Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiaxuan struggled to understand her relationship with Su Yi after their intimate lesson, while Su Yi focused on strengthening her cultivation. After eating fierce beast meat and drinking wine, she entered sudden enlightenment and cultivated for ten days before awakening.

• Ye Xiaxuan stayed in the bedroom, embarrassed and unsure how to face Su Yi, while he prepared a late-night meal.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that his lesson had been about making them bigger, then said she could call him Master or use his name.
• Ye Xiaxuan ate fierce beast meat and drank wine, and its power prompted her to circulate her cultivation technique.
• Su Yi helped Ye Xiaxuan enter sudden enlightenment, where she tempered her body and purified her marrow.
• Ye Xiaxuan sat in cultivation for ten days and ten nights before awakening, and Su Yi told her to go take a bath.

Ye Xiaxuan woke from a ten-day breakthrough and mistook Li Youyou’s presence for evidence that Su Yi had been cheating on her. Su Yi reassured her with a new qipao and medicinal bath, while telling Li Youyou he would separate her soul from Wen Qianmeng’s and later have her kill someone.

• Ye Xiaxuan came to her senses after ten days of cultivation and saw Li Youyou in the courtyard, believing Su Yi had been sharing his home with another woman.
• Su Yi dispelled the concealment illusion so Li Youyou could see Ye Xiaxuan, then sent Ye Xiaxuan to bathe and showed her the qipao he had made.
• Ye Xiaxuan admired the qipao and went to soak in a medicinal bath prepared with herbs Li Youyou had gathered.
• Su Yi told Li Youyou he would separate her soul from Wen Qianmeng’s the next day, but refused to take her as a disciple.
• When Li Youyou asked to serve at his side after her body was reconstructed, Su Yi told her to kill someone for him.

Ye Xiaxuan took a medicinal bath and grew closer to the late Golden Core stage while Li Youyou joined her in the tub. Su Yi surveyed the rapidly advancing Chosen Ones across Huaxia and was left wondering why so many had gathered around women connected to him.

• Ye Xiaxuan sensed blue-green energy strengthening her unusual Golden Core as she soaked in Su Yi’s medicinal bath.
• Li Youyou brought Ye Xiaxuan hot water, studied her figure as a reference for rebuilding her body, and climbed into the tub with her.
• Su Yi sensed that Ling Chen had reached the late Nascent Soul stage and Ouyang Yu had reached the early Spirit Transformation realm in just ten days.
• Su Yi discovered that Yu Huiyin, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting each had Chosen Ones around them and wondered whether they were targeting women connected to him.
• Su Yi saw that thirty-eight of the ninety-eight remaining Chosen Ones had joined Lin Yiyun’s newly established Mystic Nether Sect.

Zhang Ting met Yin Bei for a blind date, but Su Yi disrupted their conversation by accusing Yin Bei of wanting to keep schoolgirls as mistresses. Yin Bei challenged Su Yi to bring the girls to the restaurant, and Su Yi called Sisi and Chunchun to come over.

• Zhang Ting told Yin Bei she would only consider marrying him if he treated her daughter Xu Diandian well, while Yin Bei pursued her to gain an immortal art legacy and increase his providence.
• Su Yi approached Zhang Ting and pretended Yin Bei had previously asked him to arrange schoolgirls as mistresses.
• Yin Bei denied knowing Su Yi and warned him that his accusations could have legal consequences as Zhang Ting's favorability toward him fell.
• Zhang Ting invited Su Yi to sit and discuss his supposed business with Yin Bei, unsettling Yin Bei with her calm response.
• Yin Bei challenged Su Yi to bring the schoolgirls to the restaurant and offered to pay for their meal if they arrived.
• Su Yi called Sisi and told her to bring Chunchun to Germy Western Restaurant because Yin Bei wanted to talk with them.

Su Yi manipulated Zhang Ting into believing Yin Bei was pursuing college girls, then exposed him when two girls arrived and stripped him of his cultivation, fortune, and Heavenly Dao power. Yin Bei was left powerless as Su Yi distributed his stolen fortune and Heavenly Dao power among the Chosen Ones.

• Yin Bei tried to persuade Zhang Ting to trust him, while Su Yi claimed he had recruited students to help them financially.
• Zhang Ting defended Su Yi as her little brother, and Su Yi pretended Yin Bei had never asked for female students.
• Su Yi claimed he and Yin Bei did not know each other, then two girls arrived and greeted Su Yi at the table.
• Su Yi urged Yin Bei to admit what he had done, and the girls asked Yin Bei if he wanted to be their sugar daddy.
• Yin Bei released his immortal cultivator's aura, but Su Yi crippled his cultivation and took his fortune and azure Heavenly Dao power.
• Su Yi distributed Yin Bei's fortune and Heavenly Dao power among the Chosen Ones.

