Recaps

After Qin Guan’s master left him a marriage contract and orders to become the Nan Family’s live-in son-in-law, Qin Guan set out for Qingzhou with a mysterious black tower. On the way, he startled a ferry’s passengers while moving a mountain, and Elder Xu wondered whether he was heading to a particular place.

• Qin Guan read his master’s letter and learned that he had been sold to the Nan Family as a child and was expected to honor their marriage contract.
• Qin Guan found a Red Brocade Pouch, a Marriage Contract, and a Small Black Tower in his Storage Bag, and the tower flew into the space between his brows.
• Half a month later, Qin Guan carried a mountain through the air near a ferry on a river in Qingzhou.
• Elder Xu shielded the woman in white and steadied the ferry as Qin Guan emerged from the river, caught the mountain, and apologized before leaving.
• Elder Xu said Qin Guan’s strength was extraordinary and speculated that he might be going to a certain place, so the woman ordered him to investigate Qin Guan.

Qin Guan went to get charcoal for Nan Rou, whose Cold Poison left her dangerously vulnerable to the cold, and discovered that Hu Liu had deliberately denied her supplies. He killed Hu Liu and gave Nan Rou the household’s charcoal, while the servants fled to report his actions.

• Qin Guan suppressed Nan Rou’s Cold Poison and learned that she had no charcoal to keep warm.
• Qin Guan confronted Hu Liu, who refused to give Nan Rou charcoal and insulted her and Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan killed Hu Liu with a single palm strike and ordered the servants to move the charcoal to Nan Rou’s courtyard.
• Qin Guan had a brazier brought to Nan Rou’s room, and Nan Rou questioned how he had obtained the supplies so easily.
• The frightened servants hurried away to report Hu Liu’s death to Madam and wondered how Qin Guan had killed a cultivator despite his supposed lack of cultivation.
• The narration described the Yuanyang Continent’s ten cultivation realms and introduced Martial Cultivators and their Ten Heavenly Defying Gates.

Qin Guan entered Myriad Monster Valley to find valuable Demonic Beasts and killed a wounded tiger demon, then traded it for an Ice Silver Flower and received a Hundred-Year Blood Ginseng to help Nan Rou. While Yang Kai Mei and Nan Qiao angrily confronted Nan Rou after Qin Guan disappeared, Qin Guan left with the supplies needed to save her.

• Qin Guan entered Myriad Monster Valley alone and searched its mountains for Demonic Beasts.
• Qin Guan found a wounded tiger demon about to kill three young people and killed it with one blow of his wooden stick.
• Qin Guan traded the tiger demon at Heavenly Treasure Pavilion for an Ice Silver Flower, and the Boss added a Hundred-Year Blood Ginseng for Nan Rou.
• Yang Kai Mei brought Guards to search for Qin Guan after learning he had killed Hu Liu, but they could not find him.
• Yang Kai Mei and Nan Qiao cursed Nan Rou for letting Qin Guan disappear, while Nan Rou defended his character.

Qin Guan admitted to Nan Rou that he had killed Hu Liu, then treated her Cold Poison with an Ice Silver Flower after strengthening her with Hundred-Year Blood Ginseng. Nan Rou’s Cold Poison was expelled, and she realized she had been cured.

• Nan Rou told Qin Guan that his killing of Hu Liu would anger her stepmother and Yang Ao, Hu Liu’s cousin, who was a Fifth Layer Qi Refining Sword Cultivator.
• Qin Guan reassured Nan Rou that he would protect her and prepared medicine to treat her Cold Poison.
• Qin Guan gave Nan Rou the Hundred-Year Blood Ginseng decoction, restoring some of her color and strength.
• Nan Rou swallowed the Ice Silver Flower, and Qin Guan used his Gang Qi to protect her as it drove the Cold Poison through her body.
• Nan Rou spat out black blood that froze into a chunk of black ice, and she realized Qin Guan had cured her.

