Recaps

Zhou You began cultivating under Chu Xiaoyao’s guidance, founded the Free and Unfettered Gate with her and Nuomi, and used his new abilities against ghosts and attackers. As the group pursuing the Humanity Supreme Treasure closed in on the school, Su Tingxue asked Zhou You to help exorcise a Poverty Ghost.

• Chu Xiaoyao told Zhou You she had been the Carefree Empress on the Primordial Continent, then taught him to sense spiritual qi, and he discovered he could project his soul.
• Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao encountered Nuomi in the old dormitory, where Chu Xiaoyao drove her from an inner world and Zhou You accidentally knocked her unconscious.
• Nuomi joined Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao, while Su Tingxue challenged her and lost to her fear-based attack before introducing herself as a Dragon Tiger Mountain disciple.
• Chu Xiaoyao, Zhou You, and Nuomi founded the Free and Unfettered Gate, and Su Tingxue recruited Zhou You to help capture a Veil-Eye Ghost causing accidents.
• Zhou You ate one Veil-Eye Ghost, broke through to Qi Refining, and gained the ability to cover others’ eyes with its power.
• Mind Master and Force Wielder searched Zhou You’s school for the Humanity Supreme Treasure, then attacked Zhou You after class and were driven off.
• Zhou You and Su Tingxue caught Wang Chong’s ambush, and Su Tingxue gave Zhou You the Ming King Body-Refining Art from True Lord Wenchang.
• Zhou You tried to retrieve Nuomi’s hidden savings from Big Stone Lake and began skin-tempering, while the Seven Kings prepared to pursue the treasure and Su Tingxue asked him to help with a Poverty Ghost.

Zhou You hunted ghosts, strengthened his cultivation, and searched Big Stone Lake with Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi, while the Red King sought the Humanity Supreme Treasure. A jade seal emerged from a buried box, and Lian Yi infiltrated the school as transfer student Tang Shiyin to investigate the Free and Unfettered Gate.

• Zhou You defeated the Poverty Ghost by eating part of its soul, and Su Tingxue helped him collect his reward and explore the Cultivation Forum.
• The Red King learned that Zhou You’s deskmate Chu Xiaoyao was Calamity and secretly watched the school while investigating the Humanity Supreme Treasure.
• Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Su Tingxue investigated Ji Sen’s apartment, where they discovered that Coal Ball was Lian Yi, a Demon Alliance member who escaped the Red King.
• Zhou You used a spirit stone to accelerate his cultivation, then trained at Big Stone Lake until a protective membrane formed over his skin.
• The Red King searched Big Stone Lake and retrieved a sealed box, which the professor opened to find Hell Money, while Zhou You later recovered the box and Chu Xiaoyao found a jade seal inside.
• Chu Xiaoyao made Zhou You sect leader and Nuomi deputy sect leader of the Free and Unfettered Gate, while Lian Yi became suspicious of the group’s abilities.
• Zhou You learned to use Soul Projection to lift a pencil, and Lian Yi investigated the gate after transferring into his class as Tang Shiyin.
• Tang Shiyin moved into the apartment across from Zhou You’s and invited him inside, but he declined and returned home.

Zhou You’s online challenge drew Duan Yuxian to Chang’an City, where he learned her techniques and defeated one of her admirers. As the duel between Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue approached, the Red King and his allies also targeted the Imperial Seal at Zhou You’s school.

• Zhou You dismissed the Jade Seal’s offer of power, while Nuomi struggled with her missing memories and Lian Yi was badly injured by a terrifying being in the old dormitory.
• Su Tingxue challenged Duan Yuxian to a public duel, then sent Zhou You spirit jade for his Chang’an City information and warned Duan Yuxian that he would attend their meeting.
• After Zhou You’s forum challenge, Duan Yuxian came to Chang’an City, tested his Poverty Ghost spell, and ended up staying in a tent on his roof before sneaking into his bedroom for air conditioning.
• Duan Yuxian taught Zhou You basic fighting techniques, and he used them alongside his Soul Projection to defeat Sun Cheng on the school rooftop.
• Su Tingxue invited Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Nuomi to her duel with Duan Yuxian, while her ability to see Nuomi and Wei Hang’s ensuing rumors caused confusion.
• Rain drove Duan Yuxian into Zhou You’s bedroom, where she hid from his mother, and the professor’s agents prepared to search No. 2 Middle School for the real Imperial Seal.
• The Red King recognized that the treasure he had retrieved was fake, but he waited to steal the Imperial Seal because a female ghost guarded the classroom.
• Duan Yuxian told Zhou You the story of the Demon Calamity and asked whether to act friendly or cold when they met the next day.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian exposed a Demon Alliance member through the tragedy of Guoguo and Fang Qi, while Lian Yi dealt with the surviving culprit. Back at school, Zhou You and Nuomi experimented with ghost artifacts, and Nuomi defeated Su Tingxue in a spell duel.

• Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue both advanced to Foundation Establishment during their duel, which Su Tingxue won with an immobilization talisman.
• Red King’s attempt to steal the Jade Seal failed, and he warned the professor that Nuomi was stronger than Zhenyue Ghost King.
• Lian Yi exchanged her negative emotions with the Demon Alliance and warned the Ninth Elder that a powerful Creation expert protected Chang'an City.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian became trapped in an endless apartment, found Guoguo’s remains, and learned that a Demon Alliance member had used her ghost domain to collect negative emotions.
• Duan Yuxian defeated Yu Haochen after he confessed to Guoguo’s and Fang Qi’s deaths, while Lian Yi later killed him and hid his remains.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian reunited Guoguo with Fang Qi before sealing the ghosts together, and Zhou You later discovered that he and Nuomi could control ordinary objects as ghost artifacts.
• Duan Yuxian briefly worked at a milk tea shop before quitting, while Su Tingxue challenged Nuomi to a spell duel for five Spirit Stones.
• Nuomi broke Su Tingxue’s talismans and defeated her by making her collapse under her deepest fear, then demanded the promised Spirit Stones.