Recaps

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei entered the One-Bone Fish’s hidden ocean space, where they were attacked while the fish guarded their eggs. They escaped with 5,742 eggs and decided to try raising the fish near the Demonic Oysters; Harper and the others learned about their nighttime adventure after waking.

• Xie Juanhan broke through a spatial barrier and took Telingewei into the ocean space where he sensed the most life.
• A school of One-Bone Fish attacked them, and Xie Juanhan realized they were defending eggs in their breeding ground.
• Xie Juanhan calmed the fish with Dragon Power, found the exit coordinates, and escaped with Telingewei after they fled the space.
• The two dragons discovered they had collected 5,742 fish eggs and placed them in a gold basin.
• Xie Juanhan proposed raising the One-Bone Fish in a magic fishing net in the sea near the Demonic Oysters, and Telingewei agreed to consider it.
• After Harper and the others woke up, they learned that the two dragons had gone fishing at night and brought back eggs.

Xie Juanhan incubated One-Bone Fish eggs and arranged to build an underwater fish farm, ordering specialized nets and negotiating with dwarves for a seabed frame. The dwarves agreed to make the frame for five gold coins, with Xie Juanhan and Telingewei collecting it themselves.

• Xie Juanhan placed One-Bone Fish eggs in a seawater-filled golden basin, and Harper and the other companion beasts eagerly watched them.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei visited the Weaving Fairies, who agreed to research strong materials for three underwater fishing nets.
• Three dwarves offered to build a metal frame for the fish farm, but Telingewei kicked their backsides after they quoted a hundred gold coins.
• Xie Juanhan explained that the dwarves only needed to make the frame, since he and Telingewei would collect it and carve the magic array themselves.
• Xie Juanhan offered five gold coins for materials and labor, and the dwarves reluctantly agreed to the deal.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei arranged fishing nets made from Peryton fur, then built an ocean enclosure to raise One-Bone Fish. They finished planting aquatic plants on the seabed and left the farm to mature, with Xie Juanhan asking the Tata Fish to trade fish milk.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei inspected the Weaving Fairies' Peryton-fur materials, accepted them for the fishing nets, and paid the fairies twenty gold coins.
• Xie Juanhan offered to trade with the Perytons for down feathers, and they eagerly chose Star Berries as payment.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei picked Star Berries, traded some for down feathers, and set aside the rest to share, eat, or make wine.
• The Weaving Fairies delivered three sturdy fishing nets with different mesh sizes, and Xie Juanhan and Telingewei attached them to metal frames.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei installed the netted One-Bone Fish enclosure, planted aquatic plants on the seabed, and finished a large marine farming area.
• Xie Juanhan spotted the gathered Tata Fish and asked if they would trade fish milk.

Xie Juanhan abandoned the idea of using Star Berries as fertilizer after Harper and the other Companion Beasts showed how attached they were to the berries, and he gathered field and pond debris to make compost instead. After preparing cake and a drink, he found Telingewei and the others missing and went out to search for them.

• The Goblins explained that Demonic Cores could not be used directly as fertilizer, and Xie Juanhan suggested using Star Berries instead.
• Harper and the other Companion Beasts objected to sacrificing the berries, then offered their saved second-tier Demonic Cores as an alternative.
• Telingewei relayed the Companion Beasts’ feelings, and Xie Juanhan promised not to use Star Berries as fertilizer.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei gathered field and pond debris for compost after the Goblins warned that Demonic Beast meat would kill the plants.
• Xie Juanhan returned home, prepared a cake and a drink, and discovered Telingewei and the Companion Beasts were missing.

Xie Juanhan found Telingewei secretly experimenting with ways to purify Demonic Cores, and the two returned home with the resulting powder. After Telingewei used the powder as soil cover for the Magic Wand Tree, the courtyard was wrecked by morning, and he hid the commotion from Xie Juanhan.

• Xie Juanhan used divination to find Telingewei and discovered him scorching level-two Demonic Cores in a magic array.
• Xie Juanhan recognized that Telingewei was trying to purify the cores’ Magic Power and learned he had tested nineteen magic arrays.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei took the powder home, ate with the fluffballs, and discussed why the experiment had not separated the Magic Power from the impurities.
• At Xie Juanhan’s suggestion, Telingewei poured the collected Demonic Core powder over the soil in the Magic Wand Tree’s flowerpot.
• Telingewei woke to find the courtyard ravaged and the Magic Wand Tree drooping, then gave the fluffballs gold coins to keep them quiet so Xie Juanhan could sleep.

