Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan and her uncles boarded a passenger plane home, but the Evil God Church seized control and threatened to detonate a bomb unless Ms. Mu surrendered. Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan confronted masked attackers, while the Church threatened to blow up the plane with a remote.

• Qin Yan said goodbye to Fu Wenli and boarded the passenger plane with Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan, while their companions traveled back separately.
• Fu Wenzi told Qin Yan the story of the Ugly Duckling as the plane flew through the clouds.
• The plane shook, and a man announced that the Evil God Church had taken it over, hidden a bomb aboard, and demanded that Ms. Mu come forward within five minutes.
• Fu Wenzi carried Qin Yan toward economy class, where they found passengers in panic and five goat-skull-masked men fighting two soldiers from Dongyan Country.
• Fu Nanshan knocked a gun from an attacker’s hand with his bone whip, then blocked the attackers with a sutra as they tried to seize hostages.
• The Evil God Church warned everyone over the intercom not to act, claiming it could detonate the bomb with a remote.

Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan confronted Flais and his Evil God Church followers aboard a sabotaged plane, while Qin Yan and her companions stopped the bomb from being detonated. After the remote was destroyed and the plane began to fall, Fubao rescued a baby outside the aircraft, and Fu Wenzi asked Jixiang to save the plane.

• A blond masked man threatened to blow up the plane and tried to force Mu Yun to reveal herself, while Fu Wenzi taunted him about the Evil God Church.
• Fu Wenzi immobilized the masked attackers with talismans, but Flais revealed himself as an ability user who could create incarnations and seized the remote.
• Jixiang severed Flais's hand and Qin Yan caught the remote, then Jixiang destroyed it despite Flais's warning that the plane would still crash.
• The plane shook and lost a window, and Flais revealed that the pilot was dead as passengers were battered by the rushing air.
• Fubao appeared outside the plane and saved a baby in a protective bubble, and Fu Wenzi asked Jixiang to take control of the plane.

Jixiang accepted Spirit Stones from Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan before flying off, while they fought the Evil God Church members aboard the hijacked plane. As the plane neared a mountain with its pilots dead, Jixiang stopped it with its claws and saved everyone aboard.

• Jixiang demanded payment from Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan, took their Spirit Stones, and flew out the window.
• Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan fought the attackers while Fu Wenzi protected passengers with talismans and Fubao rescued people swept outside.
• Flais was pinned by Fu Nanshan and revealed that the attackers aboard the plane were only two of his incarnations.
• A flight attendant warned that the plane was about to hit a mountain, and Fu Wenzi called on Jixiang for help.
• Jixiang enlarged itself, gripped the plane with its claws, and stopped it barely a hundred meters from the mountain.

Jixiang safely landed the plane, and the passengers learned that Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi had protected them from the Evil God Church. At the District One Special Administration Bureau, Mu Yun revealed that the church had targeted her for a Celestial Master Inheritance, the Complete Book of Alchemy.

• Jixiang set the plane down and flew away as the passengers celebrated their survival and realized the creature had rescued them.
• Fu Nanshan threw the bound Evil God Church members out of the plane, and the passengers beat them until two Dongyan soldiers stopped the crowd.
• Qin Yan and Fu Wenzi arrived on the big fish with the other rescued passengers, and the Special Administration Bureau helicopter took them all to District One.
• Xiao Zhen thanked Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan, and Nangong Su introduced Mu Yun as the person the Evil God Church had sought.
• Mu Yun explained that the church wanted her grandfather's Complete Book of Alchemy, and Nangong Su said it contained eleven intact formulas, three of which Elder Mu had adapted using substitute ingredients.

Mu Yun explained how her grandfather had adapted three pill formulas into medicines after he could not find the missing pill-forming hand signs. Qin Yan revealed that she knew the complete signs through her Pill Dao Inheritance, and Mu Yun learned that the Mental Power described in the book was Divine Sense.

• Mu Yun described her grandfather’s three medicines and his lifelong efforts to restore pill refining, which ended with his deathbed regret.
• Fu Wenzi read the book and recognized that its explanation of Mental Power resembled the Divine Sense his master had taught him.
• Nangong Su invited Mu Yun to join District One’s Special Administration Bureau, and Mu Yun said she could make all three medicines.
• Qin Yan demonstrated hand signs that Mu Yun recognized as streamlined pill-refining signs, including later signs missing from the book.
• Fu Wenzi told Nangong Su and Xiao Zhen that Qin Yan had been chosen by a Pill Dao Inheritance, and Qin Yan confirmed she knew the complete hand signs.
• Fu Wenzi explained that Mental Power was Divine Sense, and Mu Yun began crying as she lamented that her grandfather had died only ten days earlier.

