Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng and Meng Yutong bickered over what to call each other until Meng Yutong used the Yin-Yang Harmony Art to make him pass out. She left him to recover and rejoined the others, while the group spent the evening playing mahjong and roasting food.

• Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong with intimate forms of address, and she insisted that he call her Master.
• Meng Yutong confronted Lin Heng for faking his illness, but their argument turned into playful name-calling.
• Meng Yutong circulated her yin power through the Yin-Yang Harmony Art, and Lin Heng passed out from exhaustion.
• Meng Yutong left Lin Heng in the room and told the others he would wake up soon, warning that she would later demand an explanation for hiding him.
• Leng Qingyun shared roasted wild chicken with Xiao Lan and bickered with Leng Qingqiu while Zhao Wanqing watched.

Lin Heng explained why he had faked his death and discussed the plans his companions had for the future. Elsewhere, Hua Qi encountered Bai Yi, who claimed he could open the Starry Sky Ancient Road by stealing fortune.

• Lin Heng told Meng Yutong and the others that he had faked his death to evade the Royal Clan and admitted he could not explain how he gained his Dragon Qi.
• Meng Yutong planned to travel to the Southern Continent with Aunt, while First Senior Sister would return to Fairy Cloud Peak and the other Senior Sisters would cultivate in the Western Continent.
• Lin Heng accepted that his companions would not join him in the Northern Continent, and Saint Ye believed he was ready to venture out on his own.
• Hua Qi wandered after Lin Heng's apparent death and Ye Tian's disappearance, worried that the Starry Sky Ancient Road would not open before the coming catastrophe.
• Bai Yi confronted Hua Qi and offered to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road by stripping fortune from the Immortal Realm and people from other Epochs, then threatened her with his chessboard.
• Hua Qi fled from Bai Yi, who recognized her as someone from the Third Epoch and wondered whether a fool could see through her.

Lin Heng and his companions departed by Cloud Boat while Jiang Jingyi reconsidered whether he had survived his tribulation and ordered Jiang Yan to investigate the Wei Family’s wider operations. Aboard the boat, Lin Heng pressed Meng Yutong to decide how they would reveal their relationship to his parents, leaving her embarrassed and unsure.

• Lin Heng and his group set off across the crossing by Cloud Boat as Zhao Wanqing returned to the Inn.
• Jiang Jingyi concluded that Lin Heng might have hidden himself after surviving the tribulation and decided not to capture him yet because he still had the Bone Sword’s mission.
• Jiang Jingyi told Jiang Yan to investigate the Wei Family, explaining that its Eastern Continent branch was only one part of a wider organization with roots across several continents.
• Lin Heng barged into Meng Yutong’s cabin and teased her while she prepared to enter seclusion.
• Lin Heng asked Meng Yutong when they would announce their relationship to his parents, and she blushed at the thought of facing Dugu Zixuan and Lin Zhique.

Meng Yutong and Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect, where Lin Heng demanded accountability for the attack on his Master and helped send Xu Gou to Discipline Cliff. Meng Yutong then showed Shi Yuanzhou an Imperial Token and ordered him to conceal Lin Heng’s return, leaving him to infer that she had ties to the Dynasty.

• Meng Yutong and Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect and encountered Shi Yuanzhou and the recovering Xu Gou.
• Xu Gou offered Meng Yutong a cursory apology, but Lin Heng challenged the lack of accountability for the attack on his Master.
• Shi Yuanzhou ordered Xu Gou taken to Discipline Cliff after Lin Heng demanded further punishment.
• Lin Heng explained to Leng Qingqiu why Xu Gou feared being punished in front of disciples, then joked about Meng Yutong’s age.
• Meng Yutong showed Shi Yuanzhou the Female Emperor’s Imperial Token and told him to claim Lin Heng was dead, even if the Sect Leader asked.
• Shi Yuanzhou accepted the order and privately concluded that Meng Yutong had a connection with the Dynasty.

