Chapter Summaries

Beimingzi made Xiaomeng his final disciple and bestowed the sword Qiuli on her. Ye Uchiha brought her to his courtyard, where she chose a room, while he turned back to his cultivation studies and plans to gather other schools’ martial arts.

• Beimingzi welcomed Xiaomeng as his final disciple and gave her the sword Qiuli, which acknowledged her as its master.
• Beimingzi told Wuming to care for his new junior sister, and Ye Uchiha led Xiaomeng out of the bamboo cottage.
• Ye Uchiha invited Xiaomeng to live in his courtyard, and she chose an empty room there.
• Xiaomeng left to fetch her belongings, while Ye Uchiha considered his plans to grow stronger and collect other schools’ techniques.
• Ye Uchiha entered his study and looked over the Taoist cultivation scrolls Beimingzi had assigned him.

Beimingzi warned Chisongzi that the Heavenly Sect must refuse Qin’s offer and remain true to its principle of noninterference. He then decided that Wuming was ready to leave the sect and gain experience, despite Chisongzi’s concerns about his age and safety.

• Chisongzi told Beimingzi that Donghuang Taiyi had offered the Heavenly Sect status and high office in Qin, but he had refused.
• Beimingzi argued that joining Qin would betray the Daoist School’s principles and could leave it vulnerable to exploitation or destruction.
• Chisongzi thanked Beimingzi for warning him and admitted that he had been tempted by Qin’s offer.
• Beimingzi said Wuming had mastered Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters and should venture into the world to gain experience.
• Chisongzi worried that eight-year-old Wuming was too young for the dangers of the martial world, but Beimingzi insisted he needed the chance to learn and grow.

Ye Uchiha tested Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters and explored how its principles could produce new repulsive and attractive techniques. After exhausting his True Essence, he assessed his strength relative to the experts of The Legend of Qin.

• Ye Uchiha shaped lake water into a dragon and hundreds of swords, then used them to churn the lake and destroy a boulder.
• Ye Uchiha experimented with repelling the lake water, emptied his True Essence, and fell into the lake.
• Ye Uchiha reasoned that Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters could imitate Shinra Tensei, while Heart Like Still Water might imitate Banshō Ten'in.
• Ye Uchiha concluded he could defend himself against a first-rate expert and considered the rare Xiantian masters, including his master Beimingzi.

Ye Uchiha faced Chisongzi’s test to prove he was strong enough to leave the mountain, breaking free of Chisongzi’s domain and knocking him into a crater with a repulsive-force attack. Chisongzi recovered and prepared to demonstrate the gap between first-class and second-class martial artists as Ye activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Chisongzi told Ye Uchiha he had to last fifteen minutes against him to pass the test, and Ye agreed to fight.
• Chisongzi trapped the training ground with Heaven and Earth Lose Their Colors, but Ye broke free and used Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters to form footholds in the air.
• Chisongzi attacked Ye with sword energy and leaped after him, but Ye’s modified Shinra Tensei shattered the attack and slammed Chisongzi into a crater.
• Ye redirected Xue Ji when Chisongzi launched it at him from the dust, and Chisongzi caught the sword and praised Ye’s technique.
• Chisongzi gathered golden sword energy around Xue Ji and said he would show Ye the difference between their realms, prompting Ye to activate his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Ye Uchiha fought Chisongzi with his unusual techniques and Sharingan, but Chisongzi decisively outmatched him. Chisongzi urged him to remain in the Heavenly Sect and cultivate, revealing his concern for the sect’s future as Beimingzi neared the end of his life.

• Chisongzi’s sword qi wounded Ye Uchiha, who used Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters to shield himself and counterattack.
• Ye Uchiha tricked Chisongzi with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, but Chisongzi answered with a devastating sword strike that blasted Ye from the sky.
• Chisongzi imitated Ye Uchiha’s repulsive force to slam him into the ground, then invited him to use more techniques.
• Ye Uchiha refused to stay in the sect and cultivate, and Chisongzi warned him that he was too young to leave.
• Chisongzi privately urged Ye Uchiha to stay because Beimingzi was nearing death and the aging Chisongzi needed a young successor.

Ye Uchiha defeated Chisongzi by trapping him in Sharingan Genjutsu, though Chisongzi became absorbed in studying the illusion rather than escaping. Ye left the sect while the elders guarded Chisongzi, who appeared to be experiencing sudden enlightenment.

