Recaps

Su Yuan exploited Zhu Tianqing’s campaign against Spirit Beast exploitation to absorb the demonic energy her actions created while secretly diverting the Yuan Sect’s Spirit Beasts. He then told her about an even harsher farm, and she demanded to go there immediately.

• Su Yuan shut down the Yuan Sect’s factories and, with Zhu Tianqing, dismissed nearly a thousand meat-processing workers after she urged them to reflect on their treatment of Spirit Beasts.
• Su Yuan saw demonic energy gather around Zhu Tianqing and secretly absorbed it, strengthening his Dao Foundation and Senluo Spiritual Root.
• When Zhu Tianqing proposed releasing the Spirit Beasts, Su Yuan ordered Chen Nuoyi to arrange it, secretly giving her Song Shan’s number so the Black Labor Cult could intercept them.
• Su Yuan told Zhu Tianqing that another Spirit Beast farm confined three beasts to fifteen square meters, and she insisted on going there at once.

Su Yuan exploited Zhu Tianqing’s campaign for Human-Demon Equality to disrupt Taihua City’s meat supply, then rallied unemployed workers against her plan to promote Spirit Pets. He left the crowd ready to protest, while privately worrying that public anger might not make Zhu Tianqing abandon her mission and considering a crueler alternative.

• Su Yuan persuaded Boss Cai to improve the Iron Mountain Pigs’ living conditions, while Zhu Tianqing proposed sparing them from slaughter until old age.
• Su Yuan took Zhu Tianqing to the city’s breeding farms, and their reforms disrupted meat supplies, driving prices up and creating a black market that Yuan Sect profited from.
• Su Yuan used staged positive comments to reassure Zhu Tianqing, then encouraged her to promote Spirit Pets, which she planned to begin the next day.
• Su Yuan went to a Beer Hall and turned unemployed meat workers against Zhu Tianqing, blaming her campaign for soaring food prices and warning that Spirit Pets would make citizens dependent on Myriad Beast Demonic Sect.
• Su Yuan’s planted supporters rallied the workers to support Yuan Sect and resist Zhu Tianqing’s plan, while Su Yuan worried that their anger might fail to drive her away and considered a cruel alternative.

Zhu Tianqing’s spirit-beast campaign faltered, and Su Yuan gained Demon Refining True Lord Zhu Haoyang’s approval to force her to confront the consequences of her ideals. Su Yuan lured Zhu Tianqing into a trap with Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue, then ordered Chen Nuoyi to use the Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword on her.

• Zhu Tianqing’s campaign to promote spirit beasts failed, and residents reacted to her with resentment and disgust.
• Demon Refining True Lord Zhu Haoyang told Zhu Tianqing to return home, but she refused to abandon her ideals.
• Zhu Haoyang contacted Su Yuan, praised his schemes, and told him to correct Zhu Tianqing’s excessive compassion.
• Su Yuan persuaded Zhu Tianqing that opponents of spirit beasts were behind the public backlash and led her to the Beer Hall without her spirit pets or visible guards.
• Unemployed workers surrounded Zhu Tianqing at the Beer Hall, and hidden bodyguards helped her and Su Yuan escape.
• Su Yuan brought Zhu Tianqing to a secluded grove, where Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue joined him to surround her, and he ordered Chen Nuoyi to use the Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword.

Chen Nuoyi and Su Yuan broke Zhu Tianqing’s Silver Spirit Shield and captured her, revealing that her father had helped them. Su Yuan began altering Zhu Tianqing’s face, and Yin Qiyue prepared to use her Silence ability to conceal her new identity.

• Chen Nuoyi attacked Zhu Tianqing with five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword strikes, but the Silver Spirit Shield blocked them.
• Su Yuan copied Chen Nuoyi’s sword technique and struck the shield’s weakened rear, shattering it.
• Su Yuan told Zhu Tianqing that her father had revealed the shield’s weakness, leaving her devastated.
• Su Yuan used Abyssal Spiritual Power to immobilize Zhu Tianqing and pressed a flesh-tentacled mask onto her face.
• Su Yuan called Yin Qiyue over, and she prepared to use Silence so Zhu Tianqing could not reveal forbidden keywords.

