Chapter Summaries

Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui on a training journey, where Dongfang Minghui fought Magic Beasts and discovered a new skill taking shape. After Qian Wanyu helped Princess Xuanzhu escape from a Dark-Type city, Dongfang Minghui secretly stole Pill Formulas and pills, then felt jealous when she saw Xuanzhu riding on Qian Wanyu’s back.

• Qian Wanyu trained Dongfang Minghui against level-three and level-four Magic Beasts, saving her from a Two-Winged One-Eyed Tiger and later letting her fight alone.
• Qian Wanyu lured three enraged bear beasts toward five Sacred Feather Academy students, then kissed Dongfang Minghui after Dongfang Minghui took her hand.
• Qian Wanyu traveled to Cloud Capital City with Dongfang Minghui, then met Princess Xuanzhu to plan an attempt to obtain the Pill Formula.
• Dongfang Minghui secretly followed Xuanzhu to the Cheng Residence, entered its hidden passage, stole Pill Formulas and pills, and gave a captive man medicine and a flying needle.
• Cheng Feng discovered the stolen items and ordered her guards to stop Xuanzhu, so Qian Wanyu carried Xuanzhu out of the city while Dongfang Minghui escaped separately.
• Dongfang Minghui saw Qian Wanyu carrying Xuanzhu and felt jealous, then returned to the inn and shut herself in her room.

Xuanzhu told Qian Wanyu that Cheng Feng had the Pill Formula in her spatial ring, after admitting her plan to steal it had failed. Qian Wanyu left, while Xuanzhu worried that Cheng Feng might refuse to give her the Chaos-Heaven Pill in three months.

• Xuanzhu decided to forgive Yu for carrying her the whole way and considered making another plan in three months.
• Qian Wanyu grabbed Xuanzhu by the throat and demanded to know who had the Pill Formula and where it was.
• Xuanzhu said the Pill Formula was in Cheng Feng's spatial ring and admitted she had planned to steal it.
• Xuanzhu worried that Cheng Feng might suspect her and withhold the Chaos-Heaven Pill in three months.
• Qian Wanyu sneered and left.

Dongfang Minghui secretly investigated the Blood Baleful Alliance, but Qian Wanyu caught and confronted her, forcing her to confess that she had stolen Chaos-Heaven Pills and the Pill Formula from the Cheng Residence. Qian Wanyu learned the truth and chose not to press Dongfang Minghui about why she had kept it secret.

• Qian Wanyu learned that the Dongfang Family had been destroyed and hid the news from Dongfang Minghui.
• Qian Wanyu lost control of her desire for Dongfang Minghui, then stopped when they were alone together in the room.
• Dongfang Minghui searched for the Blood Baleful Alliance's branch and left a commission naming Lu Peng, but Qian Wanyu's people captured her and brought her to Qian Wanyu.
• Dongfang Minghui admitted she wanted to find the alliance and kill Mu Yang to avenge Qian Wanyu, and Qian Wanyu agreed to help her.
• Qian Wanyu questioned Dongfang Minghui about where she had gone, and Dongfang Minghui confessed that she had followed Qian Wanyu to the Cheng Residence and taken ten Chaos-Heaven Pills and the Pill Formula.

Qian Wanyu freed Dongfang Minghui and comforted her, while Dongfang Minghui asked whether she was still angry. Qian Wanyu’s mood softened, and she asked to hold her once.

• Qian Wanyu untied Dongfang Minghui and gently stroked the marks on her skin.
• Dongfang Minghui tentatively asked Qian Wanyu whether she no longer blamed her.
• Qian Wanyu gazed at Dongfang Minghui and asked to hold her just once.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu grew closer after spending the night together, while they investigated the Blood Baleful Alliance and searched for ingredients to verify the Chaos-Heaven Pill formula. The chapter ended with Xuanzhu witnessing Qian Wanyu’s unusually tender attention toward Dongfang Minghui and realizing their relationship seemed romantic.

