Recaps

Near the end of his life, Lin Mo asked Liu Ziyan to grant him a woman so he would not die a virgin. After seven days of cleaning her palace, he realized she had not delivered on her promise.

• Liu Ziyan asked her century-old servant Lin Mo whether he had any dying wishes.
• Lin Mo requested a companion for his final journey, and Liu Ziyan mocked him before promising him a young woman.
• Liu Ziyan ordered Lin Mo to die outside her palace and threatened to deny him a burial place if he dirtied it.
• Lin Mo reflected on his wasted hopes for revenge and returned to cleaning the Purple Heaven Palace.
• After finishing the cleaning seven days later, Lin Mo remembered Liu Ziyan's promised woman was still missing.

After Liu Ziyan spent seven days cultivating in seclusion, Lin Mo, near the end of his life, returned to the Purple Heaven Palace to confront her over her broken promise. He overheard and peeped at her in the bath, then saw her suffer as she regretted cultivating the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.

• After waiting seven days for Liu Ziyan to emerge from seclusion, Lin Mo decided he could no longer afford to wait for her to fulfill his dying wish.
• Lin Mo entered the Purple Heaven Palace at night and heard Liu Ziyan moaning in the baths.
• Remembering that the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art required both yin and yang, Lin Mo crept to the bath and made a peephole in the paper wall.
• Lin Mo watched Liu Ziyan in the bath, but she did not notice him peeping.
• Liu Ziyan writhed in pain as her spiritual energy grew chaotic and said she should never have cultivated the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.

Lin Mo caught Liu Ziyan bathing and boldly offered to help her cultivate, while the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art left her unable to control her spiritual energy and desperate for yang energy. He reached her back as she warned him to stop, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Liu Ziyan struggled with the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art’s harmful effects and rejected the need for a male cultivator’s yang energy.
• Lin Mo accidentally revealed himself while spying on Liu Ziyan in the bathing chamber, and she threatened to torture and kill him.
• Lin Mo defied Liu Ziyan and offered to help her cultivate, but her gathered spiritual energy dispersed as the art’s craving for yang energy overwhelmed her.
• Lin Mo realized Liu Ziyan could not kill him and approached her, recounting his miserable century in the First Saint Sect and asking to help her cultivate once.
• Liu Ziyan warned Lin Mo not to take another step, but he reached her back.

Lin Mo exploited the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art’s hold over Liu Ziyan to force a night of cultivation together, seeking revenge for a century of abuse. By morning, Liu Ziyan’s aura had grown much stronger, and she looked at Lin Mo with killing intent as he accepted whatever punishment came next.

• Lin Mo taunted Liu Ziyan and realized the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art prevented her from using spiritual power against him.
• Lin Mo touched Liu Ziyan and challenged her to test whether he still had his old ability, ignoring her threats.
• Lin Mo entered the bathing pool and claimed he would help Liu Ziyan cultivate, while her yin energy also nourished his failing body.
• After a night together, Liu Ziyan regained her purple gauze robe and emerged with an aura several times stronger.
• Lin Mo slumped against the wall, said he had no regrets, and told Liu Ziyan to kill or carve him up as she pleased.

After their night together, Liu Ziyan decided to keep Lin Mo alive so he could help her cultivate the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, while Lin Mo suspected she planned to torment him later. She forced him to take the art’s Yang Scroll, cultivation resources, and a Life-Prolonging Pill, though he left wondering how he could cultivate with his useless spiritual meridians.

• Liu Ziyan recalled that her night with Lin Mo had helped her break through from peak Spirit Transformation to Void Refinement, and realized the art now required her to harmonize yin and yang with him.
• Liu Ziyan decided to spare Lin Mo and give him a chance to cultivate, reasoning that a Life-Prolonging Pill could extend his life by several years.
• Liu Ziyan presented Lin Mo with the Yang Scroll of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, cultivation resources, and a Life-Prolonging Pill.
• Lin Mo suspected Liu Ziyan intended to improve his health before torturing him, but she declared he had no right to refuse and forced him to take the items.
• Lin Mo left the Purple Heaven Palace and wondered how he could cultivate with his useless spiritual meridians.

After awakening the pure yang sacred body, Lin Mo regained his desire to live and quickly mastered the Yang Volume of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art. He then discovered the art bound its user to their first dual cultivation partner and punished them for changing partners.

