Recaps

Xiang Yuan dealt with the Jade Sun Sect’s approach, sent Xiao Lingyue and Chan’er away to cultivate, and then returned to the Heavenly Sect to discuss its predicament with Ji Wuzhou. Ji Wuzhou chose to restart the Heavenly Court, leaving Xiang Yuan to help find powerful allies.

• Daoist Wangji accepted Xiang Yuan’s gift and left east with Senior Jiang, while the others recovered from their muddled conversation and departed Yue Residence.
• Xiang Yuan peeked into Yue Huanjiang and Qu Rou’s wedding chamber before sending Chan’er to the Yellow Springs Dao and Xiao Lingyue to Unrivaled Palace to seek guidance.
• Bai Wuyan confronted Xiang Yuan at White Lotus Palace, then went to instruct Xiao Lingyue while Xiang Yuan escaped to the Cold Pool Grotto-Heaven.
• Xiang Yuan told Ji Wuzhou that the Jade Sun Sect was gathering strength, and Ji Wuzhou weighed whether to make the Heavenly Sect the foundation of a new Heavenly Court.
• Ji Wuzhou committed to restarting the Heavenly Court and asked Xiang Yuan to recruit powerful allies, including Bai Wuyan, Sword Venerable Su Ran, and Old Daoist Quexin.

Xiang Yuan tried to recruit powerful figures for Ji Wuzhou’s future Heavenly Court while navigating the escalating gossip and rivalry at Sword Heart Studio. Sword Venerable Su Ran gave him access to a hidden boon in a familiar minor realm, leaving him poised to claim it.

• Xiang Yuan considered how to recruit forces such as Yellow Springs Dao, Unrivaled Palace, and Azure Cloud Sect without endangering the Heavenly Sect’s plans.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ziping and spun a story about her master that prompted Shang Qingmeng and Qin Zhaorong to arrive; Su Ran then pulled him into Sword Heart Studio’s pocket realm.
• Qin Zhaorong pieced together the gossip and persuaded Ziping to take her along to watch the confrontation.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran drew Xiang Yuan’s blood, while he tried to learn why she resented Bai Wuyan and sounded her out about joining the Heavenly Court.
• Su Ran rejected Xiang Yuan’s request for support but led him to a hidden boon in the minor realm where Sword Heart Studio and Unrivaled Palace had competed in swordsmanship.

Xiang Yuan discovered that the Earth Vein Fire Marrow seal was gone and learned that Sword Venerable Su Ran suspected him of stealing it, while Bai Wuyan revealed the history behind her feud with Su Ran. The chapter ended with Xiang Yuan confronting Bai Wuyan over Chan'er’s role as a supposed smokescreen, and Bai Wuyan throwing him into the Cold Pool.

• Sword Venerable Su Ran found the Earth Vein Fire Marrow seal missing and realized the imprisoned extraterritorial demons had been killed, then accused Xiang Yuan of secretly taking the marrow.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran drank Xiang Yuan’s blood until she became tipsy, nearly revealed secrets about Bai Wuyan, and was caught in an awkward scene by Qin Zhaorong, Shang Qingmeng, and Ziping.
• Xiang Yuan visited Bai Wuyan at Unrivaled Palace, where her choice to appear with loose hair and no sash angered Xiao Lingyue and stirred gossip among her disciples.
• Bai Wuyan told Xiang Yuan that Sword Venerable Su Ran was the reincarnation of Six Paths and explained that her efforts to protect Su Ran had led to their feud.
• Xiang Yuan told Bai Wuyan that Chan’er had also been called the reincarnated one, and Bai Wuyan insisted that Su Ran was the true reincarnation while Chan’er had been used as a smokescreen.
• Bai Wuyan admitted that Queen Mother of the West had arranged Chan’er’s role, then threw Xiang Yuan into the Cold Pool after he stood his ground for Chan’er.

Xiang Yuan considered how to draw Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran toward Dry Abyss Realm’s Heavenly Court, then continued cultivating and acting out a myth with Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and Ji Muqing in the Heavenly God Realm. The chapter ended when Secretary Baize sent him a seal from Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, suggesting that something had happened there.

