Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng realized he had transmigrated into a doomed villain role in a cultivation novel and received a system that offered a survival route through plot choices. As he returned to Green Pavilion Sect, Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi discovered they could hear his inner thoughts, while the Peak Masters debated who would take him in.

• Lin Heng recalled that he was the Sect Leader's lost son and planned to avoid the protagonist and choose a different master so he could survive.
• Lin Heng received the Villain Life System, which offered plot choices and Heaven-Defying Comprehension as a support reward.
• Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi heard Lin Heng insult them in his thoughts and became angry when he predicted their tragic fates.
• The six Peak Masters arrived to discuss Lin Heng's return and argued over which peak should take him.
• The Elders dismissed Lin Heng's cultivation aptitude and passed responsibility for him between them, while Meng Yutong watched without volunteering.

Lin Heng tried to avoid being assigned to Meng Yutong’s Fairy Cloud Peak, but she accepted him as her disciple anyway. During his purification, his thoughts revealed that she was destined to be framed and ruined, and Meng Yutong realized a trap might already be waiting for her.

• Lin Heng’s inner thoughts insulted Meng Yutong and predicted that the Third Elder would assign him to her peak, prompting Meng Yutong and her disciples to listen closely.
• When the Third Elder suggested sending Lin Heng to Fairy Cloud Peak, Lin Heng asked to work in the spirit fields instead, but Meng Yutong agreed to take him anyway.
• Yun Yao crushed Lin Heng’s fingers in an overly forceful handshake, and Mu Liuxi introduced herself as his second Senior Sister.
• Lin Heng reluctantly accepted Meng Yutong as his Master, and the Grand Elder used the Chaos Bell to purify him.
• While the Chaos Bell purified him, Lin Heng thought that Purple Void Sect and Clear Moon Long Song had already set a trap for Meng Yutong, alarming her.

Lin Heng joined Fairy Cloud Peak and received the Heavenly Chart from Meng Yutong, while his inner thoughts made her and the other disciples question Ye Tian and the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm expedition. The chapter ended with the women realizing Lin Heng’s thoughts had been focused on Meng Yutong’s body.

• Meng Yutong took Lin Heng to Fairy Cloud Peak, where Ye Tian greeted him and tried to comfort him about his lack of cultivation talent.
• Meng Yutong rebuked Ye Tian for bringing up Lin Heng’s harsh upbringing and promised to teach her new disciple with care.
• Meng Yutong gave Lin Heng the Heavenly Chart, and Ye Tian resented that she had refused to give it to him before.
• Lin Heng’s thoughts warned Meng Yutong that the Heavenly Secret Sect’s invitation to explore the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm could be a trap involving the Purple Void Sect and Clear Moon Long Song.
• Ye Tian argued that Fairy Cloud Peak should join the expedition, while Lin Heng’s thoughts prompted Meng Yutong and the other women to notice her posture and react angrily.

Lin Heng moved into a shabby courtyard at Fairy Cloud Peak and discovered that Ye Tian had planted a jade pendant to frame him. As the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm trip approached, Lin Heng received conflicting missions: help Ye Tian betray Meng Yutong for a Supreme reward or try to stop him for an uncertain reward.

• Meng Yutong decided to bring Lin Heng to the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm and ordered Yun Yao to arrange his lodging, while Ye Tian offered to house him in the Disciple Palace.
• After the others left, Meng Yutong ordered someone to investigate the Purple Void Sect, Clear Moon Long Song, and Lin Heng's past, wondering how he knew so much about her future.
• Yun Yao led Lin Heng to a neglected courtyard, where Ye Tian stayed behind to help clean it with two Miscellaneous Servant Disciples.
• After Ye Tian left, Lin Heng found a dark green jade pendant hidden in the side room and realized Ye Tian had planted it as a possible theft accusation.
• Lin Heng reviewed his plans to strengthen his body and use the Heavenly Chart in the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm, then received a righteous mission to help Ye Tian betray Meng Yutong and a villainous mission to stop him.

