Chapter Summaries

Shopkeeper Zhao and the Min Household steward discussed the young master's worsening red markings and the old man's prophecy that two benefactors might save him. Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue waited in the front hall as Zhao hoped they could be the Min Household's last chance.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue were seated in the Min Household's front hall while the steward went to fetch the household head.
• Shopkeeper Zhao met the steward outside and learned that the young master's red markings had spread to his chest.
• Shopkeeper Zhao recalled how an old man had prophesied the young master's short life unless he met two benefactors, and how the prophecy was confirmed by the infant's red markings.
• The Min Household Head had rushed to the back gate and knelt before the old man after the young master's markings appeared.
• Shopkeeper Zhao admitted he could not know whether Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue were the promised benefactors, but hoped they could save the young master.

Wuming returned from work with spiritual fruit for his nephew, then collapsed as the red markings spread between his brows. At the Min residence, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue examined Min Renjie and discovered that the blood of those afflicted by the Blood Incantation was mixed with Jiang Zhuoxue’s.

• Wuming brought home spiritual fruit and shared soup with his little nephew and the old man.
• Wuming gave his nephew a parcel for the boy’s parents, then collapsed as the red markings reached between his brows.
• The Min Household head rushed to Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue and begged them to save his grandson, Min Renjie.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue examined the frail Min Renjie after asking the household to leave.
• Jiang Zhuoxue tested Min Renjie’s blood and concluded that his own blood was mixed with the blood of everyone afflicted by the Blood Incantation.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue discovered that Min Renjie’s Curse was connected to dragon blood inherited through Young Madam Min’s ancestors, who had lived in Corpse Soul City. They revealed the blood’s origin to the Min Household, leaving the family to confront the history behind Renjie’s condition.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue realized that Duan Yuan had given Jiang Zhuoxue’s blood to the people of Corpse Soul City and had tried to use it to control them.
• Sang Ying proposed that Min Renjie’s dragon blood might have come through Young Madam Min’s family, and Jiang Zhuoxue agreed that his blood was merging with the child’s.
• Jiang Zhuoxue soothed Min Renjie, allowing him to sleep, while Sang Ying warned the Min Household that his Curse had only been suppressed temporarily.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue questioned Young Madam Min about her ancestors, and she confirmed that they had once lived in Corpse Soul City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told the Min Household that Min Renjie’s red markings came from dragon blood inherited from ancestors who had received it from Duan Yuan ten thousand years earlier.

Jiang Zhuoxue explained that Min Renjie's dragon-blood affliction came from his exceptional talent, and agreed to remove it in two days in exchange for the Min Household's black jade. On the way back to the inn, he told Sang Ying that he had been born from schemes between his dragon father and devil mother, who each intended to use the other.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained how dragon blood could merge with Min Renjie's bloodline, causing dangerous red markings, and the Min family chose to have it removed.
• Jiang Zhuoxue agreed to return in two days to remove the dragon blood and asked for the Min Household's two pieces of black jade and the extracted blood.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying declined the Min family's offer to stay at their residence and returned to the inn.
• Sang Ying remarked that Jiang Zhuoxue had treated Min Renjie and his family unusually gently, and Jiang Zhuoxue admitted Min Renjie reminded him of himself.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that his mother was a devil woman who sought a child with dragon and devil blood to overturn the Gods and Devils Battlefield, while his father was trapped there as punishment.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that his parents had each discovered the other's intentions and had been using one another from the beginning.

Bai Nianchou left the Gods and Devils Battlefield to demand that Patriarch Qing help him find Xuan Yu, hoping to use the imprisoned Black Dragon to summon his son and obtain the Dragon Abyss Sword. Xuan Yu refused, declared that he had disowned his son and welcomed the Dragon Race’s destruction.

• Bai Nianchou told the gathered dragon elders that cracks in the seal were letting low-level devils through and warned that the seal needed repair.
• Bai Nianchou demanded that Patriarch Qing honor his promise and take him to see Xuan Yu, whose son was prophesied to bring the Dragon Abyss Sword back to the Dragon Race.
• Patriarch Qing led Bai Nianchou to the Azure Dragon Clan’s prison and raised Xuan Yu from the icy pool, revealing him chained to a heavenly pillar.
• Bai Nianchou asked Xuan Yu to use their father-son connection to call his son back because the Gods and Devils Battlefield faced a coming calamity.
• Xuan Yu disowned his son, rejected the Dragon Race’s fate, and laughed at the prospect of its destruction.

