Recaps

Xu Yi summoned Xiang Tianwen to Taibai Tower and asked the Xiang Family for help securing Profound Yellow Essence for his cultivation. He revealed that he had killed Gong Chu and held Gong Chu’s Acquired Spiritual Treasure, leaving Xiang Tianwen ready to hear his terms.

• Xu Yi decided to seek sponsors to gather the Profound Yellow Essence he needed to advance his cultivation.
• Xu Yi contacted Xiang Yingxin, who panicked and passed Xu Yi’s summons to Xiang Tianwen.
• Xiang Tianwen met Xu Yi at Taibai Tower and accused him of continuing to target the Xiang Family.
• Xu Yi asked the Xiang Family to help him and reminded Xiang Tianwen of their supposed friendship.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had killed Gong Chu and kept Gong Chu’s Acquired Spiritual Treasure instead of turning it in.
• Xiang Tianwen concealed his alarm and asked Xu Yi how he wanted the Xiang Family to help.

Xu Yi bargained with Xiang Tianwen over Gong Chu's Acquired Spiritual Treasure and secured a thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence in exchange for it. After Xiang Tianwen rushed away to aid an attacked Xiang Family base, Xu Yi summoned Wu Si and Long Jin Si.

• Xu Yi demanded two thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence from Xiang Tianwen for Gong Chu's Acquired Spiritual Treasure and a pledge not to use Gong Chu against the Xiang Family.
• Xiang Tianwen consulted the clan elders, and he and Xu Yi settled on a payment of one thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence and signed a Seven-Inch Nail-Head Book.
• Xiang Tianwen gave Xu Yi the Profound Yellow Essence, and Xu Yi handed him the silver dagger that was Gong Chu's Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
• Xiang Tianwen received news that a Xiang Family base was under attack and hurried off to reinforce it, while Xu Yi made a Xiang Family member pay the restaurant bill.
• Xu Yi contacted Wu Si and Long Jin Si, who soon arrived.

Xu Yi gathered his creditors and friends, explained that he planned to save his Heavenly Court reward for a breakthrough, and asked for help borrowing more Profound Yellow Essence to fund his Dao Palace studies and future appointment. His creditors eased or extended his debts, and he left the gathering seeking new loans backed by his future salary.

• Xu Yi welcomed Wu Si, Long Jin Si, Liu Guancen, and Hall Master Shao, then accepted Liu Guancen’s apology for arranging his meeting with Xiang Yingxin.
• Dongming Neng thanked Xu Yi for dealing with Xiang Yingxin, and Xu Yi hosted the guests at Xiang Tianwen’s banquet.
• Xu Yi told Long Jin Si and Hall Master Shao that he planned to use his Heavenly Court reward to break through rather than repay his debts immediately.
• Long Jin Si let Xu Yi repay whenever convenient, Wu Si promised to take responsibility as guarantor, and Hall Master Shao waived interest and allowed repayment within ten years.
• Xu Yi declined Liu Guancen’s offer of fifty Profound Yellow Essences and asked the guests to help him find lenders for his Dao Palace expenses and future appointment, offering to repay from his salary.

Xu Yi secured pledges of Profound Yellow Essence from his companions while Long Jin Si and Hall Master Shao hesitated over lending more. After Xu Yi drove off the Xiang Family’s Kirin Guard, the two hall leaders agreed to lend, and Xu Yanzhi appeared at the banquet’s end, gravely exhausted.

• Wu Si, Liu Guancen, Dongming Neng, and Tang Heng offered to lend Xu Yi Profound Yellow Essence or stand surety for him.
• A wounded cultivator fell outside the city, and the Xiang Family’s Kirin Guard arrived to search the area.
• Xu Yi confronted Zhong Qing and the Kirin Guard, identified himself, and sent them fleeing in fear.
• Long Jin Si and Hall Master Shao agreed to lend Xu Yi Profound Yellow Essence after witnessing the Xiang Family’s fear of him.
• After the banquet ended, Xu Yanzhi arrived cloaked, collapsed onto the table, and Xu Yi helped reveal her gaunt face.

