Chapter Summaries

Qin Fen recognized Lan Yibing’s three-million-yuan transfer and thanked him, while Little Fatty kept pressing Lan about his remaining wishes. The chapter ended with Little Fatty proposing to expose Lan’s national treasures to gain fame, leaving Lan stunned by the deity’s recklessness.

• Qin Fen decided to stop worrying about how to deal with Wenchang and noticed an anonymous three-million-yuan transfer.
• Qin Fen deduced Lan Yibing had sent the money and texted him a sarcastic thank-you.
• Lan Yibing tried to distract Little Fatty from asking about his second wish by asking how he had met Qin Fen and obtained the oil lamp.
• Little Fatty recounted meeting a bastard, then used the conversation to remind Lan that he still had wishes to grant.
• Little Fatty proposed reporting Lan’s national treasures to the government so he could become famous, and Lan froze in disbelief.

Qin Fen went to a wholesale market to buy a lifelike silicone doll as a gift for Mitsui, then received an unexpected video call from Chang'e. He accepted the chance to finally interact with an immortal through the Kunlun Mirror.

• Lan Yibing told Little Fatty that he had called the police and reasoned that the god could not act freely in the familiar world.
• Qin Fen found full-silicone dolls at the wholesale market and decided to buy the most expensive one for Mitsui to use as a mannequin.
• Chang'e contacted Qin Fen and addressed him as the founding patriarch, His Majesty Dongwang Gong.
• Chang'e initiated a video call through the Kunlun Mirror, and Qin Fen was thrilled that she could contact him directly.

Qin Fen video-called Chang'e, who became fascinated by a nurse uniform in the adult store behind him. She asked to try it on, and Qin Fen hurried to buy it along with three realistic dolls before returning to watch Chang'e's livestream.

• Qin Fen answered Chang'e's video call, and she stared at his unusual Mortal Realm outfit in amazement.
• Chang'e said she wanted to meet him because she admired the qipao he had designed.
• Chang'e spotted a nurse uniform behind Qin Fen and asked him to give it to her, revealing her enthusiasm for bizarre outfits.
• Qin Fen bought the nurse uniform and ordered three realistic dolls for thirty thousand each.

Qin Fen bought three dolls and outfits, then video-called Chang'e in a nurse uniform while waiting for delivery. A wealthy media company president named Wang Lei became captivated by Chang'e on the screen and tried to recruit her, leaving her confused and Qin Fen unimpressed.

• Qin Fen bought the shop's three most expensive dolls, selected several outfits, and arranged delivery to his home.
• Qin Fen received the nurse uniform from Chang'e and started a video call to see her wearing it.
• Wang Lei arrived hoping to buy a doll, but the shopkeeper told him Qin Fen had bought the last three.
• Wang Lei offered Qin Fen thirty-six thousand for a doll, then became smitten after noticing Chang'e on Qin Fen's phone.
• Wang Lei introduced himself as a media company president and praised Chang'e's beauty, while Chang'e misunderstood his comparison to the Moon Palace fairy.

Wang Lei tried to recruit Chang'e as a rising internet celebrity, flattering her while insulting the real Chang'e without realizing who she was. Chang'e saw through him and rejected him, and Qin Fen translated her insults for him.

• Wang Lei admired Chang'e and imagined making money and gaining influence by promoting her.
• Qin Fen asked Wang Lei whether he still wanted the doll, exposing the purpose he had been trying to hide from Chang'e.
• Wang Lei praised Chang'e's appearance and claimed she was more beautiful than the Chang'e from Journey to the West.
• Chang'e asked Wang Lei what he thought of Chang'e, and he called the Moon Palace fairy old, average-looking, and flat-chested.
• Wang Lei offered Chang'e a place at his company and promised to make her a household name.
• Chang'e called Wang Lei an idiot and a pig, and Qin Fen told him she thought he was worse than an animal.

Qin Fen left the market after humiliating Wang Lei and upsetting Lan Yibing, who decided to seek money from Qin Fen. A group of green-haired punks followed Qin Fen, and he headed toward the underground parking lot, apparently excited to deal with them.

