Recaps

Chen Zheng regained enough strength to punch Wang Jiaorou, then was overcome with guilt and tried to comfort her. Jiang Yantian and Yan Miaoxi left the wrecked Heavenly Sound Pavilion, and Yan Miaoxi cut off Jiang Yantian before he could suggest bathing together.

• Chen Zheng struck Wang Jiaorou with a powerful punch, sending her crashing into the seating area and leaving her badly injured.
• Chen Zheng stopped himself from attacking Wang Jiaorou again, then rushed to her side and apologized in distress.
• Jiang Yantian and Yan Miaoxi accused each other of causing Chen Zheng's sudden violent outburst, and Yan Miaoxi left the pavilion with Jiang Yantian following.
• Chen Zheng held Wang Jiaorou and pleaded for her to believe that he had not meant to hurt her.
• Yan Miaoxi warned Jiang Yantian that she had to return that day and said she would visit him another time.

Jiang Yantian received Yan Miaoxi’s jade token after she fled his bath invitation, then continued searching the night for his missing wives. Back at the War Ruins Royal Clan, Yan Miaoxi struggled to stop thinking about Jiang Yantian and finally went to bathe alone.

• Yan Miaoxi gave Jiang Yantian a jade token as proof of their agreement to create the Demon Domain, promised to find him later, and vanished in a flash of golden-red light.
• Jiang Yantian tucked away the token and wandered the streets, wondering where his wives had gone and noting that more than one string-music incident had occurred.
• Yan Miaoxi returned to Ten Thousand Remains Divine Peak, where the War Ruins Royal Clan’s guards knelt and welcomed her as their Young Sovereign.
• In her great hall, Yan Miaoxi removed her male disguise and tried to calm herself, but Jiang Yantian’s repeated bath invitations made her erupt in anger.
• Yan Miaoxi went to her bathing pool, decided to bathe alone, and began removing her robes.

Jiang Yantian wandered Clear Waves City after the system told him to let nature take its course, then watched a fleeing member of the Nine Netherworlds Shadow Charm Clan fight off Canglan Dao Sect pursuers. As the pursuers trapped her in a Pure Yang True Fire Formation, she threw the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal toward Jiang Yantian, who caught it.

• Jiang Yantian complained that the system had gone silent, and it replied only, "let nature take its course."
• Jiang Yantian wandered through Clear Waves City, then noticed dozens of Canglan Dao Sect pursuers chasing a gray figure across the sky.
• The pursuers demanded the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal and mocked the Nine Netherworlds Shadow Charm Clan, stirring Jiang Yantian's memories of his secret arts and treasures.
• The Canglan Dao Sect members formed a Pure Yang True Fire Formation that burned away the gray figure's protective mist and threatened to refine her.
• The fleeing figure threw the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal toward Jiang Yantian, and he caught it.

Jiang Yantian surrendered to Canglan Dao Sect experts so they would take him to the Demon-Sealing Palace, where he hoped to find one of his missing String Sounds. The sect locked him in a golden cage and brought him to the prison, and he calmly accepted his new confinement.

• Jiang Yantian picked up the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal as Canglan Dao Sect pursuers abandoned their attack on Mei Yanluo and descended on him.
• The wounded Mei Yanluo fled, determined to survive and keep open the chance of rescuing the Shadow Imperial Princess from the Demon-Sealing Palace.
• A Dao Sect leader recognized Jiang Yantian's powerful shadow Qi and ordered the experts to bind him alive and bring him and the seal to the palace.
• Jiang Yantian withdrew his presence and raised the seal in apparent surrender, allowing the experts to bind him in a golden cage and retrieve the relic.
• The Dao Sect experts teleported Jiang Yantian to the Demon-Sealing Palace, where he accepted being locked up and asked whether imprisonment would affect his descendants' civil service exam prospects.

Jiang Yantian mocked the Canglan Dao Sect elders as they sent him into the Demon-Sealing Pavilion, where his presence silenced the raging creatures at its entrance. He entered the pavilion’s first floor, surrounded by countless monstrous prisoners, while the elders sealed him inside and assumed he could never escape.

• Jiang Yantian challenged the elders’ justification for imprisoning him and taunted them about their inability to kill the Shadow Imperial Princess.
• The leading elder opened the Demon-Sealing Pavilion, releasing a wave of malice and a chorus of howling prisoners.
• Jiang Yantian freed himself from the immortal ropes and walked into the pavilion, causing the creatures at the entrance to fall silent and retreat.
• The Canglan Dao Sect elders sealed the entrance and wondered whether Jiang Yantian had gone inside to rescue the Shadow Imperial Princess.
• Jiang Yantian found himself on the pavilion’s vast first floor, where demons, ghosts, and other prisoners lurked among the pillars and shadows.

