Recaps

Jiang Chen returned to the duke's residence amid a sudden rise in his fame and was asked to name the Chen and Bi families' sons. Jiang Yantian seized both chances to make Jiang Chen appear to choose ridiculous names, and Jiang Chen left the chapter enduring the humiliation.

• Jiang Chen accepted Zhang Mazi's pastries but paid for them, while merchants used his name to sell goods around town.
• Jiang Chen returned to the duke's residence and met the Chen and Bi couples, who asked him to name their sons because they believed he was blessed with great fortune.
• Jiang Chen agreed to name the Chen family's child, but Jiang Yantian declared the name Chen Goudan before Jiang Chen could speak, and Jiang Chen endured the humiliation.
• Jiang Chen praised the Bi family's child's auspicious birth, but Jiang Yantian again interrupted and named him Bi Yuntao.

Jiang Yantian exposed Jiang Chen's visit to Phoenix Arrival House by drawing attention to his missing finger, leading Jiang Lei to punish him. Jiang Chen went to the ancestral hall, where Jiang Yantian followed with a wicked smile.

• Jiang Yantian redirected the family’s discussion toward Jiang Chen’s visit to Phoenix Arrival House, and Jiang Chen’s guilty reaction made Jiang Lei suspicious.
• Jiang Lei ordered Jiang Chen to show his hand, revealing that he was missing a finger, and Jiang Chen claimed he had injured it while cultivating.
• Jiang Lei gave Jiang Chen Injury Recovery Pills and sent him to the ancestral hall to reflect on visiting a brothel before his wedding to Su Qian.
• Jiang Yantian told Jiang Lei he would try to reconcile with Jiang Chen, then went to the ancestral hall with a wicked smile as Jiang Chen knelt inside.

Jiang Yantian framed Jiang Chen for damaging the ancestral hall, and Jiang Lei punished Jiang Chen while Jiang Chen kept quiet, trusting that an Image-Recording Stone would reveal the truth. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen unaware that Jiang Yantian had sabotaged the recording.

• Jiang Chen placed an Image-Recording Stone in the ancestral hall, hoping to capture Jiang Yantian if he tried to frame him.
• Jiang Yantian knocked Jiang Chen unconscious, destroyed his recording stone, and replaced it with one positioned to record only the pillar at first.
• Jiang Yantian staged the scene by stuffing Jiang Chen with pastries and wine, damaging ancestral tablets, and arranging the recording stone to make Jiang Chen appear responsible.
• Jiang Yantian called for help and pretended to discover the damage, while Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye arrived and found Jiang Chen surrounded by broken jars and disturbed tablets.
• Jiang Lei slapped Jiang Chen awake and accused him of dishonoring the ancestors; Jiang Chen endured the punishment, believing the recording stone would clear his name.

Jiang Lei watched the Image-Recording Stone and concluded that Jiang Chen had attacked Jiang Yantian, then beat Jiang Chen for slandering and mistreating him. Jiang Chen was left kneeling before Jiang Yantian and crying out in pain as Jiang Lei continued the punishment.

• Jiang Lei struck Jiang Chen after Jiang Chen denied responsibility, while Jiang Yantian watched and Jiang Yunbing accused Jiang Chen of making excuses.
• Jiang Lei found an Image-Recording Stone and played it for Shen Qiuye and the others.
• The recording showed Jiang Chen lying drunk before Jiang Yantian entered and went to check on him, so Jiang Lei rejected Jiang Chen's claim that it proved Jiang Yantian had framed him.
• Jiang Lei ordered Jiang Yantian to stand beside him, then dragged Jiang Chen over to kneel before him.
• Jiang Lei beat Jiang Chen with a cane, naming slander, arrogance, hypocrisy, sowing discord, and betraying trust as reasons for each strike.

Jiang Yantian watched Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye beat Jiang Chen for falsely accusing him, then Jiang Chen was confined to his room. Hoping to heal his injuries with his master's golden powder, Jiang Chen bathed in and drank it, and discovered a white worm crawling on his arm.

• Jiang Lei beat Jiang Chen harder after seeing Jiang Yantian endure the false accusations in silence.
• Shen Qiuye took over the beating and struck Jiang Chen until he had received two hundred and fifty strokes.
• Jiang Chen was carried to his room, confined until the wedding banquet, and made a necklace from the shrunken Heaven-Reaching Rope and uranium meteorite.
• Jiang Chen mixed his master's golden powder into bathwater and a cup of water, then bathed in it and drank it.
• Jiang Chen felt his injuries itching and spotted a little white worm crawling on his arm.

