Chapter Summaries

Li Qinghe met Li Zixuan to ask about her relationship with Qin Yang and discovered that he was Li Zixuan’s Senior Brother, skilled in both swordsmanship and array formation. Li Qinghe remained baffled by Qin Yang’s apparent lack of star power, while Li Zixuan warned her not to provoke him.

• The library heightened security after martial artists reported that the intruder had infiltrated it again, and the supervisor marked the absent Li Qing as the library’s top suspect.
• Li Qinghe skipped work and met Li Zixuan at a café, where she asked about Li Zixuan’s relationship with Qin Yang.
• Li Zixuan admitted that Qin Yang was her Senior Brother after Li Qinghe caught her lying.
• Li Zixuan said she knew Qin Yang’s swordsmanship was extraordinary but did not know his rank as an Array Formation Master.
• Li Qinghe wondered whether Qin Yang had hidden his cultivation, and Li Zixuan warned her to avoid provoking him.

Li Qinghe questioned Li Zixuan about Qin Yang’s swordsmanship and their mysterious teacher, then guessed that the teacher was the Jianghai Sword God. Li Zixuan’s silence convinced her that Qin Yang was the Sword God’s disciple.

• Li Qinghe was shocked to learn that Qin Yang was a swordsmanship genius as well as a gifted array formation expert.
• Li Qinghe suspected Li Zixuan had taken another teacher, and Li Zixuan warned her not to spread careless guesses.
• Li Qinghe activated a Soundproofing Array and promised to stand by Li Zixuan, then asked who had taught her and Qin Yang.
• Li Zixuan refused to reveal her teacher’s identity, saying she had promised to keep it secret.
• Li Qinghe ruled out other possible teachers and guessed that the Jianghai Sword God was their teacher.
• Li Zixuan’s silence convinced Li Qinghe that Qin Yang was the Sword God’s disciple.

Li Qinghe learned that Qin Yang was the Sword God's first disciple and decided to seek the Sword God as a master so she could pursue arrays and escape her family's control. Meanwhile, Qin Yang returned home and contemplated his Law Fragments, causing a strange rain and new growth around his residence.

• Li Qinghe realized Qin Yang was the Sword God's first disciple and asked Li Zixuan to keep the secret.
• Li Qinghe decided to return to the library and question Qin Yang about where the Sword God was.
• Qin Yang left the library as Star Police Department personnel prepared to screen those remaining inside.
• At home, Qin Yang contemplated the Law Fragments while Xiao Bai cooked.
• Qin Yang's cultivation brought fiery clouds, dark thunder, gentle rain, and fresh growth to the housing complex.

Qin Yang learned that the Martial Hall Master, Li Daoming, had returned and agreed to cover Li Qing’s duties while the library tried to hire a replacement. Li Qinghe returned and met with her father, who cleared Li Qing of suspicion and allowed him to remain at the library; afterward, she vowed to make Qin Yang accept her as a disciple.

• Qin Yang sensed Li Daoming’s improved aura on the third floor, where Li Daoming checked that the Ten Thousand Arrays Diagram was safe.
• The manager told Qin Yang that Li Qing was missing and asked him to cover Area 2 for double performance pay, which Qin Yang accepted.
• Li Qinghe returned to the library, but the manager and Star Police Department officers tried to stop her until Li Daoming ordered them to let her through.
• After Li Qinghe spoke with Li Daoming, he declared that Li Qing was unrelated to the demon cultivator’s attack and permitted him to stay at the library.
• Li Qinghe left the guards behind and vowed to Qin Yang that she would make Sword God Senior accept her as a disciple.

Li Daoming called an emergency meeting after learning that Jianghai City would face a beast tide in a few days, potentially larger than any before. The city’s leaders planned defenses without learning the tide’s danger level, and Li Daoming ended the chapter hoping Li Qinghe could persuade the Jianghai Sword God to help.

• Li Daoming told Jianghai’s leaders that an unusually severe beast tide would reach the city in a few days.
• The Police Chief Commander and Li Daoming agreed that the Li family would activate the City Defense Array, while the leaders discussed additional defenses and reinforcements.
• Li Daoming said he had limited information about the beast tide’s level and promised to distribute what he learned.
• After the meeting, Li Daoming and the Commander worried that Jianghai could barely withstand a Difficult-level tide and hoped the Jianghai Sword God would aid the city.
• Li Daoming recalled his conversation with Li Qinghe and hoped she could invite Sword God Senior out of seclusion.

