Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyang tried to send Cang Mo away after their reunion, but Cang Mo refused to accept that their bond was over. A disturbance at Carefree House brought Yun Zhan into the room, where he mistook the scene and attacked Cang Mo after reporting that Fairy Shuangwei had been murdered with a demonic-qi wound.

• Cang Mo offered to leave Demon Emperor City and promised to obey Lin Qingyang, but Lin Qingyang told him there would be no next time.
• Lin Qingyang dressed and urged Cang Mo to return to Demon Emperor City, while Cang Mo insisted they were bound for life and refused to be driven away.
• Lin Qingyang struggled to hide his feelings for Cang Mo when a scream and uproar erupted outside their room.
• Cang Mo shielded Lin Qingyang as Yun Zhan burst through the door and saw Lin Qingyang's torn clothing and marks.
• Yun Zhan attacked Cang Mo, and Lin Qingyang stopped him, calling it a misunderstanding.
• Yun Zhan reported that Fairy Shuangwei had been murdered with demonic qi in the fatal wound.

Yun Zhan confronted Cang Mo over Fairy Shuangwei’s murder, but Lin Qingyang stopped their fight so they could investigate the corpse. The body suddenly split apart and launched black blades of light at the three of them.

• Yun Zhan accused Cang Mo of killing Fairy Shuangwei, while Cang Mo denied it and said he had only knocked her unconscious and left her in an empty room.
• Yun Zhan and Cang Mo clashed until Lin Qingyang urged them to investigate the murder instead of fighting; both men put away their weapons.
• Cang Mo carried Lin Qingyang from the ruined room and helped him dress before they followed Yun Zhan to the guest room where the corpse lay.
• Lin Qingyang saw that a demonic blade had severed the woman’s head, and Cang Mo identified the foul demonic qi as smelling like a bird.
• The headless corpse began twitching, then burst into pieces and sent black blades of light flying toward Lin Qingyang, Cang Mo, and Yun Zhan.

Lu Ming attacked the Carefree House after refining himself into an Otherworldly Demon, and Yun Zhan and Cang Mo fought to stop him. The chapter ended with Yun Zhan blocking Cang Mo’s killing blow against Lu Ming.

• After the headless woman’s corpse exploded, Cang Mo shielded Lin Qingyang while Yun Zhan deflected the poisoned blades; they recognized the corpse’s sword qi as Divine Sword Mountain’s.
• Yun Zhan, Lin Qingyang, and Cang Mo found the Carefree House’s steward dead and discovered Lu Ming transformed by Demonic Qi and wielding a poisoned sword.
• Lu Ming attacked a fleeing bystander, whose corpse blackened and shriveled after a poisoned blade grazed him.
• Lu Ming attacked Lin Qingyang, but Cang Mo shielded him while Yun Zhan fought Lu Ming and urged him to stop.
• Cang Mo struck Lu Ming hard enough to break his sword and send him crashing into a wall, but Yun Zhan intervened and blocked Cang Mo’s killing blow with Lingyun Sword.

Lu Ming attacked Lin Qingyang with poisonous sword qi, but Cang Mo shielded him and Yun Zhan killed Lu Ming. As Lin Qingyang helped the poisoned Cang Mo leave, Lu Qing blamed Yun Zhan and struck him from behind, sealing his spiritual meridians.

• Lu Ming turned his broken sword into poisonous blood-red sword qi and attacked Lin Qingyang, but Cang Mo took the blows while Yun Zhan sent Lu Ming crashing into the rubble.
• Lu Ming revealed that he had refined a Zhen Demon's Demon Core and prepared another attack, but Yun Zhan cut his throat and killed him.
• Lin Qingyang hurried to support the badly poisoned Cang Mo and planned to take him to Ku Rong for help.
• Divine Sword Mountain disciples arrived, and Lu Qing found Lu Ming's body and accused Cang Mo of killing his son.
• Yun Zhan admitted that he had killed Lu Ming after Lu Ming became an Otherworldly Demon, and Lu Qing accepted that his son had fallen into evil.
• As Lin Qingyang led Cang Mo away, Lu Qing attacked Yun Zhan from behind, knocked him down, and sealed his spiritual meridians.

Lu Qing concealed Lu Ming's transformation and death by blaming Cang Mo, then tried to kill him as Cang Mo and Lin Qingyang escaped and were ambushed. Lin Qingyang defended Cang Mo, but Lu Qing unleashed a storm of sword shadows against them.

