Chapter Summaries

Zhang A-Niu questioned Lianshan Jingcheng about the Peace Charm and Lianshan Xin’s origins, while a palace eunuch sought treatment for the Crown Prince’s congenital condition. In the Divine Capital, Lianshan Xin met his aunt He Miaoyin and used Heavenly Eye Search to discover she had been drugging the Crown Prince but had stopped after giving up on finding a Millennium Snow Lotus.

• Zhang A-Niu recognized the Peace Charm and warned Lianshan Jingcheng that the Imperial Court was investigating Lianshan Xin’s origins.
• A palace eunuch asked Lianshan Jingcheng to treat his young master, and the physician concluded that the Crown Prince’s congenital frailty was beyond his ability to cure.
• Lianshan Jingcheng and He Miaojun realized the visitor was likely from the palace and worried that the Crown Prince’s condition could endanger Lianshan Xin.
• Lianshan Xin met Thousand Faces at the Wondrous Sound House, where Thousand Faces admitted he had tried to sever Emperor Yongchang’s root of trouble.
• Lianshan Xin met He Miaoyin, who welcomed him as her sister’s son, then used Heavenly Eye Search to see her discussing the drugging of the Crown Prince with a disguised person.
• He Miaoyin said they had stopped drugging the Crown Prince because they had given up searching for a Millennium Snow Lotus.

Lianshan Xin learned that He Miaoyin had long helped the Crown Prince search for a Millennium Snow Lotus, while Thousand Faces revealed he had been impersonating Xiao He. Lianshan Xin arranged for He Miaoyin to tell the Crown Prince that Blood Guanyin had a lotus, and the chapter ended with the Crown Prince eyeing Blood Guanyin viciously.

• Lianshan Xin overheard He Miaoyin discussing the Crown Prince’s health and a Millennium Snow Lotus, then wondered whether the Crown Prince’s frailty had been engineered.
• Thousand Faces revealed that he had replaced Xiao He and admitted he was being targeted by Blood Guanyin; He Miaoyin realized he had watched her discussions with her mysterious associate.
• Lianshan Xin deduced that He Miaoyin had helped the Crown Prince seek a Millennium Snow Lotus, warned her to remember her loyalties, and declared that he would protect Thousand Faces and help kill Blood Guanyin.
• Lianshan Xin told He Miaoyin to inform the Crown Prince that Blood Guanyin had a Millennium Snow Lotus, and Thousand Faces offered to impersonate the Crown Prince if he did not act himself.
• He Miaoyin told the Crown Prince about Blood Guanyin and the lotus; after she left, the Crown Prince returned to his room and glared viciously at Blood Guanyin.

The Crown Prince suspected Blood Guanyin of hiding the Millennium Snow Lotus and sought to use Lianshan Xin to verify her loyalty. Meanwhile, Lianshan Xin teamed up with Thousand Faces to kill the Second Prince in prison, but an unexpected summons from Emperor Yongchang interrupted their escape.

• The Crown Prince questioned Blood Guanyin about the Millennium Snow Lotus, offered to make her Heavenly Queen, and decided to summon Lianshan Xin to test whether He Miaoyin had told the truth.
• Lianshan Xin told the One Heart Society that he would go into seclusion, then revealed that he planned to work with Thousand Faces against Blood Guanyin and the Second Prince.
• Lianshan Xin persuaded Thousand Faces to infiltrate the Ministry of Justice's prison by disguising himself as a guard and replacing the Second Prince.
• Thousand Faces knocked out the Second Prince and took his place, while Lianshan Xin killed the prince and dissolved his body with Corpse-Dissolving Water.
• A eunuch arrived and summoned the apparent Second Prince to meet Emperor Yongchang.

Thousand Faces impersonated the Second Prince and stabbed Emperor Yongchang during their reunion at the Imperial Manor, while the real Second Prince’s innocence was being established. The chapter left the Emperor bleeding and the people in the room scrambling amid Thousand Faces’ disguises.

