Recaps

Gu Gan lost his Grade A Martial Path challenge to Kong Yiyi, while Mei Chengyu defeated Xun Zhiya with a mirrored Thunder Punishment. Yu Sui joined her classmates for a Yin-Yang School trial, but they entered a deadly Sage Realm Military Formation despite expecting a First Realm challenge.

• Gu Gan turned Kong Yiyi’s Military Formation against her with his Words, but she knocked him off the platform and won their match.
• Mei Chengyu countered Xun Zhiya’s Thunder Punishment and struck her off the platform, and Gu Gan caught her as she fell.
• Yu Sui secretly added a Five Elements Light Core to Xing Chun’s Listening Wind Ruler, then crushed it when Mei Chengyu noticed something on him.
• Yu Sui, Wei Ren, Li Jinshuang, and Xue Mushi chose a Military School trial that was supposed to adjust to Yu Sui’s First Realm cultivation.
• The group entered the Asura Hell formation and discovered it contained a City Defense King General, making it a Special Grade Armor Formation at the Sage Realm.

Yu Sui and her companions were trapped in the Special Grade Armor Formation Asura Hell, where they fought Evil Ghosts and tried to weaken the formation’s Five Elements Fire. When the Black Armored Cavalry attacked and Yu Sui was struck by a spear, the group emerged from the trial battered, then immediately started another one.

• Yu Sui, Wei Ren, Xue Mushi, and Li Jinshuang fought the Evil Ghosts, and Yu Sui used Thunder Breath to help Li Jinshuang hold the line.
• Xue Mushi used Qi Ding to immobilize the Evil Ghosts while Yu Sui expanded his technique a hundredfold to drain the formation’s Five Elements Fire.
• The Black Armored Cavalry attacked across the river, Yu Sui was struck by a spear, and Xue Mushi unleashed the forbidden Seven Kill Hexagram to cut down pursuing Evil Ghosts.
• Yu Sui and her companions were overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of Thirteenth Realm soldiers and were returned from the trial, bloodied and injured.
• Mei Chengyu and the others saw Yu Sui emerge from the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Field, but Li Jinshuang activated another trial before anyone could question them.

Yu Sui and her companions survived a Fifth Realm Military Formation, and she revealed to Sheng Zui that she had become a First Realm Nine Schools Practitioner. After Princess Shangyang confronted Yu Sui at the Dining Hall, Jin Zhi recognized her as the person who had nearly drowned her at a palace banquet.

• Li Jinshuang restarted the Star Map challenge, and Yu Sui, Wei Ren, Xue Mushi, and Li Jinshuang escaped the Special Grade Armor Formation after Yu Sui disrupted its Five Elements Qi with Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye.
• The group defeated the City Defense General, and Yu Sui returned to the arena where Gu Gan and Sheng Zui worried over her apparent injuries.
• Yu Sui left with Sheng Zui and told him she had a Five Elements Light Core and was now a First Realm Nine Schools Practitioner.
• Yu Sui met Li Jinshuang, Wei Ren, and Xue Mushi at the Dining Hall, where Princess Shangyang confronted and insulted her.
• Jin Zhi stopped Princess Shangyang from returning to confront Yu Sui and remembered how Yu Sui had once held her underwater after she discovered Zhongli Que with a sword.

Yu Sui read Zhongli Que’s premonition and recalled how Su Feng had refused Nangong Ming’s demand to harm Zhongli Que, revealing his devotion to her. The vision of a scorpion handing over a spider led Yu Sui to suspect Wei Ren knew about her Breathsoil.

• Yu Sui learned that Zhongli Shan and Nangong Sui remained close despite their families’ feud.
• Zhongli Que told Yu Sui about Gu Jun, the Snow Flying Mouse he rescued, and her vision of someone holding a scorpion and handing over a spider.
• Yu Sui recalled Nangong Ming ordering Su Feng to get Zhongli Que into trouble, and Su Feng refusing despite being struck by his father.
• Nangong Ming ordered Yu Sui to stop associating with Zhongli Que, but Yu Sui told Su Feng that a true friend could remain in her heart.
• Yu Sui connected Zhongli Que’s vision to Wei Ren and suspected he knew she possessed the Agricultural School’s treasured Breathsoil.

