Recaps

Chen Nan agreed to a ten-person battle with the Chen Family, then returned to the Nature Masters to prepare. As Chen Shimei left the family and Madam Chen went back to the Zhao Family, Chen Nan devised a continuous-fight format to make up for his shortage of fighters without revealing Yang Yugan's strength.

• Chen Nan accepted Chen Shiyou's proposal for ten fighters to meet at the Grand Arena in Luo Capital in three days, and he led his followers back to his territory.
• Chen Shiyou asked Chen Shimei to fight Chen Nan, but Chen Shimei refused, renounced the Chen Family, and left without being stopped.
• Madam Chen blamed Chen Nan for her losses, returned to the Zhao Family, and resolved to use her natal family's power to kill him.
• Chen Nan counted only seven suitable fighters and decided not to send Yang Yugan, whose strength he wanted to keep hidden.
• Chen Nan planned to demand a continuous battle in which each fighter stayed in the arena until defeated, giving his strongest fighters a chance to face multiple opponents.

Chen Nan prepared his team for a duel against the Chen family and insisted that it be decided by a continuous battle, forcing the family to accept his rules. As the duel began, he discovered that the supposedly random matchups favored the Chen family and secretly tampered with the arena system before the roster appeared.

• Chen Nan assembled ten duelists for his side, including five Chen family experts, Lu Fangliang, and three senior students.
• The Chen family agreed to Chen Nan's continuous-battle rules and selected five Level Ninety fighters for the duel.
• Transcendents across the Qingyang Kingdom gathered at the Luojing Grand Arena, seeing the duel as a test of Chen Nan's ability to lead them.
• Chen Nan urged his team to withdraw if their lives were in danger, while Chen Shiyou demanded that his fighters battle to their last strength.
• Chen Nan infiltrated the arena's network system and found that the initial matchups placed a Level Ninety Chen family fighter against his side's weakest contestant.
• Chen Nan prepared to alter the matchup order before the arena displayed the roster.

Chen Nan secretly changed the match order, and his fighters gained an early advantage against the Chen family. After Lu Fangliang defeated a worn-down Level Eighty-Nine opponent, he faced Chen Mingyu, one of the Chen family’s Level Ninety fighters, while Chen Shiyou believed his side would still win easily.

• Chen Nan’s one-time code delayed the arena computer and replaced the announced match order with his prepared lineup.
• Chen Nan’s first fighter beat the Chen family’s first fighter, and the exchanges continued until the Chen family’s fifth fighter defeated two opponents.
• Lu Fangliang entered the arena and quickly defeated the exhausted Level Eighty-Nine fighter.
• Chen Mingyu faced Lu Fangliang, boasting of his strength and summoning icy armor with his staff.
• Chen Shiyou realized who Chen Nan’s final fighters were and concluded that his five Level Ninety fighters would defeat Lu Fangliang and Chen Nan.

Lu Fangliang killed Chen Mingyu after exploiting his arrogance, then faced Chen Mingju in a second duel. Chen Mingju opened with an explosive fire attack, and the chapter ended as the blast engulfed Lu Fangliang inside the arena.

• Lu Fangliang pierced Chen Mingyu’s ice armor and used sword aura to wound his insides, then killed him with his flying sword.
• Chen Mingju rushed into the arena and accused Lu Fangliang of striking too cruelly, but Lu Fangliang insisted he had followed the duel’s rules.
• Lu Fangliang prepared to test himself against a more cautious Level Ninety opponent and hoped to defeat both Chen family experts.
• Chen Mingju attacked first with a blazing projectile, and Lu Fangliang’s flying sword passed through it without stopping its explosion.
• The arena’s protective barrier held back the towering flames as the blast filled the arena and left Lu Fangliang’s fate unclear.

Lu Fangliang survived Chen Mingju’s devastating fire-core bomb and fought him through a draining battle, eventually piercing his chest. When Chen Shiyou sent another Level Ninety expert to intervene, Chen Nan entered the arena and challenged the opposing side to a new battle.

• Lu Fangliang escaped most of Chen Mingju’s fire-core bomb by using External Manifestation to teleport to his flying sword, then shielded himself from the blast.
• Lu Fangliang attacked with his flying sword while Chen Mingju defended with a flame shield and countered with a space-distorting fireline.
• As both fighters weakened, Lu Fangliang pierced Chen Mingju’s upper left chest, leaving him close to defeat.
• Chen Shiyou sent a third Level Ninety expert into the arena, and the newcomer protected Chen Mingju before attacking Lu Fangliang with ice spikes.
• Chen Nan destroyed the ice spikes, entered the arena, and declared that the reinforcements meant a new battle could begin; someone from his side carried Lu Fangliang away.