Lin Heng was cleared of Ye Tian’s accusation over a missing Jade Pendant, but Meng Yutong then ordered him to reclaim wasteland with a hoe. As Yun Yao supervised him, Lin Heng complained inwardly and she secretly listened without revealing her ability.

• Ye Tian accused Lin Heng of taking his Jade Pendant, but Meng Yutong found it in the courtyard’s garbage heap and ended the search.
• Lin Heng explained that he had mistaken the pendant for trash, and Ye Tian left with it while giving him a cold look.
• Yun Yao gave Lin Heng a hoe and took him to reclaim the wasteland behind the mountain under Meng Yutong’s orders.
• Lin Heng worked while cursing Meng Yutong in his thoughts, and Yun Yao offered him a spirit melon and teased him about enjoying the task.
• Lin Heng reflected on Yun Yao and the other female leads, while Yun Yao nearly exposed that she could hear his thoughts.

Lin Heng and the others traveled to the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm, while Yun Yao learned that her future with Ye Tian might take a disastrous turn and began to guard against him. At the Unfallen Mountains, the gathered cultivators waited for Diviner Pu Fangyuan to announce the time to enter.

• Yun Yao overheard Lin Heng's thoughts about her future with Ye Tian and secretly resolved not to accept that fate.
• Meng Yutong kept Lin Heng reclaiming spirit fields for two days before taking him and her other disciples aboard the Cloud Boat.
• Ye Tian objected to Lin Heng joining the secret-realm expedition, but Meng Yutong told the others to look after him, provoking Ye Tian's jealousy.
• After traveling for two and a half days, Meng Yutong and her disciples reached the Unfallen Mountains, where cultivators from many sects had gathered.
• Pu Fangyuan explained that the shifted secret realm had created multiple paths and said the best entrance would open when the hanging sun stood over the eastern shade.

Lin Heng entered the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm with the sects and learned through a system prompt that Meng Yutong was being used as the Formation Eye in a dangerous plan tied to Ye Tian. He chose not to warn her, while Meng Yutong, Yun Yao, and Mu Liuxi heard his thoughts and struggled over whether to intervene.

• Lin Heng observed the sect delegations before Pu Fangyuan opened the secret realm gate and led the cultivators inside.
• The group found a desolate kingdom, a pit filled with bones, and evidence that a Dao Integration cultivator had been executed there.
• A system prompt revealed that the Heavenly Secret Sect planned to use a Seven Stars, Six Positions Formation to break barriers, with Meng Yutong serving as its vulnerable Formation Eye.
• Lin Heng decided not to interfere with Meng Yutong's coming injuries because he wanted to follow the plot and turn Ye Tian into a Master-Defying Disciple.
• Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi heard Lin Heng's inner thoughts but could not find a convincing way to warn Meng Yutong.
• Meng Yutong grew angry at Lin Heng for withholding what he knew, then reconsidered because he had no reason to expect her to believe a warning.

Pu Fangyuan led the cultivators in using the Seven Star Array to break the barrier, but Meng Yutong suffered the backlash after being placed at the array core. As the other sects rushed ahead, Meng Yutong secretly used her last Dao Pearl to blunt her injuries and continued testing Ye Tian, uncertain whether Lin Heng’s warning about his betrayal would come true.

• Pu Fangyuan arranged the seven cultivators in the Seven Star Array without explaining that every position could become its array core, and Meng Yutong knowingly took the core position.
• The cultivators poured their power into the Fortune Disc, breaking the barrier, and the resulting backlash struck Meng Yutong.
• Pu Fangyuan offered healing pills, then led his disciples into the secret realm; the other sects followed while Meng Yutong stayed behind with her group.
• Lin Heng’s warning about Ye Tian’s future betrayal frightened Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi, while Meng Yutong watched Ye Tian’s concerned reaction but remained suspicious.
• Meng Yutong revealed that her last Dao Pearl had absorbed most of the backlash and decided to keep testing whether Ye Tian would betray her.

