Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu negotiated business with Amber at Treasure Pavilion, then rejected her offer to join the pavilion out of loyalty to the Joyous Union Sect. After Nangong Ying received a valuable magical painting, Tang Yu and his companions left the pavilion, where Ning Qingyan challenged him to a fight.

• Tang Yu and Amber agreed to split the lottery business profits equally, and Amber gave Nangong Ying a chance to choose a welcome gift.
• After Nangong Ying went downstairs, Amber invited Tang Yu to become Treasure Pavilion's deputy pavilion master, but Tang Yu declined because he considered the Joyous Union Sect his home.
• Nangong Ying chose the Peach Blossom Haven Painting, a magical treasure with an inner space suited to growing spirit herbs and medicinal plants.
• Tang Yu and Nangong Ying left Treasure Pavilion, and Tang Yu jokingly told her to come back and scrub his back that night.
• Ning Qingyan blocked their way and challenged Tang Yu to fight, demanding that he return with her to the Jade Maiden Sect and apologize to her master if he lost.
• Tang Yu accepted Ning Qingyan's challenge and proposed that they take off their clothes and wrestle.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan fought at Treasure Pavilion after she challenged him over the jade-slip painting that had damaged her master's reputation. Ning Qingyan conceded when she could not break Tang Yu's defense, but Tang Yu told the watching crowd their match had ended in a draw.

• Ning Qingyan challenged Tang Yu to a fight, and Tang Yu asked what she would wager if she lost; she agreed to discuss it after the match.
• Ning Qingyan and Tang Yu went to Treasure Pavilion's arena, where she suppressed her cultivation to the early Nascent Soul realm and announced their wager to witnesses.
• Ning Qingyan attacked with waves of sword qi and a giant sword, but Tang Yu blocked everything with his self-created defensive divine ability, Pinduoduo.
• After exhausting her true essence without breaking Tang Yu's defense, Ning Qingyan admitted defeat.
• Tang Yu told the gathered cultivators that neither fighter had gained the upper hand and declared the result a draw, leaving Ning Qingyan confused.

After defeating Ning Qingyan, Tang Yu asked her to wear a jade hairpin as his condition, while privately telling Nangong Ying that it was part of his plan. Fang Meiyun learned of the hairpin and punished Ning Qingyan, then crushed it and vowed to kill Tang Yu.

• Tang Yu accepted Ning Qingyan’s admission of defeat and asked her to wear his White Jade Silk Phoenix Hairpin for one day as advertising; she agreed and left the Treasure Pavilion.
• Tang Yu told Nangong Ying that the hairpin was part of his plan, and Nangong Ying happily accompanied him to draw.
• Ning Qingyan returned to the Jade Maiden Sect wearing the hairpin, then went into seclusion after telling a fellow disciple it had been given to her by a friend.
• Fang Meiyun summoned Ning Qingyan and accused her of flirting with Tang Yu after learning about their duel and the hairpin.
• Ning Qingyan explained that she had worn the hairpin to honor her promise, but Fang Meiyun confined her in the Azure Water Formation for three months.
• Fang Meiyun crushed Tang Yu’s hairpin and declared that she would kill him.

Fang Meiyun caught Meng Zihao reading Tang Yu’s provocative jade-slip story and left after he promised to kill Tang Yu once recovered. Meanwhile, Tang Yu’s new story inspired a lottery run by the Joyous Union Sect and Treasure Pavilion, and the first drawing ended with a Jade Maiden Sect disciple claiming the jackpot, leaving her anxious about her sect master’s reaction.

• Fang Meiyun snatched Meng Zihao’s jade slip, discovered he was reading a story depicting them, and furiously berated him.
• Meng Zihao claimed he had read the story to find a way to stop Tang Yu’s drawings from selling, then promised to kill Tang Yu after recovering.
• Tang Yu’s story about selling cucumbers became popular, and the Joyous Union Sect and Treasure Pavilion launched a lottery inspired by its plot.
• Amber and Liu Yanlan hosted the first drawing, and Zhang Ji publicly claimed the jackpot of one thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• A mid-stage Golden Core disciple of the Jade Maiden Sect also claimed the jackpot and worried about how her sect master would respond.

