Chapter Summaries

After helping Xu Mengyao expand her meridians, Lin Chen answered scientists’ emails while Magic City security identified a disguised East Sakura ninja at the high-speed rail station. Wu Bin took a girl hostage and escaped in a Mercedes-Benz, saying he wanted to see Master Lin before he died.

• Xu Mengyao felt stronger after the second meridian expansion, and Lin Chen explained that her body would take months to adapt and develop internal energy.
• Lin Chen carried Xu Mengyao to bed, then replied to questions from experts and academicians about aircraft manufacturing.
• Wu Bin arrived at Magic City’s high-speed rail station, where the modified surveillance system flagged his military training and Director Zhao ordered officers to investigate him.
• When four plainclothes officers approached, Wu Bin seized a girl and demanded a car, threatening her with poison needles.
• Wu Bin made a Female Officer drive him in a Mercedes-Benz to Ziyuan Community, claiming he wanted to see Master Lin before he died.

Wu Bin took a hostage to force a meeting with Lin Chen, then escaped after the police refused his demand. Lin Chen decided the book signing would proceed as planned and said he hoped to meet Wu Bin there.

• Wu Bin threatened the hostage and a Female Officer, but both refused to let the police agree to his demand to meet Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen learned about the hostage situation from Chen Xinhan and told Sirius to prioritize the hostage’s safety, even if Wu Bin escaped.
• Wu Bin ordered the Female Officer to drive him to Bar Street, where he disappeared into an alley despite a search by drones and plainclothes officers.
• After Wu Bin remained missing the next morning, Lin Chen told Sirius the book signing would proceed and said he could meet Wu Bin there.
• Sirius warned Lin Chen that Wu Bin might be a Top Assassin and a ninja from East Sakura Country, while Lin Chen cited his fast, accurate marksmanship within twenty steps.

Sirius tightened security around Lin Chen’s book signing as Ishihara Taro and Aso Yuu prepared an assassination attempt. After learning that captured ninjas had died from poison, Lin Chen identified the drug and provided an antidote formula, leaving Sirius able to keep a newly captured suspect alive.

• Xu Xiangyang ordered Sirius to monitor the area around the stadium thoroughly, including its sewers, while many visitors gathered in Magic City for Lin Chen’s book signing.
• Ishihara Taro told Aso Yuu that seven of the ten High-Level Ninjas sent to Magic City had been discovered, though three remained at large and were expected to target Lin Chen.
• Sirius told Lin Chen that seven captured spies, believed to be ninjas, had died from poison, and Lin Chen asked him to bring a body for examination.
• Lin Chen identified the poison as Modern Compound Medicine and sent Sirius the formula for its antidote.
• Sirius reported that his men had captured another suspected ninja, and two hours later they had prepared Lin Chen’s antidote.

Sirius used Lin Chen’s antidote to keep Zhang Kai alive long enough to break his resistance and confess. Zhang Kai revealed that he was a High-Level Ninja in the Fuuma Ninja Organization, and Lin Chen asked to learn more about the organization’s members.

• Sirius injected Zhang Kai with Lin Chen’s antidote, which prevented the poison from killing him.
• After hours of interrogation, Zhang Kai realized the poison had failed and agreed to talk.
• Zhang Kai confessed that he was a High-Level Ninja from East Sakura Country’s Fuuma Ninja Organization, which had sent three High-Level Ninjas on the operation.
• Sirius told Lin Chen that the Fuuma Ninja Organization was one of East Sakura Country’s larger ninja groups and received funding from several conglomerates.
• Lin Chen suspected East Sakura Country was behind the operation and asked Sirius for information about other members of the organization.

Lin Chen traced the Fuuma Ninja Organization’s assassination operation to Ishihara Taro and East Sakura Country’s conglomerates, then spent the Ishihara Family’s stolen funds on bounties against the people behind it. The targeted tycoons learned that Top Assassins were coming and discussed how to survive the first week, while admitting they could not safely retaliate against Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen investigated the Fuuma Ninja Organization and uncovered Ishihara Taro’s role in an operation involving three ninja organizations and more than a dozen conglomerates.
• Lin Chen transferred 1.2 billion US dollars from Ishihara Taro’s family and issued bounties through seven assassin organizations against the conglomerates’ leaders.
• Assassins accepted the lucrative contracts, and people in East Sakura Country discovered that dozens of tycoons had been targeted.
• Yamamoto Shun and Miyazaki Jiro discussed surviving the one-week bounty period and paying the Assassin Organizations to cancel the jobs.
• Miyazaki Jiro said the Assassin Organizations would not accept a bounty against Lin Chen because of his hacking ability and his many protectors.

