Chapter Summaries

Thousands of Daoists gathered for Feng Jun’s first lecture while the Blessing Courtyard continued helping families search for missing children. Guan Shanyue asked Feng Jun for help bringing the courtyard’s anti-trafficking work to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, but he refused to provide a Spirit-Gathering Formation or open his Cultivation Courtyard to them.

• Daoists arriving for Feng Jun’s lecture visited the crowded Blessing Courtyard, where Gazi discussed its limits with Guan Shanyue and heard her request for an Electric Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Guan Shanyue explained that Ma Sanniang’s costly, energy-draining divinations had drawn families seeking missing children to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, leaving the sect in an awkward position.
• A young swimmer came to fulfill his vow after winning a gold medal and breaking a national record, but Gazi discouraged him from giving more money and the swimmer offered to help manage the crowds.
• Feng Jun and Lin Heihu finished assisting the Blessing Courtyard, and the arriving Daoists crowded into its rooms or endured the freezing weather outside.
• Guan Shanyue asked Feng Jun for a Spirit-Gathering Formation and use of empty rooms in the Cultivation Courtyard, but he refused both requests.

Feng Jun arranged for Ma Sanniang to recover by secretly drawing spiritual energy from two Spirit-Gathering Formations, then lectured the Daoist Order on how martial cultivation and immortal cultivation fit together. The lecture continued into the night, where the Little Celestial Master removed a careless attendee whose ringing phone disrupted the audience.

• Feng Jun told Ma Sanniang about the Golden Core Stage guardian and suggested she borrow spiritual energy from the two Spirit-Gathering Formations he had given away.
• Ma Sanniang agreed to use the formations, while Guan Shanyue warned that being discovered could cause trouble.
• At three in the morning, Feng Jun appeared at the Cultivation Courtyard and began lecturing thousands of attendees on cultivation systems and the relationship between martial and immortal cultivation.
• The Little Celestial Master carried out an attendee whose phone rang during the lecture and discovered he came from an imitation Daoist temple.

Feng Jun ended his first Cultivation Courtyard lecture after answering questions about martial cultivation and the Dao, then invited Azure Firmament Master to serve as a guest lecturer at the Blessing Courtyard. The gathering dispersed orderly, but Steward Feng of the White Sect stayed behind to ask what benefits guest lecturers received.

• Tang Wenji returned inside after asking Gu Jiahui to keep an eye on a man, while Feng Jun gave his two-hour lecture to more than four thousand listeners.
• After the question period began, Wang Dapeng asked about the differences between Martial Cultivation and Daoist cultivation, and Feng Jun answered questions from the Cultivation Courtyard disciples.
• Azure Firmament Master asked how martial cultivators could enter the Dao after reaching the Innate Realm, and Feng Jun named age, guidance, and compatibility between aptitude and cultivation technique as key factors.
• Feng Jun announced that he planned to lecture once a month and invited Azure Firmament Master to become a guest lecturer at the Blessing Courtyard.
• Daoist Qiu requested a guest lecturer position, but Feng Jun deferred the decision until after the lecture; several sect experts then considered seeking similar positions.
• Feng Jun ended the lecture, Good Scenery organized the attendees' departure and announced vegetarian meals, and Steward Feng of the White Sect asked what benefits came with being a guest lecturer.

Feng Jun considered guest elder requests while continuing to run the Blessing Courtyard, then refused to let a Leo Kingdom couple enter its queue to search for a missing relative. He directed them to Sophia instead and agreed to help abroad only if they passed her test, leaving the couple to decide whether to return to her.

• Feng Jun granted Elder Gray Ink six months of cultivation in the Blessing Courtyard but did not appoint him a guest elder.
• Feng Jun observed that the courtyard’s work helping families find missing relatives continued to grow, and that foreigners had begun seeking help.
• A Leo Kingdom couple queued for five hours to search for the man’s missing younger brother, but the guard turned them away because they were foreigners.
• Gazi told the couple that the Blessing Courtyard could not make an exception and suggested they seek Sophia’s help in the Leo Kingdom.
• Sophia invited the man to come to her on the first or fifteenth and warned that someone else might not meet the conditions needed to search.
• Feng Jun confirmed that he would not use Xia people’s courtyard resources for foreigners and told Sophia he would help the couple only if they passed her test.

