Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng persuaded his Senior Sisters to help him make a move on Meng Yutong, and Duan Shuyun agreed they would first test the waters with her. At their meeting, Meng Yutong revealed that her cultivation had fallen to Late Golden Core and forbade the women from having ideas about Lin Heng, pushing them closer to rebellion.

• Mu Liuxi refused to help Lin Heng until he threatened to complain to her mother, while Duan Shuyun eventually agreed to advise Meng Yutong and see how she reacted.
• Lin Heng joyfully kissed his Senior Sisters, but Duan Shuyun soon called the women back after learning that Meng Yutong wanted to meet them.
• Meng Yutong told her disciples she had dreamed they would turn against her and explained that she wanted them to help hide her weakened cultivation from Lin Heng.
• Meng Yutong revealed that the Burial Bell had reduced her realm to Late Golden Core, possibly falling to Middle Golden Core.
• When Duan Shuyun mentioned Meng Yutong's promise to marry Lin Heng, Meng Yutong dismissed it as a casual remark and warned the women not to pursue him.

Meng Yutong warned her disciples not to fall for Lin Heng, but Leng Qingqiu persuaded the others to help him pursue their master. Duan Shuyun remained reluctant, fearing Meng Yutong would blame her and drive her from Fairy Cloud Peak.

• Yun Yao asked whether liking Lin Heng made someone a Rebel Disciple, and Meng Yutong struck her with the Stun Mallet before warning the disciples not to fall for him.
• Meng Yutong explained how to hide her fallen cultivation while Duan Shuyun and the others privately weighed their master's feelings for Lin Heng.
• Leng Qingqiu suggested preparing Spirit Spring Water for Meng Yutong, then told the others they should help Lin Heng because Meng Yutong might secretly return his feelings.
• Yun Yao, Leng Qingyun, and Mu Liuxi sided with Leng Qingqiu, while Duan Shuyun hesitated, fearing Meng Yutong would punish her if the plan went wrong.

Duan Shuyun joined the senior sisters’ plan to help Lin Heng pursue Meng Yutong, and Lin Heng devised a scheme after learning that Meng Yutong’s cultivation had fallen to Late Golden Core. The next morning, Mu Liuxi and Yun Yao confessed that they had become Lin Heng’s Dao companions and urged Meng Yutong to fulfill her promise, leaving her furious before Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun arrived.

• Duan Shuyun agreed to help the senior sisters prepare Spirit Spring Water for Meng Yutong and told Lin Heng about their plan.
• Lin Heng celebrated after learning Meng Yutong’s cultivation had fallen to Late Golden Core and shared another scheme with Duan Shuyun.
• Mu Liuxi and Yun Yao confessed to Meng Yutong that they had become Dao companions with Lin Heng and asked her to honor her promise.
• Meng Yutong accused Mu Liuxi and Yun Yao of betraying her, but they fled when she reached for her disciplinary club.
• Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun entered as Meng Yutong prepared to pursue the two disciples, and she reacted in shock.

After Meng Yutong fainted from learning that four of her disciples were Lin Heng’s dao companions, Duan Shuyun persuaded her to pretend to accept Lin Heng as her own dao companion. Meng Yutong agreed, unaware that Lin Heng’s plan was about to continue when he entered her room.

• Meng Yutong fainted after Qingqiu and Qingyun revealed they were Lin Heng’s dao companions and demanded she honor her promise.
• Duan Shuyun told Meng Yutong the revelation was real, then calmed her and promised she would not betray her.
• Duan Shuyun proposed that Meng Yutong fake agreeing to become Lin Heng’s dao companion until her cultivation recovered, when she could punish him.
• Meng Yutong worried that capturing the junior disciples would expose her humiliation to Ling Fei and Mu Li, so she accepted Duan Shuyun’s plan.
• Duan Shuyun told Lin Heng and the four senior sisters that Meng Yutong had agreed, and Lin Heng instructed them to wait for his signal.
• An hour later, as Meng Yutong tried to slip away, Lin Heng opened her door and entered.

Lin Heng confronted Meng Yutong and, with help from his fellow disciples, overcame her resistance after she tried to flee. The chapter ended with Meng Yutong furious and choking Lin Heng, while he insisted he would take responsibility as her Dao companion.

• Lin Heng confronted Meng Yutong, declared her his Dao companion, and used his Gold Element Body and Ten-Zhang Golden Body technique to threaten her defenses.
• Meng Yutong escaped toward the door, but Mu Liuxi, Yun Yao, Leng Qingqiu, and Leng Qingyun blocked her and restrained her.
• Duan Shuyun joined the other disciples in holding Meng Yutong down, betraying the hope that she would rescue her.
• Lin Heng and Meng Yutong became intimate, and the other disciples left them alone afterward.
• Meng Yutong heard Lin Heng call her a seven-hundred-year-old maiden and pounced on him, choking him as he promised to take responsibility.

