Recaps

Wen Ning searched Spring Radiance Garden for the location of the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda’s third-floor seal, but the fox demons there did not know where it was. After defeating them, he learned that their mysterious owner controlled the seal, though they could not tell him who she was or where to find her.

• Wen Ning sat untouched by the food and wine while asking the fox demons about the third-floor seal, but they claimed to know nothing.
• The garden’s leading female demon revealed her suspicion that Wen Ning had come seeking the seal and ordered the demons to attack him.
• Wen Ning used the Five Thunder Righteous Method to defeat the attacking fox demons without leaving his seat.
• Wen Ning threatened the demons with thunderlight, stopping the leading female demon’s attempt to feign weakness.
• The female demon admitted that she did not know the seal’s location and said Spring Radiance Garden’s hidden owner guarded and controlled it personally.

Wen Ning failed to find the Seal among the Fox Demons, but Hua Manlou revealed that she was the boss of Spring Radiance Garden and held the Seal. She also admitted that she had staged a chase to see if Wen Ning would rescue her, leaving them bickering over his failure to play the hero.

• Wen Ning left the private room without finding the Seal and met Hua Manlou waiting outside.
• Hua Manlou told Wen Ning that the Seal was with her and revealed that she was the boss of Spring Radiance Garden.
• Wen Ning realized Hua Manlou had been warning him not to seek out herself, the formidable boss she had described at the restaurant.
• Hua Manlou explained that the monsters chasing her were her underlings and that she had staged the pursuit to test whether Wen Ning would rescue her.
• Wen Ning teased Hua Manlou by saying she would have had to offer herself to him if he had played the hero, leaving her flustered and glaring at him.

After storming out of the restaurant, Shi Dajian shared his tragic past and his master’s teachings with the little foxes who had followed him. Granny Red reminded him that he still owed the restaurant for his meal, so he returned to finish washing dishes.

• Shi Dajian smashed a plate and quit his dishwashing job, then found several little foxes following him to his courtyard.
• Xiao Bai explained that Granny Red had sent the foxes to keep him company, and Shi Dajian told them that a monster had killed his parents before his master took him in.
• Shi Dajian described his master’s rule to judge monsters by their actions, then frightened the foxes by pretending he would eat them.
• Granny Red confronted Shi Dajian for leaving without repaying his meal through work, and he agreed to return to the restaurant and wash the dishes.
• Shi Dajian walked back to the restaurant, where the owner was still cursing over the broken plate.

Wen Ning asked Hua Manlou for the location of the third-floor seal, and she agreed to reveal it if he helped her eliminate a dangerous pangolin demon. Hua Manlou led him to the demon inside Spring Radiance Garden, where Wen Ning judged its Yao Qi to be wicked.

• Shi Dajian admitted his mistake to Hua Manlou and returned to washing dishes.
• Hua Manlou explained that she had inherited Spring Radiance Garden from her deceased mother and refused Wen Ning's offer to take her out of the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda because she needed to keep the third floor in check.
• Hua Manlou asked Wen Ning to help kill a pangolin demon, and he agreed after she said it had harmed weaker demons.
• Hua Manlou led Wen Ning into Spring Radiance Garden and kicked open the room where the pangolin demon was drinking.
• The pangolin demon flirted with Hua Manlou and proposed that they join forces, while Wen Ning examined its Yao Qi and judged it to be wicked.