Qin Guan brought Nan Rou to breakfast and explained that he had killed Hu Liu for mistreating her. After Nan Yunqi discovered that Qin Guan had cured Nan Rou’s Cold Poison, he thanked him and spoke with him about his abilities.

• Qin Guan and Nan Rou arrived at breakfast, where Yang Hongmei called for guards to seize Qin Guan, but Nan Yunqi ordered them to stand down.
• Qin Guan told Nan Yunqi that Hu Liu had withheld charcoal from Nan Rou and insulted her, while Nan Rou asked Yang Hongmei to stop calling Qin Guan trash.
• Nan Qiao urged Yang Hongmei to focus on Nan Rou and Qin Guan’s coming wedding, and Nan Yunqi agreed that the family should live in harmony.
• Nan Rou told Nan Yunqi that Qin Guan had cured her Cold Poison, and Nan Yunqi checked her pulse before thanking Qin Guan with a deep bow.
• Yang Hongmei and Nan Qiao left, and Nan Yunqi apologized to Nan Rou before asking Qin Guan whether he had killed Hu Liu and reached the Second Realm as a Martial Cultivator.

Qin Guan beat Chen Shaojie after Chen insulted him, and Nan Rou hurried him back to the Nan Family to avoid the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s retaliation. While Chen Guangling launched a search for them, a white-clad woman learned Qin Guan’s identity and planned to recruit him for the coming Myriad Monster Valley Secret Realm.

• Qin Guan knocked Chen Shaojie down and injured his two Guards before Nan Rou dragged him away from the spirit-material shop.
• Nan Rou brought Qin Guan to their Side Courtyard, where they worried the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion could trace them to the Nan Family.
• A Nan Family servant arrived to take Qin Guan and Nan Rou’s measurements for their wedding robes, and they chose a simple red design.
• Chen Shaojie ordered a search for Qin Guan and Nan Rou, while Chen Guangling sent his Personal Guards to investigate and vowed revenge.
• A shadow guard told the white-clad woman that Qin Guan was a powerful but little-known man who had come to Luyun City as the Nan Family’s live-in son-in-law.
• The white-clad woman and Elder Xu decided to visit Qin Guan and try to draw him to their side before the Myriad Monster Valley Secret Realm opened.

The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion demanded that the Nan Family surrender Qin Guan after Chen Shaojie accused him of attacking him. Nan Yunqi resisted the demand, and Qin Guan arrived with Nan Rou as the Pavilion prepared to seize him.

• Nan Yunqi hurried out while Yang Hongmei urged Nan Qiao to hide, but Nan Qiao went to find Qin Guan.
• Chen Guangling threatened the Nan Family over Qin Guan, and Yang Hongmei offered to surrender him and Nan Rou to appease Chen Shaojie.
• Nan Yunqi rebuked Yang Hongmei and refused to let her decide the Nan Family’s response.
• Qin Guan arrived with Nan Rou, and Chen Shaojie identified him as the man who had beaten him.
• Chen Guangling ordered his Guards to seize Qin Guan and threatened to destroy the Nan Family if they resisted.
• The Two Elders urged Nan Yunqi to prioritize the clan and surrender Qin Guan.

Qin Guan’s revelation that he was a Third Realm Martial Cultivator split the Nan Family, with Nan Yunqi choosing to stand by him while most of the family refused to help. Chen Guangling then brought Elder Xu and a white-clad Young Lady to confront Qin Guan at the Nan Family courtyard.

• Nan Shunda and Nan Yuantong urged Qin Guan to leave the Nan Family and apologize to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, but Nan Yunqi defended his son-in-law.
• Nan Shunda and Nan Yuantong led most of the Nan Family members away from Nan Yunqi, leaving only a dozen or so people standing with him.
• Nan Rou worried over her father’s isolation, while Qin Guan reassured her that the family’s division was a good thing.
• Chen Guangling exaggerated Qin Guan’s insults to Elder Xu and persuaded him to go to the Nan Family.
• The white-clad Young Lady chose to accompany Elder Xu, and Chen Guangling led them to the Nan Family courtyard.

