Chapter Summaries

Ji Qinglin helped NanGong Qian Feng prepare for the Dao Pledge Convention by arranging support from four chambers of commerce, then left with Yu Ye and Red Night. Meanwhile, four impostors dressed as Ji Qinglin encountered a drunken girl outside his old store, who recognized all four as the people she had been searching for.

• Four men disguised as Ji Qinglin planned to spread rumors by committing minor crimes and leaving traces tied to his name.
• The impostors met a small, drunken girl outside Ji's General Store, claimed they were all Ji Qinglin, and watched her say she had finally found them.
• After the Dao Pledge Convention arrangements concluded, Kong DeCheng left without greeting Ji Qinglin, while NanGong Qian Feng thanked Ji Qinglin for helping her confront Immortal Path Biology.
• Ji Qinglin offered to arrange six experts from four chambers of commerce to strengthen Four Seas Trade's bench team, and NanGong Qian Feng accepted and hugged him in gratitude.
• Ji Qinglin left with Yu Ye and Red Night, but his uncontrolled hand landed on Red Night's thigh in the SUV, prompting her to tell him to wait until they got home.

Ji Qinglin met Lu Bing, who had come to kill him, and persuaded her to spare his life after sharing iced cola. He asked to test her strength, and Yu Ye and Red Night returned just as he was thrown out of the store covered in blood.

• Ji Qinglin and his disciples found four beaten Daoists outside their home and asked Yu Ye to contact the police.
• They found Lu Bing sleeping outside the General Store, brought her inside, and gave her iced cola.
• Ji Qinglin recognized Lu Bing as one of the Nine Heroes and learned she had come to kill him, but she offered him a chance to live if he left Bangkok and abandoned his Qi Practitioner identity.
• Ji Qinglin agreed immediately, then asked to witness Lu Bing's strength before leaving.
• Yu Ye and Red Night turned back after realizing they did not both need to buy cola, and they saw Ji Qinglin fly out of the store covered in blood.

Yu Ye and Red Night returned to help Ji Qinglin fight Water Hero Lu Bing, but Lu Bing recognized something about Red Night’s soul and demanded to know her past. After Ji Qinglin concealed the truth, Lu Bing ordered the three of them to stay where they were.

• Yu Ye and Red Night attacked Lu Bing together, but she calmly repelled their lightning and soul-based techniques.
• Ji Qinglin struck Lu Bing with Azure Sky Lightning, then told his disciples that their opponent was Water Hero Lu Bing of the Nine Heroes.
• Lu Bing recognized Red Night through contact with her soul body and asked whether she remembered who she was and where her body had gone.
• Ji Qinglin refused to reveal where he had found Red Night, claiming that she had been hurt before and that he wanted to protect her from further pursuit.
• Yu Ye and Red Night pretended that their past was too painful to discuss, convincing Lu Bing to insist that they remain and that nobody would be allowed to leave.

Kong DeCheng sought help to ensure Immortal Path Biology won its Dao Pledge Convention against Four Seas Trade, while Ji Qinglin learned more about Red Night’s past from Lu Bing. The chapter ended with Red Night refusing to leave Ji Qinglin and Xin Dong Street for Heavenly Water Dojo.

• Kong DeCheng urged NanGong Qian Cheng to find a way to kill NanGong Qian Feng, offering him the support of Immortal Path Biology’s noncompeting people.
• Yu Hang told Kong DeCheng that Lu Bing, the Water Hero among the Nine Heroes, would preside over the Dao Pledge Convention, delighting him.
• Lu Bing told Ji Qinglin that she recognized Red Night by her unique soul and had once been Red Night’s close friend and lifesaver.
• Lu Bing promised not to harm Red Night and said she would reveal the truth about her past after investigating it.
• Ji Qinglin told Lu Bing that he had rescued Red Night and Yu Ye aboard the Duolong Maru, prompting Lu Bing to suggest Red Night return with her to Heavenly Water Dojo.
• Red Night refused to leave Ji Qinglin and Xin Dong Street, declaring that she would remain his disciple even after learning her past identity.

Lu Bing returned to Ji Qinglin’s General Store after leaving, deciding to stay in Bangkok with Red Night while she investigated her own past and handled a separate matter. As Lu Bing settled in with Ji Qinglin, Red Night, and Yu Ye, the group ended the chapter preparing to share the cramped shop for the night.