Telingewei and Xie Juanhan discovered that the Magic Wand Tree had purified magic-rich rock mud, which the Goblins agreed to turn into fertilizer in exchange for magic wine. On their way home, they encountered villagers seeking help for a badly wounded adventurer, and Xie Juanhan asked why they had come to him instead of the village authorities.

• Telingewei stopped Nibote from making trouble, then he and Moli cleaned the yard and found cooled lava rock mud expelled by the Magic Wand Tree.
• Xie Juanhan used Dragon Power to help the Magic Wand Tree recover, and he and Telingewei realized its rock mud could provide magic for fertilizer.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei brought the rock mud to the Goblins, who agreed to brew fertilizer for level-two Star Berries in exchange for magic wine.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei smelled blood near the cabin and found Orfrey and two villagers waiting across the river.
• Orfrey told Xie Juanhan that a powerful adventurer was badly wounded in the village, and the villagers asked for his protection and offered payment.
• Xie Juanhan asked why the villagers had come to him instead of the priest, knight, village head, or others.

Xie Juanhan rescued the injured necromancer Tuoyin and later accepted his offer to repay the kindness by helping with spatial magic calculations. Tuoyin managed to solve two formulas, and Xie Juanhan checked his work.

• Xie Juanhan and his companions found the badly wounded necromancer in a chicken coop in Ailan Village and took him to a doctor in Teme Port.
• Tuoyin recovered, crossed the river to thank Xie Juanhan, and repaid his medical expenses, but he had lost most of his valuables.
• Xie Juanhan asked Tuoyin to help calculate spatial magic formulas instead of bringing more payment.
• Tuoyin worked through two formulas, and Xie Juanhan checked the calculations and thought they seemed correct.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei released their One-Bone Fish fry into protected sea nets, then hurried to the Magic Forest after learning that burning fertilizer had started a huge fire. Xie Juanhan used seawater and cold air to contain the flames, but the fire was not fully extinguished.

• Xie Juanhan confirmed Tuoyin’s calculation, gave him candied berries, and asked him to send skilled mathematicians and magic theorists to help with their research.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei moved 5,742 One-Bone Fish fry into seabed nets and planned to ask the Tata Fish to patrol them.
• Nibote and Harper arrived with news that fermenting rock-mud fertilizer had caught fire, burning the Goblins’ nest and spreading through the Magic Forest.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei flew to the forest, where Moli, Haxi, and other creatures were evacuating animals and fighting the flames.
• Xie Juanhan doused the fire with seawater and released cold air, reducing the flames but failing to put them out completely.

White Dragon and the giant dragon extinguished the Magic Forest fire, and Xie Juanhan and Telingewei helped the Goblins understand the accident and began repairing the damage. Days later, while watching Harper and the others play, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei noticed several of the little ones sneezing and breathing heavily, and Xie Juanhan examined Moli and Nibote.