Jiang Lianyue invited Qin Guan to cooperate in exploring an Ancient Secret Realm tied to Yang Tianni, whose inheritance might let Qin Guan cultivate the Sword Dao despite lacking a dantian. Qin Guan left with Nan Rou, while Nan Qiao tried to renew her resolve by focusing on her own potential.

• Jiang Lianyue told Qin Guan that a Secret Realm would emerge in Myriad Monster Valley in five days and proposed they explore it together; Qin Guan agreed to keep their cooperation secret.
• Jiang Lianyue asked why Qin Guan had joined the Nan Family as a live-in son-in-law, and he answered that it was fate.
• Nan Shunda and Nan Yuantong praised Qin Guan for securing the Nan Family a hundred bottles of Qi Refining Powder, but Qin Guan dismissed them and left with Nan Rou.
• Nan Yunqi ignored Nan Shunda and Nan Yuantong, while Yang Hongmei showed shame and fear as Qin Guan and Nan Rou departed.
• Nan Qiao watched Qin Guan and Nan Rou leave, then convinced herself that her rare Special Physique would let her rise above them.

Qin Guan and Nan Rou’s wedding was interrupted when Yang Ao awakened True Dragon Sword Intent, drawing the Nan Family and Luyun City’s experts away from the unfinished ceremony. Yang Hongmei claimed credit for her nephew and emphasized his ties to the Yang Family, leaving Nan Yunqi humiliated.

• Qin Guan and Nan Rou began their wedding bows as Nan Yunqi watched with satisfaction and Yang Hongmei forced a smile.
• Dark clouds covered the Nan Family, and a golden sword light and dragon’s roar revealed that someone had awakened True Dragon Sword Intent.
• A servant reported that Yang Ao had awakened the sword intent, prompting Yang Hongmei, Nan Yunqi, and the wedding guests to rush to the Training Room.
• Yang Ao emerged as clan forces praised him, while Nan Yunqi accepted their congratulations on the Nan Family’s rising prospects.
• Yang Hongmei praised Yang Ao as a source of glory for the Yang Family and made clear that his place in the Nan Family depended on her favor, leaving Nan Yunqi embarrassed.

Yang Ao confronted Qin Guan at Qin Guan and Nan Rou’s wedding, demanding that the Nan Family choose between them. Nan Yunqi chose Qin Guan, divorced Yang Hongmei, and faced Yang Ao’s attack, but a red figure appeared in front of him as the strike fell.

• Yang Ao challenged Qin Guan, and Nan Rou warned Qin Guan that Yang Ao had come to avenge Hu Liu.
• Yang Ao demanded that Nan Yunqi choose between him and Qin Guan, and Nan Yunqi defended Qin Guan and the wedding.
• Yang Hongmei cursed Nan Yunqi, who declared that he would repay the Yang Family and divorced her.
• Yang Ao threatened Nan Yunqi and unleashed his True Dragon Sword Intent when Nan Yunqi prepared to fight him.
• Yang Ao struck Nan Yunqi with a Golden Sword Dragon, but a red figure suddenly appeared in front of Nan Yunqi.

Qin Guan discovered that a mysterious mass of White Qi had appeared in his abdomen after the Little Black Tower struck him, while Nan Rou unexpectedly gained Qi Refining Second Heaven cultivation. He suspected that their intimacy had awakened her legendary Taiyin Sacred Body, leaving him to consider what her new physique meant.

• The Little Black Tower struck Qin Guan, then turned into Mysterious Light and entered his brow.
• Qin Guan discovered a mass of White Qi in his abdomen, and his Gang Qi triggered a violent force that he eventually suppressed.
• Nan Rou felt pain in her lower abdomen, and Qin Guan found that she had gained Qi Refining Second Heaven cultivation.
• Qin Guan helped Nan Rou control her Spiritual Power until her pain subsided.
• Qin Guan recalled the Taiyin Sacred Body and told Nan Rou that their intimacy may have awakened it.

