Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng shopping at Yintai City, then let her join her classmates at Planet KTV while he entertained himself at the arcade. The chapter left him rushing to Room 188 after Wang Xiaomeng called in a panic.

• Wang Chen bought Wang Xiaomeng an expensive Casio digital watch at Yintai City.
• Sun Baiyun mistook Wang Chen for Wang Xiaomeng's boyfriend, then invited her to a class gathering at Planet KTV.
• Wang Chen told Wang Xiaomeng to go with her classmates and said he would pick her up at nine thirty.
• Wang Chen played arcade games and won a pile of plushies from claw machines, giving them to the children watching him.
• Wang Xiaomeng called Wang Chen in a panic from Room 188 at Planet KTV, and he hurried to her.

Wang Chen found Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian confronting White Hair and his companions at Planet KTV, then used a palm strike to cut a beer bottle and intimidated the group into letting them leave. Outside, Wang Xiaomeng explained that White Hair had harassed Tian Tian at Zhang Yumeng’s graduation gathering.

• Wang Chen reached Planet KTV’s private room 188 and found Wang Xiaomeng protecting Tian Tian from White Hair and several other young men.
• Wang Chen dismissed White Hair’s threat and sliced the top off a beer bottle with his palm, terrifying him and silencing the room.
• Wang Chen paid for the disturbance and led Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian out of Yintai City.
• White Hair fled into the attached restroom while the teenagers argued over how Wang Chen had cut the bottle.
• Wang Xiaomeng told Wang Chen that White Hair had harassed Tian Tian after joining Zhang Yumeng’s graduation gathering at the KTV.

After rescuing Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian, Wang Chen returned to his spiritual-energy training and studies. A month later, he reached Three Rings and shocked the two girls with how much his appearance and physique had changed.

• Wang Xiaomeng teased Wang Chen about dating Tian Tian, who blushed and asked to add him on WeChat before going home.
• Wang Xiaomeng warned Wang Chen that two of the men from the KTV were students from No. 5 High School’s overseas study class, but he said he was not worried.
• Wang Chen declined Uncle’s offer to stay and returned home, where he spent the next month studying and cultivating spiritual energy.
• Wang Chen advanced to Three Rings, extending his spiritual energy’s effective range to three hundred meters, while his physique and appearance changed significantly.
• Wang Xiaomeng brought Tian Tian to visit Wang Chen in Shangma Village, and both girls were stunned by his transformation.

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian on a birthday outing to Feima Lake, where he prepared a lakeside picnic and tried fishing. After catching only two tiny fish, he used his Three Rings spiritual energy to search the lake for a better catch.

• Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian gave Wang Chen a mechanical wristwatch for his seventeenth birthday, and he thanked them.
• Wang Chen rode a twenty-eight-inch Phoenix bicycle with Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian to Feima Lake.
• Wang Chen showed the girls the picnic setup, then hung a swing from a tree while they played and took photos.
• Wang Chen fished for more than half an hour and caught only two tiny white-strip fish.
• Wang Chen spread his Three Rings spiritual energy through the fishing line and searched the lake until he locked onto a target.

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian fishing and grilled them a meal before starting Grade 11 at No. 5 High School. After he topped the placement exam, the school recognized his ability and arranged to transfer his student registration there.

• Wang Chen caught several fish with Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian, then grilled fish, meat, and vegetables for them.
• Wang Chen took the girls home, and Tian Tian asked if she could visit him again; he welcomed her anytime.
• Wang Chen enrolled in Class 1, Grade 11 at No. 5 High School and met his quiet deskmate, Chen Sizhe.
• Wang Chen placed first in his grade on the placement exam, earning full marks in mathematics and improving his Chinese and English scores.
• A vice principal refunded Wang Chen's Grade 10 visiting-student fees and offered to transfer his student registration to No. 5 High School; the school also contacted his parents.

After gaining top-student privileges at school, Wang Chen used his spiritual energy to search Shangma Old Village for a buried treasure he remembered from his previous life. He recovered an intact late-Ming blue-and-white jar filled with silver dollars and gold bars, leaving him with a valuable haul.