Su Yi exposed Yin Bei as a dishonest playboy and proposed opening a restaurant with Zhang Ting and investor Bai Miaomiao. He brought Zhang Ting to the Bai family home to cook for them and visit Bai Qishan, whose lifespan was nearly over.

• Su Yi stripped Yin Bei of his fortune and cultivation, leaving him unable to move or respond to his system.
• Zhang Ting thanked Su Yi for revealing Yin Bei's character, and Su Yi proposed that they open a restaurant together.
• Su Yi contacted Bai Miaomiao to invest in the restaurant, and she welcomed him and Zhang Ting at Fengye Group.
• Bai Miaomiao invited Su Yi to her home so he could prepare dishes for them.
• Su Yi planned to visit Bai Qishan, who was nearing the end of his allotted lifespan, and Bai Miaomiao brought Zhang Ting along.

Su Yi, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting discussed opening a restaurant together, with Su Yi offering to contribute his cooking skills and teach Zhang Ting. Su Yi explained his plans for making masitaji soup and revealed the value of the antique jade bottles he used to hold its resin, leaving Bai Miaomiao astonished by his wealth.

• Bai Miaomiao picked up Su Yi and Zhang Ting in her Bentley with her handsome driver, Xiao Wang, and Su Yi teased her by asking when she would marry him.
• Bai Miaomiao asked Zhang Ting about her business plans, and Zhang Ting explained that she and Bai Miaomiao would open a restaurant with Su Yi.
• Su Yi listed the ingredients for masitaji soup, and Bai Miaomiao arranged for her servants to obtain them.
• Su Yi explained that his masitaji resin was better than the resin used by a long-established restaurant in the imperial capital.
• Bai Miaomiao examined the jade bottle holding the resin and realized it was an extraordinarily valuable antique, prompting her to reconsider Su Yi's wealth.

Su Yi visited the Bai family estate with Zhang Ting and taught her to cook while a would-be attacker tried to kill him. After the attacker died by his own hand, Su Yi welcomed Bai Qishan into the kitchen and offered to cook for him.

• Bai Miaomiao brought Su Yi and Zhang Ting to the Bai family estate, where Su Yi sensed two Chosen Ones, including one near Bai Qishan.
• Su Yi taught Zhang Ting to make mastaki soup, West Lake fish in vinegar sauce, and Dongpo pork, and advised her to sell only ten portions a day at high prices.
• Xiao Wang knocked out the housekeeper, disguised himself, and tried to stab Su Yi, but Su Yi compelled him to leave and kill himself.
• Bai Miaomiao called the police after Xiao Wang's body was found, and the police ruled his death a suicide.
• Bai Qishan entered the kitchen, and Su Yi offered to cook for him while reminding him that they were no longer master and servant.

Su Yi recalled how he had rescued Bai Qishan as a child and gave him his name, then cooked for him while teaching Zhang Ting several dishes. As they prepared to eat, Lin Yue watched Su Yi and realized that Bai Qishan’s reverence for him threatened Lin Yue’s hopes of becoming the Bai family’s heir.

• Su Yi remembered meeting Bai Qishan as a starving child near Mount Qi and explained how he had named him Bai Qishan.
• Bai Qishan told Su Yi that he had searched for his family but found that war and heavy snow had killed or scattered the people near Mount Qi.
• Su Yi served Bai Qishan mastic soup and asked him to bring Zhang Ting in for a cooking lesson.
• Bai Qishan eagerly helped Su Yi and fetched vinegar while Su Yi taught Zhang Ting to make West Lake fish in vinegar sauce and Dongpo pork.
• Su Yi prepared the meal and invited Bai Miaomiao to join them.
• Lin Yue watched Su Yi and worried that Bai Qishan’s devotion to him would leave Lin Yue with no chance to inherit the Bai family.

Lin Yue and Bai Haowen plotted to use Harm-Spirit Gu to kill Su Yi and seize control of the Bai family, but Su Yi drank the poisoned wine without apparent harm. After dinner, Bai Miaomiao discussed a business partnership with Su Yi, while Bai Haowen continued to underestimate him.

• Lin Yue agreed to help Bai Haowen take over the Bai family in exchange for half its wealth, and they decided Su Yi had to die.
• Lin Yue brought Bai Haowen wine laced with Harm-Spirit Gu, and Bai Haowen served it to Su Yi, Bai Qishan, Bai Miaomiao, and Zhang Ting.
• Su Yi drank the wine and recognized the Gu insects, but chose not to expose Bai Haowen in front of Bai Qishan.
• Bai Qishan and his family enjoyed Su Yi's meal, and Bai Miaomiao asked how much funding Su Yi needed for their business.
• Su Yi told Bai Miaomiao to discuss the details with Zhang Ting and said he would contribute his skills in exchange for equity.

