Chapter Summaries

Su Yi entered the VIP room with Qin Lin, where Xu Chuan lost his remaining chips and was dragged away after losing a bet that put his hands at stake. Su Yi then sat down to play against the casino’s middle-aged manager, who suspected Qin Lin had arranged Xu Chuan’s appearance as part of the Qin Family’s bid for a stake in the casino.

• Qin Lin tried to deny Su Yi’s teasing claim that he would take him to meet Malaysian girls, but Yu Huiyin ignored his explanation and sent Su Yi a message wishing them fun.
• Qin Lin challenged Su Yi to play in the VIP room, and Su Yi agreed.
• Xu Chuan went all in against the middle-aged manager, lost despite holding a full house, and was dragged away when he could not pay the wager.
• The middle-aged manager let He Liao leave, and He Liao walked out in a daze.
• Su Yi took Xu Chuan’s seat and asked the manager to explain Texas hold’em, while the manager questioned whether Qin Lin had arranged for Xu Chuan to come to the casino.

Qin Lin tried to get Zhao Zhiyuan to punish Su Yi, but Zhao misunderstood and thought they were conspiring against him. Su Yi agreed to stake his life on a one-hand gambling match, and Zhao dealt the cards as Qin Lin laughed.

• Qin Lin warned Zhao Zhiyuan that Su Yi was no ordinary opponent, leading Zhao to suspect Qin Lin had brought Su Yi to challenge the casino.
• Zhao proposed staking his casino shares, while Su Yi wagered that Zhao would slap himself if he lost and that Su Yi would die if he lost.
• Qin Lin denied arranging the bet, but Su Yi insisted the contest had nothing to do with him and persuaded Zhao to play one round.
• Su Yi admitted he did not know the rules, so a burly man explained them before Zhao agreed to deal.
• Zhao prepared to deal the hand himself, convinced Su Yi could not win, while Qin Lin suddenly laughed.

Su Yi won the life-or-death poker game against Zhao Zhiyuan after Zhao’s royal flush inexplicably changed, then declined to join either side and left with Zhao’s friendship. Qin Lin was left fearing the consequences of offending Zhao Zhiyuan and hurried out of the casino.

• Zhao Zhiyuan dealt himself a royal flush, but when he revealed his cards, they had changed and Su Yi won with a pair of aces.
• Zhao Zhiyuan conceded, rebuked Qin Lin for accusing Su Yi of cheating, and offered Su Yi five times what the Qin Family paid him to switch sides.
• Su Yi said he would consider working with Zhao Zhiyuan, then offered to stay out of the conflict in exchange for a chip.
• Zhao Zhiyuan befriended Su Yi and threatened Qin Lin against harming him.
• Su Yi exchanged WeChat contacts with Zhao Zhiyuan, left his casino winnings to be cashed and transferred later, and departed with a chip.
• Qin Lin slipped out of the casino and drove away, worried about Zhao Zhiyuan’s power in Macau.

Su Yi began his first livestream wearing an eerie bronze mask and awkwardly chatted with popular streamer Little Tangtang. When she suggested a PK, he proposed competing at carving, leaving her wondering whether he had come to wreck the show.

• Ren Lanyue explained the livestreaming plan to Su Yi and urged him to connect with a popular streamer.
• Su Yi retrieved a bronze mask and connected with Little Tangtang, whose viewers flooded the stream with comments about his appearance.
• Su Yi and Little Tangtang made awkward small talk until Ren Lanyue urged them to start a PK.
• Little Tangtang asked what Su Yi could do, and he suggested competing at carving.

Su Yi reluctantly livestreamed carving and won over viewers by quickly carving a miniature Xu Diandian from a radish. He ended the stream to cook after his popularity surged and the clip began spreading online.

• Su Yi ignored the viewers’ complaints and set up his phone to livestream carving.
• Xu Diandian arrived with a school assignment to make a craft with a parent, and Su Yi offered to carve her likeness from a radish.
• Su Yi carved a detailed miniature of Xu Diandian in five minutes, impressing the livestream audience.
• Su Yi’s PK score and follower count soared, and Ren Lanyue had his and Little Tangtang’s livestreams featured on the homepage.
• Su Yi ended the stream to cook, while viewers recorded and shared his carving video online.

Su Yi learned that Lin Yiyun had ties to the Tang Family and then discovered she had reached the Nascent Soul Realm after consuming a drop of his blood essence. Lin Yiyun offered him a job at her new finance company and revealed that she had written a novel based on dreams of Su Yi’s past deeds.

