Chapter Summaries

After returning from the team-building trip, Yun Zhaozhao explored ways to find cleaner water for Clear Breeze Temple and added two Banyan City dishes to its canteen menu. The Subduing Demons crew filmed in the mountain bamboo grove and loved Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, though Daoist Cen warned them that requesting a specific dish could upset him.

• Yun Zhaozhao returned to Clear Breeze Temple with local specialties for Daoist Cen, Daoist Mao, and their disciples, then watched the Subduing Demons crew film.
• Yun Zhaozhao searched Clear Breeze Mountain with the designer and Daoist Chang Kong for a suitable spring, then proposed making better use of groundwater after recalling the temple’s well.
• Daoist Chang Kong recreated two Banyan City dishes, and Yun Zhaozhao added them to the canteen menu; customers especially liked the lemon duck.
• Daoist Chang Kong cooked boxed meals for the Subduing Demons crew while they filmed in the bamboo grove, and the crew praised the food.
• The director asked Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao to request the lemon duck again, but Daoist Cen warned that Daoist Chang Kong disliked specific requests and might stop cooking.

Yun Zhaozhao and the crew promoted Clear Breeze Temple, while Grandpa Lin helped develop a spring-fed water feature and reported on the farm’s progress. Lin Banxia also began using her tested herbal pest treatments in the temple’s rear courtyard, leaving Yun Zhaozhao considering new business opportunities.

• The crew filmed a promotional video and took photos showcasing Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoists, then Yun Zhaozhao sent the materials to Tang Li.
• Grandpa Lin found a spring at the foot of Clear Breeze Mountain, and the designer proposed channeling its water around the new temple complex and tentatively naming it Prosperity Spring.
• Grandpa Lin told Yun Zhaozhao that he had hired a team of village elders to manage the farm and shared clear accounts of its expenses and progress.
• Yun Zhaozhao toasted Grandpa Lin with fruit wine, and Lin Banxia explained that her grandfather was a seasoned drinker.
• Lin Banxia tested herbal treatments for plant pests and diseases, then applied them across the rear courtyard, which was temporarily closed to visitors.
• Yun Zhaozhao considered selling some of Clear Breeze Temple’s plants after seeing successive batches of flowers bloom and fade.

Yun Zhaozhao and Xiaojiu sold flowers from Clear Breeze Temple while Jingting promoted them during his livestreams and offered help to a stray-animal rescuer. Daoist Qingxin returned from an exchange visit and offered Yun Zhaozhao introductions to agricultural experts, giving her farming team new support.

• Yun Zhaozhao asked Xiao Yao's permission to sell some flowers, and Xiao Yao requested keepsake photos before they were sold.
• Xiaojiu sold fresh flowers at Clear Breeze Temple and explained their appeal to visitors, while Yun Zhaozhao considered adding a warehouse to the new temple.
• Jingting held flowers during his livestreams, promoted Clear Breeze Temple's flower sales, and invited a struggling stray-animal rescuer to bring some animals to the temple.
• Jingting criticized people who abandoned cats and dogs and offered the rescuer free room and board in exchange for helping care for animals.
• Daoist Qingxin returned from an exchange visit, accepted the hairpin Jingting had bought him, and offered Yun Zhaozhao introductions to agricultural experts he had met.

Yun Zhaozhao hosted agricultural experts who advised Grandpa Lin and Lin Banxia on crops and fruit trees, then approved Clear Breeze Temple’s new official website. The website went live, and Jingting’s livestream drew viewers’ attention to its promotional video and Yun Zhaozhao’s appearance.

• Yun Zhaozhao invited agricultural experts to Clear Breeze Temple and brought Grandpa Lin and Lin Banxia along to seek advice.
• The experts taught Grandpa Lin crop and tea-tree techniques, while he chose to grow corn and millet on his newly leased land.
• Lin Banxia asked the experts about fruit-tree grafting, and they demonstrated techniques during their two-day visit.
• Yun Zhaozhao approved the official website Tang Li had designed, and Tang Li’s team launched it.
• Jingting livestreamed the website launch, struggled to navigate the site, and showed viewers Clear Breeze Temple’s promotional video.
• Viewers praised Daoist Chang Kong’s appearance mildly but reacted enthusiastically to Yun Zhaozhao and the other young women in the video.

