Chapter Summaries

Pei Ying ordered her subordinate to contact the ninth princess and continue searching for a man with a pure Yang constitution. In Lotus Grotto-Heaven, Xu Changsheng's teasing and affection softened Ye Luoxue's guardedness, and the chapter ended as he answered her provocative challenge.

• Pei Ying said she would remember the grudge and ordered her subordinate to contact the ninth princess about an important matter.
• Pei Ying told the white-robed cultivator to find a man with a pure Yang constitution before he died, then departed.
• Xu Changsheng teased Ye Luoxue after their intimate encounter, and she reproached him for failing to warn her.
• Ye Luoxue brought Xu Changsheng a stack of books and reacted emotionally when he called her his darling.
• Ye Luoxue challenged Xu Changsheng to punish her, and he grabbed her ankle and stepped toward her.

Xu Changsheng returned to the Hall of Longevity carrying exhausted Ye Luoxue, reassured Zhu Xiaoliang that she was fine, and left to read. At the pavilion by White Lotus Lake, he opened an older issue of the Rouge Peerless Beauties Ranking to see who had been listed.

• Zhu Xiaoliang worried that Xu Changsheng had hurt Ye Luoxue, then saw him return carrying her asleep and exhausted.
• Xu Changsheng laid Ye Luoxue in bed, reassured Zhu Xiaoliang, and told her he was going to read at the pavilion beside White Lotus Lake.
• Zhu Xiaoliang covered Ye Luoxue and imagined that she might someday become pregnant like her, blushing at the thought.
• Xu Changsheng cleaned the pavilion beside White Lotus Lake and opened an older issue of the Rouge Peerless Beauties Ranking.

Xu Changsheng read the Great Yu Rouge Beauties Ranking and wondered about the women on it, while Princess Consort Pei Ying met Qi Lanxing in the capital. Pei Ying offered to let Qi Lanxing discover how her sister, Qi Zhaoyue, had risen so quickly in cultivation.

• Xu Changsheng found Tianyi Qingchen ranked first among Great Yu’s older female cultivators and wondered whether she was related to Tianyi Fan Yin.
• Xu Changsheng read that Bai Yuqiong and Bai Yuer were biological sisters whose combined appeal and power could rival the ranking’s top places.
• Xu Changsheng read the ranking’s note about Pei Ying, the hundred-and-thirty-year-old Prince Jing’s consort, and wondered what she looked like.
• At Yellow Crane Tower, Pei Ying met Qi Lanxing, who asked whether the meeting concerned Qi Zhaoyue’s destruction of the Nether Night Sect.
• Pei Ying asked Qi Lanxing whether she wanted to learn how Qi Zhaoyue had advanced from the Seventh Realm to the Eleventh Realm in ten years, and offered to let her find out.

Pei Ying gave Qi Lanxing a Heavenly Star Seed, hoping she would use it to record Qi Zhaoyue’s actions and reveal the secret behind her rapid rise in cultivation. Qi Lanxing then told Qi Zhaoyue about Pei Ying’s scheme, leaving the seed on the table for her sister.

• Qi Lanxing recalled that Qi Zhaoyue had arranged for Luoxue to stop her from secretly following her sister nine days earlier.
• Pei Ying explained that the Heavenly Star Seed could record a person’s actions and gave it to Qi Lanxing, claiming only Qi Lanxing would be able to view the record.
• Pei Ying admitted she wanted to learn how Yuheng died and hoped the seed would reveal Qi Zhaoyue’s fortuitous opportunity, which might help her reach the eleventh realm.
• Qi Lanxing left Yellow Crane Tower with the seed, then revealed Pei Ying’s plan to Qi Zhaoyue and called it a trick she had seen through.
• Qi Zhaoyue pinched Qi Lanxing’s cheek and picked up the Heavenly Star Seed from the table.

Qi Zhaoyue kept Pei Ying’s Heavenly Star Seed while hiding her cultivation method from Qi Lanxing, who secretly made a bloodline-bound copy to uncover the secret. Meanwhile, Xu Changsheng prepared to enter the Blood Refining Realm, and Qi Zhaoyue learned from Ye Luoxue what had happened at Lotus Grotto-Heaven.

• Qi Zhaoyue told Qi Lanxing that Pei Ying’s Heavenly Star Seed remained dangerous and sent her away rather than reveal her cultivation method.
• After returning to her room, Qi Lanxing revealed that she had copied the Heavenly Star Seed with her innate divine ability and planned to use it to learn Qi Zhaoyue’s method.
• Xu Changsheng finished studying his books and expected to enter the Blood Refining Realm within days as he considered creating a cultivation method of his own.
• Zhu Xiaoliang told Xu Changsheng that Ye Luoxue had left to report to Qi Zhaoyue.
• Qi Zhaoyue received Ye Luoxue’s report and said she would personally deliver Dao Slaying to Lotus Grotto-Heaven.
• Qi Zhaoyue teased Ye Luoxue about her weak legs and swollen belly, leaving Ye Luoxue blushing.

