Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan agreed to trade cultivation techniques, formations, and basic knowledge to the Resident Happiness Living Department for materials, including help developing enhanced weapons. Meanwhile, Bob was awakened in Eagle Country and told that Hua Nation had cultivated many powerful cultivators and unveiled formidable new weapons.

• The Seventh Vice Minister asked Lin Fan for cultivation techniques, Spirit Gathering Arrays, and formations to strengthen weapons, and Lin Fan agreed to provide them in exchange for materials.
• Lin Fan explained that engraved formations would need an external energy source, leaving the Resident Happiness Living Department to find a way for ordinary people to activate them.
• After the Seventh Vice Minister left, Lin Fan began compiling the requested materials and a catalog of materials he needed.
• In Eagle Country, Bob was awakened by the Capitalist Income Protection Guild's higher-ups, who warned him that the Resident Happiness Living Department had cultivated many powerful cultivators and revealed new weapons.

Bob struggled to find a way for the Capitalist Income Protection Guild to counter the Resident Happiness Living Department’s cultivation advantage, while ruling out pressure as too dangerous. The department sentenced Ma Xiaofei to twenty years in prison, and Lin Fan accepted the judgment as a necessary application of the law.

• Bob rejected his subordinates’ proposed pressure campaign and demanded they obtain cultivation information and find powerful allies.
• Bob ordered his subordinates to bribe insiders and investigate whether angels existed, threatening to tear down churches if they found no evidence.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department announced that Ma Xiaofei would serve twenty years in prison for killing the Village Chief’s family, despite the death sentence initially being considered.
• Netizens disagreed over whether Ma Xiaofei’s sentence was too lenient or too harsh, and the department chose not to respond.
• Lin Fan told Old Chen that Ma Xiaofei’s revenge was understandable but that killing an entire family still required legal punishment.

Lin Fan, Old Chen, and Zhou Na discussed new registration rules for people with supernatural abilities and prepared to register without revealing their abilities. Lin Fan said he would try to recreate the Dragon Vein during the nationwide Spiritual Qi Revival, then explained that ancient accounts of Kunlun pointed to several conflicting locations.

• Zhou Na told Lin Fan and Old Chen that the Resident Happiness Living Department required people with supernatural abilities in Hua Nation to register and would punish them more harshly for crimes.
• Lin Fan and Old Chen agreed to make simple registrations without disclosing their abilities, and Zhou Na planned to contact the department.
• Lin Fan said he would try to recreate the Dragon Vein during the nationwide Spiritual Qi Revival because Star Power alone might not produce enough spiritual qi.
• Zhou Na and Old Chen suggested investigating legendary places such as Kunlun and Tianshan, but Lin Fan warned that cultivation novels differed from reality.
• Lin Fan described competing historical claims about Kunlun, including the modern Kunlun Mountains and La Mountain near Jinan, and said the evidence remained inconclusive.

Lin Fan wondered whether the first cultivation web-novel author had learned about real cultivation, since novels shared so many similarities with reality. He decided to meet the author and learn whether the information might help him locate Kunlun, but the Seventh Vice Minister revealed they had already met him.

• Lin Fan rejected Old Chen’s offer to consult Chinese studies professors and reasoned that Kunlun might reveal itself as Spiritual Qi Revival spread.
• Lin Fan promised Old Chen and Zhou Na a guide to cultivation, then speculated that the first cultivation novelist might have learned about real cultivators.
• Lin Fan decided to meet the first cultivation web-novel author in case the author knew where Kunlun and Tianshan were.
• Lin Fan contacted the Seventh Vice Minister, who told him they had already met and spoken with the author.

Lin Fan learned that Chen Chumo, a descendant of the novelist school and author of Journey of Cultivation, had inherited records about ancient cultivation. Chen Chumo offered him the surviving books, leaving Lin Fan poised to examine them for answers.

