Recaps

Ye Feng broke through a restriction in the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land and found only traces of a divine weapon, then followed Elder Long to another hidden chamber. She opened a box holding a strongly sensed secret treasure, while Jiang Yantian watched and prepared his next prank.

• Ye Feng removed a leaf covering a golden presence and discovered that only a faint trace of a divine weapon remained.
• Elder Long suggested the weapon might have developed sentience and told Ye Feng to search the other locations.
• Ye Feng followed Elder Long’s directions to a hidden cave and broke through the restriction on a stone platform.
• Ye Feng found a long wooden box on the platform and opened it after sensing a powerful presence inside.

After two secret treasures vanished when water columns fell on Ye Feng, Elder Long and Ye Feng suspected the phenomenon was a test and hurried to the next site. Ye Feng intercepted the next water column while breaking the array, but the chapter ended before they discovered whether the treasure would remain.

• Ye Feng found only a black lump and a trace of presence in the box that was supposed to hold a Bitter Bamboo Seedling, then smashed it in frustration.
• Elder Long connected the vanished treasures to the water columns that had fallen during the earlier array-breaking attempts, and Ye Feng proposed catching or blocking the next one.
• Jiang Yantian followed Ye Feng to the third site, where he had placed an ordinary grade-one spiritual artifact and set a Bad Luck Array to trigger if it was moved.
• With Elder Long guiding him, Ye Feng began breaking the swamp's array and watched for the water column.
• Ye Feng caught the water column, found its taste strange, and asked Elder Long to continue guiding him through the array.

Ye Feng collected what he believed were priceless secret treasures, including a fragment of the God-Slaying Spear, while Jiang Yantian secretly arranged the opportunities. At the final cave, Ye Feng swallowed a pill he thought would grant him the Innate Dao Physique, only to find the scroll mocked him.

• Elder Long and Ye Feng broke the formation, and Ye Feng took the God-Slaying Spear fragment despite its weak presence and the ominous mark that appeared above him.
• Jiang Yantian followed Ye Feng to several locations and gave him water columns, which Ye Feng drank while collecting the cheap items Jiang Yantian had hidden there.
• Ye Feng entered the last cave and found a scroll claiming an ancient true god had left behind an Innate Dao Physique Pill for a fated person.
• Ye Feng swallowed the pitch-black pill and injected spiritual power into the scroll, which revealed a mocking message instead of a cultivation method.
• Ye Feng cursed the person who deceived him as the system awarded humiliation points and recorded a hidden reward tied to learning the Forbidden Ground's truth.

Jiang Yantian pursued new missions involving Luo Xingcai and the Pill Lineage's Attendant Elder's wife while reconnecting with his master during the expedition. He offered Luo Xingcai his homemade red bean milk tea, and she began to taste it.

• Jiang Yantian asked the system for missions involving Luo Xingcai, then accepted long-term missions to hug and kiss his master.
• The system told Jiang Yantian that the Pill Lineage's Attendant Elder blamed him for devouring Hua Jiao and offered a mission to pursue the elder's neglected wife for a Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Jiang Yantian accepted the mission and went to Luo Xingcai, who reported that the sect's disciples had suffered injuries but no deaths.
• Jiang Yantian flirted with Luo Xingcai and prepared her a cup of red bean milk tea in a glass cup he had made.
• Luo Xingcai admired the unusual cup and raised the milk tea to her lips to try it.

Jiang Yantian spun a tale about inventing sweet tea through heartbreak, and Luo Xingcai embraced him after hearing his request for comfort. Their moment was interrupted by a Veiled Gloom Sect elder seeking help with an ancient lightning formation.

