Chapter Summaries

Lu Qiumeng agreed to sue over the online accusations but privately resolved to use dirty tactics to stop the case. Days later, Xiao Yu foresaw her plan to have Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong killed and helped Li prepare to gather evidence and survive the attack.

• Lu Qiumeng agreed to sue, while Lan Yang suspected someone might be targeting his company and decided to investigate.
• After Lan Yang and Lan Yuqing left, Lu Qiumeng rejected the idea of a lawsuit and vowed to stop her accuser by any means.
• Li Ruzhi visited Xiao Yu with bruises and explained that Lu Qiumeng had threatened him and taken the evidence he had brought to their meeting.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon and foresaw that Lu Qiumeng would arrange a murder attempt against Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong.
• Xiao Yu gave Li Ruzhi the timing and address for gathering evidence and advised him how to prepare for the attack five days later.

After finishing five days of seclusion, Xiao Yu rushed to an old residential complex where a girl was threatening to jump. As her family and neighbors cruelly urged her on and the boy who had previously stopped her failed to appear, she reached the brink of despair.

• Xiao Yu left seclusion with his Artifact Refining skill maxed out and hurried to intervene in a planned suicide attempt.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the residential complex and heard property staff and neighbors mock the girl on the sixth-floor balcony because she had threatened to jump before.
• The girl's stepfather locked the balcony door, told the family not to stop her, and said he would be grateful if she died.
• The girl recalled the bullying at school and neglect at home, along with the boy next door whose words had stopped her from jumping in the past.
• The girl saw no sign of the boy and concluded that she would be better off dead.

Xiao Yu rescued Yuan Hui from a suicide attempt and discovered that she could perceive him during his Fortune-Telling Moment. After comforting her and helping her express her despair, he urged her to keep living and defy the people who mistreated her.

• Yuan Hui jumped from a balcony, but Xiao Yu used his Fortune-Telling Moment to carry her safely to the rooftop.
• Yuan Hui and the people around her were bewildered when time resumed and she had vanished from the balcony.
• Xiao Yu realized Yuan Hui had been able to see him during the time-slowing effect, though he could not explain why.
• Yuan Hui recognized Xiao Yu and asked why he had saved her, then broke down crying in his arms.
• Xiao Yu voiced Yuan Hui’s feelings of worthlessness and isolation, and she nodded in relief at being understood.
• Xiao Yu told Yuan Hui to keep living well and refuse to give her tormentors the satisfaction of her death.

Xiao Yu comforted Yuan Hui after her suicide attempt and offered her a safe place to stay, planning to test her for admission to the Heavenly Mechanism Gate. He took her toward Qi Zihong’s barbecue restaurant, where they stopped to watch Li Ruzhi protect Song Qingrong from hired thugs.

• Xiao Yu reassured Yuan Hui that her difficulties did not make her stupid and asked what she wanted to do next.
• Yuan Hui asked Xiao Yu to take her in, and he offered her a job with food and lodging at Qi Zihong’s restaurant.
• Xiao Yu planned to bring Yuan Hui to the Heavenly Mechanism Gate’s recruitment test without telling her, intending to let her work if she failed.
• Xiao Yu and Yuan Hui arrived near the alley and saw Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong surrounded by thugs.
• Li Ruzhi deliberately endured the attackers’ blows to protect Song Qingrong until police sirens drove the thugs away, leaving evidence that could prove Lu Qiumeng’s guilt.

Xiao Yu trapped the thugs until the police arrested them, while Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong prepared to expose Lu Qiumeng using their evidence and livestream footage. The recordings went viral, and Lu Qiumeng was left unable to explain herself to Lan Yang and Lan Yuqing at the Lan Family Mansion.

• Xiao Yu used a Spiritual Energy Barrier and an Illusion Realm to keep the thugs circling until the police arrived and arrested them.
• Li Ruzhi thanked Xiao Yu, then painfully reset his own fingers and arm before heading with Song Qingrong to submit evidence against Lu Qiumeng.
• Song Qingrong’s livestream footage spread online, winning Li Ruzhi public support and turning viewers against Lu Qiumeng.
• At the Lan Family Mansion, Lan Yang confronted Lu Qiumeng after seeing recordings of her paying the thugs to kill someone.
• Lu Qiumeng knelt in silence, unable to explain herself to Lan Yang and Lan Yuqing.

Lu Qiumeng was expelled from the Lan Family and faced losing the money she had obtained through fraud, while Li Ruzhi considered his revenge complete. Xiao Yu then accepted that Yuan Hui could not join the Heavenly Mechanism Gate and arranged for her to live with Qi Zihong.

