Chapter Summaries

Chen Nan used the AI System to master the piano and turned a planned humiliation at the ball into a celebrated performance, impressing the guests and deepening Lin Xi’s feelings for him. He left the stage surrounded by new admirers and saw a chance to connect with the Seven Great Families’ heirs.

• Ye Zixin insulted Chen Nan, who answered by agreeing to perform for the guests.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to master the piano and played the Symphony of Destiny, winning the crowd’s respect.
• Chen Nan dedicated Für Elise to Lin Xi, moving her and earning enthusiastic applause and shouts from several girls.
• Ye Zixin grew furious when a girl he was pursuing cheered for Chen Nan, while Chen Nan retreated with Lin Xi and drew a crowd of admirers.
• Zhao Yunlong and the other plotters realized their attempt to embarrass Chen Nan had backfired, and Chen Nan recognized the performance as an unexpected opening with the Seven Great Families’ heirs.

After impressing the guests at a ball, Chen Nan brought Lin Xi to the Chen Family residence and played flute pieces that moved her and changed the servants’ view of him. He later received an honored invitation to another ball from Su Luoyu, while Lin Xi quietly felt sad about it.

• After the ball, Zhao Yunlong worried that Chen Nan’s status and piano performance had made him harder to oppose.
• Chen Nan took Lin Xi to the Chen Family residence, where the servants treated him with great deference and attended to Lin Xi as his honored guest.
• Chen Nan played “Wandering Brow” for Lin Xi, moving her to tears and inspiring reverence in the three servants.
• Lin Xi practiced “Wandering Brow” through the night, and Chen Nan took her out the next day before teaching her “Grave Flower Chant.”
• Chen Nan received an invitation to another ball from Su Luoyu, who marked him as an honored guest, while Lin Xi hid her sadness.

Chen Nan and Lin Xi attended Su Luoyu’s ball, where Chen Nan earned an honored seat and effortlessly defeated Ye Zixin’s attack before playing two acclaimed pieces. Jiang Wenming and Susanna then arrived, with Susanna intent on provoking Lin Xi.

• Chen Nan and Lin Xi arrived at Su Luoyu’s ball and were welcomed and seated as honored guests.
• Ye Zixin insulted Chen Nan, attacked him with lightning, and was expelled from the ball after Chen Nan negated the strike.
• Zhao Yunlong persuaded Ye Zixin to leave rather than suffer further humiliation.
• Chen Nan played two pieces at Su Luoyu’s request and impressed the guests with his skill.
• Jiang Wenming arrived with Susanna, who had come to provoke Lin Xi over her place at the ball.

At Su Luoyu’s ball, Chen Nan defended Lin Xi from Susanna’s insults, then encouraged Lin Xi to perform and sang “Grave Flower Chant” with her. The song moved the guests and left Susanna alone outside, questioning how she had degraded herself and spiraling into distress.

• Susanna insulted Lin Xi and accused her of using Chen Nan, but Chen Nan defended Lin Xi and told Susanna to show self-respect.
• Su Luoyu rebuked Susanna and Jiang Wenming, while Zhao Yunlong promised to keep them from causing further trouble; the pair left in resentment.
• Chen Nan proposed that Lin Xi perform, and Lin Xi played “Wandering Brow” and “Grave Flower Chant” on the xiao to strong applause.
• Chen Nan announced that he had lyrics for his compositions and sang “Grave Flower Chant” with Lin Xi, moving many guests to tears.
• Jiang Wenming dismissed the performance and groped Susanna; disgusted, she shook him off and fled outside.
• Susanna recalled the song’s lyrics, questioned her choices and her father’s judgment of her, then broke down in laughter and tears.

After winning over music-loving descendants of great Lineages, Chen Nan built his and Lin Xi’s celebrity status and used it to spread values that challenged the Seven Great Families’ scheming and corruption. His message sparked growing conflicts, which culminated in a Su Family descendant being killed while pursuing his legitimate interests.

• Chen Nan’s performance at Su Luoyu’s ball won him and Lin Xi the admiration of the guests, while Zhao Yunlong and his group left in embarrassment.
• Chen Nan prompted the guests to voice their resentment toward the infighting and favoritism in their Lineages, then left with Lin Xi after establishing a friendship with Su Luoyu.
• At the training base, Chen Nan taught Lin Xi the Mysterious Profound Token’s Spirit-Eroding Melody and Swordplay Laughter as she continued cultivating the Myriad Laws Universe Art.
• Chen Nan and Lin Xi held performances, gained a larger following, and Chen Nan used his influence to promote loyalty, benevolence, and fair rewards for contributions.
• Chen Nan’s statements fueled local resistance and violent crackdowns among the Seven Great Families and independent Transcendents, until a Su Family descendant was killed for pursuing his legitimate interests.

