Chapter Summaries

A month-old Yu Sui learned that she was one of five World Destroyers and survived an assassination attempt while her mother, Lady Su, nearly strangled her. As Yu Sui connected with the other World Destroyers through a Fire Spirit Orb, she suddenly felt herself being burned alive.

• Yu Sui experienced a vision of five figures pursued through a world-consuming inferno and heard them called World Destroyers and Heavenly Flame.
• A black-robed old man attacked Lady Su on Mount Luo Peak, but she killed him before he could reach Yu Sui.
• Lady Su tried to strangle Yu Sui, then released her when Qingkui arrived and called for her mother.
• Over the following month, Yu Sui wondered why Lady Su treated her so harshly and discovered a small flame inside her mind.
• The Fire Spirit Orb connected Yu Sui to four other World Destroyers after one of them died, and Yu Sui was suddenly overwhelmed by searing pain.

Yu Sui learned more about her strange fire and the danger surrounding Lady Su’s children as Lady Su prepared to leave Mountain Cold with her. Nangong Ming arrived to take Yu Sui and Lady Su to the Qingyang Imperial Capital, where he named the child Nangong Sui, drawing the Nangong Family’s attention to her unexpected surname.

• Mister Zhou explained that Mountain Cold’s Cold Air was building up inside Yu Sui because she had inherited half of Lady Su’s Xi Rang, and Lady Su stayed beside her after her painful attack.
• Over the next year, Lady Su repelled Nine Schools Practitioners who attacked the shrine, while Yu Sui secretly studied the strange fire in her consciousness.
• After pursuers discovered Mountain Cold’s location, Lady Su asked Mister Zhou to take Qingkui somewhere safe and planned to return with Yu Sui instead.
• Nangong Ming arrived at the shrine, revealed himself as Yu Sui’s father, and forced Lady Su to leave Mountain Cold with him and Yu Sui.
• At the prince’s residence, Nangong Ming named the child Nangong Sui, and the assembled Nangong Family reacted with disbelief because only the heir could bear the surname Nangong.

Yu Sui grew up in Nangong Ming’s mansion as the family’s apparent heir while her parents used her as a decoy for the Xirang. At six, she entered the National Academy and struggled with her lessons, and the chapter ended with Nangong Ming telling her that a hostile boy she had just met was someone she would one day have to protect with her life.

• Nangong Ming brought Yu Sui to see Lady Su, then pressured Lady Su to keep working with him by threatening to bring Qingkui back and exposing the danger to her.
• Yu Sui learned that her parents had made the world believe she held all the Xirang, while the strange flame in her consciousness kept her from staying alert during the day.
• When an Old Sorcerer found that Yu Sui had no talent for the Yin-Yang path, Nangong Ming refused to consider that she might be a Normal Practitioner and took her to dinner.
• Yu Sui began studying at the National Academy, where Princess Shangyang mocked her, and Lady Su made her kneel and recite lessons after she failed her exams.
• Nangong Ming arrived with a muddy, hostile boy, took him to Lady Su, and later told Yu Sui that she would one day have to protect him with her life.

Yu Sui secretly studied the strange fire and learned that it could generate Five Elements Light Cores, then discovered she could destroy one and have another form. She left the chapter realizing the fire might let her create countless cores.

• Yu Sui practiced summoning the strange fire through the night and went to the academy exhausted.
• Nangong Ming brought Gu Gan into the household and arranged for him to attend the academy with Yu Sui.
• Yu Sui befriended Gu Gan to avoid Lady Su's punishments and began secretly studying cultivation books at his home.
• Yu Sui learned that the glowing dot inside the strange fire was a cultivator's Five Elements Light Core.
• Yu Sui crushed the core, watched another form inside the fire, and concluded that the strange fire could create countless cores.

Yu Sui's study of the strange fire yielded new abilities, but her attempt to help the Young Master Lin brought her into conflict with Nangong Ming. After Lin's father was convicted and died in prison, his family was arrested, and Yu Sui never saw him again.