• Ye Uchiha rejected Chisongzi's demand that he remain in secluded cultivation, and Chisongzi attacked him to test his strength.
• Ye Uchiha used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to trap Chisongzi in a genjutsu after Chisongzi tried to seal his energy.
• Chisongzi realized he was in an illusion but became fascinated by its workings and explored ideas about cultivating the mind and soul.
• The elders found Chisongzi standing motionless, and Ye Uchiha explained that his senior brother seemed to be remaining in the genjutsu deliberately.
• Ye Uchiha claimed the match as his victory and left, while the elders cleared the area and arranged guards around Chisongzi.

Ye Uchiha traveled from Qin toward Han, intending to recruit the era’s talents while leaving the course of Qin’s unification intact. Near Xinzheng, he disguised himself as a Yin-Yang School practitioner named Dan Chenzi to conceal his identity before carrying out his plans.

• Ye Uchiha surveyed a Qin village and reflected on Qin’s coming conquest of the Six Kingdoms and his desire to recruit capable people from The World of Qin's Moon.
• Ye Uchiha crossed into Han territory and headed toward Xinzheng City, judging the divided Han court weak and likely to fall first.
• Ye Uchiha subdued a tiger, rode it for several days, then released it when Xinzheng came into view.
• Ye Uchiha changed into fine robes and used a disguise technique to pose as the young practitioner Dan Chenzi of the Yin-Yang School.

Ye Uchiha posed as the alchemist Dan Chenzi and sold his pills in Xinzheng to build a reputation and attract Han’s nobles. After the pills drew a crowd, Han’s crown prince came to see the alchemist for himself.

• Ye Uchiha entered Xinzheng in disguise and set up a stall to sell his medicinal pills as Dan Chenzi.
• A customer bought a pill for his persistent headache, and more people purchased Ye Uchiha’s pills that day.
• After the pills showed their effects, a crowd gathered around Ye Uchiha’s stall the next day, including servants and attendants from powerful households.
• Ye Uchiha used the buyers’ interest to draw Xinzheng’s nobles by presenting himself as a skilled alchemist who could help them pursue longevity.
• Han’s crown prince heard about the alchemist, left his carriage, and approached the crowd to see him.

Ye Uchiha impressed Han’s crown prince with his power and claimed to be seeking ingredients for an elixir of immortality. The crown prince appointed him chief guest adviser and promised Han’s resources, while Ye Uchiha planned to use the arrangement to obtain valuable ingredients and refine pills.

• Ye Uchiha identified Han’s crown prince and injured a guard who demanded that he kneel.
• The crown prince admired Ye Uchiha’s strength and invited him to his residence.
• Ye Uchiha claimed he was Dan Chenzi of the Yin-Yang School and was searching the Six Kingdoms for ingredients to make an elixir of immortality.
• Ye Uchiha told the crown prince tales about auspicious beasts and their life-giving essence.
• The crown prince appointed Ye Uchiha chief guest adviser and offered Han’s resources in exchange for a share of any elixirs.
• Ye Uchiha planned to use the resources to refine pills for himself while giving the nobles longevity pills, and the crown prince grew more convinced by his stories.

Ye Uchiha moved into the Crown Prince's Residence and gave the crown prince Martial Dao Pills that could turn ordinary guards into unranked martial artists. After the pills impressed the prince, Ye Uchiha offered to write a list of ingredients for stronger pills, leaving the prince eager to gather them.

• The crown prince brought Ye Uchiha into his residence and ordered Steward Liu to assign him two maids.
• Ye Uchiha refused to rely on the crown prince's hospitality without compensation and gave him twenty Martial Dao Pills for the guards.
• The crown prince had a guard captain take a pill, and the captain immediately gained the strength of an unranked martial artist.
• The crown prince let the other guards divide the remaining pills and asked Ye Uchiha for the ingredients needed to make higher-grade pills.
• Ye Uchiha said he would write the ingredient list on a piece of silk, and the crown prince invited him to lunch.

Ye Uchiha accepted a costly delivery of medicinal ingredients from Crown Prince Han Bai and promised to refine Martial Dao Pills for him. Meanwhile, Ji Wuye grew wary of the new mystic and Han Fei’s investigation, and began planning to eliminate potential liabilities.

• Ye Uchiha received carts of precious medicinal ingredients at the Star-Gazing Tower and planned to use them to advance his cultivation.
• Ye Uchiha told Steward Lü to inform Crown Prince Han Bai that he would refine over a hundred Martial Dao Pills within a month.
• Ji Wuye learned from Steward Liu that Dan Chenzi had joined the Crown Prince’s household and ordered Mo Ya to investigate and test him.
• Ji Wuye worried that Han Fei’s investigation into the Ghost Soldiers Robbery Case could expose him and considered killing Lord Anping and Lord Longquan before they betrayed him.
• Ji Wuye reflected that he needed noble support to take the throne, then resolved to show Han Fei no mercy for interfering.

