Chapter Summaries

Dugu Qingyang confronted Lin Heng over his relationship with Meng Yutong and threatened to enforce Dugu Clan family law, while Lin Heng refused to let the clan dictate his choice of Dao companion. Dugu Qingyang brought Dugu Feng to the back mountain too, then unexpectedly slapped him as the others gathered.

• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng that Dugu Qingyang had arrived and threatened to break his and Meng Yutong’s legs over their relationship.
• Dugu Qingyang heard Lin Heng call him an old antique, captured Lin Heng, and carried him to the back mountain.
• Dugu Qingyang praised Lin Heng’s Dragon Qi but insisted that the legs that should be broken still had to be broken.
• Dugu Qingyang summoned Dugu Feng to the courtyard, where Dugu Zixuan and the others soon arrived.
• Lin Heng said he would not let Dugu Clan family rules control whom he took as his Dao companion.
• Dugu Qingyang slapped Dugu Feng after Dugu Feng laughed at Lin Heng.

Dugu Qingyang mistook Xiao Lan’s confused list of Lin Heng’s Dao companions for proof that Shen Yeting had betrayed Dugu Feng, and punished Lin Heng and Dugu Feng before the truth came out. Meng Yutong took the injured Lin Heng to her room, where he asked whether Senior Mu Li would still visit them.

• Dugu Qingyang suspended Lin Heng and Dugu Feng and accused Dugu Feng of being cuckolded, while Shen Yeting struggled to understand why she was involved.
• Dugu Qingyang summoned Xiao Lan, who listed Shen Yeting among Lin Heng’s Dao companions because she mistook her kindness for romantic closeness.
• Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong explained the misunderstanding, and Meng Yutong took Lin Heng away to treat his leg while Shen Yeting helped Dugu Feng leave.
• Xiao Lan disappeared, and Lin Heng’s senior sisters teased him in Meng Yutong’s room until she sent them out.
• Meng Yutong treated Lin Heng’s leg, and he asked whether Senior Mu Li would still come to their place.

Lin Heng recovered from his injury and comforted Jiang Caiyan as she struggled with the revelations about her family, while they discussed what to do with Crippled Granny. Dugu Qingyang visited Lin Heng and Dugu Feng, gave Dugu Feng medicine, and scolded them both about their relationships and family lives.

• Meng Yutong warned Lin Heng not to ask about Mu Li, and Lin Heng later pretended to be injured when Jiang Caiyan came to visit him.
• Jiang Caiyan mocked Lin Heng for being hurt and blamed him for concealing Black Robe's identity, then asked how to handle Crippled Granny and the others.
• Lin Heng agreed that Jiang Caiyan could leave Crippled Granny to Black Robe and comforted Jiang Caiyan over her fears about her grandmother and biological father.
• Lin Heng recovered after a day and visited Dugu Feng, who complained that Dugu Qingyang had broken his leg while Lin Heng had also been beaten.
• Dugu Qingyang and Dugu Zixuan visited Dugu Feng; Dugu Qingyang gave him a pill, then lectured him and Lin Heng about having children and too many dao companions.

Lin Heng reunited with Meng Yutong at Fairy Cloud Peak and agreed to play an emperor-and-consort game while blindfolded. He accidentally exposed their role-play to the gathered guests, leaving his upright reputation in ruins as he fled.

• Lin Heng found Meng Yutong hiding a Bodhi Tree she had stolen from the Joyful Union Sect to annoy Mu Li.
• Meng Yutong told Lin Heng that she was cultivating a Yin Fruit and could not engage in acts between man and woman for five days.
• Meng Yutong proposed an emperor-and-consort role-play and told Lin Heng to catch her while blindfolded.
• Meng Yutong led Lin Heng into the main hall, where Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, Dugu Zixuan, Jiang Jingyi, and the others watched in silence.
• Lin Heng removed his blindfold and realized he had mistaken Jiang Jingyi for Meng Yutong, then ran as the guests laughed at him.

