Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoman worried that Qian Ye would make her pay for wrecking his car, but he assured her he would not hold her responsible. She grew hopeful that he was romantically interested in her, while Qian Ye remained unmoved and prepared to leave for the Big Dipper Star Domain.

• Li Xiaoman asked why Qian Ye had pushed the damaged car into a ravine and offered to compensate him.
• Qian Ye said his Rolls-Royce Phantom was worth tens of millions, that he owned more than thirty others, and that he would not make Li Xiaoman pay.
• Li Xiaoman cried with relief and walked back with Qian Ye, then asked whether he had brought a girlfriend to climb Mount Tai.
• Qian Ye said he had no girlfriend, and Li Xiaoman privately decided she could compete with Lin Jia for his attention.
• Li Xiaoman asked what Qian Ye thought of her figure and posed for him, but he replied indifferently that it was all right.

Li Xiaoman visited Qian Ye’s room, confessed that she liked him, and became intimate with him. The next morning, the group set out for Mount Tai, while Lin Jia’s closeness to Qian Ye and Li Xiaoman’s attention to him stirred jealousy in others.

• After the classmates returned to the hotel, Li Xiaoman entered Qian Ye’s room and secretly embraced him while he slept.
• In the morning, Li Xiaoman asked Qian Ye if she was beautiful and openly told him that she liked him, and they kissed and became intimate.
• Qian Ye and Li Xiaoman showered together, then joined the others at the hotel entrance before the group headed toward Mount Tai.
• Li Xiaoman kept watching Qian Ye as Lin Jia walked beside him, and Cade realized Li Xiaoman was focused on Qian Ye and grew unhappy.

While climbing Mount Tai, Qian Ye saw the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin crash onto Jade Emperor Peak, where it exposed an altar and terrified the tourists. The altar opened a vortex, and the bronze coffin drew the group inside before flying into the sky.

• Li Xiaoman told Cade that she was confident she could become Qian Ye’s wife, while Cade tried to discourage her from pursuing him.
• Qian Ye climbed Mount Tai with the others and spotted nine dragon corpses pulling a bronze coffin above the clouds.
• The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, shaking the mountain and frightening the tourists.
• Qian Ye noticed an altar exposed at the impact site, and the classmates gathered together after confirming they had only minor injuries.
• The altar formed a yin-yang eye and vortex, and the bronze coffin pulled Qian Ye and the others inside before flying into the vortex.
• The group used a phone flashlight to realize they were inside the bronze coffin.

After the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin trapped the group inside its bronze coffin, the classmates searched for a way out and discovered Pang Bo among them. As they failed to open the coffin and heard noises from a smaller coffin inside, Qian Ye rested, expecting the coffin to land on Mars next.

• Zhang Wenchang counted thirty-one people and noticed someone extra inside the bronze coffin.
• Pang Bo identified himself as Ye Fan's university friend, and Ye Fan confirmed that he was really Pang Bo.
• The group discovered a small coffin inside the bronze coffin and heard strange noises coming from it.
• Zhou Yi suggested opening the coffin lid, and Wang Ziwen, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Liu Yiyi, and the others tried but failed to move it.
• Qian Ye chose to rest, expecting the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to land on Mars, where a bloody disaster awaited if the group explored the temple.

After the bronze coffin opened, Qian Ye and the others discovered they had arrived on Mars, where they found a temple called Great Thunderclap Monastery. The group approached the temple, while Qian Ye and Ye Fan examined a withered bodhi tree bearing six green leaves.

• The bronze coffin opened, and Qian Ye recognized that the group had landed on Mars rather than Earth.
• The classmates left the coffin and discussed the danger of surviving on the barren planet.
• Zhang Ziling spotted a building, and the group walked to it and identified it as Great Thunderclap Monastery.
• The classmates divided into factions, with most siding with Liu Yunzhi, Wang Yan, and Li Changqing against Ye Fan.
• Qian Ye noticed six green leaves on a withered bodhi tree, and Ye Fan came over to examine them.
• Qian Ye headed toward the temple entrance to see what was inside.

After the ancient temple collapsed, legless crocodile-like creatures attacked the group, while the artifacts they had taken offered limited protection. The survivors identified the creatures as legendary Divine Crocodiles, then heard a roar and felt the earth shake near the Great Thunderclap Monastery.

