Recaps

Shi Wen expanded the ranch with sheep pigs, Heavenly Horses, and a forty-year lease on two nearby mountains while caring for the animals and sharing the ranch’s produce. The arc ended with Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discovering an old apple orchard and arranging to replace the ranch’s aging fence.

• Shi Wen and his friends made chive blossom sauce, which Qile Moge praised and members discussed buying and eating.
• Shi Wen slaughtered woolly pigs with his friends, processed the meat, and learned from Zhu Ji that the pork qualified as a Variant Ingredient.
• Shi Wen bought a hundred woolly pigs, then brought the wandering tigress back to the ranch and returned her and the male tiger to the mountains.
• Shi Wen welcomed Fan Jiancheng, planted his radish seeds, sheared his livestock, and ordered custom wool bedding for the animals.
• Baoye A Sai trained Shi Suo in dressage, and Shi Wen bought twenty Heavenly Horses from him for six million.
• Shi Wen and his friends moved hay into storage before a storm, then found fish scattered across the ranch after a tornado carried them there.
• Zhu Ji told Shi Wen that honey-soaked lingzhi had helped save a famous scientist, and he secured two unused mountains for Shi Wen to lease.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing explored the newly leased land, found an old apple orchard, and decided to replace the ranch’s old fencing with Fu Meng’s help.

Shi Wen expanded the ranch, took on new livestock and helped villagers while managing the animals’ unexpected behavior. The stretch ended with Shi Wen sending Shi Suo away temporarily after the mares pursued him during breeding season.

• Shi Wen hired Fu Meng to manage fencing the mountains for fruit trees and livestock, then helped investigate Yao Guocheng’s mismanaged camels and later sheltered six unidentified wild Bactrian camels before they were released.
• The wild camels returned toward the ranch and clashed with the Wolf King’s pack, after which Shi Wen accepted a five-day job overseeing the sheep section at a pastoral trade fair and arranged breeding rentals for his rams.
• Shi Wen bought Baha Ayi’s unusually aggressive brown cow, named it Laibao, and completed the fence before hosting a meal for the workers.
• Shi Wen explored the mountains with Yan Kexing, discovered the sheep-pigs had escaped and eaten much of the wild growth and orchard, then relied on Heiwa and the other dogs to herd them home.
• Cong Zai brought home a puppy, and the Wolf King and other dogs returned with three more, and Shi Wen reunited the three with their mother, who also nursed Cong Zai’s puppy before disappearing.
• While Yan Kexing investigated suspected pine wilt disease in S City, Shi Wen helped cut infected pines with Laibao, after Yan returned, Shi Wen donated to village road repairs and prepared the ranch for winter.
• Shi Wen realized the mares were pursuing Shi Suo during breeding season, so he asked Baoye A Sai to take Shi Suo and Yan Shi for a few days.

Shi Wen’s ranch flourished through lambing season and the sale of pet lambs, while his bond with the animals deepened. His Qilin abilities awakened wings, and the arc ended with him and Yan Kexing preparing to meet Changfeng, a possible white tiger with a Divine Beast Bloodline.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing helped the ewes give birth to 121 healthy lambs, while two tigers visited the ranch and shared prey with the animals.
• Shi Wen and the Abnormal Affairs Bureau arranged membership slots for Ability users, and experts found that eleven lambs seemed unusually perceptive.
• Shi Wen hired Tian Xiaoyu to train the lambs, wrote a care manual, and offered all eleven as pet sheep to members, who reserved them.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discussed the difficulty of sending sheep away for slaughter, then reaffirmed their understanding of each other.
• Shi Wen processed livestock, sent gifts to members, sold 7,500 portions of ingredients, and visited the tigers with Yan Kexing.
• An eastern imperial eagle stole food and harassed the ranch animals, and Shi Wen caught it after wings grew through his clothes.
• Shi Wen learned that his wings supported flight with wind and that his Divinity and Abilities had more than doubled, and Yan Kexing secretly gave blood that helped the wings finish growing and retract.
• Xing Mingyue asked Shi Wen and Yan Kexing to consider adopting Changfeng, a small white tiger, and they arranged for Cong Zai to meet it before deciding.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing cared for the ranch’s animals through the New Year, investigated unusual meerkats, and took on new work with a depressed panda and foaling mares. The stretch ended with horse buyer Zhan Chongyun considering Shi Wen’s terms for purchasing the ranch’s stallions.

• Cong Zai defeated the little white tiger in a series of fights, and Xing Mingyue confirmed that Cong Zai had awakened a pure White Tiger Bloodline.
• Shi Wen brought Cong Zai back to the ranch, where he protected the snow leopard cub and joined the other animals as they settled into ranch life.
• Shi Wen supplied animals for Fu Meng’s exhibition, and he and Yan Kexing discovered and reported a group of nonnative meerkats in the woods.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing celebrated New Year’s Eve with Zhu Ji, then spent the winter and spring repairing the ranch and preparing its land.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing attended He Chengzhang’s fashion show in City B, where they saw clothing made from wool and sheepskin produced at their ranch.
• Shi Wen identified Zhengzheng as a male panda and agreed to take him to the ranch, where the panda later appeared to be pretending to be sick to avoid eating.
• Shi Wen helped Sikewell deliver foals from six mares at Lian Lishan’s farm, including saving a foal that had inhaled amniotic fluid.
• Zhan Chongyun tested Shi Wen’s eleven horses, and Shi Wen asked for 1.2 million per horse with the condition that retired horses return to the ranch.