Chapter Summaries

Chen Nan helped the military collect and inspect Demonic Orc Transcendent mechs while concealing his plan from the Demonic Orcs. At a concert for front-line Transcendents, he secretly disabled the devices that could make their mechs self-destruct.

• Chen Nan focused on cultivation as Yang Yugan supplied him with spiritual medicines and pills.
• The military exchanged its own Transcendent mechs for those held by Transcendents and collected more than two hundred, prompting the Seven Great Families to alert the Demonic Orcs.
• The Demonic Orcs investigated the military’s collection effort and grew suspicious when its mechs resembled their own technology.
• Chen Nan inspected the collected Demonic Orc mechs with military researchers, and they began modifying them to prevent self-destruction.
• Chen Nan held a concert with Lin Xi for Transcendents gathered in their mechs, using faint currents and magnetic fields to destroy the self-destruct circuits in their chest devices.

Chen Nan prepared Qingyang Kingdom for the Demonic Orcs’ planned assault, but the Seven Great Families and their allies launched a nationwide battle using Transcendent mechas. The fighting began with widespread destruction and the first mech self-destructions, leaving the fate of the kingdom uncertain.

• Chen Nan toured the country with concerts while secretly dealing with Demonic Orc Transcendent mechas on his side.
• The Demonic Orcs and the Seven Great Families prepared a nationwide final offensive, intending to use Transcendent mechas against the Protectorate Faction.
• Chen Nan sent Nature Masters carrying Power-Draining Talismans to support battlefields and coordinated protective barriers and shelters with the military.
• As the attack began, Chen Nan stayed at the training base to cultivate while battles erupted throughout Qingyang Kingdom.
• The first wave of Transcendent mech self-destructions began, shaking the land and intensifying the devastation.

Demonic Orc self-destruction programs devastated Qingyang Kingdom, but Chen Nan’s efforts and military defenses greatly reduced the damage and thwarted the planned decisive attack. The rebels learned they had been used as expendable pawns, while Du Shi ordered an investigation and punishment as Qingyang Kingdom began shaping public opinion around the attack.

• Chen Nan’s Nature Masters weakened over three thousand Transcendent mech armors, and military defenses contained many explosions, though blasts still destroyed cities across Qingyang Kingdom.
• Du Shi heard that Chen Nan’s camp had avoided the self-destructions and ordered his deputy to obtain one of their mech armors and punish those connected to the leak, including Madam Chen.
• The self-destructions ended the full-scale battle, and surviving rebels removed their Demonic Orc mech armors after realizing they had been deceived and sacrificed.
• Transcendents in Qingyang Kingdom recognized that they needed their own homeland rather than relying on foreign powers, and reports began circulating online and through state media.

After the Demonic Orcs and Seven Great Families withdrew from Qingyang Kingdom, Chen Nan faced a challenge from Luojing Transcendent Academy’s Strength Department. He accepted the contest and set a massive wager, which Chu Yubo agreed to, leaving the departments poised to fight.

• About a month after the conflict, the Demonic Orcs and Seven Great Families fully withdrew from Qingyang Kingdom, and Chen Nan believed his people could develop without immediate threats.
• Chu Yubo, head of the Strength Department at Luojing Transcendent Academy, sent Yang Yugan a challenge for a contest between the departments’ graduating cohorts.
• Chen Nan told Yang Yugan he welcomed the contest as a chance to win forging materials, despite the Strength Department having far more students and stronger average fighters.
• After reading Chu Yubo’s demand that more than two hundred Strength Department students face just over twenty Nature Master students, Chen Nan proposed making the contest a wager.
• Yang Yugan offered thirty thousand tons of refined essence metal and one thousand tons of An Yadi tough steel as the stakes, and Chen Nan publicized the wager online.
• Chu Yubo accepted the wager, with the academy prepared to help cover the Strength Department’s losses.

Chen Nan accepted Chu Yubo’s challenge on behalf of the Nature Master Department, wagering valuable materials despite not knowing the Strength Department’s full capabilities. The duel’s date and ruined-city venue were set, and public attention made the battle and wager impossible to cancel.

• Chen Nan suspected Demonic Orcs were exploiting corruption and weak academic standards at Luojing Transcendent Academy to stir up conflict.
• Chen Nan agreed to Chu Yubo’s challenge because he needed materials to make flying swords for Nature Master students entering the Path Entry stage.
• Chen Nan judged that his strength, his group’s numbers, and Nature Masters’ freedom to use items such as Rune Talismans gave them an advantage, though the wager remained a gamble.
• Chen Nan’s challenge sent Qingyang Kingdom’s Transcendent world into an uproar, and spectators began building viewing stands and selling reserved spots at the ruins southeast of Luojing City.
• The battle and wager became impossible to withdraw from, while Chen Nan had supporters and resources from the Seven Great Families and Chen Shimei to cover the compensation if his side lost.

