Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Luo Company initially faces Wangjiang City’s aggressive price-cutting, which Luo Qian recognizes as a financially dangerous tactic for both sides.
• To exploit Wangjiang City’s limited funds, Luo Qian adds a Jade Clarity Heaven villa—worth about two billion High-Grade Immortal Jade—to Luo Company’s talent-show grand prize. He expects Dongfang Chen’s competitiveness to force Wangjiang City to match the offer in cash.
• Wangjiang City’s backers worry that their discounted business is barely profitable and that escalating prizes could leave them unable to fund construction. Dongfang persuades them to keep fighting, and they raise their first-place prize to two billion.
• Luo Company then offers contestants ranked second through thirty-sixth five percent of the proceeds if their designs are built and sold as Immortal Mansions. Because Wangjiang City cannot easily replicate Luo Company’s established construction business, its backers again face pressure.
• Despite Lei Laohu’s objections and the group’s financial anxiety, Dongfang raises Wangjiang City’s offer for those contestants to sixty million each. Luo Qian recognizes that his strategy has made Wangjiang City commit roughly another two billion.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian demonstrates patience and strategic skill: rather than compete directly on price, he uses prestigious prizes and the prospect of future earnings to provoke Wangjiang City into overspending. He treats the contest as an economic war and trusts Dongfang’s pride to keep the escalation going.
• Dongfang Chen remains fiercely competitive, urging Wangjiang City’s investors to risk more money in hopes of reclaiming customers. He is effectively steering them into the very financial trap Luo Qian designed.
• The Wangjiang City backers, especially Qi Ren and Lei Laohu, voice growing concern about the venture’s losses and dependence on a powerful, unnamed patron. Qi Ren restrains Lei when he angrily questions that patron, and later tries to calm the group and persuade them to continue.
• Xiao Xiangzi helps Luo Qian assess Wangjiang City’s available funds and quickly understands the logic of raising the prize with an asset Luo Company already owns.

Significant themes

• Economic warfare and strategic escalation: The rivalry is fought through marketing, rewards, and financial pressure rather than open violence.
• Pride and manipulation: Luo Qian exploits Dongfang’s unwillingness to back down, turning his competitiveness into a liability.
• Risk and dependence: Wangjiang City’s investors gamble their fortunes while relying on an influential patron they fear to question.
• Business capacity matters: Luo Company can promise construction profits because it already has the infrastructure and experience; Wangjiang City cannot simply copy the offer.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian’s financial maneuver has quietly cost his wealthy opponents four billion. He then begins installing Lower Realm automation equipment in Xu Hu’s residences, intending to implicate Xu Hu after he has used it.
• Back in Pinglu City, Luo Qian finds Pei Sefei distraught: her master, Feng Feitian, has been gravely injured by a single attacker.
• Feng refuses Luo’s medicine, but he forces her to take a Great Dream Golden Divine Pill. It fails to heal her, and she reveals that her injury was inflicted by someone far beyond the Immortal Realm.
• Luo recognizes the wound as the work of Saint Origin Force. Feng warns him that his opponent is not an Immortal and says she may have only three days to live.
• Luo rushes to the Saint Realm to buy a sacred healing pill, then returns fearing he is too late. Feng, however, turns out to be alive—she had merely lain down to rest.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows his usual confidence and cunning in business, but Feng’s condition exposes his genuine concern. He disregards her pride and forcibly treats her, then risks precious time and resources to seek a cure.
• Feng Feitian remains fiercely proud and refuses to accept Luo’s help or owe him a favor, even while badly wounded. Her warning reveals both her vulnerability and the seriousness of the threat.
• Pei Sefei is deeply worried about her master and seeks Luo’s help, showing her devotion to Feng.
• Old Roughworker and Xin Yezi doubt the risks of Luo’s plan but agree to install the equipment carefully. Yifen promptly helps Luo obtain medicine when he arrives in the Saint Realm.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and escalating danger: The threat has crossed beyond the Immortal Realm, suggesting that even its strongest figures are not safe.
• Pride versus compassion: Feng rejects help to avoid indebtedness, while Luo acts despite her objections.
• Ingenuity and risk: Luo’s plans rely on exploiting technology, promises, and his ability to move between realms—but each scheme carries serious consequences.
• Uncertainty and urgency: Feng’s apparent decline, the ineffective pill, and the unknown attacker leave Luo racing against time.

