Recaps

Xu Yi confronted Vice Dean Xuan and proposed a truce, offering to repair the rumors damaging her reputation in exchange for being allowed to continue studying in the Southern Academy. Vice Dean Xuan demanded to hear how he would address the three accusations he had made in class.

• Vice Dean Xuan rushed to meet Supervisor Hong after he said Xu Yi had sent him, while several cloaked figures left her courtyard in different directions.
• Xu Yi woke as Vice Dean Xuan attacked him and threatened to expose their connection if she would not negotiate.
• Xu Yi offered to restore most of Vice Dean Xuan’s reputation and asked her household to make peace with his, so he could remain at the academy.
• Vice Dean Xuan suppressed her anger and asked Xu Yi how he planned to reverse his three accusations about his absences, her anger in class, and the poem on blank paper.

Xu Yi negotiated with Vice Dean Xuan over the scandal, offering an explanation that would let it fade in exchange for a guarantee that she would not expel or trouble him. When she tried to regain control, he threatened to expose their encounter with a portrait and make the rumors worse, leaving her trapped by his leverage.

• Xu Yi proposed blaming Supervisor Hong for the first incident and explaining the other incidents as a classroom misunderstanding and poems he had written for someone he loved.
• Xu Yi explained how his account would help the scandal fade and asked Vice Dean Xuan to guarantee in writing that he could stay at the academy without further trouble.
• Vice Dean Xuan rejected the demand and threatened to make Xu Yi suffer, hoping to regain the initiative in their negotiation.
• Xu Yi opened the window enough to disrupt the soundproofing wards and warned that shouting there would confirm the forbidden-affair rumors.
• Xu Yi showed Vice Dean Xuan a provocative portrait and threatened to circulate pictures depicting what happened on Snowpeak.

Xu Yi and Vice Dean Xuan swore Blood Oaths to end their dispute, but a sudden interruption led to a chaotic escape that left Supervisor Hong as an unwilling witness. Xu Yi returned to Dormitory 137, where Tie Dagang and the others rushed into his room and later emerged supporting two of their companions.

• Vice Dean Xuan and Xu Yi swore Blood Oaths promising to leave their past conflict unsettled and never use it against each other.
• Xu Yi grabbed Vice Dean Xuan as she tried to leave, and she struck him before he dragged her onto Supervisor Hong's bed.
• Supervisor Hong accidentally witnessed them together, and Xu Yi fled through the window to draw the searchers away.
• Vice Dean Xuan threatened Supervisor Hong to keep him silent, then left with the bedsheet from his room.
• Xu Yi evaded the cordons and returned to Dormitory 137 after the academy ordered everyone back to their dorms.
• Tie Dagang, Jiang Fei, Meng Wanzhou, and Duan Tiandai crowded into Xu Yi's room, then left with Tie Dagang supporting Jiang Fei and Meng Wanzhou supporting Duan Tiandai.

Xu Yi received a Major Demerit for his Formal Complaint about Vice Dean Xuan, then gave his roommates an explanation that ended the scandal. Over the next half month, he focused on catching up with his classes by buying lesson recordings and workshop time.

• Tie Dagang and Meng Wanzhou brought Xu Yi breakfast, and Jiang Fei arrived with news that Xu Yi’s Formal Complaint had been posted in South Plaza.
• Duan Tiandai brought the academy’s ruling: Xu Yi received one Major Demerit, and spreading rumors about the scandal was forbidden.
• Xu Yi told Jiang Fei and the others that he had met Vice Dean Xuan during a hunt and accidentally stolen her prey, and they accepted his explanation.
• The dean’s order quieted the rumors, while Xu Yi became widely known across the South Academy.
• Xu Yi spent the next half month attending classes and using merit points to buy lesson recordings and workshop time so he could catch up.

