Chapter Summaries

Cheng Han concealed his true strength from Palace Master Yun, declined her offer to join the Profound Palace, and argued that civilians were the foundation of humanity. Palace Master Yun then recruited him as a Profound Palace Special Envoy responsible for training Oak Sprites, leaving Cheng Han wary of her intentions.

• Cheng Han used True Secret Power to hide his five Profound Imprints and Mystic Master strength from Palace Master Yun's examination.
• Cheng Han rejected Palace Master Yun's offer to serve in the Profound Palace, saying he preferred to serve the Tai An Profound Pavilion.
• After Cheng Han praised railcars and declared civilians the foundation of humanity, Palace Master Yun noted that Azure Cloud God General shared his belief.
• Palace Master Yun offered to build rail lines in the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm, then asked Cheng Han to take a concurrent Profound Palace post overseeing Oak Sprites.
• Palace Master Yun appointed Cheng Han a Profound Palace Special Envoy, and he accepted her offer.

Palace Master Yun granted Cheng Han unusually generous privileges, including two High-rank Mystic Adept deputies, a personal Mystic Boat, and fifteen Source Profound Crystals annually. Cheng Han then used the Palace Master's backing to ask that implicated servants be spared execution and sent to work on Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm's rail system, and the Affairs Profound Warrior agreed to relay his request.

• Palace Master Yun appointed Meng Yi and Xiang Wenze as Cheng Han's deputies and promised him a personal Mystic Boat, Full Mystic Adept treatment, and an annual stipend of fifteen Source Profound Crystals.
• An Affairs Profound Warrior from Heavenly Fortune Hall delivered Cheng Han's stipend and warned him to reserve some crystals for emergencies.
• An Affairs Profound Warrior from Heaven Enlightenment Hall reported that the Red Armor Army soldiers and servants from the Inheritance Hall had been dealt with and offered Cheng Han a choice of Stone Spirit Profound Imprints.
• Cheng Han asked that those guilty of lesser crimes be sent to Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm for hard labor on its Crystal Energy Railcar system.
• The Affairs Profound Warrior agreed to notify Heavenly Punishment Hall about Cheng Han's request.

Cheng Han received the Profound Method Golden Book and revealed that he had condensed the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint. After he demonstrated its power by summoning a Giant Orchid Bodhi, Palace Master Yun Changtian decided he had found a treasure.

• The Affairs Profound Warrior gave Cheng Han the Profound Method Golden Book and told him Kuang Ning would be sent to the battlefield for penal labor.
• Yun Changtian reported Cheng Han’s Spirit Tide to the Azure Cloud God General, who ordered that Cheng Han receive more resources and that further information about him be reported.
• The Affairs Profound Warrior asked Cheng Han which Wood Spirit Profound Imprint he had condensed, and Cheng Han named the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint.
• Cheng Han called upon the Divine Banyan’s power and caused a Giant Orchid Bodhi to burst from the earth and grow over a hundred meters tall.
• Yun Changtian watched the demonstration through the Mystic Array and praised Cheng Han’s talent, saying he had found a treasure.

Cheng Han used his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint to secure special-envoy status and choose a difficult Profound Imprint, while his reputation deterred the Heavenly Punishment Hall from defying his request. At Fifteen Middle School, Qian Qingqing faced teasing over her marriage to Cheng Han before the Grand Governor arrived and summoned her.

• Cheng Han displayed his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint, gained the position of Profound Palace Special Envoy, and chose the Quake-Solidifying Profound Imprint to study.
• The Heavenly Punishment Hall debated Cheng Han’s request to send lightly guilty participants in the Inheritance Hall Incident to hard labor, then relented after hearing of his power and influence.
• The Heavenly Punishment Hall sentenced most people involved in the incident to ten to thirty years of hard labor in the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm.
• At Fifteen Middle School, Teacher Liu teased Qian Qingqing about being a Mystic Adept’s wife, embarrassing her in front of the class.
• Another teacher announced that the Grand Governor had arrived and asked Qian Qingqing to come along.