Su Yuan remade Zhu Tianqing into Zhu Xiaoyu and sent her to live as a poor villager while Yin Qiyue impersonated the Saintess. In Taihua City, Zhu Xiaoyu struggled to find work and began confronting the hardship caused by her policies, ending the day at a construction-site dinner where she saw meat in the communal pot.

• Su Yuan used Silence and hypnosis on Zhu Tianqing, gave her the identity of Zhu Xiaoyu, and had Yin Qiyue wear a mask to impersonate her as the Saintess.
• Zhu Xiaoyu woke in Auntie Zhang’s cramped home, discovered her cultivation was sealed and her wings disguised as lumps of flesh, and saw Yin Qiyue’s convincing Saintess broadcast on a city screen.
• Auntie Zhang told Zhu Xiaoyu that the Saintess’s meat restrictions had cost her a job, and Zhu Xiaoyu offered to help earn money and repay her.
• Zhu Xiaoyu and Auntie Zhang failed to find other work, then carried cement at a construction site; Auntie Zhang pushed herself to earn money for her daughter’s tuition.
• Song Shan invited them to the construction-site dinner, where Zhu Xiaoyu saw a pot filled with vegetables and stewed meat.

Zhu Tianqing saw how her campaign for spirit-beast welfare had worsened conditions for workers and abandoned pets, then discovered that human workers were living in former pig sheds while the pigs occupied the employee dormitories. Boss Cai’s question left her confronting the consequences of her own demands.

• Zhu Tianqing reluctantly ate meat at the construction site, then learned from Aunt Zhang that many people had abandoned their spirit pets because they could no longer afford to feed them.
• Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang encountered a dangerous stray husky, which the beast-capturing squad subdued after it threatened a child.
• Zhu Tianqing reconsidered whether Human-Demon Equality should be promoted among people struggling to survive.
• Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang accepted work renovating Boss Cai’s Iron Mountain Pig farm, where Zhu Tianqing mistakenly believed bunk beds were for the pigs.
• Zhu Tianqing discovered that the farm workers would live in the former pig sheds because the Iron Mountain Pigs had been moved into the employee dormitories at her demand.
• Boss Cai asked Zhu Tianqing why the workers could not live better, prompting her to ask why the pigs had received the dormitories instead.

After half a month working among ordinary laborers, Zhu Tianqing returned to her true form and told her father she still believed in Human-Demon Equality. Her new plan was to make Spirit Pets and spirit beasts work alongside humans, leaving Demon Refining True Lord and Su Yuan stunned.

• Zhu Tianqing spent half a month renovating breeding farms and living with Aunt Zhang, where she reconsidered ordinary people's hardships and the growing number of stray Spirit Pets.
• Su Yuan summoned Zhu Tianqing to the rooftop, removed her disguise and spiritual seal, and brought her back after she left her savings with Aunt Zhang.
• At the apartment, Yin Qiyue revealed herself, and Zhu Tianqing used her jade pendant to contact Demon Refining True Lord.
• Zhu Tianqing proposed improving ordinary people's lives by making Spirit Pets and spirit beasts work, including putting her own pets to work.
• Zhu Tianqing insisted she still supported Human-Demon Equality because she was only asking spirit beasts to do the same work as ordinary people.

Zhu Tianqing decided to join Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect and use her Beast Taming skills to help Spirit Pets enter the workforce. Su Yuan made her the Heavenly Hunting King, then claimed a task reward to upgrade his Finger Body technique.

• Zhu Tianqing told Demon Refining True Lord that she wanted to reverse the harm caused by her earlier views and help unemployed workers return to work.
• Zhu Tianqing announced that she planned to join Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect, train spirit beasts for vocational work, and keep an eye on Su Yuan.
• Demon Refining True Lord approved Zhu Tianqing’s decision and warned Su Yuan that he would thank him in person at University Town.
• Su Yuan created the position of Four Heavenly Kings and appointed Zhu Tianqing as the Heavenly Hunting King in charge of the Spirit Beast Breeding Base.
• Su Yuan claimed one Demonic Cultivation Upgrade Card and upgraded his Finger Body technique.

Su Yuan welcomed the new Preheating effect of Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Body, which let him store negative sensations for up to seven days and release them at once. As Zhu Tianqing promoted Human-Demon Equality and Su Yuan’s reputation suffered online, Su Yuan and the other Taihua City Preparatory Class students took the college entrance exams and earned perfect scores, with Su Yuan ranked first.

