Chapter Summaries

Shen Wansan launched a new campaign to expand Myriad Things General Store into cities controlled by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. At Qingyun Sect, Chen Fan was named Young Sect Master and ordered to lead a response to a rival sect’s challenge, leaving him resigned to putting on another act.

• Shen Wansan assigned two hundred new doppelgangers to train at open branches and sent experienced doppelgangers to establish stores across the Dagan Dynasty and Anyuan Dynasty.
• Qin Songyun and the Elders named Chen Fan Qingyun Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Chen Fan accepted the responsibility.
• A powerful Nascent Soul Realm aura arrived outside Cloud Hall, and Qin Songyun identified the visitor as a representative of a sect seeking to rise by challenging Qingyun Sect.
• Qin Songyun asked Chen Fan how the sect should respond, and Chen Fan said they should fight.
• Qin Songyun ordered Chen Fan to lead the team, while Song Zheng, Yu Xingsi, and Zhou Quan joined him.

The Feiyun Sect challenged the Qingyun Sect to a display of strength ahead of the Centennial Competition, forcing Qin Songyun to send Chen Fan and the others to answer. Chen Fan chose to fight first, and his match against Lu Yan began.

• Liu Yuquan arrived with three early Golden Core Realm disciples and provoked Li Qiang into accepting a challenge.
• Qin Songyun appeared and assigned Chen Fan, Song Zheng, Yu Xingsi, and Zhou Quan to face the Feiyun Sect disciples.
• Yu Xingsi, Song Zheng, and Zhou Quan offered to go first, but Chen Fan said he would take the field himself.
• Chen Fan challenged the three Feiyun Sect disciples to face him together or one at a time.
• Lu Yan stepped forward to fight Chen Fan, and both of them charged at each other.

Chen Fan defeated Feiyun Sect disciples Lu Yan and Li Hao in succession during the Dharma Duel, revealing Qingyun Sect’s strength and alarming Liu Yuquan. Liu Yuquan secretly ordered his final disciple to kill Chen Fan as the next match approached.

• Chen Fan defeated Lu Yan with a palm strike, then pretended to be exhausted as Qingyun Sect celebrated.
• Qin Songyun reassured Yu Xingsi, Song Zheng, and Zhou Quan that Chen Fan was fine, and Chen Fan challenged another opponent.
• Li Hao challenged Chen Fan with a saber-shaped Magic Artifact, but Chen Fan outmaneuvered him with his swordsmanship and defeated him.
• Liu Yuquan recognized Chen Fan as a future threat and secretly instructed his final disciple to kill him.

Chen Fan accepted Feiyun Sect’s final challenge and fought Huo Gang, whose overwhelming hammer attacks he evaded before turning the battle around. Huo Gang broke through to the middle Golden Core Realm, but Chen Fan reacted with excitement rather than fear.

• Chen Fan ignored Qin Songyun’s concerns and called for Feiyun Sect’s next challenger.
• Liu Yuquan sent Huo Gang, a powerful Feiyun Sect disciple, to fight Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan dodged Huo Gang’s hammer attacks and endured the prolonged battle without showing signs of exhaustion.
• Chen Fan launched a fierce counterattack, wounded Huo Gang, and drove him backward.
• Huo Gang erupted with spiritual power and broke through to the middle Golden Core Realm.
• Chen Fan laughed at Huo Gang’s breakthrough and looked excited by the chance to improve his cultivation.

Chen Fan defeated Huo Gang after revealing mid-stage Golden Core Realm cultivation, securing Qingyun Sect’s victory and impressing the gathered sects. After Qin Songyun celebrated Chen Fan’s appointment as Young Sect Master, Chen Fan asked to focus on cultivation and left to meet Yu Xingsi and the others.

• Chen Fan revealed a mid-stage Golden Core Realm aura and resumed fighting Huo Gang, whose strength he gradually overwhelmed.
• Chen Fan struck Huo Gang with Sword Qi, disarmed him, and wounded his shoulder, winning the contest.
• Liu Yuquan admitted Feiyun Sect’s defeat and departed with Huo Gang, secretly resolving to find a way to kill Chen Fan.
• Qin Songyun praised Chen Fan and held a banquet where he reaffirmed Chen Fan’s appointment as Young Sect Master.
• Chen Fan asked Qin Songyun to let him focus on consolidating his cultivation, then said Yu Xingsi and the others wanted to see him.

