Recaps

Lu Ming tested the first candidate with a trick question about the appendix of the Mount Tai Fengshan Ritual Code, then passed him after hearing how well he had studied the other volumes. As the second candidate entered, Lu Ming frowned again, leaving Wen Ning to worry that he would repeat the same tactic.

• Lu Ming asked the first candidate to summarize the third volume of the Mount Tai Fengshan Ritual Code, and the candidate struggled and began to cry.
• Lu Ming asked whether the candidate had memorized the other volumes, then revealed that the third volume was only an appendix and praised the candidate's effort.
• Wen Ning assessed the candidate and dismissed him, then reminded Lu Ming that he had cried when asked the same question in his own interview.
• Lu Ming defended his trick question as passing down experience as the next candidate entered, and Wen Ning saw Lu Ming frown at him.

Lu Ming gave an elite candidate an obscure exam question and watched him fail until Wen Ning intervened. Wen Ning then warned Lu Ming that if no suitable candidates passed, he might have to fill the Misfortune Department’s vacancy himself.

• Lu Ming asked the elite candidate to summarize volume three of the Mount Tai Fengshan Ritual Code, and the candidate faltered because it was an appendix.
• The candidate became emotional, but Lu Ming revealed that volume three was an appendix and defended the question as part of the exam.
• Wen Ning stopped Lu Ming from pressing the candidate further, recorded a result, and dismissed him.
• Wen Ning told Lu Ming that Broom Star would leave the understaffed Misfortune Department if no recruits arrived.
• Wen Ning warned that Lu Ming might have to fill the vacancy if none of the candidates passed, leaving Lu Ming alarmed.

Wen Ning interviewed Feng Dema, a clumsy candidate recommended by the River Earl of the Yellow River, who openly offered him a Millennium Lingzhi Mushroom. Wen Ning secretly told Feng Dema to put it away and park the car he claimed to have left outside, while Lu Ming realized what he was doing.

• Feng Dema entered the examination room and greeted Wen Ning as his big bro.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming recognized Feng Dema as a returning candidate referred by the River Earl of the Yellow River.
• Feng Dema introduced himself and said he had taken his uncle's surname.
• Feng Dema pulled out a Millennium Lingzhi Mushroom and said his uncle had told him he would pass.
• Wen Ning checked that Feng Dema carried no hidden recording or eavesdropping devices, then told him to put away the Lingzhi Mushroom and park the car outside.
• Wen Ning asked Lu Ming to keep an eye on Feng Dema, and Lu Ming inferred that Wen Ning wanted the Lingzhi Mushroom.

Wen Ning tried to keep Feng Dema’s Millennium Lingzhi Mushroom by claiming it needed quarantine inspection, while Lu Ming watched his deception unfold. Feng Dema accepted the explanation, and Wen Ning began the interview.

• Wen Ning learned that Lu Ming had taken Feng Dema’s Lingzhi Mushroom, which Feng Dema had intended as a gift for him.
• Wen Ning claimed that Heavenly Court rules required Lingzhi brought from the Mortal Realm to be inspected before it could be transferred.
• Feng Dema agreed to let Wen Ning take the Lingzhi for inspection and accepted that Wen Ning would return it to his uncle.
• Wen Ning told Feng Dema to keep their discussion confidential, then opened the interview by asking why he wanted to become a Heavenly Court civil servant.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming interviewed Feng Dema for a Heavenly Court civil service position, while Feng Dema repeatedly revealed that he planned to rely on his uncle. The interview ended with Feng Dema asking whether the fairies in the Heavenly Court were pretty.

• Feng Dema explained that his uncle had urged him to get a permanent Heavenly Court job to improve his marriage prospects, and Wen Ning recorded his motivation.
• Feng Dema asked whether Wen Ning's workplace had any single women, but Wen Ning redirected him to the interview questions.
• Feng Dema said he would tough out work difficulties or go to his uncle, and he would also ask his uncle to handle any colleague's rule-breaking.
• Feng Dema said he would start working and then see what his uncle arranged, giving Wen Ning trouble with the score sheet.
• Feng Dema asked whether the Heavenly Court's fairies were pretty.

