Recaps

Yue Wen lured Xue Pinggu and his pursuing cultivators into a narrow gorge, then trapped them and attacked from above with Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian. The group continued raining boulders on the trapped cultivators, while Qi Dian was sent to fetch more rocks.

• Xue Pinggu led his group toward the southern teleportation formation, chasing Yue Wen after he appeared to steal a Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Yue Wen drew the pursuers into a narrow gorge and struck back with his Flying Sword, killing one cultivator and revealing his Astral Realm strength.
• Xue Pinggu recognized Yue Wen’s trap and ordered a retreat, but boulders blocked both exits.
• Yue Wen used a Shadow Talisman to appear above the gorge, where Zhao Xing'er and their allies began dropping rocks on the trapped group.
• Yue Wen used the Sword Heart Resonance Method to make boulders crash down repeatedly as Zhao Xing'er hurled more rocks from above.
• Qi Dian arrived with two boulders and asked to join in, but Zhao Xing'er told him to fetch more rocks instead.

Yue Wen’s team used a fake Dragon Blood Crystal to ambush Xue Pinggu’s group, then Yue Wen chased a gray-clad man who had fled at the crystal’s mention. After the man threw him the genuine crystal and drew a crowd, Yue Wen tricked the cultivators into diving for a fake and blasted them with lightning, prompting Guo Zhanlu to enter the Secret Realm to confront him.

• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian crushed Xue Pinggu’s team with falling boulders and collected about five thousand points’ worth of Immortal Goods.
• Yue Wen’s team set another fake-crystal trap, but a gray-clad man fled as soon as he heard Zhao Xing'er mention a Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Yue Wen chased the gray-clad man to the northern waters, where the man threw a genuine Dragon Blood Crystal into the air to escape.
• Yue Wen caught the crystal, then threw a fake into the lake and persuaded the gathered cultivators to dive in together.
• Yue Wen unleashed Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist into the water, electrocuting dozens of cultivators and causing Xu Zi to watch in shock.
• Guo Zhanlu left the commentary booth and announced that he would enter the Secret Realm to slay Yue Wen.

Yue Wen and his companions lured and electrocuted contestants beneath the water, then faced Yun Huairou and Xue Pinggu with a much larger force. As the group surrounded them, Yue Wen announced the Blood-Boiling Combo Technique, and the commentary desk reacted with surprise.

• Xue Pinggu asked Yun Huairou to help him take revenge on Yue Wen and his companions, and Yun Huairou agreed in exchange for the loot and Xue Pinggu's service.
• Yun Huairou and Xue Pinggu diverted their team to investigate a reported Dragon Blood Crystal, while Yue Wen continued shocking the waters until no independent cultivators remained alive beneath them.
• Yue Wen met up with Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian, but Yun Huairou's group arrived and surrounded the three, with Xue Pinggu identifying them as the bandits.
• Xue Pinggu and Yun Huairou prepared their Magical Artifacts as their cultivators closed in, and Yue Wen called for the Blood-Boiling Combo Technique.
• Guo Zhanlu expressed relief that Yue Wen's group was finally outnumbered, but Xu Zi suddenly exclaimed at the supernatural power they used.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian used their newly mastered combined supernatural power to battle Xue Pinggu, Yun Huairou, and their allies. The trio defeated Xue Pinggu and routed the other attackers, while the commentators struggled to explain Yue Wen’s bizarre sword-controlling talent.

• Yue Wen resonated with Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian, then used them as sword-controlled companions while they fought off attacks from Xue Pinggu, Yun Huairou, and several cultivators.
• Zhao Xing'er charged Yun Huairou and struck him through his Watercloud Silk, while Yue Wen flew on Qi Dian and used his flying sword to defend them.
• Yue Wen dodged Xue Pinggu’s venomous snakes with the Shadow-Shifting Talisman Art and sent Zhao Xing'er after him as Yun Huairou returned to protect Xue Pinggu.
• Yue Wen’s flying sword pressured Yun Huairou, leaving Zhao Xing'er free to strike Xue Pinggu with her Fire Dance Whirlwind-Staff Technique and eliminate him.
• Yun Huairou fled as Zhao Xing'er attacked the remaining cultivators, and commentators Xu Zi and Guo Zhanlu discussed Yue Wen’s extraordinary, bizarre abilities.