• Lianshan Xin left Thousand Faces to answer Emperor Yongchang’s summons, then returned to Nine Heavens Headquarters to cultivate.
• Fang Yanfeng reported that the Second Prince had been wronged and that Thousand Faces had acted independently, while Emperor Yongchang questioned Lianshan Xin’s role.
• Emperor Yongchang read Heavenly Sword’s letter and suspected that Lianshan Xin might be his son and that Jiang Ping’an was involved in events surrounding him.
• Fang Yanfeng suggested Lianshan Xin and his companions had killed Zeng Ningbing, but Emperor Yongchang ordered the matter dropped.
• Thousand Faces, disguised as the Second Prince, embraced Emperor Yongchang and stabbed him in the abdomen.
• Thousand Faces transformed into Fang Yanfeng and changed Fang Yanfeng into the Second Prince as Eunuch Wang rushed in.

After Thousand Faces struck Emperor Yongchang again and killed the Second Prince, Lianshan Xin was summoned to the palace amid suspicions about his origins and the Peace Charm. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince devised a test of Lianshan Xin’s Heavenly Eye at Wondrous Sound House, but the palace summons arrived before that plan could unfold.

• Thousand Faces disguised himself as the Second Prince, stabbed Emperor Yongchang at the Imperial Manor, and escaped after Emperor Yongchang killed Fang Yanfeng by mistake and fainted.
• Lianshan Xin, Tian Ji, Zhuo Biyu, and Qi Shiyun discussed the attack, the Peace Charm, and whether Emperor Yongchang would pursue questions about Lianshan Xin’s origins and Zeng Ningbing.
• A eunuch summoned Lianshan Xin to the palace, and Qi Shiyun advised him to seek out Heavenly Physician if he needed help.
• The Crown Prince reviewed Lianshan Xin’s sparse activity record and ordered Sun Yaozu to arrange a meeting at Wondrous Sound House, where he planned to test Lianshan Xin’s ability to identify the hidden authority behind Lady Wondrous Sound.
• The Crown Prince arrived at Wondrous Sound House in disguise and told He Miaoyin to investigate Lianshan Xin’s background and receive him for the test.

Lianshan Xin met the Crown Prince at Wondrous Sound House, where the Crown Prince asked him to help find the Millennium Snow Lotus and tested his Heavenly Eye. Lianshan Xin exposed Thousand Faces’s disguise and saved the Crown Prince from an assassination, leaving the two in an unexpectedly intimate embrace.

• He Miaoyin reassured the Crown Prince that Wondrous Sound House was not under suspicion and learned that he wanted Lianshan Xin’s help with the Millennium Snow Lotus.
• Xiao Shunzi brought Lianshan Xin to Wondrous Sound House, where he deduced that the Crown Prince wanted to meet him and correctly guessed that the Crown Prince owned the establishment.
• The Crown Prince revealed himself, asked Lianshan Xin to help find the Millennium Snow Lotus, and challenged him to identify Chu Yugui’s martial intent.
• Lianshan Xin used Heavenly Eye to recognize that Chu Yugui was Thousand Faces in disguise, then warned the Crown Prince and attacked the assassin.
• Thousand Faces fled after Elder Fei intervened, while Lianshan Xin was struck by the clash and fell into the Crown Prince’s arms, prompting the Crown Prince to promise repayment.

Lianshan Xin saved the Crown Prince from Thousand Faces and, after waking, asked to be transferred back to Jiangzhou. The Crown Prince agreed but asked him to find Blood Guanyin’s Millennium Snow Lotus, while Lianshan Xin warned that Blood Guanyin might be manipulating both Emperor Yongchang and the Crown Prince; meanwhile, the Crown Prince’s Consort reported that Lianshan Xin was in her bed and asked Blood Guanyin whether to kill him.

• Lianshan Xin rescued the Crown Prince at the Wondrous Sound House, was injured by Thousand Faces’s attack, and was carried unconscious to the Eastern Palace by the Crown Prince.
• Old Fei confirmed Lianshan Xin’s injuries were minor, while the Crown Prince reassured He Miaoyin, gave Lianshan Xin a bottle of precious pills, and ordered the Wondrous Sound House to operate openly.
• At Nine Heavens headquarters, Zhuo Biyu, Tian Ji, and Qi Shiyun discussed Thousand Faces’s weakened state, the danger from Blood Guanyin, and Lianshan Xin’s bewitching physique, joking that he could marry into the Imperial Family.
• The Crown Prince’s Consort confronted the Crown Prince about placing Lianshan Xin in her bed and revealed that the cultivation method he gave her made her feel a baby moving; the Crown Prince said the pregnancy would help prove he could father heirs.
• After waking, Lianshan Xin asked the Crown Prince to arrange his transfer to Jiangzhou, and the Crown Prince agreed while asking him to search Blood Guanyin’s hiding place for a Millennium Snow Lotus.
• Lianshan Xin warned that Blood Guanyin might be using her relationship with Emperor Yongchang to drive a wedge between father and son, while the Crown Prince’s Consort separately told Blood Guanyin that Lianshan Xin was in her bed and asked whether to kill him.

