Chapter Summaries

Xue Fuyao led the group to the City Lord's Mansion after defeating South Sea City's forces and broke its defensive formation. She discovered the city lord was practicing a Demonic Cultivation Technique and devouring people to recover his strength, then attacked before he could succeed.

• Xue Fuyao sent Ying Jiu and Fifteen to raid the Guan Family while she and Shadow Three continued to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Xue Fuyao shattered the mansion's defensive barrier with a touch, shocking the group.
• The South Sea City lord threatened them from within, but Xue Fuyao recognized that he was bluffing and used Spirit Stones to form a barrier that could detect activity in the mansion.
• Xue Fuyao sensed the city lord devouring people's flesh and blood to restore his strength and warned the group to stop him.
• Xue Fuyao revealed talismans that raised her cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and sent them exploding toward the city lord, as screams and pleas for mercy rang out.

Xue Fuyao and the others discovered that City Lord Liu had been draining blood from captives and corpses to heal himself after succumbing to demonic corruption. After they defeated and killed him, Xue Fuyao wondered whether the Three Realms Auction House might have a soul-targeting treasure.

• The talismans destroyed the City Lord's Mansion's surface buildings, revealing a blood pool, piles of human and Monster Beast corpses, and City Lord Liu absorbing blood to heal.
• The Zhang Family's two Nascent Soul cultivators attacked City Lord Liu after Xue Fuyao warned them that he had succumbed to demonic corruption.
• Xue Fuyao rescued captives from the pool and unleashed her Heavenly Flame, while the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet and Silver-Thread Gu Bracelet absorbed the blood.
• City Lord Liu charged at Xue Fuyao, but Shadow Three blocked his strike; Xue Fuyao used the Spirit Stones to weaken him, allowing the Zhang Family's two Nascent Soul cultivators to defeat him.
• Xue Fuyao cut off City Lord Liu's head and burned his corpse, then considered seeking a soul-targeting treasure at the Three Realms Auction House.

After defeating the demonically corrupted City Lord Liu, Xue Fuyao let the others struggle with the treasury’s layered formation while Big Treasure secretly plundered it. Back at her lodgings, she revealed that stones from the Ancient Ruins concealed more than ten thousand enormous pearls and began explaining their value through the Jade Beauty Pills.

• With the treasury formation too dangerous to break, Xue Fuyao declared that she no longer wanted the City Lord's Mansion's treasures and left while Big Treasure secretly collected them.
• Ying Jiu and Fifteen returned after wiping out the Guan Family and taking its resources, but Xue Fuyao decided not to attack the other two families because their Nascent Soul cultivators could destroy South Sea City if they self-detonated.
• Xue Fuyao had Big Treasure release the items gathered from the Ancient Ruins and the City Lord's Mansion, including a stone stele and many ordinary-looking stones.
• Xue Fuyao used her Heavenly Eye to reveal that one stone contained a huge pearl formed from a sea merfolk emperor's tears, then broke the seals on the remaining stones to uncover more than ten thousand pearls.
• When Shadow Three asked what the pearls were for, Xue Fuyao reminded him and the others of the Jade Beauty Pills she had given them.

Xue Fuyao examined the pearls, sealed tablet, and treasures taken from the Guan Family and City Lord's Mansion, identifying a possible Dragon Blood Jade Pendant among them. She stored the remaining items and faced Shadow Three's excitement over a painted-face mask that resembled her Broken Jade.

• Xue Fuyao said the merfolk emperor's tears might be worth more than Jade Beauty Pills and put the pearls away for the Three Realms Auction House.
• Xue Fuyao felt an overwhelming sense of danger and decided not to break open the stone tablet.
• Xue Fuyao let Shadow Three and the others divide the Guan Family's cultivation resources, then learned Big Treasure had eaten everything from the City Lord's Mansion treasury except three boxes.
• Xue Fuyao found a dragon-shaped red jade pendant and guessed that it might contain True Dragon Essence Blood.
• Xue Fuyao stored a withered black branch resembling one she had seen at the Ghost Market and a painted-face mask with abilities similar to Broken Jade.
• Shadow Three became excited when Xue Fuyao opened the box containing the painted-face mask.