• Chang'e insulted Wang Lei during a video call, and Qin Fen mocked him before leaving with Little Bean.
• Little Bean marked Wang Lei's trouser leg, and a group of green-haired punks followed him after he left to shop with the Chihuahua.
• Police officers dismissed Lan Yibing's claim that Little Fatty was not his child, while Little Fatty demanded his second wish.
• Lan Yibing texted Old Gun and decided to go after Qin Fen for money.
• Qin Fen noticed the punks following him and walked toward the underground parking lot as Little Bean barked a warning.

Qin Fen eagerly headed for the restroom, unaware that two groups of attackers were converging there and that one group mistook Old Gun for him. After a chaotic fight drove everyone away, Old Gun threatened Qin Fen with a pistol, and Qin Fen revealed a golden transformation.

• Qin Fen went toward the parking-lot restroom, excited at the prospect of encountering real-life trouble, while Little Bean stayed by the car.
• Old Gun spotted Qin Fen and followed him toward the restroom, where Yellow Hair and his punks were already waiting to ambush their target.
• Qin Fen stopped to answer a call from property management, and Old Gun entered the restroom ahead of him.
• Yellow Hair's men mistook Old Gun for Qin Fen and attacked him, leaving Old Gun injured as a fierce brawl erupted.
• Green Hair ran out shouting that there was a wanted criminal, and Old Gun emerged with blood on his face and a pistol, scattering the crowd.
• Old Gun threatened Qin Fen in a deserted passage, and Qin Fen activated the Six Ding Six Jia Talisman, turning gold and startling Old Gun.

After the Six Ding Six Jia Talisman’s power became self-sustaining through the Solar Star Lord’s mark, Qin Fen confronted Old Gun and demonstrated his supernatural strength. He tricked Old Gun into revealing Yan Bing’s location in Atlanta, but an attacker then struck from behind.

• Qin Fen discovered that the Solar Star Lord’s mark absorbed divine power, allowing him to use it without spending merit as long as he basked in sunlight.
• Old Gun aimed his gun at Qin Fen, who mocked him and evaded his first shot.
• Qin Fen caught Old Gun’s next bullet between two fingers, then deflected more shots while testing his abilities.
• Qin Fen psychologically unsettled Old Gun by suggesting Lan Yibing had abandoned him and escaped with a valuable purchase.
• Qin Fen manipulated Old Gun into revealing that Yan Bing was in Atlanta, then pointed out that Old Gun had run out of bullets.
• An attacker rushed up behind Qin Fen.

Chapter Summary: “Masterfully Setting Traps”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Fen confronts Old Gun, a dangerous soldier king and gunman, while deliberately refusing to use his full divine power.
• Qin manipulates Old Gun psychologically, convincing him that the unloaded pistol might still be dangerous and keeping him under constant pressure.
• When Old Gun raises the gun, Qin’s Chihuahua, Shorty, leaps unexpectedly high and bites Old Gun’s wrist with extraordinary force, causing him to drop the pistol.
• Old Gun attempts to seize Little Bean as a hostage, but Shorty humiliates him by spraying him in the face. Qin’s sarcastic warning makes the humiliation even worse.
• Qin then claims he had “forgotten” that one bullet remained in the gun, making Old Gun believe the entire situation was intentionally staged.
• Old Gun flees toward the exit, where he encounters Wang Lei, an enemy of Qin’s who has arrived with bodyguards.
• Believing Wang Lei can be used as leverage against Qin, Old Gun attacks him with a dagger. Qin secretly kicks the discarded pistol into Old Gun’s knee, allowing Wang Lei’s bodyguards to overpower and brutally restrain him.
• Qin stops the beating before Old Gun is killed and convinces Wang Lei that he has just helped capture an armed robber, presenting him as a heroic citizen.
• Qin leaves with the dogs, while Wang Lei is left humiliated after wetting himself from fear and realizing the police and media may expose him.

