Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Strathas has returned to the Broken Range after her honeymoon with the Dragon Emperor, since her duties as Lord of Boundaries require her to keep the mountain’s magical beasts and invading adventurers under control. She misses her husband and asks Luo Qian to help them spend more time together.
• Strathas recognizes Little Treasure as a being of extraordinary spiritual power. After learning Luo found him in the Heavenly River, she concludes that he is the Heart of the Heavenly River, formed from its Primordial Spirit. Little Treasure confirms this by nodding.
• Luo Qian worries that the Dragon Emperor might try to claim the child, but Little Treasure clings to him affectionately. Luo has a possible solution to Strathas’s separation problem: a long-distance teleportation array linking the Broken Range and the Heavenly River Water Court. He decides to consult the Dragon Emperor before acting.
• Luo visits his business territory in the Western Divine Realm, where the Luo Mine is recovering under Futis’s management. He gives Futis a third of the rare materials he brought from the Saint Realm and asks the alchemists to identify them.
• Before returning to the Immortal Realm, Luo introduces Little Treasure to Futis, who is delighted by the child despite having his beard nearly pulled out.
• Back home, Luo secretly examines a potion Devil King Sean gave him, wondering whether it could affect people as it did a huge Immortal Beast. He considers testing it on someone. A knock interrupts him: Hua Shiwei and Tian Shun’er have arrived, and Luo mischievously thinks they may make convenient test subjects.

Character developments

• Luo Qian remains protective and proud of Little Treasure, accepting the child’s mysterious origins without concern for his own sake. He is also scheming: he sees the teleportation array as a way to help Strathas while potentially gaining leverage over the Dragon Emperor.
• Little Treasure is revealed to be the Heavenly River’s spiritual heart, yet his strongest expressed attachment is to Luo, whom he kisses and refuses to leave.
• Strathas is happier and more settled after marrying the Dragon Emperor, but still longs for greater closeness with him. Her respect for Luo has grown because he saved her and her husband and defeated the previous Immortal Emperor.
• Futis has become capable of running the Luo Mine’s established businesses, though he shows little appetite for expansion. His affection for Little Treasure reveals a softer, paternal side.

Significant themes

• Family and belonging: Little Treasure’s cosmic origin does not matter as much to Luo as their bond as father and son.
• Duty versus intimacy: Strathas and the Dragon Emperor’s responsibilities keep them apart, prompting a search for ways technology can bridge distance.
• Power and political leverage: Little Treasure’s identity could alter the balance of relationships with the Dragon Emperor, while Luo considers how to manage that risk.
• Ambition and responsibility: Luo invests in his businesses and future plans, but his attention is repeatedly drawn back to family and personal schemes.

Character interactions

• Strathas teasingly scolds Luo for staying away, then confides in him and asks for help with her marriage.
• Luo and Strathas debate Little Treasure’s origins; the child settles the question by affirming Strathas’s theory.
• Little Treasure reassures Luo through affectionate gestures, reinforcing their father-son bond.
• Luo brings Little Treasure to meet Futis, whose enthusiastic welcome contrasts with the child’s rough treatment of his beard.
• Luo’s private plotting over Sean’s potion is interrupted by Hua Shiwei and Tian Shun’er’s arrival, setting up the next episode’s comic mischief.

Plot points and events

• Tian Shun’er and Hua Shiwei bring Luo Qian a rare Jade Soul. Luo considers using a potion to interfere in their relationship, but relents out of respect for Hua’s chastity and mourning. He rewards them and teases Tian about marriage, making Hua visibly uneasy.
• Luo learns that Luo Bookstore is losing money because its manager, Ling Xiaose, is lavishly printing books by Liu, a woman he admires. Ling has published her work in huge print runs despite its poor quality.
• Worried but indulgent toward his longtime friend, Luo visits the bookstore headquarters. An employee who does not recognize him blocks his way, and Ling is absent.
• Luo discovers Ling is spending his time at the struggling literary salon Heartbreak Hall. There, Ling extravagantly praises Liu’s writing and calligraphy, although Luo judges both to be terrible.
• Ling reveals that Liu’s poem—which celebrates him rescuing her cat—is her first love poem to him. Luo suspects the cat incident was a deliberate way for Liu to get Ling’s attention.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows a rare moment of restraint with Tian and Hua, then turns his meddling instincts toward helping Ling. He is protective of his friend’s happiness but also bluntly skeptical of Ling’s business decisions and Liu’s talent.
• Tian Shun’er and Hua Shiwei remain discreet about their mutual affection; Luo’s marriage remarks expose Hua’s discomfort and hint at her feelings.
• Ling Xiaose is smitten and unusually flattering around Liu, sacrificing bookstore profits to encourage her writing. In Luo’s presence, he quickly reverts to his shy, awkward self and asks for help.
• Liu is presented as lively and self-assured, while her clumsy poetry and calligraphy contrast sharply with Ling’s extravagant praise. The cat rescue may have been a calculated attempt to attract him.
• Luo’s exchanges with Ling mix friendship, exasperation, and humor: he criticizes Ling’s choices while remaining willing to support him.

Significant themes

• Restraint and propriety: Luo chooses not to exploit Tian and Hua’s vulnerable, unresolved relationship.
• Love and self-deception: Ling’s devotion leads him to praise work Luo finds plainly poor and spend freely to please Liu.
• Friendship and loyalty: Luo tolerates Ling’s financial losses because he values their bond and wants him to be happy.
• Comedy through contrast: Luo’s business-minded skepticism clashes with Ling’s romantic idealization, while the grand setting of Heartbreak Hall is undermined by its near-empty rooms and unimpressive “masterpieces.”

