Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi visited the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion to trade for the Billowing Cloud Furnace, which Su Yi chose as a difficult tool for her training. After Dongfang Lin and the onlookers mocked the proposed trade, Dongfang Lin cleared the room and learned Ye Xiaxuan meant to offer the pill inside Su Yi’s jade bottle; she invited him to inspect it.

• Dongfang Lin showed Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi the Yellow Grade Billowing Cloud Furnace, and Su Yi decided it was suitable for training Ye Xiaxuan.
• Dongfang Lin demanded Ye Xiaxuan’s Torch Dragon sinew, but Ye Xiaxuan offered Su Yi’s jade bottle instead.
• The cultivators laughed at Ye Xiaxuan’s offer, so Dongfang Lin used his aura to drive them and the attendants out.
• Dongfang Lin recognized the jade bottle’s unusual Dao essence and asked where Ye Xiaxuan got it.
• Ye Xiaxuan clarified that she would trade the pill inside the bottle, not the bottle itself, and told Dongfang Lin to inspect the pill.

Dongfang Lin traded the Billowing Cloud Furnace to Ye Xiaxuan for an immortal pill, then learned who she was and was shaken by the realization that he had nearly offended a powerful figure. Torn between keeping the pill for himself and using it to help his sect, he chose to take it to Ji Yangze, whose worsening qi deviation threatened the cultivation world.

• Dongfang Lin examined Ye Xiaxuan’s pill and recognized it as an immortal pill, then accepted her offer to trade it for the Billowing Cloud Furnace.
• Dongfang Lin learned Ye Xiaxuan’s identity and ordered his disciple Wang Qing to deliver the furnace to her family estate.
• Wang Qing told Dongfang Lin that Ji Yangze’s condition had worsened, prompting Dongfang Lin to consider using the immortal pill to save him.
• Dongfang Lin abandoned his plan to refine the pill for himself and decided to visit Ji Yangze with it.

Su Yi left Ye Xiaxuan to search for pill ingredients and rushed to Sword-Washing Mountain, where an external demon’s Soul-Luring Wine had turned Jiang Changfeng and others into killers. He freed the surviving Thirteenth Bureau employee and confronted the drunkard, whose confidence faltered when he could not discern Su Yi’s cultivation.

• Su Yi left the market after telling Ye Xiaxuan to find pill-refining ingredients herself.
• The drunkard used Soul-Luring Wine to drive Jiang Changfeng and others into a murderous frenzy and slaughtered the people sent to protect him.
• The drunkard searched Su Yi’s residence, stole its treasures, and assumed Su Yi was no stronger than a Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The drunkard killed the Thirteenth Bureau cultivators sent to stop him, leaving Jiang Changfeng and one employee under his control.
• Su Yi arrived, broke the wine’s influence over Jiang Changfeng and the employee, and faced the startled drunkard.

Su Yi killed the drunkard after Jiang Changfeng died, then arranged for Jiang to be buried at Sword-Washing Mountain. Later, Su Yi warned Ye Xiaxuan about the power of Tantai Yue and Long Wen, and agreed to return to her house with her while the two children stayed there.

• The drunkard tried to escape Su Yi by turning into black smoke, but Su Yi gathered and annihilated him.
• Jiang Changfeng died, and Su Yi buried him beneath a gravestone at the site of his former residence.
• Old Yang recognized Su Yi's handwriting, bowed at Jiang Changfeng's grave, and ordered that no sect be established on Sword-Washing Mountain.
• Su Yi returned home, where he warned Ye Xiaxuan that Tantai Yue and Long Wen were dangerous despite their appearance as children.
• After learning Tantai Yue could kill Han Zhen with one hand, Ye Xiaxuan refused to return home unless Su Yi came with her.
• Su Yi agreed to go back with Ye Xiaxuan but said Tantai Yue and Long Wen would remain at her house.

Ye Xiaxuan brought Su Yi to stay at the Ye Family Estate, where Ye Jingtian mistook the visit for a sign that Su Yi and his daughter were becoming a couple. Tantai Yue and Long Wen left Ye Xiaxuan’s room for the night, while Su Yi and Ye Jingtian’s awkward generational ties remained unresolved.

• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi to stay at her home for the night because she feared Tantai Yue and Long Wen.
• Ye Xiaxuan called her father, and Ye Jingtian prepared a room while assuming Su Yi was his future son-in-law.
• Auntie Hu persuaded Tantai Yue and Long Wen to leave Ye Xiaxuan’s room, offering Tantai Yue passion fruit and hairy crabs.
• Tantai Yue continued advancing rapidly by studying Su Yi’s painting, while Long Wen fell behind and accepted his place as her servant.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan arrived at the estate, and Ye Jingtian welcomed Su Yi and asked about the two children.
• Su Yi explained that Tantai Yue and Long Wen had lost their memories, and Ye Jingtian told him to rest in the prepared room.

Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan to the Ye Family estate, where Ye Jingtian welcomed him as the family’s future son-in-law. In Ye Xiaxuan’s courtyard, she moved a huge pill-refining furnace and then tried to conjure Pill Fire, but its unexpected blue-green color surprised Su Yi.

• Ye Jingtian welcomed Su Yi and asked to treat their relationship separately from his ties to Su Yi’s father, and Su Yi agreed to call him Uncle Ye.
• Ye Jingtian told Ye Xiaxuan that a pill-refining furnace had been delivered and placed in the west courtyard.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan found Tantai Yue and Long Wen eating at the house, then went to the west courtyard.
• Ye Xiaxuan carried the thousand-jin-plus furnace outside herself, and Su Yi explained that even a False Core cultivator could lift it easily.
• Ye Xiaxuan formed a ball of blue-green Pill Fire, surprising Su Yi because he expected it to be orange.

Su Yi realized the Heavenly Dao had chosen Ye Xiaxuan as a true Chosen One, with an extraordinary fate and a connection to the Heavenly Dao. Ye Xiaxuan’s first attempt at alchemy ended with an exploding furnace but still produced a Heaven Grade pill, while she worried that the broken furnace meant they had taken a loss.

• Su Yi saw that Ye Xiaxuan’s cyan alchemical flame carried the power of laws and discovered that the Heavenly Dao had made her a true Chosen One.
• Su Yi suspected the Heavenly Dao was trying to challenge him through Ye Xiaxuan and chose to let events unfold while quietly making the game harder.
• Su Yi used Qi Observation Technique and found innate primordial violet qi above Ye Xiaxuan, confirming her immortal constitution.
• Ye Xiaxuan’s alchemy furnace exploded, but its fragments passed harmlessly around her.
• Su Yi retrieved a Heaven Grade pill from the wreckage, and Ye Xiaxuan worried that losing the furnace meant they had taken a loss.

Ye Xiaxuan survived her pill furnace exploding after refining a Heaven Grade Clear Mind Pill, then asked Su Yi whether it could help her father cultivate or live longer. When they returned to her room, Auntie Hu mistook Su Yi’s stay for a sign that the couple intended to share a bed and gave Ye Xiaxuan contraceptives, leaving her flustered.

• Ye Jingtian rushed to the west courtyard after the furnace exploded, confirmed Ye Xiaxuan was unharmed, and entrusted her care to Su Yi.
• Su Yi gave Ye Xiaxuan the Heaven Grade Clear Mind Pill and explained that it could calm her father’s mind but would not prolong his life.
• Ye Xiaxuan decided to trade the pill for another furnace so she could try making a life-extending Dragon Hatchling Pill.
• Auntie Hu prepared pajamas and led Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan to Ye Xiaxuan’s bedroom, calling Su Yi her young master-in-law.
• Auntie Hu assumed the couple would share a bed and slipped Ye Xiaxuan a box of condoms, leaving her panicked and embarrassed.

Su Yi considered how widespread immortal cultivation could disrupt society, then told Ye Xiaxuan he had enrolled in an immortal cultivation school. Ye Xiaxuan insisted on joining him, and Su Yi agreed that her Thirteenth Bureau reputation would let her pass as a master studying among ordinary people.

• Su Yi read the announcement that immortal sects would begin screening potential disciples and worried that cultivation could deepen resource shortages and class divisions.
• Su Yi went to Ye Xiaxuan's bedroom, where she nervously hid beneath the covers and wondered whether they might have a child and what they would name it.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she would have to rely on herself from then on, even when her life was in danger, and explained that he had enrolled in a school for immortal cultivators.
• Ye Xiaxuan said she wanted to enroll too because she needed to learn the basics of cultivation.
• Su Yi noted that Ye Xiaxuan's Thirteenth Bureau position required her to maintain her image as an expert, but she argued that others would see her studies as a reclusive master's ordinary-life experience.
• Su Yi agreed with Ye Xiaxuan and wondered aloud when she had become so clever.

Su Yi agreed to give Ye Xiaxuan another round of treatment, and the two spent the night together. The next day, they prepared to attend the cultivation test, while Ye Xiaxuan wondered whether Su Yi liked her.

• Su Yi found that the novels he followed had been abandoned and video sites were under maintenance because people were preparing for the cultivation test.
• Ye Xiaxuan shyly asked Su Yi for another treatment to help her grow, and he agreed because her Innate Primordial Violet Qi made her a Chosen One.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan spent the night together, and Ye Xiaxuan endured the experience because her body had been tempered through cultivation.
• The next day, Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to get ready for the test, and she asked whether he preferred girls like Bai Miaomiao and Li Youyou.
• Su Yi said he preferred shaping them himself, leaving Ye Xiaxuan pleased and wondering if he liked her.

