Recaps

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er had their loot appraised at Treasure Forest, where they learned that tools taken from two monsters belonged to a Heavenly Artificer Sect craftsman. They met Qi Dian for lunch and learned that Treasure Forest was guarding a Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron targeted by forces connected to the Demon Race.

• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er visited Treasure Forest and had Guan Bo appraise their demon beast meat and combat drug.
• Guan Bo identified the hammer and wrench as tools made from Ninefold Dao-Pattern Steel and marked with serial numbers belonging to the Heavenly Artificer Sect.
• Yue Wen decided to return the tools to their owner, hoping the sect would reward them.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er met Qi Dian, thanked him for supporting their livestream, and went to order delivery after the nearby restaurant was closed.
• Qi Dian explained that Treasure Forest had tightened security because forces connected to the Demon Race were targeting the auction's final lot, a Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron.

Yue Wen learned that the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron was tied to the Nine Li Emperor’s legacy and that the Demon Race might seek it for reasons involving the Demon Snake Emperor. After hearing about the Demon Race’s factions, he contacted the other end of the Demon Emperor Hide and asked who they were.

• Qi Dian explained that the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron was linked to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb and had attracted interest from Immortal Sects, prominent families, and forces connected to the Demon Race.
• Qi Dian described the Rainbow Faction and Peak Faction, including their different methods of expanding their influence in the Human Realm.
• Zhao Xing'er revealed that Yue Wen had reached the peak of the Unity Realm, leaving Qi Dian disheartened about the widening gap between them.
• Yue Wen returned to his office and decided he could no longer avoid investigating Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb and the Demon Emperor Hide.
• Yue Wen activated the Demon Emperor Hide and sent the message, "Who are you people?"

Yue Wen contacted the beings trapped in Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide, learning that they wanted him to rescue them and that the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron could guide him into Tiger Tomb. After discovering they might offer him money, he agreed to accept it, leaving their negotiation ongoing.

• Yue Wen received a chaotic message from Duan Shousheng and several other beings trapped in Snake Mountain, who mistook him for Lord Purple Throne and begged him to rescue them.
• Yue Wen practiced the Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist and discovered he could use its lightning with other martial arts techniques.
• Yue Wen told the trapped beings that he had not obtained the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron and asked them to show some sincerity if they wanted his help.
• Duan Shousheng and the others offered loyalty, money, and other rewards, and Yue Wen replied that he would accept money and would not be angry.

After discovering that most of Medicine Jar’s promised fortune had vanished with time, Yue Wen recovered nearly three million and agreed to search for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron. A new client, Wang Miaomiao, then hired the Yue Family Cultivation Office to investigate paintings that came alive at night.

• Yue Wen found that Medicine Jar’s stocks were worthless, but exchanged the century-old Polar Bear Coins for nearly two million.
• Yue Wen told the trapped people that he would look for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron, and they warned him that Snake Mountain was a trap.
• The Heavenly Artificer Sect arranged to retrieve an item Yue Wen had found and promised a reward if it belonged to them.
• Wang Miaomiao visited the Yue Family Cultivation Office on behalf of her art teacher and described paintings that came alive in his home at night.
• Yue Wen accepted the commission and planned to visit the art professor with Zhao Xing'er that evening.

Yue Wen returned the Heavenly Artificer Sect tools to Geng Bihu, who believed they proved his senior brother had died. Geng offered the sect’s help, and Yue Wen asked him to obtain a Dragon-Breath Flame Seed; before leaving, Geng recognized Zhao Xing'er as a member of the Zhao Family of the Heavenly Capital.

• Zhao Xing'er got angry at a girl’s teasing, while Yue Wen went upstairs to practice the Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist.
• Geng Bihu arrived to collect his ninth senior brother’s hammer and wrench, which Yue Wen had taken from two Muntjac Demons.
• Geng Bihu wept over the tools and concluded that his senior brother was dead, though he admitted he had wanted the man’s furnace, hammer, and fiancée.
• Yue Wen told Geng Bihu where he had found the tools, and Geng offered the Heavenly Artificer Sect’s help in return.
• Yue Wen asked Geng Bihu to obtain a Dragon-Breath Flame Seed from the Western Sea Dragon Palace, and Geng agreed to bring one after reporting back to his sect.
• Before leaving, Geng Bihu asked Zhao Xing'er whether she was from the Zhao Family of the Heavenly Capital.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er visited Professor Guan after Wang Miaomiao reported that his paintings seemed to come alive at night. They planned to stay overnight and investigate, while Guan Qin prepared to show Zhao Xing'er his collection.

