Recaps

Lin Yiyun picked up Ding Miaomiao on the way to the Golden Needle Banquet, where Su Yi questioned modern celebrities and watched one of Ding Miaomiao’s favorite actor’s dramas. He remained unimpressed as the group continued toward the banquet.

• Lin Yiyun took Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and her driver to Qingzhou University’s east gate to pick up Ding Miaomiao.
• Ding Miaomiao joined Lin Yiyun in the car and talked excitedly about meeting Brother Zhan at the Golden Needle Banquet.
• Ding Miaomiao exchanged brief greetings with Ye Xiaxuan and continued to ignore Su Yi, who played with his phone.
• Su Yi searched for celebrities online and questioned whether the three men shown in the results deserved the label.
• Ye Xiaxuan explained that celebrated scientists and public servants also counted as celebrities, while Ding Miaomiao urged Su Yi to watch Brother Zhan’s dramas.
• Su Yi watched part of the drama and concluded that he could not appreciate the actor or the show.

Su Yi and his companions arrived at the Three Leaves Club for the Golden Needle Banquet, where celebrity fans mistook their car for a star’s and were stunned by the group’s appearance. As they headed inside, Su Yi reflected on celebrity worship and asked Ye Xiaxuan about her idols.

• Su Yi recognized the Three Leaves Club as the former Shanhe Club and learned from Ye Xiaxuan that celebrity fans had crowded the streets for the Golden Needle Banquet.
• Fans and media surrounded Lin Yiyun’s car in the parking garage, but security guards cleared a path for the group.
• Lin Yiyun, Ding Miaomiao, Su Yi, and Ye Xiaxuan stepped out, leaving the crowd speechless because they did not recognize the striking group.
• Su Yi questioned Ye Xiaxuan about her favorite celebrities, and she named Academician Zhong Nanshan as her idol and showed him a picture of Jay Chou.
• Su Yi puzzled over Jay Chou’s appeal and criticized the popularity of makeup-wearing male celebrities as he and the others entered the private elevator.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, Lin Yiyun asserted her strength while discussing the Tang Family’s return with Ye Jingguo. The chapter left Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan heading to meet Ding Miaomiao’s Brother Zhan after Su Yi declared Lin Yiyun was no longer his future wife.

• Ye Jingguo greeted Lin Yiyun and asked about her connection to Ye Xiaxuan, and Lin Yiyun presented herself as Ye Xiaxuan’s close friend.
• Ye Jingguo questioned Lin Yiyun about the Tang Family’s past withdrawal, and she asked whether it had been connected to Sword-Washing Mountain.
• Lin Yiyun refused to visit Yu Guoan and warned that anyone who treated her as an enemy could come after her.
• Lin Yiyun released a trace of her aura, frightening Ye Jingguo, but Su Yi cautioned her and she withdrew it.
• Lin Yiyun took Ding Miaomiao to meet her Brother Zhan, while Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan followed.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, screenwriter Yang Dong clashed with Qin Yuanlong and Zhou Zhan over Zhou Zhan being cast as the lead in Yang Dong’s drama. After refusing to back down, Yang Dong noticed Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan and wondered if Su Yi was an actor.

• Ding Miaomiao nervously asked Lin Yiyun whether she could get Zhou Zhan’s WeChat, and Lin Yiyun confidently assured her she could.
• Qin Yuanlong introduced Yang Dong to Zhou Zhan, but Yang Dong rejected Zhou Zhan as the lead and criticized his appearance and acting.
• Qin Yuanlong reminded Yang Dong that his contract gave him only the right to suggest casting, not to decide it.
• When Zhou Zhan demanded an apology, Yang Dong cursed at him, gave him the middle finger, and walked away.
• Yang Dong spotted Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan, thought they suited the leads in his xianxia script, and asked Su Yi if he was an actor.

