Recaps

Gu Jinzhi learned that the Sky-Gazing Mirror had told him to wait for the flowers to bloom, and he planned to train with the Emergency Response Unit after his wedding. In the Unknown Land, Yun Sheng agreed to arrange for Yun Xi to obtain a pill, then asked whether someone had influenced her feelings for Gu Jinzhi.

• Gu Jinzhi told Gu Litong that the Sky-Gazing Mirror had answered, “Wait quietly for the flowers to bloom, and their fragrance will come.”
• Gu Litong said he had sent the Jiang Family the wedding items, including his late wife's wedding dress, and urged Gu Jinzhi to have a child before leaving for the Western Frontier.
• Gu Jinzhi refused to risk tying Jiang Xue to a child before he could rebuild his foundation and return safely from the battlefield.
• Gu Jinzhi asked to train for half a month with the Rift Investigation Bureau's Emergency Response Unit after the wedding, and Gu Litong agreed to arrange it.
• Yun Sheng agreed to help Yun Xi obtain a pill naturally within seven days, then asked whether the mysterious Senior had influenced her love for Gu Jinzhi.
• The Senior teased Yun Sheng that his granddaughter was simply a hopeless romantic.

Li Wei visited Jiang Xinyue after wedding preparations, and Jiang Xinyue questioned her about accepting the upcoming marriage to Jin Zhi. Jiang Xinyue recognized Li Wei’s state as “See True Self” and explained it, leaving Li Wei wondering how to complete the realm.

• Li Wei finished trying on her wedding attire and makeup, then met Jiang Xinyue in her courtyard that evening.
• Jiang Xinyue asked whether Li Wei still resisted the wedding and whether she would allow Jin Zhi to share her bed; Li Wei listed the forms of intimacy she would accept and rejected kissing and the final step.
• Jiang Xinyue identified Li Wei’s state as “See True Self” and said it was a crucial step toward proving the Dao and becoming a Martial Immortal.
• Jiang Xinyue explained that “See True Self” meant shedding identities and expectations to reach one’s truest self, and Li Wei connected the idea to her past sense of fragmentation.
• Li Wei asked whether her cultivation of “See True Self” was incomplete and how she could improve it, and Jiang Xinyue called her a shameless show-off.

Li Wei received materials for four more forms of the Nine Moon Reflection Swords from Jiang Xinyue, then used Abyss Essence to master two techniques. She learned how the sword styles built on the first form and tested their effects, ending with the powerful Taiyin Command nearly draining her blood-qi.

• Jiang Xinyue gave Li Wei a tablet containing sword-form materials and explained that the upper three swords required Grandmaster-level soul-infusion, while four lotus seeds for the Four Seasons Sword Array would mature in ten days.
• Li Wei opened the five files and learned the materials before they could self-destruct, adding the new sword forms to her combat-method panel.
• Li Wei spent 2,220 Abyss Essence to raise Pale Soul Splitting Light and Taiyin Command to Great Accomplishment, while the middle three swords remained unavailable until she reached the fourth tier.
• Li Wei realized the later styles grew from the foundation of Cold Pond Sinking Jade and integrated into her Frost Moon Sword Intent as specialized techniques.
• Li Wei tested Taiyin Command, whose piercing force consumed nearly 1,000 blood-qi in one unenhanced thrust, and aimed it outside to spare her bedroom.

Gu Jinzhi asked Zeng Yi to check whether anyone had tampered with Jiang Xue’s biometric records, then stopped him from making the call. He revealed that his eldest aunt might be in the Imperial Capital and could attack him, and asked Zeng Yi to lend him a grandmaster for protection until he enlisted.

• Gu Jinzhi asked Zeng Yi to have his Third Uncle check Jiang Xue’s biometric records for recent tampering, then changed his mind and told Zeng Yi to forget the request.
• Zeng Yi told Gu Jinzhi that the Zhang Family had sent eight or nine women to try to get into his bed and that grandmasters were taking turns beating Zhang Yansheng.
• Gu Jinzhi asked Zeng Yi to lend him a grandmaster to protect him until he enlisted.
• Gu Jinzhi said his eldest aunt might already be in the Imperial Capital and could make a move against him.