• Geng Bihu recognized Zhao Xing'er's bracelet as a gift to the Zhao Family head and guessed she was his illegitimate daughter, but Yue Wen persuaded him to keep her connection to the family secret.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er struggled to choose lunch before Zhao Xing'er settled on Luosifen.
• Wang Miaomiao took Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er to Professor Guan's home, where Yue Wen recognized the art professor as an old family friend.
• Guan Qin dismissed the reports that his paintings came alive at night, but Wang Miaomiao insisted she had heard him describe the strange events.
• Yue Wen found no spiritual traces with his Spirit-Searching Needle and proposed staying overnight to investigate, while Guan Qin offered to show them his paintings.

Yue Wen waited at Guan Qin’s house for the Nightmare Wraith Creature and discovered that the paintings were pulling people into them. The chapter ended with Zhao Xing'er appearing inside the Mountain Ghosts Roaming by Night Painting, terrifying the ghosts with her meteor hammer.

• Guan Qin showed Yue Wen his collection and described an ancient painting that he believed depicted the legendary Demon-Expelling Melody from Southern Liang.
• After midnight, Yue Wen sensed yin energy and heard strange sounds, then found Zhao Xing'er and Guan Qin missing from the house.
• Yue Wen discovered Guan Qin trapped inside a sketch on the staircase, replacing the woman who had been depicted there.
• Yue Wen saw Zhao Xing'er inside the Mountain Ghosts Roaming by Night Painting, where she drove the painted ghosts into a panicked flight.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er rescued Guan Qin from the paintings, but discovered they were trapped in a Nightmare Realm. They chased a mysterious woman to a wall covered in drawings, which might offer a way out.

• Zhao Xing'er broke free of her painting and helped Yue Wen pull Guan Qin from his.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er fought through hostile creatures emerging from Guan Qin's paintings as they tried to leave the house.
• The trio found that the doorway had led into a seaside Nightmare Realm, and Yue Wen realized its yin energy had been concealed.
• Yue Wen spotted a woman in white and chased her with Zhao Xing'er and Guan Qin across the shore.
• The woman vanished into a wall covered in drawings, and Yue Wen suspected it was their way out.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er uncovered a female student's corpse hidden in Guan Qin's wall and forced him to confess that she had died during an assault. After the authorities took Guan Qin into custody, Wang Shoucai revealed that the unharmed girl Yue Wen had met, Wang Miaomiao, had already been reported dead in another Supernatural Case.

• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er broke through the wall in Guan Qin's guest room, revealing a corpse sealed inside it and ending the apparent Nightmare Realm.
• Guan Qin admitted that a female student had died after he tried to confirm their feelings, and that he had hidden her body to protect his reputation.
• When Guan Qin fell through a broken railing, Zhao Xing'er caught him with her Meteor Hammer and kept him alive for the authorities.
• Yue Wen promised the victim's spirit that Guan Qin would face justice, and the lingering yin energy in the room dissipated.
• An hour later, officers took Guan Qin into custody while Wang Shoucai's team investigated the corpse and the Nightmare Realm's source.
• Wang Shoucai said that a high school girl named Wang Miaomiao had recently died in another Supernatural Case, despite Yue Wen having met a girl of that name who had left unharmed.

After learning that Wang Miaomiao had died before appearing at Yue Wen’s office, Yue Wen considered whether a powerful, possibly harmless evil spirit had taken her place. He then learned that a seller would offer him grand unity mystic blazing cinnabar at a steep discount if he adopted the seller’s spirit pet, and arranged to meet the seller.

• Wang Shoucai told Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er that Wang Miaomiao had been murdered by an evil spirit two days before she appeared at their office.
• Zhao Xing'er suggested Wang Miaomiao might be a kindhearted evil spirit, and Wang Shoucai explained how the Supernatural Affairs Bureau handled harmless monsters and evil spirits.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er returned to the office after the Supernatural Affairs Bureau finished handling the scene.
• Liu Yuanjun told Yue Wen that a Wasteland Zone explorer would sell grand unity mystic blazing cinnabar for eight thousand talisman currency if Yue Wen adopted and cared for the explorer's spirit pet.
• Yue Wen learned that his office lacked the permit to keep a demon beast, but asked Liu Yuanjun to arrange a meeting with the seller anyway.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er adopted Hu Jiuyi’s Howling Moon Sky Wolf in exchange for the Grand Unity Mystic Blazing Cinnabar. After Hu Jiuyi left to explore a secret realm, the wolf bit Yue Wen when he tried to decide what to do with it.

