Chapter Summaries

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• Liang Qiushi told Li Wei that the Zhang Family’s influence had withdrawn and that her plan was no longer in play.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.

Li Wei stopped Yun Xi’s plan to attack Gu Jinzhi, then learned the strike was already underway and the support team could not be reached. The chapter ended with Li Wei unable to contact Gu Jinzhi and fearing that something had gone wrong.

• Li Wei seized Yun Xi and demanded details about her operation, but Yun Xi summoned Yun Cheng to attack her.
• Li Wei dodged Yun Cheng’s sword and severed his right arm before knocking him unconscious with a kick.
• Yun Xi told Li Wei that her plan was to have Gu Jinzhi severely injured so he could not go to the battlefield, and Li Wei decided to check on the attack.
• Yun Xi called her support team, but none of them answered, including a sixth-rank expert.
• Li Wei tried calling Gu Jinzhi, but the call could not connect.

Gu Jinzhi fought a strange warrior in an abandoned warehouse, but the odd man overwhelmed him and demanded to know what had happened inside the Sky-Gazing Mirror. The chapter left Gu suspended by the throat, facing a potentially fatal interrogation.

• Gu Jinzhi attacked the odd warrior with his saber, but she deflected his strike and battered him across the warehouse.
• The warrior spoke through a disembodied male voice and used its maddening laughter to injure Gu Jinzhi, while a sixth-tier Yun Family expert lay dead near the entrance.
• Gu Jinzhi realized the odd man had once worked for Yun Xi and continued fighting despite his wounds.
• The odd man struck Gu Jinzhi down, lifted him by the throat with his claw gauntlet, and demanded an account of what happened inside the Sky-Gazing Mirror.

Gu Jinzhi discovered that the monster was a Great Dream Cult expert who wanted to learn what had happened inside the Sky-Gazing Mirror. Martial Immortal True Blood drove the attacker back, but he crushed a signal-blocking device and called Gu Jinzhi’s wife, leaving her in danger.

• The Great Dream Cult parasite demanded that Gu Jinzhi reveal what had happened inside the Sky-Gazing Mirror and threatened to devour his soul and target his wife.
• Gu Jinzhi stayed silent as purple mist attacked him and began tearing at his soul.
• Dark-golden light erupted from Gu Jinzhi and burned the monster, forcing it to release him and leaving its face charred.
• The monster recognized the light as Martial Immortal True Blood and realized it could not wait for its protection to fade.
• The monster crushed a signal-blocking device, unlocked Gu Jinzhi’s phone, and called the contact labeled “Wife.”

Li Wei rushed to find Gu Jinzhi after Yun Xi learned he had entered the abandoned area near Yuheng Plaza, and she used her remaining Abyss Essence to strengthen her cultivation. Gu Jinzhi then called her with a captor’s warning to come alone, so Li Wei headed to the location and asked Yun Xi to prepare expert support.

• Yun Xi used surveillance reports to learn that Gu Jinzhi had left a vehicle at Yuheng Shopping Plaza and gone southwest, but cameras could not track him through the abandoned area.
• Li Wei set out for Yuheng Plaza, taking a precious Yun Family pill from Yun Xi and asking her to gather experts for support.
• Li Wei spent Abyss Essence to advance the Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll to Three Lotus Petals, but she lacked enough Essence to open her Lower Dantian and enter the Fourth Order.
• A caller claiming to be Gu Jinzhi warned Li Wei to come alone if she wanted to save him, and sent her a location pin through the spirit message.
• Li Wei headed for the pin at full speed and told Yun Xi to bring experts nearby, wait for her signal, and help handle martial artists from the Public Security Bureau who were pursuing her.

Li Wei broke into the warehouse and overwhelmed the freak, but Gu Jinzhi remained gravely wounded inside a protective golden halo. After her call for reinforcements went unanswered, the freak targeted Li Wei’s soul, and her surroundings transformed when she looked into his purple eyes.

• The freak taunted Gu Jinzhi by threatening to hurt his wife, but Li Wei burst through the warehouse roof and attacked him with her sword.
• Li Wei used her sword intent, White Lotus, and Unity of Heaven and Man to batter the freak, who unleashed a storm of blood and qi to break her assault.
• Li Wei found Gu Jinzhi barely breathing inside a golden halo that burned her when she tried to touch it, then realized the halo protected him.
• Li Wei howled for reinforcements, but none arrived, and the freak recovered enough to threaten to devour her soul.
• Li Wei became distracted by the freak’s threat, saw two purple vortexes, and found that the world had transformed when her vision cleared.