Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xu tried to persuade Ye Hua and Ying Ming Hao to seek experience in the Secret Realm, while Yu Huohuo invited them to Ascension City's Mid-Autumn gathering. Ye Hua declined to travel, but Ying Ming Hao accepted the invitations and told her about Ascension City, leaving her eager to hear more.

• Zhao Xu described how exploring the Secret Realm had rapidly advanced his cultivation and explained how Beast Taming Hall disciples took turns exploring.
• Ye Hua refused to enter the Secret Realm, wary of its dangers and the enemies who might target her.
• Yu Huohuo invited Ye Hua and Ying Ming Hao to Ascension City's Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival and gave them invitations from the City Lord's Residence.
• Ying Ming Hao accepted the invitations on their behalf and watched Zhao Xu, Yu Huohuo, and the others leave.
• Ying Ming Hao opened his invitation, recalled his earlier visit to Ascension City, and answered Ye Hua's questions by describing the city.

A group of hidden disciples discussed their stalled plot against Ying Ming Hao and learned that Senior Brother Wu, Huo Shan, and the other important disciples had died in the Secret Realm. The leaders ordered some disciples to await reinforcements while the rest continued seeking a way to deal with Ying Ming Hao.

• Zhao Xu reported that Ying Ming Hao still refused to leave the sect, so the group planned to find an opening through Ye Hua.
• Yu Huohuo warned that Ye Hua was advancing rapidly and might become a threat, but a fat man dismissed her as easy to capture.
• The man leading the meeting revealed that Senior Brother Wu, Huo Shan, and the important disciples accompanying them had fallen, based on their Life Tablets.
• Huo Shan's older sister, Yu Huohuo, and several others volunteered to avenge the dead, suspecting Xie Li's group had used a scheme or allied with another faction.
• The leader said the higher-ups had sent other Heavenly Prodigies and ordered the group to keep working on Ying Ming Hao.

Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua spent a peaceful day cooking and eating at the farm while Little Chicken Kun grew stronger. That night, Ying Ming Hao broke through a minor realm during cultivation, and Ye Hua practiced the same method beside him.

• Ying Ming Hao declined to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival Gathering because he suspected Zhao Xu and the others were trying to lure him out, while Ye Hua remained unaware of their intentions.
• Ying Ming Hao prepared a big black fish for dinner, and Little Chicken Kun ate the scraps and grew stronger after being taught cultivation methods.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua cooked and shared a feast with Little Chicken Kun before chatting late into the night.
• Ying Ming Hao cultivated with pills and the Supreme Emotion-Forgetting Cultivation Method, while Ye Hua sensed him through the wall and began practicing the Emotion-Forgetting Cultivation Method herself.
• Ying Ming Hao broke through a minor realm and continued cultivating.

Ying Ming Hao left the Misty Sect with Ye Hua to travel to Ascension City for its Mid-Autumn Festival, unaware that Zhao Xu and Yu Huohuo had arranged to lure him out. At the flying ship harbor, disciples gossiped about Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua as the pair headed to buy tickets.

• Ying Ming Hao declined Zhao Xu's invitation to travel together and thanked Yu Huohuo before setting off with Ye Hua.
• Zhao Xu and Yu Huohuo celebrated that Ying Ming Hao had left the Misty Sect, while Yu Huohuo ordered the servant disciples to work.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua arrived at the flying ship harbor, where crowds of disciples were buying tickets for Ascension City.
• Disciples recognized Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua and gossiped about Ying Ming Hao's cultivation, Ye Hua's rise through the sect, and their relationship.

Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua rode a flying ship to Ascension City and saw how disciples’ status determined their travel conditions. As the ship sped through beautiful scenery, the two teased and tussled while other passengers watched enviously.

• Ying Ming Hao bought two regular second-deck tickets with his identity token and boarded the snow-white No. 178 flying ship with Ye Hua.
• Ying Ming Hao saw that the second deck had no seats, while inner and registered disciples crowded the first deck and outer and servant disciples were confined to a filthy, cramped space below.
• Ying Ming Hao reflected on how strength, talent, and wealth shaped people’s status as Ye Hua quietly considered how her life might have gone if she had never learned of her former fiancé’s betrayal.
• The flying ship’s protective array activated, and the vessel rose into the air and sped toward Ascension City as passengers admired the scenery.
• Ying Ming Hao teased Ye Hua about missing her former lover, and she angrily twisted his waist while Little Chicken Kun pecked her hand before the pair resumed their playful scuffle.

