Chapter Summaries

Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning joined their classmates for a night climb up Mount Tai, where Jiang Ning secretly used a talisman to keep Xue Yuantong from tiring. The group reached Middle Heaven Gate exhausted while Xue Yuantong remained full of energy, and Yu Wen began to suspect something was wrong.

• Xue Yuantong reminded Jiang Ning not to drink, then went to her hotel room and fell asleep while waiting for him.
• The group traveled to Mount Tai, bought trekking poles and flashlights, and began climbing from Red Gate at night.
• Jiang Ning secretly activated a modified Swift Steps Talisman on Xue Yuantong, while his Spiritual Energy kept nearby climbers from crowding them.
• After climbing for hours, the group reached Middle Heaven Gate, where Shan Kaiquan bragged about their progress and bought an overpriced bottle of water.
• Xue Yuantong shared grapes with the exhausted classmates, then darted up the steps so quickly that Yu Wen realized her stamina seemed impossible.

Jiang Ning and his companions climbed Mount Tai through the crowded night, where Xue Yuantong enjoyed the journey and Yu Wen struggled with the cold and exhaustion. Near the sunrise viewing area, Jiang Ning set up a hotpot with supplies from his backpack, drawing the attention of hungry tourists across the mountainside.

• Xue Yuantong climbed Eighteen Bends with Jiang Ning while Yu Wen and the others fought fatigue and the bitter wind.
• Guo Kunnan surged ahead after spotting a woman in a yoga outfit, leaving Shan Kaiquan and the others wondering where he had gone.
• The group reached South Heaven Gate, where Xue Yuantong admired the lights of Tai City and took photos with Jiang Ning and the class.
• Jiang Ning's group continued toward a sunrise spot, rented Army Coats for most of the party, and split up when the best viewing areas were crowded.
• Jiang Ning found a flat rock with a clear view and unpacked a mat, hot water, Honey Lemon tea, and ingredients for hotpot.
• Jiang Ning heated the tomato hotpot with a Spell, and its aroma spread across the mountainside, waking and tempting the tourists nearby.

Jiang Ning and his companions cooked tomato hot pot on Mount Tai while waiting for the sunrise, then rode the cable car down after watching it. The group stopped to sample a mountain spring, only to discover people were washing their feet upstream.

• Jiang Ning's tomato hot pot filled the summit with its aroma, tempting hungry tourists and prompting Yu Wen to discover that Yang Sheng and the others were eating it.
• Jiang Ning shared hot pot and watermelon with Xue Yuantong, Yang Sheng, and Tang Fu as they waited for dawn.
• The sun rose over Mount Tai, and Xue Yuantong admired Jiang Ning while Yu Wen recited a dramatic poem to the class monitor.
• The group left the summit and rode the cable car to Peach Blossom Valley, where Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Sense to find Dong Qingfeng and the others.
• Guo Kunnan and Yu Wen tasted water from a mountain spring, then Yang Sheng spotted people washing their feet upstream.

After recovering from their exhausting Mount Tai climb, the students discussed their travel plans and relaxed at their apartments. Shan Kaiquan was badly beaten at table tennis and called for Yang Sheng to challenge the skilled old man.

• Guo Kunnan and Shan Kaiquan collected roadside stones after realizing they had forgotten Cui Yu's request for Mount Tai stones.
• Huang Zhongfei arranged taxis back to the apartments, where everyone slept until the afternoon.
• Tang Fu and Yang Sheng fetched water from the complex's purification machine, and Yang Sheng revealed that other students did her chores for her.
• Dong Qingfeng proposed joining Yang Sheng and Tang Fu on their trip to Peng City and offered to guide everyone there.
• Shan Kaiquan challenged a gaunt old man to table tennis and was soundly defeated.
• Guo Kunnan fetched Yang Sheng and Tang Fu to face the old man, who said his challenge still stood.

Yang Sheng and her friends lost to a crafty old ping-pong player until Xue Yuantong beat him and won them ice cream. After the group split up at the station, Dong Qingfeng confronted a passenger who had taken his seat, and the conductor revealed the man had boarded the wrong train.

• Yang Sheng, Tang Fu, and the others failed to beat the old man, whose custom paddle gave his shots unusual spin, but Xue Yuantong defeated him and he bought them ice cream.
• The group shared a final dinner in Tai City, then separated at the station as some returned home and Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and their companions headed to Peng City.
• At the waiting hall, Shan Kaiquan asked Ma Shicheng about earning money, and Ma offered to form a League of Legends boosting team with him and Guo Kunnan.
• On the high-speed train, Dong Qingfeng asked a barefoot passenger to leave his seat, but the passenger refused until the conductor checked his ticket and found he was on the wrong train.
• The barefoot passenger angrily struck a seat after learning he had to pay for a ticket, and Yang Sheng reminded him that he would need to pay the conductor.