Qian Qingqing learned that Cheng Han’s favor with Qing Han Profound Palace had brought a Crystal Energy Railcar project to Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm, and she received a major stake in it. She acquired construction and materials Merchant Guilds, hired hundreds of workers, and became known at school as President Qian.

• Yu Wei and Yan Dongting welcomed Qian Qingqing and explained that Qing Han Profound Palace planned to fund seventy percent of a railcar system for Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm, naming Cheng Han in its decree.
• Yu Wei offered Qian Qingqing a twenty percent stake for a five-thousand-Gold-Coin investment, and Qian Qingqing signed the agreement.
• Qian Qingqing accepted Yu Wei’s offer to arrange an interest-free loan and asked to participate in the construction work; Yu Wei agreed.
• That night, Qian Qingqing acquired a building materials Merchant Guild and a construction Merchant Guild, then recruited more than six hundred employees, prioritizing impoverished families.
• More than a hundred cargo Airships arrived with equipment and engineers, and construction of the railcar system began with Qian Qingqing’s Merchant Guilds securing thirty percent of the project.
• Teachers and students began calling Qian Qingqing President Qian instead of the Mystic Adept’s Wife.

Jie Qing collected components from the Celestial Craft Hall for Envoy Cheng and saw how the Envoy's reputation brought him special treatment. He delivered the crates to the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, where guards inspected them as part of Envoy Cheng's supposedly recreational tinkering.

• Jie Qing admired the Giant Orchid Bodhi tree Envoy Cheng had grown, which had continued to expand and spread its fragrance around the Profound Palace.
• Jie Qing used his new position at Envoy Cheng's Living Quarters to persuade a steward to lend him a Crystal Energy Car.
• Jie Qing collected a wooden crate of components at the Celestial Craft Hall and received preferential treatment from its steward.
• Jie Qing drove to the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, where Red Armor Soldiers inspected the components before letting him proceed.

Cheng Han began developing an internal combustion engine as the first step toward high-speed rail and powered flight, while Palace Master Yun remained baffled by his technical letters. After the Profound Palace detected the Spirit Oak Demons’ mysterious root network, Yun ordered that Cheng Han receive priority supplies.

• Jie Qing’s Crystal Energy Car was stopped by the Spirit Oak Demons, which inspected his crates and let him pass after he explained he was delivering components to Cheng Han.
• Cheng Han discussed faster rail travel with Jie Qing, then revealed that he was developing an internal combustion engine because Gray Crystal Machinery was too bulky for high-speed rail.
• Cheng Han’s test engine ran briefly before stopping, and he wrote to the Master Artisan that the experiment had confirmed his theory about combustion producing force.
• Palace Master Yun struggled to understand Cheng Han’s technical letters but concluded that his experiments had promise.
• A Mystic Adept reported that the Spirit Oak Demons had formed a vast underground root network with mysterious fluctuations linked to the Divine Banyan, and Palace Master Yun ordered Hall Master Pei to prioritize Cheng Han’s requests.

At Celestial Craft Hall, a Grand Artisan and his disciple Liang Ming studied Lord Envoy Cheng’s ideas for Internal Combustion Engines and debated their potential. After reading Cheng’s proposal for Bombers and Carpet Bombing, they decided the plan was worth trying.

• The Grand Artisan read Lord Envoy Cheng’s explanation of energy transformations and defended it when Liang Ming mocked the comparison between an engine and a mystic art.
• The Grand Artisan explained that Brown Oil could make engines cheaper than Gray Crystal Machinery, then gave Liang Ming Cheng’s formulas for thermal-to-kinetic energy conversion to study.
• Liang Ming warned that the Grand Artisan had little to lose by gambling on Cheng’s ideas, and the Grand Artisan recalled Cheng’s words about being a complete loser.
• The Grand Artisan described Cheng’s plan to build metal aircraft powered by Internal Combustion Engines and use Bombers to drop Spirit Flame Profound Weapons in Carpet Bombing attacks.
• Liang Ming was impressed by the proposal and agreed that they should try it alongside Lord Envoy Cheng.

Liang Ming and his apprentices assembled a bomber in the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, where the Spirit Oak Demons corrected rumors about themselves and then helped build the aircraft. Cheng Han used his Level 8 Eye of Omniscience to simulate a vertical-takeoff fighter design and a battle in which one hundred fighters would attack a Terra Titan.

