Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu discovered that the Pig Immortal Grass had stolen a Love Flower leaf and lured them into a formation, where they caught it with the help of Qian Wanyu’s Urn-Trap Formation. The Pig Immortal Grass ended up surrounded by the spirit medicines, while Little Lecher was forbidden from eating it for now.

• Little Lecher identified the plants making the knocking sounds as Knock-Knock Grass, and Qian Wanyu decided to study formations to protect the Small Courtyard.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered that a Love Flower leaf had vanished and suspected the Pig Immortal Grass had stolen it.
• Qian Wanyu named her new formation the Urn-Trap Formation, using the strange orange objects taken from Dongfang Minghui’s stash as formation stones.
• Dongfang Minghui and Wei Junyi were drawn into a formation where she exposed the Pig Immortal Grass hiding in Wei Junyi’s body and drove it out with fire.
• Qian Wanyu entered the strengthened formation and brought out Love Flower, Zhaocai, Little Lecher, and the battered Pig Immortal Grass.
• Little Lecher demanded to eat the Pig Immortal Grass, but Dongfang Minghui refused, and Qian Wanyu warned Little Lecher not to bully her.

Dongfang Minghui captured the Pig Immortal Grass and secured it with the God-Binding Rope. After the Love Flower and Zhaocai dragged it into the space, she asked Qian Wanyu how she had lured it into the formation.

• Qian Wanyu told Dongfang Minghui to tie up the Pig Immortal Grass properly so it could not escape again.
• Dongfang Minghui bound the Pig Immortal Grass with the God-Binding Rope and handed it to the Love Flower and Zhaocai.
• The Love Flower and Zhaocai dragged the Pig Immortal Grass into the space, while Little Lecher returned to Dongfang Minghui's soul sea.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Qian Wanyu how she had lured the Pig Immortal Grass into the formation.

Dongfang Minghui discovered that Little Lecher’s vine juice could destroy the black mist and used it to heal Toothless, but later experiments failed. After Qian Wanyu helped her realize that mixed plant juices may have caused the original result, Minghui pursued the mysterious man who had paid her 520 spirit stones, and he appeared in a grove and addressed her by name.

• Qian Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui a pouch of plant remains, and Minghui found that Little Lecher’s vine juice completely consumed the black mist.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu applied the vine juice to Toothless’s forelegs, where it destroyed the black mist and allowed the wounds to heal.
• Dongfang Minghui kept Pig Immortal Grass under guard and bargained with Little Lecher for a vine, but repeated tests showed the juice no longer worked on the black mist.
• Qian Wanyu suggested that ingredients mixed together in the pouch might have caused the earlier result, and Dongfang Minghui hurried off to investigate.
• Dongfang Minghui chased the mysterious man who had given her 520 extra spirit stones to a grove, where he emerged and addressed her as Miss Qian.

Dongfang Minghui confronted a man who had lured her there over five-two-zero. She pretended not to understand him and attacked with throwing needles.

• Dongfang Minghui grew wary when the man said he had lured her there because of five-two-zero.
• Dongfang Minghui asked who he was and readied her throwing needles.
• The man said his identity did not matter and asked about five-two-zero.
• Dongfang Minghui pretended he meant the extra spirit stones from her last pill purchase and claimed she had intended to repay him.
• Dongfang Minghui walked toward him and shot her throwing needles at him.

Dongfang Minghui met Wei Junlan, who warned that their changes to the novel’s plot might endanger the world, then became Situ Hongying’s disciple and received two precious treasures. She returned to find Qian Wanyu recruiting teammates through a challenge ring, and prepared to show her the Soul Infant Fruit.

• Wei Junlan revealed that he knew Dongfang Minghui had transmigrated and urged her to help steer the plot back on course, but she refused to arrange for Li Yunan to fall in love with Qian Wanyu.
• Dongfang Minghui told Situ Hongying that Love Flower Seeds had saved Toothless’s paw and agreed to seek a medicinal herb that could suppress the black mist.
• Qian Wanyu invited Dongfang Minghui to join her team, then announced that challengers could compete for five spots in their team.
• Situ Hongying formally took Dongfang Minghui as his disciple, and Elder Wind and Elder Thunder gave her a Heart-Guarding Mirror and a Soul Infant Fruit.
• The life tree’s spiritual energy forced Dongfang Minghui to advance to the fifth level, and Situ Hongying gave her a jade token granting access to the mountain’s final realm.
• Qian Wanyu refused the students’ team invitations and planned to train Dongfang Minghui under crushing gravity; Dongfang Minghui brought out the Soul Infant Fruit for her to see.

