Chapter Summaries

After Bangkok's Undercover Police revealed Ji Qinglin's survival and reinstatement, Sanada feared Ji Qinglin and his allies would retaliate. He arranged protection and, suspecting Ji Qinglin was targeting his company, challenged Immortal Path Biology to meet at a location of his choosing.

• Bangkok's Undercover Police announced that Ji Qinglin had faked his death, helped liberate Celestial Elephant City, and returned as Deputy Commander.
• Sanada ordered Wild God Technology to strengthen its security, then hired two men to protect him for half a year in exchange for forty percent of his shares.
• Sanada found three white flowers outside his villa and grew increasingly anxious about Ji Qinglin's possible retaliation.
• Lightning damaged two of Wild God Technology's overseas factories, delaying shipments to East India Buddha Country.
• Sanada learned that Immortal Path Biology had the supplies he needed and suspected Ji Qinglin had engineered the shortage.
• Sanada refused Immortal Path Biology's proposed Bangkok meeting and told them to come to a new location instead.

Lu Bing infiltrated Wild God Technology while Sanada led his forces to Ie Island, stealing evidence of his crimes and creating a distraction to break into his office. She left the guards scrambling as smoke poured from the office, with the search for Sanada’s recordings still unresolved.

• Sanada traveled to Ie Island with fifty Qi Practitioners and two hired experts to confront Ji Qinglin and his companions.
• Lu Bing entered Wild God Technology, planted Fan Yu’s theft module in a server, and helped the team gain access to the company network.
• Lu Bing used water to incapacitate an archivist and open the Archive Room, where she retrieved sealed files documenting Wild God Technology’s experiments and operations.
• Lu Bing and the others joked about Red Night’s password while Ji Qinglin’s team watched Sanada’s plane land on Ie Island and assessed his forces.
• Unable to bypass the inner lock on Sanada’s office, Lu Bing staged an attack and fire to confuse the guards and crack the office door open.

Lu Bing and her allies stole Sanada’s safe and confidential files from Wild God Technology before escaping toward the airport. Ji Qinglin then called Sanada and demanded Wild God Technology’s six overseas factories as the price of helping recover what he had lost.

• Lu Bing used the fire suppression water to find and remove a hidden safe from Sanada’s office, while Fan Yu impersonated Sanada to gain the guards’ cooperation.
• Lu Bing took the safe and a backpack of confidential files, then left with Xie Ling and Fan Yu as Sanada realized he had been tricked and ordered the building sealed.
• Sanada learned that Lu Bing had escaped with the safe, feared exposure and the collapse of his company, and recognized that Ji Qinglin now controlled the situation.
• Ji Qinglin called Sanada and offered to recover his stolen property within three days if Sanada fully supported the Shadow Police.
• Ji Qinglin clarified that he wanted to borrow Wild God Technology’s six overseas factories, prompting Sanada to protest.

Ji Qinglin forced Sanada to agree to lend Wild God Technology’s six factories, using stolen experimental files to pressure him into a meeting at Autumn Water Bay. Sanada arrived with armed forces, but Ji Qinglin’s team drew him away from the disguised undercover agent and prepared an ambush as Sanada’s men entered the woods.

• Ji Qinglin demanded use of Sanada’s six factories and threatened to act on any illegal evidence among Sanada’s missing belongings; Red Night and Ji Qinglin planned to use the deal to confront Sanada.
• Lu Bing returned with a safe and secret files detailing Wild God Technology’s human-machine experiments, which Ji Qinglin and Red Night condemned.
• Sanada agreed to meet Ji Qinglin at Autumn Water Bay and shortened the wait to one day after Ji Qinglin threatened to release the experimental data.
• Sanada signed the factory-lending contract after a disguised fisherman presented him with some of the files, then hurried toward his boats when the Coast Guard arrived.
• The undercover agent carrying the contract escaped toward the woods, while Ji Qinglin’s team emerged from hiding and prepared to ambush Sanada’s returning forces.

