Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu returned home with He Lu, replenished his shop’s stock, advanced his cultivation, and prepared to break the restriction at Experimental Middle School. He then joined He Ya to interview businessman Zhong at the site of a landslide disaster, where Xiao Yu’s respectful greeting surprised the livestream viewers.

• Xiao Yu brought He Lu home and had Yuan Yu, Su Yunyi, and Xia Mo look after her while he stored medicinal herbs in the Dragon and Phoenix Ring.
• Xiao Yu announced that he would stop making the 30,000-yuan Protective Jade, spent half a month filling orders and refining herbs, and reached the fourth layer of Core Formation in immortal cultivation and the third layer in merit cultivation.
• Xiao Yu unlocked the Evil-Breaking Array, which could help him fight the energy-based restriction at Experimental Middle School, but he still needed a Hundred Refined Stone.
• Xiao Yu traveled with He Ya and Tao Hongzhen to interview businessman Zhong, who was helping with relief after a landslide buried a village.
• Xiao Yu greeted Zhong as “Mr. Zhong,” prompting livestream viewers to remark on the respect he showed him.

He Ya interviewed Zhong Ming about his disaster relief work, and he explained why he ignored online criticism and continued helping people. He revealed a suspected case of arson staged for fame and urged Xiao Yu’s group to investigate, leaving Xiao Yu aware that Zhong Ming was testing his abilities.

• Zhong Ming told He Ya that the disaster had killed three people, injured more than a dozen, and caused millions in losses.
• He Ya offered to donate, and Zhong Ming said he kept helping despite accusations that his charity was a publicity stunt.
• Zhong Ming described a recent city fire and alleged that someone had deliberately started it to gain fame before acting like a rescue hero.
• Zhong Ming asked He Ya and Xiao Yu to investigate the fire, and Xiao Yu realized Zhong Ming wanted him to find evidence and assess his fortune-telling skills.

Xiao Yu and his companions arrived at a devastating fire and found Zhang Yifan being praised as a hero for rescuing residents, while police suspected he had started the blaze. He Ya revealed Zhang Yifan’s history of charity scandals, and Xiao Yu decided to interview him to expose the truth.

• After Xiao Yu confirmed the fire through divination, the group drove to the burned residential compound and factory.
• Xiao Yu spotted Zhang Yifan receiving thanks from rescued residents while reporters photographed him.
• Xiao Yu noticed police and residents suspecting Zhang Yifan of arson but lacking evidence.
• He Ya told Xiao Yu that Zhang Yifan was a disgraced celebrity who had once been accused of retracting a donation.
• Xiao Yu asked He Ya to interview Zhang Yifan, and she approached him as a firefighting hero.

Zhang Yifan praised himself as a heroic rescuer during He Ya’s interview while she struggled to challenge his story. Xiao Yu pointed out suspicious details about the fire, leaving Zhang visibly shaken.

• Zhang Yifan told He Ya he had risked his life to rescue residents and a child from the fire.
• The rescued residents praised Zhang Yifan and defended him against accusations that he had faked donations.
• He Ya asked about the fire’s damage, and Zhang said he would have helped fight it if he had known how serious it was.
• Xiao Yu questioned whether the fire’s timing and location had been deliberately chosen and pointed out how strangely no one inside noticed it early.
• Zhang Yifan grew livid and broke into a cold sweat as Xiao Yu exposed the oddities in his account.

Xiao Yu accused Zhang Yifan of deliberately setting the fire to pose as a hero and laid out how the police could prove it. After officers found Zhang Yifan’s fingerprints and identified him as the culprit, the residents erupted and attacked him.

• Xiao Yu challenged Zhang Yifan’s story and accused him of setting the building on fire for fame.
• Xiao Yu explained that Zhang Yifan could have avoided the complex’s cameras by entering through the Leather Tannery and predicted that investigators would find traces and fingerprints.
• The police searched for evidence as the residents and Leather Tannery owner turned against Zhang Yifan.
• Zhang Yifan fell to his knees, and angry residents punched and kicked him while he denied setting the fire.
• A police officer announced that Zhang Yifan’s fingerprints had been found and that he was the culprit, setting off a riot among the residents.

Xiao Yu helped expose and arrest Zhang Yifan as the arsonist, earning praise from the police and livestream viewers. At dinner with Zhong Ming and He Ya, Xiao Yu encountered the food streamer Xiao Wen Who Never Gets Fat and realized her enormous appetite came from an undetectable illness.

