Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After recovering from Xie Tang’s earlier blow, Luo Qian searches for her and stumbles into a frigid formation. He finds the Flame Shuttle Pursuit Token, an Immortal Artifact, but its flames burn him when he tries to take it.
• At the formation’s core, he discovers Xie Tang and two Golden Turtle Immortal Soldiers submerged in Darkwater Ice. One soldier revives; Luo Qian uses the Golden-Armored Automaton to kill him. He stops the automaton just before it strikes Xie Tang, who is alive but badly injured.
• Xie Tang explains that she cannot use Immortal Arts for three months and that the Darkwater Ice conceals the bodies. She agrees to sell Luo Qian the Breath Soil at a discount if he escorts her to safety.
• Luo Qian helps her travel north toward the dangerous Star-Pattern Sea. He treats her with the pills he carries, which aid her recovery, though they are weaker than the medicine she lost access to.
• After half a month, Xie Tang discovers that the pursuit token’s Vermilion Bird Mark can transmit information even while sealed in the ice. The Right Military Hall has found them, and they must flee.

Character developments

• Luo Qian shows quick thinking and courage, using the automaton to protect himself and Xie Tang. He remains practical and business-minded, negotiating a discount and hoping to obtain powerful artifacts, but his concern for Xie Tang is increasingly personal.
• Xie Tang is revealed as formidable but vulnerable after her battle with the soldiers. She accepts Luo Qian’s help and becomes more reliant on him during the journey. Her face and past remain concealed.

Significant themes

• Survival and consequences: Luo Qian’s intervention saves Xie Tang but makes him an accomplice in killing a soldier, leaving him with “no way back.”
• Trust and changing relationships: Their arrangement begins as a transaction but deepens through shared hardship and care.
• Power and risk: Immortal treasures offer great advantages but bring danger, restrictions, and unwanted attention.
• Secrecy and pursuit: Xie Tang’s concealed identity and the token’s hidden tracking ability keep the threat alive.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian’s automaton nearly strikes the still-living Xie Tang, and he urgently calls it off.
• Xie Tang explains the danger of claiming the pursuit token, warning that the Right Military Hall would recognize it and hunt them.
• Luo Qian supports Xie Tang, supplies pills, and escorts her north; she bargains with him and gradually leans more heavily on him.
• As Luo Qian quietly becomes attracted to her, their journey is abruptly interrupted by the discovery that their pursuers have located them.

Plot and key events

• Fleeing from the Right Military Hall, Luo Qian and the wounded Xie Tang realize their pursuers are closing in. They take refuge in Xie Tang’s Darkwater Ice formation, where she must remain to control it.
• Luo Qian plans an ambush using the wanted notice, the bodies of two earlier pursuers, and Xie Tang as three distractions. He gives her the Golden-Armored Automaton for protection and hides with Zheng Daoguang’s sniper rifle.
• Four Golden Turtle Immortal Soldiers arrive. Luo Qian shoots their leader through a narrow gap in their formation; the poisoned bullet kills him.
• The other soldiers attack. The automaton and Xie Tang draw them toward the earlier soldiers’ bodies, letting Luo Qian shoot another pursuer.
• Xie Tang is struck by the remaining soldiers’ attacks and appears badly injured. Luo Qian rushes to her, but the last soldier attacks him. The automaton intercepts the blow, taking heavy damage and collapsing.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Qian remains frightened and pragmatic, but shows growing responsibility for Xie Tang. He devises a careful ambush, then abandons caution when she is hurt.
• Xie Tang stays composed and committed to fighting beside Luo Qian. She recognizes the limits of their plan and knowingly exposes herself as bait, accepting the risk of injury.
• The Golden-Armored Automaton proves more than a defensive tool, fighting independently to shield both of them, though it is badly damaged.
• Luo Qian and Xie Tang’s exchanges reveal mutual concern beneath their practical arguments: each is trying to improve the other’s chance of survival.

Significant themes

• Survival and sacrifice: Both protagonists choose danger rather than abandon the other.
• Ingenuity versus strength: Luo Qian’s firearm and tactical planning can overcome powerful opponents, but the plan remains precarious.
• Trust and loyalty: The soldiers’ trust in their leader creates an opening, while Luo Qian, Xie Tang, and the automaton rely on one another under pressure.
• The cost of resistance: Their successful ambush comes at a steep price, leaving Xie Tang injured and the automaton damaged.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian and Xie Tang survive a fierce battle with four Golden Turtle Immortal Soldiers. Xie Tang is gravely wounded, but uses Earth Spirit Pills and meditation to recover while Luo Qian freezes the bodies to prevent any Vermilion Bird Marks from alerting the Right Military Hall.
• The Golden-Armored Automaton is badly damaged while protecting Luo Qian. Xie Tang repairs its Immortal Jade components, restoring it, though its golden armor is destroyed.
• As they flee, Luo Qian accidentally shoots a jade rabbit. Xie Tang buries it to conceal the distinctive wound and keep anyone from discovering Luo Qian’s weapon.
• After half a month of travel, they reach the Star-Pattern Sea. Xie Tang gives Luo Qian the promised Breath Soil at a discounted price of 2.4 million High-Grade Immortal Jade, payable through Qi Ren’s bank seal.
• A giant winged black serpent arrives. Its attendant greets Xie Tang and takes her into the sea. She departs without addressing Luo Qian, leaving him disappointed.
• Luo Qian returns to Phoenix Paulownia Mountain. Du Lengning welcomes him but reminds him that he nearly missed Yin Quanyin’s wedding, where Luo had promised to attend despite any obstacle.

Character developments and interactions

• Xie Tang shows resolve and expertise even while gravely injured: she directs Luo Qian to secure the bodies, repairs his automaton, and carefully conceals evidence of his weapon. Her connection to the Star-Pattern Sea is revealed when its inhabitants receive her with deference.
• Luo Qian is deeply distressed by Xie Tang’s injuries and increasingly protective of her, carrying her during their journey. He interprets their shared ordeal as a possible personal bond, then feels abruptly abandoned when she leaves without a farewell.
• Du Lengning has spent months worrying about Luo Qian and is both relieved and exasperated when he returns, emphasizing the commitments Luo has neglected.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and loyalty: Xie Tang risks herself in battle, while Luo Qian worries over her and protects her during their escape.
• Secrecy and survival: They hide the corpses and rabbit to prevent pursuers from tracing them or learning about Luo Qian’s weapon.
• Unequal expectations and loneliness: Luo Qian’s hope that hardship has made him special to Xie Tang clashes with her abrupt departure and his belief that someone of her standing would never choose him.
• Duty versus adventure: Luo Qian’s long absence nearly causes him to miss an important promise and business occasion.

