Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng refused Hua Qi’s offer to teach him other cultivation methods and insisted on learning the same techniques as Ye Tian so he could defeat him with them. Meanwhile, Ye Tian sought refuge with Qiu at Clear Moon Long Song, offering to help her oppose Green Pavilion Sect in exchange for capturing Lin Heng alive.

• Lin Heng told Hua Qi he wanted to learn the same cultivation methods and moves as Ye Tian, and Hua Qi agreed.
• News spread that Star Pavilion Market had been destroyed, while Qiu spent nearly half a year confined for her dealings with the Heavenly Secret Sect.
• Ye Tian arrived at Clear Moon Long Song and asked Qiu to take him in, claiming he wanted to help her fight Green Pavilion Sect.
• Qiu challenged Ye Tian to explain his value, and he offered his strength in exchange for help capturing Lin Heng alive.
• Qiu ordered two hidden attendants to receive Ye Tian as an honored guest, while privately deciding he was not worthy to become her disciple.

Clear Moon Long Song’s elders discussed Star Pavilion Market’s destruction and reassessed Green Pavilion Sect’s strength. They decided Qiu would visit Green Pavilion Sect to discuss surrender, while other Western Continent forces also considered their own plans.

• Sect Leader Silkworm summoned Clear Moon Long Song’s elders to discuss Star Pavilion Market’s destruction.
• Summer and Winter dismissed Star Pavilion Market as deserving its defeat, while Chun and Qiu questioned how Green Pavilion Sect had overcome its powerful defenders.
• Chun and Silkworm noted that Star Pavilion Market’s late-stage Dao Integration backer, He Qingcang, had not appeared.
• Qiu pointed out that Green Pavilion Sect seemed to have few elders, and the meeting considered how its hidden forces might have defeated Star Pavilion Market.
• Chun suggested Green Pavilion Sect might align with forces beyond the stars, and the elders agreed that Qiu would visit to persuade them to surrender.
• Purple Void Sect held a similar discussion as other forces pursued their own plans.

Lin Heng mistook Jiang Caiyan’s illness and their secret conversation for an attempt to abort his child, but learned she was not pregnant and that she was worried about Black Robe’s disappearance. After discovering that a silkworm gu was attached to her through the Blacklight Stone, he suspected Crippled Granny might be involved.

• Jiang Caiyan told Zhao Wanqing that she felt better after removing the Blacklight Stone but worried about the strange creature in her body.
• Lin Heng overheard them discussing removing the hidden danger and wrongly accused them of trying to end Jiang Caiyan’s pregnancy.
• Zhao Wanqing clarified that Jiang Caiyan was not pregnant, and Lin Heng apologized for the misunderstanding.
• Jiang Caiyan asked Lin Heng to find Black Robe, who had been missing for a month, and Lin Heng agreed to search for him himself.
• Saint Ye explained that the creature was a silkworm gu attached to Jiang Caiyan through the Blacklight Stone.
• Lin Heng considered who might have placed Black Robe’s Forbidden Curse and began to suspect Crippled Granny.

Lin Heng left Fairy Cloud Peak with Martial Man and Smoke Ghost to search for Black Robe and seek help from friends, while Meng Yutong and the others prepared to aid the Joyful Union Sect against the Extraterrestrial Cultivators. Bai Yi sent Chen Changqin after Lin Heng, hoping to claim his soul and use the Blood Soul Banner for Lian'er's resurrection.

• Lin Heng sent Martial Man and Smoke Ghost to search the eastern and western towns for Black Robe, then decided to leave the mountain and look for help.
• Lin Heng, Martial Man, and Smoke Ghost sneaked out through Fairy Cloud Peak's back mountain while Meng Yutong and the others watched them go.
• Mu Li asked the Green Pavilion Sect for help building a teleportation array so the Joyful Union Sect could retreat to a nearby mortal city if its home fell to the Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Meng Yutong, Shen Yeting, Ling Fei, and Dugu Feng boarded Mu Li's Cloud Boat to help, while Dugu Zixuan stayed behind to guard Fairy Cloud Peak.
• After learning Lin Heng had descended the mountain, Bai Yi gave Chen Changqin the Blood Soul Banner and urged him to go after Lin Heng and collect valuable souls.
• Chen Changqin refused to be tempted into attacking Lin Heng's women and vanished.