• Lan Yang agreed with Lan Yuqing and ordered Lu Qiumeng to divorce him, return her money, and leave the Lan Family.
• Li Ruzhi told Xiao Yu that Lu Qiumeng had been expelled, and Xiao Yu explained that she would be cleared of murder but lose her three million through a fraud ruling.
• Li Ruzhi decided not to pursue Lu Qiumeng further, thanked Xiao Yu, and learned that Lan Yuqing wanted to contact him.
• Xiao Yu found that Yuan Hui had failed the Heart Demon Illusion Array because she could not let go of her desires, so he gave up on making her his disciple.
• Xiao Yu called Qi Zihong and asked him to take Yuan Hui into his family and help her work and continue her education.

Xiao Yu helped Yuan Hui accept a new family with Qi Zihong and forged an upgraded True Shadow Sword. After emerging from seclusion, he met Feng Xue to exchange equipment for Lifespan Pills, then steered their flirtatious conversation back to business.

• Qi Zihong agreed to take Yuan Hui in as his daughter, and Xiao Yu reassured her that she could always return to him if she was unhappy.
• Yuan Hui accepted the new family and became Qi Hui, hopeful about beginning a new life.
• Xiao Yu finished forging a supreme-grade flying sword that could change size and left seclusion after more than half a month.
• Xiao Yu met Feng Xue at the Feng Mansion and asked whether she had prepared the Lifespan Pills for their equipment trade.
• Feng Xue complained about refining pills while teasing Xiao Yu, who remembered the pills would add fifteen thousand years to his wives' lifespans and changed the subject before the flirtation went further.

Xiao Yu traded pills with Feng Xue and agreed to make matching storage rings for her and Su Xiao Luo. He then went to the Heavenly Secrets Tower to judge a group of troublesome ghosts, where he took particular notice of a defiant young-looking man.

• Xiao Yu exchanged storage rings for Feng Xue’s basket of pills, then agreed to make two prettier rings in return for one Resurrection Pill.
• Feng Xue explained that she was developing Fog City into the first Cultivation city and that she and Su Xiao Luo were moving there.
• Feng Xue asked Xiao Yu to judge troublesome ghosts whose cases she had postponed while he was away, offering him one Lifespan Pill for each fortune-telling session.
• Feng Xue brought more than twenty ghosts to the Heavenly Secrets Tower, where Xiao Yu prepared to hear their cases.
• A young-looking ghost mocked Xiao Yu and resisted Feng Xue, and Xiao Yu recognized him as a spoiled, lawless man who was twenty-three by ghostly reckoning.

Xiao Yu found Tao Jie guilty of causing a miner’s soul to be destroyed and sentenced him to three hundred years in prison despite Tao Jie’s demands for evidence. Tao Jie stopped protesting after Xiao Yu threatened to increase the sentence, though he still objected to the punishment.

• Feng Xue told Xiao Yu that Tao Jie had repeatedly kicked a miner back into the mine until the miner was absorbed by a Spirit Stone vein and vanished.
• Xiao Yu used divination to confirm Tao Jie had caused the miner’s death, while Tao Jie insisted there was no evidence against him.
• Xiao Yu sentenced Tao Jie to three hundred years of imprisonment and told him evidence was not required to punish him in the Netherworld.
• Tao Jie demanded help from the others and cried for his mother, but nobody supported him.
• Xiao Yu warned that Tao Jie would receive a thousand-year sentence if he kept shouting, and Tao Jie fell silent.
• Tao Jie objected to the sentence by comparing it to mortal-world murder penalties, and Xiao Yu told him to appeal using his laws.

Xiao Yu sentenced Tao Jie and other ghosts for the harms they had caused, then struggled with the burden of deciding their fates. Feng Xue reassured him that Jiang Wei had already handled most cases, but a sudden drumming sound interrupted them.

• Xiao Yu sentenced Tao Jie to 400 years in prison for causing a five-car pileup that injured twelve people and caused major financial losses.
• Feng Xue sent Tao Jie away, and other ghosts stopped denying the wrongs Xiao Yu exposed and received punishments.
• Xiao Yu admitted that judging the ghosts had first felt satisfying but had left him disgusted and overwhelmed.
• Feng Xue reminded Xiao Yu that each case earned him a Lifespan Pill and that Jiang Wei had already handled most judgments.
• A series of thumps sounded outside as Xiao Yu and Feng Xue were discussing Jiang Wei.

