Recaps

At the annual gathering, Aimon revealed that he had united the Bernard family and nearly everyone else against Amandina, then demanded an all-or-nothing contest. Xiao Yu rejected Aimon’s plan for one-on-one matches and challenged the entire gathering to attack him at once, leaving the room laughing at him.

• Amandina worried that the other families had joined Aimon, while Xiao Yu reassured her that his cultivation resources and connections gave him an advantage.
• Aimon arrived with two women and confirmed that the Bernard family and everyone else in the villa had submitted to him, leaving Amandina as the only holdout.
• Aimon told Amandina that she would have to defeat everyone one by one and wager everything in the final annual contest.
• Amandina accepted the stakes, believing Aimon’s arrogance had given her a chance to compete fairly.
• Xiao Yu called Aimon a loser who had already lost to him and demanded that everyone attack him together, prompting laughter and jeers from the crowd.

Aimon agreed to Xiao Yu’s demand that everyone attack together, while Qi Meng decided to side with Aimon. Xiao Yu revealed his Evil-Breaking Arrow and purified Antoine, stripping him of his vampire powers and leaving him a mortal.

• Aimon invited everyone to the back garden so they could attack Xiao Yu together, intending to have Qi Meng join the fight.
• Qi Meng chose to help Aimon because she relied on his spiritual herbs, wanted revenge on Xiao Yu, and believed Aimon had the advantage in numbers.
• Xiao Yu summoned thousands of Evil-Breaking Arrows and gave the crowd a chance to react before attacking.
• Antoine charged Xiao Yu, and golden arrows passed through him, purifying his soul and turning him into an ordinary person without vampire powers.
• Antoine denied that his power was gone and attacked Xiao Yu, but his fist hit a wooden table and began to bleed.

Xiao Yu used his Merit Power to strip the vampires at the villa of their cultivation, while Qi Meng shielded Aimon long enough for them to escape. After forcing the defeated vampires to apologize, Xiao Yu announced he could restore their power and demanded the families honor the wager.

• Xiao Yu gave the vampires three seconds to flee, then engulfed the villa in golden Merit Power and turned them into ordinary people.
• Aimon shoved two Bernard Family sisters in front of the arrows and fled toward Qi Meng, who shattered the attacks but was exhausted by the effort.
• Aimon and Qi Meng escaped through a second-floor window and fled in a taxi, leaving the annual gathering and Aimon's ambition in ruins.
• The Bernard sisters and other vampires begged Xiao Yu to restore their powers, while Amandina celebrated their victory and kissed him.
• Xiao Yu told the vampires that he could restore their power and demanded that they fulfill the wager by offering up their families' possessions.

After stripping the vampires of their powers, Xiao Yu claimed Aimon's villa and prepared to pursue him. Aimon took the weakened Qi Meng into his family's Secret Realm, where he revealed his predatory intentions and attacked her.

• The Bernard Family sisters and the other vampires agreed to have their families pay Xiao Yu to restore their powers, and he sent them away to collect the treasures.
• Xiao Yu found Nathan dead after he had smashed his own head against a wall, stored the body in the Dragon and Phoenix Ring, and claimed Aimon's villa.
• Xiao Yu told Veronica to continue managing the villa and planned to go after Aimon and rescue Qi Meng.
• Aimon and Qi Meng fled together, and Aimon persuaded her to go with him to his family's Secret Realm while she was badly weakened.
• After bringing Qi Meng into the Secret Realm, Aimon carried her to his home, admitted he intended to sleep with her, and attacked her as she screamed for help.

Xiao Yu rescued Qi Meng from Aimon, then persuaded her to give him the Heavenly Mechanism Ring. Aimon returned with his family's Old Ancestor, and Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to assess the powerful opponent.

