Recaps

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that the Goblins were using their territory for protection from a Human-Faced Smoke Bird, while the companion beasts had been tricked into carrying them back to the fence. After spring arrived, Xie Juanhan began teaching the growing Nibote to fly, and the chapter ended with them soaring above ten thousand meters.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei watched the Goblins repeatedly escape and return to the fence, then realized they were seeking protection from a predator.
• Xie Juanhan told Moli and the others to stop carrying the Goblins back, and the companion beasts later discovered that a Human-Faced Smoke Bird was hunting them.
• The Goblins sought refuge near Xie Juanhan to evade the Smoke Bird, leaving Moli and Nibote indignant at having been fooled.
• After spring arrived, Xie Juanhan found Nibote guarding an abandoned Goblin burrow and told him the Goblins had moved away.
• Xie Juanhan took Nibote into the air to practice flying, and Telingewei carried them on his back as they climbed above ten thousand meters.

Xie Juanhan helped Nibote practice flying, but the young Griffin struggled to coordinate his wings and body despite repeated attempts. After Nibote crashed into a pond, Xie Juanhan decided they might need to find him a private tutor.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei took Nibote into the sky, where he jumped off the dragon and began learning to fly.
• Xie Juanhan gave Nibote advice about balancing and tightening his belly, but Nibote kept twisting his waist and sticking out his butt as he flew.
• Telingewei explained that Griffins were heavy magical creatures created by the goddess and might take a long time to learn to fly.
• During practice by the pond, Nibote lost control and splashed into the water, then returned to shore dejected despite Xie Juanhan encouraging him.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discussed Nibote's unusual behavior, and Xie Juanhan suggested getting him a private tutor.

Xie Juanhan arranged for the Perytons to teach Nibote group flight, and watched as the Griffin learned among their young. When the Perytons laughed at Nibote’s hiccups, he retaliated with a foul-smelling fart that sent the flock fleeing.

• Xie Juanhan offered the Perytons Demonic Cores and aquatic plants to let Nibote join their flying lessons, and they agreed to let him watch.
• The Perytons taught their young to ride rising air and adjust their wings, while Xie Juanhan and Telingewei watched from the sea cliff.
• Nibote flew more easily in the group, but he kept hiccuping and grew upset when the Perytons laughed at him.
• Nibote hovered in midair and released several foul farts, scattering the Perytons and leaving them furious.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei prepared new riverbank fields for planting, then began transplanting Star Berries and raising rice seedlings. With spring arriving and the Companion Beasts sent to scatter seeds through the forest, Xie Juanhan felt at home despite being unable to return.

• Xie Juanhan had Telingewei roast the new farmland with Dragon Flame to kill pests and microorganisms in the soil.
• Harper and the other Companion Beasts arrived to watch, tried spitting fireballs, and learned that doing so hardened the soil.
• Xie Juanhan fitted the little ones with seed bags and sent them running through the forest to scatter seeds.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei transplanted Star Berries into the new fields and planned pumpkin and rice cultivation.
• Xie Juanhan raised rice seedlings by the hot spring and watched Demon Birds fly over the fields, while Telingewei smiled at him.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that their new neighbors had left them carefully wrapped gifts of seeds and fertilizer. Telingewei identified the visitors as a new group of Goblins who had likely moved to the peaceful Magic Forest.

• Xie Juanhan told Telingewei how farming and industrialization had shaped his distant hometown.
• Xie Juanhan spotted a yellow-brown shape riding a Demon Bird, and Telingewei guessed it might be a newcomer to the Magic Forest.
• Harper and the other fluffballs showed Xie Juanhan and Telingewei three neatly wrapped packages left outside their courtyard.
• Xie Juanhan opened the gifts and found treated seeds, while Telingewei found fertilizer in the other two boxes.
• Telingewei identified the gifts as the work of a new group of Goblins that had likely arrived on Demon Birds.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei tried to make peace with a new Goblin tribe by sending them vegetables and fruit, then planned a quiet visit to the mountaintop cabin. Later, they dried their wine-barrel planks and discovered that their Yuri Berry wine had finished fermenting with a rich aroma and deep amber color.

