Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhiyuan learned that the Yuan Zhen Dynasty had called a truce with the Phoenix Dynasty, leaving the Jade Scenery Dynasty at risk of facing another war. His brothers debated whether he should marry the Twelfth Princess early to influence the Phoenix Dynasty, and Chu Zhiyuan ended the chapter furious at their willingness to put him in danger.

• Chu Lieyang suggested that Chu Zhiyuan's marriage to the Twelfth Princess was meant to harm him, and Chu Liexuan arrived as they discussed the proposal from the Yuan Zhen Dynasty.
• Chu Liexuan revealed that the Yuan Zhen Dynasty had called a truce with the Phoenix Dynasty on terms like those imposed on the Jade Scenery Dynasty, and Chu Zhiyuan warned that the Phoenix Dynasty would likely resume fighting.
• Chu Zhiyuan explained that the Phoenix Dynasty relied on war to advance its cultivation, and Chu Liechu confirmed that the Jade Scenery Dynasty was preparing for another conflict.
• Chu Zhiyuan hoped war would begin before his wedding so he would not have to go to the Phoenix Dynasty as a hostage, but Chu Lieyang suggested his marriage might redirect the Phoenix Dynasty's aggression.
• Chu Liechu said Chu Zhiyuan should marry early and test whether he could avert disaster, promising that the Emperor might give him a life-saving treasure; Chu Zhiyuan grew furious as his brothers began cultivating to avoid his anger.

Chu Zhiyuan learned that his status as a hostage prince might determine whether the Jade Scenery Dynasty could avert war, then discussed the dynasties’ imbalance of power and an upcoming operation with Chu Honglin. He later heard from Li Yuzhen that Her Highness the Twelfth would not change her decision about him, even if the Phoenix Dynasty went to war.

• Chu Zhiyuan argued with Chu Liechu and Chu Lieyang about his possible sacrifice, then revealed he had reached the Second Turn and began cultivating.
• Chu Zhiyuan told Chu Honglin about the political pressure, and they discussed the Phoenix Dynasty’s overwhelming strength and their upcoming operation using the Great Demon Subduing Seal.
• Li Yuzhen reported that Her Highness the Twelfth had told Chu Zhiyuan to set his mind at ease and that her decision about him would not change.
• Chu Zhiyuan dismissed the idea that he wanted to become the Imperial Son-in-Law, while Li Yuzhen assured him that no one could harm him even if the two dynasties went to war.

Chu Zhiyuan prepared for his looming marriage to the Twelfth Princess while learning that a Great Heavenly Demon had escaped and a Yuan Zhen delegation had arrived. He left for Clear Wind Cliff with Chu Honglin to deal with another captured demon, then learned the Sixth Prince might challenge him to win the princess’s favor.

• Chu Zhiyuan told Youlan that the Phoenix Dynasty might be trying to drive a wedge between his dynasty and Yuan Zhen, and asked her to watch over his mansion while he went to Phoenix Imperial City.
• Chu Zhiyuan trained intensely at the True Martial Academy but fled Great Bright Peak after its temperature plunged at night.
• Chu Honglin told Chu Zhiyuan that a Spirit Transformation Great Heavenly Demon, long possessing a True Disciple of Xiushui Pavilion, had escaped during the operation.
• Chu Honglin explained that another Great Heavenly Demon was imprisoned at his residence and invited Chu Zhiyuan to help destroy it.
• Chu Honglin revealed that a Yuan Zhen delegation led by two Princes had arrived, including the Sixth Prince who had proposed to the Twelfth Princess and might try to defeat Chu Zhiyuan.

Chu Zhiyuan considered the challenge from the Yuan Zhen Dynasty and learned more about its Princes from Li Yuzhen. After returning to his courtyard, he discovered that his strengthened soul had accelerated his cultivation, bringing him close to the Third Turn.

• Chu Zhiyuan asked Chu Honglin to investigate his challenger, and Chu Honglin assured him that the Great Brightness Fist should be strong enough to prevail.
• As Chu Zhiyuan walked home, he reflected that absorbing the Great Heavenly Demon’s soul had made his own soul three times stronger than before.
• Li Yuzhen warned Chu Zhiyuan about demonic arts and told him that Her Highness had refused the Yuan Zhen Dynasty’s marriage proposal and urged him to beware its Princes.
• Li Yuzhen explained that the Fifth Prince had reached the Ninth Turn and wielded the strange Wentian Sword Art, while the Sixth Prince had not yet reached the Ninth Turn.
• Chu Zhiyuan returned to his courtyard and cultivated the Immeasurable Light Sutra, finding that his progress had accelerated enough to bring him near the Third Turn.

