Chapter Summaries

Su Ye and An Mu watched Li Anlan deal with Wu Zhaolong after Wu had offended them at the bar. Wu Jianguo arrived to beg for his son, but Li Anlan told him Wu had also offended someone he could not afford to cross and led him to the room where Wu Zhaolong was tied up.

• Li Anlan called his cousin and arranged for Wu Jianguo to come collect Wu Zhaolong, then invited Su Ye and An Mu downstairs.
• Wu Zhaolong accused Su Ye and Li Anlan of bluffing, so Master Hu punched him unconscious and carried him downstairs at Li Anlan's order.
• The people in the private room wondered about Su Ye's background, while Li Qian grew fearful and Li Hanxue looked worried.
• Wu Jianguo arrived at the bar, recognized Li Anlan and Master Hu, and knelt to apologize for his son.
• Li Anlan said he would overlook Wu Zhaolong's offense against him but warned that Wu had offended someone even Li Anlan could not afford to offend.
• Li Anlan led Wu Jianguo to the private room, where Master Hu had tied up the now-conscious Wu Zhaolong and stuffed his mouth.

Su Ye let Li Anlan handle Wu Zhaolong’s offense, secured a promise that An Mu would be looked after, and returned home to find construction underway on his family’s new house. He reunited with his parents and learned that Zhang Erhu had recovered from his injuries and come back to help.

• Wu Jianguo slapped Wu Zhaolong, made him apologize to Li Anlan and Master Hu, and then brought him to kneel outside Su Ye’s office.
• Su Ye let Li Anlan decide Wu Zhaolong’s fate, and Li Anlan dismissed Wu Jianguo, who left with his son.
• Su Ye asked Li Anlan to look after An Mu, and Li Anlan promised to promote him to trainee general manager of the Honored Emperor Bar.
• Su Ye drove back to Lingnan and saw that workers had laid the foundation for his parents’ new house.
• Su Ye visited his parents in the orange grove, where he learned that Zhang Erhu had been discharged from the hospital and returned to help.

Su Ye learned that the military had noticed his enhanced watermelons and wanted to discuss a partnership. He met military representative Li Guodong in Lingnan County, where Li invited him to join the military for further training, but Su Ye declined for the time being.

• Su Ye harvested mutated ginseng in the Immortal Spirit Space, oversaw the construction of ten mu of greenhouses, and discovered that Little White and Little Black had advanced to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Su Ye learned from Zhang Erhu that the woman Zhang Erhu cared about had not visited him, then received a call from Xiao Qiujun saying the military was coming to discuss a partnership over Su Ye's watermelons.
• Su Ye arranged to meet the military representative in Lingnan County and went to a hotel, where he recognized Ziliang, who had previously guarded Xiao Qiujun.
• Li Guodong introduced himself and invited Su Ye to join the military for further training, but Su Ye said he was not interested for the time being.

Su Ye refused Li Guodong’s offer of a formal position but agreed to sell him all the vegetables and watermelons he could produce, receiving spirit stones and other gifts. Back at the farm, Su Ye offered to teach Zhang Erhu martial arts, and Zhang Erhu arrived early the next morning to begin.

• Su Ye told Li Guodong that his crops could not be mass-produced and that each season he could grow about two hundred thousand jin of vegetables and eighty thousand jin of watermelons.
• Li Guodong agreed to buy all of Su Ye’s produce and gave him a case containing spirit stones, a cultivation method, and a second lieutenant’s uniform for a nominal military position.
• Li Guodong told Ziliang he trusted Su Ye not to betray the country, while speculating that Su Ye had encountered a fortuitous opportunity.
• Su Ye returned to the farm and asked Zhang Erhu if he wanted to practice martial arts, promising to help if Zhang Erhu listened to him.
• Zhang Erhu arrived at the farm early the next morning, ready for Su Ye to teach him.

Su Ye gave Zhang Erhu the Xingyi Quan manual and guided him as he studied and began practicing the martial art. After several days, Zhang Erhu had memorized the book and started training while Su Ye corrected his form.

• Su Ye gave Zhang Erhu the Xingyi Quan manual, choosing it over an immortal cultivation method to avoid exposing him to danger.
• Zhang Erhu studied the manual for a day and repeatedly asked Su Ye to explain passages he did not understand.
• Su Ye cooked spirit rice for Zhang Erhu and told him it could help improve his martial cultivation.
• Over the next three days, Zhang Erhu memorized the manual while Su Ye harvested spirit tea and watered the orange trees with diluted spirit energy water.
• Zhang Erhu practiced Xingyi Quan beside the vegetable garden, and Su Ye explained its three stages and corrected his shortcomings.

