Chapter Summaries

Gu Xun Er searched the ruins near the Starry Sky Mountain Range for Xiao Yan and found a clue suggesting he had been transferred to the Soul Realm, while Xuan Jin admitted he could not help locate him. Back at the Pill Tower, Xuan Jin announced that he would hold a grand wedding to give his companions official status, and Gu Xun Er ended the day with another empty outpost.

• Gu Xun Er found a stone hall bearing an inscription that said the Starry Sky Number Nine Outpost had been transferred to the Soul Realm, and she continued searching for Xiao Yan.
• Cao Ying told Xuan Jin that several factions wanted to establish ties with the Pill Tower, while Ya Fei reported that Gu Xun Er was searching near the Starry Sky Mountain Range.
• Xuan Jin said he did not know where Xiao Yan was and could not help Gu Xun Er find him.
• Xuan Jin announced that he planned to hold a grand wedding for Cao Ying, Xuan Yi, Zi Yan, Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Ya Fei, and Huo Zhi.
• Gu Xun Er searched a fifth Soul Hall outpost near the Starry Sky Mountain Range and found it had been cleared of useful clues.

After consolidating his cultivation and reaching the four-star Dou Emperor realm, Xuan Jin rushed to Cai'er’s side as she went into labor. Their daughter Xuan Yao was born with Emperor Blood, and her birth stirred Saint Pill City with a purple-gold Emperor Path phenomenon.

• Xuan Jin discussed preparations for bestowing titles with Ya Fei as he made arrangements for the wedding.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xuan Jin that Cai'er was about to give birth, and he hurried to her room, where Cao Ying and Xuan Yi were helping her.
• Xuan Yi warned that the Emperor Blood-affected birth was dangerous but said Cai'er would be safe if she endured the first half hour.
• Cai'er gave birth to a girl, and Xuan Jin named her Xuan Yao, his second daughter; Xuan Yi said the child had been born with Emperor Blood.
• Ya Fei told Xuan Jin that purple-gold clouds had appeared over Saint Pill City, and he instructed her to keep people from disturbing the family.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and the elders learned that Xuan Jin’s imperial daughter had triggered an Emperor Path phenomenon and decided to visit in a couple of days.

After Great Emperor Xuan Jin’s second daughter was born with an Emperor Path phenomenon, the Ancient, Yan, Thunder, and Yao Clans prepared lavish congratulatory gifts to strengthen their ties with him. Gu Xun Er learned the news while searching the Soul Hall ruins for Xiao Yan and continued to wonder where he was.

• Gu Yuan assigned Gu Xun Er to deliver a lavish gift to Xuan Jin and encouraged her to speak with him, while Gu Lie reported that she had found no trace of Xiao Yan.
• Yan Jin sent Fairy Fire Spirit to congratulate Xuan Jin and learn about his plans.
• Lei Ying chose Lei Yue to deliver the Thunder Clan’s congratulatory gift to Xuan Jin.
• Yao Tian asked Yao Ling to deliver the Yao Clan’s secret alchemy arts and ancient pill formulas, hoping she could help restore the clan’s standing.
• At the Soul Hall ruins, Gu Xun Er received news of Xuan Jin’s daughter, looked at the Soul Jade fragment, and wondered where Xiao Yan was.

Xuan Jin received gifts from several clans celebrating the birth of his daughter, Xuan Yao. Gu Xun Er then asked him to help find Xiao Yan, leaving Xuan Jin to consider her plea.

• Xuan Jin welcomed Yao Ling, who gave him the Yao Clan's secret alchemy arts and ancient pill formulas in gratitude for his help.
• Fairy Fire Spirit brought Xuan Jin a thousand-year-old Fire Spirit Grass from the Yan Clan for Xuan Yao.
• Lei Yue presented Xuan Jin with a Lightning Spirit Stone from the Thunder Clan for his daughter.
• Gu Xun Er gave Xuan Jin a protective jade pendant from the Ancient Clan and asked him to help find Xiao Yan.

Gu Xun Er asked Xuan Jin to help find Xiao Yan, and he agreed to investigate with her the next day. Xuan Jin privately believed Xiao Yan was likely dead, while Xuan Xi learned he would be leaving again.

