Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun visited Dou Jiahui and Gazi during the holiday before Lin Beauty asked him to protect a Xia Nation financial delegation traveling through Europe. He agreed to guard them for two or three weeks as they prepared to attend a forum and promote Xia Nation’s currency plan.

• Feng Jun left two guards to report honestly after they took his Body-Tempering Pills, and the authorities later sent them for physical examinations.
• Feng Jun visited Dou Jiahui’s family, gave his daughter a jade gift, and heard Dou Jiahui suggest that his unborn son become Feng Jun’s godson.
• Gazi guessed that Dou Jiahui hoped the child might gain a chance to cultivate, while Feng Jun decided not to force the matter.
• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun to protect a financial exchange delegation during its upcoming European trip, and he agreed to help for two or three weeks.
• Lin Beauty explained that the delegation would attend a global Financial Forum and seek support for Xia Nation’s currency-backed reform, despite the danger of foreign interference.

Feng Jun assembled a team to protect Zhang Caixin and accompany him to the Western Continent, where he learned that Sophia wanted to bring her classmate Avril into cultivation. The chapter ended with Sophia asking Feng Jun to let Avril cultivate.

• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun to protect people attending the Financial Forum, and he agreed to go when the forum date could not be postponed.
• Feng Jun recruited Yu Qingzhu and Tang Wenji to help protect Zhang Caixin, and Zhong Lijing joined after learning they were going abroad.
• Feng Jun brought Tang Wenji and Zhong Lijing to Sophia's Daoist Temple in the Leo Kingdom.
• Sophia explained that crowds had come to collect rainwater because people believed the temple's rain could suppress the plague.
• Sophia asked Feng Jun whether her classmate and Daoist Temple partner Avril could begin cultivating.

Feng Jun considered Sophia’s request to let Avril cultivate and agreed to meet her for a vetting. Sophia brought Avril to him, where Avril eagerly accepted the chance but asked about Shi Jie, prompting Sophia to warn her again to show Feng Jun proper reverence.

• Sophia asked Feng Jun to let Avril cultivate, and explained that their friendship and shared interests made Avril a suitable partner to help manage the Daoist temple.
• After considering the Golden Sunflower’s role and Sophia’s reasoning, Feng Jun agreed to meet Avril and assess her himself.
• Sophia went to fetch Avril, who was excited to hear Feng Jun might allow her to cultivate.
• Avril asked Sophia about Feng Jun’s relationship with Shi Jie, and Sophia told her not to bring it up unless Feng Jun did.
• When Avril said Shi Jie seemed like a good person, Sophia stopped the cart and warned her to show Feng Jun proper reverence.

Feng Jun approved Avril as the second foreigner allowed to cultivate Daoist arts, leaving her in Sophia’s care while he prepared to travel to Fog City. The War Boat reappeared over Western Continent countries, prompting speculation about its origins, and the Financial Forum finally opened.

• Feng Jun and Tang Wenji tested Avril with a display of flight, then Feng Jun approved her cultivation and told her to learn Xia language and study under Sophia.
• Sophia assigned Avril to manage the Daoist Temple until she returned and could teach her the path of cultivation.
• Feng Jun chose to leave immediately for Lu'er Nation with Sophia before continuing to Brui Country.
• The War Boat repeatedly appeared over Western Continent countries, and Teutonia, Lu'er Nation, and Brui Country gathered data confirming it could dive into the sea.
• Mairui Country and Saro Nation exchanged statements calling for the mysterious aircraft technology to be shared, while suspicion over its origins continued.
• Three days later, the Financial Forum opened in Fog City.

Feng Jun and his companions toured the Western Continent when news broke that Xia Nation’s exchange delegation had encountered trouble entering Brui Country. The delegation was subjected to passport scrutiny and forced luggage inspections, while Feng Jun realized he had underestimated the risk.

