Recaps

Lin Qingyang warned Mo Yan that Shi Ruobai had recovered impossibly fast and carried demonic qi, while Mo Yan kept him locked up. Xue Lanyuan confirmed that Shi Ruobai had willingly become an Otherworldly Demon, but he overpowered her and seemed to take control of her mind.

• Lin Qingyang admitted poisoning Shi Ruobai and warned Mo Yan that Shi Ruobai's attack carried demonic qi and his strength had recovered unnaturally.
• Mo Yan refused to release Lin Qingyang, then left to check on Shi Ruobai after Lin urged him to have Xue Lanyuan examine him.
• Xue Lanyuan checked Shi Ruobai's pulse and discovered demonic qi, but he attacked her before she could strike him.
• Shi Ruobai admitted he had chosen to become an Otherworldly Demon because he could never surpass Lin Qingyang through cultivation.
• Xue Lanyuan tried to escape and fight Shi Ruobai with the Cold Ice Bow, but he disarmed and subdued her.
• Shi Ruobai stared into Xue Lanyuan's eyes and told her to sleep, leaving her dazed and vacant under his apparent control.

Mo Yan doubted Lin Qingyang’s claim that Shi Ruobai carried demonic qi, while Xue Lanyuan insisted the Sect Leader was well. As Lin Qingyang weakened in the Forbidden Abyss, Shi Ruobai prepared to judge him privately, and Lei Cheng took him to the Heavenly Strategy Hall.

• Mo Yan went to find Xue Lanyuan, who denied finding anything wrong with Shi Ruobai and suggested Lin Qingyang might have deceived him.
• Lin Qingyang endured the Forbidden Abyss’s oppressive chill until his thoughts grew muddled and the next day arrived.
• Feng Shu and Feng Yi defended Lin Qingyang before Shi Ruobai, but Mo Yan forced them from the Heavenly Strategy Hall and sealed its doors.
• Mo Yan pleaded for Lin Qingyang’s life, and Shi Ruobai said he only intended to teach his junior brother a lesson.
• Lei Cheng retrieved Lin Qingyang from the Forbidden Abyss and supported him toward the Heavenly Strategy Hall after Lin Qingyang realized a day had passed.

Qi Mo woke after Hong Ling warned him that Lin Qingyang was in danger, while Shi Ruobai accused Lin Qingyang of poisoning him and began punishing him with the Disciplinary Whip. The chapter ended with Lin Qingyang realizing Shi Ruobai intended to cripple him.

• Hong Ling woke Qi Mo and told him that Lin Qingyang had been locked in the Forbidden Abyss and was about to be interrogated.
• Lei Cheng brought Lin Qingyang, still wearing shackles that suppressed his Spiritual Power, before Shi Ruobai, Mo Yan, and Xue Lanyuan in the Heavenly Strategy Hall.
• Shi Ruobai forced Lin Qingyang to his knees and accused him of refusing to repent for poisoning him.
• Shi Ruobai took out the Disciplinary Whip, and Lin Qingyang tried to flee, causing the whip to strike Mo Yan when he dodged behind him.
• Shi Ruobai dragged Lin Qingyang back with the whip and struck him repeatedly, infusing the blows with Spiritual Power.
• Lin Qingyang realized Shi Ruobai meant to cripple him as the lashes injured him and began dispersing his Spiritual Power.

Shi Ruobai brutally beat Lin Qingyang in the Heavenly Strategy Hall until Qi Mo burst in and fought to protect him. During the clash, Shi Ruobai’s injuries revealed that he had become an Otherworldly Demon, leaving the disciples terrified.

• Shi Ruobai whipped Lin Qingyang despite Mo Yan’s attempt to calm him, and Lin Qingyang was left badly injured.
• Qi Mo broke into the Heavenly Strategy Hall, tore apart Shi Ruobai’s whip, and confronted him to protect Lin Qingyang.
• Shi Ruobai stabbed Qi Mo, but Qi Mo wounded Shi Ruobai’s neck before Shi Ruobai struck him down with Sword Qi.
• Mo Yan blocked Shi Ruobai from killing Qi Mo, then recognized the Demonic Qi and black hairs around Shi Ruobai’s wound as signs that he had become an Otherworldly Demon.
• Black markings and crow-like feathers spread across Shi Ruobai’s face as the disciples backed away in terror.

