Chapter Summaries

Meng Shangmo killed the hooked-nosed cultivator but was brutally punished by the silver-robed young man, who forced him to leave on a Six-Winged Bat. Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou recognized Meng Shangmo and pursued him, but the silver-robed young man's Integrated Body Early Stage cultivation made them wary.

• Meng Shangmo survived the duel with the hooked-nosed cultivator, killing him at the cost of serious injuries.
• The silver-robed young man arrived, berated Meng Shangmo for delaying the mission, crushed his shoulder, and jabbed his forehead wound with an iron rod.
• The silver-robed young man took Meng Shangmo's acquired treasures and rode away on his Six-Winged Bat.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou recognized Meng Shangmo as the elder who had helped them in the lower realm, and Shuang Qingqing identified the young man as an Integrated Body Early Stage cultivator.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou pursued the Six-Winged Bat beneath the river's surface, hoping to meet Meng Shangmo.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou followed the silver-robed young man after he enslaved and mistreated Meng Shangmo, hoping to learn who he was and find a chance to help. They tracked the pair to an inn, where the silver-robed young man left without Meng Shangmo, giving them a possible opening to contact him.

• Shuang Qingqing saw the silver-robed young man crush Meng Shangmo’s shoulder, torment him, take his treasures, and force him to carry him in his true form, then sent Bai Rou an account of what she had witnessed.
• Shuang Qingqing pursued the silver-robed young man with Bai Rou, while they considered whether he belonged to a sect connected to Meteor Palace and whether they could get help to rescue Meng Shangmo.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou followed the pair into a market city and learned that they were not heading for its teleportation array.
• The silver-robed young man and Meng Shangmo entered an inn, so Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou checked in as well.
• The silver-robed young man briefly swept the inn with his divine sense and left; Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou noticed that Meng Shangmo was no longer with him.

Shuang Qingqing tracked Meng Shangmo to an inn and found him enslaved by the silver-robed young man. She reunited with him in private, and Meng Shangmo realized she had witnessed his humiliation at the marketplace.

• Shuang Qingqing considered following the silver-robed young man but instead learned that Meng Shangmo was still at the inn.
• She sent Bai Rou outside to watch for the silver-robed young man, then went alone to Meng Shangmo’s room.
• Meng Shangmo recognized Shuang Qingqing and let her inside after she told him someone was keeping watch outside.
• Shuang Qingqing explained how she had found him, and Meng Shangmo realized she had seen him being stepped on at the marketplace.
• Meng Shangmo expressed shame over meeting Shuang Qingqing in his current condition.

Shuang Qingqing learned how Calamity Son had enslaved Meng Shangmo and examined the restriction in his Nascent Soul. She offered a risky plan to free him, but Meng Shangmo hesitated because he feared for her and Bai Rou’s safety against a Body Integration Realm poison cultivator.

• Shuang Qingqing asked Meng Shangmo to explain his predicament and whether Calamity Son could return at any time.
• Meng Shangmo recounted how Calamity Son had captured him, planted a restriction in his Nascent Soul, and forced him to serve as a mount and servant.
• Shuang Qingqing inspected the restriction and judged that she had a fifty percent chance of rescuing Meng Shangmo.
• Shuang Qingqing revealed that Bai Rou was outside with her and that she had no Body Integration Realm cultivator accompanying her.
• Meng Shangmo worried that Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou would be in danger if they faced Calamity Son.

Shuang Qingqing and Meng Shangmo planned to ambush the Calamity Son by exploiting his anger over an auction rival. When he attacked Shuang Qingqing above a swamp, their trap caught his legs and sent him falling, revealing Meng Shangmo’s betrayal.

• Shuang Qingqing confirmed she had a way to protect herself and asked Meng Shangmo to kill her if their plan failed; Meng Shangmo gave her the address of his clan.
• Shuang Qingqing explained the plan to Meng Shangmo, and they prepared to act against the Calamity Son.
• The Calamity Son bought his desired auction item but blamed a rival bidder for making him spend eleven extra Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, then placed a hidden mark on that person.
• The Calamity Son ordered Meng Shangmo to pursue the marked target and stopped above a swamp when the target appeared to be Shuang Qingqing.
• As the Calamity Son moved to attack Shuang Qingqing, black matter trapped his legs, and the Six-Winged Dark Spirit Demon Bat escaped from beneath him.
• The Calamity Son realized Meng Shangmo had helped Shuang Qingqing ambush him and cursed Meng Shangmo for betraying him.