• Xie Juanhan persuaded the Companion Beasts to give the new Goblins a chance, and he sent Moli with a basket of vegetables and fruit as a gift.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei agreed to visit the mountaintop cabin to get some peace and quiet.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei laid out their planks by the river to dry, while the Companion Beasts tried and failed to help.
• Harper led the little ones to the backyard wine jar, where Xie Juanhan opened it and found the Yuri Berry wine fragrant and deep amber.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei tasted grade-one magic wine and kept the Companion Beasts from drinking more than a lick, then Xie Juanhan promised to make them a wine-based dessert if they helped with work. The next day, the little ones ground rice into flour, and Xie Juanhan began making a simple version of tangyuan cooked with wine.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that the wine was grade-one magic wine, and Xie Juanhan let each Companion Beast have one lick.
• Telingewei protected the wine jars with a magic array while the Companion Beasts begged for more.
• Xie Juanhan agreed to make the Companion Beasts a wine dessert in exchange for their help, and Harper accepted the deal.
• The next day, Xie Juanhan harnessed the little ones to turn a stone mill and grind hulled rice into flour.
• Xie Juanhan sifted the rice flour, mixed it with boiling water, and kneaded it into dough for tangyuan cooked with wine.

Xie Juanhan made sweet wine rice balls for Harper and the other Companion Beasts, then welcomed the Tata Fish and shared the dessert with them. After trading for fish milk, he and Telingewei decided to churn some into milk fat.

• Xie Juanhan cooked sweet wine rice balls, and Harper and the other Companion Beasts eagerly ate them.
• The Tata Fish arrived to trade fish milk for beast meat and aquatic plants, and Xie Juanhan offered them rice balls without asking for extra payment.
• The Tata Fish and the little ones went upstream to play while Xie Juanhan and Telingewei prepared the agreed trade goods.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discussed keeping the Tata Fish as long-term partners instead of raising dairy cows.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei poured the rich fish milk into a churn and began slowly stirring it to make milk fat.

Xie Juanhan divined that the missing young Perytons were safe in the Inner Land, and he and Telingewei led the search party there at dusk. The group arrived in the realm and drew the attention of the young Perytons nearby.

• Xie Juanhan and the others searched the Magic Forest for the missing young Perytons but found no trace of them.
• Xie Juanhan divined that the young Perytons were safe in the Inner Land, southwest in a watery place that concealed them.
• Xie Juanhan told the Perytons and Harper’s companions to rest until dusk, then explained to Telingewei that his divination had improved through accumulated merit and their shared luck.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei led the Perytons and their companions into the Inner Land through a forest pool as the evening clouds appeared.
• Moli and Nibote explored the Inner Land while Xie Juanhan reassured Moli, and the young Perytons noticed the arriving group.

Xie Juanhan, Telingewei, Moli, and the Companion Beasts gathered Spicy Clams and tender aquatic shoots by the river while the Perytons chased their young. They returned home the next morning, where Xie Juanhan cooked several dishes with the shoots and found them delicious.

• The adult Perytons chased the young ones away, while Nibote flew after them carrying eight Companion Beasts on his back and Moli stayed beside Xie Juanhan.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei went into the river to gather Spicy Clams, and Moli joined them with a basket in his mouth.
• Xie Juanhan discovered fragrant, tender aquatic shoots and picked them with Telingewei while Moli gathered Spicy Clams.
• Nibote and the Companion Beasts returned from watching the Perytons, and the Perytons later returned and searched the river for shoots of their own.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei carried eight baskets of shoots home, arriving early the next morning.
• Xie Juanhan cooked the shoots in several ways and found them delicious.

Xie Juanhan realized the aquatic plants in the Inner Land had grown unusually well because of elemental crystals buried in the river mud. He and Telingewei found several crystals and set out to investigate their properties.

• After waking uneasy, Xie Juanhan realized they had overlooked something in the Inner Land and rushed there with Telingewei before sunset.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei entered the Inner Land and searched the riverbed where they had harvested aquatic shoots.
• Xie Juanhan collected aquatic plants and soil in a basket, and they found crystals hidden in the mud.
• Telingewei identified the crystals as condensed magic elements, and Xie Juanhan recognized three as earth elemental crystals and one as a water elemental crystal.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei collected the crystals and continued searching underwater.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that elemental crystals in the Inner Land were slowly dissipating and that gold could preserve them, then brought Harper and the others to help search. The group collected crystals together, but Haxi and another little one began squabbling over a find.