• Xiao Yu appeared beside Qi Meng, knocked Aimon away, and promised to get her out safely.
• Aimon fled to fetch reinforcements while Qi Meng warned Xiao Yu about the powerful Old Ancestor in Aimon's family.
• Xiao Yu asked Qi Meng for her ring, and she gave him the Heavenly Mechanism Ring after he bluntly said he wanted the ring but not her.
• Aimon returned with the Old Ancestor and accused Xiao Yu of ruining his plans and threatening his family.
• Xiao Yu activated the Heavenly Mechanism Canon and learned that the Old Ancestor was at peak tenth-level Core Formation, near the Golden Core Stage, with many hidden abilities.

Xiao Yu revealed Barry’s secret past as a deserter who gained vampire power through his dying wife, then explained Barry’s cultivation and warned that fighting would strip away his power and kill him. He urged Barry to accept Xiao Yu’s victory in the annual gathering and surrender the family’s promised treasures.

• Xiao Yu stopped Barry from attacking and offered to tell his fortune before they fought.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Barry had deserted the battlefield and escaped execution after a wealthy vampire woman married him.
• Xiao Yu recounted how Barry’s wounded wife gave him her power before dying, and accused him of marrying her enemy’s daughter instead of avenging her.
• Xiao Yu explained that Barry was a Blood Cultivator who had reached the peak of the tenth level of the Core Formation Stage at age 147.
• Xiao Yu warned that purifying Barry’s power during a fight would leave him an ordinary old man who would die, while reaching the Golden Core Stage could extend his life to a thousand years.
• Xiao Yu demanded that Barry honor the wager and hand over everything his family owned.

Xiao Yu took Barry's family treasury and seized control of their small world after defeating them. He gave Qi Meng cultivation techniques in exchange for the Heavenly Mechanism Ring, then sealed the old entrance and moved the small world's entrance to Huaxia.

• Barry surrendered to Xiao Yu and handed over his family's treasures after Aimon confirmed that Xiao Yu could purify people.
• Xiao Yu collected the family's vast wealth and spirit herbs from its treasury.
• Xiao Yu forced Barry's family to leave the small world after displaying his Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Xiao Yu offered Qi Meng cultivation techniques in exchange for her Heavenly Mechanism Ring, and she accepted.
• Xiao Yu destroyed the old passage and opened a new entrance to the small world in Huaxia.

Xiao Yu collected ransom from the young vampires, restoring each person’s power according to how much their family surrendered. After a day, he and Amandina had gathered over a trillion Huaxia currency, and Xiao Yu prepared to go home.

• Luo Sa offered her family’s treasures, but Xiao Yu found her personal jewelry and money and restored only half her power.
• Xiao Yu caught another young vampire trying to surrender only a tenth of his family’s wealth and sent him away without restoring his power.
• The remaining vampires called their families for more treasures, and Xiao Yu agreed to restore power in proportion to what each family paid.
• Xiao Yu and Amandina finished collecting more than a trillion Huaxia currency in ransom.
• Xiao Yu called the haul a bumper harvest and said it was time to go home.

Xiao Yu found the Flowing Cloud Sword, a powerful spirit sword containing the soul of a murdered woman, and took it home as a gift for Liu Shan. After returning to Magic City, he used the Heavenly Mechanism Ring to tell the fortune of Ghost King Yin Bingyu and investigate the mysteries of her cultivation.

• Xiao Yu gave Jacques the spiritual Small World and visited the family treasury, but found nothing he wanted among its money, jewels, and ordinary treasures.
• Amandina led Xiao Yu to the armory, where he discovered a slender sword that emitted spiritual energy but could not be drawn from its scabbard.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to learn that the sword was Flowing Cloud and that a woman's soul had been sealed inside it.
• Xiao Yu drew Flowing Cloud and discovered that it could strike targets regardless of distance, then chose it as a gift for Liu Shan.
• Xiao Yu returned to Magic City with Liu Shan and the Vampire Clan as allies, then used the Heavenly Mechanism Ring to tell Yin Bingyu's fortune.

