Chapter Summaries

Li Tiancheng fought Wu Jing and Wu Sha while they used a formation and a group of Jade Essence Academy cultivators to overwhelm him. Guided by Ren Jie, he broke their support formation and defeated the brothers, but their uncontrolled Corpse Blood Grand Formation began expanding wildly.

• Wu Sha attacked Li Tiancheng with his Skull Staff as Wu Jing and more than a dozen cultivators used a formation to restrict him.
• Li Tiancheng endured the combined assault with his Magical Treasures, Mystical Powers, spells, and Medicine Pills, while Ren Jie recognized the brothers' coordinated technique as the main threat.
• Wu Jing and Wu Sha trapped Li Tiancheng in the Corpse Blood Grand Formation, injuring him and clouding his mind with its blood mist.
• Ren Jie spoke to Li Tiancheng through divine sense, helping him regain clarity and directing him to disrupt the formation's support.
• Li Tiancheng expanded his Seven-Colored Wings, swept the assisting cultivators into the blood mist, and severely injured them, breaking the formation below.
• With their Corpse Blood Grand Formation beyond their control, Wu Jing and Wu Sha became vulnerable, and Li Tiancheng pierced them with his flying sword; the formation then expanded wildly.

Li Tiancheng defeated Wu Jing and Wu Sha, but their uncontrolled Corpse Blood Grand Formation threatened Jade Essence Academy until Su Ming contained it. Ren Jie challenged Su Ming’s authority and exposed the brothers’ forbidden methods, and Su Ming killed Wu Jing and Wu Sha to silence them.

• Li Tiancheng crippled Wu Jing and Wu Sha, while Ren Jie urged him to leave the dangerous blood mist to Jade Essence Academy.
• Su Ming appeared, gathered the Corpse Blood Grand Formation into a blood ball, and revealed that he had reached the Yin Yang Realm.
• Su Ming accused Ren Jie, Fatty, and Li Tiancheng of causing trouble, but Ren Jie repeatedly ordered him to shut up and challenged his right to interfere.
• Ren Jie pointed out that the Wu brothers had used forbidden poisonous methods and threatened to investigate Heavenly Courtyard and Jade Essence Academy for demonic practices.
• Wu Sha called out to Su Ming for help, and Su Ming killed both Wu Jing and Wu Sha before they could reveal more.

Ren Jie confronted Su Ming at Jade Essence Academy after Su Ming killed Wu Jing and Wu Sha, then used his status as Ren Family Head to force the academy to back down. He left with Li Tiancheng and the fat man, urging the Jade Essence Academy students to learn from Li Tiancheng’s courage.

• Su Ming killed the crippled Wu Jing and Wu Sha, then ordered Ren Jie to remain at Jade Essence Academy while the academy decided what to do.
• Ren Jie denounced Su Ming for killing his own subordinates and reminded him that he lacked the authority to speak for Jade Essence Academy or the Heavenly Courtyard.
• Vice Principal Hu Fanghua arrived and exchanged pleasantries with Ren Jie, offering both sides a way to end the confrontation without further escalation.
• Ren Jie prepared to leave with Li Tiancheng and the fat man, then told Su Ming that he had told him to shut up for his own good.
• Ren Jie praised Li Tiancheng as a heroic boss and told the Jade Essence Academy students to spread the story of his challenge.

Ren Jie’s victories restored Jade Emperor Academy’s dignity, while Su Ming returned to the Heavenly Courtyard in humiliation and vowed revenge. As the Jade Emperor Academy group celebrated on their way home, Li Tiancheng demanded to see Ren Jie’s true strength, and Ren Jie kicked him out of the carriage again.

• Hu Fanghua dismissed the gathered students and arranged treatment for the injured, while Su Ming threatened Ren Jie before returning to the Heavenly Courtyard.
• Wei Liang and the Jade Emperor Academy students celebrated their victory as Li Jun led them away from Jade Essence Academy.
• Li Tiancheng discovered that Fatty’s medicinal agents helped him recover faster than High Grade Spirit Pills, then watched the students celebrate their restored dignity.
• Li Tiancheng asked Ren Jie to prove his strength so he could decide whether to acknowledge him as his boss, but Ren Jie told him to continue leading Jade Emperor Academy.
• Ren Jie tricked Li Tiancheng into turning around and kicked him out of the Spirit Beast Carriage.

