Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu confronted Jacques, Amandina’s powerful grandfather, and established his strength in a clash of auras before they began questioning each other. Jacques was stunned when Xiao Yu said he was twenty-four, leaving the reason for his reaction unexplained.

• Amandina led Xiao Yu through the castle and warned him before taking him to meet her grandfather, Jacques.
• Xiao Yu introduced himself to Jacques and explained that he had caught Amandina drinking blood and threatened her into bringing him there.
• Jacques released an intimidating aura, and Xiao Yu met it with increasing amounts of Merit Power until Jacques backed down.
• Jacques asked how Xiao Yu had come to Paris openly, then sprang up and grabbed his shoulders when Xiao Yu said he was twenty-four.

Xiao Yu learned from Jacques that vampires were Western cultivators who drank blood because spiritual energy had dried up, and agreed to an alliance if they stopped harming people. Jacques revealed that a treaty enforced by the Heavenly Dao had barred cultivators from crossing between East and West, but it no longer bound the new generation, threatening to unleash chaos.

• Jacques inferred that Xiao Yu was a Huaxia cultivator and suspected a spiritual energy revival had occurred.
• Xiao Yu agreed to cooperate with Jacques if the vampires stopped harming people, offering to provide spiritual energy.
• Jacques explained that vampires drank blood to survive because the spiritual energy in their region had dried up.
• Jacques revealed that a peace treaty punished cultivators who crossed between East and West, but the rules no longer applied to the new generation.
• Xiao Yu connected the treaty’s failure and coming chaos to Hu Feifei’s foretold future as a ghost-catching female celestial master, then asked Jacques about the vampires’ numbers, enemies, and interest in an alliance.

Jacques asked Xiao Yu to marry Amandina and fight for his family, but Xiao Yu refused marriage and agreed to protect her in exchange for treasure. After learning Xiao Yu was at the Golden Core Stage, Jacques declared him Amandina’s big brother, while Xiao Yu took Liu Shan on a date and left Amandina at the hotel.

• Jacques explained that a powerful vampire wanted to rule their people and pursue Amandina, then asked Xiao Yu to marry her and fight at the annual gathering.
• Xiao Yu refused to marry Amandina but agreed to fight for Jacques’s family in exchange for treasures and a chance to choose from the family treasury.
• Xiao Yu offered to open a safe passage to Huaxia, and Jacques realized he was a Golden Core Stage powerhouse and told Amandina to treat him as her big brother.
• Amandina excitedly planned an outing, but Xiao Yu left her in the hotel and followed her sightseeing itinerary on a date with Liu Shan.
• Amandina invited her classmates to a girls’ gathering in the hotel room, but more than her friends arrived.

Xiao Yu rushed back to Amandina’s hotel room and rescued her from Aimon, a vampire using mind control to force her to comply. After Aimon’s attack failed and injured him instead, he feared Xiao Yu and demanded to know who he was.

• Amandina texted Xiao Yu for help, and he hurried to her hotel room with Liu Shan’s understanding.
• Xiao Yu found Aimon controlling Amandina and freed her with a touch.
• Amandina warned Xiao Yu that Aimon was a powerful vampire who used mind control.
• Aimon threatened Xiao Yu and attacked him with blood-red light, but the attack vanished and Aimon’s eyes began bleeding.
• Aimon recovered and asked Xiao Yu who he was and why he was interfering in Western affairs.

After helping Amandina, Xiao Yu and Liu Shan visited a famous Fortune-Telling Hall in the Chinese District, where they discovered spiritual energy and entered the queue to meet its Diviner. They recognized Yang Xia arguing upstairs after missing her appointment number.

• Xiao Yu rebuffed Amandina’s attempts to seduce him, and she angrily drove her four classmates away.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Liu Shan, who told him about a highly rated Diviner in the Chinese District.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan sensed spiritual energy around the Fortune-Telling Hall and went inside to investigate.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to find an unused appointment slot and registered under Fang Mingjia’s name.
• After collecting a waiting ticket, Xiao Yu and Liu Shan heard Yang Xia arguing because she had missed her number.

Xiao Yu and Liu Shan visited a famous fortune-telling establishment, where Xiao Yu sensed a connection to the Heavenly Mechanism Canon. The fortune-teller tried to read Xiao Yu, but his Merit Power retaliated and left her injured.

