Chapter Summaries

Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue broke through to foundation establishment during their duel, which Su Tingxue won, then Su Tingxue repaired the damaged sports field with talismans. Nearby, the Zhenyue Ghost King and the Red King fought while trying not to attract Calamity or Nuomi, and they stopped when Zhou You and the others approached.

• Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue both advanced to foundation establishment during their duel, and Su Tingxue pinned Duan Yuxian with an immobilization talisman to win their wager.
• Su Tingxue asked Duan Yuxian to announce the result, while Duan Yuxian and Su Tingxue each avoided explaining their unusual reasons for the duel and its stakes.
• Zhou You and the Carefree Sect members checked on the two duelists, and Su Tingxue used talismans to restore the damaged sports field.
• The Zhenyue Ghost King and the Red King fought over access to the teaching building while keeping their powers and noise restrained to avoid attracting Calamity or Nuomi.
• The Zhenyue Ghost King and the Red King argued over whether Calamity or Nuomi was more frightening, then released each other when they heard Zhou You and the others approaching.

Red King failed to steal the Jade Seal after Zhenyue Ghost King interrupted him, and the two fled No. 2 Middle School before police could catch them. He reported the Imperial Seal, Calamity, and Nuomi’s strength to the professor, then urged him to send Soul King to Chang’an City.

• Zhenyue Ghost King and Red King ended their fight and retreated as Zhou You’s group approached, while Lian Yi watched from a rooftop.
• Red King and his companions encountered police after leaving the school, so Mighty Warrior carried him and Mind Master away at high speed.
• Red King called the professor and reported that he had found the Imperial Seal but that Calamity had the Jade Seal.
• Red King described his failed attempt to steal the Jade Seal and told the professor that Nuomi was stronger than Zhenyue Ghost King.
• Red King recommended that the professor send Soul King to deal with the vengeful ghosts.

After the spell duel, the Zhenyue Ghost King searched for information about the mysterious Calamity but found nothing. Zhou You and Duan Yuxian reviewed the duel’s public results, then discovered that someone had filmed their fight, leaving them to ask their sect to cover it up.

• The Zhenyue Ghost King threw the Lucky Coin into Great Stone Lake, searched the Cultivation Forum for Calamity, and asked the Ghost King Group, but no one knew what it was.
• The Zhenyue Ghost King argued online that Li Cunxiao was stronger than Lu Bu.
• Duan Yuxian returned to Zhou You’s home after helping fool Su Tingxue and thanked Zhou You for rehearsing the duel with her.
• Zhou You saw Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s official post declaring that Su Tingxue had narrowly beaten Duan Yuxian, and forum users argued over which disciple was stronger.
• Duan Yuxian showed Zhou You a blurry video of their duel circulating online, and they decided to ask her sect for help and hire internet trolls to explain it away.

Duan Yuxian and Zhou You tried to contain the fallout from a video of her spell duel, but the footage drew attention to her presence in Chang'an City. At school, Zhou You recognized a man in a police warning photo as one of his past attackers, while Chu Xiaoyao claimed the Organization was behind it.

• Duan Yuxian contacted Martial Uncle Pudu to handle the spell-duel video and asked him not to tell her master that she had reached Foundation Establishment, since she had lied about when the duel took place.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian saw that internet trolls had filled the video's comments with arguments over whether it was real, then relaxed when their own comments seemed to reinforce the hoax.
• Zhou You invited Duan Yuxian to join him in taking commissions, but a trending forum post identifying her presence in Chang'an City made them worry that people might come looking for her.
• At school, Zhou You recognized a burly man in a police warning photo as one of the men who had attacked him, and Chu Xiaoyao insisted the Organization had sent the attackers to investigate her.

Zhou You and his classmates discussed a viral fight video while Lian Yi received an urgent Demon Alliance gathering notice during class. The homeroom teacher confiscated Lian Yi’s phone, leaving her to wonder whether infiltrating the students as a classmate had been a mistake.

• Nuomi asked Zhou You whether a fish’s head should face the Sect Master or the Grand Supreme Elder, and Zhou You told her not to worry because the cafeteria did not serve fish.
• Chen Ziwen asked Zhou You to borrow his homework after rejecting Chu Xiaoyao’s offer, and Zhou You handed over his own work.
• Zhao Zhuo and Ma Changcheng discussed a viral video of a fight at the school sports field, while Zhou You worried that Duan Yuxian’s admirers might bring trouble to Chang'an City.
• Lian Yi read a Demon Alliance message ordering local members to gather beneath Jianghai Bridge at midnight with collected negative emotions to exchange for cultivation resources.
• The homeroom teacher confiscated Lian Yi’s phone after catching her checking the message, and she regretted posing as a student to get close to Chu Xiaoyao.