Chu Zhiyuan used his strengthened soul to copy the Ode to Light from the Karma Stone Wall, exhausting his Spiritual Power before recovering through cultivation. When his brothers arrived, they warned him that Yuan Zhen Dynasty’s Fifth Prince would challenge him with a formidable Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword.

• Chu Zhiyuan arrived early at the True Martial Academy and painstakingly carved sixty characters of the Ode to Light onto white jade before it crumbled.
• Chu Zhiyuan drew on the Spiritual Power of his other incarnations and main body to continue carving, then recovered by cultivating the Immeasurable Light Sutra.
• Chu Lieyang arrived and argued with Chu Zhiyuan over the warm jade cushion, but sat beside him when Chu Zhiyuan refused to move.
• The Second Prince told Chu Zhiyuan that Yuan Zhen Dynasty was coming to challenge him, and Chu Zhiyuan asked First Prince Chu Liechu about their fighters.
• Chu Liechu explained that Yuan Zhen Dynasty’s Fifth Prince could predict opponents’ moves with the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword, which was powerful but could be used only three times.

Chu Zhiyuan learned that the Twelfth Princess expected the Yuan Zhen princes to try to kill him, so he sought protective armor. His Fifth Uncle gave him a spiritual Moon Silkworm Frost Robe, and Chu Zhiyuan tried to make it acknowledge him as its master.

• Chu Zhiyuan and his brothers discussed the Yuan Zhen Dynasty’s motives and then returned to cultivating at the Karma Stone Wall.
• Chu Zhiyuan’s enormous Yin-Yang Fish drew in far more Spiritual Qi than Chu Lieyang’s, forcing Chu Lieyang to move farther away to cultivate.
• Li Yuzhen told Chu Zhiyuan that the Twelfth Princess wanted him to wear protective treasure armor because the Fifth and Sixth Princes of Yuan Zhen might try to kill him.
• Chu Zhiyuan decided to ask an uncle for armor and went to Chu Hongming, who readily agreed to provide a treasure robe.
• Chu Hongming showed Chu Zhiyuan the spiritual Moon Silkworm Frost Robe and explained that it contained a remnant soul; Chu Zhiyuan placed his hand on it and tried to make it acknowledge him as its master.

Chu Zhiyuan investigated the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe, a divine-race treasure garment that had failed to acknowledge a master for generations. After it awakened on Spiritual Abyss's first peak, the Spirit-Connecting Heavenly Talisman helped him connect with its spirituality, and it acknowledged him as its master.

• Chu Zhiyuan used Super Sensation and True Essence to examine the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe, but it showed no reaction and the Spirit-Connecting Heavenly Talisman did not help.
• Chu Hongming explained that the robe was said to be a final garment made from strange silkworm silk and gave it to Chu Zhiyuan to study.
• At night in the imperial capital, Chu Zhiyuan saw the robe absorb moonlight, turn invisible, and vanish from sight and touch.
• Chu Zhiyuan took the robe to Spiritual Abyss's first peak, where it glowed, flew around the mountain, and dodged his attempts to catch it.
• Chu Zhiyuan used the Spirit-Connecting Heavenly Talisman to reach out to the robe's lively spirituality, and the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe acknowledged him as its master.

Chu Zhiyuan learned that the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe could enhance his movement and needed demon crystals to awaken its full power. As the Yuan Zhen Dynasty's delegation arrived, he decided to avoid a banquet challenge until he was better prepared, then learned from Chu Honglin that demon crystals were exceptionally difficult to obtain.

• Chu Zhiyuan tested the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe's flight and defense, discovering that demon crystals could awaken its dormant strength.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked Youlan to obtain as many high-quality demon crystals as possible, then cultivated while investigating the mystery of the Ode to Light.
• At the True Martial Academy, Chu Liexuan told Chu Zhiyuan that the Yuan Zhen Dynasty's delegation had arrived and might challenge him at a banquet; Chu Zhiyuan decided to avoid attending until he was ready.
• Chu Liechu agreed with Chu Zhiyuan's choice to decide for himself when to fight and said he would test the delegation's strength first.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked Chu Honglin for demon crystals, and Chu Honglin explained that the Demon Race usually shattered them before death and fought fiercely to recover any that remained.

