Chapter Summaries

Feng Wushi was forced to bind the God-level Choice System to survive, but its promised advancement became a meager medicine reward and a hostile Nascent Soul cultivator drove his family from their home. While rebuilding and plotting to reclaim his former foundation, Feng Wushi discovered a system choice that might offer an opportunity.

• The Hai Sha Sect accused Feng Wushi of helping steal its millennium pearl, pursued him to his family estate, and withdrew after he defeated its sect master.
• Feng Wushi attacked the Hai Sha Sect that night, killed its core disciples, seized its pearl-cultivation methods and territory, and negotiated to double the pearl tribute owed to a Nascent Soul Big Shot.
• Feng Wushi ignored the system's choices until its official version threatened him with death unless he bound it, then received Golden Wound Medicine instead of the promised advancement.
• A hostile Nascent Soul cultivator forced Feng Wushi to abandon his family estate and the sect compounds, so he relocated his clan and began plotting to reclaim his former foundation.
• Feng Wushi found a system prediction of a Heaven-reaching spiritual treasure appearing in the Hai Sha Sect leader's room and recognized a possible opportunity.

Feng Wushi’s false intelligence drew five Nascent Soul cultivators to the Hai Sha Sect, where an eclipsed sky revealed a killing-focused Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. Their alliances and negotiations collapsed into betrayal, leaving A and B locked in a deadly fight over the divine sword while Feng Wushi waited at a distance and Wenren Sheng watched.

• Feng Wushi secretly informed five Nascent Soul cultivators that a Tong Tian spirit treasure was about to emerge, and they came to the Hai Sha Sect after an eclipse confirmed the news.
• One Nascent Soul cultivator killed everyone at the sect to keep the treasure’s appearance secret, while Wenren Sheng observed that Feng Wushi had passed the danger on to them.
• The five cultivators found a divine sword amid the eclipse and fought through puppets before their true bodies arrived and spent seven days negotiating over what to do with it.
• A and B joined forces against the other three Nascent Soul cultivators, wounded them, and drove them away from the treasure.
• A and B reached the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, then betrayed each other and began a battle that destroyed the sect and flattened a mountain.

Feng Wushi used information from his God-level Choice System to manipulate conflicts and strengthen his position without pursuing dangerous rewards directly. After the Spirit Tree weakened the Mysterious Woman Sect, he won benefits while appearing completely loyal, leaving his ambition concealed.

• Feng Wushi revealed that two badly wounded Nascent Souls were vulnerable, prompting more than a dozen Nascent Souls to attack and drive them away.
• Feng Wushi reclaimed his clan territory and killed everyone occupying it, then continued using the system's information to stir up conflicts while avoiding treasures himself.
• Feng Wushi spread news of a Spirit Tree that could improve aptitude and extend lifespan, aiming to weaken the Mysterious Woman Sect that restricted local men from reaching Nascent Soul.
• Nascent Soul cultivators fought over the Spirit Tree, one Mysterious Woman Sect cultivator died, and the sect weakened its control over subordinate factions.
• Feng Wushi gained benefits from the sect's decline while maintaining the appearance of complete loyalty, following a path compared to Sima Yi's rise under Cao Cao.

Feng Wushi quietly strengthened the Feng Family, reached Nascent Soul, and continued hiding his power while the sect copied his public reincarnation doctrine. Meanwhile, Picture Detective’s system offered Feng Wushi a choice, and listening revealed that the world arose from the void and could ascend through dimensions, leaving him shaken by the truth.

• Feng Wushi expanded his influence within the sect, while a disgruntled family disciple reported his reincarnation promises to an attendant.
• A suspicious Nascent Soul elder questioned Feng Wushi, then adopted his public methods and established the Soul Nourishing Land to promote reincarnation across the sect.
• Feng Wushi’s family grew stronger through bloodline techniques and hidden suggestions, while Feng Wushi used the wartime shortage of Nascent Soul cultivators to break through to Nascent Soul.
• Picture Detective’s system offered Feng Wushi choices about investigating the world, and Feng Wushi chose to listen.
• The system told Feng Wushi that worlds arose from the void and expanded through dimensions toward four-dimensional existence, shocking him.