Ren Jie sent Li Tiancheng back to Jade Emperor Academy with a cultivation method and responsibility for protecting the academy, while he returned to Jade Capital City and grew concerned about the Smiling Old Man’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Fang Yan grew arrogant after gaining power and prepared to enter seclusion, while Gao Peng quietly welcomed his ostentation as useful.

• Ren Jie told Li Tiancheng that Jade Emperor Academy needed him as its hero and gave him a jade token and a cultivation method to repay his casino winnings.
• Li Tiancheng reflected on Ren Jie’s strength, accepted the responsibility, and flew back to Jade Emperor Academy.
• Ren Jie and the fatty headed home, and Ren Jie worried that the Smiling Old Man had not returned or sent word.
• Fang Yan met Gao Peng at Ting Xue Pavilion, boasted of his forces, and said he would enter seclusion to surpass Ren Jie and Lan Tian.
• Gao Peng watched Fang Yan leave with an impressive retinue and privately decided that Fang Yan’s arrogance served his purposes.

Jade Emperor Academy celebrated Li Tiancheng’s return and victory, while Li Tiancheng drunkenly pledged the academy’s support to Ren Jie. At the Ren family, Qi Tian challenged Sword King Long Ao’s cultivation beliefs until Ren Jie intervened, and Long Ao escaped when Qi Tian became distracted by Fatty’s Little Red Cat.

• Jade Emperor Academy celebrated for three days, and Li Tiancheng urged the students to work harder before hiding from the crowd.
• Li Tiancheng told Wei Liang to address Ren Jie as Ren Family Head and protect him, then drunkenly declared himself Jade Emperor Academy’s boss on Ren Jie’s orders.
• Qi Tian argued with Sword King Long Ao about his cultivation path while waiting for Ren Jie to return.
• Ren Jie arrived with Fatty, invited Long Ao to fight, and told him to calm down before receiving a potion to help him improve and break through to the Taiji Realm.
• Fatty stopped Qi Tian from continuing his lecture, and Qi Tian’s attention shifted to the Little Red Cat, allowing Sword King Long Ao to flee.

Ren Jie, Fatty, and Qi Tian tried to understand Hu Hu, whose unusual affection for Qi Tian left him unable to intimidate or handle the little creature. The chapter ended with Qi Tian giving Hu Hu back to Ren Jie after Hu Hu cried and Ren Jie teased him into asking for help.

• Qi Tian examined Hu Hu and wondered whether it was a sacred beast, while Hu Hu eagerly climbed over him and played in his hair.
• Ren Jie explained that Hu Hu had produced a powerful tiger roar, and Qi Tian transformed into a giant ape to see whether he could frighten it.
• Hu Hu delightedly burrowed into Qi Tian's fur and asked him to transform again, leaving Qi Tian helpless and itchy.
• When Fatty tried to take Hu Hu away, it cried and clung to Qi Tian, whose heart tightened and whose mood turned restless.
• Qi Tian threatened to kill Hu Hu and appealed to Ren Jie, but Ren Jie teased him until he agreed to return Hu Hu to him.

Ren Jie helped Qi Tian calm Huhu by coaching him to offer spirit jade and promise he would return, revealing how deeply Qi Tian cared for the little creature. After Qi Tian fled, Ren Jie gave Huhu to Fatty and turned to preparing medicinal agents for Qi Tian and Sixth Uncle.

• Qi Tian asked Ren Jie for help when Huhu cried and refused to let him leave.
• Ren Jie told Qi Tian to soothe Huhu with spirit jade and promise he would return after cultivating.
• Qi Tian awkwardly repeated Ren Jie's words, and Huhu stopped crying and accepted the spirit jade.
• Ren Jie took Huhu, promised it would see Qi Tian again, and watched Qi Tian flee.
• Ren Jie gave Huhu to Fatty and asked her to look into its unusual bond with Qi Tian.
• Ren Jie said he would prepare medicinal agents for Qi Tian and Sixth Uncle while Fatty refined the rest as usual.

