Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen watched the Gourd Babies’ conflict with the demons unfold while cultivating until he broke through to a three-star Da Dou Shi. After discovering the demons had captured the Old Man and planned to use him against the Gourd Babies, Xiao Zhen hid nearby to watch what happened next.

• Water Gourd Baby and Fire Gourd Baby extinguished the demons’ fire, then followed the demon couple home after being fooled by their lies.
• Xiao Zhen secluded himself in a cave and spent two days cultivating until he broke through to a three-star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Zhen found the Calabash Vine stripped of its gourds, drugged nearby demons, and pulled the vine from the ground to take with him.
• Sixth Gourd Baby stole the Precious Ruyi Scepter and rescued his brothers, but Seventh Gourd Baby had been brainwashed and refused to recognize him.
• The Scorpion Demon realized the Precious Ruyi Scepter was missing as the rescued Gourd Babies rampaged through the cave.
• The demons captured the returning Old Man, and Snake Demoness ordered him brought in while Xiao Zhen watched invisibly nearby.

The brainwashed Seventh Gourd Baby reunited with the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon and rejected the Old Man and his brothers. He used his Precious Gourd to absorb the brothers’ attacks and make them fight each other, while the Snake Demoness was struck by a rock and blamed the Invisible Gourd Baby.

• The Old Man met the newly transformed Seventh Gourd Baby, who recognized the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon as his parents and denied knowing the Old Man.
• The Snake Demoness persuaded Seventh Gourd Baby to fight the other Gourd Babies, and he promised to use his Precious Gourd against them.
• Fourth Calabash Brother and Fifth Calabash Brother entered the demons’ lair and tried to convince Seventh Gourd Baby to leave the demons.
• Seventh Gourd Baby absorbed Fourth Calabash Brother’s fire and Fifth Calabash Brother’s water and then drew in Fourth Calabash Brother’s lightning.
• Seventh Gourd Baby used the Heart-Separating Spell to make Fourth Calabash Brother and Fifth Calabash Brother fight each other.
• A rock struck the Snake Demoness, who blamed the Invisible Gourd Baby and told Seventh Gourd Baby to deal with him.

Xiao Zhen stole the Precious Ruyi Scepter from the Gourd Babies’ cave and returned after testing its powers, while the demons began refining the Seven-Star Pill with the Gourd Babies. He discovered that the Mountain God was disguised among the demons and was waiting to seize the pill.

• Sixth Gourd Baby attacked Seventh Gourd Baby with the Precious Ruyi Scepter, but Seventh Gourd Baby’s Precious Gourd drew in the attack and dragged Second Gourd Baby and Sixth Gourd Baby from hiding.
• Xiao Zhen stole the Precious Ruyi Scepter into his System Space and escaped to the Mecha Beast World before the gourd could suck him in.
• The Snake Demoness realized Seventh Gourd Baby was beginning to remember his past and prepared to use the Gourd Babies to make the Seven-Star Pill.
• Seventh Gourd Baby put the other six Gourd Babies into the Profound Fire Cauldron, then the Snake Demoness tricked him into handing over his Precious Gourd and sucked him inside before tossing it into the furnace.
• Xiao Zhen returned invisibly and recognized a disguised lesser demon as the Mountain God, whose lips revealed that he wanted the Seven-Star Pill to strengthen his Nascent Soul.

Xiao Zhen watched the Mountain God’s attempt to obtain the Seven-Star Pill fail when the Gourd Babies burst from the Profound Fire Cauldron. After the system warned that he had to kill the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon himself, Xiao Zhen attacked them with a Heavy Machine Gun.

• Xiao Zhen reasoned that the Mountain God planned to use the demons to refine the Seven-Star Pill and then seize it for himself.
• The Old Man persuaded the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon to untie him, then threw Seven Colored Lotus Seeds into the Profound Fire Cauldron.
• The Profound Fire Cauldron split apart, releasing seven unharmed Gourd Babies instead of producing the Seven-Star Pill.
• The system told Xiao Zhen that the Gourd Babies killing the demons would not fulfill his mission, so he returned to the cave entrance and shot the fleeing minor demons.
• The Scorpion Demon charged Xiao Zhen after he demanded that the demons release the Old Man, and Xiao Zhen opened fire with his Heavy Machine Gun.

