Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan tried to end her engagement with Lu Yueqing, but Lu Yueqing chose to postpone the decision until they knew each other better. Lu Yueqing left convinced that Shi Lan was not the wicked person described by rumors.

• Lu Yueqing asked Shi Lan about her conflict with Xu Yuanbai, and Shi Feng revealed that he had beaten Xu for disrespecting Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan suggested calling off the engagement, but Lu Yueqing asked whether the rumor that Shi Lan preferred men was true.
• After Shi Lan denied the rumor, Lu Yueqing said she did not want to cancel the engagement yet and wanted to learn more about Shi Lan first.
• Lu Yueqing explained that she valued character over strength and talent, and decided Shi Lan seemed far kinder than the rumors suggested.

Lu Yueqing left the Shi Mansion after telling Shi Tianlu that the Lu Clan faced trouble in Jiuxiao City, while Shi Lan returned to her confinement and training. Back in her courtyard, Shi Lan asked Shi Feng to find her more Blood Ginseng, then asked whether he had reached the Xiantian Realm.

• Lu Yueqing and her companions departed Tenglong City on magical flying artifacts, leaving Shi Lan fascinated by their flight.
• Shi Tianlu ordered Shi Lan back to her confinement, and Shi Lan returned to her quarters to continue martial training.
• On the journey home, Lu Yuan criticized Shi Lan, but Lu Yueqing said she would judge Shi Lan for herself before deciding whether to honor the engagement.
• Shi Lan showed Shi Feng the nearly finished Blood Ginseng and asked him to find more herbs to replenish her qi and blood.
• Shi Feng agreed to search for up to fifteen roots by the next day, and Shi Lan asked whether he had reached the Xiantian Realm.

Shi Lan continued training and rapidly grew stronger, prompting Shi Feng to investigate her health and supply her with medicinal ingredients. After seven days of relentless practice, she defeated her mirror image in the system's virtual space in thirty moves.

• Shi Lan asked Shi Feng to take her into the sky, and he promised to do so after her confinement ended.
• Shi Feng secretly examined Shi Lan and was astonished that her physique had already surpassed that of an average first-level Body Tempering Realm martial artist.
• Shi Feng told Shi Tianlu about Shi Lan's progress, and Shi Tianlu gave him the storeroom key to provide her with medicinal ingredients and monitor her health.
• Shi Feng brought Shi Lan more than a dozen valuable medicinal ingredients and falsely claimed they were cheap.
• Shi Lan trained day and night for seven days, then defeated her mirror image in the virtual space in thirty moves.

Shi Lan broke through to the second level of the Body Tempering Realm and practiced the Vajra Divine Fist. In Jiuxiao City, an Imperial Court officer announced that Yunshan Gorge had fallen to a Demon Emperor and called on local warriors to help stop the beast tide, while Lu Changfeng offered the Lu Clan’s aid.

• Shi Lan absorbed medicinal energy, broke through to the second level of the Body Tempering Realm, and practiced the Vajra Divine Fist.
• A bloodied Suppress Demons Army troop entered Jiuxiao City and ordered the city lord to summon all Xiantian Realm warriors and above.
• The officer revealed that Yunshan Gorge had fallen, seven-tenths of its 700,000 soldiers had been lost, and six Heavenly Human Realm powerhouses had died.
• The officer asked the gathered warriors to help stop demonic beasts pouring into the Chengtian Domain, but many hesitated.
• Lu Changfeng declared that the Lu Clan would help, and the officer asked him to identify himself.

Shi Tianlu received the Imperial Court’s Martial Summons and prepared to travel to Jiuxiao City with other martial artists, while Shi Lan focused on strengthening her cultivation. With the system’s deadline near, Shi Lan took a Body Tempering Pill and broke through to the fourth level of the Body Tempering Realm, completing her main quest.

• Shi Tianlu explained to Shi Feng that the Imperial Court ruled over the Shenzhou Vast Land and that disobeying its Martial Summons meant death.
• Shi Tianlu said he would take martial artists from the household to Jiuxiao City and ordered Shi Feng to watch over Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan trained the Jade Forging Art and advanced to the third level of the Body Tempering Realm, with the system deadline drawing near.
• Shi Lan swallowed her Body Tempering Pill and repeatedly circulated the Jade Forging Art until she broke through to the fourth level of the Body Tempering Realm.
• The system announced that Shi Lan had completed her main quest and awarded her two beginner draw opportunities and a Cleansing Pill.
• Shi Lan refined the pill’s remaining medicinal power, advanced the Jade Forging Art to its second level, and opened her eyes near noon.

