Chapter Summaries

Shi Wen prepared for the ranch animals’ births and arranged the July member package, while customer demand for the corn exceeded the small supply. He and Yan Kexing harvested honey and discovered that the light purple fritillary honey seemed to soothe their respiratory systems, so they planned to have it tested.

• Fu Meng and the others helped Shi Wen pack silage, and Shi Wen fed the animals extra cracked corn.
• Shi Wen arranged for Sikewell to monitor the pregnant animals’ births and received Zhu Ji’s report confirming the corn was safe to eat.
• Shi Wen decided to end the annual member gift packages after the current contracts expired and declined requests to sell more corn because he needed it for food and animal feed.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited the hives and found light purple honey among the honeycomb.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing tasted the fritillary honey and noticed its soothing effect, then decided to send it for testing as they continued harvesting.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing harvested their first batch of fritillaria honey and had Zhu Ji test it, discovering its Ability value was 515. Shi Wen decided not to expand the ranch or cultivate more fritillaria, leaving the plants to propagate for next year.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing separated the rare pale purple fritillaria honey from the ordinary honey and weighed their harvest.
• Shi Wen took both kinds of honey to Zhu Ji for testing, and they waited together for the results.
• Zhu Ji announced that the fritillaria honey had an Ability value of 515, the highest he had ever seen.
• Shi Wen said they had only about fifteen jin of fritillaria honey and rejected expanding the ranch to produce more.
• Shi Wen decided to leave the fritillaria in place to propagate, hoping for more flowers and better honey next year.

Shi Wen sold fritillaria honey to Zhu Ji and agreed to sell more to the Abnormal Affairs Bureau after Dang Changming arrived at the ranch. The chapter left Shi Wen preparing to portion out two jin for the Bureau.

• Zhu Ji offered ten million for one jin of fritillaria honey, and Shi Wen agreed to sell it to him.
• Zhu Ji sent the test results to City B and returned to the ranch with Shi Wen and the others to collect his honey.
• Dang Changming arrived by helicopter and asked Shi Wen to sell fritillaria honey to the Abnormal Affairs Bureau.
• Shi Wen agreed to sell the Bureau honey, and Dang Changming offered twenty million per jin with the tax covered.
• Dang Changming asked for two jin, and Shi Wen took him to portion out the honey.

Shi Wen sold fritillaria honey to Dang Changming, received lotus seeds from him, and planted them in the ranch’s channel. Later, Shi Wen discovered that the ranch’s peaches were ripening and began picking the best ones.

• Shi Wen sold Dang Changming fritillaria honey for forty million and gave Zhu Ji a discount on the honey he had bought.
• Dang Changming sent Shi Wen supplies and eighteen lotus seeds from the Abnormal Affairs Bureau headquarters.
• Shi Wen soaked the lotus seeds, then planted them downstream in the ranch’s channel with sticks to keep them in place.
• Shi Wen found that the mountain peaches were ripening, tasted one, and picked the softest fruit from the trees.
• Shi Wen noticed the peaches were unusually flawless, with smooth skins and no wormholes or blemishes.

Shi Wen discovered that Heiwa and the Wolf King had secretly eaten peaches, so he punished them by withholding their share while harvesting the rest for the ranch. Yan Kexing and Shi Wen found the peaches bland, but Yan Kexing improved their flavor by blending them with fritillary honey, and promised to make something else that evening.

• Shi Wen found a nest of peach pits beneath a tree and caught Heiwa and the Wolf King watching guiltily from behind a bush.
• Shi Wen scolded the pair for eating ripe peaches without telling him and denied them their share of the harvest.
• Shi Wen brought Shi Suo and Laibao to carry peaches down from the mountain, then gave peeled peaches to the other little ones.
• Yan Kexing tasted a peach and agreed with Shi Wen that it was juicy but bland, suggesting they wait for the trees to mature.
• The next morning, Yan Kexing served peach juice mixed with fritillary honey, and Shi Wen liked its distinctive flavor.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing made peach wine together before going to bed. The next morning, Shi Wen woke to find a short, fluffy tail had appeared at his tailbone.