Yamamoto Shun and the other tycoons debated how to respond to the bounties and suspected Lin Chen, then learned he had emptied the Ishihara Family’s accounts. The tycoons agreed to gather under joint security and reconsider their plans in three days, while Lin Chen prepared for his book signing and asked Xu Mengyao to stay home.

• Yamamoto Shun proposed either placing a joint bounty on Lin Chen or negotiating peace and paying the Assassin Organizations to cancel their contracts.
• Aso Yuu told Yamamoto Shun that the Ishihara Family’s fund and personal account, totaling twelve billion dollars, had vanished.
• Yamamoto Shun warned the tycoons that Lin Chen could take their money and use it to fund bounties, prompting some to oppose further attacks while others wanted to wait for the two High-Level Ninjas in Magic City.
• The tycoons agreed to gather at the estate under combined security and discuss the situation again in three days.
• Lin Chen woke beside Xu Mengyao and asked her to stay home while he attended his book signing, saying he feared someone might cause trouble.

Lin Chen arrived at the stadium for his book signing as huge crowds gathered, and he persuaded fans to leave the area to reduce the risk of a stampede. Security captured a female ninja at the entrance, but Wu Bin remained at large and considered approaching Ziyuan Community instead.

• Sirius warned Lin Chen that more than a hundred thousand people were heading to the stadium and that the crowd overwhelmed the drones' identification efforts.
• Lin Chen used loudspeakers to ask fans to leave in an orderly fashion and promised to hold an online livestream within a week.
• A female ninja carrying a gun entered the security checkpoint and was incapacitated by the screening equipment before National Security agents arrested her.
• Sirius told Lin Chen that only Wu Bin remained at large among the ten ninjas, and Lin Chen warned him to stay vigilant for other assassins.
• Lin Chen began signing books provided by staff, while Wu Bin neared the stadium in a taxi and considered seeking an opportunity near Ziyuan Community.

World-class assassins killed two East Sakura Country tycoons targeted by Lin Chen, while Lin Chen denied responsibility and continued signing books. Wu Bin approached Ziyuan Community in disguise, but a drone identified his gait and the Command Center confirmed his identity.

• A world-class assassin shot Chairman Rongcang, and another tycoon died after drinking poisoned water in his Bulletproof Car.
• Tycoons gathered at an estate panicked over the assassinations and feared Lin Chen would continue targeting them.
• Sirius told Lin Chen that East Sakura Country suspected him of placing the bounties, but Lin Chen denied involvement and claimed the deaths were normal.
• Wu Bin rode a bus past Ziyuan Community and assessed its guards, police, dogs, vehicles, and snipers before getting off nearby.
• A hidden drone flagged Wu Bin's gait, and Liang Jingtian ordered a comparison that confirmed the disguised man was Wu Bin.

Wu Bin was cornered in Jiayuan Residential Community and threatened to kill dozens of residents unless National Security released Hu Jing. Liang Jingtian stalled for time while Sirius reported the crisis to his superiors, and Lin Chen overheard their conversation.

• Wu Bin entered Jiayuan Residential Community to scout it, noticed suspicious cars outside, and suspected he had been exposed.
• Wu Bin chained the unit door shut and warned residents that bombs elsewhere in the building would explode if anyone cut the chains.
• After National Security members arrived, Wu Bin ordered residents upstairs and demanded that Hu Jing be released within half an hour or people would die.
• Liang Jingtian told Sirius that forty or fifty residents were trapped and Wu Bin might have planted bombs; Sirius ordered him to negotiate and stall for time.
• Sirius reported the situation to his superiors while Lin Chen listened to the conversation from nearby.

Lin Chen went to Jiayuan Residential Community to assess the hostage crisis and confront Wu Bin. After Wu Bin threatened him, Lin Chen shot and killed him, leaving the hostages’ fate unclear.

• Wu Bin demanded a video call with Hu Jing and threatened to kill hostages, while negotiators tried to stall him.
• Lin Chen finished his fan event, learned about the hostage crisis from Sirius, and decided to go to Jiayuan Residential Community.
• Wu Bin agreed to wait for Lin Chen, hoping he might get a chance to kill him.
• Lin Chen got out of his bulletproof car and challenged Wu Bin, judging that Wu Bin had no bombs or gun.
• Wu Bin claimed he could kill people with his bare hands, and Lin Chen shot him in the head.

Lin Chen killed Wu Bin with an impossible shot, then returned home and reassured Xu Mengyao that the nearby incident was handled. In East Sakura Country, the surviving tycoons considered surrendering and sought talks with the mysterious person behind the bounties, while Lin Chen and Sirius doubted that person would negotiate.