Xu Yi rescued Xu Yanzhi from a sinister force and shared a meal with her, where they traded advice and flirtatious poetry. As Xu Yanzhi left Chang'an, four attackers ambushed her, and she prepared to fight back.

• Xu Yi carried the poisoned Xu Yanzhi to a mountain cave and used the Four-Colored Seal Space to remove the poison and the sinister thing she had refined.
• Xu Yanzhi asked for a blue robe like one made by Yan Zi, then joined Xu Yi for a meal at the Taibai Restaurant.
• Xu Yi learned that witches, rather than the Xiang Family, had injured Xu Yanzhi, and she received a summons through her Ruyi Pearl.
• Xu Yi and Xu Yanzhi exchanged moonlit verses before she left, playful and impressed by his poetry.
• Four attackers surrounded Xu Yanzhi with fire dragons, and she shattered their attack with a ghost-headed blade aura.

Xu Yanzhi and Xu Yi fought a powerful Sui clan member after she defeated his four companions. Xu Yanzhi sealed the dead man’s mysterious green wisp in a Forbidden Bottle, which Huangmei believed could contain useful memories.

• Xu Yanzhi overwhelmed the four attackers with her Asura Cold Flame Blade, but a Sui clan member appeared and stopped her strike.
• Xu Yanzhi battled the Sui clan member, who transformed into a human-headed serpent-bodied monster and endured her nine fused blades.
• Xu Yi struck the Sui clan member and his companions with lightning, but the Sui clan member unleashed the Sui clan’s Origin Fire.
• Xu Yi restrained the Sui clan member with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, allowing Xu Yanzhi to behead him with her silver blade.
• Huangmei urged Xu Yi to preserve the green wisp from the corpse, and Xu Yanzhi sealed it inside a Forbidden Bottle.

After Xu Yanzhi departed, Xu Yi learned from Huangmei about the Witch Clan, the Evil Court, and the Sui clan's Origin Token he had taken from Suijie. Though Huangmei warned that the token was meant for the Zhu clan, Xu Yi decided to test it with his Four-Colored Seal Space.

• Xu Yanzhi gave Xu Yi the spoils from Suijie's death and left after explaining that she was doing well in the Evil Court.
• Xu Yi released Suijie's Witch Spirit, and Huangmei swallowed it before waking with information about Suijie's identity and the Xiong clan's assassination contract.
• Huangmei explained the Evil Court's alliance and the Witch Clan's ranks, including the distinction between Primordial Witches and Great Witches.
• Huangmei revealed that Suijie had carried the Sui clan's Origin Token, which could be valuable to the Sui clan and was tied to the clan's Origin Fire.
• Xu Yi rejected Huangmei's warning that he could not use the token and decided to try it with his Four-Colored Seal Space.

Xu Yi discovered that by superimposing his human and demon life wheels, he could refine the Sui clan's Origin Token and draw out its fire essence. He left off after sustaining the fire essence in a sea of flames for an hour, exhausting his spiritual power before it returned to the token.

• Xu Yi stripped Zhu Suijie's mark from the Sui clan's Origin Token, but his first attempts to refine it with blood failed.
• Xu Yi questioned whether he had become a Wu and forced his human and demon life wheels to occupy the same central position, then collapsed as impurities poured from his body.
• After waking and washing himself, Xu Yi tried again, and his blood seeped into the token as his two life wheels became perfectly superimposed.
• The token recognized Xu Yi and released its fire essence, which Huang Mei urged him to refine immediately.
• Xu Yi surrounded the fire essence with a vast sea of fire and the Nine Heavens Fire for an hour, until exhaustion forced him to stop and the essence returned to the token.

Xu Yi concealed Zhu Suijie's identity from his four retainers and went with them to the Jade Pool Gathering, where he used Zhu Suijie's family crest to gain the respect of the gathered clans. The gathering had just begun, leaving Xu Yi among people who recognized the Sui clan's status.

