Chapter Summaries

Qi Zixiao and Jiu Wu confronted Huo Yuan over the supposed Three Lifetimes Method, only to learn that Three Saints City had never possessed a technique that could grant someone another lifetime. Huo Yuan insisted the method he gave Qi Zixiao was genuine only in the sense that it was the technique their ancestor had created, leaving Purple Mansion Holy Land stuck with the dangerous reputation and blame.

• Qi Zixiao realized the Three Lifetimes Method was only a technique from Three Saints City's ancestor, but decided her gains from the trip made it worthwhile.
• Jiu Wu demanded the genuine Three Lifetimes Method and threatened to expose Huo Yuan or make Purple Mansion Disciples occupy Three Saints City's City Lord's Mansion.
• Huo Yuan argued that he had not deliberately deceived them and threatened to make a Heaven's Dao Oath claiming he had handed over the original method.
• Huo Yuan revealed that Three Saints City had never possessed a method capable of granting a third lifetime and swore that the technique he gave Qi Zixiao was the one people called the Three Lifetimes Method.
• Jiu Wu realized that Purple Mansion Holy Land could not escape being blamed for possessing the famous method, which had drawn desperate, powerful old cultivators to seek it.

Qi Zixiao learned that Huo Yuan’s supposed Three Lifetimes Method had brought her trouble instead of the benefits she expected, so she demanded compensation and collected his Dao Artifacts. Lin Fan then pointed out that her two Merit Golden Rings might deter the Old Madmen from attacking her, leaving her danger less certain than she feared.

• Huo Yuan admitted that his trick had backfired when Qi Zixiao became the victor, and Jiu Wu and Qi Zixiao realized they had been swindled.
• Qi Zixiao demanded compensation from Huo Yuan, who offered her six Dao Artifacts; she took them all, and he left in dismay.
• Jiu Wu praised the haul, then parted from Qi Zixiao without telling her what he had realized about her danger.
• Qi Zixiao told Lin Fan what had happened and warned him to travel separately, while handing him the Dao Artifacts for safekeeping.
• Lin Fan reminded Qi Zixiao that she possessed two Merit Golden Rings, and she realized the Old Madmen might fear attacking her because of the consequences.

Qi Zixiao and Lin Fan realized Huo Yuan’s plan had backfired after she won the Three Lifetimes Method, leaving him under even greater pressure from the Old Madmen. Huo Yuan discovered that the Old Madmen still intended to target him because Qi Zixiao’s two Merit Golden Rings made her too dangerous to attack.

• Qi Zixiao and Lin Fan concluded that Huo Yuan had hoped someone else would win the Three Lifetimes Method and draw the Old Madmen’s attention away from him.
• Qi Zixiao celebrated their gains from Three Saints City, including eight Dao Artifacts extorted from Huo Yuan.
• Huo Yuan relaxed in his secluded cultivation place, believing Qi Zixiao and the Purple Mansion Holy Land would share the Old Madmen’s pressure.
• The Old Madmen sent disguised soul projections into Huo Yuan’s cultivation place and demanded that he hand over the Three Lifetimes Method.
• The Old Madmen admitted they targeted Huo Yuan because Three Saints City was easier to bully than the Purple Mansion Holy Land.
• The Old Madmen mocked Huo Yuan for forgetting that Qi Zixiao’s two Merit Golden Rings made her too dangerous for them to attack.

Huo Yuan realized that Qi Zixiao’s Merit Golden Rings made his attempt to shift blame for the Three Lifetimes Method pointless, and that he had lost eight Dao Artifacts for nothing. Back on Earth, Lin Fan heard that a mysterious zombie had protected him, then named his newly forged Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact the Fanxiao Axe.

• Huo Yuan realized that the Old Madmen would not dare target Qi Zixiao and that handing over the Dao Artifacts had only strengthened their belief in the Three Lifetimes Method.
• Huo Yuan cursed the Old Madmen, who warned him that their patience was running out before he destroyed their soul projections with his Divine Sense.
• Lin Fan stayed in Qi Zixiao’s room, and his suggestion that the Three Lifetimes Method might be connected to Three Saints City’s statues prompted Qi Zixiao to investigate them after her original body returned.
• After crossing back to Earth, Lin Fan read Lin Firmament’s message about a zombie that might have protected him and wondered about Earth’s mysteries.
• Lin Fan summoned his newly forged Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact and named it the Fanxiao Axe.

Lin Fan learned that the zombie might be Hanba after the Resident Happiness Living Department deciphered an inscription found at Wudang Mountain. He gave the department his Cultivation Encyclopedia and discussed Huaxia’s plans to introduce cultivation training as the nation’s Spiritual Qi Revival neared completion.