Mu Yun decided to awaken her mental power so she could begin learning alchemy, while Qin Yan spent time with her uncles and companions at the Special Administration Bureau. After a generous meal, the group prepared to leave with more food from Chef Zhang.

• Mu Yun agreed to try awakening her mental power, and Fu Wenzi explained that his master had awakened his by beating him while he recited a cultivation mantra.
• Qin Yan praised her gentle master, Lingshu, and left with Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi to get food.
• Jixiang collected a spirit stone from Fu Wenzi, while Fubao flew over to Qin Yan with Jelly still inside its seawater bubble.
• Qin Yan struggled to see over the cafeteria counter, so Fu Nanshan picked her up as she chose food from Chef Zhang.
• Qin Yan shared her oversized meal with Meimei and Jixiang, and Fu Wenzi finished what she could not eat.
• Chef Zhang brought the group baked flatbreads to take home, leaving Fu Wenzi full after the meal.

After Fubao’s role in saving people became public, online attention focused on the flying fish while the government suppressed posts about Jixiang. At the Fu Family home, Qin Yan spent the days before her eldest uncle’s return helping her grandfather plant the greenhouse, then set off with him to visit the rescued animals.

• News reports and online posts spread photos of Fubao, while the government prevented people from sharing images of Jixiang; survivors described Fubao saving people and a giant bird catching their plane.
• Qin Yan read the online discussions with Meimei, then asked Old Master Fu when her eldest uncle would return for the auction in ten days.
• Old Master Fu showed Qin Yan the greenhouse, where her sunflower had developed golden-red petals and her peanuts were still unripe.
• Qin Yan and Old Master Fu spent three days planting Second-Generation flower seeds and strawberries throughout the greenhouse, including flowers to feed the Bee Queen.
• On the fourth day, Qin Yan and Old Master Fu admired their planting and went to visit the cats and dogs, which had recovered and grown sleek new fur.

Qin Yan saw how Life Energy had made the Fu Family’s cats and dogs enormous, intelligent, and powerful, while Old Master Fu showed off their training and patrol skills. The chapter introduced Uncle Xu, a retired military dog trainer who joined the family to support his sick relatives, and ended with Qin Yan helping feed the dogs.

• Life Energy caused the Fu Family’s adult cats and dogs to grow much larger, smarter, and stronger, and Old Master Fu had them patrol and protect the family home.
• Qin Yan petted the eager animals while Old Master Fu whistled them into a line, impressing her with their obedience.
• Qin Yan rode the larger dogs and reassured jealous Jinbao that she liked it best.
• Uncle Xu arrived to train the animals; he had left the military after losing a hand and accepted the Fu Family’s well-paid position to support his sick mother and child.
• Qin Yan struggled to scoop dog food into a large dog’s bowl while Uncle Xu watched the animals eat.

Fu Yunting returned from a dangerous trip abroad and took Qin Yan to the amusement park, where they enjoyed a day together. After Qin Yan fell asleep at home, a wealthy woman in a nearby villa discovered that her face was rotting after a month of using a secret formula.

• Fu Yunting returned home exhausted, and Qin Yan greeted him affectionately and stayed close while he rested.
• Fu Yunting took a day off and brought Qin Yan and their companions to the amusement park.
• Qin Yan enjoyed the attractions, gave a balloon seller chocolate candies, and bravely led Fu Yunting across a glass walkway.
• Qin Yan told Old Master Fu about the outing, then fell asleep while Fu Yunting dried her hair.
• A woman in a nearby villa screamed after her face began rotting, despite having looked ten years younger for a month using a secret formula.

Qin Yan attended an auction with Fu Yunting and Old Master Fu, bought the largest estate with her own money, and Fu Yunting purchased a supposedly worthless plot after Lingti urged him to bid. Lingti revealed the land hid an earth vein and spirit-rich aquatic life, so Fu Yunting arranged to investigate it in secret.

• Old Master Fu introduced Qin Yan to the auction attendees, while Fu Yunting brought Lingti along as his lucky cat.
• Qin Yan used her money to buy the largest private estate at the auction.
• Lingti urged Fu Yunting to buy a plot with little apparent value, and he paid seven hundred million for it at the reserve price.
• After the auction, Lingti explained that an underground river beneath the plot concealed an earth vein and beneficial mutated fish and shrimp.
• Fu Yunting returned to work and secretly organized a team to dig a passage to the underground river.

Qin Yan’s fear of winter reminded the Fu Family of the abuse she had suffered, and Fu Yunting comforted her while discussing their revenge against her abusers. When a suspected Contamination outbreak appeared in their villa complex, Fu Yunting prepared to investigate with help from Jixiang and the dogs.

