Recaps

Qing Mo punished Yi Xiaochuan by making him immortal for over two thousand five hundred years, then learned that Tu'an’s Queen had tried to infiltrate his residence and kill him. The Queen admitted her plan, while Yushu was left unable to intervene as Qing Mo questioned her mother about the plot.

• Qing Mo gave the bound Yi Xiaochuan an immortality pill and an ankle shackle, condemning him to endure life as a eunuch for more than two thousand five hundred years.
• Qing Mo warned Yushu that Tu'an’s raids on Great Qin’s border could provoke a military response, and she begged him to spare her homeland.
• Qing Mo revealed that guards had caught Yushu’s mother, the Queen of Tu'an, sneaking into his residence with other outsiders.
• Yushu tried to explain her mother’s presence, but the Queen admitted that they had come to kill Qing Mo and slow Great Qin’s expansion.
• The Queen said Tu'an had prepared a deadly poison, and Qing Mo inferred that they planned to use Yushu to poison him.

Qing Mo exposed Queen of Tu'an’s plot to poison him, threatened Tu'an over its attacks on Great Qin, and spared the kingdom after Yushu pleaded for mercy. After keeping the Queen imprisoned for three days, he flew with her and Yushu to Tu'an’s border, where he entered its territory and demanded the King come out to greet him.

• Qing Mo revealed that Queen of Tu'an had brought poison, drank it without harm, and ordered the guards to imprison her after listing Tu'an’s crimes against Great Qin.
• Qing Mo threatened to destroy Tu'an if Queen of Tu'an killed herself, and he ordered the guards to prepare an army’s supplies if she attempted it.
• Yushu begged Qing Mo to spare her mother and Tu'an, and he agreed to give the kingdom a chance to survive.
• Qing Mo kept Queen of Tu'an imprisoned for three days while Yushu served him, then rode Da Bai toward Tu'an with both women.
• Qing Mo summoned the border garrison, armed its soldiers with new weapons, entered Tu'an’s territory, and demanded that the King come out to greet him.

Qing Mo forced Tu'an to submit to Great Qin, then took Gao Yao to watch Liu Bang be castrated in revenge for framing him. The chapter ended with Liu Bang enduring the procedure while fully conscious.

• Qing Mo confronted the King of Tu'an with demands to surrender offenders and accept Great Qin's rule or face war.
• General Jin attacked Qing Mo, who seized him and crushed his neck; the King of Tu'an then accepted Qing Mo's terms.
• Great Qin took control of Tu'an, executed those who had harmed its citizens, and relocated the Tu'an royal family and population as ordered by the First Emperor.
• Qing Mo told Gao Yao that Liu Bang's castration was imminent and brought him to the official slave camp.
• Qing Mo stopped Liu Bang from pleading for mercy and made him remain conscious as the eunuch castrated him.

Qing Mo tormented Liu Bang over his castration and arranged for Gao Yao to pursue Lü Zhi, then welcomed Lü Su and her family to Xianyang and helped Lü Su give up her feelings for him. Later, Qing Mo discussed the consequences of his actions with Cui Wenzi, who recognized that he had changed the fate of China.

• Qing Mo taunted the castrated Liu Bang by telling him Lü Gong would reject him and offering Lü Zhi to Gao Yao, causing Liu Bang to faint.
• Qing Mo and Gao Yao welcomed Lü Su, Lü Gong, and Lü Zhi to the Imperial Preceptor's residence, where Qing Mo introduced Gao Yao to Lü Zhi and the two began getting along.
• Lü Su saw Princess Yushu leaving Qing Mo's room and later spoke with Qing Mo, then let go of her romantic feelings and began calling him Brother Mo.
• Qing Mo met Cui Wenzi at Gao Yao's tavern, and Cui Wenzi said Qing Mo had rewritten the fates of many people, China, and the land itself.

Qing Mo arranged for Gao Yao to marry Lü Zhi, then fulfilled his promise to send the couple back to their own era after giving Cui Wenzi three longevity pills in exchange for the ingredients he needed. After a farewell trip around the world, Gao Yao and Lü Zhi returned home, leaving a letter and his businesses for Xiao Yue.

