Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Tang Ling’er returns and finds her mother, Luo Qingyao, facing Ouyang Xuanxuan, Mo Yurou, and Jiang Ruoyi. The women had fought because they didn’t realize Luo was Ling’er’s mother. Ouyang has also gained powerful plant-controlling abilities.
• Ouyang explains that the women are all Li Yichen’s girlfriends. Ling’er, outraged to discover he has several partners, raises her sword and threatens to confront him; Luo joins her in demanding answers.
• Mo Yurou and Jiang Ruoyi block them to protect Yichen. He emerges from hiding just as a fight seems imminent.
• Yichen admits that Ling’er is his girlfriend, but also confirms that the others are. Ling’er demands that he choose between them; he says he wants to keep them all.
• With Yichen secretly offering her spirit stones, Luo initially agrees to help him, but then pretends to take Ling’er back to Mount Qingcheng and arrange a marriage to one of her fellow disciples.
• The prospect of marrying someone else makes Ling’er abandon her protest. She gives Yichen another chance, and he promises to treat all his girlfriends fairly.

Character developments and interactions

• Ling’er shifts from furious confrontation to reluctant acceptance when her mother’s threat of arranging a marriage makes the alternatives feel worse.
• Yichen tries to avoid the confrontation, then relies on charm, promises, and a bribe to keep the peace. His desire to retain all his girlfriends is made explicit.
• Luo Qingyao first supports her daughter’s anger, but accepts Yichen’s offer of spirit stones and uses reverse psychology to steer Ling’er back toward him.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan calmly mediates and honestly explains the relationships, while Mo Yurou reacts jealously but also acknowledges that Ling’er was with Yichen first. Jiang Ruoyi silently backs Mo Yurou.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays its romantic conflict for comedy, centering on jealousy, competing claims, and Yichen’s attempt to manage multiple relationships.
• Loyalty and fairness are tested: Ling’er wants assurance that she still matters, and Yichen promises equal treatment.
• Family support proves complicated, as Luo’s protective advice is mixed with self-interest and strategic matchmaking.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Ling’er decides to stay with Li Yichen rather than return home. Her mother, Luo Qingyao, questions the choice, but Tang Ling’er dismisses her senior brothers as poor alternatives and welcomes Mo Yurou and Jiang Ruoyi as sisters.
• After the women go inside with Ouyang Xuanxuan, Luo Qingyao warns Li Yichen not to mistreat her daughter and collects the promised twenty Spirit Stones.
• Luo Qingyao notices that Li Yichen has given the other women Space Rings. By pressing him for one, she gets a smaller ring and eagerly goes to learn how to use it from Tang Ling’er.
• Li Yichen’s friends arrive, intending to watch him get overwhelmed by the women and then step in as rescuers. When they discover he is already fine, they try to leave.
• Li Yichen catches them. He knocks Sun Kai and Zhang Yong down, while Yang Weifeng tries to escape by flying. Li Yichen hits him with a half-brick, sending him crashing face-first to the ground.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ling’er firmly chooses Li Yichen and shows enthusiasm about sharing her home with the other women.
• Luo Qingyao shifts from protective skepticism to delighted interest in Li Yichen’s generosity, though she remains blunt and demanding. She jokes with him, threatens him over Tang Ling’er, and bargains for gifts.
• Li Yichen reassures Luo Qingyao about Tang Ling’er, but his boastful flirting and inappropriate private thoughts make him awkward. He then turns his anger on his friends for plotting to watch him suffer.
• Mo Yurou, Jiang Ruoyi, and Ouyang Xuanxuan join Tang Ling’er, reinforcing the group’s friendly, sisterly atmosphere.
• Yang Weifeng and the others reveal themselves as mischievous spectators rather than genuine rescuers, and Li Yichen punishes them for it.

Significant themes and tone

• The chapter emphasizes loyalty and chosen companionship, as Tang Ling’er commits to staying and welcomes the others.
• Gifts, status, and scarcity drive the comic exchange over Spirit Stones and Space Rings, which are rare treasures on Mount Qingcheng.
• The scene relies on romantic and family teasing, exaggerated bravado, and slapstick revenge, ending with the friends’ humiliating face-plants.

