Chapter Summaries

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.

Chen Nan defeated Zhao Yunlong and the other six attackers despite their Transcendent mech armor, using Rune Talismans to drain three men's power and capture the others' souls. He killed the remaining attackers, while Zhao Yunlong died of fright, and Lu Fangliang arrived.

• Ye Feng died, and the six survivors surrounded Chen Nan with electron cannons and force-field cannons.
• Chen Nan evaded their attacks with the Void Dissipation Art and Teleportation Technique, then struck all six with Rune Talismans.
• The Power-Draining Talismans disabled Zhao Yunlong, Qin Shou, and Chu Yu and their mech armor, while the Soul-Capturing Talismans struck the other three.
• Chen Nan killed the three men affected by the Power-Draining Talismans, then killed Chu Yu and Qin Shou as they threatened and cursed him.
• Zhao Yunlong begged for mercy, but he died of fright before Chen Nan needed to kill him.
• Chen Nan reflected on Qingyang Kingdom's weakness and the importance of its culture, and Lu Fangliang arrived.

After Chen Nan’s group killed Zhao Yunlong and the other six youths, the Seven Great Families arrived demanding their return. Yang Yugan revealed overwhelming power by killing a Level Ninety mech-wearer in one exchange, leaving the families stunned.

• Lu Fangliang hauled away the six damaged Transcendent mechs while Chen Nan planned to study them.
• The Seven Great Families sent sixty Level Ninety fighters in Transcendent mechs to the Nature Master Training Base.
• Yang Yugan confronted Zhao Badao and demanded compensation and legal accountability for the missile attack.
• Chen Nan threw a sack containing the heads of Zhao Badao’s seven children at him.
• Yang Yugan emerged unharmed from a fighter’s lightning attack, then killed the man by ripping out his heart.

After Yang Yugan forced Zhao Badao and the Seven Great Families to retreat, the defeated leaders debated whether to keep serving the Demonic Orcs. Susanna brought their request for stronger weapons to her father, who weighed the Demonic Orcs’ long-term plans to dismantle the Nature Masters and exploit powers discovered on Karst Star.

• Yang Yugan let Zhao Badao and his people leave after Zhao threatened to return for justice, then discussed his methods with Chen Nan.
• Zhao Badao and the Seven Great Families feared Yang Yugan’s strength and debated abandoning their pact with the Demonic Orcs.
• Zhao Badao asked Susanna to relay the families’ request for leniency and stronger weapons to the Demonic Orcs.
• Susanna told Father Su that the Seven Great Families wanted stronger weapons, but he focused on the Demonic Orcs’ broader strategy against the Nature Masters.
• Father Su considered how the Demonic Orcs planned to expose and weaken the Nature Masters, while developing mutant powers and magic discovered on Karst Star for a future confrontation.

Father Su pushed the Seven Great Families to escalate their attacks on the Nature Masters, turning their missile harassment into a ground war in Luojing City. After months of street fighting, Chen Nan’s forces had captured hundreds of transcendent mechas, while stronger combatants began entering the conflict.

• Father Su ordered the Seven Great Families to use transcendent mechas for long-range attacks, and Susanna relayed the order to the Chen family.
• Chen Nan received one hundred mechas from the military and organized his forces into a core and an outer ring as civilians evacuated the battle zone.
• Zhao Badao’s forces bombarded the Nature Masters’ base for half a month, but the missiles caused little harm to Chen Nan’s side.
• Father Su demanded a ground assault, and Chen Nan sent his Transcendents to fight, promising they could keep anything they won, including mechas.
• Street fighting spread toward the center of Luojing City, and the military followed Chen Nan’s advice to stay out of the conflict and build more mechas.
• After three or four months of battles, core-strength Transcendents began appearing, and Chen Nan’s forces had captured two to three hundred mechas.

Chen Nan managed the worsening street fighting in Luojing City by regulating armor spoils and rallying Transcendents, while suspecting the easy gains might signal trouble. The fighting spread across Qingyang Kingdom, and in Wu City the casino owner Yang Wankun and his family were seized by Zhang Kui’s gang.

• Chen Nan formed an inspection team to settle disputes over Transcendent armor and gave speeches that boosted the fighters’ morale.
• Chen Nan warned the Nature Masters not to take armor from enemies, while other Transcendents began selling armor they had acquired.
• Street fighting spread across Qingyang Kingdom, and Wu City’s Transcendents turned it into a violent struggle over territory and money.
• Zhang Kui’s group joined forces with the casino’s guards to surround the casino and capture Yang Wankun’s family.
• Yang Wankun pleaded with Zhang Kui to accept his money and spare his family.

