Recaps

Master Sun established his authority over the Night Army, assigned Xu Yi to investigate Fortune Dragons in Jizhou Territory, and faced an attack during his meeting. Xu Yi recognized the attackers as Jizhou Territory's Elder Council and Meng Fan's forces while Master Sun began driving them back.

• Master Sun crushed Wu Jiu with a Great Hand Seal, and the wild charm devoured Wu Jiu's Divine Embryo.
• Master Sun announced that the Night Army should search for and capture Fortune Dragons, then promised Xu Yi a bureau chief's position if he found information about them in Jizhou Territory.
• Spirit Cannons struck the temple during Master Sun's meeting, and Master Sun caught the shots before rushing out with the wild charm.
• Xu Yi and the bureau chiefs concealed their identities as they entered the battle, and Xu Yi recognized Zuo Li, Yin Tao, and the other attackers as members of Jizhou Territory's forces.
• Master Sun sent Zuo Li flying, shattered the Elder Council's formation, and knocked back Yin Tao and the other two great demons.

Master Sun fought Zuo Li, Yin Tao, and two other demons while Xu Yi watched, then unleashed the Desolate Charm to drain the demons’ blood. After the demons fell, Xu Yi knocked the Desolate Charm unconscious and revealed himself to his captives.

• Xu Yi hid in a pit as Master Sun held off Zuo Li, Yin Tao, and the other demons while the other leaders pursued the Night Walkers.
• Yin Tao revealed his scorpion form, and the other two demons transformed as Zuo Li prepared his Netherworld Billion Ghost Hand.
• Master Sun created a second version of himself, wounded the three demons, and summoned the Desolate Charm to drain their vital blood.
• The Desolate Charm pursued the demons until they collapsed, but a small sword’s shockwave knocked it unconscious.
• Xu Yi moved the three demons to another mountain peak and revealed that he was the man they had sought.

Xu Yi saved three Imperial Guard demons from Huang Mei and claimed he was gathering evidence to clear his name, prompting them to consider helping him. Meanwhile, Master Sun questioned the Night Army bureau chiefs about the ambush and Huang Mei’s disappearance, and Xu Yi redirected his suspicion toward Huang Mei.

• Xu Yi rescued Yin Tao and the two other demons from Huang Mei, then said he was tracking the Night Walkers to earn a chance to appeal his case.
• The three demons questioned Xu Yi’s guilt and agreed they could give him more room while he searched for hard evidence.
• Master Sun berated the bureau chiefs over the ambush and Huang Mei’s failure to return.
• Xu Yi arrived bloodied and claimed Zuo Li, Jizhou Territory officials, and hired Demon Race Great Masters had attacked them.
• Xu Yi suggested the attackers might have come for Huang Mei, and Master Sun began to find the explanation plausible.

Xu Yi’s scheme left Meng Fan weakened after the failed attack on the Night Walkers, while Xi Mengfan secretly remained loyal to Xu Yi. As Meng Fan confronted Xi Mengfan, Master Sun and a cloaked figure forced their way into Little Buddha Mountain, and Xi Mengfan identified the intruder as Xu Yi.

• Master Sun blamed Xu Yi for Huang Mei’s disappearance and gave him three hours to find Meng Fan or lose his post.
• Meng Fan berated Xi Mengfan over the failed expedition, Priest Zuo’s injuries, and the losses they had suffered.
• Xi Mengfan recalled that Xu Yi had recruited him as an inside man and arranged the operation that lured Meng Fan into attacking the Night Walkers.
• Little Buddha Mountain’s restriction token exploded, and Meng Fan activated a defensive barrier around himself and Xi Mengfan.
• Master Sun and a cloaked figure broke into the hall, and Xi Mengfan identified the cloaked intruder as Xu Yi and urged Meng Fan to contact Gong Yushang.

