Recaps

Ye Chen and Yang Yang disrupted the Bai Household’s bride-winning contest, using the confrontation to spread the Black-Yellow Sect’s fame through Spirit Yang City. As the sect’s reputation climbed, the two disciples prepared to join the Demon Suppression Bureau so they could find wrongdoers through its missions.

• Ye Chen tried to leave the Bai Household’s contest, but Bai Jiuzhong ordered his people to seize him until Yang Yang stepped in and wounded Bai Jiuzhong in a fight.
• Yang Yang explained to Ye Chen that he had challenged Bai Jiuzhong to make the Black-Yellow Sect seem powerful, and revealed his suspicions about Bai Xuan’er and the Bai Household.
• The contest ended early, and word of Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and the Black-Yellow Sect spread through Spirit Yang City.
• Lin Ye saw the sect’s fame rise past seventy thousand, while Han Bing advanced to the seventh level of the Body Forging Realm and Lin Ye gained progress in the Innate Realm.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang decided to apply as outside members of the Demon Suppression Bureau so they could use its intelligence and missions to find evildoers.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang completed three Demon Suppression Bureau missions by killing three Blazing Sun Sect disciples on Black Wolf Mountain and escaping a True Qi Realm elder. The Blazing Sun Sect traced the attackers to the Black-Yellow Sect, and Elder Huangpu suspected they possessed a powerful inheritance or treasure.

• Ye Chen and Yang Yang accepted missions to kill Zhou Qing, Qian Dashan, and Li Wu, then infiltrated the Blazing Sun Sect outpost on Black Wolf Mountain.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang killed patrol disciples, took a formation token, and harvested the medicinal garden’s spirit medicine.
• Ye Chen used a Peak Body Casting Realm puppet to kill the three wanted disciples, then escaped with Yang Yang after two puppets blocked a True Qi Realm elder’s sword strike.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau the next morning and exchanged their Demon Merit for pills, while Yang Yang refined spirit medicine to raise his cultivation.
• Lin Ye learned that his disciples had met the sect-killing quota, while the Blazing Sun Sect investigated the attackers and linked them to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Elder Huangpu ordered an investigation of the Black-Yellow Sect and suspected its disciples had obtained a martial arts inheritance or a powerful expert’s treasure.

Lin Ye claimed powerful system rewards, perfected the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm, and revived the Black-Yellow Sect’s Spirit Vein. The chapter ended with Elder Huangpu and Blazing Sun Sect disciples arriving at the sect gate, where Lin Ye confronted them.

• The system announced that Lin Ye had completed a mission and rewarded him with a heaven-tier martial art, an enlightenment card, a Spirit Vein, Spirit Stones, and an Artifact Refining Treasure Hall, while upgrading the system to reveal disciple loyalty.
• Lin Ye used the enlightenment card to master the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm and placed the Artifact Refining Treasure Hall near the sect’s main hall.
• Lin Ye merged the low-level Spirit Vein into the sect’s incomplete Spirit Vein, increasing the Spiritual Qi concentration fivefold, and told Yu Yu to resume cultivating.
• Lin Ye checked his disciples’ loyalty, then summoned Ye Chen and Yang Yang back to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Elder Huangpu led Blazing Sun Sect disciples up the mountain, and Lin Ye met them at the sect gate.

Lin Ye defeated the Blazing Sun Sect elder Huangpu, ransomed him for silver and martial arts, and expanded the Black-Yellow Sect. The system then activated the Sin Ranking and gave Lin Ye’s disciples one month to enter its top one hundred.

• Huangpu demanded entry to the Black-Yellow Sect, but Lin Ye struck him down with the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm and ordered a surviving Blazing Sun Sect disciple to deliver a ransom demand.
• Lin Ye had Huangpu guarded, and Yu Yu learned that Lin Ye had reached the Innate Realm.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang returned to the sect, and Yang Yang concluded that Lin Ye was an Innate Realm expert.
• Xu Jinyang sent silver and martial arts to ransom the crippled Huangpu, while Lin Ye recruited new outer sect and menial disciples.
• The system activated the Sin Ranking and tasked Lin Ye’s disciples with reaching its top one hundred within a month.