Chu Zhiyuan demonstrated the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe’s defensive and movement abilities to Chu Honglin and sought demon crystals to restore it. The next morning at the True Martial Academy, he learned that the Yuan Zhen princes were formidable and that the Sixth Prince had injured the Fourth Prince with the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword.

• Chu Honglin explained that demon cultivation methods were inherited through bloodlines, and Chu Zhiyuan reasoned that demon crystals held traces of them.
• Chu Zhiyuan showed Chu Honglin how the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe enabled silent movement and protected him from a Spirit Transformation-level punch, then asked him to find demon crystals.
• After his household and other Prince's Mansions failed to find any, Chu Zhiyuan asked Li Yuzhen to seek demon crystals from the Twelfth Princess.
• Chu Zhiyuan returned to the True Martial Academy the next morning and failed again to copy the Ode to Light.
• Chu Liexuan told Chu Zhiyuan that the Sixth Prince of Yuan Zhen had defeated the Fourth Prince's sword move and nearly disfigured him.

Chu Zhiyuan learned how the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword could anticipate an opponent’s moves and agreed to avoid provoking its wielders for now. He discovered that a wolf-clan demon crystal strengthened his Moon Silkworm Frost Robe, then received two more demon crystals from Li Yuzhen.

• Chu Liexuan and Chu Liechu warned Chu Zhiyuan that the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword could foresee attacks, and Chu Zhiyuan agreed to stay out of trouble unless the emperor ordered him to act.
• Chu Honglin gave Chu Zhiyuan an Intent Transformation Realm wolf-clan demon crystal, which Chu Zhiyuan’s True Essence processed and the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe absorbed.
• Chu Honglin tested the robe with a Spirit Entry-level punch, and it protected Chu Zhiyuan without making him move.
• Li Yuzhen visited Chu Zhiyuan with Youlan and the other women and presented him with a small Black Box containing two demon crystals.

Chu Zhiyuan absorbed two Demon Crystals to strengthen his Moon Silkworm Frost Robe and learned that the Yuan Zhen Dynasty’s princes were trying to kill him. He confronted Fifth Prince Cheng Yunzheng and Sixth Prince Cheng Yunqi at a tavern, leaving their guards’ swords pinned in a ceiling beam.

• Li Yuzhen gave Chu Zhiyuan two Demon Crystals from Her Highness, and he absorbed them into his Moon Silkworm Frost Robe to strengthen its defenses.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked Li Yuzhen to have her mistress find him more Demon Crystals and said he would deal with the two Yuan Zhen princes targeting him.
• Li Yuzhen explained that Wentian Pavilion might have discovered something, while Chu Zhiyuan condemned the Jade Scenery Dynasty for being treated as weak.
• At a Sifang Pavilion tavern, Cheng Yunzheng and Cheng Yunqi discussed how Chu Liezhao had holed up in his residence and how they were watching for him to leave.
• Chu Zhiyuan arrived and sent the swords of the two purple-robed guards flying into a ceiling beam before confronting the four men.

Chu Zhiyuan confronted the Yuan Zhen Dynasty princes over their attempt to claim Twelfth Princess and fought Cheng Yunzheng, whose Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword failed to overcome Chu Zhiyuan’s protective robe. Chu Zhiyuan left the room injured, while Cheng Yunzheng sensed his killing intent and urged the group to leave the imperial city.

• Chu Zhiyuan challenged Fifth Prince Cheng Yunzheng and Sixth Prince Cheng Yunqi after they questioned his identity and claimed Cheng Yunqi could take his place as Twelfth Princess’s Imperial Son-in-Law.
• Cheng Yunzheng fought Chu Zhiyuan with the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword, while Chu Zhiyuan blocked the attacks with his Moon Silkworm Frost Robe and struck back with the Great Brightness Fist.
• Cheng Yunzheng stopped the fight, and the princes and their companions were astonished that Chu Zhiyuan had matched his Spirit Entry-grade sword art.
• Chu Zhiyuan mocked the princes and left, then felt pain from the sword strikes that his robe had absorbed.
• Cheng Yunzheng learned that Chu Zhiyuan’s cultivation was at the Intent Transformation Realm and urged Cheng Yunqi and the others to leave after sensing Chu Zhiyuan’s killing intent.

