Chapter Summaries

The Puppet fought and defeated the Superlimit Creature at the Mutated Plant site, then killed the Confidential Operations Division team waiting nearby. After executing Padding for setting the trap, he ordered the Blood Staff Mercenary Group to head for the nearest public outpost of the Confidential Operations Division.

• The Bald Woman warned the Puppet that the Mutated Plant site seemed suspicious, and he went ahead alone while the Blood Staff Mercenary Group secured the area.
• The Puppet found the Mutated Plant, its swarming Cladophora-like growths, and the Superlimit Creature, then fought the creature while struggling to balance his mind and body.
• After more than two hours, the Puppet emerged carrying the Superlimit Creature's shattered head and killed the waiting Confidential Operations Division team.
• The Puppet returned to his group and ordered them to find Padding, who had supplied the misleading intelligence.
• The Puppet broke into Padding's camp, killed him, and learned that his team had eliminated the camp's other security personnel.
• The Puppet ordered the Blood Staff Mercenary Group to go to the nearest public outpost of the Confidential Operations Division.

Puppet attacked the Action Department in Arantava Central City, defeated the Garrison Fighter in a destructive battle, and then led the Blood Staff Mercenary Group into the Confidential Operations Division. With other Fighters approaching, the group prepared to continue its assault.

• Puppet entered Arantava Central City and ignored the Action Department’s warnings, incapacitating its armed guards with Blood Staff’s mental power.
• The Garrison Fighter intercepted Puppet, and their fight tore through the city, collapsing buildings and a Mooring Tower.
• Puppet survived the Fighter’s Spiritual Impact by finding a brief point of balance, then struck him down and left him gravely wounded.
• Puppet headed to the Confidential Operations Division, where he joined the Blood Staff Mercenary Group and entered without resistance.
• The bald woman warned Puppet that one or more Fighters would arrive within half an hour.

The Blood Staff Mercenary Group looted the Action Department, escaped after Puppet confronted two Fighters, and continued toward the Convergence Zone. In Kavatua, Chen Chuan suspected the wanted criminal was his possessed seed, then resumed cultivating beneath the Sacred Tree until Luo Kaiyuan, Feng Xiaoqi, and Wei Dong returned.

• The Blood Staff Mercenary Group searched the Action Department and found stolen biological agents and valuable High-Energy Mutated Seeds, which Puppet entrusted to the bald woman to handle.
• After the bald woman warned that a Fighter was approaching, the mercenaries escaped through the Convergence Zone passage while Puppet stayed behind to face the responders.
• Puppet returned after evading two Fighters, and the group drove toward a trade outpost with plans to act on their own if Shell Laboratory would not shelter them.
• The Federation issued a wanted notice for the unregistered Fighter, and Chen Chuan suspected that Blood Staff was his possessed seed based on its behavior and whereabouts.
• Chen Chuan returned with Zhao Ming to the Sacred Tree Void and cultivated until Luo Kaiyuan, Feng Xiaoqi, and Wei Dong returned.

Luo Kaiyuan, Wei Dong, and Feng Xiaoqi brought Chen Chuan intelligence that Gao Xinwen was staying at Small Awakening Temple, while Chen Chuan considered how to reach him. After a visit from the Celestial Mystery Sect, Gao Xinwen decided to leave the temple for North Lailus.

• Luo Kaiyuan, Wei Dong, and Feng Xiaoqi gave Chen Chuan the Resistance Organization's information about Gao Xinwen and said the group wanted help rescuing a technician in exchange for further intelligence.
• Chen Chuan refused to make another deal, learned that Gao Xinwen was practicing at Small Awakening Temple, and gave the three Invitations to Kavatua's fighting tournament.
• Chen Chuan concluded that entering Small Awakening Temple to find Gao Xinwen would be unwise and resolved to accelerate his cultivation.
• Gao Xinwen spotted a Celestial Mystery Sect Airship approaching Small Awakening Temple as he left the hall where he had been practicing.
• True Person Gao Xu and two other Profound Scholars met with Guang Di and Guang Yin, then departed after Guang Di agreed to repay an old obligation while allowing Gao Xinwen to stay.
• Gao Xinwen grew tired of his practice, accepted his assistant's suggestion to leave the temple, and chose to go to North Lailus.

