Recaps

Wang Teng stopped cultivating devil arts in the Confinement Pavilion, though he resolved to use them only once. At the Yuanhao Immortal Sect, Jiang Yantian rested in Lu Jinglan’s courtyard and received a nervous visit from Xie Wanwan.

• Wang Teng felt his viciousness turn into dense Devil Qi, then stopped cultivating and leaned against the wall to rest.
• Lu Jinglan brought Jiang Yantian to a quiet side room near her residence while she went to prepare medicinal herbs.
• Jiang Yantian considered his plans to win over Su Lanyi, find his other wives, and deal with Wang Teng again if they crossed paths.
• Xie Wanwan entered Jiang Yantian’s room with spirit fruits and tea, introduced herself by name, and asked him to call her Wanwan.
• Xie Wanwan told Jiang Yantian that Wang Teng had been locked in the Confinement Pavilion, then poured him tea and brushed his fingers as he took the cup.

Jiang Yantian coaxed Xie Wanwan into defending him and then deliberately let a tea spill reveal his body, intensifying her attraction. Xie Wanwan fled to fetch clean towels and clothes before she could lose control.

• Jiang Yantian blamed himself for the conflict with Wang Teng, and Xie Wanwan insisted he had done a good deed by standing up to him.
• Xie Wanwan fed Jiang Yantian a spirit fruit and grew flustered as she watched him eat.
• Jiang Yantian licked fruit juice from his lips, then spilled tea onto his clothes and opened his robe.
• Xie Wanwan stared at Jiang Yantian's exposed chest and abdomen, overwhelmed by her desire to touch and kiss him.
• Xie Wanwan hurried away to get clean towels and clothes before she gave in to her impulses.

Xie Wanwan helped Jiang Yantian change his wet clothes, then gave in to her desire and kissed his neck. Taking his gentle response as encouragement, she pinned him to the bed and prepared to continue despite his token protests.

• Jiang Yantian caught Xie Wanwan by the wrist and asked her to help him change because he felt weak.
• Xie Wanwan helped Jiang Yantian remove his damp robe and put on clean clothes, growing increasingly flustered by their closeness.
• After checking that Senior Sister Lu Jinglan was not nearby, Xie Wanwan kissed and sucked on Jiang Yantian's neck.
• Xie Wanwan apologized, but Jiang Yantian did not reproach her, and she took his reaction as permission to draw closer.
• Xie Wanwan pinned Jiang Yantian's wrists to the bed, dismissed his weak protests, and said she did not care if he resented her.

Xie Wanwan gave in to her attraction to Jiang Yantian and kissed him passionately until Lu Jinglan’s arrival interrupted them. Lu Jinglan noticed the pair’s suspicious behavior and brought Jiang Yantian medicine, while she and Xie Wanwan both tried to take charge of feeding it to him.

• Xie Wanwan kissed Jiang Yantian repeatedly and began reaching to touch him more intimately.
• When she heard Lu Jinglan approaching, Xie Wanwan hurriedly straightened her clothes and covered Jiang Yantian with a quilt.
• Lu Jinglan entered with medicinal decoction and sensed that Xie Wanwan and Jiang Yantian were acting strangely.
• Xie Wanwan denied doing anything improper when Lu Jinglan questioned her flushed, flustered appearance.
• Lu Jinglan offered to help Jiang Yantian drink the medicine, but Xie Wanwan tried to take the bowl from her.
• Lu Jinglan insisted that the medicine had to be sipped slowly and said she would feed it to Jiang Yantian herself.

Lu Jinglan fed Jiang Yantian his medicine and became increasingly charmed by their conversation, while Xie Wanwan grew jealous and tried to get her senior sister to leave. After Lu Jinglan departed, Xie Wanwan pretended to stroll through the courtyard, then sneaked back to Jiang Yantian’s room, eager to be alone with him.

• Lu Jinglan sat beside Jiang Yantian and fed him his medicine, admiring his propriety as he drank.
• Lu Jinglan and Jiang Yantian chatted at length, and their engaging conversation made Lu Jinglan’s favorable impression of him grow.
• Xie Wanwan grew jealous as she failed to join their conversation, then reminded Lu Jinglan that Jiang Yantian needed rest.
• Jiang Yantian complimented Lu Jinglan and hinted at the good fortune of whoever might marry her, leaving her flustered before she left.
• Xie Wanwan persuaded Lu Jinglan to let her stay, then pretended to stroll around the courtyard after Lu Jinglan departed.
• Xie Wanwan sneaked back to Jiang Yantian’s room, eager to spend time alone with him.

