Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi discovered that Chu Lanxi owned Peach Oolong, a licensed 17-plus demonic sect disguised as a milk tea shop. The shop’s ordinary drinks sold at outrageous prices, and Chu Lanxi hinted that a secret ingredient explained the sect’s business.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi went to Peach Oolong looking for Chu Lanxi and learned from the bouncer that he was the boss.
• Chu Lanxi welcomed them and clarified that Peach Oolong was both a real milk tea shop and a legally registered 17-plus demonic sect.
• Chu Lanxi explained that some Devilish Dao inheritances were legal, while visitors to demonic sects had to meet age requirements.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi saw that Peach Oolong charged 180 yuan for palace-style lemon tea and protested the prices.
• Chu Lanxi said he used ordinary spirit fruits but added a secret ingredient as the core secret of his demonic sect.

Su Yuan discovered that the Peach Oolong Sect’s Calming Pill could be recreated with his Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Spirit. After making five pills from the recipe’s ingredients, he left the Alchemy Room with them, excited by the possibilities.

• Chu Lanxi explained that the Calming Pill soothed the mind but could eventually turn people into obedient puppets, and Su Yuan watched his kiss-and-caress fate become fulfilled when Chu Lanxi cheered up a customer.
• Su Yuan realized his technique might draw spiritual energy from medicinal ingredients to create pills with their intended effects, so he asked Chu Lanxi for a chance to make Calming Pills.
• Chu Lanxi said the shop’s former alchemist had been hospitalized in an accident and sent Su Yuan an electronic copy of the Pill Recipe.
• Su Yuan entered the Alchemy Room, drained the spiritual energy from the ingredients, and produced five red pills that matched the Calming Pill’s effects.
• Su Yuan burned the drained ingredients in the furnace to hide what he had done, then left the Alchemy Room carrying the pills.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi began working at the Peach Oolong Sect after Su Yuan sold Chu Lanxi five Calming Pills. At school, Su Yuan met the notorious Sword Cultivator Taihua Tianji and received a quest to attract his attention at an upcoming martial arts tournament.

• Su Yuan sold five Calming Pills to Chu Lanxi and accepted a part-time alchemist job, while Chen Nuoyi took a receptionist job.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi settled into a routine of school, cafeteria work, and jobs at the Peach Oolong Sect.
• Taihua Tianji arrived at Taihua High School aboard a Flying Boat, and students recognized him as a celebrated Sword Cultivator with disastrous luck for the brands he endorsed.
• Su Yuan learned through a quest notification that Taihua Tianji was a Sword Demon bent on destroying Taihua Sect.
• The quest instructed Su Yuan to attract Taihua Tianji's attention during the upcoming martial arts tournament without revealing his identity.

Taihua Yu Xi volunteered to judge Taihua High School’s Martial Arts Competition, apparently because she was interested in Su Yuan. Before his first match began, she declared him the champion through absurd reasoning, drawing everyone’s attention and completing his System task.

• Taihua Yu Xi arrived with Taihua Tianji and offered to judge the Martial Arts Competition, dismissing the school as unworthy of her father’s attention.
• Taihua Tianji agreed to let Yu Xi judge, suspecting that someone on the contestants’ roster had caught her interest.
• Li Ziquan organized the eight contestants’ draw, and Su Yuan drew the first match against a Class Six student.
• Before the match started, Taihua Yu Xi declared Su Yuan the champion, claiming that his Class Two ranking gave him three victories.
• The crowd realized the competition was rigged, and Su Yuan’s System task progress for attracting attention reached 100/100.

Su Yuan received a demonic technique that let him influence magical artifacts, but he saw little use for it in the competition. After Huang Sheng challenged him and Taihua Yu Xi inflamed the crowd, Taihua Tianji took charge and proposed replacing the Martial Arts Competition with a group-chat red packet draw.

• Su Yuan learned that Finger Artifact could raise a magical artifact's favorability and potentially make it exceed its limits or betray its owner.
• Su Yuan hoped Taihua Tianji would let the competition resume, but Taihua Yu Xi asked whether anyone objected to declaring Su Yuan the champion.
• Huang Sheng objected to the competition and accused Su Yuan of winning unfairly, demanding an apology and a fair fight.
• Taihua Yu Xi insulted the contestants and claimed they could not make Su Yuan use one hand, provoking more resentment toward him.
• Taihua Tianji announced that the contestants would join his group chat and compete for first place by grabbing a red packet.