Jiang Yantian reached the Demon-Sealing Pavilion’s top floor and found the Shadow Imperial Princess bound to an elaborate prison altar. He recognized her breathtaking beauty and called her his wife.

• The creatures on the Demon-Sealing Pavilion’s first floor prostrated themselves in terror when Jiang Yantian arrived.
• Jiang Yantian asked whether the Shadow Imperial Princess was on the top floor, then instantly appeared there without climbing the stairs.
• Jiang Yantian found the Shadow Imperial Princess chained to a sealing altar in an isolated prison space.
• The Shadow Imperial Princess mocked the Dao Sect priests and asked Jiang Yantian who he was.
• Jiang Yantian approached the bound woman, saw her face, and greeted her as his wife.

Jiang Yantian confronted the imprisoned Mei Yanluo and insisted she was his wife, proving his claim by wielding her lifebound Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain. Mei Yanluo felt an inexplicable resonance between them but remained bewildered as Jiang Yantian brushed the hair from her face.

• Mei Yanluo prepared to devour Jiang Yantian, but froze when he called her his wife and realized he stood freely within the altar’s suppressive field.
• Jiang Yantian gave Mei Yanluo his name, but she denied knowing him and demanded to know why he called her his wife.
• Jiang Yantian summoned the Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain, and Mei Yanluo recognized it as her stolen lifebound supreme treasure.
• Jiang Yantian claimed the treasure proved they were bound and revealed that their source presence resonated with each other.
• Mei Yanluo shuddered at the resonance and let Jiang Yantian brush aside her hair, while remaining confused by his claim that she was his wife.

Jiang Yantian tried to convince the imprisoned Mei Yanluo that he was her husband and had come to save her, but he pretended to give up when she warned him about the prison’s deadly seals. He left with her Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain, leaving Mei Yanluo furious and desperate for him to return.

• Jiang Yantian touched Mei Yanluo’s cheek and told her he had come to save her, but she rejected his claims and warned him that using power against the prison could destroy them both.
• Jiang Yantian acted frightened by the danger and started walking away from the altar, prompting Mei Yanluo to call after him.
• Mei Yanluo offered to take Jiang Yantian out with her if he returned her Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain, but he refused and continued leaving.
• Jiang Yantian said he would stay outside the altar and visit her again in ten thousand years, while Mei Yanluo vowed to kill him once she escaped.

Jiang Yantian transformed the top floor of the Demon-Sealing Pavilion into a garden and settled in beside the chained Mei Yanluo, leaving her stunned and furious. He began reading a romance story aloud while she remained imprisoned, and he planned to wear down her pride before rescuing her.

• Jiang Yantian used a wave of his hand to replace the prison’s sealed altar and gray mist with grass, flowers, trees, a path, and a residence.
• Mei Yanluo stared in disbelief as Jiang Yantian returned with wine and conjured a table of food and a comfortable reclining chair beside her.
• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo he would stay because she smelled lovely and was beautiful, then invited her to eat and drink.
• Mei Yanluo rejected his offer and turned away, while Jiang Yantian continued to eat, drink, and read.
• Jiang Yantian read aloud a romance about Gu Moxiu and Ruanruan, while Mei Yanluo listened unwillingly from her chains.

Jiang Yantian read a romance novel aloud to Mei Yanluo, who became engrossed and increasingly embarrassed by his explicit embellishments. After he fed her wine, she suspected he had drugged it and threatened him while reacting as if she were burning up.

• Jiang Yantian read the novel’s synopsis and Ruanruan’s story, prompting Mei Yanluo to criticize Ruanruan for staying silent and running away.
• Mei Yanluo approved when Ruanruan was framed and slapped, while Jiang Yantian continued reading.
• Jiang Yantian embellished the novel’s intimate scenes, making Mei Yanluo blush and imagine herself and Jiang Yantian in the story.
• Jiang Yantian offered Mei Yanluo wine and fed her a little while telling her he was short on love.
• Mei Yanluo accused Jiang Yantian of putting something in the wine, threatened to kill him, and let out a soft moan.

Mei Yanluo tried to trap Jiang Yantian and devour his shadow origin, but he revealed that he knew the same secret technique and overpowered her. He kissed her and transferred compatible Qi to restore her, triggering vivid memories within her consciousness.

