Chapter Summaries

Cheng Yu read Lian'er’s letter about her new life in the Central Capital and replied with encouragement, while Snow Spirit asked him about the letter’s expressions of longing. After sending his reply and a painting to Lian'er, Cheng Yu returned to his quiet, comfortable life with Snow Spirit.

• Lian'er wrote to Cheng Yu about studying at the Women's School, making friends, facing insecurity over her past, and rejecting a wealthy young man's advances.
• Snow Spirit asked Cheng Yu what Lian'er's poetic words about longing meant, and he explained that she missed someone and liked them.
• Cheng Yu dictated a reply encouraging Lian'er to value herself and saying that he was well, while Snow Spirit wrote it down.
• Cheng Yu made a painting of himself and Snow Spirit, attached it and the letter to a bird, and sent them to Lian'er.
• Cheng Yu returned to his rocking chair and accepted his peaceful, uneventful life for the time being.

Shen Bai traveled to Fuzhou City with Uncle Bull and Xiao Luan for a study tour, but officials gathered to welcome him because he was the Demon Dynasty’s White King. He reflected on the suffering of the world and the people who fought to make it better before hurrying toward the city.

• Officials across Fuzhou City waited at the gates to welcome Shen Bai, whose arrival was an important diplomatic occasion between Humankind and Monsterkind.
• On the road to Fuzhou City, Shen Bai asked Uncle Bull about his past travels and why he had chosen to accompany him on this journey.
• Uncle Bull described the world’s suffering, and Shen Bai argued that the struggle to resist cruelty made idealists shine.
• Xiao Luan challenged Uncle Bull’s lack of deference to Shen Bai, but Shen Bai told her to apologize and explained that Uncle Bull was his elder and teacher.
• Shen Bai asked Uncle Bull to pick up the pace, and the group vanished from the road toward the waiting officials.

Cheng Yu planted melons with Snow Spirit and planned to sell them, while Shen Bai cultivated a Myriad Spirits Longevity Fruit for his elder brother. Shen Bai left his subsidiary space with the fruit and other spirit plants after discussing his gift.

• Cheng Yu scattered seeds across his prepared field and told Snow Spirit he was planting melons to sell once they ripened.
• Shen Bai examined a Myriad Spirits Longevity Fruit and said it was not good enough to give his elder brother for Imperial Advent Day.
• Shen Bai gave the fruit to Xiao Luan, whose aura rose rapidly as she ate it.
• Shen Bai plowed a field with the black ox, cultivated plants through repeated growth cycles, and used his blood to produce a plain-looking shoot.
• Shen Bai explained that he wanted to repay his elder brother for supporting him and his mother, then left with Xiao Luan and the black ox carrying spirit plants.

Cheng Yu learned from a melon thief that the True Knowledge Sect had resumed activity near the border of West Sea Prefecture and Beiyou Prefecture. He recalled how the sect had nearly conquered Baiyue Prefecture and how Humankind and the Demon Race had united to stop it, leaving the sect an ongoing threat.

• Cheng Yu killed a man who tried to steal his melons and learned from the man's memories that the True Knowledge Sect had appeared again near West Sea Prefecture and Beiyou Prefecture.
• Cheng Yu recalled that the True Knowledge Sect targeted powerful fighters and had absorbed most of the Demon-Worshipping Cult, while the remnants of Broken-Heart Half-Demon disappeared.
• Cheng Yu remembered that the True Knowledge Calamity had devastated Baiyue Prefecture before Qin Shuo rallied Humankind and confined the sect near Verdant Micro Mountain.
• Shen Tian agreed to cooperate with Humankind against the True Knowledge Sect after Kuang Cang reported the danger, and Humankind and Monsterkind joined forces to stop it.

Cheng Yu learned more about the True Knowledge Sect’s recurring disturbances and discovered that Mo Huang, once the Demon Monster Ink Emperor, now held a powerful intelligence post. After reviewing the memories of a wanted criminal he had killed, Cheng Yu set aside his thoughts and went to make food for the sleeping Snow Spirit.

• Cheng Yu reflected on how the True Knowledge Sect repeatedly tried to escape its sealed Secret Realm and how the eternal overlords suppressed its disturbances.
• Cheng Yu recognized Mo Huang as the former Demon Monster Ink Emperor and admired Qin Shuo for trusting him with authority in the Soul Pursuit Hall.
• Cheng Yu learned that the man whose memories he was reviewing had betrayed his sect, stolen its treasure, and become a wanted criminal; the stolen sword was the one Cheng Yu had crushed.
• Snow Spirit crashed into Cheng Yu, complained that she was hungry and tired, then fell asleep in his rocking chair.
• Cheng Yu covered Snow Spirit with a blanket and headed to the farmhouse kitchen to prepare food.

