Recaps

Wen Ning agreed to sell Liu Mingyuan’s apartment for free after learning how Liu had cared for his godparents and planned to donate the proceeds to an anti-drug police family fund. After viewing the home, Wen Ning and Liu Mingyuan became friendly and went to get milk tea.

• Wen Ning called Liu Mingyuan and learned that he wanted to sell his godparents’ apartment for 420,000 yuan.
• Liu Mingyuan told Wen Ning that he had cared for his godparents after their son, an anti-drug police officer, died, and that they had left him the apartment in their notarized will.
• Liu Mingyuan said he planned to donate the sale proceeds to the Anti-Drug Police Family Support Fund, and Wen Ning insisted on handling the sale without charging commission.
• Wen Ning met Liu Mingyuan at Splendid Garden and inspected the apartment, which had a good layout but dated decor.
• Liu Mingyuan invited Wen Ning for taro boba, and the two chatted about Wen Realty and Wen-style therapy on the way to the shop.

Wen Ning showed Zhou Min and Liu Qing an apartment, and they decided to buy it at the listed price after hearing about its former owner. As Doudou laughed in her father’s arms, Wen Ning noticed a gentle layer of yin energy surrounding her.

• Wen Ning arranged an apartment viewing with Zhou Min and met her, her husband Liu Qing, and their daughter Doudou at Splendid Garden.
• Wen Ning showed the family the bright apartment, and Zhou Min and Liu Qing discussed its rooms and possible renovations.
• Liu Qing asked why the apartment was priced below nearby listings, and Wen Ning explained the owner’s reasons.
• Zhou Min and Liu Qing decided to buy the apartment at the listed price, saying they would not haggle.
• Wen Ning noticed faint, gentle yin energy surrounding Doudou as she laughed.

Wen Ning sold Liu Mingyuan’s apartment to Liu Qing and Zhou Min, but he remained puzzled by the harmless yin energy surrounding their daughter, Doudou. After consulting Zhang Siyu, he arranged for the buyers and Liu Mingyuan to begin the sale paperwork the day after tomorrow.

• Wen Ning noticed faint yin energy surrounding Doudou, and Zhou Min said the girl sometimes laughed by herself at night.
• Liu Qing and Zhou Min agreed to buy the apartment at the listed price, and Wen Ning promised to arrange the transfer and loan procedures.
• Doudou smiled at Wen Ning as her family left, and the yin energy around her rippled slightly.
• Wen Ning asked Zhang Siyu about yin energy that did not harm people, but she could not explain Doudou’s condition.
• Wen Ning told Liu Mingyuan that the apartment had sold, and they agreed to sign the online contract and visit the bank the day after tomorrow.

Wen Ning helped Liu Qing and Zhou Min complete the purchase of their home, then reassured Zhou Min that the spirit protecting Doudou was her mother from a previous life, who had come to say goodbye before reincarnating. After the family left, Wen Ning returned to the shop and told Zhang Siyu what had happened.

• Wen Ning accompanied Liu Qing and Zhou Min to the property transaction center, where they completed the purchase and received the keys.
• Zhou Min told Wen Ning that she had dreamed Doudou’s mother from a previous life had come to say goodbye before reincarnating.
• Wen Ning recognized the fading yin energy around Doudou as her mother’s protective attachment and reassured Zhou Min that it would not harm the child.
• Liu Qing and Zhou Min left with Doudou, whose protective yin energy was almost gone in the sunlight.
• Wen Ning returned to the shop and told Zhang Siyu about Doudou’s mother and her departure.

Wen Ning’s human business remained stagnant while the monster bathhouse overwhelmed Zhang Siyu with work. White Impermanence, Xie Bi'an, arrived to ask Wen Ning for help with the souls of two devoted village teachers, and the Jade Emperor's Golden Register began to heat as Wen Ning learned of their extraordinary merit.