• Mei Yanluo feigned the effects of an aphrodisiac while Jiang Yantian pretended to fall for her seduction.
• Mei Yanluo imprisoned Jiang Yantian with Nine Netherworlds Qi and used the Void Stillness Essence-Seizing Technique to devour him.
• Jiang Yantian countered Mei Yanluo’s technique with a stronger version, shocking her and turning the devouring force back on her.
• Jiang Yantian broke free, kissed Mei Yanluo, and transferred compatible Qi that soothed her origin and replenished her power.
• Mei Yanluo experienced a rush of vivid, unfamiliar memories that felt as though they truly belonged to her.

Jiang Yantian used Qi transfer and a kiss to help restore Mei Yanluo while memories of their intimate future overwhelmed her. Mei Yanluo began to believe he was her future husband, but Jiang Yantian kept her chained and promised to free her only after she accepted him.

• Mei Yanluo saw vivid memories of herself and Jiang Yantian being intimate in many places and struggled to accept them as real.
• Jiang Yantian deepened their kiss while transferring Qi, and Mei Yanluo wondered whether he was her future husband and whether the memories showed her future.
• After their kiss, Jiang Yantian returned to his chair while Mei Yanluo's weakened foundations began recovering.
• Mei Yanluo asked Jiang Yantian who he was, and he claimed he had crossed time as her future husband to take her away.
• Jiang Yantian claimed Mei Yanluo had given him his chains and technique, then embarrassed her by recalling an intimate memory.
• Jiang Yantian said he would keep Mei Yanluo chained until she accepted him, after which he would take her to raze the Dao Sect.

Yan Miaoxi discovered through the paired jade token that Jiang Yantian had willingly entered the Demon-Sealing Pavilion and set out alone for the Canglan Dao Sect to demand his release. Inside the pavilion, Jiang Yantian continued teasing Mei Yanluo, who refused to make conversation or ask him to save her.

• Yan Miaoxi used the mother pendant and a secret tracking art to see Jiang Yantian surrendering to the Canglan Dao Sect and being teleported into the Demon-Sealing Pavilion.
• Yan Miaoxi decided to rescue Jiang Yantian herself and flew from the War Ruins Royal Clan's residence toward the Canglan Dao Sect.
• Jiang Yantian moved his reclining chair in front of Mei Yanluo and denied looking beneath her skirt as she angrily ordered him away.
• Jiang Yantian teased Mei Yanluo about her abundant blessings and promised to let her go once they had chatted, but she told him to save her or leave.

Yan Miaoxi arrived at the Canglan Dao Sect and demanded Jiang Yantian’s release from the Demon-Sealing Pavilion, threatening to destroy the sect if it refused. Cang Jingzi agreed to investigate while Mei Yanluo remained imprisoned with Jiang Yantian, who claimed she and Yan Miaoxi were both his wives.

• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo that she and Yan Miaoxi were both his wives, but Mei Yanluo mocked his claim and refused his wager.
• Yan Miaoxi appeared above the Canglan Dao Sect, and her overwhelming presence triggered the sect’s highest alert.
• Cang Jingzi confronted Yan Miaoxi and asked why she had come to the sect.
• Yan Miaoxi demanded Jiang Yantian, saying he had been captured by someone from the sect and was imprisoned in the Demon-Sealing Pavilion.
• Yan Miaoxi threatened to burn the Canglan Dao Sect and destroy its Dao lineage if it did not return Jiang Yantian.
• Cang Jingzi said he would make inquiries, then went to speak with the elders.

Cang Jingzi learned that the Dao Sect had imprisoned Jiang Yantian and brought Yan Miaoxi to the Demon-Sealing Pavilion to retrieve him. As Cang Jingzi entered the prison, Jiang Yantian sensed powerful figures outside and went to investigate.

• Cang Jingzi discovered that the elders had captured a silver-haired man in black robes and sent him into the Demon-Sealing Pavilion with the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal.
• Yan Miaoxi confirmed that the prisoner was the person she sought, and Cang Jingzi apologized and offered to escort Young Master Jiang out.
• Yan Miaoxi insisted on accompanying Cang Jingzi, who led her and the responsible elders to the Demon-Sealing Pavilion.
• Cang Jingzi and the elders opened the pavilion gates with the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal and entered, while Yan Miaoxi waited outside.
• Jiang Yantian sensed powerful presences approaching, left Mei Yanluo, and went to inspect the barrier separating the prison from the outside.

Jiang Yantian broke through the Demon-Sealing Pavilion’s barrier and spotted a Dao Sect procession outside, then used the possibility that they had come to capture him as an excuse to grope Mei Yanluo. The chapter ended with him kissing her while she struggled helplessly and wondered why she was reacting so strongly.

