Recaps

After recovering from helping put out the wildfire, Shi Wen learned that people nationwide were praising him and joined Yan Kexing's research trip to study the mountain's fire damage. He arranged for the ranch to be cared for, packed supplies and treats for the tigress, and set off with Yan Kexing's team.

• Gong Jiang, Lin Chengqian, and Ge Yue urged Shi Wen and Yan Kexing to shower, eat, and rest after their exhausting work fighting the wildfire.
• Shi Wen woke in the evening to Yan Kexing preparing roast goose, then learned from Lin Chengqian that news reports were praising his appearance and the firefighters' response.
• Yan Kexing told Shi Wen that his team would study the mountain's plants, animals, and wildfire damage, and Shi Wen asked to go along.
• Shi Wen arranged for Zhang Deyuan and the others to look after the ranch and packed supplies, including beef jerky for the tigress.
• Shi Wen joined Yan Kexing, Lin Chengqian, and Ge Yue in the car for the research trip, and Yan Kexing told everyone to rest before they entered the mountains.

Yan Kexing, Shi Wen, and their companions surveyed the wildfire damage and helped assess the needs of the surviving wildlife. As night fell, they met a welcoming team of forest rangers and headed to their mountain station for food and lodging.

• Shi Wen led Yan Kexing and the others through the burned forest, where they recorded damage and found dead animals alongside fresh tracks from survivors.
• At a wildlife watering hole, Yan Kexing placed salt licks and explained that the surviving animals needed minerals after the fire.
• The group found a second watering hole with a salt lick already in place, which Yan Kexing recorded as likely having been set out by forest rangers.
• As darkness fell, Shi Wen called for them to find a campsite, but a team of forest rangers met them and invited them to stay at their dormitory.
• The rangers helped carry their supplies and told them they were patrolling for smoldering embers as the two groups walked to the brightly lit forest station.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing enjoyed the forest rangers’ hospitality before returning to Mount Kuyang, where they reunited with the tigress and checked that she was healthy. After feeding her and picking raspberries with her, they headed back to the ranch.

• The forest rangers welcomed Yan Kexing and Shi Wen with a generous meal and rooms, and Shi Wen and Yan Kexing agreed to send them livestock, geese, and vegetables in thanks.
• The cook gave Shi Wen pickled radish and steamed buns for the road, and the group ate them with horsemeat sausage during their research trip.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing reunited with the tigress at Mount Kuyang, petted her, checked her for injuries or illness, and fed her beef jerky.
• Gong Jiang photographed and filmed the tigress while she ate, and then the group picked two bags of raspberries with her.
• Ge Yue ate wild raspberries in the car as the group returned to the ranch.

Shi Wen tried to give livestock and ranch products to the forest rangers and soldiers who had fought the fire, but they refused because of regulations. He opened an online store instead, sold out his first listings quickly, and began planning to sell honey.

• Shi Wen chose fifteen geese and three sheep, along with other ranch goods, to thank the forest rangers and soldiers who had fought the fire.
• The ranger station and other units refused Shi Wen's gifts, so Yan Kexing suggested donating money to organizations that sent volunteers into the mountains.
• Shi Wen opened an online store and sold out seven hundred goose eggs, fifteen geese, and three sheep to local buyers.
• Shi Wen delivered a sheep and a goose to Baoye A Sai, who praised the geese and encouraged him to price his honey at three to five thousand yuan per jin.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing planned a luxury membership program and rebranded the ranch as Shi Family Ranch. With an expert’s help, Shi Wen finalized the membership rules and contract, then admitted several more members.

• Baoye A Sai advised Shi Wen to build a premium brand for his honey and offered to buy it if he could not sell it.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discussed charging premium prices, redesigning the brand, and using a tiered membership system.
• Shi Wen recruited Baoye A Sai, Qile Moge, Ma Chengfeng, Zhu Ji, and Lin Huaizhuo as founding members.
• Shi Wen hired an expert from City B, who recommended the Shi Family Ranch brand and proposed annual fees of fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, and two hundred thousand yuan for three membership tiers.
• The expert prepared detailed membership rules, terms, and disclaimers, and Shi Wen finalized the program before accepting more members.