Chen Nan’s Nature Master Department faced Chu Yubo’s Strength Department in a massive series of duels, with both sides’ leaders settling the stakes before the battle began. The Nature Masters won the opening match, and their first fighter left the arena in tears of pride after Chen Nan acknowledged him.

• Yang Yugan and Qiu Daqiang exchanged greetings, but Yang Yugan rejected Qiu Daqiang’s attempt to bring the Nature Master Department back under the academy.
• Chu Yubo challenged Yang Yugan to honor their stakes, and Qiu Daqiang stopped Chu Yubo from saying more.
• Chen Nan and the Nature Masters entered the ruins to face the Strength Department’s 237 fighters under rules that required each defeated duelist to leave the combat zone.
• The Nature Master Department’s first fighter defeated three Strength Department students in a row, then entered the treatment area overwhelmed by pride and emotion.
• Chen Nan smiled and gave the fighter a thumbs-up, helping him understand why Liu Hongtao had fought so fiercely to defend Chen Nan.

The Nature Masters overwhelmed the Strength Department as their Path Entry contestants defeated scores of opponents, transforming everyone’s view of the group’s strength. Chen Nan then began facing the remaining contestants, while Chu Yubo secretly signaled ten specially treated students and Chen Nan prepared for whatever they might attempt.

• The first ten Nature Master contestants defeated more than seventy Strength Department students, leaving Chu Yubo uncertain about the outcome.
• The Seven Sons of Path Entry took the stage in succession and defeated the Strength Department’s strongest Transcendents in overwhelming numbers.
• Chen Nan entered the competition against the forty-two remaining opponents, and Chu Yubo secretly signaled his ten experimental subjects as Chen Nan noticed the exchange.
• Chen Nan easily defeated each opponent who faced him, paying particular attention as the final ten contestants remained.
• The Ten insulted Chen Nan and claimed that he and his nine brothers were stronger than the contestants before them, but Chen Nan mocked him until he grew furious.

Chen Nan fought the Ten, whose blood-red transformation granted him extraordinary strength, defense, and healing. After analyzing the Ten’s unfamiliar power and draining his strength with a talisman, Chen Nan defeated him in close combat, and the Ten surrendered.

• The Ten enlarged into a fiery-red giant and struck at Chen Nan with overwhelming force.
• Chen Nan’s lightning-wrapped flying swords barely pierced the Ten, whose wounds quickly healed.
• Chen Nan’s Eye of AI identified the Ten’s power as originating outside Planet Kabudan, and Chen Nan used a Power-Draining Talisman against him.
• Chen Nan studied the Ten’s resistance while fighting him hand to hand, then overwhelmed him with a savage beating.
• The battered Ten surrendered, and Chen Nan let him leave to treat his wounds.

Chen Nan defeated the Ninth through Second, but the Power-Draining Talisman weakened against each successive opponent. In the final fight, the First revealed that his strength rapidly recovered with anger, leaving Chen Nan facing an opponent whose power might be impossible to drain completely.

• Chen Nan defeated the Ninth and found that the Power-Draining Talisman worked less effectively than it had against the Tenth.
• Chen Nan discovered that the Eighth resisted the talisman even more, then fought through the remaining opponents to reach the First.
• The First unleashed his Blood Robe power, smashed the ground and a nearby building, and forced Chen Nan to evade with the Teleportation Technique.
• Chen Nan struck the First with the Power-Draining Talisman, weakening his power and appearance, then prepared a high-speed flying sword attack.
• The First briefly recovered his original strength to block Chen Nan's attack and explained that anger replenished his power.

Chen Nan defeated the First after using a ridiculous dance to dissipate his anger, then contained the resulting explosion with the Adamantine Shield. After the battle, the sides settled the wager, leaving Qiu Daqiang to cover the Strength Department’s compensation.

• Chen Nan fought the First for around three hours, managing his power and searching for a way to weaken his opponent.
• Chen Nan danced and made faces until the First laughed and his anger, red eyes, and red glow faded.
• Chen Nan sent two flying swords through the First’s head and heart, but the First’s anger returned at the instant of death and his body began to swell.
• Chen Nan trapped the First beneath the Adamantine Shield as he exploded, preventing the blast from directly reaching the spectators, though its tremors collapsed buildings and left a crater over a thousand meters deep.
• The spectators cheered Chen Nan for saving lives, while Qiu Daqiang realized he would have to pay the wager’s compensation himself.
• Yang Yugan thanked Qiu Daqiang for the supplies, and Qiu Daqiang replied that he was merely honoring the wager.