Ren Jie searched Jade Capital City for the missing Smiling Old Man while refining Body Refining Potion, then traced suspicious disturbances to the Imperial Mausoleum. He detected the Smiling Old Man’s aura near the mausoleum’s forbidden zone.

• Qi Tian brooded over his baffling encounter with Huhu and left to find someone to talk to.
• Ren Jie finished refining a batch of Body Refining Potion, then ordered Wan Hong's people and the Chang Le Gang to investigate disturbances around Jade Capital City.
• Ren Jie reviewed the reports and used his divine sense to eliminate suspicious locations one by one, while noting a mysterious group that planned to act against the Bright Jade Dynasty.
• Ren Jie searched the Imperial Mausoleum’s outer areas using the Sage Dao Discussion and detected the Smiling Old Man’s familiar aura near a small plaza in the forbidden zone.

Ren Jie penetrated the Ninety-Nine Black Banners formation and guided the Smiling Old Man through a deadly attack by Hong Yan and the Whiskered Old Man. The Smiling Old Man warned Ren Jie not to come rescue him, fearing it would bring disaster to the Ren Family, and tried to tell him where Sun Rui was before their connection failed.

• Ren Jie broke through the Ninety-Nine Black Banners formation and discovered the Smiling Old Man was being hunted by the Whiskered Old Man and Hong Yan.
• As Hong Yan’s flames and the Whiskered Old Man’s attack trapped the Smiling Old Man, Ren Jie told him how to evade them and turn their attacks against each other.
• The Smiling Old Man followed Ren Jie’s instructions, escaped the immediate danger, and made the Whiskered Old Man collide with Hong Yan.
• Ren Jie said he would find a way to reach the Smiling Old Man and help him, but the Smiling Old Man warned him that rescuing him could bring catastrophe upon the Ren Family.
• The Smiling Old Man offered to tell Ren Jie where Sun Rui was and urged him not to interfere, but Ren Jie’s connection ended before he could respond.

Ren Jie went alone to the Imperial Mausoleum to rescue the Smiling Old Man, disguising himself before entering the uncontrolled formation of ninety-nine black banners. He tried to seize its central banner, but a powerful woman’s imprint awakened and attacked his divine sense.

• Ren Jie decided not to involve the Ren Family or alert Old Pill King Yu Changkong and Sixth Uncle, choosing a discreet rescue because the Remnant Souls might target the family.
• Ren Jie disguised his appearance and aura, crafted an expressive smiling mask, and quietly made his way to the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Ren Jie passed through the outer formation and approached the Ninety-Nine Black Banners, reasoning that the unpiloted formation could only trap the Smiling Old Man for now.
• Ren Jie entered the formation and evaded its automatic defenses as he advanced toward the nearly hundred-meter-tall central black banner.
• Ren Jie used his divine sense to break through the banner’s imprints, awakening a woman’s powerful imprint, which declared the banner was hers and struck at him.

Ren Jie seized the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner and used the sudden collapse of its formation to ambush and gravely wound Elder Xu. He revealed himself to the Smiling Old Man, then fled with him as powerful pursuers approached.

• Ren Jie crushed the divine sense imprint inside the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner, recalled its scattered banners, and stored the treasure in his Storage Ring.
• The Whiskered Old Man and Hong Yan discovered that the banner and its formation had vanished, allowing the Smiling Old Man to escape their encirclement.
• Ren Jie secretly approached the Whiskered Old Man and blasted him with the Nine Words Kill Seal, gravely wounding him.
• Hong Yan recognized the Nine Words Kill Seal, while the Smiling Old Man struggled to believe that Ren Jie had appeared and attacked Elder Xu.
• Ren Jie warned the Smiling Old Man that someone was coming, and the two fled as powerful auras approached.

