Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan defeated and interrogated the Taoist who had been pursuing him, then killed and burned him before escaping with Doggy to Guo Bei County. He bought a secluded courtyard as a temporary base and passed out again from his worsening headache.

• Wang Xuan overwhelmed the Taoist with his whip, bound him, and had Doggy wake him with a stream of urine.
• Wang Xuan questioned the Taoist, crushed his neck, burned his body, and collected items from his corpse.
• Wang Xuan told Doggy to carry him to Guo Bei County, then passed out before they reached the city.
• At Guo Bei County's gate, Wang Xuan intimidated a soldier and entered with Doggy, then changed into refined clothes.
• Wang Xuan bought a secluded courtyard by offering the owner two gold ingots, and the owner and his household moved out.

After devouring the soul fragments in his mind, Wang Xuan learned that the world was the Mountain Sea Profound Nether Pearl and that Zhu Gou had reached the Lower Realm seeking it. He woke, ate with Doggy, then chose the Profound Water Scripture from Zhu Gou’s cultivation memories.

• Wang Xuan spent three days devouring the soul fragments and pieced together Zhu Gou’s history, including how he stole the Two Realms Shuttle and fled to the Lower Realm.
• Wang Xuan learned that the world itself was the Mountain Sea Profound Nether Pearl, a treasure created to help the Netherworld Loose Cultivator survive tribulation.
• Wang Xuan woke to find Doggy guarding him, then took Doggy out for a meal after three days without food.
• Doggy told Wang Xuan that he had gained intelligence after eating a milky-white object he dug up from the ground.
• Wang Xuan reviewed Zhu Gou’s cultivation memories and selected the Profound Water Scripture as a method suited to his situation.

Wang Xuan began cultivating the Profound Water Scripture and discovered that his Nine Yang True Qi tempered his Spiritual Energy, making it far more potent despite slowing his progress. After confronting a shopkeeper who mistreated a debt collector, Wang Xuan recognized the scholar as Ning Ri and confirmed that he had entered the world of Lanruo Temple.

• Wang Xuan recorded his memories of Qi Refining cultivation, then absorbed Spiritual Energy and watched his Nine Yang True Qi temper it inside his dantian.
• A figure drawn by the spiritual fluctuations saw Wang Xuan’s Blood Fiend Qi form a winged tiger and retreated in alarm.
• After cultivating for a day and night, Wang Xuan found that his Spiritual Energy had grown much more powerful, then took Doggy out to eat.
• Wang Xuan stood up for Ning Ri when the shopkeeper shoved him out over a blurred debt ledger, and forced the shopkeeper to produce the account book.
• Wang Xuan invited Ning Ri to eat while he calculated the debt and realized that Ning Ri’s arrival confirmed his suspicions about Lanruo Temple.

Wang Xuan captured Nie Xiaoqian at Lanruo Temple with the Yin Gathering Bottle, then fought through Tree Demon Grandma’s roots to escape. When Yan Chixia moved to stop him, Wang Xuan claimed to be Qin Ying of Songyue Temple and ordered Yan to help him flee.

• Wang Xuan followed Ning Caichen and arranged for Doggy to watch him after Ning settled at an inn.
• Wang Xuan went to Lanruo Temple, where Yan Chixia warned him to leave, but he pretended to be a fearless scholar and stayed.
• Nie Xiaoqian entered Wang Xuan’s room, and Wang Xuan captured her in the Yin Gathering Bottle while she was trying to seduce him.
• Tree Demon Grandma attacked Wang Xuan with her roots, and Wang Xuan cut through them with the Green Dragon Crescent Blade to escape.
• Yan Chixia came down to stop Wang Xuan, who revealed a Taoist robe and claimed he was Qin Ying of Songyue Temple.

Wang Xuan escaped the City God’s divine domain with Doggy using the Two Realms Shuttle, but its uncontrolled jump took them out of the Strange Tales world and into the Three Kingdoms era. He reunited with Nie Xiaoqian, who had regained a body, and discovered that even this world’s villagers possessed extraordinary strength.

• Wang Xuan and Yan Chixia fought through Tree Demon Grandma’s roots, but Wang Xuan sent Yan Chixia away with the Yin Gathering Bottle and escaped Lanruo Temple alone.
• After reaching Guo Bei County, Wang Xuan and Doggy were transported into the City God’s divine domain, where the City God revealed that he wanted Nie Xiaoqian.
• Wang Xuan burned his destiny to activate the Two Realms Shuttle and escaped the divine domain with Doggy before the City God could capture Nie Xiaoqian.
• Wang Xuan awoke in daylight beside Nie Xiaoqian, who celebrated having a physical body again, though neither understood how she had regained it.
• Wang Xuan saw a farmer chase Doggy with astonishing speed and strength, then realized that the shuttle had taken them to the Three Kingdoms era.

