Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan learned that a mutated snake in a secret passage at the Li family residence had poisoned several people, and he hurried to the hospital to treat them. The chapter ended as he reached the emergency room, where four injured men lay in beds.

• Xu Hang told Ye Yuan that he and Zhao Xirui had found a mutated beast in a passage at the Li residence, and its venom had injured several team members.
• Ye Yuan agreed to examine the injured and asked Xu Hang to send a car to the hospital.
• Ye Yuan told Li Shiyun and Jing Yu that a snake had hurt several people, then urged Li Shiyun to stay at the hospital.
• A young man sent by Xu Hang met Ye Yuan outside the military district hospital and led him toward the emergency room.
• Jing Yu told Li Shiyun that some matters were confidential and wondered why Xu Hang had let Ye Yuan face the danger.
• Ye Yuan arrived at the crowded emergency room, where four young men lay on hospital beds.

Ye Yuan used Spatial Lake Water to contain the Snake Venom in four of Xu Hang’s subordinates, but he could not cure it completely. He left the hospital after giving them a prescription and told Xu Hang and Zhao Xirui that the injured men remained in danger.

• Ye Yuan examined an unconscious patient and used Spatial Lake Water to stop the Snake Venom from spreading, but discovered he could not eliminate it.
• Ye Yuan treated the other three patients the same way, wrote a prescription from an ancient book, and left the hospital with the young man who had brought him.
• Ye Yuan arrived at Xu Hang’s courtyard and joked about Xu Hang and Zhao Xirui looking like door gods.
• Ye Yuan told Xu Hang and Zhao Xirui that he had contained the Snake Venom but had no way to cure it completely.

Ye Yuan learned that a giant venomous python in the passageway had injured four men and killed two, while neither he nor the available antivenom could counter its toxin. Xu Hang agreed to let Ye Yuan enter with the team when the Instructor arrived, and Ye Yuan recognized the middle-aged man who stepped out of the vehicle as the mysterious man from Old Xu’s home.

• Zhao Xirui explained that the giant python’s venom had defeated the available antivenom and that the team could not use destructive weapons without risking damage to a suspected tomb.
• Zhao Xirui told Xu Hang that the Instructor was on his way, then asked Ye Yuan to leave before he arrived.
• Ye Yuan insisted on seeing the mutated beast, and Xu Hang persuaded Zhao Xirui to let him follow the team into the passageway while staying away from the cave entrance.
• The Instructor arrived in an off-road vehicle, and Ye Yuan recognized him as the middle-aged man who had smashed a flowerpot from a distance at Old Xu’s home.

Ye Yuan followed Zhao Xirui, Xu Hang, and the Instructor through the passage to confront the giant python guarding the cave. The Instructor subdued it with a dagger and an injection, and Xu Hang called for help transporting it alive.

• The Instructor arrived and asked Zhao Xirui about the mutated beast and the ancient tomb in the cave.
• Zhao Xirui led the Instructor, Xu Hang, and Ye Yuan through the winding passage and explained the python’s attack range.
• The Instructor went alone to the cave entrance as Xu Hang and Zhao Xirui stopped Ye Yuan from following.
• The giant white python attacked the Instructor, who dodged onto its back, stabbed its vital spot, and injected it with an unknown liquid.
• The python calmed and lay still, and Xu Hang radioed the waiting subordinates to come down and transport it.

Ye Yuan, Xu Hang, Zhao Xirui, and the Instructor entered a cave after capturing a giant python and found a stone door leading to a vast chamber. Beyond it lay a mountain of gold and a dusty stone table holding a Rosewood Box.

• The Instructor joined Xu Hang and Zhao Xirui in exploring the cave after their group loaded the giant python onto a cart.
• Zhao Xirui cut an attacking grass snake in two as the group proceeded through the winding passage.
• Ye Yuan found a hidden pressure mechanism in the stone door, and Zhao Xirui pressed it to open the way.
• The group entered a chamber and discovered a mountain of gold, prompting Zhao Xirui to celebrate the find.
• Xu Hang spotted a dusty stone table behind the gold, where the Instructor noticed a Rosewood Box.

Ye Yuan and his companions found a Gold Star Red Sandalwood box in the stone chamber and discovered a jade seal engraved with the words of the Mandate of Heaven. Its dragon carving and gold-repaired corner suggested it could be the long-lost Imperial Seal, leaving the group stunned by their discovery.