Wen Ning assigned Feng Dema to the Misfortune Department, confident Broom Star would accept him, and went there with Lu Ming to deliver the assignment. They found Broom Star playing mahjong and Wen Ning reminded him of their previous contact about Zhou Hu.

• Feng Dema asked when he would start work, and Wen Ning told him to go home and wait for news.
• Wen Ning explained to Wen Zhong that Feng Dema suited the understaffed Misfortune Department, and Wen Zhong approved the assignment.
• Wen Zhong gave Wen Ning the assignment sheet and told him to have Broom Star sign for Feng Dema.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming traveled to the remote Misfortune Department and found Broom Star losing at mahjong.
• Wen Ning introduced himself to Broom Star and reminded him that he had asked for help investigating Zhou Hu.

Wen Ning returned from the Heavenly Court to the Mortal Realm after securing Feng Dema’s assignment to the Misfortune Department. At the shop, he learned Zhang Siyu had been asking about his romantic history, but their conversation was interrupted by news that someone had jumped from the apartment building across the street.

• Wen Ning gave Broom Star Feng Dema’s assignment form, and Broom Star eagerly signed it.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming returned to the Mortal Realm and found Zhang Siyu and Sparrow Spirit whispering at the shop.
• Sparrow Spirit revealed that Zhang Siyu had asked whether Wen Ning had dated anyone and what kind of woman he liked.
• Wen Ning told Zhang Siyu that he had dated someone in the Mortal Realm, then went toward the back of the shop.
• People outside shouted that someone had jumped, and Wen Ning, Zhang Siyu, Lu Ming, and Sparrow Spirit looked toward the apartment building across the street.

Wen Ning witnessed Lin Dagang survive a jump from an apartment building and discovered that the Jade Emperor's Golden Register tasked him with helping Lin Dagang live again. He left for the hospital to find out why Lin Dagang had jumped and what more he needed.

• Wen Ning, Lu Ming, and Zhang Siyu joined the crowd watching Lin Dagang hang injured but alive in a plane tree after jumping from a building.
• Lin Dagang's wife and daughter arrived in anguish, and emergency workers rescued him and took him to the hospital.
• Wen Ning found two new deeds of merit and a task in the Jade Emperor's Golden Register: help Lin Dagang live again.
• Wen Ning realized that surviving the fall might not resolve whatever had driven Lin Dagang to jump, and decided he could not ignore the task.
• Wen Ning told Lu Ming he was going to the hospital to see Lin Dagang.

Wen Ning realized the Golden Register’s task was to wake Lin Dagang from a vegetative state after doctors saved his life. After learning that debt had driven Lin Dagang to attempt suicide, Wen Ning left the hospital determined to help him wake up, though he and Lu Ming did not know how.

• Wen Ning and Lu Ming waited at the hospital while doctors treated Lin Dagang.
• A doctor told Lin Dagang’s wife that he had survived but might remain in a vegetative state, and Wen Ning understood what the Golden Register meant by bringing him back to life.
• Wen Ning comforted Lin Dagang’s wife and learned that business losses and several hundred thousand in debt had driven Lin Dagang to attempt suicide.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming left the hospital, and Wen Ning resolved to wake Lin Dagang while Lu Ming wondered how they could do it.

Wen Ning used Spirit Roaming and Qi Control to leave his body and brought Lu Ming along to enter Lin Dagang’s consciousness. They arrived in a gray, hazy place, with Lin Dagang’s emotional scars still unexplored.

• Wen Ning told Lu Ming he knew Spirit Roaming and Qi Control and planned to use it at night to investigate Lin Dagang’s state.
• After night fell, Wen Ning left his body and found Lu Ming watching videos before guiding him out of his body too.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming floated to the hospital and found Lin Dagang unconscious in intensive care while his wife waited outside.
• Wen Ning grabbed Lu Ming and entered Lin Dagang’s consciousness, and they landed in a gray, hazy place.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming entered Lin Dagang’s dream and watched the funeral of his father, where young Lin Dagang was ignored and his relatives argued over who would raise him. As Lin Dagang faced the painful memory, an elderly woman arrived carrying an old hen.

