Chapter Summaries

After Bai Jingyue avenged herself without harming innocents, she sacrificed her life to infuse Song Ankang with the Ultimate Yin Treasure Bead’s power and help him form a Childhood Golden Core. Her sacrifice left him with an Ultimate Yin seed in his core and a path toward a powerful Yin-Yang Golden Core.

• Song Ankang watched as Bai Jingyue killed her enemies in White Jade Town, then followed her to the abandoned well in the White Jade Mulberry Forest.
• Bai Jingyue thanked Song Ankang for helping her take revenge and, instead of answering where she would go, sacrificed herself by merging with the treasure bead on her forehead and entering his body.
• The Ultimate Yin Treasure Bead’s power stirred Song Ankang’s Childhood Purity True Qi and helped him condense a Childhood Golden Core.
• Song Ankang realized the bead was the Ultimate Yin Treasure Bead and that its power had planted an Ultimate Yin seed in his golden core.
• Bai Jingyue vanished after burning her essence, qi, and spirit, while Song Ankang bowed to her in gratitude for the fortune she had given him.

After Bai Jingyue repaid Song Ankang’s kindness by helping him break through to the Golden Core Stage, he consolidated his new cultivation and assessed his greatly increased strength. He then prepared to meet Tang Liuli, wondering how she had concealed herself from him before his breakthrough.

• Song Ankang bowed to Bai Jingyue as she vanished with the Ultimate Yin Treasure Bead, leaving its energy fused into him.
• Tang Liuli watched Song Ankang and resolved to find a way to keep him close to her sisters.
• Song Ankang consolidated his Childhood Golden Core, whose quality made him stronger than many veteran Golden Core True Persons.
• Song Ankang sensed that his spiritual will and physical constitution had also grown dramatically after the breakthrough.
• Song Ankang finished stabilizing his strength and wondered how Tang Liuli had stayed hidden from him in the White Jade Mulberry Forest.

Song Ankang caught Tang Liuli spying on him in White Jade Mulberry Forest and learned she had come to confirm he was Flower-Breaking Young Master Zhao Xiyu. After denying her teasing suggestions about his relationship with Tang Mingyue, he reflected that his secret identity had now been exposed to three people, while Tang Liuli seemed impressed rather than displeased.

• Song Ankang spotted Tang Liuli hiding in the grass and made her come out despite her Shadow Concealing Ring.
• Song Ankang demanded to know why Tang Liuli had followed him, and she said she wanted to confirm that he was Flower-Breaking Young Master Zhao Xiyu.
• Tang Liuli explained that Tang Mingyue had revealed the secret while talking in her sleep, then teased Song Ankang about Mingyue dreaming of him.
• Song Ankang flicked Tang Liuli and insisted that he and Tang Mingyue shared only a pure admiration for poetry and lyrics.
• Song Ankang recalled how Peng Xuan'er, Tang Mingyue, and now Tang Liuli had uncovered his disguise, and wondered why Tang Liuli looked so admiring.

Song Ankang told Tang Liuli that he was a reincarnated deity to explain his rapid cultivation, and she believed his story. He also explained that his visits to Shengyun Tower had been for cultivation, leaving Tang Liuli sympathetic to his situation and promising to keep his secret.

• Tang Liuli asked Song Ankang how he had gained such formidable strength at a young age, and he made her swear not to reveal the truth.
• Song Ankang claimed that he had been a deity who reincarnated after foreign deities killed him, and that he had recently recovered his complete memories.
• Tang Liuli celebrated the possibility that Song Ankang could restore his strength and elevate the Tang Family into a Divine Clan Family.
• Song Ankang said he had cultivated in secret for years and had visited Shengyun Tower to pursue a supreme Yin-Yang Golden Core, not for pleasure.
• Tang Liuli apologized for thinking Song Ankang was a womanizer, and he asked her not to tell Tang Ye Lan about his past or his cultivation.

