Chapter Summaries

Asakanomiya Buntai planned to strike Zhong Tianya from the shadows while his men searched for him. After picking up Zhong Yuting at school, Zhong Tianya sensed danger and told her that someone wanted him dead.

• Asakanomiya Buntai told his samurai to find Zhong Tianya and wait for a chance to attack him by surprise.
• Zhong Tianya waited outside Huangpu No. 7 Middle School in his Unforgiven outfit, joking with students and annoying the security guards.
• Zhong Yuting denied knowing Zhong Tianya in front of her classmates, but he insisted she get into his car and drove away with her.
• Zhong Tianya noticed something was wrong, told Zhong Yuting to buckle up, and said someone wanted him dead.

Zhong Tianya rescued Zhong Yuting from Japanese warriors who attacked them on a busy road, then brought them to the Huangpu River to face their pursuers. He promised to protect his daughter and unleashed his sword techniques, leaving the warriors dead and their bodies scattered behind him.

• Zhong Tianya escaped the attackers’ assault on their car by carrying Zhong Yuting into the air on Bond of the Drawn Wind.
• He flew to a deserted stretch of the Huangpu River, where he stopped to keep the Japanese warriors from using Zhong Yuting against him.
• Zhong Tianya blocked the warriors’ sword qi with a Wind Wall and promised Zhong Yuting no one would harm her unless he died.
• With Zhong Yuting on his back, Zhong Tianya summoned a huge tornado that swept the warriors into its path.
• Zhong Tianya dashed among the warriors with Last Breath and left a swath of dismembered corpses behind him.

Zhong Tianya faced Japan’s Sword Saint Asakanomiya Buntai while protecting Zhong Yuting, and his attempt to shield her left him severely injured. Zhong Yuting called him “Dad” as he explained that he had chosen her safety over winning the duel.

• After Zhong Tianya defeated the Japanese warriors, he joked with Zhong Yuting until Asakanomiya Buntai arrived.
• Asakanomiya Buntai challenged Zhong Tianya, who hid his panic and prepared to fight while protecting Zhong Yuting with his gang qi.
• Asakanomiya Buntai targeted Zhong Yuting to disrupt Zhong Tianya’s Battōjutsu stance, then attacked with Muramasa.
• Zhong Tianya blocked the strike aimed at Zhong Yuting but was sent flying and badly injured.
• Asakanomiya Buntai mocked Zhong Tianya for not drawing his sword, and Zhong Tianya said he would not gamble his daughter’s life; Zhong Yuting clutched his clothes and cried, “Dad.”

Zhong Tianya used the Blood Escape Technique to send Zhong Yuting to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, then stayed behind to face Asakanomiya Buntai and his warriors. After Lin Fei traced the technique and arrived at the Huangpu River, he drove off the attackers and destroyed their cultivation.

• Zhong Tianya refused to put Zhong Yuting down and, when Asakanomiya Buntai threatened her, used the Blood Escape Technique to send her away at the cost of his cultivation and lifespan.
• Zhong Tianya told Asakanomiya Buntai that the warriors were about to die, but Asakanomiya Buntai cut off Zhong Tianya's right arm and continued attacking him.
• Zhong Yuting arrived at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, where Lin Fei used his Chaos Eye to trace the blood-red light and see what had happened.
• Lin Fei took Zhong Yuting to the Huangpu River, where Zhong Tianya was kneeling with shattered kneecaps and twelve katanas piercing his body.
• Lin Fei ordered the six warriors to leave and hurled them away, destroying their cultivation.

Lin Fei rescued Zhong Tianya, healed him, and faced down Japan's Sword Saint, Asakanomiya Buntai. After dismissing Buntai's threats and swordsmanship, Lin Fei caught and snapped Muramasa, leaving Buntai stunned.

• Lin Fei pulled twelve katanas from Zhong Tianya and used them to pin the six warriors to the ground, then healed Zhong Tianya.
• Zhong Tianya thanked Lin Fei and reunited with his daughter, Zhong Yuting.
• Asakanomiya Buntai recognized Lin Fei, threatened him with the Shadow Death Gods, and attacked after Lin Fei mocked his lineage.
• Lin Fei caught Asakanomiya Buntai's Muramasa between two fingers and broke the famed blade.

Lin Fei crushed Asakanomiya Buntai and faced the summoned spirit of Asaka no Miya Sai, who recognized him as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages. Lin Fei destroyed Sai, and Buntai died of terror.

