Recaps

Ye Qingxian wondered whether Junior Sister might have gone to the event to learn about Chi Xi rather than torment her, then firmly denied that she could fall for Junior Sister again. She stayed in her cave dwelling, told Yangyang to update her about Mother, and returned to refining a medicinal prescription for Junior Sister.

• Ye Qingxian recalled that she had prevented anyone at the event from saying Chi Xi, so Ye Xiaoyao would not panic.
• Ye Qingxian considered that Junior Sister might like her and have attended the event to learn about Chi Xi, but she dismissed the thought as dangerous wishful thinking.
• Ye Qingxian convinced herself she had not fallen for Junior Sister a second time because she had not gone to wait outside Junior Sister's cave dwelling.
• Yangyang messaged Ye Qingxian that she would report anything that happened with Mother, and Ye Qingxian told her to handle unexpected situations and contact her if needed.
• Ye Qingxian returned to refining the medicinal prescription she had prepared for Junior Sister.

Yue Wuhua and Shuang Yue watched Ye Xiaoyao’s bloodline awakening while discussing Shuang Yue’s loneliness and her past. Inside the cave abode, Ye Xiaoyao transformed into the Dark Princess as darkness briefly extinguished all light.

• Yue Wuhua held Shuang Yue while they watched the cave abode, and Shuang Yue saw dark threads converging inside it.
• Yue Wuhua remarked that Shuang Yue’s eyes resembled their Master’s, upsetting Shuang Yue and prompting her to ask for a moment alone.
• Shuang Yue admitted she had few friends she could talk to, and Yue Wuhua promised to help her take revenge on her enemies.
• Ye Xiaoyao’s qi and blood surged as she floated in the cave abode and transformed, gaining ten phantom tails, markings, sharp nails, and fluffy ears.
• A storm gathered, and a profound darkness descended across the world, driving away all light for a moment as the Dark Princess was born.

Ye Xiaoyao awakened a power resembling a Dark Spiritual Root and revealed her ten-tailed form, but the revelation that she was a cat triggered a traumatic breakdown. As her daughters rushed to help, she relived memories of being abandoned and feared being hated by Ye Qingxian.

• Ye Ranxing realized Ye Xiaoyao could gather Dark Factors and use them as a terrifying power that suppressed other spiritual roots.
• Ye Xiaoyao descended with ten tails, opened her eyes, and showed her daughters both an imposing, otherworldly presence and unmistakable maternal love.
• Ye Xiaoyao saw her status panel identify her as an immature Princess and a Dark Realm Ten-tailed Hell Cat, then despaired that she was a cat rather than a human or Phoenix.
• Ye Xiaoyao's anguish unleashed a powerful sound wave, but Yangyang protected her sisters while the cave abode's formation contained the damage.
• Ye Xiaoyao recalled being abandoned as a young cat and feared Ye Qingxian would hate her, then spat black blood as her three daughters ran to her.

After realizing she was truly a cat whose parents abandoned her at a year and a half, the Junior Sister broke down and feared she would repeat that fate with her daughters. As she fell seriously ill, Yangyang asked Ye Qingxian to reassure her that she liked cats, and Ye Qingxian resolved to do so while denying it was a confession.

• The Junior Sister relived the memory of her parents abandoning her when she was a year and a half old and heard their explanation that she was a cat destined to leave the nest.
• Yangyang comforted the Junior Sister, who promised she would never abandon her daughters, while Zhaoxuan and Ranxing held her close.
• The Junior Sister touched her daughters' faces to reassure herself they were there, then fainted and fell seriously ill.
• Yangyang explained that her mother feared Ye Qingxian would find her ugly and reject her because she was a cat, so she sent Ye Qingxian a Sound Transmission Talisman asking her to say she liked little cats.
• Ye Qingxian blushed at the request, then convinced herself that telling the Junior Sister she liked cats was not a confession.

Ye Qingxian tried to disguise her visit to her ill Junior Sister as an offer to adopt a kitten, but the announcement devastated the narrator. The chapter ended with the narrator hiding beneath the covers and telling Ye Qingxian to leave her alone.

• Ye Qingxian told Yangyang she had come to ask her Junior Sister whether she wanted to adopt a kitten, not to show concern for her illness.
• Ye Qingxian announced that she had applied to adopt a kitten herself, and the narrator broke down in tears inside the bedroom.
• Ye Ranxing offered to beat up Ye Qingxian and then comforted the narrator by saying she still had her daughter.
• Ye Qingxian came to the bedroom to fill out the adoption application, and Yangyang opened the door for her.
• The narrator threw a pillow at Ye Qingxian and told her to go live with her kittens because she was a useless good-for-nothing.