• Xiang Yuan reasoned that Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran might favor Dry Abyss Realm’s Heavenly Court under Ji Wuzhou, and realized Sword Venerable Su Ran had repeatedly used him to undermine Zhang Tianyang.
• Bai Wuyan returned to Xiang Yuan, vented her anger on him, and sent him away from Unrivaled Palace; Xiang Yuan then visited Sword Venerable Su Ran, pitched the Heavenly Court under Broken Sampan, and received cultivation guidance.
• By mid-March, Xiang Yuan had made rapid cultivation progress while dividing his time between Unrivaled Palace and Sword Heart Studio, then returned to Overlord Residence to relax with Jiang Yingjun, Baoqin, and Xiao Lingyan.
• Xiang Yuan went to Purple Bamboo Grove to resume Buddhist cultivation and built a Yishui City soundstage, where he and Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and Ji Muqing played Xu Xian, Bai Suzhen, and Xiaoqing.
• Secretary Baize sent Xiang Yuan a small seal from Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, and Xiang Yuan wondered whether an emergency had occurred at True Warrior Great Emperor’s sacred ground.

Xiang Yuan learned that the Celestial Emperor’s decree sending him to the Heavy Court Realm was part of a plan to make Jingyun reveal her allegiance. Jingyun gave him a jade sash to open an ascension passage, and Xiang Yuan arrived in the besieged Great Zhou capital, where its people mistook him for a summoned immortal.

• Baize and Guan Yan discussed the Celestial Emperor’s decree, and Baize suggested Xiang Yuan had been assigned work because he was idle.
• Jingyun revealed that the decree tested her position and gave Xiang Yuan a jade sash to open an ascension passage after he claimed a fortuitous opportunity.
• Xiang Yuan descended into the Heavy Court Realm during Great Zhou’s desperate sacrifice to Heaven, and the emperor and officials celebrated his arrival as an immortal.
• Xiang Yuan questioned a ceremonial official and learned that the Demon Emperor had thrown the world into chaos and was considered invincible.

Xiang Yuan descended into the Heavy Court Realm, healed the starving people of Great Zhou, and declared himself the Nine Heavens Demon-Subduing Patriarch. After discovering how powerful the realm’s laws made him, he went to Demon King City to confront the Demon Emperor, where he faced three demonic generals.

• Xiang Yuan questioned a ritual official, learned that the Demon Emperor had thrown the Heavy Court Realm into chaos, and sensed that the realm’s laws unusually welcomed him.
• Xiang Yuan used the five elements and a drop of his blood to create abundant food and healing rain across the capital, restoring the refugees and curing their ailments.
• Emperor Ji Bai thanked Xiang Yuan, who named himself True Warrior of the North, the Nine Heavens Demon-Subduing Patriarch, and ordered shrines built for Our Lady of Mount Li and Southern Pole Guanyin.
• Xiang Yuan studied the Heavy Court Realm’s laws overnight, concluded that he could wield power beyond the realm’s normal limits, and vanished from the imperial palace to seek the Demon Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan openly challenged the Demon Emperor atop the walls of Demon King City, and three demonic generals descended to confront him.
• The three-headed rakshasa mocked Xiang Yuan’s name, and Xiang Yuan answered by summoning an indescribable blade light.

Xiang Yuan destroyed the Demon Emperor’s imperial city and defeated his monstrous true form, then discovered the Demon Emperor had stolen the Heavy Court Realm’s Celestial Emperor Dao Seed. Xiang Yuan entered the Heavenly Palace and absorbed the Dao Seed, leaving him unsure what it had changed.

• Xiang Yuan killed Eight-Armed Rakshasa, Withered Bones Demon General, and Cold White Skin as they fled through the Imperial City.
• Xiang Yuan shattered the Demon Emperor’s defenses, split the Imperial City apart, and forced the Demon Emperor to reveal his monstrous body.
• The Demon Emperor transformed into a colossal demonic dragon and swallowed Xiang Yuan, while Xiang Yuan’s golden Buddha pinned and battered the dragon.
• Xiang Yuan followed the spiritual vein inside the dragon to a Heavenly Palace and realized the Demon Emperor had obtained the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed three years earlier.
• Xiang Yuan drew the Heavenly Palace into his body, received the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed, and found that he felt no different afterward.

