ye Hui devoured Lu Bing and the constables after Yun Qing subdued them, then cleaned the shop while the neighbors calmly offered help. In the Heavenly Origin Continent, Yun Huang watched an image of the incident, destroyed Lu Bing’s remnant soul, and reflected that Yun Qing might soon abandon his mortal disguise.

• Yun Qing used a bead to pin Lu Bing and the fleeing constables down, allowing Ye Hui to devour them all with his serpent phantom.
• Yun Qing asked Ye Hui to clean the shop, then apologized to the neighbors, who responded casually and offered to help repair the door and settle his nerves.
• Ye Hui restored the shelves and herbs while growing more awed by Yun Qing and the people of West Street.
• The Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao showed Yun Huang an image of Yun Qing’s encounter with Lu Bing, and Yun Huang watched it to the end.
• Yun Huang annihilated Lu Bing’s remnant soul in the Netherworld and said Yun Qing might soon abandon his mortal disguise.

Yun Huang searched the ruined Chaos Sea for a Chaos Ancient Beast to give Yun Qing, but found only broken eggshells. After exhausting the sea and the Heavenly Origin Continent without finding the creature, he sent his divine sense into the Netherworld Ghost Realm, where he startled the Skeleton Emperor.

• Yun Huang dismissed the Heavenly Dao’s complaints about the Chaos Sea’s ruin and overturned the sea in search of a suitable gift for Yun Qing.
• Yun Huang found broken eggshells from a recently hatched Chaos Ancient Beast, but his search of the Chaos Sea revealed no trace of it.
• Yun Huang swept his divine sense across the Heavenly Origin Continent and then forcibly crossed into the Netherworld Ghost Realm.
• Yun Huang’s divine sense crashed into the White Bone Hall while the Skeleton Emperor was trading insults with Wang Hu, making the Skeleton Emperor recognize him.

Yun Huang searched the Immortal and Ghost Realms for the Chaos beast that hatched from the eggshell, slapping the Skeleton Emperor when he could not help. In Blackwater Town, Yun Qing anticipated trouble from the mine but put it aside to enjoy Ye Hui’s cooking.

• Yun Huang slapped the Skeleton Emperor twice and questioned him about an ancient beast cub bearing Chaos Aura, but the Skeleton Emperor denied ever seeing one.
• After searching the Immortal and Ghost Realms without finding the beast, Yun Huang resolved to search the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds and bring it to his elder brother.
• Yun Qing considered how the cultivators at the mine might investigate the deaths on West Street, then decided to accept whatever conflicts came as part of his Dao path.
• Ye Hui proudly admired his cooking before remembering his shattered dantian, broken Dao path, and living enemies, leaving him dejected.
• Yun Qing arrived for the meal, told Ye Hui to serve the food, and privately thought the boy was becoming an heir to the Yun family tradition of flattering his superior.

Ye Hui dreamed of a past in which he was tortured by True Person Hua and escaped Blackwater Town as it burned. The dream ended with him fleeing into the wilderness with Niu Niu, carrying the weight of Aunt Chen’s death and his own vengeance.

• Ye Hui fell asleep in the woodshed with the jade pendant beneath his pillow and dreamed of a Blackwater Town without A Little Shop or Shopkeeper Yun.
• In the dream, Aunt Chen rescued the injured Ye Hui and asked him to look after Niu Niu, but constables soon dragged him to a mine.
• True Person Hua discovered Ye Hui’s devouring power and tortured him, draining his blood and using his flesh to forge a treasure.
• Ye Hui escaped during a mine riot, but True Person Hua tracked him down and killed Aunt Chen while testing her treasure.
• As blackfire consumed Blackwater Town, Ye Hui showed immunity to the flames, rescued Niu Niu, and fled into the wilderness.

Yun Qing protected Ye Hui from a force trying to implant a fate fragment in his divine soul, then sensed that Blackwater Town’s destiny was being forcibly corrected. Ye Hui woke with confusing memories and unruly devouring power, while an unseen force tightened its scarlet fateweave over the town.

• Ye Hui’s nightmare triggered his devouring power, and Yun Qing used a Divine Soul Guardian Formation to shield him and calm the power.
• Yun Qing suspected the interference came from the Cosmic Star Lord behind Fu Sanyuan and warned that he would not let the threat disturb his shop in peace.
• Ye Hui woke remembering contradictory visions of Aunt Chen and True Person Hua, then found his devouring power spinning excitedly inside his shattered dantian.
• Yun Huang watched the fateweave tightening over Blackwater Town and anticipated that Yun Qing would soon notice it.
• The fate threads above A Little Shop, West Street, and Blackwater Town turned scarlet as an unseen force dragged people back toward their predetermined destinies.

