Chapter Summaries

Jing Yuan and Feixiao discussed Hoolay’s proposed transfer and agreed that Feixiao would use the issue to expose rebellious forces on Yaoqing. Outside the Palace of Astrum, Bai Jun reunited with Jiaoqiu and Moze, and the three headed to a hot pot restaurant, where someone questioned why they had not ordered a split pot.

• Jing Yuan questioned Jiaoqiu and Moze about whether the Marshal had ordered Hoolay’s transfer, but Feixiao arrived and dismissed them to meet Bai Jun.
• Feixiao explained that she planned to use the demand to transfer Hoolay as bait to draw out Yaoqing’s corrupt, rebellious forces, and Jing Yuan approved.
• Bai Jun met Jiaoqiu and Moze outside the Palace of Astrum, and they joked before he took them to eat hot pot.
• Bai Jun, Jiaoqiu, and Moze arrived at Thousand Cauldrons Pavilion, where someone wondered why they had not ordered a split pot.

Bai Jun reunited with Jiaoqiu and Moze over a meal, where Feixiao joined them and openly showered him with affection. After Bai Jun left for the restroom, Jiaoqiu asked Feixiao to show him the Dragon Lady’s diagnosis and prescription for her illness.

• Bai Jun, Jiaoqiu, and Moze ate extremely spicy hot pot and teased each other over cilantro.
• Jiaoqiu worried that Bai Jun had left the Yaoqing because of his earlier words, but Bai Jun said he had never been angry and apologized for leaving without saying goodbye.
• Jiaoqiu toasted Bai Jun with treasured liquor, and Bai Jun discovered that a kiss mark on his cheek had drawn attention from nearby diners.
• Feixiao joined them while concealed by a Curio, placed a matching ring on Bai Jun’s finger, and kissed him repeatedly until his cheeks were covered in kiss marks.
• After Bai Jun went to the restroom, Feixiao and Jiaoqiu discussed how alluring he seemed, while Moze mistakenly suspected Jiaoqiu had romantic feelings for him.
• Jiaoqiu asked Feixiao to show him the Dragon Lady’s diagnosis and prescription concerning Feixiao’s terminal illness.

Feixiao reunited with Bai Jun and her companions on the Luofu, while Yukong struggled with her feelings and found Tingyun distressed. The chapter ended with Feixiao challenging Bai Jun to spar at the Shence Mansion.

• Feixiao ate hot pot with Jiaoqiu and Moze, joked with Bai Jun, and nearly drank Jiaoqiu’s treasured wine before they stopped her.
• Bai Jun told Feixiao, Jiaoqiu, and Moze that he missed them, leaving all three embarrassed and pleased.
• Yukong wondered why meeting Feixiao had stirred up feelings of loneliness and decided to invite Bai Jun and Tingyun to dinner.
• Tingyun threw herself into Yukong’s arms at the Palace of Astrum and tearfully said that she had been bullied.
• Jiaoqiu and Moze brought Bai Jun to the Shence Mansion, where Feixiao challenged him to exchange moves and warned she would not go easy on him.

Jiaoqiu reflected on how the battlefield and his decision to leave the Alchemy Commission had changed how others saw him. He had chosen to practice medicine where the Yaoqing fought, hoping to save lives.

• Jiaoqiu recalled that people once praised his bright, pale-gold eyes but later viewed his smile with suspicion.
• Jiaoqiu traced the change in his demeanor to his decision to leave his master, family, and friends for the battlefield.
• Jiaoqiu chose not to inherit his master's position at the Alchemy Commission because he wanted to practice medicine and save lives.
• Jiaoqiu decided that serving where the Yaoqing waged war would let him help people in greatest need.

Jiaoqiu’s memories of the nameless young scout, the horrors of war, and his meeting with Bai Jun explained why he returned to medicine and vowed to save those in his care. The story then shifted to a rainy morning in Exalting Sanctum, where Bai Jun discovered Jiaoqiu waiting outside his home beneath the eaves.

