Chapter Summaries

Lü Bufan and the Taihua Sect delegation arrived at Fushui Island on Heavenly Heart Lake, where Elder Zhou Mo asserted his authority and the disciples revealed their interest in the Northern Immortal Sect’s famous female cultivators. Lü Bufan then encountered Gu Yue, a woman connected to Wei Wuchen’s death, leaving him uncertain about their past as the delegation continued toward a welcoming banquet.

• Elder Zhou Mo punished a Sect Hall disciple who had failed to prepare Lü Bufan’s ceremonial robes, assigning him to a dangerous posting at Two-World Mountain.
• Zhou Mo encouraged the Taihua Sect disciples to pursue Heavenly Heart Lake’s female cultivators, and Tianyu discovered Jin Qi’s booklet profiling Northern Immortal Sect maidens.
• The delegation reached Fushui Island, where Yao Meng greeted them and Northern Immortal Sect cultivators escorted them to the Elegant Pavilion.
• Zhou Mo, Lü Bufan, Tianyu, and Jin Qi traveled by pleasure barge to a welcoming banquet, where Gu Yue appeared and silently studied Lü Bufan.
• Lü Bufan recognized Gu Yue as the woman who had held Wei Wuchen as he died, while Jin Qi identified her as an Eighth Realm Sword Cultivator from Lanruo Island.

At Fushui Island, Lü Bufan learned about the Mirror-Viewing Platform’s danger to Martial Warriors and questioned whether he could continue his Dao-Martial Dual Cultivation. After Zhou Mo met Third Prince Sima Jun and the others dispersed, a disguised stranger appeared beside Lü Bufan’s lotus pond, and Lü recognized him in shock.

• Elder Lan Ling welcomed Zhou Mo, Lü Bufan, and the other Taihua Sect members at a banquet with disciples from the other Immortal Sects.
• Zhou Mo told Lü Bufan about a Great Jin prince who lost his Martial Dao foundation after seeking enlightenment at the Mirror-Viewing Platform, making Lü question his cultivation path.
• Third Prince Sima Jun invited Zhou Mo to a banquet, but Zhou declined because he had to remain with the Sect Hall Disciples; Jin Qi suspected the prince was probing the Taihua Sect’s political loyalties.
• While Zhou Mo and the other disciples socialized, Lü practiced with his heavy sword and later sat alone by a lotus pond thinking of the girl in the Wild Spirit Land.
• A man in a Fushui Island disciple’s uniform appeared beside Lü, and Lü recognized him with surprise.

Bai Ye told Lü Bufan that the Mirror-Viewing Platform visit was part of a trade involving the Sword-Nurturing Platform inside him and Master Peach’s golden-body arm. As the secret realm opened, a Liu disciple challenged Lü’s right to enter, and the Liu Clan Elder defended the insult by citing his father’s death in battle with Luo Wuya.

• Bai Ye gave Lü Bufan a jade talisman and explained that his Sword-Nurturing Platform was meant to be exchanged with Duchen for Master Peach’s golden-body arm.
• Immortal Maiden Gu Yue departed for Dasan Pass, and Zhou Mo instructed Lü to attend the Mirror-Viewing Platform Secret Realm the next day.
• Qiu Yu opened the Mirror-Viewing Platform and ordered the Four Great Immortal Sects’ disciples to enter and confront their mental barriers.
• A Liu disciple protested that Lü, a Southern Immortal Sect attendant who practiced Dao-Martial Dual Cultivation, should not be allowed to enter the secret realm.
• Zhou Mo defended Lü’s place and challenged the Liu disciple to fight him, while Qiu Yu remained impartial and allowed the Liu disciples to proceed.
• The Liu Clan Elder said the disciple had lost his composure because his father, Liu Wangmei, had died taking Luo Wuya down, and because Lü had been kept at Luo Wuya’s side.

Lü Bufan entered the Mirror-Viewing Platform’s illusion and faced memories of his childhood cruelty, where he could not bring himself to kill his tormentors despite the promise of an effortless breakthrough. As he struggled against the illusion’s restraints, Bai Ye was confronted by Mr. Water Mirror, who challenged him to a duel to the death.

• Lü Bufan entered the Mirror-Viewing Platform Small Grotto-Heaven and began to lose consciousness as a Broken Mirror fragment circled him.
• Xuanjing tried to use her Broken Mirror fragment to peer at Lü Bufan, but a mysterious will stopped it, and she tossed the fragment into a lake before leaving Liu Xian'er.
• Lü Bufan awoke in an illusion of Wanhua Tower’s kitchen and refused to kill the fat cook who had abused him as a child, despite sensing that doing so would clear his mind obstacle.
• Lü Bufan heard Third Lady being assaulted in the Black Cell and, enraged, crushed the swill bucket’s handle, but an unseen power restrained him.
• Bai Ye questioned why the Broken Mirror was tormenting Lü Bufan, then met Mr. Water Mirror, who challenged him to a duel to the death.