Key plot points and events

• Feng Feitian wakes after Luo Qian gives her saintly healing medicine. She refuses to take it until he explains that her attacker was a Saint and that he has dealings in the Saint Realm.
• The medicine heals Feng Feitian but also cleanses her body, causing an embarrassing episode that sends Luo Qian from the room.
• Saint Origin Force from the medicine triggers Feng Feitian’s Quantitative Immortal Tribulation. She takes all seven pills from Luo Qian’s Lotus-Pod Pill Embryo, whose power is misled by the Saint Origin Force, and confronts the Five Elements Thunderclouds.
• Feng Feitian breaks the tribulation with ease, ascends to the Saint Realm, and warns Luo Qian to treat Pei Sefei well.
• Pei Sefei explains that Feng Feitian went to Wangjiang City to punish Dongfang Chen for the hardship he had caused her. There, Feng encountered a powerful Saint—likely the hidden force behind Dongfang Chen, Qi Ren, and their allies.
• Luo Qian promises to avenge Feng Feitian, though he recognizes that he is far weaker than a Saint and would need to rely on cunning rather than direct combat. He goes to the Saint Realm to gather information and restock his materials shop.
• Unable to learn much about Feng Feitian’s attacker, Luo Qian asks Yifen about the punishment for unauthorized descent. He learns that offenders receive an Enslavement Brand, which strips them of resistance—and even the ability to take their own lives.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows concern for Feng Feitian despite their antagonistic banter, but privately welcomes her departure. He also connects the Saint in Wangjiang City to the political enemies who have challenged him and begins planning cautiously.
• Feng Feitian survives her injuries, completes her tribulation, and ascends. Her final warning to Luo Qian reflects her fierce protectiveness toward Pei Sefei.
• Pei Sefei grieves her master’s departure and asks Luo Qian to avenge her. She also admits that Feng Feitian’s confrontation with the Saint was partly motivated by concern for her.
• Yifen gives Luo Qian crucial information about the severe consequences of descending to the lower world without authorization.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a formidable immortal can be gravely injured by a Saint, while Luo Qian must recognize the limits of his own strength.
• Loyalty and protection: Feng Feitian acts to defend her disciple, and Luo Qian accepts responsibility for helping Pei Sefei.
• Consequences of ambition and interference: Unauthorized travel between realms carries an extreme penalty, foreshadowing the risks surrounding Feng Feitian’s conflict.
• Comic contrast: The awkward bodily effects of healing interrupt the dramatic ascension, while Luo Qian’s irreverent thoughts undercut the grandeur of the events.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian asks Yifen whether someone could enter the Lower Realm without the Eye of Heavenly Knowledge noticing. Though she insists this is impossible, Luo Qian doubts the Eye is infallible because he himself has evaded its surveillance.
• With the alchemy shop earning well, Luo Qian proposes that he and Wei Shandong become partners in a furniture business. They agree to split ownership evenly.
• Luo Qian urges Wei to take their high-end furniture business to a first-tier Saint Market, where the potential rewards are greater but the costs and risks are substantial. Wei hesitates, knowing he would be risking everything he has built.
• The next day, Wei decides to go all in. He sells his existing shop, raising more than expected, and chooses Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market as their destination. Luo plans to contribute the remaining capital, though he still needs to gather several thousand Superior Saint Stones.
• Returning home to collect funds, Luo warns Zhe Fangshi to guard the planet and protect Tie E, who is cultivating in seclusion. He also discovers the household has saved more money than expected.
• Zhe Fangshi mentions that a nearby planet recently gained a new owner. Concerned it might be connected to the mysterious Saint who descended to the Lower Realm, Luo goes with him to investigate.
• Their new neighbor turns out to be a formidable woman. Luo initially relaxes, thinking she is not Feng Feitian, but Feng appears behind her and identifies herself as Luo’s “Martial Aunt.” The Wives’ Brigade accompanies her, leaving Luo dismayed.

Character developments

• Luo Qian shows business ambition and strategic judgment, but also fairness: he offers Wei an equal partnership despite being able to invest more. He is cautious about threats to his home, yet his confidence collapses when Feng Feitian appears.
• Wei Shandong moves from a successful but cautious shopkeeper to a bold risk-taker, deciding to sell his business and pursue a larger opportunity with Luo.
• Tie E has become more disciplined, focusing on cultivation after learning Yifen may favor him.
• Zhe Fangshi proves dependable and discreet, following Luo’s security instructions without pressing for explanations.
• Feng Feitian reappears as Luo’s powerful, teasing martial aunt, with a formidable female companion and the Wives’ Brigade at her side.

Significant themes

• Risk and ambition: The move to a first-tier market could transform the business, but failure would cost Wei nearly everything.
• Trust and partnership: Luo treats Wei as an equal and respects his need to choose freely.
• Security and uncertainty: Luo questions whether the Eye of Heavenly Knowledge can truly prevent undetected travel and remains wary of an unknown enemy.
• Comic misfortune: Luo’s relief at avoiding Feng Feitian is immediately overturned when she appears, reinforcing the chapter’s playful tone.

Character interactions

• Luo and Wei negotiate an equal business partnership, then discuss whether to risk expanding to a first-tier market. Luo gives Wei time to decide rather than pressuring him.
• Luo instructs Zhe Fangshi to protect the planet and Tie E, while Zhe responds with unquestioning professionalism.
• When they meet the new neighbor, Luo attempts a polite introduction—only to discover she is connected to Feng Feitian. Feng teases him about his sour expression, and Luo masks his dread with an uneasy greeting.

Key plot points and events

• Feng Feitian reunites with Luo Qian and has her Wives’ Brigade carry him onto her desolate Resource Planet, treating him as both a guest and a plaything.
• In her lavish cave, she mocks Luo Qian’s apparent weakness and explains the Saint Realm’s hierarchy. She is an Absolute Saint, a rare superior type who cultivates unusually quickly and has been appointed to oversee a Saint Stone mine.
• Feng Feitian describes the Saint Court’s three competing factions, including one representing Luo Qian’s world and the factions from the Spirit Particle World and Dajia World.
• Needing two thousand Superior Saint Stones, Luo Qian jokingly asks Feng Feitian for a loan. Despite claiming she has not yet been paid, she gives him a Saint Card with more than enough stones—travel money from her colleagues.
• Luo Qian teases her about those colleagues’ romantic interest, then tries to flee. Feng Feitian traps him with a sticky force and threatens to torment him after he insults her.

Character developments

• Luo Qian remains irreverent, opportunistic, and quick to seek money, but is visibly wary of Feng Feitian’s temper. He uses jokes and excuses to deflect danger, even as his insults repeatedly make matters worse.
• Feng Feitian is powerful, politically important, and playful toward Luo Qian, but her amusement can turn into genuine anger. Her status and new responsibilities reveal how much her position has changed since their earlier lives.
• Zhe Fangshi recognizes the danger and declines to intervene, instead signaling cooperation with Feng Feitian.

Character interactions

• Feng Feitian’s teasing—especially ruffling Luo Qian’s hair and calling him “Little Luo”—leaves him embarrassed and resentful. The Wives’ Brigade joins in, laughing and physically escorting him.
• Luo Qian’s request for money is granted, but his remarks about Feng Feitian’s admirers provoke her. His escape attempt and crude insults escalate their playful antagonism into a confrontation.
• Feng Feitian invokes Luo Qian’s relationship with her disciple, Se Fei, threatening to find Se Fei a better partner and then to attack Luo Qian’s mind rather than leave visible bruises.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Luo Qian’s status as a Saint does not protect him from stronger or better-connected figures.
• Hierarchy and factional politics: Saint rank, constitution, and political alliances shape opportunity in the Saint Realm.
• Comic antagonism and intimacy: Luo Qian and Feng Feitian’s bond is expressed through teasing, provocation, and threats, with affection and hostility continually intertwined.
• Resourcefulness and dependence: Luo Qian’s financial need pushes him to rely on a powerful relative, even when asking her for help is dangerous.

