Chapter Summaries

After Chen Feng became the Great Xia Nation’s youngest National Councilor, he visited his former teacher, Black Prison, on Hell Star. He offered Black Prison a green Bodhi Seed to help with his stalled breakthrough to the Heavenly Bridge realm.

• News of Chen Feng’s appointment as National Councilor astonished his family, friends, former classmates, and Teacher Black Prison.
• Black Prison lamented that, at eighty-three, he still could not break through from the Spirit Wheel realm to the Heavenly Bridge realm.
• Chen Feng arrived at the Hell Star base in ordinary clothes bearing the five-sun epaulets of a National Councilor, surprising his former teachers.
• Black Prison and the other teachers saluted Chen Feng, but he asked Black Prison to treat him as his student and call him Xiao Feng.
• Chen Feng gave Black Prison a green Bodhi Seed, hoping it would help him break through.

Chen Feng gave Teacher Black Prison a Bodhi Seed and pills, enabling him to break through to Heavenly Bridge after more than twenty years of failure. Chen Feng returned home to reunite with his family, where he learned that his great aunt would visit to ask him for help.

• Chen Feng gave Teacher Black Prison a Bodhi Seed and cultivation advice, and Teacher Black Prison broke through to Heavenly Bridge.
• Teacher Black Prison thanked Chen Feng as Chen Feng left with his people, while the other teachers marveled at the breakthrough.
• Chen Feng returned home, and Shu Qin and his parents welcomed him and discussed his new position as a National Councilor.
• Shu Qin told Chen Feng that their eldest brother would return home the next day.
• Mother Fan told Chen Feng that his great aunt planned to visit and ask him for help, and Chen Feng asked when she would arrive.

Chen Feng’s aunt Chen Cui and her family visited his villa to ask for help, while Chen Feng’s family prepared to receive them. The visit began with Chen Cui’s family nervous about whether Chen Feng would agree, and the chapter ended as the door opened.

• Chen Guoxiang told Chen Feng that his aunt’s family was coming to visit, and Chen Feng asked what they wanted before continuing dinner.
• After Chen Guoxiang approved their entry by phone, security guards let Chen Cui, Chang Zhi, Chang Mu, and Chang Ying into the villa complex and discussed their connection to Chen Feng.
• On the way to Chen Feng’s villa, Chen Cui and Chang Zhi talked about asking him for help, while Chang Ying reassured his parents that he hoped only to find work and support them.
• Chen Cui reminded Chang Mu and Chang Ying to greet Chen Feng’s family politely, and the group reached the grand villa feeling nervous.
• Chen Guoxiang, Chen Feng, his mother, and his younger sister heard the doorbell and opened the door.

Chen Feng promised to secure Chang Ying’s disability benefits and arrange treatment for his deformed leg. At the district office, a supervisor refused to process the application, and Chen Feng confronted her while her superior dismissed the complaint.

• Aunt explained that officials had repeatedly refused Chang Ying’s disability-benefit application, and Chen Feng promised to take the family to the district office.
• Chen Feng examined Chang Ying’s leg, used vital energy to improve it slightly, and offered to arrange specialist treatment after getting the benefits approved.
• Chen Feng accompanied Aunt’s family to the office and waited in line, but the supervisor again claimed there were no available slots and ordered them to leave.
• Chen Feng challenged the supervisor’s conduct and threatened to have her and her superiors dismissed, while the supervisor’s superior refused to intervene.

Chen Feng used his position as a National Councilor to secure fair treatment and medical care for his aunt’s family, then returned home. There, his older brother Chen Wu arrived after leaving the War Soul Mercenary Group.

• Chen Feng summoned the Jiangzhou District Chief, exposed the office staff’s mistreatment, and dismissed the middle-aged woman and her superior.
• Chen Feng warned the Jiangzhou District Chief to improve oversight, and the Chief arranged the assistance documents for Chen Feng’s aunt’s family.
• Chen Feng sent Chang Ying’s family to a top state-owned hospital and arranged treatment for Chang Ying, promising to cover all costs.
• Chen Feng returned home after reassuring Chang Ying’s family that the doctors would help him recover.
• Chen Wu arrived at Chen Feng’s villa after leaving the War Soul Mercenary Group and was welcomed by guards who learned he was the National Councilor’s older brother.

Chen Feng welcomed his elder brother Chen Wu home and learned that Chen Wu planned to establish a mercenary group and keep exploring the wilderness despite his parents’ worries. Chen Feng supplied him and the rest of the family with valuable rings, talismans, and pills, leaving Chen Wu preparing to return to the dangers he loved.

