Recaps

Jiang Yantian sentenced Ye Feng to castration, then renamed him Ye Fen and assigned him to care for the sect’s dog, A Biao, and sweep the grounds. Ye Fen broke down over losing the future he had expected after being reborn, while the disciples laughed at him.

• Jiang Yantian restrained Ye Feng with the Nine Nether Fine Steel Chain and sentenced him to castration for three alleged crimes.
• Jiang Yantian castrated Ye Feng despite his pleas to the True Person and Elder Long, and Ye Feng collapsed in despair.
• Jiang Yantian told Ye Feng that the sect and Qi Family had been compensated, then renamed him Ye Fen.
• Jiang Yantian assigned Ye Fen to keep A Biao company and sweep the sect grounds for the rest of his life.
• Ye Fen suspected Jiang Yantian had trapped him from the start, but could not explain how, as the disciples began laughing at him.
• Ye Fen wailed that he did not want to have been reborn.

After being mutilated and abandoned, Ye Fen decided he would fight to change his fate rather than surrender to it. A heavenly list revealed that he had lost his preselected status but could still compete to become True Person Xuanwei’s personal disciple.

• After everyone left, Ye Fen broke down crying, then stopped himself from cursing Jiang Yantian when he remembered being beaten for it in his previous life.
• Ye Fen suspected he was trapped in an illusion formed by his inner demons, but resolved to escape the cycle and reclaim his destiny.
• Ye Fen buried the severed piece on the back hill, kowtowed before the mound, and vowed to take his fate into his own hands.
• A golden list appeared in the sky announcing True Person Xuanwei’s three disciple-selection trials; Ye Fen saw his preselected status crossed out but found his name among the competing candidates.
• Ye Fen read that the trials tested aptitude and comprehension, perseverance on a mountain path, and opportunity and temperament in a secret realm.
• The mountain-path trial reminded Ye Fen of Jiang Yantian’s humiliating ordeal in the later era, and he worried that the same cruelty might await him.

Ye Fen resolved to finish the trials, while Jiang Yantian was ambushed in his bedchamber by his six wives, who pretended to pamper him before binding him with a powerful restriction. The chapter ended with Jiang Yantian asking what they were doing as the six-woman technique immobilized him.

• Ye Fen remembered being humiliated by Jiang Yantian in a previous life, then vowed to overcome the trials and prepare for the summit.
• Jiang Yantian returned to his bedchamber, pleased with himself and eager to leave for home.
• Yan Miaoxi, Mei Yanluo, Beiming Yu, Su Lanyi, Jiang Lingwan, and Ruan Qingsi burst into Jiang Yantian’s room and surrounded him.
• The six women pampered Jiang Yantian while questioning his account of how difficult the journey had been.
• The six women combined their powers into the Six Spirits of the All Heavens-Emperor-Binding God-Locking Restriction and bound Jiang Yantian in place.

Jiang Yantian’s six wives bound him after hearing a false rumor that he had taken in a woman named Ye Fen, but he explained that Ye Fen was a castrated man he had punished. The wives turned their misunderstanding into an all-day assault, and the chapter left Jiang Yantian huddled under a quilt after they finally released him.

• Jiang Yantian’s six wives used the Emperor-Binding God-Locking Restriction to pin him to the couch and accused him of taking in Ye Fen as a woman.
• Jiang Yantian explained that Ye Fen had been Ye Feng, a man he had castrated and renamed, and that A Biao was meant to torment him.
• The six women realized they had misunderstood Jiang Yantian, but they kept him restrained while arguing over how to make amends.
• Beiming Yu slipped beneath the covers, and the six women pounced on Jiang Yantian as a barrier sealed the hall.
• The women released Jiang Yantian the following evening, and he climbed into bed and hid beneath a thick quilt.

Jiang Yantian spent the night with his six wives, who left him to rest after affectionately teasing and kissing him. Meanwhile, Ye Fen endured humiliation in a woodshed and rushed toward the mountaintop after hearing a bell, believing True Person Xuanwei’s disciple selection was beginning.

• Yan Miaoxi, Mei Yanluo, Jiang Lingwan, Ruan Qingsi, Su Lanyi, and Beiming Yu teased and kissed Jiang Yantian before leaving him to sleep.
• Ye Fen cried in her woodshed over losing her status, then resolved to compete for True Person Xuanwei’s personal disciple position.
• Ye Fen spent the night cultivating with a technique she pieced together from memories of her previous life.
• A bell rang across the Heavenly Palace, and Ye Fen saw the golden list shining on the mountaintop and hurried toward it.
• Ye Fen shouted that she would claim the personal disciple position, but someone told her the bell was only an alarm reminding disciples to cultivate.

