Timeline

This page is a timeline of all events in the webcomic in chronological order. Exact times between individual events are unknown unless otherwise noted.

## Timeline

### Early Timeline

* The Xie Clan discovers the existence of cultivation swine.
* At some point the Xie Clan begins to regularly create human pills and consume them to strengthen their weakening bloodline.

### Previous Generation

* Xie Renyu is poisoned in West Mountain and saved by a civilian woman.
* Xie Renyu and the civilian woman have a child: Xie Qingxuan.
* Xie Renyu and Xie Qingxuan amass a large number of civilian medicine books in an attempt to extend the lifespan of Xie Qingxuan's mother. The Sutra Library is created to hold these books, and Xie Qingxuan annotates many of them.
* Xie Renyu turns Xie Qingxuan's mother into a nine-horned snake. Xie Qingxuan is unaware and instead believes his mother has died.
* Xie Qingxuan's skill causes the Xie Clan to put him in charge of Medical Hall despite his lowborn status.
* A year after Xie Qingxuan is given charge of Medical Hall, Jishi Hall begins to encounter "quite a few disasters". Xie Qingxuan secretly poisons Xie Renyu's predecessor and several other powerful Xie Clan members, who all die.
* Xie Renyu takes over as head of Jishi Hall.
* As thanks for helping him obtain his position, Xie Renyu secretly grants Xie Qingxuan the power of a young lord.

### Liu Jianghe, Early Life

Note: the relative timing between this section and the following is currently unknown.

* Zhou Zikun becomes a disciple of Penglai. This happens before his takeover of Helan Manor.
* Liu Jianghe becomes a disciple of Penglai.
* Liu Jianghe takes on Liu Jueming as a disciple.
* Liu Jianghe becomes head of Paradise Pavilion.

### Lu Jiu, Early Life

Note: the relative timing between this section and the previous is currently unknown.

* While visiting a Helan Manor dumping ground, Xie Qingxuan finds Lu Jiu and takes him back to Jishi Hall to be his disciple. He gives him the name "Lu Qingyun".
* Xie Renyu marries Helan Ning. Xie Qingxuan, Lu Qingyun, and his civilian servants are confined to the Medical Hall.
* Lu Qingyun grows close to his servants and begins to investigate ways to extend their lifespan. In doing so he comes across the books Xie Renyu and Xie Qingxuan previously gathered.
* Xie Qingshuang is born. Helan Ning hides the truth of her medicinal blood from Xie Renyu.
* Wanting Xie Qingxuan's power as young lord for Xie Qingshuang, Helan Ning and Xie Qingxuan enter a power struggle.
* Over ten years after Xie Qingshuang's birth, Helan Ning's cultivator servants murder Siqin. Xie Qingxuan murders Helan Ning's servants in retaliation.
* Lu Qingyun sees Siqin's corpse and his mind demon manifests with Siqin's form.
* Lu Qingyun is confined to the library basement, where Xie Renyu confronts him. He informs Lu Qingyun about his position as a cultivation swine and tests his loyalty to Xie Qingxuan. When Lu Qingyun passes, Xie Renyu puts a protective counter-spell on his spirit core.
* The medical hall servants are dismissed and Xie Qingxuan is confined to his room. He spends the time making elixers, including evil puppet gu.
* Xie Qingshuang comes across Lu Qingyun and the two become friends.
* Xie Qingshuang discovers the existence of the nine-horned snake in Qinghua Mansion's Westhill Courtyard. She informs Helan Ning, who tells her to deny its existence.
* Xie Qingshuang instead grows more curious and brings Lu Qingyun to see it.
* Xie Qingshuang searches for clues about the nine-horned snake and comes across medical records that, unbeknownst to her, Xie Renyu has tampered with.
* Xie Qingshuang and Lu Qingyun follow Xie Renyu's tampered records to Spirit Treasure Mountain and fall into Xie Renyu's trap. Lu Qingyun protects Xie Qingshuang which activates the counter-spell Xie Renyu put on his spirit core. Lu Qingyun is heavily injured and enters a coma. Xie Qingshuang reveals the existence of her medicinal blood in order to try to heal him.
* Xie Qingshuang and Xie Qingxuan form a sibling bond trying to help Lu Qingyun.
* Xie Qingxuan acquires the archaic kunshan jade and puts them in Lu Qingyun's wrists, waking him up ten years after he entered his coma.
* At some time before or during Lu Qingyun's coma, the Helan clan is usurped. Helan Ning's brother is killed and Zhou Zikun takes over Helan Manor.
* Zhou Zikun orders Jishi Hall to treat civilians as well as cultivators. Xie Renyu begins treating civilians in Qingshan City.
* At some point, Xie Renyu relocates the nine-horned snake to Qingshan City.
* Lu Qingyun exchanges the eyes of the Red Leaf Manor sisters. Helan Ning uses the opportunity to obtain some soul-inducing incense from the two.
* Helan Ning discovers the existence of the nine-horned snake within Lu Qingyun's consciousness.
* Helan Ning's allies attack the nine-horned snake, causing it to grow out of control.
* Xie Renyu orders Xie Qingxuan to kill the nine-horned snake.
* Helan Ning realizes the truth of the nine-horned snake's identity and confronts Xie Renyu about it. When Xie Renyu threatens her, she threatens him in return. Xie Qingshuang overhears this conversation.
* Xie Qingxuan activates an evil puppet gu he planted within Helan Ning at an unknown point.
* Xie Renyu uses Helan Ning's "illness" as an excuse to isolate her. He pretends to search the world for a cure.
* Helan Ning dies. Xie Renyu vows to never take another wife.

