Recaps

After Jiang Yantian’s humiliations left Qin Xuan dispirited, he tried to rebuild his resolve but got into a furious argument with the chief eunuch outside the Golden Throne Hall. He left without killing anyone and continued his mission to find Elder Huang, search for Zhang Huowang, and inspect the dragon vein site.

• Qin Xuan gathered himself after his ordeal with Jiang Yantian and vowed to grow stronger and make Jiang Yantian kneel one day.
• The chief eunuch berated Qin Xuan for vomiting outside the Golden Throne Hall, and Qin Xuan tried to respond politely.
• The chief eunuch continued insulting Qin Xuan, and the two traded curses and spit while imperial guards held them back.
• Qin Xuan left in a rage without harming anyone and decided to find Elder Huang, search for Zhang Huowang, and visit the dragon vein site.
• Qin Xuan flew off, marveling at how easily his Nascent Soul strength let him travel through the air.

Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue enjoyed a day in the capital before discussing his actions at court and his complicated view of Qin Xuan. The chapter ended with Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue turning their attention to each other.

• Jiang Yantian took Ao Xue around the capital to eat, shop, and hear gossip at a teahouse.
• Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue settled into an inn, where she massaged his legs and asked whether his conduct at court would bring consequences.
• Jiang Yantian said he would kill Nan Tongyu eventually and described Qin Xuan as grateful, fortunate, and difficult to defeat.
• Ao Xue suggested Jiang Yantian was Qin Xuan's natural counter, and Jiang Yantian agreed with a laugh.
• Ao Xue and Jiang Yantian stopped discussing Qin Xuan and kissed passionately.

Qin Xuan prepared to lead five imperial family members in a search for a necromancer who could summon back their ancestor’s remnant spirit. Jiang Yantian arrived, slapped Qin Xuan, and announced that he would accompany the group while refusing to intervene unless their lives were in danger.

• Elder Huang sent Qin Xuan and five imperial family members to find a necromancer and summon back Zhang Huowang’s remnant spirit.
• Qin Xuan warned the group to stay together because a necromancer’s home would be filled with Ghost Qi, but the imperial family members openly looked down on him.
• Jiang Yantian appeared with Ao Xue just as Qin Xuan was about to set out.
• Qin Xuan respectfully explained that Elder Huang had arranged the trip, but Jiang Yantian slapped him and accused him of implying that Jiang had come to idle away his time.
• Jiang Yantian said he would accompany the group but would only intervene if their lives were in danger.

Jiang Yantian accompanied Qin Xuan and five imperial family members on a trip to find a necromancer, while secretly planning to sabotage Qin Xuan and expose the Blazing Yang Ancestor’s death. In barren northern mountains, Jiang summoned a Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon, and the group faced the beast’s terrifying arrival.

• Jiang Yantian joined Qin Xuan’s expedition and ordered the five imperial family members to obey Qin Xuan.
• Jiang planned to lead the group to a fake necromancer and make Qin Xuan’s failure public, helping his rebel allies.
• Jiang accepted a system mission to sever Qin Xuan’s arm and exchanged Humiliation Points for a Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon.
• The flying boat reached barren mountains, where Jiang used a summoning technique to awaken the beast.
• The Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon emerged amid an earthquake and raging storm, and Qin Xuan desperately accelerated the flying boat.

Qin Xuan and the imperial clan members encountered a Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon, whose Spatial Restriction left them helpless until Jiang Yantian stepped in to stage a battle with it. As Jiang Yantian and the dragon fought, a blade attack flew toward Qin Xuan aboard the flying boat.

• The Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon emerged, controlled the forces of nature, and trapped Qin Xuan and the five imperial clan members with Spatial Restriction.
• The imperial clan members despaired and blamed Qin Xuan, then remembered that Jiang Yantian was with them and called for his help.
• Jiang Yantian intercepted the dragon as it was about to swallow them and began fighting it with a golden phantom behind him.
• The dragon sent eighteen blade-like attacks toward Jiang Yantian, and the final one headed straight for Qin Xuan's chest.

Jiang Yantian deliberately caused Qin Xuan to lose an arm, then fooled the imperial family into believing he had subdued the Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon. After reaching the eerie City of Dark Night, Qin Xuan led the group to seek a necromancer while Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue went off on their own.