• Liang Ming led his apprentices in assembling a test aircraft while they discussed rumors about the Spirit Oak Demons.
• The Spirit Oak Demons formed messages with their branches, denied having souls or being able to speak or sing, and asked the apprentices to apologize.
• After accepting the apologies, the Spirit Oak Demons helped install the aircraft's wings and tail assembly, astonishing Liang Ming with their dexterity.
• Cheng Han remotely observed the assembly and planned to use three hundred Spirit Oak Demons to build a bomber factory.
• Cheng Han activated War Simulation and tested a vertical-takeoff fighter design using an Agile Profound Method Mystic Array.
• Cheng Han set up a simulation of one hundred fighters attacking a Terra Titan carrying ten Sartre God Warriors, with their attackers using the Nine Elements Battle Skill.

Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to simulate fighter jets defeating a Terra Titan, proving that warriors could overcome Mystic Adepts with new tactics and weapons. After running further simulations and deciding the fighters were worth the cost, he returned to find the Test Machine assembled and the Spirit Oak Demons under his control.

• Cheng Han watched a simulation in which one hundred fighter jets and two hundred soldiers were destroyed, though their Spirit Flame Profound Weapons wounded the Terra Titan and killed or injured its riders.
• Cheng Han changed the fighter tactics using Energy Maneuverability Theory, and the revised formation defeated the Terra Titan after losing half its jets.
• Cheng Han concluded that fighter jets could transform the Myriad Heavens Race’s military strength, though their use would bring greater casualties, and resolved to develop them for the race’s survival.
• Cheng Han simulated Mystic Adepts and large fighter formations fighting Terra Titans, finding that coordinated forces could defeat the beasts with relatively few losses.
• Cheng Han returned to the woods, where Liang Ming reported that the Test Machine was fully assembled as the Spirit Oak Demons saluted Cheng Han.

Cheng Han tested a pedal-powered flying machine, using the flight to gather data for improving his future Bomber. The Palace Master established a Research Institute under Cheng Han, freeing Liang Ming and his master from the Celestial Craft Hall’s obstruction.

• Cheng Han climbed into the Test Machine, and Spirit Oak Demons hurled it into the sky for its first flight.
• Cheng Han pedaled the Test Machine through a stable flight, gathered data with the Eye of Omniscience, and flew it to the edge of Heavenly Ring A before returning.
• Mystic Adepts at Heaven Enlightenment Hall watched the machine and dismissed its combat potential, while Palace Master Yun Changtian wondered whether the Bomber could succeed.
• The Palace Master ordered a Research Institute established under Cheng Han and transferred Liang Ming and his master into it, with funding and supplies handled by the Internal Affairs Hall.
• Liang Ming celebrated his freedom from the Celestial Craft Hall and vowed to drive out the Grand Artisans who had mistreated him and his master.

At a railcar construction site, Qian Qingqing killed an Earth Devouring Worm, while Black Cat traced the anomaly to a worker sabotaging the project. Black Cat then practiced Life Control by transplanting the worker’s kidney into an old woman, succeeded, and received new cultivation information from its master.

• Qian Qingqing visited the railcar construction site with Wan Tengjiao and killed an Earth Devouring Worm with a precise spear throw.
• Black Cat sensed a Heretical God connection and reported it to its master, who used Deduction to reveal that a worker had planted a stone that summoned the anomaly.
• Black Cat found the worker and stole one of his kidneys using Leap of Radiance.
• Black Cat transplanted the kidney into an old woman to practice Life Control, and the surgery succeeded without rejection.
• Black Cat returned to its master's residence and received the next stage of the Life Secret Art and an advanced secret technique deciphered from Madam Snake’s scales.

Cheng Han assigned Sheriff increasingly difficult surgical training while investigating A Mei Li Ya’s possible connection to the earth and reviewing a promising Science Magic Research Institute report. Four days later, the Profound Palace was notified of an experiment in the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, with its outcome still pending.

