Recaps

Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji out to get a phone and a secondhand laptop so she could learn more about the modern world. Her stay in his world lasted longer, and she chose the WeChat ID “Water follows the heavens; autumn stretches without end.”

• Qiu Wuji refused to heal Chu Ge’s post-workout soreness and made him continue running.
• Qiu Wuji secretly changed the doll on Chu Ge’s pajamas into a crying face, then made breakfast.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji to get a phone and explained that he would buy her a secondhand laptop so she could explore the internet and write.
• Qiu Wuji got a phone number and began to feel increasingly connected to Chu Ge and his world.
• After returning home with the laptop, Qiu Wuji found that her stay had lengthened and created a WeChat ID: “Water follows the heavens; autumn stretches without end.”

Chu Ge received a major homepage recommendation while Qiu Wuji settled into cultivation, and the two spent a quiet day together. As Chu Ge drifted off for a nap, a mysterious figure used a wall-piercing technique to emerge through his door.

• Qiu Wuji went grocery shopping with Chu Ge and began learning about modern cooking tools and videos.
• Chu Ge wrote more readily, focusing on Qiu Wuji's own storyline and considering giving the novel an ensemble cast.
• Chu Ge's editor told him that his work had earned a homepage feature and urged him to stockpile chapters.
• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge that he worked as a security guard and had spotted him shopping with a beautiful woman.
• Qiu Wuji cultivated after lunch while Chu Ge went to nap, and a silhouette emerged through his door using a wall-piercing technique.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji caught a man with the ability to pass through walls, who had broken into their apartment while hunting for Moon Shadow. They decided to hand him over to the police and erase his memories, though Qiu Wuji also took the opportunity to demand his valuables.

• A burglar entered the apartment, but Qiu Wuji immobilized him with a glare and Chu Ge knocked him down with a broom.
• Qiu Wuji questioned the man about his ability to pass through walls, and he claimed supernatural abilities were awakening among a small number of people.
• Chu Ge recognized the man was lying and exposed that he had come to target Moon Shadow, a suspected underground boxer and assassin living across the hall.
• Chu Ge urged Qiu Wuji to avoid getting involved in the supernatural circle and turn the man over to the police, and she agreed to erase his memories.
• Qiu Wuji told the man to hand over his money and valuables before Chu Ge could decide whether to call the police or contact Lin Wuyang.

Qiu Wuji robbed a thief, erased his memory, and left him for the police, while Chu Ge admitted he felt uneasy about the supernatural world disrupting his ordinary life. The police linked the thief to their hunt for the Wall-Passer, and a mysterious girl in black watched the scene before vanishing.

• Qiu Wuji took the thief's cash, erased his memory, and dumped him in a green belt; Chu Ge watched as passersby alerted the police.
• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji he felt conflicted about supernatural events and asked her not to rob people in their world again.
• Lin Wuyang recognized Chu Ge at the scene, then learned from an officer that the thief had appeared in the green belt without anyone seeing him arrive.
• Lin Wuyang said the captured thief might help close the case involving President Gu and the Wall-Passer, and decided not to investigate whoever had dumped him without cause.
• Chu Ge went looking for Qiu Wuji and saw a girl in black watching the police; she turned away and vanished.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji learned more about the awakened espers and explored the internet, while Qiu Wuji treated Chu Ge to accelerate his cultivation. At the City Bureau, Gu Ruoyan added Lin Wuyang to the esper registry after revealing his ability.

• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that espers could train their abilities, and they discussed whether Chu Ge had awakened a power of his own.
• Chu Ge taught Qiu Wuji to use Thousand Search and a video site, where she searched for the Divine Miracle Nightclub and watched cooking videos.
• Qiu Wuji decided to improve Chu Ge’s circulation and prepare him to cultivate, then treated him with immortal spiritual energy despite his concern that it would shorten her time in his world.
• Gu Ruoyan reviewed the esper registry with Lin Wuyang and added his truth-forcing ability and provisional B potential assessment.

After Qiu Wuji returned to her world, Chu Ge began cultivating and worried that she might eventually stop visiting. Qiu Wuji wrestled with her desire to return to Chu Ge and sought a way to become independent of his writing by changing how she pursued her goals.

