Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect after learning that the Main Peak had suffered a major upheaval, which he suspected was connected to his mother investigating his father’s fate. The search beneath the peak had uncovered only bloodstained clothing and scattered jade beads, leaving the Sect Leader’s fate unknown.

• Leng Qingyun asked Lin Heng to bring her along on future adventures, and they discussed Jiang Caiyan and the Northern Continent.
• Mu Liuxi and Duan Shuyun found Lin Heng and ordered him to return to Green Pavilion Sect because something had happened at the Main Peak.
• Lin Heng explained the situation to Zhao Wanqing, then left her in Swallow Cloud City to deal with the aftermath of the Zhao Family crisis.
• Lin Heng, Mu Liuxi, and Duan Shuyun returned to Green Pavilion Sect and saw that more than half of the Main Peak had collapsed.
• Meng Yutong told Lin Heng that she and Dugu Zixuan had searched the Forbidden Chamber and found bloodstained clothing and scattered jade beads.

Lin Heng and the others investigated Lin Zhique’s disappearance from the Forbidden Chamber, while Yun Yao deduced that he had faked his seclusion and was still alive. The group was left wondering why Lin Zhique had staged his disappearance.

• Dugu Zixuan explained that Lin Zhique had vanished from the sealed Forbidden Chamber, with no trace or corpse, and Meng Yutong described what they had learned from Shi Yuanzhou.
• The group discussed whether Lin Zhique could have sneaked out, but Dugu Zixuan said the restriction had to be set from inside the chamber.
• Lin Heng considered how the system’s plot prompts and his memories might have been unreliable, and concluded that people from the Left Faction of Martial Arts had intercepted Lin Zhique but failed to kill him.
• Yun Yao proposed that either Lin Zhique had escaped by an unknown method or Shi Yuanzhou had been deceived about him entering the chamber.
• Lin Heng praised Yun Yao’s deduction and agreed that Lin Zhique was alive and had faked his seclusion, leaving the group to ask why.

Lin Heng and the others deduced that Lin Zhique had arranged for an acquaintance to take Lin Heng away and had hidden his own disappearance. Lin Heng considered investigating the Left Faction of Martial Arts and Sun Hao, but postponed a trip to the Eastern Continent; the chapter ended with Saint Ye offering to teach him a Divine Sense Phenomenon Method once he cultivated Divine Sense.

• Lin Heng, Meng Yutong, and Dugu Zixuan concluded that Lin Zhique likely arranged for someone familiar to take Lin Heng away and used a false search to conceal his own disappearance.
• Lin Heng identified the Left Faction of Martial Arts as a possible link between the people involved and wondered which faction Sun Hao belonged to.
• Lin Heng decided he would eventually speak with Sun Hao about the Seventh-Order Armor but delayed traveling to the Eastern Continent until other tasks were complete.
• After the women left at dawn, Little Black drew Lin Heng's attention to Saint Ye, who praised his progress and promised to teach him a Divine Sense Phenomenon Method once he cultivated Divine Sense.

Lin Heng asked Saint Ye about the Black Mist, which Saint Ye identified as a possible legendary Calamity Worm tied to the ancient First Epoch and a force opposed to fortune. Saint Ye warned Lin Heng that the Upper Realm was full of stronger cultivators, then teased him about being sent to mine; elsewhere, Meng Yutong learned that Dugu Feng and Shen Yeting were coming to the Green Pavilion Sect.

• Lin Heng showed Saint Ye the Black Mist and explained that it had been removed from his mother after Dugu Zixuan's clash with the Left Faction of Martial Arts.
• Saint Ye suspected the Black Mist was a legendary Calamity Worm and said its appearance in Hedong Land might have been man-made and connected to another Epoch.
• Saint Ye explained that calamity opposed fortune and could be understood as misfortune, while Lin Heng listened and reconsidered what Heaven's mandate meant.
• Saint Ye warned Lin Heng that powerful cultivators from lower realms could end up mining in the Upper Realm, then admitted he had been teasing him about arranging a mining job.
• Meng Yutong heard that Dugu Feng and Shen Yeting were coming to the Green Pavilion Sect and worried about who would guard the Ten Directions Hall.

