Recaps

Li Shuang accused Wang Baoli of murdering Wang Fu'an, but admitted the yamen had not examined the body and could not arrest him without help. Zhang Xuezhou proposed pretending Wang Baoli was possessed by a water ghost so the group could catch him while convincing the villagers there were no ghosts.

• Li Shuang said Wang Baoli was almost certainly the killer, though he had not examined Wang Fu'an's body.
• Li Shuang explained that a powerful man had taken Dragon Gate Village's livestock for a feast and that the yamen planned to compensate the villagers.
• Rong Li agreed to help the yamen but warned that the group lacked the authority to arrest Wang Baoli outright.
• Zhang Xuezhou proposed catching Wang Baoli and claiming a water ghost had possessed him.
• Rong Tianding agreed to hold a ritual using his reputation as the painter of immortal paintings, and he went outside to address the villagers.

Rong Tianding staged a ritual in Dragon Gate Village, using a painting of True Lord Tianpeng to identify the supposed water ghost. The villagers turned on Wang Baoli, who fled as Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Li accused him of being possessed.

• Rong Tianding warned the villagers that his painting could capture the water ghost, then performed an elaborate ritual while Zhang Xuezhou watched Wang Baoli in the crowd.
• After painting True Lord Tianpeng, Rong Tianding announced that the water ghost had possessed someone and asked the villagers to call out their names.
• When Wang Baoli gave his name, Rong Tianding identified him as the water ghost, following the plan Zhang Xuezhou had prepared.
• Zhang Xuezhou urged the villagers to seize Wang Baoli, and Rong Li charged at him with her pig-slaughtering knife.
• The village chief shouted for the villagers to burn Wang Baoli, who protested and fled through the crowd.
• Constable Li Shuang watched from a side room and reflected that Rong Li had nearly wounded his kidney.

Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Li chased Wang Baoli into the feared Night Parade of One Hundred Demons forest, where he vanished into a shallow mud pit. As Zhang Xuezhou used the Yin Entity Tracking Technique to investigate, a golden light struck and bound him, leaving him captured by an unknown attacker.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding joined Rong Li and the villagers in pursuing Wang Baoli, who fled after Zhang accused him of causing Wang Fu'an's death.
• Wang Baoli ran toward the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons forest, hoping the villagers would be too frightened to follow, but Rong Li and Zhang Xuezhou continued chasing him.
• Wang Baoli disappeared after stepping into a shallow patch of mud, and Rong Li and Zhang Xuezhou found that it was too shallow to have swallowed him.
• Zhang Xuezhou activated the Yin Entity Tracking Technique to investigate, but a golden light struck him and left him tightly bound as an unknown voice revealed it had been lying in wait for a Realm Entry cultivator.

Trapped in the Golden Toad Dharma King’s Grotto-Heaven Secret Land, Zhang Xuezhou realized that Jin Wanliang and the injured Dharma King intended to kill him for his heart. Zhang Xuezhou learned that escape depended on the immobile Dharma King, who needed to recover enough strength to search for the missing Ten Yin Holy Son.

• Zhang Xuezhou found himself in a swamp where Jin Wanliang confronted him, while the Golden Toad Dharma King demanded a cultivator to consume.
• Zhang Xuezhou tried to dissuade them by claiming his newly attained Realm Entry cultivation had little medicinal value, but neither demon answered him.
• Jin Wanliang admitted his techniques and treasure were broken, but said he could still defeat cultivators in the Meridian Circulation and Blood Penetration Realms.
• Jin Wanliang revealed that they were trapped in the Dharma King’s Grotto-Heaven Secret Land and that no one could leave without the Dharma King’s permission.
• The injured Golden Toad Dharma King remained focused on regaining mobility so he could find the missing Ten Yin Holy Son.

Zhang Xuezhou tried to bargain with Jin Wanliang and the injured Golden Toad Dharma King to avoid being eaten. After Zhang Xuezhou offered the Supreme Purity True Technique, the Golden Toad Dharma King recognized its value, giving them both a reason to keep him alive for now.

