Chu Qing/Synopsis

### Jing Men Arc

Qing awakens in a bedroom with a mysterious woman revealing to be Ye Chen Xi on top of him. Astonished by the situation, he leaps from the bed in complete shock. Qing then fathoms that he may have been reborn and then recalls his 300-year life as a 'Cultivator'. His initial goal was to become a Sword Cultivator and reach the 'Realm of Eternity'. However, he failed and supposedly reincarnated back to when he was 17 years old on Earth. Back to the situation at hand, Qing tries to escape from Chen Xi though she refuses to let him go. Qing acts recalcitrant and tries to leave, but Chen Xi grabs Qing by his right arm to stop him. In retaliation, Qing uses his cultivator power to escape her grasp, which he also notes has weakened severely. Free from Chen Xi's grasp, Qing takes his remaining clothes and escapes. Finally free and elated by the fact that he can see his family after 300 years, he realizes the world around him has changed dramatically.

A history book from the Tianjing Library, Qing reads a history book revealing that in ancient times, an unknown cataclysm made women stronger and smarter. Later, a powerful woman named Kong Mo developed the ideology that women are superior to men, causing the change in imperial power from Prince to Princess. Although in modern times the ideology has since changed, it still exists and is fairly dominant as the roles have reversed. After reading the book. Qing is befuddled by the world's ideology.

When Qing returns home, he greets his father Lin Yuantu with a big hug. Qing asks about his mother Chu Tiannan, who Yuantu claims is out on business as business isn't going well. Learning about his mother's whereabouts, Qing decides it's time to eat and goes to get his sister Chu Xiao. Upon entering Xiao's room, Qing sees his sister looking at porn. He freaks out and calls his sister out for doing such an uncouth thing. Qing and his father are informed by Xiao that she's going out to eat with some friends. As his mother walks in the door, Qing greets her with a big hug. Qing then witness how his parents act and internally vomits. Qing then heads into his room and looks around. He reflects on the world's perspective on male and female attitudes and believes with his good looks he should do fine. Looking in his desk draw, Qing finds an abundance of love letters, astounding him. Adamant to escape the world he's in and open a hole back to his own world, Qing mediates on his bed to recover the power he lost in the hall of space and time. Soon his 'Golden Freedom' (Ji Dao) sharpens and after testing it, he learns that his sister hasn't returned home. Qing then gets a phone call from his sister, who tells him that she's in trouble and to not alert the police or their parents. He's informed to bring a black bag underneath her bed and learns she's being threaten by a woman named Zhou Yun. Qing acquiesces and heads to the location while vowing vengeance against those who mess with his family. Upon arriving at the bar, Qing delivers the bag and demands his sister be released facing Yun. The two get into a fight when Qing stands up for himself and retaliates by smacking Yun to the ground. Their fight was stopped when Chen Xi and her bodyguards arrived. In defense, Qing disparages Chen Xi's strength, which leads to a contest of strength between the two. The two set their conditions and later hold the contest in a restaurant setting. Although Qing is surprised by her strength, he ultimately wins. As Qing leaves with his sister, he's proposed by Chen Xi to marry her and that no woman would be allowed to touch him. This leads to a brief debate between the two, in which Qing remains obstinate against Chen Xi's logic and eventually leaves with his sister. While walking home, Qing and Xiao discuss the recent events, but Qing gets irritated when Xiao brings up marriage with Chen Xi. Back at home, Qing cultivates his power again and regrettably eavesdrops on his sister doing inappropriate things on her computer.

The following day at school, Qing meets his old friend, Lin Dong, who runs toward him in an effeminate fashion. Qing becomes disgusted and leaves quickly. In homeroom, Qing is invited by the class president, Songcha Oran to have lunch but are interrupted by an girl who's ugly and approaches Qing. He immediately attacks her and the 2 fight. They're stopped by his other friend, Ye Mao scarring the ugly girl. Mao apologizes to Qing for what his sister did to him. After school, Qing is offered a ride home by Chen Xi. Though Qing refuses, Chen Xi strikes a nerve when she threatens his family. He gets in the car and Chen Xi compliments him for obeying. Unfazed, he tells her she's made a mistake in threatening his family, but Chen Xi tries to claim it wasn't a threat. Unconvinced by the comment, Qing believes that it would down the line become true and he breaks a crystal ornament hanging in her car and gets on top of her to warn her. The two settle things out and decide to be friends. Chen Xi then suddenly brings up the topic of old martial arts, curious to know if Qing is a practicer of it. Qing reminds her that there's no way any man could cultivate in this world, and Chen Xi believes he is hiding a secret. Out of nowhere, a truck crashes into their car and Qing shields most of the impact. After escaping with Chen Xi, he finds a mob of women armed with melee weapons blocking their path. The duo retaliates against the ambushers and wins against them. As an emotional Chen Xi reveals to Qing that if her mother dies her aunt Ye Mei will take over, Qing reassures Chen Xi that everything will be alright and that he'll accompany her back home.

That night, the two in changed outfits and arrived at Ye Family's Mansion. There, a subordinate informs them of the current situation. Apparently, Chen Xi's aunt has assumed control of the mansion and will only allow Chen Xi to see her mother. After Chen Xi informs the nasty rumors surrounding her aunt to Qing, the two head to the mansion, but are stopped by two guards. The guards state that Qing cannot enter, but Qing claims that he's a doctor and is there to examine her. Internally, Qing decides to use his other world medicine knowledge to good use. While the two guards question his ability to be a doctor, Qing demonstrates his skill by accurately diagnosing the two's intestinal problems. Convinced, the guards let them through the gate, but they are immediately greeted by Chen Xi's aunt and cousin Ye Meier. To test Qing's caliber, Mei has him face against her daughter Meier and Qing manages to defeat her and enters the mansion.

Inside the mansion, the two meet another aunt of Chen Xi. She informs the two of her mother's current situation and the two finally see the bedridden Ye Qing Mei. Qing informs her that he's a doctor. Using his spiritual power, Qing manages to absorb one of the malignant dots which are on Qing Mei back. Qing takes a taxi home. En route, Qing notes how inadequate is power is to be able to eradicate the curse.

The next day, Qing watches as a crowd of boys watching star basketball player Tang Zi Yan dunk the ball into the hoop. Qing recalls how Zi Yan was his first love, but snaps himself out of that notion as she's a different Zi Yan from the world he's from. As he tries to walk away, Zi Yan stops him and asks him if she knows him. Qing claims that they're from the same school, so they certainly crossed paths before, but she tells him she wasn't referring to that. Internally, Qing notes that even in this world she's curious about him. Zi Yan drops the subject, but then asks Qing if he's interested in learning how to play basketball. Qing snatches the basketball from Zi Yan's grasp and challenges her. She agrees and gives the condition that if she wins he'll become her boyfriend. In turn, if she loses, she'll do whatever Qing wants her to do. Qing eventually wins with a slam dunk. To fulfill the condition, Qing asks her to go on a date with him, but Zi Yan in turn tells him he needs to get 'stronger', leaving Qing perplexed.

Back at the Ye Family's mansion, with Qing saving both Chen Xi and her mother Qing Mei, Chen Xi offers him a reward, to which Qing smiles and drools, unaccustomed to the coquettish manner of women in this world. While walking home, Qing comes across a man known as Li You Wei, who accosts and disparages him as someone unworthy of Zi Yan. As Qing internally cogitates the stupidity of You Wei, the man attacks him. Qing restrains him, deals with his lackeys, and finally slams him to the ground. You Wei threatens Qing with his family's repute and details about the arranged marriage he's in with Zi Yan, causing Qing to knock him out for his talkative attitude. Seeking a way to gather information on Zi Yan's arranged marriage, he texts Chen Xi for help finding a private investigator. She gives him a number and 10k yuan, and he immediately contacts an investigator named Chen Hua Hua who talks in a promiscuous way.

Waiting in a hotel bar, Qing is approached by Hua Hua who has the appearance of a young girl. He requested information on Zi Yan's family to which she explains that the arranged marriage is to save their family from a financial fallout, leaving Qing perplexed. Qing then asks for information on alchemy, to which she divulges that the Zi Yan's family are specialists in that field. When asked by Qing for more information on that subject, she promises to do it under "proposed conditions". Qing snaps at she, who laughs and apologizes. The two end up spending time together. At her apartment, Qing takes a look at Hua Hua's info on confidential transactions, which notes in detail the Shizhen Auction House, an important house in Jinmen ruled by an old martial art family. He internally notes that the 'Spiritual Rock' was something that speeded cultivation in the Immortal World, and as it cannot be found in this world, he can earn lots of money by auctioning it.

At the Ye's mansion, Qing finally finishes his treatment of Qing Mei's wound, and she regains all of her strength, promising to help him in the future if he needs it. While ultimately deciding to put all his effort in cultivation for the time being, Qing is suddenly ambushed by Chen Xi with a kiss, which she insists is her 'present' for healing her mother.

While cultivating, Qing finds that a sword was the only thing that traveled with him through the Temporal Space Hall and has been with him for 100 years, coming to the conclusion that it is somehow related to this world. To test its limits, he uses it to revive his spiritual body.

Qing goes to the auction house and meets Zhai Yu who is initially bothered by his late presence, but suddenly lights up when he sees Qing's Spiritual Rock, noticing its aura and ability to help one's cultivation. He offers a million yuan for five of his rocks, leaving Qing determined to create a huge monopoly of business. While walking home, an assassin suddenly attacks him, but he defends with his sword power. At sword point, the assassin reveals that Li You Wei sent him. Qing kills the assassin and promises to destroy the Li Family. Moments later, he feels a jolt through his body. As he starts to feel hot and sexually aroused, he goes to find Hua Hua. Upon seeing her, he embraces her with a kiss and later spends the night with her, giving in to his desires. Although confused by his own actions, Qing declares that his ultimate goal is to conquer the world.

The next day at school, Qing is approached by Zi Yan in his class asking him to join her for lunch. He agrees to get lunch with her. At a restaurant, Qing orders spicy rice noodles fitting Zi Yan's taste, much to her surprise and embarrassment. Before they could take their order, two women suddenly attack Zi Yan from behind, but Qing was quick to react and he uses a bowl of hot noodles to catch them off guard. Qing vows to protect Zi Yan and defeats the two attackers, much to Zi Yan's surprise. While she walks him out, Qing realizes that in getting injured so easily, he needs to make spirit artifacts for defense. Zi Yan asks why he saved her, and Qing replies that he feels he's known her for a long time, promising to assist her family using new medicine formulas once the auction ends.

Suddenly, Qing feels a thump in his body and realizes that Chen Xi may be in danger, as he marked her with spirit energy in case she was targeted. Qing rushes to help Chen Xi, first contacting Hua Hua to pinpoint her location. He then contacts Yu to give him a ride, finding Chen Xi in a van with his spiritual sense and asking Yu to force the van to stop. Two men with guns come out and try to stop him, but are overwhelmed by his sword power. Before Qing can save Chen Xi, however, a sudden burst of spiritual energy forces him to retreat, much to his surprise. Two men who look like martial artists confront Qing and ask if he wishes to join the Quan Zhen Cult. Qing insults them and disparages their power, causing the younger brother to fly into a rage. Qing easily breaks his weapon and hurts him, causing the older brother to attack, but he ends up killing his younger brother, who Qing uses as a human shield. While the older brother tries once again to kill Qing, Qing appears behind him and stabs him. He rescues Chen Xi and wakes her up and is informed that the Li Family may have kidnapped her and made plans with the Taoists. He learns that many other families have been causing her Ye Family trouble, and Qing deduces that they are trying to keep them away from the auction happening in two days. He is asked for him to come over so that her mother can hear about what happened, to which he accepts.

At the Ye's mansion, the Ye sisters having a secret meeting and announces that he isn't here for that. Qing wants to do business and shows the family a Spiritual Rock of his. He informs them that he will only sell them at the auction for a discount. Qing also plans to provide them with talismans that can provide protection and boost strength, allowing them to set the price. Ye Jinzhu inquires why he is helping them, and Qing asserts that Chen Xi is his friend.

Arriving home, Qing meets a woman who claims to be his second aunt Chu Qing He. Qinghe explains that she's here to talk about his arranged marriage, much to Qing's surprise as he is still underage. Qing tells Qing He that marriage should wait until college graduation, to which Qing He coldly remarks that college is a waste of money, criticizing both Qing and Xiao for being uneducated like their mother was. Her foul mouth nearly makes Qing lose his temper, but he instead throws words at Qing He like daggers until she leaves. In his room, he contacts Chen Xi for a favor. It is soon revealed that he asked her to kill Qing He, with Chen Xi sending an assassin to take a leg and kidney from her. Recognizing the dire situation in Jinmen, Qing starts making protective artifacts for his friends and family. With a high-quality jade pendant, he can store a defensive sword array and know when the wearer is in danger. He first takes out three for each of his family members.

At school, Qing realizes his mortal body cannot handle several nights of artifact making, and he falls asleep. Before Oran can wake him up, the teacher tells him to go up and solve a problem, to which he easily does after remembering Oran's tutoring. The teacher asks him not to fall asleep nonetheless and forces him to be the class representative. Qing starts to make the talismans\* promised for the Ye Family, but is interrupted by Dong, causing a mini explosion. Qing offers Dong the poor-quality talisman, to which he tries to give a half-full soda in return. Qing is greeted by Ling Waner and informs him of a gathering event with their middle school friends, hosted by Zhou Bu Qun. Despite feeling somewhat displeased with Bu Qun's presence, Qing agrees to go. He then goes to find Zi Yan in her class and ends up helping her with her homework, piquing a crowd's interest in the two's relationship. Qing asks Zi Yan to come with him, and he gives her one of his protective artifacts. After making thirty more talismans, Qing decides to visit Chen Xi for a price offer. However, Dong pops up and asks Qing if he wants to hang out at an exciting place. Qing passes on Dong's invitation and goes to visit Chen Xi. Qing gives Chen Xi a protective artifact, throwing a hard object at her to show its strength. After teasing and getting on top of each other, Qing leaves for 'business', telling Chen Xi that he will be back. He then visits Hua Hua to give her a artifact.

While walking in Baijia Market, Qing's phone rings. Yuantu, worried, asks for his location so that Tiannan can pick him up. Arriving soon after, Tiannan asks where he's been, and Qing lies that he was at a birthday party. She warns him not to be alone with a woman, smoking to cover the smell of perfume so that he can get away from trouble with Yuantu. Qing then finds that the Ye Family paid 1.2 million yuan for just the talisman, to which he realizes a business empire is within his grasp.

Later, Qing meets with Zhai Yu and hands him a protective artifact, and Yu decides that Qing is the first person to sincerely treat him as a friend. Qing asserts that he faces similar hardships that his mother was also from a rich family, and she escaped with Yuantu because her family didn't like him. Qing mentions how they recently came and pressured his parents to marry him off to an ugly woman, to which Yu gives a cheery laugh.

Drunk, Qing approaches home and sneakily grabs Xiao from behind. He finds that Xiao is also drunk and she soon passes out, forcing Qing to carry her inside and put her to bed. He almost makes a move on her before promising himself never to drink again.

The next day, Qing prepares for the class reunion by buying a choice of clothes. As he keeps a mental note to buy a car next, he runs into his old classmate, Zhou Bu Qun. As Bu Qun tries to taunt him, Qing retaliates, telling him that Waner personally invited him to the reunion. As Bu Qun angrily walks off, Qing recalls his high school days. Qing vows to take revenge by making him lose face at the reunion.

Qing decides to buy a car, and with choosing a more "feminine" one, the car dealers converse behind him with slight bias.

Later that night, Qing arrives at the reunion and sits next to Zi Yan. Zi Yan tells him about Bu Qun's bet that Qing would come in his school uniform. Qing notes that he only met him hours earlier while he was shopping for clothes, and Bu Qun glares at him from a distance. Qing provokes Bu Qun by reminding him to treat everyone to a meal next week, as he lost the bet. After a while flirting with Zi Yan, Qing grows tired of Bu Qun's infuriating and puts him in his place humiliating him in front of their friends forcing him to leave and to enjoy the party.

After the reunion, Qing comes to Hua Hua's place to her fighting with her father to whom owes money. He saves Hua Hua when her father tries to sell her body for money. Qing makes a deal with him to cut ties with her and if he ever bothered his daughter again, he will torture him. As Hua Hua's father leaves, Qing spends the night with her.

The next day after school, Qing is asked by Zi Yan to come to the Basketball Club. They talk about a new medical formula and not long after started flirting with each other. Qing is then kissed romantically by Zi Yan showing her interest and love for him. The moment is cut off short when Bu Qun in anger throws a ball at them though Qing catches it.

Later that night, Qing is doing his homework. His mother walks in to see him and asks him if their is any girl he likes to which he does. He listens to the problems she has with her family. She hopes that Qing will go to the National University to get rid of his arrange marriage. Qing then summons his sword but was surprised that it's in a different form. He's contacted by Yu who's mad at him for not coming to the auction.

Qing comes to Shi Zhen Auction House. While seeing Yu being popular, Qing is confronted by a distinguish couple insulting him. Qing puts them in their place and the couple is banned forever by Yu who witness the scene. As they talk about his aunt's murder, Qing is greeted by Qing Mei and Chen Xi. The 2 are escorted by Yu to a private room above the main room. Qing and Chen Xi gets into a heated moment but get interrupted by Yu. They watch as the auction goes on.

On the way home, Qing discovers a powerful murderous aura. He goes to see that an elderly woman and her bodyguards are confronted by a Jianwu messenger in a purple robe named Xu Ran. He witnesses Ran's power of her killing them all in a blink of an eye. Qing confronts the woman and the 2 fight. Qing manages to kill her though he was greatly injured due to her bullets with a powerful aura. Qing arrives at Hua Hua's place and is put on her bed. He's soon confronted by an angry Chen Xi who was called by Hua Hua to come heal his wound. He reveals he killed a Jianwu messenger shocking both Chen Xi and Hua Hua. He listens to Chen Xi about the organization and also the ranks of a Material Artist. Qing's injuries heal and leaves before telling Chen Xi that she can learn to heal wounds fast.

The next day at school, Qing is sleeping a gets waken up by his homeroom teacher Tong Fei. He makes a bet with his teacher to take the next exams for the Top 10. Qing is approached by Zi Yan after hearing rumors that he's cheating on her with Oran. He hugs Oran which makes Zi Yan jealous. During lunch break, Qing is informed that the medical formula he given to Zi Yan was poison to his shock. Qing is told by her to stop training material arts and gives him a med from her family. He also warn that if she sees him training, she'll break up with him.

As Qing comes home, he gets punished by his dad then soon noticed Chen Xi is here and that she came to give him medicine from the Tang Family to which Qing already knows about. Qing teaches Chen Xi how to deal with Wang Chuan. As she gets injured, Qing heals her. Their soon interrupted by his father as they almost got into a moment.

In his room, Qing summons his scabbard for his sword and makes it into a mask. He then gets a text from Chen Xi telling him to meet her and her mother at Yu Restaurant's Secret Dishes to talk business. At the restaurant, Qing states to Qing Nei that his boosting Elixir will be done in 1 week. He asks Qing Mei if he can see the Ye's cultivation techniques to which she refuses saying the book has been passed down for generations and that no outside can have it. Qing Mei also advises Qing to quit material arts stating it wont end well for him. This seems to bother him and goes visit Yu about all this and Yu reveals it's too dangerous for a man to do material arts and could possibly die. Qing gets a text from Hua Hua that some packages from the Tang family arrived and he goes to her.

At Hua Hua's home, Qing increases his power. After that, he kisses Hua Hua and the two get into a heated moment.

The next day, Qing is found by Mao to meet with Chen Xi. Upon seeing Chen Xi, Qing gets a drink from her only to be drugged by her like before. He's taken to a motel and when he comes to, he sees Chen Xi on top of him on a bed. He discovers that she's still a virgin and this is her first time having sex. When finished, Qing asks her why she didn't do this with her past boyfriends only to find out they meant nothing to her. Qing receives the Ye's old material arts book from her. As he kisses her, he puts in her a power that increases a level for Material Artists known as Qiong Ye. Chen Xi tries it on Qing but no effect. She soon gets on top of Qing to control him to continue their night together.

The next day at school, Qing is approached by Zi Yan's friend Tao Yunyao telling him that her friend wants to see him. He goes to the Sport Club Office to see Zi Yan in an angry mood wondering where he was yesterday evening. Qing tells her he was at a motel sleeping with Chen Xi. When hearing that Zi Yan wants to kill Chen Xi, Qing would not allow it. This gets the 2 in an arm wrestling match and if he wins, Zi Yan won't kill Chen Xi, but if she wins, she'll kill her. Qing notes that Zi Yan's strength is higher than Chen Xi but he manages to defeat her. As Qing leaves the office, he's told by Zi Yan that even if they don't get married, she won't let him go and will involve him in her life forever.

As Qing enters his home, he sees his mother and father with a woman who's named Gong Yue and reveals to be his fiancee by arrange marriage. He sees a letter that was sign by her family and Chu An Lan ripping the letter in half. As he and Yue make their way downstairs, they get into a fight. Qing notes that Yue is stronger than Ziyan. When summoning his sword, Yue gives up.

2 day later at school, Qing along with Mao are watching the sports run. Qing is approached by Xiao Wu reminding him about the basketball game coming up though Qing ignores him. When Wu throws the book Qing was reading away, Qing throws a book at him angrily telling Wu to pick it up. Wu tries to attack him but was blocked by Mao. The fight soon was stopped when Tao Yunyao intervene. In the classroom, Qing along with Mao is approached by Bu Qun and his team of what he did to Wu and reminds him of the basketball game in the afternoon. Qing decides to go since he made a promise to Ziyan to come. Qing with Mao arrive to the game and are lead by Zhang Xifei to sit on the sidelines. Qing is later soon put in the game by Zi Yan due to Li Huanger making a bet with her. The team wins by default when Qing reveals that Team 2's captain is a girl.

Three days after the game, Qing is informed by Mao that Zi Yan wants to see him at the Material Arts Training Center Pavilion which is owned by Zi Yan's nanny, Ting Yu. In a boxing ring he fights Zi Yan only to learn that Zi Yan wanted to have sex with him when she romantically kisses him. As the 2 get it on, they are interrupted by Zi Yan's nanny who wants to speak with Qing alone. As the two talk, they both get into a fight with Qing overpowering Yu. Outside of the center, Qing is approached by Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei begging him to forgive them. Qing and Zi Yan walk home together talking about love and possible getting married, however they are soon interrupted by a Taoist woman. Qing notes that her powers are above his. He orders Zi Yan to go. Qing fights the woman but is overpowered. They go into an empty wherehouse but are interrupted by the arrival of Yue. While the Taoist is distracted by Yue, Qing manages to kill the woman. Qing and Yue go to a motel to talk and make a deal. He learns all about Jianwu. He provides gold round pills exchange for Wang Chuan bullets. He uses his power to make Yue's face beautiful though her body still remains the same. This makes Yue want to kill him. However, he says he still wants to help her while he leaves.

Qing returns home having dinner with his parents. As he talks to them about the Chu family matters, he believes that the family is their enemy. Qing calls his sister to here over the phone she's sleeping with her boyfriend Xing Tao. Qing pulls their legs by saying he's one of his sister's boyfriends.

The next day, Qing teaches Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei material arts. He's soon interrupted by Chen Xi who brings him milk tea. They're soon met with a bodyguard of the Tang family wanting Qing to meet the Host. He's taken to meet and talk with Zi Yan's mother Tang Jie and her father Yu. When Zi Yan approaches the trio, Qing kisses her in front of her parents however forgets he did it in front of Chen Xi. He's then shoved in Chen Xi's car forcing to have sex with her. As he leaves to head home, Qing is warn not to get close to any other woman but her. Qing gets a call from his sister that she's in danger once again, but she's at Jiu Sheng Meng Si.

Qing heads to the place inside seeing his sister beat up. He's approached by the owner Meng Zui. Qing fights but stops as Zui wants to make a deal with him only to get Qing in bed with her and have sex. After that, Qing leaves with his sister and heads home.

At home, Qing asks his dad if mom was home yet. Yuantu says she's been staying late to discover that his mom's company is having problems. He call Chen Xi about and she tells him that it's his fault with this being a warning fro Zi Yan's mother.

