Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou declined to represent the Four Great Families but accepted the Rogue Cultivators’ request to represent them at the Cultivation Alliance assembly. He listened as the alliance organized war preparations and funding, then objected when the Rogue Cultivators were left out of the discussions.

• Bi Shan told Yue Qianchou that foreign cultivators had landed on Wuji Island and asked him to represent the Four Great Families at the alliance assembly, but Yue Qianchou refused.
• Xiong Hui told Yue Qianchou that the Rogue Cultivators had chosen him as their representative and persuaded him to meet them.
• Hong Ming and the Rogue Cultivators explained that they wanted Yue Qianchou to ensure the sects respected their interests, and Yue Qianchou agreed to represent them.
• At the assembly, Yue Qianchou listened as the sects arranged Spirit Stone contributions and military leadership without discussing support for the Rogue Cultivators.
• Yue Qianchou stood and announced that he had an objection.

Yue Qianchou argued that the Rogue Cultivators should receive Spirit Stones from the Cultivation Alliance and negotiated a monthly allowance for the six hundred-odd people he represented. He accepted the smaller payment and assured the sect leaders that he could command the Rogue Cultivators as an army.

• Yue Qianchou asked the sect representatives to allocate Spirit Stones to the Rogue Cultivators, arguing that they had joined the Cultivation Alliance despite being overlooked by the sects.
• Yue Qianchou proposed one hundred high-grade Spirit Stones per person each month, then corrected himself to one after the representatives protested.
• Zhu Xianxian criticized Yue Qianchou, and the two exchanged threats before Chou Wuyuan and Quan Deming stopped the quarrel.
• Quan Deming and Chou Wuyuan negotiated an allowance of fifty mid-grade Spirit Stones per Rogue Cultivator, which the representatives accepted.
• Chou Wuyuan questioned whether Yue Qianchou could control the Rogue Cultivators, and Yue Qianchou threatened to kill anyone who disobeyed before promising to turn them into a formidable army.

Yue Qianchou asserted control over the Rogue Cultivators, then kept them occupied with harmless outings while the Cultivation Alliance prepared to attack Wuji Island. When the others were deployed, he transported the Rogue Cultivators into an ambush led by Guan Yu, who ordered a sudden assault.

• Yue Qianchou promised the Rogue Cultivators a monthly allowance of fifty mid-grade Spirit Stones and killed a Core Formation couple after they appeared to challenge his authority.
• Yue Qianchou outfitted the Rogue Cultivators in matching black clothes and masks, then led them on daily outings he called unified training.
• Ziyi lost interest in the outings and increasingly spent time away with Bi Zicong and the other three.
• After Yan Bugui's forces destroyed several small sects, the Cultivation Alliance mobilized to attack Wuji Island and assigned Yue Qianchou's group to defend its headquarters.
• Yue Qianchou led the Rogue Cultivators to a secluded valley and transported them into a surrounded formation of masked fighters.
• Guan Yu ordered the masked fighters to throw Armor Piercing Talismans and charge the disoriented Rogue Cultivators.

Yue Qianchou tested his trained forces by having them slaughter over six hundred Rogue Cultivators, then sent the newly disguised troops to ambush positions outside Hundred Flower Valley. Later, he found Ziyi enjoying fireworks with the heirs of the Four Great Families and unexpectedly came face-to-face with a woman he recognized.

• Yue Qianchou watched his masked troops defeat and kill more than six hundred Rogue Cultivators, then ordered the bodies burned and the troops to change into Rogue Cultivator uniforms.
• Yue Qianchou rallied the First Battalion and Second Battalion of the Special Forces Team, and the troops pledged to follow him into battle.
• Yue Qianchou gave the battalion commanders maps and instructions to split into sixty groups and set ambushes around Hundred Flower Valley.
• The troops dispersed into the mountains, while Yue Qianchou entered Hundred Flower Valley alone and waited for Ziyi at the inn.
• Ziyi lit fireworks by the river with the Four Great Families' heirs as a crowd gathered to watch.
• Yue Qianchou came to see who was setting off fireworks, recognized Ziyi with the four young men, and then encountered a woman he recognized.

