Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou began training in Ren Yisheng’s Kunpeng Combat Technique and reached its introductory stage after a single warm-up. Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang watched in disbelief, while Ren Yisheng hinted that he planned to use secret medicine to help Ren Wuyang advance.

• Zhang Xuezhou recognized similarities between the Kunpeng Combat Technique and His Eminence's Great Wilderness Creation Scripture, then started training with the manuscript Ren Yisheng had given him.
• Ren Yisheng watched Zhang Xuezhou practice kip-ups and told Ren Wuyang that he would soon receive the Luofu Imperial Family's secret medicine to advance his cultivation.
• Ren Wuyang panicked about the injection and typed a lengthy farewell message to his younger sister before Ren Yisheng slapped him.
• Ren Wuyang realized Zhang Xuezhou had linked the genetic regions and entered the introductory stage of the combat technique immediately after his first warm-up.
• Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang both wondered how Zhang Xuezhou had dared to attempt the unlikely breakthrough and how he had succeeded so quickly.

Zhang Xuezhou’s practice of the Kunpeng Combat Technique created a strange sun-and-moon phenomenon in his mental world, then exhausted him and left him asleep. Ren Yisheng realized that emotional stimulation might help Ren Wuyang reach Realm Entry with the Heart Incantation, and decided to test his theory with a tearjerker film.

• Zhang Xuezhou saw the sun rise and the moon set in his mental world while practicing the Kunpeng Combat Technique, then his mind shattered from exhaustion and he fell asleep.
• Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang watched Zhang Xuezhou’s unusual practice and wondered whether Hongku’s cultivation method explained his progress.
• Ren Yisheng persuaded Ren Wuyang to take the Origin-Nurturing Pill paste and begin practicing the Heart Incantation, but Ren Wuyang started vomiting.
• Ren Yisheng connected his own breakthroughs to moments of severe mental strain and concluded that emotional stimulation could help Ren Wuyang reach Realm Entry.
• Ren Yisheng told Ren Wuyang to watch Mom, Love Me Once Again and pay close attention to his emotions.

Zhang Xuezhou woke in a temple after Wu Chao had fled west during a nighttime attack, and the Buddha's Son questioned him about the trouble. The Buddha's Son concluded that both groups' corpse collecting may have caused the attack, then stopped Zhang Xuezhou from leaving because the temple had set up eighteen Dragon-Subduing Stakes.

• Zhang Xuezhou woke beneath a bed in the temple and saw wounded monks and a corpse burning outside.
• The Buddha's Son said Wu Chao had ridden west, and the monks accused Zhang Xuezhou and his companions of bringing the attackers down on them.
• The Buddha's Son used a Technique to question Zhang Xuezhou, who admitted he and Wu Chao had picked up corpses for profit; the Buddha's Son concluded both groups might have caused the trouble.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned Wu Chao had been gone for two or three hours after killing guards and drawing pursuers away, and he praised his senior brother for sacrificing himself to protect them.
• The Buddha's Son stopped Zhang Xuezhou from leaving, warning that he would disrupt the temple's eighteen Dragon-Subduing Stakes, Buddhist treasures meant to subdue evildoers.

Zhang Xuezhou learned that the Western Sect monks cultivated by gathering the resentment of the dead and discovered they were waiting at the temple for a fortuitous opportunity. When Yudan’s cavalry attacked, the Buddha's disciple used vocal mimicry to fool them into thinking the monks had fallen.

• The Buddha's disciple explained Wisdom King's Wrath and how the Western Sect gathered resentment from the dead to cultivate.
• Najima gave Zhang Xuezhou Long Tanpo’s Specter Chain, and the elderly monk explained how Zhang could command the Law Treasure with Law Power.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned the monks were waiting for a fortuitous opportunity and saw Yudan leading a dozen or so riders toward the temple.
• Yudan ordered his cavalry to fire at the monks, and Zhang Xuezhou translated his insult and command for them.
• The Buddha's disciple mimicked the sounds of arrows striking and bodies falling, prompting the monks and Zhang Xuezhou to drop to the ground as the cavalry cheered.

Yudan’s Xiong State cavalry attacked a temple, but the monks concealed inside launched a devastating ambush. The Buddha’s disciple and his companions killed most of the guards, while Yudan fled with his royal guardian facing the Buddha’s disciple.

