Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen turned Flame Ghost Hall’s newcomers over to forced-labor training, earning the investigators’ admiration and rewards for himself and his companions. After receiving a Bigen Fruit, he refined its qi and glimpsed a new insight into the Great Dao as the Demon-Locking Secret Realm’s opening approached.

• Yue Wen persuaded Flame Ghost Hall’s innocent newcomers to accept grueling factory work as training, promising pay for those who endured.
• The Supernatural Affairs Bureau investigators praised Yue Wen’s methods, and Perfected One Tongguang rewarded Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er with Bigen Fruits.
• Perfected One Nagiko offered Qi Dian an Astral Realm cultivation method, and Qi Dian chose the defensive Profound Maitreya Heavenly Net True Scripture.
• Perfected One Nagiko told the group that the Demon-Locking Secret Realm would open in a few days.
• Yue Wen ate his Bigen Fruit and refined its qi, forming a green mountain phantom in his Consciousness Sea and gaining a glimmer of insight.

Qi Dian agreed to return home for New Year's Eve dinner and invited Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er, but a client arrived with a case of stolen gold jewelry. Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er tracked the theft to a monster and contacted the Meow Meow Cult for help.

• Qi Dian agonized over his father's invitation to New Year's Eve dinner, and Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er persuaded him to go home.
• Qi Dian invited Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er to join him, but a client arrived before they could leave and reported gold jewelry stolen from her safe.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er went to inspect the client's home while Qi Dian took Big White to his family.
• Yue Wen found demonic energy by the window and a strand of long golden fur, concluding that a monster had stolen the jewelry.
• Yue Wen messaged the three Meow Meow Cult members, who offered to help in exchange for catnip-filled dumplings.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er followed a lead from the Three Little Ones to a golden-furred Spirit Dog they believed had stolen jewelry. They burst into Qi Dian’s villa to capture it, only to discover they had raided Qi Dian’s home and restrained his father and sister.

• The Three Little Ones found Spring Festival couplets, and Yue Wen explained the zodiac tradition before promising to find them Year of the Horse couplets.
• Yue Wen asked the Three Little Ones to investigate a gold jewelry theft, and the black cat quickly got a photo and an address from an owl contact.
• The Three Little Ones celebrated their reward and hurried toward Qi Dian’s home for New Year’s Eve dinner.
• Qi Dian praised Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Big White to his father and sister while Qi Jingxia introduced her golden Spirit Dog, Little Gold.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er broke into the villa, restrained Qi Father and Qi Jingxia, and tried to catch Little Gold as the suspected thief.
• Qi Dian returned with Big White and revealed that Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er had raided his home; they awkwardly wished his family a happy New Year.

Yue Wen and the others learned that Little Gold was a Golden Pixiu Dog forced to steal gold and silver by a criminal who had kidnapped his mother. They followed Little Gold to the criminal’s hideout, where Yue Wen secretly entered and found a black-robed cultivator watching the Spring Festival Gala.

• Yue Wen explained the mistaken raid to Qi Father, and the group found no stolen valuables near Little Gold’s kennel.
• Lan Zhi identified Little Gold as a Golden Pixiu Dog with fake papers, and Little Gold revealed that a bad man had forced him and his brothers to steal while holding his mother captive.
• Qi Dian understood Little Gold’s gestures, and the group agreed to rescue his mother and bring the criminal to justice.
• Little Gold led Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian to a suburban building, where Yue Wen used his Maze Technique to follow him inside.
• Yue Wen found a black-robed cultivator surrounded by demonic energy, watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Yue Wen and his companions rescued a Golden Pixiu Dog and its mother from a dog trafficker who had forced the pups to steal. The Supernatural Affairs Bureau arrested the trafficker, and Qi Dian asked Captain Lan to let the reunited dogs spend New Year's Eve with his family.