• Ye Yuan and the others entered the stone chamber and gathered around a box carved from a single piece of Gold Star Red Sandalwood.
• Zhao Xirui opened the box, revealing a jade seal nestled in yellow silk.
• Zhao Xirui carefully lifted the seal, exposing its dragon carving, gold-repaired corner, and eight characters in Small Seal Script.
• The middle-aged man identified the object as the Imperial Seal, while Xu Hang questioned whether it could be genuine.
• Ye Yuan recalled the seal’s history and judged that the jade seal before them was likely the legendary Imperial Seal.

Ye Yuan discovered a hidden hollow in the cave and secretly stored the mysterious handkerchief and the object wrapped inside it. After the group left the cave, he passed a security scan without exposing his spatial pearl and rode away with Xu Hang.

• Xu Hang wondered whether the white python had guarded the Imperial Seal, and the middle-aged man ordered Zhao Xirui to contact his grandfather while he stayed to guard the seal.
• Ye Yuan found a patch of wall his perception could not penetrate, broke it open, and discovered a handkerchief-wrapped object that his perception also could not see through.
• Ye Yuan secretly put the handkerchief and its contents into his spatial storage, and the group confirmed there were no other items in the cave.
• Xu Hang and Ye Yuan returned to the Li family study, where a bespectacled man scanned them with an instrument; the scan did not reveal Ye Yuan's spatial pearl.
• Xu Hang drove Ye Yuan away from the courtyard and warned him to avoid the man, whom he called a psycho.

After Old Master Li died, Li Shiyun grieved while Ye Yuan stayed by her side and explained what he knew about the cave beneath the Li family study. They returned to a siheyuan with her grandfather’s belongings and the notebooks that might be her second uncle’s diaries, hoping they would reveal the answers.

• Old Master Li woke in the hospital, told Li Shiyun to keep her second uncle’s diary, and died despite the doctors’ efforts.
• Ye Yuan learned of Old Master Li’s death and rushed to the hospital to comfort Li Shiyun.
• Over the next three days, Li Shiyun sorted through her grandfather’s belongings while guards inspected everything removed from the Li courtyard.
• On the drive back, Ye Yuan told Li Shiyun about the cave, its gold, and the giant python, but withheld the Imperial Seal’s discovery.
• Li Shiyun recalled her grandfather’s final request and said she had brought several notebooks that might be her second uncle’s diaries.
• Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun went to the siheyuan to settle some of Old Master Li’s belongings.

Li Shiyun and Ye Yuan read Li Yaoming’s diaries and discovered that the Li family descended from Li Zicheng and had been searching for his hidden treasure vault. The diaries left them with new questions about Li Yaoming’s secret family and the giant white python guarding the vault.

• Li Shiyun found Li Yaoming’s leather-bound diaries, and she and Ye Yuan spent the afternoon reading them.
• Li Shiyun learned that her father, Li Yaoguang, was not Old Master Li’s biological son and struggled with the revelations about her grandfather’s motives.
• The diaries revealed that the Li family descended from Li Zicheng and had searched for generations for his treasure vault near Shangjing.
• Li Shiyun learned that Li Yaoming and Old Master Li had opened the vault, found treasures, and been blocked from exploring deeper by a gigantic white python.
• Li Yaoming’s final entry said he planned to finish exploring the vault and reunite with his wife and eighteen-year-old son in Kangaroo Country; he also suspected Ye Yuan knew the family secret.
• Ye Yuan questioned how the supposedly unmarried Li Yaoming could have a son, while he wondered why Li Zicheng had not revealed that he possessed the Imperial Seal.

After Li Shiyun told her father about the diary, Ye Yuan returned to Pinghai County and saw how Zhang Wujin’s leisure fisheries and Underwater Theme Park had grown. Zhang Wujin then explained that a planned Underwater Museum project had been taken over by a biological laboratory after dinosaur fossils were discovered.

• Li Shiyun brought Ye Yuan to the Li family villa and took Li Yaoguang into the study to tell him about the diary.
• Li Yaoguang returned from the study looking troubled, and the relatives soon left; the next day, Li Shiyun took Ye Yuan back to Blue Island.
• Li Shiyun buried herself in work, and Ye Yuan stayed with her for a day before returning to Pinghai County.
• Zhang Wujin showed Ye Yuan the Underwater Theme Park and described how leisure fisheries had attracted visitors and benefited local fishermen.
• Ye Yuan reaffirmed that he would invest in the Underwater Museum only if it operated as part of their underwater sightseeing business.
• Zhang Wujin said Blue Island City had transferred the museum project to a biological laboratory after dinosaur fossils were found, and that a woman now led the project.