Lin Ye realized his disciples could rise on the Sin Ranking by killing its notorious evildoers, so he issued assassination tasks with generous rewards. Dongfang Bai and Yang Yang completed their missions, and by morning Ye Chen had climbed five places and neared the top hundred.

• Lin Ye found that Ye Chen and Yang Yang ranked 109th and 123rd on the Sin Ranking, then decided to have his disciples kill the listed evildoers to improve their standings.
• Lin Ye copied the evildoers' details and issued killing tasks, including a 300-point task to kill Ren Changhe.
• Dongfang Bai found evidence of Ren Changhe's infant sacrifices, then killed Ren Changhe and his guards and claimed the task reward.
• Yang Yang attacked the Li Household, killed Li Kaitai and Li Xuanshi's mother, and executed Li Xuanshi for murdering villagers.
• Lin Ye confirmed that all five disciples had completed tasks and that Ye Chen had risen five places, nearing the Sin Ranking's top hundred.

Ye Chen and his companions cleared a Mystic Blood Devil Sect stronghold in Green Fang Village, using a True Qi Realm Peak puppet to defeat its deacon. As the disciples continued cultivating, their progress boosted Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Fifth Layer.

• Lin Ye assigned missions against evildoers, and his disciples continued hunting them while concealing their identities.
• Ye Chen, Dongfang Bai, and three other disciples went to Green Fang Village, where Mystic Blood Devil Sect disciples surrounded them.
• Yang Yang and the others killed the village’s devil path disciples, but the deacon revived the corpses with a white bone banner.
• Ye Chen used Lin Ye’s True Qi Realm Peak puppet to kill the deacon and the remaining enemies, and Yang Yang kept the banner.
• The disciples returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, then spent the next ten days hunting Demon Beasts and cultivating with the Devil Spring.
• Lin Ye broke through to the Innate Realm Fifth Layer as the disciples’ progress fed back into his cultivation.

Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing assassinated Tu Hu in Spirit Yang City and returned safely, helping complete Lin Ye’s Sin Ranking mission. Lin Ye claimed the rewards and established the Battle Tower, where Yang Yang later used a Flood Dragon Blood Pill to reach the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer.

• Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing killed several people on the Sin Ranking in Spirit Yang City, then ambushed and killed Tu Hu before fleeing with his corpse.
• Lin Ye checked the Sin Ranking and saw that all five of his disciples had entered its top hundred.
• After the mission ended, Lin Ye claimed the rewards, including the Devil-Battling Tower, and renamed it the Battle Tower.
• Ye Chen and the other disciples challenged the tower’s Devil Race opponents, but only Yang Yang and Han Bing cleared the second floor.
• Lin Ye set point rewards for clearing floors and placed Flood Dragon Blood Pills in the tower for disciples to exchange.
• Yang Yang exchanged points for a Flood Dragon Blood Pill and refined it, reaching the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer.

Lin Ye gave Yang Yang and Han Bing heaven-tier cultivation methods, and their breakthroughs raised Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Seventh Layer. Meanwhile, Xu Yan lured Ye Chen away from the Black-Yellow Sect and attacked him, but she escaped after he overwhelmed her.

• Lin Ye gave Yang Yang the Taotie Swallowing Heaven Instruction and Han Bing the Supreme Yin Golden Body Instruction, then distributed cultivation methods to his other disciples.
• Yang Yang and Han Bing broke through to the True Qi Realm, and their tenfold feedback advanced Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Seventh Layer.
• Xu Yan asked Yu Shaoqing to locate Ye Chen, learned that he had joined the Black-Yellow Sect, and sent him a false letter claiming the Ye Household was in trouble.
• Ye Chen descended from the mountain and confronted Xu Yan, who admitted she planned to kill him and then destroy the Ye Household.
• Ye Chen overpowered Xu Yan with his techniques, but she escaped using a teleportation talisman or treasure and left behind her Supreme Simplicity sword.

