Chapter Summaries

After the National Medical Center livestream showed Clear-Vision Dew curing severe eye conditions, business leaders and patients around the world rushed to respond. With vision-related stocks collapsing, Johnson & Johnson’s directors considered attacking the Autumn Forest Group, but its chairman warned them after recalling Pfizer’s destruction.

• Mr. Ma watched the livestream and ordered his assistant to arrange a trip to obtain Clear-Vision Dew.
• Old Gates watched the footage, canceled his Senate hearing, and prepared to fly to Yicheng.
• Wall Street traders watched vision-related stocks plunge as nearly a trillion dollars in market value disappeared.
• A major optical-store owner saw the news and collapsed, fearing his business was finished.
• Johnson & Johnson directors discussed kidnapping or assassinating Autumn Forest Group executives to seize the medicine’s formula.
• The chairman reminded the directors of Pfizer’s fate, and the fat director asked what the group should do as its factories faced wage shortages.

Johnson & Johnson executive Richard tried to buy Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia’s loyalty and the Clear-Vision Dew formula or overseas distribution rights. He offered them one billion US dollars, leaving them to respond to his bribe.

• The chairman ordered Johnson & Johnson’s negotiators to offer Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia any amount needed to obtain the Clear-Vision Dew formula or exclusive overseas distribution rights.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia discussed the flood of calls they had received and said Chen Lin intended to keep control of the product’s distribution.
• Richard arrived at Song Qiuya’s penthouse with two bodyguards and forced his way inside.
• Richard offered Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia one billion US dollars for the formula or exclusive overseas distribution rights and urged them to leave Huaxia for America.

Richard tried to bribe Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya for the miracle drug, but Qin Chuxia revealed her wealthy background and defeated his bodyguards when he ordered them to abduct the women. She threw Richard out of the apartment, leaving him humiliated and beaten.

• Richard offered Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya a billion US dollars for the formula and threatened them when they mocked his offer.
• Qin Chuxia showed Richard a photo of her father, Qin Changjiang, and explained that her family wealth made his offer insignificant.
• Richard ordered his bodyguards to take the women to a ship in international waters and force them to talk.
• Qin Chuxia broke one bodyguard's wrist and threw him onto the marble floor, then knocked the other unconscious with a spinning kick.
• Qin Chuxia lifted Richard by his collar and threw him into the hallway, where he landed in his torn suit and shattered glasses.

Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya turned back Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to buy them off, while Chen Lin assured them their stakes were worth far more. Richard’s retaliation plan was stopped by State Security, and Chen Lin continued cultivating with Li Xiaoyue as he neared a major strength breakthrough.

• Qin Chuxia defeated Richard and his men, then celebrated with Song Qiuya and told Chen Lin about the fight.
• Chen Lin explained that Song Qiuya’s shares were worth over a hundred billion and Qin Chuxia’s stake could be worth ten billion, then promised to cook for them the next day.
• Richard ordered his executives to recruit Shadow’s corporate espionage team against the Autumn Forest Group.
• Ye Wenjun and State Security stormed the Johnson & Johnson headquarters and arrested Richard and the executives on suspicion of commercial coercion and endangering national security.
• Chen Lin cultivated in the Spirit-Gathering Formation with Li Xiaoyue and sensed that he was approaching seven thousand jin of strength.

Chen Lin promised Zhang Ruoxi that he would make her paralyzed mother walk again, then prepared an elaborate dinner for Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia. The chapter ended with the exhausted women discovering his meal and Qin Chuxia eagerly tasting it.

• Chen Lin brought Academician Zhong tea infused with Spirit Spring Water while Zhong treated patients at the village clinic.
• Zhang Ruoxi told Chen Lin that her mother, Yang Yuting, had been paralyzed after a fall, and Chen Lin promised to help her walk again.
• Chen Lin drove to Song Qiuya's penthouse with fresh vegetables and Sharp-Snout Fish, then cooked a lavish dinner.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia returned home exhausted from handling the fallout over [Clear-Vision Dew] and found Chen Lin's dinner waiting.
• Qin Chuxia tasted Chen Lin's braised pork and eagerly praised it as its strange warmth spread through her body.

After dinner with Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia, Chen Lin helped Song Qiuya circulate her breathing technique, then entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station to search its vast piles of otherworldly refuse. He found an archaic Storage Ring on a corpse and caught it as it flew to him, leaving its contents unknown.

• Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya ate Chen Lin’s enhanced meal and discovered that their cultivation made them hungry without feeling weighed down.
• Chen Lin guided Song Qiuya’s spiritual energy into her dantian, and she fell asleep in his arms.
• At one in the morning, Chen Lin opened the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and entered its wasteland.
• Chen Lin used the station’s Giant Screen and his spiritual sense to sort the garbage and collect fragments of broken magical implements.
• Chen Lin spotted an archaic Storage Ring on a corpse beneath a demon beast’s skeleton and summoned it into his hand.

Chen Lin claimed an Advanced Storage Ring from the garbage, then a Foundation Establishment-level Low-Tier Puppet sprang from a corpse pile and attacked him in the stationmaster’s office. Chen Lin survived their first clash, but the puppet’s superior strength left the fight unresolved.

• Chen Lin bound the Advanced Storage Ring to himself and postponed examining its contents so he could keep searching the Giant Screen.
• Chen Lin spotted a corpse standing atop a pile of remains and realized it had noticed the surveillance viewpoint.
• The corpse blasted through the Gray Wasteland toward the stationmaster’s office, smashing everything in its path.
• Chen Lin met the charging corpse with a punch, but its palm strike sent him crashing into the workshop wall.
• The garbage station identified the attacker as a mindless Low-Tier Puppet with early Foundation Establishment strength.

Chen Lin defeated a Foundation Establishment puppet with heavy weapons and discovered a Soul-Controlling Jade that could turn a corpse into a loyal puppet. After refining it, he prepared to use it on the blue-green-robed cultivator's corpse, whose former strength might make it a powerful ally.

• Chen Lin struggled against the Foundation Establishment puppet until he used a machine gun, grenades, and rocket launchers to destroy it.
• Chen Lin found a Soul-Controlling Jade among the puppet's remains and learned that it could make a corpse into a loyal puppet with a fraction of its former strength.
• Chen Lin retrieved the blue-green-robed cultivator's corpse from the sorted garbage, hoping its former Core Formation strength would make it a powerful puppet.
• Chen Lin spent three hours refining the Soul-Controlling Jade and formed a mental connection with it.
• Chen Lin laid out the cultivator's corpse, apologized, and pressed the jade toward the space between its brows.

Chen Lin successfully turned the blue-robed corpse into a Core Formation puppet and tested its power and durability. He then discovered that the corpse’s storage ring held a vast fortune in spirit stones, cultivation materials, and Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Chen Lin activated the Soul-Controlling Jade, awakening the blue-robed corpse as a Core Formation puppet.
• Chen Lin tested the puppet’s obedience, stopping its punch just before it hit him.
• Chen Lin tested the puppet’s defenses with a grenade and a rocket launcher, finding that the blast barely damaged it.
• Chen Lin stored the puppet and discovered 31,672 low-grade spirit stones and numerous jade slips and cultivation books in the Advanced Storage Ring.
• Chen Lin found hundreds of pill bottles, including six bottles containing a total of seventy-two Foundation Establishment Pills.

Chen Lin bound the Cloudborne Sword, replenished his spiritual power, and tested its cutting strength and flight. His first attempt to ride it ended when the sword’s power failed and he fell from three meters.

• Chen Lin bound the Cloudborne Sword and sensed the thirty-six wind formations inside it.
• Chen Lin replenished his spiritual power with spirit stones and Essence-Enhancing Pills, then made the sword fly.
• Chen Lin used the Cloudborne Sword to slice through a thick piece of warship armor and practiced steering it around the junkyard.
• Chen Lin enlarged the sword, climbed aboard, and rose three meters into the air.
• The Cloudborne Sword’s light went out, it shrank and dropped to the ground, and Chen Lin fell after it.

Chen Lin drained his spiritual power trying to fly on the Cloudborne Sword, then replenished it and shared breakfast with Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and Qin Churan. When he returned to Chen Family Village, he found the hidden Jade Seal absorbing prayer power at twice its previous concentration.

