Chapter Summaries

After Qin Chuan formed his Golden Core, he was pulled into a dark space where Qiuqiu, a golden finger sent by the Will of Blue Star, revealed that he had transmigrated into a women’s novel. Qiuqiu began explaining why it had come to help him, while Qin Chuan listened cautiously and tried to judge whether it was telling the truth.

• Shen Qingyuan found Qin Chuan unconscious after his breakthrough, stopped herself from kissing him, and gently touched his face before leaving his cave abode.
• Qin Chuan awoke in a dark special space, found that he could not use his soul or other methods, and became wary when a screen appeared.
• Qiuqiu greeted Qin Chuan and claimed to be his golden finger, sent by the Will of Blue Star to help him.
• Qiuqiu revealed that Qin Chuan was in the novel world of “After Rebirth, I Was Forcibly Doted On by the Demon Venerable” and appeared as a panda cub.
• Qiuqiu explained that it had arrived late because the previous Blue Star person had delayed it, and Qin Chuan listened quietly for useful clues.

Qin Chuan learned that Blue Star could grant him either knowledge of the novel’s plot or a system, and he chose to read the outline before deciding. After discovering the leads’ story and his danger as a Pure Void Sect disciple, he asked whether he could kill them and learned that the female lead had heavenly protection while the male lead was already overwhelmingly powerful.

• Qiuqiu explained why Blue Star could provide only one golden finger, then showed Qin Chuan the novel outline so he could choose.
• Qin Chuan asked whether people in the novel world were real, and Qiuqiu confirmed that they were.
• Qin Chuan read how Gu Xiran was reborn, became beloved by her new master and senior brothers, and joined forces with the flood dragon Cangwu to defeat their enemies.
• Qin Chuan realized he might be caught up in the Pure Void Sect’s troubles and decided that killing the male and female leads would be better than fleeing with his master.
• Qiuqiu warned that heavenly luck protected Gu Xiran and that the male lead could defeat Qin Chuan with ease, leaving Qin Chuan frustrated by the difference between their paths to power.

Qin Chuan rejected the female-oriented systems Qiuqiu offered and chose advance knowledge of the novel’s plot as his golden finger. After Qiuqiu departed and Qin Chuan returned to his body, he sensed Shen Qingyuan’s lingering aura and renewed his plans to grow stronger and win her affection.

• Qiuqiu explained that Qin Chuan could weaken the Heavenly Dao’s protection of the leads by disrupting the plot, and Qin Chuan promised to help Blue Star if it faced danger.
• Qin Chuan examined the available systems, found them unsuitable, and chose to receive the plot in advance.
• Qiuqiu promised the detailed plot would arrive in about a day, then vanished and sent Qin Chuan’s soul back to his body.
• Qin Chuan sensed Shen Qingyuan’s lingering aura and realized she had recently been there.
• Qin Chuan reaffirmed his plans to cultivate and change Shen Qingyuan’s view of him while concealing his feelings.

After Qin Chuan reached Core Formation, Shen Qingyuan gave him cultivation resources and helped him control a dangerous surge in his soul power. She urged him to attend the Pure Void Sect’s disciple competition, while privately struggling with feelings for him that she believed she must suppress.

• Qin Chuan visited Shen Qingyuan to report his breakthrough, and she gave him inner armor, pills, and spirit-awakening tea.
• Qin Chuan drank too much tea, causing his soul power to surge beyond what he could bear.
• Shen Qingyuan sent a wisp of her soul into Qin Chuan’s soul palace to help him suppress the surge, and he regained control after a quarter of an hour.
• Shen Qingyuan encouraged Qin Chuan to attend the Pure Void Sect’s disciple competition in a month and warned him to drink only a small cup of tea at a time.
• After Qin Chuan left, Shen Qingyuan struggled with her feelings for him and reminded herself that she could only be his master.

After reading the arriving plot, Qin Chuan learned that Shen Qingyuan was destined to be falsely accused and killed by the leads, and that the Pure Void Sect would conspire with demonic beasts. He committed the key events to memory, stabilized his cultivation over a month, and prepared to visit Shen Qingyuan before taking action.