• Lu Qing accused Cang Mo of killing Lu Ming and had Yun Zhan restrained after Yun Zhan revealed the truth.
• Lu Qing struck Yun Zhan unconscious for protesting, then attacked Cang Mo, who escaped the Carefree House with Lin Qingyang.
• Divine Sword Mountain disciples ambushed Cang Mo and Lin Qingyang outside, bound Cang Mo in Demon-Capturing Nets, and Lu Qing pursued them.
• Lin Qingyang blocked Lu Qing's killing strike, forced him back, and cut Cang Mo free from the nets.
• Lu Qing ordered his disciples to kill them, then unleashed dozens of sword shadows at Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo.

Mo Yan rescued Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo from Lu Qing, but during their flight Lin Qingyang collapsed after using spiritual power. As Feng Shu raced toward the Hidden Market, Cang Mo watched Lin Qingyang lose consciousness and feared for his life.

• Mo Yan arrived in a burst of lightning, defeated Lu Qing's sword shadows, and carried Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo into Feng Shu and Feng Yi's carriage.
• In the carriage, Cang Mo's demon poison began to subside, and Lin Qingyang urged him to rule carefully and prevent a war between the Human Clan and the Demon Clan.
• Lin Qingyang began coughing up blood and collapsed, prompting Mo Yan to realize he had used spiritual power.
• Mo Yan poured spiritual power into Lin Qingyang while Feng Shu drove the carriage toward the Hidden Market.
• Cang Mo wept as Lin Qingyang's bloodied hand brushed his cheek and then fell limp.

Cang Mo discovered that Lin Qingyang had removed his own spiritual root and died, and his grief turned to rage as he refused to let him go. He used a blood contract to transfer his demonic power and lifespan to Lin Qingyang, disappearing with him in the totem’s light.

• Cang Mo learned that Lin Qingyang had dug out his spiritual root and saw that he had died.
• Cang Mo realized Lin Qingyang had anticipated his death and erupted with demonic power, driving everyone back.
• Lin Qingyang’s demon mark formed an ancient crimson-gold Wolf-Head Totem around him and Cang Mo.
• Ku Rong identified the ritual as a blood contract that transferred Cang Mo’s primal demonic power and lifespan to Lin Qingyang.
• Cang Mo kissed Lin Qingyang as the totem flared and swallowed them both.

Lin Qingyang dreamed he had returned to Clear Wind Pavilion and reunited with a young Qi Mo, but the dream shifted to reveal Cang Mo beneath him. Cang Mo told him it was time to wake, and Lin Qingyang opened his eyes in a room at Fusheng Pavilion.

• Lin Qingyang woke in Clear Wind Pavilion and found young Qi Mo bringing him tea.
• Lin Qingyang teased Qi Mo about his messy writing, then grabbed his tail and struck him with a ruler.
• Lin Qingyang pinned Qi Mo to the couch and kissed him, but recognized the silver-haired Cang Mo beneath him.
• Lin Qingyang remembered Cang Mo's poisoned blood and their farewell, then wept as Cang Mo told him to wake.
• The dream shattered, and Lin Qingyang opened his eyes in a room on Fusheng Pavilion's top floor.

Lin Qingyang woke after five days and learned that A-Qi had formed a blood contract to save him, leaving the wolf cub weakened and tied to Lin Qingyang’s failing life. Ku Rong said they both would die within two months unless Lin Qingyang’s spiritual root could be rebuilt with the Nirvana Lotus, and Jin Buhuan arrived with news that he had found it.

• Lin Qingyang woke in Fusheng Pavilion and learned that A-Qi had transferred his demonic power and lifespan through a blood contract to save him.
• Lin Qingyang rushed to the medicine room and found A-Qi transformed into a weak wolf cub after exhausting his demonic power.
• Ku Rong revealed that Lin Qingyang’s spiritual root had withered and that both he and A-Qi would die within two months unless they found the Nirvana Lotus.
• Jin Buhuan appeared at the medicine room and announced that he had found the whereabouts of the Nirvana Lotus.

Jin Buhuan revealed that the clue to the Nirvana Lotus lay in the Jade Capital, and Hai Lan arrived to escort the group there. As the group questioned the message and the destination, Zhu Ji described the Jade Capital as a paradise on earth.

• Jin Buhuan's phantom announced that the clue to the Nirvana Lotus was in the Jade Capital and left behind a Sound Transmission Shell.
• Hai Lan arrived with the shell, introduced himself as a Merfolk of the Sea Tribe, and offered to escort everyone to the Jade Capital.
• Hai Lan recognized Lin Qingyang from the Jin Yao Workshop and kissed his hand, prompting A-Qi to bite him.
• Ku Rong and Mo Yan questioned whether the Nirvana Lotus could truly be in the Jade Capital, while Hai Lan said he only knew what the High Priest had told him.
• Hong Ling asked what kind of place the Jade Capital was, and Zhu Ji called it a paradise on earth.