• Lin Fan continued compiling the Cultivation Encyclopedia so the Resident Happiness Living Department could gather resources to strengthen him.
• Liu Gang’s team found a broken stele at Wudang Mountain, and its deciphered characters included “Hanba, here, sleeps.”
• The Seventh Vice Minister told Lin Fan about the inscription, and Lin Fan was shocked that the zombie might be Hanba despite his and Qi Zixiao’s earlier suspicions.
• Lin Fan and the Seventh Vice Minister agreed not to publicize the discovery, and Lin Fan gave him the encyclopedia and a list of needed items.
• The Seventh Vice Minister said Huaxia’s Spiritual Qi Revival would soon be complete and described plans to train cultivation teachers and introduce cultivation classes across schools.

The Magic Rice Ancestor discovered a glowing, evolved rice plant and realized it might be the first Spirit Rice. He sent its grains to Lin Fan for testing while arranging guards for the plant and scolding his subordinates for staying at their computers.

• The Magic Rice Ancestor spotted a rice seedling glowing in the field and examined its unusually large grains, reduced yield, and accelerated maturity.
• He plucked six grains, called the Resident Happiness Living Department, and asked them to deliver the grains to Mister Lin so he could test them.
• Members of the Resident Happiness Living Department secured the grains in a protected safe and arranged for personnel to guard the glowing rice plant.
• The Magic Rice Ancestor found his veteran subordinates and angrily demanded to know why the young researchers were studying rice on computers instead of working in the fields.

The Old Man raged at researchers for overlooking the newly discovered Spirit Rice and ordered them removed, then summoned his former colleagues to help. Lin Fan received six grains of Spirit Rice and prepared to taste them, leaving the visitors hopeful that he would share.

• The Old Man scolded the researchers for failing to notice Spirit Rice and ordered them driven away from the experimental fields.
• The Old Man told his aides to contact his retired comrades and bring back those willing to join his team.
• Staff from the Resident Happiness Living Department delivered six grains of Spirit Rice to Lin Fan on behalf of Magic Rice Ancestor Old Master and asked him to write his impressions after eating it.
• Lin Fan explained Spirit Rice’s value and removed the husks from the grains.
• Lin Fan steamed the six grains, and the men in Zhongshan Suits eagerly admired their aroma.
• Lin Fan said he was a very fair person, prompting the five visitors to hope he would share the rice.

Lin Fan shared the rice water from six grains of Spirit Rice with five Resident Happiness Living Department soldiers, then made them write separate reviews while he ate the rice himself. After sensing its spiritual energy, he realized Spirit Rice could support cultivation and began to notice another practical effect.

• The five soldiers eagerly awaited Lin Fan's six grains of Spirit Rice, but he gave them the rice water and kept the rice for himself.
• The soldiers drank the rice water, enjoyed its flavor, and wondered whether it could awaken special abilities.
• Lin Fan decided to promote basic cultivation knowledge and asked the five soldiers to write different post-meal reviews of the Spirit Rice.
• Lin Fan ate the six grains and sensed that their spiritual energy was absorbed by his body, though they had little effect on his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• Lin Fan concluded that sufficient Spirit Rice could meet his cultivation needs before the Great Ascension Stage, then noticed it had another practical effect.

Lin Fan tested Spirit Rice and found that even a small amount made cultivators feel full and kept hunger away. Old Man read Lin Fan’s findings and prepared to protect the nearly ripe crop while searching for more Spirit Rice plants.

• Lin Fan turned off Grain Avoidance, ate six grains of Spirit Rice, and found that they left him feeling full and were slow to digest.
• Lin Fan asked five Qi Refining Stage cultivators about their hunger and confirmed that diluted Spirit Rice soup had greatly reduced it.
• The next morning, the five cultivators gave Old Man Lin Fan’s written impressions, which described Spirit Rice as safe, nourishing, delicious, and hunger-resistant.
• Old Man realized the Spirit Rice’s satiating effect could make its effective yield greater than expected and wondered whether its traits could be combined with other varieties.
• Old Man warned that the nearly ripe Spirit Rice might attract animals, and guards reported that they had already driven many creatures away.
• Old Man and his subordinates searched the fields for more Spirit Rice plants while the guards watched over the crop.

A Qi Refining weasel stole the Spirit Rice, prompting the Resident Happiness Living Department to mobilize hundreds of cultivators to chase it. With the weasel still carrying the rice and fleeing toward an unknown destination, Lin Fan sent Dull Hair to catch it and recover the harvest.

