Chapter Summaries

Nalan Sheng arranged for A Zi to impersonate Wuyazi’s final disciple, then traveled to Western Xia and struck a bargain with Li Qiushui. He offered scar-healing ointment in exchange for her betrothal of Princess Yinchuan to him and his help in defeating her enemy.

• A Zi volunteered to impersonate Wuyazi’s final disciple so she could gain command of the Spirit Vulture Palace.
• Nalan Sheng learned that the plan involving Heavenly Mountain Child Granny had gone smoothly and decided to travel to Western Xia.
• Nalan Sheng entered the Western Xia palace at night, fought off Li Qiushui’s White Rainbow Palm Force with a dou qi veil, and offered her scar-healing ointment.
• Li Qiushui agreed to betroth Princess Yinchuan, Qinglu, to Nalan Sheng if the ointment removed her scars, and asked him to help eliminate the woman who had scarred her.
• Nalan Sheng left and planned to return in ten days, while Li Qiushui hoped he would help her destroy her enemy.

Nalan Sheng bought the Ten Shadows Technique skill card and upgraded the technique to perfection, unlocking all ten shikigami and the Chimera Shadow Garden domain. He finished the chapter with the perfected technique added to his status panel and 19,621 villain points remaining.

• After returning to the inn, Nalan Sheng bought the Ten Shadows Technique skill card for 3,000 villain points and summoned the Divine Dogs.
• Nalan Sheng upgraded the technique to minor mastery, unlocking Nue, Toad, and Rabbit Escape without needing to subjugate them.
• Nalan Sheng advanced the technique to major mastery and unlocked Great Serpent, Max Elephant, and Round Deer.
• Nalan Sheng perfected the technique, unlocking Piercing Ox, Tiger Funeral, and Mahoraga, as well as the Chimera Shadow Garden domain.
• Nalan Sheng checked his status panel, which showed the Ten Shadows Technique at perfection and 19,621 villain points remaining.

After restoring Li Qiushui’s beauty, Nalan Sheng persuaded her to bring Princess Yinchuan to the ice cellar, where he took her virginity and gained Villain Points. The next morning, he and Li Qiushui set out for Heavenly Mountain to confront Wu Xingyun, while a carriage headed toward Shaolin Temple.

• Nine days after restoring Li Qiushui’s beauty, Nalan Sheng asked her to secure Princess Yinchuan for him before the wedding, and she agreed on the condition that he help her defeat Wu Xingyun.
• Li Qiushui brought Princess Yinchuan, also called Qinglu, to the Imperial Palace Ice Cellar, where Nalan Sheng took her virginity and received 5,000 Villain Points.
• Li Qiushui carried the exhausted Qinglu away and told Nalan Sheng to accompany her to Heavenly Mountain the next day.
• The following morning, Nalan Sheng and Li Qiushui rode out of Lingzhou City toward Heavenly Mountain.
• A luxurious carriage left Lingzhou City for Shaolin Temple shortly afterward.

A Zi rose to become Heavenly Mountain Child Granny’s trusted successor, then used Sorrowful Crisp Breeze to kill her and Li Qiushui and seize Spirit Vulture Palace. Nalan Sheng remained hidden nearby as the system rewarded him for disrupting the destined protagonist’s opportunities, while A Zi told the palace maidservants that the two women had perished together.

• After more than a month of training, A Zi mastered several techniques, won Heavenly Mountain Child Granny’s favor, and became the recognized heir to Spirit Vulture Palace.
• Li Qiushui appeared with her restored beauty, provoked Heavenly Mountain Child Granny, and lured her to a cliff while claiming Nalan Sheng was waiting there.
• Sorrowful Crisp Breeze incapacitated Heavenly Mountain Child Granny and Li Qiushui, and A Zi revealed she had deceived Granny about her identity and allegiance.
• A Zi drained Heavenly Mountain Child Granny’s inner power, killed her, and then killed Li Qiushui as Nalan Sheng remained hidden nearby and received system rewards.
• A Zi threw both bodies over the cliff and told the arriving maidservants that Li Qiushui and Heavenly Mountain Child Granny had perished together.

Nalan Sheng reunited with Wang Yuyan and the others before secretly entering Shaolin Temple and stealing the Muscle-Tendon Altering Scripture. He then confronted Abbot Xuanci in the middle of the night.