Yu Sui passed the trial and began planning her cultivation while investigating Gu Gan’s secrets and Nangong Ming’s orders. At the end, a red spider slipped into the tavern and stopped when Yu Sui noticed it.

• Yu Sui learned that Wei Ren had sent a spider messenger, then went looking for him but found Mei Chengyu instead.
• Yu Sui told Sage Chang Gen she had passed the trial, read Mei Chengyu’s cultivation method, and asked about accessing records on the Nine Schools Techniques.
• Yu Sui met Gu Gan, who discussed cultivation with her before receiving threatening messages demanding he steal books from the Shenbao Book Pavilion.
• Yu Sui traveled to the outer city, read Nangong Ming’s letter ordering her to remove Zhongli Shan from the academy, and gathered information about him.
• A red spider entered the tavern through a gap in the window, and Yu Sui watched it stop and study her.

Yu Sui escaped Lu Haiye’s ambush and fought him and Wei Ren on the cliffside, but the strange fire unleashed her anger and drove her to attack them both. Mei Chengyu stopped her from killing Wei Ren, leaving Yu Sui surrounded by the Nangong Family after emerging from the sea.

• Lu Haiye used his Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider to lure Yu Sui to a cliff and attack her for the Xirang, but Yu Sui’s strange fire consumed the venom and she fought back with Nine Schools Techniques.
• Lu Haiye summoned the Phantom Beasts and overpowered Yu Sui, restraining her as Wei Ren revealed himself and the two men argued over her and the Xirang.
• Lu Haiye accused Yu Sui of benefiting from her mother’s sacrifices, while Yu Sui asked how she could return the Xirang without dying; Wei Ren suggested the Ghost Dao School might separate it from her.
• Yu Sui unleashed her strange fire and lightning, killed Lu Haiye, and dragged Wei Ren underwater, repeatedly striking him as he tried to escape.
• Mei Chengyu struck Yu Sui and Wei Ren with a powerful Thunder Serpent, sending them back to the surface, where the Nangong Family called out to Yu Sui.

After Yu Sui survived Lu Haiye and Wei Ren’s attack, Mei Chengyu urged her to summon Sage Chang Gen, and she forced Wei Ren to cripple his cultivation. Back at Taiyi Academy, Yu Sui kept the attack secret from her father, then rested at the Taoist Saint Hall while Mei Chengyu stayed nearby.

• Black Beard and the others pulled Yu Sui ashore, and Mei Chengyu learned from Nian Qiuyan that Wei Kun had escaped to the academy.
• At Mei Chengyu’s urging, Yu Sui called Sage Chang Gen, whose presence drove away the onlookers from the cliffs.
• Yu Sui spared Wei Ren after he admitted telling Lu Haiye about her and the Xirang, but ordered him to cripple his cultivation; he fell from the Fifth Realm to the First.
• After receiving treatment, Yu Sui persuaded Black Beard to keep the night’s events from her father and said she wanted to investigate the Xirang herself.
• Mei Chengyu escorted Yu Sui back to the academy, and she spent the night and following morning asleep at the Taoist Saint Hall.
• Mei Chengyu brought Yu Sui food after she woke, and she told him she did not spend money on men.

Yu Sui reassured Zhongli Que that she had recovered after the previous night, while Chu Jin treated Zhongli Xu and discovered she had consumed Earth Spirit Water, a Lan Poison ingredient. After stabilizing Zhongli Xu, Chu Jin arranged to teach Zhongli Que massage techniques to ease Madam Sun’s old injury.

• Mei Chengyu left Yu Sui to finish eating, and Yu Sui replied to Zhongli Que that she was fine.
• Zhongli Que went with Madam Sun to the Second Master of the Zhongli Family’s residence, where Chu Jin examined the unconscious Zhongli Xu.
• Yu Sui told Zhongli Que she had recovered her energy, and Zhongli Que angrily condemned the people from the Agricultural School for their treatment of Yu Sui.
• Chu Jin identified signs that Zhongli Xu had consumed Earth Spirit Water, calmed her disordered Five Elements Qi, and said she would purge the remaining poison.
• The Second Master of the Zhongli Family returned and argued with his wife over Zhongli Xu’s condition.
• Chu Jin offered to teach Zhongli Que massage techniques for Madam Sun’s old injury, and Zhongli Que agreed to visit Chu Jin’s clinic to learn them.

