Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan fell into a hidden space inside an old turtle’s shell and learned how it had been imprisoned to suppress an Evil Flood Dragon. The turtle offered to send her and her worried friends out, but said it could not leave unless its shell was taken away.

• Meimei sensed a treasure on the lakebed, so Qin Yan and the others searched the murky water for it.
• Qin Yan fell into a dark hollow, where her tears lit a strange underwater world and revealed the old turtle’s soul.
• The old turtle told Qin Yan that Demon Catchers had chained it and carved runes into its shell to suppress the Evil Flood Dragon.
• The old turtle explained that the Evil Flood Dragon had died long ago and that it had remained alone at the bottom of the pool even after its own death.
• The old turtle offered to send Qin Yan and her friends out, but said it could not leave unless its shell was taken away.

Qin Yan met the old turtle trapped beneath the pool and learned that it was holding down a rift filled with turbid qi. After she returned to her grandfather, the turtle continued guarding the weakening formation as a monstrous eye watched from beyond the rift.

• The old turtle explained that it could not leave without releasing the rift’s turbid qi, and it gave Qin Yan three unusual lotus seeds.
• Qin Yan returned to Meimei and her companions, who confirmed that chains anchored the turtle and that they could leave the pool safely.
• Meimei suggested burning incense and candles for the dead turtle, and Qin Yan promised to visit again before leaving with her companions.
• The old turtle saw cracks in the ancient formation and a huge eye beyond the rift, then worried that it could not hold the monster back much longer.
• Qin Yan returned to Old Master Fu, gave him scented soap after he complained about her fishy smell, and Old Zhang reported catching a fish with several pairs of eyes on its belly.

Qin Yan told Old Master Fu that the old turtle in the pool had warned her of a crack that might be a Spatial Rift, then showed him three World-Purifying White Lotus seeds. After they returned home, the family discussed the threat and learned that Fu Yan had been left carrying an Anomaly after a disastrous battle.

• Qin Yan told Old Master Fu that she had visited the pool, met the old turtle, and heard about a deep crack containing dangerous things.
• Qin Yan showed Old Master Fu the three lotus seeds, and Meimei identified them as World-Purifying White Lotus seeds that could purify Weird Qi.
• Old Master Fu summoned his three sons, and Qin Yan gave them wildflower bouquets before promising to grow flowers for them.
• Old Master Fu told Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi that the turtle's warning might mean a Spatial Rift had appeared.
• Fu Wenzi explained that Fu Yan's teammates had all died fighting an Anomaly, which now lived inside Fu Yan.

Qin Yan received an alchemist inheritance and met Lingshu, who became her master and taught her to read. After returning from the inheritance space, she woke with a mark on her forehead, confirming her new path, and told the Fu Family what she had learned.

• Meimei presented several inheritances, and one jade plaque struck Qin Yan while another chose Fu Wenzi, knocking both of them unconscious.
• Qin Yan entered the inheritance space and met Lingshu, who recognized her talent for alchemy and began teaching her to identify spirit medicines.
• When Lingshu discovered Qin Yan could not read, he spent the night teaching her before sending her back and naming himself her master.
• Qin Yan and Fu Wenzi woke after sleeping through the night, and Meimei found a flame-like mark on Qin Yan's forehead.
• Qin Yan told the Fu Family that her handsome master had taught her to read.

After Qin Yan and Fu Wenzi awakened from their inheritances, the Fu Family honored their masters and Meimei offered the family spatial containers for sale. The family bought and bound the containers, while Fu Wenzi tested his new storage space and Fu Yunting planned to carry his gold in his.

• Qin Yan explained that her master was named Lingshu, and Old Master Fu led the family in offering incense to him.
• Fu Wenzi woke exhausted after his inheritance training, and Meimei confirmed he had received the artifact-refining inheritance and saved him the talisman-master inheritance for later.
• Meimei presented spatial rings, bracelets, and Storage Bags, and the Fu Family bought the containers, including a pink bracelet for Qin Yan.
• Meimei helped everyone bind their containers with drops of blood, and Fu Wenzi gleefully stored and retrieved the room's belongings until Old Master Fu ordered him to put them back.
• Fu Yunting said he planned to carry his gold bars and coins in his new spatial container.

Meimei and Qin Yan shared their wealth with the Fu family, while Fu Yunting arranged to sell Meimei’s Storage Bags and rare cultivation items. After the family members left for work, Qin Yan settled Fubao into the garden pond and planted lotus seeds.

