Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyang ate the Nirvana Lotus, which rebuilt his spiritual root but left him with almost no spiritual power. The others realized he would have to cultivate from the beginning.

• Langya questioned the exhausted group about their search for the Nirvana Lotus, while Hong Ling used Cang Mo's appearance to tease Mo Yan until Cang Mo changed him back.
• Jin Buhuan and Ku Rong debated how to prepare the Nirvana Lotus, but Lin Qingyang ate it raw.
• The lotus sent Lin Qingyang's divine sense through visions of the universe and a hospital, where he saw himself unconscious and Lin Yao speaking with a doctor.
• Cang Mo caught Lin Qingyang as he woke, and Ku Rong examined him and confirmed that his spiritual root had been reconstructed.
• Lin Qingyang tried to use spiritual power but managed only a faint light and breeze, and Ku Rong explained that his former cultivation was gone and he had to start over.

After returning to Azure Wind Hall, Lin Qingyang faced Cang Mo’s demand to define their relationship and answered that he liked him. Cang Mo received the reassurance he had long wanted after Lin Qingyang burned the Divorce Letter and joined him in the bath.

• Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo returned to Azure Wind Hall, where Lin Qingyang found the Divorce Letter on his desk.
• Cang Mo locked the doors and confronted Lin Qingyang, asking what exactly they were to each other.
• Lin Qingyang burned the Divorce Letter, then invited Cang Mo to join him in the bath.
• Cang Mo kissed Lin Qingyang and asked whether he liked him.
• Lin Qingyang remembered how he could not bear to see Cang Mo die, then answered yes.

Lin Qingyang suffered cultivation deviation after secretly eating Spiritual Marrow, and his friends suppressed the dangerous spiritual power inside him. After waking, he returned to Cang Mo and unexpectedly slapped him, speaking with cold disdain.

• Langya showed Lin Qingyang and the others the guards killed by the Nine Heavens Sword fragment at the Purification Pool, and Lin Qingyang theorized that the fragment had flown out on its own.
• Lin Qingyang coughed blood, and Ku Rong discovered that he had eaten Spiritual Marrow, a treasure meant for Mahayana cultivators.
• Lin Qingyang lost his temper and collapsed, so Ku Rong and the others worked to suppress the rampaging spiritual power inside him.
• Yin Yu told Cang Mo that the Nine Heavens Sword had not been found in the rubble on Headless Mountain.
• Cang Mo prepared food for Lin Qingyang, but when Lin Qingyang returned from outside, he slapped Cang Mo and demanded to know who had allowed him to speak that way.

After Lin Qingyang absorbed the jade marrow, his spiritual power stabilized, but he began acting cold and imperious toward Cang Mo, repeatedly slapping him. Ku Rong concluded that Lin Qingyang was not ill or confused, but was letting his suppressed desire to hit Cang Mo come out.

• Cang Mo carried the barefoot Lin Qingyang inside and tried to warm and dress his feet, but Lin Qingyang ordered him to kneel and slapped him when he hesitated.
• Cang Mo brought Lin Qingyang to Gu Teng's treehouse, where Ku Rong checked his pulse and found his spiritual power stable.
• Lin Qingyang slapped Cang Mo again, and Ku Rong explained that the turmoil in his spiritual power had magnified feelings he normally suppressed.
• Cang Mo remembered the ways he had mistreated Lin Qingyang since their reunion and guiltily looked away.
• Lin Qingyang left the treehouse, and Cang Mo followed after Ku Rong advised him not to provoke him.

Cang Mo tried to make amends to Lin Qingyang, but Lin Qingyang revealed that he wanted to dominate and torment him rather than punish him out of anger. The chapter ended with Cang Mo wearing the Demon-Locking Ring at Lin Qingyang’s command as they drew close behind the hall’s closed doors.

• Cang Mo brought Lin Qingyang back to Azure Wind Hall, warmed their meal, and ate with him in silence.
• Cang Mo apologized and knelt before Lin Qingyang, who rewarded him with a touch and let him call him “Master.”
• Lin Qingyang ordered Cang Mo to reveal his wolf ears and tail, then stepped on his tail and pushed him away.
• Cang Mo recognized Lin Qingyang’s familiar, wicked gaze and realized Lin Qingyang desired having control over him.
• Lin Qingyang brought out the Demon-Locking Ring and told Cang Mo to wear only that; Cang Mo obeyed and fastened it around his neck.
• Lin Qingyang pulled Cang Mo close by the ring as the hall’s crystal lamps went out.

Lin Qingyang woke beside Cang Mo with memories of their night together and discovered that his Spiritual Power had briefly returned. At a meeting in Demon Emperor City, the group learned that a Myriad Spirits Sect disciple had been killed with an ice spike, pointing them toward Xue Lanyuan.

