Chapter Summaries

Wang Haoran convinced Tantai Yaoyue, Mu Nanzhi, and Song Zhihui that they had been his Imperial Concubines in a past life, then told them they could cultivate again. He left them believing his story about having thousands of concubines and grieving for those he had not found, while privately celebrating how well his deception worked.

• Wang Haoran reassured Tantai Yaoyue, Mu Nanzhi, and Song Zhihui that they could treat him as they normally did despite their past-life relationship.
• Wang Haoran revealed to Mu Nanzhi that he had been the man who detoxified her on Qingling Mountain, and she accepted his explanation for why he had kept it secret.
• Wang Haoran told Tantai Yaoyue, Mu Nanzhi, and Song Zhihui that they could become cultivators, then claimed their past-life cultivation method had been a Dual Cultivation Method.
• Wang Haoran said the women had called him Emperor and claimed he had ruled a million star fields with three thousand Imperial Concubines.
• Wang Haoran claimed that only a few dozen of his former concubines had been found on Blue Star and that some might have died during reincarnation.
• Tantai Yaoyue, Mu Nanzhi, and Song Zhihui comforted Wang Haoran and embraced him, while he privately delighted in how readily they believed him.

After Ma Hongsheng’s death, Wang Haoran reunited with Feng Xuansu and told her and Ning Aoxue the story of his past life, which they accepted. In the Hidden World, Yun Churan’s arranged engagement came under review after her prospective husband’s meridians were damaged.

• Wang Haoran learned that Ma Hongsheng, his son, and their driver had died in a car crash and suspected Leng Xue had caused it.
• Feng Xuansu welcomed Wang Haoran home, and he confirmed that he remembered their past before explaining his relationships with Ning Aoxue and his past-life story.
• Feng Xuansu and Ning Aoxue accepted Wang Haoran’s account, then served him attentively at dinner while Feng Anna remained unaware of their conversation.
• Yun Churan told her parents about Wang Haoran and warned them against arranging her marriage, but they dismissed her account and refused to cancel the engagement.
• Yun Churan’s prospective husband suffered damaged meridians during a training expedition, prompting her parents to consider calling off the engagement.

Wang Haoran advanced his cultivation while helping Feng Xuansu improve her martial arts, then received news from Feng Rao that Yun Churan had become engaged to the Young Master of the Seven Stars Sect. The engagement’s future was uncertain because the Young Master had suffered meridian damage and could no longer progress in martial arts.

• Yun Churan urged her parents to settle their matter quickly and agreed to accompany them.
• Wang Haoran cultivated with Feng Xuansu, gained Villain Points, and advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Feng Xuansu noticed her improved cultivation and encouraged Wang Haoran to visit Ning Aoxue.
• Feng Rao called Wang Haoran and confirmed that Yun Churan had become engaged to the Young Master of the Seven Stars Sect.
• Feng Rao reported that the Young Master had suffered meridian damage while training, leaving the Azure Cloud Sect’s next move uncertain.

Wang Haoran arranged to meet Feng Rao so she could guide him to the Azure Cloud Sect, where he planned to deal with Yun Churan’s fiancé. At Phoenix Stream Platform, he discovered Feng Rao had a rare constitution that could greatly boost his cultivation, and he began considering cultivating with her.

• Wang Haoran suspected Yun Churan was about to cancel her engagement to the Seven Stars Sect’s Young Master and asked Feng Rao how to reach the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng Rao told Wang Haoran to meet her at Phoenix Stream Platform, and he agreed to go there the next day.
• Wang Haoran cultivated through the night, then traveled to Phoenix Stream Platform and found Feng Rao waiting in its Great Hall.
• Wang Haoran recognized that Feng Rao had a rare constitution and intact vital yin, which could make cultivating with her far more rewarding than with his other partners.
• Wang Haoran considered cultivating with Feng Rao to accelerate his progress beyond the Qi Refining Stage.

