Recaps

Su Qian refused to marry Jiang Chen, while Su Jinrou proposed marrying Jiang Yantian, and both families settled on discussing Su Qian and Jiang Chen’s marriage. On the journey home, Jiang Yantian’s sisters began competing to marry him too.

• Su Qian rejected the marriage to Jiang Chen and demanded that Su Jinrou take her place, but Su Jinrou declared that she loved Jiang Yantian and would marry only him.
• Jiang Lei and Jiang Yantian eagerly agreed to Su Jinrou’s proposal, while Jiang Chen silently despaired and Jiang Yantian gained Humiliation Points.
• Marquis Su and Jiang Lei insisted that Jiang Chen marry Su Qian, ordered both to reflect on their actions, and ended the dispute with plans to discuss the marriage.
• Jiang Yunbing asked Jiang Yantian whether he would marry Su Jinrou, and he teased her by offering to marry her as well.
• Jiang Yunyu suggested that all five sisters marry Jiang Yantian, prompting Jiang Yunbing to claim she would marry him first.

Jiang Yantian discovered three Fortune Figures in the street and learned they were tied to scripts he had previously rejected. He decided to recruit Ye Ji as a disciple and use the newly unlocked Disciple Entrapment Function, then approached him.

• Jiang Yantian spotted a battered boy, a prosperous farm girl, and a lavishly dressed woman, each surrounded by spiritual radiance.
• The system identified the boy as Ye Ji, the farm girl as Qingyan, and the woman as Yuan Chujiu, explaining their roles in three separate scripts.
• Jiang Yantian considered how to profit from the three and chose to turn Ye Ji into one of his people rather than target the women.
• The system unlocked the Disciple Entrapment Function, which rewarded Jiang Yantian when his disciple gained cultivation or caused trouble under an alias.
• Jiang Yantian accepted a mission to tame Ye Ji and walked over to the boy as he picked up vegetable leaves.

Jiang Yantian found the abused Ye Ji and began drawing him out of his fearful, submissive habits. After making Ye Ji retaliate against a restaurant waiter who insulted him, Jiang Yantian brought him into Good Fortune House, where Ye Ji faced the contempt of the other diners.

• Jiang Yantian learned about Ye Ji’s miserable upbringing and decided to take him in, believing he needed to kill his abusive family first.
• Jiang Yantian approached Ye Ji at a vegetable stall, where Ye Ji was gathering rotten leaves to eat, and invited him to talk elsewhere.
• Jiang Yantian left a gold ingot for the kind vegetable seller and led Ye Ji to Good Fortune House.
• A waiter tried to drive Ye Ji away, so Jiang Yantian ordered Ye Ji to slap him twice; Ye Ji obeyed and felt the satisfaction of striking back.
• Jiang Yantian took Ye Ji into the restaurant and ordered food while the other diners looked at Ye Ji with contempt.

Jiang Yantian brought the starving Ye Ji to a lavish restaurant, then secretly arranged to have him framed for stealing a gold ingot and publicly humiliated. As the crowd beat Ye Ji, his resentment and fury began to awaken something within him.

• Jiang Yantian reassured Ye Ji and let him eat, then left after placing a gold ingot on the table.
• Jiang Yantian instructed waiters to turn the diners against Ye Ji, while a man secretly took the ingot and hid it in Ye Ji’s belt.
• When Ye Ji accused the man of stealing, the diners dismissed him because he was poor, and the man challenged them to search him.
• A folding-fan-wielding man searched the suspect and found no gold, then the ingot fell from Ye Ji’s clothes as he prepared to be searched.
• The diners accused Ye Ji of theft, and the suspect kicked him down before inviting the crowd to join in beating him.
• As the crowd kicked Ye Ji, he felt intense resentment and sensed something awakening deep within him.

Jiang Yantian tried to provoke Ye Ji into releasing his resentment, then brought him home after refusing to take him as a disciple. Ye Ji’s abusive family confronted him over the food he had brought back, and Jiang Yantian remained hidden nearby as the final provocation began.

• Ye Ji broke free from his tormentors and threatened them with a shard of a wine jar, but Jiang Yantian judged that he still lacked the resolve to kill.
• Jiang Yantian weakened Ye Ji and let the crowd beat him again, then drove them away and healed Ye Ji with a pill.
• Ye Ji asked Jiang Yantian to take him as a disciple, but Jiang Yantian called him a coward and said he would take him home and end their connection.
• Jiang Yantian carried Ye Ji through the air to his village, intending to let his family provoke him further, then vanished nearby to watch.
• Ye Ji’s mother struck him, took the food he had brought home, and demanded to know how much money he had left.