• Qin Chuan inspected Shen Qingyuan’s gifts, then postponed taking the Golden Origin Pill when Qiuqiu sent him the plot early.
• Qin Chuan studied the inner sect competition, where Gu Xiran’s senior brothers were meant to win three contests and give her powerful opportunities.
• Qin Chuan read that the leads would torture Shen Qingyuan to death and that the Pure Void Sect would ally with demonic beasts.
• Qin Chuan recognized the claims against Shen Qingyuan as false accusations and vowed to protect her and cut down the Heavenly Dao if it threatened her.
• Qin Chuan swallowed the Golden Origin Pill and cultivated for a month until his cultivation stabilized.
• Qin Chuan stood with killing intent and decided to see Shen Qingyuan before going to kill someone.

Qin Chuan recruited Jin Pang to help sabotage Xie An in the inner sect competition, while Shen Qingyuan secretly followed and supported him. The two allies planned to stop Xie An in the secret realm’s first round, with Shen Qingyuan prepared to intervene if needed.

• Qin Chuan told Shen Qingyuan he would compete for first place, and she secretly followed him to watch over him.
• Qin Chuan registered as an ordinary disciple and sought an ally with a powerful backer to help him deal with Xie An.
• Qin Chuan befriended Jin Pang, who resented Xie An and agreed to work with him against their common enemy.
• Jin Pang told Qin Chuan that the first round would take place in a secret realm, where the hundred disciples who killed the most demonic beasts would advance.
• Jin Pang proposed that they injure Xie An so he could not kill beasts, and Qin Chuan agreed to follow his lead.
• Shen Qingyuan watched their planning and decided that Xie An deserved to die if Qin Chuan wanted to kill him.

Qin Chuan and Jin Pang entered the minor secret realm after watching Gu Xiran and Gu Xiwan’s entourages squabble over them. The two rivals eventually entered too, while Qin Chuan was teleported straight into a pack of demonic beasts.

• He Zong opened the first round of the martial competition, and Qin Chuan and Jin Pang waited as disciples entered the minor secret realm.
• Gu Xiran’s master, Yun Yao, and senior brothers fussed over her safety, while Qin Chuan and Jin Pang grew disgusted with their farewell-like display.
• Qin Chuan and Jin Pang entered the passage, planning to meet up using their locator discs and continue their plan against Xie An.
• Gu Xiran and Gu Xiwan traded insults, prompting Xuanyang and Yun Yao to confront each other until He Zong intervened.
• Gu Xiran and Gu Xiwan entered the secret realm after their factions called a truce, while Qin Chuan was teleported into a pack of demonic beasts.

Qin Chuan ambushed Gu Xiran in the secret realm to test whether the Heavenly Dao would protect her, but her many defensive treasures and escape talisman kept her alive. After Gu Xiran teleported away, Qin Chuan pursued her, still determined to kill her.

• Qin Chuan escaped a pack of wolf demons and followed his locator plate toward Jin Pang, but changed course after spotting Gu Xiran.
• Jin Pang noticed Qin Chuan moving away from him and followed, deciding he would help if he could.
• Qin Chuan attacked Gu Xiran, but her barrier, inner armor, and magic treasure blocked his strikes, while a sword qi protecting her nearly killed him.
• Gu Xiran used a defensive talisman to withstand Qin Chuan's attacks, then survived his Heavenly Dipper Demon-Breaking Sword with a life-saving treasure from Yun Yao.
• Qin Chuan broke Gu Xiran's next shield, but she escaped with a teleportation talisman, and he chased after her while taking pills.

Qin Chuan chased Gu Xiran until a wolf demon interrupted him and forced him into a desperate fight. After discovering the demon had reached False Nascent Soul Stage, Qin Chuan exhausted himself trying to stop it and was left helpless as it struck at his head.