• Wen Ning watched the monster bathhouse thrive while Zhang Siyu complained about her damaged hands and suggested closing it.
• Zhang Siyu bathed a stream of monster customers, including a cat monster that had fallen into a septic tank, while Wen Ning avoided the worst of the work.
• White Impermanence, Xie Bi'an, came to the shop and asked Wen Ning to help with two special departed souls.
• Xie Bi'an explained that the souls were a married couple who had spent their lives teaching and supporting children at a remote village school.
• Xie Bi'an described how the couple’s former students’ good deeds continued to add to the teachers’ merit, and the Jade Emperor's Golden Register began to heat against Wen Ning’s chest.

Wen Ning met retired teachers Chen and Fang in the Underworld and learned their daughter Chen Mu had only one month left to live. Her fate was marked by calamity and a monster, and Wen Ning agreed to take on the case.

• Wen Ning accepted Xie Bi'an's request and went with him to the Underworld's Special Affairs Office.
• Wen Ning met Teacher Chen and Teacher Fang and saw the immense merit clouds above them, which Xie Bi'an explained had grown through generations of their students' good deeds.
• Teacher Fang told Wen Ning that their daughter, Chen Mu, was a twenty-five-year-old primary school teacher.
• Xie Bi'an showed Wen Ning a copy of the Book of Life and Death, which said Chen Mu had only one month left to live.
• Wen Ning read the final entry, which stated that Chen Mu would meet with calamity and encounter a monster.

Wen Ning learned about Chen Mu’s difficult childhood and successful teaching career from her deceased parents, who could not understand how she had died in an accident. He promised to investigate what happened to her within a week and left with Xie Bi'an to see her.

• Chen Mu’s parents told Wen Ning that she had lived alone from age eleven while they taught at a village school, and that she had excelled in school and become a respected teacher.
• The old couple described Chen Mu’s happiness about starting a reading program and questioned how someone so resilient could have died in an accident.
• Chen Mu’s mother recalled that Chen Mu had comforted her before leaving after her funeral, saying she would be all right, and began to cry.
• Chen Mu’s parents asked Wen Ning to find out what had happened to their daughter and help her.
• Wen Ning promised to investigate within a week and said he would go see Chen Mu, while Xie Bi'an offered to take him.
• Xie Bi'an warned Wen Ning that the Book of Life and Death might not be changeable, and Wen Ning replied that they would only know once they got there.

Wen Ning examined the Jade Emperor's Golden Register and learned that he had to help Chen Mu change her fate, though the register offered no useful guidance. The next morning, Zhang Siyu confronted him for leaving her asleep in the living room, then asked what had happened the night before.

• Wen Ning found a message in the Jade Emperor's Golden Register telling him to help Chen Mu change her fate.
• Wen Ning demanded more guidance, but the register replied that the Heavenly Dao reserved the right of final interpretation.
• Wen Ning accepted that Chen Mu's case was a hurdle he had to finish and went to sleep with the register under his pillow.
• Zhang Siyu woke Wen Ning by shouting from the kitchen and scolded him for leaving her asleep on a chair.
• Wen Ning apologized and gave Zhang Siyu water, and she asked what had happened the previous night.

Wen Ning left Zhang Siyu to mind the shop and traveled to H City's Experimental Primary School to find Chen Mu. He convinced the elderly guard to let him wait by the gate until school let out.

• Wen Ning refused to take Zhang Siyu with him, leaving her disappointed and alone at the shop.
• Wen Ning complained about the Golden Register, then used Earth-Covering Golden Light to reach H City's Experimental Primary School.
• Wen Ning first claimed he was a parent, but the elderly guard saw through his lie.
• Wen Ning told the guard he was Chen Mu's older cousin and had come to discuss a family matter.
• The guard told Wen Ning to wait by the gate because school was about to let out.

Wen Ning waited outside Chen Mu’s school and claimed to be her cousin, but she did not recognize him. When he said her mother had sent him to discuss things happening to her, Chen Mu acknowledged him and led him away.

• Wen Ning waited outside the school until classes ended and watched for Chen Mu.
• The elderly security guard confronted Wen Ning after Chen Mu said she did not know him, threatening him with a restraining fork.
• Wen Ning told Chen Mu that her mother had sent him to discuss things happening to her.
• Chen Mu told the guard she knew Wen Ning and reassured him that Wen Ning was not a bad person.
• Chen Mu walked toward the street, and Wen Ning followed her.

