Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu borrowed a Netherworld token by telling Xie Hui and Huang Rui their fortunes, then used it to enter the Netherworld. His fortune-telling powers were severely restricted there, so he gathered nether grass and began exploring with the token guiding him back to the gates.

• Xiao Yu persuaded Xie Hui and Huang Rui to lend him a Netherworld token in exchange for telling their fortunes.
• Xiao Yu told Xie Hui that she would remain a ghost and soon gain promotion and fortune, leaving her amazed and delighted.
• Xiao Yu told Huang Rui that his future would be comparatively unremarkable and that changing it would require action.
• Xiao Yu entered the Netherworld and discovered that its laws blocked most of his ability to foresee fate and the future.
• Xiao Yu gathered more than a dozen baskets of nether grass, then flew through the Netherworld using the token as a compass and the Herb-Finding Technique to explore.

Xiao Yu encountered Xu Tongxin, a lonely ghost trapped on a bridge in the Netherworld, and discovered that an unseen law prevented souls from leaving it. He found that the law did not affect the living, leaving Xu Tongxin pleading for him to take her away.

• Xiao Yu followed the Herb-Finding Technique through the Netherworld and found a black river with Xu Tongxin standing on its bridge.
• Xiao Yu read Xu Tongxin's fortune and learned that she had died of leukemia and had been alone in the Netherworld for a year or two.
• Xu Tongxin explained that she could not leave the bridge, and Xiao Yu watched her disappear when she stepped off it and reappear on the other side.
• Xiao Yu realized that a law of the Netherworld, rather than a visible barrier or restriction, trapped souls on the bridge.
• Xiao Yu stepped off the bridge without being affected, and Xu Tongxin begged him to take her away.

Xiao Yu realized that the Netherworld’s laws targeted yin energy and used his merit power to free Xu Tongxin from the bridge. Though she was no longer trapped there, Xu Tongxin begged him to take her back to the human world.

• Xu Tongxin vanished whenever Xiao Yu tried to take her off the bridge, and his other attempts to free her also failed.
• Xiao Yu refused to abandon Xu Tongxin and searched for a way around the laws trapping her.
• Xiao Yu realized the laws targeted yin energy, then withdrew the merit shielding him and found himself caught in the same loop.
• Xiao Yu used merit power to shield himself and Xu Tongxin, and successfully led her off the bridge.
• Xu Tongxin celebrated her escape but pleaded with Xiao Yu to take her back to the human world and not leave her alone.

Xiao Yu took Xu Tongxin under his protection as his little sister and tried to guide her home through the Netherworld, but the distorted rules made him fly in circles. After correcting his course with a Ghost Token, he spotted Ghost City and headed toward it with Xu Tongxin, who hoped to find a way back to life.

• Xiao Yu refused Xu Tongxin’s offer to become his maid or concubine, promised to take her home, and made her his little sister.
• Xiao Yu and Xu Tongxin flew on his sword while she praised him, but he realized he had unknowingly spent hours circling back to the same bridge.
• Xiao Yu concluded that the Netherworld’s disrupted rules were distorting his perception and used a Ghost Token to check his direction as he traveled.
• Xiao Yu and Xu Tongxin spotted Ghost City, which he explained served as a gathering place for ghosts with official positions.
• Xiao Yu decided to investigate Ghost City, and Xu Tongxin grew hopeful when he mentioned they might find something that could bring the dead back to life.

Xiao Yu explored Fog City and learned how ghosts could earn Ghost Tokens to travel to the human world. After leaving Xu Tongxin behind as a spiritual marker, he set out to search for treasures, spirit herbs, and hidden passages out of the Netherworld.

• Xiao Yu and Xu Tongxin explored Fog City, where they learned that ghosts could earn Ghost Tokens by working at the office and gaining recognition.
• Xiao Yu decided to leave Xu Tongxin in a stone house for a few days and marked her with his spiritual power so he could find his way back.
• Xiao Yu realized that the Netherworld’s dense spiritual energy could greatly accelerate his cultivation and considered making a home there with his family.
• Xiao Yu set out to hunt for treasures and spirit herbs and search for hidden passages through which ghosts escaped the Netherworld.

Xiao Yu reached a black sea lined with Flowers of the Other Shore and discovered that Merit Power was the only way to keep the flowers from withering after he picked them. As he considered how to cross the sea, a ghostly wedding procession arrived, and its young lady looked exactly like Liu Shan before she spotted the flowers Xiao Yu had picked.