The next day, Qing meets with his mother in hopes to help with her company's problems. Much to his annoyance, Chen Xi appears and wants to help too. He call Hua Hua to also help out. Qing asks Chen Xi to get a gun for him to which she accepts. He's then pulled into the bathroom by her to get intimidated with her. Qing runs from Chen Xi when she figures out he's got a new woman behind her back.

Later that night, Qing tries to see Xing Tao to talk with him. Driving on Vermillion Bird Road, He's stopped by Zi Yan. He's informed by Zi Yan about the 10 Great Experts in Jinmen. After his talk with Zi Yan, he head to Hua Hua's place thank her for helper his mother's company problem. He's asks her for help for him to get into the Xing Family's household. They're soon interrupted by Chen Xi presenting a rifle to Qing. Qing then tells Chen Xi to go sit in the living room since he and Hua Hua had business. Having enough of Chen Xi's misunderstandings, Qing takes Chen Xi to her car. However, he's grabbed by her forcing him in the car trying to get heated with him. Qing turns the tables that he'll be the one to punish her thus the 2 having sex once more. Qing in a way proposes to Chen Xi and heads back to Hua Hua.

With the help from Hau Hau, Qing sneaks into the Xing's mansion almost getting caught by Xing Wei. He makes it to Tao's room to speak with him. Qing gets him to lure out Wei so he can talk to Xing Lie. Qing sneaks into Xing You's room before she comes out from taking a shower. You approaches Qing and kisses him. However Qing headbutts her knocking You out cold. He then goes and meets with Lie wanting her to have her son marry his sister though she denies it. The 2 fight though Qing is being overpowered. As Lie prepares to finish him off, Qing shows her on his phone a man she's hiding. With this, they come to an agreement. Qing is told by Lie that if his sister can purchase a house in a certain time, she will marry her son to her, however if Xiao fails, she'll be married into the Xing family. As he leaves, he's approached by You who reveals that she was the one who beat up Xiao. Qing slaps her then exits the mansion. As he spends the night with Hua Hua, Qing gets a call by Zi Yan reminding him about his bet with his homeroom teacher to take the exams for the Top 10.

The next day at school, Qing takes the exams. After class, He along with Zi Yan, Yunyao, and Mao have lunch together. When he gets home, he sees Hua Hua who was invited by his mother as thanking her for helping with her company. Qing goes to his room speaking to his mother about his relationship with Hua Hua since he has Chen Xi. When being asked by Tiannan what he'll do, he replies that he marry all of them. He then goes to Xiao's room to inform his sister about her situation and what she must do if she wants to be with Tao. Escorting Hua Hua out, He asks her to work for his mother to which she agrees. He hugs and kisses her though his mother is watching them in anger. As Qing returns, he asks Tiannan for Hua Hua to work for her. He also wants her company to get bigger because of the Chu family and is not afraid of his grandmother.

Qing goes to see Zui about their deal from before. As Zui began to flirt with him, Qing forcibly kisses her which makes her angry. The 2 fight but come to make another deal. As Qing exits the building, He swores to conquer Zui and having her name changed to "Chu".

The next day, Qing visits his mother's company to see how Hua Hua is doing. He then goes to school to find out that he cheated during the exams. He's taken to the staff room only to find out he didn't cheated but another student did. He's congratulate by Zi Yan for making it to the Top 10. During homeroom, Qing is annoyed that You Wei transferred to the school being in the same class as him. During lunch break, Qing talks to Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei about You Wei's lies about him and later gets insulted by You Wei, but Zi Yan scares him off. After school, Qing gets in his car but noticed danger and escapes from being blown up. He calls his students to investigate who's trying to kill him.

Qing gets contacted by Zui wanting to see him. As he approaches her, Qing learns that Zui is feeling horny and wants to sleep with him. Qing refuses and tries to leave only to be stopped by Zui ripping off his clothes. The 2 proceed to have sex. After that, Qing attacks Zui and manages to escape angering her. That same night, Qing is contacted by his students revealing that the person who put a bomb in his car was working for You Wei. With this, Qing swores revenge on You Wei and heads to Jinmen Airport where You Wei is waiting for someone to pick up. He's stopped by Zi Yan warning him not to kill You Wei and that she'll do it for him but Qing refuses and proceeds forward. When Zi Yan and her mother came to stop Qing, they are held back by Chen Xi and her mother.

At the airport, Qing confronts Li You Wei to kill him, however he has to fight Li Ju to get to You Wei so they go outside. As Qing fights Ju, he manages to kill her then kills You Wei along with a bodyguard. Qing returns to the airport to see a woman who You Wei was waiting for. He tells her that he killed You Wei then knocks the woman out taking her hostage. On the road, Qing manages to get past Li Yan and Zui's tag team and heads to Yunjiang River.

At the river, Qing takes the woman and bullies her to get information. The woman is reveals to be Qiao Wei, a college student from the National University in the Imperial Capital to study medicines though she ended up being expelled and was sent to Jinmen City by her family to meet with the Li family due to an agreement which both families made.

The next morning, Qing brings Wei to his home only to find everything destroyed by Yan. Qing takes her to the Ye mansion being happily greeted by Chen Xi. Feeling uneasy to face his parents after hearing that his sister is held hostage by Zui, Qing pretends to go missing disguising himself as Mr. Jian posing as a master. He and Chen Xi goes to meet with Qing Mei and Jinzhu. The group discusses about the Li family's revenge and starting a company to make better medicines and to have Qing Mei's eldest daughter Ye Wan Qing to run the company to which they all agree.

On the road, Qing and Chen Xi are followed by Jianwu Envoys trying to kill Chen Xi. Qing defeats them and gets info from one of them revealing that they're sent by Huang Kai Shan head of Jianwu who teams up with Yan labeling Chen Xi as a wanted criminal. Qing is injured by the their Wang Chuan bullets. He goes to Wei to get treatment. Qing is informed that Chen Xi's mother finished setting up the company they need and goes their. He names it Ye's Pharmaceutical.

Qing is summoned by Lie to see him though the Ye family from Chen Xi. Qing meets with Lie informing him about Yan and Kai Shan's relationship also revealing that the Li family owned the Ancient Material Arts and dealing with the major families.

After a talk with Lie, Qing and Chen Xi goes visits Zhai Yu. Qing asks him to get some finest jade and special spirit materials. Returning to Ye's Pharmaceutical, Qing and Chen Xi are planing to lure Kai Shan by making a fake dragon scale though they'll need Hua Hua's help. After a while, he goes to see Wei only to be knocked out with a powerful drug she developed only for him. When he comes to, Qing is tied to the bed and stripped to his boxers by Wei. Qing threatens her to make the antidotes he needs or she will die.

Sunset at Yunjiang River, Qing, Chen Xi, and Hua Hua do their plan to lure out Kai Shan. He creates a golden dragon as Hua Hua takes pictures of it with Chen xi in it. On the way back, Qing is confronted by Jianwu Envoys with one of them asking where Chen Xi is. Qing defeats them all. He is greeted by the commander of the Cheng Fang Army, Tang Zhi and soon confronted by Kai Shan. As he battles Kai Shan, Qing realizes that Kai Shan was the one who attacked Qing Mei when first meeting. Their fight was stopped by the arrivals of the 3 major families' Heads. Qing decides to leave and reveals to Hua Hua that Mr. Jian is him.

At Ye's Pharmaceutical, Qing talks to Qing Mei and Chen Xi about killing Kai Shan and needs help to which Qing Mei agrees. Qing goes to see how Wei is doing learning she made Wang Chuan medicine then romantically kisses her making her fall to her knees and carrying her to her bed then leaves.

The next day at Yunjiang River, Qing and Qing Mei prepare to ambush Kai Shan. As Kai Shan arrives, Qing manages to kill him. Suddenly, Qing and Qing Mei are shocked to see a real dragon exists in the river. Qing gets the dragon away from Qing Mei and fights it. By using "Dragon Seal", Qing manages to capture it and plans to take the "Dragon Qi" to use on Gong Yue. However much to his anger, Zui arrives and steals the power. As Zui leaves, Qing tells her not to hurt his sister. He soon learns that the news has spread.

A day after at a temporary residents, Qing is with his parents. His mother speaks to him about where Xiao is and Qing promises to save her and bring her home. He learns that Tiannan was a Material Artist before leaving the Chu family.

3 days after, Qing and Chen Xi picks up Wan Qing at San Francisco International Airport where they also meet Xiao Yu new leader of Jianwu. Qing and Chen Xi takes Wan Qing to Ye's Pharmaceutical where she gets checked up on and later becoming the President of the company. During a meeting with Chen Xi, Wan Qing, Wei, and the staff, Qing scolds Wei for her research of making a healing medicine that wasn't as good as the Tang's. In his office, Qing speaks with Wan Qing and the 2 almost got into a fight. Qing then spies on Wan Qing and Meier's conversation. When Meier threatens her cousin's life, Qing and Chen Xi intervene and force Meier to leave. As he continues his work, he learns that Lie has exposed to the people about the dragon using the fake scale he made knowing she didn't betray him.

Qing is contacted by Zhai Yu to meet with him at a bar and all they talked about was the dragon at Yunjiang River. Returning to his office, he sees Wei sneaking by his door and intimidates her. He's soon notified by Chen Xi and Wan Qing that their mother is under attack by Yan. Chen Xi wants to help, but Qing refuses and knocks her out leaving her with her sister. On his way to Qing Mei, he calls Zui for help, but she refuses. He makes his way to Yunshan Mountain finding Qing Mei and Jinzhu and stands by their side facing Yan and her allies. Yan tries to make a deal with Qing to kill Qing Mei and be rewarded, but Qing refuses and the battle continues. Qing manages to save Qing Mei from Zhang Xu Dong's attack but fails when she got piece by Xudong's poison. As he was about to be killed by Yan, Qing is saved by an old Taoist who appears and is named Wu Dunren leader of Quan Zhen Cult. Qing then fights Dunren. The battle between the 2 parties comes to an end when Xiao Yu intervenes making Yan and her family to retreat. As Yu leaves, Qing is told by her that he owes her for this and Qing replies that he will. He along with Ye family's members treat Qing Mei and Jinzhu taking them to Ye's Pharmaceutical. Qing checks up on Qing Mei revealing that the poison in her body has triggered and he cannot cure her. He's told by Qing Mei to keep Chenxi safe. He learns from her about the conflict between Ye and Li families, her late husband being a spy, and how Wan Qing became ill. When Qing Mei says that the hatred between both families can't be resolved, Qing figures out that the cause of this hatred was by Ye Mei being a traitor in the Ye family secretly giving the Li family information due to her grudge against Qing Mei. During Qing Mei's check up, Qing warns Qiao Wei to keep Qing Mei's condition a secret from the Ye sisters. In the hallway, he bumps into Chen Xi who's still mad at him and won't forgive him so easily. Qing catches her off guard by romantically kissing her though it's not enough for her to forgive him. He tells her to go accompany her mother to which she does. Qing fears that when Chen Xi and Wan Qing discover that Qing Mei is dying, they will hate him. He also decides of wanting to get rid of Xudong.

The next day at Ye's mansion in Qing Mei's office, Qing learns that Qing Mei will go the the Li family next day. He's surprised that she approves of him and Chen Xi getting married in the future. Qing tells her to wait for him as he goes to find a helping hand to battle with the Li family though suspects Qing Mei will leave without saying goodbye.

At Ji Jin Bar, Qing is supposed to meet with Zui. As he enters the building, he finds his sister Xiao working at her post as the bartender. As he checks up on her, the Chu siblings are confronted by Zui but instead of fighting, he and Zui drink together. Qing is offered some wine by Zui only to discover that it's poisoned made effectively for Taoists after drinking it thus getting knocked out cold. He has a nightmare where those that he's killed in the past approach and taunt him. As he wakes up, Qing finds himself at Jiu Sheng Meng Si stripped and strapped in a chair which weakens Taoists that Zui paid for just for him. He's warned by Zui of owning him, his sword, his mask, and everything that belongs to him. Qing responds by shooting a beam of golden light from his mouth to Zui's right eye making it glow along with his left eye revealing it's a co-existence and co-death curse and for anyone who's under the curse, the soul will enter into a contract with the person who casts it and if one of them dies, the other one will doe as well. The 2 get into a fight but stopped. He explains to her about Qing Mei going to the Li's house since she's dying and asks Zui to help him, but she immediately refuses as she made an alliance to the 3 major families not to get involved and orders him to leave. As he goes, Qing reminds Zui about the curse he putted on them. Almost exiting the building, he's approached by a Xing family bodyguard informing him that his sister returned with 2 more bodyguards and Xing Wei to rescue him and confront Zui. As he returns, he sees the 2 masters fighting each other then approaches Xiao letting her know he's unharmed. As Wei attempts to hurt Xiao believing the young girl lied about her brother's rescue, Qing steps in punching the old woman back and with this, the battle comes to an end and Wei leaves. As Qing and Xiao prepare to leave as well, he's stopped when Zui decides to help him under 1 condition is for him to release the curse of life and death though Qing needs to solve the problem and asks her to think of a new condition. While his sister is being checked up on by Zui's doctor, Qing is caught of guard when Zui makes her condition for him to marry her in order for her to help him. They both come to an agreement to sign a marriage certificate by being honest and all their belongings go to each other.

During the morning, Qing and Zui arrive at Lumenzhong Civil Affairs Bureau. Qing is informed by her that if a person's name is written on the certificate, that person can marry several people, but if two people are on the front of the certificate, they cannot get married. They change into their wedding outfits and getting their picture taken like a couple. The marriage certificate is complete with Qing's name on the front and the 2 are now husband and wife. As they both prepare to leave to go to the Ye's house and to help his parents move to Zhuque Street, Zui asks Qing to show her his sword to which he does. Qing sees that she cannot pull it out of the sheath but she manages to pull it out a 2nd time. He tells her he will find someone to take over Jiu Sheng Meng Si. As he's being dropped off at the Ye house, Qing is warn by Zui that since they're married he can't mess with other women including Chen Xi or she'll mess with other men. Zui reveals to him she's pregnant and he asks if the child is his but she claims she had many men and doesn't know who the father is but plans to give birth to it and drives off. At the Ye house, Qing is approached by Chen Xi telling him her mother left and she doesn't know where she went. He realizes that Qing Mei went to the Li house alone and he'd wasted so much time with Zui. Qing gets a spare car from Chen Xi and drives to the Li house. While waiting for something to happen at the house, he sees Li Huanger in a blue car leaving and decides to follow her. Qing speeds up realizing Huanger has discover him following her and smashes her car flipping it over. As Huanger gets out of the car with minor injures, Qing pins her down to get answers from her. In the moment, Qing discovers that Huanger looks just like Chen Xi and wonders if the 2 are really half-sisters. Qing asks her if she has seen Qing Mei to which Huanger replies that Yan got a letter from Qing Mei and her mother went to Hantan Beach. Qing warns her if she is lying to him, he will kill her and walks away. At the moment, Huanger pulls out a gun and fires at him though Qing puts up a barrier around him deflecting the bullet back at her but Huanger manages to protect herself by using a magical artifact to which Qing notes it is from Quan Zhen Cult. As he drives to Hantan Beach, he calls Xiao Yu for help and also to give something to Gong Yue then messages Zui where he will be.

At Hantan Beach, Qing is up in a tree thinking that Huanger lied to him. He uses his phone to distract the enemys and gets fired at by Xu Dong though this was to get him out into the open so Qing Mei can get him. Qing puts on his disguised and kills one of the Taoists though he was hoping it would be Xu Dong. He is soon confronted by Dunren to finish what they had started, but the old man gets contain by a Wang Chuan bullet. As Qing goes to help Qing Mei, he gets attacked by Xu Dong. Suddenly a Wang Chuan bullet hits and kills Xu Dong. Qing notes that the bullet belongs to Zui and that she has come saving his life. As Qing watches Qing Mei and Yan fight, he gets attacked from behind by Li Yuan but is saved by Xiao Yu making the elder to retreat. Qing sees that Qing Mei and Yan's fight comes to an end as Qing Mei manages to kill Yan, but becomes horrified that Qing Mei got struck in the chest by Yan's knife falling to the ground. Qing is given the knives by Qing Mei and is told to throw them away and Qing Mei dies in his arms. Qing throws the knives away in the river. He turns around to see Zui being chased by Yunjiang Rivers dragon. Qing saves Zui and seals the dragon. As Xiao Yu comes to them surprised to see the dragon, it breaks free and goes after her with Qing desperately trying to save her. After the dragon tail whips Yu, it turns to Qing with Zui hiding behind him. Qing manages to use his power scaring the dragon away. The group realizes that the dragon is heading for Qing Mei's body. As they arrive, the dragon gets the corpses and heads back into the river. He's told by Yu that she'll never tell anyone about the dragon and shocks Zui about his fiancee, Gong Yue. Qing gives 2 choices to Yu which is either sell the news or keep it in her mind and not tell anyone to which Yu goes for the 2nd choice and is asked when the news can be spread to which Qing replies only until the Li family are all dead. Qing hands a material information to Yu to give to Yue for her illness as she leaves. Qing notes he made 4 material informations and gave 2 of them to his mother and Chen Xi. Qing sees that Zui is angry at him for not telling her that he had a fiancee. Qing becomes very weak due to Xu Dong's poison. As they both leave the beach, he tells Zui that Yue is part of Jianwu and the Chu family arranged their engagement. Curious to know if Zui is pregnant or not, Qing checks up on Zui with his power but coughs up blood as he collapses. The 2 arrive back at Dream Drunks. Qing is resting to heal himself with Zui watching over him though unaware that his sister is told by Zui about their marriage.

2 days after, Qing wakes up to see his parents and sister next to him. When Xiao tells her brother what Zui said about her rescuing their parents knowing that the Ye house is not safe, Qing realizes the news of Qing Mei and Yan's deaths have been spread and leaves to go to Ye's Pharmacy. Qing enters into Wan Qing's office to see her, Chen Xi, and Wei looking at him with angry eyes. Qing assumes that Wei has told Wan Qing everything but surprised at Chen Xi that she didn't attack him. Qing apologizes to the sisters though Wan Qing is angry that Qing didn't tell them about Qing Mei's condition and Chen Xi couldn't even look at him but tells him that her mother is not dead but hiding somewhere. Qing tells them that Qing Mei's wish is to make Chen Xi Head of the Ye family though Wan Qing believes Qing wants to marry Chen Xi and be the master of the family. When asked by Wan Qing where her mother's body is, Qing replies that the body was eaten by Yunjiang River's dragon which makes Wan Qing angry and goes forth to kill him, but Wan Qing stops and cries with Chen Xi comforting her. As Qing leaves the office, he sees that Wei was by the door eavesdropping. He tells Wei that the drugs she's been developing will be promoted soon. Qing heads back into his office and thinks the current situation for the Ye family and why the Tang family didn't destroy the Li family first believing due to the fact that Chen Xi and Huanger are half sisters. He realizes the the poison in his body is terrible too.

Qing heads back to Drunken Dreams to give Zui an artifact he made. Upon see her, Qing had woken her up from her sleep being told by Zui of pregnant women being inherently lethargic. Qing tries to check if the child is his to which Zui responses by dodging his attack. Qing gives her the artifact and leaves when Zui tells him he's not the father. As he goes, he swears he will find the father of Zui's child and kill him. At night in Ji Jin Bar, Qing is drinking with Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei who have been practicing hard in their Material Arts. When Qing asked them what they were going to do after they graduate, they say that they'll go to the Pheasant University and they also plan to do mixed society but need Qing to talked to Zi Yan and go to the Tang family. Qing raises his cup to make them drunk and dreamy if they are willing to go. While the trio are drunk, Qing tells them he's married to Zui and orders them to find all the men Zui had previous relationships with.

The next day at Drunken Dreams, Qing introduces the trio to Chu Xin, second-in-command who'll be in charge of them. Qing later gets a call from Chen Xi to meet her at an amusement park to discuss the current situation with the Ye family. Qing listens as Chen Xi reveals that the park they're at is memories when she and her mother came to the park to play revealing she had no father, only her mother and sister. Chen Xi asks Qing what her mother told him before she died and Qing says for him to take care of her and Wan Qing. When Qing asks her how she wants him to take care of her, Chen Xi says she wants to be Head of her family. Qing learns about the current situation of the Ye family from Chen Xi that her aunt Mei is almost controlling the family and will make dirty moves to be the Head since both Chen Xi and Mei will run for Head of the Ye family. He also learns that members of the Li and Tang families will be present at the meeting next day. When Chen Xi gets a call saying her sister was assassinated, Qing finds it hard to believe and the 2 decide to go to Wan Qing. On the road, Qing and Chen Xi are followed by 2 cars and 1 of the cars goes in front of them. Stopping them was Mei who confronts them and Qing goes to face her irritating Mei. However, Mei knows about Qing's strength not wanting to die and retreats. Qing and Chen Xi heads back to Ye's Pharmacy to see Jinzhu still recovering and Wan Qing in a wheelchair with a broken leg. Chen Xi and Wan Qing are ordered by their aunt to leave wanting to speak with Qing in private. They talk about the current situation in the Ye family and wanting for Chen Xi to become head. Qing asks Jinzhu if both Chen Xi and Wan Qing have the same parents to which Jinzhu says that Qing Mei gave birth to 3 daughters and that Mao was adopted due to her sister wanting a son in the family much to Qing's shock. Qing asks her about the 3rd daughter and that the knives Qing Mei and Yan used in their final battle had writing on them. Jinzhu doesn't say and asks Qing to leave her to rest. Qing leaves and still wonders what happen between Ye and Li families. As Qing leaves the building, he's texed by Chen Xi saying he and Wan Qing must not see each other for the time being and agrees. Qing goes to Zui and requests her to accompany him the the Ye house for the meeting but she refuses. Qing reveals to Zui that the child has absorbed the Dragon Spirit Qi and will be on the verge of death since the power was in the dragon for decades. Zui becomes horrified as she doesn't what to loose her child. Qing tells her he can save the child while still in her belly and with this, Zui agrees to accompany him to the Ye house for the meeting. Qing heads into a room and contacts Xiao Yu about the meeting at Ye house. He notes the poison in his body has nothing to do with Zui's child and can't do much. Qing's spiritual power is sufficient to keep alive and smiles that he'd lived enough for 2 lifetimes.

The next morning, Qing is about to take Zui's red sports car but is stopped by the woman who comes to him with a huge violin case and the car key. Zui tells Qing she's going not just for him but doesn't want Qing to die. Zui didn't want to go but changed her mind to get to know Qing a lot better and informs him that Lie was willing to send someone to pick him up. While driving to the Ye house, Zui says if anything happens to the child, she will die and is why she can't let Qing die to which Qing thanks her making her blush. Qing tells her the dragon can't bear it's power alone and there's a creature that would appear next to the dragon to help it and if Zui finds this creature, the child will be find and after birth, the child will have the aptitude as the dragon which gets Zui's hopes up. Qing says that only he can find the creature since Zui can't deal with the dragon in her condition. Zui sees that Qing is worried about her and cares for her. They arrive at the Ye house. Upon entering the council hall, they see members of the Ye, Tang, and Li families are present. Though Zui gets welcomed, Qing does not as he gets belittled by some of the woman except Chen Xi who says Qing is her fiancee. As Qing mocks Tang Jie since she mocked him, he is saved from Jie's attack with Zui shooting at the Head. As the meeting begins, Qing keeps his distance from the women since he knows he's not welcomed by the families. He notes that Mei's daughter Meier and a member of the Tang family are not present. Qing believes that both Mei and Jie are hiding something. One of the elders, Ye Tao is voted to be the next Head of the Ye family by Jie. Thanks to Qing's interference, the Ye family agrees of giving the position to Tao though Mei objects. Qing texts Zui to have Mei use her gun which happens as Mei kills Tao. An almost intense fight between Jie with her sister, Zhi against Mei, Huanger, Yuan, and Dunren gets stopped by Wan Qing who plays a recorded video of Jie and Tao together. This makes Jie and her sister leave the house. Qing reminds Jie of You Wei. Qing is warned by Zhi silently saying "You wait" and Qing replies by saying to her "I'll wait for you". As the meeting continues, Mei states that Chen Xi tried to kill Meier who is seriously injured though everyone didn't believe her. As Meier is brought in the hall covered in bandages, Qing shoots at Meier who manages to dodge the bullets. Qing embarrasses Meier in front of everyone stating about her fear from high buildings. Meier gets mad and tries to slap Qing though he block it. Mei gets her gun and forces the elders to vote for her except for Ye Yue and with this, Mei is the Head of the Ye family. Mei orders Dunren and Yuan to hold back Qing and Zui as she goes forth to kill Chen Xi, but is held off by Qing who kills Ye Ling. Mei gets protected by Huanger who pushes back Qing using a poison attack. Qing notes that Huanger's poison power is stronger than Xu Dong's. Mei demands to known from Qing why he killed an elder from the Ye family due to being a capital crime which was answered by Wan Qing stating that Ling did cruel things to good people and abused her position to get personal benefits. Qing then mentions that Xiao Yu is outside. He also mentions about Jie and her people going to the Li family to kill them which has shaken Huanger and with this, Huanger tells Yuan and Dunren they're leaving much to Mei's objection as the Li family promised to help Mei become Head and make the Ye family a branch of the Li family. Mei tries to stop them from going but no use as she's shot to death by Xiao Yu and with Mei's corpse thrown at Qing's feet fulfilling their agreement. Meier comes back to discover her mother's dead body, crying while comfort the lifeless body. She angrily blames her cousins and Qing. Meier pulls out a detonator which triggers explosives under the ground which were placed by her and her mother. Meier says she wants to escape and a check for 5 billion from the empire bank. However, she falls to her knees as her strength weakens and her body starts to deteriorate revealing Qing had poisoned her from the moment she returned to the council hall and dies. The meeting comes to an end and both Yue and Ye Xing are excused. Wan Qing congratulates Qing and asks when he'll marry Chen Xi only for Zui to step in say Qing is married to Zui showing them their marriage certificate shocking both Ye sisters. Qing leaves the hall and coughs up blood due to Huanger's poison. However, he is seen by Jinzhu who arrives realizing he can no longer hide his injuries. As he makes it outside, Qing sees Yu waiting for him and he, Zui, and Yu return to Drunken Dreams.

