Chapter Summaries

Su Yi revealed to Lin Yiyun that he was Liu Xiu, while she was Lin Yiyun rather than Guo Shengtong, and she took her grandfather's body away for burial. At Old Lin's funeral, Lin Yiyun's mother Tang Shuhua warned Su Yi to stay away from her daughter, threatening his and Xu Diandian's safety.

• Su Yi told Lin Yiyun he was Liu Xiu and urged her to give Old Lin a proper funeral; she agreed not to harm Ding Miaomiao and ended contact with Su Yi.
• Lin Yiyun carried her grandfather's body away, and Su Yi told their neighbor Old Zhang that Old Lin had died.
• Su Yi arranged for Old Zhang and the neighbors to attend Old Lin's funeral, which drew a large crowd of Qingzhou's wealthy and influential residents.
• At the funeral, Su Yi watched Xu Diandian play in the courtyard while Tang Shuhua approached with a child and a Human Realm Immortal.
• Tang Shuhua told Su Yi to stay away from Lin Yiyun and threatened his and Xu Diandian's safety.

Su Yi effortlessly crippled two Human Realm Immortals after Tang Shuhua threatened him, then returned home and accepted Ye Xiaxuan’s discipleship ceremony. The chapter ended with Xu Diandian demanding that Su Yi kneel and serve her tea, then crying when he refused.

• Su Yi used his words to imprison one Human Realm Immortal on a swing and leave another unable to control his body after Tang Shuhua confronted him.
• Lin Yiyun warned Tang Shuhua not to provoke Su Yi again and reflected that she had mishandled her chance to gain his favor.
• Ye Xiaxuan apologized to Su Yi and performed the discipleship ceremony by offering him tea.
• Xu Diandian imitated Ye Xiaxuan’s ceremony, then demanded that Su Yi kneel and serve her tea.
• Su Yi refused, and Xu Diandian went home in tears to find her mother.

After Wang Xiu was released from detention, he returned to Green Mountain Bookstore and found it crowded with powerful cultivators. When Situ Zhe challenged him and then targeted Su Yi, Wang Xiu stood up for his friend, leaving Su Yi touched and determined to let him shine.

• Su Yi spent several quiet days attending classes, learning to order takeout, and playing games with Wang Junlin and the others.
• Wang Xiu was released after more than a month in detention and returned to Green Mountain Bookstore, where he was startled by the formidable cultivators reading there.
• Wang Xiu boasted about his cultivation to a late-stage False Core cultivator, and Su Yi encouraged him to accept the man's challenge.
• Situ Zhe called Su Yi outside as well, while Zhang Luolin pretended not to notice and warned a Golden Core cultivator to stay out of it.
• In a campus grove, Wang Xiu defended Su Yi from Situ Zhe and his companions, calling Su Yi his little bro and challenging them to pick on him instead.

Su Yi watched as Wang Xiu learned the first level of Immortal Slaying Flying Knife and turned Situ Zhe’s own weapons against him. Gu Tongtong intervened, stopped the fight, and ordered Situ Zhe to apologize to Su Yi.

• Situ Zhe taunted Su Yi and attacked Wang Xiu with two remotely controlled throwing knives.
• Wang Xiu defended Su Yi, but Situ Zhe added two more knives and wounded him.
• Su Yi’s technique surfaced in Wang Xiu’s mind, allowing him to seize control of the knives and launch them at Situ Zhe.
• Su Yi stopped Wang Xiu’s killing blow, and Wang Xiu sent three knives toward Situ Zhe before Gu Tongtong arrived and destroyed them.
• Gu Tongtong beat Wang Xiu for ignoring her order to stop, then told Situ Zhe to apologize to Su Yi.

After joining the Thirteenth Bureau, Su Yi was assigned to negotiate with Lin Yiyun, who had gained control of much of Qingzhou City's business world. Gu Tongtong insisted Su Yi go despite his recent falling-out with Lin Yiyun, and threatened to use force if he refused.

• Su Yi revealed his Thirteenth Bureau position to Situ Zhe, while Wang Xiu asked Gu Tongtong to let him join and learned he would need to pass an assessment.
• Gu Tongtong called Wu Wenze to assess Wang Xiu and Su Yi, then left Wang Xiu waiting at the university.
• Wang Xiu resolved to become stronger after feeling dismissed by Gu Tongtong.
• Gu Tongtong sent Su Yi a file explaining that Lin Yiyun had taken over nearly half of Qingzhou City's businesses and that the Thirteenth Bureau wanted her to negotiate.
• Su Yi pointed out that he had recently fallen out with Lin Yiyun, but Gu Tongtong ordered him to negotiate and threatened to lay hands on him if he refused.

