Chapter Summaries

• Key events: Gu Chen’s Taiping Secret Art, Call Wind and Rain, destroys dozens of Omega guard ships, summoning a vast storm and torrents of black rain that tear through their shields and armor. The attack is witnessed worldwide, alarming governments and astonishing the public. The Omegas’ computers cannot identify Gu Chen’s abilities, so their commanders order a long-range assault with twenty Large Particle Pulse Railgun streams. Gu Chen blocks the barrage with Primordial Spirit Power and extinguishes the shots with summoned Kan Water. The chapter ends as a bell rings at the Shenxiao Sect’s base and the Great Song Incense God Court appears in the Void.
• Character developments: Gu Chen is established as an extraordinarily powerful and composed defender, able to withstand advanced Omega weapons without visible strain. The Omega commanders shift from disbelief to desperate tactical caution, but their weaponry proves ineffective.
• Character interactions: Humans watching the satellite broadcast react with awe, fear, and religious or nationalistic interpretations of Gu Chen’s power. The Omega commanders confer, consult their Optical Computer, and follow its recommendation to keep their distance and concentrate fire. The barrage prompts Gu Chen’s effortless counterattack.
• Significant themes: The chapter contrasts ancient spiritual arts with advanced technology, showing supernatural power overwhelming the Omegas’ weapons and calculations. It also highlights the geopolitical consequences of a single powerful figure: observers fear that Gu Chen could reshape the balance of power and even determine the fate of civilizations.

Key events

• The Shenxiao Sect’s Dao Bell rings nine times, and its Dao-suppressing artifact, the Incense God Court, appears—signs of a major crisis.
• Sect leaders announce that, following an agreement between Patriarch Yuanmiao and Old Immortal Nanhua, the sect will use the Court to join the battle against the Omega invaders.
• More than a thousand disciples, including first-generation disciples Sun Na and Pan Xiaoli, enter the Court through their Incense Tokens and visualization practice. Temples across Central Continent contribute Incense Wish Power, helping the Court rise into space.
• The Court’s departure becomes a public spectacle and sparks widespread online excitement about the Shenxiao Sect joining the Blue Star Defense War.
• In space, Gu Chen—under the identity of Old Immortal Nanhua—has already destroyed nearly sixty Omega Guard Spaceships. With the remaining ships keeping their distance, he spots the approaching Court and prepares to attack a distant Omega Warship.

Character developments and interactions

• Sun Na stays composed and reassures the anxious Pan Xiaoli, trusting the sect’s ancestors to handle the crisis. Pan’s unease gives way to excitement about joining the war.
• The disciples respond to the sect’s order with unity and enthusiasm, proud to defend Blue Star.
• Gu Chen shifts from fighting isolated targets to anticipating a coordinated counterattack once the Incense God Court arrives.
• The sect’s leaders and Old Immortal Nanhua are revealed to be cooperating, linking the Shenxiao Sect with the Immortal Han defenders.

Significant themes

• Collective power: The disciples and distant temples combine their spiritual strength to move the Incense God Court.
• Tradition meeting modern warfare: Daoist artifacts, visualization, and Immortal-era warriors enter a space battle against advanced alien ships.
• Duty and solidarity: The Shenxiao Sect chooses to join the defense rather than remain on the sidelines.
• Hope and momentum: The Court’s arrival signals that the defenders’ counterattack is beginning.

Plot points and events

• Immortal Han’s forces have destroyed nearly 200 of the Omega Fleet’s roughly 500 ships. Gu Chen, disguised as Old Immortal Nanhua, is responsible for devastating attacks that have destroyed about 90 vessels.
• Facing heavy losses and fearing a military tribunal, the Omega commanders decide to withdraw rather than continue their attempt to conquer Blue Star.
• The Guard Ships retreat toward the Main Warships, but Immortal Han’s Warlords, Strategists, and War Soldiers pursue them, supported by battle drums, flags, and formations.
• The Omega Warships fire their full arsenal to cover the retreat. Their barrage stops many pursuers and gives the surviving Guard Ships time to withdraw.
• As the Guard Ships approach the Main Warships, Gu Chen closes to within a thousand li and uses the Taiping Secret Art’s Summon Wind. Azure Xun Wind fills the area, and the Incense God Court appears within range of the Omega fleet.

Character developments

• Gu Chen / Old Immortal Nanhua remains the decisive force in the battle. His immense Primordial Spirit Power and ability to approach the fleet undetected suggest that the Omegas’ attempted escape may not succeed.
• The Omega Fleet’s commanders shift from confidence in their military superiority to fear and self-preservation. They abandon their objective to avoid further losses and punishment.
• Immortal Han’s fighters display determination and discipline, continuing the pursuit despite the enemy’s powerful covering fire.

