Chapter Summaries

Xue Fuyao explained how she planned to trade Monster Beast Inner Cores to secure a share of a top-grade demon crystal vein, while she, Xueheng, and Shadow Three advanced toward the Ancient Battlefield’s center. When enormous Red-Eyed Army Ants erupted from the ground, she identified them as an extinct, deadly swarm.

• Xue Fuyao said she would purify the killing intent from Monster Beast Inner Cores and sell them to the Demon Race for a share of a top-grade demon crystal vein.
• Shadow Three asked if they could claim the vein early, but Xue Fuyao explained that mining it themselves would expose them and hinted that underground demons could do the work.
• Xue Fuyao, Xueheng, and Shadow Three encountered increasingly powerful Monster Beasts and began avoiding them with Invisibility Talismans and suppressed auras.
• Xueheng noticed that the Monster Beasts were moving in the same direction, and Xue Fuyao reasoned that they were trying to escape the Ancient Battlefield.
• The ground trembled, and Xue Fuyao lifted the group as enormous ants swarmed out; she identified them as Red-Eyed Army Ants and warned that they were a death-defying force.

Xue Fuyao captured the Red-Eyed Army Ant queen, then followed Big Treasure toward a treasure while cultivators gathered outside the ancient battlefield. After half a day of travel, she reached an immense pit and sent a Gu Worm to scout its dangerous aura.

• Xue Fuyao found the Red-Eyed Army Ant queen, captured it and its male escorts in a Storage Bag, and put them in her Silver-Thread Gu Bracelet, throwing the ant colony into chaos.
• Xue Fuyao left with Shadow Three and Xueheng, noting that Ye Tian was absorbing the battlefield’s killing intent.
• The Human Race, Demon Race, and Devil Race forces converged on the ancient battlefield, fought the escaped crazed Monster Beasts, and masked the entrance with a false seal.
• Xue Fuyao saw the Monster Beasts begin fighting among themselves, but Big Treasure pointed her toward something valuable, so she abandoned the idea of waiting for the fighting beasts to weaken.
• Xue Fuyao and her companions followed Big Treasure’s direction for about half a day until they reached an immense pit, where she sent a Gu Worm to investigate the dangerous aura.

Xue Fuyao discovered a massive, uncorrupted skeleton and a golden inner core guarded by two sleeping Golden Origin Deer. Unable to fight them directly, she prepared poisoned spirit plants as bait and left the deer to consume them.

• Xue Fuyao saw a huge pale skeleton resisting Killing Intent, a golden inner core beside its head, and two untainted Golden Origin Deer guarding them.
• Xue Fuyao told Xueheng about the skeleton and inner core, then identified the guardians as Golden Origin Deer and ruled out a direct fight.
• Xue Fuyao sent Shadow Three away with Xueheng and used the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon to grow spirit medicines and lingzhi mushrooms.
• Xue Fuyao concealed poison from the Myriad Poisons Origin-Returning Vine and Bai Ling inside the plants, hoping the deer would eat enough before noticing the effects.

Xue Fuyao lured the Golden Origin Deer to a patch of poisoned spirit medicines and lingzhi, then waited as the poison incapacitated them. She confirmed with the Heavenly Eye that they were unconscious but still alive, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Xue Fuyao hid near the Golden Origin Deer and removed the Barrier to release the fragrance of the spirit medicines and lingzhi.
• The two Golden Origin Deer followed the scent, inspected the patch, and ate it all.
• The poison took effect as the deer headed back, and the doe collapsed first, followed by the stag.
• The stag briefly regained awareness and searched for the hidden attacker, but the poison soon knocked him unconscious again.
• Xue Fuyao used the Heavenly Eye to inspect both deer and saw that their powerful vitality had kept them alive despite the poison.

Xue Fuyao, Shadow Three, and Xueheng discovered that the Ancient Battlefield was a tomb and that Bai Ze had died there after helping seal it. They followed the map to the tomb entrance, found that someone had gone ahead, and entered carefully, suspecting the tomb’s owner had ties to Gu Masters.

• Xue Fuyao and the others left the deep pit after Shadow Three secured the Divine Beast Skeleton and its inner core.
• Xue Fuyao’s map revealed that the Ancient Battlefield was a tomb, identified the skeleton as Bai Ze’s, and showed that the Golden Origin Deer had been the tomb owner’s friend’s spirit pets.
• The map led the group to the tomb, where they found the entrance open and its mechanisms already triggered; Xue Fuyao stopped Shadow Three from rushing to attack the person inside.
• Xue Fuyao, Shadow Three, and Xueheng entered the Palace and found battle traces, Monster Beast corpses, and traps that were still functioning.
• A concealed weapon launched venomous Gu Worms at Xue Fuyao, but Water Silk blocked them, and Xue Fuyao hurried onward after recognizing the Gu Clan technique.