• Lin Mo returned to his cabin and found he could easily understand the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art despite his half spiritual vein and low cultivation.
• Lin Mo discovered his yang energy, meridians, and bones had changed, and concluded that battling Liu Ziyan had awakened his pure yang sacred body.
• Lin Mo celebrated his newfound cultivation talent and began studying the Yang Volume of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.
• Lin Mo achieved initial mastery of the Yang Volume within a few days.
• Lin Mo found a hidden message in the scroll, where the Evil Demon Emperor revealed that the art bound its users to their first dual cultivation partner and caused backlash if they changed partners.

Lin Mo discovered that the Pure Yang Sacred Body protected him from the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art’s dependence on a first dual-cultivation partner, then used Liu Ziyan’s Life-Prolonging Pill and resources to survive and cultivate. After reaching the third level of Qi Refining in half a month, he was discovered alive by Zhao Donghai, who had come to collect his corpse.

• Lin Mo realized Liu Ziyan had kept him alive as a long-term cultivation partner and decided to avoid provoking her while building his strength.
• Lin Mo swallowed the Life-Prolonging Pill Liu Ziyan had given him, restoring his vitality and extending his lifespan by several years.
• Lin Mo used spirit stones to cultivate and found that his Pure Yang Sacred Body greatly accelerated his absorption of spiritual energy.
• Over half a month, Lin Mo advanced from the second to the third level of Qi Refining.
• Zhao Donghai arrived with two menial disciples to collect Lin Mo’s presumed corpse and froze when he found Lin Mo alive and vigorous.

Lin Mo refused Zhao Donghai’s demand to leave his post as the Purple Heaven Palace’s personal servant, knowing the Maidservant Department would arrange his death if he returned. Zhao Donghai backed off at the palace entrance, but Lin Mo still needed a way to resolve the threat.

• Zhao Donghai told Lin Mo that he had been replaced and ordered him to return to the Maidservant Department.
• Lin Mo recognized that Zhao Donghai intended to have him killed and pointed out that the Rebirth Hall supervisor lacked authority to transfer him.
• Zhao Donghai threatened Lin Mo and prepared to take him by force.
• Lin Mo warned Zhao Donghai against disturbing the sect leader at the Purple Heaven Palace entrance, so Zhao Donghai left with his attendants.
• Lin Mo reflected that the Maidservant Department would continue threatening him and that he needed to find a solution.

Lin Mo wrote a misconduct report about Maidservant Department steward Lü Mingtong to protect himself from being sent back to the department. Su Yu delivered it to Liu Ziyan, who ordered the Enforcement Hall to investigate, leaving Lü Mingtong’s fate in the sect’s hands.

• Lin Mo realized Liu Ziyan would not intervene directly, so he wrote a letter exposing the Maidservant Department’s misconduct.
• Lin Mo gave the letter to Su Yu when she arrived at the Purple Heaven Palace, and she carried it inside without reading it at first.
• Su Yu read the report in the courtyard and noticed she had unexpectedly thought Lin Mo looked handsome.
• Liu Ziyan reprimanded Su Yu for bringing her a servant’s letter, then read Lin Mo’s report about steward Lü Mingtong.
• Liu Ziyan ordered Su Yu to take the letter to the Enforcement Hall and have them investigate Lü Mingtong.

Lü Mingtong forced Lin Mo out of his post at Purple Heaven Palace and locked him away in the Maidservant Department, where Lin Mo waited for Liu Ziyan to act and resumed cultivating. When Lü Mingtong and Zhao Donghai came to taunt him, Lin Mo warned that they were the ones nearing death, but they dismissed him as delusional.

• Lü Mingtong arrived at Lin Mo's room, demanded he kneel, and ordered him back to the Maidservant Department.
• Lin Mo returned under escort, and Lü Mingtong had him locked in a secluded room and guarded.
• Lin Mo hoped Liu Ziyan had received his letter, then began cultivating while confined.
• That night, Lü Mingtong brought Zhao Donghai and other menial disciples to mock Lin Mo as a trapped mouse.
• Lin Mo called them fools who were at death's door, but Zhao Donghai and the others laughed at him.

Zhao Donghai prepared to kill Lin Mo with a Death Qi Pill, but Shangguan Wuqing arrived with the Enforcement Hall and arrested Lü Mingtong. Lin Mo was freed and ordered to accompany the enforcers to assist their investigation.

