Recaps

Madam Rushui sacrificed her voice and killed Nangong Gua, but Bing Yan tried to claim his demon core. Qiaoqiao reminded Bing Yan of her promise, leaving the frightened elder to surrender the core to her.

• Qiaoqiao explained that Nangong Gua had ruined Madam Rushui’s voice through a careless mistake, prompting her to seek revenge.
• Madam Rushui’s final song exhausted her cultivation, and Bing Yan stabbed Nangong Gua in the belly, killing him.
• Nangong Gua’s corpse shriveled and his golden demon core emerged, which Bing Yan reached for to restore her strength.
• Qiaoqiao reminded Bing Yan that she had promised to give her anything in return for being saved.
• Bing Yan feared Qiaoqiao and respectfully handed her the demon core, leaving Wen Zhi, Xiao Tingyu, and Shen Ji astonished.

Qiaoqiao tricked Bing Yan into surrendering her storage rings, then seized the demon core before Liu Xiu could devour it and fed it to Fu Fengyuan. Liu Xiu was blasted into the sky and discovered that Qiaoqiao had drawn a turtle receiving cupping treatment on his body.

• Qiaoqiao refused Bing Yan's demon core and demanded all her possessions, prompting Bing Yan to hand over two storage rings.
• Liu Xiu escaped his seal and rushed toward the demon core, but Qiaoqiao snatched it first.
• Qiaoqiao called to Fu Fengyuan, who swallowed the demon core and awakened the dragon power in his bloodline.
• Liu Xiu crashed into Fu Fengyuan's dragon Qi and was flung into the air as a thin sheet of paper.
• Protector Cheng, Commandant Feng, and Elder Lin examined Liu Xiu and realized Qiaoqiao had drawn a multicolored turtle with cupping marks on him.

After Liu Xiu returned from the dead, the others realized the pills had transformed him and moved to investigate. Meanwhile, Qiaoqiao had Fu Fengyuan consume Bing Yan’s demon core, awakening his Radiant Dragon Bloodline, and the Flowing Cloud Sect formed a sword formation to protect him as his cultivation rose.

• Liu Xiu shouted that Cheng was weak, then tried to alert the others that Qiaoqiao had taken the demon core and that Ethereal Peak was dividing Bing Yan’s Law Treasures.
• Commandant Feng and the others recognized Liu Xiu and suspected the pills had transformed him, while Elder Lin explained that the cultivation world had no overarching law governing ownership of the demon core.
• Qiaoqiao had Fu Fengyuan swallow the demon core, activating his Radiant Dragon Bloodline and causing him to absorb its power as his cultivation rapidly increased.
• Shen Ji, Xiao Tingyu, and the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples formed defenses around Fu Fengyuan while he cultivated.
• The Flowing Cloud Sword Formation deterred the other sects from challenging the Flowing Cloud Sect over the demon core.

Fu Fengyuan reached Nascent Soul Early Stage after absorbing part of the demon core and thanked Qiaoqiao for sharing it with him. Meanwhile, Liu Xiu fell beside Bing Yan in the form of a talking sheet of paper, and she laughed at his transformation.

• Fu Fengyuan advanced from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul Early Stage, though he had not fully absorbed the demon core.
• Fu Fengyuan thanked Qiaoqiao, who told him that Ethereal Peak was her home and her senior brothers were her family.
• Qiaoqiao wondered why Liu Xiu was still making accusations, and a gust blew him from a branch.
• Liu Xiu landed beside Bing Yan as a talking sheet of paper bearing a drawing of a turtle receiving cupping therapy.
• Bing Yan recognized Liu Xiu and laughed at his condition, while Liu Xiu realized he had lost most of his memories.

Fu Fengyuan burned Liu Xiu to ash after Liu Xiu attacked Qiaoqiao, and Wen Zhi noticed an ominous “Darkening Value: 55” above her little junior sister. Commandant Feng then criticized the group for killing Liu Xiu before they could investigate the Immortality Pill.