• Gu Tongtong and Wu Wenze visited Su Yi and Xu Diandian for a meal, and Wu Wenze told Su Yi that he had seen Lin Yiyun with people from the Tang Family in Fengjing Town.
• Su Yi wondered about Lin Yiyun’s connection to the Tang Family and decided to let events unfold rather than investigate immediately.
• Lin Yiyun arrived at the bookstore with a Nascent Soul and told Su Yi she had left her job and started a finance company, inviting him to work for her.
• Lin Yiyun showed Su Yi the historical novel she had written from recurring dreams, explaining that its events were his deeds from more than two thousand years earlier and that she suspected he was the man in her dreams.

Su Yi reflected on Lin Yiyun’s apparent memories of the Eastern Han dynasty and accepted that their relationship had changed. He stayed in the dorm, where his extraordinary reflexes made him dominant at computer games.

• Su Yi recalled his time as Liu Xiu, when he helped defeat Wang Mang’s army, and wondered why Lin Yiyun remembered that era.
• Lin Yiyun offered Su Yi a better-paid job at her company, and he accepted while deciding not to cling to their past connection.
• Lin Yiyun said she would take her grandfather to a major hospital, but Su Yi suggested Ye Xiaxuan treat him and respected her decision to seek other care.
• Su Yi stayed in the dorm with Wang Junlin and the others, who taught him League of Legends and CSGO.
• Su Yi quickly mastered both games and impressed his dorm mates with his kills and headshots.

Su Yi decided to quit livestreaming after finding it dull, while black shadows possessed residents across Fengjing Town and Tang Yue received the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor’s inheritance. Tang Yue prepared to send demonic cultivators into Qingzhou City, unaware that they did not consider him their leader.

• Su Yi told Ren Lanyue he would no longer livestream, and she accepted his decision while regretting the loss of a promising streamer.
• Black shadows descended on Fengjing Town as the Hidden Dragon Pearl spread bloody light and the residents were possessed.
• Tang Yue pledged loyalty to the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor, gained his inheritance, and attacked Tang Yaowen when he objected.
• Tang Yue threatened Tang Yaowen and learned that the old man feared something in Qingzhou, but Tang Yaowen refused to mention Su Yi.
• Tang Yue ordered the demonic cultivators to infiltrate Qingzhou City discreetly, unaware that many served the Mystic Nether Great Emperor and did not regard Tang Yue as their leader.

Su Yi returned to Old Lin’s courtyard and learned that Lin Yiyun had found her mother, the Tang Family’s eldest young lady, and was leaving to join her. After Lin Yiyun departed, Ye Xiaxuan arrived with medicine for Old Lin, while Su Yi’s distant disciple remained annoyed that he had neglected her.

• Su Yi brought soy milk to Old Lin and listened as Lin Yiyun urged her grandfather to seek treatment and move in with her.
• Old Lin insisted that Lin Yiyun leave with her mother, and she agreed to go while asking Su Yi to keep an eye on him.
• After Lin Yiyun left, Old Lin told Su Yi that her mother was the Tang Family’s eldest young lady and teased him about having no chance with Lin Yiyun.
• Ye Xiaxuan arrived with medicine, asked Old Lin whether he had been taking it, and showed her displeasure at Su Yi for not contacting her.

Ye Xiaxuan questioned Su Yi about his immense age and his memories of Qin Shihuang, then Gu Tongtong arrived and asked to eat at his home. Su Yi agreed, while Ye Xiaxuan grew suspicious of Gu Tongtong’s intentions.

• Ye Xiaxuan treated Old Lin, then returned to Su Yi’s courtyard and asked whether he had known her grandfather sixty-eight years earlier.
• Su Yi said he had lived for a very long time and had met Qin Shihuang, leaving Ye Xiaxuan stunned.
• Su Yi described Qin Shihuang’s appearance, and he and Ye Xiaxuan traded teasing remarks about his age and attraction to young women.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi historical questions until Gu Tongtong arrived and announced that it was mealtime.
• Gu Tongtong asked whether she could eat at Su Yi’s home, and Su Yi agreed, prompting Ye Xiaxuan to object.

Ye Xiaxuan tried to cook for Gu Tongtong while Su Yi stepped away, but her cooking turned out nearly inedible. Gu Tongtong ate every dish anyway, leaving Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan stunned.

• Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to the kitchen to teach her to cook while Gu Tongtong waited outside.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked whether Su Yi and Gu Tongtong were close, and Su Yi explained that they both belonged to the Thirteenth Bureau.
• Ye Xiaxuan insisted on cooking, but she caused the oil to splatter and added excessive salt and chili to the dishes.
• Su Yi left the kitchen to speak with Gu Tongtong, but found that she had fallen asleep in his reclining chair.
• Ye Xiaxuan served the meal, and Gu Tongtong devoured the undercooked, salty, spicy food despite its terrible taste.

Su Yi agreed to accompany Gu Tongtong to Qingyun Mountain, where the Thirteenth Bureau planned to recover cultural relics and hold a tournament to settle disputes over awakened spiritual lands. Ye Xiaxuan tried to arrange the trip so she could share a room with Su Yi, but her plan backfired when only two hotel rooms were available and Gu Tongtong agreed to share with him.

• Gu Tongtong explained that the trip to Qingyun Mountain involved retrieving relics from Zhang Tiande and organizing a tournament to stop immortal cultivators fighting over blessed lands.
• Wu Wenze assigned Su Yi to accompany Gu Tongtong and help with her daily needs, and Su Yi agreed.
• Ye Xiaxuan insisted on joining them and booked their flights and hotel rooms after Su Yi delegated the arrangements to her.
• Ye Xiaxuan found only two rooms available and hoped that would leave her sharing with Su Yi, but Gu Tongtong agreed to share a room with him.
• Ye Xiaxuan tried to claim she had found a hotel with three rooms, then discovered every other hotel was fully booked and nearly cried over her failed plan.

In Fumin City, Su Yi and Gu Tongtong shared a couples’ suite, where Gu Tongtong spent the night trying to help him condense a False Core. Ye Xiaxuan arrived the next morning and misread their exhausted, sweaty state, leaving her jealous and convinced Su Yi was a lecher.

• Ye Xiaxuan found no spare hotel rooms and reluctantly let Su Yi share a room with Gu Tongtong.
• In the couples’ suite, Gu Tongtong changed into loungewear and revealed that she bound her chest so it would not get in the way when she fought.
• Gu Tongtong checked Su Yi’s cultivation and tried more than twenty times to help him condense a False Core, but each attempt failed.
• After a knock interrupted another attempt, Su Yi opened the door to Ye Xiaxuan, who saw Gu Tongtong drenched in sweat and accused them of something improper.
• Gu Tongtong explained that they had spent the night cultivating, and Su Yi admitted he was hungry.

Su Yi, Gu Tongtong, and Ye Xiaxuan climbed Qingyun Mountain to confront Zhang Tiande and reclaim the cultural relics. They passed through an illusion into the Way of Orthodox Unity’s hidden grounds, where Zhang Tiande appeared to be waiting.

• Gu Tongtong said she would try to beat Zhang Tiande if he refused to return the cultural relics, though she was unsure she could defeat him.
• The three climbed Qingyun Mountain, and Gu Tongtong tried unsuccessfully to recruit Ye Xiaxuan into the Thirteenth Bureau.
• At Qingming Mountain Temple, Ye Xiaxuan made a donation, while Gu Tongtong offered incense and asked to see Zhang Tiande.
• A middle-aged Taoist led the group to a cliff, where Gu Tongtong crossed through an illusion to the hidden Way of Orthodox Unity grounds.
• Su Yi recognized the formation and saw Zhang Tiande among several old men sitting beside the main hall.

Su Yi and Gu Tongtong confronted Zhang Tiande over the missing relics, but Zhang Tiande knocked Gu Tongtong unconscious with a single move. After Su Yi revived her and she unleashed a terrifying Heaven-Shrouding Hand, he erased it before it could destroy Qingyun Mountain, leaving the crisis a false alarm.

• Old Yang told Gu Tongtong that Zhang Tiande did not have the relics, but Gu Tongtong challenged him to settle the matter by the cultivation world's rules.
• Zhang Tiande caught Gu Tongtong's punch and knocked her unconscious with a gentle push of his palm.
• Su Yi restored Gu Tongtong's Qi, and she woke up eager to fight again after receiving a new palm technique from an incomplete legacy.
• Gu Tongtong unleashed the Heaven-Shrouding Hand, summoning dark clouds and a giant palm that threatened Qingyun Mountain and its tourists.
• Zhang Tiande activated the mountain-protecting formation with two swords and the Seal of Yangping Governance Merit while Old Yang shouted for Gu Tongtong to stop.
• Gu Tongtong passed out from exhausting her Qi, and Su Yi flicked away the giant palm, restoring the sunlight and ending the danger.

