Chapter Summaries

Wang Jingyu entered the Clear Sky Sect council hall and faced elders who resented Tang Chen’s decision to make him the sect’s chief First Elder. When the Seventh Elder attacked him, Wang Jingyu remained unharmed and taunted him.

• Wang Jingyu overheard the Third, Fourth, and Seventh Elders objecting to Tang Chen’s token and blaming him for the sect’s conflict with Spirit Hall.
• The Second Elder defended Tang Chen’s authority, but the other elders remained dissatisfied.
• Wang Jingyu appeared in the council hall, where the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Elders challenged him and demanded that he leave.
• The Seventh Elder released his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul Avatar and struck Wang Jingyu, who stopped the hammer with his head and mocked its weakness.
• The Seventh Elder used Spirit Clone to split his hammer and smash Wang Jingyu into the floor, but Wang Jingyu remained unharmed and taunted him again.

Wang Jingyu effortlessly withstood the Seventh Elder’s attacks and taunted the Clear Sky Sect elders, then learned that no one in the sect knew the Great Sumeru Hammer. He considered a way to study the technique himself and ended by challenging all the elders to fight him.

• The Seventh Elder used Hammer Soul Control and Gravity Control to strike Wang Jingyu from above and below, but Wang Jingyu remained unharmed.
• Wang Jingyu mocked the Seventh Elder’s weak Clear Sky Hammer attacks and asked whether he knew the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• The Seventh Elder admitted he could not defeat Wang Jingyu and did not know the Great Sumeru Hammer; Tang Xiao confirmed that no one in the sect currently possessed its method.
• Wang Jingyu suspected he might simulate Tang Chen with the secret art of the Myriad Illusions Demonic Way to study the technique after returning to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Wang Jingyu challenged the remaining elders to fight him, alone or together, while Tang Xiao and the elders hesitated to take him on.

Wang Jingyu asserted his authority as the Clear Sky Sect's Chief First Elder by overwhelming the elders with his power and revealing his eight red Soul Rings. The elders accepted Tang Chen's decision, while Wang Jingyu left them stunned with the claim that Qian Daoliu was his slave.

• Wang Jingyu challenged the six men to oppose Tang Chen's appointment and warned them not to question it again.
• Wang Jingyu revealed his God Slaying Sword, eight red Soul Rings, and Dragon God Domain, forcing the sect's experts to spit blood under his pressure.
• The elders realized Wang Jingyu could lead the Clear Sky Sect's revival, and he withdrew his power before warning them to keep the encounter secret.
• Wang Jingyu said Qian Daoliu was his most loyal slave and could be made to abandon his hostility toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao suspected Wang Jingyu was the mysterious powerhouse who had fought Qian Daoliu, and the elders voiced their fear and regret.
• Tang Xiao asked whether anyone objected to Wang Jingyu's appointment, and all five elders supported Tang Chen's decision.

Wang Jingyu and Tang Yuehua gathered the Clear Sky Sect’s direct-line members and distributed gifts, including ten soul bones to the elders and younger disciples. After winning their gratitude and respect, Wang Jingyu left the sect members more firmly behind his leadership.

• Tang Long and the others returned to the council hall and learned that Wang Jingyu and Tang Yuehua had arrived well before them.
• Tang Yuehua and Wang Jingyu summoned more than two hundred direct-line members to the courtyard and handed out gifts from Heaven Dou Imperial Capital.
• Wang Jingyu presented ten soul bones to Tang Xiao and the five elders, allowing each elder to choose one and Tang Xiao to choose two.
• Wang Jingyu gave the three remaining soul bones to Tang Long, Tang Hu, and Tang Yu and urged them to uphold the Clear Sky Sect’s glory.
• Tang Xiao, the elders, and the other disciples respected Wang Jingyu, and he recognized that his effort to win their support had succeeded.

Wang Jingyu and Tang Xiao shared rare fine wine at dinner and challenged each other to drink until they were drunk. Tang Yuehua tried a sip, found it unbearably fiery, and fled to rinse her mouth.

• Tang Xiao asked Tang Long to bring large bowls and two jars of his treasured wine so he could drink with Wang Jingyu.
• Tang Xiao apologized for his earlier prejudice, and Wang Jingyu affirmed that he already considered himself part of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Long brought the wine, and Wang Jingyu and Tang Xiao eagerly praised its aroma and challenged each other to drink until they were both drunk.
• Tang Yuehua sampled the wine, found it burned her throat, and ran to the kitchen to rinse her mouth.