Lin Heng restrained Meng Yutong and confessed why he had acted so desperately to save her, while Meng Yutong condemned his behavior but admitted the difference in their seniority and status was why she rejected him. Lin Heng took that admission as proof that she liked him and kissed her.

• Lin Heng restrained Meng Yutong as she struggled and cursed him for taking advantage of her.
• Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong about her finances and said he would support her and the five senior sisters as his wives.
• Lin Heng explained that he had worried Heavenly Secret Sect would capture Meng Yutong and had sacrificed lifespan to arrange her rescue.
• Meng Yutong said his rescue did not justify his outrageous behavior and objected to their age and status difference.
• Lin Heng declared that Meng Yutong had admitted she liked him and kissed her before she could respond.

Lin Heng forced a kiss on Meng Yutong, then used his Five Elements Body to wear down her resistance until she called him husband. Outside the Travel Pavilion, the other women misread Meng Yutong’s cries as proof that she loved Lin Heng, while he continued teasing her inside.

• Meng Yutong reflected on how her feelings for Lin Heng had changed as he kissed her and carried her to the bed.
• Lin Heng treated Meng Yutong gently and asked her to call him husband, but she insulted him and refused.
• Lin Heng activated his Five Elements Body, and Meng Yutong eventually cried out and called him husband three times.
• Yun Yao, Leng Qingyun, Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingqiu heard Meng Yutong’s voice outside and concluded that she was happily in love with Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong by explaining that their surnames supposedly showed they were fated to be together.

Lin Heng continued teasing his injured Master while she demanded to rest, and the women waiting outside the Travel Pavilion passed the time with gossip and schemes. After an assassin failed to kill Ye Tian, Mu Li and Ling Fei emerged from seclusion and headed toward the pavilion, alarming Duan Shuyun.

• Meng Yutong grew furious as Lin Heng joked about her surname and urged her to rest while he kept talking.
• Yun Yao learned Leng Qingyun had been cucked by Leng Qingqiu, then coaxed Qingyun into lending her Spirit Stones for wine.
• A wounded Nascent Soul assassin told Xu Xiaobai that Ye Tian had a hidden guardian, and Xu Xiaobai blamed the Ye Family.
• On the seventh day, Mu Li and Ling Fei emerged from seclusion and went to the Travel Pavilion, and Duan Shuyun feared they would discover what was inside.

Ling Fei and Mu Li visited Fairy Cloud Peak and learned that Meng Yutong was still recovering while Lin Heng remained inside the Travel Pavilion. There, Lin Heng continued to torment Meng Yutong and tried to persuade her to bear his child, leaving her furious and exhausted after seven days.

• Ling Fei and Mu Li arrived at the Travel Pavilion and learned from Duan Shuyun that Meng Yutong was still in seclusion and Lin Heng was recovering inside.
• Yun Yao hosted Ling Fei and Mu Li in the Bamboo Garden, where Duan Shuyun revealed that Ye Tian had been expelled from Fairy Cloud Peak.
• On the Travel Pavilion terrace, Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong and urged her to keep calling him “husband” even after her cultivation returned.
• Lin Heng claimed he wanted to leave a child behind before his lifespan ran out, and Meng Yutong angrily rejected his argument.
• After seven days of Lin Heng refusing to stop, Meng Yutong looked at her disheveled reflection and seethed at him.

Meng Yutong escaped Lin Heng’s grasp when he suddenly fainted, then bound him and vowed to settle accounts with him and her other disciples. She let Ling Fei and Mu Li enter the Travel Pavilion, leaving the five senior sisters alarmed by her icy tone.

• Meng Yutong agreed to Lin Heng’s demands that she not punish him or the senior sisters, make him Peak Master of Fairy Cloud Peak, and prepare to bear his child.
• Lin Heng rolled his eyes back and fainted before Meng Yutong could send him away.
• Meng Yutong slapped Lin Heng to check that he was alive, tied him up with a binding rope, and vowed to get revenge on him and the senior sisters.
• Ling Fei demanded to see Meng Yutong, but Yun Yao, Leng Qingyun, Mu Li, and the other senior sisters blocked her and tried to reassure her.
• Meng Yutong ordered the senior sisters to let Ling Fei and Mu Li into the Travel Pavilion, addressing them as “beloved disciples” in a chilling tone.