• Lin Qingyang woke beside Cang Mo and remembered how he had treated him while under the influence of the fake jade marrow.
• Cang Mo teased Lin Qingyang about the night before, and Lin Qingyang accidentally sent him tumbling off the bed with a burst of Spiritual Power.
• Lin Qingyang tried to use his Spiritual Power on a teacup, but the power vanished before he could move it.
• Jin Buhuan summoned Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo to the great hall with news from the Immortal Alliance.
• Mo Yan reported that a Myriad Spirits Sect disciple had been killed with an ice spike formed from Spiritual Power, leading everyone to suspect Xue Lanyuan.

Lin Qingyang worried about Xue Lanyuan and Cang Mo’s feelings as his spiritual power remained unstable, but Cang Mo reassured him that he did not blame him for what happened in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest. The next morning, Lin Qingyang, Cang Mo, Mo Yan, and a disguised Jin Buhuan prepared to travel to the Myriad Spirits Sect.

• Ku Rong told Lin Qingyang that his rebuilt spiritual meridians needed time to adjust, while Lin Qingyang worried about Xue Lanyuan’s appearance near the Myriad Spirits Sect.
• Cang Mo removed his Demon-Locking Ring and insisted on accompanying Lin Qingyang to the Myriad Spirits Sect, refusing to let him go with Mo Yan alone.
• Cang Mo told Lin Qingyang that he had never blamed him for leaving him in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest and admitted he had blamed himself for being unable to protect him.
• Lin Qingyang embraced Cang Mo as they let go of some of their guilt over the past.
• The next morning, Cang Mo joined Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan outside the Demon King Palace, despite Mo Yan’s concern that he would be recognized at the Myriad Spirits Sect.
• Jin Buhuan arrived disguised as a woman using a Transformation Technique he had learned from Hong Ling, leaving Mo Yan embarrassed to be his fellow disciple.

Lin Qingyang and his companions arrived at the Myriad Spirits Sect to investigate a disciple killed at an abandoned mine, where they discovered traces of Xue Lanyuan’s spiritual power and a demonic presence. The sect master’s daughter, Su Ruohuan, had already entered the dangerous mine alone.

• Feng Shu and Feng Yi welcomed Lin Qingyang, while Cang Mo stopped Feng Yi from embracing him and Feng Shu prevented Feng Yi from recognizing Cang Mo and Jin Buhuan.
• Sect master Su Jingui explained that a white mist had trapped disciples at an abandoned mine and that one disciple had been found dead.
• Jin Buhuan examined the icy spike in the corpse and confirmed it carried Xue Lanyuan’s spiritual power, raising the possibility that she was still alive.
• Cang Mo detected a strange demonic smell on the corpse.
• A disciple reported that Su Ruohuan had gone into the abandoned mine, and Su Jingui urgently sought help from Lin Qingyang and Mo Yan.

Lin Qingyang and his companions entered the frozen mountains to find Su Ruohuan and discovered several dead disciples killed by ice attacks. After dodging wind blades from a mine, they found Su Ruohuan alive, and she greeted Lin Qingyang as her master.

• Lin Qingyang led Cang Mo, Jin Buhuan, and Mo Yan into the mist while Su Jingui waited outside.
• The group found the mountain frozen solid, and Cang Mo followed a living person's scent deeper inside.
• They discovered several Myriad Spirits Sect disciples frozen beneath rubble and near abandoned huts, each killed by an ice icicle through the heart.
• Air blades shot from a mine entrance, but Cang Mo stopped attacking when he recognized their pattern.
• Lin Qingyang called to Su Ruohuan, who emerged from the cave and greeted him as her master.

Lin Qingyang reunited with his disciple Su Ruohuan and helped rescue a frozen Myriad Spirits Sect survivor, while Cang Mo bristled at their closeness. The survivor began describing the attacker, but a sudden wave of cold and fog heralded the arrival of a familiar figure.

• Su Ruohuan called Lin Qingyang her master, and he explained that he had secretly taken her as his disciple years earlier.
• Su Ruohuan led Lin Qingyang and the others to a frozen disciple, and Mo Yan used fire-element spiritual power to revive him.
• Cang Mo warmed Lin Qingyang with demonic fire, then called himself Lin Qingyang's enemy until Lin Qingyang introduced him as his master's wife.
• The revived disciple said a woman—or possibly a demon—had killed the others and frozen him in place.
• A cold gust extinguished the demonic fire, and dense fog surged into the cave as Cang Mo recognized a familiar figure approaching.

Lin Qingyang and his companions found Xue Lanyuan alive but transformed and under heavy demonic influence. After she defeated the others and trapped Cang Mo beneath the frozen lake, she killed the fleeing Myriad Spirits Sect disciple and faced Lin Qingyang.

