Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng forced Master Black Baleful Intent and the Black Baleful Intent School to accept annexation, renaming the organization the Heaven-Blasting Gang. The former school master surrendered and received a humiliating new post, while Lin Feng ordered the gang to gather for broadcast calisthenics the next morning.

• Lin Feng demanded the Black Baleful Intent School's territory, businesses, and people, warning its elders against resisting by invoking the formation outside.
• Lin Feng renamed the school the Heaven-Blasting Gang and assigned Master Black Baleful Intent to be logistics director and chief janitor.
• Lin Feng offered the school's members cultivation techniques and food, while Master Black Baleful Intent surrendered and the twelve elders bowed.
• Lin Feng gave Blood Scorpion an announcement to print, which listed Master Black Baleful Intent's probationary salary as ten purple crystals a month.
• Lin Feng ordered everyone, including Master Black Baleful Intent, to assemble for broadcast calisthenics the next morning.

Lin Feng took Blood Scorpion and Old Wang to Flowing Cloud City to sell goods, but the guards tried to extort them at the gates. After Lin Feng revealed a divine core-grade grand primordium purple crystal, the captain ushered them through the VIP entrance and waived their fees.

• Lin Feng set out for Flowing Cloud City with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang, bringing goods to sell.
• The three reached the city gates and found a long queue of people paying entry fees to the guards.
• The guard captain demanded 250 spirit stones from Lin Feng after learning he had no faction or identification plaques.
• Lin Feng handed the captain a divine core-grade grand primordium purple crystal, and the captain opened the VIP entrance and waived all fees.
• Old Wang asked what the ore core was worth, while Lin Feng casually ate another purple crystal as dessert.

Lin Feng brought eleven failed artifact blanks to the Myriad Treasures Tower, where Cang Xuan appraised them at no less than three hundred thousand supreme-grade purple crystals. The tower offered Lin Feng an exclusive partnership, while news of his treasures drew crowds and interested parties.

• Lin Feng and his companions entered the Myriad Treasures Tower to have his discarded artifact blanks appraised and sold.
• Cang Xuan discovered that the eleven blanks contained rare primordial world ancient resonance and could become high-grade divine artifacts when completed.
• Cang Xuan valued the blanks at no less than three hundred thousand supreme-grade purple crystals, shocking Lin Feng's companions.
• Lin Feng identified himself as the Leader of the Heaven-Blasting Gang and asked about long-term channels for selling antiques.
• Cang Xuan offered Lin Feng the tower's highest treatment and an exclusive long-term partnership.
• The appraisal leaked downstairs, drawing crowds and prompting interested visitors to head toward the second floor.

Lin Feng refused to sell his goods to Wei Chong, the young lord of Flowing Cloud City, and kicked him through a window into a stinky tofu stall. He left the goods on consignment at the Myriad Treasures Tower and went to the Drunken Immortal Tower with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang.

• Lin Feng and Cang Xuan agreed to place Lin Feng’s goods on consignment at the Myriad Treasures Tower, with Cang Xuan lowering the commission to eight percent.
• Wei Chong demanded to buy all eleven items, but Lin Feng refused and told him to follow the normal channels.
• Wei Chong threatened Lin Feng and blocked the exit with his four attendants, so Lin Feng kicked him through the window and into a stinky tofu stall below.
• Lin Feng left the goods with Cang Xuan and told him to send word to the Drunken Immortal Tower when a buyer made an offer.
• Lin Feng greeted the injured Wei Chong, then entered the Drunken Immortal Tower with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang to eat.

After Lin Feng injured Wei Chong, Wei Yuan sealed Flowing Cloud City and sent successive forces to capture him, but Lin Feng defeated them all while calmly eating at the Drunken Immortal Tower. Wei Yuan prepared to confront him personally.

• Wei Yuan ordered Flowing Cloud City sealed and launched a manhunt for the man who injured Wei Chong.
• A city guard found Lin Feng eating with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang at the Drunken Immortal Tower, and Lin Feng told him to hurry back with reinforcements.
• Lin Feng defeated the centurion and his fifty guards without leaving his seat, then asked for another jar of wine.
• Lin Feng also defeated Wei Yuan's three-hundred-man elite squad and five-hundred imperial guards, leaving them piled along Cloud-Gazing Street.
• After hearing the battle reports, Wei Yuan put on his divine-artifact battle armor and ordered his horse prepared.

Wei Yuan confronted Lin Feng over his son, but Lin Feng shattered Wei Yuan’s divine domain and defeated him with ease. Wei Yuan lay helpless in the ruined tower as the stunned crowd watched.

