Chapter Summaries

Chen Nan secretly advanced his cultivation by using the AI System to manage Heaven-Defying Pills and conceal his true level. After the academy punished the Nature Master Department and reduced Chen Nan’s rewards, he learned that Transcendent hooligans were attacking his Spicy Hot Pot stores.

• Chen Nan tested how the AI System could regulate his body after taking Heaven-Defying Pills and found it could clear their harmful effects within three hours, though he limited himself to four pills a month.
• Chen Nan used his Diligence Ranking rewards to advance rapidly, reaching Level Fifty-Five and then Level Sixty while the Hidden Merit Secret Method made inspections show him at only Level Fifty-One.
• Chen Nan developed powerful control over the Thousand Pull Art and Void Transformation Art but kept his strongest abilities hidden.
• Elder Fu Long’s family accused the Nature Master Department of fraud over his inheritance, and the academy forced the department to pay the family and reduced Chen Nan’s Mana Crystal rewards.
• Jiang Lili messaged Chen Nan that Transcendent hooligans had begun smashing up his Spicy Hot Pot stores.

Chen Nan traced the attacks on Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot to a larger plot amid the Qingyang Kingdom’s growing crisis and ordered Jiang Lili to close the Luojing City stores and return to Wu City. With her safely gone, he sent Qi Shan and the others to guard a remaining store, preparing to retaliate if troublemakers appeared.

• Chen Nan learned that the Demonic Beast Kingdom was pressuring the Qingyang Kingdom and that lawless Transcendents were exploiting the turmoil to prey on ordinary people.
• Chen Nan identified Su Liye, a Su Family summoner, as a possible participant in the ambush against him and suspected someone else had ordered it.
• Chen Nan called Jiang Lili and told her to close the Luojing City stores, leave behind everything except owned properties, and return to Wu City.
• Jiang Lili agreed after Li Nanchao persuaded her, transferred thirty million yuan to Chen Nan, and returned home.
• Chen Nan instructed Qi Shan and the others to guard a remaining chain store and beat anyone who came to cause trouble.
• Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, and Liu Mingtao led three to five underlings to one of the Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot stores.

Qi Shan and his companions watched as Transcendent thugs attacked a Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot shop, then fought back after the thugs threatened them. They returned to the academy with evidence of the killing, and Chen Nan praised Liu Mingtao while preparing to act against those targeting the Nature Masters.

• Qi Shan stopped Liu Mingtao from intervening when a fat Transcendent killed a shop clerk, so they could learn more about the attackers.
• The fat man demanded money from the shop and threatened Qi Shan’s group, while boasting that Transcendents could kill commoners without consequence.
• Liu Mingtao struck the fat man down, and Qi Shan’s group beat his companion until he fled; Liu then killed the fat man with repeated punches.
• Qi Shan recorded the fight and retrieved the shop’s surveillance footage before the group left for the academy.
• Chen Nan praised Liu Mingtao, told him to prioritize his own safety, and began forming a plan after Qi Shan reported what happened.

Chen Nan shared the Nature Master Department’s secret training location with his loyal students, while the department struggled after its hot pot stores closed and its academy support dried up. At home, Li Nanchao warned Jiang Lili and the others that the academy might try to keep Chen Nan if the department became independent.

• Chen Nan gave Qi Shan and the other loyal students an off-campus address for the Nature Master Department’s additional training.
• Public support and legal evidence helped Liu Mingtao and the others receive only minor academy punishments, but the controversy forced Chen Nan’s Spicy Hot Pot stores to close.
• The Nature Master Department’s students pooled money and used Elder Gao Haitao’s inheritance to keep the department operating.
• Jiang Lili asked Li Nanchao to explain Chen Nan’s situation, and he said the academy and others were suppressing Chen Nan and the Nature Master Department.
• Li Nanchao warned that if the department went bankrupt and became independent, the academy might keep Chen Nan under its control until his best years of cultivation talent had passed.

Li Yunfeng revealed to Chen Shimei that Chen Nan was their son and asked him to help the young man through his crisis. Chen Shimei agreed to secretly assist Chen Nan, leaving his trusted servant to carry out his instructions.

• Li Nanchao explained that a major Lineage could protect a Transcendent, while the others discussed how to help Chen Nan.
• Li Yunfeng left, opened the pendant on her gold necklace, and called the special number she had kept for years.
• Li Yunfeng told Chen Shimei that she had given birth to their son, Chen Nan, and asked him to help him rather than give her money.
• Chen Shimei reflected on his arranged marriage and the life he had chosen within the Chen Lineage, then decided he would help Chen Nan secretly.
• Chen Shimei summoned his most trusted servant and gave him detailed instructions about helping Chen Nan.

With the Nature Master Department near bankruptcy and Yang Yugan still in seclusion, Chen Nan accepted secret support from an unknown benefactor. The supplies enabled the department to resume rapid training, while Chen Nan accepted that he would be responsible for repaying the favor.

• Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang worried that the Nature Master Department had exhausted Elder Gao Haitao’s inheritance and lacked the resources to advance.
• An unremarkable man from Wu City visited Chen Nan, claiming he came to thank him on behalf of his hometown and Chen Yun.
• The man delivered a tricycle-load of vegetables, and Chen Nan revealed that an eggplant concealed a medium Spirit Touch Potion inside.
• Chen Nan told Lu Fangliang that the unknown benefactor considered the supplies an investment to be repaid later, and he accepted the risk because the department needed support.
• Chen Nan began receiving wealth and supplies through various channels, and the Nature Master Department resumed rapid cultivation at its private base.

Chen Nan helped the Nature Master Department remain covert while Yang Yugan returned from seclusion in the early Unity stage. As war closed in on Qingyang Kingdom, Chen Nan obtained six Capacity Expansion Pods to accelerate the department’s cultivation.

• Chen Nan had Lu Fangliang pose as various medical experts in advertisements, keeping the Nature Master Department funded while drawing mockery from Transcendents.
• Chen Nan continued earning Diligence Ranking rewards as his cultivation reached level sixty-two, while Yang Yugan emerged from seclusion in the early Unity stage.
• Kroya, Jialuo Kingdom, and their allies advanced on Qingyang Kingdom, whose Transcendents began evacuating and transferring their power elsewhere.
• Chen Nan requested Capacity Expansion Pods from the mysterious ordinary person and received six for the cultivation base.
• Chen Nan explained how Capacity Expansion Pods had accelerated his cultivation and taught Lu Fangliang the Myriad Laws Universe Art so he could use one.
• Chen Nan reserved one Capacity Expansion Pod for Lu Fangliang and one for himself, while the other students would qualify only upon reaching the Mystic Understanding stage.

Chen Nan used Capacity Expansion Pods and other resources to rapidly advance his cultivation while the Nature Master Department gained time to grow. After Chen Nan reached Level Seventy and the Path Entry stage, Yang Yugan forged him a short sword from refined gold, leaving Chen Nan with a divine weapon suited to sword control.

• Chen Nan introduced the Capacity Expansion Pods to the Nature Master Department, and its three Mystic Understanding students began cultivating with them.
• Over the next three to five months, Chen Nan rose to Level Seventy and reached initial Path Entry, while Lu Fangliang advanced into Path Entry as well.
• Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang retrieved cultivation techniques from the Mysterious Profound Token as Yang Yugan began forging Chen Nan a divine weapon from refined gold.
• Yang Yugan explained Nature Master weapon refinement to Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang while using Heaven and Earth Profound Fire to refine the metal.
• After about forty-nine days, Yang Yugan completed a palm-sized jade-like short sword for Chen Nan.

Chen Nan linked his spiritual sense to the little flying sword, while Yang Yugan supported Chen Nan’s reforms as the Nature Master Department began preparing new students for the Mystic Understanding stage. Chen Nan then discovered that cultivation after Path Entry followed a different system, though his AI System still worked and his earlier cultivation foundation remained compatible.

• Yang Yugan explained how Chen Nan could link his spiritual sense to the little sword, and Chen Nan completed the process with Lu Fangliang’s protection.
• Chen Nan summoned and withdrew the sword through his consciousness, and Lu Fangliang said a rise of the Nature Masters was drawing near as students advanced rapidly with the Capacity Expansion Pod.
• Yang Yugan approved Chen Nan’s reforms and entrusted most affairs of the Nature Master Department to Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang.
• Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang found that their previous cultivation methods no longer worked after reaching the Path Entry stage, though Chen Nan could still cultivate with his AI System.
• Chen Nan confirmed that his earlier cultivation foundation did not conflict with Nature Master methods and concluded that power after Path Entry came from principles beyond what technology could verify.

Chen Nan continued cultivating as a Nature Master while Yang Yugan left to research medicinal pills that could aid cultivation. After reconnecting with Susanna and agreeing to bring her to the training base, Chen Nan planned to compete in his Diligence Ranking match first.

• Chen Nan kept competing in the Diligence Ranking and cultivating, while considering how Nature Masters could increase their power and attain enlightenment.
• Yang Yugan explained cultivation matters to Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang, then left to search for materials and methods for refining medicinal pills.
• The Nature Master Department's students cultivated rapidly, and its six Capacity Expansion Pods operated at full capacity as several students neared the Path Entry stage.
• Chen Nan contacted Susanna, spent the day and night with her, and agreed to take her to the training base the next day.
• Chen Nan and Susanna returned to the academy first so he could finish his scheduled Diligence Ranking match before they went to the training base.

Susanna visited Chen Nan's training base and was impressed by its resources, but promised to keep its secrets. When her father pressed her for proof that Chen Nan trusted her, she revealed everything about the base to him.