• Chu Ge realized Qiu Wuji had left him with a working cultivation method and worried that she might someday leave his world for good.
• Chu Ge gathered Qiu Wuji's clothes and resolved to write her as even more formidable.
• Qiu Wuji questioned whether returning to Chu Ge was wise, but she still worried about his safety and wondered whether she could break free of his writing.
• Qiu Wuji summoned Elder Zhou and said she planned to wager the sect's Great Void Fire against Yan Qianlie's Vermilion Bird Firefeather.
• Qiu Wuji told Elder Zhou to identify and secretly control the Flame Prison Sect's affiliates, and to contact Corpse Yin Mountain about Yan Qianlie's killing of the Boneless Elder's son.
• Chu Ge typed a line in which Qiu Wuji declared that she would command the tide of the world and stand above all beneath heaven.

After cultivating and building a productive routine, Chu Ge tested whether his writing could make the Heavenly Dao pact real inside his novel. His words summoned him into Qiu Wuji’s world, where the pact was sealed and she saw him in her soul sea.

• Chu Ge encountered his black-clad neighbor, who apologized and said she would move out soon.
• Chu Ge cultivated, exercised, and slept deeply before waking refreshed and writing with renewed energy.
• Chu Ge checked his author dashboard and saw that his bookmarks and subscriptions were rising.
• Chu Ge wrote that Qiu Wuji could sense and receive a response from the Heavenly Dao, causing his view to shift into her world.
• Chu Ge’s presence sealed Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie’s wager, convincing Yan Qianlie that the pact could truly bind him.
• Qiu Wuji saw Chu Ge smiling in her soul sea and realized she could see him there.

Qiu Wuji accepted Yan Qianlie’s heavenly dao wager and prepared to fight him, while she and Chu Ge explored the limits of their connection and whether her choices were truly her own. The chapter ended with Chu Ge asking how much Qiu Wuji knew about him.

• Yan Qianlie accepted the wager and set the duel for the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which Qiu Wuji recognized as a setting Chu Ge had invented.
• Qiu Wuji returned to her sect to begin preparations, then crossed over to Chu Ge’s world and beat him for mocking her inability to reach him.
• Qiu Wuji explained that more than ten days had passed in her world, allowing her spiritual exhaustion to recover, and she questioned how Chu Ge’s Divine Descent worked.
• Qiu Wuji noticed Chu Ge had written her as planning for supremacy and wondered whether the choice came from his writing or her own thoughts.
• Chu Ge suggested that Qiu Wuji’s actions might reflect how well he understood her, then asked how much she knew about him.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge went out for hot pot and discussed her growing independence and the woman across the hall. Moon Shadow entered an underground boxing arena, where a hidden figure watched her from behind glass.

• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge she wanted to buy more clothes, and they went out to shop after dinner plans shifted to hot pot.
• Qiu Wuji accused Chu Ge of using her clothes inappropriately, and Chu Ge denied it.
• Qiu Wuji said she would threaten or erase the memories of the woman across the hall if needed, and Chu Ge noted her tougher attitude.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji's hand as they headed to a hot pot restaurant, and she wondered why she did not pull away.
• Moon Shadow entered the underground boxing arena beneath the Divine Miracle Nightclub, where the crowd cheered for her.
• Moon Shadow looked toward a concealed spectator behind a glass wall, whom she recognized as a slender man with glasses.

Qiu Wuji set out alone to explore the city, but after failing to enter the subway or hail a taxi, she ended up traveling with Chu Ge to the Divine Miracle Nightclub to investigate the man who had gone through the wall. The chapter left them outside the club, with Chu Ge warning Qiu Wuji to follow his lead.

• Qiu Wuji bought a white shirt and jeans, then used mystic arts to stop nearby customers from photographing her.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge to go home so she could explore alone, and he left after warning her not to use violence.
• Qiu Wuji failed to enter the subway because she lacked a health code and struggled to hail a taxi from a no-stopping area.
• Chu Ge found Qiu Wuji and joined her in a taxi after she chose the Divine Miracle Nightclub as her destination.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji arrived at the nightclub, where Chu Ge told her to listen to him and Qiu Wuji questioned whether he had ever visited the place.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji visited a costly dance hall, where Qiu Wuji discovered its lewd atmosphere and struggled with unfamiliar feelings while they investigated. The chapter ended when a bunny-costumed performer appeared onstage and Qiu Wuji regretted coming.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji entered an old-fashioned dance hall and saw couples kissing and groping on the dance floor and in the corners.
• Chu Ge ordered beer and peanuts after seeing the steep prices, while Qiu Wuji questioned the venue’s behavior and used her divine sense to investigate.
• Qiu Wuji’s divine sense revealed an intimate couple nearby, and the close, heated atmosphere stirred unfamiliar feelings in both her and Chu Ge.
• A host announced the special performance, and a woman rose from beneath the floor in a bunny-girl outfit.
• Qiu Wuji stared at the performer and said she should never have come.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge found a hidden route beneath the venue and entered an underground fighting arena, where Moon Shadow fought a powerful opponent before a bloodthirsty crowd. After Moon Shadow turned the fight around with her shadow ability, Gu Ruoyan decided to find her.

