Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Xu Yirou asks Jun Wangchen to give her first refusal on any jade he finds, offering to pay well. Jun agrees, provided he uncovers more.
• Jun browses the high-grade stalls while jade dealers follow him, impressed by his earlier discovery of ice-type jade.
• He identifies two stones containing valuable glass-type jade: one large stone with a substantial amount and one tiny stone that is nearly all jade. He plans to buy them cheaply because their exteriors look unpromising.
• To distract the stallholder, Jun asks about an attractive-looking smooth stone, which the seller prices at two million despite its modest, ordinary jade interior.
• Qin Shou and Qiu Ya arrive with Qin’s uncle, Liu Bi, a respected stone appraiser. Liu challenges Jun to a Rough Stone Contest, hoping to defeat and embarrass him.
• Jun initially declines, saying he is busy. When Qin presses him, Jun insists there must be stakes. Liu proposes a wager of 2.5 million—the value of Jun’s earlier jade—and offers to cover it for Qin.
• Seeing their confidence, Jun accepts the contest.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains cautious and strategic: he hides the extent of his skill, lets others underestimate him, and tries to use the contest to make money for his needs.
• Xu Yirou establishes a business arrangement with Jun and trusts his eye for jade. Elder Kong approves and encourages her to continue seeking jade with him.
• Qin Shou is eager to humiliate Jun but has only one million available, so Liu agrees to fund the wager.
• Liu Bi treats the challenge as an easy victory, confident in his reputation and experience.
• Qiu Ya supports the attempt to see Jun disgraced, motivated by her hostility toward him.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The most valuable stones look ordinary, while the impressive smooth stone is overpriced and contains little of worth.
• Skill, luck, and deception: Jun lets others attribute his success to luck while using his judgment and misdirection to pursue better opportunities.
• Pride and overconfidence: Liu and Qin underestimate Jun, setting up the contest as a clash between reputation and concealed ability.
• Money and risk: The wager turns the rivalry into a high-stakes opportunity for Jun.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen accepts a Rough Stone Contest against Liu Bi, a renowned stone-gambling expert, with a 2.5-million wager. Each has fifteen minutes to choose one rough stone; the winner is whoever cuts the larger, more valuable jade.
• Qin Shou and Qiu Ya draw a crowd and present the contest as a public test of Jun’s ability. Spectators recognize him as the young man who previously found ice-type jade.
• Elder Kong doubts Jun’s decision to compete, but Xu Yirou argues that his calm confidence resembles the certainty he showed before his earlier successful stone cutting.
• Liu Bi spends most of his time inspecting a smooth stone, convinced it contains high-grade jade. When Qin Shou asks its price, the seller offers it for 2.5 million—up from the two million Jun recalls.
• Jun provokes a bidding war, raising his offer until Liu Bi pays ten million for the stone. Jun then reveals that he was willing to step aside, implying he deliberately baited Liu Bi into overpaying.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen remains outwardly composed and uses his Fiery Golden Eyes to give him confidence in the contest. He also shows a calculating, mischievous side by manipulating Liu Bi’s pride and exploiting the seller’s inflated price.
• Liu Bi is confident in his expertise but becomes increasingly angry and competitive when Jun challenges him publicly. His pride leads him to pay far more than the stone’s value.
• Qin Shou and Qiu Ya try to shame and provoke Jun, but their hostility is countered by his calm mockery.
• Xu Yirou demonstrates perceptiveness and faith in Jun, reading his confidence as evidence that he knows more than he lets on. Elder Kong shifts from skepticism to curiosity.

Significant themes

• Confidence versus experience: Liu Bi relies on years of expertise, while Jun possesses a hidden advantage that makes ordinary stone-gambling judgment seem limited.
• Pride and manipulation: Jun turns Liu Bi’s concern for reputation into a liability, showing how emotion can undermine expertise.
• Appearance and concealed knowledge: Jun’s casual manner conceals both his ability and his strategy.
• Public reputation: The crowd’s attention raises the stakes, making the contest as much a test of status as of skill.

Character interactions

• Jun’s measured replies frustrate Qin Shou and Qiu Ya, while their attempts to intimidate him help make the contest a public spectacle.
• Xu Yirou persuades Elder Kong to reconsider Jun by recalling his earlier success and observing his unchanged composure.
• Jun and Liu Bi face off through their competing bids: Liu Bi’s rising anger contrasts with Jun’s deliberately innocent, controlled demeanor.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen reveals that his aggressive bidding on Liu Bi’s smooth rough stone was a bluff. Unable to bid further, he lets Liu Bi buy it for ten million—seven and a half million more than the earlier price.
• With ten minutes left in the contest, Jun chooses a large, unimpressive-looking rough stone and persuades the seller to include a small stone for a total of two hundred thousand. He plans to enter the large stone in the contest and keep the small one.
• Though the large stone appears unlikely to contain jade, Jun calmly marks where it should be cut and instructs the seller to remove everything outside the marked area.
• Liu Bi’s stone reveals jade only after repeated cuts, and he and Qin Shou initially celebrate. At the same moment, Jun’s large stone erupts with a brilliant green glow, revealing jade as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen proves resourceful and composed: he tricks Liu Bi into overpaying, bargains shrewdly for two stones, and displays confidence that contradicts the crowd’s belief that he is a novice.
• Liu Bi is humiliated and enraged by Jun’s bluff, then mocks Jun’s stone choice. His confidence falters as his own promising stone yields little, though he keeps cutting until jade appears.
• Qin Shou shares Liu Bi’s anger over the costly bid and later celebrates Liu’s apparent success, unaware that Jun’s stone is also about to yield jade.
• Xu Yirou worries about Jun’s chances but refrains from interfering, encouraged by Elder Kong to let the contest remain fair. She knows Jun has promised her the glass-type jade if it is found.
• Elder Kong doubts the large stone’s potential but acknowledges that stones without visible signs can rarely contain exceptional jade.
• Qiu Ya takes pleasure in expecting Jun’s defeat, while the seller grows grateful to Jun for the windfall and later assists him with the cutting.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategy: Jun turns Liu Bi’s pride and need to save face against him.
• Appearance versus reality: The stones’ exteriors mislead the crowd; the seemingly worthless large stone may prove extraordinary.
• Chance and uncertainty: In stone gambling, neither promising signs nor confident predictions guarantee the outcome.
• Public pride and humiliation: Liu Bi’s reputation drives his costly purchase and sharp rivalry with Jun.