Ji Qinglin’s group ambushed Sanada at the bay, but Sanada’s Nine Heroes allies, Zuo Zhen and Zhu Ming, turned the fight against them. Lu Bing rushed Sanada and was struck by a frequency weapon that damaged her organs, leaving Ji Qinglin to carry her away and try to keep her alive.

• Ji Qinglin’s allies and the Guard Team attacked Sanada’s group, while Zuo Zhen and Zhu Ming revealed themselves as Nine Heroes and challenged Ji Qinglin and Lu Bing.
• Ji Qinglin fought Zuo Zhen, and Lu Bing battled Zhu Ming as Sanada’s elite Qi Practitioners pressed the surrounding fighters.
• Lu Bing broke through toward Sanada, but he used a chest-mounted device tuned to damage the organs Xiao Qinghong had rebuilt for her.
• Ji Qinglin carried the gravely injured Lu Bing away while Zuo Zhen and Zhu Ming pursued, and Red Night, Yu Ye, and Jiang Chen moved to hold them back.
• Ji Qinglin poured Tribulation Fire into Lu Bing to preserve her life, leaving the group facing the battle without its strongest fighter.

Ji Qinglin and his allies fought the Nine Heroes Zuo Zhen and Zhu Ming after Lu Bing was gravely wounded. Ji Qinglin’s first lightning sword strike failed to defeat Zuo Zhen, and the chapter ended as he unleashed another strike while trapped by the weapon-forged Strange Dragon.

• Zuo Zhen pressed Ji Qinglin while he carried the badly wounded Lu Bing, but Lei Qiong, Bai Qiucheng, and Pei Ruotao arrived to help hold him back.
• Yu Ye used the Jade Token to seek Zhang Huaisu’s aid while Red Night and Jiang Chen kept Zhu Ming occupied.
• Ji Qinglin’s Heavenly Thunder Guides My Sword struck Zuo Zhen’s shield, damaging it but failing to break through.
• Zuo Zhen drove Lei Qiong, Bai Qiucheng, and Pei Ruotao back, then formed a charging Strange Dragon from the weapons embedded around him.
• Ji Qinglin protected Bai Qiucheng from the Strange Dragon, but Zuo Zhen disarmed and bound him before thrusting a sword at his throat.
• Ji Qinglin unleashed Thunder Sword Wrath Asks the Heavens as heavenly lightning struck him and a second blue sword-light shot toward Zuo Zhen.

Ji Qinglin and Lei Qiong killed Zuo Zhen through a carefully coordinated attack, then hurried to help the others against Symbol Hero Zhu Ming. Ji Qinglin arrived to find Yu Ye already beating Zhu Ming one-sidedly.

• Ji Qinglin wounded Zuo Zhen with his Thunder Sword Wrath Asks the Heavens and drove him back with his flying sword attacks.
• Ji Qinglin distracted Zuo Zhen with another thunder sword while Lei Qiong struck him from behind with a fully charged thunder-force punch, killing him.
• Ji Qinglin and Lei Qiong revealed how they had secretly coordinated the attack, and Lei Qiong celebrated taking down one of the Nine Heroes.
• Lu Bing awakened, and Ji Qinglin strengthened the Tribulation Fire around her before rushing toward the shore with her.
• Ji Qinglin found Red Night and Jiang Chen injured, but realized Yu Ye was the one mercilessly beating Symbol Hero Zhu Ming.

Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen fought Symbol Hero Zhu Ming while Ji Qinglin faced Martial Hero Zuo Zhen. After Sanada recognized Red Night as Xiao Qinghong and paid Zhu Ming more to kill her, Yu Ye emerged with a transformed power and began overwhelming Zhu Ming.

• With Yu Ye absent, Red Night and Jiang Chen struggled against Zhu Ming's talismans, which wounded them with lightning, wind, and fire.
• A gale knocked Red Night's mask off, and Sanada recognized her as the supposedly dead Xiao Qinghong and ordered Zhu Ming to kill her.
• Red Night taunted Sanada and negotiated a higher payment from him, persuading Zhu Ming to raise his price to eighty percent more.
• Zhu Ming's talismans nearly struck Red Night and Jiang Chen, but Yu Ye caught one and crushed it after returning with a white glow.
• Yu Ye declared that she could handle Zhu Ming alone, then struck him repeatedly at blinding speed, destroying his protective talismans and keeping him airborne.