• Lu Bing returned Red Night’s contact information and cola pendant, revealed that Wild God Technology wanted Ji Qinglin dead, and promised to investigate while urging them to keep Red Night’s identity secret.
• Red Night admitted she felt overwhelmed by learning she had another identity, and Ji Qinglin reassured her that she could choose whether to pursue or leave behind her past.
• Red Night and Yu Ye teased each other about their closeness with Ji Qinglin, then Red Night returned to his room and tried to initiate dual cultivation before Lu Bing’s arrival interrupted them.
• Lu Bing came back with cases of cola and decided to stay at the General Store for several days, explaining that she needed to finish a matter in Bangkok without alerting anyone.
• Red Night helped Lu Bing bathe and change into children’s dinosaur pajamas, while Yu Ye bought clothes and Ji Qinglin prepared to sleep in the living room.
• Lu Bing suggested that Ji Qinglin join the women in the bedroom, then watched him undress until Red Night pulled her away.

Ji Qinglin and the others spent the night with Lu Bing, who discussed cultivation and her past with Red Night and Yu Ye. Their rest was interrupted when Shen Bixin arrived badly wounded, pursued by five masked attackers, and Ji Qinglin stepped out to confront them.

• Lu Bing teased Red Night and Yu Ye in bed, then explained that talent and fortune had helped her become one of the Nine Heroes and that cola affected her cultivation.
• Ji Qinglin practiced controlling data qi force while recovering, and Yu Ye later sneaked out to check on his injured hand.
• Ji Qinglin comforted Yu Ye about her missing past, and they rested together on the sofa bed.
• A motorcycle crash and strange noises awakened everyone, and Ji Qinglin found a bloody handprint and a familiar figure at the General Store door.
• Three short blades flew toward Shen Bixin, but Ji Qinglin knocked them away with Consciousness Sword Intent and caught her as she fell.
• Yu Ye treated Shen Bixin's wounds while Ji Qinglin saw five masked pursuers on the opposite rooftop and went out to face them.

Shen Bixin escaped from Immortal Path Biology’s Warehouse Number One with evidence and information about the Immortal Remains, but she was badly wounded and pursued to Ji Qinglin’s General Store. Ji Qinglin took her toward the hospital while Lu Bing and Red Night stayed behind to face the pursuers.

• Kong DeCheng learned that Warehouse Number One had been infiltrated and ordered his guards to pursue the thief and move the Immortal Remains.
• Shen Bixin, injured and pursued after stealing the Immortal Remains and preserving evidence, crashed outside Ji Qinglin’s General Store.
• Ji Qinglin blocked the pursuers, and the shop’s traps incapacitated nine warehouse guards who tried to seize Shen Bixin.
• Lu Bing stopped Shen Bixin’s bleeding and put her to sleep, then let Ji Qinglin take her to the hospital while she handled the pursuers.
• Lu Bing halted the pursuers’ concealed weapons and used Red Night to hold Kong Wei and the four other guards in place.

Red Night, guided by Lu Bing, defeated four Immortal Path Biology fighters who had attacked Ji Qinglin’s General Store. Kong Wei escaped and reported that Ji Qinglin had another disciple whose strength seemed to reach the Golden Core realm.

• Kong Wei and the four Immortal Path Biology fighters broke Red Night’s confinement and decided to test her strength, while Xie Ling and Fan Yu stayed back.
• A Xian attacked Red Night with a fire technique, then joined A Dao and A Sheng in forming the Fire Phoenix Sword Stance, with A Wu hiding a blade behind the phoenix’s head.
• Following Lu Bing’s instructions, Red Night stopped the fire phoenix with two fingers and exposed the concealed blade.
• Lu Bing guided Red Night as she slammed all four fighters into the ground, grievously injuring them.
• Kong Wei fled, and Red Night told Xie Ling and Fan Yu to call the Dark Police to take the fighters for interrogation.
• Kong Wei called to report that Ji Qinglin’s disciple was a peerless expert, possibly at least Golden Core realm, and insisted he was not joking about encountering one of the Nine Heroes.

