Recaps

Wen Xiancheng struggled to master a difficult illusion technique and went to Iceheart Hall to seek treatment from Zhang Lu. Meanwhile, the Mouse Clone completed its marrow cleansing and began cultivating, and Wen Xiancheng finally met Zhang Lu.

• Wen Xiancheng practiced linking illusory roses through their stages of growth but failed despite working through the night.
• Wen Xiancheng refreshed the Mouse Clone’s marrow-cleansing water and went to Iceheart Hall to consult Zhang Lu.
• The Mouse Clone sensed spiritual energy, endured the pain of absorbing it, and began cultivating in a solution of Spirit-Gathering Powder.
• After waiting in line, Wen Xiancheng told an Iceheart Hall attendant that he heard another voice inside him and asked to see Zhang Lu.
• Wen Xiancheng reached Zhang Lu’s office and found the elderly leader waiting at her desk.

Wen Xiancheng sought treatment for the second consciousness in his body, but Zhang Lu put him to sleep and used Soul-Severing Liquid to eliminate it. The consciousness’s final request left Wen Xiancheng with a message to treat someone well and keep its death secret.

• Wen Xiancheng told Zhang Lu that a second consciousness had appeared in his body about a month and a half earlier.
• Zhang Lu used a Machine Puppet and Tranquility Incense to put Wen Xiancheng to sleep before beginning treatment.
• Zhang Lu used Soul-Severing Liquid to destroy the second consciousness, which claimed to be the real Wen Xiancheng.
• Before disappearing, the consciousness asked Zhang Lu to tell Wen Xiancheng to treat someone well and never reveal that it was dead.
• The Machine Puppet shocked Wen Xiancheng awake, and Zhang Lu repeated the consciousness’s final request as he prepared to leave.

After Zhang Lu cured Wen Xiancheng for free, he offered to repay her by trying to become her successor. Zhang Lu gave him a notebook to study before the New Year and sent her Machine Puppet to assist him, while Cui Qianqian called to arrange moving near him for the summer.

• Wen Xiancheng realized Zhang Lu had spoken with the consciousness of the original owner but had not discovered that he was a transmigrator, and he vowed to investigate the original owner's death and build him a gravestone.
• A young man at Iceheart Hall told Wen Xiancheng that Zhang Lu had no successor and that no one had yet met her requirements.
• Wen Xiancheng returned to Zhang Lu's room to offer repayment, and she gave him a notebook to practice before the New Year as a test for succession.
• Zhang Lu ordered the Machine Puppet to follow Wen Xiancheng, help him with the notebook, and report his daily habits.
• Cui Qianqian called Wen Xiancheng and said she would move near him for summer vacation, asking him to help move her belongings.

Wen Xiancheng brought Xiao Xiao to the Royal Academy, where she attacked Gao Shiqi and her companions after they insulted him. Xiao Xiao reassured him that her master could handle any consequences, while Cui Qianqian texted that she had packed her belongings.

• Xiao Xiao followed Wen Xiancheng and revealed that she wanted him to call her Baby Xiao Xiao.
• Wen Xiancheng and Xiao Xiao encountered Gao Shiqi, Brother Qing, Xu Junfeng, and another girl outside the Royal Academy.
• After Brother Qing blocked Wen Xiancheng and insulted him, Xiao Xiao punched him and broke his nose.
• When Gao Shiqi threatened to report Wen Xiancheng, Xiao Xiao punched her and pulled Wen Xiancheng into the academy.
• Xiao Xiao told Wen Xiancheng that her master could handle the fallout and threatened to break the others' legs if they returned.
• Cui Qianqian texted Wen Xiancheng that she had packed everything.

Wen Xiancheng brought Cui Qianqian and her roommate Xue Ning into his textbook business and arranged a nearby apartment for them. After deciding to start a small studio, he met with an elite elementary school principal to discuss customized textbooks for the autumn term.

