Chapter Summaries

Su Haoming worried about his cousin entering the Ghost Market, so Lin Yu invited him to his world to provide self-defense items. Lin Yu accidentally opened the portal into his dangerous Internal Universe, shut it before Su Haoming could enter, then sent him a pistol instead.

• Su Haoming admitted he was worried about his cousin but lacked the strength and Points to safely follow him to the Ghost Market.
• Lin Yu invited Su Haoming to his world and opened a cross-realm portal after Su Haoming accepted.
• Lin Yu realized the portal led into his Internal Universe and closed it before Su Haoming entered the magic-radiated, airless continent.
• Lin Yu traced the Chat Group portal enough to send Su Haoming a gift, and Su Haoming found a pistol beneath the bed.

Su Haoming found Lin Yu’s pistol and went to Chang'an Ghost Market to search for his cousin. He followed the sound of a tiger’s roar and discovered that Lu Lingfeng and the others were facing a gigantic tiger.

• Su Haoming found the pistol Lin Yu had made and learned that its magic crystal had lost its power, though it still worked as an ordinary gun.
• Su Haoming entered the underground Ghost Market carrying the pistol and tried to find his cousin’s location.
• A panicked crowd fled from a tiger, and Su Haoming pushed against the flow toward the roar.
• Inside Yin Shirou’s residence, Lu Lingfeng, the Jinwu Guard, Su Haoming’s cousin, and Uncle Qian were caught in a rope net.
• A massive variegated tiger charged at Lu Lingfeng and the Jinwu Guard.

Su Haoming rescued Su Wuming and the others from a staged tiger illusion and a hidden arrow attack, then used his pistol, which he called “Truth,” to shoot down Yin Shirou as he tried to escape with the White Banner. Yin Shirou fell from the sky, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Su Haoming rushed in and warned Lu Lingfeng and the others not to jump because a trap lay outside the window.
• Su Haoming exposed the giant tiger as tiger hides rigged with threads and hallucinogenic powder, and the Jinwu Guards lowered Su Wuming and Su Qian.
• Lu Lingfeng knocked down a volley of arrows from outside the door while Su Haoming sheltered Su Qian and Su Wuming.
• Su Wuming asked about the refined iron in Su Haoming’s hand, and Su Haoming called it “Truth.”
• Lu Lingfeng recognized Yin Shirou’s White Banner as a blurry figure floated upward and declared that Yin Shirou had escaped.
• Su Haoming fired his pistol and struck Yin Shirou, who screamed and plunged downward.

Su Haoming shot down Yin Shirou with his firearm, then claimed a True Immortal had delivered Heaven’s Punishment to turn the Ghost Market crowd’s attention away from him. Back at the County Lieutenant’s residence, he explained the weapon to Su Wuming and learned that Duke Di had once refused to teach him because he believed Su Haoming already had a teacher.

• Su Haoming shot Yin Shirou from the street, then claimed the True Immortal in the residence had delivered Heaven’s Punishment.
• The crowd rushed to worship the supposed True Immortal, while Lu Lingfeng led Jinwu Guards to arrest Yin Shirou and Su Haoming escaped with Su Wuming and Su Qian.
• At the County Lieutenant’s residence, Su Wuming warned Su Haoming that displaying his deadly weapon before Lu Lingfeng had put him at risk.
• Su Haoming explained that the firearm used gunpowder to propel a projectile, and Su Wuming inferred that he had learned its principles through the knowledge that had appeared in his mind.
• Su Wuming revealed that Duke Di had refused to accept Su Haoming as a disciple because he believed an extraordinary teacher already stood behind him, leaving Su Haoming stunned.

Su Haoming used Lin Yu’s pistol to stop Yin Shirou from escaping and persuaded Su Wuming to let him stay while they awaited Lu Lingfeng’s findings. In the Chat Group, the members discussed establishing White Jade City across their worlds, and Lin Yu shared a Magic Power-based method derived from Fan Xian’s Overlord True Qi.