Shuang Qingqing ambushed Calamity Son with poison-bearing puppets disguised as flying swords, while he tried to kill Meng Shangmo with a bodily restriction. Calamity Son recognized her Puppet Arts too late and struggled to escape the puppets draining his spiritual power.

• Calamity Son activated the restriction inside Meng Shangmo as Shuang Qingqing attacked him with a swarm of flying swords.
• Calamity Son used crimson poison to corrode the swords and the black puppets clinging to his legs, but the swords released Yin Baleful Marrow and Meng Shangmo survived the restriction.
• Calamity Son realized Shuang Qingqing was a puppet master and that the apparent swords were poison-loaded puppets.
• Shuang Qingqing's black leg puppets continued draining Calamity Son's spiritual power as he dodged the Yin Baleful Marrow.
• Calamity Son unleashed purplish-red poison that began eroding the leg puppets, but they remained attached and continued consuming his spiritual power.

Shuang Qingqing used a red lotus puppet to protect Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul from Calamity Son’s restriction, then rescued him while keeping Calamity Son trapped in the ambush. The fight continued as she entered the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix puppet, whose power surged and sent a Black-Skinned Bone Serpent flying.

• Calamity Son counterattacked with two Black-Skinned Bone Serpents while Meng Shangmo endured the restriction’s soul-tearing pain atop Shuang Qingqing’s green leaf.
• The red lotus puppet suppressed the restriction by shielding Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul from the laws of heaven and earth, though it severed his body’s connection to his Nascent Soul.
• Shuang Qingqing judged that Calamity Son might have left a tracking mark on Meng Shangmo and decided to resolve the threat at its root rather than simply send him away.
• Shuang Qingqing swept Meng Shangmo into the Spirit Storage Space and dodged the pursuing Black-Skinned Bone Serpents on the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix.
• Shuang Qingqing sent flying swords at Calamity Son to keep him entangled, then entered the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix puppet.
• The Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix’s aura surged, and its crystalline wing struck one Black-Skinned Bone Serpent and sent it flying.

Shuang Qingqing overwhelmed Calamity Son with her puppets and flying swords, severing his arm and pressing an attack toward his head. The chapter ended as she continued her assault, revealing how her upgraded Flying Sword Puppet Arts combined her control with Bai Rou’s and layered power through formations.

• Shuang Qingqing’s Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix reflected much of the Black-Skinned Bone Serpent’s attack, destroying it in a single exchange.
• Calamity Son tried to escape Shuang Qingqing’s attacks, but her puppets corroded his legs while dozens of flying swords pursued him.
• Calamity Son used Taiji Roundness Unloading Force to deflect the swords, but one unusually powerful puppet sword pierced his defenses and severed his arm.
• Poison in Calamity Son’s blood corroded the sword, while his green mucus stopped its next strike near his head.
• Shuang Qingqing revealed that Bai Rou was helping control the powerful sword puppet and that she had enhanced her Flying Sword Puppet Arts with poison and formation methods inspired by Arhat Statues.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou coordinated a layered attack that broke through Calamity Son’s defenses and destroyed his body. Calamity Son escaped as a Nascent Soul, but the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix struck the space where he was teleporting.

• Shuang Qingqing explained how her Nether Mountain puppets weakened Calamity Son before Bai Rou led the special Flying Sword Puppets’ compounded strike.
• Bai Rou pierced Calamity Son’s defenses twice, while the Nether Mountain puppets sent black spikes into his legs and disrupted his meridians.
• Shuang Qingqing commanded the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix to attack as Bai Rou’s broken sword struck Calamity Son’s head and destroyed his body.
• Calamity Son escaped as a golden Nascent Soul by teleporting, and the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix fired red light at the wavering space.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou killed Calamity Son and his Black-Skinned Bone Serpent, then fled the scene before anyone could arrive. They reunited with Meng Shangmo in a hidden cave hundreds of thousands of li away.

• Calamity Son tried to escape through the void, but Shuang Qingqing's Star-Scar Pursuit trapped and destroyed his Nascent Soul.
• Shuang Qingqing killed the Black-Skinned Bone Serpent with the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix after it fled from her.
• Bai Rou rejoined Shuang Qingqing, who confirmed she was uninjured and acknowledged her help in destroying Calamity Son's body.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou cleared away the traces of the battle and left on the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix.
• Shuang Qingqing brought Meng Shangmo out of the Spirit Storage Space in a concealed cave, where he recognized her divine sense and remained guarded.

