Chapter Summaries

Zhang Guoqing suddenly recovered after looking at the stars, prompting the Resident Happiness Living Department to recognize that changes had begun and to accelerate its cultivation plans. Meanwhile, Qi Zi joined the Purple Mansion disciples on their journey toward the Boundary River and urged them to travel boldly under their sect’s name.

• Little Strawberry and the neighbors searched for Zhang Guoqing, found him dancing nimbly in the town square, and heard him say he did not know how he had recovered.
• Medical personnel examined Zhang Guoqing and confirmed that his body was in excellent condition, while the Resident Happiness Living Department concluded that spiritual-energy changes had begun and planned to monitor them and open more pilot sites.
• A Security Department squad leader entered the path after a day of cultivation and punched through a thick steel plate, prompting the Scientific Research Team to begin studying him.
• Qi Zi came online aboard an Azure Scaled Eagle, reviewed footage from the previous three days, and surveyed the Purple Mansion disciples traveling with him toward the Heaven's Chosen Assembly.
• As the Boundary River came into view, Qi Zi reminded the disciples to heed Su Muxue’s advice and act boldly rather than let Central Province’s boundary-ship operators take advantage of them.

Qi Zi led more than thirteen hundred Purple Mansion Disciples toward the Central Province with their sect’s spectacular effects blazing, intending to deter anyone who might make trouble for them. When they reached the Eastern Wasteland Boundary Ship, its crew realized the group’s open display of identity had ruined their plans to extort the travelers.

• Dan the Fatty and the Ink Blood Toad argued about making their group’s arrival conspicuously high-profile, while the Divine Calculator begged the toad not to unleash its smoke.
• Qi Zi explained that displaying their Purple Mansion identities would spare them pointless harassment, and he led the disciples forward beneath an immense spread of special effects.
• Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan watched in secret and praised Zixiao for applying Su Muxue’s advice, while Jiu Wu lamented how Boundary Ship crews had once mistreated them.
• The Boundary Ship helmsman and his subordinates realized that Qi Zi’s group included the Purple Mansion Saintess and could not safely be extorted or obstructed.
• Qi Zi charged aboard the Boundary Ship, and more than a thousand Purple Mansion Disciples followed with their heads held high.

Qi Zi'Fan and the Purple Mansion Disciples acted like domineering young masters aboard the Boundary Boat, forcing the Supreme Unity Disciples to yield and cross the river early. As the boat departed, Qi Zi'Fan wondered whether he had become the kind of villain a protagonist would come along to defeat.

• Qi Zi'Fan had Zhong Feiyu declare that the Purple Mansion Holy Land made the rules, provoking the Supreme Unity Disciples and drawing a crowd of cultivators.
• The Supreme Unity Affairs Manager protested that the Boundary Boat needed ten thousand passengers before crossing, while Zhong Feiyu mocked the Taiyi Disciples for refusing to fight.
• Dan Chengzi sent the Ink Blood Toad toward the Supreme Unity Disciples, frightening them with its Tribulation Transcendence cultivation and infamous stench.
• A Purple Mansion cultivator caused the Boundary Boat's formation to collapse, and Qi Zi'Fan ordered the Supreme Unity Disciples to cross the river.
• The Supreme Unity Disciples yielded and started the Boundary Boat with just over three thousand passengers, and Qi Zi'Fan wondered whether a protagonist would appear to slap him down.

Qi Zi used her Saintess status to bully a Taiyi elder and inspired several sect cultivators to imitate her arrogance. As the boundary ship slowed in the Boundary River, a mysterious River God appeared, and Qi Zi greeted him with a test involving three axes.

• Qi Zi argued that an overbearing and domineering Saintess was fulfilling her proper duties, leaving the Taiyi elder unable to answer.
• Qi Zi insulted the elder as she tried to leave, but the elder sensed Jiu Wu's presence and retreated without fighting.
• Divine Calculator, Dan the Fatty, Chen Cheng, Zhou Yining, and Zhong Feiyu praised Qi Zi, while a Sword Child and other cultivators took her behavior as a lesson in how the strong should act.
• The boundary ship slowed despite the Taiyi Disciples' insistence that it had not changed speed, and the waves around it suddenly stopped.
• A blue-haired figure rose from the Boundary River, identified himself as its River God, and Qi Zi produced three axes to ask which one he had dropped.