After Ye Chen reported that Xu Yan had left behind a sword marked with the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s name, Lin Ye decided to send a spy into the all-female sect. Dongfang Bai volunteered and received tools and supplies before preparing to depart the next day.

• Ye Chen told Lin Ye that Xu Yan had ambushed him, escaped after he injured her, and left behind a Supreme Simplicity Sword; Lin Ye reassured him that the sect was unlikely to retaliate.
• The system assigned Lin Ye a long-term mission to infiltrate the Supreme Simplicity Sect and gather intelligence, so he called his five disciples together to choose a spy.
• Yang Yang was ruled out because he was male, and Han Bing suggested that Dongfang Bai could pass as a woman; Dongfang Bai volunteered instead of his sister, Dongfang Rou.
• Lin Ye gave Dongfang Bai six needle-type Law Treasures, spirit stones, a Heaven-rank secret method, communication talismans, and a Black-Yellow Jade that was actually Devil Jade.
• Dongfang Bai left to prepare for his mission, while Lin Ye planned to use the Devil Jade to help his disciples find people suited to the Supreme Devil Dao System.

Dongfang Bai traveled to the Supreme Simplicity Sect and excelled in its combat and comprehension assessments. He entered the final illusion-array stage, where the sect’s elders had been notified of his promising performance.

• Dongfang Bai left the Black-Yellow Sect and traveled to the Supreme Simplicity Sect, while Xu Yan asked Li Xuansu to avenge her and was refused.
• Dongfang Bai reached Supreme Simplicity City, learned how the sect recruited disciples, and applied to join using his orphan background.
• Dongfang Bai passed the combat stage by defeating the array’s opponents with the Taiyi Needle Technique.
• Dongfang Bai quickly mastered Gauze Smoke Steps and passed the comprehension stage.
• The female deacon sent word to the elders about Dongfang Bai’s strong performance before he entered the illusion-array stage.

Dongfang Bai passed all three rounds of the Illusion Array Trial by resisting temptation, fighting demonic path disciples to save a child, and ignoring a villager’s martial manual and resources. The Supreme Simplicity Sect elders praised her and competed to take her as a disciple.

• Li Xuansu hurried to the Illusion Array Trial after hearing that a promising talent wanted to join the sect.
• Dongfang Bai rejected the illusion of handsome men and defeated them with silver needles.
• Dongfang Bai attacked demonic path disciples, wounded a True Qi Realm martial artist, and tried to carry a child to safety before the illusion ended.
• Dongfang Bai ignored the high-grade Earth-tier martial art and resources in the final illusion, completing the assessment.
• The elders called Dongfang Bai a flawless talent and argued over who would take her as a disciple; when she emerged, they all invited her to join them.

Dongfang Bai joined Supreme Yin Peak as an inner disciple of the Supreme Simplicity Sect and began learning about the sect while hiding his identity as a man. He met Xu Yan, then examined his new cultivation materials as Lin Ye wondered how Dongfang Bai was faring.

• Dongfang Bai chose Supreme Yin Peak, and Li Xuansu enrolled him as an inner disciple while the elders of other peaks complained about losing him.
• Li Xuansu gave Dongfang Bai his standard equipment and explained the sect's meager monthly allowance of one Low-Grade Spirit Stone; he declined her offer to become his master, claiming he had sworn to an elderly Rogue Cultivator.
• Li Xuansu showed Dongfang Bai his residence and described Supreme Yin Peak's elders, disciples, and servants, while Dongfang Bai marveled at the sect's strength.
• Dongfang Bai asked to meet the senior sisters, and Li Xuansu introduced him to Xu Yan, who showed him around the peak and invited him to bathe in the Supreme Yin Spring; he refused to avoid exposing his secret.
• Dongfang Bai found the issued Cultivation Methods and martial arts unsuited to him, while Lin Ye wondered whether the Supreme Simplicity Sect would value him.

Dongfang Bai sent Lin Ye intelligence about the Supreme Simplicity Sect, earning Lin Ye a sword technique and other rewards. Lin Ye sent Yang Yang to deliver Bixie Swordsmanship to Dongfang Bai, and Yang Yang reached Supreme Simplicity City and contacted him.

