Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiang sold her unfinished novel to Woodleaf Publishing House, where Gao Houlu renamed and marketed it as a romance. After seeing the printed edition, she wanted to confront the publisher, but Lu Qingchen summoned her first.

• Ning Xiang visited the Profound Heaven Sect branch of Woodleaf Publishing House to submit her storybook.
• Gao Houlu read Ning Xiang's manuscript and offered her seventy percent of its earnings if she agreed to change the names.
• Ning Xiang signed a contract with Gao Houlu and handed over the pages she had finished.
• Gao Houlu printed the novel as "The Overbearing War Goddess and Her Runaway Darling Husband," prompting Ning Xiang to prepare to storm the publishing house.
• Lu Qingchen summoned Ning Xiang with a Communication Talisman before she could confront Gao Houlu.

Ning Xiang defied Lu Qingchen’s stream of orders, then received the precious Nine-Turn Pill Scripture and returned to refining pills. Her bestselling novel, Overbearing War God, spread through the Profound Heaven Sect, and the chapter ended with Lu Qingchen confronting her after spotting his name in it.

• Lu Qingchen repeatedly ordered Ning Xiang to run errands, so she forced him to drink bitter holly tea and told him to finish another pot.
• Lu Qingchen gave Ning Xiang the Nine-Turn Pill Scripture, and she eagerly went back to refine pills.
• Lu Qingchen noticed disciples discussing the popular novel Overbearing War God and spotted his own name in a copy on Xie Feihong’s desk.
• Ning Xiang celebrated her novel’s success and pretended to Xie Feihong that she had read it, hiding that she was its author.
• Lu Qingchen blocked Ning Xiang with a copy of the novel and demanded that she explain it.

Lu Qingchen confronted Ning Xiang over the novel she had written, and made her surrender most of her royalties rather than rewrite it. After venting her anger on the courtyard birds, Ning Xiang found Xie Feihong eager to hear what happened next in the story, just as Yu Tingchao arrived and learned he was its newest villain.

• Lu Qingchen exposed Ning Xiang as the author of a novel that made him its repeatedly humiliated protagonist, and she tried to justify the plot with excuses.
• Lu Qingchen carried Ning Xiang to Chengfeng Courtyard and ordered her to rewrite the story, but she refused and offered him a share of the royalties instead.
• Lu Qingchen demanded seventy percent of Ning Xiang's royalties and threatened to approach President Gao, so Ning Xiang reluctantly paid him.
• Ning Xiang vented her resentment by plucking the immortal cranes' down and letting them strip feathers from two ugly birds.
• Xie Feihong asked Ning Xiang whether Xiang Ning would humiliate Yu Tingchao, but Yu Tingchao arrived before she could answer and learned he was the newest villain in her novel.

Ning Xiang traveled with the Profound Heaven Sect delegation to Thousand Calamities Valley, where disciples from five sects would compete to collect demonic beast cores. She was assigned to protect a severely unbalanced team of mostly female healers and wondered how they would manage.

• The acting sect leader urged the disciples to win glory for the Profound Heaven Sect, while Ning Xiang recalled her and Su Lang's unrewarded past victory.
• True Lord Shaowei reluctantly took charge of the delegation and greeted Ning Xiang, whose fire practice had burned his beard 132 times when she was young.
• Yu Tingchao lent the group his luxurious flying boat, and Ning Xiang filled the journey by giving Wen Maimai sunscreen, food, and a tent.
• At Thousand Calamities Valley, Ning Xiang was paired with Su Lang as a protector, while Yu Tingchao was assigned to another team.
• Ning Xiang's team ended up with nine female disciples, including Wen Maimai, and only three damage dealers among its members.

Ning Xiang and Su Lang encountered a Golden-Winged Cloud Eagle in the Maze Forest, then regrouped with the rest of their party. After Ning Xiang warned them that the nearby trees held many eagle nests, the group faced the danger of disturbing a flock of demonic beasts.