Qi Zi’s worldship reached the Central Province after the mysterious River God vanished, while on Earth, Green Mountain Town’s growing spiritual energy caused widespread miraculous recoveries and strange changes. The Resident Happiness Living Department opened more Spiritual Qi Revival pilot sites at Taoist holy mountains, beginning a broader upheaval.

• The River God left after the Taiyi Disciples refused to play, and Sister A'Wu explained to Qi Zi that gods were soul cultivators formed from faith.
• Qi Zi and the other cultivators arrived at the Central Province dock, where he led the Purple Mansion Disciples toward Three Saints City.
• On Earth, Lin Firmament began cultivating with the spiritual qi gathering in Green Mountain Town, while reports spread of people recovering from serious illnesses.
• Green Mountain Town became overcrowded as reporters, streamers, and sick people flocked there to investigate its growing number of miraculous events.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department decided to open more Spiritual Qi Revival pilot sites, and formations at Longhu Mountain, Wudang Mountain, and Qingcheng Mountain activated.

Longhu Mountain activated its formation as Spiritual Qi descended, allowing the Old Celestial Master and the Celestial Master Residence’s Daoists to enter the Dao and cast the Golden Light Spell. The mountain’s tremors stopped, but the dazzling light from the Back Mountain left the people below wondering what had happened.

• Li Qingyi told the Old Celestial Master that Longhu Mountain would become a Spiritual Qi Revival pilot region and that its formation would activate in five minutes.
• The Old Celestial Master and the Celestial Master Residence’s elders gathered at the formation’s control point, and the Resident Happiness Living Department’s person in charge activated the master switch.
• The formation filled Longhu Mountain with Dao Rhyme, and the Old Celestial Master used the Golden Light Spell to rescue two Old Taoists who fell from a cliff.
• Li Qingyi cast a flickering Golden Light Spell, and several dozen other Daoists followed; the Resident Happiness Living Department’s person in charge failed to cast it.
• The tremors stopped, and the Daoists celebrated their newfound strength as people at the mountain gate saw golden light shining from the Back Mountain.

After Longhu Mountain rose and its Taoists revealed their Golden Light Spell, Wudang activated a formation to revive its spiritual energy. The formation brought thunderclouds and lightning to the Golden Summit, where Chen Chuping recognized the return of Wudang’s Thunderfire Refines the Hall wonder.

• Longhu Mountain’s Taoists discovered that the mountain had grown taller, while photos and videos of the Old Celestial Master and other Taoists using the Golden Light Spell spread online.
• Chen Chuping gathered Wudang disciples and Resident Happiness Living Department staff at the Golden Summit to activate a formation intended to revive spiritual energy.
• The formation appeared inactive for several minutes, but the sky suddenly darkened and immense thunderclouds gathered over the Golden Summit.
• Chen Chuping told everyone to stay outside, explaining that the formation had been brewing and that Wudang’s wonder was about to return.
• A lightning bolt struck near the Golden Summit, and a staff member identified the phenomenon as Thunderfire Refines the Hall, one of Wudang Mountain’s Eight Dead Sceneries.

Wudang’s Golden Hall underwent the long-lost Thunderfire Refines the Hall phenomenon, spreading Dao Rhyme and awakening supernatural changes across the mountain. Chen Chuping gained Palm Thunder, while an Old Taoist on Mount Wuyi sensed that he had entered the Dao, and Spiritual Qi Revival began across many famous mountains.