• Su Yuan learned that Preheating could store his negative sensations for seven days before transferring them instantly to a suitable target, and he considered using it in battle and when Wu Ziying visited him at university.
• Su Yuan left with Yin Qiyue, and Zhu Tianqing began promoting Human-Demon Equality as meat businesses resumed production and some Spirit Pets took jobs in Taihua City.
• Pet lovers online blamed Yuan Sect for supposedly coercing Zhu Tianqing, but Su Yuan accepted the backlash as publicity and considered selling magical goods under misleading Saintess-themed labels.
• On June 7, Era of Recovery 380, Su Yuan and the other eight Taihua City Preparatory Class students took the college entrance exams after suppressing their Foundation Establishment cultivation and each scored 750.
• Taihua Tianji ranked the nine Foundation Establishment students separately, placing Su Yuan first, Chen Nuoyi second, and Li Zhengxing third; Taihua High School refunded Su Yuan’s tuition and gave him his promised Tenfold Rebate.

Su Yuan chose to travel to Ten Immortal City and establish the Yuan Sect’s general altar there after a mission directed him to infiltrate the Ten Great Immortal Sects by becoming an affiliated sect. He arranged for Song Shan and Chen Nuoyi’s father to oversee the Taihua City branch, then departed with Taihua Tianji and the other prospective students.

• Taihua Tianji offered the newly accepted students the choice to visit Ten Immortal City early, and Su Yuan weighed the opportunity against expanding the Yuan Sect in Taihua City.
• A mission instructed Su Yuan to establish the Yuan Sect’s general altar in Ten Immortal City and affiliate it with one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
• Su Yuan decided to go to Ten Immortal City, and the other Preparatory Class students and examinees, including Wu Xingqi and Zhang Jun, chose to join him.
• Su Yuan selected Song Shan to manage the Yuan Sect’s Taihua City branch, with Chen Nuoyi’s father available to defend it, and held a farewell gathering with his classmates.
• Su Yuan drained Zhu Tianqing’s demonic qi, causing a second Golden Apple to begin forming on his Senluo Spiritual Root tree.
• Su Yuan and the other prospective students met Taihua Tianji and set out for Ten Immortal City.

Su Yuan and his classmates rode Taihua Tianji’s Sword Boat toward Ten Immortal City, where Taihua Tianji planned to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm. Taihua Tianji revealed that he also intended to compete for a vacant Deputy Director position, while Su Yuan realized his teacher might become a powerful backer at university.

• Su Yuan reunited with Taihua Yu Xi aboard Taihua Tianji’s Sword Boat, and the vessel set off for Ten Immortal City at high speed.
• Su Yuan asked Taihua Tianji why he was returning to the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, and Taihua Tianji explained that he planned to attempt a breakthrough with University Town’s resources.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan he had a seventy percent chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm and would remain at the Evil Slaying Sword Sect as a mentor afterward.
• Taihua Tianji revealed that he planned to compete for the vacant Deputy Director position of the Evil Slaying Department and eventually become a World Lord.
• The students aboard the Sword Boat grew excited and envious as they realized they were traveling with a future Nascent Soul True Lord and World Lord.

Su Yuan and the students arrived in Ten Immortal City, where Taihua Yu Xi chose to stay with Su Yuan for the summer. After settling into expensive apartments, Su Yuan learned his sword could fly legally in the city and studied how to establish a sect there.

• Taihua Tianji brought the students to Ten Immortal City and arranged temporary rentals near Evil Slaying University.
• Taihua Yu Xi refused to leave with her father and insisted on spending the summer with Su Yuan, so Taihua Tianji asked Chen Nuoyi to keep an eye on her.
• The students rented ten apartments, with Taihua Yu Xi sharing with Chen Nuoyi and Su Yuan sharing with Chu Lanxi.
• The landlord explained Ten Immortal City's transportation rules and high living costs, including the need for registered flying swords.
• Su Yuan discovered that his Crimson Origin Sword had local registration plates and then began studying how to establish a sect in Ten Immortal City.

Su Yuan struggled to find an emerging industry that could help the Yuan Sect qualify as an affiliated sect of one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects. Taihua Yu Xi invited him to investigate evil demonic energy in Ten Immortal City, and he followed her to the rough-and-tumble Evil Slaying District.