### Qingshan City Incident

* Xie Qingshuang tells Xie Qingxuan of the nine-horned snake's identity. This causes Xie Qingxuan to go mad.
* Xie Qingxuan, with Lu Qingyun's help, spreads poison made of West Mountain weed throughout Qingshan City. At around roughly the same time, an unknown entity spreads meat ganoderma throughout Qingshan City.
* Large numbers of civilians begin dying in Qingshan City, causing Jishi Hall to evacuate it.
* Lu Qingyun enters the city to investigate and Xie Qingshuang follows to stop him. They meet for the first time since Lu Qingyun went unconscious. Xie Qingshuang fails to convince Lu Qingyun to leave and departs from the city alone.
* Lu Qingyun discovers that many of the poisoned corpses are still alive and is overwhelmed when they swarm him.
* Liu Jianghe, with Liu Jueming's help, possesses Lu Qingyun.
* Liu Jianghe begins to kill the corpses infected with meat ganoderma.
* Xie Qingxuan finds Lu Qingyun (Liu Jianghe) and initiates a fight. Liu Jianghe kills him.
* An unknown amount of time after the Qingshan City incident, Liu Jueming betrays Liu Jianghe.
* An unknown amount of time after the Qingshan City incident, Lu Qingyun's mind demon manifests as Xie Qingxuan. Lu Qingyun uses his memories of Xie Qingxuan to seal his mind demon inside his sea of consciousness.
* Lu Qingyun is scapegoated for the deaths in Qingshan City and Xie Renyu issues a kill order against him.
* One hundred years prior to the beginning of the story, Xie Qingshuang fakes Liu Qingyun's death, removing his archaic kunshan jade and sending him away alive. She has her Shadow Guards continue to monitor him.
* Liu Jianghe and Qu Jianglin briefly cross paths at Red Leaf Manor. It's unknown when this occurs relative to the Qingshan City incident.

### Yanyu Hall Incident

* Zhou Zikun teaches Ding Xiang how to refine corpses. He also convinces her to try to usurp the current leader of Yanyu Hall.
* Ding Xiang rescues Qing Fanghao and passes along her knowledge of refining corpses. She also teaches him imitation cultivation techniques.
* Ding Xiang initiates a coup but dies during the process. Yanyu Hall is slaughtered and Liu Jianghe takes the blame. Zhou Zikun issues a kill order against him.
* Liu Jianghe saves Qing Fanghao. With his help, Qing Fanghao escapes the slaughter of Yanyu Hall and receives Ding Xiang's corpse, which he eats as meat ganoderma and becomes immortal. His mind demon manifests at some point after this.
* Xie Renyu poisons Liu Jianghe with bamboo incense.
* Liu Jianghe's spirit core is removed and transferred into Liu Jueming.
* Liu Jianghe jumps off Qianxing Cliff and survives, but is presumed dead. Liu Jueming takes over as head of Paradise Pavilion and claims to have left the demonic sects.
* Xie Renyu is enlisted by Zhou Zikun to keep Liu Jueming alive. The burden causes his powers to wane, turning his hair white and he begins dyeing his hair black to hide it.
* Qu Jianglin and Xie Qingshuang meet at Red Leaf Manor. Qu Jianglin believes Xie Qingshuang is her soulmate and leaves Red Leaf Manor in order to be with Xie Qingshuang and support her ambitions. It's unknown when this occurs relative to Liu Jianghe's kill order.
* Qing Fanghao meets the imposter Ding Xiang and takes him in, feeding him meat ganoderma from his own arm to make him immortal. It's unknown when this occurs relative to Liu Jianghe's kill order.
* Over ten years prior to the start of the story, Lu Qingyun settles in Peach Blossom Wharf as a physician and begins using the name "Lu Jiu". It's unknown when this occurs relative to Liu Jianghe's kill order.
* Lu Jiu takes in Little He as an assistant.