After defeating Yun Huairou and Xue Pinggu’s forces, Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian recovered their spoils and prepared to hunt for more wealthy targets. As they approached the Eastern Teleportation Array, Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er hid and sent Qi Dian forward alone as bait.

• Yue Wen’s team killed eight of Yun Huairou’s remaining bodyguards and drove away spectators to collect dozens of underwater backpacks.
• The trio rested in an empty house and estimated their combined haul at nearly forty thousand points, including the Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Yue Wen encouraged Qi Dian to overcome his embarrassment and fight for victory, and Qi Dian regained his determination.
• The team set out again, with Qi Dian carrying eight heavy backpacks so Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er could fight freely.
• Near the Eastern Teleportation Array, Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er hid while Qi Dian walked ahead alone, apparently baiting people into attacking.

Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er took over the eastern teleportation gate and staged safe departures to lure contestants into an ambush. The scheme began drawing in valuable targets as the commentary desk watched Yue Wen’s tactics unfold.

• Chang Daniu and a rival band of cultivators argued over who would rob Qi Dian, but Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen killed both leaders.
• Qi Dian stopped the surviving cultivators from fleeing, and Yue Wen offered them enough points to qualify in exchange for acting as decoys.
• Yue Wen instructed the cultivators to repeatedly fly over the gate so it would look safe, while Qi Dian and Zhao Xing'er posed inside the teleportation formation.
• A girl carrying eight thousand points entered the formation, and Yue Wen ambushed and killed her before collecting her backpack.
• Xu Zi described the staged ambush as impossible to guard against, and Guo Zhanlu admitted that he admired Yue Wen and conceded.

Yue Wen absorbed the Dragon Blood Crystal’s energy, strengthening his body but destroying the valuable item just as Zhao Xing'er asked to see it. Meanwhile, Chen Yanqing learned that contestants were gathering at the eastern Ancient City teleportation array, and two extras warned Yue Wen that the Celestial Venerables' Society and Red Prison Mountain were attacking together.

• Yue Wen ambushed contestants at the eastern teleportation array with his group, building their haul to nearly ninety thousand points after paying the extras.
• Yue Wen absorbed the Dragon Blood Crystal’s True Dragon blood energy, greatly strengthening his body and crumbling the crystal into dust.
• Zhao Xing'er asked Yue Wen to show her the Dragon Blood Crystal, and Yue Wen tried to conceal that he had destroyed it.
• Two extras warned Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er that the Celestial Venerables' Society and Red Prison Mountain were attacking together.
• Yun Huairou told Chen Yanqing that fewer contestants were approaching the western teleportation array, and a scout reported that the eastern Ancient City array was bustling while the northern and southern arrays were quiet.

Yue Wen provoked the Celestial Venerables' Society and Red Prison Mountain into fighting, then drew their three Astral Realm experts away from the gate. Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian stayed behind to seize the scattered spoils, while the chase after Yue Wen began.

• Chen Yanqing and Yun Huairou moved to the eastern gate and encountered Zhang Putuo and Red Prison Mountain's team.
• Yue Wen sent the extras to evacuate, then used a blinding flash and a surprise sword attack to trigger a battle between the two factions.
• Zhang Putuo and the Celestial Venerables' Society fought fiercely, and the fighting eliminated the Society's independent cultivators.
• Yue Wen revealed himself, and Chen Yanqing explained that he had manipulated both sides; Zhang Putuo and Yun Huairou joined forces to pursue him.
• Qi Dian distracted Red Prison Mountain's remaining cultivator while Zhao Xing'er struck him down, and the two prepared to collect the backpacks.

Yue Wen escaped a three-person ambush by turning the Immortal Goods in his pursuers’ backpacks into sword attacks, then stole valuable points and headed for the Northern Region Waters teleportation array. There he reunited with the Xiao brothers’ team just as Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian arrived.

