Chapter Summaries

Lin Li escaped the fissure by collapsing its entrance, then headed toward a field of strange stone pillars while the giant centipedes eventually tunneled out and lost his trail. On Blue Star, Su Yue spoke with her mother about tea plantation plans and noticed things in her home had shifted, while Zhang Xiaohao's distress over Su Yue and Lin Li culminated in a vow to prove himself.

• Lin Li sealed the fissure entrance with a giant Azure Wind Blade and set off to investigate distant stone pillars.
• The giant centipedes dug their way out of the collapsed fissure, but Lin Li had already disappeared.
• Su Yue watered her balcony plants, spoke with Zheng Qiuyi about choosing a tea plantation plan, and noticed that some things in her house had shifted.
• Wu Guilan found Zhang Xiaohao haggard after days in his room and suspected his state was related to Su Yue.
• Zhang Xiaohao refused to explain what had happened and vowed to prove that he was a better choice than Lin Li.

Zhang Xiaohao contacted a mysterious person to discuss a business deal, while Su Yue’s new bracelet briefly emitted energy before she left to meet Wang Ling. In the Spirit Realm, Lin Li reached an ancient stone forest and headed toward a fierce battle after hearing pillars collapse.

• Zhang Xiaohao overcame his hesitation and arranged an afternoon meeting with an unnamed contact to discuss a business deal.
• Su Yue received her custom bracelet, then agreed to go shopping with Wang Ling and left her jade bangle at home.
• The jade bangle flashed with golden light, and an elderly neighbor sensed no spiritual energy on Su Yue as she passed him.
• Su Yue’s spiritual energy surged near a watermelon rind, crushing the flies gathered on it before she took a taxi to Huilon Plaza.
• Lin Li explored the ancient stone forest without finding anything valuable, then heard a battle and sensed two spiritual energy fluctuations.
• Lin Li suppressed his spiritual energy and stealthily approached as giant stone pillars collapsed in the distance.

Lin Li took an amber glazed bowl from a man who had just beaten a rival and claimed the treasure for himself. When the man attacked Lin Li, he sensed Lin Li’s true Second-Order Peak cultivation and recoiled in fear.

• The man with the black birthmark defeated the scarred treasure hunter and forced him to flee without the amber glazed bowl.
• Lin Li picked up the bowl and learned that it made liquor more fragrant and mellow.
• The man with the black birthmark demanded the bowl and attacked Lin Li when he refused to hand it over.
• The man with the black birthmark sensed Lin Li’s Second-Order Peak cultivation, stopped his charge, and retreated in terror.

Lin Li extorted ten spirit stones from the man with the black birthmark on his forehead and learned how to reach the surface. After Lin Li left, the man was confronted by five cultivators demanding a spirit artifact, and he fled as their leader attacked him.

• Lin Li intimidated the man with the black birthmark on his forehead into giving him ten spirit stones, then asked for directions to the passage to the surface.
• The man with the black birthmark on his forehead directed Lin Li toward a stream, and Lin Li departed.
• A man with a hideous scar arrived with his short, thin big brother and three companions, accusing the man with the black birthmark on his forehead of stealing a spirit artifact.
• The man with the black birthmark on his forehead denied having the artifact and refused to let the group search him.
• When the short, thin man signaled his companions, the man with the black birthmark on his forehead fled, dodging the leader's golden attacks as they pursued him.

Lin Li left the stone forest and tried to cook lunch by a stream, but hungry creatures interrupted him and attacked. At the ancient city, Wu Qingfang mourned Lin Li and spoke about him to Zhao Xiaoya, while Lin Li fought off the creatures beside the stream.

• Lin Li followed the black-birthmark man's directions out of the stone forest and reached a stream, where he set up camp to cook lunch.
• A group of strange, hungry creatures followed the smell of Lin Li's cooking toward his campsite.
• At the ancient city, Wu Qingfang sat by the moat remembering Lin Li and grieving over his apparent death.
• Zhao Xiaoya joined Wu Qingfang, and the two went to lunch after Zhao Xiaoya's hungry stomach interrupted their silence.
• The creatures attacked Lin Li while he cooked, and he killed their leader before charging at the rest.