• Wen Ning and Lu Ming found Lin Dagang outside a mourning courtyard and learned that the crying boy inside was Lin Dagang as a child.
• Lin Dagang recalled that his father died saving him from drowning and that his mother had died giving birth to him.
• The boy went all day without eating as relatives debated whether any of them would take him in.
• An elderly woman entered the courtyard carrying an old hen and walked toward the boy.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming witnessed Lin Dagang’s grandmother take him in before a rooster’s crow forced them out of his dream. After recovering at home, Wen Ning decided they would return to Lin Dagang’s dream that night.

• Lin Dagang’s grandmother comforted him and declared that she would raise him herself.
• A rooster crowed, and the dream expelled Wen Ning and Lu Ming before Wen Ning promised Lin Dagang he would return.
• Lu Ming and Wen Ning woke in their beds, and Wen Ning explained that dawn had forcibly returned his spirit to his body.
• Wen Ning told Lu Ming they would enter Lin Dagang’s dream again that night after he recovered.
• Zhang Siyu called them to breakfast, and Lu Ming tried to hide that his phone had been playing a loud video.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming entered Lin Dagang’s dream again and witnessed the grief he carried over his grandmother’s death. After Lin Dagang explained his regret at being away when she died, the dream expelled them, and Wen Ning planned to return the next night.

• Wen Ning and Lu Ming used the Wandering Spirit and Commanding Qi Divine Ability to enter Lin Dagang’s dream.
• They found Lin Dagang’s younger self grieving beside his grandmother’s body after returning home from university.
• Wen Ning asked Lin Dagang about his grandmother’s death, and Lin Dagang admitted he regretted not being there to see her off.
• Wen Ning told Lin Dagang that his grandmother would have been happy to know how devoted he was, and the dream began to tremble.
• The dream expelled Wen Ning and Lu Ming, who woke up and were scolded by Zhang Siyu.
• Wen Ning told Lu Ming they would return to the dream that night.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming entered Lin Dagang’s dream and witnessed the workplace abuse and despair that had shaped his life. Lin Dagang insisted that waking would only burden his wife and child, but Wen Ning left promising to return the next day.

• Wen Ning brought Lu Ming into Lin Dagang’s dream, where they found his younger self being berated by a manager at work.
• Lin Dagang recalled his exhausting job and explained that he had kept going partly so someone could honor his grandmother after his death.
• Wen Ning asked Lin Dagang to consider what his wife and child would face if he refused to wake up.
• A phone call and message from Rou revealed that she was Lin Dagang’s wife, and Lin Dagang said he believed his survival only made him a burden to her.
• As the dream darkened around them, Lin Dagang told Wen Ning and Lu Ming to leave, but Wen Ning promised to return the next day.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming entered Lin Dagang’s dream and witnessed the memory of his joyful proposal to Xiao Rou. Wen Ning urged Lin Dagang to trust him and promised to find a way to wake him, but the dream began collapsing again, leaving Wen Ning considering finding someone else to help.

• Wen Ning woke to find Lu Ming’s leg draped over him and told Lu Ming to sleep in his own room that night.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming returned to Lin Dagang’s dream, where they witnessed his proposal to Xiao Rou six years earlier.
• Wen Ning reminded Lin Dagang that his wife and child were waiting for him, but Lin Dagang said he still did not want to live and mentioned his debts.
• Wen Ning asked Lin Dagang to trust him again, and Lin Dagang did not refuse.
• As the dream collapsed, Wen Ning took Lu Ming back to their bodies and decided he might need to find someone else.

Wen Ning went to the Underworld to find Lin Dagang’s deceased grandmother and asked her to help restore his will to live. Judge Lu approved a visit to the human world, and Xie Bi'an agreed to bring Duan Xiu to Wen Ning’s shop that night.

