Recaps

The Snow Empress helped Zhang Tianxing seal the Chaos Pearl after persuading the Demon Venerable to give it up, then rested at the Ziwei Sect. The next morning, she learned that their battle had cracked the barrier between the Demon Realm and the human world, and Zhang Tianxing asked for her advice.

• Zhang Tianxing sealed the Chaos Pearl with a formation that could suppress it for three to five years, though he still needed to find a way to destroy it.
• The Snow Empress told Zhang Tianxing she had gambled that the Demon Venerable retained enough reason to relinquish the Chaos Pearl, and vowed to grow strong enough not to rely on luck.
• The Snow Empress spent the night troubled by the blood-red eyes of her future self before falling asleep.
• A Ziwei Sect disciple woke the Snow Empress and summoned her to the main hall after fissures appeared around the sect, leaking Demon Qi and causing plants and animals to wither or go mad.
• Zhang Tianxing explained that the Demon Venerable's escape and the Chaos Pearl's released power had cracked the barrier between the Demon Realm and the human world, and asked the Snow Empress for her opinion.

The Snow Empress inspected the realm-barrier fissures with three Ziwei Sect disciples and found highly corrosive demonic Qi and human bones tainted by it. After they fought off creatures emerging from a large fissure, she ordered Li Qingyun to create temporary talisman arrays while a strange red light pulsed deep within the crack.

• Zhang Tianxing sent Li Qingyun, Zhao Wan'er, and Zhou Ziheng to accompany the Snow Empress as she inspected the fissures.
• The Snow Empress found concentrated demonic Qi at a small fissure, and Li Qingyun's talisman crumbled after three breaths.
• Zhao Wan'er uncovered a bone that the Snow Empress identified as human, its surface turned dark red by demonic Qi.
• The Snow Empress and the three disciples fought off shadows that poured from a large fissure.
• The Snow Empress noticed a pulsing dark red light deep in the fissure and told Li Qingyun to make temporary sealing talisman arrays.

The Snow Empress discovered that demonic Qi had transformed villagers into dangerous creatures and reported the spreading realm-barrier fissures to Zhang Tianxing. The chapter left the sect preparing to summon the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s twelve sects to discuss repairs.

• The Snow Empress sealed a fissure with talisman papers while Zhao Wan'er and Zhou Ziheng searched the area for other fissures and corrupted beings.
• Zhao Wan'er found a village where dozens of residents had become demonic creatures, and the Snow Empress led the others there.
• The Snow Empress, Zhao Wan'er, Li Qingyun, and Zhou Ziheng killed the corrupted villagers and learned that more than two hundred people had lived in the village.
• The Snow Empress ordered the others to burn the bodies and returned to the Ziwei Sect to report the fissures and the dark red light beneath one of them.
• Zhang Tianxing warned that the fissures could reach the Ziwei Sect within a month and said he would summon leaders from all twelve Heavenly Dao Alliance sects to discuss repairing the realm barrier.
• The Snow Empress asked whether there would be enough time.

The Snow Empress investigated the fissures around the Ziwei Sect and descended into the largest one to find the source of its strange summons. There, Xuanjizi’s remnant soul revealed that the Chaos Pearl had weakened the boundary wall and said repairing it required her blood, then asked what she knew of her origins.

• Zhang Tianxing planned to summon help from the Heavenly Sword Sect and arrange a sealing formation while the Snow Empress investigated the fissures.
• The Snow Empress examined fissures near the Ziwei Sect and sensed that a dark red light inside the largest one felt familiar.
• After seeing the sealing formation corroding, the Snow Empress told Li Qingyun and Zhao Wan'er she would descend into the fissure, then went below despite their protests.
• The Snow Empress found a Bronze Lamp on a black stone platform and heard its remnant soul identify itself as Xuanjizi.
• Xuanjizi told the Snow Empress that the Chaos Pearl had corroded the earth veins and weakened the boundary wall, and that repairing it required her blood.
• Xuanjizi asked the Snow Empress how much she knew about her origins.