At Drunken Dreams, Qing is carried to his room by Zui. He gives a paper to Zui for her to get him medicinal materials while he recovers form his wounds. Yu comes to see Qing since she knew Qing wanted to speak with her. He gives Yu is a material art jade pendant to help repair her nerves. Yu tells Qing she will help him again since the Li family are not dead yet. Qing says that the Li family must die in 10 days. Yu says that the Ye family is powerless and the Tang family has no guts. She assumes that Qing want's to go alone to finish the Li family. Yu checks the poison from Qing revealing it as "Wu Sha". They talk about the differences of both "Wang Chen" and "Wu Sha" which are techniques from the Empress of the Imperial Capital. Zui returns giving Qing the medicine he needs and Yu leaves to wait on Qing's orders. Qing is guarded by Xin and 2 bodyguards under Zui's orders while he recovers from his injuries. Some days later, Qing is seen standing by an open window. Zui and his mother came to him believing he's in trouble, but got worried for nothing. Qing realizes Zui has not told his mother about his injuries. Qing and Zui discuss about the issues with the major families which seems to upset Zui. She asks if Qing is doing this for the sake of the Ye family and Chen Xi, though Qing states he'd promised Qing Mei to make the Ye family most respected in Jinmen. Zui angrily leaves. Qing meets up with Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei telling him they've dealt with the people in previous relationships with Zui revealing to be 3 women and no men. Upon hearing this, Qing comes to see Zui hugging her so sudden and by using his powers on her belly to discover he is the father of her unborn child. Qing sees now that Zui lied to him about the child not being his.

At Ye's Pharmacy, Qing reveals to Wan Qing and Chen Xi he'd launched Aoba No. 2 medicine by declaring war on the Tang and Li families much to Wan Qing's anger. He tells them on next day, there will be a large-scale pharmaceutical tasting conference at Shi Zhen Auction House and all forces from the 3 cities near Jinmen will come to participate including the Tang and Li families. He says Wan Qing will have to share the interests of Qingye No. 2 medicine in exchange for alliances with major forces in other cities. Qing then visits Zhai Yu who is practicing opera. He tells Yu everything about the medicines for the auction next night. The 2 take a drive down to the auction house. Yu mentions of wanting Qing to catch him the dragon at Yunjiang River to which Qing says he will catch it. At the auction house, they meet Liu Die and Yu has her to arrange a conference meeting for new medicines for the next auction. Qing goes back to Ye Pharmacy telling Wan Qing that he did everything he said and advises her to be prepared. Qing returns home at Drunken Dreams to find Zui in his room waiting for him. She informs him that she is going to kill Bu Qun, Wu, and Xifei for killing the women she had relationships with. Qing admits to her that he'd ordered the trio to kill them and him bringing them to the company not to seize power, but to investigate Zui. When Zui asks why he did this, Qing says it's because he is her husband. Qing then pulls Zui in his arms and romantically kisses her only for him to get a slap in the face. Qing goes to Xin checking to see if his men are harmed, but sees that they're not and being lively as ever. Qing goes outside and is contacted by Zhai Yu when the auction is over, reporting that Ye family's medicine has topped the Tang family's medicine. The next day, Qing gets a call from Wan Qing saying Chen Xi is gone and nowhere to be found. Wan Qing states that Chen Xi may have figured something out and went to go do something stupid for her own reasons. Hearing this, Qing wonders what Chen Xi is doing and tells Wan Qing if she's hiding something from him. Wan Qing reveals to Qing about her and Chen Xi having 2 different fathers and their youngest sister was taken to the Li family. She believes Chen Xi has gone through their mother's remains and discovers secrets and plans to take revenge on the Li family. Qing goes to the amusement park to find Chen Xi but is not their. On the road, he manages to find Chen Xi stopping her in her tracks but accompanies her to take revenge. As the 2 arrive in front of the Li house, Wan Qing and her staff come to help. Soon, Xiao Yu and Tang Zhi arrived with their armies to prevent accidental injuries to civilians. Qing calls Zui to send someone to guard the Ye house. Soon, Zui arrives with her bodyguards to assist. As the alliance prepare to battle Huanger, Yuan, and their bodyguards, unexpectedly Jie and Tang Lian arrive and go forth to battle Huanger and Yuan. However, Huanger gains the upper hand killing Lian and Yuan then injuring Qing and manages to flee the battle. Qing realizes Huanger sucked out all the poison from his body thus saving him. By his order, Qing has everyone retreat and go home letting Huanger go. Qing and Zui return home and discuss about finding the dragon to save their child. Qing also mentions that he wants to move at Vermillion Bird Road.sp and invites Zui to come since she's now part of his family to which she accepts.

The next day, Qing and his family move into their new home at Vermillion Bird Road.sp. He soon pays Lie a visit having their agreement for Xing Tao and Chu Xiao to get married until the Chinese New Year. He gets caught off guard when Lie says Qing should marry her daughter, Xing You though Qing denies it. Qing flees from Lie when he accidentally calls her "Old Xing". Qing goes to Zhai Yu letting him know about catching the dragon at Yunjiang River and needs purple bamboo that is at least 100 years old from the Purple Bamboo Forest. Back at his new home, Qing texts both Xiao Yu and Chen Xi letting them know about catching the dragon in 2 days and will come. Zui discovers Qing's plan and wants to come as well though he denies it, he can't really fight with her. The 2 kiss each other but their moment is interrupted by Xiao who seems to be jealous. Yuantu angrily orders Xiao to go back to her room. Qing is contacted by Zhai Yu who lets Qing know there are many purple bamboos that are old at Ziyun Peak in the Yunjiang River. Qing states to Yu he can buy the whole forest. Unexpectedly, Xing Wei comes to the house telling Qing that Lie wants to see him also warning him that he may not come back home if he denies Lie's request. Qing arrives at the Xing house only to get attacked by Lie after when news spread about a real dragon at Yunjiang River. He's told that a group of people from the 2nd generation in the Imperial Capital came to the house wanting Lie to hand over him to them. Qing asks her to hold them off in exchange to give Lie a part of the dragon when he catches it. Back at home, Qing is contacted by Xiao Yu letting him know the news of the dragon has leaked out and soon, people from the Imperial Capital will come to Jing Men. Qing tells her that they're here in Jing Men and suspects Yu had leaked out the news. He orders Yu to go to Ziyun Peak and wait for him there at Yunshan. She'll meet with Zhai Yu. Soon, Qing is introduced to his cousin, Chu Lan who came to visit. In Qing's room, Lan states to Qing he didn't come to visit and demands his cousin to tell him everything about the dragon and will be rewarded millions of money. Qing irritates Lan refusing to tell him anything thus making Lan to attack him but Qing overpowers him. Lan reveals to Qing on how his Aunt left the family which started when Qing's father was drugged by an elder in the family and with Tian Nan finding out and killing the elder. Lan is forced to leave as Qing scares him off. Qing and Zui leave the house telling his mother they'll be gone for a few days. As they drive to the Ye house to pick up Chen Xi, Qing tells Zui news on the dragon have leaked out and Lie and Lan came to him for that reason. Zui becomes worried of what will happen to their child but is comfort as Qing states even if he does or doesn't catch the dragon, he'll know what to bring back for their child. As they pick up Chen Xi, Wan Qing reveals she leaked out the news on the dragon which made Qing and Zui angry. Qing wants to kill her but is stopped by Chen Xi. Qing threatens Wan Qing if anything happens to the dragon, he'll bury her with it. As Qing, Zui, and Chen Xi leave, Wan Qing laughs hysterically.

At Ziyun Peak, the 3 meet up with Zhai Yu and Xiao Yu to prepare to catch the dragon. Xiao Yu introduces the group to her friend Ashu who came from the Imperial Capital when news leaked out and teams up with the group to find the dragon. As Zhai Yu, Chen Xi, and Zui make a bamboo raft, Shu tells Qing she's interested in him than the dragon stating she knows Qing is from the Chu Family and son of Chu Tian Nan who got kicked out of the family making Qing figure out that Shu's last name is "Gong" and originally she was supposed to marry Qing by arranged marriage before everything changed to Yue supposedly getting married to Qing. A fight breaks between them and stops. Shu warns Qing that more than 30 people came from the Imperial capital with 3 of them being powerful. Zhai Yu and the girls finished making the raft and the group heads upstream the river to find the green dragon, but due to the bamboo changing color, they head downstream knowing where the dragon really is. Suddenly, Shu tries to attack Zui, but Qing manages to save his wife. Shu asks Qing if Zui forced him to marry her to which he replies that he wanted to marry her. Upon hearing this, Shu is furious. Qing reveals that he threw the marriage contract in the trash. As the group continues downstream, they noticed something under them. Qing asks if someone is good handling water to which Zhai Yu says he can hold his breath underwater more that 10 minutes. Qing orders Zhai Yu to fish it. Zhai Yu goes underwater and catches empty snail shells. Qing orders the group to fry the shells and eat them. Zhai Yu cooks them and the group eats the shells except for Qing and Zui. Suddenly, they don't feel so good but having Chen Xi, Xiao Yu, and Shu's powers increasing as well of Zhai Yu's "Golden Eye". Zhai Yu offer's to hold the bamboo for Qing but denies. Qing states in mind that the bamboo pole ties the Yunjiang's luck and the green dragon's luck together. Soon, something else is beneath them. Zhai Yu offers to go in the water but Shu goes instead to find and bring up a golden turtle. Zhai Yu cooks it and he, Chen Xi, Xiao Yu, and Shu eat their share and having their powers increase once more. As night comes, the group sleeps while Qing and Zui stay awake. Zui noticed Qing's hands are bleeding realizing that this dragon hunt is not calm as it seems. She convinces Qing to turn back, but he denies. Zui then tries to hurt the unborn child but Qing stops her saying he won't do things that he's not sure about and it's their child. He's kissed and thanked by Zui realizing he found what he'd miss. When Shu's powers fully increase, Qing switches with her so he an Zui can sleep. The next morning, the group wakes up believing they've hit something in front. They defeat which turns out to be a small high leveled golden carp fish. Qing feels that something may have happen to the dragon. As the group reaches Chen Shan Gorge and Lan's group catches up to them, Qing uses the bamboo to create a giant wave summoning the dragon and as the dragon faints, Qing uses his power on it letting it escape. He is confronted by Cai and Mu and uses is own luck to worship Cai only to fire a golden beam at her and with it hitting Xu whiles she's protecting Cai. Mu tries to punch Qing but is saved by Shu. Winning the fight, Qing orders Lan's group to leave.

At night, Qing shocks the group when mentioning the dragon having a nest in the mountains and will find it in the morning. As the group sleeps, Qing is asked by Shu if he wants to walk together. Qing explains to Shu about finding the dragon to save Zui after she ate its "Dragon Qi" which might kill her. In the moment, Qing gets teased by her leading the two secretly having sex. Soon, the group heads towards the mountain to find the dragon's nest though realizing the forest is filled with traps. They discover a dead woman's corpse. As they continue forward to the nest, they counter more traps and Qing discovers and catches an unknown woman who's hiding in the trees. Qing didn't know what the woman meant when asking him if he's after Qing Xuan's Legacy. Soon, the woman burns herself alive though Qing learns she's from Xuan Nu Palace. Close to the dragon's nest, Qing saves Chen Xi from a trap when going after a person that Chen Xi believes is her mother. Qing discovers a hand print on a tree and turns around to discover an unknown person in a bear skin coat that is stronger than him though that person flees, but Qing catches the person to discover in shock that it's Li Huanger. As Huanger escapes him, Qing realizes the dragon's nest is in the waterfall. Shu catches up to Qing and both catch another woman from the Xuan Nu Palace. By using his "Soul Searching Technique" on the woman, Qing sees that the woman has gave information to her leader about his group and fighting them separately and with this, Qing kills the woman. Soon, Qing and Shu save Zhai Yu and Xiao Yu from getting killed by three women from Xuan Nu Palace. As morning arrives, Xiao Yu and Zhai Yu are ordered to hide while Qing and Shu split up to find Zui and Chen Xi. Shu advises Qing to kill the women if he meets them since he's a man. She tells Qing that she nor her family can provoke them and reveals her father is the younger brother of the Empress. In an open field, Qing kills another warrior and is reunited with Zui. He tells Zui he's found the dragon nest. He's asked if she can lend her his mask to which Qing does by putting a drop of her blood on it so it can recognize her and with this forming the golden sword and Zui testing it's power. Qing tells her the mask can take any form she wants which Zui changes it in to a fancy half golden mask. The group reunites and Qing believes in Chen Xi's words that her mother is alive and saved her. Qing informs them about Huanger in the forest who arranged the traps stating she may be after the dragon's legacy or someone from the Xuan Nu Palace. As the group head's towards the dragon's nest, it starts to rain though Qing states it's a rain technique made by a monk. They're soon confronted by Xuan Nu Palace with their leader being Xue Hu Fa who refuses to talk to Qing but sends Chen Xi to talk to her revealing their after the green dragon and will take them there. At the top of the water fall, the group is pushed of the cliff by the tribe. They soon find a tunnel that leads to the dragon's nest. To their shock, they find the green dragon dead being nothing but bones. Qing discovers the dragon got poisoned after eating Qing Mei's body in exchange of bring Qing Mei back from the dead. Qing uses his power with the dragon's bones to summon a purple companion transferring it into Zui's belly (to save their child's life). Soon, Xuan Nu Palace catches up to them and an angry Hu Fa vowing to kill them for fooling her. With the dragon's luck, Qing awakens the skeletal dragon making it go after the tribe killing them all at once. The journey comes to an end with everyone boarding a helicopter to return home.

On the way back, Qing is annoyed that Shu is following him and Zui of wanting to see their home. Unexpectedly, they're met by Cai, Mu, and Xu. Xu thanks Qing for being merciful of not killing her. He's asked by Cai if he intends to stay in Jing Men for the rest of his life which Qing replies when he's admitted to National University, he'll come to the Imperial Capital. The three girls soon leave returning to the Imperial Capital. Arriving home, Qing interrupts Xiao and Tao who're having fun and introduces Gong Shu to her who's not staying to long. He's notified by his sister that Tang Zi Yan came to the house looking for him to give him an admission ticket for the collage entrance exam next day and that he promised to join at the National University. Shocked by this Qing rushes to a room and starts studying. While he studies, Zui comes in and helps put the books that Qing is done with back on the shelves.

The next day. Qing is seen off by his family wishing him well on the exams and Zui drops him off at school. Qing takes the exams. At night, he calls Zui who is at Drunken Dreams having something to do letting her know he's doing well on his exams and starts studying to be prepare for the next part of the exams. After all of the exams are finished, Qing gets a ride home from Zi Yan. Arriving home, Qing sees Xing Wei letting him know that a lot of eyes are on him. He notices that Zui has not answered his calls and Xiao informs him that Zui left and put him in charge of Drunken Dreams. Shocked by this, Qing finds a letter from Zui saying despite her wanting to live in Jing Men for the rest of her life, she has to solve her own problems with Xuan Nu Palace, but promises to return. Qing wonders why she didn't saying anything to him though believes he's not strong enough to protect her.

A month later, Qing is congratulated by his family, Chen Xi, and Hua Hua for being admitted to the National University and celebrate. After that, he and his sister sees off Chen Xi and Hua Hua. Qing gets a call from Zi Yan to congratulate him for being admitted and that she too has been admitted knowing they'll see each other at the University. He also gets a call by Chu Xin alerting him that Zui is dead but gets surprised at Drunken Dreams to congratulate him for being the first male champion in Jing Men and being admitted to the University throwing him a party that was arranged by Zui. At the party, Qing notices Zui leaving the room and follows her outside. He gets ambushed by three warriors from Xuan Nu Palace, but unexpectedly gets attacked from behind by Zui only to find out it's a disguised. The impostor Zui reveals her true form as the Law Enforcement Elder of the tribe. Qing gets seriously injured and will not make it for ten minutes. Qing refuses to answer the elder where Zui is making the woman hurt him even more, but is stopped when Zui approaches the elder and agrees to go with the tribe if they let Qing go. Qing is given an antidote by Zui to heal him. He's told by Zui to live his own life from now on and to forget and not look for her knowing the tribe won't harm her.

Two days after, Qing goes to Xing Lie asking her where the location of Xuan Nu Palace is, but Lie refuses to answer him since she doesn't know where it is and advises him to forget about it due to the Empire and the Empress being afraid of it. Lie informs him the establishment of the National University is inextricably linked to the Xuan Nu Palace and he may find clues there.

### Imperial Capital Arc

Next day, Qing arrives to the University with Chen Xi and Hua Hua who were request by his parents to go with him. He is introduced to the sophomore Zhou Yuan helping him sign in. To his annoyance, Qing is protected by the girls when getting the attention of other female students. The three go to the Male Dormitory where Qing will being staying. As Qing in a way starts seducing Chen Xi and Hua Hua, the three are soon interrupted by Yuan and two of her friends barging into his room. One of them happens to be a member of his family and Yuan's boss, Chu Xing Yuan. After a brief fight between him and Xing Yuan, Qing tells her that he's got nothing to do with their family. Xing Yuan makes Qing an enemy and she and the girls leave the dormitory. At night, Qing and the girls eat in the cafeteria. Qing tells Hua Hua that now he's in the imperial city, he will need all the information he needs and also wants Chen Xi to make a branch pharmacy in the capital but she has to talk about it with her sister. Qing tells them they can stay at a hotel for the night and find a house for Hua Hua. After dropping of the girls at a hotel, Qing returns to his room finding that Chen Xi sneaked in before he got back. Chen Xi says since she's leaving in the morning, she wants Qing to say goodbye to her which leads the two sleeping together.

By morning, Chen Xi leaves to return to Jing Men and Hua Hua comes to see him commenting on how Chen Xi was worried about him. Hua Hua says she'll remain by Qing's side to which he thanks her for. During the night, Qing thinks on how he hasn't found a clue about Xuan Nu Palace though the biggest problem he has right now is with the Chu family. Zi Yan comes to see him and Qing apologizes that he wasn't able to meet with her on the first day of registration since he was with Chen Xi and Hua Hua to which Zi Yan can relate to. Zi Yan tells him on how he teamed up with the Ye sisters and how her mother was angry for losing in the last auction. She also admits that she still loves Qing and will not let him go giving him a kiss. She declares that her family will not be beaten by the Ye family so easy. They both get a message from the teacher to come to the playground in the morning for military training.

The next day, Qing, Zi Yan, and all new students come to the playground to be trained by three military instructors with one of them being Di Cai much to Qing's surprise to see if all students are worthy of being at the University. Qing is in the group that Cai instructs running five hours straight on the track. During a five minute break, Cai approaches Qing commenting how good his stamina is and being qualified to be her lover and all sorts of things though Qing was not interest. In the boys bathroom, Qing is confronted by two male students wanting to teach him a lesson for seducing Cai. Qing easily defeats them and is soon confronted by their leader, Xiao Teng. Qing makes it clear to Teng that he's got no affections for Cai and finds her annoying. However, Teng will not stand for Qing to think that way of Cai and attacks him only to be defeated. Qing asks Teng what's so good about Cai to which the boy response that Cai is the best of everything and in the world though Qing denies it making Teng to bite Qing's leg. Cal who heard everything interrupts the two ending with Teng running away crying as he embarrasses himself in front of Cai. During lunch, Qing sits alone though Zi Yan joins him commenting on his isolation on the first day which can lead to dropping out. When Cai approaches the two, they leave in a hurry.

During night at the Male Dormitory in Qing's room, Zi Yan lets Qing know that he's provoked several big clans in the Capital which will be troublesome. Qing tries to get intimidate with Zi Yan, but is stopped by her due to the menstrual period even though she wants to do it with him. Once Zi Yan leaves the room, a female student has come to Qing's room sitting on his window sill not noticing her presence. Qing tries to attack the girl, but she easily blocks his attack. Qing asks if she was sent by Chu An Lan and who she is which the girl says she's not part of the Chu family and that he'll find out soon who she is and jumps out of the window.

The next day during military training, Qing notices the girl from last night looking weak. When asking Teng next to him who the girl is, Qing is ordered by Cai to do one hundred push ups as he was not supposed to speak. While doing his push ups, Cai informs him that the girl who came to his room is Ji Mu's younger half sister, Ji Lian. Qing is getting to distracted by Cai's so called shamelessness. During lunch, Qing is saved by Zi Yan from a boy who tried to dump food on him and runs off. Qing and Zi Yan notices Lian throwing her lunch at the boy making Qing wonder what she's up to.

At night in his room, Qing is approached by Lian who sneaks in his room again. Lian asks Qing if he would like to form an alliance with her since she's interested and admires him being a hundred times stronger than a woman. Qing is not interested in her and prefers to be alone, but decides to go for it. Lian makes a red rope wrapping around her an Qing's wrists. Lian will help him deal with the Chu family and Qing will help her ascent the position of the Head of her family and once the vow is fulfilled, the rope will disappear by itself. She also notes that they can sense each other where they are and if one of them dies, then so does the other.

Next morning, the military training ends with Qing being one of the students and elite. Dai tells Qing that she will come to see him often though Qing will not be at ease. He watches as Teng tries to give a love letter to Dai, but gets rejected. He soon sees Zi Yan talking to a female student on a wheelchair becoming angry when the girl pushes Zi Yan away. Qing is approached by Xing Yuan saying her mother, Chu Qing Rou wants to see him. Qing meets Qing Rou and is asked two questions about if he had anything to do with one of his aunt's broken leg and making her son Lan go crazy after returning home. Qing denies about his aunt's leg but admits making Lan crazy. Qing Rou decides to by fair and fights Qing. Qing Rou uses her gun to fire a Wang Chuan bullet at Qing though he manages to dodge it but the bullet changes directions and hits him. Qing can't move as Xing Yuan reveals her mother's bullet is a narcobic. The two women take Qing to the Chu family house.

    Qing wakes up to discover he's been out cold for one day and one night. He then mocks the family while being seen and heard through a security camera by Xing Yuan and Chu An Lan. Lan comes into the room and becomes frighten when seeing Qing. Qing tells Lan he was invited by his sister and mother. Lan charges at Qing wanting to kill him though Qing manages to use his power to hold Lan. Xing Yuan comes in the room to attack Qing demanding him to let her brother go though Qing manages to dodge her. Soon, he is confronted by An Lan and Qing tries to leave without causing trouble. However, Qing is suddenly attacked by his grandmother and notes her powers are that of a master of transformation. An Lan tells him he should cut tides with his mother and serve under her though Qing denies it. As he gets back up, he's knocked out cold by An Lan and taken away by her servant being unaware that he's now the eldest master in the family.