Chu Zhiyuan analyzed his battle with Cheng Yunzheng, then used the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe to sharpen his speed and prepare to challenge the princes again. The chapter ended with him publicly calling Cheng Yunzheng and Cheng Yunqi out to fight.

• Cheng Yunqi suggested killing Chu Liezhao before leaving, but Cheng Yunzheng and the purple-robed young man agreed that they should withdraw because they could not overcome his Treasure Armor.
• Cheng Yunzheng explained that Chu Liezhao's Great Brightness Fist had reached Spirit Transformation level and admitted that he had been injured in their battle.
• Chu Zhiyuan reviewed the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword's hidden nine-sword attack and realized that Super Sensation let him see its strikes forming around him.
• Chu Zhiyuan practiced moving with the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe until his speed matched the Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword's, and he judged that Cheng Yunzheng was more exhausted than his robe.
• Chu Liezhao publicly challenged Cheng Yunzheng and Cheng Yunqi to fight again on Sifang Pavilion Street.

Chu Zhiyuan publicly challenged Cheng Yunzheng and Cheng Yunqi, then fought Cheng Yunqi in the street. His blows stripped away Cheng Yunqi’s clothes and exposed his protective treasure, while Chu Zhiyuan narrowly dodged a burst of force.

• Chu Zhiyuan called out Cheng Yunzheng and Cheng Yunqi, demanding they fight him in front of the crowd.
• Cheng Yunzheng agreed to accept the challenge, and Cheng Yunqi volunteered to fight first while the purple-robed men discussed wearing Chu Zhiyuan down.
• Cheng Yunqi leaped down to face Chu Zhiyuan and attacked with the Great Auspicious Divine Palm.
• Chu Zhiyuan struck Cheng Yunqi repeatedly with the Great Brightness Fist, sending him flying but failing to injure him through his Treasure Armor.
• Chu Zhiyuan landed another blow as Cheng Yunqi came down, shattering his clothes and narrowly evading the force released by the treasure; the crowd laughed at the naked Cheng Yunqi.

Chu Zhiyuan humiliated Cheng Yunqi and defeated Cheng Yunzheng in a fight, forcing the Yuan Zhen princes to accept defeat. He left the confrontation holding a Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead.

• Chu Zhiyuan evaded Cheng Yunqi and mocked him after Cheng Yunzheng returned his robe, leaving Cheng Yunqi furious over his public humiliation.
• Cheng Yunzheng challenged Chu Zhiyuan to restore his brother’s honor and protect the Twelfth Princess from the Ninth Prince.
• Chu Zhiyuan used his movement technique to evade Cheng Yunzheng’s Heaven-Questioning Divine Sword and assessed the differences between their Treasure Armors.
• Chu Zhiyuan unleashed nine Great Brightness Fist strikes, gravely wounding Cheng Yunzheng and declaring the Yuan Zhen princes’ skills inadequate.
• Cheng Yunzheng conceded defeat and said the brothers would leave the next day, while Chu Zhiyuan departed with a Dragon Eye-sized bead in his hand.

Chu Zhiyuan celebrated his victory over the Yuan Zhen princes and learned that the bead he took from Cheng Yunzheng was a rare Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead. Chu Honglin told him his wedding to the Phoenix Dynasty's Twelfth Princess had been moved up to three months away, urging him not to surrender an opportunity the Yuan Zhen Dynasty was desperate to seize.

• Chu Zhiyuan walked through cheering crowds and reflected on the Jade Scenery Dynasty's admiration for the Phoenix Dynasty and hostility toward the Yuan Zhen Dynasty.
• Chu Honglin identified the bead Chu Zhiyuan had taken from Cheng Yunzheng as a Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead that stored Spiritual Power, then insisted Chu Zhiyuan keep it.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Chu Honglin discussed his victory over the Yuan Zhen princes and his anger that his father had granted him no reward.
• Chu Honglin told Chu Zhiyuan that his wedding would take place in three months because the Yuan Zhen Dynasty and Wentian Pavilion might pose further threats.
• Chu Honglin argued that Chu Zhiyuan must become the Twelfth Princess's Imperial Son-in-Law because the Yuan Zhen Dynasty's efforts to claim the match suggested it carried great benefits.

Chu Zhiyuan learned that the Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead could defend against spiritual attacks and tested it while cultivating on Spiritual Abyss First Peak. The bead absorbed the Spiritual Abyss's power, and he later went to True Martial Academy to try copying the Ode to Light again.

