Chapter Summaries

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji prepared to turn his novel into a comic, while Zhu Mengmeng arranged a studio to bring Qiu Wuji’s work into the real world. The chapter ended with Qiu Wuji embracing Chu Ge, then setting out to view office buildings for their studio.

• Chu Ge finished scripts for the comic’s first three episodes, and Qiu Wuji showed him detailed character designs based on people she had met in the novel’s world.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji joked and flirted over chat before he sent her the scripts and returned to writing.
• Qiu Wuji made breakfast while Chu Ge told her Zhu Mengmeng had bought a studio and was bringing employees to Nanjiang.
• Chu Ge suggested that Qiu Wuji become the studio’s legal representative, and she realized it would give her a lasting presence in the real world.
• Qiu Wuji hugged and kissed Chu Ge, then answered Zhu Mengmeng’s call and agreed to look at office buildings.

Qiu Wuji opened a fully equipped animation studio with Zhu Mengmeng and realized how completely Chu Ge treated her as family. After returning home to cook for him, she learned he wanted to visit the snowy world in his book and wondered how she could return his devotion.

• Zhu Mengmeng and Old Zhu helped Qiu Wuji establish Boundless Chu Tian Animation Studio, with Chu Ge providing more than eight hundred thousand for the venture.
• Zhu Mengmeng pointed out that Chu Ge had put the money into a company registered under Qiu Wuji's name, even though they were not married, and Qiu Wuji realized he had always treated her as family.
• Qiu Wuji left the new studio at noon to go home and cook for Chu Ge.
• After struggling to resume writing, Chu Ge cultivated to regain his focus and glimpsed Qiu Wuji cultivating alone in the snowy world of his book.
• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji that, once the studio was running smoothly, they could visit the world in the book and see its snow.
• Qiu Wuji sensed that Chu Ge wanted to accompany her lonely self in the book and wondered how she could match his care for her.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji launched their comic adaptation online, where strong promotion and enthusiastic reactions from fans and newcomers quickly pushed it to the top of the charts. Chu Ge viewed the comic’s reach as a crucial step toward making their world real.

• The studio completed artwork for the first three episodes of Chu Ge’s adapted script in less than three days, and Qiu Wuji approved the results.
• The comic launched on November 11 across Penguin Animation Platform and other sites, debuting with three episodes and a twice-weekly update schedule.
• Qiu Wuji promoted the comic on Weibo, and Chu Ge announced it to his novel readers while highlighting each other’s work.
• The comic reached first place on the Penguin Comics New Releases Chart within an hour, and readers praised its art and faithful, engaging adaptation.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji read the positive comments, and Chu Ge explained that the comic could reach more people and help make their world real.

With the comic underway, Chu Ge returned to the book to visit Qiu Wuji, who had been cultivating on Cloudreach Mountain. They discovered that the world seemed more vivid because the comic’s growing audience had recognized its people and places.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji agreed he would enter the book alone while she stayed to oversee the comic studio and prepare for her driving test.
• Chu Ge arrived on Cloudreach Mountain, where Qiu Wuji had spent a month tempering her sword intent in the snow.
• Qiu Wuji detected Chu Ge’s spatial invisibility and stopped him with her sword energy before he could approach unnoticed.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed how the world had become more vivid and learned that Wang Ming had left the sect to become a monk after appearing in the latest comic installment.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed how people’s awareness made characters in the book more real, while Qiu Wuji warned that Chu Ge needed greater strength to control the changing world. She forced him to cultivate in an icy Sword Prison, then secretly urged his writing shell to compose a side story about her comforting him; Chu Ge began writing it while enduring the cold.