On her wedding day, Li Wei left the Jiang Family Manor in a lavish procession to marry Gu Jinzhi, while Jiang Han revealed that he knew she was not really his sister. The chapter ended with Gu Jinzhi riding beside her Phoenix Sedan Chair as the procession headed for the Gu family old residence.

• Li Wei completed her Hairpin Ceremony as the Jiang Family's White Lotuses showered her with praise.
• Jiang Han returned to the manor, avoided Li Wei, and later carried her out for the wedding; he accused her of not being his sister, and she asked him to keep it secret and thanked him for helping her.
• Jiang Xinyue gave Li Wei her wedding admonitions, and Jiang Yunshu and Tang Zhou helped straighten her wedding clothes.
• Gu Jinzhi took Li Wei from Jiang Han and carried her to the wedding car as the Jiang Family saw them off.
• Near the Gu family old residence, Gu Jinzhi carried Li Wei into a sixteen-man Phoenix Sedan Chair, then mounted a white horse as Zeng Yi and the others bore the sedan toward the residence.

After her wedding to Gu Jinzhi, Li Wei discovered that the public had dubbed her the “Little Bodhisattva” and added the title to her martial arts ranking, leaving her mortified. Gu Jinzhi comforted her by pointing to a future tournament where she could earn a new title, but realized he would be stationed at the Western Frontier Death Line by then and unable to cheer her on.

• After the wedding ceremony, Li Wei checked the Heavenly Machine Network and found a crowd of her former rescue-operation allies gathered outside the Gu residence under a banner naming her fan club the “Little Bodhisattva Fan Club.”
• Li Wei saw that the Heavenly Machine Network had placed Jiang Xue at the top of the Lower Third Order ranking and listed “Little Bodhisattva” as her title, then despairingly rolled across the bridal bed.
• When Gu Jinzhi returned to the bridal room, Li Wei showed him the comments praising her as the Little Bodhisattva and complained that she had no face left to meet people.
• Gu Jinzhi suppressed his laughter, reminded Li Wei that they had married that day, and told her she could earn a new title at the National Martial Arts University Invitational Tournament.
• Li Wei resolved to gain an impressive title on the battlefield, while Gu Jinzhi realized he would be stationed at the Western Frontier Death Line before the tournament and could not attend to support her.

On their wedding night, Li Wei defused the awkwardness with a bizarre song before Gu Jinzhi gave her a mysterious bead identified as the Blood of an Unknown Expert. Li Wei realized it was his life-saving trump card, and Gu Jinzhi was left stunned by her deduction.

• Li Wei punched Gu Jinzhi and grew uneasy when their bridal-chamber silence made her wonder whether he had improper intentions.
• Li Wei sang an eerie wedding song to break the tension, and Gu Jinzhi begged her to stop.
• Gu Jinzhi produced a golden bead from his fingertip and pressed it to Li Wei’s lips, telling her to keep it secret.
• Li Wei checked her system and saw the item labeled Blood of an Unknown Expert.
• Li Wei inferred that Gu Jinzhi had given her his life-saving trump card, leaving him baffled.

Li Wei returned the Martial Immortal True Blood to Gu Jinzhi, leaving him deeply hurt as their relationship grew more strained. The next morning, she joined Grandmaster Gu Litong to fish, where he warned her not to listen to her mother-in-law.

• Li Wei pushed the Martial Immortal True Blood through her meridians and returned it to Gu Jinzhi, who was left silent and distressed.
• Li Wei reflected that she had chosen the Western Frontier for her own reasons and did not want to accept Gu Jinzhi's heavy feelings or the Gu Family's gifts.
• Gu Jinzhi stayed motionless by the bed while Li Wei fell asleep; by morning, he had left without sleeping beside her.
• Gu Yan brought Li Wei fresh clothes and told her that Grandmaster Gu Litong wanted her to accompany him in the back courtyard instead of serving tea to the elders.
• Li Wei met Gu Litong beside a pond, tried fishing under his guidance, and heard him warn her not to listen to her mother-in-law.

