Chapter Summaries

Lou Yunxiao sent Wugou to meet Ning Ke, and Wugou used Buddhist Prayer Beads to save Ning Ke from a thief and give him a way to stay close. Ning Ke accepted the beads and left with Ning Xiao, while Wugou introduced himself from afar.

• Lou Yunxiao and his companions found Wugou, who had won over Nanluo Temple’s masters and entered the temple.
• Lou Yunxiao and the others stayed hidden while Wugou went to meet Ning Ke, and Little Sand Rat and the shrunken Python hurried to alert him when Ning Ke approached.
• At a Bodhisattva Temple, Ning Ke caught a thief reaching into a girl's bag, and the thief pulled a Utility Knife and tried to slash him.
• Wugou’s Buddhist Prayer Beads formed a barrier that stopped the knife, then Wugou insisted Ning Ke accept them and explained that they had saved him.
• As the crowd gathered, Ning Ke took the tearful beads and left with Ning Xiao; Wugou told him his dharma name and said they might meet again.

After Wugou, Ning Ke, and Ning Xiao left, Ning Xiaoxiao gathered her companions to meet Senior Jiu Yuan and get new identities so they could approach her brother again. Jiu Yuan arranged for them to pose as a wealthy family, leaving Gao Ze as the father and Bai Wanru as the mother, while Hong Yao claimed the role of mistress.

• Zhuang Yusheng and Wugou shared chewing gum, and Wugou frightened Zhuang Yusheng by claiming swallowed gum would make him explode.
• Ning Xiaoxiao led the group to meet Senior Jiu Yuan, who arrived with a Rolls-Royce, servants, and a red carpet.
• Jiu Yuan gave everyone identity cards and instructed them to present themselves as a family in the modern world.
• Jiu Yuan assigned Gao Ze to be their father and Bai Wanru to be their mother.
• Hong Yao declared that she would be the mistress and play the flashy counterpart to Bai Wanru.

Ning Ke wore the Buddhist Prayer Beads and read an audition script before a sudden memory made him break down crying. Lou Yunxiao appeared to comfort him, but after an awkward moment of desire, he restrained himself and recited a sutra, leaving Ning Ke bewildered.

• Jiu Yuan assigned identities to his companions and began explaining their plan to approach A Ke.
• Ning Ke wore the Buddhist Prayer Beads on the drive home while Ning Xiao noticed Ning Xiaoxiao in a popular video and felt a sense of kinship.
• Ning Ke read his audition script and, while thinking about the covert guard losing his lover, experienced a painful flashback and started crying.
• Lou Yunxiao emerged from the Buddhist Prayer Beads and asked why Ning Ke was crying, startling him into shouting that there was a ghost.
• Lou Yunxiao pinned Ning Ke down to keep him quiet, then released him, fixed his pajamas, and began reciting a sutra.

Ning Ke learned that Lou Yunxiao was the sentient Buddhist Prayer Beads and forgave him for frightening and offending him. Lou Yunxiao broke down in tears, and Ning Ke comforted him with an embrace.

• Lou Yunxiao recited the Clear Mind Heart Sutra to suppress his lust, then apologized to Ning Ke for scaring him.
• Ning Ke asked what Lou Yunxiao was, and Lou Yunxiao said he was the sentient Buddhist Prayer Beads who could take human form.
• Ning Ke said he believed Lou Yunxiao and forgave him for his physical reaction.
• Lou Yunxiao began crying harder as he reflected on seeing Ning Ke again after two hundred years and being forgiven despite Ning Ke's lost memories.
• Ning Ke hugged Lou Yunxiao and patted his back, telling him to stop crying.

Lou Yunxiao settled into life as Ning Ke’s Buddhist Prayer Bead Spirit, learning about Ning Ke’s acting ambitions and promising to explore the world with him. He became Ning Ke’s devoted housekeeper and cook, though his longing to kiss Ning Ke left him crying over onions in the kitchen.

• Lou Yunxiao cleaned Ning Ke’s home with magic and learned Ning Ke’s name was Lou Yunxiao, though Ning Ke dismissed the coincidence with the novel’s protagonist.
• Ning Ke explained acting and shared his dream of becoming an actor, and Lou Yunxiao promised to support him.
• Lou Yunxiao admitted he wanted Ning Ke to show him the world, and Ning Ke promised to take him everywhere.
• Lou Yunxiao became Ning Ke’s secret housekeeper, then took over cooking after Ning Xiao moved into the school dorms to study for exams.
• Lou Yunxiao cooked Ning Ke’s favorite takeout dishes at home and cried from longing while cutting onions.