Ye Qingxian coaxed Junior Sister out from beneath the covers by insisting she did not hate kittens, and Junior Sister began to acknowledge her identity as a cat. She clung to Ye Qingxian and confessed her fear that Ye Qingxian would reject her, warning that another betrayal of hope might make her lose control.

• Yangyang and Ye Qingxian pretended they had rejected an ugly kitten and only wanted a beautiful pink one, prompting Junior Sister to speak from beneath the covers.
• Junior Sister asked whether Ye Qingxian truly accepted kittens, and Ye Qingxian assured her she would never deceive or despise her.
• Junior Sister said she did not want to adopt a kitten because she already had a daughter, revealing that she was beginning to accept her new identity.
• As Ye Qingxian prepared to leave, Junior Sister threw off the covers, exposed her cat ears, and clung to her from behind.
• Junior Sister admitted she had always feared Ye Qingxian would hate her for being a kitten and warned that she might lose control if Ye Qingxian gave her hope only to take it away.

The little junior sister used her new kitten form to coax Ye Qingxian into caring for her, while interpreting Ye Qingxian’s reluctant kindness as proof of growing affection. The chapter ended with her confident that she understood Ye Qingxian’s feelings from having experienced her love before.

• The little junior sister reminded Ye Qingxian that she had not lied to her, and Ye Qingxian agreed to believe her.
• The little junior sister offered to be Ye Qingxian’s pet kitten, but Ye Qingxian insisted she cared more about the Immortal Path.
• The little junior sister failed to notice a chair, then called for Yangyang to brew tea from the leaves at the bottom of her cabinet.
• After enjoying Yangyang’s tea, the little junior sister took Ye Qingxian’s hand and asked her to warm it, claiming her cold womb made her stomach hurt.
• Ye Qingxian reluctantly agreed to indulge the little junior sister, who took this as evidence that Ye Qingxian had begun to love her.

The narrator hid the extent of her impaired sight from Ye Qingxian and let her escort her home, enjoying the closeness and hoping to win her affection. Later, she recorded Ye Qingxian’s affection at fifty points and wondered how her newly awakened Dark Spiritual Root would affect her power and her next chance to get close to her Senior Sister.

• Ye Qingxian noticed the narrator’s red, blurry eyes and pressed her to explain what had happened.
• The narrator said the Dark Element had eroded her eyes temporarily and claimed her sight would return as she adapted.
• The narrator asked Ye Qingxian to escort her home, then secretly enjoyed being cared for while concealing that she could still see vague outlines.
• Back in the bedroom, the narrator wrote in her pink notebook that Ye Qingxian’s affection level was fifty points, while Yangyang watched.
• The narrator tested her dark energy, wondered whether she could become a Peerless Prodigy, and resolved to taste Ye Qingxian’s spiritual root.

The narrator comforted Yangyang while wrestling with her unresolved feelings about the birth parent who abandoned her. Yangyang helped guide her around the room, where Ye Zhaoxuan and Ye Ranxing soon started competing for their mother’s attention.

• Yangyang told the narrator she wanted to go climbing trees and catch mice together, and the narrator scolded her for talking about eating mice.
• The narrator remembered that she had once enjoyed Shuang Yue’s fish because she had been a cat, then brooded over her birth parent and her inability to let go of the past.
• Yangyang comforted the narrator and offered to be her eyes, while the narrator insisted she could still navigate using her dark-sense.
• Yangyang took the narrator’s hand and led her to Ye Zhaoxuan and Ye Ranxing, who were playing nearby.
• Ye Ranxing and Ye Zhaoxuan argued over who would do a puzzle with their mother, and the narrator ordered them to stand still for fighting again.

Ye Zhaoxuan’s mother caught her daughters staying up to talk, scolded them, and learned Yangyang wanted her to rule the world. The next day, Ye Ranxing went to confront the Handyman Disciples who had deceived her, while her mother asked Ye Qingxian to accompany her and help her see.

• Ye Zhaoxuan and Ye Ranxing whispered with Yangyang after their mother pretended to sleep, and Yangyang told them to go to bed.
• The mother caught Yangyang boasting about ruling the world and scolded all three girls before sending them to sleep.
• Ye Ranxing decided to confront the Handyman Disciples who had tricked her and spent the spirit stones her mother had saved.
• The mother sensed Ye Ranxing’s direction and asked Ye Qingxian to watch over her, explaining that she believed Ye Ranxing could still change.
• Ye Qingxian went with her Junior Sister to guide her, though she suspected the fox-smiling girl had drawn her into another trap.