At night, Qing comes to and finds himself locked inside a bedroom demanding to be set free, but discovers that An Lan put up a strong barrier on the door making it impossible for him to escape watching his every move from the camera on the ceiling. As Qing tells her he will tear down the Chu family as soon as he gets out, An Lan remarks she's proud of is not her material arts but the ability to domesticate beasts. Qing tells her to see if she can domesticate him first or destroying the family first. He goes into the bathroom where there are no cameras and uses the red rope on his wrist to contact Lian saying the Chu family has him trapped in their home and needs her to find a way to save him to which Lian gets his message.

Three day later, Qing is fed a poisonous pill by An Lan warning him if he doesn't come back to the house two days after, he will be poisoned and die. He's escorted down by Xing Yuan, Heading down stairs, Xing Yuan says she'll not approve Qing being part of the Chu family and that her brother will always be the Eldest Master in the family. As Qing and Xing Yuan makes their way to the room and apologizes to the vice principal, Zhou Man and supervisor of biology, Lin Yuji for making them worried, Yuji and Man take their leave, but are always welcome in the Chu's house by Qing Rou. As Qing gets in a car, he sees Cai next to him realizing she came to rescue him and asked her how she did it to which Cai explains that someone sent her a message of him being in trouble. Qing sees that it was Lian who messaged Cai. Qing's stomach growls stating he hasn't eaten in three days. At the palace, Qing is eating tons of food while being watch by Cai in disturb. Qing says he'll repay for her kindness in the future though Cai says today is fine to which she orders Qing to go wash her suit upstairs and wait for her on the bed. Qing doesn't refuse but states An Lan has poisoned him though Cai can see he's pretending. Cai says she'll allow him to go to her bed willingly.

Three days later, Qing returns to school to find Lian at the Male Dormitory and thanks her for rescuing him. As Qing enters his room, he sees Zi Yan has waited for him and hugs him in tears but is pushed back when Qing says to her it was a small matter he had with the Chu family. When Qing asks Zi Yan who the girl on the wheelchair was that shoved her when the military training was done, Zi Yan says it's her cousin, Xiao Chu Xue from the Xiao Family. She explains that her father was from that family, but the family was dissatisfied when he got married to her mother and broke contact with him. She says the people from Xiao took the initiative to come to her in order to restore contact with them. Zi Yan tells Qing that her father is dead and her cousin was poisoned in her mother's womb and couldn't walk. She get's a call fro her grandmother, Xiao Lu to come to the Xiao house for dinner. Qing will come with her just in case if the Xiao family bullies her.

Qing and Zi Yan Qing arrive at the Xiao mansion where the meet Chu Xue and her cousin's mother, Xiao Qing who've been waiting. Zi Yan introduces Qing as her boyfriend to which Chu Xue criticizes her for bring a man to the house calling her shameless though her grandmother and mother remind her of the current state she's in to which Chu Xue agrees to being pathetic. Qing and Zi Yan prepare to leave, but Lu wishes them not to go. Qing decides to take a look at Chu Xue's legs which are being covered with a blanket to see they're poisoned revealing it's "Xuan Ming Cold Poison" and if Chu Xue wasn't born in a family of Imperial Physicians, she wouldn't make it past three years and she would die of torture and pain. Lu says she tried for years to studied the poison and prolong Chu Xue's lifespan. Qing says Chu Xue doesn't have much time. Chu Xue says for the past three years she had no feeling in her legs. Qing says he can cure her poison, but the process is very painful and needs a few medicinal materials that are extremely difficult to find. He wants Chu Xue to soak for one hour every day for seven days and then start treatment a week later. Lu trusts Qing to cure Chu Xue.

By the garden of white roses, Qing is with Chu Xue. Chu Xue says even if Qing cures her, she can't be happy as she touches some of the dead roses. Qing uses his powers to heal the dead roses and presents them to her saying in a month, she'll be reborn as a beautiful woman. The two are interrupted by her mother who came to give Chu Xue her medicine. Qing says that Chu Xue no longer needs to take the bitter medicine. As night comes, Zi Yan and Qing leave the mansion. As they walk, Zi Yan notes that Qing and her cousin are very affectionate when he gave her white roses. Qing teases Zi Yan about the the two girls different personalities making Zi Yan wanting to punch him, but is caught of guard when Qing presents her with the white roses confessing he likes her. Zi Yan returns Qing's feelings that she's wanted him when she first saw him. As they continue to walk, Zi Yan wants to go to a love hotel to which Qing agrees to. At the hotel, Zi Yan puts shackles on Qing in the bed. As Zi Yan gets on top of him, she tells him not to use his spiritual powers or she'll ignore him again. However, Qing uses his strength to break the shackles, gets on top of Zi Yan, and forces her to beg him which then the two proceed to have sex.

The next day at school , Zi Yan is angry at Qing, but feels embarrassed on how she begged him and runs off. Qing believes she's angry. Qing is approach by An Lan who came to see him and Professor Du who accompanied An Lan. Qing and An Lan gets the attention of some students who are surprise to see An Lan coming to see Qing and are shock to discover that QIng is from the Chu family and An Lan's grandson. An Lan says he can't escape from her controlling him and she can make and ruin him, just like she did to Tian Nan. Qing believes that what An Lan did in the past was done by her and now she's threatening him. Qing tells her she'll pay for her past sins. She notes that Cai likes him, but believes she's not worthy telling him he'll marry the most noble woman in the future of the empire then takes her leave. Soon Xing Yuan tries to attack Qing, but he dodges her. She demands to know what her grandmother told him and Qing says she should ask her instead of him. Xing Yuan blames Qing due to her brother being betrothed by "that" perverted prodigal daughter. Qing scares her saying that An Lan has no interest nor affection to Lan and goes to his class leaving Xing Yuan shaken. During homeroom class, Qing's teacher, Liu Tong teaches her students in the history of the material arts, starting how a woman's meridians change. She says how the ancestor, Kong Mo inferred Gu Wu saying how it was created on the structure of a woman's body and how men were able to create Taoism later on. When saying Dao Fa is only enough to keep fit which favors women over men, Qing didn't agree with her saying men can also practice material arts. Qing says you don't need to be from the palace, just do two things is move the formation eye from the middle dantian to the lower dantian and reverse the formation. Upon catching this, Tong wants Qing to come to her office after class. In the teacher's office, Tong quickly locks the door after bringing Qing in and tries to flirt with him for a moment. She makes Qing a deal to give him whatever he wants in exchange on how to reverse the formation. Qing asks her what is the relationship between the school and Xuan Nu Palace. Tong gives him a reminder that people who had something to do with the tribe were either killed by them or the Empress and it's best not to mention a word about it at the school. Qing takes this reminder and leaves the office. Qing text Hua Hua to help him find someone and mentions about Tong's statas in the school and Hua Hua says for him to wait for her news. Qing hopes to rescue Zui.

A few days later at the Xiao mansion in a room, Qing operates on Chu Xue by having needles in her legs and using his powers to extract the poison from her legs while Zi Yan, Xiao Qing and, Lu are outside of the room hearing Chu Xue's cries. Qing successfully gets all the poison out of Chu Xue's legs and is happily thanked by the family by saying if he need help with anything, they'll be there for him.

A month has past and Qing, Zi Yan, and Lu watch as Chu Xue is practicing her walking with the help of her mother. Qing and Zi Yan are given necklaces made from her powers which have a white small rose in a small ball. He learns that Chu Xue is a sophomore in bio-medicine. Both he and Zi Yan take their leave and head back to school.

At night in his room, Qing gets a text from Hua Hua saying that she found information about his homeroom teacher, but was able to glance at it shortly due to hackers on the other side though remembers the word "Nightingale" believing to be an organization and still investigating it. Qing notes Hua Hua is working hard. A mysterious woman sneaks into Qing's room appearing behind him. At first, Qing believed it was Lian, but to his surprise, it's Chen Xi who returns and happy to see him. Chen Xi lets Qing know that her sister will be supportive with the Pharmacy being in the Imperial Capital. Chen Xi brings Qing to the Hunter Bar to which she's staying at being popular. Chen Xi takes Qing to the ground floor where she's most popular at being owned by Bai Jing Yu holding a boxing field which is not normal. Qing and Chen Xi enter the boxing field stopping a rookie known as QUEEN from beating her opponent. QUEEN becomes love struck when seeing Qing and provokes Chen Xi to battle her for him. Chen Xi accepts, but Qing says he'll battle her though the audience disbelieve since Qing is a man. However, Qing takes QUEEN by surprise when he deeply punched the boxer shocking the entire audience. QUEEN comes to see she underestimated Qing and the two begin their fight though Qing eeasily defeats her. Soon, Jing Yu enters the ring approaching Qing of wanting to buy him. Chen Xi intervenes to protect Qing and fight Jing Yu. Jing Yu charges at Chen Xi, but gets pushed back by Chen Xi's strong barrier. Qing notes that Chen Xi's powers have gone up from the material realm to the ultimate realm. Jing Yu pulls out her gun, but the referee says guns are not allowed in fights. Not listening to the demands, Jing Yu shoots and kills the referee. She shoots at Chen Xi, but Qing jumps in and blocks her bullet. Qing knocks Jing Yu out of the ring, grabs her gun, and shoots her taking a piece of her right ear off. Horrified, Jing Yu runs away in defeat and swears vengeance on Qing. Qing gets the respect and cheers from the audience. Soon, Qing and Chen Xi leave the bar.

At the Male Dormitory in Qing's room, he and Chen Xi make love and sleep together. Chen Xi gives a brief history about her mother's friend who owns Hunter Bar saying how she's an orphan and as a child, she trained in material arts by draining her body to make a way and that she doesn't have much time left. She gets a call from Qing's dad who's been trying to reach him. Qing is informed by his dad and sister that his mother went to the Imperial Capital to look for him after hearing that the National University has spread all over the world of him meeting his grandmother. Qing orders Xiao to take care of their dad while he takes care of their mother. He soon texts Xing Lie, Hua Hua, and Cai about his mother's situation and all three agree to look into it. Seeing Qing leaving to go out late at night, Chen Xi asks where he's going which Qing replies he's going to the Chu Family.

At the Chu family's house, Qing confronts An Lan demanding to know where his mother is. Brushing of the question, An Lan reminds him that Lan's wedding is in two days and that all the powerful and famous people in the Capital will come including the Empress and that Qing will attend with her. An Lan also tells him to break all relations with all the women he's with outside. Furious, Qing goes to attack An Lan, but his attack is easily blocked. Qing asks again where his mother is and An Lan replies if he does what he's told, he'll see her or her dead body. Back in his room, Qing focuses to rise his cultivation to become stronger than An Lan. He gets a text from Hua Hua saying how she fixed the jamming signal on his phone.

Two days later, Qing attends Lan's wedding and finds out that his cousin will be marrying Jing Yu. Chu Xue comes to Qing saying she feels sorry for Lan and wants to protect Qing so he doesn't end up like his cousin. Qing gets a text from Lian she hasn't heard word from his mother yet. He sees Lian, Ju, and Cai attending the wedding as well. Qing is approached by Shu saying everyone is talking about him. Shu reveals to Qing that the protagonist of the wedding is Lan on the surface, but is actually him and An Lan wants to use the wedding to show Qing's face in the aristocratic circle and attract the attention of the maiden. At the wedding, Qing is sitting next to An Lan and informed the maiden had something to do and can't come. Qing sees that Xing Yuan did not show up to her brother's wedding. After Lan and Jing Yu are officially married, Qing is called up to the stage by An Lan commenting how proud she is of him getting in to the National University and treating Chu Xue from her illness. Qing notices that one of the guests is Zhai Yu who gets his attention. After the wedding, Qing is brought to a car by Yu revealing his mother, Tian Nan in it. Qing is happy that his mother is safe and unharmed. She says while on her way to the Imperial Capital, thugs approached her and attacked her. She was saved by Yu whom she countered and having his guards killing the thugs and burying them. When Qing tries to go after An Lan believing she lied to him, Tian Nan stops him knowing her mother is powerful and both of them would have to work together to defeat her. She tells him to pretends he's not seen her and that everything is still the same.

Soon, Qing notices Xing Yuan standing out in the cold rain and comes to her putting her under his umbrella. He asks what she's doing to which Xing Yuan angrily says she's watching her brother's life being ruined. She asks Qing if he has a younger sibling and turns into tears when commenting on how Lan gave her all the warmth in their cold house. Qing comments her feelings are really good and asks Xing Yuan if she still wants to be her grandma's lackey. If it was him, he would save his own sibling from his ruined life. At the Bai Family's house as Jing Yu was about to kill both Xing Yuan and Lan, Qing jumps in the nick of time to save his cousins, fights, and knocks out Jing Yu. After that, Qing takes his cousins to the National University to hide them.

At the Male Dormitory in Qing's room, he lets Xing Yuan and Lan know that now things have gotten serious, neither his family or An Lan will let them go. Qing wants to pull An Lan down from the position of family head and asks Xing Yuan and Lan if they want to join him. Both cousins agree to join him as they've had enough of An Lan treating them as pawns. Lian comes into the room joining their conversation. Lian shows them on her phone the incident of what happen at the Bai house. Qing asks Lian if she can the dark history of An Lan and the Elders of the Chu family as he plans to make An Lan ruined and helpless. He gets a call from An Lan to come see her immediately. Qing decides to take his cousins while Lian is their driver to Chen Xi's place to keep them safe. On the way to the Chu house, Lian says she's got all the information he needs and drops Qing off in a far away distance from the house. Both he and Lian share a passionate kiss.

As Qing makes his way to the house into the living room, he sees that An Lan is angry at Qing Rou for what Xing Yuan and Lan have done and how the Empress is upset and send King Wu to investigate. Qing is informed that the camera in the Imperial hotel that he had seen Xing Yuan's wicked obstacle and is ordered by An Lan to stay at home and not go anywhere for now. Qing gets a text from his mother that Qing Rou is on his side. Qing notes when Hua Hua releases An Lan's black material, the media will explode early next day and the Gong family will intervene in the fire case of the Bai family.

The next day, An Lan's dark secrets have been exposed on to the media for everyone to see and reporters being outside the house. Qing is amused seeing An Lan getting all frustrated. The Bai family's Head who is also Jing Yu's mother, Bai Yun confronts An Lan saying how the whole marriage was a set up and send an assassin to kill her. Qing watches as Yun goes forth to attack An Lan. Yun soon turns to Qing and tries to attack him for interfering, but is saved by the sudden arrival of Gong Shu and Messengers. Shu reveals the Empress has ordered her to investigate the fire that happened at the Bai house and orders Yun and the news cast to leave. Cai also arrives to investigate An Lan's crimes as well and reveals that An Lan was involved in corruption and bribery, used lynching, and was arrested. Meanwhile, Qing texts Lian and learns that An Lan was the Gong Family's loyal dog and a member of the 6 Kings. Qing sees that not only An Lan will be washed away, she can also pour dirty water on the Gong family with unjust, false, and wrong case. He watches as Shu and Cai get An Lan's attention. Without arresting An Lan, Cai leaves and Shu is allowed to proceed to search the house. After the search, she lets Qing and An Lan know if they find news about Chu Xing Yuan and Chu Lan they are to report to the Supervision Department. Shu is send of by Qing and lets him know that the hidden camera near the Bai's house capturing him and his cousins have been deleted by her. Besides her family and the Empress, she'll also support him as she trusts Qing's judgement and takes her leave. Soon, An Lan is confronted by the Chu elders who are angry at her for the crimes she's committed and plan to dismiss her position as Head of the family. However, An Lan refuses to give up her title and engages a fight with her sisters and defeats them though gets injured. As the elders leave, Qing helps An Lan to her room.

At night, Qing watches on his phone the video of Xing Yuan and Lan about how Lan got beaten badly by Jing Yu and how he was victim of it. Xing Yuan also reveals on how when their grandmother makes her decisions, no one can change it and if someone disobeys her, he or she could get killed. The cousins will go to the Supervision department to explain the situation and cooperate with the investigation of what happened at the Bai house. Soon, An Lan notices the video realizing that Qing made it and prepares to hurt him. However, Tian Nan confronts her mother and is upset that An Lan would cause harm to Qing once more. Tian Nan reveals that An Lan killed Yuantu's family. Qing Rou, Xing Yuan, and Lan join Qing and Tian Nan as they turn against An Lan showing they've had enough of An Lan's ways of controlling the family seeing how she has no affection. They battle An Lan only to get beat badly by the old woman's power and rage. As Qing was about to be finished by An Lan, Tian Nan desperately tries to save him only for her to get a brutal attack by An Lan to which angers Qing even further. Summoning all of his power and sword, Qing breaks through An Lan's defense piercing her heart thus killing her for good. After the battle, Chen Xi and Hua Hua arrive to treat him. Zi Yan comes as well and is upset at Qing for not telling her about him taking down An Lan. Qing says he didn't want to get her involved. The girls start fighter over Qing but become furious when learning from Xing Yuan that on the first day a military training, the lace news of Qing and the princess (Di Cai) spread out.

In his room, Qing's wounds are being treated kindly by Chu Xue. Chen Xi and Zi Yan are fighting each other as the bust into his room. Qing tries to stop them but gets a double slap by both girls and being called a scumbag. Hua Hua reveals to Chu Xue that she, Chen Xi, and Zi Yan like Qing and are his lovers.

A few days later, Qing alongside with his mother, aunt, and Yun are at a conference where Shu reveals the cases between Yun and An Lan which happens to be just one case. After that, Qing had a celebration party which was held by Lian. However, Lian ended up drunk and Qing gets a taxi to take her home. WIth the Chu family's problem is resolved and his mother returning home to Jing Men, Qing can investigate the Xuan Nu Palace. He soon catches two women heading to a dark ally with one woman using 'Deprivation of Talent' which steals other Material Artist's talents. As he intervenes, the woman commits suicide. Qing calls Shu to investigate but is told not to interfere with the matter.

The next day at school in his classroom, Qing thinks about the Deprivation of Talent which happened to Gong Yue believing if the matter had something to do with the Gong family. Lian comes next to him letting him know that the Deprivation of Talent has spread in the black market.

At night, Qing goes to the suburbs to find the black market. He meets a woman who is selling magical tool that are from Jing Men which can help warriors quickly improve their powers though Qing can tell their all fake products. When asked to why he came to the black market, he replies to buy news. A blonde muscular woman approaches Qing saying she'll give him free news as long if he makes her happy. Qing knows the woman's intentions and beats her up. The woman tells him the person with good information is from Nightingale which is the largest news selling organization in the Capital and with that, the woman takes Qing there. Upon entering the building, Qing meets his fiancee, Gong Yue who looks even more beautiful then before talking with the Black Market Manager. Qing tells the manager he wants information on Xuan Nu Palace, but the manager refuses to give that to him. Outside, Yue tells Qing not to mention the Xuan Nu Palace especially in the Capital as people would be killed. Yue says her work is over and wants to bring Qing over to her place to sleep.

By morning, Qing is taken to Yue's apartment where they meet Yue's sister, Gong Pan who happens to be drinking. When Pan touches Qing's butt, he immediately becomes violent towards her but is stopped by Yue. Qing learns that the place Yue lives in is known as "The Land of Exile" where most of the Gong family sons and daughters where abandoned. Qing also learns that Pan's talent was taken from her as well. As Qing and Yue prepare to get naughty, they are soon interrupted by Gong Nian, Yue's mother who catches them kissing and wants to bring Yue back home but refuses. He's introduced to her mother as her fiancee. Nian holds Yue responsible for the case of talent transfer forbidden technique and not only has the black market been repeatedly banned, it will be auctioned at Sejin Auction House next day. Yue says she'll responsible for the matter to end and leaves with Qing.

They both head to the Black Market and Qing still wants to ask the manager information on Xuan Nu Palace and their is a woman he wants to save which gets Yue mad and drives out of control. As they arrive, the Black Market manager tries to make a run for it, but gets caught by the two. Both ask the manager about info on her friend giving her the benefit of the forbidden technique and about Xuan Nu Palace. The manager begs Qing to protect her if she gave him news on the palace though he secretly puts a tracker on her. She says the palace is on an island in the east of China and give a little background of what she knows. As Qing and Yue take their leave, he reveals he trick the manager believe he would protect her, but it was all a lie which made the manager mad.

On the road in the car, Qing notices Chen Xi and Zi Yan walking together and tries to hide from them. Yue suddenly kisses him getting the girls' attention. Yue introduces herself to the girls as Qing's fiancee. Once again, Chen Xi and Zi Yan get angry at Qing and try to punch him only for Yue to block their attacks. This gives Qing the chance to escape the girls' wrath.

With the tracker, Qing follows the black market manager to an ally where the manager is talking with a woman in a gray robe. He hears as the manger blames herself for putting the forbidden technique in the market and confesses that was forced to leak out information on Xuan Nu Palace by Qing. The woman in the robe gets angry at the manager and tells her to get out of the Imperial Capital. Qing is discovered by a girl and makes a run for it only for the woman in the robe to chase him. Qing battles the woman having a small injury from her but gets the upper hand. The woman retreats by using a smoke chilly bomb. Qing notices a pock locket the woman dropped to find a photo of a man with his little girl. Qing sees that the little girl looks familiar.

At school in computer class, Qing is looking at Lian wondering if the little girl in the picture is her and if she has something to do with Nightingale. Lian informs him that four girls are fighting over him in the front gate of the school revealing to be Zi Yan, Yue, Chen Xi, and Cai. She also lets him know that there is going to be a big show at Shi Zhen Auction House next night.

At Shi Zhen Action House, Qing is with Zhai Yu saying that people are eye-catching the Talent Transfer Ban. Qing learns that the forbidden technique belongs to the Gong family and is why the family can prosper long because of that talent. Mostly the family has a secret rule to chose the children with talent. Qing asks Yu what happens to the children whose talents have been robbed. Yu says some have died and those that have lived in the shadows being wasted. Qing believes that this talent shouldn't exist. They here Gong Nian bidding twenty million on the technique winning the auction and destroying the remnant in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, Gong Pan arrives and reveals that the forbidden technique is property of the Gong family much to everyone's shock. Pan also reveals she's responsible for putting the technique in the Black Market and Shi Zhen Auction House, wanting everyone to see the true face of the Gong family. As Nian threatens Pan, Yue steps in to let her mother know that twenty years ago, Nian was injured and her talent was destroyed, but Nian's mother personally took Pan's talent to transfer into Nian. Nian checks Pan's talent to discover it's true. Pan pulls out a pistol and tries to commit suicide as she has nothing to hate about. Qing comes into the scene catching Pan from falling down saying she only passed out. Qing tells Nian that the Transfer Talent should stop now, but Shu steps in saying that her mother can't make this decision on her own and both she and Nian take their leave.

At Yue's place, Yue explains to Qing why she like living in the Land of Exile is because she likes people looking at her jealously instead of pity. Yue gives a backstory when she was a child. She was extremly talented. After her birth parents died, Yue was taken in by Nian and loved her very much. However, Nian personally took Yue's talent and tranfered it to her daughter, Shu. Since then, no one at approached her and looked at her with pitiful looks. Yue says she's the only person in the Land of Exile who lives like a person. Without saying, Qing and Yue share a passionate kiss and sleep together.

The next morning, Qing and Yue go to Pan's room who just woke up. Yue reads Pan her verdict from the Supervision Department stating how she released the incomplete copy of the talent tranfer forbidden technique, causing the talents of many warriors to be taken away. Pan is sentenced to two years in prison with a two year probation. Qing gives Pan a material arts jade pendent for her to cultivate ancient material arts making Pan happy.

Qing and Yue head downstairs to find Shu who wants to talk. In Yue's place, Shu explains to Qing that the forbidden techique was originally given by the emperor, Qing Tian to the ancestors of the Gong family and states the technique is not only related to the family, but the Empress herself which only the Empress can abolish the technique. Shu mentions about the prizes for the top national material artist contest which is held once a year seperated from the outside world with a barrior. If whoever wins, the Empress will promise the winner for a condition. Shu will participate in the contest to become champion so she can have the Empress agree to abolish the technique. Qing asks if a man can go shocking both Shu and Yue believing he wants to enter the contest which he does want to. Shu says there's no rule where men cannot enter. Qing wants to enter the contest and asks Shu to give her mother a spin which Shu agrees to.