Meng Yutong panicked when she learned Shen Yeting and Dugu Feng were coming to Green Pavilion Sect, fearing they might interrupt her plans with Dugu Zixuan. Meanwhile, Xing Tian returned to Star Pavilion Market injured, and the seated lords debated how to respond to the Zhao Family and the threat of Green Pavilion Sect.

• Dugu Zixuan told Meng Yutong that Shen Yeting and Dugu Feng would arrive in about two days, and that Dugu Zhengyuan had returned to oversee Ten Directions Hall.
• Meng Yutong worried that Dugu Zhengyuan might come to Green Pavilion Sect and break her legs.
• Northern Lord Jingjing mocked Xing Tian for returning without an arm, and he angrily described how a Martial Path fighter had killed his Unicorn Elephant and wounded him.
• Xing Tian revealed that the Zhao Family had brought people who destroyed Medical World Hall, threatening Star Pavilion Market's medical business.
• Wu Yan argued that Star Pavilion Market should avoid clashing with Green Pavilion Sect and went to negotiate with the Zhao Family as Xing Tian and the others left.

Lin Heng and Yun Yao found the Blood Moon Cult abandoned and ransacked, then learned that a bounty had led to its members being captured. Murong Ziyan arrived with Garrison Command soldiers and ordered Lin Heng arrested.

• Lin Heng and Yun Yao traveled to the Blood Moon Cult to visit Black Robe and found bloodstains, wreckage, and no one inside.
• Six Creek Moon Sect disciples mistook Lin Heng and Yun Yao for members of the Blood Moon Cult and tried to capture them.
• Lin Heng intimidated the disciples and learned that someone had offered a bounty for capturing people from the Blood Moon Cult.
• Murong Ziyan appeared with Garrison Command soldiers, surrounded the group, and ordered them to arrest Chief Steward Lin.

Murong Ziyan arrived under the Female Emperor’s orders to take Lin Heng back to Dingyang, but he persuaded her to delay the trip and help investigate the medical path forces. The chapter ended with Murong Ziyan agreeing to a period of leniency and offering to ask the nearby City Lord’s Mansion about the missing Blood Moon Cult members.

• Murong Ziyan’s soldiers pinned the six Creek Moon Sect disciples down, while Lin Heng challenged her authority and resisted her pressure.
• Murong Ziyan explained that the Female Emperor wanted Lin Heng brought back to the Eastern Continent, and Yun Yao objected to his being taken away.
• Lin Heng argued that the medical path conspiracy’s roots might lie in the Western or Northern Continent and asked Murong Ziyan to help investigate.
• Lin Heng hugged Murong Ziyan, and she rebuked him before agreeing to give him a period of leniency and forbidding him from using the Special Envoy title.
• Lin Heng asked whether Murong Ziyan had taken the Blood Moon Cult members, and she denied it and offered to make inquiries at the nearby City Lord’s Mansion.

Lin Heng and Yun Yao found no evidence that the Dynasty had taken the Blood Moon Cult captives and returned to Green Pavilion Sect to investigate Creek Moon Sect’s possible involvement. Meanwhile, Dugu Feng insisted Lin Heng had died in a tribulation, and Dugu Zixuan sent him flying just as Lin Heng returned and saw him.

• Lin Heng and Yun Yao questioned officials and Creek Moon Sect disciples but found no clues about the missing Blood Moon Cult members.
• Yun Yao remembered Creek Moon Sect’s grudge against Grand Elder Shi Yuanzhou, so Lin Heng and the others decided to return to Green Pavilion Sect before heading to Creek Moon Sect.
• Murong Ziyan went ahead while Lin Heng and Yun Yao discussed her connection to the Female Emperor and their plan to report back.
• Dugu Feng and Shen Yeting arrived at Green Pavilion Sect to find Dugu Zixuan, while Shi Yuanzhou negotiated with other elders over the cost of repairing the Main Peak.
• Dugu Feng told Dugu Zixuan he had watched Lin Heng die in a lightning tribulation, and Dugu Zixuan slapped him and sent him flying.
• Lin Heng returned to Fairy Cloud Peak, saw Dugu Feng pass overhead, and recognized him as his uncle.