After the lottery drawing, Amber tried to recruit Tang Yu to the Treasure Pavilion, but Liu Yanlan refused. Tang Yu then coaxed Liu Yanlan into taking a break with him above the clouds, and she recorded their outing in her diary.

• A Jade Maiden Sect cultivator won the grand prize, collected her spirit stones, and received an escort from Elder Li.
• Amber offered Tang Yu a guest elder position at the Treasure Pavilion, but Liu Yanlan rejected the offer; Amber then teased them and gave Tang Yu ten high-grade spirit stones.
• Tang Yu reassured Liu Yanlan that he was loyal to the Joyous Union Sect, then asked to see her face, but she refused.
• Tang Yu invited Liu Yanlan to relax with him, and the two rode a white jade carriage above the clouds to watch the sunset.
• Liu Yanlan fell asleep in the carriage and woke at midnight; after they returned, she recorded the outing and her reduced fatigue in her diary.

Li Hui was expelled from the Jade Maiden Sect after winning a lottery prize, then joined the Joyous Union Sect as Tang Yu publicized the incident and worsened Fang Meiyun’s troubles. As Fang Meiyun struggled with criticism and her own anger, Tang Yu exposed Ma Shitu as a spy and began a musical encounter with Ma Shitu’s Dao companion, Jade Girl.

• Elder Li escorted Li Hui safely back to the Jade Maiden Sect, where she told Ning Qingyan about winning the lottery and planned how to spend her spirit stones.
• Fang Meiyun forced Li Hui to kneel, expelled her before the sect’s disciples, and confiscated her storage ring despite Ning Qingyan’s attempt to intervene.
• Li Hui joined the Joyous Union Sect, and Tang Yu publicized her expulsion; the resulting rumors damaged Fang Meiyun’s reputation and drew criticism from the Jade Maiden Sect’s Supreme Elders.
• Fang Meiyun vented her anger by beating Meng Zihao, who secretly enjoyed it before messaging Tang Yu about their plan.
• At the Four Arts Academy, Tang Yu learned from Meng Zihao’s message that Ma Shitu was a Jade Maiden Sect spy and sent Ma Shitu and his companions to the Artifact Refining Hall.
• Tang Yu played the flute alongside Jade Girl’s qin, and their music activated the Joyous Union Yin-Yang Art, entwining their souls.

Tang Yu accidentally cultivated through spiritual communion with Hu Lingbao, helping her break through to the Nascent Soul realm, while she concealed what happened from her Dao companion, Ma Shitu. Afterward, Tang Yu visited Nangong Ying at the hot spring and tried to persuade her to pose for his art, then prepared to approach Senior Sister Liu with a bunny girl outfit.

• Tang Yu and Hu Lingbao accidentally merged their souls while playing the qin, and Hu Lingbao broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.
• Hu Lingbao asked Tang Yu to keep their encounter secret, then claimed to Ma Shitu that she had broken through after gaining insight while playing the zither.
• Ma Shitu cultivated with Hu Lingbao and benefited from her breakthrough, while Hu Lingbao privately compared their session with her communion with Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu visited Nangong Ying at the hot spring, where she scrubbed his back and fled after he tried to persuade her to study his body for her paintings.
• Tang Yu soaked in the hot spring, took a bunny girl outfit from his storage ring, and set out to ask Senior Sister Liu to model for him.

Tang Yu visited Liu Yanlan and tried to persuade her to model a bunny-girl outfit, but she had five disciples wear it instead. He then told her he planned to leave the mountain for about half a month and prepared to meet Lin Xuan.

• Tang Yu visited Liu Yanlan, gave her a Red Mist Fruit, and massaged her shoulders while she handled sect affairs.
• Tang Yu offered Liu Yanlan a bunny-girl outfit, and she agreed to help test it but sent five female disciples to model it instead.
• Tang Yu painted the five disciples in the outfits and gave each of them a Red Glow Fruit, while Liu Yanlan declined to wear one herself.
• Tang Yu told Liu Yanlan he would leave the mountain for personal matters, and she warned him to be wary of Fang Meiyun.
• Tang Yu returned to the Cluster Jade Pavilion, prepared to depart, and set out to meet Lin Xuan.