Meng Yutong met with Ling Fei and Mu Li, who discussed Lin Heng's sacrifice and his fragile lifespan. As Mu Li asked to borrow Lin Heng for dual cultivation, Meng Yutong refused and requested Ling Fei's Heavenly Palace Disk, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Duan Shuyun and the other disciples stopped Leng Qingqiu and Yun Yao from fighting, then agreed to apologize to their master together.
• Ling Fei and Mu Li visited Meng Yutong, whose healthy appearance surprised them after her seven days with Lin Heng.
• Ling Fei warned Meng Yutong that Lin Heng had sacrificed more than forty years of his lifespan and might not live much longer.
• Meng Yutong wrestled with her anger at Lin Heng and her recognition that he had risked his life to save her.
• Mu Li asked Meng Yutong to lend her Lin Heng for dual cultivation, but Meng Yutong angrily refused.
• Meng Yutong asked Ling Fei to lend her the Heavenly Palace Disk, and Ling Fei agreed.

Meng Yutong received Ling Fei’s Heavenly Palace Disk while Mu Li asked to join the group’s possible trip to the Eastern Continent. After they left, Meng Yutong examined her unconscious disciple Lin Heng and discovered the Jade Origin Vine stabilizing his failing body.

• Ling Fei gave Meng Yutong the Heavenly Palace Disk and explained how it could nourish a soul and create a soundproof barrier.
• Mu Li asked Meng Yutong to take her to the Eastern Continent, but Meng Yutong refused and sent her away with Ling Fei.
• Ling Fei told Meng Yutong that Prince Qi had rescued Xu Gou, who had since become mentally muddled.
• After Ling Fei and Mu Li left, Meng Yutong dragged Lin Heng out of a cabinet, slapped him, and examined his body.
• Meng Yutong discovered that Lin Heng’s bones had deteriorated and that the Jade Origin Vine was supplying Life Origin Force to stabilize him.

Duan Shuyun and the other senior sisters reconsidered whether Lin Heng had been wronged, while Meng Yutong tried to settle their dispute by returning to a normal master-disciple relationship. Lin Heng refused and provoked her until she struck him with the Heavenly Palace Disk’s power, leaving him pinned under crushing pressure.

• Duan Shuyun, Leng Qingqiu, Leng Qingyun, and Mu Liuxi debated whether Lin Heng’s actions were justified after Meng Yutong had made him promises.
• Lin Heng woke from being chained up, freed himself, and interrupted Meng Yutong as she tried to refine her opportunity.
• Meng Yutong proposed letting the past seven days and Lin Heng’s rescue of her cancel out, but Lin Heng demanded that she become his dao companion and bear his children.
• Lin Heng taunted Meng Yutong and dared her to hit him, so she struck him using the Heavenly Palace Disk’s power and sent him crashing into a cabinet.
• A powerful pressure descended on Lin Heng and forced him to his knees.

Meng Yutong used the Heavenly Palace Disk and a mallet to regain control over Lin Heng after his seven days of bullying her. She then confronted him about his lifespan and feelings before turning her attention to the five other disciples gathered in the Travel Pavilion.

• Meng Yutong frightened Lin Heng with the Heavenly Palace Disk, then beat and slapped him for his behavior during the past seven days.
• Lin Heng clung to Meng Yutong's leg and claimed he might have only a month or two to live, prompting her to question him about his lifespan.
• Lin Heng admitted he had used force to try to make Meng Yutong his wife and argued that she tolerated him more than Ye Tian; Meng Yutong ordered him to leave Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Lin Heng warned that the five Senior Sisters might leave with him, and Meng Yutong knocked him unconscious before deciding to deal with the other disciples.
• Meng Yutong dragged Lin Heng to the Travel Pavilion, where Duan Shuyun and the other four women knelt before her; she addressed them with a gentle tone that frightened them.

Meng Yutong confronted her five disciples for siding with Lin Heng, but they challenged her to honor her promises and admit her feelings for him. She confessed that she had grown fond of Lin Heng, yet insisted that she could not set aside the boundary between master and disciple—or let the five disciples force her to do so.

• Meng Yutong struck Duan Shuyun and the others with a mallet and scolded them for becoming Lin Heng's dao companions after agreeing to help her deal with him.
• Meng Yutong mistakenly hit Leng Qingyun while trying to strike Leng Qingqiu, then finally struck Leng Qingqiu after she questioned what crime the disciples had committed.
• Mu Liuxi argued that Meng Yutong should honor the promises she had made to Lin Heng, and Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun revealed that they had heard Meng Yutong call him her husband.
• Meng Yutong admitted that Lin Heng's antics had entertained her and that she had developed some affection for him, but said she could not give herself to her disciple or be forced into it by the five disciples.

