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Shen Qingqiu self-donates his body, using all his spiritual energy to save Luo Binghe’s life. His soul is sent to a pre-made mushroom body so that he can restart his life. But it takes 5 years for Shen Qingqiu to be brought back. During that time, Luo Binghe has become the master of Huan Hua palace and uses Sha Hualing to capture humans to offset his excess demonic qi. Shen Qingqiu finds out that...

Shen Qingqiu is taken to the huan hua water palace, where he is whipped by the little palace mistress. Luo Binghe intervenes to send her away. He offers his coat to Shen Qingqiu, but Shen Qingqiu doesn’t take it, causing Luo Binghe to explode with anger. Later Gongyi Xiao helps him escape, and Shen Qingqiu goes to Hua Yue City for his mushroom plan. He gets sucked into Luo Binghe’s dream illusion,...

Shen QingQiu is afraid that Luo Binghe is after him to get his revenge, and he runs away. Luo Binghe chases after him and infects him with his blood parasites. The next day, all the demons are captured, but they insinuate that Shen QingQiu is their leader and responsible for the plague. At the same time, the old palace master brings up rumors of Shen QingQiu abusing his disciples. To top it all of...

Shen QingQiu and Shang Qinghua go to Bai Lu Forest to get a special mushroom that will help them avoid death. There, they run into Gongyi Xiao and a snake monster. Gongyi Xiao is impressed by Shen QingQiu’s mercy towards the snake monster, and also sympathetic when he sees how much Shen QingQiu misses Luo Binghe. Then, three years pass. Yue Qingyuan holds an emergency meeting because the city of J...

The endless abyss opens, and Mobei Jun shows up earlier in the plot than expected. He unlocks the demon seal on Luo Binghe then leaves. Luo Binghe is afraid of Shen Qingqiu’s reaction to his demon blood. The system reminds Shen Qingqiu that he must push Luo Binghe into the endless abyss. Shen Qingqiu doesn’t want to, but he accidentally pierces Luo Binghe with his sword. Luo Binghe loses hope when...

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Luo Binghe is lured into a dream realm trap by the demon Meng Mo, who reveals Luo Binghe’s demon heritage and offers to teach him how to use his demon powers. Luo Binghe agrees because he wants to become stronger to protect Shen Qingqiu. As the years pass, Luo Binghe becomes stronger and develops a close relationship with Shen Qingqiu, living near him, cooking for him, and helping him with his tas...

Shen Qingqiu saves Liu Qingge from dying of a qi deviation. When he leaves his secluded cultivation, he finds Sha Hualing and her demon horde has invaded the sect while Yue Qingyuan was away. He’s forced by the system to send Luo Binghe into a fight against a demon. Luo Binghe is able to win the fight after hearing his shizun believe in him. Unfortunately, Shen Qingqiu is poisoned by Without a Cur...

Shen Yuan is transmigrated into Proud Immortal Demon Way, into the body of the scum villain Shen Qingqiu. He wants to suck up to the protagonist Luo Binghe, but the System denies any OOC actions until he can complete the beginner quest. Eventually he is issued a beginner quest where he has to take his disciples on a training exercise in Shuang Hu City. He sees Luo Binghe getting bullied, so he inv...

Hua Cheng transfers all of his spiritual energy into Xie Lian, breaking his cursed shackles and giving him the strength to defeat Jun Wu. However this causes Hua Cheng to burst into thousands of butterflies, leaving Xie Lian all alone. The rest of the heavenly officials deal with the aftermath of Jun Wu and work on rebuilding the heavenly capital. After a year of waiting, Hua Cheng returns to Xie...

Jun Wu has regained ownership of his sword Zhu Xin, previously Fang Xin. He crazily smashes Xie Lian against a wall, urging him to change. Hua Cheng, Feng Xin, and Mu Qing try to save him, but Mu Qing ends up getting his blood sucked by his cursed shackle, and Feng Xin is stabbed by his own arrows. Hua Cheng holds Xie Lian gently as they face Jun Wu together. As Jun Wu taunts them, Hua Cheng sudde...

Mu Qing has a cursed shackle because he refused to help Jun Wu, but Feng Xin and Hua Cheng think he’s still suspicious. Mu Qing ends up hanging from the edge of a lava cliff, but when he asks Xie Lian for help, he accidentally reminds him of the time in the past where Mu Qing had abandoned Xie Lian. He thinks that Xie Lian will abandon him too, but to his shock, Xie Lian jumps down the cliff to re...