Jiang Yantian pushed Ye Ji toward violence, then framed Jiang Chen for smashing the Jiang Lineage ancestral tablets and watched the family punish him. Jiang Chen recognized the setup and attacked Jiang Yantian, but the others still treated Jiang Yantian as innocent.

• Jiang Yantian injected black light into Ye Ji to intensify his resentment and told him to find him at the Good Fortune Restaurant after dealing with the family searching him.
• Jiang Yantian visited Jiang Chen in the ancestral hall, mocked his marriage to Su Qian, smashed the ancestral tablets, knocked him unconscious, and staged the scene to make him look guilty.
• After servants discovered the wrecked ancestral hall, Jiang Lei beat Jiang Chen while Jiang Yunbing rejected his claim that Jiang Yantian had been responsible.
• Jiang Yantian entered the ancestral hall acting as though he had just returned, and Jiang Chen lunged at him, accusing him of framing him and calling him the Jiang Lineage's chief culprit.

Jiang Chen swore a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath, and Jiang Yantian secretly triggered Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning to make the oath appear genuine. Jiang Yantian staged a heroic rescue and fooled the Jiang family, but Jiang Chen realized he was faking and was struck down when he tried to expose him.

• Jiang Lei slapped Jiang Chen repeatedly after Jiang Chen attacked Jiang Yantian, and Jiang Chen insisted he had been framed.
• Jiang Chen swore a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath that he had not caused the damage, while Jiang Yantian secretly activated Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning.
• Purple lightning descended over the Jiang Lineage, and Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye joined forces to shield Jiang Chen from it.
• Jiang Yantian shielded Jiang Chen from a bolt, secretly punched him, then pretended to collapse and voiced concern for his family and Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen saw Jiang Yantian wink and realized the rescue was an act, but Shen Qiuye slapped him and sent him crashing into a rockery when he tried to reveal it.

After Shen Qiuye struck Jiang Chen, he gave up hope of winning the Jiang Lineage’s approval and resolved to grow stronger and take revenge. Confined to his quarters, he received a meager meal, prompting Nanny Gui to confront Nanny Liu and launch a furious quarrel.

• Shen Qiuye slapped Jiang Chen into an artificial mountain, and the Jiang Lineage hurried to care for Jiang Yantian while Jiang Chen wept over the unfair treatment he had suffered.
• Jiang Chen vowed to stop seeking the Jiang Lineage’s affection, then agreed to return to his room and reflect when an older serving woman told him he was forbidden to leave.
• Jiang Chen planned to study formations during his confinement and obtain the treasure beneath the dry well so he could sever his ties to the Jiang Lineage and pursue revenge.
• Nanny Gui, Jiang Chen’s only supporter, inspected his meal and objected to the scraps and scorched rice delivered to him.
• Nanny Liu defended the poor meal and insulted Jiang Chen, so Nanny Gui challenged her and the two nannies traded insults in the courtyard.

Jiang Yantian spent two days being nursed by Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu, then seized a private moment with Jiang Yunbing while Jiang Chen resolved to stop helping his elder sisters. The chapter ended with Jiang Yunyu tending Jiang Yantian and saying she assumed Jiang Chen was dead.

• Jiang Chen grew angry over the scraps brought to his room, then decided he would no longer help his elder sisters with their troubles.
• Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu stayed by Jiang Yantian's bedside, feeding and caring for him until he became restless.
• Jiang Yantian drew Jiang Yunbing into his embrace, and she kissed him after realizing he feared losing her.
• Jiang Yantian posted a warning on his door and placed a restriction on it so no one would interrupt them.
• Jiang Yunyu read the warning and left, while Jiang Yunbing later returned to her room exhausted.
• Jiang Yunyu brought Jiang Yantian soup and told him she thought Jiang Chen was dead.

Jiang Yantian visited Jiang Chen while he was confined, provoking him until Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye arrived and mistook Jiang Chen’s anger for ingratitude. Jiang Chen lost his composure as his parents defended Yantian and he gained Humiliation Points.

• Jiang Yantian slapped Nanny Gui when she tried to stop him from entering Jiang Chen’s room, then threatened to spread a rumor that she and Jiang Chen were lovers.
• Jiang Yantian knocked on Jiang Chen’s door and repeatedly asked after his health, food, and mood, while Jiang Chen told him to leave.
• Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye arrived and heard Jiang Chen curse at Jiang Yantian, then accused Jiang Chen of mistreating the brother who had saved him.
• Jiang Yantian denied that Jiang Chen had humiliated him, but Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye insisted that they would get justice for him.
• Jiang Chen became overwhelmed as his parents reprimanded him, and he received 70,000 Humiliation Points.