Xiang Yuan seized the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed, destroyed the Demon Emperor, and restored the Heavy Court Realm, where he uncovered clues linking its buried Heavenly Court to the Dry Abyss Realm. When an unexpected ascension passage opened, he fought off its first arrival before another passage brought an unfamiliar, heavily armed god carrying demonic aura.

• Xiang Yuan took the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed, causing the Demon Emperor to lose his power; the Thousand-Handed Great Buddha tore out and refined the Demon Emperor's heart until it crumbled to ashes.
• The Heavy Court Realm renewed itself, freeing the people the Demon Emperor had absorbed, and Xiang Yuan gained authority over the realm's laws of heaven and earth.
• Xiang Yuan explored the underground Heavenly Court ruins, found a mural of a human Celestial Emperor facing demonic claws, and suspected the Heavy Court Realm and Dry Abyss Realm had belonged to the same upper-realm Heavenly Court.
• Xiang Yuan opened an ascension passage for Jingyun, but it led somewhere other than the Heavenly God Realm; he attacked its opening and shattered the colossal hand that reached through it.
• Xiang Yuan's strongest strike cracked an ancient black mirror at the passage's far end but failed to close the passage, while a second passage opened and brought an unfamiliar god in golden armor whose aura was demonic.

Xiang Yuan watched two upper-realm Heavenly Courts clash through their avatars and helped protect the Heavy Court Realm with Guanyin Bodhisattva and King Frieza’s power. The confrontation escalated when both Heavenly Emperors projected their dharma images, leaving Xiang Yuan to silently root for the nine-fingered rival of his own Heavenly Emperor.

• The golden-armored demon god attacked the ascension passage, but the mysterious mirror absorbed his Sun True Fire and Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor emerged to confront him.
• The two Deputy Heavenly-tier avatars clashed, unleashing disasters across the Heavy Court Realm, and Xiang Yuan used the True Martial Black Eagle Banner and Demon-Slaying Sword to shield its living beings.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived and strengthened Xiang Yuan’s defenses, while King Frieza’s power reinforced the banner and protected Bai Yue.
• Northern True Martial, the Nine Heavens Demon-Subduing Patriarch, challenged Xiang Yuan, who punched and kicked him before the newcomer fled when Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor manifested his Heavenly Emperor dharma image.
• The golden-armored demon god summoned his own Heavenly Emperor dharma image, and Xiang Yuan retreated behind Bai Yue’s protection before noticing that the rival Heavenly Emperor was missing half a finger.

Xiang Yuan copied the laws and chaotic Sword Qi of two battling Celestial Emperors in the Heavy Court Realm, drawing the realm into a brewing war between upper realms. Back in the Heavenly God Realm, he asked Jingyun about the rival emperor’s homeland, the Divine Firmament Realm.

• Xiang Yuan recognized the rival Celestial Emperor as the one whose finger he had severed and watched the two emperors clash while King Frieza protected him and Bai Yue.
• Xiang Yuan used his Celestial Emperor Dao Seed to absorb the laws spilling from the battle, rapidly advancing his cultivation as the Heavy Court Realm transformed.
• The Celestial Emperors fought with their dharma forms and magical treasures, then copied Xiang Yuan’s chaotic Sword Qi and used it against each other before withdrawing without a victor.
• The two upper realms kept their ascension passages open and began treating the Heavy Court Realm as a buffer zone, while Xiang Yuan paused to recover from copying their techniques.
• Xiang Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain and complained to Jingyun that he had gotten into trouble; she warned him not to wander while the Heavenly God Realm prepared for major changes.
• Xiang Yuan asked Jingyun what the false emperor’s realm was called, and she answered that it was the Divine Firmament Realm.

