Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan retaliated against the Sun family after discovering they had used a controlled transcendent to target Chen Yongjie. He killed two Sun operatives and Sun Chengquan in a series of staged falls and a spaceship crash, leaving the super zaibatsu facing a major scandal and promising further conflict.

• Wang Xuan discovered that the dead transcendent had been implanted with devices and that his corpse had been rigged to explode.
• Wang Xuan tracked two Sun family operatives to a rooftop, learned that Sun Chengquan had arranged the operation, and killed them by making their deaths look like suicides.
• Wang Xuan used his spirit to reach Fuyao Grand Hotel and attack Sun Chengquan as he tried to escape by spaceship.
• Sun Chengquan’s protective jade talisman cracked, and Wang Xuan killed him before disabling the spaceship’s systems.
• The damaged spaceship crashed in a mountain forest outside Su City, and Wang Xuan returned to his body, expecting the conflict with the Sun family to continue.

After the Sun Family’s attack in Su City ended with Sun Chengquan’s death, the zaibatsu and institutions scrambled to understand the reversal. Wang Xuan reassured people that all was well, then studied the ancient lamp to wake Old Chen and prepare for the conflict ahead.

• As rumors spread that the Sun Family planned to dissect Chen Yongjie and sell his flesh and blood, Zhou Yun and Zhong Cheng were mocked for having trusted the supernatural practitioners.
• Thunderous news revealed that Sun Chengquan had died when the Sun Family’s spaceship crashed outside Su City, shocking the Sun Family and the wider circle of zaibatsu and institutions.
• Qian An, Ling Qiming, Zhao Zejun, Qin Hong, and others reacted to the reversal, while the Gray Blood organization reconsidered issuing its Blood-Red Kill Order.
• Zhong Cheng learned that the Sun Family forces had been taken out and excitedly contacted Zhou Yun, who was on the moon and had mistaken the news for Old Chen’s death.
• Wang Xuan sent a mass message saying everything was fine, ignored further calls, and began studying the ancient lamp to wake Old Chen for the battle ahead.

Wang Xuan learned to use the ancient lamp and drew the three arrows from Old Chen, while the Sun Family escalated its threat against them. After Zhong Cheng brought Wang Xuan a beast-hide treasure, Old Chen set out toward the Sun Family headquarters, and Wang Xuan began striking back in Su City.

• Wang Xuan discovered that the ancient lamp could absorb the arrows embedded in Old Chen’s spiritual domain, freeing him from his deathly state.
• The Sun Family’s warships surrounded Su City before withdrawing, and reports disguised the deaths of its members, including Sun Chengquan, as accidents.
• Wang Xuan secretly filled the ancient lamp with Mysterious Factor at Qian An’s estate while Old Chen learned that the Sun Family had planned to trade him.
• Zhong Cheng brought Wang Xuan a beast-hide bag from the Zhong Family, and Old Chen realized it had helped Zhong Qing’s great-grandfather escape danger in the Secret Land.
• After two quiet days, Old Chen headed toward the Sun Family headquarters, while Wang Xuan stayed in Su City and caused a Sun Family official to drown in a hotel pool.

Wang Xuan killed three Sun family officials in Su City from miles away, while Chen Yongjie advanced toward the Sun family’s headquarters. As Wang Xuan planned a strike of his own, the Sun family destroyed the Health Preservation Hall with a warship, and they believed he had died in the attack.

• Wang Xuan secretly killed the Sun family’s leader in Su City and his two deputies, prompting the Sun family to suspect he was an extraordinary practitioner who might rival ancient legends.
• The Sun family debated Wang Xuan’s abilities, while Chen Yongjie set out toward its headquarters and escaped after the family’s mechs destroyed his hovercar.
• Wang Xuan returned home, studied maps, and planned to punish the Sun family after learning secrets from the dead official’s thoughts.
• The Sun family attacked Su City with a warship and completely destroyed the Health Preservation Hall, alarming the Qian Family, the Li Family, and other powers.
• Sun family members found no sign of Wang Xuan at the scene and concluded that the warship’s beam had killed him.

