Chapter Summaries

Nan Xunran watched the Nan and Bai Clans gather at the Dao Arena after his parents suggested he test his strength against a great clan. The competition began with Lu Jingyi facing Bai Kuang, while Feng Qianshan nervously tried to complete a system sign-in without attracting Nan Xunran’s attention.

• Bai Wanying and Nan Xiao told Nan Xunran not to compete because he had reached the God King Realm, then suggested he could test his skills by destroying a great clan.
• The Nan Clan and Bai Clan assembled at the Dao Arena, where Nan Xunran noticed Lu Jingyi and gained Kill Points as her cultivation increased.
• Lu Jingyi eagerly looked for Nan Xunran, and Bai Wanying and Nan Xiao discussed her admiration for him.
• The competition began, and an elder announced Lu Jingyi versus Bai Kuang as the first match.
• Nan Xunran noticed Feng Qianshan, who was at the Dao Arena to complete a system sign-in and feared that failing would cost him his life.

Bai Zhi faced Wen Rong in the tournament final and played a pipa piece she had composed for Nan Xunran, whose sound stunned and tormented the audience. After Nan Xunran praised it, Bai Zhi conceded the match to Wen Rong after learning he was the Divine Son’s younger brother.

• Feng Qianshan announced the final match between Wen Rong and Bai Zhi, surprising Nan Xiao and the Nan Clan disciples.
• Bai Zhi declared that she had composed a piece especially for Nan Xunran and began playing her pipa.
• Bai Zhi’s piercing music stunned the Nan Clan disciples and forced Wen Rong to retreat, while Bai Clan members said it was powerful even without spiritual power.
• Bai Zhi stopped playing, asked Nan Xunran for his opinion, and celebrated when he called it not bad.
• Bai Zhi conceded the match to Wen Rong after asking whether he was Nan Xunran’s younger brother and hearing him confirm it.

Bai Zhi openly declared her love for Nan Xunran and tried to win his favor with a bold gesture. Nan Xunran stayed distant, while Bai Zhi returned to the Bai Clan pleased with herself.

• Bai Zhi asked Wen Rong to let her win and put in a good word for her with Nan Xunran, then admitted she was in love with him.
• Bai Wanying told Nan Xiao that Bai Zhi collected Nan Xunran's portraits and had his likeness carved on her pipa.
• After the competition, Bai Zhi asked Nan Xunran whether she could win his favor, then pressed her hand against his and made a soft kissing sound.
• Nan Xunran withdrew his hand, and Nan Luoning wiped it while glaring angrily at Bai Zhi.
• Bai Zhi winked at Nan Xunran and left, telling the Bai Clan disciples that being bold gave them a chance to get what they wanted.

Nan Wang returned early and reunited with Nan Xunran, bringing him an eight-tailed Nine-Tailed Fox. He said the Demon Race had apparently abandoned the fox, which whined at his words.

• Nan Xiao and Bai Wanying saw Nan Xunran after the competition, and Nan Luoning explained that he had kissed his own hand.
• Nan Xiao told Nan Xunran that Little Wang would return in a few days.
• Nan Wang surprised Nan Xunran by returning early and greeted him affectionately in the Divine Son Hall.
• Nan Wang’s spider and snake came out, and the snake crawled onto Nan Xunran’s hand.
• Nan Wang summoned a Nine-Tailed Fox with eight tails and said he had found it and believed the Demon Race had abandoned it.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox whimpered after Nan Wang said it might have been abandoned.

Nan Wang returned to Nan Xunran, gave him a Nine-Tailed Fox he had captured, and handed over treasures from the Dao lineages he had destroyed. Nan Xunran healed the fox, and three days later she appeared as Hu Xi, while Nan Wang mistook her presence for a threat to him.

• Nan Wang told Nan Xunran that the injured Nine-Tailed Fox was his and pressed a storage bag of treasures into his hand.
• Nan Wang explained that he had struck the fox when she resisted being brought back, and Nan Xunran healed her injuries with a gentle glow.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox recognized Nan Xunran as the Nan Clan's divine son and remained resentful of Nan Wang.
• Three days later, Hu Xi revealed herself as the Nine-Tailed Fox, and Nan Wang anxiously asked where Nan Xunran was.
• Nan Xunran appeared and said he had been taking a bath, then exchanged a look with Hu Xi.