• Liu Xiu’s hatred took over, and he charged at Qiaoqiao, whom he blamed for his ruin.
• Fu Fengyuan shielded Qiaoqiao with Radiant Dragon Flame and burned Liu Xiu’s body and soul to ash as Liu Xiu recovered his memories.
• Qiaoqiao gave Wen Zhi the golden toad’s skin, and Wen Zhi realized it was valuable pill-refining material.
• Wen Zhi saw “Qiaoqiao, Darkening Value: 55” above Qiaoqiao’s head, and Shen Ji appeared to see it too.
• Commandant Feng criticized the group for killing Liu Xiu before they could investigate the Immortality Pill, angering the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples.

Qiaoqiao challenged Commandant Feng and Protector Cheng over their handling of Bing Yan and the Envy Fish City investigation, while the crowd’s confidence in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion crumbled. Mu Liuyun arrived to defend the Flowing Cloud Sect and declared the three immortal sects a laughingstock.

• Qiaoqiao argued that Bing Yan had eaten advanced Immortality Pills rather than Saint Pills, and questioned whether the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion could safely interrogate her.
• Qiaoqiao asked Commandant Feng what the Pavilion had uncovered in Envy Fish City, prompting the crowd to criticize its failed investigation.
• A Flowing Cloud Sect elder denounced the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the crowd called for the case to be transferred to the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• Commandant Feng dismissed the Flowing Cloud Sect elder as unqualified, but Mu Liuyun arrived and asserted her authority as sect master.
• Mu Liuyun told Commandant Feng that the three immortal sects had become a joke.

Mu Liuyun praised Fu Fengyuan for reaching Nascent Soul and confronted the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion over its misconduct. After Song Wuya accepted responsibility and imposed punishments, Qiaoqiao held him accountable for his subordinates, while Rushui learned that Nangong was dead but her voice could not be restored.

• Mu Liuyun praised Fu Fengyuan for breaking through to Nascent Soul and recalled the hopes she and Qingshuang had for their child.
• Song Wuya arrived, acknowledged the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's mishandling of events, and let Mu Liuyun choose Commandant Feng's punishment.
• Mu Liuyun ordered Commandant Feng removed from his post and sent to Reflection Peak, and Song Wuya gave the same punishment to the elders involved with Liu Xiu.
• Qiaoqiao questioned Song Wuya's oversight of Commandant Nangong and Elder Bing, and he admitted fault and promised an investigation.
• The Painted Skin Demon regained consciousness and told Rushui that Nangong was dead, but Rushui realized her lost voice could not be restored.

Qiaoqiao helped expose Nangong Gua’s Immortality Pill scheme, restoring the Flowing Cloud Sect’s reputation and bringing the threat to an end. Meanwhile, Bai Fu and Changyun discussed the danger he had secretly eliminated and Qiaoqiao’s role in preventing a calamity.

• Qiaoqiao promised Madam Rushui that Wen Zhi would try to restore her voice, in exchange for Madam Rushui revealing everything she knew about Nangong Gua and his associates.
• Madam Rushui helped Mu Liuyun uncover how Nangong, Ning Xuan, and Bing Yan had used Immortality Pills to control their pawns, and Mu Liuyun learned that everyone on the list and Bing Yan had died overnight.
• Mu Liuyun ordered the sect to let the matter end after the demonic bodies were destroyed, while Qiaoqiao’s tournament victory made her and the Flowing Cloud Sect famous.
• Bai Fu and Changyun searched Nangong Gua’s sealed cave abode, and Changyun warned Bai Fu that his killing aura threatened to overwhelm his Slaughter Sword Heart.
• Changyun explained that Bai Fu had destroyed those carrying Devil Creatures to prevent a calamity, and Bai Fu praised Qiaoqiao for helping avert the danger.