Yun Qing met Liu Niang’s husband, Pei Junyao, at her wonton stall and ended up drinking with him after Pei grew jealous of Yun Qing’s visits. Pei passed out after thirty bowls, leaving Yun Qing sober and Ye Hui watching from the shop next door.

• Yun Qing saw Pei Junyao eating at Liu Niang’s stall, and Pei glared at him before greeting him politely.
• Pei took over the stall and sent Liu Niang inside to rest, then challenged Yun Qing to drink Pear Blossom Liquor with him.
• Yun Qing and Pei competed over drinks while Ye Hui watched from the shop and received a packet of peanuts from Yun Qing.
• After thirty bowls, Pei collapsed over the table while Yun Qing remained sober, and Pei drunkenly told Liu Niang not to look at Yun Qing too much.

Yun Qing shared drinks with Pei Junyao and Liu Niang, learning that the Great Xia Ancient Dynasty was pressuring the Purple Dusk Empire to submit and that its eldest princess would become Xia Wushang’s concubine. Liu Niang also asked Yun Qing to keep her cultivator sister in mind when he met a suitable young man, and the chapter ended with the three of them drinking together.

• Pei Junyao told Yun Qing that Great Xia had shattered Purple Dusk’s protective formation and was forcing the empire to submit.
• Pei Junyao revealed that Purple Dusk planned to marry its eldest princess to Xia Wushang as a concubine, and Yun Qing reacted with delighted surprise.
• Liu Niang explained that her younger sister had fallen for a senior brother in her sect and asked Yun Qing to recommend a dependable young man.
• Yun Qing considered his younger brothers, judged them unsuitable, and promised to keep Liu Niang’s sister in mind if he met someone appropriate.
• Liu Niang and Yun Qing continued drinking as Pei Junyao repeatedly tried to drink in his wife’s place.

Ye Hui discovered his dantian had slightly recovered as Blacksmith Zhao returned badly wounded from a fight with old enemies. After Yun Qing sent Ye Hui to return Aunt Chen’s basket, Ye Hui stopped an attacker and found Niu Niu chopping two masked cultivators into pieces.

• Ye Hui watered the wild chrysanthemums and noticed that his shattered dantian had recovered a little and his devouring power was unusually active.
• Blacksmith Zhao returned to town with his left arm severed, and Yun Qing and Pei Junyao helped treat his wound.
• Blacksmith Zhao said an enemy from his younger days had tracked him down and claimed the matter had been settled.
• Yun Qing sent Ye Hui to return Aunt Chen’s forgotten winnowing basket, and Ye Hui heard a scream from her courtyard.
• Ye Hui killed a masked cultivator who fled from the courtyard with a Snake Sword formed from his devouring power.
• Ye Hui found Niu Niu holding bloodied cleavers beside two dead cultivators and watched her chop their corpses into mince.

After Niu Niu killed the attackers, Ye Hui helped Aunt Chen hide the bodies and learned that the old grudges haunting West Street were surfacing again. Yun Qing secretly protected the neighbors as trouble spread, while Pei Junyao stayed in town to guard Liu Niang and help at the apothecary.

• Aunt Chen rushed home and embraced Niu Niu after she counted the blows she had struck against a corpse.
• Ye Hui told Aunt Chen that the escaped attacker was dead, helped dispose of the bodies, and washed the blood from the courtyard.
• Aunt Chen recognized the jade flute on one corpse, took it, and served Ye Hui the bone broth that matched a scene from his dream.
• Old Sun, Uncle Wu, and Liu Niang faced disturbances linked to old grudges and suspicious outsiders, while Yun Qing secretly intervened to protect them.
• Pei Junyao took leave from his post in Lone Goose City and stayed near Liu Niang, but Ye Hui sent him away after he repeatedly mixed up the apothecary's herbs.

Yun Qing and Pei Junyao discussed the suspicious history of Blackwater Town’s residents before Hua Luoqi suddenly regained Spirit Transformation cultivation at the Mine. As Pei Junyao fled to protect Liu Niang, Hua Luoqi began heading toward the town.

