Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen persuaded Zhang Lanfang to turn herself in with evidence that Meiji Group knowingly bought Aimei Group’s stolen formula, and the two went to the Nanzhou City police station. There, Lin Chen explained Zhang’s confession to Chief Xu while a new system quest gave him a lead on Fire Dragon Grass and tasked him with taking down Meiji Group.

• Lin Chen offered Zhang Lanfang five times the money Meiji Group paid her in exchange for evidence and her cooperation, and she agreed to turn herself in after learning Liu Qingyin had pleaded for her.
• The next morning, Lin Chen received a quest to find a new lead on Fire Dragon Grass and take down Meiji Group, then teleported to the Nanzhou City police station to meet Zhang.
• Lin Chen and Zhang arrived at the police station and met Chief Xu, who offered Lin a Model Citizen Award that Lin declined.
• Zhang confessed to stealing the formula from her friend’s computer and selling it to Hailan Group, while Lin told Chief Xu that Meiji Group had knowingly purchased the stolen formula.

Lin Chen used evidence of Meiji Group’s theft to force Lü Wenyuan to end the project and publicly apologize, clearing the way for Aimei Group’s presale. With Tang Wanqing’s endorsement and strong public support, the product’s sales surged, leaving Qin Xueqing delighted by the recognition of her work.

• Lin Chen asked Xu Ke to have police halt Meiji Group’s project and demand a public admission, while Zhang Lanfang was taken into custody for fifteen days.
• Wang Bei arrested Lü Wenyuan on suspicion of stealing Aimei Group’s research, despite Lü Zhitao’s protests.
• Lü Wenyuan posted Meiji Group’s apology, admitted it had stolen Aimei Group’s results, and announced the project’s termination.
• Qin Xueqing saw Aimei Group announce its upcoming product, and Tang Wanqing endorsed it in a video just before presales began.
• Aimei Group’s presales surpassed one million reservations in a minute and twenty million boxes in half an hour, while sales exceeded thirty-five hundred boxes by three in the afternoon.
• Qin Xueqing told Lin Chen she was happy, and he reminded her not to forget to sleep.

Lin Chen followed a lead about the Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste to Wasp Village, where he suspected the villager might also possess an antique connected to the Fire Dragon Grass. After finding Chen Erniu’s home, Lin Chen asked to inspect the remaining antique, but Chen Erniu’s family refused to sell it.

• Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing that presales could reach one hundred million boxes, then stayed with her until she fell asleep.
• Liu Yan told Lin Chen that a villager in Phoenix Town might have information about the Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste, and Lin Chen recognized the location from another antique lead.
• Lin Chen teleported to Wasp Village and learned from an old farmer that Chen Erniu had found several antiques and still had one or two left.
• Lin Chen reached Chen Erniu’s home and asked to inspect the remaining antique, but the woman at the house refused to sell it.
• Lin Chen offered to pay a research fee to examine the antique without taking it away.

Lin Chen examined Chen Erniu’s Terran-script medicine bowl and offered two million yuan, plus a reward, if Chen Erniu would show him where it was found. Chen Erniu explained that the bowl came from a mountain cave tied to his family’s land and to an old legend about strange people who once gave his great-grandfather a healing prescription.

• Axiu brought Lin Chen to meet her husband, Chen Erniu, who showed him the medicine bowl he had refused to sell.
• Lin Chen identified Terran Script on the bowl, confirmed it had no hidden contents, and valued it at two million yuan.
• Lin Chen offered an additional five hundred thousand yuan if Chen Erniu took him to the bowl’s place of origin.
• Chen Erniu described hearing a buzzing inside a cave while reclaiming the family’s mountain land and discovering that the sound came from within the cave wall.
• Chen Erniu recalled his family’s legend that strange people gave his great-grandfather a prescription after he broke his back, and that his great-grandmother applied the medicine despite having little hope of treatment.

Lin Chen accompanied Chen Erniu and Axiu to inspect the mountain cave where their antiques had been unearthed, and discovered a tomb inscription identifying it as the burial place of King Li’s princess. The inscription revealed that Fire Dragon Grass had been found there and that the princess’s Terran companions had gone to the Hundred Thousand Mountains for a missing medicinal catalyst, leaving Lin Chen with a new lead.

