Chapter Summaries

Lan Jiayao discovered that Envoy Cheng had used hundreds of vine Puppets to build roads and a massive Water Tower at Ring Ripple Mountain overnight, providing nearby villages with running water and free fish. Intrigued by his unusual work, she decided to disguise herself as a commoner and collect fish before meeting him.

• Lan Jiayao saw newly built roads leading through Ring Ripple Mountain to Ripple Lake and wondered whether Envoy Cheng had made them with Stone Spirit Profound Arts.
• Lan Jiayao spotted a vast crowd beneath a newly built Water Tower and landed nearby to investigate before meeting Envoy Cheng.
• The Heaven Guard Hall reported that Envoy Cheng had summoned more than eight hundred vine Puppets to build the roads and Water Tower overnight.
• Lan Jiayao learned that the Water Tower supplied water to nearby villages and caught fish from Ripple Lake for commoners to collect.
• Lan Jiayao set aside her plan to meet Envoy Cheng and told her maid to change into commoner's clothes so they could collect free fish.

Lan Jiayao discovered that Cheng’s simple carvings on the Mountain Climbing Stone Steps contained valuable insights into the Stone Spirit Profound Arts and alerted Heaven Enlightenment Hall. She then found Cheng cutting fish beneath the Water Tower, where she greeted him with an awkward salute.

• Lan Jiayao examined the stone railings and recognized that their patterns embodied Cheng’s insights into the Stone Spirit Profound Arts.
• Lan Jiayao contacted Hang Yishi and urged Heaven Enlightenment Hall to protect the railings, which could help Mystic Adepts understand the art.
• Lan Jiayao explained to her maid that Cheng’s simple, accessible insights could be more useful for comprehension than powerful Inheritance Profound Artifacts.
• At the Water Tower, Lan Jiayao saw Cheng wearing a waterproof suit and cheerfully chopping fish for civilians and a Spirit Mastiff Puppy.
• Cheng noticed Lan Jiayao, and she instinctively saluted him before realizing she had greeted a lower-ranked Mystic Adept.

Cheng Han revealed to Lan Jiayao that he planned to build stone ships for the war in the Abyssal Mist Realm, using specially treated stone that could float and resist underwater creatures. Lan Jiayao and Palace Master Yun Changtian approved the plan, and Cheng Han gained control of Ring Ripple Mountain as he prepared to pursue shipbuilding and expand production of his engines and insecticide.

• Cheng Han told Lan Jiayao he had moved to Ripple Lake to build ships for the water world where the Profound Palace was fighting a war.
• Cheng Han demonstrated that mystically treated stone could float and explained his plan to build thick stone hulls powered by Science Magic Internal Combustion Engines.
• Cheng Han asked Lan Jiayao for more Artisans, and she agreed to help while arranging for the Profound Palace to promote the Poison Spore Insecticide method.
• Lan Jiayao reported the stone ship plan to Palace Master Yun Changtian, who approved it and assigned Ring Ripple Mountain to Heaven Banyan Hall under Cheng Han's authority.

Zhao Qihuan, Li Xu, and Gong ZhengHuan arrived at the Profound Palace, where a Mystic Warrior told them about Cheng Han’s remarkable rise and work at Heaven Banyan Hall. They reached their berth astonished by how far Cheng Han had advanced in just a few months.

• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu brought Gong ZhengHuan to the Profound Palace, where he marveled at its five Heavenly Rings.
• Li Xu reported their arrival and introduced Gong ZhengHuan, and the responding Mystic Warrior welcomed them warmly and mentioned Envoy Cheng.
• The Mystic Warrior revealed that Envoy Cheng was Cheng Han, shocking Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu.
• The Mystic Warrior recounted how Cheng Han’s imprint condensation triggered a Spirit Tide, how he helped repair the Heavenly Rings and create Heaven Banyan Hall, and how he built a huge stone ship at Ripple Lake.
• The Mystic Warrior said Cheng Han’s understanding of the Stone Spirit Profound Arts had helped another Mystic Warrior condense a Stone Spirit Profound Imprint.
• Zhao Qihuan, Li Xu, and Gong ZhengHuan arrived at their designated berth, and Gong ZhengHuan reflected on Cheng Han’s extraordinary rise.

Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu saw firsthand how Envoy Cheng's influence had changed the Profound Palace's treatment of newcomers and toured Heaven Banyan Hall's Spirit Oak Demon Factory. They left understanding how the factory's success and the tour itself helped expand Heaven Banyan Hall's influence.

• Red Armor Soldiers guided Gong ZhengHuan to Heaven Enlightenment Hall to register as a newly advanced Mystic Adept, while Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu noted Envoy Cheng's influence.
• Wen Xueqing showed two hundred and thirty-two Mystic Adepts the Spirit Oak Demon Factory and explained its greenhouse, assembly lines, and named Tree Spirit workers.
• The visitors watched He Bao Dan reject a flawed component despite an Apprentice Artificer's objections, upholding the factory's quality standards.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu saw the Tree Spirits move components overhead and assemble an engine in three minutes, far faster than artificers could.
• After the tour, Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu concluded that Heaven Banyan Hall had used the factory to build influence and suspected the strategy came from Envoy Cheng rather than the Hall Master Profound Master.

Heaven Banyan Hall demonstrated its Tree Spirit Secret Guard and a poison-spore method that killed a large Void Insect swarm, winning praise from the minor spirit realms. The next day, Li Xu and Zhao Qihuan set out to see Envoy Cheng’s famous Aircraft Carrier, now ready to travel beyond the Profound Palace.

• Wen Xueqing used the Tree Spirit Secret Guard to show the gathered Profound Warriors a distant Void Insect swarm through a controllable image.
• Wen Xueqing explained how Heaven Banyan Hall had improved quiet internal combustion engines and developed poison spores to overcome Void Insect resistance.
• The Hunger Poison Spore drove the insects to attack one another and themselves, and the experiment killed more than six hundred and eighty Void Insects.
• Wen Xueqing promised to distribute one set of engines and insecticidal poison spores to every minor spirit realm the day after tomorrow.
• Li Xu and Zhao Qihuan rose early the next day to visit Heaven Ring C and see the Aircraft Carrier, which was ready to leave the Profound Palace.

Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu visited Enlightenment Profound Path, where Zhao Qihuan unexpectedly comprehended a Stone Spirit Profound Method Trait. They then reached Ripple Lake and saw Envoy Cheng’s enormous Aircraft Carrier, leaving Zhao Qihuan convinced that its unusual design had a purpose.

• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu discussed rumors about Hall Master Lan and Envoy Cheng before arriving near Ring Ripple Mountain.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu spotted Red Armor Soldiers flying beneath triangular kites toward Ripple Lake and guessed that Envoy Cheng was behind the display.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu studied the railing carvings on Enlightenment Profound Path until Zhao Qihuan comprehended a Stone Spirit Profound Method Trait.
• Zhao Qihuan told Li Xu that Envoy Cheng was condensing a more powerful Profound Imprint than the Quake-Solidifying Profound Imprint.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu reached Ripple Lake, saw the vast stone Aircraft Carrier, and Zhao Qihuan trusted that Envoy Cheng had a reason for its strange design.

Cheng Han’s Aircraft Carrier withstood a series of giant waves during Heaven Banyan Hall’s test, demonstrating its potential for warfare in the Otherworld. He then invited Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu to watch new War Hawks prepare for trials against the Flying Sword Sharks threatening the front lines.

• Deputy Hall Master Ming used a Giant Water Humanoid to strike the Stone Giant Ship with four enormous waves, but the Aircraft Carrier remained almost undamaged.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu realized the Aircraft Carrier was intended for the ocean-filled Otherworld and could be mass-produced from inexpensive stone.
• Cheng Han invited Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu aboard, where they greeted Hall Master Lan Jiayao and joined him for another experiment.
• Lan Jiayao explained that Flying Sword Sharks repeatedly attacked Heaven Leaf Lotus gathering points and evaded Mystic Boats by diving underwater.
• Cheng Han presented twenty-four improved War Hawks, fitted with medium-sized Science Magic Internal Combustion Engines, for a test that could help counter the Flying Sword Sharks.