Plot points and events

• Feng Feitian brings Luo Qian into the cave after he tries to pass off his earlier provocation as a joke. She attacks his mind to punish him, and his pain intensifies when she takes offense at his letter’s formal address, “Your venerable self.”
• Her mental assault accidentally breaks the seal suppressing Luo Qian’s unusual aphrodisiac influence. Feng, newly ascended to the Saint Realm but not yet mentally adjusted to her increased power, becomes increasingly drawn to him and loses control.
• Luo Qian, disoriented by the attack and unable to distinguish sensation from reality, wakes to discover that he and Feng have had sex. At first he assumes the woman beneath him is someone else, then recognizes Feng when she angrily speaks.
• Feng reveals that her hair has unexpectedly grown long. She had woken before Luo Qian and hoped he would leave without realizing what happened. His offer to take responsibility instead leaves her embarrassed and furious.
• The chapter ends with Feng ordering Luo Qian to get off her. His body reacts to her, intensifying their mutual embarrassment.

Character developments

• Feng Feitian shifts from confident tormentor to someone whose weakened mental defenses and feelings leave her vulnerable. She is torn between anger, attraction, and shame.
• Luo Qian is frightened and confused, but his instinct is to accept responsibility rather than quietly flee. He remains unaware of how his sealed nature affected events.

Character interactions

• Feng’s effort to punish Luo Qian backfires when her mental attacks break the seal influencing both of them.
• Their exchange after waking is charged with conflicting signals: Luo Qian tries to apologize and take responsibility, while Feng reacts angrily despite having hoped he would stay.
• Feng’s stern command contrasts with her visible blush and the attraction neither can easily suppress.

Significant themes

• Unintended consequences: Feng’s attempt at control produces an outcome she neither intended nor understands.
• Contradictory emotions: Both characters behave in ways that conflict with their feelings—Feng wants Luo Qian to stay but resents his offer, while Luo Qian is alarmed yet reluctant to leave.
• Power and vulnerability: Feng’s new strength has outpaced her mental discipline, making her unexpectedly susceptible to the effects of her own actions.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian and Feng Feitian resume their intimate encounter, but a subordinate interrupts before they fully consummate it.
• Afterward, Feng Feitian insists that nothing happened and reminds Luo Qian that he is Pei Sefei’s husband. Luo Qian leaves, promising to explain himself, while wrestling with guilt and confusion.
• Alone, Feng Feitian breaks down. She recognizes that her attraction grew from Luo Qian’s kindness and from her own loneliness, and that she had already come to care about him.
• Luo Qian unexpectedly finds himself at the Black Iron Saint Market. He and Feng Feitian discover that their strength has risen dramatically after their encounter, and both suspect that intimacy between them is the cause.
• Luo Qian visits Master Basmo, who gives him a soul-bound “Mind Control Ring” intended to let him switch his aphrodisiac effect on and off.

Character developments

• Luo Qian is torn between guilt toward Pei Sefei and his reluctance to abandon Feng Feitian after their intimacy. He also begins investigating his unusual power and its effects.
• Feng Feitian drops her fearsome public persona in private, revealing deep loneliness, emotional vulnerability, and genuine affection for Luo Qian. Her guilt over his marriage makes her feelings harder to accept.
• Master Basmo anticipates Luo Qian’s problem and offers a practical—if eccentric—solution.

Significant themes

• Desire versus duty: The encounter draws Luo Qian and Feng Feitian together, but his marriage and her relationship to Pei Sefei create a powerful moral conflict.
• Loneliness and vulnerability: Feng Feitian’s intimidating reputation has isolated her, making Luo Qian’s thoughtfulness especially meaningful.
• Unintended consequences: A moment neither planned leads to emotional turmoil, a possible new source of power, and the need to control Luo Qian’s aphrodisiac influence.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian and Feng Feitian shift between teasing, passion, resistance, and tenderness; the interruption forces them to confront the consequences of their closeness.
• Feng Feitian sends Luo Qian away while concealing how deeply the encounter has affected her.
• Luo Qian’s subordinate, Zhe Fangshi, misreads his distress as heartbreak.
• Luo Qian’s meeting with Master Basmo turns the intimate mishap into a practical problem of controlling his powers.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian leaves Basmo’s Planet with a mind-control circlet, which he can conceal inside his body and activate or restrain at will. Basmo wonders how Luo Qian has advanced so far despite his supposedly disadvantageous Half-Saint, Half-Immortal constitution.
• On the way back to his shop, Luo Qian is suddenly overcome by exhaustion and collapses. Yifen diagnoses him as having overexerted himself sexually, then secretly gives him a potion she claims to have mixed incorrectly.
• Luo Qian wakes two days later to discover that his Saint Origin Force has disappeared. Yifen explains that the potion has also made him unable to feel sexual desire for women—except for the last woman he slept with, Feng Feitian. Luo Qian fears this leaves him effectively impotent, since Feng Feitian is dangerous.
• Yifen admits no immediate remedy is available and promises to seek an antidote. Luo Qian suspects she caused the problem deliberately, but he depends on her knowledge of the formula and decides not to involve Basmo.
• To distract himself, Luo Qian turns back to business and travels with Wei Shandong to the First-Class Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market. They reach it in two days, and Luo learns Wei is a Seventh Rank Saint.
• Wei explains that, without family support or powerful connections, even a Seventh Rank Saint may be unable to advance: higher cultivation requires resources that cannot simply be bought.
• Wei introduces Luo to his friend Landy, a three-fingered, humanlike outsider who runs a Saint Stone shop. Landy warns that the First-Class market is fiercely competitive. He offers to shelter Luo’s business for two months, after which Luo will have to fend for himself.