• White Dragon and the giant dragon drove the flames into the sea, then returned to help put out the Magic Forest fire.
• Xie Juanhan told the Goblins that the rock mud’s fire attribute had likely caused the fertilizer to ignite, and promised to help restore the forest.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei patrolled the burned area, spread seeds, and brought the Goblins food and drink while agreeing to help clear their tunnels.
• After several busy days of cleanup, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei relaxed in their courtyard while Harper and the others played near the Magic Wand Tree.
• Nibote and the other little ones began sneezing and panting, so Xie Juanhan and Telingewei called them over to check on them.
• Xie Juanhan examined Nibote and Moli and found that both had runny noses and red eyes.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that the fluffballs were ill, but the little ones resisted taking their bitter medicine and spat some of it into Nibote’s bowl. After punishing them and finding they were still sick, Xie Juanhan made a tasty medicinal rib soup, which they eagerly drank.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei took the sick fluffballs to the Water Demons, who diagnosed minor illnesses and prescribed large, bitter pills.
• Xie Juanhan gave the fluffballs honey water to wash down their medicine, but later found pills marked with tooth prints in Nibote’s food bowl.
• Telingewei caught the fluffballs and punished them for spitting out their medicine and hiding it in Nibote’s bowl.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei visited the Water Demons for the medicine recipe, and Xie Juanhan decided to make a clear soup with the edible ingredients and Demonic Beast ribs.
• Xie Juanhan served the fluffballs medicinal rib soup, and they eagerly drank it before trying to steal from one another’s bowls.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei discovered that their Golden Vine Pumpkin had spread across the pumpkin patch and crowded out the ordinary pumpkins. They pulled up the struggling plants and cooked their vines, ending with plans to try the Golden Vine Pumpkin vines next.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei saw that the furry ones had recovered after drinking his soups, and he told the Water Demons that soup had helped them.
• Moli hurried Xie Juanhan and Telingewei to the fields, where he showed them a pumpkin vine that had turned gold.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei found that the Golden Vine Pumpkin had spread across nearly the entire pumpkin patch, leaving the ordinary pumpkins stunted.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei pulled up the ordinary pumpkin vines and Xie Juanhan stir-fried them for a meal.
• Xie Juanhan suggested trying the Golden Vine Pumpkin vines, and the furry ones eagerly agreed.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei cooked Golden Vine Pumpkin vines in several ways, shared them with magical creatures, and enjoyed a meal at the Water Demons’ lakeside restaurant. The chapter ended with Harper and the other Companion Beasts unknowingly drinking spring water left in a large leaf by their gate before Xie Juanhan and Telingewei woke.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei picked tender Golden Vine Pumpkin vines and offered the Goblins the kitchen scraps.
• Xie Juanhan pickled the pumpkin vines overnight, then cooked them with minced meat to serve alongside rice noodles.
• The Water Demons asked to trade for pumpkin vines, and Xie Juanhan directed them to the Perytons; the Water Demons later served stewed pumpkin vines at their restaurant.
• As the weather cooled, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei began sleeping in while Harper and the other Companion Beasts went outside to play.
• Habu tested the spring water in a large leaf left by the gate, and the Companion Beasts drank it before running off to play.

Harper warned the others not to drink the mysterious water left outside the yard, prompting Xie Juanhan and Telingewei to meet the visitor. They discovered the water had been brought by Kuitifulong, who wanted to trade it for their crops.

• Harper stopped Habu from drinking the water and alerted Telingewei by scratching at the bedroom door.
• Telingewei tested the water, and Xie Juanhan and Telingewei waited through the night to discover who was leaving it.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei met Kuitifulong, a gentle giant who explained that he had brought spring water as an offering.
• Kuitifulong said he wanted to trade the water for Xie Juanhan and Telingewei's pumpkin vines and berries.
• Xie Juanhan tasted Kuitifulong's spring water and found it exceptionally pure and refreshing.

Xie Juanhan offered the giant an ongoing trade of crops for pure water, and the giant agreed after picking six baskets of produce. As the Star Berries reached the end of their season, Xie Juanhan sent Harper and the others to bring some to the Pixies, who sent back fresh nuts.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei showed the giant their fields, where he picked six baskets of crops.
• Xie Juanhan proposed trading crops for a bucket of the giant’s water every few days, and the giant agreed.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei found that the Star Berry vines had stopped flowering as their fruiting season ended.
• Xie Juanhan picked the last ripe Star Berries and sent Harper and the others to deliver a basket to the Pixies.
• Harper and the others returned with a basket of fresh nuts, and Xie Juanhan planned to roast them for a meal.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei checked the Star Berry wine after the Pixies reminded them it was ready, tasted two distinct varieties, and decided to age it in barrels. Xie Juanhan sent Moli and the other little ones to bring the Pixies both kinds of wine, and they arrived to offer them a taste.

• The Pixies reminded Harper and the others that last winter’s wine had finished fermenting and could be aged in barrels.
• Telingewei read Harper’s memories and told Xie Juanhan what the Pixies had said, so they uncovered the wine jars and checked the Star Berry wine.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei tasted the sweet Tammi Golden Wine-style Star Berry wine and the sharper, refreshing variety with the furry creatures.
• Xie Juanhan decided the wine was ready for aging, and Telingewei suggested having the Dwarves make barrels.
• Xie Juanhan gave Moli a basket containing jars of both wines to take to the Pixies, while Nibote protested that he was not allowed to carry it.
• Moli and the other little ones reached the Pixies’ territory, explained their visit, and offered the Pixies the Star Berry wine to taste.

The Pixies visited Xie Juanhan after tasting his wine, bringing him jars of their specially blessed yeast, which he used to start a new batch of Star Berry wine. Later, Dwarf barrel-makers arrived to inspect his matured Goddess Wood and quoted a price for their work.