Jiang Chen mistook the solidified Spiritual Qi in his bath for manure, then ate it while Jiang Yantian earned Humiliation Points and bargained with his system over a new achievement. After accepting missions for Jiang Chen’s wedding, Jiang Yantian encountered the empress and her son, whom he unexpectedly called the Crown Prince.

• Jiang Chen discovered that the tiny larvae in his bath contained refined Spiritual Qi and ate them, while Jiang Yantian received Humiliation Points from the system’s reports.
• Jiang Yantian gained an achievement for protagonists encountering things related to poop, but the system retracted it after he planned to exploit the reward; they negotiated compensation and a discount on the Chaos Small World.
• Jiang Yantian accepted missions connected to Jiang Chen’s wedding, including embarrassing him and bringing him close to the Marquis of Pacifying the South’s wife, while postponing the mission to reject him as a disciple.
• Jiang Yantian left to visit Jiang Yunbing but encountered Shen Qiuye, the empress, and her son Wei Yu.
• Jiang Yantian greeted Wei Yu as the Crown Prince, startling everyone because the succession had not yet been settled.

Empress Lü visited the Jiang residence to speak privately with Jiang Yantian, leaving pleased and rejuvenated after their long conversation. After she departed with Wei Yu, Grand Princess Anning arrived at the residence to see Jiang Yantian.

• Jiang Yantian addressed the emperor as a crown prince, and Empress Lü and Shen Qiuye covered for his reckless remark.
• Empress Lü dismissed Shen Qiuye and sent Wei Yu to explore the estate while she spoke with Jiang Yantian.
• Empress Lü spent the afternoon with Jiang Yantian, then left the residence with Wei Yu after dark.
• Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye saw Empress Lü off and wondered at her unusual happiness and improved appearance.
• Grand Princess Anning arrived at the Jiang residence, and Jiang Lei invited her inside.

Grand Princess Anning came to the Jiang residence to pursue Jiang Yantian, but Nanny Gui mistook her interest for affection for Jiang Chen and insulted Yantian. Anning stabbed Nanny Gui, and Jiang Chen opened his door to find her dying on the steps.

• Grand Princess Anning asked Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye about Jiang Yantian's marriage and proposed herself as a match, while they said the choice was Yantian's.
• Anning stayed for dinner and wandered through the residence looking for Jiang Yantian.
• Nanny Gui mistook Anning for a visitor seeking Jiang Chen and praised him, then claimed Jiang Yantian bullied him.
• Anning realized Nanny Gui had mistaken her purpose and stabbed her in the neck for speaking ill of Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Chen heard the commotion, opened his door, and tried to help the bleeding Nanny Gui.

Jiang Chen failed to save Nanny Gui after Grand Princess Anning struck her, then endured rumors about her death and could not seek revenge. Meanwhile, Grand Princess Anning secretly visited Jiang Yantian’s room and left him an intimate garment, which he recognized and decided to keep while postponing any involvement with her.

• Grand Princess Anning ignored Jiang Chen and left after Nanny Gui collapsed, and Jiang Chen’s attempt to revive the dying nanny with golden powder only made her suffer before she died.
• The servants carried Nanny Gui away, while rumors falsely suggested she had confessed her love to Jiang Chen or shared an illicit moment with him.
• Grand Princess Anning joined Jiang Yantian for dinner, then secretly went to his room, slept in his bed, and took one of his garments while leaving her own behind.
• Jiang Yantian returned from a pleasure house, found Grand Princess Anning’s garment, and identified it after comparing it with the other intimate items he had kept.
• Jiang Yantian decided to focus on Jiang Chen’s upcoming banquet and postpone pursuing Grand Princess Anning until later.

Jiang Chen reluctantly set out to fetch Su Qian, regretting that he had agreed to the marriage. During the procession, his horse mounted another horse in front of the crowd, leaving him trapped in a humiliating spectacle as the wedding party tried to explain it away.

• Jiang Chen put on his wedding robes and accepted a mysterious gift box from Jiang Yantian before leaving to fetch the bride.
• Jiang Chen rode through the streets toward Marquis Yongning's Manor while crowds offered congratulations.
• Jiang Chen's horse went out of control and mounted the male horse carrying gifts behind the bridal sedan chair.
• Jiang Chen tried to stop his horse with the reins and riding crop but could not dismount without breaking wedding custom.
• The person in charge of the procession claimed the incident was an auspicious sign, though the gift horse's carrying frame was crushed.