• Su Haoming explained that he would disguise Lin Yu’s pistol as a Five Thunder Talisman to convince others, and Su Wuming agreed to help him obtain materials and gunpowder.
• Su Wuming tested the pistol, accepted Su Haoming’s claim that it recognized its master, and invited him to stay until Lu Lingfeng’s investigation produced results.
• Su Haoming told the Chat Group that he had fired the pistol to prevent Yin Shirou from escaping and killing Uncle Qian in the future.
• Yun Ye proposed establishing White Jade City as an organization that would give Chat Group members identities in one another’s worlds, and Fan Xian agreed to create one in his world.
• Su Haoming worried that he lacked the influence to establish a faction safely, so Lin Yu revealed that he had adapted Fan Xian’s Overlord True Qi into a method using Magic Power and uploaded two files.

Lin Yu developed the first version of a cultivation method that converted Magic Power Radiation into Magic Power Mimic True Qi, then invited Su Haoming and Yun Ye to test it. The two arrived through portals in the Castle library, where Lin Yu welcomed them to his world.

• Lin Yu used the meridian theory in Fan Xian's Overlord True Qi to devise a method for absorbing Magic Power Radiation and circulating it as Magic Power Mimic True Qi.
• Lin Yu named the method Primordial Qi Cultivation Chapter and asked the group for volunteers to test it.
• Su Haoming and Yun Ye volunteered, while Fan Xian decided to keep practicing Overlord True Qi.
• Lin Yu reassured Su Haoming that he had solved the teleportation-coordinate problem and invited both volunteers to his world.
• Su Haoming and Yun Ye emerged from portals in the Castle library, and Lin Yu welcomed them to his world.

Lin Yu tested Yun Ye and Su Haoming for Magic Aptitude, found they had none, and revealed that he had created artificial Spiritual Roots so they could cultivate. After explaining his invention and preparing the implanter, he began Su Haoming’s first implantation.

• Lin Yu welcomed Yun Ye and Su Haoming to his Castle and gave them books containing the Primordial Qi Cultivation Chapter.
• Lin Yu tested their Magic Aptitude and found that neither had any.
• Lin Yu showed them his Artificial Spiritual Roots and explained how they could grant cultivation aptitude when implanted.
• Lin Yu transformed his Study Room into a laboratory and revealed the Element Reaction Furnace, which he called a Spiritual Root Implanter.
• Su Haoming memorized the introductory cultivation method first, received a Spiritual Root from Lin Yu, and stepped toward the platform.

Lin Yu successfully implanted Spiritual Roots in Su Haoming and Yun Ye, then explained his plans for cultivation and gave them Spirit Stones to help them progress. The two accepted the stones after Lin Yu assured them their help with his experiments deserved a reward.

• Su Haoming absorbed a heptagon and gained a mutated Wind Spiritual Root, giving him the ability to cultivate and cast up to three Basic Spells.
• Yun Ye read the Qi Cultivation Chapter while Su Haoming recovered, learning about spells that traveled through specific meridians.
• Yun Ye received an Earth-Water Dual Spiritual Root, which Lin Yu said was especially useful in the early stages of cultivation.
• Lin Yu described his planned path from Qi Cultivation through Foundation Building and Core Formation, then addressed the lack of Magic Power in their world.
• Lin Yu gave Su Haoming and Yun Ye top-grade Spirit Stones containing sealed Magic Power and explained how their Spiritual Roots could connect to the stones' internal circulation.
• Su Haoming and Yun Ye hesitated to accept the stones, but Lin Yu said their participation and help with his research made them deserved rewards.

Lin Yu welcomed Su Haoming and Yun Ye to cultivate in his Castle and equipped them with Alchemy Wristwatches, while Su Haoming returned to his world to avoid raising suspicion. Back at the Su residence, Su Haoming discovered evidence that his brother was connecting two cases and tested his new cultivation abilities, worrying that the mastermind might target him and Su Wuming.

