Chapter Summaries

Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er unleashed their Water and Fire Sect secret art against Dongfang Yueming, but he effortlessly broke it and offered them a trade for their sect’s inheritance. After discovering his technique appeared to be Saint-Grade, the sisters handed over their jade slips, ceded the Red Flower Society to him, and hurried back to their sect to report his existence.

• Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er combined their water and fire powers into a secret art, but Dongfang Yueming split their attack with a single finger strike and destroyed the pavilion.
• Dongfang Yueming asked the defeated sisters to trade their sect’s Innate cultivation techniques and spirit arts for his True Explanation of Myriad Phenomena Body Forging.
• Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er recognized the jade slip’s technique as possibly Saint-Grade and presented him with the Water and Fire Sect’s cultivation jade slips.
• Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er gave the Red Flower Society to Dongfang Yueming, took Hong Sanniang with them, and rushed back to their sect to report what they had discovered.
• Hei Xiong told Dongfang Yueming that the Red Flower Society’s assets were in the sisters’ storage bags, and Dongfang Yueming left him in charge before going into seclusion.

Su Mohan learned that Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er had left the Red Flower Society and planned to seize its imprisoned demoness, while Dongfang Yueming studied the jade slips he had acquired. Su Wurao broke free of the suppression and prepared to leave her cell.

• Commander Su reported to Su Mohan that Dongfang Yueming had destroyed the Yin Baleful Sect's base and that Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er had left the city.
• Su Mohan decided to take Su Wurao from the Red Flower Society's dungeon, hoping to use her Pure Yin Physique to advance his cultivation.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Black Wind Stronghold and learned several cultivation arts and spirit arts from the jade slips.
• Shui Ling'er worried that they had left without warning Dongfang Yueming, but Huo Ling'er dismissed her concern.
• Su Wurao sensed that Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er's suppressive auras were gone, then stood and celebrated her freedom.

Dongfang Yueming perfected the Water and Fire Sect’s supreme body-forging arts, completing the transformation of his physique into a Dao-Grade Innate and advancing his Natal Spirit Seal. Su Wurao escaped the Red Flower Society dungeon only to be confronted by Su Mohan, who intended to take her Pure Yin Physique, while the phenomenon from Dongfang Yueming’s breakthrough shook the City of Chaos.

• Dongfang Yueming used points to perfect the True Exposition of Vast Sea Body Forging, and its aura startled imprisoned Su Wurao.
• Dongfang Yueming then perfected the True Exposition of Red Flame Body Forging, while Su Wurao sensed the fire aura and went to investigate at Black Wind Stronghold.
• Su Wurao struck aside Hei Xiong and headed toward the source of the aura.
• Su Mohan descended and confronted Su Wurao, revealing that he wanted her Pure Yin Physique and planned to kill Dongfang Ri.
• Dongfang Yueming fused the water and fire arts, reaching Dao-Grade Innate and obtaining the Dao-grade Great Dao Spirit Seal.
• Su Mohan saw the heavenly phenomenon and feared Dongfang Yueming’s breakthrough, but convinced himself he remained invincible as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Dongfang Yueming completed his transformation into a Dao-Grade Innate cultivator and awakened two extraordinary abilities as Su Mohan attacked Black Wind Stronghold. After easily surviving Su Mohan’s assault, Dongfang Yueming used the Martial Dao divine ability to kill the Foundation Establishment expert.

• Dongfang Yueming became Dao-Grade Innate, gained the Great Dao Spirit Seal, and awakened All Techniques Return to the Origin and Words Become Law.
• Su Mohan attacked Black Wind Stronghold with the second-tier Ice Prison Dragon Spear, but Dongfang Yueming stopped it with an earthen wall and emerged unharmed.
• Su Mohan revealed his Mid-Grade Dao Foundation and threatened Dongfang Yueming, while Su Wurao warned Dongfang Yueming that Su Mohan was a Foundation Establishment expert.
• Dongfang Yueming advanced the Martial Dao divine ability to minor mastery, summoning a giant phantom that frightened Su Mohan.
• Dongfang Yueming struck Su Mohan with Metal Wind Annihilation Slash empowered by Martial Dao, destroying his body and soul.