While fishing with Gu Litong, Li Wei learned that he suspected Liang Qiushi planned to injure Gu Jinzhi and send Li Wei to Western Xinjiang in his place. Gu Litong then remembered his late wife, and his grief overwhelmed Li Wei before she hurried away from the pond.

• Li Wei pretended not to understand Gu Litong's warning, but he confronted her about the betrothal gifts and Liang Qiushi's possible scheme.
• Gu Litong reasoned that Liang Qiushi wanted to injure Gu Jinzhi so Li Wei would serve in his place, but believed the plan would fail because Gu Jinzhi had protection.
• When Gu Litong asked what she and Liang Qiushi had traded, Li Wei truthfully denied making any deal, leaving him to suspect that she had been deceived.
• Gu Litong remembered his late wife and wept, while Li Wei felt his sorrow and left the pond after he told her to go play by herself.
• Gu Yan asked Li Wei what had happened, and Li Wei briefly asked where Old Gu was before hurrying away alone.

Zhang Yansheng and Zhang Pengcheng left for the western frontier after Zhang Pengcheng was beaten, while Liang Qiushi gave up her schemes against Gu Jinzhi and prepared to send Liang Chunhua home. At a university dormitory, Lu Feifei recognized the bride in a viral wedding video as her former classmate Li Wei, and a roommate secretly reported the discovery.

• Zhang Yansheng told Zhang Pengcheng to train harder after his fight with Min Zimo and Su Mo, then explained they would wait in the western frontier for Gu Jinzhi.
• Liang Qiushi told Liang Chunhua to return to Dongming because Gu Jinzhi would guard against them and could find a Grandmaster to protect himself.
• Liang Qiushi urged Liang Chunhua to break through to the Grandmaster realm, while Liang Chunhua worried about Gu Jinzhi going to the western frontier.
• Lu Feifei recognized the bride in a wedding video as Li Wei, her former high-school seatmate, though her roommates insisted the bride was Jiang Xue.
• A quiet roommate stepped away and messaged someone that she had something to report.

After the Grandmaster’s emotional influence left Li Wei overwhelmed with grief, she tried to distract herself by gaming while waiting for Liang Qiushi to advance the plan that would let her follow Gu Jinzhi to Xijiang. On August 23, Li Wei finally confronted Liang Qiushi, who dismissed the servants so they could speak privately.

• Li Wei returned to Gu Garden, saw the orange she had given Gu Jinzhi displayed in his room, and broke down in grief.
• Li Wei wondered whether the Grandmaster’s influence had made her fear losing Gu Jinzhi, then forced her sorrow under control and went to eat.
• Li Wei spent two days sleeping and eating before gaming for days, but lost interest in her games on August 22 as Gu Jinzhi’s departure neared.
• Li Wei went to the main building on August 23 and pressed Liang Qiushi with anxious looks during breakfast.
• Liang Qiushi gave Li Wei a bitter smile and sent the servants out of the dining room.

Li Wei learned that Liang Qiushi’s plan to have Gu Jinzhi injured so Li Wei could serve in his place had fallen apart, and she proposed injuring him herself. Liang Qiushi refused, leaving Li Wei to consider other ways to keep Gu Jinzhi from going to the Western Frontier.

• Liang Qiushi told Li Wei that the Zhang Family’s influence had withdrawn and that her plan was no longer in play.
• Liang Qiushi explained that she had intended for Liang Chunhua to seriously injure Gu Jinzhi so Li Wei could take his place in the military.
• Li Wei proposed beating Gu Jinzhi seriously herself and claiming she would go to the Western Frontier out of guilt, but Liang Qiushi rejected the idea.
• Liang Qiushi blamed Li Wei’s deviations from the plan for its failure, and Li Wei admitted she had made her own life much harder.
• Li Wei considered pleading with Gu Jinzhi to let her follow him, but realized she could not enlist normally as a third-year prodigy without using Substitute Service.

