Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin forced Donald Trump and the other leaders to agree to give him four Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. The chapter ended with him ordering them to launch the missiles at Kudan-kita in Tokyo immediately.

• Donald Trump and General McAuff bowed to Chen Lin and praised him after he seized control of the command room.
• Chen Lin mocked Trump about his dead younger brother, and Trump and McAuff called the dead man a traitor who deserved to die.
• Chen Lin demanded four Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, and the Americans were relieved that his request seemed modest.
• CIA Director Cliff offered to arrange transport for the missiles.
• Chen Lin ordered the four missiles launched at Kudan-kita, Chiyoda, Tokyo, immediately.

Chen Lin forced Chuan Langpu to authorize a missile strike on Tokyo, using his supernatural powers to silence resistance in the command room. Four missiles launched, triggering alerts in Huaxia and Bear Country and plunging the world into crisis.

• Chen Lin ordered Chuan Langpu to use America's War Cauldron missiles against Tokyo, and McAuff and the Secretary of Defense objected.
• Chen Lin threatened McAuff with a levitating pen and choked him with an invisible force, breaking the room's resistance.
• Chuan Langpu called Strategic Command and authorized an Alpha-level attack on the coordinates of Tokyo.
• Strategic Command confirmed that four War Cauldron missiles had launched from the Seventh Fleet cruiser Shiloh, with an estimated arrival in forty-five minutes.
• Huaxia and Bear Country's early-warning radars detected the launches, setting off alarms in both nations' command centers.

Chen Lin forced Donald Trump to blame General McAuff for the missile launch before escaping the command room as a snake. Four Tomahawk missiles destroyed Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, and the world's confusion and outrage gave way to celebration in Huaxia.

• Chen Lin made Donald Trump announce that General McAuff had stolen American access privileges and launched the missiles.
• Chen Lin transformed into a snake and left through a ventilation duct while the command room watched a missile feed targeting Yasukuni Shrine.
• Four Tomahawk missiles struck and destroyed Yasukuni Shrine, cutting off the live feed.
• Donald Trump's press conference prompted global uproar as people questioned his explanation and speculated about a mysterious force.
• People in Huaxia celebrated the shrine's destruction across social media.

Huaxia and Bear Country lowered their military alert levels as America and Little Japan tried to contain the fallout from Chen Lin’s destruction of the Yasukuni Shrine. After returning to his original appearance in Washington, Chen Lin went shopping and found Liu Ruyan negotiating with a lecherous shopping center manager.

• Huaxia’s spokesperson called for restraint and condemned unilateral military action without directly taking sides.
• Ishiba Mao suppressed his anger after Donald Trump warned him that the missile attacks must not be discussed further, then ordered the media to control the story.
• Donald Trump publicly denounced General McAuff, who was arrested and muttered that Chen Lin was the devil.
• Chen Lin removed his disguise in a Washington park and decided to buy gifts for his family back in Yicheng.
• Chen Lin spotted Liu Ruyan at Saks Fifth Avenue as Anthony pressured her to meet him privately in exchange for a better store location.

Liu Ruyan and her team were humiliated by mall manager Anthony, but Chen Lin intervened and the FBI arrested Anthony instead. The agents bowed to Chen Lin, promised to prioritize Liu Ruyan’s business requests, and left her stunned by his influence as a mall executive hurried over to him.

• Liu Ruyan rejected Anthony’s sexual harassment, and he insulted her and threatened to block Zhengtian Group from entering the mall.
• Chen Lin arrived and told Liu Ruyan to leave the matter to him as he prepared to confront Anthony.
• Two FBI agents arrested Anthony and bowed to Chen Lin, promising that Liu Ruyan’s business requests would receive the highest priority.
• Chen Lin ordered the agents to tell Cliff to stop sending people to follow him, and they hurried away with Anthony.
• Liu Ruyan wondered who Chen Lin really was, and a middle-aged mall executive rushed over and bowed to him.

Chen Lin shopped at Saks Fifth Avenue with Liu Ruyan, choosing gifts for the many women in his life while she struggled with her feelings for him. He accepted Liu Ruyan’s invitation to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton, leaving her with a chance to spend more time with him.

• David apologized to Chen Lin for the disturbance and offered to clear the store and make his purchases free, but Chen Lin declined.
• Chen Lin asked Liu Ruyan to help him pick out gifts for the ladies at home, and she felt hurt as he named each recipient.
• Chen Lin tried a Persian-patterned scarf on Liu Ruyan, then said it was for Su Mei, leaving Liu Ruyan disappointed.
• Chen Lin gave Liu Ruyan perfume as a thank-you gift, and she invited him to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton.
• Chen Lin accepted Liu Ruyan’s dinner invitation after seeing her pleading expression.