• Wei Yuan arrived at the Drunken Immortal Tower and confronted Lin Feng for beating his son.
• Wei Yuan unleashed his Flowing Cloud Divine Domain, but Lin Feng activated the Pangu Force Field and shattered it.
• Wei Yuan attacked with his divine-artifact longsword, but Lin Feng caught his wrist and slammed him into the floor eight times.
• Lin Feng confirmed Wei Yuan was alive, called his God King Realm strength unimpressive, and left the spectators in an uproar.

Lin Feng took control of Flowing Cloud City for the Heaven-Blasting Gang, searched the city treasury, and found a fragment pointing toward the Pangu Ruins. He left for the Boundless Wastes, where the ruins were said to lie.

• Lin Feng demanded access to the treasury, Heaven-Blasting Gang affiliation for Flowing Cloud City, and the city's existing annual tribute, while promising Wei Yuan compensation for his son.
• Lin Feng selected pills, divine artifacts, and cultivation materials from the treasury for the Heaven-Blasting Gang, then found a fragment inscribed with the words "Heaven-Opening Ruins · First site, Pangu..."
• Wei Yuan told Lin Feng that the fragment had come from ruins in the Wild Domain, east of due north, seven thousand li away near the fogbound Boundless Wastes.
• Lin Feng had Blood Scorpion replace the City Lord's Mansion plaque with "Flowing Cloud Community Residents' Committee," and Blood Scorpion added a Heaven-Blasting Gang branch notice.
• Lin Feng left Flowing Cloud City with Old Wang and Blood Scorpion, setting out for the Boundless Wastes.

At the Myriad Treasures Tower, Lin Feng met a mysterious woman in purple who sensed an ancient aura within him and challenged him to a brief exchange. He identified a hidden opening in her defenses, leaving her impressed by his ability to read the logic behind her techniques.

• Lin Feng returned to the Myriad Treasures Tower to sign sales documents and review newly arrived treasures with Cang Xuan.
• A woman in purple approached Lin Feng and said she sensed an ancient aura in him, then asked to examine it.
• Lin Feng refused, so the woman attacked him and they exchanged more than a dozen precise blows in the corridor.
• Lin Feng activated Rule Analysis, spotted an opening beside the woman's waist, and stopped his fingers just short of striking her.
• The woman withdrew and said no one had noticed that habitual weakness in five hundred years, while Lin Feng explained how techniques revealed patterns and openings.

Lin Feng attended Flowing Cloud City's annual auction and recognized the final lot as another fragment of the Pangu Axe. He spent one million supreme-grade purple crystals to buy it, leaving his group with about sixty thousand.

• Su Yao told Lin Feng she was also going to the Boundless Wastes, then revealed her name before leaving; Cang Xuan said she was a mysterious regular who bought things related to ancient times and the Primordial World.
• Blood Scorpion brought Lin Feng and Old Wang to the annual auction at the Myriad Phenomena Terrace, where Lin Feng ignored the first ninety lots.
• The auction's final lot was an ancient piece of black iron from the Far North Ruins, and Lin Feng's axe fragment began vibrating when the box opened.
• Lin Feng recognized the black iron as another fragment of the Pangu Axe and bid one million supreme-grade purple crystals to win it.
• Blood Scorpion calculated that the purchase left them with about sixty thousand, and Lin Feng headed to the stage to collect the fragment.

After retrieving the iron fragment from the auction, Lin Feng left Flowing Cloud City with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang and led the people pursuing them into a valley. When the pursuers tried to rob him, Lin Feng turned the ambush around and began taking their spatial rings.

• Cang Xuan handed Lin Feng the brocade box, and the iron fragment resonated with the piece Lin Feng already carried.
• Su Yao warned Lin Feng that the Boundless Wastes were dangerous and urged him to prepare before going there.
• Lin Feng left the city with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang, knowing that more than fifty people were following them for the iron fragment.
• Lin Feng led the pursuers into a valley, where more than seventy people surrounded the group and a trade association manager offered to buy the fragment.
• When Lin Feng refused to sell, he declared that he was robbing the pursuers and started stripping spatial rings from them as they attacked.

Lin Feng fused another fragment of the Pangu Axe in a secluded cave, and its power drove his cultivation to the mid God King stage while strengthening his body. Blood Scorpion sensed the surge from outside the cave as the hill began to shake.