Feiyun Sect decided to eliminate Chen Fan after his victories exposed the threat Qingyun Sect posed, while Chen Ze cultivated to the sixth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm and advanced his business expansion. The chapter ended with the Myriad Things General Store facing manageable resistance from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

• Liu Yuquan reported Chen Fan's victories to Feiyun Sect, and the sect's leaders concluded that Chen Fan had to die.
• Chen Ze spent five days cultivating and broke through to the sixth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Chen Ze perfected Immortal Golden Essence and practiced fusing Gold, Fire, and Earth spiritual powers with the Chaos Energy Cluster.
• Chen Ze left the Automated Training Room and decided to wait for Lu Zhiwen and the others to report on Sun Tai.
• Chen Ze asked Shen Wansan about the Myriad Things General Store, and Shen Wansan reported that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce was causing limited resistance in some cities.

Chen Ze found an ownerless mine in Cangzhou and confirmed that a mineral vein had revived beneath it. When the vein emerged as a colossal figure, it accused him of refusing to let it go even after it had fallen into its current state.

• Chen Ze transferred his consciousness to a Doppelganger in Cangzhou, which showed him an abandoned mine with a newly formed mineral vein deep underground.
• Chen Ze used Heavenly Eye to confirm that a mineral vein remained in the fissure, and the Doppelganger suggested digging it out.
• The mine shook and a roar came from the fissure, so Chen Ze retreated and set up three Sixth-grade Formations around the area.
• A colossal figure covered in rock and ore rose from the fissure, and Chen Ze realized it was the mineral vein.
• The mineral vein glared at Chen Ze and asked why he still would not let it go despite its condition.

Chen Ze persuaded the sentient mineral vein to trust him and began excavating the Mine so he could move it to a new habitat. As the work neared completion, explosions struck the formation surrounding the Mine, leaving Chen Ze and the mineral vein alarmed.

• Chen Ze stopped the Concealment Formation and convinced the mineral vein that he could help free it from its restraints.
• Chen Ze offered to preserve the mineral vein while receiving only the ores it could provide, and promised to help it find a new home.
• The mineral vein agreed to trust Chen Ze, warning that it would resist if he broke his promise.
• Chen Ze summoned his Doppelgangers and directed them to excavate the Mine so they could move it together with the mineral vein.
• After the Doppelgangers excavated the Mine, explosions shook the formation, and Chen Ze wondered whether cultivators had discovered them.

Chen Ze confronted cultivators from the Purple Firmament Sect who demanded he abandon the formation he had built over an abandoned mine. As the battle turned against the sect cultivators, reinforcements arrived aboard a flying palace, and Chen Ze refused to withdraw.

• Chen Ze discovered dozens of Purple Firmament Sect cultivators attacking his Sixth-grade Formation and emerged to confront them.
• The silver-robed cultivator claimed the mountain as Purple Firmament Sect property and demanded Chen Ze remove the formation, but Chen Ze refused.
• Chen Ze summoned dozens of Doppelgangers, frightening the sect cultivators, and sent them into battle when the silver-robed cultivator offered to withdraw.
• The Purple Firmament Sect cultivators struggled against the Doppelgangers until a flying palace arrived with reinforcements.
• The silver-robed cultivator urged Chen Ze to withdraw, and Chen Ze asked what would happen if he refused.

Chen Ze fought off the Purple Firmament Sect’s reinforcements and defeated their gold-robed cultivator, whose Purple Firmament Divine Thunder could not harm him. Just as Chen Ze’s sword strike was about to finish the cultivator, True Man Zi Xiao intervened and asked him to end the dispute, but Chen Ze refused to back down.

• Chen Ze summoned dozens of Doppelgangers to battle the Purple Firmament Sect’s reinforcements and overpowered their gold-robed cultivator.
• The gold-robed cultivator struck Chen Ze with a golden pillar of light, but Chen Ze endured it and blasted him away with Sword Qi.
• The gold-robed cultivator unleashed Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, but Chen Ze’s Invincible Golden Body left him unharmed.
• Chen Ze used Taihe Sword, Cleave Heaven and Split Earth to attack the gold-robed cultivator, but an unseen force diverted the strike.
• True Man Zi Xiao appeared, stopped the fight, and asked Chen Ze to let the matter end; Chen Ze asked what would happen if he refused.

Chen Ze fought True Man Zi Xiao of the Purple Firmament Sect, matching his purple lightning with Five Elements spiritual power and the Taihe Sword. After they ended the duel, True Man Zi Xiao withdrew, and Chen Ze kept the Mine before returning to the formation.