At a banquet, Lin Yiyun introduced Ding Miaomiao to Zhou Zhan and encouraged them to get acquainted, while Su Yi warned that Ding Miaomiao might get hurt. Lin Yiyun left the matchmaking to fate and insisted that Miaomiao’s feelings were enough.

• Yang Dong left after Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan said they were only attending for fun, not seeking acting work.
• Lin Yiyun introduced Ding Miaomiao to Zhou Zhan, who exchanged WeChat contacts with her and asked Lin Yiyun for contact information.
• Lin Yiyun gave Zhou Zhan her driver’s phone number and stepped away so he and Ding Miaomiao could talk.
• Lin Yiyun asked Su Yi whether he wanted to become a celebrity, but he said he was not interested.
• Su Yi warned Lin Yiyun that her matchmaking could hurt Ding Miaomiao, but Lin Yiyun insisted that Miaomiao’s liking Zhou Zhan was what mattered.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, Lin Yiyun brushed off Cai Kunkun and used her influence to crush Xinli Media after its owner confronted her. She demanded that Yang Yuan sell her the company for fifty million and make sure Cai Kunkun disappeared from her sight.

• Lin Yiyun met with Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan at the banquet while negotiating billion-yuan acquisition deals with Qingzhou businesspeople.
• Cai Kunkun approached Lin Yiyun with wine, but she told him to get lost.
• Yang Yuan confronted Lin Yiyun and demanded that she apologize to Cai Kunkun in exchange for help entering the entertainment industry.
• Lin Yiyun called someone and ordered Xinli Media bankrupted within ten minutes, then deflected Yang Yuan's attempt to splash wine back onto her.
• Yang Yuan returned within minutes, apologized to Lin Yiyun, and begged her to spare the company.
• Lin Yiyun ordered Yang Yuan to keep Cai Kunkun away from her and sell Xinli Media to her for fifty million.

Lin Yiyun humiliated Xinli Media’s representative and arranged to acquire the company, while Cai Kunkun was blacklisted and publicly disgraced. Zhou Zhan tried to pursue Ding Miaomiao, but after she rejected him, he found something on her phone that he believed would let him control her.

• Lin Yiyun forced Yang Yuan to take Cai Kunkun away and said she intended to acquire Xinli Media.
• Zhou Zhan watched Cai Kunkun’s downfall and decided Ding Miaomiao could help him enter elite circles.
• That night, revelations about Cai Kunkun’s private life spread, and media companies announced they would blacklist him.
• Zhou Zhan kissed Ding Miaomiao in his car, but she bit him, escaped, and rejected him.
• Zhou Zhan picked up Ding Miaomiao’s unlocked phone, browsed her photos, and smiled as he thought he could use what he found against her.

After the Golden Needle Banquet, Su Yi read online as a scandal involving Yang Dong and Zhou Zhan spiraled into a fierce fan war. He went to sleep after watching the fight spread from social media to a webnovel platform, where readers’ reports got authors’ books banned.

• Su Yi returned to Wutong Street and saw himself dubbed the hottest bodyguard of the year.
• Su Yi read a sensational article about Yang Dong refusing to cast Zhou Zhan and watched commenters turn public opinion against Yang Dong.
• Su Yi downloaded a novel app and found Yang Dong’s pinned review explaining that he opposed Zhou Zhan playing Xiao Wu but had no final say over casting.
• Zhou Zhan’s fans reported Yang Dong’s novel, but when it remained available, they reported books by authors who supported Yang Dong instead.
• The platform banned books by some of those authors, prompting their readers and writers to join the online fight.
• Su Yi read reviews for over an hour, checked Yang Dong’s novel, and went to sleep without commenting.

Su Yi returned home, reunited with Xu Diandian, and learned more about the online backlash surrounding Yang Dong and Zhou Zhan. At school, he followed Ding Miaomiao and Wang Qing to the west gate, where Zhou Zhan blackmailed Ding Miaomiao and propositioned her in exchange for her phone.