• Xu Yi sealed the enormous Nether-blue fire dragon inside the Origin Token and transformed into Zhu Suijie when four retainers approached.
• The retainers doubted Xu Yi's identity until he showed them the Origin Token, then Zhu Asan contacted Xiong Wan to report that the job had failed.
• At Huangmei's urging, Xu Yi went with the retainers to the Jade Pool Gathering, arriving at the lakeshore near sunset.
• When the gathering began, Xu Yi lit his Witch Pendant with Witch Power and displayed Zhu Suijie's family crest.
• People saluted Xu Yi in recognition of Ancestor Witch Zhurong and the ancient family, and Xu Yi handed out Profound Yellow Pills.

At the Jade Pool Gathering, Xu Yi, posing as Zhu Suijie, challenged Dongye Ming after the president tried to replace him as the person who would light the Bright Flame. Dongye Ming still refused to reveal his accusation, leaving the confrontation unresolved as Xu Yi’s retainers mistook his new behavior for an awakening of his Bloodline Inheritance.

• Xu Yi arrived to light the Bright Flame, but Dongye Ming told him that a young man from the Lie family would take his place.
• Nu Jiang defended Zhu Suijie’s right to light the flame as a representative of the Sui clan, while Dongye Ming insisted that recent events made the change necessary.
• Xu Yi demanded that Dongye Ming state his accusation openly and said he would not let his actions disgrace the Sui clan.
• Xu Yi’s four retainers praised his defiance and concluded that he had awakened his Bloodline Inheritance.
• Xu Yi realized his retainers’ explanation could account for his changed behavior, while Dongye Ming found himself forced to continue the public confrontation.

At the Jade Pool Gathering, Xu Yi faced accusations from Dongye Ming and Xiong Wan that Suijie had accepted a contract to hire a killer. Xiong Wan presented a recording, but Xu Yi remained composed and challenged him to say when it had been made.

• Dongye Ming accused Suijie of taking payment to kill someone and urged the gathering to deny him the Bright Flame.
• Xu Yi accused Dongye Ming of acting on the Lie family's behalf and demanded evidence.
• Xiong Wan appeared and claimed Suijie had accepted his job, while A Da and the others vouched for Xu Yi's identity.
• Xu Yi denied knowing Xiong Wan, and the crowd turned against Xiong Wan until he showed a Ruyi Pearl recording of Suijie accepting a contract.
• Dongye Ming, Xiong Wan, and Lie Zhiqiang condemned Suijie, but Xu Yi asked Xiong Wan when the footage had been recorded.

Xu Yi refuted Xiong Wan’s accusation, exposed his supposed payment as absurd by displaying five hundred pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, and cleared his name before lighting the Bright Flame. The Jade Pool Gathering began, and Xu Yi refused Dongye Ming’s offered Sumeru Ring.

• Xu Yi argued that the footage was recorded before he received his inheritance and denied killing anyone for Xiong Wan’s ten pieces of Profound Yellow Essence.
• Xu Yi displayed five hundred pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, leaving Xiong Wan speechless and the crowd astonished.
• Nu Jiang ordered his men to throw Xiong Wan out, and Dongye Ming and Lie Zhiqiang accepted Xu Yi’s innocence.
• Xu Yi used the source token to light the bronze furnace’s Bright Flame, moving the four A’s to tears and officially opening the Jade Pool Gathering.
• Dongye Ming offered Xu Yi a Sumeru Ring, but Xu Yi declined it, saying he no longer needed help.

Xu Yi watched Zhu Youliang refine Witch Pills and secretly learned the technique, spotting mistakes that caused several failed attempts. After Zhu Youliang finally succeeded, he demanded that Patriarch Penhu send him his youngest daughter as a concubine.

