Chapter Summaries

Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, Little Fatty, Little Prince, and Zhou Mu visited Lixiang Pavilion, where Zhang Xiaofan cooked a meal that delighted everyone before the group explored the Imperial City's night market. The chapter ended with Luo Yunji seeing a baby for the first time and asking about it.

• Little Prince took Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan to a private room at Lixiang Pavilion, where Luo Yunji rejected the food and Zhang Xiaofan led them to cook in the kitchen.
• Zhang Xiaofan prepared dishes that Luo Yunji and Little Prince devoured, while Zhou Mu and the servants ate the remaining food in the private room.
• Princess Consort learned that Little Prince had gone to Lixiang Pavilion to cook and eat, and she ordered her servant to keep following the group.
• Three of Zhou Mu's colleagues mistook Little Fatty for Little Prince when they entered the private room, then realized there were two similar-looking boys.
• Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, Little Fatty, Little Prince, and Zhou Mu went out into the night market, where Little Fatty asked what a baby was.

Luo Yunji delightedly saw a baby for the first time and gave him a precious cooling gemstone, then was stopped from visiting another baby late at night. The Prince and Princess Consort learned that Luo Yunji might be their child, while the next morning the Little Prince failed to wake him and Big Bamboo Peak’s disciples remained unable to cultivate their techniques in the Imperial City.

• Luo Yunji admired a swaddled baby and gave him an indigo gemstone bead after Zhang Xiaofan helped persuade the child's mother to accept it.
• The Little Prince told Luo Yunji that a baby lived at the Prince's Mansion, but Zhou Mu and Zhang Xiaofan stopped him from entering Third Madam's courtyard late at night.
• The Prince heard the Princess Consort's account of Luo Yunji and questioned whether the boy was their child, recalling that their baby had been declared breathless years earlier.
• The next morning, the Little Prince came to Qingyu Garden and learned that Big Bamboo Peak's disciples could no longer circulate their techniques in the Imperial City, though Luo Yunji remained unaffected.
• The Little Prince tried drums, gongs, and other noisy objects to wake Luo Yunji, but Zhang Xiaofan roused him by bringing breakfast.

Zhang Xiaofan cared for Luo Yunji and brought him to the Prince's Mansion, where the Little Prince introduced him to the Prince and Mother Consort. As the family watched Luo Yunji meet the baby and drink its milk, the Prince and Third Madam quietly considered whether he was the child they had lost years ago.

• Zhang Xiaofan woke Luo Yunji by feeding him porridge, then joined him and the Little Prince for breakfast.
• Luo Yunji tried to catch ornamental fish from the Prince's pond with a spell, and Zhang Xiaofan roasted the carp with him and the Little Prince.
• The Prince and Mother Consort arrived while they were eating, and the Little Prince explained that Luo Yunji had encountered the baby the previous night.
• The Prince and Mother Consort met Luo Yunji and took the group to see the baby at Third Madam's courtyard.
• Luo Yunji left indigo-blue gems in the baby's cradle and drank the baby's milk, prompting the Little Prince to ask for more.
• The Prince, Mother Consort, and Third Madam accepted Luo Yunji's mistake while privately wondering about his past and his connection to their lost child.

Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji shared rare treasures and spiritual cooking with the prince’s family, while the prince grew more convinced that Luo Yunji was his long-lost son. The meal ended with Little Prince and Zhou Mu bleeding after ignoring warnings not to eat too much, and He Dazhi began checking their pulses.

• Little Prince admired a Cooling Pearl from the Heartless Sea, and Zhang Xiaofan explained where it came from as the prince questioned him about Luo Yunji’s dangerous past.
• Luo Yunji and the baby played together, and he refused the prince’s food in favor of Zhang Xiaofan’s cooking.
• Little Prince led Zhang Xiaofan to the main kitchen, where Zhang Xiaofan prepared several dishes with Luo Yunji using spiritual power.
• The prince’s family tasted Zhang Xiaofan’s dishes and Biluo Grass wine, while He Dazhi warned them that too much spiritually infused food could be harmful.
• Little Prince and Zhou Mu kept eating and began bleeding from their noses and ears, so the prince stopped them and He Dazhi offered to check their pulses.