Lin Heng revealed himself to Dugu Feng and Shen Yeting after they had believed he was dead, and Dugu Zixuan explained why she had kept his survival secret. Shen Yeting learned that Meng Yutong and the senior sisters had deliberately deceived her.

• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng that she had struck Dugu Feng for suggesting she find another match, and said Shen Yeting was speaking with his master.
• Dugu Feng mistook Lin Heng for an impostor until Lin Heng recalled their visit to Night Splendor Tower and a Medical Hall in Azure-Scale City.
• Dugu Zixuan reprimanded Dugu Feng for taking Lin Heng to Night Splendor Tower, and Dugu Feng threatened to beat Lin Heng while admitting how much he had suffered after Lin Heng's supposed death.
• Dugu Zixuan told Dugu Feng that she and Lin Heng had only recently recognized each other as mother and son, and that Lin Heng had initially refused to acknowledge her.
• Lin Heng found Shen Yeting with Meng Yutong and several senior sisters, and Shen Yeting confronted them after learning Lin Heng had been alive all along.

Lin Heng reunited with Shen Yeting and Dugu Feng’s family after explaining his faked death, while Meng Yutong’s disciples pressed her to reveal her identity to Dugu Zixuan. Meng Yutong agreed to meet them in two days, though she secretly planned to make the five disciples her dowry maids.

• Lin Heng and Meng Yutong explained his faked death to Shen Yeting, who forgave him after scolding him for keeping the family in the dark.
• Dugu Feng and Dugu Zixuan joined the family gathering, while Shen Yeting rebuked Dugu Feng for repeatedly snorting at Lin Heng.
• Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, Leng Qingqiu, Yun Yao, and Qingyun discussed telling Shen Yeting and Dugu Feng the truth about their identities.
• The five disciples visited Meng Yutong late at night and urged her to reveal herself to Dugu Zixuan.
• Meng Yutong told the five disciples to bring Lin Heng to the main hall in two days, where she would invite Dugu Zixuan herself.

Lin Heng learned that Creek Moon Sect was near Green Pavilion Sect and planned to investigate it, but his return to Fairy Cloud Peak was interrupted by Uncle Prison demanding money. Meng Yutong gathered Lin Heng, Dugu Zixuan, Dugu Feng, and the Senior Sisters, then criticized Lin Heng for devoting time to women instead of cultivating.

• Duan Shuyun and the Senior Sisters wondered why Meng Yutong had agreed to their request so quickly, while Duan Shuyun told them not to worry.
• Lin Heng asked Shi Yuanzhou about Creek Moon Sect and learned it was near Green Pavilion Sect and might soon become a first-rate Immortal Sect.
• Dugu Feng caught Lin Heng on the cloud bridge and demanded twenty thousand Spirit Stones, but Lin Heng persuaded him to leave the money as an investment earning monthly interest.
• Meng Yutong summoned Dugu Zixuan and the Senior Sisters, then called Lin Heng and Dugu Feng into the hall.
• Meng Yutong told Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng that Lin Heng should have advanced further and should not spend half his attention on women.

Meng Yutong and Dugu Zixuan argued over Lin Heng’s romantic life until Meng revealed that she and Lin Heng were Dao companions. The chapter ended with Meng claiming her five disciples were her bridal dowry, leaving them horrified.