• Jiang Yantian told Luo Xingcai that he had made the tea by accidentally dropping red beans into bitter tea while trying to move on from someone he loved.
• Jiang Yantian asked Luo Xingcai for a hug, and she embraced him of her own accord.
• Jiang Yantian completed a hugging mission and received humiliation points and a case of sanitary pads as a reward.
• An aged voice interrupted them, and Luo Xingcai pulled away and hurried off to check on the disciples.
• Jiang Yantian approached the Veiled Gloom Sect Nascent Soul expert, who asked whether he knew a lightning-attribute cultivation technique to help disciples trapped in an ancient lightning formation.

Jiang Yantian killed the Nascent Soul elder who interrupted him and Luo Xingcai, then entered the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land to stop Ye Feng from escaping at the last moment. The chapter ended with Ye Feng bound by a Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain as the land’s restrictions began to close.

• Jiang Yantian struck down the Nascent Soul elder with Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning, cut him into eight pieces, and devoured his Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Yantian added lightning to the ancient formation, killing the trapped disciples, then returned to Luo Xingcai without revealing what he had done.
• At daybreak, the sects withdrew from the forbidden land, but Ye Feng was missing after facing evil spirits, the Red and White Twin Baleful Intents, and a ghost tide.
• Jiang Yantian stopped Luo Xingcai from reentering the forbidden land and went inside to find Ye Feng.
• As Ye Feng rushed toward the exit at the last moment, Jiang Yantian trapped her with a Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain, leaving her unable to move as the restrictions began to close.

Ye Feng was rescued from the Forbidden Ground by Jiang Yantian, but his accusations against Jiang Yantian were dismissed and earned him the contempt of the sect. As Ye Feng resolved to grow stronger and take revenge, Luo Xingcai visited Jiang Yantian at camp and gently asked whether he felt wronged.

• A black shadow rescued Ye Feng just before the restriction closed, and he discovered that Jiang Yantian had saved him.
• Ye Feng accused Jiang Yantian of trapping him, but Luo Xingcai and the other disciples rejected his claims and condemned him.
• Jiang Yantian left without arguing, while Luo Xingcai warned Ye Feng to reflect or leave Azure Mist Peak.
• The disciples isolated Ye Feng, who took comfort from Elder Long and resolved to cultivate until he could take revenge.
• Jiang Yantian roasted a Deceptive Arts Demon Chicken at camp as Nuandong and the Law Enforcement Lineage silently resented Ye Feng.
• Luo Xingcai joined Jiang Yantian by the fire and gently asked whether he felt wronged.

Jiang Yantian won Luo Xingcai’s favor by pretending to spare Ye Feng for her sake, sharing a meal with her, and securing a dinner invitation. He later slapped Ye Feng during cultivation and warned her about the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land before its final opening that night.

• Luo Xingcai promised to report Ye Feng’s wrongdoing, but Jiang Yantian urged her to let the matter go to protect her and the Sword Dao Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian cooked roast chicken for Luo Xingcai and invited her to dine alone with him after they returned to the sect; she agreed.
• After Luo Xingcai left to check on the disciples, Jiang Yantian slept in a tree until noon.
• Jiang Yantian entered Ye Feng’s tent and slapped her out of cultivation, provoking her fury and earning 4,000 Humiliation Points.
• Jiang Yantian told Ye Feng that the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land would close after that night’s round and warned her not to get trapped inside.

Ye Feng stayed at the Forbidden Ground’s entrance to avoid Jiang Yantian, who humiliated him before the opening and then used the Shadow Replacement Technique to keep watch from a distance. Hours passed with Ye Feng too afraid to seek opportunities or leave, and he remained stuck at the entrance as the time to depart neared.

• Ye Feng accepted Elder Long’s advice to undergo his trial near the Forbidden Ground’s entrance rather than venture into its depths.
• When the Forbidden Ground opened, Jiang Yantian spat on Ye Feng’s head, earning 3,000 Humiliation Points.
• Ye Feng entered the Forbidden Ground with the disciples but stayed at the entrance while the others headed toward its heartland.
• Jiang Yantian received the Shadow Replacement Technique from the system, left a shadow behind, and secretly departed with his real body.
• Ye Feng remained at the entrance, convinced Jiang Yantian was watching him, and after four hours still had neither sought an opportunity nor dared to leave.