• Xie Juanhan noticed the earth and water elemental crystals were slowly shrinking and theorized that they nourished the aquatic plants.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discussed whether the crystals had come from a larger Inner World linked to the World Tree and the legendary Inner Sea.
• Telingewei tested storing the crystals in a gold flask, and Xie Juanhan found they dissipated far more slowly inside it.
• At dawn, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei returned with a sealed gold flask full of crystals and planned to bring the little ones to help search.
• The next day, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei showed Harper and the others how to identify the crystals, and Hadi became the first to find one.
• Haxi and another little one fought over an elemental crystal, so Telingewei flicked an aquatic plant shoot into Haxi's mouth.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that the Magic Wand Plant had swallowed several elemental crystals and decided to test their effect on Star Berries. Six days into the controlled experiment, the Star Berry plants given crystals had grown dramatically and showed signs of breaking through to the next level.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei collected a little over half a jar of elemental crystals from the river, then found no answers after studying them and asking grand magisters and Water Demons for advice.
• The Magic Wand Plant swept two water crystals and six earth crystals off Xie Juanhan’s desk and swallowed them; Xie Juanhan and Telingewei searched its pot but found no crystals in the soil.
• Xie Juanhan proposed comparing Star Berry plants given earth crystals, water crystals, both types, Goblin fertilizer, or nothing, and he and Telingewei prepared the pots.
• After six days, Xie Juanhan found that the three Star Berries given elemental crystals had grown lush and showed signs of breaking past level two, while the other plants had changed less.
• Telingewei observed that the Star Berries given earth crystals and water crystals showed little difference from each other.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei investigated ways to use Elemental Crystals and decided to ask the Goblins to turn them into fertilizer. They followed Moli into the Goblins’ old underground network, learned how Harper and the others had driven out the previous Goblins, and continued searching for the new group.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei found that Elemental Crystals evaporated quickly and did little to advance the Star Berries or Magic Wand Plant.
• Xie Juanhan realized the crystals might be made into fertilizer and took Telingewei to find Moli and the new Goblins.
• Moli tracked the Goblins to a hidden entrance, and Telingewei deduced that they had taken over the previous Goblins’ underground passages.
• Telingewei revealed that Moli, Harper, and the others had lured a Human-Faced Smoke Bird to the previous Goblins’ hiding places, forcing them to flee.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei searched the underground passages but saw no Goblins, so Xie Juanhan asked for mead and candied fruit to try Summoning Magic.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei persuaded a new tribe of Goblins to brew fertilizer from elemental crystals, and the Goblins completed their first batch. They took the fertilizer to test on the Magic Wand Plant, with the fluffies crowding around to watch.

• Xie Juanhan summoned Goblins, who initially left a packet of fertilizer and hesitated to take on his request.
• After Telingewei translated their concerns, the Goblins agreed to brew three batches of fertilizer using earth, water, and mixed elemental crystals.
• The Goblins asked for kitchen scraps as payment, so Xie Juanhan offered them Star Berries for each crystal and promised to leave the scraps by the river.
• Half a month later, the Goblins delivered nearly half a bucket of fluffy, Magic-rich elemental fertilizer made from thirty crystals.
• Xie Juanhan chose to test the fertilizer on the Magic Wand Plant rather than the Star Berries, and he and Telingewei carried it to the riverbank as the fluffies gathered around.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that elemental fertilizer transformed the Magic Wand Plant into a Magic Wand Tree, then studied which crops could use the fertilizer most effectively. As a squirrel delivered the Goblins’ signal that the fertilizer was ready, Xie Juanhan welcomed it and offered it nuts.