Yue Qianchou reunited awkwardly with Yan Zixia while watching fireworks, and the Hundred Charm Demoness revealed herself by performing several songs he had composed. She pressed him to perform for her, so he played a zither piece and fulfilled his old promise to Yan Zixia, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Yue Qianchou and Yan Zixia met beside the fireworks and recalled his forgotten promise to compose a piece for her.
• The Hundred Charm Demoness played White Fox and Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream, impressing Ziyi and the crowd while Yue Qianchou recognized her voice.
• The Hundred Charm Demoness revealed herself as Palace Mistress Ye and said she had come to visit Yue Qianchou and seek another song.
• Chou Wuyuan invited the Hundred Charm Demoness to join the Cultivation World's war, but she refused and asked Yue Qianchou to perform instead.
• Yue Qianchou took the zither and played a piece to fulfill his promise to Yan Zixia, astonishing Ziyi, Bi Zicong, and Chou Wuyuan.

Yue Qianchou performed an improvised song called “Laughing in the Mortal World,” impressing the crowd and stirring Yan Zixia and Ziyi’s feelings. He left with Hundred Charm Demoness, who insisted on accompanying him to his room to discuss something.

• Yue Qianchou sang and played a carefree song, captivating the crowd while Yan Zixia believed it was meant to comfort her.
• Hundred Charm Demoness asked Yue Qianchou to name the song, and he called it “Laughing in the Mortal World.”
• Hundred Charm Demoness followed Yue Qianchou to Hundred Flower Valley, threatening him over the pavilion he had destroyed until he agreed to go with her.
• Yan Zixia left the fireworks gathering after comparing the four men with Yue Qianchou, while the men continued setting off fireworks and later dumped the rest into the river.
• Hundred Charm Demoness followed Yue Qianchou to his room at Hundred Flower Inn, saying she had something to discuss with him.

Yue Qianchou was caught between the Hundred Charm Demoness’s flirtatious attention and Ziyi’s inexplicable anger in his room. The chapter ended the next morning, when the Demoness woke him with a sharp pinch while Ziyi watched calmly.

• Yue Qianchou hesitated to enter his room, but the Hundred Charm Demoness dragged him inside and teased him while claiming she wanted to study music and stay by his side.
• Ziyi entered and accused Yue Qianchou of being a liar because he had hidden his musical talents from her.
• The Hundred Charm Demoness said she would follow and serve Yue Qianchou, explaining privately that her information network might be useful to him.
• Yue Qianchou went to bed, while the Hundred Charm Demoness massaged him and Ziyi stayed nearby watching through the night.
• The next morning, the Hundred Charm Demoness pinched Yue Qianchou’s lower back, making him sit up as Ziyi turned from the window.

Yue Qianchou watched Yan Bugui confront the Cultivation Alliance over taking the Hundred Flower Fairy and her daughter away, while he weighed whether to intervene. The standoff remained unresolved as the Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia appeared outside the palace.

• Yue Qianchou, the Hundred Charm Demoness, and Ziyi went downstairs to eat and learned that Yan Bugui had returned to confront the Hundred Flower Palace.
• Yue Qianchou followed the crowd to the back mountain and learned that Yan Bugui had brought about fifty powerful cultivators to take his wife and daughter.
• Dongfang Changao considered summoning Yue Qianchou's forces, but Yue Qianchou was already watching from a nearby hill and held back to see whether the mother and daughter were safe.
• Yan Bugui demanded that Chou Wuyuan let him take the Hundred Flower Fairy and her daughter, while Chou Wuyuan refused to yield without orders from their masters.
• Yan Bugui warned that his wife and daughter would be safest with him, and the confrontation neared a fight.
• The Hundred Flower Fairy emerged from the palace with Yan Zixia as Yue Qianchou watched.