Shi Wen launched naturally ripened honey as his first members-only product, and all twelve members quickly bought a bottle. After selling the batch, he shared honey water with the animals at home, leaving the little fox sulking when he refused it a second bowl.

• Shi Wen sent the Abnormal Affairs Bureau a honey sample, and Zhu Ji reported its ability value was 192, just below the threshold for Variant Ingredients.
• Zhu Ji offered to buy the unsold honey, but Shi Wen refused because he wanted to attract new members and planned to split the bee colonies.
• Shi Wen listed twenty bottles of honey in the members' group, and members promptly bought twelve and asked to purchase the rest.
• Shi Wen made honey water for the animals at home, and they eagerly drank their bowls.
• The little fox begged Shi Wen for more honey water, but he refused and stroked its tail as it sulked.

Shi Wen discussed beekeeping with Ge Yue and the others, then hired Reheman to supervise the expansion of his apiaries. After Reheman approved Shi Wen’s queen-rearing work and adjusted his mating colonies, Shi Wen prepared to check the new queens in the coming weeks.

• Shi Wen kept to his rule of giving each animal only one bowl of honey water while he and his guests discussed the work involved in keeping bees.
• Ge Yue described her grandparents’ use of bee stings as a folk remedy, and Shi Wen declined to consider breeding bees for medical treatment without proper expertise.
• Shi Wen planned to split his six hives into eighteen colonies and hired Reheman to guide him through the process.
• Reheman selected twelve good queen cells and praised Shi Wen’s prepared mating colonies.
• Reheman showed Shi Wen how to adjust the colonies and instructed him to check the queens’ emergence, mating, and egg-laying over the next few weeks.

Shi Wen finished adjusting the bee colonies with Reheman, then discovered Heiwa and the other dogs could start the barn-cleaning robot. After discussing their abilities with Yan Kexing, Shi Wen decided to see what else they could do and asked them to herd the livestock out the next morning.

• Shi Wen and Reheman adjusted the hives and agreed that Shi Wen would ask him to teach colony splitting another time.
• Reheman reminded Shi Wen to feed the mating colony sugar water and pollen, then rode home after declining dinner.
• Shi Wen found Heiwa and the other dogs operating the barn's cleaning robot and sent Yan Kexing a video of them.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discussed testing the dogs' intelligence, and Shi Wen decided to let them handle more tasks on their own.
• The next morning, Shi Wen asked Heiwa and Langwa to try herding the livestock out while he went back to bed.

Shi Wen discovered that Heiwa and the other animals could herd the livestock without trouble, so he and Yan Kexing arranged intelligence tests with Zhu Ji’s help. The results showed that the little ones had the average intelligence of ten-year-olds, and Shi Wen declined Zhu Ji’s suggestion that he raise more animals.

• Heiwa and the others let the livestock out and herded them to the pastures in three groups, while Shi Wen monitored their progress.
• After watching the animals manage the pasture successfully for several days, Shi Wen showed Yan Kexing the recordings.
• Yan Kexing suggested testing the little ones’ intelligence, and Zhu Ji arranged for researchers to come to the pasture.
• The researchers tested the animals, and Zhu Ji reported that they had the average intelligence of ten-year-olds.
• Zhu Ji asked Shi Wen to raise more animals, but Shi Wen refused and sent the little fox off to play.

Shi Wen agreed to help Sanjiangyuan National Park cull overpopulated wild goats and other herbivores, limiting the trip to three days so he could return to the ranch. As he and Yan Kexing prepared to leave, Ge Yue reminded him to discuss payment for the work.

• Shi Wen used communication and food buttons to care for the little animals at home, then began planning breeding for more than sixteen hundred ewes.
• Yan Kexing received a call from Sanjiangyuan National Park, which asked Shi Wen to help locate and cull overpopulated wild goats and other herbivores.
• Shi Wen agreed to go for three days after the park confirmed that would be enough time, and he hired Gong Jiang and two others to oversee the ranch at double wages.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing gathered with everyone for breakfast before setting out, and Ge Yue asked how much the park would pay them.
• Ge Yue explained that wild-goat hunts could be expensive because they required vehicles or helicopters, fuel, and professional hunters.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing joined the park staff to reduce the wild goat population, and Shi Wen’s ability to keep animals calm made the hunt far more successful than expected. They continued searching the park, with shooting hares proving harder than shooting goats.