Taihua Tianji made the Martial Arts Competition contestants compete for a red envelope, and Su Yuan used his phone as a magical artifact to claim it. After Huang Sheng challenged him to a fight, Su Yuan knocked him out with a single punch.

• Taihua Tianji persuaded Principal Zhang Youde to hold a red-envelope contest to test the contestants’ reflexes and luck.
• Su Yuan used Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact on his old phone and activated Spirit Joy to improve his chances.
• Su Yuan claimed the red envelope before the other seven contestants, leaving them stunned as the White-haired Loli praised him.
• Huang Sheng challenged Su Yuan to spar and charged at him with a powerful punch.
• Su Yuan met Huang Sheng’s punch head-on and sent him flying onto the athletic field.

Su Yuan won the Martial Arts Competition with a single punch and was offered a place in Taihua Tianji’s Special Class. After learning the class aimed to produce top Gaokao performers but could cost about one million yuan per month, he heard the school would reimburse expenses for students who reached the city’s top ten and refund ten times the tuition for the city’s top scorer.

• Su Yuan knocked Huang Sheng out with one punch, leaving the students and Li Ziquan stunned.
• Zhang Youde named Su Yuan the competition champion, offered him a place in the Special Class, and awarded him a ten-thousand-yuan scholarship.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that the Special Class aimed to raise students into the city’s top hundred or top ten and possibly produce the Gaokao top scorer.
• Taihua Tianji explained that intensive cultivation resources could cost an above-average student around one million yuan per month.
• Zhang Youde said students could join the Special Class regardless of their ability to pay, and the school would reimburse expenses for a city top-ten student or refund ten times the tuition for the city’s top scorer.

Su Yuan decided to work toward saving enough money to join Taihua Tianji’s Special Class, while his classmates and teachers helped boost his roasted-goose sales. After selling out and receiving a large number of preorders, he heard Chen Nuoyi offer to return to the Chen Family so she could lend him ten million yuan.

• Su Yuan resolved to save his first million and told Yue Lin that he was determined to join the Special Class and enter one of the Ten Great Universities.
• Su Yuan admitted that his jobs and savings had left him with only about a hundred thousand yuan and worried he could not reach a million before the Special Class began.
• Su Yuan sold roasted goose at the cafeteria, and Wu Xingqi preordered ten portions, apparently to help him earn money.
• Students and teachers, especially those from Senior Class Two, bought and preordered Su Yuan’s roasted goose, easing his worries as all one hundred portions sold.
• Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan she could return to the Chen Family and lend him ten million yuan.

Chen Nuoyi admitted she did not want to return to the Chen Family, and Su Yuan promised they would work together to earn money and pursue their goals independently. After Yue Lin approved their request to attend school from nine to five, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi left campus and were confronted by Huang Sheng and his powerful cousin.

• Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan that life in the Chen Family had felt suffocating and that she wanted to support herself rather than return.
• Su Yuan proposed that he and Chen Nuoyi work together to earn money, and Chen Nuoyi agreed.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi asked Yue Lin for permission to attend school from nine to five, and Yue Lin approved it on the condition that their grades did not fall.
• After preparing four Dragon Scale Roasted Geese and leaving school, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi headed toward the Peach Oolong Sect.
• Huang Sheng blocked their way with his cousin, a Qi Cultivation Peak college student, and demanded that Su Yuan kneel and apologize or be beaten.

Su Yuan used his Demonic Cultivation Technique to defeat Huang Sheng’s college-student cousin and force Huang Sheng to swallow two pills. Huang Sheng writhed in agony as Su Yuan turned his attention to the cousin.

• Su Yuan spotted Huang Sheng’s muscular college-student cousin and realized the older student’s cultivation and education made him a dangerous opponent.
• Su Yuan saw the cousin’s fulfilled Leg Day Fate and used Finger Command to increase his sensitivity while shaking his hand, making him collapse in pain.
• Huang Sheng realized his cousin was kneeling before Su Yuan and begged Su Yuan to spare them.
• Su Yuan gave Huang Sheng a choice between taking two pills or being beaten and forced to take them, then had Chen Nuoyi kick him down and fed him both pills.
• Huang Sheng developed severe stomach pain and nausea, while Su Yuan turned toward his trembling cousin.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi encountered her aunt, Yin Qiyue, who tried to pay Su Yuan to stay away from Nuoyi. After Su Yuan wrote 999,999,999 on the check, Yin Qiyue panicked and offered to work for him, but Nuoyi sent her home; Su Yuan called after her as she left.