Plot points and events

• At dinner, Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai sit with large bumps from earlier trouble, while Li Yichen dismisses their complaints and praises his wives.
• Tang Ling’er and Mo Yurou, who had been expected to settle a score, instead become fast friends as Mo Yurou shares stories of the Underworld.
• Mantou, Tang Ling’er’s Snow Fox Rabbit, appears and steals a grilled chicken wing, delighting Mo Yurou.
• Mo Yurou introduces her pet, Mo Ying, by summoning him from a Bronze Lamp. Tang Ling’er initially mistakes the enormous demon for a threat, but relaxes when Mo Ying shrinks on Mo Yurou’s command.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan and Jiang Ruoyi reveal their own spirit beasts, Little Fairy and Little Fox, leaving Tang Ling’er and the men astonished.
• Sun Kai tries to stroke Little Fox’s tail and is flung away. He returns battered, blaming Li Yichen for not warning him; Li Yichen insists he did not know the fox would react that way.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ling’er and Mo Yurou quickly move from presumed rivals to affectionate sisters, bonding over supernatural creatures and stories.
• Mo Yurou shows a protective, commanding side by ordering Mo Ying to shrink so he will not frighten Tang Ling’er.
• Tang Ling’er is both cautious around Mo Ying and openly impressed by the spirit beasts’ abilities.
• Li Yichen remains amused and detached, teasing the men while observing the women’s new friendship.
• Sun Kai’s curiosity gets the better of him; Little Fox’s sharp rebuke establishes that its tail is not to be touched. Its ability to speak shocks the group.

Significant themes

• Unexpected friendship: Tang Ling’er and Mo Yurou form a close bond despite their earlier conflict.
• Humor and mischief: The chapter’s comedy comes from Li Yichen’s dry commentary, the pets’ antics, and Sun Kai’s painful mistake.
• Power and boundaries: The spirit beasts are charming but dangerous, and Little Fox makes clear that affection does not mean it welcomes unwanted touching.
• The extraordinary becoming ordinary: Tang Ling’er is amazed that everyone seems to have a spirit beast, while the men react with envy and awe.

Key plot points and events

• After receiving valuable rewards and seeing Li Yichen’s powerful pets, Luo Qingyao remains overwhelmed by the day’s events.
• Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai jokingly demand pets of their own. Li Yichen first protests that such creatures are difficult to find, then mischievously promises to get them “ghosts” instead.
• Li Yichen announces he is going to the Underworld. Tang Ling’er insists on joining him, and Luo Qingyao comes along after being reassured that the trip is safe.
• Li Yichen opens a Spatial Gate and brings them to a modern-looking Underworld, complete with villas and cars—an environment he says he helped create.
• He says they are going to visit Meng Po and claims that Black and White Impermanence are his friends and are coming to collect them. A helicopter arrives, apparently sent by the two Underworld officials to take the group there.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Qingyao shifts from stunned disbelief to curiosity. Though initially worried about the Underworld, she chooses to accompany the others and continues to be amazed by Li Yichen’s influence.
• Li Yichen displays confidence and authority in the Underworld, while also indulging in teasing his friends with the prospect of female ghosts.
• Tang Ling’er is eager and adventurous, treating the Underworld as an exciting outing and openly admiring Li Yichen.
• Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai playfully pressure Li Yichen for pets, then become suspicious when he agrees too readily.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan and the others take Li Yichen’s Underworld visits in stride, reassuring Luo Qingyao that the trip is safe.

Significant themes

• The extraordinary treated as ordinary: Li Yichen’s companions are accustomed to things that would astonish newcomers, while Luo Qingyao and Tang Ling’er react with wonder.
• Power and familiarity: Li Yichen’s connections and achievements give him unusual freedom in the Underworld.
• Humor and camaraderie: The friends’ exaggerated demands and Li Yichen’s mischievous response keep the chapter lighthearted.

