Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun let his parents decide how to develop their mountain property and accepted Second Uncle’s bathhouse project because Feng Wenhui wanted to help family. When Second Uncle tried to persuade Feng Jun to fund a private 5G network, Feng Jun insisted he discuss it with his father, leaving the proposed investment unresolved.

• Feng Jun set aside his old resentment toward Second Uncle to avoid troubling his parents, while Zhang Junyi gently rebuked Second Uncle for failing to help him in the past.
• Feng Wenhui awarded Second Uncle the bathhouse project, and Feng Jun left the planning, bidding, and payments to his parents.
• Second Uncle asked Feng Jun to consider a major 5G network investment, but Feng Jun told him to discuss it with Feng Wenhui instead.
• Second Uncle argued that his elder brother could not afford the estimated two-hundred-million cost and urged the family to build and retain ownership of the network.

Feng Jun uncovered a petrochemical industry scheme that used Second Uncle to draw his parents into an oil deal, then warned the men responsible and checked his parents’ cultivation progress. The chapter left him preparing to explain the scheme’s purpose to his parents.

• Second Uncle asked Feng Jun to help him enter the crude oil business, but Feng Jun refused and demanded to know who had told him about it.
• Feng Jun confronted Mr. Lin, who admitted that people in the petrochemical industry had approached Second Uncle to pressure Feng Jun over oil distribution and payment in Xia Currency.
• Feng Jun warned Mr. Lin that he would target the man’s family if he kept using Feng Jun’s parents as pawns; Mr. Lin offered his son as the target of a scare and handed Feng Jun a card with one hundred thousand.
• Second Uncle and his family left, and He Niang asked Feng Jun to help with Lu Xiaoning’s personal affairs; Feng Jun reflected that he was not qualified to advise Gazi about marriage.
• Feng Jun checked his parents’ cultivation, found his father at the Third Layer of Mortal Transcendence and his mother near Mid Transcendence, then began telling them why Mr. Lin had visited.

Feng Jun reassured his parents, gave them a Teleportation Array Disc, and left after sharing a final breakfast with them. He then decided to go to Mairui Country to settle matters with Sophia, who had been contacting him insistently while under surveillance.

• Feng Jun learned that his parents understood how to handle people with ulterior motives, then gave them a Teleportation Array Disc and explained its precautions.
• Zhang Junyi prepared Feng Jun’s favorite breakfast, and he vanished after eating and saying goodbye to his parents.
• Zhang Junyi wondered when Feng Jun would give them a grandchild, while Feng Wenhui guessed that his son had gone to find a girl.
• Sophia repeatedly called Feng Jun and posted mournful messages, saying her family had taken her passport and that she remained under surveillance.
• Feng Jun refused the authorities’ offer to help with Sophia, but decided to resolve the matter himself and traveled to Mairui Country through Footprint.

Feng Jun reunited with Sophia at her secret shelter in Mairui Country and agreed to help her begin cultivation. After setting up plans for a formation, he learned that Sophia refused to use the basement and suggested he take her to Xia Nation instead.

• Feng Jun arrived near Sophia's secret shelter and watched to see whether anyone had followed her.
• Sophia waited at the shelter, and Feng Jun revealed himself after she mistook his arrival for a hallucination.
• Sophia asked Feng Jun to teach her cultivation, and he demanded compensation before accepting her promise of one favor.
• Feng Jun restrained Sophia when she tried to run off, then prepared the cultivation technique and formation materials he had brought.
• Feng Jun found the basement could fit the formation, but Sophia refused to use it and suggested he take her to Xia Nation.

Feng Jun set up a formation for Sophia to cultivate with the Golden Sunflower and explained how to use it. As they discussed concealing the formation, distant gunshots interrupted them.

• Feng Jun rejected Sophia’s plan to cultivate in Xia Nation and explained that her technique would attract trouble there.
• Feng Jun chose the living room for the formation, moved the furniture, and set up its seventeen points and fifty-nine types of materials.
• Sophia brought the Golden Sunflower, and Feng Jun confirmed that the formation contained its aura.
• Feng Jun told Sophia to cultivate at least twenty-four hours a week and suggested ways to conceal the formation’s materials.
• Sophia heard two distant gunshots, and Feng Jun estimated they came from two kilometers away.

Feng Jun stopped two fleeing cars with his Divine Sense as a police chase escalated near Sophia’s home. When the police began searching nearby houses, he activated the Mirage King Bracer and carried Sophia away invisibly, leaving them to find the house empty.

