Chapter Summaries

Miao Yilan treasured Shi Chun’s red insect core crystal, but Miao Dingyi recognized it as the rare object secretly sought through the deadly Skyfall Meteor Assembly. The chapter ended with Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Yilan stunned by its value and the secret behind the assembly.

• Miao Yilan sealed Shi Chun’s red insect core crystal in a crystal holder and happily thanked him for the gift.
• Lan Qiaoyan learned that Chu Jingtang and ten others had followed Shi Chun to assassinate him, and Shi Chun asked her to detain them for a year.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang left Lan Qiaoyan’s home, celebrated their gains, and visited Bian Jixiong, who confirmed they would return to Mount Wukang the next day.
• Miao Dingyi returned home, recognized the crystal as a red insect core crystal, and angrily dismantled Miao Yilan and Lan Qiaoyan’s display.
• Miao Dingyi told Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Yilan that the crystal was the secret target of the Skyfall Meteor Assembly, which had cost more than three hundred thousand sect disciples their lives.

Miao Dingyi discovered that the red insect core crystal Shi Chun had given Miao Yilan could power an advanced Xun Gate and ordered his family to conceal it. As Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned to Mount Wukang celebrated their victory, Young Master Nan delivered Miao Dingyi’s one-hundred-million prize money, making the secret harder to keep quiet.

• Miao Dingyi explained that the red insect core crystal could power an advanced Xun Gate and instructed Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Yilan to deny knowing about it.
• Young Master Nan promised to arrange care for Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang’s properties, then saw Mount Wukang’s party off through the Xun Gate to Life Continent.
• Young Master Nan brought Miao Dingyi the one-hundred-million prize and revealed that he had already recorded the claim, forcing Miao Dingyi to accept the money.
• Lan Qiaoyan remarked that Shi Chun seemed to bring the family good fortune, and Miao Dingyi hoped he would not bring disaster.
• Mount Wukang celebrated its first-place finish at the Skyfall Meteor Assembly and permanent free Xun Gate passage as Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned to their Disciplinary Affairs Court.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned to Mount Wukang and settled back into the Disciplinary Affairs Court, while the sect leaders plotted to capture them and expose what they believed was a Demonic Path conspiracy. Shi Chun told Wu Jinliang that he had returned to investigate a potentially bigger opportunity before leaving the sect.

• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned to the Disciplinary Affairs Court, where Pang Tiansheng arranged the best room for them and disciples gathered to hear Wu Jinliang recount the Skyfall Meteor Assembly.
• Pang Tiansheng asked Bian Jixiong to move the pair elsewhere, but Bian Jixiong told him to let them stay and keep out of their way.
• Bian Weiying asked Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang to resume carrying water, but Shi Chun refused and promised only not to beat Pang Tiansheng again.
• Bian Que told Bian Jixiong to capture Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, question them about the suspected Demonic Path traitor, and seek the Royal Court's help against Jieyun Mountain.
• Wu Jinliang questioned why they had returned instead of leaving Mount Wukang, and Shi Chun said he wanted to investigate a bigger opportunity connected to his breakthrough.

Elder Xia Fuli urged Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang to leave Mount Wukang, offering compensation and even Xiang Lan'er, but Shi Chun claimed he had come for love. He revealed that Xiang Lan'er was the woman he had fallen for, leaving her angry and accusing him of carrying on with Bian Weiying.

• Xia Fuli met Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, proposed that they leave Mount Wukang, and offered rewards, including forcing Xiang Lan'er to go with Shi Chun.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang visited Xiang Lan'er, and Shi Chun told her he had found the woman he came to Mount Wukang for but did not want to leave.
• Shi Chun described falling for a beautiful woman he had seen in Skyward City, then admitted that he had helped Bian Weikang buy Xiang Lan'er's freedom because he wanted her.
• Shi Chun explained that his apparent betrayals and schemes had been intended to separate Xiang Lan'er from Bian Weikang, while Wu Jinliang claimed Shi Chun called her name in his sleep.
• Xiang Lan'er rejected Shi Chun's explanation and accused him of secretly carrying on with Bian Weiying.

