Chapter Summaries

After the group escaped Crimson Firmament Mountain, Yue Wen returned to River City with valuable spoils and learned that Qi Dian and Xing'er had taken disastrous jobs. He asked Elder Bai about refining an Earth Spirit Mold, only for Elder Bai to ask what Spirit-Shaping Soil was.

• Yang Xiezi escorted the exhausted party out of the Wasteland Zone, while Huang Qiuzi befriended him and Gao Xuezhi reflected on the hidden experts she had encountered.
• Yue Wen retraced his route after the others left, then counted his gains, including nearly a thousand pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money, Crimson Mountain stone soil, a Crimson Flame Ancient Leaf, and resources consumed by the little black snake.
• Yue Wen returned to River City and found Qi Dian recovering from an unbearable otherworld-cuisine livestream job; Qi Dian showed him Xing'er's chaotic haunted-house livestream.
• Yue Wen messaged Elder Bai about refining an Earth Spirit Mold, and Elder Bai replied that he knew how before asking what Spirit-Shaping Soil was.

Yue Wen bought materials for Spirit-Shaping Soil and a Circulation of the Heavenly Circuit Profound Fire Pill, then visited Elder Bai to discuss refining them despite being short on money. Elder Bai unveiled a dangerous Nine-to-Five Pill that made overtime workers explode, and Yue Wen left him choosing between two ways of extending credit.

• Yue Wen sold his Yang Fire Ore at Treasure Forest and used the proceeds to buy ingredients for Spirit-Shaping Soil and the Circulation of the Heavenly Circuit Profound Fire Pill.
• Yue Wen visited Elder Bai at the Psychiatric Hospital, where a blast destroyed the laboratory doors and Elder Bai complained that his Blast Shield had shattered.
• Elder Bai presented his newly invented Nine-to-Five Pill, which caused anyone working after five in the evening to explode.
• Yue Wen criticized Elder Bai's solution to worker deaths and explained that workers were often pressured into overtime.
• Yue Wen asked Elder Bai to refine Spirit-Shaping Soil and the pill, then offered either to borrow money for the fee or have the fee put on credit.

Yue Wen agreed to help Old Bai sneak out of the psychiatric hospital to attend his first love’s wedding in exchange for free medicine refining. Back at the Agency, he accepted two investigative commissions from Yang Xiezi, whose questions about the Azure Dragon Society and a stolen Crimson Flame Ancient Leaf seemed connected to Yue Wen.

• Old Bai offered to refine Yue Wen’s medicine for free if Yue Wen helped him attend his first girlfriend’s wedding, and Yue Wen agreed to accompany him outside.
• Yue Wen learned that Old Bai was only twenty-nine, then planned for Xing'er to go with them and Qi Dian to impersonate Old Bai in the pill-refining room.
• Yang Xiezi visited the Agency and explained that Gao Xuezhi had recommended it to him.
• Yang Xiezi commissioned the Agency to investigate the Azure Dragon Society and search for a Crimson Flame Ancient Leaf stolen from the Cangyuan Sect.
• Yue Wen accepted both commissions, concealing his concern that the Azure Dragon Society and ancient leaf might lead back to him.

Yue Wen declined Yang Xiezi's deposit and hurried him out of River City to control his access to information, while Yang Xiezi's supposed rebellion against his family was revealed as a publicity scheme. The Agency struggled to afford food as Yue Wen and Xing'er prepared to accompany Elder Bai to a wedding under his fabricated persona.

• Yue Wen refused Yang Xiezi's hundred-thousand deposit and drove him to the airport to keep him from investigating further in River City.
• Yang Xiezi called Yang Jian and reported that he had commissioned a search for the Redflame Ancient Leaf.
• Yang Xiezi reflected on how the Eastern Sky Yang Family had staged his mistreatment and rebellion to build his popularity and generate income.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Xing'er counted their dwindling food money and discussed Yue Wen's refusal to accept the deposit.
• Yue Wen reminded Xing'er that their wedding visit was meant to keep watch over Elder Bai, and Qi Dian asked her to bring back food.
• Elder Bai messaged Yue Wen to remind him of his persona as a tall, rich, handsome man returning after ten years of cultivation at the Medicine King Institute.

