Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu interrupted Ma Shitu and Hu Lingbao’s cultivation duet, provoking Ma Shitu into a fight that ended with sect discipline imposed on him. After Hu Lingbao left him a letter ending their partnership, Ma Shitu was left devastated.

• Tang Yu replaced Ma Shitu in the duet with Hu Lingbao, causing Ma Shitu to suffer backlash while Hu Lingbao continued cultivating with Tang Yu.
• Ma Shitu discovered what had happened and attacked Tang Yu, whose escaping strikes caused pregnant Su Ji to fall and begin bleeding.
• Tang Yu struck Ma Shitu down with a Thoughtless Punch, and the elders brought them before Elder Liu for discipline.
• Elder Liu fined Tang Yu fifty mid-grade spirit stones and sentenced Ma Shitu to a hundred years of daily labor at the Artifact Refining Hall after he injured Su Ji.
• Tang Yu privately told Elder Liu that Ma Shitu was a sect traitor but asked the elders to conceal their knowledge because he still had a use for him.
• Ma Shitu returned to find Hu Lingbao gone and read her letter saying their relationship had ended and she was leaving to travel.

Ma Shitu learned that Tang Yu would escort goods outside the Joyous Union Sect and alerted Fang Meiyun, who organized an ambush. The Jade Maiden Sect elders agreed to help, and Fang ordered Ning Qingyan to capture Tang Yu’s soul.

• Ma Shitu chose to remain in the Joyous Union Sect rather than flee, then endured ridicule and menial work in the Artifact Refining Hall.
• Ma Shitu overheard that Tang Yu would accompany a cargo ship to the Treasure Pavilion and sent the Jade Maiden Sect a warning by flying sword.
• Fang Meiyun received Ma Shitu’s message while speaking with Meng Zihao and hurried to gather four Supreme Elders.
• Fang Meiyun persuaded the four elders to join her plan to assassinate Tang Yu and disguise their involvement at a grand banquet.
• Fang Meiyun ordered Ning Qingyan to accompany the elders, seize Tang Yu’s soul, and bring it back to her.

Ning Qingyan wrestled with her debt to Tang Yu as she accompanied four Jade Maiden Sect elders to ambush him, but they discovered the intelligence had been faked and walked into a trap. Surrounded by Tang Yu’s hidden allies and sealed into the battlefield, the elders faced a disastrous fight.

• Ning Qingyan worried that killing Tang Yu would leave her unable to repay her debt, but chose her sect over warning him.
• The Jade Maiden Sect elders used the Measureless Seal to conceal themselves and prepared to ambush Tang Yu’s cargo ships.
• The elders attacked Tang Yu, but two Joyous Union Sect elders stopped their spells while eight more Divine Transformation cultivators revealed themselves.
• The Jade Maiden Sect elders realized the intelligence from Fang Meiyun was fake and that the battlefield had been sealed by numerous formations.
• The red-robed elder recognized Treasure Pavilion cultivators and demonic cultivators among Tang Yu’s reinforcements, including the reluctant Three Corpse Sect Patriarch.

Tang Yu survived the Jade Maiden Sect elders’ attack and pursued Ning Qingyan, asking her to keep the Treasure Pavilion out of the conflict. He challenged her beliefs about righteousness and left her questioning the Jade Maiden Sect and her own convictions.

• The Jade Maiden Sect’s elders and two Spirit Transformation cultivators attacked Tang Yu, but his fake body and Meng Zihao’s sword qi left the two survivors gravely wounded.
• The Jade Maiden Sect elders self-destructed to break the formations and let Ning Qingyan escape, while the Treasure Pavilion’s cultivators overwhelmed their attackers.
• Tang Yu caught up with Ning Qingyan and told her not to reveal the Treasure Pavilion’s involvement because he had used its cargo ship to lure out the Jade Maiden Sect elders.
• Ning Qingyan insisted that she and Tang Yu had to be enemies, but Tang Yu argued that the Jade Maiden Sect was not automatically righteous and that Fang Meiyun had started their grudge.
• Tang Yu told Ning Qingyan about a supposedly upright friend whose blind righteousness had led her astray, then left her standing there questioning her convictions.