• Chen Wu returned at Nascent Origin Peak and credited Chen Feng’s resources and Bodhi Seed for his rapid cultivation progress.
• The family celebrated Chen Wu’s return, and he gave his parents the 2.8 million he had earned as a mercenary.
• Chen Wu announced that he would form the Brothers Alliance and continue exploring instead of settling down or marrying, despite his parents’ objections.
• Chen Feng gave Chen Wu defensive and attack talismans, a Spatial Ring, and pills to support his cultivation and protect him outside.
• Chen Feng also gave Spatial Rings to Shu Qin and his parents, and the family spent several days celebrating and sharing time together.

Chen Feng supported Chen Wu’s plan to form a mercenary group, then used his authority as a National Councilor to address poor treatment of ordinary citizens by grassroots officials. After returning to Wushen University and catching up with friends, he decided to visit Bearded Uncle and his old companions.

• Chen Wu told Chen Feng he planned to form a mercenary group, recruit experienced teammates, and explore dangerous regions, and Chen Feng supported his decision.
• Chen Wu prepared to leave home and rebuild his team, while Chen Feng returned to Wushen University.
• Chen Feng convened a nationwide meeting, criticized poor grassroots public service, and established a supervisory department with authority to dismiss officials.
• Lei Qianren announced that he would enter seclusion to comprehend Tongtian, leaving affairs to Jiang Nalan and the other councilors.
• Chen Feng returned to campus, met Jiang Shiran and his friends, and spent time cultivating and socializing with them.
• Chen Feng called Bearded Uncle and arranged a visit, and Bearded Uncle invited their old companions to gather.

Chen Feng reunited with Bearded Uncle and his old teammates over dinner, where Tao Min confessed her feelings and became Bearded Uncle’s girlfriend. Chen Feng then revealed that he had brought powerful pills to help his friends, leaving them astonished by their quality.

• Chen Feng joined Bearded Uncle, Zhu Tao, Zhang Yang, and Tao Min for dinner, and they reminisced about their time together.
• Tao Min confessed that she had stayed on Bearded Uncle’s team because she loved him, and Bearded Uncle agreed to be with her.
• Zhu Tao welcomed Tao Min as part of the family, and Chen Feng congratulated the new couple and Zhang Yang on their upcoming marriage.
• Chen Feng explained that he had come to help his old friends and placed several high-quality pills on the table.
• Bearded Uncle and the others wondered whether the pills exceeded Treasure-grade quality as powerful elemental energy radiated from them.

Chen Feng gave Spirit Grade Pills and Bodhi Seeds to his former teammates, then visited his classmate Zhang Kun at university. After Zhang Kun swallowed a Bodhi Seed, he sensed origin energy and manifested his black dog Martial Soul, leaving him overwhelmed with joy.

• Chen Feng gave Bearded Uncle, Zhu Tao, Zhang Yang, and Tao Min sixty Spirit Grade Pills and four Bodhi Seeds, explaining that the seeds could improve their talent and comprehension.
• The four swallowed the seeds and took the pills, and Bearded Uncle felt his strength rise toward a breakthrough in the Origin Gathering Realm.
• Chen Feng traveled to Qunan District to visit Zhang Kun, who was being bullied by Zhang Wei for claiming Chen Feng was his friend.
• Chen Feng gave Zhang Kun a Bodhi Seed, and Zhang Kun immediately sensed origin energy and summoned his black dog Martial Soul.
• Zhang Kun gathered origin energy around his Martial Soul and manifested it as a solid, powerful black dog, then cried with happiness.

Chen Feng helped Zhang Kun manifest his Martial Soul and take revenge on his bullies, then spent the rest of the school year cultivating before returning home. Meanwhile, Daoist Qinghu arrived at the ruined island in the Dark Sea, returning to the Great Li Dynasty after many years.

• Chen Feng gave Zhang Kun a Storage Ring filled with pills and high-grade origin stones, encouraged him to cultivate, and left for Wushen University.
• Zhang Kun used his manifested black dog Martial Soul to beat Zhang Wei and the other two who had bullied him, and they and their relatives stopped provoking him after learning of Chen Feng's backing.
• Chen Feng cultivated with his resources, strengthened his divine trees, spent time advising Li Jian and the others, and reached the end of his freshman year at Wushen University.
• Chen Feng returned home as Great Xia Nation remained peaceful and human cities were being established on other planets.
• Daoist Qinghu emerged from a gateway above the Dark Sea and looked down at the ruined island where Chen Feng and the others had sought Tongtian's inheritance.

Daoist Qinghu searched for the wounded Daoist Jiugong, discovered that Blue Star’s Great Xia Nation had conquered the Great Li Dynasty, and decided to recruit the young genius Chen Feng for his academy. Meanwhile, Lei Qianren and the others struggled to understand how to break through to Heaven-Piercing.

