Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng and Yun Yao spent the night together, but Yun Yao grew jealous when his thoughts turned to Meng Yutong and warned him not to pursue other women. She accepted that others might fall for him as long as he did not deliberately provoke them, then playfully punished him for his boasts.

• Yun Yao visited Lin Heng at night, and they became intimate until his Wood Element Body’s effects alarmed her and she made him stop.
• Lin Heng and Yun Yao continued together by the doorway, where Yun Yao heard him think about Meng Yutong and became upset.
• Yun Yao told Lin Heng not to show off in front of Meng Yutong or pursue Mu Liuxi, insisting Mu Liuxi could not have romantic feelings for him.
• Lin Heng asked what Yun Yao would do if Mu Liuxi liked him, and Yun Yao said she would accept it but forbade him from actively provoking other women.
• Lin Heng joked that his five senior sisters and Master would give him bliss, so Yun Yao drew on her bloodline power and made him complain that it was too hot.

Yun Yao refused to let Lin Heng use her undeveloped Blazing Phoenix Bloodline to temper his Fire Element Body. After Ye Tian returned to Fairy Cloud Peak, Meng Yutong confronted him over plotting against Lin Heng and gave him two months to raise Four Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones or leave the peak, while setting him and Lin Heng up as rivals for the Holy Son Candidate position.

• Yun Yao warned Lin Heng that drawing on her bloodline before it fully developed could damage her cultivation foundation, and told him to wait until it was complete.
• Ye Tian returned to Fairy Cloud Peak and learned from Mu Liuxi that Meng Yutong had come out of seclusion and wanted to see him.
• Meng Yutong confronted Ye Tian about framing Lin Heng and conspiring with Gao Chuang to cripple him, then demanded he raise Four Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones within two months or leave Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Meng Yutong said Lin Heng would compete with Ye Tian for the Holy Son Candidate position and planned to use their rivalry to temper Lin Heng, with Xi'er and the others watching over him.
• Green Pavilion Sect reopened, and Meng Yutong summoned the disciples to Fragrant Cloud Hall to reward them; Lin Heng was surprised to receive Spirit Spring Water.

Meng Yutong distributed rewards and assigned Ye Tian to help Lin Heng earn the spirit stones required for their tasks, placing Ye Tian under Lin Heng’s authority. After the others left, Lin Heng returned the Sixth-Grade Spirit Restoration Pill and argued with Meng Yutong about his reward of Spirit Spring Water, ending up sent flying into a tree.

• Meng Yutong rewarded Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi, then gave Lin Heng responsibility for Fairy Cloud Peak’s construction and a ten percent profit dividend.
• Meng Yutong reminded Lin Heng of his two-million-spirit-stone task and said the Immortal Academy Hall’s advance payments would count toward his total.
• Meng Yutong gave Ye Tian 5,000 spirit stones and ordered him to earn 400,000 spirit stones in two months, with Lin Heng receiving the money and directing his work.
• Meng Yutong warned the disciples to be careful during the Green Pavilion Sect’s newly unrestricted period of leaving the sect.
• Lin Heng returned the Sixth-Grade Spirit Restoration Pill and learned Meng Yutong had taken his spirit soil and would care for his Blood Ganoderma.
• Lin Heng suggested fungal nourishing soup as a reward, and Meng Yutong struck him so hard that he flew into a tree.

Lin Heng assigned Fairy Cloud Peak’s disciples tasks for building the Immortal Academy Hall, while Ye Tian secretly planned to undermine the project. Outside the sect, Zhao Yue pressed Qiu to continue targeting Meng Yutong, and she weighed the risks of their failed plot.