• Lin Fei blasted Asakanomiya Buntai away, shattering his Protective Gang Qi and nearly crushing his chest.
• Asakanomiya Buntai burned his life to summon his ancestor, Asaka no Miya Sai, and ordered him to kill Lin Fei and the others.
• Asaka no Miya Sai recognized Lin Fei, fell to his knees, and called himself Lin Fei’s grand-disciple.
• Asaka no Miya Sai explained that the Asakanomiya Lineage traced its teachings to Lin Fei’s disciple Duan Sangtian.
• Lin Fei seized Asaka no Miya Sai by the neck and crushed him into specks of light.
• Asakanomiya Buntai died from terror, while Zhong Yuting stared at Lin Fei in shock.

Lin Fei saved Zhong Tianya, gave him bodhi fruits, and left Zhong Yuting and her father to bicker. After Lin Fei returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, Abe Shinmura attacked, and Nüba rose to meet him.

• Zhong Yuting and Zhong Tianya thanked Lin Fei for saving Zhong Tianya, but Lin Fei scolded Zhong Tianya for neglecting his cultivation and kicked him into the Huangpu River.
• Lin Fei gave Zhong Tianya six bodhi fruits, then kicked him back into the river when he tried to flatter him.
• After Lin Fei left, Zhong Tianya warned Zhong Yuting not to fall for Lin Fei, and the two argued before joking about going out to eat.
• Abe Shinmura arrived at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa and threatened to kill Lin Fei and everyone there unless Lin Fei came out.
• Lin Fei allowed Nüba to confront Abe Shinmura, who summoned a chilling illusory hand from his fan and struck toward the mountaintop.
• Nüba soared up to meet Abe Shinmura's attack, and the extreme cold vanished as soon as it touched her.

Nüba fought Abe Shinmura at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa despite her weakened body, managing to injure him before he unleashed the power of his fully opened fan. Lin Fei caught Nüba as she fell, and Abe Shinmura mocked the villa’s fighters without recognizing Lin Fei as a threat.

• Abe Shinmura blocked Nüba’s strike and drove her back, while the villa’s onlookers realized how formidable she was despite her injuries.
• Nüba charged Abe Shinmura again, deflected his sword of light, and let the next blade destroy her right arm so she could strike his temple with her left elbow.
• Abe Shinmura was hurled a thousand meters away, but his purple shikigami aura endured, and Nüba began slowly regenerating her arm.
• Abe Shinmura opened his fan fully and blasted Nüba into the air with a purple shock wave.
• Lin Fei caught Nüba and absorbed the force without damaging the ground, while Abe Shinmura mocked Flying Cloud Mountain Villa’s fighters.

Abe Shinmura sent his shikigami, forged from forty-nine souls and centered on Asakanomiya Sakuramai, to kill Lin Fei. Lin Fei remained unharmed while the shikigami froze mid-attack, leaving Abe Shinmura and his onmyoji stunned.

• Abe Shinmura explained that his shikigami combined forty-nine souls and challenged Lin Fei to take his own life.
• Lin Fei dismissed the shikigami and the Japanese figures whose souls composed it as worthless.
• Abe Shinmura ordered the shikigami to attack, and it unleashed a powerful iaijutsu strike that blocked Divine Sense and frightened Wu Moling.
• Abe Shinmura assumed Lin Fei had been killed and began boasting to the women of Flying Cloud Mountain Villa.
• Lin Fei appeared unharmed and mocked Abe Shinmura, while the shikigami stood frozen mid-attack.

Lin Fei destroyed Abe Shinmura's shikigami, freed Asakanomiya Sakuramai, and sent her to reunite with the person she had long missed. Zhong Tianya later told Zhong Yuting how a Japanese Sword Saint he loved chose death to end her country's advance against Huaxia.

• Lin Fei destroyed the shikigami and killed the onmyoji, then let Nüba punish Abe Shinmura.
• Lin Fei freed Asakanomiya Sakuramai's soul and sent her to meet the person who had remembered her for three hundred years.
• Wu Moling teased Ji Yaoguang about showing her affection for Lin Fei, leaving Ji Yaoguang blushing and thoughtful.
• At a repair shop, Zhong Yuting asked Zhong Tianya about the Japanese female Sword Saint he had killed.
• Zhong Tianya explained that the Sword Saint had loved him but chose death to spare him and prevent Japan's strongest blade from continuing the war.

Zhong Tianya recounted how he and Asakanomiya Sakuramai fell in love during a war, only for her to sacrifice herself to end it. Reunited after her spirit was freed, the two embraced and kissed, while Zhong Tianya vowed to find her again in another life.