Wang Haoran and Feng Rao set off from Phoenix Stream Mountain for the Azure Cloud Sect, where Wang Haoran planned to see Yun Churan. Their journey took a flirtatious turn in the secluded forest, and Feng Rao hinted she was ready to get closer to him.

• Wang Haoran told Feng Rao he would explain later why he needed to see Yun Churan and agreed to travel with her to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng Rao disguised herself with a gauze veiled hat, then carried Wang Haoran through the air using her lightness skill.
• Wang Haoran sensed Feng Rao's powerful cultivation and felt guilty that she seemed thinner and more restrained around him.
• Wang Haoran kissed Feng Rao, disrupting her true qi and causing them to nearly fall from a treetop before she recovered.
• Feng Rao teased Wang Haoran by offering to show him an even more impressive skill, and he recognized her familiar desire to devour him.

Wang Haoran traveled with Feng Rao to the Azure Cloud Sect to meet Yun Churan and investigate her engagement to the Seven Stars Sect Young Master. After learning Yun Churan had not agreed to the engagement herself, Wang Haoran embraced her in front of Feng Rao and Yun Feng.

• Wang Haoran decided to postpone cultivating Feng Rao’s constitution and hurry to the Azure Cloud Sect to investigate the Seven Stars Sect Young Master’s potential Plot Device.
• Feng Rao and Wang Haoran reached the Azure Cloud Sect, where Sect Master Yun Feng welcomed them.
• Feng Rao asked to see Yun Churan, and Yun Feng summoned her while wondering whether Feng Rao had come over the engagement.
• Yun Churan saw Wang Haoran and anxiously explained that her parents had arranged the engagement without her knowledge.
• After recognizing that Yun Churan was telling the truth, Wang Haoran warmly called her Churan and pulled her into his embrace, leaving Yun Churan, Yun Feng, and Feng Rao dumbfounded.

Wang Haoran agreed to accompany Yun Churan to the Seven Stars Sect to cancel her engagement, while disguising his cultivation and letting Yun Feng believe they were romantically involved. The pair prepared to leave alone, and Feng Rao privately questioned Wang Haoran about Yun Churan’s supposed pregnancy.

• Yun Churan froze when Wang Haoran told her to cooperate, and he released her after their act had convinced Yun Feng and Feng Rao they might be involved.
• Wang Haoran said he would go with Yun Churan to cancel her engagement with the Seven Stars Sect, then revealed cultivation that shocked Yun Feng, Feng Rao, and Yun Churan.
• Yun Feng quickly welcomed Wang Haoran as a potential partner for Yun Churan and suggested their families arrange a marriage, but Wang Haoran postponed the discussion until after the visit to the Seven Stars Sect.
• Wang Haoran declined Yun Feng’s offer to send a sect elder with them, and Yun Churan reluctantly agreed to travel alone with Wang Haoran.
• Feng Rao privately asked whether Yun Churan was pregnant with Wang Haoran’s child, and Wang Haoran said the pregnancy was only a pretext and suggested Bian Suwen might have lied.

Wang Haoran confessed to Feng Rao that he had arranged his encounter with her and persuaded her that they were bound by fate from a past life. After teaching her cultivation, he left with Yun Churan for the Seven Stars Sect, and they spent the night in an Ancient City near the sect.

• Wang Haoran admitted that he had used Bian Suwen and Phoenix Stream Mountain's sacrificial day to bring Feng Rao into his plans.
• Wang Haoran claimed that he and Feng Rao shared a past-life bond, then revealed cultivation techniques to convince her he was an Immortal Emperor Reincarnation.
• Feng Rao, worried that she was no longer pure, resolved to reach the Transformation Stage and be reborn before becoming intimate with Wang Haoran.
• Feng Rao avoided Wang Haoran's farewell embrace, and she returned to Phoenix Stream Mountain while Wang Haoran and Yun Churan set out for the Seven Stars Sect.
• Wang Haoran and Yun Churan reached an Ancient City after nightfall and checked into an inn.