Xiang Yuan learned that the Heavy Court Realm was tied to a Celestial Emperor’s scheme and prepared for the coming interplanar war, though Jingyun revealed little. Back at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, he left Baize and Guan Yan to manage the unrest, then summoned them to the Heavenly Court to fill the vacant Turtle and Serpent General posts.

• Jingyun told Xiang Yuan that the Heavy Court Realm was part of an unknown Celestial Emperor’s plan to return and that his opportunity there was connected to his position as True Warrior Great Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan reasoned that an interplanar war would be decided by the two Celestial Emperors, while immortals and gods would serve mainly as expendable tools.
• Xiang Yuan visited Lay Practitioner Bai Yue in Purple Bamboo Grove, stayed with her instead of returning to his own Dao field, and was eventually thrown out of Contemplation Hall.
• Baize took charge of Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor while Xiang Yuan drank tea and cultivated, then urged him to address the manor’s incomplete ranks and absent Turtle and Serpent Generals.
• Xiang Yuan decided Baize and Guan Yan would fill the vacant general posts and summoned them to the Heavenly Court by imperial decree.

Xiang Yuan attended the Heavenly Court’s war assembly, then led his forces to the Demon Continent as the Divine Firmament Realm’s army emerged. As the enemy displayed its overwhelming formation, Xiang Yuan ordered his troops to stay put and asked Baize to chill him a cup of cola before he went to fight.

• Xiang Yuan arrived at the Heavenly Court and heard the Heavenly Emperor denounce the false emperor of Divine Firmament Realm before ordering the gods to defend the lower realms.
• Xiang Yuan gathered with his generals and secretaries at the Demon Continent, where he questioned why the Heavenly Emperor had left the strategically important Heavenly Demon Realm unguarded.
• The Divine Firmament Realm’s ascension passage opened above the Demon Continent, and its soldiers and divine generals assembled for battle.
• The True Warrior Great Emperor’s Dharma Aspect appeared, and his army roared a challenge that made the Demon Continent’s demons and monsters kneel.
• Xiang Yuan dismissed the enemy’s grand display, told his forces not to move, and asked Baize to chill a cup of cola while he prepared to face the enemy.

Xiang Yuan destroyed the Demon-Subduing Patriarch and his formations, then survived an attempt by the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor’s mirror to copy him. When the Heavenly God Realm’s ascension passages vanished, Xiang Yuan forced his way into the realm and discovered doubles confronting one another across it.

• Xiang Yuan used his small-world projection to shatter the Demon-Subduing Patriarch’s formations, defeat the thirty-six divine generals, and erase the opposing heavenly soldiers.
• The Demon-Subduing Patriarch’s black mirror tried to copy Xiang Yuan, but the jade belt shielded him and made the mirror figure disappear.
• Xiang Yuan returned to camp, where he reassured Baize and Guan Yan as the two secretaries worried that his strength had made their work unnecessary.
• The Heavenly Palace gateway vanished, cutting off the route between the lower realms and the Heavenly God Realm.
• Xiang Yuan used the jade belt to locate a way into the Heavenly God Realm and saw real and fake figures confronting each other, including two Lady Guanyins facing off at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Grove.

Xiang Yuan watched Laywoman Bai Yue confront the Divine Firmament Realm’s Avalokiteshvara, whose appearance resembled hers, and urged his senior sister to treat her as an impostor. After the two Bodhisattvas debated and fought over purity and worldly ties, Avalokiteshvara drew Laywoman Bai Yue into a realm of pure white Buddhism, and Xiang Yuan rushed in to intervene.

• Xiang Yuan noticed the two Guanyin Bodhisattvas’ similar appearances and suspected that they were reincarnated bodies.
• Ji Muqing asked Xiang Yuan to help Laywoman Bai Yue, but Laywoman Bai Yue asked him not to interfere while she sought answers from Avalokiteshvara.
• Laywoman Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara exchanged arguments about purity, then battled with Buddhist powers across the South Sea.
• Avalokiteshvara invited Laywoman Bai Yue to understand herself through the present and enveloped them both in a pure white Buddhist realm.
• Xiang Yuan transformed into black light and struck at the Buddhist realm after Laywoman Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara closed their eyes together.