• Pei Junyao told Yun Qing that Old Zhao, Old Sun, and Uncle Wu had hidden their pasts for years, but strange incidents had recently begun happening around them.
• Pei Junyao recognized Ye Hui as a former leading disciple of the Heavenly Pivot Sect, prompting Ye Hui to react with anger before Yun Qing redirected the conversation.
• Yun Qing sensed a surge of spiritual power at the Mine that rapidly rose from Golden Core to Spirit Transformation.
• Hua Luoqi announced that she had regained her full strength, and Ye Hui recognized the laughter from his nightmare.
• Pei Junyao identified Hua Luoqi as the Flower Demon, warned Yun Qing to leave, and rushed to protect Liu Niang.
• Yun Qing sensed distorted fate around Hua Luoqi as Pei Junyao shouted that she was coming toward them.

Hua Luoqi attacked Blackwater Town to refine its residents into materials for her Thousand-Bone Flower Banner, and Pei Junyao and the people of West Street stood against her. As the Flower Demon overwhelmed them, Uncle Wu gave Yun Qing a High-Rank Teleportation Scroll and told him to escape with the others.

• Hua Luoqi surrounded Blackwater Town with blood-flower vines and declared that she would use the entire town to complete her Thousand-Bone Flower Banner.
• Hua Luoqi sensed Pei Junyao's Purple Extreme Heavenly Gang, descended on West Street, and struck him down as he defended Liu Niang.
• Blacksmith Zhao, Niu Niu, and Old Sun joined the fight against Hua Luoqi while Yun Qing watched the falling flowers dissolve before reaching him.
• Uncle Wu thanked Yun Qing for healing him, handed him a High-Rank Teleportation Scroll, and urged him to escape with Liu Niang, Niu Niu, and the others.

Hua Luoqi overwhelmed West Street as Yun Qing saw that the Heavenly Dao had arranged the street’s destruction as his final mortalization tribulation. He rejected the trial and unleashed his double pupils, accepting that he might fail to return to the Immortal World.

• Uncle Wu revealed a Formation Banner as Hua Luoqi unleashed a storm of blood-blossom blades against West Street.
• Pei Junyao, Blacksmith Zhao, Old Sun, and Uncle Wu fought to protect the neighbors, but Hua Luoqi broke their defenses and left them gravely injured.
• Ye Hui nearly lost control of his devouring power, but Yun Qing placed a hand on his shoulder and stepped into the street.
• Yun Qing’s double pupils opened, revealing fate threads binding West Street and the Heavenly Dao’s plan to annihilate it before the Child of Heaven’s Mandate arrived.
• The Heavenly Dao told Yun Qing that enduring West Street’s destruction would complete his mortalization and allow him to return to the Heavenly Origin Immortal World.
• Yun Qing refused the tribulation and declared he would accept failure in the mortal world as his double pupils opened across the sky.

Yun Qing revealed overwhelming Void Refinement power and killed Hua Luoqi to save West Street. After the survivors thanked him as a senior, a Dao Diagram scroll burned away in the Chaos Sea, and Yun Huang’s next move made another scroll shine.

• Hua Luoqi tried to flee when Yun Qing’s Double Pupils Dharma Aspect appeared, but his gaze destroyed her and her blood blossoms.
• Blacksmith Zhao, Old Sun, Aunt Chen, Pei Junyao, Liu Niang, and Uncle Wu reacted to Yun Qing’s power, and Uncle Wu thanked him as a senior.
• On the Lotus Platform, Yun Huang watched the Dao Diagram scroll inscribed with “all beings sharing the dust” burn to ash.
• Yun Huang placed another stone, and the scroll inscribed with “free and unfettered true heart” blazed with light.

Yun Qing restored West Street and severed the fate threads threatening its residents, stopping Ye Hui when an unseen force compelled him to attack. As Yun Qing began examining Ye Hui, the Purple Dusk Empire announced its submission to Great Xia and ceased to exist as an independent nation.

• Yun Qing repaired West Street and gave its residents healing pills.
• Yun Qing used the Bear All Things Spear to sever the fate threads binding West Street's residents to the scarlet net.
• An unseen fate thread possessed Ye Hui and made him attack Yun Qing, but Yun Qing parried him and cut the thread.
• Yun Qing began preparing to examine Ye Hui's divine soul as eighty-one bells rang across the Purple Dusk Empire.
• The Purple Dusk Empire announced its allegiance to Great Xia and declared that its territory and people would enter the Xia Map.