Chen Nan confronted his father, Chen Shimei, over his weakness and complicity in the Chen Family’s cruelty, while the Seven Great Families prepared to retaliate against him. Chen Nan deliberately went out alone as bait, and three attackers confronted him at a mountain pavilion.

• Chen Shimei told Chen Nan that the other Lineages demanded the Chen Family restrain him, and Chen Nan lectured him about Jiang Lili’s courage and his own failure to stand up for what was right.
• Chen Shimei returned to the Chen Family, learned they had agreed to let the other six families deal with Chen Nan, and secretly gave instructions to his loyal servant Gu Ying.
• Chen Nan learned the families intended to strike back but ignored Chen Shimei’s warning to stay home, leaving Lin Xi at the training base and driving to a deserted mountain outside the city.
• Chen Nan waited at a pavilion, pretending to relax while watching for attackers, then saw three people approach by separate paths and surround him.
• When one attacker declared that they had come to kill him, Chen Nan feigned surprise and fear.

Chen Nan fought three Level Seventy-Five Transcendents to demonstrate the Nature Masters’ strength and expose the great Lineages’ attacks to his followers. After killing all three, he returned to the training base, where the battle heightened everyone’s resolve to train.

• Chen Nan warned the three Transcendents and evaded their opening attack with the Void Transformation Art.
• A and B enlarged themselves and attacked alongside the stealthed C, but Chen Nan escaped their assault and wounded C with Liuying.
• Chen Nan fought the three for half an hour, killing C and B before striking down the wounded A.
• Chen Nan confirmed that the battle had been recorded for his followers, then left the mountain while exhausted.
• Chen Nan returned to the training base, where the disciples were alarmed by the Lineages’ attack and trained more diligently.

After surviving an attack, Chen Nan used the incident to inflame public anger at the Seven Great Families and then promoted patriotism among their descendants and other Transcendents. His campaign stirred calls for Transcendents to join the war, prompting the Demonic Orcs to seek ways to stop the movement.

• Lin Xi decided to cultivate harder so she could help Chen Nan, while he recovered at the training base and then returned alone to the Chen Family.
• Chen Nan told Su Luoyu the attack video was genuine and responded to his fans, allowing their anger at his attackers to build.
• The Seven Great Families sent descendants to invite Chen Nan to banquets, and he attended each gathering to ease public suspicion while pursuing his own plans.
• Chen Nan and Lin Xi showed patriotic propaganda films and urged Transcendents to defend the Qingyang Kingdom, stirring widespread calls to join the war.
• The Demonic Orcs, alarmed by the growing resistance, began considering covert ways to prevent Qingyang Kingdom's Transcendents from entering the war.

Chen Nan received intelligence from military officer Long Gang that the Demonic Orcs might use traitors to target him, then identified three powerful independent Transcendents as likely threats. After an anonymous warning arrived, Chen Nan decided to challenge them in duels and began by posting a challenge to Du Shipi.

• Long Gang met Chen Nan at a blocked crossroads, shared military intelligence about potential traitors, and promised secret protection while declining his request to use the military network without approval.
• Chen Nan memorized and burned the intelligence file, then told Lin Xi about the meeting on their drive back to the training base.
• Chen Nan identified Du Shipi, Du Hongyu, and Liu Tao as possible enemies and considered how to prevent them from joining forces against him.
• Chen Nan received an anonymous warning that someone intended to harm him and decided to take the initiative by challenging his potential enemies to duels.
• Chen Nan posted an online duel notice naming Du Shipi as his first opponent, hoping to take control of the independents' forces.

Chen Nan challenged Du Shipi to a public duel that would determine the fate of their followers, then faced him at Luojing City’s Grand Arena. The fight began with Du Shipi’s unusual attack, which Chen Nan evaded using a technique blending Tai Chi with the Void Dissipation Art.

• Chen Nan publicly challenged Du Shipi, and Du Shipi accepted despite the backlash from online spectators.
• Chen Nan set the duel’s stakes: the winner would take the loser’s influence and followers, while the loser would become the winner’s slave.
• Three days later, Chen Nan and Du Shipi met before a packed crowd at the Grand Arena in Luojing City.
• Chen Nan assessed Du Shipi’s level eighty-two strength and Rhinoceros Hide defense, then prepared to rely on his flying sword and AI System.
• Du Shipi opened the duel with a palm strike whose strange, measured slowness made it difficult to evade.
• Chen Nan used the Void Dissipation Art and a modified Tai Chi Fist Method to turn intangible as Du Shipi’s attack landed on empty space.