After his meridians were irreversibly damaged, Chu Tian learned that the Seven Stars Sect's Grand Elder planned to challenge his position as Young Master. Yun Churan arrived in the Ancient City with an unknown, distinguished young man, and Chu Tian was left alone with a Black Tower.

• Chu Zhan tried to comfort Chu Tian and promised to seek medicine from ancient sects and families to heal his meridians.
• Chu Tian learned that the Grand Elder had proposed a sect meeting for the next day, where Chu Tian expected to lose his successor status.
• A disciple reported that Yun Churan had arrived in the Ancient City with a handsome young gentleman of unclear origins.
• Chu Tian concluded that he might lose both his position and his fiancée, then asked Chu Zhan to leave him alone.
• After steadying himself, Chu Tian took out a half-foot-tall Black Tower hidden in his room.

Chu Tian failed to discover the black tower’s secrets, while Wang Haoran used the Dream Creation Technique on Yun Churan to advance his plan to win her admiration. The chapter ended with Yun Churan asleep and Wang Haoran beginning to use his new spell.

• Chu Tian recalled how the black tower had appeared after two immortals and gods fought over it, then threw it beneath his bed when he could not uncover its secrets.
• Yun Churan confronted Wang Haoran about ruining her reputation, but he denied responsibility and reminded her that Little Medicine Immortal had tampered with her.
• Wang Haoran decided to build Yun Churan’s admiration by demonstrating his abilities, since he believed she admired powerful martial arts geniuses.
• Wang Haoran ordered Yun Churan to bring him water, and she fetched it before sleeping on the room’s table while he took the bed.
• Wang Haoran revealed that he had arranged to share the room so he could use the Dream Creation Technique on Yun Churan.

Wang Haoran accompanied Yun Churan to the Seven Stars Sect, where she arrived as Chu Tian’s fiancée amid a dispute over Chu Tian’s position as successor. After identifying Chu Tian as a rising protagonist whose Plot Device had not yet activated, Wang Haoran used X-ray Vision to search him for a possible hidden treasure or mentor.

• Yun Churan woke from a vivid dream about serving an Immortal Emperor who looked like Wang Haoran, then obediently fetched water for him.
• Wang Haoran and Yun Churan visited the Seven Stars Sect, where he learned that two rival factions competed with the sect in the Ancient City.
• Chu Zhan’s Grand Elder and several elders pressured Chu Zhan to summon Chu Tian after Yun Churan arrived, despite Chu Zhan’s wish to spare his son public humiliation.
• The Grand Elder welcomed Wang Haoran and Yun Churan but left Chu Tian without a seat when he entered the Council Hall.
• Wang Haoran investigated Chu Tian and found that his Protagonist Halo was rapidly increasing while his Plot Device remained untriggered.
• Wang Haoran used X-ray Vision to search Chu Tian for an item that might contain a portable old grandpa.

Yun Churan went to the Seven Stars Sect to end her engagement to Chu Tian, provoking anger and mockery in the Council Hall. Chu Tian rejected her first and declared that he was divorcing her instead.

• Wang Haoran noticed Chu Tian had no portable ring and suspected his Plot Device was an Exotic Treasure.
• Yun Churan delivered Yun Feng's letter to Chu Zhan, who became angry after reading it and asked whether the decision to break off the engagement was hers or her father's.
• After Wang Haoran reminded her why she had come, Yun Churan announced that her engagement to Chu Tian had already been called off and offered the Seven Stars Sect a handwritten copy of the Heavenly Net Footwork as an apology.
• Chu Tian accused Yun Churan of publicly humiliating Chu Zhan, and Yun Churan replied that the matter belonged to the Seven Stars Sect.
• Chu Tian wrote on a sheet of paper, threw it toward Yun Churan, and declared that he was divorcing her.

