Chapter Summaries

• The fight turns against Wang Meng: Violent Dragon overwhelms Wang Meng with a rapid series of heavy punches. Wang Meng can only shield himself, stumbling backward as his arms go numb and his strength fades. Li Yichen suspects Wang Meng’s ability is wearing off.
• His friends prepare to intervene: Hao Shuai anxiously considers stepping in despite his fear, showing he is willing to risk himself for Wang Meng. Su Xiaoxiao also offers to help.
• Wang Meng strikes back: When Violent Dragon finally breaks through Wang Meng’s guard and drops him to one knee, Wang Meng headbutts him in the nose. The blow badly crushes it and draws blood.
• Violent Dragon transforms: Enraged, Violent Dragon begins a berserk transformation: his muscles swell, his veins bulge, and his power rises dramatically. Li Yichen uses his Heavenly Eye to observe the change and suggests that Violent Dragon may carry a trace of a primordial demon god’s bloodline. Ouyang Xuanxuan senses the surge too, thanks to her heightened sensitivity after merging with her ability.
• The danger escalates: The onlookers fear Violent Dragon’s rage, citing a previous incident in which he severely injured someone who broke his nose. He leaps above Wang Meng and raises his clasped hands to deliver a potentially devastating blow as the chapter ends.
  Character developments and interactions: Wang Meng shows desperate resilience by counterattacking when cornered. Hao Shuai’s bravado gives way to genuine loyalty, while Li Yichen’s teasing hides his confidence in his friend. Ouyang Xuanxuan and Li Yichen discuss the reality of legendary beings, with Li Yichen relating demon gods to the supernatural entities they have encountered before.
  Themes: The scene emphasizes loyalty under pressure, the limits of endurance, and the terrifying power that can emerge when anger triggers a hidden bloodline. It also blurs the boundary between ancient myth and reality.

Key plot points and events

• As Violent Dragon prepares to strike Wang Meng, Wang refuses to retreat and braces to take the blow. Su Xiaoxiao rushes to his side despite warnings from the crowd.
• Xiaoxiao reveals her ability, Energy Shield, creating a transparent barrier around herself and Wang. It withstands Violent Dragon’s powerful punches, then rebounds his next attack and sends him flying.
• Violent Dragon escalates by throwing chunks of stone. Xiaoxiao’s shield deflects them, though the ricochets endanger the spectators. Hao Jun corrects onlookers who mistakenly blame Xiaoxiao for the flying stones.
• Violent Dragon tears off his shirt, revealing a heavily furred torso, then lifts a massive stone pillar and charges Xiaoxiao with it.
• Xiaoxiao sends Wang back to Hao Jun and forms a shield around herself. The pillar’s impact makes the barrier shake, but she holds it. The shield ultimately launches the pillar toward a female soldier; just as it is about to hit her, someone rushes in front of her.

Character developments

• Su Xiaoxiao demonstrates remarkable courage and confidence, revealing a powerful defensive ability and choosing to face Violent Dragon herself. She is still testing the limits of her new power.
• Wang Meng shows pride and self-sacrifice: he initially refuses to flee and turns to protect Xiaoxiao, but eventually follows her instruction to step back.
• Violent Dragon becomes increasingly enraged as his attacks fail, escalating from punches to thrown stones and a massive pillar.
• Hao Jun speaks up to defend Xiaoxiao when the crowd misreads the situation.

Significant themes

• Courage and self-sacrifice: Wang and Xiaoxiao both risk themselves to protect others.
• Emerging power and uncertainty: Xiaoxiao’s ability appears extremely strong, but its limits are still unknown.
• Perception versus reality: The crowd repeatedly underestimates Xiaoxiao and misunderstands what is happening.
• Escalation and collateral danger: Violent Dragon’s aggression threatens not only his opponents but also bystanders.

Character interactions

• The crowd urges Wang to flee, but he stands his ground; when Xiaoxiao joins him, he tries to shield her instead.
• Xiaoxiao reassures Wang, explains her ability, and later sends him to safety with Hao Jun.
• Violent Dragon repeatedly attacks Xiaoxiao’s barrier, while she calmly counters him.
• Hao Jun challenges the crowd’s accusation that Xiaoxiao is endangering them, pointing out that Violent Dragon is responsible.
• The chapter ends as an unidentified person intervenes to protect the female soldier from the rebounding pillar.