• Meimei used Qin Yan’s card to pay, and Fu Yunting and Old Master Fu added money for Qin Yan and discussed buying land and property for her.
• Fu Yunting agreed to handle the sale of Meimei’s Storage Bags, and Meimei gave him weapons and clothing from the Cultivation Realm that Fu Wenzi recognized as treasures.
• Fu Nanshan carried the protesting Fu Wenzi to the Special Administration Bureau, while Fu Yunting asked Qin Yan to visit his office and she chose to plant lotus seeds instead.
• Qin Yan and the butler brought Fubao’s tank to the garden pond, where Fubao jumped into the water and explored its new home.
• Qin Yan asked Fubao to plant the lotus seeds, and Fubao buried them in the pond’s silt.

Qin Yan tended the fish and spirit plants, discovering that the spirit tea could help her Fourth Uncle resist the anomaly inside him. She decided to make the tea his birthday gift, but Old Master Fu reacted sadly when she said it could make him well.

• Qin Yan fed Fubao and watched her drive away the other fish, then checked the growing sunflowers, peanuts, spirit flowers, and Kongsang Trees.
• Qin Yan appraised a seemingly withered sweet osmanthus branch and learned it needed moonlight and life energy to grow and produce useful flowers and honey.
• Qin Yan examined the spirit tea and learned it would mature in three days and should be picked at night under the moon.
• Meimei explained that the tea could help Qin Yan's Fourth Uncle keep his mind clear as the anomaly inside him contaminated him.
• Qin Yan decided to give the tea to her Fourth Uncle for his birthday, then told Old Master Fu that the leaves would be ready in three days and could make him well.

Fu Yunting visited the Special Administration Bureau to offer Storage Bags and revealed that the Fu Family had found an Artifact Refining inheritance. Director Nangong learned that Fu Wenzi was its chosen successor, but whether the teachings could be shared remained uncertain.

• The Special Administration Bureau’s officials discussed newly discovered spatial rifts in the Island Country and the Central Ocean and planned to investigate the formation suppressing one near Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi.
• Fu Yunting arrived and offered the bureau a deal, surprising Nangong Su and Xiao Zhen by producing Storage Bags and demonstrating his Spatial Ring.
• Xiao Zhen tested a Storage Bag and immediately tried to buy it, while Fu Yunting priced the bags at one hundred million each and said there were only 102 available.
• Nangong Su asked whether Fu Yunting had found an inheritance, and Fu Yunting confirmed that an Artifact Refining inheritance had chosen Fu Wenzi as its successor.

Fu Yunting sold Storage Bags and Spirit Artifacts to the Special Administration Bureau, then returned home with his brothers and Qin Yan. The family welcomed Qin Yan and admired a portrait of Master Lingshu, while Fu Wenzi carried her off to dry her hair.

• Fu Yunting showed Xiao Zhen and Nangong Su the Storage Bags and elemental weapons, and they negotiated a discounted sale paid for in Bureau points.
• Nangong Su arranged an internal account for Fu Yunting and summoned an expert to appraise the weapons and Storage Bags.
• Fu Yunting reminded Nangong Su to contact him about the Spatial Rift, then went home with Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan.
• Qin Yan told her uncles that Master Lingshu had agreed to a portrait, and Meimei showed them a photograph of him.
• Old Master Fu decided the family would commission a portrait of Master Lingshu and pay respects to him each morning.
• Fu Wenzi scooped up Qin Yan when she asked for her hair to be dried and took her into his room, irritating Fu Yunting.

Qin Yan warmly welcomed a group of children to the Fu family home while her uncles left to confront Shen Fu. They found Shen Fu imprisoned and terrified, and Fu Yunting ordered Little Butterfly to torment her with nightmares and asked whether it could search her memories.

• Qin Yan said goodbye affectionately to Fu Yunting, Fu Wenzi, and Fu Nanshan as they left, promising to wait for them to come home.
• Lu Xiaojin, Lu Ling, Shen Yao, and other children visited Qin Yan, who introduced herself and began playing with them at Old Master Fu's encouragement.
• Qin Yan led her new friends toward the hill behind the house to see the animals while Old Master Fu and the butler helped prepare food.
• Fu Yunting and his brothers visited Shen Fu, who had been held in an abandoned factory basement and kept unaware of the outside world.
• Shen Fu begged Fu Yunting to release her, but he said her punishment was not enough and reminded her of the suffering Qin Yan and his sister had endured.
• Fu Yunting summoned Little Butterfly to weave nightmares for Shen Fu and asked whether it could look through her memories.

The Dreamweaving Butterfly showed the Fu brothers Shen Fu’s memories, revealing how she arranged Fu Qinghuan’s premature labor and swapped Qin Yan as a newborn. Enraged, the brothers stopped Fu Zhige from killing Shen Fu and ordered the butterfly to torment her in a nightmare while a trusted doctor kept her alive.