Tang Yu’s trap against the Jade Maiden Sect killed four Grand Elders, while Fang Meiyun learned how badly her attempt to target him had failed. The Jade Maiden Sect’s elders gathered to hold Fang Meiyun accountable, with some demanding that she step down as Sect Master.

• Tang Yu mocked the captured Jade Maiden Sect elder, thanked the Treasure Pavilion experts, and promised three demonic cultivators their freedom after the Jade Maiden Sect was destroyed.
• Tang Yu rewarded the four Joyous Union Sect Supreme Elders with spirit stones and defused their matchmaking rivalry by mentioning his two senior sisters.
• Fang Meiyun worried about the returning elders while Meng Zihao secretly used his Sword Eye Divine Ability to spy beneath her skirt, prompting her to beat him and order him away.
• Ning Qingyan told Fang Meiyun that four Jade Maiden Sect elders had died, and Fang Meiyun realized Tang Yu had used false intelligence to lure her into a trap.
• Fang Meiyun explained the failed operation to the Jade Maiden Sect Grand Elders, and several accused her of misusing sect resources and demanded that she resign as Sect Master.

Fang Meiyun kept her position as Jade Maiden Sect leader after the Ancestor pardoned her, then took out her anger on Meng Zihao, who had followed Tang Yu’s advice. As three factions prepared to enter an ancient immortal’s minor realm, Tang Yu was assigned to lead the Joyous Union Sect’s team and asked Liu Yanlan to accompany him on an errand.

• Xue Chunyan demanded Fang Meiyun be removed as sect leader, but the Jade Maiden Sect Ancestor spared Fang while warning her about her repeated failures.
• The Supreme Elders discussed the threat posed by Nangong Heartless and agreed to watch the Joyous Union Sect before acting again.
• Fang Meiyun found Meng Zihao licking her teacup and beat him, while he secretly credited Tang Yu’s advice for the encounter.
• Rumors spread that four Jade Maiden Sect Supreme Elders had died trying to assassinate Tang Yu, and three factions announced a joint expedition into an ancient immortal’s minor realm.
• Liu Yanlan appointed Tang Yu to lead the Joyous Union Sect’s hundred-person team, and Tang Yu asked her to accompany him on an outing before the realm opened.

Tang Yu handled Joyous Union Sect business while preparing to disrupt Lin Xuan’s peaceful rise in the Origin Return Sect. After accepting gifts and accounting help from rival merchants, he declared that he would challenge his weakness.

• Tang Yu finished dealing with sect affairs and thought about stirring up trouble for Lin Xuan, who had joined the Origin Return Sect.
• Tang Yu’s disciples arranged meetings with Wealth Gathering Pavilion and Myriad Friends Manor to discuss a thousand-year contract for the Four Symbols Flower.
• Zhou Ming offered Tang Yu a storage ring containing three hundred high-grade spirit stones, but Tang Yu rejected it as an insultingly small test.
• Li Laicai sent two sisters in JK uniforms to help with accounting, and Tang Yu agreed to take them on.
• Tang Yu said he wanted to challenge his weakness regarding the two women.

Tang Yu accepted Qiuyue and Qiushui as new workers for the Joyous Union Sect and bantered with Nangong Ying, who discovered his painting of her and demanded spirit stones. After bidding Liu Yanlan farewell, Tang Yu left for the Origin Return Sect, where Lin Qing had unexpectedly encountered his cousin Lin Xuan.

• Tang Yu welcomed Qiuyue and Qiushui, learned they had been raised by a merchant association, and told them to treat Cluster Jade Pavilion as home.
• Nangong Ying visited Tang Yu, collected spirit stones for cleaning his room, and demanded more after finding his painting of her.
• Tang Yu declined Nangong Ying's offer to accompany him on business and reminded her that he would lead the upcoming secret-realm expedition.
• Tang Yu bid Liu Yanlan farewell and set off for the Origin Return Sect.
• The chapter revealed that Lin Xuan had arrived at the Origin Return Sect less than a month after Lin Qing, his cousin, joined it.

