Recaps

Su Yi subdued Qin Lin and left Yu Huiyin wondering about the cultivation world. As millions of people rushed to seek immortal opportunities, Su Yi advised Old Yang to work with the immortal sects and sent Ye Xiaxuan along to test her judgment.

• Su Yi snapped Qin Lin’s wrist, hypnotized him, and took him away after telling Yu Huiyin she probably would not see him again.
• Yu Huiyin considered seeking an immortal opportunity after reflecting on the growing presence of cultivators and sects.
• Old Yang visited Su Yi at dawn and reported that millions of people had abandoned work or school to search for cultivation opportunities.
• Su Yi told Old Yang that the immortal sects should announce selection requirements and would soon establish barriers to keep crowds away.
• Su Yi advised Old Yang to take Ye Xiaxuan and ask her how to handle the disruption.

Han Zhen told Daoist Fire Cloud how Ye Xiaxuan had overwhelmed him, and her approach made both cultivators lose control of their swords. Ye Xiaxuan, Su Yi, and Old Yang reached the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect, where Ye Xiaxuan prepared to meet Han Zhen again.

• Han Zhen told Daoist Fire Cloud that Ye Xiaxuan had severed his connection to his sword spirit and left him unable to use his sword.
• Han Zhen’s Shadow-Hunting Sword fell to the floor, and Daoist Fire Cloud found he could not summon his own sword as Ye Xiaxuan approached.
• Soul Severing boasted to Ye Xiaxuan that even the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords had bowed before it, but Su Yi silenced the sword spirit with a warning.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Old Yang whether she only needed to stand by the mountain gate, and Old Yang told her he would handle the rest.

Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan and Old Yang to the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect, where he deliberately provoked its disciples and left the sect leaders terrified of offending Ye Xiaxuan. The group was escorted inside, and Han Zhen cautiously asked Old Yang what he had come to discuss.

• Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Old Yang arrived at the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect's mountain gate, where two disciples challenged them.
• Su Yi insulted the disciples and threatened to wipe out the sect, then taunted one when he could not draw his sword.
• Han Zhen and Daoist Fire Cloud arrived and hurriedly apologized to Ye Xiaxuan, believing she was a peerless expert backing Su Yi.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Han Zhen to keep his disciples in line and directed him to discuss their business with Old Yang.
• Han Zhen nervously asked Old Yang what he wished to discuss with the sect.

Old Yang and Ye Xiaxuan visited the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect to discuss rules for recruiting disciples and protecting the sect grounds, then gathered the other sect masters. As Ye Xiaxuan left Su Yi to handle a challenge from Gong Sheng, Su Yi considered how to deal with the Chosen One.

• Old Yang asked Han Zhen to announce recruitment requirements and establish mountain-protecting formations to keep mortals away from sect grounds.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Han Zhen to gather the major sect masters, and Han Zhen invited the Ascension Stage experts to the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect.
• Su Yi criticized the tea in the main hall, irritating Han Zhen's disciples.
• Gong Sheng challenged Su Yi to a spar, hoping to impress Ye Xiaxuan and make Su Yi lose face.
• Ye Xiaxuan approved the spar, while Su Yi recognized Gong Sheng as the Chosen One and wondered whether to kill him.

Su Yi used Ye Xiaxuan’s unsealed Soul Severing to stop Gong Sheng’s proposed sword spar, frightening Han Zhen and Daoist Fire Cloud into realizing the sword’s overwhelming power. The sword intent drew sect masters from across the world to the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect, while Zhang Zhesheng hurried over believing Han Zhen had gained a major breakthrough.

• Su Yi challenged Gong Sheng to compare sword moves, then borrowed Soul Severing from Ye Xiaxuan.
• Su Yi removed Soul Severing’s seals, and its sword intent immobilized Gong Sheng and terrified Han Zhen and Daoist Fire Cloud.
• Han Zhen stopped the spar, and Su Yi returned Soul Severing to Ye Xiaxuan after deciding to spare Gong Sheng.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to speak with the arriving sect masters instead of leaving everything to Old Yang.
• Sect masters from more than a dozen immortal sects arrived at the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect after sensing the sword intent.
• Zhang Zhesheng sensed the sword intent from a thousand miles away and hurried to investigate, suspecting Han Zhen had reached a new realm.

Zhang Zhesheng came to the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect believing Han Zhen had interfered with his sword flight, but he recognized Su Yi as the ancient Ghost Valley Zi and knelt before him. Su Yi denied the identity, and Zhang Zhesheng accepted the denial while continuing to show him respect, leaving Han Zhen and Daoist Fire Cloud stunned.

