Recaps

Dongfang Minghui settled into the White Angelica Garden as a medicinal apprentice, then was pulled away to calm Blue Star Dream and discovered that Situ Hao’s excessive feeding had harmed it. After helping the plant stabilize, she tried to sneak into the entrance examinations to see Dongfang Wanyu, and the chapter ended when Dongfang Wanyu recognized her in Thunder Hall.

• Dongfang Minghui overslept on her first mornings in the White Angelica Garden, collected the most dew, and earned rewards that Apothecary Xu withheld or she did not get to claim.
• Situ Hao took Dongfang Minghui to Blue Star Dream after it attacked people, and she absorbed its excess spiritual energy, opening another meridian before Little Lecher helped her suppress an imminent breakthrough.
• Little Lecher beat excess spiritual energy out of Blue Star Dream, and Dongfang Minghui told Situ Hao that overfeeding the plant had caused its distress and that it should stay with her at the academy.
• Apothecary Xu sent Dongfang Minghui and nine other apprentices to the Examination Area with spirit medicines, giving Dongfang Minghui a chance to slip away and look for Dongfang Wanyu.
• Dongfang Minghui entered Thunder Hall by giving a pinellia to a senior brother, then encountered Li Yunan and tried to deny knowing him.
• Dongfang Wanyu spotted Dongfang Minghui in the corner of Thunder Hall and asked why her Ninth Sister was there.

Dongfang Wanyu noticed Li Yunan had remembered Dongfang Minghui from their earlier encounter. Dongfang Minghui hid behind her seventh sister, worried that Li Yunan would recognize her.

• Dongfang Wanyu noticed her ninth sister after seeing Li Yunan.
• Dongfang Minghui claimed she had come to watch Dongfang Wanyu take the test and hid behind her.
• Li Yunan recalled defending two sisters during a past training journey.
• Li Yunan told Dongfang Minghui that he remembered her, and she trembled with alarm.

Dongfang Minghui helped transform Blue Star Dream into a human and then a small sapling, while her cultivation advanced amid a strange heavenly phenomenon. After Apothecary Xu accused her of damaging a beauty bamboo, Dongfang Minghui suspected the apothecary was trying to drive her out, and she went to confront a new lead without the senior brother in charge nearby.

• Dongfang Wanyu passed the battle assessment after her lightning attack clashed with the Silver-Fanged Thunder Wolf's fiery lightning and overwhelmed the simulation room.
• Dongfang Minghui ran into Murong Qingyi, whose whip was caught by Bai Rou, and then missed the Pharmacy Institute's assessment while returning late to the White Angelica Garden.
• Situ Hao agreed to move Blue Star Dream to a secluded courtyard, where Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher helped Blue Star Dream transform and settle into a small sapling.
• Apothecary Xu accused Dongfang Minghui of making the beauty bamboo wither, but the senior brother in charge backed Dongfang Minghui's account that someone else had returned it.
• Dongfang Minghui suspected Apothecary Xu was targeting her because of her ability to identify spirit medicine grades, and Blue Star Dream tried to comfort her.
• An herbal apprentice summoned Dongfang Minghui because someone had supposedly been found who returned the beauty bamboo, while Apothecary Xu had sent the senior brother in charge away.

Dongfang Minghui challenged Xu Lian’s accusation that she destroyed a beauty bamboo, exposed the damage to its roots, and received the plant after the Dean cleared her. She agreed to become the Dean’s assistant after qualifying as a Junior Potionist, passed the exam’s identification stage, and began its potion-making stage with Dongfang Wanyu’s help.

• Dongfang Minghui rejected Xu Lian’s offer to manage her herb garden and demanded evidence for the accusation against her.
• Dongfang Minghui showed the Dean that the beauty bamboo’s roots had rotted, and the Dean gave the plant to her as compensation.
• Dongfang Minghui replanted the surviving beauty bamboo and learned that an intermediate pharmacist had damaged it during an experiment.
• The Dean offered Dongfang Minghui an assistant position with access to the herb gardens, and she agreed to take it after qualifying as a Junior Potionist.
• Dongfang Minghui identified all ten plants in the first stage of the qualification exam, then discovered she lacked ingredients for the potion-making stage.
• Dongfang Wanyu supplied Dongfang Minghui with the three missing ingredients, including soulmark grass intended for her own Divine Soul Pill.

Dongfang Minghui prepared to brew a fast-acting potion despite having no experience, while the watching pharmacists doubted she could succeed. Dongfang Wanyu supported her and silenced Xu Lian’s criticism.