Xue Fuyao sealed Eight Desolations Annihilation after Ye Xun’s attempt to claim it transformed his face, then killed him and escaped with Xueheng and Shadow Three. Their repeated teleportations landed them in the middle of Monster Beast fights, and they were still fleeing as Xue Fuyao prepared to try again.

• Ye Xun was thrown against a wall when Eight Desolations Annihilation erupted, and his face became horribly disfigured.
• Xue Fuyao stopped Shadow Three from trying to claim the Divine Artifact and sealed Eight Desolations Annihilation inside the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet.
• Xue Fuyao killed the unconscious Ye Xun and teleported away with Xueheng and Shadow Three as newcomers entered the hall.
• A devil-race Protector found Ye Xun’s corpse and ordered his people to watch the demon race and the Human Race for news of the stolen artifact.
• Xue Fuyao, Xueheng, and Shadow Three fled after their teleportations repeatedly placed them amid fighting Monster Beasts.

Xue Fuyao escaped the Ancient Battlefield with Xueheng and Shadow Three after repeated monster attacks, then left for Three Realms City with Eight Desolations Annihilation secured in her Demon-Suppressing Bracelet. She later visited Lady Culinary God, who was still preparing the special meat Xue Fuyao had brought her.

• Xue Fuyao teleported away from pursuing Monster Beasts when she spotted people nearby, then led Xueheng and Shadow Three through weaker beasts toward the Ancient Battlefield’s exit.
• After the three defeated the Monster Beasts, Xue Fuyao checked their location and decided to leave, noting that she had obtained the most valuable thing: Eight Desolations Annihilation.
• Xue Fuyao had Xueheng pretend to be injured as they left the Ancient Battlefield, then rested outside while Shadow Three warned that the Human Race, Devil Race, and Demon Race might fight over it.
• Xue Fuyao argued that the Ancient Battlefield should belong to them because its exit was on the Cultivation Realm’s side, then departed with Shadow Three and Xueheng.
• In Three Realms City, Xue Fuyao contacted Lady Culinary God and entered her portable cave abode, where Lady Culinary God explained that she was still drawing out the medicinal properties of the Earth Vein Flesh Lingzhi in the meat.

After finishing her meal preparations with Chu Tianshuo, Xue Fuyao decided to leave and travel to the devils’ Demon Realm to seek the highest-grade Puppet Art. She planned to go alone and instructed Shadow Three to send Xueheng away while keeping an eye on contact with Jiang Zuo.

• Xue Fuyao ate Sea Origin and asked Chu Tianshuo about portable cave abodes, learning how rare and difficult they were to obtain.
• Chu Tianshuo finished a whole-sheep feast, shared the meal with Xue Fuyao, and gave her the remaining meat as jerky.
• Xue Fuyao decided to visit the devils’ Demon Realm first to find the best Puppet Art, then returned to her inn.
• Xue Fuyao refused Shadow Three’s offer to accompany her, told him to send Xueheng away, and said she would leave that day.
• Shadow Three reported that Ying Jiu and the others had found Jiang Zuo, and Xue Fuyao advised them to approach him normally and stay cautious during trades.

Xue Fuyao disguised herself as a natural-born devil and left Three Realms City with wine to trade for a high-level Puppet Art manual. Meanwhile, Xueheng guessed she might be the escaped Snow Dynasty princess, but she chose to spare him and ordered Shadow Three to keep him close.

• Xue Fuyao gave the remaining Earth Vein Flesh Lingzhi to Shadow Three, then bought up all the wine in Three Realms City before leaving.
• Xue Fuyao used Broken Jade to disguise herself as a weak, unremarkable natural-born devil and headed toward the Demon Realm on foot.
• Xueheng asked Shadow Three about Xue Fuyao and guessed she was the escaped Snow Dynasty princess protected by the Xue Clan's Dark Guards.
• Shadow Three reported Xueheng's suspicions to Xue Fuyao and asked whether he should eliminate him; she refused and ordered Shadow Three to keep him close.
• Shadow Three offered to help Xueheng join the Tianyin Sect, and Xueheng happily accepted without realizing he had narrowly escaped death.

Xue Fuyao traveled with a merchant caravan toward Blood Moon City, where she hoped to trade wine, while a Devil Soldier secretly watched her for signs that she carried more. During the slowed journey, she found a living object hidden in her flowerpot and confronted her watcher about the delay.

