Chapter Summaries

Su Yi made counterfeit ancient artifacts from stone while Ye Xiaxuan struggled to focus on chopping trees because she was smitten with him. He promised to give her a sword once she finished, then settled down to read as she continued working.

• Ye Xiaxuan became captivated by Su Yi as he used Immortal-Slaying to carve a jade pot from a boulder.
• Su Yi carved a Purple Lightning Hammer from stone, sealed its power, and added an illusion array to change its color.
• Su Yi made an Innate Jade Ruyi and planned to craft more ancient divine artifacts from wood while Ye Xiaxuan chopped trees.
• Su Yi teased Ye Xiaxuan about Gu Tongtong and offered to teach her massage techniques, making her blush.
• Su Yi promised Ye Xiaxuan a sword if she finished chopping the trees, then opened a book while she resumed working.

Su Yi showed Ye Xiaxuan the sea of clouds transformed by his magic and made wooden replicas of legendary weapons. He gave her his ancient sword Soul Severing, which she renamed Little Soul, and ordered its spirits to teach her swordsmanship.

• Ye Xiaxuan finished chopping down a hundred trees and admired the sunset over the sea of clouds with Su Yi.
• Su Yi transformed the clouds into visions of ancient flowers and divine beasts, delighting Ye Xiaxuan.
• Su Yi carved illusion arrays into wooden replicas of legendary weapons and then took out his unsealed sword, Soul Severing.
• Soul Severing’s cry scattered the clouds and nearly suffocated Ye Xiaxuan, so Su Yi sealed its blade spirit.
• Su Yi gave Soul Severing to Ye Xiaxuan, who named it Little Soul and learned that its spirit could speak.
• When the blade spirit objected to teaching nonlethal swordsmanship, Su Yi told Little Black, the scabbard spirit, to teach Ye Xiaxuan instead.

Su Yi gave Ye Xiaxuan Soul Severing and had its artifact spirits teach her sword qi, but their recklessness nearly damaged the mountain. After sealing their power, he tested Ye Xiaxuan's skill and left her with a strict challenge, threatening to take back the sword and expel her if she failed.

• Su Yi decided not to divine Ye Xiaxuan's fate, recalling that his divinations had brought deadly calamities upon those he tried to protect.
• Su Yi told Soul Severing's artifact spirits to teach Ye Xiaxuan sword qi while avoiding the sword itself.
• Ye Xiaxuan's first gestures unleashed the scabbard spirit's power, cutting through hundreds of trees and slicing off part of the mountain peak.
• Su Yi sealed the scabbard's power, and Little Black promised not to let Ye Xiaxuan draw the sword.
• Su Yi ordered Ye Xiaxuan to cut down a tree over a hundred meters away with sword qi, then threatened to reclaim Soul Severing and dismiss her if she failed.

Su Yi revealed that he had recreated all the artifacts required for the Sword-Washing Mountain challenge in less than a day, astonishing Old Yang and Second Master Lu with their craftsmanship. Meanwhile, Ye Xiaoxuan stayed on the mountain through the night to practice sword intent.

• Su Yi left Ye Xiaoxuan to practice sword Qi, and Zhang Tiande saw her training but let her continue undisturbed.
• Ye Xiaoxuan spent the night practicing under the guidance of the two sword spirits, trying to sense the sword intent on Soul Severing.
• Old Yang warned Su Yi about the risks of the Book of Lu Ban and assumed he would concede the challenge.
• Su Yi told Old Yang he had made everything and showed him the replicas in his room.
• Old Yang brought Second Master Lu to inspect the artifacts, and Second Master Lu was stunned by their quality and conceded.

Su Yi’s convincing imitations astonished Second Master Lu, who leaped from a cliff after declaring he would choose his own time of death. Old Yang took Su Yi to meet the scholars and said the missing items would be returned to Qingzhou, while privately resolving to have the bureau study them.

• Second Master Lu asked Su Yi whether he had made the imitation artifacts in one day, then conceded that Su Yi was a master craftsman.
• Second Master Lu threw away his crutch and leaped from the cliff, declaring that his fate was his to decide.
• Su Yi suspected Second Master Lu might survive the fall, while judging him more pitiful than free-spirited.
• Old Yang urged Su Yi to serve the country and people, then decided the bureau should study the apparently fake artifacts.
• Old Yang brought Su Yi to the old scholars, told them the items had been found, and defended Celestial Master Zhang from their accusations.

Old Yang arranged for the scholars to take the mysterious artifacts down Qingyun Mountain, while secretly ordering the Thirteenth Bureau to steal them for research. After Ye Xiaxuan finally mastered a powerful sword technique, Zhang Tiande mistook her for a rare genius and asked which school she belonged to.

