Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi interrupted Yun Zhongge’s attempt to impress Qin Qing with a poem, exposing that the final line came from someone else and accusing Yun of plagiarism. Yue Ziling recognized Xu Yi, who then recited a poem that revealed a secret connected to Yue’s impending death.

• Yun Zhongge asked Qin Qing to grind ink and light incense, then began composing a poem for the Immortal Song Tree.
• Xu Yi supplied the line “Whiteheads yearn to see Jiangnan again,” ruining Yun Zhongge’s paper and prompting Young Master Zheng to question whether the poem was Yun’s own.
• Qin Qing demanded that Yun Zhongge tell her honestly whether he had written the poem himself.
• Yue Ziling recognized Xu Yi and accused him of eavesdropping, while Xu Yi warned that Yue would soon be in trouble.
• Xu Yi recited a poem and called Yun Zhongge’s supposed masterpiece plagiarized, leaving Yue Ziling shocked by what the poem revealed.

Xu Yi exposed Yun Zhongge for passing off a poem as Yue Ziling’s work, and Yue Ziling realized Yun had used him as a scapegoat. Xu Yi revealed that a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording of the wedding-banquet poetry duel proved the plagiarism, leaving Yun unable to deny it.

• Xu Yi accused Yue Ziling of plagiarizing “White-haired meeting in Jiangnan” from Yun Zhongge, and Qin Qing stopped Yue’s attack and ordered him to behave.
• Xu Yi argued that Yun had given Yue a lesser poem first so Yue would take the blame if the plagiarism was exposed.
• Yue Ziling recognized that Yun had deceived him and angrily accused Yun of framing him.
• Yun Zhongge denied the charge and tried to assess Xu Yi, but failed to see through Xu Yi’s concealed strength.
• Xu Yi said he had heard the poems at a wedding banquet and found a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording that could prove Yun’s plagiarism.

Xu Yi awakened the Immortal Song Tree with a poem and received Qin Qing’s Jue Jue and booklet as payment. The tree’s celebration drew cultivators from across the mountains, while a young master at Moon Invitation Palace remained heartbroken beneath the moon.

• Qin Qing rejected Yun Zhongge’s defense of the plagiarism, and he spat blood before leaving; Yue Ziling followed to investigate.
• Qin Qing questioned Xu Yi about why he had humiliated Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling, and Xu Yi admitted he wanted the Jue Jue she held.
• Xu Yi inscribed a poem on a spirit stone, awakening the Immortal Song Tree and causing its poem-bearing leaves to gather into a radiant orb.
• Qin Qing gave Xu Yi the Jue Jue and a booklet, and he left without thanking her.
• At Moon Invitation Palace, a young master in white wept over pages bearing the line “A bright moon rises over the sea; though far apart, we share this moment,” as a maid announced the tree’s awakening.

Princess Yinqiu heard a poem that reminded her of Xu Yi, then confronted Second Young Master Yu when he came to reclaim her dowry treasures. She destroyed the bracelet and talisman rather than let the Yu Family take them, and ordered him to leave.

• Princess Yinqiu listened as her maid recited a poem, and she quietly repeated its lines with tears in her eyes.
• Second Young Master Yu arrived and told Princess Yinqiu that their father expected her to behave as a member of the Yun Family and wanted her bracelet and talisman robe returned.
• Princess Yinqiu recognized that Second Young Master Yu was recording her with a Shadow-Sound Pearl and deliberately criticized their father aloud.
• When Second Young Master Yu reached for the treasures, Princess Yinqiu crushed the bracelet and burned the talisman to ash.
• Princess Yinqiu told Second Young Master Yu that she hated the Yu Family too and ordered him to leave.

Princess Yinqiu reflected on her arranged marriage after Second Young Master Yu stormed away, while Xu Yi studied the Body Shooting Art and discovered he could master it despite having no True Essence. He tested the spiritual-sense slingshot and watched a spirit stone vanish beyond the reach of his spiritual sense.

• Second Young Master Yu threatened Princess Yinqiu and left in anger, and she dismissed her maid to gaze at the moon and think about her marriage.
• Xu Yi sealed his room and read the booklet explaining how to activate the Jue Jue and the Body Shooting Art.
• Xu Yi learned that Master Yusong had devised the Body Shooting Art to use spiritual sense as a slingshot that launched the body, and he found that his spiritual sense already met its demanding requirements.
• Xu Yi formed a spiritual-sense slingshot after three attempts and fired a spirit stone, which vanished beyond his ability to detect.