• Ning Xiang and Su Lang were teleported into a tree beside a Golden-Winged Cloud Eagle's nest, and Ning Xiang used her Starcloud Umbrella to fend off the mother bird.
• The rest of the party arrived, and Zhou Ruoxue tried to praise Su Lang while he clarified that Ning Xiang had fought the eagle.
• Ning Xiang explained that they were in the Maze Forest, and Wen Maimai urged the group to search for demonic beasts to kill.
• A Pill Sect cultivator proposed taking the mother bird's beast core, while Feng Xiaohan warned that doing so would leave its chicks helpless.
• Ning Xiang spotted many nests in the surrounding trees and warned that other Golden-Winged Cloud Eagles might attack if the party stayed.

The group searched the Maze Forest, where Ning Xiang and Su Lang defended their fellow cultivators from a rare third-tier demonic beast. Ning Xiang recognized the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion as a beast she had fought ten years earlier, and it attacked her in a fury.

• Ning Xiang teased Su Lang about the female cultivators surrounding him before the group continued through the forest.
• Feng Xiaohan, Wen Maimai, and the woman surnamed Luo subdued several first-tier demonic beasts while Zhou Ruoxue and the woman in yellow mocked their limited haul.
• Ning Xiang defended Wen Maimai, and Su Lang backed Ning Xiang when Zhou Ruoxue complained before bursting into tears.
• A third-tier demonic beast appeared, and Su Lang stepped forward to protect the women while Ning Xiang prepared to fight beside him.
• The beast recognized Ning Xiang's Shattered Moon whip from their encounter ten years earlier, and Ning Xiang identified it as the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion.
• The Earth-Fiend Demon Lion attacked Ning Xiang with a storm of sand, boulders, trees, birds, and beasts.

Ning Xiang defeated the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion, learned that a dead Heaven-Splitting Python had caused its rapid cultivation, and set off with the group to find the python’s corpse. A system quest then demanded that she receive Su Lang’s concern and make Zhou Ruoxue jealous, so Ning Xiang asked Su Lang to comfort her.

• Ning Xiang trapped and subdued the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion, then forced it to explain how it had gained a second demon core and reached the third tier.
• The Earth-Fiend Demon Lion revealed that a greater demon’s corpse had fallen in Thousand Calamities Valley, and Su Lang identified the demon as the Heaven-Splitting Python.
• Ning Xiang arranged for Wen Maimai to take the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion’s demon core, then ordered the beast to lead the group to the python’s corpse.
• The female cultivators gathered around Ning Xiang for protection as the group prepared to leave, and the system assigned her a quest involving Su Lang and Zhou Ruoxue.
• Ning Xiang called Su Lang Senior Brother and asked him to comfort her because the demon beast had frightened her.

Ning Xiang’s group reunited with Yu Tingchao and his companions, then captured a powerful Kui Ox. As the cultivators gathered to rest, Su Lang kept blocking Ning Xiang from admiring the newly arrived handsome men, while the others became absorbed in discussing a romance novel.

• Zhou Ruoxue pulled Ning Xiang and Su Lang apart and accused Su Lang of seducing Ning Xiang, before Ning Xiang stopped her and suggested they rest.
• Ning Xiang and Su Lang heard someone emerge from the ground, and Su Lang pulled Yu Tingchao and several other cultivators out.
• Yu Tingchao explained that his group had escaped a third-tier demonic beast with help from Ning Xiang’s talisman array.
• A Kui Ox charged at the group, and Ning Xiang bound it with her Shattered Moon whip and claimed its beast core for Yu Tingchao.
• Ning Xiang counted twenty-four people in their group and admired the handsome newcomers, while Su Lang repeatedly blocked her view.
• Wen Maimai and the other cultivators discussed The Overbearing War God and Her Little Husband, ignoring Ning Xiang’s attempt to talk tactics.