After escaping the Sun family’s battleship attack, Wang Xuan traveled to a hidden Sun family base to take revenge and investigate its red crystals. He escaped as the base self-destructed, leaving the Sun family’s underground laboratories and battleships in ruins and a major disturbance underway.

• The Sun family publicly called Wang Xuan’s apparent death an accident, while Sun Yichen taunted Zhou Yun and other factions pressured the family over the attack.
• Wang Xuan revealed that he had escaped the bombardment through Su City’s drainage system and rode a giant red carp downstream toward the Sun family’s secret base.
• Wang Xuan explored the base’s red permafrost laboratories, where researchers and test subjects had suffered strange mutations, and wondered if the crystals were Passage Stone.
• Wang Xuan controlled Sun Chenghai to seize his thoughts, but Sun Chenghai activated the base’s self-destruct system, forcing Wang Xuan to kill him and flee.
• Wang Xuan destroyed the battleships’ control systems and escaped on the red carp as the base exploded, demolishing the surrounding mountains and lighting up the sky.

Wang Xuan survived the Sun Family’s ultra-energy beam, destroyed a Sun Family base, and traveled east toward Kangning City while the family pursued him. In Jingyue City, he fought off spiritual bodies sent from a Jade Coffin before a ghost servant offered to help him overturn the Sun Family.

• Wang Xuan escaped the Sun Family base’s destruction on Red Carp as the explosion stunned Su City and the Sun Family.
• Wang Xuan crossed hundreds of miles east, hijacking a taxi flyer after destroying its surveillance devices, while the Sun Family tracked his movements and ordered warships to intercept him.
• The Sun Family learned that Wang Xuan might have destroyed its base and redirected its pursuit toward him, while Wang Xuan reached Jingyue City and stayed near the Song Family headquarters.
• A warship delivered a Jade Coffin near the city, and Wang Xuan used his ancient lamp to destroy nine spiritual bodies that attacked him.
• A tenth shadow identified itself as a ghost servant, said it wanted cooperation, and offered to help Wang Xuan overturn the Sun Family.

Wang Xuan questioned a powerful shadow who offered to betray the Sun family, then investigated the Song family's defenses and discovered a dangerous treasure that could hunt spirits. As the Sun family prepared to deploy its hidden weapons against superhumans, Wang Xuan learned that it had once sent a spacecraft to bring his parents to New Star.

• Wang Xuan heard the shadow explain how the Sun family's ancient bell had seized one of his souls and two spirits, and learned that the family was reviving ancient treasures with supernatural materials.
• The shadow offered to help Wang Xuan attack the Sun family and asked him to free his trapped soul and spirits, while Wang Xuan concealed the truth about his supposed patriarch and remained wary of the shadow.
• Wang Xuan spirit-roamed into the Song family's compound, saw a Golden Tree and golden birds that seemed able to hunt spirits, and left without provoking the family.
• Wang Xuan warned Old Chen to be careful, and Old Chen told him that Guan Lin had arrived with a huge black sword and that the Sun family had once sent a spacecraft to bring Wang Xuan's parents to New Star.
• A Sun family member selected supernatural armor, a divine bell, a Small Gourd, and a Five-Colored Light Wheel from the secret vault to hunt superhumans.

After the Sun family threatened Wang Xuan’s parents, he warned their leaders that he would retaliate against their businesses and began preparing for a decisive battle. He extended Song Yun’s life and strengthened his ancient lamp, then learned the Sun family had mobilized forces against him and Old Chen.

• Wang Xuan visited the Song family and warned Sun Rongting that further threats against his parents would bring bloodshed and the destruction of Sun family businesses.
• Wang Xuan dismissed a call from Sun Yichen, while news of his confrontation spread among Zhou Yun, Zhong Cheng, Zhong Qing, Qin Hong, and Ling Qiming.
• Wang Xuan agreed to extend Song Yun’s life in exchange for an ancient artifact, replenished his ancient lamp at the Taoist temple, and discovered that a crystal contained a powerful true fire.
• Wang Xuan extended Song Yun’s life by half a year and secretly used the crystal to greatly strengthen his ancient lamp.
• Old Chen told Wang Xuan that the Sun family had sent forces to fight him, while Wang Xuan sensed that forces had gathered around his hotel and outside Jingyue City.
• An armored figure appeared outside Jingyue City and urged Wang Xuan to leave, warning that people like him would be purged if they failed to accept reality.