Shi Ruobai attacked the people in the Heavenly Strategy Hall while possessed by demonic power, leaving Lin Qingyang, Mo Yan, and Qi Mo badly injured before Xue Lanyuan regained control of herself. After Xue restrained Shi Ruobai with ice, she knelt beside him and raised another icicle.

• Shi Ruobai overpowered Feng Shu and Mo Yan, then attacked Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo as they tried to protect one another.
• Lin Qingyang clashed swords with Shi Ruobai, and Mo Yan struck him with lightning, breaking the White Rainbow Sword and restoring Xue Lanyuan’s awareness.
• Shi Ruobai grabbed Hong Ling and tried to bite him, but Xue Lanyuan froze his hand and then restrained his limbs with icicles.
• Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo collapsed from their injuries while Xue Lanyuan knelt beside the restrained Shi Ruobai.
• Lin Qingyang saw Xue Lanyuan form another icicle and slowly raise it.

Xue Lanyuan and Lin Yao confirmed that Shi Ruobai could not be cured of his demonic corruption, and the Great Hall faced the choice of killing him before he harmed anyone else. Shi Ruobai drove the ice spike into his own heart, confessed his regrets to Lin Qingyang, and died, leaving Lin Qingyang overwhelmed and collapsing as he tried to leave.

• Xue Lanyuan explained that Shi Ruobai could not be restored, and Lin Yao agreed there was no way to cure him.
• Lin Qingyang pleaded for time to find another solution, but Xue Lanyuan raised her ice spike to kill Shi Ruobai before his restraints began to break.
• Shi Ruobai seized Xue Lanyuan's wrist and forced her hand to drive the ice spike into his own heart.
• As he died, Shi Ruobai apologized to Lin Qingyang and admitted he had caused the Library Pavilion explosion while trying to sneak a look at the Manuscript.
• Shi Ruobai asked where the real Lin Qingyang had gone, then lost consciousness and died in Lin Qingyang's hands.
• Lin Qingyang, unable to bear the loss, stumbled toward the Great Hall doors and collapsed when his vision went black.

Lin Qingyang remembered how he had taken the blame for Shi Ruobai’s destruction of the Library Pavilion, a sacrifice that later became buried beneath their master’s prejudice and years of estrangement. After Shi Ruobai’s funeral, Lin Qingyang allowed several disciples to leave the weakened Nine Skies Sect and then disappeared from Heavenly Strategy Hall, prompting Qi Mo to search for him.

• Lin Qingyang relived his youthful friendship with Shi Ruobai and remembered taking the blame after Shi Ruobai accidentally damaged the Library Pavilion and Ancestor Jiuchen's Manuscript.
• Lin Qingyang recalled that their master’s prejudice had eventually helped separate him and Shi Ruobai, despite Shi Ruobai later trying to reveal the truth.
• Lin Qingyang visited Shi Ruobai’s coffin with Qi Mo, Xue Lanyuan, and Mo Yan, and placed the two curved sabers in Shi Ruobai’s hands.
• Lei Chen and several other disciples asked to leave the Nine Skies Sect, citing Lin Qingyang’s ties to the Demon Clan and the sect’s weakened state.
• Lin Qingyang permitted the disciples to leave without demanding they return their cultivation, then walked away from Heavenly Strategy Hall.
• Qi Mo found Lin Qingyang gone and set out to look for him.

Lin Qingyang confronted Bi Yue, who admitted using Shi Ruobai’s qi deviation to retaliate against him. Meanwhile, Bi Yue hypnotized Xue Lanyuan, who unknowingly took Hong Ling with her through the Ten-Thousand-Li Tianyan Array.

• Lin Qingyang entered Thousand Blessings Cave and confronted Bi Yue through a crow vessel.
• Bi Yue said he had disturbed Shi Ruobai’s mind to punish Lin Qingyang and promised they would meet soon.
• Xue Lanyuan mourned Shi Ruobai at his coffin before a crow hypnotized her with its red eyes.
• Hong Ling followed Xue Lanyuan to the teleportation point and realized she was under a spell as the array activated.
• Xue Lanyuan and Hong Ling vanished from the teleportation point together.