• Zhang Xuezhou offered to reveal Daoist Mu as a source of medicinal help, but Jin Wanliang said there was no time to find him.
• Zhang Xuezhou refused to reveal the Golden Toad Treasure Robe unless Jin Wanliang let him live, and Jin Wanliang rejected the deal.
• Zhang Xuezhou turned invisible and threw Daoist Mu's jar at Jin Wanliang, but Jin Wanliang tracked him by his footprints and captured him.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King prepared to eat Zhang Xuezhou, but Zhang Xuezhou shouted that he knew a technique to suppress injuries.
• Zhang Xuezhou named the Supreme Purity True Technique, and the Golden Toad Dharma King recognized it as a valuable military healing technique and asked how Zhang Xuezhou had learned it.

Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique to stabilize the Golden Toad Dharma King’s injuries, but his low cultivation limited what he could do. The Golden Toad Dharma King revealed that someone else controlled his divine soul, leaving Jin Wanliang and Zhang Xuezhou to learn that even the powerful Dharma King could not act freely.

• Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique on the Golden Toad Dharma King, briefly stabilizing his injuries.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King acknowledged Zhang Xuezhou’s Technique but said his low realm prevented him from repairing the injuries fully.
• Jin Wanliang demanded to learn the Supreme Purity True Technique, but the Golden Toad Old Ancestor warned him that human Techniques could damage a demon’s cultivation.
• The Golden Toad Old Ancestor offered to take Jin Wanliang to the Xieluosi River to learn demon methods after their current trouble ended.
• Jin Wanliang asked whether he and the Golden Toad Old Ancestor were related, and the Dharma King explained that his divine soul was controlled by someone else.

Zhang Xuezhou remained trapped in the Ten Thousand Poisons Swamp for fifteen days, relying on his Supreme Purity True Technique to keep Golden Toad Dharma King alive while hoping for rescue. When Cheng Bushi arrived outside, Zhang Xuezhou bargained with Golden Toad Dharma King for a promise that he would not be harmed, and Golden Toad Dharma King agreed as he prepared to flee.

• Zhang Xuezhou spent seven days trapped in the grotto-heaven, treating Golden Toad Dharma King's injuries and hoping Rong Li would find a way to rescue him.
• Zhang Xuezhou overheard Jin Wanliang and Golden Toad Old Ancestor discuss how difficult grotto-heavens were to locate and began trying to improve his standing with them.
• On the fifteenth day, Jin Wanliang reported that a general had arrived outside, and Golden Toad Dharma King identified him as Cheng Bushi.
• Golden Toad Dharma King warned Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang that if Han Dynasty forces captured and refined the grotto-heaven, all three could die, then ordered Zhang Xuezhou to suppress his injuries so he could escape.
• Zhang Xuezhou demanded that Golden Toad Dharma King never use another person or an accident to harm him, and Golden Toad Dharma King agreed before preparing to leave.

Zhang Xuezhou learned how to leave the Grotto-Heaven Secret Land and weighed his chances of escaping while the Golden Toad Dharma King fought Cheng Bushi. He held back from reciting the exit Incantation after hearing how high the Golden Toad Dharma King was jumping.

• The Golden Toad Dharma King explained that Cheng Bushi's Yin-Yang Parent-Child Formation Flags made his saber strikes difficult to resist, and Jin Wanliang coveted the formation.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King took Jin Wanliang's counting rods and left to fight Cheng Bushi, while the battle began changing the surrounding swamp.
• Jin Wanliang told Zhang Xuezhou that the Golden Toad Dharma King could enter or leave the Grotto-Heaven Secret Land at will, and revealed the exit Incantation.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized the Golden Toad Dharma King might still intend to kill him and calculated that he needed the right moment to escape safely.
• As Cheng Bushi and the Golden Toad Dharma King exchanged taunts, Zhang Xuezhou nearly recited the Incantation but stopped when Cheng Bushi described the Golden Toad Dharma King's leaps.

Zhang Xuezhou’s perfect scores pushed him toward the top of Yucai Middle School, while the danger in his dreams left him desperately counting the days until he could seek treatment. As Mei Renteng’s exam-driven fervor spread to him, Zhang Xuezhou wondered whether his growing will to survive could change how he faced the dream’s peril.