Key plot points

• Luo Qian’s potion test succeeds dramatically: after giving a drop each to Ling Xiaose and a woman, he overhears them have sex for hours. Ling, overwhelmed and emotionally attached, asks her to marry him; she flees, leaving him heartbroken.
• Luo Qian concludes the potion is extremely powerful, though he worries that a larger dose might have killed Ling. He then asks Feng Feitian a seemingly innocent question about whether to buy a ticket before or after boarding a carriage, using her answer to justify “boarding first” with Pei Sefei. His attempt to initiate romance fails when she rushes off to thank her master for approving their plans.
• When Xiao Xiangzi asks whether they should comfort Ling, Luo Qian awkwardly tells him to go instead.
• Luo Qian returns to the Saint Realm with Little Treasure and collects the Condensed Raw Gold from Yifen. At Basmo’s Shop, he trades the requested golden starlight for concentrated Liquid Plants, which can cover a large area, and earns Basmo’s favor.
• Basmo offers Luo Qian another job: test a new potion on someone who is both Half-Saint and Half-Immortal. The reward is an Upgrade Badge that lets Immortal Artifacts function in the Saint Realm as Sacred Artifacts. Luo Qian accepts, insisting on receiving the reward first, and Basmo sends him home with the badge and potion.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains opportunistic and mischievous. He treats Ling’s heartbreak as an inconvenient consequence of his experiment, avoids comforting him, and uses Feng Feitian’s answer as a pretext to pursue Pei Sefei. After being burned in an earlier bargain, he negotiates more carefully with Basmo.
• Ling Xiaose shifts from shy and sheltered to uninhibited under the potion, then becomes emotionally vulnerable and desperate for commitment. The woman rejects his marriage proposal and leaves.
• Pei Sefei is excited by the news that her master approved their plans, but her enthusiasm is directed toward thanking Feng Feitian rather than responding to Luo Qian’s advances.
• Feng Feitian unknowingly gives Luo Qian the justification he wants by saying the order of buying a ticket and boarding does not matter.
• Basmo continues to use Luo Qian as a valuable test subject, but offers an unusually powerful reward. Luo Qian responds with greater caution and bargaining confidence.

Significant themes

• Comedic consequences of experimentation: the potion’s success produces both exaggerated physical effects and emotional fallout.
• Opportunism and self-interest: Luo Qian prioritizes results, rewards, and personal advantage, often avoiding responsibility for others’ feelings.
• Transactional relationships: favors, artifacts, and experiments shape interactions, while Luo Qian becomes increasingly determined to secure fair payment.
• Miscommunication and comic pretexts: Luo Qian’s “ticket” question disguises his intentions, and his attempted seduction collapses through bad timing and misunderstanding.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian leases a small shop in Bintie Saint Market, paying a hefty deposit and worrying about the remaining rent. His planet’s businesses bring in strong monthly income, but the cost of maintaining its plants and people—and Tie E’s costly romantic gestures—quickly eats into it.
• Luo Qian gives Tie E a bottle of Master Basmo’s Liquid Plants. It rapidly spreads across the planet’s barren land, promising to green the world and eventually help protect it with an atmosphere. Tie E uses the moment to make a romantic appeal to Yifen, but she rejects his dinner invitation.
• Back in the Immortal Realm, Luo Qian remembers he never asked what Basmo’s potion does. He drinks it, assuming it is harmless, while Little Treasure watches with suspiciously knowing eyes.
• Soon, women—including Luo Qian’s partners—react to him with sudden, unusually intense attraction. Xie Tang’s feelings overwhelm her restraint, and she takes charge in an intimate encounter with him. Luo Qian later notices that women keep pursuing him, while men behave normally.
• Convinced the potion is responsible, Luo Qian confronts Basmo. Basmo identifies it as an Affection Potion, meant only to make others feel fond of its user, and is perplexed that its effects seem far stronger on Luo Qian.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains a profit-minded, impulsive merchant: he accepts a mysterious potion because the reward is valuable, neglecting to ask what it does. He is initially pleased with his gains, then embarrassed and alarmed by the potion’s consequences.
• Tie E shows his devotion to Yifen through attentive gestures and an elaborate romantic display, but Yifen remains unmoved and rejects his invitation.
• Xie Tang shifts from her normally gentle, controlled manner to forceful passion when her attraction to Luo Qian becomes overwhelming. Luo Qian misreads her distress as illness before realizing what is happening.
• Little Treasure is present during the potion episode and later attracts attention from his father; his sly look hints that he may understand more than he lets on.
• Li Feier, Pei Sefei, Feng Feitian, and other women display strange attraction to Luo Qian, leaving him increasingly wary of being alone or going out. Basmo’s explanation suggests the potion affects people around Luo Qian in an unusual, possibly amplified way.

Significant themes

• Consequences of carelessness: Luo Qian’s failure to investigate the potion’s purpose turns a profitable deal into a disruptive problem.
• Commerce and material costs: Luo Qian’s substantial earnings are offset by the immense expense of developing and maintaining his planet.
• Desire and self-control: Xie Tang’s struggle to suppress her feelings contrasts with the potion’s apparent ability to intensify attraction beyond ordinary restraint.
• Romance and rejection: Tie E’s persistent courtship of Yifen is played against her continued refusal, while Luo Qian unexpectedly becomes the object of widespread attention.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian confronts Master Basmo after learning the potion has made women intensely attracted to him. Basmo admits he cannot reverse the effects and reveals that the potion works by provoking people mentally, not by giving off a scent. He says Luo Qian’s only remedy is to have someone seal his mental power.
• Luo Qian asks the Supreme Pure Emperor to seal his Primordial Spirit. The emperor succeeds in sealing its immortal half, but Luo Qian does not realize the saintly half remains unaffected.
• The emperor demands to know when Luo Qian will marry his sister, Xie Tang. Luo promises to marry all the women he loves within six months, though the emperor would prefer him to marry Xie Tang first.
• Luo considers how to win over Li Feier, Pei Sefei, and Zhu Ke’er. Li Feier intimidates him, Pei Sefei is guarded by Feng Feitian, and Zhu Ke’er’s constant attendant seems the easiest obstacle to remove.
• On returning to Luo Cloudtop, Luo finds that Little Treasure can now pee without him. Zhu Ke’er tells him so, prompting Luo to joke that he has lost his main usefulness as the child’s “father.”

