Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu helped secure support for Ling Jun’s bid to become an elder while Ye Qiu defeated Qiu Duanshui after stopping just short of seriously injuring him. Tang Yu then revealed his Celestial Realm strength in the next match and battered Qiu Guangji until he surrendered.

• Qiu Guangji led the victims to agree that Ling Jun should become a decision-maker, and Tang Yu was pleased that his bullying had won their support.
• Ye Qiu and Qiu Duanshui fought fiercely until Ye Qiu stopped his fist just short of Qiu Duanshui’s throat, and Qiu Duanshui conceded.
• Tang Yu told a junior sister that Ye Qiu and Qiu Duanshui would fall in love, prompting a rumor to spread among the inner sect.
• Ye Qiu returned to his seat to heal, then was startled when Tang Yu leapt onto the stage and rose from the peak of the Heaven Realm to the Celestial Realm.
• Qiu Guangji attacked Tang Yu after Tang Yu promised to let him fight for five minutes, but he jumped off the stage three minutes later and surrendered.

Tang Yu defeated Ye Qiu in the inner sect final, then tied him in the vote to become an elder. The elders were left deadlocked until a disciple objected to Ye Qiu’s candidacy by bringing up that he had eaten shit.

• Ye Qiu attacked Tang Yu with his full strength, but Tang Yu’s defense held firm and Ye Qiu conceded after exhausting his true qi.
• The elders awarded Tang Yu first place, and Ye Qiu and Tang Yu both applied to become elders.
• Ye Qiu promised to end bullying and won the support of half the inner sect disciples.
• Tang Yu promised to enforce fairness and won the support of the remaining disciples, leaving both candidates with sixty-five supporters.
• As the elders struggled to break the tie, a disciple shouted that Ye Qiu should not become an elder because he had eaten shit.

Tang Yu was elected as a Nine Heavens Alliance elder after Wang Kangping brought up Ye Qiu’s past, then left for his promotion ceremony. Ye Qiu visited Qiu Xiaozhu and warned her that Ling Jun’s identity might be suspicious, claiming enemies had discovered his identity and were pursuing him.

• Wang Kangping reminded the disciples that Ye Qiu had eaten shit, prompting the Second Elder to explain that Ye Qiu had been poisoned and force-fed Golden Juice.
• More than a dozen disciples changed their votes to Tang Yu, and the elders confirmed his election as the new elder.
• Tang Yu thanked the disciples, celebrated his victory, and followed the Grand Elder to his promotion ceremony after teasing Qiu Xiaozhu about their bet.
• Qiu Xiaozhu returned to her valley, where Ye Qiu arrived and pretended his injuries were serious to gain her concern.
• Ye Qiu told Qiu Xiaozhu that Ling Jun’s identity might be false and claimed enemies had discovered his identity and were pursuing him.

Ye Qiu and the Third Elder discussed how to proceed with their plan to test the Nine Dragons Array after Ling Jun’s promotion ceremony. Meanwhile, Tang Yu entered the Qiu Family’s ancestral tomb with the Grand Elder and learned about the array and the family’s role as its guardians.

• Qiu Xiaozhu convinced Ye Qiu that Ling Jun was not his enemy, and Ye Qiu returned to recover from his injuries.
• The Third Elder told Ye Qiu that the mausoleum guard was one of their allies and promised to take him into the tomb after Ling Jun’s promotion ceremony.
• The Grand Elder explained to Tang Yu that the Qiu Family had guarded Zhang Zhong’s tomb and its Nine Dragons Array for generations.
• The Grand Elder said the Nine Dragons Array was reputedly built to extend a dynasty’s fortune for a thousand years.
• Tang Yu met the tomb guard, entered the tomb with the Grand Elder, and declined the offer to become a tomb-guarding elder.

Tang Yu completed the Nine Dragons Array’s elder assessment and received its cultivation gift, then was assigned to patrol Clear Moon Pool. He caught several female disciples preparing to bathe there.

• Tang Yu passed the Heart-Questioning Incense assessment and received the Nine Dragons Array’s gift, which greatly boosted his cultivation.
• The Grand Elder refused to let Tang Yu see the Nine Dragons Array’s inner section and assigned him miscellaneous duties, including patrolling Clear Moon Pool.
• Tang Yu went to Clear Moon Pool and hid in a tree after hearing people approach.
• Several female disciples arrived, checked that the area was clear, and undressed to bathe.
• Tang Yu emerged and shouted that swimming was forbidden at Clear Moon Pool.

Tang Yu patrolled the forbidden bathing areas, drove off the disciples who were using them, and returned home to Qiu Xiaozhu. He took her to the hot spring and began scrubbing her back, leaving her flustered and secretly wanting more contact.