Mr. Water Mirror borrowed Taihua Sect’s immortal sword Tianxiu and used it to attack Bai Ye, while Bai Ye intervened in the Mirror-Viewing Platform’s secret realm and saved Lü Bufan from a hostile Liu disciple. Tianxiu escaped after draining Mr. Water Mirror, and Fushui Island’s sect leader concealed the circumstances as the gathered sect elders began to leave.

• Mr. Water Mirror summoned the borrowed immortal sword Tianxiu and seized it to strike at Bai Ye, who warned that the sword would consume him.
• Lü Bufan broke free of an illusion with a punch and accidentally injured a Liu disciple who had approached him carrying a treasure that could escape the illusion.
• Bai Ye appeared in the secret realm, explained that the Liu disciple had likely meant to kill Lü Bufan, and said he had pulled Lü Bufan out of the illusion.
• The Four Great Immortal Sects’ elders gathered after Tianxiu’s power shook Fushui Island, and Mr. Water Mirror rose from the lake holding the sword as he lay dying.
• Tianxiu tore free from Mr. Water Mirror’s hand, drained him, and fled south while Fushui Island’s sect leader claimed an unknown enemy had killed him.
• Fushui Island’s sect leader said Mr. Water Mirror had borrowed Tianxiu through an arrangement with Duchen, then dismissed the assembled elders.

Bai Ye took Lü Bufan to the Mirror-Viewing Platform, where they learned that an Immortal had damaged its World-Viewing Mirror and left a mark aimed at Dao-Martial Dual Cultivators. Lü Bufan returned to the illusion and broke free, while Bai Ye gave him a secret art and revealed that he wanted a guarantee of safe passage into the Wild Spirit Land.

• Bai Ye showed Lü Bufan the Mirror-Viewing Platform and introduced Dao-Viewing, its silent artifact spirit, explaining that an Immortal had shattered the World-Viewing Mirror and taken its most intact piece.
• Bai Ye warned Lü Bufan that the Immortal had left a mark targeting Dao-Martial Dual Cultivators, but Lü Bufan asked to enter the illusion again to revisit people and memories he feared forgetting.
• Deputy Sect Master Qiuyu questioned Hu Luo'er about the Immortal Sword, then ordered Cultivator Ruo'an and her disciple to investigate Mr. Water Mirror's transaction with the Sect Leader of the Taihua Sect and look into Lü Bufan again.
• After three days, Lü Bufan emerged from the illusion and told Bai Ye he had broken free himself, but refused to reveal how because he had promised to keep it secret.
• Bai Ye gave Lü Bufan a secret art for separating the Sword-Nurturing Platform and explained that Two Realms Village had offered it to the Sect Leader of the Taihua Sect in exchange for the means to restore Master Peach's golden body.
• Bai Ye said he wanted to enter the Wild Spirit Land and needed a guarantee that he could cross Two-World Mountain safely, because Big Black and others might try to kill him.

Lü Bufan left the Mirror-Viewing Platform after disrupting the disciples inside and reunited with Mo Bai on Heavenheart Lake. They discussed Mo Bai’s search for his master and plans to attend the Cultivator Market, which Lü Bufan decided to visit with him.

• Lü Bufan returned a badly beaten Liu Immortal Sect disciple to the Northern Immortal Sect guards, then left the Mirror-Viewing Platform.
• A dozen disciples emerged from the Mirror-Viewing Platform in a daze, and Deputy Sect Master Qiuyu sent them away before leading the visiting elders to meet the Sect Leader.
• Lü Bufan met Mo Bai on Heavenheart Lake and learned that Mo Bai had recovered his fourth-realm cultivation but still had not found his master.
• Mo Bai told Lü Bufan about Abugu’s departure to Mount Luojia and showed him a magical robe he could weave from silver thread.
• Mo Bai explained that he had come to attend the Heavenheart Lake Cultivator Market, and Lü Bufan asked to go with him.

Lü Bufan reunited with Mo Bai, then got caught swimming half-dressed with him by visitors from Northern Qi. He was summoned to Elder Zhou Mo’s courtyard to discuss lending his Sword Pellet to the Princess of Huating, who recognized him from the lakeside.