Cheng Yu guided Snow Spirit in cultivation and decided to move to the Central Capital after discussing the hushed-up incident with the system. Meanwhile, Shen Bai traveled with Black Bull and Xiao Luan, explaining that a travelogue by Hu Lingling had inspired his journey.

• Cheng Yu taught Snow Spirit to sense spiritual energy, and she cultivated so quickly that she fell asleep while energy surged around her.
• Cheng Yu and the system discussed the incident being hushed up and agreed that he should eventually move to the Central Capital.
• Cheng Yu found Snow Spirit reading a melodramatic romance book and questioned where she had gotten it before deciding to read it with her.
• Shen Bai traveled with Black Bull and Xiao Luan, saying he had encountered many interesting people among Humankind.
• Shen Bai told Black Bull that Hu Lingling's travelogue had inspired him to explore the Eternal True World, and Black Bull praised his resolve.

Cheng Yu criticized a novel’s portrayal of love and taught Snow Spirit that real love should not excuse selfish desire, then gave her practical lessons on power and self-preservation. Elsewhere, Shen Bai and his companions encountered monsters near the Eastern Continent, and Shen Bai chose to avoid approaching human cultivators.

• Cheng Yu condemned the master and disciple in The Aloof Master's Forced Love and told Snow Spirit that the story’s so-called love was really desire.
• Snow Spirit asked what real love was, and Cheng Yu said it could take different forms but should never serve as an excuse to satisfy one’s desires.
• Cheng Yu quizzed Snow Spirit about power and survival, and she answered that overwhelming force could impose rules while a weak disciple should keep a low profile and rely on sect rules.
• Cheng Yu advised Snow Spirit that solving problems could require selfishness, then took her home to pick melons.
• Shen Bai and his companions defeated monsters near the Eastern Continent, and Black Bull explained that the Demon Laws detected disturbances more readily than human methods of observing fortune.
• Shen Bai declined to meet the approaching human cultivators and continued onward with Black Bull and Xiao Luan.

Cheng Yu decided he could delay his journey to the Central Capital while he considered the risks of arriving there unregistered. He discovered that Snow Spirit was still sneaking romance novels, including one apparently inspired by Shen Yu and read by Ling Xuan, and caught Snow Spirit trying to steal her book.

• Cheng Yu weighed the True Knowledge Sect’s threat and the risks of entering the Central Capital as an unregistered Cave Profound cultivator, then decided he could put off leaving for now.
• Cheng Yu found Snow Spirit reading “Favoring His Concubine and Ruining His Wife? I Married the Regent King After Transmigrating!” and recognized Shen Yu and Lin Xuan in its characters.
• Cheng Yu and the system discussed Ling Xuan’s continued obsession with Shen Yu and how she had become the novel’s devoted reader.
• Snow Spirit crept toward Cheng Yu to retrieve her book, but he smacked her hand and teased her by listing the hiding places she used.

Cheng Yu questioned Snow Spirit about her fondness for romance novels, then took her shopping and watched her spend all her Origin Stones on books and a pillow for him. He remained puzzled by her unusually pure soul and concluded that her simple nature might explain why he felt comfortable lowering his guard around her.

• Cheng Yu asked Snow Spirit where she got her storybook and why she loved reading such novels, and she admitted she had found it on the Back Mountain and did not know why she liked them.
• Cheng Yu gave Snow Spirit Origin Stones and told her to buy what she wanted instead of collecting discarded things.
• Cheng Yu took Snow Spirit to browse the street, where she spent some of her money on books from a bookshop.
• Snow Spirit used the rest of her Origin Stones to buy Cheng Yu a pillow meant to help him sleep, and Cheng Yu accepted it.
• Cheng Yu realized Snow Spirit had not understood that he would not give her more money, and he reflected that her lack of cleverness made him more willing to lower his guard.

Cheng Yu reflected on Lian’er’s letters and Snow Spirit’s growing attachment to him while worrying about how her feelings might change as she grew older. Elsewhere, Shen Bai parted from a fellow cultivator and discussed his pursuit of enlightenment, revealing that the Demon Race’s political order could make his rise dangerous.

