Chapter Summaries

Soul Hall attacked Sound Valley, and Ye Yiren fought to protect its elders and disciples before helping them escape. Chen Mo sensed trouble near Sound Valley and rushed west, where the wounded Ye Yiren emerged from a teleportation escape with Soul Hall close behind.

• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master demanded that Ye Yiren submit to him or watch Sound Valley be destroyed, and Ye Yiren refused and ordered her disciples to form their formation.
• Ye Yiren shattered the black chains with attacks formed from her zither notes while Sound Valley's elders evacuated the disciples.
• Two powerful Dou Qi barriers appeared behind Sound Valley, and Ye Yiren ordered her disciples to fight to the death.
• As Tang Zhen led Chen Mo and Yi Qingyao toward Maple Forest City, Chen Mo sensed something wrong, asked Tang Zhen to protect Yi Qingyao, and flew west toward Sound Valley.
• The wounded Ye Yiren emerged from a teleportation escape with the Ice Jade Zither as the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master pursued her and noted that she had advanced to Dou Saint during the battle.

Chen Mo rescued the captured Ye Yiren from the Soul Hall and fled, pursued by its Vice Hall Master. When the Vice Hall Master confronted him and demanded Ye Yiren back, Chen Mo kissed her and challenged him, leaving Ye Yiren stunned and awake in his arms.

• Ye Yiren prepared to strike her own heart meridian, but the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master warned that he would claim her body even if she died.
• Chen Mo burst through the Vice Hall Master's defenses, struck him into a spatial rift, and carried the weakened Ye Yiren away from Blazing Flame Valley.
• The Vice Hall Master endured Chen Mo's Heavenly Emperor Mysterious Thunder Seal and pursued him while the Soul Hall's Heavenly Venerates followed.
• The Vice Hall Master caught up and demanded that Chen Mo release Ye Yiren, while Chen Mo asked where his teacher was.
• Chen Mo moved Ye Yiren into his arms, kissed her, and challenged the Vice Hall Master; Ye Yiren awoke and stared at him.

Chen Mo fought the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master while protecting the unconscious Ye Yiren, and proved strong enough to wound him despite the vast difference in cultivation. The Vice Hall Master refused Chen Mo’s demand to hand over his teacher and vowed that Chen Mo would die there.

• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master attacked Chen Mo, whose Ancient Dragon Elephant and Heavenly Emperor Mysterious Thunder Seal countered the Vice Hall Master's assaults.
• The Vice Hall Master intensified his attack, but Chen Mo met his punch head-on with his Qilin-scaled arm and the strength of thirty giant elephants.
• The Four Great Heavenly Venerates arrived and saw both fighters forced back, with the Vice Hall Master’s hand bruised and bleeding.
• Chen Mo suppressed the dark energy affecting him, taunted the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, and demanded that he hand over his teacher in exchange for Ye Yiren.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master refused and warned Chen Mo that he would not leave alive.

Chen Mo fought the Soul Hall's effeminate Vice Hall Master and the Four Great Heavenly Venerates while protecting Ye Yiren, then retreated when the battle became too costly. He reached a concealed ravine with the wounded woman in white and began examining her injuries.

• The effeminate man revealed that Gu He's soul had been used as nourishment by the Soul Hall, provoking Chen Mo's fury.
• The effeminate man and the Four Great Heavenly Venerates attacked Chen Mo from all sides, while Chen Mo summoned two demon puppets to guard his back.
• Chen Mo clashed fists with the effeminate man using the Kirin Arm, and the Heavenly Demon Fist blasted Zero away.
• Chen Mo escaped beyond the horizon with the woman in white after a mysterious force inside him caused trouble and he judged the fight too costly to continue.
• Chen Mo carried the injured woman in white to a concealed mountain ravine and prepared to examine her wounds.

Chen Mo treated the injured Ye Yiren and discovered that the Soul Hall’s Vice Hall Master had planted a deadly skull seal in her. After bringing her to a cave in Falling God Ravine, he watched her awaken and learned her name, while her Dou Qi remained sealed.

• Chen Mo examined Ye Yiren’s injuries, used his Heart Flame to suppress the bloody mark on her back, and discovered a skull seal that could destroy her soul body.
• Chen Mo sealed the spreading injury, tested Ye Yiren’s bone age, and carried her to a hidden cave in Falling God Ravine.
• Ye Yiren woke beneath a black robe and found that her Shenque was sealed, leaving her unable to use Dou Qi.
• Ye Yiren recognized Chen Mo as her rescuer, thanked him, and confirmed that her Vermilion Mark remained intact.
• Chen Mo asked the woman her name, and she replied that she was Ye Yiren.