• Lin Qingyang, Mo Yan, and Jin Buhuan recognized Xue Lanyuan, but she showed no sign of knowing them and attacked the Myriad Spirits Sect disciple.
• Su Ruohuan, Mo Yan, and Jin Buhuan attacked Xue Lanyuan, who froze all three in the mine.
• Cang Mo shielded Lin Qingyang from Xue Lanyuan’s blizzard, then chased her out of the mine while Lin Qingyang followed.
• Xue Lanyuan lured Cang Mo toward the frozen pool, where he fell into the water and became sealed beneath thick ice.
• Xue Lanyuan killed the fleeing Myriad Spirits Sect disciple with an ice spike, then faced Lin Qingyang.

Lin Qingyang and the others discovered that Xue Lanyuan had killed Myriad Spirits Sect disciples infected by Corpse-Blood Tai Sui parasites. They realized she had frozen the mine to contain the outbreak, while Xue Lanyuan remained mindless and unresponsive.

• Cang Mo emerged from the frozen lake and protected Lin Qingyang from Xue Lanyuan, but Lin Qingyang stopped him from attacking her.
• Lin Qingyang pointed out that Xue Lanyuan had killed only Myriad Spirits Sect disciples and had not tried to kill their group.
• The group examined a disciple's corpse and found its flesh and organs drained, with white fungal threads converging on a parasite that had replaced the heart.
• Jin Buhuan identified the parasite as a Corpse-Blood Tai Sui that drained its host and spread spores through controlled bodies.
• Lin Qingyang concluded that Xue Lanyuan had frozen the mine and killed the infected disciples to contain the parasite outbreak, while she sat silently in the snow.

In the frozen mine, Lin Qingyang and the others learned that Xue Lanyuan had lost her memories and emotions to demonic qi, but she pointed them toward the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui. Outside, two missing Myriad Spirits Sect disciples returned infected with Tai Sui Mycelium, and the outbreak began spreading among the rescuers.

• Jin Buhuan explained that Xue Lanyuan’s demonic qi had erased her memories and emotions, and that her condition was irreversible.
• Lin Qingyang asked Xue Lanyuan where the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui was, and she pointed toward the center of the mine.
• Two missing Myriad Spirits Sect disciples emerged from the fog, and Feng Shu discovered that one of them was a corpse-like creature filled with writhing filaments.
• The creature sprayed Tai Sui Mycelium onto another disciple, which burrowed into him and rapidly shriveled his body.
• Su Jingui ordered everyone to retreat and called for the Immortal Alliance.

Lin Qingyang and the others found a Corpse-Blood Tai Sui frozen beneath the valley and realized someone had deliberately brought it to the abandoned mine. As they searched for a way to kill it, Xue Lanyuan vanished and the ice began to crack above the monster.

• Xue Lanyuan led the group through the storm to a quiet, snow-covered valley, where Cang Mo revealed a frozen lake beneath the snow.
• The group discovered a gigantic Corpse-Blood Tai Sui, with countless corpses embedded in its flesh, beneath the transparent ice.
• Lin Qingyang suspected the monster had been deliberately placed in the mine, while Mo Yan urged them to destroy it before the ice melted.
• Jin Buhuan explained that the Tai Sui could regenerate from its fungal threads and that its Demon Core had to be destroyed without letting the threads touch them.
• Su Ruohuan noticed Xue Lanyuan was missing, and Lin Qingyang realized the snowfall had stopped.
• A fissure rapidly opened in the ice above the Tai Sui's thickest fungal thread.

Cang Mo led the group against the regenerating Corpse-Blood Tai Sui, then appeared to be swallowed alive after splitting its body. Lin Qingyang was left staring in shock as the Tai Sui re-formed into an even larger mass.

• Cang Mo rescued Lin Qingyang from the collapsing ice and helped the group retreat as the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui emerged from the lake.
• Jin Buhuan, Mo Yan, and Su Ruohuan fought off the Tai Sui’s fungal threads and corpse puppets, while the creatures kept regenerating.
• A reanimated Myriad Spirits Sect disciple knocked Su Ruohuan down, but her Top-Grade Protective Jade Pendant shielded her from its fungal threads.
• Cang Mo charged the Tai Sui and cut its main body in two with the Howling Moon Saber, stopping the corpses’ attack.
• The Tai Sui released red mist, snapped its halves shut around Cang Mo, and re-formed as Lin Qingyang watched in horror.

After the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui swallowed Cang Mo, Lin Qingyang unleashed his recovered spiritual power and tore the monster apart in a furious attack. Cang Mo revealed he had escaped unharmed, but the Tai Sui’s Demon Core vanished through a Ten-Thousand-Li Tianyan Array.