• The Pixies enjoyed the wine from Xie Juanhan and gave the fluffballs nuts in return, then visited his home with jars of yeast they had blessed three times.
• Xie Juanhan escorted the tipsy Pixies back to their territory and later used their yeast to ferment Star Berry wine with Telingewei.
• After three days, Xie Juanhan found that the new wine had begun fermenting and smelled sweet and bracing.
• Dwarf craftsmen arrived and praised the matured Goddess Wood, then offered to make each large barrel by hand for one gold coin.

Xie Juanhan hired dwarven craftsmen to make wine barrels and considered building a home for Telingewei’s little ones. After tasting Star Berry wine, the dwarves revealed that special magic wine barrels could improve its quality, leaving Xie Juanhan to reconsider the order.

• Xie Juanhan bargained with the dwarves over the barrel price, settled on five silver coins per large barrel, and signed a magic contract with them.
• The dwarves built tightly fitted barrels, which Xie Juanhan and Telingewei stored in Telingewei’s cave.
• Xie Juanhan proposed building a house for the little ones, and Telingewei agreed to discuss the idea with them.
• Xie Juanhan brought the dwarves sweet fermented-rice soup made with Star Berry wine, and they praised the wine’s quality.
• The lead dwarf explained that magic wine barrels could use arrays and Demonic Cores to infuse wine with Magic Power and potentially raise its tier.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei gathered Goddess Wood with the Dwarves to make magic wine barrels, then shared Star Berry wine with the Dwarves and their Companion Beasts. The chapter ended with Xie Juanhan refusing to let the Dwarves buy wine from the fluffballs and proposing a trade of one level-two Demonic Core per cup.

• Xie Juanhan exposed that the Dwarf craftsmen had revealed how Dwarves brewed level-three magic wine, leaving them speechless.
• Xie Juanhan, Telingewei, and the Dwarves selected and felled Goddess Wood for new magic wine barrels.
• Xie Juanhan treated the Dwarves to Star Berry wine and poured cups for Harper, Nibote, Moli, and the other fluffballs.
• The Dwarves tried to buy half-cups of wine from the fluffballs with gold coins, but Xie Juanhan stopped them and warned Nibote not to resell his wine.
• Xie Juanhan set the price of a cup of level-two magic wine at one level-two Demonic Core, shocking the Dwarves.

Xie Juanhan sold his remaining level-two magic wine to the Dwarves, then received a request from Bone Spirits for more. After he sent them Wraith Wine as a gift, their promotion of it brought a flood of buyers, leaving Xie Juanhan with plenty of Demonic Cores and waste to turn into fertilizer.

• Xie Juanhan refused to bargain with the Dwarves, but they returned with 154 level-two Demonic Cores and bought his remaining barrel of wine.
• A giant arrived too late to buy the level-two wine, so he ordered a whole barrel for a future sale.
• A messenger bird delivered gold and a note from Bone Spirit hunters seeking magic wine, and Xie Juanhan sent them Wraith Wine as a complimentary drink.
• A Bone Spirit author praised the Wraith Wine in human magazines, prompting messenger birds from across the region to bring gold and place orders.
• The influx of birds filled the bird toilet and upset the Magic Wand Tree, so Xie Juanhan and Telingewei cleaned up and fed the tree Demonic Core fertilizer.
• Xie Juanhan gave the Goblins lava from calcined Demonic Cores and bird waste to ferment into fertilizer.

Xie Juanhan and the others prepared and planted a new batch of Star Berry seedlings, while their expanding farm became known as a silver dragon’s Star Berry farm. Harper and the others then found the first ripe Golden Vine Pumpkin, which Xie Juanhan harvested as 157 more pumpkins remained unripe.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei inspected the Goblins’ finished Demonic Core fertilizer, then washed and sorted Star Berry seeds with Harper and the others.
• Xie Juanhan used dragon power and Blessing Magic to raise the seedlings, and the group planted them across newly reclaimed farmland along the river.
• As rumors spread about the silver dragon’s Star Berry farm, Telingewei suggested building a castle so he could live apart from Harper and the others, prompting their indignant protests.
• Harper and the others told Xie Juanhan that a Golden Vine Pumpkin had ripened, and he went with them to the field.
• Xie Juanhan harvested the millstone-sized golden pumpkin, and he and Telingewei counted 157 pumpkins still growing.

After the Golden Vine Pumpkins made Harper and the other Companion Beasts’ fur grow wildly overnight, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei struggled to trim it and asked the Weaving Fairies for help. The Weaving Fairies restored Nibote’s coat and prepared to groom the others.