Feng Jun took Ma Sanniang to Chaori to replenish her spiritual energy, where she met his parents and gained Zhang Junyi’s trust. After Ma Sanniang described her people-searching technique, Feng Jun found it crude and began discussing how it could be improved.

• Ma Sanniang asked Feng Jun to let her use Chaori’s spiritual energy, arguing that her visits could help keep the uncontracted Big White Goose in check.
• Feng Jun brought Ma Sanniang to meet his parents, and the Big White Goose cowered when it sensed another Emergence from Dust Stage cultivator.
• Zhang Junyi offered Ma Sanniang Teleportation Array Discs and Spirit Stones, then promised her protection after Ma Sanniang offered to guard the family.
• Feng Jun asked Ma Sanniang about the Life-and-Death Thousand Mechanisms Guide she used to search for missing people.
• Feng Jun judged Ma Sanniang’s technique crude and realized that two techniques he had already improved were much more effective.

Feng Jun tailored Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s blood-essence detection spell for Ma Sanniang, improving its efficiency and enabling gender detection while also lowering its cultivation threshold. After helping find a trafficked child and granting Sophia’s request, Feng Jun welcomed everyone back from the New Year holiday, where Gu Jiahui broke through to the Qi Refining Stage.

• Feng Jun spent a day modifying Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s Life-and-Death Thousand Mechanisms Guide and gave the improved version to Ma Sanniang.
• After five days of practice, Ma Sanniang mastered the modified spell and discovered it could distinguish whether a tracked person was male or female.
• Ma Sanniang gave Guan Shanyue the simplified spell, named the Blood-Kin Daughter-Seeking Technique, and urged her to build Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s future.
• Feng Jun granted Sophia’s request in Alansmu, and the couple passed the Daoist Temple’s Devotion Level test.
• Feng Jun found the missing child in Hong Kong, where a Xia family had adopted him after traffickers took him away.
• After the New Year holiday, Gu Jiahui returned to Luohua Manor and broke through Mortal Transcendence to become a Qi Refining Stage cultivator.

Gu Jiahui and Shen Qingyi advanced in cultivation, prompting celebrations and invitations, while Sophia arrived at Luo Hua after reaching Qi Refining and decided to celebrate alongside Gu Jiahui. The chapter ended with Sophia delivering her invitations to the Cultivation Courtyard, where Wang Ke'er realized she had just sent invitations to the same guests.

• Gu Jiahui broke through to the Qi Refining Stage, and Yang Yuxin began arranging a celebration for her.
• Shen Qingyi advanced to Mid Qi Refining at Luo Hua, thanked Feng Jun, and asked to return to Jade Ruins.
• Yang Yuxin sent invitations for a late-April celebration through the Cultivation Courtyard.
• Sophia arrived at Luo Hua after advancing to the Qi Refining Stage and agreed to hold a joint celebration with Gu Jiahui.
• Sophia brought invitations to the Cultivation Courtyard, and Good Scenery offered to distribute them.
• Wang Ke'er noticed that Sophia had invited the same guests she had just invited herself.

Luohua’s rapid succession of Qi Refining breakthroughs led Gu Jiahui and Yu Qingzhu to ask the Cultivation Courtyard to deliver more celebration invitations. The celebrations stirred the Daoist Order, while Shen Qingyi’s attempts to share her cultivation insights at Jade Ruins were repeatedly derailed by disciples asking how to defeat Luohua.

• Wang Ke'er and Guan Shanyue discovered that their courier had lost Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s invitation, so Wang Ke'er asked Good Scenery for a replacement.
• Gu Jiahui brought invitations to the Cultivation Courtyard for Gazi’s celebration after he entered the Qi Refining Stage.
• Yu Qingzhu broke through to the Qi Refining Stage and asked Mei Jin to help deliver her celebration invitations.
• Daoist Order members reacted with shock to Luohua’s four Qi Refining Stage cultivators, while Azure Firmament Master worried about the cost of gifts.
• Shen Qingyi gave lectures at Jade Ruins, but her disciples kept asking how to defeat Luohua, and she told Yu Baiyi that facing the gap would drive Jade Ruins into despair.