• Zhang Xuezhou earned another perfect score, this time in foreign languages, and climbed into Yucai Middle School’s top fifty.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Mei Renteng that luck explained his perfect scores, though he knew his heightened mental state made the courses easier to master.
• Zhang Xuezhou remained trapped in the Grotto-Heaven Secret Land as Cheng Bushi pursued the Golden Toad Dharma King, and he feared that escaping from a great height would kill him.
• Zhang Xuezhou calculated how long he might have to endure before he could meet Professor Ren Yisheng at Canglan Academy and seek treatment.
• Mei Renteng turned Zhang Xuezhou’s remark about rewards and work into a fervent study motto, prompting Zhang Xuezhou to echo his determination and consider whether a stronger will to survive could help him.

Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang endured hunger inside the Grotto-Heaven Secret Land while the Golden Toad Dharma King fled Cheng Bushi toward the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. As they discussed cultivation and their uncertain future, Jin Wanliang began considering Zhang Xuezhou as a potential ally in the demon sacred land.

• Jin Wanliang eyed Zhang Xuezhou hungrily, but turned into a toad and ate mud after Zhang Xuezhou warned that the Golden Toad Dharma King's injuries might need his help.
• During the sixth day of Cheng Bushi's pursuit, Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang survived on bones, marrow, and birds while the Golden Toad Dharma King raced toward the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Zhang Xuezhou gave up on escaping alone and decided that staying near the Golden Toad Dharma King offered his best chance of survival.
• Zhang Xuezhou expressed admiration for martial artists, and Jin Wanliang explained that Zhang's Law Power marked him as a Technique cultivator rather than a martial artist.
• Worried about being weak among the demons in the sacred land, Jin Wanliang considered making Zhang Xuezhou his ally and eventual lackey.

Zhang Xuezhou agreed to become Jin Wanliang’s underling so they could help each other survive in the Xieluosi River Holy Land. As the Golden Toad Dharma King crossed the Northern Border, Li Guang wounded him, but the toad escaped with an Essence Blood technique.

• Jin Wanliang warned Zhang Xuezhou that the Golden Toad Dharma King could leave him to starve or die, then offered to take him as an underling.
• Zhang Xuezhou called Jin Wanliang his big brother and agreed to face the journey to the Xieluosi River Holy Land together.
• Jin Wanliang described the Holy Land while Zhang Xuezhou waited in the Grotto-Heaven Secret Land and listened to their exchange with Li Guang and Cheng Bushi.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King argued that he had entered Han Dynasty territory only to escape the Hairy Head Sun Star Official and had taken livestock only for food.
• Li Guang shot at the Golden Toad Dharma King as he approached the Northern Border pass, but the Dharma King used an Essence Blood escape technique and vanished.
• Cheng Bushi questioned Li Guang’s missed shot, and Li Guang suggested it benefited the Great Han if Western Kunlun and the Northern Kuru Continent’s Demon Race fought each other.

Li Guang's destruction of the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl forced the Golden Toad Dharma King to rescue Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang from the collapsing Grotto-Heaven Secret Land. At Great Yin Mountain, the injured Dharma King summoned Lü Yaya for help, then killed and roasted it, frightening Jin Wanliang.

• The Golden Toad Dharma King pulled Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang out of the collapsing Grotto-Heaven Secret Land after Li Guang shattered his Sea-Calming Divine Pearl.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King carried Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang out of the poisonous mud released by the shattered secret realm.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King sent Jin Wanliang to summon a green-headed duck yao at Great Yin Mountain while relying on Zhang Xuezhou to help suppress his worsening injuries.
• Lü Yaya washed the mud off the Golden Toad Dharma King and Zhang Xuezhou, then gathered firewood on the Dharma King's orders.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King killed Lü Yaya with a tongue-nail arrow and roasted its corpse, leaving Jin Wanliang hungry and afraid.