Liu Ruyan confessed her feelings to Chen Lin, but he rejected her and warned that his dangerous life left no place for her. After returning to Huaxia, Chen Lin headed for Yicheng as senior officials gathered in the capital to review the attacks and Washington’s claims.

• Liu Ruyan asked Chen Lin whether she was more than a business partner, and he called her a good friend.
• Liu Ruyan tried to kiss Chen Lin and offered to be his secret lover, but he pushed her away and said she was drunk.
• Chen Lin told Liu Ruyan that his life of cultivation and danger was beyond what she could bear, then left her sobbing.
• Chen Lin flew from Washington to Huaxia in disguise, reading headlines about the attacks and reflecting that he had orchestrated them to punish those who threatened Huaxia and the women beside him.
• Chen Lin removed his disguise at a private airport and rode in a waiting minivan toward Yicheng.
• Senior military and intelligence officials met with a silver-haired old man in the capital to examine footage of the Yasukuni Shrine attack and Donald Trump's press conference.

Huaxia’s senior officials linked Chen Lin to both the chaos in Washington and a report of mind control, so they formed a secret group to watch him in Yicheng. Chen Lin returned home to find Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Qin Churan, and Qin Chuxia waiting for him, while Qin Churan looked conflicted.

• The intelligence chief reported that America’s leader had ordered the bombing under irresistible pressure and that Chen Lin’s name had appeared repeatedly in high-level communications.
• The officials connected the American reports about Chen Lin to Xu Tiannan’s report that a man with the same name could control minds.
• The leader established the Kunlun Special Operations Group and ordered it to observe Chen Lin in Yicheng without contacting or alerting him.
• Chen Lin returned to the Farmhouse Courtyard, where Song Qiuya welcomed him with a kiss and Li Xiaoyue took his gift bags.
• Song Qiuya explained that Li Xiaoyue had cared for her after her car accident, and Chen Lin thanked her while Qin Chuxia teased him for overlooking her concern.
• Qin Churan watched Chen Lin with a conflicted expression.

Chen Lin returned to the Farmhouse Courtyard, shared gifts and a reunion with his loved ones, and spent the night with Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue. Meanwhile, Ye Wenjun’s Kunlun Action Team investigated Chen Lin and decided to seek information from the nearby sanatorium.

• Qin Churan connected Chen Lin’s return from America to recent attacks but kept her suspicions to herself.
• Chen Lin gave gifts to Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Qin Churan, Qin Chuxia, Zhang Ruoxi, Chen Qianqian, and other relatives.
• Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue told Chen Lin they wanted to stay with him, and the three spent the night together.
• Ye Wenjun’s team reviewed Chen Lin’s sudden wealth, the Resort’s growth, and the extraordinary food at the Water Restaurant.
• Ye Wenjun realized his chronic headaches had stopped after eating at the restaurant and planned to question retired officials at the nearby sanatorium.

Ye Wenjun investigated Chen Lin at the Sanatorium, where Gao Yuliang claimed that meals from Chen Lin’s Water Restaurant had cured his and other retirees’ chronic illnesses. Meanwhile, Chen Lin learned that people had been spying on his courtyard and ordered Clear Wind and Bright Moon to capture the next intruders.

• Ye Wenjun and a team member visited the Sanatorium to question Gao Yuliang about Chen Lin.
• Gao Yuliang told Ye Wenjun that Chen Lin’s hypnosis was remarkable and that the Water Restaurant’s meals had normalized the health readings of more than a dozen retirees with chronic illnesses.
• Ye Wenjun recognized the potential national significance of Chen Lin’s abilities, while Gao Yuliang urged him to investigate gently and avoid discouraging Chen Lin.
• Clear Wind told Chen Lin that Bright Moon had used an Illusion Technique to mislead people who had been snooping around the courtyard at night.
• Chen Lin told Clear Wind and Bright Moon to bring the next intruders straight to him instead of using the Illusion Technique.

Chen Lin learned that the Kunlun Team was investigating him and overheard its report to the nation’s leaders, who concluded he was a national treasure and ordered them to win him over. He then entered their room and confronted them for discussing him behind his back.

