Chapter Summaries

Ji Qinglin recovered from his madness after Red Night and Yu Ye helped him, then confronted Murphy about wanting Hu YanZongRen’s Machina Replication Rebirth Method. Murphy confirmed Ji Qinglin’s suspicion, leaving Ji Qinglin to demand a promise about how it would be used.

• Red Night and Yu Ye helped Ji Qinglin regain control, and Red Night considered getting a tattoo on Xiao Qinghong’s body so she would remember him after their fusion.
• Ji Qinglin woke and suggested tattooing the words “Beloved Disciple Red Night,” then reassured Red Night and Yu Ye that he had been conscious throughout his madness.
• Ji Qinglin asked Yu Ye to tell Lu Bing to protect Xiao Qinghong’s Hibernation Pod and explained that the blood in the bathtub had empowered him more than Hu YanZongRen.
• Ji Qinglin told Murphy he suspected Murphy had wanted Hu YanZongRen’s Machina Replication Rebirth Method and demanded that Murphy promise not to abuse it.
• Murphy acknowledged that Ji Qinglin had guessed what he wanted.

Ji Qinglin and his disciples escaped the collapsed Small Warehouse and reunited with the Undercover Police Headquarters after he killed Hu YanZongRen. As the group left Mang Mountain with Red Night’s Hibernation Pod, Cui SanMei confirmed the operation had captured every Machina Qi Practitioner, while Ji Qinglin asked to investigate Hu YanZongRen’s corpse.

• Murphy promised Ji Qinglin she would not abuse the Machina Replication Rebirth Method and asked him to keep her plan secret from everyone except their group.
• Lu Bing broke through the rubble, found Ji Qinglin and his disciples resting, and led them through the tunnel to safety.
• Undercover Police Headquarters personnel welcomed Ji Qinglin, and Jiang Chen hugged him after he returned to the mountain cave guarding the Hibernation Pod.
• The group carried Red Night’s Hibernation Pod out of Mang Mountain as headquarters members celebrated Ji Qinglin’s victory over Hu YanZongRen.
• Cui SanMei told Ji Qinglin that every Machina Qi Practitioner had been captured and explained they would be freed only if their memories and susceptibility to control could be dealt with.
• Ji Qinglin asked to take Hu YanZongRen’s corpse for investigation, then joined the group heading to the riverside service station for food.

After defeating Hu YanZongRen, Ji Qinglin and his companions discussed the case’s aftermath and how Red Night could return to her body. They left the scene to attempt her soul return, while a detained Machina Qi Practitioner watched their car disappear.

• Ji Qinglin asked about the case funding and warned that Hu YanZongRen’s Machina Replication Rebirth Method might have spread from another source.
• Fan Yu persuaded Ji Qinglin to let him and Xie Ling retrieve useful items from the Mountain Cave for Heavenly Dao Consulting.
• Lu Bing explained the technological injection and Ancient Soul Return methods, and privately told Red Night that the latter required prior soul-body merging through dual cultivation.
• Red Night considered using Ji Qinglin’s help for the Ancient Soul Return Method and asked Lu Bing whether more dual cultivation would improve the result.
• NanGong Qian Feng called to confirm everyone was safe, scolded Ji Qinglin for risking his life, and asked about the company’s opening ceremony.
• Ji Qinglin decided to take Red Night home for her soul return, and Jiang Chen drove the group away as a detained Machina Qi Practitioner watched their car leave.

Ji Qinglin and Red Night prepared to use the Ancient Soul Return Method so Red Night could return to Xiao Qinghong’s body. The chapter ended with Ji Qinglin placing Red Night naked inside the Hibernation Pod atop Xiao Qinghong, ready to begin the soul transfer.

• Jiang Chen left for Heavenly Dao Consulting while Ji Qinglin’s group settled at the General Store and moved Red Night’s Hibernation Pod inside.
• Ji Qinglin carried Red Night to the bedroom, where they dual cultivated before Lu Bing and Yu Ye returned from the night market.
• Lu Bing urged Red Night to restore her soul while it was still intertwined with Ji Qinglin’s, and Red Night agreed to proceed.
• Lu Bing injected medication into Xiao Qinghong’s body, confirmed her condition was stable, and removed her clothes.
• Lu Bing and Yu Ye went upstairs, and Ji Qinglin placed Red Night inside the Hibernation Pod atop Xiao Qinghong’s body.