Chen Nan fought Chen Minglu, who used armored defenses and a freezing spell to try to overwhelm him in the dueling arena. As Chen Minglu’s Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles filled the arena with frost and fog, Chen Nan prepared both flying swords to make his final move.

• Chen Minglu challenged Chen Nan and warned that the Nature Masters would suffer if Chen Nan refused to submit.
• Chen Minglu fired waves of ice needles, but Chen Nan dodged them by leaping and riding his flying sword.
• Chen Minglu began casting Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles, while Chen Nan’s flying sword attacks revealed that his armor was weakest around his feet.
• Chen Nan descended and prepared both flying swords as icy rain covered the arena in frost and fog, prompting staff to clear the protective barrier.

Chen Nan killed Chen Minglu with a precise lightning strike, then faced Chen Mingxuan, whose powerful gauntlets and armor gave him a major advantage. Chen Nan escaped Chen Mingxuan’s force field with his improved Void Dissipation Art and remained poised to continue fighting.

• Chen Minglu collapsed after small swords pierced his feet, and Chen Shiyou and the others failed to revive him.
• Chen Shiyou ordered Chen Mingxuan to kill Chen Nan, while other Lineage experts watched Chen Nan warily.
• Chen Mingxuan explained how Chen Nan had killed Chen Minglu and claimed his armor could withstand Chen Nan’s attacks.
• Chen Mingxuan fired powerful energy beams and trapped Chen Nan in a force field, but the beam passed harmlessly through him.
• Chen Nan sent Liuying and Star Flying Sword to test Chen Mingxuan’s defenses, then escaped the force field and appeared above him.

Chen Nan used an electromagnetically accelerated Star Sword to kill Chen Mingxuan and destroy his equipment before the Chen Family could claim it. Chen Mingqi faced him as the last fighter, and Chen Nan sized up the robed, circuit-patterned opponent before their final battle.

• Chen Nan formed lightning rings into an electromagnetic accelerator and launched his Star Sword through Chen Mingxuan's beam, piercing him from head to toe.
• Zhao Badao recognized that Chen Mingxuan was dead, while Zhao Yunlong reacted in shock.
• Chen Nan ordered Liuying to smash Chen Mingxuan's armor and gauntlets, and Chen Shiyou's men cursed him for destroying the equipment.
• Chen Shiyou pleaded with Chen Mingqi to eliminate Chen Nan, and Chen Mingqi stepped forward as his side's final fighter.
• Chen Nan assessed the advantage of his Primordial Fire-reforged Star Sword and watched Chen Mingqi, who wore a robe patterned with circuit-like designs.

Chen Nan faced Chen Mingqi in a duel that could shape whether the Transcendents continued opposing him or sought cooperation. Chen Mingqi countered Chen Nan’s attacks and pressed him with varied spells, while Chen Nan began filling the arena with mist.

• Chen Nan and Chen Mingqi prepared to fight as the Level Ninety Transcendents watched, weighing the duel’s implications for their future stance toward Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan’s flying swords failed to penetrate Chen Mingqi’s armor and energy shields, and Chen Mingqi trapped him in an ice coffin that Chen Nan escaped using the Void Transformation Art.
• Chen Mingqi used an opposing magnetic field to slow Chen Nan’s flying swords, neutralizing his electromagnetic attack and winning praise from the spectators.
• Chen Mingqi unleashed lightning, frost, and lava attacks while Chen Nan evaded them with help from his AI System.
• Mist spread across the arena, and Zhao Yunlong identified it as Chen Nan’s Mist Concealment Technique, surprising Zhao Badao.

Chen Nan defeated Chen Mingqi by using the dense fog to bypass his defenses, killing a third Level Ninety Transcendent in succession. The duel ended with Chen Nan acclaimed by the crowd and the Chen Lineage weakened, while his larger scheme remained hidden.

• Chen Mingqi attacked continuously through the fog but failed to stop Chen Nan from approaching him.
• Chen Nan transferred his consciousness into the mist, slipped past Chen Mingqi's defenses, and struck his heart with a flying sword.
• Chen Mingqi asked how Chen Nan had done it, then died after Chen Nan explained his technique.
• The crowd cheered Chen Nan, while Chen Shiyou carried Chen Mingqi's body away and mourned the Chen Lineage's losses.
• Chen Nan left the arena with his companions, who admitted they had feared facing the Level Ninety experts.

Chen Nan escaped an ambush after the military intercepted the vehicles pursuing his convoy, and he identified Madam Chen as one of the plotters. Meanwhile, Chen Shiyou sought to protect the Chen Lineage’s holdings by courting the Demonic Orcs, and he prepared to visit one of them.