Wang Jingyu and Tang Xiao drank together until Tang Xiao passed out after revealing that Yu Yuanzhen had spread accusations about Wang Jingyu. Wang Jingyu took Tang Yuehua into the Kamui Space, and they emerged three days later with Tang Yuehua barely able to stand.

• Tang Yuehua rejected the strong liquor, and Wang Jingyu gave her mango juice before resuming his drinking with Tang Xiao.
• Wang Jingyu and Tang Xiao challenged each other to drink every bowl, and they emptied two jars of liquor.
• Tang Xiao drunkenly repeated Yu Yuanzhen's accusations about Wang Jingyu, then collapsed asleep on the table.
• Tang Yuehua arranged for Tang Long to help care for Tang Xiao, while Wang Jingyu took her into the Kamui Space.
• Three days later, Wang Jingyu brought Tang Yuehua out of the Kamui Space, and she complained that he had overexerted her.

Wang Jingyu comforted Tang Yuehua after the Clear Sky Sect elders caught them being intimate, then took her back to her room to rest. As he explored the sect, Tang Xiao approached him to ask where he and Tang Yuehua had been for the past three days.

• Tang Yuehua complained that Wang Jingyu's intimacy had let her aunts see their relationship, then suggested they elope rather than return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Second Elder, Third Elder, and Seventh Elder scolded Tang Yuehua for being held by Wang Jingyu before their marriage, and Wang Jingyu angrily ordered them to stop.
• Wang Jingyu carried Tang Yuehua to her bedroom, tucked her into bed, and left her to rest.
• Tang Xiao found Wang Jingyu in the corridor and asked where he and Tang Yuehua had gone during the previous three days.

Wang Jingyu deceived Tang Xiao by claiming Tang Chen had provided a pill and cultivation manual that let Tang Yuehua reach Rank 40 Soul Power. Tang Xiao was astonished and wanted to know more, while Wang Jingyu pretended to take offense at his disbelief.

• Tang Xiao challenged Wang Jingyu's claim that he had guided Tang Yuehua's cultivation, pointing out that she could not cultivate Soul Power.
• Wang Jingyu privately resented Tang Xiao's doubts and falsely claimed Tang Chen had found a cultivation method in the God Realm.
• Tang Xiao eagerly asked whether Tang Chen had visited Wang Jingyu and what he had said, even flattering Wang Jingyu to get details.
• Wang Jingyu claimed Tang Chen had given him a quasi-divine pill and a cultivation manual meant only for Tang Yuehua.
• Wang Jingyu said Tang Yuehua had reached Rank 40 Soul Power, leaving Tang Xiao stunned.
• When Tang Xiao questioned the claim, Wang Jingyu pretended to be offended and accused him of not trusting him.

Wang Jingyu kept Tang Xiao from entering Tang Yuehua’s room and explained that her Soul Power had risen to Level 40 through cultivation. After Tang Xiao left, Wang Jingyu returned to Tang Yuehua and entertained her with stories, but her teasing question about Crown Prince Qinghe left him uneasy.

• Wang Jingyu assured Tang Xiao that Tang Yuehua’s Soul Power had reached Level 40 and that her realm was stable.
• Wang Jingyu stopped Tang Xiao from entering Tang Yuehua’s room, claiming she was exhausted and asleep after three days of cultivation.
• Tang Xiao asked Wang Jingyu whether Tang Chen had mentioned him, but Wang Jingyu said Tang Chen had only left a pill and cultivation technique for Tang Yuehua.
• Wang Jingyu returned to Tang Yuehua, told her what he had said to Tang Xiao, and reminded her to claim that Master had given her the pill.
• Wang Jingyu told Tang Yuehua a story called “The Domineering Crown Prince Falls for Me,” and she teased him by asking whether it was about him and Crown Prince Qinghe.

Tang Yuehua’s Soul Power reached level 40, and Tang Xiao confirmed that Wang Jingyu had helped her overcome her inability to cultivate. The couple decided to leave the Clear Sky Sect without getting engaged, while Tang Yuehua revealed that she already knew Wang Jingyu had other women and accepted it; Tang Xiao was left feeling miserable and alone.

• Tang Xiao checked Tang Yuehua’s strength, found her at level 40 with a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and thanked Wang Jingyu for helping his sister.
• Wang Jingyu promised Tang Xiao that he would cherish Tang Yuehua, and Tang Xiao left satisfied with their relationship.
• Wang Jingyu and Tang Yuehua decided to leave the Clear Sky Sect so she could return to Moonlight Pavilion and oversee new students.
• Tang Yuehua declined to get engaged immediately and suggested they could consider it later, possibly alongside Wang Jingyu’s other women.
• Tang Yuehua explained that she had sensed other women’s scents on Wang Jingyu and was not angry because she believed he needed more partners.
• Wang Jingyu kissed Tang Yuehua while Tang Xiao watched, then Tang Xiao left feeling painfully lonely over his unrequited love from the past.