Xiao Yu learned why Yin Bingyu refused to return to the Netherworld and spent half a month strengthening his mental power with a new pill. After Liu Shan gained fortune-telling abilities through the Heavenly Mechanism Ring, she took over the shop’s work, leaving Xiao Yu to enjoy a laid-back life.

• Xiao Yu asked Yin Bingyu whether she wanted to return to the Netherworld, and she refused because she preferred experiencing life in the living world.
• Xiao Yu reflected that the Netherworld confined ghosts in an empty realm where they cultivated, and decided not to risk entering it without a compelling reason.
• Xiao Yu developed the Mental Cultivation Pill from Spirit Herbs taken from Aimon’s home and used it to greatly increase his mental power.
• Xiao Yu’s mental cultivation reached the third level of the Golden Core Stage, and his fortune-telling ability grew strong enough to read the fortunes of cultivators below that level when using the Heavenly Mechanism Ring.
• Liu Shan borrowed the ring and discovered she could tell fortunes, so she began working alongside Xiao Yu at the Fortune-Telling Shop.
• Liu Shan took over most of the shop’s work while Xiao Yu relaxed, played games, and accepted customers’ gratitude.

Xiao Yu fled from the women gathered outside his home and left Liu Shan to deal with them. Later, while dining with Qi Zihong, Pang Juan, and their one-year-old daughter Qi Yunlin, he watched Yunlin show a surprising streak of jealousy toward his fans.

• Liu Shan woke Xiao Yu and told him Aibeier, Amandina, Qi Meng, and Hu Feifei were arguing outside his door for his affection.
• Xiao Yu escaped through the portal and left Liu Shan to send the women away.
• Xiao Yu met Qi Zihong and Pang Juan while shopping, held their daughter Qi Yunlin, and accepted Qi Zihong’s offer to raise her together if Xiao Yu wanted.
• Xiao Yu took Qi Yunlin and her parents to a buffet, where Yunlin stayed cheerful in his arms and kissed him.
• Four of Xiao Yu’s livestream fans crowded around him and joked about having his children, so Qi Yunlin smeared cake on all four women’s faces.

Xiao Yu read the fortunes of four college students, discovering that Dou Rong faced exceptionally tragic futures and that becoming a ghost after death could lead her to a happier new life. He told her to keep living for now and treat that path as a last resort, while leaving open the possibility of finding another way when her turning points arrived.

• Zheng Qiu asked Xiao Yu about her love life, and he warned her about a future scumbag and suggested she focus on her studies or even marry a robot someday.
• Xiao Yu gave Zou Zhenyu and the third girl readings that showed ordinary futures with both joys and hardships.
• Xiao Yu used his improved extrapolative fortune-telling to see Dou Rong’s possible futures, including a new beginning as a ghost cultivator after death.
• Xiao Yu told Dou Rong that her future held severe misfortunes and advised her that dying with unresolved grievances could allow her to become a ghost and find happiness.
• Dou Rong said she did not want to die, so Xiao Yu urged her to live happily for now and return to him if she could not accept that path when the time came.

Xiao Yu read Qi Yunlin’s future and arranged to teach her at his home for several years, while Qi Zihong and Pang Juan agreed despite their reluctance. After returning home, Xiao Yu explained Qi Yunlin’s identity to Liu Shan, who joked that the girl would become her romantic rival.

• The college girls thanked Xiao Yu and left, while Dou Rong felt reassured that she could ask him for help later.
• Xiao Yu told Qi Zihong that Qi Yunlin had many possible futures, including becoming a female celestial master, and that her romantic life could be difficult.
• Xiao Yu asked Qi Zihong and Pang Juan to let Qi Yunlin stay with him six days a week until elementary school, and they agreed after discussing it.
• At the buffet, Xiao Yu predicted that the receptionist would be fired after arguing with the next customer, and the predicted confrontation began.
• Xiao Yu returned home with Qi Yunlin and explained to Liu Shan that the girl was Qi Zihong’s daughter, not his illegitimate child.
• Qi Yunlin resisted Liu Shan’s attempt to hold her, and Liu Shan joked that she needed a daughter to compete for Xiao Yu’s affection.