Lin Qingyang returned to Clear Wind Pavilion injured and worried about Xue Lanyuan, while Qi Mo tended his wounds and reacted angrily when Lin Qingyang suggested he leave. The chapter ended with Qi Mo embracing Lin Qingyang and insisting he would not be driven away.

• Qi Mo, Feng Shu, and Feng Yi worried when Lin Qingyang failed to return, but Lin Qingyang soon arrived looking pale and unsteady with blood on his hands.
• Lin Qingyang asked where Xue Lanyuan was and tried to go see her, but Qi Mo carried him back to Clear Wind Pavilion when his injuries made him stumble.
• Qi Mo cleaned Lin Qingyang’s hands, discovered his back wounds had reopened, and carefully dressed them again.
• Lin Qingyang urged Qi Mo to leave because he had already repaid his debt, but Qi Mo silently continued treating him.
• After finishing the bandages, Qi Mo bit Lin Qingyang’s shoulder, held him in an embrace, and declared that Lin Qingyang could not drive him away.

Lin Qingyang realized Qi Mo had confessed his feelings, but their reunion was interrupted by news that Elder Xue had gone to a ruined city near the Ten Thousand Demons Forest. Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo reached the destination after the Teleportation Array separated them from the others, leaving Mo Yan and the disciples to pursue them by carriage.

• Qi Mo confessed that he had returned for Lin Qingyang, and Lin Qingyang sat stunned until a knock interrupted them.
• Feng Shu reported that Elder Xue had used the Ten-Thousand-Li Tianyan Array to travel to a ruined city near the Ten Thousand Demons Forest.
• Lin Qingyang insisted on going after her, and Mo Yan, Qi Mo, Feng Shu, Lei Cheng, and the others joined him at the teleportation point.
• Lin Qingyang activated the array, but it transported only him and Qi Mo, while the destination signal went dark and stranded the others at the Nine Skies Sect.
• Mo Yan sent word to the Tianxuan Pavilion and set out with Feng Shu and Lei Cheng in a carriage toward the Ten Thousand Demons Forest.

Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo found themselves stranded in the Abandoned City after its Teleportation Array had been sabotaged, and discovered that Xue Lanyuan had been taken under a Soul-Seizing Technique. After learning Bi Yue had taken her south, they reached the city gate and looked toward the Ten Thousand Demons Forest below, where Lin Qingyang sensed Bi Yue was waiting.

• Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo found the Teleportation Array ruined and realized someone had sent only them to the Abandoned City.
• Lin Qingyang recognized a statue of Jiuchen and realized the desolate scene matched his earlier nightmare.
• Lin Qingyang and Qi Mo chased a shadow into an empty house and found Hong Ling hiding in a cabinet.
• Hong Ling told Lin Qingyang that Xue Lanyuan had left with a black-cloaked figure after apparently being controlled by the Soul-Seizing Technique.
• Lin Qingyang deduced that Bi Yue had used Shi Ruobai and crows to control Xue Lanyuan, then led Qi Mo and Hong Ling south.
• The three reached the cliff beyond the city gate, where Lin Qingyang sensed Bi Yue in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest below.

Lin Qingyang, Qi Mo, and Hong Ling descended into the Ten Thousand Demons Forest, where Hong Ling betrayed them under Bi Yue’s Soul Capture Spell and Qi Mo fell into the forest. After Lin Qingyang fought off thorned vines and reached the forest floor, Bi Yue appeared before him.

• Lin Qingyang used the Endless Rope to lead Qi Mo and Hong Ling down the cliff, where a flock of demonic crows attacked them.
• Qi Mo rescued Hong Ling after he fell from the rope, but Hong Ling stabbed Qi Mo with a red vine, draining his demonic power and causing him to fall into the forest.
• Lin Qingyang saw Hong Ling under Bi Yue’s Soul Capture Spell, then grabbed him and slid down the Endless Rope as the crows pursued them.
• Lin Qingyang softened their fall with wind, checked that the unconscious Hong Ling was alive, and searched the forest for Qi Mo.
• Thorny red vines attacked Lin Qingyang, and he burned them with the Fire Luan Bells and wind.
• The crows revealed a cloaked figure, and Lin Qingyang recognized Bi Yue and confronted him.