Li Wei watched soap operas to figure out how to end the cold war with Gu Jinzhi, then arranged to enroll at Qingyun Martial Arts University. She finally spoke with Gu Jinzhi and agreed to meet him after registration, but his abrupt hang-up left her wondering whether he suspected her.

• Li Wei decided to call Gu Jinzhi after concluding that emotional outbursts only worked when both people cared about each other.
• A Qingyun Martial Arts University admissions officer called repeatedly, and Li Wei promised to register the next morning.
• Li Wei called Gu Jinzhi twice without reaching him, then received his call and told him she wanted to see him.
• Gu Jinzhi said he also had something to discuss, and they agreed to meet the day after Li Wei registered.
• After Gu Jinzhi abruptly ended the call, Li Wei remembered Aunt Liang's advice and wondered whether Gu Jinzhi suspected her.

Gu Jinzhi waited for Jiang Xue to call while on watch with Min Zimo, and finally answered when she phoned him. At Qingyun Martial Arts University, Yun Xi learned that an extravagant welcome for Jiang Xue had been arranged and declared that Jiang Xue would not stay long.

• Min Zimo brought Gu Jinzhi food, teased him about waiting for Madam Gu, and encouraged him to go home before leaving for the Western Frontier.
• Gu Jinzhi received a call from the number saved as Wife, missed it, then called back and connected.
• Yun Xi saw students preparing an elaborate welcome ceremony for Jiang Xue and demanded to know who had arranged it.
• Yun Lan explained that the principal had approved the ceremony and threatened to hold him responsible if it went wrong.
• Yun Xi told Yun Lan that Jiang Xue would not be staying at Qingyun for long.

Li Wei reported to school amid an extravagant welcome, completed her enrollment, and refused the vice principal’s request to give a speech. She accepted the school’s appointment as vice-captain of its Martial University Exchange Tournament team and went to meet her teammates.

• Gu Yan chose Li Wei an outfit, while Li Wei continued wondering what had changed Gu Jinzhi’s attitude toward her.
• Li Wei arrived at the school to find students and leaders filling the entrance, and the crowd escorted her to the administration building.
• School staff recorded Li Wei’s identity and biometric information as the leaders praised her for clearing a C3-level rift.
• The vice principal asked Li Wei to give a speech, but she refused and explained that she would be going to Xijiang by September 1.
• The vice principal appointed Li Wei vice-captain of the school’s Martial University Exchange Tournament team and led her to meet the waiting teammates.

Li Wei visited Qingyun Martial Arts University to join its school team, where she faced hostility from the regular members and defeated them all. After finishing her enrollment, she encountered captain Yun Xi, who invited her to a meal, and Li Wei asked who would pay.

• Li Wei arrived at Qingyun Martial Arts University and met vice-captain Yun Lan, who denied knowing Yun Zheng.
• Li Wei learned that Yun Xi was the school team's captain and heard Yun Lan describe her as a Peak First Order martial artist.
• Lei Xiaoyu and several other team members challenged Li Wei, so Li Wei defeated the school team in the training center.
• Li Wei completed her enrollment and headed toward the parking lot with the university leaders.
• Yun Xi pulled up beside Li Wei and invited her to eat, and Li Wei asked who would pay.

Li Wei met Yun Xi for hot pot, where Yun Xi revealed she knew about Liang Qiushi’s plan to send Li Wei to the Western Frontier in Gu Jinzhi’s place. Yun Xi offered to pay Li Wei to go, and the chapter ended with Li Wei asking what would happen if she refused.

• Li Wei provoked Yun Xi during hot pot and sprayed broth across her face, then restrained her with a soft sword when Yun Xi attacked.
• Yun Xi returned after changing and asked whether Li Wei attended Spirit Spring No. 5 High School, was Lu Feifei’s deskmate, and was Liang Qiushi’s substitute for Gu Jinzhi; Li Wei confirmed it.
• Yun Xi said Li Wei’s impressive talent had drawn too much attention for Liang Qiushi’s plan to work, and Li Wei asked how she knew.
• Gu Jinzhi called Li Wei, learned she was eating with Yun Xi at Emperor Cloud Hot Pot, and said he would come pick her up.
• Yun Xi asked what it would take for Li Wei to go to the Western Frontier in Gu Jinzhi’s place, and Li Wei asked what would happen if she refused.

