Chapter Summaries

Dugu Yueli entered Anqiu Immortal City and began recruiting clans against the City Lord’s Mansion, then secretly followed Lin Heng to an Elegant Tower. There, she overheard Lin Heng joking that he would use a false identity to drag Nine Dust Hall into his troubles.

• Dugu Yueli suppressed her cultivation and entered the city with Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan, then spotted the supposedly dead Lin Heng walking with Hua Qi.
• Dugu Yueli explained her plan to win over the Luo Clan and the Luo Clan, while Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan went to carry out their assigned tasks.
• Dugu Yueli followed Lin Heng to Spring Flower Pavilion and paid the greeter three hundred Spirit Stones to learn he was in chamber six on the fifth floor.
• Hua Qi questioned Lin Heng about his plans and warned that the Changlin Clan might expose his disguise.
• Lin Heng joked that he would adopt the name Dugu Heng and claim his sister was the Holy Maiden of Nine Dust Hall, while Dugu Yueli eavesdropped in shock.

Dugu Yueli learned that Lin Heng was alive and scheming against her group, then devised a plan to use his schemes to seize Anqiu Immortal City. She left the others preparing to carry out her plan by borrowing the identity of the Dragon Sea Immortal City Lord’s illegitimate daughter.

• Dugu Yueli overheard Lin Heng and Hua Qi discussing their plot and threatened to turn his staged death into a real one.
• Lin Heng and Hua Qi realized Dugu Yueli had left and concluded that Nine Dust Hall would believe he had deliberately set a trap.
• Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan reported that the Luo Clan had refused to support them or the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Dugu Yueli told Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan that Lin Heng was alive and had been advising the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Dugu Yueli proposed disguising herself as the Dragon Sea Immortal City Lord’s illegitimate daughter to approach Lin Heng and turn his scheme against him.

Lin Heng learned that a supposed survivor of the Ke Clan had requested a meeting to discuss driving out the foreigners, while Hu Chaozong secretly suspected the clan had an ulterior motive. Dugu Yueli revealed that Hu’s private meeting with her was part of her plan to pose as a Ke Clan young lady and approach Lin Heng.

• Dugu Hongxuan worried that Dugu Yueli’s scheme would end up giving their efforts away for free, while Qin Hongyi praised it.
• Hu Chaozong summoned Lin Heng and showed him a visiting card from the fifth young lady of the Ke Clan, who sought to discuss countermeasures against the foreigners with a Central Domain immortal-clan member.
• Lin Heng agreed to meet the supposed Ke Clan survivor, and Hu Chaozong pretended not to know the Ke Clan before privately suspecting that its survivors had a hidden plan.
• Dugu Hongxuan brought back Hu Chaozong’s reply, which agreed to a private meeting with them before Lin Heng’s visit.
• Dugu Yueli explained that Hu’s separate meeting was part of her plan to pose as a Ke Clan young lady because Lin Heng was posing as a Central Domain immortal-clan member.

Dugu Yueli disguised herself as Ke Miaoling and met Hu Chaozong in Peace Hill City, pretending to seek help from a Central Domain immortal clan. She gave Hu Chaozong a map said to show a teleportation formation, and he promised to arrange a meeting with the visitor that night.

• Dugu Yueli arrived at Misty Willow Studio with Dugu Hongxuan disguised as her attendant, while Qin Hongyi stayed away to avoid arousing suspicion.
• Dugu Yueli acted frightened and bereaved as Ke Miaoling, and Hu Chaozong pretended to sympathize with the Ke Clan's destruction.
• Hu Chaozong tried to persuade Dugu Yueli that the Central Domain could not help and urged her to support the Southern Domain against the Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Dugu Yueli claimed the Ke Clan's steward had left her a map showing a teleportation formation between Seven Broken Mountain and Dragon Sea City.
• Hu Chaozong coaxed Dugu Yueli into handing over the map, then promised to arrange a meeting with the Central Domain visitor that night.

