Chapter Summaries

Ji Feng found seven cold cases involving gifted students who had formed Source Sense Imprints, and the Black Cat connected their disappearances to Yu Wei’s use of the Blood Soul Art. Cheng Han chose to keep the evidence in reserve and ordered a scheme to deepen the conflict between Yu Wei and the God Descent Society, leaving the plot against the Vice Palace Master underway.

• Ji Feng broke into the Qinglin City Patrol Department archives and searched for two hours without being detected.
• Ji Feng found seven unsolved missing-student cases, and the Black Cat saw that each victim had shown exceptional talent and formed a Source Sense Imprint at school.
• The Black Cat reported to Cheng Han that evidence tied Yu Wei and two trusted aides to the students’ disappearances and the Blood Soul Art.
• Cheng Han decided not to expose Yu Wei yet, intending to let her allies make more mistakes.
• Cheng Han ordered the Black Cat to use the Soul-Devouring Snake to kill members of the God Descent Society, frame the Praying Life Society, and make Yu Wei appear connected to it.

Black Cat planted the Soul-Devouring Snake in the God Descent Society’s hidden den by possessing a Strangling Vine, then staged an attack that made the cultists suspect the Praying Life Society. Lincoln escaped and reported the destruction of the stronghold to Divine Official Franklin, who suspected Yu Wei had betrayed them again.

• Black Cat used the rainbow to send the Soul-Devouring Snake into a Strangling Vine at a farm outside Beiting City.
• The possessed vine crawled toward the dormitories and killed six farm workers before Red Armor soldiers arrived and destroyed it.
• Lao Lin and Lao Zhang vanished, and soldiers listed them as missing after searching the farm.
• Lincoln told Divine Official Franklin that the Praying Life Society had destroyed their stronghold and stolen two Blood Soul Art materials.
• Divine Official Franklin agreed the attacker had used the Praying Life Society’s Flying Skull Life Extinction Art, and Lincoln suggested Yu Wei had helped them.

Sheriff manipulated Lincoln into contacting the God Descent Society, killed him, and helped pressure Yu Wei into seeking aid from her father. Meanwhile, Cheng Han completed the Flame Eagle design and prepared to begin building the aircraft, which his vision showed breaking the sound barrier.

• Sheriff revealed that Lincoln had been manipulated, killed him with the Skeleton Snake, and left the real Lao Lin alive elsewhere.
• Sheriff witnessed a God Descent Society Apostle kill one of Yu Wei's trusted Warriors with Soul Worm Art, increasing Yu Wei's fear that Cheng Han would investigate.
• Yu Wei decided to ask her father, Yu Jingwen, to have the Heavenly Fortune Hall distract Cheng Han, and Sheriff reported her move to Cheng Han.
• Cheng Han sent a sealed letter through a servant and finished the Flame Eagle design, bringing his total Proficiency gains for it to 38,000.
• Cheng Han reviewed the Flame Eagle's supersonic test-flight simulation and prepared to begin manufacturing its airframe components.

Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun witnessed the Cloud Roc’s first test flight end in a landing-gear accident, while Cheng Han continued building the Flame Eagle and learned that powerful figures were trying to undermine his projects and positions. After the Cloud Roc’s accident fueled opposition at the Profound Palace, Cheng Han finished the Flame Eagle’s main component and prepared to assemble it for a test flight he would pilot himself.

• Qian Qingqing explained the Cloud Roc’s planned role in rapid passenger and cargo transport to Qian Changyun as they watched its first test flight.
• The Cloud Roc’s landing gear broke on landing, but Red Armor Soldiers used their battle skills to stop the aircraft without further damage.
• Qian Qingqing encouraged Qian Changyun to face his fear and join her on the Cloud Roc’s next test flight.
• Cheng Han accelerated the growth of the Flame Eagle’s main component using his Profound Array and the Spirit Oak Demons.
• Cheng Han received news that the Vice Palace Master and allies wanted to halt the Cloud Roc project, divide the Science Magic Research Institute, and remove him from key posts, but Palace Master Yun temporarily preserved the status quo.
• The Flame Eagle’s main component finished growing, and Cheng Han ordered its assembly within two days and declared that he would pilot its first test flight.