Character developments

• Luo Qian is overwhelmed by the potion’s effects, but remains scheming and flirtatious. He agrees to marry the women he loves within six months while privately plotting how to pursue the other three.
• Master Basmo shows guilt and evasiveness: he cannot undo the potion, and initially hides both its true nature and the fact that Luo Qian took a massive overdose.
• The Supreme Pure Emperor acts as both ruler and protective brother, sealing Luo Qian’s Primordial Spirit and pressing him to marry Xie Tang.
• Zhu Ke’er is shown caring for Little Treasure, who has become more independent.

Significant themes

• Desire and consequences: Basmo’s potion turns attraction into a burden for Luo Qian, exposing the risks of tampering with desire.
• Duty versus personal choice: Luo Qian’s marriage plans collide with the emperor’s expectations and his own wish to choose his partners.
• Limits of power and knowledge: Even a powerful emperor cannot fully seal Luo Qian’s unusual, half-saint and half-immortal nature.
• Changing roles: Little Treasure’s growing independence marks a small shift in Luo Qian’s role as his caregiver.

Character interactions

• Luo’s angry confrontation with Basmo turns into a grudging exchange of advice, with Basmo escaping once exposed.
• Luo approaches the emperor for help, but their conversation shifts from magical treatment to pressure over Xie Tang’s marriage.
• Luo thinks through the different obstacles posed by Li Feier, Pei Sefei, and Zhu Ke’er as he plans his courtship.
• Zhu Ke’er informs Luo that Little Treasure no longer needs his help, while Luo reacts with comic disappointment.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian secures all five materials identified by alchemists in the Immortal and Divine Realms, preparing to open the Saint Realm branch with unusually low prices.
• Still seeking profitable goods, he visits a Lower Realm furniture market. He buys ten premium sets each of Chinese, European, and South Asian furniture to test whether Saint Realm customers will embrace styles beyond their current preference for dark panel furniture.
• He visits his Lower Realm agent, Chen Baozi, and asks him to collect unusual, creative furniture for resale in the Saint Realm.
• Chen Baozi reveals that the hostile stranger who attacked his men before has returned and has been targeting him while waiting for Luo Qian. Luo Qian tells Chen Baozi and his staff to leave, then waits alone at Chen’s home.
• After arranging the furniture into an Immortal Formation and posing as a composed master, Luo Qian meets the stranger: a being from Dajia World who can flatten himself into a shadow and take the form of a blue, frog-like creature.
• The stranger explains that he has been stranded in the Lower Realm for three years and hopes to return home. Luo Qian lets him believe he comes from a world two levels higher and can travel freely between worlds. The creature is overwhelmed with relief and begs for help.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian combines business instinct with theatrical confidence. He looks for niche products that might command high prices, but his grand image is undercut by his inability to pay a few cents for a public phone call. He also shifts from expecting a fight to negotiating once he learns the stranger’s predicament.
• Chen Baozi remains loyal and unquestioning, quickly obeying Luo Qian’s instructions and relocating with his wife and staff for safety. His relief at Luo Qian’s arrival shows how much he trusts his boss.
• The stranger moves from hostility and suspicion to hope, persuaded by Luo Qian’s claims of exceptional power and freedom between worlds. Its desperation reveals the hardship of being trapped far from home.
• Their encounter is shaped by an imbalance of information: Luo Qian presents himself as more powerful and capable than the stranger can verify, while the stranger’s need makes it receptive to his offer.

Significant themes

• Entrepreneurship and adaptation: Luo Qian studies markets and seeks untapped demand rather than simply copying what already sells.
• Creativity as value: The chapter suggests that novelty can be valuable in itself, especially in a society eager for inspiration.
• Status and performance: Luo Qian uses an imposing persona to command respect, while mundane mishaps humorously puncture his image.
• Power, dependence, and hope: The stranded stranger’s desperation gives Luo Qian leverage, but also creates the possibility of a bargain or genuine assistance.

Plot and events

• Luo Qian promises Sorgualang a future reward in exchange for guarding Chen Baozi, then heads to the Saint Realm to establish his new business.
• He and Yifen travel to Black Iron Saint Market with a small stock of rare alchemy materials. Luo Qian suspects the potion he took earlier is causing women to react unusually strongly to him.
• Luo Qian collects payment from Wei Shandong for thirty pieces of flat-pack furniture and pitches him on opening a separate high-end furniture shop. Wei is interested but wary of the investment.
• Short on funds, Luo Qian pays most of the rent for his alchemy shop and promises to cover the remaining balance later. He also borrows money from Wei for an advertisement.
• The Luo Alchemy General Store opens with six rare materials priced slightly below ordinary shops. Sales reach 800 Superior Saint Stones in two days.
• Yifen agrees to work the counter on the condition that she serves male customers and Luo Qian serves female customers. His presence boosts sales, despite the women’s intense reactions.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains opportunistic and resourceful, using promises, negotiation, and even his unsettling effect on women to advance his business. He endures their attention by mentally reciting the names of women he cares about.
• Yifen struggles to suppress an involuntary attraction to Luo Qian, using a potion to control it. Seeing other women react similarly reassures her that she is not alone. Her passion for alchemy also helps her refocus on the rare materials.
• Wei Shandong has become more prosperous and respectable through his furniture business. He pays Luo Qian promptly but remains cautious about risking capital on a premium store.
• Luo Qian and Yifen’s partnership is practical but awkward: she helps launch the shop while trying to keep her distance, and he remains largely unaware of the cause of her distress.

