Chapter Summaries

Su Yi warned Ye Xiaxuan that her weak cultivation and careless attitude could get her killed, then explained that Jinmen held many powerful cultivators. He took her to a bar, where he had sensed an early Golden Core cultivator drinking with Yu Huiyin.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she would have to face the trouble he caused and stay by his side, while Ye Xiaxuan happily accepted.
• Ye Xiaxuan suggested going clubbing, but Su Yi criticized her lack of dedication to cultivation.
• Su Yi revealed that Jinmen had more than twenty Golden Core cultivators and several stronger experts, including someone from the Long Family at the Spirit Severing Stage.
• Su Yi explained the cultivation realms and warned Ye Xiaxuan that a Spirit Severing cultivator could defeat her in one move, while claiming he was only in the Qi Refining Realm.
• Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan to SPACE PLUS after sensing an early Golden Core cultivator drinking there with Yu Huiyin.

Ye Xiaxuan took Su Yi to SPACE PLUS Bar, where his easygoing flirting with other women made her jealous. After declaring herself his girlfriend and driving them away, she sat on Su Yi’s lap and forcibly kissed him, leaving him startled by his own hesitation.

• Ye Xiaxuan booked a booth at SPACE PLUS Bar and watched in surprise as a male dancer performed for them.
• Su Yi played along with women who gathered around him, while Ye Xiaxuan drank alone and grew frustrated.
• Ye Xiaxuan released her Golden Core Realm aura, claimed Su Yi was her boyfriend, and drove the women away.
• Ye Xiaxuan paid the floor manager to keep the women away, then confronted Su Yi about enjoying himself.
• Ye Xiaxuan sat on Su Yi’s lap and forcibly kissed him after he hesitated to dodge.

After Ye Xiaxuan drunkenly kissed and clung to Su Yi, he put her to sleep and met Yu Huiyin and Su Jinfu. Su Yi accepted Su Jinfu’s offer to become sworn brothers, and Su Jinfu hinted that Yu Huiyin would become Su Yi’s sister-in-law.

• Ye Xiaxuan drunkenly kissed Su Yi and kneaded his face while sitting on his lap.
• Su Yi tapped Ye Xiaxuan unconscious and laid her on the sofa.
• Yu Huiyin recognized Su Yi, and Su Yi said he and Ye Xiaxuan were close before preparing to leave.
• Su Jinfu introduced himself as a member of the Jinmen Su Family and suggested that he and Su Yi might be relatives.
• Su Yi accepted Su Jinfu’s proposal to become sworn brothers and drank with him.
• Su Jinfu asked whether Su Yi knew Yu Huiyin and said she would likely become Su Yi’s sister-in-law.

Su Jinfu explained that the Yu family had sought a marriage alliance to gain protection from Lin Yiyun, then targeted Ye Xiaxuan and followed Su Yi into a secluded alley. Su Yi recognized his scheme and prepared to turn the ambush against him.

• Su Jinfu told Yu Huiyin that he had no interest in her because she was a mortal, and she angrily left.
• Su Jinfu explained to Su Yi that the Yu family wanted the Jinmen Su Family's backing against Lin Yiyun's expanding business influence.
• After learning Ye Xiaxuan was a Golden Core cultivator and not Su Yi's Dao companion, Su Jinfu urged Su Yi to take her home.
• Su Yi carried the still-sleeping Ye Xiaxuan away from the bar, while Su Jinfu secretly followed them.
• Ye Xiaxuan woke but pretended to sleep as Su Yi carried her into a dark alley, and Su Yi realized she was awake.
• Su Jinfu planned to steal Ye Xiaxuan's treasures, kill Su Yi, and blame the theft on him, while Su Yi prepared to lure him into an ambush.

Su Jinfu ambushed Su Yi, prompting Ye Xiaxuan to kill him with a single sword strike and drive away the Su Family ancestor’s apparition. Su Yi then claimed the attack had crippled his cultivation, leaving Ye Xiaxuan worried as he insisted that being an ordinary person was nice.

• Su Jinfu attacked Su Yi from behind, and Su Yi pretended to collapse unconscious.
• Ye Xiaxuan unleashed her sword intent and killed Su Jinfu, destroying his imitation Yin-Yang Qiankun Ruler in the process.
• The Su Family ancestor’s primordial spirit appeared, questioned Ye Xiaxuan, and vanished after memorizing her appearance.
• Ye Xiaxuan rushed to check on Su Yi, who sat up and claimed Su Jinfu’s palm strike had crippled his cultivation.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan he could not recover and did not intend to, saying he liked being an ordinary person.