Feng Wushi followed the system’s prompt to observe a Transformation Spirit Cultivator’s ascension, but the cultivator detected his puppet and attacked his soul, prompting him to abandon distractions and focus on gaining power. Picture Detective uncovered his secret method of spreading gene-altering bacteria through the population, but Golden Core cultivators learned to identify the organisms and secretly adapted the technique for themselves.

• Feng Wushi chose to personally observe a Transformation Spirit Cultivator’s ascension and sent a puppet toward the Endless Sea Region while fleeing to safety himself.
• The Transformation Spirit Cultivator detected the flying boat from afar and struck its controller with a soul attack, leaving Feng Wushi unconscious and destroying the puppet.
• After waking, Feng Wushi recognized the danger and began accumulating resources and pursuing the Transformation Spirit stage instead of causing trouble.
• Picture Detective discovered that Feng Wushi had engineered bacteria carrying his genes to improve people’s health, cultivation, and reproductive ability, spreading his bloodline throughout the world.
• Golden Core cultivators studied modern scientific texts, identified the gene-altering bacteria, and secretly began using similar methods to edit genes and control others.

Wenren Sheng watched gene-edited microorganisms transform cultivation into a microscopic contest that gave high-level Cultivators unprecedented control over the Martial Immortal World. The chapter ended with Zhang Liugen, a gifted new disciple, sensing danger in the medicines his sect made him take.

• Wenren Sheng saw high-level Cultivators across the righteous and demonic paths adopt microbial gene editing and modified cultivation, driving his Mystery Points up to 172,100.
• Feng Wushi anticipated that his techniques would spread and continued developing microbial gene-based cultivation to make it indispensable, while rival Cultivators fought to expand their microscopic territories.
• High-level Cultivators used microorganisms to monitor and control low-level Cultivators, tighten their rule, and broaden access to inheritances under constant observation.
• Wenren Sheng turned his attention to Zhang Liugen, whose Heavenly Spirit Root had earned his village tax exemptions and brought him into a sect.
• Zhang Liugen began to suspect that the medicines his sect required him to take were dangerous, but he suppressed his unease when he saw other disciples eagerly taking them.

Zhang Liugen discovered that the cultivation pills contained microbes that harmed A'Huang, so he secretly stopped taking them and began expelling them from his body. As rival Golden Core cultivators raced to engineer stronger microbes, the Martial Immortal World embraced biological cultivation, leaving even aging Golden Core cultivators to grotesquely modify themselves to survive.

• Zhang Liugen's fellow disciples advanced rapidly on the new pills, and Zhang Liugen eventually took them too, more than doubling his cultivation speed.
• After A'Huang swallowed a pill and suffered intense pain, Zhang Liugen sensed that tiny organisms were blocking his spiritual energy and suspected the medicine was dangerous.
• Zhang Liugen secretly stopped taking the pills and used his spiritual energy to expel the microbes, slowing his cultivation as his Heavenly Spirit Root rejected them.
• The Golden Core master recognized Zhang Liugen's suspicions but kept watch over him, while powerful cultivators continued turning talented disciples into controlled servants.
• Feng Wushi released the stronger Daddy Number One microbes, prompting rival Golden Core cultivators to join forces and consult a Spirit Transformation grand cultivator.
• The cultivation world entered a biological arms race, and aging Golden Core cultivators began editing their bodies with extra eyes, limbs, and brains to improve cultivation and production.

Wenren Sheng watched Golden Core cultivators use genetic and bodily modifications to prolong their lives and accelerate cultivation, while Zhang Liugen fell behind his sect peers despite his Heavenly Spirit Root. After his former Junior Sister chose to marry another disciple, Zhang Liugen faced mounting humiliation and reached a breaking point.

