Chapter Summaries

Lin Firmament explained that the decades-old disappearance case had ended in an accidental drunk-driving plunge into the river, though Wu Guodong lacked evidence to prove it. She planned to attract public and official attention to help revive Spiritual Qi, then visited Old Chen to discuss his array research and take a miniature Bewilderment Array for the Zhou Xiaoran case.

• Lin Firmament told Wu Guodong that the missing couple had drowned after driving drunk into the Yangtze, and he accepted that there had been no murderer despite the lack of evidence to close the case publicly.
• Wu Guodong left after agreeing to investigate Zhou Xiaoran's Case the next morning, and Lin Firmament returned home to plan how to attract Faith Power and gain the nation's cooperation in reviving Spiritual Qi.
• Lin Firmament visited Old Chen, who explained that he was developing an array powered by interconnected electromagnetic induction devices and was waiting for materials to test it.
• Old Chen offered to study Lin Firmament, but she refused and asked for his miniature Bewilderment Array.
• Lin Firmament took the circuit-board array, hoping to use it to make the murderer in Zhou Xiaoran's Case confess if he was still alive.

Lin Firmament confirmed that Guo Baokun and Wang Guoqing had died without a murderer, then visited Zhou Xiaoran’s family to investigate her case. She revealed that Zhou Xiaoran’s tragedy had no single culprit because everyone had contributed, and began explaining the bullying that drove the gifted girl to despair.

• Lin Firmament told Wu Guodong that the DNA tests identified the two skeletons, but their deaths could not be fully explained without evidence.
• Lin Firmament and Wu Guodong visited Zhou Xiaoran’s parents, who reluctantly let them examine their daughter.
• After using the Heaven and Earth Grand Deduction Art, Lin Firmament said there was no murderer, or that everyone was the murderer.
• Lin Firmament began recounting how Zhou Xiaoran’s parents pushed her to excel, while her achievements brought jealousy, exclusion, and bullying from classmates and teachers.
• Lin Firmament said Zhou Xiaoran’s nerves finally snapped after another teacher blamed both sides, and she wanted to end her life.

Lin Firmament revealed that Zhou Xiaoran had poisoned herself after years of pressure and briefly restored her consciousness with a circuit board. She promised to cure Zhou Xiaoran permanently if her parents worshipped her spirit tablet and Zhou Xiaoran agreed to become her attendant.

• Lin Firmament told Wu Guodong and the Zhou family that Zhou Xiaoran had poisoned herself after becoming overwhelmed by pressure and envy.
• Lin Firmament used a circuit board and the Bewilderment Array to temporarily restore Zhou Xiaoran's speech and clarity.
• Zhou Xiaoran confirmed Lin Firmament's account, and her parents wept as they realized their expectations had contributed to her suffering.
• Lin Firmament explained that Zhou Xiaoran's recovery would end when she removed the circuit board, and her parents begged her to provide a permanent cure.
• Lin Firmament agreed to cure Zhou Xiaoran if her parents sincerely worshipped her spirit tablet and Zhou Xiaoran chose to serve as her attendant.

Lin Firmament cured Zhou Xiaoran’s dementia and recruited her to seek help later, while Wu Guodong questioned Lin Firmament’s abilities. Meanwhile, Qi Zi and the others reached the Purple Mansion Holy Land with their stolen treasures, where Qi Zi revealed she had picked up tens of thousands more.

• Zhou Xiaoran agreed to work for Lin Firmament after caring for her parents, and Lin Firmament warned her that the Two Elders had cancer and little time left.
• Lin Firmament repaired Zhou Xiaoran’s nerves with True Essence, removed the Bewilderment Array, and told her to find Lin Firmament in Green Mountain Town after her parents passed away.
• Wu Guodong asked Lin Firmament about curing dementia and seeing Zhou Xiaoran’s past, and Lin Firmament claimed she was omnipotent.
• Qi Zixiao considered Zhou Xiaoran’s Exquisite Body useful for cultivating people on Earth ahead of Spiritual Qi Revival and the search for a way to reach the Cultivation World.
• Qi Zi, Divine Calculator, and the others reached the Purple Mansion Holy Land with the treasures they had taken, and Qi Zi announced that she had picked up tens of thousands more.