• Cheng Yu read Lian’er’s latest letter, considered how steadfastly she had kept writing, and sent her a long reply.
• Snow Spirit showed jealousy over Cheng Yu’s attention to Lian’er, and Cheng Yu worried that her childhood dependence might one day become romantic love.
• Shen Bai parted warmly from Brother Tian after praising his cultivation path as a potential route to the Great Dao.
• Shen Bai told Xiao Luan and Black Bull that he sought enlightenment because the Demon Race was already well governed and did not need him to take a political role.
• Black Bull recognized that Shen Bai becoming a Great Sage could unsettle the Demon Race, which tolerated him as a powerful reserve but not as a political leader.

Cheng Yu decided he could avoid Shen Bai by going somewhere Shen Bai had already visited, and took Snow Spirit out. Meanwhile, Shen Bai returned to Black Bull after a battle, thanked him for his guidance, and prepared to continue onward with Xiao Luan.

• Cheng Yu considered leaving for the Central Capital and capturing a Legendary to study, but Snow Spirit's announcement that she had finished a book reminded him to choose somewhere Shen Bai had already visited.
• Cheng Yu called Snow Spirit Lingling and took her out for fun.
• Black Bull confronted a young Taoist who demanded Yun Yang's remains, then destroyed him and cleared away the mist.
• Shen Bai emerged from a rift and Black Bull told him there was nothing more he could teach him.
• Shen Bai thanked Black Bull and summoned Xiao Luan, then made her apologize after she insulted Black Bull.

Shen Bai challenged Shen Xuan to a spar beyond the heavens while experts across the Eternal True World watched. As the battle unfolded, Cheng Yu and Snow Spirit enjoyed the sunset together, though Cheng Yu ruined the romantic moment by correcting her compliment.

• Shen Xuan arrived and exchanged pointed remarks with Shen Bai before agreeing to test his strength in a spar beyond the heavens.
• Xiao Luan worried that Shen Bai might lose, while Black Bull reassured her and experts across the Eternal True World watched the fight.
• Ling Xuan watched Shen Bai’s snowy-white phoenix true form and was reminded of the past.
• Cheng Yu reasoned that Shen Xuan was testing Shen Bai while giving him a chance to learn from the exchange.
• Snow Spirit admired the sunset with Cheng Yu and called him beautiful, so he flicked her forehead and asked her to use different compliments.

Cheng Yu traveled with Snow Spirit toward Fuzhou City, explaining boundaries between men and women, liking, and love as they walked. Snow Spirit concluded she could love Cheng Yu too, and he corrected her that love had to be mutual.

• Snow Spirit agreed to go wherever Cheng Yu went, and Cheng Yu packed the courtyard and melon field into a glass ball before leaving with her.
• Cheng Yu watched Shen Bai and Shen Xuan fight outside the Firmament, then continued traveling toward Fuzhou City in West Sea Prefecture.
• Cheng Yu stopped Snow Spirit from charging into him and explained that boys and girls needed boundaries, prompting her to ask why he had once leaned against Sister Lian'er.
• Cheng Yu used a novel's characters to explain boundaries and said that love allowed Lin Xuan and the Regent King to behave differently.
• Snow Spirit asked whether Sister Lian'er loved Cheng Yu, then declared she could love him too, and Cheng Yu explained that love had to be mutual.

Cheng Yu reassured Snow Spirit that she might understand love better when she was older, then followed her while trading insults with the system. In the Demon Capital, Shen Tian and Shen Yue discussed Shen Bai's chances, the coming era, and the possibility that the Demon Laws might fail after he merged with the Dao, while Shen Bai and Shen Xuan paused after another clash.

• Cheng Yu told Snow Spirit that he might fall in love with her once she was older, and she ran off before he could finish his next boast.
• Cheng Yu and the system exchanged insults as he followed Snow Spirit along the road.
• In the Imperial Study, Shen Yue asked Shen Tian about Shen Bai's chances of winning, and Shen Tian estimated them at fifty percent.
• Shen Tian and Shen Yue discussed Shen Bai merging with the Dao, the coming age of great contention, and whether the Demon Laws would still restrain demons afterward.
• Shen Bai and Shen Xuan clashed again, tearing open cracks into the Supreme Dimension before the world's rules repaired them; the two then watched each other without attacking.

Shen Bai sparred with Shen Xuan and gained insight into several cultivation arts before rejoining Xiao Luan and Black Bull. Meanwhile, Cheng Yu traveled with Snow Spirit toward Fuzhou City and encountered an angry stranger after she chased an animal.

• Shen Xuan praised Shen Bai's restraint and said he would wait for him to prove his own Dao.
• Shen Bai reunited with Xiao Luan and Black Bull, shared what he had learned, and restored the damaged surroundings.
• Cheng Yu dropped Snow Spirit from a cloud to end their flight, and she enjoyed the fall despite crashing into the ground.
• Cheng Yu and Snow Spirit continued toward Fuzhou City, where he planned to settle nearby and improve his cultivation.
• Snow Spirit chased a fierce-looking animal, prompting an angry shout from someone ahead.

