Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu sabotaged the Jade Maiden Sect’s battle against the mist beast toad, causing the Ten Absolutes Formation to collapse and the sect members to flee. He captured Ning Qingyan and left Murong Jie with the four elderly elders, planning to use them as leverage and carry out his promise to send Murong Jie several “fairy maidens.”

• Tang Yu taunted Murong Jie, took his storage ring, and learned about his Innate Sword Seed physique while the Jade Maiden Sect fought the mist beast toad.
• Tang Yu used an icy bow to shoot Linglong and other elders maintaining the Ten Absolutes Formation, disrupting the formation and letting the mist beast toad break free.
• The mist beast toad killed five Jade Maiden Sect members and injured eight others before the remaining cultivators fled; Tang Yu escaped with Murong Jie and followed Ning Qingyan’s group south.
• Tang Yu defeated Ning Qingyan and four elderly elders after Ning Qingyan refused to join the Joyous Union Sect, then used a pink mist technique to bring Murong Jie and the elders together.
• Tang Yu sealed Ning Qingyan’s meridians, carried her away as a hostage, and warned that Fang Meiyun would pursue him once they left the secret realm.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan escaped a powerful mist-beast python by entering a fragment space, where Ning Qingyan discovered her true essence had vanished. The chapter ended with an unrelated first-person reflection about Yoimiya and a message to the narrator’s ex-girlfriend.

• Ning Qingyan asked Tang Yu whether their sects were destined to keep fighting, and he suggested a marriage alliance or replacing Fang Meiyun as sect master.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan encountered a mist-beast python pursuing them, and Ning Qingyan’s ice walls failed to stop it.
• Ning Qingyan offered to buy Tang Yu time and asked him to help end the conflict between the sects if he survived.
• Tang Yu pulled Ning Qingyan into a fragment space, where they found themselves in a snowy forest and her true essence disappeared.
• The narrator remembered Yoimiya’s habits and affection, then told an ex-girlfriend that Yoimiya was the person he loved most.

With their true essence gone in a snowbound fragment space, Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan found shelter in a cave and turned it into a rough wilderness dwelling. As they shared a fire and roasted bear meat, Ning Qingyan began to feel reassured by Tang Yu, though his cooking fell short without braised shrimp oil.

• Ning Qingyan discovered that she and Tang Yu had lost their true essence, and Tang Yu climbed a tree to learn that they were stranded on a floating island.
• Tang Yu led Ning Qingyan to a cave, killed the hibernating black bear with a knife, and explained that he could still fight using martial arts.
• Tang Yu gathered lumber and worked with Ning Qingyan to build a bed, furniture, and a door, making the cave a temporary home.
• Tang Yu roasted bear meat over a fire while teasing Ning Qingyan about Dao companions and warning that his cooking could make women fall for him.
• Ning Qingyan said Tang Yu made her feel safe, but Tang Yu grimaced after tasting the bear meat because it lacked braised shrimp oil.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan settled into a routine in the fragment space while Tang Yu searched for a way out. Ning Qingyan spent a sleepless night by the fire, and Tang Yu learned that Granny was already looking for an exit.

• Tang Yu made pots and bowls, blocked the cave entrance, set traps, and built an outhouse while Ning Qingyan gathered firewood.
• Tang Yu offered Ning Qingyan a place on the bed, but she stayed by the fire until she grew drowsy and spent the night there.
• The next morning, Tang Yu woke Ning Qingyan and let her sleep on the bed while he went into the forest to hunt for bears and supplies.
• Tang Yu killed a hibernating bear, collected eight hides, and returned with a wild boar carcass after finding no people or exit.
• Tang Yu asked Granny about escaping the fragment space, and Granny said she was searching for an exit while time there passed more slowly than outside.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan settled into their snowbound cave, gathering supplies and sharing a fish-soup dinner. After Ning Qingyan questioned why they had made only one bed, they slept together, and Tang Yu woke to find her cuddled against him.

• Tang Yu returned to the cave with spoils, and Ning Qingyan helped him prepare pelts, meat, and wooden furniture.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan fetched water and caught fish, leaving them with enough supplies to eat and drink.
• Ning Qingyan asked why they had made only one bed, and Tang Yu persuaded her that sharing it would keep them warm.
• Tang Yu praised Ning Qingyan's feet while they washed, briefly holding one before apologizing.
• Ning Qingyan hesitated before lying down beside Tang Yu, then fell asleep pressed against him and draped a leg over his.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan spent several days preparing and searching the fragment space for an exit while Ning Qingyan dreamed of practicing with her spear. The Divine Tree finally revealed the exit’s location, and Tang Yu prepared to leave before his strength ran out.

