Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen led Hu Yunting, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian out of the canyon by exploiting the Thunder Giant's targeting pattern, only for four powerful Thunder Flood Dragons to block the next stretch. As Hu Yunting faced a flood dragon's attack, Yue Wen strengthened the beast with pills and combat drugs, leaving Hu Yunting horrified.

• Yue Wen discovered that the Thunder Giant attacked whoever it first saw when raising its hammer, and used a Shadow Talisman and teleportation to draw its attacks while the others escaped the canyon.
• Yue Wen and the others encountered four Thunder Flood Dragons, each of which targeted a different challenger and could unleash tracking lightning plasma.
• Hu Yunting survived a flood dragon's attack with sword techniques, while Qi Dian's bluffing display of sword qi intimidated the beast targeting him and Zhao Xing'er was blasted into the water.
• Yue Wen realized the flood dragons were too powerful to fight directly, then threw combat-enhancing injections and pills into the flood dragon targeting Hu Yunting.
• Hu Yunting recognized that Yue Wen had strengthened the beast against him and stared at him in disbelief.

Yue Wen outlasted Hu Yunting in the Thunder Flood Dragons’ lightning barrage and secured second place, while Qi Dian claimed first. After the rewards were announced, Yue Wen spotted Brother Ji among the spectators.

• Yue Wen vanished to evade a Thunder Flood Dragon’s lock-on, forcing Hu Yunting to spend his Karmic Sword Puppet blocking a blast.
• Yue Wen reappeared, and he and Hu Yunting endured simultaneous lightning attacks from the strengthened Thunder Flood Dragons.
• Hu Yunting was blasted off his raft first, and Yue Wen held on long enough to take second place before falling into the water.
• Qi Dian passed the next stretch of heavenly lightning, conceded that he had won first place, and jumped into the water.
• The event awarded Qi Dian a Thundercloud Jade Lotus, twenty Game Coins, and Fox Fur for a distance record, while Yue Wen received a Thundercloud Leaf and ten Game Coins.
• Yue Wen thanked the spectators and greeted Brother Ji when he spotted him.

Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er left the amusement park with the top prizes, while Hu Yunting suffered the humiliation of third place and being outrun by their scooter. Back at the Agency, they discussed using their rewards to improve their strength, as an unknown figure watched their televised interview and considered choosing them.

• Yue Wen greeted Ji Yang and Su Renxue, then noticed Hu Yunting staring at him with a resentful expression.
• Qi Dian and Yue Wen told reporters they had taken first and second place, while Qi Dian claimed the competitors had almost caught up with him.
• Hu Yunting left in his luxury car, but their Little E-Scooter passed it, leaving him furious and howling in despair.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er inspected their rewards and discussed using Agency and Supernatural Affairs Bureau funds to strengthen their team.
• Qi Dian watched his interview air on television, and an unknown figure paused the broadcast and suggested choosing the three young people.

After Zhao Xing'er broke through, Yue Wen arranged to obtain the materials for her Great Fire Astral Refining. A Pudu Sect deacon then offered Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian a lucrative spokesperson deal for its cultivation elixirs, but Yue Wen refused because he would not endorse drugs he did not use; the chapter ended with Old Bai calling excitedly about the thundercloud jade lotus.

• Zhao Xing'er announced that she had reached the peak of the third realm and could begin Great Fire Astral Refining.
• Yue Wen contacted Perfected One Fengguang, who agreed to provide Zhao Xing'er’s astral refining materials in advance.
• Mai Yaode, a deacon of the Pudu Sect, offered Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian an eight-figure deal to publicly endorse the sect’s cultivation elixirs.
• Yue Wen refused the deal as false advertising, and Zhao Xing'er rebuked Mai Yaode when he pressed them to reconsider.
• Old Bai called Yue Wen and excitedly asked whether he had obtained a thundercloud jade lotus.

Yue Wen and Qi Dian considered Old Bai’s untested pill formula, which could give Qi Dian a rechargeable connection to heavenly thunder but required costly ingredients. Yue Wen arranged to borrow the money from the Flame Ghost Hall’s branch account, and half its funds disappeared without Elder Gongsun’s knowledge.

• Yue Wen recognized Old Bai impersonating Old Fan and asked him to send preparation plans for the Thundercloud Jade Lotus and Thundercloud Leaf.
• Qi Dian and Zhao Xing'er compared the pill options, and Old Bai explained that his untested formula could create a half thunder-connecting immortal body.
• Old Bai estimated that the ingredients for Qi Dian’s pill and the Thundercloud Leaf wine would cost about seventy-five thousand in Talisman Currency.
• Qi Dian hesitated to ask his family for money, so Yue Wen offered to use the Flame Ghost Hall branch account and count the excess as a loan against Qi Dian’s share.
• Yue Wen arranged to transfer ten million from the account, and half the branch’s funds vanished without Elder Gongsun knowing.

