Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingxuan fought off a crowd of Heavenly Prodigies after they interrupted his attempt to assault Du Xiangmei, then defended himself by invoking the Ye Family and Misty Sect. A young man appeared and kicked Ye Qingxuan into a wall.

• A burly intruder attacked Ye Qingxuan, who hurled him aside and fought off the surrounding Heavenly Prodigies.
• Manager He ordered anyone below the human immortal realm to retreat as Ye Qingxuan injured dozens of attackers.
• Qin Fei struck Ye Qingxuan with a Lineage-Ending Kick, then mocked him while Ye Qingxuan struggled with the pain.
• Manager He and Zhou Jian condemned Ye Qingxuan for blaming Du Xiangmei, and Ye Qingxuan boasted that his Misty Sect connections would protect him.
• An icy-voiced young man appeared behind Ye Qingxuan and kicked him through several tables into the wall.

Naran Yan identified himself as a disciple of the Green Haze Pine-Soot Abode and joined the confrontation with Ye Qingxuan, but a crowd of Heavenly Prodigies soon attacked Ye. Ye overwhelmed them until a small, skinny youth struck him down, and their fierce fistfight remained unresolved.

• Ye Qingxuan demanded the identity of the attacker who had injured him, and Naran Yan named himself as a disciple of the Green Haze Pine-Soot Abode.
• Steward He ordered the Gathering Fortune House staff to attack Ye, and the other Heavenly Prodigies joined them.
• Ye fought off dozens of attackers and taunted the crowd as Naran Yan, Qin Fei, and others held back.
• A small, skinny youth knocked Ye down with a punch and followed with two more blows.
• Ye fought back, and he and the youth traded powerful punches as the surrounding Heavenly Prodigies cleared space and watched.

Ye Yuan rejected Ye Qingxuan and left Ascension City with her younger brother while Ye Qingxuan fought the Gathering Fortune House’s forces. As the exhausted Ye Qingxuan struggled against a growing crowd, Wu Bao attacked him again.

• Ye Qingxuan knocked the scrawny boy away, then fought through hundreds of Heavenly Prodigies.
• Ye Yuan stopped her injured younger brother from returning to the fight, declared she had nothing more to do with Ye Qingxuan, and left with him.
• Steward He kept the Gathering Fortune House’s stronger staff from intervening and ordered two teams of servers to join the battle.
• Ye Qingxuan grew exhausted as more opponents pressed their attacks.
• Wu Bao ambushed Ye Qingxuan with a kick and then drove him back with a punch.

Wu Bao attacked Ye Qingxuan after Huang Fu told the Heavenly Prodigies that Ye Yuan had revealed she was pregnant with Ye Qingxuan’s child. The crowd turned against Ye Qingxuan, and the chapter left him fighting Wu Bao while surrounded by hostile onlookers.

• Ye Qingxuan unleashed his cultivation and struck Wu Bao, but Wu Bao counterattacked and battered him in a brutal exchange.
• Qin Fei and the other Heavenly Prodigies questioned Huang Fu about why Wu Bao was fighting so fiercely.
• Huang Fu explained that Ye Yuan had cried after leaving a private room and told them she had secretly pledged herself to Ye Qingxuan and was pregnant.
• Huang Fu said Ye Yuan claimed Ye Qingxuan had deceived her during a training journey, prompting Wu Bao and the others to return and confront him.
• The Heavenly Prodigies condemned Ye Qingxuan and vowed to punish him, leaving him surrounded by enemies.

Ye Qingxuan broke through from the Human Immortal Realm to the third level of the Earth Immortal Realm during his fight with Wu Bao, then gained the upper hand and severely injured him. After Ye Qingxuan taunted Wu Bao about Ye Yuan, Wu Bao broke through to the peak of the ninth level and kicked Ye Qingxuan through the floor, leaving the fight’s outcome unclear.

• Ye Qingxuan and Wu Bao traded blows evenly until Ye Qingxuan began breaking through during their battle.
• Ye Qingxuan swallowed three pills and advanced to the third level of the Earth Immortal Realm, while the spectators watched in astonishment.
• Ye Qingxuan overwhelmed Wu Bao in close combat and blasted him dozens of meters away, leaving him badly injured.
• Ye Qingxuan taunted Wu Bao by claiming Ye Yuan’s body was covered in his marks, provoking Wu Bao’s fury.
• Wu Bao broke through two levels to the peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm and kicked Ye Qingxuan through the floor.

Ye Qingxuan fought Wu Bao, Huang Fu, Qin Fei, and the other Heavenly Prodigies, then revealed elder demon runes when their attacks began to overwhelm him. The chapter ended with Wu Bao restraining Ye Qingxuan from behind while the others battered him, but Ye Qingxuan continued fighting.