Xue Fuyao stayed in South Sea City after the City Lord’s death, planning to deal with the Zhang Family while preparing for the South Sea Grand Feast. As the feast approached, she secretly used Gu Worms to monitor and provoke her enemies, leaving the Zhang Family members to quarrel among themselves.

• Xue Fuyao gave the Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Treasure mask to Shadow Three, who happily went to refine it.
• Xue Fuyao decided to stay for the South Sea Grand Feast and planned to kill Zhang Qin’er and the other Zhang Family members, though she worried about their two Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xue Fuyao released Gu Worms to watch the Zhang Clan and Gu Zhinan, then chose not to leave before the people from Free and Unfettered Valley arrived.
• The people from Free and Unfettered Valley searched the Ancient Ruins, found nothing, and left with Gu Zhinan after the City Lord’s treasury was accidentally destroyed.
• As the South Sea Grand Feast drew closer, Zhang Qin’er and the others competing for Sea God’s Blessing began openly quarrelling, and Xue Fuyao planted Gu Worms in them to stir up further conflict.

Xue Fuyao examined a sealed stone and an unrevivable spirit plant before attending the South Sea Grand Feast, where the Sea God’s Blessing was meant to decide South Sea City’s next city lord. The ceremony began, but the Sea God Statue showed no sign of granting its blessing.

• Xue Fuyao found that her spiritual power revived dead grass but could not restore the withered spirit plant, and she chose not to break the stone’s dangerous seal.
• Xue Fuyao learned that the Qin Household and Shen Family had agreed to let whoever received the Sea God’s Blessing become city lord.
• Xue Fuyao spotted disguised Zhang Family members at the feast and restrained herself from killing them with a concealed needle.
• Xue Fuyao urged Shadow Three and the others to try for the Sea God’s Blessing, but they declined.
• The cultivators gathered around the Sea God Statue, yet no one received its blessing as the ceremony stalled.

The South Sea Grand Feast was canceled after the Sea God Statue was exposed as a fake, and Xue Fuyao prepared to ambush the Zhang Family. She attacked their Spirit Boat in a swamp, drawing out its two Nascent Soul cultivators while Shadow Three and the others stood behind her.

• A cultivator who had received the Sea God's Blessing recognized that the Sea God Statue was not made from stone taken from Sea God Cliff, and the crowd realized the former city lord had likely tampered with it.
• South Sea City canceled the South Sea Grand Feast rather than hold a replacement ceremony that might blaspheme the Sea God.
• Xue Fuyao gave Shadow Three and the others Innate Sword Embryos and Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Treasures, then set out to attack the Zhang Family.
• The Zhang Family left South Sea City aboard a Spirit Boat, with Zhang Qizhi still wanting to kill Xue Fuyao and the two Nascent Soul cultivators insisting their priority was rebuilding the family.
• A hundred li from South Sea City, vines ensnared the Spirit Boat, and Xue Fuyao's attack shattered its defensive formation and nearly destroyed the vessel.
• The two Nascent Soul cultivators flew out to confront Xue Fuyao, who faced them atop a vine with Shadow Three and the others behind her.

Xue Fuyao ambushed the Zhang Family’s Spirit Boat, killed its occupants, and searched their souls as revenge for the Xue Clan massacre. After escaping the two Nascent Soul Cultivators with Shadow Three and the others, she set out toward the Three Realms Auction House, stopping somewhere else first.

