Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui woke after a long sleep and learned that Little Lecher was recovering, so she began cultivating to reach Spirit Warrior and help her companion. Dongfang Wanyu took her toward the Royal Academy while avoiding the Azure Mist Sect, and the two traveled together toward the capital.

• Dongfang Minghui heard Little Lecher respond and learned she needed to reach Spirit Warrior before she could see her companion again.
• Dongfang Wanyu helped Dongfang Minghui obtain medicinal ingredients, and Dongfang Minghui used them in a bath to open three meridians and recover some spiritual power.
• Dongfang Wanyu warned Dongfang Minghui that the Azure Mist Sect was searching for them and gave her women's clothes to avoid recognition.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui agreed to travel to the capital for the Royal Academy's admissions and left Ningyuan County that night.
• Dongfang Wanyu drove through the night while Dongfang Minghui fell asleep in the carriage, and Dongfang Wanyu covered her with an outer robe when they stopped to rest.

Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu arrived in Snow Capital, where they rescued Nan Nan from Lu Peng and accepted her offer of shelter. At Nan Nan’s home, they met her paralyzed older brother, Nan Fei, whom Dongfang Minghui recognized as another devoted-hound male lead.

• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui reached Snow Capital and visited a shop to ask about spatial rings.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui rescued Nan Nan from Lu Peng in a secluded alley, and Dongfang Minghui gave her a robe.
• Nan Nan warned them that they had offended Lu Peng, then offered to guide them out of danger and let them stay at her home.
• Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu used the aliases Qian Minghui and Qian Wanyu and promised to keep Nan Nan’s ordeal secret from her brother.
• Nan Nan introduced them to her older brother, Nan Fei, and Dongfang Minghui recognized him as a devoted-hound male lead.

Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui her spatial ring, and the two shared a bed for the night. The next morning, Wanyu discovered Nan Nan was an alchemist and questioned her about the danger surrounding the Northern District, demanding to know what Nan Nan wanted from them.

• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui her fifteen-cubic-meter spatial ring and helped her bind it with blood.
• Dongfang Minghui fell asleep sitting up, so Dongfang Wanyu carried her to bed; they woke tangled together the next morning.
• Dongfang Wanyu saw Nan Nan refining pills, then helped Nan Fei harvest vegetables while they talked about his injured legs.
• Dongfang Minghui learned Nan Nan sold pills in the Northern District, and Dongfang Wanyu agreed to accompany her there.
• Dongfang Wanyu warned Nan Nan that their trip could expose her as the one who had beaten Lu Peng, then demanded to know what Nan Nan wanted from them.

Dongfang Minghui befriended Situ Hao’s dangerous Blue Star Dream and convinced him to help her enter the Royal Academy in exchange for caring for the plant. She arrived at the academy with Dongfang Wanyu, where Situ Hao began showing them the Pharmacy Institute.

• Nan Nan begged Dongfang Wanyu to heal her brother’s legs, but Dongfang Wanyu advised her to seek protection by trying for the Royal Academy.
• Dongfang Minghui met a teasing young man near the academy, befriended a tree, and learned the young man was Situ Hao, who offered to arrange her admission if she treated his Blue Star Dream.
• Dongfang Minghui calmed Blue Star Dream by talking and comforting it, gathered its leaves for Little Lecher, and persuaded Situ Hao to let her enter the Royal Academy.
• Dongfang Wanyu treated Dongfang Minghui’s thorn wounds and decided to accompany her to meet Situ Hao, while Qing Mo warned that her ability to communicate with plants could endanger her.
• Dongfang Minghui, Dongfang Wanyu, and Situ Hao entered the Royal Academy through a side gate and headed to the Pharmacy Institute to meet its dean.

Dongfang Wanyu said that everyone at the Royal Academy depended on the Apothecary School for spirit medicine, and Dongfang Minghui realized the abundant medicine could help her advance in secret.

• Dongfang Wanyu said that students and practitioners at the Royal Academy had to accommodate the Apothecary School because they needed its spirit medicine.
• Dongfang Minghui agreed that warriors, Spirit Practitioners, and alchemists all depended on spirit medicine.
• Dongfang Minghui thought that the plentiful spirit medicine could let her secretly advance.

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.