Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Ruo Xi brought Chen Mo toward the Ouyang Family estate near Kunlun Mountain so he could treat her father and earn a Sea Orchid Heart. Meanwhile, Ouyang Xuan learned they were coming and considered how to stop his niece from helping Ouyang Jing recover.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi told Chen Mo about the Ouyang Family's home near Kunlun Mountain and its need for a good cultivation environment.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo traveled to a nearby city, where she planned to wait for her father and arrange the consultation.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan told Ouyang Xuan that Ouyang Ruo Xi had found a fourteenth Doctor and might be returning with him.
• Ouyang Xuan reflected on his plan to take the Clan Leader position after secretly causing Ouyang Jing's Cultivation Level to decline.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan offered to arrange for people to stop Ouyang Ruo Xi, and Ouyang Xuan said some things would have to be made clear to her.

Ouyang Xuan coached Ouyang Ruoyuan on how to seize the Ouyang Clan leadership and ordered him to intercept Ouyang Ruo Xi and kill her doctor. As Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi traveled to help Ouyang Jing, the chapter revealed that Ouyang Jing had uncovered Ouyang Xuan’s role in the plot against him.

• Ouyang Xuan told Ouyang Ruoyuan to stop Ouyang Ruo Xi, kill her doctor, cripple her cultivation, and force her into marriage with the Han Family if necessary.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan agreed to send as many Masters as possible, including two Houtian Layer Seven Masters, to intercept Ouyang Ruo Xi.
• Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi left the airport by car, with Ouyang Ruo Xi driving and keeping their plans closely guarded.
• Ouyang Jing had agreed to let Chen Mo treat him after Ouyang Ruo Xi learned the truth about his danger and refused to leave him.
• Ouyang Jing traced his cultivation decline to a fight with an elder allied to Ouyang Xuan and realized he had been set up so Ouyang Xuan could take the Clan Leader position.

Ouyang Ruo Xi explained that Ouyang Xuan was trying to force Ouyang Jing from the position of Clan Leader, prompting her to leave with Chen Mo. As they drove into the mountains, Chen Mo spotted an ambush and helped Ouyang Ruo Xi smash through the roadblock and escape.

• Ouyang Jing told Ouyang Ruo Xi that Ouyang Xuan was pressuring him to arrange her marriage to Han Junji and planned to use the dispute against him.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi understood why her father wanted her to leave, while Ouyang Jing explained that he could not abandon his supporters or risk fighting while his cultivation was declining.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi told Chen Mo about the Ouyang Family's conflict as they traveled, but Chen Mo remained wary and regretted becoming entangled in the family's struggle for the Sea Orchid Heart.
• Chen Mo sensed a vehicle blocking the mountain road and stepped on Ouyang Ruo Xi's foot to make the SUV accelerate.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi recognized an Houtian Layer Seven member of Ouyang Xuan's faction among the ambushers and rammed through the blocking car to escape.

Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi fled Ouyang Ruoyuan’s pursuing vehicles along a mountain road, with Chen Mo directing her driving. They escaped the first pursuer when Chen Mo secretly disabled its engine, while the other cars continued after them.

• Ouyang Ruoyuan ordered his men to pursue Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi after she rammed through their blockade.
• Chen Mo withdrew his foot from the accelerator and told Ouyang Ruo Xi to follow his driving instructions as they raced along the mountain road.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi slowed down and kept the Jeep in the middle of the road as three SUVs closed in behind them.
• Chen Mo directed Ouyang Ruo Xi to yield space at a bend, then accelerate as the pursuing SUVs tried to box them in.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi scraped the Jeep against the adjacent SUV while the second SUV struck them from behind.
• Chen Mo used his Spiritual Sense to jam a pebble into the adjacent SUV’s engine, sending it over the cliff, and Ouyang Ruo Xi accelerated through the bend.

Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo fled Ouyang Ruoyuan’s pursuers, using falling steel components to crash their car. Ouyang Ruoyuan’s men commandeered another vehicle and continued the chase, leaving Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo racing down a branch road.

• Ouyang Ruoyuan ordered the third car to stop and rescue the pursuers whose car had plunged off the cliff, while he continued after Ouyang Ruo Xi.
• Chen Mo spotted steel components tied atop a truck and told Ouyang Ruo Xi to slow down and let the rear car catch up.
• After Ouyang Ruo Xi sped past the truck, its steel components fell onto the road, causing Ouyang Ruoyuan’s SUV to crash; the driver died, while Ouyang Ruoyuan and his two Houtian Layer Seven men survived.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan ordered the two men to capture Ouyang Ruo Xi and kill Chen Mo, and they seized a passing car to resume the pursuit.
• When traffic congestion and the commandeered car appeared behind them, Chen Mo told Ouyang Ruo Xi to ram a car aside and take a branch road, and the pursuers followed.

Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo tried to escape two Houtian Layer Seven Martial Artists by driving off the road across the Gobi Desert. After their Jeep overturned and the pursuers rammed it, they faced the two attackers on foot.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi drove faster to evade the approaching car while Chen Mo stayed calm and told her to focus on escaping.
• When an accident vehicle blocked their lane, Ouyang Ruo Xi turned the Jeep onto the Gobi Desert, and the pursuing sedan followed.
• The two pursuers drove over rocks and potholes, damaging their sedan as they closed in on Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo.
• A large rock sent the Jeep rolling; Chen Mo used a Vajra Talisman to protect himself, and he and Ouyang Ruo Xi climbed out with only minor injuries to her.
• Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi flipped the Jeep upright, but the sedan rammed it and both Houtian Layer Seven Martial Artists leaped out to confront them.

Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren cornered Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo, intending to capture her and kill him. Chen Mo fled with talismans, leaving Ouyang Ruo Xi disappointed and alone with Ouyang Ren as Ouyang Xing chased after him.

• Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren confronted Ouyang Ruo Xi and Chen Mo, revealing their orders to capture her and kill the doctor.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi stepped in to hold off Ouyang Ren and urged Chen Mo to escape, while Chen Mo secretly prepared talismans.
• Ouyang Ren attacked Ouyang Ruo Xi, but Chen Mo used Body Evasion and Swiftness Talismans and ran away.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi felt bitter and disappointed when Chen Mo fled without a word.
• Ouyang Xing chased after Chen Mo, while Ouyang Ren charged at Ouyang Ruo Xi.

Chen Mo lured Ouyang Xing away from the others and tested his defensive talisman in a fight. After killing Ouyang Xing and erasing the traces, Chen Mo hurried back to rescue Ouyang Ruo Xi.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi attacked Ouyang Ren fiercely after he taunted her, gaining the upper hand despite his greater strength.
• Chen Mo led Ouyang Xing into a nearby depression and stopped to test himself against him.
• Chen Mo used his Vajra Talisman to withstand Ouyang Xing's punches and kicks, leaving Ouyang Xing suspicious of his defense.
• Ouyang Xing demanded Chen Mo's Cultivation Method, and Chen Mo answered by striking him with three Thunderstorm Talismans.
• Chen Mo stabbed Ouyang Xing in the heart, stored his body Inside Universe Bead, cleared away the evidence, and hurried back.

Chen Mo watched Ouyang Ren defeat Ouyang Ruo Xi, then revealed himself as Ouyang Ren prepared to take her away. He struck Ouyang Ren with a Thunderstorm Talisman, leaving him seriously injured.

• Chen Mo hid nearby as Ouyang Ren overwhelmed Ouyang Ruo Xi and knocked her unconscious.
• Ouyang Ren decided to carry Ouyang Ruo Xi away and search for his Older Brother, Ouyang Xing.
• Chen Mo appeared and taunted Ouyang Ren when he asked where his brother was.
• Ouyang Ren attacked Chen Mo with a flying kick, and Chen Mo hit him with a Thunderstorm Talisman.
• The lightning bolt seriously injured Ouyang Ren and knocked him to the ground.

Chen Mo killed Ouyang Ren with Thunderstorm Talismans, concealed the evidence, and escaped with the badly injured Ouyang Ruo Xi. He treated her in a hidden campsite, and she awoke just as he was preparing to continue drawing out the blood stasis.

• Ouyang Ren tried to flee, but Chen Mo struck him down with Thunderstorm Talismans and stabbed him through the heart to make sure he was dead.
• Chen Mo stored Ouyang Ren's corpse and the vehicles, cleaned up the scene, and carried the unconscious Ouyang Ruo Xi away in an unregistered SUV.
• Chen Mo drove into the Gobi Desert, avoided a nearby town, and carried Ouyang Ruo Xi to a secluded campsite beneath a cliff.
• Chen Mo used True Essence to repair Ouyang Ruo Xi's displaced organs and expel the blood stasis from her body.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi woke up and tried to attack Chen Mo, but he told her to stay still while he continued treating her.