• Xue Fuyao trapped the Zhang Family’s two Nascent Soul Cultivators in a formation and disabled the Spirit Boat’s other passengers.
• Xue Fuyao crippled Zhang Qizhi, searched his soul, and killed him, then slaughtered the other Zhang Clan members aboard.
• Xue Fuyao confronted Zhang Zhenyu about his role in the massacre of over a hundred thousand Xue Clan members, searched the remaining survivors’ souls, and collected their corpses and souls.
• Xue Fuyao destroyed the Spirit Boat and used her formation to attack the two Nascent Soul Cultivators, then escaped with Shadow Three and the others.
• Xue Fuyao and her companions changed their appearances and headed toward the Three Realms Auction House, with another stop planned along the way.

Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three reached the Human–Devil border as she searched for a powerful living Spirit Plant that might weaken the Devil Race. Along the way, she warned Shadow Three about the current Devil Venerable’s alarming habit of adopting people, then realized her explanation about the Devil Race had come from an incident in her memories involving Venerable Spiritwood.

• Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three arrived at the border after fifteen days of travel, and she said she had come to retrieve something.
• Xue Fuyao explained that she was searching for a living Spirit Plant, though she was unsure whether it remained there; if she could not find it, she planned to target the devil princess.
• Xue Fuyao warned Shadow Three that the current Devil Venerable had adopted more than a hundred children and would kill anyone who refused him.
• Xue Fuyao described how devils imitated humans, recounting the previous Devil Venerable’s failed attempts to rule like a human emperor and appoint a Crown Prince.
• Xue Fuyao claimed her master had told her these things, and Shadow Three identified him as Venerable Spiritwood, who had defended Golden Dragon Pass.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that Venerable Spiritwood’s defense of the pass had happened, though she had paid little attention at the time because she resented the Yuanji Sect.

Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three rescued injured cultivators on the road to Jiangxi Town and learned about the hardships of living near the Human-Devil border. After reaching town, Xue Fuyao began searching for the mutated Spirit Plant that she knew would one day destroy Jiangxi Town.

• Xue Fuyao used Shattered Star and Haoran Righteous Qi to kill the Demon Cultivators pursuing a group of injured cultivators.
• Yu Da thanked Xue Fuyao and explained that the survivors were Jiangxi Town residents who had gone out to gather Demon-Hunting Grass.
• Shadow Three offered Healing Pills, but Xue Fuyao stopped him, and Yu Da explained that locals could not safely use them and that pills were prohibitively expensive.
• Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three traveled with Yu Da's group to Jiangxi Town, then parted ways with them after arriving.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that Jiangxi Town would be destroyed by a Devil Race attack and decided to search for the Spirit Plant that would become a deadly Ghost Plant.

Xue Fuyao followed the aura of a powerful spirit plant to Yu Da’s home and bought it from him with supplies and money. Before leaving, she warned Yu Da that Jiangxi Town might be targeted by demonic cultivators.

• Xue Fuyao sensed a powerful spirit plant nearby and followed its aura with Shadow Three to Yu Da’s home.
• Xue Fuyao told Yu Da that she was searching for a spirit plant, and Yu Da invited them inside after realizing he had found one.
• Yu Da explained that he had dug up the unusually pure spirit plant and brought it home after failing to find a buyer.
• Xue Fuyao revived the plant’s wilted leaves with a touch and agreed to buy it from Yu Da.
• Yu Da asked for pills, talismans, formation disks, spirit stones, gold, and silver, and Xue Fuyao gave them to him.
• Xue Fuyao warned Yu Da that demonic cultivators might have targeted Jiangxi Town and urged his family to be careful.

Xue Fuyao identified and contracted with the Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine, then traveled with Shadow Three to Thousand-Household City to reach the Three Realms Auction House. The teleportation array was closed to the public for three days, so she decided to wait in the city.

