Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng discussed reconciliation with Leng Qingqiu and reported that Prince Qi had agreed to help Master, while he and Duan Shuyun considered how to tell Master about their relationships. Duan Shuyun rejected Lin Heng’s plan to unite the senior sisters against Master and sent him flying.

• Leng Qingqiu asked Lin Heng whether he was speaking to her as a junior brother or a Dao companion, and agreed to talk with him that night.
• Lin Heng told Duan Shuyun that Prince Qi had agreed to help Master and suspected the dynasty was hiding his true cultivation realm.
• Duan Shuyun suggested using Prince Qi’s help as a reason to come clean to Master, but Lin Heng worried Master would punish him.
• Duan Shuyun revealed she had witnessed Lin Heng provoking Master and reminded him that his punishment was deserved.
• Lin Heng proposed that the senior sisters join him in forcing Master to keep her promises, and Duan Shuyun sent him flying.

Meng Yutong, Mu Li, and Ling Fei searched the Seven Immortals Sect ruins for Zhao Yue while Meng Yutong struggled with pressure and thoughts about Lin Heng. Later, Leng Qingqiu explained to Lin Heng why she had impersonated her younger sister: she envied Qingyun’s carefree life while bearing the Leng Family’s burdens herself.

• Ling Fei found no one within a hundred li, and Mu Li explained that Zhao Yue might be preparing to refine a Refining Void Pill in the secret realm.
• Mu Li teased Meng Yutong about leaving Green Pavilion Sect for Joyful Union Sect, while Ling Fei protested and the three argued.
• Meng Yutong reflected on her restless cultivation and dismissed her dreams of Lin Heng taking over her peak as absurd.
• Lin Heng arrived late to meet Leng Qingqiu, apologized, and offered to make her a new dress like the one she wore.
• Lin Heng asked why Leng Qingqiu had impersonated Qingyun, and Leng Qingqiu explained that she had been expected to shoulder the Leng Family’s responsibilities while her sister lived carefree.

Lin Heng learned about Leng Qingqiu’s family troubles and encouraged her to reconcile with her younger sister. After her Green Lotus Dao Fire avatar gave Leng Qingqiu a fire for alchemy, she kept Lin Heng from leaving and drew him into an intimate encounter, while Duan Shuyun waited for him through the night.

• Leng Qingqiu told Lin Heng that she felt responsible for her younger sister because their incompetent parents spoiled the girl, and Lin Heng suggested the sisters talk face-to-face.
• A Green Lotus Dao Fire avatar landed before Lin Heng, and the Jade Origin Vine revealed that the fire had split off half its origin to help him flirt with girls.
• Leng Qingqiu stopped Lin Heng from leaving and asked him to spend time with her as Dao companions.
• Lin Heng embraced Leng Qingqiu and declared that he wanted them all when she asked whether he preferred her or her younger sister.
• Duan Shuyun waited in the courtyard past dawn after Lin Heng failed to return within the promised four hours.

Lin Heng spent the morning with Leng Qingqiu, then reunited with Duan Shuyun and learned that Prince Qi had set out to the Seven Immortals Secret Realm. Leng Qingyun and Yun Yao joined them, leaving Lin Heng caught between his senior sisters as Yun Yao demanded a kiss.

• Lin Heng and Leng Qingqiu watched the sunrise together before she left to refine pills.
• Duan Shuyun told Lin Heng that Prince Qi had set out for the Seven Immortals Secret Realm, and Lin Heng explained why the Dynasty would intervene.
• Leng Qingyun appeared wearing Lin Heng's concealing mask and teased him with an affectionate nickname.
• Lin Heng kissed Duan Shuyun and Leng Qingyun while massaging their shoulders.
• Yun Yao caught Lin Heng kissing them, sat beside Leng Qingyun, and told Lin Heng to kiss her too.

Qiu cut Ye Tian out of the plan to capture Meng Yutong, while Meng Yutong, Mu Li, and Ling Fei entered the Seven Immortals Secret Realm to confront Zhao Yue. The chapter ended with Zhao Yue revealing he had expected them and Meng Yutong trading insults with him.

• Qiu told Ye Tian their cooperation was over because Meng Yutong had seen through their deception, and she said Zhao Yue would join Clear Moon Long Song.
• Ye Tian accused Qiu of setting him up to be expelled from the Green Pavilion Sect, then left after she mocked him and offered to take him as her disciple.
• Zhao Yue opened the entrance to the Seven Immortals Secret Realm, and Meng Yutong, Mu Li, and Ling Fei followed him inside.
• Zhao Yue turned to confront the three women and offered Mu Li and Ling Fei a chance to retreat.
• Meng Yutong mocked Zhao Yue for his past confession, and he angrily recalled being humiliated in front of the sect.

