Chapter Summaries

Gu Han won the Misty Cloud Sect’s Preliminary Disciple Competition and collected the rewards for first place, despite Mo Qing’s warning and threats. Back in his cabin, Gu Han’s Bagua Diagram absorbed his blood and pulled his consciousness into a strange place, where he saw a prehistoric beast he recognized as the Black Tortoise.

• Gu Han defeated Mo Qing in the competition with Frost Palm and Eight Extremes Fist, then held him at swordpoint until the steward announced the result.
• Ge Xian declared Gu Han the winner and awarded him a Storage Ring, Gold Coins, a Transmission Hall token, and Merit Points.
• Mo Qing left without collecting his reward, while Liu Ye'er warned Gu Han that Mo Qing might retaliate.
• Gu Han returned to his cabin and discovered that a Bagua Diagram was appearing on his chest.
• The Bagua Diagram absorbed blood from Gu Han’s finger, and his consciousness entered a strange place where he saw the Black Tortoise.

After recovering memories of his past life and discovering a Black Tortoise shell that could reveal opportunities, Gu Han learned that a fellow disciple planned to sabotage his cultivation. He used the shell again and found a hidden Spirit Gathering Ground with five Jade Spirit Fruits ripening that night.

• Gu Han remembered his life on Blue Star and reconsidered how he might repay the Misty Cloud Sect without blindly opposing Xiao Yan.
• Gu Han discovered that a fragment of the Black Tortoise's shell was bound to his soul and could reveal useful opportunities a limited number of times each day.
• Gu Han learned that Mo Qing had ordered Mo Feng to ambush him and secretly injure him, causing his breakthrough to Dou Zhe to fail.
• Gu Han cultivated until late at night, then used the shell again and learned where five ripening Jade Spirit Fruits were hidden in Cloud Stream Valley.

Gu Han secretly entered a hidden Spirit Gathering Ground and took all five Jade Spirit Fruits, then went to the Outer Sect Training Hall to prepare for a breakthrough. Mo Yu discovered the empty tree and learned that someone had taken the fruits, while Gu Han encountered an unexpected person at the hall.

• Gu Han left his cabin at night, found the concealed Spirit Gathering Ground, and harvested five Jade Spirit Fruits.
• Mo Yu warned Mo Qing to obey sect rules while arranging for Mo Feng to secretly teach Gu Han a lesson.
• Mo Yu discovered that the Jade Spirit Fruit Tree had been stripped bare and cursed the unknown thief.
• Gu Han went to the Outer Sect Training Hall to use a Training Room for his breakthrough and saw someone rush toward him.

Gu Han entered the Outer Sect Training Hall to break through to Dou Zhe, using the Jade Spirit Fruit to condense a Dou Qi Vortex and become a One-star Dou Practitioner. Meanwhile, Mo Yu told Mo Qing that the fruit had been stolen and eaten.

• Gu Han passed Nalan Yanran at the Training Hall entrance, then received the No. A1 room token from the steward.
• Gu Han found Nalan Yanran's orchid fragrance in Room A1 and realized she had used the room before him.
• Gu Han swallowed the Jade Spirit Fruit, absorbed its energy, and strengthened his meridians while cultivating.
• Gu Han condensed a milky-white Qi Vortex, gained Internal Vision, and successfully became a One-star Dou Practitioner.
• Mo Yu returned to Mo Qing and said someone had stolen and eaten the Jade Spirit Fruit.

Mo Yu and Mo Qing planned to find the thief who stole their Jade Spirit Fruits while deciding how to handle Gu Han’s possible breakthrough. After cultivating through the day, Gu Han prepared to use his Darksteel Token and seek an Opportunity, but something in the Black Tortoise Shell caught his attention.

• Mo Yu told Mo Qing that they could not reveal their secret Spirit Gathering Ground and arranged to watch it and track Jade Spirit Fruits across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Mo Yu reassured Mo Qing that the family would provide Qi Gathering Powder and dismissed the danger of Gu Han, while Mo Feng reported that Gu Han had gone to the Outer Sect Training Hall.
• Mo Yu ordered Mo Feng to watch Gu Han and report whether he broke through, telling him not to act if Gu Han succeeded.
• Mo Yu urged Mo Qing to befriend Gu Han within the sect, though he hinted they could deal with him outside it.
• Gu Han spent ten hours cultivating with the Jade Spirit Fruit’s medicinal effects, then prepared to use the Black Tortoise Shell for an Opportunity and noticed something unexpected.

After breaking through to Dou Zhe, Gu Han unlocked the Xuanwu Secret Realm and learned of new opportunities, including a suitable cultivation technique. He registered as an Outer Disciple, where a steward recognized his talent and personally took over his registration.