• Jin Pang heard Qin Chuan's sword technique and continued after him, deciding to help if he could.
• Qin Chuan exhausted Gu Xiran's defensive treasures and nearly killed her, but a wolf demon intervened and attacked him instead.
• Qin Chuan fled and repeatedly used the Tianquan Sword to block the wolf demon while searching for a way to injure it.
• The wolf demon caught Qin Chuan off guard, but he kicked its vital root and unleashed the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Breaking Sword, wounding its shoulder.
• Qin Chuan realized the wolf demon was at False Nascent Soul Stage, and it knocked aside his sword before reaching for his head.

Jin Pang rescued Qin Chuan from the False Nascent Soul wolf demon, but the two were trapped by a wolf pack and their teleportation tokens failed. When the wolf demon pursued Jin Pang instead, Qin Chuan turned back to help him, and they fought the beast together.

• Jin Pang used a life-saving talisman to immobilize the wolf demon, fed Qin Chuan a supreme-grade Heavenly Origin Rejuvenation Pill, and carried him away.
• A wolf pack blocked their escape, so Qin Chuan and Jin Pang fought through the wolves and fled into the air as the False Nascent Soul wolf demon closed in.
• Qin Chuan discovered their teleportation tokens did not work, and he and Jin Pang split up, each taking a different route.
• The wolf demon pursued Jin Pang, and Qin Chuan turned back to distract it with the Tianquan Sword while Jin Pang escaped its claws.
• Qin Chuan guessed the wolf demon had targeted Jin Pang because he had wolf demon blood on his clothes; Jin Pang discarded them and helped attack the beast with fireballs.

Qin Chuan and Jin Pang were trapped between two False Nascent Soul wolf demons, leaving Qin Chuan to risk forcing the Tianquan Sword to acknowledge him as its master. As Qin Chuan’s soul began to disintegrate and Jin Pang’s pill cauldron shattered, both faced imminent death.

• Qin Chuan urged Jin Pang to flee while he held off the first wolf demon, and Jin Pang left him restorative pills before escaping.
• Jin Pang returned with a second False Nascent Soul wolf demon pursuing him, trapping both men between the two demons.
• Qin Chuan asked Jin Pang to stall the wolves while he tried to make the Tianquan Sword acknowledge him as its master, despite the danger to his soul.
• Jin Pang used immobilization talismans and then his pill cauldron to shield them as Qin Chuan endured the sword’s assault on his soul.
• Qin Chuan asked for soul pills, and Jin Pang threw him every soul-related pill he had, but they could not stop Qin Chuan’s soul from tearing apart.
• The two wolf demons shattered Jin Pang’s pill cauldron and pounced on him and Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan forced the Tianquan Sword to recognize him as its master, but his soul continued to dissipate until Shen Qingyuan secretly strengthened it. With Jin Pang nearly exhausted, Qin Chuan gained enough power to wield the sword and kill both False Nascent Soul wolf demons.

• Jin Pang used the Mystic Yellow Heavenly Fire to protect himself and Qin Chuan from the two wolf demons while Qin Chuan’s soul faded.
• Qin Chuan seized the Tianquan Sword in his sea of consciousness, and the divine sword recognized him as its master, but his soul remained too weak to wield it.
• Shen Qingyuan sensed that her seal on the Tianquan Sword had loosened, entered the secret realm, and secretly sent soul power to stabilize and strengthen Qin Chuan.
• Jin Pang exhausted himself maintaining the flames and urged Qin Chuan to kill Xie An if he died.
• Shen Qingyuan gave Qin Chuan a final surge of power, and Qin Chuan used the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Breaking Sword to kill both False Nascent Soul wolf demons with single strikes.

After using the Tianquan Sword to defeat the wolf demons, Qin Chuan collapsed from exhaustion, and Shen Qingyuan stabilized the minor secret realm while secretly protecting him. As Qin Chuan and Jin Pang recovered in an abandoned cave, Shen Qingyuan reflected on how watching her disciple had led her to develop and suppress illicit feelings for him.

• Qin Chuan exhausted himself with two attacks from the Tianquan Sword, and Shen Qingyuan stabilized the collapsing minor secret realm so he could continue training.
• Jin Pang carried the weakened Qin Chuan away from the wolf pack and gave him pills to restore his vitality.
• Jin Pang and Qin Chuan reached an abandoned cave, where Qin Chuan returned a pill and set up warning, defensive, and killing formations.
• Qin Chuan began healing and resolved to deal with Xie An and Gu Xiran after recovering.
• Shen Qingyuan recalled secretly following Qin Chuan on his training trips and realizing she had developed illicit feelings for him, which she continued to suppress.