Lin Heng returned to the main hall to negotiate with Murong Ziyan and Jiang Jingyi over Star Pavilion Market’s prisoners and the Dynasty’s cooperation. After agreeing to release them in exchange for full compensation, Lin Heng learned Jiang Jingyi knew he was a Show-off and accepted her invitation to a gathering in Luopu Town.

• Duan Shuyun brought Lin Heng back to the main hall, where Dugu Zixuan explained the Dynasty’s request for cooperation against the Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Lin Heng initially refused Murong Ziyan’s request to release Star Pavilion Market’s two True Lords, citing the market’s monopolies and suspected links to the Medical Clan.
• Jiang Jingyi argued that local forces needed to unite against the external threat, and Lin Heng agreed to release the prisoners after the Dynasty promised to cover Green Pavilion Sect’s losses.
• Murong Ziyan invited Martial Man and Su Moxie to speak privately, while Jiang Jingyi took Lin Heng aside.
• Lin Heng admitted to Jiang Jingyi that his gentlemanly demeanor was an act, and she told him that she and Murong Ziyan already knew he was a Show-off.
• Jiang Jingyi invited Lin Heng to attend a gathering in Luopu Town in two days, and he accepted.

Lin Heng learned what Jiang Jingyi had asked his visitors before dealing with Xiao Lan’s trouble and confronting Meng Yutong about her actions the previous day. The chapter ended with Meng Yutong teasing Lin Heng and inviting him to play the emperor game.

• Martial Man and Smoke Ghost told Lin Heng that Jiang Jingyi had asked about their late master, while Su Qiubai suspected that Jiang Jingyi was hiding her true strength.
• Saint Ye explained that yin fruits were not ordinary fruit and warned Lin Heng that cultivating them could harm Meng Yutong’s body.
• Lin Heng pretended to cook Xiao Lan in a pot, then told her to learn human etiquette and stop eating people if she wanted to be accepted as a good Demon Beast.
• Lin Heng confronted Meng Yutong in her room about embarrassing him, and she said she had done it to discourage other women from liking him.
• Meng Yutong teased Lin Heng and invited him to play the emperor game again.

Meng Yutong used a charm art on Lin Heng, then taught him the sixth-tier Pure Heart Method to resist bewitchment. The next morning, they prepared to attend the Luopu Town gathering, while Dugu Qingyang told Dugu Zixuan that her eldest uncle was coming to the Western Continent to fight for the imperial throne.

• Meng Yutong blindfolded Lin Heng and used a charm art on him, then Shadow One reported that the Luopu Town gathering would draw noble families and Dynasty secret guards.
• Meng Yutong learned that the Meng Clan patriarch had arrived and ordered Shadow One to sell assets because Fairy Cloud Peak needed money.
• Lin Heng recognized Meng Yutong's charm art as the kind Mu Li had used, prompting Meng Yutong to teach him the sixth-tier Pure Heart Method.
• The next morning, Meng Yutong set out with Lin Heng to see the Meng Clan members at the gathering.
• Dugu Qingyang told Dugu Zixuan that her eldest uncle would soon bring people from the Dugu Clan to the Western Continent to fight for the imperial throne.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi went undercover at Luopu Town’s gathering, where rumors about Rain Pavilion and its Dao Weapons circulated. Lin Heng’s Dao Eye suddenly reacted to another nearby eye, leaving him in pain as the search for its counterpart began.

• Dugu Zixuan learned that the Dugu Clan’s elders were already planning how to distribute positions and rewards after the crisis with the Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Lin Heng followed Jiang Jingyi to Luopu Town, where they concealed their identities and entered a crowded gathering.
• Lin Heng heard that Rain Pavilion could forge secret realm keys and planned to auction a Dao Weapon, and he wondered whether its Meng-surnamed Pavilion Master was connected to his Master.
• Lin Heng’s left eye suddenly hurt and bled, and he told Jiang Jingyi that another Dao Eye had appeared nearby.
• A masked woman watched Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi before leaving, while Jiang Jingyi searched the crowd and Lin Heng resolved to find the other eye.