After the Grand Elder and Second Elder led most of the Nan Family to defect to the Xiao Family, Nan Yunqi gathered the remaining members and urged them to unite. The chapter ended with the small group facing an uncertain future but determined to stand together.

• Nan Yunqi pointed out that Qin Guan had destroyed the Nan Family's Training Room, and Qin Guan apologized while reflecting on his increased strength.
• Jia Quan reported that the Grand Elder and Second Elder had defected to the Xiao Family with more than twenty Nan Family members, and added that Yang Ao had defected the day before.
• Nan Yunqi acknowledged the elders' long-standing opposition and called for the remaining Clan Members to gather.
• Yang Hongmei apologized to Nan Yunqi for her past disrespect, but he remained focused on the family's crisis.
• Nan Yunqi told the remaining members that unity mattered more than numbers and urged them to work together to restore the Nan Family.

With the Secret Realm about to open, Nan Rou sensed strong Spiritual Energy fluctuations near Myriad Monster Valley’s most dangerous entrance, and Qin Guan persuaded Nan Yunqi to take that route. The Nan Family set out together, but Song Dengge dismissed Nan Yunqi’s offer to cooperate and led the Song Family toward the safer entrance.

• Nan Yunqi initially chose the far-right entrance because its Demonic Beasts were weaker and more people were entering there.
• Qin Guan asked Nan Rou to sense the strongest Spiritual Energy fluctuations, and she pointed toward the far-left entrance.
• Despite Nan Qiao and Jia Quan warning that the left entrance was dangerous, Nan Yunqi agreed to follow Nan Rou’s lead.
• Qin Guan proposed splitting up, but Nan Yunqi insisted the group stay together and arranged for himself and Qin Guan to lead.
• Song Dengge rejected Nan Yunqi’s offer to cooperate and took the Song Family toward the far-right entrance.

Qin Guan killed a Third Order Blood Wolf King with one blow, earning the group’s trust as he led them deeper into the wolf territory. Nan Rou sensed a hidden concentration of Spiritual Energy, where the Nan family found valuable spiritual materials and began cultivating.

• Qin Guan emerged from the thicket after killing the Third Order Blood Wolf King, and Nan Rou stored the beast in her Storage Bag.
• Nan Yunqi ordered everyone to follow Qin Guan and Nan Rou, and Qin Guan led the group onward.
• Nan Rou sensed dense Spiritual Energy in a mountain basin and pointed the group toward a Towering Tree.
• The group found a Hundred-Year Blood Ginseng, Spirit Gathering Grass, Lingzhi Mushroom, and other valuable spiritual materials near the tree.
• Nan Yunqi told everyone to cultivate before anyone else discovered the place, and the group began absorbing the Spiritual Energy.

Qin Guan refused to be intimidated by the four great powers gathering around the tree, but the Nan Family chose to give up its prime position and cultivate on the outskirts. As more families arrived and the available space dwindled, the Xiao Family’s Old Ancestor Xiao Yun greeted the Spirit Sword Academy’s Cang Yuan.

• The White Robed Old Man attacked Qin Guan with Sword Qi, but Qin Guan shattered it with a wave of his hand.
• The Cloud Mist Sect, Ninth Princess Wei Hongyan, and the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion arrived at the tree, joining the Spirit Sword Academy.
• Qin Guan said none of the four powers could fight and offered to secure the area around the tree for the Nan Family, but Nan Yunqi urged him not to provoke them.
• Nan Rou and Jia Quan persuaded the Nan Family to accept its time at the tree and yield the prime position to the four powers.
• The four powers cultivated around the tree while the Nan Family and arriving factions settled on the outskirts; as space grew scarce, Xiao Yun greeted Cang Yuan.

Yang Ao confronted Qin Guan and the Nan Family, demanding Nan Yunqi kneel to apologize while Cang Yuan and the Xiao Family threatened them. Qin Guan sent the Nan Family away and caught Yang Ao’s sword barehanded before lifting him by the throat.

