Chapter Summaries

Chi Yu kept searching for Xie Xiyi, while Qingxuan and Taixuzi argued over whether to seek help from the Myriad Firmament Continent. Xie Xiyi returned for Phantom Lightning and confronted Chi Yu, who still called him Senior Brother Xuanji and asked whether the Forbidden Curse remained.

• Chi Yu promised Ling Hezhou and Ling Tian that he would find Xie Xiyi, and Phantom Lightning returned to him after Xie Xiyi briefly approached unseen.
• Qingxuan urged Taixuzi to abandon plans to capture Xie Xiyi and contact the Myriad Firmament Continent, and Taixuzi agreed.
• A wisp of Xie Xiyi's Nascent Soul Spirit revealed that it controlled Taixuzi and planned to use him as bait to lure others.
• Several days later, Xie Xiyi came to Chi Yu for Phantom Lightning and threatened him for calling him Senior Brother Xuanji instead of master.
• Chi Yu faced Xie Xiyi's black chains without resisting and asked whether the Forbidden Curse Xie Xiyi had planted in him was still there.

Chi Yu rejoined Xie Xiyi and persuaded him to let him follow, while taking Ling Hezhou, Ling Tian, and Wu Yunsu along. After catching up with Xie Xiyi, Chi Yu witnessed his brutal hunting and learned that forces from Myriad Firmament Continent were coming to kill him and that Taixuzi was under his control.

• Xie Xiyi replaced Chi Yu's Curse Seal and added Forbidden Curses, but Chi Yu continued calling him Senior Brother Xuanji without triggering them.
• Xie Xiyi agreed to let Chi Yu follow if he could keep up, and Chi Yu invited Ling Hezhou and Ling Tian to travel with him.
• Wu Yunsu appeared as a scorpion, then changed into a snake, and told Chi Yu that Myriad Firmament Continent's people were coming to kill Xuanji and that Taixuzi was under Xuanji's control.
• After twenty-four hours of pursuit, Chi Yu and Wu Yunsu caught up with Xie Xiyi as he hunted and slaughtered his enemies with the Spine Sword.
• Wu Yunsu remarked that Xuanji's behavior and lost cultivation differed greatly from before, while Chi Yu suggested he might not know the weapon was the Buddha Bone.

Chi Yu discovered that Xie Xiyi, controlled by the Demonic Heart, could retain memories for only half a month and was intent on killing cultivators with Forbidden Curses. Chi Yu held on to hope that Senior Brother Xuanji remained inside him, and the chapter ended as Xie Xiyi prepared to unleash a curse on the central city.

• Chi Yu approached Xie Xiyi after the slaughter and realized traces of Senior Brother Xuanji remained in his manner.
• Xie Xiyi demanded Chi Yu’s Time Forbidden Curse, revealing that he did not remember giving it to Chi Yu.
• Wu Yunsu explained that Xuanji had lost his heart, leaving him able to retain memories for only half a month and preventing his cultivation from advancing.
• Chi Yu offered to give Xuanji half his heart, but Xie Xiyi caught and killed the little snake in his sleeve before Wu Yunsu could answer.
• Xie Xiyi took Chi Yu to Wangxian Continent’s central city and called him his servant, saying he needed only one.
• Xie Xiyi showed Chi Yu the Explosive Heart Voice curse and prepared to test it on the city’s cultivators, while Chi Yu mourned how far Xuanji had changed.

Mo Shihuai led a group from Myriad Firmament Continent to capture Xuanji during his approaching memory-loss cycle, hoping to exploit the chance without fighting. They brought Xie Qingjing to use the Xie Clan’s bloodline resonance, while Xie Qingjing resolved not to let them threaten his eldest brother.

• Mo Shihuai warned the visiting cultivators not to underestimate Xuanji, despite their confidence that they could wear him down.
• Mo Shihuai explained that they planned to wait for Xuanji’s memory-loss cycle and capture him without bloodshed if possible.
• Mo Shihuai asked a boy about Xie Qingjing, who was cultivating inside a cabin.
• Xie Qingjing realized the group had brought him to threaten his eldest brother and resolved to detonate himself rather than hinder him.

