Chapter Summaries

Chen Wei returned to the Heavenly Court with Yang Chan and reunited with his subordinates, where Yang Chan and Ao Rui immediately clashed over his attention. He then confessed to burning the Great Heavenly Venerable’s Imperial Decree, and Zhang Daoling declared that Heavenly Law called for Chen Wei to be beheaded.

• Chen Wei and Yang Chan arrived at the Folk Customs and Morals Inspection Bureau, where Ao Rui and Chen Wei’s four trusted subordinates welcomed them.
• Yang Chan and Ao Rui traded barbed remarks after Ao Rui offered Chen Wei tea, while Chen Wei’s subordinates tried to avoid witnessing their rivalry.
• Chen Wei gathered his team and reflected on the danger of having burned the Imperial Decree to win his wager at Guanjiangkou.
• Chen Wei confessed to burning the Imperial Decree before the Great Heavenly Venerable in Lingxiao Palace.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable asked the Four Great Celestial Masters to judge Chen Wei, and Zhang Daoling said the crime warranted beheading.

Chen Wei escaped execution for burning the Great Heavenly Venerable's Imperial Decree and was sentenced to one hundred years of confinement beneath Mount Hua under Yang Chan's supervision. Yang Chan took him to her sanctuary, where the two began teasing each other about his punishment.

• Zhang Daoling demanded Chen Wei's execution for destroying an Imperial Decree, while Xu Jingyang acknowledged the crime but urged the Great Heavenly Venerable to show leniency.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable ordered Yang Chan to escort Chen Wei to Mount Hua for one hundred years of confinement, where he would study and copy the heavenly laws.
• Chen Wei entrusted the Government Office to Ma Muzhi, Pang Long, Xiao Yan, and Chu Feng, whose offers of support suggested they expected his sentence to be an easy stay.
• Ao Rui offered to accompany Chen Wei to Mount Hua, but Yang Chan overheard and hurried him away from the Government Office.
• Yang Chan brought Chen Wei to her sanctuary on Mount Hua, and he teased her about how many copies of the heavenly laws she would make him write.

Chen Wei endured copying the heavenly laws under Yang Chan’s close watch until Yang Jian unexpectedly arrived to inspect Mount Hua. Yang Chan concealed her teasing of Chen Wei, then noticed the scent of the Dragonfolk on Yang Jian and confronted him, leaving Chen Wei wondering what had happened between Yang Jian and a female dragon.

• After Chen Wei used Remote Object Retrieval to bring Yang Chan her robe, Yang Chan punished him by ordering him to copy the heavenly laws a hundred times daily without magic or substitutes.
• As Chen Wei copied in the study, Yang Chan asked him for a poem about Mount Hua and teased him when his improvised verse disappointed her.
• Yang Jian silently breached the sanctuary, and Yang Chan changed into formal clothes and moved away from Chen Wei before he inspected them.
• Yang Jian questioned whether he had arrived at an inconvenient time, while Yang Chan interrupted him by saying he smelled of the Dragonfolk.
• Yang Jian denied having any connection to the Dragonfolk, and Chen Wei recalled the female dragon who had visited Guanjiangkou and wondered what had happened between them.

Yang Jian visited Yang Chan to obtain Peach Blossom Immortal Dew for an unnamed immortal friend, then placed a restraining seal on her before leaving. The love tribulation aura drew Chen Wei and Yang Chan together, but the seal stopped them; afterward, Yang Chan called Chen Wei over, and he eagerly agreed to help her.

• Yang Chan pressed Yang Jian about the dragon-clan aura on him, but he denied her guess and forbade her from raising the subject.
• Yang Jian asked Yang Chan for Peach Blossom Immortal Dew on behalf of an immortal friend, then sealed her and vanished.
• Yang Chan discovered the seal and turned her attention to Chen Wei, ordering him not to move.
• The love tribulation aura made Chen Wei and Yang Chan draw close, but Yang Jian's seal activated and separated them, dispersing the aura.
• Yang Chan called Chen Wei over to ask him something, and he promptly offered to help.