Chen Mo helped Ye Yiren, the injured Valley Master of Sound Valley, escape Soul Hall and learned why she was being hunted. After restoring her cultivation to the Dou Emperor level with a pill, he offered to let her travel with him until she recovered, and she asked why he kept helping her.

• Ye Yiren told Chen Mo that Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master wanted to marry her and revealed that she was Sound Valley's thirteenth-generation Valley Master.
• Ye Yiren explained that she had once been named the Number One Beauty of the Central Continent and that her master had destroyed the Hundred Knowledge Tower that gave her the title.
• Chen Mo introduced himself as the Overall Pavilion Master of Lingyan Pavilion, and Ye Yiren said she planned to find her disciples in the Eastern Region after recovering.
• Chen Mo refined a sixth-tier Barrier Breaking Pill overnight and gave it to Ye Yiren, restoring her cultivation to the Dou Emperor level.
• Chen Mo offered to let Ye Yiren follow him while she recovered, and she asked why he was helping her.

Chen Mo and Ye Yiren traveled to Maple Forest City, where Tang Zhen and Yi Qingyao assessed a site with stable space. The chapter ended with Chen Mo and Ye Yiren arriving in the city at dusk.

• Ye Yiren promised to repay Chen Mo’s favor, and Chen Mo said they would go to Maple Forest City.
• The Lin Family Head hosted the Ye and Wang Family Heads while concealing Tang Zhen’s task from them.
• Lin Qingcheng told Tang Zhen he had found a stable location in the city, and Tang Zhen rebuked him for failing to notify the other families.
• Tang Zhen and Yi Qingyao inspected the site and approved its stable spatial barrier, but Tang Zhen denied that he planned to build a Spatial Wormhole.
• Chen Mo brought Ye Yiren to Maple Forest City, and they arrived at dusk.

On a rainy night at the Lin Family residence, Ye Yiren decided to leave and seek help for her injuries, but she could not find Chen Mo. She went to Yi Qingyao’s room instead and unknowingly interrupted Chen Mo and Yi Qingyao, then left while they hid their intimacy from her.

• Chen Mo and his companions stayed at the Lin Family residence during the downpour, where Tang Zhen treated Chen Mo with unusual respect.
• Ye Yiren remembered her master's warning about love and decided to bid Chen Mo farewell before traveling to the Pill Region to seek help from the Pillar Tower's Great Elder.
• Ye Yiren went to Chen Mo's room but found him absent, so she headed to Yi Qingyao's room to ask her to pass on a message.
• Chen Mo detected Ye Yiren approaching and removed the room's soundproofing and detection measures, while Yi Qingyao pretended she had fallen from her bed.
• Ye Yiren left after Yi Qingyao claimed Chen Mo had gone out to cultivate, and Yi Qingyao bit Chen Mo's shoulder and accused him of trying to win Ye Yiren over.

Chen Mo asked Ye Yiren to play the zither and discovered that her music stirred his stalled soul realm. As Ye Yiren prepared to leave for Pillar Tower with him later, she offered to teach him a piece suited to him.

• Ye Yiren told Chen Mo she planned to leave for Pillar Tower, and they agreed to travel there together later for the upcoming Pill Gathering.
• Chen Mo asked Ye Yiren to play the zither, and the first movement of Clear Lyric Melody stirred his bottlenecked soul realm.
• Chen Mo asked Ye Yiren to play all thirteen movements before they left, promising to remove the skull inside her body once he broke through.
• Ye Yiren played three movements, immersing Chen Mo in a wondrous state before the music ended and he complained that she had stopped.
• Ye Yiren declined to teach Chen Mo the piece she had played but said she knew one that suited him.

Chen Mo learned the basics of the zither from Ye Yiren and began preparing a Teleportation Formation in Maple Forest City. Meanwhile, Xin Lan introduced Zheng Tian to Ye Zhong as a potential candidate to help the Ye Family pass Pillar Tower’s assessment.

• Ye Yiren gave Chen Mo the male section of Flower's Reflection, hoping he could discover how its two sections were meant to unite their minds.
• Chen Mo spent several days learning the zither from Ye Yiren, while Tang Zhen recognized her as Sound Valley's Valley Master and wondered about her closeness to Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo began constructing a Teleportation Formation in Maple Forest City and asked Yun Yun to keep people from using the formation at Heavenly Eye Mountain while he determined its coordinates.
• Xin Lan brought Zheng Tian to meet Ye Zhong and said the sixth-tier high-grade alchemist could help the Ye Family pass Pillar Tower's assessment.

Zheng Tian negotiated with the Ye Family for its Thunder Chant Stone in exchange for representing it at the Pill Gathering. Meanwhile, Chen Mo completed a Teleportation Formation linking Maple Forest City and Heavenly Eye Mountain, allowing Yun Yun to travel through it.

