Chapter Summaries

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner went to the Seven-Day Immortal, where they learned Mu Ling'er had wrecked the shop after escaping the Lotus Pond. Over drinks with Pang Yue, Lin Shisan heard that Long Yan'er was thriving and that Pang Yue would keep watch over Hu Niu, while a Message Stone lit up before Lin Shisan chose to check it later.

• Zi Yuner noticed Lin Shisan's grief over his father's death and took him to drink at the Seven-Day Immortal.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner found the shop damaged, and a worker explained that Mu Ling'er had smashed its jars and furnishings while Hu Niu tried to stop her.
• Pang Yue arrived with wine and told Lin Shisan that Mu Ling'er and Hu Niu had returned to Nine Nether Mountain after the outburst.
• Lin Shisan reassured Pang Yue that Long Yan'er was growing well, and Pang Yue said Hu Niu was progressing at Nine Nether Mountain and promised to send word if anything happened.
• A Message Stone began glowing during their drinks, but Lin Shisan left it unopened and said he would check it after they returned.

Lin Shisan revisited the places where he had lived as a servant disciple and received a message from the late Qi Jian revealing that Lin Qinghan was his adoptive father and that his biological father was Lin Qingxuan. Following clues from Qi Jian and Bai Youyou, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner flew to Jade Maiden Peak to seek Xue Yaotian, where they spotted her senior sister.

• Zi Yuner accompanied Lin Shisan to his old servant-disciples' courtyard, where she stopped an overseer from beating a servant disciple and trapped him in the river.
• Lin Shisan revisited the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and remembered Feng Qingye and their complicated history.
• At the Law Enforcement Team's quarters, a young disciple gave Lin Shisan a Jade Slip that Qi Jian had left for him.
• Qi Jian's message revealed that Lin Qinghan had found Lin Shisan in battlefield ruins, that his biological father was Lin Qingxuan, and that clues about Lin Qinghan's death led to Jade Maiden Peak.
• Lin Shisan connected Qi Jian's message with Bai Youyou's dying words about Xue Yaotian and decided to go to Jade Maiden Peak with Zi Yuner.
• As they arrived at Jade Maiden Peak, Lin Shisan spotted Xue Yaotian's senior sister resting with a cat in a brightly lit courtyard.

Lin Shisan questioned Xue Yaotian about his father’s death and the Heartlock she had planted in him. He learned that Qingxuan had ordered Lin Qingxuan’s killing and that Xue Yaotian’s Heartlock had been her attempt to protect him and repay his father.

• Lin Shisan arrived at Jade Maiden Peak with Zi Yuner, and Fairy Zhantai led them to Xue Yaotian in the Ice Cave.
• Lin Shisan asked whether Xue Yaotian had been part of the Demon-Hunting Squad that pursued Gai Jiuyou’s dream-taught disciples twenty years earlier, and she confirmed that she had.
• Xue Yaotian told Lin Shisan that Qingxuan had given the order to kill Lin Qingxuan and had later manipulated events that drove Senior Han away.
• Xue Yaotian explained that she had planted the Heartlock using her own life-bound Essence Blood to protect Lin Shisan and repay her debt to his father, who had asked her not to kill the child.

After learning that the people around him had shaped his life to cover up their roles in his father’s death, Lin Shisan chose to abandon their planned path and seek revenge. Zi Yuner pledged to stay beside him as they set out for the Danyang Sect.

• Lin Shisan questioned whether his choices had ever been his own, and Zi Yuner told him he had made his way through the obstacles himself.
• Lin Shisan realized that Qingxuan, Feng Nansheng, Bai Ziyin, and Xue Yaotian had each acted out of guilt or fear after Lin Qingxuan’s death, turning him into a pawn.
• Lin Shisan swore to make everyone who had kept silent pay for his father’s death and declared that his former self had died on Jade Maiden Peak.
• Zi Yuner promised to accompany Lin Shisan through revenge and whatever dangers lay ahead, and he took her hand.
• Lin Shisan boarded the Cloud Boat and flew with Zi Yuner toward the Danyang Sect, resolved to choose his own path.

