Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo hosted the four Witch Alliance guests and demanded the Ice Soul before the meal began. Bing Xiao Bing handed it over, and Zuo Xiaoduo took charge of hosting the dinner with Li Chenglong as deputy host.

• Zuo Xiaoduo invited the guests to sit, already resentful that they had brought no gifts.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Bing Xiao Bing to hand over the Ice Soul as the dishes arrived.
• Bing Xiao Bing gave Zuo Xiaoduo a Space Ring containing the Ice Soul in ten-thousand-year black ice and warned him that it was weak and needed gentle handling.
• Zuo Xiaoduo checked the ring, praised Bing Xiao Bing's character, and put it away.
• Yun Xiaohu offered to be the principal host, but Zuo Xiaoduo declined and named himself principal host and Zhongzhong deputy host.

Zuo Xiaoduo hosted Lie Xiaohuo and the others, then used a story about a rich man and his empty-handed guests to mock them for arriving without gifts. His punchline singled out Lie Xiaohuo, leaving the guests humiliated while You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo laughed.

• Zuo Xiaoduo took the host's seat, served wine, and urged the guests to drink tea while claiming it was his first time sitting there.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong acted out a story about a wealthy man whose poor friends repeatedly came to eat without bringing anything.
• Zuo Xiaoduo compared the friends' arrival time to that of Lie Xiaohuo and the others, and Bai Xiaoduo burst out laughing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo described a handsome young friend named Xiaohuo who always brought his wife to mooch meals.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Lie Xiaohuo what he had brought the host, prompting You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo to laugh as Lie Xiaohuo lost his appetite.

Zuo Xiaoduo entertained the gathering with a joke that teased Lie Xiaohuo, Kong Xiaodan, and Bing Xiao Bing about what they had brought to dinner. The group laughed off the embarrassment and learned more about Zuo Xiaoduo’s shameless sense of humor.

• Zuo Xiaoduo joked that Lie Xiaohuo had brought only white clouds and a clear breeze when visiting his elder brother.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Kong Xiaodan by saying he had brought the two eggs between his legs, making the gathering erupt in laughter.
• Zuo Xiaoduo joked that Bing Xiao Bing had carried a head as his gift, and Bing Xiao Bing eventually laughed along.
• Zuo Xiaoduo insisted the story was only a dinner-table joke, while You Xiaoyu sprayed tea over Yun Xiaohu and the others kept laughing.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s parents, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting, arrived unexpectedly during his drinking party, leaving the Witch Alliance guests terrified and unable to escape. The chapter ended as the couple entered and recognized the guests, though they were unsure why the young men looked so familiar.

• Zuo Xiaoduo joked with his guests and urged them to keep drinking while a car arrived outside.
• Wu Yuting called out to Zuo Xiaoduo, who delightedly rushed to greet his mother.
• You Dongtian, Lie Xiaohuo, and the other Witch Alliance guests panicked, but Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo held them in their seats.
• Zuo Xiaoduo brought his parents’ luggage inside and persuaded Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to join the gathering.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting saw the seven guests and wondered why they looked familiar.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived while Zuo Xiaoduo was hosting a mixed group of Star Soul and Witch Alliance guests, startling several of them. Zuo Changlu took charge of the gathering and invited everyone to share a meal, leaving the guests bewildered by their sudden change in status.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting entered and greeted Zuo Xiaoduo's friends, while the guests reacted with embarrassment and shock.
• Zuo Changlu sat in the principal host's seat and invited the young guests to stay for a meal instead of unpacking.
• Zuo Xiaoduo put his suitcase aside and rearranged the seating, with Lie Xiaohuo and Kong Xiaodan seated as guests of honor.
• Zuo Changlu warmly urged everyone to sit and listened as Bai Xiaoduo silently reported the day's events to him.
• Zuo Changlu smiled at the table and remarked that it was a good day.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived at Zuo Xiaoduo’s banquet and teased the powerful guests gathered there while Zuo Xiaoduo carefully introduced them as distant friends. The guests endured the couple’s barbs without revealing their identities.

• Zuo Changlu praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s friends as proof that his son was growing into a fine person, leaving the guests embarrassed and uncomfortable.
• Zuo Xiaoduo introduced Lie Xiaohuo and Xue Xiaoluo to his parents.
• Zuo Changlu mocked Lie Xiaohuo’s red hair and warned him to avoid gambling, while Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo laughed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo introduced Kong Xiaodan and Bing Xiao Bing as friends from far away, avoiding mention of the Witch Alliance.
• Kong Xiaodan and Bing Xiao Bing coughed through Zuo Changlu’s attempts to address them, and Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting laughed and decided to keep teasing their guests.