Character interactions

• Omega commanders confer and agree to retreat, while their crews eagerly follow the order.
• Immortal Han’s forces answer the retreat with a coordinated pursuit, encouraged by their leaders’ calls to raise the flags and beat the drums.
• The Omega Warships intervene with heavy fire to protect their withdrawing Guard Ships, setting up a final confrontation with Gu Chen’s sudden approach.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence overturned: A technologically advanced fleet discovers that its weapons and assumptions are inadequate against Gu Chen’s supernatural power.
• Retreat and responsibility: The commanders weigh military failure against the threat of a tribunal, choosing survival over completing the invasion.
• Unity and resolve: Immortal Han’s battle rituals and coordinated pursuit contrast with the Omegas’ attempt to escape.
• Escalating danger: The chapter ends on a cliffhanger as Gu Chen brings the Incense God Court within striking distance of the fleet.

Plot points and events

• The Shenxiao Sect’s Incense God Court suddenly appears beside the Omega fleet, startling its crews. The Omegas open fire with particle railguns.
• Guided by the sect’s Incense Wish Power, the court forms a vast Golden Thunder Dragon that blocks the incoming shots and retaliates with powerful lightning. Several Guard Ships are destroyed.
• As the Omega ships try to retreat, Gu Chen—now disguised as Old Immortal Nanhua—uses Mountain Moving Ocean Overturning to weigh them down with intangible Gen Mountains, reducing their speed to less than a third.
• The Thunder Dragon attacks a warship at close range, while Gu Chen’s Call Wind and Rain unleashes Black Kan Water and Xun Wind against the fleet’s shields, cracking them.
• Zhuge Kongming draws on the Immortal Han Ancient Cities’ power and raises the Eight Formations Diagram around the Omega ships, completing their encirclement.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Ling Su and the Shenxiao Sect Ancestors direct the Incense God Court’s defense and counterattack, coordinating the disciples’ recitation of the Dao Scripture and use of Incense Wish Power.
• Gu Chen joins the assault in his Old Immortal Nanhua guise, using his Taiping Secret Arts to immobilize and batter the fleeing fleet.
• Zhuge Kongming supports the attack from Hanzhong by enclosing the Omega ships with the Eight Formations Diagram.
• The Omega captains and crews shift from confident attackers to alarmed, frustrated targets as their weapons fail to stop the court and their retreat is repeatedly thwarted.

Significant themes

• Coordinated power: The sect’s disciples, Gu Chen, and Zhuge Kongming combine their distinct abilities into a layered assault.
• The clash of technology and supernatural forces: Advanced warships and shields prove vulnerable to Daoist arts and ancient formations.
• Reversal and encirclement: The Omegas’ planned advance becomes a desperate retreat, then a trap.

Plot points and events

• The Omega fleet is trapped in the starry sky: Gen Mountain has crippled its mobility, and Zhuge Kongming’s Eight Formations Diagram blocks its escape.
• Gu Cheng attacks with Black Kan Water and Azure Xun Wind. The assault breaks the fleet’s kinetic shields and rapidly erodes its armor, prompting the ships’ computers to warn of imminent failure.
• Most Omegas evacuate aboard Emergency Warships. Fleet Admiral Hask refuses to abandon the fight, joined by some commanders and soldiers.
• The trapped ships deploy Super Gravity Field Distortion Explosion Devices. Their warped gravity tears open the formation and disrupts Gu Cheng’s attack, allowing many Emergency Warships to escape.
• The Omega soldiers left behind mount a fiercer counterattack. Gu Cheng notices a group of unusually skilled pilots and moves to confront them.
• Hask charges Gu Cheng and activates a gravity device aboard his craft; the chapter ends as the attack begins.

Character developments

• Hask chooses duty and resistance over escape, accepting what appears to be a doomed stand.
• Gu Cheng remains confident, but the Omega pilots’ skill and the fleet’s gravity technology surprise and interest him.
• The Omega commanders and soldiers divide between those who flee and those who stay to fight.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and survival: Most of the fleet prioritizes escape, while Hask and his followers choose to fight.
• Courage in defeat: The remaining Omegas resist despite overwhelming odds.
• Adaptation and technological power: The gravity devices turn an apparently inescapable trap into an escape route.

Character interactions

• Hask’s subordinates urge him to evacuate, but he refuses.
• Gu Cheng’s attacks force the Omega fleet into desperate choices; its surviving fighters then challenge him directly, culminating in Hask’s charge.