Character Developments

• Qin Fen: Demonstrates exceptional control, cunning, and psychological manipulation. Rather than simply defeating Old Gun through strength, he engineers a series of humiliating traps and uses both Shorty and Wang Lei to neutralize him.
• Old Gun: His confidence and professional composure steadily collapse. He goes from an experienced, calculating soldier king to a desperate and irrational man driven by humiliation and survival instinct.
• Shorty: Revealed to be far stronger and more dangerous than an ordinary Chihuahua. His bite and bizarre defensive behavior become key tools in defeating Old Gun.
• Wang Lei: Arrives intending revenge and believing he has the advantage because of his bodyguards, but ends up accidentally helping Qin and suffering public humiliation. His image as a successful, intimidating businessman is completely undermined.

Significant Themes

• Psychological warfare: Qin wins by destabilizing Old Gun’s mind and forcing him to react emotionally rather than strategically.
• Humiliation and reversal of power: A trained soldier king is defeated by a small dog, a discarded pistol, and a group of bodyguards, emphasizing how quickly status and strength can be overturned.
• Manipulation and misdirection: Qin continuously lies or withholds information, making his enemies misinterpret events and trap themselves.
• Irony and dark comedy: The chapter turns a potentially deadly confrontation into a farcical sequence of bites, spraying, mistaken assumptions, and public embarrassment.
• Unpredictable fate: Old Gun believes Wang Lei’s arrival is a miraculous chance for escape, but the apparent opportunity becomes another part of his downfall.

Character Interactions

• Qin Fen and Old Gun: Qin maintains psychological superiority, taunting and misleading Old Gun until the latter becomes desperate.
• Old Gun and Shorty: Old Gun underestimates the Chihuahua and is painfully bitten, overturning his assumptions about the dog’s weakness.
• Old Gun and Little Bean: Old Gun tries to use Little Bean as a hostage after losing control of the situation, but his attempt is thwarted.
• Qin Fen and Shorty: Qin treats Shorty as an effective, if troublesome, partner and even complains about the dog’s humiliating attack.
• Old Gun and Wang Lei: Old Gun tries to ambush Wang Lei and use him against Qin, but Wang Lei’s bodyguards instead beat and capture him.
• Qin Fen and Wang Lei: Qin turns Wang Lei’s revenge attempt into an apparent act of heroism, leaving him trapped in an embarrassing situation with the police.

Wenchang Dijun inspected the Heavenly Court Academy and praised its school and reading room, while criticizing Qin Fen and his Doraemon comic. He learned that Qin Fen had inspired the very policies he admired, leaving him embarrassed by his own harsh judgment.

• Qin Fen headed home with Little Bean while Big Chef reassured him that their earlier trouble would not cause further problems.
• Wenchang Dijun toured the Academy with Matchmaker Yue and Taibai and approved of its scholarly atmosphere.
• Wenchang praised Taibai’s phrase about crossing the river by feeling for the stones, then condemned Qin Fen’s Doraemon comic and its protagonist.
• Wenchang approved of the Academy’s reading room, unaware that Qin Fen had proposed it, and criticized Qin Fen’s motives for creating it.
• A chubby boy told Wenchang that Qin Fen had proposed the school, the Library, and its teaching plans, leaving Wenchang stunned and embarrassed.

Wenchang Dijun toured the Academy with Taibai and agreed that the Confucian School could help shape its future, but his anger flared when he saw children reading Qin Fen’s Doraemon comic. When Wenchang criticized Natural Daoist over a one-way video call, Qin Fen lost his temper and challenged him.

• Wenchang Dijun struggled with the children’s admiration for Natural Daoist, while Taibai and Matchmaker Yue tried to calm him.
• Wenchang proposed that the Confucian School help improve the Academy, and Taibai promised the Jade Emperor would welcome its involvement.
• A child collided with Wenchang and dropped a Doraemon comic bearing Natural Daoist’s name, prompting Wenchang to berate the students for reading it.
• Qin Fen received Wenchang Dijun’s contact and opened a one-way video feed, hoping to discuss borrowing a venue.
• Wenchang condemned Natural Daoist and his comic, so Qin Fen angrily defended himself and blamed the Heavenly Dao for the trouble.