• Shadow Three became the Tianyin Sect's treasured disciple after his master abducted him by mistake, and Xue Fuyao helped his cultivation by revealing potential opportunities.
• Xue Fuyao traded a jar of wine for a place in a caravan bound for Blood Moon City, while a Devil Soldier suspected she carried more wine.
• After three days of acting normally, Xue Fuyao studied the Snake Clan's books but found no help deciphering the Qiming Secret Realm runes.
• Xue Fuyao emptied her flowerpot and discovered a black object with faint life fluctuations resembling two withered plants she had collected earlier.
• Xue Fuyao put the object away, then asked her watcher why the caravan had slowed; he ordered her to return and stay put.

Xue Fuyao caused a riot among a caravan’s captives, killed the Devil Soldier she had bribed, and took his Storage Bag before reaching Blood Moon City. There, she watched Princess Lijia arrive to a grand welcome, while onlookers whispered that Lijia had been driven out of Demon God City.

• Xue Fuyao sent Gu Worms to open the carriages, freeing the demon-race captives and sparking a fight with the Devil Soldiers.
• Xue Fuyao abandoned the captives, slit the throat of the Devil Soldier she had bribed, and took his Storage Bag for devil-race currency.
• The Devil Soldiers returned after suppressing the riot and found their leader dead, but focused their attention on the wine left in his carriage.
• Xue Fuyao reached Blood Moon City and joined a crowd waiting outside its gates.
• Princess Lijia arrived in a carriage drawn by four flame-eyed horses, and the City Lord personally welcomed her, eager for the wine she had promised.
• A few informed onlookers disparaged Princess Lijia, saying she had failed to get by in Demon God City and had been driven out.

At Blood Moon City, Xue Fuyao met a stranger who knew about her and offered to help her on the authority of a deceased Heavenly Secret Sacred Domain Sacred Lord. She rejected his offer, leaving the stranger intent on earning her trust and repaying his ancestor’s karmic debt.

• A man in the crowd said Princess Lijia had come to Blood Moon City because she could no longer get by in Demon God City.
• After the gates cleared, the man approached Xue Fuyao, but she dodged when he reached for her.
• The stranger told Xue Fuyao he knew what she wanted and revealed that the previous Sacred Lord had instructed him to wait for her and help her with one task.
• Xue Fuyao refused his offer and denied having any connection to the Sacred Lord.
• The stranger reflected that his Lineage needed to repay an ancestral karmic debt and decided to build a relationship with Xue Fuyao, but she gave him no opening.

Xue Fuyao searched Blood Moon City for a top-tier Puppet Art manual, then attracted traders by offering fine wine. After killing a princess’s maidservant who tried to seize the wine, she accepted a high-grade manual from a middle-aged man.

• A man who recognized Xue Fuyao from an image his deceased brother had sent decided to head to the City Lord's Mansion instead of searching for her.
• Xue Fuyao searched Blood Moon City for an advanced Puppet Art manual but found only unsuitable or overpriced options.
• Xue Fuyao disguised herself, changed her aura, and offered fine wine in exchange for a top-tier Puppet Art cultivation manual.
• A middle-aged man offered Xue Fuyao a high-grade Puppet Art manual, but a maidservant claiming to represent a princess tried to claim all the wine.
• Xue Fuyao killed the maidservant with a pitch-black longsword, then accepted the middle-aged man's manual and gave him ten jars of wine.

Xue Fuyao evaded the search for the person who killed Princess Lijia, learned Puppet Art, and escaped Blood Moon City with a puppet made from Zhang Zhenyu's corpse. She left unaware that Princess Lijia had been the woman she killed and that the Devil Race had placed her on its kill list.

• Xue Fuyao found Blood Moon City's gates sealed and hid from Princess Lijia's search by transforming into a black cat.
• While hiding for half a month, Xue Fuyao learned Puppet Art and made a crude puppet from Zhang Zhenyu's corpse, disguising it as a member of the Devil Race.
• Xue Fuyao discovered that Princess Lijia had posted a ten-thousand-demon-stone reward for her capture after the City Lord obtained a portrait from the man who had traded her the Puppet Art.
• When the gates reopened, Xue Fuyao waited until the next morning, then slipped out of Blood Moon City by riding a carriage convoy as a bee.
• Xue Fuyao left without realizing that she had killed Princess Lijia, the Devil Venerable's adopted daughter, and that a prince from the front lines had come to investigate her death.

Xue Fuyao entered Spirit Fox City disguised as a fox demon, planning to seize a treasure that could restore the Fox Clan's bloodline. While dining with Fox Cub, she overheard the restaurant staff plotting to cheat her and realized she had walked into a swindler's den.

• Xue Fuyao arrived in Spirit Fox City disguised as a fox demon, carrying the hungry Fox Cub.
• Xue Fuyao ordered the restaurant's signature chicken dishes and told Fox Cub that she would give it a chance to become stronger.
• Xue Fuyao explained that she had come to seize a treasure said to help the Fox Clan's bloodline evolve into Nine-Tailed Foxes.
• Xue Fuyao used her Gu Worms to gather information while eating, and one of them overheard the manager and a waiter plotting to fleece her.
• Xue Fuyao stopped enjoying her meal when she realized the restaurant was a swindler's den.

