Chapter Summaries

Qiaoqiao remembered that Bai Fu had left half his soul in her State of Mind to protect her, and they kissed as he absorbed the goddess’s resentment. Before she left to find the devil bone and stop the Demon God, Bai Fu gave her a Saint Pill and disappeared.

• Qiaoqiao realized Bai Fu had endured the torment of splitting his soul to protect her, and her Darkening Value reached 99.
• Bai Fu kissed Qiaoqiao and absorbed the resentment affecting her, though the resentment stirred his suppressed killing intent.
• Qiaoqiao told Bai Fu she would work with her senior brothers and sisters to kill the Demon God and find a cure for him, and he agreed to wait for her.
• The Method Formula ended, and Qiaoqiao signaled A Xue that she was crossing the river.
• Bai Fu vanished after giving Qiaoqiao a Saint Pill, and she headed toward the ferry crossing to continue her search for the devil bone.

Shen Ji followed Qiaoqiao into the Devil Realm to find their master, but the Devil Master intercepted them near the ferry crossing. As Shen Ji stood protectively in front of Qiaoqiao, she noticed the Devil Master's unusually swollen belly.

• After returning from Heavenly Secrets City, Shen Ji broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and learned of the chaos engulfing the Three Realms.
• Shen Ji secretly followed Qiaoqiao into the Devil Realm, suspecting she was searching for their master.
• Qiaoqiao noticed Shen Ji following her near the ferry crossing, and he revealed himself and urged her to leave.
• The Devil Master appeared before the crossing, and Shen Ji stepped in front of Qiaoqiao and told her to look for a chance to escape.
• Qiaoqiao privately compared the Devil Master's appearance to a red-eyed rooster and wondered why his belly looked several months pregnant.

The Devil Master trapped Qiaoqiao and Shen Ji by the Nether River, seeking revenge for his daughter Ziling, and Shen Ji fought him despite their vast difference in strength. After Qiaoqiao realized the Devil Master carried Yao Qi and may have devoured Hundun and Qiongqi, she gave Shen Ji a restorative pill, and he used his replenished Spiritual Qi to attack the Devil Master’s abdomen.

• The Devil Master revealed his Yao Qi and sealed off the Nether River bank, then vowed to kill Qiaoqiao and Shen Ji for Ziling’s death.
• Shen Ji stepped forward to fight the Devil Master while Qiaoqiao retreated, and their first exchange left Shen Ji injured.
• Shen Ji used his swordsmanship to evade the Devil Master through dozens of exchanges, but his strength began to fail.
• Qiaoqiao guessed the Devil Master had devoured Hundun and Qiongqi, then tossed Shen Ji a pill that restored his Spiritual Qi.
• Shen Ji took a crushing palm strike to his shoulder, then poured all his Spiritual Qi into the Devil Master’s abdomen.

Shen Ji defeated the Devil Master after discovering that the Spiritual Qi he poured into him had made his swollen abdomen vulnerable, then regained clarity in his sword Dao and advanced in cultivation. Back at Flowing Cloud Sect, Qiaoqiao identified Aqi as the person carrying the Demon God's hand bone.

• Shen Ji used a strand of Luminous Sword Intent to pierce the Devil Master's swollen abdomen, forcing the Demon Power within him to escape toward the Demon Realm.
• Shen Ji stabbed the Devil Master's heart and killed him, while the Devil Qi barrier dissipated and Hundun's Yao Qi fled to recover.
• After Qiaoqiao asked if he was all right, Shen Ji recalled Bai Fu's teaching, reaffirmed his sword Dao, and rose another cultivation level.
• Shen Ji and Qiaoqiao returned to Flowing Cloud Sect, where Ethereal Peak's disciples discussed the Demon God's return and searched for his hand bone.
• Qiaoqiao announced that Aqi, the Profound Heaven Sect disciple who had testified against Ning Xuan, was carrying the Demon God's hand bone.

Qiaoqiao recognized the one-eared, one-armed Aqi as the Demon God and realized his prophecy meant the central divine pillar was about to appear. As Aqi began speaking at the Stargazing Terrace, Xiao Tingyu arrived in a spectacular display of the Xiao Household’s wealth.