Xu Yi endured Zhang Junyue’s attempt to humiliate him during Room Thirty-Six’s field assignment while quietly preparing to take the dorm head’s position. After Xu Yi gathered food for the group, Su Jianting arrived with a party, setting the stage for the spectacle Xu Yi had anticipated.

• Room Thirty-Six established a Five Spirit Balance Ground, and Zhang Junyue assigned Xu Yi to maintain its formation core.
• Xu Yi pretended to collapse from exhaustion, then asked Tie Dagang whether he wanted to be dorm head and told his allies not to interfere when Zhang Junyue ordered him to gather food.
• Xu Yi gathered fruit and game with ease, then returned to camp and followed Zhang Junyue’s orders to prepare the meal.
• Su Jianting, a prominent Orchid Ranking student and founder of the South Academy, arrived with several others as the group grilled food.

Xu Yi defied South Academy’s demand for Room Thirty-Six’s Five Spirit Balance Ground, destroyed the site, and knocked Dorm Leader Zhang Junyue into the pit. His dormmates rallied behind him as the confrontation escalated.

• Su Jianting asked Zhang Junyue to give South Academy the spirit ground, and Zhang agreed after receiving resources and pressure from the vice dorm leaders.
• Xu Yi ignored Zhang’s order to leave and headed for the array flags, then used the attackers’ light balls to destroy the flags and the spirit ground.
• Su Jianting condemned Xu Yi, and Xu slapped Zhang Junyue before kicking him into the pit.
• Qi Hui ordered Room Thirty-Six to seize Xu Yi, but nobody moved, and Jiang Fei praised him.
• A Room Thirty-Six student denounced Zhang and the vice dorm leaders for giving away their work and praised Xu Yi.

Xu Yi turned Room Thirty-Six against Zhang Junyue by accusing him of betraying their interests, while Supervisor Hong tried to avoid intervening. The chapter left Xu Yi presenting Zhang’s storage ring as evidence of a deal with the South Academy.

• Duan Tiandai rallied Room Thirty-Six against Zhang Junyue and the South Academy’s attempt to seize the Five Spirit Balance Ground.
• Long Gang called Supervisor Hong, who arrived but tried to leave the dispute to the students.
• Zhang Junyue demanded that Supervisor Hong punish Xu Yi, while Supervisor Hong privately warned Xu Yi that he risked expulsion.
• Xu Yi accused Zhang Junyue of abusing his authority and asked how the South Academy had found their ground at the moment construction ended.
• Xu Yi showed Zhang Junyue’s storage ring, saying Su Jianting had given it to Zhang as payment for Room Thirty-Six’s work.

Xu Yi exposed Zhang Junyue’s betrayal of Room Thirty-Six and his deal with Su Jianting, turning the students against them. Room Thirty-Six beat the South Academy group and left Zhang Junyue facing the Discipline Hall’s judgment.

• Xu Yi revealed that the storage ring contained only one hundred origin pills, and Room Thirty-Six students demanded a new room chief.
• Su Jianting tried to leave with the South Academy group, but Xu Yi and the students surrounded them.
• Zhang Junyue proposed bringing in the Discipline Hall, while Xu Yi played a recording of Zhang Junyue negotiating with Su Jianting over a Five Spirit Balance Ground and a storage ring.
• Zhang Junyue called the recording fake, and Su Jianting accused Xu Yi of framing them before the furious students subdued and beat the South Academy group.
• Xu Yi stopped the beating and told Zhang Junyue he could call the Discipline Hall to verify the recording.

After Xu Yi helped Tie Dagang become the new dorm leader of Room Thirty-Six, he focused on his studies and cultivation, opening ninety-one hidden apertures in ten months. Jiang Fei then told him that Wang Minglun’s Ding Wen had been published in the Gold Register and earned Wang a Green Quality Badge, leaving Xu Yi asking what the Gold Register was.

