Recaps

At Eighth Lord Academy in Snowfield City, Zhao Chi awakened an S+ hidden talent that could transfer certain stats, though he did not yet know how it worked. He left the chapter astonished by his rare talent as he considered the dangerous world and the territories humans used to survive.

• Novice lord students discussed the talents they had chosen, while some who failed to awaken talents worried about falling behind.
• Zhao Chi discovered that he had awakened the hidden S+ talent [Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade] in addition to his three initial talents.
• Zhao Chi wondered which stats the talent could transfer and how to use it, since its description offered no further explanation.
• Zhao Chi reflected on his life in Snowfield City and the dangerous world of magical beasts, rival races, and territories established with World Stones.

Zhao Chi discovered that his awakened talent, Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade, could transfer talent effects. He merged Judging by Appearance into Female Scholar, upgraded it to C-rank, and chose it as his starting talent.

• Zhao Chi compared Female Scholar, Judging by Appearance, and Gluttony, and dismissed Gluttony as useless.
• Zhao Chi noticed that Female Scholar and Judging by Appearance glowed gold and used Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade to transfer an effect.
• Zhao Chi replaced Female Scholar’s penalty with Judging by Appearance’s bonus, raising the talent to C-rank and removing its negative effects.
• Zhao Chi selected the upgraded Female Scholar as his starting talent.

After Zhao Chi completed his talent awakening, the academy distributed World Stones and Heroic Souls to the students. Zhao Chi chose a Random Female Heroic Soul, then Yang Xiong urged him to activate his own Heroic Soul, but Zhao Chi stopped him from revealing private information.

• Headmaster Liao Zheng reminded the students to manage their territories, prepare for the first assessment, and keep their personal information private as instructors distributed World Stones and Heroic Souls.
• Li Ruanyu reassured an unawakened student before asking Zhao Chi what kind of starting hero he wanted.
• Zhao Chi requested a beautiful female hero, and Li Ruanyu gave him a Random Female Heroic Soul, a Small World Stone, and a Lord's Toolbox.
• Yang Xiong asked Zhao Chi whether he had activated his Heroic Soul, and Zhao Chi stopped him from disclosing its details.

Zhao Chi discussed initial heroes with his classmates before activating his hero soul and viewing the first two of three possible female heroes. He considered the Human Female Medical Officer a reasonable option, then began inspecting the Elf Female Archer.

• Yang Xiong revealed that he had received a high-stat Orc Fighter Hero, and the students discussed their initial heroes.
• Zhao Chi took out his hero soul and confirmed its activation.
• Three female heroes appeared before Zhao Chi, and he inspected the Human Female Medical Officer's attributes, skills, and personality.
• Zhao Chi kept the medical officer as an option and began viewing the Elf Female Archer.

Zhao Chi compared a female Elf archer with a Succubus warrior as he considered which hero to choose. The chapter ended with him still scrutinizing the Succubus’s figure before assessing her abilities.

• Zhao Chi examined the Elf’s archery skills, attributes, and rigid but energetic personality, then kept her as an option.
• Zhao Chi inspected the Succubus’s hero profile and noted her outstanding constitution, strength, and excellent total attributes.
• Zhao Chi struggled to look away from the Succubus’s beauty and figure as he continued assessing her.

Zhao Chi used “Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade” to reshape the Female Medical Officer by transferring traits from the Female Succubus and Female Elf. The transfer left him deciding whether to retain the medical officer’s human reproductive system.

• Zhao Chi compared the Female Succubus’s warrior abilities with the Female Medical Officer’s healing skills and chose the medical officer as the most practical hero.
• The three female heroes glowed, and Zhao Chi activated “Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade” on the Female Medical Officer.
• Zhao Chi briefly transferred the Female Elf’s age to the Female Medical Officer, turning her into dry bones, then reversed the transfer and restored both heroes.
• Zhao Chi gave the Female Medical Officer the Female Succubus’s appearance, talent, constitution, and strength, along with the Female Elf’s agility.
• Zhao Chi transferred the Female Elf’s physical traits and lifespan to the Female Medical Officer, prompting the system to ask whether to retain her human female reproductive system.

Zhao Chi completed his hero transfer and left the Academy to prepare to establish his territory. He returned to the small cabin where he had lived since his parents died and he transmigrated into this world.