• Jiang Yantian punched through the Pavilion’s barrier and saw a group of Dao Sect members gathered outside with a glowing seal.
• Jiang Yantian praised a beautiful woman in the procession, upsetting Mei Yanluo.
• After Mei Yanluo warned that the newcomers might be after him, Jiang Yantian pretended to panic and asked her to protect him.
• Jiang Yantian grabbed Mei Yanluo and buried his face against her chest despite her furious protests.
• Jiang Yantian continued while Mei Yanluo weakened and pleaded with him to stop, then kissed her and left her bewildered by her reaction.

Jiang Yantian continued teasing Mei Yanluo while Cang Jingzi and the others rushed through the Demon-Sealing Pavilion, fearing Jiang had offered himself to the Shadow Imperial Princess. They reached the top floor and found its altar grounds strangely peaceful, with no sign of the danger they expected.

• Jiang Yantian dismissed Mei Yanluo's protests and continued holding her, while she decided to endure it until she could settle the score after escaping.
• Cang Jingzi led the sect elders and stewards into the Demon-Sealing Pavilion with the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal.
• The group learned that Jiang Yantian had gone to the top-floor altar to find the Shadow Imperial Princess.
• Cang Jingzi suspected Jiang had deliberately arranged to be imprisoned as a sacrifice and ordered everyone to hurry to the altar.
• Cang Jingzi and the others reached the top floor and found a quiet landscape of grass, flowers, a pebble path, and trees instead of the expected deathly atmosphere.

Cang Jingzi and the elders discovered that the Demon-Sealing Pavilion’s top floor had become a paradise and cautiously approached its hidden center. Jiang Yantian prepared to meet them while Mei Yanluo grew jealous over his interest in the pretty fairy outside.

• Cang Jingzi and the elders saw the transformed top floor and feared Mei Yanluo had mastered the prison’s laws.
• The group followed a cobblestone path through the flower-filled grounds toward the central area.
• Jiang Yantian noticed the intruders, covered Mei Yanluo with his robe, and promised to leave them for her revenge.
• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo he would see why the Daoists had come and joked that the pretty fairy outside might have sent them for him.
• Mei Yanluo said the pretty fairy had sent the elders and told Jiang Yantian to leave, while he teased her for smelling of vinegar.

Jiang Yantian rejected the Dao Sect’s attempt to release him, loudly insisting that a devil like him deserved punishment, until Cang Jingzi mentioned Yan Miaoxi. He immediately changed his mind and decided his crimes were not serious enough to warrant staying imprisoned.

• Jiang Yantian bid farewell to Mei Yanluo, who dismissed his teasing remarks.
• Cang Jingzi and the Dao Sect group arrived and explained that an influential person had vouched for Jiang Yantian and ordered them to release him.
• Jiang Yantian condemned the Dao Sect for abandoning justice to please the powerful and insisted he should remain imprisoned or be killed.
• Cang Jingzi told Jiang Yantian to explain his decision to Yan Miaoxi, prompting Jiang Yantian to abruptly minimize his crimes and agree to leave.

Jiang Yantian toyed with the Canglan Dao Sect elders by pretending to choose Mei Yanluo over Yan Miaoxi, then demanded that they release his imprisoned wife. Cang Jingzi refused and led his people away, but Jiang Yantian’s Qi began to rise as he challenged them to stay.

• Jiang Yantian told Cang Jingzi he intended to leave with Yan Miaoxi, while Mei Yanluo tried to tempt him into staying.
• Mei Yanluo warned that Yan Miaoxi would punish the sect members and urged Jiang Yantian to remain with her, frightening Cang Jingzi and the others.
• Cang Jingzi pleaded with Jiang Yantian to resist Mei Yanluo’s seduction and meet Yan Miaoxi outside.
• Jiang Yantian agreed to leave only if Mei Yanluo was released, making Cang Jingzi realize he had not been bewitched.
• Cang Jingzi refused to free Mei Yanluo, declared that he would report Jiang Yantian’s actions to Yan Miaoxi, and ordered the sect members to leave.
• Jiang Yantian accused the sect of capturing him and imprisoning Mei Yanluo, then let his Qi rise and challenged them to stay.

Jiang Yantian revealed his overwhelming power and punished Cang Jingzi and the Dao Sect elders for imprisoning Mei Yanluo. Mei Yanluo became certain that he could easily free her from the Demon-Sealing Pavilion.

