Chapter Summaries

Yun Zhan visited Lin Qingyang, but Lin clarified that he was with Cang Mo willingly, prompting Yun Zhan to leave while offering help if Lin ever needed it. Cang Mo then confronted Lin about leaving with Yun Zhan, and the chapter ended with Cang Mo kissing him after Lin denied that his earlier concern and kiss meant he loved him.

• Cang Mo and Yun Zhan faced off until Lin Qingyang called Cang Mo to his bedside with sweet soup.
• Lin Qingyang told Yun Zhan that he and Cang Mo were together willingly, and Yun Zhan left after offering to help him if he ever suffered mistreatment.
• Cang Mo accused Lin Qingyang of wanting to leave with Yun Zhan, and Lin reminded him that their marriage had begun under different circumstances.
• Lin Qingyang said his concern and kiss in the Xuanji Walnut had not meant that he loved Cang Mo.
• Cang Mo pinned Lin Qingyang to the bed and kissed him, and Lin calmly told him to be quick because they still had business to discuss.

Cang Mo’s possessiveness toward Lin Qingyang clashed with Lin Qingyang’s determination to leave, while Cang Mo’s hidden injuries resurfaced. That night, Cang Mo and Lin Qingyang joined the Immortal Alliance leaders for a tense banquet at Fusheng Pavilion.

• Cang Mo marked Lin Qingyang’s neck, urged him to abandon Yun Zhan’s offer to take him to Divine Sword Mountain, and threatened to restrain him if he tried to leave.
• Cang Mo suddenly coughed blood from internal injuries caused by the Array-Guarding Jade Falcon’s blow, but angrily dismissed Lin Qingyang’s concern and left the room.
• Lin Qingyang sat alone with the sweet soup, staring at the closed door as his feigned indifference gave way to exhaustion.
• Cang Mo and Lin Qingyang entered Fusheng Pavilion holding hands, and Yun Zhan noticed the mark on Lin Qingyang’s neck.
• Cang Mo seated Lin Qingyang beside him at a banquet attended by the Immortal Alliance leaders and other members of both clans, while Lu Qing chose to dine outside with the ordinary disciples.

At a banquet after the group escaped the Xuanji Walnut, Lin Qingyang revealed that Li Yan was a divine-wood puppet capable of opening it with Li Tian’s spiritual power. When Li Tian defended Li Yan, Li Yan attacked Su Jingui with a blood vine, exposing the sinister force possessing him.

• Lin Qingyang and the others shared a toast as the tension from their escape eased.
• Langya demanded an explanation for the Xuanji Walnut incident, and Lin Qingyang said Elder Chen had been killed by someone he trusted.
• Lin Qingyang revealed that Li Yan was a puppet powered by Li Tian’s spiritual power and could open the Xuanji Walnut.
• Cang Mo attacked Li Yan, but Li Tian blocked the blow and insisted Li Yan could not be responsible.
• Li Yan pierced Su Jingui through the chest with a blood vine and spoke in a strange, hostile voice.

Bi Yue revealed that he had possessed Li Yan and devoured his Divine Sense, then fought the cultivators in the hall. The battle left Su Jingui, Li Tian, and Cang Mo injured as Bi Yue threatened Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo.

• Bi Yue attacked the hall, gravely wounding Su Jingui, and Lin Qingyang sent Mo Yan and Zhu Ji to take him to Ku Rong.
• Lin Qingyang revealed that Bi Yue had possessed Li Yan, and Bi Yue admitted he had devoured Li Yan's Divine Sense, devastating Li Tian.
• Bi Yue blocked Jian Hong's attack and sent red vines at him, but Yun Zhan intervened and Cang Mo struck back with Howling Moon Saber.
• Li Tian tried to bind Bi Yue with a golden array, but Bi Yue corrupted its threads and drained Li Tian's spiritual power until Yun Zhan severed the connection.
• Cang Mo attacked Bi Yue, who struck him from behind; Langya caught the injured Cang Mo as Lin Qingyang supported him.
• Bi Yue threatened to make Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo die together that night.