Xue Fuyao escaped a crooked restaurant by tricking its waiter and destroying the establishment with Gu Worms. She searched the Sky Fox Mountain Range for the treasure that could awaken the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline and discovered it was an egg about to hatch, near a little girl and her Black-Clad Dark Guard.

• Xue Fuyao concealed the restaurant’s food, ordered fifty portions of each dish to distract the waiter, then set off explosions and escaped with Fox Cub.
• Xue Fuyao changed her appearance, detonated the Gu Worms she had planted, and reduced the restaurant to ruins before leaving Spirit Fox City.
• Xue Fuyao searched the Sky Fox Mountain Range with her Heavenly Eye for two days but found no sign of the treasure.
• Xue Fuyao hid when she heard approaching footsteps and watched a little girl in white walk with a Black-Clad Dark Guard.
• Xue Fuyao used the Heavenly Eye to locate the treasure: an egg that could awaken the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline and was close to hatching.

Xue Fuyao found a living Monster Beast egg and tried to contract with it, but the arrogant creature refused and threatened her. She killed it with flames and Evil, then discovered it had been a Nine-Tailed Fox cub and took its Inner Core.

• Xue Fuyao dripped her blood onto the egg twice, but the creature inside rejected her and claimed to bear the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox's bloodline.
• Xue Fuyao smashed the egg against a rock, then attacked it with the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame, the Wine God Heartflame, and Evil.
• The creature begged for mercy and offered to become her Contract Beast, but Xue Fuyao continued her attack until it died.
• Xue Fuyao opened the blackened egg and found a nine-tailed fox cub inside.
• Xue Fuyao cut open the cub's abdomen and took its emerald-green Inner Core.

After Fox Cub swallowed the unborn Nine-Tailed Fox’s inner core, Xue Fuyao found an approaching inheritance secret realm but was rejected from entering. She held back its emergence, mapped the realm, and summoned Shadow Eleven and Shadow Thirteen to explore it in her place.

• Xue Fuyao gave the Nine-Tailed Fox inner core to Fox Cub, who swallowed it and fell into a deep sleep.
• Xue Fuyao used the Compass to find a nearby secret realm and discovered that it rejected her, while a faint curse clung to her body.
• Xue Fuyao delayed the realm’s emergence with Top-Grade Spirit Stones, summoned Shadow Eleven and Shadow Thirteen, and drew them a map.
• Xue Fuyao modified the realm’s entrance and warned Eleven and Thirteen to enter as soon as she removed the barrier, while she watched from outside.

Xue Fuyao sent Eleven and Thirteen into the Inheritance Secret Realm, then guided them past the fox demons who arrived afterward. She discovered a hidden Human Race inheritance site and sent Eleven there while Thirteen headed for the planned Demon Race site, which appeared to belong to a Nine-Tailed Fox.

• Xue Fuyao placed Eleven and Thirteen inside the barrier, and they entered the Inheritance Secret Realm as it shattered.
• Powerful cultivators gathered outside, agreed to share the realm, and summoned their younger members to enter.
• Xue Fuyao warned Eleven and Thirteen about the arriving fox demons and directed them toward the inheritance site on her map.
• Xue Fuyao spotted a concealed Human Race inheritance among the decoys and told Eleven and Thirteen to split up.
• Eleven went to the Human Race inheritance while Thirteen headed for the Demon Race inheritance, and Xue Fuyao guided both through the sites' mechanisms.
• Eleven endured a trial that repeatedly knocked him down, while Xue Fuyao suspected Thirteen's site had been prepared for the Nine-Tailed Fox she had killed before it was born.

Thirteen entered the Inheritance Grounds disguised as a Fox Demon, where Xue Fuyao guided him through illusions and helped him loot the trials before he reached the inheritance site. He obtained a Scarlet Long Saber, while a young man with a gray fox tail and a girl with pink fox ears took the other two weapons, and the three left quickly.

• Xue Fuyao guided Thirteen through illusions and traps as he stripped the rooms of their contents, then warned him that other Fox Demons were approaching.
• Thirteen disguised himself as a black flying insect, slipped into the crowd, and entered the Inheritance Grounds when the barrier vanished.
• The others claimed one top-grade Magic Artifact each, while Xue Fuyao saw three larger weapons overhead that held the true inheritance.
• Thirteen chose the Scarlet Long Saber, and a young man with a gray fox tail and a girl with pink fox ears took the Whip and Jade Fan.
• Thirteen and the other two weapon holders hurried toward the exit before the Inheritance Grounds became dangerous.