• Gu Xun Er asked Xuan Jin to search for Xiao Yan, and he agreed to help once and take her to investigate the next day.
• Cao Ying brought Gu Xun Er to a guest room, and Gu Xun Er asked Xuan Jin to tell her plainly if they could not find Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Jin told Cai'er he could not say whether Xiao Yan could be found, and Ya Fei reminded him that past investigations suggested Xiao Yan had likely perished in the Soul Hall's hands.
• Ya Fei prepared to bring Gu Xun Er healing and qi-restoring pills for the trip.
• Xuan Xi visited Xuan Jin and Cai'er, revealed she had memorized the first half of a pill-formula book, and learned Xuan Jin would leave the next day.

Xuan Jin helped Gu Xun Er search the Starry Sky Mountain Range, the Nether Realm, and other sites for Xiao Yan, but found no trace of him. After a day of fruitless searching, Gu Xun Er asked to stop.

• Xuan Jin left Xuan Xi at home and agreed to help Gu Xun Er search for Xiao Yan.
• At the Starry Sky Mountain Range, Xuan Jin found no trace of Xiao Yan, though he confirmed that many people had died there.
• Xuan Jin searched Soul Hall's headquarters in the Nether Realm and learned that its prisoners had been taken to the Soul Realm and fed to the Tunling Clan.
• Xuan Jin and Gu Xun Er searched several more locations, including branch halls, an abandoned stronghold, a submerged tower, a desert altar, and an underground prison city, but found nothing.
• At the end of the day, Gu Xun Er asked Xuan Jin to stop searching.

Gu Xun Er accepted that Xiao Yan was gone and left, while Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City and arranged his wedding to nine brides for half a month later. The city began preparing for the celebration, and the brides started discussing their gowns.

• Gu Xun Er told Xuan Jin she had stopped searching for Xiao Yan and had only been looking for a reason to keep going, then departed after he left.
• Xuan Jin returned to his residence, learned about the children from Cao Ying, and received the Pill Tower Ancestor’s invitation to visit with nine other Pill Tower figures.
• Xuan Jin set the wedding date for half a month later, and Ya Fei asked to be one of the nine brides and chose to fund her gown from the Soul Clan treasury.
• News of the wedding spread through Saint Pill City, where Ya Fei’s people decorated the streets and merchants sold wedding-themed goods.
• The brides gathered to choose fabrics, and Zi Yan demanded a vivid red gown with gold dragon-and-phoenix embroidery and room to spread her wings.

Xuan Jin and the nine women prepared for their wedding in Saint Pill City, while the clans delivered gifts and relatives teased the brides. On the wedding day, the nine bridal sedans completed a procession, and the ceremony began before the main hall.

• Ya Fei arranged the brides’ ceremonial clothes, and Xuan Yi agreed to ride in a bridal sedan after Xuan Jin promised to silence anyone who spoke against her.
• Fairy Fire Spirit, Yao Ling, Gu Lie, and Zhu Kun arrived with gifts and messages from their clans for the wedding.
• Before dawn, Ya Fei organized the wedding preparations, and Xuan Jin reassured Qing Lin about her role in the ceremony.
• At noon, the nine bridal sedans circled the inner city, with Zi Yan last in an open-topped sedan as she half-spread her wings.
• Xuan Jin and the nine brides began their open-air wedding ceremony before guests from the Pill Tower and the Eight Ancient Clans.

Xuan Jin married Cao Ying and eight other women in a grand ceremony in Saint Pill City, where Heaven and Earth seemed to bow with them. Afterward, he declared a month-long feast, acknowledged the attending clans, and warned anyone who tried to cause trouble over his wives to come to him.

• The nine brides emerged from their sedans, and Xuan Jin joined them for the wedding rites as the fire laws and purple-gold clouds responded to his bow.
• Xuan Jin and the nine women completed their bows, and the master of ceremonies declared the wedding ceremony complete.
• Xuan Jin announced that Saint Pill City would hold a grand feast for one month and thanked the Pill Tower, Yan Clan, Thunder Clan, Yao Clan, Ancient Clan, and Dragon Clan.
• Zhu Kun joked that Xuan Jin should call him Father-in-law, and Zi Yan teased him about his wine-soaked robe.
• Xuan Jin declared that the nine women were his wives and warned anyone who stirred up trouble over them to come find him.

After the wedding ceremony, Xuan Jin left the guests to the Pill Tower while the newlyweds gathered in the Inner Academy to decide the order for the night. Cao Ying and Cai'er forfeited their turns, and Ya Fei rearranged the list with Qing Lin first and herself last.