• Chen Ze rejected True Man Zi Xiao’s warning and insisted on fighting, eager to test his strength against a Spirit Severing Realm expert.
• True Man Zi Xiao summoned purple lightning as Chen Ze attacked with the Taihe Sword, and their first clash ended with both standing their ground.
• Chen Ze and True Man Zi Xiao continued trading powerful attacks while the Purple Firmament Sect cultivators and Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers watched.
• True Man Zi Xiao called off the duel, and Chen Ze sheathed his sword as the Invincible Golden Body’s effects neared their end.
• Chen Ze claimed the Mine, True Man Zi Xiao led the Purple Firmament Sect disciples away, and Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers returned to the Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze flashed into the formation.

Chen Ze brought the sentient mineral vein from the abandoned Mine into his Myriad Things Space, where it found a thriving place to recover. After discovering that the vein produced Spirit Stones, which its former miners called Spirit Crystals, Chen Ze asked how long it had existed.

• Chen Ze stored the Mine and mineral vein in the Myriad Things Space, then left the formation behind.
• True Man Zi Xiao and the gold-robed and silver-robed cultivators found the Mine gone and ordered an investigation into Chen Ze, instructing their people not to disturb him.
• The mineral vein awoke in the Myriad Things Space, and Chen Ze explained that it could recover there in peace.
• Chen Ze accompanied the mineral vein into its Mine, where it showed him a Spirit Crystal.
• Chen Ze recognized the Spirit Crystal as a Low-grade Spirit Stone and asked the mineral vein how many years it had existed.

Chen Ze learned that Spirit Crystal was an ancient mine vein whose Spirit Crystals had been exhaustively mined by cultivators, leaving it weak and nearly dormant. After the Jade Green Lion explained that Spirit Crystals were the old name for Spirit Stones and needed time, Spiritual Energy, and safety to recover, Spirit Crystal agreed to recuperate in Myriad Things Space.

• Spirit Crystal recalled how cultivators from an ancient, prosperous era mined its reserves until its main body was nearly exhausted and its sentience fell into slumber.
• Chen Ze sympathized with Spirit Crystal and promised that no one would harm it in Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze brought the Jade Green Lion to meet Spirit Crystal and asked whether it knew about the ancient name.
• The Jade Green Lion explained that Spirit Crystals and Spirit Stones were the same ore, and that Spirit Crystal needed abundant Spiritual Energy, time, and a safe environment to recover.
• Spirit Crystal agreed to stay in Myriad Things Space and returned to its ruined mine to recuperate.

Chen Ze and Jade Green Lion decided not to pry into the intelligent Spirit Crystal vein’s past and focused instead on repairing it. They visited Little Silver, whose injuries had healed but who still could not take human form, and encouraged it to overcome its emotional distress.

• Jade Green Lion told Chen Ze that the Spirit Crystal vein had developed intelligence and might hold secrets left by ancient cultivators.
• Chen Ze argued that they should respect Spirit Crystal’s painful memories and let it reveal its secrets if it chose to.
• Jade Green Lion reported that Little Silver’s physical injuries had healed, but it still could not take human form, possibly because of a psychological barrier.
• Chen Ze and Jade Green Lion visited Little Silver beneath a tree in Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze comforted Little Silver and promised that they would help it adjust and search for a way to take human form.
• Little Silver thanked Chen Ze and said it would try to let go of its shadows and adapt to its current life.

Chen Ze recovered six days of accumulated goods and earned enough profits to bring Myriad Things Space closer to its upgrade requirement. He restocked the Myriad Things General Stores with 200 million Points' worth of Cultivation Resources, then checked on the recovering Spirit Crystal Mine and the demonic beasts.

• Xiao Ping and Xiao An told Chen Ze that supplies for the Myriad Things General Stores were running low and that it was time for his recovery.
• Chen Ze recovered six days of goods, including herbs, earnings from Doppelgangers and Mines, and profits from 609 Myriad Things General Stores, leaving him with 320 million Points and High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Ze decided to exchange 200 million Points' worth of Cultivation Resources and had the Green-robed Woman provide the items on Xiao Ping's supply list.
• Chen Ze left Xiao Ping, Xiao An, and 100 Doppelgangers to sort the supplies and inspected the ruined Spirit Crystal Mine, which was slowly recovering.
• Chen Ze observed that the demonic beasts were thriving in Myriad Things Space, but he still had not found a way for Little Silver to take human form.

