Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu learned that Fang Meiyun had survived and founded the rapidly growing Fist Sect, but he believed the Cheng-Zhu Dao could counter her. Before he could pursue the thought, Zhao Baijiao attacked Glazed Palace over the money he had spent trying to buy Lady Liuli and Clear Moon.

• Amber sent Tang Yu intelligence about the Fist Sect’s rise and its suspected leader, Fang Meiyun.
• Tang Yu told Liu Yanlan and Nangong Ying that Fang Meiyun survived through a fragment of her remnant soul and had likely comprehended the Fist Dao.
• Tang Yu reasoned that the Cheng-Zhu Dao could restrain the Fist Dao, then heard that Glazed Palace was under attack.
• Tang Yu, Liu Yanlan, Nangong Ying, and Joyous Union Sect elders arrived as Zhao Baijiao fired arrows at Glazed Palace’s protective formation.
• Lady Liuli challenged Zhao Baijiao, who claimed that spending two hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones entitled him to her and Clear Moon.

Tang Yu defended Glazed Palace from Zhao Baijiao, overwhelming him with a punch and then countering his hidden Great Dao ability. Zhao Baijiao was left stunned when Tang Yu revealed that his own Great Dao gave him the advantage.

• Lady Liuli refused Zhao Baijiao’s demand to sleep with a Glazed Palace cultivator, and Tang Yu stepped in to defend the palace.
• Zhao Baijiao attacked Tang Yu with an ancient jade axe, but Tang Yu’s Thoughtless Punch shattered his attack and sent him smashing through seven mountains.
• Nangong Ying watched Tang Yu’s technique and said she wanted to learn it.
• Zhao Baijiao tried to leave, but Tang Yu struck again; Zhao Baijiao used a Buddhist Dharma robe and unleashed a dark domain that drained spiritual energy.
• Tang Yu grabbed Zhao Baijiao and slammed him to the ground, explaining that his mastery of the Dao of Snow surpassed Zhao Baijiao’s Dao of Filth.

Tang Yu subdued Zhao Baijiao after their cultivation was suppressed, then learned that Zhao Baijiao’s family could trace what happened through a jade pendant. Unable to kill or release him safely, Tang Yu had his men carry Zhao Baijiao away for an unspecified punishment.

• Tang Yu quickly disarmed Zhao Baijiao and stole his artifacts while Nangong Ying collected the loot.
• Zhao Baijiao threatened Tang Yu with the power of the northern Zhao Family and revealed that his jade pendant recorded his whereabouts.
• Liu Yanlan proposed turning Zhao Baijiao into a puppet and shifting the blame, but Tang Yu worried that the Zhao Family might still trace the deed.
• Tang Yu summoned several burly men, who carried off the struggling Zhao Baijiao while a disciple followed with a recording artifact.

Tang Yu humiliated Zhao Baijiao, used a recording of the assault to force him to surrender most of his treasures and promise not to retaliate, then let him leave. Liu Yanlan warned that Zhao Baijiao’s family might still respond, while Tang Yu questioned whether the old tensions between the north and south had returned.

• Tang Yu’s men carried Zhao Baijiao into a nearby cave, where they assaulted him while Tang Yu’s lackey recorded it with a magical artifact.
• Tang Yu showed the recording to Liu Yanlan, Nangong Ying, and the female elders, then sent Amber a message after learning they enjoyed watching such scenes.
• Tang Yu returned Zhao Baijiao’s Dharma robe and some artifacts, then used the recording to make him agree not to retaliate and to claim the remaining treasures were gifts.
• Zhao Baijiao warned Tang Yu that the Zhao Family might seek revenge before flying away.
• Liu Yanlan voiced concern about Zhao Baijiao’s warning, and Tang Yu wondered whether the north and south were headed toward renewed conflict.

Tang Yu drove Zhao Baijiao away, then advised the Glazed Palace’s demon cultivators on their streaming work before being drawn into private discussions with Lady Liuli and Clear Moon. The chapter ended at Nine Splendors City, where disabled teleportation arrays and wreckage left Treasure Pavilion cultivators facing four restrained intruders.

• Zhao Baijiao fled after his encounter with Tang Yu and blamed Tang Yu and his elder brother for his humiliating mission.
• Tang Yu reassured Lady Liuli, Clear Moon, and the Glazed Palace’s female demon cultivators that they could keep working and gave Yao Yao, Tian Tian, and Zhouzhou advice on their streaming roles.
• Lady Liuli and Clear Moon took Tang Yu into a room to discuss important matters, then chased away cultivators who tried to eavesdrop.
• At Nine Splendors City, all major teleportation arrays stopped operating, cargo ships stalled overhead, and three Qiankun ships lay amid the ruined city center.
• Treasure Pavilion cultivators surrounded the ruins while four restrained cultivators cursed at them.

