Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei learned that Zhang Xiaoling was the reincarnation of Zhang Daoling, whose memories revealed a past battle against the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Lin Fei prepared Zhang Xiaoling to cultivate again and warned Ye Qiu that great turmoil would strike the mortal world, then left to treat Qing Mingyu and investigate the Bai family.

• Zhang Xiaoling spoke as Zhang Daoling and recalled how he had sacrificed two thousand years of cultivation to strike down a demonic silhouette and save Zhengyi Immortal Palace.
• Zhang Xiaoling collapsed under the strain of awakening his past-life memories, so Lin Fei put him to sleep and carried him down the mountain.
• Lin Fei gave Ye Qiu three cultivation legacies and supplies, instructing him to teach them all to Zhang Xiaoling.
• Lin Fei revealed that Zhang Xiaoling was Zhang Daoling's reincarnation, and Ye Qiu realized that his return meant great turmoil was certain to befall the mortal world.
• Lin Fei left to treat Qing Mingyu with the Seven-Star Soul-Returning Pill and investigate who in the Bai family was responsible.

Lin Fei refined a Seven-Star Soul-Returning Pill in the Qing family residence to save Qing Mingyu, whose body was wrapped in deadly black spider silk. When refining the pill summoned a localized heavenly tribulation, Lin Fei dispersed the clouds with a casual wave and left everyone astonished.

• Lin Fei arrived at the Qing family residence, and Qing Fen led him to Qing Mingyu while Qing Lixue watched uneasily.
• Lin Fei examined Qing Mingyu's writhing black silk and ordered the medical staff out of the sickroom.
• Lin Fei used the Shennong Cauldron and spirit herbs to refine the Seven-Star Soul-Returning Pill, adding a hundred-year-old python gallbladder as a catalyst.
• The pill's fragrance rejuvenated Qing Fen and the others, while Qing Lixue reported that dark clouds had gathered only above the villa.
• Lin Fei dismissed the heavenly tribulation with a sweep of his sleeve, leaving the sky clear and the Qing family stunned.

Lin Fei revived Qing Mingyu with a Seven-Star Soul-Returning Pill and learned that Bai Poju had poisoned him. To uncover everyone involved in the plot against Ji Yaoguang, Lin Fei left the Qing family to lure Bai Poju into making another move.

• Lin Fei fed Qing Mingyu a Seven-Star Soul-Returning Pill, expelled the Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisons, and burned the venomous spiders to ashes.
• Lin Fei showed Qing Mingyu what had happened, and Qing Mingyu identified Bai Poju as the poisoner and explained the Bai family's motive against the Qing siblings.
• Qing Fen and Qing Lixue entered, rejoiced that Qing Mingyu had survived, and thanked Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei ordered the Qing family to hide Bai Poju's identity and spread word that Qing Mingyu had lost his memory so Bai Poju's accomplices would reveal themselves.
• Lin Fei left, while Qing Mingyu and Qing Lixue worried that the Bai family might attack them and doubted Lin Fei's Barrier Talismans.

Bai Poju and Red Spider Lily discussed the threat Lin Fei posed and agreed that Qing Mingyu had to die before he could reveal the truth. Red Spider Lily attacked Qing Lixue, but the talisman at her neck repelled her, leaving the assassin to try again.

• Bai Poju learned that Qing Mingyu had awakened and worried that Lin Fei would help him recover his memories.
• Red Spider Lily revealed that Datura believed Ji Yaoguang might be a reincarnated god, while Bai Poju questioned what was hidden behind the Dark Night Organization.
• Bai Poju told Red Spider Lily to kill Qing Mingyu and warned that they would both die if Lin Fei learned the truth.
• Red Spider Lily broke into Qing Lixue's bedroom and slashed at her throat, but a force from Qing Lixue's talisman blasted her into the wall.
• Qing Lixue called for help as Red Spider Lily recovered and prepared to attack her again.

Red Spider Lily failed to assassinate Qing Lixue, whose talisman protected her, and fled the villa. Lin Fei caught up with Red Spider Lily and killed her after letting her believe she had been spared.

• Red Spider Lily's attacks could not reach Qing Lixue, and she escaped through a window as Qing Fen and Qing Mingyu arrived.
• Qing Lixue realized the talisman Lin Fei had given her saved her life and apologized to her father.
• Lin Fei intercepted Red Spider Lily, broke her blade, and identified her as an ally of the Dark Night Organization.
• Red Spider Lily offered information about Datura in exchange for her life, but Lin Fei said he did not need it.
• Lin Fei walked past Red Spider Lily, then used a flying blade fragment to pierce her neck and kill her.