• Chen Nan used military radar to spot vehicles converging on his convoy and warned Lu Fangliang to hurry back to the training base.
• Chen Nan sent the military the pursuers’ locations, and military vehicles intercepted them before they could surround the convoy.
• Chen Nan recognized Madam Chen among the people behind the attempted ambush and decided to let her suffer before killing her.
• Chen Shiyou considered how the Chen Lineage’s defeat threatened its economic holdings and decided to seek support from the Demonic Orcs.
• Chen Shiyou sent a calling card and gifts to a Demonic Orc acquaintance, secured an audience, and prepared for the visit.

Chen Shiyou sought Demonic Orc support for the weakened Chen Lineage and agreed to buy powerful armor and betroth his son to Susanna. Meanwhile, Chen Nan strengthened his growing faction by forging superior weapons for Path Entry students.

• Chen Shiyou visited Susanna’s father, swore the Chen Lineage’s allegiance to the Demonic Orcs, and asked for help protecting its assets and dealing with Chen Nan.
• Susanna’s father offered the Chen Lineage ten sets of Transcendent Battle Armor, and Chen Shiyou agreed to purchase them after reading the manual.
• Susanna’s father proposed that Susanna marry into the Chen Lineage, and Chen Shiyou agreed to betroth his own son to her.
• More Transcendents and Level Ninety experts gravitated toward Chen Nan after the duel, while Chen Nan focused on strengthening his core forces.
• Chen Nan reforged three flying swords to match Liuying and gave them to three Path Entry students, whose damaged spiritual senses could be restored with pills.

Chen Nan equipped the Nature Master Department’s rising Path Entry cultivators with weapons while cultivating and supporting the group. He learned that the Demonic Orcs were arming the Seven Great Families to target his department, and began planning for the threat.

• Chen Nan counted sixteen people nearing the Path Entry stage and learned he lacked materials to forge weapons for them.
• Chen Shimei offered to secretly fund Chen Nan, who later received enough materials to forge fifteen flying swords and a flute for Lin Xi.
• Chen Nan devoted himself to cultivating and refining pills as the Nature Master Department continued to grow.
• Chen Nan learned that Susanna was marrying the Chen family patriarch’s third son and suspected the alliance was tied to Demonic Orc support for the Seven Great Families.
• On the wedding day, Chen Shiyou distributed ten Transcendent mechas to Level Ninety experts in his faction, while Susanna prepared to monitor the Chen family and the other great families for her father.
• Chen Nan concluded that the Demonic Orcs intended to use the Seven Great Families against the Nature Master Department and considered countermeasures, knowing his new followers were too weak to secure the department’s future.

Chen Nan strengthened the Protectorate Faction and planned to develop both his Nature Master abilities and Transcendent mechs. He began cooperating with the Qingyang Kingdom military, which gave him broad research-network access as they prepared to challenge the Demonic Orcs’ technological advantage.

• Chen Nan set rules and obligations for the Protectorate Faction, helping improve security in Luojing City and win support from ordinary people.
• Chen Nan decided to study Nature Master spells and develop Transcendent mechs for people who could not join the Nature Master Department.
• Chen Nan offered the Qingyang Kingdom military information on Demonic Orc mechs and proposed cooperation on independent mech development.
• The military agreed to protect Chen Nan’s group and provide it with finished mechs, granting him the highest level of access to its research network.
• Chen Nan secured the military network against Demonic Orc hackers and asked the military to keep their mech project secret.

Chen Nan studied which Nature Master spells and magical treasures suited his current Path Entry stage, then began learning the Lesser Teleportation Technique and planning to forge Rune Talismans and Treasure Artifacts. He sent Yang Yugan a list of materials to gather and arranged for Chen Shimei to obtain the metals he needed.

• Chen Nan sorted Nature Master spells by type and cultivation requirements, setting aside advanced techniques like the Great Void Technique and choosing the Lesser Teleportation Technique as a spell he could attempt.
• Chen Nan learned the Lesser Teleportation Technique after a few tries and concluded that he might master the full Teleportation Technique after reaching the Unity stage.
• Chen Nan chose Rune Talismans and Treasure Artifacts over spirit insects because the AI System and Primordial Fire suited his strengths.
• Chen Nan planned to use plants from Yang Yugan's botanical garden and gave Yang Yugan a list of bamboo, wooden tablets, Spirit Medium ingredients, and artifact-refining materials to collect.
• Chen Nan planned to have Chen Shimei prepare metals, including high-quality refined gold, for the metal-based Treasure Artifacts he intended to forge.

