Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan trapped Qiu Mobai and his Protector Disciples in formations, robbed them of their treasures, and kept them from reaching the Heaven's Chosen Assembly match in time. Dan Chengzi won by forfeit, while Qiu Mobai escaped furious and headed back to Three Saints City.

• Qiu Mobai woke in Lin Fan's Bewilderment Array, freed his Protector Disciples from its effects, and had them study the formations.
• Qiu Mobai discovered that his Cloud Piercing Sword, Storage Bag, and other treasures had been stolen, and he and his Protector Disciples spent over half an hour breaking out.
• Qiu Mobai realized that he had missed his match and forfeited under the assembly rules, then left with his Protector Disciples for Three Saints City.
• The referee declared Dan Chengzi the winner by forfeit, leaving Dan Chengzi elated and the Sword and Sabre Divine Sect elders and disciples alarmed by Qiu Mobai's absence.
• Lin Fan privately revealed to Dan Chengzi that he had arranged the win, and Dan Chengzi thanked him and promised to pay the agreed Spirit Stones.

Lin Fan persuaded Dan the Fatty to turn the crowded Heaven's Chosen Assembly into a marketplace, selling pills to injured contestants. Divine Calculator, Fan Jianqiang, and Qi Zixiao's attendants joined in, while Sword Seventeen watched Lin Fan and Dan the Fatty with suspicion.

• Dan the Fatty gave Lin Fan twenty million Spirit Stones as compensation for defeating the Sword Person, and Lin Fan accepted them.
• Sword Seventeen watched Lin Fan and Dan the Fatty and used Divine Sense to probe them, while Sister A'Wu warned Lin Fan about him.
• Lin Fan explained stall economics to Dan the Fatty and convinced him to sell pills to contestants needing to recover before the afternoon battles.
• Divine Calculator opened a fortune-telling stall, and Fan Jianqiang set up a table to sell Spiritual Wine.
• Qi Zixiao had Chen Cheng and Zhou Yining teach Dan the Fatty sales slogans, while Lin Fan added suggestions of his own.

Lin Fan helped Dan the Fatty, Divine Calculator, and Fan Jianqiang attract customers at their stalls during the competition. Their businesses took off, and the chapter ended with a cultivator collapsing after barely two bowls of Fan Jianqiang's wine.

• Dan the Fatty followed Lin Fan's advice and advertised his pills with an outrageous sales pitch, attracting customers and selling a bottle of pills for eighty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Divine Calculator Fang Wu used Lin Fan's prepared speech to promote fortune-telling, and cultivators began paying him to calculate their fortunes.
• Lin Fan suggested that Fan Jianqiang advertise his wine with the slogan "Three Bowls, No Flying" after learning it could intoxicate cultivators with one sip.
• A skeptical cultivator demanded thirty bowls to challenge the slogan but collapsed after barely drinking two.

Qi Zixiao opened a stall selling Immortal Phones, but her refusal to sell one to Huang Shang sparked a confrontation that Zou Hu stepped in to escalate. The Taiyi Holy Son Du Chuan arrived to defend Huang Shang, setting up a clash with Zou Hu in the days ahead.

• Fan Jianqiang sold bowls of Immortal's Intoxication, and customers promptly collapsed after drinking it.
• Qi Zixiao followed Lin Fan's advice and opened a stall selling Immortal Phones for one million Spirit Stones each, claiming only those with fate could buy them.
• Qi Zixiao refused to sell Huang Shang a phone, and Huang Shang challenged her decision.
• Zou Hu threatened Huang Shang and said he would teach her a lesson on Qi Zixiao's behalf, prompting Qi Zixiao to rebuke his familiar way of addressing her.
• Du Chuan arrived, ordered Huang Shang to stand down, and warned Zou Hu that he would fight him within the next few days.

Qi Zixiao sold Immortal Machines to Du Chuan and Zou Hu for ten million Spirit Stones each after declaring their affinity with the immortal opportunity faint. Lin Fan suspected Du Chuan had bought one to show off, while Qi Zixiao worried the sale would damage her reputation, and Lu Yao’s closeness with Lu Ming stirred her jealousy.

