Chapter Summaries

Lu Guan drew Jué into a battle, using Mahoraga and a formation of Tacet Discords before revealing King Crimson. After turning the tide with time erasure and his techniques, he taunted Jué as their fight continued.

• Lu Guan left Jué to fight Mahoraga while he searched for Phrolova, and Jué struggled against the summon’s adapting attacks.
• Jué summoned Retroact Rain and formed Tacet Discords into a Resonance Circuit, whose illusory figure kicked Lu Guan out of a spatial rift and badly injured him.
• Lu Guan healed himself and declared that the fight had entered its second round, then revealed King Crimson and its time-erasure ability.
• Lu Guan used King Crimson to land a fully charged Hollow Technique: Purple on Jué’s illusory figure, then countered its war-saber strike with Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue.
• Lu Guan stood over the illusory figure and taunted Jué, claiming he would have defeated Jué at the Battle of Clouded Cliffs.

Lu Guan escaped Jue, found and punished Phrolova inside the statue, then returned to the Midnight Rangers' camp. He reassured Yangyang and prepared to brief Jiyan on what he had learned about Jue.

• Lu Guan taunted Jue, inferred that Jue had collected multiple Desolations and could control Tacet Discords, then vanished to escape.
• Phrolova broke free from her chains inside the statue, but Lu Guan found her, beat her, and used Cursed Speech: Modified to make the town's destruction replay in her mind whenever she tried to resurrect its people.
• At the Midnight Rangers' camp, Jiyan learned that Jue had not been defeated and ordered the personnel to prepare for battle.
• Yangyang feared Lu Guan had died, but Lu Guan returned safely and teased her until she bit him for plucking one of her feathers.
• Lu Guan told Jiyan he had gathered information from his fight with Jue and asked to discuss it inside the tent.

Lu Guan told Jiyan about the Threnodian and learned that the Sentinel Jué’s condition was unknown, so he decided to return to Jinzhou and see Jinhsi. On the way, his teasing feud with Yangyang escalated into a staged kiss and a photo that Lu Guan accidentally sent to his mother.

• Lu Guan told Jiyan that the Threnodian could use Tacet Discords and rule-based skills, and Jiyan said a fighter on the Sentinel’s level might be needed.
• Jiyan admitted he did not know how Sentinel Jué was faring and suggested Lu Guan ask Jinhsi in Jinzhou.
• Lu Guan agreed to return to Jinzhou with Yangyang so she could recover away from the front lines.
• Lu Guan and Yangyang argued about his family register and teased each other until Yangyang kissed him and took a photo to threaten to send to his parents.
• Lu Guan snatched Yangyang’s terminal, but her bite made him accidentally send the photo to his mother, Yu Lan, who replied with a shocked reaction image.

Lu Guan and Yangyang's mothers misunderstood their relationship, and Lu Guan kissed Yangyang before she stopped him and stormed off. After discovering that the bond was boosting Suisui, Chixia, and Baizhi's affection, Suisui decided to go to Jinzhou and pursue Lu Guan herself.

• Lu Guan and Yangyang explained their accidental photo and relationship to their mothers, but both mothers continued to misunderstand.
• Lu Guan apologized to Yangyang and kissed her; she slapped him, told him he had gone too far, and hurried toward Jinzhou City.
• Lu Guan discovered that his Oath with Sigelika had strengthened the bond, causing affection increases from Yangyang to also raise Suisui, Chixia, and Baizhi's affection.
• Suisui brooded over the photo of Yangyang and Lu Guan, then decided she would make the first move and searched Huanglong's Jinzhou documents for a reason to go there.

Lu Guan carried Yangyang into Jinzhou after she sprained her ankle, where Changli teased them about their relationship and Lu Guan scolded Yangyang for blaming him. Yangyang reminded him of an old childhood promise he had forgotten, and Lu Guan decided to take her home before visiting Jinhsi to ask about Sentinel Jué.

• At Jinzhou's gate, Lu Guan showed the guard Jinhsi's token and was allowed into the city with Yangyang.
• Changli greeted them and teased Lu Guan about Jinhsi's token and his relationship with Yangyang.
• Lu Guan joked about Yangyang's sprained ankle, then reprimanded her for refusing to accept her mistake and shifting blame onto him.
• Yangyang asked Lu Guan whether he remembered their childhood promise, but he did not understand what she meant.
• Yangyang concluded that Lu Guan had never cared about the promise, while Lu Guan resolved to take her home and then visit Jinhsi about Sentinel Jué.

Lu Guan learned that Jinhsi had been missing from the Frontier Court for almost a week, then returned home to find Yangyang upset over his forgotten childhood promise. After he explained that he had remembered the promise and teased her about it, Yangyang realized he had understood her feelings all along and condemned him as an inherently evil demon.

• Lu Guan asked Sanhua where Jinhsi was, and Sanhua revealed that Jinhsi had been out of contact for almost a week.
• Lu Guan left the Frontier Court and returned Yangyang home, where she cried over the childhood promise she believed he had forgotten.
• Lu Guan treated Yangyang's sprained ankle and asked why she was upset, eventually prompting her to mention what he had said when he was seven.
• Lu Guan remembered telling the elders that he wanted to marry a girl like Yangyang, then admitted he had understood her feelings and had been teasing her.
• Lu Guan said Yangyang was no longer his type because he preferred petite girls, and Yangyang called him an inherently evil demon.