Key plot points and events

• The vivid green revealed in Jun Wangchen’s Large Rough Stone astonishes the crowd and alarms his rivals, Liu Bi and Qin Shou.
• Elder Kong, Jinling City’s renowned stone-gambling expert, recognizes the stone may contain extraordinary jade and asks Jun to let him finish cutting it. Jun agrees.
• Elder Kong carefully removes and polishes the remaining stone. The finished reveal is two clear, intensely green pieces of glass-type imperial green jade, an exceptionally valuable grade.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen remains calm and gracious, accepting Elder Kong’s help while privately wondering about his motives. He admires the older man’s skill.
• Elder Kong is shown to be both highly accomplished and genuinely eager to examine rare jade; his excitement signals the stone’s exceptional quality.
• Liu Bi and Qin Shou lose confidence as Elder Kong’s involvement makes their defeat seem certain.
• Qiu Ya responds with resentment and disbelief at Jun’s repeated good fortune.
• Xu Yirou is thrilled by Jun’s success, while the stone’s seller is consumed by regret.

Significant themes

• Skill, luck, and judgment: Jun relies on his supernatural Fiery Golden Eyes, while Elder Kong demonstrates mastery through experience.
• Status and expertise: Elder Kong’s reputation changes how everyone interprets the stone and anticipates the contest’s outcome.
• Envy and reversal of fortune: Jun’s success unsettles his rivals and leaves the seller regretting the sale.

Character interactions

• Elder Kong respectfully asks Jun for permission to cut the stone; Jun agrees.
• Xu Yirou encourages Jun’s decision with her nods.
• The crowd watches Elder Kong’s work with reverence, while Liu Bi, Qin Shou, and Qiu Ya react with mounting despair or resentment.
• The final reveal turns the crowd’s suspense into shock: Jun’s seemingly unpromising stone contains glass-type imperial green.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen’s rough stone yields a baseball-sized piece of glass-type imperial green jade, an extraordinarily rare, top-grade variety. The discovery electrifies the market.
• Elder Kong praises the jade and estimates it is worth at least 100 million, citing its exceptional color, clarity, and size.
• Jade dealers scramble to raise money and compete to buy it, hoping it will become a valuable centerpiece for their shops.
• Jun chooses to sell the jade. He honors an earlier agreement giving Xu Yirou first priority, placing the jade in her hands and turning down the crowd’s offers.
• Xu thanks him and promises that the Thousand Gold Jewelry Group will help him if he ever needs support.
• Jun then challenges Liu Bi to compare the value of their finds. Liu has only a small piece of ordinary jade, and the crowd begins to mock him.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains outwardly composed despite the discovery, impressing Xu and Elder Kong with his apparent confidence and self-control. He is privately surprised by the valuation, having expected far less. By honoring his agreement with Xu, he demonstrates reliability and gains a powerful ally.
• Xu Yirou moves from astonishment at Jun’s skill to gratitude and respect. She recognizes his integrity and offers him the support of her influential family business.
• Elder Kong admires Jun’s discernment and composure, and his high valuation confirms the jade’s extraordinary worth.
• Liu Bi accepts that he has lost the contest and reacts with a bitter smile. Qiu Ya and Qin Shou are consumed by jealousy and resentment.
• The jade dealers’ eagerness to outbid one another shows how much they value the find, while Jun’s decision to honor Xu’s prior claim frustrates them.

Significant themes

• Integrity over profit: Jun keeps his promise even when faced with enormous competing offers.
• Skill and composure: His success and calm demeanor lead others to suspect his ability goes beyond luck.
• Fortune and status: The jade’s discovery transforms Jun’s standing and attracts powerful business connections.
• Envy and humiliation: Jun’s triumph intensifies the bitterness of his rivals, setting up the public contrast with Liu Bi’s modest find.