• Lin Heng assigned Yun Yao to supervise construction, Mu Liuxi to buy materials near Jiang Bing City, and suggested that Ye Tian promote the Immortal Academy Hall in the south.
• Ye Tian rejected Lin Heng’s advice and secretly considered sabotaging the construction, possibly by involving someone in Jiang Bing City.
• Zhao Yue met Qiu outside the sect and complained that Meng Yutong showed no sign of injury from the Burial Bell or the Seven Star Array.
• Qiu questioned whether Clear Moon Long Song should continue targeting Meng Yutong, citing the danger of provoking a Return to Void True Lord.
• Zhao Yue invoked Qiu’s disciple’s death and the strength of Ye Tian’s family to urge her to keep Meng Yutong as their target.

Lin Heng prepared to develop and sell Saint Ye’s pills before meeting Jiang Caiyan at the pavilion for their monthly arrangement. Jiang Caiyan remained angry and distrustful, but she went with him as he promised not to force her again.

• A Star Calculation Pavilion spy overheard Zhao Yue discuss pressuring others over the Refining Void Pill and her interest in Meng Yutong’s body.
• Lin Heng studied the ingredients and effects of the Dream-Enhancing Pill, Beauty Pill, and Endurance Pill, then planned to find materials and alchemy tools.
• Jiang Caiyan arrived at the pavilion with blue eyes, and Lin Heng startled her by kissing her cheek.
• Jiang Caiyan challenged Lin Heng about the 400 Spirit Stones and his past coercion, while he insisted the money was for missions and promised not to force her again.
• Jiang Caiyan declared that she would not forgive or trust Lin Heng, but she went with him down the mountain.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan traveled to Yongzhou City to gather supplies and investigate a mission, while Mu Liuxi’s procurement plans faced opposition in Jiang Bing City. At the Justice Bureau, Lin Heng learned that Yongzhou’s City Lord and the previous Bureau Chief were dead.

• Lin Heng planned to seek alchemy methods in Yongzhou City so he could protect his pill formula while making pills.
• Ye Tian urged Li Feiyu to obstruct Mu Liuxi’s procurement in Jiang Bing City, and Li Feiyu agreed to pressure Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan reached Yongzhou City and learned that the Justice Bureau now governed the city after upheaval at the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The sickly acting Bureau Chief told Lin Heng that the City Lord had been dead for a month and that the former Bureau Chief was likely dead as well.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan investigated Crown Calamity Town after learning that previous cultivators had died there and its former Bureau Chief had disappeared. They found the town eerily devoid of life, and as they approached a crossroads, strange chanting rang out from the east.

• A young official warned Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan that three Mystic Moon Mountain disciples had died after going to Crown Calamity Town, and explained that the former Bureau Chief had also gone missing there.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan left Yongzhou City and rode southwest to Crown Calamity Town, where dense white mist shrouded the water-surrounded settlement.
• They found felled trees blocking the path and noticed the town lacked birds, insects, plants, and any sense of vitality.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan observed that the town's outer buildings formed an Inverted Round Hexagram and then ventured farther inside.
• Jiang Caiyan used invisible black threads to shield them from the feeling of being watched as they approached a crossroads.
• Chanting about a cultivators' marriage, sacrifices, and a nether wedding came from the east.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan encountered a cursed wedding procession that tried to lure them with the image of someone they longed for, then met Hong He and his Justice Bureau team. Their conflicting accounts of time and Lord Zhao’s fate suggested that someone in Guanjie City was lying, and Jiang Caiyan pulled Lin Heng away before he could press the issue.

• Lin Heng saw Jiang Caiyan’s face beneath the bride’s veil and learned from her that the procession was a Sacrificial Ritual using Cursed Arts to lure victims.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan met an old man who denied that monsters were in the area and pointed them toward people from the Justice Bureau.
• Hong He identified himself as the Bureau Chief and said he had arrived in Guanjie City less than a day earlier, contradicting Lin Heng’s account that the team had been missing for half a month.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan realized their memories of time differed and that Hong He’s account of Lord Zhao’s fate conflicted with what they had been told.
• Jiang Caiyan tugged Lin Heng’s sleeve, shook her head, and led him away.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan took shelter in a house after Bureau Chief Hong He warned them that monsters came knocking at night. While Jiang Caiyan applied medicine to Lin Heng’s injured eye, he fell asleep, and a wedding procession’s sounds suddenly filled the courtyard.