• Golden Core cultivators modified their bodies and genes to extend their lifespans, improve their cultivation, and avoid the risks of body possession, even as the changes threatened to distort their minds.
• Wenren Sheng watched Zhang Liugen endure mockery from fellow disciples who had once respected him, and suspected that Zhang Liugen might uncover a great secret of the world.
• Zhang Liugen trained and studied spells desperately, but his peers advanced faster with microorganisms and genetic enhancements that let them cultivate around the clock.
• Zhang Liugen learned that his Junior Sister would marry an Eldest Brother who had once been weaker than him, while Zhang Liugen remained at the eighth level of Qi Refinement and others neared foundation establishment.
• A former junior disciple mocked Zhang Liugen over his lost standing and his Junior Sister's marriage, while their master allowed the humiliation to continue and Wenren Sheng saw through the sect's motives.

Zhang Liugen abandoned his restraint, transformed himself through pills, and rose rapidly in cultivation as his sect embraced bodily change under their master's teachings. The sect's disciples became grotesque monsters, and Zhang Liugen continued altering himself while approaching the Golden Core Stage.

• After being mocked, Zhang Liugen consumed his stored pills, and his cultivation speed surged as he absorbed their effects.
• On the wedding night, Eldest Brother revealed three heads and six arms, terrifying Junior Sister and the gathered disciples.
• The Golden Core master calmed the crowd and taught that cultivators should disregard outward appearances and follow their essence.
• Junior Sister fled to Zhang Liugen for protection, but he struck her down and declared that he would stop being human.
• Zhang Liugen consumed more of his master's pills, grew additional heads and organs, and advanced toward the Golden Core Stage as the sect's disciples transformed alongside him.

Zhang Liugen overcame a Golden Core blockade by cultivating A'Huang, then led his fellow disciples in a revolt against their master. After the master defeated them with genetic restrictions and tried to seize Zhang Liugen's body, A'Huang intervened, allowing Zhang Liugen to survive; meanwhile, Feng Wushi continued advancing with ease.

• Zhang Liugen realized his master had blocked his Golden Core breakthrough and transferred part of his soul and Divine Sense into A'Huang, the only creature in the sect untouched by the microorganisms.
• A'Huang reached Foundation Establishment within months and formed a Golden Core three years later, after which Zhang Liugen and several Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers attacked their master while he was in seclusion.
• Their master used genetic methods to disperse the disciples' cultivation, and they confronted him over his restrictions and his repeated failures to reach the Nascent Soul stage.
• The master demanded Zhang Liugen's body and imprisoned the other disciples, but hesitated when Zhang Liugen appeared to surrender and took him to a secret chamber.
• The master began seizing Zhang Liugen's body, but A'Huang disrupted the struggle and helped Zhang Liugen survive.
• Wenren Sheng praised Zhang Liugen's victory, while Feng Wushi continued advancing triumphantly.

Wenren Sheng assessed Feng Wushi’s war against a rival Great Sect for control of Heaven Continent, where Feng Wushi’s mastery of formations let him protect his resources and devastate the enemy’s supply sites. Feng Wushi held the advantage as the rival sect’s logistical strength and willingness to fight dwindled.

• Wenren Sheng explained that control of a continent could earn a sect recognition and destiny from the Heavenly Dao, and both sides mobilized to compete for Heaven Continent.
• Wenren Sheng compared the armies and found Feng Wushi apparently outnumbered in Nascent Soul cultivators, while most lower-level cultivators guarded resource sites and supplied their elders.
• Feng Wushi used his formation expertise to fortify nine important resource points, enabling Golden Core defenders to withstand Nascent Soul attacks for half a month.
• Feng Wushi led mobile Golden Core cultivators in destroying the rival sect’s resource sites, leaving them unable to recover for decades.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that Feng Wushi’s attacks on enemy logistics had given him a decisive advantage and made the rival sect’s defeat likely.

Feng Wushi’s enemies used supercomputers and modern science to develop arrays that checked his advance, prompting him to begin harnessing technology himself. Meanwhile, modern humanity’s infiltrators returned as Golden Core cultivators, and the Martial Immortal World began mass education and recruiting intellectual talent, leaving mortals caught in a new form of exploitation.