Qi Zi returned to Bright Moon Peak with tens of thousands of treasures taken from cultivators across the sects, prompting worries that they would demand an explanation. When Jiu Wu told the Purple Mansion elders what had happened, Su Muxue praised Qi Zixiao’s conduct while Mo Daolin worried that she was becoming like Su Muxue.

• Qi Zi explained that cultivators from other sects had thrown their treasures to her, and she returned to the Purple Mansion Holy Land with them.
• Qi Zi reassured her companions that the cultivators would not dare attack inside the Holy Land, then worried that the treasures in her possession could damage her image.
• Qi Zi returned to Bright Moon Peak with Chen Cheng and Zhou Yining, while Divine Calculator and Dan Chengzi went home; a huge coffin appeared on the peak.
• Returning Purple Mansion Disciples debated reports that the Saintess had taken treasures from tens of thousands of cultivators, with some doubting the story and others noting her changed behavior.
• Jiu Wu told Mo Daolin and the other elders that Qi Zixiao had taken the cultivators’ treasures, and Su Muxue praised her while urging the Holy Land to support her.
• Mo Daolin stopped Su Muxue and Jiu Wu from escalating the matter, then lamented that Qi Zixiao seemed to be becoming like Su Muxue.

Mo Daolin refused to interfere in Qi Zixiao’s dispute, while Su Muxue secretly sent her Avatar to watch over her with Jiu Wu. At Black Water Swamp, Chen Feihua and Huang Shang recovered from the foul attack and planned to gather allies before confronting the Purple Mansion Holy Land.

• Su Muxue urged Mo Daolin to protect Qi Zixiao, but he decided she should resolve the dispute herself and forbade anyone from interfering.
• Su Muxue distracted the others with a false shooting star and sent out her Avatar; Mo Daolin concealed that he had noticed.
• Jiu Wu caught up with Su Muxue’s Avatar, and they hid near Bright Moon Peak to watch Qi Zixiao handle the situation.
• Chen Feihua, Huang Shang, and the other Taiyi Disciples awoke near Black Water Swamp, still overwhelmed by the stench.
• Chen Feihua and Huang Shang blamed Qi Zixiao for their stolen treasures and humiliation, then decided to free others by breaking the formation and confront the Purple Mansion together.

After breaking the formation, Chen Feihua and nearly fifty thousand cultivators headed to the Purple Mansion Holy Land to confront Qi Zixiao and reclaim their treasures. Their foul stench alarmed the outer sect, whose disciples activated the warning formation and blocked the crowd outside.

• Chen Feihua ordered the Taiyi Disciples to help break the formation, freeing nearly fifty thousand cultivators amid an overwhelming stench.
• The Buddha's Disciple, Xu Yang, and other cultivators agreed to go to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, with Chen Feihua, the Buddha's Disciple, and Xu Yang chosen as representatives.
• The cultivators split between using their eyes and sealing their Divine Sense as they traveled, while cursing Qi Zixiao and enduring the stench.
• Purple Mansion Outer Sect Disciples smelled the approaching crowd, saw carrion birds following it, and activated the warning formation to stop them outside.
• The Outer Sect Senior Brother shouted at Chen Feihua and the crowd to leave, while the gathered cultivators remained furious.

Cultivators from several major sects confronted the Purple Mansion Holy Land, demanding that Qi Zixiao return their treasures and answer for humiliating them. Qi Zi decided to livestream her response, while the Divine Calculator and Dan Chengzi offered to help.

• Chen Feihua, Xu Yang, the Buddha's Disciple, Huang Shang, and other cultivators identified themselves at the Outer Sect formation, but the Purple Mansion disciples accused them of being impostors because of their foul stench.
• Huang Shang broadcast a challenge to Qi Zixiao across the sect, accusing her of taking their treasures and demanding that she come out and explain herself.
• Fan Jianqiang and Lu Ming chose to stay out of the confrontation, while Dan Chengzi and the Divine Calculator hurried toward Bright Moon Peak to support Qi Zixiao.
• At Purple Mansion Palace, Mo Daolin told Zixiao to handle the matter herself, and Su Muxue and Jiu Wu decided to watch unless she was in danger.
• Qi Zi viewed the aggrieved cultivators through the Sky Gazing Mirror and prepared to settle the matter before Qi Zixiao returned.
• When the Divine Calculator and Dan Chengzi arrived, Qi Zi asked them to hold her phone and arrange for the gathered cultivators to see her livestream; the Divine Calculator pushed Dan Chengzi to go to the Outer Sect.