• Qin Yan became frightened by the snow, and Fu Yunting comforted her until she felt safe at home.
• Fu Yunting showed Old Master Fu a video of Shen Fu’s confinement and described how he had cut off her payments to the Shen Family.
• Fu Yunting said Shen Fu’s parents were suffering from their violent grandson, while Qin Yan’s adoptive parents were being tormented by nightmares of her past abuse.
• Qin Yan stayed indoors for several days as her fear lingered.
• Fu Yunting warned the family about a suspected Contamination outbreak in the villa complex and said the Special Administration Bureau was investigating.
• Jixiang agreed to accompany Fu Yunting, and Jinbao said the dogs could handle Anomalies below C-Rank.

Worried about Eldest Uncle, Qin Yan decided to venture outside to find him, overcoming her fear of the winter cold with help from her companions. Jinbao carried her away from the Fu Family villa, unaware that Jelly had also slipped out after her.

• Qin Yan watched Fu Yunting leave, then received photos and a video from Fu Wenzi before replying that she missed him.
• Fu Wenzi and Gu Ze fought during class and were punished by their elder for disrupting the lesson.
• Qin Yan chose a warm panda outfit and packed protective talismans and Grandpa Turtle's scale armor before setting out to find Eldest Uncle.
• Meimei and the others comforted Qin Yan as she faced the cold, and Jinbao caught her when she jumped from the window.
• Jinbao carried Qin Yan outside the Fu Family villa while Jelly flew out of the fish tank after her.

Fu Yunting and the Special Administration Bureau fought a sudden outbreak of venomous snakefish in Hengshan Villa District, where contaminated people erupted with eggs that hatched into the creatures. Qin Yan and her companions helped defeat an evolved B-Rank snakefish, leaving the agents stunned by Jinbao’s strength.

• Fu Yunting found a husband and wife dead after snakefish eggs burst from their bodies and hatched, then joined the agents fighting the rapidly multiplying creatures.
• Fu Yunting went to the Gu family home, where Jixiang helped save Gu Lin from a snakefish and tore through the swarm while Gu Lin led his grandfather and relatives to safety.
• Qin Yan searched for her uncle with Jinbao and Lingti as they fought snakefish and followed the sound of gunfire.
• A snakefish evolved to B-Rank and attacked the agents, but Jinbao pinned it beneath a paw and crushed it into the ground.
• Jixiang cut down a snakefish that nearly attacked an agent, and Qin Yan praised Jinbao for killing the B-Rank creature.

Qin Yan reunited with Fu Yunting at the Gu Family’s home after Jinbao and the others helped kill the anomalous snakefish. Fu Yunting then took the animals to clear more of the infestation, while Qin Yan and her grandfather checked that each other was safe.

• After Jinbao and the others killed most of the snakefish in the area, Qin Yan asked Captain Zheng where Fu Yunting was, and he told her Fu Yunting had gone to the Gu Family’s home.
• Captain Zheng explained that wealthy residents had eaten a strange fish that caused parasitic anomalous Contamination, and he sent his team to reinforce other areas.
• Qin Yan arrived at the Gu Family’s home and reunited with Fu Yunting, who praised Jixiang and received a spirit stone from her.
• Gu Lin begged Fu Yunting to sell him two of the cats or dogs, and Qin Yan told him she was the one raising them.
• Fu Yunting left a cat with the Gu Family and took Qin Yan, Jixiang, and the others to help clear more snakefish from Hengshan Villa District.
• Fu Yunting called Old Master Fu, who said Maomao and the other animals had killed two snakefish near their home; Qin Yan and her grandfather reassured each other that they were safe.

Qin Yan and the Special Administration Bureau lured the anomaly snakefish hiding underground into a drained pond using the corpses of their kind. As a B-Rank snakefish emerged and a swarm filled the pond, Lingti summoned a giant Yin Soldier to fight the B-Rank threat.

• Qin Yan passed food to Fu Yunting and the exhausted responders, then told Fu Yunting that Lingti had sensed many anomaly snakefish underground, including several large ones.
• Fu Yunting and Captain Zheng organized the responders to collect snakefish corpses, drain the northern pond with pumps, and pile the corpses inside to attract the hidden snakefish.
• A B-Rank anomaly snakefish emerged and sprayed venom, so Lingti summoned a giant Yin Soldier that attacked it while Qin Yan explained to Fu Yunting that it was Lingti's underling.
• Captain Zheng led the responders to the pond, where they found it nearly covered in smaller snakefish and ordered everyone to throw bombs.

Fu Yunting, Qin Yan, and their companions helped the Special Administration Bureau defeat a nest of Anomaly snakefish, though several people were poisoned and infected by parasites. After videos of the Fu Family's cats and dogs fighting the snakefish spread, frightened residents flocked to Old Master Fu to ask for animals of their own.

