Chapter Summaries

Lin Li discovered that Zhou Tongtong’s Awakened Ability helped Little White Cat and Little Black Cat cultivate, then warned the cats that the Ability Management Bureau might take them away as spirit beasts. Zhou Tongtong asked Lin Li to persuade the Bureau to leave her well-behaved friends alone.

• Lin Li questioned Zhou Tongtong about when she began communicating with the stray cats and learned that no one else knew about her spirituality.
• Zhou Tongtong asked whether becoming a Cultivator could help her score 100 on exams, and Lin Li struggled to explain cultivation to her.
• Lin Li gave the hungry cats sausages from his storage space, and Zhou Tongtong’s touch later sent Spiritual Energy into them and helped their cultivation.
• Lin Li and Zhou Tongtong shared delivered KFC with the cats, and Lin Li stored the leftovers.
• Lin Li warned Little White Cat and Little Black Cat that the Ability Management Bureau might forcibly take them away because they were spirit beasts.
• After Lin Li explained the Bureau’s safety concerns, Zhou Tongtong pleaded with him to ask the officials not to take the cats away.

Lin Li gave Zhou Tongtong and the two stray cats, Little White and Little Black, Spirit Fruits to help them break through to the First-Order Initial Stage and avoid having their awakened spirituality discovered. The cats advanced and Little Black awakened the ability to grow larger, but Zhou Tongtong remained stuck at the threshold of breakthrough even after eating more Spirit Fruits.

• Lin Li explained that Little White and Little Black might be discovered as supernatural beasts and taken away, so he offered to help them break through.
• Lin Li gave Spirit Fruits to Zhou Tongtong and both cats, and their Spiritual Energy rose rapidly.
• Little White and Little Black broke through to the First-Order Initial Stage, and Little Black awakened the ability to grow to an enormous size.
• Lin Li noticed Zhou Tongtong had not advanced, so he gave her a second Spirit Fruit, but she remained at the threshold.
• Lin Li gave Zhou Tongtong a third Spirit Fruit, which she ate.

Zhou Tongtong did not break through after eating three Spirit Fruits, though Lin Li reassured her that awakening spirituality so young promised a bright future. He warned Little White Cat and Little Black Cat to hide their powers and avoid harming people, while Xia Qing visited injured Zhou Dazhuang in the hospital and paid his medical expenses.

• After eating three Spirit Fruits, Zhou Tongtong felt bloated but rested until the discomfort passed, and Lin Li confirmed she had not broken through.
• Zhou Tongtong scolded Little Black Cat for pinning Little White Cat, then cheered up when Lin Li said Xia Qing would be proud of her awakened spirituality.
• Lin Li warned the newly advanced cats not to use Spiritual Energy around people or hurt humans, and Zhou Tongtong translated their promise to obey.
• At the Second Hospital of Rong City, Xia Qing learned Zhou Dazhuang had injured his foot while working for a debt-collection company and gave Wang Haiyan twenty-five hundred yuan for his care.
• After Xia Qing left, Zhou Dazhuang told Wang Haiyan he expected twenty or thirty thousand yuan in wages and explained that a debtor's drinking had led to their conflict.

Xia Qing returned home and learned from Lin Li that Zhou Tongtong and the two stray kittens had awakened their spirituality. Concerned that cultivation would endanger Tongtong’s peaceful life and draw public attention, Xia Qing asked Lin Li to keep the discovery secret, while Tongtong and the kittens discussed staying hidden.

• Xia Qing found Zhou Tongtong at Lin Li’s home and thanked him for picking her up from school.
• Lin Li explained that Zhou Tongtong and the kittens had awakened their spirituality, and that Little Black Cat was exhausted after using its ability recklessly.
• Xia Qing revealed that Tongtong’s father had died as a Beast Hunter and explained that she had hoped to keep her daughter safe from a cultivator’s life.
• Lin Li agreed not to tell anyone about Tongtong’s awakening, and Xia Qing decided to leave the question of her daughter’s future for later.
• On the balcony, Zhou Tongtong reminded the kittens to keep their abilities secret, and Little Black Cat promised to be careful about growing larger.