Xiao Zhen attacked the Scorpion Demon with heavy machine guns, then joined the Gourd Babies in confronting the demon couple over Old Man’s kidnapping. As the Snake Demoness threatened them with her purple gourd, the Mountain God secretly possessed Old Man to advance a new plan.

• Xiao Zhen ran out of ammunition, and the Scorpion Demon punched him into a boulder and took his heavy machine gun.
• The Scorpion Demon tried to fire the machine gun at the approaching Gourd Babies, but it only clicked because he could not operate it.
• Xiao Zhen attacked the Scorpion Demon from behind with a second machine gun, stopping when the Snake Demoness used Old Man as a shield.
• Xiao Zhen and the Gourd Babies demanded that the demons release Old Man, while the Snake Demoness drew her purple gourd and frightened them.
• The Mountain God sent power through Old Man and took control of his body while the Scorpion Demon watched the Snake Demoness taunt the others.

Xiao Zhen helped the Gourd Babies defeat the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon, then stayed in the cultivation world to explore rather than return to the Dou Qi Continent. As he set out for the nearest county town, the chapter revealed that the prized horse he had once considered cooking was now being forced to grind soy milk in the Xiao Clan's backyard.

• The Mountain God controlled the Old Man to knock the Precious Gourd away, but the Scorpion Demon stabbed the Old Man and kicked him into a valley.
• The enraged Gourd Babies attacked the Snake Demoness and Scorpion Demon, and Seventh Gourd Baby sucked them into the Precious Gourd before the brothers transformed into a mountain and crushed them.
• Xiao Zhen completed his mission, received the Upgraded Flame-Flame Fruit, and refused the system's offer to return to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Zhen fooled the Mountain God with a boastful performance, then sent out a mechanical scout bird to watch for the Green Snake King and traveled toward a county town.
• Xiao Zhen melted gold coins into bars to buy a horse, while the chapter showed his former prized steed grinding soy milk under a youth's whip in the Xiao Clan's backyard.

Xiao Zhen arrived in Turtle County, sampled its famous turtle soup, and gained the power to control flames by eating a Flame-Flame Fruit. After hearing that a turtle demon had abducted someone, he rode out along the Divine Turtle River, where an argument caught his attention.

• Xiao Zhen entered Turtle County and learned from a waiter that the county was known for its abundant turtles and Moon Fragrance Inn's Great Tonic Turtle Soup.
• Xiao Zhen ate a bite of the Flame-Flame Fruit despite its horrible taste and sensed that he had gained the power to control flames.
• Xiao Zhen overheard diners say a turtle demon had dragged someone away and that the county magistrate had gone to seek a master.
• Xiao Zhen devoured a basin of Great Tonic Turtle Soup, tipped the waiter with a gold bar, and left the inn.
• Xiao Zhen rode along the Divine Turtle River, spotted its many turtles, and headed toward the source of an argument he heard nearby.

Xiao Zhen watched a Daoist and a monk fail to capture a powerful Turtle Demon in the river, then received a quest to investigate its unusual strength. The Turtle Demon escaped, and Xiao Zhen set out to uncover its secret.

• Magistrate Wang hired True Man Liu and a monk to subdue the demon threatening Turtle County’s turtle trade.
• True Man Liu summoned the Turtle Demon from the river, and Xiao Zhen scanned it, finding that its Void Core Stage strength had been forcibly raised by foreign demonic power.
• The Daoist and monk injured the Turtle Demon but failed to restrain it, and it escaped back into the river.
• True Man Liu and the monk blamed each other and began brawling while Magistrate Wang’s constables failed to separate them.
• Xiao Zhen received a temporary quest to investigate why the Turtle Demon was so powerful, with a Seven-Star Pill formula as the reward.