• Tang Yu made wooden spears and taught Ning Qingyan how to polish and handle one.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan searched for an exit for several days, but found only prey.
• Ning Qingyan repeatedly dreamed of practicing with her spear and hunting.
• Ning Qingyan noticed Tang Yu’s complexion worsening, while he hid the reason from her.
• The Divine Tree told Tang Yu that the exit was in a tree hollow beneath the largest tree to the southeast.
• Tang Yu learned the Divine Tree had withheld the location for three days to watch Ning Qingyan’s reaction, then went to bed ready to leave.

Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan left the fragment space and reunited with the Joyous Union Sect, while the Jade Maiden Sect and Mount Myriad Swords suffered heavy losses. Tang Yu rewarded Zhao Dashun and Liu Facai for their scouting, sent the next group of disciples into the secret realm, and faced the hostile leaders of the other sects.

• Tang Yu led Ning Qingyan through the snow toward the exit and suggested she leave the Jade Maiden Sect or become its sect master.
• The Jade Maiden Sect lost two-thirds of its elders, Mount Myriad Swords lost Elder Zhou, and the Joyous Union Sect waited for Tang Yu to emerge.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan reached the gate, where Tang Yu stopped the Joyous Union Sect disciples from confronting her before she left.
• Nangong Ying welcomed Tang Yu, and Zhao Dashun and Liu Facai reported their team's successful expedition.
• Tang Yu rewarded Zhao Dashun and Liu Facai with Ultimate Tyrant Spears and approved their plan to leave scouts in the secret realm.
• Tang Yu sent the next group of Joyous Union Sect disciples into the secret realm before Mount Myriad Swords and Jade Maiden Sect members surrounded him with murderous intent.

Liu Yanlan defended Tang Yu when Mount Myriad Swords and the Jade Maiden Sect confronted them, and Tang Yu exposed the Jade Maiden Sect’s attempted ambush before selling Linglong’s robe and other garments to independent cultivators. The chapter ended with an unrelated apology from a divorced father promising to support Ningguang and their three children.

• Liu Yanlan dispelled Murong Huangcheng’s pressure, and Tang Yu denied killing Zhou Hou while Murong Jie confirmed Tang Yu’s account of their encounter.
• Murong Huangcheng accepted Murong Jie’s testimony, gave Tang Yu a high-grade magic treasure flying sword, and withdrew Mount Myriad Swords.
• Tang Yu accused Fang Meiyun of arranging a Ten Absolutes Formation ambush, and Liu Yanlan challenged the Jade Maiden Sect to make war before Fang Meiyun retreated.
• Tang Yu auctioned Linglong’s dharma robe and falsely claimed her intimate garments were part of the same set, and a rogue cultivator bought them for one hundred and twenty-five high-grade spirit stones.
• An unnamed divorced father apologized to his parents, Ningguang, and their children, and promised to transfer Cluster Jade Pavilion to Ningguang and help raise their three children.

Tang Yu humiliated Fang Meiyun and the Jade Maiden Sect by selling their robes, while the sect’s elders stripped Fang Meiyun of much of her authority. When she sought help from Meng Zihao, she found him with Linglong’s bellyband and beat him, not realizing he enjoyed the humiliation; he left her in disgust.

• Tang Yu sold the Jade Maiden Sect’s robes and intimate garments, provoking Fang Meiyun to erupt in anger.
• Liu Yanlan and the Joyous Union Sect blocked Fang Meiyun, and Tang Yu challenged her to wait until he reached Spirit Transformation before fighting him.
• Fang Meiyun withdrew after her elders urged restraint, then faced a rebuke from the Jade Maiden Sect’s Supreme Elders, who arranged to divide her authority between the two Vice Sect Masters.
• Fang Meiyun visited Meng Zihao for help and discovered Linglong’s red bellyband hidden beneath his collar.
• Fang Meiyun beat and cursed Meng Zihao, then apologized and cleaned his face when she thought she had truly angered him.
• Meng Zihao, whose humiliation had brought him pleasure, left with a cold expression, leaving Fang Meiyun confused and regretful.

Fang Meiyun accused Ning Qingyan of betraying the Jade Maiden Sect and imprisoned her after she refused to seduce and kill Tang Yu. Back at the Joyous Union Sect, Tang Yu found that his fox had taken human form, learned an auction arc was approaching, and was joined by Nangong Yan, Liu Yanlan, and three Supreme Elders.

• Fang Meiyun confronted Ning Qingyan over roasting meat and questioned her about why Tang Yu had spared her.
• Fang Meiyun ordered Ning Qingyan to win Tang Yu's affection and kill him, then sent her into the Azure Water Formation when she refused.
• Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect and discovered that his little fox had taken human form and been given a dress by Liu Yanlan.
• Tang Yu teased the fox about her name and learned from Granny that the next main plot arc would involve an auction in five days.
• Tang Yu drank tea with Tang Maomao as Nangong Yan, Liu Yanlan, and three Supreme Elders arrived by jade boat.
• Tang Maomao shouted to Nangong Yan that Tang Yu wanted all the women on the boat.