The Crown Prince's Consort and Blood Guanyin planned to investigate Lianshan Xin, while Thousand Faces tried to repair his relationship with his adopted disciple by attacking Princess Wenxi's residence. Lianshan Xin uncovered the Crown Prince's fake pregnancy scheme and then discovered that the Crown Prince's Consort really was pregnant.

• Blood Guanyin told the Crown Prince's Consort to probe Lianshan Xin and kill him if he discovered her identity, while insisting that Thousand Faces had to die.
• Thousand Faces decided to win Lianshan Xin back by helping him find dragon seeds and build his reputation, then went to Princess Wenxi's residence.
• Granny Ruan and another Great Grandmaster trapped Thousand Faces at Princess Wenxi's residence, but he used his disguises to confuse them and fought the estate's guards.
• The Crown Prince invited Lianshan Xin to share a couch, but Tian Ji interrupted with a family letter from Lianshan Xin's parents.
• Lianshan Xin told the Crown Prince that the Crown Prince's Consort's pregnancy was fake, and the Crown Prince admitted their plan to his trusted ally.
• The Crown Prince's Consort challenged Lianshan Xin to see through her secret, and Lianshan Xin's Heavenly Eye revealed that she really had a child in her belly.

Lianshan Xin discovered that the Crown Prince's Consort had conceived a supernatural Demon Womb through the Demon Cult's Immortal Art, and warned the couple that it might house Maitreya. The Crown Prince's Consort went to Emperor Yongchang for help, admitting the child might not be his.

• Lianshan Xin saw Blood Guanyin teach the Crown Prince's Consort the Profound Yin Secret Nurturing Demon Fetus Nether Canon, and watched a fetus form in her abdomen.
• Lianshan Xin pretended to faint, then revealed that the Crown Prince's Consort really had a child; the Crown Prince wrongly suspected her of an affair and nearly killed her.
• Lianshan Xin identified the Demon Cult technique as the source of the pregnancy and suggested that Maitreya might be inside the Demon Womb as part of a plan to seize Great Yu from within.
• The Crown Prince's Consort decided to seek Emperor Yongchang's help while concealing the Crown Prince's ties to Blood Guanyin, and she left the Eastern Palace.
• Before Emperor Yongchang, the Crown Prince's Consort said the child in her belly might not be his.

Emperor Yongchang and the Heavenly Queen investigated Lianshan Xin’s warning that the Crown Prince’s Consort might be carrying a Demon Womb, while Yongchang also planned to send Xin back to Jiangzhou and keep their relationship secret. The next morning, the Crown Prince told Lianshan Xin that Princess Wenxi had killed an attacker and wanted him to identify the body, which might be Thousand Faces.

• The Crown Prince’s Consort told Emperor Yongchang that Lianshan Xin suspected Blood Guanyin’s cultivation art might have created a Demon Womb in her belly, and Yongchang promised to investigate within seven days.
• Emperor Yongchang told the Crown Prince’s Consort to keep acting as Blood Guanyin’s disciple, then decided to transfer Lianshan Xin out of the Divine Capital before he discovered their family connection.
• Emperor Yongchang asked the Heavenly Queen to investigate the Demon Cult’s cultivation art and Lianshan Xin’s nominal parents, while the Heavenly Queen offered to reserve Xin a seat in Nine Heavens.
• Emperor Yongchang said he would find Jiang Ping’an to treat his injury, and the Heavenly Queen agreed to search for him.
• On the ninth day of Yongtong Year One, Lianshan Xin woke in the Crown Prince’s bed, and the Crown Prince said Princess Wenxi wanted him to identify the body of an attacker she had killed.