• Seventh Vice Minister told Lin Fan that the Resident Happiness Living Department had met novelist Chen Chumo, but Chen had claimed he knew nothing and had written his novel casually.
• Lin Fan researched the novelist school, learned about its role in recording folk accounts, and arranged to meet Chen Chumo.
• Lin Fan met Chen Chumo in a C City teahouse and asked what novelists knew about cultivation and how they had learned it.
• Chen Chumo explained that his ancestors had passed down records of cultivators and said the First Emperor had buried members of several schools, including the novelists.
• Chen Chumo said most schools had lost their inheritances, then offered Lin Fan the surviving books and records about cultivation.

Chen Chumo shared the Novelist ancestor’s ancient book with Lin Fan, revealing that the First Emperor had left Earth for the Outer Territory and that Mount Tai was the Fengchan Land. The book gave Lin Fan clues about Earth’s ancient cultivation and possible connection to the Cultivation World, but left him questioning what the First Emperor had protected and how the author had foretold his existence.

• Chen Chumo used the book’s reaction to Lin Fan’s True Essence to confirm its records, then explained that the Small Seal Script volume was called Pre-Qin Cultivation Miscellany.
• Chen Chumo recounted that Spiritual Qi had already been waning during the Qin Dynasty and that the First Emperor may have severed the Dragon Vein to protect the Divine Land.
• Lin Fan compared Earth’s ancient cultivation realms and Chinese characters with those of the Cultivation World and wondered whether the two worlds were connected.
• Chen Chumo’s account revealed that Mount Tai was the Fengchan Land and that the First Emperor had secretly gone Beyond the Heavens with trusted subordinates and elite forces.
• Lin Fan decided Mount Tai might be worth exploring after Hua Nation’s Spiritual Qi Revival spread across the country, and he questioned what danger the First Emperor had tried to protect Earth from.

Lin Fan decided to investigate Mount Tai and its Fengchan Land, while Qi Zixiao returned to the Cultivation World and considered taking jobs to bury opponents. She learned that Shi Tiesheng was matched against Ji Chutong and was asked whether she would help him.

• Lin Fan resolved to research Mount Tai and gather materials before searching for the Fengchan Land on a future visit.
• After parting from Chen Chumo, Lin Fan returned home and began collecting literature and legends about Mount Tai.
• Qi Zixiao received Sister A'Wu's memories, learned that Lin Fan had buried and robbed the Sword Child, and decided to keep taking burial jobs.
• Dan the Fatty asked Qi Zixiao to help several Alchemy Room juniors and revealed that Shi Tiesheng also needed help against Ji Chutong.
• Qi Zixiao reviewed Ji Chutong's formidable abilities and fell silent when Dan the Fatty asked whether she would accept the job.

Qi Zixiao, disguised as Lin Fan, accepted Shi Tiesheng’s offer to hold off Ji Chutong in exchange for Spirit Stones and weapon-refinement insights. With the morning matches less than an hour away, she prepared to deal with the Alchemy Room’s opponents before challenging Ji Chutong, knowing she would have to strike carefully in the heavily monitored Three Saints City.

• Qi Zixiao decided she would take Shi Tiesheng’s job and fight Ji Chutong, despite being unable to use Lin Fan’s forbidden techniques and treasures.
• Dan the Fatty explained that Shi Tiesheng wanted to win a round for gambling profits and to attract Jade Pool Holy Land’s female cultivators.
• Qi Zixiao told Dan the Fatty she would need substantial compensation, then contacted Shi Tiesheng directly.
• Shi Tiesheng agreed to pay thirty million Spirit Stones and give Qi Zixiao his weapon-refinement insights for everything below Dao Artifacts.
• Qi Zixiao obtained the insights and prepared to take down the Alchemy Room’s opponents before fighting Ji Chutong, while accounting for Three Saints City’s strict surveillance.

Qi Zixiao abducted and buried six opponents to clear the way for Lin Fan, who needed to keep Ji Chutong occupied. Lin Fan provoked Ji Chutong into agreeing to fight in the arena, setting their confrontation in motion.