• Chen Nan brought Susanna to the Nature Master Department's training base, where she saw its students, equipment, and expensive Capacity Expansion Pods.
• Chen Nan asked Susanna not to reveal what she had seen, and she promised to keep the base's affairs secret.
• After spending several days at the base, Susanna returned to the academy and then went home to tell her father she had won their bet.
• Father Su challenged Susanna to name something at the base, then persuaded her that her parents needed to know the truth about Chen Nan.
• Susanna told Father Su every detail about Chen Nan's base, and he praised her as a good daughter.

After Zhao Yunlong learned that Chen Nan's Nature Master Department training base had become unexpectedly strong, he led a group there to provoke its students. The attackers overwhelmed the defenders and singled out Liu Mingtao for punishment, while Chen Nan remained absent.

• Susanna returned to the academy after her father promised to keep her secret from others.
• Qin Shou learned of the training base's unusual progress and told Zhao Yunlong, who decided to disrupt Chen Nan's work.
• Zhao Yunlong and his group arrived at the training base, where Liu Mingtao blocked their way and Qin Shou broke his collarbone with a punch.
• The Nature Master Department students overcame their fear and fought back, surprising Zhao Yunlong's group with their strength.
• Zhao Yunlong and his core group joined the battle, defeating the Nature Master Department students and leaving several seriously injured.
• Jiang Wenming was assigned to deal with Liu Mingtao after the attackers singled him out as their most troublesome opponent.

Zhao Yunlong tortured Liu Mingtao to force him to denounce Chen Nan, but Liu Mingtao stayed loyal until Chen Nan returned and rescued him. Chen Nan overwhelmed Zhao Yunlong’s group but spared them, then faced the possibility that Liu Mingtao’s injuries were beyond healing.

• Jiang Wenming held Liu Mingtao while Zhao Yunlong demanded that he condemn Chen Nan, but Liu Mingtao praised Chen Nan instead.
• Zhao Yunlong’s servants broke Liu Mingtao’s limbs and Zhao Yunlong attacked him with Fire Dragon Fist, but Chen Nan appeared in the lava pit and carried him out.
• Chen Nan struck with lightning, shattered the attackers’ defenses, and killed their subordinates while leaving Zhao Yunlong and his companions alive.
• Chen Nan explained that he spared the descendants of the five great Lineages to avoid provoking them into destroying the Nature Master Department, though he intended to settle the blood debt later.
• Liu Mingtao told Chen Nan that his injuries had ruined him, and the students’ healing spells could not reverse his worsening condition.

After Liu Hongtao was gravely injured protecting Chen Nan, he explained that Chen Nan had once saved his family, and Yang Yugan used an ancient pill to save his life. Chen Nan suspected the attack revealed a leak about the Nature Master Department’s secret location, while the five Lineages prepared to demand an explanation from Yang Yugan.

• Liu Hongtao told Chen Nan that Chen Nan had avenged his family and helped bring his sister home, making Chen Nan the hero he was willing to die for.
• Lu Fangliang offered an ancient life-preserving pill, and Yang Yugan treated Liu Hongtao after Chen Nan made him take it; Liu Hongtao survived, though his broken bones could not be repaired.
• Chen Nan took responsibility for the attack and suspected someone had exposed the Nature Master Department’s location, while Yang Yugan reassured him that the Department could withstand future difficulties.
• Qin Shou recounted Chen Nan’s attack to Qin Wanli, who warned him not to provoke Chen Nan and then coordinated with the Zhao, Chen, Chu, and Jiang families.
• Chen Shimei objected to provoking the Nature Master Department, but the five family heads jointly invited Yang Yugan to a banquet in Luojing City to demand an explanation.
• Yang Yugan told Chen Nan and Lu Fangliang he would attend the banquet, confident that even if the family heads could defeat him together, they could not stop him from escaping.

At a banquet, Yang Yugan confronted five patriarchs over their descendants’ conflict with his disciple Chen Nan and refused to submit to their threats. After demonstrating his ability to escape them, he left the patriarchs weighing the danger of provoking the Nature Master Department, and they agreed to let the matter go.

• Yang Yugan asked the five patriarchs why they had invited him, and Zhao Wenming said they wanted to apologize.
• Qin Wanli accused Chen Nan of killing the patriarchs’ descendants’ subordinates, but Yang Yugan defended his disciple and blamed the descendants for causing trouble on his turf.
• Jiang Sen threatened Yang Yugan, who rejected the patriarchs’ authority and challenged them to settle the dispute by force.
• Yang Yugan warned that his disciples would fight to the death and that he would hunt down their descendants if they destroyed the Nature Master Department.
• The patriarchs gathered their strength against Yang Yugan, but he vanished using spatial displacement and warned them not to provoke his department.
• Chen Shimei argued that the patriarchs should let the matter go, and the others stopped pursuing the conflict.

