Chapter Summaries

Lu Shu defeated the B-rank awakener and reunited with the injured Chen Baili, then encountered Little Squirrel by a river. After realizing a flower held a secret benefit, Lu Shu confronted Little Squirrel and left it fearing he would take its treasure.

• Lu Xiaoyu sensed Lu Shu’s wound on the fleeing B-rank awakener and killed him with a punch.
• Lu Shu found Chen Baili injured, claimed he had beaten the awakener into retreat, and carried Chen Baili toward a river.
• Lu Shu killed a D-rank water snake that was confronting Little Squirrel.
• Lu Shu made Little Squirrel write the word “flower” twenty times after it confused “flower” with “flour.”
• Lu Shu suspected the flower would benefit Little Squirrel, and Little Squirrel collapsed at the thought that he might take its treasure.

Lu Shu used a Marrow Cleansing Fruit to help Chen Baili break through to A-rank, then returned from the relic with Lu Xiaoyu and the others. Lu Shu ended the chapter by posting a deliberately useless claim about reaching A-rank, drawing a flood of negative emotion points.

• Lu Shu took the remaining fruits from the tree and gave Chen Baili a Marrow Cleansing Fruit, which restored his foundation and helped him break through to A-rank.
• Chen Baili thanked Lu Shu and claimed the relic's formation core, causing the relic to dissipate.
• Lu Xiaoyu sold Chen Zu'an the merit for defeating the white expert, taking his eighty-thousand-yuan watch and making him write an IOU for four hundred and twenty thousand.
• Lu Xiaoyu brought Big Meow and Pipi Pig home, then used the white expert's memories to find a website.
• Lu Shu logged in as Anthony and posted that he had found a way to advance to A-rank, only to tell readers he would not share it and reap their negative emotion points.

Lu Shu gave Li Xianyi a Marrow Cleansing Fruit, allowing him to break through to A-class, then discovered that Li Xianyi had misled him about cultivation realms. The chapter ended with Li Xianyi explaining that he had exaggerated the path to help Lu Shu surpass his limits.

• Lu Shu brought Lu Xiaoyu home, then went to Li Xianyi's place, where Li Yixiao returned a Marrow Cleansing Fruit on Chen Baili's instructions.
• Lu Shu handed the fruit to Li Xianyi, who ate it and advanced to A-class.
• Lu Shu asked Li Xianyi what came after condensing a snow mountain, revealing that his snow mountain had formed before his qi sea opened.
• Li Xianyi admitted that he had been at Gathering Rivers into Sea before opening his qi sea, leaving Lu Shu to realize that the old man had bluffed about his cultivation knowledge.
• Lu Shu accused Li Xianyi of misleading him, and Li Xianyi said he had done so to keep Lu Shu from setting limits on himself.

Lu Shu discovered that he could not open his Qi Sea, while Li Xianyi offered dubious advice and left without giving Lu Xiaoyu her final lesson. After eating a fruit from the remains, Lu Shu awakened a water-element skill and later used his Moments to trick people seeking the secret to awakening.

• Li Xianyi told Lu Shu that he needed to open his Qi Sea before tempering his Sword Gall, but Lu Shu could not open it.
• Li Xianyi suggested destroying Lu Shu's Snow Mountain, and Lu Shu set the problem aside when neither of them could find a reliable solution.
• Li Xianyi tried to give Lu Xiaoyu one last lesson, but she produced a first-year high school textbook instead of his second-year middle school textbook, and he left in low spirits.
• Lu Shu used Little Squirrel to test a fruit from the remains, ate it himself, and awakened a water-element skill alongside the flames in his chest.
• Lu Shu became the first person in the Dao Yuan Class to reach C-rank, then directed people asking about awakening to his Moments, where they found his Balala power post and flooded him with negative emotions.

Lu Shu discovered that Little Squirrel had gained the ability to enter dreams and torment people, then traveled to Kyoto with the Class-A geniuses and was caught in an ambush that Nie Ting had arranged as a trap. Lu Xiaoyu worried when she could not reach Lu Shu, then took out her frustration on Little Squirrel.

• Lu Shu drew a golden page, but it flew into Little Squirrel, which began studying the cultivation technique under threat of doubled homework.
• Little Squirrel entered Lu Shu’s dreams and beat him up, then used the same ability to torment Li Qingyu in his dreams.
• Lu Shu laughed at Li Qingyu’s post about the dreams and commented on it.
• Lu Shu traveled toward Kyoto with the Class-A geniuses and was ambushed, but the attack was a trap set by Nie Ting to draw out their enemies.
• Lu Xiaoyu could not reach Lu Shu during the attack and worried until communications were restored, then squeezed Little Squirrel while fretting over him.

Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an tried to get by in the capital without their belongings or abilities, but Lu Shu’s casual javelin throw exposed his strength and drew Nie Ting to summon him for an assessment. Afterward, Lu Shu began thinking about how to earn money.

• Little Squirrel wrote that girls should speak more gently, and Lu Xiaoyu told it to shut up.
• The Heavenly Network confiscated Lu Shu and the others’ phones, wallets, and weapons, ordering them to survive fifteen days in the capital without using their abilities.
• Lu Shu left camp with Chen Zu'an and visited an abandoned factory, where Xu Wenxin beat Chen Zu'an in a match.
• Lu Shu avoided a challenge by holding his breath, then caught a thrown javelin and hurled it back, blasting a huge hole in the ceiling.
• Nie Ting arrived and ordered Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an to return for an assessment.
• Lu Shu stood on the street pondering how to make money and joked that he had learned wisecracks while traveling.

Lu Shu devised a way to earn money by smashing rocks against his forehead while busking with Chen Zu'an, then spent the night with him in a furniture store. While other geniuses were robbed overnight, five people targeted Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an.

• Nie Ting said Lu Shu would survive wherever he was sent, and explained that he had brought Chen Zu'an along because he disliked the look of him.
• Lu Shu rejected Chen Zu'an's suggestion to rob people and urged him to keep a moral line, then brushed off Chen Zu'an's question about his watch.
• Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an busked in a subway passage, where Lu Shu smashed rocks against his forehead and drew a crowd away from a nearby singer.
• After earning money, Lu Shu took Chen Zu'an to eat and then had him sleep on the floor of a furniture store so they would not dirty the bedding.
• Robbers targeted the other geniuses overnight, while five people were sent to deal with Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an.

Lu Shu caught Hao Zhichao and four Heavenly Network members trying to rob him, then beat them and took their money. He ran into Nie Ting afterward and had to hand over the cash, before suggesting a buffet with Chen Zu'an.

• Lu Shu spotted Hao Zhichao and the others climbing into the furniture mall and mocked them by writing on the glass.
• Lu Shu woke Chen Zu'an and decided to confront the Heavenly Network men because they had come to rob them.
• Lu Shu quickly defeated Hao Zhichao and his four teammates, then demanded their money.
• Hao Zhichao handed over his wallet, and Lu Shu took more than two thousand yuan from the group.
• Lu Shu encountered Nie Ting outside the mall, surrendered the stolen money, and suggested taking Chen Zu'an to a buffet.

Lu Shu tried to turn the Heavenly Network’s pursuit into a source of money, but after dozens of cultivators chased him, he and Chen Zu'an spent three days on the run. On the fourth night, Lu Shu lured a group of angry dancing aunties into Lingjing Alley, where they mistook Heavenly Network members for the speaker thieves and charged at them.

• Lu Shu sold balloons for cash and hoped the Heavenly Network would send more people to rob him so he could earn money again.
• Lu Shu provoked the Heavenly Network into pursuing him, but dozens of cultivators arrived and forced him to flee with Chen Zu'an.
• Lu Shu and Chen Zu'an were chased through the streets for three days, and Chen Zu'an finally revealed the Heavenly Network headquarters’ location on the fourth day.
• Lu Shu stole the speaker from a group of dancing aunties and led them toward Lingjing Alley before throwing lit firecrackers into its underground passage.
• Heavenly Network members rushed out to investigate, and the aunties mistook them for Lu Shu’s helpers and charged at them.

Lu Shu’s bizarre use of square-dancing aunties derailed his Heavenly Network assessment, after which Shi Xuejin taught the new recruits and Lu Shu offered his blunt explanation for why travelers often succeed. The account then followed Lu Shu’s missions with Lu Xiaoyu, ending with him killing three traffickers who tried to take her and binding their souls.

• Lu Shu summoned square-dancing aunties to confront Hao Zhichao and the others, stunning the Heavens and Myriad Worlds and prompting Heavenly Network to end his assessment early.
• Shi Xuejin lectured the gathered recruits, and Lu Shu claimed people who traveled were more likely to succeed because their parents were rich.
• After Shi Xuejin taught the recruits cultivation methods and sent them on life-and-death missions, Lu Shu secretly completed the mission alone and obtained a flying dagger that the gourd absorbed before failing to evolve.
• Lu Shu reunited with Lu Xiaoyu, and the siblings worked together to eliminate every target on the Heavenly Network’s mission list.
• Three traffickers posing as Lu Xiaoyu’s biological parents tried to take her, so Lu Shu killed them and had Lu Xiaoyu imprison their souls before Li Yixiao arrived too late to stop him.

Lu Shu took Lu Xiaoyu abroad after killing those who threatened her, while Nie Ting used the incident to send him on assignment. Once they arrived, Lu Shu asked Li Xianyi what would happen when his Snow Mountain collapsed, but Li Xianyi admitted he had no answer.

