Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu discovered that Meng Yixiao had captured Lü Xing and was using an evil formation and Qian Zhuoqian to activate a Teleportation Array to the Thousand Family’s Ninth Peak inheritance. The array opened despite their efforts to stop him, and Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and their companions were drawn into it.

• Dongfang Minghui traced a warning from the plants to Lü Xing, who revealed that Meng Yixiao and Qian Zhuoqian had captured him.
• Meng Yixiao attacked Qian Zhuoqian’s group, exposed his white-eyed Elf Clan identity to Lü Xing, and used a formation to drain the group’s spiritual power and life force.
• Lü Xing warned that Meng Yixiao intended to use the blood of Thousand Family heirs to open the path to the Ninth Peak, while Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui entered the formation to stop him.
• Dongfang Minghui and Lü Xing used blood to draw Adhesion Worms from the victims as Toothless burned the creatures, while Qian Wanyu found Meng Yixiao hiding in a corpse at the formation’s eye.
• Qian Wanyu struck the formation eye and bled, helping trigger the Teleportation Array; Meng Yixiao revealed that Qian Zhuoqian’s blood had already been taken.
• The Fourth Peak’s Teleportation Array opened, and Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and their companions were swept into it.

After everyone was teleported to the ninth peak, they tried to find out what had caused the commotion. The Fourth Peak's master realized they had used a Teleportation Array.

• Everyone appeared on the ninth peak and wondered what had caused the commotion.
• Wood raced toward the place where dark-type spiritual power had erupted.
• Mu Sheng, Bai Rou, and the others followed Wood, relying on him to find the way to the Fourth Peak.
• The Fourth Peak's master realized that a Teleportation Array had been used.

Meng Yixiao seized control of the Heart-Refining Formation, transported the group to the Ninth Peak, and revealed his plan to take the Thousand Family inheritance and capture Qian Wanyu. As Meng Yixiao split himself and one body entered the tomb, Dongfang Minghui and Lü Xing faced his other body; Lü Xing sacrificed his life force to protect her, and the chapter ended with Dongfang Minghui trying to save him with her blood.

• Meng Yixiao fused with the Heart-Refining Formation, and its activation transported Qian Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui, Lü Xing, and the others from the Fourth Peak to the Ninth Peak.
• Meng Yixiao revealed that he wanted the Thousand Family inheritance, while Qian Wanyu fought him and Dongfang Minghui, Lü Xing, and Toothless battled the puppet Qian Zhuoqian and burned the Adhesion Worm Queen within her.
• Qian Wanyu began devouring Meng Yixiao's spiritual power, but he used a secret art to create a second body, which slipped into the tomb while the other body blocked Qian Wanyu.
• Inside the tomb, Dongfang Minghui and Lü Xing encountered Meng Yixiao's other body; he attacked them, and Dongfang Minghui escaped with Lü Xing and Toothless after striking him with her weapons.
• Lü Xing revealed that Dongfang Minghui's blood could restore life, gave her the Brocade Box containing the remnant root of the Tree of Life, and stayed behind to hold Meng Yixiao off with his Dream Space.
• Dongfang Minghui returned for Lü Xing and fed him her blood as his life force faded.

She comforted Lü Xing, who was injured, and agreed that Meng Yixiao would spare Wan Yu because he needed her to inherit the legacy. Meng Yixiao then broke into the stone chamber and reacted to the fragrance in the air.

• She worried that Lü Xing might die for her and did not want to lose one of her few friends.
• Lü Xing wiped away her tears and assured her that Meng Yixiao would not kill Wan Yu while he needed her to inherit the legacy.
• She agreed that Wan Yu would be all right and thought the female lead's halo would protect her.
• Meng Yixiao smashed through the stone chamber's door and praised the fragrance he smelled.

Dongfang Minghui and her companions fought Meng Yixiao’s spirit body while Qian Wanyu advanced outside the tomb and defeated his original body, which self-detonated. After Dongfang Minghui suffered sealing backlash and turned into a child, she reunited with Qian Wanyu and they discovered a hidden passage beneath the coffin that led to a strange green world.