• Xue Fuyao warned Yu Da that Jiangxi Town could be vulnerable to a Devil Race surprise attack, then left with Shadow Three.
• Xue Fuyao explained that the plant was the Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine, learned its history, and placed it in her Portable Medicinal Garden after contracting with it.
• Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three traveled to Thousand-Household City, where she explained the locals’ body tempering and Haoran Righteous Qi to Shadow Three.
• Xue Fuyao learned that the teleportation array was requisitioned for three days and chose to wait rather than travel to the Three Realms Auction House on foot.

Xue Fuyao investigated a restaurant after sensing dense demon qi and discovered that its owner’s wife was the Demon Realm Left Protector, a sheep demon destined to attack Thousand-Household City. She then learned Ying Jiu and Fifteen wanted to stay at the dangerous border, and Shadow Three argued that they could cultivate Haoran Righteous Qi there.

• Xue Fuyao sent Shadow Three to investigate the restaurant and learned that its owner’s daughter-in-law had spiritual energy fluctuations.
• Xue Fuyao and Shadow Three entered the crowded restaurant, ordered food and wine, and sensed the woman’s faint fragrance and spiritual energy.
• Shadow Three said the woman had used a charm technique on him, and Xue Fuyao identified her as an ordinary sheep demon.
• Xue Fuyao recognized the woman as the Demon Realm Left Protector, who had brought down three cities and was likely fated to die while attacking Thousand-Household City.
• Xue Fuyao objected when Shadow Three said Ying Jiu and Fifteen wanted to stay at the border, but he replied that they could cultivate Haoran Righteous Qi there.

Xue Fuyao agreed to let Ying Jiu and Fifteen remain behind to build an army, but first planned to take them to the Three Realms Auction House for protective treasures. When she traveled with Shadow Three, the Left Protector of the Demon Realm diverted the Teleportation Array and lured her into a dungeon, where Xue Fuyao quickly captured her.

• Shadow Three told Xue Fuyao that Ying Jiu and Fifteen’s Sects supported their decision to stay, and Xue Fuyao agreed on the condition that they visit the Three Realms Auction House first.
• Xue Fuyao spent three days researching suitable treasures for Ying Jiu and Fifteen, hoping to obtain Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Treasures at the auction house.
• Xue Fuyao took Shadow Three to the Teleportation Array while Ying Jiu and Fifteen hid in the crowd, and the Left Protector of the Demon Realm entered the array just before it activated.
• Xue Fuyao realized the array had taken her somewhere other than her destination and used Water Silk and the Immortal-Binding Rope to capture and gag the Left Protector.
• Xue Fuyao recognized that the Left Protector had lured her into a dungeon covered in Formation Runes, while the captive believed Xue Fuyao would need information from her to escape.

Xue Fuyao extracted the Left Protector’s memories, discovered she was a Demon Race spy, and infiltrated her hidden cave disguised as the sheep demon. After killing the sheep demons and taking their treasure, Xue Fuyao left with an Earth Vein Flesh Lingzhi to share with her allies.

• Xue Fuyao used the Soul-Seizing Technique on the Left Protector and learned from her memories that she was a Demon Race undercover agent who abducted people to eat their hearts.
• Xue Fuyao killed the Left Protector, disguised herself as the sheep demon, and left the cell cave.
• Two little sheep demons greeted Xue Fuyao, and she tricked them into summoning the other sheep demons with the promise of fresh blood food.
• Xue Fuyao sealed the exits and burned the gathered sheep demons with the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame, then collected their remains as whole roast sheep.
• Xue Fuyao searched the sheep demon’s secret chamber, found an Earth Vein Flesh Lingzhi, and took it to share with Shadow Three, Shadow One, and the others.

Xue Fuyao uncovered the God-Slaying Spear’s identity and killed a devil who mocked her, awakening the weapon by feeding it his flesh and blood. She left for a nearby city to teleport to Three Realms City, and spotted a carriage convoy on the road.