Tang Yu advised Lin Qing on facing Lin Xuan, then secretly tampered with Lin Xuan’s Remnant Cloud Pills while he refined them. Lin Xuan finished a batch of seemingly perfect pills and set out to deliver them to the elders who had reserved them.

• Lin Xuan challenged Lin Qing to hand over half his monthly spirit stones or duel him in three days, and Lin Qing worried about harming his cousin with the flying sword Tang Yu had given him.
• Tang Yu told Lin Qing that Lin Xuan viewed him as an enemy and urged him to oppose Lin Xuan by winning over the sect’s people.
• Tang Yu gave Lin Qing high-grade spirit stones, then went to find Lin Xuan at the Origin Return Sect.
• The white-haired Grand Elder warned Lin Xuan about provoking disciples, but Lin Xuan cited his pill-refining skill and promised the elders priority when selling Remnant Cloud Pills.
• While Lin Xuan refined pills, Tang Yu secretly infused the pill furnace with a wisp of Great Dao aura.
• Lin Xuan completed a batch of exceptionally smooth pills, stored them, and went to deliver them to the elders.

Lin Xuan sold four Remnant Cloud Pills to the elders, who took them while attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. The Grand Elder overcame an inner demon centered on his lost family, but woke alongside the other elders with his pants soiled.

• Lin Xuan gave four Remnant Cloud Pills to the elders and received forty high-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Dazhi activated the sect’s protective formation while the four elders took the pills and began their breakthroughs.
• Tang Yu secretly prepared to record the elders’ breakthrough attempts and spread the footage.
• The Grand Elder relived his childhood and wedding in an inner demon, recovered his memories, and spent one incense stick with his mother.
• The Grand Elder’s inner demon shifted to a childhood scene in which he struggled to relieve himself, then woke with his pants soiled as the other three elders opened their eyes.

After Lin Xuan’s Remnant Cloud Pill caused an embarrassing incident for him and four elders, he promised to replace the pills and went to collect spirit stones from Lin Qing. Lin Qing and the other disciples instead defeated him and publicly humiliated him.

• The four elders blamed Lin Xuan’s Remnant Cloud Pills for making them lose control of their bodies, and Lin Xuan swallowed another pill to prove it was safe.
• After an incense stick’s time, Lin Xuan suffered the same humiliating outburst, returned the elders’ spirit stones, and promised to give them a flawless batch within a month.
• Deputy Sect Master Zhang Dazhi persuaded the elders to give Lin Xuan another chance.
• Lin Xuan went to Lin Qing’s residence to collect spirit stones and found more than forty disciples gathered there.
• Lin Qing and the disciples defeated Lin Xuan, stripped off his clothes with a strike, and had him thrown before the sect gates.

Tang Yu further undermined Lin Xuan’s standing in the Origin Return Sect, then traveled to Ninefold City to buy materials and forge a natal artifact. He named the artifact Lan Jingling and prepared to take it into battle.

• Tang Yu left the Origin Return Sect satisfied after seeing Lin Xuan humiliated and his Dao heart destabilized.
• Tang Yu played a recording of Origin Return Sect elders suffering the effects of their failed breakthroughs on a busy street in Ninefold City, then slipped away unseen.
• Tang Yu bought artifact-refining materials for four hundred high-grade spirit stones and arranged to use the shop’s refining room.
• Tang Yu spent two days forging a golden artifact that sealed spiritual energy and true essence within a small area.
• Tang Yu refined the artifact with his essence blood, tested its effects, and named it Lan Jingling.

Tang Yu traveled to Southern Crossing after refining an artifact that could keep his cultivation from being drained. He arrived disguised as Lin Xuan, found himself on the local bounty board, and checked into Like Water Inn, where he used his Twin Sword Eyes on proprietor Li Susu.

