Chapter Summaries

Friday thwarted the Network Ghosts’ attack, destroyed their computers, and exposed Pfizer’s secrets, allowing Song Qiuya’s livestream sale to proceed. Meanwhile, Chen Lin’s breathing technique transformed the first Dragon Soul Warriors, and the highest leadership ordered protection for him in Yicheng.

• Friday devoured the hackers’ attack, restored the livestream and product page, destroyed the computers of 108 Network Ghosts, and leaked Pfizer’s records to media outlets and regulators.
• Chen Lin praised Friday, which returned to sweeping the courtyard, while Song Qiuya resumed the livestream and sold all thirty thousand boxes in three seconds.
• Director Zhang Zhengyi learned Friday had upgraded the Great Wall firewall and ordered a report to the highest leadership.
• General Zhao Jianguo received results showing that all one hundred Dragon Soul Warriors had improved after forty-eight hours of the Taiyin Breathing Technique and sealed off the area around Kunlun Base.
• The intelligence chief briefed the elder on the destruction of the hackers and Pfizer’s collapse, and the elder ordered officials to meet Chen Lin’s needs and protect his quiet life.

The CIA declared Chen Lin a God-level threat and ordered its agents to withdraw from Huaxia, while Western pharmaceutical companies and governments scrambled for access to Fat-Burning No. 1. Back in Yicheng, Qin Churan demonstrated the strength she gained from the Taiyin Breathing Technique, and Song Qiuya reported that Chen Lin had rejected foreign companies’ offers.

• Cliff reclassified Chen Lin as a God-level threat and ordered CIA field agents to leave Huaxia and avoid Yicheng.
• Pfizer collapsed, other pharmaceutical giants’ shares plunged, and Western governments pressured Huaxia to share the Fat-Burning No. 1 formula.
• The Huaxia Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to disclose the formula and required buyers to follow the Autumn Forest Group’s trade rules.
• Qin Churan used a punch strengthened by the Taiyin Breathing Technique to snap a steel chain and send a heavy punching bag crashing into a wall.
• Song Qiuya told Chen Lin that Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca had made offers for access to the medicine, but she had rejected them under his rules.

Chen Lin accepted three hills for the Resort and destroyed three Western satellites that tried to spy on Chen Family Village. Later, he entered the Gray Wasteland and found a cracked gourd emitting pure water spiritual energy.

• Li Xiaoyue told Chen Lin that Mayor An offered three hills around Chen Family Village to the Resort, and Chen Lin accepted.
• Friday warned Chen Lin that three Western satellites were scanning the village, so Chen Lin ordered Friday to take control of them and render them useless.
• The satellites malfunctioned and fell into the Pacific, leaving Cliff and Western intelligence agencies alarmed by Chen Lin's technology.
• After spending the night with Li Xiaoyue, Chen Lin entered the Gray Wasteland when the Black Portal appeared and searched the newly refreshed garbage dump.
• Chen Lin spotted a cracked gourd beneath ruined buildings, sensed pure water spiritual energy from it, and summoned it into his hand.

Chen Lin released the near-death Water Vein Spirit into Chen Family Village’s reservoir, where it purified the water and filled it with spiritual energy. The next morning, Old Zhang and Chen Guofu discovered the reservoir had become startlingly clear and its fish had grown into enormous, alarming creatures.

• Chen Lin found a damaged Spirit-Nurturing Gourd containing a Water Vein Spirit and realized it could transform the village reservoir.
• Chen Lin released the Water Vein Spirit into the reservoir, where it dissolved and spread spiritual energy through the water.
• Chen Lin used the Qi-Observing Art to see the reservoir’s sludge and weeds purified as the water cleared and fish gathered to absorb spiritual energy.
• Old Zhang arrived at the water collection point the next morning and was shocked to see the reservoir’s clear bottom.
• Chen Guofu and the fishing crew hauled up a net full of huge fish, and Chen Guofu called Xiao Lin for help.

Chen Lin passed off the lake’s miraculous transformation as a biotechnology breakthrough and planned to use its water to advance his cultivation project. At the resort, water-industry manager Wang Qiang tasted the purified reservoir water, recognized its extraordinary quality, and saw the lake’s startling clarity and enormous fish.