Xu Yi went to Star Plucking Palace to collect his entry token and was ambushed by Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling. He turned their trap against them, subduing both and revealing that his apparent Yin Venerate cultivation was a disguise.

• Xu Yi went to Sun Holding Peak to collect his entry token and was directed into the Star Plucking Palace chamber alone.
• Xu Yi found Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling waiting behind a Boundary Barrier Pearl, and they explained their grudge and intent to take revenge.
• Yue Ziling sealed the chamber and trapped Xu Yi with a spiritual-sense net while preparing to use a Heart-Devouring Worm.
• Xu Yi suddenly broke free, sealed Yue Ziling's blood apertures, and seized him.
• Xu Yi used his golden bone sword to overcome Yun Zhongge, who realized Xu Yi had concealed his true cultivation.

Xu Yi restrained Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge, forced them to swallow Heart-Devouring Worms, and watched them fight while he drank tea. After taking their belongings, he found Yue Ziling’s Insect Taming Art and learned the secret behind his supply of the rare worms.

• Xu Yi forced Yue Ziling to swallow a Heart-Devouring Worm, then made Yue Ziling feed one to Yun Zhongge.
• Yun Zhongge attacked Yue Ziling, and the two fought viciously while Xu Yi sat back and drank tea.
• Xu Yi stopped the pair’s fight by demanding more tea, then took Yun Zhongge’s Sumeru Ring and Yue Ziling’s empty worm bottle.
• Xu Yi discovered an Insect Taming Art in Yue Ziling’s jade slip and realized it explained how Yue Ziling had raised so many Heart-Devouring Worms.

Xu Yi forced Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge to pay spirit stones for their lives after exposing their failed attempt to harm him. The next day, an attendant led Xu Yi across a hidden rainbow bridge to a vast plaza before a colossal white-jade palace.

• Xu Yi demanded spirit stones from Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge, refusing to accept Yue Ziling’s Sumeru Ring as payment.
• Xu Yi mocked Yun Zhongge’s failures and warned him not to cheat him, while Yun Zhongge removed the barrier and let him leave.
• Yue Ziling cursed Yun Zhongge and stormed away, and Yun Zhongge killed a gray-robed elder before driving the other servants out.
• Xu Yi returned to his lodgings, rested through the night, and woke at noon the next day.
• An attendant used a token to summon a rainbow bridge, leading Xu Yi from a cliff path into a vast plaza facing a colossal white-jade palace.

Xu Yi mocked Qin Qing over her attitude toward poetry, then met Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling in secret to discuss a deal involving Heart-Devouring Worms. The chapter ended as Yue Ziling began explaining an alternative arrangement for obtaining the worms.

• Xu Yi encountered County Princess Su and her companions and explained that he had found the poem rather than written it himself.
• Xu Yi argued with Qin Qing over her criticism of trading poetry and left after sharply mocking her.
• Duke You and the others were astonished to see Xu Yi, Yun Zhongge, and Yue Ziling meeting together despite their recent hostility.
• Xu Yi sealed off the space with a Boundary Barrier Pearl and asked Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling what they could offer for the Heart-Devouring Worms.
• Yue Ziling proposed an alternative deal after both men said they could not gather enough spirit stones.

Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge pressured Xu Yi into agreeing to exchange the Heart-Devouring Worms for spirit stones through blood-binding oaths after the wedding. Xu Yi entered Yufu Palace for the ceremony and found it filled with more than a thousand guests.

• Yue Ziling proposed that he and Yun Zhongge swear blood-binding oaths to repay spirit stones in exchange for the bottle of Heart-Devouring Worms.
• Xu Yi refused because arranging the oaths and repayment would be a hassle, so Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling threatened to expose their infection and bring their clans against him.
• Xu Yi agreed to make the exchange after the wedding, and Yun Zhongge and Yue Ziling gave him communication beads.
• Xu Yi saw auspicious golden light from Five Finger Mountain as the wedding guests praised the Yun family.
• Xu Yi entered Yufu Palace with the other guests and saw its crystal-like halls, spiritual energy, and crowd of more than a thousand spectators.

At Yun Chengyun and Princess Yinqiu’s wedding, the Holy Court’s envoy delivered a congratulatory edict, and the couple began their traditional rites. Xu Yi noticed Princess Yinqiu’s frail condition and watched Yun Chengyun’s declaration of feelings with growing suspicion.