Su Yi confronted Bai Haowen and Lin Yue after surviving Lin Yue’s Harm-Spirit Gu, then easily crippled Bai Haowen and subdued Lin Yue. He spared them temporarily, warning that they would die the day after Bai Qishan died.

• Bai Haowen questioned Lin Yue about why the Gu insect failed to kill Su Yi, and Lin Yue revealed that it had died after Su Yi swallowed it.
• Su Yi entered the room, and Bai Haowen attacked him with black mist while Lin Yue prepared to flee.
• Su Yi scattered Bai Haowen’s attack, crippled his cultivation, and took his providence, but spared his life because of Bai Qishan.
• Su Yi stopped Lin Yue from escaping, inflicted unbearable pain on him, and removed the Power of the Heavenly Dao and his providence.
• Su Yi told Bai Haowen and Lin Yue to serve Bai Qishan and warned them that they would die the day after he did.
• Bai Haowen and Lin Yue wondered who Su Yi was, and Bai Haowen resolved to hope that Bai Qishan lived as long as possible.

Su Yi prepared to teach Ye Xiaxuan alchemy, explaining that it would help her control her mental power and learn sword flight. He used the Shennong Cauldron to refine an immortal pill in minutes, leaving Ye Xiaxuan and Li Youyou stunned.

• Su Yi and Zhang Ting agreed that Zhang Ting would manage the restaurant while Su Yi and Bai Miaomiao took ten percent of its shares each.
• Li Youyou asked Xu Diandian to care for the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine, and Ye Xiaxuan stayed in Su Yi's courtyard with them.
• At eleven at night, Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to prepare for an alchemy lesson and explained how alchemy could improve her mental control.
• Su Yi summoned the Shennong Cauldron, whose power made flowers bloom throughout the courtyard and Qingzhou.
• Su Yi demonstrated alchemy by forming a few hand seals and producing an immortal pill in less than ten minutes, astonishing Ye Xiaxuan and Li Youyou.

Su Yi helped Li Youyou transfer her soul into a ten-thousand-year-old mystic vine, then gave Ye Xiaxuan a detailed manual on pill refining after she failed to learn from his demonstration. He left for a bar while Ye Xiaxuan began studying, tasked with memorizing the manual and starting to refine pills in five days.

• Su Yi gave the Clear Void Pill to Li Youyou and instructed her to attach her soul to the mystic vine.
• Li Youyou took the pill, transferred her soul into the vine, and left Wen Qianmeng her cultivation knowledge and advice to be bolder.
• Wen Qianmeng woke after Li Youyou left her body, then left the courtyard when Su Yi did not invite her inside.
• Su Yi wrote Ye Xiaxuan a detailed pill-refining manual with formulas and hand-seal instructions, then told her to memorize it in three days and start refining pills in five.
• Su Yi left for a bar, and Ye Xiaxuan took the manual to the bedroom and began studying it.

Su Yi visited the Thirteenth Bureau’s base and learned that Li Qingyuan had developed a system for controlling the small world’s beast corpses. After Su Yi’s mental-power test crashed the system again, Li Qingyuan gave him exclusive use of the No. 089 Battle Armor, while Su Yi considered signing up for immortal sect recruitment.

• Su Yi entered the small world and found a giant bear corpse waving at him, then learned from Gu Tongtong that the Thirteenth Bureau had made it move.
• Su Yi visited IG’s training base and watched the players control beast corpses through computers.
• Li Qingyuan explained that implanted chips let a system control the intact nerves in the beasts’ bodies.
• Su Yi’s mental-power test crashed Li Qingyuan’s system again, and Li Qingyuan declared the No. 089 Battle Armor exclusively his.
• Old Yang told Su Yi that the immortal sects would recruit disciples in three days, and Su Yi wondered if he could register as an eighteen-year-old.

Su Yi learned about the joint cultivation school and decided to enroll so he could study modern cultivation theory. After mastering the keyboard controls for a ferocious beast, he prepared to fight Gu Tongtong with it.

• Old Yang explained that the eighteen immortal sects would recruit disciples together and hold a month of classes, and Su Yi asked to sign up.
• Old Yang said the Thirteenth Bureau would screen applicants who could sense qi, so Su Yi could register directly.
• Su Yi watched Kang Seung-lok control a ferocious beast, then quickly mastered the keyboard and performed advanced maneuvers.
• Gu Tongtong volunteered to test herself against Su Yi's controlled ferocious beast and rushed to the Thirteenth Bureau's designated area.
• Gu Tongtong called out to Su Yi to begin the fight, and Su Yi prepared to face her without holding back.

