Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shi asked Xiao Yu to help after a patient's relatives blamed the hospital for his death and demanded compensation. Xiao Yu agreed to go to the Municipal People's Hospital, where the family members were still causing a disturbance outside the Dean's Office.

• Jiang Shi told Xiao Yu that an unidentified patient had died after his family failed to respond to the hospital's requests and the patient refused to cooperate.
• After the patient's relatives arrived and accused the hospital of neglect, Jiang Shi asked Xiao Yu to punish them and help recover the unpaid medical fees.
• Xiao Yu agreed to help Jiang Shi and went with her to the hospital.
• The relatives shouted accusations and demanded compensation at the Dean's Office while the old dean tried to explain that the family had delayed emergency treatment.
• The old dean shut himself inside after his heart condition flared up, and the relatives continued their disturbance as police and security guards struggled to intervene.

Xiao Yu interrupted a group extorting a hospital and promised to get them the results they wanted within ten minutes. After Director Liu Linyu and the police heard him out, Xiao Yu identified the relatives as a professional criminal gang and outlined their history of fraud and extortion.

• Xiao Yu quieted the relatives by promising to help them obtain fair treatment and compensation.
• The relatives complained that the hospital was responsible for their relative’s death while ignoring the missing surgical consent and unpaid bills.
• Xiao Yu led police officers and security guards into Director Liu Linyu’s office, where the director recognized him as Divine Doctor Xiao.
• Xiao Yu explained that the relatives’ repeated schemes made them a professional fraud and extortion gang, not merely troublemaking relatives.

Xiao Yu helped Liu Linyu handle a hospital disturbance by advising him to stall the troublemakers while gathering evidence that they were a paid gang. The police arrested the gang the next day, and Liu Linyu and Jiang Shi visited Xiao Yu to thank him.

• Xiao Yu explained that the troublemakers could be arrested if evidence showed they had been hired, but warned Liu Linyu not to arrest them over the current incident without proof.
• Liu Linyu promised the troublemakers the hospital would investigate and negotiate compensation after three days, and they left satisfied.
• Xiao Yu persuaded witnesses to testify, and the police arrested the entire professional troublemaking gang by the next day.
• Liu Linyu and Jiang Shi visited Xiao Yu's fortune-telling shop to thank him, and Xiao Yu invited Jiang Shi to return if she needed help.

Xiao Yu agreed to secretly help treat patients at Liu Linyu's hospital, refusing an official position and asking that his identity remain concealed. Liu Linyu promised to contact him only when necessary, and they left to celebrate over barbecue.

• Liu Linyu asked Xiao Yu to become a hospital consultant and help save patients, offering any compensation he wanted.
• Xiao Yu decided hospital work could earn him merit and put his unused spirit herbs to use, but he worried that fame would bring too many patients.
• Xiao Yu offered to treat patients anonymously in a white coat and mask, asking Liu Linyu to keep his existence secret.
• Liu Linyu gratefully accepted Xiao Yu's conditions, and he warned Jiang Shi not to reveal the secret.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Linyu agreed that Liu Linyu would contact him only when necessary and let him arrange treatment around his schedule.
• Liu Linyu invited Xiao Yu and Jiang Shi to a celebratory meal, and they chose a nearby barbecue restaurant run by one of Xiao Yu's fans.

After Director Liu left the barbecue, Xiao Yu warned Jiang Shi that her unrealistic expectations for love could leave her unhappy, and urged her to rethink her standards. Jiang Shi returned with news that the hospital urgently needed Xiao Yu, and he arrived to find Director Liu meeting with several veteran doctors.

• Director Liu left the barbecue after receiving an emergency call, leaving Xiao Yu alone with Jiang Shi.
• Xiao Yu told Jiang Shi that her high standards and online attention had distorted her ideas about love, and advised her to reconsider them.
• Jiang Shi ran off in tears, while Xiao Yu explained to Qi Zihong that he had spoken harshly because he wanted to help her change.
• Jiang Shi returned and said Director Liu had urgently summoned Xiao Yu to the hospital.
• Qi Zihong drove Xiao Yu and Jiang Shi to the hospital, where Xiao Yu found Director Liu and several veteran doctors gathered in the director's office.

Xiao Yu agreed to treat a police officer whose heart had been badly injured by a close-range shotgun blast, insisting on working alone and keeping his identity secret. After more than two hours in surgery, Liu Linyu and the waiting doctors believed the patient had likely been saved.

