Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen brought Tang Wanqing home after her company’s sales surged, then learned that the Li family might be targeting her again. He and the others went to the music academy to support Liu Mei, where a competition for three overseas study spots was about to begin.

• Tang Wanqing joined Lin Chen and his household for dinner, where Li Chunyi excitedly asked for her autograph.
• Lin Chen told Tang Wanqing that two people had watched her at the airport and reasoned that the Li family might be behind them.
• Qin Xueqing said she had learned martial arts from Lin Chen and offered to protect Tang Wanqing.
• Lin Chen invited Tang Wanqing, Li Chunyi, and Jue Wei to watch Liu Mei compete at the music academy, and they drove there together.
• Lin Chen and the women found seats in the auditorium, where student council president Yang Lan hosted the competition and one of her teachers sat among the judges.

Lin Yi and Yang Lan rigged the music competition to secure a place for Lin Yi, while Lin Hai brought Li Jiemei to the venue as part of a plan against Tang Wanqing. As Liu Mei prepared to perform, Lin Yi targeted her as the strongest rival and looked for a way to sabotage her guitar.

• Yang Lan told Huang Ming to favor Lin Yi when scoring and to find faults with the other contestants.
• Lin Hai welcomed Li Jiemei to the competition and asked her to help Lin Yi; Li Jiemei said her people were prepared to deal with Tang Wanqing.
• The first two contestants performed and received scores of forty and forty-two.
• Lin Yi ordered the makeup artist to make Liu Mei look ugly, and the artist gave Liu Mei heavy makeup.
• Lin Yi confronted Liu Mei, who dismissed her, and then Lin Yi noticed Liu Mei's acoustic guitar and considered tampering with it.

Lin Yi sabotaged Liu Mei’s makeup and guitar before the performance, but Tang Wanqing fixed Liu Mei’s makeup in time. Lin Chen secretly tampered with Lin Yi’s voice, while Liu Mei prepared to compete without relying on tricks.

• Lin Yi had a student sabotage Liu Mei’s guitar and let the makeup artist give her heavy, unflattering makeup.
• Liu Mei confronted the makeup artist, but Lin Yi threatened to report her and Liu Mei returned to memorizing her lyrics.
• Liu Mei called Lin Chen, who came backstage with Tang Wanqing after learning that Lin Yi had targeted her.
• Tang Wanqing removed Liu Mei’s makeup and quickly gave her a new look before her performance.
• Lin Chen slapped Lin Yi under the pretense of swatting a mosquito, secretly making her high notes prone to cracking.
• Liu Mei said she could win without tricks, and Lin Chen explained that he had only given Lin Yi a small punishment.

Lin Yi salvaged a high score after her singing faltered, while Liu Mei discovered her guitar had been tampered with just before her performance. Lin Chen called out the sabotage, forcing the academy to give Liu Mei time to tune her instrument.

• Lin Yi’s high notes cracked during her piano-and-vocal performance, but Huang Ming defended her and helped secure her 46 points.
• Lin Chen and Tang Wanqing criticized the judges’ leniency, then watched as Liu Mei prepared to perform.
• Liu Mei discovered that all the strings on her guitar were badly out of tune, and Yang Lan pressured her to begin.
• Lin Chen noticed Lin Yi watching with a sinister smile, encouraged Liu Mei, and demanded an explanation for the tampering.
• The dean allowed Liu Mei time to tune her guitar, and Yang Lan told her not to rush.

Tang Wanqing helped Liu Mei recover from a sabotage attempt, and Liu Mei impressed the audience with her performance of “Dark Fragrance.” The judges’ scoring turned contentious when Huang Ming gave her five points, leaving the audience furious.

• Lin Hai told Li Jiemei to proceed with their plan to undermine Liu Mei and discussed using the Bai Alliance’s marksmen to kill Lin Chen and Tang Wanqing.
• Tang Wanqing recognized that Liu Mei was nervous, tuned her guitar, and encouraged her before she performed.
• Liu Mei sang and played “Dark Fragrance” so well that the audience and several critics were deeply moved.
• Yang Lan criticized Liu Mei’s voice as too immature and said she had chosen the wrong song.
• Three critics gave Liu Mei ten points, while a fourth praised her performance; Huang Ming then gave her only five points, shocking the audience.

