Arc 12Chapters 276–300
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Li Piaoqing followed Yi Chengxin into the underground passage beneath the ancestral hall and found her imprisoned in an iron cage. When a green-clad figure attacked, Li Piaoqing fought back, but the clash left her facing a dangerous opponent with a scaled, claw-like hand.
Li Piaoqing rescued Yi Chengxin from a cage in the underground Sacrificial Realm, where Yi revealed she intended to assassinate the Edict-Listening God-Child. As they approached the God-Child through the growing purple bamboo, Li Piaoqing lost contact with Black Cat and realized the realm had cut them off from the outside.
Li Piaoqing and Yi Chengxin entered the Sacrificial Chamber to stop the Edict-Bearing Servants after the Jade Ke Formation activated. Yi Chengxin killed several servants with the Candle Sword, and she and Li Piaoqing reached the altar as she explained how the Divine Child’s influence turned the servants into puppets.
Li Piaoqing and Yi Chengxin prepared to enter the Purple Bamboo Realm, while Pei Ye learned that Yi Chengxin had written a script depicting devotion to the Immortal Lord and raced to help Li Piaoqing. Glaze reached Yinyang and found Black Chi confronting the High Priest.
Black Cat and Glaze broke into the Sacrificial Shrine and destroyed the stone slab hiding a passage, while Li Piaoqing and Yi Chengxin fought over the Edict Transmission. After their clash with the Candle Sword Heart-Burning Poison, Li Piaoqing disabled the Fire Talisman as Yi Chengxin moved toward the doorway.
Li Piaoqing entered the Pupil Lineage Dragonkin Ancestral Land and confronted Yi Chengxin inside its central hall. Meanwhile, Pei Ye raced toward the mountain but was intercepted by Yi Nandai, and their clash left Pei Ye badly wounded.
Pei Ye’s fire-and-sword ambush failed to overcome Yi Nandai, who revealed himself as a Dragonkin and forced Pei Ye to resume the fight. In the Sacrificial Realm, Li Piaoqing resisted a Heart Candle illusion and learned that Yi Chengxin’s elder brother had gone to kill Pei Ye.
In the Sacrificial Realm, Li Piaoqing faced a Heart Poison trial that repeatedly drew her into cherished memories and aspirations. She recognized the illusion, resisted its emotional pull, and finally struck the weakened black-robed figure, though the outcome remained unresolved.
Li Piaoqing survived the third Heart Candle Trial and realized that Yi Chengxin could sense her thoughts, but Yi began the fourth trial before she could prepare. Li Piaoqing awoke in a memory of the Jade Feather Main Hall, facing the aftermath of her failed ambush and the impending threat of Joy-in-Death Tower.
Li Piaoqing endured a Candle Trial that forced her to confront Jade Feather's rejection, then awakened the fourth Heart Candle and vowed to face the sect's enemies alongside her people. As she began to awaken from the mindscape, Shen Yao stabbed her, plunging her back into confusion and darkness.
Li Piaoqing entered Yi Chengxin’s Heart Candle and confronted her with a painting that exposed the tragedy behind Yi Chengxin’s belief in her family’s fate. After their mindscapes clashed, Li Piaoqing gained her fourth Heart Candle, but Yi Chengxin’s dragon eyes forced her to retreat, leaving Li Piaoqing exhausted in the Ancestral Land.
Li Piaoqing’s mind trial with Yi Chengxin reached its breaking point as Pei Ye arrived at the sealed stone door and searched for a way to reach her. Black Cat discovered the pendant Pei Ye carried contained a Jade Ke Formation and activated it, opening a new path forward.
Pei Ye reunited with Li Piaoqing inside the sealed formation after she killed Yi Chengxin with a bamboo shoot, and they treated their wounds while discussing the dangers of the ancient site and Li Piaoqing’s lingering fears. The chapter ended with their tension easing into playful teasing as Pei Ye tickled her.