• Nalan Sheng returned to Wang Yuyan and the others on [Nue] and reunited with them at their camp near Shaoshi Mountain.
• Nalan Sheng summoned a wooden house, spent the night with the women, then left them sleeping and flew to Shaolin Temple.
• Nalan Sheng entered Bodhi Court, unlocked the hidden compartment behind the bronze mirror, and took the Muscle-Tendon Altering Scripture.
• Abbot Xuanci woke feeling uneasy and began chanting the Rebirth Mantra, but Nalan Sheng entered his room and confronted him.

Nalan Sheng exposed Abbot Xuanci’s past with Ye Erniang, killed Xuanci and Xuzhu, and was expelled from the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils ahead of schedule. He returned to the Dou Qi Continent with Villain Points and a breakthrough to One-Star Dou Shi, then went to sleep.

• Nalan Sheng accused Abbot Xuanci of abandoning Ye Erniang and their child, then condemned him for ignoring her murders of infants.
• Abbot Xuanci attacked Nalan Sheng to silence him, but Nalan Sheng evaded the strike and mortally wounded him with an electrically charged palm.
• Nalan Sheng crushed Xuanci’s hand and left him to die, then found the sleeping Xuzhu and killed him with a Flame Bullet.
• The system rewarded Nalan Sheng for both deaths and announced that the world’s consciousness would send him back early, forcibly expelling him from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.
• Nalan Sheng returned to his bedroom on the Dou Qi Continent, reflected on his rewards and cultivation breakthrough, and eventually fell asleep.

Nalan Sheng became a Second-Rank Alchemist and purchased the Earth Emperor Belt from the System Shop. He transformed into the armored Kamen Rider Earth Emperor.

• Nalan Jie gave Nalan Sheng cultivation pills, alchemy supplies, and poisonous substances for Xiao Yi Xian, then urged him to have a great-grandchild.
• Nalan Sheng refined a Blood Recovery Pill and demonstrated that he had reached the level of a Second-Rank Alchemist.
• Nalan Sheng found the Earth Emperor Belt in the refreshed System Shop and spent 10,000 villain points to buy it.
• Nalan Sheng activated the belt and transformed into Earth Emperor, clad in black-and-gold armor.

After spending half a month refining pills, Nalan Sheng traveled with Xiao Yi Xian into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and tested his Kamen Rider Earth Emperor armor against a Tier 3 Gale Leopard. He killed the beast with a barrage of crushing punches.

• Nalan Sheng studied Earth Emperor's abilities, admired his transformed appearance, and returned to refining tier-two pills.
• Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian flew into the Magical Beast Mountain Range on Nue and built a wooden house for their stay.
• After lunch, Nalan Sheng left Xiao Yi Xian to rest and rode Nue into the range's central region.
• Nalan Sheng transformed into Kamen Rider Earth Emperor and endured the Gale Leopard's wind blades without taking damage.
• Nalan Sheng struck the Gale Leopard into the air and pulverized its bones with a flurry of punches.

Nalan Sheng defeated a Blazing Tiger, turned it into a corpse puppet, and refined its Crimson Flame before returning to Xiao Yi Xian. Several days later, he and Xiao Yi Xian watched his three magical beast puppets defeat a Jade Poison Scorpion.

• Nalan Sheng defeated a fourth-rank Blazing Tiger with the Earth Emperor Sword and used [Eight Room] to raise it as a corpse puppet.
• Nalan Sheng had the Blazing Tiger spit its Crimson Flame into a Medicine Cauldron and spent several hours refining the flame despite its backlash.
• Nalan Sheng tested Crimson Flame, found it more powerful but more stamina-intensive than ordinary fire, and looted the Blazing Tiger's lair before meeting Xiao Yi Xian.
• Several days later, Nalan Sheng's Blazing Tiger, Moon-Howling Wolf, and Vajra Ape puppets gravely injured a Jade Poison Scorpion in an underground cavern.
• Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the shadows after the Jade Poison Scorpion had lost the strength to resist.

Nalan Sheng completed his collection of eight magical beast corpse puppets and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to Desert City, where he found Hai Bodong’s map shop. He secretly took a fragment map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hai Bodong confronted him before Nalan Sheng recognized him as the Ice Emperor.

• Nalan Sheng turned the Jade Poison Scorpion into his eighth fourth-order magical beast corpse puppet and set out for the Tagor Desert with Xiao Yi Xian.
• After more than half a month, Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Desert City on [Nue] and entered without paying the city tax.
• Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian booked the finest room at an inn, and Nalan Sheng later left alone for Hai Bodong’s map shop.
• Nalan Sheng found and took the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map from a rack in the shop, earning 50,000 villain points from the system.
• Hai Bodong ordered Nalan Sheng to return the map, and Nalan Sheng reacted with feigned surprise and called him Senior Ice Emperor.