• A weasel hid near the Spirit Rice, then used a cloud of foul yellow smoke to steal the rice and escape from the five members of the Resident Happiness Living Department.
• Old Man and Second Vice Minister mobilized more than three hundred Dao entrants to chase and surround the weasel, while the department’s leaders monitored the pursuit through an internal livestream.
• Seventh Vice Minister decided to ask Lin Fan for help, and he went to Lin Fan’s door with Liu Gang.
• Lin Fan summoned Dull Hair, now a Foundation Establishment Stage Spirit Beast, and ordered it to catch the weasel in North Province and bring back the Spirit Rice.
• Dull Hair wrapped Demon Power around the tablet showing the livestream, and Lin Fan warned it not to eat any of the rice.

Lin Fan sent Dull Hair to retrieve Spirit Rice from a monster weasel, and the Spirit Bird swiftly completed the mission. Lin Fan deduced that the weasel had been carrying the rice to help its family transform, and a search found a nest of young weasels nearby.

• Lin Fan sent Dull Hair, carrying a tablet, to assist the Resident Happiness Living Department and retrieve the Spirit Rice.
• Dull Hair raced to the scene, killed the weasel with a Wind Blade, and flew away with the rice, leaving the staff confused until Liu Gang clarified that the bird was their reinforcement.
• Lin Fan guessed that the weasel had spared the rice for a mate or offspring, and Seventh Vice Minister ordered a search nearby.
• The search found a whole nest of young weasels in a cornfield roughly four thousand meters away.

Lin Fan arranged for the Resident Happiness Living Department to publish a public version of his Cultivation Encyclopedia, hoping that spreading basic cultivation knowledge would earn merit. That night, Tibet and the seas lit up on the Spiritual Qi map, completing the nationwide revival and prompting celebrations across Hua Nation.

• Dull Hair returned the Spirit Rice, and Seventh Vice Minister had Liu Gang deliver the precious grains to Old Man's team for cultivation.
• Lin Fan persuaded Seventh Vice Minister to have the department compile, publish, and sell a non-confidential version of the Cultivation Encyclopedia, with Lin Fan listed as editor-in-chief.
• Seventh Vice Minister returned home and realized he had forgotten his tablet computer, while Dull Hair accidentally pecked through it after the livestream ended.
• Tibet and the seas lit up on the Spiritual Qi map, leaving all of Hua Nation bright red as Spiritual Qi fully revived.
• People across Hua Nation, including students in university dormitories, cheered at the completed revival and anticipated cultivation classes.

As Spiritual Qi Revival spread across the nation, people celebrated the prospect of cultivating immortality while Zhou Xiaoran completed her formation work on an island near the South Sea. Strange waves and a faint nationwide tremor hinted that something was happening deep underground, which Lin Fan sensed as the chapter ended.

• People across the country celebrated the prospect of cultivation, including elderly adults eager for the healing and renewal Spiritual Qi could bring.
• Zhou Xiaoran finished inspecting and setting up formations on an uninhabited island near the South Sea, then boarded a cargo ship with the staff.
• As the ship crossed increasingly rough seas, Zhou Xiaoran sensed that the unusual winds and waves signaled something out of the ordinary.
• A faint vibration spread beneath the Divine Land, unsettling sea creatures and causing strange changes among some of them.
• Lin Fan sensed the nationwide tremor and concluded that it was coming from deep underground.

Lin Fan suspected that the tremor signaled Hua Nation’s land was beginning to expand and warned the Seventh Vice Minister to prepare for possible disasters. At sea, Zhou Xiaoran concluded that the formation was missing something and ordered urgent preparations and the evacuation of Coastal Area residents.

• Lin Fan reasoned that the tremor might mean Earth was restoring its original size, causing mountains, rivers, and hidden ruins to emerge.
• Lin Fan alerted the Seventh Vice Minister, who confirmed that the tremor had been detected and ordered close monitoring and emergency planning.
• Lin Fan told the Seventh Vice Minister that the changes would likely happen gradually, giving them time to analyze the danger and prepare.
• Zhou Xiaoran concluded that the formation was incomplete and ordered her team to obtain more formation materials and an Artificial Sun for the Coastal Area.
• Zhou Xiaoran requested large-scale defensive and offensive formations and ordered the Coastal Area residents to evacuate that night.

Zhou Xiaoran warned that terrifying waves and other threats would strike the South China Sea coast by dawn, prompting an emergency evacuation and preparations for a local Artificial Sun. Lin Fan set out with Old Chen to reach her and help respond to the impending crisis.

• Professor Li told the Resident Happiness Living Department that Zhou Xiaoran had demanded an Artificial Sun and related facilities be built in the Coastal Area immediately.
• Zhou Xiaoran told Minister that terrifying waves and other dangers might arrive by dawn, and urged him to evacuate residents within a hundred li of the coast.
• Minister approved the evacuation, activated a Level One emergency response, and ordered someone to bring Lin Fan to Zhou Xiaoran.
• Seventh Vice Minister called Lin Fan, who declined a plane and hurried to find Old Chen instead.
• Lin Fan wrapped Old Chen in True Essence and flew rapidly toward the Coastal Area.