Tang Yu spoke with Liu Yanlan aboard the white jade boat after Tang Maomao teased him about his romantic interests. Liu Yanlan revealed her face to explain why she kept it hidden, and Tang Yu left delighted by the striking contrast between her innocent appearance and alluring figure.

• Tang Maomao teased Tang Yu about his interest in Dao companions and said Nangong Ying often talked about him.
• Liu Yanlan called Tang Yu over to discuss his reward for helping inflict heavy losses on the Jade Maiden Sect in the secret realm.
• Tang Yu declined a conventional reward and asked Liu Yanlan to remove the divine ability concealing her face.
• Liu Yanlan revealed her breathtakingly beautiful, innocent-looking face and explained that she had hidden it to avoid gossip about a sect master who looked so pure.
• Tang Yu said he understood and privately planned to draw her portrait.

Tang Yu traveled to Ice City with Tang Maomao to find Lin Xuan and wait for the auction, while causing trouble with the Three Spirit Temple and avoiding a citywide manhunt. Lin Xuan arrived at the auction, where Tang Yu secretly encountered him, and the bidding began.

• Tang Yu left for Ice City with Tang Maomao after resting at Cluster Jade Pavilion and learning that Lin Xuan planned to auction a thousand-year snow lotus heart.
• In Ice City, Tang Yu angered a Daoist nun, then humiliated her and her master; their elder arrived too late to catch him and ordered wanted notices posted.
• Tang Yu disguised himself at an inn, obtained an auction token, and waited for Lin Xuan to arrive.
• Lin Xuan entered Ice City, hoping to buy the snow lotus heart and refine a Profound Yin Pill to advance his cultivation.
• At the auction hall, Lin Xuan was bumped by a disguised Tang Yu carrying Tang Maomao as a pink fox, then watched the auction begin.

Tang Yu interfered with the auction as Lin Xuan bought a damaged white jade thumb ring instead of the thousand-year snow lotus heart. Lin Xuan discovered it was a damaged ancient treasure with help from the Empress’s remnant soul, while Tang Yu planned to disrupt the coming clash between Lin Xuan and Yuan Qing.

• Tang Yu outbid Lin Xuan for the thousand-year snow lotus heart and arranged to buy every other thousand-year specimen in Ice City.
• Yuan Qing raised the price of a damaged white jade thumb ring, but Lin Xuan kept bidding and won it for seventy high-grade spirit stones.
• Yuan Qing secretly sent a subordinate to follow Lin Xuan, while Tang Yu anticipated the two men’s planned fight and plotted to interfere.
• Lin Xuan evaded his pursuers, hid in an inn, and asked the Empress’s remnant soul to remove the ring’s restrictions.
• The ring transformed into damaged golden armor, which the Empress identified as an ancient treasure that Lin Xuan could only attempt to repair after reaching the Golden Core realm.
• The Empress’s remnant soul fell asleep to recover, and Lin Xuan fantasized about restoring her and becoming Dao companions.

Lin Xuan refined an ancient treasure armor and fought Yuan Qing, who challenged him at the same cultivation level to claim the treasure. Tang Yu and Tang Maomao intervened with a dream ability, leaving Lin Xuan and Yuan Qing trapped in dreams when Lin Xuan woke to an unsettling discovery.

• Lin Xuan refined the damaged golden armor and left Ice City disguised as a female cultivator, sensing that someone was following him.
• Yuan Qing confronted Lin Xuan and offered spirit stones for the magic treasure; when Lin Xuan refused, Yuan Qing sealed his Golden Core cultivation and challenged him to fight at the same realm.
• Lin Xuan narrowly defeated Yuan Qing, and the two agreed to become friends as Lin Xuan helped him to his feet.
• Tang Yu lent Tang Maomao his Great Perfection Nascent Soul cultivation, and she used her fox clan ability to trap Lin Xuan and Yuan Qing in dreams.
• Lin Xuan dreamed that Yuan Qing was the eldest daughter of the Yuan family and his lover; waking beside Yuan Qing, he realized something was wrong when he found that Yuan Qing was flat.

Lin Xuan survived Yuan Qing’s furious attack after a dreamlike encounter left them both naked, then fled with Yuan Qing’s storage ring. Tang Yu evaded the Empress’s divine sense and met a mysterious drunk named Xiao Le, who headed toward the Jade Maiden Sect.

• Yuan Qing woke beside Lin Xuan, realized what had happened, and attacked him in a rage, while Lin Xuan defended himself with his golden armor.
• Tang Yu watched the fight and told Tang Maomao that Lin Xuan’s great fortune made him impossible to defeat.
• Lin Xuan wore Yuan Qing down, took his storage ring, and fled before the Yuan family could arrive.
• Lin Xuan asked the Empress’s remnant soul to investigate who might be targeting him, but she found no nearby experts and went back to sleep.
• Tang Yu concealed himself from the Empress’s divine sense and flew away, giving Xiao Le a ride east toward the Jade Maiden Sect.