• Zhao Donghai bound Lin Mo and threatened to kill him with a Death Qi Pill.
• Shangguan Wuqing and the enforcers burst into the room with an arrest warrant for Lü Mingtong.
• Shangguan Wuqing accused Lü Mingtong of secretly murdering servant disciples, stealing spirit stones and magical artifacts, and abusing Lin Mo.
• Lü Mingtong realized Lin Mo had reported him, and Lin Mo taunted him before Shangguan Wuqing slapped him down.
• Shangguan Wuqing had Lin Mo untied and ordered him and everyone else in the room taken to the Enforcement Hall.

Liu Ziyan struggled with her unstable cultivation and reluctantly accepted that Lin Mo was her only possible dual-cultivation partner, while keeping their bond secret. At the Enforcement Hall, Lin Mo learned that Lü Mingtong’s downfall might leave him vulnerable to the new steward, Zhou Ze.

• Liu Ziyan worried that her sudden breakthrough to Void Refinement had left her cultivation unstable and considered using dual cultivation with Lin Mo to consolidate it.
• Liu Ziyan reluctantly accepted her bond with Lin Mo but decided not to intervene in his Enforcement Hall interrogation because she wanted to hide their relationship.
• Shangguan Wuqing told Lin Mo that Lü Mingtong would be sent to the Tower of Self-Cultivation and Self-Immolation without further investigation.
• Lin Mo recognized that Lü Mingtong’s removal could put him at risk because Zhou Ze, Lü Mingtong’s friend and fellow townsman, was set to become the Maidservant Department’s steward.

Lin Mo refused Shangguan Wuqing’s offer to become her servant and left the Enforcement Hall, but someone abducted him on his way back to Purple Heaven Palace. The head of the Enforcement Hall ordered Shangguan Wuqing to find Lin Mo and bring him back without causing a stir.

• Shangguan Wuqing offered Lin Mo a position as her servant, but he declined and asked to return to Purple Heaven Palace.
• Shangguan Wuqing registered Lin Mo and let him leave the Vermilion Bird Squad office.
• A black-clad figure ambushed Lin Mo in a secluded bamboo grove, knocked him unconscious, and carried him away.
• The head of the Enforcement Hall questioned Shangguan Wuqing about Lin Mo’s disappearance and ordered her to find him, alive or dead, without attracting attention.

Lin Mo woke bound in a candlelit room and realized Shangguan Wuqing had abducted him, then tried to learn why she was interested in him. Shangguan Wuqing offered to release him if he cooperated with her, and the chapter ended after she untied him and began undressing.

• Lin Mo woke unable to use his spiritual energy and suspected Shangguan Wuqing had captured him.
• Shangguan Wuqing asked Lin Mo whether he had connections in the sect, and he claimed the sect leader was his connection.
• Shangguan Wuqing dismissed Lin Mo's claim and said his appeal as an older man had prompted her to abduct him.
• Lin Mo agreed to cooperate, and Shangguan Wuqing untied him after deciding his weak cultivation posed no threat.
• Shangguan Wuqing loosened her sash and removed her clothes before Lin Mo.

Lin Mo dual cultivated with Shangguan Wuqing, broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, and returned to his cabin at dawn. Liu Ziyan then summoned him to the Purple Heaven Palace.

• Shangguan Wuqing pushed Lin Mo onto the bed and dual cultivated with him, while the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art absorbed her yin energy.
• After their encounter, Lin Mo discovered he had advanced to the fourth level of Qi Refining and that his emaciated body had begun to recover.
• Shangguan Wuqing let Lin Mo leave after making him promise to return when she wanted him and to keep their encounter secret.
• Lin Mo fled to his cabin at the Purple Heaven Palace and arrived at dawn, relieved to be back in his familiar home.
• Liu Ziyan summoned Lin Mo to the Purple Heaven Palace.

After Lin Mo returned to the Purple Heaven Palace, Liu Ziyan summoned him and questioned where he had been, while he hid his encounter with Shangguan Wuqing. Liu Ziyan abandoned her plan to practice dual cultivation with him because she smelled another woman on him, then learned he had mastered the Yang Volume of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.