• Zhong Tianya told Zhong Yuting how he and Asakanomiya Sakuramai met, became friends and lovers, and were forced apart by the war between Japan and Huaxia.
• Zhong Yuting blamed Zhong Tianya for Sakuramai's death, and he explained that he had faced the war without the Heavenly Venerable's help.
• Asakanomiya Sakuramai's spirit appeared before Zhong Tianya, and they embraced and wept together.
• Zhong Tianya explained that Zhong Yuting was his adopted daughter, and Zhong Yuting called Sakuramai Mom.
• Zhong Tianya showed Sakuramai the Bond of the Drawn Wind, which he had kept by his side since her death.
• Sakuramai urged Zhong Tianya to forget her, but he vowed to find her in her next life, and she kissed him passionately.

After Nüba killed Abe Shinmura, Lin Fei learned that the Celestial Master's Mansion had captured a Hanba and decided to visit them with Zhang Xiaoling. Meanwhile, Lin Xinyu found the hidden yang tomb and confirmed that the Earthly Destruction Sword was still there.

• Nüba beat Abe Shinmura nearly to death, then kicked him into a bloody mist after Lin Fei told her not to damage the mountain.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang that the Japanese had probably come to curry favor with the Shadow Death Gods, while Wu Moling and Ji Yaoguang left to shop on Chunxi Road.
• Nüba sensed a Hanba whose aura was fading, and Lin Fei suspected the Celestial Master's Mansion had captured it instead of killing it.
• Lin Fei said he would take Zhang Xiaoling to visit the Celestial Master's Mansion the next day.
• In the Western Desert, Lin Xinyu used Heavenly Punishment to locate the yang tomb and confirmed that the Earthly Destruction Sword remained inside.

Lin Xinyu used Wangliang’s power to enter the Yang Tomb and defeat its trials, reaching the Earthly Destruction Sword. Knowing that taking the sword would strengthen Wangliang and threaten their coexistence, she asked whether he would help her get revenge, then chose to trust him and grasped its hilt.

• Lin Xinyu teased Wangliang into lending her his power, which she used to smash open the Yang Tomb’s stone doors.
• Lin Xinyu passed the tomb’s flame trial without using Swift Flash, then destroyed its illusory burial spirits with her sword.
• Lin Xinyu reached the final burial chamber and found the Earthly Destruction Sword, while Wangliang urged her to take it.
• Lin Xinyu asked Wangliang if he would help her get revenge, and he promised that he would.
• Wangliang asked whether Lin Xinyu truly trusted him despite knowing his past, and she said yes before gripping the Earthly Destruction Sword.

Wangliang emerged after three thousand years by taking control of Lin Xinyu’s body, while Lin Fei brought the Celestial Master’s Mansion founding patriarch Zhang Xiaoling to the present. The chapter ended with Zhang Xiaoling awake and bowing to Lin Fei, who planned to take him to the Celestial Master’s Mansion.

• Wangliang used Heavenly Punishment and Earthly Destruction to break free from the underground yang tomb and reclaim Lin Xinyu’s body, but Lin Xinyu remained alive because the body had not reached its limit.
• Lin Xinyu teased Wangliang after he discovered her body was menstruating, and he angrily told her to be quiet.
• Ji Yaoguang returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa in a qipao, received Lin Fei’s praise, and spent the night with him.
• The next morning, Lin Fei opened a spatial portal to Zhang Xiaoling’s room and pulled the sleeping founding patriarch through to the villa.
• Nüba was astonished to learn Zhang Xiaoling’s identity, and Lin Fei woke him before preparing to bring him to the Celestial Master’s Mansion.

Zhang Yun used the Hanba formed from Qiongchan’s corpse to drain the blood of the Celestial Master's Mansion Daoists, revealing his plan to seize power and his role in Zhang Ling’s qi deviation. Zhao Jianghe resisted, but Ren Chongxiao betrayed him, and Zhang Yun unleashed sword qi against the remaining opposition.

• Zhang Yun ordered the Celestial Master's Mansion Daoists to nurture the Hanba with their blood despite Zhao Jianghe’s warning.
• Zhang Yun kicked over the lotus lamps, allowing the Hanba to drain and devour the blood of Daoists below the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhang Yun admitted that he had caused Zhang Ling’s qi deviation and explained that he wanted to lead the Celestial Master's Mansion to power.
• Zhao Jianghe and the other loyal Daoists moved to attack Zhang Yun, but Ren Chongxiao stabbed Zhao Jianghe with an Essence-Breaking Talisman sword and joined Zhang Yun.
• Zhang Yun declared that the remaining opponents should die, and sword qi erupted through the mansion, demolishing its buildings.

Zhang Yun killed three Nascent Soul Daoists and used their corpses to strengthen the Hanba, but a talisman from Zhang Daoling’s stone box subdued it. Lin Fei, Nüba, and Zhang Xiaoling arrived at Dragon Tiger Mountain, where Lin Fei ordered Nüba to crush the Hanba as he removed part of the seal between her brows.