Meng Yutong, Ling Fei, and Mu Li fought Zhao Yue, but Qiu and two sect leaders arrived to turn the battle against them. Zhao Yue revealed that Xu Gou was trapped in a copper coffin and that the secret realm would collapse when his blood and qi ran out.

• Meng Yutong, Ling Fei, and Mu Li attacked Zhao Yue with their weapons and magical treasures.
• Mu Li used the Nine Illusion Universe Fan to absorb Zhao Yue's attack, and Ling Fei struck him with her whip while he was talking.
• Qiu appeared and stopped Meng Yutong's sword technique, then summoned the woman in green, Xie Youxian, and Du Chengjian from hiding.
• Zhao Yue revealed that Mu Li's intelligence had been deliberately leaked and boasted that his side now had five fighters against the three women.
• Qiu raised a copper coffin from underground, revealing Xu Gou inside, and Zhao Yue explained that Xu Gou's blood and qi sustained the secret realm.

Qiu fought Meng Yutong and used the Burial Bell to turn the clash of their anomalies into a decisive victory. Meng Yutong was left gravely injured and at Qiu’s mercy, while Mu Li and Ling Fei remained occupied fighting the others.

• Qiu and Meng Yutong began fighting as the others engaged their opponents across separate battlefields.
• Meng Yutong unleashed her star anomaly, and Qiu answered with her frost-scarred giant anomaly.
• Qiu brought out the Burial Bell during the clash, and its Dao power heavily injured Meng Yutong.
• Mu Li and Ling Fei tried to help Meng Yutong but were stopped by their opponents.
• Qiu approached the weakened Meng Yutong and taunted her, declaring that she would become her prisoner.

Lin Heng and the others found the secret realm’s entrance sealed and could not enter to help Meng Yutong. Mu Li was thrown out badly injured, and after Lin Heng healed her enough to wake, she warned Jiang Yan that Meng Yutong was in grave danger.

• Qiu taunted the injured Meng Yutong and threatened her disciples while Mu Li struggled against the attackers inside the secret realm.
• Jiang Yan and Lin Heng’s group discovered that the spatial rift was only a sealed exit, leaving them unable to reach the secret realm’s true entrance.
• Mu Li emerged from the rift unconscious and critically wounded, with the Nine Illusion Universe Fan saturated by attacks.
• Lin Heng used his Five Elements Body and Jade Origin Vine to heal Mu Li enough for her to awaken.
• Mu Li grabbed Jiang Yan and urgently told him to save Meng Yutong, who was already heavily injured.

Lin Heng reversed Timeflow to reopen the secret-realm entrance, then collapsed after saving Jiang Yan's chance to enter. Jiang Yan arrived in the Seven Immortals Secret Realm to face the attackers surrounding Ling Fei and Meng Yutong.

• Mu Li and Jiang Yan explained that the entrance was fake and that Ling Fei was holding off the attackers inside the secret realm.
• Lin Heng decided to use his forbidden art to reverse Timeflow and reopen the entrance, despite his companions' warnings about his dwindling lifespan.
• Lin Heng reopened the entrance, and Jiang Yan entered the secret realm before Lin Heng fell and lost consciousness.
• Inside the secret realm, Zhao Yue, Qiu, and Du Chengjian prepared to attack Ling Fei, who was protecting Meng Yutong.
• Jiang Yan descended before Ling Fei and Meng Yutong and demanded that the five attackers kneel if they wanted him to spare their lives.

Jiang Yan arrived in the secret realm and revealed himself as Prince Qi of the imperial clan, then overwhelmed the cultivators threatening Ling Fei and Meng Yutong. After killing their attackers, he gave the two women qi and blood pills to help them recover.

• Jiang Yan introduced himself as a member of the imperial clan, but Xie Youxian attacked him before he could finish speaking.
• Jiang Yan shattered Xie Youxian’s giant palm with a light tap, and Qiu and Chun fled when they realized how dangerous he was.
• Jiang Yan released his Dao Integration pressure, and Ling Fei recognized him as Prince Qi, who controlled the Garrison Command.
• Jiang Yan crushed Xie Youxian to death, then killed Zhao Yue and Du Chengjian with divine sense attacks as they tried to escape.
• Jiang Yan asked how Ling Fei and Meng Yutong were feeling and gave them qi and blood pills to recover.

