Chapter Summaries

Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun forced a ghostly figure to surrender his hoard of cultivation resources, then left him trapped in his statue and spent the night by the cave. The next day, they encountered members of the Kong Family, and Qing Mo decided to rob them.

• Qing Mo used the Sea of People Pavilion to capture and torment the white figure until he surrendered his resources.
• Xiao Yayun collected the cavern’s divine medicines, artifacts, materials, and stones, while Qing Mo altered the statue before they left.
• Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun departed with the statue’s top-grade divine stone steps and camped outside the cave for the night.
• Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun barbecued skewers and spent the night together by the sealed mountain.
• The next day, Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun encountered members of the Kong Family, and Qing Mo decided to rob them.

Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun destroyed a group of Kong Family disciples and found a treasure map pointing to a cave. At the marked location, they encountered a wounded group pursued by a vicious flood dragon, which Qing Mo subdued with a word.

• Qing Mo revealed that he had killed Kong Youde, crippled the Kong Family disciples, and used the Sea of People Pavilion to absorb their souls and bodies.
• Xiao Yayun found a treasure map among the Kong Family disciples’ storage rings, and she and Qing Mo followed its marked location to a cave.
• Qing Mo killed four hidden onlookers who begged for mercy, then continued toward the marked cave with Xiao Yayun.
• A group of young cultivators fleeing a peak God King Realm flood dragon reached Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun, and their Eldest Senior Sister asked them for help.
• When the flood dragon charged, Qing Mo silenced it and forced its massive body to fall from the sky, shocking the fleeing cultivators.

Xiao Yayun killed the vicious flood dragon and kept its inner core after Qing Mo said he had no use for it. When a scheming junior sister and her fellow disciples tried to take the core, Qing Mo exposed their greed and refined one of the men into a human pill, leaving everyone horrified.

• Xiao Yayun killed the vicious flood dragon, removed its inner core and other valuable parts, and kept them at Qing Mo's instruction.
• The injured junior sister feigned weakness while her senior brothers blamed Yu Xuetang and demanded the flood dragon's inner core for her.
• Xiao Yayun refused to hand over the core, and the senior brothers surrounded her and Qing Mo.
• Qing Mo used Words Become Law to shatter several attackers' knees and silence them.
• Qing Mo refined the first man who had demanded the core into a human pill and offered it to the junior sister as a substitute for the flood dragon's inner core.

Qing Mo forced the scheming junior sister to consume Human Pills made from her devoted senior brothers, causing her cultivation to surge while their resentment corrupted her mind. He left her to die in agony in the secret realm, and Yu Xuetang walked away alone.

• Qing Mo made the junior sister swallow a Human Pill, which healed her injuries and strengthened her cultivation.
• Qing Mo turned the kneeling senior brothers into more Human Pills, and the junior sister eagerly consumed them, rising to the middle stage of the Upper God Realm.
• Qing Mo revealed that the Human Pills carried the senior brothers’ resentment and negative thoughts, which had already begun to overwhelm the junior sister’s mind.
• The maddened junior sister attacked Qing Mo, but he immobilized her and magnified her torment until her body began to dissolve.
• Qing Mo left the secret realm with Xiao Yayun, while Yu Xuetang abandoned her junior sister, who remained behind to die with the senior brothers.

Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun explored a secret realm, where they found a rare medicinal field and Seven-Colored Lotus Heart Grass after Xiao Yayun battled its guardians. After returning to the sect, Yun Zhiyi resolved to pursue “Han Wei” despite her misgivings, and hurried to meet him.

• Xiao Yayun fought several poisoned demon beasts for hours and killed most of them before Qing Mo finished off the survivors and healed her.
• Qing Mo uncovered a Pure White Medicinal Field and a rare Seven-Colored Lotus Heart Grass, then stored both treasures away.
• After more than three months in the secret realm, Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun left with their gains and chose to travel rather than return to the sect immediately.
• Yun Zhiyi spent months torn between her reservations and her desire to advance the Great Dao of Heartlessness by winning “Han Wei’s” affection.
• Junior Sister Qing informed Yun Zhiyi that “Han Wei” had returned, and Yun Zhiyi set out for the menial disciples’ courtyard, prepared to meet his demands.

Qing Mo pressured Yun Zhiyi to choose between abandoning her plan to make him fall for her and accepting his demand for a guarantee of safety. Yun Zhiyi finally agreed to give herself to him and secured the Recording Stone, leaving her poised to act on her decision.

