Chapter Summaries

Lu Ao recovered after catching a massive Giant Grouper and asked Lin Manzhang for help transporting it. Lin Manzhang and the others arrived, marveled at the fish, and packed it up while Lu Ao ate and rested.

• Lu Ao retrieved his diving suit from the sea, then contacted Lin Manzhang to borrow oxygenation devices and asked him to bring food.
• Lin Manzhang brought food and coconut milk, and his wife packed a large meal for Lu Ao.
• Lin Manzhang, Lin Gongshang, and the others arrived at the reef and were astonished by the huge Giant Grouper in the tide pool.
• Lu Ao explained that the fish had rushed toward shore and stranded itself, and Lin Manzhang warned him to be more careful next time.
• Lin Manzhang and the others packed the Giant Grouper into a water tank while Lu Ao finished eating and offered to treat them to drinks that night.

Lu Ao and the others weighed the Giant Grouper at his home and found it weighed 83.8 jin. They brought the still-lively fish to Deyu Fish Shop, where Niu Deyu called Jiacheng Grand Hotel while another buyer tried to outbid him.

• Lin Man Zhang and the others helped Lu Ao weigh the Giant Grouper, which came to 83.8 jin.
• Lin Man Zhang, Lu Ao, and the others drove the Giant Grouper to Long Township Wharf and took it to Deyu Fish Shop.
• Niu Deyu saw the enormous fish and learned from Lin Man Zhang that Lu Ao had caught it.
• Lu Ao explained that the injured Giant Grouper had darted toward shore and become stranded in the shallows.
• A nearby buyer offered Lu Ao 191 per jin, and Niu Deyu hurried to defend his deal while calling Jiacheng Grand Hotel.
• Niu Deyu ushered Lu Ao and the others inside and offered to order them lunch.

Lu Ao sold the enormous Giant Grouper to Manager Shen for 16,880 yuan before taxes, then collected his tricycle and returned home. There, he met Song Zhou, who identified him as an A-class dangerous individual.

• Niu Deyu brought Manager Shen to see the live Giant Grouper, and Manager Shen offered Lu Ao 200 yuan per jin.
• Lu Ao agreed to the price, and the fish weighed 84.4 jin, for a total of 16,880 yuan.
• After a 45 percent tax deduction, Lu Ao received 9,284 yuan and treated Lin Man Zhang and the others to lunch.
• Lu Ao collected his tricycle in the county town, bought groceries, and drove home after dark.
• Song Zhou waited outside Lu Ao's house and introduced himself, recognizing Lu Ao as an A-class dangerous individual marked by the Anomalous Personnel Affairs Regulatory Agency.

Song Zhou, head of the Anomalous Personnel Affairs Regulatory Agency’s China Division, visited Lu Ao after tracing a disturbance to him and explained that Lu Ao had fused with a Young Dragon. He registered Lu Ao as the plane’s only Dragon and asked to test his blood, leaving Lu Ao wary of what the test might reveal.

• Song Zhou introduced himself and asked Lu Ao to let him inside to discuss the disturbance.
• Lu Ao asked for proof of Song Zhou’s identity, and Song Zhou demonstrated his power by turning tea into ice and back again.
• Song Zhou told Lu Ao that he had fused with a Young Dragon, that his Dragon body had absorbed his human body, and that he was now the only Dragon in their plane.
• Lu Ao asked about the Agency’s requirements, and Song Zhou registered him, exchanged contact information, and sent him the Agency’s official forum website.
• Song Zhou produced a syringe and asked to draw Lu Ao’s blood, offering to let Lu Ao do it himself; Lu Ao remained suspicious.

Lu Ao discovered that his true form was a Chinese Dragon, though he wanted to avoid the strange organization and live peacefully. After spearfishing and buying oxygen concentrators, he ate at Lin Dawu and Gui Yandan’s home, learned where to order Lionhead Geese, and stopped to collect vegetable seedlings.

• Song Zhou drew Lu Ao’s blood for the regulatory authorities’ records and left by disappearing in a blur.
• Lu Ao transformed into a small Chinese Dragon, examined his reflection, and then changed back into a human.
• Lu Ao read through the forum Song Zhou had recommended but decided he wanted little contact with the organization.
• Lu Ao spearfished, sold his catch, bought groceries and two oxygen concentrators, and ate potato pancakes at Lin Dawu and Gui Yandan’s home.
• Gui Yandan gave Lu Ao contact information for a Lionhead Goose seller, and Lu Ao went to collect vegetable seedlings from Lin Man Zhang’s house.
• Ye Zhiying greeted Lu Ao and asked why he had not come the previous day.