• Dongfang Minghui sheltered Lü Xing in the burial chamber, then fought Meng Yixiao’s spirit body with Little Lecher and Toothless after discovering he had deceived them.
• Qian Wanyu advanced amid Heavenly Thunder, fought Meng Yixiao’s original body, and escaped the blast when he self-detonated, devastating the Ninth Peak.
• Elder Hong arrived at the destroyed peak and crushed the Adhesion Worm, while Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher survived the tomb’s collapse and found the coffin’s hollow base.
• Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui, who fainted from sealing backlash and woke in the body of a young child; Little Lecher explained the backlash as Qian Wanyu held her.
• Little Lecher opened a hidden passage beneath the coffin, and Qian Wanyu carried the shrunken Dongfang Minghui into a green world beneath the tomb.

Little Minghui comforted Toothless and let him go play, then Seventh Sister suggested they go watch him. The story left them preparing to follow Toothless.

• Toothless crouched and wagged his tail to comfort Little Minghui.
• Little Minghui leaned against Toothless's head and told him to go play without starting any fires.
• Toothless growled in reply and raced off joyfully.
• Seventh Sister invited Little Minghui to go take a look.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu uncovered the history of Qian Ying and the trap protecting the Thousand Family Inheritance. Qian Wanyu swore to find Qian Ying’s son, broke the formation, and opened the inheritance, while Dongfang Minghui heard Qian Wanyu calling for help.

• Toothless dug up Qian Ying’s grave, uncovering a half pendant and an Iron Case filled with her unsent letters.
• Qian Wanyu learned that Qian Ying had hidden half the Thousand Family Inheritance elsewhere and would hand over her inheritance only if someone promised to care for her son.
• Qian Wanyu swore a blood oath to find Qian Ying’s son, took one of Qian Ying’s fingers, and discovered that the hut’s drawings formed a complex inheritance formation.
• While Qian Wanyu deciphered the formation, Dongfang Minghui waited with Toothless and Little Lecher in a motionless space as three months passed.
• Qian Wanyu realized she had to go against the flow and return to the beginning, broke the formation, and caused the inheritance’s light to shine across the Thousand Family Back Mountain.
• Dongfang Minghui heard Qian Wanyu’s voice calling for help from inside the hut and started toward it.

Dongfang Minghui heard Seventh Sister calling and hurried toward the thatched hut despite Little Lecher and Toothless trying to stop her. She entered the hut and was enveloped by its light along with them.

• Toothless blocked Dongfang Minghui and howled while its tail lashed in agitation.
• Little Lecher suggested she might be hearing phantom voices and warned that someone could be trying to distract her companion during an inheritance.
• Dongfang Minghui insisted that Seventh Sister was in danger and coaxed Toothless aside.
• Dongfang Minghui opened the thatched hut’s door and entered with Little Lecher and Toothless as light enveloped them.
• The hut’s door closed behind them.

Dongfang Minghui entered Qian Ying’s inheritance grounds and helped Qian Wanyu defeat Meng Yixiao’s possession attempt, but a faulty teleportation array separated them. Minghui landed in Beastfolk territory, where she rescued the hunted boy Lien and began preparing food with Toothless as he aimed an arrow at the beast.

• Dongfang Minghui found Qian Wanyu in danger from Meng Yixiao and joined her in their merged soul sea, where they forced him out and Toothless burned him to ashes.
• Qian Wanyu completed her inheritance while Dongfang Minghui waited a year, and they discovered a Teleportation Array buried beneath Qian Ying’s grave.
• Qian Wanyu activated the array with Formation Stones, but a malfunction separated her from Dongfang Minghui, who arrived in a forest with Toothless, Lü Xing, and Little Lecher.
• Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher rescued Lien from beastmen pursuing him, then treated his wounds and brought back a wild boar to cook.
• Toothless emerged from the space while Lien held his bow and arrow, and he accidentally fired an arrow at the defenseless beast.

Dongfang Minghui protected Li En from an arrow with Toothless’s help, then started grilling food despite the risk of attracting his pursuers. Li En watched hungrily as the smell drew nearby beasts.

• Toothless burned an arrow aimed at Dongfang Minghui before it could reach her.
• Dongfang Minghui held Toothless back from lunging at Li En and praised Toothless for growing stronger.
• The Vines warned Dongfang Minghui that the fire could lead Li En’s pursuers to them.
• Dongfang Minghui gathered wood and grilled food, attracting hungry beasts and drawing Li En’s attention.
• Dongfang Minghui offered Li En some roasted meat.

Qian Wanyu woke in a Beast Tribe prison, secretly mapped General Armand’s compound, and helped the captives prepare an escape. As she attacked Anton to draw guards away, Jing Kewei led the prisoners to free people in other rooms; elsewhere, Dongfang Minghui and Lien defeated a group of beastmen pursuing him.