• Jiang Caiyan told Lin Heng that a Forbidden Curse controlled the town’s Executors and that evil factions were watching them.
• Bureau Chief Hong He warned them to stay indoors after dark, so Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan entered the house next to his.
• Lin Heng explained that someone was controlling the Executors, then pulled Jiang Caiyan onto his lap to grind medicine for his eye.
• Jiang Caiyan applied the medicine and questioned Lin Heng about his injured eye while he teased her with his thoughts.
• Lin Heng fell asleep, and the sounds of gongs, drums, firecrackers, songs, and children’s laughter rose outside the door.

Jiang Caiyan confronted the bridal procession, which revealed itself as a Cursed Art set by members of the Curse Pavilion, while Lin Heng was unexpectedly drawn into the Illusory World Mirror. The fight continued as Lin Heng learned more about the Mirror and found that Saint Ye could not teach him pill refining.

• Jiang Caiyan refused to call out the sleeping Lin Heng and warned the bridal procession to leave before unleashing her Golden Core pressure.
• The procession attacked with a Forbidden Cursed Art, but Jiang Caiyan used Blood Sacrifice Chains and her demonic abilities to break the curse and strike back.
• Two men controlling flesh puppets at a hidden altar identified themselves as people of the Curse Pavilion and threatened Jiang Caiyan over her apparent Blood Moon Cult affiliation.
• Jiang Caiyan denied belonging to the Blood Moon Cult and attacked the Curse Pavilion members, while they struggled to resist her cutting black lines.
• Lin Heng was pulled into the Illusory World Mirror without taking it out, and Saint Ye explained that the Mirror was becoming his own.
• Lin Heng asked for a pill-refining technique, but Saint Ye said he could not provide one and explained that pill refining also required a suitable flame and cauldron.

Lin Heng learned from Saint Ye that the intense desire he felt around Jiang Caiyan might come from resonance between their physiques, but Saint Ye blamed Lin Heng’s treatment of her for her hatred. After Jiang Caiyan killed attackers from the Curse Pavilion, Lin Heng explained the theory to her without winning her trust, and the two parted so he could return to Yongzhou City and handle the pill matter.

• Lin Heng asked Saint Ye why Jiang Caiyan’s scent overwhelmed him, and Saint Ye suggested their physiques were resonating because they were unusually compatible Dao companions.
• Lin Heng recounted how he had forced Jiang Caiyan into Dual Cultivation, and Saint Ye rebuked him for treating her cruelly and warned that she might kill him.
• Lin Heng woke to find corpses in the courtyard and learned that Jiang Caiyan had killed Curse Pavilion attackers while he slept.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Caiyan that their physique resonance explained his behavior, but she dismissed the claim as another of his lies.
• Jiang Caiyan stayed behind to process the puppets, while Lin Heng planned to return to Yongzhou City and told her to meet him there or in Jiang Bing City.

Lin Heng returned to Yongzhou City and discovered that the Justice Bureau had no Bureau Chief and that the City Lord's Mansion had ordered the city sealed. He deduced that the sickly young man who had impersonated the Bureau Chief might have been involved in the deaths of Mystic Moon Mountain disciples, and worried that the Little Demoness was in danger before City Lord Zhao Yuande arrived.

• Lin Heng returned to Yongzhou City and found its gates open and its streets busy again.
• The guards at the Justice Bureau denied that a sickly young man had been appointed Bureau Chief and said the Bureau Chief had been missing for over half a month.
• A steward told Lin Heng that the City Lord's Mansion had sealed Yongzhou City while investigating disappearances and searching for the missing Bureau Chief.
• Lin Heng reasoned that the sickly young man had known about the Mystic Moon Mountain disciple's death in advance and might have been involved in it.
• Lin Heng feared the Little Demoness could be in danger in Crown Calamity Town, then met City Lord Zhao Yuande.