• Chen Chuping explained that lightning rods installed in 1980 had ended Thunderfire Refines the Hall, though they had failed to save the Parents Hall or a thousand-year-old tree.
• A massive bolt melted a lightning rod, and successive bolts struck the Golden Hall, bathing it in thunderfire and spreading Dao Rhyme throughout Wudang.
• An ancient creature in a cave opened its blood-red eyes as Dao Rhyme and Spiritual Qi reached it.
• A wisp of electricity flew toward Chen Chuping, entered his palm, and gave him Palm Thunder.
• On Mount Wuyi, the Old Taoist saw Dao Patterns, sensed that he had entered the Dao, and noticed he no longer felt hungry a day later.
• Spiritual Qi Revival began across Qingcheng Mountain, Shu Mountain, Mount Hua, and other famous mountains and rivers.

Across Hua Nation, spiritual qi revival brought miraculous changes to famous mountains, Taoist practitioners, ordinary people, and the elderly, prompting a mass rush to seek cultivation opportunities. The Resident Happiness Living Department reviewed the upheaval and identified urgent problems to address.

• News spread that famous mountains and Taoist sites had changed, while elderly people in Green Mountain Town and elsewhere grew younger and stronger.
• Reports emerged of a boy in the Shu Region mastering sword control, a Mount Hua local discovering the Huashan Purple Haze Skill, and a Qingcheng Mountain graduate developing a special ability.
• Netizens speculated that spiritual qi revival had begun and urged the government to open cultivation courses, while many people headed for famous mountains to seek opportunities and healing.
• More than five million people had resigned, and the Resident Happiness Living Department's Second Vice Minister told the Seventh Vice Minister that developments remained within projections but urgent problems required action.

The Residents Happiness Living Department’s leaders agreed to announce the Spiritual Qi Revival, preserve existing laws, and study ancient cultivation methods to improve the Hundred Battles Sutra. After the public notice calmed many residents and slowed resignations, netizens noticed that the pilot sites were all Daoist mountains and asked why no Buddhist sites were included.

• The Vice Ministers told the Minister that residents were impatient for cultivation classes, and the leaders voted to publicly acknowledge the Spiritual Qi Revival.
• The Minister ordered officials to maintain existing laws and have reliable people test ancient cultivation methods, using supercomputer simulations to improve the Hundred Battles Sutra without making the sects’ methods public.
• The leaders decided to tell overseas critics that the Spiritual Qi Revival had only begun at a few pilot sites and that cultivation classes would have to wait until Spiritual Qi increased.
• The Residents Happiness Living Department announced the Spiritual Qi Revival and urged residents to continue their lives as usual while the project expanded nationwide.
• Netizens reacted to the announcement, many calmed down and postponed resigning, and the resignation rate fell.
• A netizen pointed out that the announced pilot sites were Daoist mountains and asked why no Buddhist Famous Mountains were included.

Bob learned that Hua Nation had cultivators and was carrying out Spiritual Qi Revival, while Eagle Country had no known superpower users. He led the Capitalist Income Protection Guild to Morton, a reclusive man whose outdated memories suggested he was over a hundred years old and might be a superpower user.

• Netizens debated why Buddhist sites were not among the first locations chosen for Hua Nation’s Spiritual Qi Revival, while the authorities remained wary of Buddhism’s origins and present-day institutions.
• Bob angrily demanded that the Capitalist Income Protection Guild find superpower users and obtain information about Spiritual Qi Revival for Eagle Country.
• A senior guild member told Bob they had identified Morton, a possible descendant of the Crusader Holy Knight Order who had displayed superpowers.
• Bob and the guild members traveled with William to a remote town and met Morton, who did not recognize Bob and lacked modern technology.
• Morton’s decades-old memories led Bob and the others to suspect that he was over a hundred years old, and Bob invited him to dinner to discuss matters.

Bob recruited Morton to help the Capitalist Income Protection Guild fight Hua Nation’s cultivators, but Morton panicked after seeing a video of one destroying a meteorite and refused. He began explaining the danger cultivators posed and hinted that Alexander’s forces had encountered them during their eastern expedition.

