Chapter Summaries

As Lin Heng fled Dugu Zixuan’s attentions, Su Moxie tried to match him with Su Qiubai, who rejected the idea. Lin Heng then visited Jiang Caiyan at her inn, where their bath together turned intimate.

• Su Moxie praised Lin Heng to Su Qiubai and suggested they were well matched, but she angrily refused and defended her fiancé.
• Lin Heng escaped Dugu Zixuan after she repeatedly offered him beef soup, while Dugu Zixuan and Su Moxie discussed giving him time to settle in.
• Lin Heng arrived at Jiang Caiyan’s inn and found her soaking in a bath.
• Lin Heng joined Jiang Caiyan in the bath, heated the water with his Fire Element Body, and drew her into an intimate embrace.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan reunited and teased each other, but their conversation turned serious when Jiang Caiyan explained why she feared having children. Jiang Caiyan refused to go with Lin Heng to Fairy Cloud Peak, and she remembered that she still needed to ask about Senior’s instruction before they set off the next day.

• Lin Heng praised Jiang Caiyan’s appearance, and they compared how each saw the other during their intimate reunion.
• Jiang Caiyan complained about Lin Heng’s many Dao companions, and he told her about the dangers he faced in the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Heng hinted that Jiang Caiyan should have children, but she refused and explained that neither of them had experienced parental love.
• Lin Heng invited Jiang Caiyan to Fairy Cloud Peak, but she slapped him and refused to compete with his Senior Sisters for his favor.
• Jiang Caiyan remembered Senior’s instruction and decided to ask about it the next day before they set off.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan traveled with Dugu Zixuan and their companions to retrieve Gu Yun, while Dugu Zixuan hoped to reconnect with her son without revealing who she was. They reached the city and secured access to the prisoners, but Lin Heng still regarded his parents as strangers.

• Lin Heng sent Su Moxie and Su Qiubai to bring Broad Communication Manor under control, while Dugu Zixuan insisted on accompanying Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan.
• Lin Heng shared lychees with the group, and Jiang Caiyan asked how he would react if a parent appeared; he said they were strangers to him.
• Jiang Caiyan revealed that her mother was from the Azure Clan and that her grandmother had saved her and her family, but postponed explaining further.
• Lin Heng's group arrived at the main city where Gu Yun was detained and went to the Justice Bureau with the Imperial Token.
• The Chief of the Justice Bureau knelt and ordered the prisoners brought out.

Lin Heng rescued Gu Yun and Wang Qiang, who pledged their forces to him, then planned to target the Azure Clan after a meeting with their leaders. Su Moxie’s group found Broad Communication Manor destroyed, so Lin Heng decided to head to South Prince Manor first.

• Su Qiubai teased Bai Zihe about rumors that he liked her, and he confessed before she kicked him into a wall.
• Lin Heng rescued Gu Yun and Wang Qiang, who agreed to follow him and lead Blood Moon Valley and Waning Moon Divination under his authority.
• Lin Heng ordered Gu Yun and Wang Qiang to prepare for a meeting of the three forces’ managers at Waning Moon Tower in three days.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Caiyan that they would settle accounts with the Azure Clan after capturing the manor master of Broad Communication Manor.
• Su Moxie reported that Broad Communication Manor’s village had been slaughtered and burned, leaving the manor master’s fate uncertain.
• Jiang Caiyan reasoned that South Prince Manor could not have destroyed Broad Communication Manor so quickly, and Lin Heng decided to go to South Prince Manor first.

Jiang Caiyan proposed uniting Waning Moon Divination, Cloud Wander Sect, and Blood Moon Valley under the Blood Moon Society after revealing that Broad Communication Manor had been destroyed. Lin Heng's group then reached Ascending City and headed for South Prince Manor to investigate.