• Yudan ordered his cavalry to kill the monks and burn down the temple, and Zhang Xuezhou warned the Buddha’s disciple that they were preparing to set it alight.
• A silver-coroneted officer entered the temple, shot Najima and the old monk, and ordered soldiers to spread the fire.
• The Buddha’s disciple waited for Yudan to enter the ambush, but Najima’s movement exposed that the monks were still alive.
• The monks attacked with wooden stakes, the old monk’s bell, and Batuoluo’s demon-subduing pestle, killing most of the Royal Guard and fatally wounding the officer.
• The Buddha’s disciple confronted Yudan and his royal guardian, who urged Yudan to retreat; Yudan rode away to seek reinforcements.

Zhang Xuezhou watched the monks struggle to help the Buddha's son fight the Nine Winds Demon Sage, a powerful wolf demon from the Nine Spirits Holy Land. After Batuoluo and Moheluola hurled Zhang Xuezhou into the battle to save themselves, he transformed and flew out of reach, then urged Batuoluo to help the Buddha's son.

• Zhang Xuezhou denied tickling Najima's feet as the monks fled the burning temple and saw the Buddha's son battling the wolf demon.
• Moheluola urged Najima to use the Specter Chain, but Zhang Xuezhou refused to refine it after realizing it could drain Essence Blood.
• Najima charged into the fight to help the Buddha's son, but the wolf demon struck him down with a wound that proved fatal.
• Moheluola and Batuoluo argued over who should enter the battle, then grabbed Zhang Xuezhou and threw him toward the fighters.
• Zhang Xuezhou grew wings, flew high above the fight, and called on Batuoluo to help the Buddha's son.

Zhang Xuezhou watched the Western Sect’s protectors die while the Buddha Son fought the wolf demon Jiu Feng. The Buddha Son discovered that Jiu Feng reacted to Technique Methods and called on Zhang Xuezhou to help him.

• Zhang Xuezhou warned the Buddha Son that Moheluola was not trying to rescue him, while Moheluola protested and prepared to use his demon-subduing pestle.
• Jiu Feng killed Moheluola before he could finish, and the Buddha Son Shigong attacked the wolf demon.
• Jiu Feng entered a berserk state and struck back wildly, leaving the Buddha Son unable to pursue the Xiong State’s eldest prince or escape the fight.
• The Buddha Son realized Jiu Feng reacted to Technique Methods and that the protectors’ deaths had revealed the wolf demon’s weakness.
• With no protector left to assist him, the Buddha Son looked to Zhang Xuezhou and asked him to come down and help.

The Buddha's Son struggled to survive Jiu Feng's demonic frenzy while Zhang Xuezhou delayed helping from the sky. After being offered valuable materials, Zhang Xuezhou descended and began using the Specter Chain, leaving the Buddha's Son holding Jiu Feng in place for him.

• The Buddha's Son repeatedly called for Zhang Xuezhou to use the Specter Chain, but Zhang pretended he could not hear him while Jiu Feng wounded the Buddha's Son.
• After Jiu Feng slashed the Buddha's Son's thigh, Zhang agreed to help when the Buddha's Son offered him a choice of treasures and materials.
• The Buddha's Son warned Zhang that Jiu Feng was vulnerable to Technique Methods and promised not to betray him, while Zhang questioned the danger and the Buddha's Son's trustworthiness.
• Zhang descended, took the Specter Chain, and began channeling Law Power into it, discovering that it drew Essence Blood from his body.
• The Buddha's Son grabbed Jiu Feng's claws and held him in a contest of strength, urging Zhang to bind him quickly.

Zhang Xuezhou’s attempt to control the Specter Chain failed, forcing the Buddha’s son to unleash a destructive divine ability against Jiu Feng. After the blast, Zhang Xuezhou found the Buddha’s son barely alive and discovered he could not open the man’s little Qian Kun bag without a spell.

• Zhang Xuezhou sent the Specter Chain toward Jiu Feng, but it missed because Zhang Xuezhou could not lock onto his target with Law Power.
• The Buddha’s son used his Divine Ability, Destruction, and a beam of white light struck Jiu Feng and Mr. Bei, triggering a massive explosion that destroyed the ruined temple.
• Zhang Xuezhou flew clear of the dust and, after the blast subsided, found Jiu Feng headless and the Buddha’s son motionless beneath the ash.
• Zhang Xuezhou searched the Buddha’s son for valuables, but the injured man seized his foot and warned him that only a spell could open his little Qian Kun bag.
• Zhang Xuezhou cut the pouch from the Buddha’s son’s waist and realized he could not open it.