• Hu Jiuyi arrived at the Yue Family Cultivation Office with the white spirit pet and insisted it was a Howling Moon Sky Wolf, not a dog.
• Hu Jiuyi explained that the wolf’s mother had saved him and entrusted him with her cub, so he wanted a safe home for it.
• Hu Jiuyi revealed his fifth-realm cultivation and gave Yue Wen strict feeding instructions for Howling Sky.
• Hu Jiuyi handed Yue Wen the Grand Unity Mystic Blazing Cinnabar and left Howling Sky in their care.
• Hu Jiuyi departed to explore a secret realm with Wang the Skinny and Yang Frozen Pear, while Yue Wen prepared for the next day’s auction.
• Yue Wen opened the cinnabar box, then Howling Sky bit his wrist when he casually said they would feed it for now.

Yue Wen welcomed Geng Bihu, who delivered the dragon-breath flame seed Yue Wen needed, though he could not obtain dragon breath to empower it. Geng Bihu then set off to search the Wasteland Zone for Ninth Senior Brother's remains.

• Zhao Xing'er named the Howling Moon Sky Wolf Big White, while Yue Wen stored the grand unity mystic blazing cinnabar and prepared funds to bid on a Purple Jade Branch.
• Geng Bihu arrived at the agency and explained that he had collected the flame seed from the Western Sea Dragon Palace.
• Big White bit through Geng Bihu's spirit-silk gold hand, and Zhao Xing'er dragged the wolf aside to punish him.
• Geng Bihu gave Yue Wen the dragon-breath flame seed and warned that it would be useless without dragon breath.
• Geng Bihu told Yue Wen that he would search the Wasteland Zone for Ninth Senior Brother's remains, then left to join his senior brothers.

Yue Wen bought the True Dragon Breath Method from Da Long and learned that its breathing cycle could help him refine Dragon Breath. After losing nearly a day practicing it, he hurried with Zhao Xing'er to the Treasure Forest auction.

• Yue Wen paid Da Long ninety-nine pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money for the True Dragon Breath Method after Da Long explained he could not give him Dragon Breath because his true body was elsewhere.
• Yue Wen studied the Visualization Diagram and realized that imitating a True Dragon's complex Qi Vein cycle could let a human refine Dragon Breath.
• Zhao Xing'er broke down Yue Wen's door after he failed to answer, and she and her dog accidentally knocked him down beneath it.
• Yue Wen discovered that practicing the method had taken nearly twenty hours, then rushed with Zhao Xing'er to the auction on the Little E-Scooter.
• Qi Dian gave Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er their auction tickets and told Yue Wen he would be guarding the auction items upstairs.

Yue Wen attended Treasure Forest’s auction while Zhao Xing’er’s unauthorized robbery plan got her thrown out of the venue. The auction began with Perfected One Nagiko, Daoist Jiefeng, and Hu Hanyi discussing the Fox-Pressing Pagoda’s seal as the first treasure, a Purple Jade Branch, was announced.

• Yue Wen learned that Zhao Xing’er had devised a plan to rob Treasure Forest if he failed to win the auction, then made her delete the plan and chat records.
• Security guards dragged Zhao Xing’er out after an old man reported her for openly discussing the robbery plan.
• The auctioneer welcomed the bidders and introduced Perfected One Nagiko, who acknowledged the crowd from a private room.
• Perfected One Nagiko asked Hu Hanyi about recent disappearances near the Fox-Pressing Pagoda, and he assured her that the seal was intact.
• Perfected One Nagiko said she would inspect the pagoda before the three-hundred-year mark, while Daoist Jiefeng and Hu Hanyi offered their help.
• The first auction item was announced as a Purple Jade Branch.

Yue Wen won the Purple Jade Branch at auction with a single bid, unaware that other bidders mistook him for an agent of a great Immortal Sect. His unexpected success heightened the other factions’ concern about who had come to compete for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron.

• Treasure Forest opened the auction with a Purple Jade Branch, and Yue Wen waited to see whether anyone would bid.
• Daoist Jiefeng ordered an opening bid of eight hundred and ten thousand for his disciple, but Yue Wen raised the price to one million.
• Daoist Jiefeng and the others decided not to compete, reasoning that bidder 167 likely represented Famous Sword Middle School or the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect.
• Other auction attendees assumed Yue Wen belonged to a powerful Immortal Sect and received warnings not to provoke him with competing bids.
• The auctioneer sold the Purple Jade Branch to Yue Wen, who wondered how he had won it so easily.

Yue Wen continued bidding at the auction and won the Xun Sword True Formula Visualization Diagram after other buyers backed away, apparently mistaking him for someone backed by a top Immortal Sect. He left the chapter surprised by his second bargain and uncertain why everyone had stopped bidding.