Key events

• After winning the Rough Stone Contest with a rare Imperial Green jadeite, Jun Wangchen collects his prize and arranges a major bank transfer with Xu Yirou. She thanks him over dinner and offers to fund future stone gambling in exchange for first refusal on any jadeite he finds.
• To avoid drawing attention to his Fiery Golden Eyes, Jun decides not to gamble again soon. While heading back to his dorm, he senses danger and lures his pursuer into a secluded patch of woods.
• A masked assassin reveals that Jun is targeted for foiling his boss’s plans by saving Zi Hanyan. The attacker is an early Yellow Tier martial artist, far stronger than Jun.
• Jun uses his “Seal” technique to halt the assassin briefly, then strikes his Shenting Acupoint and escapes. The assassin quickly recovers and hits Jun with a lightning-based martial skill, leaving him badly injured.
• Desperate, Jun swallows all five of his Qi Condensation Pills to force a breakthrough. The surge of spiritual power threatens to overwhelm him, so he channels it toward his dantian and stabs his thigh with a branch to stay conscious.
• When the assassin launches a lightning dagger, Jun writes “Break” in the air and shatters it. He realizes that the Scripture of the Sage of Calligraphy can draw on spiritual power outside his dantian, though he does not understand how.
• As the assassin attacks with multiple lightning blades, Jun makes one final gamble: instead of writing a single character, he begins writing an entire sentence.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen shows caution about concealing his abilities, but under attack he proves resourceful and determined. He recognizes his limits, chooses escape over a direct fight, and endures extreme pain rather than give up.
• Xu Yirou expresses gratitude and offers a cooperative business arrangement, though she is not present during the attack.
• The masked assassin is confident in his superiority and intends to kill Jun for his role in disrupting his boss’s political ambitions. Jun’s resistance surprises him and makes him view the young martial artist as a future threat.
• Their encounter escalates from the assassin’s dismissive confidence to a desperate contest, as Jun repeatedly counters his stronger opponent with ingenuity rather than strength.

Significant themes

• Survival through resourcefulness: Jun cannot match the assassin’s power, so he relies on misdirection, technique, and improvisation.
• Determination under pressure: He forces himself to stay conscious and continue fighting despite severe injuries and overwhelming pain.
• Hidden potential and risk: The pills and the unexpected reach of his calligraphy technique reveal new possibilities, but exploiting them could destroy him.
• Consequences of intervention: Saving Zi Hanyan has drawn Jun into a dangerous conflict involving forces far beyond his level.

Plot points and events

• Trapped in a moonlit forest, Jun Wangchen writes “One Man Holds the Pass, Ten Thousand Cannot Open It” to counter the masked attacker’s lightning blades. The literary energy absorbs the phrase and unexpectedly forms a protective barrier around Jun.
• The barrier blocks the attacker while Jun channels spiritual power into his dantian. As the defense fades and the attacker’s lightning spear nears, Jun completes his breakthrough to peak Qi Condensation and cuts the spear apart.
• Jun’s new strength and speed let him strike the masked man with a rollback technique, injuring him despite the attacker’s higher martial rank.
• The attacker unleashes the superior Yellow Rank technique Lightning and Thunder. Jun uses Tai Chi-like movements to absorb its force and redirect it into a palm strike that destroys the attacker’s internal organs, killing him.
• Exhausted, Jun searches the body for clues but finds nothing. He photographs the corpse with the Groundhog Phone, burns it using a written character, and leaves determined to grow stronger.

Character development

• Jun moves from despairing resignation—thinking of his mother and friends as he faces death—to resourceful determination once he realizes the barrier is protecting him.
• His breakthrough gives him confidence in his cultivator’s advantage over martial artists, but the near-death experience leaves him wary and focused on accelerating his progress.
• The masked man shifts from contemptuous confidence to shock and fear as Jun survives, advances, and defeats him.

Significant themes

• Survival through breakthrough: Jun’s desperate effort to live drives his advancement at the last possible moment.
• Cultivation versus martial arts: The chapter stresses that cultivators can surpass martial artists of apparently comparable rank.
• Adaptability and hidden power: Jun turns literary energy into defense and uses Tai Chi-like yielding movements to overcome a stronger opponent.
• The cost of danger: Victory brings relief, but also reinforces Jun’s awareness that future enemies may be even stronger.

Character interactions

• The masked man repeatedly taunts and attacks Jun, dismissing him as weak; Jun initially cannot answer but gradually gains the power to counter him.
• Their fight becomes a contest of expectations: the attacker underestimates Jun’s breakthrough, while Jun uses the attacker’s force against him to secure the kill.
• Jun’s thoughts of his mother and friends give his struggle an emotional anchor, though none are present during the confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• After returning to his dorm, Jun Wangchen keeps quiet about the masked assassin who tried to kill him. He decides that improving his strength is the best way to face the continuing threat.
• He calculates the cost of refining Soul-Returning and Spirit-Restoring Pills, realizing that failures could make the ingredients cost him 20–30 million. A Foundation Establishment Pill could help him advance beyond Qi Condensation, but one required ingredient—mysterious soul wood—cannot be found on Earth.
• Jun seeks help through the Strongest Chat Group in History and privately contacts King Qin Guang, who is upset after being muted while asking the group for ideas for his wife’s birthday.
• Jun offers to arrange a birthday cake in exchange for information about mysterious soul wood. He buys a large cake and sends it to Qin Guang, who is delighted by its taste.
• In gratitude, Qin Guang sends Jun more than a thousand pieces of mysterious soul wood—far more than the five pieces Jun requested—and gives him a special envoy’s token that lets him command most inhabitants of the Underworld.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen is cautious and protective of his ordinary roommates, but also determined to rely on his own strength rather than seek protection from Zifeng Town. He shows resourcefulness by turning Qin Guang’s birthday problem into a practical exchange.
• King Qin Guang begins irritable and dismissive after being muted, but quickly becomes warm and generous once Jun helps him. His concern for his wife is sincere, and he is deeply impressed by the cake.

