Chapter Summaries

Lin Li returned home to find Wu Min questioning the joss paper in the refrigerator, then discussed weekend plans and joked with Bai Bufan at school. During the parent-teacher meeting, Lin Li and Bai Bufan escaped Xue Jian, and later comforted classmates upset about their parents’ reactions to their grades and competition results.

• Wu Min found joss paper in the refrigerator, and Lin Li invented a funeral-store promotion to explain it before asking her to make him a late-night snack.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan that Qu Wanqiu and the other girls planned to shop on the pedestrian street, and they discussed meeting up for dinner and a Scripted Murder Game.
• Kou Kou sent Bai Bufan to stand at the back of class, while Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked about Lin Li marrying Kou Kou and Ying Bao.
• Wu Min and Bai's Mother arrived for the parent-teacher meeting, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan fled after spotting Xue Jian talking with them.
• Chen Yuying greeted her mother in the hallway, while Lin Li wondered why the woman had been watching him.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found Qin Zeyu and Zhang Haoyang upset about their parents’ focus on grades and competition scores, and Lin Li joked that orphans never argued with their parents.

At the parent-teacher meeting, Lin Li and Chen Yuying talked about their mothers knowing they were dating and agreed he could tell his mother. Meanwhile, the parents read their children’s letters, and Wu Min discovered Lin Li had written another joke; the chapter ended with her warning him she might not acknowledge him at school until she knew he had not caused trouble.

• Lin Li joked with Zhang Haoyang and Qin Zeyu about resolving family conflicts, then asked Zhou Baowei where Chen Yuying had gone.
• Chen Yuying told Lin Li that her mother had known about their relationship before they started dating and was fond of him.
• Lin Li asked Chen Yuying whether he should tell his mother about them, and she quietly agreed.
• At the meeting, Xue Jian explained the school’s subject-selection plans and asked parents to read letters from their children.
• Wu Min read Lin Li’s joke letter and laughed with Bai’s Mother as they realized their sons had written similar jokes and other parents were reacting to their letters too.
• After the meeting, Wu Min told Lin Li she would assess the situation before acknowledging him as her son at school.

Lin Li told Wu Min that he had been dating Chen Yuying for two weeks, and Wu Min moved from alarm to cautious acceptance. The chapter left Wu Min nervously preparing to speak with Chen Yuying’s mother while Lin Li revealed that Bai Bufan liked someone named Feifei.

• Wu Min drove Lin Li home and asked what subjects he planned to choose, prompting him to joke that he wanted the combination with the most girls.
• Lin Li admitted he wanted to date, and Wu Min said she would not support a high-school relationship but would not stop him if he acted responsibly.
• Lin Li revealed that he had been dating Chen Yuying for two weeks, and Wu Min recognized her as the girl from his class whom she already knew.
• Wu Min checked Chen Yuying’s social media, accepted a friend request from her mother, and told Lin Li she would talk with her after getting home.
• Lin Li reassured Wu Min that Chen Yuying’s mother knew about the relationship, while her father did not, and Wu Min agreed not to interfere with Lin Li’s plans.
• When Wu Min asked whether Bai Bufan had a girlfriend, Lin Li said he liked Feifei, who worked at a foot massage parlor, and played her a voice message from Bai Bufan.

Lin Li said farewell to Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen in the Cultivation World, leaving them a wind turbine and taking their cultivation notes with him. Back home, he refused a tutoring job until a system task appeared, then accepted it after inventing a childhood debt to Aunt Zhenzhen.

• Lin Li told Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen that his divine ability might take him to another world, and he left them a wind turbine so they could generate electricity.
• Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen spent eight hours recording cultivation advice and knowledge for Lin Li before he departed.
• Lin Li returned home after driving practice and an unsuccessful Scripted Murder Game, where Wu Min offered him a tutoring job with Aunt Zhenzhen's child.
• Lin Li rejected the job paying one hundred yuan an hour, but the system triggered a task requiring him to teach the cultivator for three hours.
• Lin Li asked Wu Min to say Aunt Zhenzhen had held him as a baby, then accepted the tutoring job as repayment for her supposed kindness.