Shen Guiyan visited the State-Protecting Duke Manor for the kinship acknowledgment banquet and discovered that Jiang Yantian, the man she had met before, was Shen Qiuye’s son. Their reunion ended with Jiang Yantian making an outrageous request.

• Shen Guiyan arrived at the State-Protecting Duke Manor as the Hall of Reincarnation’s Holy Maiden and searched for her youngest aunt, Shen Qiuye.
• While exploring the manor, Shen Guiyan spotted Jiang Yantian fishing and recognized him as the annoying man she had met at the Heavenly Saber Sect.
• Shen Guiyan confronted Jiang Yantian and asked whether he belonged to the Jiang Lineage and how he was related to Shen Qiuye.
• Jiang Yantian realized Shen Guiyan was his mother’s niece, and Shen Guiyan confirmed that she was the Holy Maiden and his aunt’s relative.
• Jiang Yantian said Shen Guiyan would have to be his wife, then asked to see her breasts, leaving her confused.

Jiang Yantian overpowered Shen Guiyan, then prepared to frame Jiang Chen at the wedding banquet by planting an undergarment on Chujiu. Jiang Yunyun arrived and embraced him, while her senior brother Xu Huan watched with jealousy.

• Shen Guiyan challenged Jiang Yantian, but he dispersed her Qi with a snap and frightened her into leaving.
• Jiang Yantian headed to the banquet, where he planned to recreate the scheme against Jiang Yunyun that Jiang Chen had once exposed.
• Jiang Yantian used the Shadow Replacement Technique to plant Jiang Chen's undergarment on Chujiu.
• Jiang Yunyun arrived and happily embraced Jiang Yantian.
• Xu Huan saw Jiang Yunyun embracing Jiang Yantian and grew jealous.

Jiang Yantian reunited with Jiang Yunyun, killed Xu Huan when he insisted on following them, and revealed that Xu Huan had planted men's underwear by her storage pouch. Jiang Yunyun accepted her brother’s actions and realized he had protected her from a scandal.

• Jiang Yantian reunited with Jiang Yunyun and invited her to stroll with him, while Xu Huan insisted on joining them.
• Jiang Yantian seized Xu Huan and destroyed his body, then used the Spirit-Fusing Mirror to swallow his spirit body.
• Jiang Yunyun asked about Jiang Yantian’s strength, and he claimed to be at Spirit Transformation Great Perfection.
• Jiang Yunyun said she trusted Jiang Yantian and would have killed Xu Huan herself eventually.
• Jiang Yantian told Jiang Yunyun to shake her storage pouch, and men's underwear fell out, exposing Xu Huan’s attempt to frame her.

Jiang Yantian arranged eerie wedding music and caused a woman’s intimate garment to fall from Jiang Chen’s storage pouch during the wedding bows. Su Qian publicly demanded that Jiang Chen explain himself, leaving the wedding guests waiting for his response.

• Jiang Yunyun met Jiang Yantian on the way to the main hall, and he told her that he and Jiang Chen got along well.
• Jiang Chen arrived with Su Qian as sinister tunes chosen by Jiang Yantian made their wedding entrance seem like a ghost marriage.
• Jiang Yantian’s system rewarded him for bringing ill fortune upon Jiang Chen and gave the couple three years of nightly eerie apparitions.
• As Jiang Chen and Su Qian bowed to each other, a floral intimate garment fell from Jiang Chen’s storage pouch.
• Su Qian stepped back and demanded that Jiang Chen explain why he had another woman’s intimate garment, stunning the guests.

During Jiang Chen and Su Qian’s wedding, an undergarment appeared and the Su Lineage accused him of carrying on with another woman. Jiang Chen did not know who owned it, but a searching spell led it to Chujiu, leaving everyone staring at her.

• Su Qian exposed the undergarment, and the Su Lineage demanded that Jiang Chen explain himself.
• Jiang Yantian urged Jiang Chen inwardly to endure, so Jiang Chen lowered his head instead of defending himself.
• Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye pressed Jiang Chen to identify the owner, but he stayed silent because he did not know.
• A man used hypnosis on Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen repeatedly said he did not know who the undergarment belonged to.
• Another man used a searching spell, which guided the undergarment to Chujiu’s feet, and everyone recognized her as the Wife of the Marquis of Pacifying the South.