• Xuan Jin left after the ceremony as Ya Fei had instructed, and the nine brides followed him to the Inner Academy.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor agreed to take in Yao Clan juniors for pill study, on the condition that the Pill Tower did not mention Yao Chen.
• Cao Ying and Cai'er forfeited their turns, with Cao Ying citing their daughter and Cai'er saying she was still recovering from childbirth.
• Xuan Yi refused to go first and chose Qing Lin to lead the new order because she was the youngest and most nervous.
• Ya Fei revised the list to put Qing Lin first, followed by Xuan Yi, Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Huo Zhi, Tang Huo'er, and herself last.

Xuan Jin began his wedding night with Qing Lin, who nervously shared her wish to have a child with him. The other women waited in their rooms, while Ya Fei enforced the wedding-night order and sent Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian away from Qing Lin’s window.

• Cao Ying gave Xuan Jin her hairpin and reminded him that she was his principal wife, then took Cai'er to put Xuan Yao to bed.
• Xuan Jin entered Qing Lin’s room, lifted her veil, and kissed her before they drank their wedding wine.
• Qing Lin told Xuan Jin she wanted to have a baby with him, and he agreed before telling her they would not discuss it that night.
• Xuan Yi adjusted her jade hairpin in the second room while Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian listened near Qing Lin’s room.
• Ya Fei caught Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian outside Qing Lin’s window and sent them back to their rooms, where Zi Yan accidentally knocked down a lantern.

After the month-long banquets ended, Xuan Jin gave Ya Fei a chance to rest and gathered his family for a private banquet. Xiao Yi Xian revealed that Qing Lin's medicinal formula needed a Yin Lotus from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, leaving Cai'er considering the place where she once received her inheritance.

• Ya Fei finished settling the banquet accounts and, exhausted, accepted Xuan Jin's order to rest for three days while Cao Ying handled visitors.
• Xuan Xi cheered Ya Fei with crabapple petals, then struggled to recite pill ingredients for Xuan Yi until Ya Fei laughed.
• Xuan Jin's family held a private banquet, where Xuan Xi tasted meat roasted with Huo Zhi's Red Lotus Karma Flame and found it bitter.
• Xiao Yi Xian disclosed that she was calculating Qing Lin's qi circulation and that her medicinal formula still needed a Yin Lotus from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs.
• Cai'er noted that the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs was a good place, recalling the inheritance she had received there.

Zi Yan retrieved the Yin Lotus from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs for Xiao Yi Xian to prepare medicine for Qing Lin. After returning to Saint Pill City, Xuan Jin began settling into family life, though the clan elder’s warning about tremors beneath the cold pool remained unresolved.

• Zi Yan volunteered to retrieve the Yin Lotus and left for the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, stopping by East Dragon Island on the way.
• The Nine Serenity Deep Earth Python Clan elder agreed to give Zi Yan the Yin Lotus after three days to rearrange the cold-pool formation, and Zi Yan took several bone artifacts from the clan’s treasure vault.
• The clan elder warned Zi Yan that increasingly frequent tremors came from deep beneath the pool, where the clan’s detection formations could not reach.
• Zi Yan returned with the Yin Lotus, and Xiao Yi Xian said she could prepare the medicine in another three days.
• Xuan Jin set aside each afternoon for his family and struggled to explain the medicinal ingredient Kunwu to Xuan Xi.

Over five years, Xuan Jin’s family grew stronger while he kept Xuan Yao’s rapidly developing power suppressed. When five-year-old Xuan Yao broke through the suppression herself, Xuan Jin found her foundation intact, but she still had to wait before going out to see the world with him.

• Xuan Yi made Xuan Xi recite her lessons, while one-year-old Xuan Yao accidentally revealed Dou Saint-level power and Cai'er and Xuan Jin decided to suppress her aura.
• Five years later, Xuan Yao broke through the suppression mark and reached the threshold of Dou Saint, with her foundation still firm.
• Xuan Yao told Xuan Jin she wanted to grow faster so she could travel with him, but he asked her to wait until she was older.
• At a family banquet, Cao Ying, Xuan Yi, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Huo Zhi, Tang Huo'er, and Ya Fei shared news of their progress, while Xuan Jin felt at peace with his family.