• Chen Guomin warned Chen Guofu that six imposing guests at the Guesthouse had been asking questions about Chen Lin, and Chen Lin calmed his uncle and told him to keep working quietly.
• Chen Lin used his heightened senses to listen in on Ye Wenjun’s encrypted briefing to the nation’s leaders.
• Ye Wenjun linked Chen Lin to the Washington attack carried out by Jack Smith and concluded that Chen Lin could disguise himself or shapeshift.
• The silver-haired leader declared Chen Lin a national treasure rather than a threat and ordered the team to win him over at any cost.
• Chen Lin knocked, entered the Guesthouse room, greeted the leaders on the video call, and chided the team for discussing him behind his back.

Chen Lin agreed to meet national leaders in Capital City, prompting an abrupt shift from investigating him to protecting and accommodating him. A sweeping political shake-up followed, and Gao Yuliang told Qi Tongwei that their promotions were a result of Chen Lin’s favor.

• Chen Lin accepted the leaders’ invitation to travel to Capital City, and Ye Wenjun’s Kunlun Team switched to arranging his security and reception.
• Ye Wenjun received notice that An Changlin had been appointed mayor of Yicheng City.
• Song Qiuya learned that the Provincial Drug Administration official who had targeted her company was arrested, then saw Deputy Provincial Party Secretary Zhou Liang’an placed under investigation.
• Northlake Province’s leadership changed, with Gao Yuliang appointed temporary Party secretary and Qi Tongwei named deputy provincial party secretary and Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretary.
• Qi Tongwei called Gao Yuliang to confirm the appointments, and Gao told him they had benefited from Chen Lin’s favor.

After Chen Lin secured official approval for Song Qiuya’s weight-loss supplements, he taught Qin Chuxia the Taiyin Breathing Technique. When Xiao Chen returned with three hired fighters to kidnap Song Qiuya, Chen Lin let the women confront the intruders as a test of their training.

• Song Qiuya learned that the National Medical Products Administration had approved Fat-Burning No. 1 and Fat-Burning No. 2 as the nation’s only officially designated weight-loss health supplements and would fast-track their market launch.
• Chen Lin comforted Song Qiuya after she realized he had helped make the approval possible.
• Chen Lin taught Qin Chuxia the introductory method of the Taiyin Breathing Technique, and she quickly sensed the moonlight entering her body.
• Chen Lin detected Xiao Chen and three hired former special forces soldiers approaching the courtyard and ordered his hidden guards to let them in.
• Xiao Chen and the others entered the courtyard to kidnap Song Qiuya, but Chen Lin assigned each woman an opponent to test her training.
• Qin Churan charged at the intruders, while Chen Lin chose Xiao Chen as Qin Chuxia’s opponent.

Qin Churan, Song Qiuya, and Li Xiaoyue defeated Xiao Chen’s mercenaries, while Qin Chuxia beat Xiao Chen and Chen Lin summoned Ye Wenjun to take the intruders away. After Ye Wenjun reported the attack, leaders ordered a joint crackdown on the Capital Xiao Family, and officers began arresting its members and suspending its companies.

• Qin Churan disarmed and knocked out a mercenary, while Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue defeated the other two.
• Xiao Chen tried to flee, but Qin Chuxia caught and beat him as Chen Lin called Ye Wenjun.
• Ye Wenjun arrived with the Kunlun Team and took the four intruders into custody.
• Ye Wenjun reported the incident, and a senior leader ordered a joint operation against the Capital Xiao Family.
• Commission for Discipline Inspection officers arrested Xiao Yuanyang, and authorities suspended the operations of the Xiao Family’s three publicly listed companies.

The authorities dismantled the Xiao Family overnight after Xiao Chen tried to obtain the Fat-Burning No. 1 formula in Yicheng City and arrange an attack on a classified key figure. As the Wang Family ordered its members to avoid provoking people with unknown backgrounds, the Ye Family received news that Xiao Yuanshan had died while being taken away.

• Xiao Yuanshan was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a major commercial bribery case from ten years earlier, then spat blood and lost consciousness as the Xiao Family was erased.
• Wang Jianjun told Wang Weiguo that the Xiao Family had been uprooted and that Xiao Chen’s attempt to attack a top-secret key figure had triggered the purge.
• Wang Weiguo ordered his family’s troublemaking members home and threatened to disown or punish anyone who provoked someone with an unknown background.
• Ye Aiguo told Ye Zhentian and the Ye Family’s core members that Xiao Yuanshan had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died while being taken away.