Xie Wanwan secretly kissed and seduced Jiang Yantian while he pretended to be asleep, then went further as he continued to feign helplessness. Lu Jinglan approached to check on him, leaving Xie Wanwan panicking behind the bed curtains.

• Xie Wanwan reasoned that Jiang Yantian welcomed her affection and began kissing him while he pretended to sleep.
• Xie Wanwan grew bolder, climbed onto Jiang Yantian, and continued despite his apparent passivity.
• Xie Wanwan removed her dress, drew the bed curtains, and proceeded to have sex with Jiang Yantian while he remained still.
• Lu Jinglan returned to check on Jiang Yantian, and Xie Wanwan heard her approaching while she was still joined to him.
• Xie Wanwan feared Lu Jinglan would discover them and wondered whether to pull her senior sister into the situation if she lifted the curtains.

Xie Wanwan tried to hide in Jiang Yantian's bed while Lu Jinglan checked on him, but Lu Jinglan discovered Xie Wanwan's shoes and realized she was behind the curtains. Xie Wanwan knew she had been exposed and faced the humiliating moment without a way to hide.

• Lu Jinglan knocked and asked Jiang Yantian about his injuries, while Xie Wanwan decided to stay quiet and pretend he was asleep.
• Lu Jinglan entered and sat outside the closed bed curtains, asking how Jiang Yantian felt.
• Xie Wanwan imitated Jiang Yantian's voice and gave brief answers until Lu Jinglan decided to leave.
• Lu Jinglan spotted Xie Wanwan's embroidered shoes beside the bed and suspected she was behind the curtains.
• Lu Jinglan asked whether Xie Wanwan was inside, and Xie Wanwan realized she had been exposed.

Lu Jinglan discovered Xie Wanwan with Jiang Yantian behind the curtains and concluded that her junior sister had willingly pursued him. Xie Wanwan then urged Lu Jinglan to join them, leaving her senior sister shocked and furious.

• Xie Wanwan peeked out from behind the curtains, flushed and disheveled, and addressed Lu Jinglan as Senior Sister.
• Lu Jinglan pieced together what had happened and suspected Xie Wanwan had forced herself on Jiang Yantian, but concluded her junior sister had acted willingly out of infatuation.
• Xie Wanwan admitted she liked Brother Jiang and was willing, while Lu Jinglan ordered her to dress and leave.
• Xie Wanwan told Lu Jinglan she could see that her senior sister also liked Jiang Yantian and invited her to join them.
• Lu Jinglan angrily called Xie Wanwan shameless and demanded she come out, but Xie Wanwan insisted that an hour of pleasure with Brother Jiang surpassed thousands of years of cultivation.

Xie Wanwan tried to convince Lu Jinglan to embrace her feelings for Jiang Yantian, then revealed that their master, Qiong Yu, had apparently confessed her love for someone in her sleep. Lu Jinglan was left reeling after learning that Qiong Yu had called the person the Imperishable Devil Emperor.

• Xie Wanwan urged Lu Jinglan to stop denying her attraction to Jiang Yantian and described the pleasure and emotional connection she had experienced with him.
• Lu Jinglan resisted Xie Wanwan's claims, calling them madness and a heart demon, while Xie Wanwan argued that love and desire were natural.
• When Xie Wanwan suggested that even Qiong Yu could have worldly feelings, Lu Jinglan angrily rebuked her for speaking disrespectfully of their master.
• Xie Wanwan recounted overhearing Qiong Yu cry out in her sleep that she loved someone and begged them not to leave.
• Xie Wanwan revealed that Qiong Yu had also murmured the title Imperishable Devil Emperor, shocking Lu Jinglan and Jiang Yantian.

Lu Jinglan confronted Xie Wanwan about her relationship with Jiang Yantian and fled after Xie Wanwan tried to persuade her by revealing herself. Once they were alone, Jiang Yantian woke, promised to take responsibility for what had happened, and kissed Xie Wanwan.

• Xie Wanwan told Lu Jinglan that Qiong Yu had called the Imperishable Devil Emperor her husband, leaving Lu Jinglan questioning her beliefs and her own feelings for Jiang Yantian.
• Xie Wanwan urged Lu Jinglan to face her feelings, then drew the curtain aside and exposed herself to her senior sister.
• Lu Jinglan cried out, fled the room, and slammed the door behind her.
• Xie Wanwan turned back to Jiang Yantian, who opened his eyes and revealed a sharp, mischievous side of himself.
• Jiang Yantian said he would take responsibility, and Xie Wanwan embraced him and asked him to kiss her.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Xie Wanwan, who eagerly returned the kiss.