Significant themes

• Entrepreneurship and resourcefulness: Luo Qian builds a business with limited capital, relying on bargains, borrowing, and careful pricing.
• Desire and self-control: The potion’s effects create comic tension, especially as Yifen tries to hide her feelings and Luo Qian tries to endure the attention.
• Trust and risk: Luo Qian’s dealings with Sorgualang and Wei Shandong show how he uses promises and negotiations to secure help while others weigh the risks.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian’s alchemy shop is overwhelmed by female customers who buy tiny amounts and mostly want to talk, leaving him exhausted. Wei Shandong arrives to rescue him and discusses launching their furniture venture; Luo Qian lets him proceed without visiting the site.
• After the shop earns enough, Luo Qian pays the remaining rent, hires three salesclerks, and makes Yifen manager—though his joke that she must satisfy every request from the shop’s male customers gives her a misleading impression of her authority.
• Seeking to have his Primordial Spirit sealed, Luo Qian hires the Private Employment Guild’s “Superbrain.” During the attempt, a confidential mission appears with a reward of 100,000 Superior Saint Stones. Tempted by the money, Luo Qian accepts.
• The guild transports him to a dark room, where an old man warns him that revealing the mission’s secrets will bring the guild’s pursuit. The mission is to cure the Fieldlog Lineage patriarch’s wife of her lack of sexual desire. Luo Qian must have no sexual contact with her; success is defined as her conceiving a child.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian is resourceful and money-minded, but his confidence in accepting a risky, poorly explained mission rests on the assumption that he can escape to the Immortal Realm if necessary.
• Wei Shandong acts as Luo Qian’s practical ally, rescuing him from the crowd and preparing to start their furniture business.
• Yifen shifts from feeling overlooked to becoming the shop’s manager, but Luo Qian’s odd instructions leave her misunderstanding what the job entails.
• Luo Qian and the guild interact through the Superbrain and the mission official: Luo Qian distrusts the pricing system, yet ultimately pays for help and accepts the guild’s secret commission.

Significant themes

• Comic reversal and comeuppance: Luo Qian suffers the same time-wasting customer tactic he once used on another shopkeeper.
• Greed and risk: The enormous reward outweighs Luo Qian’s caution despite the mission’s secrecy and strange conditions.
• Bureaucracy and commerce: Saint Realm services are expensive and possibly manipulated, while business success brings new responsibilities.
• Absurdity and irony: The mission’s goal—helping a woman conceive while forbidding sexual contact with her husband’s wife—sets up a deliberately paradoxical challenge.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian arrives in the Fieldlog Lineage’s territory to treat its lady, drawn by a promised payment of 100,000 Superior Saint Stones.
• After being kept waiting, he is tested on two women with symptoms like the patient’s. Master Basmo’s potion quickly stirs their desire, and Luo Qian stops the demonstration once it has proved effective.
• Impressed, Ferren takes him to the lineage’s home planet, a spectacular wilderness of mountains, waterfalls, caves, and abundant Saint Origin Force.
• Ferren hands Luo Qian over to Parrot, a dismissive young attendant who leads him to the lady’s cave. Parrot warns him to behave respectfully and says the lineage head will appear if the treatment succeeds.
• Luo Qian expects a mature, reserved woman, but finds a lively young woman who eagerly greets him as someone new to play with. She says she is the patient—and the lady of the lineage—leaving Luo Qian confused about her supposed lack of desire.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian is impressed by the lineage’s wealth and refined environment, but remains focused on earning his fee and avoiding entanglement in its internal affairs. His confidence in his treatment is shaken by the unexpected patient.
• Ferren shifts from cautious evaluator to genuinely respectful host after witnessing Luo Qian’s success.
• Parrot is openly hostile and unusually disdainful toward Luo Qian, while also seeming personally displeased with the lady.
• The lady is introduced as cheerful, playful, and apparently eager for company—very different from the patient Luo Qian expected.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The Fieldlog Lineage’s influence shapes every interaction; even respected figures like Ferren become minor players on the home planet.
• Appearances versus reality: Luo Qian’s assumptions about the patient—and the lineage’s situation—are unsettled by what he encounters.
• Nature and grandeur: The lineage’s garden worlds and wilderness home embody a level of environmental mastery far beyond Luo Qian’s own achievements.
• Caution amid intrigue: Luo Qian senses that he is being watched and that the family’s affairs may be complicated, so he tries to keep his distance and concentrate on the job.

Plot and key events

• Luo Qian enters a sealed cave expecting a medical case, but Gushe Rong tells him she only wanted company. Held there by the Fieldlog Lineage, she has been isolated and falsely labeled frigid.
• The two play a Go-like board game and share a meal. Rong explains that women of the Gushe House can use the Water-Cutting Blade Qi Art to suppress desire; her skill is limited, and she suspects that this has contributed to the failed political marriage between her family and the Fieldlogs.
• Rong reveals that her marriage was arranged for political reasons and that her father neglected her. She hints that the dispute surrounding her confinement is dangerous to discuss.
• Pleased when Luo calls her “Miss Gushe,” Rong destroys the cave’s Surveillance Array, allowing them to speak privately. She asks him to deliver a message—and half a jade coin as proof—to her full brother, Gushe Village.
• After spending a day with Rong, Luo is summoned by Parrot. He leaves without being able to help her directly, but resolves to deliver the message and learn what the powerful Gushe clan will do.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian begins cautiously, wary of becoming caught in powerful families’ conflicts. As he sees Rong’s loneliness and hears her story, he grows sympathetic, but remains pragmatic: delivering her message is a safer way to help and to assess her family’s influence.
• Gushe Rong shifts from playful and hungry for conversation to candid about her abandonment and distress. Her blade-qi display reveals formidable ability despite her claim that her cultivation is incomplete. She also shows a youthful, wistful side when Luo’s form of address reminds her of someone from her past.
• Their interaction is warm and teasing: Rong teaches Luo her game and jokes about his name; he indulges her request to call her “Miss Gushe” repeatedly. Their growing trust leads her to ask him to contact her brother.
• Parrot is impatient and dismissive of Rong, calling her unfeminine. Luo suspects that Parrot and other male favorites may have helped keep her isolated, though this remains his inference.

