Chapter Summaries

Chu Caiyi reunited with Li Ping'an and Li Yingying, comforted them, and began preparing them to cultivate so they could pursue revenge. After assessing their aptitude and choosing their cultivation paths, she gave them new family names and taught them their first cultivation art; by morning, their presence had begun to change.

• Chu Caiyi embraced Li Ping'an and Li Yingying after hearing about their hardships, then made them a meal.
• Chu Caiyi tested the siblings’ aptitude: Li Ping'an showed top-grade aptitude, while Li Yingying’s violet light had faint traces of gold.
• Li Ping'an chose saber techniques and Li Yingying chose sword techniques, so Chu Caiyi gave them a Saint Rank art to build their foundation.
• Chu Caiyi told the siblings to take her surname and named Li Ping'an Chu Xuedao, keeping Ping'an as his familiar name.
• Chu Caiyi passed the siblings the Five Elements Primordial Art: Body Tempering Chapter, and they began cultivating while Deacon Yu remained silent in despair.
• At sunrise, Chu Caiyi opened her eyes and saw that her children’s presence had changed.

Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying awakened their spirits and continued cultivating outside Ningzhou Prefecture while the Black Tiger Gang and other powers searched for Li Ping'an. When Fierce Tiger Hall disciples attacked, Chu Xuedao felled them with a cold snort and warned the gathered crowd that they had come to die.

• Chu Xuedao awakened his spirit, thanked Chu Caiyi, and learned that he had taken the first step toward cultivation.
• The Black Tiger Gang's leader, Hu Li, ordered Fierce Tiger Hall and the Tiger Fang Guards to search for Li Ping'an.
• News that Li Ping'an was outside the city drew the outer city's powers to Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying as they cultivated.
• Hall Master Meng ordered Fierce Tiger Hall disciples to seize Chu Xuedao, but his cold snort made them collapse and injure themselves.
• Chu Xuedao stood and told the Black Tiger Gang's members that he had wanted to let them live longer, leaving the crowd silent.

Chu Xuedao revealed his newfound power as an immortal cultivator, killed the Black Tiger Gang’s attackers, and forced the surrounding factions to swear to destroy the gang by sunrise. After learning that Liu Jiahui had joined Severed Emotion Valley and was meant to sever her feelings for him, he left the assembled factions to carry out his ultimatum and faced his mother’s question about what he would do next.

• Chu Xuedao cut down the eighteen Tiger Fang Guards with a single saber strike, shocking the gathered factions into realizing he possessed extraordinary power.
• Chu Xuedao revealed that he had joined the ranks of immortal cultivators, and Hall Master Meng and Deacon Yu each took their own lives at his command.
• Chu Xuedao declared that Li Ping'an was dead and demanded a reason to spare the surrounding factions, while Hall Master He explained Liu Jiahui’s connection to Severed Emotion Valley.
• Chu Xuedao ordered the factions to wipe out the Black Tiger Gang by sunrise or face death themselves, and they hurried away to carry out his command.
• After the factions departed, Chu Caiyi asked Chu Xuedao what he planned to do next.

After Chu Xuedao vowed to destroy the Liu Lineage, the outer-city gangs wiped out the Black Tiger Gang for having hunted Li Ping'an, now known as Immortal Chu. Chu Caiyi and her companions then arrived in the inner city, drawing the attention of its households as Father Liu scrambled to learn what had happened.

• Chu Caiyi told Chu Xuedao to recover his Spiritual Qi before they went to destroy the Liu Lineage, while the outer-city gangs learned that Li Ping'an had joined an immortal sect.
• The outer-city gangs surrounded the Black Tiger Gang, and Iron Palm Water Skimmer told Black Tiger that Li Ping'an was now Immortal Chu and had ordered the gang's destruction.
• Black Tiger wrote a farewell letter and killed himself after the gangs promised to spare his descendants; the Black Tiger Gang's members followed, and the gangs moved to divide its wealth.
• Father Liu learned that the Black Tiger Gang had been attacked and ordered an investigation, then Chu Caiyi and her companions descended into the inner city.