• Zhang Zhesheng lost control of his sword flight near the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect and blamed Han Zhen.
• Zhang Zhesheng struck Han Zhen and Daoist Fire Cloud with his aura and a cold snort, making them cough blood.
• Han Zhen told Zhang Zhesheng that the powerful sword intent had come from a senior inside the hall.
• Zhang Zhesheng saw Su Yi, mistook him for Senior Xuanweizi, and knelt before him.
• Su Yi denied being the person Zhang Zhesheng remembered, and Zhang Zhesheng rose and respectfully apologized for the mistake.

Ye Xiaxuan addressed the immortal sect heads and secured their agreement to build mountain-protecting formations and coordinate disciple recruitment. After Su Yi left the hall, Gong Sheng attacked him, but Zhang Zhesheng killed Gong Sheng and stopped the silver needle.

• Han Zhen told Ye Xiaxuan that nearly all the sect heads had arrived, and she instructed them to build mountain-protecting formations and coordinate disciple recruitment with Mr. Yang.
• Han Zhen agreed to the plan, eager to win Ye Xiaxuan's favor and learn her sword Dao.
• Su Yi left the hall to look around while Ye Xiaxuan stayed behind with the sect heads.
• Gong Sheng followed Su Yi down the mountain and attacked him with a silver needle.
• Zhang Zhesheng shattered Gong Sheng's soul, and the silver needle stopped inches from Su Yi.

Su Yi revealed his identity to Zhang Zhesheng, who took responsibility for Gong Sheng’s death. Su Yi paid Zhang Zhesheng with a rare pill to kill five cultivators, then ended their connection and departed.

• Su Yi examined the poisoned needle and told Zhang Zhesheng that he did not remember him.
• Zhang Zhesheng claimed responsibility for killing Gong Sheng so Su Yi’s strength would remain hidden.
• Su Yi observed that Zhang Zhesheng was nearing the end of his lifespan, while Zhang Zhesheng said he hoped to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Su Yi offered Zhang Zhesheng a Three-Pattern Spirit-Clearing Pill in exchange for killing five people.
• Su Yi named Feng Yue, Ling Chen, Ouyang Yu, and two others as targets, and Zhang Zhesheng accepted the task.
• Su Yi told Zhang Zhesheng not to seek him again and walked away.

Zhang Zhesheng killed Feng Yue and suffered the Heavenly Dao’s backlash, then accepted Su Yi’s instruction to kill one more Chosen One before ascending. Ye Xiaxuan emerged from the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect and asked Su Yi to carry her because she was too weak to walk.

• Zhang Zhesheng arrived at the Carefree Sect and killed Feng Yue, whose Heavenly Dao protection stripped away some of Zhang Zhesheng’s luck and innate qi.
• Su Yi realized that the being he had severed from himself was using the Chosen Ones to scheme against his luck.
• Zhang Zhesheng returned to Su Yi, offered back the immortal pill, and explained that he could kill only one more person before ascending.
• Su Yi told Zhang Zhesheng to keep the pill, resolve his affairs, and kill any one of the remaining targets afterward.
• Ye Xiaxuan and Old Yang left the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect’s main hall, and Ye Xiaxuan clung to Su Yi and asked him to carry her.

Su Yi carried the exhausted Ye Xiaxuan home, then drank alone while thinking of the friends and loved ones he had lost. When Ye Xiaxuan kissed him as he slept, Su Yi woke before things went further, leaving both of them unsettled about their feelings.

• Su Yi carried Ye Xiaxuan out of the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect, and Old Yang left them alone.
• Su Yi laid Ye Xiaxuan in bed, then dug up and drank the wine he had saved to share with Old Lin.
• As Su Yi drank, he remembered departed friends and reflected on the loneliness of outliving those he loved.
• Su Yi returned to the bedroom and fell asleep beside Ye Xiaxuan, placing a hand around her waist.
• Ye Xiaxuan woke, kissed Su Yi, and blushed after he came to his senses and left before they went further.
• Su Yi questioned whether his near-mistake had come from instinct or from his feelings for Ye Xiaxuan.

Ye Xiaxuan struggled to understand her relationship with Su Yi after their intimate lesson, while Su Yi focused on strengthening her cultivation. After eating fierce beast meat and drinking wine, she entered sudden enlightenment and cultivated for ten days before awakening.