• Xiao Yu probed the black sea and found that it threatened his mind and could injure him, so he avoided crossing it.
• Xiao Yu picked over a hundred Flowers of the Other Shore, discovering that he had to preserve each one with Merit Power.
• Xiao Yu saw eighteen red-clad ghosts carrying a festive sedan chair along the riverbank.
• A woman inside the sedan chair spoke in a human voice, and Xiao Yu was shocked to see that she looked exactly like Liu Shan.
• The young lady noticed the flowers Xiao Yu had picked, screamed in fury, and flew at him.

Xiao Yu met Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo after plucking one of Feng Xue’s flowers, then discovered through the Heavenly Mechanism Canon that they were powerful figures who had returned from the dead. As they traveled downstream on Feng Xue’s divine sedan chair, she challenged Xiao Yu to divine how she and Su Xiao Luo had met in their former lives.

• Xiao Yu apologized for picking Feng Xue’s Flower of the Other Shore, then demonstrated that he could pluck one when Feng Xue asked him how.
• Feng Xue invited Xiao Yu into her sedan chair, where the Heavenly Mechanism Canon revealed her and Su Xiao Luo’s identities, the Sanzu River’s role, and the sedan chair’s divine nature.
• Xiao Yu learned that Feng Xue was a Regional Lord and that both women were living people who had returned from the dead.
• Feng Xue questioned Xiao Yu about his origins, and he claimed to be a fortune-teller who had come sightseeing.
• Xiao Yu correctly named Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo, but Feng Xue remained skeptical and challenged him to divine how they had met in their previous lives.

Xiao Yu impressed Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo by accurately telling their pasts, then warned them that a fiend would bring disaster in half a year. After they begged for help, he said he could destroy the fiend and asked them to take him somewhere the laws were disordered so he could connect it to the human world.

• Xiao Yu accurately recounted Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo’s origins, convincing them that he could tell fortunes.
• Feng Xue gave Xiao Yu her divine sedan chair as payment and accepted his offer of friendship.
• Xiao Yu told Feng Xue that a fiend would soon cause her cultivation to regress and warned Su Xiao Luo that her soul would be destroyed in half a year.
• Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo asked Xiao Yu to save them, and he said he had a way to destroy the fiend.
• Xiao Yu asked the two women to take him to a place where the laws were disordered so he could connect it to the human world.

Feng Xue gave Xiao Yu a token to enter Fog City and offered him her mansion, but he accepted only the courtyard where she had been living. After stabilizing a passage to the Netherworld and connecting it to his home in Huaxia, Xiao Yu prepared to face Zhao Yan.

• Feng Xue gave Xiao Yu a token that let him enter and leave her residence in Fog City, then explained her hopes for restoring order to the Netherworld.
• Feng Xue offered Xiao Yu her entire mansion except for its prison, but he refused and accepted only her courtyard, agreeing that she would move next door.
• Feng Xue showed Xiao Yu the courtyard and left nine men and nine women to serve as bearers and attendants.
• Xiao Yu spent a week stabilizing a passage through the spatial rift, then spent three days connecting his home in Huaxia to Feng Mansion.
• Xiao Yu decided he could no longer avoid Zhao Yan and had to clear things up with her.

Xiao Yu accepted Zhao Yan as his second wife after Liu Shan encouraged him, then returned to the Netherworld to fulfill his promise to Xu Tongxin and take her to see her parents. He brought Xu Tongxin to her family’s home, where she hesitated at the door before Xiao Yu entered unseen.

• Zhao Yan insisted she wanted to stay with Xiao Yu, and he admitted he liked her but worried that the law prevented him from marrying her.
• Liu Shan said she supported Zhao Yan joining them, and Xiao Yu agreed to accept Zhao Yan as his second wife.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Netherworld and told Xu Tongxin he would take her to see her parents.
• Xiao Yu brought Xu Tongxin through the sealed estate to Magic City and flew with her to her parents’ building.
• Xu Tongxin grew nervous outside her parents’ door, and Xiao Yu sensed the situation inside before opening it and entering under his Fading-Invisibility Spell.

Xu Tongxin saw her grieving mother and learned that her father, Xu Xiangjian, was working himself to the bone to afford her a lavish burial plot. Xiao Yu agreed to help Xu Tongxin protect her father from trouble at work, where his manager feared Xu Xiangjian would take his position.