• Wen Ning left Lu Ming asleep and traveled to the Underworld to look up Lin Dagang’s grandmother.
• Xie Bi'an brought Wen Ning to Judge Lu, who found that Duan Xiu had been dead for ten years and was waiting fifty more years for reincarnation.
• A Ghost Messenger brought Duan Xiu to Judge Lu’s hall, where Wen Ning told her Lin Dagang was unconscious in the hospital.
• Duan Xiu was distraught to learn Lin Dagang felt like a burden and agreed to visit him.
• Judge Lu allowed Duan Xiu to go to the human world with White Impermanence, and Xie Bi'an arranged to bring her to Wen Ning’s shop that night.

Wen Ning brought Duan Xiu and Xiao Rou into Lin Dagang’s dream to help him find a reason to wake up. Lin Dagang reunited with his grandmother and wife, and broke down in their arms.

• Wen Ning waited for Xie Bi'an to bring Duan Xiu, then took Duan Xiu and Lu Ming to the hospital to enter Lin Dagang’s dream.
• Wen Ning brought Xiao Rou’s soul into the dream so she could help Lin Dagang.
• In a dream of Lin Dagang and Xiao Rou’s wedding, Wen Ning found the present-day Lin Dagang watching the celebration from the entrance.
• Lin Dagang told Wen Ning he regretted that his grandmother had never seen him marry Xiao Rou.
• Wen Ning showed Lin Dagang that Duan Xiu and Xiao Rou were there, and Lin Dagang embraced his grandmother and sobbed.

Lin Dagang and Xiao Rou made peace with Duan Xiu in Lin Dagang’s dream, but he still did not wake after Wen Ning and Lu Ming returned to the hospital. Xiao Rou later told his unconscious form about their wedding dream, while Wen Ning remained sure Lin Dagang would wake.

• In the dream, Lin Dagang and Xiao Rou knelt before Duan Xiu, and Lin Dagang said he had finally made up for what he owed her.
• Duan Xiu thanked Wen Ning before Xie Bi'an took her back to the Underworld, while Lin Dagang stirred but remained unconscious.
• Wen Ning decided Lin Dagang needed one last push and left the hospital with Lu Ming, who had not eaten dinner.
• Back at the shop, Wen Ning told Lu Ming that Lin Dagang would wake and that tonight should have been the last time.
• Xiao Rou woke at the hospital and told Lin Dagang about dreaming of their wedding and Duan Xiu, but he did not respond.

Wen Ning and Lu Ming entered Lin Dagang’s dream and helped him reconcile with the memories of his daughter’s birth. Lin Dagang awakened in the hospital and reunited with Xiao Rou.

• On the sixth night, Wen Ning and Lu Ming returned to the hospital and entered Lin Dagang’s dream.
• In the dream, Lin Dagang watched his younger self welcome his daughter and reunite with Xiao Rou after her delivery.
• Lin Dagang promised his daughter a good life, and Xiao Rou urged him to return to their family.
• Lin Dagang ran toward his younger self, and the two versions merged in the dream.
• Lin Dagang woke up and told Xiao Rou he was back, while Wen Ning and Lu Ming watched from the ward.

Wen Ning asked Zhao Gongming to grant Lin Dagang financial luck, and Xiao Rou won enough money to clear the family’s debts. Lin Dagang and Xiao Rou realized they had shared a dream, then resolved to start over together.

• After waking, Lu Ming asked Wen Ning what Lin Dagang should do about his debts, and Wen Ning said Lin Dagang had to handle them himself.
• Wen Ning visited Zhao Gongming with Wen Zhong and asked him to grant Lin Dagang a few hundred thousand yuan in financial luck.
• Xiao Rou bought a Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket near the hospital and won the 500,000-yuan first prize.
• Xiao Rou told Lin Dagang they could repay their debts, and the family of three embraced as they celebrated their chance to start over.
• Lin Dagang and Xiao Rou discovered they had shared dreams of their family’s past, then agreed that Grandma was watching over them.

After Lin Dagang’s matter was resolved, Wen Ning used the merit in the Jade Emperor's Golden Register to break through to Mid-Heavenly Immortal. Zhao Gongming took notice of his progress and planned to test his mastery of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations.