• The Seventh Elder explained that the Yun Household’s ancestral tablet would preside over the wedding because King Yun had been summoned by the Holy Court.
• A sixth-rank Star Official arrived as an envoy and read the Holy Lord’s congratulatory edict and marriage gifts for Yun Chengyun and Princess Yinqiu.
• Yun Chengyun and Princess Yinqiu entered the hall, and Xu Yi saw that she had grown thin and her aura was weak.
• The couple bowed before the ancestral tablet and the Holy Court’s envoy, who praised their match and invited the ceremony to continue.
• Yun Chengyun began declaring his feelings before Heaven and Earth, and Xu Yi noticed that his regular pauses seemed unusual.

Xu Yi discovered that the Yun Family planned to use Princess Yinqiu and learned Yun Chengyun was gravely frail. At the wedding ceremony, Princess Yinqiu revealed that her heart belonged to another and that she was no longer a maiden, publicly striking back at the Yun Family in revenge for Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi used the Sound Interception Technique and saw that Yun Chengyun's true soul was dangerously weak.
• Xu Yi questioned Yun Zhongge, who explained Yun Chengyun's frail constitution and his survival through the Yun Family's Essence Transfer Secret Method.
• The Red-faced Holy Envoy praised Yun Chengyun's scholarship and asked Princess Yinqiu to speak.
• Princess Yinqiu declared that her heart belonged to another and that she was no longer a maiden, shocking the wedding hall.
• Xu Yi realized Princess Yinqiu had accepted the marriage to wound the Yun Family in revenge for his death, while the crowd erupted in uproar.

At her wedding, Princess Yinqiu exposed how the Yu and Yun Families had treated her and demanded that the Holy Envoy decide whether she had to marry. As Second Young Master Yu tried to silence her by force, the wedding descended further into chaos.

• Seventh Elder Yun bound Princess Yinqiu’s acupoints, but Xu Yi secretly broke his divine-sense net and freed her.
• Princess Yinqiu challenged the Red-faced Holy Envoy to rule on her marriage, and he condemned her before leaving.
• Second Young Master Yu claimed Princess Yinqiu had lost her mind and urged the Holy Envoy to continue the ceremony.
• Princess Yinqiu revealed that her father had sent her away as a gift and accused the Yun and Yu Families of switching the groom after completing the betrothal rites.
• Second Young Master Yu charged at Princess Yinqiu and swung his hand toward her face.

Yue Ziling intervened when Second Young Master Yu attacked Princess Yinqiu, while Yun Zhongge challenged the wedding proceedings. The Red-faced Holy Envoy dismissed Yinqiu’s objections as an ailment and ordered the wedding to proceed, leaving Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge trapped in the dispute.

• Yue Ziling caught Second Young Master Yu’s hand as he attacked Princess Yinqiu and challenged him to stop striking a woman.
• Yun Zhongge blocked the Red-faced Holy Envoy from leaving and urged him to stay while the matter was settled.
• Yun Zhongge called for the marriage to be canceled, but Seventh Elder Yun rebuked him and offered the Holy Envoy compensation on the Yun Family’s behalf.
• Second Young Master Yu also promised the Holy Envoy a gift, and the Red-faced Holy Envoy declared that Princess Yinqiu’s soul injury explained her objections and that the wedding would proceed.
• Yue Ziling protested the Holy Envoy’s ruling, but the Holy Envoy threatened to complain to the Purple Extreme Pavilion if he continued interfering.
• Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge realized that the Green-faced Man had dragged them into the conflict and used them as stepping-stones.

Xu Yi stepped forward to challenge the Holy Envoy’s justification for forcing Princess Yinqiu into the marriage, then brutally defeated Second Young Master Yu when he attacked. He left the Holy Envoy fuming and the wedding ceremony in chaos.

• Xu Yi challenged the Holy Envoy’s claim that Princess Yinqiu’s declaration of love was invalid, warning that the accusation of possession could damage the Holy Lord’s reputation.
• Second Young Master Yu attacked Xu Yi, hoping to earn the Holy Envoy’s favor, but Xu Yi seized him and beat him into unconsciousness.
• Yu Family attendants rushed to treat Second Young Master Yu while the crowd reacted in shock at Xu Yi’s strength and audacity.
• Seventh Elder Yun demanded to know who Xu Yi was and threatened violence, while the Holy Envoy accused Xu Yi of defying the Holy Lord’s authority.
• Xu Yi claimed he had punished Second Young Master Yu on the Holy Lord’s behalf, enraging the Holy Envoy until he spat blood.

