Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun tested Gao Cuilan and Zhu Wuneng’s innate soul power after noticing their unusually rapid cultivation, and found that both had increased more than expected. Zhu Wuneng’s reading reached 12.5, leaving Chen Xiaojun poised to investigate the anomaly.

• Zhu Wuneng complained that dinner lacked the residence kitchen’s usual signature dishes, while the others teased him for eating so much.
• Chen Mu arrived with Sixth Grade Wine to celebrate Chang’an’s tournament results and learned that Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi had called Gao Cuilan away.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Gao Cuilan to test her innate soul power, and the Soul Testing Ball showed 8.7 instead of her previous 8.2.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Gao Cuilan’s martial soul advancement could account for only about 0.2 of the increase and called Zhu Wuneng in for another test.
• Zhu Wuneng tested at 12.5, up from the 12.3 he had recorded the previous month.

Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan discovered that their Innate Soul Power had increased after a mysterious Great Existence bestowed a golden orb on their fusion skill, so Chen Xiaojun put Gao Cuilan’s treasure medicine plan on hold. Xiao Yi revealed that she had overcome a Heart Demon, absorbed its Mental Power, and received Shao Siming’s divine skill, [Three Fingers Severing Fate].

• Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan tested their Innate Soul Power, and Chen Xiaojun explained that the increases likely came from the golden orb bestowed on True Lord Tian Peng.
• Chen Xiaojun told Gao Cuilan to postpone her Ninth Grade Treasure Medicine plan until they understood whether her increased Innate Soul Power would continue growing.
• Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan left the study, and Chen Xiaojun asked Xiao Yi what had caused her prolonged sleep.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun that she had overcome a Heart Demon and absorbed its Mental Power.
• Xiao Yi explained that Shao Siming’s Dharma Idol had enlightened her in the third style of the Great Azure Jade Heavenly Mandate Finger, [Three Fingers Severing Fate].

Xiao Yi explained that she had lit her Fate Star and gained only a preliminary grasp of Three Fingers Severing Fate, while Chen Xiaojun realized her star linked her to the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor and connected her fate with his own. After showing him the divine ring formed by the technique, Xiao Yi asked what had happened to him at Dou Manor.

• Xiao Yi explained that her recent sleep had helped her overcome her Heart Demon and comprehend the third finger, which required lighting her Fate Star.
• Xiao Yi revealed that her Fate Star was the South Pole Star, and Chen Xiaojun connected her with Shao Siming and the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized that Xiao Yi's South Pole Star and his own connection to Da Siming and Ziwei formed a larger mythological pattern around them.
• Xiao Yi said she had only barely grasped Three Fingers Severing Fate and showed Chen Xiaojun its reddish-gold, star-sand divine ring.
• Xiao Yi asked Chen Xiaojun what had happened to him during the past few days, noting that he had seemed unusual at Dou Manor.

Chen Xiaojun showed Xiao Yi the inheritances and sword techniques bestowed by the Black-Red Light Cocoon and described how they were affecting his mind. Xiao Yi explained that this was two-way frequency synchronization, then revealed how her own connection to Shao Siming had formed and awakened.

• Chen Xiaojun showed Xiao Yi the Taiji Blood Hand Seal and named the other techniques and inheritances he had received from the Black-Red Light Cocoon.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xiao Yi about the cocoon's influence on his mind and his mother Ye Xiuxin's warning.
• Xiao Yi explained that the cocoon was synchronizing frequencies with Chen Xiaojun through a two-way process that would allow it to achieve Divine Descent.
• Xiao Yi said she and Shao Siming had begun with closely aligned frequencies and had completed most of their synchronization while gestating within Chen Xiaojun's Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Xiao Yi explained that the dual phenomena of heaven and earth unlocked her past-life memories and helped her become the current Donghuang Xiuyi.