Chapter Summaries

Su Yi brought Dijiang to the cultivation school to teach the Witch Dao, where he received the new name Wu Jiang. Wu Jiang prepared to recruit disciples while Su Yi left for class, and Old Yang began showing him around the school.

• Su Yi told Xuan Biao to keep tending the courtyard, then took Dijiang to the cultivation school to teach the Witch Dao.
• Old Yang arranged an identity card for Dijiang, who adopted the name Wu Jiang.
• Dijiang explained that he would teach acquired body tempering and mentioned that six-year-old Liuli had already undergone a hundred rounds of body tempering.
• Su Yi told Dijiang to recruit disciples without breaking the school's rules, and Old Yang greeted him as Elder Wu Jiang.
• Su Yi left for class, while Old Yang took Wu Jiang to see the office and explain the school's rules.

Su Yi turned down Han Zhen’s request for approval to teach, while Dijiang’s arrival at the school’s teachers’ office provoked hostility from the sect elders. After a cultivator attacked Dijiang and lost two fingers, Dijiang asked Old Yang whether it counted as self-defense.

• Han Zhen thanked Su Yi for helping him grasp the sword’s true way and asked to teach at the school, but Su Yi sent him to speak with Old Yang.
• Su Yi returned home and found that ordinary phone apps were working again as daily life began to normalize.
• Old Yang introduced Dijiang, calling him Wu Jiang of the Blood Witch Sect, to the sect teachers, who reacted with suspicion and hostility.
• Dijiang demanded that the other teachers leave the office, then challenged a sect disciple who insulted him to strike him.
• The disciple attacked Dijiang with a lightning-charged hand seal, but his two fingers were severed, and Dijiang told Old Yang he had not made a move.

Dijiang confronted the immortal cultivators at the cultivation school after a disciple's finger snapped when he pointed at him. Han Zhen arrived and spoke with Dijiang while the others waited outside for a fight, and Su Yi chose not to intervene.

• A Five Elements Spirit Sect disciple pointed at Dijiang, and his finger snapped, leaving Old Yang unsure whether it counted as self-defense.
• Dijiang challenged everyone in the office to attack him, but Old Yang introduced him to Han Zhen as the new teacher Wu Jiang.
• A disciple identified Dijiang as being from the Blood Witch Sect and urged Han Zhen to punish him, while the other cultivators encouraged a fight.
• Han Zhen calmly asked the others to leave the office so he could speak with Dijiang, and they waited in the corridor hoping the two would fight.
• Old Yang messaged Su Yi about the confrontation, but Su Yi reassured him that the building would be fine and continued watching television.

Han Zhen and Dijiang put aside their hostility and agreed to teach witchcraft to cultivators at the school, while Dijiang planned to recruit them into the Witch Dao. When Su Yi visited Ye Xiaxuan, he discovered that her fire contained his power and wondered whether her cultivation might let them have a child.

• Han Zhen and Dijiang spoke amiably about teaching witchcraft, confusing Old Yang with their sudden friendship.
• Han Zhen’s attempt to intimidate Dijiang had ended with Dijiang’s Law of Space snapping the sect’s guardian sword, Listening to the Wind.
• Dijiang invited the other teachers to share the office and planned to draw the cultivators into the Witch Dao.
• Su Yi visited Ye Xiaxuan at the cliff with milk tea and watched her cultivate.
• Ye Xiaxuan sent a flame containing insights into the Heavenly Dao and Su Yi’s power toward him, and Su Yi wondered if her cultivation could allow them to have a child.

Ye Xiaxuan woke from secluded cultivation and began refining pills with her new Samadhi True Fire. Su Yi left to make her a sturdier pill cauldron, but hollowed out the mountain beneath the Spirit Qi Sect and built an underground city, causing the sect’s mountain to shake.

• Ye Xiaxuan woke to find Su Yi holding a ball of fire and received the half cup of milk tea he had left her.
• Ye Xiaxuan summoned the Purple Firmament Dragon-Patterned Cauldron and started refining pills after Su Yi left.
• Su Yi realized Ye Xiaxuan’s Samadhi True Fire would likely destroy the cauldron and decided to make her one from Gold Spirit Sand.
• Su Yi secretly entered the Spirit Qi Sect’s mining mountain and used his power to hollow it out and construct an underground city.
• The Spirit Qi Sect disciples felt the mountain shaking as Su Yi nearly finished hollowing it out.

Su Yi secretly mined beneath the Spirit Qi Sect and built an underground city, alarming the sect’s disciples and elder Pu Feng. He then appeared in the secluded chamber where Ji Zeyang had just expelled the last of the divine needles, enveloping Zhang Zhesheng in killing intent.