Lu Ao planted vegetable seedlings on his village land after Ye Zhiying delivered them and explained how to care for them. Lin Gongshang helped him finish the planting and invited him squid fishing, then offered to bring sweet potato slips the next day.

• Ye Zhiying delivered seedlings to Lu Ao and explained how to plant and fertilize them.
• Lu Ao spent the day preparing his land and began planting the vegetables before sunset.
• Lin Gongshang invited Lu Ao to go squid fishing, and Lu Ao agreed to leave at ten.
• Lin Gongshang helped Lu Ao plant the remaining tomato seedlings and advised him on watering, staking, and fertilizing the vegetables.
• Lu Ao agreed to plant sweet potatoes, and Lin Gongshang questioned his plan to buy geese for manure.

Lu Ao joined Lin Manzhang and the others for a night of squid fishing, while Lin Qiyan filmed the outing and hoped to gain followers. After they reached their remote fishing spot and lowered the fish-attracting lights, they began waiting for squid to gather.

• Lu Ao agreed to raise a small batch of Lionhead Geese and later drove to the shore near Lin Family Village.
• Lu Ao met Lin Qiyan, who recognized him as God Lu, and helped the group carry their fishing boat into the sea.
• On the boat, Lu Ao baited the Octopus Hooks while Lin Qiyan filmed his hands and promised not to show his face.
• After more than forty minutes, the group reached a remote spot and paused beneath a star-filled sky while Lin Qiyan took photos.
• Lu Ao lowered the red fish-attracting lights into the water and gestured for the group to start fishing.

Lu Ao and the others caught squid at sea, cooked their fresh haul, and ate while fishing. After Lu Ao scooped up far more squid than anyone else, Lin Gongshang wondered why they were less skilled despite using the same net.

• Lu Ao caught the first squid and showed the others how to bring it aboard without getting sprayed with ink or bitten.
• The group caught squid in large numbers, and Lin Gongshang boiled their fresh catch with ginger and served it with sauces.
• Everyone gathered to eat the tender squid, while Lu Ao quickly finished half the pot and went back to scoop more.
• Lu Ao repeatedly caught several squid per scoop, impressing the others, who took turns trying their luck with the landing net.
• After tiring themselves out, Lin Gongshang and the others asked Lu Ao why he caught more squid than they did, and he answered, "Young."

After a successful squid-fishing trip, Lu Ao joined Lin Qi Yan and Lin Gongshang to catch eels in the rice paddies. They found several eels, and the chapter ended with Lin Qi Yan following Lu Ao along the ridge to film him.

• Lu Ao declined his share of the squid, telling Lin Man Zhang and the others to take it home to their families.
• Lin Qi Yan invited Lu Ao to shine for eels, and Lu Ao agreed to meet him and Lin Gongshang that night.
• Lin Qi Yan and Lin Gongshang joined Lu Ao at the rice paddies and began searching for eels with flashlights and tongs.
• Lin Gongshang caught the first eel, and the three men found and caught several more as they walked.
• Lin Qi Yan asked to stay with Lu Ao for more footage, so Lu Ao agreed not to split up, and Lin Qi Yan followed him at the front.

Lu Ao caught eels with Qi Yan and Lin Gongshang, then returned home to find Song Zhou waiting with a bottle of spiritual wine. Lu Ao accepted the gift and invited Song Zhou to share a late-night meal, which they ate together in the yard.

• Lu Ao led Qi Yan and Lin Gongshang through the rice paddies, catching eels and loaches until they divided the catch and headed back.
• Qi Yan and Lin Gongshang thanked Lu Ao and invited him to eat and drink with them another time.
• Lu Ao returned home and found Song Zhou waiting outside his gate with a bottle of spiritual wine.
• Song Zhou explained that the wine was a personal gift to help Lu Ao's body, and Lu Ao accepted it after initially refusing.
• Lu Ao invited Song Zhou to join him for a late-night meal, and Song Zhou helped prepare and serve the food.