Nalan Sheng revealed that Hai Bodong’s Fragment Maps led to a heavenly flame and offered to help remove the sealing power that had weakened him. Hai Bodong agreed to let him try, while Nalan Sheng took the maps as a deposit.

• Hai Bodong admitted his identity as the Ice Emperor after Nalan Sheng identified himself as Nalan Jie's grandson.
• Nalan Sheng revealed that he had two Fragment Maps and recognized that Hai Bodong’s map was part of a Heavenly Flames Fragment Map.
• Hai Bodong joined his map to Nalan Sheng’s, confirmed that at least two fragments were still missing, and offered to trade his maps for Sand Mandala.
• Hai Bodong explained that Queen Medusa’s Sealing Technique had reduced his cultivation to the Dou Ling realm and that he needed Sand Mandala to make a pill.
• Nalan Sheng offered to test an Unusual Treasure that could counter sealing power, and Hai Bodong agreed.
• Nalan Sheng put all three Fragment Maps away as a deposit before attempting to help Hai Bodong.

Nalan Sheng used a Horse Talisman to remove Hai Bodong’s seal, restoring him to the Dou Emperor realm. Hai Bodong chose not to seize the talisman and left Desert City, while Nalan Sheng later traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to Stone Desert City.

• Nalan Sheng bought a Horse Talisman from the System Shop and used it to remove the seal on Hai Bodong, who recovered his Five-Star Dou Emperor cultivation.
• Nalan Sheng refused to sell the talisman, and Hai Bodong resisted his greed, promised to repay Nalan Sheng’s favor, and left Desert City.
• Nalan Sheng bought supplies for entering the desert and spent the next day exploring Desert City with Xiao Yi Xian.
• After Xiao Yi Xian’s excitement faded, Nalan Sheng summoned [Nue] and took her overnight to Stone Desert City.

Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian rescued Xiao Ding’s mercenary group from Snake-People in the Tagor Desert, then accepted Xiao Ding’s invitation to travel to Stone Desert City with them. After arriving at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s headquarters, Xiao Ding sent for his second brother Xiao Li to meet their new guests.

• Nalan Sheng spotted a battle between Xiao Ding’s mercenaries and Snake-People, then used Max Elephant and Nue to defeat the Snake-People.
• Xiao Ding thanked Nalan Sheng, who introduced himself as “Sheng Lanna,” and invited him and Xiao Yi Xian to join the mercenaries on their return to Stone Desert City.
• The Desert Iron Mercenary Group returned to Stone Desert City with a haul of magical beasts and brought Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian to its headquarters.
• Xiao Ding asked a guard to summon Xiao Li to the Conference Hall, where Xiao Li arrived and saw his brother chatting with the two unfamiliar guests.

Xiao Ding and Xiao Li hosted Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian after Nalan Sheng rescued the mercenaries, and Nalan Sheng used the banquet to begin befriending Qing Lin. The next morning, Qing Lin volunteered to serve him and entered his room, where she was embarrassed by the scene inside.

• Xiao Ding introduced Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Li and explained how Nalan Sheng had saved them from the Snake-People.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li hosted a banquet for Nalan Sheng, who stayed sober while the mercenaries drank themselves unconscious.
• Qing Lin bumped into Nalan Sheng outside the banquet hall, and he gave her a box of pastries while asking her to fetch more water.
• Qing Lin volunteered to serve Nalan Sheng the next morning and entered his room with washing supplies.
• Qing Lin blushed at the clothes scattered around the room, then set down the supplies and attended to Nalan Sheng.

Nalan Sheng comforted Qing Lin about her Snake-People blood and invited her to become his personal maid. Days later, he bought and improved the Flying Thunder God Technique, gaining the ability to teleport up to one hundred kilometers with four others.

• Nalan Sheng reassured Qing Lin that her snake scales were beautiful and offered to take her away from the Desert Iron Mercenary Group as his personal maid.
• Qing Lin accepted, sobbed quietly in Nalan Sheng's arms, and fell asleep there.
• Nalan Sheng considered how Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils might help him find the green lotus core flame, but noted she had not awakened them yet.
• Nalan Sheng found the Flying Thunder God Technique Skill Card in the refreshed System Shop and bought it for 10,000 villain points.
• Nalan Sheng upgraded the technique to minor attainment for another 10,000 villain points, raising its range to one hundred kilometers and its passenger limit to five people.

More than half a month after the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families were destroyed, Nalan Sheng visited Wutan City and asked Ya Fei to help him buy Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid for Qing Lin. He reassured Ya Fei that he had come to spend money on Xiao Yan’s goods, not to provoke him, and predicted that Ya Fei would soon be recalled to the Imperial City and entrusted with an important responsibility.