• Qian Wanyu woke injured and amnesiac in a crowded prison, learned from Qing Mo that she was in Beast Tribe territory, and began cultivating while searching for her Ninth Sister.
• When Anton came to select another captive, Qian Wanyu volunteered, scouted the general’s residence, and returned with a map and a plan to kill the general and escape.
• Qian Wanyu studied the Dwarffolk formations in the prisoners’ chains, then erased the formation so the captives could break free without alerting Anton.
• A prisoner betrayed Qian Wanyu and Jing Kewei, but Anton failed to find evidence; after Qian Wanyu left with him, she dodged his attack and struck him with her Water-Thunder Whip as Jing Kewei led the others to free captives in the other rooms.
• Dongfang Minghui, Lien, Little Lecher, Toothless, and Lü Xing fought five beastmen; they killed four, and Lien shot the last one after vines restrained him.

Dongfang Minghui and Cyril failed to understand each other after he bowed to her. The exchange left them blinking at one another.

• Cyril bowed to Dongfang Minghui after realizing they had killed his pursuers.
• Dongfang Minghui tried to wave him off, then asked him to take her out of there.
• Dongfang Minghui and Cyril failed to understand each other and blinked at one another.

Dongfang Minghui and Lien reached beastfolk territory, where they learned that Cass had disappeared, while Qian Wanyu fought her way out of General Armand’s residence and headed toward Cass’s tribe. On the road, Dongfang Minghui found the missing Cass badly wounded and poisoned by a python’s lust venom.

• Dongfang Minghui bought an elixir for understanding beastfolk speech from He Ji'an, then gathered a map and news that Cass had vanished after an ambush by Cyril and Hillary.
• Qian Wanyu killed Armand, led Jing Kewei and a group of captives toward Cass’s territory, and waited near the tribe’s border after most of the survivors left.
• Dongfang Minghui and Lien followed the map toward the Cass Tribe, and Lien killed a python and removed its venom sacs.
• Little Lecher brought down a wounded man from the treetop, and Dongfang Minghui recognized him as Cass after shaving off his beard.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered that Cass was poisoned by the python’s lust venom and told Little Lecher to tie him up before it flared.

Dongfang Minghui reunited with Qian Wanyu after helping Cass survive an ambush and reach the Cass Tribe. As Qian Wanyu struggled with unfamiliar feelings and gaps in her memories, Dongfang Minghui cared for her, ending the chapter by teasing her after she woke during a forehead kiss.

• Dongfang Minghui cured Cass's poison and warned him that another ambush might await him on the mountain.
• Cass and Lien fought more than a hundred attackers, and Little White Ball and Qian Wanyu arrived to help Dongfang Minghui turn the battle around.
• Cass returned to the Cass Tribe with Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, Lien, Jing Kewei, and their companions.
• Dongfang Minghui held Qian Wanyu's hand and prepared a hot bath for her, while Qian Wanyu found herself unusually affected by her closeness.
• Dongfang Minghui kissed Qian Wanyu's forehead as she slept, but Qian Wanyu woke and asked if she was sexually frustrated.

Dongfang Minghui explored the Cass Tribe with Jing Kewei and Lien, cured Old Buka’s poisoned wife, and later fought Milo’s patrol after they attacked her and Qian Wanyu. Qian Wanyu recovered memories of Dongfang Minghui and reclaimed their love tokens, leaving the sisters reconciled as they continued searching for the missing friend and the Inheritance Grounds.

• Dongfang Minghui learned from Jing Kewei how Qian Wanyu had been found unconscious, then joined Karu’s tour of the Cass Tribe while Qian Wanyu stayed behind to cultivate.
• Dongfang Minghui traded for a five-colored flower and cured Old Buka’s poisoned wife, earning the beastfolk’s admiration as a Potion Master.
• Dongfang Minghui tested Qian Wanyu’s soul sea and learned from Qing Mo that Qian Wanyu had temporary memory loss from a head injury in the spatial hurricane.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui toured the tribe, but Milo’s patrol attacked them; they and their spirit beasts defeated the patrol, and Cass ordered Milo punished with fifty lashes.
• Dongfang Minghui suspected Cass knew something about the place they sought, while Qian Wanyu began remembering and confiscated the love tokens from her.
• Qian Wanyu kissed Dongfang Minghui and confirmed she had remembered her, and the sisters embraced happily.