Character developments

• Luo Qian is frustrated by the loss of his cultivation and the potion’s intimate side effect, but he tries to keep his composure and protect Yifen’s reputation. He resolves to focus on business rather than dwell on his predicament.
• Yifen shows a mischievous, possibly vindictive streak: she appears pleased by Luo’s predicament, though she presents the potion as an accident. Luo remains dependent on her to find a cure.
• Wei Shandong is revealed to be far more powerful than Luo assumed. Despite his Seventh Rank, he sees little prospect of further advancement and has turned to commerce.
• Landy is blunt and practical. His friendship with Wei earns Luo temporary protection, but not lasting security.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: High rank alone cannot guarantee further progress; cultivation depends on access to rare resources and social connections.
• Dependence and vulnerability: Luo’s reliance on Yifen’s expertise leaves him unable to confront her decisively, while his new business venture depends on Landy’s temporary protection.
• Comic consequences and embarrassment: Luo’s bodily and sexual troubles drive much of the chapter’s humor, especially as others misunderstand the cause.
• Harsh competition: The Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market offers opportunity but also exposes how quickly an outsider with limited capital can be overwhelmed.

Character interactions

• Yifen tends to Luo after his collapse, then tells him about the potion’s effects; their exchange shifts from apparent care to suspicion and exasperation.
• Luo conceals Yifen’s responsibility when explaining his condition to Wei, who misreads the situation and jokes about their relationship.
• Wei reassures Luo through practical guidance and brings him to Landy, whose offer gives Luo a brief foothold in the new market.

Plot points and events

• Landy lends Luo Qian six guards for two months to help him establish a furniture shop in the first-class Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market. Aldton, one of the guards and a former shopkeeper, warns that the market is far more dangerous than it appears.
• After seeing many struggling merchants sell their shops, Luo Qian and Wei Shandong buy a storefront near Landy’s Saint Stone shop for 8,000 Superior Saint Stones. They spend the 2,000 they saved on upscale renovations, leaving 10,000 for operating costs and wages.
• On the eve of opening their shop, Heretic, a crowd of thugs blocks the entrance and threatens applicants. Aldton identifies them as men who control nearby streets.
• Aldton throws one thug aside and confronts their leader, Provence. When Provence demands 10,000 Superior Saint Stones a month for protection, Luo Qian rejects the demand. Wei Shandong overpowers Provence, and Luo forces him to accept 500 stones a month in exchange for leaving the shop alone.
• After the gang departs, Luo asks who backs Provence. Aldton names the Black River Gang, one of the market’s three major gangs, but says it is currently distracted by its own troubles.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian grows more alert to the market’s dangers, shifting from confidence that the venture will be straightforward to negotiating firmly with local power brokers. He relies on Aldton’s local knowledge while directing the response.
• Aldton proves both experienced and capable: he recognizes the risks of cheap storefronts, restrains Luo from a rash purchase, and confronts Provence without yielding.
• Wei Shandong, initially relaxed, becomes serious as he sees the market’s brutal competition. He uses his superior strength to subdue Provence, backing Luo’s negotiation.
• Provence tries to intimidate the newcomers but retreats once faced with two Seventh Rank opponents and accepts the lower payment.
• The group works in concert: Aldton handles the initial confrontation, Wei supplies force, and Luo sets the terms.

Significant themes

• Business as warfare: The market’s competition includes intimidation, extortion, and the destruction of weaker businesses.
• Power and survival: Strength, alliances, and local knowledge matter as much as capital.
• Pragmatism over pride: Luo and Provence both settle on terms that serve their interests rather than prolonging a losing confrontation.
• Caution amid apparent opportunity: Numerous cheap shops signal danger, not bargains; success requires understanding the forces behind the market.

Plot points and events

• The Heavenly Saint Market Furniture Guild, a closed group of thirteen shopkeepers, initially dismisses the Heretical Furniture Store as a doomed rival. Seven guild members have planted spies among its staff.
• Luo Qian and Wei Shandong struggle through a week without sales. With their promised protection from Landy lasting only two months, Wei fears they may soon have to leave.
• Instead of cutting prices, Luo hires the streetwise Provence to spread paid rumors that their unusual furniture has become the latest high-end trend. Provence’s gang circulates the message, and the store makes its first sale five days later: four pieces for 12,000 Superior Saint Stones.
• The rumor attracts status-conscious buyers, while satisfied customers reinforce the furniture’s reputation. Luo also lets visitors try the pieces, helping the store gain interest and momentum. Sales pass twenty items, and the shop recovers its costs.
• The guild meets again, alarmed that the supposedly laughable newcomer is succeeding after all.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Qian shows confidence and marketing savvy. He understands that trends can be manufactured and deliberately targets people eager to appear fashionable, rather than discounting the goods.
• Wei Shandong begins anxious about the store’s survival but is reassured as sales improve; he admires Luo’s strategy.
• Aldton distrusts Provence and warns that he is unreliable, yet supports Luo’s decision and later recognizes the effectiveness of his plan.
• Provence is portrayed as a shabby, inept gang leader, but his men are well suited to spreading rumors. He accepts Luo’s offer, insisting on payment upfront.
• The furniture guild’s confidence turns to unease as its members realize they underestimated the shop.

Significant themes

• Manufactured trends and consumer status: Fashion can be shaped by deliberate promotion, and buyers often follow trends to avoid seeming behind.
• Reputation and social proof: Rumors, customers’ praise, and the prospect of approval from high-status figures all help create demand.
• Appearance versus substance: The furniture looks strange to outsiders, but its practical design wins over those who try it.
• Rivalry and exclusion: The guild’s fixed membership makes the store’s growth a direct threat to established merchants.