• Daoist Qinghu recalled how he had fought Daoist Jiugong over the green gourd and returned to search for his rival, whose aura he detected but whose whereabouts remained unknown.
• Daoist Qinghu investigated a Xia Kingdom mining site, learned from a worker’s memories about Blue Star and the Great Xia Nation’s victories, and ignored the warships firing at him.
• Daoist Qinghu searched the Great Li Dynasty for more information and decided to bring Chen Feng back to the Sea God Academy as a gifted recruit.
• Lei Qianren left seclusion unable to reach Heaven-Piercing despite following Daoist Jiugong’s method and gathered Zhao Muyun, Jiang Nalan, Chen Feng, and the others to discuss the breakthrough.
• Jiang Nalan and the others admitted that they, too, had gained no clear insight into reaching Heaven-Piercing.

Daoist Qinghu appeared before Lei Qianren and Great Xia Nation’s other peak Nirvana experts, then invited them to leave Blue Star and join Sea God Academy on Hanging Mountain. He said the academy’s resources and Heaven-Piercing Pillar could help them overcome their cultivation bottleneck, leaving them stunned by the offer.

• Chen Feng gave Lei Qianren a Bodhi Seed, but after a day and night of meditation, Lei Qianren still could not find a path to the Heaven-Piercing Realm.
• Daoist Qinghu suddenly appeared, confirmed his identity, and reassured the alarmed group that he bore them no ill will.
• Daoist Qinghu revealed that he had come looking for Daoist Jiugong and offered to recruit Lei Qianren, Chen Feng, and the other experts into Sea God Academy.
• Daoist Qinghu explained that Hanging Mountain had richer spiritual energy and more knowledge about cultivation than Blue Star.
• Daoist Qinghu described Sea God Academy’s Heaven-Piercing Pillar, which could help Nirvana experts experience the Heaven-Piercing Realm, and the group reacted with astonishment.

Daoist Qinghu offered to take Lei Qianren and the others to Hanging Mountain to pursue greater cultivation, and they decided to go while Chen Feng stayed behind. The chapter left Chen Feng in charge of Great Xia Nation as the National Councilor overseeing the nation.

• Daoist Qinghu described Hanging Mountain and Sea God Academy as places where Lei Qianren and the others could advance beyond Nirvana, and offered to take them there.
• Lei Qianren, Jiang Nalan, and Zhao Muyun discussed the risks of leaving Great Xia Nation, while Chen Feng warned that other powerful visitors could arrive.
• Lei Qianren decided to go to Sea God Academy with the others and assigned Chen Feng to oversee Great Xia Nation, with Yang Jun assisting him.
• The group prepared teleportation arrays and Sound Transmission Stones, and Great Xia Nation announced that Chen Feng would hold authority while Lei Qianren entered seclusion.
• Daoist Qinghu returned the next day and regretted that Chen Feng would remain behind.

Daoist Qinghu escorted Lei Qianren and the other Great Xia Nation leaders to Hanging Mountain after establishing a defensive formation and entrusting Chen Feng with the nation. Chen Feng stayed behind to govern and cultivate, while the fourth Divine Tree began absorbing resources meant for the other three.

• Daoist Qinghu formed a defensive formation around the Great Xia Nation and gave Chen Feng the core formation stone.
• Lei Qianren entrusted Chen Feng with governing the nation and authorized him to use the Imperial Treasury before leaving with Daoist Qinghu and the other leaders for Hanging Mountain.
• Yang Jun and the other Nirvana experts remained in the Great Xia Nation, while Chen Feng worried that Hanging Mountain's powerful inhabitants might learn about Blue Star.
• Chen Feng handled national affairs and continued cultivating, focusing most of his resources on his three Divine Tree Martial Souls.
• Chen Feng discovered that the fourth Divine Tree was absorbing most of his resources, and Bodhi advised him to let it grow so he could eventually summon it.

Chen Feng visited the Imperial Treasury and decided not to take the Ancestral Dragon Bone for himself, then arranged a National Genius Martial Tournament to award it to the winner. The Yan Clan, worried about its past conflict with Chen Feng, discussed having Yan Tiandu apologize, but its members assumed Chen Feng had moved up the tournament to secure the bone for himself.

• Chen Feng examined the National Seal and reflected that personal strength mattered more to him than political authority.
• Chen Feng entered the Imperial Treasury, inspected the Ancestral Dragon Bone, and returned it without absorbing it.
• The Yan Clan’s elders urged Yan Tiandu to apologize to Chen Feng, while Yan Tiandu reminded them that they had encouraged his rivalry with Chen Feng.
• A messenger reported that Chen Feng had scheduled a National Genius Martial Tournament for the start of the second year, with the Ancestral Dragon Bone as the prize.
• The Yan Clan’s elders concluded that Chen Feng had moved the competition forward because he wanted the bone, and one higher-up called him too eager.

