Chapter Summaries

Guo Xiang revealed how she developed Mind Reading and extraordinary strength after entering the cave, and why she chose to spend her remaining time near Lin Chen despite believing she might have cancer. Lin Chen comforted her and promised to examine her that night before going to see Yu Keyan at her office.

• Guo Xiang recalled discovering Terran Script and strange stones in the cave before falling ill, gaining unusual strength, and realizing she could read thoughts.
• Guo Xiang learned that her mother and sister wanted her to pursue her wishes, so she decided to spend her remaining time near Lin Chen without confessing her love.
• Guo Xiang told Lin Chen she was fine, though doctors had linked her abnormalities to radiation and warned that she might be developing cancer.
• Lin Chen embraced Guo Xiang and promised to visit that night to examine her with his Medical Skills.
• Lin Chen teleported to Yu Keyan's office, where she and Mo Xiaoyu were working, and Mo Xiaoyu tactfully left after he arrived.

Lin Chen discovered that four men were following him and Yu Keyan, then defeated them when they tried to rob them. He identified himself as Lin Chen, and the men revealed they had expected him to still be in Nanzhou City.

• Lin Chen invited Yu Keyan to leave work early and go to Aimei Group with him.
• Lin Chen noticed a black Mercedes following their Bentley and learned Yu Keyan had also felt watched.
• Lin Chen drove to a quiet road, where four armed men blocked the Bentley and ordered them out.
• Lin Chen quickly incapacitated all four men and demanded to know who had sent them to kidnap Yu Keyan.
• The men claimed they were robbers, but one recognized Lin Chen and questioned how he could be there when their watchers had not seen him leave Jingwu Hall.

Lin Chen rescued Yu Keyan from men sent by Zhou Jingnan and promised to confront him, then took Yu Keyan, Qin Xueqing, Guo Xiang, and Li Chunyi to dinner at his hotel. The women settled in to order while foreign diners nearby stared at them.

• Lin Chen forced three attackers to reveal that Zhou Jingnan had sent them to capture Yu Keyan, then let them go and told them to warn Zhou Jingnan he would visit the next day.
• Yu Keyan asked whether Lin Chen would save her if Zhou Jingnan captured her, and Lin Chen assured her he would despite any cost.
• Lin Chen drove to Aimei Group, picked up Qin Xueqing, Guo Xiang, and Li Chunyi, and took the group to his hotel for dinner.
• Lin Chen introduced the hotel as his own and brought the women to a reserved table on the sixth floor, where nearby foreign men stared at them.
• Qin Xueqing handed Guo Xiang the menu, but Guo Xiang passed it back and said the lady of the house should go first.

Jack, Bru, and Clasen of the Digger Alliance planned to investigate the radiation-filled cave at Wasp Village and then pursue clues about the Terrans. After Jack harassed Qin Xueqing and she fought back, Lin Chen struck Clasen and forced him to release her.

• Jack told Bru that Zheng Long had found radiation and traces of a missing team in a cave at Wasp Village, and said the Digger Alliance would investigate it.
• Jack said another tomb-raiding team in Nanzhou City might know more about the Terrans, then declared that he wanted Qin Xueqing.
• Jack approached Lin Chen’s table and asked to drink with the women, but Lin Chen refused and Qin Xueqing rejected Jack’s toast.
• Jack reached for Qin Xueqing, and she slapped him; Bru and Clasen then attacked, and Clasen grabbed her arm.
• Lin Chen punched Clasen, whose arm was struck by inner force, making him cry out and release Qin Xueqing.

Lin Chen used a long-range Internal Energy Wave to knock Clasen unconscious after Clasen threatened the women, and Bru recognized Lin Chen as an Internal Energy expert. Back on the sixth floor, Lin Chen explained Internal Energy to Qin Xueqing and the others.

• Lin Chen led Clasen to an open area and prepared to test his long-range Internal Energy Wave.
• Clasen insulted Lin Chen and threatened the women, so Lin Chen punched from two and a half meters away and made Clasen cough up blood and collapse.
• Bru recognized the attack as external Internal Energy release and warned Jack that Clasen's injuries could be life-threatening.
• Bru and Jack took Clasen to the hospital, while Bru told Jack to be careful around people in Huaxia.
• After the restaurant floor was cleaned and the meal arrived, Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing and the others that he had used Internal Energy to strike Clasen from afar.

Lin Chen examined Guo Xiang after learning that doctors believed her abnormal test results could leave her with only a month to live. Her account of entering a hidden chamber in a cave and falling ill afterward led Lin Chen to suspect the Dark Stones inside were connected to her condition.

