Chapter Summaries

Lan Yue and the others dug planting pits while Li Bai struggled to keep the intelligent Rootless Fruit Tree seedling from making him dig new ones. As Lan Yue checked the Three Realms Gossip System, she learned that the male lead had finally appeared and that this was his first meeting with Yun Xi, though she could not see him.

• Li Bai dug several pits for the Rootless Fruit Tree seedling, which kept abandoning each one for a better one and rejecting him.
• Lan Yue stopped Li Bai from upsetting the seedling and asked Yuan Shuo about his recovery; Yuan Shuo quietly continued digging.
• Yun Xi told Li Bai that the Sect Master had taken her ancient sword, Yuxi, to dress it up.
• Lan Yue checked the Three Realms Gossip System and announced that the male lead had appeared for his first meeting with Yun Xi.
• Li Bai and Yuan Shuo looked around for the male lead, while Yun Xi wondered why she could not see him.

Lan Yue and the others found an unconscious black-and-yellow creature who she recognized as the male lead, but Yun Xi showed little interest in him and wanted to protect Lan Yue instead. After digging a home for the spirit tortoises, the group headed to the Four Arts Hall to see Senior Sister Qing Zhu, with the creature hanging from Yun Xi’s waist.

• Lan Yue recognized the unconscious black-and-yellow creature as the male lead, while Li Bai feared a powerful demon had entered the sect.
• Yun Xi picked up the creature, and Lan Yue secretly smacked him before telling Yun Xi to keep him as a spirit beast.
• Yun Xi considered killing the male lead after learning from Lan Yue’s thoughts that he had once sent Lan Yue to her death, then left him on the ground with a few Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lan Yue claimed her divination had revealed the creature’s great potential, while Yun Xi and the others went to dig a home for Er Dan and the spirit tortoises.
• Li Bai reminded Lan Yue that Senior Sister Qing Zhu had asked about her, so the group set off for the Four Arts Hall.
• Yun Xi remembered the unconscious creature at the last moment and hung him at her waist before joining everyone on their Spirit Swords.

Lan Yue chose to study Formation Arts and joined the Formation Pavilion, while her companions selected other halls. After meeting Luan Ning there, Lan Yue recalled that Elder Lu had willingly returned to the Scarlet Moon Sect and chained himself up again to pursue Whitebrow.

• Lan Yue told Qing Zhu she wanted to study Formation Arts, and Qing Zhu led the group to the Formation Pavilion.
• Yuan Shuo chose to stay at the Spirit Artifact Hall, and Lan Yue promised to visit with him after their tour.
• Yun Xi remained at the Alchemy Pavilion, Yuan Shuo stayed at the Spirit Artifact Hall, Li Bai went to learn Talisman Drawing, and Lan Yue registered at the Formation Pavilion.
• Lan Yue met Luan Ning, who asked for news about Elder Whitebrow.
• Lan Yue recalled that the Lu Household had ransomed Whitebrow, but Elder Lu had sneaked back to the Scarlet Moon Sect and chained himself up again.

Lan Yue and Luan Ning traded gossip about the Dust-Forgetting Sect, whose beautiful cultivators helped a heartbroken woman recover by courting her. An elder sent the girls to study formations, then quietly asked for the sect’s address so the Southern Spirit Sect could investigate.

• Lan Yue and Luan Ning shared news that Elder Whitebrow’s eighteen Dao companions had founded the Dust-Forgetting Sect.
• Luan Ning explained that the sect helped a heartbroken Nascent Soul Cultivator by having its female cultivators dress as men and court her alongside its handsome male cultivators.
• Lan Yue and Luan Ning became excited by the woman’s life with eighteen handsome suitors, drawing the attention of everyone around them.
• An elder scolded the girls for neglecting their formation studies, and they apologized and headed for the classroom.
• Another elder privately asked the girls for the Dust-Forgetting Sect’s address so the Southern Spirit Sect could investigate.

Lan Yue attended Formation Arts class and struggled to stay focused, while the Rootless Fruit Tree sapling showed an unexpected talent for drawing formations. The elder ordered Lan Yue to bring the sapling to future classes so it could teach her.

• Luan Ning loudly gave an elder the Dust-Forgetting Sect's address, drawing curious spiritual senses and embarrassing him.
• Lan Yue entered Formation Arts class, where the elder watched her closely and kept her awake and working.
• Lan Yue worried that Nü E had left the male lead behind, then let Little Fruit take her writing brush.
• Little Fruit used the brush to draw a complete formation, and the elder told Lan Yue to bring her to future classes because she was better at formations.