Lin Li began exploring a dark canyon in a new world where a Silent Field crippled his mech, then returned home without finding any people. At school, he tricked Bai Bufan into a role-swapping game and won a hundred bucks when Xue Jian called Lin Li’s name.

• Lin Li agreed to give Wu Huizhen’s seventh-grade child a trial tutoring lesson and arranged it for the following week.
• Lin Li used the refreshed opportunity to enter a dark canyon, where a Silent Field slowed his mech and disabled its advanced systems.
• Lin Li found many ancient and recent mech wrecks but no living creatures or bodies, then left a light and alarm behind before returning home.
• Lin Li bought no Fuyu Pill after the monthly update and brought breakfast to school, where he teased Zhou Baowei and Bai Bufan.
• Lin Li proposed a morning role-swapping game to Bai Bufan, with a hundred-dollar penalty for refusing to follow the rules.
• When Xue Jian called Lin Li out, Bai Bufan stood up and claimed to be Lin Li, and Lin Li demanded the hundred-dollar penalty.

Lin Li was brought before Principal Wang and Xue Jian, where Demon Suppression Envoys Yan Aosong and Sheng Zhanpeng presented him with a Merit Banner for helping catch thieves and stop a school fight. Lin Li arranged for the principal to receive the banner and stayed cooperative during the interview, but his strange behavior left Xue Jian convinced an evil entity had possessed him and triggered a system mission to prove otherwise.

• Xue Jian summoned Lin Li and Bai Bufan, and Bai Bufan blamed Lin Li for paying him to make a scene before returning to class.
• Yan Aosong and Sheng Zhanpeng visited Nansang Middle School to commend Lin Li, while Principal Wang and Xue Jian distanced themselves from his earlier anti-vice activities.
• Lin Li reassured Principal Wang that the Merit Banner was official, and Yan Aosong explained that the commendation was for Lin Li's work catching thieves and stopping a group fight.
• Principal Wang eagerly accepted the banner and became the focus of the interview after Lin Li praised him, the teachers, and the school.
• Lin Li chose the alias Xiao Bai and asked for his face to be blurred, while Xue Jian grew suspicious of his unusually proper behavior.
• Xue Jian worried that an evil entity had possessed Lin Li, triggering a system mission for Lin Li to prove he had not been invaded.

Lin Li joked with his friends about his exploits, then decided to deliberately perform poorly on the upcoming Monthly Exam in hopes of triggering a system mission. During lunch, he teased Chen Yuying with an absurd speech and flirted with her, and she playfully offered him an actual cake before they shared a tender moment.

• Lin Li told Wang Ze and Bai Bufan that he had received praise from the principal, then admitted Bai Bufan had unknowingly been involved in Lin Li’s schemes; Bai Bufan angrily confronted him before laughing it off.
• Xue Jian announced that the second Monthly Exam would take place on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, but Lin Li’s system gave him no mission.
• Lin Li decided to deliberately do badly on the exam so he might trigger a more rewarding mission during the finals, and Bai Bufan joked about his own failed attempt to play the pig to eat the tiger.
• At lunch, Lin Li drafted an over-the-top speech blaming Principal Wang for tuition costs and joked that he would release one hundred thousand Cold-resistant Mosquitoes during his speech.
• Lin Li recounted his recent exploits to Chen Yuying, who explained that she had assumed his earlier stories were made up but enjoyed listening to them.
• Chen Yuying teased Lin Li by offering him a cake when he asked whether he wanted to eat Little Cake, then the two exchanged affectionate banter and shared a warm moment.

Lin Li completed his crime-prevention task, received new system rewards, and learned that Yang Liang was not infertile after all. After testing his upgraded title and preparing to investigate the suspected All Women World, Lin Li accidentally fired a powerful flashlight into the night and triggered a rooster’s crow.