• Jiang Caiyan told the gathered factions that Broad Communication Manor's headquarters had been massacred and its lord was likely dead.
• Jiang Caiyan proposed renaming the Blood Moon Cult as the Blood Moon Society and joining the three factions under a shared framework while letting them retain their identities.
• Gu Yun, Tian Sheng, and the Blood Moon Valley elder agreed to join the Blood Moon Society.
• Jiang Caiyan left with Lin Heng's group and the captured High Priest, and they traveled by Cloud Boat to Ascending City.
• Lin Heng identified himself at the city gate and ordered a City Lord's Mansion official to lead the group to South Prince Manor.

Lin Heng confronted Yu Hai over the arrest of the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm survivors, then used the Beast Tide crisis to offer the Azure Clan as scapegoats. Yu Hai agreed to pin the blame on them, leaving the bound High Priest Zang Cong to realize Forest City was in danger.

• Lin Heng and his group entered South Prince Manor, where Yu Hai recognized Martial Man and then changed his attitude after seeing Lin Heng’s Imperial Token.
• Lin Heng questioned Yu Hai about arresting the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm survivors, and Yu Hai said Han Gaoyuan of Broad Communication Manor had supplied the information that led to the warrants.
• Yu Hai produced dated documents showing that South Prince Manor had received news of the Beast Tide before the survivors escaped the secret realm.
• Lin Heng suggested blaming the disaster on people who entered the secret realm with Dao Abyss Fragments and presented the bound High Priest Zang Cong and two other Azure Clan members.
• Yu Hai agreed that the Azure Clan and Broad Communication Manor should be investigated, while Zang Cong struggled and realized Forest City could be ruined.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan used the Dynasty’s authority to seize Forest City and dismantle the Azure Clan, though its chief escaped. At a banquet, Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan accused Crippled Granny of engineering the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm disaster to eliminate rivals and secure power, and she claimed Jiang Caiyan had been protected.

• Yu Hai secured Garrison Command troops, and Lin Heng warned him to settle the matter before the Female Emperor intervened.
• The troops blockaded Forest City as Yu Hai arrested more than a thousand Azure Clan members, while the clan chief fled.
• Jiang Caiyan sent Gu Yun and others to take over Forest City, and Lin Heng worried that the swift operation had gone too smoothly.
• At the banquet, Lin Heng accused Crippled Granny of causing the Demon Beast attacks in the Immortal Wheel Secret Realm.
• Jiang Caiyan said Crippled Granny had arranged for Wang Qiang, Gu Yun, and the Dao Lords to die so she could take their holdings, while keeping Jiang Caiyan safe with a marked Blacklight Stone.
• Crippled Granny denied intending to endanger Jiang Caiyan and said the Blacklight Stone would have kept the Demon Beasts from attacking her.

Crippled Granny confessed that she had arranged Gu Yun and the others’ deaths to help Jiang Caiyan, while Feng Ming revealed the Azure Clan had orchestrated the Beast Tide and trapped the banquet guests. As the Azure Clan’s Incomplete Immortal Slaying Array began to activate, Lin Heng had Xiao Lan dig beneath its barrier, and someone’s head emerged from the hole.

• Lin Heng explained that Crippled Granny’s bloodline had been extracted, leaving her with little lifespan, and Crippled Granny admitted she had plotted against Gu Yun and the others for Jiang Caiyan.
• Crippled Granny denied responsibility for the Beast Tide, but Feng Ming appeared and trapped everyone inside the great hall with a barrier.
• Feng Ming revealed that the Azure Clan had manipulated the Beast Clan and the Zang Clan, then created the Cang Mountain Beast Tide to pursue Lin Heng and his companions.
• Jiang Caiyan declared that Zang Cong had survived and could help bring down the Azure Clan, provoking Feng Ming to activate the Incomplete Immortal Slaying Array.
• Lin Heng stopped Dugu Zixuan from breaking the array and told Xiao Lan to dig beneath the barrier, whereupon a head poked out of the hole.

Lin Heng and the others escaped the collapsing hall, and Dugu Zixuan pursued the fleeing Wind Clan Chief. After healing Crippled Granny and confronting a dispute over her alleged collusion with demonic beasts, Lin Heng accused Yu Hai of orchestrating Broad Communication Manor’s destruction.

