Chapter Summaries

Ye Pianran told Qin Churan that Chen Lin was an immortal cultivator, and Qin Churan insisted that she liked him for himself. The next morning, the Qin family visited Chen Lin, where Ye Zhentian began explaining how he had acquired the Jade Pendant.

• Ye Pianran told Qin Churan that the higher-ups had confirmed Chen Lin was an immortal cultivator, but Qin Churan said she liked him for who he was.
• Ye Pianran asked Qin Churan whether she would meet Chen Lin as Captain Qin or as Qin Churan.
• Qin Changhai, Ye Pianran, Ye Zhentian, and Qin Churan arrived at Chen Family Village, where Qin Changhai gave Chen Lin two century-old wild ginseng roots.
• Ye Zhentian drank Chen Lin's tea and felt warmth spread through his body, including a trace of sensation returning to his numb right leg.
• Chen Lin asked Ye Zhentian where the Jade Pendant came from, and Ye Zhentian recounted finding a wounded old man during wartime and receiving the jade with a voice telling him to wear it for protection.

Ye Zhentian revealed how a mysterious cultivator’s jade pendant had protected him from an American bomb and asked Chen Lin to safeguard the Ye Family if it faced destruction. Chen Lin agreed, but refused to help Ye Zhentian win Song Qiuya’s forgiveness for separating her from her mother.

• Ye Zhentian recounted how a bloodied, white-bearded old man gave him a jade pendant that shielded him from an aerial bomb during the War of National Founding.
• Chen Lin identified the pendant as a defensive magic treasure and wondered about the old cultivator’s fate and the limits of his lifespan.
• Ye Zhentian bowed to Chen Lin and asked him to protect the Ye Family’s bloodline if it ever faced annihilation, and Chen Lin agreed.
• Ye Zhentian explained that he had separated Qingqing from Song Qiuya to protect his political career, but Chen Lin told him to seek Song Qiuya’s forgiveness directly.

After Ye Pianran left Qin Churan alone with Chen Lin, he teased her before asking about her progress with the Taiyin Breathing Technique. He tested her strength, and her first punch failed to move him, leaving her to launch a much stronger attack.

• Ye Pianran took Qin Changhai and Ye Zhentian away, leaving Qin Churan in the backyard with Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin teased the embarrassed Qin Churan, then asked how her practice of the Taiyin Breathing Technique was going.
• Qin Churan said she practiced daily and felt her strength growing, so Chen Lin told her to attack him with all her strength.
• Qin Churan's tentative punch struck Chen Lin's chest without moving him, and he taunted her into trying harder.
• Qin Churan unleashed a forceful second punch that sent ripples across the tea on the stone table.

Chen Lin assessed Qin Churan’s strength, then gathered herbs to prepare Youth-Locking Pills. After Qin Churan defeated Qin Chuxia in a spar, the cousins competed while washing the ingredients, leaving Chen Lin to oversee their work.

• Chen Lin praised Qin Churan’s rapid improvement and opened Qin Changhai’s boxes of century-old wild ginseng before asking Song Qiuya for additional herbs.
• Qin Chuxia arrived with the herbs, challenged Qin Churan to spar, and lost after Qin Churan knocked her out in seconds.
• Chen Lin soothed Qin Chuxia’s injured shoulder with spiritual power, and Qin Churan quietly watched before turning away with a cup of cold tea.
• Chen Lin inspected the medicinal ingredients and told Qin Churan to wash them carefully; Qin Chuxia joined her at the sink.
• Qin Churan and Qin Chuxia jostled and traded barbs while washing the herbs, splashing water over themselves as their rivalry continued.

Chen Lin made Youth-Locking Pills with Qin Churan and Qin Chuxia, whose rivalry over his attention grew as they helped prepare the medicine. After the pills were finished, Chen Lin left the story with thirty-two cooling on the stone table.

• Chen Lin taught Qin Chuxia how to cut herbs while Qin Churan watched and slammed her knife into the chopping board.
• Chen Lin boiled the herbs in spirit spring water and explained that the Youth-Locking Pills would preserve a person's looks for twenty years.
• Qin Churan tended the fire while Qin Chuxia massaged Chen Lin, whose head ended up pressed against her chest; Qin Churan caught them and grew furious.
• Chen Lin sent Qin Churan to fetch meals, and Qin Chuxia eagerly followed her; after they returned, they ate while Qin Churan managed the fire.
• Chen Lin kneaded the cooked medicinal paste and divided it into thirty-two longan-sized pills.

Chen Lin gave Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan Youth-Locking Pills, then Qin Churan returned to embrace and thank him before they left. Later, Chen Lin entered the Garbage Station and encountered a powerful, wounded demonic cultivator, and their fight began.

