Recaps

Xiao Cheng’s pastries drew the attention of powerful factions, while he expanded his business and fought off Black Skull Tomb’s Mo Ye and Molhan. After Xiao Cheng defeated Molhan, the Black Emperor Sect reassessed Ruyi Zhai and sent Mo Ya to join the shop as an assistant.

• Xiao Cheng auctioned Osmanthus Cake to major factions, then learned the Egg Roll recipe and built an expanded kitchen to make the new pastries.
• Xiao Cheng returned to Rakshasa City, where Qi Shan and Su Mei bought pastries and warned him that factions across the Black Corner Region were searching for him.
• Wang Chu and Liu Qing visited Ruyi Zhai on behalf of the Mad Lion Gang and Earth Flame Sect, while Xiao Cheng explained the pastries and offered samples.
• Mo Ye tried to recruit Xiao Cheng into Black Skull Tomb, but Zi Yan struck down his disciples and Xiao Cheng knocked him unconscious with lightning.
• Molhan ignored orders to leave Ruyi Zhai alone and attacked Xiao Cheng, who fought back with lightning armor and the Dragon Pattern Rolling Pin until Molhan fled badly injured.
• Su Mei urged Sun Ming to strengthen his ties with Xiao Cheng, while Mo Tianxing sent Mo Ya to replace Che Cheng as Ruyi Zhai’s assistant and report to the Black Emperor Sect.

Xiao Cheng expanded Ruyi Zhai’s pastry trade and drew the attention of powerful factions while defeating Black Skull Tomb assassins. As the shop gained new partners and customers, he sent Zi Yan to raid a herb garden for ingredients.

• Xiao Cheng tested Sun Ming, Fan Ling, and Mo Ya with scrambled Rubik’s Cubes, but Mo Ya and Fan Ling gave up while Sun Ming continued trying.
• Xiao Cheng formed supply arrangements with the Eight Sects Gate and the Mad Lion Gang as Egg Rolls proved valuable to cultivation and Durian Cake improved combat skill proficiency.
• Black Skull Tomb sent three Dou Ling experts to kill Xiao Cheng, but the Pastry Cart’s defenses and Xiao Cheng’s counterattack killed all three.
• Xiao Cheng reached five-star Dou Ling during the fight, and Black Skull Tomb’s Tomb Master began plotting against Ruyi Zhai after learning of the deaths.
• Xiao Cheng made meat pies and other pastries while Su Mei asked him to help Sun Ming, and major factions discussed monitoring or cooperating with Ruyi Zhai.
• Xiao Cheng produced more than two hundred boxes of Egg Rolls for the Eight Sects Gate and put about a hundred boxes of Durian Cake up for sale.
• Xiao Cheng offered Zi Yan twenty meat-filled pies in exchange for snacks from Qi Tianchi’s herb garden, and she set off for the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Cheng expanded Ruyi Zhai’s menu, gained an employee, and drew orders and cooperation offers from powerful factions as his pastries strengthened their customers. The arc ended with a new pastry-upgrade challenge underway and Xiao Cheng considering how to help Rakshasa Gate’s unevenly talented recruits.

• Su Qian worried over the missing herbs in Qi Tianchi’s garden while Xiao Cheng received a mandatory candy-selling quest and prepared new products for the growing crowds at Ruyi Zhai.
• Xiao Cheng repaired the broken Egg Roll Machine through the system, acquired a packaging machine, and sold Durian Cake to Wang Chu, Qi Shan, Fan Ling, and other faction buyers.
• Wu Ying secured the Black Skull Tomb Master’s cooperation as factions began purchasing Ruyi Zhai’s pastries, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to supply Heavenly Snake Mansion while other groups sought partnerships.
• Xiao Cheng launched Fruity Malt Candy and Steamed Soup Dumplings, then accepted a virtual Combat Trial and defeated the Void Spirits through the tower’s Hell Mode to earn 10,000 Experience Points.
• Mo Ya joined Ruyi Zhai as its second intern after Xiao Cheng reached Shopkeeper Level 6 and unlocked paid auto-restocking, while Zi Yan returned after raiding Jia Nan Academy’s herb garden.
• Xiao Cheng turned down some factions’ cooperation offers but gave them bulk discounts, as Ruyi Zhai’s pastries helped Yuan Yi, Wu Tie, Elder Qing, and others improve their strength.
• Bai Ya came to Wutan City to propose a resource-sharing partnership with Ruyi Zhai, while Xiao Cheng introduced Nut Mixed Candy and Peanut Stuffed Date Cake as upgraded pastries.
• Xiao Cheng began the system’s Pastry Upgrade Battle, learned that 123 boxes of Durian Cake had sold, and promised Su Mei he would seek a way to improve Rakshasa Gate’s recruits’ talent.

Xiao Cheng expanded Ruyi Zhai’s partnerships and traveled to the Tagor Desert to stop a Yellow Sand Scorpion rampage threatening Stone Desert City. After defeating the scorpions, he went with Yue Mei to Snake People City, where he proposed a training program and received a new system quest.

• Xiao Cheng introduced new pastries at Ruyi Zhai as sects and clans sought deals, while the Black Skull Tomb secretly targeted the shop’s pastries and prepared against it.
• Xiao Cheng and Xue Lan hurried to Stone Desert City as black-marked Yellow Sand Scorpions advanced, and Xiao Cheng killed the first attackers before joining Xiao Li and Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Cheng used insecticide spray and his Dragon Pattern Rolling Pin to subdue the scorpions, while a hidden black-robed man revealed his ambition to take Stone Desert City and become family head.
• Yue Mei persuaded Xiao Cheng to go to Snake People City to meet Medusa, and the Black Skull Tomb Master left for Rakshasa City seeking help after realizing Soul Hall’s pills had weakened him.
• Xiao Cheng traveled with Yue Mei and Mo Ba Si toward Snake People City, where Medusa asked him how to improve the cultivation of snake people with poor aptitude.
• Xiao Cheng proposed daily exercises alongside body-strengthening pastries, and persuaded Medusa to let Hua She Er share the training method with capable snake people.
• The system gave Xiao Cheng a quest to lead ten snake people in practicing the improved Bald Monk's Cultivation Method, with daily exercises as the failure penalty.