• Cheng Han assigned Sheriff head transplantation as its next operation and explained that it would later practice the Regeneration Technique.
• Cheng Han connected the Praying Life Society’s Earth Devouring Worm and A Mei Li Ya’s powers to the earth, then wondered why she had chosen the Serpent of Sin and Life as her disguise.
• A servant delivered the Science Magic Research Institute’s report, and Cheng Han ordered the Master Artisan to proceed with the Profound Method Internal Combustion Engine plan.
• Cheng Han urged the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest to finish its work within five days, and four days later the Internal Affairs Hall announced an experiment there.

Cheng Han’s experiment in the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest drew the attention of the Profound Palace’s leaders, while signs of his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint impressed even Lan Jiayao. As the forest’s spiritual energy stirred, Cheng Han asked about Void Insects and reflected on the damage they had caused to the Five Heavenly Rings.

• Affairs Profound Warriors discussed the war’s heavy losses and speculated about Cheng Han’s experiment, which had prompted an official notice.
• Lan Jiayao arrived and revealed that the Palace Lord had been watching the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest and considered a perfect result a valuable asset for the Profound Palace.
• Lan Jiayao used her Ice Profound Method to show the forest, where thousands of Spirit Oak Demon Trees trembled and glowed in unison under Cheng Han’s Profound Imprint.
• Lan Jiayao declared that Cheng Han’s future achievements would be limitless if he survived, and the Profound Warriors agreed that his feat surpassed what many Profound Masters could manage.
• In the forest, rain vanished before reaching the ground and the servants felt surrounded by spiritual energy as Cheng Han asked whether they knew about Void Insects.
• A servant recounted a deadly Void Insect attack at a school, and Cheng Han considered how the insects had damaged the Five Heavenly Rings, including the deformation of the Epsilon Sky Ring.

Cheng Han used the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint to gather the power of thousands of Spirit Oak Demons and channel the Divine Banyan’s vitality, revealing why Saint Banyan Envoys served as its repairmen. As the forest transformed and Heavenly Ring B shook, Lan Jiayao realized Cheng Han was an extraordinary asset to Profound Palace.

• Cheng Han concluded that the World Will’s hostility toward the Divine Banyan caused Void Insects to appear endlessly, though the Three Heretical Gods had likely manipulated them.
• Cheng Han activated the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint and linked thousands of Spirit Oak Demons, sacrificing more than 120 Spirit Value to channel their power.
• Lan Jiayao explained to the Mystic Adepts that Cheng Han was gathering the Spirit Oak Demons’ power and leveraging the Source Energy Abyss, then urged them to study the technique.
• A vast Green Vortex formed above the forest, and lush grass spread across nearly a hundred square kilometers as Cheng Han stirred the Divine Banyan’s vitality.
• Heavenly Ring B shook with repeated thunderous impacts, and Lan Jiayao recognized Cheng Han as the valuable new asset the Palace Lord had described.

Cheng Han used the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint to rebuild the damaged interior beneath the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, astonishing Palace Master Yun Changtian with his ability to reshape the Heavenly Ring. After the reconstruction succeeded, he was summoned to the Palace Master and learned she planned to reward him and appoint him Deputy Hall Master.

• Palace Master Yun Changtian and the Mystic Adepts watched an illusion reveal Cheng Han’s Giant Serpents demolishing and rebuilding the Heavenly Ring’s underground structure.
• Palace Master Yun worried that reporting Cheng Han’s talent to Azure Cloud God General could draw Divine City’s attention and put Cheng Han at risk.
• Cheng Han completed a new Hexagonal Spiral Structure beneath the Spirit Oak Demon Tree Forest, reducing the Heavenly Ring’s deformation and benefiting the Spirit Oak Demons.
• Meng Yi and Xiang Wenze summoned Cheng Han to meet the Palace Master and told him she intended to award him two years of Source Profound Crystal quota.
• Xiang Wenze told Cheng Han that the Palace Master also planned to appoint him Deputy Hall Master of a hall, an unusual promotion for a newly promoted Mystic Adept.