Dugu Yueli explained how she used the Ke Clan’s Ancestral Token to convince Hu Chaozong of her false identity, then met Lin Heng at the City Lord’s Mansion. Their first exchange left both wary as Dugu Yueli asked for an Immortal Clan’s help to avenge Ke Manor and regain Dragon Sea City.

• Dugu Yueli returned to the inn with Dugu Hongxuan and told Qin Hongyi how her meeting with Hu Chaozong had gone.
• Dugu Yueli explained that the Ke Clan’s Ancestral Token and her claim to be Ke Manor’s Fifth Miss had kept Hu Chaozong from suspecting her identity.
• Qin Hongyi praised Dugu Yueli’s deception and looked forward to judging Lin Heng, while Dugu Yueli worried that Lin Heng might see through her.
• Hu Chaozong introduced Dugu Yueli as Miao Ling to Lin Heng, then left them alone in the City Lord’s Mansion’s main hall.
• Dugu Yueli told Lin Heng that she would accept help from any Immortal Clan able to avenge Ke Manor and reclaim Dragon Sea City.

Lin Heng questioned Ke Miaoling’s motives and learned about a possible teleportation route to Dragon Sea City, while Hu Chaozong secretly weighed how the Central Domain clans might threaten his control. Hu Chaozong decided Lin Tian had to be killed and ordered the Seven Broken Mountain array investigated.

• Lin Heng challenged Ke Miaoling’s concern for the fallen Ke Clan, and Dugu Yueli answered that she hoped to inherit its legacy by supporting the Central Domain clans.
• Dugu Yueli described a teleportation array at Seven Broken Mountain that could lead to Dragon Sea City, and Lin Heng said it could enable a surprise attack on the Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Lin Heng remarked that Ke Miaoling’s eyes reminded him of someone and questioned her followers, while Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan claimed they had stayed with her after she saved their families.
• After the guests left, Hu Chaozong learned they had passed along something like a scroll and worried that the Central Domain clans might take control of Dragon Sea City.
• Hu Chaozong ordered his steward to investigate the Seven Broken Mountain teleportation array and declared that Lin Tian had to be eliminated despite his ties to the Changlin Clan.

Hu Chaozong confirmed the teleportation array at Seven Broken Mountain and resolved to eliminate Lin Heng, whose discovery could expose the Immortal Sea Summit to the Central Domain. Dugu Yueli planned to seize Anqiu Immortal City while Lin Heng was drawn away, and Hu Chaozong summoned the four great lineages to prepare his next move.

• Hu Chaozong decided that Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli would have to die if the teleportation array proved real.
• Qin Hongyi teased Dugu Yueli about her portrait of Lin Heng, while she predicted that Hu Chaozong would lure him away and leave Anqiu Immortal City open to capture.
• Lin Heng suspected Ke Miaoling of working with Nine Dust Hall, but Hua Qi warned that the hall might be turning his empty-city ruse against him.
• Lin Heng tried to surprise Hua Qi, but she vanished after knocking him on the head.
• Six days later, Hu Chaozong's people found the concealed teleportation array at Seven Broken Mountain, and he ordered the four great lineages summoned for secret arrangements.

Lin Heng traveled toward Seven Broken Mountain knowing the City Lord's Mansion planned to kill him over the teleportation array, while events elsewhere advanced Jiang Caiyan's return and the preparations to leave for the Heavenly Action Continent. The chapter ended with Leng Qingyun asking to have Master cook a couple of dishes.

• Hu Chaozong and the noble clans prepared to lure Lin Heng to Seven Broken Mountain, where they intended to kill him.
• Lin Heng explained to Hua Qi that the clans feared the teleportation array would let the Central Domain's immortal clans bypass their defenses.
• Jiang Jingyi learned that Black Robe and Jiang Caiyan had secretly returned to Dingyang and ordered Murong Ziyan to warn Jiang Sheng not to return to the Heavenly Profound Continent.
• Meng Yutong profited from the mine while Mu Liuxi established Mu Immortal Academy on the mountain estate.
• Yun Yao stopped Little Red from dragging Leng Qingyun, who said her older brother Leng Wushu had been cooking for her.
• Leng Qingyun asked whether she could have Master cook a couple of dishes before the group set off for the Heavenly Action Continent.

