Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen defeated Psyduck’s first opponent, then battled it with Nidoking and captured the supreme-grade Pokémon after Psyduck surrendered. Back at the inn, he found Hanako video-calling her mother, Yumi, who threatened him over allegedly bullying Hanako.

• Psyduck evaded Charmeleon with Teleport, struck it with Confusion, and forced Xiao Zhen to recall it.
• Nidoking used Earthquake and Hyper Beam against Psyduck, but both Pokémon were left exhausted.
• Psyduck surrendered, saying it lacked the strength to face Xiao Zhen’s third Pokémon, and Xiao Zhen discovered it was supreme grade.
• Xiao Zhen recalled Nidoking and captured Psyduck, while an old woman arrived too late to find it and gave her Energy Blocks to nearby wild Pokémon.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the inn, greeted Hanako’s mother Yumi during a video call, and heard her threaten him for bullying Hanako.

Xiao Zhen challenged the Cerulean Gym, earned its badge after Psyduck defeated two Pokémon and lost to Gyarados, then stayed in Cerulean City with Hanako for a Water-type show. After the show, he flirted with Hanako, while a dangerous uninvited guest arrived at his home.

• Xiao Zhen and Hanako visited the Cerulean Gym, where Granny Tamako introduced her three granddaughters and recognized Psyduck as a Pokémon she had once cared for.
• Xiao Zhen entered a three-on-three Gym battle and had Psyduck defeat Granny Tamako's Goldeen and Staryu before Gyarados beat it.
• Granny Tamako awarded Xiao Zhen the Cerulean Badge, and he chose not to use Mew against her.
• Xiao Zhen and Hanako stayed in Cerulean City for half a month, during which Xiao Zhen visited Granny Tamako for training advice.
• After the Water-type show, Xiao Zhen praised Hanako's beauty, making her blush and run back to the inn.
• As Xiao Zhen flirted with Hanako, a dangerous uninvited guest arrived at his home.

Die reunited with her older sister, Queen Medusa, who came secretly to check on her in the imperial capital. More than four months later, Xiao Zhen and Hanako reached the Indigo Plateau for the tournament and bought a building after failing to find an inn.

• Queen Medusa found Die through their bloodline connection and reunited with her in the courtyard.
• Die reassured Queen Medusa that the Xiao Clan had treated her well, and praised Xiao Zhen while her sister warned her not to trust men.
• Xiao Zhen and Hanako earned their eighth badges after traveling together for more than four months, and Xiao Zhen completed his final transformation in secret.
• Xiao Zhen and Hanako arrived at the Indigo Plateau, where Hanako said her mother planned to watch the competition.
• After they could not find an available inn, Xiao Zhen used gold bars to buy a three-story building for them to stay in.

Xiao Zhen arrived at the tournament with Hanako and their supporters, then began his elimination match against Tamako. Charizard overwhelmed Tamako’s first Pokémon and rose to pursue her Pidgeotto despite its Whirlwind.

• Aunt Yumi scolded Xiao Zhen and Hanako over their purchase of a three-story building, then later reprimanded them for being too intimate.
• The tournament opened with Moltres’s sacred flame, and Hanako’s family and people from Pallet Town gathered to support Xiao Zhen.
• Uncle Ben welcomed Xiao Zhen and teased Hanako about their relationship, while Aunt Yumi silently watched her daughter.
• Xiao Zhen faced Tamako of Cub Town in an elimination match and sent out Charizard against her Geodude.
• Charizard defeated Geodude with Flamethrower, then took hits from Pidgeotto’s Swift before flying upward to pursue it through Tamako’s Whirlwind.

Xiao Zhen’s Charizard defeated Tamako’s first two Pokémon, forcing her to bring out her grandfather’s powerful Dragonite. Dragonite turned the battle around against Charizard, but Xiao Zhen’s Scyther gained the advantage after he used Psychic Ability to briefly disrupt Dragonite.

• Charizard caught Pidgeotto in the air and struck it down, leaving Tamako with another loss.
• Tamako sent out her grandfather’s Dragonite, which dodged Charizard’s Flamethrower and paralyzed it with Thunderbolt.
• Xiao Zhen recalled Charizard and sent out Scyther, which charged at Dragonite as Tamako ordered a Fire Punch.
• Xiao Zhen used Soul Power to disrupt Dragonite’s focus just before the Pokémon collided.
• Scyther took advantage of Dragonite’s distraction and slashed him repeatedly, wounding him.

Xiao Zhen advanced through the tournament by defeating Tamako and Lorelei, using his Pokémon and secretly relying on Psychic Ability and Soul Power. He reached the quarterfinals, giving Pallet Town hope for a championship.