Su Yi and Gu Tongtong forced their way into Xinrui Tower to meet Lin Yiyun, who had grown far stronger after refining Su Yi’s blood essence. Lin Yiyun revealed that she planned to build an empire with money earned abroad by more than a hundred Human Realm Immortals, leaving the Thirteenth Bureau unable to stop her through domestic laws.

• Su Yi arrived at Xinrui Tower with Gu Tongtong in a Thirteenth Bureau van and parked illegally outside.
• Bai Miaomiao recognized Su Yi in the lobby and learned that he and Gu Tongtong had come to see Lin Yiyun.
• Gu Tongtong and Su Yi fought past the building’s guards and took an employee card to reach Lin Yiyun’s floor.
• Lin Yiyun met Su Yi and Gu Tongtong in her office after swiftly defeating the guards with her greatly increased strength.
• Lin Yiyun read the Thirteenth Bureau’s report and explained that she would expand her wealth by sending Human Realm Immortals abroad to earn money beyond the Bureau’s jurisdiction.

Su Yi confronted Lin Yiyun over the more than a hundred Human Realm Immortals she commanded and warned her to stop before he intervened. After leaving her office, he agreed to accompany Bai Miaomiao to a friend's wedding as her date.

• Lin Yiyun refused to fight Gu Tongtong and threatened that her death could collapse the global economy, so Old Yang sent Gu Tongtong downstairs and asked Su Yi to speak with her alone.
• Lin Yiyun asked Su Yi whether she was strong enough to kill him, but he told her to kill all the Human Realm Immortals under her command.
• Su Yi warned Lin Yiyun that he would act if she threatened his stable life, and rejected her appeal to their marriage in a previous life.
• Bai Miaomiao teased Su Yi about Lin Yiyun being his ex and invited him to accompany her to a friend's wedding as a date; Su Yi agreed and left.

Su Yi accompanied Gu Tongtong to the Thirteenth Bureau’s new base and took a strength assessment. The testing system recorded his punches as weak but claimed they could kill powerful cultivators, and Su Yi realized the Great Dao’s will was affecting the results.

• Su Yi and Gu Tongtong discovered their car had been towed, then walked toward the new base while Gu Tongtong bought food and Su Yi paid.
• Gu Tongtong led Su Yi into the basement of the IG gaming club, where they found over a hundred immortal cultivators, including Wang Xiu and Wu Wenze.
• Wu Wenze asked Su Yi to punch a testing wall, and the system measured his first strike at 520 kilograms while claiming it could kill a late Nascent Soul expert.
• After Su Yi’s second punch measured 360 kilograms but supposedly could kill a Golden Core expert, Gu Tongtong asked him to try again.
• Su Yi used his divine sense to inspect the iPad and realized his thoughts were triggering the Great Dao’s will, which made his punches’ killing power impossible for the system to measure.

Su Yi visited the Thirteenth Bureau’s testing rooms, where Wu Wenze showed him Dr. Li’s newly developed No. 089 Battle Armor. After Dr. Li invited Su Yi to try it, Wu Wenze led Su Yi and Wang Xiu to have their mental power tested.

• Wu Wenze recorded Su Yi’s unusually high strength reading, though the system still classified it as enough to kill a Tibetan mastiff.
• Wu Wenze took Su Yi to meet Dr. Li’s mental-power testing equipment and showed him the No. 089 Battle Armor.
• Dr. Li claimed the armor could let even a Qi Refining cultivator kill a Golden Core expert, and invited Su Yi to try it.
• Wu Wenze warned that operating the armor could cause accidents, but Dr. Li said he had solved its mental-control problem.
• Wu Wenze explained that the armor’s weapons were too destructive for ordinary missions and that its mental-power controls limited most users to brief fights.
• Wu Wenze took Su Yi and Wang Xiu inside to have their mental power tested before arranging an armor trial.

Su Yi watched Wang Xiu test his mental power, then tried the equipment himself, only for it to explode as soon as the test began. Wu Wenze explained the ranking system and said Gu Tongtong was believed to have the strongest mental power on the planet.

• Wu Wenze explained that the test measured how long someone could withstand increasingly powerful mental attacks, and Wang Xiu volunteered to go first.
• Wang Xiu lasted nine minutes before Wu Wenze stopped the test to prevent lasting damage, and he suggested that suitable mental attacks could strengthen mental power.
• Su Yi lay down for his test, but the computer exploded as soon as Wu Wenze activated the equipment.
• Wu Wenze dismissed Su Yi's suggestion that his mental power had overloaded the machine and explained how the mental power ranks were calculated.
• Wu Wenze said Gu Tongtong had endured ninety minutes without showing strain and was believed to have the strongest mental power on the planet.