• Su Yi saw that Yang Dong's novel had gained tens of thousands of reviews and learned that Zhou Zhan's supporters and paid commenters were overwhelming the discussion.
• Xu Diandian visited Su Yi, told him she had been feeding his rabbit, and asked that they spare it; Su Yi agreed.
• Wang Junlin and the others asked Su Yi about the Golden Needle Feast and his connection to Lin Yiyun.
• Su Yi and Wang Junlin followed Ding Miaomiao and Wang Qing to the west gate after Ding Miaomiao hurried away in distress.
• Ding Miaomiao got into Zhou Zhan's Mercedes, where he demanded that she arrange a meeting with President Lin in exchange for keeping her photos private.
• Zhou Zhan asked Ding Miaomiao to have sex with him in the car as payment for returning her phone.

Su Yi intervened when Zhou Zhan threatened Ding Miaomiao with private photos, overpowering Zhou Zhan’s bodyguard and forcing his way into the car. He demanded Ding Miaomiao’s phone from Zhou Zhan, who resisted and threatened Su Yi with prison.

• Zhou Zhan threatened to leak Ding Miaomiao’s photos unless she submitted to him, leaving her afraid to leave the car.
• Su Yi told Wang Junlin and the others they were going to beat someone up, then headed for Zhou Zhan’s Mercedes.
• Su Yi crushed Zhou Zhan’s bodyguard’s wrist and left him playing unconscious.
• Su Yi pulled open the locked car door, got Ding Miaomiao out, and took her place in the car with Zhou Zhan.
• Su Yi demanded Ding Miaomiao’s phone and squeezed Zhou Zhan’s arm when he denied knowing about it.
• Zhou Zhan endured the pain and threatened that Su Yi would go to prison if he let him leave alive.

Su Yi forced Zhou Zhan to confess that he planned to use photos to make Ding Miaomiao ask Lin Yiyun out, then told Lin Yiyun what had happened. He returned Ding Miaomiao’s phone and left her with Wang Junlin as Lin Yiyun prepared to handle Zhou Zhan.

• Su Yi restrained Zhou Zhan in the moving car until Zhou handed over Ding Miaomiao’s phone.
• Su Yi recorded Zhou Zhan admitting that he planned to use photos to pressure Ding Miaomiao into asking Lin Yiyun out.
• Su Yi called Lin Yiyun, who said she would handle Zhou Zhan herself.
• Su Yi released Zhou Zhan, returned Ding Miaomiao’s phone, and told her Lin Yiyun would help her.
• Su Yi asked Wang Junlin and the others to escort Ding Miaomiao back to the dorm, and Yang Hui and Jiang Biao left Wang Junlin to accompany her.

Ding Miaomiao cried after her encounter with Zhou Zhan, and Wang Junlin escorted her to the dorm while Lin Yiyun set out to retaliate. Su Yi learned that Lin Yiyun’s influence had triggered a wave of companies cutting ties with Zhou Zhan and investigations into his alleged scandals.

• Ding Miaomiao broke down in tears while Wang Junlin walked her back to the women’s dorm, where she thanked him before going upstairs.
• Lin Yiyun gathered information on Zhou Zhan and the bosses backing him after learning he had upset Ding Miaomiao.
• Su Yi told Yang Hui and Jiang Biao that Zhou Zhan had been in the vehicle and predicted that he would fall from prominence.
• Yang Hui found that Seal Entertainment and more than a dozen other media companies had ended their ties with Zhou Zhan.
• Su Yi saw allegations and evidence against Zhou Zhan spread online as judicial authorities began investigations, while a celebratory comment about his downfall gained thousands of likes.

Su Yi learned that Lin Yiyun had quickly turned public opinion against Zhou Zhan, then agreed to visit a Japanese dojo with Yu Xinghe so Ye Xiaxuan could train against its fighters. He summoned Ye Xiaxuan to the bookstore, where she arrived to find more than twenty immortal cultivators gathered, including Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng.