Shi Lan used her remaining lottery chances to obtain Bedroom Arts and a replica Purple Tenuity Seven-Star Halberd, then swallowed the Wash-Dust Pill. Its agonizing effects left her body covered in blood and impurities, while Shi Feng grew alarmed outside her room.

• Shi Lan drew Bedroom Arts from the system lottery and discovered it was an incomplete dual-cultivation technique.
• Shi Lan drew the Purple Tenuity Seven-Star Halberd, and the system identified it as a crude replica of the Great Emperor of the North Pole, Purple Tenuity's nine-star weapon.
• Shi Lan declined the medicinal meal Zique brought and swallowed the Wash-Dust Pill.
• Shi Lan endured intense pain as the pill remade her body, then watched blood and impurities seep from her skin.
• Shi Feng heard Shi Lan's distress, entered the courtyard, and unlocked her room with Xiantian True Qi after she refused to let him in.
• Shi Lan retreated to the bathroom and told Shi Feng she was bathing, and he fell silent outside the door.

Shi Lan decided to leave Tenglong City after the system ordered her to depart within three days, and she planned to escape Shi Mansion that night. Before leaving, she returned the Vajra Divine Fist manual to Su Lanyue and asked her mother to take care of herself.

• After the Purification Pill changed her appearance, Shi Lan received a quest ordering her to leave Tenglong City within three days or face a random punishment.
• Shi Lan concluded that she needed to leave Shi Mansion, but realized her house arrest and guards would make escaping difficult.
• The next morning, Shi Lan toured Shi Mansion to learn its layout and decided to escape that night before she had to carry her stored equipment.
• Shi Lan visited Su Lanyue, returned the Vajra Divine Fist manual, and said goodbye without revealing that she planned to leave.
• That evening, Shi Lan asked the kitchen to prepare dry rations and returned to her room.

Shi Lan secretly left the Shi Mansion and fled Tenglong City, while Shi Feng quietly followed and alerted Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue. After resting at an inn and buying a horse, Shi Lan rode west, away from Tenglong City.

• Shi Lan packed clothes, supplies, and silver, climbed over a low courtyard wall, and tried to leave the Shi Mansion, but Shi Feng found her.
• Shi Feng warned Shi Lan that she would soon be caught, but when she ran anyway, he followed her at a distance and sent a letter to Shi Tianlu.
• Shi Tianlu received Shi Feng's letter and sent two letters from Jiuxiao City.
• Su Lanyue ordered a search for Shi Lan, then called it off after receiving Shi Feng's message that Ah Lan was safe.
• Shi Lan reached a small town, rested at an inn, bought a black horse, and rode west.

Shi Lan reached a ruined temple and met Song He, who was escorting two merchant's children west to escape demonic beasts overrunning Baiyang City. When steelback wolves attacked the guards outside, a creature burst from behind the temple statue and sprang at the young pair, and Shi Lan struck it with her long case.

• Shi Lan saved her lottery chance and traveled west until she found a ruined temple where she could rest with her exhausted horse.
• Song He and his guards arrived with the merchant's two children, and Song He told Shi Lan that demonic beasts had overrun Baiyang City.
• Song He warned Shi Lan that demonic beasts were spreading farther west, but she stayed on her route and settled down to sleep lightly.
• Steelback wolves attacked the group in the night, and Song He guarded the temple entrance while the guards fought outside.
• A huge shadow emerged from behind the ruined statue and lunged at the young man and woman, so Shi Lan knocked it into the wall with her long case.

Shi Lan and Song He helped defeat an iron-backed wolf that attacked Lu Chengye and Lu Lingshan, while an unseen expert had already killed more than ten wolves outside the ruined temple. At dawn, Shi Lan discovered that her horse was missing.

• Shi Lan dodged the iron-backed wolf’s pounce and kicked it, then Song He killed it with his blade.
• Shi Lan and Song He found more than ten iron-backed wolves slain with a single slash behind the stone statue, but the unseen expert did not answer Song He’s call.
• Lu Chengye and Lu Lingshan thanked Shi Lan, and Lu Chengye admitted he had panicked because he had not cultivated righteous qi.
• Song He reported that two people were badly injured and several others had minor injuries, while the group’s losses remained limited.
• Shi Lan went outside near dawn to check her horse and found it gone, with only its broken reins left behind.

