Recaps

Chu Yao flew back to her sect under cover of a storm, resenting a summons that interrupted her concert plans. As she tempered her body with lightning, she lamented her reduced cultivation and accepted that she still had to obey her new world's rules.

• Chu Yao traveled by flying sword through a storm after being summoned back to her sect, complaining that she would miss Heavenly King Li's concert in Harbor City.
• Chu Yao threw a Thunderstorm Talisman into the clouds and let the resulting lightning strike her to temper her body.
• Chu Yao recalled her previous life as the supreme ruler of the demonic path and resented having to conceal her flights from mortals with artificial rain.
• Chu Yao acknowledged that her Early Foundation Establishment cultivation was too weak to challenge the world's rules.
• Chu Yao missed her junior sister Meng Chanyi and wished she could rely on her scheming instead of managing everything alone.

After returning to Mount Kunlun, Chu Yao learned that Martial Uncle Zhang was preparing a feast, but Chu Wushuang dragged her to meet their master and the honored guests instead. Chu Yao left longing for the food and dreading her senior sister’s lecture.

• Chu Yao returned safely to Mount Kunlun and entered the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Chu Yunfei told Chu Yao that honored guests had arrived and Martial Uncle Zhang was cooking lunch.
• Chu Yao hurried toward the dining hall, delighted at the prospect of an extra helping.
• Chu Wushuang caught Chu Yao and carried her toward the main hall, scolding her for sneaking off to Hong Kong for a concert.
• Chu Wushuang threatened to punish Chu Yao, who lamented being kept from the meal.

Chu Yao returned to the reception hall expecting her master’s anger, but recognized their guest as Albus Dumbledore and realized she had crossed into the Harry Potter world. The chapter left her stunned by the revelation.

• Chu Wushuang dropped Chu Yao at the reception hall entrance and watched as she nervously prepared to face her master.
• A worn gray shoe flew out of the hall, and Chu Yao dodged it on instinct.
• Chu Kuangren shouted at Chu Yao for staying in Harbor City and neglecting to return home.
• Chu Yao entered the hall and saw an old man in red robes with long white hair and half-moon spectacles beside Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Yao recognized the guest as Albus Dumbledore and realized she had transmigrated into the Harry Potter world.

After realizing that her knowledge of Harry Potter could have endangered her, Chu Yao received and bound the Myriad Worlds Trading Group system. She hid her thoughts and turned her attention back to Dumbledore, who was watching her with curiosity.

• Chu Yao worried that revealing future Harry Potter plot details could anger the Heavenly Dao and put her in danger.
• The Myriad Worlds Trading Group system appeared and began a countdown to binding.
• Chu Yao confirmed the binding just before the countdown ended and welcomed the system.
• Chu Yao suppressed her thoughts and faced Dumbledore's curious gaze with a strained smile.

Dumbledore tried to use Legilimency on Chu Yao, but her cultivation protected her thoughts from him. Chu Kuangren explained the protection and eagerly sent his mischievous disciple off to study at Hogwarts, despite pretending to be reluctant.

• Dumbledore discreetly tried to read Chu Yao's thoughts, but encountered an impenetrable mental barrier.
• Chu Kuangren told Dumbledore that Eastern cultivators trained their spiritual consciousness and used Occlumency to guard their minds.
• Dumbledore apologized and said he had wanted to learn whether Chu Yao would adapt to Hogwarts.
• Chu Kuangren praised Chu Yao's judgment while claiming he hated to part with her for the cultural exchange.
• Chu Kuangren privately welcomed Minister Li's decision to send Chu Yao west, hoping to spare the sect cafeteria from her appetite.

Dumbledore gave Chu Yao her Hogwarts acceptance letter, and she struggled to hide her excitement while maintaining a polite, innocent facade. She praised Dumbledore’s fluent Chinese, leaving him wondering what kind of future student she would be.

• Dumbledore handed Chu Yao a Hogwarts acceptance letter addressed to her at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect on Mount Kunlun.
• Chu Yao was thrilled to receive the letter and imagined the magical sights of Hogwarts.
• Chu Yao praised Dumbledore’s Chinese pronunciation, briefly catching him off guard.
• Chu Kuangren turned away to hide his laughter as Chu Yao kept up her well-behaved act.

Dumbledore asked Chu Kuangren to share the famous food from his sect, and Chu Kuangren agreed, saying his junior brother Zhang had prepared dishes to suit Dumbledore’s sweet tooth. The group was left with Chu Yao eagerly anticipating the meal.