• Ye Qingxuan attacked Wu Bao until Huang Fu intervened, and Wu Bao and Huang Fu stood together against him.
• Qin Fei arrived and joined Wu Bao and Huang Fu in attacking Ye Qingxuan, who fought them off and gained the upper hand until another late-stage Earth Immortal Heavenly Prodigy joined in.
• Ye Qingxuan manifested elder demon runes, strengthening himself, so Wu Bao and the others attacked his lower body to exploit his vulnerability.
• Ye Qingxuan swept several Heavenly Prodigies aside, but Wu Bao grabbed him from behind and held on as Huang Fu and the others struck him.
• Ye Qingxuan knocked away attackers while Wu Bao clung to his back, and the others continued their increasingly savage assault.

Zhou Duoduo and the other women tried to wake Du Xiangmei, who remained unconscious after being rescued. Zhou Duoduo used the rescue as cover to vent her old grievances, while the others agreed to blame Du Xiangmei’s injuries on Ye; Du Xiangmei finally began to stir.

• Zhou Duoduo repeatedly slapped the unconscious Du Xiangmei, while Zhang Lin worried that she had been drugged too heavily.
• Zhou Duoduo insisted that Ye had caused Du Xiangmei’s injuries, and Zhang Lin and the other women backed up her story.
• Zhou Duoduo privately recalled her quarrels with Du Xiangmei and hit her harder to settle their personal score.
• After over an hour of slapping, Du Xiangmei groaned faintly and her eyelids fluttered.

Du Xiangmei mistook Zhou Duoduo’s rescue for an attack by Junior Brother Ye and panicked while Zhou Duoduo and the others played along to tease her. She finally opened her eyes and began to recognize Zhou Duoduo.

• Du Xiangmei screamed and struggled with her eyes shut, believing Junior Brother Ye was assaulting her.
• Zhou Duoduo stopped Zhang Lin from alerting Du Xiangmei and had the others record the prank with Image-Recording Stones.
• Zhou Duoduo and another woman pinned Du Xiangmei’s hands while Zhou Duoduo teased her, and Du Xiangmei begged Junior Brother Ye to spare her.
• Du Xiangmei stopped resisting and feared Junior Brother Ye would kill her to silence her.
• Zhou Duoduo tried to force Du Xiangmei’s eyes open, then told her to look; Du Xiangmei finally opened them and saw a familiar face.

Du Xiangmei reunited with Zhou Duoduo after being rescued and learned that the attacker had not violated her. Their reunion turned into teasing and accusations, ending with Du Xiangmei suspecting Zhou Duoduo had slapped her swollen face.

• Du Xiangmei recognized Zhou Duoduo, clung to her, and apologized for having wronged her before.
• Zhou Duoduo told Du Xiangmei that she and the others had arrived in time to stop the attacker before he could assault her.
• Zhou Duoduo teased Du Xiangmei about changing her clothes and mocked her frightened pleas, prompting Du Xiangmei to grab her by the throat.
• Du Xiangmei noticed that her face was badly swollen and covered in handprints, then asked Zhou Duoduo if she had hit her.
• Zhou Duoduo denied hitting Du Xiangmei and blamed the attacker, but Du Xiangmei doubted her as the marks seemed to match Zhou Duoduo's palms.

Du Xiangmei received ointment for her swollen face while Zhou Duoduo secretly enjoyed rubbing it in too roughly. After the women drove off the men who had fallen into the room, the Heavenly Prodigies questioned Du Xiangmei about Ye Qingxuan before everyone gathered at the railing to watch the fight below.

• Zhou Duoduo apologized to Du Xiangmei and blamed Ye Qingxuan for her injuries.
• Zhang Lin brought out ointment, and Zhou Duoduo rubbed it onto Du Xiangmei so roughly that Du Xiangmei forced her to stop.
• Wu Zhifeng, Ying Ming Hao, and the others tumbled into the room, and Zhou Duoduo, Du Xiangmei, and the women punched them for groping their legs.
• Ye Hua hauled up Ying Ming Hao and pinched him after he and Wu Zhifeng accused each other of leading the group.
• The Heavenly Prodigies asked Du Xiangmei whether Ye Qingxuan had injured her, and everyone then gathered at the railing to watch the fight below.

Ye Qingxuan fought off wave after wave of Heavenly Prodigies, but Du Xiangmei offered a huge reward that sent hundreds charging at him. As Ye Qingxuan neared collapse, Zhou Duoduo scolded Wu Zhifeng and his companions for hoping to claim Du Xiangmei’s favor.