Jiang Yan rescued Meng Yutong and Ling Fei from the collapsing secret realm, while telling Meng Yutong that Lin Heng wanted her Peak Master position. Outside, Lin Heng woke after sacrificing decades of his lifespan, and his senior sisters worried over his weakened body.

• Ling Fei scolded Meng Yutong and Jiang Yan for rushing into danger, then Jiang Yan credited Lin Heng with helping him reach them and relayed Lin Heng’s demand for Meng Yutong’s Peak Master position.
• As the secret realm collapsed, Jiang Yan carried Meng Yutong and Ling Fei toward the exit and took along a surviving person in a bronze coffin.
• Lin Heng woke under the care of his five senior sisters, and Leng Qingqiu’s lifespan-extending pill had helped him survive.
• Lin Heng estimated that he had sacrificed around forty years of lifespan, prompting his senior sisters to discuss finding treasures to restore it.
• Mu Li admired the close bond among Lin Heng’s senior sisters and wondered how Meng Yutong had obtained such a remarkable disciple.
• One of the senior sisters asked whether their Master had still not come out.

Jiang Yan rescued Meng Yutong, Lin Heng, and the others, then returned with them to Hidden Sword Manor while Qiu and Chun fled and planned to blame Zhao Yue. Ye Tian watched Meng Yutong and Lin Heng arrive, left in despair while still vowing to kill Lin Heng, and was intercepted by a servant from the Eastern Continent's Ye Family.

• Jiang Yan escaped the collapsing spatial rift with two injured people, found the others, and brought everyone back to Hidden Sword Manor in the Leaf Pouch.
• Ling Fei recognized Xu Gou as a missing Elder of Green Pavilion Sect's Return to Origin Peak, and Jiang Yan said he had sent people to seize the Heavenly Secret Sect's members.
• Qiu and Chun fled, argued over the failed plan, and decided to shift the blame onto Zhao Yue to avoid consequences from the Dynasty.
• Ye Tian watched Meng Yutong and Lin Heng enter Hidden Sword Manor and left, blaming himself and vowing to kill Lin Heng.
• A servant stopped Ye Tian and identified himself as being from the Eastern Continent's Ye Family.

Ye Tian rejected the Ye Family’s invitation to return to the Eastern Continent and vowed to confront Ye Nantian only after his death. At Hidden Sword Manor, Lin Heng remained unconscious as his companions recovered and discussed traveling east, while Prince Qi reassured the manor lord about the competition.

• A Ye Family elder invited Ye Tian to return, but Ye Tian rejected the offer and cursed Ye Nantian, prompting the elder to warn that the family would no longer help him.
• After the elder left, Ye Tian blamed Junior Brother Lin for the troubles surrounding his expulsion and vowed not to let him go unchallenged.
• At the Travel Pavilion, Mu Liuxi and Yun Yao watched over the unconscious Lin Heng while Mu Li and Ling Fei recovered and Meng Yutong secluded herself to heal her damaged cultivation.
• Yun Yao eagerly discussed traveling to the Eastern Continent, and Mu Liuxi proposed that the sisters tell their Master how they felt about Junior Brother.
• Prince Qi told Hidden Sword Manor’s lord that he had come to chat rather than denounce anyone, and praised the manor for hosting the competition.

After recovering enough to leave her room, Meng Yutong learned that Lin Heng had sacrificed much of his lifespan to save her and saw how close he was to death. She acknowledged her own fault and brought out the Blood Ganoderma she had taken from him, which had since grown fruit.

• Jiang Yan gave Jian Duanbo twenty thousand Spirit Stones to cover Meng Yutong and the others’ recovery, explaining that he wanted to earn their favor.
• After two days of rest, Meng Yutong woke and learned that her injuries had reduced her cultivation to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, with further decline possible as she healed.
• Meng Yutong went to check on Lin Heng and discovered his deathly condition after her disciples explained that he had sacrificed much of his lifespan to save her and First Senior Sister.
• Meng Yutong admitted that her actions had helped cause the crisis and brought out the Blood Ganoderma she had taken from Lin Heng, now grown and bearing fruit.

After recovering from his near-fatal injuries, Lin Heng woke and found Meng Yutong recuperating from her own wounds. He lectured her for her recent plans and ended up getting slapped when he insulted her intelligence.