Ning Ke auditioned for the Shadow Guard role, and memories of his past life on the Qianyuan Continent began to return. After kissing the Buddhist Prayer Beads, he performed a startlingly convincing sword fight, leaving the director and martial arts instructor impressed.

• Bai Wanru met Ning Ke at the Film and Television City and secretly warned Lou Yunxiao not to cross Ning Ke's boundaries or force his memories to return.
• Lou Yunxiao cooled the set with his domain, and the cast mistook Ning Ke for a walking air conditioner.
• The director asked Ning Ke to audition for the Shadow Guard role with an action scene and a dramatic scene.
• As Ning Ke prepared for the fight scene, memories of sparring beneath a Purple Osmanthus tree with Lou Yunxiao broke through the seal in his soul.
• Ning Ke kissed the Buddhist Prayer Beads, then overwhelmed the martial arts instructor with a rapid sword sequence that nearly made the man believe his neck had been cut.

After regaining his memories, Ning Ke hid his recognition of Lou Yunxiao and turned his friends’ plan to reunite with him into a chance to test their deception. He won the acting role and agreed to visit Bai Wanru’s family, leaving his loved ones preparing to welcome him.

• Ning Ke controlled the oppressive aura that had accompanied his sealed memories and told the director he believed in the deity inside his Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Ning Ke’s pointed remarks about never being lied to made Lou Yunxiao and the director uneasy, while Lou Yunxiao listened from inside the beads.
• Ning Ke delivered a convincing grief scene, and the director chose him for the shadow guard role and arranged for him to return the next morning.
• Bai Wanru praised Ning Ke and gave him a business card for her eldest son’s entertainment company, which Ning Ke recognized as his brother’s.
• Bai Wanru invited Ning Ke home to meet her family, and Ning Ke agreed while secretly realizing his loved ones were arranging a reunion.

Ning Xiao was surrounded by thugs hired by Zhang Yang after rejecting him, but fought back when they smashed her phone. She recognized her identical sister Ning Xiaoxiao and asked her to help, leaving them to face the remaining attackers together.

• Ning Xiao messaged Ning Ke about his audition and headed off campus, where Zhang Yang invited her to lunch and she refused.
• Zhang Yang followed Ning Xiao and had five thugs surround her, declaring that he would make her his.
• Ning Xiao called the police, but a thug knocked her phone from her hand and cracked its screen.
• Ning Xiao warned the officer that she would defend herself, then threw the thug to the ground and stomped on his wrist.
• Ning Xiaoxiao rushed over, and Ning Xiao recognized her and asked her to help fight the remaining thugs.
• Ning Xiao promised to buy dinner if they won, then grabbed the arm of another attacker.

Ning Xiao and Ning Xiaoxiao dealt with Zhang Yang and his thugs, then talked about their connection and Ning Ke’s lost memories. Ning Xiaoxiao took Ning Xiao flying on the Jinglan Sword, and Ning Xiao said her brother would be happy to have them as family if he regained his memories.

• Ning Xiao and Ning Xiaoxiao gave statements at the police station, and Ning Xiao made Zhang Yang pay double compensation before warning him not to harass her or her friends again.
• Ning Xiao explained that Ning Xiaoxiao was a character she had written and the other half of her soul, and correctly guessed why she had come to find Ning Ke.
• Ning Xiaoxiao said she and the others wanted to protect Ning Xiao and Ning Ke without forcing Ning Ke to remember painful memories, then apologized for receiving kindness meant for Ning Xiao.
• Ning Xiao reassured Ning Xiaoxiao that she considered her family and welcomed her, easing Ning Xiaoxiao’s worries.
• Ning Xiaoxiao used the Jinglan Sword to take Ning Xiao flying, and Ning Xiao told her that Ning Ke would be happy if he recovered his memories and welcomed them as family.

Ning Xiaoxiao flew Ning Xiao to the manor, where Ning Ke reunited with his friends and family and revealed that he had recovered his memories. He confronted Lou Yunxiao for erasing them, then demanded a kiss as punishment.

• Ning Xiaoxiao followed Ning Xiao’s navigation to the manor and realized it was her house.
• Ning Ke met Bai Wanru’s gathered family and friends, who explained that Qing Ru had made them bodies and Lou Yunxiao had awakened them with divine power.
• Ning Ke embraced Jiu Yuan and revealed that he had recovered his memories, prompting everyone to surround him with concern.
• Wugou urged Ning Ke to speak privately with Lou Yunxiao, who emerged from the Buddhist Prayer Beads in a guest room.
• Ning Ke accused Lou Yunxiao of taking his memories and keeping the truth from him, then kissed him and demanded that he not stop.

