Recaps

Zhou You agreed to help Su Tingxue deal with a new kind of Poverty Ghost that drained money through automatic purchases and loans. He met the indebted cultivator Kong Fan at the ghost’s apartment and learned the tragic story behind its haunting, leaving the group ready to confront it.

• Su Tingxue explained that the Poverty Ghost had defeated her old talismans, made her buy Albert Einstein's brain, and left its target buried in debt.
• Zhou You agreed to join Su Tingxue, then spent his fifty-yuan stash on food and discussed whether he could lend it to Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi for safekeeping.
• Zhou You met Su Tingxue at the school gates, and they took a taxi to the residential complex where the Poverty Ghost was trapped.
• Kong Fan of the Azure Ox Temple greeted Zhou You and asked him to help remove the ghost from his apartment.
• Kong Fan explained that the ghost had lost its money through a failed milk tea franchise, loans, stock trading, and gambling before killing itself in the apartment.

Zhou You confronted the Poverty Ghost in Kong Fan’s house, where its curse had drained Kong Fan’s money. After Nuomi severed the ghost’s attempt to burn Zhou You’s remaining fifty yuan, Zhou You caught and beat it, but the ghost still had not been sealed as fragments of its soul drifted toward him.

• Zhou You entered Kong Fan’s dark house with Su Tingxue’s talisman and a flashlight to find the Poverty Ghost.
• The Poverty Ghost saw that Zhou You had no money and tried to dismiss him, but it discovered he had transferred fifty yuan to Second High School and set out to burn it.
• Nuomi noticed the ghost’s malicious thread reaching the fifty-yuan note and snapped it, forcing the Poverty Ghost’s consciousness back to its body.
• Zhou You chased the Poverty Ghost through the house, caught it in the darkness, and pinned it down with a beating.
• Zhou You’s talisman failed to seal the Poverty Ghost, so he kept beating it until it raised its hands in surrender; fragments of its soul then drifted toward his mouth.

Zhou You defeated the Poverty Ghost, whose curse failed because he was poorer, and gained the ghost’s ability to make people buy useless things. After collecting payment and returning to school, he shared shaved ice with Su Tingxue and found that Nuomi had safely protected his fifty yuan.

• Zhou You ate a bite of the Poverty Ghost, and its Poverty-Bound Curse shattered when it hit him.
• Zhou You told Su Tingxue what happened, and she concluded the curse failed because he was poorer than the Poverty Ghost.
• Kong Fan offered Zhou You payment through the Cultivation Forum, and Su Tingxue agreed to transfer the money for him.
• Zhou You tested his new ability on Su Tingxue, making her order talisman paper online before lifting the spell so she could request a refund.
• Zhou You borrowed six yuan from Su Tingxue to buy shaved ice, shared a bowl with her, and returned to school with three bowls.
• Nuomi showed Zhou You that it had protected his fifty yuan, and Zhou You offered to share his shaved ice.

Zhou You registered on the cultivation forum, explored its discussions and marketplace, and discovered that Kong Fan’s bounty thread praised the Carefree Sect for defeating a Poverty Ghost. He stayed up past midnight browsing the forum, pleased by the sect’s reputation but tempted to keep reading.

• Su Tingxue paid Zhou You eight pieces of spirit jade, then gifted him two more and explained how the cultivation forum and its virtual currency worked.
• Zhou You registered under the name “Swimming This Week?” and browsed threads about Sword Flight, religious arguments, and Kunlun Mountain’s bounty for the Human Dao Supreme Treasure.
• Zhou You selected Chang'an City and found Kong Fan’s resolved bounty thread, where Kong Fan praised the Carefree Sect for defeating a new variety of Poverty Ghost in under ten minutes.
• Zhou You enjoyed reading cultivators speculate about the Carefree Sect, but chose not to post and risk revealing himself as its sect leader.
• Zhou You noticed it was past midnight and considered logging off, then hesitated because he wanted to keep browsing.