• Feng Jun, Little Celestial Master, Zhong Lijing, and Sophia toured Rome, where Little Celestial Master spotted news that the exchange delegation had run into trouble.
• Feng Jun admitted he had assumed Brui Country would pose little danger and reflected on how his trip with the women had left the delegation without his close watch.
• Little Celestial Master explained why she wanted Sophia under restrictions and hoped to keep Xia Nation’s cultivation methods from spreading abroad, while Feng Jun told Sophia to wait before becoming his Dao companion.
• Brui Country customs officers questioned whether a delegation member’s diplomatic passport was counterfeit and said they needed instructions from their superiors.
• When the delegation suggested verifying their identities through Xia Nation’s Diplomatic Office, an airport constable rejected the suggestion and ordered inspections of some members’ luggage.

After learning that a Brui Country airport officer had confiscated the Xia delegation’s electronic devices and that two members had been beaten, Feng Jun returned to Xia Nation to verify the reports. He confirmed the mistreatment and learned Brui Country could not yet punish the officer without provoking public backlash, leaving Feng Jun wary of taking the Daoist Order overseas.

• A Brui Country airport officer searched the Xia delegation’s luggage, seized numerous electronic devices, and later lost them while two Xia people were beaten.
• Feng Jun and Zhong Lijing decided to return to Xia Nation to check the reports, and Feng Jun contacted Lin Beauty at Luo Hua.
• Lin Beauty showed Feng Jun photographs and chat records confirming that the officer had deliberately targeted the delegation and that two members had been assaulted.
• Feng Jun learned that Brui Country had privately promised to address the officer’s conduct but could not act immediately because many citizens supported him.
• Feng Jun read hostile comments about Xia Nation and resolved to remain cautious about sending the Daoist Order overseas.

Feng Jun went to Brui Country to investigate the constable who had harassed Xia Nation’s delegation and found that the man’s superior had ordered the incident. He used Divination instead of Soul Search to uncover the truth and left with photos of the superior’s diary, which detailed his ties to Mairui Country.

• Feng Jun rejected a merely proportional response and warned Lin Beauty that Brui Country might not punish the constable as promised.
• Feng Jun delivered electronic equipment to Mist City and anonymously arranged for it to reach the Diplomatic Office.
• Feng Jun watched the constable, learned about his racist behavior, and chose Divination over Soul Search to investigate him.
• Feng Jun discovered that the constable’s superior had paid him five hundred pounds to target Xia Nation’s people.
• Feng Jun divined that the superior had dealings with Mairui Country’s intelligence agencies, photographed his diary, and left before dawn.

Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun to spare the mastermind, and he agreed while hinting that he had another way to deal with the police officer. The officer was attacked after a football match and left brain-dead, while Brui Country’s leaders argued over whether to exploit the incident; Xia Nation then asked whether Feng Jun had similar plans for the delegation’s upcoming tour.

• Lin Beauty told Feng Jun that Xia Nation could force the mastermind to cooperate, and Feng Jun agreed to spare him.
• After his team won a match, the police officer left a pub and was struck unconscious by a black-clad attacker.
• Police discovered hours later that the officer had suffered a severe head injury and was likely brain-dead.
• Brui Country’s prime minister confronted a minister who defended provoking Xia Nation and letting football-fan violence go unmanaged.
• Lin Beauty and her colleagues recognized that football hooliganism made the incident difficult for Brui Country to exploit, and their superiors asked whether Feng Jun had similar plans.

Feng Jun took the three women to Lu'er Nation, where Little Celestial Master stopped a thief from stealing her bag. After the thief and his accomplices plotted revenge, Feng Jun went out to deal with them, leaving the women to prepare hot pot; he returned two hours later in a foul mood.

• Good Scenery met Lin Beauty, who asked her to pass a message to Feng Jun about arrangements for the delegation, but Good Scenery did not reveal where he had gone.
• Feng Jun and the three women went shopping in Bass disguised as a foreign tourist group.
• A thief snatched Little Celestial Master's bag, and she broke his arm before Feng Jun called her away from pursuing him into an alley full of armed accomplices.
• Feng Jun overheard the thief's accomplices agree to take revenge on Little Celestial Master and marked them with his Divine Sense.
• Feng Jun set up camp in a rainy park, then left to deal with the group while Little Celestial Master and Zhong Lijing prepared hot pot.
• Feng Jun returned two hours later with an unpleasant expression.