Significant themes

• Self-reliance and preparation: Jun prioritizes becoming stronger instead of hiding behind others.
• The cost of power: Alchemy offers a path to advancement but demands large sums of money and carries the risk of failure.
• Exchange and unexpected alliances: A small act of help creates access to rare resources and powerful Underworld connections.
• Ambition and perseverance: Jun continues planning for his future despite danger and financial pressure.

Character interactions

• Jun withholds information about the assassination attempt from his roommates to keep them safe.
• His private exchange with Qin Guang shifts from tense and transactional to friendly: Jun supplies the birthday cake, while Qin Guang rewards him with mysterious soul wood and the envoy’s token.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen goes to a café after Zi Hanyan asks him to examine a friend. He discovers the friend is Mo Duoduo, his classmate and recent rival.
• Mo challenges Jun to identify her illness without being told her symptoms. He correctly describes her nightly burning fevers, weakness, and progressively longer attacks.
• Jun diagnoses fire devouring poison, caused by a rare insect bite. He explains that it is often mistaken for a deficiency fever, worsened by conventional medicines, and can eventually become fatal.
• Jun says acupuncture can cure her, but the poison is lodged near the Huiyin Point, meaning treatment would require her to undress. Embarrassed and conservative, Mo cannot agree to the procedure.
• Jun suggests a temporary measure involving air-conditioning and its condensation water, warning that it will help for only three days and cannot replace acupuncture.
• Bai Ren calls Jun to Jinling Central Hospital: a critically injured accident victim needs Jun’s acupuncture. Jun immediately agrees and leaves.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen demonstrates exceptional diagnostic skill and confidence, while also showing compassion by offering Mo a temporary option and rushing to help another patient.
• Mo Duoduo moves from skepticism to astonishment and relief as Jun accurately identifies her illness. Her modesty and discomfort, however, prevent her from accepting the treatment she needs.
• Zi Hanyan acts as a supportive friend and intermediary. She trusts Jun’s abilities but understands Mo’s embarrassment and tries to find an alternative.

Character interactions

• Jun and Mo’s earlier competitive relationship resurfaces when she tests his medical ability; his diagnosis quickly shifts their exchange from rivalry to a serious medical discussion.
• Zi Hanyan mediates between them, encouraging Mo and expressing concern about the intimate treatment.
• Jun’s call with Bai Ren underscores the respect he has earned from the older physician and leads him to prioritize an emergency.

Significant themes

• Medical insight and misplaced treatment: Rare conditions can be misdiagnosed, and conventional remedies may worsen them.
• Trust, modesty, and vulnerability: Mo must weigh her personal boundaries against the need for potentially life-saving treatment.
• Duty and compassion: Jun’s readiness to treat a stranger reflects his commitment to healing and helping others.

Plot points and events

• At Jinling Central Hospital, Mo Xinao’s son is critically injured: many bones are broken, much of his spine is fractured, and his throat and windpipe are badly cut. Elder Bai is struggling to save him.
• Jun Wangchen arrives, saying Bai Ren invited him to help. Director Ma dismisses him as an unlicensed, inexperienced youth and tries to drive him away. Mo Xinao, frightened for his son, also grabs and threatens him.
• Bai Ren emerges to say the patient remains in grave danger and that he is waiting for a miracle doctor. When he recognizes Jun as that doctor, he explains that Jun previously cured Zifeng Town’s wife—something even other renowned physicians, including Bai, could not do.
• Though Bai and Jun confirm his ability, Director Ma and Mo continue questioning whether Jun can be trusted with the case. Jun becomes offended by their repeated insults and says he will leave.
• Bai rebukes Mo and is prepared to withdraw from the case. Realizing his son may die without help, Mo apologizes, bows, and even slaps himself while begging Jun to proceed.
• Jun agrees to treat the patient solely out of respect for Bai. He enters the treatment room with Bai, while Mo waits outside, privately threatening Jun if his son dies.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains focused on the patient despite being mocked and physically confronted. His patience runs out, however, and he makes clear that his willingness to help is not permission to disrespect him. He relents only because of his regard for Bai.
• Bai Ren acts as Jun’s advocate, vouching for his extraordinary skills and confronting Mo when his behavior drives Jun away. His concern for the patient is paired with respect for Jun’s dignity.
• Mo Xinao shifts from arrogant threats to desperate humility when he understands that Jun may be his son’s only chance. His apology is driven by fear, though his final private threat shows that his hostility has not fully disappeared.
• Director Ma repeatedly undermines Jun based on his youth and lack of conventional credentials. His certainty is challenged when Bai identifies Jun as the miracle doctor, but he continues to doubt him.
• The confrontation between Jun and the two skeptical men delays treatment and creates an atmosphere of distrust; Bai ultimately mediates between them so the patient can receive help.

Significant themes

• Skill versus credentials: The chapter contrasts Jun’s unconventional, proven ability with the hospital staff’s reliance on age, licenses, and formal experience.
• Respect and trust: Expertise alone does not secure cooperation; the characters’ insults nearly cost the patient his chance of treatment.
• Pride and desperation: Mo’s status gives way to pleading when his son’s life is at stake, though his lingering threat suggests pride and power still shape him.
• Duty and compassion: Jun’s decision to help reflects loyalty to Bai and the principle that saving a life should take priority over personal grievances.