Ji Qinglin and Red Night fused Red Night’s soul body with Xiao Qinghong’s, but Xiao Qinghong appeared to wake without recognizing anyone. Ji Qinglin exposed the act with lightning, and Xiao Qinghong revealed that her memories were intact before thanking those who had saved her.

• Ji Qinglin used the Ancient Soul Return Method to press Red Night’s soul body into Xiao Qinghong while sharing the pain through Nerve Tubing.
• Xiao Qinghong woke and claimed she did not know Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, or Lu Bing, alarming Lu Bing that Red Night had vanished.
• Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye restrained Xiao Qinghong as Ji Qinglin used lightning energy to expose her act.
• Xiao Qinghong admitted she remembered her past and recounted how Ji Qinglin and the others had helped her return to her body.
• Xiao Qinghong knelt and thanked Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Lu Bing for saving her.

Red Night recovered Xiao Qinghong’s memories and explained how Sanada had betrayed her during the Soul Project, leaving Yu Ye’s role in the experiment uncertain. She planned to build Heavenly Dao Consulting into a force capable of overthrowing Wild God Technology and reclaiming it.

• Red Night asked Ji Qinglin and the others to keep calling her Red Night, then ate before agreeing to explain what she remembered.
• Red Night said Sanada’s Soul Project aimed to create a divine soul by making artificial intelligences and wandering AIs devour one another, but it also involved human soul consciousness.
• Red Night recalled discovering Yu Ye’s body in the laboratory and confronting Sanada, who revealed that the project needed human soul consciousness.
• Sanada’s allies restrained Xiao Qinghong, injected her, and extracted her soul consciousness after Chaos Mapping Mode scattered her memories.
• Red Night told Yu Ye she might have been the divine soul’s container or the divine soul itself, then announced she would use Heavenly Dao Consulting to defeat Sanada and reclaim Wild God Technology.

Red Night discussed helping Ji Qinglin develop the company while keeping her identity secret, and Yu Ye worried that she might be a Soul Container with no past or family. Ji Qinglin comforted Yu Ye on the rooftop, while Red Night and Lu Bing teased each other about their feelings for him and Red Night went to join them.

• Red Night agreed to speak with NanGong Qian Feng about the company and said she would explain her situation to NanGong Qian Feng and Xiao Jiang.
• Lu Bing clarified that Murphy had led the Soul Container experiment, but the meaning of the term and Yu Ye's identity remained uncertain.
• Ji Qinglin carried Yu Ye to the rooftop and reassured her that her identity did not define her, and that she was his disciple now.
• Red Night saw Ji Qinglin comforting Yu Ye and told Lu Bing she was relieved, though Lu Bing teased her about being jealous and in love with Ji Qinglin.
• Red Night called to Ji Qinglin that the water was ready, then went downstairs to fetch wine when he said he and Yu Ye would come down later.

After Red Night recovered her body and memories, she, Yu Ye, Lu Bing, and Ji Qinglin celebrated together on the roof. The women grew sleepy and tipsy, and Ji Qinglin settled them in for the night before Yu Ye drew him close in the living room.

• Red Night, Yu Ye, Lu Bing, and Ji Qinglin joked about claiming shares in Red Night’s future company and toasted her recovery.
• Red Night demonstrated that she could still use the cultivation techniques Ji Qinglin had taught her, then recounted how he had helped her and Yu Ye improve.
• The four drank and talked until they were sleepy, and Ji Qinglin carried Yu Ye to the living room while Red Night and Lu Bing shared the bedroom.
• Red Night pulled Ji Qinglin’s hand toward her abdomen and asked what he planned to write on her, but he told her to sleep and promised to do it another day.
• Ji Qinglin carried Lu Bing to bed, tidied the General Store, and returned to find Yu Ye nestling against him; he gave in to her advances.