Ning Xiang endured the sword cultivator’s humiliating fanfiction about her and Lu Qingchen, then distracted the gathered cultivators with food and enjoyed teasing Su Lang. The group discovered they could not contact the Nascent Soul Cultivators outside Thousand Calamities Valley and decided to find the other three teams.

• The sword cultivator recited a melodramatic story about Ye Fan and the War God, and the group chose the title “The 10,001st Divorce: The Overbearing War God's Secretly Married Sinful Husband.”
• Ning Xiang tugged Yu Tingchao’s hair, considered silencing the witnesses, then calmed down when Su Lang stopped her.
• Ning Xiang served hot pot and barbecue, refused Wen Maimai and Yu Tingchao food, and teased Su Lang as he ate.
• Su Lang told the other Core Formation cultivators that he could not contact the martial uncle outside Thousand Calamities Valley.
• Mu Jianying noted that the valley’s trial was unusually dangerous, and Fu Yunsheng argued that Ning Xiang could handle its threats.
• Mu Jianying proposed that they find the other three teams and join them before making a long-term plan.

Ning Xiang received a jade flute for completing a mission, then got a new quest to mock Su Lang in front of everyone. While searching the Maze Forest with her team, she led them into a blood mist released by the Immortal-Bewildering Tree and proposed breaking the formation and burning it down.

• The system congratulated Ning Xiang, delivered a jade flute, and assigned her a three-day quest to mock Su Lang.
• Ning Xiang formed a search team with Yu Tingchao and Bai Yueguang, while Mu Jianying took the other group.
• Zhou Ruoxue drew characters from Divorced 10,001 Times, and Ning Xiang worried the drawings might expose her identity as Ye Fan.
• Xie Feihong read Divorced 10,001 Times and cried over its plot before Lu Qingchen told him the Heavenly Chaos Mirror had shown unusual activity in the Purple Tenuity Domain.
• Ning Xiang's group encountered blood mist that consumed a Golden-Winged Cloud Eagle, and the Kui Ox explained that the Immortal-Bewildering Tree had released it.
• Ning Xiang proposed breaking the formation, finding the Immortal-Bewildering Tree, and burning it down.

Ning Xiang and the Profound Heaven Sect disciples survived the Tree Demon’s bloody mist, then followed Su Lang’s Langhua Sword to the demon’s hidden true body. Ning Xiang burned the Tree Demon with her Heartfire, but it claimed it could never die as the ground began to shake.

• Yu Tingchao broke the formation by kicking a stone, and Bai Yueguang challenged the Tree Demon before its bloody mist overwhelmed the group.
• Ning Xiang used talismans to disperse the mist, learned from the Kui Ox that the Tree Demon had swallowed a Great Demon’s heart, and decided to destroy it.
• Su Lang used Langhua Sword to lead everyone to a huge tree surrounded by skeletal remains.
• The Tree Demon attacked with regenerating vines, while Luo Hanzhen’s summoned creatures failed to stop them.
• Ning Xiang summoned her Heartfire and engulfed the Demon Tree in flames, but the Tree Demon declared that it would never die as the ground shook.

Ning Xiang and Su Lang destroyed the Tree Demon's Undying Heart, but a demon vine dragged Ning Xiang into an underground maze and Su Lang followed to save her. After they escaped with a Pill Sect cultivator, he tried to recruit them to rescue his companions, but Ning Xiang refused and challenged him to reveal his tricks.

• Ning Xiang exposed the Tree Demon's beating heart, and Su Lang destroyed it with the Langhua Sword.
• A demon vine grabbed Ning Xiang and pulled her underground, so Su Lang jumped after her.
• Su Lang protected Ning Xiang during their fall, and they found a wounded Pill Sect cultivator in the underground passages.
• Ning Xiang, Su Lang, and the Pill Sect cultivator returned aboveground, where Wen Maimai reunited with Ning Xiang.
• The Pill Sect cultivator urged the group to rescue his companions from Demon Beasts, but Ning Xiang refused and told him to reveal his tricks.

