Chapter Summaries

After a night of playful treatment, Yu Ye and Jiang Chen worried that Ji Qinglin had seen them undressed, but they found him recovering from the corpse qi he absorbed while fighting Simon. The chapter leaves them rushing to his aid after his qi circulation went awry.

• Jiang Chen and Yu Ye woke in Ji Qinglin’s bed, discovered their ropes had been removed, and wondered whether he had seen or recorded their embarrassing state.
• Jiang Chen and Yu Ye searched for Ji Qinglin and found him meditating in the West Wing while black corpse qi left his body.
• Ji Qinglin reflected on his dangerous fight with Simon and decided to focus on cultivation and seek more Immortal Remains through NanGong Qian Feng’s connections.
• Yu Ye and Jiang Chen realized they had overlooked Ji Qinglin’s injuries and worried that he had withdrawn because he was upset with them.
• Ji Qinglin’s thoughts distracted him during qi circulation, causing him to cough up corpse qi as Yu Ye and Jiang Chen burst into the room calling for him.

Ji Qinglin’s disciples mistook his coughing and corpse qi for injuries, then learned that Jiang Chen had recovered and discussed their plans against Wild God Technology. Jiang Chen left for Nanhua District under the Chamber of Commerce’s protection, while Ji Qinglin stayed behind with Yu Ye and Red Night to prepare for Soul Refining.

• Yu Ye and Jiang Chen rushed in to treat Ji Qinglin, believing the corpse qi and his coughing meant he had been seriously injured.
• Jiang Chen said her body’s sensation had returned, and Ji Qinglin told his disciples his memories remained incomplete and warned them not to search carelessly for Immortal Remains.
• Jiang Chen planned to use Pei Ruotao to approach Pei Ruohai, and Ji Qinglin revealed his secret relationship with Dan LuLing.
• Ji Qinglin arranged for Jiang Chen to return to Nanhua District to reduce the risk of Wild God Technology discovering them, and she said goodbye to him and Yu Ye.
• After Jiang Chen left, Ji Qinglin joked about her blood ropes, prompting Yu Ye to realize he had seen what happened.

Sanada ordered an investigation into how Bangkok's underground police had breached Wild God Technology's Experimental Zone, while Ji Qinglin taught Yu Ye a Soul Separation Technique so they could catch Red Night. Red Night agreed to a one-day bet, but Ji Qinglin's first demonstration ended with his hand pressing Yu Ye's chest, making Red Night suspect the lesson was a pretext.

• After the shareholders approved Sanada's emergency response, they warned him not to disappoint them and left him to handle the fallout.
• Sanada told Mizuno to have public relations manage the scandal and to ask Immortal Path Biology to investigate how the Experimental Zone had been breached.
• Yu Ye demanded to check Ji Qinglin's phone, and Ji Qinglin reassured her that he had not recorded her embarrassing behavior.
• Ji Qinglin offered to teach Yu Ye how to catch Red Night, and Red Night negotiated a bet that gave Ji Qinglin one day to catch her.
• Ji Qinglin began teaching Yu Ye the Soul Separation Technique, but his demonstration pressed against her chest instead of passing through her body.

Ji Qinglin taught Yu Ye the Soul Separation Technique and demonstrated his overwhelming soul-body strength by pulling Red Night from her body. Red Night admitted defeat, while she and Yu Ye worried that future Soul Replenishment with Ji Qinglin could affect them both.

• Ji Qinglin gave Yu Ye a Technique Storage Device containing the Soul Separation Technique and explained how to practice controlling her soul body.
• Ji Qinglin told Red Night that her soul strength did not guarantee victory over a stronger opponent, then pulled part of her soul body from Yu Ye to prove his own strength.
• Red Night resisted with Soul Flame during a second demonstration, but Ji Qinglin steadily pulled her out until she surrendered.
• Red Night explained to Yu Ye that Ji Qinglin's soul body was far stronger than hers, despite his missing soul consciousness.
• Red Night feared that Ji Qinglin's Soul Replenishment would affect both her and Yu Ye, and decided she needed to cultivate the Emergence of the Yang Spirit so she could escape.