• Chu Ge reasoned that Wang Ming had gained an independent life because people knew he existed, and he and Qiu Wuji agreed that this progress brought them closer to escaping the Heavenly Dao.
• Qiu Wuji warned that Chu Ge’s strength had to grow alongside his control over the world, then sent him into a Sword Prison on her cultivation platform to study Ice-Cold Sword Intent and a Flying Sword technique.
• In the real world, Qiu Wuji brewed tea for Chu Ge as he wrote in a near-unconscious state, then whispered that he should write a private story about her warming him in her arms.
• Inside the book, Chu Ge endured the platform’s freezing Sword Dao formation and admired the techniques Qiu Wuji had developed beyond what he had written for her.
• After hearing Qiu Wuji’s whispered suggestion through his soul, Chu Ge opened a new document and began a side story about Qiu Wuji and the Heavenly Dao’s disciple.

Chu Ge wrote a side story in which Qiu Wuji comforted him on the Ice-Cold Sword Platform, and their embrace stirred feelings in both of them. He comprehended the Ice-Cold Sword Intent and new sword techniques, then Qiu Wuji dragged him away, furious at how far his writing had gone.

• Chu Ge wrote that Qiu Wuji worried about his suffering as he endured the sword intent on the Ice-Cold Sword Platform.
• Qiu Wuji embraced Chu Ge from behind to warm and comfort him while he focused on comprehending the sword intent.
• Chu Ge wrote Qiu Wuji's growing desire to keep holding him, and she reluctantly agreed to embrace him from the front.
• Chu Ge pulled Qiu Wuji into his lap, but stopped short of kissing her and said that holding her was enough.
• Chu Ge revealed that he had comprehended the Ice-Cold Sword Intent and learned three flying sword forms of Ice Profound Sword Art.
• Qiu Wuji hauled Chu Ge off the platform by his ear and ordered him to face the wall without dinner.

Chu Ge studied Qiu Wuji’s sword legacy and learned that he was already strong enough to leave the mountain. He and Qiu Wuji decided to travel toward Yan Qianlie’s distant hideout, the Heart of Blazing Flame.

• In the real world, Qiu Wuji watched Chu Ge abandon the side story and return to writing the main story, and realized he did not want to win her over through contrived writing.
• In the World Within the Book, Chu Ge studied Qiu Wuji’s sword carvings and praised her legacy, while she reminded him that his progress should be faster because he was Father God.
• Qiu Wuji offered Chu Ge a choice between studying in the Scripture Pavilion and challenging disciples, but Chu Ge pointed out that he had already reached the level needed to leave the mountain.
• Chu Ge proposed exploring places outside the book’s main plot, and suggested visiting Yan Qianlie at the Heart of Blazing Flame.
• Qiu Wuji agreed to travel with Chu Ge toward Yan Qianlie’s hideout, and Chu Ge declared that they would leave the mountain.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji traveled incognito through a snowy town near the Cloudreach Sect, where they heard locals praise the sect and its leader. Their leisurely outing took a troubling turn when a patron accused the sect of exploiting miners, leaving them unsure whether they had become the villains in their own story.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji disguised themselves as martial wanderers and stopped at a snowy town near the Cloudreach Sect.
• At the tavern, patrons discussed the Seven-Extinctions Young Master's breakthrough, Chu Tiange's disappearance, and Qiu Wuji's reputation.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge listened as a patron fantasized about getting close to the sect master, and Chu Ge struck him with a peanut.
• A patron accused the Cloudreach Sect of exploiting laborers in its mines, making Qiu Wuji's expression turn livid.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji wondered whether the sect's mining practices meant they were the villains.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge inspected the Cloudreach Sect’s mine, found the workers treated well, and discussed whether she could gradually change society without disrupting the plot. They overheard a young master scheme to approach Qiu Wuji, leaving Chu Ge suspicious that the seemingly minor incident might become something more.

• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge secretly inspected the Cloudreach Sect’s mine and saw the miners working in orderly, comfortable conditions.
• Qiu Wuji asked whether she could promote industry and commerce, and Chu Ge said she could try gradually without taking overly large steps.
• Qiu Wuji sensed a conversation between the tavern man and a young master, who revealed he had spread rumors about the sect to create an excuse to meet her.
• Chu Ge questioned whether the young master was merely pursuing Qiu Wuji or whether someone else was behind his plan.