• Wang Chen received special privileges at No. 5 High School after placing first in the grade, including permission to commute and skip evening self-study as long as he stayed in the top three.
• As Shangma Old Village emptied amid demolition rumors, Wang Chen decided to search for the treasure that would otherwise be unearthed years later.
• Wang Chen went into the village at night and used his spiritual energy to scan underground for the buried treasure.
• Wang Chen dug up a blue-and-white fish-and-algae jar, filled the hole back in, and carried the jar home unnoticed.
• Wang Chen opened the jar and found silver dollars and twenty-seven small gold bars inside.

Wang Chen sold seventy genuine silver dollars at Qi Bao Zhai for 680,000 yuan in cash after other antique-shop owners made low offers. He left the shop with the money to fund his next move.

• Wang Chen dressed in new clothes and sunglasses and went to Antique Street to sell silver dollars he had excavated.
• Wang Chen tested one coin at several antique shops, but their owners offered far less than it was worth.
• The owner of Qi Bao Zhai identified Wang Chen's coin as a 1926 Beiyang Dragon and offered 8,500 yuan for it.
• Wang Chen showed the old shop owner seventy silver dollars, which he appraised at a total of 680,000 yuan.
• Wang Chen accepted the offer, took the cash without counting it, and left while one of the other customers looked down on him.

Wang Chen used the proceeds from selling silver dollars to buy and secure ten thousand B currency coins, then donated an intact late Ming Dynasty blue-and-white jar to the provincial museum. He asked the museum to keep his identity secret and claimed he had fished the jar out of Feima Lake, a story Director Chen pretended to accept.

• Wang Chen deposited most of the money from his silver-dollar sale and bought ten thousand B currency coins, memorizing their private keys.
• Wang Chen rode to the provincial capital's museum and asked to donate a large Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain jar.
• A museum staff member examined the jar, recognized it as genuine, and called Director Chen to see it.
• Director Chen praised the rare, well-preserved jar and thanked Wang Chen for donating it.
• Wang Chen declined a certificate or reward, requested anonymity, and told Director Chen he had fished the jar out of Feima Lake.

After a rumor falsely claimed that Wang Chen had found a priceless Yuan blue-and-white jar in Feima Lake, Tian Tian invited him to the movies. Their date brought them closer, and the chapter ended with them happily browsing a mall arcade.

• Tian Tian asked Wang Chen whether he had found an antique in Feima Lake after rumors spread about a donated Yuan blue-and-white jar worth over a hundred million.
• Tian Tian invited Wang Chen to use her spare movie ticket, and he agreed to pick her up by bicycle.
• Wang Chen saw crowds of anglers rushing toward Feima Lake, realizing they had been drawn by the exaggerated antique rumor.
• Wang Chen picked up Tian Tian, and they rode together through the city to the cinema.
• Tian Tian took Wang Chen's hand during the movie, then asked him to stay out with her afterward.
• Wang Chen took Tian Tian to a mall arcade and won her more than a dozen plush dolls.

Wang Chen helped Tian Tian handle Mu Weize’s unwanted interference, admitted that he liked her, and made an agreement to meet after her college entrance exam. As Mid-Autumn Festival arrived, Wang Chen visited his uncle’s family before riding alone to the provincial capital’s bar street.

• Wang Chen and Tian Tian ran into Mu Weize outside the arcade, and Tian Tian firmly told him to stop harassing her.
• Wang Chen advised Tian Tian to tell her mother that she had pursued him unsuccessfully and that he was Xiaomeng’s brother and a top student.
• Wang Chen told Tian Tian he liked her but asked her to come find him in the capital after her college entrance exam if she still felt the same.
• Wang Chen spent time with Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian, while authorities restricted fishing at Feima Lake amid rumors of Yuan blue-and-white porcelain.
• On Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Chen had dinner at his uncle’s home, then rode alone to the provincial capital’s bar street.

Wang Chen used his psychic power to kill Wang Yiyuan before the enraged drunk could drive his BMW into people, then went to a tavern and struck up a conversation with a newly single woman. The woman became intrigued when Wang Chen appeared to know about her breakup and offered to tell her fortune.

