Chapter Summaries

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.

Yu Sui met Xue Mushi to discuss cultivation, but their meeting was delayed by his cousin and an unexpected confrontation between Sheng Zui and Qian Ying. The chapter left Yu Sui and Xue Mushi exchanging sympathetic looks over their difficult siblings.

• Li Jinshuang left Yu Sui sleeping, then blocked Shu Chujun when she tried to enter Yu Sui's room; Yu Sui woke and teased Shu Chujun until she stormed away.
• Yu Sui skipped her medical studies lecture and went with Li Jinshuang to find Xue Mushi at the Dining Hall.
• Xue Mushi met his cousin Xue Jiayue, who scolded him for not seeking her out, while Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang waited nearby.
• Qian Ying offered Yu Sui help with her injuries, but Sheng Zui interrupted and warned Yu Sui to stay away from her and Gu Gan.
• Yu Sui reassured Sheng Zui that she would seek treatment from Shi Yuezhen, and he left after Mu Mengbai called him away.

Yu Sui, Li Jinshuang, and Xue Mushi entered Asura Hell to train and test their escape method, then returned that night to face its Evil Ghosts. Li Jinshuang’s unstable sword spirit awakened and overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Yu Sui and Xue Mushi in danger of being struck by its attacks.

• Yu Sui persuaded Xue Mushi to help her and Li Jinshuang enter Asura Hell, and the three tested the formation before escaping with Qi Ding.
• Yu Sui, Li Jinshuang, and Xue Mushi noticed time had passed differently inside the Military Formation and agreed to return at the Hai hour.
• At Mechanism Island, Mei Chengyu worked on the Cloud Vehicle Dragon while the Wen Yang brothers recalled his childhood and he considered his missing memories and growing anger.
• Yu Sui practiced precise control of Five Elements Qi while picking apricots, then met Li Jinshuang and Xue Mushi to reenter Asura Hell.
• Li Jinshuang’s sword spirit emerged when she attacked an Evil Ghost, binding her to her sword and cutting down the surrounding enemies.
• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi defended themselves from the sword spirit’s Sound Barrier and Sword Qi as they feared it might strike them before the Black Armored Cavalry could.

Yu Sui and Xue Mushi subdued Li Jinshuang’s uncontrolled sword spirit and escaped the Military Formation, but Li Jinshuang remained unconscious. In her consciousness, the sword spirit confronted her with painful accusations about her weakness and identity.

• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi approached Li Jinshuang and realized her powerful sword spirit was attacking indiscriminately, so they planned to disperse it with death talismans.
• Yu Sui used Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye to read the sword spirit’s movements and symbols while Xue Mushi restrained it with his Seven Kill Hexagram.
• Yu Sui destroyed the sword spirit’s death talismans, and its manifestation vanished after she awakened Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye.
• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi disrupted the Military Formation and escaped into the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Field, where they found Li Jinshuang unconscious and waited beside her.
• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi talked about their families and past struggles while Li Jinshuang remained unconscious.
• Li Jinshuang met her sword spirit in a dim room in her consciousness, where it took the forms of her family and challenged her about her weakness and identity.

Yu Sui tried to comfort Li Jinshuang and help her understand her rebellious sword spirit, while their attempts to challenge the formation left Li Jinshuang struggling without its help. As Li Jinshuang finally explained their long history of conflict, Mei Chengyu returned and found only one apricot left, prompting Yu Sui to jokingly tell him she was not in this world.

• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi discussed why Li Jinshuang's sword spirit might look down on her, while Yu Sui dismissed Yan Xiaochuan's strange-fire messages as a Naming School disciple's frustrated rant.
• After waking, Li Jinshuang apologized for her sword spirit hurting Yu Sui, and Yu Sui reassured her that she had reached the third level of Soul Control and invited her to talk when she was ready.
• Yu Sui was distracted by Yan Xiaochuan's messages during class and was ordered into the hallway after she failed to answer the Instructor's questions.
• That night, Li Jinshuang's sword spirit refused to appear in the formation, and the three disciples emerged exhausted after fighting the Evil Ghosts without its help.
• Li Jinshuang told Yu Sui and Xue Mushi that her sword spirit had begun disobeying her at fourteen, had grown harder to control, and had started hurting people indiscriminately the previous year.
• Mei Chengyu returned to the Taoist Saint Hall, found only one apricot remaining, and messaged Yu Sui, who replied that she was not in this world for now.

Yu Sui helped Li Jinshuang consider reconciling with her Sword Spirit by embracing her identity and choosing women’s clothes, while Mei Chengyu discovered Yu Sui had turned the missing apricots into treats. The chapter ended with Mei Chengyu leaving Yu Sui’s room with the food box as Gu Gan arrived.

• Mei Chengyu searched for Yu Sui after realizing the apricots were gone, then messaged her and asked his friends to help find her.
• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi listened as Li Jinshuang explained that she believed her Sword Spirit disliked her as she was now.
• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi reassured Li Jinshuang that she was a woman and suggested she change back into women’s clothes to approach her Sword Spirit as herself.
• Li Jinshuang revealed that she dressed as a man to protect the Li Family, and Yu Sui offered to take her shopping after class.
• Yu Sui told Mei Chengyu that she had made apricot wine, jam, cakes, and preserves, and he went to her room to collect them.
• Gu Gan and Ji Meng arrived at Yu Sui’s dormitory, and Mei Chengyu came out carrying the food box as Gu Gan approached.