Ning Xiang exposed and killed a Ghost-Faced Ape disguised as a pill cultivator, then led the group to the Heaven-Splitting Python's remains. The system assigned her a dangerous quest to secretly deliver the bones to the Demon King, and she stored them in her Spirit Bracelet.

• Ning Xiang attacked the disguised pill cultivator, who transformed into a Ghost-Faced Ape after the Langhua Sword pinned it to a tree.
• Ning Xiang killed the Ghost-Faced Ape, and Su Lang explained that the missing pill cultivator had likely died in a hole where they found skeletal remains and a Pill Sect uniform.
• After the group rested, the Earth-Fiend Demon Lion led them to the Heaven-Splitting Python's skeleton, and Ning Xiang and Su Lang recognized its three-eyed skull.
• The system ordered Ning Xiang to deliver the remains to the Demon King in the Purple Tenuity Domain within a month without being discovered, with becoming the Demon King as the failure penalty.
• Ning Xiang put the bones in her Spirit Bracelet, while Su Lang and Yu Tingchao both offered to store them instead.

Ning Xiang and the others escaped Thousand Calamities Valley, where two Beast Taming Sect cultivators had died, and returned to the Profound Heaven Sect. On the way, Su Lang and Yu Tingchao fussed over Ning Xiang while she misread their intentions, and she tried to avoid Lu Qingchen after suspecting he had seen Bai Yueguang’s fanfiction.

• The Teleportation Array returned Ning Xiang and the other teams from the secret realm, and the survivors reported that two Beast Taming Sect cultivators had died.
• Su Lang speculated that the Heaven-Splitting Python’s remains had disrupted Thousand Calamities Valley’s formations, and True Lord Shaowei confirmed the python’s significance.
• Yu Tingchao fed Ning Xiang pomegranate seeds until Su Lang sent him away with an Immobilization Talisman, while Wen Maimai recorded the scene.
• Su Lang offered Ning Xiang pine nuts and asked her to teach him talisman drawing, while she mistakenly assumed he was seeking revenge and then suspected he wanted to discuss Bai Yueguang’s fanfiction.
• As the group reached Solitary Light Peak, Ning Xiang pretended to be injured and hurried off to avoid Lu Qingchen, who was longing to see her.

After returning from Thousand Calamities Valley, Ning Xiang tried to hide from Lu Qingchen by pretending to be injured, but he followed her into her courtyard. She served him disastrously sweet milk tea, leaving him to endure the taste.

• Lu Qingchen learned from Su Lang that Ning Xiang was supposedly injured and went to find her.
• Xie Feihong told Ning Xiang about fanfiction pairing her with her master, and she played along by declaring her devotion to Lu Qingchen.
• Lu Qingchen confronted Ning Xiang about her supposed head injury, and she pretended to feel faint while leaning against him.
• Lu Qingchen sent Xie Feihong away and asked Ning Xiang to invite him into her courtyard.
• Ning Xiang made Lu Qingchen a cup of heavily sweetened milk tea, and he nearly spat it out after tasting it.

Ning Xiang tried to persuade Lu Qingchen to take her to the Purple Tenuity Domain, but he refused and discovered her scandalous novel about him. Lu Qingchen ordered her to resume early sword practice under his personal instruction, while Ning Xiang read another chaotic update from Bai Yueguang.

• Lu Qingchen told Ning Xiang he planned to travel to the Purple Tenuity Domain with Shaowei and ordered her to stay on Solitary Light Peak.
• Ning Xiang begged to accompany Lu Qingchen, hoping the trip would help her complete a quest and keep her safe.
• Lu Qingchen confronted Ning Xiang about her pen name and the stories she had written portraying him in compromising situations.
• Ning Xiang teased Lu Qingchen after noticing him blush, and he ordered her to practice swordsmanship at the Yin Hour and train with him at Chengfeng Courtyard.
• Ning Xiang opened Bai Yueguang's latest Heaven-Question update and read a melodramatic scene involving Ye Fan, Xiang Ning, and two competing suitors.