After visiting Jade Maiden Peak, Lin Shisan returned to Cold Moon Peak with his eyes changed and prepared to release Gai Jiuyou in exchange for help killing Qingxuan. Three days later, Qingxuan arrived to reinforce the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal as Lin Shisan watched from the crowd, ready to act.

• Lin Shisan gave Feng Xian'er three drops of Turbid Spirit Liquid to repair her meridians and said he would oversee the sealing work at the Nine Yang Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan told Zi Yuner he would stand watch at the pavilion, then offered Gai Jiuyou freedom in return for killing Qingxuan and promised she would not harm Cold Moon Peak.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan to seize the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag from Qingming and the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag from Bai Ziyin during the reinforcement, which would loosen the seal for a quarter of an hour.
• Three days later, Qingming, Bai Ziyin, Feng Xian'er, and others gathered outside the Nine Yang Pavilion to reinforce the seal, and Qingxuan arrived with them.
• Lin Shisan watched from the back of the crowd as Qingming, Qingxuan, and Bai Ziyin entered the pavilion, his hand clenched and his eyes filled with killing intent.

Lin Shisan accepted the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag while secretly preparing to trap the people inside the Nine Yang Pavilion and seize his chance to act. As the seal neared completion, Zi Yuner confirmed that the pavilion had been isolated, leaving Lin Shisan poised to activate his formation.

• Bai Ziyin handed Lin Shisan the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag and told him to channel Spiritual Power into it as the formation core contracted.
• Qing'er told Feng Xian'er that Long Yan'er had collapsed with a high fever and was ice-cold, so Feng Xian'er left the pavilion entrance to go to her.
• Zi Yuner revealed that she had sealed Long Yan'er's Spirit Vein with Dragon Breath to keep Feng Xian'er away, then waited outside the closed pavilion doors.
• As Qingming ordered the formation core contracted, Lin Shisan secretly activated the guiding flag of the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation he had added to the seal.
• A pulse from the Little Black Cauldron conveyed Zi Yuner's message that the Ten-Direction Square Formation had sealed off the pavilion, just as Lin Shisan prepared to activate his flag.

Lin Shisan activated the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation and attacked Qingxuan, seeking revenge for his father’s murder. Qingxuan overwhelmed him after learning Lin Shisan was Lin Qingxuan’s son, then prepared to kill him.

• Lin Shisan activated the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation, sealing the Nine Yang Pavilion in walls of wind and fire.
• Zi Yuner entered the pavilion, defeated six Formation Hall disciples, and faced Duan Qingcheng after his disguise and Mid-Stage Sky Soaring cultivation were revealed.
• Lin Shisan trapped Qingming with Chaos Space while the formation restricted his Spiritual Power, but Qingxuan remained untouched by the flames.
• Lin Shisan attacked Qingxuan with the Evil-Exorcising Sword, but Qingxuan caught the blade, threw him down, and pinned him to the floor.
• Lin Shisan revealed that Qingxuan had ordered the death of his biological father, Lin Qingxuan.
• Qingxuan withdrew his foot, wrapped it in dark cyan spiritual light, and told Lin Shisan he could die now.

Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to block Qingxuan, who attacked him with three Great Strength Vajra Seals. Zi Yuner saved Lin Shisan from the final strike and handed him the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag.

• Lin Shisan summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and formed a yin shield that stopped Qingxuan's first attack.
• Qingxuan urged Bai Ziyin to intervene, but Lin Shisan rejected Bai Ziyin's offer to protect him.
• Qingxuan struck the yin shield with three Great Strength Vajra Seals, breaking it and leaving Lin Shisan badly wounded.
• Zi Yuner caught the final seal and moved Lin Shisan out of its path before it blasted a crater into the floor.
• Zi Yuner gave Lin Shisan the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag she had seized from Qingming.