Lin Heng recovered at Fairy Cloud Peak, where the newly completed Immortal Academy and plans to protect its finances were discussed. After receiving a letter from Black Robe, he went to meet the Blood Moon Cult and forced Jie to guide him to its new hideout.

• Duan Shuyun said she would leave Fairy Cloud Peak's affairs to Duan Shuyun, who was capable of managing the peak.
• Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi admired the completed Immortal Academy, while Lin Heng and Duan Shuyun discussed its costs and plans to earn money.
• Duan Shuyun showed Lin Heng imitation versions of the White Mystic Brush and Ink Rhino Box, and he warned her to keep the real items sealed away.
• After resting for two days, Lin Heng received a letter from Black Robe and left Fairy Cloud Peak to meet the Blood Moon Cult.
• Jie arrived in Black Robe's place, refused to take Lin Heng to the cult's new territory, and was knocked aside by Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng demanded that Jie lead him to the Blood Moon Cult, and Jie agreed after seeing Lin Heng's killing intent.

Lin Heng reached the Blood Moon Cult’s hidden new headquarters looking for Jiang Caiyan, only to learn that she had left without saying where she was going. After confronting Jie and catching up with Black Robe, Lin Heng learned that Black Robe had once cultivated to the late stage of Spirit Transformation but had suffered a setback.

• Jie led Lin Heng through a dense forest to the Blood Moon Cult’s new headquarters, and Lin Heng revealed that he was in the Nascent Soul Realm.
• A gatekeeping disciple told Lin Heng that Jiang Caiyan was away, and Jie argued that Lin Heng had not asked whether she was there.
• Lin Heng lifted Jie by the throat and threatened him before Black Robe arrived and ordered disciples to drag Jie away.
• Black Robe led Lin Heng through the compound and explained that Jiang Caiyan had left without telling Lin Heng where she was going.
• Black Robe said his cultivation had once reached the late stage of Spirit Transformation but had been damaged, and Lin Heng suspected he had not told Jiang Caiyan.

Lin Heng learned that the person he sought had gone to the Northern Continent, possibly to Thousand-Fathom Pass, and set out after her. As he traveled with Xiao Lan, he learned more about the Northern Continent’s geography and the threat of disguised demons, while Xiao Lan carried him onward after his sword faltered.

• Black Robe told Lin Heng that the person he sought had gone to the Northern Continent and might not return for a while.
• Lin Heng learned that she may have gone to Thousand-Fathom Pass and left for the Northern Continent.
• Lin Heng traveled with Xiao Lan and reflected on the continent’s divisions and the demonic beasts infiltrating human society.
• Lin Heng asked Xiao Lan why she had not transformed, and she explained that she had to mature fully first.
• Lin Heng switched from riding the Nine Heavens Sword to riding Xiao Lan when the sword began slipping out of his control.

Meng Yutong discussed her feelings for a young Dugu Clan disciple with Shen Yeting as Dao Integration pressure spread through Ten Directions Hall. Dugu Zixuan emerged from seclusion, and Shen Yeting began preparing to tell her that Xiao Heng was gone.

• Meng Yutong told Shen Yeting that her cultivation had recovered quickly, then asked what she thought of relationships between elders and much younger cultivators.
• Shen Yeting recounted how Dugu Yifeng broke the legs of an older Sect Leader who had proposed to a young girl, leaving Meng Yutong worried about her own age gap with the Rebel Disciple.
• The pressure from the forbidden grounds surged, and Meng Yutong, Shen Yeting, and Dugu Feng rushed to witness Dugu Zixuan emerge with Dao Integration might.
• Dugu Zixuan greeted Dugu Feng and followed Shen Yeting to the main hall, where she asked whether Xiao Heng had returned.
• Shen Yeting hesitated and told Dugu Zixuan that Xiao Heng was gone.