• Chen Lin crashed after the Cloudborne Sword consumed all his spiritual power, realizing he could not safely fly on it at his current cultivation level.
• Chen Lin returned to River View Splendor Mansion and used a Spirit-Gathering Formation and spirit stones to restore his spiritual power and advance further within the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and Qin Churan joined Chen Lin for breakfast, with Qin Chuxia openly flirting and Qin Churan acting flustered around him.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia left for the Autumn Forest Group, Qin Churan returned to the Criminal Police Brigade, and Chen Lin drove to Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin discovered that the Jade Seal hidden above the courtyard was drawing in prayer power at twice the concentration of the previous day.

Chen Lin discovered that the incense and prayer power gathered at the Farmhouse Courtyard had formed a defensive barrier, then learned Li Jiaojiao’s school arrangements had been handled. He returned to his room and ordered the Core Formation puppet to bathe and dress in a suit.

• Chen Lin tested the faint barrier around the Farmhouse Courtyard and found that it slowed a stone he threw, then wondered how strong it might become with more prayer power.
• Li Jiaojiao told Chen Lin that her mother had hired village girls to staff the Café, freeing her from work, and complained about getting sunburned; Chen Lin promised to help restore her fair complexion.
• Li Jiaojiao told Chen Lin that her household registration and school records had been transferred and that she had been enrolled in the best experimental class at Yicheng No. 1 High School.
• Chen Lin returned to his bedroom, summoned the Core Formation puppet, ordered it to bathe, and had it put on his black suit, white shirt, and tie.

Chen Lin took the Core Formation Puppet, Lao Qing, for a drive and used his memories to teach him how to operate the Bentley. When a masked man tried to kill them with a dump truck, Lao Qing stopped it with one hand and pulled the driver from the cab.

• Chen Lin dressed Lao Qing in a black suit and sunglasses, then shared his driving experience through their mental link.
• Lao Qing drove Chen Lin’s Bentley smoothly toward downtown Yicheng City.
• A masked driver ran a red light and charged the Bentley with a loaded dump truck.
• Lao Qing stepped between the vehicles and stopped the speeding truck by pressing one hand against its grille.
• Lao Qing tore off the truck’s door, pulled out the driver, and threw him onto the curb, where he passed out.

After Old Qing stopped an attempted attack on Chen Lin by absorbing a dump truck’s impact, Ye Wenjun and the State Security Bureau sealed the intersection and erased the witnesses’ recordings. Chen Lin suspected a desperate domestic competitor was behind the attack and ordered Ye Wenjun to deal with the culprit as the Bentley continued toward Chen Family Village.

• Old Qing stopped the dump truck with his body, stunning the witnesses and leaving the truck wrecked at the intersection.
• Ye Wenjun and Qin Churan arrived with SWAT officers, blocked communications, and had recordings of the incident erased.
• Ye Wenjun and Qin Churan were shocked by Old Qing’s strength and by how little they knew about Chen Lin’s resources.
• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun the attack likely came from a domestic competitor and ordered him to dispose of the mastermind without reporting back.
• Chen Lin thanked Qin Churan, then Old Qing drove him away toward Chen Family Village.

After Wang Jianye died by suicide, Chen Lin treated Zhang Ruoxi's mother, Yang Yuting, restoring sensation to her legs. Yang Yuting then urged Zhang Ruoxi to pursue Chen Lin despite his existing girlfriends.

• Ye Wenjun learned from Qin Churan that Wang Jianye had paid a gambler to attack Chen Lin, and that Wang Jianye had jumped to his death.
• Qin Churan messaged Chen Lin the interrogation results and Wang Jianye's suicide, and Chen Lin replied that he had expected it.
• Chen Qianqian and Zhang Ruoxi brought Yang Yuting to Chen Guofu's home, where Chen Lin used Bright Moon's healing power to restore feeling in Yang Yuting's legs.
• Yang Yuting recognized Zhang Ruoxi's affection for Chen Lin and learned that she held back because he already had two girlfriends.
• Yang Yuting encouraged Zhang Ruoxi to seize her happiness and become Chen Lin's third girlfriend.

Chen Lin used Bright Moon to restore Yang Yuting's ability to stand, leaving her eager to make him her son-in-law. Zhang Ruoxi followed him out, flustered as she tried to act on her mother's encouragement to pursue him.

