Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan ordered the Black and White Duo to steal the Century-Old Snow Ginseng, while Tang Yu planned to turn their theft against them. The brothers seized the ginseng, and Lin Fan expected the resulting conflict to push Yang Guofeng's family closer to him.

• Black Fiend reported to Lin Fan that the Century-Old Snow Ginseng would arrive in two days, and Lin Fan ordered the brothers to snatch it.
• White Fiend worried they could not defeat Tang Yu, but Black Fiend scolded him and urged him to show resolve.
• Tang Yu learned of Lin Fan's plan and hurried to make arrangements to use one blade to kill another.
• The Black and White Duo rear-ended the car carrying the Century-Old Snow Ginseng, knocked out its driver, and stole the ginseng.
• Lin Fan reassured Yang Guofeng that the ginseng was on its way and planned to use the theft to turn the Yang Family against Tang Yu.

Lin Fan treated Yang Guofeng with a decoction and acupuncture, but the treatment made his pain much worse. As the Yang Family turned against Lin Fan, Yang Zhilan’s suspicions about him intensified.

• The Black and White Duo delivered the Century-Old Snow Ginseng, and Yang Guofeng gave them a bank card as a reward.
• Ling Han, disguised as a maid, replaced the Century-Old Snow Ginseng with ordinary snow ginseng, then escaped with the real herb and met Chi Yin, who flew her back to Suhang.
• Yang Guofeng drank the decoction and let Lin Fan begin acupuncture while Yang Zhilan waited anxiously outside.
• Yang Guofeng screamed in pain after Lin Fan’s treatment and accused him of making his condition worse.
• Yang Family bodyguards and two Earth Realm Attendants confronted Lin Fan as the Black and White Duo stood behind him.

Lin Fan discovered that ordinary snow ginseng had been substituted for the century-old ingredient, worsening Yang Guofeng’s condition, and promised to cure him within two days. Meanwhile, Tang Yu refined seven Nine-Turn Pills, advanced his cultivation, and gave the remaining pills to Ling Han and Chi Yin to help them reach the Earth Realm.

• Lin Fan found ordinary snow ginseng among the medicine dregs and told Yang Guofeng that someone had switched the century-old herb.
• Yang Guofeng gave Lin Fan two days to cure him, and Lin Fan sent the Black and White Duo to Suhang to retrieve Old Divine Doctor Jiang’s Ancestral Medicinal Needles.
• Tang Yu received the Nine-Turn Pill ingredients from Ling Han and Chi Yin and refined seven pills in the Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace.
• Chi Yin and Ling Han each took a Nine-Turn Pill, and Tang Yu took one himself, advancing from the early stage to the middle stage of the Xuan Realm.
• Ling Han and Chi Yin both reached the peak of the Xuan Realm, and Tang Yu gave them the four remaining pills to help them break through to the Earth Realm.

After Chi Yin and Ling Han used their third Nine-Turn Pills to break through to the early stage of the Earth Realm, Tang Yu learned that Lin Fan’s Black and White Duo were likely headed to the Jiang Family to steal its last medicinal needles. Tang Yu brought the two women to protect the family and confront the intruders, where Old Divine Doctor Jiang and Jiang Xiaoyue were waiting.

• Tang Yu fed Chi Yin and Ling Han their third Nine-Turn Pills, and both women broke through to the early stage of the Earth Realm.
• Ling Han told Tang Yu that she and Chi Yin had greatly improved their fighting strength and were nearing mastery of the techniques he had taught them.
• Tang Yu learned from an informant that Yang Guofeng and Lin Fan had clashed without fighting, then deduced that Lin Fan had sent the Black and White Duo to steal the Jiang Family’s medicinal needles.
• Tang Yu took Chi Yin and Ling Han to the Jiang Family and told them to deal with the Black and White Duo, two early-stage Earth Realm fighters working for Lin Fan.
• Old Divine Doctor Jiang and Jiang Xiaoyue met Tang Yu at the entrance, and Jiang Xiaoyue clung to his arm while he reassured the doctor that he would handle the thieves.

Tang Yu and Jiang Xiaoyue caught the Black and White Duo breaking into the Jiang Family, where Ling Han and Chi Yin fought them off. Black Fiend took a stimulant to cover White Fiend’s escape, while Tang Yu watched from the sidelines.