• Chen Lin gave Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan three Youth-Locking Pills each, and Qin Chuxia kissed his cheek in gratitude.
• Before leaving, Qin Churan returned to Chen Lin, hugged him, and thanked him while Qin Chuxia watched from the LaFerrari.
• After the sisters drove away, Chen Lin cultivated until midnight, then entered the Garbage Station through the Black Portal.
• Chen Lin spotted a wounded demonic cultivator at great perfection of Qi Refining and hid behind a wrecked mech.
• The demonic cultivator attacked Chen Lin, who dodged, charged with the Cloudborne Sword, and slashed the man’s ribs.
• The demonic cultivator avoided Chen Lin’s fatal strike and launched three black streaks of spiritual power at him.

Chen Lin killed the demonic cultivator and found a Spirit Vein Fruit among his spoils. After eating it, he advanced from the eighth to the eleventh level of Qi Refining, tested his new abilities, and returned to sleep beside Li Xiaoyue.

• Chen Lin used the Cloudborne Sword to destroy the demonic cultivator's life-bound artifact, then killed him after surviving the Blood-Burning Secret Art.
• Chen Lin searched the corpse and found spirit stones, three jade slips, and a Spirit Vein Fruit.
• Chen Lin ate the Spirit Vein Fruit and advanced from the eighth to the eleventh level of Qi Refining.
• Chen Lin learned the Aura-Concealment Art and found that it concealed both his aura and his body from a phone camera.
• Chen Lin tested his expanded perception and used the Object Manipulation Art to lift a three-wheeled vehicle from several hundred meters away.
• Chen Lin returned to his room and fell asleep beside Li Xiaoyue.

General Zhao visited Chen Lin to establish Primordial Mist, a state organization for managing immortal cultivators, and Chen Lin agreed to serve as its supreme guest adviser. He allowed the group to use one of his mountains as a base and offered occasional guidance to its cultivators.

• Chen Lin sensed General Zhao and elite soldiers waiting outside Chen Family Village, then agreed to receive the general.
• General Zhao offered Chen Lin leadership of Primordial Mist, but Chen Lin refused and accepted the role of its sole supreme guest adviser instead.
• General Zhao presented ancient cultivation texts, and Chen Lin identified the Purple Thunder Heavenly Scripture and Wind-Riding Art as methods that could theoretically reach Core Formation.
• Chen Lin photographed those two methods and told General Zhao to select loyal, talented military prospects to cultivate.
• Chen Lin offered Primordial Mist the outermost of his three mountains as its base and said he could give its members pointers, exciting General Zhao.

General Zhao sent the Jiaolong Guard squad to Chen Lin, who demonstrated his supernatural power and gave the eleven soldiers cultivation techniques. The squad began attempting qi induction, but none could sense spiritual energy, leaving their cultivation prospects uncertain.

• General Zhao ordered Zhou Yi's eleven-person squad to report to Chen Lin in Chen Family Village.
• Zhou Yi and the squad arrived and told Chen Lin they believed immortal cultivation was a higher form of martial arts.
• Chen Lin levitated a heavy bluestone vat and vanished, then reappeared behind Zhou Yi, stunning the squad.
• Chen Lin gave the six men the Purple Thunder Heavenly Scripture and the five women the Wind-Riding Art, then instructed them to attempt qi induction.
• The eleven soldiers meditated without sensing spiritual energy, and Zhou Yi felt defeated when his Dantian showed no response.

Chen Lin helped the Jiaolong Guard members cultivate until all eleven achieved qi induction, then received a desperate call from Zhang Ruoxi about her father’s arrest and flew toward Guang Province to help her. He left the story racing southeast aboard his Flying Boat.

• Li Qian became the first of the Jiaolong Guard to sense spiritual energy, and Chen Lin rewarded her with a spirit stone that greatly strengthened her cultivation.
• Song Qiuya returned to Chen Lin’s home, where he gave her and Li Xiaoyue spirit stones to aid their practice.
• Over the next three days, Zhou Yi and the other ten members of the Hongmeng Team achieved qi induction and thanked Chen Lin before their training ended.
• Zhang Ruoxi called Chen Lin in tears, explaining that her father had been arrested in Guang Province over a money-laundering case and that she and Yang Yuting were staying with her Maternal Aunt.
• Chen Lin launched his Flying Boat and headed toward Guang Province after promising Zhang Ruoxi that he would come immediately.