Ye Yuan learned that Leonard had supplied the Underwater Museum project with specialty glass that would shatter when exposed to dolphin sounds. He warned Zhang Wujin about the danger and considered the damage it could cause to Pinghai County and their own theme park.

• Zhang Wujin told Ye Yuan that the Underwater Museum team had obtained specialty-glass samples and begun the approval process.
• Ye Yuan called Leonard, who admitted he had altered the glass so dolphin sounds would make it shatter and said the contract did not cover sound-wave resistance.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin that the Underwater Museum could collapse after it was built, and Zhang Wujin realized its glass was different from theirs.
• Zhang Wujin laughed at the prospect of the project failing, but Ye Yuan warned that the disaster could damage Pinghai's reputation and their theme park.

Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island after more than twenty days away and reunited with his family and the island’s animals. Su Mei asked to buy the island’s Tina Bull beef, and Ye Yuan agreed to consider selling it after he learned how the cattle were being raised.

• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin that stopping doctored glass from entering Huaxia Nation was the only way to prevent a dangerous project, but kept his ownership of the glass factory secret.
• After dining with Zhang Wujin, Ye Yuan traveled by yacht with Ding Yi back to Fishing Bay Island.
• Ye Yuan arrived to find Ye Hui and Su Mei chatting while Niuniu and Nian Xin rode Tibetan mastiffs among the island’s animals.
• Ye Yuan greeted the girls, fed the island’s pets Spatial Lake Water, and then spoke with Ye Hui and Su Mei.
• Su Mei pressed Ye Yuan to sell her Tina Bull beef, and Ye Yuan explained that he needed to assess whether the cattle could be raised in large numbers.
• Ye Hui said Li Hui had told Su Mei that the cattle were easy to raise, then began explaining their current care on the island.

Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island and reunited with Ye Hui, Su Mei, and Li Hui, who wanted to discuss his exceptional beef cattle. After seeing the small herd and hearing two calves had been born, Su Mei urged him to expand the breeding operation quickly.

• Ye Hui and Su Mei brought their families together on Fishing Bay Island, where Su Mei hoped to talk with Ye Yuan about supplying her restaurant with his beef.
• Ye Yuan told Ye Hui and Su Mei about his trip to Country M and Shi Yun's family's troubles, and Ye Hui criticized him for not visiting the family during their funeral.
• Li Hui took the group to the cattle shed, where Su Mei saw that Ye Yuan had only four cattle and understood why he could not supply her restaurant yet.
• Ye Yuan said he planned to raise the cattle first and expand if it went well, but Li Hui revealed that two calves had already been born.
• Su Mei asked Ye Yuan where the cattle came from and advised him to expand into large-scale breeding before competitors caught up.

Ye Yuan heard Li Hui’s praise of the cattle’s beef but postponed deciding whether to raise them on a large scale until he had tasted it himself. That night he examined a mysterious handkerchief and bronze key from the Li family passageway, then woke refreshed on the island and relaxed by the shore with his animals.

• Su Mei left Blue Island with Ye Yuan’s sister, and Ye Yuan heard from Li Hui that the island had been quiet while he was away.
• Li Hui told Ye Yuan that the cattle’s beef had been delicious and said he had saved meat for Ye Yuan and sent oxtail to Ye Yuan’s parents.
• Ye Yuan examined a heavy handkerchief that concealed his perception and bore an unexplained map, along with a bronze key wrapped inside it.
• The Beast King drank Spatial Lake Water beside Ye Yuan’s bed, then disappeared before morning.
• Ye Yuan took Big Yellow, Tank, and Duke to the shore and watched the animals play as he rested in a rocking chair.

Ye Yuan followed his sea pets into the deep ocean, where they led him to a rare undersea hot spring teeming with unusual creatures. The pets continued downward past the springs, leaving Ye Yuan to follow them toward whatever they had found below.

• Ye Yuan released his sea pets into the waters near Fishing Bay Island to give them room to play and help guard the fishing grounds.
• Big White and the other pets carried Ye Yuan northeast into the open sea, then guided him down toward the seabed.
• Ye Yuan discovered an undersea hot spring at a depth of about 2,500 meters, surrounded by many strange sea creatures.
• The pets swam straight through the hot spring area and continued downward, with Ye Yuan following them.