Zhou Tongtong returned home with her mother after saying goodbye to Lin Li, who then learned his repaired Spirit Artifact Longsword was ready and invited Su Yue to play a game. Meanwhile, Su Yue shopped with Wang Ling as an unknown man followed them, and the Ability Management Bureau learned that Su Chen had captured two wanted Azure Society members while keeping his identity secret; Liu Jialin also saw that Lin Li had completed several outsourced missions.

• Zhou Tongtong rode the elevator home with Little White and Little Black, and Xia Qing told her to keep her ability to understand them secret.
• Lin Li received a call from the Jin He Weapon Shop saying his repaired Spirit Artifact Longsword was ready, then messaged Su Yue to play a game.
• Su Yue told Lin Li she was shopping with Wang Ling, and the two friends bought a hairpin and a necklace while an unknown man followed them.
• Zhang Xiao told Liu Jialin that two wanted Azure Society members had been captured in Yuwan Town and were being transferred to the Rong City Ability Management Bureau, without Su Chen's identity being disclosed.
• Liu Jialin checked the outsourced-mission website and saw that Lin Li had completed several missions, surprising Zhang Xiao when she learned how young and powerful he was.

Liu Yang defeated most of the Azure Society members who ambushed the transport convoy carrying two captured criminals, while several escaped. The tattooed survivor reported the failed rescue to his superior and warned Li Ying to leave Yuwan Town before the Ability Management Bureau searched it.

• The Azure Society ambushed the Ability Management Bureau convoy, but investigators blocked their attacks and Liu Yang flew into the forest to confront them.
• Liu Yang revealed his Second-Order Peak cultivation, routed the attackers, and captured eight Azure Society members while the others escaped.
• At the Rong City Ability Management Bureau, Liu Jialin learned that Liu Yang had joined the transport team and stopped worrying about its safety.
• The tattooed archer fled for an hour and a half, then called his superior to report that the rescue had failed and several members had been captured.
• The tattooed archer called Li Ying and warned him to leave Yuwan Town before the Ability Management Bureau searched for Azure Society members.

Li Ying fled after learning the rescue attempt had failed, while Zhang Xiaohao arranged to have Su Yue watched. The next day, Lin Li retrieved his repaired sword and agreed to take Su Yue to a movie that evening, delaying his plans to hunt in the Spirit Realm.

• Li Ying learned the Azure Society's rescue attempt had failed and fled into the wilderness as the Yuwan Town Ability Management Bureau searched for its members.
• Su Chen told Zheng Qiuyi that the attempted rescue of the wanted criminals had failed.
• Zhang Xiaohao instructed a furtive-looking man to track Su Yue's daily routine after she parted from Wang Ling.
• Lin Li fed Little White Cat and Little Black Cat before going to retrieve his repaired Spirit Artifact Longsword.
• Zhou Tongtong brought the two stray kittens little fish, and they told her Lin Li had already fed them.
• Su Yue invited Lin Li to a movie; after initially refusing, he agreed to go with her that evening.

Lin Li spent several days hunting in the spirit realm so he could feed prey to the miracle small tree, while several powerful beasts prepared an ambush for him. He harvested and ate the tree’s newly ripened silver-white fruit, then passed out as his cultivation surged toward the third-order initial stage.

• Lin Li turned down Liu Jialin’s invitation to spar and focused on continuing his hunting plan.
• After several days, Lin Li killed a huge beast in the mountains north of Tashi City and brought its body to the mysterious small island.
• The crimson poison scorpion and seven other second-order peak beasts prepared to ambush Lin Li, and the Human-faced Python arrived to join them.
• The miracle small tree absorbed the beast’s body, reached one hundred percent maturation, and produced a silver-white fruit that Lin Li picked and ate.
• The fruit’s spiritual energy drove Lin Li’s second-order peak cultivation toward the third-order initial stage, overwhelmed him, and left him unconscious as silver-white light appeared around his body.