Bai Yi discussed the difficulty of killing a Child of Fortune while Lin Heng arrived at Murong Ziyan’s hidden manor. There, Jiang Jingyi revealed herself as Lady Yi and intervened after Murong Ziyan had Lin Heng captured.

• Bai Yi recognized that another bearer of fortune had arrived in the Western Continent and explained why Lin Heng would be difficult to kill.
• Lin Heng and his companions reached the Garrison Command’s hidden manor, where Murong Ziyan was meeting with Jiang Jingyi, known publicly as Lady Yi.
• Murong Ziyan agreed to seize Lin Heng after learning that he could use Dragon Qi, then had him tied up despite his companions’ protests.
• Lin Heng recognized Jiang Jingyi and hugged her thigh, asking her to discipline Murong Ziyan for threatening to make him a eunuch.
• Jiang Jingyi chastised Murong Ziyan for binding Lin Heng and promised to uphold justice for him.

Lin Heng questioned Jiang Jingyi about Eastern Continent’s arrival and the Dynasty’s plans, then asked about a Royal Clan expedition to Northern Pass that had been wiped out sixty years earlier. He revealed that its leader was connected to him, leaving Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan surprised and curious about why he wanted to know.

• Lin Heng teased Murong Ziyan about serving Jiang Jingyi, while Jiang Jingyi reprimanded them both and concealed her identity as the Female Emperor.
• Lin Heng asked how Jiang Jingyi had reached Western Continent, and she said she had used an unstable teleportation array.
• Lin Heng warned that Clear Moon Long Song might be a spy from Heavenly Action Continent because the sect had used his Master to refine pills.
• Lin Heng asked Jiang Jingyi about the Royal Clan expedition sent to Northern Pass sixty years earlier, saying Prince Qi had told him about its destruction.
• Jiang Jingyi asked why Lin Heng wanted to know about the expedition’s leader, and Lin Heng privately thought he could not tell her the man was his father-in-law.

Lin Heng questioned Jiang Jingyi about Jiang Sheng and learned that the Dynasty would punish him for the deaths of five royal heirs. After Murong Ziyan’s informants located the black-robed man near Lark Mountain, Lin Heng invited her and Jiang Jingyi to visit the Green Pavilion Sect and fled after joking that he would package up both mistress and servant.

• Jiang Jingyi told Lin Heng that Jiang Sheng had led a Royal Clan force to its destruction and would face death if captured, while Lin Heng worried that Black Robe’s identity could endanger him and Little Demoness.
• Jiang Jingyi warned Lin Heng to report any clues about Jiang Sheng, and Lin Heng denied knowing anything before trying to leave.
• Lin Heng revealed that he was searching for someone, and Murong Ziyan agreed to have nearby informants investigate.
• After half an hour, Murong Ziyan reported that a black-robed man had been seen west of Lark Mountain, and Lin Heng invited her mistress to visit the Green Pavilion Sect.
• Lin Heng told Murong Ziyan that she could come too because mistress and servant should be packaged together, then fled as Jiang Jingyi reacted in shock.

Jiang Jingyi explained why the Dynasty would leave Western Continent’s factions to face the Extraterrestrial Cultivators and summoned He Qingcang. At Fairy Cloud Peak, Jiang Caiyan was moved by her companions’ kindness as they helped her take bitter medicine, while Leng Qingyun and Leng Qingqiu traded taunts.

• Jiang Jingyi told Murong Ziyan that the teleportation arrays could be used but the Dynasty would withhold support to test the cultivation factions and draw the Dugu Clan into the crisis.
• Jiang Jingyi ordered Murong Ziyan to summon He Qingcang, the former Prince of Southern Mountain, from the land of mountains and rivers.
• Lin Heng decided to return and have Xiao Lan trace the Extraterrestrial Cultivators’ path toward Western Wasteland.
• Leng Qingqiu brought Zhao Wanqing medicine for Jiang Caiyan, warning that the unavailable ingredients would weaken its effects.
• Leng Qingyun gave Jiang Caiyan honey candy to make the medicine easier to drink, and Jiang Caiyan thanked everyone for accepting her despite her past.
• Leng Qingyun accused Leng Qingqiu of bullying her and pretending to be her to seduce Lin Heng, and Leng Qingqiu playfully accepted her challenge.