After Gu Tongtong’s Heaven-Shrouding Hand nearly devastated the area around Qingyun Mountain, Su Yi carried her to Cloud Brocade Mountain while Ye Xiaxuan was too frightened to cross the rope bridge. The other cultivators backed down when they learned Gu Tongtong was with them, but a young man then challenged Su Yi.

• Gu Tongtong’s palm strike failed to land, and Zhang Tiande warned Old Yang to stop her from using such a powerful divine ability carelessly.
• Su Yi carried the unconscious Gu Tongtong toward Cloud Brocade Mountain, while Ye Xiaxuan refused to cross the swaying bridge and asked to be carried too.
• Su Yi crossed with Gu Tongtong on his back, leaving Ye Xiaxuan waiting on Heavenly Gate Mountain.
• Cultivators on Cloud Brocade Mountain gathered around Su Yi, then fell silent when he revealed Gu Tongtong’s identity.
• A bespectacled young man mocked the Thirteenth Bureau and provoked Su Yi into a spar.

Su Yi avoided Xie Xuecheng’s challenge, effortlessly broke his sword Qi, and carried the terrified Ye Xiaxuan across the rope bridge. Xie Xuecheng and the onlookers were left mistaking Su Yi’s restraint for weakness, while Su Yi had already crossed with Ye Xiaxuan clinging to him.

• Xie Xuecheng challenged Su Yi, but Su Yi caught his sword-like fingers barehanded and shattered his sword Qi.
• Xie Xuecheng and the spectators assumed he had held back, and Xie Xuecheng let Su Yi go.
• Su Yi returned to find Ye Xiaxuan clinging to a post, and she asked him to carry her across in his arms.
• Ye Xiaxuan clung to Su Yi after they crossed, while Xie Xuecheng and the others realized they had misjudged Su Yi.

Su Yi discussed how to keep the archaeologists from claiming the Sword-Washing Mountain relics and offered to make convincing replicas. Old Yang doubted his ability and decided they should consult Second Master Lu, while Su Yi left the situation with the relics unresolved.

• Su Yi sent Wen Qianmeng away after learning Li Youyou had brought her to Qingyun Mountain to compete for a blessed land.
• Su Yi went with Ye Xiaxuan to check on Gu Tongtong and met Old Yang outside her room.
• Old Yang asked Su Yi how the Thirteenth Bureau should handle the Sword-Washing Mountain relics, and Su Yi suggested giving the archaeologists fakes.
• Old Yang proposed explaining that Celestial Master Zhang had sealed the relics’ mysterious powers and asked Su Yi about his combat strength.
• Su Yi said he could create replicas indistinguishable from the originals, but Old Yang doubted him and suggested consulting Second Master Lu.

Su Yi, Old Yang, and Second Master Lu discussed making convincing copies of artifacts to keep archaeologists away from Qingyun Mountain. After Second Master Lu said the work would take months and that he had only twenty days to live, Su Yi claimed he could make every copy in a day.

• Second Master Lu warned Old Yang that modern materials would expose any forged artifacts to scientific testing.
• Su Yi suggested stealing the artifacts from the scholars again after they saw the copies, and Old Yang agreed to the plan.
• Second Master Lu said he could make four wooden swords but would need months for the other pieces, including the Heaven-Swallowing Pot.
• Second Master Lu revealed he had only twenty days to live and offered to make more pieces if Su Yi became his godson.
• Su Yi challenged Second Master Lu's estimate and insisted he could make all the copies in one day.

Su Yi accepted Second Master Lu’s challenge to reproduce the ancient objects within a day, then assigned Ye Xiaxuan an axe as her weapon and ordered her to train with it. The chapter left Su Yi preparing to wield Immortal-Slaying while Ye Xiaxuan began chopping trees in the mountain forest.

• Second Master Lu wagered the Book of Lu Ban against Su Yi’s ability to reproduce the objects in a day, and Su Yi accepted.
• Su Yi asked Old Yang for an axe, then took Ye Xiaxuan deep into Qingyun Mountain and ordered her to chop down a large tree.
• Su Yi returned with a boulder and told Ye Xiaxuan the axe would be her weapon for an upcoming sparring match.
• Su Yi ordered Ye Xiaxuan to chop a hundred trees before dark and drew Immortal-Slaying, suppressing its sword qi.