At night, Qing returns to the Male Dormitory at school hoping that Chen Xi and Zi Yan are not around fearing of their death threat they have on him. Unfortunately, both girls appear behind him still being angry at him as they waited for him to return for two days and take him to his room to get answers. Zi Yan learned from Chen Xi that despite him being Yue's fiancee, he's also Zui's husband. Qing apologizes to Zi Yan for keeping her in the dark. Chen Xi noticed on the day Qing was admitted to the National University, Zui disappeared and asumes Qing is looking for her. He says it's true and he doesn't want Chen Xi and Zi Yan to interfere making them to promise him they won't. Qing asks them why they're together. They both just don't want to loose to each other in their battles. He asks them if both of them are friends to which both Chen Xi and Zi Yan quickly denies it.

Outside of the dormitory, Qing watches Chen Xi and Zi Yan from a distance. In his heart he knows he doesn't want to loose the women he loves, especially Zui hoping she's safe.

The next day, Qing now knows how the Xuan Nu Palace and the National University is related to one another and its location. He believes there is a connection between the tribe and the Empress and hopes by entering the Material Arts Tournament, he will be able to meet the Empress. Xiao Chu Xue approaches Qing showing him the Aoba No.2 medicine. Chu Xue says the Capital has opened a new company commenting their healing medicine is amazing. Qing knows it's Ye Pharmacy explaining how powerful the formula is in a small pill. Chu Xue finds Qing amazing how he can come up with such a powerful medicine. She asks Qing to join her team wanting to make the best medicine to cure all diseases in the world to which Qing accepts since he's a shareholder of the pharmacy.

In a big building, Qing is seen next to Chen Xi as Chu Xue is introduced to the Head of the Ye Pharmacy, Ye Wan Qing. Qing wonders when Wan Qing came to the Imperial Capital. Chen Xi lets him know that Wan Qing will be leaving in two days. Wan Qing agrees to do research and development together with the Xiao family. Qing sees Wan Qing coughing up blood noting that even though she still has two more years to live, it's possible her end is approaching fast. Qing decides to head out first with Chu Xue so he can speak with her. Qing asks Chu Xue to help him by needing a few extremely rare medicinal materials in order to heal and save Wan Qing. Chu Xue agrees to help and both head to the Xiao house.

After getting the medicinal materials from Chu Xue, Qing heads back. While walking to long, he is comfronted by a group of woman who happan to be material assassins. Qing realizes that someone wants him dead. The assassins use a formation to circle around Qing with speed and are able to injure him. By using concentration, Qing is able to break the girls' formation. The assassins use their powerful attack by summoning a dark serpant, though Qing with his sword summons a gold dragon and kills four out of the five women. Qing uses his powers on the assassin to see her memory of her team being assigned by a woman in a white robe wearing a yin yang mask to kill him and with this, Qing kills the last assassin.

Qing goes back to the Xiao home by entering Chu Xue's room and she, her mother, and grandmother will help him treat his injuries by helping him to prepare the medicines. In the pharmacy room, Qing uses the Xiao medicines and will be able to heal himself in two days. During the process, a flash a purple lighting strikes the pharmacy door and knocks down the building. Qing was able to survive being unharmed.

The next morning, Qing explains to Xiao Qing and Lu that the lighnting strick is due to his cultivate rising to a high level in Toaism. When Chu Xue arrives to see Qing, both Xiao Qing and Lu decide to leave the two alone. Qing thanks Chu Xue due to the medicine that cured him, but also that his powers have risen. Alittle later, Qing learns from Yu that not only the Empress has material assassins, but also the powerful nobles. Qing suspects that either Nightingale, Bai Family, or Six Kings want to kill him. Qing pulls out a paper for researching the Wu Sha and Wang Chuan since the Xiao family are docters and they can find a method suitable for material artists. Lu however denies wanting the paper because study the solutions for both weapons will be desrespectful to the Empress. Qing decides to leave the recipe for them and leaves as he has something to do.

At night while walking back, Qing makes sure that no assassins are following him. In an ally, he saves a man who was about to get sexually assaulted buy a woman who was drunk and having an ugly face, though he brutally beats up the woman for her sexual desires and scares off the man.

At the main building, Qing wants to speak with Wan Qing alone and takes her to a room while keeping the door sealed as Chen Xi is outside. Qing states that Wan Qing still has more than two years to live, but asks why it seems shorter. Wan Qing says that it's none of Qing's business. Qing doesn't want to see Chen Xi sad if Wan Qing dies and orders Wan Qing to sit on the bed and takes out the Xiao medicines. He uses them on Wan Qing letting her know that the medicines can only renew her life, but cannot solve the root of her illness, as long as she can survive for another five years, he will find a way to save her. As they head out of the room, Qing stops Chen Xi from almost busting the door down. Qing lets Chen Xi know he's keeping her sister alive to which Chen Xi is grateful. Qing gives Wan Qing a jade pendent and heads back to school.

At school, Qing is seen with Lian being informed that the material arts conference has added a men's ring and the top three can enter the final competition along with the top ten women. Qing asks Lian if she knows Nightingale to which she does. Qing wonders if Lian might be with Nighingale and lets her know they tried to kill him. Qing sees it wasn't Nightingale who sent the assassins to kill him which could have been either the Empress or the 6 King.

At night, Qing goes to the Hunter Bar in the underground boxing arena and meets with Hua Hua. They both watch Chen Xi and Zi Yan sparring with Chen Xi defeating Zi Yan. All four of them make a toast to do good on the next day's material arts tournament.

The next day, Qing is at the Material Arts Competition Hall in the men's field and notes to himself if he gets into the finals, he will meet the Empress in person. He is sitting between a classmate, Wu Tang and a member from the Bai Family, Bai Jing Feng. Qing notes that the threshold for the men's team is low. Qing easily defeats three of his opponents. Upon Tang being called in for his round, his mother, Wu Su calls out to him in embarrassment. Jing Feng lets Qing know that Su is the Prime Minister of the Dynasty. Jing Feng gives Qing a little backstory about the Empress and the Six Kings as well of being a member from the Bai family which shocks Qing. Tang wins his fight and Jing Feng is called in to his round. Qing in a way makes fun of Tang due to his mother's cuteness. Qing almost gets attack by Su believe that Qing was bullying her son. Tang stops his mom saying Qing wasn't bullying him. Su gets a call from the Empress being found out she skipped work and goes back. Meanwhile, Jing Feng wins his fight and all three men will appear in the semi-finals. Qing will go up against Muto.

The three men decide to go to the women's area and notes it's more popular than the men's field. They sit next to Tang Zi Yan, Chen Hua Hua, and Xiao Chu Xue. They watch the fight between Ye Chen Xi and Li Le. Chen Xi wins the fight. Soon, Yue, Shu, Cai, and Mu win their fights. They watch as Lian goes up against her opponent, Bai Mei. Lian wins her fight by using trickery making the crowds hate her. As the rounds end, QIng meets with Lian. As Chen Xi approaches them, she gets jealous when Lian tries to flirt with Qing though Qing already knew Chen Xi was coming and pushes Lian away. Qing tells Chen Xi that Lian and him are classmates and she good at informs. Chen Xi believes him by kissing him on the cheak. Chen Xi lets Qing know that Le, the opponent she defeated will appear in the semi finals and play against the men who are in the finals. They two soon meet up with Chu Xue, Zi Yan, and Hua Hua and walk together.

As Qing sleeps, he has a nightmare of Zui jumping into a river with a strong current committing suicide and wakes up horrified. Qing must make it to the finals of the competition and see Zui as soon as possible.

The next day during the men's semi-finals, Qing easily defeats Tang and seems to earn the anger of Tang's mother. Qing appears as one of the top three men in the finals alongside with Jing Feng and Tang. However, Tang was not able to continue any further in the finals and both Qing and Jing Feng enter the women's field. Qing sees from the crowds that Zi Yan, Hua Hua, and Chu Xue are cheering him all the way. He watches in amazed as Jing Feng defeats Nie Rong Rong. As Yue is approaching him trying to give him a kiss, Chen Xi blocks her and Qing ends up talking to Lian. In the mixed match, he goes up against Le and becomes disgusted by her sexual desire for him. Qing goes to attack her, but Le blocks all of his attacks. Le brings out all of her strength as her hair changes to blue lightning and strikes Qing hard believing she's won the match. However, Qing survived with minor injuries. They resume their fight and Qing notes her powers are very close to the Holy Realm. As Le powers up once more and attacks, Qing powers up and counters her attack. The Material Artists set up barriers to protect everyone in the arena and as the dust settles, Qing and Le are shown lying on the backs. However, Qing manages to stand up thus winning the match. He's taken by the medical team for treatment and transmitted to the Imperial Hospital.

While sleeping and recovering, Qing is watched over by Zi Yan, Chen Xi, and Hua Hua. During night, he's unaware that Le and a mask woman have sneaked into his room while Hua Hua stays by his side. Zi Yan confronts the two women from killing him, but no use. Qing briefly awakens with tremendous power and his hair grows longer. He easily blocks Le's attack from killing him with a knife. He turns to the mask woman who has Zi Yan pinned down by deeply cutting her arm and prepares to finish her, but his attack is blocked by Le who takes major damage. Both Le and the mask woman make a run for it. Qing reverts back to normal and passes out.

The next day, Qing wakes up to find Chen Xi, Hua Hua, Zi Yan, and Chu Xue with him. He is told by Zi Yan that he had beat Le and her alley when they had attempted to assassinate him last night though Qing had no memory of it. They all watch the finals on TV seeing Gong Shu and Gong Yue face off. As they watch the sisters fight, Qing starts acting a little weird which gets the girls attention. Qing decides to go out of the room wanting to be alone and stands out in the hallway by a window and thinks about how his time in the new world has been.

Qing is soon approached by Jing Feng who comes to visit him holding a basket. Jing Feng states he came to see him wanting to officially invite Qing to join on behalf of the Junzi Alliance, the "Gentlemen's League". He explains it is an organization for men to take back the rights that men should have. Qing seems to refuse the offer since he doesn't quite understand it. Jing Feng says the league also has a secret place of cultivation and since Qing is powerful, he can break through the robbery and soar. Qing believes if he ses this secret Realm, it may be difficult for him to come out alive if he doesn't join. Qing will think about his offer and Jing Feng will wait to hear from him.

Qing returns to his room to fine only Chen Xi and Zi Yan saying that Chu Xue had to leave and Hua Hua went to see her off. The girls inform him that Yue had lost to Shu. The next match shows both of the Ji sisters, Mu and Lian face off. Qing tries to explain to Zi Yan he doesn't have feelings for Chu Xue, but Zi Yan says her cousin does have feelings for him and it's all thanks to Qing's charm habit. Zi Yan bites Qing's cheek which gets Chen Xi's attention. Angered by this, Chen Xi tries to punch both of them, but Qing dodges it while protecting Zi Yan. As the jealous between both girls continue, Qing decides to leave them be and gets out of the room quickly. While Qing is watching Lian and Mu's match elsewhere in the hospital on screen, Hua Hua approaches Qing with some food and both of them watch the Ji sisters' fight. Qing becomes amazed has Lian reveals her true self when summoning her weapon. Lian overpowers Mu by pushing her out of the ring thus winning the match. However, since both sisters are outside, they're eliminated. Lian announces to the crowds starting as of now, her name is changed to Jiang Lian who will formally set up her own business and disassociate from the Ji Family. Qing tells Hua Hua to get Chen Xi and Zi Yan so they all can help Lian move.

Qing and the girls break into the Ji Family's house to help Lian move out, but her mother, Ji Min forbids her to leave the family and to start her own business. Min admits Qing is strong, but advises him to leave if he doesn't want to get hurt. However, Qing advises Min to let Lian go and do whatever she wants. Lian stands between the two and challenges Min to a fight. Qing and the girls watch from a far distance of Lian and her mother's battle. Qing senses danger heading towards Lian and blocks the attack, but gets wounded by Min. Qing informs Lian that someone tried to kill her explaining it was a hidden weapon. Min allows Qing to look around if there is a hidden weapon. He finds water droplets on the dry grass. Min's husband, Wei Zi Yuan steps on the droplets getting in Qing's way, but is pushed aside by Lian and she hands Qing the droplets in a tube. He hands Min the tube saying they'll go to the Xiao house to have the droplets identified if knowing that someone in the Ji family is trying to kill Lian. Min agrees if Qing is right, she'll allow Lian to move out, but if not, Qing will stay in the Ji house to do chores for six months.

Qing, Lian, and Min goes to the Xiao house to meet with Xiao Qing and after identifying the droplet, it turned out to be a very rare poisonous herb, colorless, odorless, and hard to detect since it can be frozen. Qing turned out to be right and Min is furious that someone in her family did something like this under her nose. Lian jumps with joy of being freed and drags Qing back to the Ji house to help her move her stuff.

After Qing, Chen Xi, Hua Hua, and Zi Yan gets Lian settled in her new house, Qing notices a photo of a young Lian and her father which happens to be the same photo in the locket he picked up after his fight with the Nightingale member. Qing and the girls leave Lian's place after having dinner, but Qing hides as the Nightingale member he fought before presents Lian flowers. Qing confronts the girls confirming Lian to be the boss of Nightingale. He returns the locket back to the member and the woman reveals herself to be his homeroom teacher, Liu Tong. Qing and Lian agree to cooperate. Lian can give Qing all the news he wants except for Xuan Nu Palace for only he can deal with them on his own.

Six days later, Qing enters into the final stage of the Material Arts Competition appearing as one of the top five competitors. The Empress also appears in person as well the 6 King, Nian, Su, and Min. In the final round, one will be a defender while the four will be challengers to defeat the defender. Qing along with Chen Xi, Jing Feng, and Shu are challengers while Cai is the defender. Qing watches as Cai easily defeats Chen Xi and Jing Feng in the first two founds. In the third round, Cai summons the "Cold Moon Blade" to battle Shu and both seem to be evenly matched. Shu overpowers Cai and defeats her thus becomes the defender. This ends the morning matches.

Qing along with Hua Hua, Zi Yan, and Chu Xue are in the medical room visiting Chen Xi and Jing Feng. They're all soon approached by the Empress along with Su wanting to visit as well. The Empress is impressed with Chen Xi's skills and takes a liking to Qing. After this, the Empress and Su take their leave.

In the afternoon, Qing battles Shu in the forth round. Qing defeats Shu and wins the Material Arts Competition becoming the first male champion in history. He's given the first place medal by the Empress who congratulates him and since he's the winner, he is granted one prize from her.

In the Empress' Lounge, Qing requests the Empress to ban the Talent Transfer with Shu and Nian who are with him to also ban it. However, it's not easy for the Empress to decide and she'll have to think about this matter and dismisses them. As the three walk in the hallway, Nian gives Qing information about the Ministry of Military affairs is important to the Empire and the Gong family and the Empress have establish trust and possibly there are traitors in the Military. Shu points out to Qing that there will be a celebration feast at the Royal Palace by the Empress. Soon, a man approaches them having a gift for Qing by the Empress which was made by her. Qing opens the gift to find a white clothing having the Peony Totem symbol of the royal family on it. Nian states that only those from the Royal Family can were it. Nian and Shu believe that the Empress has taking a liking to Qing wanting him to be her second love. Qing gets angry by this and is about to destroy the gift only to be stopped by the Gongs saying the gift from the Empress cannot be destroyed and Nian will break the contract of his engagement with Yue if he becomes the Emperor.

Qing comes to the Royal Palace for the celebration feast alongside with Chen Xi. He is placed at a table sitting alone since he's one of the concubines. Shu approaches and gives Qing a message from her mother saying his engagement with Yue has been cut off. He sees the Empress making her entrance along with her female concubine, An An but sends An An away since she's not feeling well. The Empress notice Qing had blocked the Peony Totem symbol. She tells him that she wanted the powerful people to know he's under her protection. Chen Xi comes to his side after hearing from someone of the position he's in. Shu drugs Chen Xi away and whispers to Qing to give it all he got which seems to annoy him.

Qing decides to take a walk outside and notices An An on top of the Palace who jumps off trying to commit suicide. Qing takes action and saves her. An An sees how kind Qing is and advises him that even if he joins the harem, he shouldn't trust the Empress completely and for him to find away out for himself. Qing notes that An An is healthy and gifted except for the trauma she had endure for many years wounding what's really going on.

As the celebration feast ends, Qing heads to the National University back to the Male Dormitory to his room. He is confronted by the Holy Land Warrior who happens to be the same person who sent Material Assassins to kill him before hand wanting him dead. Qing confirms she's in the Realm of Holy. Qing asks her if she's with the Xuan Nu Palace and where Zui is. The warrior says that indeed the Palace wants him dead and Zui is waiting for him in the next life. Qing is being overwhelmed by the warrior's strength and prepares to finish him off. However an unknown woman intervenes trying to attack the warrior, but get injured badly. Qing jumps out of the window to save the woman who tried to save him and puts part of the dorm on fire to have time to escape. Qing goes to Ye Pharmacy and heads to the herb room and treats the woman by using the Xiao medicine to heal her, but due to his injures, Qing passed out afterwards though was givin healing medicine by the woman.

The next morning, Qing wakes up to find Chen Xi and Wan Qing by his bed. He asks them where the woman who saved him is at, but the girls don't know who he's talking about. Qing believes the woman may used hypnosis. He asks Chen Xi of whom she fought in the semi-finals. She says it was Han Shuang and shows him a picture of her. Qing sees it's the same woman who saved him from the warrior.

At school on campus, Qing is admired by both women and men which annoys him after becoming the champion of the Material Arts Competition. The students are scared of by Zi Yan and Lian. Both girls go to their classes though Qing doesn't have any at the moment. He is approached by Shuang who works for the Empress. They both go to the roof to talk. Shuang tells Qing that the Empress had banned the Talent Transfer and she's ordered to protect him. Qing asks if she has information on Xuan Nu Palace as he plans to rescue someone who is important to him from them. Shuang says she does have a way investigate them openly and honestly and advises Qing to join the secret team known as the "Dark Guard". The team is responsible for investigating matters related to the Palace. Shuang is on that team, but the conditions for joining are very strict, the mission being dangerous, and there's no guarantee of life. Qing says he'll join the team. Shuang states there's never been a man in the group, but if it's him, he'll wait for her news. Shuang takes her leave.

Qing gets a call from the vice-principle, Zhou Man to came see her about the fire in his room at the Male Dormitory. He explains to Man that someone tried to kill him during the incident. Man says for his safety, he can no longer live in the Male Dormitory. He is taken by Man to another place in the woods for him to live in. They go to a tree which happens to be both an entrance and exit. In it is a big mansion that originally belonged to the granddaughter of the past dynasties at the University. It has been vacant for a long time. Qing enters the mansion and goes up to the second floor to find a big portrait of the Empress and two other women (the 6 King and possibly the other being the Palace Master). Qing is called by Zi Yan asking where he is saying he's at a new dorm. Zi Yan says she applied for off-school campus residence for him being improved and the house has been bought for you. Qing says that the vice-principle arranged the dorm for him and brought him to it. However, Zi Yan says the real Man had just finished teaching in her class and after that, Zi Yan came looking for him and saw him go into the woods alone. Upon hearing the truth, Qing freaks out. He turns around to see a ghost like figure woman and runs out of the mansion exiting the tree. He's approached by Zi Yan. She states that the place he was in is a forbidden place and a lot of students who had been there have disappeared there for no apparent reason. Qing heads with Zi Yan to the off-campus believing it's safer. Qing enters the house which is behind the school that Zi Yan got for him and likes it. Both of them have a heated moment.

Three days later at the Suburdan Royal Hunting Grounds, Qing along with other Material Artists participate in a hunting conference which is hosted by the Empress to catch the Spirit Beast Fei Lian. As it hunt starts, Qing asks the Empress if he catches it, he can join the Dark Guard to which the Empress wonders. Qing and Chen Xi goes after the beast, but Chen Xi stops Qing stating he's now flirting with the Empress making her jealous again. He states it's impossible for him to be close to the Empress as he has his purposes. He also says though he doesn't want her to get involved, if he's ever in trouble, she can save him. Chen Xi teams up with Shu so they can split the proceeds when they catch the beast. As he goes alone to find the beast, Qing remembers Shuang saying this is his first test to join the Dark Guard. Soon, Qing is approached by the Empress. Qing reacts to a killing intent and saves the Empress from getting hit by a small blade. Three assassins approach them telling Qing that the Empress tested him and solved the problem for him and in return he can kill her, but Qing doesn't believe them. Qing says to the Empress for her to save her strength to use on the real enemy and to contact the Dark Guard, even if their is a spy inside, not all of them are. As Qing fights the assassins, the Empress uses a firework formed in a Peony to call the guards knowing she is in danger. However, the guards don't come due to a maze that was set up by the assassins. Qing and the Empress protect each other, but Qing pushes the Empress out of the way trying to save her knowing she can't get hurt and sets up a boundary to trap the assassins with him in it. One of the assassins ask Qing why he would die for the Empress since she's cold, cruel, and selfish. Qing replies saying, "The top has it's own considerations, no matter whose decision, it is impossible to take into account the interests of all. The Empire has developed so far, violent conflicts rarely occur, material arts and civilians live in harmony, this is not proof of the merits of the leader". The assassins use their energy to double up by transforming the bodies to become muscular and prepare to finish Qing off. They overwhelm Qing as they pierce him with their swords and spears dropping him to his knees. The main assassin finishes off Qing by piercing his heart. However, a power within his heart triggers inside thus impossible for him to be killed and kills the assassins with a counterattack. Qing collapses and during that moment, unaware that the Empress has given him the Blood Dragon to save him. He's taken to the royal palace to recover.

Qing wakes up in a room finding a elder man watching over him. The elder introduces himself as Tian He, the father of the Empress. Qing recalls of him being seriously injured, but recovered fast and felt an inexhaustible force with in him. He's taken by a group of men who happened to be in the Empress' harem to give him a bath and to his horror, being referred to as the future Emperor. In the bath, he ties up the men and leaves.

At night on the roof, Qing is approached by Han Shang giving him a gold token being labelled "DARK" on it realizing he's officially joined the Dark Guard and to come to the east building next day.

Qing comes home to find Chen Xi and Zi Yan who have waiting for him for two days and comments how he's been taken care of in the Palace by the Empress after she brought him there for recovery. Chen Xi informs him that Jiang Lian has been missing and her mother has been searching for her and that the military supervision department has been dispatched. By using the invisible rope on his wrist, Qing contacts Lian who had also tried to contact him. Lian says she's in a mansion and unable to come out and is bored to death. She asks Qing to come rescue her before she goes completely insane. She states she's under house arrest by her mother and wants him to pass a message to Nightingale to rescue her and he agrees. He tells the girls Lian is not in danger and contacts Tong about Lian's situation and wants her to help secretly, but not get caught to which she agrees.

The next day, Qing goes to the Dark Guard's base which is next to the Royal Palace and meets with Shang. She takes him to the Information Vault to sigh the agreement to which he does knowing he'll be hunted throughout the Empire and not reveal any secrets. Shang asks to why he wants to join Dark Guard. Qing says to investigate the Xuan Nu Place because the Law Enforcement Elder almost killed him and took someone away from him and wants revenge on that elder. Shang asks where he met the Xuan Nu Palace. Qing says it was at the Yunjiang River looking for the dragon and got involved when they were hunting the remnant of Quan Xuan. She tells Qing that Xuan helped the Empress build the Gentlemen's League, but when he found out she's in love with another man and not marry him, he betrayed her and ended up being hunted by both the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace. Shang takes him to the Information Room 01 which holds the info of the Xuan Nu Palace is stored. She begins to tell him about the origins of the Xuan Nu Palace and how the Empress and the Palace Master are sisters. When the Xuan Nu Palace started a rebellion against the Empress, they were excluded from the center of power. Qing learns in the past how the Empire changed after the Empress returned victorious after defeating a neighborhood country to confront a traitor known as the Master In White. The Empress along with Shang, Min, Nian, and Xiao Qing managed to slain the Master In White, bit were to late to save the Emperor. Back in the present, Shang explains that for three years after the incident, they managed to make the Xuan Nu Palace flee, but doesn't know where the exact location is over the years. Qing says if she give him all the information about the palace, he will check it out, but Shang says someone is in charge of that matter and that he has more important tasks.