Amber and Tang Yu enforced the Seven Sect Alliance’s ban on killing mortals by executing four cultivators from the Zhao and Zhang Families. Their decision left the Treasure Pavilion facing the threat of a powerful response from the North.

• Cultivators from the Zhao and Zhang Families killed mortals and sank Treasure Pavilion cargo ships, so Treasure Pavilion cultivators captured them.
• Amber and Tang Yu arrived, and Tang Yu kicked the restrained men as they insulted the Treasure Pavilion and threatened them with their families’ power.
• Amber crippled all four cultivators, then asked Tang Yu what to do; he said the rules had to be upheld.
• Amber killed the four men, prompting onlookers to argue over whether the execution would break the Seven Sect Alliance apart.
• As Treasure Pavilion disciples worried about retaliation, a figure surrounded by black-and-white true essence arrived with a terrifying aura.

Amber and Tang Yu faced a Zhang Family cultivator who challenged the Treasure Pavilion’s rules and threatened the Seven Sect Alliance. Nangong Heartless and Qin Ye intervened, forcing the Zhang cultivator to retreat after he warned that the Zhang Family would remember the incident.

• Tang Yu and Amber discussed how the Treasure Pavilion’s alliance had harmed the Zhang Family’s interests as a hostile cultivator approached.
• The Zhang Family cultivator demanded an explanation for his family members’ deaths and argued that the strong could trample mortals.
• Tang Yu challenged the cultivator’s belief that strength granted absolute freedom, but Nangong Heartless struck the man into the ground before he could answer.
• Nangong Heartless knocked the Zhang cultivator down again after he threatened the Joyous Union Sect and the other sects.
• Amber recognized the cultivator’s threat as an attempt to divide the Seven Sect Alliance, and Qin Ye confirmed that the Edgeless Sect would stand with them.
• The Zhang cultivator, faced with two Mahayana Realm experts, left after warning that his family would remember what happened.

Tang Yu and Nangong Heartless subdued the Zhang Family's Second Elder and threatened to humiliate him unless he gave them a reason to trust that he would not seek revenge. Tang Yu implanted a pearl containing his Dao of Snow into the elder's divine soul, leaving his fate dependent on whether he cooperated.

• Nangong Heartless pinned the fleeing python-robed cultivator to the ground with a golden lightning spear.
• Tang Yu and Nangong Heartless taunted the Zhang Family's Second Elder and threatened to force him to consume something humiliating.
• The Second Elder swore he would not seek revenge, but Tang Yu rejected his promise because they had no reason to trust him.
• Tang Yu proposed binding their interests together and formed a pale yellow pearl containing the laws of his Dao of Snow.
• Tang Yu placed the pearl into the Second Elder's divine soul and warned that resisting could corrupt his Dao cultivation.

Tang Yu forced the Zhang Family’s Second Elder to conceal the conflict and provide intelligence, then called a meeting of the Seven Sect Alliance to address the Zhang and Zhao families’ designs on the southern region. The sect masters gathered at the Treasure Pavilion, where Amber was about to explain the urgent matter.

• After the Law of Snow bead merged into the python-robed cultivator’s soul, Nangong Heartless released him from the thunder spear, and Tang Yu secured his cooperation.
• The Zhang Family’s Second Elder revealed that the Zhang and Zhao families planned to seize the southern region, and Tang Yu paid him to conceal the incident and report any intelligence.
• The Second Elder returned to the Zhang Family with a cover story, while Amber withdrew her isolation divine ability and Tang Yu proposed convening a Seven Sect meeting.
• Amber contacted the other four major sects, and their sect masters arrived to meet with Tang Yu, Amber, Nangong Heartless, and Qin Ye.
• Ning Qingyan secretly exchanged teasing voice transmissions with Tang Yu before asking Amber what urgent matter had brought them together.

Amber explained that the Zhang and Zhao Families threatened the Seven Sect Alliance, and the sects chose to fight rather than surrender their interests. Tang Yu planned to visit their ancestors to help them break through to the Mahayana Realm, then stayed behind with Amber.

• Amber described the conflict with the Zhang and Zhao Families, and the sect masters weighed the alliance's chances against the families' Mahayana cultivators.
• Nangong Heartless, Qin Ye, Amber, and Ning Qingyan pledged to fight, and the remaining sect masters joined after Tang Yu warned that refusal would count as leaving the alliance.
• Tang Yu established that the alliance would pursue traitors and said he would visit the sects to help their ancestors break through to the Mahayana Realm.
• The sect masters arranged visits with Tang Yu and left to inform their ancestors, while Qin Ye asked Tang Yu to help his junior brother and received his agreement.
• After Nangong Heartless left, Amber asked Tang Yu about his plans, and he teased her before the two became intimate.