• Qian Ye watched the group take artifacts from the ancient temple, which collapsed along with the bodhi tree after Pang Bo removed its plaque.
• A classmate died as the group headed toward the altar, and unseen attackers were blocked by defensive barriers from the artifacts.
• Wang Ziwen realized the artifacts could protect their holders, so the classmates negotiated to share them and gathered together.
• The survivors saw small, black, legless crocodile-like creatures emerge from a corpse and discussed whether the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin had brought them there deliberately.
• A roar and violent tremors came from the Great Thunderclap Monastery before the area fell quiet again.

As the classmates faced a growing swarm of little crocodiles on Mars, Qian Ye stepped away from the group to confront them without an artifact. Pang Bo defended him against Liu Yunzhi’s taunts and challenged Liu Yunzhi to fight, leaving the classmates watching Liu Yunzhi refuse without a plaque.

• The classmates hurried toward the altar while little crocodiles killed several people, and Ye Fan warned Qian Ye to use an artifact for protection.
• At the altar, Zhou Yi urged everyone to band together as the swarms overwhelmed the fading protection of their artifacts.
• Pang Bo smashed a little crocodile with his plaque, but Qian Ye stepped out of the group and said he would deal with the creatures himself.
• Liu Yunzhi, Li Changqing, and Wang Yan mocked Qian Ye, while Pang Bo accused them of refusing to help and argued with Liu Yunzhi.
• Pang Bo attacked the crocodiles with his plaque and challenged Liu Yunzhi to come fight; Liu Yunzhi refused, claiming he needed a plaque.

Qian Ye used a hundred autonomous fireballs to turn back the little crocodiles, then claimed to be a Qi Refining immortal cultivator. The survivors admired and feared him, while Pang Bo asked to become his disciple and Qian Ye left the possibility vague.

• Qian Ye summoned a hundred fireballs that hunted down and burned the little crocodiles, protecting Ye Fan and the others.
• Pang Bo and the others marveled at Qian Ye's power, while Liu Yunzhi stared at him and regretted his earlier mockery.
• Qian Ye claimed he was an immortal cultivator at the thirteenth layer of Qi Refining and had mastered the nineteenth layer of the Fireball Technique.
• Pang Bo eagerly asked Qian Ye to take him as a disciple, and Qian Ye said cultivation required a Spiritual Root and being under twenty, while leaving room for exceptions.

Qian Ye and the others arrived in the Big Dipper Star Domain, where they explored the Ancient Forbidden Land and ate its red fruit. An inexplicable force then overwhelmed everyone except Qian Ye, leaving their lives in danger.

• After Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin reached the Big Dipper Star Domain, Qian Ye told the others stories about immortal cultivation while they traveled through the stars.
• The bronze coffin opened beneath a blue sky, and the group hid from a gigantic golden bird before Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin crashed below a sheer cliff.
• The group explored the woods, and Pang Bo and Ye Fan found spring water and red fruit in the Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Qian Ye recognized the red fruit as a spirit fruit, ate one, and watched as the group continued exploring.
• After they spotted a monster shedding its skin, an inexplicable heat struck everyone except Qian Ye, and the others fainted.

Qian Ye quietly parted ways with his classmates, who had been transformed by the strange place, and appeared in Empress Ruthless’s palace. When she challenged him, he began telling her a story about a starving orphan girl and the youth who shared his food with her.

• Qian Ye’s classmates woke to find that most had become elderly, Ye Fan and Pang Bo had become children, Zhang Ziling had become middle-aged, and Liu Yiyi remained unchanged.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Zhang Ziling, and Liu Yiyi searched for Qian Ye but could not find him, unaware that he had left them for good.
• Qian Ye appeared beside Empress Ruthless’s bathing pool, and she confronted him after changing into a moon-white gown.
• Empress Ruthless demanded to know who Qian Ye was and why he wore a mask, but he offered to tell her a story before removing it.
• Qian Ye described a hungry orphan girl and the filthy youth who gave her half a flatbread and water.

Qian Ye comforted Empress Ruthless by appearing as her dead big brother, letting her grieve and believe he had returned before revealing the truth. He told her he knew her and her brother through the River of Time, leaving her curious about how he had met her as a child.