After learning that the Little Prince’s medicine could be worked off through training, Zhou Mu took him to Qingyu Garden, where Luo Yunji taught Big Bamboo Peak’s disciples how to release jin. Zhou Mu and Liao Xing discovered the disciples were nearly ninety-year-old immortals, and Zhou Mu agreed to demonstrate secular martial arts.

• He Dazhi told Zhou Mu and Liao Xing that they could recover by letting blood or waiting for the medicine to wear off, and suggested Zhou Mu use its effects to make a breakthrough.
• The Prince and Princess Consort decided to report the incident to the Emperor, while Zhou Mu dragged Liao Xing to the training grounds and then to Qingyu Garden to seek sparring advice.
• Luo Yunji corrected Sixth Senior Brother’s attempts to release jin, and Zhang Xiaofan explained how jin was stored in the sinews and released through slight vibration.
• Liao Xing invited Luo Yunji to fly kites, but Luo Yunji refused because he wanted to learn jin and fly kites with his senior brothers the next day.
• Zhou Mu learned that Big Bamboo Peak’s disciples were practicing jin and heard Luo Yunji explain the difference between immortal cultivation and secular martial arts.
• Zhou Mu and Liao Xing were stunned to learn that Luo Yunji was eleven, Zhang Xiaofan was thirteen, and the senior brothers were much older; Zhou Mu then agreed to show them his martial arts.

Zhang Xiaofan demonstrated how his force-based Footwork let him evade Zhou Mu and unleash a devastating strike that blasted away the pond, while the Big Bamboo Peak disciples stopped Luo Yunji from using a potentially catastrophic sword move. The Emperor summoned Luo Yunji, and the next day he, Liao Xing, and Zhang Xiaofan slipped away from the Prince to search for the palace kitchen.

• Zhang Xiaofan sparred with Zhou Mu, using Luo Yunji’s Footwork to avoid every saber attack before blasting the pond with a powerful strike.
• The Big Bamboo Peak disciples stopped Luo Yunji from using a sword move they feared could destroy much of the Imperial City, and Zhou Mu saw new possibilities for martial arts without spiritual energy.
• After hearing what had happened at the Prince’s Mansion, the Emperor asked to meet Luo Yunji and arranged to investigate the river where the presumed-dead infant had fallen.
• Luo Yunji was delighted to hear he would visit the palace, and the next day Zhang Xiaofan accompanied him and Liao Xing when the Prince took them there.
• The three youngsters disappeared from the Prince’s sight and followed palace attendants toward the kitchen, where Zhang Xiaofan shared pastries with Luo Yunji and Liao Xing.

Luo Yunji’s curiosity led him to cut open a mysterious flesh ganoderma in the imperial kitchen, revealing blood-red worms and alarming the emperor’s household. After the prince ordered the palace nobles who had eaten it examined, He Dazhi was summoned to identify it, while Luo Yunji remained focused on finding his Qilin Horn and cooking.

• The emperor and the prince followed Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, and Liao Xing to the imperial kitchen, where Luo Yunji toured the ingredients with enthusiasm.
• Luo Yunji learned that a strange lump called flesh ganoderma was considered a longevity ingredient, then cut it open after feeling something move inside.
• Zhang Xiaofan widened the cut, exposing writhing blood-red worms that horrified the palace servants, Liao Xing, and the emperor.
• The prince ordered a list of nobles who had eaten the flesh ganoderma and sent imperial physicians to examine them; the nobles were later found to be unharmed.
• Zhang Xiaofan suggested consulting He Dazhi, and the emperor approved; Luo Yunji asked the guard to bring his seasoning pouch as well.
• Luo Yunji asked He Dazhi where his Qilin Horn was, and Liao Xing learned that Luo Yunji had seen a qilin near the sect leader martial uncle’s house.

He Dazhi discovered that Blood Mayflies from the Flesh Ganoderma had infected the Emperor and other people in the Imperial Palace, and explained that spiritual power could kill them. With cultivation sealed in the city, the Emperor revealed the secret of the Ghost Domain and agreed to risk the seal to protect the people, while He Dazhi proposed using Luo Yunji’s rain and searching for the culprit.