Plot points and events

• At Jinling Central Hospital, the Mo Family’s eldest young master is near death from catastrophic injuries. Bai Ren, a renowned physician, has kept him alive temporarily but cannot treat him.
• Bai Ren brings in Jun Wangchen, whom he calls a miracle doctor. Jun examines the patient and asks for eight silver needles, water, and seven tender leaves.
• Bai Xiaofei, Bai Ren’s newly promoted physician grandson, doubts Jun’s competence and argues against letting him treat such an important patient. Bai Ren orders him to comply.
• Jun prepares Heavenly Spirit Water by infusing the leaves with spiritual power, then uses Qi-Driven Needle Control to place eight needles in the patient. Bai Ren gives the patient the water.
• After an initial delay, the young master’s bones, spine, and throat begin rapidly healing. Jun warns that the remaining leaf must be placed in the patient’s mouth and nostrils for half an hour, or the spiritual power could turn dangerous.
• The medical staff confirm the patient is stable. Jun, weakened by the effort, receives Bai Ren’s thanks and departs after explaining the precautions.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen demonstrates extraordinary skill and composure, saving the patient despite skepticism and the heavy cost to his spiritual reserves.
• Bai Ren places his trust in Jun, rebukes his grandson’s disrespect, and later apologizes on his behalf.
• Bai Xiaofei shifts from contempt and disbelief to awe and humility. He apologizes to Jun, whom he now addresses as “senior.”
• The attending physicians move from suspicion to respect after witnessing Jun’s technique and the patient’s recovery.

Significant themes

• Expertise versus appearances: Jun’s youth leads others to underestimate him, but his ability overturns their assumptions.
• Tradition and lost knowledge: Heavenly Spirit Water and ancient acupuncture arts prove capable of what ordinary treatment cannot achieve.
• Humility and respect: Bai Xiaofei learns not to judge skill by age, while Jun accepts his apology without resentment.
• The cost of healing: Jun’s success requires substantial spiritual power and leaves him physically weakened.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen and Bai Ren emerge from the emergency room after saving the Mo family’s eldest son, though Jun is exhausted from using Heavenly Spirit Water and replenishes his spiritual power with a Qi Condensation Pill.
• Fu Wanli, the boy’s mother, assumes Jun is an unqualified intruder and berates him. When she learns he saved her son, she refuses to show gratitude and threatens to have him investigated.
• Bai Ren defends Jun and condemns Fu Wanli’s behavior. Jun leaves, and Bai Ren and several others follow in disgust. Fu Wanli also insults Bai, prompting Mo Xinao to warn her that she has alienated a highly respected physician.
• In the emergency room, Director Ma removes the leaves Jun had placed in the boy’s mouth and nose. The boy immediately begins coughing up blood and deteriorates.
• Bai Ren explains that the leaves were essential to Jun’s treatment and had to remain in place for half an hour. He cannot save the boy himself; only Jun may still be able to. Mo Xinao sends bodyguards to stop Jun and rushes after him with Fu Wanli.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen moves from exhausted rescuer to openly angered outsider after Fu Wanli’s insults. He leaves rather than tolerate the family’s ingratitude.
• Fu Wanli is domineering and contemptuous toward Jun and Bai, invoking her family’s influence to silence the doctors. When her son’s condition worsens, she panics and begs Bai for help.
• Mo Xinao prioritizes his son and initially tries to calm his wife. Once the consequences become clear, he recognizes Jun’s importance and urgently seeks him.
• Bai Ren takes a firm stand for Jun, then explains the treatment and admits that his own skills cannot replace Jun’s.
• Director Ma tries to curry favor with the Mo couple, removes the leaves on Fu Wanli’s order, and offers a false explanation for their presence—an action that triggers the crisis.

Significant themes

• Ingratitude and arrogance: Fu Wanli’s status-conscious hostility turns a rescue into a bitter confrontation.
• Recognition and expertise: The doctors’ praise initially goes to Bai Ren, while Jun’s decisive contribution is overlooked.
• Consequences of pride: The leaves’ removal—and the family’s earlier treatment of Jun—leaves the boy in renewed danger and makes Jun’s return uncertain.
• Power versus integrity: Fu Wanli relies on wealth and influence, while Bai Ren and Jun act from professional conviction and personal principle.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen arrives at Jinling Central Hospital but is blocked by Mo Xinao and Fu Wanli’s armed men, who are there to keep him from leaving. He overwhelms them in seconds, demonstrating that his cultivation makes him far more dangerous than they expected.
• Fu Wanli demands that Jun save her son, who is coughing up blood. When he refuses, she insults and threatens him, even threatening his family. Jun responds with a threat to destroy the Mo Family if they harm his loved ones.
• Mo Xinao intervenes, rebukes his wife, and humbly asks Jun to help. Fu Wanli eventually admits she was wrong, but Jun insists she kneel before him. Though Mo offers to kneel instead, Jun refuses to accept anyone but Fu.
• Fu finally starts to kneel, pushed by Mo’s reminder that their son may die and their daughter, Duoduo, could be left as the family’s only child. Jun stops her before her knees reach the ground and tells her that respect must be shown before it can be expected.
• Jun then heads to the emergency room with the couple. On entering, he senses two powerful sources of yin energy and discovers that the Mo family’s eldest son has already stopped breathing.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains proud and uncompromising when confronted, but his refusal to help is not absolute. He changes course after realizing the boy is Mo Duoduo’s brother; he also considers his accidental injury to Duoduo and his friendship with her close friend Zi Hanyan. He uses the confrontation to teach Fu Wanli a lesson rather than truly demand her humiliation.
• Fu Wanli begins arrogant, believing her family’s status entitles her to obedience. Faced with her son’s crisis, she is forced to confront the limits of her power and pride, and apologizes. She does not know Jun’s real reason for relenting.
• Mo Xinao is more pragmatic and respectful than his wife. He recognizes Jun’s strength, apologizes for their earlier treatment of him, and tries to secure his help. His appeal to their children’s future finally persuades Fu to act.
• The scene contrasts Fu’s contemptuous demands and threats with Mo’s respectful pleading. Jun’s interactions with both expose the difference between coercion and genuine respect.

