Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin watched the Autumn Forest Group’s controversial weight-loss pill dominate online discussion as Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge prepared to test it live. Their unboxing revealed only one small black pill in each elaborate box, leaving viewers furious and mocking its price.

• Chen Lin checked social media and saw the Autumn Forest Group’s wagers and weight-loss claims spark widespread debate and criticism.
• Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge announced they had received Fat-Burning No. 1 and would unbox and take it during livestreams.
• Chen Lin watched the online reaction and remarked that the show was only beginning.
• Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge began their livestreams, each drawing more than a million viewers as they presented the matching gift boxes.
• The two streamers opened the boxes and revealed a single small black pill in each, prompting viewers to erupt in disbelief and anger.

Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge took Autumn Forest Group's pill live, then rushed to the bathroom and sparked a wave of accusations that it was a laxative. They returned looking revitalized and revealed dramatic weight losses, leaving millions of viewers stunned.

• Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge weighed themselves, swallowed the pills on camera, and waited for them to take effect.
• About twenty minutes later, both men ran off to use the bathroom, prompting viewers to denounce Autumn Forest Group and spread clips accusing it of selling a laxative scam.
• Less than ten minutes later, Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge returned looking healthy and said they felt lighter and revitalized.
• Li Pao'er weighed 119.05 kilograms, showing a five-pound loss, while Da Yuan Ge weighed 144.8 kilograms, showing an eight-pound loss.
• Viewers across the Internet erupted in shock at the results.

Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge's dramatic weight loss sent public opinion surging in favor of the Autumn Forest Group, whose products immediately sold out. At headquarters, Song Qiuya celebrated the project's success and rewarded the employees, while Qin Chuxia admired her formidable romantic rival.

• Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge's rapid weight loss stunned viewers, who abandoned their accusations of fraud and rushed to praise the Autumn Forest Group.
• Critics deleted their attacks, and a financial commentator reversed his assessment to hail Song Qiuya's campaign as a masterstroke.
• Netizens flooded Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge's livestreams to buy more products, but the Autumn Forest Group's customer service confirmed that all stock had sold out and could not promise a restock date.
• Song Qiuya received applause at the Autumn Forest Group headquarters and announced that every employee involved in the project would get double their monthly bonus.
• Qin Chuxia watched Song Qiuya's triumphant celebration and privately recognized how formidable her romantic rival was.

Chen Lin gave Song Qiuya a False Youth-Locking Pill after she celebrated her success, then drove to Chen Family Village and was summoned to meet a powerful provincial visitor. The chapter ended with Chen Lin realizing that the gathering of Yicheng officials centered on the imposing man beside Gao Yuliang.

• Chen Lin welcomed Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia home with a lavish meal, and Qin Chuxia left them alone afterward.
• Chen Lin gave Song Qiuya a False Youth-Locking Pill, which she swallowed before spending the night with him.
• Chen Lin prepared breakfast the next morning as Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia headed to work.
• Chen Lin drove toward Chen Family Village and noticed tight security and provincial vehicles at the Retired Officials' Sanatorium.
• An Changlin had his secretary summon Chen Lin, who entered the courtyard and saw Gao Yuliang, Ji Changmin, and Yicheng officials gathered around an important provincial man.

Chen Lin met Vice Governor Qi Tongwei at the new Sanatorium, where Qi privately warned him that others could connect him to a string of incidents in Wucheng. Chen Lin insisted he wanted peace, but his threat to anyone who disturbed it left Qi stunned by his intimidating presence.

• Gao Yuliang introduced Chen Lin to his student, Vice Governor Qi Tongwei, during a tour of the Sanatorium.
• Gao Yuliang told Chen Lin he had arranged the meeting so Chen Lin could get to know Qi Tongwei and visit the retired officials as a neighbor.
• Qi Tongwei asked Chen Lin to speak privately and said he had come to Yicheng specifically to meet him.
• Qi Tongwei connected several incidents in Wucheng to people who had crossed Chen Lin or his girlfriend, Song Qiuya, and said he was warning Chen Lin rather than investigating him.
• Chen Lin said he wanted to live peacefully but warned that anyone who denied him peace would not get to keep living, leaving Qi Tongwei stunned.

After Qi Tongwei warned him about powerful forces, Chen Lin became determined to reach foundation establishment quickly so he could protect his loved ones. He secluded himself to cultivate while the Autumn Forest Group’s weight-loss products caused a nationwide sensation, and the chapter ended with Chen Lin entering the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station.

