Recaps

Zhou You and the Carefree Sect attended the Main Sports Field as witnesses to Su Tingxue’s spell duel with Duan Yuxian. After introducing the group, Chu Xiaoyao lent Duan Yuxian glasses that let her see Nuomi, and Duan Yuxian eagerly recognized the ghost’s cooling chill.

• Zhou You told Tang Shiyin he would be home late, then led the Carefree Sect members to meet Su Tingxue.
• Nuomi provoked Su Tingxue about the upcoming duel, and Zhou You stopped them from fighting before it began.
• Su Tingxue introduced Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao to Duan Yuxian, who recognized Zhou You from his spell art but declined to try it.
• Chu Xiaoyao lent Duan Yuxian the Ghost-Seeing Glasses, allowing her to see Nuomi.
• Duan Yuxian felt Nuomi’s chill and eagerly regarded the vengeful ghost as a source of cooling.

Su Tingxue and Duan Yuxian began their long-awaited spell duel while Nuomi and Zhou You watched. Their battle drew the Carefree Sect away from the classroom, giving Red King and his followers the opening they had been waiting for to steal the Jade Seal.

• Duan Yuxian dodged Su Tingxue's questions about where she lived and how she knew Zhou You, then agreed to make their duel's result public and added a thousand-yuan wager.
• Su Tingxue and Duan Yuxian faced off on the sports field, with Su Tingxue using her Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye and talismans and Duan Yuxian drawing her Spirit Sword.
• Ghost King Zhenyue saw Nuomi watching the duel, retrieved his coin from Big Stone Lake, and slipped into the teaching building to seek a chance to steal the Human Dao Supreme Treasure.
• Mind Master and Force Wielder noticed the Carefree Sect leaving the classroom and rushed to tell Red King.
• Red King recognized that the duel had drawn Nuomi away and ordered his followers to steal the Jade Seal.

The Red King and his companions sneaked toward the classroom building to pursue the Human Dao Supreme Treasure, but Ghost King Zhenyue confronted them. The Red King challenged the ghost king and they began a hand-to-hand fight, while the Mind Master and Force Wielder watched and wondered why neither used their supernatural abilities.

• The Red King, Mind Master, and Force Wielder crossed into a surveillance blind spot and headed for the classroom building.
• The Mind Master's Blessed Prayer Beads glowed with all seven beads, and Ghost King Zhenyue emerged from the mist to confront them.
• Ghost King Zhenyue recognized that the group had come for the Human Dao Supreme Treasure, and the Red King revealed his identity and challenged him.
• Ghost King Zhenyue punched the Red King, whose flame body clashed with the ghost king's immense yin energy.
• The Red King and Ghost King Zhenyue grappled on the ground while the Mind Master and Force Wielder cheered and speculated about why they were fighting without using their other powers.

Su Tingxue and Duan Yuxian displayed their talisman and sword skills in a fierce duel, while Chu Xiaoyao exaggerated her past achievements to explain the Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye. On the Teaching Building rooftop, Lian Yi watched the duel and then realized that the Carefree Sect’s supposed mighty experts were brawling like petty thugs.

• Su Tingxue attacked Duan Yuxian with fireballs and a barrage of varied talismans, but Duan Yuxian cut through them with Sword Qi.
• Nuomi suggested Su Tingxue would suit the Carefree Sect, while Chu Xiaoyao claimed she had surpassed prodigies and explained how the Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye could improve on innate Yin-Yang Eyes.
• Nuomi asked Chu Xiaoyao to teach her how to fight, but Chu Xiaoyao told her that her fated opportunity lay elsewhere.
• From the Teaching Building rooftop, Lian Yi recognized the fire-user as Red King and the Ghost King as Zhenyue, then watched them brawl below.
• Lian Yi compared their sloppy fight with the spectacular duel between Su Tingxue and Duan Yuxian and questioned which pair were the true cultivation experts.

