Chapter Summaries

Yan Beihan met Night Demon to give him Divine Metal and tried to recruit him to the Sole True Sect by offering wealth, resources, and a marriage. Fang Che, hiding behind Night Demon's identity, accepted her invitation to meet while remaining suspicious of her motives and newly discovered that he had reached King-level eighth-grade.

• Night Dream enjoyed the effects of the Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root, but Fang Che revealed it had made him even more powerful and left her exhausted after their encounter.
• Yan Beihan ate an entire Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root, exchanged messages with Night Demon, and arranged to meet him at the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Pavilion.
• Fang Che noticed he had inexplicably risen from King-level sixth-grade to eighth-grade after leaving the Yin Yang Realm, then disguised himself as Night Demon and went to meet Yan Beihan.
• Yan Beihan staged an impressive welcome and teased Night Demon while he tried to maintain a deferential manner and conceal his identity.
• Over a lavish meal and rare wine, Yan Beihan urged Night Demon to join the Sole True Sect, promising superior resources, a marriage, and a place among its upper ranks.

Yan Beihan tested Fang Che with an offer to join her at headquarters, then sought his advice on how to build power and earn the sect elders’ trust. After giving him valuable resources, she left him to share the feast and wine with Night Dream, while she and Duan Xiyang struggled through the wilderness.

• Yan Beihan offered Fang Che benefits to join her at headquarters, but he refused and ate the lavish meal, reaching King-level ninth grade.
• Yan Beihan asked Fang Che how she could escape the sect elders’ view of her as a child and establish herself as a leader.
• Fang Che advised Yan Beihan to build an independent intelligence organization, recruit the Secluded Mountain Gate and hidden groups, and unite influential young women.
• Yan Beihan gave Fang Che Divine Metal, medicinal pills, and spiritual wine before leaving with Aunt Hong.
• Fang Che brought the food and wine home to Night Dream, who ate enough to reach King-level Grade One, and they spent the night together.
• Yan Beihan trudged through the wilderness with Duan Xiyang.

Yan Beihan continued her grueling journey with Duan Xiyang, who praised Night Demon and explained why powerful experts had to rise through hardship. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Emperor and Earth Lord investigated the vanished power of the Yin Yang Realm and learned that the latest trial had been radically different from earlier ones, leaving them to suspect the Guardians and Sole True Sect were involved.

• Duan Xiyang praised Night Demon’s potential, warned Yan Beihan that recruiting him would be easier than controlling him, and urged her to figure out how to manage him herself.
• Duan Xiyang explained that supreme experts had to fight their way up from the martial world, condemned the Sole True Sect’s younger generation, and continued traveling with Yan Beihan and Aunt Hong toward the One Heart Sect.
• The Heavenly Emperor and Earth Lord discovered that the black-and-white tokens had lost their celestial visions, feared that the Yin Yang Realm trials might be over, and learned that Duan Xiyang had killed Sun Star Lord, King Chu Jiang, and others.
• Earth Lord recounted how Duan Xiyang had slaughtered hundreds of experts in an ambush and warned the Heavenly Emperor that besieging him would not work; only Dongfang Sansan could arrange such a siege, and even he could not kill Duan Xiyang.
• Ziwei Great Emperor, other witnesses, and the Jiang siblings described the latest trial, revealing its ten-year limit, unusual creatures, and primeval setting; the rulers found that it differed drastically from every previous trial.
• The Heavenly Emperor and Earth Lord compared accounts from former trial participants and began questioning the Guardians and members of the Sole True Sect, suspecting them of being central to the anomaly.

Jiang Bihuang reported on the Yin Yang Netherworld trial to the Heavenly Emperor and Earth Lord, describing Fang Che, Feng Yun, and Yan Beihan and raising suspicions about Fang Che’s gains. The Heavenly Emperor considered arranging an ambush for Duan Xiyang, while the survivors’ reports stirred grief and anger across the sects, especially at Cold Sword Mountain Gate.

• Jiang Bihuang praised Feng Yun and Yan Beihan as decisive young leaders and described Dong Yunyu as foul-mouthed but capable.
• Jiang Bihuang recounted how Fang Che stayed inconspicuous during the trial, influenced events, and left with more than seventy percent of the ring’s contents, prompting suspicion that he had framed Feng Yun.
• The Earth Lord warned the Heavenly Emperor not to ambush Duan Xiyang, then returned to Netherworld Hall after King Chu Jiang’s death.
• The Heavenly Emperor contacted an ally about Duan Xiyang and considered an ambush, but chose to investigate the earlier encirclement first.
• The returning disciples’ accounts provoked mourning and accusations against Netherworld Hall and Heavenly Palace across the sects.
• At Cold Sword Mountain Gate, Luo Feiyu urged the survivors to enter secluded cultivation and preserve their strength before seeking revenge.