• Qing Mo gave Cui Wenzi the Black Wind horse blood and Heavenly Star powder, and Cui Wenzi promised to deliver an immortality medicine within a month.
• Qing Mo told Gao Yao he would send him and Lü Zhi back to their era after their wedding, then prepared Gao Yao with advanced knowledge and gave Lü Zhi modern memories.
• Gao Yao and Lü Zhi married, while Qing Mo forced Liu Bang to watch and had him returned to the government slave camp afterward.
• Cui Wenzi delivered three longevity pills to Qing Mo, who rewarded him with Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon wine.
• Qing Mo took Gao Yao, Lü Zhi, Lü Su, Yushu, and the others on a world tour before opening a passage home for Gao Yao and Lü Zhi.
• Gao Yao left Xiao Yue a letter and gave her his businesses before returning to his era with Lü Zhi, while Qing Mo left him a wisp of divine sense.

Gao Yao returned to his own era, leaving Xiao Yue a farewell letter and his property, while Qing Mo persuaded Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang to abandon their plans to restore Chu and arranged for Xiang Yu and Xiao Yue to be together. As Qing Mo prepared to leave the world, he gave photo albums to Lü Su and Princess Yushu, departed with the First Emperor’s support, and left the women to spend their lives cherishing his gifts.

• Gao Yao left Xiao Yue a letter, silver, and property before returning to his own era, and Princess Yushu comforted Xiao Yue as she grieved.
• Qing Mo brought Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang to meet the First Emperor, showed them the future, and persuaded them to give up restoring Chu.
• Xiang Yu and Xiao Yue developed feelings for each other, and Qing Mo entrusted Xiao Yue to him.
• Qing Mo gave photo albums to Lü Su and Princess Yushu, announced his impending departure, and prepared Great Qin with books, life-extending pills, and artificial intelligence.
• Qing Mo departed through an interdimensional passage as the people of Xianyang watched, while Lü Su and Yushu later grew old together and refused life-extending pills.
• Yi Xiaochuan and Liu Bang remained in the Official Slave Camp, where they were abused and worked to death ten years after Qing Mo left.

Qing Mo rescued Hua Ran from a deadly scorpion, accepted his request to deliver Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow to Morning Sky Academy, and took Hua Ran’s identity after he died. He arrived in Phantom Sky City, where Hua Ran’s students were waiting for him to bring back a cure for Qi Ling’s fire poison.

• Qing Mo traveled southeast with Da Bai and Little Tail and found Hua Ran dying from a giant scorpion’s venom.
• Miniature Yinzi destroyed the scorpion, and Qing Mo took the Soul Infant Fruit Hua Ran had sought.
• Hua Ran asked Qing Mo to deliver the Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow to Morning Sky Academy for Qi Ling, and gave him his storage ring before dying.
• Qing Mo found Red Silk Coral Wood in the ring, agreed to Hua Ran’s request, and followed their karmic bond to Phantom Sky City.
• Qing Mo arrived at the inn posing as Hua Ran, where Qian You and Qi Ling were waiting for the Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow.

Qing Mo treated Qi Ling’s fire poison with the Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow, then returned to Morning Sky Academy and settled into his new identity as Hua Ran. After establishing himself as an exceptionally capable but unconventional alchemy mentor, he discussed an upcoming assessment with An Nanyue and was asked for advice on refining the Azure Heart Pill.

• Qing Mo gave Qi Ling the Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow, and Qian You helped her refine it, suppressing the fire poison and restoring her strength.
• Qing Mo returned to Morning Sky Academy with Qi Ling and Qian You, patiently answering their alchemy questions during the journey.
• Qing Mo moved into Hua Ran’s courtyard and began teaching at the academy, earning students’ and other alchemy mentors’ respect through his outstanding instruction.
• An Nanyue asked Qing Mo to choose a pill for the students’ upcoming alchemy assessment, and he settled on the Qingfu Pill with a demanding passing requirement.
• An Nanyue asked Qing Mo how to extract and use more of the medicinal ingredients’ essence when refining the Azure Heart Pill.

Qing Mo improved An Nanyue’s Jadeheart Pill method, then trained his students for a demanding alchemy assessment and spent more than a decade at Morning Sky Academy. At the academy’s disciple recruitment, he discovered Luo Cheng, a Child of Destiny who had inherited an alchemy-skilled Immortal Emperor’s memories.