Bai Fu found no trace of the skeletal hand and learned that his murderous sword intent was becoming harder to suppress, while Qiaoqiao’s senior sisters checked that she was healthy. As the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples prepared to return, Qiaoqiao remembered that her Second Senior Sister was headed into danger after meeting the Demon Realm’s fox king.

• Bai Fu suspected that someone else shared memories of a previous life, and Changyun gave him pills to suppress his growing killing intent.
• Qiaoqiao watched illusory figures demonstrate sword forms, absorbing their sword intent as Wen Zhi secretly checked her pulse and found her in good condition.
• Shen Ji considered telling Master about the strange black text above Qiaoqiao, while a white-robed figure listened unseen from the woods.
• Three days later, the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples prepared to leave; Wen Zhi explained that Second Senior Sister had rushed home to the Xiao Household.
• Qiaoqiao recalled that Second Senior Sister would rescue an injured white fox, unknowingly escort the fox king to the Demon Realm, and expose the Xiao Household’s assets to its scheme.

Qiaoqiao, Wen Zhi, and Fu Fengyuan rushed toward the Demon Realm to save Xiao Tingyu from the Fox King, while Liu Xian learned of their journey and welcomed the Devil Master’s plan to kill Qiaoqiao. The three had not yet reached Xiao Tingyu, who was not answering Fu Fengyuan’s messages.

• Qiaoqiao urged Wen Zhi and Fu Fengyuan to help rescue Xiao Tingyu before the Fox King lured her to the Demon Realm, and both agreed without demanding an explanation.
• Fu Fengyuan told an elder they were going to visit the Xiao Household, and the three set out for the Demon Realm.
• Liu Xian’s elder reported that most Glazed Sea disciples had submitted to the Demon God, while Liu Yu remained shut away in her room.
• Liu Xian said Wen Zhi’s resemblance to her might prove useful and went to check on Liu Yu.
• The Devil Master told Liu Xian that Qiaoqiao and two senior disciples were heading toward the Demon Realm and that he had sent assassins to kill her; Liu Xian welcomed the news.
• Fu Fengyuan told Wen Zhi and Qiaoqiao that Xiao Tingyu had not answered any of his messages.

Fu Fengyuan and Qiaoqiao searched a peach grove near the Demon Realm for Qiaoqiao’s second senior sister, but black mist separated them and trapped them in illusions. Qiaoqiao saw a memory-like scene of herself practicing swordplay with Bai Fu before an unseen presence whispered to her from behind.

• Fu Fengyuan warned that they could not enter the Demon Realm rashly, while Qiaoqiao said her divination placed her second senior sister nearby.
• Fu Fengyuan sensed Yao Qi beneath a peach tree, then fought black mist as it cut him off from Qiaoqiao and their third senior sister.
• A voice in the mist told Fu Fengyuan that he would die there and called him Young Master Liuyun.
• Qiaoqiao entered the thickening mist and saw an apparent memory of Bai Fu discussing the sect’s eldest senior brother before teaching her swordplay.
• As the vision faded, an unseen speaker called it an illusion in demonic mist and breathed against Qiaoqiao’s neck, leaving her frozen with fear.

Qiaoqiao fought Teng Yaogui and wounded her with the Remnant Snow Sword, but two more devil generals arrived and left her facing three enemies. Elsewhere, Fu Fengyuan battled an endless Devil Creature trap and pierced his own arm after hearing that his companions had been killed.

• Teng Yaogui attacked Qiaoqiao with her devil vines, but Qiaoqiao cut them apart with the High Antiquity sword form Descending Flower Rain.
• Qiaoqiao wounded Teng Yaogui with Remnant Snow and revealed that her sword skill had grown strong enough to challenge a devil general.
• Two more devil generals emerged from the mist, leaving Qiaoqiao badly outnumbered.
• Fu Fengyuan struggled to break through the Devil Creatures surrounding him as a voice claimed his companions had been killed.
• Fu Fengyuan rejected the claim and pierced the meridians in his arm, causing blood to surge out.