Wang Xuan tried to keep a low profile in a dangerous new world, but he and his companions encountered powerful beasts while hunting and cooking a deer. The chapter ended with a giant tiger collapsing beside their barbecue for reasons Wang Xuan could not understand.

• Wang Xuan scolded Doggy for getting chased by a villager's dog and told Doggy and Nie Xiaoqian to pretend they were ordinary people.
• Doggy tried to hunt a stag, but the stag knocked him aside until Wang Xuan killed it with a throwing knife.
• Wang Xuan prepared the stag as a whole roast deer, and Doggy and Nie Xiaoqian eagerly waited for it to finish cooking.
• A huge tiger approached the barbecue, but it stumbled and collapsed beside the fire before attacking anyone.

Wang Xuan exposed Dian Wei’s attempt to extort him with a trained tiger, but Dian Wei still demanded compensation after the tiger’s act was revealed. The chapter ended with Dian Wei pointing a halberd at Wang Xuan and insisting he admit to killing the tiger.

• Wang Xuan confronted the tiger after it pretended to be dead, and Dian Wei arrived roaring that Wang Xuan had killed his Big Cat.
• Dian Wei summoned the tiger, which sprang up and affectionately rubbed against him, proving it was his trained companion.
• Wang Xuan called out Dian Wei’s scam by pointing out that the tiger could not be dead if it had obeyed his command.
• Dian Wei tried to enlist the tiger in another fake death act to get a share of Wang Xuan’s roasted deer, but Wang Xuan saw through it.
• Dian Wei hid his embarrassment, grabbed his iron halberds, and threatened Wang Xuan until he admitted to killing the tiger.

Wang Xuan turned Dian Wei’s attempt to take the roasted deer into a friendship by standing his ground, then inviting him to eat. After a feast, Wang Xuan began persuading Dian Wei to travel with him, while Nie Xiaoqian came to see him as a true hero.

• Wang Xuan faced Dian Wei’s iron halberd without yielding, and Dian Wei admired his courage and decided to leave without taking the deer.
• Wang Xuan invited Dian Wei to share the roast, and the two exchanged names and became brothers as Nie Xiaoqian watched and reconsidered her view of Wang Xuan.
• Dian Wei devoured the venison and praised Wang Xuan’s cooking, while Wang Xuan introduced Nie Xiaoqian and Doggy; the tiger also begged for food.
• Doggy and the tiger brought back a wild boar, and Dian Wei and Wang Xuan ate until they were stuffed.
• Wang Xuan praised Dian Wei’s strength and offered to travel with him, promising delicious food and fine wine wherever they went.

Wang Xuan gained Dian Wei’s trust and learned about the world’s cultivation system while disguising his origins with a story about Penglai. After discovering that the world’s Spiritual Energy was too thin for swift progress, he resolved to spend his remaining fortune to accelerate his cultivation.

• Dian Wei confessed that the imperial court wanted him, and Wang Xuan promised to clear his name and help him enter the city.
• Dian Wei explained that immortals were only a legend and described the world’s civil and martial cultivation paths, including his own realm of externalized Qi.
• Wang Xuan claimed his family lived in seclusion on Penglai, and Dian Wei peppered him with questions about immortals and the island.
• Wang Xuan began cultivating the Profound Water Scripture while Dian Wei guarded him, then found that the world’s Spiritual Energy was much thinner than in the Strange Tales world.
• Wang Xuan weighed ways to speed up his cultivation and decided he might have to spend his remaining fortune to avoid relying on Dian Wei for protection.

Wang Xuan burned luck to cultivate faster and gave Dian Wei a Hundred Treasures Pouch so he could hide his distinctive iron halberds. Dian Wei accepted the gift as a sign of brotherhood, while Wang Xuan joked that they could later refine it using Doggy’s skin.

• Wang Xuan burned luck and absorbed Spiritual Energy, increasing his cultivation speed and nourishing his body.
• Dian Wei admired Wang Xuan’s unusual cultivation, and the group ate breakfast before preparing to leave.
• Wang Xuan stored Dian Wei’s iron halberds in his Hundred Treasures Pouch, startling Dian Wei with its spatial ability.
• Wang Xuan gave Dian Wei the Hundred Treasures Pouch, insisting that brothers should share their treasures.
• Dian Wei claimed the pouch with his blood and practiced storing and retrieving his halberds and belongings.
• Wang Xuan told Dian Wei the pouch could be refined later and joked that they would use some of Doggy’s skin.