Ye Fen turned the humiliation of being mocked into a way to collect spirit stones at the square, disguising herself as helpless to attract more donations. Jiang Yantian learned of her scheme and decided to let her amass resources before having someone take them from her.

• Ye Fen realized the bell marked morning lessons, then stayed at the square hoping to show her sincerity before the selection.
• Disciples mocked Ye Fen and tossed her spirit stones, and she decided to endure the insults and collect them.
• Ye Fen knelt at the square and pretended to be foolish, attracting increasingly generous donations from passersby.
• Chen Zheng reported Ye Fen's fundraising act to Jiang Yantian, who laughed and praised her resilience.
• Jiang Yantian told Chen Zheng to let Ye Fen collect more spirit stones and keep an account of everything she received.

Jiang Yantian visited Ye Fen while she was pretending to beg and questioned her about why she had recognized him. After Ye Fen described her supposed benefactor as a kind man named Jiang Yantian, Jiang Yantian promised to recommend her to the Chengdu Joyful Union Sect when the True Person chose disciples.

• Jiang Yantian went alone to the square and found Ye Fen begging for spirit stones while feigning madness.
• Jiang Yantian tossed Ye Fen spirit stones and teased her about her apparent downfall, leaving her afraid to drop the act.
• Jiang Yantian asked why Ye Fen had said she had seen him before, and Ye Fen claimed she had met another man named Jiang Yantian.
• Ye Fen described the other Jiang Yantian as a generous benefactor who had supported and protected her, despite privately remembering his mistreatment.
• Jiang Yantian accepted Ye Fen's explanation and said he would recommend her to the Chengdu Joyful Union Sect at the True Person's disciple-selection ceremony.

Jiang Yantian convinced Ye Fen that she still had a chance to become the True Person’s personal disciple, despite being removed as the predetermined choice. He named Wang Teng as her only serious rival and warned that Wang Teng had an excellent reputation.

• Jiang Yantian told Ye Fen that the Void Heavenly Palace’s factions were competing for influence, so the True Person wanted an unaffiliated outsider as his personal disciple.
• He explained that rival factions had schemed to ruin Ye Fen’s reputation, but the True Person had not erased her from the list of contenders.
• Jiang Yantian claimed that only Ye Fen and one other outsider were serious candidates, and that she needed to outshine that rival.
• Ye Fen asked for the rival’s name, and Jiang Yantian identified him as Wang Teng.
• Jiang Yantian said Wang Teng had a good character, had made a name for himself young, and was known for having the bearing of a Great Emperor.

Jiang Yantian told Ye Fen that she still had a chance to compete with Wang Teng for the personal disciple position, but that her rivals might try to kill her before the trials. He advised her to act like a madwoman to make them lower their guard, and Ye Fen resolved to endure the humiliation until tomorrow.

• Jiang Yantian explained that Wang Teng had been selected behind closed doors, while Ye Fen remained the True Person's only alternative in the trials.
• Ye Fen resolved to compete with Wang Teng, unaware that he was trapped in a vat of shit and desperate to escape.
• Jiang Yantian warned Ye Fen that other candidates might kill her because her name remained on the rankings.
• Jiang Yantian advised Ye Fen to act like a madwoman, suggesting that she publicly eat shit so her rivals would no longer see her as a threat.
• Jiang Yantian left, and Ye Fen decided to endure the humiliation and stay alive until the trials began tomorrow.

Ye Fen publicly defied her shame by defecating in the Void Heavenly Palace's square and eating some of it to make everyone believe she was mad. She left the crowd convinced of her insanity while hoping the spectacle would make her seem harmless before the three trials opened.

• Ye Fen overcame her hesitation and defecated in the square as disciples gathered to watch.
• Ye Fen broke a small stick, used it to eat some of what she had produced, and shocked the crowd into silence and panic.
• Ye Fen kept a foolish expression and acted mad, reasoning that people would lower their guard if they thought she posed no threat.
• Jiang Yantian watched Ye Fen and marveled that she had carried out his bluff.
• Ye Fen stopped after eating enough to make witnesses believe she was mad, then stood and skipped around while the crowd watched from a distance.

