Chapter Summaries

Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan followed Ruyun to a spy base after learning she would meet with her contacts. Ruyun asked Wu Bi to help her kill Liu Wan, while Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan listened unseen.

• Xia Wanwan told Xia Siheng she would help investigate the spies, and they planned to follow Ruyun to her meeting.
• Ruyun took Daoist Qianyun's medicine and slept peacefully before Lingling woke her for the meeting.
• Xia Siheng captured Lingling and ordered Jing Wu to lock her up, then Xia Wanwan used an item from her Cosmic Bag to make them invisible.
• Ruyun and Lingling left the Prince's Manor through a secret passage and went to a guarded tavern outside the Capital.
• Wu Bi told Ruyun that her servants could help undermine Liu Wan, but Ruyun demanded that he help her kill Liu Wan.

Wu Bi revealed that East Lin’s prophecy depended on Xia Siheng fathering a child, prompting Ruyun to scheme to bear that child herself. After learning of a plot involving the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup, Xia Siheng chose to wait for the next day’s Consecration Ceremony to expose the conspirators.

• Ruyun told Wu Bi she hated Liu Wan and asked him to help kill her, but Wu Bi refused and explained East Lin’s prophecy about Xia Siheng’s biological child becoming a true god.
• Ruyun revealed that Liu Wan had requested a Contraceptive Pill, then proposed using East Lin’s secret potion to become pregnant with Xia Siheng’s child.
• Wu Bi agreed to help Ruyun if she succeeded, while warning her she would bear the consequences if her scheme was exposed.
• Wu Bi told Ruyun that the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup had to be returned to Southern Mei after the divine statue’s consecration and explained a plan to stop it.
• Xia Siheng listened in secret, realized an East Lin spy was among the Imperial Court’s high-ranking officials, and decided to wait until the next day’s Consecration Ceremony before acting.

Liu Wan began purging Ruyun’s corrupt followers from the Prince’s Manor’s Inner Residence while Xia Siheng and Princess Ximing investigated the poisoning. She exposed Lingling’s threat against A Niu, whose family had been rescued by the Hidden Guards.

• Liu Wan reviewed a list of crimes committed by Ruyun’s trusted servants and ordered an inquiry into the manor’s household.
• Jing Wu brought back the captured maid Lingling and reported that Xia Siheng and Princess Ximing had gone to investigate the poisoning.
• Liu Wan summoned the manor’s servants and questioned Lingling and the bound servant A Niu about the poisoning of Princess Ximing.
• Lingling threatened A Niu’s family to keep him silent, but Liu Wan revealed that the Hidden Guards had rescued his wife, mother, and child.

A Niu confessed that Lingling and Ruyun had arranged to poison Princess Ximing, and Liu Wan used his testimony and records to establish Ruyun’s guilt. When Ruyun’s supporters tried to turn the servants against Liu Wan, she had the ringleaders seized and ordered them killed.

• A Niu’s wife and son confirmed that Lingling’s people had threatened their family, and A Niu admitted he had put powder in Princess Ximing’s wine after being promised money and a courtyard.
• A Niu produced the remaining powder, a hundred-tael banknote, and his courtyard key, then testified that Ruyun had ordered the poisoning through Lingling.
• Wang Xia checked the courtyard register and confirmed that Ruyun had assigned A Niu the courtyard on the date he named.
• Lingling urged servants to accuse Liu Wan of fabricating the case, and several servants spoke up in Ruyun’s defense.
• Liu Wan ordered Jing Wu and Jing Er to seize two stewards and three servants who had stirred up the crowd.
• Liu Wan dismissed the servants’ protests and ordered the five ringleaders killed.

Liu Wan purged Ruyun’s followers from the Prince’s Manor, punished those involved in poisoning Princess Ximing, and secretly spared A Niu after he saved her. After Jing Wu showed her the Prince’s account books, Liu Wan discovered that Ruyun had embezzled a fortune and vowed to recover it with interest.

• Liu Wan ordered Jing Er and the Hidden Guards to kill Ruyun’s trusted subordinates after one steward attacked her, while A Niu confessed that they had coerced him into poisoning Princess Ximing.
• Liu Wan offered the manor’s servants who had worked for Ruyun a chance to leave with their servant contracts, and many stepped forward to expose the abuse they had suffered.
• Liu Wan ordered Lingling’s execution and pretended to have A Niu killed, but Jing Er revived him, returned his silver, and sent him and his family out of the Capital.
• Jing Wu brought Liu Wan the account books the Prince had kept because he suspected Ruyun of embezzling manor funds.
• Liu Wan found evidence of substantial missing money in the ledgers and vowed to recover it with interest.

Liu Wan dismissed corrupt accountants and began investigating the Prince's Manor's missing funds, while Xia Siheng went to the palace to hear evidence against a court official linked to East Lin and Princess Ximing. The chapter ended with the Empress Dowager presenting the evidence to Xia Siheng.

