Chapter Summaries

After the Immortal Alliance’s victory over Black Bamboo Sacred Land became public, Bai Yi and Chen Changqin headed toward the Western Wasteland while Zhong Yue was summoned by the Alliance Leader. Murong Ziyan pleaded with Jiang Jingyi to save her from becoming Lin Heng’s maid.

• Reports of the Western Wasteland victory spread, claiming Black Bamboo Sacred Land lost four Cloud Boats, three Elders, and 615 people while Lu Yuanliang fled severely injured.
• Bai Yi and Chen Changqin discussed how Lin Heng had overcome the disparity in strength and decided to visit the battlefield’s corpses.
• Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s captured members despaired over Lu Yuanliang’s defeat, and Dark Guards took Zhong Yue to meet the Immortal Alliance Leader while leaving Elder Wang behind.
• Elder Wang accused Zhong Yue of betraying Black Bamboo Sacred Land after seeing him treated differently.
• Murong Ziyan clung to Jiang Jingyi and begged her to prevent Lin Heng from making her his maid.

Jiang Jingyi refused to rescue Murong Ziyan from her bet to become Lin Heng’s maid, while Lin Heng used a staged escape to persuade Zhong Yue to join the Immortal Alliance. The prisoners escaped as planned, and a dark guard’s warning interrupted Lin Heng’s recruitment attempt.

• Murong Ziyan clung to Jiang Jingyi and begged her to intervene, but Jiang Jingyi refused to save her from the consequences of her bet.
• Lin Heng hosted Zhong Yue at a victory feast and credited him with helping defeat Lu Yuanliang by leaving the Cloud Boat group.
• Dungeon prisoners discovered an open skylight, slipped their restraints, and escaped under Elder Wang’s lead.
• Lin Heng asked Zhong Yue to work for the Immortal Alliance, and Zhong Yue questioned whether Lin Heng could trust him to serve.
• A dark guard rushed in and announced that the prisoners had escaped.

Lin Heng manipulated Zhong Yue into returning to Lu Yuanliang, while Lu Yuanliang prepared to blame the defeat on Zhong Yue and launch a surprise attack on Immortal Alliance Headquarters. Lin Heng also refused Jiang Jingyi’s plea to cancel Murong Ziyan’s agreement to become his maid.

• Lin Heng pretended to be furious about the prisoners’ escape and let Zhong Yue leave, expecting him to return to Lu Yuanliang and undermine him.
• Lin Heng explained his plan to Dugu Feng, then Meng Yutong told him she would leave the next morning to handle trouble from the Meng Clan.
• Lu Yuanliang ordered his survivors to report that Zhong Yue had betrayed them and died, then commanded them to attack Immortal Alliance Headquarters by a detour.
• Jiang Jingyi asked Lin Heng to reconsider Murong Ziyan’s agreement, but Lin Heng insisted that Murong Ziyan had to become his maid.

Lin Heng persuaded Jiang Jingyi that Murong Ziyan should serve as a maid to learn humility, and Jiang Jingyi accepted his reasoning. After hearing Jiang Jingyi’s adapted version of his words, Murong Ziyan accepted the punishment as a test of her leadership and resolved to do the job well.

• Lin Heng told Jiang Jingyi that making Murong Ziyan a maid would teach her not to act arrogantly as a Messenger Guard.
• Jiang Jingyi agreed that Murong Ziyan’s punishment could serve as a tempering experience and told Lin Heng to send her over.
• Jiang Jingyi returned to the side hall, where Murong Ziyan anxiously asked whether Lin Heng had relented.
• Jiang Jingyi repeated Lin Heng’s speech about everyone being caught in the torrent and explained that Murong Ziyan had lost sight of her original heart.
• Murong Ziyan accepted becoming a maid, believing it was a test meant to prepare her to become a greater leader.

Lin Heng made Murong Ziyan a maid at Fairy Cloud Peak, while Meng Yutong suspected she was a spy sent by Murong Yi. Meng Yutong ordered Murong Ziyan to prepare a bath for her and Lin Heng, leaving Lin Heng eager to join her.