Wang Xuan refused the Sun family’s summons and watched Chen Yongjie’s decisive battle outside Mu City, where the Sun family used a force of mechs and powerful weapons despite having promised a fair duel. Chen Yongjie survived the assault and cut the Silver-Armored archer in half, while Wang Xuan’s confrontation with the Sun family remained ahead.

• Wang Xuan rejected the Sun family’s demand to meet and asked Zhong Cheng for a live feed of Chen Yongjie’s battle outside Mu City.
• Chen Yongjie dodged the Sun family’s Energy Beams and destroyed several mechs as Guan Lin accused Sun Chengming of breaking the agreement for a Fair Duel.
• Sun Chengming defended the Sun family’s use of mechs, while Guan Lin threatened retaliation if Chen Yongjie was killed through their tactics.
• The Silver-Armored man fired a rune-infused silver Arrow Feather that exploded near Chen Yongjie, leaving him badly wounded but still powerful.
• Chen Yongjie unleashed his Sixteen-Foot Golden Body and sent his Black Longsword flying, cutting the Silver-Armored man in half.

Chen Yongjie defeated the Sun family's champion with the beastskin bag, destroyed their mechanical assault, and killed Sun Chengming after the Sun family broke the duel's rules. As the battle's fallout stirred the New Star, Wang Xuan left his hotel, preparing to act in Jingyue City.

• Chen Yongjie was nearly overwhelmed by the Five-Colored Feather Fan, but he used the beastskin bag to swallow the fan and disable the Sun family's mechanical legion with supernatural radiation.
• Chen Yongjie captured the half-bodied fighter and his weapons, escaped the Sun family's warship attack, and returned to Mu City with the Five-Colored Feather Fan as his spoils.
• Chen Yongjie confronted the Sun family leaders, accused them of breaking the rules, and beheaded Sun Chengming in front of the witnesses.
• Chen Yongjie challenged the Sun family to continue the fight in Kangning City, while the battle's outcome shocked the watching factions.
• Wang Xuan watched the battle from his hotel, then went outside, ready to make his move in Jingyue City.

Wang Xuan faced the Sun Family’s prepared ambush outside Jingyue City after Chen Yongjie’s battle had stirred fear and interest across the zaibatsu. He unleashed an ancient lamp that disabled and destroyed the surrounding mech army, leaving the decisive battle poised to continue.

• After Chen Yongjie defeated the Sun Family’s forces in Mu City, the family lobbied other powers to unite against supernatural beings while zaibatsu searched their vaults for ancient relics.
• News of the Mu City battle spread to the public, and interest surged in Wang Xuan’s upcoming fight outside Jingyue City.
• Wang Xuan wore a metal mask and disabled mechs throughout the city before leaving, while the Sun Family ordered its people to retreat.
• Outside the city, Wang Xuan met an armored opponent and found himself surrounded by a hidden mech army.
• The Sun Family’s mechs fired together, but Wang Xuan summoned an ancient lamp whose dark-red light disabled and destroyed them across the battlefield.

Wang Xuan destroyed the Sun family’s mech force and defeated its armored supernatural practitioner with the ancient lamp and flying sword. He left the battle having struck down the enemy and fired the lamp’s strongest beam into the Sun family warship.

• Wang Xuan annihilated the Sun family’s mechs, prompting its elders to seek allies and push for a joint attack on supernatural practitioners.
• Wang Xuan fought the armored Sun family expert, and his flying short sword broke the opponent’s green longsword and cracked the Five Elements Light Wheel.
• Wang Xuan used the ancient lamp to destroy the Five Elements Light Wheel, forcing the armored man to flee.
• The Sun family warship fired on Wang Xuan, but he dodged its beams and continued pursuing the armored man.
• Wang Xuan’s flying sword severed the armored man’s arm, and he fired the ancient lamp’s strongest strike into the warship before impaling the man with his spear.