• Jiaoqiu remembered losing the young Foxkin scout and later surviving a devastating divine attack that left him numb and disillusioned with healing.
• Jiaoqiu became Feixiao’s personal physician, met Bai Jun, and grew angry when Bai Jun returned badly injured after fighting Buli infiltrators.
• Bai Jun praised Jiaoqiu’s eyes and thanked him for his care, helping Jiaoqiu find a reason to keep healing; Jiaoqiu changed the restaurant sign back to Flying Rain Clinic.
• Jiaoqiu woke from a dream with tears in his eyes as rain fell outside.
• Bai Jun remembered that Jiaoqiu had planned to visit for breakfast, opened the door, and found Jiaoqiu waiting in the rain with an umbrella.
• Jiaoqiu said he had stayed outside to enjoy the unfamiliar rain, and Bai Jun pulled him inside by the collar.

Bai Jun cared for Jiaoqiu and Moze after they were caught in the rain, gave each of them a key to his home, and prepared breakfast. Feixiao arrived hoping to spend the morning with him, and the chapter ended with her kissing and biting his cheek while Jiaoqiu and Moze watched.

• Bai Jun dried Jiaoqiu's hair and tail, then learned that Foxkin ears carried intimate significance from Jiaoqiu's deliberately misleading explanation.
• Bai Jun summoned Moze from the rainy eaves, dried his coat, and gave him a key to the house; he also gave Jiaoqiu one before starting breakfast.
• Feixiao arrived soaked and admitted she had planned to visit Bai Jun for breakfast, then went to shower and borrowed his towel.
• Feixiao helped carry breakfast and insisted on feeding Bai Jun a sandwich, but he bit her finger as he took a bite.
• Feixiao kissed Bai Jun's cheek and left a bite mark while Moze and Jiaoqiu watched them flirt.

Bai Jun took leave from the Earth-Balance Commission and went on a shopping date with Feixiao, who happily held his hand as they walked. Jiaoqiu and Moze secretly followed them, while Tingyun and Yukong also set out to watch the couple.

• Bai Jun asked Da Hao for several days of leave, and Da Hao approved it after reminding him to submit a leave form.
• Feixiao met Bai Jun outside the Public Office in sunglasses and asked him to choose where they would go.
• Feixiao took Bai Jun's hand and led him down the street, while Jiaoqiu and Moze followed them in disguise.
• Tingyun complained that Feixiao had held Bai Jun's hand, then persuaded Yukong to follow the pair.
• Feixiao and Bai Jun chatted as they walked, and Bai Jun asked whether her physical condition had returned to normal.

Bai Jun and Feixiao enjoyed a date in the Exalting Sanctum, where Feixiao caught Jiaoqiu and Moze spying on them and later won a plush by destroying a punching machine. When Feixiao teased Bai Jun for being too gentle, he kissed her cheek in return, leaving her stunned.

• Bai Jun and Feixiao reminisced as they walked through the Exalting Sanctum and shared roast meat in bread.
• Feixiao spotted Jiaoqiu and Moze spying on their date, then confronted them and threw Jiaoqiu into a trash can.
• Bai Jun and Feixiao continued their outing along Xuan Ye Avenue and found a punching machine outside a convenience store.
• Feixiao burst the machine with one punch, and the shopkeeper let her choose a prize; she took a pink Dream Tapir plush.
• Feixiao kissed Bai Jun's cheek, and Bai Jun pulled her close and kissed her cheek in return, leaving her speechless.

Sushang and Guinaifen spotted Bai Jun with Feixiao and formed an alliance to keep him from being taken away, only to discover that Feixiao was already on a date with him. The chapter left Sushang blocking their path in shock as Feixiao prepared to leave with Bai Jun.

• Jiaoqiu and Moze watched Bai Jun and Feixiao from a teahouse, then noticed Sushang and Guinaifen approaching them.
• Bai Jun objected when Feixiao joked that she did not care how long she lived, and Feixiao blushed at his serious response.
• Sushang and Guinaifen argued over who would lure Feixiao away and take Bai Jun, while Feixiao overheard their plan.
• Feixiao caught Sushang and Guinaifen from behind and demanded an explanation, recognizing Sushang as Qin Su Yi's daughter.
• Feixiao told Sushang and Guinaifen that she and Bai Jun were on a date, then called him her darling and mentioned buying presents for children.
• Sushang froze at the revelation, then blocked Feixiao and Bai Jun as they tried to leave.