• Lin Heng returned to Meng Yutong and announced that Murong Ziyan had become Fairy Cloud Peak's new maid.
• Murong Ziyan entered the hall carrying a basin and suppressed her anger at being introduced as a servant.
• Meng Yutong suspected Murong Yi had sent Murong Ziyan to spy on Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Meng Yutong ordered Murong Ziyan to fill the bathing tub with warm water and said she would bathe with Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng eagerly agreed to bathe with Meng Yutong.

Meng Yutong made Murong Ziyan fill a bath as a way to provoke Murong Yi, while Lin Heng tried to stop her from being too harsh. In the bath, Meng Yutong used Lin Heng’s words to sow suspicion about Murong Yi and Murong Ziyan’s relationship, and Murong Ziyan overheard them but refused to believe her young lady had betrayed her.

• Meng Yutong ordered Murong Ziyan to carry Spirit Spring water and fill the bathing tub, while Lin Heng urged his master to show more magnanimity.
• Meng Yutong stopped Murong Ziyan after three more buckets, and Murong Ziyan glared at Lin Heng for encouraging Meng Yutong to trouble her.
• Meng Yutong and Lin Heng bathed together, and Murong Ziyan overheard their intimate conversation from outside the chamber.
• Meng Yutong asked whether Murong Yi had another purpose in sending Murong Ziyan, then suggested that Murong Yi’s silence showed the master and servant were not as close as they seemed.
• Lin Heng claimed he had advised Murong Yi to let Murong Ziyan suffer, and Murong Ziyan overheard him but insisted to herself that Meng Yutong was trying to drive a wedge between them.

Murong Ziyan learned that Jiang Jingyi had replaced her as chief commander, but accepted her maid service as a test of her ability. Lin Heng explored how people could enter and leave his System Space, while Murong Ziyan explained her new role to Leng Qingqiu and Mu Liuxi in grand, familiar-sounding language.

• Jiang Jingyi told Murong Ziyan that Li Feng had taken over as chief commander, then encouraged her to see her maid service as a test and warned her that Meng Yutong might make things difficult.
• Murong Ziyan reported that Meng Yutong had sent her to serve her and Lin Heng during their bath, and Jiang Jingyi claimed Meng was targeting her because of their bet over sending Lin Heng to the palace.
• Lin Heng brought Duan Shuyun into the System Space and confirmed that she could leave it but could not sense or reenter it on her own.
• Lin Heng joked about hiding Uncle Prison in the space and releasing him to fight, while Duan Shuyun teased him and asked about Murong Ziyan's sudden change of role.
• Leng Qingqiu and Mu Liuxi asked Murong Ziyan why she had become a maid, and she described it as a test of progress with lofty rhetoric that echoed Jiang Jingyi and Lin Heng.

Lin Heng discussed using Dragon Qi and a Fortune-Locking Formation to create a time-accelerated space, while Elder Wang returned to Lu Yuanliang and raised suspicions that the Immortal Alliance had deliberately allowed his escape. The chapter left Lu Yuanliang wondering what the Immortal Alliance was plotting.

• Lin Heng consulted Saint Ye about building a space with accelerated time, and Saint Ye proposed using Lin Heng’s Dragon Qi as its energy source.
• Saint Ye explained that he would use a Fortune-Locking Formation and mentioned the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron in Western Continent.
• Dugu Feng stole wine from his uncle and then pounced on Shen Yeting.
• Elder Wang and more than a dozen companions returned to Lu Yuanliang’s camp after escaping from the Immortal Alliance.
• Elder Wang claimed the Immortal Alliance guards had been drunk during a victory banquet, but Lu Yuanliang suspected they had intentionally been allowed to escape.

Lu Yuanliang realized the Immortal Alliance leader might have engineered Elder Wang’s return to expose his attempt to frame Zhong Yue, so he ordered Elder Wang and the other survivors killed. After Elder Zhao carried out the murders, Lu Yuanliang sent the remaining Cloud Boats toward Demon Valley.