Lin Qingyang fought Bi Yue but discovered that Bi Yue had no physical body and could not be killed. Bi Yue captured Lin Qingyang and brought Xue Lanyuan before him, while Qi Mo hurried through the woods toward the cliff rope.

• Qi Mo pulled the red vine from his back and hurried through the woods toward the rope after worrying about Lin Qingyang.
• Lin Qingyang attacked Bi Yue with the Divine Wind Slash, but the strike only shattered Bi Yue’s cloak and revealed a body made of black mist.
• Bi Yue told Lin Qingyang that he had died long ago and could not be killed, then bound him with red vines.
• Bi Yue noticed that Hong Ling had escaped and sent crows after him while Lin Qingyang pleaded for him.
• Bi Yue pointed out Xue Lanyuan as she walked toward them, surrounded by red-eyed crows and bearing a glowing mark between her brows.

Bi Yue tried to force Lin Qingyang to choose between Qi Mo and Xue Lanyuan, while Qi Mo fought to protect Lin Qingyang. The chapter ended with Qi Mo captured, Xue Lanyuan held at knifepoint, and Bi Yue demanding that Lin Qingyang decide who would die.

• Hong Ling tried to climb the Endless Rope, but crows pried his paws loose and sent him plunging into the clouds.
• Bi Yue revealed that he wanted Xue Lanyuan to become the Demon King and strangled Lin Qingyang with a red vine.
• Qi Mo rescued Lin Qingyang and fought Bi Yue, but Xue Lanyuan attacked him with Ice Spikes while under Bi Yue's control.
• Red vines stabbed Qi Mo as he shielded Lin Qingyang, then bound and dragged him to Bi Yue.
• Bi Yue brought Xue Lanyuan beside the captive Qi Mo and asked Lin Qingyang which of them he wanted to die.

Lin Qingyang chose to save Xue Lanyuan, leaving Qi Mo behind to be struck down by Bi Yue. After escaping the woods, he discovered that Xue Lanyuan had become an Otherworldly Demon.

• Bi Yue forced Lin Qingyang to choose between Xue Lanyuan and Qi Mo, and Lin Qingyang chose to take Xue Lanyuan away.
• Bi Yue released Xue Lanyuan, while Qi Mo was pierced through the body and collapsed as a black wolf; Lin Qingyang left without looking back.
• Lin Qingyang carried Xue Lanyuan up the cliff with the Endless Rope, then broke down in pain as Lin Yao assured him Qi Mo would revive.
• As thunder and demonic qi spread, Xue Lanyuan woke and wandered into the city, ignoring Lin Qingyang.
• Lin Qingyang stopped Xue Lanyuan from eating a rat and saw her red pupils and black demon marks, realizing Bi Yue had turned her into an Otherworldly Demon.

Lin Qingyang realized Xue Lanyuan had become the Otherworldly Demon in Tianshui City, then Bi Yue attacked him and destroyed the Windflower Sword. He briefly woke in a hospital corridor and saw Lin Yao beside his unconscious body, but returned to the Abandoned City still wounded and corrupted by demonic qi.

• Lin Qingyang recognized Tianshui City and realized events had returned to the original novel’s plot, while Xue Lanyuan walked away.
• Bi Yue appeared and used red vines to pin Lin Qingyang down and drive demonic qi into his spiritual root.
• Lin Yao tried to save Lin Qingyang with the Windflower Sword, but the sword snapped and Lin Yao disappeared.
• Lin Qingyang awoke in a hospital corridor, saw his unconscious body in intensive care, and heard Lin Yao tell him to come back.
• Lin Qingyang returned to the Abandoned City, where he grabbed the broken Windflower Sword despite his bleeding wound and damaged spiritual root.

Mo Yan found Lin Qingyang gravely wounded and carrying his own extracted Spiritual Root, then rushed him away for treatment. In Ten Thousand Demons Forest, A Chou’s group found the Red-Haired Fox, while a silver-haired man awoke amid a storm of demonic qi and disappeared.