Xi Mengfan warned Meng Fan that Gong Yushang might be using him as bait, prompting Meng Fan to summon Gong Yushang as Master Sun and a cloaked Sect expert attacked. Gong Yushang arrived to find Xu Yi absent and accused Meng Fan of deceiving him, while Meng Fan blamed Gong for leaving him in danger.

• Xi Mengfan warned Meng Fan that Gong Yushang might be waiting to exploit the attack, so Meng Fan demanded that Gong Yushang come to his aid or face exposure to the Ancestral Court.
• Master Sun and the cloaked man attacked the Jizhou Territory Commandery Office, shattered Meng Fan's protective barrier, and demanded that he hand over Huang Mei.
• Xi Mengfan escaped while Master Sun ordered him to retrieve Huang Mei, revealing that Xu Yi had told Master Sun Xi Mengfan could lead him to her.
• As Master Sun and the cloaked man pressed Meng Fan, Gong Yushang arrived with Gong Liu, Gong Qi, and Gong Jiu and accused Meng Fan of tricking him because the cloaked attacker was not Xu Yi.
• Meng Fan angrily accused Gong Yushang of standing by as he faced death, while Gong Yushang apologized and called the situation a misunderstanding.

Xi Mengfan used Xu Yi’s Ruyi Pearl to lure Master Sun away from Gong Yushang, but the battle at Little Buddha Mountain escalated into a devastating clash between the Gong family, Master Sun, and Liu Zongdao. The mountain collapsed, and Master Sun later sat exhausted beside the unconscious Meng Fan.

• Xi Mengfan hid in the woods and used Xu Yi’s Ruyi Pearl to create an illusion of the Wraith’s cry, drawing Master Sun out of the hall.
• Master Sun returned and attacked Meng Fan while Liu Zongdao held off Gong Yushang and his three brothers.
• Gong Yushang used the Mysterious Hidden Sound against Master Sun, while Liu Zongdao summoned his corpse and sent a powerful formation against the Gong brothers.
• Gong Yushang and his brothers unleashed the dark bone flute’s power, causing a shock wave that swept away the guards and brought down Little Buddha Mountain.
• Master Sun spat black blood, sat down exhausted, and left the unconscious Meng Fan beside him.

Master Sun recovered from his battle with House Gong and tortured Meng Fan to learn Huang Mei’s whereabouts. When Meng Fan blamed Xu Yi, Xu Yi arrived and revealed his identity, leaving Master Sun to turn his attention to him.

• Liu Zongdao persuaded Master Sun to spare Plum Blossom Seven and cultivate his talent, and Master Sun agreed while deciding to keep him close.
• Master Sun questioned Meng Fan about Huang Mei and tortured him with Yin Punishment Nails when Meng Fan claimed not to know where Huang Mei was.
• Meng Fan said Huang Mei was with Xu Yi, and Master Sun asked who Xu Yi was.
• Xu Yi emerged from the forest and identified himself as Plum Blossom Seven, prompting Master Sun to shoot more Yin Punishment Nails into Meng Fan.

Xu Yi delivered Huang Mei to Master Sun, then used the creature and the Chiwu Worm to kill Master Sun and take control of Huang Mei. He left with Huang Mei in his Spirit Beast Bag, having secured the advantage he needed.

• Xu Yi told Master Sun that his sleeper agent had found Huang Mei at Meng Fan's hideout and handed over the creature.
• Master Sun ordered Huang Mei to absorb half of Meng Fan's corpse aura and offered Xu Yi a place at his side, but Xu Yi asked to keep Meng Fan under his own control.
• Master Sun gave Xu Yi a handful of white Wish Pearls, and Xu Yi attacked him with the Bixiu Sword.
• Huang Mei bit off and swallowed Master Sun's head while the Chiwu Worm consumed his corpse aura.
• The Chiwu Worm entered Huang Mei, and Xu Yi called the creature obediently into his Spirit Beast Bag.

Xu Yi killed Master Sun and persuaded Meng Fan to help turn the tables on the Gong family. At the Gong family ancestral hall, Gong Yushang realized Xu Yi had framed them for Sun Fuling’s death, making them enemies of the Church.