Xiao Zhen summoned Vanguard to help investigate the riverbed underwater while the Mountain God infiltrated Green Snake King’s cave disguised as a Toad Demon. He persuaded Green Snake Demoness to lead her forces against the Gourd Babies, intending to betray her and take the Seven-Star Pills and her treasures.

• Xiao Zhen asked Vanguard to accompany her underwater, and he transformed into a police car to take her below the river’s surface.
• The Mountain God, disguised as a Toad Demon, entered Green Snake King’s cave and claimed to bring news of King Scorpion and his wife’s deaths.
• The Mountain God blamed the Gourd Babies for crushing the Scorpion Demon couple and warned Green Snake Demoness that they were powerful.
• Green Snake Demoness ordered her demons to set out and capture the Gourd Babies to avenge her sister and brother-in-law.
• The Mountain God planned to let Green Snake Demoness refine the Seven-Star Pills before ambushing her and taking the pills and her treasures.

Xiao Zhen and Vanguard pursued and wounded the Turtle Demon, which led them to an underwater altar and the imprisoned Turtle Ancestor. Turtle Ancestor revealed how Buddha Tathagata had sealed him after the Heavenly Court failed to help, and explained that neither the Jade Emperor nor Taoism had wanted him to strengthen the court.

• Xiao Zhen found the Turtle Demon underwater and fought it with Vanguard, whose Sky-Shaking Wave Kill cracked the demon's shell.
• The wounded Turtle Demon fled, and Xiao Zhen followed it to an underwater altar where it knelt before a giant chained turtle statue.
• The statue introduced itself as Turtle Ancestor, an ancient Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse, and asked Xiao Zhen to spare its junior.
• Turtle Ancestor recounted how Buddha Tathagata and his followers ambushed and sealed him after he accepted the Jade Emperor's invitation to join the Heavenly Court.
• Turtle Ancestor explained that the Jade Emperor had not sent help because he depended on political support, while Taoism also did not want a powerful figure strengthening his rule.

Xiao Zhen questioned Turtle Ancestor about the Turtle Demon’s cultivation and attacks on mortals, then earned the imprisoned elder’s goodwill and a promise of spells. Turtle Ancestor offered him an unusual inheritance taken from a long-dead intruder.

• Turtle Ancestor explained that he had taught the Turtle Demon to cultivate and that he resented mortals for eating nearly half the turtles in the Divine Turtle River.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Buddhism had persecuted Turtle Ancestor’s former followers and that his old friends had not dared to help him.
• Turtle Ancestor stopped Xiao Zhen from leaving and offered to teach him spells, but Xiao Zhen declined the Wind-Following Sword Art because he already had two sword arts.
• Turtle Ancestor offered the Carefree Collection, and Xiao Zhen asked where he had obtained its techniques.
• Turtle Ancestor recalled killing a young man who had attacked his cave abode and taking the Carefree Sect inheritance from him.

Xiao Zhen learned the Art of a Thousand Transformations from Old Turtle, then traveled toward Seven-Colored Mountain as Green Snake Demoness captured four Gourd Babies. After learning the Seven-Star Pill required a 100,000-year-old Spirit of the Stone Heart, Xiao Zhen watched the remaining Gourd Babies fight while an unseen figure observed him from a white cloud.

• Old Turtle gave Xiao Zhen the Art of a Thousand Transformations and warned him to keep their meeting secret, especially from the Buddhists.
• After the robotic bird reported demons gathering at Seven-Colored Mountain, Xiao Zhen summoned Supersonic and flew there.
• Green Snake Demoness and her subordinates captured First Gourd Baby, Second Gourd Baby, Third Calabash Brother, and Fifth Calabash Brother.
• Xiao Zhen read the Seven-Star Pill formula and learned that it required seven Gourd Babies, Colored Lotus Seeds, and a 100,000-year-old Spirit of the Stone Heart.
• Xiao Zhen arrived above Seven-Colored Mountain and watched the remaining Gourd Babies battle the demons as an unknown figure in a white cloud watched him.