Dongfang Minghui gave Qian Wanyu the Soul Infant Fruit, then began gravity training with her as Qian Wanyu prepared an Arena challenge to recruit teammates. After Li Yunan defeated Qian Wanyu and joined the team, Dongfang Minghui rejected his advances at Qian Wanyu’s request, while Wei Junlan offered a way to make Li Yunan leave her alone; the chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui debating whether to meet him in the Little Grove.

• Dongfang Minghui gave Qian Wanyu the Soul Infant Fruit, which Qing Mo recognized as an ingredient that could help repair his soul.
• Qian Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui to the Gravity Crush Room, where Dongfang Minghui trained under tenfold gravity and gradually increased the pressure over the next two days.
• Dongfang Minghui made Qian Wanyu combat outfits, and Qian Wanyu began an Arena challenge to recruit teammates under rules barring full teams and anyone unwilling to accept a Potion Master.
• Li Yunan challenged Qian Wanyu after she had won fifteen matches, defeated her, and joined the team; Qian Wanyu asked Dongfang Minghui to make clear that she did not like him.
• Dongfang Minghui rejected Li Yunan, but he vowed to protect her from afar, and Wei Junlan later promised a lasting solution if she met him in the Little Grove.
• Dongfang Minghui finished watching the third day of Arena matches without seeing Wei Junlan and wondered whether she should go to the Little Grove.

Dongfang Minghui hurried away after the competition to handle something, hoping to make someone back down and leave her team before the training expedition. Qian Wanyu followed her to the grove after Dongfang Minghui tried to shake her off.

• Dongfang Minghui decided she had to make the trip and persuade him to recognize the odds and back down.
• Dongfang Minghui told Seventh Sister she had something to take care of and left first.
• Qian Wanyu watched Dongfang Minghui hurry away, handed over the remaining matters, and followed her.
• Dongfang Minghui circled the academy to shake off her pursuer before heading toward the grove.
• Qian Wanyu followed Dongfang Minghui and remarked that her wings had grown strong enough to fly on her own.

Dongfang Minghui fled Qian Wanyu after a staged encounter with Wei Junlan, but Qian Wanyu found her, learned Wei Junlan was a woman, and drew a confession of love from her. The pair reconciled, then Qian Wanyu discovered a jade-pendant fragment linked to the Dongfang Family and suspected a hidden watcher had followed them; the chapter ended as they encountered Li Yunan.

• Dongfang Minghui met Wei Junlan in the Little Grove, where he embraced her to make Li Yunan believe she was taken, and she discovered that Wei Junlan was a woman disguised as a man.
• Qian Wanyu saw them together, attacked Wei Junlan, and Dongfang Minghui escaped to the Thieving Strange Hand's Small Courtyard.
• Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui, carried her back, and questioned her about Wei Junlan before Dongfang Minghui confessed that she liked only Qian Wanyu.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui kissed and embraced outside the courtyard, but a shadow watched them and fled when Qian Wanyu noticed.
• Qian Wanyu found a jade-pendant fragment matching her own and suspected that someone connected to the destroyed Dongfang Family had been spying on them.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu encountered Li Yunan outside the Pharmacy Institute the next day.

Li Yunan proposed recruiting more people for the team because the academy might assign them a mission soon. Dongfang Minghui learned that something had happened outside, but he did not explain what it was.

• Li Yunan acted as if nothing had happened and smiled at Qian Minghui.
• Li Yunan suggested recruiting more people for their team in preparation for a possible academy mission.
• Dongfang Minghui questioned why they needed to recruit so soon.
• Li Yunan asked whether Dongfang Minghui had heard any whispers about events outside.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Li Yunan what major event had happened after Seventh Sister shook her head.

Dongfang Minghui discovered a way to counter the Black Herb’s mist and prepared for an expedition to investigate the spreading living-dead poison. When the infection reached the border town of Homecoming, Qian Wanyu’s team set out early, suspecting it had spread from the magic beast forest.

