Recaps

Su Yi applied to become a livestreamer and impressed Ren Lanyue by playing an ancient Spanish guitar piece that eased everyone who heard it. Ren Lanyue agreed to guide him herself, while her suspicions about Su Yi and Yu Huiyin grew as Yu Huiyin patiently set up his new work phone.

• Ren Lanyue asked Su Yi about his age and talents, then brought him a guitar after learning he could play.
• Su Yi performed a cheerful piece he had heard in thirteenth-century Spain, relaxing Ren Lanyue, Yu Huiyin, and the employees outside.
• Ren Lanyue praised Su Yi's musical ability and suggested he enter entertainment, but Su Yi insisted he had come to livestream.
• Ren Lanyue offered to guide Su Yi herself and gave him a new Huawei Mate 40 as a work phone.
• Yu Huiyin helped Su Yi transfer his SIM card and log back into WeChat, prompting Ren Lanyue to suspect they had something going on.

Su Yi learned the basics of livestreaming but refused to sign a long-term contract or show his face. After being dropped at Green Mountain Bookstore, he answered Ye Xiaxuan’s questions about cultivation and discovered she had already reached Qi Refining Great Perfection.

• Yu Huiyin taught Su Yi how to use his phone and register a livestreaming account, while Ren Lanyue explained how streaming worked.
• Su Yi said he would try livestreaming without showing his face, but declined Ren Lanyue’s contract because he did not plan to stream for long.
• Su Yi told Yu Huiyin and Ren Lanyue he was going to a dance department mixer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and Ren Lanyue decided to join them to meet potential recruits.
• Yu Huiyin and Ren Lanyue dropped Su Yi at the university’s east gate before going shopping, and Su Yi went to Green Mountain Bookstore to wait.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi what to do after drawing qi into her body, and he advised her to practice grain avoidance.
• Su Yi noticed Ye Xiaxuan had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection just days after beginning cultivation.

Su Yi casually drew a Spirit Gathering Array in his bookstore to make Ye Xiaxuan's cultivation easier, but the array caused astonishing changes across the world. After seeing its effects, he offered to teach Ye Xiaxuan breathing exercises that would let her cultivate at all times.

• Ye Xiaxuan shared two cups of milk tea with Su Yi, then heard that he planned to attend a social mixer with Lin Yiyun and asked him about grain avoidance.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she could keep eating normally and only needed to meditate in a Spirit Gathering Array for three hours a day.
• Su Yi drew the array with ordinary ink, triggering rosy clouds over Qingzhou, dragon cries at Kunlun Mountain and Changbai Mountain, and stars that shone across Earth.
• Cultivators sensed spiritual qi gathering toward Qingzhou and wondered whether dragon veins had awakened or a powerful treasure had appeared.
• Su Yi remarked that the array was too effective, then offered to teach Ye Xiaxuan breathing exercises so she could cultivate continuously.

Su Yi taught Ye Xiaxuan a relaxed breathing method before heading to a dance department mixer with his roommates and Ding Miaomiao. When Qin Lin arrived with Wang Qing and tried to show off, Su Yi stayed calm, and the group continued toward the hotel.

• Su Yi taught Ye Xiaxuan to nourish her organs with primordial Qi as she breathed, and she felt refreshed after practicing.
• Su Yi left the bookstore and met Wang Junlin and his roommates at the east main gate for the mixer.
• Ding Miaomiao arrived and told Su Yi that Lin Yiyun could not come, while Su Yi showed no disappointment.
• Ding Miaomiao arranged a DiDi ride, and Su Yi agreed to go with her while his roommates took another car.
• Qin Lin stopped in a BMW and invited Ding Miaomiao to ride with him, but she declined and stayed with Su Yi.
• Ding Miaomiao warned Su Yi that Qin Lin might mock him, and Su Yi said he had a very good temper.

Ding Miaomiao attended a dinner with Su Yi and her friends, where Wang Qing insulted the absent Lin Yiyun and Ding Miaomiao challenged Qin Lin about his plans to marry Wang Qing. Qin Lin admitted he was pursuing Yu Huiyin, publicly rejected Wang Qing, and left her crying beside him as the dinner turned hostile.