Fu Fengyuan and Bai Fu rescued Qiaoqiao from the devils in the peach grove, where she witnessed a vision of sect leaders debating the spreading Immortality Pill scourge. The leaders then pressured Bai Fu to protect Heavenly Secrets City with the Protective Sword Formation, while Mu Liuyun defended him against accusations about his disciples.

• Fu Fengyuan defeated the Devil Creature with a sword strike powered by the Radiant Dragon Bloodline and hurried to find Qiaoqiao.
• Bai Fu arrived in the peach grove and killed the vine demon ghost as she and the other devils attacked Qiaoqiao.
• Qiaoqiao saw a vision of sect leaders arguing over the Immortality Pills and the growing number of Devil Creatures.
• Song Wuya proposed that Bai Fu use the Protective Sword Formation to shield Heavenly Secrets City, and the gathered cultivators supported the plan.
• Mu Liuyun objected to the demands and defended Bai Fu when Bing Yan and other elders blamed his disciples for the crisis.
• Song Wuya and the other cultivators bowed to Bai Fu and pleaded with him to protect Heavenly Secrets City.

Qiaoqiao emerged from an illusion of a disastrous future and learned that Bai Fu would protect the world because he wished to protect her and Ethereal Peak. After reuniting with Fu Fengyuan and Wen Zhi, the group discovered Wen Zhi had found a prescription to cure Madam Rushui's throat.

• Qiaoqiao watched Bai Fu agree to save Heavenly Secrets City in the illusion before it dissolved and she fell into his arms.
• Qiaoqiao recounted how the imagined future differed from reality and asked Bai Fu whether he would save the world if it faced destruction.
• Bai Fu said his Guardian Sword Dao duty was to protect everyone, but the Protective Sword Formation also guarded those he personally wished to protect.
• Qiaoqiao found Fu Fengyuan wounded and helped him recover with a blood-replenishing pill.
• The group found Wen Zhi unconscious, woke her, and learned she had discovered a prescription for Madam Rushui's throat.

Wen Zhi, Qiaoqiao, and Fu Fengyuan prepared to enter the Demon Realm to rescue Xiao Tingyu, with Bai Fu joining them and helping them cross the barrier. After entering, Qiaoqiao felt a familiar voice near the Divine Pillar, while Bai Fu also looked back at it with a grave expression.

• Fu Fengyuan and Qiaoqiao found no trace of Xiao Tingyu and debated whether to enter the Demon Realm to search for her.
• Bai Fu agreed to go with them, and Wen Zhi provided pills that could temporarily turn Spiritual Qi into Yao Qi for disguises.
• Qiaoqiao proposed disguises for Wen Zhi and Fu Fengyuan, then persuaded Bai Fu to let her choose his disguise too.
• Bai Fu helped the group cross the demons' barrier near the Western Divine Pillar and enter the Demon Realm.
• Qiaoqiao felt a familiar heart palpitation and heard an indistinct voice near the Divine Pillar, while Bai Fu also looked back at it.

Wen Zhi and her companions encountered rabbit demons asking for help with their poisoned brother, Tu San. After Qiaoqiao told Fu Fengyuan to shock him with lightning, Tu San revived, though he accused his family of already planning to have him roasted.

• Wen Zhi gathered medicinal herbs along the road as she traveled with Qiaoqiao and the others.
• Several rabbit demons begged Wen Zhi to save their brother Tu San, who appeared to be severely poisoned.
• Tu San stopped breathing while Wen Zhi examined him, and Qiaoqiao insisted that he could still be saved.
• Qiaoqiao ordered Fu Fengyuan to shock Tu San with lightning, and the shocks brought him back to life.
• Tu San misunderstood his siblings' frantic cries and accused them of looking for someone to roast him, while Tu Si explained that they had summoned help.

Qiaoqiao investigated who poisoned Tu San and concluded that his four brothers had conspired against him out of jealousy over their master’s favor. The rabbit demons dropped their act after Tu San realized his brothers shared his feelings for their master.