Lin Shisan used the Array Flags to stir the Nine Yang Cauldron while Zi Yuner fought Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan. After Qingming struck Lin Shisan from behind, Lin Shisan crushed Qingming with the Little Black Cauldron and absorbed his spirit, but Zi Yuner remained surrounded and an Eight-Sided Hammer flew toward her back.

• Lin Shisan activated the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag and the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag beside the Nine Yang Cauldron, causing the cauldron to shudder as Gai Jiuyou's projection emerged.
• Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan attacked Zi Yuner together, and she held them off despite their superior cultivation and gradually accumulating wounds.
• Qingming broke free of the Square-Circle Formation and stabbed Lin Shisan from behind, but Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to smash Qingming's body and absorb his spirit.
• Qingxuan roared in fury and charged at Zi Yuner, who knocked aside his sword while continuing to evade Bai Ziyin's attacks.
• Lin Shisan spotted an Eight-Sided Hammer hurtling toward Zi Yuner's back and shouted a warning.

Zi Yuner revealed her Dragon Clan transformation and fought Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan while Lin Shisan struggled against Duan Qingcheng and two disciples. With Gai Jiuyou still breaking through the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal and Feng Xian’er trapped outside, Lin Shisan decided to stake everything.

• Qingxuan’s Eight-Sided Hammer struck at Zi Yuner, but she caught it barehanded and revealed dragon horns, scales, and her full power.
• Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan attacked Zi Yuner together, gradually cracking her armor and injuring her as the strain on her divine sense grew.
• Duan Qingcheng, grieving Qingming’s death, attacked Lin Shisan with his Square-Circle Formation seal alongside two Formation Hall disciples.
• Gai Jiuyou continued tearing through the Nine Yang Cauldron’s golden seal and said she needed another incense stick’s worth of time.
• Feng Xian’er failed to open the Bronze Gate while Lin Shisan, badly wounded and cornered, tightened his grip on the Little Black Cauldron and resolved to stake everything.

Lin Shisan survived the Myriad Souls Banner’s karmic flames by awakening the Hornless Dragon True Spirit and achieving human-banner unity, then defeated several attackers in the Nine Yang Pavilion. As Gai Jiuyou neared freedom, Han Yansong opened the Bronze Gate, with Feng Xian’er behind him.

• Lin Shisan tore open the Myriad Souls Banner and endured the ghost souls and karmic flames consuming his body and soul.
• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit absorbed and refined the karmic flames, causing the ghost souls to bow to Lin Shisan as he broke through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Lin Shisan used the banner’s chains and Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to restrain Duan Qingcheng and devour two Formation Hall disciples.
• Gai Jiuyou’s projection continued breaking the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal, prompting Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan to stop fighting and turn toward her.
• Han Yansong pushed open the Bronze Gate and entered the Nine Yang Pavilion, where he and Gai Jiuyou noticed each other and Lin Shisan.
• Feng Xian’er appeared behind Han Yansong, tearful and weakened.

Han Yansong revealed that he had uncovered the truth about Lin Shisan’s father’s murder and secretly arranged Lin Shisan’s awakening, then joined Bai Ziyin and Feng Xian'er to reinforce Gai Jiuyou’s seal. The three began casting the Heavenly Secret Seal as Gai Jiuyou struggled against the restored barrier.

• Feng Xian'er entered the Nine Yang Pavilion and found Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner gravely injured while Gai Jiuyou’s projection tore at the cauldron’s seal.
• Han Yansong told Qingxuan and Bai Ziyin that he knew about the danger, then explained that Qingxuan had ordered Lin Shisan’s father killed and evaded justice by destroying the evidence.
• Han Yansong told Lin Shisan that he had secretly mapped Lin Shisan’s meridians and planted the star chart in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to awaken his Jiaolong True Spirit.
• Han Yansong cast the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal onto the Nine Yang Cauldron, strengthening its barrier and restraining Gai Jiuyou’s projection.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, and Feng Xian'er combined their spiritual power above the cauldron and began unleashing the Heavenly Secret Seal.