• Xu Yi killed Master Sun, gathered his resources, and removed the Yin Punishment Nails from Meng Fan.
• After Meng Fan recovered from his shock, Xu Yi offered him a chance to live by helping devise a way to disgust the Gong family, and Meng Fan eagerly agreed.
• Gong Yushang mourned the three elders killed by Liu Zongdao and regretted being drawn into Xu Yi’s trap.
• A messenger reported that Meng Fan had petitioned the ancestral court to clear Xu Yi, claiming a Night Walker had framed him and that Gong family members had killed Sun Fuling.
• Gong Yushang realized Xu Yi had arranged for the Gong family to take the blame for Sun Fuling’s death, provoking the Church.

The Gong family realized Xu Yi had maneuvered them into conflict with the Pope’s faction, while Meng Fan’s petition cleared Xu Yi’s name and helped secure him a powerful new title. The chapter ended with Xu Yi enjoying rewards from both rival sides as Meng Fan marveled at his success.

• Gong Yushang told the Gong elders that they could not plausibly deny rescuing Meng Fan or explain their presence at Little Buddha Mountain, and he blamed Xu Yi for orchestrating the events.
• The Gong family learned that the Imperial Guard had withdrawn Meng Fan’s arrest warrant and officially restored Xu Yi’s good name, while their leader ordered them to stop interfering in Xu Yi’s affairs.
• Meng Fan praised Xu Yi after the Imperial Guard approved his petition, which had enabled him to return to Little Buddha Mountain.
• Xu Yi received a message confirming that the Pope’s faction had credited him with merit for recovering Master Sun’s remains and made him an Embroidered Uniform Envoy.
• Meng Fan explained that the title gave Xu Yi authority to mobilize the Night Army, then remarked that Xu Yi had earned benefits from both the Ancestral Court and the Pope’s faction.

Xu Yi negotiated peace with the Gong family’s Old Ancestor, received the Bixiu Sword’s Refinement Method, and prepared to leave for Biyou Academy. Five days later, he departed with Meng Fan and an elderly servant surnamed Jiang.

• Xu Yi reminded Meng Fan that he needed to hurry with his appointment at Biyou Academy and its attendant positions.
• On Cangyou Peak, Xu Yi played three drawn games of Go with a woodcutter who was the Gong family’s Old Ancestor.
• Xu Yi challenged the Old Ancestor’s attempt to make peace and demanded compensation, and the Old Ancestor gave him a jade token containing the Bixiu Sword’s Refinement Method before leaving.
• Xu Yi refined the Bixiu Sword with his blood essence in Purple Domain Space, and Meng Fan’s appointment at Biyou Academy was settled.
• Five days later, Xu Yi and Meng Fan left from Little Buddha Mountain with Meng Fan’s elderly household servant surnamed Jiang.

Xu Yi and Meng Fan arrived at Biyou Academy, where Meng Fan learned that his lecturer service required him to build a lecture hall and earn White Vow Pearls. Xu Yi explored the academy’s Great World and began considering settling there to break through his cultivation barrier.

• Meng Fan explained that serving as a lecturer at Biyou Academy was necessary for a lord to advance further.
• Meng Fan, Xu Yi, and Old Jiang entered Biyou Academy’s Great World and received jade tokens allowing them to stay for seven days.
• Xu Yi read that Meng Fan would need to build a lecture hall, attract visitors seeking enlightenment, earn ten thousand White Vow Pearls, and give half to the Biyou Palace Great World Council.
• Xu Yi parted ways with Meng Fan to explore while Meng Fan worried about his lecturer duties.
• Xu Yi spent three days exploring Kunlun Ruins and Deep Love Sea, learning about the Thirty-six Great Dojos and the academy’s lectures.
• Xu Yi decided he might settle in the Great World because the will of Heaven there was clearer and could help him break through his cultivation barrier.