Significant themes

• Respect and humility: Jun’s central lesson is that respect must be offered before it can be demanded.
• The limits of power and status: Fu discovers that wealth, family position, and threats cannot control everyone or solve every crisis.
• Pride versus love and responsibility: Fu’s hesitation reveals her attachment to dignity, while her willingness to kneel shows that fear for her son can overcome it.
• Hidden consequences and urgency: Jun’s supernatural perception reveals a new danger in the emergency room, and the boy’s stopped breathing leaves the outcome uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• The Mo Family’s Eldest Young Master dies after his mother, Fu Wanli, orders Director Ma to remove leaves Jun Wangchen had placed in his nose and mouth. The leaves had been suppressing the young man’s volatile spiritual energy.
• Jun senses two spirits leaving the Emergency Room and follows them. Using his Fiery Golden Eyes, he recognizes Black and White Impermanence, who have come to collect the young man’s soul because his allotted lifespan has ended.
• Jun reveals King Qin Guang’s Envoy Token. The soul collectors recognize its authority and hand over the soul, allowing Jun to return it to the body.
• Back at the hospital, Jun tells the young man’s parents to kiss him and call his name. They do so, and the young man’s breathing and heartbeat return, astonishing the medical staff.
• Mo Xinao offers Jun an enormous check as thanks. Jun declines the money for himself and asks that it be donated to poor patients, elderly people living alone, and children in mountain villages. Mo Xinao instead gives him the Mo Family’s rare supreme VIP card.
• Jun leaves to gather ingredients for pill refining, still concerned about the masked attacker from the previous night. Fu Wanli has Director Ma dismissed and his medical credentials revoked.
• Mo Duoduo arrives after the crisis and learns that Jun Wangchen saved her brother. Realizing which Jun is meant, she is stunned.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen demonstrates hidden authority and supernatural ability, but also compassion and restraint: he risks intervening to save someone with a bad reputation and refuses a fortune for himself.
• Mo Xinao shifts from grief and desperation to deep gratitude and respect for Jun, recognizing him as someone powerful who should be treated as an ally.
• Fu Wanli faces the consequences of her rash command and, after Jun saves her son, becomes deferential and tries to make amends.
• Director Ma goes from fear and guilt to being blamed and removed from his position.
• Mo Duoduo moves from panic over her brother’s condition to shock and complicated emotion upon learning Jun saved him.

Significant themes

• Life, death, and supernatural authority: Jun’s Envoy Token lets him intervene in the Underworld’s collection of a soul.
• Responsibility and consequences: Fu Wanli’s order directly causes her son’s death, while Director Ma bears professional consequences for his role.
• Compassion over wealth: Jun directs a vast potential reward toward people in need, reflecting his medical principles.
• Power and respect: Jun’s abilities and connections transform how others regard him.

Character interactions

• Black and White Impermanence initially treat Jun as an ordinary mortal, then defer to him once he shows the Envoy Token; they return the soul and offer assistance.
• Jun stops the grieving parents from blaming Director Ma long enough to revive their son, then warns Fu Wanli against letting the doctor endanger him again.
• Mo Xinao offers wealth and status to express gratitude; Jun declines cash but accepts the VIP card.
• Bai Ren and Bai Xiaofei confirm the young man’s recovery and later tell Mo Duoduo that Jun, not they, saved him—prompting her stunned reaction.

Key plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen returns to his dorm with takeout for his three roommates, who are absent. While preparing to buy medicinal herbs online, he receives a message from Sword Immortal Li Bai.
• Li Bai asks about the Spicy Strips Jun won at auction. Jun sends him an extra-large bag, exaggerating how much effort he spent getting it.
• Grateful, Li Bai offers to help. Jun asks for a way to increase soul power, hoping to advance as an Alchemist. Li Bai sends him the Soul-Seizing Art, which can absorb soul power from living or dead beings.
• Jun learns the art and successfully draws soul power from a century-old poplar, expanding his perception range from three meters to five.
• He discovers the art can be used only once per hour and no more than three times a day. Worse, the tree begins to wither after its soul power is taken, teaching him that using the technique carelessly can seriously harm living things.
• Back in the dorm, Jun’s roommates trade crude jokes about women and faulty products bought online. Their stories make him reconsider purchasing herbs over the internet. He searches for a reputable herb shop and heads there in person.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen is resourceful and ambitious: rather than request a Foundation Establishment Pill, he seeks to strengthen his own abilities and become a higher-ranked Alchemist. His initial excitement over the Soul-Seizing Art gives way to caution when he sees its effect on the tree.
• Li Bai is shown to be generous and easily won over by Spicy Strips. He treats Jun as a friend and offers a valuable cultivation art in return.
• Jun’s roommates remain lazy, lewd, and comic; their conversation nevertheless provides Jun with practical advice about unreliable online purchases.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: The Soul-Seizing Art offers rapid growth but can devastate its targets, so Jun recognizes the need for restraint.
• Self-reliance and earned achievement: Jun prefers improving his own cultivation and refining pills himself to receiving an easy solution.
• Practical learning: Experience—including mistakes and unexpected consequences—helps Jun make wiser decisions.
• Comedy and contrast: Jun’s inflated self-regard and the roommates’ crude banter offset the serious implications of his new technique.