At Jiang Chen and Su Qian’s wedding, a pair of underwear and a Guiding Technique led everyone to suspect Chujiu of having an illicit relationship with Jiang Chen. The Marquis of Pacifying the South fought Jiang Chen and stormed out, leaving the feud and scandal firmly established as Jiang Yantian tried to keep the wedding going.

• The guests suspected Chujiu after finding underwear beside her and hearing that a Guiding Technique might identify its owner, so they summoned the Marquis of Pacifying the South.
• The marquis recognized the underwear as the pair he had used as a hat, questioned Chujiu, and became convinced she was hiding something when she could not explain herself.
• Chujiu tried to dash herself against a pillar, and the marquis stopped her before punching Jiang Chen; Jiang Chen fought back until Chujiu tried to break them up.
• Chujiu ran out crying, and the marquis left after threatening the Jiang Lineage and glaring at Jiang Chen, cementing their feud.
• Jiang Yantian celebrated the humiliation and planned to spread a scandalous story about Jiang Chen, then addressed the guests to discourage speculation and steer the wedding back toward completion.

After Jiang Chen took the blame for the wedding disruption, the ceremony continued and he hosted the guests while Jiang Yantian planned to humiliate him further. The chapter ended with Jiang Yantian activating a mission to make Jiang Chen’s humiliation skyrocket.

• Su Qian let the wedding proceed after Jiang Yantian stepped forward, while Jiang Chen worried that the Marquis of Pacifying the South would punish him for the disruption.
• Su Qian went to the bridal chamber, and Jiang Lei took Jiang Chen around to toast the guests.
• Jiang Yantian sat with Jiang Yunbing and Grand Princess Anning at the relatives’ table, while Shen Guiyan avoided looking at him.
• Jiang Yantian watched Jiang Chen win over sect members with humble toasts and decided to make his humiliation worse.
• Jiang Yantian activated the mission targeting Jiang Chen: “Category: skyrocket.”

At his wedding banquet, Jiang Chen tried to impress the attending sects and factions, but a sudden stomach crisis sent him rocketing into the sky. The guests mistook his launch for a breakthrough as Jiang Chen spun helplessly above them.

• Jiang Chen toasted the sects and factions, humbly welcoming their friendship and future visits.
• As guests repeatedly urged him to drink, Jiang Chen’s stomach cramped and he struggled to hold in his gas.
• Jiang Yantian watched from behind a pillar while the system waited for the right trigger.
• A guest mistook Jiang Chen’s tense posture for an injury, examined him, and pressed a nerve in his thigh.
• Jiang Chen released a deafening blast and shot into the sky, while guests and officials interpreted the spectacle as an ascension and the Minister of Works named it “gravity.”
• Jiang Chen used an eagle to push off, then spun through the air while crying that he wanted to go home.

Jiang Chen lost control of a system-triggered attack that covered the Jiang estate’s guests in golden filth, leaving the sect figures trapped behind barriers as his family struggled to stop him. After Jiang Chen finally ran out of strength and fell, the humiliation and danger remained unresolved.

• The Divine Sword Sect master ignored warnings and sent a rain of swords toward Jiang Chen.
• The system made Jiang Chen somersault through the sky, turning his attack into flaming wheels that collided with the sword rain.
• Jiang Chen’s attack overwhelmed the guests’ barriers, while Jiang Yantian suppressed the area so no one could teleport away.
• The Su Lineage elders begged Jiang Chen to stop and offered to drop their objections to his marriage plans.
• Jiang Lei tried to knock Jiang Chen off course, but others restrained him because they feared the attack would spread across the estate.
• Jiang Chen passed out and, after two final bursts, fell from the sky.

After Jiang Chen's humiliating accident at the wedding, Jiang Yantian celebrated his progress toward completing the Plot Tribulation and confronted Shen Guiyan. He used a time-reversal technique to erase her memory of his assault, leaving her stunned that he knew the Hall of Reincarnation's Great Reincarnation.

• Jiang Lei ordered Jiang Chen carried away after the Dungfire Wheel ruined the wedding banquet, and the guests dispersed.
• Jiang Yantian received 100,000 humiliation points and learned that the Plot Tribulation was eighty percent complete.
• Jiang Yantian cornered Shen Guiyan and, despite her protests, used a barrier to restrain and assault her.
• Jiang Yantian reversed time to before the assault and left Shen Guiyan unharmed, then she recognized his technique as the Hall of Reincarnation's Great Reincarnation at major completion.