• Qing Mo welcomed Yun Zhiyi back and teased her about delaying her return after completing her mission.
• Yun Zhiyi admitted she wanted Qing Mo to develop feelings for her but asked to avoid the intimate terms he had previously demanded.
• Qing Mo refused to pursue her, warning that she expected him to risk his life while giving up nothing herself.
• After considering his objections, Yun Zhiyi decided to proceed and ordered Xiao Yayun to leave them alone.
• Qing Mo sealed Xiao Yayun's cultivation, and Yun Zhiyi restricted the Recording Stone and threatened anyone who exposed it.
• Yun Zhiyi promised to devote herself to Qing Mo if he truly developed feelings for her, then removed her clothes.

Yun Zhiyi gave Qing Mo a Recording Stone and a wisp of her divine soul imprint as guarantees for their agreement, while Qing Mo learned that she intended to use the emotions she developed for him to pursue the Emotionless Dao. More than a month later, Yun Zhiyi confronted him for not visiting her, then joined Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun for a meal as Qing Mo decided to keep acting along with her plan.

• Yun Zhiyi exposed herself for the Recording Stone, then handed Qing Mo a wisp of her divine soul imprint in exchange for his promise to fall in love with her.
• After Yun Zhiyi left, Qing Mo restored Xiao Yayun's cultivation and told her that Yun Zhiyi planned to sever her feelings for him as part of her pursuit of the Emotionless Dao.
• More than a month later, Yun Zhiyi barged into Qing Mo's courtyard and demanded to know why he had not visited or contacted her.
• Qing Mo explained that sect rules and the risk of Jun Zile's people seeing him had kept him away, and Yun Zhiyi admitted she had come discreetly.
• Yun Zhiyi joined Qing Mo and Xiao Yayun at the grill and asked Qing Mo to cook meat for her, while Qing Mo planned to play along with her scheme.

Qing Mo deepened Yun Zhiyi’s affection by reciting poems and invited her on a date in Righteous Sun City, where he sought a rare Divine Origin Purple Star Ore. When an arrogant young master challenged him to compete in array inscription to win the ore, Qing Mo confidently prepared to show his skill.

• Yun Zhiyi gave Qing Mo a token and communication jade talisman, then grew flustered as he teased her about her feelings for him.
• Qing Mo recited poems for Yun Zhiyi, who became more enamored and agreed to meet him for a date outside the sect’s territory.
• Qing Mo gave Xiao Yayun a book called An Actor's Self-Cultivation and warned her to keep playing her part in his scheme.
• Qing Mo brought Xiao Yayun to Righteous Sun City, where Yun Zhiyi joined them and the three searched the shops for rare goods.
• Qing Mo found the Divine Origin Purple Star Ore, which its owner would trade only for an array disk meeting strict requirements and beating any competing entry.
• A richly dressed young master challenged for the ore, and Qing Mo confidently said he would demonstrate his array-inscription ability.

Qing Mo outperformed a lavishly dressed young master by inscribing two hundred compatible formations onto an array disk, winning the rare divine ore and leaving his rival enraged. As Qing Mo walked with Yun Zhiyi and Xiao Yayun, Yun Zhiyi asked which side of him was real, and he answered that both were.

• Qing Mo and the lavishly dressed young master competed to inscribe array disks, and Qing Mo used both hands to create formations while his rival struggled and made a damaging mistake.
• Qing Mo finished an array disk containing two hundred formations, demonstrated their compatibility, and won the major client's rare divine ore.
• Qing Mo refused the client's additional reward and mocked the defeated young master, who reacted with jealousy and killing intent.
• Qing Mo walked with Yun Zhiyi and Xiao Yayun, bought them matching divine jade hairpins, and showed affection toward both women.
• Yun Zhiyi asked Qing Mo which of his contrasting personalities was real, and he said that both were.

Qing Mo admitted to Yun Zhiyi that the talents and flaws she had seen in “Han Wei” all belonged to him, then helped her defeat the ambushers outside Righteous Sun City. After returning to the sect, he grew closer to Yun Zhiyi, who welcomed his visits but asked him to wait before taking their relationship further.

• Qing Mo told Yun Zhiyi that his apparent laziness, womanizing, and hidden skills were all genuine, and the three spent a carefree day sightseeing in Righteous Sun City.
• Xiao Yayun warned that their pursuers had followed them, and Qing Mo and Yun Zhiyi went to confront the flamboyant young master and his servants outside the city.
• Qing Mo secretly killed the young master's God King Realm protector, crippled and killed the young master, while Yun Zhiyi cut down the servants with her sword.
• After several more days of sightseeing, Qing Mo and Yun Zhiyi returned to the Flame Universe Divine Sect, where Yun Zhiyi kissed his cheek before leaving for Goddess Peak.
• When Qing Mo visited Yun Zhiyi again, he kissed her and held her on his lap, and she asked him to refrain from going further until she was ready.