Wen Ning met Chen Mu at a coffee shop and told her that her deceased parents had contacted him through the Underworld because they were worried about her. He left after offering his number, while Chen Mu quietly asked whether her parents were doing well.

• Chen Mu led Wen Ning to Star Nine Grams, where she asked why he had brought up her mother.
• Wen Ning told Chen Mu he had met her parents and said they were worried about her, prompting her to accuse him of investigating her.
• Wen Ning described himself as an ordinary person with unusual abilities, and Chen Mu accepted that he would not explain further.
• Wen Ning asked whether anything strange had happened to Chen Mu, but she denied it despite the coldness he sensed beneath her calm exterior.
• Wen Ning explained that Chen Mu's parents had asked for help through the Underworld and gave her his phone number in case she needed him.
• As Wen Ning left, Chen Mu asked whether her parents were doing well, and he relayed their reminders about ordering less takeout and wearing long underwear in winter.

Chen Mu told Wen Ning that a weasel had asked whether it looked like an immortal, and he explained that answering could amount to conferring godhood at the cost of her fortune and merit. Wen Ning warned that although Chen Mu had fled without answering, the matter was not over.

• Chen Mu stopped Wen Ning outside the café and told him that a weasel had blocked her car on a village road.
• Chen Mu said the weasel stood upright and asked, “Do you think I look like an immortal?” before she fled without answering.
• Wen Ning explained that the weasel’s question sought Immortal Investiture, not the Verbal Investiture used to gain human form.
• Wen Ning told Chen Mu that only an emperor could confer godhood safely through a dynasty’s fortune, while an ordinary person risked their own fortune, merit, and life.
• Wen Ning warned Chen Mu that she had escaped the immediate danger but that the matter was not over.

Wen Ning explained that a powerful weasel targeted Chen Mu to steal the merit her parents had accumulated, and warned that it was still waiting for another chance. Chen Mu agreed to follow his safety instructions and leave the problem to him, then heard that her parents had always loved her.

• Wen Ning explained that Chen Mu’s parents’ decades of teaching had earned immense merit, which the weasel hoped to claim through Recognition Investiture.
• Wen Ning warned that the weasel had failed when Chen Mu did not answer but had not given up pursuing her.
• Wen Ning told Chen Mu to avoid secluded places, going out alone at night, and returning to her hometown while he handled the threat.
• Chen Mu agreed to follow Wen Ning’s instructions and contact him whenever she needed help.
• Wen Ning told Chen Mu that her parents had always loved her.

Wen Ning investigated the threat to Chen Mu and learned that Third Master Huang, a powerful weasel spirit, had chosen her as the mortal from whom to seek verbal investiture. He headed for Huang San’s lair to confront him.

• Wen Ning sent Chen Mu back to school and traveled to Linhe Village using Earth-Covering Golden Light.
• Wen Ning summoned the local Earth God and asked about cultivated weasels in the area.
• The Earth God identified Third Master Huang as a centuries-old weasel leader seeking verbal investiture from Chen Mu, whose deceased teacher parents had accumulated great merit.
• The Earth God revealed that Third Master Huang had taken over an abandoned temple in a forest east of the village.
• Wen Ning left for the temple, and the Earth God worried that Huang San had provoked someone beyond his power to oppose.

Wen Ning reached Huang San’s forest lair and confronted two young weasels guarding the ruined temple. He refused their demand to leave and challenged them to try to keep him there.

• Wen Ning flew to the woods and found them saturated with the Yao Qi of a powerful monster.
• Wen Ning landed near the ruined temple and saw animal bones scattered around it.
• Two young weasels emerged from the temple and demanded to know why Wen Ning had come.
• Wen Ning said he was looking for Huang San, then dismissed the weasels’ demand that he leave.
• One weasel threatened to keep Wen Ning there to feed the mosquitoes, and Wen Ning told them to try.