Golden Toad Dharma King fed Zhang Xuezhou roasted mallard demon meat to help him recover, while he and Jin Wanliang ate to regain their strength. After Zhang Xuezhou woke, Jin Wanliang urged him to suppress Golden Toad Dharma King’s injuries so they could escape the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Golden Toad Dharma King fed Zhang Xuezhou mallard meat and explained how eating demon meat could restore strength, while Jin Wanliang ate a leg and felt his power return.
• Golden Toad Dharma King warned Jin Wanliang that the Xieluosi River Holy Land had no place for the weak and promised to recommend him for a top-tier demon art if he helped.
• Golden Toad Dharma King entered a dormant state to endure his injuries, and Jin Wanliang mistook his faint breathing for signs that he was dying.
• Zhang Xuezhou woke as the mallard meat helped dispel the poisonous gas and restore his strength.
• Jin Wanliang urged Zhang Xuezhou to suppress Golden Toad Dharma King's injuries, explaining that they needed the Old Ancestor to guide them out of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Zhang Xuezhou, Jin Wanliang, and the wounded Golden Toad Dharma King traveled through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, whose shifting routes made escape difficult. They reached a frozen lake and began catching Flood Dragon Fish for food, leaving Jin Wanliang as bait.

• The Golden Toad Dharma King explained that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains could only be crossed by following eighty-one changing mountain and river routes he had learned from the Ten Yin Holy Son.
• The group reached a lake that had frozen into the correct passage, and the Golden Toad Dharma King warned that Flood Dragon Fish beneath the ice would attack them.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King used Jin Wanliang, transformed into a toad and suspended from a branch, as bait while Zhang Xuezhou held the pole.
• The group caught Flood Dragon Fish, and the Golden Toad Dharma King explained that their livers could strengthen the body but might cause scales and a desire to live in water.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked about the strange hair growing beneath his arms after eating the green-headed duck, and the Golden Toad Dharma King said the effects would pass as he grew stronger.

Zhang Xuezhou struggled with alarming sounds and new physical changes after eating Demon Beast organs, while his academic success drew attention at school. When rain rolled off his palm, Ren Anran and a refined-looking man suspected he had gained Mental Field Control and discussed the Zhang family’s connection to Sinkhole No. 2.

• Zhang Xuezhou woke from his dream distressed by the Demon Beast meat and Lü Yaya’s cries, but saw no black Qi and put away his tranquilizer pill.
• Mei Renteng told Zhang Xuezhou he had ranked first in politics and history and ninth overall, then asked him how to study; Zhang Xuezhou said his results felt effortless and joked about inherited study genes.
• Students speculated about Zhang Xuezhou’s sudden academic rise before returning their attention to the upcoming exam.
• Zhang Xuezhou discovered that Ren Anran’s Sunshine Psychologist Clinic had closed and become the Cherish a Lifetime Matchmaking Office.
• As icy rain fell, Zhang Xuezhou noticed that raindrops rolled off his palm and wondered whether the Flood Dragon Fish liver had given him an ability or worsened his symptoms.
• Ren Anran and a refined-looking man watched Zhang Xuezhou and considered whether he had gained Mental Field Control; the man told her to monitor Zhang Weimeng and Song Fengying, the only survivors near Sinkhole No. 2 alongside Zhang Manqian.

In the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang suffered strange bodily changes after eating too many Demon Beasts while traveling with the injured Golden Toad Dharma King. Back in his school-district apartment, Zhang Xuezhou’s new birdlike instincts took over, and he jumped from a balcony nearly ten meters above the ground.

• Jin Wanliang showed a fourth finger and poisonous sores, while Zhang Xuezhou developed scales, feathers, and black hairs as the Golden Toad Dharma King explained that their bodies were metamorphosing from eating Demon Beasts.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King said Zhang Xuezhou’s Law Power had surged to the upper grade of the Meridian Circulation Realm and told him to use the Supreme Purity True Technique to ease the pain.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King ordered Jin Wanliang to lure a wild crane demon, then ambushed and killed it so they could eat its meat.
• Zhang Xuezhou’s arm hairs began turning into feathers, and he noticed that flapping his arms made him feel lighter and faster.
• Back in his apartment, Zhang Xuezhou nearly stepped off the balcony before pulling himself back, but his arm moved unnaturally and he leaped from nearly ten meters up.

Zhang Xuezhou’s dreamlike journey into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains continued after a real-life fall left him injured, and the Golden Toad Dharma King led him and Jin Wanliang to hunt the Swan Demon. They reached the Swan Demon’s post, where she refused the Golden Toad Dharma King’s summons and invoked her service to the Tiger Strength Demon King.