Plot points

• Luo Qian reunites with Xiao Xiangzi, who has advanced from a Fourth-Rank to a Fifth-Rank Artifact Cultivator Soul Immortal after using Luo’s Ghost Refining Secret Art. Xiao has also finished the requested jewelry, and Luo is impressed by its beauty and power.
• After more than two months away, Luo returns to Cloudwatch Peak. Lei Laohu explains that the ten people who tested the first computers have been pressuring him to hold the auction; Luo promises a bonus for the staff who have dealt with them.
• Qi Ren arrives. Luo asks him to leave 2.4 million High-Grade Immortal Jade in his old account and transfer the rest into a new one.
• Luo then asks Lei Laohu to help him obtain equipment for the Golden-Armored Automaton. Since the automaton’s armor was destroyed and Luo has limited funds, he hopes to purchase suitable gear on credit.
• Lei takes Luo and Qi to a heavily guarded warehouse filled with Immortal Artifacts and even a few Divine Artifacts. He agrees to extend credit in return for Luo continuing to bring valuable goods to auction.
• Lei begins presenting a Fifth-Rank suit of golden Immortal armor, describing its rare materials, defensive capabilities, and intricate design.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Xiangzi is grateful to Luo for helping him break through to Fifth Rank. He reaffirms his loyalty and completes the jewelry with exceptional care.
• Luo Qian remains entrepreneurial and resourceful: he manages his accounts, sustains his business relationships, and looks for ways to strengthen his automaton despite having spent heavily on Breath Soil.
• Lei Laohu shows both business savvy and generosity. He initially considers giving Luo armor, but instead agrees to sell him equipment on credit, expecting future auction business in return.
• Qi Ren is concerned about Luo’s long disappearance and curious about Lei’s hidden stock. He agrees to handle Luo’s funds and is implicitly asked to guarantee the credit arrangement.
• Luo’s repeated use of “brother” when asking favors highlights how deliberately he cultivates mutually beneficial relationships.

Significant themes

• Growth through the right training: Xiao’s cultivation stagnated when he practiced only Mortal Arts, but the Ghost Refining Secret Art helps him advance rapidly.
• Commerce and mutual obligation: Credit, auction access, financial transfers, and promises of future business drive the characters’ dealings.
• Power through equipment: Luo seeks to upgrade the automaton with better armor and weapons, treating gear as a practical way to increase its strength.
• Wealth and inequality: The warehouse’s vast collection underscores how rare Immortal Artifacts are for ordinary Immortals and how concentrated valuable goods can be in powerful commercial hands.
  The chapter ends as the golden armor is displayed in detail, leaving Luo’s purchase and the automaton’s upgrade unresolved.

Chapter summary

Luo Qian visits Lei Laohu’s warehouse with Qi Ren and asks for powerful equipment, hoping to pay through Qi’s proposed credit arrangement. Luo’s suggestion of installment payments excites Qi, who sees a major opportunity for Black-Sky Bank; he offers Luo an interest-free loan and a reward, but Lei hijacks the moment by offering Luo a valuable artifact instead. The two old friends trade familiar insults, while Luo awkwardly tries to keep the peace.
Lei sells Luo the Dragon Soul Immortal Armor for 600,000 High-Grade Immortal Jade, far below its estimated auction value. Luo also chooses three weapons for the Golden-Armored Automaton: the bloodthirsty but powerful Half Blood Moon spear, the Spring and Autumn Sword with three charges of Heaven-Shaking Divine Thunder, and the Moon-Chasing Bow, whose arrows carry the force of fire formations. Unable to find a suitable rank-free artifact, Luo leaves with these four treasures. In exchange, he agrees to give Lei another gaming computer after the upcoming auction.
Back at his cave, Luo equips the automaton, admiring how dramatically the armor and weapons enhance its fearsome appearance. He notices that Li Feier has not returned after leaving in anger. With the gaming-computer auction three days away and Yin Quanyin’s wedding still half a month off, Luo decides to deliver the Breath Soil to the God King soon, before the Sea God can seize power and cost him a large sum.
Before he can summon the God King, Qian Tianbo arrives and demands that Luo come out. The chapter ends as Tianbo angrily accuses him of disgracing the Lineage.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains inventive and opportunistic, turning a casual idea into a potentially lucrative financial scheme. He is also generous and eager to acquire powerful equipment, though his enthusiasm leaves him comically admiring the automaton like a proud parent.
• Qi Ren recognizes the business potential in installment lending and offers Luo favorable terms. His rivalry with Lei is expressed through sharp teasing, but their long friendship makes the bickering seem affectionate.
• Lei Laohu shows goodwill by giving Luo a steep discount and later trading the weapons and armor for a future computer. He enjoys needling Qi, while presenting himself as generous and commercially shrewd.
• Li Feier’s absence lingers as an unresolved personal tension.
• Qian Tianbo’s confrontation introduces a new conflict, shifting the ending from Luo’s successful shopping trip to a likely dispute over his conduct.

Significant themes

• Commerce and innovation: Luo’s installment-payment idea illustrates how practical business thinking can reshape the Immortal Realm’s financial world.
• Friendship and deal-making: Luo, Lei, and Qi mix generosity, negotiation, and familiar insults without damaging their bonds.
• Power and preparation: Luo’s upgraded automaton represents his growing investment in strength, while his plans concerning the Breath Soil show the political and financial risks ahead.