Shi Chun told Xiang Lan'er he loved her and asked Elder Xia to make her his woman so he could leave Mount Wukang with her, though he planned to use the request to keep himself on the mountain. After Feng Chi and Xia Fuli questioned Xiang Lan'er about Shi Chun's advances, Xia revealed his condition, leaving her stunned.

• Shi Chun denied having an affair with Bian Weiying, confessed that he liked Xiang Lan'er, and asked her to leave Mount Wukang with him, but she ordered him out.
• Shi Chun told Wu Jinliang that he was using the romantic pursuit to keep the sect from forcing him off the mountain, then asked Elder Xia to make Xiang Lan'er his woman as his only condition for leaving.
• Elder Xia agreed to consider Shi Chun's request, and Shi Chun returned to Wu Jinliang, confident he could stay on the mountain for now.
• Xiang Lan'er met Feng Chi and Xia Fuli in Linkang City and recounted Shi Chun's confession after Feng Chi pressed her for details.
• Xia Fuli told Xiang Lan'er that Shi Chun had made her becoming his woman the sole condition of his departure, and she froze in shock.

Xiang Lan'er and Feng Chi concluded that Shi Chun might genuinely like Xiang Lan'er, while the Demonic Path considered recruiting him and ordered her to test his feelings. Meanwhile, Shi Chun rejected his old brothers’ pleas for help to keep them safe from the dangers surrounding him, and Xiang Lan'er approached him under orders to draw him into the Demonic Path.

• Xiang Lan'er told Feng Chi and Xia Fuli that she suspected Shi Chun was involved with Bian Weiying, and Xia Fuli left to investigate.
• Feng Chi urged Xiang Lan'er to report Shi Chun’s confession, while explaining that their superiors were considering recruiting him into the Demonic Path.
• Shi Chun refused to meet, lend money to, or find work for the old brothers arriving from the Eastern Nine Plains, who then cursed him and Wu Jinliang around Linkang City and Mount Wukang.
• Wu Jinliang urged Shi Chun to help their former brothers, but Shi Chun said keeping them at a distance would prevent them from being dragged into danger.
• Xia Fuli confirmed that Bian Weiying was still a virgin, and Xiang Lan'er’s superiors ordered her to keep Shi Chun interested and draw him into the Demonic Path.
• Xiang Lan'er went to the pavilion to approach Shi Chun, intending to test how far he would go for her.

Shi Chun pressed Xiang Lan'er to consider leaving Mount Wukang with him, and they agreed to wait ten days before he departed. Feng Chi then revealed that Mount Wukang had uncovered the Demonic Path's infiltrators and ordered Xiang Lan'er to evacuate with Shi Chun.

• Xiang Lan'er asked Shi Chun whether he had deliberately touched her when he took her hostage, and he denied taking advantage of her.
• Shi Chun followed Xiang Lan'er to her room, pressed her about their relationship, and agreed to leave Mount Wukang in ten days after she asked him to consider joining the Demonic Path.
• Bian Que returned to the Sect Forbidden Grounds and told Bian Jixiong that the Royal Court supported a purge and had let Mount Wukang devise the plan.
• Feng Chi told Xiang Lan'er that Mount Wukang knew the Demonic Path's true identity and ordered her to withdraw with Nightingale and Shi Chun.

After learning that their Demonic Path identities had been exposed, Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang went to meet Feng Chi, who planned to help them flee. Shi Chun instead urged her to seize Mount Wukang by backing Bian Weiying, and Feng Chi agreed to contact her superiors.

• Xiang Lan'er told Shi Chun that their cover was blown and urged him to escape to Linkang City, where Feng Chi would arrange his departure.
• Bian Weiying gave Shi Chun half of a Mother-Child Talisman and asked him to visit her that night.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang packed their belongings into a Heaven-and-Earth Bracelet and followed Xiang Lan'er's coded directions to Feng Chi's hidden chamber.
• Feng Chi explained that she, Xiang Lan'er, Shi Chun, and Wu Jinliang would leave together, while Shi Chun questioned why the Demonic Path was abandoning its plan to control Mount Wukang.
• Shi Chun proposed killing Bian Que, Bian Jixiong, and Bian Weikang, then installing Bian Weiying as Sect Master; Feng Chi agreed to contact her superiors.