Plot

• The thirteen rival furniture stores in Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market slash their prices together, apparently trying to force Luo Qian’s Heretical Furniture Store into a costly price war.
• Luo refuses to lower prices. Instead, he plans to raise them and reinforce the store’s high-end image, presenting its rivals’ products as cheap alternatives.
• When Alton catches a worker spying with a Soundproofing Spell, the worker reveals ties to the furniture Guild. Alton concludes that the Guild has begun targeting them and warns that few people in the store can be trusted.
• Luo proposes expanding into the low-end market through four separate stores, linked to the Heretical brand but not using its name. He intends to spend most of the store’s earnings on setup and security, relying on his own cheap supply of goods.
• His longer-term strategy is franchising: if the new stores succeed, other merchants will pay to open branches, while buying their stock from Luo and following his rules. He believes this network can eventually overwhelm the Guild.
• Alton agrees to recruit dependable guards and finds a friend and the friend’s brothers to protect one store.
• That night, intruders attempt to set the store ablaze with buckets of lamp oil. Alton and his men defeat them, but one worker is missing, suggesting he helped the attackers escape or was involved.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows confidence and strategic ambition, combining premium branding, low-cost expansion, and franchising. He remains optimistic even when the business faces serious threats, joking that a missing worker means one less salary to pay.
• Alton shifts from loyal employee to a key ally and security organizer. He trusts Luo’s leadership, confronts the spy, and recruits guards from his network.
• Wei Shandong supports Luo’s business plans, recognizes the logic behind targeting both high- and low-end customers, and helps protect him during the nighttime attack.
• The three men grow more tightly united as the Guild’s pressure escalates, while the spy’s discovery and the attempted arson deepen their distrust of the remaining workers.

Significant themes

• Competition and strategy: Luo refuses to fight on the Guild’s terms, using brand positioning and expansion instead of matching its price cuts.
• Ambition and entrepreneurship: The proposed franchises turn a small business into a potential network capable of challenging an established industry.
• Trust and loyalty: The store’s business conflict becomes a security crisis, forcing the protagonists to distinguish allies from spies.
• Risk and resilience: Luo stakes nearly all available funds on rapid growth, while the nighttime attack shows that commercial rivalry may turn violent.

Plot points and events

• The day after the arson attempt, hostile clerks and loiterers crowd the Heretical Furniture Store, blocking real customers and crippling business. Luo Qian’s companions cannot remove them without provoking a larger fight.
• Luo Qian travels to the Black Iron Saint Market and obtains three powerful stomach-afflicting Potions from Yifen.
• Before leaving, he tricks Yifen into giving him an antidote by using the Mind Control Ring and a romantic seduction act. He stops short of sex, escapes, and calls Tie E to Yifen’s shop under the false claim that she wants to see him.
• Returning to the furniture store the next day, Luo Qian secretly pours all three Potions into the tea served to the hostile crowd. He and his companions wait to watch the result.
• The Potions have a much stronger effect than expected: dozens of the crowd suffer severe, uncontrollable stomach distress, and chaos breaks out across the market. The chapter ends as the “public outrage” turns literal and grotesque.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shifts from frustration to retaliation, using deception and a crude prank rather than direct force. He treats his clash with Yifen as a game of tricks, though he begins to suspect that mixing all three Potions may have gone too far.
• Yifen shows a mischievous, vindictive side through her potent experimental Potions. Luo’s manipulation leaves her furious; meanwhile, Tie E arrives at her shop and the two are caught in an awkward, forced romantic encounter.
• Wei Shandong and Aldton remain cautious and powerless against the crowd, then watch Luo’s plan unfold with surprise and concern.

Significant themes

• Revenge and escalation: A business blockade prompts Luo to answer harassment with increasingly reckless retaliation.
• Deception and manipulation: Luo uses staged romance, false promises, and poisoned tea to gain an advantage.
• Comic consequences of experimentation: Yifen’s untested Potions, combined without knowing their effects, turn Luo’s scheme into a spectacle far more extreme than intended.

Plot points and events

• The shop disaster leaves Luo Qian with a foul cleanup job and furious neighbors. He forces his employees to scrub the street; one quits, while the other five—secretly spies—stay to preserve their cover. Wei Shandong and Aldton later laugh at the episode, though they acknowledge that Luo Qian foiled their opponents’ scheme.
• Once the shop reopens, Luo Qian leaves to restock and prepare for a chain-store expansion.
• During his absence, Pinglu City’s architectural competition draws ahead of Wangjiang City. Luo Qian’s illuminated signboard and human-interest stories keep public attention focused on Pinglu, bringing in visitors and boosting souvenir sales.
• Wangjiang City’s leaders, short of legitimate funds and increasingly abandoned by their former protectors, consider a drastic response: using a powerful outsider to kill the Immortal Emperor and staging a rebellion. They also decide to eliminate Luo Qian.
• Luo Qian returns with famous Lower-Realm luxury brands and presides over the opening of Pinglu City’s first luxury-goods store. Confident that Pinglu’s competition is nearly won, he heads back to the Lower Realm, expecting Wangjiang’s leaders to make a desperate move—and anticipating that the authorities will respond.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains resourceful and commercially ambitious, turning publicity into a decisive advantage for Pinglu City. He handles the cleanup by imposing on his employees, but is unbothered by their resentment.
• Wei Shandong and Aldton support Luo Qian through the shop crisis and recognize that he has outmaneuvered their rivals.
• Qi Ren emerges as the real force behind the proposed coup. He pressures Dongfang Chen into agreeing, using a thinly veiled threat.
• Dongfang Chen regrets leaving Luo Qian’s employ, where he had been trusted, and feels guilty about targeting him. Nonetheless, fear and pressure lead him to endorse both the rebellion and Luo Qian’s assassination.
• Lei Laohu and the other underworld leaders back Qi Ren’s plan once they realize their ordinary resources and political protection are exhausted.

Significant themes

• Publicity and spectacle: Luo Qian’s promotional strategy outpaces Wangjiang City’s efforts, turning a competition into a contest for public attention and visitors.
• Ambition and consumer desire: The luxury store sells prestige and novelty rather than necessities, reflecting the appeal of conspicuous spending.
• Loyalty and coercion: Dongfang Chen’s regret contrasts his former trust with his current role as Qi Ren’s pressured subordinate.
• Escalation and consequences: Losing the commercial struggle pushes Wangjiang’s leaders toward rebellion and assassination, while Luo Qian’s political connections leave him confident that others will handle the fallout.

