Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er met the Dao Lord of Yellow Springs Dao, who recognized their identities and appointed them to high positions in the sect. The pair then reached the Saintess's Hall, where Chan'er reunited with Baoqin and Xiang Yuan offered to discipline her.

• Zuo Lengxie led Xiang Yuan and Chan'er through the hidden headquarters of Yellow Springs Dao to the Dao Master's forbidden grounds.
• The Dao Lord declared that Chan'er was Yellow Springs Dao's true Holy Maiden and taught her the original Reincarnation Rebirth Scripture.
• The Dao Lord identified Xiang Yuan as Heartless Daoist's disciple and appointed him Left Envoy under the name Xiang Wentian.
• Xiang Yuan and Chan'er speculated that Jinse had been prepared as a vessel for Chan'er and that the Dao Lord's plans might have involved Spiritual Light.
• At the Saintess's Hall, Chan'er encountered Baoqin, who recognized Xiang Yuan as the man from Fengxian County.
• Xiang Yuan asked Chan'er to let him discipline Baoqin, and Chan'er agreed to a small punishment.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er discussed the Dao Master's role in Jinse's downfall and Chan'er's Saintess identity before Xiang Yuan left Yellow Springs Dao to meet Xiao Lingyue. He began explaining Chan'er's past to Xiao Lingyue, but had only reached the story of her upbringing when the chapter ended.

• Chan'er questioned Xiang Yuan about whether the Dao Master had arranged for Jinse and her to be caught, and Xiang Yuan reasoned that the Dao Master had likely foreseen and encouraged events rather than planned every detail.
• Chan'er proposed removing Zuo Lengxie so she and Xiang Yuan could control Yellow Springs Dao, but Xiang Yuan refused to take charge of the sect.
• Chan'er tried to make Baoqin help Xiang Yuan change clothes, then grew jealous when he took Baoqin's hand and sent her out of the room.
• After a month in Yellow Springs Dao, Xiang Yuan practiced spatial transference, returned to Fengxian County, and contacted Xiao Lingyue before Chan'er could reach her.
• Xiao Lingyue arrived, and Xiang Yuan told her that he had found Chan'er and brought her back; he then began explaining Chan'er's history, including her connection to Silver Moon Palace and Jinse.

Xiang Yuan recounted how he rescued Chan'er from Jinse, then revealed that Chan'er had claimed him while he was badly injured, enraging Xiao Lingyue. When Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er began fighting in the Heavenly Demon Realm, Xiang Yuan invoked his power as the True Warrior Great Emperor and left them facing an overwhelming divine apparition.

• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that Jinse had tormented Chan'er, captured him, and was eventually killed by Chan'er beneath the Yellow Springs Mother Tree.
• Xiang Yuan claimed that Chan'er had called him husband and taken him while his injuries left him unable to resist, prompting Xiao Lingyue to accuse him of betraying their engagement.
• Chan'er arrived through the Jambu Gate, and she and Xiao Lingyue traded accusations before agreeing to settle their rivalry in another world.
• Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er fought with their sun-and-moon arts in the Heavenly Demon Realm while Xiang Yuan watched and realized their powers were largely counterbalancing each other.
• Xiang Yuan revealed himself as the True Warrior Great Emperor, summoned a divine phantom, and subdued both women beneath its power.
• Xiang Yuan charged the Great Emperor phantom and told Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er to flee without coming back for him.

Xiang Yuan and his wives escaped the Great Emperor's phantom, who cursed him with a love poison that only Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er together could ease. Back in the Unborn Realm, Xiang Yuan used the poison's recurring flare-ups to keep both women caring for him, while their rivalry continued.