Green Snake Demoness escaped Seventh Gourd Baby’s Precious Gourd, defeated the remaining Gourd Babies, and captured all seven to refine into a Seven-Star Pill. Xiao Zhen infiltrated her celebration disguised as a lizard demon, recognized Mountain God among the guests, and watched as Green Snake Demoness began the refining; Fourth Calabash Brother tried to rally his brothers with the Seven Colored Lotus Seeds.

• Green Snake Demoness used a burrowing bug to escape the Precious Gourd, shattered it, and knocked Seventh Gourd Baby unconscious with her spiked club.
• Mountain God helped Green Snake Demoness defeat the remaining Gourd Babies and secretly placed the Seven Colored Lotus Seeds in Fourth Calabash Brother’s hand before he was captured.
• Xiao Zhen killed a lizard lesser demon, transformed into its appearance, and used the demon’s bronze token as an identification badge.
• Hot Wheels was struck by the lizard demon’s corpse after Xiao Zhen sent it to the Mecha Beast World.
• At Green Snake Demoness’s celebration, Xiao Zhen recognized the purple Toad Demon as Mountain God, while the guests praised Green Snake Demoness for capturing the Gourd Babies.
• Green Snake Demoness put all seven Gourd Babies in the Alchemy Furnace, and Fourth Calabash Brother called his brothers together and showed them the Seven Colored Lotus Seeds.

Xiao Zhen watched the Green Snake Demoness’s attempt to refine the Seven-Star Pill release Little Vajra, who escaped captivity and defeated her. As the Mountain God mourned losing the pill, a mysterious voice told him his plan had been missing only one ingredient.

• The Green Snake Demoness failed to bite or cut the Seven-Star Pill, then smashed it with a hammer and released Gourd Little Golden King.
• Xiao Zhen hid from Little Vajra, helped clear the collapsed cave passages, and secretly ate jerky from his System Space.
• The Green Snake Demoness’s plan to subdue Little Vajra failed when the butterfly lesser demon betrayed her and Little Vajra escaped into the eighteen-level underground passage.
• Little Vajra broke through the Green Snake Cave’s defenses and defeated the Green Snake Demoness, while Xiao Zhen watched from hiding.
• The Mountain God lamented losing the Seven-Star Pill, and an unseen speaker told him his plan had been missing one medicinal ingredient.

Old Immortal of the South Pole subdued the Mountain God, took him and Xiao Zhen captive, and brought them to his cave to prepare for refining the Seven-Star Pill. Xiao Zhen remained imprisoned while the old immortal planned to investigate his identity after completing the pill.

• Old Immortal of the South Pole knocked Gourd Little Golden King unconscious and demanded the Seven-Star Pill from the Mountain God.
• Old Immortal of the South Pole revealed that he needed the Mountain God's hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit of the Stone Heart as another pill ingredient and suppressed him.
• Old Immortal of the South Pole discovered Xiao Zhen hiding nearby, restrained him, and questioned the unusual mana in his body.
• Old Immortal of the South Pole transported Xiao Zhen, the Mountain God, and Gourd Little Golden King to his cave, where Xiao Zhen lost consciousness.
• Xiao Zhen woke bound in the cave, received his Storage Ring back, and learned that Old Immortal of the South Pole intended to release him after refining the pill and then search his soul.

Old Immortal of the South Pole sacrificed Little Vajra and the Mountain God to refine a Seven-Star Pill, planning to use it to reach Soul Transformation. Xiao Zhen summoned Supersonic and Tornado to attack him, then stole the cracked furnace and the pill as the battle continued.

• Old Immortal of the South Pole threw Little Vajra into the furnace, extracted the Mountain God's Spirit of the Stone Heart, and added it to the flames.
• Old Immortal of the South Pole told Xiao Zhen that he had spent years cultivating the Immortal Gourd Seed and preparing ingredients for the Seven-Star Pill.
• As the furnace cracked and golden light shone from within, Xiao Zhen summoned Supersonic and Tornado and ordered them to attack Old Immortal of the South Pole.
• Tornado freed Xiao Zhen, then joined Supersonic in fighting Old Immortal of the South Pole while Xiao Zhen gathered items from the cave.
• Xiao Zhen made the cracked furnace and the Seven-Star Pill inside vanish into his System Space.