After Han Bai used Ye Uchiha’s Yellow Spirit Pill to enter the unranked martial realm, Ye Uchiha bluffed his way through a confrontation with Mo Ya by claiming to be a senior figure in the Yin-Yang School. Mo Ya left with pills and a message for Ji Wuye, while Ye Uchiha wondered whether he had concealed his true intentions.

• Han Bai tested his new strength after taking Ye Uchiha’s Yellow Spirit Pill, and Ye Uchiha warned him to refine his true qi before using the Mystic Spirit Pill.
• Han Bai left for the palace to request advanced martial arts manuals and told Ye Uchiha to ask the stewards for anything he needed.
• Ye Uchiha confronted Mo Ya, who challenged his claim to belong to the Yin-Yang School and attacked him with black feathers.
• Ye Uchiha deflected Mo Ya’s attack and claimed to be the next Lord Yunzhong, a Qin-aligned traveler with no intention of interfering in Ji Wuye’s affairs.
• Ye Uchiha gave Mo Ya Spirit-Nourishing Pills for Ji Wuye and suggested they might work together; Mo Ya agreed to deliver them and departed.
• Ye Uchiha wondered whether his bluff had fooled Ji Wuye, suspecting that his approach to Han Bai had already drawn the general’s attention.

Ye Uchiha used his pills to strengthen Han Bai’s guards and arranged for him to sell Youth-Preserving Pills, while learning that Han Fei’s recent cases had advanced events in Han. He anticipated the arrival of Bai Yifei and the Baiyue prisoners, as well as Ying Zheng’s coming visit.

• Ye Uchiha gave Xiao Die and Xiao Ying pills and told them to share them after delivering the Martial Dao Pills to Steward Lü.
• Han Bai told Ye Uchiha that all hundred guards in his residence had taken Martial Dao Pills and complained that he could obtain no more medicinal ingredients.
• Ye Uchiha offered Han Bai Youth-Preserving Pills to sell, and Han Bai accepted them.
• Han Bai complained about his younger brother Han Fei and mentioned the Ghost Soldiers' Pay Robbery, the Fiery Rain Agate case, and Han Fei's appointment as Minister of Justice.
• Ye Uchiha inferred that Bai Yifei had arrived in the capital and anticipated the Baiyue prisoners’ release and Ying Zheng’s arrival in Han.

Nobles gathered at the Xinzheng auction house to bid on the Youth-Preserving Pills refined by Dan Chenzi, while Ji Wuye considered working with the alchemist. Ji Wuye bought most of the pills and distributed them among his household and the Royal Palace.

• The nobles and their families crowded into the auction house after hearing that the Youth-Preserving Pills could preserve youth, and learned that Dan Chenzi had refined them.
• Ji Wuye recalled how the Spirit-Nourishing Pills had benefited him, Mo Ya, and Bai Feng, and reasoned that Dan Chenzi wanted to cooperate with him for access to more ingredients.
• Ji Wuye said he might meet Dan Chenzi, and Mo Ya warned him that the alchemist was powerful; Ji Wuye replied that he would bring Bai Yifei along.
• Ji Wuye bought most of the Youth-Preserving Pills for over four thousand taels of gold, frightening the nobles away from challenging him.
• Ji Wuye returned with ten pills, giving three to the beauties in his residence, keeping four for the Imperial Physician, and sending three to the Royal Palace for the Tide Enchantress.

Ye Uchiha profited from the Youth-Preserving Pills and planned to seek Ji Wuye’s support for more ingredients, while Han Bai told him people had begun calling him the Pill Immortal. Meanwhile, Bai Yifei asked Madam Mingzhu to uncover Dan Chenzi’s identity and intentions, and she agreed to approach him.

• Han Bai was stunned by the Youth-Preserving Pills’ price, and Ye Uchiha said he would need his help with future pill-making business.
• Ye Uchiha considered seeking Ji Wuye’s support because the crown prince’s supplies could no longer meet his medicinal ingredient needs.
• Han Bai told Ye Uchiha that people in Xinzheng City had begun calling him the Pill Immortal.
• Madam Mingzhu told Bai Yifei that the Youth-Preserving Pills had restored her youthful appearance and kept King Han An in her bedchamber.
• Bai Yifei asked Madam Mingzhu to draw out Dan Chenzi’s identity and intentions, and she agreed to approach him.