Chi Yu tried to use Xie Xiyi’s memory loss and their spiritual communion to convince him they were Dao companions, hoping to change his plans to use Chi Yu as bait. Xie Xiyi discovered the lie but played along, and as cultivators approached, his demonic heart twisted desire and love poison into dangerous excitement.

• Xie Xiyi, acting under the demonic heart, told Chi Yu to lure Golden Core cultivators and promised to protect him.
• Chi Yu claimed that their spiritual communion made them Dao companions and accused Xie Xiyi of refusing to take responsibility.
• Xie Xiyi examined Chi Yu’s spiritual realm, learned the claim was partly false, and demanded that Chi Yu call him husband.
• Xie Xiyi threatened to divorce Chi Yu when he resisted, then turned his attention to the approaching cultivators, including a tribulation transcendence stage cultivator.
• Xie Xiyi read Chi Yu’s exposed thoughts and grew excited as love poison stirred desire within him.

With the demonic heart controlling Xie Xiyi, he confronted the Mo Family envoys who had come to take him to Myriad Firmament Continent. He rescued Chi Yu and Xie Qingjing from the ambush, then brought them to safety and let Chi Yu decide what to ask his younger brother.

• Xie Xiyi sensed more than a hundred approaching cultivators and asked Chi Yu whether he trusted him.
• Mo Shihuai claimed to be Xie Xiyi’s servant, but Xie Xiyi used forbidden curses to force him to kneel and bow.
• Xie Qingjing arrived with another cultivator, and Chi Yu recognized Xie Xiyi’s younger brother and begged Xie Xiyi to save him.
• Xie Xiyi unleashed forbidden curses, killed one Mahayana Stage cultivator, wounded Mo Shihuai, and escaped with Chi Yu and Xie Qingjing.
• Xie Xiyi brought Chi Yu and four other people into Myriad Firmament Continent, then complained that Chi Yu had spoiled his fun.
• Chi Yu asked Xie Xiyi to release Xie Qingjing so he could question him.

Xie Xiyi trapped Chi Yu and began an intense Spiritual Communion, exploiting Chi Yu’s familiar Spiritual Realm and stirring his craving. The chapter ended with Xie Xiyi imprinting his Spiritual Resonance throughout Chi Yu’s Spiritual Realm and kissing him through his mask.

• Xie Xiyi refused Chi Yu’s request to spare the jade-white insect and trapped Chi Yu inside a Restriction.
• Chi Yu tried to persuade Xie Xiyi to show mercy, but Xie Xiyi pinned him down and announced that he would grant Chi Yu’s wish.
• Xie Xiyi’s Divine Sense entered Chi Yu’s Spiritual Realm despite Chi Yu’s protests, taking advantage of their past Spiritual Communion.
• Xie Xiyi teased Chi Yu’s Divine Sense until Chi Yu’s craving surged and he begged for relief.
• Xie Xiyi kneaded Chi Yu’s Divine Sense, spread Golden Spiritual Resonance throughout his Spiritual Realm, and kissed his face through his mask.

Xie Xiyi continued forcing spiritual communion on Chi Yu, then helped him absorb Golden Spiritual Resonance and cultivate new Divine Sense. Outside, Ling Hezhou and Ling Tian waited with Wu Yunsu, who concealed the Soul Pearl and resolved not to abandon Xuanji.

• Xie Xiyi used a Forbidden Curse to ease Chi Yu’s pain and entered the crevice in his Spiritual Realm, overwhelming him with pleasure.
• Xie Xiyi repeatedly sealed Chi Yu’s Primordial Essence as the stimulation forced it open, and Chi Yu lost control.
• Ling Hezhou and Ling Tian discussed their awkward wait outside, while Wu Yunsu wondered how Xuanji could still use Forbidden Curses.
• Wu Yunsu hid the Soul Pearl with the Gu Worm’s aura and decided he would not give up on Xuanji.
• Xie Xiyi helped the dazed Chi Yu refine the Golden Spiritual Resonance, which formed new Divine Sense and left imprints throughout his Spiritual Realm.

Xie Xiyi kept Chi Yu trapped in an exhausting thirty-six-hour spiritual communion before Chi Yu persuaded him to spare Xie Qingjing. The chapter ended with Xie Qingjing unable to stop his bloodline resonance and Ling Tian warning Ling Hezhou not to rush the pair.