• Nu Jiang celebrated the Sui clan’s worthy successors, and the trade fair began after the revelry.
• Xu Yi rewarded A Da and the other three chief retainers, then had them buy spirit medicines for him.
• Xu Yi watched Zhu Youliang publicly refine Witch Pills and learned the process by observing every detail.
• Xu Yi noticed Zhu Youliang make mistakes in the Five Elements sequence as two refinements failed before he eventually succeeded on his fifth attempt.
• Zhu Youliang dismissed Patriarch Penhu’s thanks and demanded that Penhu send him his youngest daughter as a concubine.

Zhu Youliang demanded that the Pen clan hand over Penjing in exchange for refining more Witch Pills, but Xu Yi intervened before he could take her. Zhu Youliang refused to continue refining pills unless Zhu Suijie knelt and apologized, leaving Xu Yi under pressure from the assembled clans as Nu Jiang threatened Zhu Youliang.

• The Penhu patriarch reluctantly ordered Chimao and Cangying to bring Penjing to Zhu Youliang in exchange for Witch Pills.
• Zhu Youliang demanded a place to rest and reached for Penjing while Nu Jiang and the Pen clan looked on helplessly.
• Xu Yi seized Zhu Youliang's hand, insulted him, and slapped him to the ground.
• Zhu Youliang refused to refine any more Witch Pills unless Zhu Suijie knelt and apologized, while Lie Zhiqiang and Dongye Ming challenged Xu Yi.
• Nu Jiang threatened to kill Zhu Youliang if he insulted the Sui clan, as pressure mounted around Xu Yi.

Xu Yi demonstrated his alchemy by refining hundreds of Witch Pills, winning Wuyuan’s admiration and giving the pills to the Pen clan. After Zhu Youliang threatened to leave, Xu Yi blocked him, and Lie Zhiqiang warned Xu Yi not to offend the Lie family.

• Xu Yi challenged Zhu Youliang’s alchemy and used the Sui clan’s Origin Fire to refine a radiant Witch Pill before an astonished crowd.
• Xu Yi produced hundreds of Witch Pills and gave them to Patriarch Penhu for the Pen clan’s warriors and families.
• A San reassured A Da, A Er, and A Si that Xu Yi was Zhu Suijie by recalling his childhood nickname, Badger.
• Nu Jiang celebrated Zhu Suijie’s inheritance and Wuyuan’s new alchemist, while accusing Zhu Youliang of exploiting the people and harming Wuyuan’s women.
• Zhu Youliang threatened to leave Wuyuan, but Xu Yi stopped him and declared he would not let him go.
• Lie Zhiqiang invoked the Lie family’s standing and warned Xu Yi against showing disrespect to Zhu Youliang.

Xu Yi exposed Zhu Youliang as an impostor, killed him, and defeated Lie Zhiqiang before winning the Witch Clans’ gratitude by offering to refine Witch Pills without payment. The chapter ended with Xu Yi receiving the White Bone Jade Box he had sought, which he hoped to open with his White Bone Key.

• Xu Yi revealed that Zhu Youliang had once been Wang Youliang and accused him of falsely claiming the Zhu surname.
• Zhu Youliang fled, but Xu Yi burned him to ash with the Sui clan’s Origin Fire and knocked Lie Zhiqiang unconscious.
• Xu Yi told Nu Jiang that awakening his Bloodline Inheritance had allowed him to master the Origin Fire.
• Xu Yi refused repayment from the clan patriarchs for refining Witch Pills, and news of his generosity spread through the Jade Pool Gathering.
• Dongye Ming discussed Xu Yi’s growing influence with a Black Robed Elder and considered whether his rise might benefit the Sui clan.
• The Lai Feng clan gave Xu Yi a White Bone Jade Box, which he had long sought to pair with his White Bone Key.

After leaving the Five Plains in the care of the Sui Clan's Four Attendants, Xu Yi broke through to the Divine Diagram Second Realm and studied the Primordial Fire Technique from the white-bone jade box. He could not master its full power, but he learned to create more than thirty fire-seed clones.