The Red King arrived in Chang'an City to investigate Ghost King Zhenyue and the missing supreme treasure of humanity. After observing Zhou You's classroom, he recognized Zhou You's deskmate as Heavenly Calamity, the most powerful superhuman in history.

• Chu Xiaoyao asked Zhou You why he was tired, and he admitted he had stayed up browsing the Cultivation Forum.
• The Mind Master and the Force Wielder received the Red King at the airport and briefed him on Ghost King Zhenyue, Zhou You, and the Carefree Sect.
• The Red King criticized the pair's intelligence and went with them to a rooftop overlooking No. 2 High School.
• The Red King used special glasses to observe Zhou You and Ghost King Zhenyue, then froze when he looked at Zhou You's deskmate.
• The Red King angrily revealed that Zhou You's deskmate was Heavenly Calamity, the most powerful superhuman in history.

The Red King recognized Chu Xiaoyao as Heavenly Calamity, the powerful defector who had defeated the Seven Kings, and learned she was Zhou You’s closest companion. After confirming her identity, he informed the professor, who ordered him to keep watching Second High School for clues to the Human Dao Supreme Treasure while avoiding Heavenly Calamity.

• The Red King recalled how Heavenly Calamity had overwhelmed the organization’s ability users five years earlier, and the Mind Master and Force Wielder feared they had nearly crossed her.
• The Red King suspected Heavenly Calamity had come to find the Human Dao Supreme Treasure, threatened the Force Wielder for questioning him, and ordered both men to investigate her identity without telling anyone she was there.
• The Mind Master and Force Wielder brought back a file identifying her as Chu Xiaoyao, adopted in Chang'an City, and saying she had been close to Zhou You since middle school.
• The Red King confirmed Chu Xiaoyao was Heavenly Calamity and called the professor, who said the female ghost they had seen was not the Human Dao Supreme Treasure’s guardian.
• The professor ordered the Red King to keep observing the school for clues to the treasure and warned him not to let Heavenly Calamity discover him.

The Red King worried that Chu Xiaoyao had noticed his secret call, while Zhou You kept her focused on studying and later trained by letting mosquitoes bite him. The group ended the chapter at Big Stone Lake, where Chu Xiaoyao claimed her bloodline kept mosquitoes away and refused to use her powers to find Nuomi’s hidden stash.

• The Mind Master and Force Wielder considered apologizing to Zhou You, but the Force Wielder argued that Zhou You might still retaliate because of his ties to Heavenly Calamity and Su Tingxue.
• Zhou You made Chu Xiaoyao review a math problem, and she turned toward the window as if she had detected the Red King listening in on his call with the professor.
• Zhou You turned Chu Xiaoyao back toward her work and gave her his solution to study.
• Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Nuomi went to the cafeteria, where Nuomi suggested burning offerings so she could eat, but Zhou You doubted the food would remain edible.
• Zhou You took Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi to Big Stone Lake to train by letting mosquitoes bite him, while Chu Xiaoyao claimed her Ancient Jiuli Tribe bloodline kept the mosquitoes away.
• Chu Xiaoyao refused Zhou You’s request to use her superpowers to find Nuomi’s secret stash, saying she could not waste her limited uses on small things.

Zhou You explored the Cultivation Forum’s Heavenly Market and asked Su Tingxue about its most expensive listings. She revealed how rival sect leaders used forum permissions to promote themselves as the strongest under heaven, then left Zhou You with her candid assessment of Dragon Tiger Mountain’s leader.

• Zhou You browsed the Heavenly Market, found its prices mostly unaffordable, and sorted the listings from highest to lowest.
• Zhou You asked Su Tingxue whether the Sect Master of Kunlun Mountain was the strongest under heaven, and she explained how Kunlun Mountain and other major sects had invested in the forum.
• Su Tingxue told Zhou You that the True Martial Hall’s Hall Master and other faction leaders had set their own high prices to claim superiority, and warned him to keep the story secret.
• Su Tingxue said the Sect Master of Kunlun Mountain, the Hall Master of the True Martial Hall, and others were among the five greatest cultivators alive, but no one knew who was truly strongest.
• Su Tingxue agreed to sell Zhou You a spirit stone at a discount in exchange for asking Nuomi to fight her, then told him Dragon Tiger Mountain’s Sect Master was not that strong.