Significant themes

• Loneliness and neglect: Rong’s eager conversation and appetite underline the emotional cost of prolonged isolation.
• Political marriage and family power: Rong’s confinement and failed alliance show how individuals can be used as pieces in aristocratic negotiations.
• Appearance versus reality: Rong’s “frigid” reputation conceals a trained ability to control desire, while Luo suspects hidden rivalries beneath the Fieldlogs’ actions.
• Prudence and compassion: Luo wants to help Rong but weighs that impulse against the danger to himself and Tie E, choosing a limited, strategic act rather than a reckless rescue.
• Trust and communication: The destroyed surveillance array and the jade token enable a private appeal that may connect Rong to the one relative she believes will protect her.

Key plot points and events

• Unable to locate the Gushe Aristocratic Clan, Luo Qian posts a delivery commission for his letter and half jade coin, offering a costly reward of one hundred Superior Saint Stones.
• He visits Wei Shandong’s new furniture shop but finds it too small and poorly situated for the high-end goods. Rather than wait for Wei’s business to improve, Luo Qian returns to the Immortal Realm.
• Back at Luo Cloudtop, Little Treasure surprises everyone by speaking his first complete sentence—recognizing that his father has returned. Li Feier rushes to greet Luo Qian, while Pei Sefei follows with the child.
• After greeting the women, Luo Qian visits Xie Tang. Their reunion turns into a rowdy, competitive bedroom struggle that breaks furniture and shakes the wall shared with Zhu Ke’er’s room.
• Zhu Ke’er interrupts by knocking. Xie Tang pauses to answer, then resumes her private encounter with Luo Qian. Curious about the earlier noises, Zhu Ke’er uses a special listening treasure that pierces soundproof barriers, overhears them, and is mortified.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian is willing to spend heavily to pursue the Gushe lead, but impatiently postpones dealing with Wei Shandong’s shop. At home, he is affectionate with his family and eager to reconnect with Xie Tang. His attempts to take charge are repeatedly thwarted by her strength and confidence.
• Xie Tang reveals a forceful, queenly side in private, contrasting with her reserved public manner. She holds her own against Luo Qian and ultimately regains control of their encounter.
• Li Feier openly and impulsively rushes to welcome Luo Qian; Pei Sefei is more shy, though she too hurries to join them. Little Treasure’s first full sentence is an affectionate milestone.
• Zhu Ke’er is inquisitive and persistent. Her interruption forces Xie Tang and Luo Qian to stop, while her listening device turns curiosity into embarrassment.
• The scene also highlights the closeness—and awkward entanglements—within Luo Qian’s household, including Zhu Ke’er’s unknown family connection to Xie Tang.

Significant themes

• Family and reunion: Luo Qian’s return brings warmth and excitement to the household, especially through Little Treasure’s milestone.
• Impatience and priorities: Luo Qian’s longing for home outweighs his business concerns.
• Power and role reversal: Luo Qian expects to dominate, but his relationship with Xie Tang is a playful contest in which neither easily yields.
• Privacy and curiosity: Zhu Ke’er’s interruption and barrier-piercing treasure create comic tension around the couple’s private life.

Plot points and events

• Chief Steward Ha Dehai leads the Celestial Palace’s ten-year procurement trip, which now includes furnishings for Xu Hu’s lavish estate—an unofficial sign of his status as crown prince.
• After buying most supplies, Ha targets Luo Company, hoping its size and influence will bring him generous bribes.
• At Luo Department Store in Upper Clarity Heaven, Ha criticizes the jewelry and demands to see the person in charge. A sales Immortal explains that the store calls its supervisors “managers,” while Ha’s attendant loudly announces his rank.
• Du Lengning, preoccupied with personal troubles, delegates the matter to sales manager Zhao Bing. Zhao follows company policy: he offers only the standard group-purchase rate and refuses to grant special concessions.
• Humiliated and angry, Ha returns with eunuchs and palace guards, displays the emperor’s decree, and orders the store sealed for supposedly obstructing royal procurement.

Character developments and interactions

• Ha Dehai is an experienced palace official whose confidence and appetite for corruption have grown. He expects his imperial authority to secure special treatment, but Luo Company’s rules frustrate him; he responds by abusing that authority.
• Zhao Bing remains polite but firm, representing Luo Company’s disciplined policies despite Ha’s threats.
• Du Lengning is distracted by two tangled romantic complications: he has fallen for the daughter of a man who once saved him, despite already being married, and he has also slept with Qian Qiuluo, Luo Qian’s unmarried aunt. He fears Luo Qian’s reaction and avoids getting involved with Ha.
• Ha’s attendant tries to bolster his standing by loudly invoking his title, while the sales Immortal initially resists his bullying but backs down when he contacts her supervisor.

Significant themes

• Corruption and abuse of office: Ha treats public procurement as an opportunity for personal gain and uses the imperial decree to retaliate when denied.
• Institutional rules versus personal influence: Luo Company’s standardized pricing resists the favoritism Ha expects.
• Comedy through contrast: Ha’s grandiose self-importance clashes with the store’s ordinary business procedures, while Du’s romantic crises distract him from an escalating political confrontation.
• Changing status and succession: Xu Hu’s new residence signals his emerging position as crown prince, even without a formal proclamation.

Plot points and events

• Du Lengning welcomes the confrontation when Chief Steward Ha Dehai tries to seal Luo Company’s store, seeing it as a chance to escape the women pursuing him.
• Ha Dehai accuses the company of overcharging the Emperor and uses the charge to pressure Du Lengning for a bribe. Du recognizes the scheme and orders his guards to arrest Ha Dehai’s entourage for extortion. Though Ha Dehai’s imperial decree prevents Du from laying hands on him, the others are seized and taken to the authorities.
• The case escalates to the Realm Security Court, attracting public attention. Luo Qian learns what happened and asks Xie Tang about the Imperial Procurement mission. She explains that palace officials are isolated from the outside world and travel out only once every ten years.
• Rather than worry about Du, Luo sees a business opportunity: he wants to persuade the Emperor to endorse Luo Company’s goods. Xie Tang doubts the Emperor will accept ordinary products, but Luo argues that royal use could be presented as sharing imperial comforts with the people.
• Li Xuexiao arrives in distress, followed by Zhou Qing, who also seeks help concerning Du. Finally, Qian Qiuluo visits Luo. Though she has no ties to her former household, she comes because she believes only Luo can save Du. When she calls him “my Du,” Luo realizes how she feels and stops her mid-sentence.

