Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan received his performance fee from Xiao Yi and bought a Supreme Crab Emperor Burger, which Yao Lao praised as useful food for cultivators. Meanwhile, Phantom Thief A Pi stole seasonings from Xiao Archway’s kitchen and sabotaged the ingredients, leaving Xiao Yi to confront the stinking mess.

• Xiao Yi paid Xiao Yan a large performance fee and gave him a Supreme Crab Emperor Burger.
• Yao Lao discussed the burger’s energy and Xiao Yan’s former life, prompting Xiao Yan to eat it and plan to buy medicinal ingredients for practice.
• Xiao Yi entertained children outside the shop with a dance while Phantom Thief A Pi joined the crowd and watched the kitchen.
• A Pi snuck into the kitchen, stole packets of special seasonings, and sprinkled powder over the remaining ingredients, turning them into bubbling, foul-smelling mush.
• An employee told Xiao Yi that the kitchen had been sabotaged, and Xiao Yi ended the children’s performance before hurrying inside.

After Phantom Thief A Pi ruined the shop’s ingredients, Xiao Yi cleaned up the mess and prepared to retaliate against the Jia Lie Family. He flew over Wutan City and began plotting a revenge more elaborate than attacking their residence outright.

• Xiao Yi learned from his employees about Phantom Thief A Pi, who had ruined the shop with Sea King Paste.
• Xiao Yi spun a swill bucket to suck up all the sludge, then summoned fresh ingredients for the kitchen.
• Xiao Yi removed his clown disguise in an alley and equipped a bamboo dragonfly with a Wind Pill.
• Xiao Yi flew over Wutan City, spotted the Jia Lie Family’s residence, and decided to devise a memorable plan against them.

Xiao Yan failed repeatedly at refining a Healing Pill before learning that Xiao Yi had bought large quantities of supplies for a plan to make money. After Yao Lao warned him against killing the Jia Lie Family’s Alchemist, Xiao Yan set out at night to pay the man a secret visit.

• Xiao Yan failed his fifth attempt to refine a Healing Pill, and Yao Lao amused him by speaking in his adopted secret language.
• Xiao Zhan confronted Xiao Yi over several cartloads of soapberries, towels, and clean water, but Xiao Yi said he planned to make a fortune.
• Xiao Yan suspected the Jia Lie Family was plotting against Xiao Yi’s shop and declared he would deal with its Alchemist.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that killing an Alchemist would bring trouble, and Xiao Yan agreed to visit the man without revealing his identity.
• After night fell, Xiao Yan dressed in black, slipped out of his room, and headed across the rooftops toward the Jia Lie Family estate.

Xiao Yi flew into the Jia Lie Family estate carrying a dung ladle and bucket, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao followed to watch his crude commercial warfare. Xiao Yi located the estate’s latrine and attacked it, preparing to use it as an ammunition depot.

• Xiao Yan spotted Xiao Yi riding a bamboo-copter with a dung ladle and bucket, then recruited Yao Lao to follow him.
• Xiao Yan took a large oil-paper umbrella for protection, and he and Yao Lao trailed Xiao Yi to the Jia Lie Family estate.
• Xiao Yi flew past the estate’s guards, who were too frightened to report or stop him.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao about Xiao Yi’s earlier dung-bucket attacks, leaving Yao Lao to reassess Xiao Yan in silence.
• Xiao Yi found the latrine in the rear courtyard and hurled the dung ladle and bucket toward it.

Xiao Yi raided the Jia Lie estate with improvised manure weapons, turning the family courtyard into a chaotic battlefield. He left the story still fighting as the spinning Vortex Swimming Dragon Hammer let him attack enemies across a wide area.

• Xiao Yi smashed the estate’s latrines, then taunted the Jia Lie Family and challenged them to come out.
• The Jia Lie steward confronted Xiao Yi, whose filth-splattered mop attack sent the crowd into panic.
• The steward offered five thousand gold coins to anyone who could take Xiao Yi down, and several guards and servants charged him.
• Xiao Yi struck down his attackers with the mop and manure ladle, whose bucket spun faster with each hit.
• Xiao Yi unleashed the Vortex Swimming Dragon Hammer, swinging its airborne bucket by a viscous chain as he rampaged through the courtyard.