Yun Yao visited the Disciple Palace to persuade the others to give her their allotted days with Lin Heng after she lost her own share of the meat schedule. Zhao Wanqing, Jiang Caiyan, and Leng Qingyun each agreed to give her a day, while Shadow One overheard the arrangement and planned to report it to the Sovereign.

• Yun Yao arrived at the Disciple Palace after Leng Qingqiu had knocked her flying, then found the others with Xiao Lan eating nuts.
• Yun Yao explained that she had lost her place in the meat schedule and asked Zhao Wanqing to give her one of her days.
• Zhao Wanqing agreed after Yun Yao pleaded with her and promised to protect her from future bullies.
• Yun Yao warned Leng Qingyun that Leng Qingqiu might target her next, and Leng Qingyun agreed to give Yun Yao one day.
• Jiang Caiyan also agreed to give Yun Yao a day, explaining that she would eventually return to the Northern Continent and did not crave meat much.
• Shadow One overheard the sisters' arrangement and prepared to report Yun Yao's loophole to the Sovereign.

Dugu Qingyang abducted Dugu Zixuan and explained the Dugu Clan’s plan with the Female Emperor to lure Heavenly Action Continent cultivators into the Heavenly Profound Continent. Dugu Zixuan realized the Dynasty might be sacrificing forces from several continents to help the Dugu Clan gain a foothold, but she questioned why it would do so.

• Dugu Qingyang abducted Dugu Zixuan and sealed her Divine Sense and True Yuan.
• Dugu Zixuan attacked Dugu Qingyang, but he easily broke her sword and revealed that he was her ancestor.
• Dugu Qingyang told Dugu Zixuan that the Dugu Clan had provoked Extraterrestrial Cultivators through a plan involving the Female Emperor.
• Dugu Qingyang explained that the plan would trap Heavenly Action Continent cultivators in the Heavenly Profound Continent and let the Dugu Clan occupy territory in their weakened homeland.
• Dugu Zixuan questioned whether the Dynasty would really help the Dugu Clan, since the plan risked sacrificing forces from Western Continent, Northern Continent, and Southern Continent.

Dugu Qingyang explained to Dugu Zixuan how the Female Emperor intended to use the war against the Heavenly Action Continent to reduce the power imbalance between ordinary people and cultivators. When Dugu Zixuan left to face trouble from Clear Moon Long Song, Dugu Qingyang kept Xiao Lan behind and learned that Lin Heng had several dao companions, including someone Xiao Lan called “Aunt.”

• Dugu Qingyang explained that the Jiang Dynasty’s strength depended on ordinary people and that the Female Emperor used the war to consume cultivators and preserve the dynasty’s balance.
• Dugu Zixuan realized that the Female Emperor’s plan forced local cultivators to resist the invading forces, even if they understood the political scheme.
• Leng Qingyun summoned Dugu Zixuan because people from Clear Moon Long Song had appeared, including the woman who had tried to refine their Master into a pill.
• Dugu Qingyang stopped Xiao Lan from following Dugu Zixuan, offered her dried deer legs, and questioned her about why Leng Qingyun called Dugu Zixuan mother-in-law.
• Xiao Lan listed Lin Heng’s dao companions by their titles and included “Aunt,” leaving Dugu Qingyang startled.

Xiao Lan told Dugu Qingyang that Lin Heng’s Aunt was intimate with her master, leaving him suspicious about Dugu Feng’s marriage. At a tense meeting, Qiu urged the Green Pavilion Sect to consider yielding to the Heavenly Action Continent, but an unknown speaker challenged her claim that the Western Continent could not resist without a Supreme.