Plot points and events

• Qian Tianbo confronts Luo Qian, demanding that he stop attracting attention and tarnishing the Qian Household’s reputation by acting as a merchant.
• Luo Qian recognizes that Qian Tianbo’s hostility is personal: as his replacement in the family’s favor, Qian Tianbo wants Luo to acknowledge that he is inferior.
• Luo instead taunts Qian Tianbo about his limited achievements and boasts that his Immortal Water business will make his name famous across the Immortal Realm.
• Enraged, Qian Tianbo attacks. Luo’s golden defense holds, and a Golden-Armored Automaton armed with the blood-red spear Half Blood Moon appears.
• The automaton overwhelms Qian Tianbo’s techniques and defenses, breaking his sword, shield, and cloud concealment. Terrified, Qian Tianbo retreats.
• Luo orders him to leave, warning that he will not harm a fellow member of the Qian Household—but will destroy anyone who comes after him. The automaton vanishes.
• Qian Tianbo departs in resentment. Back in his cave, Luo reflects that his anger has eased but that he may never escape the Qian Household’s influence.

Character developments

• Luo Qian shows greater confidence and resolve. Though still a Tribulation Immortal, he can now defend himself with formidable equipment and refuses to be intimidated or treated as powerless. His ambition to build a reputation through business is explicit.
• Qian Tianbo is revealed as insecure beneath his arrogance. His desire to discipline Luo stems partly from rivalry and fear of being overshadowed. His confidence collapses when Luo’s automaton defeats him.
• Luo’s victory does not bring lasting satisfaction; his deeper frustration is his inability to free himself from the family ties and expectations surrounding him.

Significant themes

• Status versus achievement: Qian Tianbo invokes family rank and social hierarchy, while Luo insists that success and reputation need not depend on noble status.
• Rivalry and insecurity: Qian Tianbo’s hostility reflects his anxiety about being measured against Luo.
• Independence and entanglement: Luo wants to live by his own rules, yet the Qian Household continues to shape his life.
• Power and self-respect: Luo’s new strength lets him resist being trampled, but he uses it to warn and drive Qian Tianbo away rather than injure him.

Character interactions

• Qian Tianbo tries to assert authority over Luo; Luo counters by exposing his jealousy and rejecting the idea that family rank makes him superior.
• Their verbal clash escalates into combat, where the automaton turns the balance decisively in Luo’s favor.
• Luo ends the confrontation with a boundary: he will leave the Qian Household alone if it leaves him alone, but will retaliate against anyone who attacks him.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian recites the God King’s overly intimate summoning incantation and is pulled into the Divine Realm.
• He arrives in the middle of an awkward encounter: the God King is with a beautiful Ten-Winged Angel. Luo Qian’s unexpected appearance embarrasses the God King, who quickly moves them to his palace.
• Luo Qian presents the God King with Breath Soil. The God King recognizes that it can repeatedly plug the Sea God’s sea eyes, giving him a major advantage in their conflict.
• In return, the God King gives Luo Qian a Spiritual Mark that will let him teleport to the Primordial Battlefield. He also provides a Teleportation Gate for Luo Qian’s eventual return to the Immortal Realm.
• Rather than leave immediately, Luo Qian asks to tour the Divine Realm. The God King assigns Sera, a deputy commander of the Archangel Guard Corps, to guide him—and secretly orders Sera to kill Luo Qian if he reveals the God King’s affair.
• During the tour, Luo Qian eagerly collects unfamiliar Divine Realm objects, seeing them as valuable goods to sell in the Immortal Realm. At a market stall, he challenges an alchemist’s sales pitch by pointing out that his invention has sold poorly.

Character developments

• Luo Qian remains opportunistic and sharp-minded. He trades a powerful treasure for access to the Primordial Battlefield, then turns his sightseeing trip into a hunt for profitable goods. His crude humor and shrewd bargaining unsettle his hosts.
• The God King is both triumphant and anxious: Breath Soil could help him defeat the Sea God, but Luo Qian’s knowledge of his affair with the Angel leaves him vulnerable to exposure.
• Sera is dutiful and suspicious, tasked with escorting—and potentially silencing—Luo Qian. He initially regards the visitor’s behavior as bizarre.
• The alchemist Green presents himself as a confident salesperson, but Luo Qian’s pointed question exposes a weakness in his pitch.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and commerce: Luo Qian treats even a fantastical realm as a marketplace, valuing its ordinary objects for their scarcity elsewhere.
• Power and leverage: Breath Soil strengthens the God King, while Luo Qian’s accidental knowledge of the affair gives him a different kind of leverage.
• Cultural difference and comedy: Luo Qian’s collecting, blunt bargaining, and irreverent thoughts contrast with the Divine Realm’s solemn surroundings.
• Appearance versus reality: Things that seem mundane in the Divine Realm may be valuable in the Immortal Realm, while the God King’s dignified authority masks a private scandal.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian’s arrival interrupts the God King and the Angel, creating an awkward encounter that the God King tries to contain.
• The God King rewards Luo Qian for Breath Soil but limits the danger by assigning Sera to watch him.
• Sera and the dragon are increasingly irritated by Luo Qian’s indiscriminate collecting, though his sharp bargaining earns their reluctant respect.
• Luo Qian challenges Green’s salesmanship, turning a routine purchase into a contest of commercial wit.

Plot points and events

• In the Divine Realm, Luo Qian bargains with the angel alchemist Green over a small storage item. He gets Sera to pay its price—fifty Energy Coins—by invoking the God King’s enormous debt to him.
• Sera hopes the purchase will finally send Luo Qian on his way, but Luo Qian points out that the item still has room to store more goods. He then leaves through a teleportation gate, promising to visit again, much to Sera’s and the dragon’s dismay.
• Back in his cave, Luo Qian realizes he has returned alone; Li Feier is not with him. He stores his Divine Realm purchases in the Underground Palace and heads to Phoenix Paulownia Mountain.
• An attendant ushers him into a discreet teahouse, where Zheng Daoguang has arranged a private meeting. Zheng asks Luo Qian to consider the Immortal Court and explains that the Immortal Realm’s apparent peace is fragile.
• Zheng recounts the previous rebellion, which wiped out the populations of four of the Nine Immortal Realms and left the realm devastated for two thousand years. He reveals that the Lu Household of Wuyao Mountain may be involved in a new rebellion and explains that Luo Qian’s assignment is intended to help prevent it.
• Zheng leaves Luo Qian to decide whether to continue. Alone, Luo Qian realizes that war would threaten people he cares about—notably Du Lengning and Li Feier—as well as himself. His thoughts turn painfully to Lu Mei.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Qian remains shamelessly resourceful and opportunistic, using humor and flattery to make Sera pay for his purchase. After Zheng’s warning, however, he begins to see his mission as more than an imposed duty: it could protect friends and other Immortals. His confidence gives way to unease and reluctant responsibility.
• Sera is exasperated by Luo Qian’s audacity but ultimately pays the price to get rid of him. His farewell promise to return leaves Sera and the dragon overwhelmed with regret.
• Zheng Daoguang speaks to Luo Qian as an old acquaintance rather than a superior. He explains the stakes candidly and appeals to Luo Qian’s concern for others instead of simply issuing orders.
• Green tries to sell his work despite its poor quality, while Luo Qian and Sera bargain over it.
• Luo Qian’s thoughts about Du Lengning, Li Feier, and Lu Mei reveal the personal ties shaping his response to the danger.

