Chapter Summaries

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.

The auction house presented a living dragon egg that was close to hatching, stirring excitement among the guests. Dongfang Wanyu doubted that a dragon would submit to humans without someone having the ability to tame it.

• Xuexin asked the guests to be patient, explaining that more precious items would appear later in the auction.
• Xuexin revealed that the first item was a living dragon egg confirmed to be near hatching.
• Xuexin imagined how dazzling it would be to own the dragon as a Spirit Pet.
• Dongfang Wanyu remarked that dragons were proud and would not easily bow to humans.

Dongfang Wanyu bought Love Entwined for her ninth sister and watched Mu Ying gain the Blood Soul Blade, then chased down a pickpocket who stole her auction purchases. The pickpocket revealed that he recognized her ability to absorb dark-type spiritual power, leaving Dongfang Wanyu’s own hidden element at risk of exposure.

• Dongfang Wanyu bid one million spirit stones for Love Entwined, then privately gave Aunt Mo pills from Death Valley to have appraised.
• Dongfang Wanyu recognized the auctioned Love Flower as similar to the one her ninth sister possessed and worried that its origins could put her sister in danger.
• The auction sold an elf to Lu Peng’s family for ten million spirit stones, then let attendees compete to lift the Blood Soul Blade; Mu Ying lifted it after her blood touched the blade.
• A pickpocket stole Dongfang Wanyu’s ring, but she caught him with her elemental powers and recovered the Jade Belt.
• Dongfang Wanyu discovered that the pickpocket was a Dark-Type Spirit Master and demanded to know how he concealed his identity; he realized she could absorb dark-type spiritual power and guessed she had awakened a third element.

Dongfang Wanyu tightened the Water-Thunder Whip around his neck, cutting off his breath. The chapter ended with him unable to breathe.

• Dongfang Wanyu laughed.
• Dongfang Wanyu sharply pulled the Water-Thunder Whip around his neck.
• The Water-Thunder Whip tightened around his throat, leaving him unable to draw breath.

Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu rescued an elf from Lu Peng, but their intervention kept Lü Xing and Dongfang Wanyu from meeting as the story’s expected romance required. After they returned to the inn, Dongfang Minghui became feverish in the bath, leaving Dongfang Wanyu to answer her call.

• Dongfang Minghui learned that the Blood Baleful Alliance had bought a Love Flower Seed and that a wealthy man from Snow Capital had bought an elf, while Lü Xing reacted with fury.
• Dongfang Wanyu captured Xuanzhu, learned that a Chaos-Heaven Pill concealed her dark-type spiritual power, and kept the princess’s jade token while agreeing to seek her again in three months.
• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui the costly Love Entwined jade belt and entrusted her with the Chaos-Heaven Pill to identify.
• Dongfang Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui to the Lucky Inn, where they found Lu Peng assaulting an elf, and they helped Lü Xing and the other elves free him.
• The elves gave Dongfang Minghui a Green Forest jade token, and she realized the rescue had not brought Lü Xing and Dongfang Wanyu together as expected.
• Dongfang Minghui became feverish in the bath after returning to the inn and softly called for Dongfang Wanyu.

Dongfang Minghui struggled to climb out of the bathtub after washing, but her legs kept giving out. Dongfang Wanyu noticed her worsening panting and found her burning with heat as she sought relief.

• Dongfang Wanyu waited by the window for Dongfang Minghui to finish washing so she could bathe.
• Dongfang Minghui repeatedly tried to stand but collapsed back into the bathtub.
• Dongfang Minghui gasped that she was going to die and continued panting heavily.
• Dongfang Wanyu asked what was wrong when she heard the worsening panting.
• Dongfang Minghui pressed Dongfang Wanyu's hand against her scorching skin to try to ease the heat inside her.

Dongfang Minghui recovered from being drugged, faced Lu Peng and Bai Lu’s harassment, and helped her Pharmacy Institute team tie its match against Purple Wolf Academy. Afterward, Li Yunan arrived with the delayed group and explained that a mobile spirit medicine had led them into a formation.