Dan Chengzi confronted the cultivators gathered outside the Purple Mansion Holy Land and used Qi Zixiao’s livestream to reveal the treasures she had brought back from the Burial Ground. The furious crowd recognized their stolen belongings as the livestream continued.

• The Divine Calculator sent Dan Chengzi to face the shouting cultivators, and Qi Zi guessed that Dan Chengzi had prepared a pill to block the stench.
• Dan Chengzi mocked the cultivators outside the formation and challenged them to enter, while trading insults with Buddha's Disciple and Xu Yang.
• At Chen Feihua’s urging, the crowd watched as Dan Chengzi contacted Qi Zixiao and opened her livestream.
• Qi Zixiao showed viewers the coffin and a vast collection of treasures, including Spirit Artifacts, Treasure Artifacts, and Dao Artifacts.
• Chen Feihua and the other cultivators recognized their own treasures and angrily accused Qi Zixiao of taking them.
• Jiu Wu wondered what the livestream would accomplish, while Su Muxue praised Zixiao’s method; neither knew Qi Zi already knew they were nearby.

Qi Zixiao livestreamed herself selling the treasures taken from the sect cultivators, turning their demands for repayment into a frantic bargain sale. The furious crowd quickly switched to pleading, but Qi Zi insisted the treasures were hers and offered to trade them only for Spirit Stones or items of equal value.

• Qi Zi dismissed Huang Shang's demands during her livestream and claimed the treasures were ownerless and belonged to her.
• Qi Zi demonstrated a Sky Blade and other treasures, then sold them to Holy Land disciples at sixty percent of market price.
• Su Muxue praised Qi Zixiao's tactic while Jiu Wu worried that it would provoke chaos.
• Chen Feihua, Buddha's Disciple, and other cultivators watched their prized treasures get sold and shouted at Qi Zixiao.
• The cultivators stopped cursing and began pleading, but Qi Zi refused to return anything and demanded payment or an equal-value trade.

Qi Zi ignored the disciples’ threats and continued auctioning their seized treasures, refusing to return them for free. A poor Divine Sword Mountain disciple finally bought back his flying sword at a discount, leaving the others unable to fault his choice.

• Buddha's Disciple tried to persuade Qi Zi to return the treasures and warned her that the sects would become her enemies.
• Su Muxue predicted that Qi Zixiao would not give in to the disciples’ threats, while Jiu Wu worried about the pressure she faced.
• Qi Zi dismissed Buddha's Disciple’s appeal and resumed selling the treasures, provoking furious threats from the disciples outside the formation.
• After Qi Zixiao sold more than a hundred treasures, the disciples realized that cursing only made her sell faster and fell silent.
• A poor Divine Sword Mountain Disciple bought back his black flying sword at a discount, explaining that he could not afford to replace it elsewhere.

Qi Zi sold the sect disciples’ seized treasures back to them at a seventy-percent discount, while Dan Chengzi demanded a cut for handling deliveries. Nearly all the treasures were claimed, and Qi Zi ended the transaction.

• Xiao Jian identified himself and agreed to buy his treasure from Qi Zi for seventy percent of its market price, with Dan Chengzi assigned to deliver it and collect the Spirit Stones.
• Dan Chengzi hinted that Xiao Jian should share some benefits with him for making the delivery, and Xiao Jian reluctantly understood.
• Chen Qiuping of Backing Mountain Sect bought back the Nebula Golden Gall at seventy percent of its price, and Li Mo followed by claiming the Evil-Slaying Sword Pill.
• Disciples from various sects began claiming their seized treasures and agreeing to pay Qi Zi’s discounted price.
• Jiu Wu questioned why people were paying to reclaim their own treasures, while Su Muxue praised Qi Zi’s strategy and left without revealing herself.
• Within an hour, nearly all the floating treasures had been claimed, and Qi Zi thanked the buyers and ended the transaction.