Ying Ming Hao chose the flying ship to keep himself and Ye Hua safe from Zhao Xu and the others. While resting aboard, they realized how much the Misty Sect profited from the spirit beasts they had raised and how poorly their own labor was rewarded.

• Ying Ming Hao decided the flying ship was the safest way to travel with Ye Hua, since attacking them aboard would risk the sect's elders and disciples witnessing the crime.
• Ying Ming Hao ordered lemonade, sunflower seeds, and peanuts from a female attendant, who offered to sell them more food.
• The attendant listed prices for dishes made from Misty Sect spirit beasts, and Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua recognized the animals they had raised.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua calculated that the food prices far exceeded the beasts' raising costs, while their own labor earned them only thirty lower-grade spirit stones a day.
• Ying Ming Hao bought three portions each of chicken legs and lamb skewers, and the attendant privately mocked him for buying so little.

Chu Wei tried to impress Ye Hua by humiliating Ying Ming Hao, then attacked him after Ye Hua rejected his advances. Ying Ming Hao dodged the blow, leaving Chu Wei injured and the onlookers eager to see what happened next.

• Chu Wei bought an extravagant meal and wine, tipped the waitress ostentatiously, and mocked Ying Ming Hao for being poor.
• Chu Wei invited Ye Hua to join him, but she rejected him and defended Ying Ming Hao, reminding Chu Wei that she had broken off her engagement.
• Chu Wei insulted Ying Ming Hao and reached for Little Chicken Kun, prompting Ying Ming Hao to insult him and seize his hand.
• Chu Wei struck at Ying Ming Hao while his sinister companion stopped Ye Hua from intervening.
• Ying Ming Hao dodged Chu Wei's blow, which smashed into the railing and left Chu Wei's palm injured, while Ying Ming Hao stood nearby holding a trouser belt.

Ying Ming Hao humiliated Chu Wei and evaded him through the crowded flying ship while Ye Hua kept Yan Xi and his allies from joining the chase. The steward finally stopped the chaos as the ship neared Ascension City, leaving Ying Ming Hao smug and his pursuers furious.

• Ying Ming Hao taunted Chu Wei, whose trousers fell after Ying Ming Hao had taken his belt, provoking laughter from the spectators.
• Chu Wei chased Ying Ming Hao through the crowded ship, injuring several spectators while Ying Ming Hao dodged with Ethereal Steps.
• Ying Ming Hao moved to a more crowded deck, and Chu Wei called on Yan Xi and others to surround him.
• Ye Hua blocked Yan Xi's group with attacks and evasive moves, worsening the chaos among the disciples.
• A steward ordered Chu Wei, Yan Xi, and the others to stop as the ship neared Ascension City, and Ying Ming Hao mocked them from the crowd.

Ying Ming Hao refused the flying ship attendants’ inflated damage bill and argued that Chu Wei and his group had caused the damage while the crew failed to protect the passengers. His accusations drew a crowd and left the attendant unable to answer as the dispute continued near Ascension City.

• A sect steward stopped Chu Wei, Yan Xi, and the others from continuing their confrontation with Ying Ming Hao.
• The attendants presented Chu Wei with a bill for nine thousand eight hundred lower-grade spirit stones, and he protested the charge.
• Ying Ming Hao refused to pay his own bill, denied damaging the deck, and threatened to sue the attendant for slander.
• Chu Wei mocked Ying Ming Hao, but Ying Ming Hao countered that Chu Wei and his group had caused the damage and injured other disciples.
• Ying Ming Hao denounced the crew for failing to protect the passengers and demanded compensation for the injured disciples.
• The male attendant collapsed as Ying Ming Hao accused the crew of mistreating Misty Sect disciples, while the onlookers and Ye Hua listened in surprise.

After the crowd demanded justice for the injuries and losses Chu Wei and Yan Xi had caused, Steward Li offered compensation and refunds. Ying Ming Hao pressed him for more, and the chapter ended with Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua staging an exaggerated injury to raise the compensation further.