Datura returned to Jinling and learned that Lin Fei had killed several of his subordinates in Rongcheng and was believed to be a Grandmaster protecting Ji Yaoguang. He killed an informant, opened the case containing a broken demonic sword, and watched as its influence drove one of his men to reach for it and burn alive.

• Datura demanded information about the deaths of Nightmare, Black Rose, and Red Spider Lily and learned that Lin Fei was suspected of killing them.
• Datura questioned whether Lin Fei was a Grandmaster and learned that he worked as Ji Yaoguang's bodyguard for five thousand yuan a month.
• Datura crushed the middle-aged informant's head after mocking his failure to investigate Lin Fei properly.
• Datura opened the wooden case and revealed a cracked, broken longsword with a closed eye on its hilt as blood flowed into the case.
• The sword's voice tempted the gathered assassins with power, and one man reached for it and was engulfed in flames.
• Datura named the weapon Heaven-Slaying Yama Fiend and murmured, "ten courts karmic fire tribulation."

Datura forced the Dark Night Organization's assassins to test Heavenly Punishment, concealing that Wangliang's remnant soul intended to seize the body of anyone who survived. Lin Fei returned to the Ji Family villa, where Bai Yan shot him with a poisoned armor-piercing bullet, but it stopped and crumbled before reaching his brow.

• Datura identified the broken weapon as Heavenly Punishment and forced the assassins to touch it, killing them with its karmic fire.
• The last young assassin carried Heavenly Punishment outside and plunged into a filthy pool, but the flames burned him away despite the water.
• Datura retrieved the case and revealed that Wangliang's remnant soul needed a suitable body to possess.
• Datura turned his attention to arranging a major job targeting the Yao Family in the southwest.
• Lin Fei returned to the Ji Family villa and sensed a sniper watching him.
• Bai Yan fired a poisoned armor-piercing bullet at Lin Fei, but it halted before his brow and disintegrated.

Lin Fei killed Bai Yan after extracting information about Bai Poju and then confronted Bai Poju at Purple Cloud Resort. Cornered, Bai Poju swallowed the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders' egg to gain Great Grandmaster power for fifteen minutes and fight Lin Fei.

• Bai Yan revealed that Bai Poju was at Purple Cloud Resort and had sent Datura to assassinate Qing Mingyu, and Lin Fei told him Red Spider Lily was already dead.
• Lin Fei killed Bai Yan with Witch Curse Arts, and Bai Yan's corpse rapidly decayed into bone dust.
• Lin Fei found Bai Poju trying to escape from Purple Cloud Mountain and stopped his Audi R8 by standing in its path.
• Bai Poju broke through the car roof, took out the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders' egg, and swallowed it to gain Great Grandmaster power for fifteen minutes.

Bai Poju used his newly gained Great Grandmaster power to challenge Lin Fei, but Lin Fei overwhelmed him without even activating Protective Gang Qi. After Lin Fei annihilated Bai Poju’s boulders with Chaos Eye, Bai Poju lost his will to fight and was pulled toward Lin Fei.

• Bai Poju’s black Protective Gang Qi surged as he entered the Great Grandmaster Realm, and he charged Lin Fei by swinging a 3,400-jin Audi R8 at him.
• Lin Fei stopped the Audi R8 with one hand, then brushed aside the wreckage and Bai Poju’s projected internal force without using Protective Gang Qi.
• Bai Poju attacked with Hundred Fierce Fist Wind Fang, but Lin Fei’s invisible repulsive force sent him through a decorative wall and shattered his Protective Gang Qi.
• Lin Fei taunted Bai Poju and let him use his new power, so Bai Poju raised countless boulders and hurled them at Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei used Chaos Eye to turn the boulders to ash, breaking Bai Poju’s spirit before pulling him over through the air.

Lin Fei forced Bai Poju to confess his plot to destroy the Qing family and ordered the Bai family to deal with his accomplices before dawn. Bai Pojun refused to spare his brother and killed him in the villa hall.

• Lin Fei kept Bai Poju alive through the spider poison’s agony and drove him to the Bai family villa.
• Bai Poju confessed his schemes to Bai Pojun and Bai Zhan, but refused to reveal where the Sacrificial Ring was.
• Bai Poju defended his plot by accusing the Qing family of causing their father’s death and invoking the Bai family’s four-thousand-year grievance.
• Lin Fei ordered the Bai family to eliminate Bai Poju’s accomplices, including Bai Junhua, Bai Wei, Zheng Song, and Wang Bowei, before dawn.
• Bai Zhan begged Lin Fei to spare his second uncle, but Bai Pojun declared Bai Poju’s crimes unforgivable and killed him.