• Du Chuan challenged Zou Hu and asked Qi Zixiao whether he was fated to obtain an Immortal Machine.
• Qi Zixiao consulted Lin Fan and demanded ten million Spirit Stones from Du Chuan, claiming his affinity was faint.
• Du Chuan paid without bargaining, took an Immortal Machine, and left with Huang Shang as onlookers marveled at the price.
• Qi Zixiao worried that selling the device for ten million would give her a bad reputation, but Lin Fan urged her to accept the money.
• Zou Hu asked to buy an Immortal Machine, and Qi Zixiao also charged him ten million Spirit Stones before Lu Yao arrived with the Jade Pool Holy Land group.
• Qi Zixiao noticed Lu Yao standing close to Lu Ming, then Lin Fan joked that he might have gained a love rival.

Qi Zixiao and Lin Fan profited as their Immortal Communicator sales helped turn the Heaven's Chosen Assembly venue into a bustling marketplace, while Lin Fan received a bye to the third round. Qiu Mobai returned after being robbed and missed his match, then accepted Sword Seventeen's mistaken belief that Dan Chengzi had arranged the scheme.

• Qi Zixiao sold Immortal Communicators to Lu Yao's junior sisters and other interested cultivators, while Dan the Fatty, Divine Calculator, and Fan Jianqiang also drew customers.
• Vendors set up stalls across the venue, and Huo Yuan decided to let the bustling market continue despite his subordinate's objections.
• The afternoon matchups gave Lin Fan a bye to the third round, and the Saintess Squad received opponents they could likely handle.
• Qiu Mobai and his two Protector Disciples returned after the morning battles had ended, and Qiu Mobai told them to conceal what had happened.
• Qiu Mobai told Sword Seventeen that they had pursued an evil fiend and missed the assembly, while Sword Seventeen blamed Dan Chengzi for arranging the distraction.
• Qiu Mobai realized Sword Seventeen's accusation could explain his defeat and robbery without exposing that a Rogue Cultivator had beaten and looted him.

Qiu Mobai blamed Dan Chengzi for his defeat and planned to confront him, while Lin Fan expected the scheme to catch up with the alchemist. During the afternoon matches, Dan Chengzi defeated Thunder Dog with a pill that released a foul-smelling gas, leaving the arena overwhelmed by the stench.

• Sword Seventeen reprimanded Qiu Mobai, who decided to confront Dan Chengzi after the matches and keep quiet about Lin Fan's role in the previous night's incident.
• Chen Cheng, Zhou Yining, Lu Ming, Divine Calculator, and Fan Jianqiang won their matches, while Qi Zixiao's opponent forfeited.
• Thunder Dog demanded that Dan Chengzi surrender and give him healing pills, so Dan Chengzi offered him a Jade Bottle of green pills.
• The bottle released foul-smelling gas when Thunder Dog reached for it, knocking him unconscious and making him vomit.
• The gas spread across the arena, leaving the referee choking and furious.

Dan Chengzi won his match by using a foul-smelling pill to knock Thunder Dog unconscious, then joined Qi Zixiao’s group at their stall. When Qiu Mobai accused Purple Mansion disciples of colluding with demonic outsiders, the group denied involvement, and he challenged Dan Chengzi to swear a Heaven’s Dao Oath.

• Dan Chengzi defeated Thunder Dog with a foul-smelling pill, and the referee declared him the winner before giving Thunder Dog a palm strike to remove him from the arena.
• Qi Zixiao ended the Saintess Squad’s match-day plans and led the group to set up a stall.
• Qiu Mobai confronted Qi Zixiao and accused Purple Mansion disciples of using demonic outsiders to sabotage his match.
• Dan Chengzi and the others each claimed that their own methods would have caused different, even worse, consequences, leaving Qi Zixiao to conclude that none of them had acted.
• Dan Chengzi denied colluding with demonic outsiders and demanded that Qiu Mobai produce evidence.
• Qiu Mobai, unable to provide evidence, challenged Dan Chengzi to swear a Heaven’s Dao Oath that he had not colluded to frame him.