After Great Xia annexed the Purple Dusk Empire, a dragon cavalry herald met Yun Qing in Blackwater Town and learned that Yun Qing had dealt with the Flower Demon. Yun Qing turned his attention back to Ye Hui, planning to heal him and help him eventually seek revenge.

• Great Xia's dragon cavalry announced that Purple Dusk's people and territory now belonged to Great Xia and began enforcing its laws.
• A herald arrived in Blackwater Town, destroyed the Flower Demon's lingering blood blossoms, and recognized Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing told the herald that Hua Luoqi had attacked the town and warned him about dangers remaining in the nearby mine.
• The herald thanked Yun Qing, promised to search the mine, and carried off Blackwater Town's chief official.
• Yun Qing considered healing Ye Hui, rebuilding his dantian, and giving him treasures so the boy could pursue revenge on his own.

Yun Huang revealed Ye Hui as a Chaos Ancient Beast by striking him with a sun-powered Go stone, which forced him into his tiny snake form. Yun Qing recognized him as a Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python and decided to take him home.

• Yun Qing was struck twice by white Go stones thrown by Yun Huang, but he failed to realize Ye Hui was the reason.
• Yun Huang hit Ye Hui with a stone infused with sun divine power, forcing his serpent form to emerge and suppressing it into a tiny snake.
• Yun Huang placed Ye Hui in a radiant box and presented him to Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing recognized the little snake as a Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python and gently nudged his chin.
• Yun Qing announced that he had picked up a Chaos Ancient Beast who wanted to come home with him, while Ye Hui hid beneath his tail.

Ye Tianchen and his companions traveled toward Blackwater Town after Great Xia annexed the Purple Dusk Empire, and they discussed the mysterious dynasty’s origins and power. Ye Tianchen resolved to investigate the mine disturbances before going to the Purple Dusk capital to meet the eldest princess, while Su Wanwan worried about her sister.

• Lin Muyao criticized the Purple Dusk Empire for surrendering to Great Xia, while Red Ji dismissed mortal dynasties as insignificant.
• Ye Tianchen worried because the eldest princess had summoned him and he sensed that something tied to his fate had changed.
• Su Wanwan explained that her sect suspected Great Xia had come from the Immortal World and had heard warnings about its formidable armies and National Fortune.
• Ye Tianchen asked Elder Mu about Great Xia, but Elder Mu had never heard of the dynasty, leading Ye Tianchen to underestimate it.
• Ye Tianchen reassured Su Wanwan that her sister would be safe, and the group sped toward Blackwater Town to investigate the mine disturbances.

Yun Qing received Ye Hui, a juvenile Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python, as a gift from Yun Huang and examined him in his shop. Ye Hui woke in snake form, panicked at Yun Qing’s teasing threat to sell him, then relaxed under Yun Qing’s soothing touch.

• Yun Qing placed the unconscious Ye Hui in a luxurious box and sent Yun Huang an image of the gift snake.
• Yun Huang asked whether Ye Hui suited Yun Qing, and Yun Qing enthusiastically agreed in his heart.
• Ye Hui woke without arms or legs, realized he was a snake, and struck his head against the box.
• Yun Qing joked that Ye Hui might fetch a good price, frightening Ye Hui into a clumsy attempt to move.
• Yun Qing explained that Ye Hui was still a newborn python and gently stroked him with chaos immortal power, soothing his battered divine soul.

Yun Qing revealed that Ye Hui was a Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python and placed a protective Heart-Easing Pact around his Divine Soul. The pact unlocked fragments of Ye Hui’s inherited memories, which Yun Qing found severely incomplete.

• Yun Qing recognized Ye Hui as a Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python rather than a Spirit-Devouring Body and considered how valuable the ancient beast’s body could be.
• Yun Qing teased Ye Hui by pretending to threaten him with harvesting his body, then bound him with a sigil while Ye Hui feigned humiliation to entertain him.
• Yun Qing explained that the Heart-Easing Pact protected Ye Hui’s Divine Soul and would alert Yun Qing if fate threads interfered again.
• Yun Qing activated the pact and revealed inherited information about the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python, whose kind could eventually devour worlds, laws, and Heaven’s Mandate.
• Yun Qing noticed that Ye Hui’s inherited memories were severely incomplete.