Wang Haoran stepped in when Chu Tian insulted Yun Churan, slapped him, and blocked Chu Zhan’s attack. After Yun Churan’s affection for him increased, Wang Haoran challenged Chu Zhan to withstand one of his moves.

• Chu Tian wrote a letter of divorce, and Yun Churan mocked him, provoking him to threaten her.
• Wang Haoran slapped Chu Tian and said he had done it on Yun Churan’s behalf.
• Chu Zhan unleashed his true qi at Wang Haoran and Yun Churan, but Wang Haoran blocked it.
• Yun Churan realized Wang Haoran was stronger than he had claimed, and her affection for him increased by 20.
• Wang Haoran told Chu Zhan to prepare to take one of his moves.

Wang Haoran defeated Chu Zhan and revealed that Yun Churan was his maidservant, then offered to heal Chu Tian’s meridians in exchange for one month as his gate guard. Chu Tian refused, and Wang Haoran agreed to stay at the Seven Stars Sect while waiting for Chu Tian’s next opportunity.

• Wang Haoran dispersed Chu Zhan’s true qi with a gesture and injured him, prompting Chu Zhan to suspect he came from an ancient sect.
• Chu Zhan apologized and asked Wang Haoran for medicine to restore Chu Tian’s meridians, offering compensation.
• Chu Zhan praised Wang Haoran and Yun Churan as a match, but Wang Haoran said Yun Churan was merely his maidservant and warned that she was not to be insulted.
• Chu Tian grew jealous and resentful when Yun Churan did not deny being Wang Haoran’s maidservant, earning Wang Haoran 2,000 Villain Points.
• Wang Haoran offered the medicine in exchange for Chu Tian guarding his gate for a month, but Chu Tian refused.
• Chu Zhan invited Wang Haoran and Yun Churan to stay at the Seven Stars Sect, and Wang Haoran accepted so he could watch Chu Tian.

Wang Haoran stayed at the Seven Stars Sect to watch Chu Tian, then seized the Black Tower before Chu Tian could activate it. After claiming it as his own, Wang Haoran learned it was the Heaven Opening Tower, an Innate Treasure that could conceal and protect him, and began exploring its ten floors.

• Chu Zhan warned Chu Tian not to provoke Wang Haoran, but Chu Tian resolved to seek revenge and went to the Library Pavilion to research how to activate the Black Tower.
• Wang Haoran secretly watched Chu Tian and followed him to the rear mountain after Chu Tian took the Black Tower to test the methods he had found.
• Wang Haoran knocked Chu Tian unconscious, took the Black Tower, and used an array to claim it with his blood.
• The Black Tower entered Wang Haoran's sea of consciousness, granting him 20,000 Villain Points and reducing Chu Tian's Protagonist Halo by 1,000.
• Wang Haoran learned the Black Tower was the Heaven Opening Tower, an Innate Treasure, and discovered he could enter it physically and hide inside it.
• Wang Haoran found that the Heaven Opening Tower had ten floors tied to cultivation realms, but he could currently access only the first floor.

Wang Haoran discovered the Heaven Opening Tower’s powerful cultivation, healing, and time-dilating functions, then used it to convince Yun Churan that they had shared a previous life. The chapter ended with Yun Churan believing his story and begging him for forgiveness.

• Wang Haoran learned that the Heaven Opening Tower generated dense Spiritual Qi, healed injuries, and made time pass ten times slower than outside.
• Wang Haoran returned to the Seven Stars Sect guest room, dismissed the flattering Grand Elder, and received Yun Churan.
• Yun Churan questioned Wang Haoran after dreaming of him as an Emperor, and he claimed that her dream showed their previous life.
• Wang Haoran brought Yun Churan into the Heaven Opening Tower and falsely identified it as the Immortal Emperor Pagoda from his previous life.
• Yun Churan's affection for Wang Haoran increased, and she knelt to beg forgiveness for having offended him.