• Su Yi, Ding Miaomiao, Wang Junlin, Jiang Biao, and Yang Hui arrived at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and joined Qin Lin, Wang Qing, Ye Hu, and the other guests.
• Wang Qing insinuated that Lin Yiyun worked at a bar, and Ding Miaomiao defended her by saying she now worked at a bookstore.
• Ding Miaomiao asked Qin Lin whether he planned to marry Wang Qing, and Qin Lin said that was the plan.
• Ding Miaomiao asked Qin Lin whether he had recently pursued Yu Huiyin, and Qin Lin admitted that he was pursuing her.
• Qin Lin told Wang Qing their supposed engagement had only been talk and ordered her to leave if she wanted, then told her to stop crying or go outside.
• Wang Qing stayed beside Qin Lin and silently cried, then wiped her tears and sat obediently when he scolded her.

At dinner, Qin Lin tried to humiliate Su Yi and his roommates while arranging a confrontation between Su Yi and Yu Xinghe. Su Yi stayed calm and refused to leave, and the chapter ended with Ding Miaomiao ready to defend him if Yu Xinghe forced them to move.

• Qin Lin demanded that everyone keep quiet about what had happened, and Su Yi pretended he had heard nothing.
• Qin Lin said Yu Xinghe was coming and ordered Su Yi's roommates to make room for him.
• Su Yi told Qin Lin that Yu Xinghe could sit wherever there was space, while Ding Miaomiao tried to leave with the group.
• Qin Lin ordered a small table and plastic stools, then paid the waiter to find stools within five minutes.
• Ding Miaomiao decided she would splash soup on Qin Lin if Yu Xinghe made Su Yi and his roommates move.

Su Yi intimidated Qin Lin’s companions after one of them provoked him, then ate and drank with his dormmates despite Qin Lin’s plan to saddle them with a huge bill. When the waiter demanded payment for another bottle of 1982 Lafite, Su Yi admitted he did not have enough money either.

• A curly-haired boy taunted Su Yi, but Su Yi drove a chopstick into the wooden table and frightened him into silence.
• Su Yi told Wang Junlin and the others to eat, and they dug into the food and drank the expensive wine while Qin Lin waited for Yu Xinghe.
• Qin Lin announced that Wang Junlin and the others would have to pay for the 188,000-yuan bottle they had drunk.
• Su Yi reassured his dormmates, and Yang Hui ordered another bottle.
• The waiter asked Yang Hui to pay, so Yang Hui looked to Su Yi, who said he did not have that much money either.

Su Yi waited for someone else to pay for the meal, and Yu Xinghe arrived instead of Yu Huiyin. Yu Xinghe treated Su Yi with deference, paid for the food and drinks, and left Yang Hui to order whatever he wanted.

• Qin Lin challenged Su Yi over his lack of money and accused him of relying on Yu Huiyin, while the others watched to see what he would do.
• Yu Xinghe arrived with three senior brothers from the Green Mountain Martial Arts School, and Qin Lin tried to turn him against Su Yi by complaining that Su Yi had taken his seats.
• Yu Xinghe recognized Su Yi, greeted him as Mr. Su, and apologized for offending him before.
• Su Yi told Yu Xinghe to find a seat, so Yu Xinghe made Qin Lin move Ye Hu, Curly, and the others to another table.
• Yu Xinghe ordered more food and drinks and offered to pay, then told Yang Hui to order whatever he wanted.

At dinner, Yu Xinghe indulged Yang Hui’s expensive orders and borrowed a million yuan from his father to pay the bill. He apologized to Su Yi and began courting his favor, leaving Qin Lin ignored as the gathering continued.

• Yang Hui ordered a lavish meal and asked Yu Xinghe to open more bottles of wine, while Yu Xinghe agreed and went outside to pay.
• Yu Xinghe demanded a million yuan from his father, received the transfer, and paid a bill of over 410,000 yuan.
• Yu Xinghe decided to keep inviting Su Yi out so he could build a relationship and ask his family for money.
• Back at the table, Yu Xinghe offered to order more for Yang Hui, then apologized to Su Yi and promised to help him in the future.
• Yu Xinghe toasted Wang Junlin and the others, introduced his martial arts school seniors to Su Yi, and conspicuously ignored Qin Lin.

At dinner, the drunken Yu Xinghe apologized to Su Yi and tried to match him with Yu Huiyin, but Su Yi firmly said there was no chance between them. The gathering resumed after Yu Xinghe left, with Ren Lanyue recruiting dancers for her company and Ding Miaomiao pretending to be drunk to get Su Yi to take her home.

• Yu Xinghe got drunk, apologized to Su Yi, and declared himself Su Yi's little brother.
• When Yu Xinghe asked whether Su Yi and Yu Huiyin could get together, Su Yi said there was no chance between them.
• Yu Huiyin arrived and ordered Yu Xinghe to go to bed, and he left while still urging Su Yi to give his sister a chance.
• Ding Miaomiao drank wine and pretended to be drunk so Su Yi might take her home.
• Ren Lanyue introduced herself as Su Yi's friend and handed out Lanyue Media Group business cards to the dancers.