Ren Jie escaped with the Smiling Old Man to a secluded room in the Imperial Palace and sealed the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner with his help. After exhausting himself and spending enormous amounts of Spirit Jade, Ren Jie faced the Smiling Old Man’s questions about the banner and the Nine Words Kill Seal, while the Smiling Old Man warned that the remnant soul must not learn Ren Jie’s identity.

• Ren Jie and the Smiling Old Man escaped Hong Yan and Elder Xu, then made their way into the Imperial Palace using Ren Jie’s knowledge of its formations.
• Ren Jie led the Smiling Old Man into a room, took out the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner, and instructed him to help suppress it.
• Ren Jie and the Smiling Old Man sealed the banner, leaving Ren Jie drained after he spent vast quantities of Spirit Jade driving the video.
• Ren Jie revealed that he had taken the Nine Words Kill Seal from an assassin, and the Smiling Old Man warned him to keep his identity from the remnant soul.
• The Smiling Old Man urged Ren Jie to leave the Imperial Palace after sensing power fluctuations from the banner.

Ren Jie explained to the injured Smiling Old Man why he had hidden them in an Imperial Guardian’s residence, then learned how the Vice Hall Master of Remnant Soul had been defeated and lost the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner. The Smiling Old Man described Remnant Soul’s known structure, leaving Ren Jie to suspect Fatty knew more about the organization than she had revealed.

• Ren Jie gave the Smiling Old Man medicine and explained that the Imperial Palace was a safe place to hide because the Emperor’s ties to Remnant Soul made the disturbance there a useful cover.
• The Smiling Old Man warned Ren Jie to keep his identity secret, stay close to powerful allies, and avoid recklessly using the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner and Nine Words Kill Seal.
• The Smiling Old Man revealed that Remnant Soul’s inner hall Vice Hall Master had ambushed him, but was badly wounded before his subordinates used the banner to trap the Smiling Old Man.
• Ren Jie learned the banner had been unattended because its master was unconscious, allowing him to seize it while rescuing the Smiling Old Man.
• The Smiling Old Man said Remnant Soul had Human Character Nine Kill and Earth Character Three Halls, but no Heaven Character division that he knew of, prompting Ren Jie to wonder about Fatty’s source of information.

Ren Jie learned why the Killer King had worn the Smiling Face Mask and persuaded him to visit Sun Rui instead of immediately pursuing revenge. Meanwhile, the injured Vice Hall Master ordered a hunt for Ren Jie and the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner, then prepared to recover and call in reinforcements.

• The Smiling Old Man shattered his mask, and Ren Jie realized it had helped balance his killing intent and state of mind.
• Ren Jie reminded the Killer King that Sun Rui might be frightened, tempering his urge to fight the remnant soul; they left to visit her.
• The armored Vice Hall Master questioned Elder Xu and Elder Hong Yan about the stolen Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner and their defeat.
• The Vice Hall Master ordered the Human Character Nine Kill to search for the Nine Words Kill Seal and sent the elders to trace the stolen banner.
• After the elders departed, the Vice Hall Master revealed her true appearance and ordered Qing Wu to request reinforcements while she recovered.

Ren Jie and Killer King went to check on Sun Rui, whom Killer King had left in a village with her power sealed, only to discover that she had reached the Divine Power Realm through instinct. Ren Jie then descended to test her abilities with a powerful mana palm, leaving Sun Rui facing his attack.

• Killer King explained that he had left Sun Rui with an elderly couple to live as an ordinary person and curb her vengeful thoughts.
• Ren Jie questioned whether Killer King had truly sealed Sun Rui's power, and Killer King sensed her Divine Power Realm aura in a nearby forest.
• Ren Jie gave Killer King a newly refined smiling mask with restrictions to help control his Baleful Intent.
• Sun Rui used instinctively developed mana to destroy branches and cut down a giant tree, revealing that her power was near the fifth layer of the Divine Power Realm despite her remaining at the third layer.
• Ren Jie explained that Sun Rui had developed explosive divine powers without learning cultivation techniques, and Killer King marveled at her progress.
• Ren Jie descended and brought a massive mana palm down toward Sun Rui.