After Ye Xiaxuan followed Su Yi home, he let her cultivate in his bedroom despite her having forcibly kissed him, while privately resolving to let her face her future trials on her own. By morning, Ye Xiaxuan had deepened her understanding of the Sword Dao and transformed her Golden Core into a small, pale-gold sword.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to go home, but she followed him all the way to his courtyard on Wutong Street.
• Su Yi let Ye Xiaxuan sleep or cultivate in his bedroom, and she chose to cultivate there.
• Su Yi reflected that Ye Xiaxuan would face great tribulations and that he would not be able to help her when they came.
• Ye Xiaxuan cultivated amid fragments of the Great Dao and comprehended her sword strike and Su Yi's moves on Jinyun Mountain.
• By morning, Ye Xiaxuan's Golden Core had transformed into a small, pale-gold sword.

Su Yi prepared noodles at home while Bai Miaomiao visited to ask him to accompany her to a friend's wedding banquet. Bai Miaomiao mistook Ye Xiaxuan's overnight stay and eager help around the house for signs that she and Su Yi were living as a couple.

• Su Yi declined to take back the 200,000 yuan he had lent Zhang Ting and told her to use it to start a small business, giving him a share without requiring her to work for him.
• Bai Miaomiao arrived at Su Yi's courtyard, where Ye Xiaxuan was staying after comprehending sword intent, and asked Su Yi to make her noodles.
• Bai Miaomiao concluded that Ye Xiaxuan had spent the night at Su Yi's home and was planning to stay there permanently, so she decided not to invite him to the wedding banquet.
• Ye Xiaxuan eagerly went to carry the noodles out when Su Yi called her, and Bai Miaomiao thought their domestic scene resembled a mother calling her child to dinner.

Su Yi agreed to attend Bai Miaomiao’s friend’s wedding, and the three of them took Xu Diandian along to shop for his formal outfit. At the entrance to a Patek Philippe boutique, Bai Miaomiao encountered her father, Bai Yangyan, who looked displeased as he noticed Su Yi and the young man with him.

• Su Yi agreed to go to Bai Miaomiao’s friend’s wedding, and Bai Miaomiao offered to buy him clothes.
• Ye Xiaxuan joined them after washing the breakfast dishes, and Xu Diandian came along after Su Yi got permission from Zhang Ting.
• Bai Miaomiao drove Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Xu Diandian to Hang Lung Plaza to shop for a suit.
• Bai Miaomiao and Ye Xiaxuan competed to outfit Su Yi, who tried on a suit and then followed them to watch stores.
• At the entrance to a Patek Philippe boutique, Bai Miaomiao ran into her father, Bai Yangyan, who had arrived with a young man.

Bai Miaomiao and Su Yi encountered Tan Xiuwen and Bai Yangyan at a department store, where Tan Xiuwen attacked Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan deflected the strike. Ye Xiaxuan then chose an expensive pair of watches for Su Yi, while Tan Xiuwen remained outside.

• Bai Yangyan brought Tan Xiuwen to the department store to buy Bai Miaomiao a gift, but they found her entering with Su Yi.
• Tan Xiuwen questioned Bai Miaomiao about Su Yi, and she dismissed him before taking Su Yi into the shop.
• Tan Xiuwen secretly fired a silver needle at Su Yi, but Ye Xiaxuan deflected it with sword Qi, shattering a nearby stone pillar.
• Tan Xiuwen noticed Ye Xiaxuan's strength, while Su Yi calmly continued into the shop with Bai Miaomiao.
• Ye Xiaxuan selected a pair of couple's watches costing over 1.2 million and told the saleswoman to charge them without an introduction.

At the watch shop, Bai Miaomiao claimed that she and Ye Xiaxuan both shared Su Yi as a husband, enraging her father and provoking Tan Wenxiu. When Tan Wenxiu tried to hypnotize Su Yi, Su Yi turned the attack back on him and left him living as a dog.

• Tan Wenxiu followed Su Yi and the others into the shop and offered to buy Bai Miaomiao a watch, but she refused and stayed clinging to Su Yi.
• Bai Miaomiao declared that Su Yi was both her boyfriend and Ye Xiaxuan's, shocking the saleswomen and upsetting Bai Yangyan.
• Tan Wenxiu challenged Su Yi and launched a hypnosis attack to make him act like a dog in public.
• Su Yi reversed the hypnosis, and Tan Wenxiu barked, urinated on himself, and crawled around the shop like a dog.
• Su Yi told Xu Diandian that Tan Wenxiu would remain a dog for the rest of his life and that only Su Yi could undo the hypnosis.

Su Yi subdued Tan Wenxiu and destroyed his cultivation after Tan tried to hypnotize him, while Ye Xiaxuan took the blame. Tan fled to seek his family’s help, and Bai Yangyan resolved to learn more about Su Yi and secure his protection.