• Tang Yu thanked the old shopkeeper for his help, accepted a valuable artifact, and learned that Southern Crossing lay east, despite the shopkeeper's warning about its dangers.
• Tang Yu reached Southern Crossing disguised as Lin Xuan and saw that the Jade Maiden Sect had placed a thousand-high-grade-spirit-stone bounty on him.
• Tang Yu asked Southern Sky Hall to place a bounty on Fang Meiyun, but the shopkeeper refused because she was a Deity Transformation cultivator.
• Tang Yu learned that his friend could be found at Like Water Inn and flew to the tower ship, where proprietor Li Susu welcomed him.
• Tang Yu smiled at Li Susu and used his Twin Sword Eyes to see through her clothing and reveal her true nature.

Tang Yu posed as Lin Xuan and let Li Susu's crew target him, then sealed Li Susu's powers and escaped after taking her primordial yin. Li Susu killed her three companions and pursued him as he fled on an ancient-artifact-grade compass.

• Tang Yu recognized Li Susu as a hidden Nascent Soul expert, gave her the false name Lin Xuan, and rented a room at her inn.
• Li Susu and her three companions watched Tang Yu and planned to rob him through their honey-trap scheme.
• Tang Yu caught two Golden-Whiskered Great Dragonfish, sold his catch to Li Susu, and flirted with her for hours.
• Tang Yu lured Li Susu into his room, sealed her divine sense and true essence, and took her primordial yin before escaping.
• Li Susu's three companions arrived too late, and she killed them in anger, revealing her Nascent Soul cultivation had fallen.
• Tang Yu escaped on an ancient-artifact-grade compass and removed Lin Xuan's artifact face while Li Susu prepared to pursue him.

Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect after cultivating with Li Susu, having advanced to the middle Nascent Soul stage, and joined the sect’s expedition to the secret realm. At the entrance, his taunts enraged Fang Meiyun, who ordered her disciples to kill him once they entered.

• Tang Yu escaped Li Susu, returned to the Joyous Union Sect, and learned that Liu Yanlan was preparing the disciples for the next day’s secret realm expedition.
• Tang Yu gave gifts to Liu Yanlan and Nangong Ying, and the elders congratulated him after discovering he had advanced to the middle Nascent Soul stage.
• Liu Yanlan and two Supreme Elders led the group to the secret realm entrance, where the Jade Maiden Sect and Mount Myriad Swords were already waiting.
• Tang Yu greeted the Jade Maiden Sect disciples, while Ning Qingyan wondered whether she could bring herself to kill him if they met in the secret realm.
• Fang Meiyun attacked Tang Yu with her spiritual sense, but Liu Yanlan blocked it; Tang Yu mocked Fang Meiyun, who then secretly ordered her disciples to kill him in the secret realm.

The sects entered the secret realm, where Tang Yu’s group discovered that the black beads formed from ruined halls held pure spiritual energy. The Jade Maiden Sect’s elites split up to pursue their mission against Tang Yu as the groups began searching the realm.

• Fang Meiyun reassured the Jade Maiden Sect elders that their ten-person Nascent Soul peak formation could kill Tang Yu without interference from Deity Transformation experts.
• The three sects opened the secret realm, and the Jade Maiden Sect entered first, followed by Mount Myriad Swords and the Joyous Union Sect.
• Liu Yanlan told Tang Yu and Nangong Ying to lead the Joyous Union Sect group cautiously, and Tang Yu led them through the stone gate.
• Tang Yu’s group found ruined halls in a mist that restricted spiritual sense, then discovered that the halls concealed treasures and black beads that spawned demon beasts.
• Tang Yu recognized the black beads as stores of pure spiritual energy and ordered the Joyous Union Sect to split into teams and search the area.
• The Jade Maiden Sect and Mount Myriad Swords organized their own searches, while the Jade Maiden Sect’s elites separated to target Tang Yu.

Tang Yu left the Joyous Union Sect party to hunt alone, confident that his Pinduoduo Divine Ability could protect him from the Jade Maiden Sect elders targeting him. He found Linglong, who attacked him, and after enduring her spells until she stopped, Tang Yu charged at her.