Yun Yao proposed that she, Leng Qingyun, and Jiang Caiyan form an alliance to claim connected territory on Heavenly Action Continent. After learning she and her father could no longer remain on Heavenly Profound Continent, Jiang Caiyan agreed to join Yun Yao and Leng Qingyun.

• Yun Yao showed Leng Qingyun and Jiang Caiyan a map of Heavenly Action Continent and proposed that they claim adjacent territories together.
• Leng Qingyun readily agreed to Yun Yao’s alliance plan, while Jiang Caiyan said she wanted time to think.
• Black Robe told Jiang Caiyan that he and his daughter could no longer stay on Heavenly Profound Continent because he had defied the Female Emperor Supreme.
• Jiang Caiyan decided to move with Black Robe to Heavenly Action Continent and agreed with his advice to get closer to Yun Yao and the others.
• Jiang Caiyan found Yun Yao and joined the alliance, and Yun Yao celebrated that the three of them were staunch allies.

Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong arranged an advance party, while Ye Nantian brought Ye Guang to join the Dugu Clan’s campaign and urged him to pursue Dugu Yueli. At Seven Broken Mountain, Lin Heng revealed a hidden teleportation formation, killed two of the three family heads sent to attack him, and left Luo Xiaochuan begging for his life by offering his daughter.

• Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong chose an advance party that included Dugu Zixuan, Meng Yutong, her disciple, five Ten Directions Hall elders, and Murong Ziyan’s group.
• Ye Nantian led Ye Guang and more than fifty Ye Family members toward Heavenly Action Continent, warned Ye Guang to behave cautiously, and urged him to pursue Dugu Yueli.
• Lin Heng broke the concealment formation on Seven Broken Mountain and exposed a teleportation Grand Formation hidden there by Dragon Sea City.
• The three family heads attacked Lin Heng, but he appeared behind Family Head Luo and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Lin Heng trapped and absorbed the second Family Head into the Human Emperor Banner, leaving Luo Xiaochuan immobilized beneath the Six Paths Crossing Ruler.
• Luo Xiaochuan begged Lin Heng to spare him and offered his youngest daughter, claiming he knew Lin Heng liked visiting pleasure quarters.

Lin Heng spared Luo Xiaochuan after killing two clan heads, then forced him to choose between serving Lin Heng and returning to Anqiu Immortal City to die. Lin Heng warned that the Dugu Clan had likely taken the city and revealed that Miss Ke may have cooperated with them, leaving Luo Xiaochuan to make his choice.

• Lin Heng chastised Luo Xiaochuan for helping Hu Chaozong lure him to Seven Broken Mountain and learned that the city lord had blamed the plan on Hu.
• Lin Heng confronted Luo Xiaochuan over the teleportation formation and the clans’ conflicting ambitions in the Immortal Sea Summit.
• Lin Heng offered Luo Xiaochuan two choices: reorganize the other clan heads’ subordinates and work for him, or return to Anqiu Immortal City and die.
• Lin Heng warned that the Dugu Clan could have seized Anqiu Immortal City while its leaders were away and the city-protecting formation was down.
• Lin Heng suggested Miss Ke may have cooperated with the Dugu Clan and that his Empty City Stratagem had been part of his plan, prompting Luo Xiaochuan to demand the truth.
• Lin Heng urged Luo Xiaochuan to choose quickly.

Lin Heng persuaded Luo Xiaochuan to lead the gathered cultivators through the teleportation array and seize Dragon Sea City. The city’s careless defender Dugu Han remained unaware of the approaching attack, and the chapter ended as his arrogance was about to cost him.

• Luo Xiaochuan agreed to tell the gathered clans that Luo and Yao had died in a formation accident and to lead them to capture Dragon Sea City.
• Luo Xiaochuan convinced the Luo and Yao cultivators to follow his orders, warning that attacking the city would give them an explanation for their clan leaders’ deaths.
• Lin Heng activated the teleportation array with 6,000 Spirit Stones, sending the group toward Dragon Sea City.
• Dugu Han guarded Dragon Sea City with only about twenty people while the Dugu Clan focused its strength westward.
• Dugu Han dismissed his sixth younger sister’s warnings, boasted about his control of the city, and mocked Dugu Yueli.

