Chapter Summaries

Hu Xiaotian and Ghost Physician Fu Wan discussed Phantom, the danger of destroying the Spaceship, and the weapon believed to lie beneath the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda. After Fu Wan died, Hu Xiaotian examined his body and discovered numbered bones and a spider-shaped device fused to his brain, suggesting Fu Wan had been artificially created.

• Ghost Physician Fu Wan warned Hu Xiaotian that Phantom was powerful and that Hong Beimo might fight to protect his lifelong effort to repair the Spaceship.
• Hu Xiaotian refused to promise that he would help Hong Beimo return home, explaining that the Spaceship could bring catastrophe to this world.
• Hu Xiaotian visited Baobao, who told him she had recovered and wanted to explore the Kang Capital with him.
• Hong Beimo told Hu Xiaotian that Ghost Physician Fu Wan had died and let him examine the body.
• Hu Xiaotian found codes on Fu Wan's bones and removed a spider-shaped object fused to his brain.

Hu Xiaotian kept the discovery that Ghost Physician Fu Wan was an artificial human secret while helping Qin Yutong care for her gravely ill father, Zhou Ruiyuan. Three elixirs restored Zhou Ruiyuan’s health, and the chapter ended with Hu learning that Huo Xiaoru planned to meet him privately in Kang Capital on the seventh day of the seventh month.

• Hu Xiaotian dissected Ghost Physician Fu Wan, confirmed he was an artificial human, and kept the discovery and a strange black object to himself.
• Zhou Ruiyuan’s fever worsened, and after Hu Xiaotian examined him, Zhou privately asked about Hu’s proposal to Qin Yutong and learned she was pregnant.
• Zhou Ruiyuan told Hu to bury him in the Peony Garden on Western Mountain if he died, and Hu suspected his illness was connected to his marriage to Qin Se.
• Hu Xiaotian and Qin Yutong discussed whether the Heavenly Man Myriad Images Diagram could help Zhou, so Hu arranged for Xia Changming to seek its Yang Volume from Xue Shengjing.
• Xia Changming returned with three elixirs from Huo Xiaoru, and Zhou Ruiyuan recovered after taking them.
• Hu Xiaotian learned that Huo Xiaoru would come to Kang Capital and wanted him to meet her alone at the Misty Waters Pavilion on the seventh day of the seventh month.

Huo Xiaoru confronted Xue Shengjing over his ambition and her independence, while Hu Buwei exposed Long Xuanjiao’s secrets and then met Liu Yuzhang. Liu Yuzhang revealed that he had found the Underground Palace and planned to open it with Hu Xiaotian, leaving Hu Buwei wondering what Liu had promised him.

• Huo Xiaotian realized the seventh day of the seventh month could bring Liu Yuzhang and Ji Feihua together to search for the skulls and open the Underground Palace.
• Huo Xiaoru told Xue Shengjing that she had given Hu Xiaotian three Heavenly Man Pills to help Zhou Ruiyuan, then accused Xue of using everyone, including her, to pursue power.
• Huo Xiaoru warned Xue Shengjing that she could kill him, and said he meant nothing to her.
• Hu Buwei told Long Xuanjiao that he could not father children and that Longjing was not his, then threatened to reveal her secrets unless she behaved herself.
• Liu Yuzhang met Hu Buwei and said he had found the Underground Palace beneath the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda and persuaded Hu Xiaotian to help open it.
• Liu Yuzhang said Princess Yongyang held the key to opening the Underground Palace and Hu Xiaotian was the only way to get her cooperation; Hu Buwei asked what Liu had promised him.

Hu Buwei accepted that Liu Yuzhang intended to give Western Sichuan to Hu Xiaotian and take back the skull, while Xu Fengmei urged Hu Buwei to stop chasing power. As the kingdoms’ fortunes shifted, Hu Xiaotian visited the imprisoned Wen Chenghuan, who lamented his old age over a cup of wine.