Lu Shaotong brought a captured Cloudreach Sect deacon to Qiu Wuji, hoping to earn her favor, but she suspected him of orchestrating rumors about the sect. Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge challenged him to a duel so they could uncover his unusual abilities.

• Lu Shaotong arrived at Cloudreach Mountain with a servant carrying the bound, unconscious deacon and greeted Qiu Wuji, who recognized him as the Seven-Extinctions Young Master.
• Qiu Wuji asked about Lu Shaotong's relation to Lu Bingzhang, and Chu Ge laughed when Lu revealed that Lu Bingzhang was his great-grandfather.
• Lu Shaotong explained that he had caught the deacon abusing miners and assaulting women, but Qiu Wuji accused him of spreading the incident's rumors to damage the sect's reputation.
• Qiu Wuji sensed that Lu Shaotong could resist her soul pressure and mystic arts, making her wary of his strange nature.
• Chu Ge challenged Lu Shaotong to a fight, and Qiu Wuji agreed that her disciple should test him rather than risk killing him or searching his soul.
• Chu Ge drew the Lone Goose Sword and told Lu Shaotong to draw his sword.

Lu Shaotong used a strange art to influence Chu Ge during their spar, but Chu Ge used his authority to strip away Lu Shaotong’s power and beat him. Qiu Wuji revealed that Lu Shaotong was a puppet controlled through a golden insect, whose unseen master condemned their world as a false heaven before vanishing.

• Lu Shaotong sparred with Chu Ge while secretly altering his sense of friendliness toward him, then asked Chu Ge to beat him to satisfy Qiu Wuji.
• Chu Ge realized Lu Shaotong was tampering with his spiritual data and used his authority to weaken Lu Shaotong’s cultivation as he struck him.
• Qiu Wuji identified Lu Shaotong as a puppet with implanted consciousness and an experimental cultivation art.
• Lu Shaotong’s consciousness faded, and Qiu Wuji summoned a golden insect from his heart.
• The insect dissolved as its unseen controller called the Heavenly Dao a loophole beneath a false heaven and mocked Qiu Wuji before disappearing.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge uncover that Lu Shaotong was a puppet used by a hidden figure who opposed the Heavenly Dao, and they suspect this figure is seeking powerful allies. They leave Cloudreach Mountain to find Yan Qianlie, with Chu Ge holding Qiu Wuji as they ride her sword.

• Qiu Wuji sent Lu Shaotong’s servant away and learned that Lu Shaotong’s strange behavior began two or three years earlier, around the time she crossed over.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge reasoned that a powerful opponent of the Heavenly Dao had used witchcraft puppets to develop a secret method and conceal his identity.
• Chu Ge suggested the hidden figure would approach Yan Qianlie as a potential ally, so their investigation had not reached a dead end.
• Qiu Wuji teased Chu Ge about being a villainous final boss, then grabbed his ear when he called her a wicked consort.
• Qiu Wuji flew toward Yan Qianlie on her sword, and Chu Ge put his arms around her waist.

Yan Qianlie, recovering as a Primordial Spirit, met a cautious stranger who offered him a route to a Crimson Flame Dragon Bone in exchange for killing or capturing Qiu Wuji’s disciple. Yan Qianlie agreed, secretly amused that he was already serving the Heavenly Dao, but the chapter ended when a subordinate reported that a man and woman had fought their way into the cave.