Plot points and events

• Fleet Admiral Hask activates a super Gravity Field Distortion Explosion Device in a last-ditch attempt to kill Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen counters its pull first with the Taiping Secret Art’s Mountain Moving, then overwhelms it with Ocean Overturning, flooding the distortion field with the vast Kan Sea until the device collapses.
• Hask’s confidence turns to disbelief and fury. Gu Chen crushes Hask’s Omega Warship with a colossal hand of Mysterious Light, killing him and destroying the vessel.
• Other Omega officers launch suicidal attacks, but Gu Chen destroys their warships as well. The remaining soldiers either fight on or surrender.
• The Blue Star Defense War ends. Immortal Han Ancient City’s forces begin clearing the battlefield and escorting prisoners and ships back. Gu Chen gathers the damaged Omega vessels with his Mysterious Light and turns toward the city.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen remains composed and dismissive under a powerful attack, revealing the strength and versatility of his techniques. After the fighting, he finally relaxes, though he also claims the surviving alien ships.
• Hask begins excited by the prospect of defeating Gu Chen, then becomes stunned and furious when the weapon fails. His death prompts the other officers to attack in grief and rage.
• The Omega forces shift from determined resistance to despair and surrender as Gu Chen proves impossible to stop.
• Gu Chen’s exchanges with Hask are chiefly conveyed through their opposing reactions: Hask’s confidence contrasts with Gu Chen’s mocking assurance.

Significant themes

• The battle highlights the gap between technological power and overwhelming individual ability: even a weapon from a Level 5 civilization cannot defeat Gu Chen.
• Desperation and loyalty drive the Omega officers’ suicidal charges, but courage cannot overcome the imbalance of power.
• The end of the war brings relief and order, alongside the practical consequences of victory—captured prisoners, wreckage, and salvaged ships.

Key plot points and events

• The Blue Star Defense War ends in victory: the Omega fleet is destroyed or captured, and the remaining alien ships surrender. The surviving Omega soldiers and vessels are escorted to Immortal Han Ancient City.
• The Shenxiao Sect’s Incense God Court returns safely to its Mountain Gate with more than a thousand disciples aboard. Sun Na and Pan Xiaoli are among those returning.
• News of the victory spreads across Blue Star, prompting public celebrations and online debates about the role of Central Continent’s ancient powers.
• Pan Xiaoli’s action-camera footage—showing the battle, a Golden Thunder Dragon, and Old Immortal Nanhua—goes viral.
• Gu Chen, in the guise of Old Immortal Nanhua, brings nearly ten captured Omega warships to the outskirts of Hanzhong Immortal Han Ancient City. Back in his own body, he considers how to use the captured technology and prisoners to advance Blue Star’s civilization. He issues orders through the system, then turns to check it.

Character developments and interactions

• Sun Na is relieved but modest about the disciples’ role, pointing out that the Immortal Han experts and military forces did most of the fighting. She teases Pan Xiaoli’s boastful excitement.
• Pan Xiaoli is thrilled to have recorded the battle and eager to share it online. Her footage gives the public a vivid glimpse of the conflict.
• The Shenxiao disciples return exhilarated and proud, already imagining the recognition they may receive as Blue Star defenders.
• Gu Chen shifts from battlefield victory to practical planning. Rather than simply celebrate, he sees the captured alien ships and soldiers as a possible means of rapidly advancing Blue Star.

Significant themes

• Collective victory and public celebration: The defeat of the Omega fleet becomes a moment of shared relief and pride across Blue Star.
• Tradition and technology: Immortal Han’s ancient powers prove decisive against a technologically advanced civilization, while Gu Chen plans to turn alien technology toward Blue Star’s future.
• The power of media and public narrative: Pan Xiaoli’s viral footage shapes how people experience and discuss the battle.
• Victory brings new responsibilities: Capturing the invaders creates difficult decisions—and the possibility of transforming a crisis into progress.

Plot points and events

• After the defense of Blue Star, Gu Chen has accumulated 4.7 million Origin Points. Having advanced from the Gangsha Realm to Golden Core, then to Land Immortal during the space battle, he chooses to spend several years mastering his new strength before using Refine Falsehood Into Truth again.
• Intelligence from captured Omega soldiers indicates that any counterattack would take years to reach the Solar System. When none arrives after five years, Gu Chen remains cautious but turns to rebuilding and preparation.
• Working with Zhuge Kongming, the book attendants, skilled artisans, and modern scientists, Gu Chen uses the wreckage of ten Omega warships and captured personnel to accelerate Blue Star’s technological development. Short-range interstellar travel—and possibly a lunar colony—seems within reach.
• In the Omega Civilization, the surviving crew members are punished for losing their fleet, but their reports and battle footage reveal a Level 2 civilization and a Blue Star worth exploiting. The footage of supernatural fighters, especially Gu Chen’s immense power, shocks and fascinates the Omega leadership.
• Concluding that they cannot capture Gu Chen alone, Omega’s leaders decide to seek allies. Unaware of their plans, Gu Chen begins considering which new supernatural system to bring into reality.

Character development and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from celebrating his gains to patiently consolidating his power. He is confident about defending the Solar System, yet practical enough to use the delay to prepare.
• Zhuge Kongming, the book attendants, craftspeople, and scientists collaborate across traditional and modern disciplines, turning alien technology into a major leap for Blue Star.
• Omega’s survivors and leadership interact through punishment, testimony, and footage. The survivors’ account transforms Gu Chen from an enemy in a lost battle into a potential source of power the civilization wants to capture.