• Xiao Lan explained that Lin Heng called Dugu Feng’s wife Aunt and claimed she was intimate with her master.
• Dugu Qingyang suspected Xiao Lan had misunderstood and decided to ask Dugu Zixuan about it later.
• Qiu arrived at the Green Pavilion Sect’s main hall and faced Shi Yuanzhou, Nan Yangming, and Dugu Zixuan.
• Qiu reported the Heavenly Action Continent’s advance and the heavy casualties in the Northern Continent, including a fallen Dao Integration expert.
• Qiu suggested the sect choose between resisting and yielding, and Shi Yuanzhou accused Clear Moon Long Song of preparing to surrender.
• An unknown speaker called Qiu’s argument ridiculous and condemned sects that would not fight without a Supreme.

Lin Heng rejected Qiu’s demand that Green Pavilion Sect stay out of the Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s advance and let her leave rather than risk a fight. He planned to exploit his ability to copy Ye Tian’s techniques to impersonate him and turn Clear Moon Long Song against him.

• Qiu revealed that Ye Tian had offered to join Clear Moon Long Song and that she had brought him up as a bargaining chip to persuade Green Pavilion Sect not to resist the Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s Holy Lord.
• Lin Heng, Shi Yuanzhou, and Nan Yangming refused to let Green Pavilion Sect stand aside, while Dugu Zixuan moved to stop Qiu from leaving.
• Lin Heng let Qiu go, warning her to reconsider whether Ye Tian’s surrender was genuine and to consider her own position.
• Lin Heng explained that Qiu likely had a way to escape and that fighting her could endanger Green Pavilion Sect while much of its strength was away.
• Lin Heng proposed impersonating Ye Tian and using his copied techniques to sow discord in Clear Moon Long Song, making Ye Tian bear the blame.

Lin Heng returned and learned that a suspicious letter in Black Robe’s handwriting called Jiang Caiyan to Offering City in the Western Wasteland. The group decided to investigate together, leaving with Dummy Senior Sister and Xiao Lan.

• Lin Heng told Dugu Zixuan he still intended to frame Senior Brother Ye and then went to find Jiang Caiyan and the others.
• Duan Shuyun identified Offering City as the buried site of the ancient Farming Trade City in the Western Wasteland.
• Yun Yao noticed the letter was written on unusual paper from the Northern Continent and suggested Black Robe might have been forced to write it.
• Lin Heng returned and questioned who could have delivered the letter, adding to the group’s suspicions.
• Jiang Caiyan agreed to travel west with Lin Heng, and Yun Yao and Leng Qingqiu joined them.
• Lin Heng gathered Dummy Senior Sister and Xiao Lan, and the group prepared to leave.

Lin Heng took Jiang Caiyan and the others into the Western Wasteland to investigate a mysterious letter, but two Cloud Boats carrying hostile extraterrestrial cultivators intercepted them. Lin Heng and his companions began slaughtering the attackers, and his sword strike shattered the enemy boats’ defenses.

• Leng Qingyun insisted on joining the search and refused to let Xiao Lan go without her, so Lin Heng brought her along.
• Murong Ziyan learned that Lin Heng’s group had departed and ordered her informants to follow them quietly.
• After nearly two days of travel, Lin Heng’s group entered the Western Wasteland and spotted two large Cloud Boats approaching them.
• The opposing cultivators turned to pursue Lin Heng’s Cloud Boat, and their leader ordered his people to kill everyone and seize their valuables.
• Martial Man killed one Golden Core woman with a punch, while Smoke Ghost burned another to ash.
• Lin Heng’s sword strike sent a hundred-zhang beam through the night, shattered the Cloud Boats’ shields, and sent the enemy cultivators scrambling to retreat.

Lin Heng and his companions defeated two teams of extraterrestrial cultivators and learned that an alliance from the Heavenly Action Continent was searching for the Western Continent’s dragon vein to break the protective network around the main cities. After killing their captured leader, Lin Heng warned that stronger invaders would soon arrive.

