Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu used his growing popularity to open the way toward Earth's hidden treasure and agreed to preach martial arts at Hangcheng's People's Square. His sermon drew huge crowds and online audiences, inspiring some listeners to cultivate Dark Force and leaving people around the world eager for more.

• Ji Shu realized the key needed widespread popularity to open Earth's dimensional lock, so he arranged to preach at People's Square in Hangcheng.
• Ji Shu's parents announced the yearlong sermons, and the world's powerful and wealthy organized publicity and security as crowds flocked to Hangcheng.
• Ji Shu appeared in midair before the packed square and began preaching, while livestreams carried his sermon to audiences around the world.
• After the morning sermon, some listeners with exceptional comprehension cultivated Dark Force, and one newly skilled attendee became an online celebrity and thanked Ji Shu.
• People across the Ancient Country praised Ji Shu's influence, while foreign viewers complained that he preached only in the Ancient Country Language.

After a year of teaching the Dao in Hangcheng, Ji Shu used the immense positive popularity he had gathered to open the Dimension Lock. He entered the gateway, learned that Earth was a surviving fragment of a vast shattered world hidden in the Sea of Dimensions, and discovered that Earth and the Nine-Dimensional World faced danger if the entity searching for the fragment found it.

• Ji Shu’s year of Dao teachings helped countless listeners comprehend martial arts, and a Taoist inheritor became a grandmaster with extraordinary abilities.
• Foreigners who had listened to Ji Shu on-site returned home showing off their martial arts, while others regretted missing the chance to learn from him.
• Ji Shu gathered enough positive popularity to turn the key and open the Dimension Lock in Hangcheng.
• Ji Shu approached the gateway and found that it led to a world filled with crushing Ethereal Void Qi that threatened his avatar.
• Ji Shu crossed the threshold with two towers protecting him, and a streak of light entered his sea of consciousness and revealed the hidden history of Earth.
• Ji Shu learned that Earth was the core fragment of an ancient shattered world hidden in the Sea of Dimensions, and that a searching entity could threaten both Earth and the Nine-Dimensional World.

Ji Shu learned that his world was only a drop within the Sea of Dimensions and accepted Earth's Will’s mission to find Earth’s scattered fragments. After entering the Sea of Dimensions, his clone landed in an Earth-like Lesser World stripped of its powers and talents, where he began rebuilding his strength.

• Ji Shu realized that even the Nine-Dimensional World was only a tiny part of a far greater Sea of Dimensions, and he accepted Earth's Will’s mission to gather Earth’s fragments.
• Ji Shu prepared his clone with the Talent Tower and other treasures, opened a passage through the Dimension Lock, and entered the Sea of Dimensions.
• A wave carried Ji Shu through dimensional worlds, and he crashed into a mountain forest in an Earth-like Lesser World.
• Ji Shu discovered that the crossing had erased his strength, mana, and talents, though the Talent Tower remained with him.
• Ji Shu concluded that the world might contain an Earth Fragment and used the Talent Tower to restore his talents and begin cultivating the local qi.

Ji Shu left the mountains with Feng Baobao, realizing that her fortune was important to Earth's Will and promising to help her find her family. He fed her a roasted wild boar and planned to learn her Qimen techniques before entering the human world.

• Ji Shu recovered his talents by regulating his breath overnight and traveled through the mountain forest, gathering wild ginseng.
• Ji Shu met Feng Baobao, learned her name and her story of wandering in search of her family, and sensed that her fortune mattered to Earth's Will.
• Ji Shu promised Feng Baobao he would help her find her family, and she agreed to help him in the future.
• Ji Shu decided to study Feng Baobao's techniques and hunted a wild boar with her rather than head into the city unprepared.
• Ji Shu roasted the boar and let Feng Baobao eat most of it, recognizing that the Six Treasury Immortal Thief was likely behind her appetite.

Ji Shu bonded with Feng Baobao while they lived and hunted together in the mountains, learning that she possessed seven of the Eight Wonders and gaining fortune through her companionship. After more than two months, Feng Baobao had grown deeply attached to Ji Shu, and the two returned to their cabin with supplies as villagers speculated about their origins.