Cheng Yu erased the young man who had killed Snow Spirit’s prey, then trapped the man’s father inside a miniature world and ordered him to create a thriving ecosystem. After the father completed the world, Cheng Yu refused to release him and began collapsing it.

• A lavishly dressed young man insulted Snow Spirit, and Cheng Yu turned him and his companions to dust after one woman tried to plead for mercy.
• Cheng Yu cleaned Snow Spirit up, then paused her and placed her in the system space while he waited for the storybook-like encounter to continue.
• The young man’s father arrived to avenge his son, but Cheng Yu caught him and enclosed him in a miniature world.
• Cheng Yu told the father to complete the world’s biodiversity in exchange for possible release, and the father created life and guided its descendants across the ages.
• After three breaths outside the miniature world, the father finished creating a cyberpunk civilization and begged to leave.
• Cheng Yu refused to release him, and the miniature world began to collapse.

Cheng Yu absorbed the Legendary essence blood and used its information to draw a Legendary descendant into a fight. He defeated the man, sealed his remains in a glass ball, and embraced acting on his own desires.

• The dying man watched his world collapse as spatial fissures refined his bloodline and swallowed everything into chaos.
• Cheng Yu swallowed the little blood-red ball and broke through the Legendary's imprint to absorb the memories within its essence blood.
• The Legendary projected himself through a drop of blood and engulfed Cheng Yu in a burning world, but Cheng Yu dispelled the illusion with the void rules.
• Cheng Yu seized the young man, refined his body into a ball of flesh, and sealed it inside a purple-glowing glass ball.
• Cheng Yu put the glass ball into system space and decided that following his true self felt exhilarating.

After capturing a Legendary opponent to turn into a sparring puppet, Cheng Yu reunited with Snow Spirit and reflected on how he should raise her. The chapter ended with him trying to distract the crying girl by pointing out where their new home would be.

• Cheng Yu decided to refine the defeated man into a puppet and released Snow Spirit from the System Space.
• Snow Spirit teased Cheng Yu about being bullied, and Cheng Yu apologized for flicking her forehead when she told the truth.
• Cheng Yu reasoned that he wanted to protect Snow Spirit’s childhood from the world’s darker realities.
• Snow Spirit called Cheng Yu a little lackey, so he chased her and flicked her forehead until she cried.
• After nearly two hours of Snow Spirit’s crying, Cheng Yu pointed to a sparse wood and told her it would be their new home.

Cheng Yu settled Snow Spirit into a new home designed to ease her homesickness, then promised to take her shopping in Fuzhou City. Meanwhile, Shen Bai questioned Black Bull about Yun Yang and the True Knowledge Secret Realm, and Black Bull revealed that he had been there.

• Cheng Yu showed Snow Spirit their new home and explained homesickness before promising her a shopping trip to Fuzhou City.
• Shen Bai asked Black Bull and Xiao Luan about Yun Yang, his mysterious power, and why he had been called the Weird Ancestor.
• Black Bull rebuked Xiao Luan for speculating about Yun Yang and recalled that Yun Yang had been a thoughtful teacher.
• Shen Bai told Black Bull he might visit the True Knowledge Secret Realm if he failed to complete his Dao, and Black Bull warned him against going.
• Black Bull revealed that he had visited the True Knowledge Secret Realm, horrifying Xiao Luan while Shen Bai remained calm.

Shen Bai and Xiao Luan traveled into Humankind’s territory with Niu Ba, who explained why he refused to let Shen Bai enter the True Knowledge Secret Realm. He revealed that the only way to survive there was to follow the unchanged road he once traveled with Yun Yang, leaving Shen Bai with a deeper understanding of the realm and the Weird Ancestor.

• Shen Bai recalled Niu Ba’s many roles, found him farming in a border village, and resumed learning from him as they traveled across Demon territory.
• Shen Bai, Niu Ba, and Xiao Luan entered Humankind’s territory after Shen Tian allowed Xiao Luan to accompany them.
• Shen Bai asked Niu Ba why he would not let him enter the True Knowledge Secret Realm, and Niu Ba explained how its chaos shattered time into altered past, present, and future fragments.
• Niu Ba told Shen Bai that an unchanged road through the realm followed Yun Yang riding a black bull toward the central Taoist temple, and that he had appeared there as the bull.
• Niu Ba explained that Yun Yang’s phantom took away the mutations of those clinging to life on the road before entering the temple and joining Yun Yang’s Corpse.