Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng searched for Saint Ye and began cultivating, but his depleted Five Elements Body could no longer suppress the yin force within him. Saint Ye taught him the Kun Peng Nirvana Art as a way to borrow and balance force, leaving Lin Heng stunned by the new treasured art.

• Dugu Qiusheng urged the Dugu clan disciples to challenge Lin Heng and his companions before the guests left.
• Lin Heng found Saint Ye soaking in a pool and shared wine with him.
• Lin Heng sat beneath a tree to cultivate, but he spat blood when the yin force in his body surged.
• Saint Ye suppressed the yin force and warned Lin Heng that his depleted Five Elements Body could no longer control it.
• Saint Ye taught Lin Heng the Kun Peng Nirvana Art, which used an opponent's power to balance and redirect force.

Lin Heng used the Kun Peng Nirvana Art to compress and fuse the Yin Force in his dantian with his Five Elements Force, seemingly tempering a Life-Death Body. After a night of cultivation, he woke feeling refreshed, and Little Senior Sister arrived with Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi.

• Lin Heng withdrew his Five Elements Force and used the Kun Peng Nirvana Art to draw Yin Force into his dantian and compress it with his Spirit Wheels.
• Saint Ye realized Lin Heng was trying to temper a Life-Death Body by fusing Yin Force with his Five Elements Force, then relaxed after recalling Lin Heng had ways to sustain his vitality.
• Lin Heng spent the night cultivating while Saint Ye absorbed moon essence, and a bird pecking at Saint Ye's head amused Lin Heng the next morning.
• Lin Heng praised the Kun Peng Nirvana Art and asked Saint Ye for more techniques, but Saint Ye told him to master what he already knew.
• Little Senior Sister ran into Lin Heng's arms as Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi arrived, then showed him something.

Leng Qingyun delivered Shen Yeting’s precious Dark Cyan Coral Wood to Lin Heng to restore his lifespan, while Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong investigated the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm. When Dugu Clan disciples protested that Lin Heng had received the Spirit Wood unfairly, Meng Yutong allowed them to challenge him under limits on their cultivation realm.

• Leng Qingyun gave Lin Heng the Dark Cyan Coral Wood, and he thanked his Senior Sisters with kisses.
• Shen Yeting reassured Meng Yutong that the Spirit Wood was a gift from Lin Heng’s maternal family and that he needed it sooner than it would bloom.
• Meng Yutong and Shen Yeting found a map marking the Unsetting River and discussed how the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm had appeared on different continents.
• Dugu Clan disciples confronted Shen Yeting over giving the Ten Directions Hall’s Spirit Wood to Lin Heng, and she defended his talent and sent two protestors flying.
• Meng Yutong allowed the disciples to challenge Lin Heng but forbade anyone at the Middle Golden Core Realm or above from troubling him.

Dugu Qiusheng and the other Dugu Clan disciples challenged Lin Heng over the Spirit Wood, but Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi stood in their junior brother’s defense. Yun Yao defeated the first challenger with a slap, while the confrontation with the remaining disciples continued.

• Shen Yeting explained to Meng Yutong why the Dugu Clan’s juniors competed for resources, and they went to watch the disciples spar.
• Dugu Qiusheng and the others arrived at South Side Tower demanding to see Lin Heng and reclaim the Spirit Wood he was refining.
• Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi confronted the Dugu Clan disciples, insisting that they face the senior sisters before reaching Lin Heng.
• Saint Ye appeared, judged the challengers’ abilities, and told Leng Qingyun to improve her cultivation.
• A middle Golden Core sword cultivator challenged Yun Yao, who disarmed him and slapped him flying after he insulted her by calling her a woman.
• Another Dugu Clan disciple called Dugu Song a failure and stepped forward to fight.

Dugu Aotian challenged Mu Liuxi and began to overpower her with his staff, prompting Lin Heng to intervene before she was seriously hurt. Lin Heng protected Mu Liuxi and claimed responsibility for the dispute, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Dugu Aotian challenged Mu Liuxi to a fight and said he would leave if she forced him out of the central circle.
• Mu Liuxi used her origin to draw on the momentum of heaven and earth, but Dugu Aotian’s staff skill and strength put her under pressure.
• Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong discussed Mu Liuxi and Meng Yutong’s other disciples while watching the fight.
• Dugu Aotian struck Mu Liuxi with his Golden Crow Staff, and Lin Heng’s sword intercepted the blow before it could hit her.
• Lin Heng caught Mu Liuxi, protected her from the clash, and said he would handle the matter himself.