• Qi Tongwei praised Chen Lin after their conversation, and Chen Lin later reflected on the danger his growing influence could bring to his loved ones.
• Chen Lin began several days of secluded cultivation, consolidating his fifth layer of qi refinement by day and practicing the Taiyin Breathing Technique at night.
• Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge livestreamed dramatic weight loss, driving demand for Fat-Burning No. 1 and Fat-Burning No. 2 to unprecedented levels.
• Song Qiuya kept Autumn Forest Group’s production at twenty thousand boxes a day despite overwhelming demand.
• After spending the night with Song Qiuya, Chen Lin received the station’s refresh notification, entered a guest room, and stepped through its portal.

Chen Lin found four intact Storage Bags among the remains of a slaughtered cultivation sect in the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and uncovered a fortune in spirit stones and pills. He began identifying the pills, ending with ten antique jade bottles still unopened.

• Chen Lin searched the garbage mountain and found four corpses in dark yellow Daoist robes, each carrying an intact Storage Bag.
• Chen Lin realized the corpses were among the remains of a cultivation sect whose members had been massacred, then collected the four bags and searched the area.
• Chen Lin opened the Storage Bags and gathered 216 low-grade spirit stones, greatly easing his worries about funding his cultivation.
• Chen Lin examined the bottles and identified five bottles of Golden Marrow Pills and seven bottles of Qi Gathering Pills.
• Chen Lin turned his attention to ten antique jade bottles but had not yet identified their contents.

Chen Lin returned from the garbage station with valuable pills, spirit stones, and a fragment of the Azure Origin Sword Art that could guide him to late Core Formation. The next morning, just as he was about to leave for Chen Family Village, Chen Qianqian called him.

• Chen Lin collected ten bottles of Essence-Enhancing Pills and other valuables before the garbage transfer ended and returned to River View Splendor Mansion.
• Chen Lin examined the salvaged items, kept the Beginner Formation Compendium, and discarded the dual cultivation manual after complaining about its black-and-white illustrations.
• Chen Lin recognized the Azure Origin Sword Art as Old Devil Han's signature cultivation art and discovered that the fragment covered cultivation up to late Core Formation.
• Chen Lin reunited with the sleeping Song Qiuya, then prepared breakfast the next morning before Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia left for the Autumn Forest Group.
• Chen Lin was about to set off for Chen Family Village when a call came in from Chen Qianqian.

Chen Lin welcomed Chen Qianqian and Zhang Ruoxi back to Yicheng, then began studying the powerful Azure Origin Sword Art. After treating the girls to lunch, he arranged for them to work as assistants at the Café during summer break.

• Chen Qianqian called Chen Lin to announce she was returning to Yicheng with a surprise, while Chen Lin practiced the first level of the Azure Origin Sword Art.
• Chen Lin met Chen Qianqian and Zhang Ruoxi at the High-Speed Rail Station and carried their heavy suitcases to his car.
• Chen Lin treated the two girls to a meal at the Water Restaurant, where they eagerly enjoyed the spirit-spring-raised food.
• Chen Qianqian asked Chen Lin to find them summer work, and he offered them assistant jobs at the Café managed by Chen Muyao.
• Chen Qianqian teased Zhang Ruoxi after she laughed at her antics, and the two friends playfully tussled on the sofa.

Chen Lin reunited Chen Qianqian with her aunt and arranged jobs for her and Zhang Ruoxi at the Sky Café. Back at the Farmhouse Courtyard, he offered to heal Qin Churan’s eye and help her investigation, and she agreed to follow his instructions.

• Chen Muyao joyfully embraced Chen Qianqian and agreed to hire her and Zhang Ruoxi at the Sky Café.
• Chen Lin returned to the Farmhouse Courtyard and found Qin Churan upset that the explosives investigation had stalled.
• Qin Churan told Chen Lin that two majors suspected of supplying the explosives had reportedly died by suicide before they could be questioned.
• Chen Lin suspected the majors had been silenced and offered to heal Qin Churan’s eye if she followed his instructions.
• Qin Churan eagerly agreed, then blushed and trailed off as she said she would do whatever Chen Lin asked.

Chen Lin agreed to help Qin Churan investigate the organ-trafficking case and secretly healed her eye and facial injuries with Bright Moon. After Qin Churan discovered her recovery, Chen Lin announced that they would investigate the provincial military district together, and she reluctantly agreed to follow his lead.