• Su Yi saw Zhou Zhan get blacklisted while Yang Dong was praised, and credited Lin Yiyun with swiftly changing public opinion.
• Yu Xinghe visited Su Yi in class and invited him to challenge a Japanese dojo whose fighters had defeated his grandfather's bodyguards and injured several of his senior brothers.
• Su Yi agreed to go to the dojo and planned to have Ye Xiaxuan train there.
• Su Yi read several melodramatic novels, then messaged Ye Xiaxuan to come to the bookstore that afternoon.
• Ye Xiaxuan arrived at the bookstore and found Su Yi waiting with more than twenty immortal cultivators, including Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng.

Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan and a group of cultivators to challenge a karate dojo, while Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng followed for their own reasons. The group set out with Yuan Haoran convinced Su Yi was relying on Ye Xiaxuan to handle trouble for him.

• Cultivators flocked to Green Mountain Bookstore to read and cultivate because Zhang Luolin was there, and Zhang Luolin wondered why they had gathered.
• Su Yi arrived at the bookstore, where Yuan Haoran greeted him coldly and Xie Xuecheng showed him disdain, while both men welcomed Ye Xiaxuan.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan he would take her to challenge a dojo, and Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng decided to follow along.
• Yu Xinghe praised Su Yi for bringing Ye Xiaxuan along, but Su Yi clarified that Ye Xiaxuan, not he, would fight.
• Yuan Haoran sneered that Su Yi was making Ye Xiaxuan stand up for him and thought he had sunk low.

Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan to challenge the Qingzhou Karate Dojo, where Coach Daxiong demanded a life-and-death waiver before their match. The chapter ended with Ye Xiaxuan unleashing her Golden Core pressure, knocking the onlookers unconscious and forcing Daxiong to his knees in fear.

• Su Yi explained that the dojo had broken the rules by challenging the Green Mountain Martial Arts School, so he was entitled to warn them.
• A dojo student mocked Yu Xinghe and said challengers had to sign a life-and-death waiver before facing Coach Daxiong.
• Ye Xiaxuan signed the waiver, and Daxiong signed it too before they entered the training hall.
• Daxiong offered Ye Xiaxuan the first three moves, and she gathered her Qi instead of drawing Soul Severing.
• Ye Xiaxuan's pressure caused the students and Jiang Biao's group to pass out, while Daxiong fell to his knees in terror.

Ye Xiaxuan and Yuan Haoran defeated the onmyōji at the Qingzhou karate dojo, and Su Yi called Gu Tongtong to take him into custody. The captive tried to escape when Gu Tongtong arrived, but she killed him with a single punch.

• Daxiong collapsed before Ye Xiaxuan made a move, and Su Yi led the group deeper into the dojo.
• Ye Xiaxuan cut down the onmyōji’s five-eyed monster and subdued him, while Yuan Haoran destroyed the other summoned monsters.
• Su Yi called Gu Tongtong to collect the captive, and Yuan Haoran argued that the onmyōji should be killed.
• Ye Xiaxuan refused to let Yuan Haoran kill the captive, and she handed him over to Gu Tongtong when she arrived.
• The onmyōji attacked Gu Tongtong at the dojo entrance, and she punched him through the doors into a wall, killing him.

Su Yi killed three Human Realm Immortals who ambushed him, then freed Soul Severing from its seals while Yu Long prepared to strike Ye Xiaxuan. The sword spirit sensed Yu Long lurking nearby, but Ye Xiaxuan remained unaware of the threat.

• Three Human Realm Immortals cornered Su Yi on Wutong Street and demanded that he kill himself.
• Su Yi used a dagger to kill the child who attacked him with Nine Netherworlds Yin Fire, then extinguished the flame with a breath.
• The other two Human Realm Immortals fled, but Su Yi killed them and made all three bodies disappear.
• Yu Long watched Ye Xiaxuan from the shadows, planning to kill her before she could summon Soul Severing.
• Su Yi removed Soul Severing's seals from afar, and the sword spirit sensed Yu Long hiding nearby.