Yu Ye used Zhang Huaisu’s power to defeat Zhu Ming and destroy his Soul Extinguishing Demon Subduing Array. Ji Qinglin regrouped with his disciples, confirmed Lu Bing was stable but needed surgery, and left the injured Sanada to Red Night.

• Yu Ye overwhelmed Zhu Ming with enhanced strength and speed, then shattered his Stupa Seal and stopped him from fleeing.
• Zhu Ming unleashed the Soul Extinguishing Demon Subduing Array, but Yu Ye destroyed it and killed him.
• Yu Ye released Zhang Huaisu’s power after learning Ji Qinglin had dealt with Martial Hero Zuo Zhen.
• Ji Qinglin revealed that he had injured Sanada’s legs to prevent his escape and handed him over to Red Night.
• Ji Qinglin said Lu Bing was stable but needed an immediate operation, and Red Night began beating Sanada.

Ji Qinglin and the others defeated Wild God Technology’s forces and arranged to seize its six overseas factories for Heavenly Dao Consulting. With Lu Bing gravely injured, Ji Qinglin carried her toward a medical ship and fed her cola as they prepared to return to Bangkok for surgery.

• Ji Qinglin told the undercover officers that Martial Hero Zuo Zhen and Symbol Hero Zhu Ming had been defeated, and Red Night knocked Sanada unconscious and restrained him.
• Ji Qinglin reunited with the injured Lei Qiong, Bai Qiucheng, and Pei Ruohai, who learned that Yu Ye had defeated Zhu Ming alone.
• Red Night arranged with Third Sister to seize Wild God Technology’s six overseas factories and transfer them to Heavenly Dao Consulting in exchange for free Cultivation Suits for the undercover officers.
• Ji Qinglin continued using the Calamity Fire to sustain Lu Bing, then carefully fed her cola after she refused water.
• Red Night said Lu Bing’s spare organs were being sent from Heavenly Water Dojo, and she urged everyone to take Lu Bing to Bangkok for surgery.

After returning to Bangkok, Ji Qinglin stayed with Lu Bing while Shen Bixin replaced her shattered hydrogen-energy organs. Lu Bing woke after the ten-hour surgery and remained in Ji Qinglin’s arms to recover, while her cola no longer came back up with blood.

• Ji Qinglin’s group returned to Bangkok, where Lu Bing’s disciples brought her replacement organs and left her in Ji Qinglin’s care.
• At Bixin Hall, Shen Bixin began Lu Bing’s surgery and told Ji Qinglin to maintain Calamity Fire through physical contact.
• Shen Bixin removed Lu Bing’s damaged organs, installed replacements, and added a device to protect them from destructive vibrations.
• After ten hours, the surgery was complete, and Shen Bixin told Ji Qinglin to keep holding Lu Bing until her wounds healed.
• Lu Bing woke in Ji Qinglin’s arms and drank cola; when she stopped choking it back up with blood, Ji Qinglin did not notice.

Ji Qinglin cared for Lu Bing after her successful surgery, and their intimate time together led them to confess mutual attraction. Meanwhile, Red Night and the others seized Wild God Technology’s six factories, then hurried back after Red Night worried Lu Bing might seduce Ji Qinglin.

• Ji Qinglin took Lu Bing to Bixin Hall, where he fed her cola chicken wings and helped her recover with the Calamity Fire.
• Red Night, Yu Ye, and Jiang Chen captured the remaining Wild God Technology factories and secured their production records.
• Ji Qinglin and Lu Bing talked about his relationships with Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen, then admitted they had improper thoughts about each other.
• Lu Bing tried to climb on top of Ji Qinglin despite her injuries, and he restrained her while continuing to treat her.
• The next morning, Red Night worried that Lu Bing would seduce Ji Qinglin, so she urged Yu Ye and Jiang Chen to return to Bixin Hall.