Ji Qinglin brought the wounded Shen Bixin to Sun Yi’s clinic, where she recovered and revealed she had secretly located Immortal Remains hidden at Immortal Path Biology. After Yu Ye kissed Ji Qinglin to stop him from talking about leaving his disciples, he embraced Shen Bixin and declared her debt repaid.

• Kong DeCheng dismissed Kong Wei’s account of Ji Qinglin’s disciple but ordered Warehouse Number One moved to protect the Immortal Remains.
• Ji Qinglin brought Shen Bixin to Sun Yi’s clinic, where Sun Yi stabilized her and Ji Qinglin found a signal receiver in her hand.
• Red Night reported that Shen Bixin’s pursuers came from Immortal Path Biology, and Yu Ye and Ji Qinglin wondered what she had discovered.
• Ji Qinglin told Yu Ye he hoped his disciples could stand on their own someday, and Yu Ye kissed him to stop him from imagining leaving them.
• After Shen Bixin woke, she revealed the signal receiver tracked Immortal Remains hidden at Immortal Path Biology and said the discovery was a gift to Ji Qinglin.
• Ji Qinglin kissed Shen Bixin’s forehead and said she had repaid her debt, prompting her to shove him away and curse him.

Shen Bixin told Ji Qinglin that Immortal Path Biology might be trying to restore the bloodied Immortal Remains using corpses stripped of their spines and meridians. After leaving her to recover, Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store and began training with Lu Bing, whose guidance revealed the vast qi in his inner landscape; his first attempt to channel it ended with Lu Bing crying out.

• Shen Bixin described finding a bloodied spinal bone and corpses missing their spinal bones and meridians in Immortal Path Biology's secret warehouse, leading her and Ji Qinglin to suspect the company was trying to raise Immortal Remains.
• Ji Qinglin told Shen Bixin to stay out of further danger and recover, then left Sun Yi's place with Yu Ye after Shen Bixin warned him to be careful.
• Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store, learned that Red Night and Lu Bing had handled the attackers, and accepted Lu Bing's offer to guide his cultivation.
• Lu Bing connected to Ji Qinglin's inner landscape and discovered that his personal qi was vast, then explained that he needed to unleash his techniques at their inner-landscape strength.
• Ji Qinglin gathered the data streams into a vortex and struck out with a palm, sending waves across the Sea of Data and making Lu Bing cry out through their connection.

Ji Qinglin practiced manipulating the Qi Strength Sea in his inner realm with Lu Bing’s help, while their struggle over the sea’s currents caused Lu Bing increasingly embarrassing sensations. Ji Qinglin tried channeling lightning strength to connect his inner and outer Qi, and the attempt ended with Lu Bing kicking him off the mat.

• Ji Qinglin’s power circulation stirred the Qi Strength Sea and caused Lu Bing’s body to heat up, though she told him she had merely lost her breath.
• Ji Qinglin repeated the exercise, convinced that the rising heat and mist were clues to improving his control, while Yu Ye and Red Night noticed his and Lu Bing’s flushed, sweating state.
• Red Night joked about drugging Ji Qinglin and Lu Bing to encourage them to dual cultivate, and Yu Ye rebuked her.
• Ji Qinglin raised water tornadoes and unleashed a powerful burst of Qi Strength, but Lu Bing said he probably had not broken through.
• Ji Qinglin concluded he needed to use his strongest attribute, transformed the surrounding Qi Strength into lightning, and crashed it into the sea.
• Lu Bing cried out and kicked Ji Qinglin off the Kung Fu Mat.

Ji Qinglin’s lightning practice accidentally used Lu Bing as a conduit, and she kicked him away before he could continue. Meanwhile, NanGong Qian Feng sought her father’s blessing before the coming Dao Pledge Convention, unaware that NanGong Wang was alive and had designed the contest as a trial for her.

• Ji Qinglin’s lightning techniques linked through Lu Bing, who kicked him off the Kung Fu Mat and then refused his request to practice more with her.
• Ji Qinglin asked Lu Bing to help him in a coming fight, but she refused to take action and planned to attend Immortal Path Biology’s Dao Pledge Convention herself.
• NanGong Qian Feng asked NanGong Qian Xing to burn incense for their father before her convention, and he swore to relay her words.
• After NanGong Qian Feng left, NanGong Qian Xing visited the supposedly dead NanGong Wang, who revealed that the convention was a trial meant to strengthen Qian Feng and reclaim control of Four Seas Trade if she failed.
• NanGong Qian Xing went to burn incense before NanGong Wang’s grave, joking that Qian Feng might kill their father once she learned the truth.

