Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan arrived at the Lu Clan council hall and stopped Lu Tong Zhou and the Mo Clan from forcing Lu Tong Xuan to cooperate. He revealed his restored strength and challenged the Mo Clan’s claim that opposing it meant defying the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Lu Tong Zhou admitted that resentment over Zhang Xi'er and the young clan head position had driven him to betray Lu Tong Xuan and aid the Mo Clan.
• Lu Tong Xuan explained that Lu Tong Zhou had misunderstood the events surrounding Zhang Xi'er and their father’s decision.
• Lu Yuan appeared in the council hall and forced Lu Tong Zhou and two Dou Ling representatives to their knees with his power.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he had become a Peak Nine-Star Dou Wang, then knocked Lu Tong Zhou unconscious with soul pressure.
• The city lord’s representative offered to testify against the city lord’s residence, while the Mo Clan elder invoked the Misty Cloud Sect’s authority.
• Lu Yuan dismissed the threat of the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving Yun Yun to privately react to his words.

Lu Yuan stopped the Mo Clan from using the Misty Cloud Sect’s name against him after Yun Yun revealed that she was his Dao companion. He settled the Lu Clan’s disputes and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

• Yun Yun appeared in the Lu Clan’s council hall, condemned Mo Liu for invoking the Misty Cloud Sect, and asked Lu Yuan to spare him in exchange for the Mo Clan surrendering seventy percent of its holdings.
• Yun Yun told Lu Yuan she was asking as his Dao companion, and Lu Yuan accepted; Mo Liu fainted when he heard their relationship revealed.
• Lu Tong Xuan welcomed Yun Yun and gave her a bracelet left by Lu Yuan’s mother, then gave Lu Yuan three more jade bracelets.
• Lu Yuan left his father to restore order in the Lu Clan and went to deal with the city lord’s residence and the Mo Clan; the Mo Clan surrendered most of its holdings, and the city lord handed over his steward.
• Lu Yuan returned to his courtyard, where Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin greeted him, and he invited Xiao Yi Xian to come closer.

Lu Yuan gave Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian jade bangles from his mother, then openly acknowledged them and Yun Yun as his Dao companions and promised to support them. He warned Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect’s survival was threatened and revealed that Xiao Yan had an eighth-tier alchemist as his teacher.

• Lu Yuan gave Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian jade bangles that could enhance soul power and serve as high-grade storage items.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun that he could not devote himself to one woman, but promised to protect and support all three as his Dao companions.
• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun each accepted Lu Yuan’s promise and affirmed their commitment to him.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Lin to absorb the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s power and told Xiao Yi Xian that he had learned of a Poison Pill Method for her future breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan said he might help Yun Yun obtain the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance and warned her that information he had received concerned the sect’s survival.
• When Yun Yun asked about Xiao Yan, Lu Yuan revealed that Xiao Yan’s teacher was an eighth-tier alchemist, shocking her.

Lu Yuan told Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had an eighth-tier alchemist as his teacher and explained why the engagement breakup had strained ties between the Misty Cloud Sect, the Nalan Family, and the Xiao Clan. He revealed that Yun Yun’s teacher was secretly investigating Xiao Clan members and talented independent cultivators, then suggested her teacher was seeking a breakthrough to Dou Zong as his lifespan neared its end.

• Lu Yuan told Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had become the disciple of an eighth-tier alchemist, and Yun Yun regretted the Misty Cloud Sect’s lost opportunity to gain that connection.
• Yun Yun described the damage Nalan Yanran’s public engagement breakup had caused to the Nalan Family’s reputation and the Misty Cloud Sect’s relations with the Imperial Family.
• Lu Yuan argued that breaking the engagement had been reasonable but that Nalan Yanran’s humiliating approach had provoked Xiao Yan, while Yun Yun promised the Misty Cloud Sect would honor the Three-Year Agreement.
• Lu Yuan revealed that Yun Yun’s teacher had been hired to investigate Xiao Clan families and talented independent cultivators in the Jia Ma Empire and capture those in charge.
• Lu Yuan asked Yun Yun what her teacher might do if his lifespan were nearly exhausted and a chance to break through to Dou Zong appeared before him.