Xu Yi settled outside the Dao Entrance, supporting himself by growing spirit rice while attending lectures and cultivating. After three years of steady work, he gained council affiliation, helped Yan Zi reach the Divine Embryo Realm, and continued strengthening his foundations.

• Xu Yi rented ten mu of wasteland west of the Dao Entrance, built a home, and began cultivating spirit rice to cover his expenses and improve himself.
• Xu Yi settled into a routine of tending his fields, attending lectures, and cultivating over the next three years, producing two bountiful harvests.
• The council made Xu Yi a steady spirit rice supplier, taking half of each harvest in exchange for waiving his rent and granting him permanent affiliation.
• Xu Yi brought Yan Zi to Biyou Academy through Meng Fan's arrangements, helped her stabilize her cultivation, and used Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo to help her cross the First Tribulation of Lightning.
• Xu Yi refined the Azure Green Banner's mark enough to move the banner into his Starry Sky Ring, while continuing to temper his body and spirit through study of the Adamant Aspect.

Meng Fan gave up on lecturing at Biyou Academy and offered Xu Yi his lecture plaque, which could qualify its holder for the Trial Grand Competition. After learning the competition was less than two years away, Xu Yi refused to take the plaque for free and urged Meng Fan to sell it instead.

• Yan Zi invited Xu Yi to see the begonias on South Mountain, but Meng Fan arrived and announced he was leaving.
• Meng Fan explained that his lecture hall had drawn few students and that after three years he had earned only 341 merit points.
• Meng Fan told Xu Yi that lecturers sought ten thousand merit points to enter a Trial Daochang, and that the lecture plaque granted the right to compete in the Trial Grand Competition.
• Meng Fan revealed the next competition would take place on the Mid-Autumn Festival of Bingchen Year, less than two years away.
• Xu Yi said he would not take advantage of Meng Fan and urged him to sell the plaque to recover some of his expenses.

Xu Yi acquired Meng Fan’s token after returning his corpse aura with a hidden mark, and Meng Fan revealed Xu Yi’s name to Silver Eyebrows and his companion from Kongming Island. Old Jiang predicted that the Five Rats of Kongming Island and Xu Yi would inevitably come to blows, and Meng Fan asked him to explain why.

• Xu Yi returned Meng Fan’s corpse pill and persuaded him to hand over the token after Meng Fan explained how to use it.
• Xu Yi verified the token’s value, then Desolate Charm restored Meng Fan’s corpse aura and secretly marked it at Xu Yi’s request.
• Meng Fan noticed the mark, confronted Xu Yi, and left after Xu Yi refused to remove it.
• Silver Eyebrows and a long-haired middle-aged man demanded to know who had taken Kongming Island’s token, and Meng Fan named Xu Yi at Bamboo Manor.
• Old Jiang predicted that Xu Yi and the Five Rats of Kongming Island would fight, and Meng Fan asked him to explain.

Xu Yi prepared to defend the lecture token after learning that the Five Tyrants of Kongming Island were coming to pressure him. The gang set out for his Bamboo Manor, while Xu Yi waited in his new Preaching Pavilion.

• Meng Fan and Old Jiang discussed Xu Yi's strength and expected him to resist the Five Tyrants over the lecture token.
• A report revealed that Xu Yi had built a Preaching Pavilion, prompting Silver Eyebrows to laugh while his Fourth Brother warned him not to underestimate Xu Yi.
• Silver Eyebrows proposed threatening and bribing Xu Yi, but Qi Yan summoned the brothers to a gathering before they could act.
• Xu Yi told Yan Zi he would not give up the token, and she left for Ink City to avoid becoming a burden.
• Xu Yi brewed tea in the Preaching Pavilion as the Five Tyrants gathered at the road entrance and headed toward Bamboo Manor.

Xu Yi confronted the Five Tyrants of Kongming Island and their council allies when they demanded his lecture token and threatened his status and spirit fields. After they left to banquet on Daishan Mountain, they learned Xu Yi had invited all five tyrants onto the Blue Wall, leaving them stunned.