• Lü Bufan and Mo Bai drank together and discussed the dangers of the Taihua Sect and Lü Bufan’s decision to stay.
• The two swam in Heavenheart Lake and startled a group of women from Northern Qi; Mo Bai escaped into the water while Lü Bufan borrowed his robe and fled.
• Cultivator Jin Qi summoned Lü Bufan to Elder Zhou Mo, who wanted him to bring his Sword Pellet for Northern Qi’s guests.
• Lü Bufan discovered that the women’s guards had recognized him as one of the swimmers.
• Senior Brother Tianyu introduced the Princess of Huating and explained that she had come seeking a Longcheng Peak Sword Pellet.

Lü Bufan gave Commandery Princess Jiang Yu Qingming’s Sword Pellet and received a Fire-Feather Crane Cloak before sneaking out to meet Mo Bai at Fushui Island’s market. Jiang Yu joined him on the way, and after they crossed the Water-Revering Pavilion, she challenged him to strip naked and run around.

• Zhou Mo directed Lü Bufan to give Jiang Yu Qingming’s Sword Pellet, and Jiang Yu had her maid present him with a Fire-Feather Crane Cloak in return.
• Lü Bufan denied Jin Qi’s accusation that he had molested Jiang Yu and spent two days hiding in his courtyard.
• Lü Bufan traveled by boat to the Guest Reception Lodge to meet Mo Bai and explore Fushui Island’s market.
• Jiang Yu encountered Lü Bufan alone and persuaded him to take her along to the market.
• After Lü Bufan and Jiang Yu crossed the Water-Revering Pavilion, Jiang Yu challenged him to strip naked and run a lap, and Lü Bufan angrily called her sick in the head.

Lü Bufan accompanied Jiang Yu and Mo Bai to the Cultivator Market, where they encountered a pickpocket from Kongkong Mountain and a mysterious black-robed woman. The woman later offered to buy all three of Mo Bai’s enchanted robes for one hundred spirit stones each.

• Lü Bufan and Jiang Yu met Mo Bai near the purple bamboo grove, and Jiang Yu mistook his sheer decorative robes for indecent clothing.
• The three entered the crowded Cultivator Market, where Lü Bufan noticed a stooped man trying to steal Mo Bai’s mustard-seed pouch.
• Mo Bai explained that the thief belonged to Kongkong Mountain, and a black-robed woman challenged Jiang Yu’s threat to punish its members.
• Jiang Yu paid five spirit stones for a stall on the market’s raised platform, where Mo Bai displayed three enchanted robes.
• The black-robed woman reappeared and offered to buy all three robes for one hundred spirit stones each.

Mo Bai sold magic robes at the Cultivator Market while Jiang Yu and Lü Bufan explored its stalls and got caught up in a confrontation with members of the Hengshan Sect. After Zhao Mu revealed that Mo Bai's robes were Heavenly Silkworm Magic Robes, Mo Jiao and her sisters hurried to buy them.

• A black-clad woman bought three of Mo Bai's robes, then hesitated over his finer robes priced at five hundred spirit stones each as Jiang Yu mocked her.
• Jiang Yu dragged Lü Bufan through the bazaar, ate a grilled Golden-Thread Giant Clam, and demanded Spirit Beast skewers and Immortal Brew.
• Mo Jiao confronted Lü Bufan after her sisters accused him of insulting plump women, but she left when a maid brought news that Zhao Mu needed help buying magic robes.
• A stallkeeper identified Mo Jiao and her sisters as members of the Hengshan Sect, and Lü Bufan quickly left to avoid further trouble.
• Zhao Mu told Mo Jiao that Mo Bai's robes were Heavenly Silkworm Magic Robes and offered two for a thousand spirit stones; Mo Jiao collected her sisters' money and hurried with Zhao Mu toward the northern platform.

Mo Bai tried to sell three Silk Spirit Robes at Heavenheart Lake, where Mo Jiao confronted the lecherous impostor Wuyuzi and the Northern Immortal Sect intervened. When Zhao Mu and Mo Jiao tried to buy the robes, Immortal Hua Yun challenged them and hinted at a hidden matter, leaving Zhao Mu to suspect Hua Yun had come looking for her.

• Mo Bai offered three Silk Spirit Robes for five hundred spirit stones apiece, and Wuyuzi made lewd advances toward Zhao Mu before Mo Jiao seized him.
• Chenxinzi intervened and identified Wuyuzi as a Baitou Mountain impostor, while Hua Yun arrived and was revealed to be his former disciple.
• Zhao Mu stopped Mo Jiao from escalating the dispute and returned with her to Mo Bai's stall to buy all three robes.
• Hua Yun offered to buy the robes, but Mo Bai gave priority to Zhao Mu and Mo Jiao, prompting an argument over the Northern Immortal Sect's market rules.
• Zhao Mu offered to buy the robes and give one to Hua Yun, who responded with a veiled threat and implied she knew something damaging about Zhao Mu.
• Zhao Mu accused Hua Yun of having come specifically to find her.