• Qing Mo advised An Nanyue to change her ingredients, their order, and her pill cauldron, and she returned to try his method.
• Qing Mo set the students’ assessment as refining the Fuchun Pill, requiring five to seven finished pills within two attempts, and offered the Jade Splendor Pill formula to the first three who passed.
• Qi Ling, Qian You, and Wu Rui passed first and received the Jade Splendor Pill formula, while most of Qing Mo’s students passed the assessment.
• Over the next decade, Qing Mo raised Hua Ran’s identity from fifth-grade to sixth-grade alchemist and continued teaching at Morning Sky Academy.
• Qi Ling and Qian You reminded Qing Mo about the academy’s disciple recruitment assembly, and he went with them to the grounds.
• Qing Mo read the life of an ordinary-looking recruit and identified him as Luo Cheng, a Child of Destiny who had inherited an alchemy-skilled Immortal Emperor’s memories.

Qing Mo recruited Lei Yanche as his student after Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu joined An Nanyue, while Luo Cheng’s arrogance and resentment toward his former benefactor grew. Qing Mo told Li Mochou he would use Lei Yanche to undermine Luo Cheng, and planned to act during a secret realm opening in two months.

• Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu became An Nanyue’s students, while their companion Lei Yanche was rejected by the other Pill Palace mentors.
• Qing Mo invited Lei Yanche to study alchemy under him, and Lei Yanche accepted with a formal apprenticeship.
• Luo Cheng looked down on Lei Yanche and coveted An Nanyue, while Qing Mo noticed Luo Cheng’s hostility toward him.
• Qing Mo sent Lei Yanche with Qi Ling and Qian You to study in the library and herb fields, then returned to his residence.
• Qing Mo told Li Mochou he intended to help Lei Yanche challenge Luo Cheng and planned to make his move when a secret realm opened in two months.

Lei Yanche discovered Qing Mo’s secret and learned from the River of Time that Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu would betray him and lead to his death. Qing Mo revealed Luo Cheng’s Immortal Emperor inheritance and agreed to guide Lei Yanche from behind the scenes as he prepared to change his fate.

• Lei Yanche rushed into Qing Mo’s courtyard to share his progress refining pills, where Yinzi and Little Tail startled him before Qing Mo explained his identity.
• Qing Mo showed Lei Yanche the River of Time, revealing a future in which Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu plotted against him and Luo Cheng ultimately killed him.
• Qing Mo showed Lei Yanche that Luo Cheng had gained an Immortal Emperor’s alchemy memories and had used Lei Yanche for resources while secretly despising him.
• Lei Yanche asked Qing Mo for help, and Qing Mo promised to guide him in exposing Luo Cheng’s true nature without revealing Qing Mo’s identity.
• After Lei Yanche left, Qing Mo considered Luo Cheng’s hidden strength and concluded that humiliating him alone would not be enough to defeat him.

Luo Cheng’s first pill refinement drew praise until Lei Yanche produced pills with halos and shared a method that worked, earning the Alchemy Hall’s admiration and a treasured cauldron. As Luo Cheng’s jealousy intensified over Lei Yanche’s success and attention from An Nanyue, Qing Mo intervened before he could erupt.

• Luo Cheng refined eight pills out of ten and received praise from An Nanyue and the other mentors.
• Lei Yanche refined first-grade pills with halos, drawing the crowd away from Luo Cheng and provoking Luo Cheng’s concealed killing intent.
• Lei Yanche shared a low-success method for producing pill halos, and Wu Rui used it to refine two haloed pills.
• An elderly Alchemy Hall instructor confirmed the method improved a pill’s potency and promised Lei Yanche the Eight Trigrams Nine-Furnace Cauldron as a reward.
• Lei Yanche offered two haloed pills to An Nanyue, and Qing Mo placed a hand on Luo Cheng’s shoulder as Luo Cheng’s anger neared eruption.

Lei Yanche followed Qing Mo’s scheme to make Luo Cheng covet the Eight Trigrams Nine-Furnace Cauldron and damage his standing with An Nanyue, while Qing Mo gave Lei Yanche an Immortal King-level cultivation technique. Qing Mo then left Morning Sky Academy and entered the Heaven-Burying Forbidden Land, where two women warned him about its poisonous fog.