Xiao Yi terrorized the Jia Lie Family with filthy weapons and turned their ruined latrine into three enormous dragons made of sludge. As the family members froze in shock, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao could only stare at the bizarre spectacle.

• Yao Lao imagined using Xiao Yi’s humiliating methods against Han Feng, while Han Feng suddenly sneezed during pill refinement and nearly lost control of his flames.
• Xiao Yi chased a hired first-tier Alchemist through the Jia Lie residence, striking him with a filthy mop and dung hammer until he fled in terror.
• Jia Lie Bi and two powerful elders attacked Xiao Yi to defend the family’s honor.
• Xiao Yi spun his dung bucket into a whirlwind and used the technique he called “Three Dragons Reincarnation.”
• Three enormous dragons formed from latrine sludge, leaving the Jia Lie Family, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao speechless with shock.

Xiao Yi unleashed a flaming swamp-gas attack and a massive explosion against the Jia Lie Family before escaping Wutan City. Jia Lie Bi was left furious among the ruined courtyard, while Yao Lao chased after Xiao Yi.

• Xiao Yi ignited swamp gas expelled by three filth dragons, disrupting the charging Jia Lie Family experts with flames, heat, and a foul stench.
• Xiao Yi detonated the latrine ruins, blasting debris and filth across the courtyard and injuring members of the Jia Lie Family.
• Xiao Yi escaped into the night using the Bamboo Copter, and Yao Lao abandoned his attempt to understand the attack and pursued him.
• A night watchman mistook Xiao Yi and Yao Lao for supernatural figures, then fainted in the alley.
• Jia Lie Bi surveyed the injured and filthy members of his family and swore that the Jia Lie Family would never forgive Xiao Yi.

After Xiao Yi devastated the Jia Lie Family with his bizarre attack, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao reflected on how unreal their world seemed. Xiao Yi then cornered Phantom Thief A Pi and crushed the treasured abacus hidden in his clothes.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao he had fled because Xiao Yi's three Soaring Dragons seemed about to explode, and Yao Lao marveled at Xiao Yi's ruthless methods.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao agreed that the Jia Lie Family would likely hide the attack rather than risk public humiliation by declaring war on the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan insisted his own revenge plans were normal and blamed Xiao Yi for the absurdity, then told Yao Lao that Xiao Yi's actions convinced him their world was real.
• Phantom Thief A Pi tried to slip away through a secluded alley, but Xiao Yi appeared and seized him by the collar.
• Xiao Yi found A Pi's finely crafted abacus, crushed it underfoot, and watched A Pi scream and scramble to recover the pieces.

After the Jia Lie Family struggled to clean up the aftermath of Xiao Yi’s attack, Xiao Yan went with Xun'er to see Xiao Yi’s popular nose-clip blind boxes. Xiao Yan opened a rare Ultraman nose clip and was left stunned by how far Xiao Yi’s strange influence had spread.

• Xiao Yan overheard that the Jia Lie Family had closed its gates and was buying water and cleaning supplies after their courtyard was ruined.
• Xiao Yan left breakfast to buy medicinal ingredients and met Xun'er wearing a nose clip she had won from one of Xiao Yi’s blind boxes.
• Xun'er persuaded Xiao Yan to visit Xiao Yi’s crowded stall in the Market District.
• Xiao Yan paid for a blind box and opened it to reveal a rare silver Ultraman nose clip.
• Xun'er admired the prize while Xiao Yan stared at it in disbelief and cursed Xiao Yi for turning the world upside down.

After leaving the Fate Blind Box stall, Xiao Yan accepted a cultivation scroll from Xun'er and bought herbs before returning to the Xiao Clan. He encountered Xiao Ning drinking with his lackeys, and the Second Elder demanded to know who had moved up the coming-of-age ceremony.