Xiao Zhen escaped Old Immortal of the South Pole after their attacks failed to overcome the old man’s magical treasure, then returned to City of Time and consumed the Seven-Star Pill. A month later, his cultivation had risen from Da Dou Shi to the peak of Dou Ling, and he paused to adjust to his new strength.

• Old Immortal of the South Pole pursued Xiao Zhen, Tornado, and Supersonic out of the collapsing cave, and Xiao Zhen challenged him to a battle in the open sky.
• Xiao Zhen and the two robots unleashed Sky Feather Dragon Slaying Dance, but Old Immortal of the South Pole blocked it with an ancient bronze bell.
• Xiao Zhen decided not to continue the fight and used the system to return with Tornado and Supersonic to the Mecha Beast World, leaving Old Immortal of the South Pole searching in vain.
• Xiao Zhen arrived in City of Time, celebrated his haul, and took the Seven-Star Pill in a quiet room after confirming it was genuine.
• After a month of cultivation, Xiao Zhen reached the peak of Dou Ling, checked that the pill had not harmed his foundation, and paused to get accustomed to his increased strength.

After testing his new abilities, Xiao Zhen traveled to the Pokémon world and received a mission to win the Indigo Plateau Conference. He saved Hanako from a Raticate and agreed to stay at her home in Pallet Town.

• Xiao Zhen tested his divine abilities, then entered another world after deciding he could not return home yet.
• The system sent Xiao Zhen to the Pokémon world and tasked him with winning the Indigo Plateau Conference using Pokémon.
• Xiao Zhen heard Hanako’s cries for help and kicked the pursuing Raticate away.
• Xiao Zhen bought Japanese Mastery, learned Hanako’s name, and walked with her toward Pallet Town.
• Hanako offered Xiao Zhen a place to stay, and he agreed after deciding to change out of his mismatched clothes.

Xiao Zhen moved into Hanako’s home in Pallet Town, where he met Officer Jenny Lan and faced questions from Hanako’s mother, Yumi. After the system supplied him with identity documents, he claimed he had come to visit Professor Oak and joined the family for dinner.

• Hanako introduced Xiao Zhen to Officer Jenny Lan while shopping for his clothes, and Jenny welcomed him to Pallet Town.
• Hanako brought Xiao Zhen to her family’s mansion and paid for his clothes before he settled in.
• Yumi returned home, questioned Xiao Zhen’s presence, and pressed Hanako to explain how he had come to stay with them.
• Xiao Zhen asked the system for an identity, and it produced documents listing his photograph and ancestry without charging Points.
• Xiao Zhen told Yumi that he had come to visit Professor Oak, and Hanako served dinner after Yumi continued asking him questions.

Xiao Zhen asked Hanako how to become a Pokémon Trainer, then paid the Pallet Town Mayor for a Trainer's License, Pokédex, and Starter Pokémon package. After leaving for Oak's Laboratory, Xiao Zhen's mental suggestion ensured the mayor would later confess all his crimes to Officer Jenny.

• Hanako told Xiao Zhen that aspiring Trainers had to register in town and pay a fee before receiving their First Spirit from Professor Oak.
• Xiao Zhen went to the town center and asked the Town Mayor how to obtain Trainer qualifications.
• The Town Mayor charged Xiao Zhen extra for being an outsider, and Xiao Zhen paid with a Small Gold Bar.
• The Town Mayor offered additional packages, and Xiao Zhen paid several more Gold Bars to receive his Trainer's License and go collect his First Pokémon.
• Xiao Zhen revealed that he had planted a mental suggestion compelling the Town Mayor to confess his crimes to Officer Jenny in one or two months.