Chapter Summaries

Lan Yue rode with Li Bai toward the Southern Spirit Sect tournament while her Three Realms Gossip System revealed a secret about the fifth elder. Her thoughts startled Li Bai, sending them plummeting from the sky until a streak of white silk shot across their path.

• Li Bai picked Lan Yue up on his Glazed Glass Sword after she secretly hid a spirit flower and admitted in her thoughts that she still could not fly on a sword.
• Lan Yue recalled that she had transmigrated into a cultivation novel and gained cultivation by consuming gossip through her Three Realms Gossip System.
• The fifth elder praised Li Bai for keeping Lan Yue from exposing his secrets and promised him a spirit artifact.
• Lan Yue mistook a brief wobble in Li Bai's flight for poor sword-flying skills and resumed checking the gossip system.
• Lan Yue discovered that the fifth elder glued on his impressive beard, startling Li Bai and making him lose control of the sword.
• Lan Yue and Li Bai fell from the sky as a streak of white silk shot across their path.

At the sect’s quarterly sparring competition, Lan Yue’s thoughts exposed the Fifth Elder’s secret beard and his habit of hiding candy in it, embarrassing him before the elders and sect master. As the competition began, the sect master secretly investigated Lan Yue’s mysterious artifact and overheard her wondering when the main cast would arrive and when the female lead would learn she was his biological daughter.

• Lan Yue learned that the Fifth Elder had saved her and Li Bai with his beard, then revealed through her thoughts that he decorated it and hid spirit food and candy inside.
• The Fifth Elder silenced the disciples and announced the sect’s quarterly sparring competition, but Lan Yue and Li Bai realized they had not signed up to compete.
• The Sixth Elder took candy from the Fifth Elder’s beard and offered it to Lan Yue, prompting the Fifth Elder to send him down to preside over the competition.
• The sect master examined Lan Yue’s mysterious artifact with his spiritual sense, and the Fifth Elder warned him not to provoke it.
• Lan Yue wondered when the main cast would appear and when the female lead would discover that the sect master was her biological father, freezing the sect master’s smile.

Lan Yue’s inner thoughts revealed the sect master Yun Chong’s tangled connection to the North Ridge Sacred Son and the heroine’s tragic origins. Yun Chong learned that his daughter had been stolen as an infant and mistreated in a Prince’s Mansion, while Li Bai broke down crying beside Lan Yue.

• Yun Chong and the elders speculated that he had an abandoned daughter, until Lan Yue’s inner thoughts revealed that his sworn enemy had secretly stolen his blood essence.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts identified the North Ridge Sacred Son as the heroine’s other parent, shocking the Southern Spirit Sect and recalling his destructive feud with them.
• Lan Yue revealed that the Sacred Son’s stolen daughter had changed hands before being born in a Prince’s Mansion, where the princess consort soon died.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts described the heroine’s lonely childhood, forced labor, and the secondary consort cutting off her sixth finger, leaving Li Bai sobbing.
• Lan Yue offered to tell Li Bai a secret about the Fifth Elder if he stopped crying, abruptly silencing him and startling the Fifth Elder.

Lan Yue learned that the female lead was being bullied on the back mountain, but she could not go help because she could not fly on a sword. At the arena, her provocative advice made the matches turn fierce before she fell asleep beside the Fifth Elder.

• Lan Yue joked with Li Bai about the sect master’s secrets, then learned that reading gossip consumed her limited spiritual sense.
• The system told Lan Yue that the female lead was being bullied on the back mountain, but Lan Yue realized she could not reach her.
• Lan Yue noticed the sect master and several elders had left, then wondered why the arena matches had become lackluster.
• Lan Yue’s comments urged the competing disciples to use harsher tactics, and the elders added protective barriers around the arenas.
• Lan Yue praised the newly fierce matches, then fell asleep beside the Fifth Elder while clutching his beard.

Lan Yue traveled with Yun Chong and Li Bai to the rear mountains, where Yun Chong secretly followed her thoughts to search for his missing daughter. After Lan Yue identified the female lead’s location on Green Silk Mountain, Yun Chong led the group there under the pretense of investigating demonic aura.

• Lan Yue woke aboard Yun Chong’s flying boat and realized she had been clutching the Fifth Elder’s beard, which Li Bai let her believe had been given to her.
• Lan Yue recognized the beard as a Supreme Spirit Artifact and tucked it into her storage pouch despite pretending to worry about keeping it.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the female lead’s identity would be discovered years later after she was gravely injured, but an immortal artifact muted the rest of the information.
• Lan Yue worried that the female lead was in danger on Green Silk Mountain, and Yun Chong immediately redirected the group there.
• Yun Chong claimed he had detected demonic aura and said the group should check for a Demon Abyss Rift.