Ye Yuan watched Da Bai, Tiger, and Little Shark confront a giant Colossal Squid at five thousand meters deep, then summoned Cold Blood when the squid hurt Da Bai. Cold Blood chased down the fleeing squid and tore away its tentacles as Ye Yuan’s pets joined the attack.

• Da Bai, Tiger, and Little Shark warned Ye Yuan of danger and led him to a roughly twenty-five-meter Colossal Squid.
• Tiger, Da Bai, and Little Shark formed a triangle and attacked the squid, but it dodged their strikes and knocked Da Bai off course.
• Ye Yuan summoned Cold Blood and ordered it to attack after seeing Da Bai get hurt.
• The Colossal Squid fled in a cloud of black ink, but Cold Blood caught it and severed four tentacles.
• Da Bai, Tiger, and Little Shark joined Cold Blood’s assault while the squid struggled to escape.

Ye Yuan and his pets defeated the Colossal Squid and uncovered a Ming Dynasty warship, but he found nothing valuable and could not store the wreck. After returning to Fishing Bay Island, he learned from Zhang Wujin that the supplier had stopped supplying them, and Zhang excitedly asked how Ye Yuan had arranged it.

• Cold Blood and Ye Yuan's pets attacked the Colossal Squid until it was defeated and its tentacles were severed.
• Big White and the others led Ye Yuan to an ancient sunken warship buried beneath the seabed sand.
• Ye Yuan searched the Ming Dynasty wreck, found only broken silver and unusable gunpowder, and decided he could not take the ship back.
• Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island with his pets, played in the water, and found that the three dogs had gone back to the courtyard residence.
• Zhang Wujin called Ye Yuan and asked how he had gotten the supplier to stop supplying them.

Ye Yuan arranged Leonard’s retaliation by suspending the special glass supply, prompting the research institute to resume negotiations with Zhang Wujin. Meanwhile, Jia Yuanyuan visited Pinghai’s new Blue Island theme park and found its honest prices and straightforward tourism unusual.

• Ye Yuan ordered Leonard to stop supplying the special glass, and Leonard contacted the negotiating company to suspend external supply.
• The research institute’s representative contacted Zhang Wujin to restart cooperation talks, and Zhang Wujin asked Ye Yuan whether they should cooperate.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin to decide for himself and explained that he wanted Pinghai to develop sustainably to protect Fishing Bay Island.
• Jia Yuanyuan drove to Blue Island on the weekend to photograph the newly opened theme park and its underwater sightseeing tunnel.
• Jia Yuanyuan found the beach beautiful and appreciated the park’s low prices and lack of tourist traps.

While diving, Jia Yuanyuan was stung by a venomous jellyfish, but a sea turtle swallowed it and carried her safely ashore. Beach staff checked her condition and explained how to handle jellyfish stings as a doctor was summoned.

• Jia Yuanyuan explored the underwater scenery while learning to dive and filming it with her camera.
• Jia Yuanyuan moved close to a blue jellyfish, was stung on the ankle, and found her calf had gone numb.
• A large sea turtle swallowed the jellyfish, then carried Jia Yuanyuan on its shell to the beach.
• Beach staff reached Jia Yuanyuan and checked her symptoms while calling for help.
• A bystander offered Jia Yuanyuan fresh water, but a staff member stopped her and explained that fresh water and alcohol could worsen a jellyfish sting.

Ye Yuan learned that Zhang Jingkuan’s group planned to build a laboratory on Kuimu Island, which Ye Yuan intended to lease for Yuwan Seafood, and agreed to confront them. He left off challenging Zhang Jingkuan over the island and the principle of first come, first served.

• Jia Yuanyuan was taken to a hospital after a jellyfish attack, while Zhang Wujin and Ye Yuan discussed the staff’s response and the Leatherback Turtle that had helped protect tourists.
• Zhang Wujin told Ye Yuan that the proposed underwater museum project also included a laboratory on Kuimu Island, despite Ye Yuan’s plan to lease the island.
• Ye Yuan agreed to meet Zhang Jingkuan and ask why the laboratory had to be built next to Fishing Bay Island.
• At Zhang Jingkuan’s office, Ye Yuan confronted him for giving Kuimu Island to the laboratory project after Ye Yuan had already expressed interest in leasing it.