Yu Sui checked whether Chu Jin had visited the Zhongli Family, then began learning the Ghost Dao School’s soul-control techniques from Sage Chang Gen. During a storm, Mei Chengyu joined her and casually revealed the strange flame had damaged the Five Elements Water Field, while Sage Chang Gen warned Yu Sui that Mei Chengyu had tried to destroy the world three times; Yu Sui ended the chapter by cheerfully studying her mysterious senior brother.

• Yu Sui asked Old Man Yan whether Chu Jin had gone to the royal residence to treat Lady Su, and he replied that Chu Jin had not seen her.
• Sage Chang Gen taught Yu Sui about the Ghost Dao School’s three selves and had her practice separating intent from consciousness by sensing flying apricots.
• Mei Chengyu arrived and offered to practice with Yu Sui, but a torrential downpour sent them back inside the hall.
• Mei Chengyu asked Sage Chang Gen about repairs to the Five Elements Water Field and suggested making Wei Kun die there in an apparent accident.
• Yu Sui questioned Mei Chengyu about the strange flame and its power, and Sage Chang Gen warned her that Mei Chengyu had tried to destroy the world three times.
• Mei Chengyu refused to satisfy Yu Sui’s curiosity, so she told him she would keep looking at him until she was no longer curious.

Yingying went with Mei Chengyu to the Medical School, where Shi Yuezhen removed her bandages and treated her wounds. After Mei Chengyu escorted her back through the storm, Yingying left the Dragon Ladder on the thirty-seventh floor to visit Brother Gu.

• Mei Chengyu took Yingying to the Medical School to have her bandages changed during the storm.
• Shi Yuezhen removed Yingying’s bandages, treated her wounds, and warned Mei Chengyu to keep Yingying dry on the way back.
• Mei Chengyu told Cang Shu that Wei Ren’s venomous creatures had become uncontrollable after his cultivation was destroyed, and Cang Shu agreed to collect them.
• Mei Chengyu wrapped his outer robe around Yingying’s face before escorting her back through the rain.
• Yingying left the Dragon Ladder on the thirty-seventh floor and told Mei Chengyu she had come back to see Brother Gu.

Yu Sui spent the stormy night with Gu Gan, read about the Nine Schools’ secret techniques, and persuaded him to handle Zhongli Shan. By morning, Mei Chengyu had taken Wei Ren’s poisonous creatures for Cang Shu, and Yu Sui arrived to speak with the injured Wei Ren.

• Yu Sui visited Gu Gan during the thunderstorm, and he worried over her wounds and warned her to be wary of Mei Chengyu and the Nong school.
• Gu Gan explained the Jiudu Guard and its access to forbidden lands, while Yu Sui asked him about Zhongli Shan and he agreed to deal with him.
• Yu Sui read Gu Gan’s books on the Nine Schools’ Heavenly Secrets Techniques through the night, and Ji Meng reported that three people who patrolled the Hanging Moon Cave were suspects.
• Cang Shu summoned Wei Ren’s poisonous creatures and took them away, while Mei Chengyu knocked Wei Ren aside when he tried to stop him.
• Mei Chengyu confronted Wei Ren about the Soil of Breath and Nangong Sui, and Yu Sui arrived to return Mei Chengyu’s coat and ask to speak with Wei Ren.

Yu Sui questioned Wei Ren about Lady Su and learned how the Soil of Breath, the Agricultural School’s forbidden Phantom Beast technique, and Yan’s struggle were connected. The chapter ended with Yu Sui suspecting that Lady Su’s sudden move was tied to Qingkui and Chu Jin, the Little Medical Saint.