Lin Heng learned that the Female Emperor might kill him to seize his Dragon Qi, then planned to use Hua Qi to draw Ye Tian away from Clear Moon Long Song and test whether she would truly cooperate with him. The chapter ended with Lin Heng gambling on Hua Qi's loyalty and threatening to destroy her soul if she betrayed him.

• Jiang Jingyi questioned Lin Heng about his Dragon Qi and warned that the Female Emperor could take it after his death.
• Lin Heng decided to avoid the Eastern Continent and privately imagined becoming emperor and suppressing the Female Emperor.
• Murong Ziyan arrived at the gathering, where He Qingcang and four leaders formally greeted her.
• Hua Qi sensed Ye Tian nearby, and Lin Heng asked her to reveal his location to Ye Tian as part of a plan to separate him from Clear Moon Long Song.
• Lin Heng asked Hua Qi to pretend to take refuge with Ye Tian and help stage his abandonment, while secretly testing whether she would cooperate with him.

Lin Heng argued that his strategic record made him fit to lead the alliance despite his Nascent Soul cultivation, and challenged the elders’ doubts about his ability to defeat the Extraterrestrial Cultivators. He secured a chance to compete for alliance leader and left after receiving a signal from Hua Qi to begin their planned troublemaking.

• He Qingcang confronted Lin Heng over his men’s imprisonment, then learned they had been released and dropped the matter.
• Murong Ziyan proposed forming a unified alliance organization and choosing a leader, while He Qingcang and other representatives objected to Lin Heng competing.
• Lin Heng endured He Qingcang’s coercive pressure and cited his role in bringing down powerful clans and forces as evidence of his strategic ability.
• Ji Taichang recognized Lin Heng’s connection to the destruction of the Azure Clan, and Murong Ziyan confirmed that the Female Emperor had given him three Imperial Tokens.
• Song Feilan supported letting Lin Heng compete for the alliance leadership, and Lin Heng thanked the elders before leaving after receiving Hua Qi’s signal.

Ye Tian tried to recruit Hua Qi after finding her, but she exposed his unchanged arrogance and learned he had taken refuge with Clear Moon Long Song. Lin Heng learned Ye Tian was nearby and decided to strike first, while Ye Tian returned to face the sect disciples’ hostility.

• Ye Tian begged Hua Qi to help him again, then angrily insisted she had to support him because their interests were tied together.
• Hua Qi learned Ye Tian had joined Clear Moon Long Song to exploit the coming conflict between Immortal Sects and target his junior brother.
• Hua Qi told Ye Tian that his junior brother, Lin Heng, was in town, and Ye Tian immediately lost his composure.
• Lin Heng emerged after Ye Tian left, and Hua Qi explained that she had called him to witness their exchange and dispel his suspicions.
• Lin Heng decided to strike first and considered killing Qiu’s disciples to frame Ye Tian, while Hua Qi followed him.
• Ye Tian returned to Clear Moon Long Song’s gathering place as its disciples mocked him for being an outsider whom their Master praised.

Lin Heng killed a disciple of Clear Moon Long Song and several of his companions while disguising himself as Ye Tian, intending to make Qiu suspect Ye Tian and drive a wedge between them. He left one survivor alive to spread the story, though Hua Qi warned that the scheme might expose Lin Heng.

• Ye Tian suppressed his anger at the disciples who mocked him, while Lin Heng decided to take revenge in his place.
• Lin Heng killed a Clear Moon Long Song disciple who had stolen a red beast egg, then took the egg and the disciple’s valuables.
• Lin Heng and Hua Qi encountered four disciples searching for their dead companion, and Lin Heng attacked and killed three of them.
• Lin Heng knocked the final disciple unconscious and left him alive so Qiu would believe Prison Ye had killed her disciples.
• Lin Heng told Hua Qi that he wanted Ye Tian to suspect her and Clear Moon Long Song to focus on him, hoping to create a rift between Qiu and Ye Tian.

