Chapter Summaries

Huo Yanshan pressured Hu Hanyi for leads on the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, then sent people to search for Earth Spirit Ginseng after Hu revealed the Fox Demon Lady had sought it. Meanwhile, Yue Wen began preparing a mud pool in Immortal Dew Valley to plant seed lotus root with help from the Wood Demons.

• Huo Yanshan threatened to withdraw the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect's protection unless Hu Hanyi provided useful information.
• Hu Hanyi revealed that the Fox Demon Lady had searched for Earth Spirit Ginseng before exploring the secret realm, and Huo Yanshan ordered an investigation.
• Hu Hanyi tried to implicate Yue Wen in the attack on Huo Yanshan's disciples, but Huo rejected the accusation and left.
• Treasure Forest delivered most of Yue Wen's ordered supplies, and Yue Wen brought them to Immortal Dew Valley.
• Yue Wen directed the Wood Demons to dig and line a mud pool for planting seed lotus root.

Yue Wen prepared to cultivate lotus root in Immortal Dew Valley and arranged an anonymous team trip to Scarlet Sky Mountain to gather Red Mountain Stone Soil. Meanwhile, Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao received a new assignment to search the same mountain for Earth Spirit Ginseng.

• Yue Wen finished planting lotus root in a spirit-liquid mud pool and promised the Wood Demons future pools of their own.
• Yue Wen planned to enter the Wasteland Zone in disguise and formed an anonymous five-person team heading to Scarlet Sky Mountain.
• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao continued searching the waterways for clues after their defeat by Yue Wen, while Huang Qiuzi killed another Demon Beast.
• Huang Qiuzi received a message from her master ordering the pair to find and mark Earth Spirit Ginseng near River City, at Scarlet Sky Mountain.

Yue Wen disguised himself as Huang Xiaohu and assembled a young team of cultivators for a trip to Redcloud Mountain in the Wasteland Zone. As the team set out, Gao Xuezhi praised Tough Guy Bro as her idol without realizing she was talking about Yue Wen.

• Yue Wen arrived at the checkpoint disguised as a fierce-looking cultivator and avoided paying for an overpriced drink at the café.
• Yue Wen met Gao Xuezhi and Xue Tang, then Yang Xie and the late-arriving Little Black joined their team.
• The five cultivators entered the Wasteland Zone and began traveling toward Redcloud Mountain.
• Gao Xuezhi recounted Tough Guy Bro's supposed heroics, and Yue Wen corrected her version of the story.
• Gao Xuezhi defended Tough Guy Bro as her idol, while Yue Wen pretended to be an ordinary passerby unfamiliar with him.

Yue Wen joined Xue Tang, Gao Xuezhi, Yang Xie, and Little Black on a Wasteland Zone training trip, where an ambush revealed the group’s unusual abilities and Gao Xuezhi’s admiration for Tough Guy Bro. After a Purple Cloud Deer began charging toward them to avenge its slain companion, Xue Tang decided the group should hide and let it pass.

• Yue Wen noticed that the Wasteland Zone held no Evil Spirits, and Xue Tang explained that a powerful cultivator might have cleared the area or driven weaker creatures away.
• The group found a slain three-headed Demon Beast, but an Earth Wolf burst from its corpse and attacked Xue Tang before burrowing underground and ambushing Gao Xuezhi.
• Gao Xuezhi restrained the Earth Wolf, and Yue Wen killed it with a single punch, earning Evil-Suppressing Money while concealing his true strength.
• Yue Wen learned that Gao Xuezhi was a Mystic Wind Temple disciple who admired Tough Guy Bro, while Xue Tang was her older, ineffectual suitor.
• A Purple Cloud Deer roared behind the group, apparently seeking revenge for its slain companion, and Yang Xie and Little Black declined to fight it.
• Xue Tang judged the group too unreliable to battle the charging deer and proposed hiding until it passed.