Xu Yi revealed his True Essence Third Turn cultivation at Princess Yinqiu’s wedding and exposed Yun Chengyun’s concealed, failing health. Claiming Yinqiu as his sworn younger sister, he walked toward her and offered to end the marriage and take her away.

• Elder Yun Seventh ordered Xu Yi removed, but Xu Yi defeated Elder Yun Fourteenth in a single exchange.
• Xu Yi revealed that he was a True Essence Third Turn expert, shocking the gathered guests and alarming Yue Ziling and Yun Zhongge.
• The envoy accused the Chaotic Star Sea of stirring up trouble, and Xu Yi explained that he had come to watch Princess Yinqiu’s wedding as her sworn elder brother.
• Xu Yi used a thought spear to strip away Yun Chengyun’s concealment, revealing his frail body and nearly extinguished soul.
• Xu Yi challenged the envoy’s silence and walked toward Princess Yinqiu, promising to end the marriage and take her with him.

Xu Yi defeated three Yun Household elders while arguing that he had only sought justice for Princess Yinqiu. After she recognized him and understood his feelings, his poem made clear that he would never return her love, leaving her heartbroken.

• Yun Ba, Yun Shi Yi, and Yun Shi San attacked Xu Yi and were killed in a single move.
• Seventh Elder Yun threatened Xu Yi and tried to buy time, but Xu Yi insisted he had acted in self-defense while seeking justice for Princess Yinqiu.
• Princess Yinqiu claimed the Holy Envoy could decide her fate, and Xu Yi privately promised to protect her if she chose to leave.
• Princess Yinqiu recognized Xu Yi and understood that he was keeping his distance despite his concern for her.
• Xu Yi recited a poem about unreturned love and stopped before its conclusion, and Princess Yinqiu understood that he would never love her.

Xu Yi used the Holy Envoy to turn the Yun Family’s wedding gathering against Seventh Elder Yun and stop the ceremony. The Holy Envoy ordered the Yun Family to answer to the Holy Lord, while Xu Yi’s coercion left him furious and humiliated.

• Xu Yi broke Seventh Elder Yun’s attempt to summon Mu Guangming and made clear he would keep Mu Guangming and the Chaotic Star Sea out of the coming fight.
• Xu Yi vanished with the Holy Envoy, spoke with him in private, and returned with him to the hall.
• The Holy Envoy publicly accused Seventh Elder Yun and the Yun Family of deceiving the Holy Lord about Yun Chengyun.
• The Holy Envoy halted the wedding and ordered the Yun Family to report the affair to the Holy Lord.
• The Holy Envoy revealed his anger because Xu Yi had forced a Heart-Devouring Worm into his mouth.

The Great Elder of the Yu Family arrived, canceled Princess Yinqiu’s wedding to the Yun Family heir, and tried to take her away. Xu Yi blocked him, but the Holy Envoy turned against Yu Zhongtang and defended Xu Yi, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• The Holy Envoy blamed the Yun Family for the chaos and resented being forced to swallow a Heart-Devouring Worm.
• A red-robed attendant announced that the Great Elder of the Yu Family had arrived, and Yu Zhongtang entered the hall with his party.
• Yu Zhongtang apologized for the disruption, declared the wedding canceled, and said he would take Princess Yinqiu home.
• Xu Yi shielded Princess Yinqiu when Yu Zhongtang sent guards to escort her away.
• Yu Zhongtang asked the Holy Envoy to step aside so he could deal with Xu Yi, but the Holy Envoy accused him of threatening to defy the Holy Court’s laws.
• Yu Zhongtang invoked the law and ordered his guards to take Princess Yinqiu, threatening to execute anyone who stopped them.

Xu Yi argued that the Holy Code made Yin Qiu a free woman and forced the holy envoy to decide whether the Yu Family could take her. The envoy confirmed that the law supported Xu Yi’s interpretation, leaving the gathering in uproar.

• Xu Yi pressured the holy envoy to help him free Yin Qiu, warning that the Yu and Yun clans might take the Heart-Devouring Worm bottle if he died.
• The holy envoy agreed to help, and Xu Yi declared that Yin Qiu was free under the Holy Code and that he would answer for her as her sworn brother.
• Elder Seventh Yun argued that Yin Qiu should return to her father’s household, but Xu Yi insisted the law said otherwise and called on the holy envoy to rule.
• The holy envoy consulted the Holy Code and read aloud a provision matching Xu Yi’s interpretation, startling the crowd.
• County Princess Su told Qin Qing, Young Master Zheng, and the others that Xu Yi was dangerously crafty.