Clear Breeze Temple’s website and Yun Zhaozhao’s livestream brought new attention to the temple and the “Subduing Demons” short video. Yun Zhaozhao visited Grandpa Lin’s farm, where she saw how the temple’s growth had revitalized the village and earned the villagers’ trust.

• Tang Li and Jingting promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s website and livestream, while Jingting encouraged viewers to follow “Subduing Demons.”
• The “Subduing Demons” publicity worker and Tang Li interacted on Weibo, and netizens joked that their official accounts were getting married.
• Yun Zhaozhao alternated between Clear Breeze Temple and Grandpa Lin’s farm as visitors came hoping to see her.
• A villager told Yun Zhaozhao that the temple had created work and improved village life, and promised the villagers would help it grow.
• Yun Zhaozhao returned from Grandpa Lin’s fields carrying a basket of eggs for Daoist Chang Kong.

Yun Zhaozhao welcomed livestream viewers to Clear Breeze Temple and dealt with university students who brought in an injured stray kitten. Lin Banxia treated the kitten with herbs, and the students prayed for it at the temple and bought protection bracelets.

• Yun Zhaozhao brought Grandpa Lin's free-range eggs to the cafeteria, where visiting young women met her and stayed to try Daoist Chang Kong's cooking.
• Jingting brought Yun Zhaozhao several university students who had found an injured stray kitten and wanted Clear Breeze Temple to take it in.
• Yun Zhaozhao agreed to keep the kitten temporarily after learning that a veterinarian had recommended amputation for its badly wounded leg.
• Lin Banxia consulted an ancient text, gathered medicinal herbs, and applied them to the kitten's injured leg.
• The university students followed Lin Banxia's advice to pray for the kitten and bought protection bracelets from Xiaojiu.

Lin Banxia helped the stray kitten recover while Tang Li decided to stay at Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao found new Daoist priests by recruiting in nearby villages. The chapter left Jingting considering whether to join Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao’s regimented daily practice.

• Lin Banxia diligently changed the kitten’s dressings, and its injured leg began moving again before the college students returned to check on it.
• Tang Li told Yun Zhaozhao he planned to remain at Clear Breeze Temple, and she quickly arranged to hire him permanently.
• After the HR recruiter struggled to find candidates, Tang Li suggested recruiting villagers, and Yun Zhaozhao arranged announcements over a village loudspeaker.
• Yun Zhaozhao interviewed applicants and hired Zhuzi, whom she named Daoist Zhu, and Maodou, whom she named Daoist Yuan.
• Jingting began spending time with Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao’s group, and they invited him to join their scripture chanting and meditation.

Clear Breeze Temple gained new Daoists and attracted attention after the launch of the short-form series "Subduing Demons." As the temple’s popularity grew, True Yang Temple began to see it as a threat.

• Yun Zhaozhao put Daoist Yuan and Daoist Zhu in charge of public complaints and reception after they proved patient and socially capable.
• Yun Zhaozhao and the temple’s residents watched the first episode of "Subduing Demons," which featured Clear Breeze Temple and a snake demon seeking spiritual grass.
• Tang Li launched a photo contest on Clear Breeze Temple’s official Weibo, bringing the account several thousand new followers.
• Daoist Jingyang reported Clear Breeze Temple’s rapid growth to Daoist Jiaye and warned that it threatened True Yang Temple.

Daoist Jiaye decided that True Yang Temple should build ties with Clear Breeze Temple after realizing it had once ignored Yun Zhaozhao’s overture. Daoist Jingyang arranged recruits for her temple, including ten very young child disciples and Martial Uncle Chuli, whose fierce complaints about True Yang Temple left Yun Zhaozhao bewildered.