• Qin Xuan lost his arm to the Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon's attack, completing Jiang Yantian's mission and earning Jiang Humiliation Points.
• Jiang Yantian made the Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon submit, while Qin Xuan realized Jiang had arranged the attack and the imperial family praised Jiang.
• Jiang gave Qin Xuan a plum instead of a healing pill, and Qin Xuan treated his injury himself while silently vowing to repay Jiang one day.
• After nearly six hours, Qin Xuan and the imperial descendants reached the City of Dark Night, leaving Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue behind.
• Qin Xuan asked a woman where to find a necromancer, paid her a hundred taels for directions, then gave her another fifty taels to keep their secret.

Qin Xuan and the imperial family found an undead summoner, but the old man they met hid his own identity and directed them to Widow Zhang instead. After Widow Zhang theatrically summoned a spirit, Qin Xuan believed she was Jia Zhangshi, while Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue watched from nearby.

• Qin Xuan followed the auntie's directions to three connected houses where the Yin Qi grew dense.
• An old man came out and, afraid of Jiang Yantian, claimed an undead summoner lived next door.
• The old man introduced Qin Xuan and the others to Widow Zhang, who mistook them for customers seeking sex.
• Widow Zhang denied being an undead summoner until the old man mentioned her stolen dried radishes, prompting her to wail for her late husband.
• The old man secretly summoned a spirit, and Qin Xuan and the others accepted Widow Zhang as the undead summoner Jia Zhangshi.
• Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue watched from the sky as Jiang Yantian wondered whether Jia Zhangshi's family included Qin Huairu and Banggeng.

Qin Xuan and the royal scions hired Widow Zhang, whom they mistakenly believed could summon the dead, to perform a ritual for their ancestor. The group returned toward the imperial dynasty with Widow Zhang aboard, while she enjoyed her newfound status and Jiang Yantian’s manufactured dangers went unnoticed.

• The royal scions offered Widow Zhang a reward, and she agreed to perform her routine of calling Old Jia in exchange for silver.
• Widow Zhang’s son, Jia Dongxu, returned and urged her to act important so the wealthy scions would pay her more.
• Qin Xuan and the others took Widow Zhang aboard their flying boat, and Jiang Yantian promised to clear their route before departing with Ao Xue.
• The royal scions praised Jiang Yantian for making the journey safe, unaware that he had caused their earlier troubles.
• Widow Zhang made increasingly demanding requests during the flight, and Qin Xuan hurried toward the imperial dynasty while recognizing how naive the others were.

Qin Xuan returned from the mission with one arm missing and blamed Jiang Yantian in private, but the imperial court credited Jiang with saving him. At a grand spirit-summoning ceremony, Widow Zhang’s clumsy performance exposed her as a fake, leaving Qin Xuan to realize he had been set up.

• Qin Xuan reported the mission to Elder Huang, who believed Jiang Yantian had saved him from a Spirit Transformation Stage ferocious beast.
• Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue watched the imperial ceremony, while Widow Zhang learned she had been brought in as a supposed necromancer.
• Widow Zhang performed an incoherent ritual with a stick and bell, drawing suspicion from the gathered cultivators.
• An observer declared that Widow Zhang had no spiritual power and lacked the knowledge needed to summon a spirit.
• Qin Xuan realized that Old Wu had staged the earlier spirit summoning and sent Widow Zhang to take his place, making Qin the likely target of blame.

At the imperial sacrificial ceremony, Qin Xuan was blamed for bringing back a fake necromancer and erupted against the emperor and corrupt ministers. When Qin Xuan stood alone against the empire’s forces, Jiang Yantian empowered his blade, and Qin Xuan charged at two Nascent Soul experts.

• Zhang Huonian exposed Widow Zhang as a fake necromancer and laid the blame on Qin Xuan.
• The ministers demanded Qin Xuan be punished, and Qin Xuan broke his silence to condemn them for corruption and exploiting the people.
• Qin Xuan defied Zhang Huonian and drew his scarlet sword as two Nascent Soul late-stage experts appeared above the altar.
• Jiang Yantian applauded Qin Xuan, urged him to fight, and poured his power into Qin Xuan’s Coagulated Blood Divine Edge.
• Qin Xuan slashed at the two experts, then charged upward to battle them.

Qin Xuan fought two Nascent Soul Late Stage experts until Elder Huang’s interruption left him vulnerable and he was knocked to the ground. Nan Tongyu then arrived and demanded an explanation from Zhang Huonian for injuring his adopted son.

• Qin Xuan used the Coagulated Blood Divine Edge and a Gale Spell to conceal himself while fighting the two Nascent Soul Late Stage experts.
• Qin Xuan unleashed a powerful saber strike that cracked the experts’ combined protective barrier.
• Jiang Yantian told Elder Huang to stop the fight, and Elder Huang called out to Qin Xuan.
• One expert struck Qin Xuan while he was distracted, shattering his hurricane spell and sending him crashing to the ground.
• Jiang Yantian drove the experts back, and Nan Tongyu appeared and demanded an explanation from Zhang Huonian.