• Yan Qianlie reflected on his rapid recovery and his new ability to return from death wherever fire elements were present.
• Yan Qianlie demanded news of the materials for a new body, then received a mental transmission from a stranger asking whether he hated the Heavenly Dao.
• The stranger offered Yan Qianlie puppet bodies, but Yan Qianlie refused and asked instead about a Crimson Flame Dragon Bone.
• The stranger revealed that the dragon bone lay a thousand zhang beneath the earth in Jiuli in the Southern Frontier.
• The stranger asked Yan Qianlie to kill or capture Qiu Wuji’s disciple, and Yan Qianlie agreed.
• A subordinate rushed in to warn Yan Qianlie that a man and woman had fought their way into the cave.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji fought their way into Yan Qianlie’s volcano, where they confronted him and spoke privately. Yan Qianlie revealed that someone had asked him to capture Qiu Wuji’s disciple, leaving Chu Ge with a new lead about resistance to the Heavenly Dao.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji landed outside Yan Qianlie’s defenses, where his followers mistook them for intruders and attacked.
• Chu Ge fought the Demonic Path disciples and a Golden Core cultivator, while Qiu Wuji restrained the stronger elders and protected him.
• The pair reached the crater, and Yan Qianlie unleashed pale flames before secretly capturing them and telling his followers to withdraw.
• Yan Qianlie complained that Chu Ge had used his lair for training, then Chu Ge asked whether anyone had approached him about resisting the Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Qianlie said someone had asked him to capture Qiu Wuji’s disciple and that he had been wondering how to stage the encounter.

Chu Ge questioned Yan Qianlie about how he had sensed the Heavenly Dao and developed his White Flame, then used the clues to reason about the mysterious expert who could alter the world. Yan Qianlie revealed how to find the expert at the Dragon Bone Land, where Chu Ge planned to test his suspicions.

• Little Flame told Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji that a mysterious expert had recently visited and that the expert seemed to be using a Heaven-Deceiving Art to gain Heavenly Dao-like powers.
• Chu Ge explained that the expert had likely awakened before Yan Qianlie, then asked Yan Qianlie how he had first sensed the Heavenly Dao and cultivated his White Flame.
• Yan Qianlie recalled sensing the world becoming more real and seeing an indifferent gaze from above, then described creating the White Flame as a way to defy fate.
• Chu Ge reasoned that the expert might be exploiting inconsistencies and loopholes in the world rather than deceiving heaven, and suspected the expert had many puppets.
• Yan Qianlie told Chu Ge that the Dragon Bone Land was the intended meeting place, and Chu Ge planned to meet the expert there and test his suspicions.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji lured Yan Qianlie and Venerable Green Snake to the Dragon Bone Land by staging Chu Ge’s capture. Yan Qianlie and Venerable Green Snake entered the earth together to retrieve the dragon bone and discuss their plans, unaware of the ambush.

• Chu Ge reasoned that the Gu God was probably being used as a false lead to direct attention toward Jiuli in the Southern Frontier.
• Qiu Wuji hid nearby as Yan Qianlie brought the apparently battered Chu Ge to the Dragon Bone Land.
• Venerable Green Snake arrived, and Yan Qianlie convinced him that Chu Ge was Qiu Wuji’s captured personal disciple.
• Yan Qianlie and Venerable Green Snake discussed Chu Ge’s connection to the Heavenly Dao and agreed to retrieve the dragon bone together.
• Yan Qianlie opened a vortex in the earth, and he, Venerable Green Snake, and Chu Ge disappeared underground.

Yan Qianlie accepted the Crimson Flame Dragon Bone while Venerable Green Snake revealed his plan to capture Chu Ge and use him to gain power over the Heavenly Dao. Yan Qianlie and Qiu Wuji exposed and defeated Green Snake, and Chu Ge identified the hidden mastermind as City Lord Xie of Skyreach City.