Jiang Yantian freed Wang Teng from the sealed vat and offered him a chance to earn his freedom by winning a contest at the Void Heavenly Palace the next day. Wang Teng accepted in terror and hurried to clean himself up, determined to win rather than face the punishment again.

• Jiang Yantian left the Void Heavenly Palace and traveled to the Yuanhao Immortal Sect to retrieve Wang Teng.
• Jiang Yantian told Wang Teng that he could compete at the Void Heavenly Palace and be freed if he won, but would be sealed away forever if he lost.
• Jiang Yantian dissolved the barrier and removed the filth, allowing Wang Teng to crawl out and beg for mercy.
• Jiang Yantian warned Wang Teng not to escape and left him to wash and change before the contest.
• Wang Teng wept after Jiang Yantian departed, then set about cleaning himself and vowed to win the contest even if it cost his life.

Jiang Yantian reunited with Xie Wanwan and Lu Jinglan, then told them he would take them to another spacetime. Lu Jinglan worried about leaving Qiong Yu behind, and Xie Wanwan suggested bringing her along as Jiang Yantian’s woman.

• Xie Wanwan rushed into Jiang Yantian’s arms, and Lu Jinglan joined them in the courtyard.
• Jiang Yantian kissed both women as they teased him about how much he had missed them.
• Lu Jinglan asked whether Jiang Yantian had returned to take them away, and he confirmed they would go to another spacetime.
• Xie Wanwan asked if they could stay with Jiang Yantian every day, and he agreed to sleep with both women that night.
• Lu Jinglan worried they might never see Qiong Yu again, so Xie Wanwan proposed that Qiong Yu become Jiang Yantian’s woman too.

Jiang Yantian went to meet Qiong Yu after Lu Jinglan and Xie Wanwan urged him to persuade her to leave with them, though he promised to respect her wishes if she truly refused. Qiong Yu hurried out to greet him, then grew anxious as she wondered what he intended to do.

• Jiang Yantian told Lu Jinglan he would ask Qiong Yu to leave willingly and would respect her choice if she genuinely resisted.
• Lu Jinglan and Xie Wanwan urged Jiang Yantian to visit Qiong Yu alone, and he set off after teasing them.
• Jiang Yantian appeared outside Qiong Yu's sleeping palace, and his presence stirred the Spiritual Qi across the mountaintop.
• Qiong Yu dropped her book, flew out to greet Jiang Yantian, and respectfully asked why the Devil Emperor had come.
• Qiong Yu noticed Jiang Yantian staring at her chest and privately worried about what he might do.

Jiang Yantian asked Qiong Yu to leave her world and join him, while offering to take the Yuanhao Immortal Sect along if she wished. Qiong Yu did not answer, asking for time to consider, and then led him on a tour of her secluded retreat.

• Jiang Yantian told Qiong Yu that he was returning to his own era with Wanwan and Jinglan, and asked whether she would come with him.
• Qiong Yu raised concerns about abandoning the Yuanhao Immortal Sect and her standing as its leader, while Jiang Yantian offered to handle the arrangements if she chose to bring its members.
• Qiong Yu asked what her place would be in Jiang Yantian's life, and he told her that he wanted her for herself and would treat her like Wanwan and Jinglan.
• Qiong Yu asked for time to think, and Jiang Yantian changed the subject by asking her to show him the retreat.
• Qiong Yu led Jiang Yantian out of the bedchamber and along a mountain path toward a viewing terrace.

Jiang Yantian and Qiong Yu shared an intimate walk to a mountaintop viewing platform, where Qiong Yu asked whether he wanted her only because she resembled a woman from his past. Jiang Yantian insisted he saw Qiong Yu as herself and bluntly admitted he desired her, leaving her to reckon with his answer.

• Jiang Yantian held Qiong Yu around the waist and then took her hand as they walked along a narrow path, while she protested his lack of propriety.
• At the viewing platform, Jiang Yantian told Qiong Yu they would stay until she had decided what to do about their earlier discussion.
• Qiong Yu asked whether Jiang Yantian wanted to take her away because another version of her had shared a karmic bond with him, and whether he saw her as a substitute.
• Jiang Yantian explained that the other Qiong Yu had died in his era, that he had killed her, and that he would not treat the present Qiong Yu as her shadow.
• Jiang Yantian told Qiong Yu he wanted her because she was herself, then openly confessed that her beauty and personality both attracted him and that he wanted to sleep with her.