• Xiao Zhen defeated Tamako’s Dragonite with Scyther, and the referee declared him the winner despite Tamako accusing him of cheating.
• Xiao Zhen won several more elimination matches and advanced to a six-on-six battle against Lorelei.
• Xiao Zhen defeated Lorelei after three of his Pokémon fell, secretly using Soul Power to influence crucial moments.
• Lorelei congratulated Xiao Zhen, asked to battle him again without Psychic Ability, and received a flirtatious compliment from him, making Hanako jealous.
• Xiao Zhen won more elimination matches with Soul Power and Little Mewtwo’s transformations, reached the quarterfinals, and raised Pallet Town’s hopes of winning the tournament.

Xiao Zhen defeated Lance and two more opponents to win the tournament championship, earning fame and 5,000 Points. After losing interest in further battles and travel, he returned to Pallet Town with Hanako.

• Xiao Zhen agreed to fight Lance without using Psychic Ability, and Nidoking, Haunter, and Scyther battled Lance’s Pokémon until Dragonite defeated Scyther.
• Xiao Zhen sent out Little Mew, which had transformed into Pikachu, and Pikachu defeated Lance’s Dragonite with its speed and electric attacks.
• Xiao Zhen mocked Lance after winning, then defeated two more opponents and claimed the championship.
• Xiao Zhen became famous, received 5,000 Points from the system, and returned to Pallet Town with Hanako.

Xiao Zhen discovered that Hanako was pregnant, proposed to her, and began arranging their wedding in Pallet Town. With the wedding set for the following month, Xiao Zhen prepared medicines to support Hanako’s pregnancy.

• Xiao Zhen returned home from Mecha Beast World and flirted with Hanako, but she suddenly became nauseous.
• Xiao Zhen used Dou Qi to examine Hanako and discovered that she was pregnant.
• Xiao Zhen proposed to Hanako, and she happily accepted while voicing her worry about growing old as he continued to cultivate.
• Xiao Zhen and Hanako told Aunt Yumi and Hanako’s traveling father about the pregnancy and their plans to marry; they agreed to hold the wedding in Pallet Town the following month.
• Xiao Zhen and Hanako applied for their marriage certificate, while Yumi took charge of wedding preparations and Xiao Zhen made medicines to stabilize Hanako’s pregnancy.

Xiao Zhen married Hanako and cared for her throughout her pregnancy. After their son was born healthy, Hanako chose the name Ash despite Xiao Zhen's protests, and Xiao Zhen brought his wife and newborn home to recover.

• Xiao Zhen and Hanako exchanged vows at a lavish wedding in Pallet Town, while Xiao Zhen worried about his secret relationship with Die and finding a way to extend Hanako's lifespan.
• Xiao Zhen looked after pregnant Hanako by cooking nutritious meals and tending to her needs.
• Xiao Zhen anxiously waited outside the delivery room until a nurse announced that Hanako had safely given birth to a healthy boy.
• Xiao Zhen suggested naming their son Xiao Chi, but Hanako insisted on Xiao Zhi, or Ash, and Xiao Zhen reluctantly accepted.
• Xiao Zhen took Hanako and Ash home after their discharge and bought a Miltank so the family could have fresh Moomoo Milk.

Xiao Zhen left Hanako and Ash to pursue strength, then arrived in the world of A Chinese Ghost Story and received a mission to kill the Black Mountain Demon. He encountered Xiahou Swordsman and Ning Caichen at a pavilion, where Xiahou noticed Xiao Zhen’s unusual ability to repel the rain.

• Xiao Zhen told Hanako he had to leave to grow stronger, and three days later he departed while Hanako told the public he had gone traveling.
• Xiao Zhen awakened in the world of A Chinese Ghost Story and received a mission to kill the Black Mountain Demon occupying the City of Wronged Souls.
• Xiao Zhen decided to explore the world before confronting the demon and changed into his Dou Qi Continent clothes.
• Xiao Zhen found Xiahou Swordsman and a frightened scholar beside several corpses at a pavilion in the rain.
• Xiao Zhen introduced himself to Xiahou Swordsman and recognized him and the scholar as Xiahou Swordsman and Ning Caichen.
• Xiahou Swordsman noticed that Xiao Zhen’s Dou Qi kept the rain from touching him and praised his profound Internal Energy.

Xiao Zhen sparred with Xiahou Swordsman, then entered Guobei County and made his way to Lanruo Temple. There, he encountered the scruffy Taoist Yan Chixia, who warned him to leave.