• Bai Yangyan asked Su Yi to spare Tan Wenxiu because the Tan family could retaliate against him.
• Su Yi released Tan Wenxiu from his hypnotized state, and Tan discovered that his False Core and cultivation had been destroyed.
• Tan blamed Ye Xiaxuan, threatened her, then fled and called his father to demand revenge.
• Tan Wenxiu’s father promised to consult the family ancestor and investigate the culprit before acting.
• Bai Yangyan resolved to ask his father about Su Yi’s background and seek Su Yi’s support.
• Su Yi decided that Ye Xiaxuan could keep taking the blame, confident she could handle most cultivators herself.

Jinmen’s five great unaffiliated cultivation families gathered to discuss revenge for Su Jinfu’s death and Tan Wenxiu’s crippled cultivation. After learning that Ye Xiaxuan was a powerful unaffiliated cultivator with no backing and a suspected secret treasure, the families decided to target her, while Tan Feiwen realized he might have helped the Su Family claim the prize.

• Unaffiliated cultivators outside the Heaven and Earth Temple discussed the sudden clan assembly and the attacks on the Su and Tan families in Qingzhou.
• Su Changmo and Tan Feiwen called for revenge, and the patriarchs learned from Wu Wenze that Ye Xiaxuan had killed Su Jinfu and crippled Tan Wenxiu.
• The families discussed Ye Xiaxuan’s rapid rise to Golden Core strength, her defeat of Yuan Haoran’s formation, and her lack of sect backing.
• The families concluded that Ye Xiaxuan likely possessed a powerful treasure and agreed that she could be killed and the treasure seized.
• Su Changmo pledged to avenge the Su family and promised Tan Feiwen justice, prompting Tan Feiwen to realize the Su family might get to Ye Xiaxuan first.

The heads of Jinmen’s great families agreed to send Golden Core youths to Qingzhou to confront Ye Xiaxuan and pursue the treasure they believed she possessed. After learning that Ye Xiaxuan was tied to multiple incidents involving the families, Wu Wenze called Old Yang, who told him the Thirteenth Bureau would stay out of it if she was responsible for all three.

• Tan Wenfei and Su Changmo agreed to confront Ye Xiaxuan together over their sons’ injuries and deaths, while competing for her magical treasure.
• Ouyang Qing, the Zhang Family head, and Long Haochu pushed for the other families to share in the expedition, with Long Haochu revealing that Ye Xiaxuan had injured his son and left his family line cut off.
• The families agreed that each would send three Golden Core youths to Qingzhou, then decided to speak with the Thirteenth Bureau about settling the matter privately.
• Wu Wenze heard that Ye Xiaxuan was linked to incidents involving the Su, Tan, and Long families and worried that the confrontation could turn violent.
• Wu Wenze called Old Yang, who told him that if Ye Xiaxuan had caused all three incidents, the Thirteenth Bureau would wash its hands of the matter.

Wu Wenze tried to mediate between the Thirteenth Bureau and the Jinmen cultivators over the deaths in Qingzhou, but Su Changmo refused to consider evidence or reconciliation. Wu Wenze left by declaring that the Bureau would no longer protect Jinmen cultivators, while warning them not to endanger ordinary people.

• Old Yang told Wu Wenze to try to settle matters peacefully but to make his own decisions instead of relying on him.
• Wu Wenze entered the Heaven and Earth Temple and endured pressure from Su Changmo and the other cultivators without kneeling.
• Su Changmo and Long Haochu rejected Wu Wenze's offer to provide surveillance footage and insisted Ye Xiaxuan must pay for Su Jinfu's death.
• Wu Wenze recorded the cultivators' statements and announced that the Thirteenth Bureau would end its protection of Jinmen cultivators.
• Wu Wenze warned the cultivators that the Bureau would kill anyone who harmed ordinary people during their battles.

Wu Wenze ended the Thirteenth Bureau’s protection of Jinmen after its cultivators insulted him, prompting Su Changmo to organize a rushed attack on Ye Xiaxuan. Su Yi left Ye to handle the threat herself and told her to survive the next two days.

• Wu Wenze left after announcing that the Thirteenth Bureau would no longer protect Jinmen, and Su Changmo realized their insults had offended the bureau’s cultivators and allies.
• Su Changmo ordered each family to send one Nascent Soul expert or three Golden Core experts to Qingzhou to kill Ye Xiaxuan and seize her treasure, then return within two days.
• Su Yi returned from Bai Miaomiao’s friend’s wedding and learned that Ye Xiaxuan had received Wu Wenze’s video about Jinmen’s decision.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi what to do, but he said she would have to face the attackers herself because his cultivation was crippled.
• Su Yi advised Ye Xiaxuan to ask Gu Tongtong to protect her family and told her to survive the next two days.