Su Tingxue and Duan Yuxian fought at the Main Sports Field, where Su Tingxue used midair talismans and her awakened Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye to gain the advantage. Duan Yuxian broke through into Foundation Establishment, prompting Su Tingxue to begin breaking through as well, and Zhou You realized both women were advancing.

• Duan Yuxian closed in on Su Tingxue, but Su Tingxue ambushed her with a Heavenly Lightning Talisman drawn in midair.
• Su Tingxue used hidden talismans and her Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye to predict Duan Yuxian's movements and drive her into a disadvantage.
• Duan Yuxian entered a state of calm and broke through into the Foundation Establishment Realm, cutting apart Su Tingxue's talismans with Sword Qi.
• Su Tingxue resolved not to lose and began her own breakthrough into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Zhou You pulled Chu Xiaoyao's hands away from his eyes and realized both women were breaking through.

Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue broke through to Foundation Establishment during their duel, which Su Tingxue won, and Su Tingxue then repaired the damaged sports field with talismans. Nearby, Ghost King Zhenyue and the Red King fought over the Jade Seal while arguing over who feared Nuomi and who feared Heavenly Calamity; they stopped when Zhou You and the others approached.

• Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue broke through to Foundation Establishment during their duel, and Su Tingxue pinned Duan Yuxian with an Immobility Talisman to win their wager.
• Duan Yuxian agreed to announce the result publicly, while she and Su Tingxue kept their reasons for their unusual interest in the duel to themselves.
• Zhou You and the Carefree Sect members checked on the two fighters, and Su Tingxue revealed that she could use talismans to restore the damaged lawn.
• Ghost King Zhenyue and the Red King continued fighting over the Jade Seal while their followers urged the Red King on, prompting both combatants to order them silent.
• Ghost King Zhenyue and the Red King discovered that each feared a different threat, then argued over whether Nuomi or Heavenly Calamity was more formidable.
• As Zhou You and the others drew near, Ghost King Zhenyue and the Red King released each other's throats and stopped fighting.

The Red King and Ghost King Zhenyue abandoned their fight over the Jade Seal as Zhou You’s group approached, then the Red King and his companions fled from the police. Reporting to the Professor, the Red King revealed that Heavenly Calamity held the seal and urged him to send the Soul King to deal with the ghosts.

• Ghost King Zhenyue and the Red King traded insults before retreating as Zhou You’s group drew near.
• The Red King, Mind Master, and Force Wielder encountered police officers and escaped by having the Force Wielder carry the others away.
• The Red King called the Professor and reported that he had found the Imperial Heirloom Seal but that Heavenly Calamity possessed it.
• The Red King claimed Ghost King Zhenyue had defeated his attempt to steal the seal and warned that Nuomi was even stronger than the Ghost King.
• The Red King recommended that the Professor send the Soul King to handle the Vengeful Ghosts.

After Ghost King Zhenyue failed to learn what Heavenly Calamity was, Zhou You and Duan Yuxian returned home after their spell duel. The duel’s results went public, and a video of the fight threatened to expose cultivation to ordinary people.

• Ghost King Zhenyue searched the Cultivation Forum and asked a ghost king group about Heavenly Calamity, but no one knew who she was.
• Duan Yuxian returned to Zhou You’s bedroom after their detour to mislead Su Tingxue and thanked him for rehearsing the duel with her.
• Zhou You read Dragon Tiger Mountain’s official post declaring that Su Tingxue had narrowly beaten Duan Yuxian, with both reaching Foundation Establishment during the duel.
• Duan Yuxian showed Zhou You a blurry video of their fight that had been posted online as footage of immortals battling in Chang'an City.
• Duan Yuxian proposed asking her sect for help and hiring paid posters to remove attention from the video.

After Duan Yuxian and Zhou You tried to keep her spell duel from drawing attention, an online post brought the duel to the attention of people searching for her in Chang'an City. At school, Zhou You recognized a man in a police warning photo as someone who had attacked him, while Chu Xiaoyao spun the discovery into a story about her pursuers.