After the Yin Yang Realm trial, a dispute over Cold Sword Mountain Gate’s future erupted into a factional conflict that Gu Changhan tried to contain by sealing the gate and ordering a sweeping debate. Fang Che returned to the All Under Heaven Escort Agency, where he reunited with Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi and advised them to stop acting superior and build connections.

• Twenty-six survivors from Cold Sword Mountain Gate opposed Luo Feiyu, and their disagreement over revenge and the sect’s teachings escalated into a fight between factions.
• Gu Changhan emerged from seclusion, stopped the brawl, sealed the mountain gate, imprisoned more than seven thousand participants, and summoned the higher-ups to debate the sect’s future.
• Fang Che sent Yin Shen Gong a lengthy report about his time in the Yin Yang Realm, concealing his graveyard and little-bear suspicions and omitting the Water Control Power he had brought out.
• Fang Che put on Star Light Branch Leader’s clothes and visited the All Under Heaven Escort Agency after Yin Xiu had been absent for over a month.
• Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi welcomed Fang Che and complained that bullying the overly obedient Sole True Sect members was no fun.
• Fang Che advised Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi to set aside their airs, enjoy themselves with the people around them, and build connections for the future.

Fang Che returned to All Under Heaven Escort Agency, celebrated with its people, and showed Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi how shared hardship could build loyalty. He warned them that he might soon be reassigned to establish another escort agency, leaving them to divide leadership between White Cloud Continent and a different continent.

• Fang Che met with Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi, praised their noble backgrounds, and revealed that his cultivation had reached King-level ninth grade.
• Fang Che announced a feast with Iron Blood Stage liquor and one million taels in prizes, while warning that anyone who caused trouble while drunk would face execution.
• Zhao Wushang held an exam, hung the eighteen lowest scorers at Eighteen Hells, and joined Fang Che and the others in pelting them with melon-seed shells.
• Fang Che explained to Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi that the agency’s rough traditions helped its members feel accepted and become loyal to one another.
• Zheng Yunqi reported that the agency had nearly monopolized White Cloud Continent’s bodyguard market, and Fang Che said he would seek more personnel.
• Fang Che told Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi that he might be appointed elsewhere, with one of them staying to lead in White Cloud Continent and the other opening an agency on another continent.

Fang Che told Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi about their future escort-agency posts and laid out his ambition to make the All Under Heaven Escort Agency an independent, disciplined organization serving the Grand Sect. He left them preparing for expansion and urging them to improve their cultivation.

• Fang Che told Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi that they would become Chief Escorts of branches in distant continents, while he expected to become an inspector of the One Heart Sect.
• After accidentally revealing his expected appointment, Fang Che devised a plan to make Night Demon Chief Inspector and place Star Light under Night Demon as an inspector.
• Fang Che warned the two men to prepare their branches carefully, keep a low profile, avoid needless violence, and enforce the escort agency's rules.
• Fang Che described his long-term goal of turning the All Under Heaven Escort Agency into an independent department of the Grand Sect that could protect vulnerable people and operate between both worlds.
• Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi pledged to work toward Fang Che's goal and keep it secret, and Fang Che urged them to improve their cultivation for the agency's future growth.

Fang Che returned to the Guardian Hall after shaking off a powerful pursuer, only to find Hong Er Quezi begging him for help after the deacons drugged him over his wedding wine deception. Fang Che scolded them for harming Qin Fang as well, leaving the group facing the consequences of their revenge.

• Zhao Wushang and Zheng Yunqi vowed to protect their positions and keep the Escort Agency plan secret after Fang Che warned them about rivals at headquarters.
• Fang Che changed disguises and routes to lose a powerful pursuer who had followed Yin Xiu, then went home and headed to the Guardian Hall.
• Yuan Jingjiang, Yun Jian Qiu, and the deacons welcomed Fang Che while Hong Er Quezi clung to him and pleaded for help.
• Yun Jian Qiu explained that Hong Er Quezi had served cheap wine as fifty-year Iron Blood Stage wine at his wedding, angering the Guardian Hall.
• Yun Jian Qiu and Yuan Jingjiang admitted they had drugged Hong Er Quezi with Well-behaved Powder, leaving him unable to perform on his wedding night.
• Fang Che rebuked the group for failing to consider Qin Fang, whose wedding night had also been ruined.