• Qian Wanyu woke beside Dongfang Minghui after their night together, and the two later shared a meal while Dongfang Minghui confessed she wanted to investigate the Blood Baleful Alliance.
• Dongfang Minghui gave Qian Wanyu the pills and incomplete Pill Formula from the Cheng Residence, and Qian Wanyu arranged for spirit medicines to be found and asked Xuanzhu to confirm that one pill was a Chaos-Heaven Pill.
• Qian Wanyu returned to Dongfang Minghui with pastries, and the two shared affectionate moments while Dongfang Minghui worked on identifying the formula’s ingredients.
• Li Jing reported progress finding spirit medicines, and Qian Wanyu agreed to investigate the suspected Blood Baleful Alliance branch with Dongfang Minghui.
• Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui shopping and to a pastry shop, where Xuanzhu unexpectedly joined them and noticed their intimate behavior.

Dongfang Minghui offered Xuanzhu the last piece of food, but Xuanzhu declined and left. Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui by the hand and led her away.

• Qian Wanyu signaled for Dongfang Minghui to look at Xuanzhu, who seemed close to tears.
• Dongfang Minghui offered Xuanzhu the remaining food, but Xuanzhu pushed it back and said she had to leave.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Qian Wanyu why Xuanzhu was upset, but Qian Wanyu told her not to mind Xuanzhu.
• Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui by the hand and led her away.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui infiltrated the Blood Baleful Alliance in disguise to find a stolen Love Flower Seed, but Big Dumbass exposed Dongfang Minghui and forced them into a dangerous fight. After Qian Wanyu killed him, they disguised their escape as the Jade-Faced Scholar and Big Dumbass acting lecherously, and continued toward the Alliance’s treasures.

• Dongfang Minghui bought a Black-Grabbing Lion hide garment, and Qian Wanyu disguised her as the Jade-Faced Scholar while posing as Hunchbacked Old Li.
• The pair entered the Blood Baleful Alliance, where Qian Wanyu was summoned to meet the branch leader and Dongfang Minghui searched for the Love Flower Seed.
• Big Dumbass recognized Dongfang Minghui’s disguise, resisted her attacks, and threatened her over her connection to the Thieving Strange Hand.
• Love Flower pulled Dongfang Minghui, Big Dumbass, and Qian Wanyu into an Illusion Realm, where Qian Wanyu used Devouring to weaken and kill Big Dumbass.
• Qian Wanyu recovered Big Dumbass’s memories, learned where the Love Flower Seed was kept, and carried Dongfang Minghui through the Alliance while they pretended to be lovers.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui opened the hidden stone door leading to an important area of the Blood Baleful Alliance branch and entered to explore. They began moving down the passage, where Dongfang Minghui asked if Qian Wanyu heard any strange noises.

• Qian Wanyu carried Dongfang Minghui to the stone door and confirmed it had a mechanism.
• Qian Wanyu turned the lamp on the left, opening the stone door.
• Dongfang Minghui jumped down after they passed through the doorway, and Qian Wanyu took a torch to light the passage.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Qian Wanyu whether she heard any strange noises.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu crossed the Blood Baleful Alliance’s traps, fought the Sea Monster, and fell through one of the stone doors into a secluded valley. As they cultivated there, their spiritual powers began to mingle, allowing them to glimpse memories in each other’s soul seas.

• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu solved the Nine-Square Grid and carried Dongfang Minghui across it.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui fought the Sea Monster; Qian Wanyu killed it with lightning, and Dongfang Minghui was wounded by an arrow.
• Wei Junlan investigated the deaths and impostors at the Blood Baleful Alliance branch, recognized Dongfang Minghui’s handwriting, and followed the trail through the stone chamber.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu chose one of three stone doors and fell into a hidden valley where their injuries healed as they cultivated.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui’s spiritual powers entwined during cultivation, and Dongfang Minghui glimpsed a blue-clothed man behind a barrier in Qian Wanyu’s soul sea.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui’s spiritual powers intertwined, breaking a barrier in Qian Wanyu’s Soul Sea and helping her suppress her dark-type spiritual power. Little Lecher regained the ability to take human form, while Qian Wanyu realized her connection with Dongfang Minghui had brought Qing Mo out of seclusion.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui’s spiritual powers intertwined before returning to their respective Soul Seas.
• Qian Wanyu’s Soul Sea barrier shattered, and Qing Mo congratulated her on finding a way to suppress her dark-type spiritual power.
• Qian Wanyu thanked Qing Mo for coming out of seclusion, and he said their connection had brought him out early.
• Dongfang Minghui saw Little Lecher’s vines spread through the valley and realized he could take human form again.
• Little Lecher transformed into a chubby child, and Qian Wanyu said she understood.