• Liu Linyu told Xiao Yu that the critically injured officer was unlikely to survive, and Xiao Yu said he could give him a slim chance.
• Xiao Yu asked for an empty operating room, no assistants, and secrecy about his identity, so Liu Linyu arranged for him to work alone.
• When the doctors believed the patient had stopped breathing and could not be saved, Liu Linyu rushed in and ordered them to move him to operating room three for a specialist.
• Liu Linyu kept the doctors outside while Xiao Yu operated, and Lao Liu became increasingly astonished as the surgery continued beyond the time the patient was expected to survive.
• After two hours, Liu Linyu told Lao Liu that the operation was almost certainly going well, and they expected the patient to be saved.

After secretly saving a young police officer, Xiao Yu returned to his Fortune-Telling Shop and joined He Ya and Tang Jianing on a trip to visit elderly residents in an isolated village. On the way, Bu Yunhao told them a local legend that Yu Ji survived Xiang Yu’s death and founded Xiang Family Village, where they were headed.

• A masked Xiao Yu left the hospital after telling Liu Linyu that the young police officer had survived surgery, while Lao Liu and the Old Hospital Director found the patient alive.
• The hospital staff suspected Master Xiao had saved the officer, but the Old Hospital Director refused to confirm it.
• Xiao Yu gained substantial merit from the two-hour operation and reflected that medical work was more exhausting than fortune-telling.
• He Ya invited Xiao Yu to join her and Tang Jianing on a visit to left-behind elderly people and to interview girls in an isolated village, and Xiao Yu agreed and brought Liu Shan.
• Xiao Yu and the others traveled in two cars, with Tang Jianing’s boyfriend Bu Yunhao driving Xiao Yu and Liu Shan and chatting about the trip’s local legends.
• Bu Yunhao told Xiao Yu that Xiang Family Village was supposedly founded by Yu Ji, who had survived Xiang Yu’s death after being saved by an immortal.

Xiao Yu and Liu Shan reached remote Xiang Family Village and discovered that the entire village concealed a secret realm. Inside, they found a mysterious woman’s preserved corpse atop a stone stele, possibly connected to the legend of Yu Ji.

• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan traveled with their group to Xiang Family Village, where the villagers offered them free places to stay.
• Xiao Yu agreed with Liu Shan that the village felt strange and suspected it hid a secret realm.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mandate Stone near the village entrance and detected an anomalous point across the entire village.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan entered the gray Spirit Realm state and saw a seated figure atop a stone stele in the village center.
• Xiao Yu flew with Liu Shan to the stele and discovered that the beautiful woman seated there had been dead for many years.

Xiao Yu absorbed the deceased cultivator’s memories from her ring, learning that cultivators had left for other worlds and how they created small worlds. After leaving the secret realm with Liu Shan, he rejoined He Ya’s group and discovered a school named in his honor, where the children greeted him as Principal Xiao.

• Xiao Yu removed the female corpse’s ring and fainted after its memories and secrets flooded into him.
• Xiao Yu learned that cultivators had abandoned this world for other worlds, and that Golden Core cultivators could access small worlds while Nascent Soul cultivators could create them.
• Xiao Yu placed the female corpse in the Dragon and Phoenix Ring and left the secret realm with Liu Shan, arriving back at the village at noon.
• He Ya told Xiao Yu that the group had finished helping the village and that his disappearance had delayed their plans.
• The group traveled to another village and found the nearly completed Hongyue County Xiao Yu Hope Primary School.
• The schoolchildren and staff rushed out to greet Xiao Yu as Principal Xiao, turning his planned interviews into a school inspection.

He Ya interviewed Wei Ting, a 25-year-old supermarket cashier who left school at fourteen to support her family and described the hardships facing women in the countryside. Wei Ting explained why she valued a bride price and hoped marriage could help her build a life in the city, leaving He Ya reflecting on how much the area had changed.

• He Ya spotted Wei Ting at a village supermarket and persuaded her to speak on the livestream.
• Wei Ting said she had left school after middle school at about fourteen because her family could not afford high school, and she had worked as a cashier for over ten years.
• Wei Ting described how few children from nearby villages continued to university and how some had walked for hours to reach school.
• Wei Ting said her boyfriend had been away for three years, and she planned to wait one more year before trying matchmaking.
• Wei Ting explained that she wanted a steady, educated husband who could help her settle in a city, and that her family might ask for a bride price of up to two hundred thousand yuan.
• Wei Ting said a bride price could help a couple establish a household and bring their parents to the city, prompting He Ya to recognize the pressures behind rural marriage customs and the area's changing conditions.

During He Ya’s interviews in the village, Xiao Yu revealed that Wei Ting’s boyfriend Lei Ling already had a family, then promised to punish him. He Ya’s later interviews showed that rural women’s views on marriage varied much like city women’s, and the group headed home after finishing their footage.

