Chapter Summaries

Yu Sui struggled to learn Wind Riding because her three hundred Five Elements Light Cores could not coordinate, and she suspected her incomplete Breathsoil was suppressing them. Mei Chengyu helped her understand her standing in the schools, and after Sage Chang Gen intervened with Jing Yun Kui, Yu Sui was able to sleep through part of class.

• Yu Sui failed to draw Five Elements Qi from her Light Cores while Sage Chang Gen taught her Wind Riding, and Mei Chengyu learned that she had an unusually large number of cores.
• Mei Chengyu brought food to the Saint Hall with Xing Chun, where the three ate while Yu Sui continued studying through the night.
• After running back to the Yin-Yang School at dawn, Yu Sui reasoned that her incomplete Breathsoil might be preventing her Light Cores from yielding their power.
• Mei Chengyu told Yu Sui that Jing Yun Kui was her junior by lineage and advised her to complain to Sage Chang Gen about his scolding.
• Sage Chang Gen visited the Yin-Yang School, and Jing Yun Kui stopped calling Yu Sui out in class, allowing her to nap.

Yu Sui spent time with Gu Gan and later stood up for her roommate Li Jinshuang after hearing students mock her. After reconnecting with Zhongli Que through the Communication Array, Yu Sui understood that Xi Rang was competing with her Five Elements Light Core for Five Elements Qi, and realized it might explain why Lady Su’s injuries had not healed.

• Yu Sui told Gu Gan that Jing Yun Kui no longer scolded her, then Sheng Zui confronted Gu Gan at the Dining Hall before Mu Mengbai dragged Sheng Zui away.
• On the Dragon Ladder, Su Tong reprimanded students who insulted Li Jinshuang, and Yu Sui later challenged the same students for involving her in their gossip.
• Yu Sui offered Li Jinshuang snacks and persuaded her to exchange Listening Wind Ruler inscriptions before returning to her room.
• Yu Sui finished cracking Taiyi’s Communication Array and exchanged messages with Zhongli Que about their lives, Su Tong, the Six Kingdoms, and Lady Su’s new physician, Chu Jin.
• After Zhongli Que mentioned Chu Jin treating Lady Su, Yu Sui recalled that Xi Rang absorbed Five Elements Qi and realized it was competing with her Light Core and might be preventing Lady Su’s injuries from healing.

Yu Sui discovered that her Mystic Technique was Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye and asked Sage Chang Gen for help with the Breath Soil disrupting her cultivation. Sage Chang Gen sealed the Breath Soil’s power, allowing her to draw Five Elements Power from her Light Cores, while Mei Chengyu waited outside the Saint Hall.

• Yu Sui saw the Five Elements Qi and learned from Sage Chang Gen that she possessed the top-ten Mystic Technique Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye.
• Sage Chang Gen promised to keep Yu Sui’s Mystic Technique secret and explained that it could not be taught.
• Yu Sui told Sage Chang Gen that the Breath Soil inside her was taking Five Elements Power from her Light Cores.
• Sage Chang Gen offered to seal the Breath Soil’s power, and Yu Sui agreed despite losing access to related Nine Schools Techniques.
• Sage Chang Gen sealed the Breath Soil, and Yu Sui successfully drew Five Elements Power from three hundred Light Cores as Mei Chengyu sensed the fluctuation outside.

Yu Sui learned to concentrate the power of her Five Elements Light Cores and sparred with Mei Chengyu, growing more adept with her new techniques before falling asleep in the Saint Hall. The next morning, she returned to the dormitory with Mei Chengyu and learned that he planned to face the martial arts candidates in the Level Up Challenge, though he told her she could not watch.

• Yu Sui united three hundred primitive Five Elements Light Cores into one core with the strange fire’s help.
• Yu Sui persuaded Mei Chengyu to spar and chased him through the night, practicing Wind Riding Technique and exhausting herself.
• Mei Chengyu told Sage Chang Gen he planned to block someone at the martial arts division and expected trouble from academy teachers afterward.
• Yu Sui dreamed of a Black Flame version of herself beneath dark water, then woke unable to remember the dream.
• Yu Sui and Mei Chengyu returned to the dormitory at dawn, where they encountered Gu Gan and Xun Zhiya heading to the Level Up Challenge.
• Yu Sui asked Mei Chengyu if she could watch the challenge, but he told her she could not because her Basic Course was unfinished.

Yu Sui readied herself for the Level Up Challenge and learned about the powerful disciples waiting to block Wei Kun, while Mei Chengyu’s hidden past and feud with Wei Kun came into view. After most students avoided her and Li Jinshuang, Wei Ren proposed that the four of them form a group for the Basic Course trial, leaving Li Jinshuang silent.

• Yu Sui checked messages about the Level Up Challenge and learned that Mei Chengyu, Nian Qiuyan, Kong Yiyi, and others were guarding arenas, with many targeting Wei Kun.
• Jing Yun Kui told the students to form groups of four and complete their first trial at the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Field before classes began the next day or lose two points.
• Black Beard told Yu Sui that he could find almost no records of Mei Chengyu, who had killed sixteen people in the Outer City, and explained that Wei Kun had killed Mei Chengyu’s friend there half a year earlier.
• Yu Sui saw that most students had left the Practice Hall and reflected on how Li Jinshuang was isolated and bullied by the others.
• Wei Ren sent a scorpion flying toward Li Jinshuang, but she cut it apart with her sword; he then suggested that Li Jinshuang, Xue Mushi, Yu Sui, and himself form a group for the trial.
• Yu Sui warned the others that she was a Normal Practitioner, and Wei Ren said Li Jinshuang could carry her through the trial; Li Jinshuang remained silent.

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.