Recaps

Zhang Zhesheng took Ouyang Yu away, while Ji Zeyang followed Gu Tongtong to meet Old Yang and wondered why Zhang had warned him against ascending. At the academy, Lin Yiyun challenged Su Yi, and he struck her cultivation away with a single flick of his wooden sword.

• Zhang Zhesheng ordered Ouyang Yu to leave with him, and Ouyang Yu obeyed.
• Ji Zeyang introduced himself to Gu Tongtong and followed her to meet Old Yang, wondering why Zhang Zhesheng had warned him not to ascend.
• After Ji Zeyang left, Lin Yiyun volunteered to spar with Su Yi.
• Lin Yiyun attacked Su Yi with a wooden sword, and he knocked it away with one flick.
• Su Yi's power shattered Lin Yiyun's sword Qi, pierced her sea of consciousness, and dispersed her cultivation.

Su Yi disarmed Lin Yiyun in a staged-looking match, while Dijiang began recruiting students to the Witch Cult by boasting about Witchcraft's power. The students grew interested, and Dijiang warned that starting body tempering would hurt a little.

• Su Yi flicked Lin Yiyun's wooden sword away, and she declared that she had lost while concealing that her cultivation had been crippled.
• Han Zhen introduced Dijiang as Teacher Wu Jiang, and Dijiang mistakenly concluded that Su Yi wanted him to take Lin Yiyun as a disciple.
• Dijiang invited the students to learn Witchcraft and claimed it could make their bodies strong enough to defeat Golden Core Qi refiners after ten years.
• Han Zhen objected to Dijiang's claims, but the students became eager to join the Witch Cult and asked about its requirements.
• Dijiang said beginners would need medicinal baths to temper their bodies, which might hurt a little.

Dijiang took the cultivation-disabled Lin Yiyun as his disciple and demonstrated the painful medicinal-bath body tempering required to learn witchcraft. Lin Yiyun endured the bath despite its agony and disfigurement, while Su Yi watched without intervening.

• Dijiang asked Lin Yiyun to become his disciple, and she accepted because her cultivation had been crippled.
• Dijiang introduced Lin Yiyun to the other students and prepared a bronze pot filled with boiling medicinal broth.
• Lin Yiyun overcame her hesitation and jumped into the pot, where the pain caused her to faint and then scream as she woke.
• The medicinal bath left Lin Yiyun's face covered in scalds and blisters, frightening the students and prompting Wang Xiu to swear.
• Lin Yiyun heard Wang Xiu call her disfigured but clenched her fists and continued enduring the bath in silence.

Dijiang accepted Lin Yiyun, Yuan Haoran, and Wang Xiu into the Witch Cult and put them through painful body tempering in bronze cauldrons. By midnight, Lin Yiyun’s skin had healed and her strength had begun to grow, while Su Yi returned to class.

• Wang Xiu urged Su Yi to learn witchcraft, but Su Yi said he was afraid of pain and wanted to remain a salted fish.
• Dijiang offered two more places in the Witch Cult, and Yuan Haoran volunteered first, entering a cauldron of boiling medicinal brew.
• Wang Xiu joined Yuan Haoran and screamed in agony as the witchcraft tempering consumed his circulating Qi.
• Dijiang sent the other students away and stayed with Lin Yiyun, Yuan Haoran, and Wang Xiu as they endured the treatment.
• Su Yi went back to class, while the three recruits remained in the cauldrons until midnight.
• Lin Yiyun emerged with her face healed and felt her strength growing despite her previously crippled cultivation.

Su Yi let Ji Zeyang stay at his villa in exchange for cooking, then visited Ye Xiaxuan and began making her a new pill furnace. Ye Xiaxuan was left nursing her sore finger after Su Yi used her blood to shape the furnace’s materials.

• Su Yi recognized the Witch Clan’s body-refining techniques and decided not to harm Yuan Haoran or Lin Yiyun.
• Gu Tongtong brought Ji Zeyang to Su Yi’s villa, and Su Yi offered him the sofa if he cooked the household’s meals.
• Su Yi visited Ye Xiaxuan, who was roasting meat beside the wreckage of her exploded pill furnace, and teased her as she cried over the milk tea he drank.
• Su Yi gathered gold spirit sand to make Ye Xiaxuan a furnace and drew blood from her finger to use in its construction.
• Su Yi shaped the gold spirit sand into a rough furnace blank while holding Ye Xiaxuan’s hand.