• Supervisor Hong ordered Room Thirty-Six to choose a dorm leader and demanded Zhang Junyue submit a transfer application.
• Xu Yi nominated Tie Dagang as dorm leader, and Room Thirty-Six accepted him while choosing its vice dorm leaders.
• Su Jianting and the South Academy group completed the Five Spirit Balance Ground and guarded it overnight under Xu Yi’s pressure.
• Xu Yi spent ten months studying alchemy and cultivating, opening ninety-one of his one hundred and eight hidden apertures.
• Jiang Fei told Xu Yi that Wang Minglun’s Ding Wen had appeared in the Gold Register and won him a Green Quality Badge.
• Xu Yi asked Jiang Fei what the Gold Register was, and Jiang Fei teased him for being out of the loop.

After learning that publishing in the Gold Register could help him join the Golden Core Society, Xu Yi sought Vice Dean Xuan’s help with an article. He persuaded Supervisor Hong to invite her, and Vice Dean Xuan decided to face Xu Yi despite her unease.

• Jiang Fei told Xu Yi that Wang Minglun earned a Green Quality Badge and many merit points by publishing his He Ye Fruit research in the Gold Register.
• Xu Yi realized that publishing in the Gold Register might advance his standing in the Golden Core Society and decided to ask Vice Dean Xuan for help.
• Xu Yi asked Supervisor Hong to invite Vice Dean Xuan, but Supervisor Hong mistook his request for a scheme to arrange another intimate meeting.
• Xu Yi persuaded Supervisor Hong that arranging the meeting could win Vice Dean Xuan’s trust, and Supervisor Hong agreed to invite her.
• Vice Dean Xuan guessed Xu Yi was behind the invitation, felt an unfamiliar trace of fear, and decided to see what he wanted.

Xu Yi asked Vice Dean Xuan to help break the seal on his Starry Sky Ring so he could free his trapped niece, but she rejected his offer of a treasure. As he prepared to leave, Vice Dean Xuan called him back, leaving him wondering what she wanted.

• Vice Dean Xuan entered Xu Yi's room in disguise and found him reading an illustrated book, which they briefly argued about.
• Xu Yi persuaded Vice Dean Xuan that they were close enough for him to ask a favor, then requested her help breaking the seal on his Starry Sky Ring.
• Xu Yi offered Vice Dean Xuan a treasure, intending to give her a Black Origin Bead, but she scolded him for trying to bribe her and refused.
• Vice Dean Xuan complained that Xu Yi had been using Supervisor Hong to summon her, while Xu Yi remained baffled that she could not be swayed by profit.
• Xu Yi took his leave, but Vice Dean Xuan called him back, and he wondered why Xuan Lengyan was acting strangely.

Xu Yi agreed to owe Vice Dean Xuan a favor in exchange for unlocking his Starry Sky Ring and rescuing Qiu Wa. After helping Qiu Wa stabilize and hide her aura, Vice Dean Xuan demanded that Xu Yi walk naked between the South Plaza and North Plaza at lunchtime the next day.

• Vice Dean Xuan offered to unlock Xu Yi's Starry Sky Ring if he promised her a future favor, assuring him that she would not ask him to risk his life or harm innocents.
• Xu Yi agreed, and Vice Dean Xuan used a Black Quality Badge to temporarily remove the ring's restrictions.
• Xu Yi summoned Qiu Wa, who was asleep and nearing an advancement, and Vice Dean Xuan gave him a Replenishing Spirit Pill and Breeze Potion to help her.
• Xu Yi refined a Blood Oath promising Vice Dean Xuan a favor, then she revealed that she wanted him to walk naked between the South Plaza and North Plaza during mealtime the next day.

Vice Dean Xuan schemed to make Xu Yi swear a Blood Oath so she could humiliate him, then left to watch him face its consequences. She found him devouring food in the dining hall and wondered whether he intended to honor the oath.