Meng Yutong agreed to consider repairing the Meng Clan’s Cauldron of All Beings after Meng Boxi paid a deposit, while revealing that she had once been chosen as its human sacrifice and fled. The chapter ended with her questioning Shadow One about Lin Heng’s cooperation with the noble houses.

• Lin Heng took the spoils and used purifying spirit liquid to remove the bloody stench, while Hua Qi returned to find Ye Tian.
• Meng Boxi asked Meng Yutong to repair the Meng Clan’s Cauldron of All Beings, which had been damaged by the clan’s supposed White-eyed Wolf.
• Meng Yutong agreed to evaluate the cauldron at Pear Blossom Heart Lake and accepted Meng Boxi’s deposit of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• After Meng Boxi left, Meng Yutong revealed that she was the White-eyed Wolf and had escaped after the Meng Clan chose her as a human sacrifice for the cauldron.
• Shadow One told Meng Yutong that Lady Ziyan had arranged a meeting between Lin Heng and several noble houses, and Meng Yutong scoffed at the idea that they would cooperate with him.

Lin Heng told Jiang Jingyi he planned to use his fortune and a staged display of destiny to win the Western aristocratic families’ support and pursue the throne. Meanwhile, Qiu blamed Ye Tian for killing her disciples, but Ye Tian persuaded her that Lin Heng had framed him, leaving Qiu determined to investigate.

• Meng Yutong told Shadow One to watch Lin Heng and keep the Murong Family from noticing her activities.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Jingyi he intended to use his Dragon Qi and fortune to gain aristocratic support and claim the throne, asking her to polish his image.
• Jiang Jingyi questioned Lin Heng’s ambition and warned him that the Female Emperor could punish him for revealing his Dragon Qi.
• The Female Emperor secretly added Lin Heng to her hunting list while he remained unaware.
• Qiu beat Ye Tian and accused him of killing her disciples with his own secret arts.
• Ye Tian claimed Lin Heng had learned his techniques and framed him, and Qiu agreed to investigate while warning Ye Tian not to deceive her.

Qiu investigated the attack on her disciples and doubted that Ye Tian was the masked killer, while Ye Tian blamed Lin Heng and asked Hua Qi to help locate him. Hua Qi agreed to search for Lin Heng, and Ye Tian asked her to take Lin Heng’s eyes alive.

• Qiu gave medicine to her surviving disciples and questioned the injured male disciple about the attack.
• The male disciple accused Ye Tian, but First Senior Sister said the killer’s strength exceeded Ye Tian’s and questioned why the killer had spared a witness.
• Qiu suspected someone had framed Ye Tian and ordered her disciple to find the junior brother mentioned in the account.
• Ye Tian confronted Hua Qi, blamed Lin Heng for the killings, and said Qiu had nearly killed him.
• Ye Tian asked Hua Qi to locate Lin Heng, then claimed Lin Heng had copied his secret arts and asked her to preserve Lin Heng’s eyes.

Wu Chen learned that Lin Heng possessed the Dao Eye and ordered his men to find out everything about him before nightfall. Lin Heng discovered that two jade keys revealed a secret realm called the Eternal Great Dao and Longevity Immortal Mansion, and he sought Meng Yutong’s help identifying them.

• Wu Chen learned that a white-clad young man from the Dynasty had been seen with Murong Family’s young lady and ordered his subordinate to gather the man’s information before nightfall.
• Lin Heng examined his spoils, found two jade keys, and used True Yuan to reveal an image and the words “Eternal Great Dao” and “Longevity Immortal Mansion.”
• Lin Heng showed the keys to Jiang Jingyi, who said they might be connected to the Southern Continent’s drifting Longevity Immortal Island and suggested asking Rain Pavilion for help.
• Jiang Jingyi arranged for Ziyan to introduce Lin Heng to Rain Pavilion Master Meng Yutong, who agreed to meet him and planned to extort him.