Chen Mo treated Ouyang Ruo Xi’s injuries in a desert tent, while she woke and grew embarrassed as she watched him. Elsewhere, Ouyang Ruoyuan survived the crash and pursued Ouyang Ren and Ouyang Xing, but by nightfall he still had not found them and asked Ouyang Xuan for help.

• Chen Mo used acupuncture and medicine to treat Ouyang Ruo Xi, then covered her with a quilt and warmed the tent.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi woke fully, remembered Chen Mo had slapped her butt, and hid beneath the quilt after drinking water from him.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan assessed his injuries after the crash and arranged for his people to handle the wreck and prepare vehicles.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan chased Ouyang Ren and Ouyang Xing for several hours, but they did not answer his calls and remained missing.
• Ouyang Ruoyuan decided to mobilize a search and explained the events to Ouyang Xuan.

Ouyang Xuan sent Ouyang Lin to investigate Ouyang Ruoyuan’s failed interception of Ouyang Ruo Xi and the disappearance of Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren. After finding deliberately erased evidence and a fragment of scorched human tissue, Ouyang Lin ended the search with no leads, while the brothers were presumed dead.

• Ouyang Xuan dispatched Ouyang Lin, a Houtian Layer Eight Master, to help Ouyang Ruoyuan investigate the failed pursuit and find Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren.
• Ouyang Lin and Ouyang Ruoyuan retraced the route and followed tire tracks to the site where Ouyang Ren had fought Ouyang Ruo Xi.
• Ouyang Lin found that the scene had been deliberately destroyed, then discovered faint footprints leading to another erased site.
• Ouyang Lin found scorched human body tissue and took it for laboratory testing.
• Ouyang Lin spent the day searching without finding useful clues, and the group called off the investigation as Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren were presumed killed.

Ouyang Lin investigated the wrecked cars and battle sites but found only fragments that suggested Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren had died, with no clues revealing how. Convinced Ouyang Ruo Xi might have a powerful ally and fearing Ouyang Jing’s hidden plans, Ouyang Xuan ordered Ouyang Lin and Ouyang Ruoyuan back to the Ouyang Family residence.

• Ouyang Lin searched the first accident site and found scattered fragments from cars driven by Ouyang Ruo Xi and Ouyang Xing, indicating both vehicles had been wrecked.
• Ouyang Lin examined the second battlefield but found nothing, leaving him unable to determine how Ouyang Xing and Ouyang Ren had died.
• Ouyang Lin sent his findings to Ouyang Xuan, who concluded that the two men were likely dead and worried that a powerful master might be helping Ouyang Ruo Xi.
• Ouyang Xuan told Ouyang Lin to bring Ouyang Ruoyuan back and focus on guarding against Ouyang Jing.
• Ouyang Lin agreed and returned to the Ouyang Family residence with Ouyang Ruoyuan and their subordinates.

Ouyang Ruo Xi woke in Chen Mo’s tent and watched him practice a powerful fist technique he claimed to have created, despite being a Houtian Layer Three Martial Artist. After seeing her dirty face in a mirror, she hid in embarrassment until Chen Mo gave her water and a towel to wash.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi woke early and wondered how Chen Mo had rescued her after Ouyang Ren knocked her unconscious.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi watched Chen Mo practice his fist technique, and Chen Mo called it Chen Family's Long Fist and claimed he had created it.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi was shocked that Chen Mo said he was Houtian Layer Three and had invented a martial art.
• Chen Mo handed Ouyang Ruo Xi a small mirror, and she screamed at the sight of her muddy, stained face.
• Chen Mo prepared mineral water and a towel, then moved away so Ouyang Ruo Xi could wash and tidy herself.

After Ouyang Ruo Xi woke, Chen Mo invented a story about a white-bearded old man rescuing them and refused to explain what really happened. They reconciled through teasing and decided to continue toward her father, leaving on a motorcycle Chen Mo had somehow obtained.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi asked how she had been rescued, and Chen Mo claimed a white-bearded old man had saved them both.
• Chen Mo said he had carried Ouyang Ruo Xi to their shelter, prompting her to attack him over spanking her while she was unconscious.
• Chen Mo pretended to die after Ouyang Ruo Xi punched him, making her laugh and let him off.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi asked what they should do next, and Chen Mo urged her to continue their journey to treat her father's illness.
• Chen Mo led Ouyang Ruo Xi to a motorcycle and claimed he had bought it the previous night.

Chen Mo buried the supplies he could not store and took Ouyang Ruo Xi away on a motorcycle. They rode across the Gobi Desert toward Kun Town, where Ouyang Ruo Xi planned to contact her father and arrange a meeting.

