Chapter Summaries

At a high school reunion, Si Ming entertained his classmates with exaggerated stories about winning Murong Qing, while Murong Qing quietly confirmed that she had advanced to Spirit Transformation. Ren Junshuang revealed Murong Qing’s achievement to the stunned classmates, and Murong Qing affirmed it.

• Si Ming regaled the boys with stories about how he had won Murong Qing, while Chen Shimi helped embellish them.
• Ren Junshuang asked Murong Qing through Secret Voice Transmission whether she had advanced to Spirit Transformation, and Murong Qing nodded.
• Ren Junshuang remembered that Murong Qing’s father, Murong Zhe, had saved her during the demon tide, and Murong Qing said she had finally lived up to his expectations.
• After Murong Qing gave her permission, Ren Junshuang announced to the gathered classmates that Murong Qing was a Spirit Transformation Grandmaster.
• Murong Qing confirmed the announcement, leaving the reunion guests stunned.

Murong Qing revealed that she had reached Spirit Transformation, shocking her former classmates at the reunion. She reassured them that she was still their classmate, while Si Ming bragged about their relationship and claimed she encouraged him to take more wives.

• Ren Junshuang told the classmates that Murong Qing had advanced to Spirit Transformation, and Murong Qing confirmed it by releasing her presence.
• The classmates reacted with shock and awe until Si Ming's jokes and the boys' banter eased the atmosphere.
• Murong Qing reassured her classmates that her new cultivation did not change their shared past, and the girls gathered around her with questions and praise.
• Si Ming claimed Murong Qing listened to him because of her Confucian upbringing, drawing jealous jokes from the boys.
• Si Ming said Murong Qing had privately urged him to find more wives, and the boys took her silence as confirmation.

Huo Wenlong visited Murong Qing’s class reunion and criticized her choice of university, prompting Si Ming’s classmates to turn against him. Just as Si Ming prepared to respond, Chen Shimi dramatically interrupted, and Huo Wenlong recognized him as a formidable martial arts competitor.

• Huo Wenlong and his classmates entered the neighboring class’s reunion, where he told Murong Qing he regretted her choosing Linked Mountains University over Heavenly Black Earth Emperor.
• Huo Wenlong defended his university and boasted about his Internal Cultivation Level Nine, but his condescending remarks alienated Si Ming’s classmates.
• Si Ming prepared to step in, but Chen Shimi instead made a theatrical speech about his demonic blood and second seal.
• Huo Wenlong recognized Chen Shimi as a powerful Linked Mountains University team member whose performance had helped the school reach the National Martial Arts Competition semifinals.

At the class reunion, Chen Shimi drove off Huo Wenlong and reunited with Si Ming and their classmates before Si Ming accompanied Murong Qing to her father’s grave. Later, Murong Qing sent Si Ming to bathe, and he returned to his room feeling refreshed, reaching for the light switch.

• Chen Shimi confronted Huo Wenlong, who left after promising to challenge him in a future tournament.
• Si Ming teased Chen Shimi, and the classmates crowded around to complain and joke about his interruption.
• After the reunion, Murong Qing told Si Ming she was happy with the people she could rely on, then cried at her father’s gravestone.
• Murong Qing sent Si Ming to bathe, and he suspected he was soaking in the water she had used.
• Si Ming finished bathing, returned to his room, and reached for the switch beside the door.

Murong Qing and Si Ming celebrated their marriage with music, a wedding toast, and a night together. After Si Ming rushed ahead of her romantic plans, Murong Qing stopped him and declared that she would punish him.

• Murong Qing played “Butterflies in Love with Flowers” on the qin while Si Ming accompanied her on the se, and Yao Bilian listened from downstairs.
• Murong Qing recited wedding verses, and she and Si Ming drank a wedding toast together.
• Si Ming played “The Phoenix Courting Its Mate” and sang of his longing for Murong Qing, making her blush.
• Murong Qing asked Si Ming to undo her braid and carry her to bed, and he rushed them inside after tripping over the instruments.
• Si Ming removed Murong Qing’s robe, but she stopped him and said she was punishing him for ignoring her request to wait.