• Ji Shu explained Feng Baobao’s passive Six Treasury Immortal Thief and invited her to follow him, earning more fortune that strengthened his connection to Earth’s Will.
• Ji Shu dressed Feng Baobao in a qipao, learned that it was 1992, and concluded she lacked Twin Full Hands while planning to replicate her other seven wonders.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao hunted and ate together, built a cabin on Daniang Mountain, and spent more than two months growing close as Feng Baobao became dependent on him.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao traded herbs for rice, an iron pot, and other supplies, then headed back to their cabin while villagers guessed that they were wealthy young people who had run away together.

Ji Shu settled into life with Feng Baobao in their mountain home, then replicated and perfected her Six Treasury Immortal Thief and qi-refining methods. After strengthening his qi, body, and soul, he prepared to study more techniques from this world.

• Ji Shu reassured Feng Baobao that their mountain house was their home and that he would not leave her, then made furniture while she gathered firewood.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao shared meals, chores, exercise, and hunting, and Ji Shu comforted her when she mourned Gou Wazi and his family.
• Ji Shu studied Feng Baobao’s Six Treasury Immortal Thief and replicated a perfected version that could absorb life qi from living things and transfer vitality to the injured.
• Ji Shu gathered medicinal herbs with Feng Baobao and absorbed life qi from hundreds of ancient trees, building up and compressing a vast reserve of qi.
• Ji Shu analyzed Feng Baobao’s unnamed qi-refining method and replicated it, strengthening his body and expanding and tempering his sea of consciousness.

Ji Shu cultivated with Feng Baobao, improving her strength while their bond grew closer, and perfected a Treasure Refining Technique that could make ordinary objects into evolving weapons. He gave Feng Baobao a refined dagger and ended the chapter choosing not to cultivate that day.

• Ji Shu began cultivating the body-and-soul technique with Feng Baobao, and his exceptional talent let him advance far faster than she did.
• Ji Shu hunted and cooked for Feng Baobao, while her growing closeness to him brought him threads of fortune and helped her become stronger through regular cultivation and good food.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao settled into a domestic routine with poultry and a young Xiqian dog, and Feng Baobao grew more dependent on Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu replicated and improved the Treasure Refining Technique, then used it to enhance household objects with strength, flexibility, and the ability to evolve by devouring materials.
• Ji Shu gave Feng Baobao a refined dagger for protection and told her they would not cultivate that day.

Ji Shu and Feng Baobao mined ore to create powerful Space Rings, and his patience and care helped her express her emotions and smile. He made her a durable black outfit, which she happily wore, as they continued building a life together.

• Ji Shu stopped cultivating to protect the ancient trees near his and Feng Baobao’s home, cooked breakfast, and refined a growing Space Ring.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao mined a mountain vein, feeding the ore into the ring until it expanded and strengthened.
• Feng Baobao praised Ji Shu’s cooking and gradually became more expressive as she felt secure and accepted by him.
• Ji Shu made a second Space Ring for Feng Baobao, taught her to use it, and stocked it with food.
• Ji Shu crafted Feng Baobao a tough black outfit, and she tried it on and asked whether it looked good.

Ji Shu replicated and optimized Spirit Summoning and Dispatch, used it to strengthen Xiqian with a wolf king’s spirit, and later replicated Feng Hou Qi Men and taught it to Feng Baobao. By the following summer, the two continued their life on the mountain with Feng Baobao learning the new technique.

• Ji Shu replicated Tongtian Lu and Spirit Summoning and Dispatch from Feng Baobao, gaining the ability to summon and strengthen spirits.
• Ji Shu gathered fierce-beast spirits and fed them to a wolf king until it grew vastly stronger, then bound its spirit for his use.
• Ji Shu infused the wolf king’s spirit into Xiqian and helped the dog digest it over three days, greatly improving its strength, senses, and lifespan.
• Ji Shu replicated and optimized Feng Hou Qi Men, demonstrating his control over time, space, and the elements, then taught the technique to Feng Baobao.
• Feng Baobao learned the basics of Feng Hou Qi Men within a few days, and Ji Shu and Feng Baobao later wore new short-sleeved clothes in summer.