Lu Jinglan struggled to steady herself after witnessing Xie Wanwan’s intimacy with Jiang Yantian and hearing her invite Lu to join them. Unable to calm her thoughts, she went to Jade Splendor Hall to seek guidance from her master, Qiong Yu.

• Lu Jinglan hid beneath her quilt and replayed Xie Wanwan’s invitation and her own growing attraction to Jiang Yantian.
• Lu Jinglan recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra, but her thoughts and physical reactions to imagining Jiang Yantian and Xie Wanwan only intensified.
• Lu Jinglan decided to seek advice from Qiong Yu without revealing Xie Wanwan’s private choices.
• Lu Jinglan flew to Jade Splendor Hall and learned from a maid that Qiong Yu was resting in her bedchamber.
• Lu Jinglan prepared herself to enter Qiong Yu’s quarters and ask for guidance.

Lu Jinglan overheard Qiong Yu confessing her love in her sleep and suspected she was dreaming about the Imperishable Devil Emperor. Meanwhile, Wang Teng succumbed to a demonic cultivation manual in the Confinement Pavilion and emerged determined to take revenge on everyone who had wronged him.

• Lu Jinglan heard Qiong Yu call someone a scoundrel and plead with him in her sleep, then sensed that Qiong Yu was alone in the bedchamber.
• Lu Jinglan watched Qiong Yu sleeping and wondered whether the person in her dream was the Imperishable Devil Emperor.
• Lu Jinglan left the bedchamber, overwhelmed by the revelations and blaming Wang Teng for the sect’s turmoil.
• Wang Teng picked up a demonic cultivation manual and used his resentment to fuel its rapid cultivation, becoming trapped in a cycle that bred more malice.
• Wang Teng awoke with greatly increased power, declared that he would turn dark, and vowed to make his enemies repent, especially the fish seller.

Jiang Yantian discovered Wang Teng secretly cultivating demonic arts in the Confinement Pavilion and decided to intensify his fall. He planted a wisp of pure origin Demonic Qi in Wang Teng's dantian, plunging him into a fierce battle with his heart demons.

• Wang Teng convinced himself that he was only borrowing demonic power temporarily and would return to the righteous path after taking revenge.
• Jiang Yantian sensed chaotic Demonic Qi coming from the Confinement Pavilion and realized Wang Teng was cultivating there.
• Jiang Yantian entered Wang Teng's cell and heard him vow to make everyone apologize and admit they were wrong.
• Jiang Yantian planted origin Demonic Qi in Wang Teng's dantian, triggering a battle with vicious voices in his sea of consciousness.

Jiang Yantian drove Wang Teng’s resentment and heart devil into a frenzy while injecting origin Devil Qi that forcibly raised his cultivation to Daluo Golden Immortal. Wang Teng broke the Confinement Pavilion’s formation and appeared to the Yuanhao Immortal Sect as a demonic cultivator, while Jiang Yantian watched the chaos unfold.

• Wang Teng’s soul stopped defending itself and slaughtered the faces and voices attacking him in his sea of consciousness.
• Jiang Yantian injected origin Devil Qi into Wang Teng, shattering his cultivation barriers and forcing him to Daluo Golden Immortal while destabilizing his body and foundation.
• Wang Teng’s remaining conscience battled his heart devil, whose bloodlust grew stronger with his pain and rising Devil Qi.
• Wang Teng erupted from the Confinement Pavilion and repeatedly attacked its restraining formation, sending a pillar of Devil Qi into the sky.
• Yuanhao Immortal Sect’s disciples gathered outside the pavilion and concluded that Wang Teng had secretly cultivated demonic arts and fallen into Qi deviation.
• Jiang Yantian watched Wang Teng’s struggle and told himself that Wang Teng had chosen this path, while claiming he was clearing his own name as a righteous man.

Qiong Yu, Lu Jinglan, and the elders arrived at the Confinement Pavilion and discovered that Wang Teng had fallen into a demonic frenzy. Wang Teng declared himself innocent, but the elders attacked him as he launched a counterattack.

• Qiong Yu and Lu Jinglan led the elders to seal off the Confinement Pavilion and contain its demonic Qi.
• Lu Jinglan identified Wang Teng as the only person imprisoned inside, shocking the elders who had believed him a righteous prodigy.
• Wang Teng shattered the pavilion’s restraints and emerged in a fully demonized state.
• The elders condemned Wang Teng for cultivating forbidden demonic arts, while he insisted he had begun only the previous night and was innocent.
• Wang Teng erupted with demonic Qi and sent hundreds of enormous black blades toward the elders, who countered with immortal techniques.