Cheng Han tested the Flame Eagle’s powerful jet engine and successfully flew it faster than sound, then raced past a Mystic Boat at twice the speed of sound. Yu Wei witnessed the historic flight and realized the new war hawk had made her schemes against Cheng Han insignificant.

• Cheng Han tested the Flame Eagle’s airframe with ordinary fuel and High-Efficiency Fuel, finding that the latter increased the engine’s thrust by more than eighty percent.
• Cheng Han ordered the Spirit Oak Demons to finish assembling the Flame Eagle while Yu Wei heard the engine tests and dreamed of Cheng Han being punished.
• Yu Wei saw the Flame Eagle take off and accelerate far beyond the speed of ordinary war hawks.
• Cheng Han flew the Flame Eagle at supersonic speed and used the flight data to improve the Eye of Omniscience’s deductions.
• Cheng Han raced Zhao Qihuan’s Mystic Boat, reached twice the speed of sound, and overtook it.
• Yu Wei watched the Flame Eagle pass the Mystic Boat and realized it had overturned the assumptions behind her efforts to undermine Cheng Han.

After the Flame Eagle outflew a Mystic Boat, its successful test flight transformed the Profound Palace’s view of war hawks and shifted its political balance. Azure Cloud God General showed the footage to God General Yue Shi and called for the Star River Divine Decree to be convened.

• Mingzhu watched Hall Master Cheng’s Flame Eagle overtake a Mystic Boat and hurried to report the breakthrough.
• Palace Master Yun accepted Ling Ye’s account of the test flight, then ordered the Science Magic Research Institute cleared and the detained Artisans and supplies released.
• Ling Ye ordered Mingzhu to detain Yu Wei as the Profound Palace moved against Heavenly Fortune Hall.
• Azure Cloud God General showed God General Yue Shi footage of the Flame Eagle’s flight, forcing him to admit he had underestimated war hawks.
• Azure Cloud God General urged God General Yue Shi to convene the Star River Divine Decree and request Divine Lord Zhang Han’s intervention.

Cheng Han learned that the Heavenly Pacification Hall had arrested Yu Wei and that the Heavenly Fortune Hall’s leaders had been punished, then hinted that he wanted to take over the hall. After the transport aircraft passed its landing-gear test, Zhao Qihuan told him Palace Master Yun would recommend him for Vice Palace Master, leaving Cheng Han stunned.

• Yu Wei was arrested by the Heavenly Pacification Hall after its agents said her father and the Heavenly Fortune Hall were in serious trouble.
• Zhao Qihuan reported that the Heavenly Fortune Hall’s Zhong Ren had been suspended, Yu Jingwen and seven other Mystic Adepts had been exiled, and the hall’s detained artisans and supplies had been recovered.
• Cheng Han learned that Divine City would discuss the Flame Eagle and suggested he could lead the Heavenly Fortune Hall better than Zhong Ren.
• Cheng Han watched the Sky Peng Transport Aircraft land safely with its new landing gear, confirming the design worked.
• Zhao Qihuan told Cheng Han that Palace Master Yun was willing to recommend him to Divine City for the position of Vice Palace Master.

Palace Master Yun recommended Cheng Han for Vice Palace Master, and he planned to use the position to oversee the Heavenly Fortune Hall and launch a Sky Rail system in Qinglin City. The next day, the God Generals gathered to welcome Zhang Han God Monarch, who arrived with the Sea Suppressing Cauldron.

• Qian Qingqing explained that Palace Master Yun wanted to keep Cheng Han from joining Divine City and prevent a hostile new Mystic Supervisor from replacing the current Vice Palace Master.
• Cheng Han said that becoming Vice Palace Master would let him oversee the Heavenly Fortune Hall, then showed Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun a detailed model of Qinglin City with his proposed Sky Rail routes.
• Cheng Han asked Qian Qingqing to take charge of the Sky Rail system, and she agreed.
• The God Generals assembled in the Starry River as Zhang Han God Monarch arrived beside the Sea Suppressing Cauldron.