Character developments and interactions

• Du Lengning is bold and quick-thinking: he uses the public setting to expose Ha Dehai’s bribery attempt while avoiding direct defiance of the imperial decree.
• Luo Qian remains commercially minded, turning a legal crisis into a possible royal-marketing strategy. His strained history with the Qian Household is evident when he deliberately receives Qian Qiuluo as a business leader rather than as family.
• Qian Qiuluo reveals her growing love for Du and her anxiety about his fate. Her visit shows how personally invested she has become, despite her usual reserve.
• Xie Tang advises Luo and teases him, but ultimately respects his autonomy when the Qian family matter arises.
• Li Xuexiao and Zhou Qing both come seeking help for Du, underscoring how many people are drawn into his predicament.

Significant themes

• Power and accountability: Ha Dehai exploits imperial authority, while Du uses witnesses and the courts to resist him without openly challenging the Emperor.
• Commerce and image: Luo treats royal endorsement as a way to elevate ordinary goods and expand his business.
• Changing loyalties and affection: Qian Qiuluo’s growing feelings for Du collide with Luo’s separation from her family, while several women’s concern highlights Du’s complicated personal life.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian is summoned to the Celestial Palace after Ha Dehai’s abduction. The Supreme Pure Emperor angrily reprimands him, then orders him not to interfere while an investigation proceeds.
• Luo Qian worries that failing to protect Du Lengning will bring trouble from Zhu Ke’er. He leaves the palace furious, feeling abandoned by his allies.
• Back at Luo Cloudtop, Ke’er admits no fault but is intimidated by Luo Qian’s anger. He comforts her, and their closeness turns into a near-kiss before Xiao Xiangzi interrupts with concerns about Pinglu City’s accounts.
• Xiao Xiangzi reports that Pinglu City’s income has fallen by exactly twenty percent each month for three months. Luo Qian notices the suspicious pattern but tells him not to act without orders, unwilling to suspect trusted manager Dongfang Chen.
• Ke’er goes after the Supreme Pure Emperor, correctly guessing he has retreated to a secluded cottage. She finds him with the Colorfully Clad Beauty—her mother—and demands that he not make Luo Qian suffer too much.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shifts from defiant anger at the emperor to tenderness with Ke’er. His trust in Dongfang Chen also makes him reluctant to investigate the troubling accounts.
• Zhu Ke’er moves from resentment and reluctance to help Luo Qian toward growing affection. Their intimate moment unsettles and excites her; afterward, she resolves to protect him.
• The Supreme Pure Emperor balances imperial authority with private retreat, anticipating Ke’er’s intervention and trying to preserve his dignity.
• Ke’er and her mother share an affectionate but awkward reunion; the mother is delighted to see her, while Ke’er keeps her guard up.
• Xiao Xiangzi acts as a careful, observant adviser, bringing Luo Qian the first hint of possible financial misconduct.

Significant themes

• Power and family loyalty: Ke’er uses her influence to defend Luo Qian, while the emperor’s authority is tempered by family ties.
• Trust and suspicion: The irregular decline in Pinglu City’s income raises doubts, but Luo Qian’s personal faith in Dongfang Chen delays action.
• Romantic tension and vulnerability: Ke’er’s confusing mixture of jealousy, embarrassment, and attraction marks a new stage in her relationship with Luo Qian.
• Public duty versus private desire: The emperor’s official conflict with Luo Qian contrasts with his secluded personal life.

Plot points

• Ke’er leaves the mountain, proud and confident, while the Colorfully Clad Beauty watches her go and chooses not to tell her something.
• The Supreme Pure Emperor assigns Lu Xiaofeng to investigate the dispute involving Luo Company and Ha Dehai. With no independent witness, Lu’s scrupulous inquiry finds no definitive answer. The Emperor eventually gives both sides a token punishment: Luo Company pays 50,000 High-Grade Immortal Jade, while Ha Dehai and his followers are confined to the palace. Ha Dehai also loses influence when Zhou Zixuan replaces him as Chief of Internal Affairs.
• Luo Qian uses his friendship with Zhou to secure a royal procurement connection. He plans to use the purchase as cover for promoting goods in Xu Hu’s Eastern Palace—and potentially involve Xu Hu in the scheme.
• In the Lower Realm, Luo Qian asks Chen Baozi what wealthy people put in their homes. A tour of Chen’s lavish English villa gives him the idea to introduce digital home-control systems in the Immortal Realm.
• Their meeting with technology executive Thomas Young leads Chen to commission an extravagant system for his villa as a demonstration. Luo Qian then sees a broader opportunity: the Immortal Realm has no luxury-goods market, and he begins planning to create one. He and Chen tour English castles and luxury establishments for inspiration.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains pragmatic and audacious, turning setbacks and connections into business opportunities. He reassures his own company about Lu Xiaofeng’s impartiality, cultivates Zhou Zixuan, and thinks strategically about how to market goods without directly challenging the Supreme Pure Emperor.
• Lu Xiaofeng is shown as stubbornly fair, even when his careful investigation produces no result.
• The Supreme Pure Emperor balances appearances with political control: he waits for public attention to fade, penalizes both sides, and quietly replaces Ha Dehai with Zhou Zixuan.
• Zhou Zixuan is grateful to Luo Qian and promptly helps him through palace procurement.
• Chen Baozi is deferential toward his powerful boss, despite presenting himself to others as a wealthy, confident businessman. He eagerly helps Luo Qian explore new ideas.
• Thomas Young is impressed by Chen’s apparent spending power, but misreads the relationship and mistakes Luo Qian for his subordinate.
• Ke’er leaves buoyant and self-assured, while the Beauty’s silence suggests an unresolved secret or concern between them.

