Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng followed Dugu Feng to hear music and paid for advice on pursuing his senior sisters. He then revealed that he wanted to win over his Master, leaving Dugu Feng stunned.

• Lin Heng learned that the zither player had been sold to repay debts and that Dugu Feng secretly supported her by listening to her music and giving her Spirit Stones.
• Dugu Feng offered Lin Heng romantic advice in exchange for a hundred Spirit Stones, suggesting he appeal to his First Senior Sister’s scholarly tastes and provoke his red-dressed senior sister’s jealousy.
• Dugu Feng advised Lin Heng to praise each sister flower to the other, then took a thousand Spirit Stones for further guidance.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Feng that he liked his Master and asked how to win her over, leaving Dugu Feng speechless.

Lin Heng told Dugu Feng how his confession to Meng Yutong had gotten him locked in the Little Black Room and beaten, but Dugu Feng offered no useful advice. Outside Night Splendor Tower, Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun waited for Lin Heng to come out, and Yun Yao spotted him leaving.

• Lin Heng recounted his pursuit of Meng Yutong to Dugu Feng, who teased him and said their difference in cultivation and seniority made a relationship unlikely.
• Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun watched Night Splendor Tower from a nearby soup dumpling shop, with Yun Yao insisting she could track Lin Heng by his aura.
• Leng Qingyun explained that flower pavilions could be respectable places for music and dancing, but Yun Yao warned her about the danger of entering them.
• Yun Yao refused to go inside Night Splendor Tower, and Leng Qingyun quietly touched her Storage Pouch, pleased with the Spirit Stones her aunt had given her.
• Yun Yao noticed two people coming out of Night Splendor Tower.

Lin Heng and Dugu Feng went to a wellness Medical Hall after visiting the Flower Pavilion, where Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun caught them during a massage. The senior sisters exposed Lin Heng’s visit and dragged him out, while the shopkeeper’s wife stopped them to demand payment.

• Lin Heng and Dugu Feng searched for a wellness Medical Hall and settled in for massages.
• Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun followed them inside, sealed the shopkeeper’s wife’s mouth, and caught Dugu Feng’s attention.
• Dugu Feng fled without paying, leaving Lin Heng unaware that Yun Yao had taken over his massage.
• Lin Heng praised the masseuse’s gentle voice and complained about his wives before opening his eyes and finding Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun.
• Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun confronted Lin Heng about visiting the Flower Pavilion and dragged him toward the exit.
• The shopkeeper’s wife stopped them and told Lin Heng that Dugu Feng had left him responsible for the bill.

Lin Heng persuaded Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun to keep quiet about his misbehavior and stay in the main city with him. As the three went to eat, Ye Tian watched from a distance but was stopped from attacking by a mysterious woman, while Lin Heng sensed someone’s killing intent.

• Lin Heng asked Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun not to tell Master and First Senior Sister what had happened, offering to take them out for fun instead.
• Yun Yao convinced Leng Qingyun that keeping quiet would let them spend time alone with Lin Heng, and the two agreed to stay.
• Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun threatened to reveal Lin Heng’s visit to Flower Pavilion unless he kept them happy, so he agreed to take them to eat.
• Ye Tian watched Lin Heng walking with Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun and wanted to kill him, but a mysterious woman reminded him that Dugu Feng was protecting Lin Heng and warned him about his violent frenzy.
• Ye Tian agreed to wait, while the woman told him to focus on his plans after returning to the Ye Family; Lin Heng sensed someone wanted to kill him and turned to look.

Lin Heng sought water-attributed materials for tempering his Five Elements Body after the Blue-Scale Snake sensed a powerful water entity moving through the city. During the night, he and his senior sisters investigated strange dripping sounds and found two people dead from a water-related attack.