After recovering from their injuries, Qin Chuan and Jin Pang agreed to work together against the sect master's faction and discussed their shared hatred of Xie An. Jin Pang revealed that Xie An was the Xiao Family head's illegitimate son, leaving Qin Chuan reflecting on the contrast between Xie An and another alchemist surnamed Xiao.

• Qin Chuan offered Jin Pang his spirit stones and a share of the wolf demons, but Jin Pang asked for one wolf corpse and offered to refine their demon cores into Body-Tempering Pills.
• Jin Pang told Qin Chuan he had seen him injure Gu Xiran and suspected he held a grudge against the sect master's faction.
• Qin Chuan admitted that his feud with the sect master's faction would end only when one side was dead, and Jin Pang proposed killing Xie An and Gu Xiran.
• Jin Pang explained that Xie An was the illegitimate son of the Xiao Family head and that his real name was Xiao An.
• Qin Chuan recalled the difference between Xiao Huohuo's character and Xie An's reprehensible actions.

Jin Pang told Qin Chuan how Xie An’s childhood betrayal led to the deaths of Jin Pang’s parents and relatives, while Qin Chuan began to suspect the Xiao Family head had arranged the tragedy. They set out to pursue Xie An, and Qin Chuan prepared to explain his suspicions through a story.

• Jin Pang told Qin Chuan that his parents and aunt died seeking medicine for his cousin Xiao Yi, and that Xie An’s careless words had led demons to steal it.
• Qin Chuan recognized Xiao Yi as the feared alchemist Yang Yi and questioned whether Xie An and the Xiao Family head had caused the disaster.
• Jin Pang rejected the idea that child-aged Xie An could have been responsible, but Qin Chuan’s questions made him suspect the Xiao Family head.
• Jin Pang released a male Twin Insect that could track Xie An, and he and Qin Chuan followed it out of the cave.
• Jin Pang asked why someone would secretly harm his own son and cause his Dao companion’s family to die, and Qin Chuan offered to tell him a story.

Qin Chuan and Jin Pang lured Xie An into a prepared ambush and unleashed their strongest attacks, but Xie An survived despite catastrophic injuries. Qin Chuan prepared to finish him off as Gu Xiran remained trapped nearby.

• Qin Chuan told Jin Pang a story about an emperor whose choices echoed the Xiao Family’s situation, prompting Jin Pang to worry about the Yang Clan’s secret pill formula.
• Jin Pang warned Qin Chuan that Xie An had a Peak Soul Transformation protector, while Qin Chuan urged them to kill Xie An quickly.
• Qin Chuan prepared layered sealing, killing, trapping, and defensive formations in a hollow while Jin Pang went to lure Xie An there.
• Jin Pang fled into the hollow with Xie An pursuing him, and Gu Xiran followed behind Xie An into Qin Chuan’s trapping formation.
• Qin Chuan struck Xie An twice with the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Breaking Sword, then Qin Chuan’s killing formations and Jin Pang’s Mystic Yellow Heavenly Fire battered him.
• Xie An survived with most of his body destroyed, and Qin Chuan raised his sword to deliver the final blow.

Qin Chuan and Jin Pang nearly killed the helpless Xie An before Shen Qingyuan arrived and saved Qin Chuan from Xie An’s Dao protector. When the Heavenly Dao struck Qin Chuan for trying to finish Xie An, Shen Qingyuan fought the thunderclouds, leaving Qin Chuan watching anxiously as Yun Yao kept Xie An alive.