• Mo Yan, Feng Shu, and Lei Cheng arrived at the Abandoned City and found Lin Qingyang collapsing with a deep abdominal wound and his Spiritual Root in hand.
• Mo Yan recognized that Lin Qingyang was being kept alive by a Heaven-Stealing Talisman and hurried him into the carriage for treatment.
• Nao Nao rescued an unconscious Red-Haired Fox from a river and brought him to A Chou, who recognized him as a former traitor.
• A Chou’s group noticed a vast storm of demonic qi gathering over Ten Thousand Demons Forest.
• A silver-haired man awoke in the storm, discarded his Demon-Locking Ring, and vanished into the mist.

Five years after Cang Mo rebuilt Demon Emperor City, Mo Yan traveled to the Hidden Market and Fusheng Pavilion. He found the rabbit-headed man on the pavilion’s top floor and warned him that something had happened to the Immortal Alliance.

• Mo Yan crossed into the Hidden Market, a neutral trading hub between the Human Clan and the Demon Clan.
• Mo Yan presented his black jade token at Fusheng Pavilion and endured an elaborate welcome before revealing himself to Zhu Ji.
• Mo Yan rode the Suspension Lift to the pavilion’s top floor, where he found a rabbit-headed man relaxing in a private courtyard.
• Mo Yan told the rabbit-headed man that something had happened to the Immortal Alliance.

Tu San, formerly Lin Qingyang, explained to Mo Yan how the Hidden Market and the Myriad Spirits Sect had helped keep the Human Clan divided while allowing trade with the Demon Clan to reduce the pressure for war. He revealed that he wanted to prevent another conflict between the clans, then turned to the suspicious massacre at the Red Refining Sect.

• Mo Yan confronted Lin Qingyang about the Red Refining Sect massacre and the Immortal Alliance’s growing calls for war against the Demon Clan.
• Mo Yan accused Lin Qingyang of using his influence over the Myriad Spirits Sect to restrain Jian Hong’s faction while supplying Demon Emperor City through the Hidden Market.
• Lin Qingyang said he supported neither side and explained that trade could ease the Demon Clan’s resource shortage and reduce both clans’ desire for war.
• Mo Yan warned Lin Qingyang that Cang Mo might not appreciate his efforts and questioned whether he could keep both clans from fighting.
• Lin Qingyang ended their discussion by saying that something suspicious had happened at the Red Refining Sect.

Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan investigated the destruction of the Red Refining Sect after finding no sign that Demon Emperor City had prepared for war. They reached the sect’s bloodstained entrance, where the cause of the massacre remained unknown.

• Lin Qingyang showed Mo Yan Demon Emperor City’s supply records and argued that its rulers had not ordered the Red Refining Sect’s destruction.
• Lin Qingyang left Fusheng Pavilion with Mo Yan despite Ku Rong’s protests and used a hidden teleportation array to travel to Iron Village.
• Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan learned that nearby villagers had heard nothing during the massacre, even though Demonic Qi remained at the Red Refining Sect.
• Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan followed the hot mountain path to the Red Refining Sect and found its open entrance filled with the smell of blood and Demonic Qi.

Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan investigated the massacre at the Red Refining Sect and found evidence that its leader, Tie Zhenshan, had been killed by someone capable of cutting through his Black Iron arm. Lu Qing blamed Cang Mo, but Lin Qingyang—disguised as the Half-Demon Tusi Rui—publicly declared that Cang Mo was not the killer.

• Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan entered the Red Refining Sect and met their disciples Lei Cheng and Feng Shu while the Immortal Sects gathered and reconstructed the victims’ remains.
• Lin Qingyang and Feng Shu vomited after seeing the mangled body identified by Mo Yan as Sect Leader Tie Zhenshan.
• Lin Qingyang noticed that Tie Zhenshan’s Black Iron arm had been severed cleanly in one blow, suggesting an exceptionally powerful weapon and killer.
• Lu Qing arrived with Lu Ming, Elder Chen, and Tie Zhenshan’s son Tie Feng, then blamed Cang Mo and vowed that the Immortal Alliance would retaliate against Demon Emperor City.
• Mo Yan cautioned that the killer had not been identified, and Lin Qingyang declared that Cang Mo was not responsible.