• Dumbledore asked Chu Kuangren if he could sample his sect’s renowned food.
• Chu Yao lit up at the mention of food and fixed her hopeful gaze on Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren scolded Chu Yao for her eagerness but acknowledged that she must be hungry after her journey.
• Chu Kuangren told Dumbledore that his junior brother Zhang had prepared food, including sweets suited to Dumbledore’s tastes.
• Chu Yao imagined the dishes she hoped to eat and tried to discreetly swallow her drool.

Chu Kuangren worried that Chu Yao would go hungry while studying at Hogwarts, so he planned to send her with spiritual food and cooking supplies. At the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s kitchen, Martial Uncle Zhang celebrated receiving a foreign affairs grant that would let him prepare a feast for Dumbledore.

• Chu Kuangren decided he could not stop spoiling Chu Yao and worried about her finding food she liked in Britain.
• Chu Kuangren resolved to pack a Portable Spiritual Energy Kitchen, a Chinese cookbook, and long-lasting spiritual food for Chu Yao.
• Chu Kuangren invited Dumbledore to discuss matters over a meal, while Chu Yao hurried toward the cafeteria.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Sect received a generous foreign affairs entertainment grant from the Ministry of Education.
• Martial Uncle Zhang rejoiced that the grant would let him cook more freely for the sect and its guests.

Martial Uncle Zhang worried that Chu Yao had lost weight while away and set out to make her a lavish meal. He prepared imitation spirit-beast dishes in the kitchen as their aromas drifted toward the reception hall.

• Martial Uncle Zhang wondered why Chu Yao ate so ravenously and decided she had an unusually strong digestion.
• After seeing Chu Yao looking thinner, Martial Uncle Zhang blamed the food in Hong Kong and resolved to replenish her with a proper meal.
• Martial Uncle Zhang used spiritual power to heat the wok and began cooking thin slices of pork belly with a secret herb sauce.
• Martial Uncle Zhang prepared Imitation Braised Cloud-Treading Beast and steamed Imitation Seven-Colored Spirit Chicken with glutinous rice in lotus leaf.

Martial Uncle Zhang prepared a lavish feast of ordinary ingredients for Chu Yao and their guest Dumbledore, lifting Chu Yao’s spirits before her impending journey. Dumbledore tried a sweet-and-sour pork rib, but the chapter ended before his reaction.

• Martial Uncle Zhang cooked an elaborate spread, including Chu Yao’s favorite dishes and extra-sweet Suzhou-style treats.
• Chu Yao entered the dining room with her master and eldest senior sister and was delighted by the feast.
• Chu Yao realized Martial Uncle Zhang had remembered the foods she loved and felt deeply grateful.
• Dumbledore admired the unfamiliar Eastern dishes and tasted a sweet-and-sour pork rib with chopsticks.

Chu Yao and Dumbledore enjoyed the feast, with Chu Yao devouring the food while her sect worried about her leaving for England. Her master and senior siblings piled more dishes into her bowl as they fretted over the bland meals she might face abroad.

• Dumbledore tasted the feast and was enchanted by its flavors, lamenting that he might not find food like it again.
• Chu Yao eagerly devoured ribs, guobaorou, and glutinous rice-stuffed lotus root.
• Chu Wushuang and Chu Yunfei watched Chu Yao eat affectionately and worried that she would struggle with food after going overseas.
• Chu Kuangren, Chu Wushuang, Chu Yunfei, and the others kept adding food to Chu Yao’s already full bowl.

Dumbledore arranged for a Hogwarts professor to collect Chu Yao near the end of July and take her shopping for school supplies. After Dumbledore departed, Chu Kuangren asked Chu Yao whether she knew English.

• Chu Yao devoured the feast prepared by the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Dumbledore told Chu Yao that a professor would come around the end of July to take her to buy what she needed for Hogwarts.
• Chu Yao agreed to wait for the professor and privately wondered whether she could exchange spirit stones for Galleons.
• Dumbledore hugged Chu Kuangren, then left the sect by Apparition.
• Chu Kuangren turned to Chu Yao and asked whether she knew English.

Chu Kuangren realized Chu Yao needed English lessons before her overseas exchange and went to make Minister Li arrange them. Chu Yao then pretended to have a stomachache and fled to her courtyard to avoid her Eldest Senior Sister.