Li Qinghe tried to win Qin Yang’s favor with gifts and workplace rewards so she could learn how to meet the Sword God. By the end of the day, Qin Yang had guessed her plan when she asked about her Grandmaster, but reminded himself that she would still have to call him Teacher.

• Li Qinghe gave Qin Yang a handcrafted Golden Lotus array to help him rest, and he accepted it.
• Li Qinghe revealed that she was currying favor with Qin Yang so she could meet the Sword God and become his disciple.
• Li Qinghe used her position as manager to place Qin Yang on the outstanding employee list, and he received a raise and several gifts.
• At the library entrance, Li Qinghe invited Qin Yang to a hotpot meal and asked about his school and Grandmaster.
• Qin Yang realized Li Qinghe wanted to find the Sword God, but concluded that even if she became the Sword God’s disciple, she would still have to call him Teacher.

Qin Yang kept Li Qinghe guessing about the absent Jianghai Sword God while she tried to arrange a meeting and offer him a gift. On Mid-Autumn Festival, as Qin Yang celebrated with Xiao Bai, he noticed that the ten holes in the sky seemed larger than he remembered.

• On the way home, Li Qinghe questioned Qin Yang about the Grandmaster, and he realized she was trying to learn more about the Jianghai Sword God.
• Qin Yang told Li Qinghe that the Grandmaster was away from Jianghai, while she asked when he would return and tried to arrange a gift for him.
• Qin Yang insisted that Li Qinghe give any gift or message to him to pass along, leaving her unable to approach the Grandmaster directly.
• Two days later, Qin Yang celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival on his rooftop with Xiao Bai, received holiday messages from Xia He and Li Zixuan, and watched fireworks.
• While admiring the moon, Qin Yang noticed that the ten holes in the sky looked larger than they had a year earlier.

Qin Yang refined pills for Li Qinghe, Li Zixuan, and Xia He, then learned from Xia He that a beast tide was approaching. He dismissed the warning as routine and refused Xia He's request to make a pill to boost male vitality.

• Qin Yang refined three bottles of pills and gave one to Li Qinghe, one to Li Zixuan, and one to Xia He.
• Xia He told Qin Yang that the Star Police Department was recruiting for a major mission and asked him to join, but Qin Yang refused.
• Xia He warned Qin Yang that a beast tide was coming and said the information was internal to the Police Department.
• Xia He asked Qin Yang to refine a pill to boost male vitality, and Qin Yang told him to get lost.

A Black Robe learned that Jianghai City was preparing for the beast tide, while the valley’s hidden leader ordered agents to throw the city into chaos. After Heretical Cultists began causing trouble, Qin Yang gave Xia He engraved Star Stones to help him survive a special operation against them.

• A Black Robe reported Jianghai City’s experts and defenses to the figure hidden in Mist Mountain Valley, including Li Daoming’s preparations for the beast tide.
• The valley’s leader ordered the Black Robe to send people to Jianghai City and create chaos before the Star Beasts attacked.
• Qin Yang saw a citywide warning about Heretical Cultists and worried that Xia He’s already overworked police force would be stretched further.
• Qin Yang invited Xia He to the library, where Xia He explained that he had been assigned to a special operation to capture the cultists.
• Qin Yang gave Xia He several Star Stones engraved with Array Runes, and Xia He doubted Qin Yang’s claim that he had learned the craft by reading.

Qin Yang helped Li Zixuan repair the missing passages in an ancient Innate Swordplay manual, impressing her with his knowledge. He exposed Li Qinghe hiding nearby and forced her to reveal herself, leaving Li Zixuan stunned to learn that Li Qinghe was Qin Yang's disciple.