• Gu Han discovered the Black Tortoise Shell had opened the Xuanwu Secret Realm and stored the Jade Spirit Fruit inside it.
• The Black Tortoise Shell revealed that a suitable Ice Attribute technique was in the Transmission Hall and that Mo Yu was searching for the Jade Spirit Fruit thief.
• Gu Han encountered Nalan Yanran outside the Cultivation Hall, and she became curious about his talent and rare Ice Attribute.
• Gu Han returned his training token, met Steward Zhang, and went to the Outer Affairs Hall to register as an Outer Disciple.
• The Testing Demonic Stone Tablet confirmed Gu Han was a One Star Dou Zhe, and the old steward recognized him as the Preliminary Disciple Tournament winner and took over his registration.

Gu Han became an outer disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect and received generous benefits for his talent. He selected two powerful scrolls from the Transmission Hall and returned to his residence, where he prepared to cultivate the new method.

• An old man explained Gu Han's outer disciple benefits, changed his Identity Token, gave him equipment, and helped him choose a residence.
• The old man gave Gu Han information about elders who might accept him as a personal disciple and noted that the sect had no Ice Attribute experts.
• Gu Han entered the Transmission Hall, where the Steward secretly directed him to an Ice Attribute technique and an Ice-compatible Dou Technique.
• Gu Han selected Mysterious Ice Force and Mysterious Yin Finger, registered the scrolls, and was reminded to return them within one year.
• Gu Han returned to his residence and entered its secret chamber, preparing to cultivate Mysterious Ice Force.

Gu Han converted his Dou Qi to Ice Attribute by cultivating Mysterious Ice Force and checked several opportunities that could benefit him. He decided to leave seclusion to seek the Yin Wind on Misty Cloud Mountain, which would boost his Ice Attribute cultivation.

• Gu Han completed the initial stage of Mysterious Ice Force, changing his Dou Qi to Ice Attribute and doubling his Qi Vortex's capacity.
• Gu Han learned that the Mo Family planned to use him and eventually attack him, while Zhang Chuchen's cultivation was sealed by special Snake People Race venom.
• Gu Han discovered that Zhang Chuchen's master, Yun He, was seeking a cure for him and that Nalan Yanran would be exposed while cultivating at the Outer Sect Training Hall, but Gu Han chose to keep cultivating.
• Gu Han learned that Nalan Yanran would leave the sect and discard a Spirit Awakening Pill, and that Yin Wind would descend at the peak of the third mountain on Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Gu Han decided to leave seclusion to seek the Yin Wind and its cultivation boost.

Gu Han studied the Mysterious Yin Finger and prepared to cultivate at a special location suited to Ice Attribute Dou Qi. At the Outer Disciple dining hall, Mo Feng tried to befriend him with an extravagant meal, then agreed to exchange Merit Points for Gold Coins before learning Gu Han wanted to trade 1,800 points.

• Gu Han learned that a special Ice Attribute cultivation location had appeared within the Misty Cloud Sect, memorized the Mysterious Yin Finger technique, and gained an initial grasp of it in three hours.
• Gu Han bought Bigu Pills and daily necessities, then ordered food at the Outer Disciple dining hall.
• Mo Feng introduced himself as Mo Qing's cousin, apologized for Mo Qing's warning, and treated Gu Han to several expensive dishes to build a friendship.
• Gu Han asked Mo Feng to exchange Merit Points for Gold Coins, claiming he had heard that a point could be worth twenty Gold Coins.
• Mo Feng agreed, but was stunned when Gu Han said he wanted to exchange 1,800 Merit Points.

Gu Han exchanged Merit Points for Gold Coins, collected the Spirit Awakening Pills Liu Ling had unknowingly left for him, and secluded himself on Third Peak to cultivate. After ten days, he had mastered two techniques and advanced to two star Dou Zhe, then checked his next Opportunity.

• Gu Han exchanged eighteen hundred Merit Points with Mo Feng for thirty-six thousand Gold Coins, and Mo Feng reported the transaction to Mo Yu and Mo Qing.
• Mo Yu decided that the Mo Family would befriend Gu Han for now and exploit him if useful, while Mo Qing waited for the Qi Gathering Powder.
• Liu Ling gave Nalan Yanran Cloud Song Flowers, but she discarded them because she valued her freedom and disliked the gesture.
• Gu Han followed an Opportunity prompt, found the flowers, and took three Spirit Awakening Pills hidden inside the bouquet.
• Gu Han spent ten days cultivating on Third Peak, mastered Mysterious Ice Force and Mysterious Yin Finger, and advanced to two star Dou Zhe before inspecting his next Opportunity.

Gu Han used the Xuanwu Secret Realm to harvest Moon Shadow Grass and the corpses and Magical Cores of two dead beasts. When a Wind Nether Snake ambushed him on his way back, he lured it with the Earth Savage Bear’s corpse and attacked it.