• Chen Nuoyi asked whether the pills Su Yuan gave Huang Sheng were safe, and Su Yuan said they would only make him feel awful for a while.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi headed toward their part-time job and noticed a black-clad figure following them.
• Chen Nuoyi recognized the follower as her aunt, Yin Qiyue, who accused Su Yuan of being a bad influence and offered him a check to stay away from Nuoyi.
• Su Yuan filled the check with nines, and Yin Qiyue, believing she might owe him the money, offered to work day and night to repay him if he left Nuoyi alone.
• Chen Nuoyi told Yin Qiyue to stop interfering and go home, and Yin Qiyue walked away in dejection.
• Su Yuan called out, “Fellow cultivator, please wait!”

Su Yuan brought Yin Qiyue to Chen Nuoyi’s milk tea shop after the system identified her as the leader of the Qiyue Cult and assigned him a mission to win her favor. Yin Qiyue mistook the shop for a disreputable business, but after apologizing, she ordered a drink and asked Chen Nuoyi to squeeze the orange by hand.

• Su Yuan invited Yin Qiyue to the milk tea shop and received a system mission to manipulate her and subjugate the Qiyue Cult.
• Yin Qiyue revealed that she attended Tianyin High School and had over two hundred thousand followers on Miaoyin, raising her favorability toward Su Yuan.
• Yin Qiyue followed Chen Nuoyi into the alley, mistook the shop for a shady establishment, and offered to buy an annual plan to rescue her niece.
• After learning the shop was legitimate, Yin Qiyue apologized and ordered Fresh Orange Smashed with a Stick, asking for Chen Nuoyi to squeeze the fruit by hand.
• Su Yuan secretly squeezed the orange himself, then handed the drink to Chen Nuoyi while pretending it was unsweetened.

Su Yuan watched Yin Qiyue’s video and learned she had promoted a free phone giveaway, then used his Finger Artifact technique to enter it. Chu Lanxi interrupted him at the countdown, but Su Yuan’s phone won a Qian Kun phone worth 19,999 by clicking the button on its own.

• Yin Qiyue praised Su Yuan’s fruit tea, which he had fortified with a Calming Pill.
• Su Yuan watched Yin Qiyue’s Miaoyin video and was captivated by her singing before hearing her sponsored phone giveaway announcement.
• Su Yuan went to the changing room and activated Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact as the giveaway countdown reached its end.
• Chu Lanxi entered and distracted Su Yuan, making him think he had missed the chance to win.
• Chu Lanxi pointed out that Su Yuan’s phone had announced he placed tenth and won a Qian Kun phone worth 19,999.

Su Yuan realized that his repeated use of Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact could awaken Spirits of the Artifact in magical treasures, and he decided to make money by livestreaming and selling products. He recruited Yin Qiyue after promising that Chen Nuoyi would join her.

• Su Yuan concluded that human-and-machine unity had awakened his cellphone’s consciousness and that Finger Artifact could potentially awaken Spirits of the Artifact in other treasures.
• Su Yuan reassured his cellphone that he would sell the new Qian Kun cellphone and use the money to improve their life together.
• Chen Nuoyi and Chu Lanxi mistakenly thought Su Yuan had become distressed from pressure about earning money and comforted him when he left the changing room.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi he would stop being a wage slave and start livestreaming product sales.
• Su Yuan proposed having Yin Qiyue use her traffic to sell products, and Yin Qiyue eagerly agreed when he said Chen Nuoyi would join her.

Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Yin Qiyue started selling Dragon Scale Roasted Goose through a livestream, using the school cafeteria and a self-slicing magical goose to attract viewers. The stream took off as fans reacted to the spectacle.

• Su Yuan proposed promoting Dragon Scale Roasted Goose through Yin Qiyue's livestream and arranged to use the school cafeteria.
• Yin Qiyue suggested that the business needed a spectacular stunt, and she was shocked when she saw a giant roast goose walking around with a knife.
• Su Yuan reported that the school had agreed to let them livestream, charging ten yuan per goose after its sixty-yuan cost.
• Yin Qiyue began streaming from the cafeteria with Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, drawing viewers who praised their looks.
• Su Yuan rang the Soul Summoning Bell, and the Dragon Scale Roasted Goose pushed out a serving cart and sliced itself as viewers flooded the stream with excited comments.

Su Yuan, Yin Qiyue, and Chen Nuoyi staged a livestream to sell Dragon Scale Roasted Goose, presenting Su Yuan as a generous seller offering it at a bargain price. They sold out their portions and whole geese within minutes, earning about 100,000 yuan and leaving them with a full day of cooking orders.