• Jing Er told Liu Wan that Xia Siheng had been summoned to the palace after the Empress Dowager identified a high-ranking official connected to East Lin and Princess Ximing.
• Jing Er explained that Xia Siheng had bought the manor's shops years earlier to trace money Ruyun had diverted, and that he wanted Liu Wan to find the culprit and recover the funds.
• Liu Wan ordered the three accountants who had falsified records for Ruyun dismissed from the Prince's Manor.
• Jing Er told Jing Wu that Xia Siheng had prepared the investigation for Liu Wan, and wondered if Ruyun had been left for Liu Wan to deal with.
• The Empress Dowager showed Xia Siheng evidence that the substance used to sever Consort Xian's rope came from East Lin and that a high-ranking Imperial Court official had colluded with East Lin.

The Empress Dowager told Xia Siheng to deal with Duke Yan’s East Lin conspiracy without publicly convicting him or tarnishing his father’s name, and Xia Wanwan eagerly joined the plan to help pass the new law. After they left, the Empress Dowager summoned the Emperor and warned him not to approve a memorial.

• Xia Siheng examined evidence linking Duke Yan to East Lin’s plot to replace the Empress and Consort Xian and influence Great Xia’s succession.
• The Empress Dowager instructed Xia Siheng to preserve Old Duke Yan’s reputation while resolving the matter and handed him a list of officials opposing Xia Wanwan’s new law.
• Xia Siheng said he and Xia Wanwan would handle Duke Yan, and Xia Wanwan agreed after hearing that his estate held plenty of secrets and gossip.
• The Empress Dowager let Xia Siheng take Xia Wanwan home, then ordered Eunuch Yu to summon the Emperor.
• The Empress Dowager threw a memorial before the Emperor and warned that she would never spare him if he approved it.

The emperor consulted the Empress Dowager about Eastern Lin’s demand that Xia Siheng visit, and she refused to let Great Xia yield to the pressure. Meanwhile, Ruyun plotted to drug the Prince during the Consecration Ceremony, while the Eldest Princess of Southern Mei learned that a Demon God sought the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup to resurrect himself.

• The emperor told the Empress Dowager that Eastern Lin had sent a treasure and demanded Xia Siheng visit with his family, and she ordered him to refuse and return the treasure publicly.
• Ruyun took the yin drug and planned to have Steward Qi put the yang drug in the Prince’s food or medicine during the Consecration Ceremony.
• The Eldest Princess of Southern Mei learned that her emperor had refused to save General Li Meng and ordered her to bring back the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup for a Demon God’s protection.
• A Shu killed the messenger after he relayed the emperor’s order, and the Eldest Princess realized the Demon God wanted the deity’s ashes in the cup to rebuild his body and resurrect himself.

At the Divine Temple’s consecration, the Grandmaster’s Divine Soul appeared and used his dwindling power to answer the crowd’s desperate prayers. Xia Wanwan begged him to stop, but he continued helping people, leaving her crying over how weak he had become.

• Zhong Fu boasted to everyone on the way up God of Wealth Mountain that the Zhong Family had funded the Divine Temple and that Zhong Youyan was a Commandery Princess.
• The emperor removed the red cloth from the Divine Statue, and light from the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup made its eyes shine as five-colored rays spread over the crowd.
• Xia Wanwan saw the Grandmaster’s Divine Soul and learned that he was too weakened by past battles to grant her three promised wishes for now.
• Worshippers prayed for help with illness, injustice, poverty, and safety, and the Grandmaster spent his remaining divine power granting blessings.
• Xia Wanwan cried out for the Grandmaster to stop using his power, but he continued helping the crowd until Liu Wan carried her aside and wiped her tears.

Xia Wanwan learned that her transmigration was arranged by the Grandmaster to stop Jiyan, and that the events she had thought were a novel were real history. As the Eldest Princess prepared to leave Great Xia with the sacred relic, Xia Siheng agreed to escort her, planning to use the trip to confront the East Lin spy Aye.

• The Grandmaster revealed that Xia Wanwan had been brought to the past to eliminate Jiyan, who had trapped Xie Huaishan in the World-Suppressing Tower until the twenty-first century.
• Xia Wanwan realized that the book she had read was a historical record and became furious at the Grandmaster, while Liu Wan and the imperial women tried to comfort her.
• The Eldest Princess asked the emperor to let her take the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup and leave for Southern Mei with the Glazed Glass Lamp, and he agreed.
• The Eldest Princess requested Xia Siheng escort her out of the city, and he accepted while planning to kill Aye, the East Lin spy who had once handed his birth mother the White Silk.
• Xia Wanwan cried and threw a tantrum to get Father to take her along, while the Eldest Princess complained about bringing the little girl.