Lin Qingyang prepared to travel to Jade Capital with the wounded Cang Mo to search for the Nirvana Lotus, while arranging for the others to protect the Human and Demon factions. The chapter ended with Lin Qingyang taking the struggling wolf cub to give him a bath before their journey.

• After hearing that the Nirvana Lotus was in Jade Capital, Mo Yan, Langya, and Hong Ling volunteered to go, but Hailan said the High Priest required Lin Qingyang to make the journey in person.
• Lin Qingyang decided to leave for Jade Capital the next morning and told Langya and Hong Ling to return to Demon Emperor City to keep the Demon Clan stable while Cang Mo was gravely wounded.
• Lin Qingyang asked Feng Shu to deliver a letter to Jian Hong about Carefree House and ordered Feng Yi to remain at Fusheng Pavilion.
• Mo Yan agreed to accompany Lin Qingyang to protect him on the way to Jade Capital.
• As Lin Qingyang packed, Cang Mo climbed into his bundle to insist on coming, and Lin Qingyang promised to take him before carrying him off for a bath.

Lin Qingyang bathed and cared for Cang Mo, who had regressed to a wolf cub after binding their lives together. Their teasing and tenderness eased the fear of losing each other, and they ended the night playfully wrestling on the bed.

• Lin Qingyang carried the embarrassed Cang Mo into the bath and washed him, revealing the Demon Mark on his back.
• Cang Mo became aroused while seeing Lin Qingyang naked and developed a nosebleed, then spoke aloud to stop Lin Qingyang from calling Ku Rong.
• Lin Qingyang realized the nosebleed was caused by Cang Mo’s desire, teased him, and let him bite his chest before Cang Mo licked the marks.
• Cang Mo said he had bound their lives together so Lin Qingyang could never leave him again, and Lin Qingyang admitted how deeply the devotion moved him.
• After the bath, Cang Mo tenderly licked Lin Qingyang’s scar, then reluctantly wagged his tail when Lin Qingyang teased him.
• Cang Mo threatened to get even once he regained human form, and he and Lin Qingyang tumbled together on the bed.

Lin Qingyang and his companions traveled to the Jade Capital, where they discovered that entry required an extravagant boat fare. As the ferry carried them toward the city, its boatman explained why many cultivators left their sects to earn a living there.

• Lin Qingyang set out with Cang Mo, Ku Rong, Mo Yan, and Hai Lan, while Zhu Ji and Feng Yi saw them off.
• The group used a Teleportation Array Disk to reach the harbor outside the Jade Capital and learned that only the city's ferryboats could cross the restricted waters.
• A boatman charged them fifty thousand spirit stones for the crossing, counting Cang Mo as a passenger, and Hai Lan paid with five valuable pearls.
• Mo Yan recognized the boatman's Water-Riding Array and questioned why he had left cultivation to work as a ferryman.
• The boatman explained that cultivation required money and that he preferred wealth and freedom, leaving Mo Yan unable to answer as the Jade Capital drew nearer.

Lin Qingyang and the others arrived at the lavish Jade Capital, where they learned that even basic food and lodging cost exorbitant amounts in jade chips. As they passed the city’s gambling tables, an explosion suddenly sounded nearby.

• The pleasure boat brought Lin Qingyang, Mo Yan, Hai Lan, and their companions to the Jade Capital, whose extravagant buildings and decorations shocked them.
• A beauty in purple gauze explained that all expenses in the city required jade chips, and Hai Lan exchanged a bag of pearls for fifty chips.
• Lin Qingyang calculated that the pearls were worth far more outside the city, while the beauty warned that fifty chips would barely cover a meal and a night’s lodging.
• Mo Yan complained about the city’s prices, and Lin Qingyang called it the World of Money.
• The group walked past gamblers from both the Human Clan and Demon Clan, then heard a sudden explosion at a busy intersection.

Lin Qingyang and the others witnessed the Jade Capital’s brutal gambling rules before reaching Jin Buhuan’s room at Falling Moon Pavilion. They discovered that Jin Buhuan had lost a wager against the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable and was being held at the Limitless Platform, leaving them to figure out how to rescue him.

• A furious gambler attacked a dealer, but the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable immobilized him and took his cultivation and lifespan to pay his debt, turning them into golden rain for the glass Phoenix.
• Lin Qingyang, Mo Yan, Ku Rong, and Hai Lan went to Falling Moon Pavilion to find Jin Buhuan, and the proprietor told them Jin had gone out two days earlier.
• After entering Jin Buhuan’s suite, the group heard his voice and learned he had found a lead that the Nirvana Lotus had appeared in the Jade Capital five hundred years ago.
• Jin Buhuan revealed through an illusion that he had lost a wager against the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable and was being held at the Limitless Platform.
• Jin Buhuan’s illusion vanished, leaving a colorful seashell behind, and Lin Qingyang asked Hai Lan what the Limitless Platform was.