Chen Nan used materials procured by Chen Shimei and Yang Yugan to make Rune Talismans in his protected refinement room. After producing a hundred, he realized he needed a container to carry them and rested before continuing his work.

• Chen Nan gave Chen Shimei and Yang Yugan lists of materials, and they returned with everything he had requested about half a month later.
• Chen Nan entered his refinement room and used his AI System to prepare a bucket of Spirit Medium.
• Chen Nan made ten high-quality Blazing Fire Talismans, each powerful enough to destroy a skyscraper.
• Chen Nan made fifty Soul-Shaking Talismans and forty Power-Draining Talismans to hinder opponents in battle.
• Chen Nan realized he needed a container for his Rune Talismans, then left them in the refinement room and returned to his room to rest.

Chen Nan received a spacious storage wristguard from Yang Yugan while the Demonic Orcs manipulated Qingyang Kingdom’s families into buying their Transcendent mechs. Susanna secretly recorded Father Su’s plans to kill Chen Nan and destroy Qingyang Kingdom, then kept the evidence while accompanying her mother.

• Yang Yugan gave Chen Nan a spatial wristguard and asked about his plans for refining items.
• The Demonic Orcs used the Chen Lineage’s rise to pressure Qingyang Kingdom’s Transcendents, and the Seven Great Families began buying their mechs.
• Father Su discussed selling more mechs and argued that Chen Nan had to be killed before Qingyang Kingdom could recover.
• Susanna secretly listened to Father Su’s call and copied its contents for safekeeping.
• Susanna accompanied her mother on a shopping trip, hiding her distress over their family’s situation.

Chen Nan completed a Life-Replacing Puppet and an Adamantine Shield, two defensive Treasure Artifacts, then brought the shield to the martial arts hall to test its strength. As Lu Fangliang and the gathered disciples prepared to attack, the golden shield enclosed Chen Nan in a bell of light.

• Susanna returned to the Chen residence after spending time with her mother and transferred what she had overheard onto a USB drive.
• Chen Nan stored his Rune Talismans in the spatial wristguard and decided to focus on making defensive Treasure Artifacts.
• After more than ten days of work, Chen Nan completed a Life-Replacing Puppet and an Adamantine Shield.
• Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang praised Chen Nan's new artifacts and agreed to test the shield against Lu Fangliang at the martial arts hall.
• Chen Nan activated the Adamantine Shield, which expanded into a golden bell and covered him as the disciples watched.

Chen Nan tested his Adamantine Shield and Life-Replacing Puppet, then celebrated Lin Xi’s breakthrough into the Path Entry stage. A mysterious USB delivery revealed a conversation whose participants and sender Chen Nan identified, while Lin Xi recognized the sender’s pain and said they had both failed her.

• Lu Fangliang and the others attacked Chen Nan’s Adamantine Shield until it expired, and Chen Nan used the Life-Replacing Puppet to survive the resulting barrage.
• Yang Yugan explained that Chen Nan had been testing a magical artifact, and the group realized he was unharmed.
• A messenger announced that Lin Xi and several others had entered the Path Entry stage, so Yang Yugan arranged a feast at the base.
• Chen Nan congratulated Lin Xi and gave her a flute he had refined for her.
• A courier left a USB drive at the base and disappeared, and Chen Nan sensed its recorded conversation and deduced who was involved and who had sent it.
• Lin Xi told Chen Nan that the sender was unfortunate and that they had both failed her.

Chen Nan prepared life-saving Reincarnation Fate Reversal Pills for the Nature Masters and helped the military analyze Demonic Orc mecha technology. His discovery of nervous-system-controlled mechas led him to consider building a leg device that could let Lin Xi walk and adapting the technology into Treasure Artifacts.

• Chen Nan told Yang Yugan about the USB drive and learned he could not travel to Karst Star without reaching the late Unity stage.
• Chen Nan refined thirty-three Reincarnation Fate Reversal Pills and distributed them to Yang Yugan and the Path Entry stage Nature Masters.
• Chen Nan joined the military institute's analysis of Demonic Orc Transcendent mecha data and identified technology linking a pilot's nervous system to a mecha's movements.
• Chen Nan considered using the technology to create mechanical legs that Lin Xi could control with her nerves.
• Chen Nan decided to explore combining Transcendent mecha technology with Treasure Artifacts usable by Nature Masters.

Chen Nan completed the Transcendent mech research, gave his innovations to the military, and advised it to conceal the technologies until a decisive battle. He then began designing custom leg armor for Lin Xi, leaving her hopeful that she might walk again.