• Chen Mo buried the supplies, brought out his motorcycle, and told Ouyang Ruo Xi to leave with him.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi got on behind Chen Mo and wrapped her arms around his waist as they rode away.
• Chen Mo used his heightened senses and Spiritual Sense to guide the motorcycle quickly across the rough Gobi terrain.
• After reaching the highway, Chen Mo asked where they would meet Ouyang Lin, and Ouyang Ruo Xi said they would decide after reaching Kun Town.
• Chen Mo refueled the motorcycle in a nearby town and rode on without stopping, so Ouyang Lin and Ouyang Ruoyuan later failed to find them there.

Chen Mo confronted Ouyang Ruo Xi for bringing him to the Ouyang Family’s base without telling her father or keeping their agreement, but agreed to treat him after she offered a Stone Heart Flower and a choice of another herb. They left their motorcycle in the village and climbed toward the family base, with Chen Mo reminding her that the Sea Orchid Heart was also owed to him.

• Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi arrived at a mountain village, and she revealed that her father was waiting at the Ouyang Family’s base beyond the ridge.
• Chen Mo learned that Ouyang Ruo Xi had not told her father about the treatment and refused to continue, citing their agreement and the danger they had faced on the road.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi offered Chen Mo a medicinal herb, and he recognized its picture as a Stone Heart Flower that could help extend a cultivator’s lifespan when paired with Spirit Heart Grass.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi added that Chen Mo could choose another herb from the Ouyang Family Medicinal Material Warehouse, and he agreed to treat her father.
• Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruo Xi left the motorcycle in the village and began climbing toward the family base, while he reminded her that the Sea Orchid Heart was also part of his payment.

Chen Mo accompanied Ouyang Ruo Xi to the Ouyang Family’s mountain stronghold and waited until nightfall to enter. After Ouyang Ruo Hua escorted him through the patrols and into the residence, Chen Mo settled in a secluded courtyard while Ouyang Ruo Xi’s father remained occupied.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi showed Chen Mo the vast Ouyang Family residence from the ridge and used his telescope to inspect it.
• After waiting more than two hours for darkness, Ouyang Ruo Xi led Chen Mo to a hiding place near the residence and asked him to wait while she went inside.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi returned with her cousin Ouyang Ruo Hua and explained that her father could not meet Chen Mo yet.
• Ouyang Ruo Hua, the area’s Security Chief, guided them past patrols after shutting off the local surveillance system.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi separated from them inside the city wall, and Ouyang Ruo Hua led Chen Mo to a clean, secluded courtyard before leaving for another patrol.

Chen Mo waited in a hidden courtyard until Ouyang Ruo Xi arrived with her father, Ouyang Jing, the Ouyang Family Clan Leader, so Chen Mo could examine his illness. Ouyang Jing cautiously assessed Chen Mo while political threats from Ouyang Xuan kept him from acting against the Clan Leader.

• Chen Mo stayed secluded in the courtyard, avoided the food brought to him, and passed the time carving while Ouyang Ruo Xi was away.
• Ouyang Xuan investigated Ouyang Jing’s hidden forces after two Houtian Layer Seven men disappeared, then halted his plans when he found no useful information.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi entered the courtyard near midnight with Ouyang Jing and introduced him to Chen Mo.
• Ouyang Jing studied Chen Mo and considered his daughter’s interest in him as well as his ability to treat Ouyang Jing’s illness.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi urged her father to let Chen Mo treat him, explaining that his health was essential to her own security.

Ouyang Jing and Ouyang Ruo Xi evaded Ouyang Xuan’s surveillance and finally reached Chen Mo so he could examine Ouyang Jing’s injury. Chen Mo began a pulse diagnosis and proposed using acupuncture needles, leaving the treatment about to begin.

• Ouyang Jing told Ouyang Ruo Xi that Ouyang Xuan’s suspicions and surveillance prevented them from visiting Chen Mo, and he privately suspected Ouyang Xuan had caused his injury.
• Ouyang Xuan’s people watched Ouyang Jing’s courtyard, so Ouyang Jing used a steady stream of visitors to overwhelm them before he and Ouyang Ruo Xi slipped out at night.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi apologized to Chen Mo for leaving him waiting, while Ouyang Jing studied Chen Mo and prompted his daughter’s embarrassment.
• Chen Mo examined Ouyang Jing’s pulse and other signs, then said he needed acupuncture needles to investigate further.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi and Ouyang Jing agreed to let Chen Mo proceed with the acupuncture treatment.