Chapter Summaries

Mingyuan failed to take Ning Xiang from Zhu Yu, and she later fought the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox after catching it plucking her fur. Zhu Yu punished the fox and comforted Ning Xiang, who ended the chapter biting his tiger ear before Caiwei saw them together and ran off crying.

• Mingyuan followed Zhu Yu to claim Ning Xiang, but Zhu Yu warded his bedchamber and kept her asleep in his arms.
• Ning Xiang woke to find the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox had plucked her tail, so she pounced on it and stripped its fur.
• Zhu Yu sent the bald Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox away to fend for itself and tied a bow over Ning Xiang's bald patch.
• Ning Xiang demanded to touch Zhu Yu's ears, then bit his tiger ear while thinking she would eat him one day.
• Ning Xiang ran into Caiwei at the doorway, and Caiwei saw her with Zhu Yu before fleeing in tears.

Caiwei’s schemes to make Ning Xiang look bad failed, so she helped Mingyuan take Ning Xiang away from the Lotus Palace. Zhu Yu caught up with them and began fighting Mingyuan, leaving Ning Xiang caught between the two rivals.

• Caiwei and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox tried to frame Ning Xiang with mice and a fake injury, but Zhu Yu punished the fox for both failures.
• Mingyuan arrived and persuaded Caiwei to bring Ning Xiang to him, then carried Ning Xiang away from the Lotus Palace.
• After Caiwei told him Ning Xiang had eloped, Zhu Yu pursued Mingyuan and demanded that he return her.
• Mingyuan refused to hand Ning Xiang over, and he and Zhu Yu fought outside Danyang City while Ning Xiang privately judged them equally shameless.

Zhu Yu won Ning Xiang’s forced choice and took her back to the Lotus Palace, while Mingyuan planned to enlist her father and master against him. As Zhu Yu kept Ning Xiang close, her thoughts about other men and her family left him jealous and considering how to handle her attachments.

• Zhu Yu and Mingyuan let Ning Xiang choose whom to leave with, but Zhu Yu used his power to make her run to him and carried her away.
• Mingyuan angrily charged at Zhu Yu, then vowed to seek Ning Xiang’s father and master’s help at the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel.
• Zhu Yu returned to the Lotus Palace with Ning Xiang and learned from her thoughts that Caiwei had helped Mingyuan carry her off.
• Zhu Yu arranged for Caiwei to begin cultivating with her Uncle Silver-Armored Leopard the next day.
• Ning Xiang admired Zhu Yu’s body but compared it with Mingyuan’s, making Zhu Yu jealous as he listened to her thoughts about her father, master, and fellow disciples.

Lu Qingchen mistook Zhu Yu’s gifts of male demon cultivators for a harem intended for Ning Xiang and gave them to a mysterious woman in Danyang City. While Zhu Yu took Ning Xiang for a stroll, she discovered that the woman was her mother, accompanied by dozens of handsome men Lu Qingchen had delivered.

• Wen Maimai, Zhou Ruoxue, Bai Yueguang, and Jiang Miaomiao admired ten male demon cultivators meant as a gift for Ning Xiang, and Lu Qingchen took them away.
• Lu Qingchen delivered the ten demon cultivators to a veiled woman in Danyang City, then returned to find twenty more and gave those to her as well.
• Ning Xiang overheard Zhu Yu arranging handsome men for her mother and mistakenly thought he was pursuing a secret harem.
• Zhu Yu took Ning Xiang around Danyang City, where she admired the demon cultivators and envied a woman surrounded by more than thirty men.
• Ning Xiang recognized her parents’ voices, and her mother explained that only three of the men were her suitors while Lu Qingchen had given her the rest.

Ning Xiang watched her mother attract a crowd of suitors while Ning Pingzhang attacked Lu Qingchen, then unexpectedly regained her human form. Reunited with her family and friends, she ended up surrounded by Zhu Yu and several jealous men.