Zuo Changlu pressured Lie Xiaohuo and the other disguised Great Shamans to address him and Wu Yuting as elders, threatening to expose their identities. The guests struggled to comply, while You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo eagerly set the example.

• Zuo Changlu told the guests they were family and urged them to call him Uncle Zuo, while hinting that he and Wu Yuting might publicize a visit to their hometowns.
• You Xiaoyu greeted Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting as Uncle Zuo and Auntie Zuo, bowing deeply to encourage the others to follow suit.
• Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo also bowed and offered respectful greetings, earning Zuo Changlu's praise as good children.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said he would bow and kowtow when meeting the guests' parents, leaving Lie Xiaohuo and the others privately furious and regretting their visit.

Zuo Changlu welcomed Lie Xiaohuo and the others to dinner after using the threat of making them call him and Wu Yuting Uncle and Auntie to secure the upper hand. He teased them with food and delayed their drinks to begin telling a story, leaving them dreading what came next.

• You Xiaoyu urged Lie Xiaohuo, Bing Xiao Bing, and Kong Xiaodan to pay their respects to Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting, while Xue Xiaoluo pleaded with Wu Yuting to spare them.
• Wu Yuting interceded in exchange for a promised gift from Xue Xiaoluo, and Zuo Changlu called the demand a joke and invited everyone to eat.
• Zuo Changlu served Lie Xiaohuo chicken kidney, Kong Xiaodan chives, Bing Xiao Bing a chicken heart, and You Xiaoyu a fish eye, provoking their silent resentment.
• Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo thanked Zuo Changlu and ate comfortably while the others waited eagerly to drink.
• Zuo Changlu raised a toast, set his glass down, and announced that their names reminded him of a funny story about a rich man hosting a dinner.

Zuo Changlu used a story to prompt the Witch Alliance guests to offer gifts, and Lie Xiaohuo reluctantly gave Zuo Xiaoduo six jars of wine. Kong Xiaodan began to offer his own gift, but Wu Yuting guessed it was spatial soil before he could explain.

• Zuo Changlu told a story about a generous host and a poor friend called Little Huo, while Yun Xiaohu played along as the straight man.
• Lie Xiaohuo stood up and said he had brought gifts for Zuo Xiaoduo, then presented a jar of Water and Fire Incompatible Wine.
• Wu Yuting praised the jar, and Bing Xiao Bing remarked that it was small, prompting Lie Xiaohuo to hand over all six jars he had brought.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo to thank Lie Xiaohuo, and Zuo Xiaoduo thanked him as Brother Lie.
• Kong Xiaodan stood to offer Zuo Xiaoduo a gift, but Wu Yuting guessed that he had brought spatial soil, making him break into a cold sweat.

Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu pressured their guests into giving Zuo Xiaoduo rare treasures, and Zuo Xiaoduo then pointed out that Zhongzhong deserved a share too. Zuo Changlu turned the conversation toward Li Chenglong’s lack of cultivation resources, leaving the guests facing another round of demands.

• Kong Xiaodan gave Zuo Xiaoduo a ring containing half a tael of Space Soil after Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu urged him to offer a gift.
• Bing Xiao Bing gave Zuo Xiaoduo a ring of Prehistoric Black Ice after Wu Yuting, Lie Xiaohuo, Kong Xiaodan, and Xue Xiaoluo pressured her for a contribution.
• Lie Xiaohuo and the others realized Zuo Changlu was using their gifts as a pretext to send them away before they had eaten or drunk anything.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reminded Zuo Changlu that Zhongzhong also lived in the villa and had not received a gift.
• Zuo Changlu suggested that the guests should provide for Zhongzhong too, then mentioned that Li Chenglong lacked cultivation resources, and Li Chenglong agreed.

At the family banquet, Zhongzhong received lavish cultivation gifts, and You Xiaoyu gave Zuo Xiaoduo three drops of Nine Heavens Spring Water after being conspicuously left out. The guests drank and joked together until You Xiaoyu mentioned a spectacle from earlier that day, making Bing Xiao Bing fear Zuo Changlu would learn what happened.