Later, Qing is in the Empress' office with her being annoyed of the fact that he has to accompany and make her happy wonder if this is really an important task. The Empress says that the basic skill of the Dark Guard is Stealth asking if Shang had taught him to which Qing answers she didn't need to and that his affair with the Empress has spread all over the Empire. She asks him if his girlfriends are jealous. Qing says each of them have a deep sense of righteousness. An An walks into the office and seeing that Qing is here as well. However, the Empress is not pleased with An An appearing to her angrily asking why she came. An An heard she was injured and made her soup. The Empress orders An An to leave. Qing notes that the Empress and An An have a cold relationship to which the Empress says for him not to ask questions about it. Qing tastes the soup commenting it's delicious, but the Empress smacks the cup out of his hand telling him to spit it out. Qing says the soup is not poisoned and is cooked with a good heart and wants to know what the misunderstanding is. The Empress says it's none of his business and orders him to leave her office.

At night, Qing sneaks in to An An's room and confronts her as she enters. Qing guesses that the palace is a prison for her and also that she's not the real wife to the Empress. An An angrily orders Qing to leave her room, but he responses by ripping the top of her dress revealing her body to have scars. She asks once again for Qing to leave. Seeing how scared An An was, Qing apologizes to her knowing he had no ill intentions and just felt pity to see her in such a state. He comments to her that her soup she made is delicious. Upon hearing this, An An is very happy to know that someone for the first time has ate her soup. He says she looks good when she smiles and if she likes, she can make him her soup everyday. An An comments to him how proud he is of himself and he will definitely not get involved with her in the future stating she's already dead. Qing asks what she meant by that, but An An asks him to leave.

In the 4th Floor Data Area of the Dark Guard hideout, Qing meets with Shang to have him investigate the Xuan Nu Palace again, but believes that the Empress doesn't want him to get to close to his wife. The Palace is located in the East China Sea. Shang explains that those who enter and exit the island will have all five senses temporary close by a secret technique and come out with a secret channel and only the Palace Master and Gatekeeper know the entrance and exit. She also tells him that a strange that happened recently in Xiu Shui Island near the Capital saying one night, a woman who was drunk was walking home and disappeared and the next day, she appeared on a white sand beach far from home and believes it has something to do with the Xuan Nu Palace. Qing will check thing out. Shang wants to make sure that Qing will not reveal his identity to anyone to whatever information is for the Dark Guard. Qing asks her of what happened to Han Shuang to which Shang says she came back after awhile.

Qing went to the person and the Xiu Shui Island to investigate what Shang had told him, but didn't find nothing special about it.

The next day, Qing and his classmates are at the Silk Water Resort due to a collective activity for the class. Unexpectedly, Chen Xi, Hua Hua, and Zi Yan arrive asking him if he wanted to go for a swim together. All four of them go have fun in the ocean, but seem to have gotten the attention of others. Soon, the girls get pulled underwater by a energetic force, but Qing manages to save them. Qing uses his aura and senses a familiar power which belongs to Zui coming from an older woman. He confronts the woman by calling her Zui's name, but the woman doesn't know him and starts to flirt making her husband upset pushing Qing back. As the couple leaves, the girls ask Qing if he like that kind of generation to which the girls become disgusted while QIng wonders if the feeling he felt was wrong.

At night in his house, Qing is laying on his bed and approach by Zi Yan who comes out of the shower asking him if there's something wrong with the older woman he met. Qing believes it's the power of Zui and wonders if there's any spells that can change someone's appearance. Zi Yan believes it can be possible. Qing comments how Zi Yan has changed and no longer jealous. Qing cares about the women he loves, but doesn't know who he loves must and Zi Yan says to just forget about it. As the two make love, Qing gets a call saying someone came to the Hunter Bar to smash the field and wants Qing to come right away.

At the Hunter Bar, Qing watches as Chen Xi battles a woman named An Nan who happens to be Liu Man's rival and overpowers her. When Nan brings up Man if she's still alive or not, Chen Xi gets mad and attacks her only for Qing to to take over for Chen Xi. Nan admits Qing to be powerful, but she doesn't like to hit men. Qing advises her to leave stating it's not her place to be at the bar. Nan states she helped Man to climb to the top and establish the underground kingdom. Soon Man comes into play and Nan confronts her. Qing and Chen Xi protect Man, but she calmly states she doesn't need their protection. Nan wants to compare her and Man's strength. By feeling her aura, Qing realizes Nan to be the holy land warrior who tried to kill him after royal celebration feast. As Man and Nan fight, Qing notes Man's powers are empty in her body and is completely supporting herself. He transfers some of his energy to Man thus pushing Nan back. Nan says to Man she won't live long even if her sword is immortal. Nan makes it clearly she came back to take Man's place knowing it's a notification, not a negotiation and leaves. As they return to the bar, Man hopes to have Chen Xi inherit her career since she made Chen Xi a Material Artist but also wants Qing take owner of the bar as well giving them rings to wear as proof. Man explains that the "Hunter" is an organization and will not betray the Empire, but were mixed with scheming people. Now with Nan's return, she can't stop her and that Qing and Chen Xi will have many difficulty's in the future. Qing asks what advantage will he and Chen Xi get to which Man replies they'll have an underground transportation and information networks in all directions and a group of warriors who are willing to go through the fire and water for them and a stream of money flowing into their accounts. Qing accepts all of this.

Qing goes to a hotel and confronts Nan who is busy with a man wanting to talk to her and she agrees by knocking the man out so he doesn't hear their conversation. Nan explains she's not a member of the Xuan Nu Palace, but is a killer hired by them and doesn't know who they truly are. Qing notes that the scars on her back is punishment for failing to kill him. Nan sees that Qing is good at talking telling him to go away and not disturb her happiness. Qing then shows her the ring that he owns the "Hunter" he took over and if Nan wants to join, it's possible, but is she tries to take it away, it's impossible. Nan remarks on how Man is good picking the right people and saying the people she killed is dead, but not him. Nan states that Qing is simply her nemesis. Qing soon leaves.

Qing decides to go back to the Dark Guard so he can see a list of people suspected to be in the Xuan Nu Palace. In the sky, he sees a figure of a woman approaching him which happens to be Shuang. Qing is happy to see her as she explains that her identity has been exposed not able to show her face and will protect him full time now. Qing asks Shuang if she has a list of people suspected to be Xuan Nu Palace to which she does and sends it to him by phone. She gives him a message from the commander about a "bird" and a "hunter" mixed in but not identify yet. Qing suspects the palace to take the advantage of the turbulent period when the hunters change leaders to control the networks. As they walk, they bump into two women who happen to be drunk. The women soon notice the ring of the leader on Qing's finger becoming furious of the fact that a man will lead them. The women attack Qing only to be beaten by him. Shuang states he's to violent, but Qing states this using violence to control violence.

Two nights later, Qing gets a text from Chen Xi to come to the Hunter Bar at nine o clock in the evening stating Man has something to tell them. Qing arrives noticing graffiti on the building believing something to be wrong. As he walks in, a few women start to bully him about him being the future leader if there is a future for that. He turns to them saying his future is uncertain, but if they continue to use force, there'll be no future. He asks them where Chen Xi and Man are and the girls reply by attacking him since they'll not allow a man to be presumptuous towards them. Qing easily overpowers them and even breaks one of the girl's arm. He's confronted by Jane, the traitor who took over Hunter expecting no less from him since he's the male champion of the Material Arts Competition. Jane shows him a video on her phone revealing Chen Xi and Man in their prison being attacked by a mutant creature and advise Qing to save them before it's to late. Qing goes to the prison and manages to save Chen Xi and Man by slaying the creature. The three of them try to leave the prison, but to no use. Through a loud speaker, Jane states the prison was meticulously built by the Empire's strongest Enchantress, Bai Yi and those that enter will not be able to exit. Chen Xi and Man wonder if everything will be okay to which Qing says it will be. With little strength left, Man gives a piece of parchment to Qing and Chen Xi with ancient material arts on one side and taoist methods on the other which requires male and female practitioners to reconcile yin and yang. After training, the power is infinite and won't be a problem to open enchantment in the prison. Chen Xi states it would take three months to practice, but as Qing looks at it, he sees it will take ten days to practice. Man also mentions she has a sister named Liu Tong which happens to be Qing's teacher and member of Nightingale asking them both to take care of her. Man doesn't want to die being sick and ugly while pulling out a knife and entrusts Qing and Chen Xi to take back the hunters stabbing herself to death. Qing puts a spiritual power around Man's lifeless body so it want rot while he and Chen Xi trains and Chen Xi states she'll avenge Man.

Ten days have passed and Qing and Chen Xi's training is complete. They break out of the prison while carrying Man's body and make their way to the main hall to confront Jane and her subordinates. Qing posses the power of fire while Chen Xi possess the power of ice. They also see that Hua Hua, Zi Yan, Yue, and the Envoys of the Supervision Department came to find them for the past ten days when they lost their signals on their phones. Jane is shocked that Qing and Chen Xi were able to break out of the prison as no warriors that are in the Holy Realm could do so. Chen Xi is furious at Jane for betraying Man after how much Man had trust her. Jane says she followed Man for so many years and when she was about to die, Man handed Hunter to a little girl and a man, but not to her. Chen Xi goes forth to attack Jane. Jane summons her giant hammer revealing she's at level four in the Holy Realm. Qing manages to protect Chen Xi from Jane's attack telling her she can't beat Jane alone. Chen Xi says their fighting style will be stronger if they work together. They use a fire and ice fusion to break through Jane's defenses. Jane starts to criticizes Chen Xi on how she can't beat her even with a man's help which brings shame to a woman. Chen Xi tells her Qing not being ordinary and is next leader appointed by Man. Jane points out how Chen Xi believes men and women are equal and the fact that Chen Xi classified the men in her heart. Jane turns to Qing saying how some women are insane about respecting men, but only to use them and if one day he loses his cultivation, he'll be abandon. Furious once more, Chen Xi attacks Jane only for Jane to dodge and finish Chen Xi off with a big slam. Chen Xi dodges her attack and she and Qing activate a Fire and Ice fusion barrier under Jane's feet revealing to be Qing's idea of trapping Jane. Together, Qing and Chen Xi attack Jane with their fire and ice punches. Jane manages to break the barrier and tries to attack Qing, but he and Chen Xi deliver the final attack using fire and ice meteor shower thus killing Jane for good. Soon, the women who followed her were also killed as well. Qing and Chen Xi turned to the women who witness the fight if they want to question their leaders. The women respond by cutting their wrists declaring Qing and Chen Xi as the new leaders of the Hunters and swear by their bloods to never betray them. Afterwards, the leaders contact Tong about her sister's death and came to the bar as soon as possible. Tong didn't believe that Man is dead wanting to take her to the hospital, but Qing and Chen Xi tell her calmly that Man passed away ten days ago. They all moan for Man's death and later had a funeral for her.

Three days later in the main office, Qing and Chen Xi learn that the Hunter's territory is divided into seven regions. Since they're in Dongcheng, Districts one, two, and seven are in their hands and the four other districts that are in Xicheng are in Nan's hands. The supervisor of District one, Susie says those who deflect to Nan are all veterans. The supervisor of District seven, Liang Yue says after their leader died, the veterans chose betrayal and they should reclaim their territory, but the supervisor of district two, Jiang Ying says it's not easy to seize their territory. Susie explains that their underground traffic was jammed and Xicheng charged them high tolls and seized a lot of important goods. The women who have long abandoned the Hunter are known as Hunting. Susie explains that their information network is in charged Chengzi Aka and followed Nan and that their network was almost completely paralyzed and also, there are people causing trouble everyday in the east city and some deliberately provoke confrontation between men and women and losing more than ten million everyday. Qing states that Nan has been in office for a few days and many thing are in her hands and now trying to provoke them. Qing decides they'll will repay the troublemakers and by night to go to their trouble place and as for their network to wait for his news.

At Man's funeral, Qing and Chen Xi pay their respects and comfort Tong. Tong comments on how she didn't achieve anything by not finding Lian and seeing her sister for one last time. Qing says she can do what she can and asks for her help.

Qing, Chen Xi, and Tong to the the Hunter Communication Center having help from Nightingale members. Qing is surprise to see Hua Hua is a member of Nightingale. Hua Hua explains she is manly responsible for network communication. Qing says with her in Nightingale, her talents will go far. Hua Hua knows all the details and needs two day to which Qing is happy since he only needed a week. Qing tells Tong he's got a bold idea, but needs to wait until Lian come back to discuss and she can send more people to find someone who can pick up the Hunter if she needs it to which Tong agrees. Qing is texted by the Empress on how he disappeared for ten days and no news. Qing says he was in a big mess asking the Empress to help find Jiang Lian. The Empress send out the Dark Guard to look for her and will notify him as soon if there's news.

At night, Qing and Chen Xi are at one of the bars where the troublemakers will strike. Three female troublemakers come and prepare to destroy, but come face to face with the Hunter leaders. In fear, the three girls try to run only for Qing to catch and beat them up. As the troublemakers apologize, Qing demands the three women to lead him to the places they've destroyed. They go to the last bar in Dongcheng and save the hostages from Nan's people and ties them up taking them to the wan'an bridge to meet with Nan.

At wan'an bridge, the Hunters confront the Hunting. Qing and Chen Xi presents Nan's people who were stopped. With out hesitation, Nan kills the people for their failure since they annoyed Qing and setting a statement. Qing saves the subordinate who survived by Nan's attack. Qing and Nan come to an agreement seeing how they're evenly match to follow the rules and won't keep Hunters apart for too long. Aka states that Hunters Elsewhere were all open, but the web of information is all Hunting and it won't be long before the Hunters are all swallowed up and Hunting will rely on a powerful information network, but Qing states that her set was outdated long ago. Nan and her people retreat. Chen Xi notices Qing having quiet moments. Qing aks her what she'd do if he disappears though Chen Xi laughs about it. Qing thinks on how he was desperate to return to his world, but wonder if it still exist and wonders what is going on in this new world.

Qing returns to his house to find Bai Jing Feng who was waiting for him wanting to know if he still plans on joining Gentlemen's League. As Qing recalls of what Shang said to him about the League, he asks Jing Feng who Qing Xuan and what does the Empress want with him. Jing Feng explains that Xuan and the Empress founded the League and Xuan being a powerful cultivator like Qing and the Empress being Xuan's student. Qing recalls Jing Feng telling him about a secret cultivate in the world and decides to join. Jing Feng sets up a Encryption Seal in Qing's body to prevent the information of the secret from leaking and takes Qing to the League.

Qing and Jing Feng go to a Cultivate Secret Realm which is at a river being a waterfall. Qing notes that the passage of time is different from outside and the spiritual power fluctuations are no different. Jing Feng says the spiritual power is more suitable for women to transform into inner strength, while the power in the secret realm is pure spiritual power is suitable for men to cultivate. Qing becomes suspicious about Jing Feng knowing he has great authority not as a member. Jing Feng reveals he's the current leader. Qing sees Jing Feng was lying and knows about Xuan to which Jing Feng says Xuan is his master and foster father. Qing summons his sword seeing how Jing Feng deceived him into joining the League and Jing Feng notes as Qing's cultivation is back to its original color for being purified. Jing Feng summons his swords and both battle. Qing notes that Jing Feng was hiding his true strength as a warrior, but Jing Feng notes that Qing's strength will be suppressed by the world. Jing Feng says the world is not normal and man's power is suppressed by something mysterious and the establishment of the League is to break the oppression and bring everything back to its proper place. Qing asks what does it have to do with him and Jing Feng says he is the male cultivator in the prophecy. Jing Feng says a great prophet once predict that when the top male cultivator appeared in the world the world will change, breaking the order of women being superior to men and that's why he did everything to pull Qing into the League. Qing will believe him for now and both men stop their battle. Jing Feng points out that the League needs a strong male cultivator to change the world and orders Qing to go under the waterfall where the spiritual power is more concentrated and pure, and his suppressed power will truly manifest. Qing goes under the fall and cultivates thinking how his neglect of cultivation was stagnant and it turned out it had something to do with the world and it takes the opportunity to break through in one fell swoop. Qing and Jing Feng notice the Thunder Dragon has appeared from the clouds in the sky. Jing Feng sees Qing is worthy of being the "Son of Prophecy". Both the dragon and Qing exchange blows. Qing sees how powerful the dragon is giving it all he's got getting strike by the thunder getting seriously injured seemly dead. However, Qing's hidden self saves him and heals his injuries awakening his hidden formation in control defeating the dragon. Qing goes back to Jing Feng and thanks him for his level improving so much. Soon, one member of the League comes to them saying the group has found a strange power fluctuation in Xiushui Mountain with a strong barrier and none of them can break it. Qing says he'll go and see since he's been in the Xiushui Village.

Qing goes to Xiushui Mountain finding the barrier and breaks it with ease while being in his hidden formation. Female warrior guards try to attack him, but he defeats them with ease. As he walks forward, Lian appears out of a tree and embraces him being happy that he came to rescue her. Qing brings out his sword making it gigantic so he and Lian can fly to make their escape. The both suspect that the General was responsible for keeping Lian under house arrest. As they fly to make their escape om the sword, Qing gets annoyed as Lian starts to harass him by touching him. Below them is the Xiushui Village and Qing senses Zui's power in there and quickly lands, but Zui's power disappears at the moment.

At night in Lian's home, Qing wants to make a deal with Lian lending him Nightingale and divide ten percent of Hunter into her income. Tong who is with them disagrees with Qing, but Lian is interested in it thus accepts Qing's offer and makes the deal of lending him Nightingale.

The next day, Qing reports to the Empress who is also with General Min who gives information to the Empress. Lian walks in tearfully crying saying how Min locked her up in a mansion in Xiushui Village and recorded evidence in a speaker. However, after listening to the recorder, the Empress believe it's not enough. Lian tells her it's true, but the Empress has heard enough and orders Min to take care of her daughter and both mother and daughter leave. The Empress believes that Qing rescued Lian and asks him if he's trying to move the next stage on her General and if the Empress is next. Qing says he doesn't want to cause any trouble though Lian's evidence is unreliable and nothing suspicious about Min and ask the Empress to try to investigate slowly. The Empress states she would have died ten years ago though Qing believes people can change. The Empress was beat by Yun Qian and everyone though she was dead. Since Qing never experience the feeling, she forgives him for offending her feelings and not to discuss this again. The Empress brings up about her birthday in three days and Qing will prepare a gift for her and leaves her office.

Outside of the Royal Palace Dormitory, Qing bumps into An An surprising her. He gives her crystal like bird saying he was thinking of her and wished for her to search and find her own wings one day. An An is grateful to Qing accepting his gift with happiness and enters in the dormitory.

Qing gets in his car with Lian in the back seat. Lian still believes that her mother is indeed responsible for holding her under house arrest. Lian is very confident what will happen next. Qing asks her why she hates the General so much since treason is a proper death penalty. Not only will Min die, but the Ji family will also be in decline if Lian finds evidence of the General's treason. Lian states she'll make her mother restless for the rest of her life.

Three days later, Qing attends the Empress's birthday in the royal palace alongside with Lian, Chen Xi, and Zi Yan. He notices Chu Xue looking at him, but she looks away. He notices An An is approaching the Empress with cover tray. The Empress tries to make An An go back to recover, but An An refuses stating she's healthy and the time has come for the lies to stop calling the Empress her aunt which surprises everyone. An An reveals the truth that her real name is Di Xi and being the daughter of the three kings and the three kings rebelled and lived to this day only because of the Empress's mercy. Xi pulls out a dagger and Shang goes to the Empress's side believing Xi came to kill the Empress. Xi knew she was powerless when she couldn't save her uncle and cousin from her mother, but today she asks for relief and wants her aunt to let go and start a new life. Xi grips the dagger tight causing her hands to bleed, but soon blood comes out from her eyes and mouth and collapse. Qing runs to Xi to discover the knife has poison on it and Shang confirms it's the green snake lotus. The Empress states to Xi in anger that she thinks she can be freed by dying and will arrest everyone who's related to her now and kill them. Qing says right now Xi needs to be saved. Xiao Qing can't save her, but Qing says he can save her and goes to the recovery room.

In the recovery room, Qing successfully gets all the poison out of Xi and reports to the Empress and Shang that Xi needs rest. General Min comes to them saying the Dragon Raptor has been stolen. The Empress orders Shang to find the thief by not letting anyone out of the palace. She asks Qing what he thinks of Xi to which Qing answers she's pure and kind believing the Empress didn't know it for a long time. He decides to help find the thief.

At night, Qing searches the thief and finds two guards holding down a woman believing she's the thief. Qing frees the woman who was ecstasy and used to interfere with sight. He comes across Chu Xue, but feels that something's not right realizing she's not Chu Xue and takes her to the ballroom where Xiao Qing is who was worried for her daughter. Qing texts Shang to find the real Chu Xue. As the fake Chu Xue thanks him, he notices her wearing a navy ring and uses his power to touch it only for the fake to push him away. He sees her sadness which is something he feels when being around her. Qing confirms she's not Chu Xue being the thief telling her as long as she hands over the dragon raptor, he will keep her safe and sound. Soon, the Empress, Min, and Shang arrived with the real Chu Xue and surround the fake. The fake Chu Xue states she has to take the dragon raptor and makes a run for it. Min and Shang fire at the fake, but Qing interferes by protecting and catching up to her with incredible speed. The fake Chu Xue tries to attack Qing, but no use as he pulls off the ring from her finger and out of it comes the dragon raptor. The women try to capture Qing and fake Chu Xue, but before they can the blood dragon and the dragon QI emerge out of Qing and fake Chu Xue being synced. The Empress orders the women to stop and orders Qing to bring fake Chu Xue with him knowing she has her own mind to believe them.

In the bedroom, the dragon raptor is returned by Qing. The Empress asks what the dragon raptor is used for to which fake Chu Xue answers that it gathers spiritual power as well as dragon veins. The Empress suspects that Granny Dan has told her. The fake Chu Xue asks if the Empress is trying to get information out of her to which the Empress answers not everyone in Xuan Nu Palace deserves to die since Dan is pure and kind at heart. The Empress tells them of what the dragon raptor really is saying how the Empire has changed over the years, but those who ascend the throne have one thing in common. Those who can ascend to the throne have a common feature that is the blood of the true dragon. In the past, the empire was rich in spiritual power. Every few hundred years, a family of true dragon blood will be born. They will obey the destiny and overthrow the tyrannical rule of the old dynasty and create a new dynasty. Later, the spiritual power increased until only one remained. In order to protect this last one, the Empress Qing Tian refined herself into a Dragon Lord. The interval between the appearance of the true dragon blood is also getting longer and longer and Dragon Raptor exists to protect the blood of the true dragon and is only useful for true dragons and veins, but useless to others. The Empress notes that fake Chu Xue is pregnant and brings her to inject Qi Jin into Dragon Raptor. After that, the Empress says to fake Chu Xue that in this world, besides her, there is only her daughter believing she was dead and asks fake Chu Xue to reveal herself which also shocks Qing to see his wife Zui. Shang reveals Zui's true name being Di Si causing Dess to remember her mother is the Empress and her father being the Emperor Si'er. Her mother asks Si if Qing is the father of her daughter's child to which Si says it is his. The Empress heard that Qing and Si got married, but didn't have a wedding and decides to make one for them. The Empress is happy for her daughter's return and orders Shang to calculate the auspicious day proclaiming to the world. Qing asks the Empress to inject Qi Jin into the Dragon Lord saying while practicing, it is found that there is a dragon energy in the body and decides to give back the blood dragon to the Empress. While doing so, the Dragon Raptor response by revealing a ghost like woman figure to the three. The Empress confirms its the Heavenly Empress, Qing Tian. Tian states the Son of Prophecy has appeared and will overthrow the Empire and change the world. Tian comes closer to Qing knowing he's the Son of Prophecy telling that him coming is inevitable and breaks the last shackles around his heart having Qing transform into a Golden Dragon. Tian says Qing is the purest true dragon blood. She disappears telling Qing to prevent future disasters. Qing flies outside releasing an endless power. He soon comes back into the palace bedroom reverting back to his human self seeing how powerful he's become. Si and the Empress approach him saying that the Heavenly Empress has given him something good. Si hands Qing a peony symbol token that can make him take command of troops at will. The Empress believes in him as well does Si that he can do it. Also, the matter of the blood of the real dragon will be made public sooner or later and the Empress and Si can’t escape, but Qing's identity cannot be revealed, so the Empress made everyone mistakenly think that the dragon hovering over the palace is Si. The Empress then leaves the two alone together to have fun. Qing and Si happily embrace and kiss being reunited. Qing doesn't want her to leave him again. Si says he and her mother are the most powerful people in the Empire and no one can threaten her to leave him.