• The Dreamweaving Butterfly sent Shen Fu and the three Fu brothers into her memories.
• The brothers and the butterfly witnessed Shen Fu’s jealousy of Fu Qinghuan and her plot to arrange a surrogate pregnancy.
• Shen Fu drugged Fu Qinghuan, caused her premature labor, swapped the newborn Qin Yan with a stillborn baby, and ordered Qin Yan abandoned.
• Fu Zhige grabbed Shen Fu by the throat and nearly killed her, but Fu Yunting told him to stop.
• Fu Wenzi ordered the Dreamweaving Butterfly to make Shen Fu experience an even harsher life and the torments of hell.
• Fu Yunting called a trusted doctor and ordered him to keep Shen Fu alive.

After the Fu brothers avenged their sister by disabling and silencing Shen Fu, Old Master Fu told Qin Yan about her grandmother Wen Boya and the family tragedy that shaped Fu Nanshan. After hearing what the brothers learned from Shen Fu, Old Master Fu affirmed their revenge and vowed to protect Qin Yan.

• Fu Zhige cut the tendons in Shen Fu’s hands and feet, then cut out her tongue before the brothers left to visit their family’s graves.
• Qin Yan asked Old Master Fu about her grandmother, and he explained that Wen Boya had died protecting her youngest son from kidnappers.
• Old Master Fu revealed that Fu Nanshan had developed a second personality, Fu Zhige, after witnessing his mother’s death, and that the family chose to accept Fu Zhige rather than seek treatment.
• The Fu brothers told Old Master Fu what they had learned from Shen Fu, including how Shen Zhizhuo had lost hope in his family and become a monk after discovering the truth about Fu Qinghuan’s death.
• Old Master Fu praised the brothers for their actions against Shen Fu, then watched over sleeping Qin Yan and promised to keep her safe.

Qin Yan visited her mother and grandmother’s graves, where a black cat appeared and quickly became attached to her. She brought the cat home and welcomed it into the family, but its golden eyes opened in the middle of the night.

• Qin Yan offered flowers, incense, and paper gold ingots at her mother and grandmother’s graves.
• A breeze swirled the burning paper between the graves, and a black cat with golden eyes appeared.
• Qin Yan asked to keep the cat, and Old Master Fu agreed; she introduced it to Meimei, Jixiang, and Jinbao.
• Qin Yan brought the cat home, bathed it, fed it dried fish, and prepared a cat bed, while Meimei boldly claimed it as a companion.
• The black cat opened its brilliant golden eyes in the middle of the night.

Qin Yan accompanied Old Master Fu to the Lu residence after Old Master Lu died, where the family was already fighting over the inheritance. Old Master Fu warned Lu Jianmin to secure his mother’s share, then went to find Lu Xiaojin and heard children arguing near the garden pond.

• Black Cat left the balcony to investigate a death, while a hidden crow noticed that it had been spotted.
• Old Master Fu told Qin Yan that Lu Xiaojin’s grandfather had died, and Qin Yan packed treats to comfort Xiaojin before going with him.
• Jixiang secretly followed Qin Yan and Old Master Fu to the Lu residence after Qin Yan left it behind.
• At the Lu residence, relatives argued over Old Master Lu’s inheritance, and Old Master Fu advised Lu Jianmin to secure his mother’s share and consider cutting ties with the troubled family business.
• Old Master Fu found Lu Xiaojin arguing with two children in the garden, then heard a splash and the children say they had pushed someone into the water.

Old Master Fu rescued Qin Yan and Lu Xiaojin from the pool, then brought Qin Yan to the Lu family mourning hall, where she sensed something wrong around Old Master Lu’s coffin. Old Master Lu reanimated as a blood-drinking corpse and trapped the guests inside, targeting his relatives and Qin Yan.

• Qin Yan jumped into the pool after Lu Xiaojin, and Jinbao brought both children safely ashore.
• Old Master Fu confronted the Lu family over the children’s dangerous behavior, then took Qin Yan to change while Lu Xiaojin stayed with his family.
• At the mourning hall, Qin Yan saw Weird Qi around Old Master Lu’s coffin and warned Old Master Fu about the black stuff.
• A black cat jumped onto the coffin, and Old Master Lu awoke, broke free, and attacked a blood relative as the guests found the exits locked and their phones without signal.
• Old Master Fu led Qin Yan and Lu Xiaojin’s family upstairs, but the reanimated Old Master Lu leaped after them and targeted Qin Yan.