Character interactions

• Jun uses the Spicy Strips to strengthen his friendship with Li Bai, who responds by giving him the Soul-Seizing Art.
• Jun tests the art on a poplar, then reflects on the harm he has caused and resolves not to use it recklessly.
• His banter with his roommates reveals their personalities and leads him to abandon the idea of ordering medicinal herbs online.

Key plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen visits Jinling Great Pharmacy to buy large quantities of herbs for Soul-Returning, Spirit-Restoring, and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The attendant doubts he can afford the order, but changes her attitude when he shows an Unlimited Red Card, a status symbol reserved for the extremely wealthy.
• Pharmacy owner Feng Mei appears and uses a charm technique on Jun. He resists it with his strengthened soul and confronts her.
• Feng Mei privately reveals that she inferred he is an Alchemist from his herb list. She asks him to become the pharmacy’s dedicated Alchemist, offering payment in herbs rather than money.
• Jun accepts, since he needs herbs to practice alchemy. Feng explains that her position in the Feng Family’s collateral branch is precarious: she must submit pills for an upcoming evaluation or risk losing her shop—or even being expelled from the family.
• Jun reviews the required pills and says they will be easy to make. He agrees to demonstrate his skill, then summons an imposing alchemy furnace from midair.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen shows confidence in his alchemical abilities and resourcefulness, while remaining alert to possible threats. He values herbs over wealth or romantic favors and agrees to help Feng Mei in exchange for a steady supply.
• Feng Mei shifts from testing Jun with a charm technique to negotiating openly. Her desperation to secure an Alchemist reflects the pressure and insecurity she faces within her family.
• The attendant quickly revises her judgment of Jun after seeing his red card, highlighting how strongly wealth and status shape others’ perceptions.

Significant themes

• Trust and mutual benefit: Jun and Feng Mei form an arrangement driven by complementary needs, though both initially approach each other cautiously.
• Power and status: The red card changes how the pharmacy staff treat Jun, while family rank determines Feng Mei’s access to Alchemists and her future.
• Self-reliance and preparation: Jun stockpiles ingredients and seeks pills that could help him advance and protect himself.
• Skill and reputation: Jun’s confidence contrasts with the failures of Feng Mei’s previous Alchemists, setting up a public test of his abilities.

Character interactions

• Jun challenges the attendant’s assumptions by presenting proof of his financial standing.
• He confronts Feng Mei after resisting her charm, establishing a guarded but respectful dynamic.
• Feng Mei explains her family’s circumstances and offers an ongoing professional partnership; Jun sets herbs as his compensation.
• Their negotiation ends with Jun preparing to demonstrate his alchemy before Feng Mei and her staff.

Plot points and events

• In a private room at Jinling Great Pharmacy, Jun Wangchen uses his remarkable pill furnace and precise spiritual and soul power to refine a high-quality Youth-Restoring Pill in one smooth process.
• Feng Mei tests the pill and confirms that it surpasses those produced by other Alchemists. Impressed by his talent, she offers him the herbs he requested for free, hoping he will help her if she ever faces trouble.
• Jun agrees to support her and gives her his phone number, seeing the exchange as the start of a useful, lasting partnership.
• Feng Mei becomes dizzy from exhaustion and collapses against him. Jun checks her condition, then puts her to sleep so she can rest.
• Using Divine Calculations, Jun learns about Feng Mei’s lonely childhood, neglectful family, and punishing work schedule. Moved by her hardship, he covers her with his jacket and leaves her an encouraging note before departing.
• Feng Mei wakes an hour later and reads the message. Its words about perseverance, self-worth, and choosing happiness move her to tears.

Character development

• Jun Wangchen demonstrates exceptional skill and composure, though his apparent mastery is largely because this particular pill is easy for him to make. He also shows kindness: he accepts Feng Mei’s offer with a promise to help, cares for her when she is unwell, and responds compassionately to her past.
• Feng Mei shifts from businesslike admiration to hopeful trust. Her generosity is partly a bid for protection, rooted in the vulnerability and isolation she has endured. Jun’s note gives her unexpected emotional comfort.

Character interactions

• Feng Mei admires Jun’s refinement and offers free herbs in exchange for the possibility of his help; Jun accepts the relationship but makes no grand promise beyond doing what he can.
• When Feng Mei collapses, Jun treats her gently and prioritizes her rest over the work she feels obliged to do.
• Jun’s final message becomes a deeply personal gesture of support, strengthening their connection beyond business.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and self-worth: A person should not let others’ judgments define their life.
• Kindness as hope: A small, sincere act can bring warmth to someone who feels alone.
• Chosen happiness: Fulfillment must be pursued rather than expected from family or circumstance.
• Mutual support: Their partnership begins as a practical arrangement but gains emotional significance.