• Elder Wang told Lu Yuanliang that Zhong Yue had betrayed them, but Lu Yuanliang suspected their escape had been arranged by the Immortal Alliance leader.
• Lu Yuanliang realized the surviving witnesses could expose his false battle report and ordered Elder Zhao to kill Elder Wang and the others.
• Elder Zhao poisoned the group with Life-Venom Powder, then beheaded them and buried their bodies.
• Elder Zhao reported back, and Lu Yuanliang ordered the three remaining Cloud Boats to set out that night for Demon Valley.
• As the Cloud Boats departed, three groups of people hurried toward the place they had left.

Zhong Yue discovered that Lu Yuanliang had slaughtered Elder Wang and the others, while He Qingcang prepared a plan devised by Lin Heng to undermine Lu Yuanliang at the Western Wasteland main camp. Elsewhere, Bai Yi and Chen Changqin gathered the dead’s souls, and Chen Changqin hinted that Bai Yi’s soul might be useful too.

• Zhong Yue found Elder Wang and the others buried in a mass grave and realized Lu Yuanliang had killed them.
• Zhong Yue decided to return to the Western Wasteland Corridor main camp to learn what Lu Yuanliang was planning.
• He Qingcang told Ji Taichang and Qiu Xingzhu that Lin Heng’s plan was to spread word of Lu Yuanliang’s defeat, claim the Immortal Alliance had a Supreme, and stage a provocative raid on the main camp.
• Chen Changqin collected the souls of the buried dead with her Blood Soul Banner while traveling with Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi said they needed more powerful souls and suggested Lin Heng’s soul; Chen Changqin asked whether Bai Yi’s soul was just as good.

Chen Changqin forced Bai Yi to reveal that Lin Heng was needed to enter the Rebirth Realm, the Underworld of the Fourth Epoch, and decided to bring Bai Yi to him. Meanwhile, Lin Heng and Saint Ye finished preparing the System Space except for a cauldron, and Lin Heng mentioned the Cauldron of All Beings.

• Chen Changqin attacked Bai Yi with the Blood Soul Banner and warned him not to deceive him.
• Bai Yi explained that Lin Heng’s Imperial Dragon Qi marked him as a person of the Fourth Epoch and that Chen Changqin needed Lin Heng to guide him into the Rebirth Realm.
• Chen Changqin considered the risks of using Lin Heng to save Lian'er, then knocked Bai Yi unconscious and carried him away in a sack.
• At Dragon Ridge Mountain, Lin Heng and Saint Ye completed most of the System Space preparations but still needed a cauldron that could contain Dragon Qi.
• Lin Heng told Saint Ye that he had learned of a promising cauldron called the Cauldron of All Beings.

Lin Heng learned that Black Tortoise Hall had attacked Green Pavilion Sect and taken hostages, including Saint Ye’s dog, to force him to appear. He decided to return and deal with them, then secretly sent Martial Man into his portable space, where the others gathered to play mahjong.

• Saint Ye scolded Lin Heng for not taking the Fortune-gathering cauldron from Lazy Master's Lineage and bragged about his old methods of claiming treasures.
• Martial Man reported that Black Tortoise Hall had attacked Green Pavilion Sect, taken hostages from the Main Peak and back mountain, and captured Saint Ye’s dog.
• Lin Heng deduced that Black Tortoise Hall had taken hostages to force him to appear, while Green Pavilion Sect’s leaders considered exchanging Wu Chen for them.
• Lin Heng decided that Black Tortoise Hall had provoked them too many times and prepared to return to Green Pavilion Sect with First Senior Sister and the others.
• Lin Heng sent Martial Man into his portable space, where Saint Ye, Duan Shuyun, Leng Qingqiu, and Mu Liuxi appeared and began talking about mahjong.

After Black Tortoise Hall captured people from Green Pavilion Sect’s back mountain to pressure the sect, Lin Heng returned and hinted that he had a plan to confront them. He then secretly watched Leng Qingyun impersonate Leng Qingqiu and followed Jiang Caiyan, leaving his plan unrevealed.