• Yu Sui discovered that creating Five Elements Light Cores drained her mental energy, then continued studying the strange fire and found she could endure winter's cold.
• At a banquet, Yu Sui and Zhongli Que noticed their matching hairstyles and hair ornaments, while Princess Shangyang later asked Yu Sui to spy on Gu Gan and she refused.
• The Young Master Lin begged Yu Sui to persuade Nangong Ming to reopen the case against his father, and Han Bing and the other boys pulled him away from her.
• Nangong Ming struck Yu Sui and scolded her for mishandling the appeal, then let her go after she said she had brought shame on the King's Mansion.
• Yu Sui knelt outside Lady Su's door all night, while the Young Master Lin's father died in prison and his family was arrested.

Yu Sui learned to use the Five Elements Light Cores to observe distant places, narrowly escaped Lady Su's detection, and discovered Gu Gan's plans for revenge. After hearing how the Communication Array worked, she visited the State Academy's Communication Institute and began memorizing its codes.

• Yu Sui scattered Five Elements Light Cores around the Prince's Mansion and used their connection to observe the courtyard.
• Yu Sui placed a Five Elements Light Core behind a screen in Lady Su's room and overheard Gu Gan say he wanted revenge on Lin Shouxian, but Lady Su sensed the core and nearly found it.
• Yu Sui cautiously watched Gu Gan practice and learned that his parents were dead while he cooked for her.
• Gu Gan explained that the Listening Wind Ruler relied on a vast Central Hub in the Communication Array, and Yu Sui decided to investigate it.
• Yu Sui visited the Communication Institute at the State Academy and memorized the rapidly moving numbers and runes in the array.

Yu Sui secretly studied the National Academy’s Communication Array while navigating a falling-out with Princess Shangyang and growing closer to her brothers. After Gu Gan saw Yu Sui practicing archery with them, he asked why she had not asked him to teach her.

• Yu Sui spent more than two months reconstructing the National Academy’s Communication Array and studying related information at Gu Gan’s home.
• Princess Shangyang accused Yu Sui of liking Gu Gan, and Yu Sui moved to sit beside Zhongli Que; after Yu Sui refused to return to her, Princess Shangyang flipped her desk and fought with her.
• Yu Sui’s brothers learned that Princess Shangyang had beaten her, and Su Feng and Sheng Fei urged her to fight back; Nangong Ming reminded her to work harder in archery and riding.
• Yu Sui secretly visited the Communication Institute, where patrol members taught her about the array’s number mountains and the requirements for using a Listening Wind Ruler.
• Yu Sui began practicing archery and horseback riding with Sheng Fei and her other brothers while continuing to study the Communication Array in secret.
• Gu Gan saw Yu Sui practicing with her brothers, then asked her at the National Academy why she had not asked him to teach her.

Yu Sui deciphered a National Academy Communication Array message forbidding Zhongli girls from learning archery and horseback riding, then learned that Zhongli Que was barred from martial training because of her family’s oath with Qingyang. After Zhongli Que was confined for picking up an arrow, Yu Sui secretly contacted her with lessons and a joke, cheering her up.

• Yu Sui deciphered a message ordering that Zhongli girls not be allowed to learn archery or horseback riding.
• Yu Sui copied Zhongli Que’s answers during an exam, and the two began quietly warming to each other at archery class.
• Su Feng told Yu Sui that the Zhongli women were forbidden from learning the Nine Schools Techniques under the family’s oath with Qingyang Nation.
• Yu Sui received a Listening Wind Ruler for her birthday and secretly connected it to the National Academy’s Communication Array.
• After Zhongli Que was confined for picking up a long arrow, Yu Sui sent her lesson notes and messages through the Listening Wind Ruler, making her laugh.

Yu Sui and Zhongli Que grew close through secret messages, while Zhongli Que hid her prophetic ability and her family's ban on girls cultivating. When Zhongli Que foresaw Yu Sui dying in a fire at Juxian Tower, she rushed to warn her, but Yu Sui remained in danger as a strange voice spoke in her mind.