Lu Ao learned that Song Zhou’s true form was the land called Song Zhou, then spent the night searching for information about him. The next morning, Lu Ao went fishing and joined Lin Gongshang and others in preparing to dig for green crabs.

• Song Zhou told Lu Ao that his true form was Song Zhou, an ancient region, then vanished when he left.
• Lu Ao searched the forum and internet for Song Zhou but found little beyond his role as head of the China branch of the Anomalous Personnel Affairs Regulatory Agency and an entry about the ancient place name.
• Lu Ao spent the night thinking about Song Zhou and woke early to fish, catching only a few fish before reaching the market.
• At the market, Lin Gongshang invited Lu Ao to dig for green crabs, and Lu Ao agreed to join the group.
• Lu Ao arrived at Lin Manzhang’s house with his supplies, where Lin Qiyan and the others were waiting before their outing.

Lu Ao learned how to catch Mud Crabs from Lin Manzhang and used his ability to find them to fill his bucket quickly. Across the river, Lin Gongshang boasted that he had caught five large crabs, while Lu Ao silently regarded his nearly full bucket.

• Lin Manzhang showed Lu Ao and Lin Qiyan how to identify Mud Crab burrows, dig safely, handle the crabs, and fill the holes afterward.
• Lin Manzhang caught a large Mud Crab, tied it up, and explained how to keep the crabs from injuring one another in the bucket.
• After catching three more crabs with Lin Manzhang, Lu Ao and Lin Qiyan went downstream to try catching Mud Crabs on their own.
• Lu Ao used his ability to sense Mud Crabs and quickly dug up four or five, tying them up and putting them in his bucket.
• Lin Gongshang called across the river to say he had caught five large Mud Crabs, and Lu Ao looked at his nearly full bucket without replying.

Lu Ao outcaught Lin Gongshang while digging for Mud Crabs, then discovered one of his nine crabs was a valuable Top-Hand Butter Crab. The group recognized its exceptional quality and warned Lu Ao to protect it as they prepared to carry their catches.

• Lin Gongshang proudly showed off his five Mud Crabs before discovering that Lu Ao had caught nine.
• Qi Yan arrived with one small Mud Crab and joined Lin Gongshang in inspecting Lu Ao's catch.
• Qi Yan noticed that one of Lu Ao's crabs was a Butter Crab, and Lu Ao washed it to reveal its golden color.
• Lin Gongshang examined the crab and identified it as a high-grade Top-Hand Butter Crab worth far more than ordinary Mud Crabs.
• Lin Gongshang warned Lu Ao not to damage the crab's legs, and Qi Yan offered to carry it separately in his bucket.

Lu Ao and his companions brought their mud crabs to Lin Manzhang’s house, where the group admired Lu Ao’s rare Butter Crab and planned to sell their catch together. Lu Ao also arranged to order Giant Grouper Fingerlings to release into the sea, then went home to make himself another meal.

• Lu Ao, Lin Qiyan, and Lin Gongshang washed their mud crabs but found no other Butter Crabs.
• At Lin Manzhang’s house, the group admired Lu Ao’s Butter Crab and agreed to sell their combined catch at Long Township Wharf after three.
• Lu Ao asked Lin Manzhang where to buy fish fry so he could release them into the sea to replenish fish he had caught.
• Lin Manzhang contacted a fish fry farm, and Lu Ao agreed to order at least two hundred Giant Grouper Fingerlings for delivery in a month.
• Lu Ao left the crabs at Lin Manzhang’s house, returned home, and cooked himself a large meal.

Lu Ao dreamed of Song Zhou's people worshipping a land-and-grain god who eventually took on Song Zhou's face, then declined a hotel job leading guests on a fishing trip. At Niu Deyu's shop, he agreed to sell the giant Butter Crab he had caught for two thousand yuan per pound.

• Lu Ao woke from a dream of a god taking on Song Zhou's face and wondered whether it had any connection to Song Zhou.
• Lin Man Zhang and Lin Gongshang told Lu Ao that Jiacheng Grand Hotel wanted to hire him to take three guests sea fishing for three thousand yuan a day, but he refused.
• Lu Ao, Lin Man Zhang, and Lin Gongshang drove to Niu Deyu's shop with their Mud Crabs.
• Niu Deyu examined Lu Ao's giant Butter Crab and offered two thousand yuan per pound, which Lu Ao accepted.