Fang Che and the Guardian Hall members decided to explain to Qin Fang that Hong Er Quezi had not been unfaithful, though the awkward task fell to Fang Che and Jing Xiuyun. After visiting Qin Fang, Fang Che encountered Quezi, who had returned from seeking a wandering doctor for a cure.

• Fang Che pointed out that Hong Er Quezi’s punishment also affected Qin Fang, and Yun Jian Qiu explained that the Well-behaved Powder would wear off within ten days without an antidote.
• Fang Che proposed secretly telling Qin Fang the truth so she would know Quezi had not been fooling around outside, and the group chose Fang Che to explain it.
• Fang Che and Jing Xiuyun visited Qin Fang, leaving her shocked and embarrassed by the explanation.
• Fang Che and Jing Xiuyun later met Hong Er Quezi, who admitted he had again passed off cheap liquor as Taizi liquor because he could not afford the real thing.
• Hong Er Quezi told Fang Che he had gone to see a wandering doctor who supposedly cured every illness with one dose.

Fang Che heard of a miraculous doctor at the Returning Spring Hand and realized the physician was the person he had suspected of following him. He arrived at the shop under the pretense of seeking treatment and registering the doctor, leaving the physician about to examine him.

• Fang Che learned from Hong Er Quezi about a doctor near the All Under Heaven Escort Agency who had promised to help with his condition.
• Fang Che sent Hong Er Quezi and Jing Xiuyun home, then headed back toward the All Under Heaven Escort Agency.
• As Fang Che walked through the streets, residents greeted him warmly, and a little girl gave him a flower and kissed his cheek.
• Fang Che recognized the medicinal scent at the Returning Spring Hand as the trace left by the person he had suspected of following him.
• Fang Che greeted the waiting patients, announced he had come for treatment and to register the doctor, and sat down at the doctor's table.

Fang Che met the physician Yao Pingan, sensed that he was a powerful and suspicious figure, and waited to hear his secret. Yao Pingan revealed that the Demonic Cult member Starlight had become Yin Xiu, the popular Chief Escort of All Under Heaven Escort Agency.

• Yao Pingan examined Fang Che at a glance, then answered his questions while Fang registered him.
• Fang Che suspected Yao Pingan was using a false name and detected that his cultivation surpassed Fang's and that he harbored malice.
• After treating his patients, Yao Pingan invited Fang Che into his shop and said he had a secret concerning White Cloud Continent and the Guardians.
• Yao Pingan told Fang Che that Starlight of the One Heart Sect had become Yin Xiu, Chief Escort of All Under Heaven Escort Agency.

Yao Pingan manipulated Fang Che into believing that Xingmang and All Under Heaven Escort Agency were tied to the One Heart Sect, prompting Fang Che to send a report to Yin Shen Gong. At the One Heart Sect, Duan Xiyang arrived with Yan Beihan and Aunt Hong, read Night Demon's messages, and learned of Night Demon's multiple identities while Yan Beihan continued investigating him.

• Yao Pingan claimed he had saved Xingmang and suggested that All Under Heaven Escort Agency's escort leaders belonged to the One Heart Sect, and Fang Che arranged his lodging while pretending to believe him.
• Fang Che decided to alert both the Guardians and Yin Shen Gong, and Night Dream prepared to pass along the information from his report.
• Duan Xiyang arrived at the One Heart Sect with Yan Beihan and Aunt Hong, and Yin Shen Gong welcomed them while concealing his concern about Night Demon.
• Yan Beihan questioned Yin Shen Gong about Night Demon's cultivation and marriage, and Yin Shen Gong explained that Night Demon had a wife whom he treated like one despite their forced marriage.
• Duan Xiyang privately ordered Yin Shen Gong to check his messages and learned that Night Demon was also Starshine, then approved Night Demon's proposed Chief Inspector role and gave Yin Shen Gong a sword technique.
• Yan Beihan and Aunt Hong spent the afternoon asking Yin Shen Gong, Qian Sanjiang, and Hou Fang about Night Demon's history.

Yan Beihan persuaded Aunt Hong to support her bid for greater independence, while Yin Shen Gong alerted Yan Nan and Duan Xiyang that Star Light had been exposed. Duan Xiyang captured Yao Pingan, who confessed that he was Kou Yifang, and the chapter ended with his scheme to destroy the One Heart Sect exposed.