• Wen Xiancheng met Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning at the dorm, where Xue Ning asked to join his textbook work and he agreed.
• Xiao Xiao carried the girls’ bags, and Xue Ning learned she was a Machine Puppet belonging to Zhang Lu, leader of Iceheart Hall.
• Cui Qianqian asked Wen Xiancheng to find a place for her and Xue Ning to live, and he rented a nearby Three-Bedroom Apartment.
• Wen Xiancheng decided that he, Ice Cream, Cui Qianqian, Xue Ning, and the Mouse Clone could form a small studio processing textbooks with Illusion Arts.
• Wen Xiancheng contacted schools about autumn textbook orders, and Situ Lei invited him to discuss customized textbooks in person.

Wen Xiancheng proved his Illusion Arts ability to Noble Primary School after Chen Yixin dismissed him for having too low a cultivation level. He agreed to create a virtual classroom for Chen Yixin’s biology lesson for fifty high-grade spirit stones, with a bonus if the Royal Family approved.

• Principal Zhang introduced Wen Xiancheng to Chen Yixin, who rejected him as unqualified because his cultivation was only that of an advanced martial apprentice.
• Wen Xiancheng recalled the stages of a rose’s life and used Illusion Arts to show a seed sprouting, blooming, and withering above his palms.
• Principal Zhang praised Wen Xiancheng’s illusion, and Chen Yixin reluctantly agreed to discuss the work with him.
• Chen Yixin explained that he wanted a virtual classroom where the plants and animals in his biology lesson appeared when he pointed to them.
• Wen Xiancheng agreed to take the job for fifty high-grade spirit stones, with an additional bonus if the Royal Family responded favorably.

After securing a large payment from Noble Primary School, Wen Xiancheng returned home and discussed his Mouse Clone with Xiao Xiao, who proposed building a mouse organization. The Mouse Clone went to fetch wild mice for Xiao Xiao to observe, and Wen Xiancheng planned a schedule to balance his many tasks.

• Wen Xiancheng signed agreements with Principal Zhang for a biology classroom and customized textbooks, receiving seventy-five high-grade spirit stones in deposits.
• Wen Xiancheng deposited most of the spirit stones at a bank and returned with supplies and snacks.
• Xiao Xiao noticed that Wen Xiancheng's pet mouse, the Mouse Clone, had become a demon beast and suggested using him to organize other mice.
• Wen Xiancheng sent the Mouse Clone to fetch three wild mouse friends so Xiao Xiao could study how mice communicated.
• Wen Xiancheng wrote a daily schedule for cultivating, processing school orders, studying pill refining, stealing herbs, and establishing a mouse organization.

Wen Xiancheng prepared his schedule while his Mouse Clone found the ten mice living beneath his old room and tried to befriend them. Unable to communicate with them, the Mouse Clone fed them biscuits and relied on Xiao Xiao to help overcome the language barrier.

• Wen Xiancheng copied his daily schedule and went out for dinner.
• The Mouse Clone found a hole beneath his old room’s bed, where ten little mice emerged and gathered around him.
• When the mice headed toward the Royal Academy, the Mouse Clone led them to his new house instead.
• The Mouse Clone coaxed the wary mice into eating biscuits by placing some in the doorway and then bringing more outside.
• Xiao Xiao watched the mice from near the entrance as the Mouse Clone lamented that he could not understand their squeaks.

Wen Xiancheng confronted Xu Junfeng, who tried to persuade him to give up Xue Ruigao, and left after their argument turned hostile. Back at his rental, Wen Xiancheng calmed down while the ten little mice hid from him, and Xiao Xiao stared at them as the silver snakes in her eyes flickered faster.

• Xu Junfeng stopped Wen Xiancheng outside the restaurant and invited him to a meal, insisting he intended to win Xue Ruigao fairly.
• Wen Xiancheng rejected Xu Junfeng's claims about Xue Ruigao and Ice Cream, then ignored his attempts to argue while eating.
• Xu Junfeng lost his temper, and Wen Xiancheng smashed his bowl with a chopstick, asserted that Ice Cream was his wife, paid with five low-grade spirit stones, and left.
• Xu Junfeng threatened Wen Xiancheng and kicked his car door after he left.
• Wen Xiancheng returned to his rental and used cold water to calm himself, while the ten little mice fled into dark corners when they saw him.
• Xiao Xiao entered the dark room and watched the ten little mice as the silver snakes in her eyes flickered more frequently.