• Bob told Morton that Hua Nation had produced multiple Superpower Users and asked him to join the Guild, and Morton revealed that he was one himself.
• Morton donned his ancestors’ armor and weapons, then agreed to help after learning he might finally face other Superpower Users.
• William asked whether Morton’s sword could cut through his shield, prompting Morton to defend his inherited equipment.
• Bob showed Morton a video of a cultivator blasting apart meteorites, and Morton lost his nerve and ordered the group to leave.
• Morton explained that cultivators were far more powerful than ordinary Superpower Users and accused Bob and the others of trying to send him to his death.
• Morton said Alexander’s forces had continued advancing beyond Ancient India, where they encountered powerful beings like his ancestors.

Morton revealed that Alexander the Great’s eastern expedition had secretly encountered Qin cultivators, who destroyed the Holy Knight Legion and forced the emperor to flee. After Morton invoked the Holy Knights’ ancestral order to flee from cultivators, Bob and his group left terrified and unsure how to respond to Hua Nation’s growing cultivator forces.

• Morton told Bob that Alexander’s forces had secretly reunited after withdrawing from India and advanced toward Qin with a Holy Knight Legion.
• Morton recounted how Bai Qi killed the Holy Knights and a Daoist priest weakened the invading army, while Alexander fled and concealed the defeat as a plague withdrawal.
• Morton explained that later investigations revealed the foreign troops had been buried in Qin as uncivilized barbarians and that the Holy Knights’ ancestors had ordered their descendants to flee any cultivator.
• Bob doubted the account, but Morton pointed to the cultivator’s meteorite-punching video and forced Bob’s group to leave.
• Bob and his group departed by helicopter, frightened by Hua Nation’s growing cultivator forces and impending Spiritual Qi Revival.

The Never-Setting Sun Management Association discovered the ruins of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, hoping to learn magic and gain power against Hua Nation’s cultivators. The deciphered records revealed that Godric had founded the academy after learning simplified spells from a powerful cultivator in Hua Nation, leaving the officials stunned by magic’s humble origins.

• The Capitalist Income Protection Guild panicked over how Spiritual Qi Revival could threaten its profits, while Bob failed to maintain his composure.
• The Never-Setting Sun Management Association’s specialist reported discovering a submerged academy resembling Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• The officials examined the academy’s remains and waited for experts to decipher inscriptions on ancient stone tablets.
• The deciphered account identified Godric as the academy’s founder and said he had learned spells as a gatekeeping book servant to a cultivator in Hua Nation.
• The officials realized that magic was a simplified form of the cultivators’ spells and wondered whether Godric had been a servant or slave.

Lin Firmament realized Earth’s spiritual energy could attract powerful Cultivators who might seize the planet, so she sought a way to strengthen herself and her alternate account quickly. After connecting ancient artifacts to recent gains, she decided to pursue excavating ancient tombs.

• A man speculated that Godric had learned broom flight from a Cultivator after serving as a gatekeeper, infuriating the Never-Setting Sun Management Association.
• A subordinate reported that a search of the academy found only broken brooms and damaged wands, with no magical records.
• Lin Firmament calculated that Earth’s recovering spiritual energy could draw Cultivators powerful enough to threaten her and the other person she wanted to protect.
• Lin Firmament considered ways to improve her alternate account, but dismissed Earth’s low-quality spirit herbs and ordinary pills as insufficient.
• Lin Firmament connected the pill furnace, King Goujian’s Sword, and King Fuchai’s Spear to the idea of seeking powerful ancient artifacts and decided to excavate tombs.

Lin Firmament decided to investigate ancient tombs, especially the First Emperor's Mausoleum and the Empress's Tomb, to learn more about Earth's cultivators. After she told the Resident Happiness Living Department she planned to dig up graves, its leaders prepared for an excavation and asked to send archaeologists along, and Lin Firmament agreed as long as they did not disturb her.

• Lin Firmament considered famous ancient tombs and concluded that the First Emperor and the Empress might be connected to cultivators, while the Tang dynasty's Fangshi may have contributed to the decline of spiritual energy.
• Lin Firmament called the Seventh Vice Minister and bluntly warned him that she planned to dig up several graves, then hung up before he could ask whose.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department's leaders debated which tomb Lin Firmament meant and decided the First Emperor's Mausoleum was the most likely target.
• The leaders arranged to station archaeologists and livestreaming personnel near the First Emperor's Mausoleum and asked the Seventh Vice Minister to contact Lin Firmament.
• Lin Firmament told the Seventh Vice Minister that archaeologists could accompany her as long as they did not disturb her, then ended the call.