Lin Shisan stripped Little Nine’s awakened divine sense with the Myriad Souls Banner, freeing it from the seal’s control, while Han Yansong and the others continued to suppress Gai Jiuyou. After Gai Jiuyou was nearly sealed, Zi Yuner challenged Han Yansong’s promises and released her cultivation seal, forcing open the threshold to Sky Soaring great perfection.

• Han Yansong struck Zi Yuner through her Dragon Scale Armor, worsening her injuries, while Lin Shisan was unable to reach her.
• Han Yansong warned Lin Shisan that Zi Yuner’s rising cultivation could trigger the curse within her, as Gai Jiuyou urged him to save Little Nine from the seal’s control.
• Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to strip Little Nine’s awakened divine sense, restoring its clear awareness before it collapsed onto his shoulder.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, and Feng Xian’er pressed their seals down and forced Gai Jiuyou almost entirely into the Nine Yang Cauldron.
• Han Yansong promised to investigate Lin Shisan’s father’s fate, but Zi Yuner questioned his ability to deliver justice and said only strength could guarantee it.
• Zi Yuner released her seal, and her spiritual power broke through the barrier of late Sky Soaring toward Sky Soaring great perfection.

Lin Shisan used the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal to break the Nine Yang Cauldron's restraints on Gai Jiuyou while Zi Yuner protected him at the cost of her vitality. Gai Jiuyou attacked Zi Yuner with her severed head, but a mysterious figure emerged from a bolt of purple lightning and stopped it.

• Zi Yuner deepened the curse on her forehead as she prepared to fight Han Yansong and protect Lin Shisan.
• Lin Shisan struck the Nine Yang Cauldron with the Little Black Cauldron, then used 108 supreme-grade spirit crystals to form the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal.
• Lin Shisan invoked Dragon Commands the Nine Heavens and pressed the seal onto the cauldron while Zi Yuner blocked attacks from Qingxuan and endured the curse's toll.
• The seal shattered the cauldron's golden restraints, freeing Gai Jiuyou, who formed a blade from dark red petals and severed her own head.
• Gai Jiuyou's head flew toward Zi Yuner, and Lin Shisan rushed to save her, but a bolt of purple lightning struck the head and a figure stepped out of the lightning.

The Eternal Night Demon Emperor appeared in the Nine Yang Pavilion and killed Qingxuan after Lin Shisan directed him to do so. Lin Shisan then confronted Han Yansong over his father’s death, as Mu Ling'er arrived and begged him to show mercy.

• The Eternal Night Demon Emperor used the Creation Cauldron to destroy Gai Jiuyou’s head, but her spirit escaped into Zi Yuner and fought her for control of their shared body.
• Lin Shisan shielded Zi Yuner from the Creation Cauldron and persuaded the Eternal Night Demon Emperor not to strike her.
• After Zi Yuner and Gai Jiuyou agreed to focus on revenge, Lin Shisan ordered the Eternal Night Demon Emperor to kill Qingxuan, whose body and spirit were devoured by the cauldron.
• Lin Shisan turned on Han Yansong and rejected his plea to let the deaths of Qingxuan and Qingming end the feud.
• Mu Ling'er arrived with Aunt Mei and Hu Niu and begged Lin Shisan to show mercy.

Lin Shisan lowered his weapon and tried to leave with Zi Yuner, but Hu Niu stabbed and wounded him, accusing him of betraying her first. As the Immortal Alliance sealed Gai Jiuyou within Zi Yuner, Hu Niu stood over Lin Shisan and threatened to destroy him.

• Lin Shisan stood down against Han Yansong and went to help Zi Yuner leave with him.
• Hu Niu stabbed Lin Shisan through the chest and struck him into a wall, while Mu Ling'er seized the Little Black Cauldron.
• Gai Jiuyou restrained Zi Yuner from rushing to Lin Shisan, and the Eternal Night Demon Emperor dispersed into luminous dust.
• Hu Niu accused Lin Shisan of betraying her by marrying Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner, then aimed her sword at his chest.
• Chiyangzi revealed that Aunt Mei had secretly served the Immortal Alliance for three hundred years.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, Feng Xian'er, and Aunt Mei formed a four-colored seal around Zi Yuner to contain Gai Jiuyou, while Hu Niu threatened to destroy Lin Shisan.

