Chapter Summaries

Lin Firmament built Purple Bamboo Academy on Purple Bamboo Island, turning its bamboo forest into a glowing complex that could accommodate over a hundred students. She then considered security and staffing, deciding to bring modern thinkers in as students rather than seek permission to use another organization’s experts.

• The Seventh Vice Minister asked Lin Firmament to avoid deaths during her operation, and she recognized that he hoped to capture valuable spies.
• Lin Firmament traveled to Purple Bamboo Island and used her Divine Sense to build bamboo classrooms, dormitories, and a central teaching area.
• Lin Firmament added arrays that made the academy’s buildings glow, while Resident Happiness Living Department staff watched and discussed whether they might enroll.
• Lin Firmament considered the academy’s security, its signboard, and the need for capable teachers across cultivation and technical fields.
• Lin Firmament realized that modern experts could join as students instead of teachers, bringing their knowledge and modern ways of thinking to the academy.

Lin Firmament decided to recruit university and graduate students to help develop new cultivation ideas, then went to catch a Big Fish for the Resident Happiness Living Department. Meanwhile, a submarine sent by Eagle Country entered the South Sea to investigate Purple Bamboo Island, but an unknown force lifted it out of the water and into the air.

• Lin Firmament decided that talented university and graduate students could contribute modern theories and ways of thinking to cultivation without needing to be top experts.
• Lin Firmament promised the Resident Happiness Living Department a Big Fish and flew toward the southeast to catch one.
• A submarine crew from Eagle Country encountered Ferocious Beasts while approaching Purple Bamboo Island, and the commanding officer discussed claiming the island if its discoveries proved valuable.
• The submarine stopped to investigate near the island, but an unexplained force made it rise despite its ballast and functioning controls.
• The submarine burst above the sea and continued climbing into the air, leaving the crew stunned.

Lin Firmament lifted an Eagle Country nuclear submarine out of the sea and gave it to the Resident Happiness Living Department, insisting it was a big fish. The crew was knocked unconscious, and the newly bewildered recipients were left to take the submarine back and figure out how to operate it.

• The Resident Happiness Living Department members watched a huge object burst from the water and realized it was an Eagle Country nuclear submarine.
• Lin Firmament called the submarine a big fish and offered it to the department as a gift.
• Captain Thomson asked Lin Firmament to release the submarine, but she denied seeing one and claimed the area belonged to Hua Nation.
• Lin Firmament knocked out Thomson and the submarine's crew with her Divine Sense, then sent the department members into the submarine.
• Lin Firmament submerged the submarine and flew away, leaving the department members to decide how to return it and report what had happened.

Lin Firmament established Purple Bamboo Academy on an island in the South China Sea, while officials arranged to bring a captured Eagle Country nuclear submarine back under their control. In Eagle Country, Moose experienced the effects of God's Flower and eagerly sought women after years of restraint.

• The officials decided to guide their agents in sailing the captured submarine back and to study its parts after it reached shore.
• Lin Firmament asked Old Chen, Zhou Xiaoran, and Zhou Na to help establish Purple Bamboo Academy and carefully select its first students.
• Lin Firmament moved spirit medicines and spiritual soil to the island, raised a banner, and had Old Chen protect the academy's signboard with arrays.
• Zhou Na and Zhou Xiaoran began arranging the academy grounds while Old Chen set up arrays around the spirit medicines.
• Moose avoided entering a noisy bar because God's Flower made him hate noise, then gathered women outside and demanded seven.

Moose discovered that human blood tasted delicious after biting several women, then concealed God's Flower's progress while preparing to turn his loyal subordinates into Supermen. The next night, the women returned to the bar after finding their neck wounds healed.

• Moose took seven beauties to his villa, where he bit one woman and drank her blood before attacking the other six.
• Moose paid the six women and warned them to keep quiet, then decided he would seek a beautiful virgin to try next.
• Moose checked the laboratory and learned that experiments with God's Flower had shown limited progress, though Dr. Paige had briefly made a frog into a Superman.
• Moose told the person in charge to wait before informing Bob, recruited him into the second batch of test subjects, and planned to give his trusted subordinates smaller doses than his own.
• The seven women discovered their neck wounds had healed overnight and returned to the bar.

Third Generation God's Flower infectees lost control of their biting instincts and triggered a violent outbreak across the city. A police officer escaped to a rooftop and wondered whether the seemingly superhuman attackers were vampires rather than zombies.