Significant themes

• Preparation and restraint: Gu Chen avoids rushing into further advancement, while Blue Star uses the respite to strengthen itself.
• Clashing worldviews: Omega’s technological assumptions are upended by supernatural power.
• Power as a coveted resource: Omega sees Gu Chen not merely as a threat but as a means to advance its civilization.
• Escalating conflict: The apparent five-year lull masks a growing danger, as Omega seeks allies for a renewed confrontation.

Plot and events

• Over five years, Immortal Han City became a global center of influence. Foreign countries sought access to it and the Omega warship, fueling worldwide enthusiasm for Central Continent culture.
• Gu Chen accumulated six million Origin Points and greatly strengthened his Golden Core and Primordial Spirit abilities. Captured Omegas revealed that the Star Alliance included civilizations far more advanced than their own, making Gu Chen fear future threats to Blue Star—and the danger of others discovering his reality-altering system.
• Determining that Immortal Han’s cultivation system might not be enough against powerful civilizations, Gu Chen revived his plan to manifest a mythical Great Qin, complete with its unifying institutions and the legendary Hundred Schools of Thought.
• The system priced the project at 5.8 million Origin Points. Gu Chen accepted the cost, and the process began: Blue Star and the Central Continent expanded, while the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, the Great Wall, and hidden realms across the continent awakened.

Character development and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from patiently building Immortal Han to pursuing a more ambitious, strategic plan. His fear of unknown interstellar powers drives him to spend most of his hard-won resources despite the steep price.
• Foreign governments, tourists, and the Central Province Official react to Immortal Han’s rise and the sudden changes to the Central Continent, though Gu Chen acts largely on his own.

Significant themes

• Preparation against existential threats: Gu Chen’s power and plans are shaped by the possibility of civilizations far beyond the Omegas.
• Culture as influence: Immortal Han’s popularity demonstrates how cultural appeal can expand a civilization’s reach.
• Myth made real: The chapter turns Qin-era history and legends into a supernatural project, setting up the Hundred Schools to engage with the wider galaxy.

Plot points and events

• Five years after the Omega invasion, a beam of ancient Divine Radiance erupts from the First Emperor’s Mausoleum, attracting tourists, cultivators, and martial artists.
• People speculate that Emperor Qin—or a powerful contingency from the Qin dynasty—may be awakening, and videos of the radiance spread rapidly online.
• The Central Continent Security Bureau convenes an emergency meeting. Officials fear that Pre-Qin supernatural power could surpass even Immortal Han’s, leaving them unable to resist a Qin restoration.
• At the mausoleum, a cultivator tests the radiance with a refined Magic Artifact. It shatters in less than three breaths, revealing the site’s lethal defenses and discouraging attempts to enter.
• That night, troops secure the area and warn civilians to stay away.

Character developments

• No central individual changes significantly; the chapter focuses on public and institutional reactions.
• The officials’ confidence gives way to fear and helplessness, with some concluding that surrender may be their only option.
• Cultivators’ curiosity is checked by the demonstrated danger.

Significant themes

• History returning: The possibility that legendary rulers and ancient powers may reappear in the present.
• Power and political anxiety: Modern authorities question whether they can withstand a vastly superior ancient force.
• Curiosity versus survival: The prospect of hidden opportunity draws people toward the mausoleum, but its defenses make the cost unmistakable.
• Modernity meeting cultivation: Technology and cultivation have advanced together, yet remain powerless against the mausoleum’s radiance.

Character interactions

• Tourists and online commenters debate whether Emperor Qin could awaken and restore Great Qin.
• Security Bureau officials discuss the threat and reveal sharply differing levels of alarm, but reach no practical plan.
• At the mausoleum, gathered cultivators witness the artifact’s destruction and warn one another away; authorities then impose a military cordon.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen inspects the Mythical Great Qin he has manifested using 5.8 million Origin Points. Its First Emperor Mausoleum contains a hidden Void secret realm, a sleeping Black Dragon, lifelike Terracotta soldiers, twelve enormous Golden Figures, and the First Emperor slowly becoming real inside a jade coffin.
• He also surveys secret realms belonging to the Hundred Schools of Thought, including the Confucian Literary Palace, the Mohist Mechanical Ink City, and the Legalist Hall of Punishment.
• Rather than reveal Great Qin all at once, Gu Chen decides the world needs a plausible discovery route. He settles on the legend of Xu Fu’s voyage east with three thousand boys and girls in search of the Elixir of Immortality.
• Having gained enough Origin Points from public attention around the mausoleum, Gu Chen spends his remaining 500,000 to manifest Xu Fu and the Fangshi lineage in Japan, beginning the planned unveiling of Mythical Great Qin.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen acts as a calculated mastermind: he delays Great Qin’s emergence to maximize public investigation and Origin Points, and sees foreign countries as both audiences and sources of growth.
• He is pleased by the scale and power of the mausoleum and schools, and anticipates the Hundred Schools’ teachings eventually spreading beyond Earth.
• The First Emperor remains asleep but is gradually taking on reality. The Terracotta Army, Black Dragon, and Golden Figures are positioned as his guardians.
• Xu Fu is introduced through competing historical legends: he may have deceived the First Emperor and settled in Japan, though Gu Chen is using that story as the opening for his own manifestation.