Plot points and events

• Li Yichen shatters a stone pillar while stopping Violent Dragon’s attack. A young woman mistakes his display of strength for a romantic gesture, but he insists he does not know her; Ouyang Xuanxuan reacts with jealousy.
• Su Xiaoxiao defeats Violent Dragon, who collapses from exhaustion. Hao Jun praises her and tries to provoke another challenger, but no one takes him up on it. Elder Mo announces that the group will begin integrating Esper Abilities at six the next morning.
• Su Xiaoxiao leaves with Hao Jun and Wang Meng. Mo Yurou teases Li Yichen about his apparent closeness with Su, while Li denies any romantic involvement.
• The elders persuade Li and his roommates to stay at the base overnight, explaining they may need his help keeping the newly empowered group under control.
• Later, Li senses trouble and secretly flies to the Su family’s pharmaceutical base. There, a five-person team plans to steal core data—or destroy it if they cannot. Their leader worries because an earlier operative, 9527, never returned.
• Li watches as fog and Ghost Knights overwhelm the intruders. The four scouts are impaled, and their leader is left dead after the spectral cavalry passes.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen remains powerful but modest about the attention he attracts. He is caught between Ouyang Xuanxuan’s jealousy and Mo Yurou’s teasing, and his quiet intervention at the pharmaceutical base reveals his vigilance.
• Su Xiaoxiao demonstrates her strength by defeating Violent Dragon and remains fondly exasperated with Hao Jun, dragging him away when he stirs up trouble.
• Hao Jun shifts quickly from flattery to bravado, trying to provoke further fights.
• Violent Dragon is left exhausted and unconscious after his attack is turned against him.
• The intruders underestimate the danger at the base; their confidence collapses when they encounter the Ghost Knights.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Displays of strength can attract admiration, envy, and challenges, while Su’s victory ends the confrontation decisively.
• Jealousy and romantic ambiguity: Several characters speculate about Li and Su’s relationship, though Li denies it.
• Hidden danger and vigilance: A seemingly quiet night gives way to a lethal threat, reinforcing the importance of staying alert.
• Consequences of arrogance: The intruders’ dismissive attitude toward their predecessor proves fatal.

Plot and events

• Li Yichen messages Su Shengnan: “Send someone to collect the bodies.” She learns that five bodies have been found outside the testing base, all apparently without wounds.
• Su Shengnan asks her shadow operative, Dark Shadow, to handle them. He proposes dumping the bodies in the Jiang Family estate as a warning and accelerating their decay so they will stink. Su Shengnan agrees, despite her disgust.
• The next morning, Steward Zhao discovers the five corpses in the Jiang estate’s central courtyard. After scolding the messenger who reports them, he uncovers the sheet and is overwhelmed by the stench.
• Zhao orders the bodies burned, but the flames produce clouds of foul black smoke, making people across the estate vomit—including Old Master Jiang.
• At an emergency meeting, Old Master Jiang demands an explanation. Jiang Tianhao reports finding a warning beneath the corpses: “Anyone who dares cross the Su Family shall be put to death.”

Character developments and interactions

• Su Shengnan is troubled by the Jiang Family’s growing threat and the disappearance of Yellow-tier experts. Li Yichen’s message reassures her that he is acting on the Su Family’s behalf; she authorizes Dark Shadow’s plan.
• Dark Shadow shows initiative by turning the corpses into a deliberate intimidation tactic.
• Steward Zhao is irritable and overbearing, repeatedly rebuking the messenger before learning what happened. His attempt to dispose of the bodies only worsens the crisis.
• Jiang Tianhao presents himself as bold and dutiful by investigating the corpses, while secretly seeming pleased by the situation before adopting an angry facade. Old Master Jiang’s approval suggests he favors Tianhao.
• Old Master Jiang responds with fury and demands answers from the family.

Significant themes

• Retaliation and intimidation: The corpses and written warning make the Su Family’s response to the Jiang Family unmistakable.
• Power and responsibility: The Jiang estate’s people struggle to respond, while Zhao’s position makes him answerable for the breach.
• Appearance versus intent: Jiang Tianhao’s concealed satisfaction contrasts with his public display of anger.

Plot and events

• Angered by Dark Shadow’s actions, the Jiang Family patriarch orders Jiang Tianhao to enlist the Qin and Shen families in a campaign to kill every Su Family expert of Yellow rank or higher within a week.
• Jiang Tianhao, newly released from confinement, is eager to regain power. Having secretly profited by shorting Su Family stock, he sets out to rally the other families.
• At the training base, a hundred team members finish integrating their abilities, provoking ominous thunderclouds and heavenly lightning.
• The three elders cast the Three Talents Heaven-Sealing Formation, concealing the team’s combined aura and temporarily making the storm disperse.
• The newly awakened members celebrate by releasing their energy. Their collective outburst shatters the barrier, drawing the thunderclouds back with greater force.
• The elders prepare to defend the team at any cost. Li Yichen instead rises to meet the lightning, summoning a black-and-white flame that expands into a huge lotus. The chapter ends as the lightning strikes it, leaving its effectiveness uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Tianhao returns to the political struggle with renewed confidence, motivated by ambition and revenge against the Su Family.
• Elder Mo, Elder Wang, and Elder Wu shift from cautious observers to desperate protectors. Elder Wu is willing to sacrifice herself; the elders also entrust the trainees to Li Yichen if they die.
• Li Yichen remains calm amid the elders’ anxiety, then takes responsibility for confronting the lightning directly. He brushes off their grim farewells but admits he has no easy solution.
• The awakened team members move from delighted excitement to alarm after their celebration breaks the protective formation. They nevertheless hold their ground.