Qiong Yu tested whether Jiang Yantian cared for her beyond her body, but he pretended to accept her offer of a spiritual partnership and nearly swore them together as brothers. To stop him, she admitted she was willing to be his woman and kissed him when he demanded proof.

• Qiong Yu told Jiang Yantian she would give him her heart but not her body, and asked whether he would still take her away.
• Jiang Yantian claimed he would respect her choice and become her spiritual partner, then produced an offering table and proposed they become sworn brothers.
• Qiong Yu panicked and insisted she had only been testing him, but Jiang Yantian lit incense and pressed ahead with the ceremony.
• Qiong Yu begged Jiang Yantian not to make them sworn brothers and said she was willing to go with him and be his woman.
• Jiang Yantian asked Qiong Yu to kiss him as proof, and she rose onto her toes and pressed her lips against his.

Qiong Yu agreed to hand over leadership of her immortal sect and voiced concern for its future, so Jiang Yantian provided safeguards for the sect. He then proposed a sexual encounter involving her two disciples, but Qiong Yu refused, leaving the proposal for another time.

• Qiong Yu kissed Jiang Yantian to prove she was not testing him, and he deepened the kiss before teasing her about refusing to share a bed.
• Qiong Yu said she would gather the elders and properly hand over leadership after returning, but worried that the sect would lose its strongest protector.
• Jiang Yantian promised to leave a lasting presence and gave Qiong Yu four treasures containing two powerful attacks and two defenses, intended as emergency trump cards.
• Jiang Yantian suggested that Qiong Yu and her two disciples play Fight the Landlord with him, and Qiong Yu refused to involve her disciples.
• Jiang Yantian accepted her refusal and said they could discuss it later before telling her to go.

Jiang Yantian told Xie Wanwan and Lu Jinglan that Qiong Yu would leave with them, then spent the evening with his two wives. Meanwhile, Wang Teng and Ye Fen prepared to win the next day's contest, fearing that defeat would mean returning to the humiliating confinement they had endured.

• Jiang Yantian returned to Xie Wanwan and Lu Jinglan and told them that he had settled matters with Qiong Yu, who would be leaving with them.
• Xie Wanwan teased Jiang Yantian about Qiong Yu, and he invited her and Lu Jinglan inside with him.
• Wang Teng washed and changed after escaping his confinement, then prepared his belongings and vowed to win the contest.
• Ye Fen resolved to win the contest, seeing it as her only chance to change her fate after her public humiliation.

Ye Fen prepared for the next day's assessment, while Qiong Yu finished arranging her departure from the immortal sect and visited her disciples. After overhearing them with Jiang Yantian, Qiong Yu retreated to her quarters, where Xie Wanwan summoned her to dinner and left her wondering whether she was being led into a setup.

• Ye Fen decided to push herself to improve her aptitude before the assessment, confident she could pass its later trials.
• Qiong Yu completed her handover, delivered Jiang Yantian's entrusted items to the grand elder, and went to visit Xie Wanwan and Lu Jinglan.
• Qiong Yu overheard sounds from her disciples' room, blushed, and hurried away, suspecting Jiang Yantian had noticed her arrival.
• Qiong Yu wandered around the immortal sect, taking in its familiar places before returning to her quarters at dusk.
• Xie Wanwan called Qiong Yu to join her and Jiang Yantian for dinner, and Qiong Yu finally agreed despite suspecting a setup.

Qiong Yu joined Jiang Yantian, Xie Wanwan, and Lu Jinglan for dinner, then spent hours preparing herself for what might happen when she and Jiang Yantian were alone. She finally lay beside the sleeping Jiang Yantian, and he later drew her into his arms without waking.

• Xie Wanwan led Qiong Yu to a dinner with Jiang Yantian and Lu Jinglan.
• After the meal, Xie Wanwan and Lu Jinglan left, and Jiang Yantian teased Qiong Yu about watching him earlier that afternoon.
• Jiang Yantian told Qiong Yu to bathe and get ready while he waited in the room.
• Qiong Yu spent two hours bathing and preparing, then found Jiang Yantian asleep and quietly lay beside him.
• Jiang Yantian turned in his sleep, pulled Qiong Yu into his embrace, and fell asleep again.

Qiong Yu realized Jiang Yantian had held her through the night without pressing her, and she woke feeling bashful but content. When she and her companions prepared to leave the Yuanhao Immortal Sect, Jiang Yantian uprooted Qiong Yu’s mountain and took their residences with them, then established a formation to protect the sect before they departed.