Chen Nan used the Void Transformation Art and the AI System’s calculations to withstand Du Shipi’s overwhelming attacks and search for a way through his rhinoceros-like defense. The battle continued after Chen Nan evaded Du Shipi at the final second of the arena’s timer, leaving Du Shipi aware that Chen Nan was trying to wear him down.

• Chen Nan evaded Du Shipi’s Rhinoceros Palm with the Void Transformation Art, while his lightning and Liuying attacks failed to penetrate Du Shipi’s tough hide.
• Du Shipi enlarged his body and charged on all fours, but Chen Nan turned incorporeal to avoid the attack and then used partial incorporeality to escape the shockwaves.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to direct Liuying at the same point on Du Shipi’s back while running around the arena, even as the battle-avoidance timer counted down.
• Chen Nan activated the Void Transformation Art again as the timer reached its final second, evaded Du Shipi’s attack, and met the rules by exchanging blows before the display reached zero.
• Chen Nan withdrew from Du Shipi’s range, and Du Shipi realized that Chen Nan intended to use the timer and his evasiveness to wear him down.

Chen Nan defeated and killed Du Shipi by using lightning conducted through Liuying, shocking the arena and the Seven Great Families with his power. After the victory, Chen Nan took control of the Black Red Gang, and about one-third of its members joined the Nature Master training base.

• Chen Nan repeatedly struck one spot on Du Shipi's back until Liuying pierced his hide, but Du Shipi clamped the weapon in his muscles and trapped it.
• As the avoidance timer expired, Chen Nan sent lightning through Liuying and destroyed Du Shipi's nervous system.
• Chen Nan increased the current and killed Du Shipi, and the referees confirmed his death and announced Chen Nan as the winner.
• The arena crowd celebrated Chen Nan, while powerful figures from the Seven Great Families reconsidered their view of the Nature Masters and Yang Yugan.
• Chen Nan took over the Black Red Gang and invited its members to follow him on a righteous path; about one-third joined the Nature Master training base.

Chen Nan challenged Du Hongyu and gained two more flying swords while preparing for their duel. As Chen Nan continued cultivating and planning for the crises ahead, Du Hongyu met with Father Su, a Demonic Orc.

• Chen Nan challenged Du Hongyu, who accepted a duel at Luojing Grand Arena seven days later, with their factions and Chen Nan’s freedom at stake.
• Chen Nan asked Yang Yugan for two flying swords, and Yang Yugan gave them to him after warning him of the risks of controlling multiple swords.
• Chen Nan linked his spiritual consciousness to both swords, bringing his total to three, and learned that Yang Yugan had made progress researching Nature Master cultivation pills.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to cultivate continuously by rotating between brain units, though he remained concerned that his strength was insufficient for future crises.
• Du Hongyu received Father Su, a Demonic Orc, and regarded him as superior because of his foreign race.

Father Su equipped Du Hongyu with weapons and ordered him to kill Chen Nan, then Du Hongyu faced Chen Nan in a globally watched duel. Chen Nan’s automated flying-sword defense countered Du Hongyu’s rapid attacks, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Father Su gave Du Hongyu rare-metal daggers and a revolver loaded with explosive bullets, and ordered him to kill Chen Nan.
• Father Su left through a hidden passage and planned to visit Liu Tao as he prepared for the possibility of another duel.
• Chen Nan and Du Hongyu began their duel before a huge audience, and Du Hongyu cursed Chen Nan for drawing the crowd’s cheers.
• Du Hongyu used stealth to circle behind Chen Nan, but Chen Nan detected him and attacked with two flying swords.
• Du Hongyu revealed his exceptional speed and pressed Chen Nan with rapid dagger attacks, while Chen Nan relied on the Void Transformation Art and flying swords.
• Chen Nan’s AI System automatically coordinated two flying swords to block Du Hongyu’s attacks, astonishing the spectators as the fight continued.

Chen Nan defeated Du Hongyu after Du Hongyu broke the duel rules by using explosive bullets, and the Grand Arena staff declared Chen Nan the victor. With more former gang members choosing to follow him, Chen Nan returned to the training base as the Nature Master operation continued to grow.

• Chen Nan used his flying swords to overcome Du Hongyu's attacks, while Transcendent leaders watched with newfound respect for Nature Masters.
• Du Hongyu threw his daggers and fired a revolver at Chen Nan, but Chen Nan turned incorporeal and flew clear as the bullets exploded in the stands, killing spectators.
• Chen Nan wounded Du Hongyu, and a tall Grand Arena staff member struck Du Hongyu into a wall, killing him.
• The Grand Arena staff sentenced Du Hongyu to death for violating the duel rules and causing casualties, and declared Chen Nan the winner.
• More people chose to follow Chen Nan, who led them back to the training base as his group began looking for additional nearby property.

