Chapter Summaries

Dugu Zixuan’s group was trapped and badly weakened outside Five Severance Mountain while Chun’s forces waited for a Supreme to arrive. Three Supremes descended, but Jiang Jingyi’s sudden voice revealed that she and Lin Heng had vanished from the vortex.

• Jiang Jingyi let the mist-like insects cover her while they peeled themselves off Lin Heng, who lay motionless beside her.
• Dugu Zixuan’s exhausted group was surrounded in a valley, and Chun urged the other cultivators to finish them off while they hesitated over the Holy Artifacts and their losses.
• Qiu persuaded Chun to wait for the Supreme, though Chun questioned why Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi had entered Five Severance Mountain and why no other Western Continent forces had intervened.
• Jiang Qian stopped Fan Yian from attacking, citing the Supreme’s order to hold their troops until she appeared.
• Three Supremes descended at Five Severance Mountain, and Dongfang Qingxia claimed Jiang Jingyi had been infected by the calamity.
• Jiang Jingyi spoke from above the Supremes, and Dongfang Qingxia discovered that she and Lin Heng had disappeared from the vortex.

Jiang Jingyi escaped her enemies’ trap and revealed overwhelming power, rallying the forces around Five Severance Mountain while the people across several continents offered her their blessings. After she struck down Ding Lecheng, Dugu Qingyang appeared to confront Dongfang Qingxia and promised to help the Dugu Clan in exchange for Jiang Jingyi protecting Lin Heng.

• Jiang Jingyi mocked Dongfang Qingxia and blasted her away with a dragon roar, signaling Fan Yian and Jiang Qian to lead their forces into battle.
• Fan Yian’s four thousand black-armored troops broke the formation of the three-thousand-strong cultivator army, while Dugu Zixuan joined the fight to escape.
• Jiang Jingyi wielded the Great Phoenix Sword and stirred a wave of fate and blessings from people across the Western, Northern, and Southern Continents.
• Jiang Jingyi’s sword destroyed Ding Lecheng’s body and cut his Dao infant in half, but the strike consumed more than half her True Yuan.
• Dugu Qingyang appeared, assigned Jiang Jingyi to face Feng Tianyou and another enemy, and declared that he would personally end Dongfang Qingxia.
• Feng Tianyou recognized Dugu Qingyang as the figure who had once slaughtered his way through an immortal sect and was shocked that he had survived.

Dugu Qingyang unleashed his Eternal Radiance phenomenon against Feng Tianyou and Qu Yanfeng, devastating the battlefield and killing many cultivators. With the duel apparently still underway, Jiang Qian ordered the survivors to withdraw while Fan Yian pursued the fleeing remnants.

• Dugu Qingyang confronted Feng Tianyou and struck Qu Yanfeng away with his staff.
• Dugu Qingyang used Mirror Unveiling, showing Feng Tianyou and Qu Yanfeng visions of their deaths and briefly affecting Dongfang Qingxia and Jiang Jingyi.
• Dugu Zixuan recognized Ancestor’s Eternal Radiance phenomenon and warned everyone to withdraw their Divine Sense.
• A brilliant daylight swept across the battlefield, killing thousands and leaving the remaining Dao Integration experts barely able to resist.
• Ji Taichang fainted from his injuries, and Jiang Qian sent Fan Yian to capture the fleeing remnants while she tended to the wounded.
• Jiang Qian thanked Dugu Zixuan for her warning, then ordered everyone to withdraw farther from the duel and tend to their injuries.

Jiang Qian assured Wu Ba that she would pass along the Left Faction’s request for leniency, while Dugu Zixuan proposed pursuing Clear Moon Long Song’s four Elders to earn merit. Wu Ba and Dugu Zixuan captured Chun, Summer, Qiu, and Winter alive, leaving Wu Ba wondering why taking them alive would be more valuable than killing them.