Cheng Han received Spirit Spin Wood as a gift from the Spirit Oak Demons and considered making it into a rifle for Qian Qingqing. Meanwhile, Red Armor Soldiers inspected the transformed interior of Heavenly Ring B, and Cheng Han met with Yun Changtian and Lan Jiayao at Brocade Mountain Palace.

• Thousands of Spirit Oak Demons gave Cheng Han a branch of Spirit Spin Wood, which he took aboard the Mystic Boat and thought could be made into a rifle for Qian Qingqing.
• Dozens of Red Armor Soldiers entered Heavenly Ring B and found its outer cavity had become a sealed, honeycomb-like structure with a narrow entrance shaft.
• The soldiers reached the central cavity and discovered orderly Hexagonal Spiral Structures that they believed would make clearing Void Insects safer and easier.
• Cheng Han arrived at Brocade Mountain Palace and was granted an audience with Yun Changtian, who stood beside Lan Jiayao.
• Cheng Han greeted Yun Changtian and wondered whether the Palace Master had summoned him because of Lan Jiayao.

Palace Master Yun rewarded Cheng Han for improving the Sky Rings and appointed him Deputy Hall Master of the newly established Heaven Banyan Hall. While using a Source Profound Crystal, Cheng Han discovered that the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan drew them from the Source Energy Abyss, then found that consuming one increased his Spirit Value limit only slightly.

• Palace Master Yun gave Cheng Han thirty-five Source Profound Crystals and appointed him Deputy Hall Master of Heaven Banyan Hall under Hall Master Lan Jiayao, tasking them with modifying the Five Heavenly Rings.
• Palace Master Yun set goals for Heaven Banyan Hall to complete the modifications within thirty years and double the area of the Delta and Epsilon Sky Rings within fifty years.
• Lan Jiayao proposed that Cheng Han conduct the next Sky Ring repair two months later, and he agreed.
• Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience while activating a Source Profound Crystal and saw the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan obtain Source Profound Crystals from the Source Energy Abyss.
• Cheng Han absorbed the Source Profound Crystal over four hours and found that his Spirit Value limit had increased by only 2.4 points.

Lan Jiayao secured craftsmen and apprentices for Cheng Han’s Science Magic Research Institute, which used Spirit Oak Demons and internal combustion engines to spray insecticide beneath the Sky Ring. After the test killed at least three thousand Void Insects without casualties, Lan Jiayao recognized the institute’s value and prepared to report the success to the Palace Lord.

• Lan Jiayao investigated Cheng Han’s request for craftsmen and went to Celestial Craft Hall, where she secured thirty-five craftsmen and two hundred and fifty Apprentice Artificers.
• Cheng Han advanced his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint to 62.82% completeness and assigned the Science Magic Research Institute a task.
• Spirit Oak Demons helped assemble a Science Magic Internal Combustion Engine, and Cheng Han assured Liang Ming that the workers would remain rather than be sent to the Little Spirit Realms.
• Heaven Banyan Hall’s craftsmen tested two engines underground for two days and two nights.
• Lan Jiayao learned that the engines had spread Poison Spore Insecticide beneath the Sky Ring, killing at least three thousand Void Insects without any Red Armor Soldier casualties.
• Lan Jiayao ordered her maidservant to check the institute’s needs and prepared a Mystic Boat to report the results to the Palace Lord.

Lan Jiayao explained Envoy Cheng’s Poison Spore Insecticide method to Palace Master Yun Changtian, who approved spreading it throughout the Little Spirit Realms. She then set off to visit Cheng Han at Ring Ripple Mountain, wondering what he needed.

• Lan Jiayao questioned a maid about the Poison Mist Spore and learned that Artisans had gathered green fruit from Spirit Oak Demons and used an engine to pump its gas underground.
• Lan Jiayao deduced that the insect-killing method was connected to Envoy Cheng’s Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint and learned that he had moved to a house atop Ring Ripple Mountain.
• Lan Jiayao told Palace Master Yun Changtian that Poison Mist Spore drained Void Insects’ life force and released toxins, and Yun Changtian approved spreading the method.
• Lan Jiayao decided to visit Envoy Cheng herself and flew by Mystic Boat toward Ring Ripple Mountain in Heaven Ring C.