• Yu Sui taught Zhongli Que to conceal their messages, and Zhongli Que confirmed that even her brother could not find them.
• Zhongli Que confided that girls in her family were forbidden to cultivate or wield weapons, while Yu Sui continued secretly teaching her through their correspondence.
• After two months of confinement, Zhongli Que returned to school and protected the exhausted Yu Sui from their instructor.
• As the girls grew older, Zhongli Que kept their friendship secret while Sheng Fei and Gu Gan clashed over Yu Sui and Sheng Fei prepared to leave for Taiyi Academy.
• Zhongli Que foresaw Yu Sui being consumed by flames at Juxian Tower and sent urgent warnings before running out to find her.
• At Juxian Tower, Yu Sui adjusted her Listening Wind Ruler to connect with a Communication Array as a strange voice asked who had nearly died again.

Yu Sui survived the strange flame’s death-sensation and killed a man who tried to steal the Xirang, while keeping the flame’s power hidden from Zhongli Que. After the danger passed, Zhongli Que revealed her ability to foresee disasters, and Yu Sui promised to help her learn to control it.

• Yu Sui heard the dying World Destroyer’s voices, learned that the Tianzi Text at Taiyi Academy might reveal the strange flame’s secrets, and endured the flame’s death-sensation in a pond.
• Zhongli Que followed Yu Sui using the Listening Wind Ruler and saw her engulfed in flames, but Yu Sui resurfaced unharmed and realized Zhongli Que could see what happened to her.
• A man seeking the Nong School’s Treasured Item, Xirang, attacked Yu Sui, who pushed Zhongli Que into the pond and killed him with Black Flame from a Five Elements Light Core.
• Yu Sui saved Zhongli Que from the water, hid the black flame’s nature from her, and the two disposed of the attacker’s remains together.
• Zhongli Que told Yu Sui that she had glimpsed disasters since childhood, and Yu Sui urged her to study the Nine Schools Techniques and promised to protect her.

Yu Sui reflected on the strange fire and resolved to seek the Tianzi Text at Taiyi Academy, while years passed as she grew closer to Gu Gan and became estranged from Sheng Fei. At eighteen, Nangong Ming finally sent her to Taiyi, not to pursue her own plans, but to help Gu Gan obtain the Futuo Tower.

• Yu Sui hid her absence from Sheng Fei, considered the strange fire's power to destroy the Xuangu Continent, and decided to find the Tianzi Text at Taiyi Academy.
• Over the following two years, Yu Sui helped Zhongli Que study and supported Gu Gan, then protected him from Communication Institute officials searching for the wounded Xiang Feifei.
• Gu Gan gave Yu Sui a jadeite bracelet, provoking Sheng Fei; the brothers fought, and Yu Sui and Sheng Fei later fell into a years-long cold war.
• Gu Gan left for Taiyi Academy at sixteen, while Yu Sui stayed behind because the sorcerers could not detect talent compatible with any major school.
• At eighteen, Nangong Ming ordered Yu Sui to leave for Taiyi Academy and help Gu Gan clear obstacles and obtain the Futuo Tower.

Yu Sui traveled by Cloud Vehicle Dragon to Taiyi Academy, where she met several new students and learned that Gu Gan was being held at the Legalists' Trial Ground. She arrived in Taiyi's outer city with the Di Su Tiancheng, ready to help secure his release.

• Yu Sui left Qingyang aboard the Cloud Vehicle Dragon, carrying the Di Su Tiancheng that Nangong Ming had prepared to help Gu Gan.
• During the journey, Yu Sui met Xue Jiayue, Xue Mushi, Li Jinshuang, and Wei Ren, and Xue Mushi discovered Wei Ren's Stone Scorpion spying on Xue Jiayue.
• Yu Sui realized Wei Ren knew about her breath soil, while she remained unable to contact anyone across the Endless Sea.
• The Dragon Car reached Taiyi's outer city, where Black Beard and Ji Meng met Yu Sui and took the Di Su Tiancheng toward the Legalists' Trial Ground.

Yu Sui arrived at the academy’s Questioning Arena with the Di Su Tiancheng to help Gu Gan face trial over the missing Milky Way Water. She presented herself before the Sages as Gu Gan watched her with warmth, while Mei Chengyu and the crowd took notice.