Jiang Yantian led the Mysterious Spirit Sect disciples out of the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land, then returned alone to devour its Death Qi and spirits. His cultivation rose to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and the Forbidden Ground was left cleansed of its deathly energy.

• Jiang Yantian ordered the Mysterious Spirit Sect disciples to follow his presence out of the Forbidden Ground while Luo Xingcai guarded the rear.
• Jiang Yantian kicked Ye Feng as he emerged from the exit, earning 2,000 Humiliation Points, and the sect's disciples soon gathered safely outside.
• Luo Xingcai confirmed that no Mysterious Spirit Sect disciples were missing, while Ye Feng struggled to contain her resentment toward Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian secretly returned to the Forbidden Ground and devoured its Death Qi, dead spirits, spirit devourers, and evil spirits.
• Jiang Yantian advanced from the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to the Late Stage as the Forbidden Ground became bright and still.

After returning from the Forbidden Ground, Ye Feng mourned Hua Jiao and accused Jiang Yantian of neglecting his duties. The chapter ended with Ye Feng making the accusation before Sect Master Lu Ming and the gathered sect members.

• Ye Feng grieved over Hua Jiao’s death and resolved to expose Jiang Yantian with evidence he had recorded on an Image-Recording Stone.
• The flying boat brought the disciples and elders back to the Mysterious Spirit Sect, where the sect’s leaders and disciples gathered to welcome them.
• Hua Youque broke down when Ye Feng returned Hua Jiao’s Pill Cauldron and clothes, while Jiang Yantian noticed Hua Youque’s second wife, Liu Mengjie.
• Ye Feng knelt before Sect Master Lu Ming and accused Jiang Yantian of dereliction of duty during the training expedition.

Ye Feng accused Jiang Yantian of dereliction of duty and presented an Image-Recording Stone as evidence, but the disciples who had visited the Forbidden Ground defended Jiang Yantian. Jiang Yantian revealed that the recording showed a shadow he had left to protect Ye Feng, leaving Ye Feng stunned as the accusation collapsed.

• Ye Feng accused Jiang Yantian of neglecting his duties, but Elder Long fell silent and Luo Xingcai and the other disciples defended Jiang Yantian.
• Ye Feng produced an Image-Recording Stone showing Jiang Yantian standing at the Forbidden Ground entrance and claimed he had abandoned the other disciples to target Ye Feng.
• The disciples contradicted Ye Feng, saying Jiang Yantian had accompanied them and even risked himself to rescue Ye Feng.
• Lu Ming asked Jiang Yantian to explain the recording, and Jiang Yantian admitted he had watched Ye Feng while the others entered the Forbidden Ground.
• Jiang Yantian said he had left a shadow to protect Ye Feng and summoned an immobile copy with his presence, leaving Ye Feng stunned.

After Ye Feng was expelled from the Sword Dao Lineage, Hua Youque took her in as a personal disciple of the Pill Lineage. Jiang Yantian then threatened Ye Feng and restrained her in front of the assembled sect, preparing to use Nuandong’s Blood Weeping Whip.

• Luo Xingcai expelled Ye Feng from Azure Mist Peak and struck her name from the Sword Dao Lineage.
• The sect master asked whether another lineage would accept Ye Feng, but the elders avoided taking her in.
• Hua Youque accepted Ye Feng into the Pill Lineage as his personal disciple, saying she would take the place of his daughter.
• Ye Feng told Jiang Yantian that he had failed to leave her a menial disciple, but he claimed her new position was part of his plan and threatened to beat her.
• Jiang Yantian bound Ye Feng with the Fine Steel Chain in front of the crowd and asked Nuandong to lend him her Blood Weeping Whip.