Mo Bai sold three Heavenly Silkworm Magic Robes to Immortal Hua Yun, who suspected the robes might point to a rare mountain lineage and ordered Chenxinzi to investigate Mo Bai and provoke the people from Kongkong Mountain. Hua Yun then presented a robe to her master and used it to seduce him, hoping to gain his favor and the Cloudwater Mind Method.

• Chenxinzi bought three Heavenly Silkworm Magic Robes from Mo Bai after Zhao Mu and Mo Jiao left the stall in anger.
• Immortal Hua Yun told Chenxinzi to keep the dispute with Zhao Mu quiet, watch Mo Bai, and create a public confrontation that could draw him in.
• Immortal Hua Yun explained that the rare robes might reveal a valuable clue about a special mountain lineage, then bribed Chenxinzi to carry out her plan.
• Immortal Hua Yun brought the robes to her master, changed into one, and admitted she hoped to obtain the Cloudwater Mind Method.
• Immortal Hua Yun seduced her master, who praised the robe and told her to follow nature in cultivation.

Lü Bufan watched Zhao Mu’s accomplices pass her stolen pouches, then sold her an enchanted robe for her troubled younger brother. At the market, Mo Bai defended an injured youth from Kongkong Mountain and was drawn into a staged confrontation arranged by Chenxinzi.

• Lü Bufan recognized that Zhao Mu’s passing companions were slipping Mustard-Seed Object pouches into her sleeves while Jiang Yu gambled with their associates.
• Zhao Mu bought Lü Bufan’s enchanted robe for seven hundred spirit stones, hoping it would help her younger brother recover from a heart demon.
• Jiang Yu learned that the gamblers had cheated her, and their leader gave Lü Bufan a strange black object before leaving.
• Mo Bai stood between an injured Kongkong Mountain youth and two cultivators who accused the youth of theft and threatened to cripple him.
• Mo Bai deflected a Disciplinary Ruler aimed at the youth and restrained the two cultivators as they tried to attack him.
• Chenxinzi watched from a pavilion after sending the two cultivators to provoke Kongkong Mountain and Mo Bai.

Chenxinzi tried to arrest Mo Bai and Zhao Mu at Water Cloud Terrace’s behest, but Lü Bufan and then Granny Sun intervened. Granny Sun agreed to go with the Northern Immortal Sect’s disciples to confront Water Cloud Terrace, leaving the dispute to the sect’s elders.

• Chenxinzi attacked Zhao Mu and Mo Bai, declaring that he would take them to the Northern Immortal Sect’s Punishment Hall Prison.
• Lü Bufan fought off three Punishment Hall disciples, showed them his Jade Ring as proof he was the sect’s guest, and refused to abandon his friends.
• Mo Bai told Lü Bufan that Zhao Mu was a young master of Kongkong Mountain and asked him to protect the Little Commandery Princess while Mo Bai went with the disciples.
• Chenxinzi ordered the Cultivator Market sealed and sent a Sword Talisman to summon the Punishment Hall elder, while Lü Bufan prepared to fight.
• Granny Sun arrived, identified herself as Sun Shangyun, and agreed to accompany Chenxinzi to Water Cloud Terrace to challenge its master.

Lü Bufan learned that Mo Bai could be imprisoned and forced to make Heavenly Silkworm Magic Robes, while two women from Kongkong Mountain were also in Water Cloud Terrace’s custody. Elder Zhou Mo offered to help preserve the women and suggested Lü Bufan seek aid in Heavenly Capital Ghost City; the next day, Lü Bufan found the Kongkong Mountain thieves missing from the Cultivator Market and wondered whether to go there.

• Lü Bufan asked Elder Zhou Mo for help after the Northern Immortal Sect’s Punishment Hall took Mo Bai and two women from Kongkong Mountain.
• Zhou Mo explained the Heavenly Silkworm Dao-Transformation lineage and warned that Water Cloud Terrace might imprison Mo Bai and enslave him to produce robes.
• Zhou Mo offered to use his influence to protect the women temporarily and urged Lü Bufan to seek help from Kongkong Mountain’s hidden backer in Heavenly Capital Ghost City.
• Lü Bufan considered his unorthodox cultivation methods, his Sword-Nurturing Platform, and whether to accept Zhou Mo’s plan.
• Lü Bufan visited the Cultivator Market the next day and found the Kongkong Mountain thieves gone, leaving him uncertain whether they had fled or been arrested.