Gao Xinwen left Small Awakening Temple for the Gao family’s fortified estate on North Lailus, while Chen Chuan learned of his departure and asked the Great Priest to divine his location. The chapter ended with the Priest Group preparing to search for Gao Xinwen.

• Gao Xinwen left Eight Emptiness Temple, called Gao Xinjian, and arranged to travel abroad to North Lailus with Xiang Boqing as his guard.
• Gao Xinwen and his entourage reached the Gao family’s heavily defended private estate, where he felt safer and asked about Cambor.
• Chen Chuan learned that Gao Xinwen had left Small Awakening Temple and traveled out to sea, making his destination difficult to track.
• Chen Chuan asked the Great Priest to divine Gao Xinwen’s location, and she began gathering the Priest Group to determine his general direction.

Chen Chuan learned that Gao Xinwen was headed to a remote island region dominated by the Origin Company, but waited for Akhtava to arrive before leaving Kavatua. Akhtava visited Chen Chuan to thank him for helping the First People and offered him a gift.

• The Great Priest divined that Gao Xinwen had traveled northwest with a demigod and marked his likely destination and an island’s outline on a map.
• Chen Chuan discovered that the destination was among more than a hundred islands largely owned by the Origin Company, and planned to search them after arranging his departure from Kavatua.
• Chen Chuan informed the Visiting Delegation that he would travel beyond Federation territory for a private matter, and Head Xie acknowledged his plans.
• Akhtava arrived in Kavatua and received a grand welcome after becoming a powerful fighter and ally of the First People.
• Akhtava visited Chen Chuan, thanked him for supporting Kavatua, and offered him a gift.

Chen Chuan accepted Akhtava’s ancient Xuan Sect Golden Talisman Book and heard his plan to use Origin Company Puppets to reopen Kavatua’s seven sacred gates and develop the Sacred Land. Chen Chuan supported the proposal in principle and prepared to set out, while wondering whether the gates were connected to the Primitive Sect’s seven desires.

• Akhtava gave Chen Chuan an ancient Golden Talisman Book that could strengthen cultivation and resist mutation.
• Chen Chuan accepted the gift and offered Akhtava help in the future.
• Akhtava explained that Kavatua planned to use Origin Company Puppet guards to hold the seven sacred gates and access the Sacred Land’s resources.
• Akhtava told Chen Chuan that Kavatua’s Great Priest was willing to share benefits with allies in exchange for support.
• Chen Chuan said he personally supported Akhtava’s plan and promised to discuss it with the Visiting Delegation.
• After Akhtava left, Chen Chuan considered a possible connection between the seven gates and the Primitive Sect’s seven desires, then prepared to set out.

Chen Chuan set out with Zhao Ming to find an island marked by the Great Priest, while Gao Xinwen learned that an old researcher might have taken a key needed by the Tunnel Research Institute. Chen Chuan found an island matching the Great Priest’s description and his memories, but a massive Domain Field covered it.

• Chen Chuan donned the External Implant Body, took the Snow Monarch Blade, and flew from Kavatua with Zhao Ming.
• The Great Priest told Akhtava that the Priest Council had accepted him as a member, then summoned him to meet Deputy Head Lu.
• Gao Xinwen visited the Tunnel Research Institute, where its director said its explorations needed a key that a former researcher might have taken.
• Gao Xinwen recognized the former researcher in the documents and left the institute after saying he would investigate.
• Chen Chuan crossed the sea using the External Implant Body’s guidance and reached the stormy search area marked by the Great Priest.
• Chen Chuan spotted an island matching the description and locations from the Memory Potion, but detected a massive Domain Field covering it.