The Snow Empress learned that her origin spirit bloodline let her repair the world barrier, though doing so would consume her vital essence. After mending the fissures around the Ziwei Sect, she set out southwest to find and destroy the Source of Chaos before the Demon Venerable could claim it.

• Xuanjizi explained the Snow Empress's origin spirit bloodline and warned that repairing every fissure would consume roughly half her blood and leave her weakened.
• The Snow Empress used her blood to mend the fissures around the Ziwei Sect over six nights, and collapsed after repairing the last one.
• Despite Zhang Tianxing's offer of medicine and healers, the Snow Empress returned to Xuanjizi to learn how to trace the earth veins.
• The Snow Empress sensed the earth veins leading southwest and learned that six of the forty-nine days had passed before the Source of Chaos formed.
• Xuanjizi gave the Snow Empress a bronze fragment that could block one potentially fatal blow, and she flew southwest to find the Source of Chaos.

The Snow Empress found the Source of Chaos beneath a barren mountain, where the Demon Venerable offered to guard her in exchange for most of its power. She accepted and began drawing the stone upward, while he went to confront approaching intruders.

• The Snow Empress located the Source of Chaos several hundred zhang beneath a barren mountain.
• The Demon Venerable arrived and offered to guard the Snow Empress while she extracted and sealed the Source of Chaos, asking for seventy percent of its power.
• The Snow Empress accepted the deal and warned the Demon Venerable that she would attack if he made a suspicious move.
• The Snow Empress began drawing the Source of Chaos upward as the Demon Venerable moved to intercept several approaching lights.
• The Snow Empress struggled to guide the violently surging stone through the earth veins while her wounds reopened and her Spiritual Power strained.

The Demon Venerable blocked Li Xuanqing and the Heavenly Dao Alliance cultivators from reaching the Snow Empress and the Source of Chaos, accusing the Alliance of exploiting and concealing past dealings with Chaos Pearl fragments. Li Xuanqing attacked, but the Demon Venerable turned his sword lights against him and sent him crashing backward.

• The Snow Empress spotted cultivators approaching, and the Demon Venerable flew out to warn them away from the forbidden mountain.
• Li Xuanqing demanded that the Demon Venerable let the Heavenly Dao Alliance take and seal the Source of Chaos.
• The Demon Venerable accused the Alliance of secretly keeping two Chaos Pearl fragments and reminded Li Xuanqing that he had stolen the Demon Venerable's Dao Comprehension Stone.
• Li Xuanqing attacked with nine sword lights, but the Demon Venerable's black ripples swallowed them and sent them back at Li Xuanqing.
• Li Xuanqing's shield cracked as the returning sword lights drove him backward, alarming the three young cultivators.

The Demon Venerable drove Li Xuanqing and his followers away while warning him to tell the Heavenly Dao Alliance that he would handle the Source of Chaos. The Snow Empress brought the Source to the surface and began sealing it as the Three Supremes of the Southern Frontier arrived and attacked the Demon Venerable.

• The Demon Venerable overwhelmed Li Xuanqing and warned him to leave, invoking a secret matter from the past.
• Li Xuanqing ordered his three young cultivators to retreat, and they fled with him.
• The Snow Empress drew the Source of Chaos from beneath the mountain and seized the pitch-black stone despite its power injuring her.
• The Snow Empress began layering seals onto the Source of Chaos, a process she expected to take at least three days.
• The Demon Venerable fought Poison Elder, Fire Barbarian, and Shadow Phantom above the mountain while the Snow Empress continued sealing the stone.

The Snow Empress continued sealing the Source of Chaos while the Demon Venerable fought three powerful demonic cultivators. Perfected Qingxuan arrived, and the Demon Venerable greeted his former master as Little Zun recalled their time in the Wuji Grotto-Heaven.

