Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo captured the insect that had been harming Ji Jiale and arranged for the patient to receive pain relief while keeping the isolation measures in place. After returning to the villa, he teased Yuan Ruoshan about the foxes watching her and went to secure the insect.

• Chen Mo lured the insect out of Ji Jiale's nostril and sealed it in a glass bottle.
• Ji Jiale woke in pain, and Chen Mo told Li Puhe to give him painkillers and nutrients without removing the silver needles.
• Chen Mo warned Li Puhe and Chang Wenbin to keep the protective isolation setup in place because the insect might have unknown abilities.
• Yuan Ruoshan ran away when Chen Mo showed her the bottle, while Li Puhe and Chang Wenbin went to treat Ji Jiale.
• At the villa, Chen Mo teased Yuan Ruoshan that the Little Foxes and dogs were watching her like a fool, then said he would add safeguards to the insect's container.

Chen Mo agreed to join the Special Affairs Administration as a physician after negotiating a role focused on treating patients rather than field missions. Yuan Ruoshan arranged for the captured insect to be transported for study, and the chapter ended with Chen Mo accepting the Administration’s terms.

• Chen Mo secured the unusual insect in several layers of glass and stainless steel, then gave it to Yuan Ruoshan to have professionally transported and studied.
• Yuan Ruoshan asked Chen Mo to join the Special Affairs Administration, and he proposed serving as external staff who would treat injured people at his home.
• Yuan Ruoshan consulted Ning Yongzhi and their superiors, who approved a formal logistical role for Chen Mo without requiring him to undertake missions.
• Yuan Ruoshan explained that Chen Mo would receive contribution points for successful treatments and access to the Administration’s special medicine repository.
• Chen Mo accepted the arrangement and agreed to join the Special Affairs Administration as a physician.

Chen Mo treated patients and visited Old Man He's home to examine Hu Guo Zhong, whose condition had worsened. He left the other elders waiting while he went to see the unconscious Hu Guo Zhong.

• Chen Mo continued treating patients, gave Li Puhe Dragon Blood Vine pills, and used acupuncture to relieve Ji Lejia's pain.
• Chen Mo arrived at Old Man He's home, where Qiu Yanghua asked to buy his top-grade Tien Huang seal material, but Chen Mo refused.
• Old Man He told Chen Mo that Hu Guo Zhong had been spending most of his time unconscious and could not walk around.
• Chen Mo went inside to examine Hu Guo Zhong while Hu Yue stayed by his father's side.

Chen Mo treated Hu Guo Zhong after Hu Yue signed a disclaimer, stabilizing the gravely ill patient and outlining a long course of treatment. Hu Yue agreed to pay two million for treatment and six months’ rent, and Chen Mo prepared to continue caring for his father.

• Hu Yue signed Hu Guo Zhong’s Disclaimer Agreement after learning Chen Mo was treating someone from the Special Affairs Administration.
• Chen Mo examined Hu Guo Zhong, sent everyone but Hu Yue out of the room, and spent an hour using acupuncture and True Essence to stabilize him.
• Chen Mo told Hu Yue to have a family member monitor Hu Guo Zhong, and the family’s private Doctor confirmed that the patient’s condition and monitoring data had improved.
• Chen Mo explained Hu Guo Zhong’s condition and said treatment could take at least half a year, quoting two million for the later treatment.
• Hu Yue agreed to the fee, said his younger sister would pay, and accepted Chen Mo’s request for the treatment fee and six months’ rent.

Chen Mo finished arranging Hu Guo Zhong's care and examined the other patients before checking on his clinic and farm. He reassured Grandpa Yao that the livestock's rapid growth came from a harmless nutrient solution he had developed.

• Chen Mo told Hu Yue that only one nurse could remain with Hu Guo Zhong and asked Fu Huiwen to enforce the rule.
• Chen Mo examined Yang Heyu, Tian Baoli, Qiu Yanghua, and the other patients, finding only common ailments among the elderly.
• Chen Mo called his mother, Fu Huili, and arranged to visit for Shaozi Noodles.
• Chen Mo checked the fields, cafeteria, and livestock shed, where Grandpa Yao questioned how quickly the animals were growing.
• Chen Mo explained that his biological nutrient solution helped livestock grow quickly and assured Grandpa Yao it was harmless.