• The auctioneer presented an Iron Bear Hide, which sold for 950,000 after fierce bidding.
• Yue Wen considered buying a defensive artifact later and focused on the Xun Sword True Formula, an art that enhanced sword techniques with the Dao of wind.
• An agent in seat 16 bid 400,000, and Yue Wen raised the offer to 420,000.
• Perfected One Nagiko and Daoist Jiefeng suspected seat 167 was backed by the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect, causing the other families to avoid competing.
• The agent's client scolded him for bidding too quickly, while Yue Wen wondered why the crowd had fallen silent.
• The auctioneer sold the Xun Sword True Formula to Yue Wen for 420,000, and Yue Wen remarked that he had gotten another one.

Yue Wen won a mysterious, dragon-breathing root carving for the opening bid after bidders avoided competing with seat 167. After deciding he would stop bidding, he spotted a familiar girl heading upstairs and wondered if she was Wang Miaomiao.

• Yue Wen tested how bidders reacted to him raising his paddle and realized his earlier purchase had made them wary of competing with him.
• The auctioneer presented a mysterious root carving that still breathed and pulsed, and Yue Wen recognized its rhythm as matching the True Dragon Breath Method.
• Yue Wen bid five hundred thousand for the carving, and the other agents stopped themselves from bidding against seat 167.
• Hu Hanyi obtained a record of the carving's discovery, while Perfected One Nagiko wondered what the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect knew about it.
• Yue Wen decided not to bid on anything costing more than three hundred thousand, then spotted a girl who looked like Wang Miaomiao heading upstairs.

Yue Wen and Qi Dian discovered that Wang Miaomiao had taken over the auction’s second floor to claim the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron. She trapped them in her Demon Domain, where a gigantic tabby cat chased them around an exercise wheel and prevented them from using their Supernatural Arts.

• Yue Wen left the auction hall to warn Qi Dian after suspecting Wang Miaomiao had gone upstairs for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron.
• Yue Wen found the second floor unguarded and met Qi Dian, who had returned from collecting a late auction item.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian decided to retreat and summon the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, but Wang Miaomiao appeared and said she would leave after taking the cauldron.
• Wang Miaomiao trapped Yue Wen and Qi Dian in her Demon Domain, where they had to run from a gigantic tabby cat on an exercise wheel.

Yue Wen and Qi Dian escaped Wang Miaomiao’s Demon Domain after Qi-Blood Biscuits boosted their strength, then emerged at the Treasure Forest venue to find its security personnel unconscious. Fang Qingcang told them that demons had attacked to seize the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron and identified the attackers as the Meow-Meow Cult.

• Yue Wen concluded that he and Qi Dian could not break the Demon Domain and worried they would not survive until help arrived.
• Qi Dian planned to fight the giant cat to learn its capabilities, but Yue Wen gave him a Qi-Blood Biscuit and ate one himself.
• The biscuits drove Yue Wen and Qi Dian into a powerful blood-burning state, letting them overtake the giant cat and spot a shining opening beneath its tail.
• As Qi Dian’s strength faded, Yue Wen kicked him through the opening, then leaped through after him.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian returned to the Treasure Forest venue, where Fang Qingcang explained that demons had attacked for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron and named the Meow-Meow Cult as the likely culprit.

Yue Wen learned that the Meow-Meow Cult’s cat demon had escaped after attacking the auction, while the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron remained safe. He returned to watch the auction, where the cauldron sold for 1.28 billion.

• Fang Qingcang explained that the cat demon Wang Miaomiao had trapped the security staff in a Demon Domain, stolen the cauldron’s glass safe, and fled after discovering the cauldron was a fake concealing Perfected One Nagiko’s Jade Doll.
• Qi Dian thanked Yue Wen for helping him escape the Demon Domain, then asked him to keep quiet about the Riverside Gate’s failure to protect the cauldron.
• Yue Wen returned to the auction as bidding for the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron began, while Qi Dian stayed behind to wake his fellow disciples and martial uncles.
• Yue Wen watched the bidding rise past a billion and privately reflected that he could not afford to compete.
• The auctioneer sold the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron for 1.28 billion.

After collecting his auction purchases, Yue Wen rejected Treasure Forest’s Blazing Flame Powder and returned to the agency, where Zhao Xing'er punished Big White for destroying coffins. The next day, Yue Wen learned that the Xingtian Sect team had been killed, the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron was missing, and Jiangcheng City had been locked down.