Ye Zhentian learned that Chen Lin was regarded as a peerless national pillar and ordered the Ye Family to protect Qin Churan in secret. While powerful families in the capital scrambled to identify Chen Lin, he rested in Yicheng before Ye Wenjun escorted him toward a secret military airfield.

• Ye Zhentian told Ye Aiguo that his former superior called Chen Lin a peerless national pillar and said the country would protect him, making the Xiao Family’s destruction a consequence of attacking him.
• Ye Zhentian realized Qin Churan was in Yicheng and ordered the Ye Family to protect her secretly, but Ye Aiguo could not reach her because her phone was switched off.
• The Li Family, the Zhao Family, the Sun Family, and other powerful families held emergency meetings to investigate Chen Lin and feared his power.
• Chen Lin woke beside Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue, then learned from Friday that the Xiao Family had been declared bankrupt and its principal members arrested.
• Ye Wenjun respectfully escorted Chen Lin from the Farmhouse Courtyard toward an unmarked military airfield.

Chen Lin accepted the nation’s offer to become National Supreme Strategic Special Advisor after hearing that the Xiao Family had been destroyed and meeting the country’s leaders. He offered to give something back, but had not yet said what.

• Ye Wenjun reported that Zhou Liang'an and Zhang Dayong were under investigation or arrest, while the Xiao Family had been dismantled and Xiao Chen sent to Qincheng Prison.
• Chen Lin flew to the capital and met the nation’s leader and two generals in a restricted compound.
• The leader offered Chen Lin an unrestricted advisory position with authority to mobilize resources below the major military region level.
• Chen Lin accepted the position, then said he wanted to repay the nation because he disliked owing favors.

Chen Lin gave General Zhao a simplified Taiyin Breathing Technique, prompting the leaders to launch a secret military training program and protect him as a national asset. After returning to his quiet life in Yicheng, he was visited the next morning by Gao Yuliang, Ji Changmin, and Qi Tongwei.

• Chen Lin gave General Zhao a handwritten Taiyin Breathing Technique that he said could greatly improve ordinary soldiers' strength and constitution within three months.
• General Zhang and the other leaders recognized the technique's military value, and the man leading the meeting ordered the Dragon Soul Project activated and Chen Lin's file classified as top secret.
• Chen Lin returned to Yicheng and enjoyed dinner with Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and Li Xiaoyue while soldiers began practicing the technique at a secret base.
• The next morning, Gao Yuliang, Ji Changmin, and Qi Tongwei arrived at Chen Lin's home and respectfully asked to come in.

Gao Yuliang, Ji Changmin, and Qi Tongwei thanked Chen Lin before leaving to take up their new posts, while Chen Lin prepared to expand sales of Fat-Burning No. 1 after its viral success. In America, Pfizer CEO John Miller ordered the company to steal the formula or destroy Autumn Forest Group within a week.

• Gao Yuliang and Ji Changmin told Chen Lin they were leaving for Wucheng, and they and Qi Tongwei pledged their loyalty to him.
• Chen Lin accepted their thanks and asked them to continue treating him as they always had.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia showed Chen Lin the surge in demand for Fat-Burning No. 1 and Da Yuan Ge's livestream documenting his weight loss.
• Chen Lin ordered a second livestream and set purchase limits for domestic customers and higher prices for foreign buyers based on their countries' relations with China.
• John Miller told Pfizer's board that Fat-Burning No. 1 threatened the pharmaceutical industry and ordered the Purifier protocol to obtain its formula or eliminate the company within a week.

Autumn Forest Group launched a livestream offering Fat-Burning No. 1 at sharply tiered prices, but a cyberattack shut down Douyin and compromised the product page. As the National Cybersecurity Center struggled to stop the attack, Chen Lin ordered Friday to intervene, and Friday took control of the network defenses.

• Song Qiuya announced the worldwide sale of Fat-Burning No. 1, with prices set by region and a limited supply of thirty thousand boxes.
• Chen Lin asked Friday to investigate a commentator criticizing the pricing, and Friday traced the account’s payments to the Pfizer Charity Foundation.
• John Miller ordered a cyberattack that blacked out the livestream, crashed Douyin, and altered Autumn Forest Group’s product page.
• Zhang Zhengyi activated the Great Wall contingency plan as the National Cybersecurity Center fought to defend Autumn Forest Group’s systems.
• Chen Lin asked Friday to handle the attack, and Friday connected to the network and began tracing the attackers while consuming their incoming data.