• Ye Qingxuan wounded many Heavenly Prodigies, including Wu Bao and Huang Fu, while sustaining injuries of his own.
• Du Xiangmei and Zhou Duoduo condemned Ye Qingxuan and called for his death, while Wu Zhifeng speculated that his secret art and endless spiritual energy fueled his strength.
• Du Xiangmei promised five hundred thousand lower-grade spirit stones, a fifth-grade weapon, private performances, and a personal favor to whoever captured or killed Ye Qingxuan.
• Hundreds of Heavenly Prodigies rushed Ye Qingxuan, battering him until he swayed on the brink of collapse.
• Wu Zhifeng asked whether capturing Ye Qingxuan would earn Du Xiangmei’s reward, and Zhou Duoduo scolded him and his companions.
• Zhou Duoduo teased Ying Ming Hao about wanting Du Xiangmei’s favor, then praised him when he denied it.

Ye Qingxuan unleashed the Demon Emperor sealed within him to escape the mob at the Gathering Fortune House. The fat chef stopped his flight and fought the Demon Emperor, who remained trapped and searched for a way out.

• Zhou Jian and Qin Fei ambushed Ye Qingxuan, and the crowd knocked him down and beat him.
• Ye Qingxuan accepted the Demon Emperor’s offer, broke open the seal’s runes, and released demonic power that blasted the crowd away.
• Ye Qingxuan tried to escape as demonic smoke, but the transformed Naran Yan failed to stop him and was thrown back.
• The fat chef intercepted Ye Qingxuan and cut his smoke form apart, forcing him to reform with demonic features.
• The Demon Emperor split into clones to flee, but the fat chef destroyed them and continued attacking his true body.

The fat chef defeated the Demon Emperor and captured Ye Qingxuan after Zhou Duoduo accused him of beating Du Xiangmei. Du Xiangmei ordered Ye Qingxuan publicly castrated, while he begged for mercy and threatened retaliation from the Misty Sect and Ye Family.

• The Demon Emperor tried to bribe the fat chef, then burned his essence blood to create hundreds of fleeing clones, but the fat chef destroyed them and split his true body in two.
• The Demon Emperor abandoned his plan to possess Ye Qingxuan and fled back into the seal, leaving Ye Qingxuan stunned.
• The fat chef grabbed Ye Qingxuan, and Zhou Duoduo falsely claimed he had beaten Du Xiangmei, prompting the fat chef to slap him repeatedly.
• Du Xiangmei ordered Ye Qingxuan tied up and castrated in public, while Ye Qingxuan offered supreme-grade weapons to escape punishment.
• The fat chef took Ye Qingxuan's Storage Ring and gave it to Du Xiangmei, then carried Ye Qingxuan away as he screamed that he was a True Disciple of the Misty Sect and a member of the Ye Family.

Ye Qingxuan was tortured by Wu Bao and the other Heavenly Prodigies at the Gathering Fortune House while he waited for rescue. At the Ye estate, Ye Yuan pleaded for her father to save Qingxuan and resolved to raise their unborn child herself.

• Ye Qingxuan invoked his powerful connections as Wu Bao and Huang Fu tied him to a cross at the Gathering Fortune House.
• Wu Bao began cutting Ye Qingxuan with a damaged knife, and Qin Fei, Zhou Jian, and others joined in tormenting him.
• Ye Yuan's mother begged the Ye Family Head to rescue Qingxuan, but he condemned Qingxuan and refused to help.
• Ye Yuan explained to her younger brother that she wanted to save the unborn child's father, though she knew his character was rotten.
• Ye Yuan refused her brother's suggestion to abort the child and vowed to raise the baby to adulthood and teach him to be decent.

Lu Ding agreed to intervene in the Gathering Fortune House dispute after receiving orders from a powerful Misty Sect figure, while Ye Yuan came to plead for Ye Qingxuan’s rescue. The chapter left Lu Ding making an improper advance on Ye Yuan as she begged for help.

• Lu Ding read reports about the chaos at the Gathering Fortune House and ordered an officer to gather men to rescue Ye Qingxuan.
• Ye Yuan arrived at the City Lord’s Residence and asked Lu Ding to help save her cousin.
• Lu Ding claimed the Gathering Fortune House might ignore the City Lord’s Residence’s orders and told Ye Yuan that Ye Qingxuan was being tortured.
• Ye Yuan offered increasingly large sums and weapons as compensation, but Lu Ding pretended money could not solve the problem.
• Lu Ding moved close to Ye Yuan, praised her scent, and made her shudder with his hot breath.

Ye Yuan yielded to Lu Ding’s demands in exchange for his promise to save Ye Qingxuan. At the Gathering Fortune House, Ye Qingxuan remained tortured by Wu Bao and Huang Fu, and the promised reinforcements had not arrived.