Sanada learned that Hu YanZongRen's Mang Mountain base had been raided and received an offer from an unknown caller to help kill Ji Qinglin. At Ji's General Store, Ji Qinglin expelled the unassimilated remnants of Hu YanZongRen's Immortal's Blood, while Yu Ye and Red Night rushed to him in alarm.

• Sanada received confirmation that Undercover Police Headquarters and the military had captured Hu YanZongRen's Mang Mountain base, and he decided to erase Wild God Technology's ties to Hu YanZongRen.
• An unknown caller told Sanada that Ji Qinglin had led the raid and offered to help kill him in exchange for Sanada's assistance.
• Red Night woke beside Lu Bing, teased Yu Ye, and found Ji Qinglin downstairs practicing while Yu Ye followed her.
• Ji Qinglin realized his body was struggling to absorb the strange blood he had taken from Hu YanZongRen's Small Warehouse.
• Ji Qinglin spat out the blood his body could not assimilate, and Yu Ye and Red Night leapt over the railing to check on him.

Ji Qinglin learned that an unidentified Machina Qi Practitioner had escaped after killing several others during a prison transfer, then received interrogation records that named the fugitive Qing. The revelation left him frozen as he and the others prepared to visit NanGong Qian Feng’s company site.

• Yu Ye and Red Night mistook Ji Qinglin’s coughing up blood for a sign that his internal injuries had worsened, and he admitted he had come downstairs to treat them.
• Yu Ye and Red Night argued over who would dual cultivate with Ji Qinglin, until Lu Bing came downstairs and interrupted them.
• Ji Qinglin prepared breakfast, disguised Red Night so she would not be recognized, and set out with the others to see the Heavenly Dao Consulting company location.
• Xie Ling told Ji Qinglin that a Machina Qi Practitioner had escaped after overturning a four-car convoy and killing the other prisoners, and Ji Qinglin asked her to send the interrogation records.
• Ji Qinglin opened the records and froze when the fugitive’s name was listed as Qing.

Ji Qinglin investigated a fugitive named Qing who might know secrets about Hu YanZongRen, then visited the newly renovated Heavenly Dao Consulting offices with his companions. NanGong Qian Feng’s accidental claim that Ji Qinglin was her lover became an embarrassing running joke as they met Red Night in his new office.

• Ji Qinglin read the vague inspection report about Qing’s lost memories and told Xie Ling to find him and capture him alive.
• Ji Qinglin and his companions visited the new company location, where Red Night criticized the first-floor decor and took charge of the company’s operations.
• NanGong Qian Feng directed workers installing a Taiji Bagua screen and called Ji Qinglin her lover without realizing he had arrived nearby.
• A worker openly asked NanGong Qian Feng whether Ji Qinglin was her lover, embarrassing her as she tried to show the group around.
• NanGong Qian Feng showed Ji Qinglin his furnished office, and he joked that Red Night was the lover she had just mentioned.

Red Night revealed to NanGong Qian Feng that she was Xiao Qinghong, and Ji Qinglin and his companions explored the newly renovated Four Seas Trade offices. Ji Qinglin and NanGong Qian Feng shared a private moment in a hidden lounge before Jiang Chen interrupted them and called everyone to a barbecue.

• Red Night removed her disguise and told NanGong Qian Feng and Jiang Chen that she was Xiao Qinghong, the celebrated young company CEO.
• Ji Qinglin and his companions toured the renovated Four Seas Trade offices while Red Night explained her story to NanGong Qian Feng.
• NanGong Qian Feng confronted Ji Qinglin about hiding Red Night's identity and worried about his injuries from fighting Hu YanZongRen.
• NanGong Qian Feng revealed a hidden lounge behind the Treasure Pavilion, and she and Ji Qinglin discussed helping Red Night take revenge on Wild God Technology.
• Ji Qinglin accidentally pressed the Immortal Remains against NanGong Qian Feng, and Jiang Chen interrupted them as she emerged from the secret room, flustered.

Red Night outlined a four-part plan for Heavenly Dao Consulting, and the group agreed to help her launch it. Ji Qinglin then revealed that the fugitive Qing might be tied to his past, and Yu Ye volunteered to investigate with him while Red Night stayed behind to manage the company.