• Indirectly infected men and women developed an urge to bite necks, which grew stronger as their agitation and hunger for blood increased.
• Third Generation infectees attacked pedestrians in the streets, and police gunfire failed to stop them before officers were knocked down and bitten.
• The attacks sparked widespread panic as people fled, sought shelter, or tried to drive away, while the noise and blood drew more infectees into the chaos.
• A police officer reached a rooftop and watched the outbreak, baffled by the infectees' strength, rapid spread, and resistance to bullets.
• The officer noticed that the attackers bit necks without eating flesh and suspected they might be vampires.

Sam reported a Los Angeles outbreak to the FBI, but learned the attackers were vampires rather than zombies. Bob welcomed the vampires as a potential weapon against Hua Nation, while Moose arrived at the laboratory to discover Dr. Paige and the experts standing over several corpses.

• Sam called the FBI, described the attackers as vampires, and warned that some might be able to fly.
• Bob learned the outbreak involved vampires and eagerly prepared to negotiate and cooperate with them.
• The Capitalist Income Protection Guild executives saw the vampires as a possible counter to the Resident Happiness Living Department and Hua Nation's cultivators.
• Moose decided to reveal God's Flower early and planned to use its Supermen to stop the outbreak.
• Moose entered the laboratory and found Dr. Paige and the experts ignoring him beside several corpses.

Moose and Dr. Paige realized God's Flower had turned them into vampires, and they learned that apparent vampires were causing trouble outside. The chapter ended with the laboratory experts suspecting Moose had spread the infection by biting people.

• Moose found that meal deliverers had died with bite marks, and Dr. Paige revealed that the infected craved blood and were growing fangs.
• Dr. Paige argued that they should embrace their identity as vampires, conceal the recordings, and prepare a coffin for their presumed vampire ancestor.
• Moose wondered whether angels might also exist, and Dr. Paige warned the group not to reveal themselves prematurely.
• Bob called Moose to report that supposed Biohazard victims were likely vampires and asked whether the research had made progress.
• After Moose ended the call, Dr. Paige and the experts realized Moose had been the only person to leave the laboratory and asked whether he had bitten anyone; Moose admitted that he had.

Moose learned that his bite had created the vampires behind the outbreak, and Dr. Paige urged him to stop them before they attracted angels. Moose set out to command his descendants, while Bob learned that Moose himself was the vampire ancestor.

• Dr. Paige explained that God's Flower in Moose's bite infected his victim, creating a vampire who spread the outbreak.
• Moose realized the infected were his descendants and wondered whether he could control them, while Dr. Paige warned that the growing outbreak might draw angels.
• Dr. Paige refused to go with Moose so he could research vampires' weaknesses, and Moose hurried to the outbreak site.
• Moose called Bob and said he was the vampire ancestor responsible for the outbreak and could stop it with a command.
• Bob recalled that Moose had told him while drunk that he could no longer perform sexually, and Moose angrily ended the call before heading out.

Moose prepared for Bob and the others to investigate the laboratory while imagining how to use his Blood Clan powers to gain influence. As Los Angeles’s Biohazard panic spread, the Resident Happiness Living Department organized precautions and protested after Eagle Country reported losing a submarine near Purple Bamboo Island.

• Moose warned Dr. Paige that Bob and the others might investigate the laboratory, and Paige said they would keep the First Generation Blood Clan secret from them.
• Bob doubted Moose’s claim, considered whether the cultivator’s corpse had recently turned Moose into Blood Clan, and prepared garlic, silverware, and weapons before learning that a submarine had disappeared after its crew saw Hua Nation’s cultivators.
• Los Angeles’s Biohazard spread panic across Eagle Country, prompting mass flight, stockpiling, and looting.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department leaders discussed precautions, ordered tighter travel screening and border patrols, and received a call from General Smith about the missing submarine.
• The Second Deputy Leader angrily lodged a solemn protest after General Smith reported the submarine’s disappearance.

Lin Firmament ignored the brewing dispute with Eagle Country and focused on establishing her academy, choosing its first teachers and students. She set out selection criteria and asked the Resident Happiness Living Department to help screen candidates.