• Lin Yu gave Su Haoming and Yun Ye guest rooms, access to the Castle’s library, and Alchemy Wristwatches that could control its defenses and servants.
• Su Haoming spent five hours learning spells, then returned to his world while Yun Ye stayed to cultivate.
• Su Haoming found the Su residence empty and realized Su Wuming had recently returned to the Study Room before leaving again.
• Su Haoming recognized two portions of Chang'an Black Tea as clues from separate cases and suspected Su Wuming was linking them.
• Su Haoming used the Xun Feng Seal to ride the wind across the courtyard, then set out to test more spells while fearing the mastermind might attack him and Su Wuming.

Su Haoming learned that Yin Shirou had died, then helped Su Wuming connect Soul Returning Incense, Chang'an Black Tea, and the Missing Bride Case. Su Wuming decided to search for the missing Brides’ bodies first, while Su Haoming joked in the Chat Group that he would abandon the imperial examination and become a monk.

• Su Haoming sensed Su Wuming return and learned that Yin Shirou had died from the wound caused by his firearm.
• Su Haoming identified the scent on Su Wuming’s red cloth as Soul Returning Incense, which had been used on a murdered Bride’s clothes.
• Su Wuming connected the incense to the missing Brides and Chang'an Black Tea, then suspected that Western Market Commissioner Kang Yuanli could be involved in supplying its ingredients.
• Su Wuming reasoned that the Brides’ corpses might be ingredients for the tea and part of a ritual, and concluded that the eight earlier victims might have been buried in locations shown on the map.
• Su Wuming went to the Government Office to organize a search for the corpses before returning to the Ghost Market, while Su Haoming declared in the Chat Group that he would give up the imperial examination and become a monk.

Su Haoming accepted that he could not match Su Wuming’s investigative insight and chose to travel and cultivate rather than pursue status in the Imperial Court. His breakthrough revealed to Lin Yu that the Chat Group enhanced its members’ souls and spiritual potential, while Lin Yu continued his experiments to develop cultivation among Spine Peak Territory’s residents.

• Su Haoming told Fan Xian and Lin Yu that Su Wuming had deduced the missing bride’s burial site from the clues, and he decided to travel with his cousin and pursue cultivation instead of Imperial Court rank.
• Lin Yu told Su Haoming that he could adopt a new identity if he wanted to make a major move, and he invited Su Haoming to bring him rare treasures from the Tang Gui World.
• After accepting his role as a sharp sword at Su Wuming’s side, Su Haoming experienced a surge of insight, increased his maximum Magic Power by about a quarter, and hurried to eat more food.
• Lin Yu explained that the Chat Group’s soul-bound members had exceptional adaptability and potential, and that Su Haoming’s change in mindset had aligned his spiritual power with his wind Spiritual Root.
• Lin Yu continued longevity experiments on native lifeforms and hoped that Spine Peak Territory’s residents would eventually cultivate and gain long lives.

After finishing his Magic Power training, Yun Ye caught up on Su Haoming’s account of how Su Wuming reconciled Lu Lingfeng and Pei Xijun and recruited Lu Lingfeng for a second Ghost Market investigation. As the group entered the underground market by boat, Su Haoming secretly followed and asked Lin Yu to come over as extra backup against the Four Fiends of Youli.

• Yun Ye learned that Su Wuming had solved the Missing Bride Case, been blamed for the Ghost Market investigation, and reconciled Lu Lingfeng and Pei Xijun by revealing their mistaken identities.
• Lu Lingfeng agreed to join Su Wuming and the Chang'an Catchers in a second Ghost Market investigation, bringing three trusted Jinwu Guards.
• Yun Ye told Su Haoming that his Magic Power had grown enough for him to cast four Basic Spells, and Su Haoming explained how he used Wind Membrane to follow the group unseen.
• Su Wuming, Lu Lingfeng, and their companions entered the Ghost Market by boat through an underground river while Su Haoming watched from the shadows.
• Worried that the Four Fiends of Youli could threaten his cousin, Su Haoming offered Lin Yu a hundred Points to come help.