• Xu Tongxin sensed her mother’s grief and realized that her mother could feel her presence, while Xiao Yu stepped away to give her space.
• Xu Tongxin learned that her father was working overtime and driving people home to save money for her expensive burial plot, and she broke down in grief.
• Xiao Yu told Xu Tongxin that her father faced trouble with a spiteful manager, and she agreed to help protect him.
• Xiao Yu explained that Xu Xiangjian’s superior, planning department manager Mu Yuan, feared Xu Xiangjian would be promoted into his position and was considering underhanded tactics.
• Xu Xiangjian told Mu Yuan that he had finished planning an event after working through two nights.

Mu Yuan set up Xu Xiangjian to stay late, then accused him by implication of stealing valuables supposedly left in the office. Xu paid a fine under pressure but began to suspect a conspiracy, and resolved not to accept blame for a theft he did not commit.

• Mu Yuan asked Xu Xiangjian to cover his unfinished work, and Xu worked past midnight after believing the task would be quick.
• Mu Yuan publicly scolded Xu for arriving late and demanded a two-hundred-yuan fine.
• Xu's colleagues spread rumors that he had stolen jewelry and cash from Mu Yuan's office because he had been the last to leave.
• Mu Yuan told Xu that valuables had gone missing and questioned him about when he left, while denying that he had directly accused him.
• Xu paid the fine, then questioned why only his department knew about the theft and why Mu Yuan had not reported or investigated it.
• Xu suspected Mu Yuan was framing him and decided he would not let anyone make him pay for the missing valuables.

After Mu Yuan framed Xu Xiangjian for stealing money, the police found no evidence, leaving Xu facing dismissal. Xiao Yu offered Xu Tongxin two ways to help her father, and Mu Yuan came home to find his entire house had been stolen.

• Director Rong Fang accused Xu Xiangjian of stealing Mu Yuan’s money and warned that he could be fired unless he repaid it.
• Xu Xiangjian confronted Mu Yuan, who twisted the story and accused him of taking the money; Xu called the police, but their investigation found nothing.
• Xiao Yu told Xu Tongxin that her father would receive a dismissal notice and offered to help by stealing Mu Yuan’s valuables or possessing him to force a confession.
• Xu Tongxin chose to pursue both compensation and her father’s job, and Xiao Yu agreed to let her handle possessing Mu Yuan.
• Mu Yuan returned home to find that everything in his locked house had been stolen and called the police.

After discovering that his home had been emptied and his savings donated to the Red Cross, Mu Yuan was dismissed by the police as a prankster. During a call to President Liu, he confessed to framing Xu Xiangjian and lost his job.

• Mu Yuan found that his bank accounts had been emptied and called the police after discovering his home stripped of its contents.
• The police found no suspicious footage and traced Mu Yuan’s money to a donation to the Red Cross, then left believing he had staged the burglary.
• Mu Yuan’s wife urged him to consider who might be taking revenge, while Mu Yuan struggled to explain the impossible theft.
• Mu Yuan called President Liu to request leave, then blurted out that the losses were heaven’s punishment for framing Xu Xiangjian.
• President Liu accepted Mu Yuan’s confession and told him not to return to work.

Mu Yuan's accidental confession cleared Xu Xiangjian's name and earned him a promotion, while Xiao Yu welcomed Xu Tongxin into his circle. In the Netherworld, Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo persuaded Xiao Yu to help judge a difficult case by offering him an officially certified fortune-telling hall and a Resurrection Pill.

• Mu Yuan confessed to framing Xu Xiangjian, was fired, and suffered his wife's anger as she left their home.
• Xu Xiangjian learned he had been cleared, promoted to manager, and given manager-level pay; Xu Tongxin rejoiced that she had helped protect her father.
• Xiao Yu asked Xu Tongxin whether she wanted to remain in the world or return to the Netherworld, and she chose to stay with him.
• Xiao Yu took Xu Tongxin to his rooftop Small World, where she could join his community of ghosts and friends.
• In the Netherworld, Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo asked Xiao Yu to resolve a difficult case, offering an official fortune-telling hall and a treasure as payment.
• Feng Xue offered Xiao Yu a Resurrection Pill, which could restore a dead person by rebuilding their body and bypassing karma.

Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to examine Sun Yu’s past and discovered that Sun Yu had not murdered his cheating wife and her lover. Feng Xue learned the truth and prepared to punish the pair for falsely accusing him.

• Xiao Yu accepted Feng Xue’s request to judge a case in exchange for a Resurrection Pill, but asked her to bring the accused man before him.
• Xiao Yu examined Sun Yu’s memories and saw the hardships, betrayal, and losses he had suffered in life.
• Xiao Yu learned that Sun Yu’s wife and her lover had been stabbed to death and were now accusing him of hiring their killer, though he had not killed them.
• Xiao Yu told Sun Yu to leave, then explained to Feng Xue that the lover had abandoned Wang Dan and that she had hired the killer.
• Feng Xue grew furious at the pair’s false accusation and vowed to punish them.

Xiao Yu helped Feng Xue clear Sun Yu of murder and expose the couple who had framed him, and Feng Xue sentenced them to 100 years without reincarnation. She gave Xiao Yu the promised Resurrection Pill and offered him a Lifespan Pill for every future fortune-telling session, which he accepted.

• Xiao Yu offered to help Feng Xue whenever she encountered trouble, and Sun Yu realized that the famed Master Xiao could clear his name.
• Feng Xue brought Xiao Yu and Sun Yu to her court hall, where she identified Sun Yu's wife, Xie Jie, and her lover, Kong Yan, as the pair who had accused him.
• Feng Xue revealed that Wang Dan, Kong Yan's abandoned lover, had arranged their deaths and declared Sun Yu innocent.
• Feng Xue sentenced Xie Jie and Kong Yan to 100 years without reincarnation, threatening to add more time when they protested.
• Feng Xue gave Xiao Yu the Resurrection Pill and offered him a Lifespan Pill for each future fortune-telling session, and Xiao Yu agreed.

Xiao Yu proposed using trade and rewards to strengthen order in the Small World, then revealed his ambition to turn it into a Cultivation World. Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo pledged to help him, and they agreed to begin by improving Fog City.

• Xiao Yu agreed to Feng Xue's offer of Lifespan Pills and discussed opening a fortune-telling shop in the courtyard, with Feng Xue offering to teach him the array formation and Su Xiao Luo volunteering to advertise.
• Xiao Yu proposed having ghosts earn Lifespan Pills and Spirit Stones through work, so they could pay for fortune-telling and help Feng Xue govern the Small World.
• Xiao Yu suggested that the Heavenly Dao's disorder might be caused by heaven or an Immortal intervening to develop the Small World, and Feng Xue admitted the theory seemed plausible.
• Xiao Yu revealed that he wanted to transform the Small World into a Cultivation World for ghosts, living people, and cultivators, where the Heavenly Mechanism Gate could flourish.
• Feng Xue and Su Xiao Luo declared themselves Xiao Yu's subordinates, and the three agreed to build up trade, currency, entertainment, and cultivation in Fog City before expanding outward.

After destroying the Fierce Demon, Xiao Yu gained immense merit and a new ability to alter people's memories of the past. He joined He Ya for a street interview about responsibility and found a man whose story he believed would make a compelling subject.

• Xiao Yu and Feng Xue wore down and destroyed the Fierce Demon by exploiting the small world's laws, earning Xiao Yu enough merit to advance several realms.
• Xiao Yu gained the power to create false memories of the past and used it to change Aibeier's memories of how they had met, ending her pursuit of him.
• He Ya asked Xiao Yu to help find an ordinary person for a street interview about responsibility.
• After searching for hours, Xiao Yu spotted a middle-aged man playing a game on a park bench and recognized him as a suitable interview subject.
• Xiao Yu and He Ya prepared to interview the man as their livestream audiences rapidly grew.

Xiao Yu and He Ya interviewed Old Yang about trading lifespan for money and the people he had disappointed. Old Yang listed more than a dozen people he felt he owed an apology to, and Xiao Yu asked what about himself.

• He Ya offered Old Yang two hundred yuan to take part in an interview, and he agreed.
• Old Yang said he would trade decades of his lifespan for money to pay off his mortgage and provide for his family.
• Old Yang refused to trade his wife’s or daughter’s lives for money, though he considered buying lifespan for his wife.
• Xiao Yu asked how many people Old Yang had let down, and Old Yang named his parents, wife, first love, daughter, and many others.
• Xiao Yu asked Old Yang what about himself.