• Qiu Wuji destroyed a garment thrown toward Chu Ge, then punched him after he made a suggestive remark before leading him to a hidden passage.
• Qiu Wuji used an illusion to get past the guards, and she and Chu Ge descended by elevator to a vast underground arena.
• Moon Shadow struggled against a burly fighter who used gravity manipulation and was driven to the edge of the ring.
• Moon Shadow used her shadow ability to trip the fighter and strike his spine, sending him toward the edge of the ring.
• Gu Ruoyan reviewed Moon Shadow's roster entry and ordered a subordinate to find her.

Moon Shadow escaped a rigged Underground Boxing match after an unseen force released the restraint trapping her. The club’s boss realized skilled outsiders had intervened and ordered operations suspended, while vowing to find another way to kill Moon Shadow.

• Moon Shadow struggled against her opponent’s attacks and the crowd’s demands as an outside force kept the man airborne and restrained her with gravity.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that the club likely intended to kill Moon Shadow because she knew they had cheated and might cause trouble later.
• The gravitational restraint vanished, allowing Moon Shadow to dodge a punch and escape the ring before fleeing toward the elevator.
• Moon Shadow entered the elevator, but the people watching the surveillance found it empty and realized the escape was a diversion.
• The boss ordered the club to suspend operations, noted that the authorities might be investigating, and said he would find another way to kill Moon Shadow.

Qiu Wuji teleported Chu Ge and the injured Moon Shadow away from the Divine Miracle Nightclub, then brought Moon Shadow home and questioned her about her shadow ability. Moon Shadow left believing Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge were married, while Qiu Wuji protested, and the police arrived at the nightclub.

• Qiu Wuji teleported herself, Chu Ge, and Moon Shadow out of the nightclub and cleaned the blood from Moon Shadow's face and clothes.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji took Moon Shadow home after hearing police sirens near the nightclub.
• Moon Shadow explained that she traveled through shadows to avoid being followed and had developed her ability by talking to shadows as a lonely child.
• Qiu Wuji asked Moon Shadow about training her ability, and Moon Shadow said fighting made her shadows stronger and that she trusted no one.
• Moon Shadow said she could no longer return to underground boxing and offered to let Qiu Wuji study her ability.
• Moon Shadow called Chu Ge Qiu Wuji's husband and left, prompting Qiu Wuji to deny that they were married.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji considered how readers might affect the reality and presence of his fictional world, while Qiu Wuji began studying his writing. Lin Wuyang’s inspection of the Divine Miracle Nightclub found nothing, and its new owner introduced himself as Zhang Qiren.

• Qiu Wuji learned how expensive housing was and asked Chu Ge whether Moon Shadow could enter their world, but he explained that a character modeled on her would not be the same person.
• Chu Ge theorized that readers strengthened a fictional world’s presence and connection to reality, and Qiu Wuji urged him to keep writing.
• Chu Ge went to write while Qiu Wuji read his earlier books to study his style; across the hall, Moon Shadow spent a sleepless night with a lingering wound.
• Lin Wuyang led a routine inspection of the Divine Miracle Nightclub, but the concealed staff passage had been sealed and the inspection uncovered nothing.
• Lin Wuyang questioned the club’s new owner, who truthfully identified himself as Zhang Qiren and said he had taken over only days earlier.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji were caught in an awkward encounter with Gu Ruoyan, who had come looking for Moon Shadow. Gu Ruoyan identified herself as a government official with mind-reading abilities and met Moon Shadow, while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji were left to reckon with their own strange exchange.