• Chu Yao insisted that she was too young to know English and acted as though she were still a child.
• Chu Kuangren worried that Chu Yao would be unable to communicate or order food overseas and decided to find her an English teacher.
• Chu Wushuang reminded Chu Kuangren that Minister Li had pushed for the exchange and could handle the cost of lessons.
• Chu Kuangren rushed off to find Minister Li and make him arrange Chu Yao's English teacher.
• Chu Yao feigned a stomachache and used her spiritual power to race back to her courtyard.

Chu Yao escaped Chu Wushuang and returned to her secluded courtyard, where she activated a costly defensive array before reflecting on the sect’s kindness and the caution learned from her thousand years on the demonic path. She remained wary despite trusting that the people around her genuinely cared for her.

• Chu Wushuang let Chu Yao escape and called after her with a menacing warning that concealed her affection.
• Chu Yao returned to her courtyard and planned to use her system to obtain a language-comprehension skill before exploring the Myriad Worlds Trading Group.
• Chu Yao activated a defensive array that enclosed and concealed her courtyard and cave abode.
• Chu Yao considered how sincerely the Ten Thousand Swords Sect cared for her, then reminded herself to stay vigilant because of the betrayals she had witnessed in her previous life.

Chu Yao cautiously opened the Myriad Worlds Trading Group system to investigate her new advantage. Its crude, outdated interface and cheap effects left her doubting whether it could help her.

• Chu Yao reminded herself not to trust anyone with her safety and decided to investigate the system.
• Chu Yao focused her spiritual sense on her left wrist and opened a crude webpage interface visible only to her.
• Chu Yao clicked the penguin icon and watched pixelated fireworks celebrate the system opening.
• Chu Yao was disappointed by the system's dated design and questioned whether it could help her succeed.

Chu Yao explored the crude interface of the Myriad Worlds Trading Group system and tried to change her Penguin nickname. The system rejected every grand name she entered, leaving her furious and without a new nickname.

• Chu Yao endured the system’s pixel fireworks until the interface appeared.
• She saw her blank account, empty friends list, and an invitation to the Myriad Worlds Trading Group 10001.
• Chu Yao tried to change her nickname to “Heaven’s chosen daughter,” but the system said it already existed.
• She tested several more extravagant nicknames, and the system rejected each one.
• Chu Yao demanded to know which nicknames were available, but the system only repeated its error message.

After struggling to choose a nickname, Chu Yao joined the Myriad Worlds Trading Group and discovered that its tiny membership included the person who had claimed the name she wanted. She marked that member’s world as a priority observation target out of spite.

• Chu Yao tried hundreds of nicknames before settling on “Choosing a Name Is So Hard.”
• Chu Yao accepted the invitation to Myriad Worlds Trading Group 10001 and found only seven members, including herself.
• The system told Chu Yao that her level was too low, prompting her to vow to raise it.
• Chu Yao inspected the members and recognized “Above the Nine Heavens” as the nickname she had failed to register.
• Chu Yao marked the Interstellar Wasteland as a priority observation target out of grudge.

Chu Yao won a storage ring and became the group owner after drawing the luckiest red envelope. She discovered that she was still only level 1, while every other group member was several levels higher.

• Chu Yao regretted choosing the nickname "Choosing a Name Is So Hard" and complained that it did not suit her.
• A red envelope appeared, promising group ownership to the luckiest recipient, and Chu Yao eagerly claimed it.
• The system awarded Chu Yao a thousand-cubic-meter storage ring and made her the group owner, joking that she had stepped in dog shit.
• Chu Yao opened the newly unlocked group details and saw that the other members were levels 3 through 9, while she was level 1.

Chu Yao learned why powerful traders had ended up in her group and discovered the privileges attached to being its owner. She left eager to use those benefits to improve herself in the Myriad Worlds Trading Group.

• Chu Yao learned that the group had been reassigned to her after its previous owner died and the old group was disbanded.
• Chu Yao reviewed her authority to mute members, arbitrate transactions, and expel members who threatened the group.
• Chu Yao discovered that she could gain priority for her transactions, unlock discounted purchases as she leveled up, and claim a daily gift pack.
• Chu Yao learned that she could initiate monthly group missions and expand the public warehouse using group points or resources.
• Chu Yao became excited about using her group owner privileges to advance herself.

Chu Yao checked the group’s red-envelope records and learned how its trades, points, and red diamonds worked. She decided to use her first trade to acquire gold before going to Hogwarts, since her sect had few resources and she wanted to avoid spending spirit stones.