• Qin Xueqing, Li Chunyi, and Yu Keyan asked Lin Chen to teach them his qigong, and he promised to explain it that night.
• Guo Xiang considered whether to tell Lin Chen how she felt, then honestly told him that doctors had warned she might have only a month to live.
• Lin Chen checked Guo Xiang’s pulse and reviewed her test results, finding abnormalities that reminded him of Liu Yan’s condition.
• Lin Chen asked Guo Xiang about unusual experiences and learned that she had visited the cave where they had confessed their feelings.
• Guo Xiang revealed that she had opened a Stone Door, entered a Secret Chamber containing hundreds of strange stones, and developed a fever and dizziness afterward.

Lin Chen told Guo Xiang that her exposure to Terra Stones may have caused a beneficial mutation, and she planned to return with him to confirm the stones. Qin Xueqing acknowledged Guo Xiang’s feelings and said she might accept her as another wife, leaving Lin Chen to consider how to repay his debt to Guo Xiang.

• Lin Chen tested Guo Xiang’s increased strength and resilience, then reassured her that her physical changes likely came from a positive mutation rather than a fatal illness.
• Guo Xiang embraced Lin Chen in relief, and Qin Xueqing arrived; Lin Chen told her Guo Xiang only had minor issues that could be treated with traditional medicine.
• Guo Xiang asked Qin Xueqing for a day off so she could return and retrieve important belongings, and Qin Xueqing approved.
• Qin Xueqing told Lin Chen that Guo Xiang loved him and said she might consider letting Guo Xiang become his second wife if her feelings persisted.
• Lin Chen said they would discuss it later, then he and Qin Xueqing kissed, spent time together, and went to sleep.

Lin Chen and Guo Xiang entered a cave to confirm that its stones were radiation-emitting Terra Stones, then discovered Terran Script pointing to the Heavenly Palace Tomb on Changbai Mountain. After revealing his mutant abilities to Guo Xiang, Lin Chen took her through his Teleportation Gate to Nanzhou City.

• Lin Chen brought Guo Xiang back to her village and prepared protective suits before they entered the cave.
• Lin Chen confirmed that the stones in the Secret Chamber were Terra Stones and explained the risks of radiation and mutation to Guo Xiang.
• Lin Chen read Terran Script that listed the tombs of King Li’s family and identified the Heavenly Palace Tomb as a destination on Changbai Mountain.
• Lin Chen collected a Terra Stone in a radiation-isolating box, then led Guo Xiang out of the cave.
• Lin Chen revealed his storage space and other mutant abilities to Guo Xiang, then took her through his Teleportation Gate to Nanzhou City.

Lin Chen took Guo Xiang to the Nanzhou Sea of Flowers, where a careless outing turned into a confrontation after Zhou Mei deliberately shoved Guo Xiang aside. Lin Chen retaliated by sending Zhou Mei and Lu Bing flying, and Lu Bing ordered his bodyguard Liu Hai to attack him.

• Lin Chen took Guo Xiang through his Teleportation Gate to Nanzhou City and accepted a system mission to find the source of a new virus.
• Lin Chen and Guo Xiang bought discounted couple's tickets and entered the Nanzhou Sea of Flowers.
• As Lin Chen prepared to photograph Guo Xiang, Zhou Mei knocked her aside so she could take the spot for herself and her boyfriend, Lu Bing.
• Lin Chen confronted the pair, but they ignored him and prepared to take their own picture.
• Lin Chen slammed into Lu Bing, sending him and Zhou Mei flying, then went back to photographing Guo Xiang.
• Lu Bing ordered Liu Hai, his former soldier and bodyguard, to beat Lin Chen up.

Lin Chen and Guo Xiang visited a sea of flowers, where Lin Chen discovered that poisonous insect stings were causing visitors to faint. He sent Guo Xiang outside and began searching for the culprit so he could help the hospital treat the victims.

• Lin Chen kicked Liu Hai after Liu Hai charged at him, and Liu Hai warned Lu Bing that Lin Chen was skilled.
• Lu Bing and Zhou Mei left to call for help, while Lin Chen and Guo Xiang continued to the flower fields.
• Lin Chen and Guo Xiang took photos together in the sea of flowers.
• Lin Chen found three people unconscious with purpling sting marks and recognized that they had been poisoned.
• More visitors fainted from suspected poisonous insect stings, so Lin Chen told everyone to leave and called for an ambulance.
• Lin Chen asked Guo Xiang to wait outside while he investigated the culprit.

