Vol. 1The East Sea Crisis

Ye Tian used his inventions and military force to protect allies, challenge Spirit Hall’s corrupt families, and foil plots against Qian Renxue. The volume ended with Ning Rongrong accompanying Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin to retrieve the injured Crown Prince.

  • Ye Tian warned Bibi Dong and Hu Liena that Spirit Hall would fall within three years and demonstrated his inventions, farm, and hidden army.
  • After the Zhou Family and its allies prepared to attack, Ye Tian ordered their destruction.
  • Ye Tian helped Bibi Dong plan reforms for Spirit Hall and traveled with Hu Liena to treat Li Haitian.
  • When Coral’s pirates attacked Golden Turtle Island, Ye Tian’s torpedoes shattered their fleet as Spirit Hall reinforcements arrived.
  • After a typhoon struck the coast, Ye Tian prepared relief supplies and grew closer to Hu Liena.
  • On Soro Island, Ye Tian learned Millennial Hourglass’s men planned to kill Qian Renxue, as a sailor attacked him.
  • Ye Tian rescued Qian Renxue from Millennial Hourglass and killed Qian Gu Nan Feng when he attacked the villa.
  • Ye Tian warned that Spirit Hall’s Transfer Policy could leave it vulnerable, while Ning Rongrong joined Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin on their mission to retrieve Xue Qinghe.
Chapters 1–100 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1The East Sea Coast Scheme

Ye Tian revealed his inventions and hidden army to Bibi Dong and Hu Liena while warning them of the coming war and Spirit Hall’s decline. After he saved Su Xiao Xin from a powerful family’s attack, the Zhou Family and its allies prepared to strike, and Ye Tian ordered their destruction.

  • Ye Tian warned Bibi Dong and Hu Liena that Spirit Hall would fall within three years, then demonstrated Snowflake Salt, his healing needles, and the Heavenly Strategy Army’s rifles and artillery.
  • Ye Tian showed Bibi Dong and Hu Liena his farm’s Curved Shaft Plow, high-yield potatoes, fertilizer, irrigation system, and greenhouse, while explaining that divine schemes could drive the continent into war.
  • Hu Liena kissed Ye Tian after sampling the greenhouse’s Ghost Pepper, then Bibi Dong recognized a coded message from Spirit Hall’s Pope's Hall Knight Order as they returned to the farm.
  • A Xin and his wife brought their gravely injured daughter Xiao Xin to the farm, and Ye Tian saved her with the Taiyi Divine Needle, Hu Liena’s Charm skill, and a blood transfusion.
  • Zhou Wu and his men demanded Ye Tian’s shares and threatened his family, so Ye Tian ordered Thirteen to cripple Zhou Wu and warned the Zhou Family not to provoke him.
  • Bibi Dong told Hu Liena she wanted her to marry Ye Tian, while the Zhou Family gathered three allied families and planned to capture him.
  • Ye Tian learned of the families’ planned attack and ordered their annihilation for the following midnight, while Ju Yueguan obeyed Bibi Dong’s order not to interfere.
  • Ye Tian visited Su Xiao Xin as she recovered at Butterfly Farm and examined her bandaged wound with the Taiyi Divine Needle.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2Golden Turtle Island

Ye Tian helped Bibi Dong devise ways to rein in Spirit Hall’s corrupt families, then traveled with Hu Liena to Golden Turtle Island to treat Li Haitian. As the Coral Pirate Crew attacked the island, Ye Tian’s submarine torpedoes shattered the fleet, and a Spirit Hall force arrived.