Yun Zhiyi prompted Jun Zile to seek new poems from Qing Mo, and Jun Zile eagerly passed off Qing Mo’s work as his own for her approval. Qing Mo charged him five hundred thousand high-grade divine stones, leaving Jun Zile unaware that Yun Zhiyi and Qing Mo had both used him to obtain what they wanted.

• Yun Zhiyi praised Jun Zile’s calligraphy and asked him to bring her more poems and lyrics, prompting him to visit Qing Mo for help.
• Xiao Yayun welcomed Jun Zile to Qing Mo’s courtyard, where Qing Mo agreed to provide him with new works.
• Qing Mo recited two celebrated poems, and Jun Zile copied them down, delighted at the prospect of impressing Yun Zhiyi.
• Qing Mo requested five hundred thousand high-grade divine stones for the poems, and Jun Zile reluctantly agreed to send the resources the next day.
• After Jun Zile left, Xiao Yayun questioned Qing Mo’s profiteering, and Qing Mo reasoned that Yun Zhiyi had deliberately arranged the visit to obtain his poetry.

Qing Mo, posing as Han Wei, met Yun Zhiyi on Goddess Peak and charmed her with a sword dance and famous poems. After they wrote the poems together, Yun Zhiyi asked him to carry her to bed, and Qing Mo agreed.

• Yun Zhiyi invited Han Wei to Goddess Peak and promised to dance her sword for him beneath the moon.
• Qing Mo accepted the invitation, then arrived at the palace garden and watched Yun Zhiyi perform her sword dance.
• Qing Mo praised Yun Zhiyi and recited Song of Pure Peace and another poem, deepening her admiration for him.
• Yun Zhiyi and Qing Mo embraced and kissed, then wrote the poems together at the stone table.
• Yun Zhiyi told Qing Mo to carry her to bed, and he carried her into her room.

After more than twenty years of secretly living as husband and wife, Qing Mo and Yun Zhiyi had grown genuinely attached while Yun Zhiyi still planned to kill him to advance her Emotionless Dao. Qing Mo joined her in a secret realm and let her approach with her sword, leaving her attack underway.

• Over two decades, Qing Mo and Yun Zhiyi traveled together and became emotionally close while keeping their relationship secret from the sect.
• Angel Leng and the other women returned, learned that Yun Zhiyi was nearing the moment to attack Qing Mo, and spent several days with him before leaving to destroy the Kong Family.
• Yun Zhiyi invited Qing Mo to enter an upcoming secret realm with her alone, and he agreed while concealing that he knew her intentions.
• Qing Mo and Yun Zhiyi shared a moonlit evening in the Goddess Palace garden before entering the secret realm together.
• At a cliff inside the secret realm, Yun Zhiyi moved behind Qing Mo and thrust her divine sword toward his back.

Yun Zhiyi abandoned the final strike against Qing Mo, losing her cultivation and nearing death, but he restored her and she confessed her love. She gave up the Unfeeling Dao, chose to be with him, and later welcomed him to the Goddess Palace for a private evening.

• Yun Zhiyi dropped her sword instead of stabbing Qing Mo, and her Dao Heart shattered as her cultivation and life force rapidly declined.
• Qing Mo revealed he had known about Yun Zhiyi's original plan and listened as she admitted that she truly loved him and did not regret giving up the strike.
• Qing Mo restored Yun Zhiyi's cultivation, vitality, and Dao Heart, and she embraced him and vowed to stop cultivating the Unfeeling Dao.
• Qing Mo told Xiao Yayun that Yun Zhiyi had sincerely chosen him, then went to the Goddess Palace garden that night.
• Yun Zhiyi danced for Qing Mo, shared pastries with him, and accompanied him to the rear hall.

Qing Mo learned that the System would send him to the Tang Dynasty in the second year of Zhenguan and arranged for He Xi and Little Qingluan to accompany him. After saying goodbye to Yun Zhiyi and Xiao Yayun, he entered the passage to the new world with his companions.

• Qing Mo’s System told him they would travel to a parallel Tang Dynasty during the second year of Zhenguan.
• Qing Mo drew Mo Yanyu’s name to visit him and split off essence-energy clones to spend time with the girls in other domains.
• Qing Mo persuaded He Xi to lend him Little Qingluan, agreeing that He Xi could come along to care for it.
• Qing Mo visited Yun Zhiyi and Xiao Yayun, told them he would be leaving soon, and asked them to wait for his return.
• Qing Mo welcomed Mo Yanyu and He Xi, then rode with them and Little Qingluan through the System’s passage toward the Tang Dynasty.

Qing Mo and his companions arrived in Zhenguan-era Chang'an, where Li Shimin and his court mistook their arrival with divine beasts for a heavenly sign. Qing Mo revealed that they came from the future and warned of a locust plague, then praised Li Shimin as an emperor for the ages before an old minister challenged his praise of Qin Shi Huang.