• Lin Feng, Blood Scorpion, and Old Wang finished stripping the seventy-odd people in the valley, then Lin Feng divided the spatial rings among them.
• Old Wang found a map of the northern Wild Domain marked with forbidden zones, including the Boundless Wastes, and Lin Feng decided to fuse the iron fragment before they set out.
• Lin Feng traveled north with Blood Scorpion and Old Wang, found a secluded cave, and released the fragment's vibration so it could join the piece already fused into the Pangu Axe.
• The two fragments fused, making the axe's phantom image more than one-third complete and releasing a powerful surge of energy into Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng broke through to the mid God King stage, his body grew stronger, and the cave and hill began cracking as Blood Scorpion sensed the tremors.

Lin Feng tested his newly increased strength by blasting apart a mountain, then learned that the ruins he sought lay within Heavenly Dao Academy’s forbidden grounds. With admissions taking place that month and his bone age under three years, he decided to enter the academy alone.

• Lin Feng emerged from his explosive breakthrough and told Old Wang he had used thirty percent of his strength against the city lord, but would need only ten percent now.
• Lin Feng, Blood Scorpion, and Old Wang traveled north, and Lin Feng stopped in a town to examine their spoils and compare maps.
• Lin Feng discovered that the Boundless Wastes’ core lay inside Heavenly Dao Academy’s forbidden grounds, so he planned to enter the academy through its admissions.
• Old Wang read that applicants needed to pass a bone age test, the Heaven-Ascending Stairway, and an academy assessment, while Blood Scorpion and Old Wang agreed to wait outside.
• Lin Feng said his bone age in the Primordial Chaos World was probably less than three years and announced that they would leave for the academy the next day.

Lin Feng entered Heavenly Dao Academy’s examinations and shocked the applicants when the testing stone recorded his bone age as two years and three months and his potential as “Overflow.” He began the second round on the Heaven-Ascending Stairway, where the eleventh batch struggled against increasing gravity.

• Lin Feng registered as a rogue cultivator at the mid God King stage and tested his bone age at two years and three months.
• The testing stone rated Lin Feng’s potential as “Overflow,” drawing stunned reactions from the crowd.
• Lin Feng joined the eleventh batch for the Heaven-Ascending Stairway examination alongside three applicants identified as this year’s highest-potential examinees.
• Thirty candidates began climbing, and the increasing gravitational suppression slowed many of them by the time they reached one thousand steps.

Lin Feng completed the Heaven-Ascending Stairway with ease, setting an unprecedented admissions record and drawing the attention of Heavenly Dao Academy’s head, Yun Chengwang. Yun Chengwang offered to take Lin Feng as his final disciple, while Lin Feng continued seeking information about the Boundless Wastes.

• Lin Feng helped a fifteen-year-old candidate regain her footing, then continued climbing while the other candidates fell behind or stopped.
• Lin Feng reached the stairway’s thirty-six-hundredth step, becoming only the eighth person in four thousand years to reach the top.
• Lin Feng descended twenty percent faster than he had climbed, and the staff recorded his full completion and effortless condition.
• Yun Chengwang read Lin Feng’s test record and summoned the admissions steward to find out where he was.
• Yun Chengwang visited Lin Feng, who asked about the academy’s information on the Boundless Wastes, and offered to make him his final disciple.
• Lin Feng asked Yun Chengwang what cultivation art he practiced, and Yun Chengwang identified it as the Cloud Heaven Art.

Lin Feng exposed a flaw in the Heavenly Dao Academy’s Cloud Heaven Art and secured a visiting professorship in exchange for access to the archives and forbidden grounds. At his first lecture on cultivation mechanics, he began by revealing that students’ Fireball Spells used only a small fraction of their theoretical power.

• Lin Feng examined the Cloud Heaven Art and identified an error in its seventh level, then drew a corrected spiritual-power pathway.
• A senior elder tested Lin Feng’s correction, recognized it explained the flaw he had felt for centuries, and bowed to ask Lin Feng to teach him.
• Lin Feng refused to become Yun Chengwang’s disciple and requested a visiting professorship, archive access, and temporary passage into the forbidden grounds; Yun Chengwang accepted.
• News spread through the academy that Lin Feng had become its first visiting professor, and his lecture drew more students than the venue could hold.
• At his first lecture, Lin Feng asked how many students could cast the Fireball Spell and told them it released only three to seven percent of its theoretical power.

Lin Feng demonstrated that optimizing the Fireball Spell’s spiritual power conversion path could raise its efficiency to 91.7 percent, then taught the packed square for eight hours. The academy headmaster ordered the resulting crater preserved as a visitor attraction bearing Lin Feng’s name.