Chu Xuedao and his family confronted the Liu Lineage at its residence, where Chu Caiyi destroyed the Liu Lineage’s supposed immortal artifacts. After Chu Xuedao revealed his identity and rejected Father Liu’s plea, he killed him, leaving the Liu Lineage finished.

• The Ningzhou prefect and local family heads hurried to the Liu residence after hearing that immortals had arrived, while the steward warned Father Liu that Li Ping'an was coming to attack.
• Chu Xuedao confronted Father Liu at the gates and declared that he would destroy the Liu Lineage; the prefect and family heads arrived but said they had come to pay their respects to Chu Xuedao.
• Father Liu ordered his men to bring out three blood-refined wooden swords and sent one flying at Chu Xuedao, but Chu Caiyi caught and shattered it, destroying the other two with it.
• Chu Caiyi told Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying to handle the rest, and Father Liu realized that Chu Xuedao was his former son-in-law, Li Ping'an.
• Chu Xuedao told Father Liu that his name was Chu Xuedao and killed him with a stroke of his treasured saber.

After the Chu siblings killed the Liu Lineage, Chu Caiyi learned the general location of Severed Emotion Valley and set out with her companions. Liu Jiahui succeeded in Spirit Awakening, then discovered her family was dead and vowed revenge.

• Chu Caiyi confirmed that the Liu Lineage had been wiped out except for Liu Jiahui, then offered spirit beast meat and a cultivation manual in exchange for directions to Severed Emotion Valley.
• The prefect of Ningzhou and the local lineage heads gave Chu Caiyi information about the valley, and she spared the prefect and left the two rewards for them to divide.
• Chu Caiyi, Chen Qianqian, Bai Qian, and Marquis Colorful Feather flew toward Severed Emotion Valley, while the prefect warned the onlookers to keep quiet about what had happened.
• Liu Jiahui succeeded in Spirit Awakening, and Abbess Mieqing examined her after she asked why she still remembered Li Ping'an but not her family.
• Abbess Mieqing discovered that Liu Jiahui's blood relatives had died and promised to let her leave the sect grounds for revenge once she reached the third layer of Body Tempering.

Chu Xuedao arrived at Severed Emotion Valley to settle his grudge with Liu Jiahui, while Chu Caiyi and her companions watched from above. After Chu Caiyi killed two disciples who threatened him, the valley’s cultivators gathered to face the attackers, and Liu Jiahui was stunned to recognize Chu Xuedao as the man she had once known as a gang martial artist.

• Chu Caiyi brought Chu Xuedao down outside Severed Emotion Valley and told him she would help him settle his grudge with Liu Jiahui.
• Two Severed Emotion Valley disciples confronted Chu Xuedao, threatened him, and dismissed his warning that he could call for help.
• Chu Xuedao called to his mother, and Chu Caiyi struck down from above, reducing the two disciples to ashes.
• Severed Emotion Valley sounded its alarm, and thousands of cultivators, including Liu Jiahui, gathered outside the valley.
• Liu Jiahui recognized Chu Xuedao and told Abbess Mieqing that he was the person she had to sever her feelings for.
• Liu Jiahui insisted Chu Xuedao could not have joined an immortal sect because she had known him as a gang martial artist.

Chu Xuedao arrived at Severed Emotion Valley to confront Liu Jiahui, backed by four powerful women led by Chen Qianqian. Chen Qianqian crushed the valley master with a single Go stone, and as she prepared to strike again, an aged voice called for her to wait.

• Chu Xuedao challenged Liu Jiahui to face him at Severed Emotion Valley.
• The valley master demanded that Chu Xuedao's hidden backer reveal herself, and Chen Qianqian answered from above on a peacock with three other women.
• Chen Qianqian demanded that Severed Emotion Valley hand over Liu Jiahui, while the valley master drew the Severed Emotion Sword and attacked her.
• Chen Qianqian placed a black Go stone, summoning a giant hand that shattered the valley master's Sword Qi and slammed him into a crater.
• The cultivators of Severed Emotion Valley froze in fear as Chen Qianqian threatened them with another Go stone, and an aged voice called for her to wait.