Before leaving with Xia Siheng, Xia Wanwan gave Liu Wan a protective wooden gourd, and the Eldest Princess realized that Wanwan was the mysterious expert. At the Divine Temple, Gu Ming attacked during the Consecration Ceremony, and Liu Wan reached for the gourd as the crowd faced his threat.

• Xia Wanwan gave Liu Wan a wooden gourd and taught her to say “mommy mommy hum” to deal with danger.
• The Eldest Princess realized Xia Wanwan was the Spirit Child and the mysterious power protecting the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Xia Siheng rode out with Xia Wanwan while the Eldest Princess's procession left the city.
• At the Divine Temple, the incense snapped, dark clouds gathered, and evil spirits attacked those who remained to offer incense.
• Gu Ming, the Baleful Aura Master's Left Guardian, appeared and shattered Master Yuantong's barrier after demanding that everyone leave.
• Liu Wan reached toward the gourd in her cuff as Gu Ming threatened the people and the Divine Temple.

Gu Ming tempted the common people to drive the emperor out of the Divine Temple so he could destroy the Divine Statue. As they wavered, the Deities’ promised blessings began to come true, leaving Xie Jin'an and others astonished.

• The emperor confronted Gu Ming with the Imperial Sword and refused to leave the Divine Temple.
• Gu Ming promised wealth, health, and fulfilled wishes to anyone who pushed the emperor out, and the common people began to rise against the imperial guards.
• Zhong Fu offered the crowd silver notes, but Gu Ming’s power forced him to his knees, and Gu Ming urged the people to drive out the emperor.
• The sick child in the woman’s arms woke and began crying, and the woman said the Deities had promised the child would recover if she did good.
• The middle-aged merchant and others said the Deities had also spoken to them, promising that the wicked would face consequences and that the old and ill would find peace; Xie Jin'an confirmed he had heard a voice too.

Xie Jin'an and the people of Great Xia stood against Gu Ming to protect the emperor, but Gu Ming unleashed his ultimate attack. Liu Wan used the Gourd to stop one strike and faced the demonic storm as it swept the crowd away.

• Xie Jin'an urged the people to defend the emperor, and they gathered around him rather than hand him over to Gu Ming.
• Gu Ming forced the crowd to their knees and attacked Liu Wan and the Imperial Family, prompting the emperor to rush to his mother's aid.
• Xie Jin'an shoved the emperor out of danger and prepared to take Gu Ming's fatal strike, but Liu Wan stood up and used the Gourd to absorb the black energy.
• The emperor drew the Imperial Sword and threatened Gu Ming, who dismissed him and gathered demonic wind to kill the mortals and destroy the Divine Statue.
• Gu Ming unleashed his ultimate attack, scattering the crowd as Liu Wan chanted, "Abracadabra!"

Liu Wan and the women joined forces to capture Gu Ming in the gourd and destroy the evil spirits. As Xia Siheng escorted the Eldest Princess out of the city, he revealed that Southern Mei’s imperial death warriors had tried to kill her before, and an ambush began on the mountain road.

• Gu Ming ordered the evil spirits to attack Liu Wan, but the emperor drew the real Imperial Sword and Zhong Youyan pulled Liu Wan to safety.
• Zhong Youyan, the Empress Dowager, Consort Ling, and Liu Wan worked together, allowing Liu Wan to bind Gu Ming with the gourd and suck him inside.
• The evil spirits vanished, and the people in the Divine Temple cheered as Liu Wan recognized that the Divine Statue approved of them all, especially the little dumpling.
• Xia Siheng told the Eldest Princess that the mountain bandits he had defeated were Southern Mei death warriors marked with purple cuckoo tattoos.
• The Eldest Princess realized her younger brother had ordered her death, and arrows suddenly rained down on her carriage as Xia Wanwan excitedly prepared to fight.

Xia Siheng and the Eldest Princess faced Southern Mei death-sworn warriors while East Lin assassins watched from hiding, each group seeking the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup. The Eldest Princess realized her brother had ordered her death and offered the cup to draw the assassins closer, while waiting for East Lin to make its move.

• Aye and the East Lin assassins watched the attack and decided to wait for the two groups to weaken each other.
• Xia Siheng urged the Eldest Princess to leave the conspicuous carriage and help turn the Southern Mei assassins against the East Lin attackers.
• The Eldest Princess recognized the attackers as Southern Mei death-sworn warriors and realized her brother had betrayed her, so she resolved to withdraw from government and live for herself.
• The Eldest Princess stepped out and told the death-sworn warriors to stop, but they kept advancing toward her.
• Aye held back his East Lin assassins as the Eldest Princess claimed the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup was in her carriage and had attendants bring it out.