• Shi Wen and Ge Yue discussed the cost of controlling the wild goats and the risk they posed to the fragile environment.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing met the park director, learned that inspected animals would be used as feed, and joined thirteen armed young men for a hunt.
• Shi Wen led the group on foot and used his innate ability to approach a herd without frightening it, helping them shoot more than forty goats.
• Shi Wen followed the goats’ trails to another herd, where the group shot over seventy more before moving on.
• Shi Wen continued leading the hunt for wild goats and hares, while Yan Kexing stayed close by his side; the hares proved difficult to shoot.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing joined the young men on a hunt, where Shi Wen’s shooting talent impressed everyone and a familiar brown bear fled when it saw them. After a long day, they returned to the hotel, and Shi Wen began reviewing the park’s records while Yan Kexing went to shower.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing shot hares with the group, and the young men were surprised by Shi Wen’s accuracy.
• The group encountered a brown bear that recognized Shi Wen and Yan Kexing, then ran away before it could attack.
• The young men explained the bear’s hostility toward people, while Shi Wen joked that he might enjoy catching it again.
• After hunting all day, Shi Wen showered at the hotel, and Yan Kexing offered to take him for mutton soup.
• Shi Wen opened the park’s internal records on his laptop and began looking through its information on local organisms.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing enjoyed a meal at a mutton soup shop whose owner Yan Kexing had once rescued, and learned that wild goats were damaging the owner’s goji berry crop. The chapter ended with Shi Wen asking whether the authorities had been told and sent to shoot the goats.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing went to a crowded mutton soup shop, where the owner recognized Yan Kexing and invited them into a private room.
• Yan Kexing explained that he had guided the owner’s family out of an uninhabited area six or seven years earlier.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing ate the shop’s mutton soup and other dishes, and Yan Kexing paid for their meal.
• The owner gave Shi Wen and Yan Kexing a bag of meat aspic and jerky as a gift.
• Shi Wen overheard Xiao Wukati say that wild goats had eaten much of the shop’s goji berries, then asked if the authorities had been called to shoot them.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing finished hunting wild goats in the park, then set out to help local communities deal with animals damaging their crops. They reached Xiao Wukati’s township, where his father described how difficult it was to keep the animals away from their goji berries.

• Xiao Wukati told Shi Wen that wild goats had ruined goji berries belonging to many families, and that compensation could not replace the berries his lamb soup business depended on.
• A young man explained that wild goats had escaped the park, multiplied, and damaged local vineyards, then asked Shi Wen to help hunt them outside the park.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing finished hunting in the park early and arranged with the leaders to take their team outside to hunt wild goats and hares.
• While hunting, Shi Wen shot a hare, but an eastern imperial eagle swooped down and carried it off; Yan Kexing confirmed that the bird migrated south for winter.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing reached Xiao Wukati’s township, where Xiao Wukati’s father complained that animals came at night to eat the goji berries and were difficult to drive away.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing followed tracks from a goji field into the Gobi Desert and discovered a herd of Przewalski's horses believed to be extinct in the area. Yan Kexing reported the find, setting off a flurry of calls from leading figures across the country.

• Shi Wen examined the goji field and found tracks he believed belonged to horses rather than wild goats.
• Shi Wen, Yan Kexing, and the others followed the tracks by car through the Gobi Desert.
• The group spotted a herd of animals, and Yan Kexing identified them as Przewalski's horses.
• Shi Wen realized the herd might be wild horses thought to be extinct in China.
• Yan Kexing told the young man to report the herd, and calls from leading figures began flooding his phone.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found a herd of nineteen previously undiscovered Przewalski's horses and waited for officials to decide how to handle them. Shi Wen tranquilized two wolves that threatened the herd, but the startled horses fled before settling down to graze again; when the leaders arrived, they asked Shi Wen and Yan Kexing whether the horses should be taken back.