Zhou You browsed the Cultivation Forum, while Lu Tianxing found an unusual body-tempering suggestion to use in interrogating a prisoner. Su Tingxue challenged Nuomi again and lost, but paid the promised Spirit Stone and remained determined to improve.

• Zhou You read a post about True Lord Wenchang running for president and replied to a body-tempering thread that he used mosquitoes to bite him.
• Lu Tianxing, unable to break a body-tempering prisoner's resistance, saw Zhou You's reply and called the Beast Hall to ask about Foundation Establishment Realm mosquitoes.
• Nuomi eagerly accepted Su Tingxue's challenge, while Chu Xiaoyao speculated that Su Tingxue was following a path of repeated defeat and self-improvement.
• Su Tingxue used her Heart Eye to predict Nuomi's movements and trapped her briefly with an Immobility Talisman, but Nuomi broke free and defeated her again.
• Su Tingxue gave Nuomi the agreed Spirit Stone, and Nuomi pointed out that Su Tingxue still owed her for two earlier defeats.

The Red King’s team investigated Zhou You and Heavenly Calamity, while Zhou You absorbed a spirit stone and considered taking a bounty to accelerate his cultivation. He decided to go bounty hunting with Chu Xiaoyao, leaving Nuomi to guard the Carefree Sect’s two desks.

• The Red King, Mind Master, and Force Wielder watched Su Tingxue and Heavenly Calamity, then concluded that Heavenly Calamity had used the female ghost to punish Su Tingxue out of jealousy over Zhou You.
• The Red King ordered the Mind Master and Force Wielder to write a formal report about Zhou You and Heavenly Calamity’s relationship, then wondered whether Heavenly Calamity had defeated Ghost King Zhenyue.
• Zhou You absorbed spiritual energy from Su Tingxue’s spirit stone and found that it greatly improved his cultivation and Skin Tempering speed.
• Zhou You considered taking a bounty to earn more spirit stones, and Chu Xiaoyao offered to accompany him.
• Nuomi volunteered to join them, but Chu Xiaoyao told her to stay behind and guard the Carefree Sect’s two desks.

Zhou You accepted a Cultivation Forum request to investigate a poster’s possible haunting, and arranged to visit after getting leave from evening self-study. Su Tingxue joined the planned trip, while Nuomi stayed home.

• Zhou You read a post by Bamboo Shoots with Pork about a puppy barking at unseen things and agreed to investigate for fifteen pieces of Spirit Jade.
• Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao asked Lao Gao for leave from evening self-study, claiming they had signed up for a discounted tutoring class.
• Zhou You told Su Tingxue about the help request, and she asked to join the investigation.
• Su Tingxue said she did not want payment, and Zhou You carried half her math test papers back to the office.
• Chu Xiaoyao told Su Tingxue that Nuomi would stay home and watch the house.

Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Su Tingxue visited Ji Sen’s apartment to investigate the strange occurrences he had reported, but their search found no sign of a ghost or magic. After Ji Sen’s dog Coal Ball vanished, two identical Ji Sens appeared and accused each other of being impostors.

• The Red King followed Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Su Tingxue to a noodle shop and recorded what they ate as vital intelligence.
• Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Su Tingxue met Ji Sen at Wanhe Residential Community and went to his apartment to investigate his frightening experiences.
• Ji Sen discovered that the unplugged television was on and the balcony window had been opened, though he insisted he had left it off and closed.
• Zhou You and Su Tingxue searched the apartment with their abilities but found no ghost, magic, or explanation for the strange events.
• Coal Ball vanished without a trace, and two identical Ji Sens appeared, each drawing his sword and demanding to know who the other was.

Zhou You and Su Tingxue confronted two Ji Sens before Chu Xiaoyao exposed the impostor as Lian Yi, a member of the Demon Alliance who had posed as Ji Sen’s dog Coal Ball for a year to feed on his fear. Lian Yi escaped the apartment, but the Red King caught her above the city and demanded answers.