Ji Qinglin guided Yu Ye and Red Night in Soul Refining, warning Red Night against attempting Emergence of the Yang Spirit too soon and giving her the Dust Assimilation Art. As he strengthened their soul bodies with data from the Qi Sea Cloud Disk, he discovered he could hear their private conversation—and learned they had been discussing the suggestive content in the data.

• Ji Qinglin teased Yu Ye about dual cultivating, then remembered his wager with Red Night and assigned her a Soul Refining training regimen instead of a harsher punishment.
• Ji Qinglin warned Red Night that leaving her body too soon could leave her soul damaged, captured, or sealed, and said he had prepared equipment to help her act independently.
• Ji Qinglin gave Red Night the Dust Assimilation Art and began guiding both disciples through Soul Refining.
• Ji Qinglin used unprocessed data from the Qi Sea Cloud Disk to send special Qi strength into Yu Ye and Red Night's soul bodies.
• Red Night noticed suggestive videos and text within the data, and Ji Qinglin revealed he could hear the disciples' inner conversation.

Ji Qinglin teased Yu Ye and Red Night about their private conversation, then arranged protection for the General Store through Cui SanMei. Yu Ye feared Ji Qinglin was reestablishing strict master-disciple boundaries, but during a roadside rest she slipped close and held his waist.

• Ji Qinglin overheard Red Night and Yu Ye discussing dual cultivation, teased them, and told them to focus on cultivating.
• Yu Ye tried to explain that she wanted to dual cultivate with Ji Qinglin, but he ended their consciousness connection before she could finish.
• Cui SanMei told Ji Qinglin that Wild God Technology had blamed a branch company and that she would send protection personnel to the General Store.
• Yu Ye worried that allowing the Undercover Police into the General Store would invade their privacy, and Ji Qinglin said their work there was not private.
• Yu Ye interpreted Ji Qinglin's remarks as drawing a line between master and disciple and grew subdued on the drive back.
• Ji Qinglin stopped the car to rest, and Yu Ye wrapped her arms around his waist while he lay down.

Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store and examined cultivation techniques taken from Desolate City while Yu Ye helped him. He then met He Xiuzhong, who offered to transfer Nightfall Bar on Pei Ruohai’s behalf, and began bargaining before learning the price; after she left, he warned Yu Ye that Pei Ruohai might arrive soon.

• Ji Qinglin brought Yu Ye back to the General Store, checked the Immortal Plunger, and studied demonically modified cultivation techniques while keeping Yu Ye from testing them before they were safe.
• He Xiuzhong arrived at the General Store and introduced herself as the owner of Nightfall Bar, reminding Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye of their past visit there.
• He Xiuzhong offered to transfer Nightfall Bar at forty percent of its value, explaining that Pei Ruohai had bought back the other shareholders’ shares and wanted to hand the bar over to Xin Dong Street.
• Ji Qinglin recognized the offer as Pei Ruohai’s attempt to win him over, then complained about the price without asking what it was and prompted He Xiuzhong to consider a further reduction.
• After He Xiuzhong left, Ji Qinglin told Yu Ye he had not agreed to take over Nightfall Bar and said Pei Ruohai should arrive soon.

Ji Qinglin considered turning Nightfall Bar into an intelligence hub and possibly a sect, then negotiated with Pei Ruohai to take it over in exchange for cooperation between their chambers of commerce. Pei Ruohai agreed to fund the purchase as a loan, while Ji Qinglin made his brother’s release dependent on establishing cooperation.