Feng Jun learned that Mairui people had hired Bass gangs to target Xia Nation’s financial exchange delegation and warned the Diplomatic Office. Despite the warning, the delegation suffered a hotel burglary and then a violent roadside robbery, leaving members injured as the attackers escaped.

• Feng Jun discovered that a Bass gang had accepted payment to watch and rob the arriving Xia Nation exchange delegation, then warned the Diplomatic Office by letter.
• Feng Jun told Zhong Lijing, the Little Celestial Master, and Sophia about the threat, prompting Sophia to question Mairui Country’s conduct.
• The delegation arrived safely and held its preparatory meeting and reception, but thieves impersonating hotel staff burgled three guest rooms.
• During the next day’s exchange, a bus-driver strike forced the delegation’s convoy onto a congested detour.
• Thugs attacked the stopped convoy with iron bars, stole property, and injured delegation members before escaping through Bass.

After the Bass robbery, Feng Jun recovered the stolen equipment and most of the personal belongings while the Xia Nation delegation traveled on to Teuton Country. He arranged for the recovered equipment to be found by Teuton police, whose public announcement embarrassed Lu'er Nation and put pressure on the Bath Police Bureau to recover the remaining property.

• Lu'er Nation negotiated with Xia Nation over the Bass robbery, promising compensation, concessions on the Gold Standard, and help escorting the delegation through the Western Continent.
• Feng Jun secretly captured more than forty looters and over twenty people involved in distributing or buying stolen goods, recovering all the equipment and about eighty percent of the personal belongings.
• Feng Jun disguised himself as a Slavic man and led Teuton police on a chase, abandoning a car containing stolen Xia Nation equipment outside the delegation's hotel.
• Teuton police identified the equipment and returned it to the Xia Nation delegation, then publicized that it had been stolen in Bass.
• Teuton websites and Xia Nation users spread the story, prompting Teuton police to call on the Bath Police Bureau to solve the case and recover the remaining belongings.

Feng Jun agreed to retrieve and replace Mist City's lost items in exchange for having his mission considered complete, while Lin Beauty explained why they would stop relying on him afterward. Before he could set out, Yu Qingzhu arrived to report that Zhang Caixin was close to advancing to Emergence from Dust, and Feng Jun gathered female cultivators to witness her breakthrough.

• Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that he had found Mist City's lost items and agreed to replace them in exchange for completing his mission.
• Lin Beauty explained that Feng Jun's past protection had earned him a chance to step back, and she argued that they should handle more work themselves rather than depend on him.
• Feng Jun planned to travel to Brui Country that night to retrieve the equipment.
• Yu Qingzhu arrived and told Feng Jun that Zhang Caixin's aura was full and unstable, suggesting her breakthrough was imminent.
• Feng Jun summoned Good Scenery, Little Celestial Master, and the other female cultivators to accompany him to witness Zhang Caixin's advancement.

Feng Jun traveled to Mist City with Sophia to replace hidden Xia Nation equipment, where he caught three Mairui Country agents trying to retrieve it. He agreed to transport the captured agents alive to a location chosen by Old Xia.

• After Zhang Caixin passed the most dangerous stage of her breakthrough, Feng Jun left her in the Little Celestial Master and Yu Qingzhu's care and traveled to Western Continent with Sophia.
• Feng Jun and Sophia went to Mist City, where Feng Jun checked the hidden equipment and discovered that it had been rigged with traps to reveal tampering.
• Feng Jun and Sophia met Old Xia and obtained replacement equipment, then waited near the hidden cache for Mairui Country's people to appear.
• When three Mairui Country agents arrived to retrieve the equipment, Feng Jun replaced the goods and captured all three.
• Feng Jun handed the equipment and agents to Old Xia, then agreed to transport the captives alive to any location Old Xia chose.