Lin Heng’s forces captured Longhai City and took Dugu Han and other members of the Dugu Clan hostage. When news of the fall reached Anqiu City, Dugu Yueli realized Lin Heng had gained a city and could use her relatives to prevent a counterattack.

• Lin Heng’s troops stormed Longhai City, captured Dugu Han, and imprisoned the Dugu Clan members they found.
• Luo Xiaochuan’s forces spent a day and night suppressing resistance and taking control of the city and its protective formation.
• Luo Xiaochuan learned that Anqiu City had fallen and Hu Chaozong had been captured, leaving his people unable to return home.
• Lin Heng offered Luo Xiaochuan the choice of leaving or staying to follow his orders, and pointed out that the Dugu Clan hostages could help protect their families in Anqiu City.
• Dugu Yueli heard that Longhai City had fallen, blamed Dugu Han, and nearly fainted from anger.
• Qin Hongyi proposed attacking through the Seven Broken Mountain teleportation formation, but Dugu Yueli warned that Dugu Han’s capture could prevent them from acting.

After capturing Anqiu Immortal City at great cost, Dugu Yueli ordered its reconstruction and planned to infiltrate Dragon Sea City to capture Lin Heng. The chapter ended with Qin Hongyi warming to her risky scheme to disguise themselves among prisoners exchanged with Lin Heng’s side.

• Dugu Yueli’s forces captured Hu Chaozong and Anqiu Immortal City, but two Spirit Transformation cultivators died and the city was badly damaged.
• Liu Jun and Zhou Qitao debated whether to repair Anqiu Immortal City or retake Dragon Sea City, and Dugu Yueli ordered the city repaired while assigning investigations and reconnaissance.
• Qin Hongyi warned Dugu Yueli that her father might blame her for losing Dragon Sea City and asked what she planned to do about it.
• Dugu Yueli proposed impersonating Ke Miaoling to infiltrate Dragon Sea City and capture Lin Heng, but Qin Hongyi questioned how she could reach the city or fool him.
• Dugu Yueli explained that they could exchange captured families for Dugu Han and others, then hide among those being exchanged; Qin Hongyi began to think the plan might work.

Lin Heng visited the captured Dugu Clan members in Dragon Sea City’s prison and confronted Dugu Han and Dugu Xuexue. He learned that Xuexue was close to Dugu Yueli, the Saintess of Nine Dust Hall.

• Dugu Xuexue scolded her imprisoned relatives for neglecting their assigned duties, then slapped Dugu Han when he tried to shift the blame.
• Lin Heng entered the prison, and the captives panicked as they recognized the man who had defeated them.
• Lin Heng questioned Dugu Han about guarding Dragon Sea City, then knocked him aside and pulled Dugu Xuexue to the bars.
• Dugu Xuexue bit Lin Heng’s finger and warned him that her sister was the Saintess of Nine Dust Hall.
• Lin Heng asked whether Xuexue was close to Dugu Yueli, and Xuexue confirmed that she was.

Lin Heng took Dugu Xuexue from the prison and questioned her about her sister, Dugu Yueli, before ordering her to prepare a bath. He left her fearing for her brother if she failed to finish in time.

• Lin Heng carried Dugu Xuexue out of the prison while Dugu Han shouted for him to release her.
• Luo Xiaochuan saw Lin Heng carrying someone from the Dugu Clan, guessed at his intentions, and went into a restaurant after sending his patrol away.
• Lin Heng questioned Dugu Xuexue about her relationship with Dugu Yueli, and she proudly praised her sister while revealing information about her background.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Xuexue to fill a bathing tub on the fifth floor within half an incense stick, warning that her brother would suffer if she failed.