• Red Night proposed organizing Heavenly Dao Consulting around intelligence services, entertainment venues, cultivation goods, and a security company, with NanGong Qian Feng helping secure resources and funding.
• Jiang Chen, Yu Ye, and Lu Bing offered support, while Lu Bing announced she was leaving to seek freedom and ease; Red Night arranged to begin company work the next day.
• After Lu Bing departed, Ji Qinglin told Red Night and Yu Ye that the fugitive Qing might be connected to his past and that he planned to investigate alone.
• Red Night offered to abandon company work and join Ji Qinglin, but Yu Ye insisted on accompanying him, and Ji Qinglin agreed to take her.
• Yu Ye left Ji Qinglin and Red Night alone for the night, and Red Night initiated a kiss with Ji Qinglin.

Sanada learned that Ji Qinglin had killed Hu YanZongRen and worried that the captured Hibernation Pod could expose him, so he arranged to meet a mysterious ally. Ji Qinglin tested Hu YanZongRen’s Immortal Remains and discovered that its mist could reveal people he sought, leading him to the Immortal from his dream.

• Sanada confirmed that Ji Qinglin had killed Hu YanZongRen in a one-on-one fight and learned that the Undercover Police had taken a Hibernation Pod from the scene.
• Sanada contacted a mysterious person who offered to help kill Ji Qinglin in exchange for Sanada locating a place across the real world and virtual network, and they agreed to meet the next day.
• Ji Qinglin woke beside Red Night, who left for work, and then noticed Yu Ye felt weak while cultivating.
• Ji Qinglin entered his Qi Sea Cloud Disk with Hu YanZongRen’s Immortal Remains, which crumbled into powder and produced a cloud of mist.
• Ji Qinglin used the mist to reveal images of Yu Ye and Red Night, then searched for Qing and saw the Immortal from his dream glaring toward him.

Ji Qinglin relived the immortal’s betrayal by two different beings called Qing, then realized his visions might reveal the truth behind the immortal’s death. After waking, he hurried with Yu Ye to find Zhang HuaiMin.

• Ji Qinglin dreamed that Qing and Lian turned against the black-clad immortal, who recognized Qing as the true threat and challenged Lian to prove her divine power.
• Yu Ye cared for Ji Qinglin after he collapsed, and Shen Bixin brought him medicine while joking about his exhaustion and the rumors surrounding his victory over Hu YanZongRen.
• Ji Qinglin considered whether his visions tracked souls and concluded that his former self may have been the Qing from the Mountain Cave, distinct from the Qing who betrayed the immortal.
• Shen Bixin gave Yu Ye medicine and teased her about dual cultivation before recommending daring underwear shops.
• Ji Qinglin dressed and set out with Yu Ye on Night Owl to find Zhang HuaiMin, leaning against her as she drove.

Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye visited Zhang HuaiMin for examinations after killing Hu YanZongRen, and Ji Qinglin learned that his condition was worsening but could be stabilized for a month. They then went to Emerald Bower Restaurant, where rumors about Ji Qinglin’s feat had spread and President Lei Qiong greeted him with a demand to drink.

• Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye hurried to Zhang HuaiMin’s shop, where they discussed the replica threat and asked for medical examinations.
• Zhang HuaiMin found that Ji Qinglin’s condition resembled a previous problem but was more serious, and said his equipment could stabilize it for one month.
• Zhang HuaiMin diagnosed Yu Ye’s weakness as a cultivation bottleneck and privately advised her to reduce dual-cultivation until Ji Qinglin recovered.
• Ji Qinglin took medicine and brought Yu Ye to Emerald Bower Restaurant for a meal and to check on the Merchant Association’s business.
• Elder Yu Ji Zi said the story of Ji Qinglin killing Hu YanZongRen with three swords had spread among the four associations.
• President Lei Qiong spotted Ji Qinglin in a private room and raised his wine cup, calling for the group to drown him in wine.