Shuang Qingqing told Meng Shangmo that the Calamity Son was dead, removed the red lotus restriction’s controlling treasure, and helped Meng recover his power. She invited him to return with her and Bai Rou to the Muliu Sect to recover before traveling home to his clan.

• Meng Shangmo woke in a mountain cave, and Shuang Qingqing told him that she had killed the Calamity Son.
• Shuang Qingqing reclaimed the Red Lotus, allowing Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul and power to return.
• Meng Shangmo thanked Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou and promised to repay their life-saving grace.
• Meng Shangmo explained that he had survived the Calamity Son’s restriction but lacked the resources and strength to travel back to his clan safely.
• Shuang Qingqing invited Meng Shangmo to accompany her and Bai Rou to the Muliu Sect to recover before continuing home.

Seven years after continuing their journey across the Heavenly Demon Grassland, Li Yan traveled alone through its dangerous central heartland while Qianji cultivated in Tuban. As Li Yan’s Ink Cloud abruptly swerved, an unexpected threat appeared nearby.

• Li Yan and Qianji searched the place where Donglin Tingyue had found Silver Sand, but Li Yan found no trace of the Undying Underworld Phoenix.
• Qianji stopped tempering himself against other Demon Beasts and entered Tuban to cultivate as Li Yan crossed the central grassland.
• Li Yan followed Chi Wu’s maps, avoided areas marked as ninth-rank Demon Beast habitats, and concealed his altered appearance while displaying Integrated Body Early Stage cultivation.
• Li Yan flew over the grassland and observed Demon Beasts and giant ants feeding on their prey below.
• As dusk fell, Li Yan suddenly changed course and veered Ink Cloud to one side.

Li Yan encountered four powerful Demon Cultivators and five disciples emerging from underground amid a fierce battle between two middle Body Integration Realm youths. After the black-robed man announced that he and the white-clad woman had stayed out of the fight and were leaving, Li Yan suspected the combatants were contesting a secret or treasure beneath the grassland.

• A violent clash blasted open a vast crater as the Purple-Robed Youth and Yellow-Robed Youth emerged from underground while fighting.
• The white-clad woman gathered her five Void Refinement Realm disciples into her Spirit Storage Space, and Li Yan revealed his early Body Integration Realm cultivation as the four cultivators watched him.
• Li Yan assessed the combatants, sensed that all four were Demon Cultivators, and searched the crater but found only earth and broken stone.
• The black-robed man said that he and the white-clad woman had been taking their disciples to gain experience, had not joined the fight, and intended to leave.
• Li Yan concluded that the group had emerged from a deeper underground site and suspected the two youths were fighting over a secret or treasure there.

Li Yan escaped the confrontation between Li Jiuchen and Su Wenzhou, but the two cultivators decided to pursue the witnesses and kill them. Su Wenzhou tracked Li Yan until his aura disappeared, while Li Yan turned invisible and followed the Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators instead.

• The Moonlit Spirit Goose pair and Li Yan withdrew as Li Jiuchen and Su Wenzhou held back from attacking them.
• Li Jiuchen urged Su Wenzhou to kill the departing witnesses before they could reveal the hidden cavern and its treasures.
• Su Wenzhou agreed to settle his debt with Li Jiuchen later and pursued Li Yan, while Li Jiuchen went after the man and woman.
• Li Yan detected the pursuit, vanished using his concealment ability, and changed direction to follow the Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators.
• Su Wenzhou lost Li Yan's aura and assumed the blue-robed cultivator had erased his tracks out of caution.

Su Wenzhou used the Great Luo Star Eyes to track Li Yan’s concealed movements, while Li Yan decided to turn back and kill the Yellow-Robed Youth for his tracking ability. The Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and her companion turned to confront the approaching Li Jiuchen, leaving five disciples behind to watch and defend themselves.

• Su Wenzhou used the Great Luo Star Eyes to spot traces left by Li Yan and pursued him, suspecting he was following the Moonlit Spirit Goose clan.
• Li Yan realized the Yellow-Robed Youth could track his trail, coveted his ability, and chose to turn back and kill him.
• The Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and the black-robed middle-aged man stopped, placed their five Void Refinement Realm disciples behind protective barriers, and flew to meet Li Jiuchen.
• The two Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators discussed the approaching Yellow-Robed Youth and the troublesome boy in green, who might intercept him.
• Li Jiuchen sensed the Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and her companion turning back and flying toward him.

