Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan treated Fu Nanshan’s wounds and drew contamination from his body, leaving her exhausted while Fu Nanshan recovered from Fu Zhige’s control. After settling Qin Yan near a water source, Fu Nanshan went to retrieve his lost brother Fu Wenzi and made him wash off the contamination.

• Fu Zhige let Qin Yan lead him to a rock, where she cried as she treated his wounds and black contamination flowed from them.
• Fu Nanshan regained control, identified the black liquid as contamination, and told Qin Yan that its removal was a good thing.
• Qin Yan exhausted herself treating Fu Nanshan, so he carried her out of the valley and settled her in a tent near water.
• Fu Nanshan found Fu Wenzi asleep while clutching a lightning-struck piece of wood, then dragged him back and tossed him into the water to wake him.
• Fu Nanshan gave Fu Wenzi soap and clean clothes, and Fu Wenzi scrubbed black contamination from himself.

Fu Wenzi woke at the campsite after recovering from his ordeal and learned that Qin Yan kept the powerful Anomaly Jinbao. The Bee Queen and Dreamweaving Butterfly brought Qin Yan spirit honey they had gathered from plants with spiritual energy.

• Fu Wenzi ate, fell asleep beside Qin Yan, and accidentally cuddled her while Meimei tried to push him away.
• Qin Yan woke in Fu Wenzi’s arms, realized he was her third uncle, and joined Fu Nanshan for breakfast.
• Fu Nanshan thanked Qin Yan for helping heal his wounds, then made Fu Wenzi wash the dishes.
• Fu Wenzi recognized Jinbao as a powerful Anomaly, and Fu Nanshan confirmed that Qin Yan kept it.
• The Bee Queen and Dreamweaving Butterfly gave Qin Yan three pieces of spirit honey they had gathered.

Qin Yan and Meimei explored a tiny cave containing spirit flowers, fine spirit stone fragments, and five mysterious eggs. They returned to Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan with the cave’s flowers, seeds, soil, and fragments, leaving the eggs’ origins and what might hatch from them unknown.

• Qin Yan appraised the Bee Queen’s honey and learned it contained pure psychic energy, while Fu Wenzi explained the value of lightning-struck wood and spirit-bearing plants.
• The Bee Queen led the group to a tiny cave entrance, and Meimei crawled inside to check that it was safe before Qin Yan followed.
• Qin Yan found spirit flowers growing beneath a ceiling opening and fine spirit stone fragments on the walls, then gathered flowers, seeds, fragments, and soil with Meimei and the Bee Queen.
• Qin Yan discovered five unusual eggs in a nest among the flowers and appraised them as eggs of an unknown creature whose vitality was declining.
• Qin Yan carried the eggs out to Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan, and Meimei showed them the collected cave materials as Fu Wenzi noticed the concentrated psychic energy in the fragments.

Qin Yan and her uncles received spiritual cultivation inheritances and materials from Meimei, who arranged for Fu Wenzi to make a dagger for Qin Yan. While her uncles went to investigate a familiar voice, Qin Yan found an injured crow nearby.

• Fu Wenzi accepted a Spirit Stone from Qin Yan and learned that Meimei could provide spatial stone for a Spatial Ring.
• Meimei revealed that Qin Yan had inheritances in artifact refining, pill cultivation, sword cultivation, spirit plants, and spirit cultivation, and said her uncles could use them in exchange for making good things for Qin Yan.
• Meimei asked Fu Wenzi to use the lightning-struck wood to make Qin Yan a dagger after he learned artifact refining, and he agreed.
• During the journey back, Fu Wenzi recognized his junior brother calling for him and left with Fu Nanshan, telling Qin Yan to wait.
• Qin Yan made a flower crown, then found a crow with an injured wing and examined it.

Qin Yan cared for an injured raven and found morels while her uncles prepared a meal in the mountains. The group waited for an unconscious man to wake, while Fu Wenzi teased Fu Nanshan about his terrible cooking.

• Qin Yan treated the injured raven and asked Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan if she could keep it; they agreed, provided it could leave once its wing healed.
• Fu Wenzi returned with three wild chickens and asked Qin Yan to find mushrooms.
• Qin Yan used her identification ability to confirm a large patch of morels was edible, then picked nearly half a basin.
• Fu Wenzi decided to take the extra mushrooms home for Qin Yan's grandfather and Eldest Uncle, then wrapped the chickens and mushrooms in lotus leaves and mud to cook them.
• Fu Wenzi told Qin Yan that Fu Nanshan's cooking had once given him diarrhea and sent him to the hospital, leaving Fu Nanshan embarrassed.

Fu Wenzi reunited with his junior brother Gu Ze and shared beggar’s chicken with Qin Yan and the others. As the group headed back, Gu Ze kept pestering everyone and getting struck by Fu Wenzi.