• He Dazhi tested a consort’s blood with Little Fatty’s spirit water and revealed that it contained Blood Mayflies, which were also present in the Emperor’s blood.
• He Dazhi explained that the insects could spread through eggs carried on breath and could eventually consume and control their hosts, making the Flesh Ganoderma a dangerous source of infection.
• The Emperor revealed that an immortal had sealed a Ghost Domain connected to the Demon Domain beneath the Imperial City, restricting cultivation within a hundred li, and agreed to undo the seal if necessary to protect the common people.
• He Dazhi proposed using Luo Yunji’s ability to summon spirit-infused rain to eradicate the insects, while the Emperor arranged to investigate other sources and bring the Heaven Worship Altar into use.
• He Dazhi urged the Emperor to gather palace residents and permitted officials so Luo Yunji could identify anyone carrying a spiritual object and help find whoever introduced the Blood Mayflies.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan helped identify spiritual objects during the palace investigation, and He Dazhi found that two accessories belonging to Consort Rong and the Seventh Prince bore the Blood Refining Hall's mark. The Emperor confined Consort Rong and the Seventh Prince while the investigation continued.

• Luo Yunji identified a child's indigo-gemstone accessory belonging to the Prime Minister, and Zhang Xiaofan recognized it as a gemstone they had given to a woman carrying a baby.
• The Prince explained the insect crisis to the Prime Minister, who saw the insects rise from his blood in Luo Yunji's spiritual water and collapsed in distress.
• The Prime Minister recognized the Little Prince as the child who had been lost years earlier, while Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan chased after him and his food.
• He Dazhi inspected the selected spiritual objects and identified a jade piece and a gold lock as bearing the Blood Refining Hall's mark.
• The Emperor learned the marked accessories belonged to Consort Rong and the Seventh Prince; Consort Rong said her elder brother had brought them into the palace.
• The Emperor ordered Consort Rong and the Seventh Prince confined to their quarters, and guards escorted them away.

He Dazhi and Zhang Xiaofan uncovered Li Qi’s role in sending the Flesh Ganoderma into the palace and learned the prince’s lost newborn may have survived as Little Junior Brother. At court, He Dazhi confronted Li Qi’s wife, who revealed the Blood Refining Hall had prepared for the Imperial City’s spirit-forbidden defenses.

• He Dazhi and Zhang Xiaofan secretly searched Li Manor and overheard Li Qi’s wife say the Flesh Ganoderma had been sent into the palace and that spiritual objects would protect Consort Rong and the Seventh Prince.
• He Dazhi told the prince what he had learned, and the prince explained how his newborn son had been tortured, declared dead, and put into the river before Little Junior Brother was found outside the city.
• The prince and emperor decided not to tell Little Junior Brother about his possible imperial birth, and the emperor later had everyone in Li Manor arrested.
• At court, He Dazhi identified Li Qi’s wife as a Blood Refining Hall member and grabbed the magical treasure at her waist, prompting her to reveal her identity and taunt the emperor and prince about the Blood Refining Hall’s past losses.
• The young woman questioned whether the blood mayflies were the same as before and revealed that the Blood Refining Hall had come prepared for the spirit-forbidden Imperial City.

He Dazhi captured a Blood Refining Hall woman but Li Xu escaped, only to be beaten and captured after he ran into Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan. The emperor learned that the Blood Mayfly matter remained unresolved and sampled Nineteen Immortals, the fragrant pastries Zhang Xiaofan had taught the imperial chefs to make.

• He Dazhi knocked the young woman unconscious, but Li Xu revealed his skill, seized her, and vanished from the golden hall.
• The emperor and Prince learned that Li Xu was fighting the Little Prince, then found Luo Yunji sitting on the battered Li Xu while Zhang Xiaofan and He Dazhi watched.
• He Dazhi said they would investigate the Blood Mayfly and question Li Xu, while the emperor sought reliable information from him.
• The Prince scolded Liao Xing for trying to keep a pastry that had fallen on the ground, then fussed over Luo Yunji.
• Zhang Xiaofan offered the emperor Nineteen Immortals and explained that he had taught the imperial chefs its recipe; the emperor enjoyed it but worried about smelling like flowers.

After the Blood Mayflies proved capable of controlling dead creatures, He Dazhi and the Prince raced to contain the threat in the Forbidden Spirit Land. Luo Yunji organized dogs to search the Imperial City, and they uncovered thirteen more Flesh Ganoderma as the group prepared to seal them safely.