Ning Xiang read a fictional update that depicted Ye Fan’s apparent death and set out to kill Bai Yueguang, but Yu Tingchao stopped her from leaving Solitary Light Peak. She went with him to Cloud Province for the Moon-Worship Festival, where he planned to buy her a gift.

• In the update, Su Lang pursued Ye Fan and drove him off a cliff while Xiang Ning felt an unexplained sense of loss.
• Ning Xiang read angry comments about the update, condemned it for twisting her original work, and resolved to kill Bai Yueguang.
• Ning Xiang tried to leave Solitary Light Peak on the Chongming Bird, but Yu Tingchao caught her and persuaded her to visit the mortal festival instead.
• Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao changed into ordinary clothes and explored the lively Moon-Worship Festival in Cloud Province.
• Yu Tingchao admitted he lacked mortal currency to buy Ning Xiang a gift, so she gave him silver to spend.

Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao were separated by the festival crowd, and Ning Xiang was harassed by a young imperial lord who tried to force her to join him. Yu Tingchao injured him with spiritual power, but stopped when Ning Xiang warned him about the man's dragon aura, and the pair disappeared from the guards who pursued them.

• Ning Xiang was swept away from Yu Tingchao by the festival crowd and stopped at a lantern-riddle stall.
• A young gentleman arrived with guards, offered to buy Ning Xiang every lantern, and invited her to admire the moon with him.
• Ning Xiang refused the young gentleman, but he blocked her path and threatened to use force.
• Yu Tingchao shielded Ning Xiang and used spiritual power to inflict severe pain on the young gentleman without leaving a mark.
• Ning Xiang warned Yu Tingchao that the young gentleman had dragon aura and told him to stop, so Yu Tingchao withdrew his power and left with her.
• The young gentleman ordered his guards to pursue them, but the pair vanished from the street.

Ning Xiang spent the Moon-Worship Festival with Yu Tingchao, then returned to Lingling Cottage with mooncakes and a pile of gifts. Her father's message revealed he was training in the Demon Domain and planned to find her a partner.

• Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao visited a street peddler, and Yu Tingchao gave her a pair of Bunny Lords as thanks for helping him win first place.
• Su Lang confronted Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao when they returned, and Ning Xiang mistakenly decided he was in love with Yu Tingchao.
• Lu Qingchen arrived with mooncakes, and Ning Xiang suspected he was trying to make Su Lang and Yu Tingchao jealous by giving her more.
• Ning Xiang returned to Lingling Cottage and found the courtyard filled with Moon-Worship Festival gifts.
• Ning Xiang listened to a message from her father, who said he was training in the Demon Domain and intended to find her a partner.

Ning Xiang practiced swordplay with Lu Qingchen, and the two traded snow pranks that left them sharing the snowfall beneath the same sky. At the morning lesson, several new exchange students crowded around her, and the system reminded her to finish a side quest involving Su Lang.

• Ning Xiang visited Chengfeng Courtyard, saw the bald cranes and kakapos, and practiced swordplay while Lu Qingchen watched.
• Ning Xiang sent snow falling on Lu Qingchen, and he challenged her to a sword exchange; they fought evenly until he dropped snow over her.
• Ning Xiang summoned the Starcloud Umbrella and joked that sharing snow meant growing white-haired together, but Lu Qingchen blew the umbrella away so they stood together in the snowfall.
• Zhou Ruoxue, Bai Yueguang, and Wen Maimai arrived as exchange students at Solitary Light Peak, filling the seats around Ning Xiang at the morning lesson.
• The system reminded Ning Xiang about her unfinished side quest, and she answered Su Lang's stare with a sarcastic remark.