Jade Ruins learned that Luo Hua’s Electric-Powered Spirit-Gathering Formation had helped it produce Qi Refining cultivators, and Sect Master Yu Kun chose to seek peace and gifts rather than attack. Luo Hua’s three-day celebration began with a crowded gathering and a lavish feast, leaving the guests ready to watch fireworks.

• Shen Qingyi told Sect Master Yu Kun that Luo Hua had an Electric-Powered Spirit-Gathering Formation, and he abandoned the idea of attacking after she warned Jade Ruins had little chance of winning.
• Sect Master Yu Kun decided to send Luo Hua gifts and seek access to its formation, while Shen Qingyi advised Jade Ruins to avoid provoking Luo Hua.
• Nearly three hundred guests attended Luo Hua’s Qi Refining celebration, including Sophia, her companions, and members of the Jensen Family.
• Lin Beauty worried that foreign guests and other visitors might learn Luo Hua’s secrets, but Feng Jun refused to allow arbitrary searches and said he would protect the manor’s secrets himself.
• Feng Jun hosted the guests with spiritual and ordinary dishes, and Yu Zhiyuan, Gu Jiahui’s second uncle, and many others ate far more than usual before the fireworks.

At the celebration, Sophia demonstrated her Water Dragon Technique and Gu Jiahui displayed her ability to make bamboo grow, impressing the gathered cultivators. Azure Firmament Master’s playful request left Zhang Caixin irritated, but he explained he had been showcasing Luo Hua’s abilities to the crowd.

• Azure Firmament Master asked the four newly advanced Qi Condensation cultivators to demonstrate their abilities in the rain, and Sophia formed a water dragon with the spell Feng Jun had taught her.
• Sophia’s water dragon smashed a large boulder, and Zhang Caixin praised her control while explaining that she had held back.
• Gu Jiahui struck several bamboo stalks and made them grow rapidly with her Wood-Type Constitution.
• Gazi asked Azure Firmament Master to assess them, and he applauded Luo Hua’s techniques as the watching crowd stared in amazement.
• Zhang Caixin challenged Azure Firmament Master to experience her water dragon, but he said he had been supporting them and drew her attention to the stunned audience.

At the ceremony, Feng Jun ended the spell demonstrations by effortlessly catching hundreds of fish from miles away, inspiring many to seek discipleship in the Daoist Order. That night, Sophia confronted her relatives over their attempt to sneak surveillance robots into Luohua Manor and ordered them to leave before Feng Jun discovered them.

• Yu Qingzhu refused to demonstrate her cultivation publicly, while Zhang Dongyuan and Tang Wangsun displayed lightning and a recovered telekinesis talisman.
• Feng Jun stopped Shen Qingyi from demonstrating Jade Ruins' methods and caught over a hundred large fish from the river three miles away with a giant hand.
• The astonishing display strengthened the resolve of people from the Yu family, Yang Clan, and Gu Family to seek Feng Jun as their master, and more than a hundred people asked about discipleship that night.
• Sophia visited her Jensen relatives at their hotel and ordered them to leave Yang City by the following night, revealing that she had found their climbing surveillance robots outside the manor.
• Sophia told Duolong and Michael that the Investigation Bureau had discovered the robots and had given them a chance to leave with dignity.

Sophia dealt with her brothers’ attempt to take Luo Hua’s robots, and the Jensen family left before Feng Jun had to intervene. After the demonstration drew more families’ interest, Feng Jun opened recruitment for Luo Hua and its new town, leaving the core members to choose candidates under strict guarantor rules.

• Sophia learned that her brothers had tried to take robots, returned most of them through Lin Beauty, and ordered her brothers to leave; they checked out the next morning.
• Feng Jun learned of the incident but accepted Sophia’s peaceful handling because the robots had not entered the manor.
• Several families asked to join Luo Hua, so Feng Jun allowed core members to recommend candidates and made each recommender jointly responsible for their candidate’s conduct.
• Tang Wenji agreed not to recommend anyone from Azure Mountain, while Lin Heihu successfully recommended Yin Mingyue as a recruit.
• The group agreed that Luo Hua needed more staff, including an outside security team, and Feng Jun said all eight available candidates could be accepted.
• Gazi asked to recommend Luo Yuhuan, and Feng Jun permitted it while warning that Gazi would be held accountable if she proved unsuitable.