• Xie Juanhan fed elemental fertilizer to the Magic Wand Plant, which erupted in a fountain of magma and burned the tip of Nibote’s tail.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei observed that the level-three plant had grown thicker and taller, becoming a Magic Wand Tree without increasing its magic level.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei compared how well their crops absorbed elemental fertilizer and decided to focus on the Star Berries, Golden Vine Pumpkin, and Magic Wand Tree.
• Xie Juanhan reflected that a year had passed since he arrived and had entrusted the Elemental Crystals to the Goblins to brew into fertilizer.
• A squirrel delivered a leaf carrying elemental fertilizer as the Goblins’ message that the fertilizer was ready, and Xie Juanhan thanked it and fetched nuts.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei collected fertilizer from the Goblins and brought them to the fields to pick ripe Star Berries as payment. Later, they took the little ones into the Magic Forest for a spring outing, where they found Princess Tina Flowers and Xie Juanhan suspected the flowers lived in symbiosis with their thornbushes.

• Xie Juanhan followed a squirrel to a Goblin burrow, where the Goblins led him and Telingewei to four sacks of fertilizer brewed from 687 Elemental Crystals.
• Xie Juanhan offered the Goblins 687 Star Berries in batches, and eighteen Goblins rode on Moli and Nibote to the farmland to pick their payment.
• The Goblins carefully picked ripe Star Berries, while Xie Juanhan warned Harper and the others not to eat the seeds.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei took the little ones into the Magic Forest for a spring outing and to pick Princess Tina Flowers.
• Xie Juanhan and the others found a cluster of Princess Tina Flowers, and Xie Juanhan suggested the flowers lived in symbiosis with the thorns.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei picked Princess Tina Flowers with the Companion Beasts, then agreed to compete with them over who could gather more by sunset. After the little ones ran off to collect flowers, the dragons enjoyed a private lunch, but the Companion Beasts returned to find the dragons already had a full basket.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei tasted Princess Tina Flower petals and shared them with Nibote and the other Companion Beasts.
• Xie Juanhan showed the Companion Beasts how to press down the thorny plants and pick the flowers together.
• Xie Juanhan outfitted Moli and Nibote with large sacks and agreed to a flower-picking contest, with the losers paying gold coins.
• The Companion Beasts ran off to gather flowers while Xie Juanhan and Telingewei kissed and ate lunch together.
• Harper and the others returned hungry and found that Xie Juanhan and Telingewei had already filled a basket with flowers.

Harper and the other Companion Beasts enlisted Demon Wolves to gather enough Princess Tina Flowers to beat Xie Juanhan and Telingewei in their bet. After collecting leaves for candy, they returned home, where Xie Juanhan and Telingewei began preparing the flowers that night.

• Harper led the tired Companion Beasts into the Magic Forest and summoned Demon Wolves to help them pick Princess Tina Flowers.
• The Demon Wolves guided the group to flower patches, and the Companion Beasts gathered flowers until sunset.
• Harper and the others returned with more flowers than Xie Juanhan and Telingewei, winning the bet and receiving a gold coin each.
• The little ones led Xie Juanhan and Telingewei to a shrub whose leaves could be boiled with the flowers to make candy, and they picked leaves to take home.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei washed the flowers and prepared to grind them, then asked Harper and the others to turn the stone mill.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei made gummy candy from Princess Tina Flowers and leaves, which Xie Juanhan and the Companion Beasts eagerly ate. After the two jars were quickly emptied, they planned another harvest, but Telingewei proposed switching who picked in the forest’s depths and on the outskirts.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei left the gummy candy to set overnight while the exhausted Companion Beasts rested nearby.
• The next morning, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei found the Companion Beasts guarding the kitchen and invited them inside to taste the candy.
• Xie Juanhan cut and coated the gummy candy, and he and the others enjoyed its soft, sweet flavor and faint Magic Power.
• Over the following days, everyone ate the candy until Xie Juanhan found the jars empty and suggested picking more Princess Tina Flowers.
• Telingewei assigned Moli and Nibote to gather flowers deep in the Magic Forest, but when the little ones protested, he offered to switch places with Xie Juanhan.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei made maltose from Ajax Tubers and wheat shoots after their supply of Princess Tina Flower gummies ran low. The tuber syrup worked, and Xie Juanhan suggested making the next batch with Star Berries.