• Tang Yu and Jiang Xiaoyue waited for the thief, and the Black and White Duo climbed into the Jiang Family compound.
• Black Fiend advanced on Tang Yu, but he recognized the brothers and frightened them into trying to flee.
• Ling Han and Chi Yin blocked the brothers’ escape and countered their attempt to take hostages with powerful attacks.
• Ling Han and Chi Yin used the fight to perfect the Eight Extremes Collapse Fist and overwhelmed the Black and White Duo.
• After Chi Yin broke three of Black Fiend’s ribs, he took a stimulant and charged the women so White Fiend could escape.

Chi Yin and Ling Han defeated Black Fiend but let White Fiend escape, and Tang Yu questioned their captive about Lu Junzhuo. Black Fiend revealed that Lu Junzhuo was alive but crippled by Dragon King, and Tang Yu had him taken to the Tang Family for imprisonment.

• Black Fiend held Chi Yin and Ling Han back long enough for White Fiend to escape, then they beat him nearly to death.
• Tang Yu reassured Chi Yin and Ling Han, questioned Black Fiend, and mocked him over his height and appearance.
• Old Divine Doctor Jiang and Jiang Xiaoyue joined Tang Yu, who slapped Black Fiend for insulting Jiang and challenged him to guess how many stones he held.
• Black Fiend lost Tang Yu’s trick bet and revealed that Dragon King had crippled Lu Junzhuo because the Dragon Soul Organization had no use for him.
• Tang Yu failed to affect Black Fiend with the Soul-Capturing Eye and ordered the others to take him to the Tang Family and lock him up.

Yang Zishi was kidnapped by men who claimed Lin Fan had ordered them to kill him, but he was rescued before they could act. When he returned home and accused Lin Fan, the Yang Family turned against Lin, leaving him furious and insisting he had been framed.

• Yang Zishi was knocked unconscious at a bar and taken to an abandoned warehouse by two men working for Young Master Lin.
• Yang Zishi woke during the drive and overheard the men discuss killing him and helping Lin Fan seize the Yang Family’s assets.
• Police sirens interrupted the men, and Yang Zishi called for help while they fled; officers rescued him.
• White Fiend reported his injuries to Lin Fan as Yang Guofeng and Yang Zhilan confronted Lin over his failed treatment and the stolen Century-Old Snow Ginseng.
• Yang Zishi returned home, punched at Lin Fan, and told his family the kidnappers had named Lin as their employer.
• Lin Fan denied ordering the kidnapping and said someone had framed him.

Lin Fan and White Fiend fought their way out of the Yang Family household, but police and the family’s bodyguards pursued them through the streets. They hid in a sewer to escape, only to find the manhole cover pinned shut.

• Yang Guofeng ordered his bodyguards to attack Lin Fan and White Fiend, and Lin Fan fought back while the already-injured White Fiend was overwhelmed.
• Lin Fan grabbed White Fiend and escaped the Yang Family compound, taking a bullet in the shoulder and landing in dog shit as they fled.
• The Yang Family’s bodyguards tracked the pair with wolfhounds, and police blocked their escape; Lin Fan and White Fiend hid in a building before climbing into a manhole.
• After their pursuers left, Lin Fan tried to lift the manhole cover but found something holding it down, trapping them underground.

Lin Fan and White Fiend escaped the sewer and planned to recruit the Empress to kill Tang Yu, while Tang Yu received a new weapon and teamed up with Wang Yixue to target Longfan Group. The chapter left Tang Yu arriving at Wang Yixue’s office to plan their financial attack.

• Lin Fan and White Fiend failed to lift the manhole cover, crawled through the sewer, and changed into clothes stolen from two young men.
• Lin Fan decided to contact the Empress and have her kill Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu received the Reversal Incense ring, which could reverse an enemy’s movements and vision for one minute, up to ten times.
• Wang Yixue told Tang Yu that the Yang Family wanted to crush Longfan Group and proposed making five hundred billion by shorting its stock.
• Tang Yu agreed to Wang Yixue’s plan and arrived at her Tengwang Group office after breakfast.

Wang Yixue kept Tang Yu guessing with a cool, businesslike act while discussing a plan to short the Longfan Group. She then asked him to star in an ad, whose flirtatious dance proposal left him worrying it was for sanitary pads.

• Wang Yixue served Tang Yu cake but acted unusually cold, making him wonder what had upset her.
• Wang Yixue showed Tang Yu a report on the Longfan Group and planned to short it with leverage on the fourth day, ahead of the Yang Family's move five days later.
• Wang Yixue declined Tang Yu's offer of lunch, reminding him that they were exes, then asked him to act in an advertisement.
• Zhouzhou brought Wang Yixue an advertising proposal showing a man and woman performing an intimate rumba-and-tango dance.
• Tang Yu praised the dance but asked if the ad was for sanitary pads, and Wang Yixue laughed and slapped his butt.