Chen Huijing paid Xiao Yu to find and rescue his wife, who had been taken beyond Fog City's territory. After learning her soul was damaged from being devoured repeatedly, Chen Huijing chose to rescue her anyway and asked Xiao Yu to avenge her if possible.

• A man named Chen Huijing entered Feng Mansion and offered Xiao Yu a hundred Spirit Stones for a fortune reading, explaining that he had earned them by secretly taking resources from dangerous areas.
• Chen Huijing revealed that the hundred Spirit Stones were only a deposit and promised to give Xiao Yu all three hundred if he helped him.
• Xiao Yu accepted the payment and told Chen Huijing that his wife was outside Fog City's territory, where rescuing her would mean conflict with other forces.
• Xiao Yu warned that Chen Huijing's wife's soul was incomplete after being devoured repeatedly, but Feng Xue urged Chen Huijing not to give up and suggested taking her to the Sanzu River.
• Chen Huijing resolved to rescue his wife and asked Xiao Yu to avenge her; Xiao Yu agreed to help if an opportunity arose but cautioned him not to expect revenge.

Xiao Yu and Feng Xue discussed using a Resurrection Pill to save someone beyond Feng Xue’s region, then set out together to rescue her. Xiao Yu tested his upgraded True Shadow Sword and discovered its incredible speed, which inspired Feng Xue to imagine connecting and developing her territories.

• Xiao Yu and Feng Xue agreed that they would use Resurrection Pills only to save the people they cared about most.
• Feng Xue asked how they could rescue the woman, and Xiao Yu proposed that the two of them sneak in and bring her back.
• Xiao Yu summoned his upgraded True Shadow Sword, which expanded into a large flying platform, and promised to make Feng Xue a Flying Sword when he refined her Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yu and Feng Xue flew off on the sword, whose speed astonished them both.
• Feng Xue said a fast Flying Sword would help her travel between cities and develop her territories, and Xiao Yu stopped when they reached the enormous Boundary Stele.

Xiao Yu and Feng Xue traveled to Tang Zhen’s palace to rescue Ge Lian and raid its treasury. After saving Ge Lian and the other captive souls, Xiao Yu entered the palace’s main hall, where Feng Xue was meeting Tang Zhen.

• Feng Xue suggested raiding another Regional Lord’s treasury, and Xiao Yu agreed to help her hold off its owner while he broke in.
• Xiao Yu used his mental power and the True Shadow Sword to find a palace, then slipped inside while Feng Xue was welcomed by Tang Zhen’s stewards.
• Xiao Yu learned that Tang Zhen was a powerful evil cultivator and discovered Ge Lian’s location and the palace’s layout.
• Xiao Yu found Ge Lian barely conscious among other captive souls, sealed her in jade, and rescued the other souls as well.
• Xiao Yu learned that the treasury was on the second floor, entered the main hall, and interrupted Feng Xue’s conversation with Tang Zhen.

Xiao Yu confronted Tang Zhen over his destruction of captured souls, then used the Flowing Cloud Sword to trap him with overwhelming force. Tang Zhen was left terrified and unable to move as Xiao Yu prepared to pass judgment.

• Feng Xue asked Xiao Yu whether he had caught their target, and Xiao Yu quietly explained that he had not.
• Xiao Yu confronted Tang Zhen about Ge Lian and the other souls he had captured, and Tang Zhen admitted he treated them as food.
• Tang Zhen mocked Xiao Yu and Feng Xue, so Xiao Yu drew the Flowing Cloud Sword and ordered Feng Xue to stay behind him.
• Xiao Yu commanded the Flowing Cloud Sword to use Draw Land as a Prison, and the attack trapped Tang Zhen in place.
• Tang Zhen felt the sword's crushing pressure and did not dare move, then begged Xiao Yu to wait as Xiao Yu prepared to mete out heaven's justice.

Xiao Yu subdued Tang Zhen and tried to break into his treasure vault, but the barrier resisted the Flowing Cloud Sword and its heavy spiritual-energy cost. After leaving to find another way in, Xiao Yu returned with a little girl holding his hand.

• Tang Zhen and his stewards begged Xiao Yu and Feng Xue for mercy after the Flowing Cloud Sword trapped him.
• Xiao Yu left Feng Xue to guard Tang Zhen and went upstairs to test the treasure vault barrier.
• The Flowing Cloud Sword's attacks failed to overcome the barrier, and Xiao Yu stopped when they consumed too much of his spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yu ignored Tang Zhen's offer to open the vault and handed Feng Xue the Flowing Cloud Sword before leaving on the True Shadow Sword.
• Feng Xue waited with Tang Zhen and tried to recruit the sword's spirit while Xiao Yu was gone for more than an hour.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Palace with a little girl holding his hand.