Ye Qingxian’s Junior Sister staged a fall and bit at Ye Qingxian, stirring memories of their painful past and nearly causing a second thread of love to grow. The attempt failed, leaving Ye Qingxian with an aching emptiness and uncertain affection for her Junior Sister.

• Ye Qingxian cleared the path to stop her Junior Sister from tripping, so her Junior Sister deliberately stepped on her own foot and fell into her arms.
• Ye Qingxian’s Junior Sister bit at her, and the taste and closeness sent Ye Qingxian into memories of their past.
• Ye Qingxian struggled between reason, memory, and darkness as a new thread of love began to grow in her heart.
• Ye Qingxian spat out black blood, and the thread of love stopped growing before it could take root.
• Ye Qingxian rose with an empty feeling, realizing that her love and care for her Junior Sister had not been enough to form a second thread of love.

Ye Xiaoyao struggled with the pain she had caused Ye Qingxian, then tried to reassure her that she would prove her love. Ye Qingxian suggested they visit Ranxing, leaving Ye Xiaoyao overjoyed that her Senior Sister had not rejected her outright for the first time.

• Ye Xiaoyao walked with Ye Qingxian, worried that loving her was causing her pain, and briefly let her tails and dark aura emerge.
• Ye Qingxian showed concern for Ye Xiaoyao, who teased her about being her favorite and having promised her a baby.
• Ye Qingxian reminded Ye Xiaoyao that she had once left her for Qing Ye, and Ye Xiaoyao burst into tears, apologizing for stabbing her.
• Ye Xiaoyao told Ye Qingxian she understood that Qing Ye was also her Ye Qingxian and promised to prove her love.
• Ye Qingxian proposed visiting Ranxing, and Ye Xiaoyao privately celebrated that her Senior Sister had not rejected her outright.

Ye Xiaoyao teased Ye Qingxian while Yue Wuhua tried to win Shuang Yue over in the bushes. Meanwhile, Ye Ranxing confronted the bald man at the Handyman Disciples' quarters to take revenge.

• Ye Qingxian questioned Ye Xiaoyao about flirting, and Ye Xiaoyao shamelessly defended raising a daughter while doing so.
• Yue Wuhua offered Shuang Yue everything in her spatial ring as a betrothal gift, and Shuang Yue blushed but did not reject her affection.
• Ye Xiaoyao teased Ye Qingxian about being possessive, then apologized when Ye Qingxian covered her mouth.
• Ye Ranxing arrived at the Handyman Disciples' quarters with her nine pairs of wings spread and scattered the crowd with a gust.
• Ye Ranxing confronted the bald man and declared that she had come to take his life.

Ye Ranxing attacked the bald man who had plotted against her, but Mao Gao appeared and tried to strike her. Ye Xiaoyao stepped in to protect her daughter and challenged Mao Gao to a fight using only First-Realm cultivation.

• Ye Ranxing used her aura to turn the nearby Handyman Disciples against one another and knocked the bald man to the ground.
• Mao Gao appeared beneath Ye Ranxing and attacked her, but Ye Xiaoyao struck him and forced him back.
• Mao Gao recognized Ye Xiaoyao and taunted her as a useless Direct Disciple of Heavenly Sword Peak.
• Ye Ranxing challenged Mao Gao to a fight to the death after he insulted Ye Xiaoyao, while Ye Qingxian kept the gathered disciples from intervening.
• Ye Xiaoyao stopped Ye Ranxing, told her to stay behind, and declared that she would defeat Mao Gao using only First-Realm cultivation.

Ye Xiaoyao fought Mao Gao before a crowd and revealed the overwhelming power of her newly awakened bloodline, defeating him despite the gap in cultivation. After the spectators recognized her as a prodigy, she turned her attention to the bald man.

• Mao Gao unleashed a storm of spells against Ye Xiaoyao, believing she was only a First Realm cultivator.
• Ye Xiaoyao gathered the Dark Element and erased Mao Gao's attacks before they could reach her.
• Ye Xiaoyao crossed the battlefield in an instant and killed Mao Gao with a strike of her blood-red claws.
• The gathered cultivators realized Ye Xiaoyao had left behind her reputation as a useless waste and emerged as a powerful prodigy.
• Ye Xiaoyao swung another phantom red claw toward the bald man.

Ye Qingxian settled the aftermath of the battle while Ye Xiaoyao comforted Ye Ranxing and explained the difference between rewarding her and punishing her. Ye Qingxian began considering whether to help raise Ye Ranxing, leaving the family’s relationship poised to change.

