Chapter Summaries

Li Mo and Ying Bing returned home to a family banquet, where their relatives praised them and speculated about their relationship. They went to separate rooms, leaving Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin relieved but already joking about a possible future child.

• Li Dalong told relatives that Li Mo had earned his success himself, then learned the family had gathered to sound out Li Mo about his Hidden Dragon Ranking nickname.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing sat together at the banquet, and their relatives questioned Li Mo about marriage and noticed their matching sect training clothes.
• Ying Bing left for her room, and Li Mo told his family some stories from the Southern Border before heading to his own bedroom.
• The relatives discussed whether Li Mo and Ying Bing were involved, while Great-uncle advised them not to interfere.
• Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin felt relieved that the two had gone to separate rooms, and Li Dalong asked for a dictionary to look up a character for a future child's name.

Luo Yexian reported the treasures he had found at Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect to the Demon Summoning Holy Son, who planned to investigate personally. That night, Li Mo sneaked into Ying Bing’s room to practice with her, but fell asleep before she could address her worries about being discovered.

• Luo Yexian showed the Demon Summoning Holy Son gold, a Night-Shining Pearl, and Six-Pattern Pills as proof that the treasures at Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect were real.
• The Demon Summoning Holy Son decided to bring two Dharma Kings to investigate and told Luo Yexian to address him by his title.
• Unable to sleep, Li Mo left his room and ran into Li Dalong, then waited until his father had returned to his room before going to Ying Bing’s chamber.
• Ying Bing invited Li Mo to sit beside her, and the two practiced using their Taiyin Divine Forms while she reviewed the Golden Crow Projection’s fighting style.
• Li Mo fell asleep during the practice, leaving Ying Bing unable to raise her concern about what his parents would think if they found him in her room.

Li Mo promised Jiang Chulong he would bring her Big Brother Li if she defeated the Golden Crow Projection, but she lost and became despondent. Li Mo appeared as Big Brother Li and challenged the projection himself, hoping to advance his Heaven-Equalizing Battle Intent and gain another divine ability.

• Li Mo changed the immortal palace’s lesson space into a Yin-Yang Dojo and considered bringing future disciples into the Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Chulong told the Heavenly Venerable she missed Big Brother Li, so he promised to bring him to her if she defeated the Golden Crow Projection.
• Jiang Chulong fought the Golden Crow Projection with her Peach Blossom Branch, but its light-and-shadow technique let it strike her down.
• Li Mo appeared before Jiang Chulong as Big Brother Li, comforted her, and promised to beat the Golden Crow Projection.
• Li Mo faced the Golden Crow Projection with his Great Sage Phantom, hoping to strengthen his Heaven-Equalizing Battle Intent and comprehend another divine ability.

Li Mo defeated the Golden Crow Projection, strengthening his Great Sage Divine Intent and discovering the External Incarnation ability. Meanwhile, Li Dalong grew suspicious of Li Mo’s nightly visits to Ying Bing’s room, and he and Gu Xueqin began planning to investigate.

• Li Mo used Divine Intent, his sword, and the Forty to defeat the Golden Crow Projection after a grueling battle.
• Li Mo realized battle helped perfect the Great Dao Divine Form and discovered the Divine Ability: External Incarnation.
• Li Mo kept sneaking into Ying Bing’s room at night to cultivate, and Li Dalong caught him leaving one morning.
• Li Dalong told Gu Xueqin he suspected Li Mo was visiting Little Bing’s room to make him a grandfather, and they discussed how to confirm it.

Li Mo and Ying Bing left his parents’ home to stroll through Qinghe County, where their closeness drew his parents’ suspicion. They met Li Mo’s childhood friend Zou Yongfeng near the Ying Family Old Residence, and Ying Bing’s reaction suggested the visit would reopen painful memories.

• Li Mo’s parents watched him and Ying Bing closely after she shared her cup and picked food for him, then decided to investigate his room that night.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing walked through the New Year crowds, and Ying Bing offered to celebrate his birthday separately before taking his hand.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing encountered Zou Yongfeng, who introduced his pregnant wife and revealed that he had married earlier that year.
• Zou Yongfeng asked whether they planned to visit the Ying Family Old Residence, and Ying Bing’s hand tightened as Li Mo remembered that she was its sole survivor.

After hearing that someone had seen a strange shadow at the Ying Family Old Residence, Li Mo realized Ying Bing was haunted by memories of what happened there. He entered her nightmare through Phoenix Singing in the Heavenly Marsh and found himself as a child at the Ying Family Ancestral Hall on New Year’s Day.