Yan Bugui tried to reunite with Guan Muxue and Yan Zixia, but the revelation that Yan Wuchen had left Black Moon Futu to Chou Wuyuan thwarted his demands and exposed his father's condemnation of him. Guan Muxue drove the foreign elders away and told Yan Bugui to leave Hundred Flower Valley, refusing to hear his excuses.

• Yan Wuchen rushed toward Guan Muxue and Yan Zixia, but Dongfang Changao stopped him, and Chou Wuyuan blocked his flying sword with Black Moon Futu.
• Chou Wuyuan explained that Yan Wuchen had entrusted him with Black Moon Futu and repeated Yan Wuchen's words denying Yan Bugui any claim to the treasure or the Demon Family Four Generals.
• A brocade-robed elder encouraged Yan Bugui to pursue his ambitions, but Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao confronted him before Guan Muxue ordered them to stand down.
• Guan Muxue rebuked the brocade-robed elder, who retreated, then ordered the visitors to leave Hundred Flower Valley.
• Yan Bugui tried to speak with Guan Muxue, but she rejected his excuses and demanded that he restore peace to the valley and take his people away.

Yan Bugui ordered his allies to seize Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia, but the Cultivation Alliance refused to surrender and fought back fiercely against the foreign cultivators. As Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan slaughtered their opponents, Yan Bugui saw his wife and daughter look at him with hatred, while the old man in brocade sent his junior brother to kill the two defenders.

• Yan Bugui pleaded with Hundred Flower Fairy to return with him, but she rejected his explanation and told him to leave with his people.
• At Yan Bugui's command, the old men in brocade and coarse robes attacked and restrained Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia, while their forces began killing the Cultivation Alliance members.
• Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan refused to yield to the captors' threat and returned to the battlefield, killing foreign cultivators as the Alliance fought on despite heavy losses.
• Yan Bugui watched the battle and doubted his plan to unify the Huaxia Cultivation World as his wife and daughter stared at him with grief and hatred.
• The old man in brocade told his junior brother to leave the hostages with him and kill Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan.

Ziyi intervened in the battle to protect Chou Wuyuan and fought the elder in coarse robes while Yue Qianchou prepared to join the fight. Yue Qianchou’s signal brought hundreds of black-clad reinforcements, and Ziyi killed the elder in coarse robes, leaving the elder in brocade robes holding the captives.

• Yue Qianchou ordered Ziyi to watch the elder in coarse robes and stop him without mercy if he attacked.
• When the elder in coarse robes attacked Chou Wuyuan, Ziyi blocked his strike and drove off his attackers.
• Ziyi battled the elder in coarse robes in the sky while Yue Qianchou sent a blue-flame signal calling for reinforcements to assemble and surround the enemy.
• Hundreds of black-clad cultivators arrived, and the elder in coarse robes became distracted while warning his fellow disciple.
• Ziyi struck the elder in coarse robes through the heart and smashed his head as he fell, while the elder in brocade robes still held the Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia captive.

Yue Qianchou arrived with more than six hundred disciplined Rogue Cultivators and turned the battle against Yan Bugui’s forces, rescuing the Cultivation Alliance from encirclement. He then forced the brocade-clad old man to agree to release Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia in exchange for safe passage.

• Ziyi held the brocade-clad old man at bay while he used Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia as hostages.
• More than six hundred black-clad Rogue Cultivators surrounded the battlefield and obeyed Yue Qianchou’s commands.
• Yue Qianchou ordered the Cultivation Alliance to withdraw, and the Rogue Cultivators drove back and killed the foreign cultivators attacking them.
• Yue Qianchou ordered Yan Bugui captured alive and the remaining foreign cultivators killed, leaving Yan Bugui as the sole survivor.
• Yue Qianchou threatened to have Ziyi kill the brocade-clad old man unless he released the hostages, and the old man agreed as Yue Qianchou counted to nine.