Ji Qinglin spent a relaxed day shopping with Yu Ye while Red Night handled investment work, and the three discussed their injuries and recovery at home. Meanwhile, A Qing demonstrated his ability to trap and revive a man, then made a deal with Sanada to locate Ji Qinglin and destroy the body in a Hibernation Pod.

• Ji Qinglin credited Lei Qiong and the others for supporting him and said he had not defeated Hu YanZongRen alone.
• Ji Qinglin gave Yu Ye a Peach Wood Hairpin from Zhang HuaiMin to stabilize her soul, then took her shopping instead of investigating the escaped mystery person.
• Red Night returned from closing three investments and learned that Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye had spent the day eating and shopping, so she complained that they had not invited her.
• Yu Ye told Red Night that her soul was weak and Ji Qinglin had fainted after cultivating an Immortal Remains; Red Night offered to stay home and care for them.
• A Qing demonstrated his power to Sanada by trapping a subordinate in darkness and bringing him back, then offered to help Sanada kill Ji Qinglin in exchange for confirming a location.
• Sanada agreed to help A Qing locate the signal and asked him to destroy the corpse in a Hibernation Pod; A Qing accepted and left with their deal concluded.

Ji Qinglin enlisted Murphy’s help to find A Qing and Sanada, then used impersonation and a fake call to uncover their plans. He learned that A Qing was seeking a signal location on Okinawa Island and that Sanada intended to send him there, while Sanada also ordered him to find and deal with a corpse.

• Ji Qinglin asked Murphy to locate A Qing and provide Sanada’s contact information, keeping the plan secret from Yu Ye.
• Ji Qinglin practiced the Eternal Tribulation Fire Art with Shen Bixin, then studied the information Murphy provided about A Qing and Sanada.
• Ji Qinglin, with Yu Ye and Red Night assisting, impersonated Sanada and called A Qing, learning that A Qing had given Sanada a signal sample to locate a place within two kilometers.
• Ji Qinglin called Sanada while impersonating A Qing and pressured him into revealing that the target was on Okinawa Island and that they would meet at Ci Hai Bar next Monday.
• Sanada reminded Ji Qinglin of their agreement to kill Ji Qinglin, then told him to first search for and deal with a corpse.

Ji Qinglin decided to travel to Okinawa Island with his disciples and allies to prepare for A Qing and Sanada’s meeting and investigate Hu YanZongRen’s possible stronghold. Before the trip, he carved a protective fire talisman on Red Night, while the group also planned a swimsuit-shopping outing.

• Ji Qinglin chose to keep his connection to A Qing secret and planned to reach Okinawa Island before A Qing and Sanada.
• Yu Ye and Red Night warned Ji Qinglin that A Qing might be targeting him and that the corpse could be Red Night’s body, but Ji Qinglin doubted A Qing intended to help Sanada.
• Ji Qinglin arranged the Okinawa mission with Cui SanMei, who promised support from headquarters, and learned NanGong Qian Feng and Jiang Chen would join the trip.
• NanGong Qian Feng proposed that the group choose swimsuits before traveling, and Ji Qinglin agreed that acting like tourists would help conceal their preparations.
• Ji Qinglin carried Red Night upstairs and used fire force to inscribe a Fire-Quelling Body-Securing Talisman on her abdomen, promising to teach her some of the Eternal Tribulation Fire Art.

Ji Qinglin and his two disciples tested the cultivation technique from Hu YanZongRen’s Immortal Remains, discovering it let them interact and fight within their inner landscapes without physical harm. They also found it could be used for intimate cultivation there, and Jiang Chen arrived as they prepared to teach her the technique before their trip to Okinawa Island.

• Ji Qinglin reviewed the uncertain Okinawa Island mission and called Yu Ye and Red Night to study the Immortal Remains technique with him.
• Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night created smoke-like forms in their inner landscapes and discovered they could touch one another but not communicate by sound.
• Ji Qinglin and his disciples tested the technique’s combat uses, then fought at full strength in their inner landscapes without injuring their real bodies.
• Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye tested whether the inner landscape could support dual cultivation, while Red Night watched and joined them.
• Jiang Chen arrived at the General Store, found the three flushed and breathless, and accepted their invitation to learn the technique.