• Smith protested that cultivators from Hua Nation had attacked Eagle Country's submarine, but the Second Vice Minister denied knowledge and demanded an explanation for the submarine entering their waters.
• The Second Vice Minister told the Seventh Vice Minister to inform Lin Firmament, but she dismissed the threat and turned her attention to the academy.
• Lin Firmament chose Old Chen, Zhou Xiaoran, and Zhou Na as teachers, with an old Daoist from Mount Wuyi as another candidate, while leaving artifact-refinement and alchemy posts vacant.
• Lin Firmament considered Wang Dong, Zhou Qi, Wu Guodong, and several wealthy women for the first students, and planned to select other candidates by age, talent, political background, and character.
• Lin Firmament decided to cooperate with the Resident Happiness Living Department on initial screening and contacted the Seventh Vice Minister with the academy's requirements.

The ministers approved Lin Firmament's admission standards and rushed to organize Purple Bamboo Academy's recruitment, while the government dismissed Smith's complaints about its seized submarine. In Los Angeles, Moose ordered troops to retreat and approached a crowd of over twenty thousand infected people, who had regained their reason, declaring that they were a noble blood race rather than zombies.

• The ministers approved Lin Firmament's admission standards and ordered rapid public notices, registration, travel arrangements, and strict screening of candidates.
• Second Vice Minister dismissed Smith's demands about the missing submarine, and the ministers assigned the dispute low priority while joking that they had found a big fish.
• Smith reported the seizure to Bob, who came up with a plan and headed toward Los Angeles feeling smug.
• Troops prepared to defend the sealed-off blocks after finding that the infected were unusually strong, but Moose ordered them to withdraw and advanced alone.
• Over twenty thousand infected people in the core block regained their reason, and the seven women from the pleasure quarters worried about what they had done.
• Moose approached the crowd and told them not to confuse the noble blood race with filthy zombies.

Moose controlled the vampires and led them away, shocking the soldiers and viewers who learned of their existence. Bob then warned Moose that cultivators could become a threat and tried to persuade him to resolve the conflict in exchange for the Vice President’s position.

• Moose used his command over his descendants to make the vampires obey him and treated the seven women of the night affectionately.
• Moose led tens of thousands of vampires past the stunned soldiers, ordered the commander to clean up the battlefield, and left despite the commander’s attempt to stop the group.
• Sam watched the vampires depart and speculated during his livestream that Moose was an unusually powerful vampire; viewers soon recast the outbreak as a chance to join the vampires.
• Bob learned that Moose could control the vampires and worried about his ambitions, while also concluding that more supernatural beings might exist in Eagle Country.
• Bob called Moose, warned that cultivators could attack the vampires, and offered to hand over his Vice President position if Moose resolved the threat.

Moose planned to spread his Blood Clan descendants throughout Hua Nation, while the authorities asked Lin Firmament to investigate the vampires. Lin Firmament immediately flew to Eagle Country, as Hua Nation continued preparing for Purple Bamboo Academy’s admissions.

• Bob persuaded Moose to fight Hua Nation’s cultivators by convincing him that the Blood Clan faced a threat from them.
• After learning that his descendants were immune to silver, Moose planned to exploit the public’s vampire misconceptions and send them across Hua Nation to convert people.
• News of the Blood Clan recruitment reached Hua Nation, but the public focused on applying to Purple Bamboo Academy instead.
• Seventh Vice Minister told Lin Firmament that the vampires could convert and control those they bit, and asked for her opinion.
• Lin Firmament decided to investigate the vampires herself and immediately flew to Eagle Country.
• Seventh Vice Minister urged the department to finalize Purple Bamboo Academy’s admissions quickly while Lin Firmament was away.

After learning that Lin Fan was a powerful cultivator, Jin Ruyu and the other wealthy women discussed Purple Bamboo Academy and their children’s chances of enrolling. At the Spirit Rice base, Old Man learned about the academy and decided to apply so he could study how to cultivate Spirit Rice, believing he had a connection to its principal because he had once given him two bags of rice.

• Jin Ruyu warned the wealthy women to stop acting overly familiar with Lin Fan, while Shi Wenke said she planned to send her sixteen-year-old daughter to Purple Bamboo Academy.
• Old Man and his subordinates celebrated when the first Spirit Rice seed sprouted at their experimental base.
• Old Man’s subordinates explained that Purple Bamboo Academy admitted only students under thirty and did not accept applicants through connections.
• Old Man decided to try enrolling to learn about Spirit Rice cultivation and said he knew the principal because he had given him two bags of rice.