As a typhoon approached Rong City, Su Yue went to Lin Li’s apartment and opened the door with a key while Lin Li awakened on the mysterious island after advancing to the Third-Order Initial Stage. Lin Li discovered he could fly and had gained a powerful Lightning Ability, leaving him testing its destructive force.

• The school dismissed its students for a typhoon day, and Xia Qing brought Zhou Tongtong home with Little White Cat and Little Black Cat invited to shelter from the storm.
• Su Yue worried that Lin Li had been avoiding her, then drove to Ping'an Garden Residential Area and unlocked his apartment with a key.
• Lin Li woke after eating the miraculous little fruit and realized he had advanced to the Third-Order Initial Stage and could fly.
• Lin Li tested his increased strength by flying and punching, then discovered pale silver-white electricity forming in his hand.
• Lin Li fired a bolt of lightning that blasted a charred pit into the grassland and judged that it could kill a Second-Order Peak mutated beast in one strike.

After advancing to the Third-Order Initial Stage, Lin Li gained a Lightning Ability and saw the Mysterious Small Island expand to 150 mu. Back home, he reunited with Su Yue, who confronted him about avoiding her, and the two stayed in as a typhoon brought heavy rain while she prepared dinner.

• Lin Li tested his new Lightning Ability, learned the Mysterious Small Island had expanded to 150 mu, and ate food to ease the hunger caused by consuming an Ability Fruit.
• Lin Li returned home hungry and encountered Su Yue, who had let herself in with a key she said she had recently found.
• Su Yue explained that she had come because Lin Li had ignored her messages and repeatedly refused her invitations; Lin Li offered her three meals and a movie to make up for it.
• Lin Li and Su Yue prepared to go out for dinner, but a typhoon brought torrential rain, so Su Yue decided to cook with the ingredients in his refrigerator.
• Su Yue told Lin Li to wait in the living room while she cooked, and Lin Li offered to help wash the vegetables.

As a typhoon battered the coast, Lin Li struggled with the intense hunger caused by eating an Ability Fruit and worried he might not be able to stock up on food. Su Chen went to protect the Su Corporation’s offshore farm, leaving it safe behind an invisible barrier that weakened the storm.

• Zhou Tongtong welcomed Little White and Little Black into her bedroom, shared her Angry Little Bear doll with them, and Xia Qing fed them chicken at dinner.
• Xia Qing brought Lin Li a basin of braised chicken legs and wings, and he ate more than half before ordering high-calorie chocolate bars to manage the Ability Fruit’s lingering hunger.
• Lin Li worried the typhoon would prevent Su Yue from going home and stop him from reaching the supermarket for supplies.
• Su Chen learned that the typhoon’s waves threatened the offshore farm, reassured its workers, and left his villa to deal with the danger.
• Su Chen reached the farm and surrounded it with an invisible membrane that weakened the gale, rain, and waves, allowing the workers to see that the farm was safe.

During a typhoon, Su Chen killed a Third-Order Initial Stage Deep Sea Lanternfish that had attacked an Ability Management Bureau coast guard vessel, then left without revealing himself. Back in Rong City, Lin Li ate an unusually large amount of food, and Su Yue worried about his health, though he reassured her that his examination had found nothing wrong.

• Su Chen sensed an abnormal Spiritual Energy fluctuation at sea and flew toward its source while the Ability Management Bureau coast guard vessel searched the stormy waters.
• The Deep Sea Lanternfish used a psychic attack to incapacitate the investigators, but Su Chen countered with golden beams and broke its assault.
• Su Chen killed the Deep Sea Lanternfish, collected its body with his Spatial Spirit Tool, and disappeared as the coast guard captain suspected he was the owner of Su Corporation.
• At dinner in Ping'an Garden, Lin Li ate five bowls of rice, prompting Su Yue to worry that he had binge-eating disorder.
• Lin Li told Su Yue that a full-body examination had found no problems, and he praised her cooking until she happily resumed eating.

