Lu Xiaoxu unlocks dream manipulation, and Lu Shu rents a high-energy plot of land to farm leeks. Afterward, Lu Shu boards a train to Beijing for an assessment, successfully defends against an ambush by hostile foreign forces using students as bait, defeats a water-element attacker, and recovers a valuable item from the riverbed.

After returning from the Salt Lake ruins with newfound wealth and dark web intel, Lu Shu gives a ruin fruit to Old Li to help him reach A-grade. Meanwhile, Lu Shu works around his own blocked sea of Qi, receives an official rank promotion from the Heavenly Network, and watches Old Li successfully advance.