• Yu Sui asked Wei Ren about his relationship with Lady Su, and he explained that Lady Su had mastered the forbidden Phantom Beast technique and could summon five shadows as powerful as Thirteenth Realm practitioners.
• Wei Ren said Lady Su had seized the Soil of Breath to protect Agricultural School practitioners branded as traitors, but Yan’s surviving disciples still sought the treasure to save their kingdom.
• Wei Ren revealed that Lady Su had sent him to kill Yu Sui and take the Soil of Breath, while his master and Lu Haiye had also acted on her orders.
• Wei Ren said Nangong Ming had used Yu Sui as bait to draw Yan’s Agricultural School practitioners to Qingyang, and Yu Sui considered how he and Lady Su had controlled her life.
• After receiving Zhongli Que’s message about Chu Jin, the Little Medical Saint, Yu Sui suspected that Lady Su’s haste was connected to Qingkui.

Yu Sui considered the dangers posed by Lady Su and Nangong Ming, then continued practicing Ghost Dao techniques under Sage Chang Gen while Wei Ren searched for a way to separate the soil of breath without killing her. At the Medical School, Yu Sui made room for her injured roommate Li Jinshuang and saw Mei Chengyu and Zhongli Shan arrive wounded after trying a Military Formation.

• Yu Sui received Zhongli Que's warning about troubling dreams and learned she felt comfortable around Chu and King Nangong.
• Yu Sui asked Wei Ren whether she could defeat Lady Su, and he warned that Lady Su would kill her even if she reached the Fifth Realm.
• Wei Ren proposed that Yu Sui might separate the soil of breath by dying and returning to life, but Yu Sui told him to find a safer method.
• Yu Sui practiced soul control and Stabilize Po with Sage Chang Gen at the Taoist Saint Hall, where he told her that her attachment to her physical body would prevent her reaching his level.
• Shi Yuezhen treated Yu Sui at the Medical School, and Yu Sui invited her badly injured roommate Li Jinshuang to share her room.
• Mei Chengyu and Zhongli Shan arrived bloodied after the Military Formation, and Mei Chengyu told Yu Sui he would take her along another day.

Yu Sui watched Shi Yuezhen treat Li Jinshuang and secretly monitored Gu Gan’s group as they discussed protecting their messages. At the clinic, Mei Chengyu accidentally glimpsed Yu Sui while she was changing, and Li Jinshuang woke and mistook her for her mother.

• Mei Chengyu and Zhongli Shan teased each other while treating their injuries, and Yu Sui asked Shi Yuezhen about the military formation and Li Jinshuang’s chances of challenging it again.
• Yu Sui secretly read Gu Gan, Ji Meng, and Huo Xiao’s discussion through a Five Elements Light Core and watched them decide to use a private code for messages.
• Mei Chengyu and Zhongli Shan helped prepare medicine at the clinic, and Mei Chengyu caught sight of Yu Sui’s exposed back when he opened her cubicle curtain.
• Li Jinshuang woke and tearfully called Yu Sui “Mother,” leaving Yu Sui to wait quietly as she recovered her bearings.
• Mei Chengyu directed new injured disciples upstairs and urged Shi Yuezhen to check on Yu Sui, while Zhongli Shan pointed out that he was not a Medical School disciple.

Yu Sui stayed with the injured Li Jinshuang through the night, teasing her about calling Yu Sui her mother and grandmother while she was delirious. After Li Jinshuang recovered, Yu Sui arranged to join Mei Chengyu and Li Jinshuang at the military school's high-level formation, and the chapter ended as they arrived to sign in.

• Shi Yuezhen treated Yu Sui and asked her to keep Li Jinshuang asleep while the medical clinic handled a rush of injured disciples.
• Yu Sui watched over Li Jinshuang through the night, answering her calls for her mother and grandmother and later teasing her about it when she woke fully conscious.
• Yu Sui fetched clean clothes from the dormitory and evaded Shu Chujun, who grew suspicious after seeing Yu Sui's lavish room.
• Mei Chengyu agreed to take Yu Sui to the military school's high-level Military Formation, and Yu Sui persuaded Li Jinshuang to join them on the fourth day.
• Yu Sui, Li Jinshuang, and Mei Chengyu reached the formation entrance, where Yu Sui called the silent pair mutes before Mei Chengyu moved her aside so Li Jinshuang could sign in.

