Chapter Summaries

Lin Bei helped Shen Ruoxi recover from a painful episode, and she left embarrassed but grateful. Back in his dorm, he refused to perform at the welcome party and went to sleep while sensing that he was close to advancing his cultivation.

• Shen Ruoxi realized Lin Bei had been holding her and pushed away in embarrassment, but he caught and steadied her.
• Shen Ruoxi told the concerned students she had low blood sugar, and Lin Bei played along while helping send them back to their dorms.
• Shen Ruoxi thanked Lin Bei, who advised her to avoid cold foods and air-conditioning, then she hurried away.
• Fatty Wang asked Lin Bei to perform at the welcome party, but Lin Bei refused and chose to nap instead.
• Lin Bei sensed that he had reached Qi Refining First Layer Perfection and was near a breakthrough, then went to sleep.

At lunch in Jinghai University's dining hall, Lin Bei joked with Ruan Qingwu and brushed off Zhao Mengyao's questions about their future with talk of living in a mountain grotto-heaven. When Zhou Zihao tried to intimidate him, Lin Bei used Spiritual Power to make Zhou slip in spilled orange juice, leaving him sprawled in public with torn trousers and a humiliating stain.

• Lin Bei peeled prawns for Ruan Qingwu while Zhao Mengyao questioned him about their childhood, his plans after graduation, and where he would buy a home.
• Lin Bei said he would rather live deep in the mountains in a blessed grotto-heaven, and Ruan Qingwu smiled as if she might join him.
• Zhou Zihao arrived with four followers, invited Ruan Qingwu to a Michelin restaurant, then demanded Lin Bei give up his seat.
• Lin Bei mocked Zhou Zihao as the Great Emperor of Holy Water, reminding the dining hall of Zhou's earlier public humiliation.
• As Zhou tried to flip the table, Lin Bei shifted a puddle of orange juice with Spiritual Power, causing Zhou to slip into a full split and tear his trousers.
• The students mistook the juice stain for urine, mocked and photographed Zhou, and his followers helped him flee the dining hall.

After Zhou Zihao fled the cafeteria in humiliation, Lin Bei and his roommates discussed Ruan Qingwu’s dance at the upcoming welcome gala. As the gala approached, Lin Bei struggled to cultivate amid Earth’s thin spiritual energy, then learned Zhou Zihao planned to close the event with a piano solo and recalled the musical inheritance in his system space.

• Zhou Zihao ran from the cafeteria after wetting himself, and students recorded the scene and posted it on the university Tieba forum.
• Ruan Qingwu told Lin Bei that she had signed up to perform a classical dance solo at the welcome gala, and Lin Bei promised to cheer her on.
• Lin Bei found that Earth’s spiritual energy barely increased his Spiritual Power and decided he would need rewards from the system’s missions to advance.
• Fatty told Lin Bei, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo that Zhou Zihao would perform a piano solo as the gala’s grand finale, relying on his grade-ten piano skills to restore his reputation.
• Lin Bei remembered the Heavenly Sound Zither Heart and its mastery of musical instruments, which could make Zhou Zihao’s performance seem inferior.

At Jinghai University's freshman gala, Zhou Zihao impressed the audience with a piano performance and then tried to flaunt his status to Ruan Qingwu and Lin Bei. Lin Bei secretly used Spiritual Power to make Zhou Zihao fall face-first, leaving him humiliated as he fled backstage.

• Ruan Qingwu arrived in a water-blue gown for her classical dance performance, and Lin Bei encouraged her not to be nervous.
• Zhou Zihao played "Für Elise" skillfully and earned thunderous applause from the audience.
• Zhou Zihao approached Ruan Qingwu and bragged to Lin Bei about his wealth and status, but Ruan Qingwu told him to move because he was blocking her light.
• Lin Bei used Spiritual Power to stick Zhou Zihao's shoe to the floor, then released it as Zhou Zihao leaned forward, making him fall and break a front tooth.
• The audience jeered at Zhou Zihao, and he accused Lin Bei without evidence before Zhang Liang and the other lackeys helped him flee backstage.

After Ruan Qingwu’s dance was interrupted by a sound system failure and the audience mocked her, Lin Bei received an emergency quest to accompany her and earn a standing ovation. He headed backstage, planning to use his Heavenly Sound Zither Heart inheritance to help her.

• Zhou Zihao’s bloody fall continued to amuse the audience as the hosts introduced Ruan Qingwu’s classical dance, “Startled Swan.”
• Ruan Qingwu captivated the audience with her performance until the speakers crackled and the accompaniment abruptly stopped.
• With Ruan Qingwu stranded under the spotlight, students from the Second Company jeered at her, and Fatty Wang prepared to confront them.
• Lin Bei received the emergency quest [Sound of Nature], which promised a cultivation breakthrough and a Miniature Spirit Gathering Array Disk if he accompanied Ruan Qingwu and won a standing ovation.
• Lin Bei calmed Fatty Wang and walked toward the stage, intending to help Ruan Qingwu.