Song Ankang revealed his Golden Core strength to Qiushi and used the Wedding Dress Secret Technique to empower her. Qiushi rose from Outer Forging Fourth Layer to the Earth Gate Realm, while Song Ankang depleted his true qi and damaged his cultivation foundation.

• Tang Liuli left for Kyoto after speaking with Song Ankang, while Qiushi and Chunhua secretly witnessed parts of her visit.
• Song Ankang told Qiushi that Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli had each visited him for different reasons, then asked her to keep his secret.
• Song Ankang revealed that he was a reincarnated deity and proved to Qiushi that he was a Golden Core True Person.
• Song Ankang used the Wedding Dress Secret Technique to cleanse and empower Qiushi, raising her from Outer Forging Fourth Layer through Inner Refinement and into the Earth Gate Realm.
• Song Ankang exhausted his Golden Core Fifth Turn-level true qi and damaged his cultivation foundation while elevating Qiushi, who would need another empowerment to reach the peak of the Earth Gate Realm.

After cleansing Qiushi, Song Ankang rescued Bai Jingyue’s daughters, Bai Anjing and Bai Anyue, from traffickers and brought them back to safety. White Jade Town meanwhile struggled to make sense of Bai Jingyue’s deadly revenge, while its residents worried Song Ankang might be punished for the deaths.

• Song Ankang reassured Qiushi that cleansing her had not seriously harmed him and urged her to advance to the limit of the Body Refining Great Realm.
• Song Ankang learned that Bai Jingyue had renamed her daughters Bai Anjing and Bai Anyue, then ordered guards to locate them.
• Song Ankang found the girls in a nearby town, paid two hundred taels of silver to redeem them, and brought them away by carriage.
• Song Ankang soothed the frightened girls by telling them their abusers had been punished and that Bai Jingyue had gone away to earn money for their schooling.
• Residents of White Jade Town discussed Bai Jingyue’s revenge, the nearly two hundred deaths, and whether Song Ankang would face consequences.

After dealing with the aftermath of Bai Jingyue’s revenge, Song Ankang learned that the First Courtyard planned to use the disaster to seize the White Jade Mulberry Forest from him. He decided to strike at Tang Zhanqing, the First Courtyard’s powerful backer, and take his valuables.

• Song Ankang arranged for Bai Anjing and Bai Anyue to rest, and felt Bai Jingyue’s lingering obsession dissolve after he fulfilled his promise to her.
• Song Ankang reported that a powerful Fierce Ghost had attacked White Jade Town, concealed that Bai Jingyue was dead, and left the search to the Sun Patrol Division and the Night Watch Division.
• The Tang Family and Sun Patrol Division confirmed that Bai Jingyue had been an Eighth-Rank Mid-Grade Fierce Ghost with a powerful concealing treasure, and judged Song Ankang to bear little responsibility for the deaths.
• Tang Liuli secretly warned Song Ankang that the First Courtyard could use the attack to reclaim the White Jade Mulberry Forest, with support from the Tang Family Old Ancestor and Tang Zhanqing.
• Song Ankang resolved to cripple and rob Tang Zhanqing, hoping to teach the First Courtyard a lesson and replenish his stores.

Song Ankang infiltrated the Tang Family First Courtyard and crippled its Head Steward, Tang Zhanqing, to weaken the courtyard and stop it from targeting his White Jade Mulberry Forest. He left with Tang Zhanqing’s Sufeng Sword and Hundred Transformations Ring, while Tang Zhanqing remained unconscious.

• Song Ankang concealed his aura and slipped into the Tang Family Mansion, searching for Tang Zhanqing’s courtyard.
• Song Ankang entered Tang Zhanqing’s study and knocked him unconscious with the Seven Injuries Fist.
• Song Ankang shattered Tang Zhanqing’s dantian and destroyed his meridians, leaving him crippled.
• Song Ankang took the Sufeng Sword and quickly broke Tang Zhanqing’s spiritual imprint on it.
• Song Ankang claimed Tang Zhanqing’s Hundred Transformations Ring after wearing away its spiritual imprint.