Tang Wanqing defended Liu Mei’s performance and revealed her identity after Huang Ming dismissed her opinion. Lin Chen pushed Dean Tang to replace Huang Ming, and the competition continued with two contestants earning perfect scores before the next round began.

• Huang Ming defended his five-point score for Liu Mei, prompting Tang Wanqing to argue that Liu Mei’s performance had been moving and technically strong.
• Tang Wanqing removed her disguise and introduced herself, and the audience erupted with excitement at seeing the famous singer.
• Lin Chen noticed Li Jiemei backstage and worried that she might support Lin Yi in the duet round, while Tang Wanqing offered to support Liu Mei.
• Huang Ming refused to change Liu Mei’s score, so Lin Chen urged Dean Tang to replace him, and Dean Tang appointed Li Jian as a judge.
• The ninth and tenth contestants each earned perfect scores of fifty, and the competition moved to the next round.

Lin Yi performed with Li Jiemei and earned 47 points, while Liu Mei prepared to sing with Tang Wanqing. Tang Wanqing’s arrival thrilled the crowd, and the chapter ended as she and Liu Mei were about to perform “Nocturne.”

• Lin Yi sang Li Jiemei’s “Love Freedom” while playing piano and received 47 points from the judges.
• Lin Yi calculated that Liu Mei needed at least 49 points to surpass her overall score, while the two preselected candidates remained far ahead.
• Yang Lan introduced Liu Mei and noted that a score below 48 would decide the top three.
• Tang Wanqing joined Liu Mei onstage, drawing an enthusiastic response that angered Li Jiemei backstage.
• Tang Wanqing and Liu Mei prepared to perform Old Zhou’s “Nocturne,” a song Liu Mei loved and Tang Wanqing had long hoped to play with her idol.

After Liu Mei won the third spot to go abroad for her performance with Tang Wanqing, Lin Chen discovered they were being watched and drew the attackers away in his car. He survived a sniper ambush and confronted the armed men who blocked his route.

• Tang Wanqing and Liu Mei performed together, earned a perfect score from the music critics, and secured Liu Mei the third spot to go abroad.
• Lin Chen spotted two people watching the group and arranged for Qin Xueqing to secretly take Tang Wanqing and the others away while he drove off with Jue Wei.
• The watchers reported that Tang Wanqing was in Lin Chen's Rolls-Royce, and Lin Chen drove toward a dark, empty road with Jue Wei.
• Lin Chen's Danger Warning Ability alerted him to a sniper in a flower bed, and he sped past two shots before three cars blocked the road.
• Lin Chen evaded the sniper, killed him with the Grip Light Sword, and swept a beam of light through the armed attackers, killing a row of them.

Lin Chen defeated the attackers sent by the Bai Alliance of Kyoto and learned who was behind the ambush. After calling Qin Xueqing and assigning Cheng Yun a task, he left as police arrived, while Li Jiemei and Lin Hai planned to flee to Kyoto.

• Lin Chen used his Laser Gun to kill seven attackers, then took down the rest of the gunmen and evaded two snipers.
• Lin Chen teleported behind the snipers, killed Fang Xiaofei, and captured Li Bei, who refused to reveal who had sent them.
• An injured attacker told Lin Chen that the Bai Alliance of Kyoto had ordered the attack, and Lin Chen let him leave to report the failure.
• Lin Chen drove away as police arrived, confirmed Qin Xueqing was safe, and called Cheng Yun to assign him a task.
• Li Jiemei told Lin Hai the Bai Alliance's operation had failed, and they decided to head for the airport and return to Kyoto.

Lin Chen arranged Lin Hai’s death, then accepted quests to obtain Fire Dragon Grass and take control of the Bai Alliance. He joined Liu Yan in Hengyuan City to collect equipment for a tomb raid, leaving with the supplies stored in his portable space.

• Lin Chen learned that Lin Hai and Li Jiemei had died after a truck rammed their car into the Nanliu River, while police reports also described casualties near the Music Academy.
• Xiao Yi issued Lin Chen quests to obtain Fire Dragon Grass and take control of the Bai Alliance, and said four more days of quests would unlock a Level 10 system.
• Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing he could not spend the day with her, then teleported to Phoenix Town to meet Liu Yan.
• Lin Chen and Liu Yan used a Teleportation Gate to reach the Five Element People's base in South City District and gathered tomb-raiding clothes, equipment, climbing tools, and ropes.
• Lin Chen stored the supplies in his upgraded storage space and explained its transfer-point principle to the astonished Liu Yan.