Su Yi gave Ye Jingtian a Dragon Hatchling Pill that could extend his life, then left with Ye Xiaxuan, Tantai Yue, and Long Wen to have their cultivation aptitude tested. Before departing, the two little ones gave Auntie Hu protective gifts and promised to visit again.

• At lunch, Su Yi gave Ye Jingtian a pill that could extend his lifespan by about a hundred and fifty years, and Ye Jingtian accepted it after Ye Xiaxuan urged him to.
• Ye Xiaxuan said she and Su Yi needed to have their cultivation aptitude tested and told Tantai Yue and Long Wen to come along.
• Tantai Yue gave Auntie Hu one of her Bloodflame Fire Phoenix feathers, and Auntie Hu promised to keep it and make her more hairy crabs next time.
• Long Wen gave Auntie Hu an ink-black scale and let her pinch his cheeks, then teased Tantai Yue.
• Su Yi recognized that Tantai Yue and Long Wen's gifts would protect Auntie Hu from illness and make her difficult to harm.

Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan joined a newly established cultivation school, where sect representatives were gathering to teach students before recruiting disciples. Gu Tongtong also enrolled and was appointed dean of discipline, while the teachers struggled to understand why an Ascension Stage expert wanted lessons.

• Su Yi encouraged Gu Tongtong to study systematically, and she agreed to attend the cultivation school.
• Old Yang took Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Gu Tongtong to the school, where teachers from the major sects had gathered.
• The sect representatives recognized Ye Xiaxuan and respectfully welcomed her after Su Yi explained that they wanted to study.
• Old Yang introduced Gu Tongtong as the Thirteenth Bureau's director and proposed that she serve as dean of discipline.
• The teachers accepted Gu Tongtong's appointment, and Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan entered the school as students.

Ye Xiaxuan enrolled Tantai Yue and Long Wen in the academy, while Su Yi took charge of setting its admissions plans. The group then went to the cultivators’ market so Ye Xiaxuan could exchange her pill furnace, but Dongfang Lin was absent.

• Ye Xiaxuan had Tantai Yue and Long Wen admitted to the school, and Gu Tongtong became its dean of discipline.
• When the sect representatives asked about admissions, Old Yang deferred to Su Yi, who ordered them to admit two thousand students and answered their questions.
• Ye Xiaxuan left with Su Yi, Tantai Yue, and Long Wen to exchange her pill furnace, reassuring the two little ones that she would not use them to refine pills.
• At the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion, Ye Xiaxuan told Dongfang Lin’s disciple that her furnace had exploded after one use and asked to exchange it for a better one.

Dongfang Lin alerted Zhang Zhesheng that Ye Xiaxuan had returned to the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion, and Zhang Zhesheng hurried there with the Spirit Qi Sect’s finest pill cauldron. He traded the cauldron for Ye Xiaxuan’s Clear Mind Pill after learning it could treat qi deviation, believing it might save the sect master.

• Dongfang Lin received word that Ye Xiaxuan had arrived and informed Zhang Zhesheng, who slapped him for calling Su Yi a pretty boy and warned him to mind his words.
• Zhang Zhesheng brought the Spirit Qi Sect’s Purple Firmament Dragon-Patterned Cauldron to the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion after Ye Xiaxuan asked for a better one.
• Ye Xiaxuan offered a Heaven Grade Clear Mind Pill in exchange, and Zhang Zhesheng asked what it did before agreeing to the trade.
• Ye Xiaxuan explained that the pill calmed the mind and could resolve qi deviation, which Zhang Zhesheng said was crucial to saving Ji Zeyang.
• Zhang Zhesheng bowed to Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi in gratitude, and Ye Xiaxuan hurried to support him.

Ye Xiaxuan traded the Clear Mind Pill to Zhang Zhesheng for the Purple Firmament Dragon-Patterned Cauldron and accepted his Heaven Grade bracelet. Huang Tianlu arrived with Ling Chen and tried to disrupt the deal, but Su Yi pointed out that Zhang Zhesheng had already refused him.

• Ye Xiaxuan offered to trade the Clear Mind Pill to Zhang Zhesheng, who added a Heaven Grade bracelet to the deal.
• Su Yi urged Ye Xiaxuan to accept the bracelet, and Zhang Zhesheng received the pill that would fulfill his final wish.
• Huang Tianlu entered the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion with Ling Chen and challenged Zhang Zhesheng over the cauldron.
• Zhang Zhesheng refused to sell the cauldron to Huang Tianlu, who then asked Ye Xiaxuan to trade him the pill instead.
• Ye Xiaxuan refused Huang Tianlu, and Su Yi pointed out that Zhang Zhesheng had just turned him down.