Jiang Yantian left after Nan Tongyu arrived, then visited the Heavenly Saber Sect with Ao Xue and spent the day guiding Ao Yun. Ao Xue admitted she feared Jiang Yantian would leave her because of their growing gap in strength, but he reassured her, and she chose to let him visit Luo Xingcai and the others alone the next day.

• Jiang Yantian left with Ao Xue after Nan Tongyu arrived, planning to return to the Mysterious Spirit Sect before people from the Upper Realm descended.
• Jiang Yantian rode the Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon to the Heavenly Saber Sect, where Ao Yun and the disciples welcomed him as their supreme elder.
• Jiang Yantian spent the day at the sect guiding Ao Yun while Ao Xue stayed by his side.
• Ao Xue told Jiang Yantian she feared he would stop wanting her because of the gap between them, and he reassured her that he would not abandon her.
• Ao Xue declined to accompany Jiang Yantian to the Mysterious Spirit Sect the next day so he could spend more time with Luo Xingcai and the other women.

Jiang Yantian visited the Mysterious Spirit Sect and reunited with Luo Xingcai, Tantai Yue, and Liu Mengjie while Ao Xue prepared to enter seclusion. At Prince Teng Pavilion, six figures from the Upper Realm’s Secluded Immortal Palace descended, leaving an empty place at their center as if their leader had yet to appear.

• Ao Xue decided to enter seclusion to build a solid foundation, and Jiang Yantian agreed before leaving for the Mysterious Spirit Sect.
• Jiang Yantian arrived at the Mysterious Spirit Sect, where the disciples and his women welcomed him.
• Jiang Yantian reunited with Luo Xingcai, Tantai Yue, and Liu Mengjie on Elder Peak.
• The Secluded Immortal Palace descended to Prince Teng Pavilion a day early, and Nan Tongyu’s preparations kept the welcome orderly.
• Six white-robed figures emerged from the Guidance Path, while the space between them suggested that their main figure had not yet appeared.

Long Wanning descended to the lower realm and secretly ordered Nan Tongyu to find a handsome, silver-haired man whose name contained Tian. Nan Tongyu suspected the description pointed to Jiang Yantian, while Long Wanning went to rest in the Ascending Immortal Tower, unaware Jiang Yantian had recently stayed in her room.

• Long Wanning arrived at Prince Teng Pavilion, where Nan Tongyu and the gathered crowd knelt to welcome her.
• Long Wanning privately told Nan Tongyu to find a handsome man with silver hair and a name containing Tian, adding that he might wear black robes.
• Nan Tongyu recognized Jiang Yantian as the likely match and arranged a broader search while asking Diao Mao about his whereabouts.
• Long Wanning entered her room in the Ascending Immortal Tower without realizing Jiang Yantian had spent the night there and neatly folded the bedding.

Long Wanning struggled with the Husband-Pursuing System and received a mysterious cultivation art, while Jiang Yantian enjoyed a carefree evening with Luo Xingcai, Tantai Yue, and Liu Mengjie. The chapter ended as Luo Xingcai stepped toward Jiang Yantian in the pool.

• Long Wanning worried that pursuing a husband would damage her Supreme Dao of Emotionlessness, but the system awarded her the Nine Nether Mysterious Penetration Art.
• The system told Long Wanning that the art was an emperor-grade method and could complement the Heavenly Crystal Ice Shadow Art, but she refused to learn more and resumed meditating.
• Jiang Yantian grilled a One-Horned Red Antelope for Luo Xingcai, Tantai Yue, and Liu Mengjie, then admitted he had killed it after it tried to charge him.
• Jiang Yantian claimed he had compensated the beast-taming deacon by sending him grilled skewers, while the deacon secretly ate them despite mourning his pet.
• After the group ate and drank on Elder Peak, Jiang Yantian joined the three women in the natural pool, and Luo Xingcai stepped forward first.

Jiang Yantian returned to the Prince Teng Pavilion and sneaked into the Immortal Ascension Pavilion to sleep, unaware that Long Wanning had claimed the room and discovered his scent on the bed. Long Wanning attacked him in fury, and after their clash she prepared to kill him.