• Qiong Yu understood that Jiang Yantian had respected her nervousness and let her sleep peacefully in his arms.
• Jiang Yantian carried Qiong Yu outside, where Lu Jinglan and Xie Wanwan were waiting, and told them they would leave after handling their affairs.
• Xie Wanwan asked to take their residences so no one else would occupy them after they left, and Jiang Yantian agreed.
• Jiang Yantian uprooted Qiong Yu’s mountain before the Yuanhao Immortal Sect’s assembled disciples, then established a formation over the sect’s lands.
• Jiang Yantian took Xie Wanwan’s and Lu Jinglan’s courtyard residences, and Qiong Yu said she was ready to leave and live for herself.

Jiang Yantian sent Qiong Yu, Xie Wanwan, and Lu Jinglan to meet his six women while he arranged a contest between Wang Teng and Ye Fen. Wang Teng prepared to fight for his freedom, and Ye Fen sensed his arrival at the Void Heavenly Palace.

• Jiang Yantian reassured Qiong Yu, Xie Wanwan, and Lu Jinglan that Yan Miaoxi and the other women would welcome them, then sent them to have tea.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Chen Zheng to bring Wang Teng to the square and told him Ye Fen would come on her own.
• Chen Zheng found Wang Teng waiting at the Yuanhao Immortal Sect and brought him to a clean side hall in the Void Heavenly Palace.
• Wang Teng drank warm water, steadied himself, and prepared to win the coming contest rather than return to his confinement.
• Ye Fen waited in her shabby room and sensed a presence like her own but much stronger being brought into the Void Heavenly Palace.

Ye Fen and Wang Teng arrived at the Void Heavenly Palace’s staged competition, believing they would face each other in a test of character while the other contestants competed for real. The first trial began with the unveiling of the No Opportunity Stele, which would test spiritual roots and comprehension.

• Ye Fen saw Wang Teng’s name on the roster and steeled herself to risk everything in their coming contest.
• Jiang Yantian gathered the Void Heavenly Palace’s experts and disciples to watch the event from the square and a cloud platform above it.
• Wang Teng remained composed among the powerful contestants, while Ye Fen feared their strength and reminded herself that the contest between her and Wang Teng would test character, not cultivation.
• A white-bearded elder announced that the competition would select a personal disciple for True Person Xuanwei and consist of three trials.
• The first trial was announced as a test of spiritual roots and comprehension, and the No Opportunity Stele rose from the square.

Ye Fen and Wang Teng revealed supreme-grade spiritual roots during the Void Heavenly Palace’s test, but the crowd challenged their results by mocking their recent scandals. An elder asked them to rebut the accusations, and Ye Fen began to explain that she had compelling difficulties.

• Wang Teng pressed his hand against the No Opportunity Stele, which blazed with a golden pillar of light and was proclaimed to show supreme-grade spiritual roots.
• Ye Fen used a secret method from her previous life as she touched the stele, producing a matching golden pillar and drawing astonished praise.
• A blue-robed disciple and others accused Ye Fen of faking her talent, citing her behavior the previous day, while others mocked Wang Teng for having been soaked in a shit jar.
• An elder quieted the crowd and asked Ye Fen and Wang Teng to answer the accusations.
• Ye Fen said she had compelling difficulties, and the elder challenged her to explain why those difficulties had made her eat shit.

Ye Fen tried to excuse her public disgrace by blaming an inner demon, then redirected the crowd’s scrutiny toward Wang Teng. Wang Teng embraced the insults and turned them back on Ye Fen, leaving her exposed as she sought to become a True Person’s direct disciple.

• Ye Fen claimed an inner demon had made her disgrace herself, but the crowd mocked her and used her words to accuse her of sleeping with the Qi Family's second young madam.
• Ye Fen pointed at Wang Teng and accused him of being suspicious because he had soaked in a vat of shit.
• Wang Teng admitted he was trash, then mocked Ye Fen for refusing to own her disgrace, silencing the crowd with his shameless defiance.
• Ye Fen insisted she had been unwilling and that her powerful inner demon had forced her to act, but Wang Teng and the crowd ridiculed her explanation.
• Ye Fen said her supreme-grade spirit root was real, and Wang Teng asked whether a True Person would pass on his legacy to someone who would not admit what she had done.
• Ye Fen told Wang Teng to shut up and accused him of malicious competition.