After defeating the wolf demon, Zhang Xuezhou tried to keep the mortally injured Buddhist Son alive and get him to unlock his Lesser Heaven and Earth Bag. The Buddhist Son used the Descent Incantation Method to possess Zhang Xuezhou temporarily, but his attempt to control Zhang’s body collided with a strange force in Zhang’s consciousness.

• Zhang Xuezhou treated the Buddhist Son and urged him to open the Lesser Heaven and Earth Bag, while the Buddhist Son agreed to pay him for saving his life.
• Zhang Xuezhou admitted that his drained Essence Blood and limited cultivation left him unable to restore the Buddhist Son’s body, and offered instead to arrange his funeral.
• The Buddhist Son recalled his strange black core, his rise to become the Western Sect’s Buddhist Son, and the three years he had spent waiting for a promised fortuitous opportunity.
• After chanting, the Buddhist Son revealed that he intended to use the Descent Incantation Method to borrow Zhang Xuezhou’s body, promising compensation and claiming it would not endanger Zhang’s life.
• The Buddhist Son entered Zhang Xuezhou and tried to take control, but his divine thought struck the source of Zhang’s consciousness and encountered the sound of a screaming duck.

The Buddhist son forced his Divine Sense into Zhang Xuezhou’s mind, where he struggled against Zhang Xuezhou and a mallard’s demonic thoughts. After Zhang Xuezhou discovered that the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra could hurt the intruder, the Buddhist son tried to win his cooperation by offering a treasured Purity Bamboo.

• The Buddhist son’s intrusion into Zhang Xuezhou’s Divine Sense source triggered a clash with Zhang Xuezhou and the mallard, whose presence surprised him.
• The Buddhist son taught Zhang Xuezhou the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra, which Zhang Xuezhou recited to suppress the mallard and accidentally injure the Buddhist son.
• The Buddhist son warned Zhang Xuezhou not to recite the sutra again and promised to restore his Essence Blood and Law Power so Zhang Xuezhou could treat him.
• The Buddhist son questioned Zhang Xuezhou about his powerful Divine Sense and asked to learn from his teacher, but Zhang Xuezhou gave no answer.
• The Buddhist son offered Zhang Xuezhou Purity Bamboo, explaining that it could dispel distracting thoughts and aid cultivation up to the Seventh Realm.

Zhang Xuezhou treated the gravely injured Buddha's son with the Supreme Purity True Technique as they sought shelter, while the Buddha's son learned that Zhang had to fall asleep each night. When Zhang's consciousness vanished at the hour of hai, a destructive force threatened the Buddha's son's Divine Sense, forcing him to retreat to his physical body.

• Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly cast the Supreme Purity True Technique and received Mount Sumeru Fruits and a ruby-like pill from the Buddha's son to replenish his strength.
• The Buddha's son asked about Zhang Xuezhou's teacher, and Zhang claimed he came from the demon-sheltering Xieluosi River Holy Land, where the Buddha's son could not safely go.
• Zhang Xuezhou stopped treating the Buddha's son so they could seek shelter, and the Buddha's son carried his injured body away from the ruined temple and dead guardian monks.
• The Buddha's son learned that Zhang Xuezhou had to sleep at night and persuaded him to keep casting techniques while asleep in exchange for payment.
• As the hour of hai arrived, Zhang Xuezhou's consciousness disappeared, and a destructive force threatened the Buddha's son's Divine Sense.
• The Buddha's son forcibly pulled his Divine Sense back to his physical body to escape the danger.

Zhang Xuezhou learned that Ren Yisheng’s attempt to cultivate Ren Wuyang with homemade Origin-Nurturing Pill paste had left him vomiting, suffering from diarrhea, and mentally disoriented. After Zhang’s treatment failed, he realized Ren Yisheng may have given his son a second dose too soon, and Ren Yisheng recognized that he had ignored the required interval between doses.