Jiang Zhuoxue recalled how his parents and the Dragon Race had used and rejected him, but Sang Ying promised she would never leave him. After returning to the inn, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue learned that a mysterious old man had foretold their arrival as the Min Household’s benefactors, and the household had likely contacted him.

• Jiang Zhuoxue recalled revealing his and his mother’s heritage to thwart Xuan Yu’s plan, which led to his mother fleeing and Xuan Yu being imprisoned while Jiang Zhuoxue was exiled.
• Sang Ying comforted Jiang Zhuoxue, and he admitted he had let go of his past; she promised she would never leave him.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to the inn and declined the food sent by the Min Household, offering it to Shopkeeper Zhao and Xiao Sanzi instead.
• Sang Ying asked why the Min Household Head had trusted them, and Shopkeeper Zhao explained that an old man had foretold two benefactors would come to help the household.
• Shopkeeper Zhao revealed that the old man had asked the Min Household to light his communication incense when the benefactors arrived, and the household had likely already done so.

Xiao Sanzi secretly consumed the spirit chicken after making it appear that the food from the Min Household had been ruined. Meanwhile, the old man sensed the message incense and went to find the Min Household’s benefactor, unaware that the red mark on Wuming’s brow had vanished.

• Xiao Sanzi claimed he had spilled the Min Household’s food and that a wild cat had carried off the spirit chicken, while Shopkeeper Zhao chose not to punish him.
• Xiao Sanzi watched a kitten die after it ate the spirit chicken, then used black mist to consume the chicken and bones.
• The old man recovered from suppressing the Spiritual Qi inside Wuming and recognized the scent of the message incense.
• The old man went to the Min Household’s benefactor, hoping to meet the person he had sought for years.
• Wuming’s red mark flickered and vanished while the old man was away.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue performed a separation of the dragon blood in Min Renjie, protecting the procedure with formations and easing the child’s pain. The blood left Min Renjie, whose markings disappeared, and returned to Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Sang Ying brought Gu Shu along to the Min Household because she feared something might happen if he stayed behind at the inn.
• The Min Household prepared supplies and protective formations, and Jiang Zhuoxue confirmed Min Renjie was ready for the separation.
• Sang Ying set up additional formations and a Spirit Gathering Formation before Jiang Zhuoxue put Min Renjie to sleep.
• Jiang Zhuoxue drew the dragon blood toward Min Renjie's brow while Sang Ying held the child still with spiritual power.
• Three drops of blood emerged from Min Renjie's brow, his red markings vanished, and the drops flew back to Jiang Zhuoxue.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue removed the dragon blood from Min Renjie, saving him, and learned that a divination elder had been seeking to meet them. They agreed to meet the elder, accepted the Min Household’s tokens of gratitude, and the chapter ended with the elder in the Refugee Slums predicting that his feverish youngest son would soon wake.

• Sang Ying told the Min Household that the dragon blood had been extracted, and Min Renjie’s family found the child safe and free of his red markings.
• Jiang Zhuoxue advised Min Renjie’s parents to help him recover and said his opened meridians gave him promising prospects for cultivation.
• The Min Household head revealed that a divination elder had asked him to light message incense if he ever met Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue, then requested a meeting with them.
• Sang Ying agreed to meet the elder after learning he had divined details about them and Min Renjie’s future.
• The Min Household head gave Jiang Zhuoxue two pieces of black jade and Sang Ying a plaque promising the family’s aid.
• In the Refugee Slums, the elder reassured his nephew that the feverish youngest uncle would wake soon.

The old man hid Wuming’s nephew as Sun-Chasing Hall apostles attacked, hoping to kill the cursed Wuming while he was weakened. Sang Ying learned the attackers had gone to the refugee slums, where the old diviner lived.

• The old man put Wuming’s sleeping nephew under a bed and confronted two Sun-Chasing Hall apostles who came to kill Wuming.
• The apostles revealed that they had caused Wuming’s curse to erupt and demanded that the old man step aside.
• The old man fought the apostles, sustaining wounds as they pressed their attack.
• Gu Shu told Sang Ying that an inn attendant had turned into mud and headed toward the refugee slums.
• Sang Ying realized the old diviner lived in the slums and could be in danger.