After Zhang Kui seized Yang Wankun’s property and had his wife and daughter violated, Yang Wankun called Chen Nan for help. Chen Nan set out for Wu City, while the Seven Great Families alerted Zhang Kui and offered him support.

• Zhang Kui’s men took Yang Wankun’s property and drove his family onto the streets after abusing his wife and daughter.
• Remembering Chen Nan’s old offer to help, Yang Wankun called him and explained what Zhang Kui had done.
• Chen Nan promised to come, then told Yang Yugan, Lin Xi, and Jiang Lili that he had private business and left the base on his flying sword.
• The Seven Great Families tracked Chen Nan’s flight toward Wu City and asked local Transcendents, including Zhang Kui, why he was returning.
• Zhang Kui guessed Yang Wankun had sought Chen Nan’s help, and the Seven Great Families promised to send people to support him.

Chen Nan arrived in Wu City to help Yang Wankun reclaim his home and punish Zhang Kui's men for abusing his family. After Yang Wankun and his children killed the more than twenty offenders, Zhang Kui was left trembling, with Chen Nan still watching him.

• Chen Nan reached Wu City, found Yang Wankun's family in hardship, and promised to recover their belongings and settle accounts with their oppressors.
• Yang Wankun led Chen Nan and his family to their former home, where Zhang Kui greeted Chen Nan with flattery and claimed his men had been protecting the estate.
• Chen Nan called Zhang Kui's men together and gave Yang Wankun a knife, ordering him to kill the men who had abused his family.
• Yang Wankun and his eldest daughter killed the first two offenders, while Chen Nan kept Zhang Kui from intervening.
• Yang Wankun's sons continued the killings until all of Zhang Kui's more than twenty men lay dead, leaving Zhang Kui alone and terrified.

Chen Nan killed Zhang Kui after Zhang Kui begged for his life, then defended Yang Wankun’s family from Madam Chen and fourteen other Transcendents. He defeated several attackers, while the survivors fled and left Madam Chen behind.

• Zhang Kui kowtowed to Chen Nan and Yang Wankun, but Chen Nan killed him with a flying sword.
• Yang Wankun and his family thanked Chen Nan, and Chen Nan urged Yang Wankun to help the people of Wu City instead of repaying him.
• Chen Nan sensed powerful enemies approaching and sent Yang Wankun’s family to hide in their underground shelter.
• Madam Chen arrived with fourteen other Transcendents and ordered them to attack Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan used Rune Talismans and a flying sword to kill several attackers while evading their mech weapons.
• The remaining Transcendents fled, abandoning Madam Chen as the battle continued amid the ruined buildings of Wu City.

Madam Chen destroyed Wu City when she self-destructed her Transcendent mecha, leaving Chen Nan to confront the deaths of tens of thousands and resolve to restrain extraordinary powers. He rescued the Yang family from their shelter and left the ruins with them, hoping Wu City could eventually be rebuilt.

• Madam Chen attacked Chen Nan and triggered her Transcendent mecha's self-destruction as he tried to draw her away from Wu City.
• Chen Nan used the Adamantine Shield to protect himself, but the explosion obliterated Wu City and killed nearly everyone there.
• Chen Nan regretted failing to contain the blast and decided that Transcendents needed to be restrained to protect ordinary people.
• Chen Nan cleared the blocked entrance to the Yang family's shelter and brought Yang Wankun and his family outside.
• Chen Nan helped the Yang family retrieve two cars, and they left the ruined city together.

After reaching Luojing City, Chen Nan warned the military that Demonic Orc Transcendent mechas might be rigged to self-destruct, threatening the city and possibly the entire Qingyang Kingdom. He and Li Longgang agreed to secure civilians and persuade Transcendents to exchange their mechas, though Chen Nan could not confirm his suspicion.

• The Yang family reached the Nature Master base in Luojing City, where Yang Wankun became Jiang Lili’s deputy overseeing logistics.
• Chen Nan considered whether all Demonic Orc Transcendent mechas could self-destruct, then informed the military of the danger and met Li Longgang at the underground headquarters.
• After hearing Chen Nan’s deduction, Li Longgang realized that hundreds of explosive mechas could devastate Luojing City or even Qingyang Kingdom.
• Chen Nan proposed evacuating ordinary civilians and exchanging the Transcendents’ mechas for replacements, supplies, and money.
• Li Longgang asked whether the mechas would definitely self-destruct, and Chen Nan bluntly answered that he could not confirm it.