• Wei Ting explained that she wanted marriage and a shared future, and Xiao Yu warned her that Lei Ling would not marry her because he already had a young child with a wealthy woman.
• Wei Ting broke down in tears, and Xiao Yu said he would give Lei Ling a spell of bad luck for deceiving and abandoning her.
• He Ya interviewed another rural woman whose marriage requirements included a wealthy husband, a house in her name, and a bride price, while her dowry would be a quilt and pillows.
• He Ya and the others interviewed more women in the village and found a range of attitudes, including both good and scheming women.
• He Ya concluded that rural and city women were not meaningfully different, and the group ended the day and headed home.
• Xiao Yu was pleased with his harvest of an ancient cultivator’s memories and small-world techniques, along with two days of avoiding livestreaming.

After realizing he could not yet open a passage to the Small World, Xiao Yu played the game Voyage of Slaughter at Liu Shan’s request and streamed it to entertain his viewers. His fans flooded his lobbies and disrupted every match, so he switched to public games after two hours.

• Xiao Yu concluded that opening a passage to the Small World required more spiritual energy than his Tenth Layer of Core Formation Stage could provide.
• Liu Shan asked Xiao Yu to play a game for her to watch, and he agreed to try Voyage of Slaughter, which was adapted from the web series he had starred in.
• Xiao Yu used fortune-telling to learn the game’s mechanics, then quickly mastered its ship-sailing, resource-gathering, and werewolf-hunting gameplay.
• After Xiao Yu carried a match almost single-handedly, Liu Shan encouraged him to stream the game as a tutorial and to fill in for his missed stream.
• Xiao Yu’s fans filled his lobbies, either chasing him around or turning matches into easy co-op games, while viewers sent gifts and asked him to play daily.
• After two hours of chaotic matches with his fans, Xiao Yu gave up hosting lobbies and joined public games instead.

Xiao Yu joined a supposedly high-quality match and, convinced the Cook and Doctor were wolves, warned the other players. The host and several players instead accused Xiao Yu of being the wolf, leaving him facing suspicion despite his confidence in his deduction.

• Liu Shan urged Xiao Yu to join a room for expert players, and the players let him stay after he claimed he had scored fifteen thousand points.
• Xiao Yu received the captain role and spent the first day steering the ship, collecting coal, and watching the Cook and Doctor, whom he found suspicious.
• At night, Xiao Yu told his livestream viewers that the Cook and Doctor were wolves because of their actions with herbs, the stove, and syringes.
• Xiao Yu warned the other players not to eat the Cook's food and to prepare antidotes, while the Cook and Doctor offered explanations for their behavior.
• The host challenged Xiao Yu's accusations, and other players claimed he had failed to collect coal and had deliberately crashed the ship, calling him the confirmed wolf.

Xiao Yu was trapped and killed by the host after accusing him and the two girls of coordinating through outside voice chat. The girls confirmed they were wolves and came to release Xiao Yu, while the host set traps and aimed guns at the exit; Xiao Yu prepared to counter the setup with a game bug.

• Xiao Yu accused the host and the two girls of using private voice chat to target him, then offered to finish steering and repair the ship.
• The host trapped and killed Xiao Yu, called him a cheater, and threatened to kick him from the next round.
• Xiao Yu condemned the lobby's behavior, revealed his streaming identity, and challenged the group to let him out for a 1v3 or 1v5.
• The two girls recognized Xiao Yu, admitted they were wolves, and offered to rescue and protect him; the two random players denied being part of their group.
• The host agreed to let Xiao Yu out but placed traps and had guns aimed at the exit, while Xiao Yu planned to use a bug to counter the setup.

Xiao Yu used a game bug and his knowledge of the game to turn a trap and firing squad into a one-versus-three comeback. After downing all three simps, he vowed to rescue them and kill them, then help the werewolf girls win.

• Xiao Yu used a door bug to evade the host’s trap and gunfire, then killed the host with wooden planks.
• Xiao Yu looted the host’s equipment, returned to the ship, and shot down the simp carrying a key to rescue him.
• Xiao Yu explained his plan to counter the final simp, shot him, locked himself in a room, and killed him when he broke through the door.
• Xiao Yu announced that he would rescue the three simps and kill them while still near death, then help the werewolf girls win the game.

Xiao Yu humiliated three simps in a game, then welcomed two appointment visitors to his fortune-telling shop the next morning. Wu Huixue’s friend explained that Ye Tong had framed Wu Huixue for a hit-and-run, leaving her facing a revoked license, unpaid car loans, and over a million in compensation.