• Chen Lin told Qin Churan that he planned to investigate the military majors privately with her because the police lacked authority to investigate them fully.
• Chen Lin secretly brought Bright Moon into Qin Churan's room, where Bright Moon healed her injured eye and most of the wounds on her face.
• Qin Churan woke the next morning to find her eye restored and her facial injuries nearly gone, and Chen Lin claimed his ancestral remedy had healed her.
• Chen Lin told Qin Churan they would go to the provincial military district to investigate the case.
• Qin Churan nearly objected to entering the heavily guarded district with only Chen Lin, but remembered her promise and agreed to follow his lead.

Chen Lin and Qin Churan waited near the provincial military district, then followed a major general’s jeep into the mountains. Using Clear Wind and Bright Moon, Chen Lin took control of the general and his guard, leaving Qin Churan stunned by what she saw.

• Chen Lin drove Qin Churan to a concealed spot near the provincial military district and waited for a suitable target.
• Chen Lin identified a jeep carrying a major general after overhearing the general and his guard speak.
• Chen Lin followed the jeep onto a mountain road and commanded Clear Wind and Bright Moon to bewitch its occupants.
• The major general and his guard became vacant and followed Chen Lin’s car onto a remote dirt road.
• Chen Lin stopped at an abandoned reservoir, where Qin Churan recognized his control over the two men and realized it was not ordinary hypnosis.

Chen Lin and Qin Churan interrogated Major General Li Yunlei about the two majors who died by suicide and uncovered evidence pointing to Deputy Commander Zhao Hua. After learning the majors had arranged for their families to leave the country before their deaths, Chen Lin and Qin Churan headed to the Provincial Military Academy to confront Zhao Hua.

• Chen Lin used his ability to make Li Yunlei and a young guard obey him, then questioned Li about the two dead majors.
• Li Yunlei said the majors had once served as Zhao Hua’s guards and described Zhao as ambitious, incompetent, and skilled at flattery.
• Li Yunlei recalled that both majors had taken three days of leave the previous week and said Zhao had gone to the Provincial Military Academy that morning.
• Qin Churan called An Xin, who confirmed the majors took leave from Wednesday through Friday and that their wives and children flew to America on Friday.
• Qin Churan concluded the majors had arranged their families’ futures before dying to cover up Zhao Hua’s crimes, and Chen Lin declared Zhao was responsible.
• Chen Lin and Qin Churan drove toward the Provincial Military Academy to meet Zhao Hua.

Chen Lin used Clear Wind and Bright Moon to enthrall Zhao Hua and bring the military region deputy commander to a deserted construction site. Qin Churan realized the cats were likely behind the seemingly impossible capture, while Chen Lin prepared to confront Zhao Hua.

• Chen Lin sent Clear Wind and Bright Moon into the Provincial Military Academy to find the general with a star on his shoulder.
• Bright Moon enthralled Zhao Hua during the young officers' exchange event, making him leave the auditorium and order his staff to stay behind.
• Clear Wind and Bright Moon enthralled Zhao Hua's guard, then slipped into the military jeep as Zhao Hua drove away.
• Zhao Hua followed Chen Lin's Bentley to an abandoned construction site, where Chen Lin ordered the guard to stand watch.
• Qin Churan saw Clear Wind and Bright Moon emerge from the jeep and realized they had likely enthralled Zhao Hua and his guard.

Chen Lin questioned Zhao Hua and uncovered a military-backed human trafficking network tied to America International Hospital and its Anti-Aging Drug research. Qin Churan left with Zhao Hua’s recorded confession but knew the powerful people implicated made it impossible for her to submit the evidence through ordinary police channels.

• Chen Lin used the two cats to control Zhao Hua and confirmed that Zhao Hua had ordered two majors killed after they were exposed.
• Zhao Hua revealed that his men transported human beings as research materials for Donald John, director of America International Hospital in Wucheng.
• Zhao Hua said the hospital’s main project was an Anti-Aging Drug made using human organs, and that he had helped the operation for money and free injections.
• Zhao Hua named retired provincial- and ministerial-level figures who had been won over with the drug, while admitting he knew little about Donald’s plans in Huaxia.
• Chen Lin ended the questioning and left with Qin Churan, who realized that Zhao Hua’s confession could not safely be submitted to the police.