• The Blue-Scale Snake sensed a powerful, moving water entity and metal-energy fluctuations in the city, and Lin Heng decided to investigate the Water Spirit.
• Lin Heng joked with Yun Yao about using Senior Brother Ye’s identity to cause trouble, then took Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun to an inn.
• After the two senior sisters fell asleep, Lin Heng heard dripping sounds that disturbed his meditation and broke the room’s soundproofing barrier.
• Lin Heng and Yun Yao rushed to Room Yi-1, where they found two drowned-looking people sprawled on the bed and water traces across the floor.
• Lin Heng used his Dao Eye to discern a powerful water force and concluded that the deaths were connected to the Water Spirit.

Lin Heng joined the search for the spirit monster that had killed people in Beginningless City and discovered that the Dust Sect disciples had secretly brought it into the city. After the Yannan Sect disciples stopped him, he warned them to watch the Dust Sect before disappearing.

• Lin Heng accepted the Justice Bureau’s invitation to investigate while Yun Yao and Qingyun left to refine their opportunity, and he scolded Xiao Lan for sleeping through the monster’s attack.
• At the Gongsun Family’s Justice Bureau, the Dust Sect and Yannan Sect disciples argued before the Dust Sect group departed.
• Lin Heng followed the Yannan Sect and learned that the Dust Sect disciples had brought a jellyfish spirit into the city for Spirit Stones, but it had escaped and killed people.
• The Yannan Sect disciples caught Lin Heng following them, and he introduced himself as Ye Tian and urged them to focus on the Dust Sect before vanishing.

Lin Heng spotted Ye Tian in Beginningless City, avoided a confrontation, and later pursued a fleeing water spirit with the Dust Sect disciples. After his water attack fed the creature, Lin Heng used his earth-aligned body to absorb its water essence, leaving the spirit screaming.

• Lin Heng recognized Ye Tian on a rooftop and slipped away before Ye Tian could discover him.
• That night, a jellyfish-like water spirit escaped through Beginningless City's gate, and Lin Heng followed it east toward the Orange River.
• Lin Heng trapped the water spirit behind a ring of Green Lotus Dao Fire, but it transformed into a humanoid woman and swallowed his Water Dragon Chant.
• The water spirit wrapped around Lin Heng and tried to drain him, but he grabbed it and began absorbing its water essence with his earthen body.
• The pursuing disciples saw Lin Heng wrapped in the spirit and were confused when the spirit, not Lin Heng, began screaming.

Lin Heng subdued the Dust Sect’s jellyfish spirit and provoked the Dust Sect and Yannan Sect into fighting. He slipped away with Xiao Lan to cultivate, planning to return afterward and claim whatever remained.

• Lin Heng used his Earth Force to drain the jellyfish spirit, compress it into a water ball, and seal it inside an earthen sphere.
• Du Dao attacked Lin Heng with the Heavenly Thunder Sword Technique, but Lin Heng emerged unharmed and refused to hand over the sealed spirit.
• Lin Heng tricked the Dust Sect disciples into revealing that the jellyfish belonged to their sect and accused them of releasing it into Beginningless City.
• Lin Heng ran to the Yannan Sect disciples and claimed the Dust Sect intended to wipe them out, setting the two sects against each other.
• Lin Heng and Xiao Lan left the two groups to fight and planned to return later to collect the spoils.

Lin Heng refined the jellyfish and raised his Water Element Body to Great Completion, while the Yannan Sect and Dust Sect discovered he had deceived them into fighting. Du Dao and the others tracked Lin Heng down, and Ye Tian arrived as the confrontation began.

• Lin Heng absorbed the jellyfish's essence while the Blue-Scale Snake watched for danger.
• The Yannan Sect and Dust Sect stopped fighting after suffering heavy losses, then realized Lin Heng had impersonated a Yannan Sect disciple and fled with the jellyfish.
• Du Dao ordered his disciples to hunt Lin Heng, while the surviving Yannan Sect disciples decided to seize the jellyfish and claim a reward.
• Ye Tian overheard the groups discussing a treasure, and Hua Qi warned him not to kill anyone as he went to investigate.
• Lin Heng finished refining the jellyfish, reached Great Completion in his Water Element Body, and faced Du Dao and the Black-Clad Youth.
• Ye Tian recognized Lin Heng and challenged the gathered men as they confronted him.