Su Yi and Wang Xiu demonstrated their mental power to Wu Wenze as part of the Thirteenth Bureau’s recruitment process, then attended a lecture about serving the country and its people. Wang Xiu’s strength impressed Wu Wenze, but both newcomers still had to complete the lecture step before joining.

• Wu Wenze took Su Yi and Wang Xiu to test their ability to manipulate objects with mental power.
• Su Yi made an A4 sheet of paper float but could barely move a coin, while Wang Xiu lifted and spun a coin hard enough to dent the table.
• Wang Xiu floated a twenty-kilogram dumbbell and said he had learned the Object Manipulation Technique that day.
• Wu Wenze told Wang Xiu that he met the Thirteenth Bureau’s strength requirements but still needed to attend a lecture.
• Su Yi and Wang Xiu listened as Professor Zheng Qiang urged them to use their strength to defend their country and protect its people, and Wang Xiu began clapping.

Wang Xiu joined the Thirteenth Bureau as an intern and agreed to attend classes on cultivation and modern subjects. Old Yang confronted Su Yi privately about his hidden strength, then begged for an immortal pill and received one after Su Yi warned him about the possible tribulations.

• Wu Wenze told Wang Xiu he could join the Thirteenth Bureau as an intern but would need to attend classes every three days.
• Old Yang met Wang Xiu, then asked Su Yi to speak with him privately.
• Old Yang explained that the replicas, Ye Lin's rapid cultivation, and other events had led him to realize Su Yi was far stronger than he appeared.
• Su Yi asked Old Yang to keep his identity secret, and Old Yang asked what realm he had reached; Su Yi said he had no realm.
• Old Yang begged Su Yi for an immortal pill to extend his life, and Su Yi gave him one after warning that changing fate could bring tribulations.

Su Yi gave Old Yang a cultivation elixir and confirmed that he had killed everyone in Fengjing Town. Later, Wang Xiu asked Su Yi to arrange a dinner with Ye Xiaxuan so he could stage a chance encounter, and Ye Xiaxuan prepared to dine with her master at Ultraviolet Restaurant.

• Su Yi gave Old Yang an elixir and warned him that its effects might be too powerful to survive.
• Su Yi confirmed to Old Yang that he had killed everyone in Fengjing Town, then left the office.
• Wang Xiu asked Su Yi to invite Ye Xiaxuan to dinner so he could join them by pretending to run into her.
• Ye Xiaxuan agreed to meet Su Yi at Ultraviolet Restaurant at six and planned to wear the hanfu he had made for her.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Ye Jingguo she would skip the banquet to eat with her master, and Ye Jingguo agreed to reserve them two seats.

Su Yi accompanied Ye Xiaxuan to Ultraviolet Restaurant while Wang Xiu planned to engineer a chance encounter, and Ye Xiaxuan grew upset when Su Yi said he would leave early. After he helped her with his phone, she asked him to stay if Wang Xiu failed to meet them, and he agreed.

• Su Yi reassured Wang Xiu that Ye Xiaxuan could handle herself and agreed that Wang Xiu could try to meet them at Ultraviolet Restaurant.
• Su Yi joined Ye Xiaxuan in a hotel-arranged van, and she questioned him about visiting Gu Tongtong at the IG Club.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that Wang Xiu wanted a chance encounter and that he planned to leave during dinner, making her angry and tearful.
• Su Yi watched a drama instead of comforting Ye Xiaxuan, then asked her to top up his phone and helped her discover that toggling airplane mode would restore his internet.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi to stay if Wang Xiu could not meet them, and Su Yi agreed before returning to his drama.

Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan dined at Ultraviolet Restaurant, where Long Hao approached her with the intention of pursuing a marriage alliance and gaining access to the Ye Family’s wealth. Ye Xiaxuan realized he had not come by chance, and Long Hao admitted her father had sent him.

• Su Yi and his companions entered Ultraviolet Restaurant, while Wang Xiu was stopped at the entrance by a Golden Core Realm expert.
• Long Hao told his companion that he planned to marry into the Ye Family for its fortune, and Ye Jingtian wanted him as Ye Xiaxuan’s husband.
• Su Yi enjoyed the restaurant’s sensory dining effects and reassured Ye Xiaxuan that he could create better ones at home.
• Long Hao sat beside Ye Xiaxuan, introduced himself, and offered to drive her home, but she refused and grew wary of his motives.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Long Hao whether he had followed her, and he admitted that her father had sent him.

Long Hao tried to win Ye Xiaoxuan over, attacked Su Yi when she rejected him, and was injured by his own flying cutlery. As Liao Yunxing confronted Su Yi and Ye Xiaoxuan, Su Yi let Ye Xiaoxuan face the fight and pretended to be trapped in Liao Yunxing’s technique.