Significant themes

• Myth made real: Gu Chen’s system transforms historical and legendary material into tangible, powerful realities.
• Strategic revelation: Carefully staged discoveries can shape public curiosity and generate resources.
• History and legend intertwined: The chapter uses uncertain accounts of Xu Fu to bridge ancient Qin and modern Japan.
• Expansion beyond Earth: Great Qin and the Hundred Schools are framed as future forces in a wider, potentially interstellar world.

Plot and key events

• Gu Chen spends 500,000 Origin Points to create a mysterious realm tied to Xu Fu and the Fangshi Lineage. The realm contains ancient palaces, sealed Fangshi, pale-clad youths, and a massive bronze cauldron bound by powerful restrictions.
• Gu Chen intends the Japanese to discover the relic themselves, gradually revealing a “Mythical Great Qin” story. Having set the manifestation in motion, he withdraws and watches from behind the scenes.
• Near Kumano Kodo in Mie Prefecture, tourists spot a glowing gate in the countryside. Japanese martial artists reach it, cautiously test the entrance, then enter, convinced it is a gift from their ancestors.
• They film the discovery and share it online. News of Japan’s first major supernatural relic spreads rapidly, stirring national excitement.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen acts as a hidden director: satisfied with the realm he has created, he leaves events to unfold without intervening further.
• The Japanese martial artists move from wonder and uncertainty to confidence and eagerness. They discuss the risks, test the gate, agree to explore together, and frame the discovery as a source of national pride.
• Tourists and online users react with astonishment and quickly amplify the news, turning the discovery into a public sensation.

Significant themes

• Manufactured history and hidden influence: Gu Chen engineers a supernatural discovery to shape how events—and a mythic past—unfold.
• National pride and competition: Japan’s relic is celebrated as proof that its own ancient supernatural tradition existed.
• The lure and danger of the unknown: The explorers recognize that supernatural sites may be hazardous, yet excitement and the desire to claim the discovery soon overcome their caution.

Key plot points and events

• Japan discovers a supernatural relic in Kumano Shingu City and loudly announces it to the world, hoping to establish itself as a new center of supernatural power.
• Japanese martial artists, ninjas, Onmyoji, and ordinary citizens rush to the site, while Japanese media and online commenters celebrate the discovery.
• Other countries barely react. Their attention is focused on the far more dramatic awakening of the First Emperor’s Mausoleum in the Central Continent, and they regard Japan’s find as comparatively minor.
• Central Continent netizens mock Japan’s excitement. Japanese users retaliate online but are quickly overwhelmed; proposed real-world challenges also end when Foundation Establishment experts offer to spar.
• Humiliated and ignored, the Japanese public turns its attention back to the relic, hoping exploration will reveal a powerful Japanese tradition and vindicate them.

Character developments

• The Japanese public shifts from triumphal excitement to confusion, jealousy, and anger, then finally to determined anticipation.
• Central Continent netizens are portrayed as confident and dismissive, treating Japan’s discovery as insignificant beside their own supernatural developments.
• No individual character drives the events; the chapter focuses on national groups and online publics.

Significant themes

• National pride and rivalry: Japan expects recognition and status, but instead encounters indifference.
• Relative power and spectacle: The relic’s importance is judged against the extraordinary awakening in the Central Continent.
• Publicity and humiliation: Japan’s boastful announcement backfires, making it a target for mockery.
• Online conflict: National antagonism escalates from sarcastic comments to insults and challenges, though no fight occurs.

Character interactions

• Japanese citizens and practitioners rally around the discovery, while foreign nations respond with brief congratulations or dismissive comparisons.
• Central Continent commenters ridicule Japan’s excitement; Japanese users answer with angry insults, but lose the online exchange.
• When some Japanese users suggest settling the dispute in person, Foundation Establishment experts volunteer for a “friendly” match, prompting the challengers to retreat.