• Gu Han waited inside the Xuanwu Secret Realm until the Howling Moon Wolf and Earth Savage Bear died fighting over the Moon Shadow Grass.
• He picked the Moon Shadow Grass, extracted both beasts’ Magical Cores, and stored their corpses in the secret realm.
• As Gu Han headed back toward Third Peak, a Wind Nether Snake launched a sudden attack, and he escaped into the secret realm.
• Gu Han recognized the snake as a First Order Late Stage Magical Beast and placed the Earth Savage Bear’s corpse outside to draw it in.
• When the Wind Nether Snake began biting the corpse, Gu Han appeared and thrust his frost-laden finger at it.

Gu Han killed the Wind Nether Snake, broke through to Three-Star Dou Zhe, and learned of an opportunity to obtain the Ice Toad Snow Pearl by exposing a spy in the Misty Cloud Sect. He decided to return to the sect and gather evidence against Kalon.

• Gu Han pierced the Wind Nether Snake's heart and stored it and the Earth Savage Bear in his Storage Ring.
• A Misty Cloud Eagle brought Yun Yun's message for Nalan Yanran, and Yun Chang ordered Kalon to deliver it.
• Kalon went to Liu Ling and revealed that he had been assigned to deliver the Sect Leader's message slip.
• Gu Han entered the Xuanwu Secret Realm, cultivated with the Mysterious Ice Force, and advanced to Three-Star Dou Zhe.
• Gu Han learned that Kalon was a Golden Goose Sect spy and that Yun Yun planned to reward Nalan Yanran with an Ice Toad Snow Pearl.
• Gu Han decided to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, watch Kalon, and gather evidence so he could expose him and seek the Ice Toad Snow Pearl.

Nalan Yanran rejected Nalan Jie’s demand that she honor her engagement to Xiao Yan, while Gu Han finished cultivating on the Third Mountain and discovered an opportunity involving Hundred Year Cold Jade. The story left Gu Han preparing to seek the jade and wondering whose favor he might gain by emerging from a nearby Cold Spring.

• Nalan Yanran met Nalan Jie before departing, and he told her to visit her fiancé in Wutan City and honor her engagement.
• Nalan Yanran refused to accept the engagement and left after threatening to sever ties with Nalan Jie if he forced her.
• Nalan Jie suffered a Burning Poison flare-up, and Nalan Su gave him a medicinal pill; Nalan Jie insisted the Nalan Family must honor its promise to the Xiao Family.
• Gu Han advanced his Mysterious Ice Force and Mysterious Yin Finger, then decided to leave the Third Mountain as the Yin Wind faded.
• Gu Han discovered that a Hundred Year Jade Embryo would transform into Hundred Year Cold Jade at midnight and that emerging from another Cold Spring could earn him a Dou Emperor’s favor.

Gu Han followed an opportunity's guidance to retrieve a Hundred Year Cold Jade from a hidden spring and used it to cultivate. When he emerged from the water, he found Yun Yun bathing, and their first meeting ended with her allowing him to open his eyes.

• Gu Han found the underwater passage beneath the hot spring and waited until the Hundred Year Jade Embryo transformed into Cold Jade.
• Gu Han took the Hundred Year Cold Jade into the Xuanwu Secret Realm and cultivated as its cold energy accelerated his Mysterious Ice Force.
• Yun Yun arrived at her secluded cave and entered the hot spring to relax.
• Gu Han surfaced from the spring and saw Yun Yun bathing, then quickly closed his eyes and calmed himself.
• Yun Yun was startled and embarrassed but held back her anger after seeing Gu Han's reaction, then told him he could open his eyes.

Outer Disciple Gu Han met Sect Leader Yun Yun by chance in a hidden hot spring passage, and she considered arranging a master for him. After they parted, Gu Han returned to cultivation and discovered a new Opportunity concerning a master and disciple.

• Yun Yun questioned Gu Han about his cultivation and sect life, then investigated the hidden passage that had brought him into her hot spring.
• Gu Han said he had no master and agreed to consider taking an Elder as one if the Elder's seniority matched the Great Elder's.
• Yun Yun let Gu Han leave, then realized she was still thinking about him as she returned to her courtyard.
• Gu Han returned to his outer-sect courtyard and resumed cultivating, determined to surpass Yun Yun.
• Gu Han inspected his Opportunity and found the message, “This master and disciple are fated with me.”

Gu Han considered how to advise Yun Yun about Nalan Yanran’s engagement cancellation and learned that Nalan Yanyun’s stalled cultivation could be cured with Yao Chen’s pill. Yun Liu brought Gu Han to meet Yun Yun, where he continued to avoid addressing himself as her disciple while Nalan Yanran watched.