Wang Xuan defeated the Sun family's forces, shot down their warship, and captured their core member Sun Rongting. He rejected the Sun family's demand to negotiate, killed Sun Rongting, and left as the Sun family faced the aftermath.

• Wang Xuan's attack destroyed the warship, and he advanced on the wounded Sun Rongting.
• Wang Xuan took Sun Rongting's small gourd and armor, while viewers identified him as a high-ranking member of the Sun family.
• Wang Xuan ignored the Sun family's calls to release Sun Rongting and declared that they could collect his corpse in Jingyue City.
• Wang Xuan tortured Sun Rongting while resisting his spiritual defenses, then severed his head with his flying sword.
• Wang Xuan took his spoils and left as the Sun family's detectors exploded and the family seethed over Sun Rongting's death.

After Wang Xuan killed Sun Rongting, he used his reputation as a healer to soften the financial magnates’ hostility, while the Sun Family declared war on him and Chen Yongjie. Wang Xuan rejected the Song Family’s attempt to keep him dependent on their protection and left Jingyue City, hiding his escape with the golden Small Gourd.

• Wang Xuan’s killing of Sun Rongting shocked the financial magnates, and the Sun Family sent five warships to Jingyue City before withdrawing after the Song Family intervened.
• Blurry footage of the battle spread beyond the secret web, and the public reacted to images of Wang Xuan’s flying sword and the destruction of warships.
• Wang Xuan had the Zhong siblings post that he wanted to cultivate peacefully and could extend the lives of the powerful, prompting families to seek confirmation of Song Yun’s recovery.
• The Sun Family declared that it would fight Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie to the death, while the Song Family asked Wang Xuan to treat Song Yun again and implied that it was protecting him.
• Wang Xuan refused to provide free treatment or remain in Jingyue City, then left in a hovering car provided by the Relevant Department and used the golden Small Gourd to conceal his escape.

Wang Xuan traveled toward the Sun Family’s headquarters in Kangning City, forcing the family to prepare for a possible attack. He changed course to Pingyuan City instead, where his arrival alarmed the Qin Family.

• Wang Xuan left Jingyue City for Kangning City as the Zaibatsu and public followed news of his impending clash with the Sun Family.
• Sun Yichen berated Zhou Yun and Zhong Cheng for posting about Wang Xuan, while Zhong Qing shared an image suggesting he would confront the Sun Family.
• Sun Family warships detected Wang Xuan’s route and fired on the ground, but he told the driver to evade them and continue through the mountains and forest.
• Wang Xuan judged that destroying the Sun Family that night would endanger him, so he ordered the driver to take Route Two toward Pingyuan City.
• The Sun Family grew anxious and debated seeking a truce, while a mysterious predictor warned that Wang Xuan’s sword was drawn but not yet released.
• Wang Xuan entered Pingyuan City, and Qin Hong spilled his wine when he learned the young man was approaching the Qin Family.

Wang Xuan temporarily ended his conflict with the Sun Family and sought the Shakya True Scripture from the Qin Family in exchange for extending Qin Hongyuan’s life. After helping Qin Hongyuan, Wang Xuan discovered a terrifying creature roaming Pingyuan City and nearly fled.

• Zhong Changming mediated between Wang Xuan and the Sun Family, and both sides temporarily stopped fighting.
• Qin Hong visited Wang Xuan and brought him to meet Qin Hongyuan, who wanted help extending his life.
• Wang Xuan asked to read the Shakya True Scripture, and Qin Hongyuan agreed to lend him four of its twelve pages in exchange for an initial life extension.
• Wang Xuan used the Qin Family’s ancient temple to improve Qin Hongyuan’s vitality over five days, while other families sought appointments for similar help.
• Wang Xuan saw an incomprehensible monster roaming Pingyuan City with his Spiritual Heavenly Eye and considered fleeing.

Wang Xuan discovered ancient astronauts leading mythological monsters beneath the Qin Family’s base, then survived the Sun Family’s attack on his spacecraft and reunited with his allies. After helping Old Chen prepare for their separation, Wang Xuan dreamed of Transcendent Immortals returning and feared the Red-clothed Demon Immortal might already be in the present world.