Dongfang Yueming killed Su Mohan with a divine ability and looted his storage ring, but found no Foundation Establishment method. After Su Wurao explained the Central Domain's power structure and tried to recruit him to the Pleasure Sect, Dongfang Yueming declined and decided to go to Dragon Firmament Academy in search of a cultivation method.

• Dongfang Yueming used a divine ability to make Su Mohan vanish, then took his storage ring and found spirit stones and an Ice Prison Dragon Spear art inside.
• Su Wurao offered to become Dongfang Yueming's bed-warming maid and revealed that she had a Pure Yin Physique, but she had no Foundation Establishment method to offer him.
• Su Wurao explained the tiers of power in the Central Domain and urged Dongfang Yueming to join the Pleasure Sect, but he refused to give up his freedom.
• Dongfang Yueming and Su Wurao searched the abandoned city lord's manor, where he found only spirit stones and ordinary spirit arts.
• Dongfang Yueming said he planned to go to Dragon Firmament Academy, and Su Wurao said its mysterious dean might help him obtain a Foundation Establishment method.

Dongfang Yueming traveled toward the Central Domain with Su Wurao, whose playful seductions gradually drew him closer to her. After they reached a city on the domain’s outskirts and spent a happy day together, Su Wurao worried that she had delayed his journey to Dragon Firmament Academy and asked whether he hated her.

• Dongfang Yueming allowed Su Wurao to accompany him on his journey to the Central Domain, and she tried to charm him along the way.
• Su Wurao received a mocking message warning that she might be forced to become a sect elder’s cultivation furnace if she failed the holy maiden selection, but she hid her distress from Dongfang Yueming.
• Dongfang Yueming and Su Wurao entered a city, where they browsed stalls and he bought her a phoenix-carved jade hairpin.
• Dongfang Yueming took Su Wurao’s hand, and she held on as they wandered the streets together until nightfall.
• As a ball-catching event began, Su Wurao asked Dongfang Yueming whether she had delayed his trip to Dragon Firmament Academy and whether he hated her, slowly loosening her grip on his hand.

Dongfang Yueming took Su Wurao into the air and won the main lucky ball after instantly mastering Liu Chengfeng’s Cloud-Treading Steps. He then repelled Liu Chengfeng’s attack, but Liu Chengfeng’s Innate Eighth Level gray-robed servant appeared and confronted him.

• Dongfang Yueming carried Su Wurao into the air to compete with Liu Chengfeng for the main lucky ball.
• Dongfang Yueming observed Liu Chengfeng’s Cloud-Treading Steps, comprehended the technique, and overtook him to seize the ball.
• Liu Chengfeng attacked Dongfang Yueming with Heart-Crushing Palm, but Dongfang Yueming dismissed the technique as full of holes and shattered it.
• Liu Chengfeng threatened Dongfang Yueming and declared that he would take Su Wurao.
• Liu Chengfeng’s gray-robed servant revealed his Innate Eighth Level cultivation and fixed his gaze on Dongfang Yueming.

Dongfang Yueming killed Liu Chengfeng’s Innate Eighth Level bodyguard with one finger, then erased Liu Chengfeng despite Manager Li’s attempt to intervene. Manager Li was left stunned by his power as he turned his calm gaze on her.