• Nascent Soul cultivators used supercomputers to devise arrays that let Golden Core cultivators—and, with sufficient defenses and spirit stones, even Foundation Establishment cultivators—resist Nascent Soul attackers.
• Feng Wushi realized modern technology had changed the strategic balance and began gathering modern humans to develop computer technology for his own side.
• Modern humanity adopted shorter workweeks while its leaders quietly waited for infiltrators in the Martial Immortal World to grow stronger.
• Cultivator A and Cultivator B returned to their families as Golden Core cultivators, explained the power of Spirit Transformation cultivators, and proposed establishing a hidden place to protect their discussions.
• The sects began requisitioning modern-world students and scientists while rapidly introducing compulsory education and gathering mathematically talented people in the Martial Immortal World.

Feng Wushi’s campaign to eliminate modern humanity was checked when the Martial Immortal World intervened, but a ceasefire let him manipulate Nascent Soul Cultivators into turning against modern people. The massacre left humanity panicked, while the Demonic Path Cultivators objected only because they wanted to preserve their human “leek field.”

• Feng Wushi sent Cultivators to slaughter modern people, prompting humanity to seek help from the Martial Immortal World and contain the attacks.
• Feng Wushi feigned weakness and retreated, leading the Nascent Soul factions to agree to a ceasefire and divide new territories.
• Feng Wushi’s Shills persuaded Nascent Soul Cultivators that modern people were a growing threat, and they agreed to exterminate them.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators massacred modern people, sparing only infants without consciousness or memories after flattening a wheel to define the cutoff.
• Demonic Path Cultivators protested the massacre because they wanted to keep humanity as a source of future recruits, while modern people panicked at their failure to repeat past strategies.

Zhang Liugen and other Cultivators stopped the attempted extermination of modern humanity, but Feng Wushi lost his system and influence as a new modern Spirit Transformation Cultivator helped establish rules between the two worlds. The Cultivators’ reliance on microorganisms then produced a collective consciousness that began targeting them, and Feng Wushi was the first to recognize the emerging danger.

• Zhang Liugen and newly arrived Cultivators opposed the massacre of modern people, and their intervention helped bring it to a halt.
• Feng Wushi lost the God-level Choice System and could no longer dominate the Martial Immortal World as Wenren Sheng prepared to move on.
• Picture Detective tested modern hosts until one reached Spirit Transformation, and the new Cultivator negotiated rules allowing people from both worlds to coexist.
• Spiritual-energy-affected microorganisms developed a collective consciousness and began competing with Cultivators for energy and resources.
• A Mid-Nascent Soul Cultivator failed a breakthrough as cultivation mishaps increased, and Feng Wushi recognized the microorganisms’ consciousness as the cause.

Wenren Sheng left the modern world and the Martial Immortal World after the microorganisms and cultivators reached a compromise, then entered an ancient detective world where conflicts reliably led to murder. He became a constable to investigate mysteries, and the chapter ended as a yamen runner summoned the constables to a new major case.

• Feng Wushi discovered that microorganisms had developed consciousness and translated their demand to overthrow humans and control the world's spiritual energy.
• The Transformation Spirit Cultivators negotiated with the microorganisms, who agreed to coexist with humans if spiritual energy use remained sustainable.
• After seeing the situation stabilize, Wenren Sheng left the worlds and entered an ancient detective world with plentiful food and medicine but frequent murders.
• Wenren Sheng learned that rulers in this world had to act benevolently because cruel emperors were routinely killed, and he became a constable in a large county town.
• A yamen runner called the constables to set out because the Investigating Magistrate had received another major case.

Wenren Sheng accompanied Investigating Magistrate Liu as he investigated a corpse buried in Liu Gen’s backyard. Liu Gen was released after claiming he had found the traveler dead, but he fled that night, leaving his father behind.