• The Joyous Union Sect decided to venture deeper despite the risk of encountering Divine Transformation mist beasts, while Tang Yu chose to leave the group on his own.
• Tang Yu demonstrated that his Pinduoduo Divine Ability could withstand repeated attacks, easing his protectors' concerns, and then entered the mist alone.
• Remembering Meng Zihao's warning about ten peak Nascent Soul elders and the Ten Absolutes Formation, Tang Yu hunted mist beasts and collected several artifacts.
• Tang Yu came across Linglong after she killed a mist beast, and she decided to attack him alone to claim the Jade Maiden Sect's reward.
• Linglong exhausted much of her true essence attacking Tang Yu's red shield, then stopped when she suspected a trap, and Tang Yu charged her at close range.

Tang Yu defeated Linglong, robbed her of her ritual robe and storage ring, then branded her forehead and soul with the words “Tang Yu's Treasure.” He left her alive and went searching for another target, while Linglong was left fearing how the Jade Maiden Sect would react.

• Tang Yu wore down Linglong in close combat, disabled her bracelet and true essence, and knocked her to the ground.
• Tang Yu mocked Linglong, forcibly removed her ritual robe, and took her storage ring after she threatened to self-destruct if he tried to take her primal yin.
• Tang Yu stamped a treasure seal on Linglong's forehead, leaving the mark “Tang Yu's Treasure” on her forehead and soul.
• Tang Yu left Linglong behind, and she realized the mark would make others assume he had taken her.
• Tang Yu began searching for his next target, hoping to break the Jade Maiden Sect elders' spirits and make life harder for Fang Meiyun.

Tang Yu hunted Jade Maiden Sect elders in the secret realm until their sect abandoned its plan and summoned help from Mount Myriad Swords. Elder Zhou eventually found Tang Yu and fought him, but their clash ended in a standoff as both swords pointed at vital targets.

• Tang Yu defeated or drove off several Jade Maiden Sect elders, while Linglong regrouped with the others and warned them not to face him alone.
• Ning Qingyan canceled the Jade Maiden Sect’s plan and called everyone back, but Elder Zhou and four Mount Myriad Swords cultivators arrived to hunt Tang Yu.
• Elder Zhou sent the four cultivators to search separately, then went after Tang Yu himself despite Linglong’s warning about his strength and defenses.
• After two days, Elder Zhou confronted Tang Yu and unleashed a vast sword-qi formation while Tang Yu deflected the attacks and taunted him.
• Tang Yu’s divine ability contaminated Elder Zhou’s sword and true essence, so Tang Yu swallowed combat-enhancing pills and charged into close combat.
• Tang Yu aimed a flying sword at Elder Zhou’s crotch as Elder Zhou pointed his sword at Tang Yu’s chest, and Elder Zhou refused to back down.

Tang Yu killed Elder Zhou after learning that Mount Myriad Swords had allied with the Jade Maiden Sect, then returned to his group and led a mid-stage Nascent Soul mist beast toward the Jade Maiden Sect’s camp. The Jade Maiden Sect was forced to fight the beast while Tang Yu sat on the captured Murong Jie, leaving the clash underway.

• Tang Yu tricked Elder Zhou with a sneak attack, defeated him, confirmed that he had caused the Joyous Union Sect’s earlier enlightenment disturbance, and killed him before looting and burning the body.
• Tang Yu reunited with the Joyous Union Sect, shared the valuables he had taken from Jade Maiden Sect cultivators, and revealed Elder Zhou’s sword as proof that Mount Myriad Swords had joined their enemies.
• Tang Yu tracked the Jade Maiden Sect elders, lured a powerful white toad mist beast after him, and used a treasure seal to find the sect’s main group.
• Tang Yu reached the Jade Maiden Sect camp with Murong Jie in hand and drew the toad into the group, where it killed one elder before Ning Qingyan ordered everyone to unite against it.
• Tang Yu sat on Murong Jie’s forehead while Murong Jie threatened revenge and Tang Yu taunted him.