• Xie Xiyi continued stimulating Chi Yu through spiritual communion for thirty-six hours, leaving Chi Yu exhausted and humiliated.
• After waking, Chi Yu asked Xie Xiyi to release Xie Qingjing, but Xie Xiyi said he wanted to kill his younger brother.
• Chi Yu argued that Xie Xiyi should spare Xie Qingjing and focus on stronger enemies, then threatened to end their Dao companionship if Xie Xiyi refused to respect him.
• Xie Xiyi agreed to spare Xie Qingjing after Chi Yu kissed and licked his beast mask, but warned that he would kill him if he made noise.
• Xie Xiyi released Xie Qingjing, who admitted he could not turn off his bloodline resonance.
• Outside the restriction, Ling Hezhou asked when they would come out, and Ling Tian told him to keep quiet.

Chi Yu tried to stop Xie Xiyi from killing his younger brother, Xie Qingjing, while learning how the Xie Clan had been tortured and brought close to extinction. Xie Qingjing killed himself, and Xie Xiyi preserved his nascent soul spirit; Chi Yu ended the chapter admitting he feared Xie Xiyi might one day let him die too.

• Chi Yu warned Xie Qingjing that Xie Xiyi truly intended to kill him, but Xie Qingjing said he could only calm his mind to stop affecting his brother through their bloodline.
• Xie Xiyi threatened Chi Yu while accusing him and Xie Qingjing of secretly flirting, and Xie Qingjing explained that his mother had died and he did not know how many of his family remained alive.
• Xie Qingjing's wounds reopened, and Xie Xiyi bound his neck with black chains as Chi Yu tried to prevent him from killing his younger brother.
• Xie Qingjing described the Xie Clan's suffering and struck his own head, destroying his spiritual realm and dying before Xie Xiyi could act.
• Xie Xiyi drew Xie Qingjing's nascent soul spirit out of his body, burned the corpse to ashes, and asked Chi Yu whether he was afraid of him.
• Chi Yu told Xie Xiyi that he feared being left to die by the person who shared his bed.

Chi Yu stayed with the dangerous Xie Xiyi, who slaughtered the Myriad Firmament Continent cultivators and made a Ten Thousand Souls Banner for him. After learning Spiritual Communion could expose his thoughts and Xie Xiyi had little time left, Chi Yu remained determined to find a way to restore him.

• Xie Xiyi spat out Phantom Lightning, Xie Qingjing's Nascent Soul Spirit, and other belongings, and Chi Yu claimed the familiar lamp.
• Chi Yu baited a Divine Transformation cultivator into attacking him, and Xie Xiyi's Forbidden Curse reflected the attack and drained the man's cultivation into Chi Yu.
• Xie Xiyi killed the hundred-odd Myriad Firmament Continent cultivators, collected their Nascent Soul Spirits, and said he would use them to refine a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Chi Yu asked whether Forbidden Curses had side effects, and Xie Xiyi said he used them as naturally as his own limbs before calling himself the true master.
• Wu Yunsu warned Chi Yu that Spiritual Communion could reveal his thoughts and memories, and that Xie Xiyi had little time left because his cultivation could not advance.
• Xie Xiyi completed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and gave it to Chi Yu.

Chi Yu persuaded Xie Xiyi to accompany him to Zizai Continent and refrain from killing there, while concealing his plans and thoughts from Xie Xiyi. Xie Xiyi refused to travel there immediately, intending to kill the cultivators arriving from Myriad Firmament Continent.

• Xie Xiyi agreed to go to Zizai Continent with Chi Yu and promised not to use violence there after Chi Yu pleaded with him.
• Chi Yu grew wary of Wu Yunsu’s warning and used his cultivation technique to conceal his thoughts about deceiving Xie Xiyi.
• Xie Xiyi refused to use his Forbidden Curse to travel to Zizai Continent immediately, saying he would kill the people coming from Myriad Firmament Continent.
• Xie Xiyi explained that slaughter and destruction were his way of life, and that he regarded the world as his hunting ground.