Lianshan Xin convinced the Crown Prince and Princess Wenxi to let the supposedly dead Thousand Faces continue operating as a scapegoat, then found a Millennium Snow Lotus at Blood Guanyin’s residence. He arranged for Thousand Faces to make a convincing imitation so he could cure the Crown Prince while concealing the truth behind his illness.

• The Crown Prince’s Consort visited Princess Wenxi, while Lianshan Xin agreed to help the Crown Prince determine whether Blood Guanyin had a Millennium Snow Lotus.
• At Princess Wenxi’s residence, Lianshan Xin confirmed that the corpse was not Thousand Faces and persuaded the Crown Prince and Princess Wenxi to let Thousand Faces escape and use his identity to eliminate their enemies.
• Lianshan Xin met the injured Thousand Faces at Wondrous Sound House and ordered him to create a Millennium Snow Lotus imitation that would last a full day.
• The Crown Prince’s people gave Lianshan Xin Blood Guanyin’s address, and he found a Millennium Snow Lotus in a chest beneath her bed.
• Lianshan Xin showed the lotus to Qi Shiyun and the gathered officials, claiming it would allow the Crown Prince’s illness to be cured.
• After learning of the discovery, the Crown Prince returned to Blood Guanyin and glared at her as she scrubbed her hands, convinced she deserved death for hiding the lotus.

The Crown Prince joined Nine Heavens in killing Blood Guanyin, while Lianshan Xin helped him obtain a fake Millennium Snow Lotus and cure his chronic ailment. An Immortal then cursed Thousand Faces from afar, and Lianshan Xin gained a surge of fortune that advanced his cultivation as he prepared to leave the Divine Capital.

• The Crown Prince accused Blood Guanyin of conspiring with Emperor Yongchang, then left her as explosives destroyed the Imperial Manor.
• Lianshan Xin gave the Crown Prince a counterfeit Millennium Snow Lotus, and the Crown Prince accepted it as genuine before joining the attack on Blood Guanyin.
• Qi Shiyun led Chen Yaozong, Cai Lingzhu, and Yan Chen against Blood Guanyin, while Lin Ruoshui hinted that she knew Lianshan Xin's secret.
• Emperor Yongchang learned that Blood Guanyin had been killed and discovered that an Immortal had emerged from seclusion and ordered a search for Kuanglu.
• Lianshan Xin treated the Crown Prince with the fake lotus, and the next morning the Crown Prince announced that his chronic ailment was cured.
• An Immortal cursed Thousand Faces, weakening him severely, while Lianshan Xin absorbed a surge of fortune and advanced to the Late True Intent Stage.

Emperor Yongchang and the Heavenly Queen dealt with the fallout after the High Immortal’s curse struck everyone impersonating Thousand Faces, while Lianshan Xin cured the Crown Prince and was ordered to search Kuang Mountain for the Kuang Furnace. After divine light signaled that the immortal artifact might be emerging, the Demon Cult’s Cult Master also began summoning forces to Jiangzhou.

• The High Immortal revealed that his curse had struck several people claiming to be Thousand Faces, and Emperor Yongchang ordered an investigation while arranging for Lianshan Xin to return to Jiangzhou.
• Chu Ruochen and Yun Shaojie each lost much of their strength after impersonating Thousand Faces, while the Crown Prince learned that an Immortal had cursed them.
• The Crown Prince told Lianshan Xin he had recovered, and Lianshan Xin warned him to conceal the recovery and watch those around him before asking to return to Jiangzhou.
• The Heavenly Queen summoned Lianshan Xin, Qi Shiyun, Zhuo Biyu, and Tian Ji, then ordered them to find the Kuang Furnace after divine light appeared over Kuang Mountain.
• The Cult Master ordered Guanyin and Thousand Faces to come to Jiangzhou and learned that Yama’s demon womb might now be eighteen years old.

A Demon Cult subordinate warned the Cult Master that Lianshan Xin might be bait in a trap tied to the Demon Womb, while Qi Shiyun lost her duel with Lin Ruoshui. Lianshan Xin then discovered that General Qi suspected Qi Shiyun possessed the Buddhist Mind-Reading Ability and questioned whether Madam Qi was Thousand Faces or Yama.