Su Yi left Ye Xiaxuan to finish making her alchemy furnace and returned home, where two Immortal Realm envoys confronted Ji Zeyang over his refusal to ascend. The envoys’ powers were mysteriously suppressed, and the household settled in to watch Ji Zeyang face them.

• Su Yi left Ye Xiaxuan at the bottom of the cliff with the rough form of her alchemy furnace and told her to finish it herself; she decided to carve its patterns with Soul Severing.
• Su Yi returned home and found two Immortal Realm envoys demanding that Ji Zeyang ascend, but Ji refused.
• One envoy threatened to kill Ji Zeyang, who offered to fight somewhere away from other people.
• Su Yi stopped to deal with Ji Zeyang’s burned food and told the visitors to take their fight outside.
• The envoys tried to release their power but found themselves suppressed, and they feared Ji Zeyang’s strength.
• Gu Tongtong, Tantai Yue, Long Wen, and Su Yi watched as the envoys faced Ji Zeyang.

Ji Zeyang refused to fight the powerless Immortal Realm envoys, who then turned on Long Wen. After one envoy slapped Long Wen, Su Yi gave the boy permission to hit back.

• Ji Zeyang realized Su Yi had suppressed the envoys and told them to leave rather than risk angering Su Yi by killing them.
• The envoys backed down, but one took offense when Long Wen mocked them and asked whether Ji Zeyang would interfere if he punished the child.
• Ji Zeyang said he would not interfere, and the envoy rushed over and slapped Long Wen.
• Long Wen took the slap without moving, asked Su Yi whether he could hit the envoy back, and received permission.

Long Wen forced Zhao Hai, an Immortal Realm envoy, to play Chinese checkers and flicked him on the forehead after winning. Tantai Yue caught Zhao Hai before he smashed through the wall, then slammed him into the floor, cracking the living room.

• Long Wen challenged Zhao Hai to Chinese checkers, threatening to slap him if he refused, while Su Yi went to bed and Gu Tongtong watched with growing suspicions.
• Zhao Hai nearly won, but Long Wen's pressure stopped him from placing his final piece, and Zhao Hai kept retreating it until Long Wen won.
• Long Wen flicked Zhao Hai on the forehead and sent him flying toward the wall.
• Tantai Yue caught Zhao Hai and slammed him into the ground, shaking the room and cracking the living room floor.

Long Wen dragged the Immortal Realm envoys Zhao Hai and Sun Ru outside and soundly defeated them, killing Sun Ru with a slap. Back inside, Gu Tongtong asked Su Yi about his cultivation realm, and he said she could think of it as invincible.

• Tantai Yue warned Long Wen not to disturb Su Yi, but Long Wen dragged Zhao Hai outside and made Sun Ru follow.
• Long Wen broke Zhao Hai's thigh, slapped him flying, then annihilated Sun Ru's soul with a demonic-power-enhanced slap.
• Ji Zeyang witnessed Long Wen's strength and wondered how powerful Su Yi must be.
• Gu Tongtong asked Su Yi to cook, and Ji Zeyang took over the cooking instead.
• Gu Tongtong asked Su Yi what cultivation realm he had reached, and Su Yi said she could think of him as invincible.

Gu Tongtong asked Su Yi to teach her how to become stronger and challenged him to a serious bout. After Su Yi effortlessly redirected her attacks, she learned his Hunyuan Taijiquan and successfully used it to catch his punch.

• Gu Tongtong believed Su Yi’s advice about becoming stronger and asked him to take her along when he cultivated.
• Gu Tongtong challenged Su Yi to a serious bout, while Long Wen and Tantai Yue watched from the courtyard.
• Su Yi neutralized Gu Tongtong’s Heaven-Shrouding Hand and redirected her punches with Hunyuan Taijiquan.
• Gu Tongtong fought Su Yi for over an hour, growing faster and stronger, until he called a stop so she could eat and rest.
• Gu Tongtong said she had learned Hunyuan Taijiquan, and she caught Su Yi’s ordinary punch by receiving, redirecting, and releasing it.

Su Yi accepted Ji Zeyang as the household cook, then returned to the cultivation academy and met its new teacher, Kong Wuliang, who recognized him. Gu Tongtong revealed Kong was her master and pulled both him and Su Yi away for hot pot, leaving the classroom stunned.

• Su Yi approved Ji Zeyang's cooking and let him claim the sofa as his place to stay.
• At the academy, Yang Hui asked Su Yi about Wang Junlin and his aptitude, while Jiang Biao joked that Su Yi did not need testing.
• Wang Xiu praised Witchcraft body refinement and offered to ask Wu Jiang to teach Su Yi, but Su Yi declined because he feared pain.
• Kong Wuliang introduced himself as the academy's new teacher, recognized Su Yi, and headed toward him.
• Gu Tongtong called Kong Wuliang her master and dragged him and Su Yi out for hot pot, shocking the class.