Yu Long tried to assassinate Ye Xiaxuan, but the sword spirit killed him before he could harm her. Su Yi entered Fengjing Town to confront the Human Realm Immortals who had targeted his disciple, and the chapter ended as their combined attack vanished into a cloud of dust.

• Yu Long appeared behind Ye Xiaxuan and attacked, but the sword spirit annihilated his soul and killed him.
• The sword spirit urged Ye Xiaxuan to slaughter the town, but she called Gu Tongtong and drove to Su Yi’s residence to ask what to do.
• Su Yi entered Fengjing Town, sealed off the town with dao resonance, and declared that the Human Realm Immortals who had targeted Ye Xiaxuan would die.
• A Human Realm Immortal attacked Su Yi and exploded into dust when he came within half a meter of him.
• More than thirty Human Realm Immortals attacked Su Yi together, and one of them wondered if he had survived the smoke and dust.

Su Yi effortlessly destroyed the Human Realm Immortals who had taken over Fengjing Town, then found the Hidden Dragon Pearl and reopened its passage to the Immortal Realm. The Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor recognized Su Yi’s voice and asked if Senior Su had returned.

• The Human Realm Immortals attacked Su Yi again, but he walked through Fengjing Town unharmed as the town and its inhabitants crumbled around him.
• Tang Yue tried to reconnect the passage to the Immortal Realm with the Hidden Dragon Pearl, then ordered two hundred Human Realm Immortals to sacrifice themselves in a killing formation against Su Yi.
• Su Yi absorbed the formation’s attack without effort, then killed Tang Yue and every remaining Human Realm Immortal in Fengjing Town.
• Su Yi found Tang Yaowen’s body and the Hidden Dragon Pearl at the Tang Family’s old residence, then activated the formation connecting to the Immortal Realm.
• The Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor spoke through the reopened passage and recognized Su Yi, asking if Senior Su had returned.

Su Yi spoke with the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor and ordered Immortals and demons entering the mortal world to report to the Thirteenth Bureau and obey its laws. After the Thirteenth Bureau found Fengjing Town devastated, Ye Xiaxuan arrived at Su Yi’s courtyard and said someone wanted to kill her.

• The Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor told Su Yi that four Immortal Emperors were besieging him and that he had sent his disciples to the mortal world.
• Su Yi told the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor to make all Immortals and demons who descended report to the Thirteenth Bureau and follow mortal laws.
• Su Yi ended the call and left Fengjing Town, where the illusion vanished and the soldiers found the town wrecked and empty.
• Old Yang, Gu Tongtong, and Wu Wenze inspected the town and considered whether the Human Realm Immortals had been killed or driven elsewhere.
• Su Yi returned to his courtyard and watched television until Ye Xiaxuan arrived and announced that someone wanted to kill her.
• Su Yi asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she had an iQIYI subscription.

Ye Xiaxuan visited Su Yi to tell him someone had tried to kill her, but he brushed past the warning and asked her about a video membership. They went out for dinner, and Su Yi tried driving her car before agreeing to learn legally at a driving school.

• Su Yi asked Ye Xiaxuan to help him buy a video membership, then signed up for a six-yuan trial and canceled automatic renewal himself.
• Ye Xiaxuan offered Su Yi money and told him she had not eaten, so they decided to go to Yangzhou Beef.
• Su Yi asked Ye Xiaxuan to explain how to drive and compared a car to a horse controlled by reins and commands.
• Ye Xiaxuan let Su Yi take the wheel, but he accelerated dangerously before stopping the car with his consciousness and apologizing to the startled driver.
• Ye Xiaxuan persuaded Su Yi to practice at a driving school because he had no license, and he asked whether her car or Gu Tongtong's could carry more people.