• Zhang Yun killed Zhao Jianghe and the other two Nascent Soul Daoists, destroyed a fleeing Nascent Soul, and gave the remaining Nascent Souls to his subordinates.
• Zhang Yun fed the three corpses to the Hanba, which broke free of its spirit talisman after draining their blood and began drying the land around it.
• Zhang Yun opened an ancient stone box, and a golden immortal talisman flew onto the Hanba’s forehead, immobilizing it; he commanded it to sit and demanded the people of Dragon Tiger Mountain follow him.
• Lin Fei, Nüba, and Zhang Xiaoling appeared at the foot of Dragon Tiger Mountain, and Lin Fei smashed its mountain-protecting formation apart.
• Lin Fei confronted Zhang Yun and told Nüba to crush the Hanba; Zhang Yun ordered the Hanba to kill them, while Lin Fei wiped away a corner of the seal between Nüba’s brows.

Nüba revealed her overwhelming power and destroyed the Hanba with one punch, leaving Zhang Yun and the people of Dragon Tiger Mountain terrified. When Zhang Yun summoned two incarnations of their patriarch, Zhang Xiaoling drew them into himself and realized who he was.

• Nüba released her sealed power, turning Dragon Tiger Mountain into a desert and making the Hanba tremble in fear.
• Nüba struck the Hanba with one punch and destroyed it, while Zhang Yun fell in terror.
• Lin Fei restored the seal on Nüba's forehead and told Zhang Xiaoling to wait as Zhang Yun summoned the Celestial Master's patriarch.
• Two spiritual incarnations appeared, and Zhang Yun rejoiced, believing Lin Fei was doomed.
• Zhang Xiaoling murmured that he had only just learned who he was, then pulled both incarnations into his body.

Zhang Xiaoling revealed himself as the Dragon Tiger Mountain ancestral master and condemned Zhang Yun for his crimes. After Zhang Yun defied him with a boast that his fate was his own, Zhang Xiaoling crushed him with the Yangping Zhi Metropolitan Merit Seal, leaving the Celestial Master's Mansion terrified.

• Zhang Xiaoling identified himself as Zhang Daoling after devouring the ancestral master's two incarnations.
• Zhang Xiaoling summoned his manifestation and declared Zhang Yun's sins deserving of execution.
• Zhang Yun refused to submit, claimed his actions served the Celestial Master's Mansion, and challenged Zhang Xiaoling to kill him.
• Zhang Xiaoling rebuked Zhang Yun for insulting Lin Fei, whom he called his revered master.
• Zhang Yun raised his peachwood sword and tried to hold back the Yangping Zhi Metropolitan Merit Seal while declaring, "My fate is mine, not Heaven's!"
• Zhang Xiaoling struck the seal down, crushing Zhang Yun as Lin Fei remarked on his heroic cry and miserable death.

Lin Fei returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa after Zhang Xiaoling destroyed the Celestial Master's Mansion and went to the Dragon Tiger Realm. Jiang Qingyue arrived in a JK uniform, learned how to use a phone, and revealed that he had earned money posing for sexy photos.

• Zhang Xiaoling crushed the Daoists of the Celestial Master's Mansion with the Yangping Zhi Metropolitan Merit Seal and offered Lin Fei the treasures in the Dragon Tiger Realm, which Lin Fei told him to keep.
• Lin Fei and Nüba returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, where Ji Yaoguang wondered how she had grown accustomed to Lin Fei casually wiping out a Daoist lineage.
• Jiang Qingyue arrived wearing a JK uniform and explained that he had broken Xiayue's phone by punching it after misunderstanding her instructions.
• Lin Fei sent Jiang Qingyue and Wang Ping spiritual light that taught them about modern society and how to use a phone.
• Jiang Qingyue offered to treat everyone to a meal and told Lin Fei he had earned money by posing for sexy photo shoots.

Lin Fei and the group took Jiang Qingyue shopping after learning about his provocative photo shoots, and Lin Fei ran into Han Enci at a Chanel store. Han Enci became captivated by Jiang Qingyue, unaware that he was a man, and Lin Fei let him approach.

• Jiang Qingyue showed the women his professionally shot swimsuit, bunny-girl, and school-uniform photos, leaving Wang Ping and Lin Fei embarrassed.
• Lin Fei agreed to take Jiang Qingyue and the others to eat, and the group went to Chunxi Road to shop.
• Lin Fei teased Jiang Qingyue about shopping with the women, while Ji Yaoguang promised to buy him perfume at Chanel.
• Lin Fei encountered Han Enci, whose family had prospered after he chose to support Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang.
• Han Enci followed the group and mistook Jiang Qingyue for a girl, asking to add him on WeChat as Lin Fei allowed the encounter to continue.