Plot and events

• Li Yichen, Tang Ling’er, and Luo Qingyao travel through the Underworld by helicopter, escorted by Black and White Impermanence, two of its senior officials.
• Li greets the pair as close friends. Their warmth and familiarity—and their thanks for gifts he has bought them—leave Luo Qingyao wondering who Li really is.
• At the Bridge of Helplessness, the ghost Jingxigui recognizes Li as “Young Master Li,” offers to guide him, and accepts spirit money from him.
• They find Xia serving Meng Po’s soup while Meng Po is in seclusion. On seeing Li, Xia jumps up so excitedly that she knocks over the pot, wasting the soup.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen is relaxed and well connected in the Underworld, treating its powerful figures and lesser ghosts with easy familiarity. He introduces Tang Ling’er as his girlfriend and reassures her with a gentle touch when Xia focuses on him.
• Tang Ling’er is thrilled to meet Black and White Impermanence, but becomes jealous when Xia greets Li enthusiastically and ignores her and Luo Qingyao.
• Luo Qingyao grows increasingly curious and suspicious about Li’s background as she sees Underworld officials defer to him. Tang, however, says she likes Li and does not need to know more.
• Xia is lonely while Meng Po is secluded and delighted by Li’s visit, though her excitement makes a mess.
• Black and White Impermanence show genuine affection for Li, while Jingxigui displays deference and gratitude toward him.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and personal connections: Li’s friendships earn him respect and assistance across the Underworld.
• Trust and love: Tang values her relationship with Li without needing an explanation of his origins, while her jealousy hints at insecurity.
• Status and mystery: Luo’s observations suggest Li holds unusual influence in the Underworld, but his true background remains unclear.
• Loneliness and companionship: Xia’s boredom underscores how much Li’s visit means to her.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yichen visits Meng Po’s Residence hoping to ask Meng Po for help, but learns she is in seclusion. Her disciple Xia offers to handle ordinary matters herself.
• Li explains that his three roommates want pets and asks to borrow three maids as ghost pets. Xia and Li’s wives initially misunderstand his request as romantic, but he clears things up.
• Xia summons the residence’s maids. Li chooses three, despite privately admiring their beauty and regretting that he is giving them away.
• Xia extracts each maid’s soul and spirit essence and seals them in a paper talisman. She explains that each ghost must stay within a hundred meters of its talisman-holder, and that burning the talisman would destroy the ghost permanently.
• Meanwhile, Li’s roommates speculate about what kind of pets he might bring back—including skeletons. A Spatial Gate opens, announcing Li’s return.

Character developments

• Li Yichen remains playful and impulsive, but his request is practical: he wants to satisfy his roommates without finding spirit beasts. His appreciation of the maids’ looks also brings out his shamelessly comic side.
• Xia shows confidence and authority as Meng Po’s disciple, managing the maids and demonstrating her command of soul magic.
• Tang Ling’er and Luo Qingyao react protectively and suspiciously to Li’s ambiguous request; Tang continues teasing him when she catches him daydreaming.
• The three roommates are impatient and nervous about what Li might bring back, particularly the possibility of being saddled with skeleton pets.

Significant themes

• Humor through misunderstanding: The women misread Li’s request, while his roommates imagine increasingly bizarre pets.
• The boundary between life and death: The maids are young women who died and cannot reincarnate, yet they remain capable and powerful in the Underworld.
• Power and dependence: The talismans bind each ghost to a keeper and place her existence under the talisman-holder’s control, raising the stakes beneath the comedic premise.

Character interactions

• Xia reassures Li that she can act without consulting Meng Po and helps him select the maids.
• Li’s wives challenge his apparent interest in beautiful female ghosts, prompting him to defend his intentions.
• Xia gives the selected maids their talismans and explains the limits and dangers of their bond.
• Li’s roommates joke and worry among themselves as they wait for him to return.