Qin Fen intervened when Wenchang Dijun berated Academy students for bringing a book, and his defense of the children escalated into a public confrontation. The chapter ended with Qin Fen denouncing Wenchang across the Heavenly Court and Earthly Immortal Realm.

• Wenchang Dijun confiscated a book and reprimanded the boys, blaming Natural Daoist for corrupting the Academy with his publications.
• Qin Fen grew angry as he watched the children being shamed, and Little Bean sensed that trouble was coming.
• Dongwang Gong arrived, and the Academy students and Taibai Venus, Matchmaker Yue, and Wenchang paid their respects.
• Qin Fen told the children to rise and said he believed them, embarrassing Wenchang, Taibai, and Matchmaker Yue.
• Wenchang challenged Qin Fen, who broadcast a furious denunciation of him across the Heavenly Court and Earthly Immortal Realm.

Qin Fen erupted at Wenchang, condemning his talk of integrity and drawing the attention of the Heavenly Court and the Earthly Immortal Realm. After Wenchang turned scholars against Dongwang Gong, Qin Fen challenged him to explain what integrity meant, setting up his next move.

• Qin Fen’s amplified recitation of the Song of Righteous Qi shook heaven and earth before he cursed Wenchang for lecturing him about integrity.
• Tathagata, Ksitigarbha, Guanyin, the Queen Mother, and other powerful figures reacted as news of Qin Fen’s outburst spread.
• The Jade Emperor learned Qin Fen had clashed with Wenchang and used the Haotian Mirror to broadcast their words to the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Wenchang accused Qin Fen of insulting every scholar under heaven, and scholars grew hostile toward Dongwang Gong after hearing him.
• Qin Fen challenged Wenchang to explain whether certain things counted as integrity, leaving the Heavenly Court anticipating his next move.

Qin Fen challenged Wenchang’s idea of scholarly integrity, arguing that true integrity meant serving the people and the greater good rather than protecting one’s reputation. His words stirred the world, and righteous qi surged toward the sun.

• Qin Fen began questioning Wenchang about the integrity of Qu Yuan and Tao Yuanming, and Wenchang defended their actions as examples of scholarly virtue.
• Qin Fen argued that those acts could also reflect selfishness and a narrow concern for personal reputation, provoking scholars across the Heavenly Court and the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Qin Fen declared that scholars should serve heaven and earth, secure a purpose for the people, preserve the sages’ teachings, and strive for peace across generations.
• Countless rays of white light rose toward the sun as righteous qi filled heaven and earth.

Qin Fen's words about serving the people moved scholars and departed souls to gather righteous qi, which transformed the sun and amplified his divine power. As he remained unaware of the changes, his confrontation with Wenchang continued, leaving Wenchang stunned by the scholars' support for Qin Fen.

• Qin Fen's words inspired scholars across the Earthly Immortal Realm to bow and send righteous qi toward the sun.
• Departed scholars in the Underworld released righteous qi as they reflected on Qin Fen's words, and Ksitigarbha witnessed the surge.
• Guanyin praised Qin Fen's power as righteous qi blended with yang qi and caused the Nian egg in his pocket to pulse and crack.
• The Solar Star Lord's mark absorbed the purple qi, and the sun turned purple-gold across the Heavenly Court and the Three Thousand Lesser Worlds.
• Mitsui and the people of the island nation mistook the transformation for a miracle from Dong Re and knelt, while Qin Fen unknowingly gathered their fortune.
• The Jade Emperor and Wenchang reacted in shock as righteous qi flooded the Heavenly Court and scholars rallied to Qin Fen.

Qin Fen’s clash with Wenchang unexpectedly won him the scholars’ faith and dealt a major blow to the Confucian School, while the Jade Emperor’s broadcast made matters worse. As Wenchang challenged Qin Fen again, Qin Fen accepted, seemingly forgetting that he had come to borrow a venue.