• Chen Yuying offered to write Lin Li’s morning speech after taking away his draft, which listed weapons as things that could move people.
• Lin Li and Yang Liang helped apprehend a thief, and Lin Li gave the suspect bizarre advice before leaving in the police car.
• Lin Li learned that Yang Liang had a biological child and admitted he had assumed Yang Liang was infertile; Yang Liang thanked him for refusing to become his son.
• Lin Li completed his task, received the Light of Nan Sang title and the ability Immovable as a Golden City Wall, and told Deng Zi to maintain his information network at a basic level.
• Lin Li headed toward the suspected All Women World and tested a two-hundred-thousand-lumen flashlight from his balcony, startling a distant rooster into crowing.

Lin Li explored a fog-shrouded canyon, using a drone to discover that it was deeper than his equipment could reach before scavenging mech parts. After joking around with Bai Bufan at school, he began tutoring Wu Huizhen’s children and fled when he saw their bizarre behavior.

• Lin Li used a marked drone to survey the canyon and learned it was more than 130 meters deep, then began dismantling and collecting usable mech parts.
• Lin Li returned to the modern world and spent Friday joking with Bai Bufan and their classmates about religion and Louis XVI.
• Lin Li went to Wu Huizhen’s home to tutor Li Pingxing and Li Pingchen, arriving determined to act like a cheerful teacher.
• Lin Li found Li Pingchen chanting that he was Milk Dragon while Li Pingxing pretended to suffer from Amaterasu, then backed out of the room in alarm.

Lin Li began tutoring Wu Huizhen’s children, Li Sasuke and Li Milk Dragon, and discovered their eccentric habits and homework struggles. Milk Dragon’s account of his parents’ balcony punishment left Lin Li wondering what kind of adult homework his father had finished so quickly.

• Lin Li overcame his shock at the children’s strange play and introduced himself as their tutor.
• Li Sasuke demanded proof of Lin Li’s strength, then admired Lin Li’s pebble prank technique and let him test his academic knowledge.
• Lin Li caught Li Sasuke trying to copy answers and found that his essays repeatedly forced a “Mother’s Love” template onto unrelated prompts.
• Lin Li struggled to guide Milk Dragon through an idiom and oral-communication questions, then learned that Milk Dragon’s father was also punished over homework.
• Milk Dragon explained that his five-minute homework had taken thirty minutes while his father’s thirty-minute homework had taken only five, leaving Lin Li baffled about the father’s assignment.

Lin Li tutored Li Sasuke and used an invented succession threat involving Milk Dragon to persuade him to study seriously. Wu Huizhen saw Li Pingxing diligently studying and left convinced that hiring Lin Li had been the right decision.

• Lin Li checked Li Sasuke’s homework, exposed his excuses for shifting answers, and tried to teach him despite his constant distractions.
• Li Milk Dragon finished and corrected his homework, explained his elaborate class officer duties, and went out to watch television.
• Lin Li told Li Sasuke that Milk Dragon might be secretly plotting to claim the throne and challenged him to prove himself through studying.
• Li Sasuke declared that he was the Milk Dragon and recommitted himself to studying, then worked diligently while Lin Li taught him.
• Wu Huizhen entered with fruit, saw Li Pingxing studying seriously, and left pleased with her choice of tutor.

Lin Li completed his tutoring task with Sasuke and left Wu Huizhen’s home, where the boys’ rivalry over becoming the Milk Dragon continued after he was gone. Wu Huizhen was left bewildered by both sons’ antics and discovered messages from A Min blaming Lin Li for their strange behavior.

• Lin Li completed three hours of sincere tutoring with Sasuke, earned his system rewards, and encouraged him to pursue the Milk Dragon title.
• Sasuke invited Lin Li to join his organization, Dust Secret Hunt Shadow, and Lin Li pretended he had already been part of it.
• Lin Li declined Wu Huizhen’s offer to tutor regularly but promised Sasuke he could contact him for study help, then left with a bag of snacks.
• After Lin Li left, Li Pingxing and Li Pingchen argued over which of them was the Milk Dragon, and Wu Huizhen chose Li Pingchen to calm him down.
• Li Pingxing declared that he would sleep with his father to settle the Milk Dragon dispute, while Wu Huizhen later found A Min’s messages claiming Lin Li had possessed both boys.