• Ji Qinglin explained to Yu Ye that Nightfall Bar could serve as an intelligence center and a base for developing his own forces.
• Red Night enthusiastically supported the idea of founding a sect in the bar, while Ji Qinglin said he would wait to see Pei Ruohai’s terms.
• Pei Ruohai visited Ji Qinglin and asked to join the chambers of commerce’ cooperation and secure his younger brother Pei Ruotao’s release.
• Pei Ruohai admitted his brother might have arranged the assassination attempt on Ji Qinglin, and Ji Qinglin said he would release him once cooperation was established.
• Ji Qinglin claimed he could not afford Nightfall Bar, so Pei Ruohai offered to pay the required forty percent as a loan and arrange the handover.
• After Pei Ruohai left, Yu Ye recognized that Ji Qinglin had negotiated a deal that let him take Nightfall Bar without paying upfront.

Ji Qinglin helped Red Night use a bodysuit to separate from Yu Ye and discussed how she could develop her soul-based abilities. The next morning, two agents arrived at Ji's General Store to assist Huang Silang, and the silver-haired woman accidentally told him they had come to keep him company while he slept.

• Ji Qinglin told Lei Qiong about his cooperation with Jiang Chen, Dan LuLing, and Pei Ruohai, and asked the president to prevent internal conflicts.
• Red Night demonstrated her Dust Assimilation Art, and Ji Qinglin gave her a custom bodysuit and helmet to let her operate apart from Yu Ye.
• Ji Qinglin advised Red Night to train her soul body for combat, then joked with Yu Ye before she offered to massage him and accepted his offer of more lightning energy.
• A silver-haired woman and a bespectacled young man arrived at Ji's General Store, sent by third sister to accompany Huang Silang on cases.
• When Huang Silang opened the door, the nervous silver-haired woman mistakenly said they had come to keep him company while he slept.

Ji Qinglin welcomed undercover officers Xie Ling and Fan Yu, whom Cui SanMei had sent to help protect him, and assigned them to reinforce the General Store. He promised to take them on cases after they completed the shop’s security preparations, leaving both eager to work with him.

• Ji Qinglin opened the door to Xie Ling and Fan Yu, who nervously explained that Cui SanMei had sent them to assist in protecting him.
• Ji Qinglin reviewed their backgrounds and welcomed them onto his team, while Yu Ye showed them hospitality.
• Ji Qinglin asked Fan Yu to test and reinforce the General Store’s security systems and asked Xie Ling to assess where poisons could be deployed.
• Ji Qinglin introduced Yu Ye as his disciple and explained that she could make decisions on his behalf.
• Ji Qinglin asked whether Xie Ling and Fan Yu also wanted to work on cases, then promised to take them along once they had handled the shop and protection duties.

Ji Qinglin trained Xie Ling and Fan Yu to investigate Wild God Technology and its associates, while assigning them intelligence-gathering roles in his businesses. He called them his successors, and they secretly decided to compete by expanding Nightfall Bar and the General Store.

• Fan Yu and Xie Ling strengthened the General Store's security, and Ji Qinglin began teaching them how to handle cases.
• Ji Qinglin assigned Fan Yu to investigate Wild God Technology, its partners, and suspicious companies, while Xie Ling and Fan Yu gathered intelligence through the General Store and other channels.
• Ji Qinglin told them Nightfall Bar would soon become part of their territory and said he would train them as successors.
• Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye left the new recruits at their nearby apartment, where Xie Ling and Fan Yu discussed how to repay his trust by expanding his businesses.
• Xie Ling chose Nightfall Bar as her focus, while Fan Yu chose the General Store, and they agreed to keep their competition secret from Ji Qinglin.

Ji Qinglin completed the purchase of Nightfall Bar, returned Pei Ruotao safely, and urged the Four Associations to reduce their conflicts. Just as the presidents agreed to a gentleman’s pact, an attendant reported that two of Ji Qinglin’s subordinates had gotten into a fight, and Ji Qinglin asked whether they were winning.

• Ji Qinglin arrived at Nightfall Bar with Yu Ye, Xie Ling, and Fan Yu, where he met the presidents of the Four Associations and completed the bar’s transfer with He Xiuzhong.
• Ji Qinglin asked Xie Ling and Fan Yu to manage Nightfall Bar with He Xiuzhong’s help, then learned from Jiang Chen that Pei Ruotao had been released and his arm restored.
• Ji Qinglin told the association presidents he hoped they would reduce their disputes, and they raised tea in agreement to think carefully before escalating conflicts.
• An attendant rushed in to report that two of Ji Qinglin’s subordinates had started a fight, and Ji Qinglin immediately asked whether they had the upper hand.