After Sushang, Tingyun, and Guinaifen tried to stop Feixiao from claiming Bai Jun, Feixiao took him home for drinks. As they shared a quiet evening, she remembered her painful past and the bond that had made her ask Bai Jun to grow strong enough to stand beside her, leaving her unspoken fear of losing him between them.

• Sushang confessed that Bai Jun was hers, and Tingyun joined her in challenging Feixiao, but Feixiao crushed their attempted alliance.
• Feixiao walked Bai Jun back to his residence, where they mixed drinks together and watched the moonlight from his living room.
• Feixiao recalled her Moon Rage, the losses she suffered in battle, and how she became general after Yueyu's death.
• Feixiao remembered first meeting Bai Jun after he killed 117 Medicine King's Legacy remnants and taking him under her command.
• Feixiao recalled asking Bai Jun to become strong enough to stand beside her, while privately fearing the danger of her Moon Rage and the possibility of losing him.

Bai Jun confessed that he wanted Feixiao to live a peaceful life, and Feixiao admitted her love while asking him to kill her if moon rage turned her into a beast. Bai Jun refused, promised they would face the future together, and the two spent the night together; Feixiao woke beside him after dreaming of her feared fate.

• Bai Jun told Feixiao he did not want her to die on the battlefield and wanted her to live happily as an ordinary person.
• Feixiao confessed that she loved Bai Jun, did not want to share him, and asked him to kill her if moon rage made her lose control.
• Bai Jun refused Feixiao's request, kissed her, and vowed that illness, war, death, and the passing years would not separate them.
• Feixiao glimpsed a vast, ancient power within Bai Jun before the two embraced and spent the night together.
• Feixiao dreamed of moon rage consuming her and of her eventual death, then woke in Bai Jun's arms and fell asleep beside him again.
• Bai Jun woke to find Feixiao curled against him, and they shared a quiet morning as she gradually remembered the previous night.

After Feixiao fled in embarrassment, Bai Jun went to the Alchemy Commission to visit Bailu and encountered Jie Da, a White Wolf agent who had just received medicine from Dan Shu. Bai Jun exposed Jie Da’s identity and effortlessly shattered his saber, leaving him broken and fleeing.

• Feixiao refused treatment and hurried away, while Bai Jun cleaned up and went to Shence Mansion to look for her.
• Qing Que told Bai Jun that Feixiao was occupied and suggested he visit Bailu at the Alchemy Commission on Jing Yuan’s behalf.
• At the Alchemy Commission, Dan Shu gave Jie Da a Dust-Returning Form-Preserving Pill and Soul-Returning Vitality Powder, while privately dismissing the Buli as a desperate, scattered rabble.
• Bai Jun overheard Jie Da muttering about Xianzhou natives and recognized him as a White Wolf when Jie Da reacted in alarm.
• Jie Da attacked Bai Jun with a swift saber strike, but Bai Jun caught the blade between two fingers, took it from him, and shattered it in his hand.
• Bai Jun called Jie Da weak, and Jie Da broke down before fleeing in despair.

Bai Jun and Jing Yuan uncovered evidence linking the Medicine King's Legacy to influential Luofu figures and suspected the Buli people were part of a larger scheme, while Feixiao grew increasingly affectionate toward Bai Jun. Jie Qin prepared a Prison of Deep Seclusion operation and redirected hired assassins toward Fyxestroll Garden, as Feixiao spent a quiet afternoon resting beside Bai Jun.