Chu Caiyi and her companions forced Severed Emotion Valley to surrender Liu Jiahui and provide compensation after someone there threatened her children. Chu Xuedao killed Liu Jiahui, and the group left with an old wooden box, while Severed Emotion Valley’s supreme elder realized they had narrowly avoided disaster.

• Severed Emotion Valley’s supreme elder emerged and agreed to hand over Liu Jiahui and compensate Chu Caiyi’s group.
• Abbess Mieqing told Liu Jiahui to face the consequences, and Liu Jiahui pleaded with Chu Xuedao for her life.
• Chu Xuedao revealed that Li Ping'an was dead and killed Liu Jiahui with his saber.
• Chu Caiyi chose an old wooden box from Severed Emotion Valley’s treasury and declared the matter settled.
• Marquis Colorful Feather revealed his Nirvana Demon King presence as the group departed, and the supreme elder was relieved he had not fought them.

Chu Caiyi brought Chu Feng a sealed box from Severed Emotion Valley, and he discovered it contained a Netherworld Boat Ticket. Soon afterward, a descendant of Elder Bing asked Bing Yan to represent Extreme Cold Mountain Manor in the Sexagenary Battle, and she agreed.

• Chu Feng opened the box Chu Caiyi had found and revealed a parchment covered in Devil Qi and eerie Qi.
• Chu Feng identified the parchment as a Netherworld Boat Ticket, which Great Sage Golden Wing said could let its holder board a ship said to grant eternal life.
• Chu Feng accepted the ticket from Chu Caiyi and said he might explore the Netherworld Treasure Boat when the time was right.
• Elder Little White arrived with a young descendant of Elder Bing, who told Bing Yan that Extreme Cold Mountain Manor needed her help in the Sexagenary Battle.
• Bing Yan verified the ice feather, agreed to compete in half a month, and ordered the young man to leave.

Bing Yan told Chu Feng how her painful childhood at Extreme Cold Mountain Manor led her to cut ties with the clan, and he comforted her. They later arrived at the manor for the Sexagenary Grand Competition, where Chu Feng let Bing Yan decide whether to deal with its leaders.

• Steward Little White and Great Sage Golden Wing made excuses and left Chu Feng and Bing Yan alone.
• Bing Yan recounted how her father favored her younger brother, her mother suffered, and her clan peers resented her talent; after her mother died, she agreed to act for Extreme Cold Mountain Manor three times in exchange for three ice feathers.
• Chu Feng comforted Bing Yan, and they spent the night together; the next morning, she apologized for confiding in him while drunk.
• Ten days later, Chu Feng, Bing Yan, and the disciples traveling with them used Dao-Seeking City's teleportation array to reach Extreme Cold Mountain Manor.
• The manor's leaders welcomed Chu Feng and Bing Yan, and the manor master asked Bing Yan to set aside her grievances because the clan faced a crisis.
• Chu Feng questioned whether anyone else could receive them, then asked Bing Yan to decide what to do.

Bing Yan returned to Extreme Cold Mountain Manor with Chu Feng, but a quarrel over the Windflower Courtyard convinced her that the clan had discarded its last chance to mend their relationship. As Mu Rou prepared to apologize, Bing Yan remained in the guest courtyard with Chu Feng, leaving the Bing Clan to face her displeasure.

• Bing Yan asked Ninth Granduncle to keep Chu Feng's arrival secret and declined to stay in the Windflower Courtyard after overhearing Mu Rou refuse to leave it.
• Bing Tie Xin led Bing Yan and her companions to the guest courtyard, where Bing Yan told him not to disturb her and Chu Feng comforted her.
• Bing Aogu confronted Mu Rou and explained that Bing Yan's help would cost the clan only an ice feather and might help her son become Great Sage Qiankun's disciple.
• Mu Rou asked Bing Xiaofeng what Bing Yan liked, then ordered him to accompany her to beg Bing Yan for forgiveness.

Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou came to the guest courtyard to seek Bing Yan’s forgiveness and ask her to take on a disciple, but Bing Yan refused them. Chu Feng suggested a way to make them suffer by giving what they wanted to someone they looked down on, and Bing Yan agreed.

• Chen Qianqian told Chu Feng and Bing Yan that a bare-chested man carrying thorny branches was approaching, and Chu Feng punished her with a thousand book copies for not studying.
• Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian blocked Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou at the courtyard entrance, and Marquis Colorful Feather slapped Bing Xiaofeng twice before Mu Rou explained they had come to apologize to Bing Yan.
• Chen Qianqian challenged Mu Rou’s right to address Bing Yan by name and initially refused to announce the couple.
• Bing Yan told Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou to let bygones be bygones and go back, refusing Mu Rou’s invitation to stay at the Wind and Flower Courtyard.
• Bing Yan asked Chu Feng what the couple wanted, and he said they sought forgiveness and wanted her to take on a disciple.
• Chu Feng proposed giving what Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou wanted to someone they looked down on, and Bing Yan agreed to his plan.

Bing Yan and Chu Feng discovered Bing Xiaofeng’s daughter Bing Ya secretly practicing the Proud Snow Sword Technique on a secluded peak. Learning that Bing Ya wanted to escape her life as a maid, Bing Yan took her as a disciple and renamed her Bing Qin, promising to take her away later.

• Bing Yan sent Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou away, and the incident left the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor’s elders worried about their standing in the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Bing Yan brought Chu Feng to the peak where she had practiced as a child, and they found a young girl cultivating swordsmanship in the snow.
• The girl introduced herself as Bing Ya and revealed that she was Bing Xiaofeng’s daughter, born to a maidservant and forbidden from openly practicing the Proud Snow Sword Technique.
• Bing Ya told Bing Yan that her mother had wished for her to leave the manor and live freely, and Bing Yan offered to make her a disciple.
• Bing Yan renamed Bing Ya Bing Qin and promised to take her with them when she left, while Bing Qin returned to the manor before the young miss could punish her.

Chu Feng and Bing Yan secretly observed Bing Qin and the Bing Clan as the family sought to win Dao-Seeking Academy’s favor. Bing Qin endured abuse at the Wind and Flower Courtyard and began to suspect she had already met the academy’s important figures.

• Chu Feng and Bing Yan watched Bing Qin kneel after Bing Yushu ordered her to stay in the courtyard as punishment.
• The Bing Clan’s younger generation trained in hopes of becoming disciples, while Bing Aogu and the elders discussed approaching Bing Yan or her disciples.
• Bing Aoxin asked Ninth Uncle to help place clan descendants with Bing Yan, but Ninth Uncle refused.
• Bing Yushu returned from training and whipped Bing Ya, while Bing Xiaofeng encouraged her to continue.
• Bing Qin wondered whether Chu Feng and Bing Yan were the Dao-Seeking Academy figures she had met that morning, and they watched her from the guest courtyard.

Bing Yan arranged for Bing Qin to dream that she would be taken as a disciple, then watched as the girl waited for the promised meeting at the training ground. There, Bing Qin and Bing Yushu found Xu Caichen teaching Dao-Seeking Academy disciples, while the gathered manor disciples expected the Academy to recruit someone.

• Chu Feng suggested that Bing Yan train Bing Qin to become the future master of Extreme Cold Mountain Manor, and Bing Yan chose to see the girl's dreams.
• Qin Qin used her zither to draw Bing Qin into a dream, and Bing Yan directed her to show Bing Qin being promised discipleship at the training ground.
• Bing Qin woke uncertain of the dream, spent the night waiting for dawn, and served Bing Yushu as she prepared for the day's gathering.
• Bing Yushu brought Bing Qin to the crowded training ground, where Bing Qin saw a scholar-like Dao-Seeking Academy elder instructing young cultivators.
• Xu Caichen ended his lesson and sat on the raised platform to cultivate, and the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor disciples anticipated a chance to become his disciple.