• The police and livestream viewers celebrated after Zhang Yifan was exposed and arrested, while Xiao Yu disappeared from the scene.
• Zhong Ming praised Xiao Yu for solving the case quickly and invited him, He Ya, and the others to dinner.
• At Magic Chef BBQ, He Ya recognized the food streamer Xiao Wen Who Never Gets Fat, who had amassed a million followers in six months.
• Xiao Yu read Xiao Wen's fortune and learned that she was an ordinary girl with a strange illness, not a fake eater.
• Xiao Wen prepared to eat ten plates of grilled meat and drink three two-liter bottles of cola, astonishing He Ya and the others.

Xiao Wen attempted an eating challenge at a restaurant, but after eating six platters of grilled meat, she became ill and had to stop. Xiao Yu warned her that her extreme eating could kill her, predicting that she would vomit blood again during her livestream the next day, and left before she could speak to him.

• Xiao Wen started a timed challenge to eat ten platters of grilled meat and drink three large bottles of cola without using the bathroom.
• Xiao Wen ate continuously as customers watched, but her pace slowed and she began sweating and looking uncomfortable.
• Xiao Wen stopped the challenge after nearly vomiting and said she needed to use the bathroom.
• Xiao Yu followed Xiao Wen to the bathroom and warned her that continuing to eat this way could cost her life.
• Xiao Yu predicted that Xiao Wen would vomit blood again during her livestream the next day, then left with He Ya and Boss Zhong.
• Xiao Wen came out of the bathroom after Xiao Yu had left and wondered whether she was going to die.

After Xiao Yu warned Mu Wen that her extreme eating could kill her, she tried to limit herself during a steak-eating livestream. Her viewers pressured her to keep eating, leaving her torn between protecting her health and keeping her audience.

• Mu Wen stopped eating and packed up her food after recalling Xiao Yu's warning, then spent the night unable to sleep.
• The next day, Mu Wen visited an all-you-can-eat steak restaurant and told viewers she would aim for ten steaks while watching for signs of trouble.
• Mu Wen ate ten steaks without vomiting blood, though she felt tired and strained as she continued.
• Mu Wen tried to end the stream, but viewers accused her of disappointing them and threatened to unfollow unless she ate more.
• Mu Wen faced the choice of risking another episode of vomiting blood or losing viewers as the chat demanded she continue.

After Mu Wen collapsed from vomiting blood during an eating livestream, she sought Xiao Yu’s help and received medicine that could save her if she stopped doing big-eater challenges. Two days later, her thank-you gift turned out to be the Hundred Refined Stone Xiao Yu needed, leaving him ready to forge the Flying Sword and open the treasure vault.

• Mu Wen forced herself to eat a twentieth steak during her livestream, vomited blood, and passed out.
• After waking in the hospital, Mu Wen remembered Xiao Yu’s warning and flew to Magic City to ask him for help.
• Xiao Yu gave Mu Wen a pill and told her to rest, recover, and stop eating recklessly if she wanted to live.
• Mu Wen thanked Xiao Yu and promised to send him an ancestral gemstone as a gift.
• Two days later, Xiao Yu opened Mu Wen’s package and discovered it contained the Hundred Refined Stone he had been searching for.
• Xiao Yu realized he could now forge the Flying Sword and open the treasure vault.

Xiao Yu forged the True Shadow Sword and used it with an Evil-Breaking Array to destroy the ward blocking the rooftop entrance at Experimental Middle School. He discovered a vast hidden world filled with spirit herbs and spiritual energy, and wondered whether the Heavenly Mandate Stone connected different worlds.

• Xiao Yu forged a low-grade flying sword, named it the True Shadow Sword, and discovered the supreme-grade Spirit Stones in his ring had recharged.
• Xiao Yu returned to Experimental Middle School with Zhong Qi and tested the sword against the ward, confirming that his attacks damaged it.
• Xiao Yu set up an Evil-Breaking Array and repeatedly struck the ward until it vanished.
• Xiao Yu and Zhong Qi entered the rooftop realm and found a green world full of spirit herbs and misty spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yu guessed that the Heavenly Mandate Stone connected separate worlds and celebrated his newfound access to spirit herbs.