Ji Qinglin cooked a meal of cola-based dishes to win Lu Bing over and get her to teach him cultivation techniques. Lu Bing enjoyed the food but demanded the recipes as well, leaving their bargain unresolved.

• Ji Qinglin spent five days studying cultivation while Lu Bing trained Yu Ye and Red Night.
• Ji Qinglin decided to use food from his previous life to build a connection with Lu Bing.
• Lu Bing, Yu Ye, and Red Night woke to the smell of Ji Qinglin cooking and went downstairs to investigate.
• Lu Bing criticized Ji Qinglin for cooking with cola, then eagerly ate his Honey Cola Chicken Wings and other cola dishes.
• Ji Qinglin asked Lu Bing to teach him cultivation techniques, and Lu Bing said he would have to include the recipes.

Lu Bing left Ji Qinglin’s group after teaching him and the two Nights, while promising to return once she had investigated Red Night’s past. After her departure, Ji Qinglin revealed his plan to raid Immortal Path Biology’s stronghold and turn the discovery of the Immortal Remains into a public scandal against the organization.

• Lu Bing taught Ji Qinglin techniques and helped Red Night and Yu Ye improve their combined moves, impressed by Ji Qinglin’s talent and cooking.
• Lu Bing departed for important business, promising to return in a week and warning that she might abduct Ji Qinglin after Red Night’s past was settled.
• Ji Qinglin punished Red Night for secretly asking Lu Bing to make his training harsher, while Yu Ye joined in holding Red Night down.
• Jiang Chen reported that the operation was arranged, but Ji Qinglin ordered him to stay out of the dangerous raid and confirmed that the covert police would lead it.
• Ji Qinglin explained that the raid would expose corpses and evidence linked to Immortal Path Biology, giving the authorities grounds to pursue the organization while making the Immortal Remains a source of pressure at the Dao Pledge Convention.
• Red Night and Yu Ye agreed to join the investigation, and Ji Qinglin told them to destroy the stronghold before investigating it.

Ji Qinglin led an undercover police operation to raid Immortal Path Biology’s hidden laboratory, where Kong Wei and Shen BuJue were studying an Immortal Remains. The chapter ended with Shen BuJue discovering Ji Qinglin had infiltrated the plant, just as Ji Qinglin revealed himself.

• Ji Qinglin secured Cui SanMei’s backing and arrived at the inn with Yu Ye and Red Night to coordinate the raid with Xie Ling and Fan Yu.
• Ji Qinglin assigned Fan Yu to disable technological surveillance and Xie Ling to poison the outer perimeter while he handled the experts inside.
• Kong Wei warned Shen BuJue that Ji Qinglin might find their hideout, while researchers extracted Immortal Remains from a corpse for the company’s research.
• Shen BuJue sensed that the fire seeds guarding the plant had gone out, and Kong Wei contacted the top-floor patrol to check for intruders.
• Ji Qinglin posed as a lookout over the intercom, but Shen BuJue exposed him with a question about a password that did not exist, and Ji Qinglin revealed himself.

Ji Qinglin led a covert police raid on the Food Processing Plant to seize evidence and arrest its occupants. After a trap of tranquilizer fire and disabled mechanical guards, he jumped down to confront Shen BuJue, while his team searched for the hidden escape route.

• Ji Qinglin’s team infiltrated the Food Processing Plant using sedatives, surveillance tampering, and coordinated covert police tactics.
• Ji Qinglin negotiated with Shen BuJue, who proposed a duel as cover while Kong Wei escaped through a hidden passage carrying the Immortal Remains.
• Ji Qinglin had his team throw Electromagnetic Disruption Grenades and Cybernetic Virus Grenades into the second floor, disabling its mechanical guards after they fired tranquilizer darts.
• Shen BuJue used blue flames to clear the disabled guards and called Ji Qinglin down to fight, while Ji Qinglin ordered his team to search for the secret passage.
• Ji Qinglin jumped to the second floor and faced Shen BuJue, recognizing that the man’s blue flames posed a serious threat.