• Yan Kexing suggested making peach wine, and Shi Wen picked enough peaches to fill six baskets.
• Yan Kexing and Shi Wen prepared the peaches, added yeast and rock sugar, and sealed the wine jars to ferment.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing made tomato and egg noodles for dinner and went to bed.
• Shi Wen slept uneasily until Yan Kexing held him, then woke groggy beneath a thick quilt.
• Shi Wen discovered a short, fluffy tail at his tailbone that made his lower back go numb when he touched it.

Shi Wen woke to discover that he had grown a small, fluffy Qilin tail and told Yan Kexing and Zhu Ji about it. Yan Kexing and Zhu Ji confirmed it seemed fully developed, though it might still be a young Qilin’s tail.

• Shi Wen examined his new white tail in a mirror and awkwardly learned he could wag it.
• Shi Wen told Yan Kexing, who checked his health and gently touched the sensitive tail.
• Shi Wen struggled to sit comfortably and curled his tail around his backside.
• Shi Wen video-called Zhu Ji and showed him the tail.
• Yan Kexing and Zhu Ji judged that the tail was fully developed but might grow longer as Shi Wen gained energy.

Shi Wen’s Qilin transformation drew the Abnormal Affairs Bureau’s attention, and he traveled with Yan Kexing to City B for testing. The tests went smoothly, and while they waited for the results, Dang Changming spoke with them and served snacks made with ingredients from Shi Wen’s ranch.

• Zhu Ji told Shi Wen that a helicopter would take him to City B for testing and arranged for Duan Kuo to look after the ranch.
• Shi Wen prepared a memo about the ranch, and Yan Kexing reassured him that the trip was only for testing.
• Zhu Ji photographed Shi Wen’s tail and explained that it might help ability users level up and avert their decline.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing traveled by helicopter and passenger plane to City B, where Xing Mingyue’s people drove them to the testing center.
• Shi Wen completed the tests without problems and later met Dang Changming, who offered him snacks made with products from the ranch.

Shi Wen learned that his Divinity and Abilities had risen to God-Level after his Qilin transformation began. The Abnormal Affairs Bureau decided to let him return to the ranch and continue living as before, and he planned to leave the next day.

• Xing Mingyue reported that Shi Wen's Divinity was 170,000 and his Abilities were 168,000, making him a God-Level Abilities User.
• Xing Mingyue gave Shi Wen and Yan Kexing reports confirming Shi Wen's development was normal for a young Qilin.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discussed the Bureau's plans, Shi Wen's new tail, and the possibility that he might become a proper Qilin.
• Shi Wen napped in Yan Kexing's arms until Dang Changming invited them to dinner.
• Dang Changming explained that the Bureau would let Shi Wen return to the ranch and contact him if further cooperation was needed.
• Shi Wen suggested they return to the ranch the next day because it was already late.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing returned to the ranch and found that his transformation had not affected it, while the Abnormal Affairs Bureau’s partnership with him continued smoothly. As a storm brought welcome rain, they shared their newly made peach wine and planned to pickle chive blossoms the next day.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing flew back to the ranch, where Heiwa and the others had kept everything in good order.
• Shi Wen checked the animals’ readings and found them stable, including the pregnant females.
• Yan Kexing said Shi Wen’s path of running a ranch and raising Ability users had been confirmed, and Shi Wen reflected on his mutually beneficial arrangement with the Abnormal Affairs Bureau.
• Rain and strong winds arrived at the ranch, and Yan Kexing brought out the peach wine he and Shi Wen had made.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing drank by the window and planned to pickle chive blossoms when they appeared the next morning.

Shi Wen discovered that the grassland was covered in an extraordinary abundance of chive blossoms and shared chive blossom noodles with Yan Kexing. They decided to gather helpers and make chive blossom sauce, leaving the large harvest still to be picked.