Lin Chen led Liu Yan and five teammates into the hidden tomb of Li Meier, where they encountered Terra Stone radiation and seven branching passages. After choosing the first passage, Lin Chen sensed imminent danger when Guan Xiao removed her hood and lunged to protect her.

• Lin Chen and Liu Yan secretly brought supplies to the village entrance, then met Zhegu Yang and the other team members.
• The seven entered the mountain cave and broke through a concealed stone wall to reach a hidden passage.
• Lin Chen warned the team that they were entering Li Meier’s tomb and identified the stone lions’ eyes as harmful Terra Stone.
• The team put on their tomb-raiding suits and chose the first of seven branching passages after Lin Chen could not see through any of them with his X-ray vision.
• Guan Xiao removed her hood in the passage, and Lin Chen sensed danger and rushed to shield her.

Lin Chen’s group survived a spike trap, entered a hazy passage that might be a maze, and marked a stone lion to test whether they had looped back. Meanwhile, Li Sanshun’s Earth Dragon Organization paid Chen Erniu to lead them to the cave, but Chen Erniu secretly sent his wife away with a warning to contact someone.

• Lin Chen protected Guan Xiao from the spike trap, then ordered Guan Liang and Mao Xiaoyi to clear the path as Liu Yan warned everyone that their suits had lost durability.
• Lin Chen’s group entered a hazy cave where his x-ray vision could not see through the stone, and he warned them that Terra Stone might be nearby.
• Zhegu Yang noticed the group had returned to a small lion statue, so Lin Chen carved a mark into it to test whether the tunnel was a maze.
• Li Sanshun and the Earth Dragon Organization confronted Chen Erniu at home and offered him five hundred thousand to reveal where he had found antiques.
• Chen Erniu accepted the money and agreed to lead the gang to the cave, then told his wife to leave with their remaining money and warn someone about the group.

Li Sanshun led his armed team to Chen Erniu’s cave and discovered that another group had already broken into the tomb. He tied Chen Erniu up and hurried after the intruders, leaving the story as his team advanced past a suspicious pair of stone lions.

• Li Sanshun learned that a local young man had visited the cave before his team and ordered Chen Erniu to lead them there.
• Jiang Zhen found a concealed cave entrance, and Li Sanshun’s group discovered a recently breached passage and footprints showing others had gone ahead.
• Li Sanshun had Chen Erniu tied up and gagged, then sent Huzi and several men to lead the team deeper into the tomb.
• Jiang Zhen noticed the stone lions’ unusual eyes, but Li Sanshun warned his men not to touch them and hurried onward.

Lin Chen’s group crossed repeated cave circuits and reached a vast underground lake, where Lin Chen searched underwater for a way forward. He found a stone tablet bearing an epitaph, but the chapter ended before he could read what it said.

• Li Sanshun chose the first of thirty cave entrances after Yang Chao listened for clues.
• Lin Chen concluded that the repeating cave was an identical design meant to test patience and attention, and his group continued onward.
• After ten circuits, Lin Chen’s group reached an enormous underground lake and decided to search underwater for another entrance.
• Lin Chen dove into the lake and found no doors, but he discovered a rectangular stone tablet covered in Terran Script.
• Lin Chen wiped the tablet clean and realized its writing was an epitaph rather than a tombstone inscription.

Lin Chen discovered that the Sky Pool connected to another pool through hidden drainage tunnels, but mutated bladefish attacked him before he could surface. He returned safely with a bladefish and told the group they could use the passage to continue through Li Meier's tomb.

• Lin Chen found a switch that opened eight tunnels leading toward another Sky Pool and hurried toward the surface as his breath ran low.
• Four enormous bladefish attacked Lin Chen underwater, and he broke one before recognizing it as a mutated fish.
• Lin Chen escaped to the surface as the group feared he had been hurt, then explained that the blood belonged to a bladefish.
• Lin Chen told Liu Yan, Zhegu Yang, and the others that the pools formed a route through the tomb, and the group prepared to continue.