• Chen Erniu agreed to sell Lin Chen the antique bowl for two million and take him to the cave where it had been found, with another five hundred thousand promised if Lin Chen confirmed the antiques’ authenticity.
• Chen Erniu and Axiu led Lin Chen to their mountain cave, whose unusual rock structure reminded him of Guo Xiang’s family’s mountain land.
• Lin Chen spotted murals and Terran Script on the cave wall and began deciphering the writing while Chen Erniu and Axiu waited.
• Lin Chen read that the cave was the tomb of King Li’s princess, who had died after a strange illness, and that General Liu Zhouzi had buried her in the mountain.
• The inscription said the princess’s companions had found Fire Dragon Grass but traveled to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to seek a missing medicinal catalyst and never returned.

Lin Chen discovered a hidden tunnel leading toward Li Meier’s tomb, confirmed that Chen Erniu’s family legend pointed to the Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste, and organized a tomb expedition. He then turned to his mission against Meiji Group, planning to cut off its raw materials in Guizhou City.

• Lin Chen found a concealed opening and winding tunnel in the mountain, then offered Chen Erniu two million for the antique and asked about his ancestor’s healing prescription.
• Chen Erniu described the miraculous formula that had cured his great-grandfather’s broken waist, and Lin Chen identified it as the Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste.
• After his Main Quest was completed, Lin Chen told Liu Yan to prepare a small team to raid Li Meier’s tomb in Wasp Village the next day.
• Lin Chen decided to target Meiji Group’s suppliers, noting that Tianyan Beauty Materials Group was already his business and that Zhenmei Materials Group supplied the rest.
• Lin Chen asked Mo Xue to accompany him to Guizhou City, and she agreed to arrange their plane tickets.

Lin Chen protected Zhao Ping from a bespectacled assassin who tried to kill her after their flight landed in Guizhou. Zhao Ping left with her bodyguards after thanking Lin Chen and getting his phone number.

• Lin Chen switched seats with Mo Xue to sit near Zhao Ping after noticing a bespectacled man watching her.
• Lin Chen warned Zhao Ping about the man and offered to accompany her after they landed.
• The assassin approached Zhao Ping with a blade at the airport, but Lin Chen struck him with his phone and stopped the attack.
• The assassin took a passenger hostage to escape, then released her and disappeared before airport patrol officers could catch him.
• Zhao Ping thanked Lin Chen and Mo Xue, exchanged phone numbers with Lin Chen, and left in her Bentley with her bodyguards.

Lin Chen and Mo Xue went to meet Zhao Ping about an urgent business matter, but Zhao initially refused to see them. When they entered her villa, they discovered she was the woman they had rescued from an assassination attempt on the plane.

• Lin Chen and Mo Xue visited Zhenmei Materials Group, where the lobby manager said Zhao Ping was away and then claimed she was resting at home.
• Lin Chen insisted on meeting Zhao that day, and the lobby manager gave them Zhao's address.
• At Zhao's villa, Lin Chen persuaded the guard to let them in by offering to take responsibility and promising triple pay if the guard lost his job.
• Zhao heard the visitors had entered and angrily went to send them away.
• Zhao recognized Lin Chen and Mo Xue as her benefactors, and Lin Chen realized she was the woman they had rescued on the plane.

Lin Chen and Mo Xue met with Zhao Ping to discuss supplying Hailan Group and acquiring her company for Aimei Group. Zhao Ping refused to cut ties with Meiji Group because she felt indebted to Lü Wenyuan, but agreed to discuss supplying Hailan Group and invited them to dinner.

• Zhao Ping welcomed Lin Chen and Mo Xue after realizing they had saved her life.
• Lin Chen offered Zhao Ping’s company a supply deal and proposed acquiring it for Aimei Group while keeping her shares.
• Lin Chen asked Zhao Ping to stop supplying Meiji Group, but she refused because Lü Wenyuan had supported her company after her father died.
• Zhao Ping agreed to discuss supplying Hailan Group and invited Lin Chen and Mo Xue to dinner, which Mo Xue accepted.

Lin Chen rescued Zhao Ping from an assassin who had followed her to the hotel restroom. The assassin revealed that Boss Lü from Meiji Group had ordered Zhao Ping’s murder, leaving Lin Chen with a lead to investigate.

• At dinner, Zhao Ping apologized to Lin Chen for refusing to cut off Meiji Group’s supply and drank to make amends.
• An assassin followed Zhao Ping from the private dining room into the hotel restroom.
• The assassin attacked Zhao Ping in a stall, but Lin Chen intervened and saved her.
• Lin Chen threatened the captured assassin and offered him protection through Jingwu Hall in exchange for information.
• The assassin confessed that Boss Lü from Meiji Group had hired him to kill Zhao Ping and handed Lin Chen his phone.