Dan Chengzi used Qiu Mobai’s own Heavenly Dao Oath against him, forcing the Sword Child to apologize and leave. After Lin Fan and Qi Zixiao prepared to cross over again, Sister A'Wu warned them about the Big Dipper Holy Land disciples, and Lin Fan returned to Earth to discover that his Nascent Soul resembled Qi Zixiao.

• Qiu Mobai swore that he would stop troubling Dan Chengzi and apologize if Dan Chengzi swore he had not colluded with evil and unorthodox forces to frame him.
• Dan Chengzi swore only that he had not colluded with evil and unorthodox forces, and the oath caused him no harm because Lin Fan was not one of them.
• Qiu Mobai realized Dan Chengzi had exploited the wording of his oath, apologized publicly, and left with the Sword and Sabre Divine Sect disciples.
• Lin Fan met Qi Zixiao that night, and Sister A'Wu warned them that the disciples of Big Dipper Holy Land felt strange to her.
• Lin Fan returned to Earth the next morning and found that his Nascent Soul looked and acted like Qi Zixiao; Qi Zixiao’s video message began explaining his breakthrough.

Lin Fan learned that Spiritual Qi Revival was spreading across Hua Nation and watched a video showing the ancient Hundred Schools of Thought manifesting at Confucianism’s ancestral homeland. The chapter ended with the Hundred Schools’ towering phantoms appearing on camera.

• Lin Firmament warned Lin Fan not to die, leaving him worried that she and Sister A'Wu knew something about his future.
• Lin Fan tested his Nascent Soul’s power, teased its disdainful expression, and decided to let Lin Firmament refine the metal left by the Giant Coffin.
• Lin Fan checked a real-time map and saw that Spiritual Qi Revival had reached nearly half of Hua Nation, with the Imperial Capital already completed.
• Lin Fan read news about the spread of Spiritual Qi Revival and clicked on a video from Confucianism’s ancestral homeland.
• The video showed towering phantoms of the Hundred Schools of Thought appearing after Spiritual Qi Revival began.

Lin Fan watched a video of the Hundred Schools of Thought’s ancestors appearing amid Spiritual Qi Revival, then became furious at experts opposing the change. He borrowed the Resident Happiness Living Department’s official Weibo account and began posting a forceful rebuttal, leaving the department monitoring his activity.

• Lin Fan watched a video showing phantoms of the Hundred Schools of Thought’s ancestors appearing and concluded they could not threaten him.
• Lin Fan read headlines opposing Spiritual Qi Revival and decided to confront the critics using the Resident Happiness Living Department’s official Weibo account.
• The Seventh Vice Minister gave Lin Fan the account credentials and arranged for a computer to be delivered, while ordering staff to watch for cultivation techniques.
• Lin Fan used the department’s account to denounce experts and public intellectuals who warned of shortages, population growth, and social collapse.
• Lin Fan’s post argued that food supplies would suffice, Spiritual Qi Revival would lower birth rates, cultivation would open paths to space, and cultivation education would give ordinary people opportunities.

Lin Fan’s forceful Weibo defense of the Spiritual Qi Revival prompted the Resident Happiness Living Department to issue an official warning against rumors and order platforms to remove misleading content. The internet quieted down, while prominent rumor-spreader Fang Muzi saw a possible turning point.

• Lin Fan’s Weibo post defended the Spiritual Qi Revival and rejected claims that it would cause social collapse or leave ordinary people worse off.
• The Seventh Vice Minister brought Lin Fan’s post to a meeting, where the ministers agreed it answered public concerns and voted to issue an official announcement.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department published a forceful warning against rumor-spreaders and ordered platforms to delete related content, while encouraging people to report offenders.
• Lin Fan welcomed the quieter internet and said the benefits of the Spiritual Qi Revival outweighed its drawbacks.
• Fang Muzi, an outspoken public intellectual, was angered by the official response but saw a turning point just as he was about to give up.