Yue Wen killed a Purple Cloud Deer with one punch after Xue Tang was injured protecting Gao Xuezhi, then concealed his strength by crediting Xue Tang’s sword strike. As the group continued toward Redcloud Mountain, they realized they had returned to the same place, and the chubby boy suspected a nightmare wraith labyrinth.

• The chubby boy’s branch snapped under the Purple Cloud Deer’s charge, exposing the group and provoking the beast to attack.
• Xue Tang rushed to protect Gao Xuezhi and struck the Purple Cloud Deer with his sword, but its counterattack injured him and sent him flying.
• Yue Wen drew the deer’s attention away from Gao Xuezhi and killed it with one punch, then claimed Xue Tang had already weakened it.
• The group waited while Xue Tang recovered, then resumed their journey through Purple Cloud Mountain.
• Yue Wen and Little Black recognized that the group had returned to a place they had already passed, and the chubby boy suggested they were trapped in a nightmare wraith labyrinth.

Yue Wen and the others became trapped in a Nightmare Realm and were rescued from a swarm of wolf-shaped spirits by Taiji Eight Desolations Sect disciples Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi. The pair identified the threat as a powerful Granny Wolf and prepared to lead everyone out, while Yue Wen doubted Chen Xuanchao could defeat it alone.

• Xue Tang tried to lead the group through the Nightmare Realm with Yang Fire, but they returned to the same slope and realized they remained trapped.
• A possessed man approached, and Little Black cut off his legs; his body then burst apart and released a swarm of gray wolf spirits.
• Huang Qiuzi destroyed the wolf spirits with Phoenix Heavenly Fire, and she and Chen Xuanchao introduced themselves as Taiji Eight Desolations Sect disciples.
• Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi explained that a powerful Granny Wolf had created the Nightmare Realm and offered to lead the group out.
• Huang Qiuzi planned to fight Granny Wolf while the others handled its wolf pack, and Yue Wen questioned whether Chen Xuanchao could face the creature alone.
• Xue Tang urged Yue Wen to follow the True Disciples' arrangements, and Yue Wen agreed to leave the fight to them.

Huang Qiuzi began burning a way out of the Nightmare Realm, but Granny Wolf arrived with a vast pack of wolves and the group was forced to fight. Chen Xuanchao’s attacks seemed to hurt Granny Wolf, until wolf fur began growing across his body.

• Huang Qiuzi prepared the Phoenix Heavenly Fire Rain Art while the others took their positions around the clearing.
• Huang Qiuzi unleashed the Phoenix Heavenly Fire Rain Art, causing the Nightmare Realm to warp and reveal another landscape.
• Granny Wolf appeared with thousands of wolves, and Chen Xuanchao attacked her while Xue Tang, Gao Xuezhi, Yue Wen, Little Black, and Little Fatty fought off the pack.
• Yue Wen noticed that the little wolves yielded little Evil-Suppressing Money and watched Chen Xuanchao strike Granny Wolf repeatedly without her fighting back.
• Chen Xuanchao was suddenly seized by pain, and stiff black hairs and wolf fur began growing across his body.

Granny Wolf's Wolf-Seed Curse turned Chen Xuanchao and Little Black against Huang Qiuzi, but Little Fatty helped her burn and severely injure it. Granny Wolf scattered the cultivators throughout the Nightmare Realm, and Yue Wen reunited with Gao Xuezhi just before a howl triggered her transformation.

• Granny Wolf's howls activated the Wolf-Seed Curse in Chen Xuanchao and Little Black, forcing them to attack Huang Qiuzi and interrupt her escape attempt.
• Little Fatty seized Granny Wolf's ankle and told Huang Qiuzi to use spirit fire because its blood carried the curse.
• Huang Qiuzi burned Granny Wolf with Phoenix Heavenly Fire while Little Fatty restrained it, but its little wolves sacrificed themselves to smother the flames.
• Granny Wolf summoned violent tremors, wind, and black fog, scattering the cultivators before Huang Qiuzi could finish it off.
• Yue Wen found Gao Xuezhi and joined her, but another howl turned her eyes red and caused black fur to sprout as she raised her sword.