Luo Sen tried to use a demonic beast to kill the new female disciples, but the sect master and elders arrived in time to save them. Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the elders had mistaken another disciple for their niece, leaving everyone stunned.

• Luo Sen led the female disciples into danger, then secretly used Body-Binding Talismans to immobilize them as a black bear demonic beast pursued him.
• The sect master and elders arrived and killed the black bear, whose brutal dismemberment puzzled them.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts praised Nü E for supposedly having prepared a way to survive, while Nü E quietly backed away with fish-scale grass that had attracted the bear.
• The Sixth Elder kicked Luo Sen and others aside, then mistook a female disciple for his niece and tearfully comforted her.
• Lan Yue wondered aloud whether the elders were crying over the wrong person, and Green Silk Mountain fell silent.

Luan Ning mistook the Sixth Elder for her uncle, and he adopted her as his disciple while covering up his mistake. Yun Chong finally faced his daughter Yun Xi, but she asked whether he wanted to take her as his niece too.

• Luan Ning cried to the Sixth Elder, accusing Luo Sen and his companions of freezing her so a black bear demon beast could attack her.
• The Sixth Elder bound Luo Sen and the others with his Immortal-Binding Cord, and they fainted in fright when they realized they had bullied the sect master's daughter.
• The Sixth Elder took Luan Ning as his disciple and pretended their master-disciple bond explained his claim that she was his niece.
• The Second Elder secretly made Lan Yue walk into a tree, then fussed over her as she recovered.
• Yun Chong looked at Yun Xi and recognized her as his daughter, but she asked whether he wanted to take her as his niece too.

Lan Yue went to Spirit Sword Peak for a replacement sword, but her lack of money led Elder Lin to send her through a teleportation array to collect a sword her master had commissioned. After reaching a cave and meeting another elder, she followed him toward the sword before someone shouted for him to let go of his junior sister.

• Lan Yue heard disciples gossiping about the sect master's daughter and the sixth elder's new disciple while reflecting on how much the story had diverged from the original.
• Lan Yue tried to collect a spirit sword from Spirit Sword Peak, but she could not afford the deposit and was turned away.
• Lan Yue returned with spirit wood and asked about commissioning a sword, prompting Elder Lin to tell her that her master had already commissioned one for her.
• Elder Lin sent Lan Yue through a teleportation array to a cave, where an old elder greeted her and offered to take her to the sword.
• A loud voice shouted, "Let go of my junior sister!" as Lan Yue followed the old elder.

Li Bai and Yun Xi rushed to rescue Lan Yue from the white-browed elder, who quickly pretended the confrontation had been a character test and gave them rewards. The group continued into the Hidden Sword Pavilion to find Spirit Swords as Lan Yue’s unfiltered gossip about the elder made hidden core disciples laugh.

• Li Bai and Yun Xi charged at the white-browed elder to protect Lan Yue, but he knocked them both down before realizing Yun Xi was the sect master's daughter.
• The white-browed elder claimed he had been testing their character, gave each of them a Storage Bag, and explained that each person could take only one willing Spirit Sword.
• The white-browed elder told Lan Yue that her Spirit Sword had already been chosen and directed her to the back of the pavilion.
• Lan Yue thought that the elder kept eighteen Dao companions with the same name, and a rock fell into a pool as hidden core disciples listened from above.
• Lan Yue resumed her gossip commentary, and the core disciples burst out laughing.

Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed the secret behind Elder Whitebrow’s eighteen Dao companions: they had deliberately joined together in a lucrative scheme built around his idealized White Moonlight. The sect master and elders secretly listened in, while Elder Whitebrow was left reeling as Lan Yue disclosed that many of his companions were men.

• Jiang Li greeted Lan Yue and Li Bai at the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and Lan Yue wondered how he could fly in a place where spiritual power was forbidden.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that Elder Whitebrow had eighteen Dao companions who all knew about one another and had joined in the arrangement.
• The sect master and several elders secretly gathered with Jiang Li to hear Lan Yue’s thoughts, while the sect master kept Elder Whitebrow bound with an Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Lan Yue revealed that Elder Whitebrow’s first Dao companion had recruited women to dress like his White Moonlight, and later brought in friends who became his companions for generous payments.
• Lan Yue disclosed that the first companion eventually recruited members of her sect, meaning that half of Elder Whitebrow’s eighteen Dao companions were men.

Lan Yue’s thoughts guided Yun Xi toward the spirit sword bonded to her, while the elders discussed the coming cataclysm. The Cangwu Wooden Sword awakened and asked Yun Xi what era it was.