Lin Yu tested whether Su Haoming’s cross-border invitation could bypass the Main Universe’s lock, but his body could not pass through the portal. He sent his consciousness across inside the Holy Scripture and took over a corpse in Su Haoming’s world, where he found himself free to move for twenty-four hours.

• Su Haoming sent Lin Yu a cross-border invitation, and Lin Yu accepted it.
• When Lin Yu touched the portal, spatial cracks tore through it and threatened both worlds, so he withdrew his finger.
• Lin Yu sent his consciousness across in the Holy Scripture, and the portal closed with the book in Su Haoming’s world.
• The Holy Scripture hid Su Haoming from Lu Lingfeng and three Jinwu Guards, then led him to a buried corpse.
• Lin Yu took over the corpse, restored its body and clothes, and told Su Haoming he was ready.

Lin Yu and Su Haoming secretly followed Lu Lingfeng and Su Wuming as they raided Chang'an Black Tea sellers and discovered a hidden tunnel at Yin Shirou’s former residence. After Lu Lingfeng entered the tunnel and Su Wuming sent the catchers to search for other entrances, Lin Yu advised Su Haoming to disguise himself and invent a faction background before making a move.

• Lin Yu explained to Su Haoming that he controlled a restored corpse from within the Holy Scripture, then gave the body a heartbeat.
• Lu Lingfeng and Su Wuming led the Jinwu Guard and Chang'an Catchers through Ghost Market Street, arresting Chang'an Black Tea sellers.
• A tea peddler identified Yin Shirou’s former residence as an entrance to the Secret Tunnels, and Su Wuming judged the location worth investigating.
• At the dark estate, Lu Lingfeng cut down an arrow, pursued a fleeing shadow, and found a hidden tunnel beneath a raised brick.
• Lu Lingfeng entered the tunnel with three Jinwu Guards, while Su Wuming ordered the catchers to search for other entrances in groups.
• After Su Wuming and the catchers left, Lin Yu advised Su Haoming to use another disguise and let others speculate about his faction.

Lu Lingfeng and his three Jinwu Guards entered an underground cave and walked into the White Clothed Person’s trap. Su Wuming turned the tables by taking control of the Archers, while Lin Yu revealed that the Four Fiends of Youli were sealed inside the four statues, setting up another confrontation.

• Lu Lingfeng and the Jinwu Guards survived an ambush at the secret tunnel exit and advanced into the cave, where the White Clothed Person waited behind a stone door.
• Lu Lingfeng entered the cave despite the danger, and the White Clothed Person revealed hidden assassins and Archers surrounding him and his men.
• Su Wuming appeared above the cave floor and signaled the Archers to turn their weapons on the White Clothed Person, revealing that they were Chang'an Catchers he had brought with him.
• Lin Yu explained to Su Haoming that Su Wuming had entered through the secret tunnels with help from Fei Jishi and had subdued the Archers.
• Lin Yu revealed that the Four Fiends of Youli were sealed inside the four Heavenly King Statues, while Su Haoming realized he and Lin Yu could intervene when they emerged.

Su Wuming exposed County Magistrate Yuan Lai as the mastermind behind the Brides’ murders and the Chang’an Black Tea plot, but Yuan Lai unleashed the Four Fiends of Youli. Two masked figures from White Jade City then arrived and demanded the fiends surrender for stealing their Immortal Arts.

• Su Wuming recognized the White Clothed Person as County Magistrate Yuan Lai, who admitted his resentment toward the Imperial Court and ordered his Death Warriors to attack.
• Su Wuming urged the Chang'an Catchers to act, and their arrows helped Lu Lingfeng and the others fight off Yuan Lai’s men.
• Yuan Lai blew a Bone Flute, breaking open the four Heavenly King Statues and summoning the Four Fiends of Youli, whom he had secretly freed from prison.
• The Four Fiends resisted the Catchers’ arrows, but an unseen attacker’s cutting airflow wounded the golden melon hammer brute.
• Two black-clothed figures wearing white jade masks emerged from the Secret Tunnel and ordered the Four Fiends to surrender for stealing their Immortal Arts.