• Lin Chen ordered Sirius to send drones into the building, and they confirmed that Wu Bin had been killed by a headshot and that the area was clear.
• Sirius told his men to keep Lin Chen's extraordinary shot confidential, and Lin Chen returned home to reunite with Lin Xiaoqian and eat dinner with his family.
• Xu Mengyao asked about the nearby incident, and Lin Chen reassured her that the police had handled it.
• Ishihara Taro and Aso Yuu discussed the failed assassination operation and concluded that sending more assassins could worsen the situation as more tycoons were killed.
• Yamamoto Shun and the other surviving tycoons decided to contact the mysterious person behind the bounties and posted a request for talks online.
• Sirius told Lin Chen that three tycoons had died and that the survivors wanted to speak with the mysterious person, and Lin Chen said the person should refuse to negotiate.

Lin Chen discovered that Lin Xiaoqian had contracted a dangerous influenza virus and investigated its effects. After identifying the strain, he warned Xu Xiangyang and offered to develop a more effective medicine, leaving the government preparing to produce it quickly.

• Lin Chen’s piano skill reached Legendary Level, greatly improving Lin Xiaoqian’s piano talent as he taught her.
• That night, Lin Xiaoqian began coughing, and Lin Chen diagnosed her with a viral infection and treated her with traditional Chinese medicine.
• Lin Chen analyzed the virus at his alma mater and found it could be fatal and cause lasting harm, especially to children.
• Lin Chen warned Minister Xu Xiangyang about the virus’s risks and said he could develop a medicine more effective than the expensive United States drug.
• Xu Xiangyang said he would report the discovery to the higher-ups so the country could produce Lin Chen’s medicine and release it as soon as possible.

Lin Chen refused to lift his bounty on East Sakura Country’s financial magnates and families, insisting that they meet his conditions. Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities approved domestic production of his influenza drug without charging patent fees, as an American pharmaceutical company planned to exploit shortages for profit.

• Officials consulted Lin Chen about his Western medicine expertise, and he claimed it was the best in the world while waiving domestic patent fees for his drug.
• The authorities approved the drug, and several state-owned pharmaceutical companies began production using the formula Lin Chen had given Xu Xiangyang.
• A U.S. pharmaceutical executive urged his father to increase production of their influenza medicine, but the older man chose to wait for shortages so they could raise prices, especially in China.
• After four financial magnates died, Yamamoto Shun and other East Sakura Country leaders pressured Ishihara Taro to take responsibility, and Ishihara Taro committed suicide.
• Lin Chen logged onto the website and rejected East Sakura Country’s attempt to lift the bounty, demanding Aso Yuu’s death, the destruction of the Ishihara Family, and ten billion US dollars in compensation.

Lin Chen forced East Sakura Country's financial conglomerates to pay ten billion US dollars in compensation and canceled the remaining bounties, while Aso Yuu committed suicide. Three days later, as an affordable Chinese medicine treated Type V Influenza, a US biopharmaceutical company moved to discredit it, and Lin Chen responded to the growing rumors with an announcement.

• Yamamoto Shun and the others agreed to pay Lin Chen ten billion US dollars after he threatened to raise the price and demanded Aso Yuu's death; Aso Yuu then committed suicide.
• Lin Chen received the payment, canceled the remaining bounty orders, and kept the refunded money in a secret overseas account.
• Lin Xiaoqian recovered, while a cheap new medicine reduced the effects of Type V Influenza for infected children.
• Eric told Joseph that China's new influenza medicine outperformed their product at one-twentieth the price, and Joseph ordered him to spread doubts about whether it had undergone clinical trials.
• Xu Mengyao showed Lin Chen reports questioning the medicine, and Lin Chen issued an announcement.

After foreign pharmaceutical executives attacked Lin Chen for releasing flu medicine without a Clinical Trial, Lin Chen defended the medicine in a livestream and showcased his talents in music and the arts. The stream boosted his following, and Lin Chen ended by donating his painting to a museum without naming which one.

• Lin Chen announced that he had developed the flu medicine, and fans praised it as sales of the expensive foreign alternative collapsed.
• Eric told Joseph about the lost sales, and Joseph ordered him to enlist media outlets and experts to criticize Lin Chen’s medicine and its lack of a Clinical Trial.
• Lin Chen told livestream viewers that he had developed the medicine after Qian Qian caught the flu, would charge no domestic patent fees, and warned that delayed treatment could cause serious complications.
• Lin Chen told two Fairy Tales, sang two songs, and played two piano pieces, prompting viewers to call him Grandmaster Lin.
• Lin Chen painted and inscribed a landscape, declined viewers’ bids, and said he would donate it to a museum before ending the livestream.
• Lin Chen’s livestream spread overseas, and his follower count rose sharply.