• Qing Mo overheard Luo Cheng vow to kill Lei Yanche and take the cauldron, then helped Lei Yanche devise a plan to entrust it to An Nanyue.
• Qing Mo warned Lei Yanche that Luo Cheng’s true combat strength was far greater than his own and gave him an Immortal King-level cultivation technique.
• Lei Yanche publicly entrusted the Eight Trigrams Nine-Furnace Cauldron to An Nanyue, then told Luo Cheng it was in her safekeeping; Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu left to approach her.
• Qing Mo left Morning Sky Academy, while Lei Yanche expected Luo Cheng to seek the cauldron from An Nanyue and planned to pursue her during an upcoming secret realm.
• At the Heaven-Burying Forbidden Land, an injured white-robed woman and Xiao Cui warned Qing Mo that its poisonous fog corroded treasures and suppressed immortal power, but Qing Mo entered anyway.

Qing Mo entered the forbidden ground, killed its strongest beast, and retrieved the Flower Burial Chant for Leng Minci so her family could save its patriarch. He then traveled with Leng Minci to Dream Chu City, where he entered Dao Xuan Pavilion after sensing two unusual auras.

• Leng Minci and Chun Xiaocui left the forbidden ground after failing to enter it, but heard Qing Mo fighting a powerful beast inside.
• Qing Mo killed the two-headed demon wolf and took its demon core, then told Leng Minci where to find the Flower Burial Chant.
• After Leng Minci and Chun Xiaocui begged for his help, Qing Mo used his power to bring the Flower Burial Chant to Leng Minci.
• Qing Mo declined Leng Minci's invitation to visit her home and asked her to guide him to treasure shops in Dream Chu City.
• Leng Minci led Qing Mo to Dao Xuan Pavilion, where he sensed two unusual auras and went inside to investigate.

Qing Mo bought the Flame Extreme Grass at Dao Xuan Pavilion while Leng Minci learned that Ye Feng had arrived to claim her through an old marriage contract. Ye Feng confronted them and tried to stop Qing Mo from leaving with the herb, but Leng Minci drew her sword to defend him before Dao Xuan Pavilion’s rules were enforced by an Immortal King.

• Qing Mo and Leng Minci went to Dao Xuan Pavilion, where Qing Mo bought the Flame Extreme Grass for 208,888 high-grade immortal stones.
• Chun Xiaocui told Leng Minci that Ye Feng had come to the Leng Family with a marriage contract written by her grandfather years earlier.
• Ye Feng saw Leng Minci paying for Qing Mo’s herb and accused her of favoring another man, while Leng Minci rejected his claim that she had to marry him.
• Qing Mo continued upstairs, but Ye Feng blocked his way and demanded that he return the Flame Extreme Grass.
• Leng Minci drew her sword to defend Qing Mo, and an Immortal King’s voice warned that fighting was forbidden inside Dao Xuan Pavilion.

Qing Mo humiliated Ye Feng at Dao Xuan Pavilion, subdued its Immortal King guardian, and bought the immortal herbs he wanted. He then headed to the Alchemy Association with Leng Minci and Xiao Cui, while Ye Feng followed to challenge him; there, Qing Mo recognized the newly certified third-grade alchemist Zhao Zhanpeng, one of his students.

• Qing Mo ignored Ye Feng’s insults, slapped him through Dao Xuan Pavilion’s wall, and forced the pavilion’s Immortal King guardian to kneel with his aura.
• Qing Mo paid for the immortal herbs he wanted, and the pavilion attendants prepared the other herbs he listed.
• Leng Minci rejected Ye Feng and accompanied Qing Mo and Xiao Cui toward the Alchemy Association, while Ye Feng followed, planning to challenge Qing Mo to an alchemy contest.
• Qing Mo, Leng Minci, and Xiao Cui entered the Alchemy Association and learned that Zhao Zhanpeng had passed the third-grade alchemist examination.
• Qing Mo recognized Zhao Zhanpeng as one of his students and called him “Little Fatty Zhao,” silencing the congratulating crowd.

Qing Mo encountered his student Zhao Zhanpeng at the Alchemist Association and accepted Ye Feng’s challenge to an alchemy contest. After Qing Mo rapidly refined ten Supreme Grade Calamity-Breaking Pills, Ye Feng’s own cauldron began to fail, leaving the wager unresolved.

• Zhao Zhanpeng greeted Qing Mo as his mentor at his family’s celebration, and Qing Mo explained he had come to refine a pill for Senior Sister Qi Ling.
• Ye Feng challenged Qing Mo to an alchemy wager, and Qing Mo made Ye Feng’s marriage contract with Leng Minci part of the stakes.
• Ye Feng agreed to refine Calamity-Breaking Pills, wagering his immortal herb against tearing up the contract and ending his pursuit of Leng Minci.
• Qing Mo borrowed Zhao Zhanpeng’s cauldron and refined the ingredients all at once, completing the pill in moments while Ye Feng continued working.
• Zhao Zhanpeng revealed ten pills, four bearing pill markings, and Ye Feng’s distraction caused his cauldron to shake and his ingredients to scorch.