• Yan Beihan explained to Aunt Hong that she needed more authority to grow independently, and Aunt Hong promised to seek it from Yan Nan.
• Yin Shen Gong learned from Fang Che that Yao Pingan might have discovered Star Light's identity and immediately reported the danger to Yan Nan.
• Yan Nan ordered Yin Shen Gong to report the matter privately to Duan Xiyang, who agreed to capture the suspected enemy alive.
• Duan Xiyang took Yin Shen Gong to White Cloud Continent and seized Yao Pingan in his room.
• Under Duan Xiyang's White Bone Soul Suppression, Yao Pingan confessed that he was Kou Yifang and revealed his plan to use the Guardians against the One Heart Sect.

Kou Yifang was exposed and captured after Duan Xiyang discovered that Fang Che was Starflare, and the One Heart Sect resolved the crisis while assigning Fang Che new duties. Kou Yifang was taken to Sole True Sect headquarters for Blood Alert the World, while Fang Che enjoyed a brief respite and prepared to visit Azure Wave City with Night Dream.

• Yin Shen Gong confronted Kou Yifang, who confessed that he had targeted Yin Shen Gong and his branch out of resentment, and Duan Xiyang sealed Kou Yifang’s dantian.
• Duan Xiyang revealed that Fang Che was Starflare, leaving Kou Yifang devastated, then carried him and Yin Shen Gong back to the One Heart Sect.
• Yan Nan ordered Kou Yifang returned to headquarters for punishment, arranged appointments for Night Demon and Starflare, and scolded Duan Xiyang for revealing Fang Che’s identity.
• Fang Che learned that Kou Yifang had been captured, discussed his undercover conduct and new assignments with Yin Shen Gong, and was appointed Chief Inspector of One Heart Sect while Xingmang became Inspector and Traveling Emissary.
• Fang Che visited Guardian Hall, where Hong Er Quezi celebrated a brief recovery in his virility, and Kou Yifang was publicly subjected to Blood Alert the World at Sole True Sect headquarters.
• Fang Che decided to take Night Dream to Azure Wave City, while Xue Fuxiao and Yu Tianqi left to visit Feng Yunqi, and Xue Fuxiao asked Snow Condensing Sword to keep an eye on Ninth Master.

Snow Condensing Sword tried and failed to get a look at Jun Lin's original autobiography, while Dong Yunyu returned to the Dong Clan and plunged his family into chaos. As Yang Luoyu arrived with the Guardians' ceremonial reward, Dong Yunyu was still being punished and had not yet been formally honored.

• Xue Fuxiao told Snow Condensing Sword that Dongfang Sansan was revising Jun Lin's autobiography, and Snow Condensing Sword was thrown out after asking to read the original.
• Yang Luoyu set out for the Dong Clan with a ceremonial party to present Dong Yunyu with the Continental Hero Medal and an Embroidered Banner.
• Dong Yunyu returned home, quarreled with his family, insulted his ancestors, and caused such havoc that the clan hung him from a jujube tree and beat him for three days.
• Dong Yunyu spotted Yang Luoyu's procession approaching while he was still hanging from the tree, but his family mistook his muffled cries for curses and continued whipping him.
• Zhang Changjun told Yang Luoyu about the Dong Clan's strict traditions and prestige as the procession neared the clan's territory.

Yang Luoyu and Zhang Changjun brought the Guardian Headquarters’ honors to the Dong Clan, where Dong Yunyu’s family learned that the misbehaving young man had become a Continental Hero. After Fang Che and Night Dream set out for Azure Wave City, a traveler recognized Fang Che’s song and stopped in shock.

• Yang Luoyu and Zhang Changjun arrived at the Dong Clan with a ceremonial procession, only to find Dong Yunyu hanging from a jujube tree while his relatives punished him.
• Yang Luoyu announced that Dong Yunyu had earned great merit in the Yin Yang Realm and would receive a share of the resulting pills, the Continental Hero Medal, and an Embroidered Banner.
• Dongmen Zhi identified Dong Yunyu as his son, and Dong Yunyu quietly accepted the honors after seeing his father’s pride; he then asked to join the Guardians and serve alongside Fang Che.
• Dong Yunyu’s family celebrated his achievement, and the Old Ancestor ordered the Dong Clan to train talented descendants for the Guardians’ selection.
• Fang Che and Night Dream departed on horseback for Azure Wave City after Fang Che left resources with Fang Qingyun, who promised to find Heaven’s Countenance Flowers.
• As Fang Che sang on the road, a silent group passed through the forest, and its Fourth Brother recognized the tune and turned back in astonishment.

Fang Che returned to Azure Wave City with Night Dream, where he reunited with his family, strengthened his exhausted uncle with pills, and learned more about his mysterious father. The chapter left Fang Che knowing his father had called himself Fang Xiaoxiao, while the reason behind Jiang Shangou’s sense of familiarity remained unresolved.

