Recaps

Zeng Shen helped Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong set up Like Family Studio, then left to feed the cats in his divine realm. The cats’ gratitude strengthened their faith in him and earned him survival points.

• Zeng Shen told Li Yuqing he had no plan yet for how to use his money, and they drove to the Juling office building.
• Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong teased each other before helping Zeng Shen unpack and assemble the studio furniture and computers.
• After ordering food, Zeng Shen took Li Yuqing’s car keys and left to tend to the cats in his divine realm.
• Zeng Shen arrived in Bastet Town and fed the hungry cats, including Xiao Hei.
• Sixteen casual believers became true believers, earning Zeng Shen 1,150 survival points and 160 faith.

Zeng Shen used his survival points for a third ten-pull, gaining new cards and a skill that he deployed or learned while expanding his divine realm. After feeding Xiao Bai, he left the realm and called Li Yuqing, who was bathing with Liu Tongtong.

• Zeng Shen spent over ten thousand survival points on a ten-pull and drew aquatic plants, wild bulls, fungi, insects, rocket launchers, a war vehicle, breeding shrubs, and Potential Empowerment.
• Zeng Shen placed aquatic plants, wild bulls, fungi, insects, breeding shrubs, and pheasant chicks in his divine realm, then learned Potential Empowerment.
• Zeng Shen fed Xiao Bai and left the divine realm, planning to buy a car the next day and swap it for the Divine Energy War Vehicle.
• Zeng Shen video-called Li Yuqing and glimpsed Liu Tongtong passing by naked; Liu Tongtong shouted at him from offscreen.

Zeng Shen planned his day around earning survival points, then bought a two-million Wuling RV while Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong went to choose hanfu. He drove the new vehicle to register it as the women headed to the Trade Building.

• Li Yuqing asked Zeng Shen to help choose between pet videos and hanfu videos, and he recommended hanfu.
• Zeng Shen realized he had missed earning 1,500 survival points at Li Zhiyuan's Martial Arts Hall and decided to plan his daily schedule better.
• Zeng Shen startled Master Ma during tai chi, earned 200 survival points for driving back the tier-three fire deity, and said he would visit Li Zhiyuan that afternoon.
• Zeng Shen picked up Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong, then went with them to a car dealership before their hanfu shopping trip.
• Zeng Shen bought a two-million Wuling RV and drove it to the vehicle administration office, while Li Yuqing drove Liu Tongtong to the Trade Building.

Zeng Shen discovered that the intelligent race in the botanical garden was a colony of Mightyfolk ants, not the ancient pines. He tamed a Swift Ant Beast and sent her to deliver an ultimatum to the ant queen.

• Zeng Shen entered the botanical garden after the system warned him that an intelligent race lived there.
• Near an ancient pine, Zeng Shen killed a Swift Ant Beast and learned that the tier-four Mightyfolk chieftain was an ant queen.
• Zeng Shen found the Mightyfolk nest and used Eye of Observation to identify its worker ants as intelligent beings.
• Zeng Shen identified a Swift Ant Beast relaying her dead companion's signal and successfully tamed her.
• Zeng Shen named the ant Blackie and ordered her to tell the queen to submit, believe in him, and obey his commands.

Zeng Shen battled the queen of the Mighty Ant Tribe after she executed his pet ants, eventually forcing her out of the nest. The queen accepted his offer and decided to follow him and obey his commands.

• Heizai entered the nest to deliver Zeng Shen’s message, but the queen executed him and triggered a warning that she would seek revenge.
• Zeng Shen blew open the nest, tamed more ants, and sent Heizai No. 2 to demand the queen’s submission, but she executed him too.
• Zeng Shen tamed and empowered a group of ants, then sent Heizai and the others into the nest to drag out the queen.
• The queen’s forces killed most of Zeng Shen’s ants, but the empowered Heizai, Heizai No. 2, and Heizai No. 3 emerged carrying the queen.
• Zeng Shen offered the queen food and a comfortable nest or threatened to squash her, and she chose to follow him and obey his commands.

Zeng Shen converted the Mighty Ant colony into believers and moved its intelligent ants into his Divine Domain, then destroyed the abandoned nest for survival points. He arranged to meet Liu Miao at a bank in three days and planned to visit the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall before picking up Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong that evening.