Lian Yi traded unusually potent negative emotions for healing pills at a Demon Alliance gathering and warned the Ninth Elder about a powerful expert in Chang'an City. The Ninth Elder dismissed her warning and revealed that the Demon Alliance planned to break the seal holding the Demon Venerable of Returning Silence beneath the waters near the city.

• Masked Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered beneath the Jianghai Bridge to trade, and members identified the unmasked Lian Yi as Many Faces.
• Lian Yi exchanged a Jade Purity Bottle of her own negative emotions for healing pills and rejected the Ninth Elder's demand that she return as his fiancée.
• Lian Yi warned the Ninth Elder through his envoy that Chang'an City held a mighty Creation expert who could kill him.
• The Ninth Elder inspected Lian Yi's bottle, dismissed her warning, and said he would bring her back after the Demon Alliance broke the Demon Venerable of Returning Silence's seal.
• The Ninth Elder declared that unleashing another Demon Calamity would create the greatest supply of negative emotions.

The Soul King arrived in Chang'an City and joined the Red King’s plan to steal Calamity’s Jade Seal, but spying on Chu Xiaoyao and Zhou You left him terrified. Zhou You then prepared to take a commission with Duan Yuxian, leaving Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi behind to study.

• The Mind Master picked up the Soul King and brought him to a Lanzhou Beef Noodles shop, where the Red King explained the Jade Seal theft plan and assigned him to handle the Zhenyue Ghost King and Nuomi.
• The Red King showed the Soul King Chu Xiaoyao, Nuomi, and Zhou You through a telescope, and warned him not to offend Zhou You, Calamity’s favorite.
• Zhou You announced he would take a leave that night to earn spirit jade on a commission with Duan Yuxian, while Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi volunteered to go with him.
• Zhou You pressed down Chu Xiaoyao’s and Nuomi’s plans to join him, ordering Chu Xiaoyao to study math and Nuomi to study history.
• Chu Xiaoyao claimed her world-saving feat would earn her special admission to university, so Zhou You assigned her two more math problems to finish.

Zhou You accompanied Duan Yuxian to investigate a haunted apartment for Yu Haochen, a cultivator from the Jade Sun Sect. After they entered, the door shut by itself, and they discovered they were trapped in a repeating apartment with no phone signal.

• Zhou You met Duan Yuxian outside his school, where she warned him that cultivators were searching for her after seeing a video.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian took buses to meet Yu Haochen, who hired Zhou You to investigate ghostly sounds in his friend's apartment.
• Duan Yuxian disguised herself as Su Xian of the Carefree Sect, and Zhou You helped conceal her identity when Yu Haochen suspected she resembled Duan Yuxian.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian entered the apartment, and the door slammed shut before Yu Haochen could follow them inside.
• Duan Yuxian found another identical living room beyond the door, while Zhou You discovered that the balcony opened onto another balcony and concluded they were trapped.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian became trapped in an apartment where cartoons and childhood comforts appeared, then followed a ghostly scent to Guoguo’s remains beneath a bed. The chapter ended with Zhou You hearing the little girl’s final plea to her mother.

• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian discovered that the apartment’s windows led into endless rooms, and Duan Yuxian suspected a ghost’s curse or domain had trapped them.
• The two searched the apartment for an object connected to the ghost, finding a photo of a mother and daughter, Guoguo’s room, and a jar of candy.
• Zhou You turned on the television, and children’s cartoons appeared on every channel before cartoon characters climbed out of the screen as phantoms.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian ate food that mysteriously appeared on the coffee table, though it did not fill them up.
• Zhou You followed a ghostly scent through sixteen versions of Guoguo’s room and found her remains beneath a bed, clutching a photo album with her mother.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian touched Guoguo’s remains and witnessed the lonely final days that had made her a hungry ghost. They decided to seal her in a talisman and take her to Su Tingxue for help passing on, while Duan Yuxian promised to help Guoguo find her mother.

• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian touched Guoguo’s remains together and experienced her memories of waiting alone for her mother and dying hungry.
• Zhou You recognized that the masked man who appeared to Guoguo wore a Hungry Ghost Mask, and Duan Yuxian identified it as belonging to the Demon Alliance.
• Guoguo manifested as a hungry ghost and begged Zhou You and Duan Yuxian for food while biting Duan Yuxian’s shoulder.
• Zhou You chose not to eat Guoguo and suggested sealing her in a talisman so Su Tingxue could help her pass on.
• Duan Yuxian promised to take Guoguo to find her mother, and Guoguo eagerly agreed.

Zhou You and Duan Yuxian discovered that Yu Haochen was a member of the Demon Alliance and confronted him in a forest park. Yu Haochen revealed that he had buried Fang Qi beneath the hill, and Duan Yuxian attacked him in fury.