Xie Ling and Fan Yu dealt with Gao Xiren’s disruptive demands at Nightfall Bar, but his companions escalated the confrontation into a fight. Ji Qinglin stepped in, stopped a fire attack, and subdued the attackers, then ordered the police to be called.

• Xie Ling and Fan Yu learned that Gao Xiren was causing trouble because Nightfall Bar no longer gave Immortal Path Biology’s customers special treatment.
• Fan Yu challenged Gao Xiren to a divination-cup wager and won, but Gao Xiren accused him of cheating and attacked him.
• Xie Ling stopped Gao Xiren’s attack, and Fan Yu used military-grade medicine to paralyze him before asking his companions to carry him away.
• Gao Xiren’s three companions attacked Xie Ling and Fan Yu, and one of them launched a fireball at Xie Ling.
• Ji Qinglin blocked the fireball with a Taiji Diagram and quickly knocked out the three attackers.
• Ji Qinglin praised Xie Ling and Fan Yu, then told them to call the police and have all four men taken away.

Ji Qinglin assigned Xie Ling and Fan Yu to investigate Immortal Path Biology, then rushed to Four Seas Trade after learning NanGong Qian Feng’s father had died. He found Qian Feng grieving in her office and coaxed her into eating by pretending to eat her food himself.

• Ji Qinglin subdued Gao Xiren and the other men, then told Xie Ling and Fan Yu to investigate Immortal Path Biology and gave them an internal company ID he had picked up.
• Yu Ye became drunk at the gathering, and Ji Qinglin received a call from Uncle Mo asking him to persuade Qian Feng after her father’s death.
• Ji Qinglin took Yu Ye home with Jiang Chen’s help, then traveled to Four Seas Trade while Xie Ling and Fan Yu escorted them back.
• NanGong Qian Feng grieved alone in her office, suspecting her brothers had something to do with their father’s death.
• Ji Qinglin entered Qian Feng’s office with food and water, pretended to eat the food himself, and prompted her to snatch a sausage from him.

NanGong Qian Feng mourned her father’s sudden death, then resolved to follow his wishes regarding Four Seas Trade. Meanwhile, Kong DeCheng identified Ji Qinglin as a possible threat and ordered assassins to target his disciple first.

• Ji Qinglin stayed with NanGong Qian Feng as she grieved, and she fell asleep after taking the spiked hot milk.
• NanGong Qian Feng dreamed of discovering her father NanGong Wang’s death and of NanGong Qian Xing withholding his body under the terms of a will.
• NanGong Qian Feng woke the next day, thanked Ji Qinglin, and said she would protect Four Seas Trade if her father had wanted her to.
• Kong DeCheng showed Gao Xiren and his colleagues a reconstructed portrait, and they recognized Ji Qinglin as the man from Nightfall Bar.
• Kong DeCheng ordered Soul Refining assassins to kill Ji Qinglin before he expanded into West Chang District, suggesting they target his disciple first.

Yu Ye and Red Night were abducted after a flute cast them into an illusion, but Yu Ye broke free and escaped toward a rift valley cliff. As she jumped, Old Third's blades struck her back, and she fell into the ravine.

• Yu Ye woke at Ji's General Store and learned that Ji Qinglin had hurried away on urgent business, while four cloaked kidnappers plotted to capture her and lure him out.
• Old Four's flute trapped Yu Ye and Red Night in an illusion, where Yu Ye mistook Ji Qinglin's forced kisses for reality before realizing Red Night was missing.
• Yu Ye woke hooded and bound in a vehicle, learned from Red Night that four experts had kidnapped them, and decided to escape near a rift valley cliff.
• When Old Third tried to assault Yu Ye, lightning force erupted from her body, and she broke free of the electromagnetic restraints and fled the vehicle.
• Yu Ye ran toward the cliff, and Old Third's six blades struck her back as she leapt, sending her falling into the ravine.