Chen Chuan approached the Gao family’s fortified island estate and waited for its leaders to face him. Gao Xinwen ordered Xiang Boqing and Cambor to kill the intruder, but when no one appeared within Chen Chuan’s allotted minute, he struck the island with a beam of light.

• Chen Chuan identified the island’s castles and buildings as disguises for military fortifications and confirmed that warships were stationed in its harbors.
• The island’s defenses detected Chen Chuan, and Gao Xinwen woke from a nightmare before learning that the island was under a level-one alert.
• Gao Xinwen told Xiang Boqing to handle Chen Chuan and ordered Cambor to join him, authorizing use of the island’s active consciousness entity.
• Cambor fused with the combat-focused active consciousness entity, while the island’s guns and Combat Airships opened fire on Chen Chuan.
• Chen Chuan stopped the shell fragments with his domain field, waited one minute for someone to confront him, then fired a beam of light at the island.

Chen Chuan faced Xiang Boqing as Cambor launched a calculated surprise attack, but Chen Chuan used a precisely timed retreat, advance, and strike to cut Cambor in half. Xiang Boqing charged at Chen Chuan to save his ally, leaving the fight underway.

• Chen Chuan recognized Xiang Boqing as the Profound Cave Observation Fighter he had fought before and prepared to face him.
• Cambor used the clash between Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing to launch a surprise attack from the edge of Chen Chuan's Domain Field.
• Chen Chuan dodged Cambor's strike with a step back, then advanced and drew the Snow Monarch Blade.
• Chen Chuan slashed Cambor in half, using analysis from Red Dust and the External Implant Body to counter his opponent's movements.
• Xiang Boqing drew his bayonet and charged Chen Chuan to prevent Cambor from being lost.

Chen Chuan stopped Cambor from recovering by destroying the Mutated Tissue sustaining his consciousness, killing him despite Xiang Boqing’s interference. Xiang Boqing then charged Chen Chuan, and the two met in a head-on clash.

• Xiang Boqing pressured Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan kept him at bay with successive Spiritual Impacts while Cambor’s two halves tried to recover.
• Chen Chuan sent a conical object through Cambor’s Mutated Tissue, and the Red-Clothed Woman followed with a slash that destroyed the tissue and scattered Cambor’s consciousness.
• Cambor’s halves failed to fuse and exploded, while Gao Xinwen learned from the World Token that Cambor had no remaining life signs and could not be restored to his former strength.
• Xiang Boqing removed his Protective Eyewear and charged Chen Chuan with his gun spike.
• Chen Chuan charged to meet Xiang Boqing’s head-on attack with the Snow Monarch Blade.

Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing fought an escalating aerial duel, testing each other’s strength, speed, and technique. Xiang Boqing recognized that Chen Chuan was adapting and gathering combat data, and prepared to raise the intensity further.

• Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing locked their weapons together and sustained a prolonged contest of Spiritual Power and force without either gaining ground.
• Xiang Boqing broke the stalemate by shifting the weapons’ balance, but Chen Chuan used the opening to unleash a powerful downward slash that drove Xiang Boqing toward the ground.
• Xiang Boqing retreated and accelerated upward to test Chen Chuan’s speed, but Chen Chuan activated the Furnace Breathing Method, caught up, and pressed him with a rapid series of attacks.
• Xiang Boqing realized Chen Chuan’s speed and fundamentals were strong and that his External Implant Body was collecting combat data, making a prolonged fight increasingly dangerous.
• The fighters smashed through a mountain wall during their high-speed exchange, and Xiang Boqing decided to increase the intensity as a streak of light spun from his body and shot forward.

Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing fought in the air, trading weapon strikes while their flying weapons disrupted each other. As Xiang Boqing used a Lost Object to vanish and attack from unexpected angles, Chen Chuan sensed a rift and disappeared, reappearing above him with a descending strike.