Big White tried to lure intruders to the Yue Family Cultivation Office so it could earn more Potato Chips, but its scheme exposed its unauthorized online shopping. The chapter ended with Big White getting beaten and would-be intruders staying far away from the Agency.

• Big White sniffed out a drugged ham sausage and drove off an intruder, earning Potato Chips from Yue Wen the next morning.
• After intruders stopped coming, Big White opened the window to scare off someone filming the Agency and earned another reward.
• When that trick stopped working, Big White used Qi Dian's account to post online that the Agency held treasures and had no defenses.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian discovered the posts and realized Big White had written them using dog barks.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian found no suspicious purchases on their accounts, but a figure emerged from the Utility Room and confronted Big White about strange Potato Chips purchases.
• Big White's cries filled the Agency as it was beaten, and intruders thereafter stayed at least a hundred meters away.

Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Xing'er visited the Psychiatric Hospital, where Old Bai prepared to attend his first love’s wedding. While they waited, he recounted how his reckless attempts to court her ended with her blocking him after he sent her an overly powerful sleeping pill, leaving the group doubtful that she truly wanted him at her wedding.

• Qi Dian bargained with the security guard for a gas mask before the group entered the Laboratory, where Old Bai was waiting in the smoke.
• Yue Wen and the others teased Old Bai about being eager to see his first love, and Qi Dian asked him to explain their past.
• Old Bai recounted how he met the girl after a pill explosion left him shirtless, and she punched him in the eye before paying him compensation.
• Old Bai said he treated her to meals as a taste-tester, then rejected her request to keep eating his cooking because he planned to sell the dish and attend the Medicine King Institute.
• Old Bai sent the girl a powerful sleep-inducing pill when she was anxious about her college entrance exam, after which she blocked him and later repeated her final year.
• Old Bai said she had recently unblocked him, announced her wedding, and invited him, while Yue Wen and Qi Dian questioned whether she intended to welcome him or punish him.

Yue Wen and Xing'er escorted Old Bai to Li Chanan and Wang Yuan'e’s wedding, where they presented him as an esteemed Medicine King Institute alchemist. As the ceremony began, Yue Wen sensed the arrival of a strange figure behind Old Bai, bringing back the ominous feeling of a nightmare realm.

• Old Bai disguised himself as Qi Dian and slipped out of the hospital with Yue Wen and Xing'er, then changed into a suit and rode to the wedding venue.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er introduced Old Bai as a respected senior from the Medicine King Institute, impressing Wang Yuan'e and Li Chanan.
• Li Chanan showed the guests his collection, and Yue Wen recognized a painting of Southern Liang's Bright Moon that he had seen at Guan Qin's home.
• Old Bai spoke fondly of Wang Yuan'e but said he should keep his distance rather than confess his feelings.
• When the lights went out, Yue Wen sensed a surge of yin energy and saw a thin young man standing behind Old Bai with a hand on his shoulder.

Yue Wen and Xing'er fought off successive attacks from a Nightmare Wraith Creature that afflicted everyone at a wedding banquet, but the Nightmare Realm continued to tighten around them. As a third wave approached, Old Fan identified the creature as a Grudge Marriage Nightmare.

• The wedding ceremony began, and black vapor aged the men and caused infant spirits to gestate inside the women, including Yue Wen and Xing'er.
• Yue Wen used the Blazing Sun Fist to free himself, and Xing'er helped clear the guests by striking them while Yue Wen destroyed the infant spirits with his sword.
• The Nightmare Wraith Creature sent another wave that drove the guests into violent attacks, and Yue Wen and Xing'er struck everyone again to dispel the black vapor.
• Yue Wen explained their options as the Nightmare Realm swallowed the banquet hall, while Xing'er and the battered guests faced another approaching attack.
• Old Bai asked Old Fan to save the guests, and Old Fan identified the Nightmare Wraith Creature as a Grudge Marriage Nightmare.