Jiang Yantian punished Ye Feng with fifty lashes, then rewarded the Law Enforcement Lineage and celebrated with Azure Mist Peak. That night, Liu Mengjie dwelled on Jiang Yantian’s kiss, and her feelings for him began to stir.

• Jiang Yantian used the Blood Weeping Whip to lash Ye Feng fifty times, reviving him when he fainted and listing invented crimes as he went.
• Hua Youque took the badly injured Ye Feng away, while Jiang Yantian left the sect gathering with the Law Enforcement Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian drew Liu Mengjie close, kissed her earlobe and cheek, and told her he would visit when he had time.
• Jiang Yantian awarded spirit stones to the Law Enforcement Lineage and led them in a feast with Azure Mist Peak that lasted until dawn.
• The Pill Lineage held a denunciation meeting and blamed its disciples for failing to protect Hua Jiao, while its protector elder treated Ye Feng.
• Liu Mengjie recalled Jiang Yantian’s kiss and began to feel desire for him despite her loveless marriage to Hua Youque.

Hua Youque took Ye Feng as his personal disciple to protect him and investigate Hua Jiao's death, while Liu Mengjie realized Hua Youque and his cousin had plans against Jiang Yantian. After Jiang Yantian brutally humiliated the recovering Ye Feng, Ye Feng resolved to tell the Pill Lineage elder what he knew and join forces to kill Jiang Yantian.

• Hua Youque told Liu Mengjie that he had made Ye Feng his disciple to keep him alive until he could question him about Hua Jiao's death.
• Hua Youque revealed that he had long warned Jiang Yantian to behave and believed he would eventually be eliminated, prompting Liu Mengjie to consider secretly warning Jiang Yantian.
• Hua Youque invited Liu Mengjie to his room, but she refused and privately decided to gamble on Jiang Yantian instead.
• After waking, Ye Feng found Jiang Yantian in his room, where Jiang sealed his mouth and repeatedly stomped and slapped him for humiliation points.
• Ye Feng recalled how Jiang Yantian had ruined his life and resolved to join forces with the Pill Lineage elder to kill him.
• Ye Feng forced himself up to explain what had happened to Hua Jiao to the Pill Lineage elder.

Jiang Yantian left Ye Feng to speak with Hua Youque and went to Liu Mengjie’s residence, where he seduced her. Afterward, Liu Mengjie warned him that Hua Youque and the sect master planned to kill him, believing he had killed Hua Jiao.

• Jiang Yantian watched Ye Feng go to Hua Youque and anticipated using the encounter to intensify Ye Feng’s despair.
• Jiang Yantian arrived at Liu Mengjie’s garden residence and found her asleep, murmuring his name.
• Liu Mengjie woke to find Jiang Yantian beside her, and he seduced her despite her protests that she was married.
• Afterward, Liu Mengjie told Jiang Yantian that Hua Youque and the sect master had long been wary of him and were seeking a chance to kill him.
• Liu Mengjie warned that Hua Youque believed Jiang Yantian had killed Hua Jiao and would likely act soon.

Jiang Yantian reassured Liu Mengjie that he could handle Lu Ming and the threat surrounding the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl, then received the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus from his system. Meanwhile, Hua Youque grieved his daughter Hua Jiao’s death and demanded proof of Ye Feng’s accusation against Jiang Yantian.

• Liu Mengjie warned Jiang Yantian that Lu Ming and Hua Youque might act against him, but Jiang Yantian said he knew about Lu Ming’s desire to seize the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and was not concerned.
• Jiang Yantian promised Liu Mengjie freedom and protection, and she accepted him as her husband.
• Jiang Yantian received the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as a mission reward and learned about its defensive and offensive powers.
• Hua Youque raged and mourned after Ye Feng told him that Jiang Yantian had tortured Hua Jiao until her body and soul were annihilated.
• Hua Youque made Ye Feng swear that his account was true, and Ye Feng cut his hand and began a Blood Oath to the Heavenly Dao.