After spending their first night together, Si Ming woke to find his Internal Cultivation had reached level thirteen, the Spirit Transformation Threshold. He and Murong Qing greeted each other as husband and wife, and Si Ming checked whether she was still in pain.

• Murong Qing challenged Si Ming to recite poems in exchange for removing clothes, and they became intimate.
• The next morning, Si Ming discovered that his Internal Cultivation had broken through to level thirteen.
• Murong Qing woke and shyly remembered their night together, but Si Ming stopped her from hiding beneath the quilt.
• Si Ming called Murong Qing his wife, and she replied by calling him her husband.
• Si Ming kissed Murong Qing and asked whether she was still hurting; she said she had recovered quickly because she was a Spirit Transformation martial artist.

After spending the night together, Si Ming and Murong Qing dressed and played music, and Murong Qing discovered that her Glacier Divine Art had advanced to level fourteen. The chapter ended with them finding Yao Bilian waiting downstairs, exhausted but watching them with hungry eyes.

• Murong Qing noticed the bloodied sheet and insisted on keeping it herself, while Si Ming reflected on his poor endurance and considered asking Daoist Priest Pan about the Yin-Yang School's bedroom arts.
• Murong Qing dressed, and Si Ming concealed his thoughts about bedroom arts by claiming he wanted to ask Daoist Priest Pan about music.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing played “High Mountains and Flowing Water” together, sharing their aspirations as Dao companions.
• Murong Qing discovered that her Glacier Divine Art had reached level fourteen and wondered whether their night together had improved her cultivation.
• Murong Qing dismissed the idea of asking the Yin-Yang School and worried that Hongdou and Qingqing might be treated unfairly.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing went downstairs and found Yao Bilian waiting with dark circles under her eyes and a hungry gleam in her gaze.

Si Ming dealt with the awkward aftermath of his relationship with Murong Qing, who refused to hold a wedding until the world was at peace. Later, Hongdou confronted him for choosing Murong Qing over her, and Si Ming was left trying to explain why he had not come to her first.

• Yao Bilian had Murong Qing serve her tea as Si Ming's guardian, then said the couple should hold a wedding.
• Murong Qing refused to marry while the world was not at peace, and Murong Wu asked whether he should call Si Ming brother-in-law.
• Ying Zhou came downstairs after being woken by the zither music and failed to understand its meaning, prompting Si Ming to call him a man of steel.
• Hongdou accused Si Ming of smelling like Murong Qing and rejected his excuse that he had used her bathwater.
• Hongdou reminded Si Ming that she had met him and confessed first, then asked why he had chosen Murong Qing instead of her.

Si Ming resisted Hongdou’s attempts to sleep with him, insisting that intimacy should come from love rather than pressure, but used the Xiang Family’s Stem-Snapping Hand to let her experience pleasure instead. The touch left Hongdou wanting him even more, and Si Ming distracted her by asking about the carp painted on her thigh.

• Hongdou trapped Si Ming in a crystal wall and tried to undress him, but he said he wanted their intimacy to be meaningful.
• Hongdou worried she was falling behind Murong Qing and said she only wanted to have Si Ming’s child, but he persuaded her to put off having children.
• Si Ming used the Stem-Snapping Hand on Hongdou’s acupoints, leaving her overwhelmed by pleasure.
• Hongdou said she wanted Si Ming to hold her, so he drew her attention to the little carp painted on her thigh.
• Hongdou explained that the carp appeared when her Qi and blood circulated vigorously, and Si Ming’s touch made her react again.

Si Ming had Hongdou paint invisible tattoos of flying goddesses on his thighs, but Murong Qing walked in and found clues that made the scene look compromising. Si Ming refused to lie to her and could only say that what she imagined had not happened.

• Si Ming asked Hongdou to paint a pair of flying goddesses on his thighs, and she finished the first and began the second.
• Murong Qing entered and found Hongdou painting Si Ming, then accepted his explanation that he was getting a tattoo.
• Murong Qing noticed the puddle, Hongdou's pajamas, and the lingering scent, and asked Si Ming to explain.
• Si Ming considered several excuses but apologized and told Murong Qing that what she imagined had not happened.