Yun Xi began studying alchemy at the Alchemy Pavilion, impressing her instructors while Fang Ding worried that her ties to the North Ridge Sacred Ground might bring trouble. Lan Yue proved her talent in formations and was told to return early the next day, while Yun Xi continued her first attempt at refining pills.

• Fang Ding welcomed Yun Xi to the Alchemy Pavilion and worried that the North Ridge Sacred Ground might claim her if it learned of her talent and parentage.
• Elder Bai reminded Fang Ding that the Immortal Artifact kept Yun Xi's identity secret, and they agreed to keep an eye on Lan Yue.
• Yun Xi quickly learned about spirit herbs and began refining pills, briefly mistaking an unconscious black lump at her waist for a spirit material before identifying him as her spirit pet.
• Lan Yue showed Elder Duanmu her flawless formation diagram and was told to return at the hour of the hare with Little Fruit.
• Lan Yue complained inwardly about her past classes and wondered how long the Formation Pavilion would last, causing Elder Duanmu to falter.

Lan Yue raised her cultivation to late Qi refining after converting her melon seeds, then learned the system had secretly concealed her earlier progress while charging her a brokerage fee. The chapter ended with Li Bai reminding her that she had promised to find him a place to stay on Spirit Moon Peak.

• Lan Yue reminded Little Fruit to finish drawing two formation diagrams for Elder Duanmu, and it began working on them.
• Lan Yue converted her melon seeds and reached what she believed was late Qi refining, then worried that others might notice her rapid progress.
• The system revealed that it had concealed Lan Yue’s previous cultivation increase and deducted melon seeds for the service, including a brokerage fee.
• Lan Yue angrily confronted the system over the charge, but it fell silent.
• Li Bai contacted Lan Yue from outside and reminded her that she had promised to find him a house on Spirit Moon Peak.

Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that Li Bai would suffer a bizarre series of misfortunes in the Demon Realm, though he would gain a legacy and become a Demon General. The chapter ended with Lan Yue worrying that he had caught a chill after he abruptly stopped coughing.

• Lan Yue found Li Bai sleeping atop a Spirit Tortoise and felt guilty for forgetting to arrange a place for him to stay.
• Li Bai learned from Lan Yue’s thoughts that he was destined to be an extraordinarily unlucky major villain who would fall into the Demon Realm.
• The Fifth Elder and Sixth Elder listened from outside Spirit Moon Peak as Lan Yue revealed that Li Bai would gain a legacy and become a Demon General.
• Lan Yue revealed that Li Bai would be pursued by Demon Generals after a Demon Realm bride chose him, then rescued by the bride and her Demon King father.
• Li Bai began coughing when Lan Yue called him a delicate little husband, then abruptly stopped as she worried he had caught a chill.

Lan Yue’s system revealed that Li Bai’s future included being abducted into the Demon Realm and eventually inheriting Beast King Mountain. Li Bai overheard the predictions and was horrified, while the Fifth Elder warned Red Moon to keep them secret.

• Lan Yue’s thatched hut lost its roof in a gust, so Li Bai accepted Yuan Shuo’s offer to stay in a bamboo house.
• Lan Yue continued reading the system’s story, and Li Bai and Yuan Shuo overheard her reveal that Li Bai would become a pampered bride and later be abducted by a beast king.
• Lan Yue read that the beast king would die and Li Bai would inherit Beast King Mountain, prompting the Sixth Elder to consider sending him as a spy into the Demon Realm.
• The Fifth Elder warned Red Moon not to reveal Li Bai’s predicted future, and Red Moon swore to keep it secret so she could continue visiting for gossip.

Li Bai, Yun Xi, and Gu Zhuo reacted to Lan Yue’s inner thoughts, while Lan Yue was thrown out of the Formation Pavilion after Little Fruit’s claw prints exposed her copied assignment. She redrew the formation with help from the System, then sensed someone watching her and feared Master had caught her planning to steal spirit plants.

• Li Bai woke from a frightening dream and began meditating, while Yuan Shuo followed his example.
• Yun Xi worried about Lan Yue’s safety and began cultivating; Gu Zhuo woke tied to her sash, realized she had saved him, and turned himself into an ordinary spirit beast before passing out.
• Elder Duanmu threw Lan Yue out of the Formation Pavilion because Little Fruit had copied her formation diagram and left its claw prints on it.
• Lan Yue used the System’s footage to draw a new formation outside the pavilion, then resolved to make pigments from spirit plants in Master’s garden.
• Lan Yue sensed someone watching her from behind and feared Master had caught her planning to take the spirit plants.