Chen Lin reassured Qin Churan that they would use Elder Gao’s influence to advance their investigation into the powerful figures behind Amei International Hospital. He brought her to the Sanatorium, where they met Gao Yuliang and Wang Tianhua, and began to explain the urgent matter.

• Chen Lin told Qin Churan they would seek help from Elder Gao rather than force their way into Amei International Hospital.
• Chen Lin drove Qin Churan to the Sanatorium in Chen Family Village, where guards immediately let them through to see Elder Gao.
• Chen Lin and Qin Churan found Gao Yuliang, Wang Tianhua, Ji Changmin, and other retired leaders gathered around a chess game.
• Chen Lin introduced Captain Qin Churan to Gao Yuliang and Wang Tianhua.
• Chen Lin said he had come to ask them to decide what to do about something urgently horrifying, and the pavilion fell silent.

Qin Churan briefed the retired leaders on the body-disposal case and Chen Lin showed them Zhao Hua’s confession, exposing a military-backed organ trafficking operation tied to foreign interests and powerful recipients. Wang Tianhua ordered Team Leader Zhang to watch the video and act, as the scandal threatened to shake Northlake Province.

• Qin Churan reported the investigation, including the organ trafficking suspects, the explosive ambush, and the deaths of two armory majors.
• Chen Lin played Zhao Hua’s recorded confession to Gao Yuliang, Wang Tianhua, Ji Changmin, and the others.
• Zhao Hua’s confession revealed that he had protected the organ supply chain for Donald John in exchange for profits and anti-aging drugs, and named powerful recipients of the treatment.
• Wang Tianhua condemned Zhao Hua and learned from Chen Lin that he was at the Provincial Military Academy awaiting a celebration banquet.
• Wang Tianhua called Team Leader Zhang and ordered him to watch the video and take action quickly.

Chen Lin’s evidence prompted Gao Yuliang and Wang Tianhua to launch a sweeping investigation into Zhao Hua and his allies. At Central Plains Theater Command headquarters, Zhang Yuyao confirmed the video and supporting evidence, then launched Operation Thunderbolt against corruption in the military.

• Gao Yuliang called Qi Tongwei and coordinated with the Theater Command’s Commission for Discipline Inspection oversight team.
• Chen Lin told Gao Yuliang and Wang Tianhua that the cleanup was in their hands, then left the Sanatorium with Qin Churan.
• Gao Yuliang promised that Yicheng and Northlake would not sleep and that the authorities would deliver answers by daybreak.
• Zhang Yuyao reviewed Chen Lin’s video and confirmed Zhao Hua’s overseas accounts and his family’s recent emigration.
• Zhang Yuyao proposed reporting to the Military Commission and launching Operation Thunderbolt, and the officers agreed.

Qi Tongwei launched Operation Sharp Sword, arresting military deputy commander Zhao Hua and the senior staff of America International Hospital. After uncovering the hospital’s secret organ-trafficking laboratory, he ordered his forces to find Donald and bring him in alive.

• Qi Tongwei ordered Operation Sharp Sword after police sealed Wucheng and a military discipline inspection team began Operation Thunderbolt.
• Zhang Yuyao arrested Zhao Hua at his villa, while military police also detained Zhao Hua’s guard and two lieutenant colonel secretaries.
• Hundreds of police officers raided America International Hospital and arrested its senior administrators.
• Qi Tongwei found the hidden laboratory behind the hospital director’s bookcase and discovered imprisoned test subjects, stored organs, and dismembered corpses.
• Qi Tongwei ordered his forces to search every inch of ground for Donald and bring him in alive.

After returning from the Sanatorium, Qin Churan struggled to process how thoroughly Chen Lin had outclassed her and became curious about his powers. A late-night encounter left her embarrassed by his teasing and terrified by Clear Wind's predatory gaze.

• Chen Lin brought Qin Churan back to the Farmhouse Courtyard, where she replayed his astonishing power and the failure of her investigation.
• Unable to sleep, Qin Churan went into the backyard and found Chen Lin cultivating beneath the moon with Clear Wind and Bright Moon beside him.
• Qin Churan asked to learn from Chen Lin, but he refused and asked what she would offer in return, leaving her mortified.
• Qin Churan asked whether his cats were a rare breed and whether they understood human speech, prompting Chen Lin to warn her that too much curiosity was dangerous.
• As Clear Wind followed Chen Lin indoors, the cat gave Qin Churan a chilling, predatory look that left her trembling and gripping the stone table for support.