• The Cult Master ordered an investigation into Lianshan Xin but told his subordinate not to approach him, while the subordinate argued that the Demon Womb’s age and identity could not be reliably verified.
• Qi Shiyun, Zhuo Biyu, Lianshan Xin, and Tian Ji prepared to meet Lin Ruoshui, and the Heavenly Queen discussed Jiang Ping'an and the Heavenly Diviner’s prediction about finding safety upon encountering water.
• At Dengke Tower, Lin Ruoshui’s supporters promised donations and political favors if she defeated Qi Shiyun, and Lianshan Xin’s group realized they were outnumbered.
• Lin Ruoshui used her water-related Domain to disrupt Qi Shiyun’s blood and defeated her, while Lianshan Xin worried that Lin Ruoshui had not shown her full strength.
• Lianshan Xin’s talent revealed General Qi accusing Madam Qi of having lied about Qi Shiyun’s parentage and asking whether she was Thousand Faces or Yama, since he believed Qi Shiyun possessed the Mind-Reading Ability.

Lianshan Xin spoke with Madam Qi, arranged for her to contact Wondrous Sound House, and grew suspicious that Qi Shiyun might be a Demon Womb with the Mind-Reading Ability. Elsewhere, Qi Shiyun gave Lin Ruoshui her gambling winnings, then learned Lianshan Xin had supplied the Crown Prince with a counterfeit Millennium Snow Lotus and wondered whether he shared her hidden origins.

• Lianshan Xin met Madam Qi, invited her to visit Jiangzhou, and offered her a token to introduce her pen pal to Wondrous Sound House.
• After Madam Qi left, Lianshan Xin considered whether Qi Shiyun's Mind-Reading Ability connected her to the Demon Cult, but concluded that their past events could not have been arranged in advance.
• Qi Shiyun revealed that she had deliberately lost to Lin Ruoshui in their fight so she could win a large sum by betting on the outcome, then gave Lin Ruoshui most of the money to support her charitable work.
• Lin Ruoshui warned Qi Shiyun that Lianshan Xin had given the Crown Prince a Century Snow Lotus disguised as a Millennium Snow Lotus, and that the Crown Prince's illness might therefore remain unresolved.
• Qi Shiyun suspected Thousand Faces had helped Lianshan Xin and wondered whether he also possessed the Six Divine Powers and was part of Maitreya.

Lianshan Xin arranged to bring the weakened Thousand Faces back to Jiangzhou and took him as a disciple in exchange for teaching him the Dragon-Supporting Immortal Art. After learning that the Demon Cult’s leader might come to Jiangzhou over an Immortal Artifact, Thousand Faces proposed that Lianshan Xin could be a Demon Womb, and Lianshan Xin concluded that he was Maitreya Descends.

• Lin Ruoshui guessed that the Crown Prince and Lianshan Xin might be staging the Millennium Snow Lotus incident, while Qi Shiyun privately wondered whether she and Lianshan Xin shared a Demon Womb connection.
• Lianshan Xin told Zhuo Biyu and Tian Ji that Thousand Faces had lost his Great Grandmaster strength, and they agreed to bring him into their group under a new identity.
• Thousand Faces resolved to earn Lianshan Xin’s protection by revealing secrets, but Lianshan Xin arrived and offered to take him as a disciple and teach him the Dragon-Supporting Immortal Art.
• Thousand Faces accepted Lianshan Xin as his master and learned that an Immortal Artifact had appeared on Kuang Mountain, which might draw the Cult Master to Jiangzhou.
• Thousand Faces explained that Lianshan Xin’s Heavenly Eye might be Destiny Insight and that he could be a Demon Womb, then declared that he was Maitreya Descends.

Lianshan Xin learned more about the Six Divine Abilities and claimed he had already mastered several of them, while Thousand Faces warned him that the Demon Cult’s other inheritors could threaten his position. Outside the Divine Capital, the group kept the One Heart Society together, and the chapter ended with Qi Shiyun sensing that Governor Cao Fuhu recognized Lianshan Xin’s family connections.