• Qi Zixiao knocked out six Spirit Severance Stage prodigies, carried them outside Three Saints City, and buried them in a muddy pit beneath a formation.
• Dan the Fatty and Shi Tiesheng worried as Ji Chutong waited unharmed in the packed stadium shortly before the matches began.
• Lin Fan arrived after betting on Shi Tiesheng and approached Ji Chutong despite the crowd's warnings.
• Lin Fan insulted Ji Chutong by calling her less beautiful than Qi Zixiao and said he would gladly die for Qi Zixiao but would not fear Ji Chutong.
• Ji Chutong, angered by Lin Fan's taunts, challenged him to the arena, and Lin Fan accepted.

Disguised as Lin Fan, Qi Zixiao accepted Ji Chutong’s arena challenge and held her off despite Ji’s overwhelming use of Dao laws. Qi Zixiao then recited lines about the Dao that made Ji Chutong’s manifested laws withdraw, leaving the spectators astonished and eager to know who Lin Fan was.

• Ji Chutong ignored her Protector Disciple’s warning and went onto an arena, where Lin Fan followed her despite the approaching Heaven’s Chosen Assembly.
• Qi Zixiao, disguised as Lin Fan, provoked Ji Chutong, who attacked with chains of Dao laws while Qi Zixiao countered with the Golden Light Spell.
• Qi Zixiao endured Ji Chutong’s attacks for two minutes, and City Lord Huo Yuan noticed that Lin Fan’s True Essence kept recovering.
• Ji Chutong asked Qi Zixiao whether he knew what Dao was and summoned Dao laws to suppress him.
• Qi Zixiao answered with lines from the Tao Te Ching, causing Ji Chutong’s Dao laws to disappear and leaving her and the spectators stunned.

Qi Zixiao used a few lines from the Tao Te Ching to shake Ji Chutong, then attacked her with the Cloud Piercing Sword and kept fighting to delay her from confronting Shi Tiesheng. As the tournament matches began, the spectators watched their fierce battle, while Qiu Mobai realized that Lin Fan had publicly revealed his stolen sword.

• Qi Zixiao disrupted Ji Chutong's display of Dao laws with a few lines, then struck her with the Cloud Piercing Sword.
• Ji Chutong recovered and exchanged attacks with Qi Zixiao, shattering the arena's protective formation before Huo Yuan ordered a stronger formation around them.
• Shi Tiesheng took his arena while Ji Chutong remained occupied, and several other contestants forfeited so they could watch the fight.
• Lu Yao, Zou Hu, and Du Chuan studied the battle and recognized the strength of Ji Chutong and Lin Fan.
• Qiu Mobai fumed as he realized that Lin Fan had openly used the Cloud Piercing Sword, making its theft known to everyone.

Sword Seventeen learned that Lin Fan had taken Qiu Mobai’s sword and possessions, and vowed to make him return them. Meanwhile, Ji Chutong revealed a terrifying way to draw on Dao Principles, leaving Qi Zixiao facing a decisive challenge in their battle.

• Sword Seventeen comforted Qiu Mobai over his defeat but warned him to avoid the Purple Mansion Demoness and her associates.
• Qiu Mobai and his two Protector Disciples revealed that Lin Fan had taken their belongings as well as the Cloud Piercing Sword, and Sword Seventeen promised to reclaim everything.
• The Heaven's Chosen Assembly audience focused on Ji Chutong and Qi Zixiao, whose fierce battle had reached a deadlock despite Ji Chutong gaining the upper hand.
• Ji Chutong absorbed Dao Principles through her Innate Dao Body, revealing a powerful technique that astonished the Celestial Platform experts.
• Du Chuan, Zou Hu, and Ji Chutong's Protector Disciples watched as she prepared to unleash her strengthened attack against Qi Zixiao.

Qi Zixiao, disguised as Lin Fan, faced Ji Chutong’s powerful Dao Principles strike and chose a spell inspired by his experiences on Earth. The spell summoned a vast display of heavenly lightning over Three Saints City, startling the crowd before experts recognized it as a rare technique rather than a real tribulation.