Significant themes

• Collective power and its risks: The hundred members’ combined strength becomes formidable, but their uncontrolled excitement causes the danger to escalate.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: The elders are prepared to give their lives to protect the younger generation.
• Ambition and retaliation: Jiang Tianhao’s political maneuvering sets up a violent campaign against the Su Family.
• Courage under uncertainty: Li Yichen acts despite having no assurance his flame can withstand the heavenly lightning.

• Key events: Li Yichen uses his black-and-white lotus flame to absorb a powerful series of tribulation-lightning strikes. The lotus withstands every bolt, and the thunderclouds eventually disperse. Elder Mo then declares Li Yichen the group’s “Senior Brother” and orders the roughly hundred soldiers to obey and thank him for saving their lives. After accepting their thanks, Li Yichen abruptly flies away to a secluded mountain peak. There, the lightning energy stored in his flames surges through his body and into his golden core, which grows to the size of an egg and begins to shake.
• Character developments and interactions: Li Yichen reveals the full power of his yin-yang flame and remains composed through the tribulation. Though he recognizes that the elders have maneuvered him into a position of responsibility, he graciously accepts the soldiers’ gratitude. The soldiers admire him, while several female soldiers comically imagine themselves as his future partners. Elder Mo firmly establishes Li Yichen’s authority; Elder Wang, meanwhile, turns his attention to giving the group a harsh “training session.” Li Yichen’s sudden departure leaves the elders puzzled.
• Significant themes: The chapter highlights concealed power and its dramatic public recognition, as Li Yichen’s skill turns a crisis into a spectacle. It also explores duty imposed through gratitude: saving the soldiers earns him a title and obligations he never sought. Finally, the lightning’s transformation into power links danger with advancement, setting up a possible breakthrough from golden-core cultivation toward a nascent soul.

Plot points and events

• Li Yichen’s spiritual power reaches the Nascent Soul Realm after the yin-yang twin flames return energy to him from the earlier tribulation lightning.
• His golden core cracks, and its energy forms a small, glowing nascent soul in his dantian.
• The new nascent soul impulsively swallows the twin flames, causing Li Yichen to panic when it writhes in pain. Black-and-white flames then flare around it before settling into a flame mark between its brows.
• Li Yichen discovers he can transfer his consciousness into the nascent soul, send it outside his body, and enlarge it to resemble a clone. The twin flames have fused with it and can now be controlled more easily—and with greater power—than before.
• His celebration is cut short when a much larger lightning tribulation gathers overhead. At the Secret Base, Elder Mo, Elder Wu, and Elder Wang realize someone nearby is facing a Nascent Soul tribulation and suspect it is Li Yichen.
• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi join the elders. Mo Yurou worries about Li Yichen’s safety and asks whether the elders can help, but Elder Wu warns that the tribulation is far beyond their ability to withstand.

Character development and interactions

• Li Yichen makes a major breakthrough and gains a powerful, clone-like nascent soul, but his pride quickly gives way to alarm when the next tribulation appears.
• The nascent soul is introduced as an independent, seemingly impulsive being, yet it proves closely linked to Li Yichen and becomes the vessel through which he controls the twin flames.
• Mo Yurou shows deep concern for Li Yichen and urgently seeks help for him.
• Elder Wu answers Mo Yurou honestly, while Elder Mo and Elder Wang react with disbelief at the possibility that someone so young has reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

Significant themes

• Cultivation’s risks: A breakthrough brings power, but also a dangerous heavenly test.
• Power and transformation: The twin flames are not lost; they merge with Li Yichen’s nascent soul and become stronger.
• Humility before greater forces: Li Yichen’s boastful confidence—and the elders’ assumptions—are quickly challenged by the immense tribulation.

Key plot points and events

• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi decide to go to Li Yichen, fearing he will die in his Nascent Soul Tribulation. Elders immobilize them with talismans, arguing that their presence would distract him and make the danger worse.
• The women reluctantly accept that they must wait and trust Li Yichen, though Jiang Ruoyi vows they will follow him in death if he does not survive.
• As the tribulation cloud gathers, Li Yichen prepares by surrounding himself with numerous low-quality artifacts—many made of ghostly materials that fare poorly against heavenly lightning. He uses his blood and spiritual energy to refine them, intending to sacrifice them as defenses.
• The first lightning bolt arrives before he is ready. A bone sword intercepts it and shatters; its skull hilt draws the bolt away before exploding, weakening the strike. Li Yichen realizes the artifact protected him and respectfully buries its remaining teeth.
• A stronger second bolt is successively stopped by a bone saber, an ancient mirror, and a turtle-shell shield. The first two break, while the shield drains the bolt’s remaining power.