• Old Yang refused Professor Yan’s request to consult Celestial Master Zhang and arranged for the scholars to retrieve the artifacts.
• Yang Zhengcheng called Su Yi his teacher, and Su Yi kept quiet about translating the stone stele inscription.
• Old Yang ordered the Thirteenth Bureau to stage a robbery and take the artifacts after they reached Qingzhou.
• Ye Xiaxuan spent over ten hours practicing sword qi and finally severed a tree a hundred meters away.
• Zhang Tiande stopped Ye Xiaxuan and asked which school had taught her.

Ye Xiaxuan reunited with Su Yi after cutting down the tree, carrying the powerful sword Soul Severing. Su Yi disguised it as a wooden sword and made its artifact spirits accept Ye Xiaxuan as their master, leaving one spirit crying over the change.

• Ye Xiaxuan told Zhang Tiande she had no master, while Soul Severing’s arrogant blade spirit startled the Celestial Master with its power.
• Zhang Tiande let Ye Xiaxuan leave, then marveled at the extraordinary younger generation.
• Old Yang tried to recruit Ye Xiaxuan into the Thirteenth Bureau, but she declined and went to find Su Yi.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Su Yi she had cut down the tree, and he praised her success.
• Su Yi changed Soul Severing’s appearance into a wooden sword so Ye Xiaxuan would not attract attention.
• Su Yi declared that Ye Xiaxuan was now Soul Severing’s master, and one artifact spirit cried that they had a new sword master.

Su Yi made Ye Xiaxuan the new master of Soul Severing and gave her a Torch Dragon tendon cord to wear it as a pendant. He then arranged for her to compete for a blessed land in his place so she could gain combat experience, and promised to teach her up to two moves she saw.

• Su Yi told the sword spirits to shrink down and serve as pendants, and Ye Xiaxuan became Soul Severing's master despite the spirits' reluctance.
• Su Yi gave Ye Xiaxuan a Torch Dragon tendon cord, but it was too short to fit over her head, prompting him to tease her about its size.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to learn from the sword spirits and noted that she had advanced from the false core realm to Golden Core.
• Su Yi invited Ye Xiaxuan to join him in finding Gu Tongtong so she could enter the blessed-land competition in his place for the Thirteenth Bureau.
• Ye Xiaxuan agreed to compete, and Su Yi said she could choose up to two moves used by other fighters for him to teach her.

Gu Tongtong broke through after recovering from her fight with Zhang Tiande and demonstrated a powerful new palm technique. When Ye Xiaxuan learned that Wen Qianmeng and Wang Degui had entered a contest for her Green Mountain Bookstore, she insisted on competing to keep it, while Gu Tongtong would represent the Thirteenth Bureau at Spirit Wood Town.

• Gu Tongtong emerged from her daze after half an hour, having made a breakthrough, and agreed to let Ye Xiaxuan compete as a temporary member of the Thirteenth Bureau.
• Gu Tongtong used her new "Palm, come!" technique to smash a deep handprint into the stone paving, impressing Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan accompanied Gu Tongtong to register with Zhang Tiande, who told them the matches would begin at noon the next day and that the Thirteenth Bureau would face the Xie Family and Yuan Family for Spirit Wood Town.
• Gu Tongtong photographed the list of contested locations, and Ye Xiaxuan spotted Wen Qianmeng and Wang Degui's claims on her Green Mountain Bookstore.
• Zhang Tiande explained that each side could send only two competitors, but Ye Xiaxuan insisted that Gu Tongtong compete for Spirit Wood Town while she fought to keep the bookstore.

Gu Tongtong, Xie Xuecheng, and Yuan Haoran competed for Spirit Wood Town in a free-for-all on Cloud Brocade Mountain. After Soul Severing accidentally disrupted Xie Xuecheng’s sword, Gu Tongtong faced Yuan Haoran alone and unleashed a barrage of black palm prints.

• Zhang Tiande opened the Spirit Wood Town contest and explained the free-for-all rules.
• Gu Tongtong, Xie Xuecheng, and Yuan Haoran entered the clearing, and Xie Xuecheng and Yuan Haoran teamed up against Gu Tongtong.
• Xie Xuecheng’s sword ray vanished when Soul Severing trembled, leaving him unable to draw his sword or summon sword qi.
• Yuan Haoran struck Xie Xuecheng out of the contest, leaving himself and Gu Tongtong as the only competitors.
• Gu Tongtong missed Yuan Haoran with a black palm print, then sent a dense barrage of prints raining down.