Significant themes

• Personal survival versus responsibility: Luo Qian’s mission becomes harder to dismiss once he understands that war could endanger people he cares about.
• The fragility of peace: The Immortal Realm’s calm conceals political unrest and the potential for catastrophic conflict.
• The human cost of war: Zheng’s account emphasizes that powerful Immortals would all be drawn into battle, with devastation lasting for millennia.
• Greed and comic opportunism: Luo Qian’s Divine Realm shopping provides a humorous contrast to the serious political warning that follows.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian visits Lu Mei with a red-jade jewelry box, hoping to stay close to her while assuring himself he has no romantic intentions.
• Lu Mei initially warns him not to make improper advances, but eagerly accepts the jewelry. Its wedding-themed design makes her think it is a betrothal gift; once Luo Qian explains it was originally made for someone else and had been remade for her, she happily takes it back.
• Still unsure how to use his growing connection with Lu Mei to reach the Lu Household, Luo Qian devises another plan.
• As Yin Quanyin’s wedding approaches, Luo Qian abandons his idea of wearing a tuxedo so he will not draw attention away from the groom.
• The wedding draws a huge crowd to the True Transformation Source. Luo Qian avoids the chaotic, crowded skies, while Du Lengning gleefully uses the confusion to flirt with fairies.
• Yin Quanyin’s steward, Old Fu, welcomes Luo Qian into the residence. Yin greets him warmly, then returns to his demanding wedding preparations.
• Old Fu lodges Luo Qian in the second courtyard, a space for distant relatives. This placement signals that Yin considers him close to the family.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian tries to balance his practical desire to approach the Lu Household with a concern about acting dishonestly toward Lu Mei. His awkward assurances and misunderstandings reveal both his self-consciousness and his comic confidence.
• Lu Mei is shy and easily embarrassed, but clearly enjoys Luo Qian’s attention and the unusual jewelry. Her shifting reactions suggest feelings more complicated than her stated wish to keep things platonic.
• Yin Quanyin shows affection and trust toward Luo Qian by personally welcoming him and arranging for him to stay among the family’s distant relatives.
• Du Lengning remains shameless and flirtatious, contrasting with Luo Qian’s reluctance to risk trouble amid the wedding crowd.
• Old Fu acts as a courteous guide and makes clear, through the lodging arrangement, how highly Yin regards Luo Qian.

Significant themes

• Ambiguous courtship: Luo Qian and Lu Mei’s exchange mixes caution, embarrassment, and mutual interest, with the jewelry’s wedding symbolism deepening the misunderstanding.
• Business and creativity: The distinctive jewelry, combining styles from the mortal and Immortal realms, showcases Luo Qian’s commercial ambitions and Xiao Xiangzi’s craftsmanship.
• Belonging and trust: Luo Qian’s place in the second courtyard marks his movement from outside guest toward accepted associate of the Yin family.
• Comedy and social spectacle: The wedding’s scale, crowded skies, and Luo Qian’s modern comparisons provide humor while showing the extravagance of Immortal society.

Plot points and events

• On the day of Yin Quanyin and Yun Xi’s wedding, Luo Qian joins the guests without attracting special attention. Du Lengning, who has been busy in the days leading up to the ceremony, appears and jokes with him about marrying a formidable spouse.
• Yun Xi arrives in an elaborate procession sent by the wealthy Cloudwave Aristocratic Clan. After the wedding rites, the banquet begins and the newlyweds make the rounds to toast their guests.
• Luo Qian presents Yun Xi with a box of jewelry. Yin Quanyin initially hesitates to accept it because he believes it is far too valuable, prompting guests to assume the gift must be a powerful magical artifact. Yun Xi opens the box, is captivated by its beauty, and gladly keeps it.
• Yun Xi replaces her old hair ornament with one of Luo Qian’s designs. Her choice impresses the guests, especially the women, and Yin Quanyin tenderly helps her put on the jewelry.
• As guests try to discover where the jewelry came from, Du Lengning—at Luo Qian’s direction—spreads the news that it is from Luo Qian’s soon-to-open Jewelry Shop. The rumor rapidly circulates through the wealthy gathering.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian remains modest and composed, but carefully uses the wedding gift to showcase his products and generate interest in his upcoming business. He jokes easily with Du Lengning and presses Yin Quanyin to let Yun Xi decide whether to accept the gift.
• Du Lengning acts as Luo Qian’s trusted accomplice, first bantering with him and later strategically “leaking” the jewelry’s source.
• Yin Quanyin shows gratitude and affection toward Luo Qian, though he initially worries about accepting such an extravagant gift. He ultimately indulges Yun Xi’s delight and helps her wear the jewelry.
• Yun Xi moves from polite refusal to open enthusiasm once she sees the set. Her preference for Luo Qian’s refined designs over her traditional ornaments makes the gift’s appeal unmistakable.
• The guests’ assumptions shift from suspicion that Luo Qian’s gift is unimpressive to amazement at its value, then to admiration of its beauty and curiosity about its source.

Significant themes

• Beauty as a source of value: The jewelry’s appeal lies not in magical power but in its striking design, challenging the guests’ expectations about what makes an artifact precious.
• Business and social opportunity: Luo Qian turns a personal gift into publicity, using the wedding’s influential audience to seed demand for his new shop.
• Status and perception: Guests judge the gift and Luo Qian through assumptions about wealth and rank, while the jewelry quickly changes how they see both.
• Affection and generosity: The wedding’s central romance is echoed in Yin Quanyin’s tender care for Yun Xi, while Luo Qian’s gift strengthens his friendship with the couple.