Tang Yu arrived in Black Cloud City and watched Lin Xuan suffer ridicule and a broken engagement before his blood awakened the jade pearl containing an Immortal Emperor's remnant soul. Tang Yu then secretly gave Lin Qing a powerful flying sword and set him up to challenge Lin Xuan at the coming-of-age ceremony in seven days.

• Tang Yu disguised his Nascent Soul cultivation and used his divine sense to observe the Lin Family, where Lin Xuan was mocked for remaining at the early stage of Qi Refinement.
• Lin Xuan's cultivation history was revealed: he had once been a prodigy, but after his father Lin Shicong disappeared, his cultivation fell and stopped progressing.
• Lin Shicong and Qin Songshan told Lin Xuan that Qin Weiwei wanted to end their childhood engagement, and Lin Xuan rejected the compensation and vowed to reclaim the humiliation at the coming-of-age ceremony.
• Lin Xuan spat blood onto his mother's emerald jade pearl, which absorbed it and entered his hand; Tang Yu learned from the Divine Tree loli that the pearl held an Immortal Emperor's remnant soul.
• Tang Yu disguised himself as a Golden Core elder, gave Lin Qing a magic treasure flying sword, and told him to use it to win as he tested Lin Qing's character for three years.

Lin Qing returned to the Lin Family estate and began refining the flying sword Tang Yu had given him, while Lin Xuan sought ingredients for a pill at the Black Cloud City Ghost Market. Tang Yu disrupted Lin Xuan’s search by having Xu Kun buy the items Lin Xuan wanted, then sold the collected goods through the Treasure Pavilion.

• Lin Qing hid Tang Yu’s secret from Lin Shicong and returned to his room to refine the flying sword treasure.
• Lin Xuan awoke after meeting the remnant soul in his jade bead, learned he needed a costly pill, and went to the Ghost Market for money and ingredients.
• Tang Yu paid Xu Kun to follow Lin Xuan and buy whatever he tried to purchase, up to the stated price limit.
• Xu Kun outbid Lin Xuan repeatedly and bought more than seventy items, forcing Lin Xuan to abandon his shopping.
• Tang Yu collected the items from Xu Kun and sold them to the Treasure Pavilion branch for thirty-six high-grade spirit stones.

Tang Yu sabotaged Lin Xuan’s pill-making and turned his bone-cleansing breakthrough into a humiliating spectacle, but Lin Xuan recovered his cultivation and challenged Lin Qing at the coming-of-age ceremony. After his secret bodily mishap ruined the fight and disgraced him before the Lin Family, Lin Xuan severed ties and fled Black Cloud City.

• Tang Yu ordered Treasure Pavilion shops to overcharge Lin Xuan for herbs, then secretly tainted an herb from an unaffiliated shop so Lin Xuan’s pills would produce a foul stench.
• Lin Xuan swallowed the pills, cleansed his bones and marrow, and regained his talent, while Tang Yu copied the pill formula and arranged for Treasure Pavilion to mass-produce it.
• Tang Yu made the stench escape Lin Xuan’s room, leading Lin Family members to accuse him of using a foul tactic to win the coming-of-age ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Lin Xuan defeated Lin Fei and challenged Lin Qing, who used a flying sword to gain the advantage in their fight.
• Lin Xuan’s breakthrough caused him to blast black filth across the spectators, prompting the Lin Family to condemn him as he stood humiliated in torn clothes.
• Lin Xuan declared that he had severed ties with the Lin Family and fled Black Cloud City.

Tang Yu joined Amber in defeating Blood Demon Sect leader Xun Yuanshan and Qiu Shuidie after they slaughtered mortals, then turned the captured sect into a forced labor force. He left the Blood Demon Sect members working in a garment factory powered by a blood-driven generator, with Xun Yuanshan sentenced to 4,500 years of labor.

• Lin Xuan fled Black Cloud City, while Lin Shicong let him go and told Lin Qing to prepare to join the Origin Return Sect.
• Tang Yu encountered Amber fighting Xun Yuanshan and Qiu Shuidie, then used sword qi forged by Meng Zihao to wound and capture Qiu Shuidie.
• Amber suppressed Xun Yuanshan, and she and Tang Yu captured the pair after learning they had refined over a million mortals' flesh and blood.
• Amber searched Xun Yuanshan's soul and took Tang Yu to the Blood Demon Sect, where they subdued its members.
• Tang Yu brought the captured cultivators to a garment workshop and used a Blood Demon Sect cultivator's blood river to power a generator and weaving machines.
• Tang Yu sentenced Xun Yuanshan to 4,500 years of labor reform and ordered the rest of the Blood Demon Sect to work at the factory.