• Investigating Magistrate Liu questioned Liu Gen after Constables dug up a corpse in his backyard and concluded Liu Gen had buried it.
• Liu Gen admitted burying the traveling merchant’s body but said he had found the man dead and feared the Constables would extort him.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu ordered Liu Gen released and had the corpse taken for an autopsy, then told the Constables to watch him in case he fled with stolen money.
• Wenren Sheng doubted that fleeing would prove Liu Gen was guilty and predicted he might simply fear being made a scapegoat later.
• Liu Gen packed his valuables and urged his father to leave, but his father refused, so Liu Gen fled alone.

Wenren Sheng watched Investigating Magistrate Liu convict Liu Gen based on the body in his yard, the stolen belongings, and his attempted flight, though Liu Gen insisted he had found the guest dead. The Provincial Inspector approved the judgment, but the Minister of Justice rejected it because Liu Gen had not sealed a confession.

• Constables arrested Liu Gen as he tried to leave the city and brought his valuables to the yamen.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu questioned Liu Gen and argued that the silver, travel permit, and credentials showed he had killed the guest to steal his identity.
• Liu Gen admitted he had planned to steal the silver and assume the guest’s identity, but claimed the guest was already dead when he found him.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu sentenced Liu Gen to Death Sentence with Reprieve and submitted the case without forcing a confession through torture.
• The Provincial Inspector approved the case, but the Minister of Justice rejected it because Liu Gen had not willingly sealed his confession.

Investigating Magistrate Liu pursued Wu Dafa’s murder by questioning Liu Gen and sending Wenren Sheng and a constable to the capital to find people who knew the victim. After Wu’s sworn brother arrived to identify the body, he found a faint blade mark at the back of Wu’s head, suggesting the throat wound was not fatal.

• Investigating Magistrate Liu questioned Liu Gen again, then began tracing Wu Dafa’s background and contacts after Liu Gen denied killing him.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu sent Wenren Sheng and another constable to the capital, where they met a group of men who said they would bring Wu Dafa’s body back.
• A burly man returned with the constable and told Investigating Magistrate Liu that he and Wu Dafa were sworn brothers among a group of ten.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu brought the burly man to see Wu Dafa’s badly decomposed body, and the coroner identified a slash across the throat.
• The burly man examined Wu Dafa’s head and found a faint blade mark on the back of the skull, casting doubt on the throat wound as the fatal injury.

Investigating Magistrate Liu learned that the unidentified victim was tied to a struggle among the princes and agreed to pursue the killer for a chance at advancement. He and the burly man planned to lure the assassin out by spreading word that the dead servant had survived by using a double.

• The burly man warned Investigating Magistrate Liu to solve the murder without probing the victim’s identity, then hinted that the case involved the emperor by placing a Commander chess piece beneath White Flower.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu understood the hint and accepted the case, hoping it would advance his stalled career.
• The burly man described the victim as a servant of a wealthy old man with three sons, leading Investigating Magistrate Liu to connect the murder to the princes’ rivalry.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu identified a likely motive: one prince’s servant had been killed while trying to hire guards and build armed strength for his household.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu proposed claiming that the murdered servant had used a double and survived, and the burly man agreed to use the story as bait for the assassin.

Wu Sanwen appeared at the Investigating Magistrate's office and reclaimed his documents, revealing himself as bait in a plot tied to a planned rebellion. Investigating Magistrate Liu and Wenren Sheng followed him from a distance, while Wu Sanwen studied the routes he might later use to lead troops toward the capital.

• Wu Sanwen claimed he had survived the killing by letting a drunken friend sleep in his place, and Investigating Magistrate Liu questioned the gaps in his story.
• Wu Sanwen showed Investigating Magistrate Liu a White Flower and an old king piece, confirming the secret signal and exposing himself as bait.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu compared Wu Sanwen's seal, returned his documents, and let him leave the county.
• After Wu Sanwen had traveled for more than half a day, Investigating Magistrate Liu set out with Wenren Sheng and constables to follow him discreetly.
• Wu Sanwen traveled by carriage and boat along a roundabout route toward the northern border, observing roads and making notes as he went.