• Liu Yuzhang told Hu Buwei he had promised Hu Xiaotian Western Sichuan and demanded the skull, and Hu Buwei agreed to hand it over.
• Xu Fengmei warned Hu Buwei that Liu Yuzhang would keep using him and urged him to be content with the territories they already held; Hu Buwei admitted he should not cling so stubbornly to ambition.
• Wanyan Luxi died, Wanyan Liezu took the throne of Black Hu, and Great Yong faced widespread rebellions while Great Kang consolidated its power under Hu Xiaotian.
• Hu Xiaotian learned that Wen Chenghuan had requested a private meeting and agreed to visit him in prison.
• Hu Xiaotian shared food and wine with the paralyzed Wen Chenghuan, who struggled to drink and sighed that he had grown old.

Wen Chenghuan asked Hu Xiaotian for a swift death and offered him the secret of the Miao Clan Treasure, while Hu later revealed the promised treasure map was a fake. At Fengyi Manor, Hu enjoyed a playful reunion with Qin Yutong and Huo Shengnan, then entered the palace with Zhuge Guanqi as the seventh day of the seventh month approached.

• Wen Chenghuan blamed himself for his sons’ deaths and offered Hu Xiaotian the secret of the Miao Clan Treasure in exchange for a clean death.
• Wen Chenghuan claimed the treasure was hidden in the Yong Capital and that his family had passed down its secret.
• Hu Xiaotian told Qin Yutong that Wen Chenghuan’s treasure map was fake and that Wen had meant to stir up trouble in the Yong Capital.
• Qin Yutong gave Hu Xiaotian pills she had made to help him father children, and he teased her and Huo Shengnan about trying them.
• Hu Xiaotian brought Zhuge Guanqi into the Imperial Palace to inspect the ruined Dragon Spirit Wonderland before the seventh day of the seventh month.
• On the fifth day of the seventh month, Hu Xiaotian was summoned to the palace, where Qiqi waited for him in the Palace of Gathered Elegance.

Qiqi worried over strange recurring dreams and her fading interest in court affairs as Hu Xiaotian discussed Great Kang’s plans and welcomed Wanyan Liexin for peace talks. The chapter ended with Hu Xiaotian and Wanyan Liexin speaking privately, neither mentioning the theft of the Skull.

• Shi Xuedong urged Hu Xiaotian to make Qiqi his own, then left the Palace of Gathered Elegance.
• Qiqi showed Hu Xiaotian strange patterns from her dreams and asked whether Liu Yuzhang would come on the seventh day of the seventh month; Hu Xiaotian reassured her.
• Qiqi asked Hu Xiaotian about rumors of a Miao family treasure and Black Hu’s peace envoys, and he explained his strategy for Great Yong and Western Sichuan.
• Qiqi admitted she had lost interest in everything and asked Hu Xiaotian to settle their wedding date after the matter on the seventh day of the seventh month.
• Hu Xiaotian hosted Wanyan Liexin and his delegation at a banquet, then invited Wanyan Liexin to the garden to talk privately without mentioning the Skull’s theft.

Hu Xiaotian discussed Princess Xima and the shifting balance of power with Wanyan Liexin, then learned that Old Madam Xu had come to the capital. Her secret stay at Easy Origin Hall left him suspecting that she might control the medical hall from behind the scenes.

• Wanyan Liexin congratulated Hu Xiaotian on his engagement and asked about his growing military power, while Hu Xiaotian questioned Black Hu's peaceful intentions.
• Wanyan Liexin told Hu Xiaotian that Princess Xima had vanished after the Brahma Sound Temple collapsed, and Hu Xiaotian implied that she was safe and would meet Wanyan Liexin again.
• Hu Xiaotian received Liang Dazhuang and deduced that Old Madam Xu had sent him.
• Liang Dazhuang told Hu Xiaotian that Old Madam Xu was staying at Easy Origin Hall, prompting Hu Xiaotian to suspect she had influence over its leaders.

Hu Xiaotian met Li Wuyou and learned that she was the human scientist behind the Time-Space Leap Team, not Xu Mingying. She explained how the clones gained independent minds and how Xu Mingying captured her but depended on her knowledge to survive.