Wen Xiancheng secured textbook preorders, received a used Storage Ring from Sun Xinlei, and studied Zhang Lu’s Healing Arts notes. At the Royal Academy gates, he introduced his fiancée Xue Ruigao to his business partners Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning.

• Wen Xiancheng called kindergartens and secured textbook preorders from two of them.
• Sun Xinlei gave Wen Xiancheng a used Storage Ring and reminded him not to neglect cultivation.
• Wen Xiancheng arranged to buy two thousand customized textbooks from Xinhua Bookstore.
• Wen Xiancheng studied Zhang Lu’s notes on anatomy and the basics of Healing Arts.
• Wen Xiancheng met Xue Ruigao, Cui Qianqian, and Xue Ning at the Royal Academy gates and introduced Xue Ruigao as his fiancée.

Wen Xiancheng introduced Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning to his fiancée, Xue Ruigao, and brought them to his larger rental after they agreed to work with him. He organized their new studio, Cui Qianqian Studio, and reaffirmed his promise to make Cui Qianqian’s name famous.

• Xue Ruigao learned that Cui Qianqian was Cui Shang’s illegitimate daughter, while Wen Xiancheng apologized for having tried to take advantage of her.
• Cui Qianqian told Xue Ning she would not pursue Wen Xiancheng now that he had a fiancée, and Xue Ning gave up trying to change her mind.
• Wen Xiancheng brought Cui Qianqian, Xue Ning, and Xue Ruigao to his new rental and showed them 74 high-grade spirit stones in client advances.
• Wen Xiancheng assigned Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning the biology classroom order at Noble Primary School, while he and Xue Ruigao would handle the other textbooks.
• Wen Xiancheng proposed a profit split and named their group Cui Qianqian Studio, promising to print Cui Qianqian’s name prominently on every completed order.

Wen Xiancheng and the three girls completed a biology lesson setting that impressed Principal Zhang and Chen Yixin, while Wen Xiancheng and the Mouse Clone advanced in cultivation. As they prepared to return from a tour of the Imperial City, Cui Qianqian was summoned home so her father, Cui Shang, could meet her friends.

• Wen Xiancheng practiced Illusion Arts while the Mouse Clone stole herbs and cultivated with Spirit-Gathering Powder.
• Wen Xiancheng taught Xue Ruigao basic Illusion Arts as Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning designed their biology lesson.
• Over the next month, Wen Xiancheng became a junior Martial Warrior, and the Mouse Clone reached first-tier, third-stage.
• Wen Xiancheng, Xue Ruigao, Cui Qianqian, and Xue Ning completed the biology lesson setting, which Chen Yixin approved for the autumn classroom demonstration.
• After touring the Imperial City, the group was approached by Cui Qianqian's family's attendant, who said Cui Shang wanted to meet her and her friends.

Cui Qianqian reluctantly visited her father, Cui Shang, with Xue Ning, Wen Xiancheng, and Xue Ruigao, and learned he had summoned them while his wife and eldest daughter were away. The visit ended abruptly when Cui Shang received a phone alert and ordered everyone to hide.

• Cui Qianqian refused to visit Cui Shang at first, but Xue Ning accepted a pouch of spirit stones as compensation and persuaded her to go.
• The group arrived at Cui Shang's luxurious villa, where he greeted them warmly and explained that he had wanted to meet his daughter's friends.
• Huang Li revealed that Cui Shang had invited them while his wife and eldest daughter were away, and Cui Qianqian said she wanted no involvement in his family.
• Cui Qianqian told Cui Shang that she and her friends had founded Cui Qianqian Studio and were earning money through illusion-art projects.
• Cui Qianqian warned Cui Shang not to interfere in their business, and he promised he would not.
• After his phone chimed three times, Cui Shang abruptly told Cui Qianqian and her friends to hide.