Ren Jie reunited with Sun Rui, accepted her resolve to pursue revenge, and arranged for her to train with the Guard Squad while Fatty helped look after her. After discussing Yu Wu Shuang’s long periods of sleep, Ren Jie planned to appear in public again and asked Fatty about the latest events in Jade Capital City.

• Ren Jie tested Sun Rui with a powerful palm strike, and she found its weak point and attacked before recognizing him and embracing him.
• Ren Jie gave the Smiling Old Man medicine and Jade Coins for the elderly who had cared for Sun Rui, then promised to tailor a cultivation technique for her.
• The Smiling Old Man stayed near Sun Rui, while Ren Jie returned to the Ren Family and arranged for her to train with the Guard Squad.
• Fatty brought Hu Hu to meet Sun Rui, but the two became wary and nearly fought; Ren Jie told Fatty to help care for Sun Rui and refused to erase her memories.
• Fatty told Ren Jie that Yu Wu Shuang was still sleeping for long stretches, and Ren Jie said he would speak with Old Pill King.
• Ren Jie asked Fatty about recent events in Jade Capital City, and she mentioned a temple fair, a Ten Thousand Kingdoms Auction, and a literary gathering.

Ren Jie and Fatty learned about the Talented Scholars and Beautiful Women Gathering and traveled by ship to see the festivities. They reached the crowded river and encountered Wen Zihao, who invited Ren Jie to join him in mooching food, drinks, and beauties.

• Fatty explained how the literary gathering had grown into a seven-day matchmaking event filled with scholars, talented women, and bustling riverside markets.
• Ren Jie decided to attend, and he and Fatty took the Ren Family Head's ship toward the gathering after learning the streets were too crowded for carriages.
• Ren Jie admired the vast Inner City River and discussed the Bright Jade Dynasty's ships and the Skysea Empire's Sea Dragon Battleships with Fatty.
• Fatty spotted the crowds near the gathering, while a group of young masters raced boats along the river toward the Literary Gathering Building.
• Wen Zihao stopped his speedboat beside Ren Jie's ship, joked about mooching food, drinks, and beauties, and Ren Jie laughed as he replied.

Ren Jie and Wen Zihao discussed the literary gathering before Wen Zihao helped Ren Jie's boat pass its entrance blockade. Ren Jie rewarded Little Shrimp with a cultivation technique and accepted an invitation to meet the Zhenhai Young General, but Li Yan arrived to challenge their passage.

• Ren Jie praised the literary gathering's rules and scale as Wen Zihao explained how its shops and invitation system attracted talented people and beautiful women.
• Wen Zihao boarded Ren Jie's boat and persuaded Little Shrimp to open the formation blocking the way.
• Ren Jie gave Little Shrimp a Memory Jade Tablet containing the cultivation technique he had auctioned, and Little Shrimp invited him to meet the Zhenhai Young General.
• Wen Zihao asked about the technique, and Ren Jie said he had made copies for those on his side who needed them.
• As Ren Jie's boat began to pass, Li Yan arrived and demanded that the formation stop them.

Li Yan used his authority over security at the Talented Scholars and Beautiful Women Gathering to block Ren Jie and his companions from entering without passage credentials. Ren Jie ordered their ship to ram through the gathering's defensive formation, while Li Yan retreated and crushed several spirit jade tablets.

• Li Yan rebuked Little Shrimp and ordered the defensive formation activated to bar anyone without passage credentials.
• Li Yan refused to acknowledge Ren Jie and told Wen Zihao that he could enter only with his own passage credential.
• Ren Jie stopped Wen Zihao from attacking Li Yan, then ordered the crew to ram through the formation.
• Ren Jie's ship smashed through the gathering's defensive formation as Little Shrimp ordered the nearby ships to move aside.
• Li Yan retreated aboard his ship and crushed several spirit jade tablets as Ren Jie charged through.