Lin Li fought off a pack of strange creatures, followed an underground stream to the surface, and headed toward the ancient city. Back on Blue Star, Su Yue’s Invisible Force Field made a young man and his friends repeatedly fall at a restaurant, leaving Su Yue and Wang Ling confused.

• Lin Li defeated nearly fifty strange-looking creatures by the stream, and the survivors fled.
• Lin Li cooked and ate, then followed the stream upstream through a cave toward the surface.
• Lin Li emerged beneath the stormy sky and ran toward the mountains beyond which the ancient city stood.
• Su Yue and Wang Ling finished lunch and planned to visit the flower and bird market.
• When a young man approached Su Yue for her contact information, her Invisible Force Field made him and his friends fall repeatedly.
• Wang Ling returned from the restroom and asked whether the fallen group was performing some kind of performance art, while Su Yue said she did not know.

While Su Yue slept in a taxi, her unstable Invisible Force Field caused strange incidents along the route to the flower and bird market. Investigators searched for the unseen Cultivator responsible but found no trace, while Su Yue woke and went shopping with Wang Ling.

• After lunch, Su Yue fell asleep in the taxi, and her Dantian released an expanding Invisible Force Field.
• The field stopped a boy from hitting a tree and gathered fallen leaves into a pile as the taxi passed.
• Two investigators sensed the growing Spiritual Energy anomaly and hurried toward the flower and bird market.
• Su Yue woke at the market and entered with Wang Ling while the anomaly disappeared.
• The investigators searched nearby with a spirit artifact, found no Cultivator, and decided to report the incidents.

Zhang Xiaohao hired Third Master Xu for one million to beat Lin Li in front of Su Yue, hoping to humiliate his rival. Third Master Xu assigned the job to his powerful subordinate, who expected to finish it within three days, and warned him to avoid causing a commotion.

• Zhang Xiaohao met Third Master Xu in Private Room 303 and asked him to teach Lin Li a lesson rather than kill him.
• Zhang Xiaohao revealed that Lin Li was a Second-Order Early Stage Cultivator and paid Third Master Xu one million to have Lin Li beaten in front of Su Yue.
• Third Master Xu summoned his burly subordinate, who dismissed the job as easy and promised to complete it within three days.
• Third Master Xu and his subordinate discussed how Chi Jingmu's attempted retaliation against the Ability Management Bureau had put shadowy organizations across Rong City at risk.
• Third Master Xu told his subordinate to keep the attack on Lin Li quiet, and the subordinate agreed to make it quick.

Lin Li crossed the Ruins Space toward a 100,000-year-old ancient city, killing a blocking beast and reaching the camps outside its gates. When a freckled man tried to extort him and then threw a fruit at him, Lin Li retaliated, and the man threatened to break his limbs.

• Lin Li killed a horned beast with an Azure Wind Blade as he climbed a hill toward the ancient city.
• Lin Li spotted a huge goshawk flying toward the ancient city and continued down the hill.
• Lin Li reached the camps outside the ancient city and refused to accept a freckled man's demand for money to pass.
• Lin Li dodged the freckled man's thrown fruit, then kicked a stone at him and damaged a tent.
• The freckled man grew enraged and advanced on Lin Li, threatening to break his limbs.

Lin Li fought off the Zhang Family’s camp guards after they tried to stop him from reaching the Ancient City. He revealed Second-Order Peak cultivation by effortlessly sending their Second-Order High Stage leader flying, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Lin Li kicked the heavily freckled man away and ignored the Bearded Man’s demands to stop as he headed toward the Ancient City.
• The Bearded Man ordered five Zhang Family servants to attack Lin Li, and Lin Li dodged their first assault before breaking one servant’s ribs and defeating three others.
• Lin Li mocked the fallen servants, while several onlookers considered recruiting him and the Bearded Man stepped forward to fight.
• The Bearded Man unleashed his full Second-Order High Stage strength and charged Lin Li, but Lin Li sent him flying more than twenty meters.
• The onlookers sensed Lin Li’s Second-Order Peak Spiritual Energy and stared at him in disbelief.

Lin Li revealed his Second-Order Peak cultivation, defeated the Zhang Family’s servants, and left for the Ancient City without killing them. On Blue Star, Little Black Cat showed Zhou Tongtong its growth ability and carried her around the living room, while Zhou Tongtong’s Spiritual Light began to flicker.