• Zou Yongfeng told Li Mo that he had seen a huge shadow near the Ying Family Old Residence and moved away out of fear.
• Li Mo noticed Ying Bing's distress and brought her home, while Li Dalong said Zou Yongfeng had reported the sighting but a search had found nothing.
• Li Mo used the Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye and discovered that Ying Bing was haunted by nightmares, then entered her dream by taking her hand and activating Phoenix Singing in the Heavenly Marsh.
• Li Mo arrived in the burned Ying Family Manor’s Ancestral Hall as a child and remembered that he had come to find Ying Bing.
• Li Mo greeted Ying Bing’s parents and asked to visit her, but an old scholar scolded him for his earlier classroom prank.

Li Mo persuaded the old scholar to let him visit Ying Bing by inventing a story about a poem, then entered the Ying residence with Mother Ying. He learned that Ying Bing suffered recurring bouts of unnatural cold and reached the door of her room.

• The old scholar confronted Li Mo over his childhood pranks, including damaging the school latrine, ruining his orchids, and teaching a girl to pee standing up.
• Li Mo recited a famous poem and claimed the old scholar had once polished it, earning the scholar praise from the guests and permission to return to school after New Year.
• Ying Xuliang agreed to let Li Mo visit Ying Bing, and Mother Ying escorted him into the residence.
• Mother Ying told Li Mo that Ying Bing periodically turned ice-cold and withdrew from others as they arrived at her closed room.

Li Mo visited Ying Bing in the Ying family courtyard and coaxed her into eating and going outside with him. He believed her subconscious still remembered him, but as they joined the family gathering, he kept quiet about his foreknowledge that the Ying family would die that night.

• Mother Ying brought Li Mo to see Ying Bing, who refused most of her meal and sat alone playing chess.
• Li Mo challenged Ying Bing to connect five, beat her, and persuaded her to eat by calling her big sister.
• Li Mo asked to take Ying Bing outside, and she agreed and let him hold her hand.
• The Ying family descendants were astonished to see Ying Bing leave the courtyard with Li Mo, while Ying Xuliang felt conflicted watching them together.
• Li Mo stayed silent when Ying Xuliang told them not to go too far, thinking no one would believe his warning about the family's deaths that night.

Li Mo tried to take Little Ice Block outside the Ying Family Courtyard, but discovered that the boundary of her dream made escape impossible. After returning, he planned to draw places and people she had never seen in hopes of awakening her self-awareness.

• Li Mo led Little Ice Block out of the courtyard and tricked her into calling him Big Brother.
• As they approached the street, Little Ice Block felt pain at the invisible boundary surrounding the Ying Family Courtyard, and Li Mo realized the outside world was unreachable in her dream.
• Li Mo brought Little Ice Block back before dusk, but she forgot their attempted escape and called him a bad child for lying to her.
• Li Mo proposed drawing places she had never seen, hoping the unfamiliar images would awaken her self-awareness.

Li Mo painted scenes from the outside world for Ying Bing, then drew a portrait of her grown-up self for her and her parents. The portrait stirred an inexplicable familiarity in Ying Bing, and Li Mo began to add his own future self to the painting.

• Li Mo painted Qinghe County's New Year celebrations and Clear Abyss Sect for Ying Bing, who pretended to find his work only passable so he would keep drawing.
• When Li Mo started to give up, Ying Bing shyly called him brother and asked for another painting, leaving Ying Xuliang stunned.
• Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying asked Li Mo to paint what Ying Bing would look like when she grew up.
• Li Mo used his Divine Observation Diagram method to paint an older Ying Bing, whose portrait brought her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
• Li Mo said the painting was not finished and offered to paint what he would look like when he grew up too.

On New Year’s Eve, Li Mo spent the evening with Little Ying Bing at the Ying family home and resolved to stay in her dream to help her face her childhood fears. During the family’s ancestral worship, a terrifying beast appeared outside the Ancestral Hall and fixed its gaze on Little Ying Bing.

• Li Mo drew a picture of his grown-up self, and Little Ying Bing touched the painted face before playfully putting ink on his philtrum.
• At the Ying family’s New Year’s Eve dinner, Little Ying Bing offered her father a dumpling, and her parents welcomed Li Mo and gave him a red envelope.
• Li Mo decided that even if he encountered a Calamity Beast in the dream, he would stay to accompany Little Ying Bing.
• Li Mo and the Ying family’s younger generation entered the Ancestral Hall to worship their ancestors, where Li Mo sensed Power of All Living Beings in the ancestor’s statue.
• A horned, black beast appeared silently outside the Ancestral Hall and told Little Ying Bing, “you finally came back.”