Chen Ze investigated the Xuantian Hall branch and sent his Doppelgangers to probe the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and prepare to take over its Longqing City market. He began arranging a meeting with the Doppelgangers at the Longqing City branch.

• Li Hengwen told Chen Ze that the mining area was running normally and that the captured Xuantian Hall members’ memories revealed little about the organization beyond its branches and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
• Chen Ze contacted Doppelganger Liu Wuhen, who was waiting for a Four Seas Chamber of Commerce superior to meet him after claiming he had earnings to deliver.
• Chen Ze ordered Liu Jiang, Ma Hua, and Zhang Jue to open a Myriad Things General Store in Longqing City, and they chose a location beside the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
• Chen Ze told Qi Wencheng to gather all the Doppelgangers at the Longqing City branch for a brief meeting.

Chen Ze ordered his doppelgangers to replace the Longqing City Four Seas Chamber of Commerce with a Myriad Things General Store and expand into major cities in the Anyuan Dynasty. After reaching the seventh layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm and advancing his spell proficiency, he turned to formation research before a doppelganger called for him.

• Chen Ze assigned Qi Wencheng and Han Gai to manage the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce in Longqing City and help establish a Myriad Things General Store there.
• Chen Ze sent the remaining doppelgangers in pairs to open Myriad Things General Stores in major cities of the Anyuan Dynasty, with Chen Lao Liu and Shen Wansan to assist them.
• After two days of cultivation, Chen Ze reached the seventh layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and his Immortal Golden Essence and Shadow Tracking Method both reached Grandmaster-level proficiency.
• Chen Ze entered the Formation Study Room to check on the Seventh-grade Hua Ling Seal Formation, which was expected to be finished in two days.
• A doppelganger called for Chen Ze.

Chen Ze sent his Doppelganger to investigate the treasure map left by Ye Kai, which led to an ancient cultivator’s cave mansion and a mysterious bead. The bead transported the Doppelganger away, while the ruins reset themselves and sealed their entrance.

• The Doppelganger told Chen Ze he had found the destination marked on Ye Kai’s treasure map, and Chen Ze instructed him to explore carefully.
• The Doppelganger reached a hidden valley and used the treasure map to open the ancient stone gate to the cave mansion.
• The Doppelganger entered the underground chamber, found a jade box containing a glowing bead, and reported it to Chen Ze.
• When the Doppelganger picked up the bead, strange energy enveloped him and he vanished, leaving the bead back inside the jade box.
• The chamber, traps, and stone gate reset, and the ruins fell silent again.

Chen Ze lost contact with his Doppelganger and tracked its last known location to an ancient stone door. After forcing the door open and cautiously exploring the underground chamber, he found the jade box the Doppelganger had mentioned and used the Heavenly Eye to inspect it.

• Chen Ze discovered he could no longer sense or summon his Doppelganger, so he took control of another Doppelganger and used the Shadow Tracking Method to find the missing one’s last aura.
• Chen Ze reached the ancient stone door but lacked its treasure map and key, so he used the Heavenly Eye to find the restriction’s weakness.
• Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers repeatedly struck the runes with the Purple Firmament Sword until the restriction vanished and the stone door opened.
• Chen Ze left his Doppelgangers on guard, descended the staircase, and carefully dismantled several mechanisms before reaching an underground chamber.
• Chen Ze found a jade box on a stone table, discovered his divine sense could not penetrate it, and called upon the Heavenly Eye to inspect it.

Chen Ze discovered that the underground chamber was a seventh-grade phantom array centered on a jade box and pearl, but his Doppelganger was trapped inside it. After reaching the Doppelganger and taking control of another one, Chen Ze entered the strange realm and learned from Heavenly Eye that it was a real world, not an illusion.

• Heavenly Eye revealed that the underground chamber was a phantom array and that the jade box and pearl were its key nodes, so Chen Ze hesitated to destroy them while his Doppelganger was missing.
• The vanished Doppelganger contacted Chen Ze and warned him not to touch the jade box or pearl, explaining that strange energy had trapped him in an unfamiliar world.
• Chen Ze told the Doppelganger to summon another Doppelganger and withdraw, then transferred his consciousness into the summoned body inside the strange realm.
• Chen Ze confirmed he could enter Myriad Things Space from the realm and began investigating it with the treasure-hunting Doppelganger.
• Heavenly Eye revealed that the realm was a real world rather than an illusion.