• A rift opened over Chang'an, and Da Bai and Little Qingluan emerged as the people and Li Shimin watched in fear.
• Qing Mo, Mo Yanyu, and He Xi descended into the palace square, where Li Shimin welcomed them and asked their names and origins.
• Qing Mo explained that they were transmigrators from nearly 1,400 years in the future and warned that a severe locust plague would strike Guanzhong in the second year of Zhenguan.
• Qing Mo told Li Shimin that later generations regarded him as an emperor for the ages, alongside Ying Zheng and Liu Che.
• An old minister angrily disputed Qing Mo's praise of the First Emperor of Qin and challenged his ranking.

Qing Mo praised Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, then gave her a divine gown and cured her inherited illness, changing her fate. He refined pills for the court and restored Qin Qiong to his peak condition, leaving Li Shimin and his ministers eager for the immortal's gifts.

• Qing Mo defended the First Emperor of Qin and Emperor Wu of Han as emperors for the ages, then praised Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun.
• Qing Mo had Little Qingluan give Empress Zhangsun a divine feather gown and cured her chronic illness, rewriting her fate.
• Da Bai threatened Cheng Yaojin for calling him a big bug, while Qing Mo reassured Cheng Yaojin about his future blessings.
• Li Shimin asked Qing Mo for a gift, and Qing Mo refined nearly a hundred pills in a golden flame cauldron.
• Qing Mo gave Qin Qiong a pill that healed his old injuries and restored his body to its peak condition.

Qing Mo gave Li Shimin Snow-Fragrance Jade Dew Pills and spirit horses, then revealed Yinzi as a dragon and used two of his scales to make imperial robes and armor. At the banquet, Mo Yanyu told Du Ruhui that history recorded his death from illness in two years, leaving him terrified.

• Qing Mo gave Li Shimin ninety-nine Snow-Fragrance Jade Dew Pills and explained how medicinal dregs could also be used.
• Qing Mo presented Li Shimin with spirit horses, and the Horse King challenged him to stay on its back for three shichen before accepting him as master.
• Li Shimin invited Qing Mo, Mo Yanyu, and He Xi to serve as the Tang Dynasty's Imperial Masters Protecting the Nation, then asked about Li Chengqian's future.
• Qing Mo revealed Yinzi as a silver dragon and gave Li Shimin two dragon scales, which became a powerful dragon robe and silver armor.
• Mo Yanyu praised Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui's future reputations, then revealed that Du Ruhui would die of illness in the fourth year of Zhenguan, causing him to nearly collapse.

Qing Mo helped Li Shimin secure Du Ruhui’s recovery and praised the emperor with later generations’ assessments, then privately revealed the grim fate awaiting Crown Prince Li Chengqian. The chapter ended with Li Shimin, Empress Zhangsun, and Li Chengqian reeling from the news that Chengqian would rebel, lose his position, and die young.

• Du Ruhui swallowed an elixir from Li Shimin, recovered his health, and pledged to serve the Tang Dynasty for decades.
• Qing Mo advised Li Shimin to make officials earn elixirs through merit, and Li Shimin agreed.
• Qing Mo showed the court later generations’ praise of Li Shimin and foretold Li Jing’s defeat of the Eastern Turks and Jieli Khagan’s capture.
• After the banquet, Qing Mo discussed his plans with Mo Yanyu and He Xi, then agreed to tell Li Shimin about the Tang Dynasty’s future.
• Li Shimin summoned Empress Zhangsun and Li Chengqian, and Qing Mo told them that Chengqian would never become emperor.
• Qing Mo said Li Chengqian would rebel in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, be stripped of his title and exiled, then die at twenty-six; Li Shimin’s family was left in shock.

Qing Mo showed Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun how their favoritism and treatment of Li Chengqian led to the Crown Prince’s rebellion in the original history. After watching Li Chengqian confront and condemn his father, Li Shimin was left devastated, while his wife and son looked at him with fear and distance.

• Qing Mo explained that Li Chengqian’s leg injury, Li Shimin’s indulgence of Li Tai, and officials’ constant criticism had helped drive the Crown Prince toward rebellion.
• Qing Mo showed the family a scene from the original history in which Li Chengqian challenged Li Shimin over his preference for Li Tai and his own insecurity as Crown Prince.
• Li Chengqian accused Li Shimin of betraying his family and mother, then endured a whipping before confronting his father over the violence at Black Tortoise Gate.
• Li Chengqian threatened to die before his mother’s grave and condemn Li Shimin before their ancestors, then limped out of the hall.
• Li Shimin coughed up blood after watching Li Chengqian leave, and Qing Mo restored him with tea.
• Li Shimin turned to Empress Zhangsun and Li Chengqian, saw their fear and distance, and burst into tears.