Qi Zi finished selling the sect disciples their reclaimed treasures while keeping the best ones for Purple Mansion Holy Land, then arranged for Dan Chengzi to develop a Spiritual Energy Pill recipe. The chapter left Qi Zi with the recipe in hand as he contacted Fan Jianqiang about a formation.

• Qi Zi had Chen Cheng record the names of the sect disciples and ordered his people to be cautious around them in the future.
• Dan Chengzi demanded extra Spirit Stones to retrieve the disciples' treasures, and Qi Zi's group kept the best treasures rather than selling them back.
• The disciples realized they still carried the stench from their earlier ordeal and cursed Qi Zixiao as they struggled to return home.
• Su Muxue's Avatar praised Qi Zixiao's exploits to Mo Daolin, who worried that she had become even more black-hearted than Su Muxue.
• Qi Zi asked Dan Chengzi to use the listed spiritual medicines to formulate Spiritual Energy Pills, and Dan Chengzi produced an optimal recipe.
• Qi Zi contacted Fan Jianqiang after receiving the recipe, intending to discuss a formation.

Qi Zi'Fan obtained an array collection from Fan Jianqiang and recorded a message for Qi Zixiao after memorizing useful arrays. After receiving his experiences, Qi Zixiao learned that her scheming fit the Purple Mansion Saintess tradition and considered using the Five Colors Divine Light and Bronze Coffin to create an Avatar.

• Qi Zi'Fan suspected Fan Jianqiang was pretending to know little about arrays, so Fan Jianqiang sent him a Common Array Collection.
• Qi Zi'Fan selected useful arrays to memorize and recorded a message before switching back to Qi Zixiao.
• Qi Zixiao reviewed the past three days, admired the Spirit Stones she had acquired, and watched Qi Zi'Fan's recording, which included a list of people who might resent her.
• Sister A'Wu told Qi Zixiao that Purple Mansion Saintesses were traditionally known as demonesses, though Mo Daolin might dislike her following that pattern.
• Sister A'Wu explained that the Five Colors Divine Light and Bronze Coffin could support a powerful Avatar, and Qi Zixiao eagerly considered creating one to keep watch over Qi Zi'Fan.

Qi Zixiao decided to refine an Avatar by placing her Divided Soul inside the Five-Colored Divine Light and the Divine Light inside a Mortal Body, and asked Mo Daolin to help gather the materials. She learned the Holy Land had most of what she needed, but the chapter ended with Mo Daolin questioning why she was rushing to make a body while still at the Void Refinement Stage.

• Sister A'Wu explained that Qi Zixiao needed to use the Five-Colored Divine Light as a vessel for her Divided Soul and forge a physical body to carry it.
• Qi Zixiao counted her growing fortune, decided she could afford an Avatar, and took Sister A'Wu's Material List to Mo Daolin.
• Qi Zixiao asked Sister A'Wu who had been stronger when Mo Daolin was chosen as Holy Master, and learned Su Muxue had been stronger.
• Mo Daolin said the Holy Land could provide 987 of the 999 materials, while Su Muxue explained that a Mortal Body began weak but could grow through cultivation.
• Su Muxue urged Qi Zixiao to take the remaining rare materials if necessary, but Mo Daolin ordered her out and asked Qi Zixiao why she wanted to refine a body so soon.

Qi Zixiao paid Mo Daolin for materials to refine an Avatar, while Lin Fan considered how to reveal cultivation to the public after discovering that reports had explained away Lin Firmament’s feat as ordinary strength. Lin Fan made Great Strength Pills and called Dull Hair to test them.

• Qi Zixiao gave Mo Daolin two billion Spirit Stones for Avatar materials, and Su Muxue persuaded him to split the leftover twenty million with her.
• Lin Fan read Lin Firmament’s messages about their recent cases, plans to meet Wu Guodong, and the need to introduce cultivation to the public and authorities.
• Lin Fan reasoned that revealing himself publicly could make cooperation with the authorities safer, since public attention might deter them from secretly harming him.
• Lin Fan searched online and found that news reports had explained Lin Firmament’s car-carrying feat as the work of a strongman, leaving him feeling decoded.
• Lin Fan refined a batch of Great Strength Pills, then called Dull Hair to test one.