Dong Qingfeng led Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, Yang Sheng, and Tang Fu to their lakeside apartments in Pengcheng, where Tang Fu proposed using a slingshot to quiet the cicadas. After Tang Fu showed off her aim, Jiang Ning effortlessly shot the last cicada from the ground.

• Dong Qingfeng led Yang Sheng and Tang Fu from the station and told them Chen Qian would arrive later, while Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong headed to their homestay.
• The group split into three apartments, and Jiang Ning used a Soundproof Formation to silence the cicadas outside Xue Yuantong’s apartment.
• Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong, Yang Sheng, and Tang Fu to a nearby snack street, where Yang Sheng bargained successfully for Roasted Gluten.
• Tang Fu used a slingshot to hit four cicadas, while Yang Sheng and Xue Yuantong failed to hit any.
• Jiang Ning fired one shot from the ground and brought down the last cicada, astonishing Tang Fu.

Jiang Ning and his friends toured Peng City, ate stewed chicken, and shared stories about how they first earned money. Yang Sheng ended her story with how she confronted a friend who had framed her and demanded half the bribe.

• Jiang Ning impressed Tang Fu with his slingshot skills, then fetched water for Xue Yuantong after she cleverly hinted that he should drink more.
• Dong Qingfeng led the group to a famous stewed chicken restaurant, where they enjoyed local food and discussed the scenery and a portrait artist they had passed.
• The group shared stories about their first earnings, including Jiang Ning lighting cigarettes for gamblers and Chen Qian finding a lost dog.
• Yang Sheng recalled how a girl took money to plant a fountain pen in her backpack, leading classmates and a teacher to accuse her of stealing.
• Yang Sheng said she later confronted the girl and asked why she had not split the bribe, then took five yuan from her.

During their evening in Peng City, Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and their classmates shared food, walked around Yunlong Lake, and joked about fishing and milk tea. Back at the homestay, Xue Yuantong excitedly asked Jiang Ning about the aquarium and told him she had only wanted to talk with him.

• Dong Qingfeng grew angry when he heard Yang Sheng had been framed at school, but Yang Sheng said she had forgiven the person and the group continued their meal.
• At a nearby table, a young employee complained about his company, then his coworkers mocked him after he left, prompting Xue Yuantong to reflect on the workplace.
• Jiang Ning and the others walked along Yunlong Lake, where Dong Qingfeng explained fishing and Chen Qian offered a calculating solution to the leftover pearls in milk tea.
• The group returned to the homestay, where Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning about the aquarium and said she wanted to take pictures for Chu Chu.
• When Jiang Ning teased that he was a substitute for Baidu, Xue Yuantong insisted she had asked because she wanted to talk with him.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong visited the aquarium at Yunlong Lake, where Xue Yuantong saw many sea creatures for the first time. When the Spotted Seal stayed hidden, Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Energy to bring it to the glass, leaving the seal frightened and fawning.

• Jiang Ning asked Xue Yuantong whether her old-fashioned cookies tasted good, and she finished them despite finding them dry.
• Dong Qingfeng led Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and the others to the aquarium, where Xue Yuantong excitedly watched fish and jellyfish.
• Chen Qian warned Xue Yuantong that Upside-down Jellyfish were venomous, and she quickly pulled her hand away from the tank.
• Xue Yuantong examined fierce fish and an alligator, then grew disappointed when the Spotted Seal remained underwater.
• Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Energy to drag the Spotted Seal to the glass, where it appeared before Xue Yuantong and made ingratiating gestures under his Spiritual Sense's intimidation.

Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning toured the aquarium, where the animals’ reactions strengthened Dong Qingfeng’s suspicion that Xue Yuantong had an unusual affinity with them. Jiang Ning secretly frightened a Nurse Shark and interfered with a Sea Lion’s feeding, then left the trainer compensation after the show.

• Xue Yuantong delighted the visitors by getting a Spotted Seal to follow her gestures, then left before the crowd grew larger.
• Xue Yuantong wondered whether she could make the motionless Nurse Shark swim, and Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Sense to make it flee in panic before it returned to its corner.
• Dong Qingfeng led the group to the Sea Lion show, where the Sea Lion performed several tricks for the audience.
• Jiang Ning secretly concealed the feed the trainer offered, causing the Sea Lion to eat air twice and run back to its cage on strike.
• Jiang Ning left about a thousand yuan on the trainer’s table as compensation after the Sea Lion finished its show.

Dong Qingfeng and his friends visited Yunlong Mountain, rode the cableway, and shared a barbecue dinner. When the restaurant’s veteran Boss challenged the diners to a strength contest, he invited the whole room to try their luck at winning a free meal.