Cui Qianqian and her companions hid beneath an illusion as Cui Shang’s family berated and mistreated him. Wen Xiancheng restored the wilted Beauty’s Face with Healing Arts and invoked Zhang Lu’s name, leaving the family stunned.

• Cui Qianqian concealed herself, Xue Ning, Wen Xiancheng, and Xue Ruigao behind an illusory wall beneath the staircase.
• Cui Shang’s mother, Chen Jingshu, and Chen Meiyan arrived and scolded him for letting the flowers wilt and for bringing Cui Qianqian home.
• Cui Qianqian dispelled the illusion and told Chen Jingshu to stop bullying Cui Shang, but Chen Jingshu kicked him and ordered him to restore the flowers.
• Wen Xiancheng healed the Beauty’s Face, making its blossoms rise and bloom more beautifully than before.
• Wen Xiancheng said he studied under Zhang Lu, the head of the Iceheart Hall, and rebuked the family for calling him a person of ill repute.

Wen Xiancheng pretended to be Zhang Lu’s disciple to rebuke the Cui family and refused to arrange a medical appointment for Cui Shang’s mother. After they left, Cui Qianqian explained how her parents’ breakup led her father to marry into the family, and how he had found her mentor, Auntie, after attempting suicide.

• Cui Shang’s mother urged Wen Xiancheng to arrange an appointment with Zhang Lu, but he refused and led Cui Qianqian, Xue Ruigao, and Xue Ning away.
• Cui Shang and Chen Jingshu chased after Wen Xiancheng, who rejected their request and criticized them for insulting him.
• Chen Jingshu berated Cui Shang, who swallowed his anger rather than responding.
• Outside the villa complex, Wen Xiancheng admitted that he was not Zhang Lu’s disciple and had only been bluffing.
• Cui Qianqian explained that her parents separated after her mother lost faith in her penniless father, then learned she was pregnant after he had already married Auntie.
• Cui Qianqian said her father had met Auntie while standing on a pedestrian bridge intending to kill himself, and that Auntie had once treated him kindly.

Cui Qianqian shared that her mother regretted her past but died from overwork five years earlier, while Wen Xiancheng returned home and continued practicing. The Mouse Clone learned mouse signals from Xiao Xiao’s notes and successfully communicated with the ten little mice for the first time.

• Cui Qianqian told Xue Ning that her mother had regretted her past and later died from overwork.
• Huang Li drove Wen Xiancheng, Cui Qianqian, Xue Ning, and Xue Ruigao back to their rented house, where Wen Xiancheng planned their work for the next day.
• Xiao Xiao gave Wen Xiancheng her illustrated notes on 180 common mouse movements and calls, explaining that Zhang Lu had given her an instinct for observing them.
• Wen Xiancheng practiced healing arts and Illusion Arts, while the Mouse Clone studied Xiao Xiao’s notes through the night.
• The Mouse Clone used a call meaning “Let’s eat” and gestures to tell the ten little mice he was hungry and happy, and they responded by bringing him a biscuit and celebrating with him.

Wen Xiancheng faced Xu Junfeng and Gao Shiqi’s insults and realized he needed to become stronger to survive future threats. After they fled because of Xiao Xiao’s strength, Su Qinghuang devised a scheme to ruin Wen Xiancheng by tempting him with women and luxury.

• The Mouse Clone failed to communicate with the little mice and continued studying Xiao Xiao’s notes while Wen Xiancheng made breakfast and went out to seek business opportunities.
• After several schools rejected and insulted him, Wen Xiancheng encountered Xu Junfeng, Gao Shiqi, and their wealthy companions at a restaurant.
• Xu Junfeng mocked Wen Xiancheng and tossed him spirit stones, while Gao Shiqi and another young man discussed beating him; Wen Xiancheng called for Xiao Xiao, prompting the group to flee.
• Wen Xiancheng admitted his weakness and hurried home to cultivate, fearing both his current enemies and the unseen person who had poisoned his body’s original owner.
• Xu Junfeng’s group learned from Gao Shiqi that Xiao Xiao had beaten her and her advanced martial master ex-boyfriend, then offered a resort vacation for a plan to eliminate Wen Xiancheng.
• Su Qinghuang proposed seducing Wen Xiancheng and exposing him to high-end pleasures so his fiancée would despise him and Xu Junfeng could pursue her.