• The Black-Robed Man brought the little Golden Pixiu Dog to visit its imprisoned mother, then shocked both dogs when they tried to reunite.
• Yue Wen bound the Black-Robed Man with Lightning Spirit Snake Bind and struck him with Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist; Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian joined in shocking him until he agreed to confess.
• Lan Zhi arrived with Supernatural Affairs Bureau personnel and heard Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and the little Golden Pixiu Dog claim the suspect's artifact had electrocuted him.
• Lan Zhi explained that the Black-Robed Man had abducted the mother Golden Pixiu Dog, sold several pups, and used them to steal money; the Bureau opened the cage and the pup reunited with its mother.
• Qi Dian asked Captain Lan whether the mother and pup could spend New Year's Eve with his family.

Yue Wen and Qi Dian invited Lan Zhi, the Three Little Ones, and the Meow-Meow Cult Leader to celebrate New Year's Eve with Qi Dian's family. The gathering grew even more extraordinary when Wang Miaomiao arrived with a house-sized fox, and everyone joined in making dumplings.

• Lan Zhi agreed to bring Perfected One Nagiko and Qing Cang to Qi Dian's home after her master approved, while Yue Wen invited the Three Little Ones to celebrate New Year with them.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er picked up the Three Little Ones from their basement and brought them to Qi Dian's family villa, where Perfected One Nagiko let the little monsters stay without trouble.
• The Three Little Ones received a message from their Cult Leader, and Yue Wen invited her to join the gathering too.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian welcomed Wang Miaomiao and discovered she had brought a giant fox she claimed was a cat at heart.
• Qi Dian's family welcomed the unexpected guests, and Zhao Xing'er led everyone in making dumplings together before Yue Wen and the others exchanged New Year's wishes.

Yue Wen comprehended the Spell Suppression mystery from the Bigen Fruit and considered how to use Shousui and his other implements in the City Heroes Tournament. He contacted the beings beneath Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide and learned that Duan Shousheng claimed to be a disciple of the ancient Sword Dao Academy, whose legacy had become Famous Sword High School.

• Yue Wen used the Green Mountain Qi from the Bigen Fruit to suppress the spirituality in his own Qi Sea, then reasoned that touching an opponent could prevent them from using Supernatural Powers for a few seconds.
• Yue Wen reviewed Shousui’s saber and breastplate forms and chose the Azure-Violet Flying Sword and Cicada Wing Armor as his tournament implements.
• Yue Wen judged that his cultivation and abilities should put him in contention for one of the City Heroes Tournament’s four slots.
• Yue Wen wrote to the beings beneath Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide, introducing himself as Qimo Tuo and asking about their origins.
• Duan Shousheng replied that he had been a disciple of the Sword Dao Academy, while the other beings joked with him in their message.
• Yue Wen recognized that the Sword Dao Academy belonged to an earlier age and that its inherited legacy had later become Famous Sword High School.

Yue Wen used the Demon Emperor Hide to uncover fragments of Heart-Ripping Woman’s memories about his parents’ expedition into Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb. He learned they escaped, but Heart-Ripping Woman revealed that the Dragon Hall delegation’s mission was a trap and that the Dragon Hall had a traitor.

• Yue Wen asked Medicine Jar whether he knew the Pudu Sect, and Medicine Jar recalled founding it before pain cut off his memories.
• Yue Wen asked whether anyone had met Yue Teng, and Duan Shousheng and Two-Headed Flood Dragon recalled that Yue Teng and his wife entered Snake Mountain with Heart-Ripping Woman’s team.
• Heart-Ripping Woman remembered that Yue Teng and his wife deciphered the tomb’s murals, and she warned that Snake Mountain was a trap built on fabricated history.
• Duan Shousheng stopped Heart-Ripping Woman from revealing more and said she had protected Yue Teng and his wife, allowing them to escape while the rest of the team died.
• Heart-Ripping Woman remembered that the team was a Dragon Hall delegation seeking the Tiger Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, then declared that there was a traitor and a demon in the Dragon Hall.