Two days later in Empress's office, she orders, Shan, Min, and Nian to have their armies to be prepared for the attack of the Xuan Nu Palace, and the canonization ceremony will not leak a single piece of paper. The Empress states to Si that the Xuan Nu Palace didn't do anything when she came back for two days and it just made her nervous. The Empress returns the crystal bird to Qing to give back to Xi giving her the freedom she deserves.

At the palace dormitory, Qing and Si see off Xi who now is free and to leave the Capital to live her own life. Qing returns the gift he gave to and bids her farewell. As Xi goes, Qing and Si notice Chen Xi, Zi Yan, and Hua Hua hiding behind a tree since they have not seen him in two days making Si a bit angry at Qing. All four women confront each other knowing they are all love rivals for Qing. Even though Qing is with Si, the girls state that he belongs to everyone and he is not a person who covets power, and it is uncertain who will die in the end. Si comes to an agreement saying all four of them will play fair to which they all agree on. Chen Xi, Zi Yan, and Hua Hua plan to protect Si while being at the canonization ceremony.

Qing and his harem, along with Ji Lian who followed them goes to his place to discuss and get the information on the Girls Palace and report it to the Empress. They get the info on the seven elders as well of the army of women they have in order to attack during the canonization ceremony of the concubine. Qing's harem will attend anyways even if the Girls Palace attacks. Qing gives his harem his newly refined jade talisman and when attacked, the protection formation will be activated.

Three days later, Qing appears next to Si and the Empress in the Altar during the Canonization Ceremony for the forty-eighth princess of the empire for Si's return. Soon, elders and warriors of the Xuan Nu Palace arrive and begin their assault. Qing is confronted by the first and second elders, Yue Hong and Yan Bing. Qing remembers Hong from their first encounter. Hong goes forth to attack him and Qing response by punching her to the ground. Hong keeps on fighting, but can't land a hit on Qing pushing her back. Qing overpowers Bing, but starts to cough up blood realizing Si has been injured. Bing tries to finish him off, but Qing counters by killing Bing. He goes to where Si and the Empress are at stating Si's poisoned and the forth elder, Shi Lan is around ordering Shan to find her. Qing coughs up blood and Si reminds him about the life and death curse that needs to be solved or both of them will die. Shan finds and captures Shi Lan bring her to the Empress and Qing wanting her to detoxify the poison, but Lan can't figure it out as the four-color gu poison is specially tailored for the target and the higher the target's cultivation level, the deeper the poisoning and no matter what method is used, the poison cannot be detected. Qing uses his soul enter on Lan and tells the Empress that Si will not die for the time being. Qing notes that his unborn child deactivated the life and death curse. Shan puts Lan in the Dark Guard prison.

In the palace bedroom, Qing watches over Si and notes while using soul search, the refining method of the four-color gu poison, and the antidote to the poison has also been found, but no antidote. Chen Xi and Chu Xue arrive to inform Qing that neither the Xiao Family or Ye Pharmacy had no such luck to make an antidote to cure the poison in Si's body. Qing decides he'll visit Shi Lan in the prison.

Qing goes to the Dark Guard base into the prison section in the underground seventh floor confronting Shi Lan who's been beaten up. Qing wants answers how to cure the poison in Si's body. Lan explains to Qing about her hometown, the holy relics of Li Ye Village are egg cups. It is a treasure for practicing Gu, and it is also an artifact for refining medicine. Qing doesn't believe her. Lan sees that he doesn't know the complicated relationship between Li Ye Village and the Empire. Shan comes telling Qing she's not lying saying the village and the Empire are allies. Everyone in the village is good at making poison and to why the Empire is stronger thanks to their help. To show loyalty to the Empire, the village give the best young master to the Empire once every fifty years and the poison master was named Gu Heng. Lan states to be the fifty-eighth Gu Heng and was poisoned by the poison master when she entered the competition. In the end she will still die after leaving the village and being tired of this boring fate and the fifty years is coming soon with the new Gu Heng arriving and she will be the one to die.

In the Empress's office, she tells Qing she met the village Head and agrees that this time Gu Heng will bring something imperial, but was worried about losing the treasure and asked her to send someone to protect her. Qing agrees to go along with Chen Xi, Lian, Zi Yan, and Chu Xue, but Qing decides for Chu Xue to stay in the Capital and wait for them to return.

At night Qing, Chen Xi, Zi Yan, and Lian arrive in the Miasma Forrest with the air being covered in poison. One of the villagers cries for help as she is covered in blood approaching the group. Qing tells the girl to take them to the village which is under attack by the Xuan Nu Palace. They arrive in time to save the village leader, Zhai Zhu from almost getting killed by the seventh elder, Xi Ning. Qing prepares to finish of Ning, but the elder manages to escape. Qing and the group are introduced to Ling Ruo Chan who is a young Gu Master having the egg cups who will go with them. The group and Ruo Chan take their leave.

In the middle of the night, Qing's group and Ruo Chan stop at a hotel to spend the night. Qing notices Ruo Chan running out of the showers in embarrassment and starts to question himself if she's really a girl or a boy, but is not important at the moment. By morning, the group returns to the Capital.

In the palace dormitory, Qing and the Empress watch as Ruo Chan begins the healing process on Si who's not awake as the first pull is given. Ruo Chan explains that the four-color poison needs the four-color antidote. Si needs to take four pills in a certain amount of days for full recover and after taking the final pill, Si will wake up two to three days after. A little later, Qing and the Empress check up on Si and see she's doing well recovering. The Empress states she has suspicious since Shi Lan's betrayal being hard to believe in Gu Feng, especially Ruo Chan.

Fourteen days later, Qing watches as Ruo Chan gives Si the third pill. Ruo Chan says that in seven days when Si takes the last pill, the poison in Si's body will be gone. The Empress informs Qing that Shan said that Shi Lan was clamoring to see him in the prison, saying that she wanted to tell him a big secret and only tell him, but is worried believing Gu Masters are unfathomable. Ruo Chan lends him her Gu worm named Xiao Tang which is Ruo Chan's life Gu and no matter what Shi Lan does, she can't escape its eyes.

Qing goes to the Dark Guard prison into Shi Lan's cell to see the woman is very thin and skinny knowing her time is at a close and it will also be the ending of Si as well. Qing asks why to which Lan states since the spiritual power has become thin, the poisonous insects and poisonous snakes nourished by the spiritual power also gradually disappeared. The current Li Ye Village is just a mere appearance. Lan says the poison outside the stockade is about to become a decoration and the warriors who entered the fourth rank or above can safely pass through the poisonous miasma and enter the village and since then, a sense of despair has spread in Li Ye Village. Qing tells her he didn't come to hear about her tragic past. Lan says when she came to the empire, she was not just a new Gu Feng, nor was it the same. It's just that she failed and don't know what the new salary is. Qing asks her what her purpose is for coming to the Capital, but the power in Lan's body starts to react. Qing demands asking again what her purpose is, but all Lan does is laugh hysterically and dies.

Outside the palace dormitory, Qing gives back Xiao Tang to Ruo Chan knowing Shi Lan didn't trick him. Chen Xi, Zi Yan and Lian come to them, but Ruo Chan runs off in embarrassment. Zi Yan asks Qing how Si is doing and Qing says she's currently stable and the poison in her body is slowly dissipating. Qing is unaware that a tiny black insect is on his left shoulder having a wicked interest in Zi Yan's despair and talks with Chen Xi and Lian.

At night, Qing is with Chen Xi and Zi Yan. Zi Yan says that everything in the palace is over asking Qing if he can't you go back to school with her. As he's about to say, Chen Xi interrupts saying she and Qing also have a lot of things to do in Hunters and Zi Yan should go back to school herself and wait for him. Zi Yan gets mad seeing that Qing stands beside the other girls and not her and runs off. Chen Xi states Zi Yan will come to the hunter next day to punch her out to which Qing agrees.

Seven days later, Qing and the Empress watch as Ruo Chan gives Si the last pill hoping Si will wake up soon. Qing gets a call from Zi Yan telling him she wants to meet him right away and now. However, Qing says it is the critical period of Si and has to stay by her side and if Zi Yan is in a hurry, he will find someone to help you first. This makes Zi Yan angry knowing the palace will guard Si and not him. Qing tells her not to cause trouble, but Zi Yan states she's troubled by him knowing he has Si, Hua Hua, and Chen Xi in his heart and wonders about the the secret connection he has with Lian. She brings up about how he went against her family with her, causing the Tang family to fall and her mother to fall ill. She demands to know what she really is to him. Qing decides he will find her, though Zi Yan states he's just pities her and she hangs up. The Empress tells him if there's something he has to do, he can go and she will stay by Si's side. Qing says he'll return.

Qing goes to the building where Zi Yan is to finding her on top of the roof seeing she's in some king of trouble. Qing asks her what happen and he'll help her, but Zi Yan angrily tells him to go away. However, Zi Yan suddenly embraces him not wanting him to leave and be by her side in an evil tone voice. Qing notes that something's not right with Zi Yan and briefly attacks her. Zi Yan believes he lied to her, but Qing says he didn't and she's not herself. Qing sees a strong barrier around Zi Yan knowing it belongs to Xuan Nu Palace's fifth elder, Bai Ling and watches a spell circle under Zi Yan's feet is formed. Four people in black robes appear around Zi Yan completing the task of what's inside Zi Yan. Qing breaks the barrier and kills the four people, but is stabbed in shock by Zi Yan which also shocks her as well. Zi Yan transforms into a butterfly demon and Qing learns that Zi Yan has a Gu Insect inside her. Yue Hong arrives and commands Butterfly Zi Yan to kill Qing making Qing furious at Hong for her actions. He fights Butterfly Zi Yan taking a massive scratch, but manages to use his power to hold down Butterfly Zi Yan. He turns to Hong and fights her only for Hong to use a stone (Tian Zhu) on Qing absorbing into his body making him weaker and having his spiritual powers gone. As he's about to be finished by Hong, Qing uses his remanding power to escape taking Butterfly Zi Yan with him.

Qing hides in an empty where house along with Butterfly Zi Yan. He contacts Shan letting her know he's in danger by encountering Hong and temporarily lost his spiritual power and needs her help to which Shan will come rescue him. Soon, Hong finds him and Zi Yan busting in. Hong tells Qing how thankfully she was that she didn't kill him just yet knowing how boring he is dying by her own hands and proceeds to tell him that Tian Zhu is useful. Qing asks what is the Tian Zhu to which Hong replies with a punch saying he doesn't need to know. Hong unties Butterfly Zi Yan stating if Zi Yan is the one who killed him, she will be possessed by intoxication from now on and falling down completely will be driven by Hong forever. Hong orders Butterfly Zi Yan to finish the mission to kill Qing to which Butterfly Zi Yan thrusts her claw into Qing. Qing tells her he has always cared about her and even if this is his second go in life, she is his first love and not to be so obsessed with him. Qing collapses which cause Zi Yan to awake and cry for him causing one of Zi Yan's wings to change white which also causes the the insect's cocoon that Hong has is crumbled. Zi Yan takes control of her body and kills Hong. Qing is taken by Zi Yan right before Qian Shan arrived to save him.

The next morning, Qing is brought by Zi Yan to the Xiao mansion and gets treated by Chu Xue. At night, Qing wakes up to see Zi Yan beside him. Zi Yan explains that she can't get the Tian Zhu out from is body and blames herself. Qing doesn't blame her saying the Tian Zhu is only temporarily suppressing his spiritual power as he can feel it. Zi Yan states that there seems to be something wrong with Si when she woke up and seems to have become a different person blaming herself again. Qing says it's not her fault knowing it's really his fault for ignoring her first. Zi Yan is happy that Qing doesn't hate her. Qing is worried about Si asking Zi Yan to come with him to which Zi Yan says she'll protect him.

At the palace dormitory, Qing confronts Si and Ruo Chan. Si is not happy to see him asking why he came. Qing says he came to see how she was doing and recalls how Ruo Chan said that Si wouldn't wake for a few days. Si defends Ruo Chan revealing the Gu Master is a man and his parents and Zhai Zhu hoped he would be a girl and had him wear girl clothes. This shocks Qing and can see how different Si is. Qing asks Ruo Chan what did Zhu ask him to do and also what did he do to Si, but Si steps in to defend him treating Qing like he's the villain. Ruo Chan notices that Qing's spiritual power is gone and see that Xiao Tang is not afraid of him and tries to attack him, but Zi Yan steps in to protect Qing. Zi Yan's butterfly form surprises both Si and Ruo Chan. Zi Yan explains that Xuan Nu Palace's first elder tricked both her and Qing and almost lost their lives. Ruo Chan states to Zi Yan that the mother cocoon is dead and she and the Butterfly Gu are one, but not truly one revealing she's half human and half Gu being a pity that Zi Yan can't change back to human, but Ruo Chan has a way to make her back to human form. However, Qing doesn't trust Ruo Chan believing he'll do something to Zi Yan, but Zi Yan tells Qing she'd rather die than to be a monster. Qing warns Ruo Chan if he does anything to Zi Yan, he will kill him. Outside, Qing and Si have a talk. Si comments how she is standing, and Qing is sitting as a commoner seeing he really knows how to honor and humble. Qing says he's recovering from a serious illness and remarks how unlike Si, who was tricked by someone without knowing it. Si lets him know that the sage of Chinese medicine checked her and no sign of being attacked by a Gu though Qing remarks he is a master at treating intractable diseases. Si threatens to kill him, but Qing tells her if she does, she'll regret it later. Si tells him not to provoke her or she will kill him. Ruo Chan comes outside and Qing demands to know if Zi Yan is alright. Zi Yan steps out being back to human, but passes out in Qing's arms. Ruo Chan says that during her time of being a Gu, Zi Yan overdrawn too much physical strength and would be fine by resting a few days. Qing warns Ruo Chan a second time saying if Zi Yan doesn't wake up in those days, he will kill him. He takes Zi Yan and leaves.

At Qing's house, he watches over Zi Yan and tries to use his spiritual power, but no good as Tian Zhu still blocks his power. Qing Xuan who is in Ye Qing Mei's body sneaks into the house and approaches Qing. Xuan pulls Tian Zhu out of Qing's body and destroys it and with this, Qing's spiritual power has return in full. Xuan is impressed that a man like Qing with a plug-in is extraordinary. Qing asks him what he meant by that. Xuan says Qing is not originally from the new world and neither is he. Xuan prepares to leave, but Qing stops him. Qing thanks him for helping him take out Tian Zhu, but wants to ask some things. Xuan decides to fight Qing, but Qing is stronger than him and defeats him. Xuan says when he first met Qing in Yunshan, he was just a Nascent Soul cultivator and now he's above him. Qing just wanted to ask what world Xuan's from. Xuan says if there is a way to return to the original world, can Qing give up everything here and go back. Qing doesn't know if he really wants to. Xuan tells Qing to defeat Xuan Nu Palace and find the holy stone so he will know the truth knowing it's the biggest secret in the world of feminism and with that, Xuan takes his leave.

Three days later, Zi Yan wakes up being happy she's still herself. Qing is happy that Ruo Chan didn't do anything to her. Zi Yan is also happy to see Qing got his spiritual powers back. As Zi Yan mentions the issue with Si, Qing had already planned to go back to the palace taking Zi Yan with him.

At the palace, Si tells the Empress she's going to marry Ruo Chan and go back to Li Ye Village with him. The Empress angrily objects to Si's choice believing she's gone crazy. Si grimly states how her mother is nothing more than worrying about no successor to the Empire and seeing how she cares about Qing a lot saying her mother should marry him instead. At that moment, Qing and Zi Yan arrive. Qing viciously slaps Si for her stupidity saying that her brain has also been eaten by Gu worms. Si is mad at Qing for hitting her and tries to hit him back, but he stops her. Si sees that Qing got his spiritual power back. As Qing carries Si to the bed, the Empress pulls Zi Yan out of the room with her to wait in the hallway. Qing puts Si on the bed gently knowing if she wasn't pregnant, he would have dropped her hard. Si remarks that a slut will always be a slut and starts to tease and seduce Qing with her beauty. However, Qing binds and puts a boundary over Si and only he can undo both. As he walks away, Si asks where he's going though Qing states it's none of her business. As Qing walks out of the room, Si tells him to come back or she will kill him, but he ignores her. In the hallway, Qing asks the Empress to watch over Si as he and Zi Yan have to take care of some business.

Outside, Qing and Zi Yan go to a building in the palace where Ruo Chan is staying in to confront him again. Zi Yan can sense Gu worms everywhere in and out of the place believing that Ruo Chan's attack range is up and that they must be careful. As they open the doors, an army of Gu butterflies swarm around them. As they walk in, Qing enters an illusion finding himself being with his family, friends, and harem while in the reality, he is bind by a giant Gu Snake and bitten by Xiao Tang. Qing knows that everything is fake, transforms in his hidden formation, and able to break free from the illusion by grabbing Ruo Chan by his neck demanding to know about Zi Yan to which Ruo Chan points she's sleeping peacefully. Xiao Tang approaches Qing with a glare. Qing grabs the insect believing it was the one to cast the illusion. Ruo Chan begs Qing not to kill Xiao Tang. Qing forces Ruo Chan to negotiate with him and asks what his purpose is for coming to the Capital. Ruo Chan says it's to steal the relics and collect spiritual power to bring back to the Li Ye Village so that the village can return to its peak and it's related to the rise and fall of the royal family being top secret and that Shi Lan had worked hard to get it all, but no use. Ruo Chan states when learning about Si being a dragon, he thought about bring her back to the village alive. However, Qing reveals the truth to Ruo Chan of him being the actual dragon and not Si. Qing decides not to kill Ruo Chan for the sake of Zi Yan and will remove the Gu worm inside of Si and ask the Empress to remove the Gu technique that exist in the village and that he can use his Gu in his own territory in peace. Ruo Chan removes the Gu worm from inside his chest and kills it explaining the one in Si will die as well since they're both a pair so Qing doesn't have to worry. Having an interest in Qing, Ruo asks him to go wth him to the village though Qing says he can't go. Ruo Chan tries to force Qing, but it only makes Qing hate Ruo Chan even more. Ruo Chan reveals he's born androgynous. Qing is getting too annoyed by Ruo Chan and bring up about Ruo Chan's interest in Lian. Qing advises Ruo Chan to leave by next day and takes Zi Yan with him leaving Ruo Chan's room.

At night, Qing and the Empress are in Si's room as they watch her wake up. They're both relieved that Si is back to her normal self. Si embraces Qing being happy that she can't die without him. Outside, Qing and the Empress realize Si doesn't remember anything of what Ruo Chan did to her. Qing asked the Empress if she agrees to remove the Gu technique that exist in Li Ye Village and let the villagers do what they want to which she agrees.

The next day as Qing returns to his house, he thinks of a way to discuss with the Empress the plan to bring down Xuan Nu Palace. As he walks in, he unexpectedly finds Ruo Chan and his giant Gu snake sleeping on his floor. Qing angrily wakes up Ruo Chan asking why he didn't leave and it's because of the mission, he can't return home yet and if he did his grandmother would scold him and decide he'll stay with Qing though Qing rejects it. Ruo Chan releases from his bag a bunch of Gu bugs and tries to catch them in order for Qing to change his mind, but it only makes Qing furious. Qing tells him if he had to stay, it is not impossible and the premise is that Ruo Chan will get what Qing ask him to do, including dying. This frightens Ruo Chan and pictures Qing and his grandmother punishing him and Ruo Chan promises him it is better to die than to be trained as a Gu. Qing tells Ruo Chan to go to the High-Speed Rail Station to get back to Li Ye Village, but suddenly a Gu slime creature attacks Qing. Ruo Chan's snake saves Qing by eating him and exploding to which Qing is saved, but covered in poison and Ruo Chan's Gu bugs wipe off the poison from Qing's body. Qing thanks Ruo Chan and his snake which is now a small snake being immortal and will grow up again. Ruo Chan decides to leave, but tells him he can stay which make Ruo Chan happy. Both men soon spot Zhai Zhu's Gu butterfly, King Venom in the house. Zhu's ghost emerges from the butterfly telling Ruo Chan that she knew there would be such a day, but it came too suddenly for the attack on Li Ye Village and she will die. Ruo Chan doesn't believe that. Zhu says the enemy will come to Ruo Chan and doesn't want him to take revenge and not to go back to village and live the life he wants. Zhu then disappears leaving Ruo Chan in tears which also causes Venom to die to. Ruo Chan wants to go back to the village, but Qing stops him from going knowing his enemy is very powerful and needs to think of possibilities. Ruo Chan states that his grandmother's consciousness is attached to the enemy's Gu worm, that Gu worm is a kind of Mo Chan, never seen in the village. Ruo Chan can still feel that Mo Chan is becoming a new Gu King because of killing the Gu King. Qing and Ruo believe in one possibility which is Xuan Nu Palace since Shi Lan has been with them for so many years, and she must have taught the Gu technique to others. Due to little information, Ruo Chan decides to go back and Qing will come with him.

At Li Ye Village, Qing and Ruo Chan see that the people were all corroded by Mo Chan into venom. They rush into the main house to find Zhu, but Qing discovers it's a trap and Mo Chan's ghost emerges from Zhu body telling Ruo Chan that killing him won't be easy and if she failed her master Shi Lan, she wants all of the people in the village to be buried with her. Mo Chan takes to the sky and summons fireballs to fall down onto the village. Qing uses a boundary to protect him and Ruo Chan. Mo Chan disappears afterwards. Qing watches as Ruo Chan does a funeral for his grandmother by burning her lifeless body and she can rest in peace. Qing sees that both him and Ruo Chan have a common enemy and that Ruo chan will join him. Qing discovers Ning and Mo Chan hiding in the trees and fires an attack, but both women manage to get away.

The next day at the royal palace, the Empress is informed that Ling and Mo Chan slaughtered the entire Li Ye Village and Ruo Chan joining to deal with Xuan Nu Palace together, but do to being weak he can't get revenge. Shan informs Xuan Nu Palace's location and sending an advance team to explore it. Qing, Ruo Chan, and Si states they'll go, but Qing and the Empress convince Si to stay since she's pregnant with the child being very important. The Empress needs Qing to explore the truth and collect information as much as possible and if being in danger not to fight hard and leave immediately. The Empress speaks with Qing alone stating how the core members of Xuan Nu Palace have their people and find the information Xan left behind and shows him a butterfly he will need to find.

At night, Qing and Ruo Chan arrive on the island of Xuan Nu Palace as they brought Lian with them since she's good at scheming. Qing uses his power to see if there is any living creature on the island, but can't feel any due to the entire island being covered with hidden formation. The trio is confronted by Ning in her ghost form trapping them in an open field filled with poison. Ruo Chan provides the group with antidote pills, but get taken away as one of the warriors attempts to kidnap Ruo Chan and manages to save him. With no other options, Ruo Chan gives the group dead insects which have the same antidote from before having no choice but to eat it though Lian passes out due to the horrible taste being carried by Qing. The trio stumble in a cold snowy realm and with little patients, Qing uses his sword to break the realm and the three find themselves in front of the Xuan Nu Palace's castle and Lian wakes up. A voice calls out to Qing saying he's qualify to compete with the Palace Master, Di Can and takes the invite. Lian notes Can is a Martial Arts genius who has only been one in a thousand years, and there is no one in the top combat power of the empire and her current cultivation base is estimated to be almost complete. Qing enters the castle and orders Lian and Ruo Chan to wait for him.