Li Yan was swept into a hidden region of the Heavenly Demon Grassland when enormous vortexes suddenly appeared and pulled in every nearby cultivator. He survived the fall but found himself trapped in a strange cave, where the rock walls rebounded his escape attempt with a dangerous force, before encountering five Void Refinement Realm cultivators.

• Li Yan abandoned his attempt to approach the other cultivators as heaven-and-earth vortexes suddenly formed and dragged him and the surrounding cultivators away.
• Li Yan used his full strength to resist the vortex, but it pulled him into an enclosed cave after about thirty or forty breaths.
• Li Yan found that his mana and divine abilities still worked, then tried to escape through the ceiling with the Earth-Escape Technique.
• The cave ceiling rebounded Li Yan and sent a spiraling force through his body, which he dispersed by spinning and repeatedly stomping after he landed.
• Li Yan realized he was trapped in a deadly region and recognized five Void Refinement Realm cultivators he had seen earlier as they approached through a passageway.

Li Yan followed five Brightmoon Spirit Goose clan cultivators through a sealed passage after they mistook him for a mid-stage Void Refinement human and ordered him around. At the passage’s end, Junior Sister Wen used a mirror to draw out a Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast, confirming the group’s suspicions as they sought a way to find Martial Uncle Yun.

• Li Yan recognized the five cultivators and let them believe his suppressed aura meant he was only at the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Junior Sister Wen ordered Li Yan to follow, while the Middle Void Refinement Realm man threatened him and the handsome early-stage youth secretly urged him to obey.
• Li Yan followed the five into a second passage and observed their tests of its apparently indestructible stone walls.
• Junior Sister Wen aimed her Void-Piercing Mirror at the dead-end wall, drawing out a blood-red ghost head that attacked her with its tongue.
• The group identified the apparition as a Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast, and its tongue struck the mirror’s green rosy light but found no target.

Li Yan learned that he and the others were trapped inside a Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast, while Senior Sister Wen ordered him and Lin Feng to trigger a cave-wall restriction. As they approached the wall under threat, Lin Feng secretly urged Li Yan to flee deeper into the cave when the restriction's shockwave hit.

• The Void-Piercing Mirror confused the blood-red ghost head's senses, causing its attack to strike the cave wall before it withdrew.
• Senior Sister Wen identified the situation and ordered Lin Feng and Li Yan to attack the center of the cave wall.
• Lin Feng protested that he might not withstand the backlash, but the Middle Void Refinement Realm cultivator threatened him by invoking his younger sister and the others' search for Uncle-Master Yun.
• Li Yan began following Lin Feng toward the wall while the cultivators kept their intent fixed on him and prevented him from speaking freely.
• Lin Feng secretly told Li Yan that he would block the restriction's shockwave briefly so Li Yan could flee deeper into the Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast.

Li Yan and Lin Feng attacked the rock-wall restrictions inside the Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast, triggering a powerful ghost that immobilized Lin Feng. Lin Feng realized the other four cultivators had concealed the restrictions’ effects and were using him and Li Yan for their own purposes.

• Li Yan considered the dangers of being inside the Prayer-Devil Wraith Buddha Beast and suspected its apparent cave-like interior could conceal a threat.
• Lin Feng counted down and attacked the rock wall with his silver rod-whip while Li Yan used the Fireball Art; the other four cultivators recognized Li Yan as a potentially dangerous rogue cultivator and planned to kill him afterward.
• A blood-red ghost head emerged from the rock wall and sent gray tongues to destroy both attacks.
• The tongues immobilized Lin Feng, who realized the other four had deliberately hidden that attacking the restrictions would bind him.
• Lin Feng shouted and prepared to counterattack the gray tongue.

Li Yan revealed that the blue-robed youth in the passage was only his Divine Thought avatar, while his true body watched from outside and rescued Lin Feng as the Ghost-Head Restriction erupted. After the other four cultivators died, Li Yan captured their remnant souls and began a Soul Search on the dignified female cultivator.

• Lin Feng and Li Yan struggled to hold back the Ghost-Head Restriction's gray tongues while the four cultivators prepared to attack its neck.
• The four cultivators struck the ghost head's neck, but the blue-robed youth suddenly vanished before they could sever it.
• The restriction erupted, killing the four cultivators, while Lin Feng also disappeared from the passageway.
• Li Yan seized the four cultivators' remnant souls and collected their spatial magical treasures.
• Li Yan explained that he had used a Divine Thought avatar in the passageway and rescued Lin Feng with his true body.
• Li Yan identified the dignified female cultivator's remnant soul and began a Soul Search on her.