After Lin Chen uncovered Lü Wenyuan’s role in the attempt on Zhao Ping, Zhao Ping decided to join Aimei Group and cut off supplies to Meiji Group. Lin Chen returned to Donghai City to meet Qin Xueqing, while Zhao Ping prepared to arrange her move to Aimei Group.

• Lin Chen confirmed that Lü Wenyuan had ordered the assassination, recruited Yang Jian to join Jingwu Hall, and offered to help Zhao Ping sue Lü Wenyuan.
• Lin Chen received his daily system rewards, learned that attendance bonuses had been changed, named the system Xiao Yi, and exchanged 500 Quest Points for a Perfect Physique Potion intended for Cheng Yun.
• Zhao Ping told Lin Chen she would join Aimei Group and stop supplying Meiji Group, and Lin Chen arranged for Mo Xue to handle the matter.
• Lin Chen called Mo Xue, then teleported to Donghai City and told Qin Xueqing he would return to the villa that night.
• Qin Xueqing celebrated that pre-orders had exceeded forty million sets and said she would wait for Lin Chen at the villa.

Lin Chen visited the Dragon Society, discussed business and qigong training with the Chen Siblings, and gave Cheng Yun a Perfect Physique Potion. The chapter ended with Cheng Yun preparing to take the medicine Lin Chen had given him.

• Lin Chen called Cheng Yun and said he would visit the Dragon Society to discuss business matters and offer Chen Mei support.
• Lin Chen arrived at the Dragon Society, where Chen Fei told him he and Chen Mei were learning to manage business alongside their qigong practice.
• Lin Chen urged Chen Mei and Chen Fei to teach the brothers qigong, and Chen Mei agreed to hold lessons every other weekend.
• Lin Chen teased Cheng Yun about dating Chen Mei, but Cheng Yun gave a hesitant response.
• Lin Chen gave Cheng Yun a bottle of Perfect Physique Potion and described its promised physical enhancements; Cheng Yun said he would drink it even if it had side effects.

Lin Chen enhanced Cheng Yun with a potion, encouraged him to pursue Chen Mei, and told Qin Xueqing that Aimei Group had secured a new supplier. The next morning, Qin Xueqing hurried to work to check the sales figures before the formal launch.

• Lin Chen told Cheng Yun he should live as his own person, and Cheng Yun drank the potion.
• Cheng Yun's body transformed, and Lin Chen warned him about his new limits while urging him to learn qigong and pursue Chen Mei.
• Lin Chen teleported back to the villa and told Qin Xueqing that Zhenmei Materials Group would leave Meiji Group and supply Aimei Group.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing spent the night together after discussing the supplier and the upcoming sales.
• Qin Xueqing got up early and rushed to the company to check pre-sales before formal sales began at noon.

Lin Chen received a mission to break Zhang Wu’s leg and take over Meiji Group, then confronted Lü Wenyuan and offered to acquire the company. Lü Wenyuan refused, but Lin Chen laid out how Meiji Group’s worsening finances and lost supply channels left it vulnerable.

• Xiao Yi assigned Lin Chen the mission to break one of Zhang Wu’s legs and take over Meiji Group by the end of the day.
• Mo Xue confirmed that supplies to Meiji Group had been cut off, and Lin Chen announced that Aimei Group’s headquarters would move to Nanzhou City.
• Qin Xueqing told Lin Chen that Aimei Group’s sales had surpassed fifty million before the official launch.
• Liu Yan postponed their tomb-raiding trip because police were monitoring her group’s base and inspecting equipment shipments.
• Lin Chen went to Meiji Group, confronted Lü Wenyuan, and said he wanted to acquire the company.
• Lü Wenyuan refused, so Lin Chen cited Meiji Group’s financial decline, its severed supply channels, and his influence in Nanzhou City as reasons the company would struggle without selling.

Lin Chen forced Lü Wenyuan to sell Meiji Group to Aimei Group and arranged for the acquisition to support the surge in product sales. He then brought Cheng Feng and An Qi together for a meal, leaving them a chance to grow closer.

• Lin Chen threatened Lü Wenyuan with evidence that he had murdered Zhao Ping, and Lü agreed to sell Meiji Group after a shareholders' meeting.
• Most Meiji Group shareholders stayed on after Aimei Group's acquisition was announced, while several shareholders close to Lü withdrew their shares.
• Lin Chen sent Qin Xueqing teams to handle Meiji Group and Zhenmei Materials Group, and she reported that more than sixty million sets had already sold.
• Lin Chen invited Cheng Feng and An Qi to dinner at Nanzhou Entertainment City, using the meal to bring the two together.
• An Qi arrived to find Cheng Feng beside her place, understood Lin Chen had arranged the meeting deliberately, and joined them at the table.