• Ye Xiaxuan stayed in the bedroom, embarrassed and unsure how to face Su Yi, while he prepared a late-night meal.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that his lesson had been about making them bigger, then said she could call him Master or use his name.
• Ye Xiaxuan ate fierce beast meat and drank wine, and its power prompted her to circulate her cultivation technique.
• Su Yi helped Ye Xiaxuan enter sudden enlightenment, where she tempered her body and purified her marrow.
• Ye Xiaxuan sat in cultivation for ten days and ten nights before awakening, and Su Yi told her to go take a bath.

Ye Xiaxuan woke from a ten-day breakthrough and mistook Li Youyou’s presence for evidence that Su Yi had been cheating on her. Su Yi reassured her with a new qipao and medicinal bath, while telling Li Youyou he would separate her soul from Wen Qianmeng’s and later have her kill someone.

• Ye Xiaxuan came to her senses after ten days of cultivation and saw Li Youyou in the courtyard, believing Su Yi had been sharing his home with another woman.
• Su Yi dispelled the concealment illusion so Li Youyou could see Ye Xiaxuan, then sent Ye Xiaxuan to bathe and showed her the qipao he had made.
• Ye Xiaxuan admired the qipao and went to soak in a medicinal bath prepared with herbs Li Youyou had gathered.
• Su Yi told Li Youyou he would separate her soul from Wen Qianmeng’s the next day, but refused to take her as a disciple.
• When Li Youyou asked to serve at his side after her body was reconstructed, Su Yi told her to kill someone for him.

Ye Xiaxuan took a medicinal bath and grew closer to the late Golden Core stage while Li Youyou joined her in the tub. Su Yi surveyed the rapidly advancing Chosen Ones across Huaxia and was left wondering why so many had gathered around women connected to him.

• Ye Xiaxuan sensed blue-green energy strengthening her unusual Golden Core as she soaked in Su Yi’s medicinal bath.
• Li Youyou brought Ye Xiaxuan hot water, studied her figure as a reference for rebuilding her body, and climbed into the tub with her.
• Su Yi sensed that Ling Chen had reached the late Nascent Soul stage and Ouyang Yu had reached the early Spirit Transformation realm in just ten days.
• Su Yi discovered that Yu Huiyin, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting each had Chosen Ones around them and wondered whether they were targeting women connected to him.
• Su Yi saw that thirty-eight of the ninety-eight remaining Chosen Ones had joined Lin Yiyun’s newly established Mystic Nether Sect.

Zhang Ting met Yin Bei for a blind date, but Su Yi disrupted their conversation by accusing Yin Bei of wanting to keep schoolgirls as mistresses. Yin Bei challenged Su Yi to bring the girls to the restaurant, and Su Yi called Sisi and Chunchun to come over.

• Zhang Ting told Yin Bei she would only consider marrying him if he treated her daughter Xu Diandian well, while Yin Bei pursued her to gain an immortal art legacy and increase his providence.
• Su Yi approached Zhang Ting and pretended Yin Bei had previously asked him to arrange schoolgirls as mistresses.
• Yin Bei denied knowing Su Yi and warned him that his accusations could have legal consequences as Zhang Ting's favorability toward him fell.
• Zhang Ting invited Su Yi to sit and discuss his supposed business with Yin Bei, unsettling Yin Bei with her calm response.
• Yin Bei challenged Su Yi to bring the schoolgirls to the restaurant and offered to pay for their meal if they arrived.
• Su Yi called Sisi and told her to bring Chunchun to Germy Western Restaurant because Yin Bei wanted to talk with them.

Su Yi manipulated Zhang Ting into believing Yin Bei was pursuing college girls, then exposed him when two girls arrived and stripped him of his cultivation, fortune, and Heavenly Dao power. Yin Bei was left powerless as Su Yi distributed his stolen fortune and Heavenly Dao power among the Chosen Ones.

• Yin Bei tried to persuade Zhang Ting to trust him, while Su Yi claimed he had recruited students to help them financially.
• Zhang Ting defended Su Yi as her little brother, and Su Yi pretended Yin Bei had never asked for female students.
• Su Yi claimed he and Yin Bei did not know each other, then two girls arrived and greeted Su Yi at the table.
• Su Yi urged Yin Bei to admit what he had done, and the girls asked Yin Bei if he wanted to be their sugar daddy.
• Yin Bei released his immortal cultivator's aura, but Su Yi crippled his cultivation and took his fortune and azure Heavenly Dao power.
• Su Yi distributed Yin Bei's fortune and Heavenly Dao power among the Chosen Ones.

Su Yi exposed Yin Bei as a dishonest playboy and proposed opening a restaurant with Zhang Ting and investor Bai Miaomiao. He brought Zhang Ting to the Bai family home to cook for them and visit Bai Qishan, whose lifespan was nearly over.