Yue Qianchou rescued Hundred Flower Valley, exchanged Yan Bugui for Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia, and concealed his motives while claiming his powerful Rogue Cultivators were hired. As the Cultivation Alliance learned that the force numbered more than six hundred Tribulation Transcendence experts and ordered most of them transferred to the front, Dongfang Changao asked Chou Wuyuan to negotiate with Yue Qianchou.

• The brocade-robed old man released Hundred Flower Fairy and Yan Zixia, and Yue Qianchou freed Yan Bugui in exchange before his men withdrew with the foreign cultivators' storage pouches.
• Yue Qianchou left Hundred Flower Valley with Ziyi and Hundred Charm Demoness, then told Ziyi that he had hired the Rogue Cultivators.
• Hundred Charm Demoness asked why Yue Qianchou had spared Yan Bugui, and he claimed he owed Yan Bugui's father, Yan Wuchen, a favor.
• The Cultivation Alliance learned that Yue Qianchou's more than six hundred Rogue Cultivators were all Tribulation Transcendence experts and ordered all but fifty transferred to the front.
• Dongfang Changao asked Chou Wuyuan to speak to Yue Qianchou about the transfer order.

Yue Qianchou helped the Rogue Cultivators reject the Cultivation Alliance’s order to join the fight unless they received a large settling-in allowance. The sects agreed to pool the Spirit Stones, but the Rogue Cultivators demanded payment upfront, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao reluctantly went to tell Yue Qianchou that the Cultivation Alliance had ordered more than five hundred Rogue Cultivators to provide support.
• Yue Qianchou brought them to the Rogue Cultivators, who refused the order and demanded one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones per person.
• The Rogue Cultivators warned that they would refuse to help without payment, and Dongfang Changao promised to relay their demand.
• The sects decided to pool the money and divide up the six hundred-plus Rogue Cultivators, but the Rogue Cultivators insisted on receiving the Spirit Stones first.

Yue Qianchou watched the sects mourn their dead while the Cultivation Alliance paid 63,200,000 high-grade Spirit Stones for 632 Rogue Cultivators to go to the Eastern Sea. He revealed that he and Ziyi were included in their number and joined the group, leaving Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan furious at the loophole he had used.

• Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan paid the masked Rogue Cultivators, who promised to gather outside Hundred Flower Valley the next morning and travel to the Eastern Sea.
• Yue Qianchou, the Hundred Charm Demoness, and Ziyi watched the sects hold a memorial ceremony; the Hundred Charm Demoness played a mournful zither, and Yue Qianchou recited verses beneath the moon.
• The next morning, Yue Qianchou and Ziyi arrived with the Rogue Cultivators and said their share of the Spirit Stones meant they had to join the expedition.
• Yue Qianchou and Ziyi put on Rogue Cultivator robes and joined the group, declaring all 632 members present.
• Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan realized Yue Qianchou had thwarted the sects' plan to take the Rogue Cultivators, and Chou Wuyuan angrily demanded to know what he was doing.

Yue Qianchou secured a passage token and revealed the custom flying magical artifacts he had commissioned from the Jing family. After delivering enough Ming Iron for all ten vessels, he unveiled six of them to carry the Rogue Cultivators, leaving everyone astonished by their unfamiliar design.

• Dongfang Changao gave Yue Qianchou a passage jade tablet, and Yue distributed six flying artifacts to the masked Rogue Cultivators.
• Yue recalled commissioning Jing Feihong to build ten durable flying artifacts and promised to supply enough Ming Iron for their construction.
• Yue returned to Nine Nether Cave, gathered ten pouches of Ming Iron, and delivered them to Jing Feihong, who promised to finish the vessels.
• After the Jing family arranged delivery, Yue delayed the group’s departure until the artifacts arrived.
• The six company commanders activated six black shuttle-shaped vessels marked with Utopia names, leaving Dongfang Changao, Chou Wuyuan, and the others amazed.

Yue Qianchou led six new flying artifacts toward the East Sea, demonstrating their features and rallying young cultivators with his friendly advice and gifts. The journey left him preparing to punish the Daluo Sect if his forces encountered its members.