Lin Bei took the stage with a battered prop guqin and used his spiritual power and [Heavenly Sound Zither Heart] to accompany Ruan Qingwu’s dance, transforming the performance into a spectacle that stunned the auditorium. As butterflies swarmed around them, Zhou Zihao watched from backstage and collapsed in shock and humiliation.

• Lin Bei picked up a defective prop guqin, sat beside Ruan Qingwu, and told her to keep dancing to his music.
• Lin Bei activated [Heavenly Sound Zither Heart] and played a soul-stirring melody that silenced the audience and guided Ruan Qingwu’s dance.
• Lin Bei’s music drew hundreds of butterflies into the auditorium, where they circled and landed around him and Ruan Qingwu.
• Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, and Zhao Mengyao stared in disbelief at the performance and the butterflies.
• Zhou Zihao watched from behind the curtain, compared Lin Bei’s music to his own piano skills, and collapsed as he insisted it was impossible.

Lin Bei stunned Jinghai University with his guqin performance, earning a standing ovation and completing the Heavenly Music mission. After breaking through to Qi Refining Second Layer and receiving a Miniature Spirit Gathering Array Disk, he left the gala holding Ruan Qingwu’s hand.

• Lin Bei finished his performance as the butterflies flew away, and the audience erupted into applause after Fatty Wang broke the silence.
• A music professor praised Lin Bei’s ancient fingering, while the municipal cultural bureau official complimented the university president on recruiting him.
• The system awarded Lin Bei a perfect mission rating, advanced his cultivation to Qi Refining Second Layer, and gave him a Miniature Spirit Gathering Array Disk.
• Lin Bei contained the surging spiritual energy as he broke through, drawing nearby energy into the auditorium and sharpening his senses.
• Ruan Qingwu tugged Lin Bei’s cuff, and he took her wrist and invited her for a late-night snack.
• Lin Bei led Ruan Qingwu offstage as the audience roared, while the music professor rushed backstage to find him.

After the welcome gala, Lin Bei used his cultivation to grill barbecue so delicious that diners and the stall owner clamored for more and offered to buy his recipe. He completed the system quest and left the crowded stall with Ruan Qingwu and his friends.

• Lin Bei and Ruan Qingwu went with Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, Chen Mo, Zhao Mengyao, and Lin Ruoxue to a crowded snack street after the gala.
• After the group waited nearly an hour for food, Lin Bei accepted the system’s [Late-Night Delicacy] quest and borrowed an unused grill.
• Lin Bei used precise heat control and spiritual power to season the skewers, filling the food stall with an irresistible aroma.
• Lin Bei served Ruan Qingwu chili-free skewers, and she and the others ate them eagerly as nearby diners gathered and offered to pay for more.
• Old Li offered Lin Bei money and a share of his business for the recipe, but Lin Bei refused and said there was no recipe.
• After the system confirmed the quest was complete, Lin Bei paid for the food and led Ruan Qingwu out, while Fatty Wang and the others followed with skewers.

After using a spirit-gathering array to boost his cultivation, Lin Bei discovered that his roommates faced a grueling fitness test and accepted a system mission to help them excel. He turned their dormitory’s water jug into spirit water, preparing an effortless way to give them the strength they needed.

• Lin Bei escorted Ruan Qingwu to her dorm after they fled the crowd at the barbecue stall, and she thanked him before going inside.
• Back in Room 502, Lin Bei activated the Miniature Spirit Gathering Array with a Low-Grade Spirit Stone and cultivated as it gathered spiritual energy around his bed.
• Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo panicked when they learned the morning fitness test included a three-kilometer run and pull-ups, and Lin Bei received the Brothers' Glory mission to help them earn excellent marks.
• Lin Bei infused the dormitory water jug with spiritual energy using the Miniature Spirit Gathering Array and concluded that a few cups would give his roommates enough stamina for the test.

Fatty, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo discovered that the dorm’s ordinary-looking water restored their strength, cured Liu Chen’s nearsightedness, and relieved Chen Mo’s neck pain. Lin Bei revealed that the water contained a trace of spiritual energy, then hurried them toward the day’s fitness test.

• Fatty drank from the water dispenser and felt his exhaustion and muscle soreness vanish, then crushed his stainless-steel mug by accident.
• Liu Chen and Chen Mo drank the water; Liu Chen found he could see clearly without his glasses, while Chen Mo’s neck pain and stiffness disappeared.
• The three roommates rushed to claim more water, and Fatty filled his military canteen as they argued over every drop.
• Lin Bei stopped them from fighting and told them to hurry to assembly for the fitness test.
• Fatty boasted that he would run like Bolt at Jinghai University as Lin Bei led them out.