Bi Yue, posing as Li Yan, absorbed Yun Zhan’s Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin and hurled the blood-red swords back at everyone in Fusheng Pavilion. The blast drove the leaders into the street, where Bi Yue emerged in monstrous form and threatened that they would die even outside Walnut.

• Yun Zhan unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin at Bi Yue, but Bi Yue swallowed the sword phantoms with Heaven and Earth Reversed.
• Bi Yue sent the swords back as a blood-red barrage, wounding Yun Zhan and forcing Cang Mo, Lin Qingyang, Langya, and Jian Hong to defend themselves.
• Lu Qing led the human sect disciples toward Fusheng Pavilion as Yin Yu and the Demon Clan soldiers arrived, and the two sides faced off with weapons drawn.
• An explosion blasted open Fusheng Pavilion, and Cang Mo, Lin Qingyang, Yun Zhan, Li Tian, and Langya fled as scarlet sword energy pursued them into the street.
• The blood-red swords struck the street and nearby shops, leaving people wounded and the Hidden Market’s main street in ruins.
• Bi Yue, still disguised as Li Yan and now surrounded by writhing blood-red vines, flew above the wreckage and threatened to kill everyone.

Bi Yue turned the Tianxuan Pavilion disciples into Otherworldly Demons, plunging the street into a chaotic battle among humans, demons, and monsters. As Langya and Cang Mo attacked Bi Yue in Li Yan’s body, Li Tian awakened and struck Cang Mo with a golden array.

• Lu Qing attacked Bi Yue, but Bi Yue’s array reflected the sword qi and sent Lu Qing flying.
• A Tianxuan Pavilion disciple stabbed Jian Hong, then transformed into an Otherworldly Demon and attacked Lu Qing.
• Lin Qingyang realized Bi Yue had transformed the Tianxuan Pavilion disciples, and dozens of them mutated and attacked nearby cultivators.
• Yin Yu, the Demon Clan, Mo Yan, and Langya joined the fight as humans, demons, and Otherworldly Demons battled across the street.
• Langya’s strike failed against Bi Yue’s scarlet array, and Cang Mo’s ambush was stopped by a golden array that sent him crashing to the street.
• The others saw that Li Tian had awakened and was the one who struck Cang Mo.

Bi Yue controlled Li Tian and attacked the group, but Langya broke the magical array before Bi Yue’s hidden vines wounded her. The Windflower Sword returned to Lin Qingyang, who confronted Bi Yue after five years of waiting.

• Bi Yue used Li Tian’s body to attack Jian Hong, and Yun Zhan was trapped by a top-tier array while Lu Qing fought off Otherworldly Demons.
• Langya shattered the magical array, but Bi Yue’s hidden vines pierced her arm and threatened to kill her.
• Cang Mo rushed to save Langya, but a familiar sword energy swept past him and cut apart the vines and Bi Yue’s arm.
• The Windflower Sword emerged from the ground and flew into Lin Qingyang’s hand.
• Lin Qingyang revealed himself and told Bi Yue that he had been waiting a long time for him.

Lin Qingyang destroyed Bi Yue’s divine wood shell and revealed that the Hidden Market peace talks had been a five-year plan to draw the Soul Fiend out. Bi Yue appeared in his true form and challenged Lin Qingyang to prove he could be killed.

• Lin Qingyang sliced Bi Yue’s divine wood shell into fragments, while Yun Zhan and Cang Mo stopped Li Tian from attacking him.
• Lin Qingyang sent a sword strike past Cang Mo to kill an aberrant demon, then turned away from him.
• Red-eyed crows descended over the Hidden Market, and Bi Yue emerged from the broken shell as a mass of black mist.
• Bi Yue realized the peace talks had been staged to lure him out, and Cang Mo understood Lin Qingyang’s five-year scheme to prevent war between the clans.
• Bi Yue claimed Lin Qingyang could not kill a formless Soul Fiend, and Lin Qingyang replied that this was not necessarily true.