• The Prince left the palace with He Dazhi and the others, while the Emperor ordered Zhang Xiaofan's pastries sent to the Empress.
• He Dazhi tested the Blood Mayflies on a chicken, and by the next morning they had made its dead body move.
• He Dazhi warned the Prince that the Blood Mayflies could spread through ordinary creatures and ordered the Altar prepared and reports of reanimated corpses investigated.
• Luo Yunji gathered dogs to search the Imperial City, and the dogs led guards to thirteen Flesh Ganoderma.
• He Dazhi sealed each discovery in a stone vat filled with spirit water and ordered everyone involved in the search to wash with spirit water before leaving.

Luo Yunji began the rain ritual at the Altar, using the Yin-Yang Orbs to gather immense spiritual power as the Prince and the gathered crowd watched. The power overwhelmed everyone nearby, and Luo Yunji realized the orbs were draining his spiritual power faster than he had expected.

• The Prince and Princess Consort watched Luo Yunji prepare for the rain ritual, while Liao Xing stayed close to his older brother.
• Luo Yunji rode Big Yellow to the Altar with He Dazhi and the others, and the Emperor's guards prepared to protect the ritual from the Blood Refining Hall.
• He Dazhi told Zhang Xiaofan to guard Luo Yunji as the boy began gathering spiritual power with the Yin-Yang Orbs.
• Luo Yunji's ritual created such intense spiritual pressure that He Dazhi and the other senior brothers had to move the guards and onlookers away from the Altar.
• The Prince told Liao Xing to treat Luo Yunji well because he was his older brother, surprising Liao Xing with the open acknowledgment.
• Luo Yunji continued gathering power until he felt his spiritual reserves decreasing, far faster than he had anticipated.

Luo Yunji used the Yin-Yang Orbs and the Thirty-Six Steps to summon a vast storm over the Imperial City, while the Black Water Mystic Snake and Zhang Xiaofan joined him in the clouds. After He Dazhi’s group captured suspicious people among the rain-soaked crowd, Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan stayed aloft with the snake as their senior brothers returned to cultivate.

• Luo Yunji performed the Thirty-Six Steps and sent the Yin-Yang Orbs into the sky, creating dark clouds and heavy rain over the Imperial City.
• The Black Water Mystic Snake swam through the clouds with Luo Yunji, and Zhang Xiaofan used Soaring Crane to rise into the sky and check on him.
• After people in the crowd began vomiting, He Dazhi ordered his group to capture those who had not vomited, and Zhang Xiaofan helped detain about thirty suspicious people.
• He Dazhi told the eunuch that the rain was Spirit Rain and urged everyone to drink it and get soaked; Zhang Xiaofan stayed with Luo Yunji while the senior brothers went back to cultivate.
• The Prince learned that the figure in the clouds was a giant serpent, while the Black Water Mystic Snake carried Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan farther away.
• Back at Qingyu Garden, the senior brothers cultivated, and He Dazhi tried to make them notice the significance of the title Illusory World Record, but they remained baffled.

Li Qinghe reunited with the disciples of Big Bamboo Peak in the Imperial City and learned that Luo Yunji had changed Azure Cloud Sect’s cultivation method. After the group welcomed her back and prepared to send the improved method to the mountain, Luo Yunji drew a picture-letter recounting their adventures.

• Li Qinghe visited the prince’s manor after hearing about the Blood Mayflies and reunited with Wu Dayi and the other disciples of Big Bamboo Peak.
• Li Qinghe learned that the disciples had reached the fourth level of the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and that He Dazhi had joined them after Luo Yunji ruined his magical treasure.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan returned to the manor, where Luo Yunji joyfully greeted Li Qinghe.
• Luo Yunji told Li Qinghe he had improved Azure Cloud Sect’s cultivation method, and He Dazhi explained that several senior and junior disciples were already practicing it.
• Wu Dayi encouraged Li Qinghe to return to the mountain, and she agreed; He Dazhi then copied Luo Yunji’s improved cultivation method for the disciples back home.
• Luo Yunji drew an illustrated account of their adventures while Zhang Xiaofan watched and understood the pictures.

He Dazhi investigated the Demon Sect members behind the Blood Mayfly disaster by luring Lin Feng into a gambling match over Luo Yunji’s Qilin Horn. He won the wager, but both sides sent people to track the other, leaving their rival schemes underway.