• Meng Yutong criticized Lin Heng’s pursuit of Dao companions, while Dugu Zixuan defended his choices and happiness.
• Dugu Zixuan welcomed Lin Heng’s companions and offered to cook a feast for them that night.
• Meng Yutong pulled her five disciples away from Dugu Zixuan and requested a Grass Beast roast feast.
• Meng Yutong announced she would guide Lin Heng’s cultivation and kissed him, revealing that they were Dao companions.
• Dugu Feng rejected the revelation, while Meng Yutong called Duan Shuyun and the other four disciples maids included in her bridal dowry.

Meng Yutong revealed that she wanted to marry Lin Heng and count his five senior sisters as her dowry, leaving Dugu Zixuan delighted and Dugu Feng stunned. Lin Heng led Meng Yutong away while Dugu Zixuan stayed to speak with the five women, then privately celebrated that Yutong had become her daughter-in-law.

• Meng Yutong told Dugu Zixuan she wanted to become Lin Heng’s wife and bring his five senior sisters as her dowry.
• Dugu Feng objected to Meng Yutong marrying Lin Heng, but Duan Shuyun, Yun Yao, Mu Liuxi, Leng Qingyun, and Leng Qingqiu declared their relationships with him.
• Meng Yutong asserted her authority over her disciples, while Lin Heng took her away and signaled the five women to speak with Dugu Zixuan.
• Dugu Zixuan talked with Yun Yao, Mu Liuxi, and the others, then told Dugu Feng they should buy tender spirit beasts for a roast feast.
• Dugu Zixuan privately celebrated that Meng Yutong had become her daughter-in-law and praised Lin Heng for winning over an entire peak.

Meng Yutong and Lin Heng discussed their relationship and reconciled over his past actions, then began kissing in the boudoir. Shen Yeting arrived unexpectedly, saw them together, and fled in shock.

• Dugu Feng questioned Dugu Zixuan about Meng Yutong accepting Lin Heng, and Dugu Zixuan defended her son’s talent and their relationship.
• Lin Heng massaged Meng Yutong’s legs as they discussed her decision not to expose his relationship with his five senior sisters to his mother.
• Lin Heng told Meng Yutong he would choose her and described how he wished he had built their relationship more gently.
• Meng Yutong kissed Lin Heng, and neither of them noticed Shen Yeting entering the main hall.
• Shen Yeting saw the two together, shouted in shock, and ran away.

Lin Heng and Meng Yutong resumed their intimate teasing after Shen Yeting caught them, and Lin Heng disguised his advances as a private tea tasting. Shen Yeting worried about what she had seen, but before she could tell Dugu Feng, Leng Qingyun summoned them to the Disciple Palace.

• Lin Heng started to flee after Shen Yeting caught him and Meng Yutong, but Meng Yutong reminded him that they had already come clean.
• Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong about calling his mother and Uncle Prison by familial titles in private, then invited her to drink tea as a pretext for intimacy.
• Shen Yeting paced outside the sky bridge, wondering whether to tell Dugu Zixuan that Meng Yutong and Lin Heng had kissed.
• Dugu Feng arrived carrying two spirit beasts, and he and Shen Yeting argued over who would share startling news first.
• Leng Qingyun arrived and told Shen Yeting and Dugu Feng that Senior Zixuan had summoned them to the Disciple Palace.

Duan Shuyun devised a plan for the five senior sisters to escape becoming Meng Yutong’s dowry by admitting their mistake in front of Dugu Zixuan and appealing to her authority. As the evening banquet began, Dugu Feng brooded over Lin Heng’s romantic success, while Meng Yutong recognized a familiar taste during her private meeting with Lin Heng.

• Duan Shuyun proposed that the senior sisters apologize to Meng Yutong before Dugu Zixuan and the other elders, hoping Dugu Zixuan would back them and prevent them from becoming dowry maids.
• Dugu Feng prepared the spirit beasts for the banquet and privately wondered how Lin Heng had won over Meng Yutong and all five senior sisters.
• Shen Yeting found Dugu Zixuan cooking for the banquet because Meng Yutong wanted the food prepared that way, and she hesitated to reveal that she had discovered Meng Yutong and Lin Heng meeting privately.
• Meng Yutong tasted something during her meeting with Lin Heng and realized it resembled the grass tea Second Senior had given her.