Lin Qingyang used Heavenly Execution to destroy Bi Yue, the Soul Fiend, and the attack left the Hidden Market in ruins. Afterward, the survivors questioned how Lin Qingyang had spiritual power and why he had pretended to be a cripple, while he silently looked toward Cang Mo.

• Lin Qingyang cut apart Bi Yue's blood vines and revealed he could use Heavenly Execution, the technique that had killed Bi Yue five hundred years earlier.
• Lin Qingyang summoned the technique's power as Jian Hong and Yun Zhan watched in awe, and Bi Yue tried to flee.
• Lin Qingyang struck Bi Yue with a giant sword of light, destroying him and killing nearby aberrant demons in the attack.
• After the light faded, Lin Qingyang landed beside the long sword scar, and the survivors stared at him in shock.
• Mo Yan, Langya, and Jian Hong questioned Lin Qingyang about his spiritual power and feigned disability, but he only looked toward Cang Mo.

After Bi Yue's death, Lin Qingyang rejected Cang Mo's concern and told him their marriage was over. Cang Mo refused the divorce and tried to force intimacy, but Lin Qingyang blasted him away.

• Cang Mo collapsed from his injuries while Lin Qingyang showed him no concern and led him into Fusheng Pavilion.
• Cang Mo asked how Lin Qingyang had recovered his spiritual power, and Lin Qingyang said Ku Rong and the Hidden Market's treasures had repaired his Spiritual Root.
• Lin Qingyang gave Cang Mo an amicable divorce letter and explained that he had stayed with him to secure peace talks and draw out Bi Yue.
• Cang Mo destroyed the letter and refused to end their marriage, insisting they were spouses for life.
• Cang Mo embraced and kissed Lin Qingyang, but Lin Qingyang blasted him away and called him a beast.

Lin Qingyang rejected Cang Mo on the rooftop and sent him plunging into the clouds, while the survivors below dealt with the aftermath of the battle. The demons recovered their unconscious king and discovered that Lin Qingyang had left a divorce letter.

• Cang Mo lashed out at Lin Qingyang with a cruel remark, and Lin Qingyang slapped him.
• Cang Mo challenged Lin Qingyang to kill him if he wanted to leave, but Lin Qingyang struck him in the chest and sent him off the rooftop.
• The Immortal Alliance and the demons gathered the dead and wounded, and Lu Qing blamed Lin Qingyang's peace talks for the casualties.
• Yin Yu caught Cang Mo as he fell, and Langya confirmed that the king was unconscious but alive.
• Yin Yu retrieved a paper bearing two characters, and Mo Yan read them aloud as “Divorce letter.”

After Lin Qingyang defeats Bi Yue and the Demon Clan leaves, Mo Yan learns that Lin Qingyang’s power came from a Ku Rong Tree Seed consuming his lifespan. Lin Qingyang survives the night but has at most a month to live, and Mo Yan breaks down outside his room.

• Langya takes the unconscious Cang Mo and leads the Demon Clan army away from the Hidden Market.
• Mo Yan finds Ku Rong and Zhu Ji treating Lin Qingyang, who is vomiting blood and near death.
• Ku Rong explains that the Ku Rong Tree Seed replaced Lin Qingyang’s damaged Spiritual Root by consuming his vitality, and that the Heaven-Destroying Move exhausted nearly all his remaining lifespan.
• Ku Rong says Lin Qingyang has at most a month to live, while Zhu Ji and Mo Yan grieve over his condition.
• Lin Qingyang wakes briefly, says he avenged them, and learns that Langya took Cang Mo back to Demon Emperor City.
• Mo Yan leaves Lin Qingyang’s room and crouches on the rooftop, sobbing in the night wind.