Key plot points and events

• After Li Yichen leaves the Underworld, Xia asks Meng Po why she avoided meeting him. Meng Po explains that her merit is complete and she is nearing reincarnation; accepting the parting is better than prolonging their hardship. She entrusts Xia with the Bridge of Helplessness.
• Back at Hidden Dragon Manor, Li Yichen surprises Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong with three beautiful female ghost maids. He gives each of them a Lifebound Soul Talisman, which lets its holder control the ghost’s life and death. The men eagerly accept the maids.
• The women tease Li Yichen by asking whether humans and ghosts can be intimate. He claims to be a gentleman, so they all abandon him for the night, leaving him alone amid the mess.
• At the Su residence, Su Shengnan learns that eight more people have disappeared. With the Su Family’s crisis worsening, she decides she may need to ask her unborn child’s father for help.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Po accepts her approaching reincarnation and chooses separation over emotional attachment, while entrusting Xia with her duties.
• Li Yichen plays the confident benefactor to his friends, but his “gentleman” claim is met with disbelief and playful punishment from the women around him.
• Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong go from anxious curiosity to delighted acceptance of the ghost maids, despite Li Yichen’s warning that the women are powerful.
• Su Shengnan appears burdened and increasingly desperate as disappearances threaten her family; she considers turning to her child’s father.

Significant themes

• Parting and acceptance: Meng Po recognizes that some bonds must be released rather than prolonged.
• Power and control: The soul talismans make the ghost maids’ lives subject to their masters’ will.
• Romantic teasing and gender dynamics: Li Yichen’s “gentleman” persona becomes the target of affectionate mockery.
• Family crisis and responsibility: Su Shengnan’s decision hints at unresolved ties and a looming appeal for help.

Key plot points

• Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong arrive at breakfast exhausted after staying up all night listening to their ghost companions’ life stories. Li Yichen mistakenly assumes they were intimate with the ghosts; the three angrily deny it.
• At the Jiang family’s breakfast, Old Master Jiang reprimands the absent Jiang Tianlei for his womanizing and tells his father to discipline him.
• Steward Zhao announces that Tianlei, Qin Wenyuan, and Shen Beifeng have been found dead near the Su Family Experimental Base.
• The Jiang patriarch grieves and blames the Su family, ordering Jiang Tianhao to wipe them out. The Qin and Shen families issue similar orders, and the three families mobilize a large convoy against the Su family.
• The chapter ends with Su Shengnan waking to news that Huang Shan and others have arrived demanding answers.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows concern but jumps to a crude conclusion about his friends; the three men push back indignantly and insist they only listened to the ghosts’ stories.
• Old Master Jiang’s anger at Tianlei’s behavior gives way to shock and grief, then vengeance. Tianlei’s father reacts with fury, while Jiang Tianhao appears outwardly sorrowful but privately seems pleased by the news.
• Steward Zhao is terrified as he delivers the deaths’ announcement. The Jiang, Qin, and Shen families quickly unite against the Su family, while Su Shengnan is caught off guard by the escalating crisis.

Significant themes

• Misunderstanding and appearances: The men’s exhaustion is misread, and Jiang Tianhao’s apparent grief conceals his satisfaction.
• Family power and entitlement: The Jiang patriarch condemns Tianlei’s womanizing but had tolerated it as ordinary behavior among wealthy heirs.
• Grief turned to vengeance: The deaths trigger a sweeping retaliation before the chapter establishes who was responsible.
• Escalating conflict: The three families’ alliance pushes the Su family toward a major confrontation.

