Chapter Summaries

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.