• Dongfang Wanyu hugged Dongfang Minghui and encouraged her to make the potion.
• Dongfang Minghui realized she still had a fast-acting potion to make.
• The pharmacists watched Dongfang Minghui fumble with the brewing process and doubted she would succeed.
• Xu Lian said she had failed to brew the potion three times out of five and disparaged Dongfang Minghui.
• Dongfang Wanyu glared at Xu Lian and told her to shut up.

Dongfang Minghui passed the Junior Potionist assessment by condensing a medicinal pill and curing a patient, then arranged for Dongfang Wanyu to move into her courtyard. The chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui, Dongfang Wanyu, and Yong Xing sharing a meal, while an unidentified egg Dongfang Wanyu had given Minghui shifted beside her in the night.

• Dongfang Minghui experimented with the spiritual herbs, condensed a medicinal pill, and broke through to Level Two Spirit Master while Dongfang Wanyu guarded her.
• The dean approved Dongfang Minghui's pill and declared that she had passed the second round of the Junior Potionist assessment.
• Dongfang Minghui challenged Xu Lian to the final round, correctly diagnosed her patient's mild poisoning, and became a Junior Potionist after Xu Lian's treatment worsened her patient's condition.
• The dean offered Dongfang Minghui a courtyard, and she persuaded him to let Dongfang Wanyu move into her existing home; Yong Xing welcomed them there.
• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui an unidentified magic beast egg, which shifted on its own while Minghui slept with it.
• Dongfang Minghui cooked a meal for Dongfang Wanyu and Yong Xing, and the three shared it together.

Dongfang Minghui cooked and enjoyed a delicious meal, while Dongfang Wanyu grew suspicious of her unexpected cooking skills. The chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui unaware that her practiced movements had already given her away.

• Dongfang Minghui ate more than usual after cooking her first delicious meal since arriving on the Seven-Colored Continent.
• Dongfang Wanyu wondered how the Dongfang Family's Ninth Young Miss had learned to cook so many dishes.
• Dongfang Wanyu suspected something was wrong when she realized a beginner could not have made such a delicious meal.
• Dongfang Minghui cleared the table with practiced movements, unaware that she had exposed herself.

Dongfang Minghui prepared protective pills for Dongfang Wanyu before she left to compete in the Comprehensive Institute's inner division assessment. In the first round, Dongfang Wanyu teamed up with Mu Sheng, and their hunt quickly raised her tally to 207.

• The dean warned Dongfang Minghui that the inner division assessment could be deadly, so she made pills and explained their uses to Dongfang Wanyu before Dongfang Wanyu left.
• The examiner explained that the first round required students to hunt Magic Beasts for three days, with only two hundred of the five hundred entrants advancing.
• Dongfang Wanyu reluctantly accepted Mu Sheng as her partner after learning that he could release knockout smoke, and she promised to help him qualify.
• Dongfang Wanyu killed two exhausted rank-three Rampaging Bulls, then absorbed the energy from their magic cores.
• Dongfang Wanyu led Mu Sheng to a fire ant nest, where his contracted Old Man White put many rank-two fire ants to sleep.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Mu Sheng harvested the fire ants' magic cores, raising Dongfang Wanyu's tally to 207.

Dongfang Wanyu helped Mu Sheng survive the first assessment, and both passed into the second round, where students had to steal spirit stones to avoid elimination. After Mu Sheng was betrayed by Xiao Ruo and his teammates, Dongfang Wanyu watched over him but left him tied up to teach him caution.

• Dongfang Wanyu led Mu Sheng through the trial grounds, helping him raise his kill count while warning that dangerous Sixth-Level Magic Beasts could end the assessment early.
• The examiner ended the first round ahead of schedule, and Mu Sheng ranked 168th while Qian Wanyu placed third.
• Teacher Ouyang announced that students in the second round had to keep spirit stones by taking them from others, including senior students in the trial grounds.
• Mu Sheng ran to help Xiao Ruo and four other students, who tied him up and took all five of his spirit stones.
• Dongfang Wanyu revealed she had watched from a tree and told Mu Sheng to rest for two hours, leaving him tied up after warning him not to trust everyone.

Dongfang Wanyu and Mu Sheng turned the trial against the senior students, robbing two teams with Old Man White’s mist before teaming up with Xiu Qi. They later defeated Mu Sheng’s former friend Xiao Ruo’s team and took their spirit stones, while Dongfang Minghui watched from the academy.