Song Ankang crippled Tang Zhanqing, took his valuable treasures, and left a message blaming Tang Quanli, while the First Courtyard remained unaware that its attempt to seize the White Jade Mulberry Forest had caused the attack. Tang Zhanqing’s fall sparked an uproar in the Tang Family, which blamed Tang Quanli and never suspected Song Ankang.

• Song Ankang took Tang Zhanqing’s treasures and left a message on the study wall thanking Tang Quanli for an old injury before returning to the White Jade Mulberry Forest.
• Song Ankang disguised the colors of his newly acquired Sufeng Sword and Hundred Transformations Ring, then prepared to raid Dong Xinjie.
• Tang Zhanqing woke, discovered his cultivation had been crippled, and cursed Tang Quanli after reading the message on the wall.
• The First Courtyard and the rest of the Tang Family blamed Tang Quanli for bringing disaster upon them, while no one suspected Song Ankang.
• The First Courtyard remained unaware that its attempt to take the White Jade Mulberry Forest had led Song Ankang to cripple its most powerful backer.

Tang Yelan and the Tang Family Old Ancestor tried to identify the unknown expert who had crippled Tang Quanli and Tang Zhanqing, while fearing the Old Ancestor would be next. The Old Ancestor urged Tang Yelan to seek the Prince of the Demon Queller’s support, but she refused to abandon Song Ankang.

• Tang Quanli lay crippled as the First Courtyard questioned and blamed him, never suspecting Song Ankang was behind the attack.
• Tang Yelan concluded that the unknown expert was likely an old victim of Tang Quanli who had returned for revenge and might target the Tang Family Old Ancestor next.
• Tang Yelan warned the Old Ancestor that he could be the expert’s next target, and he admitted he had little chance of defeating the attacker.
• The Old Ancestor said he could not hide in the imperial palace and warned that Tang Yelan might have to lead the family if he died.
• The Old Ancestor suggested that Tang Yelan seek the Prince of the Demon Queller’s protection, but she refused to leave Song Ankang and proposed giving the family’s properties to the imperial family instead.

Song Ankang admitted to Tang Liuli that he had crippled Tang Quanli and Tang Zhanqing to punish the First Courtyard for targeting Tang Yelan. As Tang Liuli celebrated the First Courtyard’s decline, Song Ankang reflected on his ability to strengthen his female followers and struggled to keep his thoughts in check around his sister-in-law.

• Tang Liuli visited Song Ankang at Huanxiang Residence and asked whether he had crippled Tang Quanli.
• Song Ankang confirmed that he had punished Tang Quanli after Tang Quanli tried to cripple him, and Tang Liuli praised his actions.
• Song Ankang admitted that he had also crippled Tang Zhanqing to stop the First Courtyard from troubling Tang Yelan.
• Song Ankang recalled that Dong Xinjie had learned he was a Reincarnated Deity and had advanced from the Outer Forging Second Layer to the Inner Refinement Fourth Layer through his baptism.
• Tang Liuli celebrated Tang Quanli and Tang Zhanqing’s downfall, recalling the First Courtyard’s past bullying and its suspected role in her parents’ deaths.

After crippling Tang Quanli and Tang Zhanqing, Song Ankang cultivated in peace and advanced to Golden Core Second Turn. The Tang Family’s First Courtyard remained weakened and disorganized, while Song Ankang prepared for further growth.

• Song Ankang returned to the Training Room after seeing off Tang Liuli and resumed cultivating with the resources taken from Tang Quanli and Tang Zhanqing.
• The Tang Family Old Ancestor and the First Courtyard stopped challenging Song Ankang over the White Jade Mulberry Forest, and the family settled into an uneasy calm.
• Song Ankang broke through to Golden Core Second Turn, gaining strength enough to contend with a Sixth Turn Golden Core True Person.
• Qiushi broke through to the Transcendence Realm, while Dong Xinjie remained stuck at the limit of the Earth Gate Realm and Little Green Hair neared a breakthrough.
• Tang Quanli’s crippling left the First Courtyard weakened and divided over choosing a new chief steward, while the Second Courtyard held the advantage.
• Song Ankang’s strength broke through once more as he continued cultivating.