• Xu Yi and the Sui Clan's Four Attendants exchanged gifts for resources and distributed them to poor households in the Five Plains.
• Xu Yi told the Four Attendants to stay behind, gather information, and conceal his departure while he traveled to the West Sea.
• Xu Yi refined Witch Pills, hid them at Wu Bei Mountain for the Four Attendants to collect, and then rested before beginning his breakthrough.
• After using more than three thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, Xu Yi entered the Divine Diagram Second Realm and let Heaven's will baptize his Spiritually Communicating Treasure.
• Xu Yi studied the Primordial Fire Technique's Wrath of Burning Heaven, then used the Sui clan's Origin Fire to create more than thirty fire seeds for a downgraded Shadow Clone Technique of Fire.

Xu Yi arrived at the Dao Palace for further study and learned that aristocratic scions Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian had been plotting against him. He ignored their provocations and went to sleep, then joined the other officials heading to their first instruction at Zhaohui Hall.

• Xu Yi finished preparing supplies, received a jade token from Director Yu, and decided not to rely on her connection at the Dao Palace.
• Xu Yi reached Donglai City early and watched prominent officials arrive with extravagant displays before entering the Dao Palace after it opened.
• An attendant warned Xu Yi that Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian resented him and that his cave residence was next to theirs.
• Xu Yi ignored Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian’s sarcastic taunts, secured his cave residence, and went to sleep.
• Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian discussed schemes to provoke Xu Yi, then the officials set out for instruction at Zhaohui Hall.

Xu Yi used the reception professor’s authority to drive Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian from Zhaohui Hall after they mocked him, then revealed himself to the class. Professor Wang Pang reviewed the incident and supported Xu Yi before beginning the orientation lesson.

• Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian bragged to the other Aristocratic Clan scions that Xu Yi had hidden from them.
• Xu Yi entered Zhaohui Hall pretending to be the reception professor and ordered Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian to scrub Dao Palace’s stone stairs.
• Professor Wang Pang arrived while Xu Yi was posing as an ordinary student, and the class erupted when he introduced himself as Xu Yi.
• Chu Yi accused Xu Yi of impersonating a professor, but Wang Pang showed a recording of the incident and defended Xu Yi’s response.
• Wang Pang explained the rules, course schedule, evaluations, and rewards to the students.

Xu Yi provoked the aristocratic scions, then drew the attention of Profound Mechanism Class instructor Yi Bingwei by walking up to her and reaching toward her face. After he caught her ruler and was accused of molesting her, he claimed she shared some responsibility and prepared to explain.

• Xu Yi taunted Chu Yi and the other scions for failing to help Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian, then revealed he had warned the pair not to contact outsiders while sweeping the steps.
• Yi Bingwei entered the hall, identified herself as the class instructor, struck Chu Yi with her ruler, and ordered him and his companions to stand at the back.
• Xu Yi stared at Yi Bingwei and walked toward her despite Huang Mei's warnings, leaving the hall stunned.
• Yi Bingwei accused Xu Yi of molesting her when he reached toward her face, but Xu Yi caught her ruler and released it when she challenged him.
• Xu Yi apologized for his presumption, then told Yi Bingwei she bore some responsibility too.

Xu Yi charmed his way out of trouble with Yi Bingwei, whose resemblance to Xuan Xuan unsettled him. After class, Chu Yi told Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian that Xu Yi had deceived them by posing as the receiving professor, leaving them furious.

• Xu Yi praised Yi Bingwei’s beauty with a poem, and she let him return to his seat after learning his name.
• Xu Yi wondered whether Yi Bingwei was Xuan Xuan, but Huang Mei told him she was only someone who looked like her.
• Yi Bingwei complained to Director Yu through the Ruyi Pearl that Xu Yi had tried to touch her, while Director Yu and Xiao Tao doubted her account.
• Xu Yi left class as Chu Yi and the others searched the mountains for Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian.
• Chu Yi revealed that Xu Yi had impersonated the receiving professor and tricked Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian, who reacted with fury.