Plot points and events

• Si Ke Yaluo weighs killing the Supreme Pure Emperor to protect his profitable smuggling operation. Though he fears the consequences of making an Immortal Emperor ascend and become a powerful enemy, greed wins out.
• Luo Qian finds Si Ke Yaluo at his hidden base. He sends Zhao Xihe away to protect him and asks him to care for Pei Sefei and the others if Luo Qian does not return.
• Luo Qian confronts Dongfang Chen and Qi Ren. He demands that Dongfang Chen return the money taken from Pinglu City and condemns him for poaching Luo Qian’s people, while warning Qi Ren to stop provoking him.
• Luo Qian leads Si Ke Yaluo away from the others. Using the Exquisite Gallbladder to reveal his Saint body, he pretends to be a powerful, well-connected Saint with influence at the Saint Court.
• Believing Luo Qian’s strength and connections are beyond his reach, Si Ke Yaluo returns the stolen item and promises never to visit the world again. Luo Qian sends him off with a fabricated offer of future employment.
• Once back in the Saint Realm, Si Ke Yaluo curses the offer and decides to continue smuggling.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Qian shows confidence and command, refusing to waste time on petty arguments and prioritizing the settlement of his accounts. Though far weaker than Si Ke Yaluo in a direct fight, he wins through composure, deception, and a keen reading of his opponent.
• Si Ke Yaluo is ambitious and opportunistic but ultimately cautious. His greed initially pushes him toward killing the Emperor; his fear of Luo Qian’s imagined influence makes him retreat instead.
• Zhao Xihe resents being treated as an outsider, but leaves when Luo Qian explains the danger and entrusts him with protecting their companions.
• Dongfang Chen flees rather than face Luo Qian. Qi Ren tries to defend himself with appeals to their past, but Luo Qian rejects the idea that their mutually useful relationship was friendship.

Significant themes

• Power and perception: Luo Qian’s apparent authority matters more than his actual strength; Si Ke Yaluo retreats because he believes Luo Qian is untouchable.
• Pragmatism versus loyalty: Luo Qian distinguishes genuine friendship from relationships based on mutual advantage, while still showing concern for Zhao Xihe and his companions.
• Greed and risk: Si Ke Yaluo’s fortune tempts him toward violence, but self-preservation ultimately outweighs profit.
• Deception and performance: Luo Qian turns a dangerous confrontation into a bluff, while Si Ke Yaluo’s polite submission masks his contempt and continued desire for profit.

Key plot points

• Luo Qian’s bluff drives the swaggering Saint away, while the fallout from the forced alliance between Pinglu and Wangjiang leaves Wangjiang’s shareholders financially strained and under Secret Investigation Bureau scrutiny.
• Luo Qian quietly buys shares from four vulnerable Wangjiang investors, becoming its largest shareholder. After he leaves for the lower realm, Du Lengning and Xiao Xiangzi pressure the remaining shareholders into selling, leaving only Qi Ren and Dongfang Chen opposed.
• Du Lengning and Xiao Xiangzi publicly humiliate Dongfang Chen, then rename Wangjiang City the Waterside Attractions Branch of Pinglu Amusement City. Furious, Qi Ren and Dongfang Chen decide to retaliate.
• The pair accuse Luo Qian of illegally traveling to the lower realm, hoping the scandal will ruin him. The Supreme Pure Emperor summons Luo Qian, but he is absent. Xie Tang and the other women claim he is cultivating in seclusion.
• At the hearing, Pei Sefei challenges the accusers’ credibility, and Zheng Daoguang identifies Qi Ren as a suspected criminal and Dongfang Chen as a former employee who left with company funds. Nevertheless, the Emperor orders the Immortal Apprehension Office sealed so the accusation can be tested.
• Unaware of the crisis, Luo Qian shops in the lower realm with Chen Baozi, buying more than a hundred million yuan’s worth of furniture for the First-Class Saint Market. Just as he is about to return, Chen Baozi calls with news of an international conceptual-furniture exhibition in France.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian demonstrates growing skill as a strategist and businessman, expanding his influence through a quiet takeover and planning to enter a premium market. He remains oblivious to the political trouble caused by his absence.
• Du Lengning and Xiao Xiangzi act more aggressively than Luo Qian, pressuring Wangjiang’s shareholders and confronting its leaders. Their anger toward Dongfang Chen reflects how much of his former success depended on Luo Qian.
• Qi Ren and Dongfang Chen shift from resentment to open retaliation, using a public accusation to force the authorities to act.
• Xie Tang remains composed under pressure, while Pei Sefei boldly exposes the accusers’ reputations. The four women present themselves as Luo Qian’s wives, publicly tying their fates to his.
• The Supreme Pure Emperor struggles to balance family loyalty and the law. Xu Hu, ordered to seal the office, privately doubts the accusation and worries about what will happen if Luo Qian appears.

Significant themes

• Bluffing, leverage, and power: Luo Qian’s business gains and his rivals’ counterattack both depend on controlling appearances and exploiting pressure.
• Loyalty and solidarity: Luo Qian’s allies take risks for him, while former associates turn against him.
• Public reputation and justice: The Emperor must act amid rumors and political maneuvering, even though the accusers’ credibility is questionable.
• Commerce and possibility: Luo Qian sees the lower realm as a source of new products and markets, continually turning practical opportunities into business ventures.