Su Yi ate at Yangzhou Beef with Ye Xiaxuan while Wen Qianmeng and the spirit Li Youyou approached him. Li Youyou tried to charm Su Yi but backed down when he warned he could erase her, and Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng arrived as the meal continued.

• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan arrived at Yangzhou Beef, where Wen Qianmeng was playing the guzheng, and Yang Yongsheng welcomed Su Yi.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked whether she could defeat Wen Qianmeng without Soul Severing, and Su Yi's silent smile made clear that she could not.
• Wen Qianmeng stopped playing and joined Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan, then let Li Youyou take control of her body.
• Li Youyou flirted with Su Yi and offered to go home with him, but Su Yi warned he could erase her without harming Wen Qianmeng, so she spoke to him properly.
• Li Youyou yielded control back to Wen Qianmeng, leaving Ye Xiaxuan stunned by the two personalities sharing one body.
• Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng walked into the restaurant.

Yuan Haoran forced his way into Su Yi's table at the Yangzhou Beef restaurant after Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan refused to let him join. When Su Yi split the bill and asked Yuan Haoran to pay his share, Yuan Haoran checked his wallet and froze.

• Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng entered Yangzhou Beef, where Xie Xuecheng found he could not draw his sword near Ye Xiaxuan.
• Yuan Haoran tried to join Ye Xiaxuan's table, but Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan told him to find another table.
• Yuan Haoran challenged Su Yi to a hand-to-hand match, then sat beside him and began eating when Su Yi refused.
• Xie Xuecheng sat at a nearby table, and Su Yi later asked Yang Yongsheng for the bill.
• Su Yi offered to pay 260 and told Yang Yongsheng to charge Yuan Haoran the remaining 120, but Yuan Haoran checked his wallet and was dumbfounded.

Yuan Haoran blamed Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan for his missing money and broken phone, then followed them out of the restaurant determined to challenge Su Yi. Old Yang and Gu Tongtong confronted Ye Xiaxuan about the disappearance of Fengjing Town’s Human Realm Immortals, and she realized Su Yi might have killed them all.

• Yuan Haoran discovered most of his money and all his bank cards were gone, and he suspected Su Yi had stolen them.
• Su Yi caused Yuan Haoran’s phone to explode, while Ye Xiaxuan refused to lend him money and tossed her own phone into a pot.
• Su Yi paid Yang Yongsheng 120, and Yuan Haoran had his family’s butler transfer the rest before following Su Yi and the others outside.
• Old Yang and Gu Tongtong arrived and told Ye Xiaxuan that the Human Realm Immortals in Fengjing Town had vanished, possibly wiped out without leaving bodies.
• Ye Xiaxuan realized Su Yi might have killed more than a thousand Human Realm Immortals after she had been attacked by Yu Long.

The Thirteenth Bureau investigated the disappearance of 1,388 Human Realm Immortals in Fengjing Town, and Ye Xiaxuan accompanied them to inspect the devastated site. Su Yi concealed his role in the battle, while Yuan Haoran sensed its lingering Dao resonance and asked to cultivate there.

• Old Yang told Yuan Haoran that 1,388 Human Realm Immortals had vanished in Fengjing Town and said he wanted to learn whether they were dead or hiding.
• Ye Xiaxuan denied killing them and agreed to inspect Fengjing Town with Old Yang, Xie Xuecheng, Yuan Haoran, Su Yi, and Gu Tongtong.
• At Fengjing Town, Ye Xiaxuan saw the wreckage and concealed that Su Yi was responsible for the battle.
• Ye Xiaxuan said her sword spirit had taught her, and the sword spirit appeared to challenge Old Yang before Su Yi sealed it away again.
• Yuan Haoran sensed the lingering Dao resonance and asked Old Yang for permission to cultivate at the site in exchange for serving the Thirteenth Bureau for a year.