• Wang Yiyuan, drunk and furious after his business and relationship collapsed, got into his BMW and blacked out when he tried to start it.
• Wang Chen revealed that he had brushed past Wang Yiyuan and used his psychic power to kill him, preventing the tragedy he remembered from the Mid-Autumn Festival.
• Wang Chen went to a small tavern, drank beer, and watched a singer perform.
• A fashionably dressed woman sat beside Wang Chen, bought him a martini, and told him she was alone.
• Wang Chen congratulated the woman on becoming single, surprising her because her boyfriend had just become her ex-boyfriend.
• Wang Chen claimed he could read faces and offered to tell the woman’s fortune, making her curious about him.

Wang Chen settled into life at No. 5 High School, helped Xiao Xudong improve his grades, and agreed to compete in several events at the upcoming sports meet. At lunch, Xiao Xudong pointed out the newly transferred school beauty, and one of her companions moved to attack him.

• Wang Chen became known as a quiet but exceptionally knowledgeable student, and classmates gathered around him to study together.
• Xiao Xudong began studying seriously under Wang Chen’s influence, improving his grades and prospects for university.
• Wei Hao recruited Wang Chen for the 100 meters, 5,000 meters, and heptathlon at the autumn sports meet, and Wang Chen agreed.
• Xiao Xudong showed Wang Chen the new school beauty from the overseas study class in the cafeteria.
• The school beauty’s companion confronted Xiao Xudong and reached out to shove him.

After stopping Zhang Jinpeng from hitting Xiao Xudong, Wang Chen learned that Zhang Jinpeng had threatened to retaliate against him. When six men ambushed him at the entrance to Shangma Village, Wang Chen avoided their attack and called the police; the next morning, he hacked into No. 5 High School’s server to find information.

• Wang Chen stopped a tall boy from striking Xiao Xudong and told Xiao Xudong he had also been at fault.
• Wei Hao warned Wang Chen that Zhang Jinpeng planned to teach him a lesson, but Wang Chen refused to worry or seek mediation.
• Six scooter punks attacked Wang Chen at the entrance to Shangma Village, but their motorcycles crashed before they reached him.
• Wang Chen called the police, gave a statement, and pointed officers to surveillance footage at the village entrance.
• Wang Chen brought a laptop to No. 5 High School and hacked into its server during morning self-study.

Wang Chen dominated No. 5 High School’s sports meet, winning three championships while keeping his abilities in check. Afterward, Xie Yunyao apologized for the trouble Zhang Jinpeng had caused and revealed that Zhang Jinpeng was sick.

• Wang Chen brushed off Zhang Jinpeng’s threat in the cafeteria after Zhang Jinpeng recoiled from touching him.
• Wang Chen won the second-year 100-meter preliminary race in 11.45 seconds and took first place in the first three heptathlon events.
• Wang Chen won the heptathlon, the 5,000 meters, and the 100-meter final, setting a new No. 5 High School sports meet record.
• Xie Yunyao asked Wang Chen to speak privately, apologized for involving him in trouble with Zhang Jinpeng, and told him Zhang Jinpeng was sick.

Xie Yunyao suspected Wang Chen was connected to Zhang Jinpeng’s mysterious illness, but she could not read Wang Chen’s emotions or explain her intuition. Wang Chen left her and later learned the police had given the bikers who attacked him the maximum penalty.

• Xie Yunyao recalled her unusually accurate intuition and wondered whether Wang Chen had caused Zhang Jinpeng’s unexplained agony.
• Wang Chen told Xie Yunyao to stop approaching him and left, while she became more curious about him and chose not to warn Zhang Jinpeng’s parents.
• Wei Hao cautioned Wang Chen about Xie Yunyao’s admirers, and Wang Chen joked that it would be better if she got sick too.
• No. 5 High School’s autumn sports meet ended, and Class 2-1 received a certificate for outstanding team spirit.
• The police told Wang Chen that the bikers who had attacked him received fifteen days’ detention and a 5,000-yuan fine; Wang Chen decided he would deal with them himself if they crossed paths again.

Wang Chen used his Four Rings Spiritual Energy to create a Spiritual Plant Array in the village vegetable plot, growing unusually delicious tomatoes in just nine days. He brought a basket to Wang Zhengyang's family, where everyone was amazed by their flavor and faint energy.