Lin Heng visited Rain Pavilion disguised as Ye Tian to identify a jade key, but Pavilion Master Yu could not name the secret realm it opened. After Lin Heng left, Meng Yutong accepted Qiu’s order to copy five similar keys at an inflated price, then assigned Shadow One to arrange the work.

• Lin Heng showed Pavilion Master Yu a jade key, and she identified it as an ancient secret-realm key but could not determine which realm it opened.
• Pavilion Master Yu offered to copy Lin Heng’s key, but he declined because he did not know where it led and left with Murong Ziyan.
• Qiu arrived seeking copies of a crescent-shaped key, and Pavilion Master Yu quoted twenty-four thousand Spirit Stones for five keys.
• Qiu paid a fourteen-thousand-Spirit-Stone deposit and agreed to pay the remainder upon delivery.
• Pavilion Master Yu caught Shadow One eavesdropping, gave him four thousand Spirit Stones for the artifact workshop, and kept the rest of Qiu’s payment.

Lin Heng confronted Ye Tian in the mountains while the town gathered for Rain Pavilion’s Dao weapon auction. Lin Heng overwhelmed his senior brother with superior cultivation and technique, declaring that he knew everything Ye Tian did and was better at it.

• Murong Ziyan told Jiang Jingyi that Lin Heng had killed a Clear Moon Long Song disciple, then proposed that Jiang Jingyi disappear and secretly wait to rescue him when he got into trouble.
• Wu Chen learned that Ye Tian had once belonged to Green Pavilion Sect and decided he wanted to meet the man who had wiped out Medicine King Valley.
• As the Dao weapon auction began, Meng Yutong noticed that Lin Heng and Clear Moon Long Song’s people were absent and grew suspicious.
• Lin Heng taunted Ye Tian about his loneliness and struck back when Ye Tian attacked, leaving Ye Tian badly outmatched.
• Lin Heng revealed his Nascent Soul Peak Stage cultivation and used all nine heads of Nine Dragons Aspect Art, sending Ye Tian flying.

Lin Heng fought Ye Tian and gained the upper hand, while Hua Qi explained the power of Ye Tian’s Berserk Bone Tyrant Blood Body. After Lin Heng and Hua Qi urged Ye Tian to cripple his cultivation and surrender, Ye Tian lowered his head, bloodied and disheveled.

• Lin Heng and Ye Tian fought in the sky, and Lin Heng used Heaven-Splitting against Ye Tian’s Heaven-Slaying Sword Art.
• Ye Tian mistook a puppet lotus body for Lin Heng and was kicked, then Lin Heng evaded his attacks and cut away part of his hair.
• Hua Qi appeared and explained that Ye Tian’s injuries had awakened the slaughtering Great Dao of his Berserk Bone Tyrant Blood Body.
• Ye Tian accused Hua Qi of teaching Lin Heng his secret arts, but Lin Heng said he had forced her to teach him and had studied them for just over two months.
• Hua Qi told Ye Tian to cripple his cultivation and surrender, and Lin Heng offered to spare him on her account.
• Ye Tian lowered his head, bloodied and disheveled, after hearing Hua Qi urge him to surrender.

Lin Heng shattered Ye Tian’s confidence and nearly killed him, but Qiu intervened and confronted Lin Heng over her murdered disciple. Hua Qi whisked Lin Heng away before Qiu could capture him, and they fled toward a nearby town.

• Ye Tian accused Hua Qi of betraying him and claimed Lin Heng’s success came from his family, but Lin Heng argued that Ye Tian had received plenty of advantages and failed through his own weakness.
• Lin Heng provoked Ye Tian into attacking, then revealed that Ye Tian’s blood loss had made his Dao Ring disappear and struck at him with the Nine Heavens Sword.
• Qiu appeared and blocked Lin Heng’s attack, saving Ye Tian, then demanded to know why Lin Heng had killed her disciple.
• Lin Heng admitted he had framed Ye Tian and mocked Qiu’s Clear Moon Long Song and its ties to Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Qiu tried to take Lin Heng back to Clear Moon Long Song, but Hua Qi flew off with him toward a nearby town.