Wen Xiancheng tried to find work teaching Illusion Arts at cultivation academies but was chased away and realized he needed to build his stamina. At a bus stop, he frightened Su Qinghuang unconscious with an illusion, then used Qi Transfer to revive her before leaving.

• Wen Xiancheng visited two cultivation academies to offer Illusion Arts lessons, but guards turned him away and law enforcement officers chased him through the streets.
• Wen Xiancheng hid from the officers using an Illusion Arts disguise and decided he needed to learn techniques to strengthen his body.
• Wen Xiancheng dodged Su Qinghuang when she walked toward him while looking at her phone, and she fell and scraped her knees.
• Su Qinghuang confronted Wen Xiancheng for not helping her, and he rejected her demand for attention before she tried to slap him.
• Wen Xiancheng conjured an illusion of a huge python, causing Su Qinghuang to faint, then used Qi Transfer to revive her and left.

Su Qinghuang paid Wen Xiancheng ten high-grade spirit stones to escort her, and he treated her scraped knees with novice Healing Arts. She led him to an upscale internet café, where the attendant recognized her and assigned them a private room for two.

• Su Qinghuang offered Wen Xiancheng one high-grade spirit stone to take her home, but he refused because he wanted to keep his schedule.
• Su Qinghuang raised her offer to ten high-grade spirit stones, and Wen Xiancheng agreed to escort her.
• Wen Xiancheng used novice Healing Arts to treat Su Qinghuang's scraped knees, surprising her with how well the wounds healed.
• Su Qinghuang asked who had taught Wen Xiancheng his Healing Arts, but he refused to disclose it and declined to carry her home.
• Su Qinghuang paid Wen Xiancheng and led him to an internet café, where the attendant recognized her and gave them a room for two.

Wen Xiancheng discovered that virtual-reality games could inspire a business using illusion arts to create brief, immersive illusion realms. He rushed to propose the idea to Cui Qianqian, Xue Ning, and Xue Ruigao, leaving them embarrassed by his blunt explanation.

• Su Qinghuang invited Wen Xiancheng to play a virtual-reality dating game, intending to humiliate him, but he agreed after deciding to broaden his horizons.
• Wen Xiancheng struggled with the game’s controls and realized that illusion arts might create more convincing experiences than its virtual images.
• Wen Xiancheng abruptly left Su Qinghuang, who angrily accused him of quitting halfway and smashed her helmet.
• Wen Xiancheng went to Noble Primary School and gathered Cui Qianqian, Xue Ning, and Xue Ruigao to pitch an illusion-realm business.
• Wen Xiancheng suggested creating short illusion realms featuring sexual scenarios, leaving the three women blushing and bewildered.

Wen Xiancheng learned how to conjure realistic human illusions from Cui Qianqian and created a ten-second illusion of Teacher Cang. Meanwhile, the Mouse Clone advanced its communication with the ten rats, and Wen Xiancheng went to the Royal Academy training grounds to seek a wealthy student as a potential customer.

• Wen Xiancheng asked Cui Qianqian to teach him how to create human figures and give them logical behavior, and she agreed to teach him within the limits of her knowledge.
• Cui Qianqian spent several evenings teaching Wen Xiancheng illusion techniques while Xue Ning and Xue Ruigao watched.
• After fifteen days of study and practice, Wen Xiancheng created a ten-second illusion of Teacher Cang walking in a bikini and sealed it inside a button.
• The Mouse Clone studied Xiao Xiao's notes, learned to communicate simply with the ten rats, and sent them to gather ingredients for four sets of Aptitude Marrow-Cleansing Pill ingredients.
• Wen Xiancheng went to the Royal Academy training grounds and chose a sleazy-looking young man among the wealthy students as his target.