• Qin Chuan and Jin Pang moved to kill the unconscious Xie An, but his Dao protector broke into the secret realm and attacked them.
• Shen Qingyuan appeared, dispelled the Dao protector with a word, healed Qin Chuan, and forced Yun Yao and the Xiao Family alchemist to the ground with her pressure.
• Shen Qingyuan spared Yun Yao but reduced the Xiao Family alchemist to dust, then agreed to fulfill her promise to the Pure Void Sect one last time.
• Qin Chuan picked up the Tianquan Sword to kill Xie An, but a bolt of divine punishment lightning struck at him.
• Shen Qingyuan split the lightning and charged into the clouds to fight the thunderclouds, while Yun Yao freed Gu Xiran and healed Xie An.
• Qin Chuan watched the battle in fear for Shen Qingyuan, regretting that his attempt to kill Xie An had provoked the Heavenly Dao.

Shen Qingyuan brought Qin Chuan back after the Heavenly Dao intervened to stop him from killing Xie An, then scolded him for risking his life and revealed that she had saved him in the secret realm. She gave him three protective sword strikes and warned him to avoid Xie An for now, while Qin Chuan asked what promise had freed her from her obligations to the Pure Void Sect.

• During a sudden darkness in the secret realm, Shen Qingyuan and the Heavenly Dao clashed, and afterward she took Qin Chuan home without letting him pursue Xie An.
• Shen Qingyuan spat blood when they reached her cave dwelling, and Qin Chuan worried that her injury was his fault.
• Shen Qingyuan told Qin Chuan his real mistake was failing to cherish his life, and confirmed that she had used her soul to save him in the secret realm.
• Shen Qingyuan planted three sword strikes in Qin Chuan's sea of consciousness, each strong enough to slay an Early Soul Formation Stage cultivator.
• Shen Qingyuan warned Qin Chuan not to attack Xie An while the Heavenly Dao protected him, and promised to help after she broke through.
• Qin Chuan asked Shen Qingyuan what promise she had made to the sect master's master and why she no longer owed the Pure Void Sect anything.

Shen Qingyuan explained her history with Yun Yin and why she remained indebted to Yun Yao, while Qin Chuan promised to stay with her forever. They parted with Qin Chuan preparing for the inner sect competition and both resolving to slay the Heavenly Dao for each other.

• Shen Qingyuan told Qin Chuan that Yun Yin had used her debt to the Pure Void Sect to bind her to three requests, and that she had killed him after agreeing to fulfill them for Yun Yao.
• Shen Qingyuan explained that Yun Yao's death would end her debt and warned Qin Chuan not to act rashly against the Mahayana cultivator, though he could deal with Yun Yao's disciples.
• Shen Qingyuan told Qin Chuan that Supreme Mystery Peak belonged to the two of them and asked whether he would live with her forever; Qin Chuan gladly agreed.
• Qin Chuan checked Shen Qingyuan's injuries, lingered over her arm, and then left to study the Tianquan Sword after she urged him to focus on it.
• Qin Chuan asked Shen Qingyuan to promise him a reward if he won first place in the martial and formation competitions, and she agreed.
• After Qin Chuan left, Shen Qingyuan rejoiced that he wanted to be with her forever and resolved to slay the Heavenly Dao that had harmed him.

After recovering, Qin Chuan reasoned that he could seize the Will of the Heavenly Dao when it acted unjustly, and planned to exploit the story’s leads while avoiding direct danger. He headed to the inner-sect martial competition with Jin Pang, then publicly confronted Xie An by invoking their difference in seniority and accusing him of threatening the sect.

• Qin Chuan recovered, examined the strand of the Will of the Heavenly Dao he had obtained, and concluded that provoking unreasonable action from the Heavenly Dao could let him seize more of its Will.
• Qin Chuan failed to comprehend the arrogant Tianquan Sword after three days and set out for the martial competition, hoping to win the spirit-ascension fruit.
• Jin Pang met Qin Chuan, gave him their compensation of a thousand mid-grade spirit stones each and a Body-Tempering Pill, and agreed to address him as Brother Qin.
• Qin Chuan told Jin Pang to take first place in the alchemy competition and avoid attacking Xie An or the Xiao Family for now.
• Xie An threatened Qin Chuan and Jin Pang, so Qin Chuan stopped Jin Pang and publicly reminded Xie An to call him Martial Uncle Qin, accusing him of threatening the Pure Void Sect.