Plot points

• Armed laborers arrive at the Su Family compound, furious that eight more of their comrades have died and demanding an explanation for being kept on the job.
• Huang Shan leads the confrontation. Su Second and the younger family members dismiss the dead as incompetent and insist the workers have no right to compensation, inflaming the crowd.
• Huang Shan orders his men to seize the Su Family members. Fighting breaks out: the workers overwhelm the pampered heirs, while Huang Shan defeats Su Second in their first exchange.
• Su Shengnan arrives and orders everyone to stop. When some men rush toward her, she disarms the crowd with an extraordinary power, draws their blades together, and compresses them into an iron ball. The effort leaves her dizzy, but she hides her weakness.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Shengnan shows decisiveness and composure under threat, as well as formidable supernatural ability. Her brief dizziness suggests using it has a cost. She also recognizes that the family is vulnerable and that losing its workers could be disastrous.
• Huang Shan shifts from demanding an explanation to openly leading an assault after the Su family insults the dead and refuses accountability. He proves capable in combat against Su Second.
• Su Second and Su Third respond with arrogance and threats rather than negotiation; Su Second’s defeat undermines their authority.
• Steward Wang fears for Su Shengnan but loyally tries to shield her.
• The workers’ grief and anger are intensified by the family’s contempt, turning a labor dispute into a violent confrontation.

Significant themes

• Class contempt and exploitation: The Su family treats workers’ deaths as proof of incompetence, exposing the gulf between the wealthy and those who risk their lives for them.
• Leadership and responsibility: Su Shengnan understands the danger of alienating the people protecting the family, while other family members worsen the crisis.
• Power and restraint: Su Shengnan’s display of force halts the violence, but her physical reaction hints that power carries a price.
• Internal division: The family’s own arrogance and lack of unity deepen its troubles from within.

Key plot points and events

• Steward Wang theatrically offers to protect Su Shengnan, but she calmly sends him aside.
• Su Shengnan arrives to find members of her family lying injured after a confrontation with Huang Shan and his men. The Su youths celebrate her arrival, expecting her to punish the outsiders.
• Instead, she rebukes her relatives for their arrogance, slaps one who calls her by her given name, and kicks him away when he defies her. She orders the spoiled youths into house arrest to reflect.
• Su Shengnan apologizes to Huang Shan’s group, acknowledges the Su Family’s responsibility for the deaths of their comrades, and offers ten million in compensation for each fallen man, plus help for their families. Huang Shan accepts and pledges to keep protecting the Su Family.
• Huang Shan warns her privately that his group may not be able to hold out much longer as the situation worsens.
• In the family hall, Su Shengnan explains that the family is in serious danger: it has recruited no martial artists for a month, and people see joining as risking their lives. The family’s members dismiss this until Steward Wang confirms the failure.
• As Su Shengnan prepares to leave, engines roar outside. A voice announces that the Su Family is surrounded and demands its surrender, threatening to slaughter everyone.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Shengnan demonstrates authority, discipline, and accountability. She punishes her own relatives rather than indulging them, apologizes to the injured outsiders, and offers substantial compensation. She also shows clear-eyed awareness of the family’s decline.
• Huang Shan responds to her fairness with gratitude and renewed loyalty, though his warning reveals the limits of his group’s protection.
• The Su Family youths prove entitled and hostile, expecting their status to shield them from consequences. Their defiance collapses when Su Shengnan uses force.
• The family elders and members are complacent and initially fail to understand how precarious the Su Family’s position has become.
• Steward Wang supports Su Shengnan and confirms the family’s failed recruitment efforts.

Significant themes

• Leadership and responsibility: Su Shengnan accepts the family’s fault and acts to repair the harm it caused.
• Privilege versus merit: The Su youths’ arrogance contrasts with the martial artists’ loyalty and willingness to serve.
• The cost of decline: Wealth and high salaries cannot compensate for the danger of joining a failing family.
• Respect earned through conduct: Su Shengnan wins admiration not just through strength, but through fairness and generosity.
• Approaching danger: Huang Shan’s warning and the final siege announcement signal that the family’s crisis is escalating.