Tang Yu and Amber toured the southern region, using a scheme involving ancient treasures to provoke the Three Corpse Sect and capture its cultivators for forced labor. They wiped out twenty-four demonic cultivator sects, and Tang Yu put the captives and their walking corpses to work improving production across the Joyous Union Sect’s territory.

• Tang Yu whipped a Blood Demon Sect deputy sect master for asking about rewards, then promised the demonic cultivators they might finish their labor early.
• Tang Yu explained his industrial-chain plans to Amber and persuaded her to lend him two ancient treasures so he could stage a robbery and rescue.
• Tang Yu baited two Three Corpse Sect guards into taking the treasures, punched them, and accused the sect of robbing him.
• Amber defeated the Three Corpse Sect members and helped Tang Yu subdue the sect patriarch and his Deity Transformation walking corpse.
• Tang Yu and Amber captured twenty-four demonic cultivator sects over a week, prompting the remaining minor factions to flee the southern region.
• Tang Yu assigned the captured cultivators and their walking corpses to generate electricity and perform other work, sharply increasing productivity.

Tang Yu accompanied Amber to Nine Suns City, where she arranged a Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the million people killed by the Blood Demon Sect and revisited her childhood home. After sharing the courtyard with local children, Amber and Tang Yu left, while her painful past and kindness toward mortals remained clear.

• Tang Yu and Amber traveled to Nine Suns City, where West Joy Temple's monks, led by Abbot Sky Tree, performed a Water and Land Dharma Assembly for the dead.
• Amber told Tang Yu she had invited the monks to guide the wronged souls onward, and Tang Yu comforted her about the tragedy.
• Amber brought Tang Yu to her childhood home and remembered how a battle between Divine Transformation Realm cultivators had killed her parents and elders.
• Children from the neighborhood visited Amber, and she gave them pastries and spirit fruits; Tang Yu nearly offered them a jade slip before Amber stopped him.
• A middle-aged couple greeted Amber and collected their children, and Amber exchanged a few words with them before leaving with Tang Yu.

Amber reminisced with Tang Yu about her childhood before giving him the Sun-Moon Shuttle as they parted. On his way back to the Joyous Union Sect, Tang Yu discovered a battle between Fire Spirit Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators over a secret realm and its treasures.

• Amber led Tang Yu around the city and recalled fishing for small fish as a child.
• Tang Yu and Amber agreed that cultivators who looked down on mortals were often trying to prove their own superiority.
• Amber gave Tang Yu the Sun-Moon Shuttle before returning to handle the Treasure Pavilion's affairs, and Tang Yu quickly refined it.
• Tang Yu tested the shuttle's speed, then switched to his flying ship when its rapid true-essence consumption became apparent.
• Tang Yu concealed himself near a battle between three Fire Spirit Sect cultivators and two Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators.
• Zhang Yu accused Li Wangsheng of using Soul-Summoning Incense and demanded that he hand over a box from the secret realm.

Tang Yu disguised himself as a Myriad Dharma Sect cultivator, stole the white jade box, and set the Fire Spirit Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect against each other. He escaped with the box and returned toward the Joyous Union Sect, leaving the Fire Spirit Sect hunting for him under Lin Xuan’s face.

• Tang Yu watched Li Wangsheng and the Fire Spirit Sect cultivators negotiate over the white jade box, then disguised himself with the Hundred Faces Pearl.
• Tang Yu attacked Zhang Yu, seized the box, and claimed the Myriad Dharma Sect had sent him to retrieve it.
• The Fire Spirit Sect cultivators and Li Wangsheng joined forces against Tang Yu after realizing he had deceived them.
• Tang Yu used the Sun-Moon Shuttle to escape the barrier and evade the five pursuers.
• Zhang Yu and the other Fire Spirit Sect cultivators returned to their sect to report the theft and begin a manhunt.
• Tang Yu changed back into Lin Xuan’s face and took a long detour toward the Joyous Union Sect with the box.

Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect and told Liu Yanlan how he had tricked the Fire Spirit Sect, then asked Nangong Heartless to open a mysterious jade box. He discovered it contained a valuable Nine-Tailed Jade Fox, but the chapter ended when he suddenly appeared in Nangong Ying’s room as she was changing.

• Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect, where Liu Yanlan questioned his supposed injuries and heard how the Fire Spirit Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect had attacked him.
• Tang Yu showed Liu Yanlan the white jade box, and she said its ancient restriction would take months to break without a formation expert.
• Tang Yu called Nangong Heartless, who erased the restriction and revealed a pink crystal shaped like a sleeping fox.
• Nangong Heartless identified the treasure as a Nine-Tailed Jade Fox and warned Tang Yu that raising it would consume many spirit stones.
• Tang Yu appeared in Nangong Ying’s room while she was changing into the JK outfit he had given her.

Tang Yu paid Nangong Ying to forgive him after accidentally seeing her changing, then awakened the Nine-Tailed Jade Fox with spirit stones. He began teaching the fox to make a peculiar sound, while Nangong Heartless imagined Tang Yu and his senior sisters cultivating together to strengthen the Joyous Union Sect.

• Tang Yu convinced Nangong Ying that Nangong Heartless had sent him into her room by offering her five hundred high-grade spirit stones.
• Nangong Ying drove Tang Yu out, then blushed and happily sprawled on the spirit stones he had given her.
• Tang Yu thanked Nangong Heartless, who imagined Tang Yu cultivating with Nangong Ying, Baiyu, and Yanlan to help the sect gain Mahayana cultivators.
• Tang Yu painted a hidden portrait of Nangong Ying and hung it above his bed.
• Tang Yu fed the Nine-Tailed Jade Fox five high-grade spirit stones, transforming it from a statue into a pink-and-white fox.
• Tang Yu fed the fox more spirit stones and instructed it to make a loud “dingdingdingding” sound when it called to him.

Tang Yu raised a Nine-Tailed Jade Fox and met Meng Zihao, who gave him sword qi and revealed news about an underwater secret realm. After staging an attack outside the Joyous Union Sect, Meng Zihao escaped, and the sect issued a bounty for him.

• Tang Yu fed the little fox spirit stones, introduced it to the female disciples, and declared it the Joyous Union Sect's future guardian divine beast.
• Liu Yanlan stopped Tang Yu from groping her and declined to raise the fox because she lacked the time and money.
• Meng Zihao gave Tang Yu twenty strands of sword qi and asked for advice about Meiyun, while Tang Yu described his plan to undermine the Jade Maiden Sect's business.
• Meng Zihao told Tang Yu about an underwater secret realm near the Jade Dragon Dragon Palace.
• Tang Yu and Meng Zihao staged an assassination attempt outside the sect, and Liu Yanlan and a Supreme Elder fought Meng Zihao until he fled gravely injured.
• The Joyous Union Sect issued a wanted notice offering five thousand high-grade spirit stones and an ancient treasure for Meng Zihao's death.

Tang Yu used a mirror artifact to expose Ma Shitu as a traitor and learned that the Jade Maiden Sect had discovered a secret realm. He then went to the Four Arts Academy, where Ma Shitu and Hu Lingbao began qin-and-xiao practice, and Tang Yu secretly joined in with his own jade xiao.

• Tang Yu assured Liu Yanlan that Meng Zihao was helping him in exchange for help winning Fang Meiyun, then showed Liu Yanlan and Nangong Ying Ma Shitu sending a concealed message.
• Liu Yanlan deduced that Ma Shitu’s communication flying sword had gone to the Jade Maiden Sect, confirming his betrayal, and Tang Yu said he would deal with him himself.
• Tang Yu told Liu Yanlan about the Jade Maiden Sect’s newly discovered secret realm, and she left with Nangong Ying to investigate it.
• Ma Shitu went to the Four Arts Academy to practice music with his Dao companion, Hu Lingbao, unaware that she felt troubled by her changed connection with him.
• As Ma Shitu and Hu Lingbao began playing together, Tang Yu secretly appeared by the lake and started playing his jade xiao.