Lin Qingyang learned that reaching the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable required entering Great Dream Heaven with ten thousand Jade Chips and defeating the Exquisite Fairy. After discovering that the Immortal Venerable was likely a Great Demon, Lin Qingyang set off for Great Dream Heaven despite having only a few dozen Jade Chips.

• Hai Lan explained that the High Priest was trapped on the Limitless Platform in Great Dream Heaven, which required ten thousand Jade Chips to enter.
• Lin Qingyang ordered food and called for a girl, angering Cang Mo, then questioned the woman about the Limitless Platform.
• The woman explained that challengers had to beat the Exquisite Fairy before gambling against the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable, and warned that few challengers returned safely.
• Cang Mo revealed that the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable was a Great Demon and that demonic qi surged beneath the Jade Capital.
• Despite having only about twenty Jade Chips left, Lin Qingyang announced that they would go to Great Dream Heaven.

Lin Qingyang used Cang Mo as collateral to gain entry to Great Dream Heaven, and the Heaven-Measuring Scale revealed that Cang Mo was worth more than ten million jade chips before it shattered. Lin Qingyang and his companions crossed the river into Great Dream Heaven, while the gamblers stared at Cang Mo with greed.

• Lin Qingyang rang the bell at the riverbank and told the beauty in purple gauze that he wanted to enter Great Dream Heaven without having ten thousand jade chips.
• Lin Qingyang placed Cang Mo on the Heaven-Measuring Scale as collateral, but it initially showed zero and the beauty accused him of wasting her time.
• When the beauty threatened to collect compensation from Lin Qingyang's cultivation and lifespan, Cang Mo's gaze made the scale's value surge past ten million jade chips and shatter.
• The beauty in purple gauze accepted Cang Mo's value as sufficient collateral and summoned a bridge of Glazed Brocade Carp across the river.
• Lin Qingyang, Mo Yan, Ku Rong, and Hai Lan crossed the bridge into Great Dream Heaven with Cang Mo in Lin Qingyang's arms.

Lin Qingyang entered Great Dream Heaven, where gamblers wagered lifespans and other valuables, and received an invitation from Exquisite Fairy. She demanded that he gamble or surrender Cang Mo as the price of leaving, forcing Lin Qingyang to accept that he had no choice.

• Lin Qingyang and his companions crossed into Great Dream Heaven and saw a Daoist lose his final thirty years of life to a Demon Clan gambler.
• A golden light marked Lin Qingyang, and two attendants invited him to meet Exquisite Fairy.
• Exquisite Fairy recognized Cang Mo as the creature that had burst the Heaven-Measuring Scales and tried to touch him, but Lin Qingyang blocked her.
• Exquisite Fairy insisted Lin Qingyang gamble with her, threatening to keep Cang Mo if he refused to play or pay ten thousand jade chips.

Lin Qingyang challenged Exquisite Fairy to a simple Jade Chip game that depended on counting rather than luck. He left her with five chips and a forced loss, then asked whether she wanted to keep playing.

• Lin Qingyang proposed a game in which players took one to three Jade Chips, and whoever had to take the last one lost.
• Exquisite Fairy agreed and took one chip first, then she and Lin Qingyang continued taking turns.
• Lin Qingyang stopped when five Jade Chips remained in the box.
• Mo Yan realized Exquisite Fairy would lose no matter how many chips she took, because Lin Qingyang could leave her the last one.
• Exquisite Fairy stared at the chips in disbelief, and Lin Qingyang asked whether she wanted to keep taking them.

Lin Qingyang beat Exquisite Fairy at her Jade Chip game and climbed to the Limitless Platform with Cang Mo. There, he found Jin Buhuan transformed into a glass turtle and met the Divine Jade Immortal Venerable, who threatened to turn him into a glass ornament.

• Exquisite Fairy challenged Lin Qingyang to play again, but the Welcoming Stairway appeared and allowed only him to ascend unless his companions played another round.
• Lin Qingyang explained to Cang Mo that he had won by using a counting strategy that guaranteed he would take the final Jade Chip.
• Lin Qingyang carried Cang Mo up the glass stairway and reached the Limitless Platform, where the Glazed Tree and its treasures stood.
• Lin Qingyang recognized Jin Buhuan in the form of a golden glass turtle and teased him about looking wealthy.
• The Divine Jade Immortal Venerable appeared and told Lin Qingyang he would look beautiful as a glass figure on his shelf.