Tang Yu secured the Seven Sect Alliance’s ties before traveling north to weaken the great families’ forces. In a northern city, a female cultivator accused him of staring at her and attacked him, despite his much higher displayed cultivation.

• Amber gave Tang Yu a Heavenly Craft Sect token and warned him to be careful in the north.
• Tang Yu visited the other five major sect patriarchs, discussed the Dao with them, and strengthened the Seven Sect Alliance.
• Zhao Baijiao and the Zhang Family’s Second Elder misled their families into believing the Treasure Pavilion would pay compensation, buying time for the south.
• Tang Yu traveled alone to the northern region and disguised himself as a plump, kindly middle-aged man.
• A female cultivator accused Tang Yu of staring at her, then used a spatial-shift divine ability to appear before him and slap him.

Tang Yu confronted a Fist Sect disciple whose borrowed strength let her attack him, then defeated her and sent her soul to Xiao Xiaole. After returning to the city, he revealed his Deity Transformation cultivation to the guards and bystanders.

• A female Fist Sect cultivator used Translation to slap Tang Yu with Nascent Soul Great Perfection strength, and he moved them outside the city.
• Tang Yu knocked the cultivator's soul from her body, questioned her about Fang Meiyun, and learned she could borrow her sect master's cultivation.
• Tang Yu challenged the disciple's claims about oppression, burned her soul, destroyed her body, and sealed her soul in a flying message sword for Xiao Xiaole.
• Tang Yu returned to the city and told the guards he had killed the female cultivator after she attacked him.
• Tang Yu revealed his early Deity Transformation cultivation, leaving the guards and bystanders in awe.

Tang Yu, posing as Zhao Kai of the Three Mountains Sect, secured a partnership with the Wealth Gathering Sect to expand his lottery business. After arranging the deal and settling into the sect, he stopped four maidservants from going further and asked whether they were serving him willingly.

• Tang Yu arrived at the Wealth Gathering Sect under escort and presented his false identity as Zhao Kai, an elder of the Three Mountains Sect.
• Tang Yu persuaded Waterborn Zhou to partner with him on the lottery business, offering a fifty-fifty profit split and fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones to fund it.
• Waterborn Zhou accepted Tang Yu’s additional thousand high-grade spirit stones as a personal gift and agreed to prepare the lottery jade slips within three days.
• Waterborn Zhou arranged an immortal cave residence and four maidservants for Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu stopped the maidservants from taking things further and asked whether the sect required them to serve him or whether they wished to save their primordial yin for a Dao companion.

Tang Yu and Zhou Waterborn launched lottery jade slips across the south, and Zhang Huaiyun won a cultivation technique that demanded castration but quickly increased his strength. After advancing to the middle Golden Core stage, Zhang Huaiyun defeated his longtime rival Zhang Jiading.

• Tang Yu inspected and adjusted the lottery jade slips, then returned them to Zhou Waterborn, who arranged their sale throughout the southern cities.
• Cultivators bought the slips, and Zhang Huaiyun purchased fifty after hearing that someone had won a large prize.
• Zhang Huaiyun found a golden-light winning slip containing the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual, which required him to castrate himself to practice it.
• Zhang Huaiyun followed the manual's instructions and, after seven days of cultivation, advanced from early to middle Golden Core stage.
• Zhang Huaiyun challenged Zhang Jiading, overwhelmed him in their fight, and left after humiliating him.

Zhang Jiading and many cultivators from the Zhang and Zhao Families cultivated the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual after obtaining it from lottery jade tubes, while Tang Yu expanded his business by raising investment for an eastern-region venture. The Zhang Family discovered the manual’s side effects, and Zhang Qingyun summoned everyone who had practiced it.

• After Zhang Huaiyun defeated him, Zhang Jiading bought and opened lottery jade tubes until he obtained the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual, then castrated himself to cultivate it and seek revenge.
• Cultivators in the Zhang and Zhao Families began practicing the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual, and many broke through within a month.
• Zhou Waterborn gave Tang Yu his share of the lottery jade tube profits, and Tang Yu arranged to raise funds for expanding the business into the eastern region.
• Tang Yu persuaded Zhou Waterborn and three Wealth Gathering Sect elders to invest a total of one hundred and twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones in exchange for a stake in the eastern venture.
• Zhang Qingyun learned that his juniors had cultivated the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual and discovered its castration requirement.
• Zhang Qingyun summoned all Zhang Family members who had practiced the manual.

Zhang Qingyun discovered that the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual had trapped many Zhang Family cultivators in a transformation they could not reverse, and traced the lottery jade tubes to the Wealth Gathering Sect. After learning the sect had been deceived by someone from the Three Mountains Sect, the Zhang and Zhao Families launched an investigation and considered who might be targeting them.