Key plot points and events

• After Japan’s announcement of a newly discovered supernatural secret realm drew little attention, the Japanese Official decided to livestream its exploration to restore Japan’s prestige and showcase its ancient supernatural heritage.
• The broadcast attracted worldwide viewers, especially after the dangerous First Emperor Mausoleum in the Central Continent had made people cautious about entering supernatural sites.
• Gu Chen watched the livestream and knew its secret: he had manifested the realm, which contained Xu Fu and the Fangshi Lineage—an unmistakably Central Continent legacy, not an ancient Japanese one.
• Japanese explorers—warriors, ninjas, and Onmyoji—entered the realm and were attacked by pale children and armored warriors. These guardians were poisoned, undead Yin Corpses created by the Fangshi Lineage’s elixir practices.
• The explorers used their skills and modern weapons to push through. Meanwhile, viewers noticed that the realm’s architecture, clothing, and armor looked distinctly Central Continent in origin, prompting a heated online dispute over whose heritage the site represented.

Character developments

• Gu Chen is amused by Japan’s confidence, since he knows the livestream is likely to expose the realm’s true origins and embarrass the Japanese.
• The Japanese Official responds to feeling overlooked with a publicity-driven plan to livestream the exploration and bolster national influence.
• Japanese explorers demonstrate competence under attack, combining traditional abilities with modern technology.
• Central Continent netizens remain skeptical of Japan’s claims as evidence of the realm’s origins emerges; Japanese netizens respond defensively and angrily.

Significant themes

• National pride and cultural ownership: Japan’s claim to the realm clashes with signs of Central Continent influence.
• Publicity versus truth: The livestream meant to promote Japan may instead reveal an inconvenient history.
• The cost of supernatural ambition: Fangshi practitioners’ pursuit of immortality through toxic substances turned some into dangerous, corrupted undead.
• Modernity confronting the supernatural: The explorers rely on contemporary weapons and technology against ancient threats.

Character interactions

• Japanese officials and explorers engage with the public through the livestream, while online viewers scrutinize what they see.
• Central Continent and Japanese netizens argue over the site’s cultural ownership, with each side interpreting its location and style differently.
• Gu Chen watches from the sidelines, privately anticipating the conflict between Japan’s public claims and the relic’s actual Central Continent origins.

Key plot points and events

• Japan’s exploration team, led by Fujitora Saburo, defeats or captures the palace’s young guardians and poisoned warriors using specialized nets.
• Fujitora announces that the team has secured the relic and enters the palace with expert fighters and Professor Kawasu.
• Kawasu discovers that a Bamboo Slip is written in the Central Continent’s Ancient Seal Script. Its text says that, in the First Emperor’s eleventh year, the Fangshi Wu Wen accompanied Xu Fu east in search of the Elixir of Immortality.
• The revelation spreads online: Japan’s supposed ancient Japanese relic appears tied to Xu Fu and the Central Continent. Central Continent viewers mock Japan’s claim, while Japanese netizens angrily dismiss the translation as a lie.
• As the team explores, human-shaped statues awaken and transform into Pre-Qin Fangshi. One demands to know why the intruders have entered the Fangshi lineage’s secret realm. Since the two sides cannot communicate, fighting breaks out again.

Character developments and interactions

• Fujitora Saburo shifts from relief at the team’s victory to leading a confident, public tour of the palace, then faces an unexpected threat when the statues awaken.
• Professor Kawasu provides the key discovery: he recognizes the script but admits he cannot translate it himself, prompting viewers from the Central Continent to interpret it.
• The awakened Fangshi reveal that the palace is their lineage’s secret realm and treat the Japanese team as trespassers.
• The explorers and Fangshi rapidly become enemies, while online audiences argue over who can claim the relic.

Significant themes

• History and ownership: The Bamboo Slip challenges Japan’s claim to the relic by connecting it to the Central Continent’s past.
• National pride and denial: Japanese viewers reject an interpretation that undermines their claim, while Central Continent viewers use historical precedent to support theirs.
• The unknown and the supernatural: The statues’ transformation raises questions about how the Fangshi survived for thousands of years.
• Public spectacle: The live broadcast turns both the discovery and the ensuing conflict into entertainment for a global audience.

Key plot points and events

• Fangshi Wu Wen and other resurrected Pre-Qin Fangshi attack the Japanese exploration force. Their bodies resemble liquid metal: they shrug off bullets and blades, stretch and reshape themselves, and quickly heal from wounds.
• The team’s ordinary weapons prove ineffective. They switch tactics, using liquid-nitrogen cryo-bombs and ice magic to freeze and capture the Fangshi.
• Watching remotely, Gu Chen explains that the Fangshi gained metallic properties by consuming substances such as jade, Stone Mother, lead, and mercury. Their cultivation is powerful at first but limited by the need to balance those materials—and each Fangshi can be countered by exploiting the weakness of the metal in their body.
• Gu Chen reveals that the captured Fangshi are only the beginning. The ruins also contain Grand Fangshi Xu Fu and an important object connected to the story he plans to set in motion around the First Emperor’s Mausoleum.
• Gu Chen uses his Spiritual Sense to awaken Xu Fu beside a Bronze Elixir Cauldron. Xu Fu opens his eyes, signaling the next development.