• Yue Wen collected the Purple Jade Branch, the Xun Sword True Formula visualization diagram, and a black root carving from Treasure Forest.
• Yue Wen tested Treasure Forest’s Blazing Flame Powder but refused to buy it because he thought it was not pure enough.
• Yue Wen returned to the agency and found Zhao Xing'er beating Big White for tearing apart coffins at a neighboring shop.
• Yue Wen repaired the agency door and slept until nearly noon the next day.
• Yue Wen read a forum alert that the Demon Race had wiped out the Xingtian Sect team, the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron was suspected stolen, and Jiangcheng City was under a three-day lockdown.
• Yue Wen saw a vast curtain of spiritual energy surrounding Jiangcheng City.

After the Demon Race ambushed the Xingtian Sect and stole the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron, the Supernatural Affairs Bureau sealed Jiangcheng City and called cultivators to search for the remaining demons. Yue Wen learned that his root carving was an Ancient Wooden Dragon’s finger, then discovered that Third Realm independent cultivators were excluded from the search.

• The Supernatural Affairs Bureau activated Jiangcheng City’s City-Guarding Grand Formation after demons ambushed the Xingtian Sect and stole the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron.
• Yue Wen asked Da Long to identify his root carving, and Da Long revealed it was part of an Ancient Wooden Dragon’s finger that could be revived and refined into an offensive magical artifact.
• Da Long explained that Wooden Dragons could qualify as True Dragons, then cut off their conversation when Yue Wen asked why dragons had gone extinct in the Human Realm.
• Yue Wen found a bureau notice recruiting cultivators to search for demons and learned that Third Realm independent cultivators were told to stay out of the way.

Yue Wen accepted a job escorting Qi Dian’s niece, Lu Siqi, between home and kindergarten while cultivators searched City Seven for a demon carrying the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron. At school pickup, the Demon Emperor Hide revealed that the cauldron was with a disguised demon posing as a little boy, and Yue Wen faced a chance to act before the lockdown ended.

• Qi Dian asked Yue Wen to escort his niece Lu Siqi to and from kindergarten for two thousand a day, and Yue Wen accepted.
• Qi Dian explained that one weakened Fifth Realm demon had escaped the battle at the Xingtian Sect’s lodgings, and the cultivators had three days to find him and recover the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron.
• Yue Wen went with Lu Siqi’s nanny to collect her from Spring Field Guagua Kindergarten and learned her friends were staying home because of reports of children being taken by evil spirits.
• The Demon Emperor Hide sensed the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron, and Yue Wen traced the signal to a little boy leaving with his disguised demon parents.
• Yue Wen realized the demon had not sensed him and considered whether this was his only opportunity to act, with two and a half days remaining before the city lockdown ended.

Yue Wen decided to risk hunting the disguised demon and taking its Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron, but first he needed to complete Astral Refining and prepare for the fight. After buying Blazing Flame Powder from Old Bai, he sought a combat pill to boost his strength.

• Yue Wen chose to kill the demon within two and a half days rather than report it or leave it alone, and planned to complete Astral Refining first.
• Yue Wen took Lu Siqi home, then traveled to City Six while Supernatural Affairs Bureau agents searched stations for the demon.
• Yue Wen found Old Bai engulfed in flames while testing a burn ointment, extinguished the fire, and watched the Medicine Spirit nearly suffocate him.
• Yue Wen bought Blazing Flame Powder from Old Bai and asked for a pill that could temporarily raise his fighting power.
• Old Bai offered a dangerous Divine Might Body-Burst Pill, then showed Yue Wen three candies he called Big White Rabbit Takes It and Can Clang-a-Lang Subdue a Tiger Pill, which could raise his strength by one minor realm.

Yue Wen used the immortal materials he had collected to attempt Great Fire Astral Refining, enduring an agonizing Dragon-Breath Fire that nearly destroyed his body. He successfully refined Chaos Dragon Astral Force, but Zhao Xing'er mistook the yogurt on his hand for something incriminating and attacked him.

• Yue Wen prepared the Grand Unity Mystic Blazing Cinnabar, Dragon-Breath Flame Seed, Blazing Flame Powder, and Purple Jade Branch according to the True Dragon Method's instructions.
• Yue Wen ignited the Dragon-Breath Fire in his qi sea and endured the pain while circulating his heavenly circuit and refining his body.
• Yue Wen used the final piece of Purple Jade Branch to intensify the fire and break through the cinnabar shield, nearly dying as his qi sea and dantian exploded.
• Yue Wen recovered enough to manifest Chaos Dragon Astral Force, then accidentally crushed a yogurt bottle with his newly increased strength.
• Zhao Xing'er returned with Big White, saw Yue Wen covered in yogurt, called him a pervert, and kicked him.