Lin Heng told Zhao Yuande that the Justice Bureau’s chief had died and that the Curse Pavilion had orchestrated the disaster in Crown Calamity Town. He then urged Zhao Yuande to prepare Yongzhou City and promoted Fairy Cloud Peak’s Immortal Academy Hall, leaving Zhao ready to enroll his juniors despite the tuition cost.

• Lin Heng explained the impersonation at the Justice Bureau and revealed that the Curse Pavilion was behind the ghosts and the tragedy in Crown Calamity Town.
• Zhao Yuande ordered an investigation, and his steward found two murdered Executors and stolen official robes hidden in an abandoned house.
• Lin Heng advised Zhao Yuande to prepare Yongzhou City and build ties with Immortal Sects while the Dynasty’s response was pending.
• Lin Heng promoted the Immortal Academy Hall, and Zhao Yuande recognized it as a chance to help his juniors and strengthen his position.
• Zhao Yuande agreed to consider enrollment and said he could afford the annual tuition of ten thousand Spirit Stones.

Lin Heng collected Spirit Stones from the Zhao Family and went to the merchant association to rent an Alchemy Chamber and obtain ingredients. Meanwhile, Ye Tian fled a group from the Bai Family who accused him of stealing their ancestral Literary Path artifact, while Hua Qi urged him to avoid their Nascent Soul pursuer.

• Lin Heng recorded the Zhao Family's sightseeing and enrollment orders, collected their Spirit Stones, and heard the mansion lord discuss seeking help against the Yi Pavilion.
• Lin Heng visited the merchant association, arranged to rent an Alchemy Chamber, and gave the Alchemy Alliance branch manager a list of ingredients he needed.
• Ye Tian traveled east alone, dealt with one group trying to kill him, and then fled people from the Bai Family who demanded a writing brush.
• The Bai Family enlisted a Nascent Soul Early Stage scholar to pursue Ye Tian, while Hua Qi questioned him about the alleged ancestral-tomb robbery.
• Ye Tian denied stealing anything and told Hua Qi that he would eventually confront the Bai Family, while she urged him to escape or avoid fighting the pursuer.

Ye Tian escaped a Nascent Soul Venerable who coveted his Dao-resonating fist technique, then argued with Hua Qi about his finances and Lin Heng. Meanwhile, Lin Heng reached the Alchemy Alliance’s underground marketplace.

• The Nascent Soul Venerable trapped Ye Tian in a Character Well, but Ye Tian broke through it with a fist that resonated with the Dao.
• The Venerable pursued Ye Tian, grew convinced he carried an extraordinary inheritance, and ultimately lost ground as Ye Tian burned his blood essence to escape.
• After resting, Ye Tian refused Hua Qi’s advice to accept Lin Heng’s financial help and insisted he could earn enough spirit stones himself.
• Hua Qi urged Ye Tian to plan for the possibility of leaving Fairy Cloud Peak and to take Lin Heng seriously, but Ye Tian angrily objected to her praise of him.
• Lin Heng followed the person in charge to the Alchemy Alliance’s underground pavilion, where alchemists and merchants sold pills.

Lin Heng entered the Alchemy Alliance’s pill-refining chamber and watched its alchemists at work while waiting for ingredients. When he spotted an alchemist using a Green Lotus Dao Fire, he decided to invoke Senior Brother Ye’s name to help him obtain it.

• Lin Heng toured the Alchemy Alliance branch and rented a pill-refining area in its Alchemy Chamber.
• While waiting for the ingredients, Lin Heng watched four alchemists attempt to refine a fifth-grade Karma-Breaking Pill.
• Lin Heng saw an alchemist wield a blue-red Heavenly Flame that he identified as likely being the Green Lotus Dao Fire.
• Lin Heng considered the flame’s value to his Fire Element Body but worried that taking it would bring the Alchemy Alliance’s anger.
• Lin Heng pushed up his Concealing Mask and said he would borrow Senior Brother Ye’s name to pluck the flame.