Su Yi reunited with Kong Wuliang, who revealed he had guided Yunxiao’s soul into Gu Tongtong’s reincarnation. When Dijiang joined them for hot pot, Kong Wuliang disclosed that he was Sect Leader Tongtian, but Dijiang mistook him for a boastful Taoist and invited him into the Witch Cult; Kong Wuliang accepted.

• Su Yi left the classroom with Gu Tongtong and learned that Kong Wuliang was her master.
• Kong Wuliang called Su Yi his brother-in-law and admitted he had guided Yunxiao’s soul and given her an innate Dao body.
• Su Yi told Kong Wuliang that Dijiang was at the school, prompting Kong Wuliang to worry that Dijiang might recognize and kill him.
• Gu Tongtong invited Dijiang to join them for hot pot, and Dijiang scrutinized Kong Wuliang.
• Kong Wuliang identified himself as Sect Leader Tongtian, but Dijiang dismissed the claim and invited him to join the Witch Cult.
• Kong Wuliang took off his Taoist robes and accepted Dijiang’s invitation.

Su Yi watched Sect Leader Tongtian, disguised as Kong Wuliang, join Dijiang’s Witch Cult to learn its arts, while Gu Tongtong also became Dijiang’s disciple. The group headed to hot pot, where Su Yi warned the owner he might still lose money.

• Kong Wuliang discarded his Taoist robe and asked Dijiang to take him as a student, while Su Yi recognized him as Sect Leader Tongtian.
• Dijiang praised Kong Wuliang’s aptitude and claimed he could become a great witch, while Kong Wuliang probed him about his age.
• Gu Tongtong asked to learn witchcraft, and Dijiang accepted her as his second disciple while assigning Kong Wuliang the sixth place.
• Kong Wuliang swallowed his pride and greeted Gu Tongtong as his second senior sister, who promised to protect him if anyone bullied him.
• Su Yi, Gu Tongtong, Kong Wuliang, and Dijiang went to Old Pei Self-Service Hot Pot, where Su Yi introduced himself to the wary owner as Su Renyi and warned him he might lose money again.

Su Yi, Dijiang, Gu Tongtong, and Kong Wuliang feasted at a hot pot restaurant before returning to Su Yi’s villa, where Dijiang helped Gu Tongtong and Kong Wuliang temper their bodies and began teaching them witchcraft. Su Yi let the two stay at Wu Jiang’s assigned house and privately wondered how Dijiang would react if he discovered Kong Wuliang’s identity as Sect Leader Tongtian.

• Su Yi, Dijiang, Gu Tongtong, and Kong Wuliang ate and drank heavily at a hot pot restaurant, and Su Yi paid the owner four thousand yuan.
• The group returned to Su Yi’s villa, where Ji Zeyang cleaned, Tantai Yue played games, and Long Wen watched television.
• Dijiang brought Gu Tongtong and Kong Wuliang to the courtyard and had them absorb medicinal broth in copper pots to temper their bodies.
• Gu Tongtong absorbed the broth’s power in half an hour, and Kong Wuliang finished in an hour, surprising Dijiang with their potential.
• Dijiang decided to teach Gu Tongtong and Kong Wuliang simple witchcraft while Su Yi watched television.
• Tantai Yue asked whether Gu Tongtong and Kong Wuliang would live at the villa, and Su Yi said they could share Wu Jiang’s assigned house.

Kong Wuliang told Su Yi about the Primordial Demon God's scheme and learned that the Chosen Ones might be key to his descent. He proposed bringing the Immortal Realm down early and having its factions imprison the Chosen Ones.

• Kong Wuliang told Su Yi that the Primordial Demon God had recruited Outer Demons, who gained power by killing and helped the being grow stronger.
• Su Yi explained that over seventy Chosen Ones carried the Primordial Demon God's origin power, which could converge as they died and allow him to possess the last survivor.
• Kong Wuliang realized that keeping the Chosen Ones alive might delay the Primordial Demon God's descent, and Su Yi confirmed that was possible in theory.
• Kong Wuliang said he would have Tongtong send people to protect the Chosen Ones, then planned to bring the Immortal Realm down early so its factions could imprison them separately.