The Year Beast attacked the Ying Family Ancestral Hall, and Ying Xuliang tried to hide Ying Bing inside the glowing Ancestor Statue. Li Mo taunted the Year Beast and tried to lure it toward the erased air wall, but the chapter ended with him confronting the Cold Fairy instead of the little Ice Block.

• The Year Beast summoned Tomb-Guarding Beasts, which attacked the Ying Family as Ying Bing's body grew colder.
• Ying Xuliang led his family and Li Mo toward the Ancestor Statue, whose light held the beasts back temporarily.
• Ying Xuliang told Li Mo to hide Ying Bing inside the hollow statue while he and Mother Ying tried to move it.
• Li Mo insulted the Year Beast and ran toward the back entrance, hoping to lure it into the air wall.
• The Year Beast blocked Li Mo's path, and the Cold Fairy appeared, looking down at him and calling him small and cute.

Ying Bing awakened within her dream and defeated the Year Beast, which was also attacking it from outside. As the dream collapsed, Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying accepted their deaths and vanished, leaving Ying Bing and Li Mo to wake with the memory of their family.

• Ying Bing froze the Tomb-Guarding Beasts and revealed that she had awakened long ago, while Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying realized they were dead and began to disappear.
• Li Mo recognized that the Year Beast had entered Ying Bing’s dream from outside, and Ying Bing struck it down with a sword wrapped in moonlight.
• In reality, the Year Beast writhed inside the ruined Ancestral Hall as wounds opened across its body, then shrank and fell still.
• As Ying Bing maintained the collapsing dream, Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying told her to wake and thanked Li Mo for coming into her dream before they vanished.
• More than ten years earlier, Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying woke from dreams of their grown daughter and Li Mo, then decided to make dumplings and visit the Li family.

Li Mo dispelled Ying Bing’s nightmare and used his new External Incarnation ability to evade his parents after they approached his room. He fell asleep beside Ying Bing, but Li Dalong caught him leaving her room the next morning.

• At the Demon Summoning Cult’s altar, the Dream God responded, and the cultists sensed the Power of All Living Beings gathering in the Eastern Wasteland Domain.
• Li Mo woke in Ying Bing’s arms after entering her dream, where he had seen her family and the Year Beast.
• Li Mo spotted Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin approaching his room, so he used External Incarnation to make a strand of hair appear to be him sleeping in bed.
• Li Dalong checked Li Mo’s bedroom while Li Mo returned to Ying Bing’s room and fell asleep beside her.
• Li Mo woke in Ying Bing’s room and tried to leave, but Li Dalong confronted him and caught him there.

Ying Bing recovered memories of the birthdays she had spent with Li Mo and the gifts he had given her as a child, while realizing her dream had revealed truths beyond an ordinary dream. At the Li family’s Three-Hall Joint Trial, she confirmed she remembered Li Mo’s deception, leaving him facing his parents’ fury.

• Ying Bing woke with her memories of Li Mo, the Calamity Beast, and her parents restored, and discovered her cultivation had reached Six Apertures of Divine Observation.
• Ying Bing opened a dusty box beneath her bed and found the childhood birthday gifts Li Mo had given her.
• Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin interrogated Li Mo over his spiritual dream connection with Ying Bing and misunderstood his explanation as illicit dual cultivation.
• Ying Bing entered the main hall and told Li Mo she had dreamed beautifully but called him a liar for deceiving her.
• Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin turned against Li Mo and threatened to punish him after Ying Bing confirmed she remembered the dream.

Li Mo’s family learned that the Year Beast at the Ying Family Old Residence had already been killed, while Ying Bing joined the Li household’s New Year preparations. A message from Luo Yexian then summoned Li Mo to meet the Demon Summoning Cult’s Holy Son and two Dharma Kings in three days, and he decided to go prepared.

• Ying Bing told Old Li and Madam Gu that Li Mo had made her call him big brother, and the couple accepted her account while warning Li Mo to treat her properly.
• An official reported that the Year Beast had appeared at the Ying Family Old Residence, but it had already been killed by an unknown person before Li Dalong could set out to fight it.
• Gu Xueqin organized the manor’s New Year preparations, and Ying Bing volunteered to help hang lanterns.
• Li Mo took out the Demon Summoning Cult token and received Luo Yexian’s message that the Holy Son and two Dharma Kings would arrive in three days and wanted to meet him in Purple Sun Prefecture City.
• Li Mo weighed the danger of meeting the Demon Summoning Cult’s leaders and decided to attend after making preparations.