Xiang Yuan helped Lay Practitioner Bai Yue merge with Avalokiteshvara of the Divine Firmament Realm, then rushed to the Heavenly Court to aid the Celestial Emperor against the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor. The battle shifted when Great Luo Heaven joined the two realms, and the Celestial Emperor revealed that his apparent ally had helped lure his enemy away from the false Heavenly Realm.

• Xiang Yuan broke through Guanyin Bodhisattva’s barriers and found that Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara of the Divine Firmament Realm were merging.
• Lay Practitioner Bai Yue absorbed Avalokiteshvara’s power and wisdom while preserving her will, and reassured Xiang Yuan that she remained herself.
• Lay Practitioner Bai Yue left with Hou and Ji Muqing to save people in the lower realm, while Xiang Yuan went to the Heavenly Court to support the Celestial Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan found the Heavenly Court devastated, saw the wounded Queen Mother, and hid near the battle between the Celestial Emperor and the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor claimed that the Celestial Emperor’s ally had joined his side, leaving Xiang Yuan fearing that King Frieza had betrayed them.
• Great Luo Heaven of the Divine Firmament Realm connected with the Heavenly God Realm, and the Celestial Emperor revealed that his ally had helped lure the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor away from the false Heavenly Realm.

The Celestial Emperor believed he had won the fusion of the Divine Firmament Realm and the Heavenly God Realm, but the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor and Jingyun had outmaneuvered him. As the defeated emperor disintegrated, he struck at Xiang Yuan, whose jade belt began to glow.

• The Celestial Emperor took control of the merging Great Luo Heavens and announced that he had won his gamble against the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan approached the weakened Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor, but the emperor killed the Queen Mother and attacked him; King Frieza then revealed herself in disguise.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor appeared in Great Luo Heaven and revealed that his ally had fought the Celestial Emperor while he directed the fusion with Jingyun.
• The Celestial Emperor accepted defeat, then used his remaining power to erase Xiang Yuan from Heaven's laws and principles.
• A streak of chaos light struck Xiang Yuan from outside his body as his jade belt began to glow.

After Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor defeated the False Emperor, the merged realms were rewritten and most people forgot the planar war. Xiang Yuan restored Baize’s memories and later visited Laywoman Bai Yue, while Jingyun explained some of the Heavenly Dao’s secrets.

• Jingyun rejected Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor’s offer of greater status and refused to let him elevate Xiang Yuan, who remained her nominal disciple.
• Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor discovered Supreme Elder Lord at Doushuai Palace and realized the False Emperor had revealed the hidden realms and arrangements needed for the merger.
• Jingyun told Xiang Yuan that Celestial Emperors were incarnations of the Heavenly Dao and that the Celestial Emperor sought the opportunity Xiang Yuan had taken.
• One month later, Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor merged the realms and erased most memories of the planar war, but Xiang Yuan restored Baize’s memories with a chop to the head.
• Xiang Yuan restored Guan Yan’s memories as well, then went to Purple Bamboo Grove and rejoined Laywoman Bai Yue, reciting poems to her.

After spending months in the Heavenly God Realm, Xiang Yuan returned to Dry Abyss Realm, overcame his aversion to feminine beauty, and sought Bai Wuyan’s guidance before breaking through to the Body Integration Realm. Their discussion of the many worlds named Zhou ended in failed divination and an unexpected offer from Bai Wuyan to inspect Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit through dual cultivation.

• Xiang Yuan returned to Dry Abyss Realm, released his cultivation suppression, and reached the bottleneck for the Body Integration Realm.
• Xiang Yuan spent three days at Overlord Residence recovering from his fear of beauty-bone skeletons before heading to Unrivaled Palace.
• Xiang Yuan asked Bai Wuyan why so many worlds contained a state called Zhou, and Bai Wuyan began divining its hidden origins.
• Bai Wuyan’s second attempt to divine Upper Zhou triggered a powerful backlash that wounded her, so she summoned Xiang Yuan to wash and help her dress.
• Xiang Yuan asked Bai Wuyan to guide him through the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan suspected he had dual cultivated with Door-Crack Sword Venerable.
• Bai Wuyan proposed dual cultivating with Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit to check for traces of Door-Crack Sword Venerable, marking their first time doing so.

Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan copied and evolved Heavenly Dao laws together, allowing him to break through into the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan explained the challenge of merging his inner and outer worlds. She sent him to teach in her place at White Lotus Palace, where Cheng Yuling arrived and mistook Xiang Yuan’s place on the master’s seat for a sign of his growing status.

• Bai Wuyan copied the Heavenly Dao laws from Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit, and their cultivation together evolved the laws while exhausting them both.
• Xiang Yuan discovered that he had broken through into the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan explained that he still needed to merge his inner and outer heaven and earth.
• Xiang Yuan worried about using a world with living beings for his integration, and Bai Wuyan suggested the lifeless Ancient Wilderness Realm.
• Bai Wuyan sent Xiang Yuan to teach the Nether Passage cultivators at White Lotus Palace while she meditated to consolidate her gains.
• Xiang Yuan found Xiao Lingyue in forced seclusion, shared the principles of heaven and earth with her, and then sat in Bai Wuyan’s place before Yinshuang, Daoxue, and Qing Zhuying.
• Cheng Yuling entered White Lotus Palace, saw Xiang Yuan seated in the master’s place, and proudly introduced him to the others without realizing the awkward misunderstanding.

Xiang Yuan’s attempt to teach Unrivaled Palace’s grandmasters collapses into a farcical lesson after Cheng Yuling joins in, and he later convinces Bai Wuyan not to punish the troublemakers. He then approaches Bai Wuyan about the Heavenly Sect’s plan to become the Heavenly Court, arguing that she can support it without sacrificing her cultivation.

• Qing Zhuying learns that Cheng Yuling is Bai Wuyan’s foremost disciple, Xiao Lingyue’s mother and senior sister, and Xiang Yuan’s adoptive mother and mother-in-law.
• Xiang Yuan tries to send Cheng Yuling away from his lesson, but Yinshuang and Daoxue’s teasing leads him to send the three grandmaster students to stand facing a wall and return Cheng Yuling to her courtyard.
• Xiang Yuan ends the lesson, visits Xiao Lingyue, then goes to Bai Wuyan and explains why the class ended early; Bai Wuyan becomes furious at the students, but Xiang Yuan persuades her not to punish them.
• Bai Wuyan secretly releases Cheng Yuling, who heads to White Lotus Palace to show off before the others while Xiang Yuan remains unaware.
• Xiang Yuan tells Bai Wuyan that the Heavenly Sect plans to become the Heavenly Court and proposes that she join as an original shareholder and ally rather than be bound by divine rank.

Xiang Yuan negotiated with Bai Wuyan over the Heavenly Court’s coming birth, promising her freedom from its control in exchange for helping Ji Wuzhou oppose Zhang Tianyang. He then visited Sword Heart Studio to approach Sword Venerable Su Ran, but found Shang Qingmeng in seclusion beside her and saw Su Ran preparing to prove her innocence through her actions.

• Xiang Yuan explained that Bai Wuyan could gain original equity in the Heavenly Court and learn its laws through him, while Bai Wuyan insisted on being present when it was born and keeping her own preparations secret.
• Bai Wuyan agreed to oppose Zhang Tianyang alongside the Heavenly Sect, and she warned Xiang Yuan that Su Ran might try to use him as a cultivation cauldron.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ziping and found Qin Zhaorong there; after learning Shang Qingmeng had entered seclusion to break through to the Body Integration Realm, he left for Sword Heart Studio.
• Xiang Yuan arrived at the Sword Pillar Forbidden Ground and found Shang Qingmeng cultivating beside Su Ran, then asked Su Ran to send her away before discussing his important business.
• Su Ran refused to send Shang Qingmeng away and declared that she would prove through her actions that she was not a shameless master.