• Ji Chutong prepared to unleash her trump card, while Qi Zixiao hesitated because she could not reveal her strongest techniques or defenses.
• Qi Zixiao recalled her unusual experiences and the person she had met, then told Ji Chutong she was choosing which spell to use.
• Qi Saintess recognized through their shared memories that Qi Zixiao was about to use a decisive move, and reflected on how Earth had inspired her.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered above Three Saints City, prompting spectators to flee until Huo Yuan announced that it was not a genuine heavenly tribulation.
• Qi Zixiao’s Cloud Piercing Sword resonated with the thunderclouds as Huo Yuan and other experts realized she was summoning true heavenly lightning with a rare technique.
• Sword Child Qiu Mobai realized that Lin Fan had not used his full strength when they fought.

Qi Zixiao, disguised as 'Lin Fan,' unveiled the Divine Sword Control Thunder True Technique in her battle with Ji Chutong, and their clash ended without a victor. The spectators marveled at the technique while Ji Chutong recognized its power and Qi Zixiao resolved to improve it.

• The spectators focused on Ji Chutong and 'Lin Fan' as both gathered their strength, and Ji Chutong asked whether Heavenly Thunder was 'Lin Fan's' trump card.
• Ji Chutong struck with a giant sword formed from Dao Principles, and 'Lin Fan' answered with the Divine Sword Control Thunder True Technique through the Cloud Piercing Sword.
• The attacks collided in a blinding burst, leaving both fighters standing unharmed as their weapons vanished and neither won.
• Shi Tiesheng, Dan the Fatty, Lu Ming, Chen Cheng, and Zhou Yining praised the fighters and wondered about the technique's origins, while the Qi Saintess knew its idea came from Earth.
• Qi Zixiao celebrated the successful first use of her new technique and planned to refine it, while Ji Chutong was unsettled by its power and 'Lin Fan's' rapidly replenished True Essence.
• Jiu Wu mocked Xiao Zhan's ability to teach, and Xiao Zhan angrily told him he was not thanking him.

Qi Zixiao, disguised as Lin Fan, held Ji Chutong off long enough to secure Shi Tiesheng’s victory, and Ji Chutong forfeited before promising a full-strength fight later. After the morning battles, Qi Zixiao explained to Shi Tiesheng and Dan the Fatty why having enough Spirit Stones to win through top-ups could attract admirers.

• Qi Zixiao and Ji Chutong stopped fighting after Ji Chutong realized her opponent had only meant to hold her off until the time to defeat Shi Tiesheng had passed.
• Ji Chutong forfeited the Heaven’s Chosen Assembly, and Shi Tiesheng won his match.
• Ji Chutong promised to fight Qi Zixiao with all her strength after the assembly, and Qi Zixiao reluctantly agreed if the chance arose.
• Dan the Fatty and Shi Tiesheng profited from their bets, while Shi Tiesheng noticed Jade Pool Holy Land women showing interest in him despite his Top-up secret being exposed.
• Qi Zixiao told Dan the Fatty and Shi Tiesheng that having enough Spirit Stones to top up was an advantage, especially when spending them on women.

Qi Zixiao reassured Shi Tiesheng and Dan the Fatty that attracting girls with wealth was nothing to fear, and Dan began showing off his Cash Ability. After the morning’s battles, a warning about the undefeated Ten Thousand Poisons Sect spread through the tournament, leaving the Purple Mansion Disciples worried as Li Fu faced one of its contestants.

• Qi Zixiao explained that realistic partners were not a threat because Dao companions made Heavenly Dao Oaths against betrayal, calming Shi Tiesheng and Dan the Fatty.
• Dan the Fatty displayed his wealth and attracted several girls, while Qi Zixiao left the matter of their relationships to them.
• The tournament’s roadside stalls thrived as Immortal’s Intoxication and Fan Jianqiang’s Three Bowls and You Won’t Dare Fly drew customers and challengers.
• Zhong Feiyu circulated a warning that more than seven hundred and sixty Ten Thousand Poisons Sect contestants had advanced undefeated using a poison that could knock out even much stronger cultivators.
• Purple Mansion Disciples grew alarmed at the warning, and Li Fu revealed that his next opponent was an unknown late Nascent Soul Stage cultivator from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.
• Snow Maiden told Li Fu not to disgrace Purple Mansion Holy Land, and Li Fu silently resented the pressure.