Plot points and events

• Now head shopkeeper, Xiao Xiangzi takes charge of preparations for Luo Family Jewelry, allowing Luo Qian to focus on smuggling and plan a trip to the Mortal Realm.
• Remembering how effective his sniper rifle was against the Golden Turtle Immortal Soldier, Luo Qian travels to the United States and buys a powerful Desert Eagle and ammunition. The suspicious shopkeeper initially threatens him, but Luo Qian persuades him to sell by offering a large bribe.
• Back in China, Luo Qian buys more goods and a traditional-character copy of Legend of Undying, which he intends to use to approach Ling Xiaose and, indirectly, Li Feier.
• Returning to the Immortal Realm, Luo Qian finds Xiao Xiangzi busy directing construction. Rather than burden him with another task, he delivers the jewelry and heads to Clear Peace Source.
• Luo Qian gives the book to Ling Xiaose. When Ling insists on paying, Luo Qian hints that he wants a favor in return.

Character developments

• Luo Qian is increasingly confident as a smuggler, using his resources and Immortal abilities to obtain weapons and evade authorities. He is also calculating: the “free” gift is a way to secure Ling Xiaose’s help.
• Xiao Xiangzi proves capable and diligent in his new role, earning Luo Qian’s respect and a rare reprieve from being given more work.
• Ling Xiaose remains eager for erotic reading and grateful to Luo Qian, though his insistence on paying gives Luo Qian the opening he wants.
• Luo Qian’s continued longing for Li Feier is revealed: he wants to reconnect with her but is too proud to approach her directly.

Themes

• Resourcefulness and opportunism: Luo Qian adapts to obstacles through money, magic, and improvisation.
• Commerce and self-interest: Even a friendly gift becomes a potential bargain, reflecting the chapter’s mercantile tone.
• Power and technology: Luo Qian seeks to bring modern weaponry into the Immortal Realm, applying Mortal Realm technology to supernatural conflicts.
• Pride and indirect connection: His feelings for Li Feier are sincere, but pride leads him to rely on Ling Xiaose as an intermediary.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian’s booming business leaves Du Lengning short-handed, while Xiao Xiangzi’s competence helps keep the jewelry project moving.
• In the gun shop, Luo Qian’s calm handling of the Desert Eagle unnerves the owner; a substantial bribe eventually overcomes the owner’s fear of legal trouble.
• At the construction site, Luo Qian discreetly gives Xiao Xiangzi the jewelry before avoiding Du Lengning.
• Luo Qian and Ling Xiaose meet privately. Luo presents the book as a friendly gift, but Ling’s insistence on settling accounts lets Luo begin negotiating for a favor.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian recruits Ling Xiaose to help with an unspecified plan, tempting him with an erotic book despite Ling’s fear of Li Feier.
• Luo Qian races to Cloudwatch Peak for Lei Laohu’s auction, arriving just before it begins. Lei has expanded the small venue to accommodate ten customers in private rooms.
• After two expensive supporting lots sell, Luo Qian spots a Beast-Sealing Puppet containing a sixth-rank Thundercloud Fire Leopard. He arranges to have its 1.9-million-Immortal-Jade price deducted from his future share of the game computer’s proceeds, then wins it with little competition.
• The other bidders explain that they already own much stronger mounts and that the leopard is difficult to ride and tame. Luo Qian is delighted: it gives him a fast means of travel and a modest combatant who might buy him time to escape.
• The game computer, the auction’s main attraction, appears to intense excitement. Bidding rises rapidly from three million to twenty million high-grade Immortal Jade, with no sign that the wealthy bidders are ready to stop.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows growing commercial ambition: remembering how cheaply he once sold a computer, he now sees the auction as a chance to profit handsomely. He also prioritizes practical needs, buying the leopard for travel and survival.
• Lei Laohu is relieved when Luo arrives, but initially hesitates to let him bid on credit because he must uphold the auction’s payment rules. Luo persuades him to deduct the cost from his future proceeds.
• Qi Ren offers to lend Luo the money, but Luo declines, wary of debt. Qi also explains why the leopard is overlooked by the more powerful guests.
• Ling Xiaose remains frightened of Li Feier, but his longing for the forbidden book outweighs his fear enough to make him accept Luo’s request.
• The auction’s wealthy guests are courteous but competitive; their escalating bids turn the game computer into a coveted prize.

Significant themes

• Commercial opportunity and regret: Luo’s recollection of selling a computer cheaply contrasts with the enormous sums now being bid, highlighting his shift from naïve seller to shrewd profiteer.
• Practical survival over prestige: The leopard is unimpressive to the elite but valuable to Luo because it improves his mobility and chance of escape.
• Rules, trust, and debt: Lei’s reluctance to bend auction rules and Luo’s refusal to borrow underscore the importance—and risks—of financial obligations.
• Status and inequality: The bidders’ wealth and high-rank mounts reveal how far Luo remains from the powerful elite, even as he finds ways to advance.
• Escalating desire: The bidders’ excitement over games drives the price upward, showing how entertainment can command extraordinary wealth.

Summary

• The gaming computer sells for an astonishing price. After hesitant bidding, the auction ends at 28 million High-Grade Immortal Jade—far beyond Lei Laohu’s estimate. Luo Qian’s share gives him a major windfall. He repays Lei Laohu the 1.9 million he owed for the Beast-Sealing Puppet, leaving him with a fortune of roughly ten million.
• Luo Qian impresses his business partners. Lei Laohu and Qi Ren celebrate the sale with him and discuss Qi Ren’s plan to start an installment-loan business, inspired by Luo’s ideas. They invite Luo to the Hanging Flight Tower expecting his inexperience to show, but his worldly composure surprises them.
• The Beast-Sealing Puppet proves its worth. On his return, Luo Qian rides the Thundercloud Fire Leopard summoned by the puppet. Its tremendous speed lets him travel back in less than half a day, thrilling him with the convenience of his new purchase.
• Ling Xiaose urgently wants the next installment of a novel. He has mistakenly assumed Legend of Undying is a risqué book, but became absorbed in its wish-fulfillment story and is desperate to learn what happens after its cliffhanger ending. Luo Qian initially thinks Ling wants a banned book, then understands the misunderstanding. Seeing a possible business opportunity, he suggests copying the novel onto jade tablets. Ling agrees to test demand by sharing copies with people nearby.
• Luo Qian searches for more books in the lower world. Unable to find the vanished street vendor, he looks for another source and eventually searches a university campus, where pirated books are openly sold. He finds no traditional-character edition, but a student tells him such novels are now read online and that a digital traditional-character version can be found.