• Ning Pingzhang drove away most of Mu Fang'ai's thirty suitors, then fought three who refused to leave until Ning Hui and another young man intervened.
• Ning Su reassured Ning Pingzhang that Mu Fang'ai would not be won over, while Zhu Yu told Ning Xiang that he was all she needed.
• The Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel landed, and Ning Pingzhang attacked Lu Qingchen, who dodged rather than fight back.
• Ning Xiang regained her human form in Zhu Yu's arms and demanded to be put down, but Zhu Yu held on until Mu Fang'ai spotted her.
• Mu Fang'ai greeted Ning Xiang and praised her for finding a boyfriend, while Wen Maimai, Bai Yueguang, Zhou Ruoxue, and Jiang Miaomiao gathered around.
• Su Lang pulled Ning Xiang behind him and glared at Zhu Yu, and Ning Xiang suggested that everyone sit down for tea.

Aboard the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel, Ning Xiang reunited with Mu Fang'ai and found herself surrounded by handsome men while Ning Pingzhang tried to keep them away. Mingyuan arrived to discuss rescuing his daughter from the Lotus Palace, and the chapter ended with Ning Hui reminding Ning Pingzhang that he had helped create the situation he was now protesting.

• Mu Fang'ai's three male cultivators presented Ning Xiang with gifts, including a magical fan, a singing ape, and a handbook of handsome men, while Ning Pingzhang objected to them doting on her.
• Ning Pingzhang confronted Lu Qingchen about sending thirty male demon cultivators, and Wen Maimai revealed that the Demon King had chosen twenty more for Mu Fang'ai.
• Mingyuan entered to discuss storming the Lotus Palace, accused Zhu Yu of taking his daughter, and learned that Ning Xiang had been turned into a Pallas's cat.
• Mu Fang'ai praised Ning Xiang for attracting so many outstanding men, while Ning Xiang's companions browsed the handbook and recorded notes.
• Zhu Yu and three others followed Ning Xiang upstairs, prompting Ning Pingzhang to order them away as Mu Fang'ai suggested their daughter was old enough to find husbands.
• Ning Hui reminded Ning Pingzhang that he had captured the Demon King for Ning Xiang and chosen ten handsome men for her.

Ning Xiang was caught between Zhu Yu and Su Lang when Dog System forced her to make the male leads choose handsome men for her. The four big shots gathered around her to browse an illustrated guide, and Zhu Yu proposed expanding the selection to eighty or a hundred men.

• Ning Xiang fell asleep reading a tiger book, and Zhu Yu entered her room and picked her up.
• Su Lang confronted Zhu Yu with his sword and demanded that he release Ning Xiang, but she woke and tried to stop them fighting.
• Dog System gave Ning Xiang an unskippable side quest to have the male leads choose ten handsome men for her within an hour, threatening to unleash ten Kakapos if she failed.
• Ning Xiang suggested that everyone calmly browse the Cultivation Realm Handsome Men Illustrated Guide, and Zhu Yu agreed to choose with her.
• Zhu Yu turned through the guide while Mingyuan and Lu Qingchen watched, and Ning Xiang awkwardly praised the pictured men as less handsome than Zhu Yu.
• Zhu Yu offered to bring portraits of every handsome man in the Purple Tenuity Domain, while Ning Xiang suggested choosing eighty or a hundred men.

Ning Xiang was forced to face the 101 handsome men chosen for her, while Ning Pingzhang and the four powerful men argued over their intentions. When Lu Qingchen offered to send her favorites to her room, Ning Xiang proposed making the men compete in a talent show, leaving their fate to the contest.

• Ning Xiang tried to avoid admiring the assembled handsome men, but Zhu Yu kept her there and her father caught male cultivators being thrown from the ship.
• Ning Xiang redirected Wen Maimai and her companions toward the welcome gifts, while Ning Pingzhang arrived and warned the four men not to covet his daughter.
• Zhu Yu and the others assured Ning Pingzhang that all 101 handsome men were for Ning Xiang, and he left her with them to build relationships.
• Ning Xiang pretended she needed to rest, but Mingyuan blocked her and Lu Qingchen, Su Lang, and Zhu Yu refused to help her escape.
• When Lu Qingchen offered to deliver her chosen men to her room, Ning Xiang proposed a talent show in which only the winner could stay and attend to her.