• The captured prisoners revealed that a Blood Refining Hall member and a Myriad Poison Sect member had caused the disaster while testing a mutated Blood Mayfly.
• He Dazhi met Lin Feng at a gambling house and baited him with the Qilin Horn and his Cooling Pearls bracelet.
• Lin Feng and He Dazhi wagered a thousand taels of gold against He Dazhi’s yellow essence, then switched from dice to guessing which foot the next entrant would lead with.
• Du Bishu secretly changed the waiter’s entrance, causing him to step in with his right foot and giving He Dazhi the win.
• Lin Feng sent men to follow He Dazhi’s group, while He Dazhi ordered a guard from the Prince’s Mansion to pursue Lin Feng’s group.

After Luo Yunji accidentally unleashed the power of the Mountain and River Fan, He Dazhi learned it belonged to the formidable Old Ancestor Fengyue and prepared for trouble from Lin Feng. Lin Feng confronted the brothers at the Prince’s Mansion and demanded the Qilin Horn and all their magical treasures, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• The emperor sent a message asking the Prince’s Mansion to find a way to stop the days of torrential rain.
• Luo Yunji waved the Mountain and River Fan and destroyed the courtyard, injuring He Dazhi and the other brothers.
• He Dazhi recognized the fan as Old Ancestor Fengyue’s signature top-grade magical treasure and explained its significance to the others.
• Black-clad intruders first scouted the Prince’s Mansion, then returned with Lin Feng and more than ten attackers the following night.
• Lin Feng demanded the Qilin Horn and every magical treasure the brothers possessed, while He Dazhi refused to give in to his greed.

Lin Feng tried to seize the travelers’ treasures, but Wu Dayi and Zhang Xiaofan defeated him and his men. After Luo Yunji suggested a brutal interrogation method that made the captives confess, He Dazhi and the others questioned where he had learned it, and Luo Yunji said he had seen it.

• Lin Feng tried to grab Luo Yunji and then demanded the group’s magical treasures, but Zhang Xiaofan stopped him and He Dazhi refused to surrender anything beyond the fan and gold.
• Wu Dayi struck Lin Feng into the courtyard, and Zhang Xiaofan kicked away the black-clothed men who attacked.
• The prince’s torturers failed to make the captured Demon Sect disciples talk, so Luo Yunji suggested soaking them in hot water and scraping them with an iron brush.
• The captives confessed after the torture, leaving Zhou Mu shaken by what he had witnessed.
• Du Bishu asked Luo Yunji who had taught him the method, and Luo Yunji replied that he had seen it.

Zhang Xiaofan realized Wu Dayi could use his spiritual ability in the Forbidden Spirit Land, allowing Wu to capture the Five Poisons Sect culprit and help resolve the Imperial City calamity. After Dahei returned from the clouds, Luo Yunji agreed to clear the rain the next day and appeared on a palace altar to begin.

• Zhang Xiaofan explained that Wu Dayi’s spiritual ability could work without ordinary spiritual power, and Wu used it to make He Dazhi vanish from sight.
• Wu Dayi returned with the Five Poisons Sect prisoner while Zhou Mu reported that the mutated Blood Mayfly had been crushed.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan descended from the clouds on Black Water Mystic Snake, startling the Prince and the senior brothers.
• Luo Yunji agreed to move the clouds the next day, and the Prince returned to the palace to tell the emperor.
• Luo Yunji appeared on the palace altar, sent Black Water Mystic Snake back into the Supreme Ultimate Yin Orb, and began gathering a blue glow around himself.

Luo Yunji stopped the rain by completing the Dragon-Slaying Art, ending the Demon Sect’s scheme with few casualties. Afterward, he reunited with his family over food made from icy water he had collected in the clouds.

• Luo Yunji performed the Dragon-Slaying Art, cleared the clouds, and stopped the rain before the emperor and the assembled crowd.
• He Dazhi told the imprisoned Blood Refining Hall woman that Lin Feng, the Myriad Poison Sect members, and the mutated Blood Mayfly had been dealt with, but she warned that Old Ancestor Fengyue would come after them.
• The emperor and prince discussed letting Luo Yunji pursue immortality, then received word that the Demon Sect’s scheme had been foiled.
• Luo Yunji ate dishes made with icy water he had gathered while playing with Dahei, while Liao Xing tried to save some for Zhou Mu.
• Zhou Mu arrived with Liao Xing, and Luo Yunji explained how the icy water had been turned into a sauce; Zhou Mu urged Liao Xing to eat and train with him afterward.