• Wu Ba told Jiang Qian he hoped the Left Faction of Martial Arts would not be punished for its past cooperation with the Medical Path, and Jiang Qian agreed to relay his request to Jiang Jingyi.
• Dugu Zixuan revealed that Chun, Qiu, Summer, and Winter had fled west, and Jiang Qian said capturing or killing them would earn merit because they had lured the Heavenly Action Continent’s forces into the conflict.
• Chun, Qiu, Summer, and Winter argued over who was responsible for their failed plan and then assured one another that their pursuers would not discover their escape route.
• Dugu Zixuan and Wu Ba caught up with the four Elders, who fled in separate directions but were soon defeated and captured.
• Dugu Zixuan stopped Wu Ba from killing the prisoners and said bringing them back alive would earn greater merit.

Jiang Jingyi defeated Dongfang Qingxia and revealed how she had tracked the Hundred Flowers Fairy’s schemes through the Shadow Alliance and Yi Pavilion. Dongfang Qingxia died in rage, while Jiang Jingyi promised to protect Lin Heng’s fortune and said the Beauty Ranking listed women of fortune.

• Fan Yian praised the capture of Chun and the others, while Dugu Zixuan asked who Murong Yi was; Jiang Qian suggested she was the Murong Clan’s old ancestor.
• Jiang Jingyi confronted the gravely wounded Dongfang Qingxia after the battle, while Dugu Qingyang said he trusted the Female Emperor to handle Lin Heng’s fortune.
• Dongfang Qingxia accused Jiang Jingyi of borrowing Lin Heng’s luck and warned that the Dynasty and Dugu Clan would face betrayal.
• Jiang Jingyi explained that she had suspected Dongfang Qingxia survived, then traced her schemes through Clear Moon Long Song, Yi Pavilion, Yu Boyong, Lin Heng, and Bai Yi.
• Jiang Jingyi revealed that she had supported the Shadow Alliance, and Dongfang Qingxia died after rejecting the claim.
• Dugu Qingyang asked about the Beauty Ranking, and Jiang Jingyi said she had arranged it to list women of fortune.

Jiang Jingyi and Dugu Qingyang emerged after resolving the crisis, with Lin Heng unconscious and weakened from having his fortune borrowed. Jiang Jingyi explained her hidden role and support for Lin Heng to Dugu Zixuan, but their conversation ended when Meng Yutong and the others confronted them.

• Jiang Jingyi put the unconscious Dongfang Qingxia into a universe pouch and brought out Lin Heng, whose damaged origin worried Dugu Qingyang.
• Jiang Jingyi promised to help Lin Heng recover and asked Dugu Qingyang to keep her identity as the Female Emperor secret.
• Dugu Zixuan met Jiang Jingyi and questioned her motives for approaching Lin Heng.
• Jiang Jingyi explained that she had come from the Eastern Continent to deal with the Extraterrestrial Cultivators and that the Female Emperor had backed Lin Heng as alliance leader.
• Dugu Zixuan learned that her family's old ancestor had already cooperated with Jiang Jingyi, but Meng Yutong's shouts interrupted their conversation.

Jiang Jingyi demanded that Meng Yutong serve as her maid while Lin Heng recovered from the loss of his Fortune. The group reached Heavenly Road City, where Jiang Jingyi prepared a large formation and a medicinal bath, leaving Meng Yutong uneasy about her intentions.

• Meng Yutong tried to take Lin Heng away, but Jiang Jingyi insisted that only she could treat him, and Dugu Qingyang ordered Meng Yutong to comply.
• Jiang Jingyi made Meng Yutong her maid until Lin Heng woke, and Meng Yutong reluctantly agreed after Dugu Qingyang warned that Lin Heng's missing Fortune threatened his cultivation and life.
• The group traveled to Heavenly Road City, where Jiang Jingyi set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation with help from Meng Yutong and the others.
• Dugu Qingyang told Dugu Zixuan that Jiang Jingyi had borrowed Lin Heng's Fortune and needed to restore the deficit.
• At night, Jiang Jingyi dismissed Meng Yutong from Lin Heng's room and revealed that the medicinal bath was something she personally liked, not a treatment for him.

Jiang Jingyi entered the bath with the unconscious Lin Heng and considered using her Origin of the Dao to make up for the fortune he had lost. After Dao challenged her to seize Lin Heng’s fortune instead, Jiang Jingyi admitted her affection for him and kissed him, while Dao vanished.