• The Snow Empress recognized Poison Elder, Fire Barbarian, and Shadow Phantom as three powerful cultivators who had joined forces to seize the Source of Chaos.
• The Demon Venerable fought all three while urging the Snow Empress to hurry, and she continued adding seals to the Source of Chaos as newcomers approached.
• The Demon Venerable and his opponents wounded and exhausted one another until the three cultivators considered retreating.
• Perfected Qingxuan arrived in a beam of light, and his immense presence silenced and overwhelmed everyone nearby.
• Perfected Qingxuan warned the Demon Venerable, whom he called Little Zun, not to touch the Source of Chaos, and the Demon Venerable recalled being his disciple in the Wuji Grotto-Heaven.

The Snow Empress confronted Perfected Qingxuan about secretly seeking the Power of Chaos and refused to let him take over the sealing. The Demon Venerable offered to help her complete it, and she asked why he was helping her.

• Perfected Qingxuan urged the Snow Empress to step aside, warning that her body could not withstand finishing the seal.
• The Snow Empress revealed that Perfected Qingxuan had secretly refined a Chaos Pearl fragment to break through his Spirit Transformation Stage bottleneck, and he admitted it.
• The Snow Empress refused to surrender the Source of Chaos, convinced Perfected Qingxuan would draw on its power.
• The Demon Venerable learned that the Snow Empress had twenty-one layers of the seal left and offered to help her perform the sealing hand seals.
• The Demon Venerable joined the Snow Empress on the mountainside, and she asked why he was helping her.

The Snow Empress refused to let Perfected Qingxuan take the Source of Chaos, confronting him over his past secrecy and his failure to protect the continent. He withdrew after giving her his accumulated Spiritual Power, and she and the Demon Venerable began sealing the Source of Chaos together.

• The Snow Empress taught the Demon Venerable the runes and incantation for a supporting seal while Perfected Qingxuan and the others watched.
• Perfected Qingxuan dismissed Poison Elder, Fire Barbarian, and Shadow Phantom from the mountain.
• The Snow Empress challenged Perfected Qingxuan to give up the Source of Chaos, accusing him of concealing the Chaos Pearl fragments and hiding the truth from her.
• Perfected Qingxuan agreed to hand over two fragments and speak to the Council of Elders, then left after giving the Snow Empress a jade pendant containing seventy percent of his Spiritual Power.
• The Snow Empress replenished her strength with the pendant, and she and the Demon Venerable activated their combined seal on the Source of Chaos.
• The Snow Empress and the Demon Venerable continued adding layers to the seal as the stone's gray sheen dimmed.

The Snow Empress and the Demon Venerable completed the thirty-three-layer seal on the Source of Chaos, leaving both severely weakened. He carried her to her residence at the Ziwei Sect and tended to her until she woke, where she asked about the sealed stone and noticed his injuries.

• The Snow Empress and the Demon Venerable completed the final sealing signs, turning the Source of Chaos into an ordinary black stone.
• The Snow Empress fainted, and the Demon Venerable caught her, secured the sealed stone, and carried her toward the Ziwei Sect.
• The Demon Venerable laid the Snow Empress in her bed, gave her a Heart-Protecting Pill, and stayed nearby as she recovered.
• The Snow Empress awoke in the afternoon and tried to sit up, but the Demon Venerable warned her that she was too weak to move.
• The Snow Empress asked where the Source of Chaos was, and the Demon Venerable said he had it; she then asked about his injuries.

After the battle to seal the Source of Chaos, the Snow Empress recovered while Yin Wujou stayed by her side and cared for her. Their conversation brought them closer, and the chapter ended with her sleeping peacefully as he kept watch.