Meng Yutong recovered enough to enter the secret realm, where Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi explored together and encountered Ye Tian competing for an Innate Treasure Tree. Lin Heng realized its Life-Nurturing Force could expose Meng Yutong’s declining cultivation, making it a crucial step in Ye Tian’s future plan to marry his Master.

• Meng Yutong told her disciples to search for opportunities and defend themselves if attacked, while she explored alone.
• Yun Yao left Lin Heng with Mu Liuxi, and Lin Heng teased her about how much space she wanted between them.
• Mu Liuxi explained that secret realms and their restrictions could change through Astral Shift over time.
• Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi came across Ye Tian confronting a Clear Moon Long Song disciple over a withered tree.
• Lin Heng identified the tree as an Innate Treasure Tree and realized its Life-Nurturing Force could help reveal Meng Yutong’s cultivation decline.

Lin Heng watched Ye Tian kill Li Chaochun and predicted that the fight would help Ye Tian enter the Heavenly Ladder Ranking, while Mu Liuxi realized Lin Heng had foreseen the battle. Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi found pills and an incomplete Dream-Making Mirror in a secret chamber, then left as the ruins began to shake.

• Lin Heng predicted how Ye Tian would defeat Li Chaochun, a ranked disciple of Clear Moon Long Song, and watched Ye Tian kill him in four exchanges.
• Mu Liuxi warned Ye Tian that killing Li Chaochun would provoke Clear Moon Long Song, but Ye Tian defended his actions and claimed Meng Yutong would take responsibility.
• Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi explored the ruins and found Fourth Grade pills that Lin Heng identified as Rage God Pills.
• Mu Liuxi gave Lin Heng an ancient mirror, which the system identified as an incomplete Dream-Making Mirror that could aid cultivation and connect dreams with reality.
• Lin Heng and Mu Liuxi left the secret chamber as the ground shook violently.

Yun Yao reunited with Mu Liuxi and Lin Heng after escaping a mysterious pressure, while Meng Yutong fought Qiu to protect Ye Tian from revenge for killing Li Chaochun. Pu Fangyuan stopped their battle to prevent the secret realm’s restrictions from collapsing, but a powerful quake began as Ye Tian prepared to offer Meng Yutong the Life Wood.

• Yun Yao told Mu Liuxi and Lin Heng that she had found a pill cauldron before a burst of pressure forced her to flee, and she heard that Meng Yutong had started fighting someone.
• Mu Liuxi explained that Ye Tian had killed Li Chaochun, prompting Li Chaochun’s fellow disciple Qiu to attack Meng Yutong and demand Ye Tian’s death.
• A Purple Void Sect disciple lamented the death of his junior sister, then revealed that he was actually grieving the 1,000 Spirit Stones she had borrowed from him.
• Meng Yutong refused to let Qiu kill Ye Tian, and the two fought until Pu Fangyuan separated them and forbade further large-scale fighting in the secret realm.
• Qiu withdrew after threatening Meng Yutong and Ye Tian, while Meng Yutong reassured Ye Tian and he prepared to offer her the Life Wood.
• The ground began shaking more violently than during the fight between Meng Yutong and Qiu.

The Ancient Bronze Bell unleashed Dao Power across the secret realm, injuring Yun Yao and Ye Tian while Meng Yutong tried to protect herself. After they escaped, Yun Yao woke and dragged Lin Heng away to punish him for using her as a shield and thinking lewdly about her.

• The Ancient Bronze Bell rang and released Dao Power that swallowed cultivators near the secret realm's center, while Meng Yutong used her treasures to protect herself and Ye Tian.
• Lin Heng pulled Yun Yao in front of himself as the Dao Power struck, and she fainted after taking the brunt of the blast.
• Meng Yutong found Lin Heng and the others, and they left the secret realm aboard a Cloud Boat with Ye Tian and Yun Yao unconscious.
• Lin Heng considered avoiding a future mission that could get his leg broken and help Ye Tian win Yun Yao over.
• Yun Yao woke, kicked Lin Heng, and dragged him out of the cabin after revealing she had heard his thoughts while unconscious.