• Dongfang Bai learned about the Chu Kingdom and the Supreme Simplicity Sect, then sent his findings to Lin Ye with a Myriad-Mile Communication Talisman.
• Lin Ye received the intelligence and was rewarded with Bixie Swordsmanship, communication talismans, a Storage Ring, and spirit stones.
• Lin Ye altered Bixie Swordsmanship so only those born castrated could cultivate it, then sent Yang Yang to deliver it to Dongfang Bai.
• Yang Yang peeked at the manual, saw its cultivation restriction, and continued toward the Supreme Simplicity Sect.
• Yang Yang reached Supreme Simplicity City and messaged Dongfang Bai to come meet him.

Dongfang Bai received the Bixie Swordsmanship from Yang Yang and quickly mastered it, then joined his senior sisters to cultivate in the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s spiritual spring. The spring brought him to the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, and his breakthrough also strengthened Lin Ye through their tenfold feedback.

• Dongfang Bai met Yang Yang in Supreme Simplicity City and received the Bixie Swordsmanship from him.
• Dongfang Bai gave gifts to his senior sisters, earning their goodwill, and Li Xuansu approved of him.
• Dongfang Bai rapidly cultivated the Bixie Swordsmanship to major mastery and began learning the Supreme Simplicity Sword Technique.
• Li Xuansu gave Dongfang Bai a place in the sect’s spiritual spring, where he cultivated with Xu Yan and other senior sisters.
• Dongfang Bai reached the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, and his breakthrough caused Lin Ye’s cultivation to soar through tenfold feedback.

After reaching the Innate Realm Ninth Layer, Lin Ye let Han Bing visit his family, but Han Bing discovered they had abandoned him and went to confront the Hu Household. He defeated Hu Xu and demanded compensation for the abuse he had suffered, leaving the Hu Household to agree.

• Lin Ye broke through to the Innate Realm Ninth Layer and approved Han Bing's request to visit home.
• Han Bing learned that his family had sold their home and left Spirit Yang City long ago, then decided to take revenge on the Hu Household.
• Han Bing confronted Hu Miaomiao at the Hu Residence, threw her aside, and beat her without killing her.
• Han Bing defeated the Hu Household ancestor Hu Xu and demanded compensation for his treatment in the Hu Household.
• Hu Xu agreed to compensate Han Bing and stopped Hu Miaomiao from calling Han Bing her husband.

Han Bing secured compensation from the Hu Household and returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, while Lin Ye used the Devil Spring to help his disciples advance. After Ye Chen and Dongfang Rou reached the True Qi Realm, feedback from their breakthroughs pushed Lin Ye into the Grandmaster Realm First Layer.

• Han Bing accepted silver and medicinal ingredients from Hu Xu, ordered the Hu Household to keep his visit secret and restrain Hu Miaomiao, then left for the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Yang Yang returned with the Bixie Swordsmanship delivered to Second Senior Brother, while Lin Ye noticed his cultivation had nearly reached the True Qi Realm Second Layer.
• Dongfang Bai cultivated the Sunflower Manual and broke through to the True Qi Realm, surprising Li Xuansu and strengthening Lin Ye through feedback.
• Lin Ye killed several peak third-tier Demon Beasts, put their corpses into the Devil Spring, and invited his disciples to cultivate there.
• Ye Chen and Dongfang Rou broke through to the True Qi Realm, and their feedback raised Lin Ye to the Grandmaster Realm First Layer.
• Lin Ye stabilized his new cultivation, celebrated becoming a Grandmaster, and received another task from the system.

Lin Ye sent Yang Yang to take control of a gang and establish the sect’s influence in Spirit Yang City. Yang Yang subdued the Blood Wolf Gang, drove off the Blazing Sun Sect’s elders, and completed Lin Ye’s mission, upgrading the system to level 3.