• Chen Lin reassured Chen Guofu and the employees that the giant fish and clear lake resulted from a high-tech purification solution, while Friday confirmed the water and fish were exceptionally healthy.
• Chen Lin ordered an all-fish banquet and resolved to use the spiritual lake as the foundation for a cultivation family on Earth.
• Wang Qiang arrived at the Chen Family Village Resort with Farmer's Spring staff and dismissed its facilities as unimpressive.
• Wang Qiang drank the resort’s complimentary water, was astonished by its taste and effect on his hangover, and demanded to know where it came from.
• The server explained that the water came from the reservoir below, and Wang Qiang saw its clear depths, aquatic plants, and plump fish.

Wang Qiang discovered that the resort’s reservoir water was extraordinarily pure and valuable, then offered Su Mei five million yuan for twenty years of exclusive extraction rights. After Su Mei refused and called Chen Lin, Wang Qiang threatened to get the resort shut down.

• Wang Qiang tested water from the resort’s reservoir and learned its active trace elements were a hundred times higher than those of Moya Spring.
• Wang Qiang offered Su Mei five million yuan for exclusive water extraction rights for twenty years, but she refused.
• Wang Qiang threatened to blacklist the resort if Su Mei would not accept his offer.
• Su Mei called Chen Lin, who mocked Wang Qiang’s offer over the speakerphone.
• Wang Qiang snatched Su Mei’s phone and threatened Chen Lin with having the resort shut down for rectification.

Friday forcibly removed Wang Qiang and his team from Chen Family Village Resort, and videos of the robot went viral. After a tech creator argued that Friday was real and far beyond current human technology, Lei rushed to arrange a flight to Yicheng.

• Chen Lin ordered Wang Qiang to leave the resort, and Friday carried him outside and threw him onto the lawn.
• Friday removed Wang Qiang's technical team from the resort while visitors filmed the scene.
• Videos of Friday spread across social media, where viewers initially disputed whether the robot was real.
• Geekerwan analyzed the footage and concluded that Friday was a real machine far ahead of current technology.
• Lei watched the analysis, canceled his meetings, and ordered a private flight to Yicheng.

After Friday’s combat demonstration drew global attention, Wang Qiang tried to use his connections to shut down Chen Lin’s resort, but officials refused to help him. Mayor An Changlin ordered a retaliatory inspection campaign against Wang Qiang’s company, Farmer's Mountain Spring.

• Mr. Yu watched Friday subdue Wang Qiang and rushed to arrange a trip to Yicheng to examine the robot.
• Elon Musk called Friday’s performance impossible and booked a flight to Yicheng.
• Wang Qiang called officials to report Chen Lin’s resort, but Captain Zhang and Director Liu blocked him, while Director Zhao warned him to stop pursuing Chen Lin.
• Director Zhao and two other officials hurried to Mayor An Changlin and reported Wang Qiang’s request to shut down the resort.
• An Changlin ordered the three officials to conduct repeated inspections of Farmer's Mountain Spring’s Yicheng branch.

After a real-name complaint triggered an enforcement raid, Wang Qiang’s company was shut down, and he realized his attempt to report Chen Family Village had backfired. Meanwhile, Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk arrived in Yicheng and raced toward Chen Family Village to see its miracle firsthand.

• Director Zhao and other enforcement officers served Wang Qiang’s company with a closure notice over suspected fire, sanitation, and advertising violations.
• Wang Qiang collapsed after realizing he had been the one who filed the complaint against the company he thought the officers had come to help him target.
• Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk landed in Yicheng on private jets and exchanged barbed remarks on the airport apron.
• Elon Musk drove off first in a Cybertruck toward Chen Family Village, prompting Yu and Lei to chase him in their Aito M9 convoy and SU7 Ultra.

Lei Jun, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk visited Chen Lin in Chen Family Village to negotiate for Friday, but Chen Lin refused to sell his robot butler. The three tycoons pleaded for a chance to study Friday, and Chen Lin left their offers unanswered.

• Su Mei told Chen Lin that Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk had arrived with a crowd of reporters, and Chen Lin ordered security to keep the media outside.
• Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk entered Chen Lin's courtyard and saw Friday fanning Chen Lin with a palm-leaf fan and sweeping nearby.
• Lei offered five billion yuan for Friday's technology or a controlling joint venture, while Yu offered eight billion and Huawei resources.
• Elon Musk offered ten billion US dollars and a place for Chen Lin in the Mars Colonization Plan, but Chen Lin said Friday was his butler, not a product for sale.
• Lei asked to take Friday for ten days to study his core logic, while Chen Lin remained noncommittal.

Chen Lin let Friday rebuff Yu the Big Mouth, Lei, and Elon Musk when they tried to buy or study it. After the guests drank tea made with wild leaves from Back Hill, they felt their fatigue and ailments vanish and began to revere Chen Lin and the hidden resources of Chen Family Village.

