Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong decided to accompany Xie Yue on his training journey after their engagement, while Ning Fengzhi hinted that the Heavenly Demon founder was behind the sect’s origins. At their engagement ceremony, Hu Liena brought Xie Yue a contract confirming that Ning Rongrong could travel with him if she chose to sign it.

• Ning Fengzhi kept Xie Yue talking until dawn, and Xie Yue sent Ning Rongrong word that he would sleep through the day.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi she had decided to travel with Xie Yue if the Heavenly Demon side agreed, and Ning Fengzhi revealed that the Heavenly Demon founder had arranged the journey.
• Gu Rong prepared Xie Yue’s engagement clothes and invitations, while several merchants planned to give Ning Rongrong an expensive wedding dress to regain Ning Fengzhi’s favor.
• Seven Treasure City held Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong’s engagement ceremony, attended by prominent guests and presided over by Sima Jinchi.
• Hu Liena gave Xie Yue a contract from her lord, allowing Ning Rongrong to join his journey if she pressed her fingerprint on it.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong held an extravagant betrothal ceremony that publicly joined the Heavenly Demon and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At the banquet, Oscar revealed he had signed up for a northern expedition, while Jia Lin amazed the guests with her appetite.

• Sima Jinchi officiated as birds, butterflies, petals, and valuable materials filled the sky, then fireworks marked the start of the ceremony.
• Ning Rongrong appeared in her ceremonial gown, and she and Xie Yue exchanged prepared rings and established their marriage contract.
• At the banquet, Flender asked Oscar about his plans, and Oscar said he had signed up for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's expedition to the Extreme North.
• Flender noticed a red-haired girl devouring the food, and Sima Jinchi introduced her as Jia Lin and told her to eat slowly.

Ning Rongrong signed a supernatural confidentiality contract and joined Xie Yue on a trial journey, learning that many people she knew were part of a hidden world. They reached East Wolf, where Xie Yue introduced her to its unusual residents and Xiao Wu’s mother, leaving Ning Rongrong confused about the two rabbits’ relationship.

• Ning Rongrong signed the contract after Xie Yue warned her that breaking it would erase her from the world’s memory, and she saw familiar names among its signatories.
• Ning Rongrong and Xie Yue left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and traveled toward the eastern coast, with Ning Rongrong training to keep pace with him.
• They crossed into Star Luo, bought a boat, and reached the sea currents guarding East Wolf, where a Mermaid named Lixin guided them toward the island.
• Ning Rongrong saw Wolf Bandits living peacefully alongside humans after she and Xie Yue arrived on East Wolf.
• At the Holy Temple, Xie Yue greeted Aunt Rou, and Ning Rongrong asked whether she and Xiao Wu were the same person.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong began their training journey to find the Sword Heart, traveling from East Wolf to another world through a gate in Evil Demon Forest. They arrived at the ruins of the Ancient Tang Sect and set out to search for nearby residents.

• Xiao Wu gave Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong items that would return them to Douluo Continent after a year or if they suffered a fatal injury, then Xie Yue explained their upcoming training and journey to Sun Moon Continent.
• After attending East Wolf's Wolf God Festival, Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong boarded an airship staffed by Wolf Bandits and traveled to Evil Demon Forest.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign directed Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong to the gate leading to their training world, where Xie Yue said his goal was to find the Sword Heart.
• Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong passed through the gate into a bamboo forest, where they discovered their Soul Power cultivation had slowed dramatically and their bodies would age by only one year during their stay.
• Xie Yue spotted wisps of smoke beyond the ruins of the Ancient Tang Sect and led Ning Rongrong to look for nearby residents.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong entered an unfamiliar world with no Soul Power and learned they had arrived in 1944 while seeking shelter in a mountain village. After the foolish girl they had met reacted with impossible speed to candy, Xie Yue confronted her, and she collapsed in pain.

• Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong found no Soul Power in the mountain’s plants or animals and set out to locate people.
• They encountered two woodcutters fleeing after a village couple stopped one of them from assaulting a foolish girl.
• Xie Yue learned from the woodcutters that the year was 1944, and Aunt Zhao invited him and Ning Rongrong to stay in her village.
• Ning Rongrong and Xie Yue questioned Gouwazi and learned about the local situation while staying at Aunt Zhao’s home.
• The foolish girl snatched candy with extraordinary speed, prompting Xie Yue to demand to know who she was.
• The girl clutched her head and collapsed after Xie Yue confronted her.

A woman in a qipao suffered a violent headache, then began cultivating Qi, prompting Xie Yue to question Uncle Xu about the practice. Xie Yue traded a few fibers of ginseng for Uncle Xu’s knowledge and learned about the local economy.