Wen Ning immobilized two weasels guarding a ruined temple and went inside to find Huang San. The weasels remained stuck outside, one worrying about needing to poop, while Wen Ning followed a passage underground toward the thickening Yao Qi.

• Two little weasels attacked Wen Ning with a rusty knife and a pouncing bite.
• Wen Ning used a freeze spell that immobilized their lower bodies and sealed their mouths, then entered the ruined temple.
• The frozen weasels communicated through their eyes and worried about whether they could warn Third Master.
• One weasel asked what it should do if it needed to poop, and its big brother told it to soil its pants.
• Wen Ning found a passage beneath the temple and followed it underground as the Yao Qi grew stronger.

Wen Ning confronted Huang San in his cavern and defeated the five-hundred-year-old weasel with the Five Thunder Righteous Method. Huang San admitted he had asked Chen Mu to make him a god, insisting he deserved the same chance as beings who fed on temple incense.

• Wen Ning found a giant weasel in a cavern, stomped on his tail, and learned that he was Huang San.
• Huang San attacked Wen Ning after Wen Ning mocked him, but Wen Ning dodged his bite and briefly froze him with Six Jia Qimen.
• Wen Ning struck Huang San with the Five Thunder Righteous Method, blasting him into the cavern wall and defeating him.
• Wen Ning sat on Huang San and confronted him about asking Chen Mu to confer godhood on him.
• Huang San dropped his denial and argued that, after cultivating for five hundred years, he deserved to become a god like beings that received incense offerings.

Wen Ning explained the demanding process he had undergone to become an immortal and prepared to kill Huang San, who tried to save himself by invoking his uncle, Huang Er. Bai Lu arrived at the cave before Wen Ning could finish Huang San, finding him badly scorched but alive.

• Wen Ning told Huang San that becoming an immortal required years of study, examinations, and trials, then prepared to send him on his way.
• Huang San begged for his life and claimed that his uncle, the renowned weasel immortal Huang Er, would punish Wen Ning.
• Wen Ning said he had never heard of Huang Er and raised his hand to form a spell seal again.
• Bai Lu called for Wen Ning from outside the cave, and Wen Ning stopped forming the spell when he recognized her voice.
• Bai Lu entered the cave and saw Wen Ning standing beside the charred, smoking Huang San.

Wen Ning was about to kill Huang San when Bai Lu arrived and explained that Huang San's uncle was offering his wartime merit to ransom him. Wen Ning spared Huang San under the Three Realms Law, then warned two of Huang San's disciples to stop stealing chickens.

• Bai Lu told Wen Ning that Huang San's uncle had sent her to ask him to spare Huang San.
• Bai Lu explained that Huang Er had saved civilians and soldiers during the war against Japan and was offering his merit to ransom his nephew.
• Wen Ning accepted the ransom under the Three Realms Law and told Huang San that his uncle's merit had saved his life.
• Bai Lu warned Huang San that his uncle could not save him again if he kept courting death.
• Wen Ning made Huang San's two disciples promise to stop stealing chickens, then kicked one of them away after it admitted to soiling itself.

After resolving Huang San’s attempt to trick Chen Mu, Wen Ning decided she needed lasting protection and arranged for Huang San to become her Guardian Immortal. Huang San accepted and went to recover, with three days to prepare before reporting for duty.

• Wen Ning worried that Chen Mu would remain vulnerable to future threats when he could not always watch over her.
• Wen Ning proposed that Huang San become Chen Mu’s Guardian Immortal, explaining that the role would protect her and help Huang San accumulate merit.
• Huang San hesitated because he had previously tried to deceive Chen Mu, but agreed after Wen Ning promised to speak with her.
• Wen Ning gave Huang San three days to recover and told him to clean the scorched fur before meeting Chen Mu.
• Bai Lu agreed that the arrangement would benefit both Chen Mu and Huang San, while Huang San limped into the woods to recover.

Wen Ning persuaded Chen Mu to accept Huang San as her guardian immortal, and Huang San began watching over her. The chapter left Huang San settled into his new duties, pleased that the job came with roast chicken.