Character developments and interactions

• The three women’s willingness to risk death reveals the depth of their devotion to Li Yichen. Elder Wu’s warning that they could endanger him persuades them to stay behind, though their fear and resolve remain.
• Li Yichen responds to the crisis with resourcefulness and grim pragmatism, accepting the likely destruction of his artifacts as worthwhile if it buys him a chance to survive. His remorseful treatment of the bone sword’s remains also shows gratitude beneath his humor.
• The elders act protectively, restraining the women rather than allowing them to rush into danger. Elder Wu serves as the voice of reason, while the women’s exchange reinforces their shared commitment to Li Yichen.

Significant themes

• Love and sacrifice: The women are prepared to die alongside Li Yichen, while the elders urge them to show love by not becoming a liability.
• Survival through sacrifice and ingenuity: Li Yichen spends his possessions to withstand the tribulation, using quantity and tactics where quality is lacking.
• The peril of power: The increasingly powerful lightning makes clear that surviving the Nascent Soul Tribulation will require more than preparation alone.

Plot and events

• Li Yichen survives the early stages of his nascent-soul tribulation by using bone artifacts to absorb the increasingly powerful lightning. After the seventy-ninth strike, he has only two bolts left—but most of his artifacts are destroyed.
• For a stronger defense, he arranges his remaining ten artifacts around the Tortoise Shield. Their combined yin energy summons a huge phantom Black Tortoise.
• The final-but-one strike, infused with heavenly fire, overwhelms the formation. The Black Tortoise retreats into its shell, the artifacts shatter, and the shield flies back to Li Yichen. He is struck directly, badly burned, and knocked down.
• Realizing one stronger bolt remains and he cannot survive it alone, Li Yichen panics about dying and leaving his girlfriends behind. A black lotus appears between his brows, and the Ghost Emperor—his great-grandfather—speaks to him. Li Yichen begs for help, but the chapter ends before the Ghost Emperor responds with a solution.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen is resourceful and adapts his defenses as the tribulation escalates, but his confidence gives way to fear once his artifacts fail. Even while injured and desperate, he keeps his irreverent, provocative humor, taunting the thundercloud and arguing with his great-grandfather.
• The Ghost Emperor appears at a critical moment and recognizes that Li Yichen has reached the nascent-soul tribulation. Their familiar, bickering relationship is evident: Li Yichen pleads for rescue, while the Ghost Emperor scolds him for repeatedly using the family bloodline as leverage.
• Elder Mo and the others watch anxiously. Ouyang Xuanxuan is hopeful that Li Yichen will finish the trial, while Elder Wu knows the remaining strikes will be far more dangerous. Jiang Ruoyi watches tearfully and silently prays for his survival.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness against overwhelming force: Li Yichen’s clever use of multiple artifacts buys him time, but cannot stop the tribulation indefinitely.
• Courage mixed with fear: He faces each strike with determination, yet openly panics when the last defense collapses.
• Humor and family bonds amid danger: Li Yichen’s crude jokes and the Ghost Emperor’s exasperated affection lighten an otherwise life-threatening ordeal.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yichen reveals that his nascent soul swallowed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, leaving him without a conventional way to face the approaching heavenly tribulation.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran enters Li’s dantian to investigate. When he touches the nascent soul, it instinctively erupts in black-and-white fire, badly scorching him. Li quickly regains control and pulls the flames back.
• Haoran explains that the flames have transformed Li’s nascent soul into an “otherworldly flame essence,” with fused bones and meridians. Its yin-yang nature gives it immense attack power and vitality, making Li exceptionally powerful for his level.
• Li admits he does not know how to control fire, so Haoran teaches him a Flame Control Technique.
• Li sends out his nascent soul just as the tribulation cloud gathers for a powerful strike. He enlarges the soul, then grows it further and surrounds himself with flames, towering before the giant purple-gold lightning bolt.
• The onlookers at the Secret Base cheer and marvel at Li. Xiaobei boasts about his brother, while Mo Yurou angrily objects when the crowd calls Li their “husband.”

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shifts from anxious and helpless to confident after learning that the flames have greatly strengthened his nascent soul. His pride is quickly tempered by the practical problem that he cannot control his new power until Haoran helps him.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran is alarmed by the unprecedented transformation, then impressed—and envious—of Li’s strength. His attempt to inspect the nascent soul ends in comic humiliation, but he still provides Li with the technique he needs.
• Mo Yurou openly asserts her relationship with Li when other women cheer for him, revealing jealousy and possessiveness.
• Xiaobei proudly uses Li’s display of strength to boast about his big brother.