King Han An summoned Ye Uchiha to the palace after hearing of his pill refining and the Youth-Preserving Pill. Zhang Kaidi accused Ye of being a Qin spy, but Ji Wuye turned the king’s suspicion toward Zhang, leaving Han An hostile to his chancellor.

• At court, King Han An asked Han Bai about Ye Uchiha and ordered him summoned, despite Han Bai’s reluctance to lose his profitable guest retainer.
• Ye Uchiha entered the palace and explained to King Han An how Yin-Yang and the five elements related to medicine and pill refining.
• Zhang Kaidi challenged Ye’s medical knowledge, and Ji Wuye defended him against the chancellor’s hostility.
• Zhang Kaidi warned that Ye’s ties to Qin made him suspicious and urged the king to be wary.
• Ji Wuye accused Zhang Kaidi of provoking a conflict with Qin, and King Han An looked at the chancellor with hostility.

At court, Zhang Kaidi and Ji Wuye argued over whether Han should resist Qin or seek peace, while Ye Uchiha watched. King Han An appointed Ye Uchiha as Han’s Court Enshrined Alchemist and arranged for him to live in the Cold Palace, where Ye suspected an unknown secret lay hidden.

• Zhang Kaidi urged Han to unite the Six Kingdoms against Qin, while Ji Wuye argued that Han’s smaller army could not win a war.
• King Han An stopped the dispute and declared that Ye Uchiha, though from Qin, was in Han’s territory and could serve Han.
• Ye Uchiha initially declined the Court Enshrined Alchemist position, then accepted after King Han An promised him an easy post and generous support.
• King Han An invited Ye Uchiha to live in the Royal Palace, prompting Zhang Kaidi and other officials to object.
• King Han An assigned Ye Uchiha a rebuilt residence in the Cold Palace, and Ye Uchiha accepted while wondering about its hidden secret.

Magecraft City continued to expand as Paracelsus and Avicebron planned its power supply and defenses, while Princess Kaguya languished in boredom at the Main Base. In the Kingdom of Melromarc, Lord El-Melloi II reviewed the heroes’ misconduct as Gin Ichimaru finished training Raphael.

• Paracelsus and Avicebron discussed using the five great elements for power and the dragon vein to fuel defensive formations around Magecraft City.
• Princess Kaguya ate cookies and rested while the little creatures she had created tried to entertain her.
• Lord El-Melloi II read Hassan of the Hundred Faces’s report about the Sword, Bow, and Spear Heroes causing trouble across the kingdom.
• Gin Ichimaru sparred with Raphael, effortlessly evaded her attacks, and ended their training after flicking her forehead.
• Raphael picked up her Flame Longsword and went inside to study with her teacher.

Ye Uchiha remained at Crown Prince Han Bai’s residence when Tian Ze and the Baiyue crew attacked. As Tian Ze’s chain stopped before Ye Uchiha, the confrontation was left unresolved.

• Han Bai complained to Ye Uchiha about his move to the Cold Palace and mentioned that Han Yu had been acting strangely toward him.
• Wushuang broke into the Crown Prince’s Residence and shrugged off the guards’ attacks, while Ye Uchiha realized Bai Yifei had released Tian Ze.
• Yan Lingji appeared on the courtyard wall, followed by Tian Ze, a hooded man, and a white-haired elder.
• Han Bai recognized Tian Ze as the deposed Crown Prince of Baiyue and feared that he had come to avenge Baiyue’s defeat.
• Tian Ze attacked Ye Uchiha with his crimson chain, but an invisible barrier stopped it before it reached him.

Ye Uchiha defeated Tian Ze and subdued the five Baiyue captives with his overwhelming power. After whispering something that changed Tian Ze’s attitude, Ye Uchiha asked Han Bai to leave the captives in his care as medicine men.

• Ye Uchiha told Han Bai’s guards to stand down and challenged Tian Ze, who attacked him with eight serpent phantoms formed from his chains.
• Ye Uchiha shattered the phantoms and sent Tian Ze crashing to the ground with a powerful repulsive force.
• The Corpse-Driving Demon, the King of a Hundred Poisons, Wushuang, and Yan Lingji attacked Ye Uchiha to protect Tian Ze.
• Ye Uchiha used gravitational pressure to immobilize Wushuang and knock the other three unconscious while Tian Ze struggled to resist.
• Ye Uchiha whispered to Tian Ze, who stopped Wushuang and resigned himself after Ye Uchiha released the pressure.
• Ye Uchiha asked Han Bai to let him keep the five captives as medicine men, and Han Bai agreed.