Yue Wen tried to escape the Grudge Marriage Nightmare by completing a wedding, but the bride and groom’s incompatible feelings failed to light their True Love Hearts. An elderly couple’s genuine love revealed the exit, and Yue Wen and Xing'er battled through the Nightmare Realm while passing the couple between them.

• Old Fan explained that the Grudge Marriage Nightmare had formed from the accumulated resentment of people who hated marriage, and said true love could reveal a way out.
• Yue Wen resumed Wang Yuan'e and Li Chanan's wedding while Zhao Xing'er protected them from the Nightmare Wraith Creature's ghost hands.
• Li Chanan's True Love Heart sent beams toward several other people, revealing his infidelity, while Wang Yuan'e's heart gave no response and the wedding failed to open the exit.
• An elderly couple professed their enduring love, lighting their True Love Hearts and revealing a path through the darkness.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er carried the elderly couple toward the exit as the Nightmare Wraith Creature sent monsters after them.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er passed the elderly couple back and forth while fighting through the monsters, using the tactic to clear a path.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er used the elderly guests to distract and gather the Nightmare Wraith Creatures as they led everyone toward the edge of the Nightmare Realm. When the Grudge Marriage Nightmare blocked their escape, Yue Wen confronted it alone and destroyed its core, collapsing the Nightmare Realm.

• Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen passed the old man and old woman between them while using Big Windmill moves and their attacks to clear the Nightmare Wraith Creatures from the guests' path.
• The Grudge Marriage Nightmare revealed itself and blocked the barrier to the real world, cutting off the guests' escape.
• Yue Wen returned the Blazing Sun Fist to himself and charged the Grudge Marriage Nightmare, while Zhao Xing'er led the guests toward the barrier.
• Yue Wen's flames engulfed the creature, and he punched through its body to find its core: a mass of black mist covered in resentful human faces.
• Yue Wen struck the core, silencing its voices and causing the Nightmare Realm to collapse.

Yue Wen and Xing'er escaped the Grudge Marriage Nightmare and helped the Supernatural Affairs Bureau investigate the vanished painting. Back at the psychiatric hospital, Old Bai heard from Wang Yuan'e that the banquet food he brought home contained laxative.

• Yue Wen told Wang Shoucai that the painting Demon-Expelling Melody might be connected to the Nightmare Realm, but a Dao Realm powerhouse took it away before investigators could inspect it.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er left with Old Bai, taking the untouched banquet food for Qi Dian and bringing Old Bai back to the psychiatric hospital.
• Yue Wen advised Old Bai to ask Wang Yuan'e how she felt about him, while Qi Dian encouraged him to contact her.
• Wang Yuan'e called Old Bai to thank him and warned him not to eat the food because it contained laxative.

Wang Yuan'e explained that she had drugged Old Bai and held a grudge over their past misunderstandings, while Old Bai struggled to accept that she had never liked him. Yue Wen sensed that someone had tampered with his Consciousness Sea, and Da Long discovered a monitoring eye planted inside it.

• Wang Yuan'e told Old Bai that she had viewed him as an enemy since he made her eat unpleasant medicinal meals and sent her a pill that caused her to miss the college entrance exam.
• Wang Yuan'e admitted that she had planned to drug Old Bai and his companions with laxatives at the wedding, then asked to wipe the slate clean.
• Old Bai asked whether Wang Yuan'e had ever liked him, but she laughed off the idea and ended their call.
• Yue Wen returned to the agency feeling watched, then found that calming his mind with the Earth Mother Greenheart Jade only made his unease stronger.
• Yue Wen asked Da Long to examine his Consciousness Sea, and Da Long found an eye formed from condensed Spiritual Sense that could monitor and track him.
• Da Long offered to teach Yue Wen a talisman to remove the eye for a hundred Evil-Suppressing Coins, and Yue Wen said he would think about it.

Immortal Lord Biyue discovered Divine Realm soulflame in the ancient painting “Demon-Expelling Melody” and planned to use it to attack the Mysterious Wind Temple. Yue Wen realized she might have marked him and learned about his Azure Dragon Claw, leaving him convinced that she intended to kill him.