• Telingewei took Xie Juanhan and the Companion Beasts gathering near the Demon Wolves' territory, while Xie Juanhan and Telingewei also spent time together on a date.
• After their homemade gummies ran out, Xie Juanhan realized he could use Ajax Tubers to make syrup, and Telingewei enlisted Harper and the others to dig them up.
• Xie Juanhan cooked and mashed the tubers, mixed them with chopped wheat shoots, and left the mixture to ferment overnight.
• The next morning, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei extracted sweet, Magic Power-rich juice from the fermented tubers, and the Companion Beasts eagerly tasted it.
• When Princess Tina Flower juice proved insufficient for another batch of gummies, Xie Juanhan proposed using Star Berries, and Telingewei called to Harper.

After Telingewei’s rough treatment made Harper and the other furry creatures refuse to help him, Xie Juanhan made Star Berry gummies with him and shared them with friends. At the Weaving Fairies’ picnic, they learned One-Bone Fish had returned to a nearby bay, and Telingewei ordered gold thread and hooks so everyone could fish for them.

• Harper and the furry creatures left ten gold coins at Telingewei’s feet, while Haxi spat at him before leaving with the others.
• Xie Juanhan teased Telingewei for driving the creatures away, then picked Star Berries with him and made leaf and Star Berry gummies.
• Xie Juanhan sent gummies to friends with messenger birds and had Harper, Moli, and Nibote deliver parcels to nearby groups.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei visited the Weaving Fairies, shared the gummies, and heard that One-Bone Fish had appeared in a nearby bay.
• Telingewei ordered twelve bundles of gnome-spun gold thread and twelve hooks for fishing, explaining that Harper and the others each needed a rod.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei prepared to fish for the elusive One-Bone Fish, while Harper and the other Companion Beasts gathered bait. After reaching the sea, Xie Juanhan spotted the fish underwater but startled them before he could get close.

• Telingewei promised Harper and the others custom gold-thread fishing rods, ending their cold war with him.
• Harper and the others brought writhing magical vines as bait, and Telingewei extracted the insects inside while Xie Juanhan avoided the vines.
• Telingewei prepared minced meat to chum the water and explained that One-Bone Fish were difficult to catch, even for merfolk.
• The gnomes delivered the gold thread and fish-bone hooks, and Telingewei flew Xie Juanhan and the sleeping Companion Beasts to a deserted island.
• Xie Juanhan transformed into a White Dragon and dove into the clear sea, where he found beautiful One-Bone Fish that fled when he approached.

Xie Juanhan and his companions spent the day fishing for One-Bone Fish, while Telingewei failed to catch one despite everyone else succeeding. After the fishing lines vanished at night, they gathered around a bonfire to make fish soup.

• Xie Juanhan caught several One-Bone Fish and other fish, releasing the strongest females and half-grown fish back into the sea.
• Moli caught a large One-Bone Fish, and the other companions caught fish while Telingewei's bait was repeatedly taken without a catch.
• Xie Juanhan gave the hungry companions dried meat and secretly bribed them with gold coins to keep fishing longer.
• Telingewei ended the fishing after the golden lines vanished, saying they would use new rods next year because the fish might remember their scent.
• Harper and the others gathered firewood, and Xie Juanhan and the group lit a bonfire and began making fish soup.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei enjoyed a moonlit swim together while searching for the One-Bone Fish’s habitat, but Xie Juanhan struggled to calculate its location. By dawn, he had divined spatial coordinates he believed were probably correct and asked Telingewei whether they should try them, warning that they might end up somewhere strange.

• Xie Juanhan cooked the One-Bone Fish into a rich stew, and he, Telingewei, and the Companion Beasts ate until they were full.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei slept with the little ones at the campsite, then woke before dawn and decided to go on a date and search for the fish’s habitat.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei swam beneath the moonlit sea, and Xie Juanhan proposed using spatial coordinates to find the One-Bone Fish.
• Xie Juanhan tried to calculate the fish’s location, struggled with the numbers, and turned to divination for help.
• Xie Juanhan told Telingewei he had coordinates with an eighty percent chance of being right, but warned they might lead to a strange space.