Lin Heng used his mastery of Timeflow to defeat Dugu Aotian and humiliate the Ten Directions Hall disciples who challenged him over the Spirit Wood. Shen Yeting ended the confrontation and ordered the injured disciples to receive treatment, while Meng Yutong quietly celebrated Lin Heng’s victory.

• Dugu Aotian mocked Lin Heng, but Lin Heng used Timeflow to evade his attacks and kick him into the dirt.
• Lin Heng slapped Jail Sis out of the fight, then challenged the other disciples to come forward.
• Four disciples rushed Lin Heng together, and he slapped them into a tree despite one claiming to be his cousin.
• Shen Yeting ordered Dugu Qiusheng and the disciples to retreat, sent the injured to the pill refining building, and summoned them to the main hall for a lecture.
• Shen Yeting left to reprimand the disciples, while Meng Yutong showed her satisfaction with Lin Heng’s performance.

After Ten Directions Hall’s people withdrew, Lin Heng reunited with Mu Liuxi and the others, then continued refining Spirit Wood while they played mahjong with Saint Ye. Saint Ye revealed that a mirror fragment had brought him to Lin Heng and offered to teach the women Dao arts.

• Lin Heng joined Mu Liuxi and the others, explained that he had refined Spirit Wood while keeping watch, and teased Mu Liuxi about her temporarily white hair.
• Meng Yutong checked that everyone was unharmed and told Lin Heng to meet her alone at the South Side Tower that night.
• Yun Yao, Mu Liuxi, Leng Qingyun, and Saint Ye played mahjong while Lin Heng returned to refining Spirit Wood.
• Saint Ye said he had once possessed a cultivation realm higher than Meng Yutong's and that a mirror fragment had connected him with Lin Heng.
• Mu Liuxi recognized the mirror fragment as one found in the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm and explained that she had given it to Lin Heng.
• After Leng Qingyun lost another mahjong round, Saint Ye offered to pass Dao arts on to the three women.

Saint Ye imparted cultivation methods to Yun Yao, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingyun before Lin Heng sought Meng Yutong’s help with cultivation. The chapter ended with Lin Heng asking his master what she had summoned him to discuss.

• Saint Ye taught Yun Yao the Myriad Forms Origin Condensation Method to strengthen her bloodline and constitution.
• Saint Ye taught Mu Liuxi the Butterfly Chasing Sword to improve her close-combat swordsmanship.
• Saint Ye gave Leng Qingyun the Nine Gates Dao Formation and Divine Illusory Sound Art, advising her to focus on formations for now.
• Lin Heng went to Meng Yutong, hoping her help would advance his cultivation and complete his Water Element Body.
• Meng Yutong pushed Lin Heng away for his unruly behavior, and he took her hand and asked why she had called him there.

Lin Heng pressured Meng Yutong to keep their relationship and her declining cultivation secret, then secured her promise of a daily kiss. Shen Yeting arrived and found Lin Heng massaging Meng Yutong’s shoulders while she sat on his lap, but accepted their explanation.

• Meng Yutong warned Lin Heng not to reveal Liu Xi’s identity or their relationship while they were at Ten Directions Hall.
• Lin Heng used the threat of exposing their relationship to pressure Meng Yutong into asking him to keep quiet.
• Meng Yutong revealed that her cultivation had fallen and asked Lin Heng to wait until her parents left seclusion and her cultivation recovered before exposing them.
• Lin Heng persuaded Meng Yutong to kiss him and demanded that she offer him one kiss of her own accord each day.
• Shen Yeting arrived and saw Meng Yutong sitting on Lin Heng’s lap, but Lin Heng pretended to massage her shoulders, and Shen Yeting accepted the explanation.

Shen Yeting gave Meng Yutong her Elder Token and warned her that Dugu Zhengyuan and Dugu Dingyan were heading to the Ten Directions Hall after hearing Lin Heng had returned. After cultivating and refining the Dark Cyan Coral Wood, Lin Heng followed the anxious Green Lotus Dao Fire east, suspecting something had happened to his Third Senior Sister.

• Shen Yeting gave Meng Yutong her Elder Token to oversee disciple recruitment and cautioned her about Dugu Feng and the approaching Dugu Zhengyuan and Dugu Dingyan.
• Shen Yeting caught Dugu Feng drinking, collected the spirit materials he had bought, and told him to take them to the Alchemy Tower for Lin Heng and his disciple to use.
• Mu Liuxi, Yun Yao, Leng Qingyun, and the other girls trained diligently after receiving Saint Ye's guidance and Dao inheritance.
• Lin Heng refined the Dark Cyan Coral Wood overnight, while the Jade Origin Vine absorbed some of its Wood Origin Force.
• The Green Lotus Dao Fire emerged in an anxious little-person form and pointed east, so Lin Heng agreed to follow it, fearing his Third Senior Sister was in trouble.

