Chapter Summaries

Liu Di bought Master Jiangkou’s divine skill and spent the night studying its teachings, while Zhang Buzai remained convinced he had been scammed. The next morning, Liu Di joined Zhang Buzai and Striving Youth to dig ginseng, still trusting that Jiangkou had his own way of surviving.

• Zhang Buzai warned Liu Di that Master Jiangkou was a scammer, but Liu Di bought the divine skill and spent all his mental power.
• Liu Di studied the manual through the night as Zhang Buzai watched in disbelief, while Jiangkou annoyed her and endured her blows.
• In the morning, Liu Di emerged from the warehouse and told Zhang Buzai he still needed time to understand the manual.
• Zhang Weiguo arrived on a pedal tricycle, and Striving Youth asked him for hidden quests before being slapped.
• Liu Di invited Striving Youth to join them in digging ginseng and said Jiangkou had his own way of surviving.

Liu Di arrived at Ginseng Mountain, where Boss Zhao and Young Master Huo barred the local residents from entering and demonstrated the skill of Master Four-Eyes. Liu Di volunteered to compete with the master, leaving Zhang Weiguo to deny knowing him as he worried about the stakes.

• Boss Zhao blocked the lower-class residents from entering Ginseng Mountain and claimed that Young Master Huo had hired a mental-power master to develop its resources.
• Young Master Huo told the residents that Boss Zhao had bought exclusive use of the mountain, while Master Four-Eyes silenced the crowd with his aura.
• Master Four-Eyes dug through two clumps of soil and uncovered a Thousand-year Ginseng and a Hundred-year Ginseng.
• Boss Zhao offered the residents a chance to enter the mountain, but demanded a commission and a ten-thousand-point mental-power fee from anyone who found less ginseng than Master Four-Eyes.
• Liu Di stepped onto the platform to compete, and Young Master Huo noticed the zero on Liu Di's watch.
• Zhang Weiguo denied knowing Liu Di and worried that he could not cover the penalty if Liu Di lost.

Liu Di challenged Young Master Huo and Master Four-Eyes to a ginseng-digging contest, wagering mental power for every plant one side fell behind. Boss Zhao assigned Liu Di East Mountain and Young Master Huo West Mountain as the contest began.

• Boss Zhao praised Liu Di for finding two Hundred-year Ginseng plants, while Master Four-Eyes dismissed his success as luck.
• Liu Di mocked Master Four-Eyes and challenged him to compete, prompting the angry master to accept.
• Liu Di proposed that the loser pay ten thousand points of mental power for every ginseng plant they fell behind.
• Boss Zhao arranged for Liu Di and Young Master Huo to dig on East Mountain and West Mountain, respectively, with residents as witnesses.

Liu Di led Zhang Weiguo, Zhang Buzai, and Striving Youth to East Mountain to gather Mental Power Ginseng while Young Master Huo and Master Four-Eyes searched West Mountain. Liu Di’s group found ginseng by casually pulling up grass, leaving them poised to harvest a second patch as Master Four-Eyes struggled to explain their success.

• Liu Di persuaded Zhang Weiguo, Zhang Buzai, and Striving Youth to join him, and the four flew to East Mountain on the tricycle.
• Master Four-Eyes calculated that West Mountain held hundreds of ginseng plants and found a Ten-year Ginseng, while Young Master Huo trusted his expertise.
• Liu Di directed his companions to pull up an entire patch of grass on East Mountain, where they uncovered Ten-year Ginseng again and again.
• Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai realized the cartload might buy one T-two Zone ticket, and Liu Di pointed them toward a second patch.
• Striving Youth rushed to the second patch and called out that he had found another Ten-year Ginseng.

Liu Di led East Mountain’s residents to uncover dozens of Hundred-year Ginseng, then revealed a living King of Ginseng Mountain. The chapter ended with Liu Di holding the glowing, infant-shaped ginseng after it tried to escape.

• Master Four-Eyes directed Young Master Huo and his attendants to dig West Mountain, where they unearthed several Hundred-year Ginseng.
• Liu Di guided Striving Youth and the others to more Hundred-year Ginseng, and they dug up seventy in one small patch.
• Boss Zhao watched Liu Di’s group fill a tricycle with what appeared to be ginseng and feared their haul would transform T-one District.
• Liu Di told the group East Mountain had no more ordinary ginseng and positioned Zhang Buzai, Ichiro, and Professor Zhang around a weed.
• Liu Di tied Striving Youth’s red ribbon to the weed, which came alive and tried to flee before the group blocked its escape.
• Liu Di lifted the weed from the soil, revealing a radiant infant-shaped King of Ginseng Mountain holding a large pearl.