• Lin Li knocked down the rough-featured Bearded Man and exposed his Second-Order Peak cultivation, terrifying the Zhang Family’s servants and the onlookers.
• Lin Li left the injured servants alive and continued toward the Ancient City, while the speckle-faced man apologized to the Bearded Man and the Zhang Family’s group returned to camp.
• Little White Cat and Little Black Cat abandoned their plan to swim and went to Zhou Tongtong’s apartment for spicy fried chicken wings and air conditioning.
• Little Black Cat used its esper ability to grow to one and a half meters and invited Zhou Tongtong to ride on its back.
• Little Black Cat carried Zhou Tongtong across the living room as her eyes flashed with Spiritual Light, then suddenly felt dizzy and disoriented.

Zhou Tongtong helped the Little Black Cat recover after it exhausted its Spiritual Energy, then tried to deliver fried chicken wings to Lin Li but found him away. Meanwhile, Lin Li entered the Ancient City alone and followed the familiar fragrance to a patch of enormous pitcher plants, where an unexpected situation began.

• The Little Black Cat collapsed after using up its Spiritual Energy, and Zhou Tongtong restored some of it by channeling Spiritual Energy into the cat.
• Xia Qing gave Zhou Tongtong a basin of fried chicken wings to take to Lin Li, but the Little White Cat sensed that he was not home, so the three returned.
• Lin Li crossed the moat and entered the Ancient City, where he followed a strong fried-chicken fragrance through its empty streets.
• Lin Li discovered enormous pitcher plants that were releasing the fragrance to lure prey, but they remained motionless as he waited.
• Just as Lin Li prepared to leave the pitcher plants, an abnormal situation suddenly occurred.

Lin Li fled an endless swarm of mobile giant pitcher plants and led them to a treasure-hunting team exploring the Ancient City. The team fought the plants, then began retreating to avoid exhausting themselves before facing other dangers.

• Gray-brown vines attacked Lin Li, who cut them apart with Azure Wind Blades and discovered giant pitcher plants could uproot themselves and pursue him.
• Lin Li abandoned the fight and ran through the Ancient City, drawing the giant pitcher plants away from their original area.
• A treasure-hunting team clearing a residence noticed Lin Li sprint past, then saw the pursuing pitcher plants emerge at the end of the street.
• The team took antidotes against the plants’ enticing fried-chicken aroma and fought off their vines with weapons and Spiritual Energy.
• The middle-aged leader ordered the team to retreat after the fight began draining their strength.

Lin Li used a huge fireball to rescue the treasure-hunting party from the giant pitcher plants, then continued exploring the Ancient City. As night approached, he heard a deafening explosion ahead.

• The middle-aged leader and his companions were trapped between attacking giant pitcher plants, with their escape route blocked.
• Lin Li spotted the party through a telescope and sent a massive fireball into the plants, halting their assault and opening a path to escape.
• The party broke through and fled, while Lin Li extinguished the fireball and resumed exploring.
• The middle-aged leader and his companions rested after escaping and wondered who had sent the fireball.
• Lin Li found no valuable items before dark, then heard a deafening explosion ahead.

Wu Qingfang and her companions fled the Ancient City after Chen Zhiyuan stayed behind to battle a White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beast leader, but Zhang Mingqiu’s group and pursuing beasts delayed them. Surrounded by reinforcements and with no escape, they prepared to fight to the death just as a gigantic fireball descended from the sky.

• Chen Zhiyuan fought the Third-Order Initial Stage White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beast leader while Wu Qingfang led her injured companions away.
• Wu Qingfang encountered Zhang Mingqiu and refused to take revenge when his Third-Order Initial Stage elder intervened.
• White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beasts caught up with Wu Qingfang’s group, and she used red glazed spiritual artifacts to create a wall of fire before ordering a counterattack.
• Wu Qingfang and her companions defeated all but three pursuing beasts, but more than twenty reinforcements arrived and surrounded them.
• Wu Qingfang and her guards prepared to fight the beasts to the death as a gigantic fireball descended from the sky.

Lin Li reunited with Wu Qingfang, rescued her group from the White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beasts, and joined them as they fled the city in heavy rain. Meanwhile, Chen Zhiyuan continued fighting the beast leader, which engulfed him in a waterspout.