• Sophia warned Feng Jun that Poison Sky had caused recent shootouts nearby, and she turned off the yard lights before clinging to him for protection.
• Feng Jun used his Divine Sense to overturn two cars fleeing police, then watched as officers and soldiers pursued the occupants by helicopter.
• After several people escaped from the singer’s car, Feng Jun knocked out the armed bodyguard, who fell into a ditch and disappeared from sight.
• Feng Jun removed Sophia’s car and the formation, then proposed taking her away to avoid contact with the police.
• Feng Jun carried Sophia out invisibly with the Mirage King Bracer as police arrived and used a thermal imager to check the empty house.

Feng Jun helped Sophia begin cultivating while they avoided the patrol search at Blessing Courtyard. After three nights, she developed her Divine Soul and Light Power, and Feng Jun prepared to test a talisman with her.

• Feng Jun and Sophia watched from the air as patrol officers searched Blessing Courtyard, and the officers later found the drowned man in a shallow ditch before withdrawing.
• Sophia asked Feng Jun to stay and guide her cultivation; he agreed, but told her she would never become his true disciple.
• Sophia fell asleep against Feng Jun, and he carried her into the house; she later woke in bed and learned he had checked that the formation was ready for her cultivation.
• Sophia returned home and concealed Feng Jun's presence by posting on Twitter, then began cultivating that night and improved her Divine Soul within half an hour.
• Feng Jun stopped Sophia's first session because there was not enough Faith to push her through the threshold; the following night she began cultivating, and by the third night she developed qi sensation, which the Church called Light Power.
• After Sophia finished cultivating on the third night, Feng Jun took out a talisman and invited her outside to test it.

Feng Jun helped Sophia cultivate and left her Thunderclap Talismans before returning to Luo Hua, where Yang Yuxin’s thoughtfulness moved him. His reunion with her was interrupted by Elder Yu’s granddaughter, who arrived hoping to watch the rain with him.

• Sophia activated a Thunderclap Talisman with Incense Faith Power, and Feng Jun agreed to give her five talismans but refused her requests for more and for a Storage Talisman.
• Sophia asked Feng Jun to stay longer because she felt unsafe, but he arranged ways for them to communicate and then departed for Luo Hua as the rain stopped.
• Yang Yuxin greeted Feng Jun and said she had waited nearby because she guessed he would return when rain was coming.
• Feng Jun was moved that Yang Yuxin had anticipated his return and decided he would not betray her if she did not betray him.
• Elder Yu’s granddaughter approached and told Feng Jun she had been planning to come watch the rain at his place.

Feng Jun suggested that Lin Heihu livestream the Cancer Recovery Center to attract Incense Faith, and Lin began preparing a new account and appearance. As Feng Jun walked in the rain with Yang Yuxin and Yu Qingzhu, he reflected on his feelings and his complicated history with the Yu family.

• Yang Yuxin asked Feng Jun to help her cousin become the city's general distributor for Three Lives Wine, and Feng Jun messaged Ye Qingyi to arrange it.
• Lin Heihu told Feng Jun that his Incense Faith cultivation was progressing slowly, and Feng Jun explained that he needed to learn how to gather followers rather than change his technique.
• Feng Jun proposed that Lin Heihu livestream the Cancer Recovery Center, and Yang Yuxin and Yu Qingzhu supported the idea as a way to share patients' recoveries.
• Ma Sanniang sent edited appearance templates for Lin Heihu, and Yang Yuxin and Yu Qingzhu chose different styles while discussing their preferences with Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun walked in the rain with Yang Yuxin and Yu Qingzhu, then privately wondered how his life might have changed if he had met Yu Qingzhu instead of Zhang Yunzhen.
• Lin Heihu decided to use an appearance resembling Feng Jun and asked Ma Sanniang to prepare a new livestream account, saying the stream would promote Feng Jun's Cancer Care Center.

Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang tried to livestream at the Cancer Care Center, but patients refused until Li Nansheng suggested letting their families join the broadcast. With Feng Jun's approval, they arranged a livestream that connected an elderly patient with dozens of relatives.

• Lin Heihu disguised himself in a lab coat, cap, mask, and sunglasses, then entered the Cancer Care Center with Gao Qiang to prepare for a livestream.
• Lin Beauty challenged their visit, but Gao Qiang refused to reveal Lin Heihu's identity and insisted they would not film her people.
• Several patients rejected the livestream over portrait and privacy concerns, prompting others to refuse as well.
• Li Nansheng proposed showing the livestream to patients' families, and Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang obtained Feng Jun's approval.
• An elderly patient agreed to participate when he learned his family could join, and sixty or seventy relatives entered the livestream room as Lin Heihu introduced the patient's condition.

Lin Heihu’s livestream helped Lin Heihu’s family reconnect and drew attention to Luo Hua’s cancer treatment, prompting patients to ask for their own turns. The chapter ended with a patient asking whether Lin Heihu would return to livestream again tomorrow.