Su Yi refused to return the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords when Kong Wuliang asked for them, then accepted Kong Wuliang’s challenge to a sword match that evening. He went to find Ye Xiaxuan, who had emerged from seclusion and was standing on the lake.

• Kong Wuliang asked Su Yi to return the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, but Su Yi insisted they had been lent to Su Duanhun and were not his responsibility.
• Kong Wuliang asked about Su Yi’s cultivation, and Su Yi said he probably could not return to his former level.
• Kong Wuliang challenged Su Yi to a sword match in Su Yi’s courtyard that night, and Su Yi agreed.
• News of the match spread through the academy, prompting mixed reactions from students and Dijiang.
• Su Yi reached the lake and found Ye Xiaxuan standing on its surface after emerging from seclusion.

Ye Xiaxuan showed Su Yi that she could stand on water and ride Soul Severing, but he judged her sword-riding skills and arranged for her to spar that night. The chapter ended with Su Yi wondering whether the Heavenly Dao would protect Ye Xiaxuan if Kong Wuliang threatened her life.

• Ye Xiaxuan showed off her ability to stand on the lake, but Su Yi sent waves at her and told her to focus on cultivating.
• Ye Xiaxuan revealed that she had refined 1,008 pills, but Su Yi refused to look and ordered her to fly to the cliff top.
• Ye Xiaxuan rode Soul Severing up the mountain, taking about ten minutes to reach Su Yi at the summit.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she would compete in swordsmanship that night against an opponent without a cultivation realm, and she agreed.
• Su Yi planned to test whether the Heavenly Dao would intervene if Kong Wuliang endangered Ye Xiaxuan.

Ye Xiaxuan returned home after her seclusion, reunited with Ye Jingtian, and enjoyed a lavish meal before going out with Su Yi. Su Yi then revealed that her upcoming sparring partner was a clone of Sect Leader Tongtian, leaving her convinced he was sending her to her death.

• Ye Xiaxuan returned to the Ye Family home, where Ye Jingtian welcomed her and Auntie Hu prepared a meal.
• Ye Xiaxuan ate every dish on the table while Su Yi and Ye Jingtian watched.
• Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi left to enjoy the amusement park and told Ye Jingtian they would stay at academy-provided housing.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that her sparring partner that night would be a clone of Sect Leader Tongtian.
• Ye Xiaxuan questioned Su Yi's motives and feared he was sending her to die.

Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan to his home after reassuring her about the coming duel with Sect Leader Tongtian’s clone. Ye Xiaxuan found the house full of other people, then was stunned when Su Yi introduced her as his wife, leaving their marriage status unresolved.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that he would step in if she could not defeat Sect Leader Tongtian’s clone, though they might die together if he could not win either.
• Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to his villa, where Tantai Yue and Long Wen were watching television and Ji Zeyang was preparing dinner.
• Ye Xiaxuan saw Gu Tongtong emerge from the bathroom with wet hair and accused Su Yi of keeping another dog.
• Su Yi introduced Ye Xiaxuan to Ji Zeyang as his spouse and wife, leaving Ye Xiaxuan speechless.
• Ye Xiaxuan said they were not legally married because they lacked a marriage certificate, while Su Yi insisted she was already his wife.

Kong Wuliang came to challenge Su Yi, but Su Yi sent his wife, Ye Xiaoxuan, to fight him first. Kong Wuliang quickly disarmed her, then noticed that her wooden sword seemed unusual.

• Kong Wuliang visited Su Yi and agreed to duel Ye Xiaoxuan before fighting Su Yi.
• Su Yi, Ye Xiaoxuan, Kong Wuliang, and their companions went to the crowded arena, where spectators mocked Su Yi for using a stand-in.
• Kong Wuliang offered to use a branch and told Ye Xiaoxuan to attack first.
• Ye Xiaoxuan struck with the sword intent Su Yi had taught her, but Kong Wuliang knocked Soul Severing from her hand and pointed his branch at her throat.
• Kong Wuliang noticed the fallen wooden sword seemed unlike an ordinary one.

Su Yi took control of Ye Xiaxuan and used Soul Severing to nearly defeat Kong Wuliang, who then revealed an aura that exposed him as Sect Leader Tongtian’s avatar. With Dijiang holding back after noticing Su Yi’s tacit approval, Kong Wuliang began preparing the Immortal-Slaying Sword Strike while Su Yi urged Ye Xiaxuan to study it.