Tang Yu and Wang Yixue rehearsed a romantic dance for a Tengwang Group advertisement, and their performance ended in a kiss. Their moment was interrupted by Wang Gaohan and Yang Zhilan, who walked in and saw them together.

• Wang Yixue showed Tang Yu her dancing skills and took him to the temporary studio to shoot the ad with her.
• Director Li guided Tang Yu and Wang Yixue through repeated dance rehearsals until they synchronized their movements.
• Tang Yu and Wang Yixue finished the dance in a close embrace, and Tang Yu kissed her as she closed her eyes.
• Wang Gaohan and Yang Zhilan entered the room and caught Tang Yu and Wang Yixue together.

Wang Yixue dealt with her father’s objections to her interest in Tang Yu while Yang Zhilan sought to speak with him. The advertising shoot had to be redone because Tang Yu kept sneaking glances on camera.

• Wang Gaohan arrived at Tengwang Group, disapproved of Tang Yu’s closeness with Wang Yixue, and warned her against pursuing him because he was engaged.
• Yang Zhilan told Wang Yixue she had come to handle some matters and wanted to discuss something with Tang Yu, so Wang Yixue sent them to her office.
• Wang Yixue rejected Wang Gaohan’s recommendation that she marry Yang Zishi and insisted she was only interested in Tang Yu.
• Director Li told Wang Yixue the advertisement could not pass review because Tang Yu’s eyes kept wandering, so she ordered a reshoot and tripled the crew’s pay.

Tang Yu disrupted Yang Zishi’s attempt to give Wang Yixue a costly pendant, provoking a clash between them. Yang Zishi then asked Wang Yixue to help obtain the Jiang Family’s Ancestral Medicinal Needles for their father, but she refused.

• Tang Yu entered Wang Yixue’s office and found Yang Zishi and Yang Zhilan there.
• Yang Zishi presented Wang Yixue with a blood diamond pendant, but Tang Yu took it and put it around her neck.
• Yang Zishi mocked Tang Yu for being a simp, and Tang Yu answered that simping for many women reversed the roles.
• Yang Zhilan reminded Yang Zishi that they had come to seek a cure for their father, whose condition had become unbearable after Lin Fan treated him.
• Yang Zishi asked Wang Yixue to help secure the Jiang Family’s Ancestral Medicinal Needles, but she refused, angering him.

Tang Yu warned Yang Zishi against provoking the Jiang Family, then agreed to help treat Yang Guofeng in exchange for the Yang Family’s support against Lin Fan and three Century-Old Snow Ginseng roots. Yang Zishi went to the Jiang Family Medical Clinic to seize its Ancestral Medicinal Needles, where a mysterious old man intervened.

• Tang Yu learned that Lin Fan planned to ambush Yang Zishi and turn him into a pawn, but decided to use the situation to strike back at Lin Fan.
• Tang Yu agreed to treat Yang Guofeng if the Yang Family helped him deal with Lin Fan and found three Century-Old Snow Ginseng roots, and he asked for two days to prepare.
• Yang Zishi arrived at the Jiang Family Medical Clinic during a free consultation and demanded that Old Divine Doctor Jiang treat his father.
• Old Divine Doctor Jiang refused Yang Zishi’s ten-billion-yuan offer, so Yang Zishi threatened to take the Ancestral Medicinal Needles by force.
• A white-haired old man flicked Yang Zishi’s crumpled check into scraps before it could hit Old Divine Doctor Jiang.

Yang Zishi was rejected by Old Divine Doctor Jiang, then Lin Fan captured him and forced him into a scheme against Tang Yu. Yang Zishi chose to help Lin Fan rather than die, leaving the two to sabotage the treatment of Yang Zishi’s father.

• Old Divine Doctor Jiang refused Yang Zishi’s request, and Yang Zishi left the clinic determined to find a doctor in Yanjing.
• Lin Fan and White Fiend intercepted Yang Zishi’s car, captured him, and took him to a secluded place.
• Lin Fan offered to help Yang Zishi become head of the Yang Family if he helped deal with Tang Yu.
• Lin Fan proposed sabotaging Yang Zishi’s father’s treatment and forced Yang Zishi to swallow a poison pill.
• Yang Zishi chose to cooperate with Lin Fan and live rather than remain a dutiful son and die.