Su Yue stayed at Lin Li’s home during the worsening typhoon, while Zhang Xiaohao learned she was at Lin Li’s residential area and ordered his hired watcher to keep surveillance overnight. The storm continued as Zhang Xiaohao grew jealous and the watcher agreed to stay for double pay.

• Su Yue spoke with her mother, Zheng Qiuyi, who checked that she was safe and reminded her to keep wearing her jade bangle.
• Su Chen told Zheng Qiuyi that he had killed a Third-Order Initial Stage alien beast near the coast, then confirmed the incident with Zhang Kedi.
• Lin Li washed the dishes after Su Yue cooked for him, and Su Yue agreed to spend the night at his home because the typhoon made travel dangerous.
• Zhang Xiaohao learned from his watcher that Su Yue had gone to the residential area where Lin Li lived and might stay there overnight.
• Zhang Xiaohao ordered the watcher to keep watching Su Yue and promised him double pay, which the watcher accepted.

Lin Li struggled to stay composed around Su Yue before retreating to bed, while Zhou Tongtong’s awakened ability appeared to manifest in her sleep. Her dream drew Little White Cat and Little Black Cat into a sunlit park to play.

• Su Yue teased Lin Li after bathing, but he pushed her away, hid in the bathroom to calm himself, and later went to bed early.
• Su Yue learned from her mother, Zheng Qiuyi, that she would receive Exotic Beast Meat after the typhoon passed.
• Xia Qing discovered that Little Black Cat could grow larger, and Zhou Tongtong explained its Awakened Ability before going to bed with the two cats.
• A golden Spiritual Light appeared between Zhou Tongtong’s brows as she slept, and Little White Cat guessed that she had awakened an ability.
• Zhou Tongtong spoke in her sleep, and Little White Cat and Little Black Cat fell asleep before appearing with her in a park inside her dream.

Liu Jialin and Wang Jing watched a captured Azure Society member resist interrogation before learning that a mysterious powerhouse had killed a Third-Order Initial Stage sea beast near Yuwan Town. At a wilderness outpost, Azure Society members discussed the failed rescue and the capture of two of their strongest subordinates.

• Old He used his psychic ability to interrogate the scarred Azure Society member, who endured the assault until he fainted.
• Liu Jialin and Wang Jing learned the prisoner had suffered mental trauma and could not be questioned again until he recovered.
• Over a late-night meal, Wang Jing told Liu Jialin that a mysterious powerhouse had killed a Third-Order Initial Stage exotic beast before it could reach Yuwan Town.
• Outpost guards 1025 and 1026 killed a Porcupine Beast near the settlement and brought its body back for the cafeteria.
• The Bald Man told the Bearded Man that their people sent to Rong City had been wiped out, two capable subordinates had been captured, and a rescue attempt had led to more captures.

Azure Society cadres suspected that higher-ups were responsible for a disastrous rescue order, while Lin Li spent a typhoon-bound morning at home with Su Yue, who made breakfast with him. The chapter ended with Lin Li forgiving Su Yue after she teased him for eagerly watching the steamed buns.

• The Bald Man told the bearded man that the head of the intelligence department had issued the rescue order, though they suspected a higher-up had secretly directed it.
• The bearded man complained that infighting among the Azure Society's higher-ups was costing people at the bottom their lives, then warned two burly guards not to abandon their posts again.
• Lin Li woke to a typhoon hitting Rong City and stayed in bed playing a game while Su Yue slept in the guest room.
• Su Yue offered to make breakfast, and she and Lin Li prepared meat buns together as the storm raged outside.
• Lin Li eagerly waited for the buns to steam, and he forgave Su Yue when she poked his cheek and laughed at him.