Jiang Yantian slapped Jiang Chen twice, then accompanied Jiang Lei to the imperial palace to thank the emperor. After the emperor inexplicably granted him the privilege of never bowing, Jiang Yantian wandered to the imperial harem and met Empress Lady Lü by a lotus pond.

• Jiang Yantian slapped Jiang Chen twice, snapping him out of his violent haze and then making him break down in tears.
• Jiang Lei invited Jiang Yantian to the imperial palace to thank the emperor, and Shen Qiuye warned him to behave and avoid wandering into the harem.
• Jiang Lei and Jiang Yantian entered the palace and bowed to the emperor, who became dizzy and declared that Jiang Yantian never needed to bow to him again.
• Jiang Yantian wandered near the imperial harem, stopped to fish in a lotus pond, and encountered Empress Lady Lü.
• Jiang Yantian explained to Lady Lü that he had come to thank the emperor and had stopped to enjoy the scenery and fish.

Jiang Yantian used an illusion barrier to conceal his improper encounter with Empress Lü on a palace bridge. Afterward, Empress Lü left the bridge happy, while the attendants believed the two had only been chatting.

• Empress Lü welcomed Jiang Yantian, her old friend Shen Qiuye's son, and agreed to try fishing with him.
• Jiang Yantian screened off part of the covered bridge with an illusion so the attendants could not see what happened there.
• Jiang Yantian embraced Empress Lü from behind while helping her fish, then stopped her from leaving and told her about the barrier.
• Empress Lü responded to Jiang Yantian's kiss, and the two spent several hours together while the attendants assumed they were chatting.
• Empress Lü tidied herself, struck Jiang Yantian's chest, and left smiling.

Jiang Yantian and Empress Lü agreed to meet secretly again, then he staged the arrival of a mysterious powerhouse in the imperial palace to have the emperor search for Jiang Chen. He left after promising a reward for finding a person born at the hour, day, and month of Chen, laying groundwork for a future explanation of his cultivation.

• Empress Lü embraced Jiang Yantian, and they agreed that he would visit her as her secret lover while she remained empress and wife to another.
• Jiang Yantian left Empress Lü with a promise to visit again, and her maid and attendants mistook their closeness for a heart-to-heart with her nephew.
• After dismissing his escort, Jiang Yantian revealed overwhelming cultivation beneath black mist, prompting six imperial guards to approach him respectfully.
• Jiang Yantian told the guards that he sought a person born in the month, day, and hour of Chen to take as his final disciple, and asked the emperor to find him.
• Jiang Yantian promised the imperial dynasty one request in return, then left the palace and returned to his usual appearance.
• Jiang Yantian planned to use the search for Jiang Chen to set up a story that a powerful master had mistaken Jiang Chen for him and passed on cultivation.

Jiang Yantian recruited Ye Ji, gave him cultivation supplies and orders to cause trouble, and earned back his investment when Ye Ji burned the restaurant and killed a waiter. Jiang Yantian then returned to the Jiang residence, where Marquis Su's family had arrived to discuss Jiang Chen's marriage.

• Jiang Yantian found wanted notices accusing Ye Ji of slaughtering half a village and met him at the Good Fortune Restaurant.
• Ye Ji told Jiang Yantian he regretted not standing up for himself sooner and asked to become his disciple.
• Jiang Yantian gave Ye Ji a demonic cultivation art, pills, jade containing ten attacks, and a spirit weapon, and told him to leave the dynasty and keep making enemies.
• Ye Ji burned down the restaurant and killed the waiter who had wronged him, earning Jiang Yantian 10,000 Humiliation Points.
• Jiang Yantian returned to the Jiang residence and saw Marquis Su, Lady Zhao, their daughters, and Jiang Chen gathered with Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye.

Jiang Yantian joined the elders as they arranged Jiang Chen and Su Qian’s marriage, then secretly flirted with Su Jinrou and hurried the betrothal along. Su Qian accepted that she would marry Jiang Chen but began wondering whether she could still pursue Jiang Yantian afterward.

• Jiang Yantian arrived while the elders discussed Jiang Chen’s marriage and told his mother he had spent several hours with the Empress.
• Jiang Yantian flirted with Su Jinrou across the room, while Jiang Chen watched jealously and gained Humiliation Points.
• The elders agreed to deliver the betrothal gifts in seven days, and Jiang Yantian repeatedly interrupted Jiang Chen’s attempts to object.
• Jiang Yantian congratulated Su Qian on becoming his sister-in-law, and Su Qian wondered whether she could still be intimate with him after marrying Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen and Su Qian agreed to let their families arrange their marriage, each secretly planning to use it for their own ends. Jiang Yantian gave them mocking gifts while favoring Su Jinrou, then led her away, leaving the newly engaged pair together.