• Su Yi stripped Yin Bei of his fortune and cultivation, leaving him unable to move or respond to his system.
• Zhang Ting thanked Su Yi for revealing Yin Bei's character, and Su Yi proposed that they open a restaurant together.
• Su Yi contacted Bai Miaomiao to invest in the restaurant, and she welcomed him and Zhang Ting at Fengye Group.
• Bai Miaomiao invited Su Yi to her home so he could prepare dishes for them.
• Su Yi planned to visit Bai Qishan, who was nearing the end of his allotted lifespan, and Bai Miaomiao brought Zhang Ting along.

Su Yi, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting discussed opening a restaurant together, with Su Yi offering to contribute his cooking skills and teach Zhang Ting. Su Yi explained his plans for making masitaji soup and revealed the value of the antique jade bottles he used to hold its resin, leaving Bai Miaomiao astonished by his wealth.

• Bai Miaomiao picked up Su Yi and Zhang Ting in her Bentley with her handsome driver, Xiao Wang, and Su Yi teased her by asking when she would marry him.
• Bai Miaomiao asked Zhang Ting about her business plans, and Zhang Ting explained that she and Bai Miaomiao would open a restaurant with Su Yi.
• Su Yi listed the ingredients for masitaji soup, and Bai Miaomiao arranged for her servants to obtain them.
• Su Yi explained that his masitaji resin was better than the resin used by a long-established restaurant in the imperial capital.
• Bai Miaomiao examined the jade bottle holding the resin and realized it was an extraordinarily valuable antique, prompting her to reconsider Su Yi's wealth.

Su Yi visited the Bai family estate with Zhang Ting and taught her to cook while a would-be attacker tried to kill him. After the attacker died by his own hand, Su Yi welcomed Bai Qishan into the kitchen and offered to cook for him.

• Bai Miaomiao brought Su Yi and Zhang Ting to the Bai family estate, where Su Yi sensed two Chosen Ones, including one near Bai Qishan.
• Su Yi taught Zhang Ting to make mastaki soup, West Lake fish in vinegar sauce, and Dongpo pork, and advised her to sell only ten portions a day at high prices.
• Xiao Wang knocked out the housekeeper, disguised himself, and tried to stab Su Yi, but Su Yi compelled him to leave and kill himself.
• Bai Miaomiao called the police after Xiao Wang's body was found, and the police ruled his death a suicide.
• Bai Qishan entered the kitchen, and Su Yi offered to cook for him while reminding him that they were no longer master and servant.

Su Yi recalled how he had rescued Bai Qishan as a child and gave him his name, then cooked for him while teaching Zhang Ting several dishes. As they prepared to eat, Lin Yue watched Su Yi and realized that Bai Qishan’s reverence for him threatened Lin Yue’s hopes of becoming the Bai family’s heir.

• Su Yi remembered meeting Bai Qishan as a starving child near Mount Qi and explained how he had named him Bai Qishan.
• Bai Qishan told Su Yi that he had searched for his family but found that war and heavy snow had killed or scattered the people near Mount Qi.
• Su Yi served Bai Qishan mastic soup and asked him to bring Zhang Ting in for a cooking lesson.
• Bai Qishan eagerly helped Su Yi and fetched vinegar while Su Yi taught Zhang Ting to make West Lake fish in vinegar sauce and Dongpo pork.
• Su Yi prepared the meal and invited Bai Miaomiao to join them.
• Lin Yue watched Su Yi and worried that Bai Qishan’s devotion to him would leave Lin Yue with no chance to inherit the Bai family.

Lin Yue and Bai Haowen plotted to use Harm-Spirit Gu to kill Su Yi and seize control of the Bai family, but Su Yi drank the poisoned wine without apparent harm. After dinner, Bai Miaomiao discussed a business partnership with Su Yi, while Bai Haowen continued to underestimate him.

• Lin Yue agreed to help Bai Haowen take over the Bai family in exchange for half its wealth, and they decided Su Yi had to die.
• Lin Yue brought Bai Haowen wine laced with Harm-Spirit Gu, and Bai Haowen served it to Su Yi, Bai Qishan, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting.
• Su Yi drank the wine and recognized the Gu insects, but chose not to expose Bai Haowen in front of Bai Qishan.
• Bai Qishan and his family enjoyed Su Yi's meal, and Bai Miaomiao asked how much funding Su Yi needed for their business.
• Su Yi told Bai Miaomiao to discuss the details with Zhang Ting and said he would contribute his skills in exchange for equity.