• Dongfang Wanyu restrained the drugged Dongfang Minghui with ice until the effects passed, then told her she had fainted in the bath.
• Dongfang Wanyu immobilized Lu Peng when he tried to harass Dongfang Minghui, and later rescued Minghui from silver snakes Bai Lu had placed in her bed.
• Dongfang Minghui accepted essence-replenishing pills from Lü Xing, then shared a room with Dongfang Wanyu after the snake prank.
• Bai Lu brought only common plants to the Pharmacy Institute’s first round against Purple Wolf Academy, so Dongfang Minghui conceded; Liu Qi won the potion-brewing round, and Dongfang Minghui used a Swallowing Silkworm to wake a patient and secure a tie.
• Dongfang Minghui asked the team teacher to exclude Bai Lu from future matches, but Li Yunan arrived with the delayed group and said a spirit medicine had lured them into a formation for three days.

Dongfang Minghui rejected Li Yunan’s offer to become her Guardian, then led her team to victory against Ark Academy. After Bai Lu arranged for her abduction, Dongfang Minghui woke in a carriage with Bai Lu, both bound and still inside Cloud Capital City.

• Li Yunan confessed that he had fallen for Dongfang Minghui and asked to become her Guardian, but she firmly refused him.
• Dongfang Wanyu admitted she already liked someone, while Dongfang Minghui mistakenly guessed that she meant Mu Sheng.
• Dongfang Minghui competed in two matches against Ark Academy and helped her team win despite Bai Lu’s absence.
• Bai Lu persuaded Liu Qi to lure Dongfang Minghui outside, then struck her unconscious and had several men carry her away.
• Liu Qi realized Bai Lu had used her, and Nan Nan and Li Yunan rushed to alert the others and search for Dongfang Minghui.
• Dongfang Minghui regained consciousness in a carriage with Bai Lu, found both of them bound, and learned from Love Flower that they were still in Cloud Capital City.

Love Flower explained that the kidnappers had kept Minghui unconscious with a drug and warned her to keep pretending if she wanted to avoid drawing their attention. Little Lecher revealed that it had secretly contacted Love Flower to help her, leaving Minghui still in the kidnappers’ hands.

• Minghui wondered whether Seventh Sister, Lü Xing, and the others would come to rescue her.
• Love Flower told Minghui that the kidnappers had drugged her to keep her unconscious and that she had only just woken because of Love Flower.
• Love Flower advised Minghui to keep pretending to be unconscious so she would not attract attention.
• Little Lecher revealed that it had secretly communicated with Love Flower to help Minghui.

Dongfang Minghui was abducted by assassins, but Dongfang Wanyu found her and took a grave wound protecting her. After returning to Cloud Capital City, Minghui learned that a mysterious new student had arranged the kidnapping and began investigating the shared ingredient in two pills.

• Dongfang Minghui woke bound in a carriage with Bai Lu and learned that their captors planned to kill them within two days.
• Toothless escaped to find Dongfang Wanyu, who followed it to the shrine, killed several guards, and confronted the Blood Baleful Alliance assassins.
• Mu Yang captured Dongfang Minghui and threatened her, but she used silver needles to paralyze him; Dongfang Wanyu saved her from his sword and was stabbed through the lung.
• Dongfang Minghui gave Dongfang Wanyu Lü Xing's Origin-Replenishing Pill, and Wanyu recovered enough to help take Bai Lu back for questioning.
• Bai Lu revealed that a strange woman had recruited her to seek revenge and that the assassins had taken over the kidnapping; Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu returned to a worried group in Cloud Capital City.
• Dongfang Minghui compared the ingredients in two pills, and Love Flower identified their shared ingredient as Spirit Spring.

Dongfang Minghui questioned Love Flower about its silence during the assassin’s attack, but the medicinal herb did not respond. She suspected that creating the illusion might have cost it something.

• Love Flower suggested that Dongfang Minghui ask her friend from the Elf Clan about the spirit spring, then fell silent.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Love Flower where it had gone when the Blood Baleful Alliance assassin appeared, but it did not answer.
• Dongfang Minghui recalled that Love Flower had gone quiet when she mentioned the illusion and wondered whether creating it had come at a price.