• Xiang Boqing used his flying blade to disrupt Chen Chuan’s attack, but Chen Chuan countered with his blade and Conical Object.
• Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing exchanged near-simultaneous strikes, then resumed a series of aerial clashes with their weapons and flying objects.
• Xiang Boqing gained a slight advantage with his superior flying blade, while Chen Chuan adapted to his techniques and used the Two Great Styles to maneuver the Conical Object unpredictably.
• Xiang Boqing activated a Level Two Lost Object to vanish and attack Chen Chuan from unexpected angles.
• Chen Chuan sensed a rift on the island, vanished from Xiang Boqing’s thrust, and reappeared above him to slash downward.

Chen Chuan used the rifts and the Conical Object to seize the initiative against Xiang Boqing, repeatedly striking the damaged spots on his spear. Xiang Boqing escalated the fight by manifesting a giant figure, and Chen Chuan answered with his own Spirit Manifestation as the two prepared to clash.

• Chen Chuan traveled through rifts to attack Xiang Boqing from unexpected directions and weaken the cracks in his spear.
• Xiang Boqing detected the signs of Chen Chuan's rifts and countered with his flying blade and spear, but Chen Chuan used a simulacrum from Gao Xinjian's black-card Lost Object to mislead him.
• Chen Chuan kept targeting the damaged area of Xiang Boqing's spear, forcing Xiang Boqing to fight more cautiously as the weapon deteriorated.
• Xiang Boqing raised the battle's intensity and summoned a gigantic figure resembling himself above the beach.
• Chen Chuan revealed his Spirit Manifestation, rose to its brow, and pointed the Snow Monarch Blade at Xiang Boqing's giant figure.

Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing fought with their Spirit Manifestations, trading weapon strikes and using their armor, spiritual fire, and tactics to gain an advantage. Xiang Boqing unleashed a surge of power and drove Chen Chuan's Spirit Manifestation backward, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing clad their Spirit Manifestations in spiritual fire and charged into battle with saber and spear.
• Xiang Boqing baited Chen Chuan into a dangerous advance, but Chen Chuan threw his Long Jian to disrupt the attack and followed with saber strikes.
• Chen Chuan and Xiang Boqing clashed at close range, while Chen Chuan used rifts and his External Implant Body to evade attacks and strike Xiang Boqing's Spirit Manifestation from behind.
• Chen Chuan's saber split the helmet of Xiang Boqing's Spirit Manifestation, but Xiang Boqing's flying blade struck Chen Chuan and damaged his armor.
• Xiang Boqing released a powerful surge of spiritual fire, with mutated tissue expanding across his Spirit Manifestation.
• Xiang Boqing's Spirit Manifestation withstood Chen Chuan's saber strike, rammed him backward, and thrust its spear into the Great Might Bright Light Armor.

Chen Chuan used Rifts and his Spirit Manifestation’s Two Great Styles to hold off Xiang Boqing, but Xiang Boqing merged with his Spirit Manifestation and gained a decisive advantage. The chapter ended with Xiang Boqing pursuing the wounded Chen Chuan and thrusting his spear at him.

• Xiang Boqing’s Spirit Manifestation battered Chen Chuan’s Spirit Manifestation, cracking its armor and forcing Chen Chuan to attack Xiang Boqing through Rifts instead.
• Chen Chuan’s Spirit Manifestation unleashed the Great Bright Light Style and Great Azure Void Style, slowing Xiang Boqing’s Spirit Manifestation and keeping it in the fight.
• Purple Qi replenished Chen Chuan’s Spirit Manifestation, allowing it to grow stronger under pressure and frustrate Xiang Boqing’s attempt to win quickly.
• Xiang Boqing shrank his Spirit Manifestation, then merged it around his body to boost his strength, speed, and perception.
• Chen Chuan dispersed his Spirit Manifestation into mist and tried to escape through Rifts, but Xiang Boqing anticipated his movements and shattered his Simulacrum with a spear thrust.
• Xiang Boqing blasted Chen Chuan away, cracked his Implant Body’s arm armor, and pursued him with another spear attack.