Yue Wen lured Granny Wolf out and used yang fire and crimson-gold brass knuckles to badly injure her. Meanwhile, Huang Qiuzi, Chen Xuanchao, Xue Tang, and Yang Xie tried to burn through the nightmare realm, but Granny Wolf did not appear before the flames nearly broke through.

• Yue Wen knocked the cursed Gao Xuezhi unconscious, found a wolf bite on her arm, and decided to eliminate Granny Wolf while alone.
• Yue Wen used yang fire ore to lure Granny Wolf, then struck her with crimson-gold brass knuckles and began a second punch as the fire prevented her head from healing.
• Huang Qiuzi regrouped with Xue Tang, Chen Xuanchao, and Yang Xie; her Phoenix Heavenly Fire temporarily suppressed Chen Xuanchao's returning wolf-seed curse.
• Yang Xie suggested that Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao burn the woods to shatter the nightmare realm and free those trapped inside.
• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao combined their supernatural powers to spread fire across the woods, but Granny Wolf did not appear, and Chen Xuanchao concluded she was afraid to approach them.

Yue Wen killed Granny Wolf with the Brass Little Sword, destroying the Nightmare Realm and freeing the others. Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao mistakenly believed their Phoenix Heavenly Fire had finished Granny Wolf, and the group left to search for survivors.

• Granny Wolf sacrificed its wolf pack to form a giant black mist wolf and attack Yue Wen, but he pierced it with the Brass Little Sword and divine fire.
• Granny Wolf burned to death, leaving nearly two hundred evil-suppressing coins and a blood-red crystal for Yue Wen.
• The Nightmare Realm shattered, returning Huang Qiuzi, Chen Xuanchao, Xue Tang, and the others to the mountain clearing.
• Xue Tang found Gao Xuezhi, who recalled that Huang Xiaohu had knocked her unconscious, while Chen Xuanchao suspected the Wolf-Seed Curse had lifted.
• The group found Granny Wolf's charred corpse, and Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi concluded that Huang Qiuzi's Phoenix Heavenly Fire had killed it.

After Granny Wolf’s defeat, Yue Wen learned that her Bloodflame Stone could strengthen the Little Black Snake, which filtered its side effects and modestly increased his cultivation. The group traveled to Redcloud Mountain at night, where Xue Tang charged at the Redblood Wolf Clan to prove himself while Huang Qiuzi offered to back him up.

• Huang Qiuzi’s Phoenix Heavenly Fire burned Granny Wolf to death, and Yue Wen secretly asked Da Long about the Bloodflame Stone she had dropped.
• Da Long identified the stone as a Wolf Demon’s Bloodflame Stone and warned that refining it could damage Yue Wen’s bloodline and destabilize his cultivation.
• Yue Wen fed the stone to Shousui, whose digestion increased Yue Wen’s cultivation, and considered using the Little Black Snake to filter risky powers.
• Yue Wen told Gao Xuezhi that he had left after knocking her unconscious because he feared she might transform, and she defended his choice to Xue Tang.
• The group traveled through the Wasteland Zone at night toward Redcloud Mountain, where they encountered the Redblood Wolf Clan.
• Xue Tang charged at the wolves, declaring that he would handle them, while Huang Qiuzi promised to support him from behind.

Yue Wen and Xue Tang fought a Blood Wolf patrol on Redcloud Mountain, where Yue Wen’s strength outshone Xue Tang’s swordsmanship. The group reached the summit to search for immortal materials, but Gao Xuezhi revealed that she wanted a stealth technique to sneak past Brother Ruthless’s dog and secretly approach him.

• Yue Wen killed several Blood Wolves and their minor leader with his fists while Xue Tang struggled to finish two wolves with his sword.
• The group regrouped, and Yue Wen claimed his punching power came from a family Cultivation Method called the Great Dragon Fist.
• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao split off to search for Earth Spirit Ginseng, while the others shared their plans and agreed to meet again at dawn.
• Yue Wen, Xue Tang, Gao Xuezhi, and Little Fatty reached the summit without encountering another Blood Wolf and found the Blood-Calyx Orchid.
• Gao Xuezhi said she wanted to use a Blood Spirit Pill to master the Heaven-and-Earth Shadow-Concealment Technique so she could sneak past Brother Ruthless’s dog.