Chen Wei and Yang Chan were struck by the love tribulation aura, and Yang Chan appeared desperate to resolve it despite Yang Jian’s restraining seal. Chen Wei released his Dao Fruit to help her, only for Yang Chan to reveal she had been pretending and overpower his Dao Fruit.

• Chen Wei and Yang Chan felt the love tribulation aura burning inside them, but Yang Jian’s seal repeatedly prevented them from getting closer.
• Chen Wei calmed Yang Chan by embracing her and asked about Yang Jian’s relationship with a Dragonfolk woman, learning it was like their own.
• When Yang Chan seemed to suffer from the aura’s backlash, Chen Wei pressed his forehead to hers and released his Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Yang Chan’s Taiyi Dao Fruit emerged, struck down the restraining seal’s golden light, and pinned Chen Wei’s Dao Fruit beneath it.
• Yang Chan revealed she had only pretended to be affected and began merging their Dao Fruits as their bodies remained still.

After waking in Yang Chan’s bed with his golden immortal Dao Fruit strengthened, Chen Wei resumed handling his Heavenly Court office’s affairs from Mount Hua. Ma Muzhi brought him accumulated case files and an unidentified trinket, which Chen Wei accepted after promising to recommend him for a promotion.

• Chen Wei woke after thirty years in the mortal world and found his Dao Fruit larger, more complete, and stable.
• Yang Chan told Chen Wei that Ma Muzhi had been waiting at the foot of Mount Hua and urged him to handle his official business.
• Ma Muzhi presented the accumulated Case Files, and Chen Wei signed them to reaffirm his authority over the office.
• Ma Muzhi said he had sent an unidentified confiscated trinket to Chen Wei’s Heavenly Court residence for him and Yang Chan to examine, and Chen Wei accepted it.
• Chen Wei promised to recommend Ma Muzhi for a promotion, then asked what the trinket was; Ma Muzhi identified it as a peculiar Auspicious Cloud.

After Chen Wei’s sentence ended, he returned to the Heavenly Court with Yang Chan and gave her a Purple Flame Auspicious Cloud, unaware it had been confiscated from the Green Ox Spirit. When the Green Ox Spirit learned where the cloud was, he headed for Tongming Hall to retrieve it.

• Yang Chan announced that Chen Wei’s sentence was over, and he returned to the Heavenly Court with her.
• Chen Wei presented Yang Chan with the Purple Flame Auspicious Cloud that Ma Muzhi had placed in his treasury, and she rode it away to test its speed.
• A Heavenly Soldier told the Green Ox Spirit that the missing Purple Flame Auspicious Cloud had been seen with an Immortal Official near Tongming Hall.
• The Green Ox Spirit recalled that he had given the cloud to a demon king in the Mortal Realm and that it had been confiscated during an investigation.
• The Green Ox Spirit flew toward Tongming Hall, confident that he could reclaim the cloud.

Chen Wei confronted the Green Ox Spirit, who came to retrieve the Purple Flame Auspicious Cloud from Tusita Palace, but Yang Chan’s arrival forced him to conceal his purpose. The Green Ox Spirit offered Golden Cores as an official subsidy, while Chen Wei remained wary of accepting them.

• Chen Wei returned to the Government Office and found the Green Ox Spirit demanding the Auspicious Cloud on behalf of Tusita Palace.
• Chen Wei suspected the cloud was evidence of Tusita Palace’s dealings with demons and refused to return it after giving it to Yang Chan.
• Yang Chan entered, and the Green Ox Spirit recognized her and feared she might expose his operation in the Mortal Realm.
• Yang Chan pretended the seized item was a Precious Sword, and the Green Ox Spirit played along while offering three bottles of Golden Cores.
• Chen Wei refused to accept the Golden Cores without proper grounds, so the Green Ox Spirit claimed they were an authorized subsidy for the Censorate.

Chen Wei used the Green Ox Spirit’s trouble on Jindou Mountain as leverage to arrange a meeting with Taishang Laojun and gain standing in the Heavenly Court. Yang Chan wondered why he would not simply use her connections, but Chen Wei insisted he needed to build his own reputation to win over Yang Jian.