Chen Mo met with Da Hai and Chen Jingui to plan expanding vegetable cultivation as buyers demanded more produce. He assigned them to buy tractors and fertilizer, and planned further planting and greenhouses in Gourd Valley.

• Chen Mo heard Grandpa Yao describe how the village admired Chen Jianguo because Chen Mo employed many local workers and appeared to be earning well.
• Chen Mo told Da Hai and Chen Jingui that demand from the buyers exceeded their vegetable supply and proposed planting vegetables across the hillside after the flowers were harvested.
• Chen Jingui suggested having workers plow by hand, but Chen Mo decided to buy two tractors and used planting machinery, with Da Hai operating them and training workers.
• Chen Mo directed Da Hai to buy tractors and Chen Jingui and Ding Lanhua to purchase fertilizer from an official sales department.
• Chen Mo planned to plant grapes, strawberries, watermelons, and flowers on Gourd Valley’s cleared western land and build greenhouses over the hillside and two hundred mu of flatland.

Chen Mo visited his parents for lunch, where Fu Huili tried to arrange a blind date for him, but he refused and drove away. Afterward, Chen Jianguo urged Fu Huili to stop interfering, warning that the matchmakers might be interested in Chen Mo’s money and that his standards were high.

• Chen Mo told Ding Lanhua about his plans to go to town with Chen Jingui, then drove to his parents’ home for lunch.
• Fu Huili asked Chen Mo to cancel his afternoon plans and go on a blind date with a woman she had met.
• Chen Mo firmly refused the blind date, finished eating, and hurried away despite Fu Huili calling after him.
• Chen Jianguo told Fu Huili that people had only started introducing women to Chen Mo because he had money and advised her to let Chen Mo decide for himself.
• Fu Huili questioned Chen Jianguo’s warning, while he remarked that Chen Mo’s standards were high.

Chen Mo treated Wei Juncai and the other injured people, absorbing their Alien Energy to prepare for a major cultivation breakthrough. After purifying his True Essence with the Universe Bead, he advanced to Qi Refining Layer Four and found his Spiritual Sense had reached twenty meters.

• Chen Mo steadied his mind before entering the ward, then ordered Li Puhe and Chang Wenbin to remove Wei Juncai's monitoring equipment, IV fluids, and oxygen.
• Chen Mo used acupuncture to absorb part of Wei Juncai's Alien Energy, instructed the staff to keep him in bed, and had his medical support restored afterward.
• Chen Mo repeated the treatment on the remaining patients and absorbed more than twenty percent of each person's Alien Energy.
• Chen Mo returned to his villa, secured the Practice Room, and used the Universe Bead to purify the unstable True Essence he had absorbed.
• Chen Mo broke through the bottleneck and reached Qi Refining Layer Four, then consolidated his cultivation and discovered his Spiritual Sense extended twenty meters.

Chen Mo realized that he and Shen Tingting might have feelings for each other after their polite phone call, then returned to treating injured members of the Special Affairs Administration. He learned his hiring paperwork was ready and that his consultant position came with a monthly fee of around 10,000 yuan.

• Chen Mo debated whether he missed Missy and called Shen Tingting to ask if she still needed toner.
• Shen Tingting said she was busy with police cases, and Chen Mo ended the call so she could return to work.
• After hanging up, Chen Mo realized Shen Tingting might like him too and wondered whether she would make a good girlfriend.
• Chen Mo returned to the villa with his Medicine Box to treat injured members of the Special Affairs Administration.
• Yuan Ruoshan told Chen Mo his employment credentials were ready and explained that he would receive a monthly consulting fee of around 10,000 yuan.

Chen Mo created his own fist technique and was praised by Wang Sen, who was investigating Wang Qi’s disappearance. Wang Sen’s inquiries led him to suspect Wang Qiang’s supposedly ordinary traffic accident was connected to Wang Qi’s case.

• Chen Mo completed a fist technique of his own and smashed a thick tree with a Cannon Fist.
• Wang Sen approached Chen Mo, praised his fist technique, and explained that he had been watching him.
• Wang Sen recounted how he traced Wang Qi’s last known movements from Penghua Town toward the County Town, where surveillance records lost track of him.
• Wang Sen learned that Wang Qiang, a Wang Family relative living in Penghua Town, had died in a traffic accident several days earlier.
• Wang Sen questioned Wang Qiang’s parents and learned they knew nothing about his alleged heart condition and had accepted the police report without question.
• Wang Sen recognized something suspicious in the account of Wang Qiang’s death.