• Daoist Jingyang found that Clear Breeze Temple had attended True Yang Temple’s Taoist exchange conference, but True Yang Temple had failed to approach it, so Daoist Jiaye ordered him to offer help.
• Yun Zhaozhao mistook Daoist Jingyang’s call for a scam, then asked True Yang Temple to refer recruits for Clear Breeze Temple’s expansion.
• Daoist Jingyang sent ten child disciples, aged three to six, whom True Yang Temple had taken in through its work with orphanages.
• Daoist Jingyang also sent his temple’s hundred-year-old Martial Uncle Chuli, saying Chuli was little known and suited Yun Zhaozhao’s request for an experienced but obscure Daoist.
• When Yun Zhaozhao spoke with Martial Uncle Chuli, he denounced True Yang Temple’s rules and leadership and predicted its decline.

Yun Zhaozhao settled Martial Uncle Chuli and ten young Daoists at Clear Breeze Temple, then began arranging their care and education. The children’s arrival drew online attention, while Yun Zhaozhao planned to coordinate their schooling with a nearby village primary school.

• Yun Zhaozhao kept Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao in charge of the temple’s daily operations and discussed promoting Martial Uncle Chuli as a centenarian.
• Yun Zhaozhao arranged rooms for Martial Uncle Chuli and the ten children, and little Sansanzi quickly won her affection.
• Jingting introduced the little Daoists on livestream, prompting enthusiastic reactions and interest in visiting Clear Breeze Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao considered the children’s clothing, transportation, and education, and Daoist Qingxin suggested partnering with the village primary school for compulsory education.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao’s team to care for the children, though Daoist Yuan and Daoist Zhu proved more comfortable with childcare.

Yun Zhaozhao and Xiaojiu turned the growing crowds watching the little Daoists into a successful flower-accessory business, while Yun Zhaozhao arranged schooling and practical education for the ten children. The children settled into Clear Breeze Temple as the temple began processing their school and household registrations.

• The ten little Daoists joined Tai Chi Chuan practice, drawing larger crowds and making the temple’s demonstrations more popular.
• Xiaojiu sold flower crowns and bracelets made from backyard trimmings, using the children as walking advertisements, and Yun Zhaozhao offered her a future sales team to manage.
• Yun Zhaozhao discussed enrolling the ten children at the village school, and Teacher Liu welcomed them pending the transfer of their household registrations.
• With True Yang Temple’s help, Yun Zhaozhao began the proper process of transferring the children’s registrations from their orphanages to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao taught the children martial arts, while Yun Zhaozhao planned lessons in Daoist principles and practical skills with Daoist Chang Kong, Lin Banxia, and Xiaojiu.
• The ten children adapted readily to life at Clear Breeze Temple and helped with daily tasks, including the youngest, little Sansanzi.

Tang Li began promoting Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoists by writing a feature about Sansan after Jingting’s livestream revealed her ambition to become temple master. He finished the article after several days of patiently interviewing her.

• Sansan secretly shared steamed sausage with the stray kitten while watering flowers at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Jingting showed Sansan on his livestream, where she introduced herself, wrote her name in the dirt, and said she wanted to attend university and become temple master.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li discussed creating promotional features about Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoists.
• After hearing about Sansan’s ambition on Jingting’s livestream, Tang Li chose her as the first subject for the temple’s new promotional series.
• Tang Li spent several days interviewing Sansan and completed an article of just over a thousand Chinese characters about her.

Tang Li’s interview about Sansan brought Clear Breeze Temple favorable media coverage and donations, while Yun Zhaozhao arranged school uniforms and transportation for the ten young Daoists. After checking on Martial Uncle Chuli, she asked him how to use his standing to recruit more people for the temple.