Significant themes

• Unexpected transformation: A dangerous, unusual event—the nascent soul consuming the flames—becomes the source of extraordinary power.
• Power and mastery: Great strength alone is not enough; Li still needs instruction to control his new abilities.
• Humor amid danger: Haoran’s singed appearance and Li’s boastfulness lighten the tension of the looming tribulation.
• Admiration and possessiveness: The crowd’s worship of Li contrasts with Mo Yurou’s jealous claim on him.

Plot points and events

• Li Yichen confronts the final assault of his tribulation: a purple-gold lightning serpent. He pierces its head with a black-and-white flame spear, then fights off the smaller serpents released when it bursts apart.
• Using the Flame Control Art taught by his great-grandfather, Ghost Emperor Haoran, Li forms a rotating taiji diagram of black-and-white flames. It grinds away the remaining lightning, disperses the tribulation clouds, and ends the storm.
• Exhausted but smiling, Li returns to his body. He credits Haoran, who is pleased by Li’s flattery and praises him.
• Elsewhere in the Kunlun Mountains, a blood-red tribulation devastates a remote peak. Wang Chen leads six disciples to investigate and finds the summit ruined and apparently deserted.
• A bloodied figure emerges from the rubble. The disciples initially take him for an injured Kunlun member, but Wang Chen recognizes him as Senior Brother Qin Ming. Qin Ming reveals that he has succumbed to demonic corruption and intends to devour them. Wang Chen orders the others to flee and report to the sect leader, then attacks Qin Ming.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen demonstrates how much he has grown: he stays composed under overwhelming pressure and uses his newly learned flame technique effectively. His joking reference to dinner with his girlfriend shows his irreverent confidence, while his praise of Haoran is partly affectionate and partly calculated to win more help.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran acts as Li’s mentor and celebrates his success, enjoying the grandson’s flattery.
• Wang Chen responds cautiously to the strange aura and devastation, then takes charge when Qin Ming’s identity and threat become clear. He risks himself to give the others a chance to escape.
• Qin Ming shifts from an apparently helpless survivor to a predatory threat, exposing the danger of his demonic transformation.

Significant themes

• Mastery through guidance: Li’s success depends on applying the Flame Control Art he learned from Haoran.
• Tribulation and transformation: The two lightning trials frame both achievement and danger—Li survives his ordeal, while Qin Ming emerges corrupted from another.
• Contrasting outcomes: Li’s ordeal ends in relief and reunion with his mentor; the Kunlun scene turns abruptly toward horror and impending conflict.
• Duty and sacrifice: Wang Chen protects his companions by warning them to escape and confronting Qin Ming himself.

Key plot points

• Qin Ming overwhelms Wang Chen, stopping his sword between two fingers and revealing that he has reached the nascent soul realm.
• Wang Chen attacks with his Spirit-Light Sword technique, but Qin Ming destroys it and easily pins six other Kunlun disciples with crushing pressure.
• Qin Ming rejects Wang Chen’s warning that the sect leader will punish him, believing his new power makes him too valuable to lose.
• He kills Wang Chen by tearing out and swallowing his golden core. He then kills another disciple and absorbs the victim’s vital essence, while the remaining disciples face him in terror.
• Elsewhere, a Kunlun disciple in a secluded cave is gradually recovering: black-and-white qi repairs her damaged dantian, and her golden core begins to glow again. Her tearful attendant hopes that, once her master recovers, she can reunite with her husband, Yichen.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Ming has become openly ruthless and arrogant. He treats his former fellow disciples as food, dismisses their techniques as worthless, and kills without hesitation.
• Wang Chen first tries to protect the younger disciples, urging them to flee, then defies Qin Ming even when badly injured. His resistance ends with his death.
• The six disciples initially return to help Wang Chen, but Qin Ming’s power leaves them helpless. One begs for mercy; another condemns the plea and insists Qin Ming will kill them regardless.
• In the cave, the recovering master remains unconscious or absorbed in healing, while her attendant watches anxiously and thinks of Yichen.

Significant themes

• Power and moral corruption: Qin Ming’s breakthrough magnifies his arrogance and enables his descent into violence.
• Betrayal of brotherhood: A former disciple turns against his own sectmates, framing them as prey.
• Helplessness before overwhelming power: The disciples’ loyalty, courage, and techniques cannot overcome Qin Ming’s realm.
• Hope amid violence: The master’s recovery offers a quieter counterpoint to the slaughter and gives her attendant hope of reuniting with Yichen.