Wang Xuan disguised Dian Wei as a barbarian and continued down the road with him, Doggy, the tiger, and Nie Xiaoqian. When they encountered a group of armed men attacking merchants, Wang Xuan chose to intervene, and Dian Wei charged into battle.

• Doggy objected to Wang Xuan taking his skin, and Dian Wei startled everyone by grabbing and inspecting the talking dog.
• Wang Xuan disguised Dian Wei with dreadlocks, face paint, and a deerskin vest, telling him to call himself Wei and avoid using his halberds.
• The group traveled along the main road until Dian Wei heard a battle ahead, and Wang Xuan agreed they should investigate.
• Wang Xuan saw armed attackers surrounding carriages and ordered Dian Wei to take down the men who looked like bandits.
• Dian Wei roared across the battlefield and killed seven or eight attackers with his bare fists before the fighters could react.

Wang Xuan and Dian Wei turned the battle against the bandits, saving Mi Fang and his sister Mi Zhen. After meeting Mi Zhen, Wang Xuan privately decided to treat Mi Fang as his brother, while the survivors prepared to leave the blood-soaked battlefield.

• Wang Xuan threw three Fire Talismans into the bandits, causing widespread casualties and chaos that let Mi Fang's guards counterattack.
• Dian Wei pursued the fleeing bandit chief, captured him after Wang Xuan ordered him taken alive, and later seized two more bandits.
• Mi Fang thanked Wang Xuan for saving his group and introduced his sister, Mi Zhen, who thanked Wang Xuan and was visibly taken with him.
• Wang Xuan told Mi Fang and Mi Zhen to leave the battlefield, then ordered Dian Wei to bury the corpses to prevent plague.
• Mi Fang watched Dian Wei dig burial pits with his externalized Qi and realized that Wang Xuan's companion was a Peerless Master.

After Dian Wei crushed the attackers, Wang Xuan organized the Mi Family guards, treated their wounds with spiritually infused water, and led them to inspect the dead. He recognized that the uniform weapons meant the so-called bandits were likely Han soldiers or a powerful magnate’s private troops, leaving Mi Fang alarmed by the danger to his family.

• Dian Wei displayed his externalized Qi by smashing deep pits into the ground, while Wang Xuan directed the Mi Family guards to tend the wounded and clear the battlefield.
• Wang Xuan replaced the guards’ bloodied bandages with clean cloth and used a Soldier Talisman to infuse water with healing power.
• The injured guards drank the water, felt their wounds begin to heal, and knelt to thank Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan told the guards to collect the attackers’ weapons and belongings, and Mi Fang asked why they were keeping them.
• Wang Xuan pointed out that the bandits’ weapons were uniform, prompting Mi Fang to realize they were likely Han soldiers in disguise or a magnate’s private troops.

Mi Fang killed the surviving bandits rather than pursue revenge, and Wang Xuan encouraged him to turn the Mi Family’s ambitions toward gaining power and status. The caravan resumed its journey to Changyi, where Wang Xuan took the captured bandit chief away to interrogate him.

• Mi Fang decided that pursuing the people behind the ambush was too dangerous and killed the two captives.
• Wang Xuan told Mi Fang to endure the setback and urged him to see the Mi Family’s merchant wealth as a path to noble titles and high office.
• Mi Fang embraced Wang Xuan’s vision and vowed to rise above others, while Mi Zhen admired Wang Xuan from inside the carriage.
• Wang Xuan ordered the group to continue toward Changyi, and they camped near a water source after traveling another twenty-odd li.
• Wang Xuan left Dian Wei to guard the camp and carried the unconscious bandit chief away for interrogation.

Wang Xuan tortured Pang Hua into revealing why the Pang family had attacked Mi Fang’s caravan and learned about the world’s martial and spiritual cultivation. After discovering that the Pang family wanted Mi Zhen as a concubine, Wang Xuan decided to confront them, leaving Mi Fang alarmed by his resolve.

• Wang Xuan took Pang Hua to a secluded place, frightened him with a lecture on torture, and forced him to confess that the Pang family had ordered the attack to seize valuable goods and pursue Mi Zhen.
• Wang Xuan questioned Pang Hua for two hours about the era, major events, and cultivation before killing him.
• Wang Xuan learned the stages of martial cultivation and that spiritual practitioners could use spiritual power to affect the physical world.
• Wang Xuan returned to camp and asked Mi Fang about the Pang family and its eldest legitimate son’s plan to take Mi Zhen as a concubine.
• Wang Xuan dismissed Mi Fang’s fears and declared that he would go settle accounts with the Pang family.