• Thousand Faces explained the Six Divine Abilities, the Myriad Forms True Scripture’s connection to the Divine Feet Ability, and the Demon Cult’s belief that their inheritors could converge in Maitreya.
• Lianshan Xin told Thousand Faces he had mastered the Past-Life, Heavenly Eye, and Divine Feet Abilities, and suggested he might also possess the Heavenly Ear Ability.
• Outside the Divine Capital, Qi Shiyun, Tian Ji, and Zhuo Biyu failed to find Thousand Faces in disguise, and Lianshan Xin won their wager of three hundred taels.
• Qi Shiyun asked whether the One Heart Society should continue after the threat to their Nine Clans had eased, and Tian Ji, Zhuo Biyu, and Lianshan Xin agreed it should.
• The Crown Prince introduced Lianshan Xin to the Celestial Master and Governor Cao Fuhu, and Qi Shiyun sensed Cao Fuhu thinking about Lianshan Jingcheng and Lianshan Xin’s suspicious family origins.

After the Vermilion Bird reached Jiangzhou, Lianshan Xin and his companions uncovered signs that Bone-Scraping Blade was investigating him and his family. Cao Fuhu met privately with Bone-Scraping Blade, who planned to approach Lianshan Xin, while Emperor Yongchang had separately ordered Cao to investigate Xin’s innate bewitching bones.

• Qi Shiyun learned that Cao Fuhu had a connection to Bone-Scraping Blade and that Emperor Yongchang had secretly ordered him to investigate Lianshan Jingcheng.
• The Crown Prince told Lianshan Xin that Cao Fuhu had privately pledged allegiance to him, and the two said farewell before the Vermilion Bird left for Jiangzhou.
• At White Deer Grotto Academy, Thousand Faces disguised as Du Jiu warned Lianshan Xin that Cao Fuhu’s servant was an expert in disguise, possibly Bone-Scraping Blade.
• Qi Shiyun revealed that Cao Fuhu had long been Emperor Yongchang’s man, while the group concluded that Bone-Scraping Blade might target Lianshan Xin and planned to capture him.
• Cao Fuhu met Bone-Scraping Blade, who agreed to investigate Lianshan Xin and revealed that Jiang Ping'an had once resisted his charms because he did not like men.

Bone-Scraping Blade disguised herself as Qi Shiyun and questioned Lianshan Xin, while Thousand Faces and his companions realized the danger and sought help. Lianshan Xin recognized the disguise but played along, and his blunt claim that he did not like men left Bone-Scraping Blade stunned.

• Bone-Scraping Blade told Cao Fuhu that she planned to win over Lianshan Xin after failing to attract Jiang Ping'an, and the two spent the night together.
• Thousand Faces advised Lianshan Xin to use the possibility that Lianshan Jingcheng was Jiang Ping'an to inherit Jiang Ping'an's connections, then lost another sparring match to Lianshan Xin.
• Qi Shiyun invited Lianshan Xin to her room, and Thousand Faces, Tian Ji, and Zhuo Biyu realized the visitor was likely Bone-Scraping Blade in disguise.
• Thousand Faces and Tian Ji discussed the risk while Zhuo Biyu went to fetch the Heavenly Sword, and Lianshan Xin entered the room without revealing that he had recognized Bone-Scraping Blade.
• Bone-Scraping Blade asked whether Lianshan Xin's sparring had helped his progress and whether he was too close to the Crown Prince, and Lianshan Xin replied that he did not like men.

The Bone-Scraping Blade recognized Lianshan Xin as Jiang Ping'an’s son, discovered his Bewitching True Intent, and tried to recruit him before concluding his parents might be Jiang Ping'an and Yama. Meanwhile, Mingwang learned that his undercover agent Qu Chongzhen had died after Thousand Faces was exposed, and that Qu Chongzhen’s Millennium Snow Lotus might now be near Spring Revival Hall, where He Miaojun appeared and called someone “Son.”

• The Bone-Scraping Blade examined Lianshan Xin, realized his bewitching ability came from Bewitching True Intent rather than innate bewitching bones, and offered to take him as her disciple, but he refused.
• The Bone-Scraping Blade inferred that Lianshan Xin’s parents were Jiang Ping'an and Yama, then insisted on going with him to verify their identities and see Jiang Ping'an again.
• Mingwang and Shui Zhongxing went to the Qu Family Trading Company, where Shui Zhongxing discovered Nine Heavens guards and learned that Qu Chongzhen had been exposed and killed after helping Thousand Faces.
• Shui Zhongxing revealed that Qu Chongzhen had found a Millennium Snow Lotus that could help heal Mingwang’s injuries from Yama and give him a chance to become a Land Immortal.
• Mingwang turned his attention toward Spring Revival Hall as He Miaojun emerged and called someone “Son.”