Lan Yue brought Yun Xi and the color-changed Black-and-Yellow Fluffball to Elder Fang, who confirmed the creature was only shedding and feared Lan Yue might uncover his secrets. Elder Duanmu interrupted Lan Yue’s attempt to pry into fresh gossip and assigned her extensive formation practice and homework.

• Yun Xi praised Lan Yue’s formation diagram, and Lan Yue noticed the Black-and-Yellow Fluffball dangling from Yun Xi’s waist with its fur turned yellow.
• Yun Xi and Lan Yue took the fluffball to Elder Fang, who examined it and said it was probably shedding.
• Lan Yue used the system to check Elder Fang and found no hidden ailment, while Fang Ding panicked that she might expose his secrets.
• Elder Duanmu arrived before Lan Yue could investigate further and took her back to the Formation Pavilion to review her work.
• Elder Duanmu made Lan Yue repeatedly demonstrate formations, study their basic theory, and complete a large stack of practice questions before the next day.

Lan Yue and her companions discussed preparing for the Sect Competition and entering the Ruins, while Lan Yue wondered why Little Yellow had not awakened. Outside the Southern Spirit Sect, Snake Seven and Eagle Five searched for their missing Young Master but were captured and carried into the sect.

• Lan Yue dodged Yun Xi's questions about her unfinished formation work, and Yun Xi urged everyone to train for the Sect Competition in two months.
• Yun Xi promised to protect Lan Yue in the Ruins, while Lan Yue worried about being pulled into the female lead's dangerous adventures.
• Lan Yue noticed that Little Yellow was still asleep and wondered whether his prolonged unconsciousness differed from the original story.
• Snake Seven and Eagle Five arrived near the Southern Spirit Sect in disguised forms and planned to sneak inside to find their Young Master.
• A stranger caught Snake Seven and Eagle Five in a sack and carried them into the Southern Spirit Sect.

Lan Yue tried to keep reading gossip while being summoned to the Formation Pavilion, then persuaded the system to let her read and draw at the same time. Meanwhile, two Demon Beasts disguised as pink snakes listened in and wondered whether the mysterious voice had captured their Young Master.

• A Southern Spirit Sect disciple sold the two Demon Beasts to another disciple, allowing them to enter without drawing attention.
• Eagle Five and Snake Seven planned to sneak out later and search for their Young Master, then heard Lan Yue's inner voice and feared a powerful figure had discovered them.
• Lan Yue opened gossip about Elder Fang and his good brother but was interrupted by a Paper Crane summoning her to the Formation Pavilion.
• Elder Duanmu told Lan Yue to demonstrate and draw a basic five-element formation for the disciples.
• Lan Yue convinced the system to create a split screen so she could read the gossip while drawing the formation.

While Lan Yue studied gossip about Elder Fang and Elder Duanmu during a Formation Arts lesson, her thoughts exposed their childhood history and an embarrassing drunken night. Elder Duanmu remained composed, but Lan Yue realized the other disciples were staring at her and feared she had spoken aloud.

• Lan Yue hesitated before reading Elder Duanmu's gossip, while the other disciples noticed her distraction and feared Elder Duanmu would catch on.
• Lan Yue learned that Elder Fang and Elder Duanmu had been childhood sweethearts before discovering they were both men, and that they later became close friends again.
• Elder Duanmu scolded the distracted students, while Elder Fang heard Lan Yue's gossip from the Alchemy Pavilion and tried to defend his friendship with Duanmu.
• Lan Yue read that Elder Fang once got drunk, mistook Elder Duanmu for a woman, and held him while crying and whispering sweet nothings for three nights.
• Elder Bai confronted the mortified Elder Fang, while Elder Duanmu calmly asked the disciples to show their formation diagrams.
• The disciples turned toward Lan Yue, who looked up and worried that she had accidentally said the gossip aloud.

Lan Yue showed the Formation Pavilion her handmade Ink Pen and sold pens to eager disciples while listening to gossip about Elder Fang. The chapter ended with Lan Yue discovering that every fairy Elder Fang had dated was actually Elder Duanmu.

• Lan Yue impressed the Formation Pavilion with her precise formation diagram and explained that she had made an Ink Pen.
• Lan Yue took orders for Ink Pens at one thousand spirit stones each, while Elder Duanmu began lecturing the disciples.
• Lan Yue listened to gossip that Elder Fang had dated numerous fairies, shocking elders and disciples across the sect.
• Lan Yue noticed a note beside every fairy's name and realized they were all Elder Duanmu.

Lan Yue’s gossip revealed that every fairy Elder Fang had dated was actually Elder Duanmu in disguise, and that Duanmu had been fulfilling Fang’s childhood wish. Elder Fang confronted Duanmu at the Alchemy Pavilion, where the revelation left him shaken and Duanmu caught him as he fell.