• Yang Xia argued with the establishment's fortune-teller and was dragged out by security after missing her appointment and refusing to leave.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan waited for their turn, and Xiao Yu sensed the aura of the Heavenly Mechanism Canon around the fortune-teller.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan met the fortune-teller in a smoke-filled room, where Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to see her face clearly.
• The fortune-teller formed a spell gesture and sent a golden light into Xiao Yu's eyes as she attempted to read his past.
• Xiao Yu's Merit Power automatically defended him, causing the fortune-teller to spit blood and collapse.
• Xiao Yu accused the fortune-teller of using underhanded methods and questioned whether she was a fraud.

Xiao Yu exposed Qi Meng’s fortune-telling as an attempt to probe people’s souls and learned that she cooperated with Aimon’s family. After taking her Heavenly Mechanism Ring, he discovered it enhanced the Heavenly Mechanism Canon and learned Qi Meng’s cultivation and the ring’s history.

• The Merit Power counterattacked when Qi Meng tried to read Xiao Yu’s fate, and Xiao Yu suspected she was connected to Aimon.
• Xiao Yu seized Qi Meng and forced her to admit that she worked with Aimon’s family in exchange for their mental-power-enhancing herb.
• Xiao Yu accused Qi Meng of using soul-searching to deceive customers and demanded that she demonstrate her fortune-telling.
• Qi Meng tried to read Xiao Yu’s fate with a ring, but her cultivation was too low to succeed.
• Xiao Yu took the ring from Qi Meng and learned it was the Heavenly Mechanism Ring, which amplified the Heavenly Mechanism Canon and let him read the fates of people with lower cultivation.
• Xiao Yu used the ring to learn Qi Meng’s cultivation and the history of the stolen inheritance, which had been restricted to the Heavenly Mechanism Gate’s current master.

Xiao Yu returned Qi Meng’s ring after learning she had no connection to the Heavenly Mechanism Gate, then prepared to attend the Vampires’ annual gathering with Amandina. He arrived at the gathering eager to meet cultivators and obtain valuable treasures, where a gold sports car immediately caught his eye.

• Xiao Yu returned Qi Meng’s ring and left the fortune-telling shop with Liu Shan, who suggested buying it from Qi Meng because she loved money.
• Xiao Yu found an abandoned Small World near a museum and established it as a teleportation point before completing his weekly work in Huaxia.
• Xiao Yu joined Amandina as the Vampires’ annual gathering approached, hoping to meet cultivators, test his abilities, and acquire treasures and spiritual herbs.
• Amandina explained her country’s unusual family surnames and told Xiao Yu that Vampires struggled to have children and that female Vampires had historically been treated as servants or gifts.
• Amandina drove Xiao Yu to a lavish villa where the gathering was being held, and Xiao Yu was stunned by a sports car covered in gold.

Xiao Yu and Amandina attended a Vampire gathering at Aimon’s villa, where Aimon threatened Xiao Yu and guests mocked him for being a Huaxia fortune-teller. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu warning one of the men that he would die that day.

• Aimon arrived at the villa, threatened Xiao Yu, and claimed Amandina would be his.
• Amandina and Xiao Yu entered the gathering together, where Xiao Yu noticed that Qi Meng was absent.
• Aimon abandoned his wife after entering and went to flirt with another woman.
• Luo Sa and other guests mocked Xiao Yu and Amandina, then demanded that Xiao Yu tell their fortunes.
• Xiao Yu told a long-haired man who joked about sleeping with another guest’s wife that he would die that day and no one could save him.

Xiao Yu restrained himself from attacking the people mocking him, then used a Mind-Confusing Spell to make Nathan act irrationally. Nathan interrupted Aimon in the bathroom and was forced to smash his head against the wall before Aimon went downstairs for the martial demonstration.

• Nathan sensed an omen of death but denied being afraid of Xiao Yu and left for the bathroom.
• Xiao Yu held back from killing Nathan because of Amandina, the treasure, Qi Meng's ring, and the consequences of violence abroad.
• Xiao Yu failed to use the Heavenly Fate Curse on Nathan, then successfully cast a Mind-Confusing Spell on him.
• After the mockers dispersed, Amandina thanked Xiao Yu for keeping his temper, while Xiao Yu let her believe he had done it for her family's sake.
• Nathan charged into the bathroom, accused Aimon of taking his woman, and grabbed her.
• Aimon used mind control to make Nathan repeatedly smash his head against the glass wall, then went downstairs for the martial demonstration.

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.