• The Great Emperor's phantom shattered Xiang Yuan's Three-Headed Six-Armed Dharma Form, then spared him because it resembled an old friend's inheritance but held Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er responsible for disrupting the Heavenly Demon Realm's laws.
• The Great Emperor's phantom discovered that Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er were disciples of 'her,' returned Jambu Gate to Xiang Yuan, and planted a love poison that flared every three months and required both women's true love to ease it.
• Xiang Yuan passed out and woke in the Unborn Realm, where Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er agreed to alternate one shichen of caring for him and continued blaming each other.
• When the poison flared, Xiao Lingyue kissed Xiang Yuan, but he claimed both women were needed, so Chan'er joined them and Xiang Yuan kissed each woman to complete the treatment.
• Ten days later, Xiang Yuan remained injured and continued using the poison's symptoms to draw equal attention from Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, while the women remained jealous of each other.

After learning that Sun Wukong had been named the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and invited to the Peach Banquet, Xiang Yuan decided to go to Heaven and watch the coming upheaval. The chapter left him heading to find Guanyin Bodhisattva while Baize and Guan Yan continued to misunderstand his office rules.

• Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er returned to their respective cultivation, leaving Xiang Yuan to consider where to seek more fights and improve his strength.
• Xiang Yuan discovered that Guan Yan had become an intern secretary at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor and told her that her divine-power uniform made her effectively unclothed to him.
• Baize brought Xiang Yuan a report about Sun Wukong's rise to the title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Guan Yan and Baize both ended up sitting on the desk amid a series of misunderstandings.
• Baize told Xiang Yuan that the Heavenly Court had opened its treasure pavilion and invited him to a Peach Banquet three days later.
• Xiang Yuan connected Sun Wukong's origins to a tale about Yu the Great's flood-taming divine iron, then left to find Guanyin Bodhisattva so he could witness the coming events.

Xiang Yuan attended the Peach Banquet amid Sun Wukong’s havoc in Heaven, learned that the Heavenly Emperor had angered Jingyun by proposing marriage, and watched the monkey’s battle with Erlang. The chapter left Xiang Yuan determined to learn Heavenly Law and Earthly Manifestation while he returned to the Purple Bamboo Grove with Bai Yue.

• Xiang Yuan teased Layman Bai Yue and Ji Muqing at the Purple Bamboo Grove, then discovered he needed to attend the Peach Banquet to investigate the Queen Mother and other hidden figures.
• Xiang Yuan visited Jingyun, learned that the Heavenly Emperor had asked her to become Queen Mother, and loudly condemned the proposal before she sent him flying into his old pit.
• Sun Wukong stole peaches, imperial wine, and Nine-Revolution Golden Elixirs, while rumors about the Seven Fairies spread among the immortals gathered at the Jade Pool.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Yue went to Clear Insight Hall, where he saw the Heavenly Emperor, Queen Mother, and Supreme Elder Lord; the Supreme Elder Lord used a ring to subdue Sun Wukong after the Heavenly Court’s army failed.
• Xiang Yuan returned with Bai Yue to the Purple Bamboo Grove and watched Sun Wukong fight Erlang, memorizing Heavenly Law and Earthly Manifestation as his next cultivation goal.

Xiang Yuan left the Heavenly God Realm, gained new insights from Ji Wuzhou’s paintings, and traveled to Yellow Springs Dao headquarters to meet Chan’er. He found her interrogating a bound woman and recognized the captive as Sima Qingyan, prompting him to demand an explanation.

• Xiang Yuan balanced Baize and Guan Yan’s advances with a slap, then returned to the Dry Abyss Realm after watching the Buddha defeat Sun Wukong.
• Xiang Yuan entered the first of Ji Wuzhou’s paintings, experienced a profound insight, and found that his perception of the laws of heaven and earth had sharpened.
• Xiang Yuan learned numerous Heavenly Saber arts from the second painting, used Steady to refine them, and absorbed laws from the third painting to strengthen his body and inner world.
• Xiang Yuan emerged from ten days of cultivation and traveled to Yellow Springs Dao headquarters to meet Chan’er.
• Xiang Yuan found Chan’er questioning a bound woman in an underground chamber, stopped her from harming the captive, and recognized the woman as Sima Qingyan.
• Xiang Yuan demanded that Chan’er explain how Sima Qingyan had come to the headquarters.