• Chen Nan used the AI System to rapidly produce research results that astonished the military and led it to prioritize protecting him.
• Chen Nan completed the Transcendent mech calculations, developed new technologies, and gave them to the military.
• Chen Nan secured the military research network and recommended that the military hide the new technologies until they could surprise the enemy.
• Chen Nan decided to create leg armor for Lin Xi and took detailed measurements of her legs and feet.
• Chen Nan promised Lin Xi he would try to restore her ability to walk and provide additional protection, while Lin Xi accepted that the result might not be perfect.

Chen Nan completed a pair of leg armor that let Lin Xi walk and added the abilities Divine Movement and Little Adamantine Shield. Lin Xi took her first steps in the armor and embraced Chen Nan, while he realized he had fallen in love with her and she grew embarrassed about the hug.

• Chen Nan spent a week forging leg armor that detected bioelectric signals through the skin, allowing its wearer to move without damaging the body.
• He added Divine Movement for swift movement and flight, plus Little Adamantine Shield, which protected the wearer for about thirty seconds.
• Chen Nan tested both abilities and confirmed that the leg armor functions worked.
• He brought the armor to Lin Xi, helped her put it on, and watched as she took her first steady steps.
• Lin Xi embraced Chen Nan in excitement, and he realized he had fallen in love with her while she regretted the hug out of embarrassment.

Lin Xi joined Chen Nan for dinner after revealing that his mech armor let her walk, while the Seven Great Families gathered in Luojing and prepared to use their new Transcendent mech suits against Chen Nan and the Protectorate Faction. Zhao Yunlong and the other young heirs, newly equipped with powerful armor, planned to reclaim their lost face by challenging Chen Nan.

• Liu Yan walked in on Lin Xi standing in shorts beside Chen Nan, then left after mistaking the scene for an intimate encounter.
• Chen Nan and Lin Xi went to dinner, where he explained that her leg armor combined a Transcendent mech suit with a Treasure Artifact and warned everyone to prepare for the Transcendents' weapons.
• Lu Fangliang told Chen Nan that his master had withheld Immortal Fire until he grew stronger, and Chen Nan offered to refine him a Treasure Artifact.
• Chen Shiyou hosted the Seven Great Families in Luojing, where Susanna ordered them to unite their forces and destroy Chen Nan and the Protectorate Faction in exchange for powerful rewards.
• Zhao Yunlong and the other young heirs received advanced Transcendent mech suits that could double their strength and call in weapons and supplies from remote warehouses.
• Zhao Yunlong and the other former Chosen Ones intended to use their new armor to confront Chen Nan and recover the face they had lost at the Nature Masters' training base.

Zhao Yunlong and six other descendants of the Seven Great Families prepared a surprise attack on Chen Nan’s training base, while Yang Yugan foresaw danger and warned the Nature Masters. The base came under missile fire, and Chen Nan’s group intercepted the missiles in the air, but Chen Nan was left wondering who had launched the attack.

• Zhao Yunlong gathered six mecha-equipped descendants, including Qin Shou, Chu Yu, and Chen Jiachuan, and planned to attack Chen Nan’s training base.
• Yang Yugan warned Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang that someone would harm them that night, so they evacuated ordinary people to the underground shelter and organized defenses.
• The seven descendants launched a barrage of missiles at the training base, setting buildings ablaze and causing widespread destruction.
• Chen Nan and more than thirty flying Nature Masters rose into the sky and detonated the missiles before they could strike the ground.
• Chen Nan questioned who was behind the attack because the missiles seemed like weapons used by an ordinary army.

Chen Nan faced Zhao Yunlong and the others after they destroyed the Nature Masters' base, and accepted their challenge to fight one-on-one. He killed Ye Feng with a hidden attack, leaving Zhao Yunlong and the others stunned as they realized Chen Nan was far more dangerous than they had expected.

• Zhao Yunlong and six others landed in their Transcendent mechas after bombarding the Nature Masters' base, and Chen Nan sent Lu Fangliang and the others away to fight alone.
• Chen Nan recognized Zhao Yunlong through his mecha and mocked him for using Demonic Orc equipment against his own country; Zhao Yunlong insisted the battle would be one-on-one.
• Ye Feng used his mecha's stealth ability to attack Chen Nan with a cold flame blade, but Chen Nan dodged and struck him with a Soul-Capturing Talisman.
• Chen Nan used his AI System to accelerate his flying sword with an electromagnetic field and killed Ye Feng, though the mecha continued moving until its life-detection system registered his death.
• Su Tian inspected Ye Feng's mecha and told Zhao Yunlong and the others that Ye Feng was dead, shocking them.