Sang Ying intervened as two mud men attacked Wuming and the old man, freezing both intruders and saving the child. She gave the exhausted old man a high-grade Rejuvenation Pill, and he recognized her as Sang Ying of the Flowing Light Sword Sect.

• One mud man restrained the old man while the other began swallowing Wuming and then threatened the old man's waking nephew.
• The old man rushed to protect the child, but the mud man's tentacle stopped just before it reached him.
• An unseen force kicked the mud man away from the bed, freeing Wuming, while ice Spiritual Qi froze both intruders.
• Sang Ying gave the old man a high-grade Rejuvenation Pill, restoring his Dantian and meridians.
• The old man asked whether the woman was Sang Ying of the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and she confirmed that she was.

Duan Hanyi revealed that his master, Old Man Buyun, had prophesied Sang Ying would be the Child of the Heavenly Dao destined to quell a great calamity. Elsewhere, a man noted that Duan Hanyi had likely met Sang Ying and decided it was time for her to learn her identity and responsibility.

• Duan Hanyi shed his disguise and explained that he had sought Sang Ying because his master had foretold her arrival.
• Duan Hanyi recounted how Old Man Buyun’s death led to chaos in the Heavenly Mystery Palace and the sect’s decline.
• Duan Hanyi revealed the prophecy that Sang Ying would drive out evil demons, end the turmoil of war, and restore peace to the Hidden Nether Realm.
• A man’s chess piece was struck by lightning as he considered that the world’s rules still did not acknowledge his existence.
• The man concluded that Duan Hanyi had probably met Sang Ying and that she should learn she was the Child of the Heavenly Dao.

Sang Ying learned from a diviner that she had been destined to become Gu Huaiwei’s sole disciple and save the cultivation world, but someone had stolen her fortune and taken her place. As the young man continued investigating, Sang Ying remembered how Su Fuyun’s arrival had displaced the affection she once received at the Flowing Light Sword Sect.

• The young man revealed that Elder Buyun’s prophecy named Fantou Mountain as the place where Sang Ying and Immortal Venerable Yanchen were meant to meet.
• Sang Ying explained that Su Fuyun had met Yanchen there and become his disciple, while Sang Ying had also been taken in by him; she added that she had killed Su Fuyun three hundred years ago.
• The young man collapsed after recalculating the prophecy, and Sang Ying gave him another Rejuvenation Pill and urged him to rest.
• The young man insisted the prophecy was true and declared that Sang Ying’s fortune had been stolen so someone else could take her destined place.
• Sang Ying recalled that before Su Fuyun arrived, the sect’s elders and disciples had loved her, and she realized how much of that affection she had lost.

Sang Ying considered the plot behind the stolen fortune and stopped the young man from exhausting himself with divinations. She and her companions checked on Wuming, and Jiang Zhuoxue discovered that his blood had begun merging with dragon blood.

• Sang Ying reassured the angry young man and urged him to save his strength for the coming calamity.
• The young man briefly sensed that he had forgotten an important secret, then joined Sang Ying and her companions to inspect the two frozen people.
• Sang Ying and the others went to check on Wuming while the child cleaned his uncle and vowed to keep their conversation secret.
• Duan Hanyi asked Sang Ying to save Wuming, and the child begged Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying to help his uncle.
• Jiang Zhuoxue accepted the child's plea and found that Wuming's blood had already begun merging with dragon blood.

Jiang Zhuoxue explained that Wuming had begun fusing with dragon blood and offered to remove it or help him pursue the dangerous fusion. Wuming chose the risk, survived the fusion, and set out to avenge his family before repaying his benefactors.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Curse was a sign of strength and that Wuming had begun absorbing dragon blood, but warned that fusion could take years and kill him.
• Min'er chose to have the dragon blood removed from Wuming, but Wuming awoke and begged Jiang Zhuoxue to help him complete the fusion.
• Wuming told Min'er about his dream of becoming strong and avenging his family, then asked him to return to the Chen Household and forget him if he did not return within three days.
• Duan Hanyi escorted Min'er away, and Jiang Zhuoxue began helping Wuming fuse with the dragon blood as the two trapped people watched.
• Wuming's red markings vanished, and he emerged full of vigor; Sang Ying and the others heard him promise to repay their help after avenging his family.

Duan Hanyi returned Min'er to the Chen Household and promised him that Wuming would come back safely. Meanwhile, Wuming confronted the Song Household Head, who had destroyed the Chu Household, and killed him in revenge.

