Chapter Summaries

Xie Jinhuan prepared for his grand wedding in Capital City as guests and brides gathered, while Xie Wen arrived hungover and confused. The chapter ended with Ye Ci leaving his post overseeing Heaven and Earth to attend his daughter’s wedding.

• Xie Wen woke after a drunken blackout, and Yang Dabiao hurried him toward the Marquis's Residence for Xie Jinhuan's wedding.
• Mu Yunling, Li Jing, Lü Yan, Monk Wuxin, Lu Wuzhen, and other cultivators traveled to Capital City to attend the wedding.
• Xie Jinhuan welcomed guests while the brides and their attendants prepared for the wedding ceremony, and Ling'er invited Ye Yunchi's three students to stay nearby.
• Madam Han nearly bewitched Crown Prince Zhao De before Ye Yunchi warned her of his identity and demanded her mother's letter in return for help.
• Ye Ci reflected on Ye Yunchi's marriage and left his post atop the Eight Directions Illumination Tower to attend the wedding.

Xie Jinhuan married twelve brides in a grand ceremony attended by the emperor, Ye Sheng, and many powerful guests. After the vows, he toasted his fathers-in-law and the imperial family as the wedding feast began.

• Xie Jinhuan and his twelve brides completed their wedding bows, while A Piao needed Xiaomei's help to bow properly.
• Zhao De teased Ye Sheng, who immobilized him, and guests including Bao Xiaolin nervously watched the ceremony.
• The brides bowed to Xie Jinhuan and were led to the bridal chamber as Coal Ball called for the feast to begin.
• Xie Jinhuan toasted Ye Ci, who warned him that greater trials lay ahead, then received Zhao Xiao and Empress Xu's advice about family and the future.
• Xie Jinhuan toasted Lin Fangzhi, Madam Lin, and Bu Qingya, who offered to help him care for Yuehua.

On his wedding night, Xie Jinhuan played a series of guessing games with his brides and their allies, then joined a chaotic second round that ended amid laughter and fireworks. Danyang City celebrated the end of the turmoil, while the story looked ahead to Xie Jinhuan’s long road toward the woman waiting at the Summit of the Gods.

• Ye Hongshang led Xie Jinhuan into a hall where sixteen veiled brides tested whether he could identify them by offering them wine.
• Xie Jinhuan recognized many of the brides, including Linghu Qingmo, Empress Dowager Guo, Nangong Ye, Lin Wanyi, and Zhao Ling, while Qinwen, Hongdou, and others surprised him.
• He and the brides began a second round involving swapped bodies, but the guessing game quickly turned into a chaotic group battle.
• Fireworks filled the skies over Danyang City as the celebrations marked the end of the turmoil and the beginning of Xie Jinhuan’s journey toward the Summit of the Gods.

Xie Jinhuan woke after three days unconscious following his wedding and learned that Lin Wanyi had tried to wake him so she could take him to visit her parents. Meanwhile, Nangong Ye and her colleagues discussed their young helpers’ work, and Xuan'er toured the Capital City with Jiang Xian.

• Ye Hongshang showed Xie Jinhuan a Crystal Ball replay of how she persuaded Lin Wanyi to try waking him by sucking the poison from his wine-like anesthetic.
• Xie Jinhuan woke and teased Lin Wanyi about her efforts, then pulled her beneath the quilt as Ye Hongshang joined them.
• Linghu Qingmo praised Shuyao and Xiao Chai's work and described how Xuan'er and Xiao Biao dressed as ghosts to frighten Steward Hou.
• Ye Yunchi warned Linghu Qingmo to keep Xuan'er apart from Zisu, whose craftsmanship could worsen the trouble caused by Xuan'er's ideas and Xiao Biao's eagerness.
• Jiang Xian showed Xuan'er around the Capital City and offered to introduce her to a capable friend.

At Lin Fangzhi’s banquet, Lin Zisu tested a medicine that let everyone nearby hear Lin Wanyi’s thoughts, exposing Wanyi’s private feelings and drawing Bu Yuehua and Xie Jinhuan into the resulting teasing. The carriage ride back ended with Wanyi scolding Zisu, while secretly appreciating her daughter’s offer to help.

• Lin Fangzhi and Xie Wen reminisced about the marriage arrangement as Xie Jinhuan and Lin Wanyi attended the banquet with their family.
• Lin Zisu, distracted by the idea of a Loud Conspiracy Pill, put Xie Jinhuan’s hand on Lin Wanyi’s breast, and Ye Hongshang teased and threatened him.
• On the ride home, Lin Zisu gave Lin Wanyi a powder that made her thoughts audible to everyone nearby.
• Lin Wanyi’s unspoken comments revealed what she had agreed to do with Bu Yuehua, and Bu Yuehua confronted her before Xie Jinhuan intervened.
• Lin Wanyi smacked Lin Zisu for causing trouble, then secretly approved when Zisu offered to help her kiss Xie Jinhuan.

Xie Jinhuan returned to the Danyang Marquis Household and joined his wives for a banquet, where Zisu’s pill made Empress Dowager Guo and Qixia True Person involuntarily reveal their thoughts. The chapter ended with He Can and Zhang Chu establishing the Winter Nether Sect in the Yellow-Sand Great Desert.

• Xie Jinhuan left Nine Dragons Hall, returned to the Danyang Marquis Household, and greeted Empress Dowager Guo while his father, Xie Wen, paid her a visit.
• Xie Jinhuan joined Zhao Ling, Ye Hongshang, and the others for a lakeside banquet, where Ye Hongshang briefly transformed into her enormous form.
• Zisu gave Empress Dowager Guo a pill that made her thoughts audible, and Jiang Xian accidentally took another pill and revealed Qixia True Person’s thoughts as well.
• The women turned the banquet into a game involving the pills, while Xie Jinhuan teased Ye Hongshang and tried to persuade her to call him her darling big brother.
• In the Yellow-Sand Great Desert, He Can and Zhang Chu worked on the Winter Nether Sect’s courtyard and carved a cultivation technique into a stele disguised with Buddhist imagery.