• Yun Huairou, Zhang Putuo, and Chen Yanqing cornered Yue Wen in the Western Forest and attacked after he appeared to beg for mercy.
• Yue Wen used Sword Heart Resonance Method to unleash the Immortal Goods in their backpacks; Chen Yanqing was eliminated, while Yun Huairou and Zhang Putuo survived.
• Yue Wen stole valuable Immortal Goods from all three pursuers and escaped, leaving them to realize that Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian might also be collecting the scattered backpacks.
• Yue Wen gathered his stolen haul, worth about twenty thousand points, and flew toward the Northern Region Waters teleportation array to meet Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian.
• The Xiao brothers’ team, led by Xiao Chuxi and Xiao Chubei, stopped Yue Wen near a reef island; Xiao Chuxi showed off his team’s haul while Xiao Chubei and Dong Mengyao offered to help.
• Yue Wen pointed out Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian as they arrived, stunning the Xiao brothers’ team.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian left the Secret Realm with an enormous haul, discussed dividing their prize money equally, and returned to the venue as the tournament neared its end. After staff warned that eliminated contestants were waiting outside and might be angry, the trio were told to leave through the back door.

• Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian arrived with backpacks packed with loot, stunning Xiao Chuxi, Dong Mengyao, and the others with the scale of their haul.
• Yue Wen and his team entered the teleportation array, and he proposed concentrating their points into two high scores to secure the top two rankings.
• Zhao Xing'er asked how they would divide the prize money, and Yue Wen insisted on an equal share for each teammate.
• The trio vanished from the Secret Realm as Guo Zhanlu reflected on Yue Wen's strength and tactics during the tournament.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian returned to the venue, where staff asked them to deposit their Immortal Goods and advised them to leave by the back door to avoid angry contestants.

Yue Wen’s Agency swept the top three spots in Jiangcheng City’s Points Tournament, and Wang Shoucai warned Yue Wen that a powerful spirit infant, possibly the resurrected Fan Baimo, was killing people in the Wasteland Zone. The chapter ended with Wang Shoucai noting that the Dragon Blood Crystal had vanished from the secret realm, while Yue Wen hid his reaction.

• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian took first, second, and third place in the Points Tournament, while Xiao Chuxi placed fourth.
• Yue Wen’s gang attended the modest awards ceremony, where Wang Shoucai congratulated them on sweeping the top three.
• Wang Shoucai told Yue Wen that two bodies Yue Wen had reported were victims of a spirit embryo’s killings, and that the infant had likely regained substantial cultivation.
• Wang Shoucai said the spirit embryo might be Fan Baimo, a former Demon God Cult protector and founder of Flame Ghost Hall, and warned Yue Wen to avoid the Wasteland Zone.
• Wang Shoucai said the usual prize might be the Dragon Blood Crystal, but staff could not find it or determine who had taken it; Yue Wen concealed his reaction.

After Yue Wen’s team swept the Points Tournament, Guang Zhenren arranged replacement rewards because the Dragon Blood Crystal had vanished from the Secret Realm, while the bureau discovered that Fan Baimo may have entered Jiangcheng City. Back at the Agency, Carefree Media offered Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian talent contracts, presenting them with wildly mismatched promotional personas.

• Wang Shoucai told Guang Zhenren that Yue Wen’s three entrants took the top three places, and reported that the Dragon Blood Crystal had gone missing in the Secret Realm.
• Guang Zhenren assigned the three winners other Immortal Goods as rewards and questioned Fang Qingcang and Lan Zhi about facing Yue Wen in the City Heroes’ Battle.
• Guang Zhenren revealed that the bureau had traced Fan Baimo to a barrier fissure and suspected he had entered Jiangcheng City proper.
• On their ride home, Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian joked about the nicknames viewers had given them, including Qi Dian’s “Backpack Freak.”
• He Caihua and Sister Xia of Carefree Media visited the Agency and offered the three full-time talent contracts with a seventy-thirty revenue split.
• Sister Xia presented proposals branding Yue Wen as a romantic leading man, Zhao Xing'er as a warm big sister, and Qi Dian as an absurdist lighter-eating fool.

Yue Wen and his companions rejected Carefree Media’s contract, then heard Miyun Zi’s offer to join the Celestial Venerables’ Society. Yue Wen declined to leave Jiangcheng City, and a new visitor arrived at the Agency after Miyun Zi departed.

• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian turned down Carefree Media’s offer because its demands conflicted with their cultivation and goals.
• Miyun Zi visited the Agency, apologized for his earlier disrespect, and gave Yue Wen a White Jade Soul-Aspect Lion Head artifact.
• Miyun Zi explained the Celestial Venerables’ Society’s mission and invited the three cultivators to join as level-four members.
• Yue Wen declined the invitation and refused Miyun Zi’s plans to relocate them to Longdu City.
• After Miyun Zi left, a chubby middle-aged man entered the Agency and greeted everyone.

Yue Wen and his companions received three immortal materials as tournament rewards and went to find a local artifact refiner. They met the fearsome Diamond Granny at her workshop and asked her to help refine the materials.

• Wang Shoucai gave Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian the Azure-Purple Immortal Copper, Fire Serpent Glazed Eye, and Ink-Dyed Small Sword as rewards.
• Wang Shoucai recommended a skilled Jiangcheng City artifact refiner but warned them not to mention that he had once arrested her.
• Yue Wen spent the night breaking the restrictions on Qimo Tuo's storage ring, leaving only one layer before setting it aside.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian rode to the Hundred Refinements Sect in City Five's derelict district and saw a man pinned to a wall with a saber by Diamond Granny.
• Yue Wen told Diamond Granny they had come for her artifact-refining services, and she invited the three into the factory.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian visited Diamond Granny to have three magical artifacts refined, but she offered to do the work for free if they helped recover a debt from a Flame Ghost Hall elder. Yue Wen devised a plan to infiltrate an evil cultivator gathering, leaving the trio to prepare their disguises for the event next week.

• Diamond Granny quoted prices for fusing Yue Wen's sword, setting Zhao Xing'er's Glazed Eye, and removing the spirit ink from Qi Dian's sword, then raised Qi Dian's price as she teased him.
• Diamond Granny explained that a Flame Ghost Hall elder had fled with two corpse puppets without paying her, and asked the trio to collect the debt in exchange for refining their artifacts for free.
• Diamond Granny revealed that the debtor would attend an evil cultivator's disciple-taking ceremony next week and offered invitations so the trio could infiltrate the gathering.
• Diamond Granny supplied counterfeit Flame Ghost Hall tokens, while Yue Wen proposed posing as a disciple with Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian disguised as corpse puppets.
• Yue Wen produced a genuine token belonging to one of Ahei Mo's direct disciples and suggested using Corpse-Scent Jade to strengthen their disguises.
• Diamond Granny agreed to make Corpse-Scent Jade for the pair, while Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian remarked on Yue Wen's unsettlingly practiced plan.

Yue Wen broke into Qimo Tuo's Storage Ring and found the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron along with several strange artifacts. After opening the cauldron and discovering a matching black card and a black-scaled egg he identified as the Mountain Spirit, he was bitten by the creature hidden inside.

• Yue Wen broke through the Storage Ring's restrictions and found Qimo Tuo's keepsakes, demon blades, Magical Artifacts, and Demon Spy No. 17 badge.
• Yue Wen removed the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron from its case and used nine drops of blood essence to open it.
• Yue Wen found a Snake Mountain Hu Family card matching the one his parents had left him, along with a black-scaled egg.
• Yue Wen picked up the egg, which uncoiled into a little snake and bit his wrist.

Yue Wen hatched a Phantom Spirit Demon Snake from the Snake Mountain Bronze Cauldron, bonded with it, and named it Shousui. He had Da Long translate a dragon-script character on a bronze plate, revealing an angry note left by the ancient Dragon-Controlling Emperor at Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb.

• Yue Wen learned that the newborn Phantom Spirit Demon Snake had hatched from the cauldron’s egg using his blood essence and could heal him and transform into shapes its size and spiritual power allowed.
• Yue Wen named the hungry snake Shousui and planned to let it feed on demon and monster corpses rather than his blood essence.
• Yue Wen recognized the bronze plate’s design as dragon script and paid Da Long five pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money to translate its character.
• Da Long translated the character as a note from the Dragon-Controlling Emperor, who recorded his fury at Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb and his conflict with the Sand-Buried Demon Kingdom and other enemies.
• The Dragon-Controlling Emperor’s note said he had weakened Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb’s inhabitants and ordered future Dragon Hall officials to investigate anyone who survived it.

Yue Wen learned that the Dragon Hall was ordered to investigate anyone who survived Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb, deepening his suspicions about his parents’ disappearance and making him determined to win the Ascendant Dragon Assembly. Da Long then revealed that the Dragon-Controlling Emperor, Song Xiu, had borrowed the Dragon Clan’s spiritual power to attain godhood and apparently never repaid it.