• Zhang Xuezhou returned from the other world and considered his incomplete Kunpeng Combat Technique and the Buddhist Son’s consciousness in his body.
• Ren Yisheng found Zhang Xuezhou at the dining center and asked him to treat Ren Wuyang, who had become ill after taking Origin-Nurturing Pill paste.
• Zhang Xuezhou questioned whether Ren Yisheng had prepared the paste incorrectly, while Ren Yisheng explained that he and his friends had also taken it without similar symptoms.
• Ren Yisheng brought Zhang Xuezhou to the infirmary, where Ren Wuyang wept, retched, and wore an adult diaper as professors tried to console him.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique, but Ren Wuyang remained ill, leading Zhang to suspect something was wrong with the food or medicine.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked whether Ren Wuyang had received a second dose in one day, and Ren Yisheng realized he had repeated the test without observing the required interval.

Ren Wuyang suffered a severe reaction after taking two Origin-Nurturing Pills, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that the excess medicinal power was clashing inside him. With the professors unable to treat him, Ren Yisheng considered using a Luofu Imperial Family secret medicine to alter his condition and pulled a dose from his pocket.

• Ren Yisheng described the harsh upbringing he had arranged for Ren Wuyang and asked Zhang Xuezhou whether his son could be saved.
• Zhang Xuezhou said Ren Wuyang's excess medicinal power lacked guidance and that he would need to regain his senses before he could recover.
• Ren Yisheng tried to soothe Ren Wuyang with mental power, but Ren Wuyang resisted and grabbed Zhang Xuezhou, causing chaos as the professors tried to separate them.
• Wang Haoran explained that the secret medicine could replenish mental capacity while causing severe pain, and Ren Yisheng considered using it to correct Ren Wuyang's cultivation.
• Ren Yisheng dismissed Wang Haoran's warning, decided he could not let Ren Wuyang remain delirious, and took a sealed dose of medicine from his pocket.

Ren Yisheng injected Ren Wuyang with the Luofu Imperial Family's secret medicine to break him out of his mental collapse, and Ren Wuyang used the surge of mental energy to advance his Mental Strengthening. The chapter ended with Ren Yisheng slapping him awake and Ren Wuyang begging for mercy.

• Ren Yisheng decided to inject Ren Wuyang despite Wang Haoran's warning, hoping to save him before his condition worsened.
• The injection cleared Ren Wuyang's confusion and flooded his mind with vivid memories, while Ren Yisheng urged him to hurry and stay alive.
• Ren Wuyang recalled the Mental Strengthening Chapter and guided his surging mental energy, breaking through his previous limit.
• Ren Wuyang experienced a vast vision of the world before plunging back toward the earth in his sea of consciousness.
• Ren Yisheng repeatedly slapped Ren Wuyang until he woke, and Ren Wuyang immediately begged him to stop.

Ren Wuyang recovered enough to reveal that he had achieved Realm Entry and developed Law Power, prompting Ren Yisheng and the others to test his cultivation. The group began discussing the risks and possibilities of the Abnormal Human Research Project, while Zhang Xuezhou learned that Ren Wuyang’s father had only just invented the first chapter of the Kunpeng Combat Technique.

• Ren Wuyang and Ren Yisheng begged Wang Haoran, Zhang Xuezhou, and the others to delete embarrassing surveillance footage of their behavior.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed signs of Law Power in Ren Wuyang, and Ren Yisheng asked whether he had achieved Realm Entry.
• Ren Wuyang explained that he had broken through the fourth chapter of Mental Strengthening and might have achieved Realm Entry, though he was unsure which came first.
• Ren Wuyang learned the Yin Entity Tracking Technique and manifested energy, confirming that he possessed Law Power.
• Wang Haoran, Song Bu'er, Qin Wenhan, and Ren Yisheng discussed the risks of cultivation and how to proceed with the Abnormal Human Research Project.
• Ren Wuyang told Zhang Xuezhou that his father had invented only the first chapter of the Kunpeng Combat Technique the previous day.

Zhang Xuezhou discussed the incomplete Kunpeng Combat Technique with Ren Yisheng and the professors, while insisting he cared more about recovering than pursuing Gene Fighting Techniques. Ren Yisheng urged him to compete at the grand gathering of Sequencers in two years, where a strong result could earn him a combat technique tailored by the Sequence Committee.