Lin Heng impersonated Ye Tian while fighting and killing Dust Sect disciples, unaware that the real Ye Tian had been watching. After Lin Heng looted the corpses, Ye Tian appeared behind him, leaving him terrified.

• Lin Heng claimed to belong to the Eastern Continent's Ye Family as Dust Sect disciples attacked him, while Ye Tian recognized his junior brother's impersonation and waited to intervene.
• Lin Heng seized Du Dao's sword barehanded, then defeated him with the Water Dragon's Roar.
• Lin Heng summoned the Nine Heavens Sword and killed the remaining Dust Sect disciples with his Sword of Time.
• Lin Heng ordered Xiao Lan to eat two corpses, looted the spoils, and told the surviving Black-Clad Youth to blame Dust Sect to the Justice Bureau.
• Ye Tian appeared behind Lin Heng and confronted him, shocking Lin Heng into realizing he was caught.

Lin Heng faced Ye Tian alone, defended himself against accusations of stealing the Senior Sisters, and exposed Ye Tian’s past schemes against them and Meng Yutong. Enraged by Lin Heng’s revelations, Ye Tian unleashed his pressure and vowed to kill him.

• Ye Tian confronted Lin Heng for using his name to cause trouble and revealed that he had planned to kill him when they met again.
• Lin Heng steadied himself, rejected the idea that the Senior Sisters were his possessions, and challenged Ye Tian’s claim that he had been expelled from Fairy Cloud Peak because of him.
• Lin Heng accused Ye Tian of using the Sunfall Pill against Yun Yao and conspiring against the Mu Family to win Second Senior Sister’s favor.
• Ye Tian was shocked that Lin Heng knew about his hidden schemes, and Lin Heng said Second Senior Sister had understood his intentions all along.
• Lin Heng accused Ye Tian of plotting against Meng Yutong to obtain her body, and Ye Tian erupted in anger and threatened to kill him.

Ye Tian and Lin Heng fought while heading toward Beginningless City, with Ye Tian pressing Lin Heng using the Thousand Soul-Annihilating Palms. Lin Heng reflected the attack with the Kun Peng Nirvana Art, then copied Ye Tian’s palm technique, leaving him to face Ye Tian’s overwhelming charge with his True Yuan reserves nearly exhausted.

• Ye Tian attacked Lin Heng with the Heaven-Slaying Sword while the Yannan Sect disciples watched from a safe distance.
• Ye Tian summoned the Thousand Soul-Annihilating Palms, but Lin Heng used the Kun Peng Nirvana Art to send the palm crashing back at him.
• Hua Qi recognized Lin Heng’s technique as an altered form of the Demon Race’s Kun Peng Physiognomy Art and wondered how a human had learned it.
• Lin Heng used his Dao Eye to study Ye Tian’s palm technique and launched his own Thousand Soul-Annihilating Palms.
• Ye Tian roared that Lin Heng’s imitation was impossible, then plunged down in a destructive charge as Lin Heng’s True Yuan reserves ran low.

Lin Heng was defeated by Ye Tian’s surging Tyrant Blood Body, but Xiao Lan and Hua Qi intervened before Ye Tian could finish him. Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun arrived to protect Lin Heng, and a divine light struck Ye Tian just as he attacked, announcing the arrival of someone from the Dugu Clan.