• Meng Yutong fed Lin Heng two Blood Ganoderma Fruits and told Leng Qingqiu to care for him while the others prepared medicine and spirit tea.
• After a day, Lin Heng woke with white hair, tried to restore its color, and turned it gray instead.
• Lin Heng found Meng Yutong in her residence and noticed that her aura seemed weaker, though she hid how severely her cultivation had fallen.
• Meng Yutong tried to send Lin Heng away, but he insisted on thanking her by criticizing her recent schemes and failure to communicate with her disciples.
• Lin Heng called Meng Yutong less intelligent than Leng Qingyun, and Meng Yutong slapped him.

Meng Yutong tried to punish Lin Heng, but his Senior Sisters intervened and took him back to care for him. After enjoying their attention and eating a Blood Ganoderma Fruit, Lin Heng considered returning to Meng Yutong to pursue his plans to become Peak Master.

• Meng Yutong raised her mallet to hit Lin Heng, who faked a swollen cheek and called for his Senior Sisters.
• Leng Qingyun, Yun Yao, and Mu Liuxi arrived and reproached Meng Yutong before taking Lin Heng away to rest.
• Duan Shuyun listened as Lin Heng insisted he had only criticized Meng Yutong's handling of a trap and had not yet asked to exchange for her or take her Peak Master position.
• Leng Qingyun brought Lin Heng tea, and Mu Liuxi gave him one of the Blood Ganoderma Fruits that Meng Yutong had saved for him.
• After eating the fruit, Lin Heng considered taking the last one to Meng Yutong and asking to become Peak Master, while the women heard his thoughts.

Lin Heng visited Meng Yutong, fed her a Blood Ganoderma Fruit, and pretended to repent for his rebellious behavior. He then reminded her of her promise to live with him and asked her to become his Peak Master, leaving the two laughing together as he tried to kiss her.

• Duan Shuyun left the side pavilion, and Leng Qingyun said she would go to the cool spring with Xiao Yao.
• Lin Heng sneaked to Meng Yutong's residence and fed her a Blood Ganoderma Fruit.
• Meng Yutong rebuked Lin Heng when he tried to massage her legs, but he apologized and claimed he had turned over a new leaf.
• Lin Heng invoked Meng Yutong's promise to live with him and asked her to give him the Peak Master position.
• Meng Yutong laughed at Lin Heng's scheme, and he took her laughter as agreement before trying to kiss her.

Lin Heng provoked Meng Yutong by pretending he had drugged her fruit, and she chased him with her sword until his senior sisters intervened. Duan Shuyun then told Lin Heng that she and the others would meet that night to discuss laying their cards on the table with Master, and ordered him to attend.

• Lin Heng claimed he had put several spring-poison medicines in Meng Yutong’s fruit, making her furious enough to chase him with her Purple Firmament Sword.
• Lin Heng fled to the Alchemy Chamber and clung to Duan Shuyun’s leg, while Meng Yutong demanded that she seize him.
• Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingqiu distracted Meng Yutong and led her away, shielding Lin Heng from her anger.
• Duan Shuyun told Lin Heng that she planned to meet with the others that night to discuss laying their cards on the table with Master, and insisted that he attend.

The five senior sisters gathered to plan how to reveal their relationship with Lin Heng to their injured Master, Meng Yutong. They debated whether to approach her together or have Lin Heng speak for them, leaving him terrified at the thought of facing her alone.

• Meng Yutong returned and resumed playing dead while the women gathered in a room at the Travel Pavilion.
• Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun argued until Yun Yao arrived and changed the subject by discussing her new outfit.
• Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi arrived, followed by Lin Heng, who stood beside Mu Liuxi because there was no chair for him.
• Duan Shuyun proposed that the five senior sisters approach their injured Master together, but Yun Yao worried it would feel like forcing her hand.
• Leng Qingqiu suggested that Lin Heng reveal the five women's feelings to Meng Yutong on their behalf, and Lin Heng panicked at the prospect.

Lin Heng persuaded his senior sisters to abandon their plan to confess in pairs and instead help him pressure Meng Yutong to honor her promises and join their family. The chapter ended with Leng Qingqiu supporting his scheme while Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi reacted in shock.

• Duan Shuyun proposed that the senior sisters confess to Meng Yutong in pairs the next morning, before Ling Fei and Mu Li came out of seclusion.
• Lin Heng asked whether the women were united, then argued that Meng Yutong had repeatedly broken promises despite his devotion to her.
• Lin Heng won Little Senior Sister's agreement that he should defy Meng Yutong and bring her into their family.
• Lin Heng tried to recruit Yun Yao, who hesitated after realizing she might become a rebellious disciple too.
• Leng Qingqiu endorsed Lin Heng's plan to pressure Meng Yutong, leaving Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi shocked by her support.