• Two Ji Sens each proved they could access Ji Sen’s Cultivation Forum account, leaving Zhou You and Su Tingxue unable to identify the real one.
• Chu Xiaoyao recognized that the Ji Sen from the master bedroom was fake, and Zhou You attacked it.
• The impostor transformed into a girl, while Ji Sen learned she was Lian Yi and had been Coal Ball all along.
• Su Tingxue identified Lian Yi as a member of the Demon Alliance, and Lian Yi escaped through the balcony after introducing herself to Chu Xiaoyao.
• Lian Yi flew over the city, but the Red King bound her with flame chains and called her down for questioning.

The Red King captured Lian Yi and fought her through several transformations, but she escaped after he overpowered her. Back at Ji Sen's home, Chu Xiaoyao explained her bluff to Zhou You, who revealed he had helped Lian Yi buy a few things.

• The Red King, the Mind Master, and the Force Wielder captured Lian Yi on a rooftop and demanded to know what had happened at Ji Sen's home.
• Lian Yi escaped her restraints, fought the Red King's black flames with a flexible sword, and transformed into a white snake and then a poisonous flood dragon.
• The Red King burned away Lian Yi's venom and body of flame, but she shed her skin and escaped again.
• After Lian Yi left, Zhou You asked Chu Xiaoyao about her claim that Lian Yi could not escape, and Chu Xiaoyao said she had been trying to sound imposing.
• Zhou You agreed with Chu Xiaoyao's view of Lian Yi and said he had helped her buy a few things.

After discovering that Lian Yi had modified Ji Sen’s television to frighten him, Zhou You and the others learned more about the Demon Alliance and Lian Yi’s elaborate scheme. Lian Yi chose Chu Xiaoyao as her next target, but her search for information on the Carefree Sect led her to an unexpected delivery.

• Ji Sen explained that the Demon Alliance recruited cultivators who relished causing negative emotions, while Chu Xiaoyao claimed she had once subdued more than a thousand Demon Sects.
• Chu Xiaoyao dismantled the television, and Zhou You found a hidden generator that Lian Yi had installed to make it hiss and scare Ji Sen.
• Lian Yi, recovering from her injuries, decided to target Chu Xiaoyao and began searching the cultivation forums for information about the Carefree Sect.
• Lian Yi found no information about the Carefree Sect and suspected it was a powerful hidden sect.
• Lian Yi answered a call from a delivery driver and learned that twenty stone lions and fifty stone bollards were being delivered to her home.

Lian Yi’s accidental delivery of dozens of stone lions and bollards exposed her apartment to Dragon Tiger Mountain, forcing her to abandon the home she loved. As Su Tingxue’s allies searched the empty apartment, Lian Yi hid nearby and tried to identify who had ordered the stones through her phone.

• Lian Yi discovered that a massive delivery of stone lions and bollards had arrived at her apartment complex, so she rented a warehouse and hired workers to move them.
• Su Tingxue regretted failing to confront Lian Yi and resolved to reach Foundation Establishment so she could defeat her.
• Su Tingxue overheard guards describe the pretty resident who had ordered twenty stone lions and dozens of bollards, recognized Lian Yi, and called her master.
• True Person Mu Yu sent two Dragon Tiger Mountain disciples to search Lian Yi’s apartment, but they found it empty and discovered bottles of expensive healing pills.
• Lian Yi watched from hiding, realized the delivery had led Dragon Tiger Mountain to her home, and wondered whether Chu Xiaoyao had used her phone to place the order.

After Zhou You bought spirit stones through discreet delivery, a cultivator delivered them at half past three in the morning by flying to his sixth-floor window. The next day, Zhou You learned he could buy stones from Su Tingxue instead, while Wei Hang misunderstood their conversation and the Red King ordered the Mind Master to monitor him.