• The Snow Empress directed Yin Wujou to the Flesh-Regenerating Jade Dew, and he treated his wounds.
• Yin Wujou told the Snow Empress that Perfected Qingxuan had left to settle his lingering attachment, and she wondered where he would go.
• The Snow Empress thanked Yin Wujou for staying, and he said he had not done so to repay a debt.
• Yin Wujou brought the Snow Empress congee, helped her eat, and advised her to rest while her body recovered.
• The Snow Empress asked Yin Wujou his name; he told her about being found on a battlefield, and she called him a decent person.
• The Snow Empress fell into a dreamless sleep while Yin Wujou kept watch.

The Snow Empress returned to the Ziwei Sect’s main peak with Yin Wujou and told the Council of Elders that Perfected Qingxuan had left after entrusting her with the sealed Source of Chaos. After facing the elders, she made it back to the rear mountain but could no longer hide how badly her injuries had weakened her.

• Yin Wujou kept watch overnight and cooked porridge for the recovering Snow Empress the next morning.
• The Snow Empress said she had to explain Perfected Qingxuan’s departure to the Council of Elders, and Yin Wujou insisted on accompanying her as an attendant.
• At the main peak, the Snow Empress told the five elders that Qingxuan had entrusted her with the other fragments of the Source of Chaos and that he had gone to wander the world.
• The Snow Empress revealed the sealed Source of Chaos and warned that only two people could undo its thirty-three seals, without naming Yin Wujou as the other person.
• The Snow Empress defended Yin Wujou when First Elder Xuanheng questioned his presence, and the elders let them leave.
• Once they reached the deserted bamboo path, the Snow Empress leaned against a stalk and showed how severely the journey had exhausted her.

After recovering from the confrontation at the Ziwei Sect, the Snow Empress shared a quiet night with Yin Wujou before he returned to the Demon Domain. Left with his gifts, she exposed the elders’ hoarding of chaos fragments and began taking charge of the sect’s affairs.

• Yin Wujou carried the exhausted Snow Empress back to the courtyard, where they discussed his return to the Demon Domain and shared a bed that night.
• Yin Wujou urged the Snow Empress to rest and recover her damaged foundations, admitting that she was the first person in the Demon Domain to treat him as an equal.
• Yin Wujou left before dawn, placing the Source of Chaos and a Xuantie token beside the Snow Empress and leaving a purple wildflower on the windowsill.
• The Snow Empress found Yin Wujou gone, collected his gifts, and placed the flower in a teacup.
• At a sect assembly, the Snow Empress announced that the Source of Chaos had been sealed and revealed that the Council of Elders had hoarded chaos fragments for three hundred years; she called for a pact against privately keeping ancient forbidden relics.
• The Snow Empress buried the wilted flower and began sorting through the Ziwei Sect’s accumulated affairs.

The Snow Empress recovered enough to lead the effort to establish a pact regulating forbidden objects, while exchanging letters with Yin Wujou. After the pact was signed, his reply invited her to the Demon Domain and teased her about calling his name in her sleep.

• The Snow Empress learned to manage the Ziwei Sect’s affairs, and Grand Elder Xuanheng told her she was better than Qingxuan.
• After recovering somewhat, the Snow Empress sent envoys to negotiate a joint pact on forbidden objects with the major sects.
• Yin Wujou wrote that the Demon Domain had been purged and asked about the Snow Empress’s situation; she smiled at his letter and replied that the purple flower had sprouted.
• The Snow Empress answered sects’ objections and secured the pact’s signing three months later, with seven great sects, sixteen mid-sized sects, and many independent factions attending.
• Yin Wujou sent a dried purple petal and invited the Snow Empress to visit the Demon Domain, then told her she had called his name in her sleep.
• The Snow Empress stared at the final line of Yin Wujou’s letter as her ears turned red.

The Snow Empress settled the Ziwei Sect’s affairs while exchanging a hesitant letter with Yin Wujou. Grand Elder Xuanheng delivered Perfected Qingxuan’s final letter and the sect leader’s seal, leaving her free to choose whether to remain in the sect or seek her own path.