Ye Xiaxuan learned that cultivators from Jinmen might send Nascent Soul experts to kill her, but she realized the Thirteenth Bureau’s warning had made them targets across the cultivation world. She planned to cultivate in Su Yi’s bedroom and use the Green Mountain Bookstore as a safe place if necessary.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that the Jinmen cultivators might send a dozen Nascent Soul experts and refused to protect her, urging her to cultivate and survive on her own.
• Ye Xiaxuan realized that Wu Wenze’s video had warned cultivators across the cultivation world, making the Jinmen group reluctant to remain exposed for long.
• Ye Xiaxuan called Gu Tongtong, who said she had assigned people to watch Ye Xiaxuan’s family and would intervene if ordinary people were harmed.
• Ye Xiaxuan considered hiding or staying somewhere crowded, then chose the Green Mountain Bookstore as a possible refuge because its occupants were cultivators and Zhang Luolin might help her.
• Ye Xiaxuan returned to cultivating in Su Yi’s bedroom and tried to comprehend techniques he had taught her, while Su Yi watched anime through the night.

Su Yi went to class while Ye Xiaxuan woke and learned he had already left for school. Yang Zhengcheng found Su Yi and brought him to the bookstore, where Su Yi confronted cultivators who were driving away customers and ordered them to follow his rules.

• Ye Xiaxuan came out of Su Yi's bedroom and learned from Xu Diandian that Su Yi had gone to school.
• Yang Zhengcheng waited outside Su Yi's classroom, then asked him to come talk at the bookstore.
• Su Yi and Yang Zhengcheng arrived at the bookstore, where cultivators' auras had been keeping ordinary students away.
• Su Yi ordered two False Core Realm cultivators to leave, and Zhang Luolin drove them out.
• Su Yi told the remaining cultivators to restrain their auras, and Zhang Luolin threw out a disciple who challenged Su Yi.
• The cultivators meekly agreed to obey Su Yi, deciding it was unwise to look down on him.

Yang Zhengcheng questioned Su Yi about the stolen cultural relics, and Su Yi revealed that he had made the replicas and kept the real spiritual treasures from Sword-Washing Mountain. After learning that Su Yi had lived for four billion years, Yang Zhengcheng accepted that the treasures were safer with him; meanwhile, Ye Xiaxuan visited Su Yi and then told Zhang Luolin she was scared of Jinmen.

• Yang Zhengcheng told Su Yi he suspected the Thirteenth Bureau had taken the cultural relics and asked whether the people in the bookstore were immortal cultivators.
• Su Yi confirmed that the Thirteenth Bureau had taken the fake relics, revealed that he had made them, and showed Yang Zhengcheng the real Three Treasures Jade Ruyi.
• Su Yi told Yang Zhengcheng that the relics from Sword-Washing Mountain were his, that he had written the stone tablet, and that he had lived for four billion years.
• Yang Zhengcheng accepted that Su Yi should keep the dangerous spiritual treasures, thanked him, and left the bookstore.
• Ye Xiaxuan brought Su Yi milk tea, mistook his presence at the shop for concern about her, and went downstairs to cozy up to Zhang Luolin.
• Zhang Luolin warned Ye Xiaxuan that people from Jinmen had their eyes on her, and Ye Xiaxuan told him she was scared.

Ye Xiaxuan received support from cultivators in the bookstore against the Jinmen cultivators, while Su Changmo’s group encountered eight powerful Outer Demons on the road. The chapter left Tan Wenfei dead after the ragged old man tried to empower him.

• Ye Xiaxuan reassured the bookstore cultivators, who pledged to defend her and condemned the Jinmen cultivators.
• Su Yi watched the exchange and concluded that the Jinmen cultivators had put themselves in danger by openly confronting Wu Wenze.
• An old Outer Demon called Drunkard and his seven companions ambushed Su Changmo’s group and demanded to know who ruled the mortal world.
• Su Changmo told Drunkard that his ancestor was an Ascension Stage immortal, but Drunkard dismissed the claim and ordered the group to lead them toward Jinmen.
• Drunkard immobilized Tan Wenfei and gave him a drop of black liquid, causing his power to surge before his body exploded.

Wenlong and his companions captured Su Changmo’s party and revealed that the Lord God’s Dharma body was in Jinmen. Scholar offered to help the Su Family rise to power, while the little girl and Wenlong fought over who controlled Qingzhou City.

• The old man killed Tan Wenfei and then instantly killed a Su Family Nascent Soul expert, swallowing his primordial spirit.
• Wenlong searched Su Changmo’s memories and learned that the Lord God’s Dharma body was in Jinmen and that the group suspected Ye Xiaxuan had a secret treasure.
• Scholar warned Su Changmo not to alert his ancestor, and Su Changmo agreed in exchange for mercy.
• Scholar offered to help the Su Family become the greatest force under heaven, and Su Changmo offered to acknowledge him as master.
• The little girl and Wenlong argued over Qingzhou City, then fought until she pinned him down and stomped his head into the dirt.