• Chu Honglin told Chu Zhiyuan that the Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead could resist spiritual attacks, especially those from the Devil Race, prompting Chu Zhiyuan to consider using it against the Ode to Light.
• Youlan told Chu Zhiyuan that news of his defeat of the Yuan Zhen Fifth Prince and Sixth Prince had spread, and he instructed her to put the Prince's Mansion in order without treating people too harshly.
• Chu Zhiyuan cultivated on Spiritual Abyss First Peak and discovered that the Moon Silkworm Frost Robe absorbed the Spiritual Abyss's power while the Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead began to glow and turn emerald green.
• Chu Zhiyuan stopped cultivating when his feet became painfully enlarged, then found that the robe had grown stronger and the Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead could not be refined like a demon crystal.
• Chu Zhiyuan arrived at the empty True Martial Academy the next morning and sat before the Karma Stone Wall.

Chu Zhiyuan carved the Ode to Light onto a white jade plaque, which transformed into a Karma Stone after the Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead helped him overcome an invisible force. Back at Prince Qing's Estate, he spoke with his brothers about defeating Yuan Zhen's Fifth and Sixth Princes and claimed his speed-enhancing treasure had been bestowed by the Emperor.

• Chu Zhiyuan began carving the Ode to Light onto a white jade plaque, but an invisible force hindered his hand and thoughts.
• The Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead glowed and made the carving easier until its green color faded, after which Chu Zhiyuan struggled to finish the Ode to Light.
• The completed plaque blazed with light and transformed into a Karma Stone whose aura matched the Karma Stone Wall's.
• Chu Zhiyuan's main body nearly collapsed from Spiritual Power exhaustion as Third Prince Chu Lieyang arrived, followed by First Prince and Second Prince.
• Chu Zhiyuan told his brothers he had defeated Yuan Zhen's Fifth and Sixth Princes by exploiting their weaknesses and said the Emperor had bestowed his speed-enhancing treasure on him for great service.
• Chu Liechu confirmed that Chu Zhiyuan's service was confidential, while Chu Liexuan remarked that the treasure had helped him protect his woman and defeat the two Princes.

Chu Zhiyuan advanced the Little White Snake to the Third Turn and received another demon crystal from Li Yuzhen, while learning that demon crystals were scarce because the Demon Race retaliated against anyone who hunted for them. He replenished his Spiritual Power overnight, copied the Ode to Light onto a second Jade Token to make another Karma Stone, and arrived late at True Martial Academy, where his brothers teased him about his pale appearance.

• Chu Zhiyuan cultivated the Immeasurable Light Sutra until the Little White Snake reached the Third Turn and gained a second halo.
• Li Yuzhen delivered a wolf race demon crystal from Twelfth Princess, and Chu Zhiyuan learned demon crystals were rare because the Demon Race took revenge on those who hunted them.
• Chu Zhiyuan found that his Spirit Nurturing Treasure Bead replenished itself overnight by gathering his leaked Spiritual Power.
• Chu Zhiyuan used the Ode to Light, Karma Stone tablet, and Autumn Water Divine Saber to copy the Ode onto a second Jade Token and turn it into a Karma Stone.
• Chu Zhiyuan arrived late at True Martial Academy with the two Karma Stone tablets, where Chu Liexuan teased him and Chu Lieyang warned him not to displease Twelfth Princess.

Chu Zhiyuan used Karma Stones to accelerate his cultivation, then learned he would enter the Jade Spring Grotto-Heaven to confront the Devil Race. At the Divine Martial Department, Chu Hongfeng briefed him and the other selected young elites on the Cave Heaven’s dangers before beginning an introduction to its rare treasures.

• Chu Zhiyuan discovered that Karma Stones increased his cultivation speed up to a fivefold limit, so he kept seven and made them into a white jade meditation cushion.
• With the cushion’s help, Chu Zhiyuan advanced from the Third Turn to the Fourth Turn in a month and discussed the coming Jade Spring Grotto-Heaven with Chu Honglin.
• Chu Zhiyuan warned Chu Honglin that the Devil Race might send several people into the Cave Heaven, and Chu Honglin promised to report the concern and find allies for him.
• Seven days later, Chu Zhiyuan arrived at the Divine Martial Department with Li Yuzhen and met eleven other young elites selected to enter the Cave Heaven.
• Chu Hongfeng warned the group that they would be separated and that rare flowers and fruits often came with great danger, then began explaining the Cave Heaven’s treasures.