Flying up without Disturb

Konghou's aptitude test initially appears inactive, but the testing stone eventually shatters under the spiritual response. She is confirmed to possess five spiritual roots. Wangtong then teaches her meridians and foundational cultivation for months before she begins drawing spiritual energy into her body through ordinary cultivation practice.

Konghou begins the drama believing that she has no spiritual root and cannot properly cultivate. When she physically touches Huan Zong, surrounding spiritual energy flows into them, and repeated contact with him enables her to accumulate power. After this encounter she begins formal practice and reaches Foundation Building with extraordinary speed.

Jiusu is the former twenty-third-generation male leadership disciple of Moon-Star Sect. He attempted to steal the sect's star disk, fled into the evil-cultivator world, became the evil sovereign and helped trigger a destructive conflict between orthodox cultivators and evil cultivators. His history is tied to Moon-Star Sect rather than to Konghou's mortal family.

Jiusu appears as an antagonist from the opening episode and is later connected personally to Konghou through the destroyed Moonfall clan. He invokes a brother-sister bond with her, tells her that her father transferred his lifetime cultivation into her and treats Konghou as the surviving hope and intended leader of their people.

Jiusu launches the final major assault against the orthodox cultivation world. During the climactic fighting, Konghou and Huan Zong defend Yunhua and the wider population together. Konghou uses the Fengshou Konghou against Jiusu's beast while Huan Zong fights Jiusu, and Jiusu is ultimately defeated without killing Konghou.

Jiusu constructs an ascension formation that depends on spiritual power taken from cultivators of the major sects and tries to force Konghou into helping him complete it. Konghou and Huan Zong secretly coordinate against him. The confrontation includes Huan Zong's apparent death, Konghou sacrificing her Phoenix spiritual essence to restore him and Jiusu ultimately being cast into a destructive void.

Hongyan is associated with Moon-Star Sect and its inherited star disk. In the source she uses the star disk against Jiusu, helping restrain and seriously injure the evil sovereign during the larger conflict. Her history includes a tragic personal relationship, but she is not the final enemy who kills Konghou.

Hongyan is revealed after Jiusu's defeat to have wanted the ascension and Moon-Star formations for her own purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. She offers a method that appears able to save Konghou at the cost of Huan Zong's spiritual platform, then uses the couple in her resurrection attempt and becomes the final active antagonist before Konghou dies.

Konghou receives the Fengshou Konghou as her principal artifact before leaving Yunhua Men. It remains associated with her throughout the novel and becomes an important weapon during the final battle against Jiusu and his beast.

After Konghou gains spiritual power and prepares to leave the mountain, she selects the Fengshou Konghou as the artifact that responds to her. It remains central to her abilities and is later used in the Dragon-Blood Grass crisis, the Jiusu conflict and the final Moon-Star array confrontation before being returned to her reincarnated self.

After Konghou and Huan Zong become dao partners, a sign outside their residence says they are working hard at cultivation and ascension and should not be disturbed. Decades later they again hang a 'do not disturb while ascending' sign even though they still have not ascended, continuing the source's running joke about cultivation and ordinary married life.

After reincarnated Konghou returns to Lingyou Realm with Huan Zong, the pair settle into another period of seclusion and the title phrase becomes associated with the place and their decision to cultivate together after their reunion.