• Lin Heng and the others escaped the collapsing great hall, while Dugu Zixuan pursued the Wind Clan Chief after he teleported away.
• Crippled Granny coughed blood, and Lin Heng used Wood Force to ease her suffering.
• Su Qiubai questioned whether Crippled Granny should be arrested for colluding with demonic beasts, and Bai Zihe spoke up before Su Moxie kicked him away.
• Lin Heng stopped Yu Hai from leaving and challenged his account of Broad Communication Manor’s destruction, accusing him of killing his own trusted subordinates.

Lin Heng exposed Yu Hai as Han Gaoyuan, the Lord of Broad Communication Manor and a Black Market operative, and uncovered how he had planned the banquet and the Azure Clan’s destruction. Yu Hai revealed that Yi Pavilion had recruited him and that a mysterious Pavilion Master had been plotting against Lin Heng since his arrival in the Northern Continent.

• Lin Heng revealed that the Broad Communication Manor Lord Han Gaoyuan had been a puppet or incarnation and identified Yu Hai as the person behind him.
• Lin Heng connected Broad Communication Manor to the Black Market and explained how Yu Hai had used the Azure Clan to eliminate his own confidants and cover his tracks.
• Lin Heng deduced that Yu Hai had arranged the Forest City banquet to lure the escaped Azure Clan figure into the Incomplete Immortal Slaying Array.
• Yu Hai admitted that he was Han Gaoyuan, the Lord of Broad Communication Manor, and Yu Hai of the Dynasty's Imperial Strategy Bureau.
• Yu Hai explained that Yi Pavilion had recruited him, made him Deputy Pavilion Master of South Prince Manor, and supported Broad Communication Manor as a Black Market information station.
• Yu Hai revealed that a mysterious Pavilion Master had planned against Lin Heng since he entered the Northern Continent.

Lin Heng exposed Yu Hai’s schemes, and Yu Hai died after revealing his involvement with Yi Pavilion. After Forest City was secured, Lin Heng learned that Dugu Zixuan shared his real mother’s name, leaving him shocked.

• Yu Hai explained how Han Gaoyuan, Crippled Granny, and the Azure Clan Chief had each plotted against Gu Yun and the others, then died after triggering a Forbidden Curse.
• Lin Heng’s allies praised his deductions, and Dugu Zixuan brought the captured Azure Clan chief back to the group.
• Chief Lyu ordered the Azure Clan chief taken away, while Jiang Caiyan and the others began searching Forest City for valuables.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan disappeared together for three days, while Dugu Zixuan and the others gathered the city’s resources.
• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng her name, and he realized it matched his real mother’s name.

Lin Heng learned that Dugu Zixuan was his birth mother, but rejected her attempt to reunite after she admitted she had once mistaken him for Ye Tian and nearly beaten him to death. He left her with no answer about when he might accept her, while agreeing to visit his uncle and aunt later.

• Dugu Zixuan confirmed that she had come to the Northern Continent searching for Lin Heng, and explained that his senior sisters had told her where to find him.
• Lin Heng confronted Dugu Zixuan about hiding her identity and nearly killing him when she mistook him for Ye Tian, then said she had played no role in his life and he would not acknowledge her as his mother.
• Dugu Zixuan accepted Lin Heng's rejection and became visibly upset as he struggled with whether to hate or forgive her.
• Xiao Lan brought Lin Heng a hairpin, and he left with her to look for wood-attributed spiritual objects in Forest City.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Zixuan he would visit his uncle and aunt later, and Su Moxie arrived to ask how the reunion had gone.

Dugu Zixuan sought Jiang Caiyan’s help after Lin Heng rejected her, and the two women grew closer as Jiang accepted her as a mother-in-law. Meanwhile, Bai Yi dismissed the order to help pursue Lin Heng and chose to watch the divided factions maneuver around him.