• Wen Ning told Chen Mu that Huang San would become her guardian immortal and explained how she could establish his spirit tablet.
• Chen Mu set up Huang San’s tablet, burned incense, and prepared a roast chicken for his arrival.
• Three days later, Huang San arrived at Chen Mu’s apartment, where Wen Ning formally entrusted her protection to him.
• Chen Mu let Huang San eat the roast chicken, and he began patrolling the complex and watching over her.

Wen Ning told Chen Mu’s parents that he had arranged for Huang San to become Chen Mu’s Guardian Immortal, then returned to his shop and earned merit for protecting Chen Mu. He left things on a light note with Zhang Siyu, who asked whether the young woman involved in his trip was pretty.

• Wen Ning visited Xie Bi'an in the Underworld and went to the Reincarnation Division’s special affairs office to see Chen Mu’s parents.
• Wen Ning explained that Huang San had tricked Chen Mu into granting him divine status, but that his uncle had surrendered merit to save him and Wen Ning had made Huang San Chen Mu’s Guardian Immortal.
• Chen Mu’s parents accepted Wen Ning’s arrangement and felt reassured after he told them Chen Mu was doing well.
• Wen Ning returned to his shop, reported what had happened to Wen Zhong’s statue, and received merit in the Jade Emperor’s Golden Register for protecting Chen Mu.
• Zhang Siyu returned with a box of discounted shower gel and asked Wen Ning whether the young woman he had helped was pretty or added him on WeChat.

Wen Ning dreamed of a huge Green Snake watching him in a misty forest and realized the vision might be a divine prophecy. He told Zhang Siyu about it the next morning, and she judged it a polite prophecy since the snake had not attacked him.

• Wen Ning teased Zhang Siyu about having fallen for him, and she insisted he should focus on work.
• Wen Ning went to bed and dreamed of a huge blue-green Green Snake watching him silently in a foggy forest before disappearing.
• Wen Ning woke and concluded that, since gods did not dream, the vision was likely a prophecy, though he could not identify what the Green Snake meant.
• Zhang Siyu photographed discounted shower gel bottles to sell online, and Wen Ning told her about his dream.
• Zhang Siyu asked whether the snake had bitten Wen Ning, then said the prophecy seemed polite because it had not harmed him.

Lu Ming arrived at Wen Ning’s shop in tears after the Heavenly Court posted him to the Mortal Realm Office. Wen Ning accepted him as an employee and immediately assigned him to move a shipment of shower gel.

• Zhang Siyu opened the door and found Lu Ming waiting with a suitcase, crying.
• Lu Ming told Wen Ning that the Heavenly Venerable had posted him away for entering the Thunder Department with his left foot first.
• Lu Ming said the Lord of Mount Tai had supported the posting, which sent him to Wen Ning’s shop.
• Wen Ning realized Lu Ming would work under him and told Zhang Siyu to put him to work.
• Zhang Siyu assigned Lu Ming to move the afternoon shower gel shipment and warned him not to damage the stock.

Lu Ming and Sparrow Spirit clashed after Lu Ming joined Wen Ning’s shop, turning chores and bird feeding into an ongoing feud. Wen Ning convinced Lu Ming to stop taking the bait, and the sparrow-deer war ended when Sparrow Spirit believed Wen Ning had warned Lu Ming about his power.

• Lu Ming settled into work at the shop, while Sparrow Spirit’s family of four chicks made his arrival lively.
• Lu Ming and Sparrow Spirit traded insults after Big Mao dove into Lu Ming’s chip bag, and Lu Ming swept up the scattered chips.
• Lu Ming complained about the chicks scattering millet, and Sparrow Spirit mocked him over his banishment from the Heavenly Court.
• Lu Ming and Sparrow Spirit began sabotaging each other, with the chicks walking over freshly mopped floors and Lu Ming hiding the millet jar.
• Wen Ning persuaded Lu Ming to ignore Sparrow Spirit’s provocations so his mortal-world work would look better on his résumé.
• Wen Ning told Sparrow Spirit that Lu Ming would leave him alone because Sparrow Spirit was powerful, and Sparrow Spirit accepted the truce.