Heaven Banyan Hall demonstrated its aircraft carriers and war hawks, showing how their tactics and weapons could defeat a simulated Flying Sword Shark Swarm while conserving Mystic Crystals. Impressed by the test and anticipating great rewards, Cheng Han invited Zhao Qihuan to join Heaven Banyan Hall as it prepared to manufacture aircraft carriers on a large scale.

• Red Armor Soldiers cleared the carrier deck, and Lan Jiayao explained how aircraft carriers, war hawks, and Mystic Boats would counter Flying Sword Shark Swarms of different sizes.
• The profound array launched twenty-four war hawks, and Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu discussed their ability to save Mystic Crystals compared with Mystic Boats.
• Lan Jiayao ordered a simulated battle using the Wei Profound Array, which created a school of more than three hundred water-based Flying Sword Sharks.
• The war hawks dodged the simulated Water Arrows and destroyed the fish with Spirit Flame and Frost Fiend Profound Weapons.
• Zhao Qihuan and Li Xu concluded that Heaven Banyan Hall and Cheng Han would become extremely wealthy if the aircraft carriers and war hawks impressed the Divine City and Divine Lords.
• Cheng Han invited Zhao Qihuan, who had comprehended a Stone Spirit Profound Arts trait, to work at Heaven Banyan Hall as it prepared for mass production.

Cheng Han recruited Zhao Qihuan into Heaven Banyan Hall as Li Xu observed the hall’s efficient war hawk operations. Half a month later, Lan Jiayao reported that upgraded engines had made the New Model War Hawk fast enough for battlefield deployment, and Heaven Banyan Hall sought resources for mass production.

• Cheng Han offered Zhao Qihuan a post at Heaven Banyan Hall, and Zhao enthusiastically accepted.
• Li Xu watched Heaven Banyan Hall’s warriors use the Nimble Profound Array and Capturing Dragon Stance to land all twenty-four war hawks efficiently.
• At the Xuan Ce Assembly, Lan Jiayao announced that improved engines had boosted the New Model War Hawk’s maximum speed to four hundred and fifty kilometers per hour.
• Yun Changtian celebrated the war hawk’s readiness for battlefield deployment and asked what Heaven Banyan Hall needed.
• Lan Jiayao said Cheng Han recommended an initial production run of one hundred thousand engines, while Zuo Yining warned that Celestial Craft Hall had already lost more than twenty percent of its artisans and needed its remaining workers.

At a Xuan Ce Assembly, Lan Jiayao defended Cheng Han’s production targets by revealing the wider uses of his engines and the scale of his plans for gasoline vehicles. Her case silenced Kou Zhizhong’s faction, leaving Cheng Han’s vision backed by the Palace Master.

• Zuo Yining resisted Lan Jiayao’s demand for more Celestial Craft Hall artisans and urged Heaven Banyan Hall to train its own workforce.
• Yue Wanxing and Kou Zhizhong challenged the plan to produce ten million engines, arguing that the number of War Hawks needed was unrealistic.
• Lan Jiayao explained that Cheng Han’s engines could power machinery beyond War Hawks, including Crystal Energy Cars converted to gasoline engines.
• Palace Master Yun Changtian endorsed Cheng Han’s goal of making gasoline vehicles widespread, while Hang Yishi supported the ten-million-unit target.
• Lan Jiayao estimated that Qing Han Profound Palace would need thirty million gasoline engines for its population, and Kou Zhizhong’s faction fell silent.

Palace Master Yun forced Celestial Craft Hall to help Heaven Banyan Hall produce one hundred thousand internal combustion engines and won Zuo Yining over with the promise of greater credit. She also ordered a fleet built and promoted Envoy Cheng, leaving the Profound Palace preparing to take the War Hawks to the Otherworld.

• Palace Master Yun pressured Kou Zhizhong and Zuo Yining by revealing that she had sent one hundred War Hawks to Divine City and that Azure Cloud God General would judge their cooperation.
• Lan Jiayao said producing one hundred thousand engines would take nearly seven months without extra help, so Kou Zhizhong proposed that Celestial Craft Hall share the work instead of providing staff.
• Palace Master Yun and Lan Jiayao hinted that Celestial Craft Hall would gain credit by supporting Heaven Banyan Hall, prompting Zuo Yining to pledge full assistance.
• Palace Master Yun ordered the Profound Palace to build two hundred Aircraft Carriers carrying sixty thousand War Hawks, with Heaven Banyan Hall coordinating production.
• Palace Master Yun promoted Envoy Cheng to Senior Envoy and directed Heaven Enlightenment Hall to help him study the Stone Spirit Profound Arts.