• Xiao Yu defeated and mocked the simps in the game, while the two girls and other players praised him.
• Xiao Yu played several more rounds with the girls and his fans, then ended his stream after four in the morning.
• Qi Zihong and Pang Juan visited Xiao Yu’s shop and praised his gaming comeback from the previous night.
• Xiao Yu let Wu Huixue and her short-haired friend into the shop for their appointment.
• Wu Huixue’s friend said Ye Tong had committed a hit-and-run in Wu Huixue’s car, framed Wu Huixue, abandoned the loan payments, and left her facing over a million in compensation.

Xiao Yu investigated Ye Tong’s impulsive attempt to frame Wu Hui Xue and found a possible way to challenge her story through phone records and Wu Hui Xue’s Honor of Kings match. The police agreed to question Ye Tong, though they warned that the gaming evidence was only circumstantial.

• Wu Hui Xue told Xiao Yu that Ye Tong had blamed her for the accident, leaving her to face responsibility because she had bought the car and was driving when arrested.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to learn that Ye Tong had caused the accident while distracted by a phone call and framed Wu Hui Xue on impulse.
• Xiao Yu suggested that Ye Tong’s call records and Wu Hui Xue’s uninterrupted, high-scoring Honor of Kings match could raise doubts about who had been driving.
• Xiao Yu brought Wu Hui Xue and Zhu Xiang to the police station and presented the possible evidence.
• The police said the match was not direct evidence but agreed to call Ye Tong in for questioning.

Xiao Yu exposed a contradiction in Ye Tong’s account of the hit-and-run, prompting the police to focus their investigation on her. Ye Tong’s explanations fell apart, and the chapter left her facing questioning while Wu Hui Xue’s conviction had not yet been formally overturned.

• Ye Tong dismissed the police’s suspicions about Wu Hui Xue’s gaming and driving, while Wu Hui Xue seethed at her former friend.
• Xiao Yu asked why Wu Hui Xue’s car had returned to campus after the accident, and Ye Tong claimed Wu Hui Xue had crashed first, then picked her up and drove her home.
• Xiao Yu pointed out that Ye Tong’s account made no sense unless the culprit had returned to campus to frame someone, and Ye Tong could not give a convincing explanation.
• Ye Tong contradicted herself, changed the sequence of events, and then cried and accused the police of bullying her.
• The police said Ye Tong had given inconsistent testimony and would be taken for questioning, while Xiao Yu left after providing the crucial lead.
• Xiao Yu reflected that Ye Tong had exposed herself before any appeal had been filed, so Wu Hui Xue’s conviction had not yet been formally overturned.

Xiao Yu helped Wu Huixue’s case by uncovering Ye Tong’s false testimony, then spent his growing free time gaming. He joined a match hosted by Zhao Yan and Tang Xiaoxiao with Liu Shan, planning to deceive the other players as a wolf.

• Xiao Yu warned Wu Huixue that the lead was not direct evidence but said Ye Tong’s lies and contradictions could help her appeal, and Wu Huixue kissed him in excitement.
• Under questioning, Ye Tong broke down and confessed, leaving her responsible for the court-ordered compensation and an additional offense for framing someone else.
• Over less than two months, Xiao Yu reached the tenth layer of Core Formation Stage, though his repeated attempts at another breakthrough failed.
• Xiao Yu became hooked on Voyage of Slaughter and agreed to play a match with Liu Shan after she promised not to peek or cheat.
• Xiao Yu realized the match was hosted by Zhao Yan and Tang Xiaoxiao, chose the Hunter while Liu Shan chose the Navigator, and planned to deceive the other players as a wolf.

Xiao Yu and Liu Shan killed both bears to make Xiao Yu look like a confirmed good guy, then framed Zhao Yan as a werewolf. The other players killed Zhao Yan, and the chapter left her insistence that she was innocent ignored as they prepared to kill her again.

• Xiao Yu told the players he planned to blow up the bears, and Liu Shan joined him as navigator.
• Xiao Yu killed Bear One while Liu Shan used a bug to kill Bear Two.
• After Xiao Yu died, he claimed the captain had killed him and destroyed the fuel; another player checked the mountain and confirmed both bears were dead, making Xiao Yu and Liu Shan appear good.
• Zhao Yan returned to the ship, where the players trapped and killed her; Liu Shan threw her corpse into the sea and planted explosives in her bag.
• The players found the explosives and accused Zhao Yan of being a wolf, while she protested that Liu Shan was framing her and pointed out that she had brought coal.