Ye Feng became Hua Youque’s foster son and learned that the Hua Clan planned to wait for Jiang Yantian’s tribulation before seeking revenge. Meanwhile, Jiang Yantian fished at Two Immortals Bridge, poisoned the lake after losing a fish, and received a summons to an elders’ meeting.

• Hua Youque asked Ye Feng to become his foster son and inherit his mantle, but Ye Feng refused to change his surname and promised to care for him in his old age.
• Ye Feng urged Hua Youque to move against Jiang Yantian, but Hua Youque said they would wait until Jiang Yantian’s Spirit Transformation tribulation weakened him.
• Ye Feng told Hua Youque that Jiang Yantian had killed two Heavenly Saber Sect elders, including its young sect master, and suggested using the sect’s anger against him.
• Jiang Yantian fished at Two Immortals Bridge with Banqiu and Nuandong, then ordered Nuandong to poison the lake after a fish escaped his hook.
• Qi Hui arrived to summon Jiang Yantian to the elders’ meeting convened by the sect master.

Jiang Yantian deliberately revealed to Qi Hui that Ye Feng had committed adultery with his wife, then arrived late to a sect council and clashed with Elder Yin. At the council, Lu Ming revealed that the Heavenly Saber Sect threatened war unless the sect handed over the person who killed its young sect master and elder, and Hua Youque and Elder Yin called for Jiang Yantian to be surrendered.

• Jiang Yantian deliberately told Qi Hui that Ye Feng had slept with his wife and that he had punished Ye Feng, prompting Qi Hui to rush off in anger.
• Jiang Yantian arrived late at the council hall, insulted Elder Yin, and demanded another five hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones over the death of a hen's chick.
• Luo Xingcai stopped Jiang Yantian from snapping back at Sect Master Lu Ming, who then presented a coercive letter from the Heavenly Saber Sect.
• Lu Ming said the Heavenly Saber Sect demanded the person who killed its young sect master and elder or it would attack, and he blamed Jiang Yantian for the killings.
• Hua Youque and Elder Yin urged the sect to hand Jiang Yantian over, while most elders remained silent.

Jiang Yantian threatened to make the Mysterious Spirit Sect and two elders share the Heavenly Saber Sect’s retaliation, then extorted spirit stones from Yin Daoyan and Hua Youque. After securing their payments, he declared he would handle the Heavenly Saber Sect himself and left to confront them.

• Luo Xingcai offered to take responsibility for Jiang Yantian, but he proposed that the Heavenly Saber Sect could attack their whole sect and named Hua Youque and Yin Daoyan as his relatives.
• Jiang Yantian insisted that he and the two elders should bear responsibility together, alarming Hua Youque and Yin Daoyan with threats to involve their clans.
• Yin Daoyan agreed to pay ten million mid-grade spirit stones after Jiang Yantian invoked the eighteen orphaned chicks whose mother Yin had killed.
• Jiang Yantian demanded ten million high-grade spirit stones from Hua Youque to settle his affairs, and Hua agreed to pay within five days.
• Jiang Yantian told the sect master he would handle the Heavenly Saber Sect himself, then left to visit them.

Jiang Yantian decided to confront the Heavenly Saber Sect, while Luo Xingcai agreed to visit him privately that night. At the Pill Lineage, Qi Hui confronted Ye Feng over the affair Jiang Yantian had exposed, and the two prepared to fight.

• Lu Ming considered using a clash between Jiang Yantian and the Heavenly Saber Sect to seize an opportunity, while Luo Xingcai left to catch up with Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian refused Luo Xingcai's offer to accompany him to the Heavenly Saber Sect and arranged for her to visit him privately that night.
• Ye Feng drank premium pill spirit liquid with Pill Lineage disciples who were currying favor with her.
• Qi Hui stormed into the Pill Lineage and cursed Ye Feng, prompting Ye Feng to confront him from her flying sword.
• Jiang Yantian changed course to watch as Qi Hui challenged Ye Feng and demanded justice for himself.