• Ye Hua and the other disciples protested their injuries, lost spirit stones, and poor treatment, while Chu Wei and Yan Xi stayed silent.
• Steward Li ordered attendants to treat the injured and offered compensation based on their injuries plus refunds for affected disciples’ fares.
• Ying Ming Hao asked Steward Li whether he would have to pay ten thousand lower-grade spirit stones or receive compensation instead.
• Steward Li offered Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua a fare refund, spirit stones, and pills, then raised his offer to five hundred lower-grade spirit stones and ten free trips.
• Ying Ming Hao pretended to suffer a grave injury, and Ye Hua joined in to pressure Steward Li for more compensation.

Ying Ming Hao extorted Steward Li for compensation by faking a grave injury, then shared the pills with Ye Hua. Ye Hua recalled how betrayal by her fiancé and a mysterious pendant transformed her from a neglected Outer Disciple into a Personal Disciple.

• Ying Ming Hao kept pretending to be near death until Steward Li offered one hundred thousand lower-grade spirit stones and ten bottles of Sixth-Grade Spirit-Enhancing Pills.
• Steward Li handed Ying Ming Hao the Storage Bag and left, while the Elder's office remained shut.
• Ying Ming Hao gave Ye Hua the pills, and she accepted them after he insisted she had earned them by protecting him.
• Ye Hua remembered that her fiancé had cheated on her, struck her, and ended their engagement after she confronted him.
• Ye Hua recalled falling gravely ill before her pendant revealed a cultivation method that transformed her talent and appearance, helping her rise from Outer Disciple to Personal Disciple.

Chu Wei and Yan Xi disputed the flying ship manager’s demand for thirty thousand lower-grade spirit stones, accusing him of extortion and blaming the ship’s staff for the damage and injuries. Their argument ended when the ship reached Ascension City, where Ying Ming Hao took Ye Hua by the hand to watch the arriving vessels.

• Chu Wei grabbed the flying ship manager and demanded to know why the compensation had risen to thirty thousand lower-grade spirit stones.
• The manager presented a bill and insisted Chu Wei’s group was responsible for the damaged deck, railings, and injured disciples.
• Chu Wei disputed the charges, and Yan Xi accused the manager of exploiting disciples and called for an investigation by the Enforcement Hall.
• The manager maintained that Chu Wei’s group had caused the trouble, while Chu Wei refused to pay.
• The flying ship arrived at Ascension City, and Ying Ming Hao took Ye Hua’s hand as they watched other ships gather for the grand gathering.

Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua arrived in Ascension City aboard the Flying Ship and slipped into the crowds in disguise. Chu Wei pursued them but lost their trail, while the ship’s manager stopped the attendants from interfering and charged them for the damage.

• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua admired Ascension City from the Flying Ship as it passed over the busy streets.
• Ying Ming Hao whispered to Ye Hua, and she blushed and nodded without catching what he said.
• Ying Ming Hao pulled Ye Hua into the crowd after the Flying Ship docked, and they changed their appearances to evade pursuit.
• Chu Wei struck the manager aside and chased after Ying Ming Hao, but the manager recognized Chu Wei’s token and ordered the attendants to let him go.
• The manager slapped an attendant who objected, then deducted several thousand lower-grade spirit stones from the attendants’ wages for the ship’s repairs.
• Chu Wei failed to find Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua, berated his disciples, and held back from hitting them.

Yan Xi and Chu Wei tracked Ying Ming Hao and pursued him, while Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua explored Ascension City. Their enemies followed them into a cake shop and repeatedly tried to drug a cake, but Ye Hua noticed their suspicious behavior.

• Yan Xi used a Tracking Disc to locate Ying Ming Hao and led Chu Wei and their group in pursuit.
• Ying Ming Hao teased Ye Hua about taking a commemorative photo, then took her hand and led her into a cake shop.
• A disguised pursuer reported their arrival, and an accomplice tried to put powder on a strawberry cake.
• Ye Hua balked at the cake's price, so Ying Ming Hao took her to browse other cakes instead.
• The pursuers repeatedly pretended to shop and tried the same trick, until Ye Hua realized their behavior was suspicious.

Ying Ming Hao investigated a suspicious couple at a cake shop during the Mid-Autumn Festival Gathering, then secretly gave them their own laxative powder. The couple’s accident triggered chaos among customers, while Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua escaped.