• Shi Wen woke to rain, checked the courtyard, and found chive blossoms blooming more profusely than the previous year.
• Yan Kexing told Shi Wen to look beyond the courtyard, where Shi Wen found the grassland blanketed in dense chive blossoms and took photographs.
• Shi Wen picked a small bunch of blossoms, and he and Yan Kexing added them to lamb noodles for breakfast.
• Shi Wen proposed making chive blossom sauce that day, and Yan Kexing took time off work to help prepare it.
• Shi Wen invited Fu Meng and the others to help, and they eagerly agreed to come taste the blossoms.

Shi Wen and his companions harvested the unusually abundant chive blossoms in his pasture, then decided to use a factory to sort and process them into sauce. Zhu Ji arrived to see the blossoms and told Shi Wen that their growth was a tangible sign of a Qilin’s influence on the area.

• Chang Qingqing admired the dense chive blossoms in Shi Wen’s pasture, and Shi Wen said he had found no poisonous plants there.
• Shi Wen mowed the blossoms while Fu Meng and the others tried to sort them by hand, but Fu Meng said the work was too much to handle manually.
• Fu Meng suggested using a factory’s sorting machines, and Shi Wen realized the factory could also make the blossoms into sauce.
• Shi Wen contacted Zhu Ji, who agreed to find a factory and drove over after hearing there might be tens of thousands of jin of blossoms.
• Zhu Ji compared the sparse wildflowers outside the pasture with the dense blossoms inside and told Shi Wen that their growth showed the Qilin’s influence.

Shi Wen’s ranch produced unusually potent chive blossoms, and the Abnormal Affairs Bureau helped harvest and process them. As sheep-pig sows began giving birth, Shi Wen brought Sikewell to oversee them, and the chapter ended with them watching the piglets in the farrowing room.

• Zhu Ji arranged for Abnormal Affairs Bureau agents to help harvest Shi Wen’s chive blossoms, whose Ability value reached 126.
• Shi Wen sent the Bureau a batch of chive blossom sauce and later found that the blossoms made the chickens’ and geese’s eggs especially fragrant.
• Shi Wen’s tail grew longer as he ate food from the ranch, and he prepared the sheep-pig sows for their due period.
• When the sows went into labor, Shi Wen called Sikewell, who was astonished by how much the ranch had changed.
• Shi Wen and Sikewell entered the farrowing room, where several piglets had already been born and the sows continued laboring.

Shi Wen cared for his woolly sows and their newborn piglets while discussing plans with Sikewell to improve local livestock breeding. After all 104 piglets were born healthy, Shi Wen caught the snow leopard, White Tiger, and the little foxes trying to sneak near the sows, then asked Heiwa to watch them; the Wolf King startled the pigs with a loud howl.

• Sikewell advised Shi Wen to keep the newborn piglets warm and discussed breeding the village's sheep with Shi Wen's fat-tailed rams.
• Shi Wen's ten woolly sows gave birth to 104 lively, healthy piglets, and Sikewell planned to vaccinate and tag them before later helping castrate the males raised for meat.
• Shi Wen decided to keep the female piglets and around ten males as breeding stock, raising the remaining males for meat.
• Shi Wen caught the snow leopard, White Tiger, and the little foxes lurking near the pigpen, scolded them for craving the sows' milk, and asked Heiwa to keep watch.
• The Wolf King howled loudly, frightening the sows and piglets, and Shi Wen flicked his ear and told him not to startle the pigs.

Shi Wen prepared for the livestock breeding plan by visiting Fu Meng, after discussing the arrangements with him. The chapter left Shi Wen at Fu Meng’s house, warming up with fresh milk tea before they began their work.