• The Snow Empress sent Yin Wujou a carefully rewritten reply and asked whether he had watered the buried purple petal.
• The Snow Empress reorganized the Council of Elders, reviewed old cases, and answered suggestions from the disciples as the sect grew calmer.
• Shen Qing brought Grand Elder Xuanheng to the Snow Empress, and Xuanheng delivered a box Perfected Qingxuan had left for her.
• The Snow Empress opened the box and found the Ziwei Sect leader’s seal and a letter saying she could leave the sect and was free from guarding the Eye of Chaos for a hundred years.
• The Snow Empress read Perfected Qingxuan’s final letter repeatedly, then went out at night to look at the purple flower seedling and thought of Yin Wujou.

The Snow Empress left the Ziwei Sect for the Demon Domain, choosing to follow the path that led to Yin Wujou and the flower grown from a petal. She arrived at one of its cities, where Yin Wujou welcomed her and showed her a lively place unlike the one she had imagined.

• The Snow Empress delegated the Ziwei Sect’s affairs to trusted elders and decided to visit the Demon Domain.
• She left the sect after giving Shen Qing instructions and flew northwest with a black iron token and a dried purple petal.
• After two days, the Snow Empress reached a city in the Demon Domain and found it orderly and bustling.
• Yin Wujou appeared, explained that his eyes at the gates had alerted him to her arrival, and offered to show her where he had buried the petal.
• The Snow Empress entered the city with Yin Wujou and saw its ordinary townsfolk, bustling streets, and demonic residents.
• Yin Wujou explained that the Demon Domain’s people farmed and traded despite its dense Demonic Qi.

Yin Wujou welcomed the Snow Empress to Wujou Hall, where they shared a quiet visit and dinner in the Demon Domain. She planned to stay until the flower bloomed, and he promised she would always have a room and flowers whenever she returned.

• Yin Wujou showed the Snow Empress the seedling he had planted from a withered petal and told her he watered it every day.
• The Snow Empress praised Yin Wujou's gentler side, and he said he could be less bad with her.
• Yin Wujou took the Snow Empress to dinner, where she tried Demon Domain dishes and drank wine called Straying.
• When Yin Wujou asked how long she would stay, the Snow Empress said she would leave once the flower bloomed.
• Yin Wujou arranged a room for the Snow Empress with purple wildflowers and promised there would always be a room and flowers for her.

The Snow Empress settled into life in the Demon Domain with Yin Wujou, and their concern for each other deepened as she checked his healing wound and they shared quiet moments together. On her twenty-fifth day there, the purple plant finally produced a flower bud, and Yin Wujou already knew she had seen it.

• Yin Wujou showed the Snow Empress the Demon Domain's cities and landmarks during her first days there.
• The Snow Empress examined Yin Wujou's nearly healed wound at Wujou Hall, and he promised he would live to see her flowers bloom.
• The Snow Empress and Yin Wujou made a regular routine of practicing, tending the plant, handling sect affairs, exploring, and spending evenings together.
• During a rainy night, Yin Wujou covered the Snow Empress with her robe and drew it around them both beneath the walkway.
• On the morning of her twenty-fifth day, the Snow Empress found a tiny bud on the purple plant, and Yin Wujou remarked that it had appeared.

Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress watched the purple flower grow and bloom, drawing closer as they shared a quiet, affectionate life in the Demon Domain. Their peaceful routine was interrupted when Granny Song arrived at Wujou Hall and asked if the Snow Empress was the one.

• Yin Wujou admitted that he wished the Snow Empress would still be with him after the flower bloomed, and she promised she was not going anywhere.
• Four days later the flower began to open, and Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress watched its petals unfold together each morning and evening.
• On the seventh day, the flower bloomed fully; the Snow Empress took Yin Wujou's hand, and he teased her rather than explaining what he had thought when he planted the petal.
• Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress shared sugar cakes, then continued caring for the flower and playfully scuffling in the courtyard.
• On the thirty-third day, the Snow Empress returned to Wujou Hall and met Granny Song, who scrutinized her and asked Yin Wujou if she was the one.