After the Dire Bells Four Fiends abducted Yu Ye to lure Ji Qinglin into a trap, Coal Boss helped him find her location. Ji Qinglin set off alone to rescue her, leaving Xie Ling and Fan Yu to block the fiends from escaping the wasteland.

• Ji Qinglin discovered that Yu Ye's locator had stopped transmitting and learned from Xie Ling and Fan Yu that the Dire Bells Four Fiends had abducted her.
• The Dire Bells Four Fiends contacted Ji Qinglin, showed him the badly injured Yu Ye, and sent him the location of an abandoned factory.
• Ji Qinglin planned to go alone while Xie Ling and Fan Yu prepared to block the wasteland exits, but Coal Boss arrived and confirmed it knew where Yu Ye was.
• Ji Qinglin took emergency medicine and a Soul Consciousness Stabilizer, then rode Night Owl with Coal Boss toward the wasteland to rescue Yu Ye.

Ji Qinglin found the Dire Bells Four Fiends in the ruins and fought them while trying to rescue Yu Ye. His lightning formation killed Second Fiend, and Ji Qinglin began eroding the fiend’s bones with sword intent as the others considered retreating.

• The Dire Bells Four Fiends waited in a Ruins Cluster near the Abandoned Factory, confident that Ji Qinglin would come for Yu Ye.
• Ji Qinglin slipped through the sandstorm toward the ruins, but Eldest Fiend sensed him, and the four fiends formed an ambush.
• Eldest Fiend restrained Ji Qinglin’s projected sword intent, but Ji Qinglin shattered it into black sand and used it to drive the fiends back.
• Second Fiend shielded Third Fiend from Ji Qinglin’s lightning, while Fourth Fiend’s illusion made Ji Qinglin’s next strike miss.
• Ji Qinglin unleashed a wide lightning formation that overwhelmed Second Fiend, then used his sword intent to erode Second Fiend’s hands and arms as Third Fiend asked Eldest Fiend whether they should retreat.

Ji Qinglin killed the Dire Bells Four Fiends after surviving their coordinated attacks, but he found his disciple bloodied and pierced by short blades in the abandoned house. The chapter ended without revealing whether she was alive.

• Second Fiend emerged from the lightning formation mortally wounded, and Ji Qinglin confronted the remaining three fiends.
• Eldest Fiend and Fourth Fiend used their thought-manipulating technique and flute melody against Ji Qinglin, but his powerful soul consciousness resisted them.
• Ji Qinglin shattered his Thunderous Sword Intent with heavenly lightning, killing Third Fiend and wounding Eldest Fiend.
• Eldest Fiend grabbed Ji Qinglin, but Ji Qinglin trapped his soul body and fired a hidden blade from his mouth, killing him.
• Fourth Fiend fled, and Ji Qinglin killed him with the Only Consciousness Sword Intent before finding his bloodied disciple in the abandoned house.

Ji Qinglin rescued Yu Ye after she escaped the Four Fiends, and the two returned to a safe courtyard to recover. There, Yu Ye tried to confess her feelings, but Ji Qinglin kissed her and fed her Joyful Union Powder.

• Ji Qinglin discovered that the apparent body of Yu Ye was a Virtual Image and realized she might have survived a fall from the cliff.
• Ji Qinglin called Xie Ling and Fan Yu, reported that he had dealt with the Four Fiends, and asked them to search the cliff.
• Coal Boss led Ji Qinglin to Yu Ye, who had escaped by using Red Night and a dust illusion to fake her fall.
• Ji Qinglin checked Yu Ye for injuries, took her to the Old City Old Courtyard, and treated the lingering effects on her legs.
• As Yu Ye prepared to confess her feelings, Ji Qinglin kissed her and fed her Joyful Union Powder.