Hu Xi asked Nan Xunran to help her reclaim leadership of the Nine-Tailed Clan from her elder brother and offered the clan’s submission in return. Nan Xunran accepted, leaving Hu Xi relieved and Nan Wang ready to deal with her brother.

• Nan Xunran recognized Hu Xi as the Nine-Tailed Clan’s current leader from their brief meeting years earlier.
• Hu Xi explained that her supporters had been restrained and that her elder brother would take over if she died while her father remained in seclusion.
• Nan Xunran said Hu Xi should offer something in return for the Nan Clan’s help, and Hu Xi proposed that the Nine-Tailed Clan submit to him.
• Hu Xi knelt and declared that the Nine-Tailed Clan would willingly follow Nan Xunran.
• Nan Xunran accepted, and Nan Wang offered to deal with Hu Xi’s elder brother.

Hu Xi led Nan Xunran and Nan Wang into the Nine-Tailed Clan, where Hu Xuan prepared to resist the Nan Clan's arrival. Hu Xi then announced that the Nine-Tailed Clan would formally submit to the Nan Clan's Divine Son.

• Hu Xunran agreed to let Hu Xi lead the way to her clan.
• Hu Xuan learned that Hu Xi had been taken by Nan Wang and hoped she would not return, while insisting the clan would never submit to the Nan Clan.
• Hu Xuan was told that three people had activated the Nine-Tailed Clan's formation and feared Hu Xi had persuaded the Nan Clan to intervene.
• Hu Xi brought Nan Xunran and Nan Wang through the formation into the Nine-Tailed Clan's peach-tree grounds.
• Hu Xuan confronted Hu Xi for bringing outsiders, and Hu Xi declared that the Nine-Tailed Clan would submit to the Nan Clan's Divine Son.

Hu Xi and Nan Wang defeated Hu Xuan’s forces, but Hu Xuan burned his origin and attacked Nan Xunran in desperation. Nan Xunran summoned a phantom whose enormous finger descended toward Hu Xuan.

• Hu Xi declared she would reclaim the clan leader position, and Hu Xuan ordered his people to attack.
• Nan Wang and Hu Xi defeated the attackers, while Nan Xunran’s cold gaze unnerved Hu Xuan.
• Nan Wang revealed himself as the Poison Young Master and threatened to use Hu Xuan to test his poisons.
• Hu Xuan burned his origin and charged at Nan Xunran, hoping to seize the Nan Clan’s divine son.
• Nan Xunran summoned an illusory figure that pressed an enormous finger down toward Hu Xuan.

Nan Xunran killed Hu Xuan, then restored him so Nan Wang could use him to test poisons. After Hu Xi reclaimed her clan’s patriarch token, Nan Xunran and Nan Wang set off to find Second, who had drawn attention by killing Shen Clan members.

• Hu Xuan was shocked by Nan Xunran’s God King Realm spiritual power and was crushed under his finger.
• Nan Xunran restored Hu Xuan from a puddle of flesh, leaving him alive but without his legs, and Nan Wang seized him for poison testing.
• Hu Xi refused to save Hu Xuan and retrieved her clan’s patriarch token while Nan Wang briefly took Hu Xuan out of the bag.
• Hu Xi thanked Nan Xunran, and Nan Wang suggested they join Second, whose attacks on the Shen Clan had exposed her whereabouts.
• Nan Xunran agreed to go with Nan Wang to find Second.

After Nan Xunran warned Hu Xi about the Nine-Tailed Clan, Shen Tan revealed to Qin Xizhi that he had learned a stolen secret technique from his master, a fugitive from the Departed Souls Bureau. Wei Yan recalled that Nan Xunran was the bureau’s true master and ordered her forces to surround the Qin Clan so she could save Nan Shuang.

• Nan Xunran warned Hu Xi that the Nine-Tailed Clan would be destroyed if it failed to grow stronger before they met again.
• Qin Xizhi found Shen Tan badly wounded, and he told her that his master had stolen a secret technique from the Departed Souls Bureau and passed it on to him.
• Shen Tan admitted that he had knowingly learned the technique, arguing with Qin Xizhi before she helped him inside to treat his wound.
• A scout reported to Wei Yan that Shen Tan was hiding with the Qin Clan.
• Wei Yan recalled that Shen Tan would harm Nan Shuang and that Nan Xunran was the true master of the Departed Souls Bureau, then ordered her forces to surround the Qin Clan.