• Dong Qingfeng and his friends watched a mermaid show at the aquarium, where Xue Yuantong joked about Xue Chuchu becoming a mermaid.
• The group explored Yunlong Mountain, admired the views over Yunlong Lake, and rode the cableway, with Xue Yuantong initially afraid of falling.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Tang Fu went to buy drinks, and Dong Qingfeng got sprayed with cola when he opened his can.
• The restaurant Boss squeezed the hands of several gym-going young men, making them cry out in pain.
• The Boss offered free meals to any diner who could beat him in a test of strength, then challenged the restaurant’s crowd.

Dong Qingfeng imagined winning a barbecue restaurant's handshake contest but gave up after seeing others lose, while Jiang Ning and the group prepared to travel on. At the train station, Chen Qian tried to frustrate a wealthy man by switching a ticket machine to English, only for the man's assistant to switch it back.

• Dong Qingfeng fantasized about defeating the barbecue restaurant owner and impressing Yang Sheng and Tang Fu, but returned to reality and decided not to challenge him.
• Xue Yuantong calculated the meal's cost, and the group headed to the Train Station the next afternoon as some planned to go home and Jiang Ning planned to visit Guangling.
• Chen Qian studied vocabulary in line for the ticket machine while a wealthy man behind him mocked his ambition.
• Chen Qian switched the ticket machine to English after collecting his ticket, hoping the wealthy man would be unable to use it.
• General Jin asked Xiao Zhao to change the machine back, leaving Chen Qian stunned.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong traveled home by train, where Jiang Ning used his String Puppet ability to stop a rude passenger from harassing them. He left the broad-faced man injured and frightened while Xue Yuantong praised his trick.

• Jiang Ning and Tang Fu waited outside the station, where Tang Fu played Plants vs. Zombies 2 and insisted that Pea Shooters were stronger when placed closer to zombies.
• On the train, a broad-faced man demanded that the cramped female student switch seats, then put his feet on Jiang Ning's seat until Jiang Ning secretly shocked him with a Thunder Spell.
• Jiang Ning shared KFC chicken nuggets with Xue Yuantong, and the broad-faced man insulted the food and angrily confronted Jiang Ning after Jiang Ning mocked him.
• Jiang Ning showed Xue Yuantong his String Puppet trick, using invisible force to make the man's pointing arm recoil and then punch himself in the stomach.
• The broad-faced man collapsed in pain as his son called for him, and Xue Yuantong told Jiang Ning that his magic trick was amazing.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong arrived at Yuzhou Station, where Aunt Gu welcomed them home. Jiang Ning continued investigating suspicious vehicles, and Shao Shuangshuang invited him to a welcome-home meal, which he accepted.

• Jiang Ning’s unseen power left a broad-faced passenger writhing in pain, and a woman who accused him suddenly slapped herself and confessed fault.
• Jiang Ning waited until the train stopped at Yuzhou Station, then got off with Xue Yuantong.
• Xue Yuantong reunited with Aunt Gu, while Jiang Ning checked that the crack in her jade bracelet had not worsened.
• Jiang Ning read Shao Shuangshuang’s report that cameras had identified three suspicious vehicles and told her to keep watching them.
• Shao Shuangshuang invited Jiang Ning to a welcome-home meal, and he replied that she could choose the time.

Xue Yuantong learned how her mother had cracked the protective Jade Bracelet while rescuing a little girl, and Jiang Ning promised to repair it. Meanwhile, Ma Shicheng and Wang Longlong plotted to scam foreign arms buyers using cryptocurrency, but Ma Shicheng received a desperate message from the former internet cafe worker Xiao Na, who said she had been kidnapped.

• Xue Yuantong gave Aunt Gu gifts from Mount Tai, noticed her cracked Jade Bracelet, and grew frightened that her mother had fallen.
• Aunt Gu explained that she had rescued a little girl from a woman trying to abduct her in an alley, and Jiang Ning offered to repair the bracelet.
• Ma Shicheng and his friends ate together at Yucai Internet Cafe and learned that Dong Qingfeng and the others had returned from their trip.
• Wang Longlong showed Ma Shicheng his fake arms-dealer Facebook account and revealed that mercenary groups had asked him for weapons; Ma suggested using cryptocurrency to take their money.
• Wang Longlong asked Chen Qian for weapon information, and Chen Qian sent him details about the Type 87 Grenade Launcher.
• Ma Shicheng received a text from Xiao Na saying she had been locked up in Fengmiao Town and pleading for him to save her.

Ma Shicheng investigated Xiao Na’s distress message and uncovered a dangerous connection to Chen Siyu’s cousin. Meanwhile, Jiang Ning reunited with Geng Lu, then tracked down the man who had attacked Aunt Gu and punished him before setting out to find the rest of the gang.