Pei Ye, Li Piaoqing, and the black cat completed the Edict Transmission and entered the Purple Bamboo Forest, where the Divine Child’s oppressive presence attacked them. Pei Ye repelled a snake disguised as Li Piaoqing’s severed arm, and they stood at the start of the Divine Path as she began to recover.
Pei Ye and Li Piaoqing reached the altar in the Purple Bamboo Forest, where they discovered records of two divine edicts tied to the Torchworld Cult and the Immortal Lord’s planned descent. They confronted the awakening Edict-Listening God-Child, and Pei Ye launched an attack on the enormous creature atop the platform.
Pei Ye and his companions fought the Divine Child atop the Purple Forest platform, but the creature’s tentacles overwhelmed them and delivered Pei Ye to its feast. Pei Ye struck its forehead with Mountain Feather, yet the wound seemed ineffective, leaving him caught in the Divine Child’s golden gaze.
Li Piaoqing recognized the Divine Child as Yi Danjun and used the Heart-Transmitting Candle to enter her Mindscape, interrupting its attack on the mortally wounded Pei Ye. She understood the cycle behind Edict Transmission, while Pei Ye survived the collapsing dais with Black Chi's help.
Pei Ye discovered the Torchworld Cult’s abandoned hideout and recovered Zhang Zijing’s belongings, while Li Piaoqing entered Yi Danjun’s collapsing Mindscape to find the painting pavilion and strike at her Heart Poison. The chapter left Li Piaoqing still navigating the ruins and Pei Ye examining the Immortal Painting Scroll.
Pei Ye recognized the strange image in the scroll as the Edict Diagram and urged Glaze to hold on while he went to help Li Piaoqing. Li Piaoqing reached Yi Danjun’s Heart Poison in the Lin Jing Painting Pavilion and confronted her with the deception at the heart of her romance with Xifang Tian.
Li Piaoqing uncovered the truth behind Yi Danjun’s memories: Xifang Tian had become a mindless servant of the Immortal Lord’s Edict Diagram, leaving Yi Danjun trapped in a fate she could not escape. As her Heart Poison failed and the Mindscape collapsed, Li Piaoqing tried to ignite a new poison, but remained unable to form the Candle Sword.
Pei Ye and Li Piaoqing witnessed Yi Danjun’s Mindscape collapse after Xifang Tian completed his final painting, then Pei Ye became trapped in his own Mindscape with the Edict Diagram. He used Quail Head to shield his mind, but the descending dragon’s whisker continued its Edict Transmission, leaving him and Black Chi unable to resist.
Pei Ye touched the Purple Bamboo Forest Dragon Immortal Secret Edict and survived its overwhelming will when his mind returned from [Taiyi]. Elsewhere, Ming Qitian postponed her journey to Sword-Belly Mountain, while Shang Huaitong recovered and vowed revenge under the guidance of a masked benefactor.
Pei Ye and Li Piaoqing recovered in the cavern after escaping Yi Danjun’s Mindscape, while Pei Ye learned that the Immortal Lord’s influence was eroding his own Mindscape through the Edict Diagram. The chapter ended with Pei Ye and Black Chi facing the urgent problem of keeping him alive.
Pei Ye recovered by devouring the Edict-Listening God-Child, then explored the site with Li Piaoqing and Black Chi. They found evidence of an ancient Edict Guardian and questioned Yi Duanzhi’s absence, leaving them to wonder who had guarded Yi Danjun’s edict.
Li Piaoqing concluded that Yi Duanzhi had taken Yi Danjun’s Heart Candle core in a mirror made from 120 jin of Heart Amber, while she and Pei Ye waited for Black Chi to check the Jade Ke Formation. In Bowang City, Li Weiru watched a manor as a masked intruder extracted the final “Flow” from Shang Huaitong, triggering a sword and a Desolate God, Wretched Bone wind as An Zang and Shi Zanxue approached.