• Duan Hanyi brought Min'er home and told the Chen couple that Wuming would decide whether they could live together.
• Min'er asked if his uncle would be all right, and Duan Hanyi promised that Wuming would return to see him.
• The Song Household Head woke from a dream about the Chu Household and found a black-robed intruder in his courtyard among his dead guards.
• Wuming revealed himself as the surviving Chu family member and defeated the Song Household Head despite being wounded by his poisonous mist.
• The Song Household Head begged for his life, but Wuming recalled how he had killed Wuming's pregnant mother and refused to spare him.
• Wuming drew his saber and killed the Song Household Head while his concubine hid in the courtyard.

Wuming killed Song Xiong to avenge the Chu Household, then spared Madam Song and her children and demanded that she reveal the truth. After Madam Song exposed Song Xiong’s crimes, his youngest son abandoned his plan for revenge and chose to leave with his family.

• Wuming killed Song Xiong and refused to harm Madam Song or her sons, asking her to reveal what Song Xiong had done to the Chu Household.
• Madam Song refused to pursue Song Xiong’s killer or hold a funeral, prompting rumors that she had murdered her husband.
• Madam Song publicly revealed that Song Xiong had led a massacre of the Chu Household and stolen its wealth, and she produced spirit treasures bearing the Chu Household’s mark.
• The Min Household confirmed that the Chu Household’s extermination had been suspicious and its treasures had vanished.
• After learning that his father had murdered Madam Chu while she was pregnant, Song Xiong’s youngest son gave up revenge and decided to leave with his mother and surrender the household’s possessions.

Wuming joined Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue after avenging his family, leaving his nephew Min'er in the Chen Household. Xiao Sanzi revealed that the Sun-Chasing Hall was headquartered in Moonless City, giving the group a destination as they faced the coming danger.

• Wuming insisted on following Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue as their attendant, and Jiang Zhuoxue accepted after warning him not to betray them.
• Wuming explained that he had left Min'er with the Chen Household and planned to return for him if he survived the coming calamity.
• Duan Hanyi learned that Xiao Sanzi, Shopkeeper Zhao's adopted boy, had attacked them as a member of the Sun-Chasing Hall and had been afflicted by a Curse.
• Shopkeeper Zhao confronted Xiao Sanzi and threatened to sever ties unless he told Sang Ying and the others everything he knew.
• Xiao Sanzi revealed that the Sun-Chasing Hall's headquarters was in Moonless City.

Sang Ying and her companions returned to Moonless City to recover Jiang Zhuoxue's nail and uncover the Sun-Chasing Hall, bringing the captured Yu Heng with them. They learned about the city's history and the Yin Mountain Sect from Baixiaosheng, then found their old inn under a different name.

• Sang Ying entered Moonless City with her companions, while Gu Shu complained about the extra Spirit Stone they had paid to bring Yu Heng inside.
• Shopkeeper Zhao gave Jiang Zhuoxue his saved Spirit Stones and refused to let Xiao Sanzi fuse with dragon blood until he learned to do right.
• Yu Heng finally spoke back to Gu Shu after Duan Hanyi taunted him about the red markings spreading across his body.
• Baixiaosheng approached Sang Ying's group and explained Moonless City's history, including the Moonless Clan's decline and the Yin Mountain Sect's rise.
• Baixiaosheng warned the group not to offend the Yin Mountain Sect, and Sang Ying recognized their familiar inn beneath a different signboard.

Sang Ying and her companions settled into the rebuilt Three Guests' Lodge, where they set up protective formations and kept Yu Heng under guard. Meanwhile, Baixiaosheng revealed to Liu Duanyue that he had seen the people depicted in the paintings hidden in Liu Duanyue's study.

• Baixiaosheng explained that Liu Duanyue had rebuilt the Three Guests' Lodge to honor Sang Ying and her companions, then arranged the group's rooms.
• Wuming insisted on sharing a room with Yu Heng, whom the group kept under guard because he knew their secrets.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying helped the others set up formations, and Wuming accepted the supplies after Sang Ying insisted.
• Wuming beat Yu Heng for mocking him and warned him not to provoke him again.
• Liu Chengzhi climbed through Liu Duanyue's window and reported that he had seen the people shown in the paintings hidden in Liu Duanyue's study.