Character developments

• Wu Wen displays confidence and brutality, treating the attackers’ weapons with contempt and killing two warriors with a transformed arm.
• Gu Chen remains composed as the expedition struggles, revealing that he deliberately created the Fangshi as part of a larger plan. His attention now turns to the more powerful Xu Fu.
• Xu Fu awakens after a long period of dormancy, setting him up as a major figure in the unfolding events.

Significant themes

• Limits behind apparent power: The Fangshi seem nearly invulnerable, but their abilities have specific material-based weaknesses.
• Cultivation and technology: The spectacle prompts viewers to imagine both supernatural cultivation and technological applications, blurring the line between the two.
• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The expedition believes it is exploring the ruins, while Gu Chen is guiding events toward a broader purpose.
• Escalating danger: Capturing the ordinary Fangshi does not resolve the threat; the ruins contain far greater forces.

Character interactions

• Wu Wen and the Fangshi fight the Japanese explorers, ninjas, and Onmyoji, forcing them to abandon conventional attacks and coordinate around freezing tactics.
• The livestream audience reacts with awe, jokes, and speculation about the Fangshi’s powers.
• Gu Chen observes the expedition from afar, then reaches across the distance to awaken Xu Fu—linking the explorers’ immediate battle to his larger plan.

Plot points and events

• The Japanese team continues exploring the Fangshi ruins, now known to be connected to ancient Central Continent rather than Japan. They find inscribed bamboo slips and gold pages, then focus on the grandest palace, suspecting it belonged to Xu Fu.
• Inside, they discover a glowing formation surrounding a huge bronze cauldron. Because Xu Fu’s expedition sought the Elixir of Immortality, the team and viewers speculate that the cauldron may contain it.
• As the Japanese team moves toward the cauldron, a cold snort releases silvery mist that becomes piercing spikes. The injured explorers’ bodies turn numb and then transform into metal statues.
• Xu Fu emerges, condemns the intruders for coveting the Fangshi lineage’s elixir, and identifies himself. He then commands metal and stone within a vast area, unleashing a Metal Storm that overwhelms the Japanese team.

Character developments and interactions

• The Japanese explorers shift from cautious investigation to eager pursuit of the cauldron, but their confidence collapses when they encounter Xu Fu’s power.
• Xu Fu is revealed as a living, formidable guardian of the palace and the Fangshi lineage’s secrets. He directly confronts the team, treating them as thieves and foreign intruders.
• Global viewers react with excitement and speculation, while Central Continent viewers see the discovery as a possible link to their own history and traditions.

Significant themes

• Historical identity and cultural appropriation: Japan’s claim that the ruins were Japanese relics is overturned when they prove connected to Central Continent.
• Immortality and ambition: The cauldron revives the ancient dream of escaping death, prompting both the explorers and the public to imagine what it contains.
• The danger of greed and trespass: The team’s eagerness to seize the cauldron brings them into direct conflict with its powerful guardian.
• The supernatural awakening: Xu Fu’s return and mastery of metal demonstrate that ancient supernatural forces are real and dangerous.

Plot points and events

• Grand Fangshi Xu Fu overwhelms the Japanese exploration team in the Fangshi Ruins. His control of metals and stone turns soldiers into metal statues, melts them into liquid metal, and shapes that metal into weapons, including a huge Winged Fierce Tiger.
• The Japanese team’s warriors, ninjas, and Onmyoji struggle to defend themselves, while ordinary elite troops are rapidly killed. Their attempt to attack Xu Fu with grenades fails.
• Watching remotely from Coastal City, Gu Chen realizes the Japanese team is too weak to reach the Bronze Cauldron. Since their failure would derail his planned “Script,” he intervenes with his Spiritual Sense.
• Gu Chen takes control of the Onmyoji Abe Natsushi, reads his memories, and discovers that Japanese cultivation methods are flawed imitations of techniques from Central Continent. Abe has neglected his own cultivation to strengthen his summoned creatures.
• Gu Chen repairs Abe’s cultivation by opening his meridians and restoring his Spiritual Energy, then equips him with a range of spells.
• Under Gu Chen’s control, Abe blocks Xu Fu’s attack with ice, freezes the surrounding area, strikes Xu Fu with lightning, and races into the palace containing the Bronze Cauldron. Xu Fu reacts furiously.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Fu displays confidence and immense power, treating the Japanese forces as insignificant. His anger rises when Abe unexpectedly breaks through his defenses and enters the palace.
• Gu Chen shifts from observing events to actively manipulating them. His intervention is pragmatic: he cares about keeping the planned events on track, not rescuing the Japanese team for their own sake.
• Abe Natsushi becomes an unwilling instrument of Gu Chen. His previous weakness stems from a flawed cultivation approach; with Gu Chen’s help, he suddenly shows impressive magical skill.
• The Japanese explorers move from overconfidence to shock as Xu Fu devastates their team, then are bewildered by Abe’s abrupt, unexplained change in behavior.