• Duan Yuxian contacted True Person Pudu to handle the video of her duel and asked him not to tell her master she had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, since that would expose her lie about the duel date.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian saw a trending post asking whether Duan Yuxian was in Chang'an City and discussing plans to find her.
• Duan Yuxian agreed to join Zhou You in taking commissions so they could earn money and save for cultivation.
• At school, Zhou You recognized the burly man in a police warning about a neighborhood pervert as one of the people who had attacked him before.
• Chu Xiaoyao claimed the attackers belonged to the Organization and said her peaceful life was ending, but Zhou You challenged her account of her supposed past adventures.

Zhou You and his classmates discussed a viral fight video as Lian Yi received a Demon Alliance order to gather negative emotions beneath Jianghai Bridge that night. After the homeroom teacher confiscated her phone, Lian Yi regretted infiltrating Chu Xiaoyao’s circle as a student.

• Nuomi asked Zhou You whether a fish’s head should face the Grand Elder or the Sect Master, and Zhou You told her not to worry about it or watch so many videos.
• Chen Ziwen asked Zhou You to borrow his homework, and Zhou You handed it over after Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi offered theirs.
• Zhou You heard Zhao Zhuo and Ma Changcheng discuss a viral video of a fight on the school sports field and suspected that cultivators would soon come to Chang’an City seeking Duan Yuxian.
• Lian Yi read a Demon Alliance message ordering members in Chang’an City and nearby areas to bring their collected negative emotions to Jianghai Bridge at midnight.
• The homeroom teacher lectured the class about studying for the college entrance exam and confiscated Lian Yi’s phone after catching her using it.

Lian Yi traded a bottle of her unusually potent negative emotions to the Demon Alliance and warned the Ninth Elder about a powerful presence in Chang'an City. The Ninth Elder dismissed her warning and revealed his plan to break Demon Venerable Guiji’s seal and unleash another Demonic Calamity.

• Lian Yi arrived at a Demon Alliance gathering beneath Jianghai Bridge, where members recognized her as the formidable Hundred Changes.
• Lian Yi traded a Jade-Cleansing Bottle of her own negative emotions for Healing Pills and rejected the Ninth Elder’s demand that she return to fulfill their marriage agreement.
• Lian Yi warned the Ninth Elder that Chang'an City held several Golden Core cultivators and a Creation Powerhouse before leaving the gathering.
• The envoy delivered the collected negative emotions to the Ninth Elder, who learned that Lian Yi’s bottle was especially potent.
• The Ninth Elder dismissed Lian Yi’s warning and said he intended to break Demon Venerable Guiji’s seal to unleash another Demonic Calamity.

The Soul King arrived in Chang'an City to help the Red King steal the Jade Seal, but seeing Chu Xiaoyao and Zhou You together rekindled his fear of Heavenly Calamity. As Zhou You prepared to take a job for spirit jade, he left Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi behind to study.

• The Mind Master welcomed the Soul King and brought him to a noodle shop, where the Red King explained their plan to steal the Jade Seal from Chu Xiaoyao's classroom.
• The Red King told the Soul King that Ghost King Zhenyue and Nuomi guarded the Jade Seal, and warned him not to provoke Zhou You after the Soul King saw Zhou You casually holding down Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi.
• Zhou You told Chu Xiaoyao he was going out that night to earn spirit jade and buy more cultivation books.
• Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi volunteered to accompany Zhou You, but he pressed down Chu Xiaoyao's head and told both of them to study instead.
• Chu Xiaoyao claimed she could get special admission to university for saving the world, so Zhou You assigned her two more math problems to complete.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian investigated a reported Ghost Creature in Yu Haochen’s apartment after hiding Duan’s identity from Cultivators pursuing her. When the apartment door shut, they discovered that the rooms looped into identical living rooms and balconies, leaving them trapped.