• Xiao Yan declined Xun'er's scroll at first, saying he already had a suitable cultivation technique, but accepted it after she insisted it had once belonged to the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Lao silently suspected the scroll might truly be connected to the Xiao Clan's past, but kept his thoughts to himself because Xiao Yan was still weak.
• Xiao Yan bought medicinal herbs and returned to the Xiao Clan Courtyard, where Xiao Ning invited him to drink with his lackeys.
• The Second Elder caught Xiao Ning and the others drinking in broad daylight and ordered them to put down their cups.
• Xiao Ning argued that they were adults because the coming-of-age ceremony had been held early, prompting the Second Elder to demand who had moved it up and when.

After the Xiao Clan discovered that many youths shared memories of a coming-of-age ceremony that had never happened, Xiao Yi explained the phenomenon as memories resonating with a parallel world. Xiao Yan then examined Xun’er’s Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture and learned it could provide a way to cultivate even if his dou qi was destroyed.

• Xiao Zhan questioned the clansmen and checked the records, confirming that the coming-of-age ceremony had not been held early despite the youths’ shared memories.
• Xiao Yi told Xiao Yan that the memories could be the Mandela Effect, caused by resonance with a parallel world where the ceremony had happened.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi told Yao Lao that Earth was too different from their world to be a simple parallel world.
• Xiao Yan set aside the mystery and opened the scripture Xun’er had given him.
• Yao Lao explained that the scripture could let Xiao Yan draw in scraps of energy and form an external qi vortex even if his dantian and meridians were destroyed.

Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao about Crazy Moon and the Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture’s unusual power and fatal drawbacks. He decided to copy the scripture and give it to Xiao Yi, while preserving Xun’er’s original.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao who created the Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture, and Yao Lao identified its creator as the legendary Crazy Moon.
• Yao Lao described Crazy Moon’s ability to grow stronger against powerful groups and his unpredictable temperament.
• Yao Lao explained that the scripture cultivated extremely slowly and required a rare state of mind, which led people to dismiss it as worthless.
• Xiao Yan decided to give the scripture to Xiao Yi as thanks for his service to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan found brush and ink and began copying the scripture so he could keep Xun’er’s original safe.

After copying the Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture, Xiao Yan gave it to Xiao Yi, who revealed that he used true qi to move Dou Qi and joked that their meeting lacked proper dramatic tension. Xiao Yu returned with news of Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment, sending Xiao Yi racing off to prepare a business selling exam-related merchandise.

• After five days of copying the Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture, Xiao Yan finished the scroll and gave it to Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi read the method, remarked that it would spare him from using true qi to move Dou Qi, and complained that Xiao Yan had skipped the expected fight and heartfelt reconciliation.
• Xiao Yu returned and bristled when Xiao Yi did not recognize her, but Xiao Yan calmed her by explaining Xiao Yi’s work and contributions to the clan.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team would arrive next month and offered to help him get admitted.
• Xiao Yi excitedly listed plans for recruitment merchandise and crash-course guides, then rushed off to create wealth.

On Jia Nan Academy's recruitment day, Xiao Yi advertised Xiao Archway refreshments in a clown disguise while secretly entering the grounds disguised as a balding middle-aged man. Xiao Yan recognized him, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yi strolling past the admissions pressure barrier without being stopped.

• Xiao Yi drew a crowd by selling chilled drinks and ice cream while dancing in a clown costume.
• Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning toward the Back Gate, and the group tried to avoid being recognized by the clown.
• Xiao Yan spotted a disguised Xiao Yi watching them from among the parents and became suspicious of his plans.
• Xiao Yu shielded the group from Senior Ke's Dou Qi pressure and guided them through the barrier.
• Xiao Yi strolled through the barrier with his insulated mug as Senior Ke let him pass, leaving Xiao Yan and the others bewildered.

Xiao Yi intervened when senior students at Jia Nan Academy forced new students to crawl, disguising his identity behind the manner of an authoritative uncle. He left the seniors suffering through painfully slow push-ups while Xiao Yan and the others watched in disbelief.

• Xiao Yan and his companions found several new students kneeling and crawling while older Jia Nan Academy students mocked and bullied them.
• Xiao Yi stepped forward, rebuked the seniors, and gently helped the newcomers get back to their feet.
• Xiao Yi ordered the older students to do push-ups, and they obeyed because they feared he might be an academy instructor or elder.
• Xiao Yi delayed each command to rise by leisurely sipping from his insulated cup, forcing the seniors to endure the lowered push-up position.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and the rescued newcomers watched Xiao Yi's bizarre punishment with shock, gratitude, and admiration.