• Wu Ba and Wu Yuan discussed using their captives to force Green Pavilion Sect to return the Immortal Eye, while acknowledging the danger posed by the sect’s powerful defenders.
• Lin Heng secretly returned to Green Pavilion Sect and told Dugu Zixuan and Shi Yuanzhou that he would go speak to Black Tortoise Hall alone, though he kept his real plan to himself.
• Dugu Zixuan went to cook beef for Lin Heng while he slipped away to investigate the disciples’ courtyards.
• Lin Heng found Leng Qingyun dressed like Leng Qingqiu and plotting to get revenge by bullying her, while Zhao Wanqing and Jiang Caiyan prepared medicine.
• After Jiang Caiyan carried away the medicine pot, Lin Heng crept after her.

Lin Heng reunited with Jiang Caiyan and helped Black Robe consider how to repair his relationship with her. After returning to Zhao Wanqing and the others, he reassured Leng Qingyun that she was not a burden, while reflecting on how his rapid growth had left those around him behind.

• Lin Heng startled Jiang Caiyan, then followed her back to Black Robe with the medicine she had prepared.
• Lin Heng exposed Black Robe for pretending to be sick, and Jiang Caiyan left after setting the medicine beside his bed.
• Lin Heng advised Black Robe to take Jiang Caiyan to visit her mother, Yu Han'er, so he could face the past and make amends.
• Lin Heng returned to Zhao Wanqing and the others, where Leng Qingyun complained that her sister had left them behind to watch the house.
• Lin Heng reassured Leng Qingyun that she and the others were not deadweights, while she worried that her lower cultivation would make her increasingly unable to help him.

Lin Heng decided to investigate the Martial Arts Left Faction and Medical Path, then brought the injured Wu Chen to Black Tortoise Hall’s camp. He tossed Wu Chen aside and entered the tent after Wu Yuan invited him, leaving the surrounding fighters stunned by his confidence.

• Lin Heng resolved to use the System Space to accelerate time and make up for the difference in cultivation growth between himself and his wives.
• Lin Heng freed Wu Chen from the dungeon, broke his leg when he refused to move, and dragged him toward Black Tortoise Hall’s camp.
• Wu Ba raged at seeing his son’s condition, but Wu Yuan persuaded him to stick to their plan and avoid provoking Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng introduced himself as Immortal Alliance leader and said he had brought Wu Chen back as a guest.
• Wu Yuan invited Lin Heng into the tent to meet the hall master, and Lin Heng threw Wu Chen aside before swaggering inside.

Lin Heng met Wu Yuan and Wu Ba to secure the release of the people held by the Left Faction of Martial Arts, then learned they planned to revive their Martial Ancestor, Cang Hui. When Wu Yuan tried to take Lin Heng’s Immortal Eye, Dugu Zixuan appeared and defended her son.

• Lin Heng entered the tent alone, and Wu Ba agreed to release the captives after Wu Yuan confirmed they were heading down the mountain.
• Lin Heng offered a Holy Artifact to learn what the Left Faction and the Medical Path were doing, then revealed Martial Man’s blade and demonstrated its power.
• Wu Ba told Lin Heng that the Left Faction planned to revive Cang Hui, their Martial Ancestor, whom they said had been erased from history.
• Wu Yuan and Wu Ba demanded Lin Heng return the Immortal Eye and restrained him when he refused.
• Wu Yuan raised his blade to stab Lin Heng’s eye, but Dugu Zixuan stopped him and struck him flying.

Dugu Zixuan and Lin Heng confronted Black Tortoise Hall, and Lin Heng revealed that his allies had secretly surrounded the enemy. The battle erupted, and Lin Heng protected Leng Qingyun while testing the Martial Path fighters against the Immortal Path.