Chen Nan established the Nature Master Department’s new training base and secured access to the military network. He infiltrated the Demonic Orcs’ network without detection and learned that they had started the war to seize the world’s resources.

• Lu Fangliang secured free housing for the new training base, and Chen Nan arranged cultivation equipment so its recruits could train.
• The military granted Chen Nan access to its network, and he visited a secret base to connect.
• Back at the Chen residence, Chen Nan used a military laptop to enter the network and infiltrate the Demonic Orcs’ system.
• Chen Nan repaired weak points in Qingyang Kingdom’s military network and drove out hackers.
• Chen Nan disguised himself as a normal network component, downloaded information from the Demonic Orcs’ network, and discovered their goal of taking control of the world’s resources.

Chen Nan exposed the Demonic Orcs’ plot to kill him, which sparked a patriotic backlash and culminated in a concert honoring those who fought against traitors. After learning that the Demonic Orcs were moving to purge patriotic members of the Seven Great Families, Chen Nan prepared to counter their plans.

• Chen Nan published recordings and videos showing that Du Shipi, Du Hongyu, and Liu Tao had taken orders from Demonic Orc spies to kill him.
• Chen Nan’s supporters hunted down Liu Tao after he went into hiding, and Liu Tao died in a battle that also killed more than ten members of the alliance.
• Chen Nan and Lin Xi held a mourning concert, where the crowd sang an adapted version of “The Great Wall Shall Never Fall” and renewed their resolve to defend Qingyang Kingdom.
• Chen Nan infiltrated the Demonic Orcs’ upgraded network and discovered that they planned to target patriotic members of all Seven Great Families through their collaborators.

Chen Nan let the Seven Great Families split into opposing factions while he returned to the training base to test Yang Yugan’s newly refined Liu Yuan Pill. After confirming its effects, Chen Nan began learning pill refinement from his master.

• The Demonic Orcs’ orders divided the Seven Great Families into a traitorous faction and a Protectorate Faction, whose conflict grew increasingly intense.
• Chen Nan returned to the training base after Yang Yugan sent word that he had successfully refined a cultivation pill.
• Yang Yugan explained how he found rare herbs in a hidden ecosystem and used them to refine the Liu Yuan Pill, which he said was equivalent to eighteen days of cultivation.
• Chen Nan swallowed the pill, felt his strength increase, and confirmed that it worked.
• Yang Yugan began teaching Chen Nan the Liu Yuan Pill’s ingredients and refining process so they could identify flaws and improve it.

Chen Nan mastered pill refinement with Yang Yugan’s guidance and produced a top-grade Liu Yuan Pill, then learned about a hidden, layered herb-rich space left by the Nature Master ancestors. He urged Yang Yugan to prepare for the Demonic Orc threat by strengthening the Nature Masters and driving back the Transcendents.

• Yang Yugan taught Chen Nan the precise techniques for refining Liu Yuan Pills, and Chen Nan used his AI System to calculate the optimal process.
• Chen Nan led the refinement of a second Liu Yuan Pill, producing a pill far superior in quality to Yang Yugan’s.
• Chen Nan asked about the medicinal herbs and learned that a hidden layered space held abundant materials and may have been left by the Nature Master ancestors to withstand a disaster.
• Yang Yugan revealed that the space lay beneath a mountain at the Qingyang Kingdom–Pani Kingdom border, where Demonic Orcs were seeking valuable energy sources.
• Chen Nan argued that the Nature Masters had to rise, defeat the Demonic Orcs, and challenge the Transcendents, and Yang Yugan began to believe this could be possible.

Chen Nan cultivated for half a year with Yang Yugan’s pills and reached the mid Path Entry stage, then began drawing Immortal Fire from the stars. After enduring more than six shichen engulfed in flames, he re-formed into a human shape, and Yang Yugan saw that he had survived the ordeal.

• Yang Yugan and Chen Nan refined six Liu Yuan Pills, and Yang Yugan told Chen Nan to take them once every three days.
• Chen Nan continued comprehensive cultivation while Yang Yugan supplied him with Spirit Guiding Pills and Body Tempering Pills, allowing him to take Liu Yuan Pills more often.
• After half a year, Chen Nan reached the mid Path Entry stage and prepared to cultivate Immortal Fire at a site Yang Yugan had chosen in the Zhiyun Region.
• Chen Nan began the Fire Cultivation Technique while aligned with Fanming Star, and his body grew increasingly hot as the Immortal Fire gathered within him.
• Chen Nan used his AI System to suppress pain while setting an automatic threshold to stop the process if his body approached danger.
• After more than six shichen, Chen Nan’s burning body contracted into a human shape, and Yang Yugan breathed a sigh of relief.