Yue Wen learned more about his parents’ connection to the Dragon Hall and decided he needed to succeed at the Ascendant Dragon Assembly to investigate further. He then put his prepared corpse puppets to work clearing land in Immortal Dew Valley so he could start planting spiritual crops.

• Yue Wen learned that the Heart-Ripping Woman had been a Thousand-Scale General and that the Dragon Hall team entering Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb had likely been betrayed, leaving questions about his parents and their disappearance.
• Yue Wen posed as Qimo Tuo while responding to Duan Shousheng and Starving Ghost, telling them to wait at home until he received orders from Lord Purple Throne.
• Yue Wen collected alloy farm tools from Diamond Granny and a hundred Corpse-Driving Talismans from Chang Yunguan, dodging the latter’s pitch for a new artistic idea.
• Yue Wen entered Immortal Dew Valley and attached talismans to the Black Silver Corpse Puppets, assigning them to cut grass and fell trees.
• The corpse puppets cleared a small patch of vegetation, and Yue Wen considered choosing seeds for a spiritual plant.

Yue Wen chose Qilin Melon seeds to cultivate in Immortal Dew Valley, expecting their rapid growth to strengthen him before the City Heroes' Battle. At the Pudu Sect research institute, Hu Hanyi learned about the violent Medicine Dragons and asked Mai Yaode to ensure Yue Wen suffered an accidental death in the tournament arena.

• Yue Wen compared Moon Palace Cotton, Qilin Melon, and Yellow Jade Banana, then bought Qilin Melon seeds and had the Black Silver Corpse Puppet plant them.
• Yue Wen expected the Qilin Melons to mature before the City Heroes' Battle and provide a steady boost to his vital energy and blood.
• A Medicine Dragon at the Pudu Sect research institute tore apart and devoured a Demon Beast while staff watched.
• Mai Yaode told Hu Hanyi that the Spiritual Energy Tank Project could produce five or six late Astral Realm fighters before the City Heroes' Battle.
• Hu Hanyi instructed Mai Yaode to keep the Medicine Dragons from interfering with his son's advancement and revealed that he wanted Yue Wen killed during the tournament.

At Mysterious Wind Temple, Li Flying Rosy Clouds revealed that she was awakening memories and gaining powerful abilities, leaving Liu Yuanjun stunned by the possibility that she was undergoing reincarnation and re-cultivation. Meanwhile, Yue Wen planted qilin melon seeds and received actress Su Yun at his agency, where she privately called him “Master” before the chapter ended.

• Liu Yuanjun found Li Flying Rosy Clouds at a cliff, where she described strange memories and learned from him that reincarnation and re-cultivation would not change who she was.
• Li Flying Rosy Clouds revealed that she had gained powerful techniques, Dao insights, and a sudden rise to the middle Astral Realm, leaving Liu Yuanjun speechless.
• Yue Wen put his corpse puppets to work clearing land in Immortal Dew Valley and planted qilin melon seeds.
• Su Yun arrived at Yue Cultivation Agency with Sister Shan and asked to discuss strange incidents that might involve evil spirits.
• Su Yun went upstairs with Yue Wen, removed her sunglasses, and asked whether he recognized her, calling him “Master.”

Su Yun revealed that she was the Fox Demon Lady, inhabiting the body of a young woman whose soul had mysteriously vanished, and asked Yue Wen to help investigate the deaths. After she left, Qi Dian announced he was ready to refine his astral energy, and Yue Wen prepared the materials.

• Su Yun revealed her identity as the Fox Demon Lady and explained that she had found the young woman's body already without a soul.
• Su Yun and Yue Wen suspected that a Soul-Eating Nightmare Wraith or a powerful upper-three-realm expert had caused the woman's death and Wang Miaomiao's similar death.
• Su Yun promised to investigate the body's original owner's killer and asked Yue Wen to watch for information about Soul-Eating Nightmare Wraiths in Jiangcheng City.
• Su Yun offered to teach Yue Wen a Fox Immortal Arcane Art if he helped, then exchanged contact details with him and left with Sister Shan.
• Qi Dian told Yue Wen he was ready to perform Great Fire Astral Refining, and Yue Wen retrieved the materials while Qi Dian prepared a rice cooker.