• Zhou You received Spirit Jades from Ji Sen and I Won't Recruit, then spent most of them on spirit stones and books in the Heavenly Market.
• Zhou You recognized that a Kunlun Mountain disciple had borrowed Su Tingxue's forum account to post a bounty about the cultivated mosquitoes, and admitted to Su Tingxue that he had inspired the idea.
• Su Tingxue revealed that she had been practicing talismans, while Zhou You went to sleep late after browsing the forum.
• A cultivator delivered Zhou You's spirit stones through his window at half past three in the morning, explaining that the hour made the delivery discreet.
• Zhou You met Su Tingxue at school, and she offered to sell him spirit stones at cost; Wei Hang overheard them and drew the wrong conclusion.
• The Red King told the Mind Master to hypnotize Wei Hang every day and gather intelligence.

Zhou You made progress in cultivation after obtaining spirit stones, achieving initial success in skin tempering and preparing to dive into Big Stone Lake for Nuomi’s hidden stash. Meanwhile, the Red King suspected the lake held the Human Dao Supreme Treasure and decided to keep watching.

• Zhou You showed Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi his two spirit stones and new books, then told them about his battle with Lian Yi.
• Zhou You cultivated at Big Stone Lake and, within a week, developed a protective membrane over his skin that dulled blows and mosquito bites.
• Zhou You declared himself ready to enter the lake, while the Red King wondered whether the Human Dao Supreme Treasure was hidden there and chose to observe longer.
• After evening self-study, Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Nuomi sneaked to Big Stone Lake with swimming goggles so Zhou You could retrieve Nuomi’s secret stash.
• Zhou You asked Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi to keep watch while he undressed, and they turned away and moved off.

Zhou You searched Big Stone Lake for Nuomi’s hidden stash but found only rubbish, while the Red King later recovered a sealed box from the lake, convinced it held the Human Dao Supreme Treasure. He took the box away to headquarters, leaving Ghost King Zhenyue unsure whether he had misunderstood what the group was seeking.

• Zhou You repeatedly dived into Big Stone Lake, found only rubbish, and left with Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi when it grew late.
• The Red King watched Zhou You enter the lake and became convinced the Human Dao Supreme Treasure was hidden there.
• The Red King went to Big Stone Lake with two psychic practitioners and searched the lakebed in his body of black flames.
• The Red King found a battered, sealed box but could not open it, so he decided to take it to headquarters for the professor.
• The Red King and the psychic practitioners left without noticing a pair of glasses, while Ghost King Zhenyue wondered whether the box was really the Human Dao Supreme Treasure.

The Red King returned to headquarters with the sealed Wooden Box, and Xianzhen used his Truth-Breaking ability to break its ancient seal. The professor opened the box expecting the Human Dao Supreme Treasure, but found a stack of enormous-denomination Hell Money inside.

• The Red King arrived at headquarters with the Mind Master and Force Wielder, where the professor and the other Seven Kings welcomed him.
• The Red King told the professor about Heavenly Calamity and Zhou You, including Heavenly Calamity's claims about a Black Dragon and Chi You's bloodline.
• Xianzhen examined the Wooden Box's seal and identified it as dating from before the Song dynasty.
• The professor supplied Xianzhen with three doses of top-grade Enhancement Serum, and Xianzhen broke the seal after an exhausting effort.
• The professor opened the Wooden Box and discovered that it contained banknotes from Heaven and Earth Bank, which he recognized as Hell Money.

Zhou You found a wooden box in Big Stone Lake, but it contained a jade seal rather than Nuomi’s secret stash. Nuomi learned that the money she had collected was Hell Money, leaving Zhou You unsure whether to accept that it was worthless.

• Chu Xiaoyao found a pair of glasses that let her see Nuomi and told her stories about her past exploits.
• Zhou You found and retrieved a wooden box buried in the lake, and Chu Xiaoyao opened it despite Nuomi’s seal.
• Chu Xiaoyao discovered a jade seal in the box, and Nuomi said it was not her stash.
• Nuomi explained that her stash held bills left behind after Daoist priests burned offerings at the Old Dormitory Building.
• Zhou You told Nuomi the bills were Hell Money and worthless, but Nuomi argued that people would not burn them for the dead if they had no value.

Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao mistook the Jade Seal they fished from the school lake for a fake Imperial Heirloom Seal and decided to keep it for the Carefree Sect. Chu Xiaoyao revealed that her glasses let her see Nuomi, while Ghost King Zhenyue realized the box’s seal had been opened and the professor’s group wrongly concluded that its Hell Money was the Human Dao Supreme Treasure.

• Zhou You explained that the fake Daoists had kept Nuomi around to keep collecting money from the school, and he comforted her about her worthless Hell Money.
• Chu Xiaoyao used Taobao’s photo search to identify the Jade Seal’s inscription as the Imperial Heirloom Seal’s, and she decided the Carefree Sect should keep it as an official seal.
• Chu Xiaoyao told Nuomi to put the seal on the classroom desk, and Zhou You realized that her glasses let her see and speak with Nuomi directly.
• Ghost King Zhenyue watched the group and panicked when he realized someone had opened the box’s seal, allowing Nuomi to reach the Human Dao Supreme Treasure.
• The professor examined the Hell Money inside the box and argued that it could be the Imperial Heirloom Seal in a transformed form, and the Red King and Xianzhen accepted his explanation.

Chu Xiaoyao dreamed that a Jade Seal offered her power, but she woke without remembering the dream and continued acting as the Carefree Empress at school. As Zhou You struggled to learn how to touch objects in Soul Projection, a new female transfer student was announced.

• In a dream, a Jade Seal tempted Chu Xiaoyao with visions of ruling the world, but she replied that she was already the greatest under heaven and woke up.
• At school, Chu Xiaoyao used the Jade Seal to appoint Nuomi deputy sect leader and Zhou You sect leader of the Carefree Sect.
• Chu Xiaoyao tried to recruit Zhao Zhuo and Ma Changcheng, but both attempts failed.
• Zhao Zhuo told Zhou You that a female transfer student was coming to their class.
• Zhou You asked Chu Xiaoyao for cultivation advice, then tried and failed to grab a pencil while using Soul Projection, following Nuomi's vague instructions.

Zhou You trained his soul to move a pen while a new transfer student, Tang Shiyin, joined his class. The transfer student was actually Lian Yi, who came to investigate Chu Xiaoyao but found the class and its ghosts full of mysteries.

• Zhou You practiced grabbing an imaginary pen and scolded Ma Changcheng and Zhao Zhuo when they compared his movements to someone with dementia.
• Lao Gao introduced Tang Shiyin as a new transfer student and assigned her a seat in the back of the classroom.
• After several lessons, Zhou You used Soul Projection and made a gel pen wobble, impressing Nuomi and alarming Lian Yi, who was disguised as Tang Shiyin.
• Lian Yi recalled transferring into Senior Year Class Three to gather intelligence on Chu Xiaoyao and wondered who had balanced the classroom's yin and yang energies.
• Chu Xiaoyao explained how imagination could build mental power, but Nuomi failed to manifest an imagined opponent.
• Lian Yi grew more suspicious after realizing Chu Xiaoyao could see ghosts and that the Carefree Sect's powers exceeded her expectations.

Zhou You trained his soul projection while Lian Yi investigated the Carefree Sect and became convinced its members and seal concealed extraordinary power. After helping Tang Shiyin move into the apartment across from his, Zhou You declined her invitation to stay, leaving her alone in her new home.

• Lian Yi learned from the school newspaper that Chu Xiaoyao, Zhou You, and Nuomi had founded the Carefree Sect, and she puzzled over its strange members and public announcement.
• Chu Xiaoyao showed Lian Yi the gate’s Jade Seal, whose design she recognized as resembling the Imperial Heirloom Seal described in an ancient journal.
• Zhou You trained until he could project his soul and pick up a mechanical pencil, then failed to hurt Chu Xiaoyao with a projected punch.
• Tang Shiyin left evening study and moved boxes into the apartment across from Zhou You’s, and he helped carry her belongings upstairs.
• Tang Shiyin invited Zhou You inside to sit, but he declined and returned home, leaving her still hoping he would stay.