At the gathering, Su Yi’s presence drew the girls’ interest toward his friends, while Yu Huiyin rebuffed Qin Lin. Yu Xinghe’s father, Yu Zhiyao, arrived to confront him over the extravagant meal and then asked to meet Su Yi.

• The girls noticed Yu Xinghe and Ren Lanyue’s respect for Su Yi and began approaching Wang Junlin and the others instead.
• Yu Huiyin refused Qin Lin’s invitation to see Liu Hongyun’s art exhibition and remained distant from him.
• Yu Xinghe waited at the hotel for his father to bring a bank card after arranging inflated invoices for the meal.
• Yu Zhiyao confronted Yu Xinghe about the bill, demanded to inspect his phone, and told him to report his expenses.
• Yu Xinghe led the drunken Yu Zhiyao toward the private room so his father could meet Su Yi.

Yu Zhiyao confronted Su Yi over his manner and challenged him to prove himself before he could associate with Yu Huiyin. The chapter ended with Su Yi facing a three-move test from Yu Zhiyao’s bodyguard, with the alternative of leaving Qingzhou City.

• Yu Zhiyao arrived at Fanghua Hall to meet Su Yi, whose composure and unusual bearing caught his attention.
• Su Yi spoke to Yu Zhiyao without deference, and Yu Zhiyao disliked his attitude and summoned him to an adjoining room.
• Yu Huiyin warned Su Yi that her father would not hurt him and asked him to be more polite.
• Yu Zhiyao asked whether Su Yi was a cultivator, then warned him that arrogance could bring trouble.
• Yu Zhiyao said Su Yi had to withstand three moves from his bodyguard to keep associating with Yu Huiyin, or leave Qingzhou City.

Su Yi defeated Yu Zhiyao’s bodyguard, Old Chang, with three punches, then spoke with Yu Anguo and told him to keep Yu Zhiyao from bothering him. He left the private room and told the anxious group outside that he and Yu Zhiyao had only had a quick chat.

• Yu Zhiyao’s bodyguard offered Su Yi three free moves, but Su Yi’s first punch sent him crashing into a wall.
• Old Chang demanded another round, and Su Yi knocked him down twice more, leaving him unconscious.
• Yu Anguo called Yu Zhiyao and angrily scolded him for making Old Chang spar with Su Yi.
• Su Yi took the phone, reassured Yu Anguo that he would not harm Yu Zhiyao, and told him to keep his son from bothering him.
• Su Yi revived Old Chang and left the room, telling Ding Miaomiao and the others that he and Yu Zhiyao had only chatted.

Yu Zhiyao quietly covered up the damage from Su Yi’s fight with his bodyguard and warned his family to treat Su Yi with deference. Su Yi returned to campus with Ding Miaomiao, whose thoughts wandered as she wondered whether he might like her.

• Yu Zhiyao summoned the hotel owner, Li Qiang, and told him to conceal the damage and say nothing had happened in the room.
• Qin Lin offered to teach Su Yi a lesson, but Yu Zhiyao left him to his own devices after recognizing Su Yi’s strength.
• Yu Zhiyao teased Yu Huiyin about marriage, then told her to listen to her grandfather regarding Su Yi.
• Su Yi rode back to campus with Ding Miaomiao and said he had only met Ren Lanyue that day.
• Su Yi walked Ding Miaomiao to her dormitory and asked how much the mixer had cost; she said she would message him later.

Su Yi went for a late-night barbecue with Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun, then bluntly rejected Ding Miaomiao’s apparent interest in him. Ding Miaomiao deleted him from WeChat, leaving Su Yi unable to send his final reply without a friend request.

• Su Yi met Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun at the Green Mountain Bookshop and agreed to take them for barbecue.
• At the restaurant, Lin Yiyun urged Su Yi to check his messages, where he found messages from Ding Miaomiao, Ren Lanyue, and Yu Huiyin.
• Su Yi transferred Ding Miaomiao fifteen hundred yuan and told her there was already a girl he liked.
• Ding Miaomiao mistook Su Yi’s message for an impending confession and asked Lin Yiyun for advice.
• Su Yi told Ding Miaomiao that the girl he liked was not her, so she accepted the money and deleted him from WeChat.
• Su Yi tried to reply that it was all the better, but WeChat required him to send Ding Miaomiao a friend request first.