• Xie Juanhan shared Golden Vine Pumpkin dishes with Telingewei and the Companion Beasts, then everyone went to bed satisfied.
• The next morning, Harper and the other Companion Beasts woke with fur so long and thick that it covered their eyes and made their paws slippery.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei trimmed the beasts’ fur themselves, but their uneven cuts left Nibote looking especially messy.
• Xie Juanhan decided to ask the Weaving Fairies to groom the Companion Beasts, who chose them over pet groomers or Telingewei’s Dragon Flame.
• The Weaving Fairies visited and skillfully trimmed Nibote’s coat until he looked like a magnificent Griffin again, while the other beasts lined up for their turns.

Xie Juanhan persuaded the Perytons to eat Golden Vine Pumpkin, which made their fur grow thick enough for the Weaving Fairies to shear. He then arranged to trade level-two magic wine for their loose down and began combing it, leaving the other Perytons eager for their turn.

• A Weaving Fairy asked Xie Juanhan to buy pumpkin for the Perytons so they could grow more fur for shearing.
• The Weaving Fairies fed pumpkin to the Perytons, whose fur grew longer and thicker after half an hour.
• The Perytons accepted gold coins and let the Weaving Fairies shear their new fur.
• Xie Juanhan offered level-two magic wine in exchange for the Perytons' loose down, and they agreed to be combed by him with Telingewei's help.
• Xie Juanhan gently combed one Peryton and collected a layer of down while Dragon Power made the animal blissfully cooperative.
• The first Peryton reluctantly lingered after its grooming until another Peryton bit its rump.

After arranging for Peryton down to be made into bedding, Xie Juanhan learned through a messenger bird that the Tata Fish were in danger. His divination pointed to a storm-wracked sea near the Sea of Concealment, where the fish and a group of humans had become trapped.

• Xie Juanhan traded level-two magic wine for Peryton down and gave it to the Weaving Fairies to make bedding for Harper and the others.
• The Perytons returned hoping to trade more down, but Xie Juanhan told them to wait until next month so they could grow it back safely.
• Xie Juanhan wrote to Eermirisi about his and Telingewei's plans to leave the farmland with the Griffins after the harvest, and Nibote showed that he missed his clan.
• A messenger bird delivered an urgent verbal message from the Tata Fish, but Xie Juanhan and Telingewei could not understand its calls.
• The Tata Fish were swept with shipwrecked humans into a strange, storm-filled sea after trying to rescue them from a wrecked magic ship.
• Xie Juanhan divined that the Tata Fish were in danger and identified coordinates that Telingewei recognized as the Sea of Concealment.

Xie Juanhan and Telingewei rescued the Tata Fish and Prince Patrick’s party from an alternate space at sea, then recruited the prince’s tutors to help with spatial calculations. After sending the humans away and bringing the frightened fish home, the dragons salvaged valuable cargo from the wrecked magic ship.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei entered the alternate space and rescued the Tata Fish and the humans riding with them.
• Prince Patrick introduced himself, and Xie Juanhan asked him and his companions to help with spatial calculations in exchange for a promised repayment.
• Boerman arrived and watched as Prince Patrick’s tutors advanced Xie Juanhan’s calculations; Xie Juanhan rewarded them with Wraith Wine before the prince’s party departed.
• Xie Juanhan comforted the Tata Fish and invited them home for sweet fermented rice balls, while Telingewei jealously objected to one fish carrying him.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei salvaged Demonic Cores, gemstones, pearls, gold coins, potions, and other valuables from the sunken magic ship.

After realizing the chaotic alternate space was the opportunity foretold by divination, Xie Juanhan and Telingewei tried to locate and destroy it but failed, leaving the search for a solution unresolved. Back home, they received the Weaving Fairies, who brought the finished beds for Harper and the other fluffballs.

• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei counted their salvaged treasure, and Xie Juanhan gave Harper and the others two gold coins each.
• After nearly half a month of salvage work, Xie Juanhan studied the court tutors’ calculations and concluded that the chaotic alternate space itself might be their foretold opportunity.
• Xie Juanhan and Telingewei entered the out-of-control alternate space with the fluffballs, but failed to find its rift or destroy it and escaped battered and exhausted.
• Xie Juanhan told the Tata Fish to keep creatures away from the dangerous area, then returned home with Telingewei and the fluffballs to consider another approach.
• The Weaving Fairies arrived with the completed beds Xie Juanhan had commissioned for Harper and the other fluffballs.