Plot points and events

• Bai Qianyue recovers, crediting her disciple Bai Binger with saving her. Binger asks to descend the mountain to see Li Yichen. Qianyue agrees, saying she must first attend the Sect Master’s birthday.
• Li Yichen returns to the Training Base after his lightning tribulation and new breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage. He makes a dramatic entrance but is mobbed by excited female disciples until Elder Wu clears the crowd.
• The elders praise his achievement and ask about his plans. Li says he intends to return to school and spend time with Mo Yurou and his other girlfriends.
• The elders try to recruit him into Bureau 9. He refuses, preferring his freedom, but agrees to help Bureau 9—and, at their prompting, Bureaus 7 and 4—if they need him.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Binger openly admits she wants to reunite with Li, though she is embarrassed by her affection. Her close, playful exchange with Qianyue shows their strong teacher-disciple bond.
• Bai Qianyue is restored to health and returns to her affectionate, teasing personality. She accepts Binger’s relationship while joking that she will scold Li for “stealing” her disciple.
• Li Yichen is newly confident in his Nascent Soul power, but remains respectful toward the elders and committed to his personal freedom. He is also attentive to his girlfriends, quickly reassuring them that he wants to spend time with them.
• Elder Wu protects Li from the crowd, while Elders Mo, Wu, and Wang admire his strength and negotiate for his future help. Mo Yurou and the other girls react happily to Li’s reassurance; his roommates enjoy watching his embarrassment.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and affection: Binger’s devotion helps save Qianyue, and their bond remains warm after her recovery.
• Power and responsibility: Li’s immense new strength attracts attention and makes him valuable to the bureaus, though he resists formal obligations.
• Negotiation and compromise: The elders fail to recruit Li outright but secure his promise to help when needed.
• Humor and social embarrassment: Li’s grand entrance, the disciples’ attention, and Qianyue’s teasing lighten the chapter’s celebrations and negotiations.

Plot points and events

• After the tribulation, Li Yichen tries to leave with Mo Yurou and the other girls. Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai beg him to take them back to Jinling University too, using teasing threats about his visits to the girls’ dorm to pressure him.
• Elder Mo lets the three students go, since he now has a hundred expert ability users and no longer needs to keep them for competition training.
• Li Yichen opens a spatial passage for the group. He deliberately sends the three men tumbling into Li Zhao Lake, where they argue and joke: Yang Weifeng panics because he cannot swim, then remembers he can fly; Zhang Yong and Sun Kai plot to use his invisibility for a voyeuristic prank.
• Li Yichen spends the next few days relaxing, attending occasional classes and keeping company with Mo Yurou and the other girls.
• Meanwhile, Su Shengnan faces a growing crisis: Yellow Level experts are disappearing and later turning up dead. She suspects the other three families are responsible. Steward Wang then reports that Master Huang and others have arrived and want to leave, further threatening the Su Family’s position.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows his usual reluctance to take on extra responsibilities, but ultimately helps his friends. His teasing, mischievous side appears when he dumps them into the lake and leaves with the girls.
• Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai act shamelessly and comically, exploiting their friendship with Li Yichen to secure a ride home. Their banter continues after the lake incident.
• Elder Mo is irritated by the trio’s behavior but is pragmatic, releasing them because he has other experts available.
• Su Shengnan is increasingly overwhelmed and alarmed as her family’s allies disappear and remaining experts threaten to depart.

Significant themes

• Friendship and teasing: The men rely on familiar banter, exaggerated threats, and pranks as expressions of camaraderie.
• Power and convenience: Li Yichen’s Nascent Soul-level ability makes spatial travel effortless, while the group’s abilities shape even their comic mishaps.
• A shift from leisure to danger: Li Yichen enjoys a carefree break, but the Su Family’s worsening crisis introduces a serious political and personal threat.

Plot points and events

• Facing the Su Family’s growing losses and the departure of its hired guards, family head Su Shengnan recognizes that the clan is dangerously exposed.
• Huang Shan, an advanced Profound Grade expert, prepares to leave with his men, arguing that he cannot ask them to risk their lives. Su Second angrily accuses them of ingratitude, but Huang Shan shuts him down.
• Shengnan accepts the guards’ fear and asks Huang Shan to stay for three days, promising to resolve the family’s crisis in that time.
• To prove her confidence, she reveals a previously hidden Mind Ability: she controls a dozen throwing knives, which pierce an ornamental rock and return to her.
• Huang Shan agrees to give her three days. He and the Yellow Grade guards leave for now, temporarily restoring calm to the compound.

Character developments

• Su Shengnan remains composed under pressure and shows leadership by acknowledging the guards’ concerns rather than blaming them. Her new Ability gives her a source of strength she had kept secret, and she now openly stakes her authority on solving the crisis.
• Huang Shan is practical and responsible toward his men, but respectful of Shengnan. Her demonstration persuades him to delay his departure despite his doubts.
• Su Second is furious and confrontational, but quickly backs down when Huang Shan challenges him, highlighting the gap between his status and real fighting experience.

Themes

• Survival versus loyalty: The guards’ departure reflects the limits of loyalty when lives are at stake.
• Leadership and trust: Shengnan wins a temporary reprieve by understanding others’ fears and offering a concrete commitment.
• Hidden strength and hope: Her sudden revelation as an Ability User changes how the Su Family sees its prospects, though her promise still faces uncertainty.