• Yue Wen connected the Dragon Hall’s rule about Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb survivors to his missing parents and questioned whether the Dragon Hall had apprehended them.
• Yue Wen decided he might have to win the Ascendant Dragon Assembly to enter the Dragon Hall and find out what happened to his parents.
• Da Long angrily rejected the accepted history of the Dragon-Controlling Emperor and said Song Xiu had borrowed the Dragon Clan’s spiritual power to attain godhood.
• Da Long explained that the Dragon Clan’s Four Seas Immortal Pools stored spiritual energy for its descendants to survive periods without spiritual energy.
• Yue Wen realized the nine True Dragons said to have served Song Xiu had actually watched him as creditors, and Da Long implied that Song Xiu never repaid his debt.

Yue Wen considered the little snake’s possible ties to the Demon Snake Emperor, then secretly had several dangerous items appraised at the Treasure Forest in City Five. After collecting refined Corpse-Scent Jade and taking precautions against being tracked, he returned to City Seven without selling the items.

• Yue Wen reasoned that the bronze cauldron had contained the little snake and remained cautious that it might obey the Demon Snake Emperor inside Snake Mountain.
• Yue Wen watched Zhao Xing'er and Big White spar, then rode to the Treasure Forest branch in City Five wearing Qimo Tuo's aura-concealing mask.
• Liu Bo identified Yue Wen's Lightning Spirit Snake Bind as a Heavenly Artificer Sect restraint artifact and explained how it pursued and shocked its target.
• Liu Bo identified the purple pills as Demon Soul-Devouring Mist Pills and the tiny Immortal-Hiding Crossbow as a weapon loaded with poisonous Shadow-Eroding Steel Needles.
• Liu Bo identified the water-preserved scale as a highly toxic Turbulent Sea Fish scale and offered to buy Yue Wen's sinister treasures, but Yue Wen declined for the time being.
• Yue Wen disguised his route through the rundown district, collected the refined Corpse-Scent Jade from Diamond Granny, and returned to City Seven on the Little E-Scooter.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian attended Wang Lu's Bone-Transforming Sect disciple acceptance gathering while searching for Flame Ghost Hall elder Gongsun Mo. As Jiangcheng's unorthodox leaders arrived, Qi Dian explained how several notorious sects had built their unusual practices and influence; Gongsun Mo had not yet appeared.

• Yue Wen entered the gathering under the alias Wen Mo, presenting Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian as his corpse puppets.
• Yue Wen and his companions learned that Wang Lu had been expelled from the Bone Immortal Shrine for using its bone-transforming power to make boneless chicken feet, and was recruiting staff for new shops.
• Qi Dian explained that Fan Biao had founded the powerful Tree-Bark Garb Sect by borrowing the forms of tree demons instead of skinning humans or animals.
• Zha Fengjin arrived with three exhausted tiger demons, and Qi Dian explained how she had founded the Happy Tiger Sect by harvesting their yang energy.

Yue Wen attended the Bone Dissolving Sect’s initiation ceremony while hiding Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian as Corpse Puppets, but Zhao Xing'er repeatedly attacked people and drew unwanted attention. The chapter ended with Yue Wen doubling down on his arrogant act after Zhao Xing'er knocked another guest unconscious.

• Gongsun Mo arrived at the ceremony, and Yue Wen’s group identified him as their debt target and waited for a chance to confront him later.
• Zhao Xing'er punched a Wild Wolf Sect disciple who tried to grope a waitress, and Yue Wen claimed he had attacked because the disciple disrespected a woman he wanted.
• After Yue Wen revealed Ahei Mo’s insignia, the Wild Wolf Sect disciple’s leader apologized and withdrew.
• A Bone Dissolving Sect disciple tried to wipe Zhao Xing'er’s sleeve, so she punched him into a wall; Gongsun Mo and Yue Wen apologized to Wang Lu and settled the dispute.
• When a guest heard Qi Dian speak after bumping into him, Zhao Xing'er slammed the man headfirst into the floor, and Yue Wen planted his foot on the unconscious man and demanded an answer.