Yun Xi offered Li Wei a large sum of Alliance Contribution Points to take Gu Jinzhi’s place at the Western Frontier, hoping to keep him alive. Li Wei accepted the points, then reunited with Gu Jinzhi, whose anticipation was interrupted when they both began sneezing.

• Yun Xi realized she could neither threaten Li Wei nor force her to stay away from Gu Jinzhi, so she offered her one hundred thousand Alliance Contribution Points and promised to have Yun Sheng mentor Li Cheng.
• Yun Xi raised the offer to three hundred thousand points, and Li Wei asked why she would go to such lengths to save Gu Jinzhi.
• Yun Xi confessed that she only wanted Gu Jinzhi to live, and Li Wei accepted the points while refusing her offer to cultivate Li Cheng.
• Li Wei wondered whether Gu Jinzhi had realized she did not love him, then asked Yun Xi to show restraint in her plans.
• Gu Jinzhi waited for Li Wei in his car, and when she got in, they both sneezed.

On the drive home, Li Wei wrestled with her feelings for Gu Jinzhi and tried awkwardly to make amends, but he remained reserved. At Gu Garden, he gave her documents transferring all his personal assets to her, leaving her to ask whether he thought he would not return.

• Li Wei recalled feeling worried and relieved when Liang Qiushi proposed and then rejected a plan that would severely injure Gu Jinzhi.
• Li Wei tried to placate Gu Jinzhi by offering her hand, then her foot, but he avoided both gestures.
• At Gu Garden, Gu Jinzhi brought Li Wei to the terrace and handed her a folder of asset transfer agreements.
• Gu Jinzhi said he would transfer his roughly sixty-billion-worth of secular and martial arts assets to Li Wei personally.
• Li Wei rejected the transfer and asked Gu Jinzhi, trembling, whether he thought he would not come back.

Li Wei broke down after carrying the pain Gu Litong had stirred in her, and Gu Jinzhi comforted her until she fell asleep in his arms. Gu Litong explained that he had deliberately influenced her to help his grandson and suggested Li Wei’s empathy showed she cared about Gu Jinzhi, leaving him quietly hopeful.

• Li Wei sobbed as she told Gu Jinzhi that Gu Litong’s grief during their fishing trip had affected her and brought her pain back.
• Gu Jinzhi embraced Li Wei, and she stopped resisting, cried into his shoulder, and smeared her tears and snot on his lapel.
• Li Wei fell asleep in Gu Jinzhi’s arms, and he stayed with her on the terrace rather than carrying her to bed.
• Gu Jinzhi called Gu Litong and challenged him for using his emotions to influence Li Wei.
• Gu Litong admitted he had helped Li Wei release her feelings so Gu Jinzhi would stop brooding, and said her empathy showed she cared about him.
• After the call ended, Gu Jinzhi held Li Wei closer and reflected that she had endured the burden of a Grandmaster’s emotions for days.

Li Wei woke in Gu Jinzhi’s arms, embarrassed by the previous night but relieved when he reassured her and explained that Gu Yan had changed her clothes. After learning that Grandmother wanted her back at the Jiang Family, Li Wei prepared to go, while Gu Jinzhi decided to resign from his internship and leave the Small Building.

• Li Wei woke beside Gu Jinzhi and worried that she had cried and fallen asleep in his arms, but he told her Gu Yan had changed her clothes and that she need not force anything between them.
• Gu Jinzhi told Li Wei that Grandmother had called and asked her to return to the Jiang Family, prompting Li Wei to remember the Four Seasons Sword Array and the lotus seeds.
• Li Wei dressed in the light-blue dress she had worn when she returned to the country, and Gu Jinzhi reacted with a blush when she said she liked it.
• Gu Jinzhi told Li Wei that he would resign from his internship and stay at home, then prepared gifts for his teammates and declined breakfast.
• Gu Jinzhi patted Li Wei’s head before leaving, and he looked up at her from the car as she watched from the terrace.