• Jiang Shangou stopped Fang Che and Night Dream after hearing Fang Che sing an old song associated with his brothers, the Seven Star Lords, but Fang Che showed no clear recognition of him.
• Jiang Shangou learned Fang Che’s home was the Fang Family in Azure Wave City and left to continue his mission, planning to investigate the song and possibly visit later.
• Fang Che and Night Dream arrived in a city decorated to celebrate Fang Che’s achievements, and Fang Zhenghang welcomed them amid the family’s festivities.
• Fang Che discovered Fang Zhenghang was physically depleted and treated him with pills and the Limitless True Scripture, then gave medicine to Fang Qianyi and Madam Fang.
• Fang Qianyi prepared dumplings for Fang Che and later explained that his father had rescued her after a former friend drugged her, then fought demons despite severe weakness.
• Fang Qianyi told Fang Che that his father had given the name Fang Xiaoxiao.

Fang Che learned more about his father’s disappearance, spent five days with Fang Qianyi, and returned to the House of the Virtuous, where he faced a dangerous renewed Heart Questioning Path. He decided to undergo the trial and urgently messaged Yin Shen Gong to report that something terrible had happened.

• Fang Qianyi told Fang Che that his father had vanished after promising to return, and Fang Che concluded that his father might still be alive.
• Fang Che stayed with Fang Qianyi for five days before she sent him away with packed Dumplings, then he and Night Dream rode back toward White Cloud Continent.
• Fang Che advised Yan Beihan on building her faction, including choosing Bi Yunyan as her second figurehead and recruiting a core team and guest experts.
• Song Yidao told Fang Che that his appointment was suspended until he passed a more dangerous Heart Questioning Path overseen by Yan Wuzui, and urged him to leave the Guardian Hall instead.
• Fang Che refused to give up the trial and messaged Yin Shen Gong, who received his opening warning while preparing to organize One Heart Sect personnel.

Fang Che learned that he would face the Heart Questioning Path again before his promotion, while Yin Shen Gong reassured him and Dongfang Sansan prepared the test and plotted against the Sole True Sect. Zhao Yinger recovered and insisted on returning to Fang Che, and the chapter ended as the White-Clothed Man woke and challenged Feng Yunqi’s accusation.

• Fang Che told Yin Shen Gong that the Guardians had paused his promotion assessment but required him to take the Heart Questioning Path again under Yan Wuzui; Yin Shen Gong told him to face it with a clear conscience.
• Yan Nan concluded that passing the test would give Fang Che a clear path to promotion, questioned Yan Beihan about Fang Che’s soul, and learned that Fang Che’s divine sense had surpassed hers.
• Yin Shen Gong dismissed Fang Che’s requests for comfort and a reward, so Fang Che practiced through the day and sparred with Night Dream before sleeping.
• Dongfang Sansan announced Jun Lin’s abridged autobiography for publication, summoned Yan Wuzui to prepare the Heart Questioning Path, and ordered a covert plan to kill Kou Yifang and provoke Yan Nan.
• Zhao Yinger awoke healed after a month of recovery, learned that Fang Che had the Star of Solitude and Calamity physique, and insisted to the Black-Clothed Man that she would return to him.
• Feng Yunqi and Xue Fuxiao argued over whether the unconscious White-Clothed Man belonged to the Sole True Sect, until the White-Clothed Man suddenly asked who they had called a demon.

Fang Yunzheng awakened after eighteen years unconscious and learned that his Fifth and Ninth Brothers had died saving him, then resolved to find the woman he had loved. Meanwhile, Yan Wuzui brought Fang Che to the Heart Questioning Path, where he encountered Dongfang Sansan in his Domain Space.

• Fang Laoliu awakened, assessed his recovery, and shared a meal with Feng Yunqi and Xue Fuxiao before Xue Fuxiao left with pills.
• Feng Yunqi told Fang Yunzheng that Ji Kongyun and their Fifth Brother had died obtaining the divine crystal spirit-heart to save him, and Fang Yunzheng visited Ji Kongyun's grave.
• Fang Yunzheng revealed he had found a wife during his journey through the mortal world and asked Feng Yunqi to let him go find her; Feng Yunqi agreed only after he recovered further.
• News of Jun Lin's autobiography drove advance orders to twenty billion sets, while the Guardians prepared to print the book.
• After Fang Che's three days of confinement ended, Yan Wuzui arrived and began taking him through the Heart Questioning Path.
• Yan Wuzui brought Fang Che into a Domain Space, where Fang Che met Dongfang Sansan.