Meng Yutong confronted her disciples about becoming Lin Heng’s Dao companions and questioned each of them about how their relationships began. She left Duan Shuyun kneeling to reflect and realized the women would all follow Lin Heng if she drove him from Fairy Cloud Peak.

• Meng Yutong accused Duan Shuyun of betraying her trust and helping Lin Heng win her over, while Duan Shuyun apologized and accepted punishment.
• Meng Yutong questioned Leng Qingyun, who said she liked Lin Heng because he was clever, made clothes, understood music, and gave her spending money.
• Yun Yao explained that Lin Heng had saved her after she was poisoned, and she insisted that they were true lovers.
• Mu Liuxi said Lin Heng had helped her through troubles in her family, while Leng Qingqiu admitted she had disguised herself as Leng Qingyun and drugged Lin Heng.
• Meng Yutong ordered Duan Shuyun to kneel and reflect until Lin Heng woke, then wondered whether the other women would leave Fairy Cloud Peak with him.

Meng Yutong recovered her cultivation after refining the Five Elements opportunity Lin Heng gave her, while Lin Heng woke and sneaked into her chamber to retrieve a piece of bed cloth as a keepsake. Meng Yutong caught him in the act, and Duan Shuyun arrived as the commotion broke out.

• Meng Yutong told the women to return to Fairy Cloud Peak and enter the Little Black Room, dismissing their plans to go to the Eastern Continent.
• The senior sisters worried over Lin Heng as he slept for two days, while Ling Fei left to take Xu Gou back to the Green Pavilion Sect.
• Meng Yutong finished refining Lin Heng's opportunity, healed her divine infant, and recovered to the peak of Golden Core.
• Lin Heng woke from a nightmare, saw Meng Yutong resting in the rear chamber, and sneaked into the bedroom to cut off a piece of bed cloth as a keepsake.
• Meng Yutong caught Lin Heng admiring the cloth and grabbed his ear, and Duan Shuyun rushed into the rear chamber after hearing the commotion.

Meng Yutong confronted Duan Shuyun and Lin Heng over the disciples’ palace coup, but Lin Heng urged her to travel with the family to the Eastern Continent while concealing her fallen cultivation. She was persuaded to consider leaving and blushed when Lin Heng promised to become the man she would willingly kneel before, but he fled before she could catch him.

• Meng Yutong tried to provoke Duan Shuyun into attacking her, while Duan Shuyun resisted after Lin Heng’s inner voice warned her of the trap.
• Lin Heng took the blame for the palace coup and sent Duan Shuyun away, then pleaded with Meng Yutong to punish him instead.
• Lin Heng persuaded Meng Yutong to consider traveling with the family to the Eastern Continent so she could hide her fallen cultivation and recover.
• Lin Heng held Meng Yutong’s hand and promised to make her willingly take responsibility for him, causing her to realize his suggestive meaning and blush.
• Meng Yutong reached for Lin Heng, but he flew away and called that he would return.

Meng Yutong’s disciples forcibly took her aboard a Cloud Boat bound for the Eastern Continent, hoping to help her recover while she repaid Prince Qi’s favor. Lin Heng joined her on the journey and claimed the title of Old Six, while Meng Yutong was left exasperated by his chatter.

• Jian Duanbo told Meng Yutong that Prince Qi had arranged her expenses and sent her treasures, which she quietly accepted.
• Duan Shuyun and the other Rebel Disciples restrained Meng Yutong and carried her onto a Cloud Boat bound for the Eastern Continent.
• The five senior sisters apologized and pampered Meng Yutong with massages as she rested on the boat.
• Yun Yao dragged Lin Heng away when he tried to join in, and Meng Yutong relaxed once he was gone.
• Lin Heng returned to talk with Meng Yutong and declared that he would be Old Six among her disciples.

Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong during their journey toward the Eastern Continent and learned more about his Dugu relatives and Ten Directions Hall. After he bluntly confessed his plan to make Meng Yutong pregnant, she sealed his mouth with her hair and warned him to stay quiet.

• Lin Heng tried to massage Meng Yutong, but the Heavenly Palace Disk's barrier blocked him, and she scolded him while he joked about her reduced cultivation.
• Meng Yutong told Lin Heng that Dugu Feng's wife, Shen Yeting, ran Ten Directions Hall and advised him to build a good relationship with her.
• Lin Heng learned that Dugu Feng had one Dao companion, Shen Yeting, who gave up her position as Star Moon Hall's holy maiden to marry him.
• Lin Heng bragged about his wives and revealed that he had planned to make Meng Yutong pregnant before he fainted and she obtained the Heavenly Palace Disk.
• Meng Yutong pinched Lin Heng's face, sealed his mouth with a strand of her hair, and threatened to sew it shut if he kept talking.