• Qiaoqiao explained that Aqi’s missing ear and arm matched the man from her dream, but his restored hearing suggested a demon bone had healed him.
• Elder Wu reported that Aqi had emerged at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, claiming Song Wuya had revealed the second half of the divine prophecy in a dream.
• Wen Zhi and the others realized Aqi had been waiting for the central divine pillar to appear, and Qiaoqiao asked Xiao Tingyu to help deal with him.
• At the Stargazing Terrace, Aqi claimed Song Wuya had died unjustly because the divine maiden had tried to suppress the prophecy.
• Xiao Tingyu interrupted Aqi’s speech by arriving with an ostentatious procession and raising a treasure-covered platform beside the Stargazing Terrace.

Xiao Tingyu disrupted Aqi’s attempt to turn the cultivators against the divine maiden, while the Xiao Household won their support by giving out magical treasures. Ning Xuan ambushed Aqi, but the revealed Demon God escaped and summoned Qiaoqiao to the central divine pillar to face him.

• Xiao Tingyu accused Aqi of fabricating Song Wuya’s dream visitation and declared she had come to debate him.
• The Xiao Household elders handed out Earth Grade magical treasures to the cultivators, who voiced support for the divine maiden and Junior Sister Qiao instead of listening to Aqi.
• Ning Xuan attacked Aqi with a knife, and Aqi recognized that Qiaoqiao had arranged the ambush.
• Aqi revealed his demonic nature, killed Ning Xuan, and unleashed Devil Qi that darkened the sky and eclipsed the sun.
• The central divine pillar appeared in a shaft of light as the Demon God escaped into the clouds and challenged the divine maiden to meet him there.
• Xiao Tingyu watched the central divine pillar as the Demon God vanished, leaving Ning Xuan’s blood on the Stargazing Platform.

Three days after the Central Divine Pillar appeared and became engulfed in deadly demonic mist, Qiaoqiao decided to confront the Demon God. As the Flowing Cloud Sect rallied behind her, she prepared to enter the mist with the Flowing Cloud Divine Lamp and learned more about the mysterious pill she had asked Wen Zhi to examine.

• The Central Divine Pillar emerged after the celestial hound devoured the sun, then vanished into darkness as demonic mist spread around it and killed everyone who entered.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Flowing Cloud Sect, hoping Qiaoqiao would stop the Demon God, while she said she would act to protect her sect and the three realms.
• Mu Liuyun, Elder Wu, and Qiaoqiao's senior brothers and sisters offered to go with her, but Qiaoqiao explained that only she could awaken the Flowing Cloud Divine Lamp and bring at most two people into the mist.
• Qiaoqiao asked Wen Zhi about the pill she had given her to study, and Wen Zhi said it was likely a potent essence condensed from medicinal liquid in the Heaven-Melting Cauldron, not a pill that could grant ascension.

Qiaoqiao confronted the Demon God at the Central Divine Pillar with Fu Fengyuan and Yue Tingxi supporting her. She tricked the Demon God into lowering his guard and landed a coordinated attack, but the battle continued as he turned on her companions.

• Qiaoqiao arrived at the Central Divine Pillar carrying the divine lamp and sword, and the Demon God greeted her in Song Wuya's appearance.
• Qiaoqiao brought Fu Fengyuan and Yue Tingxi into the fight, relying on their resistance to devil mist and their ability to support her.
• Qiaoqiao and the Demon God exchanged more than a hundred sword moves as their golden and black sword intents clashed.
• The Demon God engulfed Fu Fengyuan and Yue Tingxi in devil mist, but they emerged with attacks that struck him while Qiaoqiao feigned Ask the Heavenly Limit.
• The Demon God swung at Fu Fengyuan and Yue Tingxi, and Qiaoqiao's delayed Ask the Heavenly Limit descended toward him.

Qiaoqiao and the Demon God fought as his memories revealed his ancient hatred for the divine maiden and how he had trapped her in the Divine Pillar. The Demon God transformed into a black dragon, and Qiaoqiao, Fu Fengyuan, and Yue Tingxi fought him for four hours while the Flowing Cloud Sect waited outside the mist.