Fang Muzi used a local news report about a brutal family murder to attack the Resident Happiness Living Department online. Liu Gang told Seventh Vice Minister that a newly empowered young man had killed five people in Small Village, and Fang Muzi’s post was causing public panic.

• Fang Muzi wrote and published a post accusing the Resident Happiness Living Department of failing to act, citing local official news about a violent incident.
• Liu Gang arrived in Green Mountain Town and told Seventh Vice Minister that people were gaining abilities and entering the Dao after the Spiritual Qi Revival.
• Seventh Vice Minister initially expected the department to use a troublemaker’s arrest to demonstrate its strength and reassure the public.
• Liu Gang explained that a young man in Small Village had killed all five members of the Village Chief’s family and appeared unharmed on surveillance footage.
• Liu Gang reported that Fang Muzi had used the murder to condemn the authorities online and stir up public panic, and Seventh Vice Minister refused to read the article.

Seventh Vice Minister and Liu Gang launched two livestreamed investigations into the Small Village killings, while Lin Fan learned of the case and tried to locate the culprit. Lin Fan’s search ended with only an egg-sized ball of light appearing in his mind.

• Seventh Vice Minister advised Liu Gang to investigate both the possible grudge behind the killings and the culprit’s whereabouts, while preparing to punish anyone who obstructed them.
• Liu Gang arranged simultaneous livestreams of both operations and ordered Fang Muzi watched, with plans to arrest him afterward for disturbing social stability and disrupting public order.
• The livestreams drew nationwide attention, forcing People's Website to move its service to a supercomputer to keep the broadcasts running.
• Fang Muzi watched the broadcasts and dismissed the idea that livestreaming would solve the case.
• Seventh Vice Minister visited Lin Fan and explained the killings and the two investigations; Lin Fan checked the livestreams and asked for the culprit’s information.
• After studying the culprit’s photograph, Lin Fan tried to determine his location but saw only an egg-sized ball of light in his mind.

Lin Fan used the Heaven and Earth Grand Deduction Art to locate the Small Village murderer in woods southwest of Green Mountain Town, though he doubted his calculation when Liu Gang's team found no one. The searchers eventually heard someone approaching, and the murderer emerged into their armed ambush.

• Lin Fan broke a ball of light in his Sea of Consciousness and received a precise location thirty li southwest of Green Mountain Town.
• The Seventh Vice Minister ordered Liu Gang to take a team to the woods, where they arrived in ordinary vehicles and prepared an armed search.
• Liu Gang's team searched the woods with advanced equipment but initially found nobody, leaving Lin Fan privately worried that his divination had failed.
• Liu Gang heard someone approaching, and his team aimed their weapons toward the north as a figure moved through the brush.
• The Small Village murderer appeared before Liu Gang's team and exclaimed in shock at the weapons pointed at him.

Lin Fan’s apparent fortune-telling led Liu Gang’s team to intercept Ma Xiaofei in the Small Woods, where their weapons wounded him and shattered his belief that he was invulnerable. Ma Xiaofei remained defiant, while Liu Gang demonstrated the team’s firepower and pressed him to surrender.

• Seventh Vice Minister and Liu Gang were astonished when Ma Xiaofei appeared in the Small Woods exactly as Lin Fan had predicted.
• Liu Gang ordered Ma Xiaofei to surrender, but Ma Xiaofei tried to hide behind a tree when the countdown began.
• A sniper’s shot grazed Ma Xiaofei’s thigh, proving that firearms could injure him and frightening him into recognizing his vulnerability.
• Ma Xiaofei claimed that his victims had forced him to kill, while Liu Gang demanded his surrender and said the case would be investigated.
• Liu Gang’s team aimed red dots across Ma Xiaofei’s body, then demonstrated their weapons by blowing apart a nearby rock.