• Nie Ting had Li Yixiao turn Lu Shu’s killing into a reason to send him abroad, and Lu Shu decided to take Lu Xiaoyu with him.
• Li Yixiao told Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu that a summoned heroic spirit had beaten him after he used a talisman to ask it for toilet paper.
• Lu Shu and his group stowed away with the remaining human traffickers, and he used his water ability to torment them before destroying their cargo ship.
• Li Yixiao warned Lu Shu not to let hatred cloud his mind, and Lu Shu replied that only money could blind him.
• Lu Shu and the others reached their destination, where Li Xianyi stopped the uproar Lu Xiaoyu had triggered and later joined them for a gathering.
• Lu Shu asked Li Xianyi what to do when his Snow Mountain collapsed, and Li Xianyi admitted he had not worked it out.

Lu Shu entered the ruins with Meng Jingchan, outwitted foreign cultivators, and discovered that Gargoyles could replenish his Divine Water. The chapter left Meng Jingchan hearing him politely knock on a monster and ask whether anyone was home.

• Zhiwei visited Lu Shu and tried to make him speak first, but Lu Shu greeted him and won their standoff.
• Lu Shu teamed up with Meng Jingchan to enter the ruins, where spatial power scattered the cultivators.
• Lu Shu understood two foreign cultivators plotting against him, toyed with them, and killed them.
• Lu Shu met Meng Jingchan with a group led by Ivan Walsh, praised Ivan’s weapon with “Six! Six! Six!” and then left the group alone.
• Lu Shu discovered that devouring Gargoyles increased his Divine Water reserves, then knocked on one and asked if anyone was home.
• Meng Jingchan left the group to find Lu Shu and heard him calling out to a Gargoyle.

Lu Shu returned to camp after clearing out nearby Gargoyles, then repeatedly dragged away pursuing monsters while the others fought the rest. After pretending not to understand Carol, he revealed he spoke English when she offered payment, and he left the amount up to her.

• Carol and more than a dozen people fled toward Ivan’s camp with Gargoyles in pursuit, and Lu Shu charged out, seized one monster, and carried it away.
• Lu Shu returned twice more over the next hour to drag off additional Gargoyles while the others fought the remaining monsters.
• Carol thanked Lu Shu and introduced herself, but he pretended not to understand her English while Ivan and Meng Jingchan watched.
• Carol offered to pay Lu Shu after they left the ruins, and he immediately answered in fluent English and asked for her card number.
• Lu Shu told Carol to pay whatever she thought was right, which made her view him as open and upright.

Lu Shu fled a Gargoyle horde with Carol after Li Yixiao drew it toward them, then stole two magical weapons from a group of Divine Assembly cultivators and ran. The two C-rank pursuers chased after him.

• Carol agreed to pay Lu Shu five hundred thousand euros for saving her, and he resolved to keep his wealthy patron safe.
• Li Yixiao led a massive Gargoyle horde toward Lu Shu, who carried Carol and ran while taking Li Yixiao’s requested photo.
• After Lu Shu sent Li Yixiao running off in another direction, he lamented losing the Gargoyles he wanted for leveling up his Divine Water.
• A group of cultivators demanded everyone surrender their resources and artifacts, and Lu Shu suspected they belonged to the Divine Assembly.
• Lu Shu called himself someone the cultivators did not know, harvested their negative emotions, stole two enchanted weapons with his Divine Water, and fled as two C-rank cultivators pursued him.

Lu Shu evaded his pursuers, dodged Carol’s confession, and took advantage of a mining scheme to find a trove of damaged magical artifacts and the ruins’ formation core. He faked his death to claim the Dark Kingdom’s bounty, leaving Carol devastated enough to break through from D-rank to B-rank.

• Lu Shu defeated his pursuers in a deserted area, where Carol confessed her feelings, and he avoided answering directly while giving her his address and phone number to receive a mailed reward.
• Lu Shu let himself be taken to a mine, devoured its damaged magical artifacts with the Divine Water, and forced the rogue cultivators to keep digging for distress points.
• Li Xianyi arrived as a new excavation sound revealed a hidden opportunity beneath the mine.
• Lu Shu reunited with Lu Xiaoyu in the ruins, obtained the ancient mask that served as the formation core, and planned to return with her.
• Lu Shu faked his death to claim the Dark Kingdom’s bounty, and Carol’s grief triggered her breakthrough from D-rank to B-rank.

After hearing that Lu Shu had supposedly died, Carol awakened from D-rank to B-rank, revealing the depth of her feelings. Meanwhile, Lu Shu infiltrated Sakura Country under a borrowed identity, abandoned his weakling persona by beating up bullies, and accepted Sakurai Yayoi’s dojo visits as a way to earn money.