Su Ye visited Little White and Little Black on Mount Jiuhua, giving them spirit resources to strengthen themselves. He returned to the farm and gave Zhang Erhu cultivation supplies, while the two beasts remained on the mountain refining their food.

• Su Ye climbed Mount Jiuhua, found Little White at his cave, and gave him mutated red ginseng to cultivate with.
• Little Black returned from foraging, and Su Ye fed him a ripe red spirit fruit before saving ginseng for him to eat after refining it.
• Little White woke after hours of cultivation, and Su Ye left him more mutated ginseng to share with Little Black.
• Su Ye returned to the farm and gave Zhang Erhu spirit rice, spirit tea, and Solomon's seal for martial cultivation, telling him to share some with his parents.

Zhang Erhu advanced from Houtian to Xiantian by mastering Xingyi Quan, while Su Ye spent two months cultivating in the Immortal Spirit Space. Su Ye struggled to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the gate finally shattered after his spiritual power ran out.

• Zhang Erhu reached minor mastery in Xingyi Quan and entered the Houtian Realm on the eighth day.
• Su Ye taught Zhang Erhu how to connect the Five Elements Fist with the five elements of heaven and earth.
• Su Ye cultivated with spirit stones in the Immortal Spirit Space for two months while Zhang Erhu mastered the Five Elements Fist and advanced to the Xiantian level.
• Su Ye used spiritual treasures and spirit stones to fuel his attempt to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, but repeated strikes only cracked the gate.
• After Su Ye had exhausted his spiritual power, the cracked gate suddenly collapsed into pieces.

Su Ye broke through to Foundation Establishment First Layer, and the Immortal Spirit Space expanded as his cultivation improved. After planting spirit grain in the enlarged space, he emerged from Little White’s cave and prepared to test his cyan longsword.

• Su Ye reached Foundation Establishment First Layer and discovered that his spiritual energy had become more abundant, denser, and faster to absorb.
• Su Ye found that the Immortal Spirit Space had expanded to about two mu, while its pool had grown larger and deeper; he confirmed that its time flow had not changed.
• Su Ye cleared and watered part of the expanded land, then sowed spirit grain seeds and used the Sweet Rain Technique on them.
• Su Ye left the Immortal Spirit Space and thanked Little Black and Little White for guarding Little White’s cave while he cultivated.
• Su Ye gave Little Black and Little White mutated ginseng roots, and they drank spiritual energy water before refining the ginseng’s power.
• Su Ye took out the cyan longsword he had preliminarily refined and recalled that his earlier attempt to fly on it had quickly exhausted his spiritual energy.

Su Ye named his sword the Evergreen Sword and successfully flew on it after reaching Foundation Establishment, then returned to studying while Little Black and Little White finished refining. He later learned that Zhang Erhu had reached Xiantian, and Xiao Xiao called to invite him to her birthday on the second of next month.

• Su Ye named his green sword the Evergreen Sword and used the Sword Control Technique to fly around the giant tree before returning to the ground.
• Su Ye gave mutated ginseng to Little Black and Little White after they finished refining, then went down the mountain.
• Zhang Erhu told Su Ye he had mastered the Xingyi Quan Five Elements Fist forms and reached Xiantian after two months of training.
• Su Ye visited the farm the next morning, where Zhang Erhu was already practicing Xingyi Quan.
• Xiao Xiao called Su Ye, asked about his crops, and told him to attend her birthday on the second of next month; Su Ye agreed.
• Su Ye entered the greenhouse and saw that the vegetables had grown nearly as tall as he was.

Su Ye taught Zhang Erhu about the Twelve Forms and tended his crops while they waited for the harvest. After Li Guodong arranged to buy the produce, Su Ye gathered villagers to harvest it, then hosted them for a meal and paid them for their help.

• Su Ye explained how the Twelve Forms built on the Five Elements Fist, and Zhang Erhu went to study the animals in the book.
• Su Ye watered the orange trees and estimated they would be ready to bear fruit by early next year.
• Li Guodong called Su Ye and arranged for his purchasing team to collect the vegetables the next day.
• Su Ye sent Zhang Erhu to gather villagers, and they harvested the vegetables before sunset.
• Su Ye's mother hosted the villagers for dinner, and Zhang Erhu paid each helper 500 yuan on Su Ye's instruction.