• Zhongzhong accepted a Heart-Tempering Fruit and four hundred pieces of Top-Grade Star Soul Jade from the guests.
• Zuo Changlu hosted the banquet warmly but repeatedly left You Xiaoyu out of the toasts, while Wu Yuting also excluded him.
• You Xiaoyu gave Zuo Xiaoduo three drops of Nine Heavens Spring Water, and Zuo Changlu then invited You Xiaoyu to drink with him.
• Bai Xiaoduo and Yun Xiaohu ignored You Xiaoyu's hints to ask the hosts for gifts, and the banquet grew lively with drinking and jokes.
• Bing Xiao Bing told a dirty joke, drew everyone's objections, and drank a whole jar as punishment.
• You Xiaoyu mentioned the spectacle from earlier that day, and Bing Xiao Bing looked pleadingly at him as Zuo Changlu asked to hear about it.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting hosted a lively drinking session where their guests teased Bing Xiao Bing for losing to Zuo Xiaoduo. After the guests left, the seven people who had shared the table fought a fierce, evenly matched battle in the sky outside Fenghai.

• You Xiaoyu and the others recounted how Bing Xiao Bing had drawn a match against Zuo Xiaoduo and been beaten, prompting everyone to tease her until she fled to the bathroom.
• Zuo Changlu said he and Wu Yuting had come early because Wu Yuting missed their son, and Wu Yuting reminded Xue Xiaoluo about a future gift.
• The drinking session continued until half past one in the morning, when Lie Xiaohuo and the others drunkenly agreed to leave.
• After midnight, the seven people who had been drinking fought to the death above the wasteland outside Fenghai, blaming each other for their predicament.
• Several senior figures arrived and stopped the battle, which had ended in an even match between the two sides.

Flood Great Shaman repeatedly beat Liehuo, Dan Kong, and Bingming while they hid that Zuo Changlu had visited. In the Upper Capital, Zuo Xiaonian consumed Ice Soul Essence and entered a perilous state as her compressed Spiritual Qi filled her Dantian.

• Flood Great Shaman stopped beating Liehuo and the others when his strength drained away again, while they secretly resolved not to tell him Zuo Changlu had come.
• Zuo Xiaonian advanced to the peak of Infant Transformation by eating King Beast meat and cultivating with Top-Grade Star Soul Jade.
• Zuo Xiaonian joined a Nine Heavens Pavilion mission to destroy the Central Plains King's faction and helped bury its compound beneath the earth.
• The team gave Zuo Xiaonian a chest of Black Ice, where she found and swallowed a piece of lifeless Ice Soul Essence.
• The Ice Soul Essence froze Zuo Xiaonian for twelve hours, sealed her meridians, and forced her Spiritual Qi to compress in her Dantian until it nearly burst.

Zuo Xiaonian broke through into Cloud Transformation after consuming the Ice Soul Essence, unleashing a cold surge that froze the entire Nine Heavens Pavilion. The Pavilion’s supreme leader examined her and recognized her extraordinary fortune, while the story ended with another example of Zuo Xiaonian finding treasures everyone else had missed.

• Zuo Xiaonian released her restraint and broke through into Cloud Transformation, after the Ice Soul Essence had repeatedly helped suppress her cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian emerged from seclusion just as Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming and won the Ice Soul Essence, and her cold power froze the entire Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• The Nine Heavens Pavilion’s supreme leader examined Zuo Xiaonian and sighed at her remarkable fortune.
• The chapter recounted how Zuo Xiaonian repeatedly found valuable treasures by chance during missions and even while shopping.
• After other squads searched a site and found nothing, Zuo Xiaonian split a gold ironwood roof beam and uncovered enough hidden treasures to fill half the room.

Zuo Xiaonian’s extraordinary luck led her to buy a carved dog containing a Heaven Crystal, which strengthened the spiritual qi around the Nine Heavens Pavilion while weakening Flood Great Shaman again. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong prepared guest rooms and discussed how to divide their gifts.

• Zuo Xiaonian bought an adorable Star-Pleasure Jade dog carving for eight hundred million Star Origin Coins from Zuo Xiaoduo’s account.
• The Nine Heavens Pavilion head discovered that the carving contained a Heaven Crystal, and Zuo Xiaonian made a tiny hole that released spiritual qi into her room and the pavilion.
• Flood Great Shaman found himself inexplicably weakened once more in the Star Radiance Mountain Range.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong prepared guest rooms for Dad Zuo and Mom Zuo after receiving valuable gifts.
• Li Chenglong proposed keeping the Top-Grade Star Soul Jade and sharing the Heart-Tempering Fruit, but Zuo Xiaoduo told him to eat it himself.