• Lin Ye assigned Yang Yang to subdue a gang in Spirit Yang City, reform it, and gather intelligence for the sect.
• Yang Yang chose the Blood Wolf Gang and defeated its members before forcing leader Li Tong to accept his authority.
• Deputy leader Xiao Zhenshan went to the Blazing Sun Sect for help, and Elder Wang Xu arrived with two other elders to confront Yang Yang.
• Yang Yang defeated the three elders and revealed he was a Black-Yellow Sect disciple; Wang Xu killed Xiao Zhenshan and the elders fled.
• Yang Yang placed the Blood Wolf Gang under the Black-Yellow Sect, completing Lin Ye’s mission and upgrading the system to level 3 with 1,000 Devil Dao Points.

Lin Ye explored the system shop, accidentally touched Yu Yu while browsing, and won her forgiveness with a custom storage ring. Meanwhile, Dongfang Bai accompanied Li Xuansu to the Chu Kingdom’s imperial prison, where the Black-Yellow Jade lit up and indicated a potential recruit for the Black-Yellow Sect.

• Lin Ye discovered the system shop’s devil dao goods and spent 600 Devil Dao Points on a custom blue storage ring for Yu Yu, who forgave him after receiving it.
• Yang Yang reorganized the Blood Wolf Gang in Spirit Yang City and reported to Lin Ye, who told him he could return.
• Li Xuansu invited Dongfang Bai to accompany her to Bianjing, and he accepted before traveling there with her on a Crimson Yang Crane.
• Li Xuansu and Dongfang Bai entered the imperial prison to question a True Disciple imprisoned for stealing a sect treasure and attempting to assassinate the Chu emperor.
• After Li Xuansu sent Dongfang Bai away while she spoke privately with the prisoner, the Black-Yellow Jade on him glowed red, signaling that a potential Black-Yellow Sect disciple was nearby.

Lin Ye learned that a potential sixth disciple was in Bianjing and captured a golden eagle with a Beast-Taming Ring to carry him there. He set off for Bianjing with Yu Yu, leaving the Black-Yellow Sect behind.

• Dongfang Bai reported the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s imprisoned traitor and the special physique in the Chu Kingdom’s imperial prison to Lin Ye, who received a mission to accept the suitable person as his sixth disciple.
• Lin Ye agreed to take Yu Yu to Bianjing and went to the Western Mystic Mountain Range to find a flying Demon Beast.
• Lin Ye subdued a fourth-tier golden eagle with a Beast-Taming Ring and learned that it was distantly descended from the Six-Winged Demon King.
• Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect on the golden eagle, then departed for Bianjing with Yu Yu while his disciples bid them farewell.

Lin Ye traveled to Bianjing with Yu Yu to recruit his sixth disciple, then infiltrated the imperial prison and rescued a youth guarded by a Great Grandmaster. He brought the youth back to the inn, where the youth agreed to become his disciple, earning Lin Ye system rewards.

• Lin Ye and Yu Yu reached Bianjing, and Lin Ye told her he had come to recruit a sixth disciple.
• Lin Ye used an invisibility talisman to enter the imperial prison and discovered the youth he sought was guarded by a Great Grandmaster.
• Lin Ye bought a Teleportation Talisman and escaped the prison with the youth, while the old eunuch realized someone had broken in and reported it to his majesty.
• Lin Ye asked the youth to become his disciple and threatened to return him to the prison if he refused.
• The youth bowed and accepted Lin Ye as his master, earning Lin Ye 5,000 Devil Dao Points and a lottery draw.

Lin Ye rescued Chu He from the heavenly prison and discovered that his sixth disciple possessed a Longevity Demonic Physique, so he obtained and modified a body-refining technique for him. After returning to the Black-Yellow Sect with Chu He, Lin Ye gave him the renamed Undying Body Refining Technique.

• Lin Ye learned that Chu He was from a distant collateral branch of the Chu imperial family and examined his unusual vitality, then used a detection talisman to identify his Longevity Demonic Physique.
• Lin Ye spent 5,000 Devil Dao Points on the foundational portion of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique and told Chu He to wait while he prepared their escape.
• Eunuch Li reported Chu He's rescue to Emperor Chu Feng, who decided against searching Bianjing and ordered negotiations with the Supreme Simplicity Sect over its captured traitor.
• Lin Ye gave Chu He a Formless Mask, then took him and Yu Yu sightseeing around Bianjing before flying back to the Black-Yellow Sect on the golden eagle Demon Beast.
• Chu He met his four senior brothers and sister, and Lin Ye gave him a modified Cultivation Method renamed the Undying Body Refining Technique.