Song Ankang’s body broke through to the strength and resilience of an Eighth-Rank Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact, greatly increasing his combat power and ability to survive. As he adapted and continued cultivating, he considered the Human Race’s Heavenly Pass and his potential to use the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to break its limits, then his strength advanced again.

• Song Ankang’s physical constitution transformed, reaching the level of an Eighth-Rank Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact in strength, speed, reflexes, and defense.
• Song Ankang recognized that his improved body made him far stronger than most Golden Core True Persons and substantially increased his chances of survival.
• Song Ankang reflected on the Heavenly Pass that limited the Human Race and how powerful figures had gradually raised the race’s cultivation limits.
• Song Ankang considered how the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance might let him break the Human Race’s limits and open a path to the Sixth Rank.
• Song Ankang adapted to his stronger body and continued improving his cultivation, martial arts, and physical constitution.
• Song Ankang’s strength broke through once more.

Song Ankang reached great accomplishment in Treading Snow Without a Trace and the Evil Warding Sword Technique, bringing his Golden Core Second Turn strength close to that of a Seventh Turn Golden Core True Person. Tang Liuli then told him that Tang Quanli had arranged the ambush that killed her parents, and that the Tang Family had punished him and dismantled his faction.

• Song Ankang cultivated Treading Snow Without a Trace to great accomplishment and demonstrated its speed in the White Jade Mulberry Forest.
• Song Ankang brought the Evil Warding Sword Technique to great accomplishment, raising his combat strength to near that of a Seventh Turn Golden Core True Person.
• Song Ankang returned to Huanxiang Residence, where Tang Liuli embraced him and cried as she thanked him for avenging her family.
• Tang Liuli told Song Ankang that Tang Quanli had leaked her parents' travel route to the demons, causing their deaths.
• Tang Liuli explained that Tang Quanli's eldest son had exposed him after a dispute over who would lead the First Courtyard.
• Tang Xue spread the truth, imprisoned Tang Quanli, executed his former messengers, and replaced the First Courtyard's leader with an elder from the Second Courtyard.

Song Ankang prepared to pursue the demons and monsters who had killed the Three Tang Sisters’ parents, while his loved ones continued to benefit from his cultivation. He broke through to the Golden Core Third Turn and improved his talent, leaving him looking ahead to the Seven Yang Body.

• Song Ankang decided to capture the demons and monsters who had ambushed and killed the Three Tang Sisters’ parents.
• Tang Liuli visited Song Ankang more often, while Peng Xuan’er and Qiushi advanced to the Qi Nourishing Third Layer and Little Green Hair reached the limit of Ninth-Rank High-Tier.
• Song Ankang entered the Training Room and endured the feedback that restored his injuries and strengthened his cultivation foundation.
• Song Ankang broke through the bottleneck and reached the Golden Core Third Turn, then stabilized his cultivation.
• Song Ankang absorbed feedback that further improved his talent and aptitude and wondered when he would reach the Seven Yang Body.

Fang Zuhong used a Blood Ganoderma Pill to advance to the Golden Core Stage, putting the Tang Family under pressure. Tang Yelan attended the Fang Family’s banquet while Song Ankang chose to let Fang Zuhong grow stronger before dealing with him.

• Fang Zuhong took the Blood Ganoderma Pill and successfully became a Golden Core True Person.
• The Fang Family invited the Tang Family to Fang Zuhong’s Golden Core banquet, and Tang Yelan agreed to attend in place of the Tang Family Old Ancestor.
• Tang Liuli considered asking Song Ankang to deal with Fang Zuhong but decided against risking him.
• Song Ankang learned of Fang Zuhong’s breakthrough and planned to wait until the Fang Family had accumulated more resources before plundering him.
• Tang Yelan arrived at Thousand Year Tower with generous gifts, where guests watched her arrival with mocking smiles.