• Jiang Chen prepared to object to marrying Su Qian, but Su Qian agreed to the match, and he reluctantly decided to pretend to accept it for now.
• Su Qian and Jiang Chen each privately planned to exploit the marriage, while the elders settled the arrangement and left the three younger people in the hall.
• Jiang Yantian gave Jiang Chen a bottle and Su Qian a book as wedding gifts, then gave Su Jinrou pills and a protective hairpin.
• Jiang Yantian put the hairpin on Su Jinrou and led her outside, while she followed nervously, expecting a moment of happiness.

Jiang Yantian lured Su Jinrou into the garden with a story about a cat, then brought her to a secluded sea of flowers and tried to put her at ease. When Su Jinrou revealed that the Junior Preceptor had proposed to her, Jiang Yantian recognized the description of a woman he associated with black stockings and Flying Snow Tower.

• Jiang Yantian took Su Jinrou from the main hall to the garden and tricked her into following him into the flowers by claiming a cat was doing backflips.
• Jiang Yantian and Su Jinrou discussed their shared interest in music, and he praised her talent with wind instruments.
• Jiang Yantian laid out a camping mat, and Su Jinrou realized he had been leading her into a private, intimate situation; she admitted she was nervous.
• Jiang Yantian asked Su Jinrou about a marriage proposal, and she explained that the Junior Preceptor had casually raised the matter while dining at Flying Snow Tower.
• Jiang Yantian reacted with surprise and asked whether the proposal involved a young married woman wearing black stockings.

Jiang Yantian enjoyed rare leisure while building the Heaven-Serving Divine Sect and granting worshippers’ wishes. When an imperial edict summoned people born in the month, day, and hour of Chen, Jiang Chen believed a supreme expert wanted him as a disciple and went to the palace, while Jiang Yantian prepared to follow and interfere.

• Jiang Yantian and Su Jinrou returned from the sea of flowers, and he told Marquis Su and Lady Zhao they had been admiring flowers.
• The first worship hall was established, and Jiang Yantian granted several worshippers’ wishes, gaining power of faith and Humiliation Points.
• The Dragon Martial Imperial Dynasty issued an edict summoning people born in the month, day, and hour of Chen to the capital.
• Jiang Lei told Jiang Chen that a supreme expert might be seeking a disciple, and Jiang Chen eagerly agreed to go to the palace.
• Jiang Yantian learned Jiang Chen had left and decided to go to the palace himself so he could make Jiang Chen lose face.

Jiang Yantian arranged a competition among Dragon-born subjects while secretly treating the search for a disciple as a farce. As he watched Jiang Chen prepare to compete, Grand Princess Anning surprised him by kissing him and demanding that he take responsibility by marrying her.

• Jiang Yantian appeared above the martial arena and ordered the Dragon Martial Imperial Dynasty to hold a competition to choose his disciple.
• The dynasty eliminated ordinary people and began matches among the cultivators, while Jiang Chen believed Jiang Yantian had chosen him and watched for a chance to impress him.
• Jiang Yantian returned to the crowd and watched the competition, recognizing Grand Princess Anning when she approached him.
• Jiang Yantian told Grand Princess Anning that she was annoying and suggested they kiss to make her stop talking.
• Grand Princess Anning led Jiang Yantian behind a barrier, kissed him passionately, and told him to take responsibility by marrying her.

Jiang Yantian rejected Grand Princess Anning’s demand to claim him, then watched Jiang Chen reach the final four of the disciple contest. After an imperial expert extravagantly praised the mysterious senior the winner would meet, Jiang Chen prepared to fight with the Spirit-Charging Cauldron, which Jiang Yantian thought was a chamber pot.

• Jiang Yantian denied responsibility for kissing Grand Princess Anning and left her stunned with a rambling speech about belonging to all under heaven.
• Jiang Yantian watched the contest from a tower as Jiang Chen fought carefully and advanced to the final four.
• Jiang Chen revealed the Spirit-Charging Cauldron, which Jiang Yantian recognized as a chamber pot.
• An imperial Spirit Transformation expert announced a four-person free-for-all and claimed the mysterious senior would personally meet the winner.
• The Spirit Transformation expert praised the mysterious senior in extravagant terms, delighting Jiang Yantian and inspiring the finalists.
• Jiang Chen vowed to fight alongside the Spirit-Charging Cauldron as the final round began.