Chi Yu traveled with Xie Xiyi, who listened to news about the Ghost-Masked Cultivator and nearly took a cultivator’s Communication Jade Talisman. Xie Xiyi found the keepsakes Chi Yu had given him, and Chi Yu tearfully told him they were not rubbish.

• Xie Xiyi explained his own twisted reasoning for killing cultivators, while Chi Yu worried that his actions would deepen his karmic burdens.
• Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi stopped in a city tavern, where cultivators discussed the Ghost-Masked Cultivator and Myriad Firmament Continent’s plans to fight him.
• Xie Xiyi demanded a cultivator’s Communication Jade Talisman, but Chi Yu offered him one of his own before the situation escalated.
• After Chi Yu pulled Xie Xiyi away, Xie Xiyi showed him a jade talisman and other keepsakes he had kept, including a bone ring Chi Yu had polished.
• Chi Yu began to cry when Xie Xiyi called the keepsakes rubbish, then told him they were all things he had given him.

Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi faced ten Tribulation Transcendence cultivators sent to kill Xie Xiyi, while Chi Yu learned that Xie Xiyi had no memory of the Seizure curse. The attackers began forming a powerful array around them, with Zhan Kuanglan and the Haotian Mirror at its core.

• Chi Yu defended the gifts he had made for Xie Xiyi, and Xie Xiyi admitted that ten Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were coming to kill them.
• Chi Yu remembered the Seizure forbidden curse, but Xie Xiyi said he had never created it and could not explain it.
• Xie Xiyi and Chi Yu left the cultivator city, and Xie Xiyi summoned Phantom Lightning as they prepared for battle.
• The ten cultivators tracked them down and unleashed oppressive spiritual power, which made Chi Yu bleed until Xie Xiyi eased the pressure.
• Xie Xiyi placed a newly written Mutual Heart Curse on Chi Yu and shielded them from the attackers' test with black Talisman Rings.
• The ten cultivators discussed Xie Xiyi's unusual use of forbidden curses and began forming an array with Zhan Kuanglan and the Haotian Mirror.

Xie Xiyi sent Chi Yu away before the Soul-Devouring Fate-Severing Formation and Haotian Mirror could trap him, then let his body disintegrate as part of a hidden counterattack. Chi Yu woke in a gorge with the Haotian Mirror in his lap and spotted a huge black cocoon nearby, realizing Xie Xiyi might be inside.

• Xie Xiyi wrapped Chi Yu in black mist and sent him away from the formation, while the ten Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators activated the Haotian Mirror against him.
• Xie Xiyi removed his mask to reveal Forbidden Curse Runes covering his face, but the formation disintegrated his body and drew out his nascent soul spirit.
• Black runes burst from Xie Xiyi's nascent soul spirit, killed three Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators, and swallowed the Haotian Mirror along with him.
• Chi Yu woke in a gorge at the edge of Zizai Continent and saw that Xie Xiyi's coordinates were still on Wangxian Continent and had dimmed considerably.
• An ancient mirror fell into Chi Yu's lap, and he recognized it as the Haotian Mirror before noticing a huge black cocoon nearby.

Chi Yu watched Xie Xiyi emerge from a black cocoon after rebuilding his body with the lives of three Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators, then accompanied him into Zizai Continent. They reached Luo Po without obstruction, where Chi Yu reunited with his former teacher while Xie Xiyi showed no interest in his past.

• Chi Yu used his Illusion-Piercing Supernatural Ability to see a demonic heart growing inside the black cocoon until Xie Xiyi emerged with a reconstructed body.
• Xie Xiyi gave Chi Yu the Haotian Mirror and explained that other people's lives paid the cost of his Forbidden Curse and rebirth.
• Chi Yu persuaded Xie Xiyi to head straight for Zizai Continent, while Venerable Shangshan and Hanshan discussed Xie Xiyi's arrival and the coming bloodshed.
• Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi entered Luo Po unhindered, and Xie Xiyi said he would not try to remember or identify with his former self, Senior Brother Xuanji.
• Chi Yu visited his former Chan Sect teacher, who recognized his golden eyes as Xuanji's, then Chi Yu pulled Xie Xiyi away and returned to his old dormitory.