Zhao Xing'er completed Great Fire Astral Refining and unlocked the second form of the Motherly Love Like a Sea of Fire Staff, a silver sniper rifle. The chapter ended with her running out to enjoy a heavy snowfall with Big White.

• Yue Wen and Qi Dian waited as Zhao Xing'er underwent Great Fire Astral Refining, and Big White helped her vent the martial spirit red light so she could keep her heavenly circuit moving.
• Zhao Xing'er completed her breakthrough and gained Heavenly Martial Demon-Suppressing Astral Qi, while Qi Dian was pinned beneath the fallen door panel.
• Zhao Xing'er revealed that the Motherly Love Like a Sea of Fire Staff's second form was a sniper rifle that condensed astral qi into bullets.
• Zhao Xing'er put the rifle away when Yue Wen warned her not to test it in the city.
• Zhao Xing'er ran outside to enjoy the snowfall, and Big White followed her into the snow.

Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er brought the ingredients for Qi Dian’s pill to Old Bai, who began preparing it at the psychiatric hospital. Yue Wen also bought several of Old Bai’s dangerous defective medicines, then stopped him from presenting an aphrodisiac powder.

• Qi Dian, Yue Wen, and Zhao Xing'er delivered the Thundercloud Jade Lotus and other ingredients to Old Bai, who said the pill and an accompanying drink would take several days to make.
• Yue Wen asked Old Bai whether he had any poison, and Old Bai showed them medicines he had made as defective products.
• Yue Wen bought Old Bai’s colorless, odorless knockout pills for three hundred thousand.
• Yue Wen bought three tubes of Turtle-Speed Potion for a hundred and fifty thousand.
• Zhao Xing'er recognized that Old Bai’s blood-accelerating ointment could keep a wounded target bleeding, and Yue Wen bought the box for five hundred thousand.
• Old Bai began introducing his Wonderfully Lewd Aphrodisiac Powder, but Yue Wen shut the drawer.

Zhang Xiaozhuang hired Yue Wen to investigate why his friend Guo Yangyang had missed school, fearing an evil spirit had harmed him. Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er found Yangyang safe at home, where his mother explained an unexpectedly complicated family history; the visit ended without uncovering any supernatural danger.

• Zhang Xiaozhuang brought Yue Wen fifty yuan collected from classmates and asked him to rescue Guo Yangyang.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er went to Guo Yangyang's home and found no obvious yin or demonic energy.
• Guo Yangyang's mother let them inside and said Yangyang had been home sick with the flu.
• Zhao Xing'er noticed a bloody smell, but Guo Yangyang's mother explained she was preparing pork ribs.
• Guo Yangyang's mother revealed that her ex-husband had cheated on her with Yangyang's biological father, who was her former boyfriend.
• Yue Wen declined Guo Yangyang's mother's offer to stay for dinner and prepared to leave with Zhao Xing'er.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er realized the Demon Creature might be possessing Guo Yangyang and returned just in time to stop it from killing his mother. They drove the creature out of the boy and left it under a fierce lightning assault while Guo Yangyang survived.

• Yue Wen reconsidered the case and suspected the Demon Creature was inside Guo Yangyang, so he and Zhao Xing'er returned to the home.
• The Demon Creature threatened Yangyang's mom, attacked her with a cleaver, and revealed it planned to abandon Guo Yangyang after finding another body.
• Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen burst in and attacked the possessed boy, prompting the Demon Creature to flee as bluish smoke.
• Yue Wen struck the escaping smoke with Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist, and Zhao Xing'er joined him with her Rushing Thunder-Staff Technique.
• Yangyang's mom regained consciousness and saw Guo Yangyang alive while Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er continued electrocuting the Demon Creature.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er traced the Parasitic Demon that possessed Guo Yangyang to a broken root carving in an abandoned villa. A call to Gongsun Mo linked the carving to the Soul-Controlling Sect and its Jiangcheng City disciple, Duanmu Lei, leaving Yue Wen to investigate the art gallery without involving Gongsun Mo.