• Su Yuan concluded that the Yuan Sect needed proprietary technology, a headquarters in Ten Immortal City, and a leading market share in an emerging niche to become an affiliated sect.
• Su Yuan considered selling intelligent Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppets but worried about moral condemnation and the adult-entertainment industry's lack of ties to the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
• Taihua Yu Xi visited Su Yuan and told him that evil demonic energy gathered in several places around Ten Immortal City.
• Su Yuan agreed to investigate with Yu Xi, then rode the Crimson Origin Sword to the Evil Slaying District.
• Su Yuan observed that the district was full of sword-riding cultivators showing off with reckless stunts.

Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi entered Chaotic Sword Hall, where the repair workers revealed a vendetta against Taihua Tianji and tried to detain them. Su Yuan prepared to fight back as more than twenty demonic sword-wielding workers surrounded them.

• Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi found Chaotic Sword Hall, a shabby flying sword repair shop that Taihua Yu Xi identified as a former orthodox sect turned demonic.
• A repair worker offered to take Su Yuan to the basement to service his Crimson Origin Sword, but then sealed the shop and declared they could not leave.
• The repair worker recognized Su Yuan and blamed Taihua Tianji for Chaotic Sword Hall's collapse after a modified sword caused a deadly accident at the Divine Sword Cup.
• The repair worker demanded that Su Yuan work at the shop for the summer as punishment, and more than twenty workers emerged to help detain him.
• Su Yuan gave up on settling the dispute peacefully and invoked the sword move Myriad Swords Return to Origin.

Su Yuan used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to subdue Ji Ming and the swordsmiths, then pressed Ji Ming to make Chaotic Sword Hall Yuan Sect’s flying-sword modification department. Ji Ming gave in to protect his younger sister, Ji Qin, and introduced Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi as strategic partners when she arrived.

• Su Yuan summoned the workshop’s flying swords and revealed that Ji Ming and his swordsmiths were trapped with him, not the other way around.
• Su Yuan inspected Chaotic Sword Hall’s underground workshop and decided to absorb its modification techniques and bring it under Yuan Sect.
• Ji Ming prepared to attack Su Yuan, but Su Yuan asked about the photograph of Ji Ming’s sister, prompting Ji Ming to plead that she be kept out of the feud.
• Su Yuan proposed merging Chaotic Sword Hall into Yuan Sect, and Ji Ming realized he had no good alternative to accepting.
• Ji Qin arrived at the workshop, and Ji Ming introduced Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi as strategic partners; Ji Qin eagerly greeted Su Yuan after learning he was True Man Tai Bai’s disciple.

Su Yuan studied Chaotic Sword Hall’s techniques and used his demonic arts title to devise an improved spiritual-energy engine powered by negative emotions. He then planned to seek investment and visit the remnants of Juque Sect and Imperial Sword Gate, leaving Ji Ming afraid that Su Yuan would swallow up his friends’ sects.

• Su Yuan demanded Chaotic Sword Hall’s core flying sword modification techniques, and Ji Ming handed over the sect’s stored designs.
• Su Yuan found Chaotic Sword Hall’s unfinished Self-absorbing Spiritual Energy Engine and learned that a failed racing module had contributed to the sect’s bankruptcy.
• Su Yuan used his Speedrun title to discover that he could complete the engine by combining it with Fury Heart Attack and a Devil Talisman.
• Su Yuan decided to seek investment from Evil Slaying Sword Sect and asked Ji Ming where Juque Sect and Imperial Sword Gate’s remnants could be found.
• Taihua Yu Xi offered to lead Su Yuan to the two sects, and Ji Ming reluctantly agreed to accompany them.