• Qiu Wuji found and berated Chu Ge over an old story of his, then Gu Ruoyan arrived at their apartment.
• Gu Ruoyan explained she was looking for Moon Shadow, and Chu Ge realized she had been directed to the apartment building by someone who knew Moon Shadow.
• Chu Ge called Qiu Wuji his girlfriend, and Qiu Wuji played along before Gu Ruoyan went to Moon Shadow's door.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that Gu Ruoyan had probed their minds but could not uncover their identities.
• Gu Ruoyan showed Moon Shadow her identification, reassured her that she had not come to arrest her, and revealed her own mind-reading ability and official position.

After Moon Shadow left with Gu Ruoyan, Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge realized he could write a manual for Shadow Mystic Arts into existence, then settled back into their domestic routine. Chu Ge agreed to attend his college reunion, while Qiu Wuji’s warm praise of his books left him feeling that their relationship had grown closer.

• Moon Shadow left with Gu Ruoyan, and Qiu Wuji asked Chu Ge to write a cultivation manual for Shadow Mystic Arts.
• Chu Ge teased Qiu Wuji about being his heroine and girlfriend, and she kicked him onto the sofa before refusing to make breakfast.
• Chu Ge agreed in the College Classmates Group to attend the upcoming fifth-anniversary reunion, hoping to reconnect with Lin Wuyang.
• Chu Ge returned with soy milk and steamed buns and saw Qiu Wuji using the washing machine to learn about life in this world.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that his books were wonderfully written, and he was deeply moved by her praise.

Chu Ge’s novel gained a surprising surge in subscriptions, but he grew concerned that Qiu Wuji was neglecting her cultivation while visiting his world. Qiu Wuji reassured him that experiencing the mortal world was itself cultivation, leaving Chu Ge to reconsider whether his worry had clouded his judgment.

• Chu Ge finished and uploaded a chapter, then discovered that his average subscriptions had surged past 4,600 and his novel was nearing the bestseller rankings’ top ten.
• While writing Qiu Wuji’s cultivation into the story, Chu Ge worried that her time away from her world might weaken her before her battle with Yan Qianlie.
• Qiu Wuji noticed her divine soul growing more solid and suspected Chu Ge had granted her another benefit through his writing.
• Chu Ge asked Qiu Wuji to return from the market because he feared she was cultivating too little, and she teased him about his concern.
• Qiu Wuji explained that perceiving and savoring the world around her was also cultivation, then suggested Chu Ge was too worried about her to understand.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji bantered over his handling of her laundry, then discussed her possible return and his rapid cultivation progress. When Qiu Wuji offered to teach him a mystic art, Chu Ge chose invisibility and X-ray vision, and she stormed away after dumping rice on his head.

• Chu Ge found Qiu Wuji's lampshade in the laundry and was caught holding it, prompting her to tease him and threaten him over her belongings.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge she could stay until his class reunion in three days, but might return to handle affairs of her own.
• Qiu Wuji realized Chu Ge had reached a stable first level of Qi Refining after only three days of practice, much faster than she expected.
• Qiu Wuji offered to teach Chu Ge a simple mystic art, and he asked to learn invisibility and X-ray vision.
• Qiu Wuji dumped a bowl of rice on Chu Ge's head and stormed off.

Qiu Wuji rejected Chu Ge’s attempt to become her disciple but taught him techniques to help him survive the dangers surrounding his new life. She left him with the promise of learning the Golden Bell Shield through her hands-on instruction.

• Chu Ge brought Qiu Wuji tea and jokingly asked her to accept him as her disciple, but she refused despite accepting the tea.
• Qiu Wuji explained that Chu Ge should focus on survival rather than advanced techniques such as invisibility or seeing through objects.
• Qiu Wuji taught Chu Ge the basics of Cloudwater Without a Trace, the Cloudreach Sect’s movement technique.
• Qiu Wuji examined Chu Ge’s unusual mental sea and taught him the Soul Tempering Art to resist abilities that affected his mind or soul.
• Qiu Wuji said Chu Ge also needed combat skills and decided to teach him the Golden Bell Shield by beating him until he could take a blow.

Chu Ge learned the basics of the Golden Bell Shield from Qiu Wuji, then edited his story’s settings to make the technique protect a sensitive weak point after minor mastery. Qiu Wuji returned to her world to study the technique further, only to have her divided soul crash into her seclusion door.