• Immortal Lord Biyue explained to Dai Muhun that the painting contained Divine Realm soulflame and that she hoped to earn its recognition and master its legacy.
• Immortal Lord Biyue recalled how her plans to drive Li Flying Rosy Clouds out of the Mysterious Wind Temple had failed, then described searching Hidden Dragon Pool and planting a magical eye in the Fake Secret Realm.
• Immortal Lord Biyue revealed that she had secretly marked one of Perfected One Nagiko’s subordinates so she could learn about the search for the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Yue Wen identified Immortal Lord Biyue’s Youjing Body as the likely source of the Divine Sense Mark and suspected she had been watching him in the Fake Secret Realm.
• Yue Wen feared Immortal Lord Biyue had discovered his Azure Dragon Claw and resolved that he could not wait passively for her to attack.

Yue Wen devised a plan to lure Immortal Lord Biyue’s Youjing Body into a fight with Zhang Biyue’s Taiguang Body and the Fox Demon Lady, using Da Long’s Black-Gold Great Hall to contact Su Yun without being detected. After returning to his body, he read messages and watched viral videos of his recent battle, then remembered Old Bai’s warning about laxatives in the food.

• Yue Wen considered ways to survive Immortal Lord Biyue and settled on using Zhang Biyue’s Taiguang Body and the Fox Demon Lady to kill her Youjing Body.
• Yue Wen composed a message explaining his plan to Su Yun inside Da Long’s Black-Gold Great Hall, where Immortal Lord Biyue could not see him send it.
• Yue Wen returned to his body and read Old Bai’s message about heartbreak, laxatives, and finishing the pills within three days.
• Yue Wen saw Dong Mengyao’s congratulations and watched viral videos of himself killing a peak Fifth Realm Nightmare Wraith Creature.
• Yue Wen watched an elderly couple jokingly argue about their role in the battle and suddenly remembered Old Bai’s warning about the food.

Yue Wen discovered that Qi Dian and Big White had eaten food laced with laxatives, while Immortal Lord Biyue’s divine sense let her hear and see events at Yue Wen’s Agency. After Yue Wen and Xing'er tested a powerful spinning move, Biyue reconsidered blocking her view and decided to look in on them again.

• Yue Wen warned Qi Dian that the food contained laxatives, and Qi Dian and Big White raced to the bathroom before sharing the toilet.
• Immortal Lord Biyue rejected Dai Muhun’s roast duck and chicken dish after Yue Wen’s distant scene spoiled her appetite.
• Xing'er showed Yue Wen how to build up force by swinging each other through repeated Big Windmills.
• Immortal Lord Biyue heard something from Yue Wen’s end that made her smile and decide to take another look.

Yue Wen accepted Chen Long’s challenge after refusing to pay compensation for Chen Hao’s injuries, hoping to test himself against a Fifth Realm cultivator. As Chen Long revealed his Dharma Form, Immortal Lord Biyue watched in horrified disbelief.

• Yue Wen and Xing'er tested their Two-Person Big Windmill Combined Supernatural Power at the Agency.
• Chen Long arrived with Chen Hao and demanded ten million or a challenge to settle his brother’s injuries.
• Yue Wen refused to pay and accepted Chen Long’s challenge, while Chen Hao objected to his brother’s claims that he had been sterilized.
• Yue Wen sent Xing'er to her room before the duel, recalling the Sky-Piercing Gate’s habit of fighting without clothes.
• Chen Long activated his Dharma Form, bursting his clothes apart as he became the Divine-Pattern Sky-Pillaring Pillar, leaving Immortal Lord Biyue horrified.

Yue Wen defeated Chen Long, a Fifth Realm cultivator, with one enhanced punch and made Chen Hao pay for the Agency's broken door. As Chen Long and Chen Hao left, Yue Wen considered using the money to repay Qi Dian, then saw Qi Dian and Big White crawl out of the bathroom.