Lin Li and Su Yue shared breakfast, discussed their school's upcoming sports meet, and played a game together while a typhoon struck Rong City. In the Spirit Realm, nine Second-Order Peak exotic beasts waited in ambush for a human who failed to appear, then nearly turned on one another before Crimson Poison Scorpion intervened.

• Lin Li eagerly ate Su Yue's meat buns and mung bean porridge, while Zhou Tongtong told Xia Qing she had signed up for the fifty-meter race and aimed to win first place.
• Su Yue told Lin Li she had entered the fifty-meter dash and shot put, and he teased her with the nickname “Su the Strongwoman.”
• Lin Li and Su Yue watched news of the typhoon making landfall in Rong City, then teamed up in a game.
• Black Giant Ape questioned Pangolin Beast about why the human had not appeared at the usual time, while Green-Eyed Lion, Crimson Poison Scorpion, and Human-Faced Python discussed the failed ambush.
• Black Giant Ape and Human-Faced Python argued and prepared to fight until Crimson Poison Scorpion stepped in, and both beasts reluctantly calmed down.

The beasts decided to wait three days for the missing human, while Lin Li and Su Yue spent a quiet afternoon together in Rong City. Zhang Xiaohao learned where Su Yue lived and arranged for a move against her on Friday, leaving the danger unresolved.

• The thin Pangolin Beast persuaded the Second-Order Peak beasts to wait three days for the human, and the Black Giant Ape threatened to kill it if he did not appear.
• Lin Li and Su Yue played games and rested at Lin Li’s home while a typhoon battered Rong City.
• Qin Muqing woke from a dream of her former luxurious life and worried about running out of rice.
• After the typhoon passed, Su Yue returned home, and a furtive-looking man followed her and reported her residential area to Zhang Xiaohao.
• Zhang Xiaohao told the furtive-looking man to keep watching Su Yue and promised him extra pay for two more days.
• Zhang Xiaohao arranged with an associate to make their move on Friday and warned them to behave carefully.

Lin Li accepted a Bureau task to help destroy an underground black market, while Zhou Tongtong trained for her school sports meet and again released Spiritual Energy without breaking through. The chapter ended with Lin Li heading out for the evening task and Zhou Tongtong returning home, still uncertain when she would advance.

• Lin Li received two boxes of chocolate bars and sent them into the Mysterious Small Island from a distance using his newly expanded ability.
• Lin Li accepted the last place in a group task to meet an investigator at seven and help destroy an underground black market.
• Zhou Tongtong practiced running with Little White Cat and Little Black Cat, then briefly made her eyes glow and attracted the nearby birds before the cats warned her that people were approaching.
• Zhou Tongtong returned home before five-thirty and told Lin Li that her eyes had glowed again, but Lin Li could not say when she would break through.
• Lin Li returned Zhou Tongtong's family's iron basin, encouraged her to let her breakthrough happen naturally, and left to take out the trash before his task.

Lin Li stopped a Crocodile Beast that had escaped into a city river, then joined Liu Sheng and four temporary workers for a raid on an underground black market. After Lin Li claimed to have Second-Order High Stage cultivation, the others assumed he was bragging and assigned him to guard the outside as the team entered the industrial park.

• Lin Li saw police officers try to capture an escaped crocodile with anesthetic crossbow bolts, but it revealed itself as a Crocodile Beast and escaped their control.
• Lin Li secretly struck the Crocodile Beast with lightning, allowing the police officers to recover it while he rode away on his shared bicycle.
• Lin Li arrived just before the meeting deadline and showed Liu Sheng and the temporary workers his genuine qualification certificate.
• Liu Sheng led Lin Li and the four temporary workers to a secluded industrial park after an informant confirmed that the underground black market was active inside.
• Lin Li said he had Second-Order High Stage cultivation, and the others accused him of bragging before Liu Sheng assigned him to guard outside.
• Liu Sheng led the group into the industrial park to begin the raid.