• Zhao Chi transferred the Elf and Succubus attributes to the Female Medical Officer, raising her appearance and attributes and giving her the personalities wanton and faithful.
• Yang Xiong asked Zhao Chi which race he would choose, and Zhao Chi said he had not decided yet.
• Yang Xiong hurried off and asked Zhao Chi to add him as a friend after establishing their territories so they could trade and support each other.
• Zhao Chi left the Academy and headed home through the city.
• Zhao Chi returned to his small wooden cabin, where he had lived since magical beasts killed his parents two years earlier.

Zhao Chi activated the World Stone and began setting the initial conditions for his Territory World. After improving the temperate climate’s attributes through Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade, he reached the terrain selection and considered the options.

• Zhao Chi activated the World Stone in his wooden cabin.
• Zhao Chi chose to transfer the tropical and frigid zones’ advantages into the temperate zone, raising both plant growth and mineral generation speeds by 20%.
• Zhao Chi selected the improved temperate zone as his Territory World’s climate.
• Zhao Chi reviewed the plains, hills, and mountains terrain options and tapped one, though the chapter did not reveal which choice he made.

Zhao Chi used Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade to improve the territory’s flatland and grassland attributes, then confirmed its temperate, flatland, grassland conditions. He began configuring the territory with 100 points, weighing resources and water features before making his selections.

• Zhao Chi transferred potential farmland and mineral reserve bonuses to flatland, then selected it.
• Zhao Chi transferred bonuses to grassland, raising both its soil and mineral quality, and confirmed the territory’s initial conditions.
• The system gave Zhao Chi 100 configuration points and listed options for plants, animals, woods, lakes, and rivers.
• Zhao Chi reviewed the available resources, noting that options 1–6 would appear in small amounts even if unselected, while water features required an explicit choice.

Zhao Chi configured and named his starting territory Peach Spring Village, choosing animals, woodland, and a small river for its resources. He reviewed the new village’s information and began considering its starting race, still leaning toward humans despite their balanced attributes.

• Zhao Chi used Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade to rearrange allocation costs, making animals cost 2 points, woodland 1, and a small river 3.
• Zhao Chi confirmed a starting setup of 10 animals, 77 woodland, and one small river, for a total of 100 points.
• Zhao Chi named his small village territory Peach Spring Village, hoping its name reflected his longing to return to his own world.
• Zhao Chi reviewed the territory information, which listed him as its sole resident and showed one wooden cabin among its buildings.
• Zhao Chi recalled struggling to choose a starting race and still hoped to begin with humans, though their attributes were evenly balanced.

Zhao Chi opened the system’s race selection and considered the five free starting races, reflecting on his modest clan’s support before studying the human and Orc options. The chapter left him still weighing his choice, with the Orcs presented as the strongest starting race in close combat.

• Zhao Chi opened the territory race interface and confirmed that he could choose one of five starting races for free.
• Zhao Chi thought about his small clan, which had funded his home, tuition, and living expenses despite his parents’ deaths.
• Zhao Chi examined the human race’s balanced attributes, daily replenishment, and Farming talent.
• Zhao Chi studied the Orcs’ greater strength and constitution, Aggressiveness talent, and aptitude for close combat.

Zhao Chi compared the starting races’ attributes, talents, appearance, and population growth, considering the strengths and weaknesses of Orcs, Elves, Skeletons, and Goblins. The chapter ended as he examined the Goblin race.

• Zhao Chi noted that Orcs were naturally suited to melee combat, had high morale, and gained five refugees each day, though they could also reproduce slowly.
• Zhao Chi examined Elves, who lived for a thousand years, excelled at ranged combat and forest fighting, and gained five refugees daily or could be born from the Tree of Life.
• Zhao Chi reviewed Skeletons, who were weak but fearless, appeared ten per day, and could not perform productive labor.
• Zhao Chi inspected Goblins, who resembled human children and had average attributes, respectable agility, and a talent that increased evasion.

Zhao Chi reviewed the five races and transferred selected traits into Humans, creating a new race with long Elf lifespans, improved stats, Skeleton replenishment and fearlessness, and Elf appearance. He finalized them as female and ground-born, then confirmed the first racial data transfer.