Aye’s East Lin assassins attack the Southern Mei Death Warriors, only for Aye to realize Xia Siheng had maneuvered both sides into fighting. Xia confronts Aye and recounts how Aye’s actions led to Xia’s birth mother’s death, leaving Aye facing the consequences of the past.

• Aye ordered the East Lin assassins to attack the Southern Mei Death Warriors as they surrounded the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup.
• A Southern Mei Death Warrior attacked the Eldest Princess, and Xia Siheng saved her by killing him.
• Aye realized Xia Siheng had anticipated both attacks and staged the handover to provoke the two forces into battle.
• Xia Siheng exposed Aye’s hiding place with a flying broken sword and confronted him with the sword raised.
• Xia Siheng accused Aye of helping drive his birth mother to her death, while Aye defended his actions as obedience to East Lin’s orders.

Xia Wanwan used a Five-Lightning Strike Talisman to unleash heavenly lightning on the fighting forces while Aye and Xia Siheng battled on the hillside. As the survivors closed in on her, she gathered them together and prepared a devastating final strike.

• Aye explained to Xia Siheng that he had reported the Princess’s letter out of loyalty to his Sovereign and country, and the two resumed their fierce duel.
• Xia Wanwan climbed onto the abandoned carriage and summoned lightning, prompting Jing Wu to direct his men to retreat behind a safety line.
• Xia Wanwan’s lightning struck the Southern Mei Death Warriors and East Lin assassins, while Jing Wu’s men kept them from entering the safe zone.
• The surviving fighters realized Xia Wanwan was summoning the lightning and charged toward her, but she welcomed them and gathered power for an enhanced attack.
• Xia Wanwan ignored Heavenly Secrets’ attention, raised her pink Little Iron Shovel, and called down an earth-shattering bolt beside her.

After Xia Wanwan annihilated the attackers with lightning, the Eldest Princess revealed that Southern Mei had allied with the Demon God and asked Xia Wanwan to prepare to face him. The Eldest Princess offered rare cultivation resources to persuade Xia Wanwan to go to Southern Mei, and Xia Wanwan stopped at the mention of spirit herbs and pills.

• Xia Wanwan blasted the attackers into ashes, then told Jing Wu she had done it because corpses frightened her.
• The Eldest Princess asked Xia Wanwan to deal with the Demon God, while Jing Wu insisted that no one interfere in the Ninth Prince's duel.
• The Eldest Princess told Xia Wanwan that Southern Mei's emperor planned to offer the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup to the Demon God, and she believed Xia Wanwan was the Spirit Child who could oppose him.
• Xia Wanwan secretly divined that she still could not defeat Jiyan and worried that he would discover her identity.
• The Eldest Princess offered Xia Wanwan third-rank spirit herbs, Fifth-Rank Spirit Pills, and other resources, and Xia Wanwan turned back in surprise.

Xia Wanwan gave the Eldest Princess spirit herbs and pills she considered trash in exchange for a promise to keep her power secret. After the Southern Mei convoy departed, Xia Siheng finished taking revenge on his enemies, but Xia Wanwan began crying at the sight of the bodies.

• Xia Wanwan showed the Eldest Princess spirit herbs and fifth-rank pills, then gave her some as long as she kept Xia Wanwan’s power secret.
• Xia Wanwan touched the Eldest Princess’s forehead with spiritual power and warned that her head would explode if she broke her promise.
• The Eldest Princess reflected that Southern Mei was threatened by Southern Yue and had made a bargain with the Demon God to preserve its realm.
• After A Shu led the Southern Mei convoy away, Xia Siheng drove his sword through Aye’s chest, completing his revenge.
• Jing Wu told Xia Siheng that all the enemies were dead and that the Eldest Princess had been threatened while Princess Ximing erased the guards’ memories.
• Xia Wanwan praised her father, then covered her eyes and sobbed at the bodies, prompting Xia Siheng to hurry to comfort her.

Liu Wan uncovered the Moji Tavern as an East Lin spy base and learned Ruyun planned to drug Xia Siheng. Chunhua intercepted Ruyun’s attempt and prepared to turn the poisoned dish against the captured spies.

• Xia Siheng stabbed Aye’s corpse several more times to calm Xia Wanwan, then used a talisman to burn it to ashes.
• Liu Wan found evidence that the Moji Tavern had evaded twenty thousand taels in taxes and sent Jing Er to have its occupants arrested.
• Wang Xia told Liu Wan that Ruyun planned to drug Xia Siheng and take his child back to East Lin, so Chunhua proposed a counterplan.
• Jing Er reported that the Moji Tavern was a spy base led by Wu Bi, whose members were now held in the Government Office jail.
• Ruyun slipped an aphrodisiac into a dish meant for Xia Siheng, but Chunhua’s cook had switched it aside and Chunhua ordered the drug mixed in and sent to the captured spies.