Mei Chengyu discovered that Gu Gan had used the Mystic Technique against him and had worked with Wei Kun, while Yu Sui watched the two sides grow wary of each other. As the Zhanlong Cave challenge approached, Mei Chengyu and his friends planned to pursue the Heavenly Secrets Technique and break the Shura Eye.

• Gu Gan fought Mei Chengyu over the food box from Yu Sui's room, and Wen Yanghui revealed that Mei Chengyu had recognized the Demon Sealing Pillar he made.
• Mei Chengyu identified Gu Gan as the person who erased his Nine Schools Techniques, while Gu Gan denied targeting him and the group discussed how Mei Chengyu might use Yu Sui against them.
• Gu Gan learned that Yu Sui had made the apricot cakes Mei Chengyu took, asked her to make some for him, and kept the confrontation with Mei Chengyu from her.
• Mei Chengyu told Yu Sui he had neither argued with nor lost to Gu Gan, then learned at lunch that Gu Gan had worked with Wei Kun and acted on Nangong Ming's orders against Zhongli Shan.
• Mei Chengyu and his friends planned to enter the Zhanlong Cave for the Heavenly Secrets Technique and find a way to break the Shura Eye, while Xing Chun and Zhongli Shan said Yu Sui should help whoever she wanted.

Yu Sui helped Li Jinshuang begin accepting her identity and took her to choose women’s clothes in the outer city. Meanwhile, she followed Wei Ren after two suspicious disciples led him to a dark house, where someone questioned him about Lu Haiye’s death.

• Yu Sui waited for Li Jinshuang at Taiyi Academy and reflected on the dangers facing the Zhongli and Li families.
• Two disciples intercepted Wei Ren and led him away, so Yu Sui sent a Five Elements Light Core after them.
• Yu Sui encouraged Li Jinshuang to affirm that she was a girl and could protect the Li Family, and Li Jinshuang sent the statements through her Listening Wind Ruler.
• Yu Sui took Li Jinshuang shopping, helped her choose a pale purple dress, and had the maids help her change.
• Yu Sui watched Wei Ren enter a dark Small House, where a man asked him how Lu Haiye had died.

Yu Sui watched Ji Shuyan interrogate Wei Ren while she helped Li Jinshuang try on women’s clothes. Wei Ren escaped Ji Shuyan’s attack but was caught by the Phantom Beast, as a tiny spider watched from the eaves.

• Yu Sui sensed the Five Elements Light Core near Wei Ren as Ji Shuyan accused him of hiding what he knew about Nangong Sui.
• Yu Sui sent Black Beard to seize the Agricultural School rebels while she helped Li Jinshuang dress up and look at herself in the mirror.
• Ji Shuyan revealed that he had found Lu Haiye’s Companion Sound Transmission Beast and accused Wei Ren of helping Nangong Sui and concealing the truth about Xirang.
• Wei Ren confronted Ji Shuyan over his loyalty to Lady Su, and Ji Shuyan’s Phantom Beast shattered the room as Wei Ren tried to flee.
• The Phantom Beast caught Wei Ren and crushed him while Ji Shuyan reminded him that his damaged cultivation left him at the First Realm; a tiny Red Transparent Spider watched nearby.

Wei Ren was cornered by Ji Shuyan after rejecting Lady Su’s orders and refusing to kill Nangong Sui, while the Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider struggled to protect him. Yu Sui arrived with Li Jinshuang and her master’s help, and Ji Shuyan died after attacking her.

• Wei Ren used the Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider’s silk to escape the Phantom Giant Python, but Ji Shuyan and two Agricultural School Disciples trapped him on a rooftop.
• Yu Sui kept Li Jinshuang trying on clothes while explaining that they would still go to the Military Formation, then decided to confront Ji Shuyan herself.
• Wei Ren challenged Ji Shuyan over the children he had trained, the Yan Kingdom’s suffering, and the organization’s demand that its followers obey Lady Su.
• The Agricultural School Disciples and Phantom Giant Python overwhelmed Wei Ren, while Black Beard arrived with Nangong Family Technicians and fought Ji Shuyan.
• Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang reached the ruins, and Yu Sui provoked Ji Shuyan until he attacked her and summoned her master’s intervention.
• Yu Sui’s master crushed Ji Shuyan’s defenses, and Yu Sui watched him die before crushing the Companion Sound Transmission Beast underfoot.

Yu Sui survived Ji Shuyan’s attack after summoning Sage Chang Gen, and Mei Chengyu saved the gravely wounded Wei Ren. As Yu Sui returned to the Nangong Family inn with Mei Chengyu and Li Jinshuang, Mei Chengyu’s memories stirred, leaving him aware that he had once had a wealthy family.

• Yu Sui revealed that she had baited Ji Shuyan into attacking so Sage Chang Gen could kill him, and she thanked her master for intervening.
• Li Jinshuang used Five Elements Qi to stabilize Wei Ren and his Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider, while Mei Chengyu arrived and used Heart in Sight to pull Wei Ren back from the brink of death.
• Yu Sui sent Wei Ren to the Nangong Family inn for treatment and asked Mei Chengyu to take her there; he also healed the marks on her neck.
• Yu Sui had Li Jinshuang stay overnight at the inn and arranged clothes and jewelry for her to wear the next day.
• Mei Chengyu watched the commercial buildings outside the inn and recalled that he had once been wealthy and had a family.