Su Yi demonstrated how quickly he could control a ferocious beast, then faced Gu Tongtong in a test watched by cultivators and the Thirteenth Bureau. Gu Tongtong destroyed the chip in the beast’s eye to expose its vulnerability, leaving Li Qingyuan to consider how to protect it.

• Su Yi controlled the ferocious beast with extraordinary speed and agility while Gu Tongtong attacked it.
• Gu Tongtong drew her alloy Tang saber and challenged Su Yi to get serious.
• Su Yi charged Gu Tongtong with the beast, but she dodged and struck the chip inside its left eye, disabling it.
• Li Qingyuan scolded Gu Tongtong for destroying the costly chip and exposing the beast’s weakness to onlookers.
• Gu Tongtong argued that the weakness needed to be fixed, and Li Qingyuan recognized that the exposed eye made the chip an obvious target.

Li Qingyuan considered how to improve chip control of ferocious beasts, and Su Yi suggested using extra cameras and satellite positioning. The next morning, Xu Diandian tried to care for the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine by pooping beside it, leaving Su Yi to build a fence and Zhang Ting to scold him for indulging her.

• Li Qingyuan contemplated implanting chips in ferocious beasts' hearts, and Su Yi proposed adding cameras to their eyes and using satellite positioning for a third-person view.
• Su Yi left to prepare for the immortal sects' student recruitment and planned to give his dormmates a basic qi-refining manual.
• Xu Diandian ran into Su Yi's yard the next morning and pooped beside the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine because Li Youyou had told her to care for it.
• Su Yi gave Xu Diandian toilet paper and built a fence around the vine, while she ate noodles at his house.
• Zhang Ting discovered what Xu Diandian had done and objected to Su Yi building her a toilet, but Su Yi defended the girl's honesty and sense of duty.

Su Yi gave Wang Junlin, Jiang Biao, and Yang Hui a qi-refining manual and told them to try sensing their innate qi before the immortal sects began recruiting disciples in three days. As he left the bookstore, he noticed Wang Junlin’s fortune had suddenly risen and wondered whether his friend might become an archvillain.

• Su Yi found Ye Xiaxuan absorbed in studying his alchemy techniques and left her at home to continue.
• At school, Wang Junlin, Jiang Biao, and Yang Hui asked Su Yi whether he was an immortal cultivator and whether he would teach them.
• Su Yi agreed to give them a chance to cultivate, then took them to the bookstore and handed them a qi-refining manual hidden inside a book.
• Su Yi told the three to study the manual on their own and warned them that the immortal sects would begin accepting disciples in three days.
• As Su Yi closed the bookstore, he noticed Wang Junlin’s fortune had soared and wondered if Wang Junlin might become an archvillain.

Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to the cultivators’ market in a newly descended small world to find her an alchemy furnace. He offered a pill from a jade vial for the trade, and the chapter ended as they entered the Spirit Qi Sect’s Cloud Fragrance Pavilion to ask for a furnace.

• Wang Junlin and the others told Su Yi that all three had sensed qi, and he told them to sign up the next day.
• Su Yi tested Ye Xiaxuan’s alchemy knowledge, then gave her a jade vial containing a pill to trade for a suitable furnace.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to turn over the fertilizer Xu Diandian had applied, and she cheerfully imagined raising Li Youyou’s future body on poop and pee.
• Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to the cultivators’ market and warned her not to reveal her inexperience.
• Su Yi entered the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion and told the shopkeeper he wanted an alchemy furnace, not pills.

Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan visited the Cloud Fragrance Pavilion to buy an alchemy furnace, where Elder Dongfang Lin became fixated on Ye Xiaxuan’s Torch Dragon sinew bracelet. Dongfang Lin invited them and the curious customers inside to inspect his furnace, leaving the sale poised to become a bidding contest.

• Su Yi asked Dongfang Lin about buying an alchemy furnace, and Dongfang Lin noticed the Torch Dragon sinew around Ye Xiaxuan’s wrist.
• Dongfang Lin offered a high-grade furnace and even his shop for Ye Xiaxuan’s bracelet, but she refused to trade before seeing the furnace.
• Ye Xiaxuan insisted on inspecting the furnace first, and Su Yi explained that she would use it to learn alchemy.
• Dongfang Lin announced that his Billowing Cloud Furnace was for sale to anyone with a treasure he liked.
• The guests followed Dongfang Lin, Su Yi, and Ye Xiaxuan inside to see the furnace and join the bidding.