• Zheng Tian demonstrated his Soul Power to Ye Zhong, convincing him that he was a powerful alchemist.
• Zheng Tian demanded the Ye Family's Thunder Chant Stone as payment, and Ye Zhong agreed to hand it over before the assessment after consulting the Council of Elders.
• Chen Mo completed the Teleportation Formation in Maple Forest City and gave Lin Qingcheng a Dou Ancestor Pill as thanks for his help.
• Tang Zhen left Maple Forest City after instructing Lin Qingcheng to assist Chen Mo and overseeing plans for Lingyan Pavilion's stronghold.
• Three days later, "Chen Mo" arrived in Maple Forest City and merged into Chen Mo, confirming that the Teleportation Formation worked.
• Yun Yun's jade pendant shattered, and she stepped into the Teleportation Formation after giving Hai Bodong instructions.

Chen Mo reunited with Yun Yun, discussed his alliances and relationships, and then began secluded alchemy training after Medusa arrived. Elsewhere, Gu Yuan guarded Xun’er as her bloodline fusion reached a critical stage, while the Cao Family dismissed the Ye Family’s new ally, Zheng Tian.

• Chen Mo spent his days studying the guzheng with Ye Yiren and his nights practicing martial arts with Yi Qingyao, but became furtive after Tang Huo’er arrived.
• Chen Mo welcomed Yun Yun and, that night, told her about Ye Yiren, Tang Huo’er, and his plans to ally with Sound Valley and Blazing Flame Valley.
• Gu Yuan took charge of the Ancient Realm as Xun’er’s Dou Emperor Bloodline fusion reached its most critical stage.
• An old servant told Cao Dan that the Ye Family had invited Zheng Tian to compete in the assessment, and Cao Dan dismissed the threat.
• After Medusa arrived, Chen Mo asked Yun Yun to receive incoming Lingyan Pavilion members and entered seclusion to improve his alchemy before the Pill Gathering.

Chen Mo refined pills in a new secret chamber while Medusa and Yi Qingyao discussed their feelings for him and wondered why none of his women had borne children. The chapter ended with Ye Yiren playing the zither alone and thinking of Chen Mo.

• Chen Mo used the heatproof secret chamber to refine pills, progressing from a sixth-grade Breakthrough Pill to Eighth Grade Pills.
• Medusa visited Yi Qingyao, received an antidote for paralyzing toxic gas, and asked whether Chen Mo and Ye Yiren had become intimate.
• Yi Qingyao advised Medusa on how to become Chen Mo's woman, but Medusa hesitated and changed the subject.
• Medusa and Yi Qingyao wondered why Chen Mo's women had not had children, then searched the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and medical texts for an explanation.
• Ye Yiren stopped playing the Ice Jade Zither while thinking of Chen Mo, then resumed but found her music less beautiful.

Nalan Yanran, Mu Qianqian, and Yaoye arrived in Maple Forest City to find Chen Mo, who was in seclusion, while the women around him settled into a newly purchased estate. As Chen Mo began refining an eighth-grade pill, Medusa and Yi Qingyao prepared a Ten-Complete Great Nourishing Pill to help him regain yang energy.

• Nalan Yanran, Mu Qianqian, and Yaoye traveled to Maple Forest City after Elder Hai told them Chen Mo's location, but learned he had entered seclusion.
• Yun Yun bought a large estate for the women to stay in, while Tang Huo'er remained at the Ye Family residence and Ye Yiren planned to leave with Chen Mo for the Pill Region.
• Tang Zhen, Ye Yiren, Tang Huo'er, Lin Qingcheng, and the others heard rumors that twenty-one-year-old Chen Mo could contend with Soul Gang, a Three Star Dou Saint.
• Chen Mo began extracting ingredients for an elementary eighth-grade Divine Power Pill, expecting the process to take more than a month.
• Yi Qingyao gave Medusa two Ten-Complete Great Nourishing Pills and suggested she secretly serve one to Chen Mo.

While Chen Mo refined a pill in seclusion, he used its two-colored pill lightning to advance Zero toward the legendary Black Gold Heavenly Demon Puppet. The lightning dispersed before Zero’s transformation was complete, leaving Chen Mo’s alchemy result and the puppet’s final advancement unclear.

• Yi Qingyao and Medusa traded intimate stories and questions in a sealed room.
• Lingyan Pavilion’s palace was completed in Maple Forest City, and the women moved in together in four pairs.
• More than forty days later, pill lightning gathered over the mountain range where Chen Mo was refining a pill, drawing the attention of the city.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Chen Mo had refined a peak Seventh-grade pill and was aiming to become an Eighth-grade Alchemist; Nalan Yanran revealed that she had reached Dou Emperor and cultivated the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Chen Mo sent Zero into the two-colored pill lightning, and the puppet absorbed several strikes as its body turned black gold.
• Chen Mo recalled Zero and sent out the Heavenly Demon Puppet, but the lightning clouds dispersed after half its body had transformed, prompting Yun Yun to wonder whether he had succeeded.