• Lin Feng explained that spiritual power circuits wasted most of the energy used to cast a Fireball Spell and derived a theoretical conversion efficiency of 91.7 percent with an optimized path.
• Lin Feng demonstrated the optimized spell by destroying the academy training ground and leaving a vast crater.
• Lin Feng lectured for eight hours, assigned students to analyze the conversion paths of their own spells, and corrected a symbol in the fifteen-year-old girl’s notes.
• Yun Chengwang inspected the crater and ordered it preserved as a visitor stop with a plaque naming it the Scientific Immortal Cultivation Demonstration Site, created by Lin Feng.

Lin Feng led twenty core disciples into Fallen God Valley, where the valley’s demonic beasts sensed Pangu’s aura and collapsed or played dead as he passed. The group continued deeper into the forbidden ground, baffled by the beasts’ behavior.

• Yun Chengwang opened Fallen God Valley and gave Lin Feng an emergency teleport token, telling him to lead the disciples inside for seven days.
• Lin Feng instructed the twenty core disciples to stay together and avoid touching anything before leading them through the gate.
• A Divine Marquis-level demonic beast saw Lin Feng and flattened itself against the ground in fear.
• A flying God Emperor-level beast fell from the sky and lay still, and other beasts also collapsed or curled up as Lin Feng advanced.
• Qi Yuchen and the other disciples wondered what aura Lin Feng was giving off, while the youngest disciple declared that he had Conqueror's Haki.
• Lin Feng silently attributed the beasts’ reactions to Pangu’s aura and continued leading the group deeper into the valley.

Lin Feng discovered a headless statue whose remnants revealed that Pangu’s axe had struck a conscious seal imprisoning the Primordial Chaos World, then returned toward the disciples after hearing a disturbance. He found Qi Yuchen shielding two disciples from a demonic beast.

• Lin Feng told the disciples to explore the valley, avoid the marked northern area, and leave any ruins or unidentified objects untouched.
• Lin Feng found an ancient rune-carved clearing and a headless stone statue holding its hands as though gripping an axe.
• The statue’s lingering will attacked Lin Feng, but the two axe fragments in his robes made it withdraw, and the system decoded nine fragments of information.
• Lin Feng learned that Pangu’s axe had cracked a conscious seal surrounding the Primordial Chaos World, while the axe and other essential parts of Pangu had been scattered.
• Lin Feng heard fighting near the valley’s center and found Qi Yuchen protecting two disciples from a demonic beast.

Lin Feng saved the disciples in Fallen God Valley by killing its awakened guardian beast with one punch, then asked Qi Yuchen to summon the dean over an important discovery. After investigating suspicious formation traces, Lin Feng found that a subsidiary formation in the academy’s mountain-protecting formation was secretly designed to store power.

• A mid God Emperor-stage guardian beast awakened in Fallen God Valley, sealed its exits, and injured several disciples while Qi Yuchen protected them.
• Lin Feng raced in and struck the beast down with one punch, then told the injured disciples to teleport out and ordered Qi Yuchen to have the dean address the aftermath.
• Lin Feng asked the dean to meet him about an important discovery in the valley’s northern region, and Qi Yuchen thanked him before leading the disciples out.
• Lin Feng learned that Yun Chengwang had investigated red-and-black formation traces near the academy, which Lin Feng recognized as resembling the Blood Demon Sect’s energy.
• Lin Feng studied the academy’s mountain-protecting formation diagrams and discovered that a suspicious subsidiary formation labeled for energy balance was actually designed to store power.

Lin Feng uncovered Vice Dean Song Bai’s plot to siphon spiritual energy for the Blood Demon Sect and stopped him at the rear mountain formation platform. Song Bai was captured alive for questioning, and Yun Chengwang realized the betrayal had continued for three hundred years.

• Lin Feng traced the formation’s spiritual-energy storage point to the Scripture Repository’s third underground level and identified Song Bai as the prime suspect.
• Lin Feng told Yun Chengwang that someone had altered the mountain-protecting formation to gather enough energy for the Blood Demon Sect to open a passage to the Devil World.
• At the rear mountain formation platform, Lin Feng rewired the modified subformation as Song Bai prepared to release the stored energy.
• Lin Feng redirected the activated energy into Song Bai’s defensive shield and used lightning to knock him unconscious.
• Lin Feng shut down the altered subformation and ordered that Song Bai be kept alive for questioning.
• Yun Chengwang learned that Song Bai had served the Blood Demon Sect for three hundred years and credited Lin Feng with uncovering the betrayal.