• Jixiang carried Qin Yan above the pond while bombs killed many low-rank snakefish and the survivors attacked the Special Administration Bureau team.
• Fu Yunting used his gold coin to freeze five B-Rank snakefish for thirty seconds, allowing the fighters to kill two and badly injure three before he collapsed.
• Jixiang cut down the remaining B-Rank snakefish as the exhausted humans faced their attack, and the survivors thanked the Griffin-like Anomaly.
• The Special Administration Bureau and other organizations began treating injured people who had been poisoned and infected with removable parasites.
• Qin Yan woke at lunchtime and learned that videos of Fu Yunting's cats and dogs killing snakefish had spread, prompting residents and Gu Family members to visit the Fu Family and ask for animals.

Qin Yan agreed to let the Special Administration Bureau and the military borrow the Fu Family’s mutated cats and dogs for missions, and Fu Yunting brought rescued strays home to join their household. In the greenhouse, Qin Yan discovered that Sunflower’s golden seeds could purify impurities, and Fu Yunting realized they might cleanse Contamination.

• Qin Yan received gifts from visiting elders, while Old Master Fu explained that the cats and dogs belonged to her and could not be given away without her approval.
• Director Nangong Su and Admiral Rong asked to borrow the Fu Family’s mutated cats and dogs to track dangerous Snakefish and help with missions.
• Qin Yan consulted the animals, then told Fu Yunting and Old Master Fu that Maomao and the others were willing to go earn money; Nangong Su promised they would return home after each mission.
• Fu Yunting brought rescued stray cats and dogs to the villa, where they settled in and gathered around Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan saw golden seeds forming in Sunflower and appraised them, learning that they held the sun’s power and could purify impurities; Fu Yunting wondered if they could purify Contamination.

Fu Yunting discovered that Qin Yan’s mutated sunflowers might purify contamination and that the peanuts could improve ability users’ meridians. After Jelly disappeared, the animals revealed it was an Anomaly, while the Special Administration Bureau found that something had drained the flesh and blood from Snakefish corpses; Jelly returned by evening.

• Fu Yunting asked Meimei whether the sunflowers could purify contamination, and Qin Yan learned that the nearly ripe mutated peanuts could widen and strengthen meridians.
• Qin Yan noticed Jelly was missing, and Jinbao, Jixiang, and Lingti revealed that Jelly was an Anomaly that had escaped on its own.
• Fu Yunting searched the house and checked surveillance footage but found no sign of Jelly, so the family waited for it to return.
• The Special Administration Bureau found that five B-Rank Snakefish and several others had been drained of flesh and blood, but surveillance revealed nothing about what had done it.
• The Bureau’s teams and the Fu Family’s cats and dogs tracked down and killed Snakefish hiding around Hengshan Villa District.
• Jelly suddenly appeared before Qin Yan as she carried strawberries, startling her.

Jelly revealed its origins as a wounded former SS-Rank Anomaly from the Abyssal Ocean and began regaining strength by eating energy-rich food and other Anomalies. After Jelly left to forage and failed to return overnight, Qin Yan worried, but Fu Yunting took her outside to dig up peanuts.

• Jelly told Qin Yan it had come from another world through a spatial rift, where it had been an SS-Rank boss before fleeing two attackers in a weakened form.
• Qin Yan warned Jelly not to eat people, and Jelly ate a strawberry before explaining that Qin Yan’s presence could help Anomalies improve their aptitude.
• Jelly revealed to Old Master Fu and Fu Yunting that it was B-Rank and could turn invisible, while Qin Yan explained that only she could hear its voice through its tentacles.
• Jelly left to hunt Anomalies and grow stronger, promising Qin Yan it would return soon, but it had not come back by morning.
• Old Master Fu and Fu Yunting brushed off requests from visitors for cats and dogs, then Fu Yunting took Qin Yan to dig up peanuts in the snow.

Qin Yan and Fu Yunting harvested a crop of enormous, mutated peanuts at their optimal ripeness and discovered the kernels were delicious and nourishing. They finished filling two baskets and decided to save some for planting, sell some, and keep the rest for the family.

• Meimei explained that harvesting spirit plants at the right time preserved their quality, and Qin Yan's ability revealed the peanuts would be ready at noon.
• Qin Yan, Fu Yunting, and Jinbao dug up huge golden peanuts, while Fu Yunting joked with Jinbao, Lingti, and Jixiang about who Qin Yan belonged to.
• Fu Yunting and Qin Yan tasted the round, milky-white peanut kernels, which were too large for Qin Yan to bite until Fu Yunting cut one in half.
• After harvesting about three thousand peanuts into two baskets, Fu Yunting proposed keeping five hundred for seeds, selling a thousand, and saving the rest for the family.