Plot points and events

• Still blacklisted in the European Union, Chen Baozi stays behind while Luo Qian travels to France, buys several million euros’ worth of art-like furniture, and returns to the Immortal Realm.
• Luo Qian avoids Strathas and a potentially unwanted passage to the Heavenly River Water Court. He makes a quick detour to replenish his rare-metal stock before returning.
• Dongfang Chen and Qi Ren are brought to the Immortal Apprehension Office and claim Luo Qian will escape punishment. Luo Qian never arrives, and the two women waiting with Xie Tang receive word that he is safe and leave.
• Luo Qian has narrowly avoided walking into a public trap. Realizing that his former restraint is no longer necessary, he considers retaliation—but finds his rivals have little left to lose. He decides to turn his attention toward the Saint Realm.
• Luo Company holds its first “annual meeting.” Xu Hu receives an invitation, while the hostile censors do not. Luo Qian attends, disproving the rumors that he has fled.
• At the banquet, Luo Qian needles Du Lengning by displaying the affectionate harmony of his own household. Du’s wives, Li Xuexiao and Qian Qiuluo, compete to demonstrate gentleness, but their efforts only leave him more uncomfortable.
• Xu Hu arrives with Dongfang Chen and Qi Ren in custody. Luo Qian welcomes the commander and his soldiers with food and wine, pointedly ignoring the two prisoners. Qi Ren protests their former friendship; Luo Qian turns back with a faint, unreadable smile.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian survives the trap through caution and timely communication. Though he could now retaliate against Dongfang Chen and Qi Ren, he feels detached from them and from the diminishing conflicts of the Immortal Realm.
• Dongfang Chen and Qi Ren mistake Luo Qian’s absence for proof he has fled, then are publicly confronted with his appearance and brought under arrest. Qi Ren appeals to their past bond, but Luo Qian offers no clear response.
• Xie Tang and the other women share a day of anxious waiting, then quietly leave once they learn Luo Qian is safe. Their reunion with him is emotional and affectionate.
• Xu Hu maintains his official duty but privately understands Luo Qian has avoided the trap; the annual-meeting invitation confirms his suspicions.
• Du Lengning becomes the target of playful provocation, while Li Xuexiao and Qian Qiuluo’s rivalry undermines their attempts to act tender toward him.

Significant themes

• Power and isolation: Luo Qian’s success has left him with few meaningful opponents, bringing not triumph but loneliness and a shift toward larger ambitions.
• Old loyalties versus present conflict: Qi Ren invokes their former friendship, while Luo Qian’s quiet, ambiguous reaction suggests their shared past may no longer hold him.
• Public image and performance: The banquet becomes a stage where Luo Qian demonstrates his presence and influence, while the women’s attempts to imitate his household’s harmony expose the tensions beneath appearances.

Plot points and events

• After defeating Qi Ren, Luo Qian decides not to kill him. He sees lasting humiliation and failure as a harsher punishment, and trusts that Qi Ren can never threaten him again. The affair also makes it harder for people in the Immortal Realm to use Luo Qian’s criminal past against him.
• Luo Qian continues developing Pinglu City and, on returning to the Saint Realm, expands the Heretical Furniture Store. With its funds reaching 100,000 Superior Saint Stones, he establishes four new locations around Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market.
• Tie E arrives to help. He joins Wei Shandong in safeguarding the main store, while Luo Qian launches the Different Home Furniture Chain: four self-service shops with prices roughly half those of their competitors. Customers flock to the stores, and sales at the Thirteen Furniture Stores nearly collapse.
• The threatened businesses unite and hire thirteen Seventh Rank experts to assassinate Luo Qian. When they corner him in a narrow street, he urges Tie E and the guards to escape, relying on his Exquisite Gallbladder and ability to undergo Rebirth. Tie E initially refuses, even offering to stay behind, but finally leaves.
• As the assassins prepare to strike, Feng Feitian arrives with armed Saint soldiers and arrests all thirteen. She departs without acknowledging Luo Qian, who calls after her.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows confidence and strategic restraint: he refuses to pursue revenge against Qi Ren, takes bold risks in business, and keeps his composure when facing the assassins. He prioritizes his companions’ safety over his own.
• Tie E proves both loyal and formidable. He rushes to support Luo Qian, and his devotion to Yifen is also described: after their intimacy, he patiently cares for her until she begins to accept him.
• Yifen gradually moves from hurt and self-pity toward accepting Tie E’s affection.
• Feng Feitian acts decisively as a military authority, but her deliberate coldness toward Luo Qian leaves their personal relationship unresolved.
• Luo Qian’s bond with Tie E is emphasized through their argument over who should face danger: Tie E wants to protect him, while Luo Qian insists that Tie E escape.

Significant themes

• Strength and the meaning of revenge: Luo Qian believes a defeated rival’s enduring humiliation can be more punishing than death, and that mercy is safe when one is truly powerful.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Tie E’s willingness to stand by Luo Qian mirrors Luo Qian’s own efforts to protect his companions.
• Disruptive ambition: Luo Qian’s low-price, self-service business model shakes up an established market and forces competitors into an alliance.
• Confidence amid danger: Luo Qian’s faith in Rebirth lets him face apparent death boldly, though Feng Feitian’s intervention ultimately saves him.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian reunites with Feng Feitian at Rhinoceros Sky Saint Market. Their intimacy again boosts her cultivation, helping her advance to Sixth Rank and secure appointment as the market’s deputy Commandant. She expects to become Commandant after reaching Seventh Rank.
• Feng Feitian insists that their encounters are only a means of improving her strength, an explanation that eases her guilt. Luo Qian uses the Mind Control Ring to soften her resolve, and they share a more emotionally open encounter.
• With Feng Feitian overseeing the market, harassment against Luo Qian’s furniture business stops. His low prices draw customers from nearby markets, and rival shops begin joining his expanding Franchise Store network.
• Although poised to dominate the furniture trade, Luo Qian steps back, leaving its management to Wei Shandong. Remembering how business rivalry contributed to his conflict with Dongfang Chen, he does not want to risk losing another friend.
• Luo Qian leaves without seeing Feng Feitian: guards bar him from the Commandant’s Office. Because rivals may target him beyond Feng’s territory, he hires four powerful bodyguards.
• Back in Black Iron Saint Market, Luo Qian sends Yifen to reunite with her husband and begins a new venture: landscaping the barren planets of the Saint Realm with plants gathered from other realms.
• To find specialists, Luo Qian travels to the Netherworld. The Lord Emperor, anxious about an unfinished Stone Tablet and the deadline to complete it, is relieved by his return and resolves to grant whatever he asks.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains ambitious and commercially inventive, but shows greater caution and loyalty by stepping away from furniture rather than crowding out Wei Shandong. He also makes use of his relationship with Feng Feitian to help her cultivate, though the Mind Control Ring complicates the sincerity of their intimacy.
• Feng Feitian has risen rapidly in rank and status. She maintains a guarded, businesslike explanation for her relationship with Luo Qian, while her attraction and emotional response emerge when he lowers her defenses.
• Wei Shandong is trusted to lead the furniture business, reflecting his competence and Luo Qian’s concern for their friendship.
• The Netherworld Lord Emperor is increasingly desperate about the Stone Tablet and dependent on Luo Qian, whom he treats as an immensely powerful benefactor.
• Luo Qian and Feng Feitian’s relationship combines desire, cultivation, and self-protective rationalizations. Their parting is unspoken and accidental, leaving Feng Feitian unable to question his sudden departure.