• Su Yuan demonstrated how the Dragon Scale Goose sliced meat from itself and explained his techniques for preserving its flavor and essence.
• Yin Qiyue tasted the goose on livestream, then ate with Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi as viewership climbed past ten thousand.
• Yin Qiyue asked Su Yuan to sell the goose to viewers, and he pretended to struggle before agreeing to offer it at a discount.
• Su Yuan announced that portions would cost 115 yuan, and Yin Qiyue posted a link for one thousand portions that sold out in under three minutes.
• Su Yuan and Yin Qiyue offered ten whole geese for 10,999 yuan each, and all ten sold in less than a minute.
• Su Yuan, Yin Qiyue, and Chen Nuoyi made about 100,000 yuan from the livestream sales, not counting tips.

Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Yin Qiyue split the livestream earnings and left school to resume their regular jobs. Outside the gates, Huang Sheng and his cousin confronted them, but Huang Sheng's cousin suddenly begged Su Yuan for another immortal pill.

• Su Yuan taught Chen Nuoyi the Ancient Corpse Refining Method while they prepared twenty Dragon Scale Roasted Geese and sold them through Yin Qiyue's livestream.
• Su Yuan settled their shares at forty percent each for himself and Chen Nuoyi and twenty percent for Yin Qiyue, whose favorability toward him increased by ten.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi planned to deliver food and work at the Peach Oolong Sect after leaving school with Yin Qiyue.
• At the school gates, they encountered Huang Sheng and his cousin, whose body and behavior had changed drastically.
• Huang Sheng's cousin lunged at Su Yuan, knelt, clung to his leg, and begged him for another immortal pill.

Yang Wentao begged Su Yuan for more Blue Pills after experiencing their temporary boost, and Su Yuan explained the pills’ effects to Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue. The chapter ended with Su Yuan offering to sell Yang Wentao each pill for two thousand yuan.

• Yang Wentao recalled how Su Yuan’s Blue Pill temporarily enhanced his athletic abilities and left him desperately craving another dose.
• Yang Wentao brought Huang Sheng to Taihua High School and begged Su Yuan for more Blue Pills, alarming Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue.
• Su Yuan clarified that the Blue Pill was a body-tempering medicine and explained that Huang Sheng had become emaciated after taking it together with weight-loss medicine.
• Yin Qiyue gained affection for Su Yuan despite suspecting he had a malicious side.
• Su Yuan offered to sell Yang Wentao each Blue Pill for two thousand yuan.

Su Yuan sold Blue Pills to Yang Wentao for 20,000 yuan and received a new System mission to recruit followers for the Yuan Sect. After a busy weekend with Yin Qiyue, he planned to livestream again at Taihua High School.

• Su Yuan charged Yang Wentao 2,000 yuan per Blue Pill, and Yang transferred 20,000 yuan for the pills.
• Yang Wentao took a Blue Pill, felt his energy surge, and carried Huang Sheng to the gym with the remaining pills.
• The System accused Su Yuan of corrupting righteous cultivators and updated his mission to recruit 1,000 followers for the Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan decided that online followers could help him complete the mission and identified Yang Wentao and Chen Nuoyi as his first two followers.
• Su Yuan told Yin Qiyue he planned to expand his pill business through word of mouth, and the weekend passed while they worked.
• Yin Qiyue returned to school, while Su Yuan prepared to livestream again in the Taihua High School cafeteria after classes.

Su Yuan’s livestream food business boomed, and he recruited Yang Wentao and Wang Chao to sell his body-tempering and weight-loss secret medicines. He then worried that he could not produce enough Blue Pills and wondered whether he would have to sneak into school cafeterias to collect slop.

• Su Yuan’s new magical roast foods sparked a buying frenzy, earning him over a hundred thousand yuan and more than two thousand followers, though only about two hundred joined the Yuan Sect.
• Yang Wentao brought Wang Chao to meet Su Yuan and request affordable body-tempering medicine because Wang Chao’s family struggled with the cost of cultivation pills.
• Su Yuan agreed to supply Yang Wentao and Wang Chao with medicine and offered them commissions to sell his body-tempering secret medicine.
• Yang Wentao proposed also selling Su Yuan’s weight-loss secret medicine, and Su Yuan gave him that business as well.
• Yang Wentao asked whether Su Yuan could keep up with demand, and Su Yuan worried that making enough Blue Pills might require secretly collecting cafeteria slop.