Jia Zhaoxian and his allies confronted Xu Yi in the Purple Bamboo Forest and challenged him to settle their feud on the Gentleman Stage. Xu Yi accepted, and Jia Zhaoxian pushed for Zuo Shihui to be their champion, leaving the group preparing for the fight.

• Jia Zhaoxian and Fang Shihui rallied Chu Yi and their companions to confront Xu Yi after learning their humiliation had spread.
• Jia Zhaoxian and the others found Xu Yi playing chess in the Purple Bamboo Forest and tried to provoke him before a crowd of onlookers.
• Xu Yi rebuked Jia Zhaoxian for risking public disgrace with his insults, while Fang Shihui and the others mocked Xu Yi and challenged him to fight.
• Xu Yi accepted their challenge to settle matters on the Gentleman Stage and said he wanted to drive them out of the Dao Palace.
• Jia Zhaoxian urged the group to send Zuo Shihui onto the stage because of his Third-order Acquired Spiritual Treasure and newly mastered Ice River Storm.

Xu Yi challenged Jia Zhaoxian’s group to a wager, betting seven hundred Profound Yellow Essence against a chessboard filled with doubling numbers of Profound Yellow Pills. After the written agreement was approved, Xu Yi and Zuo Shihui took the Gentleman Stage, where the duel was about to begin.

• Chu Yi offered Zuo Shihui the Thunder Abyss Stone, and Jia Zhaoxian’s group agreed to unite against Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi proposed a wager in which he would pay seven hundred Profound Yellow Essence if he lost, while his opponents would fill all sixty-four squares of a chessboard with doubling numbers of Profound Yellow Pills if they lost.
• Jia Zhaoxian and the others signed Xu Yi’s written agreement, believing the wager was mainly intended to insult them.
• Xu Yi and the group went to South Mountain, where Instructor Feng approved the agreement and explained the rules for the match.
• Xu Yi and Zuo Shihui entered the Gentleman Stage as students gathered to watch, including Yi Bingwei and her companion.

Xu Yi fought Zuo Shihui on the Gentleman Stage, where Zuo Shihui suppressed Xu Yi’s lightning and wielded the Soul Hooking Sword and Ice River Storm. Xu Yi broke free of the frost attack, leaving Zuo Shihui shocked by how little his treasure could harm him.

• Yi Bingwei and the Yellow-clothed woman discussed Xu Yi before his duel with Zuo Shihui began.
• Xu Yi unleashed powerful lightning, but a hidden treasure Zuo Shihui possessed made the lightning vanish.
• Zuo Shihui brought out a Third-order Acquired Spiritual Treasure, the Soul Hooking Sword, and refused Instructor Feng’s suggestion to put it aside.
• Zuo Shihui struck Xu Yi with the Soul Hooking Sword and Ice River Storm, compressing the flames Xu Yi summoned around himself.
• Xu Yi’s flames burst outward and shattered the frost storm, astonishing the crowd and revealing that the Soul Hooking Sword had little effect on him.

Xu Yi defeated Zuo Shihui and claimed his treasures, then demanded that Jia Zhaoxian fulfill their agreement. The chapter ended with Xu Yi insisting Jia’s payment of 67,542 Profound Yellow Pills was short, while the onlookers waited for the count.

• Zuo Shihui unleashed the Seven-Colored Divine Phoenix, the Soul Hooking Sword, and Ice River Storm, but Xu Yi emerged victorious and left him motionless.
• After Instructor Feng declared Xu Yi the winner, Xu Yi took Zuo Shihui’s Starry Sky Ring and Soul Hooking Sword.
• Jia Zhaoxian and Chu Yi demanded the treasures back, but Xu Yi argued that the duel’s winner was entitled to the spoils and challenged anyone to fight him.
• Jia Zhaoxian gave Xu Yi Profound Yellow Essence and then scattered Profound Yellow Pills, but Xu Yi counted only 67,542 and said the amount fell short of their agreement.