• Jiang Yantian stayed another day at the Mysterious Spirit Sect, then left after giving Luo Xingcai, Tantai Yue, and Liu Mengjie treasures and cultivation resources.
• Jiang Yantian reached the Prince Teng Pavilion at the hour of the rat and went straight to the Immortal Ascension Pavilion, avoiding the welcoming banquet for the Upper Realm guests.
• Long Wanning discovered a man's scent on her bed and hid herself when she sensed someone approaching.
• Jiang Yantian entered through the window, lay on the bed, and sniffed the quilt and pillow, prompting Long Wanning to attack him.
• Jiang Yantian blocked Long Wanning's strike but was blasted into the wall, and Long Wanning emerged from hiding and prepared another attack to kill him.

Jiang Yantian used treasures and a spatial divine ability to hold off Long Wanning, who discovered that he was the husband her system had sent her to find. After agreeing to fight, they moved to a mountaintop, where Jiang Yantian demanded that she lower her cultivation to match his.

• Long Wanning attacked Jiang Yantian with Mahayana power, and he defended himself with the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Jiang Yantian trapped Long Wanning in his Demon Kingdom in the Palm and taunted her, while she recognized that his cultivation was too weak to hold her for long.
• Long Wanning's system announced that her husband-finding mission was complete, and she realized Jiang Yantian was her husband.
• Long Wanning's system issued a new mission to embrace her husband, so she withdrew her killing intent and challenged Jiang Yantian to a fight.
• Jiang Yantian dispelled his divine ability and took Long Wanning to a mountaintop, then asked her to lower her cultivation because she was far stronger than him.

Jiang Yantian and Long Wanning fought at equal cultivation inside a small world, escalating from martial strikes to divine manifestations and musical attacks. The battle remained unresolved as Jiang Yantian produced the Zither Emperor and prepared to counter Long Wanning’s Heavenly Sound Curse.

• Long Wanning suppressed her cultivation to Jiang Yantian’s level and transported them into a small world for their duel.
• Jiang Yantian and Long Wanning traded powerful attacks, with Jiang Yantian using the Yang-Extinguishing Saber and Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning.
• Long Wanning summoned an immortal crane with her jade flute, while Jiang Yantian answered with his Nine-Winged Heavenly Dragon; their manifestations fought to a standstill.
• Long Wanning used the Heavenly Sound Curse through countless flute-playing clones, but Jiang Yantian blocked its effects with Bluetooth earbuds.
• Jiang Yantian brought out the Zither Emperor and announced that he would counter Long Wanning’s musical attack, while she blamed Sima Tangsan for leading him astray.

Jiang Yantian defeated Long Wanning in their duel, then misunderstood her mission-mandated hug as an attempt to make him take responsibility for a pregnancy. Long Wanning learned that her system’s husband-pursuit mission had only begun, while Jiang Yantian fled to seek Humiliation Points from Qin Xuan.

• Jiang Yantian’s ancient zither string snapped, so he summoned the Crimson Flame Golden Ni and fought Long Wanning with two contracted beasts.
• Long Wanning and Jiang Yantian exchanged devastating attacks until Jiang Yantian defeated her, and they returned to the mountaintop.
• Long Wanning hugged Jiang Yantian for ten seconds to complete her system mission, but Jiang Yantian mistook the gesture for seduction and slapped her rear before pushing her away.
• Jiang Yantian accused Long Wanning of being pregnant and wanting him to take responsibility, then declared their grudges settled and vanished.
• Long Wanning learned that her husband-pursuit mission had only begun and realized the hug had made Jiang Yantian suspect she had an ulterior motive.
• Jiang Yantian fled while cursing about Long Wanning and decided to bully Qin Xuan for Humiliation Points.

Jiang Yantian discovered that Liu Tingyu’s maid had struck Diao Mao and retaliated by killing the maid at the welcoming banquet. When Sun Lin challenged him, Jiang Yantian attacked the Upper Realm expert, leaving the hall split by his strike.

• Jiang Yantian noticed the handprint on Diao Mao’s cheek and learned that Liu Tingyu’s maid had beaten her.
• Jiang Yantian confronted Liu Tingyu at the welcoming banquet, knocked her aside, and killed her maid in front of the guests.
• Jiang Yantian threatened Liu Tingyu and Qin Xuan, while Qin Xuan endured the humiliation without daring to act.
• Sun Lin criticized Jiang Yantian, and Jiang Yantian threatened him before attacking with Severing Souls and Seizing Spirits.