Lin Heng struggled to refine a Dream-Enhancing Pill, learned from his mistakes, and began planning to use the Zhao Family to support his pill-making business. Meanwhile, Black Robe reported that the Blood Moon Cult had poisoned the Corpse Nurturing Sect’s leader, leaving Jiang Caiyan to consider the risks of the plan.

• Lin Heng bought pill ingredients for 3,800 Spirit Stones and began refining while observing Alchemist Sun’s techniques.
• Alchemist Sun successfully made a Fourth Grade Karma-Breaking Pill, while Lin Heng’s attempts repeatedly failed before he produced a first-tier pill.
• Lin Heng decided to seek the Zhao Family’s help with refining and promoting pills in Swallow Cloud City, and he continued watching Alchemist Sun’s Heavenly Flame.
• Black Robe told Jiang Caiyan that the Blood Moon Cult had poisoned the Corpse Nurturing Sect’s leader and that the leader would die within three days without an antidote.
• Jiang Caiyan worried that the Corpse Nurturing Sect’s remaining disciples might retaliate and that other evil sects might become afraid of them.

Jiang Caiyan ordered Black Robe to process the corpses and continued to resist the idea of giving in to Lin Heng, while Lin Heng honed his alchemy and then ambushed an Alchemy Alliance procession to seize its Heavenly Flame. The chapter ended as Lin Heng prepared to face the old alchemist and his guards.

• Jiang Caiyan told Black Robe to recruit people into the Blood Moon Cult and feed resisters to the blood corpses, then assigned him to refine the gathered corpses.
• Jiang Caiyan refused Black Robe’s suggestion to capture Lin Heng and privately vowed not to succumb to him.
• Lin Heng refined pills through fifteen attempts and became able to produce first- and second-grade pills with about a forty percent success rate.
• Lin Heng learned that the Alchemy Alliance would carry the Karma-Breaking Pill out through Yongzhou City’s west gate and waited along the route.
• Lin Heng stopped the procession, revealed that he wanted the old alchemist’s Heavenly Flame, and ordered him to hand it over.

Lin Heng confronted Alchemist Wang and his attendants outside Yongzhou City, demanding the old man's Green Lotus Dao Fire. Alchemist Wang's attempt to use the flame to kill Lin Heng backfired, leaving Lin Heng engulfed in a violent burst of fire.

• Lin Heng struck down six attendants with a single palm, leaving only the two Qi Refining cultivators conscious.
• Alchemist Wang and his remaining attendants threatened Lin Heng, who demanded that Alchemist Wang hand over his Heavenly Flame.
• One attendant advised Alchemist Wang to let Lin Heng take the Green Lotus Dao Fire and then use it to burn him.
• Alchemist Wang handed the flame to Lin Heng, secretly intending to roast him and refine his body into a human pill.
• The Green Lotus Dao Fire engulfed Lin Heng, but he remained standing as Alchemist Wang and his attendants celebrated.
• A sudden eruption of flame energy swept away the two Qi Refining cultivators and forced Alchemist Wang to retreat.

Lin Heng subdued the Green Lotus Dao Fire by balancing his Water and Wood Element Bodies, then beat and looted Old Deng and his companions. After finding Jiang Caiyan gone from Crown Calamity Town, he began pressuring the flame to acknowledge him as its master.

• Lin Heng used his Water Element Body, Wood Element Body, and the Jade Origin Vine's Life Origin Force to withstand and contain the Green Lotus Dao Fire, cutting off Old Deng's control of it.
• Lin Heng beat Old Deng despite his threats about the Alchemy Alliance, then spared him and looted the treasures from all seven people, including the Karma-Breaking Pill.
• Lin Heng returned to Crown Calamity Town but found no trace of Jiang Caiyan and worried that her resentment would complicate their relationship.
• Lin Heng used his Four Symbols Water Dragon and Imperial Dragon Qi to frighten the Green Lotus Dao Fire into a tiny flame, then demanded that it serve him or be refined into his Fire Element Body.