After emerging from seclusion, Dugu Zixuan learned that Lin Heng had died and discovered that her family had hidden the truth about his life from her. Furious over her son’s suffering and Dugu Feng’s neglect, she blocked his escape and demanded answers.

• Dugu Feng told Dugu Zixuan that Lin Heng had died, and Shen Yeting confirmed that he had fallen during a tribulation more than half a month earlier.
• Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong explained that Lin Heng had been seriously injured after fighting two Literary Path elders, then died crossing an anomalous Heavenly Tribulation.
• Meng Yutong recounted Lin Heng’s exploits in Dingyang City, and Dugu Zixuan grieved that she had never met the son who had grown so capable.
• Dugu Zixuan learned that Lin Zhique had taken baby Lin Heng away, that Lin Heng had survived in the wilderness for twenty years, and that he had only recently returned to Ten Directions Hall.
• Dugu Zixuan confronted Dugu Feng for failing to look for or care about Lin Heng, then blocked the great hall doors as he tried to leave.

Dugu Zixuan learned that her family had failed to properly search for her missing child and furiously beat her brother Dugu Feng before leaving for the Western Continent to confront Lin Zhique. Meanwhile, Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong discussed clues suggesting the Heavenly Profound and Heavenly Action Continents might once have been a single supercontinent, setting up their investigation of the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm.

• Dugu Zixuan accused Dugu Feng of neglecting her missing child, and he admitted that his messages to the Green Pavilion Sect had brought little useful information.
• Dugu Zixuan blasted and struck Dugu Feng, then left for the Western Continent to confront Lin Zhique.
• Meng Yutong considered revealing that Lin Heng was alive but worried that doing so could disrupt his plan to draw out the Literary Path.
• Shen Yeting told Meng Yutong that the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm might connect remnants of an ancient supercontinent spanning the Heavenly Profound and Heavenly Action Continents.
• Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong decided to involve Old Master Zhengyuan in their coming investigation of the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm.

Lin Heng and Xiao Lan arrived in Yunluo Land, where he paid Broad Communication Manor to search for news of the Little Demoness. As they waited for the results, Dugu Zixuan entered the Western Continent alone to kill her bastard father, setting a major conflict in motion.

• Lin Heng and Xiao Lan entered Yunluo Land, where Lin Heng learned that Broad Communication Manor served as an information hub for newcomers.
• A Broad Communication Manor errand boy invited Lin Heng to the manor’s restaurant, where Lin Heng’s Nascent Soul aura discouraged others from staring at Xiao Lan.
• Lin Heng asked the errand boy to find out whether the Little Demoness had passed through Yunluo Land nearly two months earlier.
• Lin Heng offered the errand boy Spirit Stones until he agreed to deliver results within one day, while Xiao Lan swallowed a dropped stone and teased Lin Heng about calling himself Venerable.
• Unaware of the coming crisis, Lin Heng and Xiao Lan enjoyed their visit as Dugu Zixuan charged alone into the Western Continent to kill her bastard father.

After Dugu Zixuan emerged from seclusion, she arrived at Green Pavilion Sect demanding to see Lin Zhique and threatening to destroy the sect if he did not appear. She left the elders facing her while Nan Yangming provoked her, unaware of the danger.

• Jiang Jingyi learned that Dugu Zixuan had emerged and planned to visit Great Mountain to discuss Dragon Qi with the Dugu Clan.
• At Green Pavilion Sect, the elders discussed the profits and success of the Immortal Academy Hall on Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Shi Yuanzhou and the other elders discovered that someone had smashed the mountain gate, and Dugu Zixuan appeared before them.
• Dugu Zixuan demanded that the elders summon Lin Zhique, but Shi Yuanzhou said the Sect Leader was in seclusion.
• Dugu Zixuan threatened to level Green Pavilion Sect if Lin Zhique did not appear, and Nan Yangming insulted her despite the other elders’ warnings.