• Fu Wenzi explained how he learned to understand Fu Nanshan’s expressions and eyes, then served the beggar’s chicken he had cooked.
• Gu Ze woke up shouting for food, and Fu Wenzi punched him before giving him a chicken leg that was too hot to eat comfortably.
• Fu Wenzi shared chicken with Qin Yan, Jinbao, and Meimei while Gu Ze finished the leftovers.
• Gu Ze asked about Fu Nanshan and tried to call him his junior brother, so Fu Wenzi corrected him and hit him again.
• On the way back, Gu Ze teased Jinbao and reached to inspect him, but Jinbao snapped at him.

Fu Nanshan brought Qin Yan and the others back to Hundred Feather Palace, where Zhang Wenxiu welcomed them and tried to recruit Qin Yan. Zhang Wenxiu then recognized the Dreamweaving Butterfly and sensed something extraordinary about Jinbao.

• Jinbao bit Gu Ze's Peach Wood Sword in two, chased him, and eventually bit his butt, leaving him limping behind the group.
• Fu Wenzi, Fu Nanshan, Qin Yan, and the others took several days to leave the mountains and return to Hundred Feather Palace on Green Sparrow Mountain.
• Fu Wenzi learned that the palace's master was away at an exchange and reunited with his senior uncle, Zhang Wenxiu, who welcomed the travelers.
• Zhang Wenxiu praised Qin Yan's potential and invited her to study at Hundred Feather Palace, but Fu Nanshan refused and Qin Yan shook her head.
• Zhang Wenxiu recognized the Dreamweaving Butterfly on Qin Yan's head, examined Jinbao with his heavenly eye, and staggered back in alarm.

Fu Nanshan revealed that Jinbao was the S-Rank Hellhound and Qin Yan’s pet, and Zhang Wenxiu agreed to keep the secret. At Hundred Feather Palace, Fu Wenzi introduced Qin Yan to the palace and its birds, then fled from three red-crowned cranes after teasing them about courting her.

• Fu Nanshan told Zhang Wenxiu that Jinbao was the Hellhound and Qin Yan’s pet, and Zhang agreed to keep the matter confidential.
• Zhang Wenxiu served Qin Yan pastries, which she shared with her companions and the black crow.
• Fu Wenzi returned cleaned up, called Qin Yan “Kitty,” and carried her around Hundred Feather Palace to meet his fellow disciples.
• Fu Wenzi introduced Qin Yan to three red-crowned cranes, and Qin Yan admired their dance.
• Fu Wenzi accused the cranes of courting Qin Yan, so they chased and pecked him as he ran through the palace calling for help.

Fu Wenzi joined Fu Nanshan and Qin Yan on their trip down the mountain, showing his warmhearted nature by helping people along the way. As Qin Yan fell asleep in his arms, Fu Nanshan reflected on his family and comforted her when she sensed his sadness.

• Fu Wenzi was punished after carrying Qin Yan over his shoulder and upsetting the red-crowned cranes, then asked Sect Leader Zhang for leave to go home with Fu Nanshan and Qin Yan.
• Fu Nanshan let Fu Wenzi carry Qin Yan, and Fu Wenzi cheerfully chatted with her as they started down the mountain.
• Fu Wenzi stopped to carry an old man's water uphill, while Fu Nanshan remembered how his third brother had supported him during difficult times.
• Qin Yan noticed Fu Nanshan's sadness, pressed her cheek against his, and told him not to be sad.
• Fu Wenzi helped people along the way and shaded Qin Yan from the sun until she fell asleep in his arms.

Qin Yan returned home with her uncles and asked to keep the crow Jixiang, whom Fu Yunting agreed she could raise. She reunited with Fubao and admired how much the fish had grown, while Fubao sprang out of its tank to greet her.

• Qin Yan worked on a cat puzzle with the crow and Meimei, then stopped them from fighting by threatening them with punishment.
• Qin Yan reunited with Old Master Fu and Fu Yunting at the airport, greeting them affectionately.
• Qin Yan asked Fu Yunting if she could keep the crow Jixiang, and he agreed.
• Qin Yan hurried home to see Fubao and marveled at its new pink-and-white scales and fan-shaped tail.
• Fubao jumped out of its tank to greet Qin Yan.

Qin Yan played with the thriving cats and dogs at home and checked on the unusual plants she had grown. The Fu family learned that Jinbao became an S-Rank Anomaly after eating a meteorite, but one cultist had escaped with a fragment, prompting Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi to leave for the Special Administration Bureau.