Chen Chuan fought Xiang Boqing across the island, repeatedly using a rift to escape his faster opponent’s attacks. Under the pressure, Chen Chuan’s power and combat skills steadily improved until the Purple Qi within him fully awakened, though Xiang Boqing still believed the battle was already decided.

• Chen Chuan used a phantom hand and his Snow Monarch Blade to block Xiang Boqing’s spear, then escaped through a rift as Xiang Boqing tried to intercept him.
• Xiang Boqing repeatedly found Chen Chuan whenever he emerged from the rift and forced him onto the defensive, while Red Dust and the External Implant Body helped Chen Chuan evade danger.
• Chen Chuan’s Mutated Tissue began adapting to the intense battle, and he launched successive Spiritual Impacts that forced Xiang Boqing to dodge.
• Chen Chuan disrupted Xiang Boqing’s Spiritual Fire with his Long Jian and landed a close-range slash, but Xiang Boqing stopped it and kicked him away.
• Chen Chuan continued alternating between fighting Xiang Boqing and retreating through the rift, gradually enduring more exchanges as his power and Purple Qi grew stronger.
• Chen Chuan’s Purple Qi fully awakened, bringing him to the best state he could currently attain, while Xiang Boqing remained confident that Chen Chuan could not match him.

Chen Chuan broke through his limits and overwhelmed Xiang Boqing in a fierce battle, exposing how Xiang Boqing used his field to restore himself from scattered flesh and blood. As Xiang Boqing began reforming again, Chen Chuan unleashed a powerful beam across the island.

• Chen Chuan merged with his Second Self, left his External Implant Body, and caught and shattered Xiang Boqing’s flying blade.
• Chen Chuan outpaced Xiang Boqing, broke his Boundary Fusion Weapon, and repeatedly struck him, severing his arm and blasting him apart.
• Xiang Boqing regenerated into numerous forms that attacked Chen Chuan, while their scattered remains continued to gather and restore him.
• Chen Chuan realized Xiang Boqing was distributing his power through his field and struck every form at once, bursting them apart.
• As Xiang Boqing began reforming from the remaining debris, Chen Chuan and his spiritual form unleashed a beam that engulfed the area.

Chen Chuan defeated Xiang Boqing and learned that his cultivation was close to its peak, then pursued Gao Xinwen after discovering his escape plan. Gao Xinwen reached the research institute and demanded that the sealed rift be opened, but the process would take time.

• Chen Chuan searched the devastated battlefield, found no trace of Xiang Boqing, and assessed that his cultivation would reach its true peak in about a month.
• Gao Xinwen learned that Xiang Boqing was dead and ordered an evacuation, sending imitation stand-ins in several directions while he headed for the rift.
• Chen Chuan killed a Puppet posing as Gao Xinwen aboard an airship, then sensed more stand-ins and destroyed them with mental power.
• Chen Chuan flew toward the rift while Gao Xinwen reached the research institute and demanded its immediate reopening.
• The institute head told Gao Xinwen that the rift had just been sealed and that opening it again would take time.

Gao Xinwen tried to open the rift and escape Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan reached the research institute before he could pass through. Gao Xinwen revealed that Chen Chuan’s parents and Gao Yuling had entered the rift, and Chen Chuan destroyed its remaining seals.

• Gao Xinwen ordered explosives used to breach the sealed passage while his ritual team worked to lift the rift’s seal.
• Chen Chuan broke through the mountain fortress, overcoming its defenses and rituals as he followed tracks into the research institute.
• After the ritual team opened the rift, foreign entities dragged its members inside, and Gao Xinwen decided to enter with the research institute’s director.
• Chen Chuan arrived, and Gao Xinwen sent the guards away before confronting him alone.
• Gao Xinwen claimed Chen Chuan was Gao Yuling’s son and revealed that Chen Chuan’s parents, Gao Yuling, and her security detail had entered the rift.
• Chen Chuan destroyed the ritual fields and sealing walls around the rift with a powerful blast.