Ye Feng and Qi Hui fought after he confronted her over their past grievance, but Jiang Yantian secretly stopped her strongest attack and the Law Enforcement Squad intervened. Ye Feng refused to be taken away, and the squad prepared to use force.

• Ye Feng asked Qi Hui to talk privately, but he rejected her and attacked her.
• Ye Feng and Qi Hui exchanged techniques in a fierce battle, with Qi Hui using his Eight Trigrams Disc against her sword attacks.
• Jiang Yantian stopped Ye Feng's Sword Shatters the Vast Sky with a snap of his fingers, allowing Qi Hui to drive her back.
• The Law Enforcement Squad arrived, and Jiang Yantian ordered them to take both fighters away for a private armed brawl.
• Ye Feng argued that Qi Hui had attacked first, but Zhang Cha blamed both of them and warned her to come along.
• Ye Feng refused to go with the squad, so Zhang Cha drew a Spirit-Binding Rope and issued a second warning before force.

Ye Feng was beaten by the Law Enforcement Squad for resisting arrest, while Hua Youque failed to protect him from Jiang Yantian. Jiang Yantian ordered Ye Feng taken away for further punishment and had Qi Hui sent back after a staged beating.

• Zhang Cha ordered the Law Enforcement Squad to arrest Ye Feng, and the squad beat him when he resisted.
• Hua Youque arrived and attacked the squad, but Jiang Yantian intercepted his strike with black spiritual power.
• Jiang Yantian persuaded Hua Youque to call off their confrontation and let the squad punish Ye Feng for breaking the sect's rules.
• Jiang Yantian told Ye Feng that Hua Youque had agreed to sacrifice him, and Ye Feng began to doubt his master.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Zhang Cha to take Ye Feng and Qi Hui away, have Ye Feng beaten further and imprisoned, and stage a beating for Qi Hui before sending him back.

Jiang Yantian prepared a Western-style dinner for Luo Xingcai, who arrived dressed as he had requested and shared wine and steak with him. Their meal ended with Luo Xingcai promising to stand by him if anyone tried to harm him.

• Jiang Yantian left Ye Feng in the Law Enforcement Lineage's hands and returned to Elder Peak to prepare dinner for Luo Xingcai.
• Jiang Yantian took ribeye and ribs from the Blue-Blooded Golden Bull and gathered immortal herbs to season the meal.
• Luo Xingcai arrived at Elder Peak wearing the gown Jiang Yantian had chosen, and he welcomed her into the courtyard for dinner.
• Jiang Yantian introduced Luo Xingcai to steak and red wine, and they enjoyed the meal together.
• Luo Xingcai urged Jiang Yantian to rein in his temper and avoid making enemies, then vowed to fight beside him if anyone tried to harm him.

Jiang Yantian reassured Luo Xingcai that he did not resent her and confessed the hardships of his childhood. After a system quest tempted him to foment rebellion and rule the Nine Provinces, he confessed that Luo Xingcai was the woman he loved, while insisting he would not pressure her for an answer.

• Jiang Yantian told Luo Xingcai he had never blamed her for favoring talented disciples and was grateful she had taken him into the Mysterious Spirit Sect.
• Jiang Yantian recounted his impoverished childhood and the famine he survived before Luo Xingcai brought him to the sect.
• The system offered Jiang Yantian a side quest to overthrow the Blazing Yang Royal Court, establish a religious sect, and stir up war, and he decided to accept later when he found a suitable puppet.
• Jiang Yantian told Luo Xingcai that he had invented the woman he previously claimed to love and confessed that he had always loved her.
• Jiang Yantian said he would not force Luo Xingcai to answer and claimed he would keep his feelings between them, though he inwardly intended the confession to pressure her.