Chapter Summaries

Wu Fei and Yin Fan discovered that the altar before the sect leaders was similar to one they had seen beneath the sea, but it carried a far more ominous aura. As Liu Yuexuan activated it with the essence blood of ninety-nine ferocious beasts, Cang Xiao revealed that a new prophecy foretold Yin Fan’s fall to the devil path and that the altar would summon something to suppress him.

• Wu Fei, Yin Fan, and Fu Hong concealed their auras as they approached the altar and recognized its resemblance to the one beneath the sea, though Wu Fei noted it had seven steps instead of nine.
• Wu Fei sensed a dangerous aura from the altar and suspected Liu Yuexuan was connected to it, while Yin Fan said her temperament had changed drastically.
• Liu Yuexuan approached the altar with a gourd-shaped Spirit Artifact containing the essence blood of ninety-nine kinds of ferocious beasts.
• The Blood-Sealing Devil Venerable questioned Cang Xiao about the altar, and Cang Xiao said Liu Yuexuan had discovered it and knew how to activate it.
• Liu Yuexuan poured the resentful essence blood into the altar, causing its patterns to glow red as the gathered leaders grew uneasy.
• Cang Xiao revealed that a new Heavenly Secrets Fate Disc prophecy warned Yin Fan would bring catastrophe and said the altar would summon something capable of suppressing him.

Cang Xiao’s group summoned a deceptive presence from the altar, but Wu Fei destroyed its heavenly apparition with an arrow formed from the Silent Dust Pearl. The black mist then possessed Liu Yuexuan before emerging to offer Cang Xiao one wish, and he chose to have Jing Fanyu eliminated.

• Cang Xiao and the others summoned a godlike phantom from the altar, while Wu Fei recognized the illusion and warned Yin Fan not to trust what he saw.
• Wu Fei shot the phantom with a golden arrow, dispersing it, then gave Yin Fan his Buddhist beads for protection.
• Black mist poured from the altar and possessed Liu Yuexuan, whose voice turned into a deep male voice pleading with Jing Fanyu to accept him.
• The black mist left Liu Yuexuan and offered to grant one wish, asking whether Cang Xiao wanted Jing Fanyu eliminated or a method of ascension.
• Cang Xiao chose to have Jing Fanyu eliminated.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan confronted the Obstruction Devil at the altar after Wu Fei’s golden bell broke the Devil Venerables’ spell of influence. The Obstruction Devil formed an Obstruction Pearl and engulfed everyone in black mist, pulling Wu Fei into an illusory realm.

• Wu Fei used the Silent Dust Pearl to create a golden bell whose toll freed the arguing sect leaders and Devil Venerables from the Obstruction Devil’s influence.
• Wu Fei explained that the Obstruction Devil fed on desire and could neither die nor be destroyed, and he and Yin Fan fought it with a golden arrow and the Blazing Cold Sword.
• Liu Yuexuan saw Yin Fan and called him Senior Brother Jing, then released a surge of black mist that merged with the Obstruction Devil.
• The Obstruction Devil formed an Obstruction Pearl and engulfed Cang Xiao, the Devil Venerables, Liu Yuexuan, Wu Fei, and Yin Fan in black mist.
• Wu Fei split the Silent Dust Pearl between himself and Yin Fan, but the mist pulled Wu Fei into an illusory realm, where the Obstruction Devil said it could not discern his desires.

Wu Fei woke in an illusion of Heavenly Clear City on the day it was massacred and met Jing Fanyu as a child. He discovered that his master was in the city too, then reunited with Yin Fan, whose jealousy stirred when Jing Fanyu called Wu Fei “Big Brother.”

• Wu Fei woke in the forest and met young Jing Fanyu, who brought him into Heavenly Clear City.
• Wu Fei learned it was the ninth day of the ninth month and realized the city’s massacre was due that night.
• At the city lord’s residence, Wu Fei sensed the city lord and his wife meeting an honored guest in the east of the city.
• Wu Fei used his Divine Sense to discover that the honored guest was his master.
• Yin Fan followed the Silent Dust Pearl to Wu Fei, then grew jealous when Jing Fanyu called Wu Fei “Big Brother Wu Fei.”

Wu Fei and Yin Fan escaped the illusion and investigated the events in Heavenly Clear City, discovering Liu Yuexuan had gone mad and that the illusory Yin Fan possessed an imitation of the Myriad Spirits Body. Wu Fei revealed that his master had met Yin Fan’s parents before the city’s massacre, and promised to investigate once they left the Flame Spirit Realm.