Xiang Yuan rescued Sima Qingyan from the Yellow Springs Dao, healed her injuries, and agreed to accompany her to Sword Heart Studio. They arrived at the sect, where Xiang Yuan was surprised to find young women casually cracking sunflower seeds at its entrance.

• Chan'er explained how she had captured Sima Qingyan, and Xiang Yuan decided to take the woman out of the Southern Border.
• Xiang Yuan left the Holy Maiden's Hall with Sima Qingyan and treated her injuries at Yulin Academy, removing the Yellow Springs Dao techniques from her body.
• Sima Qingyan explained that Xiao He had forced her to infiltrate Yellow Springs Dao by threatening her father, and Xiang Yuan told her to stop serving as an undercover agent.
• Sima Qingyan invited Xiang Yuan to Sword Heart Studio, and he agreed to travel with her after learning she hoped the sect could restore his lost cultivation foundation.
• Xiang Yuan and Sima Qingyan reached Sword Heart Studio in Bishui County, where he found several young women cracking sunflower seeds outside the entrance.

Sima Qingyan brought Xiang Yuan into Sword Heart Studio for treatment, where he secretly studied the sect’s sword pillars and impressed Lay Buddhist Lingyu with his comprehension. Lingyu agreed to help restore his damaged foundation, while plotting to match him with Sima Qingyan and warning that his unauthorized study of their sword arts would have consequences.

• Sima Qingyan’s senior sisters teased her about Xiang Yuan and gave him a token for a secluded guest courtyard.
• Sima Qingyan explained Sword Heart Studio’s guarded grounds and restricted areas, frustrating Xiang Yuan’s hopes of exploring its Scripture Repository and Armory.
• Xiang Yuan studied the sword pillars with his Enlightenment Cushion, then practiced their sword intent with a branch while Palu watched.
• Lay Buddhist Lingyu arrived with Sima Qingyan, recognized Xiang Yuan’s exceptional comprehension, and explained the four realms of Sword Heart Studio’s sword arts.
• Lingyu learned that Xiang Yuan had supposedly lost his chastity and damaged his foundation while saving Sima Qingyan, then urged her to pursue him and offered to restore him.
• Lingyu agreed to treat Xiang Yuan but warned that he would answer for secretly learning Sword Heart Studio’s sword arts.

Xiang Yuan pretended to be gravely ill, prompting four Sword Heart Studio physicians to try and fail to treat him with vast quantities of heavenly treasures. As Daoist Purple Duckweed carried him to seek help from Eldest Senior Sister, Daoist Jiehai gathered enemies of Sword Heart Studio and revealed a plan to exploit the sect’s weakened defenses.

• Xiang Yuan reconstructed a flashy but impractical sword technique, then met Lay Buddhist Lingyu, who examined him after Sima Qingyan explained his supposed condition.
• Xiang Yuan described his encounter with the demoness, and Lingyu summoned Daoist Purple Duckweed, Su Ya, and Qin Zhaorong to examine and treat him.
• The four physicians diagnosed Xiang Yuan with a confusing array of symptoms and brought him to Daoist Purple Duckweed’s courtyard for treatment.
• Xiang Yuan consumed enormous amounts of heavenly treasures without improving, while the physicians exhausted their supplies and accumulated debts trying to cure him.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed took Xiang Yuan to find Eldest Senior Sister, while Daoist Jiehai persuaded a gathering of Sword Heart Studio’s enemies to attack during the sect’s weakened state.

Daoist Purple Duckweed brought Xiang Yuan to Shang Qingmeng for help, but Shang Qingmeng said his strange constitution could not be treated without an excessive cost. Xiang Yuan recovered after five days of invasive study and wandered Sword Heart Studio’s inner grounds with Tang Rou, while Chang Xiuming arrived to see Shang Qingmeng.