Feng Jun left Earth Spirit to study the unusual Earth Vein at Ask the Dao Peak, then visited his parents and gave them Longevity Pills that made them look much younger. The chapter ended with Feng Wenhui and Zhang Junyi discussing how to keep their rejuvenation from drawing attention while he wanted to play basketball.

• Feng Jun assigned Luo Hua to use an Aptitude Appraisal Array to assess new recruits while he handled other matters.
• Feng Jun took Earth Spirit to Ask the Dao Peak, where Earth Spirit asked to stay several days to study the remarkable Earth Vein.
• Feng Jun refused to let Earth Spirit restore the Earth Vein, warning that doing so might alert the powerful expert who had created it.
• Feng Jun visited Feng Wenhui and Zhang Junyi in Chaori and gave each of them a Longevity Pill that could extend life by thirty years.
• Feng Wenhui and Zhang Junyi looked much younger the next morning, and Zhang Junyi urged Feng Jun to take a pill too.
• Feng Wenhui wanted to play basketball, but Zhang Junyi suggested they wait before appearing in public and proposed building a court at home.

Feng Jun returned from collecting Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and gave Yang Yuxin a Longevity Pill after revealing the secret behind his parents’ rejuvenation. He also assigned cultivation techniques to three people at Luo Hua, while Liu Yuting chose to begin as a martial cultivator.

• Feng Jun’s parents visited Luo Hua, and Yang Yuxin noticed that they looked younger after cultivating.
• Feng Jun collected a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone beneath the sea, spent the night containing its spiritual energy and keeping sea beasts away, then returned to Luo Hua.
• Yang Yuxin asked Feng Jun about his parents’ youth, and he revealed that a Longevity Pill extended a person’s lifespan by thirty years and had set one aside for her.
• Yang Yuxin took the pill and entered seclusion for three days.
• Feng Jun assigned cultivation techniques to Zhao Xia, Liu Yuting, and Liang Siyu, with recommenders expected to provide half of their cultivation resources.
• Feng Jun gave Zhao Xia the Five-Element Mortal Transcendence Technique, while Liu Yuting chose to become a martial cultivator first.

Liu Yuting and Liang Siyu chose their cultivation paths, while recommendations for Luo Hua drew enormous offers and forced Mei Jin and Gao Qiang to consider whom to bring in. The chapter ended when An Hejun recognized the workplace Gao Qiang had described as Luo Hua.

• Liu Yuting chose Martial Cultivation, and Feng Jun helped her select a technique from the Eighteen Figures.
• Liang Siyu chose the Five-Element Mortal Transcendence Technique after Zhang Caixin encouraged her to cultivate the Dao.
• People offered Teacher Mei as much as one billion for a Luo Hua recommendation, but she chose to recommend her guzheng teacher's son, who declined the opportunity.
• Gao Qiang invited his former comrade An Hejun to join Luo Hua and offered to pay him a monthly salary of ten thousand yuan.
• An Hejun asked Gao Qiang in surprise whether the place he meant was Luo Hua.

Gao Qiang and the others arranged candidates to join Luo Hua, while Gu Jiahui organized a selection between the Gu Family and Yang Clan. Feng Jun reviewed the candidates at the Cultivation Courtyard, confirmed Gu Jiahui’s aptitude assessment, and rejected Yu Zuosi as unsuitable.

• Gao Qiang recruited An Hejun, who agreed to join while insisting he would not harm others or betray the country.
• Tang Wenji recommended her childhood friend Jiang Liping, while Lin Heihu, Yu Qingzhu, and Red Sister put forward other candidates, including Ge Mingxia.
• Gu Jiahui held an aptitude test for candidates from the Gu Family and Yang Clan, leaving Gu Changsheng and Yang Yuxi as the leading contenders.
• Gu Jiahui explained that Yang Yuxi’s aptitude had slightly better potential than Gu Changsheng’s, though Feng Jun would make the final decision.
• At the Cultivation Courtyard, Feng Jun agreed with Gu Jiahui’s assessment and told Yu Qingzhu that Yu Zuosi was unsuitable and had to be replaced.