Gu Tongtong fought Yuan Haoran within his Fenghou Qimen formation, enduring his fire, lightning, and swamp attacks while launching another Heaven-Shrouding Hand. Yuan Haoran raised his Pre-Heaven Eight Trigrams Diagram to meet it, and Zhang Tiande ordered everyone to retreat as the battle continued.

• Yuan Haoran used his Pre-Heaven Eight Trigrams Diagram to block Gu Tongtong’s Heaven-Shrouding Hands and then attacked her with flames.
• Gu Tongtong emerged from the fire and charged Yuan Haoran, but he trapped her with lightning in the Mao position of the Zhen palace.
• Gu Tongtong escaped the lightning before Yuan Haoran turned the bluestone ground into a swamp that swallowed her.
• Yuan Haoran assumed Gu Tongtong was trapped underground, but she formed another giant black palm above the battlefield.
• Yuan Haoran activated his formation to block the descending palm, and Zhang Tiande ordered everyone to fall back.

Gu Tongtong defeated Yuan Haoran with her Heaven-Shrouding Hand, securing Spirit Wood Town for the Thirteenth Bureau. After the battle, Ye Xiaxuan discovered how quickly Gu Tongtong healed, while Su Yi let Ye Xiaxuan practice cultivation techniques on her own as the competition continued.

• Gu Tongtong’s palm strike shattered Yuan Haoran’s barrier and left a huge crater, forcing him to dodge clear.
• Zhang Tiande declared the Thirteenth Bureau the winner, and Gu Tongtong stopped fighting and returned with Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi.
• Ye Xiaxuan bandaged Gu Tongtong’s injuries, but Gu Tongtong’s wounds healed completely within minutes without leaving scars.
• After several more matches, Su Yi and his companions spent two days watching the competition before Green Mountain Bookstore’s match.
• Ye Xiaxuan practiced Gu Tongtong’s palm technique but managed only a weak gust, and Su Yi gave her a book on Fenghou Qimen to study herself.

Su Yi scolded Ye Xiaxuan for trying to learn too many cultivation methods instead of focusing on swordsmanship. After receiving memories from the sword spirits, she comprehended a trace of his sword intent and gained a measure of ability to defend herself.

• Su Yi found that Ye Xiaxuan had learned only to summon a small flame and breeze in two days, so he told her to focus on swordsmanship and sword intent.
• After Su Yi left, the sword spirits sent Ye Xiaxuan fragments of their memories, showing her Su Yi defeating mighty enemies with single sword strikes.
• Ye Xiaxuan fixated on Su Yi's sword strike and suddenly comprehended a trace of his sword intent.
• Ye Xiaxuan's sword intent swept over Cloud Brocade Mountain, startling the competitors and drawing Zhang Tiande's attention.
• Ye Xiaxuan announced that she had comprehended sword intent, and Su Yi judged that she had gained some ability to protect herself.

Cultivators descended into a chaotic battle for Qingzhou University, where Yuan Haoran quickly overwhelmed most of the contestants. With Ye Xiaxuan, Li Youyou, and Wang Degui still standing, Su Yi possessed Ye Xiaxuan to keep her from losing the bookstore.

• Zhang Tiande announced Qingzhou University as the next place up for contention, prompting more than two hundred cultivators to enter without registering.
• Old Yang told Gu Tongtong to stay out of the fight, and Yuan Haoran entered confidently with his Pre-Heaven Eight Trigrams Diagram.
• Yuan Haoran's formation injured or drove away most of the contestants, while Wang Degui, Li Youyou, and Ye Xiaxuan remained unharmed.
• Yuan Haoran withdrew his formation, and Li Youyou played her jade flute to leave Ye Xiaxuan dazed and unable to fight.
• Su Yi possessed Ye Xiaxuan's body so she could win and protect the bookstore.

Su Yi possessed Ye Xiaxuan and used her to teach her sword intent by repeatedly breaking Yuan Haoran’s Innate Eight Trigrams Formation. The chapter left Ye Xiaxuan with only a faint grasp of the lesson while the spectators realized Su Yi had manifested sword intent.

• Su Yi placed a wisp of divine sense in Ye Xiaxuan and took control of her body, shielding her from Li Youyou’s flute.
• Su Yi struck Yuan Haoran’s formation with an ordinary-looking sword sweep and broke it, then asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she understood sword intent.
• Su Yi broke Yuan Haoran’s formation again by thrusting the wooden sword into the ground, leaving Yuan Haoran pale and bewildered.
• Su Yi manifested tangible sword intent with a third strike, and Yuan Haoran recognized it while Ye Xiaxuan only vaguely sensed its essence.
• Li Youyou, Xie Xuecheng, and the other spectators watched in amazement as they realized Ye Xiaxuan’s strike carried sword intent rather than sword qi.