• Snake Seven and the gray eagle followed Yan Fu and Xiao Xiao to the Four Arts Hall to hear more gossip.
• Elder Bai and the gathered disciples learned that Elder Duanmu had disguised himself as the fairies Elder Fang had dated, while Elder Fang struggled to believe it.
• Lan Yue’s inner thoughts revealed that Duanmu had repeatedly arranged chance meetings with Fang after Fang drunkenly admitted his childhood feelings for Duanmu dressed as a girl.
• Elder Duanmu arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion, and Elder Fang asked whether Fairy Lingxiao, Fairy Ziling, and Fairy Yuci had all been him.
• Elder Duanmu confirmed that every fairy had been him, and caught Elder Fang around the waist when he toppled backward beside the medicine cauldron.

Elder Fang learned that the fairies he had loved were Elder Duanmu in disguise, and Elder Duanmu pressed him to admit he liked the disguise. As the sect and hidden spirit beasts followed the gossip, Lan Yue appeared while everyone wondered what the elders would do next.

• Elder Duanmu asked Elder Fang whether he liked his feminine appearance, and the tearful Elder Fang admitted that he did.
• Yun Xi and Li Bai regretted that Lan Yue had missed the revelation, while Snake Seven and Eagle Five listened to the gossip from outside the Four Arts Hall.
• Yan Fu told Yan Xiao that spirit beasts could hear Lan Yue's thoughts, and Snake Seven and Eagle Five decided to investigate the voice and remain in the sect.
• Gu Zhuo, still hanging from a girl's waist, wondered why his subordinates had not followed his scent trail.
• Yun Xi and the others watched Elder Duanmu lead the blushing Elder Fang outside, then Lan Yue appeared as the disciples speculated about what would happen next.

Lan Yue’s master, Guangji, discovered that she had reached great perfection of Qi refining and warned her to keep her cultivation secret. He brought her to the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, where its isolated disciples eagerly traded gifts for her gossip.

• Lan Yue tried to follow the gossip about Elder Fang and Elder Duanmu, but Guangji arrived and took her away to check her cultivation.
• At the Bamboo House, Lan Yue revealed that she had reached great perfection of Qi refining, and Guangji told her not to disclose it to anyone.
• Guangji took Lan Yue to the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, where Jiang Li and the other disciples welcomed her and asked for news about Elder Whitebrow.
• The disciples offered Lan Yue artifacts, talismans, and puppets in exchange for gossip, and she began telling them what happened after Elder Whitebrow took eighteen Dao companions.
• Guangji returned to find the disciples and nearby Spirit Swords gathered around Lan Yue, listening to her story.

Guangji gave Lan Yue the Myriad Forms Profound Heaven Art and told her to practice it alongside Formation Arts and Divination. He planned to take her and the others to the Ruins without requiring them to earn a spot in the Sect Competition.

• Guangji took Lan Yue away from her senior brothers and sisters after she collected their gifts and identity tokens.
• Guangji gave Lan Yue an imprinted copy of the Myriad Forms Profound Heaven Art, and she worried that it meant she was expected to save the cultivation world.
• Guangji explained that the art was only an imprint and that no one was entrusting her with the sect's or cultivation world's fate.
• The system urged Lan Yue to put away the new art, and she stored it in her Spatial Ring.
• Guangji told Lan Yue to practice the art and learn Formation Arts and Divination before he took the group to the Ruins without requiring them to compete for a spot.

Yun Xi kept the demon Gu Zhuo warm above an Alchemy Furnace while he mistook her actions for kindness. Lan Yue and Qing Zhu secretly went to eavesdrop on Elder Duanmu and another elder, but Lan Yue spotted Eldest Senior Brother nearby before she could hear what happened.

• Eagle Five and Snake Seven returned to Qishan Peak and agreed to wait for their missing Young Master, unaware he was nearby.
• Gu Zhuo woke above Yun Xi's Alchemy Furnace, accepted the name Little Yellow, and decided to recover as her spirit pet.
• Lan Yue remembered her plan to follow Elder Duanmu and another elder, then sent Silver Snow to follow them and hurried off with Er Dan.
• Er Dan crashed into a tree, leaving Lan Yue and the Spirit Tortoise hanging until Qing Zhu rescued them.
• Qing Zhu hid with Lan Yue in a Wutong Tree, where Lan Yue strained to eavesdrop and heard faint words and sobbing.
• A sudden voice startled Lan Yue, and she recognized Eldest Senior Brother sprawled on the ground below.