Lin Fan and Old Chen flew to the Coastal Area as authorities evacuated residents ahead of a predicted catastrophe. Zhou Xiaoran warned that a super tsunami and another terrifying event might arrive around dawn, leaving the group to rely on Lin Fan and the preparations already underway.

• Old Chen complained that his experimental arrays still could not make him fly, while Lin Fan carried him toward the Coastal Area at startling speed.
• Lin Fan questioned whether Earth had once been much larger as he noticed the vast evacuation underway under a typhoon and tsunami red alert.
• Lin Fan and Old Chen met Zhou Xiaoran and her group, then carried them toward their destination on Lin Fan's giant flying sword.
• Zhou Xiaoran said her instinct predicted a super tsunami around dawn and another terrifying occurrence, and she admitted she lacked confidence in the preparations.

Zhou Xiaoran revealed that the hundred-li area around the South China Sea formation site was a battlefield and the first line of defense, while Lin Fan suspected mutated sea beasts were the danger. Lin Fan flew out to hunt them in the ocean as Zhou Xiaoran and the others began planning the formation at the branch office.

• Zhou Xiaoran told Lin Fan and the others that the hundred-li area was the battlefield needed to set up the formation, not a safe zone.
• Lin Fan reasoned that the Spiritual Qi Revival could produce dangerous sea beasts and decided to attack them in the ocean before they reached shore.
• Lin Fan left on his flying sword, while Old Chen, Zhou Xiaoran, and Professor Li continued to the branch office to prepare.
• Professor Li ordered the staff to obey Zhou Xiaoran as she requested a rapidly enlarged map of the coastline.
• Zhou Xiaoran studied the fast-moving coastline map with mysterious symbols flickering in her eyes.

Zhou Xiaoran organized formations to defend the coast as marine Ferocious Beasts gathered and multiplied in the southern sea. Lin Fan realized the beasts could rapidly grow stronger by devouring and considered warning other countries and factions.

• Zhou Xiaoran ordered Professor Li and the others to prepare formation sites and asked Old Chen to select a powerful offensive formation.
• Residents evacuated from the coast as staff blocked reporters, but reporter Kang Chu used his wings to fly toward the shoreline and livestream the danger.
• Marine creatures crowded against the formation boundary, while mutated Ferocious Beasts slaughtered and devoured one another in the sea.
• Lin Fan hunted several Ferocious Beasts with his flying sword and warned that the survivors could evolve into much stronger beasts by devouring.
• Lin Fan decided to hunt as many powerful Ferocious Beasts as he could and collect their corpses, then wondered whether he should warn other countries and factions.

Lin Fan hunted Ferocious Beasts in the South China Sea as Hua Nation prepared for a predicted super tsunami, while a giant red wave briefly appeared off the Malay coast. In Eagle Country, Bob angrily demanded updates, then ordered his staff to watch Kang Chu's livestream.

• Lin Fan reasoned that Ferocious Beasts would likely avoid regions without spiritual qi and began hunting before Zhou Xiaoran's predicted tsunami.
• Lin Fan found the Ferocious Beasts fleeing from the corpses he carried, so he returned them to the branch warehouse before resuming his hunt.
• The branch director reported Lin Fan's haul of bizarre sea-beast corpses, and headquarters ordered inland personnel to help secure the land.
• Lin Fan reached the South China Sea boundary, where Ferocious Beasts crowded across it, and began gathering power for a strike.
• Night owls on the Malay coast witnessed a towering red wave appear and vanish, then called the police and fled.
• Bob scolded Eagle Country officials for failing to explain Hua Nation's disturbances, then ordered them to open Kang Chu's livestream.

Lin Fan discovered that a mysterious vortex was generating a rapidly growing tsunami, but his strongest attacks could not damage it. As waves rose hundreds of meters high, Kang Chu and officials in Eagle Country witnessed the disaster unfold, while the others hurried to complete a formation and rely on Zhou Xiaoran and Lin Fan.

• Kang Chu accepted Bob's rocket donation and continued livestreaming as he headed farther out to sea.
• Bob ordered his subordinates to win over Superpower Users and prepare to study a cultivator's corpse, dismissing the prospect of learning cultivation through exchange students.
• Lin Fan found a mysterious vortex in the South Sea cycling seawater into enormous waves and realized it was the source of the coming tsunami.
• Lin Fan repeatedly struck the vortex with the Fanxiao Axe, but dense markings within it blocked every attack as the waves grew beyond five hundred meters.
• Kang Chu noticed seawater flowing away from shore, and satellite images showed officials a tsunami building across the sea.
• The Second Mate reported that the formation was nearly ready but the Artificial Sun still needed adjustment, and the group urged Zhou Xiaoran and Lin Fan to act quickly.