Lin Li returned home, cultivated through the night, and successfully established his foundation, gaining a newly formed Divine Sense and greater physical strength. He explored his transformed body and new abilities, then wondered whether Divine Sense could make a horror novel even scarier for a blind reader.

• Wu Huizhen mistook her husband's Plants vs. Zombies joke about reputation for a comment about Lin Li, and their awakened children called out for Milk Dragon.
• Lin Li joked with his classmates in the boys' group chat, got home, and used the Li Fire Sword Raising Gourd to cultivate.
• Lin Li shattered the Proof of Heaven and Man to extend his heightened state, then broke through to Foundation Establishment as his Divine Sense took initial form.
• Lin Li tested his new strength, found that Foundation Establishment had cleansed his body, and confirmed that he had reached the God-Near Realm.
• Lin Li explored his Divine Sense and dantian, tested sensing objects and reading Five Elements Essentials, and ended by imagining a blind person reading a horror novel.

Lin Li completed the system task to temper his body and soul, earning a physique boost and two pills after discovering that mental discomfort and strenuous exercise increased the task bars. At the library, he teased Chen Yuying about being his girlfriend, then watched Bai Bufan sit on a mysteriously wet chair.

• Lin Li practiced body exercises and meditation, but the system recognized only tiny gains from meditation and later advanced his soul progress when he endured irritating sounds and sleepiness.
• Lin Li and Yang Bangjie exchanged increasingly ridiculous messages as Lin Li demanded more Red Stone to mentally stimulate himself.
• Lin Li completed the task by running with weights and received a 50 percent increase to his physical strength, divine sense, and mental strength, plus Spirit Calming Powder and a Crimson Refining Pill.
• Lin Li swallowed the Crimson Refining Pill, then went to the library after finishing his morning driving practice and running there.
• Lin Li moved Chen Yuying beside him and jokingly told her not to sit with the other girls, then Bai Bufan arrived and sat on a wet chair.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded pranks and jokes while the group headed out to lunch, then the system issued Lin Li a task after they passed a minor traffic accident. The chapter left Lin Li with a mission to find and correct ten mecha pilots who violated regulations.

• Lin Li revealed that he had secretly splashed water onto Bai Bufan’s chair, and the group chose a Japanese restaurant for lunch.
• Bai Bufan embarrassed Lin Li in a crowded elevator by asking about his planned surgery, but Lin Li turned the joke around by pretending to schedule Bai Bufan for the same procedure.
• Bai Bufan took the stairs after the elevator doors opened, and Lin Li and the others teased him about having gone to get surgery.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan rode together in a taxi and joked with the driver after mishearing the navigation system’s warning.
• The driver pointed out a minor car accident, and Lin Li received a system task to find and correct ten mecha pilots violating regulations.

Lin Li exploited traffic-law reminders to complete a system task, then joined Bai Bufan for lunch and met Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan at a restaurant. Ding Sihan teased Lin Li by flirting with Chen Yuying, while Bai Bufan restrained him and played along.

• Lin Li tricked a ride-hailing driver into stopping on a crosswalk, then warned him about traffic violations and earned one task count.
• Lin Li reminded electric-scooter riders to wear helmets by claiming traffic cops were ahead, quickly completing his task and receiving the Video Editing talent.
• A helmetless rider returned to confront Lin Li, who explained that he had meant a manhole cover by “traffic cops,” and the rider left after Bai Bufan defended Lin Li’s concern for safety.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan praised each other’s mischievous pranks as they walked to the Japanese restaurant.
• Chen Yuying borrowed Lin Li’s hair tie, and Ding Sihan stopped her from joining Lin Li before teasing her with suggestive remarks about her boyfriend.
• Bai Bufan held Lin Li back as Lin Li struggled and called out to Ding Sihan.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded jokes and misunderstandings while dining with Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying, and Qu Wanqiu. The meal ended with Lin Li and Bai Bufan declaring the eel rice disgusting after inventing an absurd explanation for why the eel was tough.