• Shi Wen promised the Wolf King and the other dogs rewards for helping watch the piglets, then petted the dogs as they gathered around him.
• Shi Wen and Fu Meng agreed over several days of WeChat chats to begin breeding in the next few days.
• Shi Wen woke early, made breakfast, and helped Yan Kexing feed the little ones and tidy the ranch.
• Shi Wen rode his motorcycle to Fu Meng’s house and arrived chilled from the cold morning wind.
• Fu Meng welcomed Shi Wen inside and offered him milk tea made with fresh cow’s and goat’s milk and new tea.

Shi Wen visited Fu Meng’s pasture, assessed Fu Meng’s sheep, and spent the day tending the flock before returning with him to the village. He left the sheepfold to the welcoming smell of dinner at Fu Meng’s home.

• Shi Wen drank milk tea with Fu Meng and learned that the cows’ milk had become richer after eating fodder he had provided.
• Shi Wen examined Fu Meng’s sheep, identified thirteen unsuitable for breeding, and recommended treating the flock for parasites and supplementing their diet.
• Shi Wen noticed that the pasture had limited grass diversity and decided to discuss improving it with Yan Kexing.
• Shi Wen napped on a hillside for more than three hours while Fu Meng watched the flock, then they tended the sheep until evening.
• Shi Wen and Fu Meng herded the sheep back to the village and put them in the fold, where Fu Meng’s family had dinner ready.

Shi Wen shared a mutton meal with Fu Meng’s family and promised to help prepare Fu Meng’s flock for breeding. He later divided the ewes into groups, paired them with second-generation rams, and watched as breeding began.

• Fu Meng’s family served Shi Wen homemade mutton soup and meat, which he enjoyed with wild scallions and chili sauce.
• Shi Wen told Fu Meng he would write a report and help pair the sheep for breeding the following week.
• Shi Wen sorted more than two hundred ewes into six groups by their build and characteristics, explaining his method to Fu Meng and the watching villagers.
• Shi Wen and Fu Meng brought out the second-generation breeding rams, marked their chests with paint, and put them in the pen with the ewes.
• Shi Wen saw the rams mating and reassured the villagers that the breeding was proceeding well.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing prepared the little snow leopard for its eventual transfer to the Sanjiangyuan Protected Area, though Shi Wen felt reluctant to part with it. They took it into the mountains for its last special training session before release.

• Chang Qingqing served milk tea made with milk from animals that ate grass from Shi Wen's ranch, impressing her guests.
• Shi Wen returned home and helped Yan Kexing harvest vegetables and find three ripe watermelons to cool in the creek.
• Yan Kexing told Shi Wen that the Sanjiangyuan Protected Area had asked when they would send the snow leopard, and Shi Wen replied that they would take it for wild training first.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing took the little snow leopard to the mountains, where Shi Wen let it explore while staying nearby.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing followed the snow leopard up a wild mountain, but lost its trail when the tracking app’s signal failed. They stopped to eat and rest beneath a rock, leaving the snow leopard to find them again.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing climbed the mountain along an ibex trail after the snow leopard ran ahead.
• Shi Wen let out his ears and tail to help him balance, and Yan Kexing teased him by stroking his tail.
• They spotted protected plants and photographed them without picking any.
• Shi Wen found that the weak phone signal made it difficult to track the snow leopard, so Yan Kexing suggested they eat while waiting for it to return.
• Yan Kexing spread a down blanket over Shi Wen and held him as they settled down for a nap.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing rested together on a mountain before Yan Kexing revealed his dragon form and took Shi Wen flying. They set off to search for the snow leopard, with Shi Wen thrilled to ride on Yan Kexing’s back.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing talked about how Heiwa and the others had grown stronger, and Shi Wen noted that he had become a God-Level Abilities User in only three years.
• After waking from a long nap, Shi Wen wanted to track the snow leopard, but Yan Kexing offered to find it in his dragon form.
• Yan Kexing transformed into a glowing dragon more than ten meters long, leaving Shi Wen awestruck.
• Shi Wen climbed onto Yan Kexing’s back, and Yan Kexing held his legs securely as they flew through the air.
• Yan Kexing offered to fly faster, and Shi Wen excitedly agreed to the ride.