• The woman smashed her head against the floor and furniture until she sat cross-legged and began cultivating Qi.
• Aunt Zhao sent Old Xu to fetch Uncle Xu, who recognized the woman’s posture as Five Hearts Toward Heaven and warned the family to keep her cultivation secret.
• Uncle Xu explained that he had once studied under a Qi cultivation expert but lacked the talent to cultivate Qi himself.
• Xie Yue escorted Uncle Xu home and asked him about Qi cultivation, offering medicinal herbs in exchange for information.
• Uncle Xu identified Xie Yue’s ginseng as valuable and advised him not to sell it without powerful backing, then accepted a few fibers in exchange for what he knew.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong settled into Uncle Xu and Aunt Zhao’s village household alongside the amnesiac Feng Baobao, whose Qi cultivation helped her regain some speech. After arranging shelter and bringing food, Xie Yue accompanied Uncle Xu to the city to exchange a jade bracelet and learned that armed men watched the pawnshops, including a capable Qi Practitioner.

• Uncle Xu told Xie Yue about the village’s hardships and his past cultivation, then invited him to stay the night, but Xie Yue returned along the moonlit mountain road.
• Aunt Zhao questioned Ning Rongrong about her origins while Feng Baobao finished meditating, found candy, and managed to say that her head no longer hurt and she was hungry.
• Feng Baobao wrote her name in the dirt, and Xie Yue returned with a buried bundle and gave Aunt Zhao cured meat and rice for the household.
• The next morning, Aunt Zhao secured an empty house for the newcomers while Xu Xiang taught Feng Baobao words, and Xie Yue went to the city with Uncle Xu.
• Xie Yue asked about exchanging a jade bracelet, and Uncle Xu warned him that armed men watched the pawnshops and that one of them was unusually capable.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong decided to learn Qi cultivation from Feng Baobao rather than search for unknown Qi Practitioners. As Feng Baobao recovered and settled into village life, she discovered Qi within Xu Xiang and began helping him sense it.

• Xie Yue searched the city for Qi Practitioners but found none, so Ning Rongrong suggested asking Feng Baobao about cultivation instead.
• Ning Rongrong explained that hidden Qi in Feng Baobao's head caused her confusion, but she could not remove it until her Torso Bone grew stronger.
• Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong stayed in the village while Feng Baobao recovered, and Ning Rongrong outfitted their house with tools from her Soul Tool.
• Feng Baobao learned quickly from Aunt Zhao, helped with village work, and became part of Aunt Zhao's household.
• On a full-moon night, Feng Baobao sensed Qi inside Xu Xiang and helped him adopt a cultivation posture, but he could not feel it until she placed a hand on his head.

Feng Baobao taught Xu Xiang and Ning Rongrong how to cultivate Qi, while Xie Yue discovered sword marks on Shu Mountain and began studying them. After the war ended and the village settled into rebuilding, a group of bandits arrived, leaving the villagers in danger.

• Feng Baobao guided Xu Xiang in sensing Qi and warned him to keep his cultivation secret from his family.
• Ning Rongrong traded Feng Baobao a bag of milk candies for a demonstration of her Qi cultivation method and found that it improved Soul Power circulation.
• Xie Yue tried the method, recorded it, and discovered Sword Intent hidden in sword marks on Shu Mountain, where he began spending months at a time.
• Ning Rongrong trained her Heart Separation Control while the three outsiders gradually became part of village life.
• The war ended, and bandits fleeing justice entered the mountain village to hide and target its people.

A gang of bandits raided the village, seized its food, and threatened the villagers, but Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong returned in time to intervene. Xie Yue killed the bandits and rescued a child they had taken hostage.

• A dozen bandits forced the villagers together, stole their food and seed grain, and planned to kill them to hide their trail.
• Feng Bao'er returned from gathering firewood, and a bandit tried to take her while Old Xu pleaded for her safety.
• When a bandit swung at Old Xu, Xie Yue's Moon Blade severed the man's arm, then split into blades that killed many of the gang.
• A bandit held a child hostage and demanded that Xie Yue surrender his weapons, so Xie Yue set down the Moon Blades and raised his hands.
• Xie Yue sent hidden Moon Blades up from the ground, wounded the hostage-taker, and killed the last bandit.

Xie Yue and the others prepared to leave the village after he killed the bandits and gave the villagers their horses and supplies. As he said goodbye to Old Xu’s family, Awu unexpectedly called him an Innate Outcast, though she did not know why she recognized the term.