• Qin Yan fed Fubao, then played with the cats and dogs that Jinbao had rescued and helped train.
• Qin Yan checked her sunflowers and other plants, which had grown unusually sturdy and seemed to contain Spirit Energy; Meimei gave her Shattered Spirit Crystal soil and spiritual-energy flower seeds to plant.
• Fu Wenzi was startled when an eyeless Earth Dragon emerged from the soil, and Meimei identified it before it burrowed away.
• Fu Yunting explained that Jinbao had absorbed dragon qi and Weird Qi from an imperial prince's tomb, but a meteorite fragment had been the main reason it evolved into an S-Rank Anomaly.
• Jinbao revealed that one cultist had escaped with a fingernail-sized meteorite fragment, so Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi prepared to report the news to the Special Administration Bureau.
• Qin Yan came downstairs to see her uncles off, and Fu Wenzi pinched her cheeks until Fu Yunting hit him.

Qin Yan took Jixiang to the Pet Hospital with Secretary Lin, where Doctor Song confirmed the raven’s injured wing was healing well. Afterward, Qin Yan visited the company’s animals and went with Secretary Lin to Food Street, where she offered to buy her treats.

• Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi left after Qin Yan asked them to come back early, and Fu Yunting took her to the company with Jixiang and her other animals.
• At the company, Fu Yunting asked Secretary Lin to take Qin Yan and Jixiang to the Pet Hospital while he prepared for a meeting.
• Doctor Song examined Jixiang’s wing and said the bones were unharmed and the wound should heal in a few days.
• Qin Yan visited Zhaocai and the cats, then agreed to go to Food Street with Secretary Lin and the animals.
• Qin Yan chose three candied fruit skewers and offered to pay for Secretary Lin, who eagerly accepted her offer.

Qin Yan went shopping with Secretary Lin, enjoyed food-street treats, and had her face painted before returning to the company, where Fu Yunting took her to a private club. There, Gu Lin greeted her warmly and presented her with a BJD doll.

• Secretary Lin took Qin Yan to buy snacks, and Qin Yan asked to stop shopping after they had bought more than she could eat.
• Secretary Lin encouraged Qin Yan to get a peach-blossom face painting, drawing a crowd that took photos of the little girl.
• Secretary Lin brought Qin Yan back to the company, where Fu Yunting admired her painted face and carried her out to eat.
• Qin Yan told Fu Yunting she was full from the food street and listed the treats she had eaten and brought for him.
• Fu Yunting took Qin Yan and her animals to a private club, where Gu Lin welcomed her and gave her a BJD doll.

Fu Yunting and Qin Yan’s meeting with Gu Lin and Zhao Zidong was interrupted when Anomaly Rats attacked the club and a black-robed man came for Zhao Zidong. Fu Yunting restrained the rats with his Spirit Master ability while Jinbao killed them and knocked out the attacker, and the group escaped as the police and Special Administration Bureau arrived.

• Fu Yunting introduced Qin Yan to his friends Gu Lin and Zhao Zidong, and she played with the doll Gu Lin had given her while they talked business.
• A bloodied waiter ran into the room as Anomaly Rats attacked, and Fu Yunting and the others fought them off while Zhao Zidong tried to hold the door shut.
• The black-robed man entered with more rats and demanded that Zhao Zidong come with him, but Fu Yunting used a gold coin to suppress the rats and immobilize the room.
• Fu Yunting told Jinbao to attack before his ability wore off, and Jinbao grew larger, killed the rats, and knocked the black-robed man unconscious after Fu Yunting ordered it not to kill him.
• Qin Yan helped Fu Yunting recover, and the group escaped the club while Jinbao killed more rats outside.
• The police and Special Administration Bureau arrived, and Zhao Zidong collapsed in relief after surviving the attack.

After Fu Yunting and his companions escaped the Anomaly Rats, Zhao Zidong was hospitalized with a strange wound while Qin Yan helped warm him. Back home, Old Master Fu explained Fu Yunting’s rare, diluted Pixiu bloodline and the limits of his home-guarding ability.

• Fu Yunting took the bitten Zhao Zidong to the hospital, where Qin Yan warmed him and black blood began seeping from his wound.
• Fu Yunting, Gu Lin, and Lin Yu left Zhao Zidong with his family and discussed Jinbao’s strength and Fu Yunting’s power.
• Old Master Fu checked that Qin Yan and Fu Yunting were safe, then explained that Fu Yunting had a rare Pixiu bloodline.
• Meimei identified Fu Yunting’s diluted Pixiu bloodline, and Fu Yunting explained that Qin Yan’s Spirit Stone had helped him extend his ability from ten seconds to twenty.

Qin Yan purifies Fu Yunting’s Weird Qi Contamination, while the Special Administration Bureau retrieves the dangerous black stone from Zhao Zidong. After cultists attack the stone’s escort, Qin Yan waits for her uncles and shares the Spiritual Qi-rich strawberries she grew with Fu Yunting and Old Master Fu.