• Vice Dean Xuan revealed that she had tricked Xu Yi into swearing a Blood Oath as revenge for their earlier humiliation.
• Xu Yi threatened to fight her, but backed down when she warned that he would be expelled and the oath would take effect.
• Vice Dean Xuan found an illustrated booklet Xu Yi had dropped, hid it in her Starry Sky Ring, and slipped away before Supervisor Hong entered.
• Vice Dean Xuan left for the dining hall, eager to watch Xu Yi obey the Blood Oath.
• Vice Dean Xuan spotted Xu Yi feasting noisily with a group and wondered whether he had given up or doubted the oath.

Yuan Pan and his South Academy companions confronted Xu Yi and Dormitory 137 in the dining hall, then used a claim about Wang Minglun’s new fixed treatise to turn Supervisor Cai against Xu Yi. Xu Yi calmly agreed to leave and walked out, while Jiang Fei spotted Vice Dean Xuan nearby.

• Vice Dean Xuan lingered outside the dining hall, curious about Xu Yi, as Yuan Pan and several South Academy members crowded onto Dormitory 137’s bench.
• Yuan Pan provoked Tie Dagang and Xu Yi, and Xu Yi injured Yuan Pan’s foot after Yuan Pan grabbed his shoulder.
• Yuan Pan told Supervisor Cai that Wang Minglun and Instructor Xu were preparing a fixed treatise for the Dan Book, then accused Xu Yi of disrespecting Wang Minglun.
• Supervisor Cai ordered Xu Yi to leave, and Xu Yi’s Killing Intent made the supervisor step back before Xu Yi calmly walked out.
• Jiang Fei noticed Vice Dean Xuan as Xu Yi left the dining hall.

Xu Yi met Vice Dean Xuan beneath the snowflake trees and tried to persuade her to change the terms of his Blood Oath. He left her stunned by revealing that he had mastered the Manifestation Marvelous Technique.

• Yuan Pan and Supervisor Cai accused Xu Yi before Vice Dean Xuan and asked her to punish him, but she ordered them to leave.
• Xu Yi invited Vice Dean Xuan to sit with him and said he was confident he could persuade her to change one of her demands.
• Xu Yi described the Blood Oath's conditions as time, place, and nudity, prompting Vice Dean Xuan to suspect he was seeking a loophole.
• Xu Yi transformed one finger at will, and Vice Dean Xuan recognized the feat as the Manifestation Marvelous Technique.

Xu Yi confronted Vice Dean Xuan about taking his book and used his sensory ability to convince her he had recorded her actions. The chapter ended with Vice Dean Xuan shaken by his apparent foresight, while Xu Yi privately revealed how he had actually tracked her.

• Xu Yi told Vice Dean Xuan that he wanted her to return something she had taken from his room.
• Vice Dean Xuan panicked and denied taking anything, though she realized he meant the book she had found and read.
• Xu Yi recounted how his spiritual energy had blown the book to her feet and claimed a Ruyi Pearl had recorded her reading it.
• Vice Dean Xuan challenged his story, but Xu Yi named the passage she had read and explained that she had left through the window.
• Vice Dean Xuan's confidence crumbled, while Xu Yi privately reflected that his sensory ability—not a Ruyi Pearl—had let him follow her actions.

Xu Yi broke the Blood Oath and secured Vice Dean Xuan’s agreement to stay, but her unexpectedly open attitude left him uneasy. The next day, the South Courtyard confirmed that she would take him as her personal disciple in alchemy, and Xu Yi sat with her before the academy’s senior figures.

• Vice Dean Xuan admitted Xu Yi had planted the Ruyi Pearl, then decided to stay and asked him for more booklets and poetry.
• Jiang Fei and Duan Tiandai arrived in the snow-blossom woods and praised Xu Yi for winning Vice Dean Xuan over.
• Xu Yi worried that Vice Dean Xuan’s openness had made her harder to predict, especially after she asked for smutty books in public.
• News spread that Vice Dean Xuan would take Xu Yi as her personal disciple in alchemy, and the South Courtyard committee officially confirmed it.
• Xu Yi sat across from Vice Dean Xuan in Minglun Hall before the South Courtyard’s senior figures, while the dean was absent.