Character interactions

• Su Second argues with Huang Shan over the guards’ departure, but Shengnan intervenes before the dispute escalates.
• Shengnan speaks respectfully with Huang Shan, recognizes his responsibility to his men, and asks for three days.
• After witnessing her ability, Huang Shan questions whether she can truly protect the family; Shengnan answers with a firm guarantee and agrees to let him leave if she fails.

Plot points

• After averting the immediate crisis, Su Shengnan sends the Su Family members away and retreats to her room, exhausted and unsure what to do next. Her relatives are eager to learn how she awakened her ability, not knowing it came from an Ability Pearl.
• Su Third urges Su Second to pressure Shengnan for an explanation. Su Second denies there is anything they can do, but secretly orders the family’s written records and genealogy so he can investigate the awakening himself.
• The Jiang, Qin, and Shen families hear that Shengnan has become an Ability User and forced the Su Family’s experts to stay. Jiang Tianhao dismisses her as a threat and insists their campaign against the Su Family continue; the three families plan to judge her response in three days.
• The rival families discuss the Su Family’s secret pharmaceutical base. Qin Wenhan reveals that three Qin teams sent to investigate were found dead nearby, without wounds, poison, illness, or signs of struggle. Their bodies carried unusually intense yin energy.
• Qin proposes that Jiang Tianhao and Shen Beichen join him in visiting the base that night to uncover what is happening.

Character developments and interactions

• Shengnan’s forceful public stance contrasts with her private exhaustion and uncertainty.
• Su Second appears dismissive of Su Third’s suggestion but is privately curious and takes action to search the family records. Su Third is openly suspicious of his motives.
• Jiang Tianhao is confident and combative, while Shen Beichen and Qin Wenhan are more cautious about provoking Shengnan. Qin also takes the lead in revealing the danger at the base and recruiting the others to investigate.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Shengnan’s new ability gives her authority, but she remains overwhelmed by the crisis.
• Ambition and rivalry: The three families keep pursuing the Su Family despite the risk, hoping to prevent its recovery.
• Secrets and the unknown: The method behind Shengnan’s awakening and the lethal, unexplained force surrounding the pharmaceutical base remain mysteries.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Wenhan proposes investigating the Su Family’s Secret Base, despite earlier warnings that it is eerie. He says the Qin Family has hired a Taoist who can deal with ghosts and demons, and suggests the group observe from a safe distance.
• Shen Beichen agrees to accompany him. Jiang Tianhao is reluctant because he already suspects something is wrong at the base, but agrees under pressure from the others.
• Master Jia arrives, looking and behaving more like a rough, gluttonous eccentric than a Taoist. He boasts about his supernatural abilities, jokes about keeping a female ghost as a concubine, and eats all the food on the table.
• After nightfall, the four men travel to the base. Master Jia senses that spirits may have been deliberately raised there and uses a compass to investigate.
• His spell reveals numerous Ghost Knights guarding the base. The three young men realize that the Su Family’s defenses make a direct assault extremely dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Wenhan is confident enough to initiate the investigation, but his confidence falters when Master Jia’s abilities are questioned—and he is stunned by the Ghost Knights’ appearance.
• Jiang Tianhao remains wary throughout. Though he reluctantly joins the expedition, the discovery confirms his suspicion that the base holds a serious threat.
• Shen Beichen masks his caution with social politeness, but urges the group to stay alert and flee if necessary. He is also visibly disgusted when Master Jia uses his chopsticks.
• Master Jia is introduced as boastful, shameless, and comically uncouth, yet his compass and spell genuinely expose the supernatural guardians. His true capability remains uncertain.
• The young men’s uneasy alliance is shown through their mutual pressure on Jiang to join and their shared readiness to retreat if danger appears.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: Master Jia seems ridiculous, but his ritual produces real results.
• Caution in the face of the unknown: The characters’ bravado gives way to anxiety as the danger becomes tangible.
• The cost of underestimating threats: The Ghost Knights suggest that the Su Family’s base is far more heavily protected than the visitors expected.