Lin Chen directed Cheng Feng to provoke Sihai Gate and seize East City Commercial Street, but their plans were interrupted when Zhang Wu caused trouble at Lin Chen’s entertainment city. Cheng Feng confronted Zhang Wu and demanded an apology and compensation, while Zhang Wu mocked him.

• Lin Chen told Cheng Feng to stir up minor trouble on East City Commercial Street to provoke Sihai Gate and create an opening to act.
• An Qi received word that four men had attacked staff at the entertainment city and that they specifically demanded Cheng Feng; she, Cheng Feng, and Lin Chen went there.
• Zhang Wu waited with two former special forces soldiers and War God No. 1, intending to draw out Lin Chen by targeting Cheng Feng.
• Cheng Feng asked Zhang Wu why he had beaten the staff, and Chen Zhao said the men had attacked without provocation.
• Cheng Feng demanded that Zhang Wu apologize and pay around a million in compensation, but Zhang Wu mocked the demand.

Cheng Feng fought Zhang Wu, Liu Bei, Takeda, and the drug-enhanced War God No. 1 while Lin Chen watched. After War God No. 1 proved difficult to injure, Zhang Wu ordered him to attack Lin Chen.

• An Qi kicked Zhang Wu, and Cheng Feng stepped in to fight him as Chen Zhao’s guards surrounded the group.
• Cheng Feng evaded Liu Bei and Takeda, then endured Zhang Wu’s punch without injury and struck the two men with a spinning kick.
• War God Project No. 1 attacked Cheng Feng with overwhelming strength, shattered a marble table, and eventually pinned Cheng Feng by the throat before Cheng Feng threw him off.
• Cheng Feng realized War God No. 1 was unusually strong and tireless, while Lin Chen identified him as abnormal but continued watching.
• Zhang Wu recognized Lin Chen and ordered War God No. 1 to break his legs, and War God No. 1 charged at him.

Lin Chen defeated War God No. 1, punished Zhang Wu and his companions, and considered how Cheng Feng could handle highly defensive opponents. After completing the mission, he received money, quest points, and a ten-day attendance super gift pack, which he began opening.

• Lin Chen struck War God No. 1 twice, exploiting his weakness beneath the right armpit and knocking him unconscious.
• Lin Chen broke Zhang Wu’s right calf and ordered security guards to beat Liu Bei and Takeda before throwing all four men out of the entertainment complex.
• Lin Chen told Cheng Feng he could buy Weakness Perception for him with quest points to help him target vulnerable spots.
• Lin Chen submitted the completed mission and received one hundred million RMB, 400 Quest Points, and a super gift pack for ten consecutive days of attendance.
• Lin Chen asked Xiao Yi to open the super gift pack.

Lin Chen received Super Hypnosis, learned that Xiao Yi’s system was nearing Level 10, and exchanged mission points for Weakness Perception. He transferred the skill to Cheng Feng and said he would train Cheng Feng and Cheng Yun into top-tier experts before improving Lightning.

• Lin Chen received 50 billion RMB and the Super Hypnosis skill, then learned its capabilities and methods from Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi told Lin Chen that the system had reached early Level 9 and that at Level 10 missions would become optional, with penalties limited to lost points.
• Lin Chen spent 300 mission points to obtain Weakness Perception and learned how the skill could be transferred through the storage-space display.
• Lin Chen brought Cheng Feng into the storage space, where Cheng Feng activated and received Weakness Perception.
• Lin Chen confirmed Cheng Feng could sense visible weaknesses within one meter and announced that he would first develop Cheng Feng and Cheng Yun into top-tier experts, then train Lightning.

Lin Chen returned to Donghai City and arranged to support Liu Mei at her performance with Qin Xueqing, while also picking up Tang Wanqing at the airport. Tang Wanqing helped promote Aimei Group’s Detoxifying Beauty Cream, sending sales soaring as Lin Chen remained wary of people secretly watching her.

• Lin Chen returned to Aimei Group, and Qin Xueqing told him sales had passed seventy million units; they planned to attend Liu Mei’s performance together.
• Qin Xueqing told Lin Chen that Tang Wanqing would arrive in Donghai City to support the company, and Lin Chen agreed to pick her up.
• At the airport, Lin Chen noticed two people secretly watching Tang Wanqing and suspected they worked for the Li family of East City.
• Tang Wanqing warmly hugged Lin Chen, then rode with him back to Aimei Group.
• Tang Wanqing worked with the planning department to release promotional photos and a video, and sales of Detoxifying Beauty Cream reached ninety million units by six o’clock.