• Zhang Xuezhou answered the professors’ questions about Hongku and his Techniques, then asked Ren Yisheng whether he had made up the Kunpeng Combat Technique on the spot.
• Ren Yisheng admitted he had devised the technique but had only prepared its introductory portion because Zhang Xuezhou cultivated it far faster than expected.
• Wang Haoran, Song Bu’er, and Qin Hanwen defended Ren Yisheng’s research, while Ren Wuyang’s remark that his father had spent only an hour on the technique made the discussion more awkward.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he mainly wanted to recover and planned to write martial arts novels after university, declining Wang Haoran’s offer of an easy job.
• Ren Yisheng told Zhang Xuezhou that placing on the podium at the grand gathering of Sequencers in two years could earn him a combat technique crafted by twenty Sequence Committee members.

Zhang Xuezhou discussed his future combat prospects and learned that Mental Strengthening and the Kunpeng Combat Technique could help defend against outside consciousness. After he left, Wang Haoran, Song Bu'er, and Qin Hanwen wondered whether Hongku was attached to him.

• Ren Yisheng encouraged Zhang Xuezhou to compete in the arena in two years and said he could use the Kunpeng Combat Technique to overcome many opponents.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Ren Yisheng to register him for the competition, and Ren Yisheng agreed while urging him to practice the fourth chapter of the Mental Strengthening Chapter.
• Wang Haoran, Qin Wenhan, and Song Bu'er discussed the cost of supporting Zhang Xuezhou's training and their own family troubles.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked how to defend against an outside consciousness, and Ren Yisheng said Mental Strengthening could resist an assault while the Kunpeng Combat Technique could help if one entered his mind.
• Zhang Xuezhou left the school infirmary, and Wang Haoran, Song Bu'er, and Qin Hanwen wondered whether Hongku was on him.

Zhang Xuezhou practiced the Mental Strengthening Chapter and Thread-Control Technique while planning to use a video to boost Zhang Weimeng's novel subscriptions. When Song Fengying arrived in the Western Capital to livestream, Zhang Xuezhou reflected on his family's sacrifices and resolved to shoulder more responsibility.

• Zhang Xuezhou studied the fourth chapter of the Mental Strengthening Chapter and hoped to discuss cultivation with the Buddha's Son.
• Zhang Xuezhou practiced the Thread-Control Technique and pierced his trouser leg with a strand of hair as a possible video demonstration.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Zhang Manqian about uploading videos to Song Fengying's livestreaming platform, and Zhang Manqian explained its membership limits and price.
• Zhang Xuezhou called Zhang Manqian and heard Song Fengying livestreaming from the Shengteng Academy dormitory in the Western Capital.
• Zhang Xuezhou listened as Song Fengying thanked viewers and lamented that she had grown old, then resolved to help lead his family toward a better future.

Song Fengying reunited with Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian at Canglan Academy, where she was stunned by their health and progress. After seeing Zhang Xuezhou’s lavish residence in Xuanshi Building, he reconsidered Ren Yisheng’s past support and felt his guardedness beginning to give way to gratitude.

• Song Fengying met Zhang Xuezhou at Canglan Academy and was astonished by his changed appearance.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian concealed the dangerous events behind their improvements and told Song Fengying that Zhang Xuezhou had become an advanced psychology student.
• Zhang Xuezhou showed Song Fengying his residence in Xuanshi Building, and she recognized its luxurious furnishings as far beyond ordinary student housing.
• Song Fengying realized the residence had likely belonged to someone powerful and worried about the circumstances that had left it to Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou reflected on Ren Yisheng’s extensive arrangements and felt gratitude joining his caution toward him.

Song Fengying considered selling shares in her struggling livestreaming website after receiving increasingly large offers from Wang Li. Zhang Xuezhou recognized Wang Li as the top tipper and concluded that his timed donations and rising offers were part of a calculated plan to turn the site into cash.

• Song Fengying told Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian she had invested nearly four million in her livestreaming website and asked whether she should sell sixty percent of it.
• Song Fengying showed them that three livestreams had earned 850,000 in tips, and Zhang Xuezhou recognized a top tipper as Wang Li.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Wang Li timed his tips to prompt other viewers to follow suit rather than donating large sums at random.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Wang Li had raised his offer from one million and reasoned that Wang Li was probing the business and likely had a quick way to profit from the website.
• Song Fengying noticed that Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian seemed to have reached the fringes of a social stratum their parents did not understand.