• Yang Ao challenged Qin Guan and demanded that Nan Yunqi kneel in exchange for sparing the Nan Family.
• Yang Hongmei pleaded with Yang Ao, but he berated her and blamed Nan Yunqi for taking Qin Guan’s side.
• Cang Yuan backed Yang Ao, while Xiao Yun threatened to destroy the Nan Family if they resisted.
• Qin Guan told Nan Yunqi and the others to leave, then faced Yang Ao alone as Jiang Lianyue chose to watch.
• Yang Ao attacked Qin Guan with his sword, but Qin Guan caught the blade, dragged Yang Ao close, and lifted him by the throat.

Qin Guan killed Cang Yuan, Xiao Yun, and a Xiao Family Elder after they threatened or attacked him, forcing the Xiao Family and Spirit Sword Academy disciples to withdraw. After the group cultivated through the night beneath the great tree, a portal to the Secret Realm appeared, and the crowd rushed toward it.

• Qin Guan crushed Cang Yuan's throat after the elder threatened him and his loved ones.
• Qin Guan destroyed Xiao Yun's dantian, killing him, then punched through the chest of a Xiao Family Elder who attacked him.
• Xiao Yeshan ordered the Xiao Family to leave, and the Spirit Sword Academy disciples withdrew to report Cang Yuan's death.
• Qin Guan sent Nan Yunqi and the others to cultivate beneath the great tree, while Nan Rou reassured him that she was not afraid of his actions.
• Everyone cultivated through the night, and at dawn a portal appeared beneath the great tree, prompting the crowd to rush toward it.

Qin Guan climbed the mountain's Gravity Field with ease while Nan Qiao and Nan Rou struggled under its pressure. Two Cloud Mist Sect youths attacked the sisters, and the chapter left Nan Qiao cornered as Brother Long reached for her.

• Qin Guan recognized the mountain's pressure as a Gravity Field and quickly climbed out of sight.
• Nan Qiao and Nan Rou struggled halfway up the mountain as Brother Long and another Cloud Mist Sect youth plotted to assault them.
• Brother Long and his companion caught up to the sisters and tried to lure them into resting together, but Nan Rou saw through them.
• Nan Qiao drew her sword to defend herself and Nan Rou, while Nan Rou struck the slender youth with a rock.
• The slender youth kicked Nan Rou into a tree, and Brother Long and his companion cornered Nan Qiao before Brother Long reached for her chest.

Qin Guan overcame the mountain’s trials and reached an ancient hall where a screen promised the Heaven-Defying Legacy to whoever broke its formation. After his brute-force attacks failed, the Little Black Tower told him that even opening all eight Battle Gates would not be enough to break through.

• Qin Guan endured the mountain’s gravitational suppression and reached the mountaintop.
• Qin Guan defeated the Wooden Dummy, took its black key, and opened the stone gate.
• Qin Guan saw through the gate’s frightening illusion and entered an ancient grand hall.
• Qin Guan read that breaking the formation would grant the Heaven-Defying Legacy and wondered whether it belonged to Senior Yang Tianni.
• Qin Guan’s punches failed to damage the formation barrier, and the Little Black Tower said his current strength could not break it, even with all eight Battle Gates open.

Qin Guan broke through the Light Screen and met Li Zang, a disciple of Yang Tianni who had guarded the Huan Yuan Sword Art inheritance for over twenty thousand years. Li Zang gave him a fragment of the art and offered him the contents of his Storage Bag, leaving Qin Guan to choose what he wanted.

• Qin Guan shattered the Light Screen and met Li Zang, who revealed that he was Yang Tianni’s third disciple and had awaited a successor for over twenty thousand years.
• Li Zang explained that Yang Tianni split the Huan Yuan Sword Art into three fragments, and he gave Qin Guan the fragment from his inheritance.
• Li Zang told Qin Guan that mastering the Huan Yuan Sword Art required opening all ten gates and possessing sword intent; Qin Guan showed him his True Dragon Sword Intent.
• Li Zang emptied his Storage Bag and invited Qin Guan to keep whatever he liked and give the rest to the people outside.
• Qin Guan inspected several manuals but rejected them as low-grade.