Young Master Huo’s team returned from West Mountain with a huge haul of ginseng, and Master Four-Eyes claimed that Number Eight could not catch up. When T-one residents tried to rob them, Young Master Huo’s bodyguard struck one down with an electric baton, while Number Eight’s team had yet to return.

• T-one residents plotted to rob Young Master Huo if his team came back with more ginseng, while some hoped Number Eight would win.
• Young Master Huo and Master Four-Eyes returned early, claiming they had dug up all of West Mountain’s ginseng and mapped the ginseng locations on East Mountain.
• Young Master Huo displayed the team’s haul of seventy-six ten-year roots, eighty-nine hundred-year roots, and two Thousand-year Ginseng roots.
• Master Four-Eyes declared that Number Eight would still trail by thirteen roots even if he found every ginseng root on East Mountain.
• Several residents charged at Young Master Huo to rob him, but his bodyguard shocked their leader with an electric baton.
• Young Master Huo threatened the residents and declared that Number Eight would die before him.

Liu Di returned with a tricycle piled high with ginseng, and Boss Zhao counted the harvest against Young Master Huo’s. The count gave Young Master Number Eight a deficit of twenty-three, but Liu Di claimed Boss Zhao had missed one.

• Young Master Huo pressured Boss Zhao to announce the result, but the mental power from his ginseng drifted toward a brilliant light approaching from the forest.
• Liu Di arrived with an enormous load of ginseng, accompanied by an old man, Striving Youth, and a short-haired girl, while a plump plant-root baby carried a pearl on his shoulder.
• Boss Zhao counted the ginseng for twenty minutes and announced that Young Master Number Eight had twenty-three fewer ginseng than Young Master Huo when measured in ten-year units.
• Young Master Huo and Master Four-Eyes celebrated the result, while Liu Di praised Boss Zhao’s arithmetic and said he had missed one ginseng.

Liu Di proved that his ginseng was the legendary Ginseng King, defeated Young Master Huo and Master Four-Eyes, and gave Zhang Buzai the spiritual power he collected. As a new curfew bell rang at noon, Liu Di revealed that he had expected it.

• Boss Zhao asked Liu Di whether the chubby baby was a Ten-thousand-year Ginseng, and Liu Di called it the King of Ginseng Mountain.
• Young Master Huo provided a spiritual-power testing device, which climbed past eighty thousand before exploding and blackening Master Four-Eyes' face.
• Liu Di counted the Ginseng King as a thousand-year ginseng and demanded 770,000 points from Young Master Huo; when Huo refused and attacked, Liu Di shot him and Master Four-Eyes.
• Liu Di gave Zhang Buzai the 770,000 points, took Young Master Huo's ginseng, and told Boss Zhao to distribute it among the residents after paying the mountain fee.
• A bell rang from the horizon despite it being noon, and Liu Di said he had expected it.

After the curfew bell rang, Liu Di returned to the warehouse with Zhang Weiguo and the ginseng, while Boss Zhao promised to distribute money to the residents the next day. At the City Lord Tower, the seven City Lords ordered Zhao Ze to regain control of Ginseng Mountain and make East Mountain barren to hinder Number Eight.

• The curfew bell rang, sending T-one District residents rushing indoors as Liu Di and Zhang Weiguo headed back with their ginseng.
• Boss Zhao caught up with Liu Di and promised to handle the residents’ share of the money the next day.
• Liu Di returned to the warehouse, where Master Supreme dismissed the ginseng and went back to sleep; Liu Di noticed a new beast-tooth bracelet on his wrist.
• Zhao Ze climbed to the City Lord Tower and reported to the seven City Lords that Number Eight’s Ten-thousand-year Ginseng had thwarted their plans.
• The City Lords ordered Zhao Ze to regain management of Ginseng Mountain and ensure East Mountain was barren so Number Eight could not find ginseng there.

Liu Di planted the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng in a makeshift field inside the warehouse, believing that fertilizer could be found within the curfew. As Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai warned him against entering, Master Supreme woke and demanded to know who was planning to risk their life.

• Liu Di gave the remaining Mental Power Ginseng to Zhang Weiguo, Zhang Buzai, and Striving Youth, then refused to eat the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng himself.
• Liu Di spent mental power to make a hoe and dug a field in the warehouse, while Zhang Buzai joined him and Zhang Weiguo objected.
• Liu Di buried the ginseng baby in the field and said the fertilizer needed to grow ginseng lay within the curfew.
• Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai urged Liu Di not to enter the curfew, and Master Supreme woke up to ask who wanted to go in.