• Meng Yutong was blasted away from the room and found an invisible wall of Qi blocking the door.
• Jiang Jingyi reasoned that only her Origin of the Dao might temporarily compensate for what Lin Heng had lost, then entered the bath with him.
• Dao urged Jiang Jingyi to take Lin Heng’s fortune while he was helpless, but she refused to impose its will on her.
• Dao warned that Jiang Jingyi’s Origin of the Dao could become wedding clothes for Lin Heng, whose fortune and Dragon Qi were stronger than hers.
• Jiang Jingyi explained that Lin Heng had treated her as a friend rather than an emperor, then kissed him lightly.
• Dao smiled in relief, dispersed, and left a remark comparing the difficulty of understanding the human heart to making an ox plow forever.

Meng Yutong learned that Murong Yi was a Supreme and that the Dugu Clan had plans involving her and Lin Heng, then prepared to travel to the Eastern Continent after Lin Heng recovered. Dugu Zixuan also gave Meng Yutong the right to deal with the captured Qiu and the others, and Meng Yutong confronted Qiu.

• Dugu Zixuan told Meng Yutong that Murong Yi was a Supreme who had held back four enemies and that the Dugu Clan's plans depended partly on Murong Yi and Lin Heng.
• Dugu Zixuan said the Female Emperor intended to reward Meng Yutong and her disciples, and Meng Yutong agreed to take Lin Heng to the Eastern Continent after he recovered.
• Dugu Zixuan told Meng Yutong that Qiu and the others had been captured alive and that Meng Yutong could decide their fate.
• Meng Yutong gathered Duan Shuyun and the others and went to see the prisoners where Jiang Qian was stationed.
• Meng Yutong mocked Qiu, who retorted that she had once nearly killed Meng Yutong, and Meng Yutong warned her to worry about her own life.

Meng Yutong and her disciples captured Chun, Summer, Qiu, and Winter, then forced them into servitude instead of killing them. In the Nine-Story Tower, Jiang Jingyi was flustered by Lin Heng’s behavior when someone knocked at the door.

• Meng Yutong told Chun that the Sect Leader had likely fallen, leaving the captured cultivators without hope of rescue.
• Meng Yutong decided to make the four prisoners slaves, and Duan Shuyun used the Literary Path to draw up a Slave Contract.
• Qiu revealed her real name, Han Wushuang, and Meng Yutong personally took her for training.
• Yun Yao took Winter, Duan Shuyun took Summer, and Mu Liuxi took Chun as a maidservant.
• Jiang Jingyi wondered why Lin Heng kept reacting as he did, then pressed his head down when someone knocked and called for them to enter.

Murong Ziyan reported the victory in Northern Continent and unrest in Eastern Continent while Jiang Jingyi struggled to explain her entanglement with the unconscious Lin Heng. After Lin Heng mistook Jiang Jingyi for Meng Yutong in his thoughts, Jiang Jingyi left him and decided to return to Dingyang, planning to tease Meng Yutong.

• Murong Ziyan reported that Northern Continent's invaders had been defeated and that Eastern Continent's families and ministers were pressuring Prince Qi to release captured Medical Alliance members.
• Jiang Jingyi asked Murong Ziyan for advice about a man and woman being stuck together, but Murong Ziyan misunderstood her meaning and gave advice about leaving room to maneuver.
• Jiang Jingyi heard Lin Heng think of Meng Yutong as his Master and imitate her voice to persuade him to loosen his hold and rest.
• Jiang Jingyi left Lin Heng in the bath barrel, reflected on his feelings for Meng Yutong, and said they would meet in Dingyang.
• Jiang Jingyi told Murong Ziyan that she would return to Dingyang that day and learned that Meng Yutong planned to use four Clear Moon Long Song Elders as slaves.

Jiang Jingyi confronted Meng Yutong at the encampment, reminded her that she was still a maid, and left for the Eastern Continent. Meanwhile, Lin Heng woke up among his Senior Sisters and faced questions about what had happened at Five Severance Mountain.