• Yue Wen eliminated the Parasitic Demon possessing Guo Yangyang, treated the boy, and learned from his mother that it had demanded raw meat and threatened her into silence.
• Yangyang's mother called Zhang Xiaozhuang's family and discovered that Guo Yangyang had broken a sculpture while skipping class to visit an abandoned villa.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er found a cracked, human-faced root carving in the villa and deduced that its damaged formation had released the sealed Demon Creature.
• Yue Wen called Gongsun Mo, who identified the likely culprit as the Soul-Controlling Sect and named its Jiangcheng disciple Duanmu Lei, who ran an art gallery in City Seven.
• Yue Wen asked Gongsun Mo to send Duanmu Lei's address and information, and told him not to get involved further.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er tracked Demonic Cultivators to the Folk Root-Carving Art Museum, where Yue Wen discovered the artist was trapping Demon Creatures inside lifelike root carvings. He watched the man finish a carving before revealing himself, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er arrived at the Folk Root-Carving Art Museum to investigate the Soul-Controlling Sect's hideout, and Yue Wen told Xing'er to wait outside while he scouted.
• Yue Wen used the Trace-Hiding Art to enter the museum, where he saw rows of unusually vivid root carvings and sensed formation markings on them.
• Yue Wen followed sounds underground and found a bearded man carving wood while four Demon Creatures were imprisoned in glass jars.
• The man asked the Demon Creatures to recount their deaths and selected the second one, whose resentment he judged weakest, to be incorporated into his carving.
• The man forced the Demon Creature into the root carving, which became lifelike as it continued to wail, and he proudly declared, "Art is root carving!"

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er ambushed Duanmu Lei in his art gallery, but he survived their opening attacks by hiding inside a powerful magical artifact made from a True Dragon's Severed Claw. As Yue Wen fought off the animated demon carvings, Xing'er tried to break through the claw, and Duanmu Lei demanded to know who had exposed him.

• Yue Wen confirmed Duanmu Lei was the Soul-Controlling Sect cultivator who trapped souls in root carvings, then lured him upstairs by knocking over carvings in the gallery.
• Yue Wen shot Duanmu Lei with the Immortal-Hiding Crossbow's Shadow-Eroding Steel Needle, but Duanmu Lei endured the poison long enough to throw a severed-claw carving that transformed into a dragon claw and trapped Yue Wen.
• Zhao Xing'er burst into the gallery and struck the dragon claw with her Silver Staff, freeing Yue Wen, while Duanmu Lei protected himself inside the claw and animated the gallery's root carvings.
• Yue Wen cut down the attacking demon creatures as Zhao Xing'er fired her silver rifle at the claw, damaging it but failing to break through.
• Duanmu Lei threatened to imprison and burn their souls unless Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er revealed their identities and who had given away his location.

Yue Wen used his True Dragon Breath Method and a severed dragon finger to connect with Duanmu Lei’s Incomplete Dragon Claw and turn it against him. After Duanmu Lei tried to seize Zhao Xing'er’s body with a soul-burning secret art, Yue Wen commanded the claw to kill him and claimed the artifact.

• Duanmu Lei attacked Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er with the Incomplete Dragon Claw, knocking both of them away.
• Yue Wen stayed in the claw’s path and used his True Dragon Breath Method to awaken its spirituality and establish a connection.
• Zhao Xing'er fought Duanmu Lei and kept him from interrupting Yue Wen as he touched the claw with his divine sense and resonated with it using a severed dragon finger.
• Duanmu Lei burned his soul to seize Zhao Xing'er's spirit and ordered her to attack Yue Wen.
• Yue Wen used the Incomplete Dragon Claw to strike Duanmu Lei dead, then thanked him for the artifact.

After killing Duanmu Lei, Yue Wen claimed his broken dragon claw and learned from Da Long that multiple True Dragon remains found near Jiangcheng City could indicate a dragon burial ground. He bought the Light-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Sword Art and began comprehending it ahead of his trip to the Demon Tomb.

• Shousui drank Duanmu Lei's blood essence, and Yue Wen confirmed the Demonic Cultivator was dead before taking his storage artifact and broken dragon claw.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er agreed to split the contents of Duanmu Lei's storage artifact, while Yue Wen kept the dragon claw.
• Da Long explained that the claw had only been crudely activated and suggested that dragon remains appearing near Jiangcheng City pointed to a True Dragon's burial ground.
• Yue Wen spent 159 Evil-Suppressing Money coins to buy the Light-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Sword Art from Da Long.
• Yue Wen entered the sword art's visualization and realized that only one star had fallen, despite the apparent meteor shower.

After taking Apothecary Bai’s pill, Qi Dian awakened a Half-Immortal Body and demonstrated a powerful but brief Heavenly Thunder attack. The next day, Yue Wen and his allies prepared to infiltrate a Demon Tomb gathering, where Fan Baimo’s arrival was imminent.

• Qi Dian used his Heavenly Thunder Power to shatter Yue Wen’s astral qi barrier, but revealed that the attack exhausted his stored power for the day.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and their corpse puppets met Perfected One Fengguang and Perfected One Tongguang, who agreed to secretly protect them during the Demon Tomb exploration.
• Yue Wen gathered Supernatural Affairs Bureau personnel and led them to the Flame Ghost Hall branch’s meeting place outside City Five.
• Gongsun Mo told Yue Wen he had recruited a dozen prospective disciples and proposed dividing them between their teachings.
• As the gathered Bureau personnel waited in disguise, someone announced that the Hall Master had arrived amid a rolling black cloud and sinister auras.