• Qin Yang advised Xia He to flee if he encountered danger, then returned to the Loafing Spot as Xia He left the library.
• After the library was placed under lockdown, Qin Yang collected Star Police Department plaques and went to Area 1 to hang them.
• Li Zixuan asked Qin Yang to explain gaps in Jianghai Academy's treasured Innate Swordplay manual, and he supplied the missing passages from memory.
• Li Qinghe secretly watched Qin Yang instruct Li Zixuan, and Qin Yang noticed her hiding in Area 2.
• Qin Yang called Li Qinghe over as Li Zixuan's Martial Aunt and weakened her Concealment Array, revealing her to Li Zixuan.
• Li Zixuan recognized Li Qinghe and asked when she had become Qin Yang's disciple.

Li Zixuan discovered that her older cousin Li Qinghe was working in the library and had become Qin Yang’s disciple, though Qin Yang’s teasing made the circumstances seem far more romantic and humiliating than they were. Li Qinghe pulled Li Zixuan aside to explain, but left her cousin even more curious and impressed with Qin Yang.

• Li Zixuan recognized Li Qinghe in the library, and Li Qinghe tried to hide before finally admitting who she was.
• Qin Yang revealed that Li Qinghe was his new disciple and teased her by claiming she had cried when asking him to take her in.
• Li Zixuan questioned when Qin Yang had accepted Li Qinghe, while Li Qinghe insisted the situation was not what it seemed.
• Li Qinghe took Li Zixuan to a quiet corner and admitted she had cried, but not for the reason Qin Yang implied.
• Li Qinghe told Li Zixuan to mind her own business as part of her plan, leaving Li Zixuan more curious and admiring of Qin Yang.

Qin Yang restored the missing parts of the Innate Sword Dao Ancient Book for Li Zixuan and gave Li Qinghe guidance on arrays. As the library was about to close, a former administrator tried to blow it up with Star Stones, but Qin Yang stopped the detonation.

• Qin Yang completed the missing portions of the Innate Sword Dao Ancient Book and sent Li Zixuan away with his explanations.
• Li Qinghe asked Qin Yang for array guidance, and he explained the Array Eye and star-power distribution.
• A former Jiang Hai Library administrator entered near closing time with two unstable Star Stones, intending to destroy the library in revenge for being fired.
• The former administrator charged the Star Stones until their detonation became irreversible, but Qin Yang pressed them and extinguished the purple lightning.

Qin Yang killed a death warrior who had tried to detonate Star Stones in Jiang Hai Library and learned that fiends planned to assassinate Li Daoming to disable Jianghai City's City Defense Array before a beast tide. He decided to help the Li family and warned Li Qinghe that her father was in danger that night.

• Qin Yang destroyed the Star Stones' Array Runes, killed the middle-aged attacker, and used Soul Searching to learn about the plot against Jianghai City.
• Qin Yang discovered that fiends had hired Innate Realm Experts to raid the Li family and assassinate Li Daoming, the array master responsible for the City Defense Array.
• Qin Yang cremated the death warrior's body, washed his hands, and decided to help Li Daoming, his superior.
• Qin Yang gave Li Qinghe Star Stones and told her to bring them to her father, strengthen his guards, and use the stones if she encountered danger.
• Li Qinghe reacted with shock when Qin Yang told her that her father might be in danger that night.

Li Qinghe warned Li Daoming that the Li family would be attacked that night and presented Star Stones from her senior brother to help them survive. Li Daoming recognized their arrays as peak fifth level and marveled at the Sword God Senior who had taught such a disciple.

• Qin Yang told Li Qinghe that the Jianghai Sword God had warned of danger to her family and cautioned her to avoid Heretical Cultists.
• Li Qinghe went to the Li family home and told Li Daoming that enemies planned to raid them that night.
• Li Daoming assumed Li Qinghe had joined the Sword God Sect, and she let him believe it while claiming the warning came from her senior brother.
• Li Qinghe gave Li Daoming the Star Stones, and he identified their arrays as peak fifth level.

Three Innate Realm assassins attacked Li Daoming, but he and Li Qinghe lured them into a Level 5 Illusion Array and turned their assault against them. After the attack was foiled, Li Daoming asked Qinghe to thank her master and Senior Brother for warning them.

• Three men in black used poisonous mist and a fake figure to attack Li Daoming in his room.
• Li Daoming and Li Qinghe appeared at the doorway and activated a Level 5 Illusion Array around the assassins.
• The assassins mistook an illusion for Li Qinghe and struck their own companion, the man with the flower snake.
• The remaining assassins became trapped in the illusion and attacked each other while Li Daoming and Li Qinghe watched from outside.
• Li Daoming learned that all three attackers were Innate Realm experts and asked Qinghe to thank her master and Senior Brother for their warning.