Chen Mo tested his newly created Heavenly Demon Puppets and ended his seclusion with thirty-five days remaining before the Pill Gathering. He visited Yun Yun and Yaoye, carrying gifts and promising Yaoye that he would see her that night.

• Chen Mo tested One, whose strength reached six-star Dou Venerable, and Zero, whose punch sent him crashing through a stone wall and whose strength reached early one-star Dou Saint.
• Chen Mo stopped refining pills and decided to spend his remaining time learning Flower's Reflection from Ye Yiren, while noting that he lacked the Eighth-grade Magic Cores needed to make more puppets.
• Chen Mo discovered Yaoye was in Maple Forest City and exchanged Fortune Points for gifts, including spirit jade and a dagger for her.
• Yun Yun and Yaoye finished sewing clothes and footwear for Chen Mo, then hurriedly put them away when he knocked at their door.
• Chen Mo embraced Yaoye and whispered that he would come find her that night.

Chen Mo returned from seclusion and reunited with Yun Yun, who gave him her Armor of the Sea Heart after he presented her with his first Eighth Grade Pill. He then encountered Ye Yiren in the palace and played the men's section of Flower's Reflection, which she critiqued.

• Yaoye realized Chen Mo was still infatuated with her, then fled Yun Yun's room in embarrassment.
• Yun Yun recalled how she had fallen in love with Chen Mo and accepted the commemorative Eighth Grade Pill he gave her.
• Yun Yun gave Chen Mo the Armor of the Sea Heart, and he put it on before she hurriedly pushed him from her room.
• Chen Mo returned to the palace unnoticed by everyone except Yun Yun and Yaoye, then followed the sound of Ye Yiren's zither.
• Chen Mo played the men's section of Flower's Reflection, and Ye Yiren pointed out his mistakes.

Chen Mo gave Ye Yiren the treasured zither score Phoenix Feather Skirt Dance, and she accepted it after he promised she could give him a zither someday. Later, Yaoye anxiously awaited Chen Mo’s visit, but Mu Qianqian arrived first, and Chen Mo knocked just as she began to suspect Yaoye was hiding something.

• Chen Mo corrected his zither playing under Ye Yiren’s guidance, then gave her Phoenix Feather Skirt Dance, which she accepted after reading it and praising its quality.
• Chen Mo encountered Tang Huo'er outside the hall and parted from her after a brief conversation.
• Yaoye waited nervously in her room for Chen Mo, anticipating his promised visit that night.
• Mu Qianqian entered Yaoye’s room, and Yaoye urgently tried to send her away without explaining why.
• Mu Qianqian began questioning Yaoye, but Chen Mo knocked on the door and announced himself.

Chen Mo entered Yaoye and Mu Qianqian’s room and drew both women into bed with him. Later, Medusa searched the palace for Chen Mo, only to find Yun Yun awake and catch her spying through a window.

• Chen Mo entered the room where Yaoye and Mu Qianqian were together, and he brought them to the bed despite their protests.
• Chen Mo shielded the room, and the night passed with him and the two women beneath the covers.
• Medusa sensed Chen Mo’s return and left her room to search the palace, resolving to offer herself to him.
• Medusa searched more than a dozen rooms without finding Chen Mo and suspected he was in Yun Yun’s room.
• Medusa concealed her aura and peered through Yun Yun’s window, where Yun Yun noticed her and spoke to her.

Yun Yun used Medusa’s secret name to unsettle her and then worked on another robe for Chen Mo. After giving Mu Qianqian a cultivation pendant, Chen Mo prepared gifts for Yaoye and revealed that the jade inlaid dagger had been left to him by his mother.

• Yun Yun hinted that she knew Medusa’s private name, making Medusa leave through a Spatial Rift rather than accept Yun Yun’s challenge over their standing with Chen Mo.
• Yun Yun took out a robe she had sewn for Chen Mo and began making another one so he could alternate between them.
• At dawn, Mu Qianqian tried to leave Chen Mo’s room but struck the invisible energy barrier he had set up.
• Chen Mo gave Mu Qianqian a pendant that cleared the mind and nourished cultivation, then removed the barrier and let her go.
• Yaoye pretended to wake after seeing Chen Mo give Mu Qianqian a gift, and Chen Mo showed her a lemon-yellow Spirit Stone and a jade-inlaid dagger, saying his mother had left him the jade before she died.