• Xie Yue killed the bandits, rescued the villagers, and gave Old Xu two pistols for protection.
• The villagers reclaimed their belongings and burned the bandits’ bodies, then wondered what to do with the horses and other spoils.
• Xie Yue visited Old Xu’s family, explained that he and his companions had come to cultivate, and said they were leaving.
• Xie Yue told Xu Xiang that his blade technique could not be taught because the weapon was something he had been born with.
• Awu called Xie Yue an Innate Outcast, then wondered why she knew the term.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong left the mountain village to travel and cultivate, while Feng Baobao was abducted and later disappeared after escaping human traffickers. Years later, she unexpectedly appeared at Xie Yue’s office, and her arrival stirred his stagnant Sword Intent.

• Xie Yue refused Aunt Zhao’s request to take Feng Baobao along, but promised to ask around for news of her as he and Ning Rongrong left the village.
• Old Xu moved his family to the city, where Feng Baobao was abducted by traffickers while they were away.
• Feng Baobao killed the leaders of several trafficking groups and rescued captives, but she never returned to the Xu family.
• Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong traveled across Asia, built the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile jewelry business, and established the Yue Clan orphanage.
• In 1992, Feng Baobao climbed through a seventeenth-floor window to meet Xie Yue and explained how she had been tricked by traffickers and wandered until she found him.
• Feng Baobao’s arrival caused Xie Yue’s long-stagnant Sword Intent to show signs of progress.

Xie Yue and Ning Rongrong met Zhao Fangxu, who recruited them to help establish Na Du Tong and manage the Outsider World. Xie Yue accepted a director position, while Feng Baobao was cleaned up and Xu Xiang later joined the company.

• Xie Yue agreed to meet visitors from the north and arranged for Feng Baobao to wash and change clothes.
• Ning Rongrong met Zhao Fangxu and learned that he wanted their help founding an express company to manage Outsiders.
• Zhao Fangxu offered the pair support for Seven Treasure Glazed Tile and asked Xie Yue to help handle Outsiders who broke the rules.
• Xie Yue demonstrated his strength to Zhao Fangxu’s bodyguard and accepted an invitation to become a director of Na Du Tong, with Seven Treasure Glazed Tile becoming a shareholder.
• More Outsiders joined Na Du Tong, including Xu Xiang, who had joined the sect Uncle Xu had once mentioned.

Xu Xiang joined Zhao Fangxu’s company after recognizing Xie Yue, Ning Rongrong, and Feng Baobao in a report, and he chose to work in their Special Administrative Region. He brought his elderly parents to reunite with Feng Baobao, and the old couple finally saw her again.

• Zhao Fangxu recruited Xu Xiang to the company, and Xu Xiang agreed on the condition that he be assigned to the Special Administrative Region.
• Xie Yue recognized Xu Xiang’s name in the new employee file, and Feng Baobao remembered him as Gouwazi.
• Xu Xiang brought Aunt Zhao and Old Xu to the region so they could see Feng Baobao again.
• Feng Baobao met the elderly couple at the building entrance and led them inside.
• Aunt Zhao and Old Xu tearfully reunited with Feng Baobao, who reassured them that she had been well and blamed the swindlers who took her.

Xu Xiang reunited with Xie Yue and learned he would be handling the Express Delivery Company’s paperwork, while Ning Rongrong pursued business expansion inland. She approached Feng Zhenghao with an offer of alliance, using her knowledge of the Six-Storey Immortal Thief to gain his attention.

• Xu Xiang told Xie Yue about his years away and explained that his parents believed he worked in accounting, so Xie Yue arranged for him to handle the company’s backlog of paperwork.
• Xie Yue told Xu Xiang that Ning Rongrong had gone inland to train and expand her business, while he explained that she was developing her enterprises and intelligence network.
• Feng Zhenghao considered how to grow the Under Heaven Association and replace the Gao Family among the Ten Elders.
• Ning Rongrong asked to meet Feng Zhenghao by invoking the Six-Storey Immortal Thief, and he quickly summoned her after hearing the term.
• Ning Rongrong offered to ally with Feng Zhenghao so she could expand her southern business northward, and he suspected her apparent youth and faint Qi came from the Six-Storey Immortal Thief.

Ning Rongrong and Feng Zhenghao allied to challenge the established powers, while the Outsider World underwent major changes. In 2003, Xu Xiang found clues to Feng Baobao’s origins and led Xie Yue and Feng Baobao to a mountain where the Jiashen Rebellion survivors had been slaughtered; they arrived as Zhang Xilin and Yang Lie were dying.

• Ning Rongrong left Under Heaven Group after forming an alliance with Feng Zhenghao, whose investigators could uncover only her public business records.
• The alliance disrupted the old powers, and the Outsider World changed as Na Du Tong grew stronger, Na Ruhu and Feng Zhenghao joined the Ten Elders, and Xu Xiang was promoted.
• In 2003, Xu Xiang found that renowned elders were secretly gathering and called Xie Yue after discovering a clue to Feng Baobao’s origins.
• Xie Yue took Feng Baobao to join Xu Xiang, and the three followed the elders’ trail into a mountain where they found many bodies.
• Xie Yue, Feng Baobao, and Xu Xiang reached Zhang Xilin and Yang Lie just after their fight ended, with both men mortally wounded.
• Xie Yue told Zhang Xilin that Ruan Feng had sent his regards, and Xu Xiang learned that the mountain had not contained a battle between two factions.