Xiang Yuan entered seclusion with Shang Qingmeng while Sword Venerable Su Ran summoned Ziping and Qin Zhaorong to witness her supposedly innocent cultivation guidance. When she saw the extraordinary laws in Xiang Yuan’s small world, she abandoned her proof of innocence and began dual cultivation with him, sealing the others away.

• Xiang Yuan avoided Sword Venerable Su Ran and plunged into the spirit spring to help Shang Qingmeng with her Body Integration Realm breakthrough.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran brought Qin Zhaorong into the grotto-heaven, where she and Ziping failed to challenge their master and were told to witness her cultivation guidance.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran drained Xiang Yuan’s blood medicine, then drew out the projection of his small world to guide his cultivation.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran discovered the immense Heavenly Dao laws in Xiang Yuan’s small world and decided she could not resist the opportunity to dual cultivate with him.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran tossed Ziping and Qin Zhaorong into the spring beside Shang Qingmeng and sealed them off before beginning dual cultivation with Xiang Yuan.

Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran spent more than ten days merging their little worlds and cultivating, then blamed each other for their intimacy before agreeing that Xiang Yuan would face her disciples. After Su Ran sent Xiang Yuan, Ziping, and Qin Zhaorong back to Ziping's courtyard, Xiang Yuan coaxed Ziping and Qin Zhaorong into silence and helped Qin Zhaorong enter seclusion; Su Ran watched him leave and worried about Shang Qingmeng.

• Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran harmonized their little worlds, gradually comprehended the Heavenly Dao, and embraced during their dual cultivation.
• After their cultivation ended, Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran argued over responsibility, then agreed that he would handle her disciples' reactions while she let him leave.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran released Xiang Yuan, Ziping, and Qin Zhaorong into Ziping's courtyard, where Qin Zhaorong and Ziping confronted Xiang Yuan about his conduct.
• Xiang Yuan hugged Ziping and coaxed her, then helped her cultivate with Qin Zhaorong until Qin Zhaorong broke through toward the Nether Passage Realm and entered seclusion.
• Xiang Yuan shifted away from Sword Heart Studio, while Sword Venerable Su Ran considered what to do about Shang Qingmeng.

Xiang Yuan soothed Bai Wuyan after Cheng Yuling publicly cursed her, then helped Bai Wuyan refine his small world before entering a sinister new realm through Jambu Gate. The chapter ended with Sword Venerable Su Ran arriving and throwing herself into Xiang Yuan’s arms, angering Bai Wuyan.

• Bai Wuyan blamed Xiang Yuan for Cheng Yuling’s insults, and Xiang Yuan defended Cheng Yuling while promising to punish the people who spread the rumors.
• Xiang Yuan offered Bai Wuyan his insights into the laws of heaven and earth, and they spent five days cultivating together as she reshaped his small world.
• Xiang Yuan punished Yinshuang, Daoxue, and Qing Zhuying by sending them to reflect, while Cheng Yuling returned to Shendu after cursing Bai Wuyan without consequence.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan entered a new world filled with demonic aura, blood rivers, and a grotesque bone forest.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran arrived through a radiant doorway, embraced Xiang Yuan, and complained that he had taken too long to come find her, enraging Bai Wuyan.

Xiang Yuan left Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran fighting and questioned the sinister temple, Corpse-Abandoning Protector, about the Demon Ruins Realm. He learned that the realm held demons from Journey to the West and that the Bull Devil King lived nearby, leaving him desperate to warn the two women before trouble arrived.

• Bai Wuyan arrived and clashed with Sword Venerable Su Ran, whose taunts drove the battle to escalate as Xiang Yuan slipped away.
• Xiang Yuan pursued the fleeing temple, blocked its path, and discovered that the temple itself was Corpse-Abandoning Protector.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector explained that Guanyin Bodhisattva had transported Charnel Forest to the Demon Ruins Realm after the Pilgrim defeated the demons of Lion Camel Ridge.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector told Xiang Yuan about the Three Demons of Double-Fork Ridge and said the two women fighting nearby were stronger than they were.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector revealed that the Bull Devil King lived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, and Xiang Yuan realized the two women needed to stop fighting before he arrived.