Granny Song examined the Snow Empress and gave her medicine to clear the cold Qi in her meridians. The Snow Empress and Yin Wujou grew closer, while Granny Song’s visit continued into an overcast third day.

• Yin Wujou introduced Granny Song to the Snow Empress, and Granny Song checked her pulse and gave her pills to take for forty-nine days.
• Granny Song teased Yin Wujou about the hundreds of paintings he had burned, and the Snow Empress learned he had painted the same woman in green.
• Yin Wujou confessed that he had always painted the Snow Empress, and they kissed.
• Yin Wujou told the Snow Empress he had wanted to kiss her at the Ziwei Sect and regretted not doing so.
• During Granny Song’s visit, she inspected the purple flower and recalled how Yin Wujou had cried after killing her crimson orchids.

Granny Song told the Snow Empress how Yin Wujou survived a violent childhood, reclaimed the Demon Domain, and spent years trying to bring her back after the Absolute Abyss. The Snow Empress grieved over what he had endured and remained alone in the pavilion, touching the porcelain bottle in her sleeve.

• After Yin Wujou left to handle a spirit beast riot, Granny Song took the Snow Empress to the stone pavilion and recounted how Yin Wujou was left vulnerable as a child while the Demon Domain's tribes fought for power.
• Granny Song described how ten-year-old Yin Wujou killed an intruder who tried to seize him, then later fought for ten years to reunite the twenty-eight tribes under his rule.
• Granny Song said Yin Wujou fell for the Snow Empress after visiting the Ziwei Sect and spent years painting her, then returned from the Absolute Abyss gravely injured after she sacrificed herself to destroy a formation core.
• Granny Song revealed that Yin Wujou searched the Demon Domain for materials to nurture a purple flower, hoping it would bring the Snow Empress back, and cried while burying a dried petal.
• The Snow Empress wept as Granny Song urged her not to let Yin Wujou bear his burdens alone; after Granny Song left, the Snow Empress gazed toward the city and touched the porcelain bottle in her sleeve.

The Snow Empress learned how deeply Yin Wujou had cherished his first glimpse of her, and the two shared a tender reunion as she began recovering from her injuries. Three days after Granny Song left, Daoist Yun visited Wujou Hall and met the Snow Empress.

• Yin Wujou told the Snow Empress that, after seeing her once at the Ziwei Sect, he had tried and failed to paint her and regretted not looking at her more closely.
• The Snow Empress embraced and kissed Yin Wujou, telling him he could look at her for as long as he liked.
• The Snow Empress began taking Granny Song's medicine, and Yin Wujou visited each morning to watch over her recovery.
• Daoist Yun arrived at Wujou Hall seeking Yin Wujou, who recognized him and brought the Snow Empress to meet him.
• Daoist Yun remarked that he had heard Yin Wujou was hiding a beauty and expressed surprise that the Snow Empress was alive; she introduced herself to him.

Daoist Yun warned Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress that a widening fissure at Soul-Severing Gorge was releasing a foul variant of Chaotic Demonic Qi. After they found signs of something living inside it, Yin Wujou decided to descend, and the Snow Empress insisted on going with him.

• Daoist Yun told Yin Wujou that the underground demonic veins were stirring and traced the disturbance to Soul-Severing Gorge in the Demon Domain.
• Yin Wujou agreed to investigate the gorge with the Snow Empress the next morning, while Daoist Yun accompanied them.
• At Soul-Severing Gorge, Daoist Yun showed Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress a sample of the foul odor, and the Snow Empress recognized a diluted variant of Chaotic Demonic Qi.
• Yin Wujou and the Snow Empress descended to a ledge and found a fissure coated in dark green slime that released Chaotic Demonic Qi and the smell of a living creature.
• Yin Wujou said he had to go down the fissure, and the Snow Empress insisted on accompanying him.