• Shi Wen reported that the herd had nineteen horses led by a stallion, and he and Yan Kexing chose to wait for the officials rather than act rashly.
• Shi Wen spotted wolves circling the horses and tranquilized two of them, causing the rest of the pack to flee and the horses to gallop away.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing took the two wolves with them and continued following the horses, which soon regrouped and resumed grazing.
• The leaders arrived that afternoon, confirmed the herd was wild Przewalski's horses, and asked Shi Wen and Yan Kexing what they thought about taking them back.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing helped the zoo capture nineteen Przewalski's horses, then Zhu Ji summoned Shi Wen for an examination after suspecting his Auspicious Beast bloodline had awakened further. Shi Wen was surrounded by elders eager to meet him and agreed to travel to City B for the examination, though he declined to stay long because of his ranch.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing tranquilized nineteen Przewalski's horses with the zoo staff, transported them to the zoo, and entrusted two wild wolves to its care.
• Experts arrived to marvel at the horses, while Shi Wen stepped outside and received Zhu Ji's call about a possible new ability from his awakened bloodline.
• Zhu Ji and a group of prominent elders met Shi Wen outside the zoo and warmly welcomed him as a high-level Auspicious Beast with a qilin bloodline.
• Yan Kexing joined Shi Wen and the elders, and Zhu Ji arranged a flight to City B for Shi Wen's examination.
• Shi Wen declined the elders' invitation to stay in City B for several days because he needed to look after his ranch.

Shi Wen traveled to a secure base in City B for extensive tests, which showed that his Divinity and Abilities had risen above ten thousand. After hearing that he might undergo Beast Transformation, he left the base with Yan Kexing, where elderly people waited to hear roughly how well he had done.

• Shi Wen asked Zhu Ji whether the elderly people had made their trip to see him for nothing, and Zhu Ji explained that Shi Wen was the country's only person to awaken the Qilin Bloodline.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing arrived at a heavily secured base in City B, where a middle-aged man guided Shi Wen through bloodwork and several hours of testing.
• The group ate a late-night meal before reviewing Shi Wen's results: his Divinity was 15858 and his Abilities were 13525.
• Zhu Ji told Shi Wen that his figures had risen dramatically from a year earlier, while the middle-aged man warned that parts of his body might undergo Beast Transformation.
• The middle-aged man and Zhu Ji explained Shi Wen's test results and advised him to report any changes, then escorted the group outside.
• Elderly people waiting outside asked Yan Kexing to tell them roughly what level Shi Wen had reached, and Yan Kexing looked to Shi Wen for permission.

Shi Wen gained fourteen wealthy members for the Shi Family Ranch in City B and discussed the high cost and scarcity of Variant Ingredients with Zhu Ji. After returning to the ranch, he paid the staff who had covered for him and reunited with the animals.

• Shi Wen revealed that he was still a High-Level Abilities User, and Yan Kexing said he had a good chance of reaching the divine level.
• Fourteen elders signed up as Shi Family Ranch members, bringing the ranch's total membership to twenty-six.
• On the flight back, Shi Wen learned from Zhu Ji that overseas Variant Ingredients were extremely expensive and difficult to obtain, and he vowed to repay the druids someday.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing returned to the ranch, where Shi Wen thanked Gong Jiang, Lin Chengqian, and Ge Yue, paid their wages, and sent them off to rest.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited the pasture, where the dogs and other animals crowded around Shi Wen for affection.

Shi Wen returned to ranch duties and shared a warm evening with Yan Kexing, reflecting on how happy his life had become. While Shi Wen slept, his ears transformed into furry, pointed beast ears, and Yan Kexing quietly watched over him.

• Shi Wen inspected the ranch, checked on the bees and livestock, and prepared vegetables for the ranch's first monthly gift boxes with Yan Kexing's help.
• Shi Wen learned that the Przewalski's horses had been taken away and that local hunters had culled many wild goats, easing damage to nearby orchards.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing shared their feelings about how their lives had become happier since they were together.
• Yan Kexing noticed that Shi Wen had grown furry, pointed beast ears while he slept and stayed awake watching over him.
• Shi Wen woke the next morning unaware of his changed ears and got out of bed.

Shi Wen’s ears transformed into furry beast ears after he ate Variant Ingredients, leaving him reluctant to go out while he adjusted to them. He planted black goji seedlings sent by Xiao Wukati, and the ewes came into heat as breeding season began.