Ning Ke learned that Lou Yunxiao and the others had waited two hundred years for him, then reunited with Lou Yunxiao in private. Meanwhile, the household prepared an exuberant welcome for Ning Xiao, who arrived with Ning Xiaoxiao and laughed at their antics.

• Lou Yunxiao apologized to Ning Ke for keeping him apart from everyone and revealed that two hundred years had passed for those waiting on the Qianyuan Continent.
• Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao shared an intimate reunion, while the others waited downstairs.
• Zhuang Yusheng called Ning Xiaoxiao and learned that she and Ning Xiao were almost at the manor on a flying sword.
• Jiu Yuan led the household in welcoming Ning Xiao with a banner, streamers, party poppers, and Yueya's whip dance.
• Ning Xiao laughed at the welcome and told Ning Xiaoxiao that her brother must be happy with everyone.

Ning Ke reunited with Ning Xiaoxiao and celebrated with his family and friends before building a happy life with Lou Yunxiao. Five years later, after winning Best Actor, Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao that meeting him was the thing he regretted least and confessed his love.

• Ning Ke greeted Ning Xiao and reunited with Ning Xiaoxiao, while Ning Xiao teased her about being taller.
• Ning Ke and his family shared a reunion dinner, then took a family portrait and hung it in the living room.
• Zhuang Yusheng and Ning Xiaoxiao enrolled at Ning Xiao's university, while Ning Ke began acting and took Lou Yunxiao around to explore the modern world.
• Five years later, Ning Ke won Best Actor as his family, friends, and spirits watched from the ceremony.
• Lou Yunxiao used an Invisibility Spell to take Ning Ke home, where Ning Ke kissed him and confessed that meeting him was what he regretted least.

After living a full life in the modern world, Ning Ke chose to return to the Qianyuan Continent with Lou Yunxiao rather than have his soul set free. Lou Yunxiao gathered Ning Ke’s soul, and their companions prepared to return with them.

• As Ning Ke neared death, Lou Yunxiao offered to set his soul free if he did not want to return to the Qianyuan Continent.
• Ning Ke assured Lou Yunxiao that he wanted to stay with him for eternity and promised to go with him.
• Ning Ke died, and Lou Yunxiao gathered his soul with divine power.
• Jiu Yuan asked whether Ning Ke had agreed to return, and Lou Yunxiao confirmed that he had.
• Lou Yunxiao told everyone to return to the Qianyuan Continent.

Ning Ke awoke in a new body on the Qianyuan Continent and reunited with Lou Yunxiao, whose dual cultivation quickly raised Ning Ke’s strength. After Gao Ze and Hong Yao married and the continent entered a peaceful era, Ning Ke eventually caught up with his companions, and they ascended to the Divine Realm together.

• Ning Ke woke from a half-month-long sleep in an Ice Coffin, discovered his youthful new appearance, and learned that his body carried the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline.
• Lou Yunxiao used dual cultivation to help Ning Ke advance from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, though Ning Ke complained about Lou Yunxiao’s relentless enthusiasm.
• Jiu Yuan, Ning Xiaoxiao, and the others reunited with Ning Ke, while Gao Ze invited them to his wedding with Hong Yao.
• Gao Ze and Hong Yao married as the Qianyuan Continent celebrated peace, and they later had twins; Ning Ke rejected Lou Yunxiao’s Childbearing Pill and said he wanted their love to be only for each other.
• Ning Ke’s cultivation eventually caught up with his companions, and they ascended together to the Divine Realm; Wugou remained missing after his last appearance at Ning Ke’s Best Actor award ceremony.

In this parallel-world side story, Ning Ke returned to the beginning and let Lou Yunxiao believe he had committed every crime, hoping to die and complete his final mission. Lou Yunxiao rejected his attempt to provoke a quick death and began torturing him in the Sword Sect Dungeon.

• Lou Yunxiao entered the Dungeon and accused the gravely wounded Ning Ke of destroying the Flowing Cloud Sect and ruining his life.
• Ning Ke refused Xiao Yuan’s offer to retrieve the Jade Pendant and decided not to reveal his other identities.
• Ning Ke claimed responsibility for the massacre and cruelly mocked Lou Yunxiao, cutting off any chance of being forgiven.
• Lou Yunxiao struck Ning Ke and attacked him with a barbed torture whip, vowing to deny him both death and relief.

Lou Yunxiao tortured Ning Ke, whose despair deepened through nightmares about his family and his place in either world. After Ning Ke’s sealed demonic power surged and broke his chains, Lou Yunxiao saved him from dying, but Ning Ke declared that he would kill himself.