• Wang Xuan spotted invisible monsters, including a nine-headed serpent, a Chongming Bird, and a Zhujian, being led underground by ancient astronauts in spacesuits.
• Wang Xuan learned that the Qin Family’s mountain base hid an ancient mothership excavated from the moon, and suspected the astronauts and monsters were connected to it.
• Qin Hong considered using a weapon against Wang Xuan’s spacecraft, but Qin Hongyuan stopped him; the Sun Family then shot the spacecraft down, and Wang Xuan later appeared unharmed in Su City with Zhong Cheng and Zhou Yun.
• Wang Xuan announced monthly consultations to extend people’s lives, while Old Chen and Guan Lin celebrated their relationship and prepared to leave Su City.
• Wang Xuan replenished Old Chen’s Five-Colored Feather Fan with Mysterious Factor, and Old Chen and Guan Lin departed that night.
• Wang Xuan woke from a nightmare of Transcendent Immortals fighting behind the Great Curtain and worried that the Red-clothed Demon Immortal might return.

Wang Xuan reopened the Health Preservation Hall, drew young disciples and powerful elders to him, and secured compensation from the Sun family. As he considered his future cultivation path, a powerful Supernatural Practitioner suddenly approached, forcing him to prepare for another threat.

• Wang Xuan demanded that the Sun family compensate his landlord for the destroyed house, and the family eventually paid.
• Zhou Yun and Qian An helped Wang Xuan reopen the Health Preservation Hall, where a group of young people arrived seeking to learn the Sword Control Technique.
• Wang Xuan recognized several visitors, including Ling Wei's younger sister, Li Qingxuan, and Zhou Jia, who decided to become his disciple.
• Eight elderly members of wealthy families visited the hall, and Wang Xuan promised to Extend Life for them within the next few months.
• After everyone left, Wang Xuan pondered his cultivation path and the Transcendent Immortals' return, then sensed a powerful Supernatural Practitioner racing toward him and armed himself.

A mysterious armored woman invited Wang Xuan to the Zhilán Dharma Assembly, while a hostile supernatural bird from another planet exposed another danger in New Star’s hidden world. After killing the bird, Wang Xuan agreed to help Old Song extend his life in exchange for ancient artifacts, intending to strengthen himself and make the zaibatsu share the cost.

• Wang Xuan met a woman in dark-red metal armor who gave him an invitation to the Zhilán Dharma Assembly at Source Pool Mountain ten days later.
• After the woman left, Wang Xuan suspected New Star had a hidden history of ancient cultivators and noticed a hostile large bird spying on him.
• Wang Xuan followed the bird out of Su City, discovered it was a Supernatural Practitioner from Kuman Planet, and killed it after it attacked him and concealed its hostility.
• Wang Xuan collected the bird’s flesh and blood, destroyed its remains, and returned to the city.
• Old Song apologized and asked Wang Xuan to Extend Life for him, and Wang Xuan agreed in exchange for ancient artifacts while refusing scriptures.

Wang Xuan held a longevity banquet to trade life extension for scriptures and treasures, acquiring and restoring a powerful dark golden flying boat. As he prepared for the Zhilán Dharma Assembly, he negotiated with Zhong Cheng for the Zhong family's Pre-Qin Golden Bamboo Slips, leaving Zhong Cheng tempted and Zhong Qing furious.

• Wang Xuan invited several old men, including the Sun family, to exchange scriptures and treasures for life extension, but most declined after hearing he had invited so many.
• Wang Xuan recruited Professor Lin to teach aspiring Sword Control Technique students and arranged cultivation courses for them.
• Song Yun brought ancient treasures, and Wang Xuan traded life extension for the dark golden little boat and its three missing components.
• Wang Xuan fed the boat Mysterious Factor until its weapons and defenses awakened, then tested it in the Su River and decided to keep its power secret.
• Wang Xuan refused new longevity requests because he was preparing for the Zhilán Dharma Assembly, then offered Zhong Changming fifteen years of life extension and extraordinary cultivation for the Pre-Qin Golden Bamboo Slips.
• Zhong Cheng became eager to accept Wang Xuan's offer, but Zhong Qing shouted at him after he joked about sneaking into their grandfather's study.