Qi Dian endured the painful Great Fire Astral Refining as Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er prodded him with embarrassing stories and threats. He completed the refinement and began healing, but was left wondering why he did not feel happy about succeeding.

• Qi Dian began Great Fire Astral Refining, and Yue Wen and Xing'er joked about how composed they had been during their own refinements.
• Yue Wen realized Qi Dian's cultivation was too weak to withstand the astral refining's impact, and warned that stopping early could leave him gravely injured.
• Xing'er threatened to expose Qi Dian's browser history, giving him a burst of strength that let him continue refining his qi.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er shared humiliating stories from Qi Dian's past to spur him on, and he kept circulating his qi despite his worsening injuries.
• Qi Dian collapsed after a violent burst of bloody mist, then revealed that he had succeeded and was rapidly healing, though he did not feel happy.

After recovering from his injuries, Qi Dian tested his new Heavenly Net Nine-Turn Astral Qi against Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen, but both repeatedly smashed through his defenses. As they tried to console him, a bald man in purple training clothes arrived at Yue's Cultivation Agency and challenged them.

• Qi Dian recovered from astral refining and asked Zhao Xing'er to test his new defensive cultivation, but her surprise punch sent him crashing into the wall.
• Qi Dian formed an astral qi shield and let Zhao Xing'er attack; her Astral-Breaking Fist pierced its outer layer, and her physical punch knocked him away again.
• Yue Wen explained that Xing'er's innate martial sacred physique made her strength exceptional, restoring Qi Dian's confidence enough to ask Yue Wen for a punch.
• Yue Wen caught Qi Dian off guard, then broke through his prepared shield with raw strength, leaving Qi Dian convinced he was weak.
• A bald man in purple training clothes entered Yue's Cultivation Agency and announced that he had come to challenge them.

Wen Tai of the Iron Fist Sect challenged the Yue Family Cultivation Office to gain attention before the City Heroes' Battle, but his chosen opponent, Qi Dian, proved far stronger than expected. The chapter ended with Wen Tai stunned by Qi Dian's unshaken Astral Qi Shield.

• Wen Tai asked his fellow disciples whom he should challenge, and they suggested the Yue Family Cultivation Office's supposedly weak third-place finisher.
• Wen Tai and his disciples arrived at the office, where he challenged the establishment and Zhao Xing'er accepted on its behalf.
• Wen Tai challenged Qi Dian, who reluctantly agreed after Zhao Xing'er urged him to fight.
• Qi Dian raised his Astral Qi Shield, and Wen Tai's full-power punches failed to damage it and left his own arms numb.
• Wen Tai realized Qi Dian had reached the early Astral Realm and wondered how strong the third-place finisher really was.

Qi Dian defeated Wen Tai by electrifying him through a mist-covered astral shield, gaining confidence in his defense and a new way to combine it with heavenly thunder. The next morning, a forum post portrayed the Yue Family Cultivation Office as powerful villains, prompting dozens of Immortal Sect disciples to arrive and challenge them.

• Wen Tai attacked Qi Dian with a succession of Iron Fist Sect techniques, but Qi Dian's Heavenly Net Nine-Turn Astral Qi shield absorbed the blows.
• Qi Dian mixed the Heaven One Generates Water Art's mist with his shield and released heavenly thunder through it, paralyzing Wen Tai.
• Qi Dian thanked Wen Tai for the match, while the Iron Fist Sect disciples carried their senior brother away and apologized.
• Yue Wen told Qi Dian they would enter the Demon-Locking Secret Realm with Perfected One Nagiko the next day.
• Yue Wen read a Cultivation Chat Forum post that depicted the Agency as powerful villains who had toyed with Wen Tai.
• Qi Dian told Yue Wen that several dozen Immortal Sect disciples had gathered outside to challenge the Agency.