Wei Yan surrounded the Qin Clan and demanded Shen Tan, forcing Qin Xizhi's father to find him. After learning that Wei Yan—not the Nan Clan—had summoned Shen Tan, he agreed to meet her despite his injuries.

• Wei Yan entered the Qin Clan hall and threatened its leader unless he brought Qin Xizhi to her.
• Qin Xizhi tended Shen Tan's wounds as they discussed his escape from Nan Shuang.
• The Qin Clan leader rushed into Qin Xizhi's room, slapped her, and berated her for sheltering Shen Tan.
• The Qin Clan leader revealed that Wei Yan had demanded Shen Tan, and Shen Tan agreed to meet her.
• Shen Tan touched Qin Xizhi's swollen cheek and told her to wait for him.

Wei Yan explained that she intended to remove Shen Tan because he stood in the way of her beloved, Xunran, while Qin Xizhi revealed that rumors of Wei Yan and Xunran’s relationship had spread through the Sacred Domain. At the Departed Souls Bureau, Xunran healed Nan Shuang’s injured arm, and Wei Yan hurried to meet him at the Qin Clan gate.

• Shen Tan confronted Wei Yan, who said she planned to eliminate him for standing in A-Ran’s way.
• Qin Xizhi identified A-Ran as Divine Son Xunran and said rumors about his relationship with Wei Yan had spread throughout the Sacred Domain.
• Nan Wang and Xunran visited Nan Shuang at the Departed Souls Bureau after hearing her whereabouts had been exposed.
• Xunran healed Nan Shuang’s severe arm wound, and Nan Shuang dismissed Nan Wang’s attempts to get her attention.
• A scout told Wei Yan that Xunran had arrived at the Qin Clan gate with Nan Wang and Nan Shuang, so she hurried to meet him.

Nan Shuang attacked Shen Tan, but Qin Xizhi took the needles meant for him and was left dying. When Shen Tan charged Nan Shuang in fury, she cut him down, and Wei Yan stopped her from approaching him.

• Nan Wang teased Wei Yan about her rumored closeness to Nan Xunran, and Wei Yan insisted their relationship was good.
• Shen Tan recognized Nan Shuang, who fired needles at him; Qin Xizhi rushed in front of him and took the attack.
• Nan Wang warned Shen Tan that Qin Xizhi’s meridians were sealed and her spiritual power was flowing backward, leaving her close to death.
• Shen Tan charged Nan Shuang, but she struck him with flying knives and left him collapsing in a pool of blood.
• Nan Shuang moved to approach Shen Tan, and Wei Yan stopped her, recalling that he had killed Nan Shuang in her previous life when near death.

Nan Xunran killed Shen Tan just as his power surged, and Wei Yan killed Qin Xizhi after she tried to strike back. Wei Yan then ordered her subordinates to kill everyone else and approached Nan Xunran to discuss something with him.

• Shen Tan's injuries healed and his cultivation surged, but Nan Xunran killed him with a single strike.
• Qin Xizhi wept over Shen Tan's corpse as the Qin Clan patriarch blamed Shen Tan for the clan's ruin.
• Wei Yan stabbed Qin Xizhi, who tried to retaliate with a saber, but Nan Shuang stopped her with a flying knife.
• Wei Yan killed the weakened Qin Xizhi and received a notification that her Heaven's Mandate Points had fallen to zero.
• Wei Yan summoned dark figures and ordered them to kill everyone, then approached Nan Xunran and asked to speak with him.

Wei Yan gave Nan Xunran the soul token controlling the Following Wind Cavalry and pledged the force to him. After the guards wiped out the Qin Clan, Nan Shuang concluded that the Wei Clan had to be eliminated.

• Wei Yan told Nan Xunran about her knowledge from her previous life and revealed that the Following Wind Cavalry served him.
• Wei Yan gave Nan Xunran the soul token containing the cavalry members’ life souls, and he accepted it.
• Wei Yan pledged the Following Wind Cavalry to Nan Xunran, who thanked her before leaving.
• Nan Wang and Nan Shuang discussed how the Following Wind Guards had swiftly destroyed the Qin Clan and concealed their cultivation.
• Nan Shuang declared that the Wei Clan absolutely could not be allowed to remain.