Lin Heng bathed while Dugu Xuexue served him, then ordered Wang Lei to tell the imprisoned Dugu Clan that only one or two hostages would be exchanged. The chapter left the prisoners believing Dugu Xuexue had been violated, while Dugu Han blamed himself.

• Dugu Xuexue fetched Spirit Spring water for Lin Heng and stood guard while he bathed.
• Wang Lei told Lin Heng that the Dugu Clan wanted to exchange hostages, and Lin Heng ordered him to let the prisoners choose one or two people for release.
• Lin Heng threatened Dugu Xuexue with her brother’s suffering and made her comb his hair.
• Wang Lei told the imprisoned Dugu Clan that Dugu Xuexue had served Lin Heng while he bathed, provoking their fury.
• The prisoners blamed one another, and Dugu Han collapsed, believing he had harmed his sixth sister.

Lin Heng discussed the Dugu Clan hostages and the looming conflict with Luo Xiaochuan, while Bai Yi falsely claimed Lin Heng had died in his Heavenly Tribulation. At the Great Wall Dao Palace, Chen Changqin and Bai Yi proposed seizing territory and saw a chance to target Dragon Sea City through the Huang Clan’s planned cooperation.

• Lin Heng told Luo Xiaochuan that the Dugu Clan hostages could serve as bargaining chips but could not be their only safeguard, and promised Luo’s family would be exchanged first.
• Lin Heng arranged inquiries about Bai Yi and the others as Meng Yutong’s group entered the Star Sea and Bai Yi’s group met Chen Changqin’s main force at the Great Wall Dao Palace.
• Bai Yi insisted Lin Heng had been struck dead by lightning, but Chen Changqin exposed that his claim about inheriting Lin Heng’s Fortune gave away that Lin Heng was still alive.
• Chen Changqin proposed that the group seize an important immortal city, and Bai Yi reported that Nine Dust Hall had taken Anqiu Immortal City while its defenders captured Dragon Sea City.
• Bai Yi said the Huang Clan was considering an alliance with Dragon Sea City to shift the Great Wall Barrier west, and he proposed using the negotiations as a chance to seize Dragon Sea City.

Bai Yi’s group decided to take Dragon Sea City with Great Wall Dao Palace’s tacit approval, while Bai Yi gathered local forces under the immortal clan’s banner. Lin Heng then encountered Dugu Han being marched through the city and provoked him by claiming Dugu Xuexue served at his side.

• Bai Yi argued that Great Wall Dao Palace would cooperate with Dragon Sea City and would interpret the immortal clan’s seizure of the city as greed rather than a threat.
• Sun Hao understood that Great Wall Dao Palace would tolerate the immortal clan’s involvement, and the group approved Bai Yi’s plan.
• Over nearly three days, Bai Yi visited Dragon Sea City’s remaining forces and integrated some of them by presenting himself as an immortal clan disciple.
• Lin Heng patrolled Dragon Sea City with Dugu Xuexue as Wang Lei led the chained Dugu Han and another prisoner toward West City.
• Dugu Han shouted at Lin Heng, but Lin Heng stopped Wang Lei from striking him and insulted Dugu Han before claiming he had treated Dugu Xuexue kindly.

Lin Heng exchanged Dugu Han and another Dugu Clan captive while keeping Dugu Xuexue, then she confronted him about pretending to be a villain. He exaggerated his lecherous reputation, leaving Dugu Xuexue shocked and wondering what he meant by calling her not fresh.

• Lin Heng explained that he was exchanging the Dugu Clan captives as hostages, and Dugu Han asked him to send Dugu Xuexue out first.
• Lin Heng teased Dugu Han by touching Dugu Xuexue and claiming she had to stay and serve him, then sent Dugu Han away.
• Lin Heng freed Dugu Xuexue and headed toward a brothel, and she asked why he had acted like a villain in front of her second brother.
• Dugu Xuexue reasoned that Lin Heng had spared the Dugu Clan and only pretended to be cruel, and Lin Heng inwardly admired her insight.
• Lin Heng claimed he had many Dao companions and could take any woman he wanted, then said Dugu Xuexue was not fresh enough for him.