After returning early from the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm, Lin Heng was forced by Meng Yutong to work in the fields under Yun Yao’s watch. Remembering that Ye Tian could defy his Master, Lin Heng decided to investigate Meng Yutong’s condition and attempt the same, hoping to escape Fairy Cloud Peak.

• The white-clad woman withdrew Clear Moon Long Song’s remaining disciples from the secret realm after the bell’s Dao Power caused a calamity, and she believed Meng Yutong had been injured.
• Green Pavilion Sect disciples speculated that Fairy Cloud Peak had left the secret realm early because its members could not compete with the other sects.
• Lin Heng treated his bruised eye, noticed Ye Tian’s Main Storyline had not ended, and resolved to ask Meng Yutong for cultivation techniques.
• Yun Yao told Lin Heng that Meng Yutong had ordered him to work in the fields to temper his character, then brought him there.
• While working, Lin Heng reasoned that he could imitate Ye Tian by defying Meng Yutong and decided to find out how much cultivation she had left.

Lin Heng entered Meng Yutong’s chambers, mistook her staged weakness for a real cultivation decline, and tried to use the secret to force her to give him cultivation resources. Meng Yutong played along to discover what he knew, leaving Lin Heng about to explain his leverage.

• Meng Yutong secretly bathed in the Spirit Pool while Lin Heng entered Fragrant Cloud Hall, convinced her cultivation had fallen too far for her to detect him.
• Lin Heng confronted Meng Yutong behind her screen and demanded that she teach him cultivation methods instead of having Yun Yao supervise his work.
• Lin Heng pulled aside the curtains and grabbed Meng Yutong’s wrist, declaring that he would defy his Master and use her cultivation decline as leverage.
• Meng Yutong acted shocked and weak while deciding to let Lin Heng continue so she could learn what secret he knew.
• Lin Heng warned Meng Yutong that she would not want anyone to know her cultivation had fallen, then began promising to explain her situation.

Lin Heng convinced Meng Yutong to keep playing along with his act and received a token to enter the Main Peak Library Pavilion. As he headed there, the system announced that he had completed the main storyline and awarded him a Mutant Five Elements Root, which he chose to transplant.

• Lin Heng warned Meng Yutong that her enemies and rivals might exploit her if her cultivation fell, and she decided to pretend to submit while secretly planning to deal with him later.
• Lin Heng touched Meng Yutong's cheek, and she slapped his hand away before allowing him to rest her head in his palm.
• Meng Yutong gave Lin Heng a secret token for the Main Peak Library Pavilion and told him not to return to her bedchamber.
• Lin Heng left for the Main Peak, where the system announced the main storyline was complete and awarded him a Mutant Five Elements Root.
• After the system explained the root's benefits and resource demands, Lin Heng found a secluded place and agreed to transplant it.

Lin Heng used Meng Yutong’s Elder’s Secret Order to search the Library Pavilion for cultivation techniques and selected a rare Spirit-Devouring Art and a fragment of a Golden Body art. His search ended when a centuries-old woman appeared behind him and objected to being called a little miss.

• Lin Heng encountered Du Yan at the Main Peak Daoist Arena and showed him Meng Yutong’s Elder’s Secret Order.
• Du Yan explained that the Clearance Order let Lin Heng enter any of the Library Pavilion’s nine floors.
• Lin Heng found the fourth-tier Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art on the second floor and stored it away.
• Lin Heng chose the Ten-zhang Golden Body, a fragment of a once-tenth-tier divine art, on the third floor.
• A short woman appeared behind Lin Heng, who startled her by calling her a little miss.