• Liu Chengfeng threatened Dongfang Yueming and demanded that he hand over Su Wurao, but Dongfang Yueming killed Uncle Fu with a single finger.
• Liu Chengfeng panicked and invoked his father and the Wind and Moon Pavilion, while Su Wurao dismissed the faction as insignificant.
• Manager Li emerged and asked Dongfang Yueming to spare Liu Chengfeng for the Rainbow Skirt Pavilion’s sake.
• Liu Chengfeng mistook Dongfang Yueming’s restraint for fear and demanded that Su Wurao be handed over.
• Dongfang Yueming used Metal Wind Annihilation Slash to erase Liu Chengfeng, leaving Manager Li unable to react.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Manager Li whether she objected.

Dongfang Yueming intimidated Manager Li into honoring his prize from the Rainbow Skirt Pavilion and let Su Wurao choose special requirements for the Rainbow Skirt and Feather Robe. As they walked away hand in hand, he told her he had challenged the Wind and Moon Pavilion for her sake, leaving her stunned and overwhelmed.

• Manager Li backed down after Dongfang Yueming asked whether she objected, and he collected Liu Chengfeng and his servant’s storage bags.
• Dongfang Yueming reminded Manager Li to provide his reward, and she agreed to arrange the Rainbow Skirt and Feather Robe.
• Su Wurao requested special clothing requirements, and Manager Li secretly completed the arrangement with her.
• Dongfang Yueming and Su Wurao left the pavilion holding hands, and he told her he had acted for her sake.
• Su Wurao stopped in shock at Dongfang Yueming’s admission.

Dongfang Yueming and Su Wurao spent the night together, and their dual cultivation transformed her cultivation and physique. The chapter ended with Su Wurao breaking through to Foundation Establishment and forming an Earth-Grade Dao Foundation.

• Su Wurao revealed her Rainbow Skirt and Feather Robe and asked Dongfang Yueming to answer her with actions.
• Dongfang Yueming embraced Su Wurao, and they spent the night together.
• By dawn, Su Wurao's Treasure-Grade Innate Physique had risen to Saint Grade, and her Jade Maiden Spirit Seal had become a new seal bearing traces of Dongfang Yueming's Great Dao Spirit Seal.
• Su Wurao felt an imminent breakthrough as a vast spiritual-energy phenomenon erupted over the city.
• Su Wurao broke through to Foundation Establishment and formed a translucent Earth-Grade Dao Foundation.

Su Wurao formed a legendary Earth-Grade Dao Foundation and decided she had to return to the Pleasure Sect, despite her love for Dongfang Yueming. After they parted, Dongfang Yueming resolved to find a top-tier Foundation Establishment cultivation technique, while Su Wurao vowed to become strong enough to stay with him.

• Su Wurao awakened with an Earth-Grade Dao Foundation and realized it could make her a holy land heir.
• Su Wurao and Dongfang Yueming reaffirmed their love, but she said she had to return to the Pleasure Sect.
• Su Wurao explained that her new foundation would make the sect protect and train her, then spent several days with Dongfang Yueming before leaving.
• Su Wurao gave Dongfang Yueming a fragrant pink Love Thread Knot and departed.
• Dongfang Yueming resolved to seek a top-tier Foundation Establishment cultivation technique at Dragon Firmament Academy, while Su Wurao vowed to grow strong enough to remain by his side.

Su Wurao sent word that she had forged an earth-grade dao foundation and demanded that the Pleasure Sect’s master receive her personally. Zhao Yuji doubted her claim and chose to delay reporting it, while the sect master reacted with overwhelming excitement.

• At the Pleasure Sect, disciples discussed the upcoming holy maiden selection and expected Zhao Yuji to win because Su Wurao had not returned.
• Zhao Yuji received Su Wurao’s message saying she would not attend the selection and wanted the sect master to receive her personally.
• Zhao Yuji suspected Su Wurao might have forged a high-grade dao foundation, but decided not to report the possibility and threatened Su Wurao instead.
• Su Wurao dismissed Zhao Yuji’s threat as she continued traveling toward the Central Domain.
• The Pleasure Sect’s master read Su Wurao’s message revealing an earth-grade dao foundation and rejoiced at what it could mean for the sect.