Black Cat and Jinbao fought the zombie Old Master Lu and the Evil God’s statue while Qin Yan and the others fled the spreading Weird Qi. The group found a room but discovered zombies outside, and Old Master Fu was stunned when Qin Yan spotted Jixiang in a tree.

• Old Master Fu urged Qin Yan to tell Jinbao to protect them, but Black Cat leapt in and hurled the zombie Old Master Lu downstairs.
• Black Cat noticed a statue turning toward the group and identified it as the Evil God; he sent Jinbao to fight the zombie while he attacked the statue.
• Jinbao grew into a giant two-headed beast and pinned the zombie as Black Cat battled the statue, which then exploded and released Weird Qi.
• As bodies in the mourning hall began to rise, Old Master Fu and Lu Jianmin led the group into an upstairs room, where they saw zombies outside and tried calling the police.
• Qin Yan spotted Jixiang in a tree, and Old Master Fu turned to look and reacted in shock.

Jixiang revealed its hidden power, rescued Qin Yan and Old Master Fu from the zombies, and flew them home. The Special Administration Bureau contained the anomalous energy at the Lu residence and concluded that Old Master Lu’s pursuit of immortality had caused the incident.

• Jixiang transformed into a huge, griffin-like creature, killed the zombies outside, and spoke to Qin Yan.
• Jixiang carried Qin Yan and Old Master Fu away as the people at the villa watched in astonishment.
• Jixiang flew Qin Yan and Old Master Fu home, then returned to its familiar raven form.
• At the Lu residence, Black Cat and Jinbao contained the powerful Weird Qi while the Special Administration Bureau prepared to erase witnesses’ memories.
• Xiao Zhen and Fu Wenzi discussed the Fu Family’s anomalous animals, and the Bureau linked the Lu residence incident to Old Master Lu’s pursuit of immortality.

After Jinbao and the others returned safely, Qin Yan fed and pampered them while Jixiang and Jinbao fought over their earlier disguises. Old Master Fu learned that the late Uncle Lu had planned to sacrifice his relatives for immortality, and Qin Yan comforted her angry grandfather.

• Qin Yan welcomed Jinbao and Lingti home and fed them dried fish, jerky, and strawberries alongside Jixiang and Tuantuan.
• Jinbao and Jixiang argued over Jixiang's disguise, then fought until Meimei warned them not to use their true forms.
• Lingti told Qin Yan its name, and Qin Yan gently groomed Jinbao and Jixiang until both animals settled down.
• Qin Yan promised presents for Jixiang and Jinbao and offered to make Lingti more dried fish.
• Old Master Fu learned from Fu Wenzi that Uncle Lu had sacrificed people for an evil god and intended to make the Lu family gathering a mass sacrifice.
• Qin Yan soothed Old Master Fu as he cursed Uncle Lu and worried over the revelations.

Qin Yan spent the day planting seeds and playing with the animals, then returned home to meet Nangong Su and Xiao Zhen. They discussed Lingti’s possible connection to several corpse-raising incidents across Dongyan Country, while Old Master Fu insisted the animals were ordinary pets.

• Qin Yan planted strawberries and other seeds, then played with the cats and dogs until she was covered in dirt.
• Fu Wenzi returned home and picked up Qin Yan, who said she had been a little frightened but felt safe with her family and the animals.
• Qin Yan greeted Xiao Zhen and Nangong Su, thanked Nangong Su for the snacks, and went to change her clothes.
• Nangong Su described three corpse-raising incidents that involved signs of a black cat with conspicuous golden eyes.
• Xiao Zhen explained that the incidents stretched across more than half of Dongyan Country, and Old Master Fu denied that Lingti and the others were powerful Anomalies.

Nangong Su and Xiao Zhen left after learning little about how Qin Yan befriended the three high-ranking Anomalies, and planned to keep information about her secret. That evening, the Fu Family picked glowing spirit tea leaves by moonlight and spread them out to dry, with Fu Wenzi agreeing to guard them.

• Nangong Su asked Qin Yan how she made the three Anomalies obey her, and she said they were friends she had picked up and raised.
• Nangong Su and Xiao Zhen decided to classify all information about Qin Yan at the highest level of secrecy to protect her from the Cultists.
• Qin Yan led her family to the tea trees, where Meimei said the glowing leaves were ready to pick and were top-grade spirit tea.
• Jixiang caught a venomous snake, while Jinbao chased away weasels and other animals trying to eat the tea leaves.
• The Fu Family picked about ten jin of tea leaves and spread them on bamboo trays under the moonlight.
• Old Master Fu argued with Fu Wenzi about guarding the leaves, then left the task to his son after accepting that he might not be able to protect them himself.