Qian Wanyu cultivated in a hidden dark realm and uncovered the story of Cheng Song, a dark-type spirit master whose missing child bore an Elf Clan mark. After Dongfang Minghui reunited with her, they traced the child’s mark to a man imprisoned by Cheng Feng and freed the defective Love Flower Seed, whose strange scent alarmed their companions.

• Little Lecher pierced the waterfall and revealed a hidden barrier, separating Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui into different dark realms.
• Qian Wanyu cultivated until she reached saturation, then discovered Cheng Song’s remains, journal, and an Elf Clan necklace linked to his missing child.
• Wei Junlan waited outside the nine doors and left to prepare for the Second Young Master’s Royal Academy registration.
• Dongfang Minghui reunited with Qian Wanyu after a month apart and recognized Cheng Song’s child’s collarbone mark as one she had seen on a wounded man in Cheng Feng’s residence.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found the sealed chamber containing the defective Love Flower Seed and broke its cylinder open.
• Love Flower, Little Lecher, Toothless, and Zhaocai attacked the freed plant, then reacted with disgust to its scent, and Dongfang Minghui noticed something wrong with Toothless’s paws.

Toothless writhed as black mist gathered around his claw, and the pain spread through his forelimbs.

• Someone noticed black mist on Toothless's claw.
• Toothless cried out to his mother that he was hurt.
• Toothless writhed on the ground as greater changes appeared in his forelimbs.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu escaped the Blood Baleful Alliance after Toothless was injured by Fake Love Flower’s strange black mist, and Qian Wanyu began investigating why Wei Junlan had let them leave. Back at Rose Tower, Qian Wanyu questioned Dongfang Minghui about her past and invited her to a meeting with Nangong Yuntian, leaving Dongfang Minghui determined to guard against her romantic rival.

• Dongfang Minghui treated Toothless’s corroded paws with a leaf from Love Flower, while Love Flower beat Fake Love Flower and sealed it inside a storage compartment to contain its corrosive fluid.
• Qian Wanyu disguised herself and carried Dongfang Minghui out of the Blood Baleful Alliance; after Li Jing reported that Wei Junlan had discovered the bodies but departed for the Snow Capital, Qian Wanyu ordered a detailed investigation and arranged a meeting with Nangong Yuntian.
• Qian Wanyu questioned Dongfang Minghui about childhood incidents, and Dongfang Minghui blamed Dongfang Lizhu for manipulating the schemes that had harmed both her and Qian Wanyu.
• Qian Wanyu concluded that Dongfang Minghui had changed temperament before leaving the Dongfang Family, then told her about the meeting with Nangong Yuntian; Dongfang Minghui insisted on accompanying her to watch over her rival.
• The next morning, Qian Wanyu began disguising herself and Dongfang Minghui for the meeting, transforming herself into an elderly woman.

Qian Wanyu told Dongfang Minghui that her acting had been convincing and assigned her to play the maid who looked after her. The chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui admitting that Seventh Sister was much better at acting.

• Qian Wanyu praised Dongfang Minghui for playing her part convincingly.
• Qian Wanyu pinched Dongfang Minghui's cheeks and told her to act as her maid.
• Dongfang Minghui agreed to stand behind Qian Wanyu and admitted that Seventh Sister was better at acting.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu settled their business in Cloud Capital City, then returned toward the Academy after encountering a mysterious man holding Lü Xing captive. Back at the Academy, the Dean confirmed that Toothless’s wound carried an upgraded death aura, leaving Dongfang Minghui to seek another remedy.