Qing Mo won the pill-refining contest against Ye Feng, distributed and auctioned Calamity-Breaking Pills, then returned to Morning Sky Academy and learned that Luo Cheng was still refusing to return Lei Yanche’s pill cauldron. As Qing Mo and his students entered the secret realm, he and Lei Yanche exchanged a glance after agreeing on a new plan.

• Qing Mo revealed his Supreme Grade Calamity-Breaking Pills with pill patterns, forcing Ye Feng to tear up Leng Minci’s marriage contract and leave after losing their wager.
• Qing Mo gave pills to Zhao Zhanpeng and Leng Minci, entrusted the remaining pills to Zhao Zhanpeng for an auction, and stayed at the Zhao residence before departing for the auction.
• Leng Minci learned Qing Mo had left and asked Zhao Zhanpeng whether she could study under Qing Mo at the Alchemy Palace.
• Qing Mo returned to Morning Sky Academy after traveling for over half a month and heard from Da Bai that Luo Cheng had kept Lei Yanche’s pill cauldron while Lei Yanche and An Nanyue grew closer.
• Qing Mo and An Nanyue led the students into the secret realm, where Qing Mo and Lei Yanche prepared to carry out their newly discussed plan.

Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu lured Lei Yanche into the secret realm’s central region, where Lei Yanche’s trap drew thousands of dog demons after them. Qing Mo and An Nanyue arrived to rescue the students, but Lei Yanche and An Nanyue fell into a hollow mountain that collapsed, leaving Qing Mo to send Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu away while the story turned toward the pair’s private ordeal.

• Luo Cheng secretly ordered Yun Mengyu to help kill Lei Yanche, then invited Lei Yanche to explore with them and guided him toward the forbidden central region.
• Lei Yanche recorded Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu’s schemes and used powder from Qing Mo to provoke the dog demons after Luo Cheng took the immortal fruit.
• Qing Mo and An Nanyue sensed the students’ crushed jade talismans and rushed to the central region, where they found the trio surrounded by dog demons.
• Lei Yanche shielded An Nanyue from the demons, and their impact sent them through a hollow mountain wall into the mountain’s interior.
• Qing Mo stopped Luo Cheng from reaching An Nanyue as the mountain collapsed, then sent Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu fleeing while he destroyed the remaining demons.

Qing Mo exposed Luo Cheng as the one who led the students into the secret realm’s depths and ordered him sent to the Law Enforcement Hall. Trapped in a cave with An Nanyue and three pursuing dog demons, Lei Yanche charged into battle to protect her and confessed his feelings as he faced what he believed could be his death.

• Qing Mo questioned Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu, then identified Luo Cheng as the one responsible for entering the secret realm’s depths and blamed him for the deaths of An Nanyue and Lei Yanche.
• Qing Mo slapped Luo Cheng, condemned him before the students, and ordered him and Yun Mengyu handed over to the Law Enforcement Hall after treatment.
• Lei Yanche woke in the cave, found An Nanyue severely injured, and carried her deeper inside while searching for a way out.
• Three wounded dog demons caught up with Lei Yanche and An Nanyue, and Lei Yanche fled with her until his strength nearly failed.
• Lei Yanche refused An Nanyue’s offer to stay behind, took pills to restore his power, and charged the dog demons while confessing that he had loved her.

Lei Yanche killed the dog demons while protecting An Nanyue, then recovered after she fed him a healing pill and accepted his love. The two left the cave together and discovered a beautiful, energy-rich place hidden beneath the secret realm.

• Lei Yanche fought the three dog demons, killed two, and used his broken sword to slay the last one before collapsing from his injuries.
• An Nanyue fed the unconscious Lei Yanche her finest healing pill mouth-to-mouth, stabilized his condition, and confessed that she would marry him.
• After waking, Lei Yanche heard An Nanyue accept him as her man, and she began calling him Yanche rather than Instructor An.
• Lei Yanche promised never to abandon or betray An Nanyue, and she stopped him from completing a dangerous oath.
• Lei Yanche carried An Nanyue out of the cave, and they found a scenic place with richer immortal energy beneath the secret realm.