• Bai Jun showed Jing Yuan pills and medicinal powders taken from Jie Da, and Bailu identified the powder as the same kind used by the Medicine King's Legacy and the pill prescription as restricted to a few people.
• Jing Yuan and Bai Jun suspected the Medicine King's Legacy and the Buli people were pieces in a wider plot, and Jing Yuan vowed to strike when their enemies revealed themselves.
• Bai Jun returned home, where Feixiao eagerly embraced him, then joined him in the kitchen and initiated an intimate encounter.
• Jie Qin learned Jie Da had not returned, ordered scouts to memorize the Prison of Deep Seclusion's layout, and sent operatives to remain alert.
• Jie Qin discovered a hidden Prison of Deep Seclusion entrance near Fyxestroll Garden and ordered hired assassins to go there that night.
• Feixiao rested against Bai Jun on the sofa in the afternoon, content to spend quiet time with him.

Bai Jun and Feixiao discussed his ties to others and the growing Buli threat before Jiaoqiu and Moze returned, prompting Bai Jun to resolve to protect the people around him. Later, Huo Huo was called away from her evening off to respond to an emergency at Fyxestroll Garden.

• Bai Jun told Feixiao he would return to the Yaoqing with her, but Feixiao urged him to remain on the Luofu because he had relationships he could not easily abandon.
• Feixiao told Bai Jun that a woman called Mangus was uniting Buli hunting packs, and they wondered whether the White Wolf Hunter Pack's plans were connected to the unrest.
• Jiaoqiu and Moze returned from the Prison of Deep Seclusion, teased Feixiao and Bai Jun, and bickered with Feixiao until Bai Jun resolved to protect the warm life he had found.
• Huo Huo spent her evening off painting a portrait of Bai Jun while Mr. Tail complained about her infatuation.
• Hanya visited Huo Huo and told her that an emergency at Fyxestroll Garden required her to work that night.

Huo Huo was assigned to recapture escaped Suiyang at Fyxestroll Garden, where Bai Jun rescued her from a dangerous swarm and left her lovestruck. Later, Bai Jun and Feixiao received word of trouble at the garden and went to investigate, suspecting the Buli people were using the chaos as a diversion.

• Hanya praised Huo Huo's work, told her she might be promoted to judge, and asked to borrow some of her portraits of Bai Jun.
• At Fyxestroll Garden, a judge ordered Huo Huo to recapture Suiyang in the northern area and bring them to a temporary Furnace of Creation.
• Buli people led a huge swarm of Suiyang flames toward Huo Huo, but Bai Jun arrived and destroyed the swarm before it could hurt her.
• Bai Jun draped his coat over Huo Huo's shoulders, and she blushed as Tail concluded she had fallen for him.
• At home, Bai Jun received a message from Jing Yuan ordering Qing Yan to help at Fyxestroll Garden after the Buli people broke the Furnace of Creation.
• Bai Jun and Feixiao suspected the Buli people were creating a diversion, and Feixiao accompanied him to the garden despite his telling her to rest.

Bai Jun helped Huo Huo deal with the Suiyang and Buli attackers at Fyxestroll Garden, where his kindness led her to mistake his question about Foxkin courtship for a proposal. After Feixiao openly claimed Bai Jun as her man, he and Jing Yuan suspected the attack was a diversion, while Bai Jun later followed a suspicious trace of Soul-Returning Vitality Powder into an alley.

• Bai Jun cleared the northern side of Fyxestroll Garden and reassured Huo Huo, whose admiration for him grew as he praised her and asked about Foxkin proposal customs.
• Feixiao arrived, interlaced her fingers with Bai Jun's, called him her man, and left with him, leaving Huo Huo stunned.
• Jing Yuan and Bai Jun concluded that the Buli people's attack on Fyxestroll Garden was likely a diversion and prepared for Hoolay's prisoner transfer.
• Bai Jun met Yan Qing in Exalting Sanctum and learned that he had no information about the Buli people, though Medicine King's Legacy activity had increased.
• Bai Jun recognized the scent of Soul-Returning Vitality Powder near a back alley and went to investigate, with Yan Qing following close behind.
• Jiaoqiu and Moze entered the Prison of Deep Seclusion to inspect Hoolay's cell ahead of the transfer.