• Liu Ziyan summoned Lin Mo to the main hall and ordered him to approach so she could inspect him.
• Liu Ziyan noticed another woman's scent on Lin Mo and asked where he had gone, but Lin Mo claimed he had lost his way in the dark.
• Liu Ziyan struck Lin Mo with a gust of wind after recognizing his answer as a lie, and Lin Mo accused her of tormenting him.
• Liu Ziyan decided against dual cultivation with Lin Mo because the other woman's scent disgusted her.
• Liu Ziyan asked whether Lin Mo had mastered the Yang Volume of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, and he confirmed that he had.

Lin Mo asked Liu Ziyan to resolve a potential dispute with the Maidservant Department, but she instead gave him spirit stones and challenged him to handle it himself for a larger reward. After returning to his hut, Lin Mo decided to pursue the five thousand spirit stones and planned to strengthen his cultivation before confronting Zhou Ze.

• Liu Ziyan reclaimed the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art scroll and refused to intervene in Lin Mo’s dispute with the Maidservant Department.
• Liu Ziyan gave Lin Mo a thousand spirit stones and promised another five thousand if he settled the matter himself.
• Liu Ziyan told Lin Mo to wash at the Jade Purity Pool because Shangguan Wuqing’s scent on him disgusted her, but Lin Mo did not realize what she meant.
• Lin Mo counted his spirit stones and Spirit-Boosting Pills, then decided to earn Liu Ziyan’s reward by dealing with Zhou Ze.
• Lin Mo recalled that Zhou Ze was also at the seventh level of qi refining and resolved to improve his cultivation first.

Lin Mo sought a rapid way to raise his cultivation before Zhou Ze could retaliate, so he went to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to use dual cultivation. After paying for a Qi Refining cultivator, he waited in a private room as she arrived.

• Lin Mo concluded that normal cultivation would not let him reach the eighth Qi Refining level before Zhou Ze took control of the Maidservant Department.
• He decided to use the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art and visit the Drunken Immortal Pavilion for dual cultivation.
• Lin Mo showed the pavilion's greeter his thirteen hundred spirit stones and entered after she verified his wealth.
• He reviewed the service prices, chose a Qi Refining female cultivator, and paid three hundred spirit stones.
• The female cultivator entered Lin Mo's room wearing a loose gauze robe that slipped from her shoulders.

Lin Mo used dual cultivation at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to strengthen his cultivation but refused Bai Hua’s plea for rescue. After breaking through to the fifth level of Qi Refining, he sold his Spirit-Boosting Pills and was confronted by Shangguan Wuqing.

• Lin Mo completed a paid dual-cultivation session with Bai Hua, gaining spiritual power but not breaking through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.
• Bai Hua begged Lin Mo to take her away from the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, but he refused and left her behind.
• Lin Mo spent two days cultivating with spirit stones and smoothly advanced to the fifth level of Qi Refining.
• Lin Mo decided to sell his Spirit-Boosting Pills before returning to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, hoping to maximize his cultivation gains.
• Lin Mo sold five Spirit-Boosting Pills at the Sect Trading Market for 130 spirit stones apiece and paid the market fee.
• Shangguan Wuqing caught up with Lin Mo outside the market and asked whether he was afraid she would eat him.

Lin Mo avoided being robbed after Shangguan Wuqing intervened, then used the yin energy of cultivators at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to advance to the sixth level of Qi Refining. His attempt to reach the seventh level with a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator fell short, and he prepared to continue.

• Shangguan Wuqing warned Lin Mo that five inner sect disciples had been watching him and promised to protect his spirit stones for now.
• Lin Mo agreed to meet Shangguan Wuqing in ten days to repay his favor.
• Lin Mo spent six hundred spirit stones on two Qi Refining Period female cultivators and advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining.
• Lin Mo concluded that reaching the seventh level would require more yin energy and booked a Foundation Establishment Early Stage female cultivator.
• After nearly twenty hours, Lin Mo still had not advanced and decided to continue, startling the exhausted cultivator.

After breaking through to the seventh level of Qi Refining and regaining some of his youth, Lin Mo worried about how to obtain more cultivation resources and accidentally saw Holy Maiden Su Yu secretly sending a note. He reached Shangguan Wuqing's residence, where she was pleased by his breakthrough and younger appearance.