Meng Yutong discovered that Lin Heng had tricked her into drinking tea for nearly a year and slapped him flying. Later, Lin Heng revealed Hua Qi from the Soul-Suppressing Stone Disk, and Saint Ye warned her against trying to interfere with the Fifth Epoch.

• Meng Yutong realized Mu Liuxi had schemed to get her to drink tea and slapped Lin Heng flying when he tried to escape.
• Lin Heng encountered Saint Ye walking Little Black and told him the Soul-Suppressing Stone Disk had trapped Hua Qi.
• Saint Ye dismissed Lin Heng so he could speak privately with Hua Qi, who suggested they cooperate to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Hua Qi argued that opening the ancient road could restore the path to immortality, but Saint Ye rejected her proposal and warned her not to interfere with the Fifth Epoch.

Saint Ye and Hua Qi argued over Hua Qi’s attempt to save the Third Epoch, while Lin Heng and his family gathered for a tense dinner. Shen Yeting discovered that Meng Yutong and Lin Heng’s relationship had changed, and Dugu Feng revealed that Meng Yutong had become Lin Heng’s wife.

• Saint Ye confronted Hua Qi about her plans, deduced that she had come from the Third Epoch to seek a way to save it, and warned Lin Heng that she was not his friend.
• Saint Ye told Lin Heng to keep Hua Qi sealed in the Stone Disk, then hurried with him to dinner at the Wind-Riding Pavilion.
• Dugu Zixuan’s five daughters apologized to Meng Yutong, but Meng Yutong refused to discuss the matter and Dugu Zixuan reassured them by calling herself their mother-in-law.
• After dinner, Dugu Zixuan privately called Meng Yutong aside while Lin Heng followed his senior sisters.
• Shen Yeting told Dugu Feng that she had seen Meng Yutong hug and kiss Lin Heng, and Dugu Feng revealed that Meng Yutong was already Lin Heng’s wife.

Shen Yeting learned that Meng Yutong and Lin Heng were together and that Lin Heng had also become Dao companions with the other women of Fairy Cloud Peak. Dugu Zixuan then pressured Meng Yutong to accept a distinction between her public and private standing with her disciples, leaving Meng Yutong with little choice but to agree.

• Dugu Feng told Shen Yeting that Meng Yutong was Dugu Zixuan's daughter-in-law and revealed that Lin Heng's four other Senior Sisters had also become his Dao companions.
• Shen Yeting decided to speak with Dugu Zixuan about whether she would return, while Dugu Feng went to see Lin Heng.
• Dugu Zixuan told Meng Yutong that she should remain above her disciples in public but treat them as equals in private.
• Dugu Zixuan threatened Meng Yutong with a Dao-patterned stick until Meng Yutong called her Mother-in-law.
• Dugu Zixuan used their public and private forms of address as an example, and Meng Yutong reluctantly accepted her proposal.

Dugu Zixuan told Shen Yeting why she could not return to Ten Directions Hall yet, then Lin Heng prepared to visit Creek Moon Sect with Dugu Feng. Before he could leave, Star Pavilion Market’s Host and two Lords arrived at Green Pavilion Sect, claiming they wanted to negotiate.

• Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong agreed that Meng Yutong would take the lead in public while everyone maintained harmony in private.
• Dugu Zixuan told Shen Yeting that Lin Zhique had disappeared after the search of Main Peak revealed the Calamity’s involvement.
• Lin Heng agreed to travel to Creek Moon Sect with Dugu Feng after Dugu Zixuan reluctantly accepted that she would not go with them.
• Duan Shuyun reported that visitors had come to the mountain gate seeking Fairy Cloud Peak and Lin Heng, so Lin Heng and the others went to meet them.
• Wu Yan introduced himself as Star Pavilion Market’s Host, with Northern Lord Jingjing and Western Lord Black Tea, and said they had come to negotiate over profit.