Liu Di prepared to enter the curfew by using his mental energy to create a high-tech camouflage cloak and strengthen his body. Wearing the Witch’s Cloak, he vanished and plunged into the curfew, leaving Zhang Buzai and the others stunned.

• Liu Di told Master Supreme he intended to enter the curfew, and Master Supreme and Zhang Weiguo warned him that doing so would mean certain death.
• Liu Di used his mental energy to create a complex cloak with circuits, cameras, a power supply, and tiny LCD screens.
• Liu Di used up the rest of his mental energy to strengthen his body, then put on the cloak and called it the Witch’s Cloak.
• Liu Di’s cloak projected the surrounding scenery, making him appear invisible, and he climbed out a window into the curfew.
• Striving Youth watched Liu Di disappear into the darkness and said he had gone to challenge GM.

Liu Di used the Imaging Cloak to explore T-one district during curfew, where he learned that people had found treasures near Ginseng Mountain and that a barrier separated the curfew from residents’ homes. After he left, Scarface killed a young woman to take her mental power and led his brothers in a desperate plan to break through the curfew.

• Liu Di became invisible with the Imaging Cloak, escaped the warehouse, and crossed the rooftops of the silent T-one district.
• Liu Di overheard three burly men discussing how their brother had returned from curfew with ginseng before his soul scattered, and he chose to head toward Ginseng Mountain.
• Liu Di accidentally damaged a sealed skylight but discovered that a barrier stopped sounds from the curfew from reaching residents’ homes.
• After Liu Di left, Scarface killed a young woman and drained the three hundred mental power points from her watch.
• Scarface told his two brothers that he could no longer endure life in T-one district and urged them to break through the curfew with him.

Liu Di witnessed the curfew’s true cause: a fleet of eight-winged aircraft searched T-one District and erased three men who resisted. Hidden by his Imaging Cloak, he climbed onto an aircraft heading toward Ginseng Mountain to investigate further.

• Liu Di watched as Scarface and the other two men set off explosives to challenge the curfew.
• More than a hundred eight-winged aircraft appeared over T-one District and swept the ground with searchlights.
• Liu Di discovered that the supposed monsters were aircraft equipped with levitation devices and searchlights.
• An aircraft silently erased the three men and their explosives with a blue beam.
• Liu Di used his Imaging Cloak to conceal himself, boarded an aircraft, and traveled toward Ginseng Mountain.

Liu Di watched the aircraft restore ginseng on West Mountain, then tore off a laser emitter and escaped with it. The City Lord’s followers planned to seal West Mountain, while Liu Di returned safely to the warehouse with the device, which he called the Creator.

• Liu Di saw aircraft use blue lasers to recreate Hundred-year Ginseng across West Mountain and suspected the City Lord controlled the process.
• After Magic Child identified the aircraft’s equipment as technology based on virtual imaging and 3D printing, Liu Di ripped off a laser emitter, concealed it in his Imaging Cloak, and caused the aircraft to crash.
• Inside the City Lord Tower, seven figures learned that a Purger had crashed and decided to tell Zhao Ze to seal West Mountain; they also ordered Third Brother to increase the demonic beasts’ strength by 200%.
• Zhang Buzai and the others waited anxiously for Liu Di, fearing he had been killed during curfew.
• Liu Di returned to the warehouse unharmed with the laser emitter and called it the Creator.

Liu Di used his ability to create tools and electronic components, then began assembling precision circuit boards while the others watched in amazement. As he continued working, Zhang Weiguo tried to offer him beer, but Master Supreme drank it first and learned it had been made from a urine-based meditation, triggering a chase.

• Liu Di explained that the curfew was ruled by those in power and said he planned to challenge their authority.
• Liu Di meditated tools, circuit boards, and electronic components into existence, then began assembling chips.
• Striving Youth fed Liu Di ginseng to replenish his psychic power while he worked.
• Zhang Weiguo told Zhang Buzai he hoped to build a relationship with Liu Di so he could send her back one day.
• Zhang Weiguo offered Liu Di beer, but Master Supreme snatched the gourd and drank it.
• Zhang Weiguo revealed he had meditated the beer from urine, and Master Supreme chased him in fury.