• Li Bai hurried Lan Yue away from her gossip and toward the spirit swords, while the elders teased Lu Heng about his eighteen Dao companions until the white-browed elder fainted.
• Yun Xi returned a lacquer-red sword after Lan Yue’s thoughts warned her that her bonded sword was still waiting.
• Yun Xi rejected a lavish gilded sword after Lan Yue revealed its history of costly decorations and many previous masters.
• The elders recognized the spiritwood sword as a possible immortal relic and worried that Yun Xi’s bonded sword might be needed to preserve the Southern Spirit Sect through the second cataclysm.
• The Cangwu Wooden Sword awakened when Yun Xi’s spiritual energy reached it, and its sword spirit asked what era it was.

Yun Xi avoided a spiritwood sword after Lan Yue's system revealed that its supposed Immortal Realm divine artifact was actually a dangerous ghost. As Yun Xi and the others left the ghost behind, several spirit swords flew to her and put on a bizarre display that made Lan Yue laugh.

• Yun Xi learned that the spiritwood sword's old man was a ghost who had devoured the sword spirit and its former cultivator, so she backed away from him.
• Yun Chong prepared to lift the Hidden Sword Pavilion's restrictions and seize the ghost, but Lan Yue noted that the pavilion's spirit-sealing zone kept everyone safe.
• The old ghost was pulled back into the spiritwood sword, and Yun Xi, Li Bai, and the others hurried away while Yun Chong and the elders planned to destroy him.
• Several spirit swords flew toward Yun Xi and twisted together in a braided shape, while Lan Yue's system display showed their sword spirits as burly men making flirtatious poses.
• Lan Yue laughed at the sight, Yun Xi and the people above the cavern reacted with shock and curiosity, and Yun Chong angrily wondered why the sect's spirit swords had become so strange.

Yun Xi found a dusty spirit sword, while Lan Yue and Li Bai followed Xing Yue to a blood pool where the ancient sword Silver Snow awaited. Xing Yue explained that Lan Yue would have to endure a trial to summon it, leaving everyone uneasy at the sight of blood running down her face.

• Yun Xi chose a dusty longsword buried in the wall, and Yun Chong suspected it was an ancient battlefield sword.
• Yun Xi and Li Bai finished choosing their swords and followed Lan Yue deeper into the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
• The three discovered a blood-filled pool and met Xing Yue, whom Li Bai mistook for a blood-drinker.
• Xing Yue explained that Silver Snow lay beneath the pool and that Lan Yue had to withstand a trial to summon it.
• Blood dripped onto Xing Yue's eyelashes and ran down her face, leaving the group and the watching elders in silence.

Lan Yue entered the Blood Pool to seek the Ancient Sword, but the Silver Snow Sword freed itself and chose her as its master after hearing her thoughts. The sect leaders accepted that she would take it, relying on her Immortal Artifact—and perhaps her gossip—to keep the sword in check.

• Lan Yue hesitated to enter the Blood Pool and realized she had exhausted her mental power by inspecting nearby spirit swords.
• Silver Snow heard Lan Yue’s thoughts, broke free of the Blood Pool, and flew into her arms, startling the people who had been suppressing it.
• Silver Snow revealed that it could hear Lan Yue’s thoughts and insisted it was an Immortal Sword, then transformed into a proud white cat and struck her on the forehead.
• Lan Yue eagerly offered to serve Silver Snow, but the cat vanished before she could pet it, while the observers realized it had chosen her to join in on gossip.
• Yun Chong told the worried Second Elder that Lan Yue’s Immortal Artifact could suppress Silver Snow and suggested gossip might help too.

After leaving the Hidden Sword Pavilion, Lan Yue converted gossip energy to reach the seventh level of Qi Refining and tried to learn Sword Flight with Silver Snow. During a lesson on the Cultivation World’s history, her gossip exposed a humiliating story about the ancestors who divided the Four Cultivation Regions.

• The elders discussed Silver Snow and Yun Chong argued that the sword could not be controlled by the sect, then freed Elder Lu from the Immortal-Binding Cord and told him to sort out his relationships.
• Lan Yue converted her gossip seeds into cultivation and advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Silver Snow woke Lan Yue with slaps, and she took the ancient sword outside to practice Sword Flight but repeatedly fell.
• Lan Yue spoke to the system in her mind, startling Silver Snow when it learned she had another Immortal Artifact, and Silver Snow slapped her cheek before fleeing.
• During a lesson about the Four Cultivation Regions, Lan Yue’s gossip claimed the continents had been carried apart by arguing cultivators, leaving the teaching elder horrified about their ancestors.