Yue Wen turned the Immortal Sect disciples’ challenge against the Yue Family Cultivation Office into a qualifying tournament, delaying direct fights while the Agency prepared to visit the Demon-Locking Secret Realm. The challengers left eager for the tournament, unaware that Yue Wen hoped it would keep them busy until after the City Heroes’ Battle.

• Zhao Xing'er offered to fight the gathered challengers, but Yue Wen persuaded her that doing so would attract even more challengers and disrupt the Agency’s work.
• Yue Wen opened the Agency’s door and agreed to accept challenges, then proposed a tournament to select three challengers from the forty-two visitors.
• The disciples filled out registration forms and left excitedly after Yue Wen said the Agency would arrange the qualifying rounds.
• Yue Wen told Qi Dian that they would decide whether to fight the tournament winners later, then prepared to take the Agency to the Demon-Locking Secret Realm.

Yue Wen and four others entered the Demon-Locking Secret Realm to hone their combat skills against captured Demon Beasts. As the group struggled through their first fights, Yue Wen raced ahead with ruthless efficiency while Perfected One Nagiko watched their trials.

• Perfected One Nagiko explained the secret realm’s rules and warned Yue Wen about the bounty on his former undercover name, Wen Yan.
• Yue Wen entered his first combat area, used a pill and a surprise sword attack to kill a Third Realm Flame-Mane Demon Ape, then hurried toward the next beast.
• Lan Zhi defeated a White Xun Jackal but was injured when it blinded her with a windstorm and shot a bone spike through her arm.
• Perfected One Nagiko watched the group’s trials as Fang Qingcang narrowly avoided a Python Demon’s counterattack, Zhao Xing'er escaped a demon toad’s venom, and Qi Dian struggled to deal damage.
• Yue Wen reached the fourth demon confinement area ahead of the others, impressing Perfected One Nagiko and the Bureau staff.

Yue Wen killed two Fourth Realm demon beasts using ambushes and poison, then prepared to confront a Fifth Realm monster after taking several enhancement drugs. In the Control Room, Perfected One Nagiko and the Supernatural Affairs Bureau personnel watched in disbelief as Yue Wen approached training like a personal vendetta.

• Yue Wen killed the Tuoshan Great Demon with the Giant Gate Sword Art and his flying sword, earning another wisp of golden smoke.
• Yue Wen drugged the pond to weaken the Lightning-Glow Green Toad, then killed it with repeated sword strikes.
• Perfected One Nagiko and the Senior Supervisor discussed Yue Wen's use of poison, with Nagiko insisting he must have his reasons.
• Yue Wen reached a site containing a Fifth Realm demon beast resembling a tentacled lion or tiger and consumed several enhancement drugs before approaching it.
• The Control Room personnel watched Yue Wen's preparations and questioned whether this counted as training.

Yue Wen killed the Fifth Realm Eight-Legged Heavenly Tiger while his companions struggled through their own battles in the Demon-Locking Secret Realm. After recovering, he approached the stronger Dark Moon Venomous Scorpion, prompting Perfected One Nagiko to propose a bet on his chances.

• Yue Wen ambushed the Eight-Legged Heavenly Tiger, overcame its regenerating tentacles, and killed it with sword attacks and the Thunder Tiger Sky-Shocking Fist.
• Yue Wen collected Evil-Suppressing Coins and rested while the Control Room observers discussed his unexpectedly powerful combat performance.
• Fang Qingcang narrowly defeated a late Fourth Realm demon beast with serious injuries, while Lan Zhi died to a pig demon and reentered its formation.
• Zhao Xing'er traded powerful blows with a Rhino Giant, while Qi Dian defeated an armored demon beast but nearly exhausted his Heavenly Thunder Power.
• Yue Wen recovered and approached the middle Fifth Realm Dark Moon Venomous Scorpion, and Perfected One Nagiko proposed a bet after disputing the old supervisor's prediction that he would need at least thirteen deaths to defeat it.