Dugu Zixuan confronted Green Pavilion Sect over Lin Heng’s disappearance and gave the sect two months to produce Lin Zhique. She then went to the newly established school on Fairy Cloud Peak, where she met Duan Shuyun.

• Dugu Zixuan pressured Nan Yangming until he knelt, then slapped him flying when he challenged her.
• Shi Yuanzhou pleaded with Dugu Zixuan and explained that Lin Zhique had returned gravely injured and that the sect found Lin Heng only after a Heavenly Secrets Disk revealed his location.
• Dugu Zixuan suspected the elders were hiding the truth and gave Green Pavilion Sect two months to bring Lin Zhique out of seclusion or face the destruction of its seven peaks.
• Dugu Zixuan left Green Pavilion Sect and headed toward the southeast, intending to pursue those involved in the danger to her son.
• At the school on Fairy Cloud Peak, Dugu Zixuan appeared before Duan Shuyun and introduced herself by name.

Dugu Zixuan visited Lin Heng’s former residence and took his pillow, while his senior sisters felt the weight of her grief. In Yunluo Land, Lin Heng learned that Jiang Caiyan was likely heading toward Mountain Sea Warehouse and considered following her north.

• Dugu Zixuan toured the schoolhouse with Duan Shuyun and the others, then sensed Lin Heng’s lingering presence in his room.
• Dugu Zixuan thanked the senior sisters for helping Lin Heng and took the round pillow from his bed before disappearing.
• Mu Liuxi reflected on how grief could make people silent, while Leng Qingqiu teased Yun Yao about how badly she had bullied Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng’s attendant reported that a blue-eyed woman in a black dress had asked about routes north to Mountain Sea Warehouse.
• Lin Heng learned that Flower Moon Lake and Red Lotus City were likely transfer points on the way to Mountain Sea Warehouse and considered seeking out Jiang Caiyan.

Lin Heng and Xiao Lan traveled through Flower Moon Lake and reached a northern town, where Lin Heng learned that a blue-eyed woman matching the Little Demoness had been taken away after a disturbance at the Zhou Family’s household hall. He hurriedly demanded directions to the Zhou Family, but the inn attendant urged him to wait until daybreak.

• Lin Heng paid three thousand Spirit Stones to teleport with Xiao Lan to Flower Moon Lake, then disguised himself with his senior brother’s identity as they traveled onward.
• Xiao Lan noticed people following them, but Lin Heng continued to the nearby town, where they checked into a Broad Communication Manor inn.
• Lin Heng asked when the teleportation array to Red Lotus City would reopen and paid the attendant to look for the Little Demoness.
• The attendant recalled that a blue-eyed young woman had been among several young ladies attacked and taken away during a disturbance at the Zhou Family’s household hall nearly two months earlier.
• Lin Heng demanded to know where the Zhou Family was and told the attendant to lead him there, but the attendant warned him not to go at night.

Lin Heng forced his way into the Zhou Family residence to find out what had happened to his Dao companion, who was among the women seized during the Fire Basin Banquet. After the Zhou Family failed to provide answers, he took Li Shu hostage and demanded that the clan head meet him by noon the next day.

• Lin Heng had an attendant lead him to the Zhou Family residence, then sent the attendant back to prepare hot water at the inn.
• Xiao Lan knocked down the residence’s gate, and Lin Heng demanded to know where his Dao companion had been taken.
• Li Shu denied knowing anything about the women’s seizure and threatened Lin Heng, so Lin Heng knocked him unconscious and stomped his head into the ground.
• Zhou Lanruo and the steward said the clan head had received the people who seized the women but was away from town.
• Lin Heng gave the Zhou Family until noon the next day for the clan head to meet him, then took Li Shu back to the inn and hung him upside down under guard.
• Zhou Lanruo sent the steward to find her grandfather and urged him to return before the deadline.