• Jiang Jingyi told Meng Yutong that Lin Heng was recovering and stopped her from claiming Murong Yi as a maid.
• Jiang Jingyi subdued Meng Yutong, reminded her that she still had to serve at the Nine-Story Tower, and said she would be waiting for them in the Eastern Continent.
• After Jiang Jingyi left, Meng Yutong whipped Qiu until Qiu addressed her as Master.
• Lin Heng woke up as Yun Yao, Duan Shuyun, and Mu Liuxi discussed how weak he seemed and joked about putting a lewdness lock on him.
• Lin Heng clung to Mu Liuxi and claimed that he had become muddled after his fortune was taken at Five Severance Mountain.

After waking, Lin Heng learned that Murong Yi had been the one with him, and Meng Yutong angrily made him wash away her scent. Lin Heng discovered that the encounter had raised his cultivation to Spirit Transformation Peak and left him with traces of Murong Yi’s Great Dao Origin, while he wondered why she had left without saying goodbye.

• Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi debated whether Meng Yutong could stand against Murong Yi, while Yun Yao argued that the Female Emperor could help keep Murong Yi away from Lin Heng.
• Meng Yutong found Lin Heng lifting his pants and confronted him after hearing him complain about her.
• Lin Heng realized Murong Yi had been with him while he was unconscious, and Meng Yutong slapped him and ordered him to wash himself.
• Lin Heng discovered that his cultivation had reached Spirit Transformation Peak Realm and that his Divine Sense could now reach more than a thousand li.
• Lin Heng sensed more than twenty strands of Murong Yi’s Great Dao Origin within himself and wondered why she had left without saying goodbye.

Lin Heng absorbed a wisp of Jiang Jingyi's Dao Source after five days of cultivation, while Meng Yutong and the others prepared to leave for the Eastern Continent. The group set out and reunited with Zhao Wanqing, whom Lin Heng happily swept into his arms.

• Lin Heng discovered that Jiang Jingyi's Dao Source had settled in his dantian and managed to absorb one wisp into the Foundation Stone after five days of painful cultivation.
• Meng Yutong, Yun Yao, Mu Liuxi, and Duan Shuyun discussed Lin Heng's rapid progress as he emerged from the tower.
• Meng Yutong led the group toward an open place to summon the Cloud Boat and travel to the Eastern Continent for the reward ceremony.
• Lin Heng learned that Zhao Wanqing had stayed at the Green Pavilion Sect and that Mu Liuxi had brought her along, while Jiang Caiyan remained behind because of her identity.
• Lin Heng rushed to Zhao Wanqing, picked her up, and teased her as she said she had only come to see him.

On the Cloud Boat, Meng Yutong struggled with jealousy as she watched Lin Heng cling to Zhao Wanqing. In the Eastern Continent, Jiang Jingyi dealt with the Medical Alliance case and confronted Jiang Yan’s mistaken belief that Lin Heng was her secret lover and possible heir.

• Meng Yutong watched Lin Heng cling to Zhao Wanqing and tried to calm her jealousy by imagining gaining control of the Dugu Clan.
• Jiang Jingyi ordered half of the detained Medical Alliance members released while the rest remained under investigation, and Jiang Yan praised her strategy.
• Jiang Yan teased Jiang Jingyi about seeming more feminine and asked about her relationship with Lin Heng.
• Jiang Jingyi admitted she had grown fond of Lin Heng but said she had no regrets about what had happened between them.
• Jiang Yan declared that he would support Lin Heng inheriting the Jiang Clan throne, while Jiang Jingyi rejected the idea.
• Jiang Yan mistakenly assumed Lin Heng was Jiang Jingyi’s illegitimate son, leaving both siblings stunned.

Jiang Jingyi learned that He Qingcang had spread a rumor that Lin Heng was her illegitimate child, while He Qingcang convinced Fan Yian of the same theory. The chapter ended with Fan Yian telling Dugu Zixuan that Lin Heng was the Female Emperor’s child, leaving her shocked that she had become his foster mother.

• Jiang Yan told Jiang Jingyi that he suspected Lin Heng was her son because she had secretly helped him and once secluded herself for over twenty years.
• Jiang Jingyi slapped Jiang Yan, then summoned Murong Ziyan and set off for Linping City to confront He Qingcang.
• At Fan Manor, Fan Yian complained about Lin Heng, and He Qingcang claimed Lin Heng was probably the Female Emperor’s child.
• Fan Yian accepted He Qingcang’s advice to apologize to Dugu Zixuan and traveled to Ten Directions Hall that night.
• Fan Yian told Dugu Zixuan that Lin Heng was the Female Emperor’s child, and she was stunned by the claim.