Azure Cloud God General presented the Flame Eagle and its weapons to Zhang Han God Monarch, who recognized Cheng Han’s talent and declared that the Myriad Heavens Race needed the aircraft. He issued a decree to produce the Flame Eagle without limit and placed Azure Cloud in charge, leaving Yue Shi regretting his earlier opposition.

• Azure Cloud God General showed the God Generals footage of Cheng Han designing and assembling the Flame Eagle’s Magic Jet Engine and war hawk alone.
• Zhang Han God Monarch learned that Cheng Han was an Intermediate Profound Warrior who had entered Qing Han Profound Palace barely more than a year earlier, and called him a rare talent.
• The footage showed the Flame Eagle surpassing a Mystic Boat and launching Flying Fire Meteor Profound Weapons that struck the ground at great speed.
• Zhang Han God Monarch declared that the Myriad Heavens Race needed the Flame Eagle and decreed that the realm spare no effort to produce it.
• Zhang Han God Monarch gave Azure Cloud God General a God Decree Token to oversee the effort, while Yue Shi regretted his earlier judgment and opposition.

At the Star River Divine Decree, Cheng Han’s experiments showed that High-Efficiency Kinetic Essence greatly improved vehicle and Flame Eagle performance, persuading Zhang Han God Monarch to order the conquest of the Abyssal Mist Realm. Azure Cloud God General gained a command role, while Zhang Han struggled to choose a suitable reward for Cheng Han and punished God General Yue Shi.

• Azure Cloud God General presented Cheng Han’s Flying Car production figures and fuel tests, and Zhang Han God Monarch praised Qing Han Profound Palace’s work.
• Cheng Han’s experiments showed that Number Four High-Efficiency Fuel raised the Flame Eagle’s maximum speed to Mach 2.4, making the Abyssal Mist Realm’s resources strategically valuable.
• Zhang Han declared that the Myriad Heavens Race needed the Abyssal Mist Realm and ordered the God Generals to conquer it, promising to seek reinforcements from the Supreme Divine Court.
• Zhang Han appointed Azure Cloud God General as a Divine Executor and left Cheng Han’s reward to Guangyuan God City because Divine Medicine would be lethal to him.
• Zhang Han ordered God General Yue Shi to return to the Myriad Heavens Domain and remain there for ten thousand years over his handling of the Flame Eagle.

The Azure Cloud God General elevated Qing Han Profound Palace and appointed Cheng Han both Guangyuan God Envoy and Vice Palace Master, rewarding his role in the Flame Eagle project. At a family dinner, Cheng Han’s prospective in-laws learned of his promotion as he began preparing to give up his Hall Master positions.

• The Azure Cloud God General announced that Qing Han Profound Palace would become a Higher Profound Palace and a Flame Eagle manufacturing center.
• The Azure Cloud God General issued a God Edict appointing Cheng Han Guangyuan God Envoy and Vice Palace Master of Qing Han Profound Palace.
• Qian Yiqing reflected on Yu Wei’s dismissal and enjoyed the attention he received from Qinglin City officials.
• Zhao Qihuan told Cheng Han’s family that the God City had appointed him Vice Palace Master, stunning Qian Yiqing, Madam Qian, Qingqing, and Qian Changyun.
• Cheng Han explained that he had to resign from his Hall Master positions, though the institutions would remain under his influence.

Lan Jiayao learned that Cheng Han had become Vice Palace Master and Guangyuan God Envoy, then contacted his office through a cross-realm Mystic Array. She discovered that he had received sixteen thousand Source Profound Crystals for his salary and the Flame Eagle, leaving him with extraordinary wealth.

• Lan Jiayao and the Warhawk Legion’s Profound Warriors discussed Cheng Han’s promotion, the restructuring of Qing Han Profound Palace, and his expected compensation.
• Lan Jiayao ordered the communication Mystic Array activated so she could congratulate Cheng Han and report on the Warhawk Legion.
• Lan Jiayao connected with Xie You, Cheng Han’s personal Secretary, and saw a desk piled with Source Profound Crystals.
• Xie You explained that the crystals included Cheng Han’s back pay and a special reward for the Flame Eagle.
• A remotely controlled potted plant revealed that Cheng Han had received sixteen thousand Source Profound Crystals, including fourteen thousand for creating the Flame Eagle.