Shi Lan traveled onward after parting from Lu Chengye and his companions, and the wolf meat helped her cultivation advance to the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm. When a hidden protector killed a tiger demon that was attacking refugees, they mistook Shi Lan for the one who saved them, then turned wary when she corrected them.

• Shi Lan declined Lu Chengye’s invitation to travel with his group, accepted a horse and wolf meat from Song He, and rode away alone.
• After eating the wolf meat, Shi Lan’s cultivation improved rapidly, and she discovered that her Root Bone had risen to 8, likely because of the Dust-Cleansing Pill.
• Shi Lan encountered more demonic beasts and refugees as she traveled, while noticing the same charred wounds on beasts that suggested someone was secretly protecting her.
• Shi Lan hurried toward the sound of a tiger demon attacking refugees, but an unseen attacker killed it before she arrived.
• The refugees mistook Shi Lan for the powerful figure who had killed the demon and bowed to her, then became wary and threatened her when she explained that she had not done it.

Shi Lan fought off refugees who tried to rob her, then traveled alone and stopped in a valley for the night. A seductive woman appeared at her campfire, leaving Shi Feng to suspect she was either a demon king or a wandering ghost.

• Refugees surrounded Shi Lan and demanded her horse and supplies, but she knocked them down with her riding crop and rode away.
• Shi Feng watched Shi Lan leave, then cut up the tiger demon's corpse with sword energy, spreading the smell of blood.
• Shi Lan rested by a brook, practiced the Jade Forging Art, and rode on until night forced her to camp in a valley.
• A beautiful woman in black gauze appeared beside Shi Lan's fire and asked whether she was lonely and whether Shi Lan found her beautiful.
• Shi Feng watched from the darkness and suspected the woman was either a demon king in human form or a wandering ghost.

Shi Lan encountered a spiritual entity in a valley, which the Heavens Reincarnation System reclaimed to restore some of its functions. With Shi Feng protecting her on the road, she hunted demon beasts, trained, and broke through to the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

• Shi Lan used the Heavenly Eye Qi-Observing Technique to see that the eerie woman was a spiritual entity, and the system absorbed it into her body.
• Shi Feng revealed that Shi Tianlu had secretly ordered him to protect Shi Lan and prevent her from heading west.
• Shi Lan learned that the spiritual entity's energy could restore some functions of the Heavens Reincarnation System, but chose to leave the suspicious valley unexplored.
• Shi Feng began hunting Xiantian Realm demon beasts for Shi Lan, who strengthened herself by eating their meat and practicing the Jade Forging Art and simulated battles.
• After half a month of training, Shi Lan shattered the barrier to the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm and tested her strength with the Vajra Divine Fist.

Shi Lan and Shi Feng learned that the Demon Race had overrun much of the Chengtian Domain and reached Starfall City, where the Demon Suppression Army had taken control. After hearing that a nearby city had fallen to a beast tide, they decided to leave for the Shengwu Immortal Sect.

• Shi Lan and Shi Feng saw a cavalry troop of the Demon Suppression Army pass by, so Shi Feng warned that a beast horde might be near and they changed course northeast.
• Shi Lan and Shi Feng encountered increasing numbers of patrols and learned that a Demon Emperor’s attack had led to the fall of numerous strongholds, turning the Chengtian Domain into a battlefield.
• Shi Lan and Shi Feng reached Starfall City, where an innkeeper told them the Demon Suppression Army had requisitioned supplies and most residents had fled or been evacuated.
• Shi Feng gathered information and urged Shi Lan to leave the next day because Huangsha City had fallen to a beast tide.
• Shi Lan agreed to travel with Shi Feng toward the Shengwu Immortal Sect, about ninety thousand li away.

Shi Lan and Shi Feng traveled through Chengtian Domain, witnessing the devastation caused by demonic beasts and growing refugee migrations. When a Golden Flame Eagle attacked them from the sky, Shi Feng sent Shi Lan away from the fight and prepared to face the beast alone.

• Shi Feng and Shi Lan left Dianxing City on his flying saber and passed a vast, injured refugee migration guarded by the Demon-Suppressing Army.
• For more than half a month, they traveled past refugee groups and a ruined battlefield, and Shi Lan devoted herself to cultivation as the danger in Chengtian Domain weighed on her.
• A Golden Flame Eagle attacked, its cry disrupting Shi Lan's qi and injuring her as Shi Feng dove toward the ground.
• The eagle's talons shattered the saber's barrier and drove it into a crash, so Shi Feng wrapped Shi Lan in Xiantian True Qi and threw her clear.
• Shi Lan ran to avoid hindering Shi Feng, who emerged from the crash and attacked the Golden Flame Eagle with a blade aura.