• Li Yunan described how Hao Xiu’s hunting team found vacant-eyed, rotting students in the forest and fled after Li Yang’s light revealed their decay.
• Dongfang Minghui identified that Little Lecher’s sap combined with Pig Immortal Grass’s juice could absorb the Black Herb’s mist, then formed a temporary contract with Pig Immortal Grass.
• Situ Hongying assigned Situ Hao to assist Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu, and Mu Sheng and Bai Rou joined their team.
• After reports said the poison had infected an entire village and spread into a border town, Dongfang Minghui and her companions left the academy ahead of schedule.
• The team reached Homecoming Town after nearly half a month and stopped at a nearby village to investigate Dongfang Minghui’s suspicion that the poison had spread from the magic beast forest.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui descended into a strangely quiet village and prepared for danger, suspecting its residents had been infected. The chapter ended as Qian Wanyu warned everyone to watch out.

• After they landed, everyone released their spiritual power and found the village unnaturally silent.
• Qian Wanyu drew her Water-Thunder Whip, while Dongfang Minghui readied Flying Needles and Plum Blossom Nails.
• Li Yunan paired with Bai Rou, Situ Hao paired with Mu Sheng, and Dongfang Minghui stayed with Qian Wanyu.
• Dongfang Minghui wondered whether the whole village had been infected.
• Qian Wanyu warned everyone to watch out.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui discovered that four hostile village children were secretly caring for dozens of Living Dead in an underground hideout. After one child was scratched by the Living Dead and became infected, Dongfang Minghui treated the marks, leaving the group uncertain about his condition.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui searched the deserted village, found four children who attacked them, and later let them go so they could follow the children back at night.
• The group tracked the children carrying magic beast corpses to underground tunnels, where they found dozens of captive Living Dead being fed meat.
• A child attacked Dongfang Minghui, and Qian Wanyu was scratched while rescuing him from the Living Dead; Dongfang Minghui cleaned and treated Qian Wanyu's wound.
• The group brought the child back to the village, where he began convulsing, and Dongfang Minghui found black handprints on his wrists and ankles.
• Dongfang Minghui rubbed away the marks with medicinal juice, after which the child's symptoms subsided and he lay quiet, while the others wondered whether to untie him.

Dongfang Minghui decided to keep the boy under watch after the living dead scratched his limbs, while she investigated how her medicinal juice had healed his black wounds. Mu Sheng then noticed something wrong with the boy’s wrist.

• Dongfang Minghui refused to risk giving the boy a larger Magic Beast and decided to leave him lying still.
• Dongfang Minghui said they needed to monitor the boy because the living dead had scratched his limbs.
• Dongfang Minghui planned to study the connection between the living dead and the black mist, and why her medicinal juice had made the boy’s wounds disappear.
• Mu Sheng spotted something wrong with the boy’s wrist and called Dongfang Minghui over.

Dongfang Minghui cared for Qian Wanyu’s infected wound and helped defend the village’s Living Dead from a plan to destroy them, while a Potion Masters’ Guild member revealed how the infection had devastated the village. The man began explaining his own situation, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• Dongfang Minghui kept watch over Mu Sheng, discovered Qian Wanyu had a fever, and treated the infection in her leg before both women fell asleep.
• Li Yunan reported that the group had agreed to eliminate the village’s Living Dead, but Qian Wanyu argued that they should try to save them, and Dongfang Minghui prepared a suppressive potion with Situ Hao’s guidance.
• Dongfang Minghui and Bai Rou discovered a boy trying to take Situ Hao to the Living-Person Tomb, rescued Situ Hao, and captured an infected man wearing the Potion Masters’ Guild emblem.
• The infected man described how Purple Wolf Academy students became cannibals, attacked the villagers, and spread the infection, and how Potion Masters later found the village and tried to contain the Living Dead.
• The Potion Masters’ Guild man began to explain that he had tested the medicine on himself, but the chapter ended before he finished.

The man told Dongfang Minghui that he had never found a way to stop the living dead from spreading infection. He offered her his research records to help her develop a potion, but she felt overwhelmed and did not take the spatial ring.

• The man admitted he had never stopped the living dead from spreading infection.
• He asked Dongfang Minghui whether she was a Potion Master from the Pharmacy Institute, and she said yes.
• He offered her his spatial ring, which contained his research records on the living dead.
• Dongfang Minghui shook her head, feeling weighed down after hearing his story.