Su Yi secretly made Huang Tianlu kill Ling Chen, allowing Zhang Zhesheng to avoid a deadly conflict with the Human King Dao. After leaving the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion, Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to a cliff and told her to jump so he could test whether her fortune would lead her to treasure.

• Su Yi controlled Huang Tianlu into striking Ling Chen dead, and Huang Tianlu apologized to the presumed experts before leaving with the corpse.
• Zhang Zhesheng handed Ye Xiaxuan the pill furnace in a storage bracelet, and she departed with Su Yi.
• Su Yi asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she had been frightened, then led her to a high cliff and told her to jump.
• Ye Xiaxuan protested that she was afraid of heights and asked whether Su Yi would catch her, but he refused and threatened to push her.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked whether Su Yi still loved her, and he explained that he wanted to see if she would find treasure like a novel protagonist.

Su Yi pushed Ye Xiaxuan off a towering cliff to test her luck, and she survived the fall into a pool at its base. There, she found a dead Ancestral Dragon and began refining its dragon pearl while Su Yi roasted some of its meat.

• Su Yi pushed Ye Xiaxuan off the cliff and jumped after her, telling her to protect herself with sword Qi as they fell.
• Ye Xiaxuan struck the pool at the cliff's base, while Su Yi entered the water without making a splash and concealed the scene from Tantai Yue and Long Wen.
• Su Yi showed Ye Xiaxuan a chained, dead Ancestral Dragon and told her to take its dragon pearl and inheritance.
• Ye Xiaxuan extracted the purple dragon pearl and cut off dragon meat for Su Yi, who started roasting it on shore.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to refine the pearl like Qi and said he would return up the cliff while she stayed behind to cultivate.

Su Yi left Ye Xiaxuan at the bottom of a cliff to cultivate until she could gather materials for a thousand Heaven Grade pills, learn sword flight, and climb back up. After returning to Tantai Yue and Long Wen, he asserted control over them, and Tantai Yue recognized him as Father God.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she could leave the cliff only after meeting his cultivation tasks, then agreed to bring her daily necessities and milk tea.
• Su Yi flew back up the cliff, reasoning that Ye Xiaxuan could develop on her own while he attended the cultivation school.
• Tantai Yue asked Su Yi where Ye Xiaxuan was, and Su Yi said she would stay below while Tantai Yue and Long Wen followed his orders.
• Long Wen challenged Su Yi, but Su Yi immobilized him by placing a hand on his head.
• Tantai Yue instinctively called Su Yi Father God, and Long Wen's fear of him replaced his defiance.

Su Yi brought Tantai Yue and Long Wen home and ordered them to behave while he took supplies to Ye Xiaxuan, whom he had isolated near a cliff. When he returned, he found the two demons eating with Xu Diandian and Zhang Ting, and made them follow ordinary household rules.

• Tantai Yue mistook Su Yi for Father God, but Su Yi corrected her and warned her and Long Wen not to cause trouble.
• Su Yi left the two demons in his courtyard and ordered Long Wen to dig over a patch of soil after smelling the foul odor there.
• Su Yi collected toiletries and clothes for Ye Xiaxuan, set up a formation to keep others away from her cliff, and told her to summon water and wind herself.
• Su Yi returned to find Xu Diandian and Zhang Ting sharing food with Tantai Yue and Long Wen, whom he introduced as relatives' children.
• Su Yi told Tantai Yue and Long Wen to thank Zhang Ting and ordered Long Wen to wash his hands before eating.

Su Yi accompanied Tantai Yue and Long Wen to the cultivation school’s recruitment tests, where Zhao Yin bragged about earning an S-rank and tried to provoke him. Su Yi ignored Zhao Yin, and Gao Yun scolded her son and warned him to stop picking on Su Yi.

• Su Yi brought Tantai Yue and Long Wen to the school’s recruitment field, where the Thirteenth Bureau tested applicants’ qi and mental power.
• Zhao Yin boasted that he had earned an S-rank and threatened to trample Su Yi, while his lackeys taunted him.
• Su Yi calmly ignored Zhao Yin and reminded Tantai Yue and Long Wen to behave civilly and avoid fighting unless he told them to act.
• Gao Yun arrived, ordered Zhao Yin to apologize, and scolded him and his lackeys for acting like delinquents.
• After Su Yi had already walked away, Gao Yun compared Zhao Yin unfavorably to him and warned her son not to provoke Su Yi again.