Xiao Yu raised Qi Yunlin in the small world, where cultivation made her grow and learn at an astonishing rate, while the Heavenly Dao grew increasingly chaotic and his livestream went international. The chapter ended as Xiao Yu connected with a foreign viewer who challenged him to guess her name and occupation.

• Xiao Yu used the Spirit Awakening Spell, taught Qi Yunlin to speak, read, and cultivate, and watched her become a child prodigy.
• Qi Zihong and Pang Juan visited and were shocked by Qi Yunlin's growth, then learned about cultivation and began visiting her in the small world.
• Xiao Yu and Qi Zihong's family kept Qi Yunlin from going outside as she continued developing rapidly, while Liu Shan remained unable to conceive and the Heavenly Dao's growing chaos altered people's futures.
• Liu Shan drove off kidnappers by cutting their car in half with the Flowing Cloud Sword, and Xiao Yu's cultivation and international livestream audience continued to grow.
• Xiao Yu drew a foreign viewer named kimoji, who said she doubted fortune-telling and asked him to guess her name and occupation.

Xiao Yu read Camilia Audrey’s fortune, warning her that refusing her family’s business could leave her struggling later. When Qi Yunlin unexpectedly appeared during the livestream, Xiao Yu discovered she could pass through his Small World formation barrier and followed her inside to learn how.

• Xiao Yu correctly described Camilia Audrey’s childhood memories, convincing her and the livestream viewers of his fortune-telling.
• Xiao Yu warned Camilia that her older female cousin could inherit the family business and that she might regret giving it up; Camilia said she would consider his advice.
• Qi Yunlin suddenly appeared in Xiao Yu’s room and asked him for hugs, interrupting the livestream.
• Xiao Yu questioned how Qi Yunlin had escaped the Small World despite his defensive formations, and promised to grant her one wish if she showed him.
• Qi Yunlin revealed the Small World entrance with a gesture and pulled Xiao Yu inside.

Xiao Yu discovered that Qi Yunlin had awakened an innate divine ability that let her pass through barriers, and he planned to use it to reach sealed small worlds. During his livestream, Japanese teacher Itō Ryōta asked him to find students who had disappeared from his school and expose the child traffickers.

• Xiao Yu realized Qi Yunlin could ignore barriers because she had awakened an innate divine ability, making her an unprecedented prodigy.
• Xiao Yu promised Qi Yunlin a phone and game console, then continued the livestream with her in his arms.
• Itō Ryōta told Xiao Yu that thirty-three students had disappeared from his school over summer vacation and asked him to find them and catch the criminals.
• The viewers recognized that Itō Ryōta's request also challenged Xiao Yu to prove his fortune-telling abilities, though his unusual sayings confused them.

Xiao Yu explained how a child-trafficking scam targeting parents worked and decided to arrange a rescue in Japan without going himself. Liu Shan, Hu Feifei, Zhong Qi, Li An, and Aibeier volunteered or were expected to join the mission, leaving Xiao Yu pleased by how eagerly the women around him competed to help.

• Xiao Yu explained to Itō Ryōta that scammers posing as young female teachers lured children away through free tutoring lessons and gifts.
• Xiao Yu decided not to travel to Japan himself and planned to send people close to him to rescue the children and catch the traffickers.
• Liu Shan offered to go instead of Hu Feifei and Zhong Qi, and Xiao Yu agreed after she assured him she could handle the danger.
• Hu Feifei called Xiao Yu and volunteered, and he expected Zhong Qi and Li An to accompany her and Liu Shan.
• Aibeier called Xiao Yu, offered to use her connections in Japan to rescue the children, and he agreed to let her go.

