Recaps

Wen Ning joined the Thunder Department, gained cultivation and a new office in his mortal-world shop, and began handling supernatural cases. He solved Zhou Hu’s misfortune by defeating the ghost haunting his grandfather’s house and returning the missing military medal.

• Wen Ning received a Thunder Department appointment after interviewing with his godfather, Wen Zhong, and began taking cases to cover his rent.
• Wen Ning investigated Gong Kai’s mysteriously cleaned apartment and discovered Hu Jiumei, a fox spirit who had returned to repay Gong Kai for freeing her as a child.
• Wen Ning helped Hu Jiumei understand the rules for human-demon marriage and advised her to control her aura before living with Gong Kai.
• Wen Zhong assigned Wen Ning, Lu Ming, and Bai Lu to the Thunder Department’s mortal-world office, then gave Wen Ning an immortal peach that let him use the Five Thunder Righteous Method safely.
• Dipper Mother gave Wen Ning a jade token containing the Eight-Nine Mysteries, and Wen Ning began learning its transformations.
• Wen Zhong sent Wen Ning a plaque naming his shop the Heavenly Court Bathhouse, and local spirits began visiting for baths and back scrubs.
• Gong Kai asked Wen Ning to investigate Zhou Hu’s persistent bad luck, and Wen Ning traced its possible cause to Zhou Hu’s deceased grandfather.
• Wen Ning and Meng Jiang learned that Zhou Weiguo had kept a Japanese lieutenant’s arm bone, and Wen Ning defeated the lingering ghost, recovered the missing medal, and ended Zhou Hu’s misfortune.

Wen Ning helped Xiao Ya reunite with the boy who had protected her, then watched her become the Mountain God of Black Wind Mountain. He expanded his bathhouse and joined the Underworld in capturing Yamamoto, returning to find Big Yellow rising among the local dogs.

• Wen Ning earned merit for resolving the arm-bone incident and agreed to help investigate General Yamamoto.
• Wen Ning won the back-scrubbing contest against Xiong Batian and learned he had reached the middle stage of Earth Immortal.
• Wen Ning took in the nameless Xiao Ya and promised to find the boy she remembered as A Cheng.
• Wen Ning found Xiao Ya’s village, learned about her life from her parents and teacher, and reunited her with Lin Cheng so she could thank him before departing for the Underworld.
• Xiao Ya became the Mountain God of Black Wind Mountain, and Wen Ning received ten thousand merit points and reported her story to Wen Zhong.
• Wen Ning’s essential-oil massage service grew popular, and he hired Sang Biao as a trial security guard, renaming him Big Yellow.
• Wen Ning and the Underworld team attacked the Onmyoji hiding Yamamoto, destroyed their Shikigami, and captured Yamamoto and the other ghosts.
• Wen Ning returned to his bathhouse and discovered Big Yellow had become second-in-command of Big Golden Retriever’s dog gang.

Wen Ning helped the spirits around him while handling a cruel animal-killing case, welcoming Zhang Siyu into the monsters’ world, and helping Carp reunite with the Firewood Seller. He returned to the Heavenly Court Bathhouse, advanced to Late Earth Immortal, and prepared for the Peach Banquet under Wen Zhong’s instructions.

• Wen Ning returned to his hometown, visited Wen Zhong’s temple, and reunited with his parents before learning that Liu Siyu was marrying Zhao Qiang.
• Wen Ning discovered The One Bar, met Tu Shan Qingqing, and later welcomed Gong Kai and Hu Jiumei as they built a life together and registered their relationship.
• Wen Ning refused to cure Lin Hao’s grudge poison until Lin Hao accepted punishment, then deducted thirty years from his lifespan to heal the animal spirits’ wounds.
• Wen Ning officiated at the Sparrow Spirit and Oriole’s wedding, said goodbye to Big Golden Retriever, and helped Xiao Bai reunite with her mother.
• Wen Ning gave Big Yellow an Essence-Nourishing Pill and mistakenly tried to arrange a match between her and Big White before learning Big Yellow was female.
• Wen Ning confronted Zhang Siyu about spying on his shop, took her to Black Wind Mountain, and showed her that its monsters were peaceful.
• Zhang Siyu and Wen Ning found that Carp’s beloved, Su Yuanzhi, had died beneath an old bridge, and Carp returned the candy she had kept for him as his spirit faded.
• Zhang Siyu left to tell her master that her sword would protect humans and monsters, while Wen Ning reopened his shop, reached Late Earth Immortal, and prepared for the Peach Banquet.

Wen Ning attended the Peach Banquet, found the Queen Mother’s missing swallow, and was chosen to help select new City Gods. At the bathhouse, Zhang Qingxuan learned the truth about A Ning and reunited with her, while the City God assessment began with a disagreement over justice and mercy.

• Zhang Xuanqing disowned Zhang Siyu for defending monsters, while Zhang Qingxuan remembered how A Ning had saved him and how her death hardened him against monsters.
• Zhang Siyu left home and joined Wen Ning’s bathhouse, where she learned the work and became a trusted helper to its monster customers.
• Wen Ning attended the Peach Banquet, received notes from Yang Jian, and learned that he carried a responsibility he would understand in time.
• Wen Ning and Lu Ming found You Yan, the Queen Mother’s missing swallow, and helped him give up his immortality to live freely in the mortal world.
• Wen Ning rewarded Zhang Siyu with part of a Peach of Immortality and was later chosen to interview candidates for the City God Selection Examination.
• Wen Ning recommended Chen Yang, a retired teacher, and a young soldier as acting City Gods, and Zhang Qingxuan arrived at the bathhouse and encountered the monsters there.
• The Weasel Old Man revealed that A Ning had sacrificed herself to save Zhang Qingxuan, who had wrongly blamed and killed monsters, and Zhang Qingxuan and Zhang Siyu reunited with A Ning in the Underworld.
• Wen Ning began examining the acting City God candidates, and he challenged the retired teacher’s sentence for Fang Zheng, prompting the teacher to withdraw from the assessment.