• Lu Ding began molesting Ye Yuan, then threatened to leave without helping Ye Qingxuan when she resisted.
• Ye Yuan pleaded with Lu Ding to save her cousin and agreed to his demands.
• Lu Ding promised to rescue Ye Qingxuan and forced Ye Yuan to submit to him in the study.
• Wu Bao and Huang Fu continued torturing Ye Qingxuan while accusing him of mistreating Ye Yuan.
• Ye Qingxuan threatened his captors and wondered whether his Master had abandoned him as more than an hour passed without reinforcements.

Wu Bao mutilated Ye Qingxuan in revenge for Ye Yuan, while Zhou Duoduo backed away from performing the deed herself. After Ye Yuan emerged from the City Lord's Residence, the Slender Boy carried her away in silence, and he disappeared from Ascension City until he returned much later as a Black-Armored General.

• Zhou Duoduo insisted on castrating Ye Qingxuan, but handed the knife to Wu Bao after Ying Ming Hao teased her about marrying in the Western Region.
• Wu Bao brutally severed Ye Qingxuan's manhood and Divine Soul while the others watched or looked away.
• Lu Ding arrived at the Gathering Fortune House with City Guards, and the Slender Boy followed him after waiting outside the City Lord's Residence for more than two hours.
• Ye Yuan emerged in tears, and the Slender Boy carried her away without answering when she asked if she was cheap.
• The Slender Boy vanished from Ascension City, then returned much later as a Black-Armored General leading Iron Cavalry troops as the city faced a bloody massacre.

Lu Ding arrived to take Ye Qingxuan away, but the Gathering Fortune House and Du Xiangmei challenged his authority. The confrontation stalled after Lu Ding showed a Slaughter Hall token, leaving Du Xiangmei to weigh the consequences of resisting its order.

• Lu Ding arrived with soldiers as Wu Bao tried to stab the unconscious Ye Qingxuan, but a floor supervisor stopped Wu Bao from killing him.
• Manager He kicked the young captain aside and argued with Lu Ding over whether the City Lord's Residence could take Ye Qingxuan.
• Lu Ding claimed the Misty Sect had ordered him to bring Ye Qingxuan back, while Du Xiangmei invoked sect rules to argue that she could kill him for his crime.
• Zhou Duoduo accused Lu Ding of acting as reinforcements for Ye Qingxuan, and Lu Ding revealed that Elder Zhong had sent him.
• Lu Ding showed Du Xiangmei a token from the Slaughter Hall, and Du Xiangmei and the others grew wary of defying its authority.

Du Xiangmei and the Gathering Fortune House bargained with Lu Ding over Ye Qingxuan’s release, while Lu Ding tried to secure a ransom under orders from a powerful backer. The negotiations ended with Lu Ding offering one billion middle-grade spirit stones and one saint artifact, then pretending he would leave.

• Du Xiangmei refused Lu Ding’s demand to take Ye Qingxuan away and threatened to kill him, while Ye Qingxuan begged for help.
• Lu Ding offered a ransom, and Zhou Duoduo demanded ten billion middle-grade spirit stones and three saint-grade weapons before dismissing his one-million offer.
• Ye Qingxuan promised to repay Lu Ding, prompting Lu Ding to decide he had to rescue him and privately consider using compromising footage of Ye Yuan for leverage.
• Zhou Duoduo judged that Ye Qingxuan’s confiscated treasures were worth billions and refused to accept Lu Ding’s offer of ten million spirit stones and a first-grade weapon.
• Lu Ding, acting on his backer’s orders, raised his offer to one hundred million middle-grade spirit stones and a supreme-grade weapon.
• Manager He mocked Lu Ding’s offer, so Lu Ding offered one billion middle-grade spirit stones and one saint artifact before feigning that he would leave.

Du Xiangmei and Zhou Duoduo forced Lu Ding to accept a ransom and strict conditions for Ye Qingxuan’s release, while Wu Bao struggled with his anger and his devotion to Ye Yuan. The chapter ended by revealing that Ye Yuan bore the marks of many men, a discovery that would later shatter Wu Bao’s love and turn him toward the heartless Great Dao.

• Zhou Duoduo demanded two billion middle-grade spirit stones, a Saint-Grade musical instrument, a supreme-grade Glazed Sword, Ye Qingxuan’s apology, and his promise to stay away.
• Ye Qingxuan agreed to kneel and apologize, and Lu Ding accepted the terms and arranged for the ransom to be delivered before the captive was released.
• After receiving treatment, Ye Qingxuan knelt and apologized to Du Xiangmei, while Wu Bao threatened him and Wu Zhifeng persuaded Wu Bao to let his anger go.
• Wu Bao declined Wu Zhifeng’s offer to drink and decided to visit Ye Yuan and propose marriage despite his doubts about her feelings.
• Ye Yuan scrubbed at the marks on her body, and the chapter revealed that Wu Bao would later discover the marks of many men on her and abandon his devoted love for the heartless Great Dao.