Shi Chun persuaded Feng Chi to ask their superiors to reconsider withdrawing and instead support his plan to draw Bian Weiying into taking control of Mount Wukang. As an aurora lit the mountain, Shi Chun and Bian Weiying discussed his impending departure and her wish to master the Refining Secret Art for Immobilizing Talismans.

• Shi Chun argued that the Demonic Path should strike back by helping Bian Weiying seize Mount Wukang, and Feng Chi agreed to present his proposal.
• Master Qing suspended the withdrawal plan until he could consult their superiors, after Feng Chi warned that Shi Chun might refuse to leave otherwise.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned to Mount Wukang, where an aurora prompted the disciples to spread out Deep Blue Bamboo.
• Shi Chun helped Bian Weiying lay out the bamboo, then told her he would be leaving soon when she asked about his departure.
• Bian Weiying said she wanted to master the Refining Secret Art for Immobilizing Talismans, and Shi Chun offered to help her try.

Shi Chun studied Mount Wukang’s Immobilizing Talisman process with Bian Weiying and learned that the secret lay in the medicinal solution used during Immortal Immersion. As the pale blue mist gathered on the bamboo, he noticed it had accumulated at the foot of the mountain and hurried to investigate.

• Bian Weiying explained the internal and external refining stages and identified Immortal Immersion as the guarded step containing the Refining Secret Art.
• Shi Chun used his Right-Eye Ability to see pale blue mist settle on the Deep Blue Bamboo, then asked Bian Weiying to take him near the forbidden grounds after mystic gathering ended.
• Bian Weiying demonstrated Profound Burning and mystic cleansing, while Shi Chun realized the mist was the substance that gave talismans their power when fused with talisman paper.
• After the bamboo was turned over, Shi Chun noticed that wind did not affect the descending mist and hurried to the mountain’s edge.
• Shi Chun looked down the cliff and saw a thick layer of pale blue substance gathered at the foot of the slope.

Shi Chun investigated the talisman-refining process and discovered that red mist released by Bian Jixiong’s cultivation art transformed the Faint-Blue Substance into Immobilizing Talisman power. He proposed to Bian Weiying that the secret medicinal formula might be a deception concealing a special cultivation art.

• Shi Chun examined the aftermath of the Aurora Lights and then accompanied Bian Weiying to watch Bian Jixiong refine talisman paper inside the Sect Forbidden Grounds.
• Using his right-eye ability, Shi Chun saw Bian Jixiong’s red mist enter the water and soak into the talisman paper, then asked Bian Weiying to obtain a discarded sheet.
• Bian Weiying brought Shi Chun two damaged, damp sheets, and he found that red mist inside the paper transformed the Faint-Blue Substance into translucent particles.
• Shi Chun tested the transformed substance twice and confirmed that it could immobilize him with immense force before he broke free using his own power.
• Shi Chun suggested to Bian Weiying that the secret medicine might be a sleight of hand and asked whether her grandfather and father practiced a special cultivation art.

Shi Chun and Bian Weiying suspected that Bian Weikang had secretly inherited Mount Wukang’s Secret Art, then spent the night together before Yin Huixin discovered them. The next day, Domain Prefecture officials arrived to confirm Mount Wukang as the site of the first Xun Gate, and Bian Weiying joined the delegation despite her discomfort.

• Shi Chun suggested that the medicinal formula was a smokescreen for a Secret Art, prompting Bian Weiying to recall how her grandfather had secretly taught Bian Weikang an insect-attracting technique when they were children.
• Bian Weiying decided to test whether Bian Weikang had inherited the Secret Art, then pulled Shi Chun into her bedchamber and kissed him until they gave in to their desire.
• Yin Huixin opened the door, saw Shi Chun and Bian Weiying together, and left without confronting them to spare her daughter a public scene.
• Shi Chun slipped away at dawn, and Wu Jinliang noticed the fragrance on him and guessed that he had spent the night with Bian Weiying.
• Domain Prefecture officials arrived to confirm that the first Xun Gate on the Victory Spirit Continent would be built at the foot of Mount Wukang, and Bian Weiying joined the delegation to Linkang City despite her discomfort.