Plot points and events

• After buying medicinal ingredients, Jun Wangchen uses Taishang Laojun’s pill-refining space to make Soul-Returning and Spirit-Restoring Pills. His stronger soul power helps him produce more than fifteen of each, though he plans to try Foundation Establishment Pills later.
• He rests, then wakes to discover he has missed calls and messages: he has been assigned to his class’s compulsory basketball match against the electronic science class. With only half an hour before the game, he rushes to the court.
• At the crowded venue, Jun reunites with his three crude, joking roommates. He learns that Zhang Zhengxiao is also playing and supposedly has basketball experience.
• Zi Hanyan, the campus belle, arrives with chilled watermelon for Jun, explaining that Duoduo told her he had been selected. She shares slices with his roommates, who jokingly call her their “sister-in-law.”
• As Zi chats with the roommates, an angry man approaches and disparages Jun’s background, calling him the son of a street sweeper and questioning why Zi treats him so kindly. The chapter ends on this confrontation.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen shows growing skill and confidence in alchemy, but remains reluctant and inexperienced when it comes to basketball. His exaggerated self-admiration and flustered reaction to Zi’s kindness add to his comic persona.
• Zi Hanyan takes a warm, considerate step toward Jun by bringing him watermelon and openly showing concern for his comfort and performance.
• The roommates remain shamelessly comic and opportunistic, but their friendliness toward Zi reveals their excitement at being included in her attention.
• The approaching man is introduced as hostile and class-conscious, setting up a likely conflict with Jun.

Themes and character interactions

• The chapter contrasts Jun’s private cultivation progress with the ordinary, chaotic social life of campus.
• Humor comes largely from the roommates’ bawdy banter, Jun’s internal monologue, and the group’s exaggerated reactions to Zi.
• Zi’s thoughtful gesture suggests growing closeness with Jun, while the roommates tease him about their relationship.
• The final insult introduces a theme of social status and prejudice, challenging Jun’s dignity and the affection Zi has shown him.

Plot points

• Wei Caijun arrives and confronts Jun Wangchen, angry that Zi Hanyan is spending time with him. He looks down on Jun’s poor background and threatens him for associating with her.
• Zi Hanyan defends Jun and tells Wei that her choices are none of his business.
• Wei insults Jun’s mother and unknown father. Jun responds with a menacing display of killing intent and warns Wei to control his mouth.
• Wei tries to take Zi Hanyan away by force. Jun catches his hand and demands to know whether Wei thinks he has permission.
• Wei attacks, but Jun blocks the punch, overpowers him, and sends him stumbling back. Jun warns that he is sparing Wei because of the Wei family’s standing.
• Wei retreats with a threat. The onlookers, astonished that anyone could defeat him, begin to see Jun as a formidable new presence at Jinling University.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen shifts from quiet observer to openly commanding protector. His strength and lethal aura reveal that his ordinary appearance and reputation conceal extraordinary power.
• Zi Hanyan firmly rejects Wei’s controlling behavior and defends Jun. She is touched and shy when Jun steps in to protect her.
• Wei Caijun is exposed as arrogant and possessive; his confidence falters when Jun proves stronger. Though humiliated, he leaves vowing revenge.
• Zhang Zhengxiao and the other students worry about the consequences of Jun antagonizing the powerful Wei family, then are stunned by Jun’s victory.

Themes

• Power versus status: Wei relies on his family name, while Jun’s strength makes that status irrelevant.
• Respect and dignity: Jun refuses to tolerate insults toward himself or his mother.
• Autonomy and protection: Zi Hanyan insists on control over her own choices, while Jun intervenes when Wei tries to seize her.
• Hidden strength: Jun’s unremarkable appearance masks a level of power that changes how the campus sees him.

Key plot points

• After the public confrontation, Zi Hanyan worries that Wei Caijun will retaliate against Jun Wangchen and apologizes for drawing him into trouble.
• Jun insists he will not back down. He believes that fear invites more fear, and that a powerful family’s influence does not make its heir invincible.
• He reassures Zi by saying he stands up for her as a friend. His words embarrass and touch her; she decides to arrange secret protection for him despite his jokes about the danger.
• Wei Caijun seethes as he watches them together. A teammate reveals that he arranged for Jun to be placed on the medical-class team and engineered a matchup against the electronic science class.
• Wei plans to humiliate Jun during the game, both to punish him and to impress Zi. The teammate also suggests targeting Jun’s friends, since Jun cares about them.
• Before the game, Jun’s roommates explain the basic basketball rules to him, exposing how little he knows about the sport. The match is about to begin, and Zi fears Wei will target him.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains defiant in the face of threats, but his confidence is balanced by humor and a willingness to admit what he does not know. He comforts Zi and commits to giving the game his best effort.
• Zi Hanyan feels responsible for Jun’s danger and grows increasingly protective of him. Her affection shows in her blushing response to his reassurance and her resolve to have him guarded; her concern turns into anger toward Wei.
• Wei Caijun moves from wounded pride to calculated retaliation. Rather than confronting Jun directly, he plans to use the basketball game and Jun’s friends as leverage.
• The tall teammate proves himself a schemer eager to win Wei’s favor, while Zhang Zhengxiao and the other roommates offer Jun practical help, though they are baffled by his ignorance of basketball.

Significant themes

• Courage versus intimidation: Jun refuses to let status or threats make him afraid.
• Power and retaliation: Wei uses his family standing and manipulation to control events and threaten people around Jun.
• Loyalty and protection: Jun defends Zi, while Zi seeks to protect Jun; his care for friends also becomes a vulnerability Wei may exploit.
• Romantic tension and humor: Jun’s earnest reassurance flusters Zi, and the playful exchange contrasts with the looming danger of the game.