The grand elder discovered that Su Wurao had formed an Earth-Grade Dao Foundation and advanced to Foundation Establishment’s third layer, then promised her the Pleasure Sect’s full support. Su Wurao asked the sect to gather Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques, and the grand elder guessed her mysterious Dao companion was behind her transformation before rushing her back to the sect.

• The grand elder arrived and confirmed that Su Wurao had an Earth-Grade Dao Foundation.
• The grand elder noticed Su Wurao had reached Foundation Establishment’s third layer and questioned how she had advanced so quickly.
• Su Wurao hinted that her progress came from being beautiful, kindhearted, and pure.
• The grand elder announced that the Pleasure Sect would prioritize all its resources for Su Wurao.
• Su Wurao requested that the sect gather as many Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques as possible.
• The grand elder guessed Su Wurao’s Dao companion had helped her transform and immediately took her back to the sect.

Dongfang Yueming mastered the spirit arts he had acquired, fused several first-order arts into three new top-tier techniques, and learned a powerful second-order spear art. He continued toward the Central Domain, intending to find a Foundation Establishment method.

• Dongfang Yueming used All Techniques Return to the Origin to master Shui Ling'er and her sister’s Fire Phoenix Scorches the Plains and Profound Ice Dragon Soars.
• Dongfang Yueming fused techniques from the Black Wind Stronghold into Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light, Wind and Cloud Formless Step, and Myriad Phenomena.
• Dongfang Yueming recycled four thousand low-grade spirit stones for points while keeping his mid-grade stones.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect the second-order Ice Prison Dragon Spear and used it to destroy a distant mountain peak.
• Dongfang Yueming suppressed his aura and continued toward the Central Domain to seek a Foundation Establishment method.

After Liu Chengfeng was killed, his mother demanded revenge, and Liu Qingcang agreed despite fearing the killer’s unknown backing. He issued the Wind and Moon Pursuit Order and sent four elders to find the young man, alive or dead.

• Liu Qingcang stood over the bodies of his son Liu Chengfeng and Uncle Fu in the Wind and Moon Pavilion’s great hall.
• Liu Chengfeng’s mother arrived, mourned him, and accused Liu Qingcang of failing to protect or avenge their son.
• Liu Qingcang explained that Manager Li of the Rainbow Skirt Pavilion had been unable to stop the killer and warned that the Pavilion was a second-tier force backed by a Golden Core patriarch.
• Liu Chengfeng’s mother threatened to seek help from her master, a Golden Core elder of the Pleasure Sect, so Liu Qingcang promised to avenge their son.
• Liu Qingcang ordered the Wind and Moon Pursuit Order issued and dispatched the four great elders of Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon to find the killer.

Qin Rushuang appeared at the Cloudwater Sect and killed Zhao Wutian after discovering that Dongfang Ri was Dongfang Yueming's assumed name. Learning that he might be headed to the City of Chaos, she went after him, leaving the Cloudwater Sect patriarch alive.

• Zhao Wutian tortured the Cloudwater Sect patriarch and demanded the name of the killer of his brothers.
• The patriarch told Zhao Wutian that Dongfang Ri had killed them, and Zhao Wutian produced a portrait of his target.
• Qin Rushuang appeared behind Zhao Wutian, took the portrait, and recognized Dongfang Yueming as Dongfang Ri.
• Qin Rushuang overwhelmed Zhao Wutian with her divine sense and destroyed him with a casual palm strike.
• Qin Rushuang asked where Dongfang Yueming had gone, and the patriarch guessed that he was headed to the City of Chaos.
• Qin Rushuang tore open the void and left for the City of Chaos, while the patriarch breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Rushuang and Shui Yan'er arrived in the City of Chaos seeking Dongfang Ri, whom they learned was Dongfang Yueming and had defeated an Ice Evil Sect cultivator. They clashed over who would claim him as the Ice Evil Sect’s Golden Core expert watched in growing dread.