• Zeng Shen ordered the Mighty Ant Queen to make her colony worship him, gaining 550 believers and 5,500 survival points.
• Zeng Shen opened a Divine Domain Gate to Emerald Valley and moved the queen and her intelligent ants inside, where Divine Blessing protected them.
• Zeng Shen tamed winged queen candidates and other female ants for Heizi, assigned Heizi Two and Heizi Three as the queen's guards, and supplied the groups with cat food.
• Zeng Shen closed the gate, flooded and destroyed the ant nest, and earned 5,770 survival points by stomping on mutated ants.
• Zeng Shen agreed to accompany Liu Miao to the Recruitment Bank in three days to sign loan papers and planned to scout the area the next day.
• Zeng Shen spoke with Li Yuqing, learned she and Liu Tongtong were shopping for hanfu, and arranged to pick them up that evening after visiting the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall.

Zeng Shen trained in martial arts, earned survival points around Jinhai City, and spent the night with Li Yuqing in his motorhome. After a twenty-pull lottery, he gained mining and storage cards, a Healing skill, and the Divine Control talent.

• Zeng Shen apologized to Li Zhiyuan, then learned basic hand-to-hand combat and sparred with the martial arts hall’s students.
• Zeng Shen took Li Yuqing to dinner and spent the night with her in his motorhome.
• Zeng Shen earned survival points across Jinhai City and continued his martial arts training with Li Zhiyuan.
• Zeng Shen spent 20,000 survival points on twenty lottery pulls and received Smart Mining Vehicle, Divine Energy Smelting Furnace, and Spatial Warehouse cards.
• Zeng Shen also drew a Healing skill card and a purple Divine Control talent card.

After learning Healing and Divine Control, Zeng Shen helped Liu Miao seek a 100-million-yuan loan using his 700-million-yuan risk agreement as security. The bank verified the agreement, and Zeng Shen reacted to the president’s repayment terms by asking her to repeat the one-year deadline.

• Zeng Shen learned Healing and Divine Control and spent the next day earning survival points.
• Zeng Shen met Liu Miao at the bank, where a warning said a tier-three water deity had restrained him, but he stayed close to her.
• Liu Miao presented President Li with Zeng Shen’s 700-million-yuan risk agreement as collateral for a loan.
• President Li verified the agreement with Shi Mingqiang, who consented to its use as security.
• Liu Miao asked to borrow 100 million yuan, and President Li quoted eight-percent interest with principal and interest due in one year.
• Zeng Shen interrupted President Li and asked her to repeat the one-year repayment deadline.

Zeng Shen arranged a five-hundred-million loan using Shi Mingqiang's assets and gave Liu Miao one hundred million of it interest-free, then visited her struggling Jinhai Wharf. He searched the port and its office for the water deities he expected to find, but received no encounter notifications.

• Zeng Shen negotiated a five-hundred-million loan with President Li and had one hundred million transferred to Liu Miao's account.
• Liu Miao thanked Zeng Shen and invited him to tour Jinhai Wharf, which she owned and managed.
• Liu Miao told Zeng Shen how her grandfather's illness, her husband's death on their wedding night, and Ye Li's business competition had left her isolated and the family's operations under pressure.
• Liu Miao identified Qin Wei as Zeng Shen entered the wharf and authorized him to visit whenever he wanted, despite a warning that the territory contained powerful water deities.
• Zeng Shen toured Jinhai Wharf and its office but found no second-tier water deities or system notifications.

Zeng Shen and Liu Miao were ambushed by thugs who tried to extort her and threatened her docks. Zeng Shen defeated them and drove them away, earning survival points from the system.

• Zeng Shen left the docks with Liu Miao, but two vans blocked their RV and several thugs ordered them out.
• Liu Miao confronted the thugs, and their leader, Huang Ziliang, demanded money and threatened to take advantage of her.
• Zeng Shen stepped in and slapped Huang Ziliang after he taunted Liu Miao to hit him.
• Zeng Shen used Agility Enhancement to knock down the lackeys and defeat Huang Ziliang with a shoulder throw.
• Zeng Shen threatened the thugs, who fled in their vans, and the system awarded him survival points for defeating stronger opponents.

Zeng Shen took Liu Miao to lunch at her family’s clam restaurant, then used a martial arts lesson to trigger survival-point rewards by pinning and repelling her. He left Liu Miao to take a taxi while heading for the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, with another thousand points added to his total.