Lin Fan gained poison leverage over Yang Zishi and learned that the Killer Empress and Mystic Qi Fruit were coming to Suhang, while Tang Yu prepared to counter Lin Fan’s plot against the Yang Family. After an ad shoot, Tang Yu drew a follower to a remote reservoir and confronted a mysterious blonde woman who emerged from a Cadillac.

• Lin Fan poisoned Yang Zishi and a Yang Family Attendant, then planned to use Yang Zishi to seize the Yang Family and target Tang Yu.
• White Fiend told Lin Fan that the Killer Empress had arrived in Suhang and that Old Dragon King had arranged for someone to deliver the Mystic Qi Fruit.
• Tang Yu and Wang Yixue teased each other, reshot their dance advertisement in one take, and parted when Wang Yixue had to attend a meeting.
• Tang Yu learned from Jiang Xiaoyue that Yang Zishi had failed to get what he wanted from the Jiang Family, and he planned to exploit the coming plot to kill Lin Fan.
• Tang Yu noticed a black Cadillac following him, messaged Ling Han and Chi Yin for help, and stopped near a reservoir.
• A blonde woman wearing a black collar stepped out of the Cadillac, surprising Tang Yu.

Tang Yu faced the assassin Empress, who had been hired to kill him, and used his knowledge of her speed and poison to resist her attacks. As Empress prepared to strike again, Tang Yu suddenly fell down and began twitching.

• Empress attacked Tang Yu with a Butterfly Knife, but he blocked and dodged her strikes before knocking the knife away.
• Tang Yu recognized Empress as the assassin ranked second on the Assassin Ranking List and asked whether Lin Fan had hired her.
• Empress said she did not know her client and revealed that she had poisoned the knife, but Tang Yu showed no symptoms.
• Empress introduced herself and insisted that she would kill Tang Yu to preserve her perfect success record.
• Tang Yu made a lewd remark about her open zipper, and then fell to the ground and began twitching.

Tang Yu used Reversal Incense to take control of the Empress and humiliate her before she escaped. Chi Yin and Ling Han arrived afterward, and Tang Yu left them with the thought that he should bring a whip next time.

• The Empress pretended Tang Yu's poison had taken effect, then approached him with Butterfly Knives to kill him.
• Tang Yu released Reversal Incense, making the Empress lose control of her body, and repeatedly struck her butt before kicking her away.
• The Empress regained control, threatened to kill Tang Yu, and refused his offer to hire her instead of fulfilling the contract.
• Tang Yu revealed a seal and thought about stamping the Empress, but she heard a car approaching and fled.
• Chi Yin and Ling Han arrived and checked on Tang Yu, who showed them his sore palm and thought about using a whip next time.

Tang Yu returned to the Yang Family to treat Yang Guofeng, while his thoughts warned Yang Zhilan that her brother Yang Zishi might be plotting to kill their father and that Lin Fan had returned. The chapter left Tang Yu at Yang Guofeng’s bedside as Yang Guofeng asked where the famous doctor was.

• Tang Yu told Chi Yin and Ling Han that the assassin who had attacked him was the Empress, and he planned to win her over rather than kill her.
• The Empress drove away, puzzled by Tang Yu’s behavior, but remained determined to kill him.
• Yang Zhilan welcomed Tang Yu and told him she had found a Century-Old Snow Ginseng for the Tang Family.
• Yang Zishi greeted Tang Yu warmly, while Tang Yu’s thoughts revealed his suspicions that Yang Zishi planned to poison their father and that Lin Fan had returned.
• Yang Zhilan grew wary of her older brother and decided she would help Tang Yu if Yang Zishi was truly plotting against their father.
• Tang Yu visited the ailing Yang Guofeng, who asked him where the famous doctor he had brought was.

Tang Yu treated Yang Guofeng and exposed Yang Zishi's attempt to poison his father on Lin Fan's orders. Yang Guofeng ordered the family to help Tang Yu hunt Lin Fan, who sensed the search closing in while hiding in a washroom.

• Tang Yu gave Yang Guofeng a salve and a detoxifying medicine prescription, then privately warned him about Yang Zishi.
• Yang Zishi secretly mixed Lin Fan's poison into the medicine, but Yang Guofeng poured it over his face and had bodyguards restrain him.
• Yang Guofeng showed Yang Zishi the kitchen camera footage, struck him unconscious with a vase, and ordered him locked up.
• Tang Yu told Yang Guofeng that Lin Fan was hiding in the house, and Yang Guofeng ordered Yang Zhilan and the family to help catch him.
• Lin Fan waited in a washroom for Yang Zishi's update, noticed people searching nearby, and decided to act.