• Black Beard and Ji Meng explained that Gu Gan could be expelled for trespassing in Hanging Moon Cave, and that the Three Schools would judge his case.
• Princess Shangyang confronted Xun Zhiya, while Wei Ren, Xue Jiayue, Sheng Fei, Mu Mengbai, and Zhongli Shan gathered in the Questioning Arena.
• Elder Zhu and Legalist Saint Yu arrived with Mei Chengyu, and Sha Qian led the bound Gu Gan onto the Questioning Platform.
• Elder Zhu objected to Sha Qian interrogating Gu Gan because of their personal grudge and proposed using the Di Su Tiancheng instead.
• Yu Sui entered the arena and announced that she had the Di Su Tiancheng, drawing the crowd’s attention and Gu Gan’s warm smile.

Nangong Sui brought Di Su Tiancheng to Gu Gan’s trial, where the balance confirmed his answers as truthful but Mei Chengyu ruled that he remain under observation. At Taiyi Academy, Nangong Sui received ten-percent aptitude matches from every school until Sage Chang Gen named her his new Ghost Dao disciple.

• Nangong Sui delivered Di Su Tiancheng to the Judgment Platform, and Yu Sheng used it to question Gu Gan about the Milky Way Water theft; the balance judged his answers truthful.
• Elder Zhu proposed releasing Gu Gan, but Mei Chengyu cast the deciding vote to keep him under observation, and Nangong Sui kept Di Su Tiancheng from the Legalists.
• Sheng Fei took Nangong Sui to Hundred Schools Hall for her entrance tests, where every school she tried recorded a ten-percent aptitude match.
• At the Ghost Dao School test, Sage Chang Gen’s portrait manifested and announced to everyone that Nangong Sui was his new disciple.

Yusui became Sage Chang Gen’s Personal Disciple after his consciousness took her on as a student, drawing attention throughout Taiyi Academy. She went to the Taoist Saint Hall to ask about representing the Ghost Dao School at the Three Schools Arbitration, but Mei Chengyu shut her outside.

• Sage Chang Gen’s consciousness took Yusui as his disciple, and news of the low-scoring Normal Practitioner’s appointment spread through Taiyi Academy.
• Ji Meng and Huo Xiao realized Yusui’s new position could affect who represented the Ghost Dao School at the Three Schools Arbitration, and they hurried to find her.
• Yusui asked Zhang Yuxuan whether she could replace Mei Chengyu as the Ghost Dao School’s representative, then asked him to take her to the Taoist Saint Hall to speak with Sage Chang Gen.
• Mei Chengyu learned Yusui had arrived at the Taoist Saint Hall and warned her to figure things out herself before shutting the door in her face.
• Yusui tried the door and a key she found on a vine, but neither opened it.

Yu Sui entered the Ghost Dao Saint Hall, won Sage Chang Gen’s permission to represent him in the Three Families’ Judgement, and secured Gu Gan’s release from prison. The chapter ended with Mei Chengyu seeing Yu Sui’s new Ghost Dao School mark as she arrived at the Dining Hall with Gu Gan.

• Yu Sui used thirty-six Five Elements Light Cores to open the Saint Hall door, found Sage Chang Gen’s consciousness in his portrait, and received authorization to represent him in the judgement.
• Yu Sui visited Legalist Saint Yu with the Di Su Tiancheng and Sage Chang Gen’s mark, persuaded Yu Sheng and Elder Zhu to accept a new judgement, and obtained the key to the Criminal Prison.
• Yu Sui met Ji Meng and Huo Xiao, heard about Mei Chengyu and his companions, and went with them to free Gu Gan.
• Yu Sui encountered Xun Zhiya, Li Jinshuang, and Xiang Feifei outside the prison, then unlocked the gate and released Gu Gan.
• Mei Chengyu and his companions saw Gu Gan arrive at the Dining Hall with Yu Sui, and Mei Chengyu recognized the Ghost Dao School mark on her wrist.

Yu Sui reunited with Gu Gan at Taiyi Academy and learned that a fragment of the Futuo Tower lay in the Hanging Moon Cave. Gu Gan explained that the tower could undo the Six Nations Non-War Covenant, while Yu Sui resolved to help him and kept her own goals secret.