• Qin Fen’s words and the scholars’ conviction let Nian absorb Confucian fortune, righteous qi, and faith, strengthening Qin Fen and bringing Nian closer to hatching.
• Wenchang watched the scholars abandon him, while Taibai, Matchmaker Yue, and the Jade Emperor lamented the damage caused by the clash and the Jade Emperor’s broadcast.
• Heavenly Court’s young immortals admired Qin Fen, and a crowd of devoted fans began to gather around him.
• Qin Fen told Little Bean that he had only meant to borrow a venue from Wenchang, while Wenchang and the Jade Emperor assumed he had deliberately weakened their alliance.
• Wenchang darkly praised Qin Fen and challenged him, and Qin Fen accepted as Little Bean worried that he had given up on getting the venue.

After Qin Fen humiliated Wenchang, Matchmaker Yue warned him that Confucius’s vast fortune and influence made him a formidable opponent. Confucius then arrived in the Heavenly Court to meet Dongwang Gong, turning the dispute into a confrontation between two renowned teachers.

• Qin Fen taunted Wenchang, who decided to withdraw and threatened that the Confucian School would repay him.
• Matchmaker Yue congratulated Qin Fen and warned him that Confucius wielded great influence and fortune in the Mortal Realm.
• Qin Fen listened to Yue’s explanation of merit and fortune, while considering whether Nian could overcome someone protected by fortune.
• Confucius arrived in the Heavenly Court, where Wenchang greeted him as his Sage Teacher and Confucius greeted Dongwang Gong.

Confucius arrived at the Heavenly Court Academy to confront Qin Fen, whose rising influence and righteous qi threatened to claim the scholars’ allegiance. As the two prepared to clash, Qin Fen’s divine mark transformed into the Purple Sun True Seal.

• Confucius emerged after sensing the immense righteous qi and realized Qin Fen had stirred it up through his dispute with Wenchang Dijun.
• Qin Fen greeted Confucius, while Wenchang urged him to intervene and Matchmaker Yue warned Qin Fen to stop before losing his gains.
• Confucius praised Qin Fen’s insight and sent his voice across the realms, drawing scholars and powerful beings’ attention to their looming confrontation.
• Nian’s eggshell shattered, and purple fortune rose from the Mortal Realm and the island nation before gathering toward the sky.
• Qin Fen’s Solar Star Lord mark transformed into the purple-gold Purple Sun True Seal, the mark of Dongwang Gong.

Qin Fen’s fortune and the Purple Sun True Seal elevated him from acting Dongwang Gong to the true Eastern Emperor. The Eastern Emperor Bell recognized him as its master, and the immortals bowed as he assumed authority over male immortals.

• Qin Fen absorbed the Purple Sun’s light as his Solar Golden Seal transformed and his divine office as Dongwang Gong manifested.
• The Queen Mother, Lord Lao, Ksitigarbha, and others interpreted the Purple Sun’s appearance as proof that Qin Fen had attained the vacant office.
• Three tolls of the Eastern Emperor Bell forced immortals throughout the Heavenly Court and beyond to kneel, while Confucius struggled against its pressure.
• The Jade Emperor protested that the Eastern Emperor Bell had never recognized anyone but Eastern Emperor Taiyi, but the bell appeared above Qin Fen and acknowledged him.
• The immortals hailed Qin Fen as His Majesty the Eastern Emperor, and he took his place as ruler of the male immortals beneath heaven.

Qin Fen unexpectedly became Dongwang Gong when the Eastern Emperor Bell acknowledged him, leaving the Queen Mother amused and the Jade Emperor’s plans in ruins. Confucius accepted Qin Fen’s words and bowed to him, while Wenchang’s Dao Heart faltered and he collapsed.

• The Eastern Emperor Bell appeared and recognized Qin Fen, officially appointing him Dongwang Gong.
• The Queen Mother theorized that Qin Fen’s Solar Star Lord power, Haoran Qi, and human-civilization fortune had helped him ascend, while Qin Fen insisted he had only gone to borrow a venue.
• The Eastern Emperor Bell’s pressure lifted, and Confucius praised Qin Fen’s words, bowed to him, and acknowledged learning from him.
• Wenchang was devastated when Confucius sided with Qin Fen, spat blood, and collapsed as his Dao Heart and immortal energy faltered.
• Taibai realized Wenchang’s condition was disastrous and blamed himself for inviting him.