• Chen Wei revealed that he wanted more than golden cores: he aimed to gain Taishang Laojun’s favor and eventually influence Yang Jian.
• Chen Wei and Yang Chan staged a good-cop, bad-cop act, hinting that the case files could expose the Green Ox Spirit’s activities in the Mortal Realm.
• Chen Wei proposed taking the matter to Taishang Laojun to settle it internally, and the Green Ox Spirit agreed to meet them at Tusita Palace.
• After the Green Ox Spirit left, Yang Chan asked Chen Wei about his scheme, and he admitted that he wanted a legitimate reason to meet Laojun and earn standing.
• Yang Chan offered to arrange a meeting through her connections, but Chen Wei said he needed to build his own confidence to fulfill his promise to win over Yang Jian.

Chen Wei accompanied the Green Ox Spirit to Tusita Palace and persuaded Taishang Laojun to treat the Mortal Realm incident as demons misusing the Green Ox Spirit’s name. Taishang Laojun saw through Chen Wei’s motives and asked him to undertake another task, leaving its details unstated.

• Chen Wei reported the Green Ox Spirit’s visit and his plan to Taibai Jinxing, who gave him a Command Token and approved his handling of the matter.
• Chen Wei met the nervous Green Ox Spirit outside Tusita Palace and reassured him before they entered to see Taishang Laojun.
• The Green Ox Spirit confessed and begged for punishment, while Chen Wei blamed the demons for fraudulently using his name and minimized the Green Ox Spirit’s responsibility.
• Taishang Laojun pretended to threaten the Green Ox Spirit, but Chen Wei intervened and proposed a resolution that let Laojun preserve Tusita Palace’s dignity.
• Taishang Laojun ordered the Green Ox Spirit to remain in Tusita Palace and then revealed that he had a task for Chen Wei.

Chen Wei received a bottle of Fetus-Nourishing Pills from Taishang Laojun and was ordered to deliver them to Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan. After he teased Yang Chan about having a baby, she struck him just as his subordinates arrived, and they pretended they had entered the wrong room.

• Taishang Laojun gave Chen Wei a Jade Porcelain Bottle of Fetus-Nourishing Pills and ordered him to deliver it to Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan at Banana Cave on Green Cloud Mountain.
• Chen Wei returned to the Government Office and reassured Yang Chan that Laojun had settled the matter of Green Ox Spirit and assigned him an errand.
• Yang Chan mistook the pills for a sign that she and Chen Wei should have a baby, and Chen Wei teased her by confirming it.
• Yang Chan realized Chen Wei had tricked her and struck him, sending him flying across the office.
• Ma Muzhi, Pang Long, Xiao Yan, and Chu Feng saw Chen Wei on the floor and Yang Chan poised to strike, then pretended they had entered the wrong place.

After covering up the Green Ox Spirit case, Chen Wei received Taishang Laojun’s order to help the Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan have another child. He decided to enlist Sun Wukong and True Immortal Ruyi, leaving the difficult mission ahead.

• Yang Chan struck Chen Wei and left, and he told his subordinates they had been exchanging pointers on Daoist arts.
• Ma Muzhi reported that the Jindou Mountain demons had been dealt with, while Pang Long said the heavenly soldier who saw the Purple Flame Auspicious Cloud had died from cultivation deviation.
• Chen Wei and his subordinates sealed the Green Ox Spirit case and arranged a payment for the dead soldier’s family.
• Chen Wei revealed Taishang Laojun’s order to comfort the Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan and help them have a second child.
• Pang Long proposed approaching Sun Wukong and True Immortal Ruyi, and Chen Wei agreed to recruit both to persuade the couple.

Chen Wei went to Spirit Mountain to ask Sun Wukong to mediate between the Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan, but Sun Wukong refused to go himself and sent Chen Wei to impersonate him instead. Sun Wukong hurled Chen Wei into the sky to teach him a Divine Ability, leaving Chen Wei unsure what was about to happen.