After learning Liu Shan and his disciples had become wanted fugitives in Japan, Xiao Yu went to retrieve them and discovered that a hidden shooter had targeted his wife. He left with Zhong Qi to find the culprit, whose identity remained unclear as the chapter shifted to a couple arguing in an upscale restaurant.

• Liu Shan called Xiao Yu and explained that she and his disciples had fled after finding the traffickers dead and encountering police, while Miss Aibeier had already paid to free the abducted children.
• Xiao Yu used a portal to reach Japan and found Liu Shan, Hu Feifei, Zhong Qi, and Li An hiding in a hotel.
• Hu Feifei told Xiao Yu that a hidden person had shot at Liu Shan while police tried to arrest them, though Liu Shan's Protective Jade stopped the bullet.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to replay the incident and saw a smug young man fire a pistol at Liu Shan's head.
• Xiao Yu told the others to wait, then took Zhong Qi along to interpret as he went to deal with the shooter.
• At an upscale Japanese restaurant, a woman named Kaito's companion angrily confronted him for ordering expensive steaks despite having no job or money.

Xiao Yu confronted Nakagawa Kaito over his killings, theft, and attack on Xiao Yu’s women, exposing how he used justice to justify his crimes. Nakagawa Kaito denied Xiao Yu’s prediction that he would commit a crime against Chiba Yōko, while Xiao Yu held back from simply killing him because of the merit cost.

• Chiba Yōko broke up with Nakagawa Kaito during their meal and left, saying she was tired of supporting him.
• Xiao Yu and Zhong Qi approached Nakagawa Kaito, and Xiao Yu accused him of killing human traffickers and stealing their money.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Nakagawa Kaito had gained a superpower two years earlier and had turned killing fugitives into a source of income.
• Xiao Yu accused Nakagawa Kaito of shooting at his women to frame them and predicted that he planned to force Chiba Yōko to understand him tonight.
• Nakagawa Kaito angrily denied that Chiba Yōko could reject him, while Xiao Yu refrained from attacking because killing him or taking his power would cost merit.

Xiao Yu deliberately provoked Nakagawa Kaito into refusing his offer so he could act against him without losing merit, and planned to rescue Chiba Yōko when Kaito attacked her. Kaito went to win Yōko back with flowers and money, but discovered she had already moved out and met only a cold response over the phone.

• Xiao Yu offered Nakagawa Kaito the choice to surrender his power or turn himself in, and Kaito chose neither, openly defying him.
• Xiao Yu explained that he planned to give Kaito’s Yin-Yang Five Elements Power to Zhong Qi, then said they would save Chiba Yōko when Kaito attacked her that night.
• Nakagawa Kaito ordered 9,999 roses and bought expensive sushi, convinced that revealing his powers would make Yōko regret leaving him.
• Nakagawa Kaito returned to his apartment and found that Chiba Yōko had packed her belongings and moved out.
• Nakagawa Kaito called Chiba Yōko and offered her the hundred million in cash he had earned, but she responded coldly and with disgust.

After Chiba Yōko rejected Nakagawa Kaito and blamed him for his murders, Xiao Yu and Zhong Qi confronted him, causing him to turn demonic. Nakagawa Kaito attacked them with his newfound power, but Xiao Yu’s Merit Power weakened the barrage enough for them to withstand it.

• Chiba Yōko called Nakagawa Kaito a murderer, said she had left him, and hung up.
• Nakagawa Kaito blamed Xiao Yu and Zhong Qi for turning Yōko against him and smashed things in anger.
• Xiao Yu and Zhong Qi appeared before Nakagawa Kaito, and Xiao Yu explained that he had come because Nakagawa Kaito had harmed his wife.
• Nakagawa Kaito turned demonic, gained power, and declared that he would kill Xiao Yu and take Zhong Qi.
• Xiao Yu challenged Nakagawa Kaito to attack, noting that his demonification made it easier for Zhong Qi to seize his power.
• Nakagawa Kaito launched a barrage of demonified elemental attacks, but Xiao Yu’s Merit Power weakened them enough that he and Zhong Qi remained unharmed.