After Zhang Tianyang was arrested and his debts drove the family into hiding, Zhang Ruoxi used the Taiyin Breathing Technique to kill a debt collector who threatened her family. The chapter ended with the bald gang leader realizing that Zhang Ruoxi had killed his man.

• Yang Yuting learned that Zhang Tianyang faced a money-laundering charge and had left fifty million in debts, forcing her and Zhang Ruoxi to hide at Yang Yujiao's apartment.
• Zhang Ruoxi told Yang Yuting that she had called Chen Lin and trusted him, while Yang Yuting worried about their family’s disgrace.
• Yang Yujiao returned home followed by six debt collectors, who broke into the apartment and demanded Zhang Tianyang’s thirty-million debt.
• The bald leader demanded that Zhang Ruoxi stay at his company as collateral, then ordered two men to seize her.
• Zhang Ruoxi instinctively activated the Taiyin Breathing Technique and shoved one attacker, killing him with a blow that crushed his chest.
• The bald leader pointed at the dead man and screamed that Zhang Ruoxi had killed him.

Zhang Wei’s scheme to force Yang Yuting and Zhang Ruoxi into his control was exposed after Zhang Ruoxi killed Biaozi, and he threatened to use the death to blackmail them. Chen Lin arrived as Zhang Wei and his men closed in, and confronted him over targeting Chen Lin’s family.

• Zhang Ruoxi recoiled in horror after killing Biaozi, while Yang Yuting and Yang Yujiao and the remaining thugs stood frozen.
• Zhang Wei entered and tried to distance himself from the thugs, but Yang Yuting recognized him and realized he had orchestrated the debt collection.
• Zhang Wei admitted his plan by demanding that Yang Yuting and Zhang Ruoxi become his in exchange for clearing their debts and protecting Zhang Ruoxi from prosecution.
• Zhang Wei’s men advanced as the women despaired, until Chen Lin appeared at the doorway.
• Chen Lin confronted Zhang Wei for targeting his woman and parents-in-law and asked how he should thank him.

Chen Lin subdued Zhang Wei and his men, exposed Zhang Wei’s crimes, and summoned powerful officials to clean up the scene. He learned that Zhang Tianyang was being held at the City First Detention Center, where something had happened to him.

• Chen Lin incapacitated Zhang Wei’s henchmen and used Soul-Searching Art to uncover Zhang Wei’s crimes.
• Chen Lin called Ye Wenjun, who escalated the matter through the highest-level authorities.
• Chen Lin comforted Zhang Ruoxi and told her she would not be convicted for defending herself.
• Pearl City’s top officials arrived and obeyed Chen Lin’s order to clear the scene while keeping Zhang Wei alive.
• Chen Lin asked where Zhang Tianyang was, and the Public Security Bureau director reported that Zhang Tianyang was at the City First Detention Center and something seemed to have happened to him.

Chen Lin rescued Zhang Tianyang from the First Detention Center, healed his injuries, and ensured the officials and criminals responsible were punished. The Zhang Family received a 3.5-billion-yuan compensation package, but Zhang Ruoxi remained shaken by having killed someone the previous night.

• The Municipal Party Secretary rushed Chen Lin and Zhang Ruoxi to the First Detention Center, where they found Zhang Tianyang badly tortured in an isolation cell.
• The secretary ordered a full investigation and the detention of everyone involved, while Yang Yuting and Zhang Ruoxi grieved over Zhang Tianyang's injuries.
• Chen Lin healed Zhang Tianyang with spirit spring water, and Zhang Tianyang thanked him with deep reverence.
• The secretary reported that Zhang Wei's criminal organization had been dismantled, implicated officials had been detained, and Zhang Tianyang's debts and seized assets had been cleared.
• The municipal government awarded the Zhang Group contracts and an interest-free loan worth about 3.5 billion yuan, which Chen Lin told Zhang Tianyang to accept.
• Chen Lin noticed that Zhang Ruoxi remained pale and troubled by the shock of killing someone the night before.

Chen Lin took Zhang Ruoxi to Macau aboard a Flying Boat, easing her fear while secretly planning to eliminate Zhang Cheng, who had helped frame her family. After spending the day sightseeing with her, he brought her to Zhang Cheng's Old Lisboa casino and revealed that they had come to wreck it.

• Chen Lin soothed Zhang Ruoxi's nightmare with spiritual power and told her parents he would take her to Macau to recover.
• Chen Lin summoned a Flying Boat and carried Zhang Ruoxi above the clouds to Macau, where she kissed him.
• Chen Lin learned from Zhang Wei's memories that Zhang Cheng had helped frame Zhang Tianyang and planned to deal with him himself.
• Chen Lin spent the afternoon touring Macau with Zhang Ruoxi, then led her to the Old Lisboa casino and said they were there to wreck it.