Ning Xiang fled the men gathered around her, but Lu Qingchen caught up with her and confessed that he wanted them to become Dao companions. Before she could respond, she unexpectedly transformed into a Pallas’s cat, leaving Lu Qingchen holding her while Mingyuan and Zhu Yu competed for a turn.

• Ning Xiang tried to ask Mu Fang'ai for help, but her mother told her to make the men obey before visiting, so Ning Xiang fled from the four powerful men.
• Lu Qingchen caught Ning Xiang in her room, questioned her about wanting to become a Demon Beast for the Demon King, and said she had teased him before refusing to take responsibility.
• Lu Qingchen asked Ning Xiang to become his Dao companion when they returned to the Profound Heaven Sect, but she was too stunned to answer.
• Ning Xiang transformed into a Pallas’s cat, and the system explained that the change was a reward that could happen when her emotions were unstable.
• Lu Qingchen picked up Ning Xiang, while Mingyuan asked to hold her and Zhu Yu bragged that he had held Little Cat Zhu for fifteen nights.

Ning Xiang fell asleep to Su Lang’s flute while her family and Lu Qingchen discussed the dangers spreading through the cultivation domains and her incomplete soul. After waking, she learned of Su Lang’s ties to the Nine Shao Gate and wondered whether her system had given her its sect treasure.

• Ning Xiang escaped the tense gathering, joined Su Lang on the deck, and fell asleep as he played the flute and covered her with a robe.
• Ning Pingzhang ordered Ning Su and Ning Hui to return to their sect, while Shaowei planned to investigate missing demon cultivators in Danyang City.
• Lu Qingchen revealed that Ning Xiang’s soul was incomplete, and Mu Fang'ai explained that Hooked Snake had taken part of it when Ning Xiang was six.
• Ning Pingzhang learned Lu Qingchen had treated Ning Xiang after she was drugged and attacked him, while Lu Qingchen promised to find a way to restore her soul.
• Ning Xiang woke beside Su Lang and learned that he had studied at the Nine Shao Gate and recognized his Jade Flute as resembling its sect token, the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute.

Ning Xiang and Su Lang escaped the Demon King, only to find Lu Qingchen and Ning Pingzhang had wrecked the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel in a fight. The group headed for an inn in Danyang City, while Ning Xiang seized Bai Yueguang’s earnings after learning he had made money from his novel.

• Su Lang and Ning Xiang left the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel after the Demon King and Ming Old Dog departed, then discovered Lu Qingchen and Ning Pingzhang fighting and damaging the vessel.
• Wen Maimai told Ning Xiang that the Demon King had dismissed all one hundred and one male demon cultivators she had selected, and Ning Xiang mourned their loss.
• Jiang Miaomiao explained that Ning Pingzhang had attacked Lu Qingchen for setting his sights on Ning Xiang, while Mu Fang'ai praised Lu Qingchen for holding his own against Ning Pingzhang.
• Lu Qingchen and Ning Pingzhang stopped fighting only after the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel was wrecked, so the group prepared to find lodging in Danyang City.
• Bai Yueguang revealed that he had earned spirit stones by selling his novel to a theatrical troupe, and Ning Xiang promptly took all his money.

Ning Xiang and Jiang Miaomiao were pulled into a shared dream that seemed dangerously real, where they found Lu Qingchen, Su Lang, and Bai Yueguang tied up in an inn room. The chapter left Ning Xiang demanding that Bai Yueguang be exchanged for a less eye-burning complimentary extra.

• Ning Xiang chose to share a room with Jiang Miaomiao, who told her the novel Overbearing War God portrayed the War God's many lovers and Ye Fan's devotion.
• Ning Xiang and Jiang Miaomiao woke inside a strange dream, discovered a hidden passage, and emerged in a marketplace resembling Danyang City.
• Ning Xiang tested the dream by touching a demon cultivator and concluded that its inhabitants seemed too real for an ordinary dream.
• Ning Xiang threatened the inn proprietress, who offered them three male courtesans, and the rabbit demon led them upstairs.
• Ning Xiang found Lu Qingchen and Su Lang tied on the bed beside Bai Yueguang, then demanded that Bai Yueguang be exchanged.