Xiao Yi’s disguise was exposed by Instructor Ruo Lin after he made Jia Nan Academy’s senior students do push-ups, and he fled while leaving his costume behind. Ruo Lin completed Xiao Yan’s enrollment and year-long leave paperwork without question, while the humiliated seniors plotted to pursue Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan suspected they might cause trouble.

• Instructor Ruo Lin arrived and questioned Xiao Yi about making the senior students do push-ups.
• Ruo Lin pulled off Xiao Yi’s bald cap, exposing his disguise, and Xiao Yi fled while his costume, pillow, and thermos fell to the ground.
• The senior students realized Xiao Yi had tricked them, but they suppressed their anger in front of Ruo Lin.
• Ruo Lin signed Xiao Yan’s enrollment and year-long leave forms without asking for an explanation.
• Xiao Yan noticed the senior students still looked furious and suspected they would seek revenge on Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yan used Ghost Claw Itching Powder to punish the senior students who were plotting revenge against Xiao Yi. The senior students collapsed in helpless torment, while Xiao Yan pretended to be startled by the bottle’s explosion.

• The senior students plotted to gather reinforcements and take revenge on Xiao Yi after enrollment ended.
• Xiao Yan chose Ghost Claw Itching Powder from the prank concoctions he had prepared for Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yan dropped the bottle near the senior students, then used Suction Palm to pull it toward them.
• Xiao Yan struck the bottle with Fire-Blowing Palm, bursting it and spreading powder over the senior students.
• The senior students were overcome by unbearable itching, but their hands grew too weak to scratch, leaving them writhing and howling on the ground.

After his attempt to prank Xiao Yi backfired, Xiao Yan returned home humiliated and heard Yao Lao urge him to leave Wutan City and pursue greater strength. Xiao Yan instead said he wanted a peaceful life in the city, leaving Yao Lao alarmed and determined to push him toward adventure.

• Xiao Yan celebrated his prank on Xiao Yi and set out to find his sworn older brother for revenge.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan stiff from the Crab-Walk Pill, and a Guard teased him about fighting Xiao Yi.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi was powerful enough to contend with Dou Wang experts and urged him to seek training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range before pursuing a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan said he was content to grow stronger for the Three-Year Agreement, help the Xiao Clan, and make Wutan City prosperous.
• Yao Lao worried that Xiao Yan had lost his ambition and decided he needed to get him out of his comfortable life.

Xiao Yan settled into a comfortable routine of cultivation, making money from low-tier pills, and spending time with Xun'er. After sharing instant noodles and Kebi with her in the bamboo grove, he began telling her stories from his past.

• Xiao Yan steadily cultivated, sold Healing Pills and Qi-Restoring Powder at the Mittel Auction House, and spent his earnings on restaurants and comforts.
• Xiao Yan tried to visit Xun'er with instant noodles and Kebi, but Ling Ying stopped him because she had retired for the night.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan met Xun'er in the bamboo grove and prepared instant noodles and Kebi for her.
• Xun'er praised the unfamiliar food and drink to please Xiao Yan, who was delighted and made another packet of noodles.
• Xiao Yan slurped his noodles and began telling Xun'er nostalgic stories about his past.

Xiao Yan excitedly told Xun'er about his former life on Earth, but she realized his soul was nearly forty and began to feel uneasy around him. Yao Lao explained why she had left, leaving Xiao Yan frozen in mortification.

• Xiao Yan described cars, computers, and his student life on Earth while Xun'er connected his words to things she had heard him and Xiao Yi say.
• Xun'er realized Xiao Yan's former-life age made him nearly forty mentally and started thinking of him as Uncle Xiao Yan.
• Xun'er felt nauseated by the noodles and emotionally distant from Xiao Yan, then excused herself and hurried away.
• Yao Lao teased Xiao Yan for revealing his age to Xun'er, and Xiao Yan understood why she had fled.
• Yao Lao tapped Xiao Yan's petrified head with his Back Scratcher and remarked that it was sturdy.