The women discussed how to find Qian Ying’s son, who had been born more than a hundred years earlier. One suspected he might be dead, but another’s encounter with a powerful consciousness while investigating the Cass Tribe suggested an expert was hiding there.

• One woman reassured the other that the child in her arms was safe.
• She wondered how they could find Qian Ying’s son after so many years and asked whether he might already be dead.
• The other woman said she had encountered a powerful consciousness while investigating the Cass Tribe.
• She said Cass had lied, leading her to believe another expert was concealed within the tribe.

Little Minghui and Qian Wanyu investigated a mysterious poisoning in the Cass Tribe and discovered a frozen cavern filled with murdered members of several races. After Little Minghui saved the poisoned beastfolk, Cass recognized a necklace taken from the cavern and reacted with shock, leaving its connection to the tribe’s past unresolved.

• Karu brought Little Minghui to treat six beastfolk who had collapsed after vomiting blood, and she found tiny puncture wounds and signs of poison.
• Cass interrupted Little Minghui’s questions about the victims’ expedition, and she suspected he was concealing the truth; she agreed to investigate the site with Qian Wanyu.
• At the forest, Little Minghui found poisoned Narrow-Eye Grass above a hidden ice cavern, where she and Qian Wanyu discovered people from five races frozen in the walls.
• Karu recognized a beastman’s tag and tried to free the body, but the cavern collapsed; he escaped clutching a necklace.
• Little Minghui used her potion to save all six poisoned beastfolk, then described and sketched the necklace for Cass, who reacted with shock.
• Qian Wanyu asked what Cass had wanted, and Little Minghui began to answer by recalling that Seventh Sister’s consciousness had encountered something.

Tong Yao discovered that Qian Wanyu had secretly been working at the Meet-Up Milk Tea Shop and confirmed that she was Seventh Sister, then helped her negotiate better working conditions and bought her a phone. Qian Wanyu kept working, revealed that she retained her spiritual power, and refused to visit the hospital for a pregnancy checkup.

• Uncle Zhang told Tong Yao that Qian Wanyu had been leaving for work each day, and Tong Yao found her serving drinks at the Meet-Up Milk Tea Shop.
• Tong Yao asked Qian Wanyu about her job, brought her home for dinner, and learned that Qian Wanyu had recognized her as Doctor Jian; Qian Wanyu embraced her and promised she would never leave her alone.
• Tong Yao found Qian Wanyu's photos circulating online, brought her lunch at work, and watched Qian Wanyu kiss her after they practiced using a phone.
• Tong Yao negotiated a higher salary, a daytime schedule ending by five, and a ban on using Qian Wanyu's photos for shop advertising.
• Tong Yao confronted talent scout Zhang Yanqing for secretly photographing Qian Wanyu, then learned Qian Wanyu still had her spiritual power.
• Qian Wanyu refused Tong Yao's request to visit the hospital for a pregnancy checkup, and Tong Yao gave her the smartphone she had bought.

Tong Yao helped Qian Wanyu learn to use a phone and gave her an identity card, which brought back a line she had once tried to decipher from a painting. The chapter ended with Qian Wanyu keeping the card and recalling the words she had later deleted.

• Tong Yao praised Qian Wanyu for learning new things quickly.
• Tong Yao gave Qian Wanyu her phone number and taught her how to call and turn off the phone.
• Tong Yao handed Qian Wanyu an identity card and told her to keep it safe.
• Qian Wanyu recalled a line she had pieced together from books and then deleted because she thought it did not match the painting.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu confirmed the baby was healthy, survived a knife attack, and grew closer as Qian Wanyu made money and planned a proposal. Qian Wanyu proposed publicly, and after their engagement went viral, Tong Yao’s mother called in disbelief, leaving Tong Yao facing her family’s reaction.

• Tong Yao persuaded Qian Wanyu to get a color ultrasound, which showed their active fetus was slightly small but otherwise normal.
• A man attacked Tong Yao with a knife in an alley, and Qian Wanyu disarmed him before they let him go.
• Qian Wanyu won about three hundred thousand from lottery tickets, invested it in stocks, and later transferred more than a million into another stock.
• After a doctor was stabbed by the same attacker, Qian Wanyu decided she needed money so she could stay close to Tong Yao and protect her.
• Qian Wanyu proposed to Tong Yao with rings at the hospital, and photos of them embracing spread online.
• Tong Yao’s mother called about the viral video and demanded to know whether Tong Yao had fallen in love with a woman.