After Li Qinghe thanked Qin Yang for saving her family from an ambush, she gave him a furnished villa in Fuhai District. Qin Yang accepted and moved there with Xiao Bai, arriving at his new home.

• Li Daoming explained the previous night's deadly ambush to the Star Police Department as officers sealed off the villa crime scene.
• Li Qinghe brought Qin Yang breakfast and thanked him for warning her family and giving them an array that saved them from the attackers.
• Li Qinghe gave Qin Yang a villa deed and key, explaining that she had bought the property in her own name and would handle its expenses.
• Qin Yang accepted the gift after learning that unrest had kept the Star Police Department and Old Li from helping the Li family that night.
• Qin Yang packed his belongings with Xiao Bai, took a taxi to Fuhai District, and arrived at the villa.

Qin Yang settled into life at Fuhai Villa, admired its powerful gathering array, and finished comprehending the Wood Law Fragment. Just as he estimated he could reach the Supreme Realm within a month, the array he had given Xia He activated, leaving Xia He’s situation uncertain.

• Qin Yang worried that Xia He had not answered his calls, but reassured himself that the Star Stone array had not activated.
• Qin Yang returned to Fuhai Villa with Xiao Bai and studied the villa complex’s natural Qi Gathering Array and the Li family’s central territory.
• Qin Yang entered the Enlightenment Space and completely absorbed the Wood Law Fragment, causing flowers to bloom throughout the courtyard.
• Qin Yang estimated he could enter the Supreme Realm in less than a month.
• The array Qin Yang had left for Xia He activated, making Qin Yang’s expression turn serious.

Xia He and his wounded colleagues took shelter in an old residence behind a Star Stone array while Heretical Cultists attacked, and the array withstood even an Innate Realm expert's strike. The chapter ended with the cultists stunned and Xia He and his colleagues grinning as the attack vanished.

• Xia He used Star Stones to protect his wounded Special Task Force colleagues from Heretical Cultists who had ambushed them during a mission.
• The cultists repeatedly attacked the array, but it held while Xia He waited for reinforcements and eventually dozed off.
• When the exhausted cultists paused, Xia He and his colleagues taunted them from the residence.
• A black-robed old man arrived, and the cultists identified him as their lord and knelt before him.
• The old man unleashed a powerful Star Power attack, but the array absorbed it completely, leaving the cultists stunned and Xia He and his colleagues delighted.

Xia He and his colleagues were trapped inside the old residence when a black-robed Innate Realm expert set the protective array ablaze with his essence blood. Just as the police officers passed out and the Heretical Cultists prepared to enter, Qin Yang arrived, killed the cultists, and healed the injured officers before leaving.

• Xia He mocked the black-robed old man after the man's full-strength attack failed to break the protective array.
• The black-robed old man ignited a ring of his essence blood around the residence, trapping Xia He and his colleagues in a raging fire.
• Xia He and the other police officers burned and passed out, causing the protective array to dissipate as the Heretical Cultists moved in.
• Qin Yang appeared above the residence, pinned the Heretical Cultists with his pressure, and used the flames to burn them to ash.
• Qin Yang used the Wood Law to heal Xia He and the other injured police officers, then vanished.

Qin Yang found Xiao Bai transformed into a berserk Three Tails White Fox and rampaging through Jianghai City, then subdued her and gave her a Soul Stabilizing Pill. After seeing reports of other star beasts attacking their masters, he realized Jianghai City was facing a wider crisis.

• Qin Yang returned to his villa and found the courtyard wrecked and Xiao Bai missing.
• Qin Yang followed Xiao Bai's trail to a vegetable market, where the Three Tails White Fox was attacking people.
• Qin Yang struck Xiao Bai with his belt until she briefly returned to her senses and then collapsed in her smaller form.
• Qin Yang healed the injured bystanders and took Xiao Bai home to investigate her condition.
• Qin Yang found Xiao Bai's consciousness in chaos and fed her a Soul Stabilizing Pill.
• Qin Yang read reports that star beasts across Jianghai City were turning on their masters.