Significant themes

• Business ingenuity and opportunism: Luo Qian turns procurement, technology, and luxury into potential markets.
• Power, influence, and appearances: Political punishments serve as much to manage public perception as to deliver justice; Chen’s and Luo Qian’s differing appearances also mislead Thomas.
• Bridging worlds: Luo Qian adapts Lower Realm innovations—digital systems and luxury goods—for the Immortal Realm.
• Secrecy and withheld truths: The Beauty’s silence about Ke’er and Luo Qian’s undisclosed half of his plan point to information being carefully managed.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian approves Thomas’s custom home-control system, impressed by its voice-activated features. He and Chen Baozi then plan a much larger commission: designing Xu Hu’s enormous Eastern Palace, which has 164 rooms and 24 halls.
• Chen Baozi films Luo Qian’s magically recorded images of the palace. Thomas sees the footage and realizes the project could be worth millions; he asks to build a 3D model and begin planning.
• Luo Qian returns to the Immortal Realm to launch a luxury-goods promotion, but Xiao Xiangzi reports that Dongfang Chen has left Pinglu City with most of its key staff.
• Luo Qian rushes to the plains. He reflects on his long-standing trust in Dongfang Chen and concludes that Chen’s self-interest and modern, profit-first outlook help explain the betrayal.
• At Pinglu City, Luo Qian finds the operation collapsing: guests are leaving, refunds have been issued, and the city is nearly deserted.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian is confident and commercially ambitious, expanding his business across realms. Dongfang Chen’s betrayal deeply wounds him, though he tries to analyze it calmly and distinguishes between leaving the company and sabotaging it through embezzlement and staff poaching.
• Chen Baozi acts as Luo Qian’s trusted assistant, helping document the palace and coordinate with Thomas. His brief encounter with the British woman adds humor and shows his casual, opportunistic side.
• Thomas is thrilled by the prospect of major commissions and is eager to turn the palace footage into a workable design.
• Xu Hu shows off his guarded residence and teases Luo Qian about becoming Immortal Emperor; Luo Qian rejects the idea.
• Xiao Xiangzi brings Luo Qian the news of the crisis, sharing his disappointment that Dongfang Chen left without warning.
• The chapter also contrasts Luo Qian’s trust in longtime associates with Dongfang Chen’s betrayal, which threatens a project Luo Qian regarded as a symbol of his company.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and trust: Luo Qian’s first serious betrayal challenges his belief that loyalty and gratitude underpin business relationships.
• Profit versus principle: The narration frames Dongfang Chen’s actions as part of a wider shift toward self-interest, but condemns his embezzlement and deliberate damage to his former employer.
• Ambition and scale: Luo Qian’s ventures span the Immortal and Lower Realms, while the palace commission and Pinglu crisis show both the reach and vulnerability of his enterprise.
• The cost of success: The company’s growth depends on key people and projects, making it vulnerable when trust breaks down.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian returns to a badly depleted Pinglu City and finds Wangjiang City recruiting customers at its gates with membership cards.
• He reassures the remaining employees by portraying Wangjiang City as an imitation, then appoints temporary managers and promises generous bonuses. The staff rally and restore basic operations.
• Suspecting Dongfang Chen has powerful backing, Luo Qian orders Xiao Xiangzi to investigate. He recognizes that the Luo Company’s apparent prosperity may conceal serious vulnerabilities.
• Pinglu City reopens, but initially draws almost no customers. Luo’s company advertises a 40% discount, bringing visitors back gradually.
• A card reveals Wangjiang City’s own 40% opening discount. Luo and Xiao Xiangzi visit it: its classical design differs from Pinglu City’s modern style, but its businesses follow the same model. Luo orders it watched.
• Luo counters with a 50% discount. Xiao Xiangzi warns that the price war could hurt both cities, but Luo considers short-term losses acceptable and begins devising a broader strategy.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shifts from public reassurance to private concern. Though he remains confident and resourceful, Dongfang Chen’s unexpected challenge makes him feel genuinely threatened. He encourages his staff, rewards and empowers them, then studies Wangjiang City before planning his next move.
• Xiao Xiangzi serves as Luo’s trusted aide, carrying out orders and questioning the wisdom of a damaging price war. Luo listens but proceeds.
• The remaining Pinglu City employees move from anxiety and uncertainty to renewed motivation after Luo thanks them, gives them responsibility, and promises bonuses.
• Dongfang Chen, though absent, emerges as a capable rival: he has secured hidden support, built a competing city, and used networked membership cards to communicate promotions.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and strategy: Competition is not just about matching an opponent’s moves; Luo seeks a larger plan to lure Wangjiang City into a disadvantage.
• Appearances versus reality: The Luo Company’s enormous success masks a fragile position, while its depleted city reflects how quickly prosperity can falter.
• Leadership under crisis: Luo restores morale through confidence, recognition, and delegation.
• Different tastes and divided markets: Wangjiang City’s traditional architecture attracts customers who may not prefer Pinglu City’s modern style, making competition more complex than price alone.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Xiangzi traces the financing behind Dongfang Chen’s Wangjiang City to Qi Ren, Lei Laohu, and their associates. Luo Qian doubts they would openly challenge him and suspects someone more powerful is directing them. He decides to respond through business unless his opponents use unlawful methods.
• Luo Qian gathers his associates to plan a counterattack. He proposes continuing discounts without selling below 30% of the original price, building a classical-style North City beside Pinglu City, creating a secret floating attraction called Pinglu Heaven for premium members, and importing creatures from the Divine and Demon Realms.
• The group approves the plan, with Tian Shun’er promising support from the Immortal Jade Mine. Luo Qian commits one billion High-Grade Immortal Jade to startup costs.
• To free himself to lead the campaign, Luo Qian appoints Xie Tang to manage Pinglu City. Pei Sefei agrees to take over Luo Communications, while the other associates retain their existing responsibilities.
• Luo Qian travels to the Mortal Realm to obtain maglev technology for Pinglu Heaven. After failing to reach major maglev companies directly, he asks supplier Thomas Young to arrange a complete technology transfer. Thomas recognizes the legal risks and, after considering his family, decides to make a call.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shifts from suspicion to a concrete, large-scale commercial strategy, balancing aggressive expansion with a firm limit on losses. He also relies more on his network, delegating key responsibilities.
• Xiao Xiangzi urges Luo Qian not to overthink the identity of his rivals and to meet fair competition on its own terms.
• Du Lengning returns from prison and is playfully punished by Luo Qian, then jokes that he may become Luo Qian’s uncle-in-law. Their banter also reveals Du’s interest in marrying Qian Qiuluo and his unease about winning the Qian family’s approval.
• Xie Tang readily accepts responsibility for holding Pinglu City, eager to put her abilities to use. Pei Sefei, initially reluctant because she prefers domestic life, agrees to manage Luo Communications after learning Xie Tang will run the city.
• Thomas Young is tempted by the lucrative technology-transfer deal but weighs the danger against his responsibility to his wife and daughter. Chen Baozi warns that he cannot readily finance a deal costing billions; Luo Qian reassures him that he has another solution.