Wang Sen investigated Wang Qiang’s death and found that four of Wang Qiang’s frequent companions had also died after returning to town, leading him to suspect a Xiantian Master was secretly attacking them. He hid near Penghua Town while waiting for more information, then spotted a youngster practicing fist cultivation and saw something that astonished him.

• Wang Sen reviewed Wang Qiang’s forensic records and confirmed that a myocardial infarction had preceded the traffic accident, though the timing after Wang Qi’s departure remained suspicious.
• Wang Sen checked local records and found that Wang Qi and Wang Qiang had headed out of town, while Wang Qiang later spent the night at an Internet Cafe with four companions.
• Wang Sen learned that all four of Wang Qiang’s companions had died after returning to town, with circumstances and timing closely connected to Wang Qiang.
• Wang Sen concluded that a Xiantian Master might have secretly injured Wang Qiang and his companions, then sent his findings to the family and hid near Penghua Town.
• Wang Sen saw a youngster practicing fist cultivation beneath the rising sun and noticed something that astonished him.

Chen Mo entered Artistic Conception while practicing his fist technique, and Wang Sen approached him afterward, hoping to recruit the talented young martial artist. Their conversation turned toward Chen Mo’s origins, and Wang Sen doubted his claim to be a Rogue Cultivator.

• Wang Sen recognized Chen Mo’s fist practice as Artistic Conception and watched without interrupting him.
• After Chen Mo finished, Wang Sen applauded and explained that he had spent the night in the Mountain Hollow by chance.
• Wang Sen mistook Chen Mo’s restrained Blood Energy for the strength of a Houtian Layer One or Second Layer martial artist.
• Chen Mo asked Wang Sen who he was, and Wang Sen introduced himself as a third-generation disciple of the Qinling Wang Family.
• Chen Mo introduced himself as a Rogue Cultivator, but Wang Sen doubted that a Rogue Cultivator could enter Artistic Conception so easily.

Chen Mo’s reaction to Wang Sen’s photograph revealed that he knew Wang Qi, and Wang Sen attacked him. Chen Mo killed Wang Sen and destroyed the evidence before fleeing toward Lin County.

• Wang Sen suspected Chen Mo was connected to a powerful master and showed him Wang Qi’s photograph.
• Chen Mo’s subtle reaction convinced Wang Sen that he knew Wang Qi, but Chen Mo denied it.
• Wang Sen attacked Chen Mo, who blocked his punches with the protection of a Vajra Talisman.
• Chen Mo struck Wang Sen with a fireball and then a Thunderstorm Talisman when Wang Sen tried to flee.
• Chen Mo killed Wang Sen, took his belongings, and hid and burned the body in a mountain cave near Lin County.

After repeated failures making Intermediate-grade Primary Talismans, Chen Mo recovered his composure and continued overseeing his property. At the Vegetable Processing Plant, Hao Ren told him that the Port Area wanted to buy all the vegetables from his expanding hillside fields.

• Chen Mo failed more than ten times to make a Thunderstorm Talisman, exhausting his True Essence and two drops of Spiritual Liquid.
• Chen Mo practiced his Fist Technique to vent his frustration, then fed his dogs Stream Water and checked on the hillside harvest.
• Chen Mo discussed work arrangements with Da Hai and Chen Jingui, who were harvesting the flowers with help from an outside team.
• Chen Mo arrived at the Vegetable Processing Plant and found Hao Ren overseeing a shipment of vegetables for the Port Area.
• Hao Ren told Chen Mo that Manager Ling wanted the Port Area to buy all the hillside vegetables at current prices or a price Chen Mo named.

Chen Mo agreed to split the future hillside vegetable harvest between the Port Area and Li Rui’s restaurant supplier. After securing both shares, he reassured Li Rui that he would not be forgotten when the land began producing.

• Chen Mo considered why businessmen were pursuing his vegetables and reflected on how joining the Special Affairs Administration gave him greater standing and protection.
• Hao Ren asked Chen Mo to reserve the hillside harvest for the Port Area, and Chen Mo agreed to supply it with half.
• Chen Mo explained that the other half would go to the supplier for Li's Restaurant because he wanted to look after Li Rui.
• Hao Ren accepted the split and returned to work as Chen Mo answered Li Rui’s call.
• Li Rui complained that Chen Mo had not told him about the hillside vegetables, and Chen Mo promised him a share once the land began producing.