Cheng Han unveiled a low-cost motorcycle, which he named the Flying Car, and demonstrated the Spirit Oak Demons’ growing abilities. Hall Master Guan then delivered the Palace Lord’s order promoting Cheng Han to Senior Envoy and granting him a place in the Xuan Ce Assembly.

• Cheng Han revealed a lightweight motorcycle designed for affordable travel and named it the Flying Car after Braised Ribs suggested the name.
• Braised Ribs celebrated wildly, then used its beginner-level Rejuvenation Tree Imprint to restore its scattered leaves.
• Hall Master Guan arrived at the workshop and greeted Cheng Han with unusual respect.
• Guan Kui announced that the Palace Lord had promoted Cheng Han to Profound Palace Senior Envoy for his great service to the Qing Han Profound Palace.
• Guan Kui declared that Cheng Han could attend the Xuan Ce Assembly and participate in major decisions, equivalent to an official Hall Master.

Guan Kui delivered Cheng Han’s Senior Envoy stipend of seventy Source Profound Crystals, and Cheng Han rewarded the Science Magic Research Institute’s workers and spirit oak demons. The tree spirits then acclaimed Cheng Han as their Tree Spirit Chief, while Hang Yishi waited for their ceremony to end before entering the factory.

• Guan Kui told Cheng Han that his annual stipend was seventy Source Profound Crystals and presented him with the remaining fifty-five crystals he was owed.
• Cheng Han gave the Science Magic Research Institute employees triple pay, promised half-price Flying Cars, and offered to teach the spirit oak demons the Tree Seal Mystic Art.
• More than two thousand spirit oak demons released Green Light Particles that gathered into a Light Cloud as they chanted, “Tree Spirit Chief.”
• Hang Yishi and his Affairs Profound Warriors recognized the tree spirits’ ceremony and waited until it ended before entering the factory.

Cheng Han gained the Tree Chief Imprint after the Spirit Oak Demons pledged their loyalty, and Hang Yishi delivered the Palace Lord’s offer of unlimited access to Stone Spirit inheritance artifacts. Cheng Han inferred that the Palace Lord hoped to prepare him for the war front, and he welcomed the chance to visit other worlds.

• The Spirit Oak Demons condensed the Tree Chief Imprint and enclosed Cheng Han while he accepted it.
• Cheng Han learned that the imprint increased his Spirit Value and let him sense the Spirit Oak Demons, who bowed to recognize him as their chief.
• Hang Yishi arrived with four Affairs Profound Warriors and explained that the Tree Spirits were completing their ritual to honor Cheng Han.
• Hang Yishi told Cheng Han that the Palace Lord had granted him unlimited access to Stone Spirit inheritance artifacts and comprehension records until he formed a Stone Spirit Profound Imprint.
• Cheng Han guessed that the Palace Lord was preparing him to command carrier battle groups at the war front, and he said he wanted to see other worlds even if the mission involved danger.

Fang Han watched Envoy Cheng lead a Flying Car parade through Heaven Ring C and was shocked to discover that his former classmate had risen to a prominent position in the Profound Palace. At Brocade Mountain Palace, Palace Master Yun Changtian praised Cheng’s planning and ordered most official vehicles in Heavenly Ring A replaced with Flying Cars.

• Fang Han learned that the Science Magic Research Institute’s Flying Car parade would pass through Heaven Ring C, then left work to watch it.
• Fang Han recognized Cheng Han at the head of the parade, and Cheng Han briefly acknowledged him.
• Palace Master Yun Changtian dismissed concerns about Cheng’s casual cultivation habits and praised his role in organizing preparations for the aircraft carriers and War Hawks.
• Palace Master Yun Changtian ordered Flying Cars to replace eighty percent of official vehicles used by the halls of Heavenly Ring A to conserve Gray Crystals.