• Wang Chen reached a Spiritual Energy projection range of 1,000 meters and shifted his focus from increasing its distance to studying its uses.
• Wang Chen cleared and prepared the three-fen plot, sowed seeds, and established a Spiritual Plant Array that drew Cosmic Energy into the soil.
• Wang Chen watched the tomatoes grow from seeds to ripe fruit in nine days, then tasted one and detected a beneficial energy within it.
• Wang Chen brought a basket of tomatoes to Wang Zhengyang's home, where Wang Xiaomeng and Wang Zhengyang tasted them and praised their flavor.

Wang Chen shared his homegrown tomatoes with his relatives, cultivated his spiritual energy in the sunlight, and healed an injured stray kitten. Xie Yunyao visited him to report that Zhang Jinpeng had gone mad, leaving Wang Chen surprised that she had come all that way to tell him.

• Wang Chen's uncle and aunt praised his tomatoes, and he promised to bring them more before Wang Zhengyang drove him home with fifty jin.
• Wang Chen cultivated in the sun, then used spiritual energy to clean and heal an injured Yellow Flower Kitten, which ate one of his tomatoes.
• Xie Yunyao arrived at Wang Chen's home in a Rolls-Royce Phantom and explained that she could not reach him on WeChat.
• Xie Yunyao told Wang Chen that Zhang Jinpeng had become mentally unstable after his illness was cured, and Wang Chen asked if that was all she had come to say.

Xie Yunyao visited Wang Chen to test whether he had caused Zhang Jinpeng’s illness, but Wang Chen saw through her suspicions and warned her with his spiritual energy. She left with a basket of tomatoes, still shaken by the encounter and surprised by how delicious they tasted.

• Wang Chen confronted Xie Yunyao about suspecting him of causing Zhang Jinpeng’s illness, and she denied it after sensing danger.
• Wang Chen revealed that he had surrounded her with razor-sharp strands of spiritual energy as a warning, then asked about her family and learned her mother chaired Haicheng Group.
• Xie Yunyao explained that she had transferred from Huhai to Yicheng to escape a persistent suitor and that Zhang Jinpeng had been one of her pursuers.
• Wang Chen said Zhang Jinpeng was a bad person and offered Xie Yunyao freshly picked tomatoes to take home.
• Xie Yunyao left with the basket, then tasted a tomato in the car and widened her eyes in surprise.

Wang Chen learned that his psionically cultivated tomatoes had improved his aunt’s elderly mother’s health, so he gave his uncle the remaining ripe fruit and stopped using the Spiritual Plant Array on crops. As winter arrived, he studied psionic energy’s effects on animals by raising Huahua, whose Spiritification turned it into a powerful, intelligent cat that ruled the village.

• Xie Yunyao devoured one of Wang Chen’s tomatoes and found it exceptionally delicious, while feeling an urge to have more.
• Tian Wenxiu told Wang Chen that her elderly mother’s appetite, sleep, complexion, and medical indicators had improved after eating his tomatoes.
• Wang Chen gave Wang Zhengyang more than a hundred jin of tomatoes, accepted a red envelope, and then replaced the tomato plants without activating the Spiritual Plant Array.
• Wang Chen shifted his psionic energy research toward creating Psionic Energy Equipment as winter arrived.
• Wang Chen adopted the yellow kitten, named it Huahua, and used psionic energy to strengthen it until it underwent Spiritification.
• Huahua became a powerful, obedient cat that drove out stray dogs, wiped out rats, and caught large fish in the Feima River while Wang Chen watched its development.

Wang Chen and Tian Tian spent New Year’s Eve together at Yintai City, where Tian Tian won the grand-prize laptop in a raffle. As they welcomed 2013 with a kiss, another layer of the seal on Wang Chen’s divine soul broke, greatly increasing his spiritual energy.

• Wang Chen rode his bicycle to meet Tian Tian, and Wang Xiaomeng agreed to cover for them in exchange for a red packet.
• Wang Chen and Tian Tian ate snacks, watched a movie, and joined the crowd for Yintai City’s New Year raffle.
• Wang Chen caught two balloons, and Tian Tian’s ticket won the grand prize while Wang Chen won a stuffed doll.
• Wang Chen refused Tian Tian’s offer to trade prizes, and Tian Tian posted pictures of them to her Moments.
• Wang Chen and Tian Tian watched the New Year countdown, and Tian Tian kissed him as the new year began.
• Another layer of the seal on Wang Chen’s divine soul broke, causing his spiritual energy to surge.