• Chen Wei visited Sun Wukong at Pure Heart Temple and explained that Taishang Laojun had assigned him to help the Bull Demon King and Madam Iron Fan after Red Boy became a monk.
• Sun Wukong refused to visit the couple, recalling his past conflict with Madam Iron Fan and fearing the humiliation of facing them.
• Chen Wei praised Sun Wukong's loyalty, softening his resistance and prompting him to offer a substitute plan.
• Sun Wukong gave Chen Wei one of his hairs and told him to transform into the Great Sage and persuade the couple in his place.
• Chen Wei worried about impersonating Sun Wukong, but the Great Sage declared he would teach him a Divine Ability and tossed him into the sky.

Chen Wei learned Sun Wukong’s Formless Mind Ape Technique and used it to disguise himself as the Great Sage before visiting Madam Iron Fan to deliver Laojun’s Pregnancy-Nurturing Pill. Madam Iron Fan’s anger over a secret past incident overwhelmed his explanation, and she blasted him away with her Banana Leaf Fan.

• Sun Wukong taught Chen Wei the Formless Mind Ape Technique and gave him a monkey hair for his disguise.
• Chen Wei traveled to Green Cloud Mountain, transformed into Sun Wukong, and approached Banana Cave intending to deliver Laojun’s pill and reconcile Madam Iron Fan with Bull Demon King.
• Madam Iron Fan accused the disguised Chen Wei of once turning into a bug and crawling into her belly, a deed missing from the Heavenly Court’s case files.
• Chen Wei invoked Laojun’s name and tried to retrieve the pill, but Madam Iron Fan refused to trust him and raised her Banana Leaf Fan.
• Madam Iron Fan struck Chen Wei with the fan, hurling him tens of thousands of miles through the air.

After Madam Iron Fan blasted Chen Wei away from Green Cloud Mountain, he returned to the Heavenly Court and endured Yang Chan’s aggressively sweet tangyuan before explaining his failed errand. Yang Chan offered to borrow Yang Jian’s Wind-Controlling Banner to help him face Madam Iron Fan, leaving Chen Wei worried about whether Yang Jian would agree.

• Madam Iron Fan’s Banana Leaf Fan sent Chen Wei from the Western Ox Continent to the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, and he decided to return to the Heavenly Court for help.
• Chen Wei found Yang Chan cooking tangyuan, and she served him a bowl while addressing him as “Lord Chen.”
• Chen Wei praised Yang Chan’s painfully sweet tangyuan and claimed he wanted it even sweeter, prompting her to cook a cauldron of enormous tangyuan for him.
• After Chen Wei ate the cauldron, Yang Chan asked about his errand, and he explained Laojun’s Pregnancy-Nurturing Pills and Madam Iron Fan’s attack.
• Yang Chan said Yang Jian’s Wind-Controlling Banner could counter the Banana Leaf Fan and offered to fetch it, leaving Chen Wei unsure whether Yang Jian would lend it.

Yang Chan borrowed Yang Jian’s Wind-Controlling Banner for Chen Wei so he could face Madam Iron Fan, then insisted on accompanying him to Green Cloud Mountain. The pair disguised themselves as Chen Wei and Sun Wukong and set off for the Mortal Realm.

• Yang Chan visited Yang Jian at Guanjiangkou and asked to borrow his Wind-Controlling Banner, while Yang Jian abruptly left after receiving a message and warned her not to let Chen Wei use it.
• Yang Chan brought the banner to Chen Wei, who praised her and said he would return to Green Cloud Mountain to speak with Madam Iron Fan.
• Yang Chan decided to accompany Chen Wei, partly because she did not want him meeting Madam Iron Fan alone.
• Yang Chan transformed to resemble Chen Wei, and Chen Wei used the Formless Mind Ape Technique to take on Sun Wukong’s appearance.
• Chen Wei teased Yang Chan in his Great Sage disguise, and she blushed before they set out.

Chen Wei and Yang Chan went to Banana Cave under Taishang Laojun’s orders to deliver Pregnancy-Nurturing Pills to Madam Iron Fan. Madam Iron Fan’s flirtation with Chen Wei’s appearance turned to fury at the pills, and the chapter left Yang Chan intervening as the confrontation continued.