• Chen Long summoned his Divine-Pattern Sky-Pillaring Pillar Dharma Form and challenged Yue Wen, who struck first.
• Yue Wen used his Supernatural Powers and Spell Suppression Dao Rhythm to disable Chen Long's Dharma Form ability and punch him through the Agency's front door.
• Chen Long claimed the fight had settled his grudge with Yue Wen, but Yue Wen demanded compensation for the broken door.
• Chen Hao transferred fifty thousand to Yue Wen before leaving with his injured brother.
• Chen Long spat blood after they left, while Chen Hao worried about their lack of money and took him toward the hospital.
• Yue Wen considered returning the compensation to Qi Dian, then saw Qi Dian and Big White crawl out of the bathroom.

Yue Wen turned Qi Dian and Big White’s weakness into a profitable livestream, then spent several days cultivating before collecting Elder Bai’s newly refined pills. The chapter leaves Yue Wen facing an unexpectedly upgraded batch called the Seven-Circuits-a-Week Profound Fire Pill.

• Yue Wen made the weakened Qi Dian and Big White compete for gifts in a livestream hosted by Xing'er, and Big White earned far more than Qi Dian.
• Immortal Lord Biyue watched events through Yue Wen’s perspective and wondered how someone could sink so low.
• Yue Wen used the livestream income to replace the Agency’s door and gave Qi Dian money for takeout, then everyone cultivated peacefully for several days.
• Old Bai notified Yue Wen that the Circulation of the Heavenly Circuit Profound Fire Pill was ready, and Yue Wen went to collect it while keeping the Spirit-Shaping Soil secret.
• Elder Bai claimed he had greatly improved the pills and named them the Seven-Circuits-a-Week Profound Fire Pill.

Yue Wen brought Old Bai’s Seven-Day-a-Week Profound Fire Pills back to the Agency and explained that they compelled their users to practice daily. After Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian took them, the chapter ended with the pills driving them to train relentlessly, even as Yue Wen and Xing'er tried to get Qi Dian to eat.

• Old Bai explained that his pills forced cultivators to practice by making their qi seas unbearably restless when they stopped, requiring six heavenly circuits a day and allowing only a reduced quota on the last day of each week.
• Yue Wen returned to the Agency with the pills and warned Xing'er and Qi Dian about their effects, but Qi Dian swallowed one before taking the required cold qi pills.
• Qi Dian suffered alternating waves of cold and heat and rushed to the bathroom, while Yue Wen and Xing'er took the pills in the proper order and formed cold qi barriers first.
• The profound fire drove Yue Wen and Xing'er to practice, and Yue Wen found that training eased the agitation and made his circulation faster.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er completed their six-circuit quotas by the next morning, while Qi Dian continued practicing after his delayed start.
• When Yue Wen and Xing'er suggested ordering food, Qi Dian refused to stop practicing, insisting that training alone gave his existence meaning.

After a week of pill-driven cultivation, Yue Wen used his day off to enter the Azure Dragon Burial Ground ahead of schedule while Immortal Lord Biyue monitored him. The chapter ended with Biyue gaining the recognition of an Ancient Immortal's Soulflame and noticing something unexpected as she watched Yue Wen.

• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian spent a week cultivating under the Mysterious Fire Pill's influence, and Yue Wen's Qi Sea advanced toward the peak astral realm.
• The three learned that completing their daily six Circulations of the Heavenly Circuit before going out kept their cravings manageable, and that extra Circulations could ease the next day's cravings.
• On his day off, Yue Wen went alone to meet the Fox Demon Lady and carry out his plan to eliminate someone in the Dao Realm.
• Yue Wen infiltrated the false secret realm at Dragon Terrace Mountain, opened the hidden entrance behind the Throne, and entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• At Hillside Manor, Immortal Lord Biyue gained the recognition of an Ancient Immortal's Soulflame and prepared to attack Mysterious Wind Temple, while deciding against targeting Yue Wen.
• Immortal Lord Biyue suddenly noticed something while monitoring Yue Wen and stared in surprise.