• Hu Xiaotian entered Easy Origin Hall’s back courtyard and recognized the young Li Wuyou as the person who had previously appeared as Old Madam Xu.
• Li Wuyou told Hu Xiaotian that Xi Yan, not she, was Li Tianheng’s biological daughter, and explained that she had joined the Time-Space Leap Team as its human member.
• Li Wuyou revealed that she had created the team’s clones, then entered hibernation after becoming ill in the past, while someone altered the clones and gave them self-awareness.
• Li Wuyou said she destroyed the Time-Space Machine after the clones escaped her control, cutting their connection to the world of the past.
• Li Wuyou revealed that Xu Mingying was her clone, who captured her but spared her because she needed Li Wuyou’s cloning expertise and replacements to treat her terminal illness.

Li Wuyou revealed her history with Xu Mingying and joined Hu Xiaotian in investigating the Clones, Phantom, and the events drawing them to the Kang Capital. At the Misty Waters Pavilion, Hu Xiaotian received Huo Xiaoru’s gifts and met Ji Feihua, whose Skull he could not read until Hu Xiaotian demonstrated its blue light.

• Li Wuyou explained that she had hidden herself in a Seed of Fire, been implanted in Madam Li, and used Liang Dazhuang to help her watch Xu Mingying, who had come to the Kang Capital.
• Hu Xiaotian told Li Wuyou that Phantom had caused the Clones to gain independent thought, and showed her the Control Unit that had stopped working.
• Li Wuyou and Hu Xiaotian agreed that they needed to stop Phantom before she grew too powerful, while questioning why so many people had gathered in the Kang Capital for the seventh day of the seventh month.
• At the Misty Waters Pavilion, Wan'er delivered Huo Xiaoru’s chest containing a transparent Skull and both scrolls of the Heavenly Man Myriad Images Diagram, but Huo Xiaoru did not appear.
• Ji Feihua arrived with another Skull and said he had seen Huo Xiaoru; when he could not read the Skull, Hu Xiaotian touched it and made blue light shine from it.

Hu Xiaotian, Ji Feihua, and Qiqi entered the underground palace with Liu Yuzhang to open the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda. They reached the treasure chamber and discovered the true pagoda, while their plan to eliminate Liu Yuzhang and confront Phantom remained ahead.

• Ji Feihua told Hu Xiaotian that Huo Xiaoru's martial arts matched his own and warned him to prioritize killing Liu Yuzhang in the underground palace.
• Hu Xiaotian told Ji Feihua about Qiqi's unusual behavior, and they discussed the possibility that the underground palace was a trap and that they might have to destroy Phantom's spaceship.
• Hu Xiaotian escorted Qiqi to the Medicine Storehouse, where she unlocked the entrance to the secret passage, and Ji Feihua joined them with a recovered skull.
• The three found Liu Yuzhang waiting underground, and he returned the last skull to Ji Feihua before Qiqi opened the stone doors.
• Hu Xiaotian, Ji Feihua, Qiqi, and Liu Yuzhang saw the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda standing beyond a bridge over the underground river.

Hu Xiaotian, Ji Feihua, Qiqi, and Liu Yuzhang opened the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda and activated its changing interior with the two skulls. The pagoda lowered them to a liquid barrier that only the Fated Ones seemed able to pass, and Qiqi approached it despite Hu Xiaotian's warning.

• Qiqi, Hu Xiaotian, Ji Feihua, and Liu Yuzhang crossed the patterned bridge and reached the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Ji Feihua solved the Pattern Lock, and the four entered the hollow pagoda, where its interior changed before them.
• Ji Feihua and Qiqi placed the two skulls on the floor, triggering blue mist and a vortex that sent the pagoda floor descending.
• The two skulls floated ahead, and the four followed them to a shimmering liquid barrier that the skulls passed through.
• Liu Yuzhang failed to cross the barrier, while Ji Feihua touched it and Qiqi approached; Hu Xiaotian warned them that danger might lie beyond.