Plot points and events

• The Su Family hall descends into panic after the three rival families attack and jam communications. Some members consider surrendering.
• First Elder Su Changfeng violently silences a surrender advocate and declares that the Su Family will never give in. The other elders warn against betrayal and pledge their support to family head Su Shengnan.
• Shengnan stays composed and tells the assembled family that she anticipated the attack and has arranged for allies to come. She urges everyone to focus on holding out.
• After the hall empties, Shengnan privately asks Second and Third Uncle to take a bank card containing one-third of the family’s funds to the capital, where Eldest Uncle is waiting.
• She reveals that Eldest Uncle’s apparent suffering and departure were part of a long-planned ruse to protect him and establish a fallback plan.
• With the elders assigned to safeguard the family, Shengnan heads to the estate’s main gate to face the attackers herself.

Character developments

• Su Shengnan demonstrates calm authority and long-term strategic planning. Though she gives the family hope, her preparations suggest she knows victory is uncertain and is arranging a possible escape route for the family.
• Su Changfeng and the elders openly unite behind Shengnan, defending the family’s resolve and promising to prevent internal betrayal.
• Second and Third Uncle move from surprise to respect for Shengnan’s foresight; Second Uncle accepts the dangerous task of delivering the funds.
• The family members are divided between fear and loyalty, while some quietly harbor self-serving intentions.

Significant themes

• Preparation and contingency: Shengnan has planned for the attack well in advance, including protecting the family’s assets and preserving a route to survival.
• Loyalty versus betrayal: The elders insist the family must stand together, while the threat of members defecting remains.
• Leadership under pressure: Shengnan’s composure steadies the family, even as she privately prepares for the worst.
• Sacrifice and survival: Some members may die defending the family, but Shengnan’s plan aims to ensure its future.

Character interactions

• Changfeng confronts and punishes the member who proposes surrender, while the elders reinforce the warning against disloyalty.
• Shengnan reassures the family publicly, then speaks candidly with her uncles and the elders in private.
• She entrusts Second and Third Uncle with the family funds and asks the elders to protect those remaining, while taking responsibility for confronting the attackers.

Key plot points and events

• The three allied families arrive at the Su Family Mansion in overwhelming force. Huang Shan and the guards are badly outnumbered.
• Jiang Tianhao offers the guards a chance to leave, then secretly orders his men to kill those who flee. Huang Shan attacks him in rage but is easily struck down.
• Su Shengnan emerges and catches Huang Shan as he falls, then confronts Jiang Tianhao. He claims the Su Family killed Jiang Tianlei, Qin Wenyuan, and Shen Beifeng, whose bodies were found near the Su research base.
• Realizing that Li Yichen’s Netherworld Soldiers likely killed the three men, Su Shengnan asks what the families want. Jiang demands the Su Family’s medicine formulas, that its members cripple their meridians, and 80 percent of its assets. She refuses.
• Jiang reveals that he has brought three powerful fighters to attack her together rather than face her one-on-one. A black-robed elder opens the assault by throwing a venomous snake at her; Su’s white light cuts it in two.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Shan tries to defend the mansion and rallies against Jiang after the fleeing guards are murdered, but is quickly defeated. Su comforts him and takes responsibility for the confrontation.
• Su Shengnan remains composed despite the danger, recognizes the likely source of the deaths, rejects the families’ demands, and prepares to fight.
• Jiang Tianhao shifts from apparent mercy to calculated brutality, using an escape offer as a trap. He presents the invasion as justified retaliation while demanding terms designed to destroy the Su Family.
• Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen support Jiang’s accusation and agree to the assault, each claiming their family’s losses require a response.
• The black-robed elder appears eager to test himself against Su, launching a surprise attack with a poisonous snake.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and false mercy: Jiang’s offer to spare the guards is a pretext for killing them as they flee.
• Power and coercion: The families use their numerical and martial advantage to demand the Su Family’s surrender and wealth.
• Integrity under pressure: Su refuses terms that would dismantle her family, even though resistance is dangerous.
• Manipulation of justice: The attackers frame their invasion as a demand for accountability while using it to pursue much broader, self-serving aims.

Black Judge Wang Ergou attacked Su Shengnan after she exposed his name, but she countered his poisoned snakes and daggers with her Ability User powers. With Black Judge enraged and his snakes destroyed, Jiang Tianhao urged the Qin and Shen families to join the fight.