• Lin Heihu refused call-ins but spoke about Luo Hua, and donations poured in as Lin Heihu’s relatives and employees watched the old man’s livestream.
• Fifth Son-in-Law donated ten rockets, and Engineer Wang’s big boss learned about Luo Hua’s treatment and asked how to join its queue.
• Engineer Wang shared details about Luo Hua with colleagues after the meeting, spreading news of the treatment to people seeking help for cancer patients.
• Li Nan initially refused another patient’s request to livestream, but she later let Lin Heihu offer patients turns of up to fifteen minutes after they contacted their families.
• A young woman spoke with her seven-year-old daughter for more than forty minutes, and a waiting patient asked Lin Heihu whether he would return tomorrow.

Lin Heihu expanded his patient livestream schedule while refusing paid extensions, and a professor’s former students helped draw a large audience to the room. As the stream gained steady viewers, Guo Junsheng discovered it and remained skeptical that the Nursing Center could treat cancer.

• Lin Heihu extended livestreaming to six hours a day and set three-minute turns for each patient, while charging one million per minute for extra time.
• A patient offered one hundred million to bring another person into the livestream, but Lin Heihu said only Feng Jun could authorize such an insertion; Feng Jun then reprimanded him over the radio.
• Patients arranged for relatives and friends to join the livestream in advance, and a professor’s students helped bring more than twenty thousand viewers into the room.
• The livestream began attracting thousands of regular viewers, including curious passersby.
• Guo Junsheng clicked into Lin Heihu’s Cancer Care Livestream, suspected the patients were actors, and remained doubtful that the center could treat cancer.

Guo Junsheng became a regular viewer of Lin Heihu’s livestream, while Lin Heihu’s growing audience attracted platform scrutiny and a dispute over his Cancer Care Center. After Bullfighting Live banned him and withheld his earnings, he moved to White Whale, where Gao Qiang advised him to take the complaint to Boss.

• Guo Junsheng repeatedly watched Lin Heihu’s livestream, asked where the Cancer Care Center was, and later returned under an alt account after the streamer warned viewers not to speculate about its location.
• Lin Heihu’s audience grew beyond twenty thousand, but Bullfighting Live banned his account for false advertising and demanded proof and cooperation before restoring it.
• Lin Heihu refused Bullfighting Live’s demands, gave up the account, and moved to White Whale, where his followers helped him rebuild his audience.
• White Whale warned Lin Heihu that Bullfighting Live had reported him and suggested he sign a long-term contract or join a guild for support.
• After Lin Heihu asked Gao Qiang what to do, Gao Qiang told him to take the matter to Boss.

Feng Jun sent Yu Qingzhu and Yang Yuxin to handle pressure on Lin Heihu from the livestreaming platforms while keeping Luo Hua’s involvement discreet. After Bullfighting Live was shut down, Lin Heihu used Luo Hua’s backing to demand a homepage banner from White Whale.

• Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang asked Feng Jun for help with pressure from the livestreaming platforms, and Feng Jun told them to stall while he arranged a response.
• Feng Jun called Yang Yuxin, then brought Yu Qingzhu into the discussion and asked Yang to teach her how to handle the platforms discreetly.
• Yang Yuxin arrived and discussed the matter with Yu Qingzhu, while Feng Jun explained that Luo Hua should keep a low profile but still show it could not be provoked.
• White Whale warned Lin Heihu that it might shut down his stream unless he signed a long-term contract, and Gao Qiang learned that Bullfighting Live had been shut down and its legal representative questioned.
• Gao Qiang and Lin Heihu invoked Luo Hua’s backing in their reply to White Whale, and Lin Heihu demanded a homepage banner recommendation that afternoon.

Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang confronted White Whale Live after Bullfighting Live threatened their cancer-care stream, and Si Xiaowang discovered the stream was backed by powerful figures connected to Luohua Manor. White Whale promised a homepage recommendation and compensation, but the chapter ended with a misunderstanding over how long the promotion should run.

• Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang demanded a homepage recommendation from White Whale Live and refused to explain who stood behind them.
• Yu Qingzhu and Yang Yuxin warned that Si Xiaowang and the Si Clan could face consequences if they failed to behave.
• Si Xiaowang learned that the cancer-care stream was connected to Luohua Manor, Yu Qingzhu, and the Gu Family, then ordered White Whale to investigate its conduct.
• White Whale found that a guild and an employee had tried to seize the streamer's interests, and Si Xiaowang offered a week of homepage promotion and compensation.
• Gao Qiang requested half a day of promotion each week, and Si Xiaowang mistakenly calculated that the request meant fourteen weeks.