Qin Guan finished sparring with Li Zang and received the Secret Realm’s inheritance before Li Zang vanished. Chen Guanxiang arrived too late, recognized Qin Guan’s strength, and congratulated him while insisting he had no intention of challenging him.

• Elders Xu, Chen, and Hong fought over a Mysterious Tier Low-Grade Saber Technique, while other groups battled over treasures in their Small Worlds.
• Chen Guanxiang entered the Mind-Testing Doorway after the elders hesitated over the stone door, then arrived in the Heritage Hall and was wounded by the aftereffects of Qin Guan and Li Zang’s fight.
• Qin Guan and Li Zang concluded their sparring, and Li Zang praised Qin Guan’s Combat Skill before asking him to help Li Zang’s descendants if they ever met.
• Li Zang vanished after wishing Qin Guan success, and Chen Guanxiang regretted missing the inheritance.
• Chen Guanxiang congratulated Qin Guan and said he knew better than to oppose him.

Qin Guan healed Nan Yunqi and revealed that the treasures the Nan Family had lost were only the ones he had left behind. Nan Qiao then confronted the Cloud Mist Sect over two disciples’ attempt to assault her, leaving Chen Guanxiang to face the accusation.

• Qin Guan forced Nan Yunqi to swallow a second-grade Primordial Return Pill, and Nan Yunqi quickly regained his strength.
• Nan Yunqi lamented losing a high-grade Yellow-tier saber technique, while Nan Qiao and Jia Quan reported the Nan Family’s other losses.
• Qin Guan said the contested treasures were things he had left behind, and Nan Yunqi called off the fight over them.
• Chen Guanxiang invited Qin Guan to visit the Cloud Mist Sect, and Qin Guan politely accepted.
• Nan Qiao confronted the Cloud Mist Sect disciples and accused two of them of trying to assault her in the Secret Realm.

Qin Guan demanded that the Cloud Mist Sect bring the men who had attacked Nan Rou and Nan Qiao to the Nan Family, then led Nan Rou away. He later approached Jiang Lianyue as she prepared to fight Wei Hongyan over the Jade Bone Immortal Orchid Grass.

• Chen Guanxiang learned that Jiang Long and A Liang had attacked Nan Rou and promised to bring them to the Nan Family within three days.
• Qin Guan warned Chen Guanxiang that he would visit the Cloud Mist Sect if the two men were not delivered, and Chen Guanxiang hurried off to capture them.
• Nan Yunqi suggested letting the matter go, but Qin Guan cut him off and left with Nan Rou; Nan Qiao felt jealous and regretted her choices.
• At Myriad Monster Valley, Jiang Lianyue and Wei Hongyan argued over the Jade Bone Immortal Orchid Grass while the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and Wei Kingdom prepared to fight again.
• Qin Guan approached the standoff, and Jiang Lianyue hoped his intervention would make Wei Hongyan surrender the herb.

Qin Guan negotiated with Jiang Lianyue over the Jade Bone Immortal Orchid Grass and offered her a Soul Weapon saber in exchange. Wei Hongyan then asked him to train the Black Armored Army, but he refused because he had no time and was concerned about the Spirit Sword Academy's threat to the Nan Family.

• Qin Guan asked Jiang Lianyue to give the Jade Bone Immortal Orchid Grass to the Black Armored Army because it had saved Nan Rou.
• Qin Guan offered Jiang Lianyue a Soul Weapon Spring Embroidered Saber in exchange for the immortal grass, and she accepted the saber but still demanded the grass.
• Wei Hongyan offered the Jade Bone Immortal Orchid Grass, one million gold coins, and five Low-grade Spirit Stones if Qin Guan trained the Black Armored Army for a month.
• Qin Guan declined Wei Hongyan's offer, explaining that he lacked time and was worried the Spirit Sword Academy would target the Nan Family.