• Lou Yunxiao whipped Ning Ke and poured salt water over his wounds, then stopped when Ning Ke called for his mother and Xiao Xiao.
• Lou Yunxiao left Ning Ke chained in the prison while he dealt with the weakening Great Demon's Seals and preparations for the Demon War.
• Ning Ke woke from a nightmare in which his family rejected him and charred corpses dragged him into darkness.
• Overcome by despair, Ning Ke vomited blood as dark emotions drove him toward self-destruction and snapped his chains.
• Lou Yunxiao caught Ning Ke and gave him a pill, but Ning Ke said he would die by his own hand.

Lou Yunxiao brought the captured Ning Ke to the graves of his family and former sect, forcing him to face the people he had killed. After removing Ning Ke’s demon core and severing his tendons, Lou Yunxiao left him conscious in the snow, still unable to understand his silence.

• Lou Yunxiao lost control of his demonic nature, carried Ning Ke to the Flowing Cloud Sect’s graves, and demanded that he apologize.
• Ning Ke tried to apologize to Bai Wanru but hallucinated her rejecting him and crawled away in terror.
• Lou Yunxiao pierced Ning Ke’s abdomen, removed his demon core, and told him he would remain his prisoner.
• Lou Yunxiao dragged Ning Ke back to the gravestone, severed the tendons in his wrists and ankles, and knelt beside him as snow fell.
• Ning Ke remained conscious but mentally shut down, while Lou Yunxiao watched him and judged him beyond saving.

Lou Yunxiao tortured Ning Ke in the snow and threatened to kill the Demon Clan members he cared about. After Ning Ke attempted to self-destruct, Lou Yunxiao stopped him and vowed to kill his loved ones one by one; the author’s note clarified the parallel world’s tragic premise and bad ending.

• Lou Yunxiao told Ning Ke that he had detained Ning Ke’s two Dharma Protectors, and Ning Ke begged him not to hurt them.
• Lou Yunxiao rejected Ning Ke’s plea and said he would destroy everything Ning Ke cherished to make him suffer as he had.
• Ning Ke tried to self-destruct, but Lou Yunxiao stopped him, leaving him gravely injured and unable to speak.
• Lou Yunxiao took Ning Ke to the medicinal pool, where Ning Ke nearly drowned before Lou Yunxiao pulled him out.
• Lou Yunxiao decided to kill the Demon Clan members Ning Ke cared about in front of him, one by one.
• The author clarified that this parallel-world extra followed a tragic bad-ending plot in which neither Lou Yunxiao nor Ning Ke received a happy ending.

Lou Yunxiao imprisoned Ning Ke in the Sword Sect’s Dungeon and vowed to blame him for every Demon Clan member he killed. He then revealed that he was holding the Demon Clan envoys as bait, leaving Yin Feng terrified that Ning Ke would come to the Sword Sect and fall into Lou Yunxiao’s hands.

• Lou Yunxiao recalled how A Ke’s death had left him with nothing but hatred and realized he feared losing his purpose once Ning Ke was gone.
• Ning Ke begged Lou Yunxiao to spare the Demon Clan, but Lou Yunxiao dragged him to the Dungeon, placed a Forbidden Spell inside him, and threatened to make him responsible for future Demon Clan deaths.
• Lou Yunxiao took a strange, incomplete demon core from his Heaven and Earth Bag and flew to where the Demon Clan envoys were imprisoned.
• Yueya attacked Lou Yunxiao with her Nine-Section Whip, but he struck her down and told her and Yin Feng that they remained his enemies because of the Flowing Cloud Sect massacre.
• Yin Feng realized Lou Yunxiao planned to use the envoys to lure Ning Ke to the Sword Sect, then desperately struck the barrier as Lou Yunxiao left.

Ning Ke learned that Lou Yunxiao had imprisoned Yin Feng, Yueya, and other members of the Demon Clan, then collapsed from despair. Lou Yunxiao dragged him from the Dungeon and forced him to face the bound demons.

• Ning Ke crawled to a guard and asked where the Demon Clan was being held, and the disciple told him they were in the Punishment Hall.
• Ning Ke realized Lou Yunxiao had imprisoned Yin Feng and Yueya, cried out Lou Yunxiao's name, and lost consciousness.
• Ning Ke dreamed that Lou Yunxiao crushed him into an abyss, where Lou Yunxiao's face became black mist.
• Lou Yunxiao dragged Ning Ke from the Dungeon, seated him in a chair, and asked if he was ready.
• Lou Yunxiao restrained Ning Ke and made him look at more than a dozen bound members of the Demon Clan, including Yin Feng and Yueya.