Lü Bufan left the Northern Immortal Sect for Heavenly Capital Ghost City to seek help from Kongkong Mountain and rescue Zhao Mu, with Senior Brother Tianyu insisting on accompanying him. Meanwhile, Sima Xiu bribed Pei Zhongguan to let him spend a few days enjoying himself, though the eunuch agreed to stay with him.

• Zhou Mo gave Lü Bufan Zhao Mu's Silver Carved Bracelet and directed him to find the Ghost-Work Master Craftsman at the Heavenly Ruins Ancient Tomb to meet Kongkong Mountain's representative.
• Lü Bufan set out for Heavenly Capital Ghost City, but Tianyu confronted him and insisted on joining the journey as part of Lü Bufan's duties as a Sect Hall attendant.
• Lü Bufan agreed to take Tianyu along, and the two departed the Northern Immortal Sect for the northern Floating Boat docks.
• Sima Xiu complained to Pei Zhongguan that the Princess of Huating had beaten him, and Pei Zhongguan promised to report the incident.
• Sima Xiu bribed Pei Zhongguan with mid-grade spirit stones to let him have fun for a few days, and Pei Zhongguan agreed to accompany him around Heart Lake Reversed Water Island.

Lü Bufan and Tianyu traveled toward Huayin County, where they discovered that Jiang Yu had secretly followed them after fleeing an arranged marriage. Jiang Yu refused to return to Northern Qi, and Lü Bufan persuaded her to travel with them to Heavenly Capital Ghost City.

• Lü Bufan and Tianyu disembarked at Liangfeng Mountain and learned the route to Huayin County, while Tianyu baffled the innkeepers by tipping them with copper coins.
• Lü Bufan noticed Jiang Yu following them, and he and Tianyu hid before catching up with her after she landed in the wilderness.
• Jiang Yu explained that she had fled after being brought to meet the Third Prince of Great Jin as a marriage prospect.
• Tianyu urged Jiang Yu to return to her delegation, but she threatened them with her Sword Pellet and declared she would rather die than marry.
• Lü Bufan promised not to send Jiang Yu back and invited her to accompany him and Tianyu to Huayin County and Heavenly Capital Ghost City.

Lü Bufan visited Huayin County to find the descendants of Magistrate Zhou, whose family had once been escorted home by the Vigorous Martial Gate. He learned that the Zhou household had fallen into hardship and decided to seek answers from the young master at Mianchi Academy.

• Lü Bufan disguised himself, Jiang Yu, and Senior Brother Tianyu so their visit to the Zhou family would not draw attention.
• At a teahouse, Senior Brother Tianyu questioned whether people blamed the Immortal Sect for abuses committed in its name, and Master Feng rebuked his remarks about ferrying others.
• Jiang Yu noticed a strong yin presence in Master Feng’s sachet and told Lü Bufan that it seemed to contain bones or other remains affecting Feng’s divine soul.
• Lü Bufan asked the waiter about the Zhou family and learned that Master Feng was the widowed son-in-law of Miss Zhou Shi, who had died under suspicious circumstances.
• The waiter said the Zhou family’s young master had gone to Mianchi Academy on Mount Hua, so Lü Bufan decided to seek him there rather than approach Master Feng directly.

Lü Bufan traveled to Mianchi Academy to seek the Zhou Household descendant, but discovered that the academy was under threat and met a mysterious elder called Senior Mei. The chapter left Lü Bufan facing Senior Mei’s questions about his identity and purpose.

• Lü Bufan and Senior Brother Tianyu brought Jiang Yu to Mount Hua, where an Imperial Court Martial Warrior warned them that reaching Mianchi Academy required avoiding forbidden grounds.
• Lü Bufan left Senior Brother Tianyu and Jiang Yu behind and flew alone toward Mianchi Academy, reflecting on the dangers of his Dao-Martial cultivation and the strange bead connected to Big Black.
• Lü Bufan reached the covered bridge near Mianchi and told a robed man that he had come to visit a Zhou descendant from Huayin County.
• Senior Mei revealed that someone had smashed Mianchi Academy’s Mountain Gate and demanded its mountain-guarding treasure, the Three-Lives Stone.
• Lü Bufan recognized that the robed man was a Confucian Shikigami, and Senior Mei introduced himself as One Plum Blossom of the Western Guardian before asking Lü Bufan who he was and why he had come.