• Carol awakened to B-rank after learning of Lu Shu’s supposed death, while Lu Shu reflected on how deeply she cared for him.
• Lu Shu agreed to infiltrate the Divine Assembly after Nie Ting promised him an inheritance, then realized the promise had been a trick.
• Lu Shu traveled to Sakura Country and impersonated the bullied student Kirihara, but beat up classmates who tried to take his lunch.
• Sakurai Yayoi approached Lu Shu and asked to train at his dojo, and he agreed because she would pay him.
• When Sakurai Yayoi asked about his weekend plans, Lu Shu insisted they keep their relationship a pure monetary transaction.

Oda Takuma tried to probe Lu Shu by playing Go, but Lu Shu turned the game into Gomoku and won. Sakurai Yayoi grew closer to Lu Shu, only to misunderstand his note and spend the night waiting outside an empty martial arts hall.

• Oda Takuma visited Lu Shu and challenged him to Go, but Lu Shu connected five stones in a row and declared victory.
• Oda Takuma arranged for Sakurai Yayoi to seduce Lu Shu, but Lu Shu remained focused on money while she gradually became drawn to him.
• Lu Shu passed Sakurai Yayoi a note saying, “No one's home tonight.”
• Sakurai Yayoi dressed up and went to the martial arts hall, where she waited outside the locked doors and realized Lu Shu had meant exactly what he wrote.

Sakurai Yayoi attempted to assassinate Kitamura Hirono while Lu Shu independently targeted him in disguise, leading to a chaotic confrontation and Lu Shu's escape with her. After changing identities and infiltrating a Divine Assembly warehouse, Lu Shu faced questions about his talents and claimed he was good at mental arithmetic.

• Sakurai Yayoi stayed at Lu Shu's dojo, then went to assassinate Kitamura Hirono while Lu Shu disguised himself as Kitamura Hirono and caused trouble around Sakura Country.
• Sakurai Yayoi attacked Lu Shu without realizing who he was, and he left a large "Demolish" character in Kitamura Hirono's home before she encountered the real Kitamura Hirono.
• Kitamura Chidori joined the fight, and Oda Takuma abandoned Sakurai Yayoi and fled; Sakurai Yayoi ran to the dojo for help.
• Sakurai Yayoi met Lu Shu in his Kitamura Hirono disguise at the dojo, and Lu Shu's claim that he was Hirono's twin brother from different parents failed, so he dealt with Kitamura Hirono and took the wounded Sakurai Yayoi to Chiba's home.
• Lu Shu left the next morning, adopted the alias Yamada Akira, and gained a job guarding a Divine Assembly warehouse after earning Hasegawa Yoshi's trust.
• Kuriyama summoned Lu Shu and asked about his specialties, and Lu Shu claimed he was especially fast at mental arithmetic.

Lu Shu interrupted Takashima Heijin’s breakthrough and, with Carol’s help, killed him when his sword spirit slapped him and Corpse Dog struck his vitals. Wounded and exhausted, Lu Shu had Carol carry him to safety, while she confessed she would wait for him to love her.

• Lu Shu failed to impress Kuriyama Yun with his mental arithmetic and instead gathered over ninety thousand spirit stones.
• Carol rushed to Sakura Country after advancing to B-class and found Lu Shu as he tried to stop Takashima Heijin from reaching A-class.
• Lu Shu interrupted Takashima Heijin’s advancement with Liu Xiu’s help, then unleashed his sword energy and summoned a sword spirit from Corpse Dog.
• The sword spirit slapped Takashima Heijin, giving Corpse Dog the opening to kill the pseudo-Class A expert.
• Carol carried the wounded Lu Shu to find Liu Xiu, and Lu Shu stored Liu Xiu’s body in the Mountain and River Seal so he could take it home.
• As Lu Shu slept or pretended to sleep, Carol told him she wanted to stay with him and would keep waiting if he could not accept her yet.

After Lu Shu was rescued from the Divine Assembly, Carol and Nie Ting showed how deeply they cared for him, leaving him to reflect on being accepted by those around him. Three days later, he woke and claimed his trip had yielded only half a depleted spirit stone, keeping the rest hidden.

• Carol and Sakurai Yayoi joined forces to protect the injured Lu Shu until Nie Ting arrived and took him home.
• Nie Ting carried Lu Shu away, telling Carol he was taking him home, and Lu Shu felt moved by the care and recognition he received.
• Lu Shu woke three days later to find Shi Xuejin eating scallions and Nie Ting waiting with warm millet porridge.
• Nie Ting asked whether Lu Shu had gained anything from the Divine Assembly, and Lu Shu handed him half a depleted spirit stone, claiming it was all he had seized from Takashima Heijin.