Character developments and interactions

Luo Qian’s growing wealth fuels his confidence and sharpens his entrepreneurial instincts: he turns Ling Xiaose’s reading obsession into a potential publishing venture. Ling, previously a homebody, is revealed to be deeply susceptible to serialized fiction; his earnestness and eagerness create a humorous bond with Luo. Lei Laohu and Qi Ren treat Luo as a valued business associate, though their attempt to test his sophistication backfires.

Significant themes

The chapter blends commercial opportunity with cultural exchange, showing Luo adapting lower-world products and ideas for the Immortal Realm. It also plays with misunderstanding and appearances—from the gaming computer’s unexpectedly high value to Ling’s misreading of a book’s cover—and highlights the addictive pull of serialized stories and the expanding reach of piracy and digital media.

Plot and key events

• Luo Qian finds completed online fiction in the lower realm and downloads several popular works, including the continuation of Legend of Undying, for Ling Xiaose.
• Ling Xiaose is thrilled to learn the story is finished. After he shares earlier chapters with four lively young men from the Ling Household, they become devoted to him—and to getting the next installment. Their enthusiasm spreads through the household, prompting others to seek out the story as well.
• The resulting frenzy raises Ling Xiaose’s standing: he gains access to a private chamber to copy the books, while household members scramble and even fight over the scarce jade tablets. He eventually copies the collected works and gives them to Luo Qian.
• Seeing a business opportunity, Luo Qian brings the fiction venture to Du Lengning. Du doubts that entertainment without cultivation benefits will appeal to Immortals, but Luo Qian gives him a novel to read and sends him home with it.
• Du disappears for three days, leaving Luo Qian anxious about preparations for the approaching opening of Luo Family Jewelry. When Luo goes to Ningyao Mountain to find him, he meets Li Xuexiao leaving in tears: Du has ignored her for days and dismissed her when she tried to visit.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows entrepreneurial confidence, turning the Immortals’ hunger for stories into a potential business. He is resourceful and persuasive, though he also jokes, threatens Du with embarrassing information, and readily assigns work to others.
• Ling Xiaose goes from isolated and overlooked to suddenly popular and influential. The attention is gratifying, but the constant demands keep him from reading the story himself. His father is pleased by his newfound prominence.
• Du Lengning initially approaches Luo angrily over his disappearance, then becomes intrigued by the proposed venture despite his skepticism. His disappearance into reading suggests the novel has hooked him; meanwhile, his treatment of Li reveals carelessness in their relationship.
• Li Xuexiao is hurt by Du’s neglect and resolves, in the moment, that she no longer wants to see him. Luo recognizes that Du’s behavior has caused her distress but cannot stop her from leaving.

Significant themes

• Stories as a commodity: Fiction becomes valuable because it satisfies a demand for entertainment, even in a society that prizes cultivation and power.
• Popularity and social status: Ling Xiaose’s access to a compelling story transforms his position in the household.
• Scarcity and collective obsession: Limited copies fuel competition, while eager readers become almost comically dependent on the next installment.
• Business opportunity and risk: Luo sees unmet demand where Du initially sees an unproven investment.
• Neglect in personal relationships: Du’s fixation on the book contrasts with Li’s need for his attention.

Plot points and events

• Luo Qian visits Du Lengning on Cloud-Rising Peak to recruit him for the opening of Luo Family Jewelry. Du is absorbed in the wish-fulfillment novel Piao Miao Journey and has forgotten the shop. Luo Qian drags him along, but later confiscates the Jade Tablet so Du will work.
• Luo Family Jewelry opens at dusk with help from Xiao Xiangzi, Qi Ren, and Yin Quanyin. Its elegant display and lighting attract customers, and the shop sells dozens of expensive pieces, earning over 100,000 High-Grade Immortal Jade by the next day.
• Du remains fixated on finishing the novel and hides in the shop to read it. Luo Qian turns his attention to a new venture: selling books.
• After studying book-rental shops in the lower realm, Luo Qian plans to create a hand-operated book-copying workshop and open bookstores in stages—first 36 across the Thirty-Six Mountains, then potentially 108, and ultimately throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Ling Xiaose has become overwhelmed by readers in the Ling Household mansion, who crowd outside his room demanding updates to every novel he transcribes. When Luo Qian hears about the situation, he realizes the novels may be popular enough to build a market quickly and takes Ling aside to discuss a solution.

Character developments

• Luo Qian proves himself an ambitious, adaptable entrepreneur, shifting quickly from jewelry to a large-scale publishing plan. He recognizes that Ling’s reader problem is evidence of strong demand.
• Du Lengning becomes hopelessly absorbed in Piao Miao Journey, neglecting both his duties and Li Xuexiao’s visit. His craving for the story makes him fear that stopping midway could even disrupt his cultivation.
• Ling Xiaose is revealed as a reluctant, socially anxious producer overwhelmed by the popularity of his transcriptions. Despite his frustration, he tries to satisfy every reader.
• Xiao Xiangzi is delighted by the jewelry shop’s success, while Qi Ren and Yin Quanyin contribute to its lively opening.