Yu Sui entered the Military Formation with Mei Chengyu and Li Jinshuang, where they fought waves of Ninth Realm Undead Warriors. Mei Chengyu ended the challenge and left after realizing Li Jinshuang would not use her sword spirit, then he took Yu Sui to the Dining Hall and explained why he thought Li Jinshuang feared losing control of it.

• Li Jinshuang shattered the Opening Formation Jade Token, transporting herself, Yu Sui, and Mei Chengyu into a city under siege by Undead Warriors.
• Mei Chengyu and Li Jinshuang fought the cavalry while Yu Sui watched from a rooftop, observing Mei Chengyu's distinctive Bagua Life Technique.
• As more Undead Warriors gathered, Mei Chengyu asked Li Jinshuang whether she had a sword spirit or was refusing to use it.
• Li Jinshuang sheathed her sword, and Mei Chengyu smashed the token to end their challenge before the approaching cavalry could attack.
• Mei Chengyu took Yu Sui to the Dining Hall after Li Jinshuang left, and he said her sword spirit might be dangerous and difficult for her to control.

Yu Sui challenged the Black Wind City Military Formation repeatedly, developing her Soul Control and using Five Elements Light Cores to reach the City Defense General. After learning that Gu Gan and Wei Kun planned to target Zhongli Shan and Mei Chengyu, she watched Mei Chengyu leave with his companions as he noticed her staring.

• Yu Sui deliberately let Mei Chengyu see Gu Gan’s message about driving Zhongli Shan out of Taiyi, then learned from Sage Chang Gen how Ghost Dao curses affected living and dead things.
• Yu Sui repeatedly entered Black Wind City, trained her Soul Control to the Second Layer, and used her Five Elements Light Cores to defeat groups of Undead Warriors.
• Yu Sui reached the City Defense General but left the formation when he drew his sword, then continued training until Sheng Zui found her injured and took her to the Medical School.
• Yu Sui declined Sheng Zui’s offer to challenge the formation together and told Mei Chengyu she wanted to train alone.
• After the Military Formation closed, Yu Sui received Gu Gan’s messages to Wei Kun proposing they target Zhongli Shan and lure Mei Chengyu to the outer city on the fifteenth.
• Yu Sui watched Mei Chengyu walk away with Zhongli Shan and the others, and Mei Chengyu stopped when he noticed her staring.

Yu Sui learned that Gu Gan and Wei Kun planned to target Mei Chengyu on the fifteenth, so she secretly followed Gu Gan’s preparations and planted a Five Elements Light Core on Mei Chengyu. As Gu Gan’s group prepared to lure Sage Chang Gen away and eliminate Mei Chengyu, Nian Qiuyan began probing Mei Chengyu about where his loyalties lay.

• Mei Chengyu invited Yu Sui to eat with him at the Taoist Saint Hall, where she explained that she needed powerful Nine Schools Techniques to survive; he told her that no one in Taiyi could kill her.
• Yu Sui decided to observe Gu Gan’s plan against Mei Chengyu and used her newly controlled Five Elements Light Cores to prepare a nearly invisible tracker.
• Yu Sui visited Gu Gan on the morning of the fifteenth and invited him to the outer city that night, but he refused because he had important business.
• Gu Gan told Xiang Feifei, Huo Xiao, Ji Meng, and Wen Yanghui that they would lure Sage Chang Gen into a Mechanism Technique trial, temporarily block his summons, and make Mei Chengyu and Wei Kun kill each other.
• Yu Sui overheard the plan through her Light Core, then planted it in Mei Chengyu’s hair while he and Nian Qiuyan rode the Dragon Ladder.
• Nian Qiuyan asked Mei Chengyu which side he would support if their families fought; Mei Chengyu said he would follow Sage Chang Gen, while Nian Qiuyan said he would follow Mei Chengyu.

Yu Sui monitored Gu Gan’s ambush on Mei Chengyu while shopping in the outer city, then cut the Listening Wind Ruler link that Gu Gan used to break Mei Chengyu’s techniques. Mei Chengyu turned the fight around, captured Xiang Feifei, and marked her with a Ghost Dao School Life Talisman.