• Lin Li brought Bai Bufan brown sugar water after learning he was on his period, and the girls teased them about their closeness.
• Lin Li moved the sashimi platter away from Bai Bufan, claiming Bai Bufan did not eat raw food because of an incident in the chemistry lab; Bai Bufan corrected him and recalled that Lin Li had tried to make him eat quicklime.
• The group sampled the dishes, and Bai Bufan searched for the origin of mentaiko before correcting Lin Li that it was Alaska Pollock roe.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan agreed that the eel rice was too hard and joked that the eel had become tough after seeing the sashimi platter.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan decided the eel lacked standards and refused to eat it, leaving the three girls baffled.

Lin Li and his friends joked through lunch and an afternoon of studying, while he schemed to get a week alone with Chen Yuying. After arranging for Qu Wanqiu and Ding Sihan to be away, Lin Li found that Bai Bufan had also agreed to leave, and Chen Yuying promised to plan their time together.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded jokes at lunch, and Lin Li ended up paying the bill after failing to persuade a stranger to cover it.
• The group returned to the library to study, where Ding Sihan’s spying made Chen Yuying stop letting Lin Li touch her thigh.
• After the group finished studying, Chen Yuying told Lin Li that her father was picking her up, so Lin Li could not go home with her.
• Lin Li encouraged Qu Wanqiu to go home and prompted Ding Sihan to claim she would be busy next weekend, leaving him and Chen Yuying free.
• Bai Bufan threatened to stay and watch Lin Li and Chen Yuying, but changed his mind when Lin Li mentioned splitting the taxi fares.
• Chen Yuying agreed to plan their time together next week, then teased Lin Li about being chopped into pieces by her father.

On a rainy school day, Lin Li joked with his classmates, managed his system’s spirit-stone supply, and shared an umbrella with Chen Tianming. He later flirted with Chen Yuying in the corridor, and the chapter ended with Wang Yuezhi appearing beneath his umbrella, a reminder of his WeChat name, “Rainy Day.”

• Lin Li arrived at school in the drizzle and teased Wang Ze and Bai Bufan while handing out breakfast, including replacing Bai Bufan’s fried noodles with noodle soup.
• Lin Li decided to save three Random Quality Spirit Stones in his inventory in case the Spirit Spring eventually ran dry.
• Bai Bufan proposed a social system that sent old people to work, middle-aged people to school, and young people to nursing homes, then announced he would enter politics to implement it.
• Lin Li shared his spare umbrella with Chen Tianming and joked about ways to help him remember to bring an umbrella.
• Lin Li flicked water droplets from the railing until Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan arrived, then told Chen Yuying he hated rainy days because he could not hold her with both hands.
• Wang Yuezhi appeared by the stairwell with an umbrella as Lin Li and Chen Yuying agreed that rainy days were awful.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying flirted over their weekend plans while Wang Yuezhi watched from the sidelines, then Lin Li discovered his name was missing from the Monthly Exam seating chart. After the school explained the mistake, Lin Li went home and bought a mech weapon from the system, wondering whether it could be mounted on an electric scooter.

• Wang Yuezhi watched Lin Li and Chen Yuying discuss their weekend plans, feeling bitter that Chen Yuying was now dating Lin Li.
• Chen Yuying teased Lin Li with her deliberately confusing plans for their date, and Lin Li joked about being locked in a basement.
• Bai Bufan quizzed Lin Li on the May Fourth Movement, and Lin Li startled him with a fake punch before Xue Jian posted the Monthly Exam seating chart.
• Lin Li found that his name was missing from the chart and theatrically accused Xue Jian of trying to drive him out of class.
• Xue Jian learned that the principal had accidentally cut Lin Li’s grade information instead of copying it, so Lin Li was assigned a seat behind the final exam room.
• After school, Lin Li bought Death Sigh Type 4 from the system and wondered whether the mech weapon could be mounted on an electric scooter.