• Zhou You learned that the apartment’s previous tenant, Fang Qi, had vanished, then showed Yu Haochen Guoguo’s corpse and explained what had happened.
• Zhou You lured Yu Haochen to a deserted hill, where Duan Yuxian attacked him and exposed his Demon Alliance affiliation.
• Zhou You deduced that Yu Haochen had lied because Guoguo could not have made the sounds of laughter he described, and Yu Haochen attacked with lightning whips.
• Duan Yuxian cut through Yu Haochen’s lightning attack, and a broken mask strap revealed her identity.
• When Duan Yuxian demanded to know where Fang Qi was, Yu Haochen said she was buried beneath the hill and described sealing her in a coffin as she died.

Duan Yuxian fought Yu Haochen over his use of Guoguo's ghost domain to harvest negative emotions, and her swordsmanship grew powerful enough to defeat him. Yu Haochen escaped with a life-saving puppet, but Lian Yi appeared in his path, ready to punish him for insulting her.

• Duan Yuxian attacked Yu Haochen in fury after he admitted that he had used Guoguo's ghost domain to collect negative emotions.
• Duan Yuxian severed Yu Haochen's left arm and used sword qi to prevent him from healing it.
• Yu Haochen unleashed Sheling Evil Thunder, but Duan Yuxian shattered it with her sword and struck him down.
• Yu Haochen survived by using the Witchcraft Puppet and fled, vowing revenge on Duan Yuxian and Zhou You.
• Lian Yi confronted Yu Haochen in the mountains and threatened him for calling her an elder's mistress.

After Zhou You and Duan Yuxian found Fang Qi’s remains, they helped her reunite with Guoguo before sealing mother and daughter together. Lian Yi then killed the wounded Yu Haochen with a swarm of mosquitoes, leaving his body as a skeleton.

• Duan Yuxian recovered from her battle with Yu Haochen, and she and Zhou You burned his corpse to ashes.
• Zhou You used Soul Projection to locate Fang Qi’s coffin, and Duan Yuxian opened it to find her vengeful ghost.
• Zhou You summoned Guoguo with a talisman, allowing Fang Qi to recognize and hold her daughter briefly before Zhou You and Duan Yuxian sealed them together.
• Zhou You and Duan Yuxian placed Guoguo’s remains beside Fang Qi, along with her favorite candies and a framed photograph.
• Lian Yi confronted the injured Yu Haochen, bound him to a tree, and released a swarm of mosquitoes that consumed him before dawn.
• Lian Yi burned the mosquitoes away and left Yu Haochen’s skeleton tied to the tree.

After a dangerous commission, Duan Yuxian flew Zhou You home on her Spirit Sword, then decided to take a break from commissions while she recovered. The next morning, Zhou You delivered a ghost's talisman to Su Tingxue and told Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi that Lian Yi had tricked him into completing a commission without paying; Lian Yi overheard them at school.

• Duan Yuxian used Sword Flight to carry Zhou You home, with him balancing on her shoulders as they flew over Chang'an City.
• Zhou You clarified that he was worried about earning spirit jade to buy books for Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi, while Duan Yuxian said she needed time to recover and planned to find a summer job to repay him.
• Zhou You met Su Tingxue near the school gates and gave her the talisman containing the ghost, and she said she would help the ghost pass on during the Ghost Festival.
• Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi discussed English at school, and Chu Xiaoyao declared that she would wipe out the United States so they would not have to study it.
• Zhou You told Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi that Lian Yi had disguised herself as a client, refused to pay his commission, and run away; Lian Yi overheard him while catching up on homework.

After killing Yu Haochen and erasing nearby surveillance footage, Lian Yi returned to school while the Demon Alliance investigated his death and traced his last dealings to Zhou You's Carefree Sect. Zhou You discovered that Nuomi could possess ordinary stationery, and Lian Yi watched the sect's antics in astonishment.

• Lian Yi disposed of Yu Haochen's skeleton, tampered with surveillance footage, and went to school to finish her homework while resisting anger at Zhou You's rumors.
• The Ninth Elder learned that Yu Haochen's soul lamp had gone out and ordered an investigation into the Carefree Sect after hearing of Yu Haochen's messages with 'Do You Swim This Week.'
• Nuomi possessed a gel pen and hopped around on Zhou You's desk, while Chu Xiaoyao mistakenly thought Zhou You wanted Nuomi to help them get into the same university.
• Zhou You failed to possess an eraser at first, then entered the gel pen and found that he could control it; Nuomi also possessed the eraser with ease.
• Lian Yi watched Nuomi possess ordinary stationery and wondered whether she had created ghost artifacts from everyday objects.

