Recaps

Wu Yue struggled with her unexpected attraction to Lu Yuan after he returned to the border base, trying to calm herself and sleep. She realized that her feelings and the timing of her ovulation were intensifying her thoughts, then startled herself by murmuring Lu Yuan’s name.

• Wu Yue sat alone in the main hall, blushed as she recalled Lu Yuan, and wondered whether she had fallen in love with him at first sight.
• Wu Yue corrected herself that her reaction was lust at first sight and tried to suppress her feelings because Lu Yuan was her junior brother.
• Wu Yue took a bath, dried her hair with spiritual power, and went to bed, but she could not stop thinking about Lu Yuan.
• Wu Yue realized her ovulation period was making her emotions and physical urges more intense.
• Wu Yue murmured Lu Yuan’s name while lost in her thoughts, then snapped awake in embarrassment and panic.

Wu Yue regretted her improper feelings toward Lu Yuan and resolved to focus on teaching him, while Lu Yuan rested and then went to the main hall to seek her guidance. Wu Yue woke to his knock, still shaken by the previous night.

• Wu Yue felt guilty about her thoughts toward Lu Yuan and vowed to teach him earnestly and keep her feelings in check.
• Lu Yuan woke refreshed, ate breakfast, and waited for Wu Yue, but she did not appear by the time morning lessons had passed.
• Lu Yuan decided it was more proper for him to visit his senior sister and seek instruction, so he walked to the main hall.
• Lu Yuan knocked on the hall doors, waking Wu Yue from her restless sleep.

Wu Yue welcomed Lu Yuan to her hall and began teaching him Soul Guide, an EX9-rank spiritual spell. After explaining that spiritual spells depended on Spiritual Power quality rather than cultivation realm, she confirmed that Lu Yuan’s soul foundation qualified him to learn it, and he accepted the scroll for his first lesson.

• Wu Yue opened her hall door to find Lu Yuan waiting to learn the Spiritual Power Enslavement Spell.
• Wu Yue composed herself and formally began teaching Lu Yuan.
• Wu Yue presented Soul Guide, an EX9-rank foundational spiritual spell.
• Lu Yuan questioned whether his eighth-order Lower Rank cultivation could support learning an EX9-rank spell.
• Wu Yue explained that spiritual spells required sufficient Spiritual Power quality, and that Lu Yuan’s soul foundation met the standard.
• Lu Yuan accepted the Soul Guide scroll, and Wu Yue began the lesson beside him.

Wu Yue taught Lu Yuan the opening runes of Soul Guide and guided him through his first cultivation. Lu Yuan quickly linked the runes and began drawing their power into his sea of consciousness as Wu Yue continued the lesson beside him.

• Wu Yue explained that Soul Guide’s first thirty-six runes gathered and refined scattered Spiritual Power.
• Wu Yue recited the runic cadences and used her Spiritual Power to steady Lu Yuan as he followed along.
• Lu Yuan’s recitation improved, and the runes on the scroll lit up as his Spiritual Power condensed and grew purer.
• Wu Yue was impressed by Lu Yuan’s rapid progress and instructed him to guide the runes’ power into his sea of consciousness.
• Lu Yuan closed his eyes and began drawing the spell’s power into his sea of consciousness while Wu Yue continued teaching.