• Chu Yao discovered that she had drawn a 1,000-cubic-meter storage ring while the other members received smaller storage bags.
• Chu Yao learned that transactions earned points and red diamonds, and that reaching level 2 required 10,000 points.
• Members including Everything Can Be Bought, Forbidden Spell Wholesaler, Abyss Lord, and Above the Nine Heavens filled the group chat with complaints, offers, and banter.
• Chu Yao dismissed the group members as unreliable but decided to make her first trade for gold to support herself at Hogwarts.

Chu Yao offered Marrow Cleansing Pills and Foundation Establishment Pills in exchange for gold, expecting it to be a mundane commodity. The group members eagerly competed for the pills, and Chu Yao was left facing a flood of offers.

• Chu Yao chose Everything Can Be Bought, How Lonely It Is to Be Invincible!, and Abyss Lord as potential trading partners because she thought they might have gold.
• Chu Yao greeted the group in a cold, aloof manner, but the members enthusiastically praised her while Lord of the Wilderness broke their formation with a plain hello.
• Chu Yao offered to trade Marrow Cleansing Pills or Foundation Establishment Pills for gold.
• The group members erupted with requests, explaining that gold was nearly useless to them and that the pills were a bargain.
• Everything Can Be Bought, Forbidden Spell Wholesaler, Above the Nine Heavens, How Lonely It Is to Be Invincible!, Lord of the Wilderness, and Abyss Lord all tried to secure the trade.

Chu Yao auctioned a Marrow Cleansing Pill and a Foundation Establishment Pill to members of the cross-world group in exchange for gold. She left the group with both trades completed and 650 points.

• Chu Yao stopped the group’s repeated messages and announced that the two pills would go to the highest bidders paying in gold.
• Abyss Lord bid 500 kilograms of gold for the Marrow Cleansing Pill, while Everything Can Be Bought offered 450 kilograms for each pill.
• Chu Yao selected Abyss Lord for the Marrow Cleansing Pill and Everything Can Be Bought for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• The system confirmed both trades and awarded Chu Yao 650 points.
• Everything Can Be Bought thanked Chu Yao, Abyss Lord cautioned him about cultivation, and the unsuccessful bidders reacted to losing the auction.

After earning 950 kilograms of gold and 650 points from the group, Chu Yao considered how to exchange her rewards for magical-world currency. She then reflected on her Ten Thousand Souls Banner and imagined how it might have become a merit-filled Human Emperor Banner if she had arrived in a different era.

• Chu Yao received 950 kilograms of gold and 650 points from the group and decided she had enough resources for now.
• Chu Yao closed the noisy group chat and began considering how to convert her gold into usable currency.
• Chu Yao prepared to cultivate but noticed her Ten Thousand Souls Banner floating in her sea of consciousness.
• Chu Yao lamented that the banner had no chance to prove its worth in this world.
• Chu Yao imagined harvesting the souls of deeply sinful Japanese people to transform the banner into a golden, merit-bearing Human Emperor Banner.

Chu Yao lamented that her Ten Thousand Souls Banner had no use in a world where killing was against the law, then continued cultivating and learning English. In late July, Severus Snape visited the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, whose disciples had disguised its poverty to impress him.

• Chu Yao accepted that her Ten Thousand Souls Banner would have to remain a decoration and returned to cultivating.
• Chu Yao used her strong divine sense to learn English quickly and became fluent with a London accent.
• Chu Wushuang escorted Severus Snape through the Ten Thousand Swords Sect's mountain-protecting array.
• Snape surveyed the sect and considered its ancient history and impressive appearance.
• The sect's disciples used illusion and cultivation techniques to conceal signs of disrepair before Snape arrived.

Professor Snape arrived at Chu Yao’s sect and met his future student, whose reckless entrance on a flying sword made him suspect she would be another troublesome Gryffindor. He introduced himself as her Potions professor and warned her to show caution in his classroom.

• Professor Snape explored the sect and sensed an ancient aura, though he found the place brighter than Hogwarts.
• Chu Yao flew toward Snape on a sword, prompting him to ready his wand.
• Snape judged Chu Yao to be reckless and suspected she would cause trouble like a Gryffindor.
• Chu Yao landed, put away her flying sword, and introduced herself to Snape.
• Snape identified himself as Chu Yao’s Potions professor and warned her to be cautious in class.