Lin Heng learned that Broad Communication Manor wanted his Blue-Scale Snake to help explore the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm, and he accepted a key to enter it. He confronted the Zhou Family outside the inn and waited for their clan head to arrive, who appeared just as the second stick of incense was nearly burned out.

• The innkeeper revealed that Broad Communication Manor had given Lin Heng a secret-realm key because it wanted his treasure-seeking spirit pet to help explore the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm.
• Lin Heng accepted the key but refused the innkeeper’s offer to settle the Zhou Family dispute for him.
• Lin Heng left the inn, comforted Xiao Lan, and cut off a Zhou Family man’s arm when the man demanded that he release their son-in-law.
• Lin Heng waited outside the inn while Xiao Lan tore off Li Shu’s arm, then knocked Li Shu unconscious when he shouted about his immortal sect.
• The Zhou clan head returned from the east and roared at Lin Heng as the second stick of incense nearly burned out.

Lin Heng defeated Zhou Min while demanding to know where the women taken during the Fire Basin Banquet had gone. As the Zhou Family feared his retaliation, the innkeeper warned him that killing Zhou Min would bring the Immortal Sect down on him.

• The Zhou Family clansmen complained to Zhou Min about Lin Heng, and Zhou Lanruo sought comfort in her grandfather’s arms.
• Lin Heng demanded to know where the women taken at the Fire Basin Banquet had gone, but Zhou Min taunted him and refused to answer.
• Lin Heng and Zhou Min exchanged spells, and their clash killed many Zhou Family clansmen before Lin Heng pierced Zhou Min with heavenly thunder.
• Lin Heng mocked the Immortal Sect and approached the fallen Zhou Min as the Zhou Family worried about the consequences.
• The innkeeper intervened and urged Lin Heng not to kill Zhou Min, then warned Zhou Min to reveal where the women were, including Lin Heng’s Dao companion.

Lin Heng killed Zhou Min, uncovered the Zhou clan head’s dealings with the Azure Clan, and decided to investigate the clan in Red Lotus City. After leaving with Xiao Lan, he was followed by people who feared his strength and sought to learn Ye Tian’s background.

• Shopkeeper Lu said the Azure Clan had come to town to retrieve its runaway juniors, and Lin Heng killed Zhou Min after accusing him of withholding the truth.
• Lin Heng warned Shopkeeper Lu not to scheme against him and invoked the name Ye Tian, then searched Zhou Min’s memories and discovered his dealings in women and yin essence pills with the Azure Clan.
• Shopkeeper Lu directed Lin Heng toward Red Lotus City, where the Azure Clan was expected to attend the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm.
• Xiao Lan returned after eating Zhou Min’s divine infant, and Lin Heng told her to clean up before they left without killing the Zhou clan’s ordinary members.
• Shopkeeper Lu ordered his servant to investigate Ye Tian’s background and report the incident to the manor lord, while several people followed Lin Heng and Xiao Lan after they departed.

Jiang Caiyan was forced to undergo the Azure Clan’s baptism, which was designed to strip away her inherited physique. After Crippled Granny rescued her, she revealed that Jiang Caiyan was her granddaughter and explained the clan’s brutal tradition.

• Crippled Granny urged Jiang Caiyan to accept the baptism and hinted that she had inherited her physique from a traitor to the Azure Clan.
• Jiang Caiyan refused to accept the baptism until the clan revealed the traitor’s identity, while Crippled Granny arranged for the ritual pool to be used the next morning.
• Jiang Caiyan entered the pool and resisted as its black liquid tried to strip away her physique, using Nether Baleful Blood Miasma to corrode it.
• The Blacklight Stone released Purple Light and transported Jiang Caiyan away after she saw memories of past Azure Clan members being stripped of their bloodlines and buried.
• Crippled Granny explained that the Azure Clan punished members who formed relationships with outsiders by extracting their bloodline physiques, then revealed that Jiang Caiyan was her granddaughter.