Lin Bei shared Spiritual Qi Water with Ruan Qingwu and her friends before the freshmen’s fitness test, impressing them with its effects. After Zhang Liang and Zhou Zihao mocked Lin Bei and Fatty Wang, the three roommates started the three-kilometer race feeling energized, while Lin Bei stayed at the back as Zhou Zihao raced ahead.

• Lin Bei offered Ruan Qingwu his water, and she, Zhao Mengyao, and Lin Ruoxue each felt its remarkable effects.
• Zhang Liang mocked Fatty Wang, but Fatty boldly challenged him after drinking Spirit Water.
• Zhou Zihao taunted Lin Bei about the fitness test, and Lin Bei mocked his broken front tooth.
• Zhang Liang and Zhou Zihao claimed front positions at the start, while Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo felt eager to run.
• After the starting gun, Zhou Zihao and Zhang Liang sprinted ahead as Lin Bei stayed at the back and watched them with amusement.

Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo crushed Zhou Zihao and Zhang Liang in the three-kilometer run, while Lin Bei strolled across the finish line at the cutoff. The completed mission rewarded Lin Bei with a storage ring and a levitation formation disk, which he examined in the system space.

• Fatty Wang surged past Zhou Zihao and Zhang Liang, then Liu Chen and Chen Mo overtook them as well.
• Fatty Wang lapped Zhou Zihao and Zhang Liang before finishing the race in nine minutes and fifteen seconds, with Liu Chen and Chen Mo close behind.
• Zhou Zihao accused the three runners of using performance-enhancing drugs, but Instructor Zhao Tianlong kicked and berated him while the students laughed.
• Lin Bei crossed the finish line without breathing hard, completing the Brothers' Glory mission and earning a storage ring and a levitation formation disk.
• Lin Bei inspected the ring's hundred-cubic-meter, time-stilled space and learned that the formation disk could carry one ton while hovering fifty meters high.

After the fitness tests, Lin Bei met with Counselor Shen Ruoxi, who asked whether he could cure her long-standing condition. Their conversation was interrupted by her ex-husband Zhao Yutang, and Lin Bei left after Ruoxi promised to discuss treatment over dinner that weekend.

• After Fatty Wang invited him to lunch, Lin Bei went to Shen Ruoxi's office at her request.
• Lin Bei said acupuncture and therapeutic massage could cure Shen Ruoxi's condition, but he needed a quiet place where they would not be disturbed.
• Zhao Yutang barged into the office, tried to persuade Shen Ruoxi to remarry him, and ignored her demand that he leave.
• Shen Ruoxi asked Lin Bei to go, then messaged him to apologize and invited him to dinner at the World Trade Center that weekend.
• Back in Room 502, Lin Bei told Fatty Wang, Liu Chen, and Chen Mo that Shen Ruoxi was treating him to dinner, but they mocked him.

Lin Bei met Shen Ruoxi for dinner at the World Trade Center, where Zhao Yutang interrupted them and insulted them. Lin Bei exposed Zhao Yutang’s symptoms as secondary syphilis and extreme kidney deficiency, leaving the humiliated man facing the surrounding diners’ scrutiny.

• Lin Bei arrived at the World Trade Center and joined Shen Ruoxi, who ordered dinner for them.
• Zhao Yutang spotted Shen Ruoxi, sat down uninvited, and mocked Lin Bei and their relationship.
• Shen Ruoxi angrily told Zhao Yutang to leave, but he continued insulting her and Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei examined Zhao Yutang and described his symptoms, causing Zhao Yutang to panic.
• Lin Bei told Zhao Yutang he had secondary syphilis and extreme kidney deficiency.

Lin Bei exposed Zhao Yutang’s syphilis in a restaurant, prompting his date and the diners to recoil. When Zhao Yutang attacked him with an ashtray, Lin Bei used Spiritual Power to make Zhao strike himself, leaving him gravely injured.

• Lin Bei revealed Zhao Yutang had stage two syphilis, and Zhao Yutang’s date cursed him and fled after throwing wine in his face.
• The surrounding diners recoiled from Zhao Yutang, who accused Lin Bei of slander and threatened to kill him.
• Zhao Yutang charged at Lin Bei with a crystal ashtray, and Shen Ruoxi jumped up to shield Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei pulled Shen Ruoxi into his arms and struck Zhao Yutang’s Quchi acupoint with Spiritual Power.
• Zhao Yutang’s arm spasmed and turned the ashtray against his own forehead, leaving him bleeding on the restaurant floor as Lin Bei calmly drank lemon water.