Su Yi controlled Ye Xiaxuan and swept aside the remaining arena challengers, leaving her to face Wen Qianmeng. Li Youyou recognized Su Yi, played a tune, and conceded, while the spectators learned that Ye Xiaxuan worked for the Thirteenth Bureau.

• Su Yi withdrew Yuan Haoran’s formation, and Yuan Haoran retreated before Ye Xiaxuan’s sword, then became fascinated with her.
• Su Yi sent Wang Degui flying with Ye Xiaxuan’s sword, and the other cultivators fled the arena.
• Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng praised Ye Xiaxuan’s swordsmanship and discussed her chances against Wen Qianmeng.
• Su Yi asked Li Youyou, controlling Wen Qianmeng’s body, whether she would fight or concede; Li Youyou recognized him and agreed to concede after playing a tune.
• Li Youyou played the jade flute, announced her concession, and left the arena as spectators discussed Ye Xiaxuan and the Thirteenth Bureau.

After the competition, Su Yi and the others prepared to return to Qingzhou, while Yuan Haoran tried to court Ye Xiaxuan and clashed with Su Yi. Yuan Haoran misread Su Yi’s relationship with Ye Xiaxuan and ended up calling him Uncle Ye.

• Su Yi and the others decided to return to Qingzhou after the Thirteenth Bureau’s victory.
• Yuan Haoran asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she was single, and she claimed Su Yi was her husband with two children.
• Ye Xiaxuan clung to Su Yi, who dismissed Yuan Haoran and mocked him for having no woman.
• Yuan Haoran realized Ye Xiaxuan’s claim about having children was false and announced he would pursue her.
• Su Yi asked Yuan Haoran what he would do if he were Ye Xiaxuan’s father, and Yuan Haoran concluded that he was and apologized by calling him Uncle Ye.

Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan returned to Qingzhou as cultivators flocked there, drawn by the Spirit Gathering Array’s effects. Worried the array would bring unwanted attention and further alter the world, Su Yi erased it at the bookstore, though the spiritual qi it had already produced remained.

• Yuan Haoran attacked Su Yi, but Ye Xiaxuan drove him away and later joked that he might be interested in Su Yi instead of her.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan flew back to Qingzhou with Yuan Haoran and Xie Xuecheng, while cultivators learned they could cultivate peacefully near Qingzhou University.
• Su Yi returned to Green Mountain Bookstore and found that hundreds of cultivators had arrived in Qingzhou, apparently attracted by the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Su Yi erased the Spirit Gathering Array from the bookstore’s table, and Zhang Luolin confirmed that spiritual qi was no longer gathering there, though the qi already produced remained.

Su Yi revealed that a mistake while making Ye Xiaxuan a small Spirit Gathering Array had caused the revival of Spiritual Qi, while Wu Wenze investigated Lin Yiyun’s growing power and business empire. The chapter left Wu Wenze unsure how the Thirteenth Bureau could respond, since Lin Yiyun’s company was operating lawfully.

• Zhang Luolin asked Su Yi whether he had caused the Spiritual Qi revival, and Su Yi admitted it had resulted from a mistake while making an array for Ye Xiaxuan.
• Su Yi called Ye Xiaxuan his disciple, and she happily offered milk tea to him and Zhang Luolin.
• Wu Wenze asked Su Yi about Lin Yiyun, explaining that she had become a powerful businesswoman whose cultivation he could not discern.
• Su Yi said Lin Yiyun was descended from the Tang Family, and Wu Wenze connected her company’s cultivator employees to Fengjing Town and Tang Yaowen.
• Gu Tongtong asked whether cultivators were forbidden from doing business, and Wu Wenze admitted the Thirteenth Bureau had no such rule to enforce.

Wu Wenze, Gu Tongtong, Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Zhang Luolin investigated Fengjing Town after suspecting the Thirteenth Bureau's colleagues had run into trouble. They discovered that the town's thousands of residents were possessed by Human Realm Immortals, leaving Su Yi to wonder why so many had descended into the human world.

• Wu Wenze suspected something was wrong in Fengjing Town, and Gu Tongtong proposed arresting Lin Yiyun if the bureau's colleagues had come to harm.
• Gu Tongtong, Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Zhang Luolin agreed to travel to Fengjing Town, with Zhang Luolin hoping to persuade Tang Yaowen to change the Tang Family's plans.
• Zhang Luolin sensed a heavy aura of death near Fengjing Town and warned that a powerful demonic cultivator might be there.
• The group entered Fengjing Town and found residents rebuilding wooden houses instead of signs of decline.
• Su Yi realized that all of the town's thousands of residents were possessed by Human Realm Immortals and wondered what had driven them to descend in such numbers.