Jiang Yantian fought Sun Lin, a late-stage Void Refining expert, and turned Sun Lin’s fiery attack against him with a Red Lotus True Fire Talisman. As Jiang Yantian moved to finish Sun Lin, Long Wanning intervened to stop the Secluded Immortal Palace’s rescuers, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Jiang Yantian fought Sun Lin without using the system’s trial card, relying on the World-Destroying Black Lotus, his summoned beasts, pills, and other treasures to hold his own against Sun Lin’s flames.
• Sun Lin brought out his Wing Wind Furnace and unleashed a blazing tornado, but Jiang Yantian used a Red Lotus True Fire Talisman to make the flames consume Sun Lin instead.
• Long Wanning decided Sun Lin could not die at Jiang Yantian’s hands, but she allowed the fight to continue while planning to protect Jiang Yantian herself.
• Dai Naizhao attacked Jiang Yantian while another Secluded Immortal Palace expert tried to rescue Sun Lin, but Long Wanning struck both men down and revealed herself as the Young Palace Master.
• Jiang Yantian ignored Long Wanning’s arrival and prepared to slash the still-burning Sun Lin.

Long Wanning killed Sun Lin and secretly kissed Jiang Yantian while helping him recover after he devoured Sun Lin. Jiang Yantian left the banquet still suspicious of her motives, after striking Qin Xuan on his way out.

• Long Wanning killed Sun Lin, sealed the area so Jiang Yantian could devour his body, and warned the gathered cultivators not to use revenge as an excuse to attack anyone.
• Long Wanning’s system ordered her to calm Jiang Yantian’s rampaging Qi with mouth-to-mouth Qi transmission, so she kissed him and then left with Sun Lin’s corpse.
• Nan Tongyu concluded that Jiang Yantian was Long Wanning’s man, while Qin Xuan incorrectly decided she hated Jiang Yantian and planned to show his own hostility toward him.
• Jiang Yantian questioned Long Wanning’s sudden changes in behavior and wondered whether she desired him or wanted something from him.
• Jiang Yantian slapped Qin Xuan, then left the ruined banquet with Diao Mao.

Long Wanning struggled with her feelings after becoming intimate with Jiang Yantian, while Jiang Yantian returned to his courtyard with the frightened Diao Mao. He caught Nan Xu'er spying on him and learned she had returned to compete in the next day's aptitude test.

• Long Wanning tried to calm herself by cultivating, but Jiang Yantian's scent on the quilt stirred her feelings again.
• Jiang Yantian brought Diao Mao back to his courtyard and told her to stand up for herself when others bullied her.
• Jiang Yantian sensed someone watching him, pulled Nan Xu'er out of the sky, and grabbed her by the throat.
• Nan Xu'er explained that she had returned from visiting her maternal grandmother and had seen Jiang Yantian's clash with the Upper Realm.
• Jiang Yantian told Nan Xu'er to leave before he beat her up.

Nan Xu'er challenged Jiang Yantian to a hand-to-hand spar, but he hit her repeatedly without taking a single blow. Later, Long Wanning watched Jiang Yantian sleep and mistook his first sleep-talking remarks about his master for heartfelt longing before realizing he was lusting after her.

• Nan Xu'er challenged Jiang Yantian to a spar without martial techniques, spells, spiritual power, or origin power, and he reluctantly accepted.
• Jiang Yantian dodged Nan Xu'er's attacks and landed hit after hit, while she failed to strike him during their bout.
• Nan Xu'er admitted she was only half convinced, promised to spar again, and hurried away.
• Jiang Yantian sat down to drink tea, hummed a tune, and fell asleep as Long Wanning watched him from the shadows.
• Long Wanning interpreted Jiang Yantian's first sleep-talk about his master as a sign of deep affection, then heard him say his master smelled good and wanted to kiss her, and realized he was lusting after his female master.

Qin Xuan tried to comfort Liu Tingyu after her maid was killed, and he gave her his treasured Clear Heart Ice Soul Pearl when she claimed she needed it. The next day, the aptitude test began at Prince Teng Pavilion, where Long Wanning arranged for Nan Tongyu to switch seats with Jiang Yantian.

• Qin Xuan promised Liu Tingyu he would avenge her maid and said he expected something unusual to happen during the Upper Realm’s selection of ten seeds.
• Liu Tingyu hinted that Qin Xuan should give her his Clear Heart Ice Soul Pearl, and he eventually handed it over after she acted disappointed.
• Liu Tingyu kissed Qin Xuan while imagining him as Jiang Yantian, then sent him away for the night.
• Prince Teng Pavilion hosted the aptitude test, with ten spirit stones and seats arranged for the Secluded Immortal Palace’s delegation and the pavilion elders.
• Long Wanning told Nan Tongyu to switch seats with Jiang Yantian, and Nan Tongyu approached Jiang Yantian, startling him.