Song Fengying considered Wang Li’s investment offer as her livestreaming network ran out of money, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that the platform’s valuable asset was its viewers. After Zhang Xuezhou reassured his mother that his nightmares and health problems had improved, Song Fengying felt relieved but sensed a widening distance between their worlds.

• Song Fengying discussed the livestreaming network’s funding needs and Wang Li’s offer with Zhang Manqian and Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Wang Li valued the livestream’s audience, whose viewers could make the network attractive to investors.
• Song Fengying recognized that Wang Li’s rising offer and interest in managing the software showed he was serious about investing.
• Song Fengying asked Zhang Xuezhou whether he still had nightmares, and he said Professor Ren Yisheng’s treatment and his studies had helped him recover.
• Zhang Manqian told Song Fengying that a hospital had misdiagnosed Zhang Xuezhou and prescribed tranquilizers for years.
• Song Fengying felt relieved to see Zhang Xuezhou healthy, but sensed that she and her children now belonged to different worlds.

Zhang Xuezhou shared a meal with his mother, Song Fengying, and his sister, Zhang Manqian, when Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang joined them. While investigating Zhang Xuezhou’s possible connection to Hongku, Ren Yisheng noticed that Song Fengying’s spirit was burning away her future and suspected the family’s mental abnormalities pointed to something the professors had overlooked.

• Zhang Xuezhou obtained three portions of food and ate with Song Fengying and Zhang Manqian at the dining center.
• Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang joined them, and Zhang Xuezhou introduced Song Fengying as his biological mother.
• Ren Yisheng considered the theory that Hongku’s spirit had survived death and might be influencing Zhang Xuezhou, and concluded that another meeting with Hongku could help confirm it.
• While observing Song Fengying, Ren Yisheng sensed that her spirit was burning through her potential and that she might age and die prematurely.
• Ren Yisheng reflected on the unusual mental abilities and symptoms of Zhang Xuezhou, Zhang Manqian, and Song Fengying, and suspected the professors had missed something about the family.

Ren Yisheng warned Zhang Xuezhou that Song Fengying suffered from a rare mental illness that could shorten her life, and advised that cultivating the Heart Incantation and Mental Strengthening Chapter might slow it. Zhang Xuezhou hurried to contact Zhang Manqian, while Ren Yisheng reflected that Ren Wuyang had become someone he could trust with his legacy.

• Ren Yisheng explained that Song Fengying’s mental energy was being depleted unusually quickly and that the Mental Strengthening Chapter could only slow the condition, while the Heart Incantation might help stabilize her.
• Ren Wuyang clarified that Song Fengying would need to make real progress in both techniques, and that reaching the third chapter of Mental Strengthening might extend her life by ten years.
• Zhang Xuezhou thanked Ren Yisheng and Ren Wuyang, then hurried away and repeatedly tried to contact Zhang Manqian because Zhang Weimeng might have the same condition.
• Ren Wuyang questioned whether warning Zhang Xuezhou had been worthwhile, and Ren Yisheng said they should act according to their conscience rather than seek a favorable outcome.
• Ren Yisheng sensed that Ren Wuyang’s character had changed after his ordeal and concluded he could eventually pass the family’s responsibilities to him.

Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian decided to persuade their parents to cultivate after Ren Yisheng's assessment suggested they were running out of time. Zhang Xuezhou lured Zhang Weimeng toward Canglan Academy by offering martial-arts tricks, inspiration for his writing, and a chance at free food and housing.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian agreed that Zhang Manqian would persuade Song Fengying while Zhang Xuezhou worked on Zhang Weimeng.
• Zhang Xuezhou sent Zhang Weimeng a video of himself piercing fabric with a hair, prompting Zhang Weimeng to joke that he had learned the Sunflower Manual.
• Zhang Weimeng told Zhang Xuezhou that he planned to end Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, launch a new account called Dongfang Shuo, and write The Smiling, Proud Wanderer.
• Zhang Xuezhou praised Zhang Weimeng's needle-and-thread martial art and offered to teach him tricks he could use to impress readers.
• Zhang Xuezhou transferred Zhang Weimeng five thousand yuan and promised him free meals and housing if he came to Canglan Academy.