• Lin Qingyang recovered his spiritual power, cut through the attacking zombies, and charged the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui, demanding that it spit Cang Mo out.
• Lin Qingyang used Divine Wind Slash to shatter the ice and reduce the Tai Sui to mangled flesh, but found no sign of Cang Mo.
• Cang Mo appeared from a rock ledge and explained that he had jumped clear when the Tai Sui closed up, while the others reacted to Lin Qingyang’s fierce concern for him.
• Cang Mo blasted the Tai Sui’s writhing remains apart, and he and the others searched for its hidden Demon Core.
• Cang Mo spotted the glowing Demon Core in a fleeing piece of flesh, but a Ten-Thousand-Li Tianyan Array transported it away before his saber could hit it.

Lin Qingyang and his companions split up after the Demon Core vanished, with Lin Qingyang, Cang Mo, and Su Ruohuan racing back to the Myriad Spirits Sect while Jin Buhuan and Mo Yan searched for Xue Lanyuan. Jin Buhuan divined Lin Qingyang’s fate and discovered that the death tribulation he thought had been broken still remained.

• Lin Qingyang warned that the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui could be taken to the crowded Myriad Spirits Sect, and the group realized the sect might be in danger.
• Lin Qingyang sent Jin Buhuan and Mo Yan to destroy the remaining flesh and search for Xue Lanyuan while he, Cang Mo, and Su Ruohuan hurried back to the sect.
• On the way, Su Ruohuan recognized Cang Mo as the Demon King, and Lin Qingyang confirmed it; Cang Mo’s attempt to smile only frightened her further.
• Mo Yan burned more scraps of Tai Sui flesh while Jin Buhuan searched for Xue Lanyuan, but they found no trace of her.
• Uneasy about the Myriad Spirits Sect, Jin Buhuan divined Lin Qingyang’s fate and cracked his tortoise shell.
• Jin Buhuan revealed that Lin Qingyang’s death tribulation remained in his fate chart, despite his earlier death and the Nirvana Lotus rebuilding his spiritual root.

Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo learned that the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui had infected several Myriad Spirits Sect disciples, and they realized its missing Demon Core might return to a corpse in the sect’s ice chamber. As they hurried back, Feng Yi discovered that a terrified disciple fleeing the ice chamber had white fungal threads burrowing into his neck.

• Su Ruohuan reunited with Su Jingui, who described infected disciples emerging from the mine and spreading white fungal threads.
• Lin Qingyang found five or six infected disciples fused into a writhing mass and explained that the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui had killed the missing disciples.
• Cang Mo burned the infected disciples in the pit with Demonic Fire after Lin Qingyang warned that the threads threatened anyone living.
• Su Ruohuan warned that the Tai Sui’s Demon Core had been teleported away, and Lin Qingyang realized it might return to a corpse in the sect’s ice chamber.
• Lin Qingyang, Cang Mo, Su Jingui, and Su Ruohuan rushed toward the Myriad Spirits Sect while warning the remaining disciples to stay away from others.
• Feng Yi followed other disciples toward the ice chamber after hearing a scream and saw white fungal threads burrowing into the neck of a fleeing disciple.

The Corpse-Blood Tai Sui fused with the Demon Core and spread through the Myriad Spirits Sect, forcing Feng Yi and the surviving disciples to flee. Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo joined the fight, but the Tai Sui burrowed into the golden toad statue, whose protective light reflected Cang Mo’s strike and wounded him.

• A disciple transformed as the Corpse-Blood Tai Sui burst from the ice chamber and attacked Feng Yi and the other disciples with fungal threads.
• Feng Yi led the fleeing disciples through the sect while infected victims spread through the courtyards.
• Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo arrived, and Cang Mo burned the infected disciples as Su Jingui raised a barrier and ordered everyone to evacuate.
• Lin Qingyang and Cang Mo attacked the Tai Sui with sword qi and demonic fire, but the burning growth burrowed into the golden toad statue.
• Cang Mo struck the statue with the Howling Moon Black Saber, but its golden light reflected his attack with greater force and left him bleeding.

Corpse-Blood Tai Sui merged with the Cloud-Swallowing Golden Toad and took over the Myriad Spirits Sect’s protective formation, gaining a barrier that reflected attacks. The Divine Sword Mountain disciples failed to contain it, and it broke into Myriad Spirits Town’s busiest street.

• Cang Mo and Lin Qingyang discovered that Corpse-Blood Tai Sui was merging with the Cloud-Swallowing Golden Toad, the sect’s formation eye.
• Corpse-Blood Tai Sui absorbed the Golden Toad’s remains and its protective formation, then attacked the courtyard and infected the disciples who had not escaped.
• Yun Zhan and Jian Hong arrived with Divine Sword Mountain disciples, but the Heavenly Gang Demon-Subduing Sword Formation was shattered by the monster’s barrier.
• Lin Qingyang warned the cultivators not to touch the infected disciples, and he urged them to find Li Tian to break the formation.
• Corpse-Blood Tai Sui smashed through the sect gatehouse and crashed onto Myriad Spirits Town’s busiest street.