Bing Yan arrived at the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor and announced that she had come to take a disciple, surprising the clan members who hoped she would choose one of their favored young talents. She selected Bing Qin, who had been waiting for a chance to leave the clan.

• Bing Aogu and the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor elders watched the disciples cultivate, while Bing Qilin remained in seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• Qin Qin and Xu Caichen focused their attention on Bing Qin, whose fortune Qin Qin found worthy of the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• Bing Yushu pretended to fall in hopes of drawing Xu Caichen's attention, but Bing Qin helped her up and was dismissed.
• Bing Yan arrived with Chu Feng, and the Bing Clan members eagerly expected her to assess their younger generation.
• Bing Yan announced that she had come to take a disciple and called Bing Qin to her side.

Bing Yan confronted Bing Aogu when he tried to stop her from taking Bing Qin as her disciple, then exposed that Bing Qin was likely her own granddaughter. The gathering ended in stunned silence after Bing Yan revealed Bing Qin’s resemblance to her and challenged Bing Aogu to recognize her.

• Bing Qin approached Bing Yan, while Bing Yushu and other disciples objected to a maid being chosen as a disciple.
• Mu Rou revealed her hostility toward Bing Qin, and Bing Aogu stepped in to stop Bing Yan from taking her away.
• Bing Aogu argued that servants could not learn the Bing Clan’s core techniques or leave without his consent, but Bing Yan asked whether Bing Clan descendants could be made servants.
• Bing Yan led Bing Qin forward and pointed out their resemblance, then transformed into her younger appearance to make it clearer.
• Bing Yan told Bing Aogu that Bing Qin was his granddaughter, leaving the gathering silent.

Bing Yan forced Bing Aogu to acknowledge her relationship with Bing Qin and demonstrated that Qin Qin’s fortune surpassed the young disciples’ expectations. After bringing Qin Qin away from Extreme Cold Mountain Manor, Bing Yan comforted her and promised she would no longer be bullied.

• Bing Yan revealed that Bing Qin was her niece and challenged Bing Aogu to question her decision to take the girl as her disciple.
• Bing Yan asked Qin Qin to use her eye technique to show the young Bing Clan disciples their fortunes, revealing Qin Qin’s nineteen-zhang-tall purple fortune as the strongest among them.
• Bing Aogu admitted he had been wrong and accepted that Qin Qin could cultivate with Bing Yan, while Bing Yushu collapsed after seeing her own cyan fortune.
• Chu Feng and his companions left the training ground, and Bing Yan took Qin Qin to settle into her new room.
• Bing Qin asked Bing Yan for a hug, explaining that she had grown up without affection from her family, and Bing Yan embraced her and promised to protect her.

Bing Yan secured control of the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor’s seat at the Sexagenary Grand Competition, demanding the faction’s winnings while sparing its territory. She and Chu Feng arrived at the Loulan Desert, where approaching factions and an envoy from the Northern Hunting Kingdom gathered near their camp.

• The Extreme Cold Mountain Manor announced that its lord would enter seclusion, confined the young manor lord and his wife, and added Bing Qin to the clan genealogy.
• Bing Yan told Bing Qin she could choose whether to reclaim her inheritance and avenge her mother, and Bing Qin decided to follow her heart and grow stronger first.
• The elders asked Bing Yan to take the manor lord’s seat at the Sexagenary Grand Competition, and she agreed on the condition that the manor keep all winnings except land.
• Bing Yan and Chu Feng traveled with the manor’s procession to the Loulan Desert, where they camped outside the Ancient City of Loulan.
• Chu Feng sensed numerous factions approaching the camp, and an envoy of the Northern Hunting Kingdom arrived to pay respects.