Five hundred years after Chi Yu’s disappearance, he returned with Xie Xiyi and visited Xie Xiyi’s old palace before seeking Venerable Shangshan at the Anuttara Buddhist Sect. Xie Xiyi agreed not to kill anyone after Chi Yu promised him a surprise, but he suspected Chi Yu was hiding the real reason for their visit.

• Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi visited Xie Xiyi’s old palace, where Xie Xiyi restored the guqin and then destroyed it after Chi Yu objected.
• Chi Yu contacted Lecturer Hong, who was astonished to find him alive and recognized his exceptional cultivation.
• Chi Yu reminded Xie Xiyi of his promise not to go on a killing spree and enticed him with a promised surprise.
• Lecturer Hong took Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi to the Anuttara Buddhist Sect, where he hurriedly left after sensing Xie Xiyi’s menace.
• Xie Xiyi accused Chi Yu of lying about their visit, and Chi Yu tried to reassure him by professing his devotion as his Dao Companion.

Chi Yu went to the Anuttara Buddhist Sect with Xie Xiyi and asked Venerable Shangshan to suppress Xie Xiyi’s demonic heart and restore Senior Brother Xuanji. Shangshan explained that the demonic heart was Xuanji himself, then revealed that Chi Yu could restore Xuanji’s memories by giving him half his heart; Chi Yu agreed despite the cost to his cultivation.

• Chi Yu and Xie Xiyi arrived at the Anuttara Buddhist Sect, and Chi Yu entered Venerable Shangshan’s meditation room alone.
• Chi Yu asked Shangshan to suppress Senior Brother Xuanji’s demonic heart and presented Xie Xiyi’s Buddha Bone.
• Shangshan explained that Xuanji and his demonic heart were one, and that a future Xuanji had destroyed the Haoyuan Realm and established the Supreme Demon Kingdom before time turned back.
• Wu Yunsu told Shangshan that Xuanji could no longer cultivate and had fewer than three hundred years to live.
• Shangshan said Chi Yu could restore Xuanji’s memories by giving him half his heart, though it would hinder his cultivation and make ascension nearly impossible.
• Chi Yu agreed to give half his heart because he wanted Senior Brother Xuanji back more than he wanted to ascend.

Chi Yu agreed to give half his heart to restore Xuanji’s memories after learning that Xuanji had loved him five hundred years earlier. Xie Xiyi interrupted the procedure and attacked Shangshan, leaving Chi Yu trying to stop him as the fight continued.

• Shangshan revealed that Xuanji had fallen in love with Chi Yu five hundred years earlier and said Chi Yu’s heart could restore Xuanji’s memories.
• Chi Yu chose to give half his heart despite Wu Yunsu’s protests, and Shangshan began drawing it out.
• Xie Xiyi broke through the barrier, attacked Shangshan, and pulled Chi Yu to his side before the heart could be divided.
• Xie Xiyi killed Wu Yunsu’s Gu Worm form and threatened to kill his true body when he appeared again.
• Chi Yu pleaded with Xie Xiyi to stop fighting, while Xie Xiyi accused him of taking Shangshan’s side and began questioning his connection to the monk.

Wu Yunsu lost another avatar and, after the Immortal Alliance’s disciples let him pass, killed one of them before fleeing. The earlier scene showed Xie Xiyi forcing Chi Yu into Spiritual Communion, while Shangshan accepted his injury as the fulfillment of a foretold calamity.

• Xie Xiyi took Chi Yu to a cave abode and prepared incense before confronting him about giving up half his heart to save Xie Xiyi.
• Xie Xiyi claimed Chi Yu as his Dao Companion, threatened him over his heart, and used his Divine Sense and Forbidden Curse to overpower him.
• Shangshan destroyed most of the Forbidden Curses with his Dharma Lotus, but a tiny curse slipped into the lotus and reduced his arm and half his body to dust.
• Shangshan told the monks not to pursue Xie Xiyi and said the foretold calamity of bloodshed had been fulfilled.
• Wu Yunsu received no reply from Chi Yu, went out in disguise, and was stopped by Immortal Alliance disciples checking his identity.
• After Wu Yunsu left, the disciple who had inspected him bled from his seven orifices and died, and the others pursued Wu Yunsu.