Xiao Yu kept the thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in a sealed miniature world as his private garden, then bought Experimental Middle School and became its principal. At a school meeting, Ge Zhongyun asked him about Yan Yu, and Xiao Yu revealed the causes of her abuse and decided to speak with her father.

• Xiao Yu chose to leave the spiritual herbs growing in the sealed miniature world rather than dig them up.
• Xiao Yu bought Experimental Middle School and became its principal a week later so he could enter the school openly.
• Xiao Yu held a school-wide meeting, where some teachers recognized him as a fortune-telling streamer and most remained skeptical.
• Ge Zhongyun asked Xiao Yu for help with Yan Yu, whose bruises suggested that she was being abused at home.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Yan Yu's mother had an intellectual disability and her father was exhausted and depressed, then resolved to talk to her father.

Xiao Yu called Yan Qing to investigate Yan Yu’s injuries and used a tuition waiver to persuade him to stop drinking and abusing his family. Yan Qing agreed to quit drinking and promised not to hurt his wife or daughter again.

• The teachers doubted Xiao Yu’s claim that Yan Yu had an intellectual disability and waited to see whether he could help her.
• Xiao Yu called Yan Qing and offered to waive Yan Yu’s tuition if her family cooperated with the school’s inquiry.
• Yan Qing said he was the household’s sole earner, then falsely claimed Yan Yu’s injuries came from playing or fighting.
• Xiao Yu confronted Yan Qing about the injuries, and Yan Qing admitted that drinking sometimes led him to hit his wife and daughter.
• Xiao Yu made the tuition waiver conditional on Yan Yu suffering no further domestic violence, and Yan Qing agreed to stop drinking and abusing his family.

Xiao Yu won the teachers’ support by waiving Yan Yu’s tuition and promising financial help to students in need. After impressing the staff with his fortune-telling, he was unexpectedly called on to give a speech the next day and left a vice principal speechless by divining and delivering the speech he had prepared.

• Xiao Yu explained how he had persuaded Yan Qing to reduce his drinking and domestic violence by easing his financial pressure and waiving Yan Yu’s tuition.
• Xiao Yu told the teachers that he would personally fund verified cases of student hardship, and the teachers praised his generosity.
• He Shan asked Xiao Yu when she would be promoted and get a raise, and he joked that she might never receive either before promising fair performance-based bonuses.
• At dinner, Xiao Yu told the teachers’ fortunes and astonished them with his accuracy.
• The next day, a vice principal unexpectedly called Xiao Yu to speak at the sports field, and Xiao Yu used divination to deliver the vice principal’s prepared speech before he could give it.

Xiao Yu agreed to make the Special Admissions Class tuition-free after Liang Ya explained the hardships faced by its students’ families. More than a hundred grateful parents came to the school to thank him, but one parent recognized Xiao Yu as the internet celebrity Master Xiao and questioned whether the waiver was a scam.

• Liang Ya gave Xiao Yu a list of financially struggling students and explained why their families had sacrificed so much to get them into the school.
• Xiao Yu made the Special Admissions Class completely free, preventing some students from dropping out and easing their families’ financial burdens.
• Over a hundred parents gathered at the school’s Multi-Purpose Hall to thank Xiao Yu in person.
• One parent recognized Xiao Yu as Master Xiao, a famous con artist, and asked whether the tuition waiver was meant to gain their trust before scamming them.

Parents who benefited from Xiao Yu's tuition waiver still doubted him because they believed he was a fraud, forcing him to face questions about his motives. Liang Ya defended Xiao Yu, then resolved to support him despite the parents’ suspicions.

• Many parents hesitated to trust Xiao Yu, suspecting his tuition waiver might be groundwork for a scam.
• Xiao Yu divined Wei Yun's thoughts and asked him to explain his suspicion openly.
• Liang Ya told Wei Yun he could decline the free tuition if he did not trust Xiao Yu, but Wei Yun stayed silent and remained seated.
• Another parent argued that gratitude and suspicion could coexist, and the other parents agreed.
• Liang Ya admired Xiao Yu's composure and resolved to follow and support him.

Xiao Yu proved he was a genuine fortune-telling master by revealing Wei Yun’s private struggles, leading Wei Yun to apologize and the other parents to reconsider their doubts. When Yu Lian asked for a reading, Xiao Yu exposed how she had lost her family’s savings in an investment scam, leaving her story at the moment she had wanted revenge.