• Su Yi took control of Ye Xiaxuan and struck Kong Wuliang with sword intent powerful enough to turn his branch to dust and stop Soul Severing at his throat.
• Kong Wuliang demanded another match, changed to a treasured sword, and prepared to fight seriously.
• Dijiang recognized the aura of Sect Leader Tongtian, sealed the space, and accused Kong Wuliang of deceiving him.
• Dijiang withdrew his spatial power after realizing Su Yi had permitted Kong Wuliang’s actions.
• Kong Wuliang drew his sword and summoned lightning and heavenly music as he prepared the Immortal-Slaying Sword Strike, while Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to study it.

Su Yi forced Ye Xiaxuan to face Kong Wuliang’s sword attack so she could awaken her potential, and she broke through the attack with Soul Severing and innate primordial violet qi. Su Yi saved Kong Wuliang by moving him away with the law of space, then led Ye Xiaxuan from the arena.

• Su Yi left Ye Xiaxuan’s body as Kong Wuliang unleashed a powerful sword attack, forcing her to face it alone.
• Ye Xiaxuan’s innate primordial violet qi merged into her golden core, and she used Soul Severing and Su Yi’s sword move to break Kong Wuliang’s attack and shatter his sword.
• Kong Wuliang recognized Soul Severing and chose not to resist, but Su Yi moved him away with the law of space before Ye Xiaxuan’s strike could hit him.
• Dijiang and Ye Xiaxuan wondered where Kong Wuliang had gone, and Su Yi told her that he had escaped.
• Students speculated about the fight as Su Yi led Ye Xiaxuan away, and Gu Tongtong asked whether Kong Wuliang was alive.

Ye Xiaxuan confronted Su Yi over abandoning her during the fight, but he kissed her and treated her in private. Afterward, Dijiang asked whether he could kill Kong Wuliang, and Su Yi warned him against fighting in Huaxia before pointing out that, as a public official, he was responsible for such matters.

• Ye Xiaxuan accused Su Yi of trying to get her killed, and he kissed her before taking her into the bedroom for a private treatment.
• Tantai Yue, Long Wen, Ji Zeyang, and Dijiang waited in the living room, where Dijiang guessed that Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan were not treating injuries.
• Su Yi later asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she still thought he had tried to get her killed, and she asked him to be gentler before falling asleep.
• Su Yi explained that Ye Xiaxuan's Innate Primordial Chaos had acknowledged her as its master and had protected her from Kong Wuliang's attack.
• Dijiang learned that Kong Wuliang was at his place and asked Su Yi if he could kill him, but Su Yi forbade fighting in Huaxia.
• Dijiang proposed taking Kong Wuliang into the universe to kill him, and Su Yi reminded him that he was now a public official in charge of such matters.

Su Yi persuaded Dijiang to abandon his grudge against Sect Leader Tongtian and seek an alliance with the Jie Sect. He took Dijiang to Qingyun Mountain, where Dijiang and Kong Wuliang agreed to make peace and discuss cooperation.

• Su Yi warned Dijiang that Sect Leader Tongtian had been holding back and that fighting him would lead to Dijiang's death.
• Su Yi advised Dijiang to seek cooperation with the Jie Sect, and Dijiang asked him to accompany him to find Kong Wuliang.
• Dijiang could not sense Kong Wuliang, but Su Yi revealed that Kong Wuliang had fled to Qingyun Mountain.
• Su Yi and Dijiang appeared in Kong Wuliang's guest room, interrupting him as he recalled Ye Xiaxuan's sword strike.
• Kong Wuliang accused Su Yi of betraying him, but Dijiang proposed making peace and offered to help the Jie Sect deal with the Chan Sect.

Su Yi spoke with Kong Wuliang and Dijiang about the Immortal Realm’s factions and warned them to keep its conflicts away from modern civilization when it descended. Kong Wuliang challenged Su Yi to a fight and was soundly beaten, leaving Dijiang certain that even a Sage was no match for him.

• Kong Wuliang proposed joining forces with the Witch Clan against the Western Sect and the Demon Clan, while Su Yi warned them not to bring their battles into modern civilization.
• Kong Wuliang asked Su Yi to return the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords when his true body came down, then questioned whether Su Yi had survived the catastrophe.
• Kong Wuliang challenged Su Yi to a match, and Su Yi mocked him for nearly losing to Ye Xiaxuan and becoming Dijiang’s disciple.
• Kong Wuliang attacked with a yin-yang diagram and Divine Punishment, but Su Yi redirected the lightning and beat him for three minutes.
• Dijiang watched Kong Wuliang’s humiliation and recalled how Su Yi had beaten the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and taken his Three-Treasure Jade Ruyi.