• Tang Yu showed his elder token to the female disciples bathing in a forbidden area, scolded them, and sent them away.
• Tang Yu caught male disciples swimming in another forbidden area and used true qi to destroy their clothes, making them flee.
• Tang Yu returned home with ingredients and made dinner for Qiu Xiaozhu, who nervously waited to see what he would do.
• Tang Yu invited Qiu Xiaozhu to the hot spring and brought out scrubbing gloves, while his inner thoughts revealed his dream of becoming her exclusive back-scrubber.
• Qiu Xiaozhu joined Tang Yu in the hot spring, then lay facedown on a bamboo bed as he gently scrubbed her back, leaving her increasingly expectant and embarrassed.

Tang Yu scrubbed Qiu Xiaozhu while Ye Qiu and the Third Elder secretly tested whether the Nine Dragons Array would accept Ye Qiu. The test succeeded, and the Third Elder revealed that the array’s true purpose was to suppress the fate of the nation.

• Tang Yu scrubbed Qiu Xiaozhu from her shoulders to her feet, and Qiu Xiaozhu reluctantly turned over for him to continue.
• Ye Qiu followed the Third Elder to the mausoleum, where an allied tomb-guarding elder let them in during a shift change.
• The Third Elder had Ye Qiu light three sticks of Heart-Questioning Incense, bow before the statue, and cultivate; the Nine Dragons Array acknowledged him, and his cultivation improved.
• The Third Elder explained that a person with only Ye Family blood would have died from the incense, but Ye Qiu survived because he carried both Ye Family and Qiu Family bloodlines.
• The Third Elder told Ye Qiu that the Nine Dragons Array was meant to suppress the fate of the nation.

The Third Elder explained that Ye Feilong had tried to seize the Nine Dragons Array and the nation's fortune, leading to the Ye Family's ruin, while Ye Qiu promised to restore the family and free the Qiu Family. After several days of dual cultivation with Qiu Xiaozhu, Tang Yu prepared to leave the Nine Heavens Alliance as she planned to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough.

• The Third Elder said Ye Feilong had failed to break the Nine Dragons Array, causing the nation's fortune to suppress the Ye Family and destroy it.
• Ye Qiu promised to help the Ye Family rise again and fulfill the Third Elder's wish to free the Qiu Family.
• Tang Yu and Qiu Xiaozhu spent three days together in the valley, and Qiu Xiaozhu found that her cultivation bottleneck had begun to loosen.
• Tang Yu gave Qiu Xiaozhu a Golden Lotus Seed and Nine-Turn Pills to help with her planned seclusion and breakthrough.
• Tang Yu told Qiu Xiaozhu he would leave for a few days, then received permission from the Grand Elder to depart the Nine Heavens Alliance.

After returning from the Nine Heavens Alliance, Tang Yu reunited with Chi Yin and Ling Han and brought Old He home. He revealed that Old He was a missing tomb guardian elder and his brother, and decided to cure him because he was tied to too many secrets.

• Tang Yu left the Nine Heavens Alliance, made his way home, and refused to tip a taxi driver who claimed prices had risen.
• Tang Yu found the villa empty, caught up on a flood of messages, and reunited with Chi Yin and Ling Han when they returned from shopping.
• Lu Junzhuo brought Old He to Tang Yu’s villa after luring him away from Plants vs. Zombies by promising to charge his tablet.
• Tang Yu told Lu Junzhuo that Ye Qiu was still alive and knocked Old He unconscious to begin treating him.
• Tang Yu explained that Old He was the biological brother of a tomb guardian elder, held the same position in the Nine Heavens Alliance, and had been branded a traitor after disappearing during the conflict with the Ye Family.

After curing Old He, Tang Yu learned how Ye Feilong had coerced him into helping open the tomb doors and how the Nine Dragons Array accumulated national fortune. Tang Yu learned how to open the array and prepared to interfere with Ye Qiu’s attempt to break it, but the chapter ended with Liu Ruyan calling him with a suggestive request.

• Tang Yu treated Old He with acupuncture until the old man regained consciousness and clarity.
• Old He admitted that Ye Feilong had poisoned his daughter and promised to cure and cultivate her in exchange for his help opening the tomb doors; the plan failed, and his daughter died.
• Old He explained that the Nine Dragons Array accumulated national fortune and said Ye Feilong had prepared unknown items when he last broke the array.
• Tang Yu learned the method for opening the array from Old He using the Quick Mastery Technique and planned to stop Ye Qiu from breaking it.
• Tang Yu sent Lu Junzhuo to procure supplies, then answered a call from Liu Ruyan.

Tang Yu visited Liu Ruyan and Yun Shishi at the Hundred Flowers Society, where he learned Liu Ruyan was pregnant and teased her about their future daughter. Liu Ruyan then worried about taking control of the Wei Family after Wei Yangcheng's declining health left him only two or three years to live.