Cheng Han discussed reforms to Qing Han Profound Palace’s airships and the Warhawk Legion’s success with Lan Jiayao, revealing plans to bring Flame Eagles to the Eastern Li War Zone. After the call, he showed Xie You a flight-control device prepared for the Flame Eagles and examined the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout bestowed on him by Azure Cloud God General.

• Cheng Han spoke with Lan Jiayao about converting the Profound Palace’s airships to Science Magic Power and reducing their gray crystal consumption.
• Lan Jiayao reported that the Early Warning Warhawks had helped the Warhawk Legion kill over three thousand two hundred Flying Serpents in ten days.
• Cheng Han told Lan Jiayao he would return to the Eastern Li War Zone with Flame Eagles so the Warhawk Legion could fight deep in the Outer Sea.
• After the communication ended, Xie You guessed that Cheng Han’s Flight Control Technology was connected to the Flame Eagles, and he confirmed it was a trump card he had prepared for them.
• Cheng Han examined the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout bestowed on him under Azure Cloud God General’s orders.

Cheng Han examined the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout and used the Eye of Omniscience to uncover its origin and connection to the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan. His vision then showed Azure Wood God Monarch entering the Rongyuan Divine Grotto with a powerful Divine Artifact marked “Rong Huang,” whose identity Cheng Han could not determine.

• Cheng Han recalled that the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout had recognized him immediately and could accelerate his cultivation and help him approach condensing a Divine Seal.
• Cheng Han analyzed the sprout and discovered that millions of them grew in the Rongyuan Divine Grotto, where they could rarely yield Divine Banyan Source Seeds.
• Cheng Han remembered that a Divine Lord had sacrificed himself to protect a Divine Banyan Source Seed during the ancient war.
• Azure Wood God Monarch entered the Rongyuan Divine Grotto, and the Divine Banyan attacked him with countless green Light Threads.
• Azure Wood God Monarch raised a gigantic Divine Artifact, causing the Divine Banyan to withdraw its attack.
• Cheng Han glimpsed the words “Rong Huang” on the artifact and wondered whether they named a God Emperor.

Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to watch Azure Wood God Monarch inspect and cull defective sprouts in the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan, but stopped the Deduction when Azure Wood sensed an observer. He then gained a major increase to his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint and learned that fully fusing with his sprout could let him return from death; he planned to begin the fusion in a few days.

• Azure Wood God Monarch used the Banyan Emperor’s Grand Yi Divine Scepter to screen the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprouts and remove hundreds of defective ones.
• The divine artifact detected Cheng Han observing the past, and Azure Wood God Monarch sent a counterattack toward him; Cheng Han cut off the Deduction and escaped harm.
• Azure Wood God Monarch and a colossal Divine Body pondered the identity of the observer, while Cheng Han’s Time-Space Anchor concealed his true power and left them confused.
• Cheng Han completed another analysis of the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout, raising his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint to 44.12% completeness and greatly increasing his proficiency and Spirit Value.
• Cheng Han discovered that Spirit-Object Unification with the sprout would grant him the ability to return from death, and he decided to begin fusing with it in a few days.

Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing walked through a transformed Qinglin City, where Cheng Han secretly used his powers while Arthur investigated a suspected Praying Life Society hideout. After Qian Qingqing revealed a new mental technique, Cheng Han began demonstrating a magic trick that shook an entire street.

• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing discussed Qinglin City's rapid growth and its worsening traffic as they strolled through the streets.
• Cheng Han secretly sent Green Light Particles beneath the sidewalk, then Arthur reported reaching a suspected Praying Life Society hideout in Baoqing City to the Mysterious Person.
• The Mysterious Person sensed a snake's foul stench near the target, leaving Arthur wondering whether the Serpent God was involved.
• A reckless Flying Car driver crashed after becoming distracted by Qian Qingqing, who used Mental Suggestion to make passersby overlook her.
• Qian Qingqing told Cheng Han that she had learned the mental technique after sensing his Black Cat messenger, and Cheng Han invited her to watch a magic trick.
• Cheng Han snapped his fingers, causing violent tremors along a street at least eight hundred meters long.