Lin Yu posed as a White Jade City expert and defeated the Four Fiends of Youli before capturing Yuan Lai, whom Su Wuming identified as a wanted criminal responsible for heinous crimes. Su Wuming pleaded for Lin Yu to hand Yuan Lai over to Chang’an so he could face justice.

• Lin Yu claimed the Four Fiends had stolen White Jade City’s Immortal Arts and used a suction technique to seize the Dwarf, then searched his soul for the group’s Hardening Secret Technique.
• Su Haoming’s companion killed the Great Axe Big Man with a wind blade, while Lin Yu hurled the Dwarf into another brute and killed the pair.
• Lin Yu killed the two remaining injured members of the Four Fiends and confronted Yuan Lai, who tried to escape through a secret tunnel.
• Lin Yu collapsed the tunnel, captured Yuan Lai, and broke the Black-clothed Death Warriors’ will with a glance.
• Su Wuming asked Lin Yu to hand Yuan Lai over to Chang’an, explaining that he was wanted for abducting Brides and turning them into red tea; Lu Lingfeng supported the request.

Lin Yu and Su Haoming left the captured rebels behind after Lin Yu intimidated them and helped Su Wuming secure their surrender. As Su Wuming and Lu Lingfeng agreed to investigate White Jade City in secret, Lin Yu and Su Haoming listened from the stone platform and joked about their roles in the mystery.

• Lin Yu introduced himself as Huanyu of White Jade City, knocked Yuan Lai unconscious, and led Su Haoming through the black-clothed crowd.
• Su Wuming called for Yuan Lai's followers to surrender, and they laid down their weapons while Lu Lingfeng and the Chang'an Catchers secured the prisoners.
• Su Wuming and Lu Lingfeng discussed the masked pair's abilities and the allusions in their poem, then agreed to keep the incident quiet and investigate White Jade City together.
• Lin Yu and Su Haoming eavesdropped on their plan, and Su Haoming said Lin Yu should be the hidden mastermind while he remained his right-hand man.

After bidding farewell to Yun Ye, Lin Yu explored Tang Gui World and investigated ways to stay there beyond the Chat Group’s return process. He left legends and gifts across the land before his remaining time ran out.

• Lin Yu gave Yun Ye a Magic Pistol and sent him back to his world, where Yun Ye reunited with Old Madam Yun and promised to use his new skills to restore her health.
• Lin Yu watched Yun Ye’s return and concluded that the Chat Group used the worlds’ rejection and attraction to send members home.
• Lin Yu considered bypassing the Chat Group or deceiving a world’s consciousness so he could remain in member worlds indefinitely.
• Lin Yu spent the next twenty-three hours traveling across Tang Gui World, appearing as an Immortal in local legends and leaving marks in places where people could witness them.
• Lin Yu gave Lu Gongfu four Green Jujubes in exchange for a qin performance, and the Four Sons of Nanzhou regained their youth after sharing them.
• Lin Yu collected treasures, including Heavenly Mountain Qilan, as he toured the Three Mountains, Five Sacred Peaks, Five Lakes, and Four Seas.

Lin Yu visited the secluded Sima Chengzhen at Jade Firmament Mountain Dwelling and introduced him to the principles of the Inner Elixir Art. Sima Chengzhen pressed him for a complete method, and Lin Yu agreed to explain after conjuring tea.

• Lin Yu collected heavenly treasures in the Tang Gui World, including a Green Date Tree whose Magic Power-enhanced fruit had cured Zhong Boqi’s hidden ailment.
• Lin Yu arrived at Tongbai Mountain and found Sima Chengzhen meditating at the Jade Firmament Mountain Dwelling.
• Sima Chengzhen confirmed that he had written On Sitting and Forgetting, and Lin Yu described its seven stages as rudiments of the Inner Elixir Art.
• Lin Yu explained that the true method cultivated essence, qi, and spirit within the body to unite form and spirit.
• Sima Chengzhen asked Lin Yu for a method that could cultivate both body and heart, and Lin Yu agreed to explain after conjuring a teapot and two jade cups.