• Tu San remembered that one of his four brothers had given him water before he was poisoned, but he could not identify which one.
• Qiaoqiao questioned the rabbit demons about their master and heard Tu San describe the master as gentle, unlike his brothers’ other descriptions.
• Qiaoqiao concluded that all four brothers had worked together to poison Tu San because they wanted their master’s attention for themselves.
• Tu San realized his brothers also had feelings for their master, and the four brothers angrily accused him of monopolizing the master’s favor.

Wen Zhi and her companions encountered Zi Yu after the rabbit demons’ attempt to poison Tu San was exposed. Zi Yu punished her disciples, then questioned the travelers about their arrival from Demon Moon Mountain before becoming captivated by the white-robed man.

• Tu San’s four brothers admitted that each had secretly added poison to his water, though none had intended to kill him.
• Zi Yu emerged from purple mist, learned what her disciples had done, and ordered them to return to their cave abode and face the wall until she or Tu San forgave them.
• Zi Yu asked Wen Zhi and her companions whether they had come from beyond the barrier, and Qiaoqiao explained that they had fled unrest on Demon Moon Mountain.
• Zi Yu examined the group’s disguises and was especially struck by the white-robed man with a three-petaled plum blossom mark between his brows.

Zi Yu joined Qiaoqiao, Bai Fu, Fu Fengyuan, and the others as they prepared to travel to Demon King City. They learned that the Fox King had brought a human cultivator there to make her his queen, while Qiaoqiao’s thoughts revealed that the Fox King’s parents intended to exploit the Xiao Household and control Second Senior Sister.

• Zi Yu admired Qiaoqiao and Bai Fu, then agreed to travel with them after Bai Fu stepped between her and Qiaoqiao.
• Tu San begged to join the group, and Zi Yu revealed that she could distinguish him from the other rabbit demons because he was exceptionally tall and muscular.
• Zi Yu said the Fox King had returned to the Demon Realm with a human cultivator he planned to make his queen, and the group suspected she was Second Senior Sister.
• The group decided to hurry to Demon King City under the pretense of watching the excitement and meeting the Fox King.
• Qiaoqiao’s thoughts revealed that the Fox King’s parents wanted the Xiao Household’s fortune and intended to control Second Senior Sister.

Wen Zhi and her companions hurried toward Demon King City to rescue Xiao Tingyu, while Ye Xun and his mother prepared to use a Soul-Seizing Formation to make Xiao Tingyu their puppet. The group reached the crowded demon capital, but the chapter ended before they found her.

• Wen Zhi and Fu Fengyuan became eager to reach the royal city after hearing gossip about the old fox king and queen.
• Ye Xun went to see Xiao Tingyu, who was trapped inside a Soul-Seizing Formation, but the guards barred him from entering.
• Zi Rong told Ye Xun that the formation would make Xiao Tingyu obedient and planned to exploit her family’s wealth after the wedding.
• Xiao Tingyu’s memories began fading as the formation reached its critical moment, and a faint creak came from the window.
• Wen Zhi and her companions arrived in Demon King City and watched a female demon flatten a troublemaker in the street.

Qiaoqiao and her companions learned that the Demon King’s wedding to their second senior sister was only three days away and began planning to stop it. When Jiao Qian challenged Fu Fengyuan over his long horns, Qiaoqiao redirected the challenge to Tu San.

• A demon tried to grab Qiaoqiao’s tail, but an unseen sword wind nearly severed his hand, and Bai Fu said he had brought it on himself.
• At the inn, Zi Yu revealed she had an enemy in the royal capital, while Qiaoqiao pretended she had never been down the mountain and recoiled from the live demon bugs.
• The waiter said the bugs were complimentary because the Demon King and his queen were marrying in three days, prompting the group to realize they had to stop the wedding.
• Zi Yu offered to take the group into the palace but warned she could not guarantee they would meet the person they wanted to see.
• Jiao Qian challenged Fu Fengyuan to a match because he saw his long horns as a threat to his standing, and Qiaoqiao declared that Jiao Qian had to defeat Tu San first.