After Fang Zuhong rejected Tang Yelan’s gift and demanded the Tang Family’s Golden Silkworm Garden, Tang Zhijia ordered the family to avoid giving the Fang Family an excuse to attack. The Fang Family’s legal pressure weakened Tang business, but the conflict stalled, leaving Tang Yelan worried that the family might need help from the Prince of the Demon Queller.

• Tang Yelan offered Fang Zuhong a costly gift at the Golden Core banquet, but he refused it and demanded the Golden Silkworm Garden instead.
• Fang Zuhong insulted Tang Zhijia as a coward, and Tang Yelan returned to the mansion without presenting the gift.
• Tang Yelan reported the incident to Tang Zhijia, who ordered the Tang Family to withdraw and avoid conflict with the Fang Family.
• Song Ankang received the order at the White Jade Mulberry Forest and resolved not to let the Fang Family bully him if they came after him.
• The Fang Family provoked and disrupted Tang businesses within the limits of the law, while Tang Yelan appealed to Imperial Court offices and the Tang Family avoided giving them leverage.
• Tang Yelan and Xiachen discussed falling profits and the possibility of asking the Prince of the Demon Queller for help if the crisis became life-threatening.

Song Ankang continued cultivating while the Tang Family faced the Fang Family’s provocations, and his strength reached a bottleneck. After a sustained assault, he broke through to Golden Core Fourth Turn, gaining power enough to contend with opponents several realms above him.

• Song Ankang kept improving his cultivation, combat techniques, body, mind, and will while spending time with Dong Xinjie, Peng Xuan’er, and Qiushi.
• Song Ankang prepared to break through the solid bottleneck between Golden Core Third Turn and Golden Core Fourth Turn, relying on his growing constitution and spiritual power.
• Song Ankang accumulated power from the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance and repeatedly struck the bottleneck dam until cracks appeared.
• Song Ankang shattered the bottleneck dam and advanced to Golden Core Fourth Turn.
• Song Ankang’s Golden Core expanded, and his power became comparable to that of a Golden Core Sixth Turn True Person, with the potential to contend against stronger opponents.

Song Ankang stabilized his Fourth Turn Golden Core strength while remaining unaware that the Tang Family was nearing another crisis. In the Second Courtyard, Li Rui learned that her brother Li Tengjun had been seized over a massive gambling debt and went to repay it again.

• Song Ankang's Golden Core power, physical constitution, and spiritual strength improved, while Fang Zuhong celebrated his own breakthrough by attacking the Tang Family.
• Song Ankang continued devoting nearly all his time to cultivation and did not learn about Fang Zuhong's actions or the coming trouble for the Tang Family.
• Yingtao told Li Rui that the Azure Dragon Gambling House had seized Li Tengjun over a debt of One Hundred Thousand Taels of Gold.
• Li Rui blamed Li Tengjun for gambling again but decided to go repay his debt, warning that she would not help him next time.
• Yingtao reflected that Li Rui had made the same promise many times before and repeatedly relented to help her younger brother.

Li Rui went to rescue Li Tengjun from the Azure Dragon Gambling House, where its men abducted and assaulted her, Yingtao, and Zhen Feng. After learning that Li Rui and the others had died, Tang Anyi killed Li Tengjun and slaughtered everyone in the gambling house, while the masked Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator escaped.

• Li Rui and Zhen Feng arrived at the Azure Dragon Gambling House and paid Li Tengjun’s One Hundred Thousand Taels of Gold debt.
• Jin Duolai demanded that Li Rui spend a night with his men, revealing that Li Tengjun had agreed to the condition for credit.
• A masked Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator defeated Zhen Feng, abducted Li Rui, Yingtao, and Zhen Feng, and left Li Tengjun behind.
• Tang Anyi learned that Li Rui, Yingtao, and Zhen Feng had died, then rushed to the gambling house.
• Tang Anyi killed Li Tengjun and slaughtered Jin Duolai and the other gambling house men, but the masked cultivator was gone.