Hongdou explained her unusual way of seeing and drawing things to Si Ming, who was impressed by her talent and how closely she observed him. When she tried to draw him close and asked him to accept the class monitor’s misunderstanding, Si Ming said Murong Qing needed him more and left Hongdou waiting as he began sketching an idea.

• Hongdou discussed how children used imagination to understand things adults dismissed, while Si Ming listened in his undead state.
• Hongdou showed Si Ming her detailed drawings of a rusty chimney and a flawed leaf, then explained that careful observation made realistic drawing possible.
• Hongdou drew Si Ming’s face from observation, then produced a lifelike picture of him eating a chocolate spiral bread in his usual way.
• Hongdou embraced Si Ming and suggested they go along with the class monitor’s misunderstanding, but Si Ming said Murong Qing needed him more and promised to agree to Hongdou’s request afterward.
• Hongdou said she would wait for Si Ming, and he picked up the sketchbook and pencil to draw before leaving.

Si Ming reconciled with Murong Qing, who admitted her jealousy came from loving him, and she rewarded him by dressing as a swordswoman. The chapter ended with Murong Qing striking at his hand when he tried to take her sword.

• Si Ming entered Murong Qing’s room and explained that nothing had happened between him and Hongdou.
• Murong Qing admitted she felt jealous despite knowing Si Ming had been honest with her, and they embraced beneath the moon.
• Murong Qing changed into a swordswoman’s outfit and told Si Ming she had dressed that way as a reward because she had heard he liked swordswomen.
• Si Ming reached for Murong Qing’s sword, and she thrust two fingers at his hand with a refined sword technique.

Si Ming and Murong Qing turned their playful attempt to take each other’s sword into a close martial arts contest, which Si Ming won by seizing her wrists and drawing the sword. The next day, he asked Pan De for a book about bedroom techniques and received a volume with a surprisingly blunt title.

• Si Ming slowly reached for Murong Qing’s sword, prompting her to take their exchange seriously and duel him with sword fingers.
• Murong Qing’s sword techniques blocked Si Ming’s attacks, and the pair chased each other around the room in a harmless contest.
• Murong Qing lured Si Ming toward the sword hilt, but he embraced her, seized her wrists, and drew the sword.
• Si Ming carried Murong Qing to bed, and the next day he asked Pan De for books on bedroom techniques.
• Pan De found a book titled “One Fuck for Ten Thousand Myriad Years,” and Si Ming remarked that he had expected a subtler title.

Si Ming studied One Fuck for Ten Thousand Myriad Years and realized its theories explained the cultivation gains he and Murong Qing had received from their intimacy. After finishing the book, he discovered he had comprehended the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand and told Pan De.

• Pan De gave Si Ming One Fuck for Ten Thousand Myriad Years and explained that its author had drawn insight from the Dao of yin and yang.
• Si Ming read the book and learned that the opposing attributes of his and Murong Qing's Cultivation Bodies had fused when their primordial yin and yang mingled, accelerating their cultivation.
• Si Ming considered whether intimacy with Hongdou might have produced an even greater benefit, but decided that such calculations did not matter in choosing a life partner.
• Si Ming continued reading the book's teachings on life and death and finished it after reflecting on its profound theories.
• Pan De questioned Si Ming's stunned silence, and Si Ming revealed that he had comprehended the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand from the book.

Si Ming comprehended the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand, a martial art that let him intercept and redirect an opponent’s cultivated power, and demonstrated its strength to Pan De. After promising to write down the method, Si Ming practiced until a swordsman suddenly attacked him, leaving the two locked in a new exchange.

• Pan De tested Si Ming’s new martial art, and Si Ming used Taiji-like movements to absorb Pan De’s force and True Qi before sending him flying.
• Si Ming explained how the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand could separate yin and yang to intercept force and foreign True Qi, making up for his weakness against superior Internal Cultivation.
• Si Ming agreed to organize the martial art for Pan De, who offered him an invitation to visit the Ping Mountain Sect.
• Si Ming practiced alone until he sensed danger and caught an incoming Sword Qi attack with his fingers.
• Si Ming used the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand to tear away part of the swordsman’s protective shield and thrust Gang Qi toward his chest.

Si Ming’s master, Yan Jinghong, brought him before Heaven’s Will Palace and recommended him for membership. The members began voting, with several supporting Si Ming, while the vote remained unresolved.