Chen Lin used his cultivation and abilities to win millions at the old Lisboa casino with Zhang Ruoxi beside him. After the casino manager offered him twenty million to stop, Chen Lin rejected the money and demanded that Zhang Cheng appear within half an hour.

• Chen Lin turned a thousand yuan into over a million by winning consecutive casino bets, while Zhang Ruoxi watched in excitement.
• Fatty Wang searched the surveillance footage for evidence of cheating but found none and ordered tables closed whenever Chen Lin approached.
• Chen Lin advised gamblers around the hall, helping them win over ten million and driving Fatty Wang to confront him.
• Fatty Wang offered Chen Lin a twenty-million check and the chips he had won in exchange for stopping.
• Chen Lin rejected the offer, said twenty million could not buy Zhang Cheng's life, and ordered Fatty Wang to summon Zhang Cheng within half an hour.
• Fatty Wang realized Chen Lin had come for the casino's second-largest shareholder and nervously called Zhang Cheng.

Chen Lin confronted Zhang Cheng in Macau and killed him and his four armed bodyguards after discovering Zhang Cheng’s crimes and secret funding of a Japanese politician. He cleaned the VIP lounge and comforted a shaken Zhang Ruoxi.

• Zhang Cheng entered the VIP lounge and mistakenly accused Chen Lin of kidnapping his brother, Zhang Wei.
• Chen Lin stopped the bodyguards’ bullets with the Object Manipulation Art and wounded them.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Searching Art to uncover Zhang Cheng’s crimes and his role in financing Low City Early Meow.
• Chen Lin killed Zhang Cheng and then used the Cloudborne Sword to kill the four bodyguards.
• Chen Lin stored the bodies, cleaned the lounge with the Cleansing Art, and comforted Zhang Ruoxi.

Chen Lin retrieved Zhang Cheng’s records of payments to Takaichi Sanae and helped Zhang Ruoxi accept the ruthless justice behind his actions. At the Londoner Court, he stabilized her cultivation, then sent her to sleep in a separate bedroom.

• Chen Lin took Zhang Ruoxi to Zhang Cheng’s villa, opened a hidden safe, and gave her ledgers documenting payments to Takaichi Sanae and attached secret documents.
• Zhang Ruoxi understood the betrayal recorded in the ledgers, and Chen Lin told her that some people did not deserve to live; she accepted his words and clung to him.
• Chen Lin stored the ledgers in his Storage Ring and planned to leave the remaining roundup and cleanup to Ye Wenjun after returning to Yicheng.
• Chen Lin brought Zhang Ruoxi to a penthouse at the Londoner Court and guided her through the Taiyin Breathing Technique to stabilize her vital energy.
• Chen Lin told Zhang Ruoxi to sleep in the second bedroom, and she reluctantly went inside while he remained in the master bedroom.

Zhang Ruoxi overcame her doubts and sneaked into Chen Lin’s room, confessing that she had loved him since he saved her from a bullet. Chen Lin agreed to her plea not to wait until she graduated, and they spent the night together.

• After showering, Zhang Ruoxi compared herself to Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue and worried that Chen Lin wanted her to sleep alone because of her figure.
• Unable to sleep, Zhang Ruoxi decided she had to act before Chen Lin returned to Yicheng and crept into his bedroom at two in the morning.
• Chen Lin caught Zhang Ruoxi as she tried to slip beneath his blanket and pulled her onto the bed.
• Zhang Ruoxi told Chen Lin that her feelings began when he stopped a bullet for her on Mount Tianmu and begged him to take her that night.
• Chen Lin agreed, and the two shared an intimate night in the penthouse suite.

After spending the night with Zhang Ruoxi, Chen Lin took her back to her parents and gave them pills he had refined. He then flew with Zhang Ruoxi toward Chen Family Village, leaving her parents convinced that their son-in-law was an immortal.

• Zhang Ruoxi woke beside Chen Lin, who explained that he had cleared her meridians and served her Spirit Spring Fish porridge.
• Chen Lin took Zhang Ruoxi by Flying Boat from Macau to Pearl City and brought her to the Zhang Family villa.
• Zhang Ruoxi confirmed to Yang Yuting that she and Chen Lin had become intimate, relieving her mother.
• Chen Lin gave Zhang Tianyang and Yang Yuting Youth-Locking Pills and Body-Sculpting Pills, and Yang Yuting swallowed a Youth-Locking Pill.
• Chen Lin took Zhang Ruoxi toward Chen Family Village in his Flying Boat, stunning her parents with his supernatural flight.