Over seven years, Ji Shu and Feng Baobao perfected their supernatural arts and built immense cultivation while protecting their mountain home. When Xu San, Xu Si, and their companions came to investigate them, the pair avoided the visitors, who left a letter before departing.

• Ji Shu optimized Feng Baobao’s techniques, including Divine Spirit and Qi Body Source Flow, and accumulated three hundred years of pure cultivation while Feng Baobao grew powerful as well.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao traveled abroad to gather resources and killed violent criminals, including human traffickers, after Feng Baobao recalled failing to stop traffickers in the past.
• Feng Baobao spotted people approaching their home, and Ji Shu overheard them suspecting the pair had killed more than a hundred gang members.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao concealed their auras and flew away rather than confront the group, which included Xu San, Xu Si, and Liao Zhong.
• Xu San’s group waited a day and night, left a letter at the house, and departed; after returning from gathering resources abroad, Ji Shu and Feng Baobao found the letter.

Ji Shu and Feng Baobao defeated a criminal gang in Dian District, while Xu San and his companions investigated them and suspected they possessed the Treasure Refining Technique. After Feng Baobao reaffirmed that she wanted to live with Ji Shu, his accumulated fortune reached a critical point and revealed how he could bring an Earth fragment back.

• Feng Baobao declined Xu San's invitation to Central Capital, and Ji Shu continued teaching her as they studied middle school mathematics.
• Feng Baobao knocked out a group that blamed them for stealing gold, and Ji Shu learned from their leader that the gang trafficked in organs.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao raided and destroyed the gang's hideout, taking its gold, silver, weapons, and money before the Dian District superhuman organization investigated the crime.
• Xu San, Xu Si, Liao Zhong, and their team visited Daniang Mountain, observed Ji Shu and Feng Baobao's robot and livestock, and speculated that the pair were inheritors of the Treasure Refining Technique.
• After receiving another letter from Xu San's group, Feng Baobao told Ji Shu she wanted to stay with him for the rest of her life, and his fortune from her reached a critical point.
• Ji Shu learned that he needed a female protagonist's acknowledgment and the fortune of many ordinary people to conceal and draw an Earth fragment back to Earth's core.

Ji Shu and Feng Baobao raided criminal bases abroad for treasure before settling back into their quiet life on Daniang Mountain. Their peace was interrupted when Xu Xiang arrived and recognized Feng Baobao, who had not aged in fifty years, and Ji Shu said he knew why.

• Ji Shu strengthened Nezha and left it and Xiqian to guard the house before taking Feng Baobao abroad to gather more gold and silver.
• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao destroyed more than a dozen criminal bases in a day, rescued victims, killed thousands of criminals, and took vast quantities of treasure.
• The foreign Aberrant organizations suspected a large gang had carried out the attacks, while Xu San and the others doubted Ji Shu and Feng Baobao could have done it alone.
• Back at home, Feng Baobao asked to go abroad again, but Ji Shu said they had gathered enough and promised to tell her a story instead.
• Xu Xiang arrived at Daniang Mountain with Xu San and Xu Si, recognized Feng Baobao as A Wu, and was astonished that she still looked young after fifty years.
• When Xu Xiang asked how Feng Baobao had not aged, she told him Ji Shu knew, and Ji Shu said he would explain.

Ji Shu reunited Feng Baobao with Xu Xiang and offered his family the chance to learn the Eight Wonders. After Xu Xiang left Xu San behind to train, Ji Shu examined him and demonstrated his telekinesis.

• Ji Shu told Xu Xiang that Feng Baobao had stayed young by cultivating one of the Eight Wonders, and Xu Xiang warned his family to keep it secret.
• Xu Xiang declined to stay and cultivate, but reunited warmly with Feng Baobao and accepted Ji Shu as family.
• The group shared dinner, and Xu Xiang learned that Feng Baobao had spent decades searching for him before finding Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu told Xu Xiang about Feng Baobao's hardships and offered to teach the Eight Wonders to his family, so Xu Xiang left Xu San behind to train.
• Ji Shu examined Xu San's innate telekinesis, copied and optimized it, then lifted a massive boulder into the air.