Lu Bing recovered from her surgery but continued to cling to Ji Qinglin, while Red Night and the others returned with control of the Six Factories and plans to expose Wild God Technology. The group settled plans for their company and new headquarters before Zhang Huaisu called with the results of his investigation into a strange painting.

• Lu Bing flirted with Ji Qinglin until Red Night, Yu Ye, and Jiang Chen arrived and interrupted them.
• Red Night reported that the Six Factories had been taken and proposed exposing Sanada's crimes and the battle at Autumn Water Bay, then poaching Wild God Technology's staff for Heavenly Dao Consulting.
• Ji Qinglin asked Red Night to investigate the real address of Fen Ye and A Qing, who had received Cultivation Suits from Wild God Technology.
• Jiang Chen returned to Nanhua District to prepare for the celebration and continue cultivating, while Red Night urged Ji Qinglin to visit Heavenly Dao Consulting.
• Yu Ye described plans to buy three floors above Ji's General Store, and the group divided the new space among themselves.
• Zhang Huaisu called Ji Qinglin and said he had completed his investigation of the strange painting.

Huai Su explained how Fen Ye’s living black qi force worked, while Ji Qinglin’s group prepared to announce Wild God Technology’s crimes and their role in killing Sanada and his allies. After the announcement went public, Ji Qinglin spoke with NanGong Qian Feng, who admitted she had missed him.

• Huai Su explained that the painting’s ink was living black qi force that could parasitize a user, and she offered to remove it and transfer it to Ji Qinglin’s raven.
• Ji Qinglin and the others returned from Nanyang Island, teased one another, and shared a bed with Lu Bing taking the spot on Ji Qinglin’s chest.
• Third Sister prepared an announcement accusing Wild God Technology of illegal experiments and funding the Machina Rebel Army, and she described Sanada, Zuo Zhen, and Zhu Ming’s deaths as the result of a defensive operation.
• Ji Qinglin approved Third Sister’s announcement, which went public the next morning, and his group decided to return to Wilderness Courtyard.
• NanGong Qian Feng called Ji Qinglin to check on him, and he teased her until she admitted that she had missed him.

NanGong Qian Feng reassured Four Seas Trade’s executives that Wild God Technology’s collapse would benefit Heavenly Dao Consulting and, through its shares, Four Seas Trade. After Ji Qinglin arrived, their teasing reconciliation turned into an embrace and a hurried trip to the bathroom.

• NanGong Qian Feng told Four Seas Trade’s executives that Heavenly Dao Consulting had aided the Dark Police and was positioned to gain Wild God Technology’s overseas factories.
• NanGong Qian Feng’s subordinates praised her decision to invest in Heavenly Dao Consulting and promised to support her leadership.
• NanGong Qian Feng returned to the lounge and found it empty, then privately dwelled on her feelings for Ji Qinglin.
• Ji Qinglin surprised NanGong Qian Feng and pretended to be hurt when he heard her call their encounter a one-night stand.
• NanGong Qian Feng kissed and hugged Ji Qinglin, and he picked her up and carried her toward the bathroom.

NanGong Qian Feng and Ji Qinglin celebrated their success against Wild God Technology before Fen Ye brought A Qing to a hidden temple to reveal the remains of Jie Chen, a monk once killed by the Immortal. Fen Ye claimed Jie Chen’s relics had controlled him into slaughtering three towns, and suggested Jie Chen had left behind a clone as a backup plan.

• NanGong Qian Feng told Ji Qinglin she had begun transforming Four Seas Trade after Heavenly Dao Consulting hollowed out Wild God Technology, and he asked her for a reward.
• Fen Ye met A Qing at a secluded temple and led him inside alone, while A Qing ordered his followers to destroy the temple if he did not return within an hour.
• Fen Ye revealed a blood-filled underground chamber containing Jie Chen’s relics and said Jie Chen had been one of three people who left Jiuzhou with him and the Immortal.
• Fen Ye claimed Jie Chen’s lingering will had controlled him into slaughtering three towns to nourish the relics, after which the Immortal dispersed Jie Chen’s remaining consciousness and sealed Fen Ye.
• A Qing questioned who had built the temple and tended the relics, and Fen Ye suggested Jie Chen had left a clone behind.