• Zhang Qingyun found that Fifth Elder Zhang Buqun had reached the irreversible fifth layer of the Evil-Repelling Heart Manual and learned that more than a hundred Zhang Family members had cultivated it.
• Zhang Qingyun warned the cultivators that advancing further would make them more womanly, then demanded to know where they had obtained the technique.
• Zhang Qingyun confronted the Wealth Gathering Sect, where Zhou Waterborn explained that the sect had sold the lottery jade tubes and had not known about the technique's effects.
• Zhou Waterborn revealed that the Three Mountains Sect had deceived the Wealth Gathering Sect, while the Zhao Family arrived and confirmed it had suffered the same problem.
• Zhang Qingyun and the Zhao Family's leaders ordered a manhunt and an investigation of the Three Mountains Sect, then informed their families' Mahayana ancestors.
• The two families' leaders ruled out the major northern sects and the Gudu Family as likely culprits.

The Zhang and Zhao Families used the Azure Three Mirrors Array to pin down Tang Yu, but he escaped into the Divine Tree Space with Granny’s help. The families failed to find him and returned to investigate his identity.

• A Zhang Family ancestor ordered the Azure Three Mirrors Array activated, and Zhao Baijiao suspected Tang Yu was behind the incidents but kept quiet.
• The array locked onto Tang Yu as he flew toward the Heavenly Craft Sect, freezing his body, spiritual energy, and surroundings.
• Tang Yu called for Granny, who brought him into the Divine Tree Space and freed him from the array’s restraint.
• The Zhang and Zhao Families arrived to find Tang Yu gone and could not locate him, despite searching the area.
• The families suspected Tang Yu had used a clone and returned in defeat to investigate the culprit’s background.

Tang Yu kept the female emperor's remnant soul captive in the Divine Tree Space and failed to recruit her as an ally. After evading the Zhang and Zhao Families, he headed north to visit the Heavenly Craft Sect, drawn by its mechanical cultivation technology.

• Tang Yu spoke with the captive female emperor's remnant soul and offered to help restore her, but she demanded to know where Lin Xuan was and refused to join him.
• The little Divine Tree girl whipped the female emperor's remnant soul for insulting Tang Yu, while Tang Yu claimed he was friends with the Morning Sun Great Emperor.
• Tang Yu waited nearly two days before leaving the Divine Tree Space, then changed his appearance and heard rumors blaming a Great Ascension cultivator for attacks on the Zhang Family and Zhao Family.
• Tang Yu left the city and traveled toward the Heavenly Craft Sect, hoping to investigate its mech technology and suspecting its founding patriarch had been a transmigrator.

Tang Yu visited the Heavenly Craft Sect to buy Burners for the coming war, but learned its stock was depleted. He befriended Sect Master Yuan Shi over their shared appreciation of his comic, and the chapter ended as a peak Integration Realm mech delivered a box to Yuan Shi.

• Tang Yu presented the Heavenly Craft Sect's rare guest elder token and asked to buy a large number of Burners, but Xie Caiyun said the sect had no stock after selling ten to the Li Tang Sect.
• Xie Caiyun brought Tang Yu through the sect's mechanical city to meet Sect Master Yuan Shi, who was farming in a secluded world.
• Tang Yu introduced himself as the Joyous Union Sect's deputy sect master, and Yuan Shi recognized him as Painting Saint Tang and excitedly requested an autograph.
• Tang Yu and Yuan Shi discussed farming machinery and the Heavenly Craft Sect's efforts to improve productivity in its mortal worlds.
• A peak Integration Realm mech named Iron Rider delivered a box to Yuan Shi.

Tang Yu negotiated with Yuan Shi for Burners to prepare for a possible conflict between the Seven Sect Alliance and the Zhang Family and Zhao Family. Yuan Shi agreed to provide fifteen within a month and a half, then showed Tang Yu a nearly finished girl mech.

• Yuan Shi explained how the Heavenly Craft Sect developed its bonded Titan mechs from the founding patriarch's blueprints.
• Tang Yu told Yuan Shi he wanted Burners in bulk because the Seven Sect Alliance might clash with the Zhang Family and Zhao Family.
• Yuan Shi agreed to mobilize the sect and recall rented Burners, in exchange for Tang Yu and the Treasure Pavilion helping secure materials from the Nether Sea.
• Tang Yu sent a communication flying sword to arrange supplies, and Yuan Shi promised fifteen Burners within a month and a half if resources were sufficient.
• Yuan Shi finished assembling a girl mech and grew flesh, skin, and hair over it; Tang Yu dressed her in JK clothes and thigh-high stockings.