• Lin Heng unleashed Imperial Dragon Qi but was blasted away, while Ye Tian’s Berserk Bone Tyrant Blood Body grew stronger from his injuries.
• Ye Tian grabbed Xiao Lan when she tried to protect Lin Heng, but Lin Heng burned him with Green Lotus Dao Fire and Hua Qi pulled him clear of the flames.
• Hua Qi tried to restrain Ye Tian, who insisted he would kill Lin Heng, while Lin Heng struggled to understand why she was protecting him.
• Leng Qingyun and Yun Yao rushed to Lin Heng, and Yun Yao stood between him and Ye Tian as Leng Qingyun prepared to help him escape.
• Ye Tian insulted Yun Yao and prepared to attack her, but a divine light struck him aside as someone declared that no one could harm a member of the Dugu Clan.

Dugu Feng intervened to protect Lin Heng and nearly crippled Ye Tian, but Hua Qi freed Ye Tian and let him escape. Lin Heng revealed that he knew Hua Qi sought to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road and argued that he shared her goal of reaching the Upper Realm, leaving Hua Qi to consider his claims.

• Dugu Feng arrived and threatened Ye Tian for attacking Lin Heng, but Lin Heng revealed that Ye Tian was Ye Nantian’s biological son.
• Dugu Feng immobilized Ye Tian and prepared to cripple his cultivation, but Hua Qi broke his pressure with her soul power.
• Hua Qi told Ye Tian to leave, and he fled while she stayed behind; she then clarified that she was not his master.
• Lin Heng told Hua Qi that he knew she was pursuing the Starry Sky Ancient Road and argued that he shared her aim of reaching the Upper Realm.
• Hua Qi fell silent as Lin Heng watched her and privately admired her, prompting Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun to react to his thoughts.

Hua Qi revealed that Ye Tian possessed something from a higher realm and escaped with him after Dugu Feng destroyed Ye Tian’s right arm. Lin Heng and the others returned to Ten Directions Hall, where Dugu Qiusheng warned Dugu Aotian that Dugu Zhengyuan would arrive the next day and confront Lin Heng about his place in the Dugu Clan.

• Hua Qi told Lin Heng that Ye Tian’s unusual origins made her reluctant to abandon him and hinted that she had spoken with Master Meng before fading away.
• Dugu Feng pursued Ye Tian and destroyed his right arm, but Hua Qi used Grand Teleportation and Shrinking Earth to Inches to escape with him.
• Dugu Feng returned to Lin Heng and the others, discovered how badly Lin Heng’s Gold Element Body was damaged, and learned that Xiao Lan had survived being choked unconscious.
• Dugu Feng explained that the broken Mystic Qi had alerted him to Lin Heng’s danger, then brought the group back to Ten Directions Hall.
• Dugu Qiusheng told the injured Dugu Aotian that Dugu Zhengyuan would visit the next day and might challenge Lin Heng’s acceptance into the Dugu Clan.
• Dugu Aotian said he respected Lin Heng and suggested Dugu Qiusheng feared Lin Heng might inherit the Hall Master position.

Lin Heng feigned weakness after his fight with Ye Tian so Meng Yutong would stay with him instead of drinking with Dugu Feng. Once the others left, he tried to turn her offer of tea and care into an excuse to get close to her, ending with him dragging her toward the bed.

• Dugu Qiusheng and Dugu Song left after deciding Lin Heng was useless as a successor.
• Meng Yutong, Duan Shuyun, and the others visited Lin Heng in the Healing Pavilion, where Yun Yao explained that Ye Tian had injured him.
• Dugu Feng told everyone to let Lin Heng rest and invited Meng Yutong to drink, but Lin Heng groaned and asked someone to stay and care for him.
• Meng Yutong stayed with Lin Heng while the others left, and he asked her to feed him grapes before grabbing her hand.
• Lin Heng suddenly pulled Meng Yutong toward the bed and began untying her sash, while she warned him to stop.

Lin Heng questioned Meng Yutong about her leniency toward Ye Tian, and she revealed that she had offered him death or the loss of his cultivation. She then learned that Lin Heng and his companions had seen the remnant soul protecting Ye Tian, and admitted she had failed to win the soul over.