• Zeng Shen took Liu Miao to her family’s restaurant, where they shared a clam hot pot.
• Liu Miao mentioned that she might take martial arts lessons, giving Zeng Shen the idea to spar with her for first-time rewards.
• Zeng Shen demonstrated a shoulder pin on Liu Miao and gained 1,000 survival points for suppressing her.
• Liu Miao tried to copy the move but could not throw Zeng Shen, so he demonstrated the pin once more before leaving.
• Zeng Shen headed to the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall as Liu Miao went to hail a taxi, and he received another 1,000 points for repelling her.

After earning 1,500 points at Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, Zeng Shen inspected his divine domain and used twenty lottery draws. He gained several resource cards but had not yet placed them in the domain.

• Zeng Shen ended his video call with Li Yuqing after they discussed their costumes, filming at the park, and his encounter with thugs while helping Liu Miao.
• Zeng Shen earned 1,500 points at Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, asked Li Zhiyuan to teach him self-defense moves, and returned home.
• Zeng Shen inspected the cats, expanding aquatic life, breeding flower shrubs, ant colonies, and mined jade and elemental crystals in his divine domain.
• Zeng Shen made twenty consecutive draws and received copper mine, silver mine, hare colony, fruit tree sapling, sheep, and vegetable seed cards.

Zeng Shen used his new cards to learn defensive and flight skills, summon two mechanical maids, and establish an industrial zone in his divine realm. The chapter ended with him planning to put Xiao Di in charge of Lingnan District and Xiao Ai in charge of caring for his followers and species.

• Zeng Shen learned Air Shield and Flight, then summoned the Mechanical Domestic Maid and Mechanical Combat Maid.
• Zeng Shen named the maids Xiao Ai and Xiao Di and took them back to his bedroom; after sparring with Xiao Di, he gained six divine rank experience.
• Zeng Shen received 1,030 faith points from his believers the next morning.
• Zeng Shen deployed copper and silver mines, mining vehicles, smelting furnaces, and a spatial warehouse in the southern mountains, naming the area Lingnan Industrial Park.
• Zeng Shen deployed another spatial warehouse in Bast Town and planned to assign Xiao Di to Lingnan District and Xiao Ai to care for his followers and species.

Zeng Shen assigned Xiao Ai and Xiao Di tasks to prepare a post-catastrophe shelter and protect his girlfriend, then went to Like Family Studio to find Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong together. He left the apartment after overhearing them and called Li Yuqing, who said she and Tongtong were washing up.

• Zeng Shen gave Xiao Ai and Xiao Di a premium card with four hundred million and asked them to arrange a suburban shelter, identities, and protection for Li Yuqing.
• Zeng Shen assigned Xiao Di to handle mining and Xiao Ai to care for the divine realm's species, then gave them divine-powered war vehicles and told them to buy clothes and Blue Planet vehicles.
• Zeng Shen received notice that he could draw his license plate in three days and drove to Like Family Studio.
• Zeng Shen heard Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong crying out behind Li Yuqing's locked bedroom door and wondered whether they were romantically involved.
• Zeng Shen left the apartment, messaged Li Yuqing, and answered her video call as she sat by the bathtub with a towel on, saying she and Liu Tongtong were washing up.

Zeng Shen helped Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong film short videos at the park, persuading Master Ma and his tai chi group to serve as the backdrop. After filming, he left the exhausted women at the Spirit Gathering Building and planned to edit the videos, possibly showing them that night.

• Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong arrived in costume, and Zeng Shen drove them to the park to film their videos.
• Master Ma tried to avoid Zeng Shen, but Zeng Shen pressured him into helping with the filming.
• Master Ma gathered the elderly tai chi practitioners, and Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong filmed three videos as Zeng Shen recorded them.
• After filming, Zeng Shen teased Master Ma about sparring, prompting him to flee and earning Zeng Shen another survival-point notification.
• Zeng Shen said he had business in the north of the city, while Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong went upstairs to sleep; he said he might show them the edited video that night.

Zeng Shen trained Liu Miao in self-defense and discovered that leaving after defeating a tier-three deity could trigger an additional survival-point reward. He then tracked the blond thug Huang Ziliang to the Wharf Bar and disguised himself before going to investigate.