• Yue Qianchou showed the eight commanders how to operate the new flying artifacts, then ordered them to form up and head for the East Sea.
• Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan warned the sects at the East Sea that Yue Qianchou was approaching, prompting representatives to abandon Zhu Xianxian’s plan to reclaim their Spirit Stones.
• The Hundred Charm Demoness learned that the Jing family had made the flying artifact, while she and Ziyi enjoyed the flight as Yue Qianchou rested.
• Yue Qianchou welcomed a patrol of junior disciples aboard, advised them to endure rumors, and gave each ten high-grade Spirit Stones before they returned to duty.
• Yue Qianchou instructed his captain to invite young disciples aboard at future inspections and ordered the Second Company to capture any Daluo Sect members they encountered.

Yue Qianchou endured a painful surge in his dantian and used supreme-grade Spirit Stones to break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. The next morning, he woke to find Ziyi meditating and Hundred Charm Demoness asleep beside her.

• Yue Qianchou sensed his True Essence churning and asked Ziyi to guard him while he attempted a breakthrough, leaving Hundred Charm Demoness to stand watch outside.
• Yue Qianchou endured severe pain as his True Essence battered his dantian, then absorbed energy from supreme-grade Spirit Stones to compress it.
• Yue Qianchou's Nascent Soul expelled a mass of True Essence, and his dantian settled as he successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ziyi questioned Yue Qianchou about his valuable Spirit Stones, and he claimed he trusted her enough to let her see them and guard him.
• Hundred Charm Demoness returned to the cabin, saw that Yue Qianchou had broken through, and fell asleep beneath the blanket.
• The next morning, Yue Qianchou woke and tried to avert his eyes from Hundred Charm Demoness's revealing sleeping posture.

Yue Qianchou’s fleet reached a Daluo Sect inspection point, where Elder Zhao Chang tried to assert authority and was met with force. Yue ordered his Rogue Cultivators to capture Zhao and deliver him as a meeting gift to Daluo Sect.

• Yue Qianchou’s six flying artifacts cooperated with other Cultivation Alliance inspections, earning reports that they had caused no trouble.
• Luo Kun sent Zhao Chang to restrain Daluo Sect members from provoking Yue Qianchou, but Zhao insulted the sect’s cautious approach and insisted on showing Daluo Sect’s backbone.
• Zhao Chang blocked Yue Qianchou’s fleet and demanded passage tokens and an inspection under the Cultivation Alliance’s decree.
• Three of Yue Qianchou’s flying artifacts rammed Zhao Chang’s craft, and his sword strike failed to damage one of them.
• Dozens of masked Rogue Cultivators emerged and surrounded the Daluo Sect group, while Yue Qianchou ordered them to carve Zhao into a human stick, seal his dantian, and bring him over alive.

Yue Qianchou crippled Daluo Sect disciples after they confronted him, then arrived in Wanghai Town with the captives as the sect's retainers questioned Zhu Xianxian about their disappearance and the corpses washing ashore from Wuji Island. The chapter ends with Yue Qianchou ordering the Daluo Sect captives thrown out before the assembled sects.

• Zhao Chang tried to flee, but Yue Qianchou's men severed his limbs, sealed his dantian, and pulled out his tongue after he cursed Yue Qianchou.
• Yue Qianchou ordered his men to cripple the cultivation of the other Daluo Sect disciples, who were captured and taken aboard the flying artifacts.
• Luo Kun and the other Daluo Sect retainers questioned Zhu Xianxian about the missing inspection disciples and challenged his account of Yue Qianchou's past conflicts with the sect.
• Zhu Xianxian reported that more than ten thousand corpses had drifted from Wuji Island, including mortals drained of blood and cultivators with their dantians gouged out.
• Yue Qianchou arrived in Wanghai Town as members of various sects gathered to see him and the six hundred Rogue Cultivators.
• Yue Qianchou ordered his men to throw the captured Daluo Sect disciples out of the leading flying artifact.