Su Yi confronted Bai Haowen and Lin Yue after surviving Lin Yue’s Harm-Spirit Gu, then easily crippled Bai Haowen and subdued Lin Yue. He spared them temporarily, warning that they would die the day after Bai Qishan died.

• Bai Haowen questioned Lin Yue about why the Gu insect failed to kill Su Yi, and Lin Yue revealed that it had died after Su Yi swallowed it.
• Su Yi entered the room, and Bai Haowen attacked him with black mist while Lin Yue prepared to flee.
• Su Yi scattered Bai Haowen’s attack, crippled his cultivation, and took his providence, but spared his life because of Bai Qishan.
• Su Yi stopped Lin Yue from escaping, inflicted unbearable pain on him, and removed the Power of the Heavenly Dao and his providence.
• Su Yi told Bai Haowen and Lin Yue to serve Bai Qishan and warned them that they would die the day after he did.
• Bai Haowen and Lin Yue wondered who Su Yi was, and Bai Haowen resolved to hope that Bai Qishan lived as long as possible.

Su Yi prepared to teach Ye Xiaxuan alchemy, explaining that it would help her control her mental power and learn sword flight. He used the Shennong Cauldron to refine an immortal pill in minutes, leaving Ye Xiaxuan and Li Youyou stunned.

• Su Yi and Zhang Ting agreed that Zhang Ting would manage the restaurant while Su Yi and Bai Miaomiao took ten percent of its shares each.
• Li Youyou asked Xu Diandian to care for the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine, and Ye Xiaxuan stayed in Su Yi's courtyard with them.
• At eleven at night, Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to prepare for an alchemy lesson and explained how alchemy could improve her mental control.
• Su Yi summoned the Shennong Cauldron, whose power made flowers bloom throughout the courtyard and Qingzhou.
• Su Yi demonstrated alchemy by forming a few hand seals and producing an immortal pill in less than ten minutes, astonishing Ye Xiaxuan and Li Youyou.

Su Yi helped Li Youyou transfer her soul into a ten-thousand-year-old mystic vine, then gave Ye Xiaxuan a detailed manual on pill refining after she failed to learn from his demonstration. He left for a bar while Ye Xiaxuan began studying, tasked with memorizing the manual and starting to refine pills in five days.

• Su Yi gave the Clear Void Pill to Li Youyou and instructed her to attach her soul to the mystic vine.
• Li Youyou took the pill, transferred her soul into the vine, and left Wen Qianmeng her cultivation knowledge and advice to be bolder.
• Wen Qianmeng woke after Li Youyou left her body, then left the courtyard when Su Yi did not invite her inside.
• Su Yi wrote Ye Xiaxuan a detailed pill-refining manual with formulas and hand-seal instructions, then told her to memorize it in three days and start refining pills in five.
• Su Yi left for a bar, and Ye Xiaxuan took the manual to the bedroom and began studying it.

Su Yi visited the Thirteenth Bureau’s base and learned that Li Qingyuan had developed a system for controlling the small world’s beast corpses. After Su Yi’s mental-power test crashed the system again, Li Qingyuan gave him exclusive use of the No. 089 Battle Armor, while Su Yi considered signing up for immortal sect recruitment.

• Su Yi entered the small world and found a giant bear corpse waving at him, then learned from Gu Tongtong that the Thirteenth Bureau had made it move.
• Su Yi visited IG’s training base and watched the players control beast corpses through computers.
• Li Qingyuan explained that implanted chips let a system control the intact nerves in the beasts’ bodies.
• Su Yi’s mental-power test crashed Li Qingyuan’s system again, and Li Qingyuan declared the No. 089 Battle Armor exclusively his.
• Old Yang told Su Yi that the immortal sects would recruit disciples in three days, and Su Yi wondered if he could register as an eighteen-year-old.

Su Yi learned about the joint cultivation school and decided to enroll so he could study modern cultivation theory. After mastering the keyboard controls for a ferocious beast, he prepared to fight Gu Tongtong with it.

• Old Yang explained that the eighteen immortal sects would recruit disciples together and hold a month of classes, and Su Yi asked to sign up.
• Old Yang said the Thirteenth Bureau would screen applicants who could sense qi, so Su Yi could register directly.
• Su Yi watched Kang Seung-lok control a ferocious beast, then quickly mastered the keyboard and performed advanced maneuvers.
• Gu Tongtong volunteered to test herself against Su Yi's controlled ferocious beast and rushed to the Thirteenth Bureau's designated area.
• Gu Tongtong called out to Su Yi to begin the fight, and Su Yi prepared to face her without holding back.