Chapter Summaries

Yi A Bao watched Mai Lingfei leave West River Town, while Yi Shuyuan recorded visions of people’s lives and possible futures in his book. After seeing Ke Xiaofa become a general, Yi Shuyuan set out with Hui Mian to tell stories again.

• Yi A Bao watched Mai Lingfei depart and decided the Immortal Elixir could be given to Jun Ling to prolong her life.
• Mai Lingfei traveled toward Northern Liang Province, intending to check on the Duan Household’s descendants and honor A Ke’s final request.
• Yi Shuyuan’s visions showed Yuan Jingsi and Ling Yuanqi meeting Yan Shouyun, Xia Linglan praying to reunite with Lu Junshan, and Yang Binghong and Zheng Yiming raising armies.
• Yi Shuyuan saw Ke Xiaofa become an armored general and wondered whether his own arrival had turned possible stories into fixed fates.
• Yi Shuyuan packed away his writing things and the book, then left with Hui Mian to resume telling stories.

Yi Shuyuan returned to Fishmulberry Village and learned that Zhuo Qing planned to use the Taiyin Essence-Transference Art to reincarnate without reclaiming her primordial essence. After promising to find her in a future life, he watched her spirit enter reincarnation and stayed in the village for a long time.

• Yi Shuyuan ended his village storytelling early and returned to Great Yong with Hui Mian.
• Yi Shuyuan met Chu Hang on the Kaiyang Grand Canal, then traveled to Fishmulberry Village.
• Yi Shuyuan found Zhuo Qing weaving alone and learned she was using the Taiyin Essence-Transference Art to reincarnate.
• Zhuo Qing asked Yi Shuyuan to find her in a future life dressed in bright red, and he promised to teach her.
• Zhuo Qing's spirit flew away to enter reincarnation, and Yi Shuyuan decided to stay in Fishmulberry Village for a while.

After years of wandering, Mili returned to Mingzhou and rescued a mother and daughter from being forced into selling the child. She took Ren Xiaoman aboard her boat as a prospective disciple and left with her, reflecting that a little fullness was enough.

• A group of scholars pooled their money to stop a desperate mother from selling her daughter to the madam of Spring Splendor House, but the madam’s men tracked them down.
• Mili leapt from her boat and knocked down the men who surrounded the scholars, then drove off their leader with a gold hairpin.
• Mili asked the leading scholar his name and recognized him as Gao Yuankang, then offered to take the girl, Ren Xiaoman, with her.
• Ren Xiaoman’s mother agreed, and Mili invited the girl to become her disciple and promised her the Golden Shuttle Sword one day.
• Mili boarded the boat with Ren Xiaoman and Hui Mian, leaving the scholars behind as Gao Yuankang said she had felt like an older sister.
• Mili held Ren Xiaoman close and reflected that attaining perfection in cultivation was a fallacy and that a little fullness was enough.