Feng Jun learned that the Guardians had created two subsidiary Stone Rings that could open a passage between planes and help prevent the Insectoid World from connecting directly to Blue Star Realm. He gave the Guardians five thousand Upper Spirit Stones in exchange, while Zhang Caixin’s Emergence from Dust breakthrough became known across the Daoist Orders and her celebration was set for the Double Ninth Festival.

• Feng Jun took the three unconscious agents and Sophia to Lin Beauty, then returned a week later to Luo Hua with Zhang Caixin, whose cultivation had initially stabilized.
• Zhang Caixin declined Red Sister’s idea of publicly celebrating her breakthrough, but widespread news and social pressure led her to schedule a celebration for the Double Ninth Festival.
• Feng Jun asked the Guardians whether his karmic ties had ended, and they presented him with a dark-cyan Stone Ring and two subsidiary Stone Rings that could form a passage between planes.
• The Guardians explained that a maintained passage could make it difficult for the Insectoid World to connect to Blue Star Realm, protecting it from the threat posed by the insects and their Human Race.
• After the Guardians objected to giving away the subsidiary Stone Rings for free, Feng Jun offered five thousand Upper Spirit Stones toward restoring their strength.

Feng Jun discovered that jade could hold Divine Sense inscriptions in the Blue Star Realm, then completed the fusion of his fifth Stone Ring. The fusion triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, and he prepared to flee as the storm closed in.

• Feng Jun paid the Guardians five thousand Upper Spirit Stones for two subsidiary Stone Rings and received instructions to use up his Yellow Profound Qi, along with a jade slip listing materials to gather.
• The Guardians marked the materials’ appearances and characteristics after Feng Jun admitted he did not know how to use jade slips; they realized jade’s response to Divine Sense depended on the world’s laws.
• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua and confirmed that jade retained Divine Sense marks in the Blue Star Realm, while Zhang Caixin tried the technique after stabilizing her Emergence from Dust cultivation.
• Feng Jun entered the Traveling Residence and spent three days fusing his fifth Stone Ring, then remained unable to move for another two days as its transformation took effect.
• Feng Jun sensed a crisis and saw black clouds gathering; Zhang Caixin recognized the approaching Heavenly Tribulation, while a voice above Good City wondered whether Spiritual Qi Revival had begun.
• Feng Jun’s phones failed under the tribulation’s electromagnetic force, so he put them away and challenged the Heavenly Tribulation to catch him.

Feng Jun fled the Heavenly Tribulation gathering over Luo Hua and raced to his leased land in the Lakemarta Desert, where he prepared to face it. The sky turned completely black as the terrifying power of the tribulation clouds gathered overhead, leaving Feng Jun and the distant observers wondering whether he could survive.

• Feng Jun realized the Heavenly Tribulation threatened Luo Hua, then Flash Stepped away and asked the Guardian whether it was an Artifact Tribulation.
• The Guardian advised Feng Jun to head to the Lakemarta Desert, where his merit and the World Domain's protection could help him endure the tribulation.
• Zhang Caixin and Zhong Lijing worried about Feng Jun but stayed behind to guard Luo Hua and avoid drawing attention to him.
• Feng Jun reached the Lakemarta Desert, warned off a patrol, and began setting up Defensive and Spirit-Restoring Formations.
• The tribulation clouds darkened the sky until it was pitch-black, while Feng Jun and observers fifty kilometers away feared the power gathering above him.

Feng Jun endured a terrifying tribulation in the Lakemarta Desert, survived with little injury, and returned to Luo Hua. A Mairui satellite analyst later noticed his sudden appearance and secured approval for more frequent photographs, while Feng Jun began examining the Stone Ring’s new functions.