Lin Fan gave Zhou Qi a Strength Pill after Zhou Na brought him over for dressing as a woman and livestreaming, and the pill quickly healed Zhou Qi’s broken leg. Zhou Na then asked Lin Fan whether the pill was the medicine he had discussed with her and Qin Ya, leaving them to talk about its extraordinary value.

• Dull Hair fled when Lin Fan tried to offer it a Strength Pill, and Zhou Na arrived with her battered brother, Zhou Qi.
• Zhou Na accused Lin Fan of encouraging Zhou Qi to dress as a woman, but Zhou Qi admitted he had made up the story to cover his own choices.
• Lin Fan gave Zhou Na a Strength Pill, and she forced Zhou Qi to swallow it despite his protests.
• Zhou Qi’s broken leg healed within minutes, and Zhou Na broke apart his cast to check the medicine’s effect.
• Zhou Na pulled Lin Fan inside and asked whether the Strength Pill was the medicine he had mentioned to her and Qin Ya.

Lin Fan offered Great Strength Pills to the wealthy women who had lent him money, claiming they could cure illness and preserve youth. Jin Ruyu took one to test its effect on her early-stage breast cancer, and Shi Wenke found her pulse had become strong and steady, though the group did not yet know whether the cancer was gone.

• Lin Fan gave Zhou Na two Great Strength Pills and invited her to lunch with the women who had lent him money.
• Lin Fan gathered the lenders at Jin Ruyu's hotel and explained that he wanted to repay their loans with Great Strength Pills instead of cash.
• Lin Fan claimed the pills could cure disease and preserve youth, while Zhou Na vouched that one had healed Lin Fan's fracture in minutes.
• Jin Ruyu revealed that she had early-stage breast cancer and agreed to take a pill, offering to clear Lin Fan's debt if it cured her.
• Shi Wenke checked Jin Ruyu's pulse after she swallowed the pill and found it strong, steady, and even, ruling out a mere painkiller.

Shi Wenke found that Lin Fan’s Great Strength Pill had restored Jin Ruyu to extraordinary health, leaving the traditional medicine expert unable to explain its effects. As Jin Ruyu and the other women arranged an urgent hospital examination, Zhou Na became convinced that Lin Fan was an immortal.

• Qin Ya felt Jin Ruyu’s pulse and confirmed that it was steady, strong, and regular.
• Shi Wenke said Jin Ruyu’s body was as strong as an ox and that Lin Fan’s Great Strength Pill surpassed any medicine she knew.
• Jin Ruyu reported feeling completely comfortable, and Shi Wenke urged her to undergo a comprehensive examination.
• Lin Fan agreed to the examination but said he had to meet Wu Guodong to buy rough stones that afternoon.
• Jin Ruyu asked Lin Fan what kind of method he used, and he jokingly claimed he was an immortal.
• Zhou Na connected Lin Fan’s Jade Muscle Cream, stone-reading ability, and her sudden Inner Force to supernatural powers and promised to keep his secret.

Lin Fan bought confiscated jade and rough stones, while Jin Ruyu and the other wealthy women confirmed that her cancer and other ailments had vanished after taking his medicine. After settling their debt with Great Strength Pills, Lin Fan asked Zhou Na to help distribute future pills according to whether recipients had done good or evil, leaving him wondering whether saving a great benefactor would count as great merit.

• Lin Fan gave Qin Ya a Great Strength Pill and went with Zhou Na to meet Wu Guodong, who showed them confiscated property and offered jade and rough stones at a steep discount.
• Lin Fan bought a large haul of jade and rough stones from Wu Guodong.
• Shi Wenke examined Jin Ruyu's medical results and confirmed that her cancer and other ailments were gone and her health indicators were exceptionally strong.
• Jin Ruyu warned the wealthy women not to use tricks to obtain Lin Fan's medicine, then arranged for them to settle their debts with Great Strength Pills at one hundred million each.
• Zhou Na explained that wealthy people would return seeking medicine, so Lin Fan asked her to screen buyers based on their deeds and involve Jin Ruyu in investigating their backgrounds.
• Lin Fan wondered whether saving a dying benefactor with his medicine would count as great merit.