• Ma Shicheng checked Xiao Na’s online contacts, used a fake game-skin offer to access her boyfriend’s QQ account, and discovered it was being used to bait girls and contact an informant.
• Ma Shicheng called Chen Siyu and warned her not to meet her cousin, who had recently asked her to go out despite owing hundreds of thousands from gambling.
• Jiang Ning met Geng Lu at Blue-White Shopping Mall, went archery shooting and played claw machines with her, then followed a tracking talisman toward Taihe Road.
• Jiang Ning found the scar-faced young man who had attacked Aunt Gu and confirmed that he had used a steel slingshot against her.
• Jiang Ning endured the young man’s machete blows unharmed, disarmed him, and severely mutilated him before cleaning the room with Spirit Fire.
• Jiang Ning realized the gang members did not know one another’s identities and left to track them down one by one.

Jiang Ning rescued Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing after their cousin lured them into a van with a gang of criminals. He defeated the gang members and left with the sisters and their driver, A Yuan, as they continued toward the gang’s hideout.

• Jiang Ning traced Ma Shicheng’s stolen QQ account and learned that Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing’s cousin was connected to a criminal gang targeting them.
• Jiang Ning arranged for the sisters to contact their cousin, then boarded the van that arrived to collect them; Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing followed him inside.
• The men in the van threatened the sisters and discussed assaulting them and other women, so Jiang Ning told the criminals they were scum.
• Jiang Ning killed Gong Zi and Madman, crushed Ju Ge with an iron bar, and spared the terrified driver A Yuan.
• Jiang Ning concealed what had happened, gave the sisters drinks, and continued driving through the countryside with A Yuan while the sisters asked about the missing men.

Jiang Ning rescued several women from a trafficking hideout in Xinchang City, then took Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing to enjoy the snack street before arranging their return to Yuzhou. The chapter left them at the high-speed rail station, where the twins realized they had forgotten their ID cards, but Jiang Ning had brought his.

• Jiang Ning took A Yuan and the Chen Siyu sisters to a remote village, where he killed the guards and called Shao Shuangshuang to arrange help for the imprisoned women.
• Jiang Ning treated Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing to food and milk tea on Xinchang City's Snack Street, and gave a cup to a migrant worker.
• Jiang Ning called Shao Shuangshuang to arrange their trip on Train G8972, and the train was announced as delayed by twenty minutes.
• Officials investigated the hideout and struggled to explain the wall Jiang Ning had punched through to kill a suspect.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing reached the high-speed rail station and realized they had forgotten their ID cards, but Jiang Ning showed them his.

Jiang Ning took Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing back to Yuzhou by high-speed train, shielding them from an unwanted foreign teacher and introducing them to Business Class. After their journey, he gave the twins protective bracelets and left them at home, where they invited him to visit again.

• Jiang Ning guided Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing through the station and into the Business Waiting Area, where they encountered Lin Zida, Zhuang Jianhui, and Yuan Lin.
• A foreign teacher approached the twins, and Jiang Ning used Words Become Law to make him roll out of the waiting area; Lin Zida and Zhuang Jianhui won their bet with Yuan Lin.
• Jiang Ning and the twins boarded Train G8972 in Business Class, and Lin Zida chatted with Jiang Ning about games and his cousin Ding Shuyan.
• The train reached Yuzhou, and Jiang Ning sent the twins home by taxi before giving each of them a bracelet engraved with a Body Protection Array.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing invited Jiang Ning to meet their parents, and Chen Siqing suggested he visit when their parents were away after he declined.

After Shan Kaiquan accidentally offended Gao Heshaui in a class group, Bai Yuxia defused the situation, while Chen Siyu told her about Jiang Ning’s outing and gifts. At home, Jiang Ning pretended to be exhausted to soften Xue Yuantong’s anger, then gave her a Spirit Peach, and she told him that coming home safely was the best gift.

• Ma Shicheng invited his friends to barbecue, while Shan Kaiquan and Guo Kunnan stayed behind and Shan Kaiquan admitted he had moved on from Bai Yuxia.
• Shan Kaiquan accidentally sent a message opposing Gao Heshaui in the Class 1 Group, and Bai Yuxia calmed Gao Heshaui by praising his teaching.
• Chen Siyu told Bai Yuxia about traveling with Jiang Ning and showed her the bracelets Jiang Ning had given her and her sister.
• Yan Tianpeng invited Zhang Chi to barbecue, then pretended to lose his money and made Zhang Chi pay the bill.
• Xue Yuantong gave Xue Chuchu a jellyfish, then waited at the door for Jiang Ning, who returned home pretending to be exhausted.
• Xue Yuantong fed Jiang Ning his saved dinner, and Jiang Ning gave her a Spirit Peach; she said his safe return was the best gift.