• Daoist Purple Duckweed took Xiang Yuan into the Nine Absolute Sword Formation to ask Shang Qingmeng to examine his injuries.
• Shang Qingmeng diagnosed Xiang Yuan’s weakness as a constitution rather than an illness and said treating him would cost too much.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed considered harvesting Xiang Yuan, so he recovered quickly and endured five days of examination by her and Qin Zhaorong.
• Xiang Yuan explored the inner sect, avoided a group of curious female disciples, and met Tang Rou, who offered to guide him around forbidden areas.
• Tang Rou identified a melancholy young man as Martial Uncle Chang, the second disciple of Sword Heart Studio’s headmaster, and Chang Xiuming entered the Sword Pillar Forbidden Ground to meet Shang Qingmeng.

Chang Xiuming betrayed Sword Heart Studio by trapping Shang Qingmeng and summoning Daoist Jiehai and his allies, while Xiang Yuan fought the invading cultivators across the sect. Xiang Yuan rescued Daoist Purple Duckweed from danger and revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving her furious that he had pretended to be injured.

• Chang Xiuming sealed Shang Qingmeng in the Nine Absolute Sword Formation and summoned Daoist Jiehai, Fairy Empty Shadow, and their allies into Sword Heart Studio.
• Fairy Empty Shadow confronted Shang Qingmeng over the sword scar on her face and trapped her with the Cloudwater Painting, but Shang Qingmeng broke free and wounded her.
• Xiang Yuan noticed the altered formation, took Tang Rou toward safety, and then attacked three Spirit Transformation cultivators who were threatening Sword Heart Studio disciples.
• Xiang Yuan killed one attacker with a single strike and fought the other two as the disciples watched in shock.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed and the disciples faced a Blood God Child avatar and several enemy cultivators until Xiang Yuan arrived and struck down the three attackers with the Heavenly Blade Technique: Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens.
• Xiang Yuan apologized for arriving late, and Daoist Purple Duckweed realized he had never been injured and demanded repayment for the food she had bought him.

Xiang Yuan defended Sword Heart Studio from Daoist Jiehai’s Blood God Child avatars and other attackers, then followed Daoist Purple Duckweed and Qin Zhaorong to the sword-pillar restricted grounds. There, he tore open a powerful spatial treasure’s barrier and found Shang Qingmeng emerging after destroying Fairy Empty Shadow’s Primordial Spirit.

• Daoist Purple Duckweed warned Xiang Yuan about Daoist Jiehai’s Blood God Child avatars, but Xiang Yuan shattered the blood hand with his innate divine strength and burned away more than a hundred avatars with Raise Fire to Burn Heaven.
• Xiang Yuan helped Sword Heart Studio repel its attackers, killing Spirit Transformation cultivators and destroying more Blood God Child avatars while the sect’s disciples evacuated.
• At Embroidery Heart Pavilion, Xiang Yuan rescued Qin Zhaorong from a Blood God Child avatar, defeated the Hundred Rivers Alliance attackers, and pursued the last fleeing avatar until it collapsed.
• Qin Zhaorong guessed that Xiang Yuan had been pretending to be ill and led him to the sword pillar, where Daoist Purple Duckweed revealed that Shang Qingmeng was trapped by a magic treasure wielded by a Nether Insight grandmaster.
• Xiang Yuan tore apart the Cloudwater Painting’s barrier and briefly exposed Fairy Empty Shadow with Shang Qingmeng; Shang Qingmeng then emerged and destroyed Fairy Empty Shadow’s Primordial Spirit.

Xiang Yuan entered Sword Heart Studio’s pocket heaven as Sword Venerable Su Ran fought Daoist Jiehai and Chang Xiuming, who revealed their demonic powers and sought to exploit her. As Su Ran and Shang Qingmeng battled Chang Xiuming, Xiang Yuan drew the Rouge Sword and unleashed a corruption that spread through the pocket heaven, leaving Su Ran to realize another demon had appeared.