Wang Teng fought the supreme elders in a frenzy, then turned on Jiang Yantian, convinced he had ruined his life. Qiong Yu froze Wang Teng before he could strike, and Jiang Yantian admitted to framing him, leaving Wang Teng vowing to die with him.

• Wang Teng burned his blood essence and used forbidden demonic arts to fight the supreme elders, while Lu Jinglan watched sorrowfully and Qiong Yu searched for the unfamiliar presence she sensed.
• Wang Teng spotted Jiang Yantian watching from the rooftop and redirected his attack toward him, declaring that he would kill him.
• Qiong Yu froze Wang Teng in midair just before he reached Jiang Yantian, and Jiang Yantian struck him with a roof tile.
• Jiang Yantian told Wang Teng that he had framed others before and was only using him to pass the time.
• Wang Teng, enraged by Jiang Yantian's confession, vowed that they would die together.

Jiang Yantian fed Wang Teng a mysterious pill while Qiong Yu decided to cripple his demonic cultivation and end their master-disciple bond. Wang Teng’s claim that he had found the demonic arts left by Wu Di led the disciples to suspect he had framed Wu Di, and Lu Jinglan began exposing Wang Teng’s past lies.

• Jiang Yantian flicked a dark red pill into Wang Teng’s mouth, and Wang Teng angrily demanded to know what he had been fed.
• Qiong Yu judged Wang Teng’s demonic cultivation and violent hatred too dangerous to tolerate and announced that she would cripple him and end their bond as master and disciple.
• Wang Teng pleaded that he had found the demonic arts left by Wu Di in the Confinement Pavilion, but the disciples mocked his explanation and suspected he had framed Wu Di.
• Qiong Yu summoned a golden seal to suppress Wang Teng beneath Upside-Down Mountain, while Wang Teng made one last appeal for her trust.
• Lu Jinglan told Wang Teng that he had lied repeatedly before and recalled how he had secretly taken treasures from a cave abode in the Ancient Flame Secret Realm three years earlier.

Lu Jinglan exposed Wang Teng’s past deception, turning the crowd against him as Qiong Yu prepared to suppress him. Jiang Yantian’s pill then made Wang Teng unleash a series of foul farts in public, and he struggled to hold back something worse as the scene ended.

• Lu Jinglan accused Wang Teng of hiding an entire cave-abode legacy from his fellow disciples and compensating them with worthless items.
• Wang Teng saw that the crowd and Qiong Yu despised him, while Jiang Yantian watched with a smile as the pill began taking effect.
• As Qiong Yu’s golden seal descended, Wang Teng loudly farted, and the stench spread through the gathered disciples.
• The disciples mocked Wang Teng, who blamed Jiang Yantian for the pill and tried to keep from defecating under the seal’s pressure.
• Jiang Yantian urged Wang Teng to relax, but Wang Teng strained to hold on and screamed as the pressure built.

Wang Teng lost control and unleashed two devastating waves of sludge on the disciples during the disciplinary proceeding, while Jiang Yantian mocked him. Qiong Yu ordered Wang Teng sealed away, bringing the chaos to a temporary end.

• Wang Teng failed to suppress his bodily urges and blasted the disciples in front of him with a torrent of sludge.
• Wang Teng begged Jiang Yantian to kill him, but Jiang Yantian taunted him and claimed he would let Wang Teng win.
• Wang Teng erupted again, causing the disciples to flee and leaving those caught in the sludge traumatized.
• Lu Jinglan asked Qiong Yu whether they should continue suppressing Wang Teng, and Qiong Yu ordered him restrained and the contaminated area isolated.
• Qiong Yu dropped cages of restrictive light around Wang Teng, sealing him inside the contaminated zone.

Jiang Yantian trapped Wang Teng in a barrier as his uncontrollable discharge filled the confined space, leaving Wang Teng to choose between drowning and swallowing it. Wang Teng began drinking to survive, while Jiang Yantian treated the ordeal as inspiration and offered to season it.

• Qiong Yu summoned purifying spirit rain to clean the battlefield while Wang Teng's discharge accumulated inside the barrier.
• Wang Teng pleaded for help as the rising liquid threatened to drown him, but the onlookers refused to release him.
• Jiang Yantian realized he could use the sealed-space method to force people to swallow their own output.
• As the liquid covered his mouth and nose, Wang Teng began gulping it down, horrifying the onlookers and lowering the level.
• Jiang Yantian praised Wang Teng's survival strategy and offered him peanuts and spices, prompting Wang Teng to threaten him.