• Yu Sui met Wei Ren at the School of Medicine and asked him for two Red Scorpions to use in monitoring Gu Gan’s plan.
• Gu Gan, Huo Xiao, and Xiang Feifei prepared a Demon Sealing Formation by the Shallow Sea as Mei Chengyu pursued Wei Kun there.
• Mei Chengyu and Wei Kun fought, while Gu Gan used voice messages through the Listening Wind Ruler to break Mei Chengyu’s Nine Schools Techniques.
• Yu Sui recognized Gu Gan’s concealed Mystic Technique and severed the Listening Wind Ruler link, allowing Mei Chengyu’s lightning to strike Huo Xiao.
• Mei Chengyu drove back Xiang Feifei, snapped her wrist, and placed a Ghost Dao School Life Talisman on her.

Gu Gan’s group fought Mei Chengyu, but his unexpected use of the Medical School Pupil Technique killed Wei Kun and broke their Demon Sealing Barrier. Gu Gan fled with Xiang Feifei and Huo Xiao, then turned back when Mei Chengyu’s Five Elements Qi faltered, only to watch Yu Sui take Mei Chengyu into her carriage.

• Gu Gan rescued Xiang Feifei from Mei Chengyu’s Thunder Serpent, but Mei Chengyu’s golden lightning knocked them down and left Xiang Feifei unconscious.
• Huo Xiao trapped Mei Chengyu in the Demon Sealing Barrier, but Mei Chengyu used Medical School Pupil Technique: Heart in Sight to turn the Frost White Python against Wei Kun, who was swallowed.
• The Frost White Python broke the barrier, and Gu Gan carried Xiang Feifei away while covering Huo Xiao’s retreat as Mei Chengyu pursued them.
• Mei Chengyu’s Five Elements Qi became chaotic, so Gu Gan turned back to fight, but Yu Sui’s carriage arrived and stopped the confrontation.
• Yu Sui helped Mei Chengyu into her carriage to take him to the Medical School, while Gu Gan watched furiously from the darkness.

Yu Sui treated Mei Chengyu’s wounds in the carriage after he returned badly injured, and their conversation brought them closer. When they reached Taiyi Academy, she insisted on accompanying him to the Medical House, and he accepted her offer to carry him with the Wind Riding Technique.

• Black Beard kept the carriage steady while Yu Sui worried over Mei Chengyu’s injuries and offered to treat him.
• Yu Sui draped a new coat she had bought for Gu Gan over Mei Chengyu, then tore another coat into cloth to clean his wounds.
• Yu Sui wiped the blood from Mei Chengyu’s face and neck, but he refused to let her bandage his mangled hands and treated them himself.
• Yu Sui reflected that Mei Chengyu was not so bad after all and decided to go with him to the Medical House.
• Mei Chengyu agreed when Yu Sui offered to carry him with the Wind Riding Technique.

Yu Sui brought an injured Mei Chengyu to the Medical School, where Shi Yuezhen treated his disordered Five Elements Qi and revealed that his attackers had included Gu Gan. As Qian Ying treated Xiang Feifei and Gu Gan, Nian Qiuyan warned Mei Chengyu that the ambush was no coincidence, leaving Mei Chengyu reconsidering what Yu Sui might be hiding.

• Yu Sui used Wind Riding Technique to bring Mei Chengyu to the Medical School, where Shi Yuezhen recognized his injuries as the result of several Nine Schools Techniques and helped him settle his disordered Five Elements Qi.
• Mei Chengyu told Shi Yuezhen, Cang Shu, and Nian Qiuyan that Wei Kun and three others had attacked him, and Shi Yuezhen explained that the wounded attackers might seek Qian Ying to remove their thunder marks.
• Gu Gan returned to the dormitory with Huo Xiao and the unconscious Xiang Feifei, and Qian Ying treated Xiang Feifei and removed the thunder mark from Gu Gan.
• Yu Sui remembered her past encounters with Qian Ying and ignored the messages Gu Gan sent through the Listening Wind Ruler while she waited at the clinic.
• Nian Qiuyan showed Mei Chengyu the cracked Divine Wood Sign and warned him that the attackers had not encountered him by chance.
• Mei Chengyu recalled Yu Sui's unusual past actions and considered that her gentle, well-behaved appearance might conceal a more cunning side.