At the afternoon competition, Lin Fan drew another bye, astonishing the spectators and leading prominent figures to regard his luck as peerless. Li Fu prepared to face a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect cultivator by sealing his senses, taking detoxification pills, and releasing poisonous mist, but his opponent's disdainful smile suggested the poison might still reach him.

• The Saintess Squad discussed the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect's poison and planned to watch Li Fu's match for clues.
• Lin Fan drew his third bye in four matches, and Huo Yuan and other powerful figures concluded that his fortune might surpass that of the other contestants.
• Sword Seventeen became interested in taking Lin Fan as his disciple, while Qi Zixiao and her avatar advanced after the avatar's opponent forfeited.
• Dan Chengzi delayed his own match to watch Li Fu face a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.
• Li Fu took detoxification pills, sealed his pores and senses, and released poisonous mist from his Unicorn Sword, but Dan the Fatty grew worried when his opponent smiled disdainfully.

The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s mysterious poison let Liang Kuan defeat Li Fu almost instantly, alarming the other chosen ones and the Holy Lands. After the fourth round, Li Fu’s followers brought him to Dan Chengzi for treatment, and Dan found that the poison had left him unconscious but not in immediate danger.

• Li Fu attacked Liang Kuan as soon as he entered the arena but collapsed before his flying sword could reach him, and the referee declared Liang Kuan the winner.
• Liang Kuan claimed the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect could take the top hundred places, while the assembled chosen ones struggled to identify a counter to the sect’s poison.
• Tang Xiaoxiao introduced himself to the cultivators, and the Holy Lands’ elders urged their chosen ones to defeat the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect despite having no countermeasure.
• The fourth round ended with more than seven hundred Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples still undefeated against outsiders, leaving the other contestants wary.
• Li Fu’s followers brought him to Dan Chengzi, who determined that Li Fu was unconscious from a domineering poison but was not in immediate danger.

Dan Chengzi used his Biochemical Pill to wake Li Fu, leaving him reeking and dry-heaving, then sold him an Air Refreshing Pill for three million Spirit Stones. Afterward, Dan Chengzi told Qi Zixiao he had nearly figured out the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s poison and saw a chance to make money.

• Dan Chengzi gave the unconscious Li Fu a Biochemical Pill, which woke him quickly but made him emit foul green gas.
• Li Fu confronted Dan Chengzi, who argued that he had saved him and then sold him a pill to remove the side effects for three million Spirit Stones.
• Qi Zixiao and the others watched Li Fu leave after the transaction, while Dan Chengzi celebrated his successful scheme.
• Dan Chengzi told Qi Zixiao that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s poison affected the spirit and that he had nearly figured it out.
• Ink Blood Toad claimed that it had been the one to discover the poison’s effect on the spirit.

Qi Zixiao proposed using a sprayed mist based on Biochemical Pills as “84 Disinfectant” to counter the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s poisonous aura without giving away the Saintess Squad’s Air Refreshing Pills. Dan the Fatty was excited by the idea of refining medicine into a spray, but Divine Calculator challenged his claim that he had read about 84 Disinfectant in an ancient book.

• Dan the Fatty explained that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s poison spread through Divine Sense and other points of contact, but he lacked a poison sample to develop an antidote.
• Lu Ming suggested detonating Biochemical Pills to counter the poisonous fumes, and Dan the Fatty worried that selling Air Refreshing Pills would expose their strongest trump card.
• Qi Zixiao proposed having Dan the Fatty turn Biochemical Pills into a diluted mist stored in high-pressure bottles and spray it to suppress the poison.
• 'Lin Fan' claimed that 84 Disinfectant came from an ancient legend and could eliminate most toxins, prompting Dan the Fatty to pretend he had read about it too.
• Dan the Fatty realized that medicine could be refined into a spray, and Divine Calculator asked why the supposed ancient remedy was called 84 Disinfectant.