Cheng Han used vines to widen a street in Qinglin City, startling officials who mistook the feat for the work of a powerful Mystic Master. Yu Xianglong and Liu Yidao visited him afterward, and Yu Xianglong celebrated his new position as Grand Governor while eagerly ingratiating himself with Cheng Han.

• Cheng Han used the Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint and the Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Sprout to move shops aside, widen the street, and protect pedestrians and vehicles with vines.
• Qian Qingqing praised Cheng Han, and the two left as the street's widening caused a commotion and spread rapidly through Qinglin City.
• Leng Tianya investigated the scene, concluded a powerful Mystic Master was responsible, and learned that Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing had recently passed through.
• The Hall of Councillors quickly began paving the widened street, while Yu Xianglong became Grand Governor after Yu Wei's removal and Liu Yidao rose to Director of the Patrol Department.
• Yu Xianglong and Liu Yidao visited Lin Xuebin's home to meet Cheng Han, where Yu Xianglong greeted him respectfully and joked that even a dog could outperform other Little Spirit Realms as Grand Governor.

Cheng Han arranged for Lin Xuebin to establish the Tai An History Society, hoping its scholars would uncover clues about ancient Main Gods and the origins of True Flame Power. Lin named Wu Yun as a promising leader for its Ancient History Branch, while several thousand kilometers away Arthur discovered a likely Praying Life Society mark in a grocery store.

• Cheng Han asked Lin Xuebin to organize the Tai An History Society, with branches for different eras and unrestricted internal research.
• Cheng Han cited the Tedd Court Hymn to support his theory that an ancient Main God ruled before the Three Heretical Gods, and he arranged for Qian Qingqing and Yu Xianglong to provide funding and a venue.
• Yu Xianglong reported Qinglin City's road renovation plans, and Cheng Han approved them.
• Lin Xuebin described Wu Yun's work deciphering Gore Script on an ancient Stone Coffin, and Cheng Han agreed that Wu should lead the Ancient History Branch.
• Arthur disguised himself and entered Ping'an Grocery Store, where he spotted a strange symbol beneath the counter that he suspected was a Praying Life Society identifying mark.

Arthur posed as a customer at a Praying Life Society Bird Nest while Cheng Han secretly placed a Deduction Imprint in his Sea of Spirit. In Tai'an, Cheng Han also condemned Mystic Adept Zong over a woman’s suspicious death, while Arthur left wondering whether the Mysterious Person was a Deity’s incarnation.

• Arthur bought a Number Seven Wrench and a rubber waterproof gasket from a shopkeeper he suspected was a Parasitic Puppet monitoring the Bird Nest.
• Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to place a Transcendental Mark in Arthur’s Sea of Spirit, shocking Arthur without alerting the shopkeeper.
• At Lin Xuebin’s home in Qinglin City, Yu Xianglong told Cheng Han that Zong Chang’s former wife had died after Zong annulled her Marriage Book.
• Cheng Han declared that Mystic Adept Zong was wrong, and Yu Xianglong echoed his stance, signaling that their condemnation would reach Zong.
• After leaving the shop, Arthur discovered the mark was a Deduction Imprint that could locate everyone who had entered the Bird Nest, and wondered if the Mysterious Person was a Deity’s incarnation.

Arthur used the Deduction Imprint to expose a Praying Life Society relay point and retrieve a marked nail that could lead him to other Bird Nests. Meanwhile, Cheng Han punished reckless young drivers and proposed traffic rules, while Arthur prepared to trace the Society’s network and pursue the Blood Skull Grand Bishop.

• Arthur activated the Deduction Imprint and saw the general store’s hidden Parasitic Puppet and its grotesquely altered owner.
• Cheng Han explained that Twisting Force concealed the Deduction Imprint’s power and encouraged Arthur to investigate Heretical God organizations.
• Cheng Han stopped four reckless drivers, frightened them with Twisting Force, and decided to assign them hard labor instead of killing them.
• Arthur watched a sarcoma-covered Praying Life Society Life Priest deliver a secret message to the store owner using a hidden nail as a token.
• Arthur followed the marked nail’s connection and retrieved its phantom image, gaining a way to trace the Bird Nest network.