Inside the castle, Qing meets Can who takes off her mask since Qing knows her identity. The two then proceed to test out their strength in power. Can brings out her "Fire Sword" and goes to strike Qing, but Qing blocks her attack by bring out his golden sword. The two blast their way from the roof into the sky. Can is surprised that Qing is able to cultivate to such a high level. Qing says Can has been huddled on the small island, sitting, and watching the sky. Can uses her avatar technique to multiply herself into three. Qing blocks and attacks one of the illusions. Can feels insulted that Qing is making fun of her as no one ever did before and brings out her full power showing an image of a large warrior like woman appearing behind her and fires blue flames at Qing, but he dodges them. Qing summons his gold dragon and both sides collide causing a huge explosion on the island.

By morning, Qing sees that Can escaped and notes she's indeed very powerful. He's found by Ruo Chan who is on a python carrying a knock out Lian and is amazed seeing a strong level battle like that for the first time and no matter how powerful the Xuan Nu Palace is, he must take revenge and Qing will help him. Qing then realized he forgot to get the information to find the butterfly that the Empress told him to do, but Ruo Chan presents the butterfly to him making Qing happy. He looks at Lian's state finding her to be a burden.

### Empire Versus Xuan Nu Palace Arc

At the palace, Qing, Si, the Empress, and Shan reveal the white butterfly is the power distribution map of Xuan Nu Palace. They get a call from Gong Nian saying Jing Men was attacked by Xuan Nu Palace, and the whole city was bombed. The local military department and the defense army both lost contact and Qing's parents are also missing. This startles Qing and contacts Xing Lie through video and is relieved that his parents and sister are safe with Lie in her underground dugout. Lie asks Qing to get the King of Supervision and General to mobilize the nearest military envoy and military support and the Empress orders Nian to get her army and Ji Min around Jing Men to support immediately. The signals were soon cut off. Qing decides he wants to go back to Jing Men as he's worried about his family and Si decides to go with him as she's worried about her people from Drunken Dream.

Qing and Si return to Jing Men to see everything in the city is destroyed being angry of what Xuan Nu Palace has done. Unexpectedly, the meet with Zi Yan's mother, Tang Jie who informs Qing that Xuan Nu Palace sent several elders to look for his family in the city. Jie leads them to the underground dugout where they enter a room with injured women of Jie's family. Jie explains two days a go, the Xuan Nu Palace attack the city and their armies were powerless against them and mentions that Xiao Yu, the Minister of Military Supervision was captured alive and a few civilians survived along with a few warriors hid underground and with their communication cut off being impossible to get in touch with the outside world. Si says the the Imperial Army have come to support the city, but Jie states the supporters have not been seen. Qing realizes the Xuan Nu Palace not only have intercepted the army, but have sighted both him and Si when they arrived. The Xuan Nu Palace bust into the room with their newest first elder, Yue Rong leading them. Qing gives the women jade and paper talismans for protection. Qing orders Si and Jie to escape with the wounded women while he holds off the Xuan Nu Palace. Si warns him Rong being an extremely rare poison cultivator and her methods are sinister and vicious and must keep his distance from her when battling her. Si and Jie take the Tang members to escape. Rong orders her allies to go after the wounded women, but Qing blocks their path. Rong goes to attack Qing using poison on the palm of her hand, but Qing easily pushes her back keeping his distance from her. The warriors try to attack him, but Qing holds them off knowing they can't pass him. Showing no mercy, Rong kills her allies with poison while making a poison boundary. Qing sees how ruthless Rong is and that she's to dangerous to be left alive. Qing makes his sword bigger and fires at Rong, but Rong's boundary doesn't break. Rong tells him the scariest part about her poison is corruption. Qing tests the speed of her corrosion against his spiritual power gathering and breaks Rong's poison boundary. Qing counters all of Rong's poison and techniques preparing to finish her off as she tries to escape. However, Qing's attack is countered by a boundary surrounding Rong as Bai Ling and Xi Ning arrive to save her. Ning tells Qing that sooner or later she'll come see him and take her revenge on him. As the three elders retreat, Qing believes both Ling and Ning to be troublesome because of their abilities. Qing goes to the surface and meets up with Si and Jie and repels the Xuan Nu Palace warriors back with ease and the group goes to a safe place.

Qing, Si, Jie, and the Tang family go to the Chu house seeing how much damage the Xuan Nu Palace did to it. Qing activates a secret door to enter the house. As the group enters and searches for Qing's family, they meet with Lie who's been protecting Qing's family. Qing happily embraces his mom, dad, and sister seeing they're safe and unharmed while Lie apologizes to Si for mistreating her all this time after learning Si being a member of the royal family. Si states that those who do not know are innocent. Qing asks Lie where her children are to which Lie answers Xing You was sent to the imperial capital by her a long time ago and since Xing Tao and Liu Feng are not warriors they've both have already entered the demilitarized zone. Lie gives a background about the demilitarized zone saying when warriors and ordinary people decided to coexist, they lay down the rules with the warrior war cannot affect ordinary people and to protect the rights and interests of ordinary people to survive, the establishment of a demilitarized zone and after the ten strongest enchantresses developed a special enchantment and set it up in the demilitarized zone, the enchantress committed suicide to ensure that no one could break the enchantment. Qing asks since his dad and sister are ordinary why they didn't enter the zone, but Lie angrily asks him what kind of hatred did he have with Xuan Nu Palace since they sent elders out to capture his family. Lie states in order to forcibly open the demilitarized zone, she has already abolished the power of nine bulls and two tigers, and because of his family, she was chased by the little girls in the Xuan Nu Palace and ran around in the gutter. Si asks Lie if she use stealth just now and during the war between the Empire and the Xuan Nu Palace, the locals brought all the grinders they could bring and those who can't take them are killed asking Lie what is your situation though Lie says it's a long story.

The Xuan Nu Palace arrive at the house breaking down the hidden door ban by Xi Ning and Granny Dan to continue their search for Qing's family as they brought two master sensors. As they enter in, Lie puts up a hidden boundary as long as the group doesn't use their energy and spiritual power, they won't be found by Ning on the opposite side. As the sensors can't detect any movement, Ning uses Gu Worms she'd borrowed from Mo Chan. Qing tells the group it's level one Gu Worms not to be afraid as they can't touch them at all. However, one of the Tang members is afraid of bugs since childhood and deflects one of them with her power which causes the sensors to pick up the movement pointing right at them. Seven warriors fire a rainbow beam forcing Qing to cast a boundary around everyone appearing to the enemies. Lie senses there are hidden circles everywhere as more warriors appear. Ning orders to attack and capture Qing's family and allies. Qing goes forth cutting down most of the enemies. However, his party is surrounded by more warriors. He goes to help them only to be blocked and confronted by Dan. Qing orders Dan to step aside, but the old woman refuses. Qing fires a dragon blast while Dan fires a multi-skull blast and as the two powers collide, Dan's skulls fall down on to some of the people turning them into skeletal zombies. Qing defeats Dan and joins his group telling Lie they need to escape due to the number of enemies. Qing uses a boundary to protect everyone and Lie is about to use stealth to escape, but Ning captures Jie holding her by the neck. Qing tells Lie he'll give her a signal to escape with everyone while he stays behind to rescue Jie. Ning makes a deal with Qing to give him a spiritual pill and he'll let her go. Qing gives the signal and Lie takes everyone and escapes. Ning believes Qing is a fool and even if he's highly skilled, he won't beat the master warriors facing them alone since she's holding Jie hostage. Qing just laughs and attempts to escape by blasting the ceiling. Ning orders the warriors not to let him go, but see he's gone. However, Qing appears in front of Ning, grabbing her by the neck and choking her as he successfully rescued Jie. Dan intervenes to rescue Ning and the Xuan Nu Palace retreat as a flood of water enters the house. Qing takes Jie and Tang Nian out of the house into the sky. Qing realizes the flood is from Yunjiang River entering the city believing something happened to the river dragon Wu Jiao and must go check it out. He puts Jie and Nian in a circle boundary to protect them.

Qing arrives at Yunjiang River to see that Jiao has disappeared and cannot be found. He soon spots Jiao seeing the dragon carrying the Palace Master Can and the Sixth Elder, Feng Xi. Qing goes after them and Can uses Jiao to fire his breath at Qing. Qing is annoyed that Jiao would attack the one who awaken his as his father. Can tells him that Jiao is under her powers as the dragon doesn't recognize him. Feng Xi uses her power to stop Qing from following them making the escape. Qing feels there is no hostility in Feng Xi's power towards him and is given a white butterfly which is the same one he got off the island and discovers Feng Xi is the inside line (consort) of the Empress. Through the butterfly, Feng Xi informs Qing that Can captured Jiao to justify her own name and her daughter, Di Xi was taken back as well passing down using a secret technique on Xi who fell into a coma. Qing needs to keep Yunjiang river under control and by using one of his dragon scales to create the dragon Yong Zhen to take care of the river by taking the flood out of the city back into the river.

Qing returns to the city to find Jie and Nian being surrounded by Xuan Nu Palace trying to break his boundary. Qing attacks the warriors, but his attack is blocked by Ning and Dan and the enemies retreat. Qing, Jie, and Nian go to Yunjiang Village where they find the group is at.

At Yunjiang village, Qing reunites with Si. Qing and Si are introduced to Zhang Fei, Minister of the Military Supervision Department of Renhua City and Wan Ya, Colonel of the Local Army by Lie. Fei and Wan tell Qing and Si that their people are incompetent and failed to break the Fifth Elder enchantment of Xuan Nu Palace, Bai Ling and not being safe preparing a helicopter for the pair and with that, Qing and Si fly back to the Imperial Capital.

At the Royal Palace, the Empress is revealed that Qing and Si have return back safely and comments on Qing's bravery on behalf of the people on both sides of Yunjiang River that hundreds of towns and cities are safe. Qing then asks why the Xuan Nu Palace mainly uses Jiao to justify their name and if it's true that there are dragons in the Royal Palace. The Empress says there are dragons and takes Qing and Si to the 18th underground floor in the palace. They enter a big room to reveal a dragon in white sleeping. The Empress explains that the dragon is known as White Dragon God originally being the most powerful guardian of the Empire who had been guarding the Empress since she was born. However, in order to usurp the throne, Di Can secretly assembled formation magicians to study magic and use it to control dragons, but Can failed to control Dragon God and it suffered mental damage and began to attack humans indiscriminately. Due to this, the Empress had to lock it up, but the situation was getting worse day by day. The Dragon God wakes up viciously uncontrollable. Qing uses his spiritual power to calm the dragon, but the Dragon God eats Qing alive.

Inside the Dragon God, Qing feels no hatred or being devoured, but the power within the dragon feels familiar to him. He sees two small spiritual dragon children in human form, a boy with blonde hair, Jin Tong and another boy with white hair, Bai Long. Qing notes that Tong looks just like him when he was a kid as he watches the children run up to their mother Goddess. Goddess tells her kids that men and women have their own strength and the Holy Stone should not exist. The kids ask her what the Holy Stone is to which Goddess says they'll know when their older. The kids change into their dragon forms which makes Dragon God to spit out Qing. Dragon God recognizes Qing as his brother Tong and been waiting for him. Qing realizes that the two dragon kids are both him and Long. Long tells Qing that only he can make Goddess's wish come true. Due to being tortured over the years, Long's energy is exhaust wanting Qing to kill him so that by taking his pearl their strengths can become one. With no other options, Qing kills Long and his pearl is absorbed into Qing. This makes Goddess meet with Tong and comfort him as he cries over the lost of his brother. Goddess apologizes to Tong that her time has come too and wants Tong to fulfill his purpose to destroy the Holy Stone. Qing comes to with the help of Si and the Empress. Qing tells them he saw a woman who could be his real mother and doesn't know the meaning to it. The Empress notices Dragon God gone. Qing shows them a miniature size Dragon God saying him and the dragon have become one.

A few days later, Qing's family is brought to the Capital by Xing Lie to live in the Royal Palace to protect them as the war between the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace is about to start. His sister is force to go to demilitarized zone due to a promise she made to stay by his side. Qing didn't bother to help her since she really wanted to live in the palace. Lie pledges her loyalty to serve the Empress once more putting their past problems behind them. Qing is asked to speak with the Empress alone while Si gets Qing's parents settled in the palace. Elsewhere, the Empress tells Qing she knows he's not from their world which Qing realizes Qing Xuan told her. He thought he wasn't from their world, but is not sure at the moment. The Empress mentions how she and Si saw him get eaten by the Dragon God, spit out, and him killing it. Qing states they've speak the dragon language a long time ago. Even if he doesn't know who he is now, he's on her side and will help her to defeat Xuan Nu Palace. A man servant reports to the Empress that elder women are begging to see Qing outside saying they're his elders. Qing knows it's the elders of the Chu Family.

Outside, Qing confronts the Chu elders who are with his mother who doesn't want to be around them. The elders came to give Qing what's rightfully his which are three mansions in the Capital and the shares of all companies under the name of Chu will belong all to him though it's only if he comes back to the Chu house. First he asks who was trying to plot against his dad in the first place which they answered the sixth elder who was killed by his mother, second was Chu An Lan who forced his mom to break her tendons, and last who tortoise society agreeing to expelling his family from the capital and never to return still giving his mom a stumbling block everywhere though the elders seemed confused, but knowing Qing is a descendant of their family. Qing's mother doesn't like how the elders want to turn things around now that Qing has developed. Qing tells them he'll not refuse anything that's profitable. However, his parents account as he remembered everything one by one and not killing them is already the greatest kindness and they still dare to hang around in front of him forcing them to leave.

The Empress and Si come to Qing and Tian Nan asking why they drove the Chu Elders away to which Tian Nan says since she and Qing's father left the Chu family, they swore to never have anything to do with them. Qing will support his mother's decision. The Empress states that Qing is leader of Hunters, Shareholder of Ye Pharmacy, and Si's husband and his net worth and reputation have surpassed the Chu family. The Empress tells Tian Nan now with her previous company destroyed in Jing Men, she can start a new one in the Capital and from now on being known as the New Chu Family to which Qing and his mother agree.

At Hunter Bar, Qing sees how Si is a savor to Chu Xin after getting the woman to work in the bar and continue to serve under her. Si mentions to him that Zi Yan came to thank him. At the bar table, Zi Yan thanks Qing for saving her mother's life, not only that, her mother and grandmother have reconciled after so many years of having a rock between them and Zi Yan doesn't have to be caught up in the future. Lian approaches Qing with news that An Nan is a member of Xuan Nu Palace and now has occupied half of the Hunters and it is equivalent to setting up countless eyes in the capital asking Qing what should he do to which Qing says to catch the Inner Ghost and the Hunters should be united. Lian also mentions that Xuan Nu Palace suddenly became quiet as if they're planning to make a big move. Qing states there's always a solution to a problem.

The next morning, Qing, Lian, and Hua Hua are at Hunter Information Center. Hua Hua states that the night before, the internet is full of comments that Xuan Nu Palace worked for the previous Empresses, doing all the dirty work, but didn't end well and also exposing a lot of confidential and inflammatory. Qing knows that a certain palace has set up a game long ago as he and Lian watch below as a large crowd of women protest welcoming back the Xuan Nu Palace to give back human rights. Gong Shu and the Supervision Department capture the trouble makers. Qing remembers his Goddess mother's last words to destroy the Holy Stone. Lian says the Empire is facing a crisis of public opinion. Qing says the Empress can't handle such trivial matter. He decides to go to the Royal Palace along with Hua Hua.

At the Royal Palace, Qing and Hua Hua approach Qian Shan and Lie. He asks Lie if she can tell him the principle of the invisibility technique and wants to study the method of cracking it. Qian Shan mentions that Lie's master is Ning's mother, but when both Ning and her mother decided to rebel, Lie was restrained and later Lie broke through the restriction with her own will causing the restriction to be loosen and can be used, but is not possible to teach it, otherwise the Empire would not have only one hidden master. Qing is told about invisibility which is a low-level version of invisibility which can only be used by oneself and they've been working on breakthroughs from invisibility to invisibility with little success. Qing asks to be teach invisibility and Qian Shan decides to let Shuang teach him who's been in the room all this time being invisible.

At Dark Guard Basement on the 5th Floor Training Room, Qing trains with Shuang. Shuang says the secret of invisibility lies in the unity of the mind and mind, and the blurring of the body and after being invisible to restrain his breath and no one will be able to notice him. Qing masters the invisibility with no problem as Shuang wasn't able to feel him. Shuang is amazed how Qing mastered the technique so quickly and asks why he wanted to break the concealment formation. Qing says he's going to Xuan Nu Palace to "find something". Lie shows up telling Qing with his his current tricks, he can't escape the eyes of a high-level concealment master and she will practice with him and sends Shuang away. Qing and Lie engage in a battle. Qing makes himself invisible, but Lie can easily detect him sating his presence is so conspicuous landing punches and blows onto his face. Qing thinks when he was at Xuan Nu Palace the first time being discovered by Ning before he got close to Can. He realizes during the gap between teleportation, the breath will completly disappear and must graft that gap into invisibility. As Lie prepares to strike, Qing goes invisible once more and is able make Lie not feel him at all thus passing the first level. Now they continue with the second level as Lie makes herself invisible and Qing has to find her. He can sense her by blocking her attacks, but only passive defense and wonders where is the weakness of the stealth technique. By doing so, he's able to find Lie. She asks how did he find out to which Qing says there'll be a slight distortion where the invisibility technique is cast, although it's only for a moment, but can capture it and with this his training in invisibility is complete.

Inside the palace, Qing is seen with the Empress, Si, Shu, Nian, and Min while more protesters gather outside the palace. Shu explains that Can broadcast live for a day first complaining about her tragic experience, and the traveling on Jiao saying she's the real dragon girl as well stating that the White Dragon God didn't choose the Empress and was killed by the Empress showing a tablet of pictures to Qing, the Empress, and Si. The three notice a formation on Xi's chest wondering what Can did to her daughter. The Empress feels guilty for letting Xi to leave the palace believing she owes her. Min states that they need to solve the problem of public opinion and they need to invite the Dragon God. Nian agrees with Min as people can no longer be caught, otherwise the consequences will only be more serious. Qing eventually has a plan.

Outside the palace, Qing summons Dragon God to the protesters shocking them all that Dragon God is still alive. He tells them about the flooding of the Yunjiang River which was caused when Can kidnapped Jiao which caused the disaster and if it wasn't for Dragon God pulling off her own scales and transforming into a dragon guarding Yunjiang River, hundreds of towns would've suffer. The Empress appears on a big monitor revealing the truth that Can is her younger sister and during the rebellion, Can studied magic to control Dragon God in order to seize the throne and as a result, Dragon God lost her sanity and suffered serious injuries which she didn't recover until now and Can was sure Dragon God was serious injured and died by telling a big lie and the war between the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace is imminent and the enemies want to shake their army's morale and doesn't want anyone to be fooled. With the truth revealed, Shu releases the other protesters. Qing and Shu warn them if this happens again, they will be punished.

Elsewhere on top of the palace, Qing is seen with Si and Dragon God. Si asks him if he's going to Xuan Nu Palace alone. Qing says he'll take Zi Yan and Ruo Chan to teach them the invisibility technique. Si presents a red jewel necklace that was given to her by her mother wanting Qing to wear it and return it to her when he comes back.

A few days later on the helipad, Qing leaves with Zi Yan and Ruo Chan on a helicopter and lands to Yunjiang village to meet with Wan Ya, Colonel of the Local Army. Ya complements on Qing being the first man who can control Dragon God and having the honor to receive him and her people have already investigated what he explained to her. Ya states as Yunjiang River as the center, Xuan Nu Palace preformed a wide range of enchantment and concealment techniques with several counties around Yunjiang River all covered in it. Ya sent people to check the border, but no one came back. Qing says he, Zi Yan, and Ruo Chan will go to the border. Ya states it will be dangerous.

In the forest, Qing, Zi Yan, and Rou Chan find the boundary and they use stealth to enter into it. They are able to pass the enemies defense without getting caught. They reach cloud mountain where Can is located inside the cave as Qing will go alone having Zi Yan and Ruo Chan wait outside. As Qing gets further into the cave, he's suddenly ambushed by Can who's become too strong and her eyes have changed along with her breath. Both opponents bust out of the cave into the skies while getting the attention of the Xuan Nu Palace warriors. Qing asks Can what sorcery did she practice to which Can answers it's the most orthodox ancient material arts in the world. Can wants to show Qing that she's the woman who stands at the top of all warriors and summons her warrior giant merging as one. Qing sends a voice message to Zi Yan and Ruo Chan to have them get away as far as they can. Qing thrusts a gigantic sword, but Can easily destroys it. Without any other options, Qing transforms in to his gigantic golden dragon form and fires his breath at Can then soon chomps down on the giant warrior's head causing Can to scream in pain. The holy stone comes out attacking Qing and saves Can. He sees that the holy stone has given Can the same aura of power. The stone calls out to Qing calling him by Jin Tong commenting that he's awaken and how Goddess exhausted her cultivation and sent him to be reincarnated into the Reverse World. Qing asks if the stone knows him to which the stone says yes and since he's gone through reincarnation, he can still remember the memory of "that time" and will help him what the taste of death feels like again. Qing gets easily overpowered by the stone preparing to finish him off. Unexpectedly, Di Xi binds Qing with a chain and given to Zi Yan who's in butterfly mode and both Qing and Zi Yan escape along with Ruo Chan.

Qing is seriously injured and tells Zi Yan to fly them to the cave behind the waterfall which happens to Qing's past home. Inside the cave, the three approach a dead end, but Qing uses a formation to open the end and goes in while returning to human form, but Zi Yan and Ruo Chan are not able to go in. As Qing cultivates, he remembers his past life as Jin Tong battling the Holy Stone and being killed by it which makes Goddess send his soul into reincarnation and in a snowy land obtain the Golden Sword which turns out the way to destroy the holy stone. With Tong's memories restored, Qing awakens and meets up with Zi Yan and Ruo Chan. Qing will go out first and both Zi Yan and Rou Chan will wait for the Imperial Army to attack before going out.

By daylight, Qing is surrounded by palace warriors as they're orders to bring him to Can. He needs to deal with Ling and Ning to break the enchantment and concealment techniques around Yunshan and the army will be able to come in using his power to find the two elders are coming to him. Qing easily strikes the warriors and soon Ling and Ning approach him. Ning believes Qing has nowhere to go and came out to die, but Ling believes something is off as there's no signs of fighting. Qing attacks and kills Ling and Ning complimenting how clever they are, but being too late as the barrier is broken. He gives the signal to Zi Yan, Ruo Chan, and Imperial Army to attack.

Qing goes to where Can is seeing she's transformed in to a goddess becoming one with the holy stone which is attached to Can's chest. The two battle and like before, Qing defeats Can a third time smashing her to the ground and grabbing her by the neck. Qing attempts to remove the stone from Can's chest, but the stone refuse to be defeated letting out a massive screech and inhales people's cultivation and take their lives. Qing sets up a boundary protecting him, his allies, the army, and some of the Xuan Warriors. He saves Feng Xi when the holy stone reveals to Can of her being a spy which makes Can loose trust in Feng Xi. Qing gets injured by the combination of Can and the stone's "Court Death" preparing to end him, but Qing summons the Dao Yun spell under Can's feet explaining he cultivated hard in the world of cultivating immortals and his sword is the strongest weapon he found. He manages to separate the holy stone from Can's body pushing Can out of the spell and binding the stone. The holy stone tells Qing (Jin Tong) that the world will cease to exist after it dies and he and those he loves will disappear. However, Qing tells the stone that the world it made had been rewritten by the Goddess long ago and the stone is the outlier in the current world and with this, Qing destroys the stone ending it for good. He collapses due to his power being exhausted. Can approaches him to take his life, but her daughter tries to strike at her only for Feng Xi to sacrifice for Can. As Di Xi prepares to strike her mother again, Qing stops her saying the battle is over and brings her back to her normal self. Si arrives with Lie and comforts Qing.

### Epilogue

Three years have past since the final battle with Xuan Nu Palace had come to an end. Qing and his wife Si are now Emperor and Empress in the Empire and having their son, Chu Ning as the first prince and leader in equality between men and women.

In the Royal Palace, Qing and Si find Ning playing Emperor sitting on his mother's throne chair coming to get him as their son is supposed to be in the Banquet Hall to celebrate his birthday party. The three walk happily together to the Banquet Hall with Zi Yan, Chen Xi, Hua Hua, Lian, Ruo Chan, Yue, and Shu as it is a new begining.