Liu Gang and the Resident Happiness Living Department captured Ma Xiaofei while demonstrating that their weapons and cultivators could overpower him. The livestream calmed the public, while Fang Muzi realized his attempt to spread panic had failed.

• Liu Gang let Ma Xiaofei run ninety-nine meters before firing a tracking shell at him.
• Ma Xiaofei used a tree to shield himself from the explosion, but Liu Gang and his team surrounded him.
• Liu Gang broke a thicker tree with one punch, revealing that he and his team were cultivators stronger than Ma Xiaofei.
• Ma Xiaofei gave up and was taken away for interrogation.
• The livestream reassured the public that the Resident Happiness Living Department could control cultivators.
• Fang Muzi recognized that the government's display had thwarted his attempt to incite panic.

Lin Fan agreed to help the Resident Happiness Living Department develop restraints and prisons for cultivators and considered searching Earth for cultivation materials. During Ma Xiaofei’s interrogation, he confessed that he had killed his family after they were driven to ruin by corrupt officials and local thugs, leaving his mother and father dead by suicide.

• Fang Muzi used the killings to stir up opposition to Spiritual Qi Revival.
• Seventh Vice Minister asked Lin Fan for help designing handcuffs and prisons capable of containing cultivators, and Lin Fan agreed to provide guidance.
• Lin Fan realized Earth might contain cultivation materials and planned to bring back an illustrated compendium so the Resident Happiness Living Department could search for them.
• Ma Xiaofei confessed that the Village Chief and local thugs had taken his family’s land, while officials and the police failed to help them.
• Ma Xiaofei said the Village Chief offered a way to save the land, after which his mother returned home distraught and later killed herself with pesticide.
• Ma Xiaofei’s father also drank pesticide and died, leaving Ma Xiaofei alone in grief.

Ma Xiaofei explained that he had killed the Village Chief’s family to avenge his parents, whose deaths followed the Village Chief’s abuse of his mother and collusion with local punks. Liu Gang’s teammates investigated and confirmed most of Ma Xiaofei’s account, then arrested the officials, police officers, judges, punks, and other accomplices who had helped cover up the crimes.

• Ma Xiaofei told Liu Gang that he had discovered the Village Chief and the punks had conspired against his family, and that he had killed the Village Chief’s family after gaining power as a cultivator.
• Ma Xiaofei explained that he had driven to C City in a stolen car to find the punks, and Liu Gang claimed their cultivators had divined where to capture him.
• Liu Gang’s teammates questioned villagers and learned that the Village Chief had used the punks to force Ma Xiaofei’s mother to visit him, after which both of Ma Xiaofei’s parents died by drinking pesticide.
• Villagers said the Village Chief’s city connections had made them afraid to testify, and the person in charge promised to investigate everyone who had protected him.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department uncovered evidence of corruption and abuse, arrested the people connected to the case, and captured the punk who had fled to C City.
• The livestream ended with the department warning that it would punish people who committed such crimes.

After the Resident Happiness Living Department used livestreams to demonstrate its strength and arrest Fang Muzi, Lin Fan and the Seventh Vice Minister discussed the public response and Ma Xiaofei’s likely punishment. The Seventh Vice Minister then revealed that the department had begun teaching cultivation techniques to trusted elite troops as Spiritual Qi Revival changed society.

• Liu Gang ended his livestream by warning cultivators that the nation’s laws applied to everyone, and viewers praised the Resident Happiness Living Department’s show of force.
• Resident Happiness Living Department officers broke into Fang Muzi’s home and arrested him on more than a dozen charges.
• Lin Fan and the Seventh Vice Minister discussed the department’s tougher public approach, which the Seventh Vice Minister linked to Lin Fan’s influence and the officials’ renewed youth.
• The Seventh Vice Minister said Ma Xiaofei’s circumstances made his case difficult, but he expected Ma Xiaofei to receive decades in prison rather than the death penalty.
• The Seventh Vice Minister told Lin Fan that the department had begun distributing cultivation techniques to trusted elite troops because its own personnel could not meet society’s growing needs.