Zuo Xiaoduo tricked Li Chenglong into eating half of the Heart-Tempering Fruit before preparing the villa for his parents. Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu discovered that Zuo Xiaoduo's bedroom was a filthy mess, and they moved on to inspect his study.

• Li Chenglong split the Heart-Tempering Fruit with Zuo Xiaoduo, who pretended to eat his half before stuffing it into Li Chenglong's mouth.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sent Li Chenglong off to cultivate and cleaned the villa, preparing fresh bedding, towels, and other supplies for his parents.
• Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu toured the villa and were pleased with how tidy it was outside the bedroom.
• Wu Yuting opened Zuo Xiaoduo's bedroom door and found it stinking, cluttered, and full of Star Soul Jade beneath a hole in the bed.
• Wu Yuting began cleaning the bedroom while Zuo Changlu helped, and they decided to leave the rest until morning and inspect the study.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting discovered Zuo Xiaoduo’s poem declaring his ambition to live lazily with Nian Nian Cat, then confronted him about it. Zuo Xiaoduo eagerly treated his mother’s old promise as an arranged marriage, while Wu Yuting warned that she would not force Nian Nian to marry him.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting read Zuo Xiaoduo’s calligraphy poem and learned that he dreamed of a carefree life with his cat.
• Wu Yuting worried that Zuo Xiaoduo’s ambition to catch up to Nian Nian Cat left him with little motivation, and she planned to invite Nian Nian Cat to the parent meeting in ten days.
• Zuo Xiaoduo tried to send his parents to their room, but Wu Yuting grabbed his ear and demanded that he explain his poem.
• Zuo Xiaoduo claimed Wu Yuting had prepared Nian Nian Cat as his wife and promised to make her a devoted daughter-in-law.
• Wu Yuting rebuked Zuo Xiaoduo and said she would not force Nian Nian to marry him, especially when he had failed to enter the Dao.

Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Wu Yuting to approve his marriage to Zuo Xiaonian by describing the benefits of keeping their family together. Zuo Changlu also agreed, provided Zuo Xiaonian had no objections, and Wu Yuting planned to review Zuo Xiaoduo’s recent gains with him the next day.

• Zuo Xiaoduo argued that marrying Zuo Xiaonian would keep her close to Wu Yuting and prevent future family conflicts.
• Wu Yuting was won over by Zuo Xiaoduo’s vision and agreed to promise Zuo Xiaonian to him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Zuo Changlu for his approval, and Zuo Changlu agreed as long as Zuo Xiaonian had no objections.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo that she and Zuo Changlu would review his recent gains with him the next day.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s parents agreed to his marriage with Zuo Xiaonian, though Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting planned to confirm her wishes before making it final. The next day, Wu Yuting invited Zuo Xiaonian to Fenghai and hinted that other girls were visiting Zuo Xiaoduo.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pressed Wu Yuting to confirm that his marriage to Zuo Xiaonian was settled, and she agreed.
• Zuo Changlu worried that Zuo Xiaonian might not consent, while Wu Yuting said they would end Zuo Xiaoduo’s hopes if she refused.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting admired the guest room Zuo Xiaoduo had prepared and discussed his victory over Great Shaman Bingming and the rewards he was owed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo took leave from school to show his parents around Fenghai, and Wen Xingtian agreed to let him go.
• Wu Yuting messaged Zuo Xiaonian about visiting the school and suggested that other girls might be competing for Zuo Xiaoduo’s attention.

Zuo Xiaonian took a month of leave from the Nine Heavens Pavilion to deal with Doggo, then flew out through the imperial capital’s sky canopy. The canopy was quickly repaired, but two other figures tore through it without fixing the damage as they followed her.

• Zuo Xiaonian deleted her reply and agreed to come help her mother screen girls for Doggo.
• Zuo Xiaonian demanded a month of leave, and the third-level supervisor approved it without question.
• The supervisor reported Zuo Xiaonian’s leave to the Pavilion’s boss, while a man in black sent two Guixuan cultivators to follow her.
• Zuo Xiaonian flew through the sky canopy and restored the opening behind her.
• Two figures tore through the canopy and hurried after Zuo Xiaonian, leaving the canopy expert to repair the damage.