• Zhao Chi compared the strengths and weaknesses of Humans, Orcs, Elves, Skeletons, and Goblins.
• Zhao Chi kept Humans as the base race and transferred the Elves’ 1,000-year lifespan while retaining Human adulthood and size.
• Zhao Chi adopted Orc constitution and strength, Elf agility and intelligence, Skeleton replenishment of ten per day, and Skeleton fearlessness.
• Zhao Chi chose to make the new Humans all female and have them emerge from the ground, while retaining their reproductive system.
• Zhao Chi transferred additional Elf traits and confirmed the first racial data transfer.

Zhao Chi named his newly configured all-female human subspecies Peach Haven Humans and entered his territory. He explored the forest and inspected the simple wooden lord’s house where he would begin.

• Zhao Chi named the new human subspecies Peach Haven Humans.
• Zhao Chi selected the Peach Haven Humans as his starting race and entered his territory.
• Zhao Chi arrived in a wooded area and spotted trees, birds, rabbits, and grassland he had configured.
• Zhao Chi found the lord’s house and inspected its bedroom, kitchen, toilet, and bathroom.

Zhao Chi welcomed ten newly emerged Peach Haven Humans into his fledgling territory and opened the Lord's Toolbox for supplies. He summoned his chosen Female Medical Officer after changing her race to Peach Haven Human, and she emerged from the earth.

• Ten women climbed out of the soil, and Zhao Chi confirmed they were Peach Haven Humans born in his territory.
• Zhao Chi welcomed the women as his first villagers and promised to try to provide food, clothes, and safety.
• The women asked for clothes and somewhere to wash, but Zhao Chi had neither available.
• Zhao Chi opened the Lord's Toolbox and placed a crate full of tools, cookware, and flint beside the lord's house.
• Zhao Chi changed his Female Medical Officer's race to Peach Haven Human and summoned her.
• The Female Medical Officer emerged from the ground, and Zhao Chi recognized her despite the mud and dirt.

Zhao Chi summoned the female medical officer Gu Qing, who introduced herself and was put in charge of the territory while he returned home to fetch clothes. Back in the greater world, he reviewed his limited funds and recognized that he could not stay away from the territory for long.

• Gu Qing greeted Zhao Chi and introduced herself after he helped her up from the dirt.
• Gu Qing teased Zhao Chi about looking at her and asked him for clothes.
• Zhao Chi told Gu Qing to manage the territory and instructed the ten female villagers to take weapons for self-defense.
• Zhao Chi used Return to go back to his home in the greater world.
• Zhao Chi considered the territory’s dangers and counted his available money: 17 silver coins.

Zhao Chi used spare bedding, clothes, and curtains to prepare simple garments for the female villagers arriving in his territory. He registered the bundle for teleportation at a Snowfield City exchange and then asked about buying rice.

• Zhao Chi decided that his seventeen silver coins were not enough to buy clothes for the female villagers, especially with more arriving each day.
• Zhao Chi packed his bedding, spare clothes, and curtains so the villagers could sew them into simple garments.
• Zhao Chi ran from the village to a nearby exchange in Snowfield City to transport the bundle into his territory.
• An exchange clerk registered Zhao Chi’s bundle and charged him one copper coin in fees.
• Zhao Chi asked to buy rice, and the clerk directed him to another counter.

Zhao Chi returned to his territory with rice and fabric, then followed markers to find Gu Qing and the other women bathing by the river. He checked that they were safe and promised to bring them better clothing and toiletries.

• Zhao Chi bought rice and registered the rice and fabric before teleporting home to his territory.
• Zhao Chi found the women’s tools in the room and followed an arrow and markers through the woods toward the river.
• Zhao Chi found Gu Qing and the other women washing in the river, with several women keeping watch on the bank.
• Zhao Chi asked Gu Qing whether the area was safe and told her he had brought old bedsheets and fabric for them to make clothes.
• Gu Qing and the other women thanked Zhao Chi for taking them in and said they understood that supplies were scarce.
• Zhao Chi told the women to continue washing and promised to bring shampoo and body wash next time.

Zhao Chi checked the new female villagers’ attributes and learned that their low scores came from being newly born and needing food. He discovered that Tang Ruan was an unusually beautiful, hardworking villager whose abilities would improve after she ate.

• Zhao Chi checked the new villagers’ attributes and found that they were far below the expected average.
• Zhao Chi asked Tang Ruan why their attributes were so low, and she explained that they were weak because they had just been born and needed food.
• Zhao Chi inspected Tang Ruan’s information and found that she had exceptional looks, a good personality, and higher attributes than the other villagers.
• Zhao Chi concluded that Tang Ruan’s attributes would rise significantly once she had eaten enough.