Su Yi learned that Ding Miaomiao had deleted him after he rejected her before she confessed, and Lin Yiyun’s impression of him worsened after hearing her friend’s complaints. Ye Xiaxuan invited Su Yi and Lin Yiyun to the Mountains and Rivers Art Exhibition the next day, where Su Yi planned to see contemporary painter Liu Hongyun’s work.

• Su Yi asked Ye Xiaxuan what a WeChat friend verification notice meant, and she realized someone had deleted him.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that Ding Miaomiao deleted him after he said he liked someone else, and she teased him for rejecting Ding Miaomiao before she confessed.
• Lin Yiyun took a call from Ding Miaomiao, heard her criticize Su Yi, and returned with a worse impression of him.
• Ye Xiaxuan urged Su Yi to stop dragging his feet with Lin Yiyun, and he replied that taking things slowly was a kind of sincerity.
• Ye Xiaxuan invited Su Yi and Lin Yiyun to the Mountains and Rivers Art Exhibition, and Su Yi said he wanted to see Liu Hongyun’s paintings.

Su Yi and Lin Yiyun discussed his blunt rejection of Ding Miaomiao and his feelings for Yu Huiyin, Ren Lanyue, and Lin Yiyun as they rode home. After spending the night exploring his new appliances, Su Yi met Xu Diandian in the courtyard at dawn and asked her for noodles.

• Lin Yiyun questioned Su Yi about eating so much, and he cited Lian Po as an example of an ancient person with a huge appetite.
• Lin Yiyun challenged Su Yi for rejecting Ding Miaomiao bluntly, but he argued that rejecting her early was better than giving her false hope.
• Lin Yiyun asked whether Su Yi liked Yu Huiyin or Ren Lanyue, and he admitted he liked both, leaving Lin Yiyun relieved but calling him a scumbag.
• Su Yi returned home after seeing Lin Yiyun safely inside, then spent the night learning how to use his new appliances, though he could not figure out the computer.
• At dawn, Xu Diandian found Su Yi resting in the courtyard and refused to share her nearly finished noodles, telling him to cook some himself.

Su Yi made yangchun noodles while Xu Diandian told him her mother was coming back that day. Bai Miaomiao visited and ate half the noodles, unaware of their extraordinary effects, leaving Su Yi worried she would return to mooch meals.

• Xu Diandian told Su Yi that her mother was coming back that day, then left when Old Zhang called for her.
• Su Yi made yangchun noodles from scratch in his kitchen.
• Bai Miaomiao arrived, said she did not eat breakfast, and accepted half of Su Yi's noodles after tasting their aroma.
• Bai Miaomiao devoured the noodles and broth, while Su Yi recognized their hidden power and worried she would keep visiting for meals.

Bai Miaomiao hired Su Yi to help sabotage her blind date with Liu Hongyun’s son, and they agreed to compete over drinks rather than painting. As Su Yi prepared to visit the Green Mountain Bookstore, Ye Xiaxuan arrived with groceries and came face to face with Bai Miaomiao.

• Bai Miaomiao asked Su Yi to accompany her to dinner and help make her blind date want to crawl into a hole with shame.
• Su Yi agreed to help for two thousand yuan after Bai Miaomiao explained that her date was Liu Hongyun’s son and suggested a painting or drinking contest.
• Bai Miaomiao offered to buy Su Yi new clothes, but he declined, and she decided his outfit would not matter.
• Su Yi sensed that the Spiritual Qi in Qingzhou City was unusual and thought of checking the Green Mountain Bookstore.
• Ye Xiaxuan arrived with groceries, and the air froze when she saw Bai Miaomiao following Su Yi out of the kitchen.

Ye Xiaxuan arrived at Su Yi’s home with groceries and confronted Bai Miaomiao, who had come to ask him for help with her blind date and invited him to dinner. Su Yi told Bai Miaomiao not to bully his disciple, leaving her bewildered as Ye Xiaxuan went inside.

• Ye Xiaxuan realized Bai Miaomiao was visiting Su Yi and demanded to know why she was there.
• Su Yi said Bai Miaomiao had paid him and invited him to dinner, while Ye Xiaxuan tried to dissuade him and offered to pay instead.
• Bai Miaomiao revealed Su Yi had agreed to help her deal with her blind date, and Ye Xiaxuan warned him that Lin Yiyun might misunderstand.
• Ye Xiaxuan and Bai Miaomiao traded barbs until Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to put the groceries away and get ready to go to the shop.
• Bai Miaomiao asked Su Yi what he had taught Ye Xiaxuan, and he warned her not to bully or humiliate his disciple.