Lin Chen discovered that blue-winged butterflies in the Nanzhou Sea of Flowers were poisoning visitors, while Guo Xiang learned the director was trying to cover up the incident. The chapter left Guo Xiang trapped in the director’s office as Lin Chen was brought there by security guards.

• Guo Xiang urged the security captain to close the Sea of Flowers, then agreed to go with him to speak to the director.
• Lin Chen found that blue-winged butterflies bit people, captured two, and confirmed they were the source of the poison.
• Security guards surrounded Lin Chen and took him toward the director’s office after he said he had found the source.
• Lu Da offered Guo Xiang one hundred thousand yuan to keep the incident secret, but she refused and tried to leave.
• Lu Da’s burly men blocked Guo Xiang at the office door.

Lin Chen rescued Guo Xiang from Director Lu Da and confronted him over Nanzhou Sea of Flowers concealing a virus outbreak. After calling Wang Bei to report the case, Lin Chen and Guo Xiang went to the scene, where Lin Chen encountered Yang Shifei, who had moved to Nanzhou to be near Xiaoyun.

• Guo Xiang refused Director Lu Da’s bribe and fought off his men until Lin Chen burst into the office to save her.
• Lin Chen and Guo Xiang defeated Lu Da’s guards, and Lin Chen forced Lu Da to admit the attraction had discovered a virus and suppressed earlier poisoning cases.
• Lin Chen called Wang Bei to report the outbreak, then left Lu Da and brought Guo Xiang to the entrance, avoiding contact with the unconscious victims because the virus might be contagious.
• Lin Chen found ambulances and Yang Shifei at the scene, and Yang Shifei explained that he had moved to Nanzhou after Xiaoyun transferred there.

Lin Chen gave Yang Shifei evidence that specially bred butterflies had infected the patients, then faced Lu Bing’s group at the Nanzhou Sea of Flowers. After Lin Chen struck Terry, the two enhanced fighters realized he possessed internal energy and prepared to fight together.

• Lin Chen declined Yang Shifei’s hopes of a relationship with Yang Xiaoyun but offered to stay in touch.
• Lin Chen showed Yang Shifei a modified butterfly and explained that its teeth and stinger likely carried the virus; Yang Shifei took it for testing and agreed to report the results.
• Lin Chen and Guo Xiang encountered Lu Bing at the sea of flowers entrance with his older brother Lu Fei’s team and two drug-enhanced fighters, Terry and Jordon.
• Lin Chen told Guo Xiang to step back and punched Terry, who felt the impact of Lin Chen’s internal energy.
• Terry warned Jordon that Lin Chen had internal energy, and the two decided to fight together and retreat if they could not win.

Lin Chen defeated Terry and Jordon, then joined Wang Bei to investigate the flower garden director’s concealment of the Purple Poison Butterflies. At the director’s office, Lu Bing recognized Lin Chen as the owner of Jingwu Hall and resumed threatening him.

• Lin Chen sent Terry and Jordon flying with a single strike, and they left while hiding their injuries.
• Guo Xiang told Lin Chen she had recorded the flower garden director discussing the Purple Poison Butterflies and his attempt to buy their silence.
• Wang Bei arrived with five police cars, heard about the butterflies, and agreed to investigate after listening to Guo Xiang’s recording.
• Lin Chen invited Wang Bei to join his group, and Wang Bei said he might join after leaving the police force.
• Lin Chen, Guo Xiang, and Wang Bei reached the director’s office, where Lu Bing recognized Lin Chen as Jingwu Hall’s owner and threatened him again.

Lin Chen helped expose Lu Da’s role in the Poison Butterfly poisoning and learned that Guo Xiang could read minds. He then used a God-Tier Enlightenment Ability Potion to help Cheng Feng develop internal energy, leaving Cheng Feng committed to daily qigong practice.

• Wang Bei ordered Lu Da arrested after Lu Bing’s testimony revealed Lu Da had known about the Poison Butterfly incident, and the Nanzhou Sea of Flowers was shut down.
• Guo Xiang told Lin Chen she could read other people’s thoughts but had never dared to read his.
• Lin Chen spent 500 points on a God-Tier Enlightenment Ability Potion and gave it to Cheng Feng at Jingwu Hall.
• Cheng Feng drank the potion, practiced qigong, and developed internal energy.
• Lin Chen sparred with Cheng Feng and advised him to practice qigong every day to strengthen his internal energy.