Zhao Chi checked Tang Ruan and Gu Qing’s stats, then returned with the women as they began sewing clothes from his bedding. He took Tang Ruan to fetch water, where a misunderstanding over his jacket left her embarrassed before they continued toward the river.

• Zhao Chi found that Tang Ruan had no skills yet and discovered he could not use Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade to transfer stats between her and Gu Qing.
• Gu Qing led the women back safely while Zhao Chi covered the rear, and they began sewing clothes and shoes from his bedsheet and duvet cover.
• Zhao Chi asked Gu Qing to stay and supervise the sewing, so she sent Tang Ruan to accompany him to fetch water.
• Zhao Chi gave Tang Ruan his jacket, but she misunderstood his intentions and lay down on it before realizing he had only meant for her to wear it.
• Tang Ruan put on Zhao Chi’s jacket, and the two continued their trip to the river.

Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan encountered three Goblins, and Zhao Chi prepared Tang Ruan to draw their attention while he attacked from the side. He used Inspire to steady her before the first battle began.

• Zhao Chi spotted three Goblins prowling nearby and checked that his stats remained at 5.
• Zhao Chi told Tang Ruan to prepare for battle, explaining that the Goblins might summon reinforcements if they escaped.
• Zhao Chi instructed Tang Ruan to draw the Goblins' attention with the wooden basin and fishing spear while he circled around to attack.
• Zhao Chi used Inspire on Tang Ruan, stopping her trembling and filling her with eagerness to fight.

Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan used her as bait to ambush three goblins, killing two and capturing the third. They began questioning the wounded goblin about its tribe.

• Zhao Chi boosted Tang Ruan's morale and told her to lure the goblins while he circled behind them.
• Tang Ruan pretended to cry, drawing the three goblins toward her as Zhao Chi hid in the grass.
• Zhao Chi ambushed and killed the first two goblins with his machete.
• The last goblin fled, but Tang Ruan struck it in the lower back with her fishing spear, allowing Zhao Chi to pin it down.
• Zhao Chi questioned the wounded goblin about its tribe, and Tang Ruan pulled out her spear and stabbed its foot.

After Zhao Chi killed the last goblin, the battle ended with Tang Ruan unharmed and more loyal to him. The system awarded Zhao Chi a level and an enhancement point, which he planned to use to strengthen himself.

• Zhao Chi questioned the captured goblin about its tribe, learned that thirty-five warriors lived about three kilometers away, then killed it.
• Tang Ruan said she was no longer afraid and promised to keep learning; her loyalty to Zhao Chi rose to five.
• Zhao Chi reviewed the battle results: his side had defeated three goblins in a perfect victory and received 375 team experience.
• Zhao Chi gained enough experience to reach level one and received one enhancement point; Tang Ruan gained experience but did not level up.

Zhao Chi enhanced his Health and decided to focus on staying alive before preparing to attack the Goblins. He and Tang Ruan returned to the territory with water, where Gu Qing had organized firewood so they could cook for everyone.

• Zhao Chi enhanced his Health by 5% and decided to bury the three Goblin corpses rather than use them for food or fertilizer.
• Zhao Chi told Tang Ruan they would eat first and then wipe out the Goblins, dismissing their claim that they had thirty-five warriors as likely boasting.
• Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan gathered water and returned safely to the territory.
• Gu Qing showed Zhao Chi the firewood she had prepared, explaining that three other girls had helped her.

Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan buried the three goblins while Gu Qing prepared porridge and cared for the household. Zhao Chi accepted Yang Xiong’s friend request and learned that Yang Xiong’s Orc Hero had already defeated a bandit.

• Gu Qing noticed goblin blood on Zhao Chi, then reassured herself when he explained he was unharmed.
• Zhao Chi assigned Tang Ruan to cook porridge and took her to bury the three goblins while Gu Qing stayed behind to defend the territory.
• Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan dug a grave and buried the goblins before returning to the Lord's House.
• Gu Qing gave Tang Ruan shorts, brought Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan hot water in bamboo cups, and said the porridge would soon be ready.
• Zhao Chi accepted Yang Xiong’s friend request, and Yang Xiong told him his Orc Hero had flattened a bandit with one swing of his club.