Ji Qinglin fought Shen BuJue underground and copied the principles of his Azure Beacon Flame technique to create a new sword-intent attack. He baited Shen BuJue beneath the entrance to the second level, where a white-haired woman blinded him with medicinal powder.

• Xie Ling identified Shen BuJue as a Great Grandmaster who cultivated fire force, and Ji Qinglin confronted him beside the door leading deeper underground.
• Shen BuJue revived four flaming mechanical guards, but Ji Qinglin extinguished their flames and knocked them aside.
• Ji Qinglin redirected Shen BuJue's azure fire dragon, then studied his Swift Fire Meteors while weaving through the barrage.
• Ji Qinglin recreated the technique with Only Consciousness Sword Intent, naming his attack Sword Intent Flowing Clouds, and wounded Shen BuJue.
• Shen BuJue charged Ji Qinglin with Prairie Fire Fist, but Ji Qinglin seized his arm beneath the entrance, where a short white-haired woman struck medicinal powder into Shen BuJue's face.

Ji Qinglin and his allies ambushed Shen BuJue at the Food Processing Plant, but Shen survived their coordinated attacks and fled. Ji Qinglin pursued him, trying to learn his healing technique, and confronted him about the Immortal Remains he was carrying.

• Xie Ling poisoned Shen BuJue with Drunken Immortal Powder while Ji Qinglin lured him into the cave entrance, and Yu Ye and Red Night struck him with lightning and a soul-body spear.
• Shen BuJue survived the attacks by using the Eternal Tribulation Fire Art to heal himself and burn away the poison, then escaped through a window.
• Ji Qinglin pursued Shen BuJue while Yu Ye, Red Night, and Xie Ling went to inspect the lower floors and help search for Kong Wei.
• Ji Qinglin attacked Shen BuJue with Sword Intent Flowing Clouds, both hindering his recovery and studying his Eternal Tribulation Fire Art.
• Ji Qinglin deduced that Shen BuJue was trying to take the Immortal Remains out and demanded that he hand them over.

Ji Qinglin fought Shen BuJue at the Food Processing Plant while trying to recover the Immortal Remains. Shen BuJue unleashed a ring of fire around the factory, but Ji Qinglin turned the remains’ power against him and absorbed his qi strength as the flames consumed him.

• Shen BuJue covered himself in tribulation fire and attacked Ji Qinglin with flaming blades, but Ji Qinglin struck him down with heavenly lightning and pinned him with Thunderous Sword Intent.
• Jiang Chen reported finding a box that might contain the Immortal Remains, while Yu Ye reported finding empty cases and corpses; Ji Qinglin ordered his allies to let the box escape and return to the Food Processing Plant.
• Shen BuJue rose again and surrounded the factory with pillars of fire, forcing Ji Qinglin to tell Yu Ye and the others to flee through the underground passage.
• Shen BuJue used the Immortal Spine to draw on Ji Qinglin’s qi strength, but Ji Qinglin recognized the method and formed his own suction through the remains.
• The Immortal Remains engulfed Shen BuJue, absorbing his vital blood while his qi strength flowed into Ji Qinglin, and Shen BuJue burned to charcoal and shattered.

Jiang Chen and the others rushed back to the Food Processing Plant after Shen BuJue’s flames engulfed it, while Red Night entered the fire to search for Ji Qinglin. Ji Qinglin rescued her and escaped with her, then discovered a blood-red flame healing his burned hand.

• Jiang Chen stopped pursuing Kong Wei and led her subordinates toward the Food Processing Plant after Master forbade them from returning and pillars of fire surrounded it.
• Yu Ye, Red Night, and Xie Ling escaped through the hidden passage, then joined the hidden police outside as they tried to open a path through the flames.
• Red Night entered the burning plant to search for Ji Qinglin, but collapsing debris and an explosion sent her flying into the fire.
• Ji Qinglin caught Red Night, split the flames with his Only Consciousness Sword Intent, and carried her out of the Food Processing Plant.
• Red Night checked Ji Qinglin and asked if he was all right, and he noticed a blood-red flame hovering over his burned palm as it healed.