Lin Heng chose the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art and the Ten-Zhang Golden Body despite warnings that both were difficult to cultivate, then began cultivating at Heart Cave Lake Pavilion. He opened his first Spirit Wheel and reached Qi Refining First Layer, but realized the art lacked a way to keep the Spirit Wheel absorbing spiritual energy continuously.

• Lin Heng registered the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art and the Ten-Zhang Golden Body with Du Yan, who warned him that both methods were incomplete and difficult to practice.
• Lin Heng returned to his residence, examined an ancient mirror without getting a response, and went to Heart Cave Lake Pavilion to draw qi into his body.
• Lin Heng used the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art to condense spiritual energy into crystals, then unleashed a vortex that forced the energy into his body.
• Lin Heng endured the pain, broke open an acupoint, and opened a Spirit Wheel that absorbed the spiritual power in his meridians and the surrounding crystals.
• Lin Heng reached Qi Refining First Layer and realized the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art lacked a way to keep the Spirit Wheel absorbing spiritual energy once it was full.

Lin Heng opened a second Spirit Wheel and discovered that the pair could keep rotating to absorb spiritual energy, advancing him to the Qi Refining Second Layer. Meanwhile, Ye Tian recovered and rushed to join the sect missions, while Yun Yao forced Lin Heng to accompany her; the chapter ended as someone appeared outside the Treasure Pavilion.

• Lin Heng opened his second Spirit Wheel and found that two saturated Spirit Wheels could rotate together and autonomously absorb spiritual energy.
• Lin Heng reached the Qi Refining Second Layer and decided to visit Meng Yutong for cultivation resources.
• Mu Liuxi gave the recovering Ye Tian three Soul Nourishing Pills and told him that Meng Yutong remained in seclusion.
• Ye Tian rushed to the Main Peak to sign up for sect missions so he could earn a chance to enter the Star Picking Tower.
• Yun Yao dragged Lin Heng to the Treasure Pavilion and insisted that he join her mission because two participants were required.
• A figure appeared outside the Treasure Pavilion as Lin Heng was about to refuse Yun Yao.

Lin Heng was forced by Yun Yao to join her and Ye Tian on two sect missions in Golden Horse City, where the system warned that the trip could let Ye Tian subdue Yun Yao or leave Lin Heng crippled. The three set out the next day, and Lin Heng learned their missions involved investigating the City Lord's Mansion and a string of deaths among clients of prostitutes.

• Ye Tian arrived as Yun Yao pressured Lin Heng into joining the mission, and the disciples watched in astonishment.
• Ye Tian joined Yun Yao and Lin Heng after learning they were headed to Golden Horse City for one D-Class Mission and one B-Class Mission.
• The system presented Lin Heng with a choice between helping Ye Tian subdue Yun Yao or resisting the plot and avoiding injury, and Lin Heng chose to oppose the original storyline.
• The next day, Yun Yao explained how Dynasties cooperated with sects to handle threats from evil cultivators and protect ordinary people.
• Yun Yao told Lin Heng that their missions were to investigate whether the City Lord's Mansion was working with an evil sect and to catch the murderer behind the deaths of prostitutes' clients.

Lin Heng investigated the deaths of three wealthy merchants in Golden Horse City and planned to bait the Yang Essence-draining Evil Cultivator at the Flower Pavilion. While Yun Yao urged caution, the drunken Young Master from the City Lord's Mansion approached their table and noticed her.

• Lin Heng examined the three drained corpses at the Justice Bureau and concluded that an Evil Cultivator had extracted their Yang Essence.
• Lin Heng asked the Bureau Chief to compile a list of Flower Pavilion patrons aged forty to fifty-five and found that the victims were wealthy merchants.
• Lin Heng arranged to use the Bureau Chief as bait at the Flower Pavilion that night, intending to capture the culprit himself.
• Lin Heng met Yun Yao at a restaurant and explained his plan, while she warned him that his cultivation was too low to guarantee the Bureau Chief's safety.
• The drunken Young Master from the City Lord's Mansion entered the restaurant, approached Yun Yao, and remarked on her beauty.