Shi Feng killed the Golden Flame Eagle but was badly injured before a beast tide arrived and trapped him and Shi Lan. A shapeshifting Demon King seized Shi Lan and transported her to her carriage, leaving Shi Feng a mile away.

• Shi Feng wounded the Golden Flame Eagle with his saber, then killed it by pinning it to a cliff.
• Shi Lan warned Shi Feng about the approaching beast tide and pulled him into a desperate attempt to flee.
• An invisible spatial barrier stopped Shi Feng and Shi Lan in midair, causing Shi Feng to crash and worsen his injuries.
• The beast tide revealed a shapeshifting Demon King, who immobilized Shi Feng and Shi Lan with solidified space.
• The Demon King licked Shi Lan's wrist, then transported her to the carriage and left Shi Feng standing a mile away.

Shi Feng awakened his saber intent and fought the demons surrounding him, but the Demon King easily shattered his attack. As Shi Lan watched helplessly, the Heavens Reincarnation System introduced itself to her and offered help.

• The Demon King crushed the snow leopard, then released Shi Feng from her restraint while keeping Shi Lan captive.
• Shi Feng remembered his life and Shi Lan, steadied his resolve, and gathered his Xiantian True Qi.
• The Demon King sent two seventh-layer wolf demons against Shi Feng, and his saber aura tore them apart.
• The Demon King recognized Shi Feng's saber intent, attacked him herself, and shattered his phantom saber image.
• Samsara, the backend of the Heavens Reincarnation System, spoke inside Shi Lan's mind and offered to help her.

Shi Lan surrendered control of her body to Samsara, but the Empress Cultivation System’s hazard-elimination protocol briefly interrupted the takeover before Shi Lan suspended it. As Shi Feng fell unconscious, Samsara took over Shi Lan’s body, saved him, and confronted the fleeing girl.

• The girl shattered Shi Feng’s gathered momentum, broke his blade, and battered him as he repeatedly charged her.
• Samsara tried to take control of Shi Lan’s body, but the Empress Cultivation System activated its hazard-elimination protocol until Shi Lan ordered it suspended.
• The girl froze Shi Feng just before he struck her, and he lost consciousness as his blood and energy reached the level she wanted.
• Samsara, acting through Shi Lan, unleashed a massive palm strike that forced the girl to dodge, then stabilized Shi Feng’s injuries.
• The girl fled using spatial power, and Samsara dismissed her attempt to escape as a display of meager skill.

Shi Lan used Reincarnation’s power to kill the demon king and escape with the gravely wounded Shi Feng. She took him toward a nearby city, where he woke in a cave and heard her account of their rescue.

• Shi Lan killed the demon king with a giant palm, drove off the beasts, and carried Shi Feng away with the halberd case and bundle.
• Shi Lan regained control of her body and learned from Reincarnation that Shi Feng was near death, though Reincarnation claimed it could only keep him alive.
• Shi Lan changed course toward a city and, after covering little ground by nightfall, sheltered with Shi Feng in a cave.
• Shi Feng woke and asked where they were, and Shi Lan told him that a passing cultivator had killed the demon king and rescued them.
• Shi Feng noticed the White Crane Skirt beneath him but said nothing, while Shi Lan returned to the fire and he reflected on how much she had changed.

Shi Lan carried the feverish Shi Feng to Twin Moon City and brought him to a medical hall for treatment. The doctor warned that Shi Feng was close to death, while the doctor’s granddaughter began tending Shi Lan’s severe wound.

• Shi Lan discovered her cultivation had reached the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm after Samsara’s energy lingered in her body.
• Shi Lan found Shi Feng burning with fever, carried him out of the mountains, and reached Twin Moon City at dusk.
• Shi Lan forced her way past a medical hall’s queue after the burly man tried to make her pay twice and then block her entry.
• The old doctor examined Shi Feng and said his damaged organs and shattered breastbone left him unlikely to survive without a legendary panacea.
• The old doctor prescribed medicine for Shi Feng’s fever and asked Yue'er to rebandage Shi Lan’s wound.
• Yue'er washed Shi Lan’s deep arm wound and asked why she stayed calm despite the pain.