Jiang Yantian punished Wang Teng by trapping him in a reinforced barrier surrounded by burning charcoal and seasoning his filth-filled bath, then left the Yuanhao Immortal Sect. Qiong Yu watched him go and said he felt familiar, like someone she had shared a table and pillow with.

• Wang Teng insulted Jiang Yantian and ordinary cultivators, drawing the crowd’s furious abuse.
• Jiang Yantian built a charcoal fire around Wang Teng’s barrier and said it could keep simmering for two and a half years.
• Jiang Yantian revealed that he had reinforced and sealed the barrier so only he could open it, then threw spices inside and left.
• Qiong Yu and Lu Jinglan watched Jiang Yantian depart, while Wang Teng struggled in the heated barrier.
• Lu Jinglan warned Qiong Yu that Jiang Yantian was no ordinary fishmonger, and Qiong Yu said he felt deeply familiar to her.

Jiang Yantian arrived in the Ancient Domain of Myriad Spirits and met Su Lanyi by a clear pool, where he turned their planned Dao discussion into a flirtatious gathering. The chapter ended with him hinting that she would experience another of his unconventional “paths” later.

• Qiong Yu ordered the area secured and deferred deciding Wang Teng’s fate while wondering about Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian dismissed Wang Teng as a fool and hurried to the Ancient Domain of Myriad Spirits.
• Jiang Yantian found Su Lanyi by a pool in a new, gentle outfit and openly praised her appearance.
• Su Lanyi prepared meditation cushions for their Dao discussion, and Jiang Yantian set out wine, pastries, and fruit.
• Jiang Yantian described everyday pleasures and companionship as forms of Dao, then teased Su Lanyi with a promise of more to come.

Jiang Yantian continued reading The Plum in the Golden Vase to Su Lanyi, framing the story as a lesson in the Dao of Yin and Yang. As the explicit narrative stirred vivid fantasies and physical reactions in Su Lanyi, she tried to preserve her composure and endured without interrupting him.

• Jiang Yantian told Su Lanyi that she would understand his Dao when the time came, then set rules for their next reading session.
• Su Lanyi meditated while Jiang Yantian began reading a new section of The Plum in the Golden Vase.
• Jiang Yantian's detailed narration made Su Lanyi imagine herself and Jiang Yantian in the scenes and grow increasingly flustered.
• Su Lanyi tried to blame her reactions on her weak Dao heart and secretly glanced at Jiang Yantian as he read.
• Su Lanyi considered asking Jiang Yantian to stop but swallowed her words, determined to endure until the reading ended.

Jiang Yantian used a massage and talk of cultivating the Great Dao to fluster Su Lanyi, but the touch triggered vivid memories of an intimate past between them. Overwhelmed by the memories, Su Lanyi unleashed an instinctive blast that struck Jiang Yantian and left him coughing blood.

• Jiang Yantian finished reading to Su Lanyi and asked what insights she had gained, while she gave a faint, unconvincing reply.
• Jiang Yantian moved behind Su Lanyi and massaged her shoulders, claiming the physical sensations would help her comprehend the Great Dao.
• As Jiang Yantian continued, Su Lanyi grew increasingly flustered and could no longer tell whether she was experiencing cultivation or something else.
• Su Lanyi suddenly saw vivid, seemingly real memories of intimate moments with Jiang Yantian and wondered what their relationship had been.
• Su Lanyi's defenses erupted instinctively, and the blast hit Jiang Yantian in the chest, sending him flying and making him spit blood.

Jiang Yantian feigned serious injuries after Su Lanyi’s instinctive strike, making her feel deeply guilty. When his attempt to refuse her private residence nearly sent him elsewhere, he changed course, and Su Lanyi agreed to take him home to recover.

• Su Lanyi’s instinctive outburst sent Jiang Yantian flying and left him coughing blood, so she teleported to catch him.
• Jiang Yantian pretended to be badly hurt and asked Su Lanyi why she had attacked him, while she apologized and tried to heal him with Qi.
• Jiang Yantian told Su Lanyi he could not absorb outside Qi and would need a few days to recover, prompting her to offer him a place to rest.
• Jiang Yantian’s polite refusal made Su Lanyi suggest guest lodgings or a cave instead, and he panicked that his tactic had backfired.
• Jiang Yantian coughed and said any quiet place would do, leading Su Lanyi to decide to take him to her residence.