• Chen Wei and Yang Chan arrived at Banana Cave disguised as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and Chen Wei, and Chen Wei called Madam Iron Fan his sister-in-law.
• Madam Iron Fan ignored Chen Wei and flirted with Yang Chan, who was wearing Chen Wei’s face, while Yang Chan grew jealous.
• Chen Wei handed Yang Chan the Pregnancy-Nurturing Pills, and Yang Chan explained that Taishang Laojun hoped Madam Iron Fan and Eldest Brother Bull would have another child.
• Madam Iron Fan flew into a rage over the mention of Red Boy and used her Banana Leaf Fan to blast Chen Wei, but he claimed he had a Wind-Calming Pill.
• Madam Iron Fan accused Chen Wei of taking advantage of Eldest Brother Bull’s absence, then stopped fanning when Yang Chan asked her to hear them out.
• Yang Chan stepped in front of Chen Wei to block his view as Madam Iron Fan panted after fanning.

Yang Chan and Chen Wei visited Madam Iron Fan in Banana Cave to offer Pregnancy-Nurturing Pills, but Madam Iron Fan openly flirted with Yang Chan and recalled Sun Wukong’s past deceptions. The chapter ended with her testing Chen Wei by asking what Sun Wukong had called her while disguised as the Bull Demon King.

• Yang Chan invited Madam Iron Fan inside, then warned Chen Wei not to look at her.
• Madam Iron Fan hosted Yang Chan and Chen Wei in Banana Cave and flirted with Yang Chan while discussing the pills.
• Madam Iron Fan lamented that the Bull Demon King was away with a fox spirit and asked who she was supposed to have a child with.
• Chen Wei offered to visit Accumulating Thunder Mountain and persuade the Bull Demon King to return, but Madam Iron Fan challenged him to go at once.
• Madam Iron Fan recalled Sun Wukong’s past tricks and asked Chen Wei what he had called her while disguised as the Bull Demon King.

Chen Wei and Yang Chan tried to persuade Madam Iron Fan to accept Taishang Laojun’s Pregnancy-Nurturing Pill, eventually invoking Red Boy to sway her. Madam Iron Fan accepted the pill and asked them to reveal their true identities, leaving her suspicious of the pair’s behavior.

• Chen Wei posed as Sun Wukong and improvised an explanation for calling Madam Iron Fan “Sweetie,” while Yang Chan grew jealous and then realized Madam Iron Fan suspected the disguise.
• Yang Chan tried to redirect the conversation toward the pill, but Madam Iron Fan refused it and teased her with a blunt suggestion about forcing Bull Demon King home.
• Chen Wei reminded Madam Iron Fan that Red Boy might worry, then argued that accepting the pill would show her submission to the Heavenly Court; Yang Chan supported his appeal.
• Madam Iron Fan accepted the pill and asked Chen Wei and Yang Chan to show their real faces.
• Chen Wei and Yang Chan dropped their disguises, revealing Chen Wei as an immortal official and Yang Chan as the Third Holy Mother; Madam Iron Fan wondered what was strange between them.

Chen Wei and Yang Chan delivered Pregnancy-Nurturing Pills to Madam Iron Fan, whose teasing flustered Yang Chan before the Bull Demon King returned and mistook Chen Wei for the monkey who had visited before. The Bull Demon King attacked, and Madam Iron Fan and Yang Chan countered with their magical treasures.

• Madam Iron Fan teased Chen Wei about calling her “sweetie,” prompting Yang Chan to crack the table in anger.
• Madam Iron Fan accepted the pills and teased Yang Chan about discussing pregnancy and childbirth, leaving Yang Chan flustered.
• The cave shook as the Bull Demon King arrived, and Madam Iron Fan briefly tried to hide Chen Wei before remembering he was on official business.
• The Bull Demon King accused Chen Wei of being the monkey who had caused trouble at his home and attacked him.
• Madam Iron Fan swung her Banana Leaf Fan while Yang Chan used the Treasure Lotus Lamp to strike back at the Bull Demon King.