Xuan Lengyan made Xu Yi her personal disciple, leaving him unable to resist without abandoning the Golden Core Academy. After Qiu Wa returned with strange new abilities, she revealed what Xuan had said about changing how she viewed Xu Yi, helping him understand why his schemes had failed.

• Xuan Lengyan completed the ceremony and told Xu Yi to call her Master or Mentor, explaining that she wanted to guide him and use his cleverness to deal with rivals.
• Xu Yi went to a deserted lakeshore, where Qiu Wa suddenly appeared despite his protective formation and described how eating two golden fruits had transformed her.
• Qiu Wa told Xu Yi she could pass through formations, travel underground, and merge into wooden objects, and that she had secretly watched him and Xuan Lengyan.
• Qiu Wa revealed that Xuan Lengyan had said Xu Yi was no longer a problem once she changed her perspective, and Xu Yi realized her decision to take him as a disciple had rendered his schemes useless.

Xu Yi learned that he had been appointed Vice Dean Xuan’s personal disciple and moved from Dormitory 137 to a secluded courtyard in the South Campus. He realized Vice Dean Xuan had arranged the private quarters with Qiu Wa in mind, while Qiu Wa hinted that Xuan Lengyan came from a powerful Immortal Palace.

• Xu Yi took Qiu Wa to the Exchange Hall, where she appeared to choose toys, then returned with her to Dormitory 137.
• Jiang Fei told Xu Yi and the others that Xu Yi had become Vice Dean Xuan’s personal disciple, delighting the gathered students and enraging Wang Minglun by proxy.
• Supervisor Hong announced that Xu Yi would move to Courtyard Seventy-Six in the South Campus and escorted him there.
• After Supervisor Hong left, a maid delivered Vice Dean Xuan’s instructions for Xu Yi to focus on his studies and avoid trouble.
• Xu Yi sealed the courtyard with wards, inspected its private refining room, and realized Vice Dean Xuan had chosen the place because Qiu Wa needed privacy.
• Qiu Wa appeared in the refining room and told Xu Yi that Sister Xuan was a powerful figure who might come from an Immortal Palace.

Xu Yi settled into his new life as Xuan Lengyan’s disciple and made rapid progress studying alchemy with Qiu Wa’s help. While experimenting to isolate the He Ye Fruit’s Earth Spirit Quality, he saw it turn into pure black and was left stunned.

• Qiu Wa showed Xu Yi the spiritual candies Xuan Lengyan had given her, then persuaded Xuan Lengyan to take her away for the night.
• Over the next three months, Xu Yi used his access to the Gold Register and Xuan Lengyan’s guidance to improve his alchemy studies.
• Xu Yi recorded spectra for 108 medicinal ingredients and began an experiment to isolate Earth Spirit Quality from He Ye Fruit.
• After more than ten failed attempts, Xu Yi isolated the Earth Spirit Quality while Qiu Wa slept nearby.
• When Xu Yi tried to wake Qiu Wa, she sent a gust of air into the carefully protected substance, which instantly became pure black.

Xu Yi discovered that the five Element Spirit Qualities each led in twenty-one of the 108 medicinal properties and spent 113 days developing a hypothesis supported by experiments. After collapsing from exhaustion and sleeping for four days and five nights, he woke with his completed papers safe beside him.

• Xu Yi identified a repeating pattern in the spectra: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth each led in twenty-one medicinal properties, while he guessed at the identities of three remaining attributes.
• Xu Yi decided to support his discovery with experimental examples before submitting it as a Gold Register entry.
• Xu Yi worked in seclusion for three months, and Xuan Lengyan grew concerned after Qiu Wa told her he had barely slept.
• On the 113th day, Xu Yi finished his papers, laughed, and collapsed; Xuan Lengyan carried him to bed, where he slept for four days and five nights.
• Xu Yi woke, found his papers, and learned from Qiu Wa that he had clung to Xuan Lengyan while unconscious; he promised to take Qiu Wa out to play.