• Chen Lin asked Friday what it thought of the three business titans wanting to buy or study it.
• Friday mocked Yu the Big Mouth for boasting about his company, Lei for his song and scarcity marketing, and Elon Musk for his robots and Brain-Computer Interface.
• Chen Lin told Friday to treat the guests politely, and Friday served them tea.
• Yu the Big Mouth, Lei, and Elon Musk drank the tea and felt their exhaustion, migraines, and neck pain disappear.
• Chen Lin said the tea was cooled boiled water with wild tea leaves from Back Hill, and the three men realized how extraordinary Chen Family Village was.

Chen Lin used the miraculous tea and the Resort’s food and water to secure support from Yu the Big Mouth, Lei, and Elon Musk for developing the Three Mountain Peaks. As visitors and villagers reported startling health improvements, Zhang Jianguo’s account of recovering strength after staying in Chen Family Village sparked a frenzy among terminal cancer patients.

• Chen Lin agreed to provide Yu the Big Mouth, Lei, and Elon Musk with tea in exchange for security, logistics, and private satellites, while Friday warned them not to provide substandard systems.
• Yu the Big Mouth, Lei, and Elon Musk ate at the Water Restaurant and found that the food eased their presbyopia, stomach condition, and migraines.
• Head chef Zhang noticed his burn scars and calluses fading after washing vegetables, and residents of Chen Family Village reported improvements to their health.
• Ms. Li posted photos showing her melasma fading after her visit, spreading news of the Resort’s food and water among her social circle.
• Zhang Jianguo reported that his terminal cancer pain had eased and that he could eat and walk again, prompting disbelief and then support in his patient group.

After news spread that Zhang Jianguo’s cancer had improved, a flood of desperate patients and visitors overwhelmed Chen Family Village and Chen Lin’s Resort. Chen Lin set limits on admissions but, faced with the crowd and critically ill patients, agreed to let the most urgent cases stay in villagers’ homes.

• Zhang Jianguo’s examination showed lower tumor markers and reduced cancer cell activity, and the results went viral as reports of a medical miracle.
• Su Mei told Chen Lin that thousands of people had gathered, and Chen Lin announced that the Resort offered no medical services, kept its prices unchanged, and would blacklist anyone who caused trouble.
• Bookings stretched three months ahead, while officials decided to send representatives to Chen Family Village humbly and respect Chen Lin’s wishes.
• The crowd and traffic overwhelmed the village as the Resort exceeded its safe capacity, and Su Mei warned Chen Lin that a stampede could occur.
• Chen Lin saw critically ill patients and their families among the crowd, then arranged for the most critical patients to stay in villagers’ homes at negotiated rates.

Chen Lin used an Essence-Enhancing Pill and the Spirit-Gathering Formation to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, then welcomed Academician Zhong and the National Health Commission expert group. After Chen Lin served them wild tea, Academician Zhong’s persistent cough suddenly stopped.

• Chen Lin set up a Soundproofing Formation, asked Bright Moon to relay urgent messages, and began cultivating in the Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Chen Lin swallowed an Essence-Enhancing Pill and broke through the bottleneck to the seventh level of Qi Refining, expanding his divine sense to two hundred meters.
• Chen Lin detected Academician Zhong and the expert group arriving at the village and greeted them respectfully.
• Chen Lin welcomed the experts into his backyard and brewed wild tea for them.
• Academician Zhong drank the tea, and his persistent cough immediately subsided.

Chen Lin let Academician Zhong and the other experts experience the healing effects of his spiritual-energy lake water, then welcomed plans for new infrastructure and research in Chen Family Village. Qin Churan chose to return to police work, leaving Chen Lin’s courtyard with his support.

• Academician Zhong and the other medical experts felt their ailments improve after drinking the lake water, and Zhong called the experience mysticism.
• Chen Lin agreed to let Zhong’s team take water samples and set up a free clinic in the village, with Su Mei preparing the Resort’s banquet hall.
• Lei and Yu the Big Mouth presented plans for a security and logistics system, dedicated satellites, and villas for themselves, and Chen Lin approved them with a warning about construction standards.
• Elon Musk announced that he would stay in the village and requested land for a life sciences and interstellar communications laboratory, and Chen Lin agreed while noting that land was expensive.
• Qin Churan told Chen Lin she was returning to police work, and Chen Lin encouraged her to keep practicing the Taiyin Breathing Technique and promised she could rely on him if she needed help.
• Qin Churan left the courtyard without hesitation.