• Meng Yutong scolded the injured Lin Heng for going out with Dugu Feng and pinned him down when he tried to stop her from leaving.
• Lin Heng reminded Meng Yutong about the promise concerning the first day of the new month, but she teased him about his shattered Gold Element Body.
• Lin Heng asked Meng Yutong how she would have punished Ye Tian, and she revealed that she had offered him death or the abolition of his cultivation.
• Lin Heng joked that Meng Yutong was lazy and teased her about having children, prompting her to tug his ear and threaten him.
• Lin Heng told Meng Yutong that he, Uncle Prison, and his two Senior Sisters had seen Ye Tian's remnant-soul teacher, and Meng Yutong said she had failed to win her over.

Lin Heng learned that Hua Qi came from the Upper Realm and wanted Ye Tian to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while Meng Yutong grew suspicious of Saint Ye. After Ye Tian lost an arm and blamed Hua Qi for his defeat, she threatened to abandon him, and he began plotting to use the Ye Family against Lin Heng and his mother.

• Meng Yutong told Lin Heng that Hua Qi was from the Upper Realm and wanted Ye Tian to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road so she could return.
• Lin Heng said Hua Qi had warned him that Ye Tian possessed something from beyond the lower realm and might be caught up in a scheme.
• After leaving Lin Heng, Meng Yutong grew suspicious of Saint Ye and wondered whether he might be plotting to take over Lin Heng's body.
• Ye Tian raged over losing his arm and blamed Hua Qi for preventing him from killing Lin Heng before the Dugu Clan caught him.
• Hua Qi rebuked Ye Tian for blaming her, reminded him that he had nearly lost to Lin Heng, and threatened to leave if he continued disrupting her peace.
• Ye Tian considered Lin Heng's unexplained abilities and decided to seek the Ye Family's support against Lin Heng and his mother.

Lin Heng broke through to the middle Golden Core stage after refining the power left in his shattered body, then was summoned before the Ten Directions Hall elders over his outings with Dugu Feng. The chapter ended with Dugu Feng blaming Lin Heng for their visits to the Flower Pavilion and Medical Hall, leaving Lin Heng facing harsh discipline.

• Jiang Yan asked Jiang Jingyi for military funds, and she gave him the treasury pass while requiring him to account for every expenditure.
• Lin Heng emerged from three days of seclusion and realized that the Kun Peng Nirvana Art could turn absorbed force into energy for his own cultivation, though he recognized the danger of the technique.
• Mu Liuxi and another senior sister escorted Lin Heng to the Ten Directions Hall's main hall, where Dugu Feng was kneeling before Meng Yutong and Shen Yeting.
• Meng Yutong questioned Lin Heng about visiting the Flower Pavilion and Medical Hall with Dugu Feng, and Lin Heng blamed his uncle for taking him there.
• Dugu Feng denied responsibility, accused Lin Heng of initiating the outings, and urged the elders to discipline him harshly.

Lin Heng exposed Dugu Feng’s attempt to blame him for their visit to the Flower Pavilion, and Shen Yeting dragged Dugu Feng away to punish him. Back at the hall, Lin Heng’s senior sisters competed for his attention until Meng Yutong summoned him for the night.

• Dugu Feng tried to pin the Flower Pavilion visit on Lin Heng, while Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun supported his story after accepting Spirit Stones.
• Meng Yutong asked Shen Yeting how to handle the matter, and Shen Yeting agreed to take Dugu Feng away for questioning while leaving Lin Heng to the others.
• Lin Heng produced receipts bearing Dugu Feng’s name, proving that Dugu Feng had paid the Flower Pavilion bill and visited the Medical Hall.
• Shen Yeting realized Dugu Feng had lied, grabbed him, and dragged him away to punish him.
• Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi competed to spend time with Lin Heng, but Meng Yutong summoned him through Long-Distance Voice Transmission.