Leng Qingqiu faced scorn from the Ten Directions Hall disciples while refining pills, but Leng Qingyun and Lin Heng came to support her. As Leng Qingqiu began refining for Lin Heng, he learned that Saint Ye had taught Leng Qingyun Dao arts and tried to persuade her to make up with her sister.

• The Ten Directions Hall disciples mocked Leng Qingqiu for using their materials and pill furnace despite not being one of their disciples.
• Leng Qingyun challenged the mockers, and Lin Heng gave Leng Qingqiu another Green Lotus Dao Fire to aid her pill refining.
• Lin Heng slapped one disciple who continued making noise and silenced the others.
• Leng Qingyun told Lin Heng that Saint Ye had guided her and the others in Dao arts while they played mahjong.
• Lin Heng asked Leng Qingyun to make up with Leng Qingqiu so the three of them could spend the night together, but she refused.

Leng Qingqiu impressed the Alchemy Tower by refining a Third Grade pill, then spent the day making a Fourth Grade medicine. Lin Heng tried to persuade Leng Qingyun and Leng Qingqiu to talk together, while Yun Yao secretly coached Leng Qingyun; the chapter ended with Lin Heng again asking Leng Qingqiu to bring her sister along.

• Leng Qingyun refused Lin Heng’s suggestion that she and Leng Qingqiu talk with him together, and left him to watch over Leng Qingqiu in the Alchemy Tower.
• Leng Qingqiu refined a Third Grade pill, fed it to Lin Heng, and promised to make him two more pills before joining him that night.
• Leng Qingyun went to Yun Yao for advice, and Yun Yao charged her 1,000 Spirit Stones for a secret manual on how to keep Lin Heng under her thumb.
• Leng Qingqiu refined a Fourth Grade White Jade Blood-Nourishing Medicine, astonishing Yan Shixue and the other onlookers.
• Lin Heng recognized the pill Leng Qingqiu offered as a Soul-Dazing Pill, kissed her, and asked her to call Leng Qingyun over so they could talk together.

Lin Heng gathered Leng Qingyun and Yun Yao after believing Leng Qingqiu had agreed to join their intimate lesson, then went to cleanse himself in the spirit spring. Meng Yutong watched him from hiding and grew annoyed by his thoughts, while Lin Heng looked forward to their reunion in four days.

• Leng Qingqiu reluctantly agreed to Lin Heng’s proposal, and Lin Heng rushed off believing Leng Qingyun had agreed too.
• Yun Yao coached Leng Qingyun on how to please Lin Heng and proposed that the three of them practice together.
• Lin Heng arrived, learned about Yun Yao’s plan, and told Leng Qingyun that Leng Qingqiu was waiting for her.
• Yun Yao made Lin Heng confirm that she would be included before letting him and Leng Qingyun leave.
• Lin Heng went to the spirit spring to purify himself and imagined building a large pool for his wives.
• Meng Yutong secretly watched Lin Heng in the spring and complained to herself about his improper thoughts.

Lin Heng became jealous when Meng Yutong praised his uncle, and he nearly forced her into intimacy before she reminded him of their promises. Their tender reconciliation was interrupted by Duan Shuyun, who saw them kissing and realized Master had fallen for Little Junior Brother.

• Meng Yutong teased Lin Heng by praising his uncle and recalling how many admirers she had when she was young.
• Lin Heng dragged Meng Yutong into the spiritual spring pool, but she stopped him by invoking their promises against coercion.
• Meng Yutong soothed Lin Heng with kisses and affectionate gestures, while gradually accepting his place in her heart.
• Duan Shuyun arrived to report on work tasks, saw Meng Yutong kissing Lin Heng, and hurried away after wishing Junior Brother good luck.
• Lin Heng changed clothes, teased the embarrassed Meng Yutong, and she ordered him to get lost.

Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun began to reconcile after sharing how their sisterhood had been strained and how Leng Qingqiu had quietly supported her younger sister. When Lin Heng returned, the sisters teamed up to confuse him, ending with both of them slapping him after he tried to identify them by touch.

• Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun questioned each other about agreeing to cultivate land with Lin Heng and began discussing their old resentment.
• Leng Qingqiu explained how she had paid for Leng Qingyun's entry into the Green Pavilion Sect and why she had restricted her allowance.
• Leng Qingyun realized her elder sister had sacrificed for her, and Leng Qingqiu reassured her that she only wanted to protect her.
• The sisters agreed to tease Lin Heng by pretending to be each other when he returned to their room.
• Lin Heng failed to distinguish the sisters, and both struck him when he tried to identify them by touch.