Ye Xiaxuan and Bai Miaomiao discussed Bai’s past marriage proposal to Su Yi and prepared to make lunch, while Su Yi rode to school with Lin Yiyun. He then found many low-level cultivators drawn to his Spirit Gathering Array and went to check on the bookstore, where uninvited guests were already inside.

• Ye Xiaxuan agreed to visit Old Lin while Su Yi went to the shop, and Lin Yiyun gave Su Yi a ride to school.
• Bai Miaomiao told Ye Xiaxuan she had once asked Su Yi to enter a fake marriage because her family was pressuring her to marry.
• Ye Xiaxuan let Bai Miaomiao stay for lunch, and Bai taught her how to use the rice cooker.
• Su Yi noticed numerous low-level immortal cultivators at school, apparently attracted by his Spirit Gathering Array.
• Su Yi skipped class and went to the bookstore, where he found uninvited guests already inside.

Su Yi encountered Wu Wenze, a Thirteenth Bureau official, confronting Wang Degui in Green Mountain Bookstore. After Wang Degui learned his disciple Wang Xiu had been arrested, he asked Su Yi about the shop owner Ye Xiaxuan and what she looked like.

• Wu Wenze confronted Wang Degui for entering the bookstore and warned him to follow the rules governing immortal cultivators.
• Su Yi entered the shop and claimed he only worked there, while Wu Wenze gave him a business card and offered help if he ran into trouble.
• Wang Degui learned that his disciple Wang Xiu had been arrested by the police and asked Wu Wenze to get him released, but Wu Wenze refused special treatment.
• Wu Wenze left after Wang Degui promised not to act recklessly, and Wang Degui introduced himself to Su Yi.
• Wang Degui confirmed that Ye Xiaxuan was his old friend's granddaughter and asked Su Yi what she looked like.

Su Yi repeatedly redrew a Spirit Gathering Array, causing Spiritual Qi across the world to vanish and surge back with increasing force. The final array awakened mountains, rivers, cultivation sites, and spirit treasures, prompting the old Celestial Master to send his disciples down the mountain as a new era—and possible chaos—began.

• Su Yi told Wang Degui that Ye Xiaxuan looked hideous without makeup, and Wang Degui decided to buy the bookstore and keep Su Yi working there.
• After Wang Degui left, Su Yi erased his first array, causing Spiritual Qi to disperse and dragon veins to fall dormant.
• Su Yi drew a replacement array, restoring Spiritual Qi across Qingzhou, then erased it when he found its effect too strong.
• Su Yi used a drop of his blood in the ink and drew a stronger array that caused Spiritual Qi to surge worldwide, reviving plants, spirit herbs, spiritual veins, and spirit treasures.
• The old Celestial Master on Qingyun Mountain sent his disciples down the mountain to help if troubled times came.
• Su Yi opened the bookstore door, saw the array's effects, and remarked that one little array had caused an exaggerated result.

Su Yi realized that his array had triggered a worldwide Spiritual Qi revival, though ordinary people were unlikely to gain abilities soon. He decided to erase the array within a month and returned home, where Zhang Ting and Xu Diandian arrived.

• Su Yi saw the array's effects spreading through Qingzhou University and reasoned that ordinary people would not gain special abilities in the short term.
• Wang Junlin and Yang Hui discussed Spiritual Qi revival novels and expected supernatural changes, while Su Yi decided to erase the array within a month.
• Su Yi left campus and returned to Wutong Street, where Ye Xiaxuan and Bai Miaomiao described the strange growth and worldwide changes.
• Zhang Ting arrived with Xu Diandian, who asked Su Yi whether he was going to kill the little bunny that day.

While Su Yi cooked, Ye Xiaxuan watched him and unexpectedly broke through to the False Core Realm. Over dinner, Zhang Ting decided to open a breakfast shop on Wutong Street, and Su Yi offered to teach her.

• Ye Xiaxuan followed Su Yi into the kitchen and watched him cook, sensing the Great Dao laws emanating from his movements.
• Ye Xiaxuan condensed a false core and reached the False Core Realm while Su Yi prepared the meal.
• Su Yi invited Old Zhang and Old Lin to join the dinner, and the guests gathered with Bai Miaomiao, Zhang Ting, and Xu Diandian.
• Zhang Ting thanked Su Yi for helping her through her crisis and explained that she wanted to spend more time with her family.
• Zhang Ting said she planned to open a breakfast shop on Wutong Street, and Su Yi offered to teach her when he had time.