Recaps

Ning Xiang tried to avoid her assigned role while her thoughts, novel, and antics repeatedly entangled her with Lu Qingchen and her fellow disciples. After her novel exposed Lu Qingchen and Yu Tingchao to its readers, she joined the sect’s secret-realm expedition and entered the Maze Forest with her team.

• Ning Xiang rejected Lu Qingchen’s demand for an apology, declared her love for him, and withdrew to Reflection Cliff, where she received system rewards and made herself a comfortable cave retreat.
• Yu Tingchao began visiting Ning Xiang for sword practice, and she helped him improve before falling from Reflection Cliff and landing beside the injured Mingyuan.
• Ning Xiang treated Mingyuan while disguised as Jiang Miaomiao, and after Lu Qingchen arrived and fought him, Mingyuan left the sect while Ning Xiang returned to Lingling Cottage.
• Lu Qingchen imposed a strict training schedule on Ning Xiang, who amused herself with an ugly bird, fell asleep in his lecture, and was assigned to join Yu Tingchao and Su Lang at the secret realm.
• Ning Xiang wrote a story humiliating Lu Qingchen, failed the system’s quest to confess to him publicly, and published her novel under a changed title through Gao Houlu.
• Lu Qingchen discovered the novel and forced Ning Xiang to pay him seventy percent of her royalties, while Yu Tingchao learned that he appeared as a villain in her story.
• Ning Xiang joined the Profound Heaven Sect delegation to Thousand Calamities Valley, where she and Su Lang were assigned as protectors and her team gathered in the Maze Forest.
• Ning Xiang fought a Golden-Winged Cloud Eagle beside its nest, then warned her team that nearby nests could bring more eagles if they lingered.

Ning Xiang survived the dangers of Thousand Calamities Valley, drew closer to Su Lang and Lu Qingchen, and completed her main quest after a disastrous attempt to drug Lu Qingchen. She set out for the Purple Tenuity Domain with unexpected passengers, including Jiang Miaomiao, who became convinced Ning Xiang and Su Lang were a couple.

• Ning Xiang subdued the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion and learned that the Heaven-Splitting Python’s corpse lay in Thousand Calamities Valley.
• Ning Xiang destroyed the Immortal-Bewildering Tree with her Heartfire, and she and Su Lang killed the disguised Ghost-Faced Ape before finding the python’s remains.
• The system ordered Ning Xiang to deliver the Heaven-Splitting Python’s remains to the Demon King in the Purple Tenuity Domain, and she stored the bones in her Spirit Bracelet.
• Back on Solitary Light Peak, Ning Xiang managed Lu Qingchen’s visit, then begged to accompany him to the Purple Tenuity Domain and was ordered to train with him.
• Ning Xiang fought beside Lu Qingchen against demon monkeys, and her system-mandated declaration that she would stand by him came after he had secretly killed their leader.
• Ning Xiang accidentally drank the aphrodisiac she had prepared for Lu Qingchen, and he cared for her through the night before she fled and claimed to have lost her memory.
• The system declared Ning Xiang’s main quest complete, and she avoided Lu Qingchen by claiming to enter seclusion before preparing an urgent voyage to the Purple Tenuity Domain.
• Ning Xiang found Wen Maimai, Zhou Ruoxue, and Bai Yueguang hiding aboard her ship, while Jiang Miaomiao joined them and decided Ning Xiang and Su Lang belonged together.

Ning Xiang was transformed into Zhu Yu’s Pallas’s cat and taken to Danyang City, where her family and fellow cultivators tried to recover her. After regaining her human form and learning that part of her soul was missing, she and her companions became trapped in a dream illusion and escaped into a city overrun by monstrous demon cultivators.

• Ning Pingzhang brought the disguised Demon King aboard the ship as a gift for Ning Xiang, but her failed quest transformed her into a Pallas’s cat and made her Zhu Yu’s beloved pet.
• Zhu Yu took Ning Xiang to Danyang City, where he refused to give her up despite Mingyuan’s challenges and Ning Pingzhang’s offer of the Soul-Calming Pearl.
• Ning Xiang regained her human form aboard the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel, and her family and companions reunited as Zhu Yu, Mingyuan, Lu Qingchen, and others competed for her attention.
• Ning Xiang learned that Hooked Snake had taken part of her soul when she was six, and Lu Qingchen promised to find a way to restore it.
• Ning Pingzhang and Lu Qingchen fought until they wrecked the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel, so the group went to find lodging in Danyang City.
• Ning Xiang and Jiang Miaomiao entered a strange dream marketplace, found Lu Qingchen, Su Lang, and Bai Yueguang tied up, and confronted the Dream-Eating Tapir behind the illusion.
• Ning Xiang saw a memory of her childhood imprisonment and Su Lang protecting her, then escaped the nightmare by burning eleven beast paintings that connected the dream to reality.
• Ning Xiang and her companions emerged into Danyang City, where monstrous demon cultivators pursued them and caught up with Bai Yueguang.

Ning Xiang entered the Spirit Fighting Tournament despite Zhu Yu’s efforts to keep her safe, then won the contest and became caught up in a conspiracy involving Meng Xin and the Beast Taming Sect. The arc ended with Zhu Yu trapping a Nether-Communing Beast that carried an infectious gu.

• Ning Xiang captured a Dream-Eating Tapir after breaking free of its illusion, while Lu Qingchen silently remembered a vision of killing her.
• Su Lang learned that Ning Xiang was the girl abducted by the Hooked Snake as a child, and Ning Xiang learned that the Demonic Beasts had seized part of the Immortal-Slaying Array Manual.
• Zhu Yu tried to keep Ning Xiang out of the tournament, but she persuaded him to let her compete and arrived at the opening ceremony with him.
• Ning Xiang fought her way through the tournament, defeating Fu Yunsheng, Mu Jianying, and Xia Buyan before Meng Xin abducted cultivators and blamed Zhu Yu for the Spirit-Severing Formation.
• Ning Xiang and the others broke the formation, and Zhu Yu shielded her from Meng Xin before crippling him and giving her his demon core.
• Ning Xiang and her companions freed the captured cultivators, then Jiang Miaomiao, Ning Xiang, and Lu Qingchen fell off a cliff during a confrontation with Xia Buyan.
• Zhu Yu trapped the pursuing Nether-Communing Beast, and Ning Xiang recognized that it carried a gu capable of infecting people.