Bai Pojun executed the accomplices involved in Bai Poju’s crimes, then left for the ancestral land to search for the Sacrificial Ring. Back at the Ji Family villa, Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang what had happened, and she asked to cultivate rather than awaken as Empress Yaoguang.

• Bai Zhan grieved over Bai Poju’s death while Bai Pojun promised Lin Fei he would deal with the accomplices and investigate the Sacrificial Ring.
• Bai Pojun told Lin Fei the next morning that the accomplices had been executed, but the Sacrificial Ring remained missing, and he had gone to the ancestral land to seek clues.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang that Bai Poju had been the murderer and that Bai Pojun had killed him himself.
• Ji Yaoguang reflected on Lin Fei’s many acts to protect her and asked what kind of person Empress Yaoguang was.
• Lin Fei said Empress Yaoguang was someone like Ji Yaoguang, who then asked to learn cultivation and said she might not want to become Empress Yaoguang.

Ji Yaoguang refused to inherit Empress Yaoguang’s memories because she feared losing her own identity, but agreed to let Lin Fei lay the foundation for her cultivation. The chapter ended with her lying face down on the sofa after reluctantly removing her blouse so Lin Fei could reshape her body and soul.

• Lin Fei accepted Ji Yaoguang’s refusal to inherit Empress Yaoguang’s memories and warned that strength would become essential in the changed world.
• Ji Yaoguang explained that Empress Yaoguang’s memories could overwhelm her own and change who she was.
• Lin Fei offered to teach Ji Yaoguang cultivation and explained that her lack of a foundation required a more thorough process.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang to take off her clothes so he could open her meridians, cleanse her marrow, and purify her body and soul.
• Ji Yaoguang reluctantly undressed her upper body, asked Lin Fei to turn around, and lay face down on the sofa for the treatment.

Lin Fei calmed Ji Yaoguang and transformed her meridians while Wu Moling misunderstood what she saw. Meanwhile, Bai Pojun reached the Di People's Ancestral Land and asked Qing Meng to hold a soul-sending ceremony for Bai Poju.

• Wu Moling walked in on Lin Fei touching Ji Yaoguang's back and mistakenly thought they were being intimate.
• Lin Fei soothed Ji Yaoguang into a meditative trance and began transforming her meridians, while Wu Moling misread the sounds from upstairs.
• Bai Pojun entered the miasma-filled woodland near the border of Western Shu Province and Yundian Province, carrying Bai Poju's ashes.
• Bai Pojun arrived at the Di People's Ancestral Land and met Qing Meng beneath the banner marked with the characters "Di" and "Qing."
• Bai Pojun told Qing Meng that Bai Poju had died and requested a village-wide soul-sending ceremony.

Bai Pojun poisoned the liquor prepared for the Di people's soul-sending ceremony with Spider Gu, intending to kill his clanspeople. As the ceremony ended and the poison took effect, the square filled with dying villagers while Bai Pojun stood unmoved.

• Bai Pojun secretly dissolved Spider Gu eggs into every jar of strong liquor in the ancestral homeland's cellar.
• Qing Meng led the Di people's soul-sending ceremony, tearing apart a giant python and mixing its blood into the liquor offered to Bai Poju's departed soul.
• The clanspeople drank the poisoned liquor, while Bai Pojun poured his own bowl onto the ground.
• Spider Gu poisoned the villagers, and Qing Meng accused Bai Pojun of slaughtering his own clanspeople.
• A grieving mother tried to kill Bai Pojun after her five-year-old son died, but his protective gang qi stopped her saber and she died in despair.
• The Di clanspeople fell in batches as children cried beside their dead families amid blazing fires in the square.

Bai Pojun used the Sacrificial Ring, empowered by the Di people's blood, to seize control of their gu creatures and turn them against Qing Meng and the surviving elders. Qing Meng and Qing Chong fought back to back, but the swarm overwhelmed them, leaving Qing Meng wounded as Bai Pojun taunted him.

• Bai Pojun confessed that he had killed Bai Poju and explained that he sought power to free the Bai family from Qing rule.
• Bai Poju absorbed the blood of the slain Di people into the Sacrificial Ring to strengthen its control.
• Qing Meng summoned the gu creatures to attack Bai Pojun, but the Sacrificial Ring turned them against the elders.
• Qing Meng and Qing Chong fought the swarming gu creatures together while trying to protect the other elders.
• A giant scorpion shattered Qing Meng's Protective Gang Qi and pierced his shoulder, and Bai Pojun told him he had grown old.