• Wu Fei left a note and concealed himself with Yin Fan before the illusory visitor entered, then they appeared in a neighboring room and recognized Yin Fan’s paintings.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan overheard guards discussing a madwoman and found Liu Yuexuan muttering that Senior Brother Jing belonged to her.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan hid above the city lord’s residence and observed the illusory Yin Fan absorbing spiritual qi, realizing the Obstruction Devil had imitated the Myriad Spirits Body.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan that he had seen the Buddhist cultivator his parents met before the banquet, then identified the cultivator as his master.
• Yin Fan was pleased that Wu Fei had told him the truth, and Wu Fei promised to question his master after they left the Flame Spirit Realm.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan protected the people of Heavenly Clear City from the Northern Region's Devil Venerable in the Obstruction Devil's illusion. After Yin Fan killed the Devil Venerable, the illusion shattered and the group returned to the altar, where the Obstruction Pearl had grown darker.

• Wu Fei sensed Yin Fan's distress when the city lord and his wife appeared, then urged him to protect his parents, clansmen, and the citizens of Heavenly Clear City.
• Wu Fei raised a barrier around the city with the Silent Dust Pearl as Yin Fan prepared to fight the approaching Devil Domain army.
• Yin Fan clashed with the Northern Region's Devil Venerable, and Wu Fei secretly added heart power to Yin Fan's Blazing Cold Sword before it pierced the Devil Venerable's heart.
• The Obstruction Devil fed on the emotions stirred by the massacre, and its illusion shattered, returning Wu Fei, Yin Fan, and the others to the altar.
• Fu Hong said he had nearly been pierced by Yin Fan's sword while trapped in the illusion.

Wu Fei took the Obstruction Devil into his body to protect Yin Fan, then fell unconscious after showing signs of falling into devilhood. Two days later, he awoke in Yin Fan’s hall with his eyes still red and beckoned Yin Fan closer.

• The Obstruction Devil attacked Yin Fan, and Wu Fei switched their positions so the black mist invaded him instead.
• Wu Fei resisted the Obstruction Devil, but his eyes turned red; he asked Yin Fan whether he still liked him after he had fallen into devilhood, then passed out.
• Fu Hong used a fake Heaven-Shaking Thunder to delay Cang Xiao and the others while Yin Fan carried Wu Fei away on the Blazing Cold Sword.
• The cultivation world learned that Wu Fei had suppressed the Obstruction Devil, but feared he might not have contained it completely.
• After Wu Fei slept for two days, Yin Fan sensed his aura and found him awake with red eyes; Wu Fei held out his hand and told him to come closer.

Wu Fei used his supposed demonic corruption to act on his feelings for Yin Fan, and the two kissed in the Devil Venerable's great hall. Wu Fei promised Yin Fan he could imprison him if he ever regretted it, leaving Yin Fan more deeply obsessed with him.

• Wu Fei teased Yin Fan about his nervousness and admitted he had succumbed to demonic corruption.
• Wu Fei pinned Yin Fan against a bedpost and reminded him of his earlier promise to take liberties with him.
• Yin Fan warned Wu Fei that he would not let him leave if he later regretted it, and they kissed passionately.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan he could imprison him in the Devil Domain if he ever regretted their intimacy.
• Yin Fan said he would remember Wu Fei's promise, and Wu Fei stroked his back reassuringly.

Wu Fei recovered and spoke with Yin Fan about Liu Yuexuan, the mistaken altar, and the karmic retribution he had inflicted on Fu Hong’s hunters. He then asked Yin Fan to show him around the Devil Palace, where they shared robes and a gift above the fissure left by Yin Fan’s battle.

• Yin Fan noticed that Wu Fei’s eyes had changed, and Wu Fei asked him what had happened after he passed out.
• Yin Fan told Wu Fei that Liu Yuexuan had gone mad and been taken back to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and Wu Fei explained that she had mistaken the seven-tiered altar for the nine-tiered altar beneath the sea.
• Yin Fan reported that the cultivators who had hunted Fu Hong were suffering recurring mouth sores and uncontrollable drooling, and Wu Fei attributed it to speech karma.
• Wu Fei stroked Yin Fan’s hair, then asked him to show him around the Devil Palace.
• Above the fissure in the northern Devil Domain, Wu Fei wore the black Buddhist robes Yin Fan admired and gave Yin Fan a white spirit robe he had bought for him.

Wu Fei accepted Yin Fan’s vengeance as his own and reassured him that he would not leave. After three Devil Venerables arrived to discuss the altar in the Flame Spirit Realm, Wu Fei and Yin Fan met them in the main hall, concealing their joined hands beneath their sleeves.

• Wu Fei told Yin Fan not to let him go and kissed the inside of his wrist.
• Fu Hong’s voice transmission informed Yin Fan that Blood-Sealing, Ming Yu, and Night Baleful Intent had come to discuss the altar in the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Yin Fan said he had been too lenient with the Devil Venerables and intended to deal with those who had betrayed him.
• Fu Hong deterred the impatient Devil Venerables by displaying a deep purple sphere that might have been a Heaven-Shaking Thunder.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan arrived in the main hall and sat together, discreetly holding hands as Wu Fei apologized for keeping the visitors waiting.