• Ya Fei told Nalan Sheng that the Xiao Clan had absorbed the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families after their leaders were killed for hiring an assassin to target Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei warned Nalan Sheng against provoking Xiao Yan and the mysterious alchemist behind him, but Nalan Sheng said he wanted to buy Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid from Xiao Yan for Qing Lin.
• Nalan Sheng comforted Qing Lin when she objected to his spending so much money for her, and Xiao Yi Xian was moved by his kindness.
• Ya Fei joked that she wanted to become Nalan Sheng’s personal maid, then explained that she lacked the backing and talent to inherit the Mittel Family leadership.
• Nalan Sheng predicted that Ya Fei would return to the Imperial City within two or three months and receive an important responsibility, offering to do her a favor if he was wrong.

Ya Fei secured Xiao Clan’s promise to prepare ten bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, then visited Nalan Sheng and discovered Xiao Yi Xian had reached Three-Star Dou Shi. After learning of Xiao Yi Xian’s remarkable talent, Ya Fei grew eager to build a close relationship with her and invited her shopping.

• Ya Fei agreed with Nalan Sheng that she would treat him to a feast if his prediction came true.
• Ya Fei arranged a shipment with Xiao Zhan and asked him to have Xiao Yan refine ten bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid for her family.
• Ya Fei visited Nalan Sheng’s manor and saw Xiao Yi Xian defeat four Water Clones during training.
• Nalan Sheng told Ya Fei that Xiao Yi Xian had broken through to Three-Star Dou Shi the previous day.
• Ya Fei told Nalan Sheng that Xiao Zhan would deliver the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to the Mittel Auction House, then invited Xiao Yi Xian to browse Wutan City’s new shops.
• Nalan Sheng encouraged Xiao Yi Xian to go with Ya Fei and Qing Lin, saying he would shop with her after they returned to the Imperial City.

After returning to Jia Ma Holy City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, Nalan Sheng explained to Nalan Jie and Nalan Su how he had helped Hai Bodong break Queen Medusa’s seal. His family learned that Hai Bodong owed him a favor, and Nalan Jie noted how valuable that favor could be.

• Nalan Sheng arrived at the Nalan Family estate with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and Qing Lin chose a room beside his master bedroom.
• Nalan Su summoned Nalan Sheng to his study, where Nalan Jie was waiting to ask about Hai Bodong.
• Nalan Sheng told Nalan Jie and Nalan Su that Queen Medusa’s Sealing Technique had trapped Hai Bodong in the Tagor Desert and that he had helped remove it.
• Nalan Sheng described the Horse Talisman only as a treasure that could break seals, keeping its greater abilities secret.
• Nalan Su realized that Hai Bodong owed Nalan Sheng a favor, and Nalan Jie said Hai Bodong would likely honor even a dangerous request.

Nalan Sheng visited Hai Bodong, who agreed to transfer Ya Fei back to the Imperial City after realizing Nalan Sheng was interested in her. The next morning, Nalan Sheng let the exhausted Xiao Yi Xian sleep while Qing Lin helped him wash, then took her to breakfast.

• Nalan Jie urged Nalan Sheng to maintain his relationship with Hai Bodong, deepen cooperation with the Mittel Family, and have a great-grandson within five years.
• Nalan Sheng visited Hai Bodong and asked him to transfer Ya Fei from Wutan City back to the Imperial City.
• Hai Bodong learned from Teng Shan that Ya Fei was his granddaughter and ordered her transfer to the Imperial City, believing the match could benefit the Mittel Family.
• The next morning, Nalan Sheng woke while Xiao Yi Xian asked to sleep longer, and Qing Lin entered to help him wash.
• Nalan Sheng took Qing Lin to breakfast and said they would let Xiao Yi Xian sleep until lunchtime.

Nalan Sheng bought Qing Lin a mysterious scale she felt drawn to, then traveled to Ghost-Suppressing Pass to search for the Life Devouring Pill. Before beginning his search, he purchased Dragon Blood from the System Shop.

• Qing Lin sensed a connection to an ocher-yellow scale at a Market District stall, and Nalan Sheng bought it for her.
• Nalan Sheng left the scale with Qing Lin and continued shopping with her and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Several days later, Nalan Sheng arrived near Ghost-Suppressing Pass to search for the Life Devouring Pill and place Flying Thunder God marks along the route.
• Nalan Sheng found Dragon Blood among the System Shop's new stock and bought it for twenty thousand Villain Points.