  • Ye Tian explained his plans to weaken Spirit Hall’s entrenched families, and Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to document them and begin preparing official rotations.
  • Ye Tian agreed to treat Li Haitian after Li Jiuchuan offered payment, then ordered Zhou Long’s squad to eliminate the East Sea City Four Great Families, whose hidden wealth he seized.
  • Ye Tian took Hu Liena and Li Jiuchuan to Golden Turtle Island aboard his submarine, where they avoided a pirate fleet and reached the Li Family’s harbor.
  • Ye Tian began treating Li Haitian, but Dugu Bo’s ineffective method worsened his condition before Ye Tian removed the toxins and prescribed his recovery.
  • Dugu Bo offered to work off his debt to Ye Tian, who assigned him to oversee a future Spirit Hall branch in the Heaven Dou Empire’s capital.
  • When Coral’s pirate fleet threatened Golden Turtle Island, Ye Tian gave Li Haitian a pill to restore his strength temporarily and prepared the submarine while Hu Liena summoned Spirit Hall reinforcements.
  • The Coral Pirate Crew attacked through the storm, but Ye Tian’s eight torpedoes destroyed and crippled numerous ships as Purple Pearl escaped the strike.
  • Coral urged the scattered pirates not to retreat, while Hu Liena spotted a Spirit Hall fleet arriving at the harbor.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3Typhoon, Relief, and Soro Island

After the typhoon devastated the coast, Ye Tian helped the Li Family deal with the pirates and prepared relief while growing closer to Hu Liena. Qian Renxue’s visit exposed Ye Tian’s school’s iron-smelting success and led him to Soro Island, where Millennial Hourglass plotted to kill her and a sailor warned Ye Tian of the scheme.

  • Li Haitian and Zhou Long defeated Coral, who had returned as a Super Douluo, and the Li Family and Spirit Hall captured the surviving pirates.
  • Ye Tian arranged for the pirates to be held until locals could identify their crimes, then asked Purple Pearl to help assess them.
  • After hail and the typhoon damaged crops and homes, Ye Tian prepared food reserves and plans to buy grain, while Hu Liena sought Spirit Hall’s help for disaster victims.
  • Ye Tian asked Hu Liena to be his girlfriend, and Millennial Hourglass soon requisitioned Butterfly Farm as a residence for Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
  • When Qian Renxue visited East Sea School, Ye Tian showed her the students’ blast furnace, which produced Fine Iron and won their wager.
  • Millennial Hourglass led Qian Renxue toward Soro Island with a false account of Profound Spear Douluo’s whereabouts, while Ye Tian secretly alerted the North Star Squad.
  • On Soro Island, Ye Tian stayed aboard the ship and learned that Millennial Hourglass’s men planned to kill Qian Renxue and blame Spirit Hall, just as a sailor moved to attack him and blood appeared on the sailor’s chest.
Chapters 51–75 Summaries Read

Arc 4The Soro Island Conspiracy

Ye Tian rescued Qian Renxue from an Evil Soul Master plot, then helped defeat Qian Gu Nan Feng and exposed the danger of Spirit Hall’s proposed Transfer Policy. As Ye Tian arranged a wedding with Na Na and expanded his shipbuilding and alchemy work, Ning Rongrong set out with Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin to retrieve the injured Crown Prince.

  • Ye Tian watched Millennial Hourglass attack Qian Renxue on Soro Island, then sent the North Star Squad to kill him and carry her back to the villa.
  • Ye Tian treated Qian Renxue while Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to investigate the Millennial Family, and Ye Tian arranged grain supplies as the Lightning Commerce Guild tried to manipulate prices.
  • When Qian Gu Nan Feng’s troops surrounded the villa, Qian Renxue disguised Ye Tian as Xue Qinghe, and Ye Tian confronted the governor’s forces.
  • Qian Gu Nan Feng revealed himself as an Evil Soul Master and overpowered She Long, but Ye Tian’s rocket killed him and the Heavenly Strategy Army routed his followers.
  • Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong discussed Spirit Hall’s Transfer Policy with Ye Tian, who warned that it could leave Spirit Hall vulnerable, while Hu Liena inferred that he had a way to make the policy work.
  • Ye Tian signed a contract with Yu Tianheng for twenty ships, warned him against the grain business, and learned from Li Haitian that Wu Fuxuan had joined the Evil Soul Masters.
  • Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue approved a plan to provoke a crisis between the empires while Spirit Hall carried out the Transfer Policy, and Ye Tian prepared pills and wedding arrangements for Na Na.
  • Ning Rongrong asked to accompany Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin to the East Sea to retrieve the injured Crown Prince, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.
Chapters 76–100 Summaries Read
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