• Tang Li posted an interview highlighting Sansan’s cheerful nature, prompting official media to report on Clear Breeze Temple’s care for the orphaned children.
• Members of the public and volunteer groups donated supplies, and a car manufacturer offered the temple two vehicles for transportation.
• Yun Zhaozhao arranged school uniforms for the ten young Daoists, while Daoist Yuan and Daoist Zhu took on driving them to school.
• Jingting joked that the children were lucky stars who had boosted his livestream’s popularity, and Yun Zhaozhao teased him about being their Second Senior Brother.
• Yun Zhaozhao found Martial Uncle Chuli relaxing in the dining hall and learned that True Yang Temple had sent him to Clear Breeze Temple after he smashed a prized temple treasure.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Martial Uncle Chuli how to use his standing in the Daoist community to recruit more people for Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao recruited enough Daoists to complete Lawyer Wang’s task, partly through Martial Uncle Chuli’s scheme to bring more people from True Yang Temple. After receiving the promised one-million reward, she planned to buy property near Clear Breeze Temple.

• Yun Zhaozhao rejected Martial Uncle Chuli’s idea of poaching Daoists from True Yang Temple because it could damage Clear Breeze Temple’s reputation.
• Tang Li interviewed Martial Uncle Chuli, who later persuaded Daoist Jingyang to send ten more Daoists to Clear Breeze Temple as attendants.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned the ten newcomers to the dining hall, then recruited four Daoists through the Taoist Association and gained another batch through the HR worker.
• Yun Zhaozhao completed Lawyer Wang’s requirement to recruit fifty new Daoists and one respected elderly Daoist, and Lawyer Wang transferred her the one-million reward.
• Yun Zhaozhao told Lawyer Wang she wanted the money to buy a house or property near Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao put the new Daoists’ ritual skills to work and expanded Clear Breeze Temple’s construction and agricultural plans. The chapter left Clear Breeze Temple’s staff, animals, and online presence growing as Lin Banxia settled into her work and Lemon became a temple favorite.

• Yun Zhaozhao learned that the Daoists sent by True Yang Temple had useful specialties and asked Martial Uncle Chuli to let her arrange money-making work for them.
• Yun Zhaozhao hired more construction workers, advanced the new temple and Prosperity Spring projects, and named the road to the temple Prosperity Road.
• A school agreed to buy agricultural products from Clear Breeze Temple’s base and send Agricultural College interns, exciting Lin Banxia as she focused on medicinal herbs and pursued a traditional Chinese medicine license.
• Yun Zhaozhao agreed to let Lin Banxia keep Lemon at Clear Breeze Temple, where Sansan and the young Daoists had grown fond of the recovered kitten.
• Tang Li filmed Sansan and Lemon and posted about Clear Breeze Temple’s expanding facilities, prompting viewers to joke that it should be renamed Tornado Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao refused to sell Clear Breeze Temple’s unusual first crop of fruit, but rumors that it granted longevity drew elders to the orchard. Her warning that immortals did not recognize stolen fruit stopped the thefts, though the rumor spread to the elderly dream team and True Yang Temple.

• Tang Li sampled the temple’s first plums, and Yun Zhaozhao decided the fruit would be kept for the temple rather than sold.
• Elders speculated that Martial Uncle Chuli’s daily plate of orchard fruit explained his longevity, and the rumor spread among Clear Breeze Temple’s visitors.
• Lin Banxia caught elders stealing fruit, so Yun Zhaozhao posted a warning that immortals did not recognize stolen fruit; the elders stopped sneaking into the orchard.
• Yun Zhaozhao sent fruit to Grandpa Lin’s elderly dream team, whose members believed she had given them longevity fruit, while Grandpa Lin suspected there was more to the story.
• True Yang Temple dismissed the rumor, but Daoist Jingyang suspected Martial Uncle Chuli had something to do with it.

Yun Zhaozhao used Daoist Chuli’s presence to promote Clear Breeze Temple and persuaded Taoists from True Yang Temple to help improve its back garden. The temple’s new complex was completed, with Daoist Chang Kong’s calligraphy welcoming visitors at the gate.