After receiving the Mirage God Spirit Bead, Li Mo planned to travel to Purple Sun Prefecture to deceive the Demon Summoning Cult, while Ying Bing uncovered his plan and taught him a moon-linked martial art. The chapter ended with them naming their new connection Sharing the Moon as they watched the moon rise.

• At dinner, Li Dalong described a Sixth Grade Calamity Beast killed by an unknown sword expert, and Li Mo joked that he had nearly become the Hengyun Sword Hero.
• Li Mo told his parents he planned to visit his sect in Purple Sun Prefecture, though he intended to confront the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Li Mo claimed the Mirage God Spirit Bead as an investment return and tested how it could imitate cultivation auras up to the Profound Mastery Realm.
• Ying Bing recognized that Li Mo planned to deceive the Demon Summoning Cult, and he explained that he wanted to go alone because the coming danger was greater.
• Ying Bing taught Li Mo a Taiyin Divine Intent technique that linked their Will Souls at night, letting them share what they saw and heard.
• Li Mo named their new martial art Sharing the Moon, and he and Ying Bing watched the moon rise together.

Li Mo waited at Pleasant Goat Hot Pot Restaurant to meet the Demon Summoning Cult, while the Demon Summoning Holy Son remained suspicious of the Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect. When the cult arrived, they learned Li Mo had already been waiting upstairs before they had even chosen the meeting place, leaving the Holy Son wary of his hidden abilities.

• The Demon Summoning Holy Son traveled toward Purple Sun Prefecture with Luo Yexian and explained that he suspected the Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect might be deceiving them.
• Luo Yexian told the Holy Son that the immortal had agreed to meet at night, and the Holy Son chose the meeting place to guard against a trap.
• Li Mo arrived at Pleasant Goat Hot Pot Restaurant, ordered food, and watched Jiang Chulong while waiting for the cult's reply.
• The Demon Summoning Holy Son and Luo Yexian chose Pleasant Goat Hot Pot Restaurant as their meeting place and sent Li Mo the location.
• Luo Yexian received Li Mo's message that he had arrived earlier and told them to go upstairs, prompting the Holy Son to suspect Li Mo had anticipated their choice.
• The Demon Summoning Holy Son led the group upstairs to meet Li Mo and see what kind of figure he was.

Li Mo met Tan Zhuyin and the Demon Summoning Cult at a hotpot restaurant, where he concealed his true nature and convinced them he was an unfathomable immortal. After learning they sought the Dream God's inheritance, he agreed to accompany them and investigate.

• Li Mo welcomed the Demon Summoning Cult members to his table and learned from Taiyin that Tan Zhuyin and two hidden Dharma Kings were testing him.
• Li Mo used the Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye to learn Tan Zhuyin's history, damaged dragon body, and desire to obtain the Dream God's inheritance and take revenge on Jiang Yu.
• Li Mo exposed the hidden Dharma Kings and made the cultists believe his realm shifted unpredictably, causing Tan Zhuyin to apologize for probing him.
• Li Mo told Tan Zhuyin that the Demon Summoning Cult had ties to the immortal sect and revealed that they had come seeking the Dream God.
• Tan Zhuyin asked Li Mo to visit the Dream God's inheritance ground, and Li Mo agreed after considering its possible connection to Ice Block and the dead black Year Beast.

Ying Bing watched Li Mo’s group travel toward Lanke Mountain, suspecting the Dream God might be connected to her family’s annihilation. Li Mo arrived at the cloud-shrouded mountain range riding a Moon Phoenix and identified its orderly peaks as an unfinished chessboard.

• Ying Bing considered whether the Dream God had been searching for her and whether it was connected to the Ying Family’s annihilation.
• Li Mo tricked Luo Yexian into paying the hot pot bill, then joined Tan Zhuyin and the others on their journey to Lanke Mountain.
• Li Mo summoned a Moon Phoenix and rode it toward the mountain range, impressing Luo Yexian and Tan Zhuyin.
• Tan Zhuyin explained that the Demon Summoning Cult had long suspected Lanke Mountain was connected to the Dream God’s inheritance.
• Li Mo surveyed the neatly arranged mountains and said they resembled a chessboard with an unfinished endgame.