• Shi Wen discovered that beast ears had grown on his head, and Yan Kexing explained that it was a temporary Beast Transformation.
• Shi Wen tried to make his ears retract, then told Zhu Ji about the transformation; Zhu Ji suggested the Variant Ingredients he had eaten might have triggered it.
• Shi Wen fed the little ones and found that his new ears could twitch to drive away insects, though he remained self-conscious about them.
• Shi Wen wore a hat when going out and mailed his monthly gift packages, receiving black goji seedlings from Xiao Wukati in return for helping move the Przewalski's horses.
• Shi Wen planted the goji seedlings in his backyard and fertilized them with sheep manure.
• In July, the ewes began coming into heat, and it was time to breed them again.

Shi Wen bred his adult ewes and helped Sikewell and a local photographer take publicity pictures of his livestock. The photographer captured the animals at work and promised to bring Shi Wen prints of the extra pictures.

• Shi Wen sorted the 105 adult ewes between Eight Treasures and the stray breeding ram, marking each ram with different paint to track mating.
• After a week of breeding, Shi Wen invited Sikewell to examine the ewes, and Sikewell praised their size, condition, and features.
• Shi Wen agreed to let Sikewell arrange publicity photographs of the fat-tailed sheep and helped the photographer bring animals out for the shoot.
• The photographer expanded the shoot to include the rams, cattle, and other livestock, then promised to give Shi Wen prints of pictures she would not publish.
• Sikewell and the photographer thanked Shi Wen and left after the shoot.

Shi Wen welcomed the wild wolves that had befriended his dogs and discussed the possibility of their puppies becoming sheepdogs with Yan Kexing. Later, Shi Wen and Yan Kexing prepared tomato sauce for soup rice with Gong Jiang and the others, leaving the animals gathered outside the kitchen as the guests arrived.

• Sikewell and the photographer saw wolves running toward Shi Wen's ranch and guessed they wanted to play with the dogs.
• Shi Wen opened the gate for the wolves, petted them, and let them run off to play with the dogs.
• Shi Wen told Yan Kexing that the wolves and dogs might be looking for mates, and they discussed training any puppies as sheepdogs.
• Shi Wen asked the group what they wanted for lunch, and Gong Jiang and the others chose soup rice made with tomato sauce.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing picked three baskets of tomatoes and began cooking sauce, while the animals gathered outside the kitchen.
• Ge Yue and the others arrived and found the animals blocking the kitchen entrance, and Fu Wa comforted Ge Yue.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing hosted Ge Yue, Lin Chengqian, and Gong Jiang for soup rice as a blue sandstorm warning arrived and the winds worsened. After checking that the animals were safe, Shi Wen returned home, where the visitors stayed and discussed work with Yan Kexing.

• Ge Yue and the others arrived at Shi Wen's home, where Shi Wen and Yan Kexing served them homemade soup rice.
• Everyone received a blue sandstorm warning, and they discussed the strong winds and the likelihood of sandstorms in the area.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing checked the livestock shed and poultry house and found the animals calm, with their feed and water supplies intact.
• Shi Wen worried about the hay bales on the pasture and the beehives, but Yan Kexing persuaded him to stay indoors.
• Gong Jiang and the others stayed at Shi Wen's home because the storm prevented them from leaving, and Yan Kexing handed out folders so they could discuss work.

After the sandstorm, Shi Wen learned that livestock were missing across the area and agreed to help Qile Moge find more than sixty lost Dolan sheep. Before heading out with Yan Kexing, Shi Wen checked his own pasture and found his hay bales and beehives largely unharmed.

• Fu Meng called Shi Wen to confirm that his livestock had survived the sandstorm and explain that many shelters had been damaged.
• Shi Wen read messages about missing livestock in the herders' WeChat groups and replied to friends checking on him.
• Qile Moge asked Shi Wen to help find more than sixty missing Dolan sheep, and Shi Wen agreed.
• Yan Kexing joined Shi Wen, and Shi Wen arranged to borrow a horse from Fu Meng before they set out.
• Shi Wen checked his pasture, refilled the bees' water tray, and inspected the beehives.