### Beginning of Story

* Liu Jianghe kills the eight Shadow Guards stationed around Lu Jiu's medical hall and disposes of their bodies.
* Liu Jianghe arrives at the front door of Lu Jiu's medical hall with heavy injuries. Lu Jiu treats him, but before he can throw him out, Liu Jianghe places a life and death contract on him. The effort of forming the contract causes Liu Jianghe to pass out.
* That same day and the following day, Linglan purchases the ingredients for two separate prescriptions for headache medicines from Little He.
* Linglan mixes her ingredients into a poison and feeds it to Liu Yuan.
* Three days after Liu Jianghe arrives, he's well enough to get out of bed. Lu Jiu takes the opportunity to go over the medical hall's records and discovers Linglan's purchases.
* Liu Yuan discovers that he's been poisoned and consumes an antidote.
* Lu Jiu goes to warn Linglan of the flaws in her plan. While together with her Liu Yuan arrives and captures the two, intending to execute them that night.
* Liu Jianghe convinces Little He to tell him the location of a sword kept in the medical hall. He takes it and goes to Liu Yuan's mansion to rescue Lu Jiu.
* Liu Jianghe breaks a kunshan jade in order to fight Liu Yuan and his men. At the same time he ends the life and death contract.
* Liu Jianghe beats Liu Yuan but passes out right as he finds where Lu Jiu and Linglan are being held.
* Believing the contract to still be active, Lu Jiu treats Liu Jianghe and flees Peach Blossom Wharf with him. He also sends Little He and Linglan away in a different direction.
* Liu Chen hears of Liu Yuan's death and holds a funeral. He's informed by those investigating the incident about Liu Yuan's involvement with Linglan but refuses to believe the information, and orders further investigation.
* Xie Qingshuang receives word that Lu Jiu has left Peach Blossom Wharf with Liu Jianghe. She sends more Shadow Guards to watch them, including Qu Jianglin.
* Lu Jiu and Liu Jianghe head towards Red Leaf Manor in order to acquire a kunshan blood lotus to replace Liu Jianghe's missing spirit core.
* Soon after setting out and the night before they arrive at Red Leaf Manor, Lu Jiu plants an evil puppet gu in Liu Jianghe by slipping it into his medicine.

(Under construction)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 74: Cultivation Swine
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 109: Unable to Figure It out
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 72: The Past
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 79: Nine-Horned Snake
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 88: Motivated by Reasoning
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Chapter 73: Xie Qingxuan's Decision
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 11: Rumors
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Chapter 1: Saved the Public Enemy by Mistake, is it Too Late to Kill Him Now?
9. ↑ Chapter 83: Master
10. ↑ Chapter 65: One Should Not Make the Same Mistake More Than Once
11. ↑ Chapter 66: Transition
12. ↑ Chapter 68: Happy Days
13. ↑ Chapter 69: Bothered
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 80: Start of Disagreement
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 75: Unanticipated
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Chapter 70: The Second Form
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Chapter 82: Shock
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 76: Turn of Events
19. ↑ Chapter 40: Three Seasons
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 Chapter 87: Emotional Appeals
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Chapter 42: Her Saber
22. ↑ Chapter 26: Spectators
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Chapter 100: Stubborn
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 94: Discord Between Siblings
25. ↑ Chapter 98: Second Half of the Night
26. ↑ Chapter 101: All's Well That Ends Well
27. ↑ Chapter 102: Awakening
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Chapter 35: Of Two Minds (Part 1)
29. ↑ Chapter 64: Beginning
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Chapter 62.5: Sect Settings
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Chapter 10: Reluctance
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Chapter 31: An Exchange Between Sworn Siblings
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Chapter 32: Gu
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Chapter 118: The Cost
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Chapter 117: Ding Xiang
36. ↑ Chapter 116: Assess and Adapt
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Chapter 84: Choices
38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 Chapter 2: Keeping My Beloved at Home
39. ↑ Chapter 3: The Rising Wind Forebodes the Coming Storm (Part 1)
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 Chapter 4: The Rising Wind Forebodes the Coming Storm (Part 2)
41. ↑ Chapter 6: Peach Blossom Wharf Drenched in Blood
42. ↑ Chapter 38: Birds of a Feather
43. ↑ Chapter 7: Is Liu Jianghe a Man of His Word?
44. ↑ Chapter 8-2: You Are the One I've Been Looking For
45. ↑ Chapter 9: Undercurrent
46. ↑ Chapter 12: Not at Your Mercy