• Zhou You met Duan Yuxian outside the school, where she warned him that Cultivators were searching for her after seeing a video of her at the school.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian took the bus to meet Yu Haochen, who hired them to investigate strange sounds and a talisman that had detected a Ghost Creature in his apartment.
• Duan Yuxian disguised herself as Su Xian of the Carefree Sect, and Zhou You helped Yu Haochen dismiss his suspicion that she was Duan Yuxian.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian entered Yu Haochen’s apartment, but the door slammed shut before he could follow them inside.
• Duan Yuxian found that the doorway led to an identical living room, and Zhou You discovered that the balcony opened onto another balcony, leaving them apparently trapped.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian became trapped in an apartment where every window led to another room, and their search for the ghost’s anchor awakened childhood fantasies from the television. Following a new scent into Guoguo’s room, Zhou You found the little girl’s remains beneath a bed, clutching an album of her and her mother.

• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian discovered that the apartment’s windows led into endless rooms and suspected a ghost’s curse or domain had trapped them.
• Duan Yuxian suggested finding the object the ghost was attached to, so they searched the apartment and found a photograph of a mother and daughter, children’s books, and a jar of candy.
• Zhou You turned on the television, and the apartment filled with takeout food as cartoon characters emerged from the screen, though the pair could not touch or communicate with them.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian sampled the food, which tasted fresh but did not fill them up, and laughed together at the surreal scene.
• Zhou You caught a scent and followed it through a series of Guoguo’s bedrooms until he found her remains beneath a bed, still holding an album of her and her mother.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian touched Guoguo’s remains and witnessed the child’s lonely final days, learning that she had died of hunger while waiting for her mother. They recognized her as a hungry ghost and decided to seal her in a talisman so Su Tingxue could guide her soul to rest, promising to take her to her mother.

• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian touched Guoguo’s remains together and experienced her memories of waiting alone for her mother, becoming increasingly hungry until she died.
• Zhou You recognized the masked man in Guoguo’s memories as a member of the Demon Alliance from his hungry ghost mask and mention of negative emotions.
• Guoguo appeared holding a picture frame and pleaded with Zhou You and Duan Yuxian because she was still hungry.
• Duan Yuxian held Guoguo as she gnawed weakly at her shoulder, while Zhou You recalled that hungry ghosts could never satisfy their hunger.
• Zhou You decided to seal Guoguo in a talisman and have Su Tingxue guide her soul to rest, and Duan Yuxian promised to take her to find her mother.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian discovered that Guoguo’s mother, Fang Qi, had likely disappeared, then exposed Yu Haochen as a member of the Demon Alliance. Yu Haochen revealed that Fang Qi was buried beneath the hill, and Duan Yuxian attacked him in fury.

• Yu Haochen learned about Guoguo’s remains and told Zhou You that the apartment’s previous tenant, Fang Qi, could no longer be reached.
• Zhou You led Yu Haochen and Duan Yuxian to a deserted hill, where Duan Yuxian struck Yu Haochen and forced him to reveal his Demon Alliance identity.
• Zhou You explained that Yu Haochen’s account of hearing children’s sounds contradicted Guoguo’s inability to speak, exposing his deception.
• Yu Haochen summoned lightning pythons to attack Zhou You, but Duan Yuxian cut them apart with her sword and was recognized.
• Duan Yuxian demanded to know where Fang Qi was, and Yu Haochen revealed that he had buried her beneath the hill after sealing her in a coffin.
• Yu Haochen described Fang Qi’s final moments with relish, and Duan Yuxian condemned him as he escaped her attacks.

Duan Yuxian defeated Yu Haochen after he used Guoguo’s suffering to harvest negative emotions and unleash Sheling Evil Thunder. Yu Haochen escaped with a Witchcraft Puppet, but Lian Yi intercepted him in the mountains.

• Duan Yuxian fought Yu Haochen with growing sword skill and demanded to know why he had killed Guoguo.
• Yu Haochen explained that he had used Guoguo’s ghost domain to make cultivators produce negative emotions, and Duan Yuxian severed his arm with Bone-Drilling Sword Qi.
• Yu Haochen unleashed Sheling Evil Thunder, but Duan Yuxian shattered it and struck him down with a hundred and eight layers of swordlight.
• Yu Haochen survived by using the Witchcraft Puppet and fled, vowing revenge against Duan Yuxian and Zhou You.
• Lian Yi appeared before Yu Haochen and confronted him for calling her an elder’s mistress.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian found Fang Qi’s corpse and reunited her with Guoguo, then sealed mother and daughter together in a talisman. Lian Yi later tortured Yu Haochen to death with a swarm of mosquitoes, leaving only his skeleton.