Lin Chen led the group through a swarm of Knife Fish and reached the outlet switch, but its slow, strength-intensive mechanism left them exposed. As thousands of Knife Fish approached, the group faced a race to open the outlet before they were overwhelmed.

• Lin Chen organized the group’s formation and led them underwater toward their destination.
• More than a hundred Knife Fish surrounded the group, and Lin Chen, Liu Yan, and Zhegu Yang fought them off while everyone moved ahead.
• The seven reached the outlet, where Lin Chen warned them to brace for the water surge and began turning the fine-adjustment switch.
• Lin Chen realized the switch would take at least five minutes to open, while Liu Yan spotted several thousand Knife Fish approaching.
• Lin Chen kept turning the switch as the group prepared for the approaching swarm, and he recognized Liu Yan might be the only one besides him strong enough to help.

Liu Yan fought the Dagger Fish and their powerful Fish King while Lin Chen opened the outlet. Lin Chen rescued her in the current, and the group reached another Sky Pool, where they prepared to surface cautiously.

• Lin Chen gave Liu Yan the Grip Light Sword, and she swam ahead to draw the Dagger Fish away from the others.
• Liu Yan used her tomb-raiding suit and sword to fight the fish, but the Fish King repeatedly struck her and left her dazed with her suit badly damaged.
• Lin Chen opened the outlet, and the strong current swept Liu Yan and the Dagger Fish toward it.
• Lin Chen caught Liu Yan, took the sword from her, and guided them through the outlet into another Sky Pool.
• Lin Chen confirmed that everyone had arrived and warned them not to touch anything after reaching the surface until he joined them.

Lin Chen killed the golden Dagger Fish King after it attacked Zhegu Yang and found a Terran Script message engraved on its body. He exchanged tomb-raiding suits with Liu Yan and led the group deeper into the underground palace to search for the main burial chamber and medicinal herbs.

• Lin Chen warned Zhegu Yang about danger underwater, then searched the lake and fought the golden Dagger Fish King.
• Lin Chen caught and killed the Dagger Fish King, then found the message “At the summit of the snow mountain lies the Heavenly Palace Gate. Eternal snow endures; Terra lives on” engraved on its body.
• Lin Chen told the group to continue toward the main burial chamber and exchanged his tomb-raiding suit with Liu Yan because her suit was badly damaged.
• Lin Chen led the group through a tunnel into a large cavern lined with stone lions and onward into a luxurious underground palace.
• Lin Chen warned the group to take only a few of the most valuable items from the tomb.

Lin Chen and his companions fought their way through a swarm of mutated poisonous cockroaches using grenades, machine guns, and Lin Chen’s Grip Light Sword. After escaping the swarm, Lin Chen spotted increasingly elaborate murals and said the main burial chamber was nearby.

• Lin Chen led the group through branching passages as the sound of approaching creatures grew louder.
• The group discovered a huge swarm of mutated poisonous cockroaches and sealed their helmets against possible poison.
• Lin Chen and his companions used grenades to blast a path through the cockroaches while Zhegu Yang and Liu Yan fired machine guns and Lin Chen cleared the way with his Grip Light Sword.
• Lin Chen used two more grenades to stop the cockroaches from pursuing the group, and everyone rested after escaping.
• Lin Chen noticed elaborate murals along the tunnel and said the main burial chamber was nearby.

Lin Chen and his companions reached the main burial chamber and searched for Fire Dragon Grass and treasure. A mural suggested that Terrans had worshipped at a snowy mountain resembling Changbai Mountain, while Lin Chen revealed his storage ability to the group, prompting Zhegu Yang to ask whether Terra Stone radiation was beneficial.

• Lin Chen led the group into a vast burial chamber, warned them about dangers, and sent them to search in three teams for Fire Dragon Grass and treasure.
• Lin Chen and Guan Xiao examined Ming Dynasty ceramics and a mural whose Terran Script mentioned a snow mountain and heavenly palace.
• Guan Xiao identified the mountain in the mural as possibly Changbai Mountain, and Lin Chen photographed it to compare with images later.
• The group found treasure but no Fire Dragon Grass, and Lin Chen used his storage space to collect the items each person had chosen.
• Lin Chen told the group that Terra Stone radiation had given him special abilities, and Zhegu Yang asked whether exposure to it was a good thing.