Mei Chengyu and Nian Qiuyan identified Gu Gan’s Mystic Technique as Heavenly Official after the failed attack, while Yu Sui spent the night at the clinic and learned Shi Yuezhen had been serving there alone. Later, Su Feng and Zhongli Que visited Chu Jin to investigate an invitation to the manor, prompting Zhongli Que to remember how an attempt to bring Yu Sui and Lady Su closer had ended in humiliation.

• Mei Chengyu, Nian Qiuyan, and Cang Shu concluded that Gu Gan had used the ninth-ranked Mystic Technique Heavenly Official to nullify Mei Chengyu’s Nine Schools Techniques, and Mei Chengyu planned to spread the news.
• Yu Sui asked Shi Yuezhen why she had been serving at the clinic for nearly two months, and Shi Yuezhen said the other disciples were busy cultivating.
• Yu Sui invited Li Jinshuang to eat together, but Li Jinshuang declined after recalling the Saintess’s warning to keep her distance from Yu Sui.
• Mei Chengyu told Yu Sui to keep taking her medicine and spend money on herself before leaving to earn points, while Yu Sui went to the Dining Hall.
• Zhongli Que and Su Feng visited Chu Jin’s clinic, where Chu Jin said she had not known who sent the manor’s invitation to treat Lady Su.
• Zhongli Que remembered how Yu Sui’s sunflowers had angered Lady Su at the Flower Appreciation Banquet, and how Yu Sui had comforted Zhongli Que despite being humiliated.

Zhongli Que and Su Feng grew suspicious of Chu Jin, whose clinic sent an encrypted message that led Yu Sui and Old Man Yan to investigate. After Zou Yexi killed the message’s recipient, Chu Jin ordered her allies to stop using Listening Wind Rulers and target Zhongli Que’s ruler, while Yu Sui left the capital’s trouble to Old Man Yan and focused on cultivation.

• Zhongli Que and Su Feng discussed their doubts about Chu Jin and decided to delay the banquet invitations.
• Chu Jin sent an encrypted message from the clinic, and Yu Sui traced its origin and informed Old Man Yan.
• Zou Yexi attacked Kang Heng, who destroyed himself and his Listening Wind Ruler before Zou could question him; Zou found records showing surveillance of the Zhongli Family.
• Chu Jin ordered her people to use Sound Transmission Beasts instead of Listening Wind Rulers and told Xuan Kui to obtain Zhongli Que’s ruler.
• Old Man Yan tasked Shan Rong with tracking Agricultural School disciples and told Yu Sui to focus on cultivation while he handled the capital.
• A flashback showed Yu Sui discussing her ambitions and her father, Nangong Ming, with Old Man Yan, who warned her not to act hastily against him.

Yu Sui learned that Sage Chang Gen knew little about the Heavenly Eye, then discovered Gu Gan had attacked Mei Chengyu and warned her against him. She invited the exhausted Li Jinshuang to share her room and proposed that they return to Asura Hell to train, leaving their plan to consult Xue Mushi for the next day.

• Yu Sui asked Sage Chang Gen about the Heavenly Eye and learned that even he did not know how to use it; he also explained that Mei Chengyu could earn points by contributing to Taiyi.
• Mei Chengyu replied that he would return in three days, while Gu Gan arrived at the dormitory with Qian Ying and told Yu Sui that he had tried to kill Mei Chengyu.
• Gu Gan warned Yu Sui to stay away from Mei Chengyu, but Yu Sui said her Senior Martial Brother had saved her; she then focused on Gu Gan's injury until he left.
• Yu Sui offered Li Jinshuang a place to sleep and reassured her that Shu Chujun's claims about the Saintess were not worth worrying over.
• Yu Sui proposed that she and Li Jinshuang enter Asura Hell again to train and manage Li Jinshuang's sword spirit, and Li Jinshuang agreed to go to bed while they planned to ask Xue Mushi the next day.