Qin Churan returned to the Yicheng City Criminal Police Brigade fully recovered after staying at Chen Family Village, prompting her colleagues to believe in its healing power. Seeing the overwhelming crowds seeking treatment there, Chen Lin called on An Changlin and several powerful allies to help plan a solution, and An Changlin hurried toward the village through gridlocked roads.

• Qin Churan returned to the police brigade with her injuries and disfigurement gone, and told her stunned colleagues she had recovered in Chen Family Village.
• The police officers called relatives and urged them to seek treatment at Chen Family Village.
• Li Xiaoyue moved into the guest room and arranged a weekly schedule for Chen Lin to spend nights with her and Qiu Ya-jie.
• Chen Lin saw the exhausted medical team and the growing crowds at the village entrance, then called An Changlin, Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk to request planning and infrastructure support.
• An Changlin and two city bureau directors drove toward Chen Family Village, found the road blocked by vehicles and crowds, and continued on foot.

Chen Lin announced that he would build a Grade III, Class A hospital outside Chen Family Village, supplied with medicinal catalyst from the village reservoir, and officials and wealthy tech leaders pledged support. The chapter left An Changlin realizing that Chen Lin’s influence could reshape the world’s rules.

• Chen Lin told An Changlin that the desperate crowds could not be restrained and announced plans for a hospital specializing in difficult illnesses, including cancer and terminal diseases.
• An Changlin called Gao Yuliang, who declared that the provincial Party committee fully supported Chen Lin’s plan.
• Chen Lin asked Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk to handle the hospital’s infrastructure, systems, and procurement.
• Lei pledged four billion yuan, Yu the Big Mouth pledged another four billion yuan, and Elon Musk offered two billion US dollars.
• An Changlin understood that Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk had backed Chen Lin partly because they feared his immense power and wanted his favor.

Chen Lin’s hospital project received swift approval and provincial support, while villagers’ worship began producing incense and prayer power that disrupted his cultivation. Clear Wind explained that the power depended on worshippers’ faith, leaving Chen Lin wary of its risks.

• Gao Yuliang secured immediate approval for Chen Lin’s hospital plan and ordered departments to cooperate unconditionally.
• Provincial experts completed surveys and preliminary plans in three days, and Chen Lin settled on the name Chen Family Benevolence Hospital.
• Villagers began treating Chen Lin as a deity, and Zhang Jianguo set up a memorial tablet that inspired patients and families to burn incense and pray.
• Chen Lin sensed the resulting incense and prayer power entering his body, repelled it, and called Clear Wind for an explanation.
• Clear Wind identified the energy as incense and prayer power and warned that losing worshippers could destroy a cultivator’s divine soul; Chen Lin rejected relying on such fickle faith.

Chen Lin diverted the believers’ incense and prayer power into the Imperial Seal of China, then arranged for Autumn Forest Group to launch [Clear-Vision Dew]. The National Health Commission approved an unprecedented public clinical trial, leaving the product’s claims under intense scrutiny as global markets reacted.

• Chen Lin engraved his name and birth details on the Imperial Seal of China, refined it with spiritual energy, and used it to draw away the incense and prayer power.
• Song Qiuya told Chen Lin that she had secured control of most of the province’s small and midsized pharmaceutical factories, allowing [Fat-Burning No. 1] production to expand.
• Chen Lin told Song Qiuya to begin the approval process for [Clear-Vision Dew], and she ordered Qin Chuxia to submit its documents and samples.
• After seeing Chen Lin’s name on the application, a provincial official fast-tracked it to the National Health Commission, which approved direct phase-three clinical trials and a public livestream.
• The National Health Commission announced recruitment for the trials, triggering a registration-system crash, overseas skepticism, and falling shares in eyewear and eye-care companies.

At a nationally televised trial, eye drops developed by the Autumn Forest Group restored or improved the sight of volunteers with severe vision loss. The broadcast ended with a blind veteran seeing his wife’s outline and saluting her as the hall applauded.

• Chen Lin ignored the livestream from his backyard, confident the trial’s results were already known.
• Academician Zhong publicly staked his reputation on the eye drops as volunteers with severe nearsightedness reported clear vision after treatment.
• The drops improved an elderly cataract patient’s sight, and he told the nurse beside him that he could see her clearly.
• An eight-year-old girl who had been blind since birth sensed light and described it as bright and warm.
• After receiving the drops, a veteran removed his gauze, made out his wife’s outline, and saluted her as the audience applauded.