Significant themes

• Business as warfare: Luo Qian treats competition as a contest of pricing, design, investment, and innovation, while drawing a line at unlawful tactics.
• Ambition and spectacle: The proposed city expansion and floating island aim to distinguish Pinglu City through novelty and exclusivity.
• Delegation and trust: Luo Qian’s plan depends on assigning capable allies to maintain his businesses while he pursues the counterattack.
• Risk and responsibility: Thomas’s dilemma contrasts financial opportunity with legal danger and family obligations.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian senses hostile forces surrounding the mansion and wakes Chen Baozi just before an MI6-led assault begins.
• He catches two tranquilizer bullets, then carries Chen to the rooftop and escapes into the air as soldiers and an attack helicopter close in.
• When a missile is fired at them, Luo Qian dresses in a strange Saint Realm outfit and gives himself demonic horns, wings, and a tail for amusement. He drops Chen toward the ground, cushioning his fall with energy.
• Luo Qian redirects the missile and commandeers the helicopter, forcing its terrified pilot to take him to MI6 headquarters. He decides against targeting Buckingham Palace, but guides the missile into MI6’s building, damaging it.
• Four fighter jets arrive. Luo Qian toys with them, destroys them, and uses their wreckage to further demolish the headquarters. The spectacle is livestreamed and attracts a huge online audience.
• Afterward, Luo Qian discovers Chen is missing. His spiritual search finds no trace of him, so he concludes he will have to investigate among the British.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains overwhelmingly powerful but treats the confrontation as entertainment, using humor and theatrical displays even while facing military force. He shows some restraint by sparing the attacking soldiers and pilot, though he escalates his retaliation against MI6.
• Chen Baozi is frightened and overwhelmed by Luo Qian’s abilities. Their close, protective relationship is clear: Luo wakes him and saves him from the assault, but has to leave him behind during the aerial confrontation.
• The British forces and pilot underestimate Luo Qian and respond with increasingly heavy weapons. The pilot’s terror contrasts with Luo’s playful confidence; Luo ultimately lets him live and jokes about his future career.

Significant themes

• Power and spectacle: Ordinary military force cannot contain Luo Qian, and the confrontation becomes a public performance broadcast online.
• Restraint and retaliation: Luo avoids harming the initial attackers and the pilot but chooses to punish MI6 by attacking its headquarters.
• Humor amid danger: Luo’s jokes, costume, and playful treatment of fighter jets make a military crisis seem almost like a game—though Chen’s disappearance ends the episode on a serious note.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian finds a British intelligence base near London and frees Chen Baozi from a specially designed cell. Before leaving, he places a formation around the base that attracts lightning during storms.
• Back in China, Luo Qian apologizes for the danger and the loss of Chen Baozi’s villa. Chen Baozi takes it in stride, joking that they can buy an island instead.
• Luo Qian visits hidden cultivation sects, displays a few Immortal Artifacts, and persuades them to raise money through their worldly branches. He gives Chen Baozi more than a billion as compensation and keeps the rest.
• He abandons his immediate plan to obtain magnetic-levitation technology and returns to the Immortal Realm to work on Pinglu North City.
• In response to the city’s four remaining design proposals, Luo Qian launches an open design competition. The winning design will be built, and its creator will receive five million High-Grade Immortal Jade; the runners-up also get substantial prizes and possible work with Luo Company.
• The competition attracts visitors and publicity, benefiting Pinglu City’s businesses and hotels. Luo Qian is pleased with the campaign and insists that the best design will win, even if it comes from outside his preferred choices.
• Dongfang Chen answers with a rival competition for Wangjiang City’s waterside pavilions, offering even larger prizes and distributing flyers with gifts. The two cities’ contests become a public rivalry that entertains the Immortal Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows both overwhelming power and practical business sense. He spares Thomas, whom he considers too insignificant to pursue, compensates Chen Baozi, and uses publicity to expand Pinglu City’s reputation. He also claims he will judge the design competition fairly.
• Chen Baozi remains good-humored despite his ordeal, joking about replacing his lost villa with a Pacific island.
• Dongfang Chen emerges as Luo Qian’s business rival, directly matching his competition with one of his own and using costly but effective street-level promotion.
• Zhu Ke’er questions whether Luo Qian will accept a better design from the public; he assures her that he will.
• British officials cover up the damage to MI6 headquarters, blaming a terrorist attack and suppressing the leaked footage. The incident fuels suspicion of Chinese visitors and makes entry into Britain harder.

Significant themes

• Power and its consequences: Luo Qian’s actions leave governments struggling to contain the fallout, even when he has little interest in their affairs.
• Publicity and competition: Luo Qian turns an architectural contest into a citywide marketing campaign, while Dongfang Chen shows how a rival can imitate and challenge a successful strategy.
• Merit versus favoritism: Luo Qian’s promise to use the strongest design signals a commitment to fair selection.
• Rivalry as spectacle: The competition between Pinglu and Wangjiang benefits both cities and delights the Immortal Realm’s spectators.