Yin Huixin concealed her knowledge of Bian Weiying and Shi Chun’s relationship while the Demonic Path group weighed whether to attack the Bian Family without support. Feng Chi then proposed that Shi Chun plan and direct the operation, leaving him and Xiang Lan’er stunned.

• Yin Huixin saw that Bian Weiying was happy with Shi Chun and chose to respect her daughter’s decision without confronting them.
• Bian Jixiong led the guests to the proposed Xun Gate site outside Linkang City and described plans to expand the city around it.
• Feng Chi told Shi Chun and the others that their higher-ups had left them to decide whether to withdraw or pursue Shi Chun’s plan, with only five days to act.
• Shi Chun learned that an expert in Linkang City could defeat Bian Que and that an influential insider on Mount Wukang might be compelled to cooperate.
• Feng Chi proposed that Shi Chun plan and direct the operation, surprising both him and Xiang Lan’er.

Shi Chun agreed to devise a plan for Feng Chi and Xiang Lan’er while Bian Weiying visited her imprisoned brother and secretly obtained his cultivation art. After Bian Weiying left Mount Wukang, Shi Chun recognized what she had done and asked Feng Chi to connect him with the powerful insider.

• Shi Chun left Feng Chi and Xiang Lan’er with Wu Jinliang after receiving a Mother-Child Talisman and agreeing to consider their plan within five days.
• Xiang Lan’er reprimanded Feng Chi for making decisions on her behalf and reaffirmed her authority as Saintess.
• Bian Weiying visited Bian Weikang in prison, persuaded him to eat, and recorded the Five-Beast Heaven-Caressing Art as he taught it to her.
• Bian Weiying left Mount Wukang and messaged Shi Chun that she had gone into seclusion, but she did not confirm that she had obtained the cultivation art.
• Shi Chun inferred that Bian Weiying had taken the art, settled on Bian Weikang as his target, and asked Feng Chi to arrange direct contact with the insider.

Shi Chun arranged for Xia Fuli to take Bian Weikang out of prison and recruited the Shabby Old Man to help receive him. The Green-Robed Man demanded more details before approving Shi Chun’s plan to draw the Bian Family out and have an expert kill them.

• Shi Chun used a Mother-Child Talisman to ask Xia Fuli whether he could secretly take Bian Weikang out of prison, and Xia Fuli agreed he could.
• Shi Chun obtained more Mother-Child Talismans, went into Linkang City, and met the Shabby Old Man at a tavern.
• Shi Chun offered the Shabby Old Man food and wine in exchange for helping receive someone later, and the old man accepted a Mother-Child Talisman.
• Bian Jixiong reported to Bian Que that the Xun Gate arrangements were finalized, and Bian Que said Royal Court forces were preparing to act against the Demonic Path.
• Shi Chun told Feng Chi to have the insider remove Bian Weikang, lure the Bian Family into pursuit, and let an expert kill them outside.
• The Green-Robed Man told Feng Chi that they first had to confirm whether Bian Weikang could be removed and how many people would be alerted.

Shi Chun was removed from the Demonic Path’s Mount Wukang plan, which was reassigned to Nightingale, and then confronted by Yin Huixin about her daughter Bian Weiying. He assured Yin Huixin that Bian Weiying was safe and obtained half of a Mother-Child Talisman, leaving him a way to contact her as he suspected Yin Huixin’s connection to Xia Fuli might help him uncover the plan.

• The Green-Robed Man told Feng Chi that the higher-ups had decided Shi Chun should stop participating and that Nightingale would take over the plan.
• Feng Chi told Shi Chun to prepare to withdraw, and he reluctantly accepted that someone else would carry out his strategy.
• Yin Huixin summoned Shi Chun into the woods and questioned him about his relationship with Bian Weiying, who had left Mount Wukang.
• Yin Huixin warned Shi Chun that Bian Jixiong seemed to be preparing for trouble and revealed that Xia Fuli had passed out several Mother-Child Talismans.
• Shi Chun promised that Bian Weiying was not involved in the suspected trouble and urged Yin Huixin not to disturb her.
• Shi Chun asked Yin Huixin for a way to contact her, and she gave him half of a Mother-Child Talisman.