• Dongfang Wanyu used Mu Sheng’s Old Man White to incapacitate the Bloodthirsty Team, then robbed its members of their spirit stones.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Mu Sheng escaped to a cave, where they met Xiu Qi, a white-clothed stranger searching for the intelligent Pig Immortal Grass.
• The trio encountered Lie Yan’s team, and Mu Sheng used the mist to incapacitate three members while Dongfang Wanyu and Xiu Qi subdued the others; they took the team’s spirit stones.
• Dongfang Minghui watched the trial through the Mystic Light Mirror and met Nan Nan, who told her that the Alchemy Institute had admitted her.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Mu Sheng chose to target senior students rather than other newcomers, then confronted Xiao Ruo’s team when Mu Sheng wanted revenge.
• Dongfang Wanyu defeated Xiao Ruo’s companions, and Mu Sheng took their spirit stones, tied up the team, and left with Wanyu.

Dongfang Wanyu united the new students against the senior teams, won first place in the assessment, and chose skills for herself and Dongfang Minghui. The chapter ends with Dongfang Minghui beginning to learn her new skill while trying to suppress her advancing cultivation.

• Dongfang Wanyu recruited robbed new students and led them against the Thunder Team, while Ye Feng and Ji Ye separately joined forces and gathered other students.
• Qingtian assembled five senior teams to surround Dongfang Wanyu, but she fought Leng Bingshuang and held off the seniors until Ye Feng and Ji Ye arrived with their forces.
• Dongfang Wanyu subdued several senior team leaders, and after three days the examiner ended the contest and announced Qian Wanyu first, with Ye Feng and Ji Ye tied for second and third.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Dongfang Wanyu's wounds, and Dongfang Wanyu later chose the Reincarnation Art for herself and Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers for Dongfang Minghui at the Library Pavilion.
• Dongfang Minghui opened Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers and began studying its first essential principle as Little Lecher warned her not to advance before mastering it.

Dongfang Minghui realized the first art had offensive power, giving her a way to fight troublesome opponents instead of only fleeing. She learned she had to finish cultivating it before she could see the second art.

• Dongfang Minghui recognized that the art could help her attack troublesome opponents.
• Dongfang Minghui cultivated diligently through the night.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered something that filled her with delight.

Dongfang Minghui learned that Nan Fei’s disabled legs had been caused by poison and agreed to fetch the Love Flower seeds needed to save him. She traveled toward the Valley of the Dead with Dongfang Wanyu and Situ Hao, then followed Dongfang Wanyu into the valley after Little Lecher woke her.

• Dongfang Minghui brought the dean to examine Nan Fei, and he diagnosed poisoned meridians that could still be treated with Love Flower seeds.
• The dean said Dongfang Minghui was the only one who could retrieve the seeds, so Dongfang Wanyu and Situ Hao joined her for the journey to the Valley of the Dead.
• The trio traveled on Situ Hao’s flying mount, reached a town near the valley, and fought off a Skeleton Bone Soldier that entered Dongfang Minghui’s room.
• Dongfang Wanyu secretly followed a ghostly green flame out of town, while Little Lecher woke Dongfang Minghui and urged her to follow.
• Dongfang Minghui tracked Dongfang Wanyu into the Valley of the Dead despite fearing its undead inhabitants.

Dongfang Minghui survived a fall into a death-aura abyss, where Dongfang Wanyu rescued her and helped her recover. After the two grew closer, they joined Situ Hao to investigate a possible Love Flower Seed, but the cramped cave passage ended with Minghui screaming.

• Dongfang Minghui fell into an abyss as Little Lecher’s vines were corroded by death aura, then used spirit medicine to resist the gray mist in her soul sea.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Situ Hao followed the vine and death-aura clues into the abyss, where Dongfang Wanyu found and rescued the gravely injured Dongfang Minghui.
• Dongfang Minghui recovered at the inn, while Little Lecher’s gray mist vanished and it regressed into a seedling that grew rapidly on spirit liquid.
• Dongfang Wanyu bought Dongfang Minghui lip rouge, and the two shared an awkward moment when Wanyu wiped rouge from Minghui’s lips.
• Five days later, Dongfang Wanyu agreed to accompany Dongfang Minghui and Situ Hao to inspect a possible Love Flower Seed; inside a narrow cave, Minghui screamed as they considered turning back.

Dongfang Minghui escaped the Love Flower’s deadly illusion, befriended the intelligent plant, and collected some treasures while Dongfang Wanyu and Situ Hao remained trapped in their own visions. Situ Hao woke, but Dongfang Wanyu was still caught in an illusion when the chapter ended.