Ji Feihua and Qiqi opened the Underground Palace’s mechanism, where the Blue Orb drained Qiqi and killed Liu Yuzhang before escaping. The orb reached Huo Xiaoru, who absorbed it and confronted Hong Beimo about the plot that had supposedly killed her.

• Ji Feihua and Qiqi entered the barrier and activated a light-wheel mechanism together, revealing a Black Orb.
• Qiqi’s blood opened the Black Orb and exposed a Blue Orb, which linked to her and began draining her energy.
• Ji Feihua struck at the Blue Orb to break its connection to Qiqi, but it escaped by piercing Liu Yuzhang’s chest and killing him.
• Hu Xiaotian carried the unconscious Qiqi as he and Ji Feihua fled, while the Blue Orb raced through the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, causing it and nearby structures to collapse.
• The Blue Orb flew to the Stargazing Tower and merged with Huo Xiaoru as Hong Beimo watched in shock.
• Huo Xiaoru restrained Hong Beimo and challenged him over the failed attempt to kill her.

Huo Xiaoru revealed that she had manipulated Hong Beimo, Liu Yuzhang, and Qiqi to free herself from the Underground Palace, while Ji Feihua and Hu Xiaotian escaped the underground ruins with Qiqi. Hu Xiaotian returned safely to the Imperial Palace, where Long Xiyue and the others had been searching for him.

• Huo Xiaoru admitted that she had created the Demon-Seeding Great Art, used Qiqi to enter the Underground Palace, and escaped after exploiting others’ ambitions.
• Ji Feihua and Hu Xiaotian realized the blue sphere was likely Phantom and that they were trapped underground, then Hu Xiaotian revived Qiqi with CPR.
• Ji Feihua found a passage leading to Dragon Spirit Wonderland, where Qiqi guided them through a hidden mechanism toward an exit.
• Huo Shengnan, Long Xiyue, and Zhou Ruiyuan searched the Palace Gardens Bureau for Hu Xiaotian and Qiqi while worrying about the kingdom’s leadership.
• Hu Xiaotian returned safely at dawn, prompting the search to stop as Long Xiyue tearfully welcomed him.

Hu Xiaotian sought help for Qiqi as her body deteriorated and she heard her mother calling from the Phantom sphere. While he arranged a warning for the Imperial Mausoleum and took Qiqi to Li Wuyou, Li Wuyou began to suspect that Phantom had manipulated the events surrounding their escape.

• Hu Xiaotian told Qin Yutong that Qiqi might be descended from a Fated One and Phantom, and Qin Yutong explained that Qiqi’s body was collapsing from an inherited defect.
• Qiqi awoke, described seeing her mother inside the sphere of light, and began showing blue veins as she heard the voice calling her again; Qin Yutong knocked her unconscious.
• Hu Xiaotian concluded that Ling Jiazi must be Phantom and learned from Baobao that a mysterious woman had recently visited Hong Beimo.
• Hu Xiaotian sent Xia Changming to warn Huo Shengnan, Zhuge Guanqi, and the others that Hong Beimo might try to seize the Spaceship at the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Hu Xiaotian brought Qiqi to Easy Origin Hall to seek Li Wuyou’s help, while Li Wuyou worried that Phantom had manipulated Liu Yuzhang and engineered the Underground Palace trap.

Li Wuyou identified Qiqi as a life-form Phantom created from the Fated One’s genes and began seeking a way to save her after the sphere of light drained her life force. As Hu Xiaotian accepted the Gravity Source from Li Wuyou in case he had to destroy Phantom at the cost of his own life, Qiqi awoke and began walking toward the mother calling her.

• Li Wuyou examined Qiqi and confirmed that she possessed the Fated One’s genes but no human genes.
• Li Wuyou and Hu Xiaotian concluded that the sphere of light was part of Phantom’s divided true body and that Phantom had created Qiqi as a potential vessel.
• Li Wuyou said she would try to save Qiqi by deciphering her genetic code and reactivating her cell regeneration.
• Li Wuyou gave Hu Xiaotian the Gravity Source, which could send the Spaceship into a black hole if he could not stop Phantom.
• Qiqi awoke with blue veins in her eyes and began walking, saying that her mother was calling her.