The Yan Clan learned that Chen Feng had withdrawn from the Ancestral Dragon Bone competition to give other geniuses a fair chance, leaving Yan Tiandu hopeful of winning it. After breaking through to the middle stage of the Heavenly Bridge Realm, Chen Feng headed to Wushen University as its tournament began.

• The Yan Clan messenger revealed that Chen Feng would not compete for the Ancestral Dragon Bone, and the clan members felt ashamed of their suspicions.
• Old Master Yan urged Yan Tiandu to train and defeat Randy in the upcoming competition for the bone.
• Chen Feng broke through to the middle stage of the Heavenly Bridge Realm and decided to attend the Wushen University tournament.
• Chen Feng flew to Wushen University, where students from several academies had gathered for the competition.
• Yan Tiandu, Randy, other visiting geniuses, and graduates including Guo Rong, Li Lian, and Delis arrived at the tournament venue.

Wushen University prepared to hold a major competition for the Ancestral Dragon Bone, drawing students, officials, and prominent families to the campus. As the crowd awaited the Guardian Lord, Randy and Yan Tiandu emerged as leading contenders, both having reached the Transcendent Peak.

• Students discussed Randy's arrival and Yan Tiandu resolved to defeat him and claim the Ancestral Dragon Bone.
• Students learned that Randy and Yan Tiandu had both reached the Transcendent Peak, while other competitors compared their cultivation levels.
• District Chief Wang and Vice Principal Chen discussed the competition and wondered when the Guardian Lord would arrive.
• Old Master Yan and members of the Yan Clan arrived, followed by Randy's relatives from the William Family, and officials seated them in the pavilion.
• University staff directed ordinary parents away from the elevated seats reserved for influential guests.

Chen Feng arrived at Wushen University’s talent competition, where officials greeted him with great respect and he announced generous prizes for the top thousand students. After displaying the Ancestral Dragon Bone and warning competitors against deliberate killing, he opened the competition.

• Chen Feng flew into Wushen University and Principal Chen, District Chief Pengcheng, Old Master Yan, and Clan Leader William rose to salute him.
• Old Master Yan apologized for Yan Tiandu’s past conflict with Chen Feng, and Chen Feng dismissed it as ordinary student competition.
• Chen Feng announced rewards for the top thousand competitors, including the Ancestral Dragon Bone for first place.
• Chen Feng displayed the Ancestral Dragon Bone and warned that deliberate killing would bring expulsion and criminal punishment.
• Students stepped onto the ten Martial Stages as the competition began and its broadcast reached viewers across the Great Xia Nation.

The global martial contest reached its championship match between Yan Tiandu and Randy, with the winner set to claim the Ancestral Dragon Bone. As the two traded powerful attacks, Yan Tiandu unleashed his blue Dao Fire Circle, and the battle continued.

• Great Xia Nation used television broadcasts and infrastructure to draw Great Li Dynasty citizens into its civilization and strengthen their assimilation.
• Yan Tiandu advanced to the final, while Randy defeated Li Jian, Shi Wang, Huo Kong, Jiang Shiran, Guo Rong, Li Lian, and Delis; Augustine took third place.
• Yan Tiandu and Randy began their championship fight, each promising to give his full strength for the Ancestral Dragon Bone.
• Yan Tiandu attacked with flames and six Fire Dragons while Randy countered with holy light, wings, and rapid movement.
• Yan Tiandu pressed his finger to his forehead and filled the arena with the scorching blue flames of his Dao Fire Circle.

Randy dominated Yan Tiandu in their fight for the Ancestral Dragon Bone, but Yan Tiandu refused to surrender and revealed the hidden power of his Dao Fire Spirit Body. His flame runes drew in fire elemental energy and greatly increased his strength, leaving the duel poised to continue.

• Randy repeatedly struck Yan Tiandu through his sea of fire, overpowering his attacks with holy light, sword light, and Space Law.
• Yan Tiandu refused Randy's offer to stop and launched another full-strength attack, but Randy shattered his Fire Dragons and sent him flying.
• Old Master Yan urged Yan Tiandu to admit defeat, but Yan Tiandu refused and declared that he would use his Fire Runes.
• Blue runes appeared across Yan Tiandu's body and drew in fire elemental energy from heaven and earth, astonishing Principal Chen, Old Master Yan, and the Yan Clan Head.
• Yan Tiandu's power surged as the runes gathered within his body, and he prepared to continue fighting Randy.