Xiao Yu found a trove of pills in Tang Zhen’s treasury and learned from Feng Xue that one was a Reincarnation Pill, which could let someone escape pursuit by dying and being reborn as a different person. He began to suspect that someone with чужие memories and an inheritance might have used one.

• Qi Yunlin passed through the restrictive barrier, emptied the treasury into the Dragon and Phoenix Ring, and returned it to Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu examined the treasury’s contents and found Lifespan Pills, Resurrection Pills, Nascent Soul breakthrough pills, and three unidentified kinds of pills.
• Feng Xue identified a pitch-black pill as an unfinished Evil Spirit Pill made from souls, and Xiao Yu decided not to finish or dispose of it.
• Feng Xue explained that a Reincarnation Pill kills its user and rebirths them with a new appearance and sealed memories, which can later awaken along with their former cultivation knowledge.
• Xiao Yu wondered whether someone with memories that did not match their appearance and an inheritance might have taken a Reincarnation Pill.

Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to trace Hu Feifei’s family history and found two unclaimed urns in a Magic City cemetery. He recognized the people buried there as his parents and called them “Dad, Mom.”

• Feng Xue explained that lovers who took Reincarnation Pills could use names and childhood connections to find each other again, leaving Xiao Yu deeply shaken.
• Xiao Yu left the Palace with Qi Yunlin, ordered the Flowing Cloud Sword to seal two stewards, and left Tang Zhen imprisoned for later questioning.
• Xiao Yu returned to Huaxia, sent Qi Yunlin to cultivate, and entered seclusion to trace Hu Feifei’s past and family through the Heavenly Mechanism Canon.
• Xiao Yu’s fortune-reading led him to a cemetery memorial hall, where he found urns belonging to Shui Huize and Xiao Xia.
• Xiao Yu stood before the urns and called Shui Huize and Xiao Xia “Dad, Mom.”

After learning that his parents had been murdered for money, Xiao Yu nearly fell into demonic cultivation, but the Heavenly Mandate Stone awakened him and gave him the power of demonification. He returned to the past to see his parents as a young couple choosing his name, but their happy outing ended with Xiao Xia receiving a troubling phone call.

• Xiao Yu vowed to avenge his parents, but the Heavenly Mandate Stone interrupted his descent into demonic cultivation and granted him the power of demonification.
• Xiao Yu promised his parents he would return to give them a proper burial, then used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to travel into the past.
• Young Xiao Xia and Shui Huize discussed their house facing demolition and joked about their newborn son.
• Shui Huize suggested names inspired by pigeons, but Xiao Xia chose Xiao Yu, and they decided to register the name and commission a jade charm.
• Xiao Xia received a phone call, and his cheerful mood turned gloomy.

After reliving the story of Shui Huize and Xiao Xia’s deaths in a forced-demolition scheme, Xiao Yu decided to target the people responsible without killing them. Disguised in a mask, he arranged a staged car dispute to draw in a gang of elderly scammers, and they surrounded his car demanding money.

• Shui Huize and Xiao Xia were beaten to death by thugs after resisting a real estate company’s forced demolition, and Xiao Xia’s parents later died by suicide.
• Xiao Yu woke from the memory, resolved to punish those involved, and decided to start with the petty thugs who had grown old.
• Xiao Yu put on a mask and called Lawyer Li to consult him and arrange a few favors.
• Old Hu learned that a wealthy, inexperienced driver was involved in a car dispute and gathered his accomplices at the scene.
• Old Hu and the others surrounded Xiao Yu’s BL, threatened to feign injuries, and demanded compensation.

Xiao Yu bought Hu Huihua’s fraudulent sports car for ten million, intending to trap the scammers in a scheme that would leave them desperate. At the mahjong parlor, Old Hu kept most of the cash and offered his partners only ten thousand each.

• Xiao Yu offered to buy Hu Huihua’s sports car for ten million, and Hu Huihua and Old Hu agreed to the sale.
• Xiao Yu met Li Ruzhi and handed him the sales contract so he could prepare fraud charges; Li Ruzhi suspected the cash transaction was part of Xiao Yu’s larger plan.
• Old Hu and his associates celebrated the ten million in cash at the mahjong parlor.
• Old Hu rejected an equal split and gave each associate ten thousand, claiming they had done little to earn more.