• Qian Ye recounted Little Nannan's childhood with her big brother, their forced separation, and her brother's death.
• Empress Ruthless recognized Qian Ye's transformed face as her big brother and embraced him, believing he had returned.
• Qian Ye comforted Empress Ruthless as she cried, and she spent the next days caring for him as if he were her brother.
• Three days later, Empress Ruthless questioned whether Qian Ye was really her big brother, and he admitted that he had transformed into his likeness.
• Qian Ye returned to his own appearance and told Empress Ruthless that he knew her as a child because he could travel through the River of Time.

Qian Ye took Empress Ruthless to the small world inside the All Things Storage Ring, where she reunited with her childhood self, Little Nannan, and her brother’s body. After keeping vigil, Empress Ruthless left Little Nannan in Qian Ye’s care and returned with him to her bedchamber.

• Empress Ruthless asked Qian Ye to take her back to the past, but he explained that his one chance had been used; he told her that her brother had died and that he had brought back the body and her childhood self, Little Nannan.
• Qian Ye brought Empress Ruthless into the small world inside the All Things Storage Ring, where she recognized the Heavenly God Tree and Myriad Things Soil and met Little Nannan.
• Empress Ruthless embraced Little Nannan and then found her brother’s body in a crystal coffin, while Qian Ye told Little Nannan that Empress Ruthless had been her brother’s friend.
• Empress Ruthless and Little Nannan cried together, and Empress Ruthless stayed in the ring for days to keep vigil over her brother.
• Qian Ye brewed Monkey Wine and Heavenly God Wine while Empress Ruthless watched over Little Nannan and her brother.
• Empress Ruthless told Qian Ye that her wish had been fulfilled and asked him to care for Little Nannan; Qian Ye promised, then took her back to her bedchamber.

Qian Ye and Empress Ruthless fell in love, married, and raised twins together, but after ten years the Check-in System announced that Qian Ye’s mission was ending and he would soon return to the Perfect World Plane. He held Empress Ruthless as she woke and asked what was troubling him.

• Empress Ruthless asked Qian Ye whether he found her beautiful and whether he liked her, then kissed him and began a relationship with him.
• Qian Ye and Empress Ruthless lived together happily, and a year later she told him she was expecting a child.
• Thirteen months later, Empress Ruthless gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom they named Qian Shuai and Qian Qing.
• Ten years later, the Check-in System told Qian Ye that his mission in the Shrouding the Heavens World Plane was complete and that he would return to the Perfect World Plane in three days.
• Qian Ye embraced and kissed Empress Ruthless, and she woke and asked why he seemed troubled.

Qian Ye took Empress Ruthless to God Star before returning to Perfect World, where he reunited with the Willow Deity and received a chance to travel to The Sacred Ruins Plane. He arrived aboard a train near Chu Feng, just as passengers discussed signs of a sudden transformation in the world.

• Qian Ye told Empress Ruthless he would leave, then chose to bring her to God Star and transported her there with him.
• The Check-in System transported Qian Ye from the Shrouding the Heavens World back to Perfect World beneath the Guardian Spirit willow tree.
• Qian Ye reunited with the Willow Deity, who said she had reached the pinnacle of the Immortal Emperor Realm and supported him as long as he spared innocents.
• The system rewarded Qian Ye with a chance to ride a train with Chu Feng in The Sacred Ruins Plane, and Qian Ye used it to travel there.
• Aboard carriage number two, a fat passenger told a thin passenger about enormous melons, prompting the thin man to ask whether the world had suddenly transformed overnight.

Qian Ye arrived in the world of The Sacred Ruins aboard the train carrying Chu Feng and Zhou Quan as a worldwide Spiritual Energy Resurgence transformed the landscape and living creatures. The chapter ended with Qian Ye explaining his theory of the changes while Chu Feng and Zhou Quan wondered where the Spiritual Qi came from.

• Qian Ye appeared in the train restroom, changed his appearance, and sat beside Zhou Quan opposite Chu Feng.
• Passengers discussed mutations and strange natural phenomena caused by the world's sudden transformation.
• The train stopped beside a gigantic ginkgo tree, and Qian Ye got off to look at it while Chu Feng and Zhou Quan stayed aboard.
• As the train continued through rising fog, Qian Ye observed that mountains, cities, and infrastructure had been dramatically altered around the world.
• Zhou Quan asked Qian Ye about the transformations, and Qian Ye proposed invasion, atavism, or a Spiritual Energy Resurgence as possible causes.
• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan questioned why Spiritual Qi had appeared so suddenly and where it had come from.