Qiaoqiao tricked Jiao Qian into a contest that ended with Tu San knocking him through an inn wall, then asked the defeated young lord for a favor. Meanwhile, Zi Rong used the Soul-Seizing Formation’s influence over Xiao Tingyu to demand a vast dowry and control over the Xiao Household’s businesses, leaving Xiao Tingyu compliant but visibly unsettled.

• Qiaoqiao proposed that Jiao Qian and Tu San each throw one punch without using Demon Power, and Jiao Qian accepted her wager.
• Tu San struck Jiao Qian, sending the Jiaolong young lord through the inn wall and into a crater outside.
• Tu San celebrated his victory, and Qiaoqiao asked Jiao Qian to do her a small favor.
• Zi Rong ordered Xiao Tingyu to kneel and told her to inform her father that the Xiao Household must provide a billion Spirit Stones, a hundred superior-grade spirit treasures, and the Shatter the Myriad Realms as dowry.
• Zi Rong also proposed placing Demon Race members in the Xiao Household’s businesses, and Xiao Tingyu agreed despite her gaze quivering.

Ye Xun and Zi Rong tried to humiliate Xiao Tingyu and extort her wealthy family, but Qiaoqiao interrupted them and turned their demand against Steward Yang. The Xiao Household’s head offered five billion Spirit Stones to stop the marriage, and Zi Rong threatened Xiao Tingyu’s life to force him to comply.

• Ye Xun sent the Xiao Household’s head a message demanding Spirit Stones in exchange for Xiao Tingyu.
• Steward Yang asked to take Xiao Tingyu’s valuable clothes and jewelry, and Zi Rong ordered her to strip.
• Qiaoqiao challenged Steward Yang’s request by suggesting he should give up Ye Xun’s clothes, then persuaded Ye Xun that wedding guests should give gifts instead.
• Qiaoqiao anticipated the arrival of Zi Rong’s favorite attendants and the old Demon King, while Wen Zhi worried about Xiao Tingyu and hoped the coming scene would kill their enemies.
• Ye Xun read the Xiao Household head’s reply: he offered five billion Spirit Stones and urged his daughter not to marry the Demon King.
• Zi Rong demanded the Xiao Household’s divine artifact and told Ye Xun to threaten that Xiao Tingyu would kill herself if her father refused the marriage.

Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi infiltrated the Demon King's palace with Tu San and found Second Senior Sister frightened and changed. A seductive snake consort disrupted the court by clinging to the Empress Dowager, and the chapter ended as another gauze-clad consort arrived to join them.

• Ye Xun sent a message in Xiao Tingyu's tone and regretted not asking for more Spirit Stones.
• Wen Zhi and Qiaoqiao entered the palace with Tu San, while Fu Fengyuan and the others were unable to disguise themselves as palace maids.
• Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi helped the kneeling Xiao Tingyu stand and saw her fearful, bewildered expression.
• A snake demon consort entered the hall, flirted with the Empress Dowager, and provoked Ye Xun into objecting.
• The Empress Dowager scolded Ye Xun for frightening the consort, and Ye Xun backed down when Zi Rong looked at him.
• Another man in red gauze entered and coquettishly asked the Empress Dowager why she had not invited him to play with her and the snake consort.

Wen Zhi examined her second senior sister while the Empress Dowager’s attendants competed for her favor, until the old Demon King arrived and saw the earthworm demon clinging to his wife. Terrified, he began gathering power for a devastating strike.

• Wen Zhi secretly checked her second senior sister’s pulse and learned from Qiaoqiao that the red-clad attendant was an earthworm demon.
• The old Demon King arrived at the Demon King’s Hall and found the Empress Dowager tangled up with two male attendants.
• Qiaoqiao revealed that the old Demon King feared earthworms and that fright triggered his strongest attack.
• The old Demon King gathered Demon Power, threatening to shatter the hall.