Ji Shu and Feng Baobao learned that outsiders were investigating them after Liao Zhong warned Xu San that their secluded life on Daniang Mountain might not remain peaceful. Xu San feared their actions in Dian District would draw attention, but Ji Shu planned to stay until Xu San learned two more of the Eight Wonders.

• Ji Shu helped Xu San seal his Innate Ability’s qi, cultivate a Fundamental Law, and turn telekinesis into a technique, after which Xu San began studying the Eight Wonders and called Ji Shu Teacher.
• Xu San settled into life on Daniang Mountain, where he studied the Six Treasury Immortal Thief and helped Ji Shu and Nezha with cooking.
• Liao Zhong warned Xu San that foreign supernatural beings had come to the area and that people suspected Nezha was made by an inheritor of the Treasure Refining Technique.
• After Liao Zhong left, Xu San told Ji Shu and Feng Baobao about the warning, and Feng Baobao revealed that they had caused the Dian District incident.
• Xu San urged Ji Shu and Feng Baobao to leave for the company, but Ji Shu said they would go after Xu San mastered Spirit Summoning and Dispatch and Feng Hou Qi Men.
• Ji Shu asked Xu San to gather talismans for his Tongtian Lu, then cooked fish with Feng Baobao while Xu San went down the mountain.

Miao Lun’s failed attempt to abduct Ji Shu led to a confrontation over the Eight Wonders, while Nezha drove away later intruders and made Ji Shu and Feng Baobao’s abilities widely known. As Xu Si began learning from Xu San, Ji Shu continued gathering fortune, and powerful figures across the outsider world started watching Daniang Mountain.

• Miao Lun used Soul Transfer to knock Xu San down, but Nezha defeated his team and returned him to Xu San for interrogation.
• Miao Lun revealed that the Dian District had sent him to seize Ji Shu, and warned that more outsiders would come; the Nadu Company secured an apology and compensation from the Dian District.
• Xu Si formally bowed to Ji Shu and asked Xu San to teach him the Six Treasury Immortal Thief and the Eight Wonders.
• Xu San resolved to learn Spirit Summoning and Dispatch and Feng Hou Qi Men before taking Ji Shu and Feng Baobao away from Daniang Mountain for safety.
• Ji Shu gained fortune as Nezha openly drove Quanxing members off Daniang Mountain, spreading word of the robot across the outsider world.
• Zhang Zhiwei and Tian Jinzhong discussed Ji Shu, Feng Baobao, and Nezha, and Tian Jinzhong predicted that the pair would face further trouble.

After more than three years of training, Xu San mastered three wondrous arts and was promised that he could leave the mountain with Ji Shu and Feng Baobao. As they delayed their departure until Feng Baobao’s flowers bloomed, Xia Liuqing brought Wang Zhenqiu to see Nezha and persuaded the boy to become his disciple.

• Ji Shu and Feng Baobao resisted attempts to recruit them while Feng Baobao grew wiser and remained devoted to Ji Shu.
• Xu San reached beginner level in Six Treasury Immortal Thief, Spirit Summoning and Dispatch, and Feng Hou Qi Men after more than three years of training.
• Xu San learned that Nezha had also mastered Six Treasury Immortal Thief and secretly mined precious ores to grow stronger.
• Ji Shu agreed that he and Feng Baobao would leave the mountain with Xu San, but Feng Baobao asked to stay until her flowers bloomed.
• Xu San recalled Feng Baobao’s deadly raid on an overseas faction and how she and Ji Shu had used Feng Hou Qi Men to overwhelm their enemies and take their wealth.
• Xia Liuqing brought Wang Zhenqiu to see Nezha and, after the boy asked about learning from Ji Shu, persuaded him to become his own disciple first.

Foreign organizations and Quanxing forces launched a major assault on Daniang Mountain to kill Nezha and capture Ji Shu and Feng Baobao for the Treasure Refining Technique. Nezha tore through the attackers while Xia Liuqing and other opportunists fled, and Wang Ai waited nearby to exploit whichever side lost.