Hu Xiaotian entered the Imperial Mausoleum Underground Palace with Qiqi, Ji Feihua, and Kongjian to confront Phantom, intending to trap him in a black hole using the Gravity Source. Hong Beimo led them through a mist-filled passage to an underground river, where the group continued toward the enemy waiting ahead.

• Li Wuyou gave Hu Xiaotian an injection that could halt Qiqi’s transformation but warned that it would place her in suspended animation.
• Hu Xiaotian brought Qiqi to the Imperial Mausoleum, where the underground gates opened as she arrived, and he refused Huo Shengnan and the others’ offers to accompany him.
• Ji Feihua and Kongjian joined Hu Xiaotian, and the group entered the underground palace as Qiqi recovered and said she could hear her mother calling.
• Qiqi led the group to Hong Beimo, who greeted them and claimed that someone was waiting for them inside.
• Hong Beimo guided Hu Xiaotian, Qiqi, Ji Feihua, and Kongjian through a concealing mist to a silver-lit underground river.

Hu Xiaotian and his companions boarded the spaceship and confronted Phantom, who appeared in Huo Xiaoru’s form and tried to take Qiqi’s life. Phantom transferred into Qiqi, and the chapter ended with her charging toward Hu Xiaotian as Kongjian and Ji Feihua attacked.

• Hong Beimo led Hu Xiaotian and the others along the Silver River to the hovering spaceship, passing Old Madam Xu and Xu Lingkong, who appeared to be under Phantom’s control.
• Inside the spaceship, Kongjian dispelled an illusion and the group encountered Phantom in Huo Xiaoru’s form.
• Phantom rejected Hu Xiaotian’s plea to stop her and demanded Qiqi’s life, but Hu Xiaotian refused to let her go.
• Ji Feihua attacked Huo Xiaoru, and Phantom escaped her body as a sphere of light before entering Qiqi.
• Kongjian tried to destroy the spaceship with a Mysterious Light Thunder, but Qiqi seized it and fought off Kongjian and Ji Feihua.
• Qiqi charged toward Hu Xiaotian while Kongjian and Ji Feihua continued attacking her.

Hu Xiaotian lost Ji Feihua when Ji sacrificed himself to send Hu Xiaotian, Qiqi, and Huo Xiaoru away from Phantom, then spent years trying to find him while building a family and expanding Great Kang. Huo Xiaoru awakened after Ping'an called her mother, and Li Wuyou discovered a Seed of Fire biography for Hu Tian, leaving a new mystery about the child’s identity.

• Hu Xiaotian injected Qiqi with the Gene Coagulant, but Phantom possessed Kongjian and pursued Hu Xiaotian and Ji Feihua through the spaceship.
• Ji Feihua trapped Hu Xiaotian, Qiqi, and Huo Xiaoru in an escape pod and launched them to safety with the Purple Crystal Gravity Source, then sacrificed himself as Phantom’s spaceship departed.
• Hu Xiaotian mourned Ji Feihua, learned that Long Xiyue and Huo Shengnan were pregnant, and later found Sumeru Heaven’s daughter Ping'an waiting for him at their appointed meeting place.
• Hu Xiaotian began studying the escape pod to build a spaceship, while Li Wuyou helped him locate Old Madam Xu’s Seeds of Fire and Hu Xiaotian offered Hu Buwei a cure in exchange for the Xu Family’s underground vault.
• Ping'an called Huo Xiaoru her mother and awakened her from years of unconsciousness; Huo Xiaoru then fought Hu Xiaotian after he teased her about her identity.
• Li Wuyou read a Seed of Fire biography identifying Hu Tian as a deceased male neurosurgeon, but she had not yet sent it to Hu Xiaotian.