• Lin Mo broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining after absorbing yin energy, and his body became younger and healthier.
• Lin Mo returned to his hut, worried about Liu Ziyan's demand for five thousand spirit stones, and decided he would try to obtain more resources from her.
• Three days later, Lin Mo saw Holy Maiden Su Yu secretly give a note to a flying spirit beast in the woods and hurried away without confronting her.
• Su Yu noticed Lin Mo and watched him leave, while Lin Mo sensed her presence and feared she might kill him to silence him.
• Lin Mo arrived at Shangguan Wuqing's residence, where she noticed his seventh-level cultivation and younger appearance and expressed her satisfaction.

After dual cultivation with Shangguan Wuqing helped Lin Mo reach the eighth level of Qi Refining, he returned to his cabin to stabilize his cultivation and plan how to remind Liu Ziyan of dual cultivation’s benefits. The next day, Zhou Ze visited to apologize and gave Lin Mo spirit stones, then offered to find him new maidservants as further compensation.

• Shangguan Wuqing praised Lin Mo after their dual cultivation, while Lin Mo realized he had advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Lin Mo planned to settle the Maidservant Department’s affairs, collect Liu Ziyan’s promised five thousand spirit stones, and find a way to remind her about dual cultivation.
• Lin Mo avoided a possible ambush by Su Yu on his way back to his cabin, then used the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art to stabilize his cultivation.
• Zhou Ze visited Lin Mo and apologized for his past bullying, claiming he was grateful that Lin Mo had brought down Lü Mingtong.
• Zhou Ze gave Lin Mo five hundred spirit stones and another three hundred as compensation, then offered to find him newly arrived maidservants.

Lin Mo accepted 1,800 spirit stones from Zhou Ze in exchange for peace and keeping his position, then prepared to visit Liu Ziyan. At the Purple Heaven Palace, Su Yu told Liu Ziyan she had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection and asked about learning a more advanced cultivation method.

• Zhou Ze offered Lin Mo 300 spirit stones and promised to leave him in charge of the Purple Heaven Palace’s menial duties if Lin Mo stopped reporting him.
• Lin Mo accepted the 300 spirit stones and demanded another 1,000 in place of the female servants; Zhou Ze reluctantly paid.
• Lin Mo decided the dispute with Zhou Ze was settled and planned to collect his spirit stones from Liu Ziyan after washing at the Jade Purity Pool.
• Su Yu told Liu Ziyan she had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection and asked to practice a more advanced cultivation method.
• Liu Ziyan asked Su Yu which cultivation method she wanted, and Su Yu hesitated before answering.

Su Yu asked Liu Ziyan to teach her the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, but Liu Ziyan warned her of its drawbacks and gave her another cultivation art instead. After Hong Yue reported that a high-ranking spy had infiltrated the First Saint Sect, Liu Ziyan summoned Lin Mo, who was still worried about Su Yu.

• Su Yu asked Liu Ziyan to teach her the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, but Liu Ziyan gave her the Ten Thousand Blood Pagoda Art and said she would teach the other art if Su Yu found a suitable Dao companion.
• Liu Ziyan recalled that she had once abandoned her original cultivation art for the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art and regretted the choice.
• Hong Yue told Liu Ziyan that a spy with access to the First Saint Sect's core secrets had infiltrated the sect, and Liu Ziyan gave her three years to find him.
• Lin Mo returned to the Wooden Hut and worried that Su Yu might attack him, but he lacked evidence to warn Liu Ziyan.
• Liu Ziyan summoned Lin Mo to the Purple Heaven Palace, and he hurried inside.

Liu Ziyan questioned Lin Mo about his rapid cultivation and his understanding of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, then punished him for lying. After paying him eight thousand spirit stones for resolving the Maidservant Department’s troubles, she walked to her bedchamber with Lin Mo following, while she remained confused by her sudden sympathy for him.

• Liu Ziyan discovered that Lin Mo had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining and asked him to explain his progress and understanding of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.
• Lin Mo claimed that the art required dual cultivation and that he had cultivated alone, so Liu Ziyan struck him for lying about the scent of another woman.
• Lin Mo realized Liu Ziyan had smelled Shangguan Wuqing on him and decided to avoid the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and see Shangguan Wuqing less often.
• As Lin Mo wiped the blood from the floor, Liu Ziyan felt an unfamiliar surge of sympathy for him.
• Liu Ziyan gave Lin Mo a Storage Ring containing eight thousand spirit stones, then walked to her bedchamber as he followed behind her.