• Xiao Zhen and Xiahou Swordsman tested their swordsmanship, and Xiao Zhen won by using a powerful flaming sword qi.
• Xiahou Swordsman accepted the loss and set off to seek Yan Chixia, while Xiao Zhen continued toward Guobei County.
• Two men tried to arrest Xiao Zhen as a wanted flower thief, but he cut their weapons in half and drove them away.
• Xiao Zhen left the chaotic county and followed a road strewn with bones to Lanruo Temple.
• A scruffy Taoist lying on the ruined roof warned Xiao Zhen that he should leave the temple.

Xiao Zhen stayed at Lanruo Temple despite Yan Chixia’s warnings and watched Yan defeat Xiahou Swordsman after rescuing Ning Caichen from their duel. He warned Xiahou to beware of the temple’s strange dangers, then returned to find Ning Caichen sheltering in his room.

• Xiao Zhen ignored Yan Chixia’s warning and settled into a room at Lanruo Temple.
• After sunset, Xiao Zhen watched Yan Chixia and Xiahou Swordsman fight, then pulled Ning Caichen out of their path.
• Yan Chixia defeated Xiahou Swordsman and criticized his swordsmanship, while Ning Caichen’s lecture angered both men and sent them away.
• Xiao Zhen followed Xiahou Swordsman and warned him to be careful of the temple and any beautiful young women he encountered.
• Xiao Zhen returned to his room and found Ning Caichen sheltering in the corner.

Xiao Zhen exposed the corpses beneath the floor to Ning Caichen and burned them when they began to move, forcing the skeptical scholar to confront the supernatural. Meanwhile, Nie Xiaoqian tried to seduce Xiahou Swordsman, who resisted her and was attacked by the tree demon as Yan Chixia hurried to help him.

• Xiao Zhen blasted open the pavilion floor and pulled several dried corpses from beneath it.
• The corpses began moving, and Xiao Zhen burned them to ashes while Ning Caichen watched in fear.
• Xiao Zhen teased Ning Caichen about denying the existence of demons and ghosts, and Ning Caichen stayed inside rather than venture into the night.
• Nie Xiaoqian tried to seduce Xiahou Swordsman, but he remembered Xiao Zhen's warning and attacked her with his sword.
• A massive tongue rushed at Xiahou Swordsman, and Yan Chixia hurried to his aid while Xiao Zhen watched the fight through Clairvoyance.

Xiao Zhen recognized that Xiaoqing was a Female Ghost sent by the Tree Demon to lure him and Ning Caichen away, and he rejected her seduction. The chapter ended with Xiaoqing revealing her monstrous form and demanding that the two men go with her.

• Xiao Zhen warned Ning Caichen that the woman knocking at their door might be a Female Ghost and told him to pretend to sleep.
• Xiaoqing claimed that thieves had driven her to seek shelter, then tried to tempt Xiao Zhen with promises of herself and her sisters.
• Xiao Zhen insulted Xiaoqing by saying she was worse than a brothel girl and slammed the door in her face.
• Ning Caichen asked whether Xiaoqing was human or a ghost and admitted that he had been tempted by her offer.
• Xiaoqing burst through the door with long black nails and a deathly pale face, then threatened to take Xiao Zhen and Ning Caichen with her.

Xiao Zhen defeated the Female Ghost Xiaoqing and forced her to lead him to the Tree Demon's lair. As he arrived at the mass grave disguised as a manor, the Tree Demon ordered Nie Xiaoqian to prepare for marriage to the Black Mountain Demon.

• Xiao Zhen kicked Xiaoqing aside when she attacked, then learned she had been forced by the Tree Demon to lure men to their deaths.
• Xiao Zhen threatened Xiaoqing with soul-destroying flames until she agreed to guide him to the Tree Demon's lair.
• Xiao Zhen reassured Ning Caichen that Yan Chixia was returning, then followed Xiaoqing to a mass grave disguised as a manor.
• Xiao Zhen told Xiaoqing to pretend they were on friendly terms as they approached the Tree Demon.
• The Tree Demon scolded Nie Xiaoqian for failing to capture the swordsman and ordered her to prepare to marry the Black Mountain Demon.

Xiao Zhen confronted the Tree Demon at her lair and forced her to reveal what she knew about Black Mountain Demon. After she escaped underground and tried to alert him, Xiao Zhen dug up her true body, where Yan Chixia arrived and urged him to destroy her.