• Ji Zeyang reached the final stage of expelling the divine needles while Zhang Zhesheng guarded him, but tremors from the mountain disturbed the sect.
• Su Yi mined ore beneath the Spirit Qi Sect and used an invisible barrier to keep the gathered disciples away from the cave.
• Pu Feng tried and failed to break through the barrier, then stumbled forward when Su Yi dispelled it and wondered who had stopped him.
• Pu Feng and the disciples entered the cave and discovered the enormous underground city Su Yi had built beneath their sect.
• Ji Zeyang used the Clear Heart Pill to expel the remaining eight needles, and Zhang Zhesheng felt terrifying killing intent surround him as Su Yi appeared in the chamber.

Su Yi stopped Ji Zeyang’s demonic deviation with a single slap, then left the secret chamber. Zhang Zhesheng warned Ji Zeyang that the Immortal Realm might be in trouble and told him to seek Su Yi’s protection if its envoys came for him.

• Su Yi caught and broke Ji Zeyang’s sword as Ji Zeyang, overcome by demonic deviation, attacked him.
• Zhang Zhesheng begged Su Yi to spare Ji Zeyang, but Su Yi sent Ji Zeyang flying with a slap and restored his senses.
• Su Yi left after Ji Zeyang asked who he was, and Zhang Zhesheng slapped Ji Zeyang for questioning him.
• Zhang Zhesheng told Ji Zeyang that the Immortal Realm’s envoys had lived on Kunlun Mountain for a hundred years and warned him not to ascend if they came for him.
• Zhang Zhesheng told Ji Zeyang to kill any envoys who insisted on taking him and then stay by Su Yi’s side.

Ji Zeyang decided to enter the secular world instead of ascending to the Immortal Realm after Zhang Zhesheng warned him that something had happened there. Su Yi attended classes at the cultivation school, where a student Lin Yiyun had promised to become Dao companions with challenged him to a sword spar.

• Ji Zeyang asked Zhang Zhesheng about killing an Immortal Realm envoy, and Zhang Zhesheng advised him to avoid ascending unless he had no other choice.
• Ji Zeyang decided to enter the secular world to cultivate, confident he could defeat the envoys who had approached him before.
• Su Yi refined gold spirit sand overnight, then Gu Tongtong dragged him to the cultivation school for class.
• During a lecture, Lin Yiyun offered to become the Dao companion of the man beside her if he killed Su Yi.
• Han Zhen demonstrated basic sword forms and invited students to practice; Lin Yiyun's companion volunteered and pointed at Su Yi as his sparring partner.

Ouyang Yu challenged Su Yi, but Gu Tongtong intervened and fought Ouyang Yu’s Dao protector, Lin Yefeng. Su Yi stopped Lin Yefeng from killing Gu Tongtong, and Lin Yefeng wrongly accused Han Zhen of attacking him because of a supposed affair with Su Yi.

• Ouyang Yu singled out Su Yi for a fight, and Gu Tongtong stepped forward to challenge him instead.
• Lin Yefeng blocked Gu Tongtong’s punch and defended Ouyang Yu as she launched a barrage of attacks.
• Gu Tongtong broke through Lin Yefeng’s defenses with her Heaven-Shrouding Hand, struck his chest, and was sent flying when he counterattacked.
• Lin Yefeng lunged to kill Gu Tongtong, but Su Yi blasted off his arm and sent him flying.
• Lin Yefeng accused Han Zhen of crippling his arm and claimed that Han Zhen’s affair with Su Yi was common knowledge throughout the cultivation world.

Han Zhen killed Lin Yefeng after Lin spread a rumor about him and Su Yi, while Su Yi’s unseen power left the students stunned. Ouyang Yu begged for his life, then accused Han Zhen and Su Yi of an illicit affair to Zhang Zhesheng, who recognized the danger in Ouyang Yu’s words.

• Han Zhen threatened Lin Yefeng with his wooden sword after Lin accused him of having an affair with Su Yi.
• Su Yi killed Lin Yefeng without anyone seeing him act, and Han Zhen warned the students not to repeat the rumor.
• Ouyang Yu knelt and begged Han Zhen to spare him, promising that the Maple Creek Sect would not oppose the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Zhesheng and Ji Zeyang arrived, and Zhang Zhesheng told Ouyang Yu to come with him.
• Ouyang Yu accused Han Zhen of killing Lin Yefeng to conceal an illicit affair with Su Yi, leaving Zhang Zhesheng speechless.

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.