Su Yuan united the remnants of Chaotic Sword Hall, Juque Sect, and Imperial Sword Gate to develop a self-absorbing spiritual energy engine, then persuaded Taihua Tianji to secure approval and investment. Taihua Tianji realized Su Yuan had been behind the three sects’ merger and furiously demanded that he come, while unknowingly breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Yuan convinced Wan Ningxiang to make Juque Sect a contract manufacturer for Yuan Sect and made the drunken Huang Yunzhou kneel before recruiting him to test the new engine.
• Su Yuan absorbed the remaining forces of Chaotic Sword Hall, Juque Sect, and Imperial Sword Gate, and Zhang Baiyi deciphered the Devil Talisman for the engine design.
• Su Yuan summoned Ji Ming, Wan Ningxiang, and Huang Yunzhou to plan how to secure approval and funding for mass production.
• Taihua Tianji agreed to help the three sects obtain approval and investment after reviewing their engine blueprints, but realized the technology bore Su Yuan’s distinctive style.
• Ji Ming accidentally revealed Su Yuan’s involvement, and Taihua Tianji angrily demanded that they call Su Yuan while unknowingly breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Taihua Tianji explained that Evil Slaying Sword Sect’s students joined campaigns to conquer worlds ruled by demonic cults, and Su Yuan learned why the sect wanted a large share of his spirit-energy engines. Within three days, Yuan Sect became an affiliated sect of Evil Slaying Sword Sect.

• Taihua Tianji agreed to push for approval and investment in Su Yuan’s spirit-energy engine, requesting at least thirty percent of its production for Evil Slaying Sword Sect.
• Taihua Tianji revealed that Evil Slaying Sword Sect’s year-end assessments involved conquering a Small World, a Middle World, and a Great World, and Su Yuan realized he was being steered toward the battlefield.
• Taihua Tianji described the four outward-expanding Immortal Sects and explained that the Federation targeted worlds ruled by demonic cults, while the Federal Army defended against major threats.
• Zhu Qingqing told Su Yuan that the Ancient Cultivation World had once spanned the Star Sea and likely shattered into countless worlds during the Age of Dharma’s End.
• Within three days, Yuan Sect officially became an affiliated sect of Evil Slaying Sword Sect.

After Yuan Sect became an affiliated sect of the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, Su Yuan claimed the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array and used it to summon a being from another world. The array brought Qi Hanyua to Ten Immortal City, and Su Yuan tried to charge her one million for the trip.

• Su Yuan expanded Yuan Sect's business in Ten Immortal City and received official proof that it had joined the Evil Slaying Sword Sect as an affiliated sect.
• Su Yuan claimed the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array reward and assembled the Yuan Sect executives to witness his first ritual.
• Su Yuan activated the array using the blood in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, summoning a human-shaped figure from another world.
• The summoned figure turned out to be Qi Hanyua, who recognized Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi and feared they would kill her to hide the illegal ritual.
• Qi Hanyua learned she had been brought to Ten Immortal City, and Su Yuan offered to charge her one million for saving her five million in travel expenses.

Su Yuan’s second Blood Sacrifice Array summoning brought forth a sealed Xuanji Demonic Sword that drained the Eight Treasures Merit Pool and threatened his companions. After it accepted his offer to serve as a sect treasure, the sword claimed to have made him its slave, but Su Yuan received a plan to suppress it by making it his Natal Flying Sword and absorbing its demonic aura.

• Su Yuan activated the Blood Sacrifice Array again, and a black ancient sword appeared and drained the remaining water from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
• The Crimson Origin Sword revealed that the black sword was sealed and had no more than Foundation Establishment-level power, while Su Yuan suspected it had answered the summoning on its own.
• Su Yuan used Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact to raise the sword’s favorability as it rose and dispelled attacks from Ji Ming, Wan Ningxiang, and Huang Yunzhou.
• Su Yuan offered the sword a place as a sect-suppressing treasure and the possibility of breaking its seal, so it stopped targeting Ji Ming and offered him its hilt.
• The Xuanji Demonic Sword claimed its aura had made Su Yuan its Sword Slave, but Su Yuan absorbed the aura and received a plan to make it his Natal Flying Sword.

Su Yuan tricked the Xuan Ji Demonic Sword into becoming his Natal Flying Sword, then used his Senluo Spiritual Root to drain and restrain it. He left the sword bound in his dantian, intending to control it and draw on its power as he grew stronger.

• Su Yuan decided to bind the sealed Xuan Ji Demonic Sword as his Natal Flying Sword, and the sword accepted, believing the bond would make him its slave.
• As the Xuan Ji Demonic Sword entered Su Yuan's body, it discovered that its demonic energy was gone and tried to escape.
• Su Yuan's Senluo Spiritual Root ensnared the sword and drained its remaining demonic energy, strengthening his Dao Foundation and advancing his cultivation.
• Su Yuan kept the sword bound in his dantian but resolved to stay wary of its influence and eventually make it empower him.
• Chen Nuoyi and the others worried that Su Yuan had been forced to submit, until Taihua Yu Xi revealed that he had trapped the sword.

Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect expanded its Spiritual Energy Engine business and prepared for the start of university while he advanced to the second layer of Foundation Establishment. Just before the freshmen arrived, Taihua Tianji formed his Nascent Soul and became True Lord Zhan Yuan.

• Su Yuan reassured the Crimson Origin Sword that it remained irreplaceable, then decided to postpone further blood sacrifices and continue searching for new worlds gradually.
• Juque Factory began producing Self-absorbing Spiritual Energy Engines, and Yuan Sect’s advertising and first store drove booming sales among Sword Cultivators.
• Yuan Sect gained members as Su Yuan and his friends finalized their university placements, including Su Yuan and Qi Hanyua in Evil Slaying University’s Evil Slaying Department.
• Su Yuan heard that a Holy Son would join Evil Slaying University and advanced to the second layer of Foundation Establishment on August 25.
• As Su Yuan and his friends prepared for school, Taihua Tianji formed his Nascent Soul and was registered as the federation’s 283rd Nascent Soul, True Lord Zhan Yuan.

Taihua Tianji and Yang Hao True Lord competed for Evil Slaying University’s Deputy Director position through their teaching results, with Su Yuan and the Heavenly Heart Holy Son emerging as their strongest prospective students. Su Yuan arrived at the university town with his companions just as the Holy Son made a dramatic entrance.

• Yang Hao True Lord announced that he would teach in the Evil Slaying Department and compete with Taihua Tianji for the Deputy Director position.
• The Heavenly Heart Holy Son, the third son of Nine Saints True Lord, chose the Evil Slaying Department and Yang Hao True Lord as his instructor, strengthening Yang Hao’s candidacy.
• Su Yuan formed a livestreaming group with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Xiao Kong to promote Yuan Sect’s products while avoiding claims about whether he could surpass the Holy Son.
• On August 31, Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Xiao Kong traveled to Evil Slaying University Town and drew attention as four of the school’s few Foundation Establishment freshmen.
• A luxurious Flying Boat bearing the words “Heavenly Heart” descended at the freshman registration area, announcing the arrival of the Heavenly Heart Holy Son.

Su Yuan met Chi Lean, the friendly-seeming Heavenly Heart Holy Son whom his system revealed to be a dangerous devilish talent who breaks close relationships to cultivate his sword dao. After Su Yuan reluctantly agreed to be friends with Chi Lean, he discovered they would be roommates for the next four years.

• Chi Lean arrived at the university, and Qi Hanyua warned Su Yuan that he was a lunatic she had known since kindergarten.
• Su Yuan's system revealed Chi Lean's twisted nature and his habit of destroying bonds with friends and family to advance his Heavenly Heart Sword Dao.
• Qi Hanyua recalled how Chi Lean befriended their kindergarten class, then chased everyone with a toy flying sword and cut her arm.
• Chi Lean approached Su Yuan and asked to be friends, and Su Yuan accepted despite fearing what the friendship might bring.
• Su Yuan registered and went to his dorm, where Chi Lean appeared and announced they would be roommates for four years.

Su Yuan confronted Chi Lean over Qi Hanyua’s accusation, but learned that Chi Lean had injured their kindergarten classmates to save them from hallucinogenic gas. After attending Evil Slaying University’s opening ceremony and spending a peaceful first night with Chi Lean, Su Yuan learned that military training awaited him.

• Su Yuan accused Chi Lean of injuring his kindergarten classmates, but Chi Lean explained that he had used his Toy Flying Sword to save them from a hallucinogenic mushroom and an exploding furnace.
• Su Yuan summoned Qi Hanyua and Zhu Tianqing, and Demon Refining True Lord confirmed Chi Lean’s account, leaving the two Saintesses frightened and Chi Lean’s name cleared.
• Su Yuan apologized to Chi Lean, who settled into their dorm, though Su Yuan remained unsure about the other rumors surrounding him.
• Su Yuan attended Evil Slaying University’s opening ceremony, learned that its principal was a Nascent Soul Peak Sword Cultivator, and heard that fewer than ten Spirit Transmutation experts had emerged on Blue Star.
• Su Yuan explored University Town with Chen Nuoyi and spent his first night in the dorm without incident before learning the next day that military training was coming.