Tang Yu learned that Xiao Xiaole might support Fang Meiyun and heard that Ning Qingyan had been imprisoned, then asked Liu Yanlan for a Profound Clarity Puppet Talisman so he could investigate the Jade Maiden Sect. As Tang Yu prepared to infiltrate the sect, a blue-eyed lion cat entered its mountain gate and was taken in by the disciples.

• Tang Yu identified the departing Xiao Xiaole as a powerful expert connected to Fang Meiyun and worried that he might strengthen her position.
• Zhao Dashun reported that opposition to Fang Meiyun was growing and that she had imprisoned Ning Qingyan in the Azure Water Formation.
• Tang Yu joked and flirted with Nangong Ying before joining Liu Yanlan to handle Joyous Union Sect affairs.
• Tang Yu obtained a Profound Clarity Puppet Talisman from Liu Yanlan and planned to use it to visit the Jade Maiden Sect.
• A blue-eyed lion cat drew the Jade Maiden Sect disciples’ attention and was carried through the mountain gate by a delighted cultivator.

Tang Yu used a Puppet Talisman to infiltrate the Jade Maiden Sect as a Ragdoll cat, where he gathered gossip and learned the sect was in turmoil after many elders died. After the Disciplinary Hall castrated his cat form under a new rule, he left to find Meng Zihao, who had been lamenting that he could not contact Tang Yu.

• Spring Blossom carried Tang Yu through the Jade Maiden Sect, where disciples eagerly petted him, and Linglong passed by without recognizing him.
• Spring Blossom took Tang Yu to the immortal spring, where he listened to the female cultivators' gossip and learned about the sect's troubled state.
• Four Disciplinary Hall disciples fined Spring Blossom twenty high-grade spirit stones and castrated Tang Yu's cat form under a new rule.
• Spring Blossom treated Tang Yu's wound and went into seclusion, so Tang Yu left her cave abode to find Meng Zihao.
• Meng Zihao sat on a mountain peak, lamenting that he could not contact Tang Yu, when Tang Yu spoke beside him.

Tang Yu advised Meng Zihao to rekindle Fang Meiyun’s hostility by provoking her old lover, Xiao Le. At a Jade Maiden Sect meeting, Fang Meiyun faced demands to step down before Xiao Le arrived and kissed her in front of the stunned sect.

• Meng Zihao confided in Tang Yu that Fang Meiyun’s apology had left him miserable, and Tang Yu suggested she had fallen for him.
• Tang Yu explained Fang Meiyun’s history with Xiao Le and advised Meng Zihao to stay near her and deliberately target Xiao Le.
• Meng Zihao thanked Tang Yu and decided to confront Fang Meiyun and Xiao Le again.
• At a sect meeting, elders blamed Fang Meiyun for the Jade Maiden Sect’s falling income and casualties and demanded she step down.
• Xiao Le appeared before the sect, embraced Fang Meiyun, and kissed her as everyone watched in shock.

Xiao Le defended Fang Meiyun’s leadership of the Jade Maiden Sect after reconciling with her, but Meng Zihao arrived and challenged his claim over her. Their confrontation began as the sect elders withdrew to avoid the fight.

• Xiao Le kissed Fang Meiyun, then endured her slaps and pulled her close as he promised to handle the sect meeting.
• Xiao Le defended Fang Meiyun’s decisions and threatened the elders, who conceded after he offered to serve as her vanguard.
• Meng Zihao suddenly pierced Xiao Le with a sword strike, then asked Fang Meiyun if she was unharmed.
• Meng Zihao condemned Xiao Le for abandoning Fang Meiyun and claimed he had stayed by her side for hundreds of years.
• Xiao Le summoned a hundred-zhang Dharma Avatar and struck at Meng Zihao as the elders retreated.

Meng Zihao and Xiao Xiaole fought over Fang Meiyun until she stopped them, then rejected both men in turn. Tang Yu and Meng Zihao watched Xiao Xiaole’s advances through a hidden water mirror, and Meng Zihao rewarded Tang Yu with his old flying sword.

• Meng Zihao unleashed a blood-fueled sword strike that shattered Xiao Xiaole’s Dharma Avatar, but Xiao Xiaole prepared to attack again.
• Fang Meiyun stopped the fight, drove both men away, and then slapped Meng Zihao when he followed her to her cave abode.
• Xiao Xiaole forced his way into Fang Meiyun’s cave, kissed her, and tried to undress her, but she pushed him away and told him to leave.
• Tang Yu and Meng Zihao watched the encounter through a water mirror, and Meng Zihao gave Tang Yu his seven-colored flying sword in thanks.