• Zhang Xuezhou fell from a third-floor window in reality, survived with serious injuries, and later woke in the snowy mountains beside Jin Wanliang and the Golden Toad Dharma King.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King urged the group to eat the Swan Demon, explaining that her bloodline might grant flying ability, though eating one had only given him powerful leaps.
• Jin Wanliang eagerly agreed to lure the Swan Demon, while Zhang Xuezhou hid his worry that the dream’s birdlike abilities were affecting his real-life thoughts.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King explained that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains’ posts received Spiritual Qi blessings every ten days and were guarded by humans, demons, and Demon Beasts.
• Jin Wanliang reached the Swan Demon’s snowy peak, where she refused to meet the Golden Toad Dharma King and said she answered only to the Tiger Strength Demon King.

The Golden Toad Dharma King had Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang help poison and distract the swan demon so he could kill her and take her Five Lights Stone. After the group ate her meat, Zhang Xuezhou grew a complete pair of feathered wings, surprising the Golden Toad Dharma King.

• The Golden Toad Dharma King told Zhang Xuezhou they had to kill the swan demon and gave him refined toad venom to poison her water flask.
• Zhang Xuezhou used his invisibility artifact to poison the flask while Jin Wanliang drew the swan demon’s attention by trading insults with her.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King reached the cavern and killed the paralyzed swan demon with his tongue-stud arrow, taking her Five Lights Stone.
• Jin Wanliang and Zhang Xuezhou refused to take the Five Lights Stone because they did not want to provoke the Tiger Strength Demon King, so the Golden Toad Dharma King swallowed it.
• The group ate the swan demon’s meat, and Zhang Xuezhou grew a complete pair of feathered wings.

Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang reached the Demon Race's holy land with the wounded Golden Toad Dharma King, who learned that the Ten Yin Holy Son had died. The Golden Toad Dharma King entered the lake to face His Lordship, leaving Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang outside as they considered how to survive.

• Zhang Xuezhou found that eating the sky-piercing sparrow demon had not changed the feathers covering his arms, though he could fly by flapping them.
• Zhang Xuezhou, Jin Wanliang, and the Golden Toad Dharma King arrived at a lake surrounded by pastures, where Dragon King Ao Dong told the Golden Toad Dharma King that the Ten Yin Holy Son's life lamp had gone out.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King asked Zhang Xuezhou how to stay alive, and Zhang Xuezhou advised him to grieve and swear to avenge his master.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King promised to make Zhang Xuezhou his adopted son, then entered a passage beneath the lake to report to His Lordship.
• Jin Wanliang lamented that he would become the Golden Toad Dharma King's adopted grandson and have to call Zhang Xuezhou father, while Zhang Xuezhou accepted the arrangement for the sake of survival.

The Xieluosi River Holy Land issued a kill order against Huang Cang, Li Jiao, and Jin Chang, while ordering Zou Bugui captured and declaring war on the Han. Zhang Xuezhou worried about Li Jiao and his own precarious situation as the Golden Toad Dharma King returned after surviving a trial at the lake.

• The Holy Land’s furious voice ordered Huang Cang, Li Jiao, and Jin Chang killed, Zou Bugui captured, and forces sent against Loulan, Greater Yuezhi, and the Han.
• Jin Wanliang explained the powerful backing of Huang Cang, Li Jiao, and Jin Chang, while Zhang Xuezhou worried about Li Jiao and resolved to seek powerful protection.
• Zhang Xuezhou recalled his real-world injuries, schizophrenia, and looming adult entrance exam, and hoped the school infirmary could help him recover enough to take it.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Jin Wanliang waited at the Holy Land’s entrance because they could not safely proceed without the Golden Toad Dharma King.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King emerged from the lake, thanked the unseen authority for sparing his life, and promised to pursue the culprit until his death.

After taking Zhang Xuezhou as his adopted son, the Golden Toad Dharma King explained the Demon Power in his body and described the Northern Kuru Continent’s three great Holy Lands. Zhang Xuezhou fell asleep when his time ran out, leaving the Dharma King concerned about his mysterious condition but hopeful that the Yedie River Holy Land’s Dao Lord might help him.