Liu Di built a crude device that scanned and printed objects from the T-one Zone, proving it could duplicate anything there. He used it to reproduce a whole row of Ten-thousand-year Ginseng Kings, leaving his companions overwhelmed and unconscious.

• After hours of work, Liu Di finished assembling a makeshift scanner-printer from the mechanical eyeball and assorted components.
• Liu Di scanned an iron barrel and printed an identical rusted barrel from nothing, demonstrating that the device worked.
• Liu Di told the stunned Zhang Weiguo, Striving Youth, Zhang Buzai, and Master Supreme that the machine could theoretically replicate any item in T-one.
• Liu Di scanned the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng King and printed a row of copies, each of which revealed a delighted Man in White when lifted.
• Zhang Weiguo, Striving Youth, and Master Supreme fainted from shock, and Zhang Buzai confirmed the scene was real before collapsing too.

Liu Di learned that killing beasts on Beast Mountain could earn Mental Power Crystal Cores and raise his level, so he decided to go there with his companions. The next day, a hunting squad’s trap failed to stop a black bull that had grown far stronger than expected, leaving the hunters fleeing for their lives.

• Liu Di ate part of a Ten-thousand-year Ginseng King pearl, gaining 300 Mental Power points as the four men watched in shock.
• Kubo Taiichiro told Liu Di that beasts on Beast Mountain dropped Crystal Cores that increased Mental Power and levels, while Zhang Weiguo described the monsters as Godzilla-like.
• Liu Di announced that the group would head to Beast Mountain the next day.
• A hunting squad led by Baldy chased a huge black bull toward a pit trap, hoping to help Baldy reach Level 150 and improve the squad’s standing.
• The black bull’s hide repelled the hunters’ spears, and it broke out of the collapsing trap, gored another hunter, and sent the others running.

Liu Di drew a charging herd of Black Bulls away from a trapped hunting squad, then manifested a Gatling gun and opened fire. The squad watched in shock as he began mowing down the beasts.

• The Black Bull survived Baldy's shot and summoned a vast herd that charged toward the cliffs.
• Liu Di and his companions appeared across from the trapped hunters, and Striving Youth identified the beasts as Level 5 monsters.
• The hunters recognized Liu Di as the famed "One Shot, One Soul" but feared his handgun could not stop the herd.
• Liu Di fired into the sky, drawing the herd away from the hunters and toward his own cliff.
• Liu Di manifested a Gatling gun, used Ten-thousand-year Ginseng balls as ammunition, and unleashed a barrage that felled Black Bulls in waves.

Liu Di slaughtered the berserk black bulls with his Gatling and used the chaos to collect their crystal cores, but a huge pack of hyenas soon charged down the mountain. As the hyenas closed in, Liu Di created two more Gatlings and unleashed all three weapons, mowing down the pack.

• Liu Di used his Gatling to kill the black bulls while Striving Youth supplied him with Ten-thousand-year Ginseng Kings.
• Zhang Weiguo ran among the charging bulls while pretending to be dead, gathered their crystal cores, and brought them back to Liu Di.
• Zhang Weiguo offered Liu Di a crystal core and said it could raise mental power, but hyenas charged down Ginseng Mountain before Liu Di could try it.
• Liu Di turned his Gatling on the swift hyenas, but many dodged the shots and rushed toward the cliff.
• Liu Di asked Striving Youth for two Ten-thousand-year Ginseng Fruits at a time, then created two additional Gatlings and linked all three together.
• Liu Di fired all twenty-four barrels at once, killing the advancing hyenas and scattering their crystal cores across the battlefield.

Liu Di wiped out successive waves of powerful Beasts with his transformed Gatlings, leaving Beast Mountain silent and the plain covered in Crystal Cores. Cong Liang and the hunting squads pledged to protect Liu Di’s spoils as another group approached to steal them.

• After the hyenas fell, more than a thousand level fifteen wild boars charged Liu Di, but ordinary Gatling bullets could not pierce their resin-coated hides.
• Liu Di transformed his Gatlings into Armor-Piercing Gatlings and slaughtered the boars, collecting their larger Mental Power Crystal Cores while Striving Youth fed him Ten-thousand-year Ginseng.
• Zhang Buzai watched Liu Di’s immense harvest and wondered whether he could help her return to reality.
• Liu Di killed the last wild boar, and Cong Liang introduced himself as the leader of the Spear Squad before kneeling and offering to maintain order around the Crystal Cores.
• Cong Liang spotted a squad sneaking toward the spoils, threw a spear at their feet, and warned them that the Crystal Cores belonged to Liu Di.