Chen Mo resumed treating the patients, gradually removing Alien Energy while his newly advanced cultivation stabilized, and helped Old Man Hu regain enough strength to sit up. Hu Yue regretted his earlier behavior and arranged continued care for his father as Chen Mo checked the other elderly patients.

• Chen Mo added Stream Water to the fish pond, then returned to the villa and treated two patients without extracting Alien Energy from the other four.
• Chen Mo secretly used True Essence and an Alloy Needle to treat Old Man Hu, who regained enough strength to sit up while awake.
• Hu Yue thanked Chen Mo and regretted that his earlier shortsightedness had cost him the chance to build a relationship with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo told Hu Yue that Hu Guo Zhong might recover enough to move independently in about half a month and explained his food and caregiving needs.
• Chen Mo examined the other elderly residents, recorded their symptoms, and planned to prepare pills for them.

Hu Hai Tian visited Chen Mo to sincerely apologize for his past behavior and settle their grudge. He then asked to buy Chen Mo’s vegetables for his clubhouse, but Chen Mo refused because his supply was already contracted and he would not break his word.

• Hu Hai Tian arrived at Chen Mo’s villa, where the dogs and foxes greeted him with threatening growls.
• Hu Hai Tian apologized to Chen Mo for his past actions, and Chen Mo accepted after he drank a cup of tea.
• Hu Hai Tian asked whether Chen Mo supplied the vegetables used by the Port District Restaurant, and Chen Mo confirmed that he did.
• Hu Hai Tian offered to pay twice the contractors’ price for vegetables, but Chen Mo refused because he had already committed his supply to other distributors.

Hu Hai Tian asked Chen Mo about distributing the exceptional wine he had tasted, and Chen Mo explained that production was limited and proposed a wholesale price. Hu Hai Tian was left to decide whether he could accept the terms and sell it.

• Hu Hai Tian asked whether anyone had ordered Chen Mo's wine, hoping to arrange a business deal after Chen Mo refused to sell him vegetables.
• Chen Mo said no one had ordered the wine, and Hu Hai Tian asked how much could be produced each month.
• Chen Mo estimated that production was about ten thousand jin per month, or five tons.
• Hu Hai Tian complained that the supply was small, then asked what the wholesale price would be if he distributed the wine.
• Chen Mo explained that the wine needed time to age and quoted a wholesale price of about three thousand yuan per jin.

Chen Mo agreed to let Hu Hai Tian distribute his liquor, which tasted excellent and had hidden health benefits. He gave Hu Hai Tian one month to build sales while he considered expanding production and finding other distributors.

• Hu Hai Tian recalled waking refreshed after drinking Chen Mo's liquor, and Chen Mo explained that his homemade Chinese medicine helped regulate poor health.
• Hu Hai Tian asked to handle sales, and Chen Mo agreed to let him test the market at his club for one month.
• Chen Mo told Hu Hai Tian he was considering expanding production with Fourth Uncle and could seek other distributors, including Li Rui and the Port Area, if sales did not grow.
• Hu Hai Tian decided to return and plan his initial order, and Chen Mo gave him two bottles to help assess demand.
• Chen Mo charged Hu Hai Tian 6,000 yuan for the bottles, and Hu Hai Tian transferred the money before leaving in frustration.

Chen Mo continued treating injured Special Affairs Administration personnel while advancing his construction projects, unaware that Ning Yongzhi planned to use his medical skills to secure favors. The chapter left Chen Mo hoping for more Alien Energy-infected patients as Shen Tingting remained away on a demanding case and resented his silence.

• Chen Mo stabilized his cultivation at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining Layer Four while helping all six injured Special Affairs Administration personnel recover.
• Ning Yongzhi learned of the patients’ progress, ordered Li Puhe and Chang Wenbin to cooperate with Chen Mo, and planned to send more injured people and trade for benefits.
• Chen Mo and Chen Ming decided to expand his parents’ house to three floors despite Chen Jianguo and Fu Huili objecting to the added expense.
• Chen Mo arranged for Xi Zhihan to begin the second and third phases of Gourd Valley, while Xi Zhihan called Shen Tingting to complain about his demands.
• Shen Tingting stayed busy investigating a difficult case and resented that Chen Mo had not called her.