After someone decapitated the snowmen on Night Market Street, Zhao Xing'er enlisted Yue Wen and Qi Dian to catch the culprit. They discovered Big White was the snowman-smasher and left the story with the three young people claiming their dog-shaped snowman would keep trouble away.

• Zhao Xing'er mourned her first snowman, the Grand General, and persuaded Yue Wen to help find the snowman murderer.
• Yue Wen proposed luring the culprit out, so the three hid inside snowmen outside the Yue Family Cultivation Office.
• A student and an old shopkeeper kindly gave Qi Dian's snowman a scarf and a hat, each calling it the most ordinary or dim-witted.
• Big White sneaked outside and knocked the heads off several snowmen while practicing martial arts.
• Big White attacked their disguised snowmen, but Zhao Xing'er caught its fist and began teaching it a lesson.
• Residents spread rumors about a maniac who smashed snowmen and abused a dog, while Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian assured everyone their dog-shaped snowman would keep maniacs in check.

Fan Baimo reunited with the River City Branch and brought Yue Wen to meet Su Beimo, the Demon God Cult’s Northern Protector, before leading them into the Demon Tomb. As Su Beimo sent corpse puppets ahead to scout, Yue Wen suspected Fan Baimo would use him as backup if danger arose.

• Fan Baimo said he had brought Flame Ghost Hall’s Northern Sky Province branches under his control and praised Yue Wen and Gongsun Mo for destroying the Soul-Controlling Sect’s River City base.
• Yue Wen explained that he had reported Duanmu Lei to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, and Fan Baimo rewarded him and Gongsun Mo with Corpse-Driving Talismans.
• Fan Baimo took Yue Wen out of the Wasteland Zone to a frozen lake, where they met Su Beimo, the Demon God Cult’s Northern Protector.
• Fan Baimo led Yue Wen and Su Beimo through an underwater passage into the Demon Tomb.
• Su Beimo sent ten talisman-equipped corpse puppets ahead to scout, while Yue Wen suspected Fan Baimo had brought him along as potential cannon fodder.

Yue Wen and his companions were separated from Su Beimo and Fan Baimo inside a Demon Domain where bad predictions came true, then learned the two Dao Realm experts were fighting Su Beimo. They encountered a heavily armed squad led by an old man who ordered his men to leave no outsiders alive.

• Su Beimo's group encountered a hidden demon beast, which Su Beimo killed with his black vortex of withered arms.
• Spatial turbulence separated Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian from the Demonic Cultivators and brought them to a cavern with seven paths.
• Yue Wen suspected the Demon Domain made bad predictions come true, and a Lantern Monster appeared after he predicted one; he swiftly killed it.
• Yue Wen contacted Perfected One Fengguang, who said she and her senior martial sister were attacking Su Beimo while Fan Baimo had escaped the battlefield.
• A heavily armed squad entered the cavern, and its leader ordered Mountain-Moving Tiger to ensure no outsider learned what happened that day.

Yue Wen fled from Mountain-Moving Tiger’s group, then discovered that spoken imaginings could summon dangerous creatures in the Demon Tomb. After using that power to turn the cavern against their pursuers, Yue Wen and his companions prepared to exploit it further.

• Mountain-Moving Tiger’s men chased Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian into a tunnel, and Yue Wen lured the pursuers onward while his companions hid in a fissure.
• Yue Wen summoned an Earth Fiend by imagining a deadly ancient beast, then hid as the Earth Fiend killed two of Mountain-Moving Tiger’s men.
• Mountain-Moving Tiger and Mr. Hu subdued and destroyed the Earth Fiend, then searched the cavern for the missing intruders.
• Yue Wen rejoined Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian in the fissure and proposed taking Mr. Hu’s route-revealing jade slip instead of waiting for Perfected One Fengguang.
• Yue Wen’s words summoned incorporeal Demon Creatures in the cavern, Qi Dian’s words caused the cavern roof to collapse, and Zhao Xing'er imagined a lethal Homosexual Mammoth Beast.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian ambushed the Appearance Realm elder and weakened him with poison, a soul attack, and heavenly lightning. After he fled into the cavern, the trio launched their newly developed Blood-Boiling Combo Technique 3.0.

• The elder escaped the collapsing cavern with a golden rope and charged ahead to kill the thieves he believed had caused the dangers.
• Yue Wen ambushed the elder with the Shadow-Eroding Steel Needle and Demon Soul-Devouring Mist Pills while Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian prepared to attack.
• Qi Dian struck the elder with heavenly lightning through his poisoned sword, leaving him badly wounded and disoriented.
• The elder combined his golden ropes and fled, but Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian pursued him into the cavern.
• Yue Wen used the Light-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Sword Art with the Sword Heart Resonance Method, creating over a hundred copies of Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to attack the elder.