Significant themes

• Ambition and restraint: Luo Qian pursues expansion but chooses not to monopolize a trade at the cost of friendship.
• Power and dependence: Feng Feitian’s advancement is tied to intimacy with Luo Qian, while the Lord Emperor’s hopes rest on Luo Qian’s help.
• Commerce and transformation: Luo Qian turns his cross-realm experience into new business opportunities, seeing potential where others see barren land.
• Self-justification and emotional ambiguity: Feng Feitian frames intimacy as cultivation, while the Mind Control Ring blurs the line between genuine feeling and manipulation.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian leaves the Netherworld with three master garden designers and tours the Divine and Demon Realms with them, gathering seeds, animals, eggs, rocks, and water for his greening business in the Saint Realm.
• Back in the Saint Realm, his new company, Luo Gardens, struggles to attract customers. He spends heavily on a miniature garden to demonstrate the service, and it brings in his first client, Nangong Jue.
• After surveying Nangong’s barren planet, Luo Qian quotes 150,000 Superior Saint Stones. Nangong admits he has no money, but offers a rare Heaven-Grade Saint Soul Stone he found there. Recognizing its value, Luo Qian credits him 250,000 stones and expands the plan to include animals.
• Nangong reveals he is a Treasure-Seeking Mouse who can smell buried treasures. He leads Luo Qian to a second Saint Soul Stone and admits the planet is not his: he has been secretly prospecting on a primary planet, against Saint Court law.
• Luo Qian refuses to join the illegal mining scheme. He reburies both stones, disguises their discovery as a fraud, and leaves before the Saint Court’s surveillance arrives.
• Luo Qian takes Nangong to Tie E’s planet and makes him search for resources there instead, placing Zhe Fangshi in charge of escorting him.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Qian shows business ambition and resourcefulness, using a showcase garden to win customers. He also demonstrates generosity by paying Nangong more than the quoted project cost for the Saint Soul Stone. But when Nangong’s scheme risks bringing the Saint Court down on them, Luo Qian becomes forceful and cautious, choosing lawful prospecting over a dangerous shortcut.
• Nangong Jue is timid and poor, yet possesses the valuable ability to locate treasures by smell. He initially tries to use Luo Qian as cover for illegal mining, then cooperates after Luo Qian confronts him and makes clear the danger.
• The bodyguards are dazzled by the Heaven-Grade stone and briefly swarm Nangong, but Luo Qian reins them in. Later, they eagerly dig for more treasure.
• The garden designers contribute their expertise to the landscaping plan, while Luo Qian handles the business and negotiation.

Significant themes

• Trust, honesty, and fair dealing: Luo Qian insists on clear payment terms, while his decision to overpay Nangong reflects his own standards of fairness.
• Law versus greed: The prospect of valuable resources tempts Nangong, but Luo Qian recognizes that violating Saint Court law could be fatal.
• Appearances and hidden worth: A barren planet conceals rare stones, and the seemingly weak, timid Nangong has a powerful treasure-finding ability.
• Enterprise and persistence: Luo Qian turns a struggling business around through bold promotion, though success brings unexpected risks.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian hires Nangong Jue as a partner after negotiating an employment contract. Nangong signs only after Luo reassures him that he is not truly hideous; Luo privately considers exploiting his vanity to lower his pay.
• After finding only a modest metal deposit on Tie E’s barren planet, Luo returns to Black Iron Saint Market and realizes people have made his small garden their rare place of peace.
• Luo turns the garden into a low-cost attraction and develops a broader tourism business on Tie E’s now-green planet. Visitors can explore unusual plants and make seasoning by hand.
• To launch the venture, Luo leads the first discounted tour himself, bringing along his trainee female guides. The tourists enjoy the scenery and the guides’ company, then promote the trip as agreed. Demand surges, though later groups receive fewer guides.
• Once the business is running under his subordinates, Luo takes Nangong Jue to search for resources. He approaches Wei Shandong for access to Wei’s neglected planet, offering him half the profits. Wei agrees, while warning that the planet is a wasteland.
• Wei mentions that an important-looking woman has twice asked after Luo. Luo realizes it is likely Feng Feitian and heads toward the Commandant’s Office.
• Meanwhile, Feng Feitian struggles to concentrate because she keeps thinking about Luo. She abandons her paperwork to visit his furniture store, but Luo turns aside into another shop, and they pass without seeing each other.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows his talent for spotting and testing business opportunities, turning a garden into a successful tourism venture. His dealings with Nangong Jue mix practical partnership with teasing and manipulation.
• Nangong Jue is eager to work with Luo but is unusually sensitive about his appearance. Their banter establishes a comic, boss-and-subordinate dynamic.
• Wei Shandong grumbles about Luo’s habit of leaving him with work, but their friendship remains warm. He willingly accepts Luo’s proposal despite doubting his planet has anything valuable.
• Feng Feitian tries to frame her intimacy with Luo as purely a means of improving her cultivation, yet her distraction and eagerness to see him suggest growing emotional attachment. Her Clerk is left bewildered as she abandons her duties.
• Luo and Feng narrowly miss each other, sustaining the tension of their unspoken relationship.

Significant themes

• Entrepreneurship and opportunity: Luo tests demand, adapts his offerings, and builds a business from resources others overlook.
• Human desire and marketing: The tour’s appeal shifts from scenery to the guides’ beauty, exposing the gap between the Saint Realm’s stated innocence and its visitors’ motives.
• Commerce and partnership: Contracts, profit-sharing, and delegation shape Luo’s relationships and ventures.
• Romantic denial: Feng’s insistence that her feelings are only practical conflicts with her growing preoccupation with Luo.