• Qian Wanyu rejected Nangong Yuntian’s outrageous marriage proposal on behalf of his father, then sent him information about his father’s mistresses as her gift.
• Nangong Yuntian delivered ten spirit medicines, and Dongfang Minghui found that only four overlapped with the medicines she expected to find behind the Academy.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu spotted a strange man with an iron box at an inn, but he vanished before they could question him; he was later shown holding Lü Xing captive and was named Wood by Lü Xing.
• Dongfang Minghui brought Qian Wanyu to visit Thieving Strange Hand, told him that Big Dumbass had sought him, and learned that he already knew the Blood Baleful Alliance was hunting him.
• Dongfang Minghui returned to the Academy and showed the Dean the black mist on Toothless’s leg; he recognized it as an upgraded death aura and could not offer a cure.

Summary

Dongfang Minghui hurries back to her small courtyard and finds an unfamiliar person standing inside, facing away from her. Surprised, she asks who they are and why they have entered her courtyard.

Character development

• Dongfang Minghui reacts quickly to the unexpected presence, showing alertness and concern for her personal space.

Themes and interactions

• The excerpt introduces mystery and intrusion: an unidentified visitor has appeared in Minghui’s private courtyard.
• Their first interaction is tense but brief, as Minghui directly challenges the stranger’s presence.

Dongfang Minghui took in Jun Yi as a medicine attendant and discovered that the black herb they had recovered was a dangerous fake Love Flower Seed that produced deadly black mist. As Qian Wanyu helped the academy respond to the threat, she also exposed the people secretly guarding Jun Yi and revealed that he was Wei Junlan’s younger brother and the Blood Baleful Alliance’s second young master.

• Dongfang Minghui welcomed Jun Yi into her courtyard as a medicine attendant and warned him not to overwater Blue Star Dream.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu showed the black herb to Situ Hongying, who confirmed that its sap turned into dangerous black mist, prompting the academy to tighten security and investigate.
• Blue Star Dream alerted Dongfang Minghui to people sneaking into the courtyard, and she watched an unknown visitor secretly care for the sleeping Jun Yi.
• Qian Wanyu defeated one of the intruders and identified Jun Yi as Wei Junlan’s younger brother, then told the guards to stop appearing outside the courtyard.
• Wei Junyi asked Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu to let him stay at the Pharmacy Institute, and Qian Wanyu assured Dongfang Minghui that he could remain as her attendant.

• Key event: The narrator decides that a contemplated task is doable.
• Character development: The narrator frames the task as a chance to settle an old score with Wei Junlan.
• Character interaction: Wei Junlan previously set the narrator up and left him alone to face attacks from magical beasts in the Purple Demon Mountains.
• Theme: The passage hints at retaliation and unresolved resentment.
  The excerpt is brief and does not reveal what the task involves.

Wei Junlan learned that Wei Junyi had met Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui, while Dongfang Minghui researched a way to counter dangerous black mist and assessed Wei Junyi as a medicinal apprentice. After an unexplained knocking disturbed her courtyard overnight, Little Lecher reported chasing a shadow, leaving Dongfang Minghui to wonder who had been there.

• Wei Junlan learned that Qian Minghui was Dongfang Minghui and ordered Feng Ying to investigate her, then told him to watch for Wei Junyi near the Pharmacy Institute instead of the Small Courtyard.
• Dongfang Minghui tested Love Flower leaf potion on Qian Wanyu's dark-type spiritual energy and found that a stronger dose could calm the devouring mist, but Qian Wanyu stopped her from testing it on herself.
• Dongfang Minghui assessed Wei Junyi, and he passed; she rewarded him with a Beauty Bamboo branch while Yong Xing stayed to speak with him.
• Dongfang Minghui nearly touched black mist before Little Lecher struck her hand and warned her to rest.
• Dongfang Minghui heard mysterious knocking through the night, and Qian Wanyu stayed to guard her; Little Lecher later said it had chased a shadow after the knocking began again.

Dongfang Minghui asked Little Lecher whether it had caught up with the person. Little Lecher angrily showed her what it had caught.

• Dongfang Minghui asked Little Lecher if it had caught up with the person.
• Little Lecher recalled being toyed with all night and grew angrier.
• Little Lecher tossed what it had caught in front of Dongfang Minghui.