• Xiao Yu described Wei Yun’s childhood, family tensions, and hopes for his son, but Wei Yun still wondered whether the principal had investigated him.
• Xiao Yu revealed how Wei Yun had lost and recovered most of his savings through a panicked stock investment, and Wei Yun admitted Xiao Yu was right and apologized.
• The other parents questioned whether Wei Yun had been a plant, but one woman cautiously asked Xiao Yu to tell her fortune.
• Xiao Yu told Yu Lian how she had trusted a relative’s investment scheme, lost her family’s savings, and been blamed by friends and relatives after the company boss fled.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Yu Lian had once wanted to burn her relative’s family to death.

Xiao Yu promised Yu Lian he would recover the 340,000 yuan she lost in an investment scam and send the relative who swindled her to prison. He then called Ma Wei, the scammer, and demanded 400,000 yuan in compensation in exchange for keeping her affair secret, but she refused.

• Xiao Yu reminded Yu Lian how Ma Wei’s scam cost her 340,000 yuan and caused her family hardship, then promised to recover the money and have Ma Wei imprisoned.
• Yu Lian eagerly asked Xiao Yu whether he could truly recover her money and said she would apologize if he did.
• Ma Wei rejected repeated calls from an unknown number before answering and hearing the caller accuse her of having an affair.
• Xiao Yu told Ma Wei he knew she had swindled more than ten million yuan and taken 2.15 million yuan in commissions, then offered to keep her affair secret if she paid Yu Lian 400,000 yuan.
• Ma Wei protested the demand, denied that the caller had grounds to expose her affair, and refused to pay.

Xiao Yu pressured Ma Wei to repay the money she had taken from Yu Lian and threatened to expose her fraud and illicit finances. Ma Wei agreed to return 100,000 within an hour and 400,000 within a week, leaving Yu Lian and the other parents grateful and ready to apologize.

• Xiao Yu used evidence of Ma Wei’s affair and financial wrongdoing to threaten her and gave her ten minutes to accept his deal.
• Ma Wei called back after three minutes, and Xiao Yu assured Yu Lian and the other parents that the victims would recover most of their money and Ma Wei would face prison.
• Ma Wei initially tried to bargain for a lower repayment and an IOU, but Xiao Yu refused and ended negotiations when she threatened him.
• Ma Wei called again and agreed to repay 100,000 within an hour and 400,000 within a week after Xiao Yu listed her car, jewelry, and savings.
• Xiao Yu told Yu Lian to wait for the money, and Yu Lian urged the other parents to apologize to him once the repayment arrived.

Xiao Yu convinced the parents he was trustworthy, then ensured the illegal fundraising scheme’s victims were repaid and its accomplices prosecuted. Ma Wei was sentenced to prison and lost her money, home, and marriage, unaware Xiao Yu had orchestrated her downfall.

• Yu Lian received 100,000 yuan in compensation, and the parents apologized to Xiao Yu and asked him for help with their troubles.
• Xiao Yu explained that he intended to report Ma Wei for fraud and promised to bring the escaped boss back to face justice.
• Police arrested Huang Ru in Hawaii and returned him to court after a mysterious text revealed his foreign bank account details.
• Huang Ru confessed and identified more than thirty managers, including Ma Wei, as knowing accomplices in the illegal fundraising scheme.
• Ma Wei was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to return 2.15 million yuan, forcing the sale of her marital home.
• Yang Ran filed for divorce and division of assets, while Ma Wei faced prison, debt, and the eventual loss of her marriage without knowing Xiao Yu had arranged her downfall.

Xiao Yu accepted a role in a low-budget web series after Xia Mo suggested they try acting. At a meeting with the directors, they learned that Xiao Yu would play the concealed villain and Xia Mo his openly villainous lover.

• Xiao Yu refined spirit herbs into batches of elixirs, then received a silk banner and a surge of merit from the grateful parents of his specially admitted students.
• Xia Mo told Xiao Yu that a web series producer had invited her to take an important role, and Xiao Yu agreed to join her despite their lack of acting experience.
• Three days later, Xiao Yu and Xia Mo met director Cheng Qin and her husband, Chu Yong, to discuss the script and their roles.
• Xiao Yu learned that he would play the second male lead, a hidden villain responsible for the group’s predicament, while Xia Mo would play his villainous girlfriend.