• Su Moxie advised Dugu Zixuan to ask Jiang Caiyan to speak to Lin Heng, and Dugu Zixuan agreed despite her embarrassment.
• Jiang Caiyan met Dugu Zixuan, agreed to ask Lin Heng how he felt, and told her about her absent father and deceased mother.
• Dugu Zixuan welcomed Jiang Caiyan into Ten Directions Hall and encouraged her to call her mother-in-law.
• Bai Yi rejected the main pavilion’s demand that he help target Lin Heng, criticized Han Gaoyuan’s failure, and said he would wait and observe the factional conflict.
• Bai Yi noted that the Supreme Bone Sword and people from the Martial Path were connected to Lin Heng’s escape, while Nan Xiao recalled that Bei Sheng had been killed by the Garrison Command.

After Forest City’s spoils were divided, Lin Heng learned that his Dao Fruit was a rare inheritance seed and wondered why cultivators could no longer produce such seeds. He also talked with Jiang Caiyan about his mother, Dugu Zixuan, before she chased him over a hairpin, leaving their plans for the future unresolved.

• Lin Heng asked Plowman to identify the Dao Fruit and seeds, and Plowman explained that the fruit contained pure Dao while the seeds Lin Heng found had not matured.
• Plowman said cultivators in Lin Ziqing’s era could leave their Dao in seeds, but a change in the land had apparently stopped such seeds from producing fruit.
• Jiang Caiyan told Lin Heng she wanted to establish the Blood Moon Cult in the Northern Continent and asked him to bring Black Robe and the others from the Western Continent.
• Jiang Caiyan admitted she felt envious that Lin Heng’s parents were still alive, prompting him to reconsider how harshly he had treated Dugu Zixuan.
• Jiang Caiyan confronted Lin Heng about a hairpin, and he ran from her while Su Qiubai watched them chase each other.

Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan visited Crippled Granny to learn about the Demonfolk, while Dugu Zixuan gave Crippled Granny a precious pill and tried to reconcile with her son. Lin Heng learned the Demonfolk were seeking influence in the Northern Continent, then left with his mother’s Storage Pouch.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan found Dugu Zixuan having tea with Crippled Granny at her residence.
• Dugu Zixuan gave Jiang Caiyan a Seventh Grade Supreme Clarity Pill to restore Crippled Granny’s vitality, calling her future family.
• Crippled Granny explained that her Azure Clan’s mixed ancestry let her negotiate with Demonfolk, who had promised to help her eliminate Gu Yun and his companions in exchange for territory.
• Crippled Granny and Jiang Caiyan went to refine the pill, leaving Lin Heng alone with Dugu Zixuan.
• Dugu Zixuan tried to make amends for how she had treated Lin Heng, and he asked her for money, so she handed him her Storage Pouch.

After Dugu Zixuan revealed that Lin Heng was her son, Su Moxie told Su Qiubai that Lin Heng was also her betrothed, leaving her determined to reject the match. Lin Heng learned that the agreement involved Su Qiubai and said he did not want to marry her.

• Dugu Zixuan took Lin Heng to eat beef and revealed that her attitude toward him had changed because she recognized him as her son.
• Su Moxie told Su Qiubai that Lin Heng was her betrothed, and she angrily insisted the engagement must be broken.
• Su Moxie warned Su Qiubai not to break the agreement first and suggested treating it as a temporary arrangement.
• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng that his marriage agreement was with the Northern Continent's Star God Temple, specifically Su Qiubai.
• Lin Heng said he could not like Su Qiubai for now, comparing her fiery temper to the Little Chili already at home.

Lin Heng told Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, and Plowman that Jiang Caiyan was his mother and planned to return to Western Continent to evade the Dynasty. Meanwhile, Jiang Jingyi ordered Jiang Yan and Murong Ziyan to pursue the court traitors and Lin Heng, while Meng Yutong returned to Green Pavilion Sect and caught Yun Yao gossiping about her.