• The observation post recorded the blinding lightning and thunder of Feng Jun’s tribulation while avoiding direct observation and communicating on a tactical whiteboard.
• The Tribulation Lightning stopped after half an hour, and Feng Jun found himself uninjured despite his ruined robe and depleted spiritual energy.
• Feng Jun replaced the drained Spirit Stones, concealed himself, changed clothes, recorded the Footprint, and returned to Luo Hua.
• A Mairui satellite analyst examined images and spotted Feng Jun’s sudden appearance, then requested more frequent photographs of the desert.
• Mairui Country approved the request to increase satellite photography, and Feng Jun began examining the Stone Ring’s new functions.

Feng Jun discovered that the Stone Ring had become Five Flowers, gaining new abilities while vastly increasing its capacity for Energy Points. After exhausting most of his Spirit Stones trying to charge it, he learned from the Big Shot that Spirit Stones from this realm carried Realm Causality and were unsuitable for charging the Stone Ring.

• Feng Jun found that the Stone Ring had changed into five colored cloud-like petals and learned he could merge a phone or tablet into his body, though spiritual energy could prevent tracking devices from detecting it.
• Feng Jun discovered that Divination now reached a thousand li, could sense living beings within a hundred li, analyze an object's composition, and consumed his spiritual energy instead of battery power.
• Feng Jun found that Five Flowers absorbed Ordinary Spirit Stones almost instantly, then spent two days and nights feeding it nearly two hundred thousand stones without filling it.
• Feng Jun arranged communications materials and supplies for Luo Hua before returning to seclusion, where he used up most of his remaining Ordinary Spirit Stones.
• Feng Jun tried charging Five Flowers with raw Spirit Stone ore from the Leo Kingdom, but found it absorbed the ore much more slowly and asked the Guardians why realm Spirit Stones were difficult to use.
• The Big Shot told Feng Jun that the Spirit Stones of this realm carried Realm Causality.

Feng Jun arranged for Red Sister to manage one of the Plane Gates, then hid from the Divine Lord’s tracking while the Human Race fought the Insect Race across the star system. As Xingzheng Star’s defenses improved, Feng Jun asked Yi Jue to take him to the desperate battle on the Eighth Mineral Star.

• Feng Jun chose Red Sister to operate the Blue Star Plane Gate after Red Sister recommended Mi Yunshan over Li Shishi, and he taught Red Sister to control the jade-colored Stone Ring.
• Feng Jun traveled to the Insectoid World and hid inside Fishing Elder True Venerable’s stone refuge rather than descend on Xingzheng Star.
• Yi Jue and the other Nascent Soul cultivators killed Insect Race forces around Lower Dragon City, prompting the Insect Race to withdraw its Nascent Souls from Xingzheng Star.
• The Human Race slowed the invasion on Xingzheng Star and began counterattacking, while the Fourth Star fell, the Sixth Star’s defenses dwindled, and the Eighth Mineral Star suffered severe casualties.
• Feng Jun asked Yi Jue to take him to the Eighth Mineral Star, and she agreed to go with him after recovering her spiritual energy.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue found an Insect Race barracks on the Mineral Star containing more than sixty Golden Cores, and Yi Jue captured it with her Luo handkerchief. Feng Jun transported the barracks to the Sahara on Blue Star to kill the insects, where the chapter leaves the convoy nearby startled by the impact and the site later stripped of its debris.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled to the Mineral Star and discovered a vast Insect Race barracks hidden inside a sphere of cold-resistant beetles.
• Yi Jue used her Luo handkerchief to capture the barracks after Feng Jun detected more than sixty Golden Cores and over ten thousand Emergence from Dust insects inside.
• Yi Jue asked Feng Jun to help kill the captured insects and proposed splitting the gains evenly, and Feng Jun agreed despite worrying about attracting the Insect Race Divine Lord's attention.
• Feng Jun transported the captured barracks to the Hasala Desert on Blue Star, where its landing shook the ground near a convoy of travelers.
• The convoy waited until morning to investigate and found a huge pit full of debris, which locals collected before scientists arrived more than ten days later.