Xie Lian’s divine statue finally defeats Jun Wu’s fiery giant using a sword forged from the three mountain spirits of mount tonglu. When they search the remains of the heavenly capital for traces of Jun Wu, they only find Guzi and Qi Rong in the form of a small ghost fire. Qi Rong sacrifices himself to save Guzi, and then disappears. The guoshi says that he knows where Jun Wu might have gone, and...

Jun Wu tries to tempt Pei Ming, Lan QianQiu, and Xie Lian into breaking the human array in the royal capital. But no one takes Jun Wu’s offer so he sets the entire heavenly capital on fire. Hua Cheng appears and temporarily stops Jun Wu so that they can free the other rapped heavenly officials. Hua Cheng then brings up Xie Lian’s giant divine statue using prayer lanterns and silver butterflies so...

We learn the background of JW through the guoshi. JW tried to save the kingdom of Wu Yong from a volcano eruption, but failed and caused a million people to fall to their deaths. Driven into depression, he suggests using human sacrifices to stop the volcano. His friends disagree with him, so he kills them and ends up cursed by their resentful spirits. The guoshi runs away, but later is reunited wh...

Jun Wu offers to give Yin Yu Quan Yizhen’s spiritual powers in exchange for his loyalty. Yin Yu pretends to make a deal with Jun Wu, and uses Quan Yizhen’s powers to seal Jun Wu in a spiritual circle. But Jun Wu easily breaks the circle and sucks Yin Yu’s soul and blood through his cursed shackle. Yin Yu is on his death bed, feeling guilty for hating Quan Yizhen. Xie Lian chases after Jun Wu to ge...

Jun Wu is revealed to be White No Face, and he defeats and imprisons all the heavenly officials of the upper court. Xie Lian is able to contact Hua Cheng through Shi Qingxuan and the soul shifting spell. Yin Yu finds him and together they try to dig under the palaces to gather all the gods, but Jun Wu finds out and captures Yin Yu and Xie Lian. When Xie Lian regains consciousness he finds himself...

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Xie Lian and Hua Cheng gather people to make an array against the evil spirits in the royal capital. They run into Heaven’s Eye, and Shi Qingxuan, who is now a mortal beggar. The group of cultivators and beggars work together to lure all the evil spirits so that Hua Cheng and Xie Lian can disperse them one by one. But suddenly they realize a stranger snuck in, and it turns out to be Xie Lian’s guo...

Xie Lian picks up the other heavenly officials in a giant statue, but the resentful spirits and lava are quickly catching up to him. The martial gods transform into a giant sword so Xie Lian can fight against the spirits, but he’s running out of spiritual energy. Thankfully, Jun Wu arrives to help them dissipate some of the spirits. White no face gathers the remaining spirits and sends them to all...

We finish up book 4, with Wu Ming taking on the human face disease curse and dispersing. Jun Wu comes to help Xie Lian defeat White No Face. Xie Lians asks Jun Wu to re-banish him and give him two cursed shackles: one to seal his spiritual powers, and the other to disperse his luck. Flash forward to book 5. White no face is fighting Xie Lian, when suddenly Xie Lian notices a giant stone statue and...

Xie Lian and his nameless ghost general Wu Ming infiltrate the yong’an palace to kill the king. But the king, Lang Ying, is already on the verge of death and ends up dying happily in Xie Lian’s arms before he can enact his revenge. Angry, Xie Lian goes to another city to release his curse, but then decides to test the Yong’an citizens for three days. He lays in the center of the road with a sword...

White No Face lures 100 lost travelers into stabbing Xie Lian. Hua Cheng, in the form of a ghost fire, explodes from anguish and kills everyone, turning into a savage ghost. Two months later, Xie Lian regains his body and he travels back to his family. Feng Xin finds him and they get into an argument when he realizes that Xie Lian’s personality has changed. Feng Xin leaves. Soon after, Xie Lian’s...

Xie Lian attempts to steal from a mortal, but is caught by a group of junior officials. He runs back home ashamed. When he later goes to a mountain to do secluded cultivation training, he unluckily runs into the same group of junior officials. They try to bully him, but Xie Lian fights back, until suddenly Mu Qing arrives and takes the junior officials’ side. Angry and shamed, Xie Lian leaves the...

Xie Lian and his family are fugitives in hiding after xian le loses the war against yong’an. However, he now has a mortal body due to the curse shackle and is struggling to earn money to support himself and his parents. Things get worse when Mu Qing decides to leave them in order to help his own mother. On top of that, Xie Lian’s father is sick and needs expensive medicine to stay alive. Xie Lian...