• Nie Xiaoqian begged the Tree Demon not to marry her off to Black Mountain Demon, but the Tree Demon refused.
• Xiao Zhen entered the lair, burned the Tree Demon's tongue with his flames, and repelled her branches and vines with his Long Rainbow Sword.
• Xiao Zhen demanded information about Black Mountain Demon, and the Tree Demon warned him that Black Mountain Demon controlled the City of Wronged Souls and commanded many ghost soldiers.
• The Tree Demon burrowed underground to escape and threaten to notify Black Mountain Demon, so Xiao Zhen sent flames through the tunnel and tracked her roots with his Soul Power.
• Xiao Zhen dug up the Tree Demon's true body, and she pleaded to answer his questions before Yan Chixia arrived and urged him to kill her.

Xiao Zhen killed the Tree Demon, took her Demonic Core, and learned about the Cultivation World from Yan Chixia. With the Black Mountain Demon still a threat, Xiaoqing and Nie Xiaoqian asked to serve Xiao Zhen.

• The Tree Demon offered to reveal the Black Mountain Demon's secrets and serve Xiao Zhen, but Xiao Zhen burned her to ashes.
• Xiao Zhen found the Tree Demon's Demonic Core and asked Yan Chixia about the Cultivation World.
• Nie Xiaoqian and the other female ghosts thanked Xiao Zhen, who told them to retrieve their ashes and reincarnate.
• Xiaoqing asked to serve Xiao Zhen, and he accepted her as a maid despite Yan Chixia's objections.
• Nie Xiaoqian also asked to serve Xiao Zhen because she feared the Black Mountain Demon would force her into marriage and use her as a Cauldron.

After defeating the old demoness, Xiao Zhen returned to Lanruo Temple with Yan Chixia and shared treasured wine and Storage Rings with his companions. He gave Xiahou Swordsman cultivation techniques, while Ning Caichen reaffirmed his ambition to pass the imperial examinations and reform the court.

• Xiao Zhen stored the ashes of the two female ghosts in his Storage Ring, and he and Yan Chixia returned to Lanruo Temple.
• Yan Chixia told Xiahou Swordsman and Ning Caichen that Xiao Zhen had killed the old demoness, then brought out jars of wine to celebrate.
• Xiao Zhen produced fine wine and gave Storage Rings to Yan Chixia and Xiahou Swordsman.
• Xiao Zhen taught Xiahou Swordsman a Profound-tier Cultivation Technique and gave him two Yellow-tier, High-grade combat techniques.
• Ning Caichen declined Xiao Zhen's offer to learn cultivation and declared that he would pass the imperial examinations and restore order to the court.

After leaving Lanruo Temple, Xiao Zhen settled in a cave, studied alchemy, and broke through to Dou Wang. He left the two Female Ghosts to finish cleaning the cave while he enjoyed his new strength.

• Yan Chixia and Xiahou Swordsman warned Ning Caichen about the corruption of the imperial court, and Ning later left Lanruo Temple to collect a debt in Guobei County.
• Xiahou Swordsman stayed at Lanruo Temple with Yan Chixia to cultivate, hoping his new technique would help him defeat Yan Chixia.
• Xiao Zhen killed a Black Chicken Demon that attacked him, then ordered two Female Ghosts to clean and decorate its cave.
• Xiao Zhen studied alchemy books and learned that some practitioners refined living people into Blood Pills to improve their cultivation.
• Xiao Zhen's suppressed Dou Qi erupted, and he broke through from peak Dou Ling to Dou Wang, gaining strength enough to challenge a Dou Huang.
• Nie Xiaoqian asked whether Xiao Zhen was all right, and he reassured her before sending the Female Ghosts back to their cleaning.

Xiao Zhen settled into the Black Chicken Demon's cave, shared its nourishing soup with Nie Xiaoqian and Xiaoqing, and learned that Nie Xiaoqian had an Extreme Yin Soul. Black Mountain Demon arrived with a vast army to claim her, and Xiao Zhen began fighting back with his flames.

• Xiao Zhen transformed the cave, cooked the Black Chicken Demon's corpse, and shared the soup with Nie Xiaoqian and Xiaoqing.
• Nie Xiaoqian explained that the Tree Demon had taught them to condense ghost bodies, and she revealed that their ashes were buried at Lanruo Temple.
• The soup improved the Female Ghosts' cultivation, while Xiao Zhen reflected on the taste and nourishment of demon meat.
• Black Mountain Demon surrounded the cave with ghost soldiers and demanded that Xiao Zhen hand over Nie Xiaoqian, revealing that her Extreme Yin Soul benefited his cultivation.
• Xiao Zhen refused to surrender Nie Xiaoqian, stored her and Xiaoqing in his Storage Ring, and attacked the advancing ghost army with his flames.