• A mercenary squad infiltrated Daniang Mountain with heavy weapons, but Nezha deflected their barrage and killed them before they could fire effectively.
• Ji Shu stored the mercenaries’ weapons, while Xu San urged him to leave; Ji Shu stayed until the hundred flowers bloomed, as he had promised Feng Baobao.
• Foreign organizations repeatedly sent armed teams after Nezha, who defeated them and left Ji Shu with a mountain of confiscated weapons.
• The foreign forces joined with Quanxing members and Wang Ai’s group, hoping to capture Ji Shu and Feng Baobao or seize the Treasure Refining Technique.
• At dusk, the attackers launched a large assault, but Nezha charged into their ranks and slaughtered them; Xia Liuqing and Gao Ning escaped to nearby villagers’ homes.
• Wang Ai watched from a distance and planned to seize the inheritance from the victors, while the fleeing Adepts gathered in the villagers’ homes.

After Nezha defeated a second assault by foreign metahumans, Gao Ning and the other observers realized that Ji Shu and Feng Baobao’s puppet remained overwhelmingly powerful. Wang Ai failed to rally the Ten Elders against them, while Zhang Zhiwei grew curious about meeting the pair.

• Gao Ning tried to recruit Xia Liuqing and other Quanxing metahumans for a return strike, but they feared Nezha and refused to attack directly.
• Gao Ning persuaded more than a hundred foreign metahumans to assault Nezha at Daniang Mountain, and Nezha killed them all, including witches and angels.
• A metahuman sent to inspect the battlefield saw Nezha’s deadly presence and fled in terror after Nezha noticed him.
• Xia Liuqing left Daniang Mountain, while Gao Ning and Wang Ai departed after recognizing Nezha’s strength; Wang Ai still coveted the puppet for the Wang Family.
• Wang Ai tried to get the Ten Elders to condemn and arrest Ji Shu and Feng Baobao, but Zhang Zhiwei and others rejected the proposal as the pair had acted in self-defense.
• Zhang Zhiwei told Tian Jinzhong that Nezha’s strength made him want to meet Ji Shu and Feng Baobao.

Zhang Zhiwei and Tian Jinzhong discussed the danger Ji Shu and Feng Baobao faced because of Nezha and the secrets they might possess. In spring, Ji Shu and Feng Baobao left their home in Daniang Mountain with Xu San, Xu Si, Xiao Hei, and Nezha, while Ji Shu studied talismans Xu Si had collected.

• Zhang Zhiwei told Tian Jinzhong that Ji Shu and Feng Baobao's hidden abilities could provoke a struggle to capture them, and that Xu Xiang might not be able to protect them.
• Xu San urged Ji Shu and Feng Baobao to leave Daniang Mountain, and Ji Shu agreed to depart in three days; he reassured Feng Baobao that wherever their family went would be home.
• Ji Shu sealed their mountain home with Magic Tools, and the group went down the mountain to meet Xu Si's car.
• The Zhao Family Village chief and villagers saw Ji Shu and Feng Baobao off with local specialties and expressed their reluctance to part.
• Xu Si presented Ji Shu with talismans he had collected, and Ji Shu quickly understood how to improve their effects.

Ji Shu examined and optimized several talismans Xu Si had brought, then encountered Xia He in Yucheng and had Nezha rescue her from thugs. After Xia He’s unusual charm affected the men around her and she bestowed fortune on Ji Shu’s group, Ji Shu invited her to explain her background and potentially join them.

• Ji Shu explained that he could reproduce and improve talismans, and Xu Si became eager to borrow more from others.
• Ji Shu reviewed and optimized the Vajra, Divine Speed, House Protection, Medical, and Six Jia Divine Soldier talismans, noting that his power with the Tongtian Lu had grown considerably.
• At the Splendor Grand Hotel in Yucheng, Ji Shu’s group heard people insulting Xia He and saw her flee from the attention her charm attracted.
• When thugs chased Xia He into an alley, Ji Shu sent Nezha to rescue her, and Nezha defeated the men and brought her back.
• Xia He’s favor and recognition granted Ji Shu’s group a large amount of fortune, and Ji Shu decided to learn about her background and consider keeping her with them.