Lin Qingyang challenged Divine Sword Mountain’s claim that the Demon Clan had slaughtered the Red Refining Sect, pointing out that every weapon was missing and that the evidence did not prove demons were responsible. At the Ten Thousand Weapons Workshop, the search uncovered more dead disciples, a shattered artifact-refining chamber, and a Quenching Sword Pool filled with demonic qi before someone reported movement nearby.

• Lin Qingyang argued that the missing weapons and the Demon Clan’s lack of need for scrap made the massacre suspicious, while Lu Ming insisted that demonic qi implicated demons.
• Feng Shu and Lu Ming exchanged insults, and Lu Ming attacked him before Lei Cheng deflected the blast; Lu Qing and Mo Yan stopped both sides from fighting.
• A Divine Sword Mountain disciple reported trouble at the Forge Workshop, where the group found dead swordsmiths and two slain Divine Sword Mountain disciples whose swords were missing.
• Mo Yan urged the groups to gather their disciples, while Lu Qing ordered the others to search the Ten Thousand Weapons Workshop.
• Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan investigated Sect Leader Tie’s destroyed Artifact Refining Chamber, where they found a cleaved Sword-Casting Platform and a dried Quenching Sword Pool giving off demonic qi.
• Tie Feng stared at the damaged Sword-Casting Platform as a disciple shouted that something was moving nearby.

Mo Yan and Lin Qingyang tried to stop Divine Sword Mountain from killing the fire salamander slaves, but Lu Qing pushed for a massacre to provoke war with the Demon Clan. As Tie Feng’s talisman unleashed a wave of lava, a powerful demon appeared and halted it, leaving everyone under his crushing demonic pressure.

• Lin Qingyang identified the fire salamanders as demon slaves, and Mo Yan stopped Tie Feng from attacking them.
• Tie Feng and Lu Ming accused the slaves of helping kill cultivators, while Lin Qingyang argued that the evidence did not support killing them.
• Lu Qing ordered Divine Sword Mountain’s disciples to slaughter the slaves, and Mo Yan and Lin Qingyang opposed him as both sides prepared to fight.
• Tie Feng secretly activated a talisman that sent a massive wave of lava toward the gathered groups and the fire salamanders.
• A powerful figure stopped the lava and released overwhelming demonic qi, then appeared above the workshop with a black saber and amber wolf eyes.

Cang Mo arrived at the Ten Thousand Weapons Workshop with a group of demons and overwhelmed the human defenders. Lin Qingyang tried to stop the confrontation, but Cang Mo failed to recognize him in disguise and ordered him thrown into the magma.

• Cang Mo and his demon cultivators surrounded the humans, freed the fire salamanders, and turned the tables at the workshop.
• Cang Mo shattered Lu Qing's sword and injured Lu Ming's sword hand when they attacked him.
• Cang Mo ordered Tie Feng thrown into the magma, but Mo Yan intervened and drove back the tiger demon before Cang Mo knocked Mo Yan away.
• Lin Qingyang shouted for everyone to stop, and the eagle demon seized him and tossed him before Cang Mo.
• Lin Qingyang introduced himself as Tusi Rui, a half-demon, and Cang Mo sniffed him but did not recognize him.
• Cang Mo ordered Lin Qingyang thrown into the magma.

Lin Qingyang revealed that a Demon Sword forged by Tie Zhenshan had destroyed the Red Refining Sect, and Tie Feng confessed that his father had been trying to restore the Nine Heavens Divine Sword. Cang Mo agreed to use Black Blade Howling Moon as bait to draw out the sword, but threatened to sacrifice Lin Qingyang if the plan failed.

• Lin Qingyang stopped Cang Mo from killing him by claiming he knew who had committed the Red Refining Sect murders.
• Lin Qingyang argued that Tie Zhenshan had forged a Demon Sword that turned on him and devoured the sect’s weapons, and accused Tie Feng of trying to silence witnesses.
• Tie Feng broke down and confessed that Tie Zhenshan had been refining fragments of the Nine Heavens Sword until he created a monster.
• Lin Qingyang urged Cang Mo to keep Tie Feng alive and catch the Demon Sword, then proposed using Cang Mo’s blade as bait.
• Cang Mo planted Black Blade Howling Moon in the Sword-Casting Platform and warned Lin Qingyang he would sacrifice him if the Demon Sword did not emerge.