Jiang Chen won the four-person contest by using the Spirit-Charging Cauldron, though the crowd mistook it for a chamber pot and ridiculed him. Jiang Yantian then caused Chujiu to fly toward Jiang Chen, leaving them in a staged embrace that could help provoke the Marquis of Pacifying the South.

• Jiang Chen formed a beginner formation as the other three contestants teamed up against him.
• Jiang Chen used the Spirit-Charging Cauldron to fend off their attacks, while spectators mocked the artifact as a giant chamber pot.
• Jiang Chen knocked all three opponents off the platform and won, earning humiliation notifications from the system.
• Jiang Yantian spotted Chujiu in the crowd and exploded the steamed bun in her hand, sending her flying toward the platform.
• Jiang Chen caught Chujiu and landed with her in his arms after Jiang Yantian secretly altered his movements.

Jiang Yantian staged a grand display to claim Jiang Chen as his disciple, then took him away and set him through bizarre trials. Jiang Chen cut off a finger to pass the second trial, but learned the third required him to endure false accusations by admitting to them.

• Jiang Chen accidentally caught Chujiu after her bun exploded, and she fled in embarrassment while onlookers feared the Marquis of Pacifying the South would retaliate.
• Jiang Yantian created a thunderous spectacle over the Dragon Martial Imperial Dynasty and carried Jiang Chen away on the Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain.
• Jiang Yantian told Jiang Chen he had passed the first trial and promised to teach him enough to become a Mahayana powerhouse within a hundred years if he passed four trials.
• Jiang Yantian instructed Jiang Chen to cut off a finger to sever his inner demon, and Jiang Chen immediately did so.
• Jiang Yantian explained that the third trial required Jiang Chen to admit to false accusations and endure the resulting slander, leaving Jiang Chen uneasy.

Jiang Yantian tricked Jiang Chen into accepting dangerous gifts and left him in a beast-infested mountain range. Back in the Martial Capital, Jiang Yantian arranged a special opera performance for Jiang Chen’s wedding.

• Jiang Chen agreed to endure humiliation without retaliating, and Jiang Yantian exchanged for golden powder, a defective Heaven-Reaching Rope, and an absorbable uranium meteorite.
• Jiang Yantian presented the three items to Jiang Chen with misleading instructions, then laid a formation to attract exotic beasts and departed.
• Jiang Chen vowed revenge against Jiang Yantian, but a black python and other third-rank exotic beasts surrounded him and chased him as he fled.
• Jiang Yantian returned to the Jiang Lineage estate, saw preparations for Jiang Chen’s wedding, and told Laifu to hire an opera troupe to perform his supplied songs.
• Laifu admired Jiang Yantian’s lyrics and scores, including “Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts” and a song about borrowing souls.

Jiang Yantian’s plan to raise Jiang Chen’s reputation left the Jiang Lineage worried about the backlash, while Jiang Chen recovered from a beast attack in a ruined temple with three Rogue Cultivators. He survived and began cultivating, but their nighttime antics kept him awake.

• Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye worried that the crowds praising Jiang Chen would bring jealousy and danger to the Jiang Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian reflected that his plan to make Jiang Chen a target of praise was working as people across the Martial Capital speculated about his fate.
• Jiang Chen, badly injured after hundreds of exotic beasts chased him, was rescued by Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai.
• Jiang Chen thanked the three Rogue Cultivators and rested with them in a ruined temple, believing his master had secretly driven the beasts away.
• Jiang Chen tried to recover by cultivating, but Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai’s intimate behavior behind a Buddha statue kept him awake.

Jiang Chen discovered that listening to Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai greatly accelerated his cultivation, and his injuries healed as he neared the Golden Core barrier. He traveled with them to the Martial Capital and invited them to his wedding banquet at the State-Protecting Duke Manor before heading back to confront Jiang Yantian.

• Jiang Chen realized that listening to Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai helped him absorb Spiritual Qi faster, and he cultivated through the night until his injuries were mostly healed.
• Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai invited Jiang Chen to join them, but he declined and said he was returning to the Martial Capital.
• Jiang Chen agreed to travel with the trio after learning they were heading to the Martial Capital too, and they were startled when he flew on a chamber pot spiritual artifact.
• Jiang Chen invited Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai to his wedding banquet at the State-Protecting Duke Manor, then parted from them and headed toward the Jiang Lineage.
• Jiang Chen heard people talking along the way and looked forward to seeing how Jiang Yantian would respond to his return.