Chapter Summaries

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 Humanity 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 Humanity 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 Humanity 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 Humanity 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 Humanity 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 Humanity 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 Calamity and Zhou You, including 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 Free and Unfettered Gate. 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 Humanity 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 Free and Unfettered Gate 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 Humanity 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 Free and Unfettered Gate.
• 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 Free and Unfettered Gate's powers exceeded her expectations.

Zhou You trained his soul projection while Lian Yi investigated the Free and Unfettered Gate 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 Free and Unfettered Gate, 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.

Lian Yi tried to get close to Zhou You, while he spent the evening browsing cultivation-forum discussions before dreaming that the Jade Seal offered him power. The Jade Seal failed to impress him, and Zhou You woke with only a vague memory of the dream.

• Lian Yi abandoned her attempt to charm Zhou You and began filling in new textbooks to support her honor-student cover story.
• Zhou You browsed forum debates about alchemy, artifact forging, and whether Su Tingxue or Duan Yuxian was stronger, then posted that he supported Su Tingxue.
• Zhou You relaxed on the forum before falling asleep and finding himself in a vast white space.
• The Jade Seal told Zhou You he was dreaming and offered him power in exchange for sacrifices, but Zhou You asked for impossible levels of cultivation and dismissed it as useless.
• Zhou You woke to his alarm and vaguely remembered that the Jade Seal had said it could not do anything.

Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao searched the Vengeful Ghost Compendium for Nuomi’s ghost type, but none of its entries matched her. Nuomi was left distressed by not knowing where she came from and asked Zhou You if she was sick.

• Zhou You walked to school with Tang Shiyin, then hurried ahead after hearing classmates gossip about them.
• Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao traded cultivation books, and Chu Xiaoyao shook him for taking her unfinished book.
• Nuomi tried to prove she was a hanging ghost by suspending herself from the classroom fan, but Zhou You ruled out that possibility.
• Zhou You listed other ghost types from the Vengeful Ghost Compendium, but Nuomi did not match any of them.
• Nuomi became overwhelmed by sadness about her unknown origins and asked Zhou You if she was sick.

Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao took Nuomi back to the old dormitory, hoping to find clues about her lost memories, but their search turned up nothing. After they left, Lian Yi entered the building to investigate and was gravely injured when a terrifying being destroyed her avatar.

• Zhou You comforted Nuomi over her lost memories, and Chu Xiaoyao suggested they revisit the old dormitory for clues.
• Nuomi showed Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao around the dormitory and recalled her first encounter with the Mountain-Subduing Ghost King, but they found nothing helpful.
• The Mountain-Subduing Ghost King hid from the visitors, fearing that Nuomi had discovered his plan to steal back the jade seal.
• Lian Yi followed Zhou You, Chu Xiaoyao, and Nuomi to the dormitory, then entered after they left to investigate Nuomi's identity.
• A terrifying being trapped and destroyed Lian Yi's avatar, severely injuring her essence and leaving her shaken.

Lian Yi searched for clues about the Carefree Sect while Zhou You received hostile messages after defending Su Tingxue on the cultivation forum. Su Tingxue shared information about Chang'an City’s past and ended the chapter by challenging Duan Yuxian to a fight.

• Lian Yi recovered from her injuries and posted a bounty seeking records of major Golden Core-level events in Chang'an City.
• Zhou You found a flood of hostile private messages from Duan Yuxian's supporters and decided to ignore them.
• Zhou You sent Su Tingxue Lian Yi's bounty thread, and Su Tingxue shared two Chang'an City events and gave him ten spirit jade.
• Su Tingxue noticed Zhou You's forum reply supporting her and realized Duan Yuxian's fans would target him.
• Su Tingxue messaged Duan Yuxian and asked to fight.

Duan Yuxian arranged a public fight with Su Tingxue in Chang'an City and persuaded her master to let her leave the True Martial Hall early. She slipped out through the hidden sect’s gate and vanished before the amazed tourists.

• Duan Yuxian accepted Su Tingxue’s challenge to fight in Chang'an City and agreed to make the result public.
• Duan Yuxian persuaded the hall master to let her travel early by showing him their edited chat history.
• Duan Yuxian revealed that she had already packed her suitcase, hidden her sword in a guitar bag, and bought a train ticket.
• Duan Yuxian opened the True Martial Hall’s gate before its usual time and hurried toward Chang'an City.
• Duan Yuxian vanished into the mist as the tourists watched, strengthening their belief that immortals lived in the True Martial Hall.

Zhou You continued practicing Soul Projection at school while Chu Xiaoyao gave Nuomi an old phone and struggled through an English vocabulary dictation. Su Tingxue brought Zhou You the Spirit Stone he had requested, leaving him ready to attempt a breakthrough in qi refining.