Significant themes

• The danger of imitation without understanding: Japanese cultivation is portrayed as a superficial copy of Central Continent’s methods, leaving its practitioners weak despite their apparent level.
• Power and control: Xu Fu’s command over matter contrasts with Gu Chen’s remote control over Abe and the course of events.
• Script versus reality: When events diverge from Gu Chen’s plan, he intervenes to force them back toward the intended outcome.
• Sudden reversal: Abe’s transformation from an underpowered Onmyoji into a formidable combatant changes the battle’s direction and sets up a confrontation with Xu Fu.

Key plot points and events

• Grand Fangshi Xu Fu unleashes a powerful Metal Storm against Abe Natsushi, who is secretly being controlled by Gu Chen. Using Gu Chen’s spiritual power and improvised techniques, Abe evades Xu Fu and reaches the palace.
• Abe strikes the Bronze Cauldron with a talisman, activating its inscriptions and opening its lid. Divine light and an overwhelming medicinal fragrance pour out, revealing the Elixir of Immortality hidden inside.
• Xu Fu warns that releasing the elixir will bring terrible consequences, but the revelation triggers a lightning tribulation. A vast sea of golden thunder tears apart the palace and drives Xu Fu back.
• Abe retreats to his team as Gu Chen withdraws his spiritual sense. Abe regains control of his body, bewildered by what he has done, while his teammates mistakenly celebrate him as their savior.
• The elixir appears as a radiant Golden Core. It floats through the lightning, which gradually consumes its fragrance as the tribulation subsides.
• In the First Emperor Mausoleum, the Black Dragon awakens at the elixir’s appearance, claims it as “my Elixir of Immortality,” and opens a spatial rift toward the Fangshi Ruins.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen demonstrates precise, creative control over Abe’s body, using him to expose the cauldron’s secret and trigger the tribulation.
• Abe Natsushi is an unwitting instrument in Gu Chen’s plan. Though he appears brave to his teammates, he is confused and has no explanation for his sudden feats.
• Xu Fu shifts from furious pursuit to alarm when the elixir is revealed, suggesting he understands both its significance and the danger of its release.
• The Japanese team misreads Abe’s actions as a deliberate act of heroism and praises him for protecting them.
• The Black Dragon reveals a personal claim to the elixir and becomes an immediate new threat by heading toward the ruins.

Significant themes

• Power and manipulation: Gu Chen’s control turns Abe into a weapon without Abe’s knowledge.
• Dangerous knowledge and forbidden treasures: Revealing the elixir unleashes a catastrophe rather than an easy path to immortality.
• Appearance versus reality: Abe is celebrated as a hero despite not being in control of his actions.
• Escalating supernatural stakes: The lightning tribulation and the Black Dragon’s awakening connect the discovery to dangers far beyond the Japanese expedition.

Key plot points and events

• As the Elixir of Eternal Life escapes the Secret Realm, Grand Fangshi Xu Fu tries to seize it with a cloud-qi hand.
• A Space Rift opens onto a vast river scene guarded by Qin Terracotta Warriors. A gigantic Black Dragon reaches through the rift, immobilizes the elixir with mysterious power, and declares it belongs to “Us.”
• The dragon’s appearance shocks the Japanese exploration team and viewers worldwide—especially people in the Central Continent, where dragons carry deep mythic and imperial significance.
• Xu Fu recognizes the dragon as His Majesty the First Emperor and kneels. The dragon reproaches him for failing to present the elixir, saying this forced its Original Body to sleep in the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Xu Fu explains that the elixir needed time and a Lightning Tribulation to mature. The dragon takes both Xu Fu and the elixir through the rift.
• The dragon opens another passage to a formation surrounding a colossal palace and Jade Coffin. The elixir enters the coffin, and the rift closes, leaving everyone uncertain about what happened next.

Character developments

• Xu Fu shifts from a confident, overpowering figure to a terrified and submissive servant when confronted by the First Emperor.
• The First Emperor is revealed as a seemingly immense Black Dragon—or at least as someone whose clone takes that form. His remarks imply the true body is even more powerful and has been dormant in the Imperial Mausoleum.

Significant themes

• Myth becoming reality: The living, speaking dragon turns legendary creatures and ancient history into present-day fact.
• Power and hierarchy: Xu Fu’s sudden submission shows the vast gap between him and the First Emperor.
• Immortality and patience: The elixir’s power depends on time and a precisely timed tribulation.
• Imperial legacy: The dragon’s identity connects the First Emperor, the Imperial Mausoleum, and the elixir into a larger mystery.

Character interactions

• The First Emperor confronts Xu Fu over the elixir; Xu Fu explains its delayed maturation and bows in fear.
• The dragon claims the elixir, takes Xu Fu with it, and carries both through the rift toward the Jade Coffin.
• The explorers and online viewers react collectively with disbelief, fear, and speculation about the dragon’s identity.