• Zeng Shen earned 1,500 survival points at the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall and collected more points by visiting locations around the city.
• Zeng Shen taught Liu Miao how to counter a shoulder throw, earning 100 survival points for defeating her and another 100 after she left him.
• Zeng Shen searched for Huang Ziliang and learned from a pool hall owner that Huang and his companions had gone to the Wharf Bar to meet a big shot.
• Zeng Shen drove near the Wharf Bar, used the Disguise Mask to change his face, put on a black suit, and stepped out of the motorhome.

Zeng Shen broke up Boss Wu’s gang and returned to the office building, where he used a self-defense lesson to subdue Liu Tongtong. The system identified her as a tier-four chief of the ghost race and awarded him 1,000 survival points.

• Zeng Shen entered the dockside bar and overheard Boss Wu threatening Huang Ziliang and his men over their failure to abduct Liu Miao.
• Zeng Shen confronted Boss Wu’s gang, defeated the thugs, and earned 580 survival points before leaving under the false name Ye Li.
• Zeng Shen returned to the Juling office building, brought food to Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong, and offered to teach them self-defense.
• Liu Tongtong agreed to learn, and Zeng Shen performed an over-the-shoulder takedown that triggered a system notice identifying her as a tier-four chief of the ghost race and awarding him 1,000 survival points.

Zeng Shen earned survival points through intimate encounters and his daily routine, then received a new phone and an edited fantasy video from Xiao Ai and Xiao Di. He watched the polished clip while Xiao Ai and Xiao Di continued buying abandoned warehouses near the zoo.

• Zeng Shen earned survival points after the tier-four ghost chieftain retreated, then spent the night with Li Yuqing and received points for subduing her.
• The next morning, Liu Tongtong watched a tutorial on countering an over-the-shoulder pin, and she and Zeng Shen practiced until she stopped.
• Zeng Shen went out to earn survival points at the Martial Arts Hall, with Liu Miao, and by beating Huang Ziliang and his men.
• Zeng Shen found a new Huawei phone at home and learned that Xiao Ai and Xiao Di had bought it and installed a camera outside his apartment to contact him.
• Xiao Ai told Zeng Shen that she and Xiao Di were buying abandoned warehouses near the zoo, then sent him an edited video of Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong fighting in a fantasy setting.

Zeng Shen reviewed Xiao Ai and Xiao Di’s shelter plans while Li Yuqing praised his edited video and planned to post it online. In Jinhai, Boss Wu learned that Ye Li had ties to Liu Miao’s dead husband and ordered Zhang Xin to attack Ye Li’s docks.

• Li Yuqing woke, watched Zeng Shen’s edited video, and decided with Liu Tongtong to upload it to their Douyin account.
• Li Yuqing called Zeng Shen, praised his work, and discussed plans to grow their social media account.
• Xiao Ai and Xiao Di returned with food and told Zeng Shen their plans to use a nearby water treatment plant and zoo to support the warehouse shelter.
• Zeng Shen approved the shelter plan and offered to travel abroad with them to obtain needed equipment.
• Zhang Xin told Boss Wu that Ye Li owned the Golden Thread Bay docks and was the older brother of Liu Miao’s dead husband.
• Boss Wu ordered Zhang Xin to send men to smash up Ye Li’s docks and attack Ye Li.

Ye Li was attacked after his plans to take Liu Miao’s clients were overheard, while Zeng Shen toured his divine realm and sparred with Xiao Di. The next morning, Zeng Shen checked his progress toward divine rank one.

• Ye Li ordered his butler to poach Liu Miao’s clients, but thugs broke in, identified Ye Li, beat him, and wrecked the goods at his docks.
• Zeng Shen showed Xiao Ai and Xiao Di his plans for the Lingnan Industrial Zone and noted that its furnaces still lacked fuel.
• Zeng Shen used Fivefold Agility Enhancement to throw Xiao Di, earning one point of divine rank experience.
• Xiao Di explained that her abilities were still unawakened and that Zeng Shen’s divine skill had let him overpower her.
• The next morning, Zeng Shen checked his status panel and saw that he had 66 of the 100 experience needed for divine rank one and 8,800 survival points.

Zeng Shen sparred with Xiao Di, then celebrated Like Family Studio’s successful debut with Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong. After they all got drunk, the three returned to the studio and agreed to sleep together, leaving Zeng Shen to pass out as they tugged at his clothes.