• Duan Yuxian recovered after defeating Yu Haochen, and she burned his corpse to ashes with a cold flame.
• Zhou You used Soul Projection to locate Fang Qi’s coffin, and Duan Yuxian dug it up.
• Fang Qi emerged as a Vengeful Ghost and attacked Duan Yuxian, but she recognized Guoguo when Zhou You summoned the child with a talisman.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian sealed Fang Qi and Guoguo together, then placed Guoguo’s remains, favorite candies, and a photograph beside Fang Qi.
• Lian Yi bound the injured Yu Haochen to a tree and used Foundation Establishment Realm mosquitoes to devour him alive.
• Lian Yi burned the mosquitoes and left Yu Haochen’s skeleton tied to the tree.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian returned home by Spirit Sword after their dangerous commission, and Duan Yuxian decided to pause taking jobs while she recovered. The next morning, Zhou You arranged to accompany Su Tingxue during the Ghost Festival and then misled Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi about the unpaid commission, blaming Lian Yi.

• Duan Yuxian carried Zhou You home on her Spirit Sword, and they discussed their ruined chance to earn money from Yu Haochen's belongings.
• Duan Yuxian said she needed time to recover from the commission and planned to find a summer job to repay Zhou You.
• Zhou You met Su Tingxue at the school gates, gave her the talisman containing the ghosts, and asked to join her when she helped them pass on during the Ghost Festival.
• Zhou You found Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi studying English, and they joked about wiping out America so they would not have to learn it.
• Zhou You told Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi that Lian Yi had posed as a client and skipped out without paying, while Lian Yi arrived at school unaware of their accusation.

After Lian Yi hid the evidence of Yu Haochen’s death, the Ninth Elder investigated the killing and learned it might involve the Carefree Sect. At school, Zhou You and Nuomi experimented with possessing everyday objects, astonishing Lian Yi with Nuomi’s apparent ability to turn them into Ghost Artifacts.

• Lian Yi disposed of Yu Haochen’s skeleton and tampered with surveillance footage before going to school to catch up on homework, where Zhou You’s rumors upset her.
• The Ninth Elder learned Yu Haochen’s Soul Lamp had gone out and heard that his final commission involved someone from the Carefree Sect; he ordered the Emissary to investigate and transfer Yu Haochen’s Spirit Jade to him.
• Zhou You discovered that Nuomi could possess a gel pen and make it hop, while Chu Xiaoyao mistakenly thought he planned to use Nuomi to help with the college entrance exam.
• Zhou You tried and failed to possess an eraser, then successfully entered a gel pen after Nuomi demonstrated the ability with both objects.
• Lian Yi watched Nuomi possess ordinary stationery and concluded that Nuomi had instantly made Ghost Artifacts from them.

During class, Zhou You discovered that he could possess figures made from objects Nuomi had entered, and he and Nuomi built little fighters to challenge Chu Xiaoyao. Meanwhile, the Soul King learned that Nuomi could create ghost artifacts and declared that he could do the same, leaving the group interested in Zhou You as a potential opponent.

• Zhou You possessed Nuomi’s eraser and then a paper figure, discovering that Nuomi could open a path for him into objects and that figures were easier to control.
• After the paper figure was blown away and stepped on by Zhao Zhuo, Zhou You assembled a sturdier figure named Zhou You Two using paper, tape, and a piece of Zhao Zhuo’s eraser.
• Zhou You made a second figure for Nuomi, and the two fought until Chu Xiaoyao flicked them down and they charged her fingers with pencils.
• After class, the Mind Master reported to the Red King and Soul King that Nuomi could possess objects and make them act like ghost artifacts.
• The Soul King explained how ghost artifacts were made, claimed he could create one as easily as Nuomi, and called Zhou You an interesting opponent before returning to an online argument about Li Cunxiao and Lü Bu.