Hu Niu’s sword struck Mu Ling’er as she threw herself between it and Lin Shisan, leaving her fatally wounded. Han Yansong allowed Lin Shisan to leave the Danyang Sect with Mu Ling’er and Zi Yuner, while Gai Jiuyou’s escape remained unresolved.

• Mu Ling’er took Hu Niu’s sword meant for Lin Shisan and confessed that she had never liked him as she died in his arms.
• Mu Ling’er called Han Yansong Father and begged him to let Lin Shisan go, reminding him of the mistakes he had made.
• Han Yansong roared down Chiyangzi’s objection and ordered Lin Shisan to leave with Zi Yuner.
• Lin Shisan insisted on taking Mu Ling’er with him, and Han Yansong granted his wish.
• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling’er and helped the weakened Zi Yuner leave, while Han Yansong struck down a disciple who tried to stop them.

Lin Shisan left the Danyang Sect carrying Mu Ling'er’s body and supporting Zi Yuner, while the Cursed Pattern threatened to let Gai Jiuyou seize her. After receiving supplies and a pill from Feng Xian'er, he reached an abandoned Mountain God Temple and laid Mu Ling'er on dry grass.

• A Danyang Sect Servant Disciple delivered a Storage Bag from Qing'er and Long Yan'er, and Lin Shisan promised to return for Yan'er.
• Zi Yuner nearly collapsed as the Cursed Pattern worsened and told Lin Shisan that Gai Jiuyou was trying to seize her body.
• Feng Xian'er gave Lin Shisan a Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, scolded him, and told him Cold Moon Peak’s doors would remain open if he returned alive.
• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling'er and supported Zi Yuner down the mountain without looking back.
• Lin Shisan reached an abandoned Mountain God Temple and gently laid Mu Ling'er on dry grass.

Lin Shisan mourned Mu Ling'er and helped Zi Yuner suppress Gai Jiuyou before Gu Mengli arrived with a diagram that might help free Zi Yuner from the spirit inside her. He and Zi Yuner planned to find a safe place, bury Mu Ling'er, and investigate how to remove the nail from Zi Yuner's mind.

• Lin Shisan realized Mu Ling'er was dead and grieved beside her body.
• Lin Shisan threatened Gai Jiuyou, forcing her demonic qi to retreat while he used Dragon Breath Qi to suppress her within Zi Yuner.
• Gu Mengli came to the abandoned Mountain God Temple and gave Lin Shisan a copied diagram of the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal.
• Gu Mengli told Lin Shisan she would secretly protect Yan'er and Qing'er before leaving the temple.
• Lin Shisan studied the diagram and promised Zi Yuner they would find a safe place, lay Mu Ling'er to rest, and seek a way to remove the nail from her mind.

Lin Shisan brought the injured Zi Yuner to a hidden valley and studied Gu Mengli’s Beastskin Scroll while caring for her and visiting Mu Ling’er’s body. He returned to bury Mu Ling’er in the valley, but a voice suddenly asked whether he was planning to bury her alive.

• Lin Shisan left Mu Ling’er in the Mountain God Temple and helped Zi Yuner reach a secluded valley with a stone cottage.
• Lin Shisan studied the Beastskin Scroll as Zi Yuner recovered, while he visited Mu Ling’er every three days and kept watch for Gai Jiuyou’s Spirit Body.
• Zi Yuner made a small woven bird and let it drift into the pool, then asked how long Gai Jiuyou could remain inside her.
• Lin Shisan decided to bring Mu Ling’er back to the valley and bury her on a sunny slope beneath an old willow.
• As Lin Shisan placed Mu Ling’er in the grave, an unfamiliar voice asked if he planned to bury her alive.