Lei Yanche and An Nanyue planned to seize a top-grade immortal spring guarded by Three-Eyed Demon Apes, using pills to exploit the demons’ vulnerability to intense light. They drove the apes from the spring and reached the cave, where An Nanyue began healing her broken spine while Lei Yanche waited outside.

• Lei Yanche found the immortal spring but stayed outside the Three-Eyed Demon Apes’ territory after learning their numbers and strength made a direct attack dangerous.
• An Nanyue explained the apes’ history and taught Lei Yanche that their Eye of Gloom was vulnerable to intense light, then proposed using Tranquil Mind Pills and Flashburst Pills against them.
• Lei Yanche refined the pills, carried An Nanyue into the apes’ territory, and fought alongside her for over an hour until the Ape King appeared.
• An Nanyue detonated the Flashburst Pills as the Ape King opened its Eye of Gloom, blinding the apes and sending them fleeing from the light.
• Lei Yanche carried An Nanyue into the cave and helped her reach the immortal spring, then left her to soak and heal while he waited at the entrance.

While Luo Cheng was punished at Morning Sky Academy and forced to return Lei Yanche’s alchemy cauldron, Lei Yanche and An Nanyue recovered in the underground secret realm, grew stronger, and eventually found their way out. Before returning to the academy, An Nanyue asked Lei Yanche to keep their marriage secret and continue calling her Mentor in public.

• Qing Mo confronted Luo Cheng and recovered the Eight Trigrams Nine-Furnace Cauldron from his storage ring after Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu were punished for entering the secret realm against orders.
• After three days in the immortal spring, An Nanyue’s injuries improved, and she reunited affectionately with Lei Yanche.
• Lei Yanche carried An Nanyue through the underground secret realm as they searched for an exit, survived dangers, and strengthened their cultivation and relationship over half a year.
• Lei Yanche broke through a stone wall and escaped the underground secret realm with An Nanyue.
• An Nanyue asked Lei Yanche to keep their relationship private at the academy and call her Mentor in public, and he agreed before carrying her toward the exit.

Lei Yanche and An Nanyue returned safely to Morning Sky Academy, where they learned what had happened to Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu during their absence. Lei Yanche and An Nanyue arranged to have their punishments revoked so Luo Cheng could no longer cultivate unseen in the back mountain, while Luo Cheng mistakenly believed An Nanyue had pleaded for him out of affection.

• Lei Yanche and An Nanyue returned to the Alchemy Palace, where Qi Ling, Qian You, Qing Mo, and the other students and mentors welcomed them back.
• Qing Mo told Lei Yanche that Luo Cheng had broken his seal and was secretly growing stronger in Gale Wind Back Mountain, while Yun Mengyu was serving a two-year assignment in the Mission Hall.
• Qing Mo advised Lei Yanche to ask An Nanyue to help secure the release of Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu, keeping Luo Cheng from developing in secret.
• Lei Yanche told An Nanyue about his plan and his enmity with Luo Cheng, and An Nanyue agreed to help him.
• Lei Yanche and An Nanyue offered million-year-old immortal herbs to the academy leaders, and within days the academy revoked Luo Cheng and Yun Mengyu's punishments.
• Luo Cheng believed An Nanyue had pleaded for him because she cared for him, unaware that Lei Yanche had acted to limit his growth.

Lei Yanche learned from Qing Mo that pill markings required a supreme-grade pill to survive a pill tribulation, then found an old book explaining how to refine such pills. He brought it to An Nanyue, and after Luo Cheng left in a jealous huff, the couple discussed the method and went inside together.

• An Nanyue told Lei Yanche about Hua Ran's pill markings, and Lei Yanche promised to ask Qing Mo how they were made.
• Qing Mo taught Lei Yanche that pill markings could form only on supreme-grade pills that survived a pill tribulation, then advised him to consult the Alchemy Palace library and keep cultivating as Luo Cheng grew stronger.
• Lei Yanche searched the library for ten hours and found an old book explaining how to refine pills capable of triggering a pill tribulation.
• Luo Cheng delivered An Nanyue a centuries-old Blood-Melting Heart Lotus, which she pretended to refuse before accepting it.
• Lei Yanche brought the old book to An Nanyue, and she invited him into her residence despite Luo Cheng's objections.
• An Nanyue recognized the book's contents, and Lei Yanche explained the pill-tribulation prerequisite before carrying her into her room.