Bai Pojun slaughtered Qing Meng and Qing Chong, then abandoned the children to the gu insects before deceiving Lin Fei about the massacre at the Di People's Ancestral Land. Lin Fei suspected Bai Pojun and sent Bai Zhan to track and confront his father.

• Qing Meng and Qing Chong charged Bai Pojun but were paralyzed by poison, overwhelmed by gu kings, and killed by Bai Pojun's Hundred Fierce Fist Wind Fang.
• Bai Pojun left the children to be devoured by the uncontrolled gu insects and convinced himself he was granting them release.
• Bai Pojun called Lin Fei and falsely blamed Qing Meng for sacrificing the clan, urging Lin Fei to hurry to the Di People's Ancestral Land.
• Lin Fei told Bai Zhan to track his father and meet him, threatening to wipe out the Bai family if Bai Zhan failed.
• Bai Pojun celebrated his deception, unaware that Lin Fei had suspected him and was not fooled.

Lin Fei reached the Di People's Ancestral Land and discovered the aftermath of Bai Pojun’s massacre, then used the Chaos Eye to trace what had happened and learned Bai Pojun’s true colors. Meanwhile, Bai Zhan chased Bai Pojun in a modified Maybach, and the two cars hurtled toward a collision.

• Lin Fei arrived at the Di People's Ancestral Land and destroyed the gu insects that bowed before him.
• Lin Fei found human remains, including the bones of children, and used the Chaos Eye to witness the previous night’s events.
• Lin Fei saw Bai Pojun betray the Di People and shouted his name with murderous intent.
• Bai Pojun raced through rural Rongcheng in a Maybach, with Bai Zhan pursuing in a faster, modified car.
• Bai Pojun blocked Bai Zhan’s attempt to pass, but Bai Zhan charged straight at him without slowing down.

Bai Zhan tried to stop Bai Pojun from reaching the mountain where the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders lay dormant, but the crash and explosion left them facing each other. Bai Pojun confessed that he had sacrificed the Bai clan at the ancestral grounds, then warned his son that they would fight if Bai Zhan intervened again.

• Bai Zhan rammed his modified Maybach into Bai Pojun's car, sending it through the guardrail beside a cornfield.
• Bai Pojun escaped the wreck and ran toward the hollowed-out mountain, intending to control the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders with the Sacrificial Ring.
• Bai Zhan drove at Bai Pojun and tackled him onto the car's hood before the vehicle hit the mountainside and exploded.
• Bai Zhan survived with minor injuries and confronted Bai Pojun about what he had done at the Bai ancestral grounds.
• Bai Pojun admitted that he had killed everyone there to complete the Sacrificial Ring's blood sacrifice and avenge Bai Poju.
• Bai Pojun told Bai Zhan to stay out of his way or face a fight with his father.

Bai Zhan rejected Bai Pojun’s plan to pursue power and attacked his father, urging him to stop and remember the principles he had taught. Their brutal fight left Bai Zhan badly injured, but his final surprise attack drove a metal wreckage into Bai Pojun’s abdomen.

• Bai Pojun urged Bai Zhan to join him in defeating the Qing family, but Bai Zhan punched through his Protective Gang Qi and sent him crashing into the mountainside.
• Bai Zhan reminded Bai Pojun of the upright principles he had taught him and begged him to stop, but Bai Pojun refused and challenged him to fight.
• Bai Zhan and Bai Pojun exchanged a barrage of Hundred Fierce Fist Wind Fang attacks, leaving both bloodied and badly injured.
• Bai Pojun rose first and turned to head up the mountain, believing Bai Zhan could no longer fight.
• Bai Zhan feigned weakness and attacked Bai Pojun from behind, but Bai Pojun turned and shattered his shoulder with a kick.
• Bai Zhan’s metal wreckage flew into Bai Pojun’s abdomen and pierced him.

Bai Zhan gravely wounded Bai Pojun and urged him to flee, while Bai Pojun treated his wounds and gave his unconscious son a Golden Silkworm Gu. Lin Fei rescued the Qing family from a swarm of venomous Gu insects and killed the man controlling them, then learned Bai Pojun remained behind the attack.

• Bai Zhan told Bai Pojun to flee after admitting he could no longer hold him back, then passed out from his injuries.
• Bai Pojun sealed his wound with a Golden Silkworm Gu and used a second one on Bai Zhan.
• Qing Fen called Lin Fei for help as venomous creatures swarmed the Qing family's villa, and Lin Fei rushed to their aid.
• Lin Fei appeared at the villa and turned the attacking Gu insects to ash, protecting Qing Fen, Qing Lixue, and the rest of the family.
• Lin Fei confronted a middle-aged man on a rooftop, realized the old Gu King had parasitized him, and blasted them both into bloody mist.