Wang Haoran took Yun Churan as his maidservant, advanced his cultivation, and left Chu Tian searching in vain for the Black Tower. After returning to Qingling, he learned that Feng Anna’s younger sister had provoked an expert called Master Ye.

• Wang Haoran made Yun Churan kneel for her earlier disrespect, while Chu Tian secretly watched outside his room and assumed Wang Haoran had stolen the Black Tower.
• Chu Tian overheard Wang Haoran and Yun Churan together, lost his remaining affection for her, and left without finding a chance to search the room.
• Wang Haoran and Yun Churan used the Heaven Opening Tower, increasing Yun Churan’s affection for him and further reducing Chu Tian’s protagonist halo.
• The next morning, Chu Tian searched Wang Haoran’s room but found no Black Tower; at a banquet, Wang Haoran again demanded that Chu Tian become his errand boy in exchange for spiritual medicine.
• Wang Haoran asked the Grand Elder to monitor Chu Tian, then left the Seven Stars Sect for Qingling with Yun Churan, whose cultivation had advanced alongside his.
• Feng Anna hurried to Wang Haoran’s villa and asked for time off because her younger sister had provoked Master Ye on Fragrant Island.

Wang Haoran agreed to accompany Feng Anna back to Fragrant Island, where he suspected Ye Fan had begun a new storyline involving the Feng family. He gathered Ning Aoxue, Feng Xuansu, and Song Zhihui for the trip, and they departed on a chartered business jet.

• Wang Haoran learned that Feng Anna wanted to return to Fragrant Island to protect her younger sister and Aunt Zhong, despite her family having abandoned her.
• Wang Haoran offered to accompany Feng Anna, and Ning Aoxue and Feng Xuansu eagerly agreed to go as well.
• Feng Anna invited Song Zhihui, who first declined but changed her mind after learning Wang Haoran would be there.
• After missing the morning flight, Feng Anna chartered a business jet, and Wang Haoran, Ning Aoxue, Feng Xuansu, Song Zhihui, and Feng Anna departed for Fragrant Island.

Feng Anhui and her parents dismissed Master Ye’s demand for fifty billion, despite Zhong Li’s warning that he was far more powerful than an ordinary martial artist. Feng Anna returned to the estate with Wang Haoran and the others, and teased Song Zhihui about her close relationship with her master and boss.

• Feng Anhui refused to repay the fifty-billion debt for the five-hundred-year snake gallbladder and said the Feng family would deal with Master Ye if he came for it.
• Zhong Li warned the Feng family that Master Ye had killed the monstrous snake while walking through the air, but Feng Anhui and her parents dismissed her warning.
• A servant announced Feng Anna’s return, and Feng Anhui and Zhong Li went outside to greet her.
• Feng Anna led Wang Haoran and the others into the estate, where Song Zhihui admired its lavish decorations.
• Feng Anna told Song Zhihui that she had kept her close relationship with her master and boss secret.

Wang Haoran met Feng Anhui, Feng Anna’s younger sister, and the Super Peach Blossom Halo instantly gave Feng Anhui unwavering affection for him. Feng Anna noticed her sister’s interest and warned her that Wang Haoran was already involved with Feng Xuansu, Ning Aoxue, and Song Zhihui.

• Feng Anna teased Song Zhihui about her time alone with Wang Haoran, making Song Zhihui blush.
• Song Zhihui greeted Zhong Li and met Feng Anhui, who had come to welcome Feng Anna home.
• Feng Anhui saw Wang Haoran and became intensely attracted to him when the Super Peach Blossom Halo triggered.
• Wang Haoran recognized Feng Anhui as a supporting character from Ye Fan’s storyline, while Feng Anna noticed her sister’s interest in him.
• Feng Anna introduced Wang Haoran and the others, then told Feng Anhui that all three women were in a romantic relationship with him.
• Feng Anhui showed her disappointment, and Feng Anna apologized to Wang Haoran for saying the wrong thing.