Lu Ao turned down a wealthy visitor’s offer to pay him for hosting or guiding them, then focused on his fields and prepared a shed for geese. He arrived at Li Xinyong’s farm to inspect the fifty-one goslings he had ordered.

• Lu Ao sold his crabs for 2,695 yuan after taxes, while Lin Gongshang agreed to seek a hosting job and Lin Man Zhang offered to take the visitors out to sea.
• Lu Ao refused to host or guide the wealthy visitors, then later let their luxury cars pass him on the road.
• Lu Ao spent two days tending his crops, watering them and dealing with pests and fast-growing weeds.
• Lu Ao finished converting his woodshed into a goose pen and called Li Xinyong to arrange pickup of fifty-one goslings.
• Li Xinyong led Lu Ao to the backyard to inspect the forty-five female and six male goslings.

Lu Ao brought home goslings and met Song Zhou, who checked on his health and offered to accompany him to tend his fields. The chapter ended with Song Zhou placing a hand on Lu Ao’s shoulder to take him there.

• Lu Ao bought goslings from Li Xinyong and heard from Lin Gongshang that two of his visiting guests had developed fevers.
• Lu Ao settled the goslings into their pen, gave them food and water, and prepared to return to his fields.
• Song Zhou visited Lu Ao and asked how he felt after drinking the spirit wine, then promised to bring him something else.
• Song Zhou offered to go with Lu Ao to water and weed his fields, and Lu Ao agreed after remembering Song Zhou’s true form.
• Song Zhou put a hand on Lu Ao’s shoulder and said he would take him to the fields.

After Song Zhou used his powers to tend Lu Ao’s farmland, Lu Ao suspected Dragon might be able to do the same. He then realized Lin Gongshang’s guests could have been infected after handling a Black Seabream, and arrived to help as the guests became unresponsive with high fevers.

• Song Zhou killed the weeds, nourished Lu Ao’s vegetables, cleared pests, and summoned rain over the fields.
• Lu Ao asked Lin Gongshang whether his guests’ fevers had gone down and learned they had been pricked by a Black Seabream’s spines.
• Lu Ao warned Lin Gongshang that the guests might have a marine bacterial infection and told him to check their legs for ulcers.
• Lin Gongshang found Shi Chen feverish, unresponsive, and marked with red spots, then discovered Liu Qiming was in a similar condition.
• Yan Zhengning followed Lin Gongshang as he checked the guests, and Lu Ao arrived at the house on his three-wheeler.

Lu Ao arranged an emergency helicopter transfer for Shi Chen and Liu Qiming after confirming they had likely contracted Vibrio vulnificus. The patients were flown toward the First Affiliated Hospital, with Lu Ao accompanying them and asking Lin Gongshang to care for his geese.

• Lin Gongshang told Lu Ao that Shi Chen and Liu Qiming appeared to have been infected with marine bacteria, and Lu Ao identified it as likely Vibrio vulnificus.
• Lu Ao decided that an ambulance or local hospital would not be suitable and arranged a medical helicopter to take the patients to the provincial capital.
• Lu Ao contacted the First Affiliated Hospital and asked Yan Zhengning to notify Shi Chen's and Liu Qiming's families to prepare for their arrival.
• Lin Gongshang's family and villagers carried Shi Chen and Liu Qiming to the threshing ground and waited for the helicopter.
• Medical staff examined the patients, confirmed they were stable enough to fly, and loaded them onto the helicopter.
• Lu Ao volunteered to accompany the patients and handed Lin Gongshang his keys, asking him to feed the geese while he was away.

Lu Ao helped get Shi Chen and Liu Qiming to the hospital, where their conditions stabilized, and then left to update the villagers. While eating alone at a late-night stall, he encountered Song Zhou again.

• Lu Gongshang gave Lu Ao money and sent him to the hospital with Yan Zhengning to help Shi Chen and Liu Qiming.
• The doctors stabilized Shi Chen and Liu Qiming, and their families learned that the men had been injured after recklessly handling Black Seabream while drunk.
• Lu Ao told the families to coordinate with Lin Gongshang at dawn, then refused Yan Zhengning's offer of a place to stay and left the hospital.
• Lu Ao stopped at a roadside stall, ordered a large meal, and reassured Lin Gongshang by message that the two men were stable.
• Song Zhou appeared and sat across from Lu Ao, who asked why he was there.