After the duel, Chen Nan realized the Demonic Orcs had engineered the contest to measure their new power against the Nature Masters, signaling the start of a serious rivalry. He decided to consult his master and expand the Nature Masters into a stronger, broadly influential civilization while allowing other civilizations to coexist.

• Yang Yugan politely thanked Qiu Daqiang, and Qiu arranged delivery of ten thousand tons of premium refined gold and one thousand tons of An Yadi tough steel within seven days.
• Chen Nan recalled that the Demonic Orcs had empowered the ten Strength Department students and prompted Chu Yubo to invoke an old oath so they could test their strength against the Nature Masters.
• Chen Nan concluded that the Demonic Orcs had revealed their new power deliberately to measure the gap and prepare for future battles, rather than conceal their strength.
• Worried that the Demonic Orcs could outgrow the roughly one thousand Nature Masters, Chen Nan decided to discuss long-term preparations with his master.
• Chen Nan planned to recruit Nature Masters on a large scale, develop elite troops, and make Nature Master civilization a leading force without suppressing other civilizations.

Chen Nan and Yang Yugan established a plan to expand the Nature Masters independently, securing state support and new training grounds rather than returning to Luojing Transcendent Academy. After becoming a legally independent academy and opening nationwide recruitment, the Nature Masters drew enormous interest and surpassed Luojing Transcendent Academy in recruitment numbers.

• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan decided the Nature Masters would not return to Luojing Transcendent Academy, and Chen Nan planned to seek resources from Qingyang Kingdom’s military.
• Chen Nan proposed using the Chen Family Mansion as the Nature Masters’ first base and turning the other six Seven Great Families’ territories into branch campuses later.
• Yang Yugan told Chen Nan that the botanical garden contained spiritual energy suited to Path Entry stage cultivation and could serve as a secret training ground.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan formally separated the Nature Masters from Luojing Transcendent Academy and obtained state recognition and funding for an independent institution.
• The Nature Masters began nationwide student recruitment, attracting enough applicants to surpass Luojing Transcendent Academy.

Chen Nan and the Nature Masters finished training their new students and entered the botanical garden to cultivate. There, Chen Nan found that its plants had Earth-like carbon isotope levels, raising doubts about Planet Kabudan's Nature Masters.

• The Nature Masters admitted more than a thousand students, and Chen Nan taught them cultivation until they could practice independently.
• Chen Nan arranged for senior students to guide the freshmen, freeing him and the other experienced Nature Masters to enter the botanical garden.
• Yang Yugan led Lu Fangliang, Chen Nan, and the other Path Entry stage Nature Masters through the portal into the dangerous, densely overgrown garden.
• Chen Nan sensed the garden's rich spiritual energy and noticed that its plants resembled those from his hometown.
• Chen Nan used the Eye of AI to scan the plants and found their carbon-12 content matched Earth's, prompting him to question Planet Kabudan's Nature Masters.

Chen Nan and Yang Yugan’s group discovered an ancient complex in the botanical garden whose layout and symbols resembled Earth’s Taoist traditions, raising questions about its origins. They settled in to cultivate for several months, while Yang Yugan began a complete closed-door session in the rear hall.

• Chen Nan noticed increasingly substantial architectural ruins as Yang Yugan led the group deeper into the botanical garden.
• The group entered a vast, symmetrical complex, where Chen Nan recognized symbols associated with the River Diagram, Luo Shu, Yin Yang, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams.
• Chen Nan asked Yang Yugan whether Planet Kabudan had buildings like these, and Yang Yugan said some ancestors had left the planet by traveling through space.
• The group decided to divide the complex into living, leisure, and cultivation areas for several months of training.
• Yang Yugan told Chen Nan how to wake him if necessary, then began a complete closed-door cultivation session in the rear hall.

Chen Nan and the disciples cultivated amid abundant spiritual energy, which strengthened their bodies and gave Chen Nan new ideas about adapting to natural laws and reaching the lost Void Realm. The disciples finished their session energized, while Chen Nan decided to study every image and text in the place as he continued cultivating.

• Chen Nan and the other disciples began cultivating and quickly felt their strength increase in the abundant spiritual energy.
• Chen Nan sensed that cultivation was transforming his body and considered how this might let it adapt to natural laws.
• Chen Nan reflected that the Mysterious Profound Token lacked a technique for reaching the Void Realm, a realm he and Yang Yugan believed had once existed.
• Chen Nan gained a vague inspiration about the Void Realm but remained unable to determine how the spiritual energy related to it.
• The disciples emerged from cultivation in high spirits, while Chen Nan decided to study every image and text in the place as he cultivated.