Qi Zhaoyue left Ye Luoxue after the two teased each other about Xu Changsheng, then met Xu Changsheng in the Lotus Grotto-Heaven. He asked whether she had been injured and examined the legendary blade she had obtained for him, Myriad Karma Dao-Severing.

• Qi Zhaoyue’s Law Artifact activated, and Ye Luoxue recognized it as the one Xu Changsheng had used on her before.
• Ye Luoxue teased Qi Zhaoyue about Xu Changsheng calling for her, and Qi Zhaoyue told Ye Luoxue to rest and stay inside for two days before leaving through a lotus gate.
• Ye Luoxue reflected on how her relationship with Qi Zhaoyue had grown closer and imagined that serving Xu Changsheng together might make them true sisters.
• At the pavilion beside White Lotus Lake, Xu Changsheng asked Qi Zhaoyue whether she had been hurt during her encounter with the Holy Sect of the Nether Night.
• Qi Zhaoyue produced Myriad Karma Dao-Severing, and Xu Changsheng admired the famed blade and asked whether it bore a Daoist magic imprint from the Limitless Dharma-Seeking Immortal Venerable.

Xu Changsheng claimed Myriad Karma Dao-Severing by letting it drink his blood, confirming that he could control the saber with a thought. Qi Zhaoyue promised to make him her bride after she became Great Yu’s first female emperor, and the chapter ended with her beckoning him beneath the moonlight.

• Xu Changsheng drew Myriad Karma Dao-Severing and let a drop of blood fall onto its blade, forming a bond between them.
• Xu Changsheng controlled the saber without spiritual power and returned it to its sheath, while Qi Zhaoyue marveled that it had acknowledged him as its master.
• Qi Zhaoyue told Xu Changsheng she would release him once she reached the Fourteenth Realm, marry him, and make him the Great Yu Dynasty’s first male empress.
• Xu Changsheng vowed that he would imprison Qi Zhaoyue if he ever grew stronger than her, and she said she would willingly become his little dog if that happened.
• Xu Changsheng and Qi Zhaoyue shared an intimate moment beside the pavilion, where Qi Zhaoyue asked him to put one of her refined artifacts in Ye Luoxue next time because Ye Luoxue had laughed at her.
• Qi Zhaoyue undressed beneath the moonlight, sat on the swing, and beckoned Xu Changsheng toward her.

Xu Changsheng and Qi Zhaoyue spent the night together, and Qi Zhaoyue asked about his newly awakened Divine Yang Sacred Physique ability. She told him that a little loli would soon appear in the Lotus Grotto-Heaven and asked him to treat her as he had treated Qi Zhaoyue, leaving Xu Changsheng to wonder whether the girl was Qi Lanxing.

• Xu Changsheng told Qi Zhaoyue that he had recently awakened an ability that let him enter a special state by mobilizing the Divine Yang origin in his body.
• Qi Zhaoyue praised Xu Changsheng's persistence and agreed that she would also have fought to find hope in his situation.
• Qi Zhaoyue told Xu Changsheng that after Zhu Xiaoliang left, another woman would come, and that he should answer a little loli's questions truthfully.
• Qi Zhaoyue asked Xu Changsheng to use the same methods on the little loli that he had used on her, and said she wanted him to break her.
• Xu Changsheng suspected the little loli might be Qi Lanxing and wondered why Qi Zhaoyue would send her sister to him.

Qi Lanxing secretly planted a Heavenly Star Seed in Xu Qingci so she could later investigate how Qi Zhaoyue advanced her cultivation. Meanwhile, Xu Changsheng carried Qi Zhaoyue toward the Hall of Longevity and told her about Zhu Xiaoliang’s recent bold behavior, leaving Qi Zhaoyue shocked.

• Qi Lanxing went to Xu Qingci for lessons, hiding that she planned to plant a Heavenly Star Seed in her.
• Qi Lanxing secretly sent the seed into Xu Qingci’s body while Xu Qingci sorted books, and Xu Qingci did not notice.
• In the Lotus Grotto-Heaven, Xu Changsheng carried Qi Zhaoyue toward the Hall of Longevity, despite her protests that she was not ready to go inside.
• Xu Changsheng whispered about Zhu Xiaoliang’s recent intimate behavior, and Qi Zhaoyue listened in growing disbelief.