Yue Wen discovered that Little Black had secretly allied with the Redcloud Mountain Wolf Clan, which planned to attack his companions for their essence blood. After the wolves left, Yue Wen tried to steal the clan’s treasures but accidentally made the sleeping Granny Wolf fly.

• Gao Xuezhi and Yang Xie picked Blood-Calyx Orchids while Yue Wen gathered red mountain stone soil from a cliff near Blood Wolf Cave.
• Yue Wen found a fissure leading into the wolf den and followed Little Black inside, where he learned that Little Black had brought the Redflame Ancient Leaf in exchange for Bloodflame Stones.
• Little Black agreed to help the gray wolf capture Yue Wen’s team so the wolf clan could obtain human essence blood and treat Granny Wolf’s corpse poison.
• After the wolves and Little Black left, Yue Wen decided to steal the Redflame Ancient Leaf and Bloodflame Stones before returning to warn his companions.
• Yue Wen used his sword-heart resonance method, mistook Granny Wolf for a divine weapon, and made her fly, startling a wolf demon at the entrance.

Yue Wen used the iron-bodied Wolf Demon Granny as a weapon against White Wolf after he mistook Yue Wen for someone harming her. Gray Wolf returned to Blood Wolf Cave and found White Wolf defeated as hundreds of Granny’s phantoms charged toward him and the other Wolf Demons.

• Gray Wolf sensed danger and sent White Wolf back to guard Granny, who had begun floating under Yue Wen’s control.
• White Wolf found Yue Wen and attacked him with bloody light, but Yue Wen used Granny to block the blows and retaliated with sword arts.
• Yue Wen enlarged Granny’s phantom and struck White Wolf down, while the little black snake devoured the Bloodflame Stones.
• A cave guard told Gray Wolf that a human was fighting White Wolf and Granny was helping the human, so Gray Wolf hurried back.
• Gray Wolf reached the cave and found White Wolf beaten and hundreds of Granny’s phantoms charging at the Wolf Demons.

Yue Wen killed the white wolf and fought the Gray Wolf King using its metal-transformed granny and his other abilities. Trapped behind doors it had ordered sealed, the gravely wounded Gray Wolf King summoned the Blood Wolf God with its spilled blood.

• Yue Wen killed the white wolf by wielding the metal-transformed Wolf Demon granny through his sword arts.
• Yue Wen attacked the returning Wolf Demons with Light-Splitting Shadow and struck the gray wolf while exploiting its reluctance to hit its granny.
• The Gray Wolf King ordered its subordinates to seal the stone doors and refuse to open them regardless of any noises.
• Yue Wen used the Brass Little Sword, Thunderlight Escape, Shadow-Shifting Talisman Art, and Azure Dragon Claw to overpower the Gray Wolf King.
• The Wolf Demons refused to open the doors despite the Gray Wolf King's desperate commands, leaving it trapped under Yue Wen's attacks.
• The Gray Wolf King gathered its spilled blood into a silhouette and summoned the Blood Wolf God, whose terrifying eyes opened.

Yue Wen defeated the Gray Wolf King after the Brass Greatsword drained his cultivation to summon a Vajra, while the Blood Wolves outside fled. Left exhausted in the cave, Yue Wen found Shousui stuffed with Bloodflame Stone and ordered it to keep eating the remaining blood essence.