• Daoist Jingyang privately regretted sending Martial Uncle Chuli to Clear Breeze Temple, but Daoist Jiaye reminded him that Chuli had been difficult to tolerate at True Yang Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao set up a longevity stand beneath the ginkgo tree, with Daoist Chuli sitting beside it as a living advertisement.
• Yun Zhaozhao persuaded the Taoists from True Yang Temple to help with the back garden by describing it as a shared temple garden, and they used their techniques to speed the plants’ growth.
• Lin Banxia praised the Taoists’ growing techniques to Yun Zhaozhao, who called them the back garden’s heaven-chosen workers.
• After construction finished, Daoist Chang Kong’s calligraphy appeared above the new complex’s main gate, and the expanded temple had seven main halls instead of three.

Yun Zhaozhao planned to expand Clear Breeze Temple’s dining, souvenir, and medicinal herb operations, with the goal of opening a Daoist medical clinic. She traveled with Tang Li to recruit the reclusive Daoist physician Qiuting, but found only her disciple Yiyezi and prepared to try persuading Qiuting when she returned.

• Yun Zhaozhao welcomed the completion of Clear Breeze Temple’s new complex and discussed plans for its dining halls, souvenir stalls, and expanded rear garden.
• Daoist Chang Kong planned to train cooks for the new dining hall and introduce stricter access to his old dining hall, while Yun Zhaozhao agreed to his proposal.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided the new rear garden should focus on medicinal herbs and hoped to establish a Daoist medical clinic where Lin Banxia could pursue her interest in medicine.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Senior Brother Leng to help find a skilled Daoist physician, and he mentioned Qiuting of Knowing Autumn Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li traveled to Knowing Autumn Temple to invite Qiuting, but Yiyezi told them Qiuting was away treating patients and warned that she had refused similar invitations before.

Yun Zhaozhao struggled to recruit Daoist Qiuting to establish a medical clinic at Clear Breeze Temple while sending its ten young Daoists to primary school. After meeting privately with the children, Daoist Qiuting agreed to join the temple.

• Yun Zhaozhao shared her plans for a Daoist medical clinic with Daoist Qiuting and sampled vegetarian dishes at Knowing Autumn Temple with Tang Li.
• Yun Zhaozhao helped enroll the ten young Daoists in the nearby village primary school, and they enjoyed a celebratory meal after their first day.
• Yun Zhaozhao repeatedly tried to meet Daoist Qiuting, but the physician was usually unavailable or surrounded by patients.
• Daoist Qiuting visited Clear Breeze Temple and asked to see the young Daoists and their rooms.
• Daoist Qiuting spoke privately with the ten children, then told Yun Zhaozhao she would join Clear Breeze Temple after getting everything in order.
• Yun Zhaozhao later learned that Daoist Qiuting had been adopted by a Daoist temple and trained in medicine by her adoptive master.

Daoist Qiuting arrived at Clear Breeze Temple with Daoist Yiyezi and opened her medical clinic, where she began treating patients and teaching the young Daoists. As Lin Banxia studied under her and was assigned to learn medicine preparation from Yiyezi, Yiyezi decided this made her Lin Banxia’s master and teased her to call her that.

• Daoist Qiuting arrived at Clear Breeze Temple earlier than expected with Daoist Yiyezi and a suitcase mostly filled with medical books, and her clinic opened smoothly.
• Lin Banxia helped at the clinic, watched Daoist Qiuting treat patients, and told Yun Zhaozhao she hoped to become a Daoist physician.
• Daoist Qiuting began teaching the ten little Daoists and Lin Banxia, while the children imagined unusual medical careers such as treating hippos’ teeth and sick trees.
• Daoist Qiuting asked Daoist Yiyezi to oversee the medicinal herb list and invited Lin Banxia to learn how to prepare and decoct medicines from her.
• Daoist Yiyezi decided that the arrangement made her Lin Banxia’s master and cheerfully told Lin Banxia to call her Master.