• The Five Tyrants of Kongming Island, Chen Xingjia, and Xing Yusen went to Bamboo Manor to demand Xu Yi's lecture token.
• Xu Yi openly described their plans to threaten him with a duel or use the council against him, embarrassing the group.
• Silver Eyebrows demanded the token, while Xing Yusen gave Xu Yi a day to comply and threatened his status and spirit fields.
• The seven left for a banquet on Daishan Mountain, where they drank and admired the moon.
• Cao Bin burst into the banquet hall and reported that Xu Yi had invited all five tyrants onto the Blue Wall.
• Silver Eyebrows questioned Cao Bin, then paced in disbelief at Xu Yi's invitation.

The Five Tyrants of Kongming Island learned that Xu Yi had challenged all five of them to a duel, backed by evidence that left them unable to refuse. Unable to contact him or negotiate, Qi Yan chose to withdraw and leave Biyou Academy, and Chen Xingjia offered to arrange new identities for them.

• Qi Yan and the others discussed Xu Yi’s challenge and realized the academy’s rules left the Five Tyrants of Kongming Island unable to avoid the duel without conceding.
• Xing Yusen and He Han went to Bamboo Manor to negotiate, but found Xu Yi gone and could not reach him.
• Qi Yan decided the Five Tyrants would withdraw rather than risk fighting Xu Yi, despite Silver Eyebrows’ protests.
• He Han persuaded Silver Eyebrows that Xu Yi would not stake his life on the challenge without a reason, while the others said they could rebuild elsewhere.
• Chen Xingjia promised to arrange new identities for the five brothers, and Qi Yan invited everyone to drink.

After the Five Tyrants of Kongming Island fled rather than face Xu Yi, he used the resulting attention to attract students to his lectures. With Chen Xingjia’s help, Xu Yi’s mathematics lectures became a sensation after just two sessions.

• Old Jiang told Meng Fan that the Five Tyrants of Kongming Island had left the Biyou Academy world, and Meng Fan was stunned that they had fled.
• Xu Yi explained to Yan Zi that he had wanted to defeat the Five Tyrants to build his reputation, then decided to find a way to draw people to his lectures.
• Chen Xingjia visited Xu Yi to befriend him and offered to help promote his Preaching Pavilion.
• Chen Xingjia arranged for Xu Yi’s challenge to the Five Tyrants and his lectures to stir up attention, filling the Preaching Pavilion with curious visitors.
• After two lectures, Chen Xingjia was astonished by Xu Yi’s profound knowledge of mathematics and the sensation his lectures had caused.

Xu Yi built his reputation as a mathematics lecturer after defeating Wang Moke, but a Hat Man challenged him to solve an irregular ellipsoid’s surface area on the spot. Xu Yi recognized that calculus might provide the answer and began thinking through the problem before the hostile audience.

• Xu Yi’s lectures drew packed crowds, and his merit points rose rapidly after he killed Wang Moke in a duel at the Preaching Pavilion.
• While Xu Yi lectured on the Plum Blossom Thirty-Six, a Hat Man accused him of possibly relying on a hidden expert and demanded that he solve a problem immediately.
• Xu Yi accepted the challenge because refusing could damage his reputation, and the Hat Man displayed a problem asking for the surface area of an irregular ellipsoid.
• Xu Yi realized that calculus from his previous life might solve the problem and asked for time to think while staying in the pavilion.
• The Hat Man agreed to wait, trusting that Xu Yi would not need several days to find an answer.

Xu Yi accidentally entered the 2019 world within his memories and learned that Liao Chen was there as Jinwu. Racing against the danger of his memories filling in, Xu Yi reached his old university and found a middle-aged man teaching advanced mathematics.

• Xu Yi used a secret visualization method to search his memories and leaped through a crack into the world of his past-life memories.
• Liao Chen, appearing as Jinwu, rescued Xu Yi from a crowd and warned him that his journey through the memories could kill him.
• Xu Yi learned that the memory world had advanced to 2019 and that four years of Liao Chen's memories were flooding into his mind.
• Xu Yi ran to his old university, changed into modern clothes, and searched the classrooms for a mathematics lesson.
• Xu Yi found a middle-aged man teaching advanced mathematics in Room 307.