• Qin Rushuang arrived in the City of Chaos and met Shui Yan'er, who revealed that her clones had reported a possible Saint-Grade Innate genius named Dongfang Ri.
• Shui Yan'er said Dongfang Ri had defeated Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er, and Qin Rushuang reacted with shock before insisting he was hers.
• An Ice Evil Sect Golden Core expert appeared and demanded to know who had killed the sect’s Foundation Establishment deacon.
• Shui Yan'er summoned Hei Xiong, who recounted how Dongfang Yueming had defeated the Black Wind Stronghold and Red Flower Society before killing Su Mohan with one finger.
• Qin Rushuang and Shui Yan'er faced off over Dongfang Yueming while the Ice Evil Sect expert watched in fear.

Zhao Wujiang backed down after recognizing Shui Yan'er and Qin Rushuang, while Dongfang Yueming arrived at Dragon Firmament City and learned that Dragon Firmament Academy faced a takeover plot. He bypassed the crowded admissions line and approached the academy’s guest-instructor passage.

• Zhao Wujiang apologized to Shui Yan'er and Qin Rushuang and declared that his sect’s slain deacon had deserved to die.
• Dongfang Yueming entered Dragon Firmament City and heard that Shi Tianxiong planned to merge Dragon Firmament Academy into the Heavenly Star Sect while the academy master remained in seclusion.
• Dongfang Yueming worried about Shi Qing and hurried toward Dragon Firmament Academy.
• A young applicant told Dongfang Yueming that Shi Tianxiong’s takeover would make the students members of a second-tier power.
• Dongfang Yueming skipped the admissions queue and walked toward the guest-instructor passage as onlookers protested.

Dongfang Yueming applied to become a guest instructor at Dragon Firmament Academy, while Zhou Hai mistook his restrained fireball for a parlor trick and sent him to the vice dean. Meanwhile, Grand Elder Shi Tianxiong pushed to merge the academy with the Heavenly Star Sect, and Shi Hao turned his hostility toward the newly enrolled Yun Qian, Yun Han, and Qu Yutang.

• Zhou Hai welcomed Dongfang Yueming as a potential Innate instructor, but dismissed his fireball demonstration as unimpressive and gave him a jade token to report to the vice dean.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Zhou Hai where to find Shi Qing, and Zhou Hai began to suspect that Shi Hao might know the name.
• Lin Bo'an accused Shi Tianxiong of planning to surrender the academy's Foundation Establishment method to the Heavenly Star Sect, and Shi Tianxiong overpowered him with his Foundation Establishment pressure.
• Shi Hao recalled his grudge against Shi Qing and assumed she had died or been tormented in the Nine Nether Secret Realm.
• Shi Hao confronted Yun Qian, Yun Han, and Qu Yutang after they enrolled, then ordered Instructor Zhang to take special care of them.

Instructor Zhang sent Qu Yutang to the vice dean’s faction, where she rejected Shi Hao’s offer and walked away. Dongfang Yueming arrived at the faction’s shabby headquarters and agreed to teach a basic class while waiting to speak with the vice dean about Shi Qing and a Foundation Establishment method.

• Instructor Zhang used his authority to assign Qu Yutang to the vice dean’s side, prompting snickers from the students.
• Shi Hao offered Qu Yutang a place in the Heaven Character Class if she agreed to be his, but she refused and left for the vice dean’s quarters.
• Yun Qian and Yun Han praised Shi Hao, while Yun Qian privately dismissed Qu Yutang’s hopes and felt pleased she had cut ties with Dongfang Yueming.
• Dongfang Yueming followed his jade token to the remote, dilapidated headquarters and met Wu Qing, who welcomed him as a new instructor.
• Wu Qing asked Dongfang Yueming to teach a basic class that afternoon, and Dongfang Yueming agreed while planning to ask the vice dean about Shi Qing and a Foundation Establishment method.