• Lin Li attacked the White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beasts with fireballs and reunited with Wu Qingfang, who was relieved to find him alive.
• Lin Li killed the remaining beasts with a barrage of fireballs, then told Wu Qingfang he planned to keep exploring the city.
• Heavy rain began, forcing Lin Li to abandon his plans and leave with Wu Qingfang and her guards.
• Chen Zhiyuan continued battling the White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beast leader while hidden treasure seekers watched without helping.
• The beast leader gathered the suspended rain into a giant waterspout and sent it at Chen Zhiyuan, who let it swallow him without dodging.

Chen Zhiyuan escaped the White-Scaled Bone-Spur Beast leader, while Lin Li returned from the Ruins Space to his home on Blue Star. Zhang Mingqiu learned that Lin Li had injured his servants and damaged their tent, and the chapter ended with the Little White Cat sensing Lin Li’s return.

• Chen Zhiyuan escaped the waterspout with a spirit artifact and hurried toward the city gates.
• Wu Qingfang offered Lin Li a place at her camp, but he declined and accepted her jade pendant before leaving.
• Zhang Mingqiu found his injured servants and damaged tent, kicked the servants, then ordered them to identify the person responsible.
• Chen Zhiyuan returned safely to Wu Qingfang’s camp as the treasure hunters withdrew from the Ancient City in the storm.
• Lin Li returned to his home on Blue Star and went to shower after finding his clothes soaked.
• The Little White Cat sensed Lin Li’s return and told Zhou Tongtong.

Lin Li reunited with Zhou Tongtong and the two stray cats, then discovered that Zhou Tongtong still could not mobilize the Spiritual Energy in her Dantian. After Little Black Cat demonstrated its enlarged form, Zhou Tongtong's Spiritual Energy suddenly activated as she petted it.

• Little White Cat sensed that Lin Li had returned, so Zhou Tongtong brought him Xia Qing's fried chicken wings and visited him with the two cats.
• Lin Li treated Zhou Tongtong and the cats to ice cream, then asked whether Xia Qing planned to travel during the National Day holiday.
• Lin Li asked Zhou Tongtong to mobilize her Spiritual Energy, but she could not do so, and he could not determine the cause.
• Zhou Tongtong said Little Black Cat could grow larger, and Lin Li gave it a Spirit Fruit so it could recover enough Spiritual Energy to demonstrate its ability.
• As Zhou Tongtong petted Little Black Cat after it returned to normal, Spiritual Energy stirred in her Dantian and pale golden light appeared on her hand, which Lin Li noticed.

Lin Li checked the Snow Lotuses he had dried and ordered KFC while watching news about a smuggling case. The report said two suspects remained at large, and Lin Li wondered why smugglers were repeatedly using Rong City as a transit point.

• Zhou Tongtong returned home with Xia Qing after telling her that she had given Lin Li the fried chicken wings.
• Lin Li exchanged messages with Su Yue about her orchids and his trip to the Ruins Space, where he had confirmed Wu Qingfang was still alive.
• Su Yue and Wang Ling discussed their shopping trip, Wang Ling's flower shop, and their plans after dinner.
• Lin Li gathered the dried Snow Lotuses from the rooftop and stored them in the Mysterious Small Island.
• Lin Li ordered KFC and ate Xia Qing's leftover fried chicken wings while watching a report that the Ability Management Bureau had arrested thirty-four of thirty-six smuggling suspects in Rong City.

After dinner, Su Yue fell asleep on a park bench as the seal on her restless Dantian weakened and broke. Two fugitives emerged from hiding, and the lustful rat-faced man approached her despite his companion's warning.

• Su Yue parted from Wang Ling, bought cakes, and entered a quiet park while heading to hail a taxi.
• A sudden gust left Su Yue dizzy, and she fell asleep on a bench in the otherwise deserted park.
• Spiritual Energy stirred Su Yue's Dantian, and its Golden Threads seal failed to suppress it.
• Two hungry men hiding in a bamboo grove decided to leave the park and find food, despite the tall man warning his companion to keep a low profile.
• The two men spotted the sleeping Su Yue, and the rat-faced man stopped after smelling alcohol and approached her.
• The tall man noticed his companion's move and shouted at him to stop.