Zhao Yutang tried to frame Lin Bei after injuring himself with an ashtray, but diners and a video proved what had happened. He fled in disgrace, while Lin Bei and Shen Ruoxi were cleared of blame.

• The restaurant manager arrived, and Zhao Yutang accused Lin Bei of striking him and demanded that the police arrest him.
• Shen Ruoxi defended Lin Bei, but the manager's guards moved to escort them to the security office.
• Nearby diners said Zhao Yutang had hit himself, and a returning woman showed the manager a video proving it.
• The manager cleared Lin Bei and demanded payment from Zhao Yutang for the broken ashtray and stained carpet.
• Zhao Yutang threatened Lin Bei and Shen Ruoxi before fleeing, and Lin Bei thanked the diners who had defended him.

After Shen Ruoxi suffered a sudden attack of uterine cold, Lin Bei carried her to a hotel and treated her with the Taiyi Divine Needle. She fell asleep once the pain and chill subsided, while Lin Bei tucked her in and stayed beside her.

• Lin Bei and Shen Ruoxi left the World Trade Center after the restaurant incident, and Shen Ruoxi felt reassured by his protection.
• A gust of cold wind triggered severe abdominal pain in Shen Ruoxi, and Lin Bei diagnosed her uterine cold as an urgent condition.
• Lin Bei carried Shen Ruoxi to a nearby hotel room, telling the receptionists that she was his sister and had stomach trouble.
• Lin Bei activated the Taiyi Divine Needle and placed twelve spiritual-energy needles in acupoints around Shen Ruoxi's lower abdomen.
• Lin Bei's pure yang Spiritual Power drove out the cold, relieved Shen Ruoxi's pain, and warmed her body.
• Shen Ruoxi fell asleep during the treatment, and Lin Bei withdrew the needles and tucked the quilt around her.

After Lin Bei cured Shen Ruoxi’s chronic cold energy, he returned to campus and agreed to visit the Hundred Clubs Battle with Ruan Qingwu. When music clubs crowded around him to recruit the guqin god, Ruan Qingwu pulled him away, and they joined the Drone Enthusiasts Association instead.

• Lin Bei left Shen Ruoxi a note saying her cold energy was gone, then returned to his dorm and agreed to meet Ruan Qingwu at the club recruitment event.
• At the Hundred Clubs Battle, music club members recognized Lin Bei from his guqin performance and swarmed him with offers to join.
• Ruan Qingwu grabbed Lin Bei’s arm, claimed he already had a club in mind, and pulled him away from the music clubs.
• Ruan Qingwu chose the Drone Enthusiasts Association’s booth, where president Zhao Yihang excitedly welcomed them and they both signed up.
• Lin Bei reassured the uneasy Ruan Qingwu that the quiet club was a good place to sleep, and she relaxed.

Lin Bei rescued the Drone Club’s banner after it became tangled high in a camphor tree, using spiritual power while claiming he had applied basic physics. He left the stunned club and TV Station staff behind and headed for the shade with Ruan Qingwu.

• Ruan Qingwu dragged Lin Bei to the Drone Club’s joint event with the School TV Station, where Zhao Yihang struggled to hang a banner between two trees.
• A gust of wind tangled the drone’s guide rope around a high branch, leaving the banner stuck and prompting Wang Wei to berate Zhao Yihang.
• As Zhao Yihang prepared to call the fire department, Lin Bei stopped him and offered to retrieve the banner.
• Lin Bei sent spiritual power up the tree, broke the branch supporting the rope, and caught the falling banner.
• Lin Bei claimed he had used resonance and wind effects, leaving the onlookers impressed, then took Ruan Qingwu’s water and walked with her toward the shade.

At lunch, Lin Bei saw a massive fire at Jinghai’s World Trade Center trapping more than a hundred people and received an epic mission to rescue them and extinguish the blaze in front of the public. He accepted the mission and left the cafeteria, giving Ruan Qingwu a false excuse as he headed for the emergency.

• Lin Bei and Ruan Qingwu ate lunch together in Jinghai University’s No. 1 cafeteria, where she picked the green peppers out of her food and fed him braised pork.
• The cafeteria television reported that a fast-spreading fire at the World Trade Center had trapped over a hundred people on the upper floors and rooftop.
• Lin Bei felt compelled to help the trapped civilians, and his system assigned him a timed rescue mission requiring at least ten million sensation points.
• Lin Bei accepted the mission for its rewards, including spirit stones, a cultivation increase, and the Black Tortoise Jade Pendant.
• Lin Bei told Ruan Qingwu that Zhao Yihang needed him for an urgent club job and left the cafeteria, while Ruan Qingwu watched him go with a growing sense of alarm.