Qi Zixiao split from her disciples in Three Saints City and arranged for her clone to impersonate her while she transformed into Lin Fan, planning to act arrogantly in her place. The disguised Saintess toured the city with her squad, and they stopped at a lavish inn.

• Lin Firmament wondered why Qi Zixiao had guessed that he planned to excavate the First Emperor's Mausoleum, while Qi Zixiao returned to the Cultivation World and decided to show him true domineering behavior.
• Qi Zixiao arrived at Three Saints City, dismissed most of her fellow disciples, and entered an inn room with the Saintess Squad.
• Qi Zixiao brought out her clone, shared their memories, and had the clone take her place while she transformed into Lin Fan.
• The clone led the squad around Three Saints City as Qi Zixiao's true self, while the disguised Qi Zixiao slipped away to act as Lin Fan.
• Qi Zixiao's clone displayed Purple Qi Comes From The East across three hundred li, drawing attention as the squad toured the city.
• The Saintess Squad stopped in front of a lavish inn, and Dan the Fatty said it suited their temperament.

Qi Saintess’s group entered Three Immortals Inn by staging an arrogant act, but a clash with Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples prompted “Lin Fan” to insult them outright. The disciples took the provocation seriously, and the surrounding cultivators expected the apparent Rogue Cultivator to face dire consequences.

• Qi Saintess told her group to act arrogantly as they approached Three Immortals Inn, and they performed as wealthy, contemptuous cultivators.
• Crimson-robed disciples of Hundred Refinements Pavilion challenged the group after hearing Fan Jianqiang call others “chickens and dogs.”
• Qi Saintess sent “Lin Fan” into the confrontation, but the Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples initially ignored her contemptuous chuckle.
• “Lin Fan” called every Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciple trash and demanded to know who agreed or objected.
• The disciples threatened “Lin Fan,” while nearby cultivators condemned the provocation and predicted she would be killed.

Lin Fan provoked the Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples into a contest of wealth at Three Immortals Inn, turning their anger into a challenge to see who could spend more. The challenge was accepted, and Qi Saintess’s group considered using their considerable resources to crush their rivals and strengthen their cover as wealthy young masters.

• Lin Fan taunted the gathered cultivators and challenged the Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples to prove their wealth by entering Three Immortals Inn.
• The Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples accepted the spending contest, confident that their artifact-refining skills had made them rich.
• Lin Fan, Qi Saintess, her companions, and more than a hundred Pavilion disciples entered Three Immortals Inn, while spectators remained outside.
• Inside, Qi Saintess agreed that the winner would be whoever spent more, and Lin Fan proposed calculating each person’s spending individually.
• Lin Fan demanded that the loser admit to being a clay chicken and earthen dog and shout it three times; the Pavilion disciples accepted.
• Dan Chengzi, Divine Calculator, and the others looked to Qi Saintess and considered using their wealth and treasures to win the contest and appear to be rich young masters.

Dan the Fatty, Divine Calculator, Qi Zixiao, and the Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples competed to order lavish food at the Three Immortals Inn. The chapter left Chi Xiaomo convinced that Qi Zixiao’s group was only pretending to afford their extravagant orders.

• Dan the Fatty and Divine Calculator ordered the best private room, and the Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples refused to be outdone.
• The waitress described the inn’s Braised Lion’s Head, made from a Nine-Headed Lion at the Celestial Platform Realm, and Dan the Fatty’s group ordered a serving.
• The Hundred Refinements Pavilion disciples also ordered the dish, while “Lin Fan” claimed the third remaining lion head.
• After the waitress revealed the dish cost three hundred million Spirit Stones and warned of the consequences of failing to pay, “Lin Fan” slapped down a Storage Bag and ordered it along with the finest wine.
• Chi Xiaomo realized the bill could become even higher when Fan Jianqiang’s group ordered the finest wine too, but he decided Qi Zixiao’s group must be bluffing.