• The Gray Wolf King sacrificed his blood to summon the Blood Wolf God, but Yue Wen used the Brass Greatsword to manifest a Vajra that destroyed it.
• The Vajra trampled the Gray Wolf King, who regretted bringing Yue Wen to Redcloud Mountain before he died.
• The Fat Wolf led the gathered Wolf Demons out of the cave, arguing that retreating was better than fighting Yue Wen.
• Yue Wen discovered that the Brass Little Sword had drained all his cultivation, leaving him too weak to pursue the fleeing wolves.
• Yue Wen found Shousui bloated after it consumed the Bloodflame Stone and ordered it to absorb more blood essence despite its protests.

Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao found an Earth Spirit Ginseng in the Red Forest, but marking it angered a powerful jiangshi. After the jiangshi overwhelmed them and their escape brought them to Xue Tang, Gao Xuezhi, and Yang Xie, the group fled toward Blood Wolf Cave and encountered Little Black heading toward them.

• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao entered the Red Forest and discovered a jiangshi watching an Earth Spirit Ginseng.
• Chen Xuanchao marked the ginseng with Huo Yanshan's red cord, causing it to flee underground and provoking the jiangshi.
• The jiangshi badly injured Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi, whose Phoenix Heavenly Fire failed to stop it, so they escaped with spatial jade talismans.
• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao reached the cliff and urged Xue Tang, Gao Xuezhi, and Yang Xie to flee from the pursuing jiangshi.
• The five headed toward Blood Wolf Cave but encountered no Wolf Demons and saw Little Black coming toward them.

As the jiangshi king pursued them into Blood Wolf Cave, Little Black and Little Fatty revealed powerful abilities that bought the group time. They reached sealed doors at the cavern’s depths, where they found Huang Xiaohu standing over the remains of Wolf Demons.

• Little Black joined the fleeing group and led them toward Blood Wolf Cave, hoping the Gray Wolf King and its pack would help.
• Little Black’s four flying knives formed a ghostly fighter that briefly held off the jiangshi king, letting the group enter the empty cave.
• Little Fatty summoned a Black Tortoise phantom that froze the jiangshi king for a moment as the group fled deeper inside.
• Little Black revealed he knew how to open the sealed stone doors, and he and Xue Tang moved the array-linked lamp to open them.
• The group found Huang Xiaohu standing over three Wolf Demon corpses, one of them only partly intact.

Yue Wen killed the Sixth Realm jiangshi king with Azure Dragon breath, then concealed his abilities by claiming membership in a secret organization called the Azure Dragon Society. He vanished from the group, leaving Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao to wonder about his connection to the Azure Dragon.

• Yue Wen pretended he had casually killed the wolf demons, while the group realized how powerful he was.
• The Sixth Realm jiangshi king charged into the cave, and Yue Wen stepped forward to face it alone.
• Yue Wen released Azure Dragon breath that ground the jiangshi king into dust and earned him 361 pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money.
• Yue Wen worried that Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao might connect his Azure Dragon abilities to his other identity.
• Yue Wen told the group he belonged to the secretive Azure Dragon Society and asked them to keep his identity secret.
• Yue Wen disappeared after leaving the cave, and Xue Tang guessed he had used a divine ability to shrink the earth to inches.

Yue Wen hid inside Blood Wolf Cave while Little Fatty revealed himself as Yang Xiezi and confronted Little Black over a stolen Redflame Ancient Leaf. Unaware that Yue Wen had pocketed the plant, Yang Xiezi attacked Little Black and crushed him against the cavern wall.

• Yue Wen used the Trace-Hiding Art to conceal himself nearby and waited for the others to leave.
• Little Fatty stopped the party from departing, shed his disguise, and revealed himself as Yang Xiezi of the Cangyuan Sect.
• Yang Xiezi accused Little Black of stealing a Redflame Ancient Leaf and demanded its return along with his surrender.
• Little Black said he had given the plant to the gray wolves and suggested that Huang Xiaohu had taken it, but Yang Xiezi refused to accept his explanation.
• Yue Wen had secretly taken the Redflame Ancient Leaf but had left Wolf Demon Granny behind because he could not safely store her.
• Yang Xiezi summoned his Black Tortoise Dharma Form, shattered Little Black's evil ghost Dharma Form, and smashed him into the cavern wall.