Xu Yi forced a slick-haired teacher to teach him mathematics so he could solve the Hat Man’s problem, rapidly mastering calculus and other tools. When the sun fell from the sky, a Great Hand Seal struck Xu Yi, and he awoke aged, white-haired, and weakened.

• Xu Yi told the slick-haired teacher that Discipline Inspection Secretary Cui wanted him, then took him to a break room and coerced him into solving the Hat Man’s problem.
• The teacher solved the problem and taught Xu Yi calculus, curvature, limits, improper integrals, and other concepts, which Xu Yi quickly mastered.
• Xu Yi studied more than a dozen mathematics books and asked the teacher who was the biggest shot in the school’s mathematics department.
• The sun came hurtling toward the ground, and a Great Hand Seal struck Xu Yi, knocking him unconscious.
• Xu Yi awoke with white hair, an emaciated body, and the appearance of a man over a hundred years old.

Xu Yi solved the Hat Man’s mathematical problem but refused to explain the knowledge behind it, then suffered the devastating effects of spending Life Source Power and aged dramatically. Shi Erli arrived at Bamboo Manor after reaching the Severing Corpse realm and urged Xu Yi to check his lifespan.

• Xu Yi gave the Hat Man the correct answer, earned more than a hundred and twenty merit points, and dismissed the lecture without explaining his solution.
• Song Lun and the other students defended Xu Yi when the Hat Man demanded to learn the solution process, and the Hat Man left.
• Xu Yi returned to Bamboo Manor, tried to recover with Spiritual Liquid, and saw that he had become an old man.
• Shi Erli contacted Xu Yi through a Ruyi Pearl and arrived at Bamboo Manor after Xu Yi opened the gate.
• Shi Erli revealed that he had reached the Severing Corpse realm and urged Xu Yi to check his lifespan after hearing that Xu Yi had aged a hundred years in an hour.

Shi Erli used a Longevity Stone to discover that Xu Yi had only five years left to live and warned him that his strange power and mathematical knowledge had made him a target. He offered Xu Yi two possible ways forward, and Xu Yi chose to send Yan Zi to Immeasurable Mountain while entering the Kunlun Ruins himself.

• Shi Erli lent Xu Yi a Longevity Stone, which revealed that Xu Yi had at most five years left to live.
• Shi Erli explained that rare sacred fruits were the only known way to restore Xu Yi's lost lifespan.
• Shi Erli warned Xu Yi that his defeat of Wang Moke, use of Zixiao, and mathematical knowledge had attracted dangerous attention.
• Shi Erli explained that Xu Yi might be rejected by a dojo because of his short lifespan and offered to take him to Immeasurable Mountain or let him seek opportunities in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Xu Yi chose to send Yan Zi to Immeasurable Mountain with Shi Erli and enter the Kunlun Ruins on his own.

Xu Yi arranged for Yan Zi to stay with Shi Erli, then entered the Kunlun Ruins to seek opportunities. Meanwhile, Cao Da and three fellow disciples plotted to capture him, and Xu Yi found a Rainbow Seven Star Grass.

• Xu Yi asked Shi Erli to care for Yan Zi, and Yan Zi agreed to the arrangement.
• Xu Yi left Bamboo Manor for the Kunlun Ruins as Cao Da, Du Fei, Mu Yu, and Tong Fang debated how to capture him.
• Tong Fang learned that Xu Yi had left Bamboo Manor, and Cao Da used a Da Ming Snake to track him after securing a share of the spoils for his companions.
• Xu Yi traveled deep into the Kunlun Ruins and used a blood-red bead to reveal a Rainbow Seven Star Grass.
• Xu Yi dug up the Rainbow Seven Star Grass and moved it into the spirit field inside his Starry Sky Ring.