• Ye Qingxian ordered Mao Gao and Mao Guang executed by Ye Xiaoyao and sentenced Zhang Lin and the other accomplices to have their cultivation crippled and be expelled from Wuya Sect.
• On the way back, Ye Xiaoyao took Ye Ranxing’s hand despite her promise to Ye Qingxian to remain stern.
• Ye Qingxian watched Ye Ranxing and considered accepting her as a daughter and helping Ye Xiaoyao look after her.
• Ye Xiaoyao praised Ye Ranxing’s conduct and promised her a reward while explaining that her punishment still stood so she could learn from her mistakes.
• Ye Ranxing pouted and reaffirmed to herself that she would never fall in love and would remain her mother’s devoted lackey.

Ye Qingxian wrestled with her feelings for Junior Sister and considered taking her back to the lower realm, but a conflict between her mindsets erased her doubts. At Ye Xiaoyao’s cave abode, Yangyang fell asleep in Ye Ranxing’s arms while the little Fallen Angel Lord protested.

• Ye Qingxian recalled Junior Sister’s affection and the phoenix embroidery, then wondered what she should do about their relationship.
• Ye Qingxian decided to find a chance to take Junior Sister to her home in the lower realm and admitted she disliked imagining Junior Sister becoming Dao Companions with someone else.
• A streak of black light appeared between Ye Qingxian’s brows as her conflicting mindsets battled, leaving her eyes clear amid falling white feathers.
• At Ye Xiaoyao’s cave abode, Ye Ranxing watched her mother push her second daughter on a swing until Yangyang jumped into her arms.
• Yangyang settled down to sleep in Ye Ranxing’s arms as Ye Ranxing protested being used as a cat bed and complained about Ye Daoyan.

Ye Xiaoyao cared for her daughters and made toys from Yangyang’s shed fur, while the Ye Family’s gentler plan to separate Ye Qingxian from her family failed. The Third Ancestor and Seventh Ancestor agreed that Ye Qingxian had to be married off and began planning a more proactive scheme.

• Ye Ranxing stayed quiet while Ye Daoyan slept in her arms, then accepted Ye Xiaoyao’s invitation to ride the swing.
• Ye Xiaoyao tucked Yangyang, Ye Ranxing, and Ye Zhaoxuan into bed, and Yangyang stayed alert to guard her sisters.
• Ye Xiaoyao made a rabbit doll for Ye Ranxing and prepared a different toy for Yangyang from the cat fur Yangyang had shed.
• After the Third Ancestor awoke, the Ye Family’s first plan to separate them failed, so the Third Ancestor and Seventh Ancestor began devising a more proactive scheme.
• The Third Ancestor and Seventh Ancestor agreed that Ye Qingxian had to be married off.

Ye Ranxing and Ye Zhaoxuan worried that Ye Qingxian missed her ancestral home, while Ye Zhaoxuan tried to comfort her mother about her catlike nature. That night, Ye Qingxian confessed she wanted to see and pet her junior sister as a kitty, leaving the flustered narrator insisting she was not a cat.

• Ye Ranxing told Ye Zhaoxuan that Ye Qingxian missed her ancestral home and that the feeling needed to be resolved.
• Ye Zhaoxuan wondered if her mother was suppressing her cat instincts and offered her wings to comfort her.
• Ye Qingxian sat with the narrator while she sewed toys and asked whether the babies were asleep.
• Ye Qingxian blurted out that she wanted to see her junior sister as a kitty and rub her ears.
• The narrator blushed and told Ye Qingxian to find another cat to pet instead.

Ye Qingxian offered to take Ye Xiaoyao to the Lower Realm, where she was born, and Ye Xiaoyao was overwhelmed by the gesture. After Ye Qingxian touched her ears, Xiaoyao fled to her room in embarrassment, while Qingxian grew even more determined to untie her heart knot.

• Ye Qingxian decided to help Ye Xiaoyao resolve her heart knot and asked whether Xiaoyao wanted to visit the Lower Realm.
• Ye Xiaoyao realized Ye Qingxian had invented a sect mission to take her to the place where she was born, then embraced her and tearfully offered to become her wife.
• Ye Qingxian reached out and touched Ye Xiaoyao's ears, making Xiaoyao moan in surprise.
• Ye Xiaoyao shoved Ye Qingxian away and hurried back to her room, saying she would talk another time.
• Ye Qingxian watched her go and resolved to keep helping her, while Ye Xiaoyao wrestled with her embarrassment over the touch.