Lin Heng opened the Mystery Box with Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun, and the sisters grew closer after spending the night together. The next morning, they dressed his hair before Lin Heng sent them to help Master recruit disciples while he headed back to the pill refining tower.

• Lin Heng teased Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun as they competed for his attention, and Leng Qingyun used a technique Yun Yao had taught her to get the upper hand.
• After spending the night together, Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun sat with Lin Heng while he styled their hair, easing the distance between the sisters.
• Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingyun dressed Lin Heng’s hair in a high-tied style and joked that he resembled Uncle Prison, who was afraid of Aunt.
• Lin Heng reminded the sisters that Master was helping Aunt recruit disciples and urged them to go assist.
• Leng Qingyun asked whether Lin Heng was going back to the pill refining tower, surprised by his habit of spending time there.

Lin Heng joined Meng Yutong and the senior sisters at Ten Directions Hall, where they watched the trials for prospective disciples. After Dugu Feng arrived, he persuaded Lin Heng to sneak away with him to Beginningless City under the pretense of buying New Year goods, and Meng Yutong let Lin Heng go with a warning.

• Lin Heng and Leng Qingyun arrived at the eastern gate of Ten Directions Hall, where Dugu Qiusheng and the other disciples oversaw the three entrance trials.
• Lin Heng discussed the secret realm’s trial of heart with Meng Yutong and the senior sisters, joking that he would kill both the bandits and the people transporting the goods.
• Dugu Feng arrived, teased Meng Yutong, and then privately invited Lin Heng to visit pleasure quarters in Beginningless City.
• Dugu Feng told Meng Yutong that he and Lin Heng planned to buy New Year goods in the main city, and Meng Yutong allowed Lin Heng to go while warning him not to fool around.

Meng Yutong sent Yun Yao and Qingyun to secretly follow Dugu Feng and Lin Heng, while Duan Shuyun hid her suspicions about Meng Yutong and her junior brother. Far away in Plain Smoke City, Su Lian'er and Chen Bingyi composed a new song as her illness and their broken promise to return home weighed on them.

• Meng Yutong ordered Yun Yao and Qingyun to follow Dugu Feng and Lin Heng after they reached Beginningless City and catch Lin Heng misbehaving.
• Duan Shuyun stayed with Meng Yutong, concealed what she had seen at the spirit spring, and privately hoped her junior brother would make Meng Yutong yield.
• In Plain Smoke City, locals praised Lady Zhao for treating the sick and Chen Bingyi for playing the Long Zither Tune.
• Su Lian'er resented Chen Bingyi for repeatedly delaying their return home and worried that her illness might never be cured.
• Chen Bingyi proposed naming their new piece "Su's Winter Lotus Song," and Su Lian'er agreed to play it with him.
• After Su Lian'er praised Lady Zhao's kindness, Chen Bingyi sighed that good people rarely lived long.

Zhao Wanqing continued offering free medical aid in Plain Smoke City despite Wei Yanxianlan's warnings about the hostility it stirred among local businesses. Wei Yanxianlan then learned her Western Continent fiancé might soon arrive, possibly to break off their engagement.

• Zhao Wanqing prepared medicinal soup for a sick resident and refused payment before setting out with her basket of herbs.
• Wei Yanxianlan warned Zhao Wanqing that free treatment was provoking resentment from local medicine shops and could put her in danger.
• Zhao Wanqing explained that she followed the Medical Ancestor's example and her mother's teachings, then left Wei Yanxianlan with her words to consider.
• An old servant urged Wei Yanxianlan to stop following Zhao Wanqing and reminded her that her fiancé from the Western Continent was due to arrive.
• Wei Yanxianlan agreed to return home and said she hoped her fiancé would break off their engagement.

Zhao Wanqing considered joining the Medical Assembly while she and Xin Shao prepared medicine, and Lin Heng arrived in Beginningless City with Dugu Feng. Dugu Feng dragged the reluctant Lin Heng into Night Splendor Tower to hear Zeng Yueping play the zither.

• Xin Shao encouraged Zhao Wanqing to join the Medical Assembly and not let thoughts of Lin Heng keep her from exploring the Eastern Continent.
• Zhao Wanqing and Xin Shao brewed medicine for the injured people on West Street before planning to travel north.
• Dugu Feng carried Lin Heng to Beginningless City at great speed, and Lin Heng marveled at the vast city.
• Dugu Feng brought Lin Heng to Night Splendor Tower, where Lin Heng protested that they might be caught by Shen Yeting and the others.
• Dugu Feng paid for Zeng Yueping to play the zither, and the jealous women backstage complained that she had been chosen.