• Gu Gan brought Yu Sui to the Disciple Dormitory after buying her food, then took her up the Dragon Ladder and explained that a Futuo Tower fragment was in the Hanging Moon Cave.
• Gu Gan arrived at room 807, washed up, and introduced Yu Sui to Ji Meng and Huo Xiao; Ji Meng told her that Xun Zhiya and Shu Chujun shared her assigned room, 607.
• Yu Sui admired Ji Meng's medicinal flowers and quietly slipped a Five Elements Light Core into the petals of one flower.
• Gu Gan explained that the Futuo Tower had been broken into seven pieces and that restoring it could undo the Six Nations Non-War Covenant.
• Gu Gan said he and his allies wanted to seal the tower before Zhou, Dan, and Yan could break the covenant, and Yu Sui agreed to help while concealing her own suspicions.

Yu Sui settled into Taiyi Academy, secretly spied on Gu Gan and his companions, and learned about their plans for the Hanging Moon Cave and Zhanlong Cave. She later visited the Communication Institute, where staff connected her Listening Wind Ruler to Taiyi’s Number Mountain, leaving her able to use it within the academy.

• Yu Sui planted a Five Elements Light Core on Gu Gan and learned he wanted to keep her away from resealing the Futuo Tower while he waited for news from Xun Zhiya and prepared for Zhanlong Cave.
• Yu Sui discovered that Li Jinshuang and Xun Zhiya shared her dormitory, then considered their connection and Li Jinshuang’s hidden identity as a woman raised to live publicly as a man.
• Yu Sui studied her Listening Wind Ruler and entered a decoded Secret Text into it, then dreamed of flames rising beneath water before waking.
• Black Beard furnished Yu Sui’s dormitory and told her about Xun Zhiya, Shu Chujun, and Li Jinshuang’s ties to Nanjing Country.
• Yu Sui brought her Listening Wind Ruler to the Communication Institute, where a patrol guard connected it to a Number Mountain after its Secret Text had been transmitted.

Yu Sui navigated her new relationship with Mei Chengyu while concealing how she used Secret Text to access Taiyi’s communication array. After Mei Chengyu taught her the Dragon Ladder spell, he challenged her claim that she was only good at opening the Taoist Saint Hall’s door, and the Dragon Ladder stopped unexpectedly.

• Mei Chengyu learned that Yu Sui had released Gu Gan and found the note asking whether Sage Chang Gen was serious about taking her as a disciple.
• Yu Sui asked Black Beard to investigate Mei Chengyu and continued monitoring Taiyi’s communication array through her Secret Text.
• Mei Chengyu asked Sage Chang Gen why Yu Sui had taken his interest, and the sage answered that their connection was fate and that Yu Sui had been born with her door-opening ability.
• Mei Chengyu found Yu Sui struggling to activate the Dragon Ladder and taught her its spell, then questioned how she had opened the Taoist Saint Hall’s defensive door so quickly.
• Yu Sui and Mei Chengyu traded explanations about which doors she could open, and the Dragon Ladder suddenly stopped while they were riding it.

Yu Sui began her first day at Taiyi Academy, where she learned the basics of the Five Elements and discovered that the lessons matched what she had picked up from Communication Arrays. After class, she reached the Taoist Saint Hall and asked Sage Chang Gen to teach her the Wind Riding Technique, while Mei Chengyu stayed to watch.

• The Dragon Ladder trapped Yu Sui and Mei Chengyu until Wen Yangzhou and Wen Yangxiu repaired it, and Yu Sui returned to her dormitory to meet her distant roommates.
• Mei Chengyu met his new roommate, Wei Ren, while Yu Sui prepared for the academy’s Basic Course.
• Sheng Zui brought Yu Sui breakfast, explained the academy’s rules and her studies, and escorted her toward the Third Practice Hall.
• Jing Yun Kui taught the new students about the Five Elements, the Nine Schools Techniques, and Five Elements Light Cores, and Yu Sui recognized the material from her experience with Communication Arrays.
• Yu Sui walked to the Taoist Saint Hall after class and asked Sage Chang Gen to teach her the Wind Riding Technique; Sage Chang Gen agreed, and Mei Chengyu decided to stay.