• Martial Man and Smoke Ghost attacked the extraterrestrial cultivators, while Yun Yao and Jiang Caiyan joined the fight and defeated the remaining enemies.
• Yun Yao killed three cultivators with her Blazing Flames Court the Phoenix technique, while Jiang Caiyan killed four with her eerie Black Chain.
• Smoke Ghost captured the fleeing middle-aged leader, who identified himself as an elder of the Supreme Unity Immortal Sect and explained the invasion alliance’s search for the dragon vein.
• Lin Heng ordered Martial Man to kill the captured elder, despite the man having revealed what he knew.
• Lin Heng warned his companions that stronger extraterrestrial cultivators, possibly including a Dao Integration expert, would arrive and put them in danger.

Lin Heng's group arrived at Offering City and split up to search for the person who had lured Jiang Caiyan there. Jiang Caiyan was captured and found the imprisoned Blood Moon Cult disciples, who warned her that Black Robe was in danger.

• Lin Heng learned that Offering City was empty and sent the group in separate directions with star stones to track them.
• Lin Heng told Little Blue to follow Jiang Caiyan through the sand.
• Crippled Granny tightened the chains on Black Robe and said she would let him see his daughter before he died.
• Jiang Caiyan followed a strange knocking sound into a stone house, where the ground gave way and dragged her underground.
• Jiang Caiyan found the imprisoned Blood Moon Cult disciples, freed them, and heard tribulation warn that Crippled Granny had taken Black Robe.

Jiang Caiyan entered a hidden passage beneath Offering City while Lin Heng and the others uncovered a concealed descent and followed her underground. They landed in a shifting complex with three tunnels and split up to search for her.

• Jiang Caiyan rescued Jie and the others, then entered the dark passage beneath Offering City to investigate the heartbeat-like sound.
• Lin Heng deduced Jiang Caiyan had fallen through the stone house floor, and Martial Man uncovered a massive iron platform beneath the sand.
• Lin Heng sent Jade Origin Vine through a crack to open the mechanism, causing the group to drop into the underground complex.
• Lin Heng and the others found three tunnels, but Xiao Lan could not smell Jiang Caiyan; Lin Heng assigned Martial Man and Smoke Ghost to separate routes while he searched with Yun Yao and Dummy Senior Sister.

Jiang Caiyan discovered that Crippled Granny had used the Blacklight Stone to drain her bloodline and planned to take her heart. Black Robe broke free and drove Jiang Caiyan away, revealing that he was Jiang Sheng and that Crippled Granny was Zhai Xiaoshan, as the two prepared to fight over their past.

• Jiang Caiyan found Black Robe bound among thousands of hearts, but Crippled Granny appeared and revealed that she had brought him there.
• Jiang Caiyan confronted Crippled Granny about the Blacklight Stone, and Crippled Granny admitted she needed Jiang Caiyan’s bloodline to remake herself.
• Crippled Granny threatened Black Robe’s life and said she would take Jiang Caiyan’s heart, while Jiang Caiyan prepared to fight her.
• Black Robe shattered his restraints, pushed Jiang Caiyan toward the exit, and told her that Crippled Granny’s account of the past was a lie.
• Black Robe identified himself as Jiang Sheng and Crippled Granny as Zhai Xiaoshan, and the two began their showdown as the cavern shook.

Jiang Caiyan reached the cavern and found Black Robe defeated beneath Crippled Granny, who revealed her youthful appearance and claimed that Jiang Caiyan’s birth had caused her mother Yu Han’er’s death. Crippled Granny blamed Jiang Caiyan and Black Robe for Yu Han’er’s fate, leaving Jiang Caiyan stunned as Black Robe struggled to stop her.

• Black Robe cut the heart-absorbing blood vessels and faced Crippled Granny, whose body began to transform as she confronted him.
• Lin Heng split up from Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun to search the branching passages, while Xiao Lan followed the two women.
• Jiang Caiyan broke through the fallen stones and found the cavern silent, with only a pool of blood where Black Robe had been.
• Crippled Granny appeared in her youthful form with Black Robe underfoot and revealed that she was Jiang Caiyan’s grandmother.
• Crippled Granny said Yu Han’er had died giving birth to Jiang Caiyan and blamed Jiang Caiyan and Black Robe for her death.