Plot and events

• Shen Beichen, Jiang Tianhao, and Qin Wenhan flee from the overwhelming Netherworld Soldiers, but the ghosts surround them. Master Jia catches up, having inadvertently led the danger to them.
• The three blame Master Jia for making matters worse, yet Qin Wenhan must ask him for help. Shen Beichen offers ten million to secure their escape; Jiang Tianhao and Qin Wenhan each match the offer.
• Motivated by the thirty-million reward, Master Jia uses his treasured Zhong Kui plaque. He sacrifices it by invoking Zhong Kui, who appears and makes the Netherworld Soldiers halt.
• Zhong Kui demands to know who gathered the soldiers. Their commander, Li Xiucheng, appears and kneels to greet him as Judge Zhong. Zhong Kui recognizes him as someone associated with the Black-and-White Old Ghosts, leaving the humans alarmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Wenhan shifts from anger and distrust of Master Jia to renewed confidence in him after Zhong Kui appears, though he privately resents the trouble Jia caused.
• Master Jia is revealed as genuinely powerful, but also strongly motivated by money. Despite his fear, he commits to rescuing the group once promised a large reward, at the cost of his heirloom plaque.
• Shen Beichen proves perceptive, recognizing Jia may have an escape plan and using a generous offer to persuade him. Jiang Tianhao and Qin Wenhan quickly follow suit.
• Li Xiucheng shows deference to Zhong Kui, while Zhong Kui’s familiarity with him hints at a broader supernatural hierarchy and raises new questions for the group.

Significant themes

• Fear and survival: The humans’ bravado collapses as they face a force they cannot fight.
• Greed and sacrifice: Money persuades Jia to expend a precious, irreplaceable relic.
• Power and hierarchy: Zhong Kui’s authority immediately checks the Netherworld Soldiers, and Li Xiucheng’s connection to him complicates the apparent danger.

Key plot points and events

• Li Xiucheng explains to Judge Zhong that his Netherworld Soldiers are only guarding Li Yichen’s property and will not interfere with the living unless provoked.
• Zhong Kui accepts this explanation, suspects Jiang Tianhao’s group of wrongdoing, and chooses not to intervene. He leaves after warning Master Jia not to summon him again without cause.
• With Zhong Kui gone, Master Jia reveals a carefully concealed Heaven-Escaping Talisman. Li Xiucheng recognizes it and orders his soldiers to seize the intruders.
• Master Jia activates the talisman with his blood. It carries him, Jiang Tianhao, and the others past the soldiers—but only a short distance before its power fails. The group crashes to the ground, and Jiang Tianhao flees as the Netherworld Soldiers turn toward them.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhong Kui balances his duty to the rules against personal interest: he accepts Li Xiucheng’s argument partly because he hopes to gain Li Yichen’s favor, and leaves without helping Master Jia.
• Li Xiucheng shows restraint and confidence, using careful reasoning rather than attacking immediately. He recognizes the talisman’s danger and quickly changes to action.
• Master Jia is reluctant to spend his last resort but uses the talisman when pressed. Its limited effect leaves him exhausted.
• Jiang Tianhao and his companions grow increasingly anxious and impatient, first over Zhong Kui’s departure and then over Master Jia’s slow preparations; Jiang Tianhao eventually panics and runs.

Significant themes

• Rules versus self-interest: Zhong Kui invokes the law against disturbing the Mortal Realm, yet his decision is also influenced by the possibility of benefiting from Li Yichen.
• Power and desperation: The talisman offers a dramatic escape, but its limited range and cost show that even powerful tools may only delay danger.
• Humor amid peril: The nested bundles, the group’s curiosity about where Master Jia hid them, and their frustration provide comic relief as the threat closes in.

Key events

• Master Jia’s group escapes the Netherworld Soldiers. Shen Beichen asks about the powerful Heaven-Escaping Talisman and learns Master Jia’s was the last of its kind; they may have originated on Mount Qingcheng.
• Jiang Tianhao asks Master Jia to help destroy the Soldiers, but Jia refuses, warning that a powerful expert protects the place.
• Jiang Tianhao then stabs Master Jia to avoid paying him and to keep the Su Family’s secret hidden. He proposes sending troublesome younger relatives to investigate the guarded site, hoping they will uncover the secret. Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen approve of the scheme.
• Master Jia dies cursing the three men, having survived the supernatural danger only to be betrayed by those he saved.
• At a secluded temple on Mount Qingcheng, Tang Ling’er watches over her unconscious mother and talks about her boyfriend, Li Yichen, while grumbling that her grandfather has not returned.
• Her eldest senior brother arrives on crutches after being beaten by their master. Tang Ling’er’s earlier accusation—that the brothers peeked at her bathing—explains his injuries.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Tianhao reveals himself as calculating and ruthless, treating Master Jia as disposable once he is no longer useful.
• Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen show little concern for Jia’s murder and readily consider copying Jiang’s plan. Shen’s interest in the talisman also hints at his ambition.
• Master Jia is resourceful enough to save the group, but his trust in them proves fatal.
• Tang Ling’er appears affectionate toward her comatose mother and eager to reunite with Li Yichen, though she remains impulsive and oblivious to the harm her accusation caused her senior brother.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and self-interest: The three men repay Jia’s rescue with murder, valuing secrecy and advantage over human life.
• The cost of ambition: The families’ interest in the Su Family’s secret leads them toward dangerous schemes.
• Contrasting worlds: The chapter shifts from violence and moral corruption to the comparatively domestic, humorous scene at Mount Qingcheng.