Wang Xuan and Dian Wei went to the Pang family after learning that its soldiers had attacked the Mi Family, while Mi Fang worried over Mi Zhen’s feelings for Wang Xuan. Wang Xuan used Doggy to stage an injury and provoke the Pang household, and the chapter ended with the Pang steward challenging him to face the consequences of attacking an aristocratic clan.

• Mi Fang returned to Mi Zhen and found her sobbing about the Mi Family and Young Master Wang, then left without comforting her.
• Pang Xuan told Pang Fei that an attack on the Mi Family had cost the Pang family most of its soldiers and left Pang Hua captured.
• Pang Fei dismissed the Mi Family as lowly merchants and rejected the idea of Pang Xuan marrying Mi Zhen.
• Wang Xuan, Dian Wei, and Doggy reached the Pang family, where Doggy pretended to be injured so Wang Xuan could accuse the gate servants of striking his divine dog.
• Wang Xuan ordered Dian Wei to tear down the Pang family’s gate, and Dian Wei brought down the gate and courtyard wall with one kick.
• The steward confronted Wang Xuan and threatened him with the Pang family’s standing among the aristocratic clans.

Wang Xuan and Doggy accused the Pang family of abducting and mistreating the dog, while Pang Fei tried to seize them and claim Doggy as a demon. Dian Wei defeated the household guards, leaving Wang Xuan in control of Pang Fei and his son.

• Wang Xuan prompted Doggy to crawl into the Pang family courtyard and feign injury, then accused the family of abducting him.
• Pang Fei arrived and questioned his steward, but Wang Xuan confronted him and demanded an explanation.
• At Wang Xuan’s command, Doggy stood up, spoke, and pointed to Pang Xuan as the one who had abducted him.
• Pang Fei called Doggy a demon and ordered his servants to seize Wang Xuan and Dian Wei, but Dian Wei killed the attacking servants.
• Wang Xuan ordered Dian Wei to defeat the remaining guards, then knocked Pang Fei down and snapped Pang Xuan’s arm.

Wang Xuan and Dian Wei killed Pang Fei and Pang Xuan after interrogating them, then left Fangyu County as rumors spread about a heaven-descended Divine Dog. Wang Xuan planned to use the fame to secure a place as an Imperial Advisor, and he returned to Mi Fang with the two Pang family heads.

• Wang Xuan tortured Pang Fei’s son until Pang Fei begged him to spare the boy and offered information.
• After questioning Pang Fei and Pang Xuan, Wang Xuan killed them and left the Pang family residence with Dian Wei.
• Escaped servants spread the story of the speaking Divine Dog, which Wang Xuan wanted to use to build his fame.
• Wang Xuan considered joining a warlord as an Imperial Advisor and weighed which ruler might suit his plans.
• Wang Xuan and Dian Wei returned to Mi Fang, and Wang Xuan dropped Pang Fei and Pang Xuan’s severed heads beside him.

Wang Xuan returned from destroying the Pang family and continued with the Mi family to Changyi, where Mi Zhen fell ill. After stabilizing her condition, he planned to draw a talisman to cure her and seized Doggy to use his tail hair for a spirit brush.

• Wang Xuan assured Mi Fang that the Mi family was not implicated in his attack on the Pang family, then reunited with Mi Zhen at camp.
• After resting for a day, Wang Xuan and the others reached Changyi, where Mi Zhen fell ill from the strain and fright of their journey.
• Wang Xuan examined Mi Zhen and used his internal energy to stabilize her condition, then asked Mi Fang to prepare materials so he could draw a Disease Expelling Talisman.
• Nie Xiaoqian asked whether Wang Xuan would draw talismans, and he realized Doggy could provide the materials he needed for a spirit brush.
• Wang Xuan tricked Doggy by calling for Dian Wei, caught him, and pinned him down while eyeing his rear end.

Wang Xuan prepared to make a Disease Expelling Talisman while arranging for Mi Fang to spread stories that would strengthen his reputation. After five days of practice, his first attempt ended in failure when a flame burst from the talisman.

• Wang Xuan plucked hair from Doggy’s tail to make a brush, then gathered materials for talisman-making.
• Mi Fang delivered peachwood and cinnabar, and Wang Xuan paid him to publicize the Divine Dog, Wang Xuan’s name, the Pang family’s downfall, and Dian Wei’s righteous killing.
• Wang Xuan secluded himself to study talisman-making while channeling energy into Mi Zhen twice a day to stabilize her condition.
• Wang Xuan repeatedly practiced drawing the Disease Expelling Talisman and mastered the strokes, but struggled to control the flow of spiritual power.
• After five days and nights of practice, Wang Xuan rested, prepared a talisman, and began drawing on peachwood.
• A pillar of flame burst from the finished talisman, and Wang Xuan reached out to suppress it, realizing the attempt had failed.