Ning Xiang and her companions found themselves bound together in a strange, suggestive room, where their spiritual powers were mostly sealed. After noticing someone eavesdropping outside, Ning Xiang used Bai Yueguang’s cries to distract the listener and launched an attack with the Azure Sea Sword.

• Jiang Miaomiao woke Bai Yueguang before he could faint again, and Ning Xiang tried to slap Lu Qingchen until he woke and caught her wrist.
• Lu Qingchen and the others realized they were tied up on a bed inside a room with a Merfolk Canopy embroidered with explicit scenes, and Ning Xiang burned the canopy with her Heartfire.
• Ning Xiang questioned how to escape the illusion, and Jiang Miaomiao suggested that the person behind it might expect them to have illicit relations.
• Ning Xiang sensed someone eavesdropping outside and ordered Bai Yueguang to make suggestive noises while she twisted his arm.
• Ning Xiang sensed the listener’s breathing grow erratic, summoned the Azure Sea Sword, and thrust it toward the door.

Ning Xiang and the others fell into nightmares after the Dream-Eating Tapir escaped her formation. Ning Xiang witnessed fragments of Su Lang’s childhood tragedy and discovered that she, too, had once been captured by the demon cultivators who attacked his family.

• Ning Xiang trapped the Dream-Eating Tapir, which abandoned its plan to consume sweet dreams and dragged everyone into nightmares instead.
• Ning Xiang watched a memory of a little girl in red imprisoned by a demon cultivator, then saw young Su Lang hide her during a massacre.
• The demon cultivators captured young Su Lang and the girl, threatening to extract her soul to force True Lord Shangyang to surrender the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation manual.
• Ning Xiang recognized the girl as herself before waking, exhausted, as Jiang Miaomiao, Bai Yueguang, and Su Lang emerged from their own nightmares.

Ning Xiang and the others escaped the Dream-Eating Tapir’s illusion by destroying the beast paintings, only to find Danyang City overrun by frenzied demon cultivators. As the group fled, Bai Yueguang was left behind and the demons caught up to him.

• Jiang Miaomiao vowed to cultivate and take revenge herself, while Ning Xiang realized their companions might also be trapped in the illusion.
• Su Lang explained that they needed to find and destroy a medium connecting the dream to reality, but the group could not locate it.
• Ning Xiang noticed eleven beast paintings on the walls and burned them with the Azure Sea Sword, freeing the group from the room and its restraints.
• The group emerged onto a street in Danyang City, where the demon cultivators had turned monstrous and began pursuing them.
• Lu Qingchen, Su Lang, Ning Xiang, and Jiang Miaomiao fled, leaving Bai Yueguang behind; he chased after them, but the demons caught up and lunged at him.

Ning Xiang and her companions calmed the rampaging Demon Cultivators and escaped the illusion, capturing the Dream-Eating Tapir responsible. Lu Qingchen revealed nothing about his vision, which had shown him killing Ning Xiang before she leaped into an icy abyss.

• Ning Xiang, Lu Qingchen, Su Lang, and the others fought the frenzied Demon Cultivators until Su Lang's Jade Flute calmed them and restored their awareness.
• Ning Xiang questioned Wen Maimai and Zhou Ruoxue about their strange dreams as the illusion began to dissolve.
• Ning Xiang caught the emerald-dressed figure with her Shattered Moon Whip and bound it after it transformed into a Dream-Eating Tapir.
• Back in reality, Ning Xiang trapped the Dream-Eating Tapir in her Demon-Capturing Banner and destroyed the bell that had drawn her into the illusion.
• Lu Qingchen asked Ning Xiang if she was all right, then silently recalled his vision of stabbing her and watching her leap into an icy abyss.