• Jiang Yantian shattered the paradise illusion, revealing that Cang Jingzi and the others had entered the altar’s confines.
• Jiang Yantian crushed the group with his imperial might and said he would avenge Mei Yanluo’s ten thousand years of imprisonment.
• Jiang Yantian bound Cang Jingzi and the others to the altar with Nine Nether Fine Steel Chains and threatened to release the demons imprisoned below.
• Cang Jingzi and the elders pleaded and despaired while Mei Yanluo watched Jiang Yantian stand up for her.
• Mei Yanluo realized that Jiang Yantian could easily break the restrictions and take her out of the Demon-Sealing Pavilion.

Jiang Yantian freed Mei Yanluo by shattering the chains of law that had imprisoned her for ten thousand years. He took the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal and changed the Demon-Sealing Pavilion's laws, leaving Cang Jingzi and the other elders at the mercy of the great demons as he carried Mei Yanluo away.

• Cang Jingzi threatened to destroy the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal unless Jiang Yantian released him and the others.
• Jiang Yantian dismissed the threat and shattered the chains binding Mei Yanluo, then caught her in his arms.
• Mei Yanluo called Jiang Yantian her husband and let him decide what to do with those responsible for her imprisonment.
• Jiang Yantian took the Ancient Calamity-Breaking Seal and rewrote the Demon-Sealing Pavilion's laws, removing the restraints on the great demons below.
• Jiang Yantian left Cang Jingzi and the elders suspended and unable to die as the great demons surged up to confront them.

Jiang Yantian freed Mei Yanluo from the Demon-Sealing Pavilion, and she vowed revenge on the Canglan Dao Sect. He then headed toward Yan Miaoxi, provoking Mei Yanluo’s jealousy, and pretended he did not know the woman who had come to rescue him.

• Jiang Yantian escaped the shattered prison with Mei Yanluo, leaving the chained Dao Sect members behind to be devoured by demons.
• Mei Yanluo enjoyed her freedom and swore to repay the Canglan Dao Sect for her clan’s deaths.
• Mei Yanluo teased Jiang Yantian about Yan Miaoxi, and he eagerly rushed over, saying he would thank her with a passionate kiss.
• Mei Yanluo followed Jiang Yantian, furious that he had gone to Yan Miaoxi without hesitation.
• Yan Miaoxi saw Jiang Yantian emerge with Mei Yanluo and, despite her anger, kept her expression cold and composed.
• Jiang Yantian greeted Yan Miaoxi as though they had never met and asked whether she had come to rescue him.

Yan Miaoxi rescued Jiang Yantian from the Demon-Sealing Pavilion on behalf of her clan elder Yan Qing, while Jiang Yantian’s teasing and Mei Yanluo’s claim that he was her husband stirred Yan Miaoxi’s jealousy. The chapter ended with Jiang Yantian asking Yan Miaoxi to bring her elder brother over so they could bathe together.

• Yan Miaoxi denied knowing Jiang Yantian, and Jiang Yantian claimed the Canglan Dao Sect had told him she was his Dao companion who had threatened them to secure his release.
• Yan Miaoxi explained that Yan Qing had asked her to rescue his friend Jiang Yantian, and Jiang Yantian theatrically praised Yan Qing for remembering him.
• Yan Miaoxi prepared to leave and exchanged compliments with Mei Yanluo, then needled her about Jiang Yantian being unable to resist her charms.
• Mei Yanluo moved closer to Jiang Yantian, touched his hair, and called him her husband, leaving Yan Miaoxi stunned.
• Jiang Yantian asked Yan Miaoxi where Yan Qing was and suggested they all take a bath together.

Jiang Yantian invited Yan Miaoxi to join him and Mei Yanluo at the Canglan Dao Sect, which he had already attacked. As the three headed there, Mei Yanluo exposed the powerful feelings she and Yan Miaoxi shared for Jiang Yantian, then claimed he had already buried himself in her bosom.

• Yan Miaoxi refused Jiang Yantian’s invitation to bathe and tried to leave, but he stopped her and invited her to the Canglan Dao Sect.
• Yan Miaoxi saw that Jiang Yantian had already unleashed Demonic Qi on the Canglan Dao Sect and agreed to accompany him and Mei Yanluo.
• Mei Yanluo teased Yan Miaoxi about being in love with Jiang Yantian and asked whether she felt an instinctive closeness and desire to protect him.
• Yan Miaoxi realized she had those feelings too and asked whether Mei Yanluo shared them.
• Mei Yanluo said she had felt the same way and revealed that Jiang Yantian had buried himself in her bosom.
• Jiang Yantian turned back and asked what Yan Miaoxi and Mei Yanluo were whispering about.