• Long Hao introduced himself to Ye Xiaoxuan as an immortal cultivator and demanded that she be with him, but she told him to seek treatment for his brain.
• Long Hao sent a table knife toward Su Yi, but it turned around and stabbed Long Hao before a fork injured him further.
• Su Yi took Ye Xiaoxuan away, but Liao Yunxing blocked the elevator and challenged them over the attack on Young Master Long.
• Liao Yunxing trapped Ye Xiaoxuan’s soul in his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and Su Yi told her to handle the fight for practice.
• Su Yi pretended that Liao Yunxing’s technique had trapped him too, while wondering whether Ye Xiaoxuan could break free on her own.

Su Yi and Liao Yunxing waited while Ye Xiaxuan struggled to escape Liao Yunxing’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm. Su Yi and Liao Yunxing wagered on whether she would break free before Wu Wenze arrived, but after two hours she remained trapped.

• Liao Yunxing trapped Ye Xiaxuan in his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, while Su Yi pretended he was caught too.
• Ye Xiaxuan realized her surroundings were probably not real and tried to escape, trusting that Su Yi was nearby.
• Liao Yunxing questioned Su Yi about the injury, and Su Yi showed him his Thirteenth Bureau ID and said surveillance footage would prove his account.
• Su Yi asked Liao Yunxing to let Ye Xiaxuan escape on her own, and they wagered that the loser would either eat vegetarian meals and chant Buddhist scriptures at Treasure Workshop Temple or eat pork.
• Su Yi called Wu Wenze, but after more than two hours Wu Wenze had not arrived and Ye Xiaxuan was still trapped.

Ye Xiaxuan finally broke Liao Yunxing’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm by comprehending Su Yi’s sword intent, ending their wager and leaving Liao Yunxing injured and convinced. Wu Wenze arrived to negotiate over Long Hao’s injuries after Ye Xiaxuan took responsibility for teaching him a lesson.

• As the deadline for Wu Wenze’s arrival approached, Su Yi accepted that Ye Xiaxuan might fail to break Liao Yunxing’s formation and lose their wager.
• Ye Xiaxuan comprehended Su Yi’s sword strike and unleashed sword intent that shattered the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and injured Liao Yunxing.
• Liao Yunxing conceded, admitting that Ye Xiaxuan’s sword intent frightened him despite her lower cultivation.
• Wu Wenze arrived and mistakenly urged Ye Xiaxuan not to attack Liao Yunxing, but Ye Xiaxuan clarified that their fight was over.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Wu Wenze that she had injured Long Hao, and Wu Wenze offered to assess the damage and negotiate a settlement.

Wu Wenze intervened after Su Yi fought Liao Yunxing and escorted Su Yi away before the dispute escalated. On the stairs, he told Su Yi that Lin Yiyun planned to lead a revived Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, but Su Yi refused to seek her out or let the Thirteenth Bureau interfere without cause.

• Wu Wenze arrived and persuaded Liao Yunxing to let him take Su Yi away while the Thirteenth Bureau investigated.
• Su Yi reminded Liao Yunxing that he had lost their bet and must eat meat, then left with Wu Wenze.
• Wu Wenze told Su Yi that Lin Yiyun had invited Qingzhou City's wealthy merchants to a banquet and won support to become president of the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce.
• Wu Wenze suggested Su Yi stay close to Lin Yiyun and guide her, but Su Yi said they had fallen out and he would not contact her first.
• Su Yi argued that the Thirteenth Bureau should not monitor Lin Yiyun if she acted legally, and Wu Wenze agreed to avoid unnecessary interference.

After Ye Xiaxuan took responsibility for severely injuring Long Hao, Wu Wenze warned that Jinmen’s cultivation families would expect a private settlement. Su Yi explained Jinmen’s rogue cultivator community and urged Ye Xiaxuan to improve her cultivation, leaving her uncertain how strong she was compared with its cultivators.

• Wu Wenze told Gu Tongtong that Long Hao was the grandson of Golden Core cultivator Long Haochu, making the injury a serious matter for the Long Family.
• Wu Wenze urged Ye Xiaxuan to settle the dispute according to cultivation-world rules and proposed visiting Long Hao in the hospital, but Su Yi refused and said they could visit the Long Family later.
• After Su Yi described the old rule of settling such disputes by killing the other side or its entire household, Ye Xiaxuan objected, and he said current rules might be different.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that Jinmen had become a gathering place for rogue cultivators because it lacked major sects and barred residents from joining them.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked whether she ranked among Jinmen’s strongest, and Su Yi mocked her and scolded her for neglecting the sword intent he had taught her.