Chu He began cultivating the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique, a brutal high-grade heaven-tier method suited to his special physique. With Ye Chen beating him as the technique required, Chu He rapidly advanced to the third level of the Body Refining Realm, and his other senior siblings agreed to help him train.

• Lin Ye gave Chu He the high-grade heaven-tier Undying Body Refining Technique and explained that his Longevity Demonic Physique made it uniquely suitable for him.
• Chu He studied the technique for several days, then asked Ye Chen to help him cultivate by striking him with a stick.
• Ye Chen hit Chu He with increasing force, and Chu He recovered from broken bones as he practiced the technique and refined pills.
• Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Han Bing saw Ye Chen beating Chu He and tried to stop him, but Chu He explained that the method required it.
• Chu He reached the third level of the Body Refining Realm, and his senior siblings believed his explanation and offered to help him train every day.

Chu He reached the initial stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique and broke through to the Body Forging Realm, giving Lin Ye a tenfold cultivation feedback. After Dongfang Bai learned about the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s trial secret realm and reported it to Lin Ye, the system tasked Lin Ye with seizing a secret realm, and he chose to target the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s.

• Chu He fought Demon Beasts in the Western Mystic Mountain Range, exchanged mission points for pills and a Storage Bag, and eventually reached the initial stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique and the Body Forging Realm.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Chu He’s breakthrough, advancing his own technique to minor accomplishment while remaining at the Grandmaster Realm First Layer.
• Li Xuansu told Dongfang Bai that the Supreme Simplicity Sect would hold a competition for places in its trial secret realm, then explained the realm’s resources and entry limits.
• Dongfang Bai sent Lin Ye a ten-thousand-mile communication talisman with his intelligence, including details about the secret realm.
• The system rewarded Lin Ye with 3,000 Devil Dao Points and issued a mission to seize a secret realm within one month.
• Lin Ye decided to target the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s trial secret realm.

Lin Ye secretly entered the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s trial secret realm and refined its Secret Realm Stone, taking control of the realm. He moved its spatial node to the Black-Yellow Sect and emerged to a woman’s startled scream.

• Lin Ye used a Space-Breaking Talisman to enter the trial secret realm without alerting the Supreme Simplicity Sect.
• After searching a Demon Beast’s soul, Lin Ye followed its memories to a hidden valley and found the Secret Realm Stone.
• Lin Ye used a Secret Realm Refining Talisman to erase the Great Grandmaster’s imprint and fully refine the stone over three days.
• Lin Ye moved the secret realm’s spatial node to the Black-Yellow Sect and opened the gate.
• A woman screamed in anger, embarrassment, and confusion as Lin Ye arrived.

Lin Ye opened the seized secret realm to his disciples and earned 50,000 Devil Dao Points, while Dongfang Bai advanced through the Supreme Simplicity Sect competition. The Supreme Simplicity Sect then failed to open its trial secret realm despite spending thousands of Spirit Stones, leaving Huang Qin furious.

• Lin Ye accidentally appeared in Yu Yu's room, explained how he had seized a secret realm, and let her enter it after she agreed to forgive him.
• Lin Ye told his disciples about the secret realm and allowed them to train inside once they met the True Qi Realm requirement; he later received 50,000 Devil Dao Points for seizing it.
• Ye Chen, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, Han Bing, and Chu He entered the secret realm, while Lin Ye used the refined secret realm stone to watch over them.
• Dongfang Bai placed sixtieth in the Supreme Simplicity Sect's True Qi Realm competition, exchanged his reward for the Twelve Swords of Supreme Yin, and joined the top hundred entering the trial secret realm.
• Huang Qin and the elders spent 500, then 1,000, and finally 5,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones trying to open the trial secret realm, but the gate remained shut and Huang Qin spat blood in anger.