Significant themes

• Entrepreneurship and scaling: Luo Qian treats each venture as a business experiment, using research, staged expansion, production, and distribution plans.
• Supply creates demand: The popularity of the novels suggests that an unfamiliar market can be cultivated—and perhaps faster than expected.
• Stories as powerful commodities: The novels captivate readers so strongly that they disrupt work, social obligations, and even Ling Xiaose’s freedom.
• Comedy through obsession and commerce: Du’s literary fixation and the readers’ relentless demands contrast humorously with Luo Qian’s practical calculations.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian and Du Lengning clash over Du’s reading: Luo insists he fulfill his role at the shop, while Du complains that Luo’s book has made him unable to stop reading.
• The jewelry opening brings Luo, Xiao Xiangzi, Qi Ren, Yin Quanyin, and Du together in a successful business effort.
• Ling Xiaose’s readers effectively besiege him for daily installments. When Luo arrives, Ling apologizes and recounts his predicament; Luo responds with enthusiasm, seeing an opportunity to turn the demand into a more organized publishing enterprise.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian recruits Ling Xiaose as the art director of his new YY-culture company, giving him a grand title but carefully limiting his authority. He asks Ling to find other enthusiasts to help spread the culture.
• At the Ling Household estate, Luo Qian addresses the readers who have been waiting for new stories. He admits that he—not Ling Xiaose—wrote the popular novels, then persuades the crowd to help launch a bookstore, presenting the project as a cultural cause rather than a business. He recruits a first batch of copyists for five high-grade immortal jade per month.
• Luo Qian visits the successful Luo Family Jewelry shop, where Xiao Xiangzi explains that its appeal lies in its fresh designs, inspired by Mortal Realm culture, rather than superior magical effects.
• Facing a shortage of help for the new bookstore, Luo Qian thinks of recruiting Li Feier, whose forceful management proved useful before. He plans to ask Ling Xiaose to smooth things over after his earlier conflict with her.
• Outside the shop, Luo Qian encounters Lu Mei. She wants a thumb ring for her eldest brother’s birthday. Luo offers to provide one, and asks Xiao Xiangzi to design it—but insists that he wait until Luo returns before crafting it.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian demonstrates his talent for persuasion and promotion, turning readers’ enthusiasm into a workforce and framing low-paid labor as service to a shared cause. He also remains calculating, limiting Ling Xiaose’s power and treating Lu Mei’s request as a possible opportunity.
• Ling Xiaose accepts his new role, but his understanding of the business remains limited. His popularity as the supposed author gives Luo Qian access to a receptive audience, while his father helps convene the readers.
• Xiao Xiangzi takes pride in the jewelry shop’s success and clarifies that its competitive edge is design. Luo relies on him for the thumb-ring commission.
• Lu Mei approaches Luo cautiously but relaxes when he assures her he has no improper intentions. She politely insists on paying for her brother’s gift.
• Li Feier, though absent, is identified by Luo as a powerful and effective manager whose help he hopes to enlist.

Significant themes

• Culture as both ideal and business strategy: Luo presents YY culture as a cause worth supporting, while also building a company around its spread.
• Persuasion and labor: Enthusiasm, appealing rhetoric, and appeals to purpose help Luo recruit workers despite low pay.
• Innovation through cultural exchange: The jewelry shop succeeds by adapting designs from the Mortal Realm, suggesting that fresh ideas can outperform technical superiority.
• Control beneath grand titles: Luo gives Ling Xiaose prestige while keeping meaningful authority for himself.

Plot points and events

• Unable to buy restricted surveillance equipment openly in Las Vegas, Luo Qian attracts police attention and is portrayed on local news as a dim but violent criminal.
• He secures the equipment by intimidating motorcycle gang members and working his way up the criminal hierarchy to White Shark, a powerful gang leader. White Shark has black-market dealers brought in, and Luo Qian pays for miniature listening devices and cameras.
• Back in the Immortal Realm, Luo Qian asks Xiao Xiangzi to conceal a listening device inside a fire-jade thumb ring. Xiao Xiangzi also adds a self-destruct formation to prevent anyone from removing it.
• Luo Qian gives the ring to Lu Mei, intending to use the device to monitor Lu Zhen, whom he believes is better positioned to reveal the Lu Household’s political affairs.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian proves resourceful but relies on blunt force when conventional methods fail. He is also cautious about his surveillance plan, yet uneasy about potentially implicating Lu Mei in the suspected rebellion.
• White Shark is intimidated by Luo Qian and uses his criminal network to satisfy the demand, while privately hoping Luo Qian will leave.
• Xiao Xiangzi is eager to demonstrate his improved refining skills. Luo Qian restrains him from using costly materials, presenting himself as a responsible business owner; Xiao Xiangzi is impressed and pledges loyalty.
• Lu Mei admires the ring and insists on paying despite Luo Qian’s offer to give it to her. Their warm, teasing exchange shows their mutual regard.

Significant themes

• Practical ingenuity over brute force: Luo Qian’s approach is crude, but persistence and finding the right connections get results.
• Cross-realm adaptation: Modern surveillance technology is repurposed and hidden through Immortal Realm craftsmanship.
• Power, secrecy, and surveillance: Luo Qian’s covert plan reflects the political danger surrounding the Lu Household.
• Moral unease amid loyalty: Though willing to spy on Lu Zhen, Luo Qian worries that the suspected rebellion could harm the kind-hearted Lu Mei.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian secretly buries a signal relay near the Lu Household, then monitors Lu Mei’s conversations from his private room at Luo Family Jewelry.
• Instead of hearing about Lu Zhen or the family’s affairs, he hears Lu Mei confess that she loves and admires him. The revelation moves him, but also makes his surveillance feel more painful.
• Luo Qian decides to keep investigating the Lu Household for links to the rebels. If they are implicated, he will help them escape; if they are innocent, he will prove it to Zheng Daoguang. He also resolves to keep his distance from Lu Mei, believing their futures cannot align.
• Luo Qian visits Ling Xiaose to collect on a promise and bring Li Feier back to work. Ling is reluctant to face her, but accompanies him.
• At the Li Household’s new estate at Tianxia Source, a gatekeeper mocks Ling Xiaose’s low standing within his clan. Luo Qian defends his companion by loudly calling for Li Feier.
• Li Feier appears with a group of soccer teammates. She has turned a soccer ball into an Immortal Artifact using rare Wind Civet hide and a Heavenly River Fiendfish air bladder, after secretly taking the pelts from her brother’s collection. She now plays five-on-five matches.
• Luo Qian teases Li Feier and says she has been skipping work. Although she had wanted to return, she was too proud to do so on her own. His visit gives her a face-saving excuse, and he begins to offer her a new task.

Character developments

• Luo Qian is emotionally touched by Lu Mei’s affection, but chooses responsibility and restraint over pursuing a relationship. He shows loyalty by standing up for Ling Xiaose.
• Lu Mei reveals sincere romantic feelings for Luo Qian while doubting her family would ever accept him.
• Ling Xiaose is shown as timid and insecure because of his marginal position in the Ling Household; he relies on Luo Qian to handle confrontation.
• Li Feier remains stubborn and mischievous, but her ingenuity is evident in creating an Immortal Artifact soccer ball. She wants to return to Luo Qian’s workplace but needs him to initiate the reconciliation.