Feng Jun rejected Yu Zuosi’s bid to join Luo Hua and reprimanded Yu Qingzhu for recommending her relatives over friends. Yang Yuxin arrived and settled the family dispute by choosing her younger cousin Yang Yuxi for the opportunity, leaving Gu Changsheng to wait for another chance.

• Feng Jun rejected Yu Zuosi, who asked why he was unsuitable, and criticized Yu Qingzhu for recommending two Yu family members.
• Yu Qingzhu defended putting family first, while Feng Jun argued that friendship mattered and Gao Qiang described An Hejun as closer than a brother.
• Yu Qingzhu mentioned Xia Xiaoyu, prompting Feng Jun to remember her and abruptly leave; Gao Qiang then joked with An Hejun about her.
• Yang Yuxin emerged from seclusion looking younger, and Steward Mei asked her to resolve the dispute between Yang Yuxi and Gu Changsheng.
• Yang Yuxin chose her younger cousin Yang Yuxi, so Gu Changsheng accepted that he would have to wait for another opportunity.

Yu Qingzhu’s family discussed Feng Jun’s rejection of Yu Zuosi and decided she would recommend Xia Xiaoyu instead. Meanwhile, Mei Jin brought Zhong Lijing to Luo Hua as a new recruit, where Lijing learned that Qingzhu’s comment about her being lucky was genuine.

• Yu Qingzhu reported that Feng Jun had rejected Yu Zuosi, and Yu Zuosi accepted the decision while asking who Xia Xiaoyu was.
• Yu Qingzhu and her family speculated about Feng Jun’s interest in women and decided she would recommend Xia Xiaoyu.
• Mei Jin agreed to bring in Zhong Lijing, whose teacher said she wanted a change after a heartbreak and whose relatives had been labeled a jinx.
• Yu Qingzhu met Mei Jin and Zhong Lijing outside the Cultivation Courtyard and welcomed the newcomer as a lucky beauty.
• After entering the courtyard, Zhong Lijing asked Mei Jin whether Yu Qingzhu had meant it when she called her lucky.

Zhong Lijing told Mei Jin about her failed relationship and considered leaving Lin An, then discovered that Mei could use Daoist magic and that Feng Jun was extraordinarily wealthy. She accepted the Daoist Order’s strange powers with enthusiasm but asked whether her bad luck could affect Boss Feng.

• Zhong Lijing recounted how her wealthy boyfriend’s family expected her to quit teaching and care for their elders, and how she broke up with him after seeing photos of him with another woman.
• After the breakup caused trouble at her school, Zhong Lijing considered resigning and moving to Ming City, but came to Yang City through her acquaintance Mei Jin.
• Mei Jin told Zhong Lijing that Feng Jun was richer than anyone on the rankings and demonstrated her powers by producing a pipa and pipa picks from nowhere.
• Zhong Lijing recognized that Mei Jin’s abilities were Daoist magic, asked about learning them, and said she would repay the people who had recommended her.
• Zhong Lijing asked whether her reputation for bad luck might affect Boss Feng and whether Mei Jin should check with him.

Steward Mei brought Zhong Lijing to Luo Hua, where Feng Jun welcomed her as a new member and she met the other newcomers. As Zhong Lijing settled in, Good Scenery explained that only Feng Jun’s women and people he specifically permitted could enter the rear courtyard.

• Steward Mei brought Zhong Lijing to Feng Jun, and Zhong Lijing mistakenly called herself his wife before correcting her slip of the tongue.
• Feng Jun introduced Zhong Lijing to the newcomers, and she learned about their different living arrangements at Luo Hua.
• Li Shishi assigned Zhong Lijing a room in the villa and told her to stay away from the rooms reserved for Yu Qingzhu’s grandfather.
• Zhong Lijing approached the Little Lou, but Good Scenery stopped her and explained who was allowed into the rear courtyard.