Dongfang Minghui and her companions fought the living dead, exposed an infected Potion Master’s deception, and clashed with students from Sacred Feather Academy. After the two groups reconciled and shared information about the outbreak, they agreed to travel to Homecoming Town that night.

• The infected Potion Master tried to seize Dongfang Minghui, but she and Qian Wanyu subdued him and took his ring, which contained records about the living dead.
• The group fought the living dead while Dongfang Minghui waited for three escaped children; an attacker named Geng Shan burned Little Lecher’s vines before Qian Wanyu and Bai Rou forced him to retreat.
• Geng Shan returned with five Sacred Feather Academy students, and their team fought Qian Wanyu’s group; vines, bewildering mist, and Flying Needles incapacitated the newcomers.
• After the students awoke, Li Weifeng introduced his team and explained that Sacred Feather Academy had sent them to stop the infection from spreading.
• Qian Wanyu described the village’s dead villagers, the infected Potion Master, and the children’s role in penning up living dead; both groups agreed to head to Homecoming Town that night.

Dongfang Minghui was abducted by a powerful stranger while Qian Wanyu and the others fought the living dead in Homecoming Town. Qian Wanyu discovered a town-wide Yin-Yang Formation and began investigating the Sacred Feather Academy group, while Xian reacted sharply after learning Qian Minghui had been taken.

• Dongfang Minghui smelled a foul stench in Homecoming Town, and a stranger evaded her hidden weapons and abducted her as the group rushed to investigate a scream.
• Qian Wanyu, Bai Rou, Li Yunan, Situ Hao, and Mu Sheng fought intelligent living dead, then returned to find the inn’s occupants missing.
• Qian Wanyu concluded that a Yin-Yang Formation governed Homecoming Town’s day-and-night cycle and suspected someone controlled the mutated living dead.
• Qian Wanyu confronted Li Weifeng’s group, warned them that scratches could spread the living-dead infection, and ordered her companions to keep the group from interfering.
• Qin Mu and Xian arrived at the inn, where Qin Mu learned Jin Jing and Li Zhu had been infected.
• Xian learned from Li Weifeng that Qian Minghui had been abducted and abruptly demanded to know what kind of person had taken her.

Xian reacted angrily when Li Weifeng explained what had happened to the Qian sisters in Homecoming Town. She denied knowing them but hinted that she knew two members of the Dongfang Family.

• Xian clenched her fists and asked whether the Qian sisters had been abducted.
• Li Weifeng wondered why Xian cared about the sisters and explained what had happened that day.
• Li Weifeng asked whether Xian knew Qian Wanyu and her sister.
• Xian denied knowing anyone in the Qian family and smiled bloodthirstily as she thought of two people from the Dongfang Family.

Dongfang Minghui found Lü Xing in Homecoming Town and cured the death aura consuming his spiritual power, then returned to Qian Wanyu during a battle against the living dead. The fight escalated when Geng Shan attacked Qian Wanyu, Li Weifeng was struck by her Essence of Thunder, and Xian accused Qian Wanyu of harming a child.

• Dongfang Minghui discovered that Wood had brought her to Lü Xing, examined Lü Xing's wound, and used Love Flower potion to remove the death aura.
• Lü Xing revealed that his Life Tree branch had spent much of its vitality protecting him, and agreed to return to the Royal Academy with Dongfang Minghui and Wood.
• Qian Wanyu's group met Qin Mu and Xian in Homecoming Town and agreed to compete in killing red-eyed living dead.
• Qian Wanyu and her companions fought the living dead, while Dongfang Minghui arrived and reunited with Qian Wanyu.
• A living dead man injured Xian, prompting Geng Shan to attack Qian Wanyu; Li Weifeng shielded him and was struck by Qian Wanyu's Essence of Thunder.
• Xian accused Qian Wanyu of viciously attacking a child, and Qian Wanyu challenged her right to judge.

Qin Mu conceded defeat to Qian Wanyu and prepared to leave with Xian, but first revealed that his cousin was responsible for the destruction of the Dongfang Family.

• Dongfang Minghui worried that Qian Wanyu had injured Li Weifeng too badly and noticed Xian and Qin Mu arriving together.
• Qin Mu agreed that he and Xian had lost the wager and accepted their defeat.
• Xian complained that her throat hurt, and Qin Mu carried her away.
• Qin Mu stopped and told Qian Wanyu that his cousin had wiped out the Dongfang Family.