Lin Firmament confronted Moose and his Blood Clan Descendants in a warehouse, only for the entire group to kneel before her without explanation. Moose recognized her as Hua Nation’s strongest cultivator and tried to flee, but her command forced him to his knees.

• Lin Firmament flew past an international flight and arrived at the warehouse where Moose’s Blood Clan Descendants were changing into clean clothes.
• Lin Firmament identified the descendants as low-level half-human, half-zombies and dismissed Moose’s claim that they were a noble Blood Clan.
• Moose ordered his descendants to attack Lin Firmament, but they all knelt before her instead.
• Moose recognized Lin Firmament as the cultivator who had shattered a meteorite and cleaved a giant tidal wave, then tried to escape.
• Lin Firmament told Moose to come back, and his body dropped to its knees despite his efforts to flee.

Lin Firmament discovered that the kneeling half-human, half-corpse beings had been made with a virus extracted from Hanba, whom Eagle Country scientists had recovered from outer space. The chapter ended with her learning how Hanba had been found and regretting that she had told the Resident Happiness Living Department not to monitor her.

• Moose and several tens of thousands of half-human, half-corpse beings knelt before Lin Firmament and involuntarily shouted “protect.”
• Lin Firmament questioned the beings, and Moose’s body forcibly revealed that they had injected themselves with God’s Flower.
• Moose explained that God’s Flower was a virus extracted from the Ancestor, and he showed Lin Firmament photographs identifying the Ancestor as Hanba.
• Moose explained that Eagle Country scientists had recovered Hanba from outer space after she drifted there following her battle with Lin Firmament.
• Lin Firmament realized the scientists had extracted corpse poison from Hanba and regretted telling the Resident Happiness Living Department not to monitor her.

Lin Firmament found Hanba in Eagle Country and discovered that corpse poison had made Moose’s clan instinctively protect Lin Fan. She took Hanba beyond Earth, where Hanba fell asleep again, then told the Seventh Vice Minister there were no vampires in America, only half-zombies who would protect Hua Nation.

• Lin Firmament ordered Moose and his descendants not to enter Hua Nation, and he found he could not disobey or even entertain thoughts of defying her.
• Lin Firmament broke into the laboratory, where Dr. Paige and the others knelt when they saw her, and she took Hanba away from Eagle Country.
• Hanba repeatedly called Lin Firmament “Lin Fan,” then fell asleep again after Lin Firmament left her ten thousand miles beyond Earth.
• Lin Firmament returned to Hua Nation and told the Seventh Vice Minister that America had half-zombies rather than vampires, and that they would protect their own.
• The Seventh Vice Minister wondered whether the half-zombies might bite all of Eagle Country and then protect Hua Nation.

Lin Firmament planned the first students for Purple Bamboo Academy and invited people who had helped her and Lin Fan to study cultivation. She left Zhou Qi eager to begin training and began recruiting Wu Guodong and Wang Dong as well.

• Lin Firmament decided to repay old debts by preselecting Jin Ruyu, Shi Wenke, and Qin Ya for Purple Bamboo Academy and inviting the women to dinner.
• Lin Firmament teased Zhou Qi about cross-dressing, then offered to teach him cultivation if he arranged for a property manager to handle his real estate.
• Lin Firmament counted Wang Dong, Wu Guodong, Zhou Qi, and four women among her prospective students.
• Lin Firmament invited Wu Guodong to join Purple Bamboo Academy, and he eagerly accepted despite being over forty.
• Lin Firmament called Wang Dong and offered to introduce him to a fairy.

Lin Firmament recruited Wang Dong for Purple Bamboo Academy and arranged for Magic Rice Ancestor Old Master to teach spirit agriculture. The chapter then shifted to Jin Ruyu’s hotel, where twenty-eight wealthy women reunited and remarked on how much they had changed.

• Lin Firmament told Wang Dong that a fairy had introduced him to cultivation, calmed his worries about his looks, and secured his agreement to visit Purple Bamboo Academy the next morning.
• The Minister told Lin Firmament that applicant screening would finish by dawn and asked whether Magic Rice Ancestor Old Master could join the academy as a student or auditor.
• Lin Firmament rejected the idea of the Old Master becoming a student and proposed that he teach spirit rice and spirit medicine cultivation instead.
• The Minister relayed the offer, and the Old Master accepted the chance to teach farming at Purple Bamboo Academy.
• Jin Ruyu hosted twenty-eight wealthy women at a cleared-out hotel, where they reunited and discussed their busy lives and changed appearances.