Zhang Xilin revealed that Feng Baobao’s past was tied to the Jiashen Rebellion and asked her to watch over his grandson, Zhang Chulan, before Xie Yue granted him a quick death. Years later, Na Du Tong gathered its elites and temporary workers for a mission to exterminate the resurgent Medicine Immortal Association, with Xie Yue arriving as the final reinforcement.

• Zhang Xilin recognized Feng Baobao, told her to seek answers through his grandson Zhang Chulan, and asked her to protect him from the Outsider World.
• Zhang Xilin revealed that Yang Lie had dealt him a fatal Tang Sect Dan Shi wound and passed Feng Baobao information before asking Xie Yue to kill him.
• Xie Yue severed Zhang Xilin’s heart meridian, and Zhang Xilin died entrusting Zhang Chulan to Feng Baobao.
• Zhang Chulan was taken to a Welfare Institute by his father, Zhang Yude, who disappeared the next day, while changes unfolded among the special zones.
• In 2011, Liao Zhong assembled Na Du Tong elites and temporary workers at the South China Region headquarters for a mission to exterminate the Medicine Immortal Association.
• Xie Yue arrived at the headquarters as the final reinforcement for the mission.

Xie Yue arrived late to join the operation against the Medicine Immortal Association, and the other reinforcements learned that the seemingly young swordsman was a legendary veteran known as the Mandarin Duck Blades. After Xie Yue and Old Meng led the central assault team into the mountain, they confronted the association’s members at their hidden gathering place.

• Xie Yue arrived after a delay-filled journey, and Liao Zhong hurried him into the convoy heading for the operation.
• A veteran reinfocement told the younger Outsiders about the Gatekeeper and the Mandarin Duck Blades, explaining that Xie Yue had been seen fifteen years earlier and had once exchanged blows with Zhang Zhiwei.
• Liao Zhong briefed Xie Yue on the plan to attack the Medicine Immortal Association, and Xie Yue used his Poison Bead to guard against toxins while checking that his protective suit would contain it.
• Xie Yue and Old Meng joined the elite team for a central assault as other teams prepared to airdrop around the mountain.
• Members of the Medicine Immortal Association saw a helicopter arrive above their gathering place, and the attackers began descending by ropes and ladder.

Xie Yue and Old Meng helped destroy the Medicine Immortal Association and rescued a little girl who had been turned into a poisonous Gu Body Holy Child. At the Dark Fortress, Xie Yue and Liao Zhong began interrogating a captured member while their subordinates covered up the broken surveillance camera.

• Old Meng used his insects to find a blocked secret passage, and Xie Yue raced ahead through the mountain to intercept the people escaping from it.
• Xie Yue subdued the escapees and discovered a seemingly unresponsive little girl; after learning she was the Gu Body Holy Child, he took her to the evacuation point in a protective suit.
• The company completed its raid on the Medicine Immortal Association, killing its ringleader, capturing its high-ranking members, and finding the bodies of forty-eight children.
• At the Dark Fortress, the company isolated the girl because her body constantly released poisonous Gu toxins.
• Xie Yue and Liao Zhong tortured a captured Association member despite their subordinates' warnings, and Xie Yue crushed the surveillance camera before they continued.

The Dark Fortress tried to suppress the Gu Poison in the surviving girl and restore her awareness, while Xie Yue offered help if she could be taught to cultivate. Feng Zhenghao later met Ning Rongrong to seek a cultivation method for Feng Shayan, and Ning proposed attempting a Martial Soul Awakening for her.

• Liao Zhong and Xie Yue interrogated a Medicine Immortal Association member, whose testimony revealed that the surviving girl had been made into an unresponsive Gu vessel.
• Xie Yue provided a Poison Bead that the Dark Fortress used to develop an inhibitor, but its efforts to stimulate the girl and restore her awareness failed.
• Feng Zhenghao sought to trade Spirit Binding and General Dispatching for Ning Rongrong's Six-Storey Immortal Thief, but Ning refused and revealed that the Wang Clan also used Spirit Binding and General Dispatching.
• Feng Zhenghao explained that he wanted a cultivation method for Feng Shayan, who could not learn her clan's inherited art because spirits hated her.
• Ning Rongrong offered to attempt a Martial Soul Awakening for Feng Shayan, and Feng Zhenghao agreed to bring his daughter and obtain a crystal for the procedure.