The Demonic Path replaced Shi Chun with Xia Fuli to carry out a plot that would kill the Bian family elders and put Bian Weiying in power, using Xia Fuli’s secret relationship with her mother to control her. As the operation began, Shi Chun was ordered to withdraw, while Xia Fuli entered the prison to approach Bian Weikang.

• Shi Chun told Wu Jinliang that the Demonic Path had given his plan to someone else, though his unease also came from his relationship with Bian Weiying.
• Green Hand ordered Xia Fuli to secretly remove Bian Weikang from prison and lure the Bian family out so he could kill three generations and install Bian Weiying as Mount Wukang’s leader.
• Green Hand revealed that Xia Fuli was Bian Weiying’s real father and threatened to expose his relationship with Yin Huixin if he refused to help control Bian Weiying.
• Xia Fuli submitted a plan that the Demonic Path approved, and Bian Jixiong went to oversee construction of the Xun Gate outside Linkang City.
• Green Hand ordered Shi Chun, Wu Jinliang, Xiang Lan'er, and Feng Chi to withdraw; Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang secretly memorized their route and left trail markers.
• After returning to Mount Wukang, Xia Fuli used his influence to enter the prison and approach Bian Weikang.

Xia Fuli freed Bian Weikang and brought him to the Green-Robed Man as part of a plan to draw Bian Que into action. Yin Huixin discovered her son was missing and headed to contact Shi Chun, whose group had just received her message.

• Xia Fuli released Bian Weikang from the Prison and openly flew with him away from Mount Wukang before knocking him unconscious.
• Xia Fuli delivered Bian Weikang to the Green-Robed Man, who ordered him taken to meet Feng Chi and the others while he remained a hostage.
• Xia Fuli messaged Yin Huixin that he had taken her son, and she confirmed Bian Weikang was gone before learning Xia Fuli had flown toward the Mountain Gate.
• Yin Huixin suspected Shi Chun might know about Xia Fuli's actions and sent him an urgent message while heading to the Sect Forbidden Grounds.
• Shi Chun's group waited at a mountain hideout, and Xiang Lan'er told Yin Huixin they had arrived after receiving her message asking their location.
• Shi Chun realized Yin Huixin had contacted him and moved behind Wu Jinliang to check the Mother-Child Talisman.

Shi Chun used his messages with Yin Huixin to steer her toward seeking Bian Que’s help while he investigated Bian Weikang’s abduction. As Mount Wukang mobilized to search, Shi Chun grew suspicious that their meeting place had been exposed and urged the others to move and watch from hiding.

• Shi Chun told Yin Huixin he would help her, then warned that Xia Fuli likely expected her to seek the Elder Sect Master and might harm Bian Weikang if his plan went awry.
• Yin Huixin went to the forbidden grounds and told Bian Que that Xia Fuli had taken Bian Weikang from the Prison.
• Bian Que questioned the guards, confirmed the abduction, and ordered Bian Jixiong and Mount Wukang’s forces to search for Bian Weikang.
• Shi Chun questioned why Nightingale had asked whether the group had arrived instead of coming directly to their known meeting place.
• Shi Chun urged Feng Chi, Xiang Lan’er, and Wu Jinliang to leave the meeting place and hide nearby so they could watch for Nightingale.

Shi Chun and his companions hid near Lone Blade Mountain Cliff while Bian Que investigated Xia Fuli’s trail and received Shi Chun’s request to rescue Bian Weikang. When Bian Que arrived at the cliff, Shi Chun recognized that he was the Shabby Old Man, who looked like a different person.

• Xiang Lan'er agreed to move with Feng Chi, Shi Chun, and Wu Jinliang to a safer hiding place near Lone Blade Mountain Cliff.
• Bian Que investigated reports that Xia Fuli had flown away with someone, then received word that Shi Chun and the others had disappeared and asked his contact for help.
• Shi Chun learned that Bian Que had followed the trail and asked him to leave an older man alive and take a younger one to Skyward City.
• Xia Fuli arrived at the cliff with Bian Weikang, and Xiang Lan'er followed Shi Chun’s advice to keep them waiting while the group stayed hidden.
• Bian Que arrived at the cliff, and Shi Chun recognized him as the Shabby Old Man after Feng Chi identified him as Bian Que.