• Dongfang Minghui was dragged into a cave pool by a water monster, then wandered into a passage and fell under the Love Flower’s illusion.
• Dongfang Minghui escaped the illusion with the help of her egg, found the Love Flower, and persuaded it to accompany her without forming a contract.
• The Love Flower guided Dongfang Minghui to caves filled with pills and skill scrolls, while she avoided a passage leaking Death Aura.
• Dongfang Minghui’s egg and the Love Flower bickered inside her storage space as she waited for Dongfang Wanyu and Situ Hao to wake.
• Dongfang Wanyu succumbed to an illusion in which people hunted her for her dark powers, then escaped and became captivated by Dongfang Minghui.
• Situ Hao woke from his vision and learned that Dongfang Minghui had found the Love Flower, while Dongfang Wanyu remained trapped in her illusion.

Dongfang Minghui helped Dongfang Wanyu escape an illusion, then returned from Death Valley with the Love Flower Seed and prepared Nan Fei’s treatment. After the dean used the seed’s poison to heal Nan Fei’s legs, Dongfang Minghui learned that the process required breaking and rebuilding his bones.

• Dongfang Minghui urged Dongfang Wanyu to wake from the illusion, and Dongfang Wanyu eventually emerged after hearing her remind her to investigate the Qian Family.
• Dongfang Minghui, Dongfang Wanyu, and Situ Hao searched Death Valley’s caves, but their attempt to destroy the death aura in one cave failed, so they left after recovering.
• Dongfang Wanyu treated Dongfang Minghui’s wounds and called her experience in the illusion a sweet dream.
• Dongfang Minghui returned to the Snow Capital with the Love Flower Seed, refused the dean’s request for another seed, and told him the Love Flower would not provide one.
• The dean began Nan Fei’s treatment using a poison made from the Love Flower Seed, breaking and reconnecting his leg bones over three days and nights.

Dongfang Minghui reassured Nan Nan that the Dean had saved Nan Nan’s eldest brother, then went back to her lodgings and fell asleep. In her dream, a teasing sensation left her tingling and smacking her lips.

• Dongfang Minghui told Nan Nan that the Dean had stepped in and her eldest brother was fine.
• Dongfang Minghui returned to her lodgings and fell asleep.
• Dongfang Minghui felt a sweet, fragrant teasing sensation in her dream and smacked her lips.

Dongfang Minghui’s giant egg hatched into a toothless creature she named Toothless, and she began selling her medicinal pills with Dongfang Wanyu’s help. As Dongfang Minghui tried to bring Dongfang Wanyu and Nan Fei together, Wanyu grew jealous of their closeness and urged Nan Fei to recover and leave.

• Dongfang Minghui woke to find the giant egg hatched, named the creature Toothless, and went back to sleep with it.
• Dongfang Wanyu helped Dongfang Minghui choose a stall site, where Dongfang Minghui treated an injured student and sold more than five hundred spirit stones’ worth of medicinal pills.
• Dongfang Minghui tried to arrange a match between Dongfang Wanyu and Nan Fei, but Nan Nan told her Nan Fei was not interested in that way.
• Dongfang Minghui secretly took Nan Fei outside in his wheelchair and showed him the Pharmacy Institute’s gardens and spirit medicines.
• Dongfang Wanyu saw Nan Fei looking affectionately at Dongfang Minghui, then told him to rest and leave as soon as possible.

Dongfang Wanyu shut the door after her ninth sister kept pushing herself into their company, worsening her dislike of them.

• Dongfang Wanyu’s ninth sister kept forcing herself into their company.
• Dongfang Wanyu loathed them even more.
• Dongfang Wanyu shut the door without looking back.

Dongfang Minghui sold pills at the Royal Academy, where Xu Jin’s men attacked her before Li Yunan intervened, and Dongfang Wanyu began supervising her cultivation. As Minghui’s pills grew popular and Li Yunan continued seeking her out, the chapter left Dongfang Wanyu wondering who Minghui wanted to make fall in love with her.

• Dongfang Minghui apologized to Dongfang Wanyu, then discovered small bumps on Toothless’s back that looked like undeveloped wings.
• Dongfang Minghui sold pills in the Lovers' Garden, met Mu Sheng, and sent him to fetch Qian Wanyu when Zhang Mao and his men smashed her stall.
• Li Yunan rescued Dongfang Minghui from Zhang Mao’s attack, and she gave him Marrow-Cleansing Pills in return.
• Dongfang Wanyu began taking Dongfang Minghui out each morning to practice Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers and taught her to focus her spiritual power on controlling fewer leaves.
• Dongfang Minghui avoided interfering with Nan Fei and Nan Nan, while Mu Sheng asked Dongfang Wanyu to team up with him and she refused.
• Li Yunan brought customers to Dongfang Minghui’s stall, which quickly sold out, and Dongfang Wanyu questioned why he was helping her.