• Qin Yan used her power to purge foul black substance from Fu Yunting, who went to shower as Old Master Fu cleared the smell from the room.
• Xiao Zhen told Zhao Zidong that a black-jade-like stone in his collection had attracted the black-robed attacker, and Zhao agreed to surrender it in exchange for reimbursement.
• Xiao Zhen tested Zhao Zidong’s blood and found a Pollution Value of four, lower than expected, but decided to investigate further.
• Cultists attacked Xiao Zhen and his companion while they transported the stone, but Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi arrived to help; Fu Nanshan dispersed the Weird Qi in the tunnel.
• Qin Yan shared her ripe, Spiritual Qi-rich strawberries with Fu Yunting and hurried to give the remaining ones to Old Master Fu.

Fu Yunting, Fu Nanshan, and Fu Wenzi confronted Shen Fu after learning she had been captured and that she was involved in what happened to Qin Yan. Shen Fu admitted her resentment toward Fu Qinghuan, while Fu Yunting threatened to make her disappear, leaving her terrified.

• Qin Yan gave Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi fresh strawberries, then went fishing with Old Master Fu and Fubao.
• Fu Yunting told Fu Wenzi that Shen Fu had been captured and brought back, and that the investigation into what happened to Qin Yan was nearly complete.
• The Fu brothers confronted Shen Fu in a remote basement, where Fu Yunting questioned her plans to leave the country and Fu Nanshan accused her of switching Yanyan.
• Shen Fu denied knowing about Yanyan and blamed her actions on guilt over Fu Qinghuan, but Fu Yunting called her a hypocrite and described his disgust toward her.
• Shen Fu revealed her jealousy of Fu Qinghuan and claimed Fu Yunting and the Fu family had favored Qing Huan over her.
• Fu Yunting accused Shen Fu of engineering a pregnancy, switching Yanyan, and arranging Qing Huan’s premature labor, then threatened that she could disappear without anyone noticing.

Fu Yunting and his brothers visited Fu Qinghuan’s grave and resolved to wait until Qin Yan was old enough to learn the truth about Shen Fu. Later, Qin Yan went fishing with her grandfather and hooked a huge fish with her toy rod, which broke as Jixiang saved Old Master Fu from falling.

• Fu Yunting rejected Fu Wenzi’s suggestion to let Shen Fu’s actions go and said they would use Qin Yan’s butterfly to torment her with nightmares.
• Fu Yunting, Fu Wenzi, and Fu Nanshan visited Fu Qinghuan’s grave, regretted believing Shen Fu’s lie about the baby, and then paid their respects at their mother’s grave.
• Qin Yan insisted that Fubao would not leave her as she fished with a toy rod beside Old Master Fu and his friends.
• Qin Yan’s rod suddenly jerked, and Jinbao held it while Old Master Fu took over and discovered she had hooked a huge fish.
• The toy rod snapped under the fish’s weight, and Jixiang caught Old Master Fu’s clothes and steadied him before landing on Qin Yan’s arm.

Qin Yan’s clever animals amazed the retirees when Fubao helped Old Master Fu catch a fish, and the old man proudly showed off his granddaughter and her animal friends. After Old Master Fu caught a large fish, Fubao called Qin Yan toward a treasure, and she headed off with her companions, protected from the river by a Water-Repelling Pearl.

• Fubao guided the escaped fish into Old Master Fu’s landing net, impressing the onlookers.
• Old Zhang offered to buy Fubao, Jixiang, and the dog, but Qin Yan insisted that her animal friends were not for sale.
• Old Master Fu reassured Qin Yan and praised her, then she kneaded bait with mashed strawberries for him.
• Old Master Fu caught a seven- or eight-jin fish and celebrated as the anglers gathered to watch.
• Meimei told Qin Yan that Fubao had found something good and wanted to take her treasure hunting.
• Qin Yan told Old Master Fu she was going to play with Jinbao and the others, while Meimei explained that the Water-Repelling Pearl and her companions would keep her safe.

Qin Yan followed Fubao and Meimei to a deep mountain pool in search of treasure, then jumped in after Fubao and Jinbao disappeared beneath the surface. She discovered she could pass through the barrier trapping Jinbao and Fubao, but the animals with unusual qi could not escape, so the group headed toward the pool’s bottom to find the treasure sustaining it.

• Fubao led Qin Yan and the animals upstream to a deep pool where Meimei sensed treasure and pure spiritual energy.
• Fubao and Jinbao went underwater and failed to return, so Qin Yan jumped in; protected by a Water-Repelling Pearl, she followed Meimei down.
• Qin Yan found Jinbao and Fubao trapped inside a barrier, but she and Meimei could pass through it freely.
• Qin Yan tried to carry Fubao out, but Fubao remained stuck, and Meimei concluded the barrier prevented creatures with unusual qi from leaving.
• Qin Yan climbed onto Jinbao’s tail as Meimei led the group toward the bottom of the pool to investigate the treasure.