After Jiang Chen's wedding banquet scandal, the Jiang family discussed expelling him from the lineage, while Jiang Yantian quietly encouraged their misunderstanding. News of Jiang Chen's outrageous behavior spread across the Martial Capital, where people compared his notoriety to the disgraced Mighty Grand General.

• Jiang Yantian avoided Shen Guiyan's questions and returned to the main hall, where the family comforted Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye.
• Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu recounted Jiang Chen's misdeeds to Jiang Yunyun, who became furious and wanted to confront him.
• Jiang Yantian stopped Jiang Yunyun from acting rashly, while Shen Guiyan realized he was pretending to be mistreated by Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Lei decided to bring out the family discipline the next day, and Jiang Yunyun, Jiang Yunbing, and Shen Qiuye supported expelling Jiang Chen from the Jiang Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian warned that Jiang Chen's master might retaliate, but Jiang Lei and Jiang Yunbing refused to back down.
• Stories of Jiang Chen's banquet scandal spread through the Martial Capital, and people compared his fame to the Mighty Grand General, whose celebrated refusal to surrender had actually stemmed from illiteracy.

After waking from his humiliating wedding banquet, Jiang Chen went into the Martial Capital and found the public mocking him and spreading rumors that Jiang Yantian was the master’s intended disciple. As his reputation collapsed, Jiang Chen suspected Jiang Yantian had been reborn too and hurried back to the Jiang Lineage estate to investigate.

• Jiang Chen woke in his room, remembered the wedding banquet, and avoided the customary family tea ceremony.
• Jiang Chen went out in disguise and overheard people claiming the mysterious master had mistaken him for Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Chen saw vendors and a storyteller exploit his disgrace, but restrained himself from attacking them.
• Jiang Chen drank alone and concluded that Jiang Yantian might also have been reborn.
• Jiang Chen hurried back to the Jiang Lineage estate, convinced Jiang Yantian was plotting to ruin him.

Jiang Chen confronted Jiang Yantian to find out whether he was a regressor, but Jiang Yantian ambushed him and Jiang Lei punished him for supposedly attacking his brother. After being beaten and humiliated, Jiang Chen began breaking through to Core Formation and decided to leave to cultivate before seeking revenge.

• Jiang Chen barged into Jiang Yantian's courtyard and questioned him about events from his previous life to test whether he was a regressor.
• Jiang Yantian denied knowing about the poetry gathering, then struck Jiang Chen and pretended to be injured.
• Jiang Chen tried to attack Jiang Yantian, but Jiang Lei arrived and beat him for attempting to murder his brother.
• Jiang Chen, devastated by his family's favoritism, resolved to kill Jiang Yantian and began gathering power to break through to Core Formation.
• Jiang Chen abandoned his attack, found a secluded place, and began cultivating his breakthrough.

Jiang Yantian sabotaged Jiang Chen’s attempts to form a Golden Core, then pretended to be his master and made him swear a Blood Oath of loyalty. After Jiang Chen secretly vowed to kill Jiang Yantian, Heavenly Dao Divine Punishment gathered over him.

• Jiang Yantian followed Jiang Chen to a cave outside Martial Capital and repeatedly scattered the Spiritual Qi gathering for his breakthrough.
• Jiang Chen confronted the black-mist figure, recognized him as his master, and asked for guidance.
• Jiang Yantian struck Jiang Chen’s dantian, shattering but not dissolving his forming Golden Core, and told him to wait for a supreme method.
• Jiang Chen swore a Blood Oath not to betray Jiang Yantian or harbor murderous intent against him, and Jiang Yantian left.
• Jiang Chen secretly vowed to kill Jiang Yantian, triggering dark clouds, lightning, and Heavenly Dao Divine Punishment above him.

Jiang Chen was chased by lightning, then reached the Martial Capital and felt crushed by the public ridicule surrounding him. Back at the residence, Jiang Yunyun confronted Jiang Yantian and the two kissed.

• Jiang Chen ran for two hours as lightning pursued him, then continued toward the Martial Capital after the clouds dispersed.
• Jiang Chen reflected that Jiang Yantian had intended to guide him down another path and wondered if it meant achieving sagehood through the flesh.
• Jiang Chen saw businesses mocking him and Chujiu, grew desolate, and sat by the street as passersby mistook him for a beggar and offered him coins.
• A group secretly watched Jiang Chen, ready to act, while Jiang Yunyun went to check on Jiang Yantian after hearing Jiang Chen had attacked him.
• Jiang Yunyun closed the door, confronted Jiang Yantian about his promise to share a room, and kissed him when he pulled her close.