Ye Zhaoxuan tried to reconcile with her younger sister, Ye Ranxing, but Ye Ranxing warned that their opposing natures made peace dangerous. The chapter left Ye Zhaoxuan wondering whether they could ever truly reconcile, while their mother’s planned trip to the lower realm remained on their minds.

• Yangyang basked on the roof and secretly hoped her mother would transform into a big cat and accept her catlike nature.
• Ye Zhaoxuan told Ye Ranxing that their mother planned to take them to the lower realm, but Ye Ranxing showed little interest.
• Ye Zhaoxuan showed Ye Ranxing a feather that had nearly turned white and explained that she was trying to become kinder.
• Ye Zhaoxuan asked Ye Ranxing to reconcile and promised to protect her, but Ye Ranxing rejected the offer.
• Ye Ranxing warned that their light and darkness could destroy each other if their thoughts fully synchronized, then walked away.
• Ye Zhaoxuan watched her sister leave and wondered whether they could ever make peace.

The narrator prepared for the Spring Festival by giving Yangyang, Ye Zhaoxuan, and Ye Ranxing handmade gifts, then agreed to return to the Lower Realm with Ye Qingxian. As they prepared to leave, the Ye Family’s Seventh Ancestor planned to use Ye Qingxian’s itinerary to provoke Chi Xi into acting.

• The narrator gave Yangyang a New Year's toy and explained the Lower Realm's Spring Festival.
• The narrator gave matching dolls to Ye Zhaoxuan and Ye Ranxing, who both thanked her in their own ways.
• Ye Qingxian returned for dinner and told the narrator they would leave for the Lower Realm the next day.
• Ye Qingxian assured the narrator that she had prepared gold and silver for their trip.
• The Seventh Ancestor ordered someone to tell Chi Xi about Ye Qingxian's itinerary, expecting him to interfere because he considered her his future Dao Companion.

In Lesser Supreme Heaven, the hidden young man learned that Ye Qingxian was heading to the First Lower Realm and decided not to pursue her, recognizing that Ye Xiaoyao was her true match. After confirming Ye Xiaoyao’s identity at Death Valley, he chose to stay out of their affairs and hide as darkness rose.

• A servant told the young man that Ye Qingxian was about to go to the First Lower Realm as his prospective Dao Companion.
• The young man explained that Ye Qingxian was already bound to Ye Xiaoyao and that he would not interfere with their relationship.
• At Death Valley, the young man confirmed Ye Xiaoyao’s identity and reflected that she had become too powerful to challenge safely.
• The young man told his servant that darkness was rising across the worlds and that he intended to remain on its side rather than interfere.
• After beating his servant for urging him to pursue Ye Qingxian, the young man said he would pretend to be dead and never show himself to Ye Qingxian and Ye Xiaoyao again.

The Ye Family’s Third and Seventh Ancestors plotted to force Ye Qingxian into marriage and turn her against Ye Xiaoyao. Meanwhile, Ye Qingxian took Ye Xiaoyao and the children through the lower realms, and they continued their journey toward Ye Xiaoyao’s birth parents.

• The Third and Seventh Ancestors decided to keep pressuring Ye Qingxian to marry and to exploit her feelings for Ye Xiaoyao to drive them apart.
• Ye Xiaoyao set off from Wuya Sect with Ye Ranxing and Ye Zhaoxuan, while Ye Qingxian explained the worlds below Supreme Heaven and how to travel between them.
• Ye Qingxian used her token and Divine Ability to take the group through a cross-world passage at an Ascension Platform.
• The group crossed the Fourth World without incident as Ye Qingxian led the way.
• Ye Qingxian took the group through the weaker Third World by the shortest route, dropping them amid battles as they continued searching for Ye Xiaoyao’s birth parents.

Ye Xiaoyao recalled clues about the kind older sister who had cared for her as a child, and Ye Qingxian planned to find the woman and then trace Ye Xiaoyao’s family. Ye Xiaoyao suspected her parents were cultivators, while Ye Qingxian reassured her that beauty did not depend on cultivation.

• Ye Xiaoyao remembered that a kind older sister had taken her in and fed her when she was homeless, and she regretted leaving without saying goodbye.
• Ye Xiaoyao recalled the older sister’s butterfly hand design and a wide river near the welfare institute, giving Ye Qingxian clues to search for her.
• Ye Qingxian said locating Ye Xiaoyao’s blood relatives would be difficult, but planned to search those who had left the lower realm and then everyone still there.
• Ye Xiaoyao guessed her parents might be powerful cultivators because she believed beautiful people were usually strong.
• Ye Qingxian told Ye Xiaoyao that she was exceptionally beautiful despite her low cultivation, leaving Ye Xiaoyao flustered.