Fen Ye asked A Qing to help restore Monk Jie Chen’s body in exchange for a body of his own, but A Qing withheld his decision and left the temple. Meanwhile, Ji Qinglin returned to NanGong Qian Feng, then went to Heavenly Dao Consulting as she hosted a gathering and defended him against guests who belittled him.

• Fen Ye explained that Jie Chen’s Sarira had restored his flesh without restoring his soul, and offered A Qing a share of the resulting bodies if he used his soul-replication technology to help.
• A Qing questioned Fen Ye’s motives and identity, declined to commit, and left the temple after Fen Ye warned him about Ji Qinglin and Wild God Technology.
• Ji Qinglin reunited with NanGong Qian Feng, who told him she had missed him, before he left for Heavenly Dao Consulting with materials about East India Buddha Country’s purchases.
• NanGong Qian Feng hosted Cultivation Circle companies and shared information about Wild God Technology’s downfall and Heavenly Dao Consulting.
• When a guest called Ji Qinglin a mere martial brute, NanGong Qian Feng rebuked him and ordered Uncle Mo to exclude him from future banquets.

Ji Qinglin returned to Heavenly Dao Consulting, where Red Night helped him get past the front desk and Lu Bing told him about East India Buddha Country. After Red Night took Lu Bing to negotiations, Ji Qinglin studied the investigation materials and found the name Jie Chen strangely familiar.

• Ji Qinglin was stopped at Heavenly Dao Consulting’s entrance because Red Night had not entered his information into the security system, so he called her to confirm his identity.
• Red Night authorized the receptionist to let Ji Qinglin upstairs, and he learned staff were instructed to call him “Big Boss.”
• Lu Bing settled into Ji Qinglin’s arms and described East India Buddha Country, where he suspected A Qing and the others were hiding.
• Red Night arrived to take Lu Bing to negotiations at Wild God Technology, and Ji Qinglin urged Lu Bing to go for safety.
• Ji Qinglin reviewed Qian Feng and Third Sister’s investigation materials and identified Jade Buddha Temple and Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple as possible places to investigate.
• Ji Qinglin read that each generation of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple’s abbot was named Jie Chen and wondered why the name felt familiar.

Ji Qinglin told Yu Ye what he knew about Lian and invited her on a trip alone, while Third Sister confronted the Honshu Island Safety Department over Wild God Technology. The chapter ended with Third Sister receiving a news report about East India Buddha Country and urgently ordering it sent to Ji Qinglin.

• Ji Qinglin admitted that his memories of Lian were incomplete and explained that Lian had been created by immortals and scientists to test artificial life and Scientific Cultivation.
• Ji Qinglin told Yu Ye that Lian had sealed A Qing and badly injured him, but reminded her that Lian’s actions had nothing to do with her.
• Ji Qinglin invited Yu Ye to travel with him alone, and they shared an intimate moment in his office.
• Third Sister rebuked the Honshu Island Safety Department for accusing her side of setting it up and demanding the return of occupied factories.
• An undercover police officer showed Third Sister a news report about East India Buddha Country, and she told him to send it to Ji Qinglin immediately.

Ji Qinglin defeated three security-company leaders in his office while Yu Ye hid beneath his desk, then learned of a massacre near the East India Buddha Country and prepared to investigate. In parallel, A Qing questioned Fen Ye about the killings, and Fen Ye blamed a possible remnant of Monk Jie Chen before A Qing set out with Moon Envoy.

• Cha San, Bai Er, and Hua Da asked Ji Qinglin to teach them practical combat, and he agreed to spar in his office.
• Ji Qinglin defeated the three with three short black swords before they could attack, then explained that life-or-death fights required using every advantage.
• After the visitors left, Ji Qinglin brought Yu Ye out from beneath the desk, and they prepared to leave after seeing news of more than five hundred people massacred in two mountain villages.
• A Qing confronted Fen Ye about the killings, and Fen Ye denied responsibility and suggested that Monk Jie Chen might have left something behind.
• A Qing ended the call and ordered Moon Envoy to accompany him on an investigation.