Chen Nan deciphered the ancient texts in the botanical garden and learned that Nature Masters had been brought to Kabudan Planet by powerful beings from another world. He discovered that his own death and transmigration were part of their scheme, leaving him furious and wondering about the family he had left behind on Earth.

• Chen Nan spent a month studying the courtyard’s ancient writing, numerology, yin and yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams.
• Chen Nan learned that Great Empowered Ones had brought their civilization to Kabudan Planet and taught Nature Masters, whose future decline they had foreseen.
• Chen Nan discovered that the botanical garden was a hidden, dust-sized world created to preserve spiritual energy and prepare conditions for the Void Realm.
• Chen Nan learned that the Great Empowered Ones had brought a person from another world to supply the missing element of civilization.
• Chen Nan realized that his electromagnetic bicycle had been deliberately made to explode, causing his death and transmigration, and worried about his family on Earth.

After learning that powerful beings had manipulated events around Kabudan Planet, Chen Nan resented being treated as a chess piece and devoted himself to cultivation and deciphering the ancient methods. He left determined to grow strong enough to resist whoever had designed the scheme.

• Chen Nan realized the Great Empowered Ones had arranged events around him and felt angry at their disregard for ordinary people.
• He studied the inscriptions and diagrams, using his AI System to analyze cultivation methods tied to the cosmos, the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams.
• Chen Nan discovered references to Western World Deities and suspected that forces beyond the Nature Masters had influenced Kabudan Planet and Karst Star.
• He used classical texts on immortality and Dao cultivation to improve the AI System's analysis of the ancient methods.
• Chen Nan continued cultivating and refining pills, determined not to let the hidden powers manipulate him or those around him.

Chen Nan reflected on resisting the forces controlling his fate, then devoted himself to cultivating and improving the group’s methods. After eight months, he had reached the late Path Entry stage and began considering how to make the botanical garden’s limited cultivation space sustainable.

• Chen Nan decided that he would accept the laws of the universe but refuse to be controlled by others, and wondered whether his AI glasses had merged with his nervous system by coincidence.
• Chen Nan studied Earth’s ancient cultivation texts, researched the Void Realm, and optimized cultivation methods to raise progress after the Path Entry stage by at least thirty percent.
• Chen Nan revised the Myriad Laws Universe Art and continued cultivating, researching, refining medicine, and making tools while others trusted his guidance.
• After eight months, Chen Nan reached the late Path Entry stage, while the strongest of the others had reached the middle stage.
• Chen Nan learned that Nature Masters had only three cycles of special training to reach Unity, because the botanical garden’s cultivation resources were limited by space.
• Chen Nan understood that the garden seemed to offer unlimited time but limited space, and hoped to discover how to make its resources truly inexhaustible.

Nature Masters’ growing enrollment worried Luojing Transcendent Academy, so Qiu Daqiang approached Yang Yugan for help. Yang agreed to cooperate on limited admissions, leaving Chen Nan and the others to finalize student-selection criteria.

• Qiu Daqiang visited Yang Yugan and explained that Luojing Transcendent Academy risked losing its students and eventually closing.
• Yang Yugan told Qiu Daqiang that Nature Masters planned to limit enrollment and proposed that the two academies conduct joint admissions.
• Qiu Daqiang agreed to manage the enrollment process in exchange for the chance to provide students to Nature Masters.
• After Qiu Daqiang left, Yang Yugan called Chen Nan, Lu Fangliang, and the others to discuss the partnership and student-selection standards.
• Chen Nan and the others discussed the standards for several hours and finalized the enrollment criteria.

Chen Nan finalized Nature Master admissions rules, taught the expanded student body, and spent months ensuring the organization could operate without him. After his cultivation neared a breakthrough, he headed to the botanical garden to enter the Unity stage, while Yang Yugan stayed behind to handle arrangements.

• Chen Nan and the others made character the main admissions requirement and set annual enrollment at around six hundred students; Yang Yugan sent the rules to Qiu Daqiang, who replied immediately.
• Chen Nan split the freshmen into three classes and used water-mist clones to teach them while also guiding the second-year students.
• After four months of teaching, Chen Nan sensed he was close to breaking through from the late Path Entry stage and decided to wait until he reached the botanical garden to enter the Unity stage.
• Chen Nan completed the teaching work and set off for the botanical garden, where his fellow disciples had already begun cultivating; Yang Yugan stayed behind to manage the arrangements.