After the illusion, Ning Xiang learned that the Jade Flute had belonged to Su Lang’s family and reunited with her worried parents and brothers. When she asked about the Immortal-Slaying Array, Ning Pingzhang asked whether she had remembered everything, while Su Lang learned that Ning Xiang had once been at the Nine Shao Gate.

• Lu Qingchen left Ning Xiang and Su Lang alone to talk, while Jiang Miaomiao made an excuse to leave as well.
• Su Lang asked Ning Xiang about the Jade Flute, and the Dog System claimed it had been her childhood plaything from the Ning residence.
• Su Lang revealed that the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute had belonged to his maternal grandfather and vanished after demons killed his uncle’s family.
• Ning Xiang’s family and Shaowei arrived to check on her, and she asked her parents about the Immortal-Slaying Array.
• Ning Pingzhang asked Ning Xiang whether she had remembered everything, while Su Lang questioned Shaowei about Ning Xiang’s visit to the Nine Shao Gate.

Su Lang learned that Ning Xiang was the girl he had encountered at the Nine Shao Gate, while Ning Xiang uncovered more about her erased memories and the Immortal-Slaying Array. After the Demon King invited her family to the Lotus Palace, a system quest forced Ning Xiang to accept, though Lu Qingchen objected when she revealed she wanted to enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament.

• Shaowei told Su Lang that Ning Xiang had been abducted by the Great Demon Hooked Snake as a child and had her traumatic memories erased, and Su Lang realized she was the girl from the Nine Shao Gate.
• Mu Fang'ai explained that the Immortal-Slaying Array Manual had been divided among four households, and Ning Pingzhang revealed that the Demonic Beasts had seized the Jiang Household's piece.
• Ning Xiang told her parents what she saw in the illusion and gave Ning Pingzhang the Demon-Capturing Banner to question its captive.
• Ning Xiang wondered about the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute and the massacre of True Lord Chonghua's family before Hanying invited her and her family to the Lotus Palace.
• After the system assigned her a quest to stay at the Lotus Palace and qualify for the Spirit Fighting Tournament, Ning Xiang accepted the invitation despite Lu Qingchen's suspicion.
• Ning Xiang told Lu Qingchen she wanted to enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament, and he firmly forbade it.

Ning Xiang settled into the Demon Palace with her family, teased Caiwei, and reunited with Zhu Yu. She tried to ask him for permission to enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament, but he planned to keep her safely inside the palace until it was over.

• Mu Fang'ai accepted the Demon King's invitation, and Ning Pingzhang brought their sons along to the Demon Palace.
• Ning Xiang found Caiwei sneaking over the wall, taunted her, and taught her a song before Caiwei ran off to learn it.
• Zhu Yu returned, shelled walnuts for Ning Xiang, and asked her to turn back into a Pallas's cat.
• Ning Xiang tried to tell Zhu Yu she wanted to enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament, but he explained he had brought her family to the palace for protection and planned to keep her there.
• Zhu Yu teased Ning Xiang by asking whether she could not bear to part with him.

Ning Xiang tried to persuade Zhu Yu to let her enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament while defusing a confrontation between him and Lu Qingchen. Zhu Yu refused despite her many attempts to coax him, then offered to reconsider if she turned into a Pallas’s cat and kept him company.

• Ning Xiang asked to enter the Spirit Fighting Tournament, but Zhu Yu refused and offered to spar with her instead.
• Lu Qingchen appeared and demanded that Zhu Yu let Ning Xiang go, while Ning Xiang tried to send him away before the two men fought.
• Ning Pingzhang arrived, misunderstood the situation, and tried to lead Lu Qingchen away; Ning Xiang claimed she only feared a fight would hurt her reputation.
• Ning Xiang soothed Zhu Yu by saying he could secretly beat Lu Qingchen another time, but Zhu Yu still refused to let her enter the tournament.
• Ning Xiang spent four hours tempting Zhu Yu with food and novelties, but he remained unmoved and asked her to turn into a Pallas’s cat so he could consider her request.