• Ye Hua warned Ying Ming Hao that a couple kept watching and crowding around them, and he searched himself, Ye Hua, and their belongings for a tracking mark.
• Customers who ate tampered cakes suffered sudden diarrhea and crowded into a grove, where Chu Wei and Yan Xi realized their hired helpers had poisoned too many cakes.
• Ying Ming Hao lured the suspicious couple close and secretly blew colorless powder into their mouths while pretending to apologize for bumping into them.
• The couple were struck by intense stomach pains, and they defecated near the shop entrance as nearby customers vomited and chaos erupted.
• Ying Ming Hao took Ye Hua and fled the scene.

Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua explored a crowded market, where Ying Ming Hao killed a pickpocket before they went shopping together. Their outing ended with Ye Hua angrily dragging him away from the Fragrant Pavilion after he claimed he was looking for a female friend.

• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua watched groups of Western Region foreigners in the market and commented on them.
• A stranger attacked Ying Ming Hao with a short blade, and Ying Ming Hao disarmed and killed him as nearby guards arrived.
• Ye Hua and Ying Ming Hao shopped for cosmetics, perfume, clothes, and jewelry, and Ying Ming Hao paid their large bill.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua sampled food while exploring the market until Ying Ming Hao's feet began to ache.
• Ying Ming Hao stopped to stare into the Fragrant Pavilion, and Ye Hua pinched him and dragged him away after he said he was checking for a female friend.

Ying Ming Hao removed the tracking mark hidden on the Thunderclap Sword, then changed his and Ye Hua’s appearances to evade their pursuers. Chu Wei and Yan Xi lost track of them, while the disguised pair vanished into a crowd, where Ye Hua stopped to help a beggar.

• Ying Ming Hao discovered and erased a concealed tracking mark on the Thunderclap Sword, then warned Ye Hua that someone was pursuing them.
• Chu Wei raged over a failed assassination, and Yan Xi found that the Tracking Disc no longer showed Ying Ming Hao’s location.
• Chu Wei led the others to Ying Ming Hao’s last known position, but Ying Ming Hao had already disappeared.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua used cultivation methods to change their appearances, auras, and voices, and Ying Ming Hao teased Ye Hua about her disguise.
• Ye Hua gave food to a beggar who grabbed her leg, while Ying Ming Hao watched with visible irritation.

Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua tried to help a beggar, but his repeated grabbing and filthy treatment of their socks drove them to beat him before a veiled woman intervened. The beggar then latched onto the woman and demanded more aid, leaving her companions furious as she reluctantly continued to indulge him.

• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua offered the old beggar a roast goose and spirit stones, but he grabbed Ye Hua’s other calf and smeared her clean sock with grease.
• Ying Ming Hao and Ye Hua beat the beggar until a veiled woman and her companions arrived to defend him.
• Ye Hua took back the spirit stones, and she and Ying Ming Hao hurried away from the angry woman.
• The old beggar seized the veiled woman’s calf, so she gave him food despite her companions’ protests.
• The beggar grabbed the woman again and begged for spirit stones, while she told her furious companions that giving him a few stones was no big deal.

The woman and her companions tried to leave after giving the old beggar food and spirit stones, but he grabbed her stockings and provoked them into beating him. A group of foreign cultivators intervened, and the woman’s party escaped while the beggar tripped the would-be rescuers.

• The woman gave the old beggar ten lower-grade spirit stones, but he grabbed her calf and smeared grease on her white stockings while begging for help buying a house.
• The woman and her companions beat the old beggar, drawing a crowd that condemned them for bullying a disabled man.
• Odin and Rahhan rushed in to defend the beggar, and Aodejiao arrived with more companions to support them.
• The woman threatened the outsiders and led her companions away before a fight could break out.
• The old beggar grabbed Odin and Rahhan’s calves, sending them face-first into the dirt as the woman’s group disappeared into the crowd.

Ying Ming Hao changed Ye Hua’s dirty socks in public, leaving her embarrassed and flustered. When the woman and her companions from their earlier confrontation returned, Ying Ming Hao mocked them until the woman rushed off to change.

• Ying Ming Hao removed Ye Hua’s shoes and dirty socks, then put on a matching clean pair while she blushed and protested.
• Ying Ming Hao threw away Ye Hua’s old socks and finished wiping her shoes as Little Chicken Kun watched.
• The woman and her companions returned, complaining about their encounter with an old man and the filth on their clothes.
• Ying Ming Hao teased the woman about her dirty stockings and challenged her claims of being a good cultivator.
• The woman ran to a clothing shop to change, then shouted at her companions to stop following her and go curse Ying Ming Hao instead.