As the train stalled again, Qian Ye, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan investigated screams outside and discovered a bloodied corpse suspended above the train by vines hanging from the sky. Qian Ye climbed onto the roof and began following a vine upward to find its source.

• The train stalled, and screams outside prompted Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Qian Ye to get off and investigate.
• The passengers found a bloodied man in ancient clothing hanging above the train, with vines binding his corpse.
• Chu Feng recognized that the apparent chains dangling from the sky were vines, unsettling the gathered passengers.
• Qian Ye suggested climbing the vines to discover where they came from, then climbed onto the train roof and began ascending one.

Qian Ye and Chu Feng climbed the vines hanging from the sky and found corpses that led them to suspect the dead were modern ability users. After they returned to the ground, the damaged train and blocked tracks forced them to head for a nearby town with Zhou Quan.

• Qian Ye climbed the vine, brought down a man's corpse, and Chu Feng found an address book on it.
• Chu Feng climbed into the mist and found Qian Ye beside a woman's corpse hanging from another vine.
• Qian Ye suggested the corpses might belong to modern people changed by atavism, or ability users, who had been killed by a stronger opponent.
• Qian Ye lowered the woman's body, and Chu Feng climbed back down to the ground.
• Qian Ye found the train disabled by a fallen satellite, while Chu Feng and Zhou Quan noted that a mountain blocked the tracks.
• Qian Ye accepted Chu Feng and Zhou Quan's invitation to walk to a nearby town and find a taxi home.

After returning home with Yellow Ox and Qian Ye, Chu Feng trained in new techniques while Yellow Ox settled into household life and pranked Qian Ye by placing Tiger Sister in his bed. News then spread of a mutant fruit on Mount Taihang, drawing powerful mutant organizations toward a contest that had been secretly set up as a trap.

• Chu Feng brought Yellow Ox and Qian Ye to his home, where he found the city overrun by enormous animals and insects after the world’s sudden transformation.
• Yellow Ox taught Chu Feng a breathing technique and Mighty Bull Demon Fist, while Qian Ye stayed home and refused to train.
• After Chu Feng and Zhou Quan left on a trip, Yellow Ox pranked Qian Ye by placing a young woman in his bed, and Qian Ye made Yellow Ox explain himself.
• The young woman introduced herself as Tiger Sister, and Qian Ye recognized her as Lu Shiyun, the younger sister of White Tiger.
• A mutant fruit grew on Mount Taihang, attracting mutants and major organizations Bodhi Gene and Deity Biomedicals.
• Bodhi Gene sent Vajra and Deity Biomedicals sent Silver Wing Deity to compete for the fruit, unaware that the contest was a carefully laid trap.

Qian Ye left the crowd waiting for Mount Taihang’s mutant fruit to ripen and sought out Lin Nuoyi on a nearby peak. He demonstrated that he could vanish and reappear beyond her ability to detect, leaving her wary as she demanded to know his purpose.

• Thousands of mutants, including Lin Nuoyi, Jiang Luoshen, Silver Wing, and Vajra, gathered around the ripening mutant fruit, while Qian Ye cared more about tasting it than fighting for it.
• Qian Ye withdrew from the crowd and used spiritual light to appear behind Lin Nuoyi on a nearby peak.
• Lin Nuoyi questioned how Qian Ye had reached the peak, and he challenged her claim that her people controlled it.
• Qian Ye vanished before Lin Nuoyi’s eyes and struck her from hiding, frightening her with his unseen presence.
• Qian Ye reappeared, and Lin Nuoyi pressed him to explain who he was, why he had sought her out, and whether he wanted the mutant fruit.

Qian Ye jumped from the cliff, then appeared behind Lin Nuoyi and caught her when she fell; the two kissed and became intimate at the foot of the mountain. Qian Ye carried her back toward the summit while Chu Feng and Mu fought there, and Qian Ye planned to leave The Sacred Ruins after the battle for the mutant fruits ended.

• Qian Ye leaped from the cliff and reappeared behind Lin Nuoyi, startling her into falling over the edge.
• Qian Ye caught Lin Nuoyi at the foot of the cliff, and they kissed and became intimate.
• Lin Nuoyi asked Qian Ye how they would return to the summit, and he picked her up to carry her there.
• Chu Feng and Mu clashed in a fierce fight on the mountain peak.
• Qian Ye decided not to interfere in Chu Feng and Mu's fight and expected to leave The Sacred Ruins after the battle for the mutant fruits.