Fang Han witnessed six War Hawks bring down a Flying Winged Ferocious Evil, but pilot Nie Ze sacrificed himself in the attack. Nie Ze’s death inspired Fang Han to find his way forward.

• Fang Han nearly injured himself at work because he was distracted by Cheng Han’s public display, and Old Zhou pulled him away from the machine.
• Fang Han and Old Zhou watched six War Hawks attack a Flying Winged Ferocious Evil above the factory.
• Nie Ze crashed Owl Five War Hawk into the monster, destroying them both in a fiery explosion.
• Fang Han rushed through the wreckage and found Nie Ze alive long enough to learn that the Ferocious Evil had been killed, then watched him die.
• Fang Han recited the War Hawk pilots’ creed over Nie Ze and realized that he had found a way to change his circumstances.

After Nie Ze died killing a Flying Winged Ferocious Evil, Cheng Han honored him as a Long Sky Knight and directed Fang Han to seek a place among the Knights. News of the Warhawk’s victory reached the Mystic Adepts, who feared that soldiers and machines would transform the balance of power.

• Patrol Officers and Red Armor Soldiers saluted Nie Ze’s body, while Fang Han insisted that his eyes remain open toward the sky.
• Cheng Han arrived as a Mystic Adept, revealed that he had founded the Warhawk Legion, and declared Nie Ze a true Long Sky Knight.
• Cheng Han transformed Nie Ze’s remains into a stone statue surrounded by Azure Sky Flowers, renamed his unit the Nie Ze Battle Group, and ordered the statue sent to Falcon Hunting Mountain.
• Fang Han asked to become a Long Sky Knight, and Cheng Han told him to go to Falcon Hunting Mountain despite warning him of the dangers.
• Mystic Adepts at Heaven Enlightenment Hall debated the Warhawk’s potential and worried that the changing times would diminish their status.

Azure Cloud God General praised Cheng Han’s warhawk achievement and urged Palace Master Yun to protect him, while Cheng Han sought to elevate the Red Armor Army into a First-Level Red Armor Hall with Lan Jiayao’s support. At the Xuan Ce Assembly, Cheng Han faced opposition from other Hall Masters, and the chapter ended before he claimed command of the army and went to the Otherworld Battlefield.

• Palace Master Yun told Azure Cloud God General that warhawk pilots had killed a Flying Winged Ferocious Evil, and she called Cheng Han a rare talent and instructed Yun to take care of him.
• Cheng Han refused to move the Science Magic Research Institute to Heavenly Ring A and told Lan Jiayao that he wanted the Red Armor Army elevated into a First-Level institution.
• Lan Jiayao agreed to support Cheng Han’s plan, and he indicated that he intended to lead the Red Armor Army himself.
• Cheng Han told Lan Jiayao that he expected to condense a Profound Seal within ten days, while she said preparations for the Otherworld Battlefield were moving quickly.
• Cheng Han attended the Xuan Ce Assembly as a Senior Envoy, where most Hall Masters opposed elevating the Red Armor Army because they feared it would compete for limited resources.

At the Xuan Ce Assembly, Cheng Han interrupted Kou Zhizhong’s bid to appoint an experienced commander for the Warhawk Legion by condensing a new Stone Spirit Profound Imprint. After becoming a Dual-Seal Mystic Adept, Cheng Han introduced a powerful new Profound Weapon, leaving the meeting focused on his invention.

• Kou Zhizhong proposed appointing an experienced commander for the Warhawk Legion, implicitly challenging Cheng Han’s suitability to lead it.
• Cheng Han used Deduction during the meeting and began condensing a Stone Spirit Profound Imprint, producing Gray Mist that slowed the thoughts of those nearby.
• Cheng Han completed the Lofty Stone Profound Imprint, which Palace Master Yun identified as having the power to break down souls, and became a Dual-Seal Mystic Adept.
• Cheng Han’s new imprint raised his Spirit Value, and he told the assembly that he had developed a powerful Profound Weapon with a Grand Artisan from the Science Magic Research Institute.
• Palace Master Yun asked Cheng Han to explain the new Profound Weapon and its potential to strengthen the Warhawk Legion.