• Dugu Zixuan appeared and warned Wu Ba that she could destroy Black Tortoise Hall, while Wu Ba and Wu Yuan rallied more than a hundred fighters to surround her and Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng called down Dugu Feng and revealed a host of hidden allies, including Shen Yeting, Shi Yuanzhou, Nan Yangming, Ling Fei, Peng An, Sun Mao, Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, Plowman, Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, Yun Yao, and Jiang Caiyan.
• Lin Heng ordered his allies to attack, and Dugu Zixuan engaged Wu Ba while Dugu Feng and Shen Yeting took on other powerful opponents.
• Jiang Caiyan, Mu Liuxi, Yun Yao, and the other fighters joined the battle as Lin Heng shielded Leng Qingyun from its aftermath.
• Lin Heng killed a fifth-stage grandmaster who ambushed him with five strands of true dragon qi, then explained that he had been observing the Martial Path fighters against the Immortal Path.

Lin Heng and the Green Pavilion Sect defeated Wu Yuan and cornered Wu Ba, while Wu Chen pleaded for his family’s lives and then killed himself. Lin Heng suggested Wu Chen had been deliberately lured to discover the Immortal Eye, leaving Wu Ba to suspect a hidden plot.

• Lin Heng watched the battle end as Wu Yuan was defeated and Wu Ba was surrounded by Dugu Zixuan, Dugu Feng, and Shen Yeting.
• Wu Chen awakened, saw his injured Second Uncle and embattled father, and begged Lin Heng to spare them.
• Wu Chen admitted he had sought Lin Heng’s eye, then cut his own throat to take responsibility and protect his father and Second Uncle.
• Wu Ba rushed to Wu Chen and blamed himself for his son’s death, then challenged the others to kill him.
• Lin Heng pointed out that Wu Chen’s appearance near the Western Continent Alliance gathering was suspicious, and Wu Ba recalled that Wu Chen had traveled unusually far to buy wine.

Lin Heng questioned Wu Ba about the Immortal Eye and reconstructed how the Medical Path had manipulated the Left Faction of Martial Arts. He concluded that Medicine King Valley survivors had likely steered Wu Chen toward him, leaving Wu Ba to wonder what they hoped to gain.

• Lin Heng deduced that Xiao Xinhe and the Medical Path had arranged for Wu Ba's faction to receive one of the Immortal Eyes after it was taken from a youth with Fortune.
• Wu Ba explained that Black Tortoise Hall had used a Fortune-Pointing Needle to capture people with Fortune and named the Sun Family and Wei Family as Medical Clan collaborators.
• Lin Heng argued that Wu Ba's faction had not known he possessed the Immortal Eye before Wu Chen came after him, and Wu Ba confirmed that he had not known.
• Lin Heng proposed that Medicine King Valley survivors had identified him through his First Senior Sister and manipulated Wu Chen into seeking clues near the town.
• Wu Ba asked why the survivors would expect Black Tortoise Hall to reclaim the Immortal Eye and what they stood to gain from provoking the conflict.

Lin Heng convinced Wu Ba that the Black Tortoise Hall massacre might be a scheme by the Medical Path people to provoke the Left Faction of Martial Arts, and Wu Ba left with his son’s corpse while Wu Yuan remained detained. Back at Green Pavilion Sect, Lin Heng learned that Chen Changqin had arrived carrying a sack with someone apparently inside, and went to meet him.

• Yun Yao explained that the Medical Path people may have baited Wu Ba into a trap to turn the Left Faction of Martial Arts against Green Pavilion Sect.
• Wu Ba accepted the possibility that his enemies had manipulated events, took Wu Yuan’s corpse, and left Wu Yuan in Green Pavilion Sect’s custody.
• Lin Heng’s companions praised his decision to keep Wu Yuan detained, and Lin Heng accidentally revealed that he had taken wine from a cellar.
• Lin Heng and the others escorted Wu Yuan back to Green Pavilion Sect, where Dugu Feng argued with his sister about Lin Heng’s pranks.
• Mu Liuxi told Lin Heng that Chen Changqin had arrived with a white sack that appeared to contain a person, and Lin Heng went to see him.