Dugu Zixuan and Shen Yeting discussed the possibility that the Female Emperor wanted to take Lin Heng as an adopted son, while also planning to secure his position in the Dugu Clan. Lin Heng chose to head for Dingyang City, and Meng Yutong decided to visit Ten Directions Hall instead, with Mu Liuxi and Duan Shuyun choosing to stay with her.

• Fan Yian left Ten Directions Hall after Dugu Zixuan rejected his claim that the Female Emperor was Lin Heng’s adoptive mother.
• Dugu Zixuan and Shen Yeting speculated that the Female Emperor might want Lin Heng as an adopted son and discussed his prospects in the Dugu Clan.
• Dugu Zixuan said Lin Heng must become the reserve head and set limits on Eight Desolations Hall’s expansion into the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Heng chose to travel to Dingyang City to meet Murong Yi and investigate Sun Hao, Long San, and the martial arts factions.
• Meng Yutong decided to go to Ten Directions Hall to enlist Dugu Zixuan’s support, while Mu Liuxi and Duan Shuyun chose to stay with her.

Meng Yutong and her disciples discussed Murong Yi’s role in Lin Heng’s rise as Lin Heng arrived in Dingyang City with Zhao Wanqing and Yun Yao. Jiang Jingyi learned he was coming and planned to lure him and his master into staying in the imperial city while maintaining her disguise as the Murong Ancestor.

• Duan Shuyun criticized Murong Yi for hiding her identity and involving them in her plans, while Mu Liuxi argued that her schemes had helped Lin Heng grow.
• Jiang Jingyi reprimanded He Qingcang for spreading rumors that Lin Heng was her descendant, then learned Lin Heng was approaching Dingyang City.
• Lin Heng, Zhao Wanqing, and Yun Yao discussed their memories of Dingyang and wondered about Bai Yi as they traveled toward the city.
• Lin Heng and his companions entered Dingyang City, and their arrival was reported to Jiang Jingyi.
• Jiang Jingyi told Murong Ziyan she would appear as the Murong Ancestor and planned to ensnare Lin Heng and his master in a scheme to keep them in the imperial city.

Xiao Muyu warned Luo Qi that the approaching calamity would soon force the Netherworld to stake everything, while Lin Heng arrived in Dingyang City and questioned Jiang Yan about the imprisoned Martial Path people. Jiang Yan then pressed Lin Heng about Murong Yi, and Lin Heng said she would be very important in his future life.

• Xiao Muyu failed to find the time Lin Heng had severed from his future and warned Luo Qi that the calamity would soon become uncontrollable.
• Luo Qi complained that Bai Yi was weak and annoying, and Xiao Muyu refused her offer to watch over Ultimate Bliss.
• Jiang Yan welcomed Lin Heng to Prince Qi's Mansion and explained that the Lyu Clan and Chai Clan were being investigated over the Eternal Mulberry.
• Jiang Yan said Long San and the other Martial Path people were imprisoned in the Cautious Punishment Office's dungeon, and offered to take Lin Heng to see them the next morning.
• Jiang Yan asked Lin Heng about his relationship with Murong Yi, and Lin Heng said she would be a woman of great importance in his future life.

Jiang Yan warned Lin Heng that Prince Jing might resent his relationship with Murong Yi, prompting Lin Heng to visit the Murong residence and ask her about it. After Murong Ziyan barred him from entering, Lin Heng climbed over the wall, was caught while spying on Jiang Jingyi playing the zither, and woke tied to a pillar.

• Jiang Yan told Lin Heng that Prince Jing knew about his relationship with Murong Yi and might be displeased with him.
• Lin Heng went to the Murong residence, but a maid refused to let him in because Murong Ziyan had ordered that he be turned away.
• Lin Heng climbed over the wall and followed the sound of a zither, believing that Murong Yi was playing.
• Murong Ziyan trapped Lin Heng with a face cover and dragged him to Jiang Jingyi.
• Jiang Jingyi ordered Murong Ziyan to hood and tie Lin Heng to a pillar, where he later woke and questioned Murong Ziyan.