• Si Ming defeated Yan Jinghong in a sword match, and Yan Jinghong told him his martial arts had surpassed his own.
• Yan Jinghong took Si Ming to Heaven’s Will Palace and nominated him to join.
• Si Ming met the palace members, including Tu Wangyue and Cang Baiyi, and learned that he needed six approvals with no objections.
• Yan Jinghong withdrew his vote to avoid favoritism, and Wu Xiu, Ling Huanxi, Zhu Hao, and Ji Shichen voted in favor of Si Ming.

The elders of Heaven's Will Palace approved Si Ming's admission, and Yan Jinghong asked him to choose between the vacant Dragon and Monkey positions. Si Ming chose Dragon after learning its symbolic weapon was a sword, while the elders explained that the zodiac weapons did not dictate how members fought.

• Tu Wangyue and Cang Baiyi agreed to Si Ming's admission, and the bespectacled man also accepted the majority's decision.
• Yan Jinghong proposed visiting the absent Teng Baixin, but Zhu Hao suggested treating the matter as approved unless Teng objected.
• Yan Jinghong offered Si Ming the vacant Dragon and Monkey positions in Heaven's Will Palace.
• Si Ming considered the Dragon's significance and his connection to Xiao Xuan before asking how the positions differed.
• Ji Shichen said the Dragon's symbolic weapon was a sword and the Monkey's was nunchaku, so Si Ming chose Dragon.
• Zhu Hao and Ji Shichen explained that the zodiac weapons were only symbols and did not require members to use them.

Si Ming considered joining Heaven's Will Palace as the elders debated rumors that Xing Daozhuang was a monster and whether he should prove his innocence. Tu Wangyue's examination confirmed Xing Daozhuang's identity but revealed that his cultivation was deeper than she had expected.

• Si Ming chose the Dragon Scale Sword as his preferred weapon and said he would ask Xiao Xuan for it if he became a member of Heaven's Will Palace.
• Chen Xiangduan raised the Remote Heaven Society's rumor about Xing Daozhuang, while Wu Xiu and the others opposed making their comrade prove his innocence.
• Xing Daozhuang volunteered to be examined by Tu Wangyue, arguing that the group needed to prevent suspicion from undermining their trust.
• Tu Wangyue checked Xing Daozhuang's pulse and identity with Divine Arts, then announced that his cultivation was greater than she had expected.

Tu Wangyue examined her conscience after vouching for Xing Daozhuang and discussed Heaven's Will Palace’s plans for Si Ming, whose unpredictable fate had disrupted their long-term scheme. Yan Jinghong then explained Heaven's Will Palace’s supervisory powers to Si Ming as they went to meet its final member.

• Tu Wangyue used the God of Justice’s Sacred Judgment Art to confirm that Xing Daozhuang was human and publicly vouched for him.
• In the chamber for illuminating ghosts, Tu Wangyue’s reflections discussed how Si Ming had disrupted their plans and concluded that he could become a replacement vessel for Xiao Xuan.
• Tu Wangyue and her reflections judged that her decisions had served the public good and that she had a clear conscience.
• Yan Jinghong explained to Si Ming how Heaven’s Will Palace had inherited supervisory authority from the Grandmaster.
• Si Ming learned that Heaven’s Will Palace could demand changes to policies and laws, and that its members needed Spirit Transformation strength.

Yan Jinghong brought Si Ming to Sword-Forging Manor to meet Teng Baixin and ask him a question, while warning Si Ming to stay out of officialdom. As they waited, Si Ming discovered the manor master's daughter Yun Yinmo was an old classmate.

• Yan Jinghong warned Si Ming that officials had helped frame Senior Uncle Xiao and urged him to avoid entering officialdom.
• Yan Jinghong and Si Ming arrived at Sword-Forging Manor, where Yun Fujian welcomed them and said Teng Baixin would be available after an important stage of sword forging.
• Yun Fujian served Ice Heart Tea and explained how his grandfather had discovered the plant and brought its mother tree to the manor.
• Yun Yinmo criticized the manor's reliance on tea plants propagated from a single source, then greeted Yan Jinghong and recognized Si Ming as her old classmate.