Xu Yi took Qiu Wa into the mountains, where he fought the White Giant Eagle twice and discovered that soaking in the spiritual spring let him break through thirteen hidden apertures. After he defeated the eagle and woke in the spring, Qiu Wa reported that it had disappeared.

• Xu Yi took Qiu Wa out of the academy and flew with her to a snowy mountain, where he found the White Giant Eagle bathing in a spring.
• Xu Yi transformed into a raging ape and fought the White Giant Eagle until it fled, then collapsed from exhaustion and recovered in the spiritual spring.
• Xu Yi swallowed over a hundred Origin Pills in the spring and broke through thirteen hidden apertures in succession.
• Xu Yi sensed the White Giant Eagle returning and fought it again, eventually strangling it unconscious before collapsing himself.
• Xu Yi woke in the spring and asked Qiu Wa about the eagle, but she returned to say it had disappeared.

Xu Yi opened all one hundred and eight hidden apertures and received a new cultivation method, the Wrathful Chi Aspect, from the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art. After studying it overnight, he visited Xuan Lengyan to ask for access to the Scripture Pavilion, where she hinted that she had a problem she wanted his advice on.

• After exhausting himself in the spirit spring, Xu Yi opened his final hidden apertures, though he saw none of the expected signs of entering Spiritual Root Layer Two.
• Xu Yi discovered that the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art had recorded the Wrathful Chi Aspect, a divine ability that required a Nine Spirit Sacred Blood Pill.
• Xu Yi returned to Courtyard Seventy-Six with Qiu Wa, who soon left to stay with the Vice-Dean, and he later spent half the night with his friends from Dormitory 137.
• Xu Yi studied the Wrathful Chi Aspect overnight and marveled at its potential, though most of its required Precious Medicines were unfamiliar to him.
• Xu Yi visited Xuan Lengyan and asked her to help him obtain high-level access to the Scripture Pavilion, while she considered asking him for advice on a problem of her own.

Xuan Lengyan asked Xu Yi to devise a way for her to attend Miss Su’s birthday banquet without losing face, and he proposed that she bring an invented distinguished gentleman. She then offered to teach Xu Yi a divine art to improve his flawed cultivation method, making him swear to keep its source secret.

• Xuan Lengyan told Xu Yi she had to attend Miss Su’s birthday banquet without losing face, and Xu Yi reasoned that she wanted to see a man there.
• Xu Yi suggested that Xuan Lengyan bring a distinguished gentleman to support her, then proposed inventing a companion when she said her acquaintances all knew one another.
• Xuan Lengyan approved Xu Yi’s plan and offered to guide him in cultivation before he left.
• Xuan Lengyan criticized the flaws in Xu Yi’s cultivation method and offered to teach him a divine art if he swore to keep its source secret.
• Xu Yi swore the oath and eagerly accepted Xuan Lengyan’s offer.

Xu Yi learned the Nine Star Flowing Fire Technique from Xuan Lengyan and mastered its core and full methods in three days. After recovering in the spirit spring, he faced the White Giant Eagle and its Demon Kun ally, then unleashed his new fire technique against the Demon Kun.

• Xuan Lengyan taught Xu Yi the Nine Star Flowing Fire Technique, and he quickly grasped everything she could explain.
• Xu Yi cultivated in the refining room and used his spiritual root to comprehend the technique’s core mysteries, mastering them in three days.
• Xu Yi traveled beyond the safety zone and fully mastered the technique through hours of study and testing.
• Xu Yi rested in the spirit spring, where the White Giant Eagle arrived with a Demon Kun as its ally.
• The Demon Kun charged at Xu Yi, who struck it with three enormous fireballs and caused a series of explosions.