• Zhang Ruoxi eagerly welcomed Chen Lin and offered him water and a towel, but she blushed and retreated when he noticed her unusual behavior.
• Chen Lin directed Bright Moon to heal Yang Yuting's damaged nerves, and Yang Yuting soon stood with Zhang Ruoxi's support.
• Chen Lin explained that Yang Yuting needed rehabilitation to rebuild her leg strength, then hurried away as Yang Yuting regarded him as an ideal son-in-law.
• Yang Yuting told Zhang Ruoxi to see Chen Lin out, while Chen Qianqian stayed behind to give them time alone.
• Zhang Ruoxi followed Chen Lin along a village path, remembering her mother's advice that he could have another girlfriend, but she was too embarrassed to speak.

Chen Lin gently reassured the flustered Zhang Ruoxi that they could talk later, leaving her to wonder what he meant. That evening, Song Guoan and Ye Qingqing discussed the strange turns in their lives, including Ye Zhentian’s unexpected apology to his estranged daughter.

• Zhang Ruoxi walked into Chen Lin’s back, and he gently ruffled her hair and told her to return to Auntie Yang because they could talk later.
• Zhang Ruoxi hurried away, wondering whether Chen Lin had rejected her or was hinting at something.
• At their Wucheng suburban villa, Song Guoan told Ye Qingqing he suspected an invisible hand was clearing obstacles for him.
• Ye Qingqing reminded Song Guoan that her estranged father, Ye Zhentian, had arrived with her three elder brothers and apologized for how the Ye Family had treated her.

Ye Qingqing connected a string of political and business favors to Chen Lin and realized that her father had apologized because he feared crossing him. She and Song Guoan were left horrified at the possibility that their twenty-four-year-old son-in-law had caused the upheaval.

• Ye Qingqing listed the unexplained favors Song Guoan and their family had received, including approved projects, business deals, tax exemptions, Gao Yuliang’s deference, and Ye Zhentian’s apology.
• Ye Qingqing remembered that the Xiao Family had been destroyed on the same day Chen Lin went to Capital City.
• Ye Qingqing connected Chen Lin’s trip to the Xiao Family’s fall and the sudden removals of officials who had targeted Qiu Ya’s company.
• Ye Qingqing suggested that Chen Lin was behind the events, and Song Guoan recognized that she meant Xiao Chen.
• Ye Qingqing reasoned that Ye Zhentian had repaired their relationship because he feared offending someone connected to them through Song Qiuya.
• Song Guoan and Ye Qingqing stared at each other in horror as Song Guoan silently mouthed, “My God.”

Song Guoan and Ye Qingqing decided to travel to Yicheng to visit Song Qiuya and see Chen Lin, while Chen Lin set off to rescue his cousin Liu Dayong after learning he had been tricked into going to Simple Village. Ye Wenjun was alerted that Chen Lin was rushing into the village and hurried to respond.

• Song Guoan admitted that Chen Lin’s power made his own achievements seem insignificant, and Ye Qingqing told him to pack for Yicheng so they could visit Song Qiuya and meet Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin briefly tried to study formation jade slips but gave up when he could not understand them, then received a call from Song Qiuya saying her parents were coming to Yicheng.
• Chen Lin ended the call with Song Qiuya when his second uncle Chen Guofu called, and Liu Shuqin told him that Liu Dayong had been tricked into going to Simple Village.
• Chen Lin recalled Liu Dayong’s childhood kindness and immediately left with Friday and Lao Qing to help him.
• A national security agent spotted Chen Lin rushing into the village and alerted Ye Wenjun, who said he would go there at once.

Chen Lin refused to pay the scam syndicate’s two-million-yuan ransom for Liu Dayong and instead used a phone call to buy time while Friday traced the criminals. After Chen Lin offered three hundred thousand yuan, Friday located Red Hair and forged a deposit notification, leaving the syndicate believing the money had arrived.

• Liu Shuqin explained that Liu Dayong had been trapped in a scam compound after taking a job in Simple Village, and the captors demanded two million yuan for his release.
• Wang Guihua begged Chen Lin for help, but Chen Lin said they should not give the criminals a single cent because they would keep demanding money and might sell Liu Dayong’s organs.
• When the captors called again, Chen Lin answered on speaker and pretended to be frightened, offering three hundred thousand yuan as an initial payment.
• Chen Lin signaled Friday, who traced the call to Zhang Long, known as Red Hair, and infiltrated the bank’s system.
• Friday generated a false deposit record, and Red Hair saw a notification claiming that three hundred thousand yuan had reached his account.