Lan Yue’s search for the history of the Four Cultivation Regions was blocked by the system, while gossip in the Morning Cultivation Hall twisted the story of the sect master and the North Ridge Sacred Son. When Elder Lu arrived, Lan Yue uncovered gossip about his Dao companions and accidentally pushed away Silver Snow.

• Lan Yue tried to learn how the Four Cultivation Regions had separated, but the system locked the information because she lacked mental energy.
• The elder introduced the regions and North Ridge Sacred Ground, while disciples spread conflicting rumors about the sect master and the North Ridge Sacred Son.
• Lan Yue listened to the gossip and noticed that Elder Lu’s scandal had updated in the system.
• Elder Lu arrived at the Morning Cultivation Hall after being reassigned from the Hidden Sword Pavilion and heard Lan Yue’s revelations about his Dao companions.
• Lan Yue tried to view a video of Elder Lu’s eighteen Dao companions, pushed Silver Snow away, and then realized the sword spirit had manifested beside her.

Lan Yue shared the story of Elder Lu’s eighteen cultivation partners with Silver Snow and discovered that the sect already knew the gossip. She met Luan Ning, who thanked her for helping reunite her with her uncle, while Luan Ning’s uncle searched for her on Cloudmist Mountain.

• Lan Yue shared her thoughts about Elder Lu’s partners with Silver Snow, and nearby people learned that his beloved White Moonlight had been among the eighteen women he drove away.
• Fang Ming and a girl told Lan Yue the same gossip, and Lan Yue explained the idea of a wife-chasing crematorium.
• Luan Ning introduced herself and thanked Lan Yue for helping her uncle find her on Green Silk Mountain.
• On Cloudmist Mountain, Luan Ning’s uncle searched for his niece after waiting three days and nights without finding her.

Lan Yue watched the Southern Spirit Sect’s Morning Cultivation Hall come under attack as the Scarlet Moon Sect’s Sect Master confronted Elder Whitebrow over his treatment of her daughter. The clash exposed Elder Whitebrow’s fake eyebrows and fueled Lan Yue’s joke that the sect produced wigs and disguises, leaving Yun Chong struggling to defend its reputation.

• A powerful attack shook the Morning Cultivation Hall, and Luan Ning sheltered the disciples in her defensive artifact.
• Elder Whitebrow crashed into a crater, and the Scarlet Moon Sect’s Sect Master accused him of deceiving her daughter and pursuing substitutes for her.
• Yun Chong protected the mountain’s occupants while Elder Whitebrow flew to the Sect Master and begged forgiveness, but she rejected him and cut off his white eyebrows.
• The disciples discovered black eyebrows beneath Elder Whitebrow’s false ones, and Lan Yue joked that the Southern Spirit Sect specialized in wigs and other disguises.
• The Sixth Elder admitted his hair was fake, while Yun Xi asked Yun Chong whether she should make him a wig, leaving him desperate to deny the rumor.

After the Morning Cultivation Hall was damaged, Lan Yue tried to learn Sword Flight from Li Bai but repeatedly failed. Yun Xi learned it simply by watching, so Lan Yue decided to use the Spirit Tortoise Er Dan as her mount instead.

• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master disappeared with Elder Whitebrow, and the damaged Morning Cultivation Hall closed for repairs, freeing Lan Yue from early morning lessons.
• Li Bai arrived with Yun Xi to teach Lan Yue Sword Flight, but Lan Yue could not stay on a Spirit Sword despite hours of practice.
• Yun Xi brought food and revealed that she had learned Sword Flight just by watching Li Bai teach.
• Lan Yue resumed practicing, then summoned Er Dan, a Spirit Tortoise, and declared it her new mount.
• Lan Yue brought Yun Xi onto Er Dan's shell while Li Bai wondered whether the tortoise could fly.

Lan Yue rode a flying spirit tortoise with Yun Xi and Li Bai while her inner gossip exposed the Fifth Elder’s private habits to the Southern Spirit Sect. The elders teased the Fifth Elder, and Li Bai struggled to keep his junior sister from probing further.

• Lan Yue revealed that Er Dan and the other spirit tortoises could fly, then rode Er Dan with Yun Xi and Li Bai while Silver Snow followed.
• Lan Yue’s inner voice announced that the Fifth Elder had been found outside a disciple’s door late at night with scratch marks, prompting disciples and elders to gather and listen.
• Li Bai suspected that the Fifth Elder had visited his junior brother’s room and grew horrified, while Lan Yue searched the system for more gossip.
• Lan Yue mistook Li Bai’s twitching eye for a fit, and he tried to hurry her back before she uncovered more gossip.
• Lan Yue revealed that the Fifth Elder secretly wore a beard and needed to cuddle spirit cats to sleep, while the Second Elder recalled how the Fifth Elder had taken the cats from his young disciple to raise himself.