Qin Wanli proposed that the powerful Lineages ally with the Demonic Orcs and abandon the Qingyang Kingdom so they could eventually target Yang Yugan. Back at the Nature Master Department, Chen Nan suspected Susanna had leaked information that led to Liu Mingtao’s injuries, leaving their relationship in doubt.

• Qin Wanli urged the other Lineage leaders to weaken their national ties, move their families abroad, and join the Demonic Orcs in destroying the Qingyang Kingdom before hunting Yang Yugan.
• Chen Shimei objected to betraying their country but agreed to prepare to relocate the Lineage after Zhao Wenming pressed him.
• Yang Yugan returned to the Nature Master Department and told Chen Nan and the others about his confrontation with the Lineage leaders; they expected no unusual moves from the other five great Lineages and decided to focus on cultivation.
• Chen Nan took Susanna to visit the badly injured Liu Mingtao and said he would investigate who had leaked the information that exposed him.
• Chen Nan noticed Susanna’s uneasy reactions and suspected she had been involved, thinking their relationship would end if his suspicion proved true.

Chen Nan broke up with Susanna after suspecting that her father had leaked information about the Nature Master Training Base, then returned to the academy and decided to pursue the top of the Diligence Ranking. He planned to challenge for fiftieth place first, despite knowing his strength and flying sword could let him defeat the current number one, Zhao Yunlong.

• Chen Nan questioned Susanna about telling her demonic father about the base and whether her father had shared the information.
• Chen Nan broke up with Susanna, left her crying in the street, and refused to turn back.
• Chen Nan returned to the academy after the morning Diligence Ranking matches had ended.
• Chen Nan decided to challenge for fiftieth place the following week before aiming for first place.
• Chen Nan judged that his flying sword could kill Level Seventy Zhao Yunlong within a few exchanges.

After the academy barred Chen Nan from the Diligence Ranking, he followed Lin Xi’s flute and learned that she had played to soothe his troubles, though he suspected she had feelings for him. Lin Xi returned to the dormitory, where Susanna blamed her for the breakup and pushed her down the stairs, leaving her injured as others rushed to help.

• Chen Nan learned that the academy had banned him from the Diligence Ranking because his birthday coincided with its founding date and denied him that week’s reward.
• Chen Nan followed Lin Xi’s flute, found her in a wheelchair, and caught her when she fainted; Lin Xi admitted she had played near his path to ease his worries.
• Chen Nan told Lin Xi that he and Susanna had broken up, and Lin Xi tried to leave, saying she was conflicted and wanted to go.
• Lin Xi returned to the dormitory and saw Susanna crying, then refused to speak with her because she felt guilty about the breakup.
• Susanna insulted Lin Xi and shoved her down the stairs, where Lin Xi’s wheelchair overturned and she was left bleeding and unable to get up.
• Susanna told the gathered students that Lin Xi had fallen by accident, and they took Lin Xi for treatment.

Chen Nan followed the injured Lin Xi to the infirmary, learned how Susanna had tormented her, and discovered that Susanna’s father had ties to the Qin family. After taking Lin Xi out for a meal, Chen Nan entered a noodle shop with her, where a group of Demonic Orcs arrived.

• Chen Nan paid for Lin Xi’s treatment at the academy infirmary and stayed by her while she recovered.
• Lin Xi’s dormmates told Chen Nan that she had long liked him and that Susanna had repeatedly hurt her by flaunting their relationship and describing their intimacy.
• One of the girls said she had seen Susanna’s father interacting with the Qin family, strengthening Chen Nan’s suspicion that he had leaked information about the training base.
• Lin Xi woke and spoke with Chen Nan, who offered to take her to eat after her infusion; they left the academy together around six in the evening.
• Finding the ordinary snack street deserted and unsafe, Chen Nan took Lin Xi to the Transcendent-run Three Swordsmen noodle shop.
• Three beastmen and two demonfolk entered the shop, including one woman from each group.

Chen Nan protected Lin Xi from five Demonic Orcs who tried to provoke and attack him in a restaurant, then killed them all. The diners feared the political consequences, and the restaurant owner confronted Chen Nan as the chapter ended.

• Chen Nan moved Lin Xi behind him and told an Orc who approached them to get lost.
• After the Orc splashed wine and attacked, Chen Nan disabled his arm and warned the five Demonic Orcs to leave.
• The five Demonic Orcs attacked, and Chen Nan used his Eye of AI and Liuying to kill the female Orc and two spellcasters while redirecting their lightning into the remaining Orcs.
• Chen Nan killed the two remaining Orcs, leaving the restaurant diners shocked and afraid that the Demonic Beast Kingdom would retaliate.
• The restaurant owner came out, worried about being implicated, and treated Chen Nan with hostility.