Li Wei demonstrated her mastery of the Nine Moon Reflection Swords, then learned that the Four Seasons Sword Array’s mature lotus seed could become a powerful weapon. Jiang Xinyue asked Li Wei to save her missing mother, Jiang Wantang, and explained why she believed she was still alive.

• Li Wei surprised Jiang Xinyue by demonstrating Great Accomplishment in the second and third forms of the Nine Moon Reflection Swords and revealing she had learned the first three forms.
• Jiang Xinyue told Li Wei the lotus seed nurtured by the Four Seasons Sword Array had matured and warned that using the array consumed enormous qi and blood.
• Jiang Xinyue said Li Wei had inherited the Jiang Family’s legacy and asked her to save Jiang Wantang when she became strong enough.
• Li Wei embraced Jiang Xinyue, then asked what had happened to her great-grandmother.
• Jiang Xinyue explained that Jiang Wantang had vanished while searching for an ancient ruin after ascending to Grandmaster, and said the Four Seasons Sword Array remained bound to its owner, convincing her that Jiang Wantang was alive.

Li Wei received four lotus seeds from Jiang Xinyue and learned she could cultivate them into lotus swords to gain access to the Four Seasons Sword Array. After Jiang Xinyue sent her away, she received a serious phone call and flew off from the courtyard.

• Jiang Xinyue explained that she had administrator permissions for the sword array and that Li Wei would gain permission by cultivating the lotus seeds into lotus swords.
• Jiang Xinyue sent four lotus seeds into Li Wei's sea of consciousness, and Li Wei named them Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Lotus Seeds on her system panel.
• Li Wei saw that cultivating the seeds required ten thousand Abyss Essence points and decided to save it for after she raised her rank and went to the western frontier.
• Jiang Xinyue kicked Li Wei out of the courtyard, then grew tearful as she watched Li Wei leave.
• Jiang Xinyue answered a phone call, became solemn as she listened, and flew away in a red beam of light.

Li Wei went to meet Yun Xi at Star Garden Cafe, where she learned that an A-class Spatial Tremor had appeared in Yan Mountain and that Gu Jinzhi’s protector had been summoned away. Yun Xi revealed that her operation had begun and told Li Wei to prepare to go to Western Border, leaving Li Wei so shocked that she spat cola onto Yun Xi.

• Li Wei returned to Gu Garden, discovered Gu Jinzhi had not come home, and spent the afternoon listlessly waiting for something to do.
• Yun Xi summoned Li Wei to Star Garden Cafe, where Li Wei ordered cola with latte art.
• Yun Xi told Li Wei that an A-class Spatial Tremor had appeared in Yan Mountain and that the affected area’s electronic devices would malfunction.
• Yun Xi said the Zeng Family Grandmaster protecting Gu Jinzhi had been summoned and that Liang Qiushi had lost her nerve before Liang Chunhua could seriously injure Gu Jinzhi.
• Yun Xi told Li Wei to prepare to go to Western Border because her operation had begun, and Li Wei spat cola onto Yun Xi in shock.

Gu Jinzhi sensed an unrestrained killing intent after his protector left and discovered that communications had been jammed. He abandoned his plan to hide in a crowded mall after the attacker threatened the lives of the people inside, while Yun Che detained Zeng Yi and Gu Jinzhi’s other close associates to cover for Yun Xi.

• Gu Jinzhi noticed the signal jamming and realized someone had targeted him as soon as the Zeng Family grandmaster left.
• Gu Jinzhi sent Driver Fang away with a coded message for his father, then took a knife bag and left the car.
• Gu Jinzhi headed toward a shopping center to escape through the crowds, but a man’s voice warned him that entering would endanger hundreds or thousands of people.
• Gu Jinzhi turned away from the mall and walked toward a secluded area.
• Yun Che held Zeng Yi and Gu Jinzhi’s other close brothers at a private club, and Zeng Yi suspected he was helping Yun Xi’s plan involving Gu Jinzhi.