Nan Xunran accepted the Following Wind Cavalry’s allegiance, then agreed to join Nan Shuang in seeking the Yellow Springs Illusory Dream Remnant Page. At the Departed Souls Bureau, Jin Jinyu sneaked into his room while he slept and kissed his chest.

• The Following Wind Guards sensed Nan Xunran’s Soul Token, knelt before him, and hailed him as their master.
• Nan Xunran dismissed the guards, and Wei Yan returned to the Wei Clan to continue searching for powerful members of the Following Wind Cavalry.
• Nan Shuang invited Nan Xunran to seek an approaching secret treasure, and his system identified it as the Yellow Springs Illusory Dream Remnant Page; he agreed to go with her.
• Nan Wang remembered he had to find the Nan Clan head and left, while Nan Xunran and Nan Shuang returned to the Departed Souls Bureau.
• Jin Jinyu entered Nan Xunran’s room while he slept, caressed his face, loosened his clothes, and kissed his chest.

Jin Jinyu visited Nan Xunran after he destroyed the Qin Clan, tried to kiss him under the influence of her incense, and proposed a marriage alliance. When the secret realm opened, Su Zhuyi asked Nan Xunran to enter it with her, and he agreed.

• Jin Jinyu used prepared incense to incapacitate the attendants and tried to kiss Nan Xunran, but he woke and turned away.
• Jin Jinyu explained that the Splendid Commerce Association partnered with the Departed Souls Bureau, cleared the incense at Nan Xunran’s request, and said she would discuss a marriage alliance.
• Jin Jinyu wiped a lip rouge mark from Nan Xunran’s chest, straightened his clothes, and left; Nan Xunran erased the mark on his face and changed his clothes.
• At the secret realm entrance, Nan Shuang questioned why Jin Jinyu was still beside Nan Xunran, and Jin Jinyu said she intended to stay with him.
• Su Zhuyi arrived with several people, greeted Nan Xunran, and asked him to enter the secret realm with her; he agreed.

Su Zhuyi reunited with Nan Xunran as the secret realm opened, where Nan Shuang kept the crowd back before they entered. Inside, the group encountered wolf-eared women from the supposedly extinct Boulderbone Wolf Clan, and their leader invited Nan Xunran to come home with her.

• Su Zhuyi told Nan Xunran she had reached the King-Sealing Realm, and he said he was a God King.
• Jin Jinyu asked Nan Shuang who was better suited to Nan Xunran, and Nan Shuang told both women to stay away from him.
• When the secret realm opened, Nan Shuang killed a man who rushed toward its entrance, then led Nan Xunran inside.
• Several arrows flew at the group inside the realm, but everyone except Nan Xunran blocked them before wolf-eared young women approached.
• The leader of the Boulderbone Wolf Clan invited Nan Xunran to go home with her and said she would hunt to feed him.
• Nan Xunran asked the girl her name, and she replied that her clan had no names.

Nan Xunran named the wolf girl Scarlet, and she invited him and his companions to her clan. There, the old clan chief welcomed them cautiously after learning Scarlet had brought them without asking where they came from.

• Scarlet asked Nan Xunran for a name, and he called her Scarlet.
• Scarlet grew jealous when Jin Jinyu touched Nan Xunran, then invited him and his companions to her clan.
• Nan Shuang and Su Zhuyi agreed to go with Scarlet, while Jin Jinyu worried about Scarlet becoming another rival for Nan Xunran's affection.
• Scarlet brought the group to the Boulderbone Wolf Clan and introduced Nan Xunran to the old clan chief.
• The old clan chief praised Nan Xunran's looks, then scolded Scarlet for bringing humans into the clan without asking where they came from.

Scarlet explained that the three clans had once guarded a shared secret, which was divided among them after they split apart. After the old clan leader began losing control, Nan Xunran went with Scarlet and Nan Shuang to find Elder Feng, whom Scarlet revealed was human.

• Scarlet told Nan Xunran that the Boulderbone Wolf, Sharpfeather, and Purple Shield Clans had once been one clan and guarded something together.
• The system told Nan Xunran that the clans were guarding fragments of the Yellow Springs Illusory Dream Remnant Page.
• The old clan leader began shifting between human and beast forms, so Scarlet shut him in his room before he could attack them.
• Nan Xunran decided to seek out Elder Feng, who could speak human language, and Nan Shuang agreed to go with him.
• Scarlet led Nan Xunran and Nan Shuang through a bamboo grove and revealed that Elder Feng was human.