Wang Jingyu took Tang Yuehua to Sunset Forest, where she obtained her fourth Soul Ring and the flight skill Golden Wings Soaring. After discovering her Soul Power had reached level 47, they returned to Moonlight Pavilion and went to bathe together.

• Wang Jingyu searched Sunset Forest and chose a 7,600-year-old Golden Winged Cloud Dan Sparrow for Tang Yuehua’s Fourth Soul Ring.
• Wang Jingyu restrained the Golden Winged Cloud Dan Sparrow, and Tang Yuehua killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Tang Yuehua gained Golden Wings Soaring, a skill that let her fly and carry or control up to three other people in flight.
• Wang Jingyu sensed that Tang Yuehua’s Soul Power had risen to level 47.
• Wang Jingyu and Tang Yuehua flew to Moonlight Pavilion, where they flirted in front of the guards and headed to the bathing room together.

Wang Jingyu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and discovered that nobles and officials had been crowding the academy to curry favor with him while he was away. He reunited with an irritated Liu Erlong, who clung to him as she complained about the trouble he had left her to handle.

• Wang Jingyu left Moonlight Pavilion after spending two days with Tang Yuehua and worried about Dong'er, who remained inside the Asura God's Inheritance Temple.
• Wang Jingyu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and saw dozens of lavish carriages guarded by powerful attendants outside its gates.
• Wang Jingyu used his spiritual power to learn that Liu Erlong was frustrated by the visitors and that Dugu Bo was keeping the gathered nobles and officials in line.
• Wang Jingyu decided to comfort Liu Erlong before dealing with the visitors and appeared behind her in the dean's office.
• Liu Erlong complained that Wang Jingyu had left her to handle the persistent visitors, then wrapped her arms around his neck.

Wang Jingyu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and reconciled with Liu Erlong in her office, while Dugu Bo and Xiao Wu waited outside. Two days later, the couple emerged and agreed to make Xiao Wu fried carrots, but her remark about Liu Erlong’s strange smell left them speechless.

• Wang Jingyu apologized to Liu Erlong, kissed her, and sealed her office with the Dragon God Domain.
• Dugu Bo found Xiao Wu waiting outside the locked office and learned that Wang Jingyu had returned.
• Dugu Bo sensed Wang Jingyu’s domain, then left, expecting the couple to remain inside for two or three days.
• Two evenings later, Wang Jingyu and Liu Erlong left the office and met Xiao Wu, who asked Liu Erlong to make fried carrots.
• Xiao Wu noticed a strange smell on Liu Erlong, and Wang Jingyu and Liu Erlong guiltily looked away.

Wang Jingyu refused to meet the nobles who had come to Blue Tyrant Academy, choosing to sleep beside Liu Erlong instead. The nobles remained in his office, trying to bribe a guard for an earlier audience.

• A guard woke Wang Jingyu to report that nobles were waiting in his office, but Wang ordered them to wait until noon or leave.
• Liu Erlong suggested Wang meet the nobles to protect his reputation, but Wang refused and went back to sleep with her.
• The guard arrived at Wang Jingyu's office, where the nobles offered him increasingly large sums of Gold Soul Coins to arrange an audience.
• The guard refused their bribes and repeated Wang Jingyu's order that they wait or leave.

Wang Jingyu declined a political alliance proposed by the Minister of War's Aide, saying he would not take sides in the struggle between Qinghe and Xue Beng. Several other visitors then rushed forward to approach him.

• Wang Jingyu left Liu Erlong resting in bed and headed to his Honorary Dean's office to meet a group of nobles.
• Wang Jingyu encountered Xiao Wu, who suspected he had kept Liu Erlong awake, and she fled after he joked about extracting resources from the nobles.
• An elderly steward representing the Minister of War's Aide, Li Xian, asked Wang Jingyu to form an alliance as fellow supporters of the Crown Prince.
• Wang Jingyu refused to join the political faction, saying Qinghe and Xue Beng were both his nephews and he would not favor either one.
• The steward tried to speak again, but someone pushed him aside as several visitors hurried forward.