Jie Qin’s White Wolf Hunter Pack freed Hoolay from the Prison of Deep Seclusion, but Jie Qin revealed that his true aim was to take the Crimson Moon from him. Hoolay learned that the Buli people had lost power and faced Jie Qin’s demand for the warhead’s heart-moon.

• Jiaoqiu sensed Buli people nearby as Xue Yi led him and Moze to Hoolay’s prison.
• Jie Qin and the disguised White Wolf Hunter Pack killed the netherworld officers, attacked Xue Yi, and wounded Jiaoqiu.
• The white wolves fed the officers’ corpses to Hoolay, who emerged from his prison after more than a century of torment.
• Hoolay questioned Jie Qin about the Buli people and learned that Jie Qin was a Foxkin who had become the White Wolf Khan.
• Jie Qin described his escape plan, then demanded that Hoolay hand over the Crimson Moon so he could claim the Buli warhead’s power.

Feixiao stopped Jie Qin and Hoolay’s duel by severing both of their weapon arms, while Bai Jun and Yan Qing raided a Medicine King’s Legacy gathering before You Yun arrived to challenge Yan Qing. You Yun prepared to fight, driven by his refusal to accept his limits and his use of a powerful pill.

• Jie Qin challenged Hoolay to a ritual death match after demanding the Crimson Moon, but Feixiao interrupted and cut off both fighters’ weapon arms.
• Jiaoqiu revealed that Bai Jun had given him a communicator, which alerted Feixiao to the events inside the Prison of Deep Seclusion.
• Indigo Begonia ordered Medicine King’s Legacy followers to spread Soul-Returning Vitality Powder and cause chaos in the Exalting Sanctum, but Bai Jun and Yan Qing attacked them first.
• Yan Qing’s flying swords cut down the followers, and Bai Jun killed Indigo Begonia after he called for reinforcements.
• You Yun arrived and struck Yan Qing through his defensive swords, prompting Yan Qing to rise and ready himself for another fight.
• The narration revealed that You Yun had long resented his lack of aptitude and had obtained the Coiling Dragon and Leaping Horned Dragon Pill to become stronger.

Bai Jun uncovered Dan Shu’s role in the Medicine King’s Legacy and confronted her at the Supreme Truth Elixir Chamber. After killing the believers who attacked him, he held Dan Shu at swordpoint, but she defended her actions by blaming The Hunt for the deaths caused by war.

• You Yun’s elixir-enhanced confidence ended when Bai Jun overwhelmed him, questioned him about the Coiling Dragon and Leaping Horned Dragon Pill, and knocked him unconscious.
• Bai Jun traced the pill supply to the Alchemy Commission and identified Dan Shu as the person behind the Medicine King’s Legacy.
• Bai Jun entered the Supreme Truth Elixir Chamber and gave the people inside a chance to leave before he began a countdown.
• Dan Shu ordered the remaining believers to attack, and Bai Jun killed them all with a single sword swing.
• Bai Jun confronted Dan Shu about extracting Vidyadhara marrow and using it to develop the elixir, then accused her of conspiring against the Luofu.
• Dan Shu showed no regret and argued that The Hunt and the Xianzhou’s wars were responsible for the deaths she had avenged.

Bai Jun killed Dan Shu with the power of Abundance, losing a chance to learn who was behind the Medicine King's Legacy and the Buli people's plot. At the Prison of Deep Seclusion, Jie Qin awoke after the failed jailbreak and launched a last attack on Feixiao.

• Bai Jun rejected Dan Shu's claim that Yaoshi's blessings were merciful, then killed her with Abundance before burning her remains to ash.
• Yan Qing told Bai Jun that Merlin's Claw had stopped the Buli jailbreak, and Bai Jun suspected another mastermind had orchestrated the plot to free Hoolay.
• Bai Jun sensed a wolf's howl coming from the Prison of Deep Seclusion beneath the Scalegorge Waterscape.
• Jie Qin recalled that Mangus had offered to help him become war chief, then awoke in restraints beside Hoolay as Feixiao and the others prepared to return them to custody.
• Jie Qin bit a netherworld guard to death, broke free enough to charge Feixiao, and declared through his actions that he would rather die than submit.