• Xiao Di swiftly defeated Zeng Shen in their sparring session, and she explained that her mechanical core let her predict his movements.
• Xiao Ai and Xiao Di left to arrange identification documents while Zeng Shen spoke with Li Yuqing, whose short video had quickly gained comments and followers.
• Zeng Shen collected survival points at the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall and taught Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong self-defense moves.
• Zeng Shen, Li Yuqing, and Liu Tongtong celebrated the studio’s debut at a restaurant, drinking two cases of fruit wine and talking late into the night.
• After returning to the studio drunk, Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong agreed to sleep with Zeng Shen, and he passed out as they began tugging at his clothes.

After waking with a hangover, Zeng Shen learned that Li Yuqing denied anything had happened between them and Liu Tongtong, but his system log later revealed they had secretly earned him survival points while he was barely conscious. He farmed more points and used ten prize-wheel draws, receiving several cards.

• Zeng Shen woke in Li Yuqing's bedroom with hazy memories of the night before, and Li Yuqing told him Liu Tongtong had slept in her own room.
• Li Yuqing said her period had stained the sheet, then helped Zeng Shen recover from his hangover and get some rest.
• After Zeng Shen left, Li Yuqing confronted Liu Tongtong for hiding what had happened, and Liu Tongtong said she feared Zeng Shen would not cherish her as much as he cherished Li Yuqing.
• Zeng Shen checked his system log and discovered that Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong had earned him 400 survival points while he was barely conscious.
• Zeng Shen farmed survival points until his total reached 14,760, then drew cards that included a Wild Boar Card, seed and mine cards, and recovery potion cards.

Zeng Shen gained several useful cards, deployed new resources in his divine realm, and put an intelligent mechanical worker to work tending his rice paddies. After Xiao Di returned, he used recovery potions and spent the night with her and Xiao Ai, earning divine rank experience.

• Zeng Shen drew recovery potions, a wild boar, herb seeds, mines, an intelligent mechanical worker, an exotic beast factory, and an Invisibility skill card, which he learned.
• Zeng Shen messaged Xiao Ai that he would be home for dinner, then learned that Xiao Di was dealing with men who had harassed them and was making them arrange identity cards.
• Zeng Shen deployed the wild boar, herb seeds, and coal mine in his divine realm, then summoned and activated an intelligent mechanical worker he named Rookie to weed his rice paddies.
• Xiao Di returned in a bold outfit, and Zeng Shen praised her before using energy and stamina recovery potions.
• Zeng Shen hurried to the bedroom with Xiao Ai and Xiao Di, and four hours later received seven divine rank experience after battling Xiao Di for three hundred rounds without a decisive outcome.

Zeng Shen learned that divine energy from potions and food would eventually dissipate from an ordinary body, then planned a modest money transfer to his mother and agreed to return home for ancestral rites. After searching unsuccessfully for Huang Ziliang, he told Li Yuqing he would be away for about three days, and she refused to join him for his first visit home.

• Xiao Ai and Xiao Di explained to Zeng Shen that only divine creatures could absorb divine energy permanently, while it would nourish ordinary bodies temporarily before dissipating.
• Zeng Shen considered sending his mother ten million yuan, but Xiao Ai advised him to send a smaller amount with a believable explanation, so he transferred her two thousand yuan as an internship bonus.
• Zeng Shen's mother invited him to attend ancestral rites in a couple of days, and Xiao Ai persuaded him to go so his parents could feel proud of him.
• Zeng Shen told his mother he would come home, then spent the day farming points and searching the western city for Huang Ziliang and his thugs without finding them.
• After watching Liu Tongtong and Li Yuqing rehearse their second short video, Zeng Shen told Li Yuqing he would go home for about three days, and she refused his joking invitation to meet his parents at the ancestral ceremony.

Zeng Shen visited Liu Miao early for their self-defense lesson before leaving town for three days, and the two became intimate. Afterward, he registered his RV with a new license plate and waited outside the investment promotion building for Xiao Ai and Xiao Di.

• Zeng Shen told Liu Miao he would be away for three days to visit his hometown, then demonstrated a self-defense move with her.
• Liu Miao brought Zeng Shen down onto the mat and confessed that his reaction to her outfit had excited her; they became intimate, and he carried her back to her room afterward.
• Zeng Shen promised to return in three days and left Jinhai Wharf.
• Zeng Shen drew the license plate number ZS12356 and completed his RV registration.
• Zeng Shen parked outside the municipal investment promotion building and waited for Xiao Ai and Xiao Di.