• Qiu Wuji knocked Chu Ge around while teaching him the Golden Bell Shield, leaving him with faintly golden skin and increased toughness.
• Chu Ge asked whether the technique would protect his groin, and Qiu Wuji said she needed to study it further.
• Chu Ge added to his technique settings that minor mastery protected the groin, causing monks in his world to feel the change.
• Qiu Wuji said she would return to consult texts and left Chu Ge a stocking to keep safe while she was gone.
• Qiu Wuji returned to her body and, distracted, struck the stone door of her seclusion formation and slid down it.

Chu Ge learned that his novel was gaining strong readership and support, while Zhang Qiren pursued a mysterious woman and explored ties with the “Black Room.” The chapter left Chu Ge reconnecting with his readers and Zhang Qiren waiting for the Black Room to make progress.

• Qiu Wuji stormed off to consult the ancient texts and plan her revenge on Chu Ge.
• Chu Ge joined a chat group of bestselling authors, received praise for his ensemble cast, and realized his novel’s subscriptions had risen to 5,500.
• Chu Ge returned to the Friendly Fire group, learned its members had thanked tip-givers and managed the community in his absence, and appointed new admins.
• Chu Ge tried messaging Zhang Qiren but received no reply.
• At the Divine Miracle Nightclub, Zhang Qiren dismissed a lineup of women because none were the person he wanted and asked about the Black Room.
• Zhang Qiren learned the Black Room was interested but staying hidden because the police were searching for them, and he noted that Gu Ruoyan had returned to the capital.

Chu Ge continued cultivating while writing and went to his class reunion, where he unexpectedly saw his old friend Zhang Qiren arrive in expensive clothes after meeting Lin Wuyang. The chapter left Chu Ge messaging Zhang Qiren in disbelief over his apparent wealth.

• Chu Ge trained in the Golden Bell Shield, soul cultivation, and movement techniques while keeping up his writing.
• Chu Ge went to his class reunion, where his classmates teased him about being a loner and a writer, but he no longer took their remarks to heart.
• Chu Ge learned that Lin Wuyang was a municipal bureau section chief and considered asking civil servant Zhang Manli for help with Qiu Wuji’s identity.
• Lin Wuyang met Zhang Qiren at the hotel entrance and warned him about knowing when he had made enough money.
• Zhang Qiren saw Chu Ge at the reunion, felt embarrassed by his own appearance, and told an underling to discreetly listen to the table’s conversation.
• Chu Ge messaged Zhang Qiren in shock, asking if his claim of being a failure had meant returning home to inherit a billion-dollar fortune.

At a class reunion, Chu Ge fielded questions about his writing while his classmates underestimated his success. Qiu Wuji appeared as his fan, and Zhang Qiren arranged to pay for the tables in Chu Ge’s honor.

• Chu Ge questioned whether to approach Zhang Qiren, while Lin Wuyang told him Zhang had once rented a place with Chu Ge’s name listed as his roommate.
• Chu Ge’s classmates asked about his writing and assumed he made money from suggestive stories, prompting him to joke that Lin Wuyang might arrest him.
• The classmates discussed Chu Ge’s prospects for finding a girlfriend and teased him about writers marrying fans.
• Qiu Wuji arrived at the reunion and asked Chu Ge for his autograph, stunning him and his classmates.
• Zhang Qiren told a subordinate to pay for Lin Wuyang’s two tables and say he admired Chu Ge’s work.

After a class reunion, Chu Ge learned that Lin Wuyang was still investigating Zhang Qiren despite the case being called off, while Qiu Wuji revealed she had disguised herself as a fan to support him. The evening ended with Qiu Wuji threatening Chu Ge over the wall he had made her walk into.

• A fake female fan asked Chu Ge for an autograph, and Old Hong reported that another fan had paid the reunion bill; Chu Ge suspected the first was Qiu Wuji and the second was Zhang Qiren.
• Lin Wuyang told Chu Ge that Zhang Qiren was listed as the legal representative of the Divine Miracle Nightclub and asked him to share anything he learned about his roommate.
• After Lin Wuyang left, Qiu Wuji appeared and said she had acted like a fan because she knew Chu Ge cared about impressing his classmates and wanted to support him.
• Chu Ge thanked Qiu Wuji, saying he had not felt embarrassed because she liked his writing.
• Qiu Wuji changed the subject and threatened Chu Ge over making her walk into a wall, leaving him terrified.