Si Xiaowang discovered that Lin Heihu’s stream was backed by Luohua Manor and ordered White Whale to give the streamer special treatment. Bullfighting Live learned it had provoked the powerful group and tried to seek mercy, leaving its old boss stopped for inspection at Luohua Manor.

• Si Xiaowang verified Lin Heihu’s connections to Luohua Manor and ordered White Whale employees to provide his ID proper service.
• A former Bullfighting Live executive told his old colleagues that Lin Heihu’s Cancer-care stream had triggered the industry crackdown.
• Bullfighting Live employees recognized Lin Heihu and realized their complaint to White Whale’s legal department may have worsened the situation.
• The old boss investigated Luohua Manor, learned how powerful it was, and sent a messenger to ask Liu Yuting for mercy.
• Liu Yuting rejected the old boss’s plea through the messenger, so the old boss went to Luohua Manor the next afternoon and Lin Beauty’s group stopped him for inspection.

The old boss struggled to get into Luohua Manor and secure help for his detained son, but Feng Jun refused to meet him. Lin Beauty confronted him about his son’s serious wrongdoing and demanded that he acknowledge the matter.

• The old boss reached Luohua Manor, but the guards told him he could not enter without Boss Feng’s approval.
• Madam Wang refused to intervene, and Feng Jun’s parents also declined to get involved in their grown son’s affairs.
• After his son remained detained beyond the expected forty-eight hours, the old boss asked the guards to arrange a meeting with Boss Feng, who refused.
• The guards told the old boss to seek help from whoever had arrested his son and warned him that Feng Jun might not leave the manor for months.
• Lin Beauty called the old boss over, said his son’s actions were especially serious, and mentioned that she had gigabytes of evidence.
• The old boss admitted his son had run into powerful opposition but asked Lin Beauty to tell him what she wanted.

Lin Beauty took one million from the Bullfighting Live boss’s father in exchange for guidance, then directed him to Gao Qiang, the streamer known as Cancer Is No Match for Tigers. The old boss offered to restore Gao Qiang’s account and livestream room, pay compensation, and give him a homepage recommendation, but Gao Qiang challenged him to name the compensation amount.

• Lin Beauty persuaded the old boss to pay one million for advice and told him to meet the livestreamer leaving the estate the next morning.
• The old boss stopped Gao Qiang’s car and apologized for his son’s treatment of the streamers.
• Lin Heihu told the old boss that Gao Qiang could represent him fully.
• Gao Qiang accused Bullfighting Live of mistreating streamers and rejected the old boss’s attempt to blame lower-level employees and procedural problems.
• The old boss offered to restore Gao Qiang’s account and livestream room, pay owed revenue and compensation, and provide a homepage recommendation.
• Gao Qiang asked how much the old boss planned to pay in compensation.

Lin Heihu demanded that Bullfighting Live publicly acknowledge and reform its mistreatment of streamers, with him overseeing the complaints process, rather than seek financial compensation. After consulting his son, the old man agreed to the demands, and his son urged him to comply so he could be released.

• The old man offered Lin Heihu generous compensation if he would help secure his son and daughter-in-law’s return, but Lin Heihu refused money and demanded a public apology and industry reforms.
• Lin Heihu required Bullfighting Live to admit its flaws, compensate persecuted streamers, handle complaints transparently, and appoint him as a special supervisor.
• The old man warned that exposing the livestreaming industry’s dark corners could ruin it, but Lin Heihu insisted the industry could thrive after those problems were addressed.
• The old man caught Lin Heihu and Gao Qiang as they left for lunch and asked to consult his son about the demands.
• The old man called his son, explained the situation, and heard him agree to the demands, warning that Bullfighting Live could not afford to offend Lin Heihu.

After Bullfighting Live reopened, Lin Heihu tested its new “Call Tiger Bro” complaint system and accepted that reports needed screening. Lin Beauty offered to supervise the platform’s cleanup in exchange for cultivation, but Lin Heihu refused.

• The company spent twelve days cleaning up its content, finances, and ideological problems while its boss paid more than twenty million to resolve matters and support Lin Beauty and Lin Heihu.
• Lin Heihu’s White Whale livestream attracted more than fifty thousand concurrent viewers, and streamers on other platforms began calling him Tiger Bro and spreading rumors about his identity.
• Bullfighting Live reopened after eighteen days and added a “Call Tiger Bro” button that directed users through complaint procedures before connecting them to a human agent.
• Lin Heihu tested the button, learned that the system was designed to screen reports, and decided its process made sense.
• Lin Beauty offered to supervise Bullfighting Live’s cleanup if Lin Heihu helped her cultivate, and he refused before she argued that his new public persona could not collapse.