At school, Zhou You discovered that he could possess objects Nuomi had entered and built small figures for them to control, sparking a playful battle with Chu Xiaoyao. Their antics drew the attention of the Mind Master, who identified Nuomi’s possessions as Ghost Artifacts and alerted the Red King and Soul King.

• Zhou You ordered Chu Xiaoyao and Nuomi to pay attention in English class, then possessed his eraser after Nuomi entered it.
• Zhou You made a paper figure and then a sturdier figure from paper, tape, and eraser, discovering that Nuomi’s presence let him control it easily.
• Zhou You built Nuomi a matching figure, and the two battled until Chu Xiaoyao flicked them across the desk and they fought back with pencils.
• After the bell, the Mind Master watched Nuomi possess a gel pen and an eraser, recognized the objects as Ghost Artifacts, and reported his discovery to the Red King and Soul King.
• The Soul King explained how Ghost Artifacts were made and said he could refine one instantly, then returned to arguing online about Li Cunxiao and Lu Bu.

Duan Yuxian found a job at a quiet herbal medicine milk tea shop so she could repay Zhou You. Sun Cheng discovered her working there and placed an enormous order, leaving her to face 520 cups of tea.

• The Red King dismissed debates about who was stronger and avoided arguing with the Soul King while they watched Calamity.
• Zhou You enjoyed strengthening his soul inside Zhou You No. 2 and sparring with Nuomi while Chu Xiaoyao held their paper figures.
• Lian Yi tried to steal Zhou You’s Eraser, but Wei Hang saw Tang Shiyin take it and mistakenly decided to help her by offering money for her homework.
• Duan Yuxian got hired at Herbal Medicine Milk Tea and learned how to make its drinks, hoping to save enough to repay Zhou You.
• Sun Cheng spotted Duan Yuxian working at the mall, ordered as a customer, and requested 520 cups of Hand-Shaken White Angelica Lemon Tea.

Duan Yuxian quit her exhausting milk tea job after suspecting Su Tingxue’s fan Sun Cheng had ordered hundreds of cups to torment her. She sent Zhou You a free Sect Guide, then Zhou You received Su Tingxue’s message challenging Nuomi to a spell duel the next day.

• Duan Yuxian gave Zhou You an enormous milk tea and described how she had shaken more than five hundred cups during her first shift.
• Duan Yuxian quit after deciding Sun Cheng’s huge order was revenge on behalf of Su Tingxue’s fans, and the owner paid her only twenty yuan.
• Duan Yuxian added Zhou You on QQ and sent him her sect’s free digital Sect Guide, which Zhou You also forwarded to Chu Xiaoyao.
• Zhou You browsed the cultivation forum and read a debate about splitting the Qi Refining stage into more layers.
• Su Tingxue messaged Zhou You to tell Nuomi to meet her at the Rooftop at noon the next day for a spell duel.

Lian Yi reluctantly did classmates’ homework for money while Zhou You and the Carefree Sect prepared for Nuomi’s spell duel with Su Tingxue. Su Tingxue began the match with powerful Yang Thunder, and the Zhenyue Ghost King watched from the Old Dormitory Building.

• Lian Yi returned Wei Hang’s homework, then agreed to do two notebooks for Chu Xiaoyao for one 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 duel invitation and agreed to five Spirit Stones as the stakes.
• Su Tingxue opened with her Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye, midair talismans, and Yang Thunder after consolidating her Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• The Zhenyue Ghost King watched the duel from the Old Dormitory Building and praised the new generation of Celestial Masters.

Nuomi and Su Tingxue fought an evenly matched Spell Duel, which Nuomi won after breaking free of Su Tingxue’s Binding Talismans. Meanwhile, the Soul King and Red King debated why Calamity had arranged the fight, then the Soul King accepted a WeChat friend request and planned to challenge the sender.

• Su Tingxue trapped Nuomi in her Six-Thunder Cage, but Nuomi pretended to struggle before asking the technique’s name and resuming their battle in earnest.
• Zhou You wondered about Nuomi’s strength, while Chu Xiaoyao said Nuomi was holding back to refine her skills and described how she had once sealed her own cultivation.
• Su Tingxue immobilized Nuomi with three Binding Talismans and began drawing a Heavenly Thunder Talisman, but Nuomi broke free and tapped Su Tingxue’s forehead, making her collapse under her deepest fear.
• Nuomi won the Spell Duel and reminded Su Tingxue to pay the promised Spirit Stones; Su Tingxue vowed to defeat her next time.
• The Soul King, Red King, Mighty Warrior, and Mind Master debated whether Calamity had arranged the evenly matched fight to punish Su Tingxue or entertain Zhou You, and the Soul King concluded both explanations could be true.
• The Soul King received a WeChat notification, saw that a man who worshipped Li Cunxiao had accepted his friend request, and decided to challenge him in person.