Wang Lu and Gongsun Mo each mistook Yue Wen’s debt-collection visit for a warning from Ahei Mo, while Yue Wen mistakenly believed Gongsun Mo was an honest debtor. After Yue Wen accepted Gongsun Mo’s payment and a talisman, Chang Ye barged into the Bone Dissolving Sect’s apprenticeship ceremony to confront the Flame Ghost Hall disciple who had hit his younger brother.

• Wang Lu and Gongsun Mo privately worried that Ahei Mo had sent Yue Wen to punish them over tribute money.
• Yue Wen told Gongsun Mo to repay his debt, and Gongsun Mo offered a deposit of eighty thousand Talisman Currency coins, promised to repay double, and gave Yue Wen a Three Yin Life-Taking Talisman.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian realized Gongsun Mo had paid far more than the debt to Diamond Granny and decided to leave with the money.
• As Wang Lu began the apprenticeship ceremony, Chang Ye burst in and demanded to know which Flame Ghost Hall disciple had hit his younger brother.
• With the crowd pointing at him, Yue Wen asked Chang Ye which younger brother he meant.

At Wang Lu’s disciple initiation ceremony, Yue Wen used newly acquired tricks and a brutal group beating to defeat Chang Ye, a drug-fueled Medicine Dragon who challenged him. Yue Wen slipped away afterward, but he and his companions discovered that their pursuer was a Supernatural Affairs Bureau captain.

• Chang Ye confronted Yue Wen over his injured younger brother and challenged him to fight, but Yue Wen stalled until Chang Ye attacked.
• Yue Wen hit Chang Ye with a Demon Soul-Devouring Mist Pill, bound him with Lightning Spirit Snake Bind, and joined Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian in kicking him unconscious.
• Wang Lu resumed the initiation ceremony, and Yue Wen left the clubhouse with Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian while the other evil cultivators kept their distance.
• After detecting a follower, Yue Wen lured her into an alley and shot her with an Immortal-Hiding Crossbow loaded with a Shadow-Eroding Steel Needle.
• Zhao Xing'er found a Supernatural Affairs Bureau captain’s badge on the paralyzed woman, alarming Yue Wen.

Yue Wen and his companions rescued Captain Lan Zhi after mistaking her for an enemy, then learned that the Supernatural Affairs Bureau was tracking the Flame Ghost Hall and the revived Fan Baimo. Wang Shoucai recruited them to help follow Gongsun Mo, and Yue Wen accepted after hearing the promised reward included training in the Demon-Locking Secret Realm.

• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian brought the poisoned Lan Zhi to the City Seven Branch Bureau, where Wang Shoucai arranged her treatment.
• Wang Shoucai explained that the Bureau suspected Fan Baimo had entered Jiangcheng City and was investigating Gongsun Mo and the Bone Dissolving Sect gathering.
• Wang Shoucai revealed that Lan Zhi had followed Yue Wen after he appeared as an unusually convincing Flame Ghost Hall disciple, and that Captain Fang had lost track of Gongsun Mo.
• Wang Shoucai asked Yue Wen's group to keep posing as evil cultivators, find Gongsun Mo through his disciple, and watch for Fan Baimo.
• Wang Shoucai offered an official commission, a Demon Beast keeping permit, and training in the Demon-Locking Secret Realm; Yue Wen accepted enthusiastically.

After completing their assignment, Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian collected their payment and had Diamond Granny upgrade their magical artifacts. Qi Dian discovered his ancient sword only produced fake sword qi to scare enemies, but his bluffing abilities made the display convincing enough to fool Jingang Meng.

• On the way back, Yue Wen inferred that Gongsun Mo feared a powerful creditor and planned to investigate him later, while arranging to approach Gongsun Mo's disciple in two days.
• The trio reported their completed assignment to Diamond Granny, who agreed to upgrade their artifacts in exchange for the collected debt.
• Two days later, Diamond Granny returned Yue Wen's enhanced Flying Sword Bracelet and Zhao Xing'er's staff, which now held a Fire Serpent Glazed Eye.
• Diamond Granny explained that Qi Dian's restored ancient sword generated impressive but harmless fake sword qi to frighten intruders.
• Qi Dian combined the Bluffing Sword with his Flash Technique and Thunderclap Art, and Jingang Meng mistook him for an immortal.