Wen Xiancheng used his illusion arts to distract Chen Hua and sold him a button containing a realistic beauty illusion. After Chen Hua paid five high-grade spirit stones, Wen Xiancheng urged him to recommend the illusion to his classmates.

• A group of women caught and beat Chen Hua for ogling them, while the training-ground disciples mocked him.
• Chen Hua tried to bully Wen Xiancheng, but Wen Xiancheng trapped him in the illusion of Teacher Cang wearing a bikini.
• Wen Xiancheng showed Chen Hua a button that placed him inside a more realistic illusion of a beautiful woman.
• Chen Hua offered one mid-grade spirit stone for the button, but Wen Xiancheng demanded five high-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Hua paid the price, accepted the button, and asked Wen Xiancheng for his contact details.

Wen Xiancheng’s Mouse Clone tried to hide evidence after a Royal Academy professor tracked a stolen-herb mouse to his lodgings. Yang Mu identified the herbs’ scent on Xiao Xiao, leaving Wen Xiancheng facing a major crisis.

• Wen Xiancheng celebrated selling an illusion before learning that only one of his ten herb-stealing mice had returned.
• The Mouse Clone realized the old man who released the surviving mouse was following it to Wen Xiancheng’s lodgings.
• The Mouse Clone told Xiao Xiao to hide the four sets of Aptitude Marrow-Cleansing Pill ingredients inside her abdomen.
• Wen Xiancheng met Yang Mu, an alchemy professor, and admitted that he kept a pet mouse named Little Gray.
• Yang Mu identified Little Gray as a first-tier, third-stage demon beast and said the herbs’ scent was coming from Xiao Xiao.

Yang Mu fought Xiao Xiao, then offered Wen Xiancheng a deal: he would overlook the stolen ingredients and recommend him to Sun Ying in exchange for the Mouse Clone. After securing the agreement and making the recommendation, Yang Mu took the Mouse Clone away and offered it a Blood-Congealing Pill.

• Yang Mu exchanged more than twenty blows with Xiao Xiao and was surprised that she resisted his attacks without using spiritual power.
• Yang Mu offered to overlook the stolen medicinal ingredients and recommend Wen Xiancheng to Sun Ying if Wen Xiancheng handed over the Mouse Clone.
• Wen Xiancheng accepted the deal, reasoning that the Mouse Clone was himself and could benefit from Yang Mu's backing.
• Wen Xiancheng wrote an agreement, had Yang Mu sign and fingerprint it, and then gave him the Mouse Clone.
• Yang Mu called Sun Ying to recommend Wen Xiancheng for refining four sets of Aptitude Marrow-Cleansing Pill ingredients.
• Yang Mu named the Mouse Clone Little Gray, claimed it as his master, and offered it a Blood-Congealing Pill.

Wen Xiancheng arranged for Yang Mu to take the Mouse Clone to the Royal Academy, where the mouse rallied the captured mice and persuaded Yang Mu to care for them. The chapter ended with Yang Mu agreeing to refine pills for the mice if they behaved.

• Wen Xiancheng planned to finish the Noble Primary School's teaching materials and make more illusion buttons while the Mouse Clone went with Yang Mu to the Royal Academy.
• Yang Mu brought the Mouse Clone to his villa in the Medicinal Herb Garden, where the Two-Tailed Fox and other demon beasts lived and nine mice were caged.
• The Mouse Clone reunited with the nine mice, told them not to flee, and instructed them to win Yang Mu over by showing affection.
• Yang Mu released the mice, and they gathered around him and kissed his hand.
• The nine mice tried to steal herbs from Yang Mu's shelves, but the Mouse Clone stopped them and led them to offer the herbs to him.
• Yang Mu understood that the Mouse Clone wanted him to refine pills for the group and agreed, provided they behaved.