• Su Shengnan identified the black-robed old man as Black Judge Wang Ergou, and he killed several people with poisoned Black Impermanence snakes after they laughed.
• Black Judge attacked Su Shengnan with his Judge's Brush and a snake, but she dodged and turned her daggers against him.
• Su Shengnan pinned the snake and cut Black Judge's trousers, humiliating him in front of the crowd.
• Black Judge unleashed dozens of snakes, but Su Shengnan used four spinning daggers to shred them.
• The Su Family cheered Su Shengnan, and Jiang Tianhao asked Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen to send their people into the fight.

Su Shengnan fought the Black Judge and Master Lü’s flying sword at once, then faced Master Tie’s charge as the Su Family watched in awe. Master Tie’s iron-hard body blocked her daggers, giving the Black Judge an opening to close in on her.

• Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen asked Master Tie and Master Lü to join the attack on Su Shengnan.
• Su Shengnan sent a fifth dagger at the Black Judge, cutting off his topknot, then used ten daggers to hold him and Master Lü’s flying sword at bay.
• Master Tie charged into the battle, and Su Shengnan sent five more daggers toward him.
• Master Tie’s body shrugged off the daggers, and he blocked attacks for the Black Judge.
• The Black Judge moved like a ghost and appeared beside Su Shengnan.

Su Shengnan was on the verge of being killed by Black Impermanence when a dark force erupted from her abdomen and sent him flying, apparently protecting her unborn child. In the Netherworld Realm, Ghost Emperor Haoran sensed that the Li Family had a new heir and sent a strand of consciousness away while Li Yichen organized a leadership contest among the pets.

• Su Shengnan struck Master Tie’s eyes with throwing knives, but his eyelids withstood them and he broke the blades.
• Black Judge ambushed Su Shengnan while Master Lü withdrew, and Black Impermanence drove his poisoned Judge’s Brush toward her abdomen.
• A dark glow burst from Su Shengnan’s abdomen and hurled Black Impermanence away, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Master Lü suspected the glow carried the power of a god, but Jiang Tianhao insisted that the Su Family still had to die.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran realized the Li Family had another heir, celebrated the news, and sent a strand of his consciousness away.
• Li Yichen began choosing a leader for the pets, but Zhenzhen, Aiai, and Lianlian declined to compete.

Li Yichen settled a dispute over which pet should be boss with a rock-paper-scissors tournament, which Little Fairy won through a trick. The celebration was interrupted by a god’s oppressive aura and the appearance of Li Yichen’s furious great-grandfather in the sky.

• Li Yichen had Dazhuang throw Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong out after their boasting disrupted the gathering.
• Li Yichen proposed a rock-paper-scissors tournament to decide which pet would be boss, and the women agreed to teach their pets the rules.
• Little Fairy distracted Mantou with an apple, causing Mantou to forfeit the opening match, and Li Yichen warned her not to cheat again.
• Little Fairy won the tournament, and Mo Yurou, Jiang Ruoyi, and Ouyang Xuanxuan sided together to ban Li Yichen from their beds for a month.
• A terrifying presence descended from the sky, forcing Little Fairy down and frightening the others, before Li Yichen recognized his great-grandfather’s face in the clouds.

Ghost Emperor Haoran tested Li Yichen’s wives, then warned him that his wife and son were in danger. Li Yichen realized Su Shengnan was pregnant and arrived with the women just as Black Judge attacked her.

• Li Yichen argued with Ghost Emperor Haoran, who tested the women’s loyalty and declared them good wives.
• Haoran warned Li Yichen that his wife and son were in danger, then vanished before explaining further.
• Li Yichen realized Su Shengnan might be pregnant with his child and opened a rift to go to her, bringing the women along.
• Jiang Tianhao ordered his forces to slaughter the Su Family, and Black Judge charged at Su Shengnan while she was in pain.
• Li Yichen emerged from a spatial rift, seized Black Judge by the face, and threatened to kill anyone who hurt Su Shengnan.