• At dinner, Lu Ming complained that Wen Ning was withholding his wages and Zhang Siyu would not let him buy soda, until she promised him one sugar-free bottle the next day.
• After Lu Ming mistakenly entered Wen Ning’s room out of habit and left, Wen Ning checked the Jade Emperor's Golden Register and found Lin Dagang’s task recorded as complete.
• Wen Ning used the accumulated merit to cultivate, passed through the Heavenly Immortal threshold, and reached Mid-Heavenly Immortal.
• Lu Ming interrupted Wen Ning to ask what they would have for breakfast, and Wen Ning told him to go hungry.
• In the Heavenly Court, Zhao Gongming noticed Wen Ning’s progress and said he would test Wen Ning’s Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations next time they met.

Wen Ning learned that Feng Dema had transformed the Misfortune Department with new yinwood furniture and was now replacing Broom Star’s old mahjong table. Feng Dema then asked Wen Ning to return his Millennium Lingzhi, saying his uncle had told him to try asking for it.

• Broom Star called Wen Ning to praise Feng Dema for replacing the Misfortune Department’s desks and chairs with yinwood from the Yellow River.
• Broom Star told Wen Ning that Feng Dema’s uneven gait had puzzled him and that Feng Dema wanted to replace his treasured mahjong table.
• Feng Dema dismantled the table, promising Broom Star a new one and a Feng Shui Formation to improve his luck.
• Feng Dema recognized Wen Ning on the call and asked him to bring back the Millennium Lingzhi his uncle had told him to request.

Wen Ning cut ties with Feng Dema, then welcomed a regular customer before Tu Shan Qingqing arrived asking for a bath and provoking Zhang Siyu's jealousy. The chapter ended with Tu Shan Qingqing offering to let Zhang Siyu watch her bathe.

• Wen Ning told Feng Dema their connection was over and hung up on him.
• Wen Ning ate Zhang Siyu's scallion oil noodles and spoke with Lu Ming about his call.
• The Squirrel Spirit came to Zhang Siyu's shop for the supreme bathing package and chatted with Wen Ning.
• Tu Shan Qingqing arrived at the shop and asked to bathe, prompting Zhang Siyu to refuse her and demand to know her relationship with Wen Ning.
• Tu Shan Qingqing teased Zhang Siyu by offering to let her watch while she bathed.

Tu Shan Qingqing asked Wen Ning to help her reach a dangerous man beneath Mount Li, but Wen Ning refused. She left saying she would return in a few days, hinting that the matter could not be avoided.

• Tu Shan Qingqing stopped teasing Zhang Siyu and told Wen Ning she needed help finding someone she knew was at Mount Li but could not reach.
• Tu Shan Qingqing said the person was a dangerous man, and Wen Ning recognized that she meant the figure beneath Mount Li.
• Wen Ning refused to help, warning Tu Shan Qingqing that Mount Li was dangerous, while Zhang Siyu backed him up.
• Tu Shan Qingqing said she had her reasons and would return in a few days, then left with a warning that Wen Ning could not avoid what was coming.
• Wen Ning admitted he did not know what Tu Shan Qingqing meant, and he and Zhang Siyu agreed that fox spirits were trouble.

Wen Ning was summoned from his bed to the Jade Void Palace, where the Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning told him to go to Mount Li for Human Dao Fortune, which could help him complete his merit. Wen Ning agreed to do his best, though he still did not know what awaited him there.

• Wen Ning struggled to sleep while thinking about Tu Shan Qingqing and her warning that he could not avoid Mount Li.
• The Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning summoned Wen Ning to the Jade Void Palace, where Wen Ning arrived barefoot and wearing only his boxers.
• The Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning gave Wen Ning a warm Daoist robe and shoes, then told him he had summoned him for a reason.
• The Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning said Wen Ning needed to go to Mount Li, where Human Dao Fortune could determine whether he completed his merit.
• Wen Ning asked whether he would obtain the fortune, but the Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning said the outcome depended on him, and Wen Ning agreed to do his best.