• The Demon God recalled how the divine maiden had defeated him ten thousand years earlier and how he later trapped her in the Divine Pillar.
• Qiaoqiao questioned whether the Demon God’s plot was driven by revenge, but he attacked her before she could understand what was wrong.
• The Demon God transformed into a black dragon and struck Qiaoqiao, whose defensive Law Treasures absorbed most of the blow.
• Yue Tingxi supplied Qiaoqiao with Spiritual Qi as she and Fu Fengyuan attacked the dragon, but their strikes could not pierce his scales.
• Qiaoqiao and her companions battled the Demon God for four hours while the Flowing Cloud Sect watched anxiously from beyond the black mist.

Qiaoqiao and her allies defeated the demonic dragon, but the dying Demon God revealed that Qiaoqiao’s resentment made her the body he had chosen to inherit his power. He left her and the others questioning whether killing him would bring about her transformation into the next Demon God.

• As the Demon God prepared a devastating attack, Qiaoqiao pushed Fu Fengyuan and Yue Tingxi aside and revealed that they still had help.
• A-Qi and A Xue attacked the dragon’s eyes, giving Qiaoqiao the chance to drive her divine sword into its mouth and destroy it from within.
• Qiaoqiao confronted the badly wounded Demon God, who claimed he had won despite his defeat.
• The Demon God explained that he would survive through a new body as long as the Devil Seed and hatred existed in the Three Realms.
• The Demon God revealed that Qiaoqiao’s deep resentment made her the body he had chosen, and challenged her companions to kill him anyway.

The Demon God tried to make Qiaoqiao inherit his role by drawing the Divine Pillar’s resentment into her, but Bai Fu’s protection prevented a Devil Seed from forming. Bai Fu took the resentment into himself and became the new Demon God as the old one perished.

• The Demon God told Qiaoqiao that she was destined to become the new Demon God and blamed her for the deaths of those around her.
• Qiaoqiao’s companions urged her not to believe him, but the Demon God released the Divine Pillar’s resentment toward her.
• Qiaoqiao said someone loved her too much for the Demon God’s plan to succeed, and Bai Fu emerged from the mist.
• Bai Fu caught Qiaoqiao and absorbed the resentment, revealing that he had protected her with half his soul and planned to take her place.
• As Bai Fu became the new Demon God, the old Demon God’s body perished while Qiaoqiao wept in Bai Fu’s arms.

Bai Fu destroyed the Devil Seed and sacrificed himself to prevent the Demon God’s return, leaving Qiaoqiao devastated. Wen Zhi then found a way to dispel the resentment keeping him dead, and the chapter ended with hope for his resurrection tempered by the need for rare spiritual treasures.

• Bai Fu guided Qiaoqiao’s hand to stab his heart meridians, destroying the Devil Seed and dispersing the resentment, Devil Qi, and goddess’s obsession.
• Bai Fu died after reassuring Qiaoqiao, and a jade comb fell from his sleeve as she held his body in grief.
• Wen Zhi told Qiaoqiao that Bai Fu could be revived if they dispelled the resentment and killing aura within him using two identical Saint Pills.
• A cultivator found the Demon God’s Saint Pill beside the Divine Pillar, giving the group the two pills they needed.
• Wen Zhi warned that reviving Bai Fu would also require many rare spiritual treasures, some of which might no longer exist.

Qiaoqiao’s phoenix supplied the Phoenix Core needed to revive Bai Fu, and she waited a hundred years for him to awaken. Bai Fu finally woke and kissed her, leaving Qiaoqiao flustered and questioning how he knew what she had been thinking.

• Wen Zhi listed the rare medicinal ingredients needed to save Bai Fu, and the phoenix appeared and gave Qiaoqiao its Phoenix Core.
• Wen Zhi said the Phoenix Core would let Bai Fu recover within a hundred years without the other ingredients.
• A hundred years later, Qiaoqiao waited beside Bai Fu while Shen Ji, Wen Zhi, and Xiao Tingyu visited her at Ethereal Peak.
• Qiaoqiao wondered whether kissing Bai Fu would wake him, and her senior brother and sisters quietly left the room.
• Bai Fu grabbed Qiaoqiao, kissed her, and revealed that he had awakened.

An unnamed speaker acknowledged owing someone a hundred years' worth and said they would have to make up for it slowly.

• An unnamed speaker acknowledged owing someone a debt.
• The speaker put the debt at a hundred years' worth.
• The speaker said they would have to make up for it slowly.