Lin Chen met Net Demon in Guangdong and discovered that the hacker was a woman named Zhuge Tian, who had already recognized him as Scorpion. He considered recruiting her to Mingyang Tianxia Group while planning his expansion into Guangdong and pressing Cheng Feng to investigate Zhou Jingnan.

• Lin Chen told Cheng Feng to investigate Zhou Jingnan's weaknesses so he could force him to surrender his Fugui Haoting shares.
• Lin Chen contacted Net Demon and arranged to meet her at Huashang Grand Hotel in Guangdong Central City.
• Lin Chen reflected on his plans to take control of major industries in the capital, Shanghu, and Guangdong, while prioritizing Fugui Haoting's Nanzhou City headquarters.
• Lin Chen arrived at VIP Room 06 intending to recruit Net Demon to manage information work for Mingyang Tianxia Group.
• Lin Chen discovered Net Demon was a beautiful woman and learned that her name was Zhuge Tian and that she had known his identity for some time.

Lin Chen recruited Zhuge Tian, the hacker known as Net Demon, to lead his Information Department and prepare a Guangdong City branch of Fame Throughout the World. Zhuge Tian briefed him on the city's underground organizations, business territories, and major families.

• Zhuge Tian told Lin Chen she had researched his preferences and joked about becoming his girlfriend, then accepted his offer to join his team.
• Lin Chen offered Zhuge Tian ten million a year to head the Information Department, and she agreed to stay in Guangdong City and temporarily manage its branch.
• Lin Chen teased Zhuge Tian for calling herself cool and aloof, and she insisted that she was.
• Zhuge Tian showed Lin Chen a map and explained that the Sky Eagle Sect controlled the private West Dock and major hotels, while the Tiger Alliance ran casinos and entertainment businesses.
• Zhuge Tian listed Guangdong City's five great families by region and clarified that her Zhuge Family was not the one on the list.

Lin Chen decided to pursue a takeover of Dingsheng Pharmaceutical Group, which the Tang family and Sky Eagle Sect had driven toward collapse. While he went to pay the bill, Zhuge Tian was harassed and attacked by Tang Xiaobing and his companions, leaving her trapped as they restrained her.

• Zhuge Tian explained how the Tang family used its ties to Sky Eagle Sect to suppress competitors, including Dingsheng Pharmaceutical Group.
• Lin Chen decided to visit Dingsheng Pharmaceutical after dinner and try to take it over, despite its value and the challenges it faced.
• Zhuge Tian bumped into Fang Xiaotong outside the private room, and Tang Xiaobing's group demanded that she kneel and apologize.
• When Li Xiao Hai threatened Zhuge Tian, she kicked him in the crotch and knocked him out of the fight.
• Tang Xiaobing struck Zhuge Tian, then ordered his companions to grab her hands as she waited for the elevator.

Lin Chen rescued Zhuge Tian from Tang Xiaobing, Fang Xiaotong, and their companions, then left with her after she erased the hotel surveillance footage. They went to Dingsheng Pharmaceutical, where Lin Chen asked to meet its boss and waited while the receptionist checked his availability.

• Lin Chen arrived as Tang Xiaobing and two men attacked Zhuge Tian, then defeated them and demanded an apology from the women.
• Fang Xiaotong blamed Li Xiaomei, who kowtowed to Zhuge Tian, but Lin Chen stopped Fang from leaving and slapped her twice after she threatened him with her family’s status.
• Zhuge Tian hacked into the hotel’s surveillance system and deleted the past hour of footage before she and Lin Chen drove to Dingsheng Pharmaceutical.
• Lin Chen and Zhuge Tian reached the struggling company, and Lin Chen asked the receptionist to arrange a meeting with its boss.

Lin Chen acquired control of Dingsheng Pharmaceutical and appointed Zhuge Tian to manage it, promising to revive the struggling company. After returning to Donghai City, he learned that Qin Xueqing’s new product was about to begin trial production and set his sights on making it a hit.

• Lin Chen and Zhuge Tian met with Hong Tao and offered to acquire Dingsheng Pharmaceutical.
• Lin Chen agreed to buy enough shares to become the principal shareholder while Hong Tao retained shares and continued as vice president.
• Lin Chen completed the acquisition, becoming chairman, and appointed Zhuge Tian as general manager with Hong Tao as vice president.
• Lin Chen told Zhuge Tian he would send capable assistants to help run the company and planned to send Lu Hai and Ru Mei.
• Lin Chen returned to Donghai City and learned from Qin Xueqing that trial production of the Breast Enhancement Beauty Detoxifying Paste would begin the next day.