Dongfang Minghui reluctantly agreed to hear Li Yunan out. Li Yunan began speaking, while the heroine showed little reaction.

• Li Yunan pleaded with Dongfang Minghui to give him one chance to speak.
• Dongfang Minghui glanced at the heroine, who showed little reaction.
• Dongfang Minghui relented and told Li Yunan to stay and speak.
• Li Yunan felt relieved and began speaking.

Dongfang Minghui searched for Toothless, entered the Royal Academy’s forbidden grounds with Dongfang Wanyu, and later met Lü Xing while trying to identify her pet. Dongfang Wanyu found a dual cultivation manual and remained preoccupied with her dark-type spiritual power and her feelings for Ninth Sister, leaving the chapter with her secretly close to Dongfang Minghui.

• Li Yunan asked Dongfang Minghui to examine his uncle, but she sold him her remaining Marrow-Cleansing Pills and resisted his request; Dongfang Wanyu told her to consider helping him.
• Dongfang Minghui befriended an old tree that described Dongfang Wanyu’s death aura, then learned Toothless had wandered into the forbidden grounds.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui entered the forbidden grounds with Qing Mo’s help, found Toothless, and discovered records of a death-aura incident caused by an academy teacher a century earlier.
• Dongfang Wanyu found and burned a dual cultivation manual, then spent three days searching the Library Pavilion, where she discovered an untitled book about a woman’s lover.
• Dongfang Minghui searched the Library Pavilion for Toothless’s origins, met Lü Xing of the Wood Hall, and recognized him as the Elf Clan’s young prince from the story.
• Dongfang Minghui fell ill after a nightmare, and Dongfang Wanyu cared for her; later, Dongfang Wanyu secretly approached her sleeping Ninth Sister and compared her to the woman from the illusion.

Dongfang Minghui prepared for the New Student Selection Tournament, discovered a Spirit-Gathering Treasure beneath her courtyard, and joined Dongfang Wanyu’s team traveling to the Moonwhite Empire. The journey began peacefully, but at their first waystation Li Qin disappeared from her room.

• Dongfang Minghui practiced her skill, gathered rubber-tree sap with Lü Xing’s help, and built Toothless a wooden nest, while Love Flower revealed a Spirit-Gathering Treasure beneath the courtyard.
• The Dean selected Dongfang Minghui to lead three Pharmacy Institute students in the New Student Selection Tournament and refused her request to take the Intermediate Apothecary assessment.
• Dongfang Minghui checked on Nan Fei, and Nan Nan agreed to join the trip after placing second in the Alchemy Institute’s preliminary test.
• Dongfang Wanyu returned from the Inner Court with a five-person team, and Dongfang Minghui joined them with Liu Qi and Bai Lu; Nan Nan later joined as well.
• The nine travelers flew toward the Moonwhite Empire on a Winged Tiger, camped overnight, and continued to their first waystation.
• When Nan Nan reported that her roommate had vanished, Dongfang Wanyu counted the team and discovered that Li Qin was missing.

The group split up to search for Li Qin, who had disappeared on her way to the latrine. Dongfang Minghui followed Liu Qi’s suggestion to check the latrine with the heroine.

• The six divided into two groups and agreed to meet back in the room in two hours.
• Dongfang Minghui searched the surrounding grass and suggested looking nearby.
• Liu Qi pointed out that Li Qin had disappeared on her way to the latrine.
• The heroine agreed to check the latrine.

Dongfang Wanyu sought a way into the Nangong Household’s auction to find a means of concealing her Dark-Type Spiritual Power, while Dongfang Minghui faced conflict after Bai Lu’s spatial ring was stolen. The chapter ended with the auction beginning at Skycloud Pavilion and a Dragon Clan egg appearing as its first item.

• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui overheard Li Qin with a woman from Purple Wolf Academy, and Dongfang Wanyu accidentally brushed lips with Dongfang Minghui while they hid.
• The group reached Cloud Capital City, struggled to find lodging because of the Nangong Household’s auction, and learned that Bai Lu’s spatial ring had been stolen.
• Dongfang Wanyu arranged to enter the auction with Zhao Sanqi and the Rose Mercenary Corps, while Dongfang Minghui took Dongfang Wanyu’s whip meant for Bai Lu and suffered a serious wound.
• Dongfang Wanyu joined the Rose Mercenary Corps for their trip to Skycloud Pavilion and learned about the auction’s powerful guards and attendants.
• Xuexin opened the auction by presenting a glowing Dragon Clan egg as the first item.