Significant themes

• Duty versus personal feeling: Luo Qian’s investigation of the Lu family conflicts with his growing affection for Lu Mei.
• Social status and dignity: Ling Xiaose’s humiliation shows how rank within a powerful family shapes confidence and treatment by others; Luo Qian refuses to let that insult pass unchallenged.
• Ingenuity and play: Li Feier transforms scarce, valuable materials into a source of fun, demonstrating creativity and youthful resourcefulness.
• Pride and reconciliation: Li Feier’s absence is less a loss of interest than an inability to return without surrendering face.

Character interactions

• Lu Mei’s private reflections create an emotional bond with Luo Qian, though he decides not to encourage it.
• Luo Qian and Ling Xiaose share an unequal but supportive partnership: Luo pushes Ling to honor his promise and protects him from ridicule.
• Luo Qian’s teasing restores familiar warmth with Li Feier, while allowing her to return without admitting she had been waiting for him.
• Li Feier’s playful soccer exploits contrast with her family’s wealth and expectations, especially her brother’s intended use for the stolen pelts.

Plot and key events

• Luo Qian recruits Li Feier to help establish a bookstore in Tianxia Source. After he protects her cousin, Ling Xiaose, from an arrogant gatekeeper, Li Feier agrees to manage the shop and quickly secures a plot for seven million High-Grade Immortal Jade.
• Luo Qian discovers that competitors are copying Luo Family Jewelry designs. With no intellectual-property laws to help him, he decides to keep releasing new designs and eventually make higher-tier jewelry whose superior materials will make counterfeits obvious. Xiao Xiangzi promises to improve his crafting skills.
• Luo Bookstore opens in a distinctive six-story building designed like an open book. Its opening is modest, but the business expands to thirty-six branches. Luo’s fast-paced, wish-fulfillment novels become popular across the Immortal Realm, inspiring restaurants, weapons, accessories, and other products modeled on fictional works.
• Critics condemn the novels as crude and implausible, but their objections do not stop the craze. Luo’s attempt to prevent book copying with an expensive Immortal Formation fails when pirates crack it in under two weeks. Enraged, he launches a price-cutting campaign.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qian shows his entrepreneurial ambition and adaptability, while repeatedly confronting the limits of protecting his ideas from piracy. He backs Li Feier and reassures Ling Xiaose that the gatekeeper will no longer mistreat him.
• Li Feier proves energetic and capable at getting things done, though Luo privately doubts her suitability for such an important role. Her eagerness to work alongside Luo also hints at an affection she does not yet understand.
• Ling Xiaose remains deferential to Li Feier, but shows perceptiveness by teasing Luo about the closeness between them.
• Xiao Xiangzi responds to the jewelry counterfeits with determination, committing himself to improving his artifact-crafting ability.

Significant themes

• Piracy and intellectual property: Without legal protection, Luo must rely on innovation, product differentiation, and eventually lower prices to compete with copycats.
• Commercial ambition and cultural influence: Luo’s business ventures turn popular fiction into a broad consumer trend, showing how entertainment can shape tastes and markets.
• Power and loyalty: Luo uses his growing influence to protect those close to him, while Li Feier’s trust and willingness to help strengthen their partnership.

Concise Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Luo Qian’s aggressive price cuts drive the pirated-book sellers out of business, though he knows they will return once prices rise. Meanwhile, YY novels inspire a wave of dubious business schemes, paid “cultivation breakthroughs,” and even a proposed bureaucratic reform campaign.
• Luo Qian’s surveillance of Lu Zhen yields little. Meng Xiao notes that some frequent visitors to the Lu Household have indirect rebel connections, but Zheng Daoguang keeps pressuring Luo Qian for a breakthrough.
• Seeking a break from the investigation, Luo Qian travels to the Primordial Battlefield using the God King’s Spiritual Mark. He arrives in a strange, inward-curving world and soon realizes he is trapped inside a powerful formation.
• The Golden-Armored Automaton reacts to the battlefield and races to a mountaintop. When it strikes the summit, a central mist pulls at it. Luo Qian tries to recall it, but both he and the automaton are dragged into the mist.
• They emerge in the true Primordial Battlefield: a bleak landscape of colossal statues, giant-beast remains, and ruined weapons. A stray bone fragment sets off a chain of events: a skeletal beast rises from a necromantic formation, a buried sword unleashes a vast cross-shaped beam of light, and a phoenix begins to emerge from beneath the sand.

Character developments

• Luo Qian remains practical and business-minded, but his frustration with Zheng Daoguang pushes him into a risky adventure. His confidence in surviving through revival does not prepare him for being trapped, and his fear shifts from death to helpless confinement.
• Li Feier celebrates the end of piracy, while Luo Qian’s more experienced view makes him wary of declaring victory.
• The Golden-Armored Automaton displays unusual, apparently ancient instincts. Its behavior suggests a connection to its former master or to artifacts and formations in the battlefield.
• Meng Xiao contributes a small but potentially important lead by identifying visitors with rebel connections.

Significant themes

• The limits of private enterprise: Luo Qian can suppress piracy temporarily through price competition, but recognizes that without broader enforcement the problem will recur.
• Commercialization and opportunism: The popularity of YY novels spawns exaggerated claims, questionable services, and profiteering.
• Isolation and loss of control: Luo Qian enters the battlefield expecting an unusual excursion, only to become trapped in a world he cannot understand or escape.
• The danger of the unknown: His seemingly harmless actions trigger ancient forces whose scale far exceeds his own power.

Character interactions

• Luo Qian tempers Li Feier’s excitement about defeating the pirates, explaining that their disappearance is likely temporary.
• Zheng Daoguang’s repeated demands intensify Luo Qian’s desire to escape his investigation duties.
• Luo Qian relies on the Golden-Armored Automaton as protection, but its independent reaction forces him to choose between controlling it and following its lead.
• On the battlefield, Luo Qian’s accidental interference awakens multiple ancient powers, leaving him caught amid a confrontation between the undead beast, the sword’s holy light, and the emerging phoenix.