Joseph admitted that he had orchestrated a campaign to smear Lin Chen and his medicine after KING threatened to put him and Eric on the Bounty List. As the medicine eased the flu outbreak, Lin Chen arranged to build a personal unmanned stealth submarine and planned to stock it with weapons for storage in his System Space.

• KING, speaking for Lin Chen, gave Eric and Joseph one hour to confess or face a bounty and top assassins.
• Joseph accepted responsibility and publicly admitted that he had hired media outlets, experts, and paid trolls to discredit Lin Chen and his medicine.
• A week later, Xu Xiangyang told Lin Chen that several countries wanted to import the medicine, and Lin Chen left export pricing to the government.
• Lin Chen asked Xu Xiangyang to arrange construction of a personal unmanned stealth submarine, and the higher-ups approved it.
• Lin Chen asked Xu Xiangyang to add cabinets so he could load the submarine with guns and ammunition before storing it in his System Space.

Hatoyama Watari persuaded East Sakura Country's powerful backers to fund the creation of Super Ninjas to kill Lin Chen. Meanwhile, Lin Chen gained the Ice Skill while playing in the snow with Lin Xiaoqian, and Xu Mengyao discussed returning to the countryside with Yang Qingyue.

• Hatoyama Watari told Yamamoto Shun and the other tycoons that East Sakura Country was developing Super Ninjas and needed twenty billion US dollars to finish the project.
• Yamamoto Shun and the other tycoons agreed to contribute funding, and Hatoyama Watari promised the Super Ninjas would be ready in as little as half a year.
• Lin Chen took Lin Xiaoqian to the Xu Family to play in the snow after Xu Mengyao agreed she could go outside.
• The system awarded Lin Chen the Ice Skill, which would reach Master level in thirty hours and Grandmaster level in sixty hours.
• Yang Qingyue asked Xu Mengyao when she would return to the countryside, and Xu Mengyao said she expected to leave in another week.

Lin Chen asked Xu Guofeng for investment advice and decided to put money into overseas ports and Australian mines to support the country while earning returns. After arranging a larger investment through Xu Xiangyang, he took Lin Xiaoqian out to play in the snow the next day, hoping to advance his Ice Skill.

• Lin Chen told Xu Guofeng he wanted to invest around fifty billion, and Xu Guofeng recommended ports and Australian mines.
• Lin Chen contacted Xu Xiangyang and asked him to find overseas ports and Australian mines for a first-stage investment of fifty billion.
• After Xu Xiangyang suggested borrowing, Lin Chen decided to take out a one-hundred-fifty-billion loan and asked Xu Xiangyang to manage the assets.
• Xu Xiangyang reported Lin Chen's plan to the higher-ups, who told him to meet the country's strategic needs while ensuring Lin Chen made money.
• The next day, Lin Chen took Lin Xiaoqian out to play in the snow as he worked toward Master level in his Ice Skill.

Lin Chen returned to his hometown for the New Year, where his Ice Skill grew stronger and he acquired Grandmaster-level Explosives Technology while setting off fireworks with Lin Xiaoqian. After returning to Magic City, he received a call from Xu Xiangyang about ports and mines worth purchasing.

• Lin Chen and his family arrived in the countryside, where Lin Hai and Chen Mei welcomed them and Lin Xiaoqian played in the snow.
• On New Year's Eve, Lin Chen's Ice Skill reached Master level, increasing his Spiritual Power to about four times its previous strength.
• Lin Chen acquired Explosives Technology while setting off fireworks with Lin Xiaoqian and nearby children, and it reached Grandmaster level several days later.
• Lin Chen told his parents that the family would return to Magic City on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and Lin Hai and Chen Mei came along to help care for Xu Mengyao.
• After they returned to Magic City, Xu Xiangyang called Lin Chen and said he had identified several ports and mines worth purchasing.

Lin Chen offered the state more than a dozen medicines, including treatments for early-stage cancer and leukemia, and arranged a 150-billion-yuan loan from China Construction Bank. The state began reviewing his medical materials, while the loan was approved and set to be transferred to his account.

• Lin Chen told Xu Xiangyang that he had developed more than a dozen medicines and would provide the patents to the state, including medicines for early-stage cancer and leukemia.
• Xu Xiangyang met with Old Huang and showed him Lin Chen's list of medicines, prompting them to plan for the state to handle their production and distribution.
• Tan Xinian, president of China Construction Bank's head office, visited Lin Chen at Ziyuan Community to discuss his loan request.
• Lin Chen told Tan Xinian he wanted to borrow 150 billion yuan and had more than 160 billion yuan in savings at the bank.
• Tan Xinian completed the loan procedures and said the 150 billion yuan would soon be transferred to Lin Chen's bank card.