Xiao Yu defeated Nakagawa Kaito with the Heavenly Thunder Mantra, and Zhong Qi absorbed Kaito’s power. The group returned home while Kaito woke powerless and faced the consequences of his actions.

• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Thunder Mantra to knock Nakagawa Kaito unconscious, badly injuring him.
• Xiao Yu told Zhong Qi to absorb Kaito’s power, and she reached the peak of the tenth level of the Core Formation Stage.
• Xiao Yu hurried Zhong Qi home after she developed strange feelings from absorbing Kaito’s power.
• Nakagawa Kaito woke the next day, discovered his power was gone, and paid the landlord compensation after the police intervened.
• Nakagawa Kaito regretted firing at Liu Shan but still failed to understand that his own selfish actions had made him a villain.
• Xiao Yu returned home with Zhong Qi and Hu Feifei, dismissing questions about the portal and leaving Kaito’s fate to the Japanese police.

Xiao Yu took Qi Yunlin shopping for a phone and game console as rewards for her cultivation and studies, but learned that she wanted the console so she could play with Zhong Qi and help her feel like part of a family. At a crowded display for a new holographic console, Xiao Yu became eager to try it himself, leaving Qi Yunlin frustrated as they joined the long wait.

• Xiao Yu ignored Aibeier's call and focused on urging Qi Yunlin to cultivate and study so she could eventually use the Dragon and Phoenix Ring.
• Xiao Yu took Qi Yunlin to a phone store, where his fans teased him about bringing his little bride-to-be and the manager gave Qi Yunlin a phone for free.
• Qi Yunlin told Xiao Yu that Zhong Qi had suggested a game console because she missed her parents, and Qi Yunlin wanted them to play together like a family.
• Xiao Yu decided he should take Zhong Qi to visit her parents in Yanjing.
• Xiao Yu and Qi Yunlin found a crowded exhibition for the PS New Century, a holographic game console available for preorder and an early-play drawing.
• Xiao Yu insisted they wait so he could try the console, while Qi Yunlin complained that he had come to shop for her, not play himself.

Xiao Yu won an early trial of a neural gaming console and discovered he could use its game worlds to train his combat skills. His session was cut short when an arrogant rich young man arrived with bodyguards and demanded the trial room for himself.

• Xiao Yu prepaid for a console and won the first early-trial slot, then entered the gaming room with Qi Yunlin.
• Xiao Yu found that the helmet linked to the user's nerves and let mental power control the game, making it useful for practicing swordsmanship and combat skills.
• Xiao Yu cleared the game quickly and decided he wanted several consoles for training, but someone forcibly disconnected his machine.
• A black-suited bodyguard shut down the trial machines, leaving the other players dizzy and upset.
• A tattooed young man arrived with twin companions, bodyguards, and lackeys, then ordered the players to leave and dismissed their objections.

A dispute at the game console store escalated when Feng Yu’s bodyguards threw out a customer and the manager refused to help or issue a refund. Xiao Yu confronted Feng Yu for bullying people and exposed him as an adopted son, but a customer then recognized Xiao Yu as Master Xiao.

• Feng Yu’s bodyguard restrained the man in glasses and threw him out after he tried to punch Feng Yu.
• The manager told the man in glasses his trial was over, refused to intervene, and denied his request for a refund.
• Feng Yu bragged that his adoptive father owned the mall, prompting customers to protest and say they would no longer buy from the store.
• Xiao Yu condemned Feng Yu for flaunting his adoptive father’s wealth and mocked him for being an adopted son, leading the crowd to jeer at Feng Yu.
• A customer recognized Xiao Yu as Master Xiao, drawing everyone’s attention.