• Xue Fuyao collected the treasures from the cave and told Shadow Three that a devil had ambushed her, prompting him to vow revenge on the Devil Race.
• A black-armored devil arrived with Princess Highness’s orders and mocked Xue Fuyao while boasting about his spear.
• Xue Fuyao recognized the weapon as the God-Slaying Spear and used her Heavenly Eye to shatter the devil’s Demon Crystal.
• Xue Fuyao took the spear and fed it the devil’s body, restoring its appearance as it absorbed his flesh and blood.
• Xue Fuyao left for a nearby city to find a Teleportation Array to Three Realms City, then saw a convoy of horse-drawn carriages.

Xue Fuyao ran into Xueheng and Mu Wei at a caravan stop and learned that Xueheng had been tricked into an exploitative contract with a trading company. She confronted the manager and demanded to know where Xueheng’s Bond Contract was.

• Xue Fuyao landed near the caravan and introduced herself to Mu Wei as Xueheng’s ancestor.
• Xueheng pushed Mu Wei aside, recognized Xue Fuyao, and told her how he had been swindled into working for a trading company.
• Xue Fuyao confronted the manager, who claimed Xueheng’s contract was legitimate.
• Xue Fuyao asked where the Bond Contract was so she could free Xueheng without paying to redeem him.

Xue Fuyao learned that Mu Wei had been branded with a Sin Mark and sold to the Shengxing Trading Company, then reached Jiangbei City to free Xueheng. The trading company demanded a hundred thousand upper-grade spirit stones to end his contract early.

• Xue Fuyao forced the man in charge to reveal that Xueheng’s Bond Contract was in Jiangbei City, then flew there with Xueheng.
• After Xue Fuyao left, the man mocked Mu Yao, while Mu Wei vowed revenge and an inconspicuous ant crawled into her clothes.
• Xueheng told Xue Fuyao that the Water Spirit Sect had sent Mu Wei to the trading company after she caused deaths in some ruins and other sects pressured the Water Spirit Sect.
• Xue Fuyao and Xueheng arrived at the Shengxing Trading Company, where a woman said ending Xueheng’s hundred-year contract would cost a hundred thousand upper-grade spirit stones.

Xue Fuyao and her companions destroyed the Shengxing Trading Company branch in Jiangbei City after recovering Xueheng’s Bond Contract, then left for Three Realms City. Before traveling onward, she warned Xueheng to disguise himself because enemies connected to the Xue Clan might still be hunting them.

• Xue Fuyao summoned Shadow Three, Ying Jiu, and Fifteen, took Xueheng’s Bond Contract from the Shengxing Trading Company, and burned it.
• Xue Fuyao ordered her companions to kill everyone at the branch and collected its supplies while Xueheng worried about retaliation.
• Xue Fuyao told Xueheng that Zhang Zhenyu might have survived and warned him to disguise himself and stop using the snow-character Xue surname.
• Shadow Three, Ying Jiu, and Fifteen cleared out the branch, and the group left Jiangbei City for Three Realms City.
• Xue Fuyao gave Xueheng a Jade Pendant to change his appearance, returned with him to Jiangbei City, and entered its Teleportation Array.

Xue Fuyao explored Three Realms City with Xueheng, bought Heavenly Thunder Bombs from her old acquaintance Jiang Zuo, and then watched a confrontation between a wolf demon and a Rabbit Demon. The chapter left the cause of the dispute apparent: the wolf demon had caged a group of young rabbits and claimed he was entitled to eat some of them.

• Xue Fuyao and Xueheng arrived in Three Realms City, and she sent Shadow Three and the others to buy valuable items she spotted with the Heavenly Eye.
• Xue Fuyao recognized Jiang Zuo at a stall, bought all his Heavenly Thunder Bombs, and learned his Artifact Refining talent had not yet been exposed.
• Xue Fuyao complimented Jiang Zuo's work and left before he could grow suspicious of her familiarity.
• Xue Fuyao and Xueheng watched a crowd from a restaurant window as a wolf demon taunted a Rabbit Demon beside a cage full of young rabbits.