• Lin Heng revealed that Jiang Caiyan was his mother, and Martial Man and Smoke Ghost were shocked to learn the woman who had nearly beaten them to death was his mother.
• Lin Heng explained that he had used the name Ye Tian and the Imperial Token, so the Dynasty would pursue him; Plowman stayed in Northern Continent, Smoke Ghost continued searching for the Beauty Record, and Martial Man agreed to travel west with Lin Heng.
• Jiang Jingyi showed Jiang Yan the report linking Yi Pavilion to South Prince Manor, and Jiang Yan concluded that the Imperial Strategy Bureau had been infiltrated.
• Jiang Jingyi ordered Jiang Yan to follow Yu Hai's trail and find traitors within the court, then sent Murong Ziyan to try to capture Lin Heng in Northern Continent.
• Meng Yutong and Shen Yeting returned to Green Pavilion Sect, where they found Yun Yao discussing Meng Yutong's stinginess with the disciples.
• Meng Yutong confronted Yun Yao, who recognized her Master.

Meng Yutong returned to Fairy Cloud Peak, punished Yun Yao for mocking her, and discovered the disciples had built a busy academy. Mu Liuxi then revealed that they had told Dugu Zixuan that Lin Heng was alive, prompting Meng Yutong to worry that Dugu Zixuan had already found him and might learn about his Dao companions.

• Yun Yao praised Meng Yutong to her face after being caught talking about her, but Meng Yutong bound her and sent her to the Little Black Room.
• Meng Yutong and Shen Yeting visited the Immortal Academy Hall, where Leng Qingqiu, Zhao Wanqing, and a Human Lotus Root were teaching crowded classes.
• Meng Yutong found Leng Qingyun and Mu Liuxi playing with enchanted xuan paper, then asked Mu Liuxi how Fairy Cloud Peak had fared while she was away.
• Mu Liuxi told Meng Yutong that the disciples had revealed Lin Heng was alive to Dugu Zixuan, who had gone to the Northern Continent to find him.
• Duan Shuyun returned and confirmed that Mu Liuxi had told Meng Yutong about Senior Zixuan, and Meng Yutong questioned whether she had meant to keep it secret.

Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi joked about their schemes against Meng Yutong while Lin Heng traveled toward the Western Continent with Dugu Zixuan. Their Cloud Boat was ambushed, and Dugu Zixuan confronted the attackers aboard a massive, unmarked vessel.

• Meng Yutong ordered Duan Shuyun and the other disciples to kneel after Ye Ting left, while Duan Shuyun laughed about Meng Yutong’s past vulnerability to her schemes.
• Dugu Zixuan questioned Lin Heng about his five senior-sister Dao companions, and he hinted that he also intended to pursue his Master.
• Xiao Lan spotted a giant Cloud Boat above theirs, and its attackers were killed by the Martial Man and Dugu Zixuan.
• Dugu Zixuan boarded the giant Cloud Boat, where black-cloaked fighters surrounded her and an armored man demanded the Holy Artifact.
• Dugu Zixuan destroyed the front rank of fighters and clashed with the armored man, splitting the giant Cloud Boat in two as the Martial Man steered their vessel clear of the falling wreckage.

Dugu Zixuan escaped a fight with a mysterious Martial Saint and returned to the Cloud Boat, while Meng Yutong punished several disciples at Fairy Cloud Peak by sending them to the Little Black Room. The imprisoned disciples expected Meng Yutong to need their help soon, while Leng Qingyun was left in charge of the back mountain.

• Dugu Zixuan unleashed her anomaly against a martial cultivator who demanded the Holy Artifact, but he escaped as Martial Man fled with the Cloud Boat.
• Two days later, Dugu Zixuan returned to the Cloud Boat, told Martial Man the attacker had sought a Holy Artifact, and ordered him to keep the boat on course while she recovered.
• After Shen Yeting left Fairy Cloud Peak, Meng Yutong ordered Duan Shuyun to enter the Little Black Room, then sent Leng Qingqiu there as well after she defended her senior sister.
• Meng Yutong sent Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi to the dungeon, while Leng Qingyun was left to look after the back mountain.
• Yun Yao joined the imprisoned disciples, and Leng Qingqiu insisted that Meng Yutong would soon have to release them when things went wrong.