• Gu Han inferred that Yun Yun wanted his opinion on how Nalan Yanran should cancel her engagement and considered using the meeting to request the Ice Toad Snow Pearl.
• Gu Han learned that Nalan Yanyun had been secretly harmed and that a Fourth-Grade Pill made by Yao Chen could solve her cultivation problem.
• Xiao Yan’s cultivation failed again, while Gu Han meditated with Cold Jade and grew confident he could reach Dou Master within half a year.
• Yun Liu escorted Gu Han to the Sect Main Hall, where Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran were waiting.
• Yun Yun challenged Gu Han for not calling himself her disciple, but he calmly insisted he did not understand; Nalan Yanran interrupted, thinking she had been there first.

Yun Yun explained Gu Han’s rapid cultivation progress to Nalan Yanran, who then asked her teacher to help end her arranged marriage to Xiao Yan. Yun Yun sought Gu Han’s opinion, and he responded with a harsh insult toward Xiao Yan.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Gu Han had reached Three-Star Dou Zhe and that his talent rivaled hers.
• Nalan Yanran learned that Gu Han had advanced from Dou Zhe to Three-Star Dou Zhe in twenty days and admitted his talent surpassed her own.
• Yun Yun promised to guide Nalan Yanran’s cultivation and help her reach Dou Master within a year.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that her grandfather expected her to honor her engagement to Xiao Yan, and she threatened to leave the sect rather than marry him.
• Yun Yun asked Gu Han what he thought of the engagement, and he condemned Xiao Yan as a waste of Heaven and Earth Energy.
• In Wutan City, Xiao Yan sneezed again and blamed Heaven for making him sick.

Gu Han explained the competing grievances behind Nalan Yanran’s engagement to Xiao Yan and proposed a way to resolve it without the Misty Cloud Sect directly cancelling the marriage. Yun Yun agreed to try his plan, which left Nalan Yanran facing the possibility that a cousin would take her place.

• Gu Han said the Xiao Family and Xiao Yan might resent Nalan Yanran for cancelling the engagement, while Nalan Yanran insisted she would not enter a Marriage Alliance.
• Gu Han pointed out that Nalan Jie had arranged the engagement to repay Xiao Lin for saving his life, leaving Nalan Yanran upset that she was expected to sacrifice herself for the debt.
• Gu Han proposed that Yun Yun compensate the Nalan Family, offer a suitable cousin as a voluntary replacement, and arrange compensation for Xiao Yan so both families could end the engagement.
• Nalan Yanran identified her Second Uncle’s daughter as the likely replacement, though she had been poisoned and had once surpassed Yanran in talent.
• Yun Yun accepted Gu Han’s proposal and agreed to try it, promising him a reward if it succeeded.

Gu Han received Yun Yun's token and information on potential teachers, then learned through his daily intelligence that enemies were plotting against him and Yun Yun was withholding information about a promised reward. He resolved to deal with Mo Qing and saw through Yun Yun's attempt to play tricks on him.

• Yun Yun gave Gu Han a Jade Slip listing qualified Elders and her identity token, while Nalan Yanran learned that Gu Han wanted a teacher from the Great Elder's generation.
• Gu Han confronted Liu Ling and Kalon about their standing in Misty Cloud Sect, then left after warning Liu Ling to take care of himself.
• Gu Han used Yun Yun's token to buy supplies at a discount and returned to his courtyard to cultivate and check his daily intelligence.
• Gu Han learned that Yun Yun had returned resources to the Nalan Family and that Nalan Yanyun wanted to escape after discovering Xue Qin'er had poisoned her.
• Gu Han learned Kalon planned to report on him to Golden Goose Sect, while Mo Yu and Mo Qing were waiting for a chance to act against him.
• Gu Han learned Yun Yun would offer him a choice of rewards but had deliberately concealed information about the Ice Toad Snow Pearl, and he resolved to deal with Mo Qing.

Gu Han’s plan led Nalan Yanran to propose that her sister Nalan Yan Yun marry Xiao Yan in her place, preserving the alliance between the Nalan and Xiao families while ending Yanran’s engagement. Nalan Jie accepted the arrangement, and Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Yanran, then asked her to summon Gu Han.

• Gu Han calculated that his soul power would reach the Mortal Realm Mid-Stage in about two months and could reach Mortal Realm Perfection within a year.
• Yun Yun asked Nalan Jie to decide on the marriage arrangement, and Nalan Yanran presented Gu Han’s proposal for Nalan Yan Yun to marry Xiao Yan instead.
• Nalan Yan Yun agreed to the marriage, and Nalan Jie instructed Nalan Su to take her to the Xiao Family in seven days with a generous dowry.
• Nalan Jie promised to support the couple, while Yun Yun offered a Misty Cloud Sect congratulatory gift and a chance for talented Xiao Family members to join the sect.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran and asked her to call Gu Han.