• The Golden Toad Dharma King welcomed Zhang Xuezhou into the Snow Toad Palace and accepted him as his adopted son, granting him authority there.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King explained that more than thirty strands of Demon Power had entered Zhang Xuezhou’s human body and might eventually assimilate with it.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King told Jin Wanliang that the Xieluosi River and Nine Spirits Holy Lands belonged to the Demon Race, while the Yedie River Holy Land was led by a human master of curses.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King considered sending Zhang Xuezhou to cultivate at the Yedie River Holy Land, but Zhang Xuezhou abruptly fell asleep as his time ran out.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King worried that Zhang Xuezhou’s unexplained sleep could leave him vulnerable and hoped the Yedie River Dao Lord might remove the curse.

After waking from a fall that left him badly injured and unable to take the adult entrance exam, Zhang Xuezhou argued with his father about their bleak prospects. He secretly used the Supreme Purity True Technique on himself and found that his pain eased and movement began to return.

• Zhang Xuezhou woke in the hospital with fractures and bandages covering much of his body.
• Zhang Weimeng visited and tried to comfort Zhang Xuezhou about missing the adult entrance exam, but Zhang Xuezhou criticized his father for refusing to change careers.
• Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly tried to draw on his inner power while Zhang Weimeng rambled about the past.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique, channeling white light through his body and touching it to himself.
• Zhang Xuezhou felt his pain disappear, then regained sensation and slight movement in his left arm and legs.

Zhang Xuezhou unexpectedly recovered enough to leave the hospital and rushed to Yucai Middle School to take the adult exam. As he arrived, a livestreaming woman asked the school guard about him, unaware that rumors said he was hospitalized after falling from a building.

• Zhang Xuezhou woke at six in the morning and insisted on leaving the hospital to take his exam, surprising Zhu Huizhen with how quickly he had recovered.
• Zhu Huizhen found no record of expensive treatment, while Zhang Weimeng suspected the hospital had given Zhang Xuezhou unnecessary care; he completed the discharge procedures as Zhang Xuezhou ran ahead.
• Zhang Xuezhou hurried through the crowds at Yucai Middle School and entered the exam site, aided by a parent who mistook him for an injured father.
• A livestreaming woman asked the school guard about Zhang Xuezhou, and the guard recalled rumors that he had fallen from a building and was lying in the First Hospital.

Zhang Xuezhou finished the adult exam and met his mother, Song Fengying, livestreaming outside the school. Their conversation turned into a public wager on his results, while Song Fengying kept pursuing her livestreaming venture to fund treatment for her son’s schizophrenia.

• Zhang Xuezhou checked his exam answers, handed in his paper, and went to the school gate hoping to see Zhang Weimeng.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted Song Fengying livestreaming and tried to avoid her so he would not expose her online persona.
• Song Fengying interviewed her bandaged son on camera, and Zhang Xuezhou reassured her that he would recover soon and still take the afternoon exam.
• Zhang Xuezhou predicted he would place in the province’s top hundred to qualify for Canglan Academy, prompting Song Fengying to solicit tips and bets.
• The viewer Not Short of Money promised a large tip if Zhang Xuezhou made the top hundred and asked to meet Song Fengying offline; after ending the stream, Song Fengying cursed about collecting the promised money and faced her son.

Song Fengying explained to Zhang Xuezhou that livestreaming was her attempt to reach a higher social class, where people had access to advanced medical care and longer lives. After Zhang Weimeng reported that Zhang Xuezhou had recovered unusually quickly from a fall but seemed mentally worse, he and Song Fengying reaffirmed their determination to rise in society.

• Song Fengying told Zhang Xuezhou that she began livestreaming after dreaming it could help ordinary people change their fortunes, and described how the upper class had access to life-extending technology.
• Zhang Xuezhou questioned whether such advances were real, then accepted that his parents would keep pursuing their ambitions.
• After Zhang Xuezhou waited in vain for Zhang Weimeng and the chicken soup, he went to eat at the school cafeteria.
• Zhang Weimeng told Song Fengying that Zhang Xuezhou had fallen from the third floor, recovered from his fractures in two days, and seemed to have worsening mental illness.
• Song Fengying and Zhang Weimeng discussed concealing her ownership of Heartbeat Livestream and expressed confidence that their accumulated experience and unusually slow aging would eventually help them reach a higher social class.