• Chu Xiaoyao gave Nuomi her father's old phone and secretly taught her how to use it before the English teacher arrived.
• The English teacher ordered a vocabulary dictation, and Chu Xiaoyao struggled to complete it while Nuomi regretted not helping her.
• Zhou You used Soul Projection to tickle Chu Xiaoyao with his Netherworld Ripple Technique, and Nuomi blew on Zhao Zhuo and Ma Changcheng after they complained about them.
• Su Tingxue summoned Zhou You with a paper airplane and gave him a Spirit Stone wrapped in toilet paper after he apologized for missing her earlier visits.
• Zhou You showed the Spirit Stone to Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi, and Nuomi mistakenly called Su Tingxue the rotten rice-thrower.

Zhou You used a spirit stone to break through to mid-stage Qi Refining and discovered that his strength and Soul Projection had greatly improved. Lian Yi overheard him mention Nuomi’s stash at Great Stone Lake and decided to claim it for herself.

• Zhou You explained that Su Tingxue had given him a spirit stone as his share for gathering information about Chang'an City.
• Chu Xiaoyao said her return from the Primordial Continent was Chang'an City’s biggest event, and Lian Yi secretly realized she had uncovered a major secret.
• Zhou You cultivated throughout the day, absorbed nearly half the spirit stone’s energy, and broke through to mid-stage Qi Refining.
• Zhou You tested his new abilities, effortlessly twisting off a bottle cap and extending his Soul Projection more than twelve steps from his body.
• Zhou You suggested retrieving Nuomi’s stash from Great Stone Lake, but Nuomi refused, so Lian Yi offered to take the stash for herself.

Lian Yi searched Big Stone Lake for Nuomi’s supposed treasure but mistook the rubbish on the lakebed for possible hidden riches and took it all. Meanwhile, Duan Yuxian learned that Su Tingxue’s classmate had devised a bizarre spell, and Zhou You accepted an online challenger’s offer to fight.

• Lian Yi searched Big Stone Lake with her spiritual sense, then collected every piece of rubbish from the lakebed and left.
• The Zhenyue Ghost King watched Lian Yi take the rubbish and wondered whether destroying one of her avatars had damaged her mind.
• Duan Yuxian browsed the cultivation forum, questioned Su Tingxue about a poverty ghost post, and learned that Zhou You had devised a bizarre spell.
• Duan Yuxian guessed that Su Tingxue’s classmate might attend Chang'an City's No. 2 Middle School.
• Zhou You read another wave of insulting private messages and challenged Most Loves Yuxian to fight.
• Most Loves Yuxian accepted and said he would come find Zhou You within the next few days.

Zhenyue Ghost King tried to steal the Imperial Seal but was mistaken by Nuomi for an imagined figure and beaten away. Lian Yi spent the night investigating stolen objects, then went to school with Zhou You, where Nuomi celebrated her apparent cultivation breakthrough.

• Zhenyue Ghost King decided to steal the Imperial Seal after a coin landed heads twice, but Nuomi’s presence had kept him from acting sooner.
• Nuomi practiced Chu Xiaoyao’s visualization method while Zhenyue Ghost King crept toward the Imperial Seal, and she mistook him for an imagined figure when she opened her eyes.
• Nuomi punched and kicked Zhenyue Ghost King until he escaped by dissolving into mist.
• Lian Yi tested stolen items from Great Stone Lake all night, discovered only that the flashlight was ordinary, and used a Qi-Gathering Pill after exhausting her spiritual power.
• Lian Yi arranged to leave for school with Zhou You, who saw the garbage in her apartment and offered to help with her studies or daily life.
• Nuomi told Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao that she had imagined Zhenyue Ghost King and beaten him, and Chu Xiaoyao encouraged her to keep cultivating.

Chu Xiaoyao copied Zhou You’s English homework while Zhou You tried to help Tang Shiyin by having Ma Changcheng leave empty bottles on her desk. After school, Duan Yuxian tracked down Zhou You and asked him to demonstrate a bizarre spell, offering him a thousand yuan.

• Chu Xiaoyao borrowed Zhou You’s English homework, and Ma Changcheng offered Zhou You cola in exchange for help with his math homework.
• Zhou You told Ma Changcheng to leave his empty cola bottle on Tang Shiyin’s desk, and Lian Yi later found three empty bottles there.
• Duan Yuxian waited outside the school and spotted Zhou You and Chu Xiaoyao leaving, mistaking Chu Xiaoyao’s confidence for a cultivator’s bearing.
• Duan Yuxian followed Zhou You after he parted from Chu Xiaoyao, then blocked his path and claimed to be Su Tingxue’s friend.
• Duan Yuxian asked Zhou You to demonstrate a bizarre spell and offered to transfer him a thousand yuan.