After the Immortal Alliance departed, Lin Qingyang remained at Fusheng Pavilion, gravely ill and resigned to his impending death. Alone, he recalled realizing he loved Cang Mo and moved the silver ring from his middle finger to his ring finger.

• Mo Yan saw the Immortal Alliance party off, while Su Jingui asked him to thank Proprietor Lin for saving his life and Yun Zhan asked why Lin Qingyang had not appeared.
• Jian Hong urged Mo Yan to persuade Lin Qingyang to return to the Immortal Alliance, and Mo Yan later told Lin that the Alliance had agreed to release the demon slaves and uphold mutual nonaggression.
• Lin Qingyang said he had no regrets about dying and claimed that he and Cang Mo owed each other nothing.
• After Mo Yan helped Lin Qingyang back inside when he began coughing, Lin remembered how he realized he loved Cang Mo after waking alone in Tianshui City and searching for him in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest.
• Lin Qingyang removed Cang Mo’s silver ring from his middle finger and slipped it onto his ring finger.

Lin Qingyang dismissed the search for the Nirvana Lotus and tried to accept his approaching death, though he still missed the man he had driven away. Mo Yan summoned Lin Qingyang’s disciples Feng Shu and Feng Yi, whose arrival briefly lifted his spirits as he welcomed them to stay.

• Ku Rong explained that the Nirvana Lotus could save Lin Qingyang, but Lin Qingyang urged everyone to accept his fate and let him spend his remaining days in peace.
• Ku Rong scolded Lin Qingyang for giving up and pointed out that he was waiting for the injured man he had driven away, while Lin Qingyang privately wondered whether the man would return.
• Two Spirit Shadow Steeds brought a carriage crashing toward the room, and Mo Yan stopped it with his Spiritual Power.
• Feng Shu and Feng Yi arrived, and Lin Qingyang warmly welcomed his disciples after recognizing that Mo Yan had summoned them.
• Lin Qingyang invited Feng Shu and Feng Yi to stay and led them downstairs to eat, glancing disappointedly toward the horizon before leaving.

Langya and Hong Ling kept Cang Mo chained after his breakup with Lin Qingyang, while mistakenly believing he had accepted the separation. After convincing Langya to unlock him, Cang Mo escaped Azure Wind Hall in a demonic tempest.

• Hong Ling brought food to Azure Wind Hall and saw Cang Mo bound in chains while Langya guarded him.
• Langya and Hong Ling speculated that Cang Mo had failed to win Lin Qingyang because he could not perform, and Cang Mo angrily told them he could hear them.
• Cang Mo said Lin Qingyang had rejected and humiliated him, then promised he would sever their ties and not seek trouble with him.
• Langya comforted Cang Mo and unlocked his chains after he offered to take back responsibility for state affairs.
• Cang Mo unleashed a demonic wind and escaped Azure Wind Hall, leaving Langya and Hong Ling to realize he had tricked them.

Lin Qingyang gave Feng Shu and Feng Yi a large sum of spirit stones and told them he planned to wander the world rather than return to the Immortal Alliance. Their conversation about the Demon King Cang Mo was interrupted by Yun Zhan, who came to the Hidden Market searching for the missing Lu Ming.

• Lin Qingyang gave Feng Shu and Feng Yi spirit stone notes as compensation for neglecting them, and Feng Shu said he understood why Lin had stayed hidden to avenge the sect leader and Elder Xue.
• Lin Qingyang told his disciples he would travel the world and might not see them for a long time, advising them to cultivate, flee from dangerous fights, and seek Elder Mo's help if needed.
• Feng Yi asked what had happened between Lin Qingyang and the Demon King Cang Mo, leaving Lin silent and Feng Shu flustered.
• Yun Zhan arrived and told Lin Qingyang that Lu Ming had vanished after coming to the Hidden Market to buy spirit herbs, and that his bonded sword talisman could no longer locate him.
• Lin Qingyang offered to have someone investigate where Lu Ming was last seen, and Yun Zhan thanked him.