Zhou You and Nuomi enjoyed training inside paper figures while Lian Yi stole Zhou You’s eraser, and Wei Hang mistook the theft for evidence of Tang Shiyin’s poverty. Duan Yuxian found a quiet milk tea shop job, but Sun Cheng spotted her there and ordered 520 servings of Angelica Lemon Tea to support her and express his feelings.

• Zhou You and Nuomi sparred in paper figures while Chu Xiaoyao held them for their classmates to watch.
• Lian Yi stole Zhou You’s eraser, and Wei Hang saw her do it but assumed she was Tang Shiyin and felt sorry for her.
• Wei Hang offered Tang Shiyin fifty cents to complete an English workbook for him.
• Duan Yuxian got hired at Herbal Medicine Milk Tea and quickly learned how to prepare its drinks.
• Sun Cheng spotted Duan Yuxian working at the mall and ordered 520 servings of Angelica Lemon Tea.

Duan Yuxian quit her exhausting milk tea job and gave Zhou You a free sect-published copy of Introduction to Sects. As Zhou You browsed the forum, Su Tingxue messaged him with a challenge for Nuomi.

• Duan Yuxian told Zhou You that she had made over five hundred cups of milk tea, quit after one day, and brought home two topping-filled drinks.
• Duan Yuxian sent Zhou You a free digital copy of her sect’s Introduction to Sects, and Zhou You forwarded it to Chu Xiaoyao.
• Zhou You browsed forum posts about Qi Refining ranks and reflected that subdividing the realm would make his own progress seem smaller.
• Su Tingxue messaged Zhou You, asking him to tell Nuomi to meet her at the Rooftop at noon the next day for a spell duel.

Lian Yi reluctantly began doing classmates’ homework for money after Wei Hang exposed her taking an eraser, while Nuomi faced Su Tingxue in a rematch with five spirit stones at stake. Su Tingxue opened the duel with her powerful Yang Thunder, but Nuomi seemed unimpressed as Ghost King Zhenyue watched from the Old Dormitory Building.

• Lian Yi returned Wei Hang’s completed homework, then accepted Chu Xiaoyao’s request to do two assignments for a yuan.
• Zhou You learned that classmates were paying Tang Shiyin to do their homework and approved of the arrangement as a way to help her.
• Nuomi accepted Su Tingxue’s invitation to duel, and Zhou You watched her spar with his miniature figure using empty pen refills.
• Su Tingxue and Nuomi met on the Rooftop, agreed to wager five spirit stones, and prepared to fight.
• Su Tingxue unleashed her Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye, airborne talismans, and Yang Thunder, while Nuomi questioned whether the attack felt strong.
• Ghost King Zhenyue watched from the Old Dormitory Building and praised the new generation of Celestial Masters.

Nuomi and Su Tingxue fought an increasingly even rooftop duel, which ended when Nuomi broke free of Su Tingxue’s talismans and defeated her with a touch that brought out her deepest fear. Meanwhile, Soul King and Red King debated why the duel had been prolonged, then Soul King announced he had added a rival on WeChat and planned to challenge him.

• Su Tingxue trapped Nuomi in a Six-Thunder Cage, and Nuomi pretended to struggle before they resumed their increasingly balanced fight.
• Su Tingxue immobilized Nuomi with three talismans and began drawing a Heavenly Thunder Talisman, but Nuomi broke free and used her power to make Su Tingxue collapse in fear.
• Zhou You helped Su Tingxue up, and Nuomi demanded her five spirit stones while Su Tingxue vowed to win next time.
• Soul King, Red King, Force Wielder, and Mind Master debated whether Nuomi had held back to punish Su Tingxue or to entertain Zhou You; Soul King concluded both motives could be true.
• Soul King checked his phone, saw that a man who praised Li Cunxiao had accepted his friend request, and decided to challenge him in person.