• Tang Yu received Liu Ruyan's call, said he would visit her and Yun Shishi, and left after Ling Han and Chi Yin kissed him goodbye.
• Tang Yu arrived at the Hundred Flowers Society, greeted its flirtatious members, and found Liu Ruyan and Yun Shishi reading together.
• Liu Ruyan teased Tang Yu by pretending to have a stomachache, then revealed that she was pregnant.
• Tang Yu reassured Liu Ruyan that he would not dislike her if her figure changed and joked that their daughter would be richer than him.
• Liu Ruyan said Wei Yangcheng was likely to live only two or three more years and worried that she would then have to contend with the Wei Family.

Tang Yu returned to the Nine Heavens Alliance with gifts and small bombs, persuading Old Madam Liang to let him pass without inspecting all his luggage. After finding Qiu Xiaozhu still in seclusion, he resumed his elder duties and encountered Qian'er, who had come at Qiu Zitong's request.

• Tang Yu bought gifts for his master, then received small bombs from Lu Junzhuo and packed everything for his return to the Nine Heavens Alliance.
• Old Madam Liang demanded to inspect Tang Yu's suitcases, but he persuaded her to let him through by invoking her grandson Liang Zhichao and claiming the items were private supplies for him and his master.
• Tang Yu found Qiu Xiaozhu still in seclusion, left food outside her door, and went on patrol as instructed by the First Elder.
• Tang Yu completed his patrol without finding any female disciples bathing and heard that his earlier intervention had frightened male disciples away from the forbidden areas.
• Qian'er approached Tang Yu, and he teased her while recognizing that Qiu Zitong had sent her.

Qiu Zitong and her friends tried to drug Tang Yu and use a honey trap, but he pretended to be drunk and saw through their plan. The chapter ended with Qiu Zitong trying to undress him before he suddenly woke up and caught her hand.

• Qiu Qian'er invited Tang Yu to her courtyard, where Qiu Zitong’s friends prepared a drugged wine for him.
• Tang Yu recognized Qiu Zitong’s drug but pretended it had made him dizzy so Qiu Qian'er would keep feeding him wine.
• After several cups, Tang Yu pretended to pass out, and Qiu Zitong came inside and had the girls carry him to a bed.
• Qiu Zitong prepared to undress Tang Yu while her friends watched, but Tang Yu suddenly woke up and grabbed her hand.
• Qiu Zitong exclaimed that she only wanted Tang Yu’s body, then raised her fist to knock him unconscious again.

Tang Yu fought Qiu Zitong and the women who joined her, then punished them after defeating them. Qiu Zitong ended the chapter reflecting on how different it felt to be spanked as an adult.

• Tang Yu blocked Qiu Zitong’s punch, grabbed her skirt when she tried to flee, and exposed her when the fabric tore.
• Qiu Zitong rallied Qian'er and the other women to attack Tang Yu, who endured their assault and defeated all five with acupoint strikes.
• Tang Yu questioned Qiu Zitong about targeting him again, then spanked her after she refused to stop.
• Qian'er and the others offered to share Qiu Zitong’s punishment, so Tang Yu spanked each of them before leaving.
• After the women were released, Qiu Zitong told Qian'er that being spanked as an adult felt different from being spanked as a child.

Tang Yu spent the days before the ancestral worship ceremony watching Ye Qiu and helping Qiu Xiaozhu with preparations, while suspecting Ye Qiu had allies inside the Nine Heavens Alliance. On the ceremony day, Yao Changfeng lured Tang Yu aside and tried to stab him, but his attack stopped just short of Tang Yu.

• Tang Yu watched Ye Qiu's increasingly quiet behavior and vowed to keep an eye on him during the ancestral worship ceremony.
• Qiu Xiaozhu emerged from seclusion without breaking through, and Tang Yu showed her gifts before they soaked in the hot spring together.
• Tang Yu noticed Qiu Xiaozhu's pink roots had grown back, and she decided to dye her hair its original color for him.
• As the ceremony approached, Tang Yu helped Qiu Xiaozhu with preparations and continued monitoring Ye Qiu, suspecting he had planted allies within the alliance.
• On the morning of the ceremony, Yao Changfeng lured Tang Yu away under the pretense of discussing pill formulas and struck at his heart, but his hand stopped just short.

Tang Yu foiled Yao Changfeng’s attempt to kill Ling Jun and realized that Ye Qiu was using explosions and fire as a diversion to reach the mausoleum. At the ancestral tombs, the Third and Eighth Elders turned on their fellow elders to help Ye Qiu break the Nine Dragons Array, while the Third Elder denounced the Qiu Family’s centuries-long duty as the cause of his sister’s death.