• Shang Qingmeng restored the Nine Absolute Sword Formation, exposed Chang Xiuming as the traitor, and entered the pocket heaven to aid Sword Venerable Su Ran.
• Xiang Yuan followed Shang Qingmeng into the pocket heaven, where Daoist Jiehai and Chang Xiuming confronted the aged Su Ran and Chang Xiuming revealed a demonic eye embedded in his chest.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran used the Dao Sword to split Daoist Jiehai and destroy his Blood Sea Realm manifestation, but the attacks exhausted her strength.
• Chang Xiuming tried to use Su Ran as a catalyst for his scheme, and Shang Qingmeng let Su Ran control her body to wield the Dao Sword against him.
• Chang Xiuming transformed into a faceless demon and clashed with Shang Qingmeng while Xiang Yuan watched from nearby.
• Xiang Yuan drew the Rouge Sword, tore open the sky, and spread corrupt demonic qi through the pocket heaven, contaminating its master’s Primordial Spirit.

Xiang Yuan helped Sword Venerable Su Ran defeat the Great Devil and learned many supreme sword arts while she controlled his body. After using his body to absorb the divine blood that restored her youth, Su Ran ordered Shang Qingmeng to purge the desire-sin inside her by coupling with Xiang Yuan, leaving him protesting as Shang Qingmeng began to undress.

• Xiang Yuan contaminated the Lesser Grotto-Heaven with Mad Beauty Sword’s Crimson Universe, and Sword Venerable Su Ran used the demonic qi to regain enough strength to fight.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran possessed Xiang Yuan and wielded the Dao Sword realm to repel the Great Devil, teaching him supreme sword arts in the process.
• After the battle, Sword Venerable Su Ran passed the sect-master position to Shang Qingmeng and began her final farewell, but she noticed Xiang Yuan refining the blood pool’s medicine.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran linked Xiang Yuan to the Blood-Drop Sword and drew its divine blood through his body, restoring her strength and transforming her into a young woman.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran learned that Shang Qingmeng’s desire-sin could be purged by coupling with Xiang Yuan, then drew him to Shang Qingmeng as she began loosening her robes.

Xiang Yuan escaped Sword Venerable Su Ran’s forced marriage scheme by revealing that he was Heartless Daoist’s disciple, but Sword Heart Studio kept him under watch while Daoist Purple Duckweed bargained for his medicinal blood. After securing a token, he fled the sect for Bishui County, with the women of Sword Heart Studio chasing after him.

• Sword Venerable Su Ran tried to force Xiang Yuan to marry Shang Qingmeng, but Xiang Yuan refused and helped Shang Qingmeng dispel her poison beneath the pool.
• Xiang Yuan revealed that he was a disciple of Heartless Daoist, prompting Sword Venerable Su Ran to let him leave while warning him to keep his distance from Shang Qingmeng.
• Xiang Yuan told Daoist Purple Duckweed and Qin Zhaorong a fabricated account of how Sword Heart Studio survived the demon attack, then discovered they would not let him leave without a token.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed bargained with Xiang Yuan for twenty bottles of his blood and gave him a token to leave the sect.
• Xiang Yuan escaped through a window and fled the pursuing Sword Heart Studio girls toward Bishui County.

Xiang Yuan reviewed the gains from his journey, practiced a sword art inspired by Sword Venerable Su Ran, and spent two days cultivating with Shang Qingmeng. Daoist Purple Duckweed arrived with Red Lotus Pills, and Xiang Yuan began arranging a pill-making business with her before she asked him for another potent ingredient.