Lin Qingyang helped Yun Zhan track Lu Ming to Carefree House and used his array to travel with him to Sifang City. Though Yun Zhan came to find his fellow disciple, Lin Qingyang entered the brothel eager to enjoy himself.

• Yun Zhan asked Lin Qingyang where he had learned Heavenly Execution, and Lin Qingyang explained that he discovered the move in his senior brother’s belongings.
• Zhu Ji reported that Lu Ming had left the Hidden Market and that a clerk recognized Carefree House’s incense on him.
• Lin Qingyang offered to use his Ten-Thousand-Li Tianyan Array to take Yun Zhan to Carefree House, then joined him in the teleportation.
• In Sifang City, Yun Zhan drove away the approaching women with his Sword Intent while Lin Qingyang ordered a private room and food and wine.
• Lin Qingyang told Yun Zhan that he had come to spend money, then swaggered upstairs.

Lin Qingyang visited the Carefree House with Yun Zhan, using the promise of its top courtesan to uncover where Yun Zhan’s junior sect brother had gone. After Yun Zhan left, Cang Mo arrived and confronted Lin Qingyang over celebrating their breakup at the pleasure house, pinning him to the couch.

• Lin Qingyang paid the Carefree House manager to arrange its top courtesan while Yun Zhan asked whether a Divine Sword Mountain disciple had visited.
• The manager revealed that a young man with a sword had booked the Heaven Room for a day and a night, and Yun Zhan went with her to find his junior sect brother.
• Alone in the room, Lin Qingyang drank, grew bored, and waited for Fairy Shuangwei.
• Cang Mo arrived, awakened Lin Qingyang’s Demon Mark, seized him, and demanded to know why he was celebrating their breakup at the Carefree House.
• Lin Qingyang taunted Cang Mo about selling himself, and Cang Mo threatened to personally liven things up for him.

Cang Mo used the Demon Mark and his heart’s blood to arouse and restrain Lin Qingyang, then confronted him about leaving and his apparent closeness with Yun Zhan. After Yun Zhan mistook the sounds inside for Lin Qingyang enjoying himself, he left, and Cang Mo demanded to know how Lin Qingyang had grown so close to him.

• Cang Mo told Lin Qingyang that his heart’s blood and the Demon Mark let him arouse and find him, and taunted him about leaving.
• Cang Mo accused Lin Qingyang of hurting and humiliating him and threatened to keep him confined in Azure Wind Hall.
• Yun Zhan knocked and told Lin Qingyang that Lu Ming was missing from his room, while Cang Mo secretly touched and bit Lin Qingyang.
• Yun Zhan advised Lin Qingyang not to grieve over someone unworthy, and Cang Mo reacted jealously by biting his neck.
• Lin Qingyang convinced Yun Zhan that nothing was wrong and told him not to spoil his fun, prompting Yun Zhan to leave in embarrassment.
• Cang Mo pressed the bite marks on Lin Qingyang’s neck and demanded to know when he had become so close to Yun Zhan.

Cang Mo confronted Lin Qingyang about his missing Spiritual Power, then their intimacy turned desperate as Lin Qingyang concealed his anguish behind taunts. The chapter ended with Cang Mo giving in to Lin Qingyang’s provocation and kissing him fiercely.

• Cang Mo examined Lin Qingyang’s Spiritual Root and questioned why his Spiritual Power had vanished again.
• Lin Qingyang claimed he had not recovered and said he had endured Cang Mo’s treatment to lure Bi Yue out.
• Cang Mo noticed Lin Qingyang had grown thin and saw him crying, then asked whether he was hiding something.
• Lin Qingyang dismissed Cang Mo’s concern and provoked him by mentioning other people at Carefree House.
• Cang Mo lost his restraint and kissed Lin Qingyang with desperate intensity.