• Venerable Green Snake told Yan Qianlie he wanted to study and control Chu Ge to gain power resembling the Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Qianlie pretended to consider Green Snake’s offer, then attacked when Chu Ge interrupted and revealed their existing relationship.
• Qiu Wuji appeared and trapped Green Snake with her Prison of Ten Thousand Swords as Yan Qianlie attacked him.
• Green Snake began to self-detonate and threatened Chu Ge, but Chu Ge vanished because he was only a Primordial Spirit projection.
• Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie survived Green Snake’s explosion, and Chu Ge revealed that Green Snake had acted as a scapegoat for City Lord Xie of Skyreach City.
• City Lord Xie opened his eyes in the City in the Clouds, visibly alarmed.

Chu Ge, Qiu Wuji, and Yan Qianlie arrived at Skyreach City, where Xie Jiuxiao welcomed them after realizing his schemes had been exposed. Chu Ge spared Xie Jiuxiao’s life for the moment and demanded an explanation of how he had altered someone’s consciousness.

• Xie Jiuxiao told his daughter Yun'er to go into seclusion, then ordered Skyreach City to welcome the guests.
• Chu Ge teleported Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie to Skyreach City, and the three entered on a cloud path arranged by Xie Jiuxiao.
• Xie Jiuxiao admitted that Yan Qianlie had deceived him and hosted the three in the empty city lord’s residence.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge drank Xie Jiuxiao’s wine, and Qiu Wuji asked him for three jars to benefit Chu Ge’s cultivation.
• Chu Ge asked whether Xie Jiuxiao had used Lu Shaotong’s love for Qiu Wuji to approach her, and Xie Jiuxiao said he had intended to manipulate her consciousness to seize Heaven.
• Chu Ge spared Xie Jiuxiao’s life and said Skyreach City would remain standing if Xie Jiuxiao explained how he altered another person’s consciousness.

Xie Jiuxiao explained how he discovered the Heavenly Dao’s interference with fate and developed the Heaven-Deceiving Art. After admitting his ambition had led him astray, he took his own life to test whether the world’s ordained design could withstand his unexpected death.

• Xie Jiuxiao described how inconsistencies in Chu Tiange and Yun’er’s past, and in Qiu Wuji’s fate, led him to develop the Heaven-Deceiving Art.
• Xie Jiuxiao explained that he had distrusted Qiu Wuji, allied with Yan Qianlie, and used puppetry while pursuing his plan to seize Heaven’s place.
• Chu Ge revealed that he had identified Xie Jiuxiao through his connection to Skyreach City and his character, then criticized him for controlling people and provoking conflict between Shenzhou and the Southern Frontier.
• Xie Jiuxiao admitted that his justification for blaming Gu God had become an excuse, and Qiu Wuji urged him to recognize his wrongdoing.
• Xie Jiuxiao dispersed his cultivation and died by his own choice, seeking to test whether his death would disrupt the Heavenly Dao’s ordained design.
• Yan Qianlie honored Xie Jiuxiao as a great man of the Orthodox Path.

Chu Ge revived Xie Jiuxiao and angrily explained that the Heavenly Dao had not intended to control him, while Qiu Wuji helped clarify why she and Yan Qianlie had cooperated with Chu Ge. Xie Jiuxiao accepted responsibility for his crimes and agreed to release his puppets and face their vengeance.

• Chu Ge revived Xie Jiuxiao, who accused him of refusing to permit death, and Chu Ge angrily explained that Xie Jiuxiao had misunderstood the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Ge told Xie Jiuxiao that living offered a chance to shape his own future, while dying would not stop the Heavenly Dao or protect anyone.
• Qiu Wuji explained that she had cooperated with Chu Ge because he treated his creations differently from someone seeking to seize control of the Heavenly Dao.
• Xie Jiuxiao admitted that controlling others had tempted him and that he had used his belief about the Heavenly Dao to justify his actions.
• Chu Ge said he would revive Lu Shaotong and Venerable Green Snake, require Xie Jiuxiao to free his puppets, and alter Xie Jiuxiao's consciousness so he revered Heaven.
• Yan Qianlie reflected that the Heavenly Dao could undo deaths and mistakes, and that no one was born on the Demonic Path.