• Xiang Yuan meditated on the Gods and Devils blood, the small world Sword Venerable Su Ran had created through his body, and the Dao Sword insights he had gained.
• Xiang Yuan practiced his newly gleaned sword art in the courtyard, where Shang Qingmeng appeared and persuaded him to cultivate with her while exchanging sword insights.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed arrived and discovered Shang Qingmeng leaving Xiang Yuan's room, then pressed him for gossip about what had happened.
• Xiang Yuan tested Daoist Purple Duckweed's Red Lotus Essence-Congealing pills and negotiated a partnership in which he supplied blood medicine and she handled ingredients, refinement, and sales.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed asked Xiang Yuan to spare her some of his more potent essence medicine so she could study it.

Xiang Yuan enlisted Ji Boli’s help to hide from Shang Qingmeng and found a new opportunity to infiltrate the Heavenly Sword Pavilion by impersonating Feng Wenshu. Ji Boli sent him to the troubled Feng Clan, where Xiang Yuan prepared to pass as its absent third son and potentially seize power.

• Xiang Yuan rejected Daoist Purple Duckweed’s ideas about collecting and selling medicine, gave her fifty bottles, and arranged to trade in Bishui County using plum blossoms as a marker.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ji Boli and asked him to erase Shang Qingmeng’s sword mark; Ji Boli removed it but was nearly struck by her sword intent and had to hide their traces.
• Ji Boli pressured Xiang Yuan to leave, then agreed to send him to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion after Xiang Yuan spent several days beating and provoking Ji Clan youths.
• Ji Boli revealed that Feng Wenshu had died two years earlier and arranged for Xiang Yuan to impersonate him and return to the divided, embattled Feng Clan.
• Xiang Yuan accepted the assignment and began studying Feng Wenshu’s Autumn Wind Falling Leaves Sword so he could avoid exposing his disguise.

Xiang Yuan returned to Wild Goose Peak City as Feng Wenshu to claim leadership of the Feng Clan after Feng Jiahe’s death. He challenged the clan’s live-in sons-in-law, and his confrontation with Ma Yu erupted into a fight at a brothel.

• Xiang Yuan entered the Feng residence, struck a Feng Clan disciple who demanded proof of his identity, and declared himself Feng Wenshu, returning to mourn his father.
• Xiang Yuan told Feng Wenyu he intended to become family head, but Feng Wenyu warned that the four elder uncles controlled the clan through Spirit Transformation experts.
• Xiang Yuan announced his claim to the family head position, then accepted Ma Yu’s invitation to a banquet at Wind Listening Elegance.
• At the banquet, Ma Yu offered to pay Xiang Yuan to leave Wild Goose Peak City, and Xiang Yuan insulted him and knocked an Innate-stage expert unconscious with a punch.
• Ma Yu attacked after Xiang Yuan flipped the table, and Xiang Yuan’s fist rushed toward him.

Xiang Yuan defeated Ma Yu and his five Innate Realm companions in Wild Goose Peak City, then returned to the Feng Residence and learned that his supposedly dead father, Feng Jiahe, had survived and reached the Nether Passage Realm. Feng Jiahe offered him the clan-head position, while Ma Yu plotted to challenge Xiang Yuan to a sword duel after recovering.

• Xiang Yuan punched Ma Yu through Wind Listening Elegance, then sent Ma Yu's five companions flying into the street.
• Ma Yu attacked Xiang Yuan with the Azure Firmament Sword, but Xiang Yuan remained unharmed, seized the sword, broke its Primordial Spirit restrictions, and knocked Ma Yu unconscious.
• Xiang Yuan returned to the Feng Residence, where Feng Wenyu and Feng Wenyuan told him their father wanted to see him.
• Feng Jiahe revealed that he had returned from death and attained Nether Passage Realm cultivation, then offered to make Xiang Yuan clan head through a will.
• Ma Yu told the second branch that Xiang Yuan had concealed his lack of sword cultivation and proposed challenging him to a public sword duel after three days of recovery.