• Tang Yu defeated Yao Changfeng, learned Ye Qiu had disappeared, and threw the poisoned-needle-wielding elder into a lake after sealing his acupoints.
• As explosions and fires erupted, the Grand Elder ordered the disciples to fight the blaze, while Qiu Xiaozhu hurried to the ancestral tombs fearing Ye Qiu was involved.
• The Third Elder attacked the Fifth Elder with poisoned needles, and the Eighth Elder ambushed the Second Elder.
• The Third Elder revealed that Ye Qiu was breaking the Nine Dragons Array so the Qiu Family could be free, and the Grand Elder realized Ye Qiu belonged to the Ye Family.
• The Second Elder attacked the Eighth Elder, while the Grand Elder confronted the Third Elder, who condemned the family’s ancestral duty for costing his sister her life.

As the Qiu family descended into chaos, Tang Yu and Qiu Xiaozhu broke into the ancestral tomb to pursue Ye Qiu. Qiu Xiaozhu entered the inner chamber alone and found Ye Qiu trying to seize control of the Nine Dragons Array.

• The Third Elder rejected the Grand Elder’s offer to stop fighting and lunged at him while the poisoned Fifth Elder convulsed nearby.
• Qiu Xiaozhu reached the ancestral tomb and learned from Tang Yu that Ye Qiu had entered after killing Elder Stone.
• Tang Yu used his Invisible Energy Whip to open the tomb gate, and Qiu Xiaozhu led him inside.
• Qiu Xiaozhu crippled the traitorous tomb-guarding elder at the inner entrance and used Heart-Questioning Incense to reveal the hidden passage.
• Qiu Xiaozhu entered the inner chamber alone, sensed Ye Qiu taking control of the Nine Dragons Array, and charged toward the altar.

Ye Qiu used the Son of Heaven Sword to seize the Nine Dragons Array and absorb its national fortune, overpowering Qiu Xiaozhu when she tried to stop him. The Divine Tree little loli gave Tang Yu a wisp of Heavenly Dao power and sent him back to the altar, where Ye Qiu had reached the peak of the third level of the Celestial Realm.

• Ye Qiu explained that the Son of Heaven Sword and his Ye Family bloodline let him control the Nine Dragons Array and absorb its national fortune.
• Qiu Xiaozhu confronted Ye Qiu over the Ye Family massacre, but could not command the array against him and tried to pull out the sword instead.
• Ye Qiu fought Qiu Xiaozhu and eventually defeated her as his cultivation continued to rise.
• The Divine Tree little loli pulled Tang Yu into the Divine Tree Space, gave him Heavenly Dao power, and sent him back to the tomb.
• Tang Yu grabbed the unconscious traitorous tomb-guarding elder and headed for the altar, where Ye Qiu stood at the peak of the third level of the Celestial Realm.

Tang Yu returned to the altar and used bomb-carrying crows to force Ye Qiu to defend the Nine Dragons Array while treating Qiu Xiaozhu. As the last crows fell, Tang Yu began using the power of the Heavenly Dao through the tomb-guarding elder, leaving Ye Qiu alarmed.

• Tang Yu revealed his true face to Ye Qiu, who recognized his mortal enemy and vowed to kill him.
• Tang Yu sent bomb-carrying crows at Ye Qiu and the great cauldron, forcing Ye Qiu to defend the Nine Dragons Array.
• Tang Yu treated Qiu Xiaozhu with a pill and realized Ye Qiu had reached the third layer of the Celestial Realm by absorbing national fortune.
• Ye Qiu endured the crow attacks and threatened Tang Yu as the flock dwindled.
• Tang Yu made the unconscious tomb-guarding elder kneel and repeat Ye Qiu's name, after which the elder collapsed dead.

Tang Yu killed Ye Qiu and destroyed the Son of Heaven sword, but the Nine Dragons Array went out of control and Qiu Xiaozhu’s condition deteriorated. Tang Yu gave her Heavenly Dao power through a kiss, stabilizing the array, healing her, and helping her break through to the third level of the Celestial Realm.

• Tang Yu caused Ye Qiu to rapidly age and die, then pulled the Son of Heaven sword from the cauldron and shattered it.
• The altar and Nine Dragons Array began to shake, and Qiu Xiaozhu’s condition worsened, so Tang Yu carried her down from the altar.
• The First Elder arrived badly wounded and prepared to attack Tang Yu, but Qiu Xiaozhu confirmed that Tang Yu had killed Ye Qiu.
• The First Elder explained that the Third and Eighth Elders had betrayed the alliance and the Fifth Elder had died; he had killed the Third Elder, while the Second Elder was gravely injured.
• Tang Yu kissed Qiu Xiaozhu and transferred Heavenly Dao power to her, restoring the array, healing her injuries, and helping her break through.