A young man delivered gifts from his father, Commander of the Left Wing Vanguard Chu Mohan, hoping to build an alliance with Wang Jingyu. Wang Jingyu accepted the gifts after identifying the supposed Crimson Blood Ginseng as a valuable ninth-grade Purple Ghost Ginseng, and other guests began offering gifts as well.

• The young man introduced himself as Chu Mohan’s son and said his father hoped to join forces with Wang Jingyu to defend the Heaven Dou Empire.
• The young man’s steward presented Wang Jingyu with two Soul Tools, a herb, and a chest of Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Jingyu recognized the herb as a ninth-grade Purple Ghost Ginseng that could permanently enhance agility-type martial souls.
• Wang Jingyu accepted the gifts and asked the young man to convey his regards to Chu Mohan, promising to visit when he had time.
• After the young man left, other guests brought out gifts for Wang Jingyu, while some who had arrived empty-handed departed to prepare offerings.

After receiving a fortune in gifts from visiting nobles, Wang Jingyu teased Dugu Yan until she confessed her feelings, but stopped before going too far because he feared hurting her. Xiao Wu interrupted them and, after teasing Dugu Yan into fleeing, asked Wang Jingyu for kisses and hugs.

• Wang Jingyu counted the gifts he had received from the noble lords and celebrated his wealth.
• Dugu Yan accused Wang Jingyu of extorting the visitors, and Wang Jingyu pulled her into his arms and teased her.
• Wang Jingyu stopped himself from taking things further, comforted Dugu Yan, and heard her say she liked him and would wait until she grew up.
• Xiao Wu walked in, caught Wang Jingyu and Dugu Yan embracing, and teased Dugu Yan until she left the office.
• Xiao Wu hugged Wang Jingyu's leg and asked him to give her kisses and hugs.

Wang Jingyu comforted Xiao Wu after realizing his distance had hurt her, and promised not to reject her. Xiao Wu calmed down and gave him a wooden comb, an act that signaled she wanted him to become her future husband.

• Xiao Wu asked Wang Jingyu to hold her, but he initially refused because she was only six years old in her human form.
• Xiao Wu protested that Wang Jingyu treated her unfairly and cried until he realized she only wanted affection from him as her older brother.
• Wang Jingyu lifted Xiao Wu onto his lap, apologized, and promised to keep his arms open to her.
• Xiao Wu asked Wang Jingyu not to reject her, and he promised they were alike as Soul Beasts who had taken human form.
• Wang Jingyu kissed Xiao Wu's forehead, and she kissed his lips before resting against his chest.
• Xiao Wu took out a wooden comb and asked Wang Jingyu to comb her hair, giving him a sign that she wanted him as her future husband.

Wang Jingyu accepted Xiao Wu’s wooden comb and promised to comb her hair for the rest of her life, then asked Liu Erlong to teach him how. By evening, he had braided Xiao Wu’s hair, and the three returned to Liu Erlong’s bedroom to cook together.

• Wang Jingyu vented in his diary about Xiao Wu offering him her mother’s wooden comb, and the system strengthened his head spirit bone and increased his strength.
• Wang Jingyu reassured Xiao Wu that he was willing to comb her hair for the rest of her life, and she asked him to redo her Scorpion Tail Braid.
• Wang Jingyu went to Liu Erlong’s bedroom and asked her to teach him to comb and braid Xiao Wu’s hair.
• Liu Erlong taught Wang Jingyu how to comb, braid, and decorate hair, and he finished Xiao Wu’s Scorpion Tail Braid by evening.
• Wang Jingyu, Liu Erlong, and Xiao Wu returned to Liu Erlong’s bedroom and began cooking together.

Xiao Wu read Wang Jingyu’s diary and learned he knew the meaning of her wooden comb gift, while she rejected the idea that she could ever have loved Tang San. Liu Erlong read the diary too and began plotting to bring Ning Rongrong to Blue Tyrant Academy as another future partner for Wang Jingyu.

• Xiao Wu realized Wang Jingyu knew the meaning behind her wooden comb gift and felt mortified that he had learned of her feelings.
• Xiao Wu read about Tang San’s hypocrisy and his hostility toward Liu Erlong, and became certain she could never love him.
• Xiao Wu was pleased to learn Wang Jingyu had feelings for her and had taken the comb because he wanted her by his side.
• Wang Jingyu asked Liu Erlong to bathe with him, but she refused and sent him to wash alone.
• Liu Erlong read the diary and decided to persuade Ning Fengzhi to send Ning Rongrong to Blue Tyrant Academy so she could gradually grow close to Wang Jingyu.