Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun met He Runxian at the Hesheng Production Base and asked what supplies it needed in exchange for his help. He Runxian revealed that medicine was the base’s most urgent shortage, leaving Feng Jun to consider how to obtain it.

• Feng Jun summoned He Runxian from the Production Base, and He Runxian approached him with two bodyguards.
• He Runxian thanked Feng Jun for remembering him and asked whether his companions had killed Minister Shen.
• Feng Jun offered friendship and joked about pursuing He Runxian’s third daughter, but refused to reveal his real reason for helping.
• He Runxian explained that the base lacked medicine because the military and government had drawn down its reserves amid mounting casualties.
• Feng Jun learned that medicine was the Production Base’s most urgent need and rubbed his forehead in frustration.

Feng Jun arranged to supply Hesheng’s besieged production base with goods and negotiated payment in Energy Stones and equipment. He Runxian agreed to seek three Limb Regeneration medicine production lines after the war and to provide holographic footage of space battles.

• Feng Jun told He Runxian to prepare supplies and open No. 3 Storage Yard, warning him not to try any tricks.
• He Runxian’s bodyguard notified the base, while Major Bacon demanded an inspection and He Huiqing refused to accept that condition.
• Feng Jun’s white mist filled the storage yard, and his mech entered it before telling the base to move the goods once the mist cleared.
• Feng Jun asked He Runxian for weapons and Life Potion production lines, but He Runxian said Hesheng could not obtain them.
• Feng Jun proposed three Limb Regeneration medicine production lines, and He Runxian agreed to pursue them after the war in exchange for Energy Stones.
• Feng Jun also requested as much holographic footage of space fleet battles as He Runxian could obtain, clarifying that he wanted the footage rather than manufacturing principles.

Feng Jun arranged to receive space-warfare footage while He Runxian negotiated the handling and price of a huge shipment of Energy Stones. He Runxian backed Feng Jun against the military’s demands, and the chapter ended with him asking what name or codename to use.

• Feng Jun told He Runxian that he wanted space tactics so his team would not be controlled by others, then requested holographic footage of space warfare.
• The shipment arrived at Hesheng Production Base, and He Runxian arranged for the cargo to be moved while focusing on building ties with Feng Jun.
• After learning that the delivery contained ten million tons of Energy Stones, He Runxian explained Hesheng’s dispute with the military over the price and quota.
• Feng Jun agreed to sell the Energy Stones at twice the market price and asked when the requested footage would be ready.
• He Runxian said he had ordered employees to collect the footage despite Major Bacon’s demand that he help arrest Feng Jun, and Feng Jun revealed he already knew the City Defense Army had opposed attacking him.
• He Runxian asked Feng Jun for his name or a codename so he would know how to address him.

Feng Jun negotiated with He Runxian over extending the protective rain and challenged the expectation that he should shoulder the Federation’s transport failures. After He Runxian admitted he had been judging the situation from the officials’ perspective, Feng Jun agreed to keep the rain going for two days and one night.

• Feng Jun agreed to transport Hesheng’s goods to the Five-Direction Star System and told He Runxian to prepare as much cargo as possible.
• He Runxian asked Feng Jun to extend the rain so Energy Stones and other supplies could be moved safely, but Feng Jun initially limited it to one day and one night.
• Feng Jun argued that the military and government were responsible for transport and accused them of morally pressuring him after trying to control him.
• He Runxian acknowledged that he had been considering the matter from the officials’ perspective and apologized for expecting Feng Jun to do more.
• Feng Jun extended the rain to two days and one night, warned that sustaining it had a cost, and told He Runxian to live well.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue kept watch over the Rain-Praying Array while supplies were moved, then hosted He Runxian for tea and hotpot as a military convoy approached. They left He Runxian impressed and increasingly curious, while Feng Jun concealed their origins and warned the military to keep its distance.

• Yi Jue questioned Feng Jun's decision to keep the Rain-Praying Array running, and Feng Jun apologized before agreeing that they should remain vigilant.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue set up a campsite near the base and invited He Runxian to share tea and hotpot.
• When a military convoy arrived, He Runxian went to warn the guards, and Feng Jun shot out a searchlight after it swept over them.
• Feng Jun rejected Lieutenant Colonel Muller’s request to visit, and He Runxian returned without passing along Muller’s request to meet their guests.
• Feng Jun served He Runxian Flying Centipede meat, claiming it had been specially processed and assuring him it was safe to eat.

After a night of rain kept the Insect Race away, Feng Jun and Yi Jue refused to meet officials who tried to pressure them. At dawn, massive insect swarms threatened the supply convoy, and the military ordered it to form a defensive vehicle formation and trust its partners.

• After dinner, He Runxian asked Feng Jun to name a price for keeping the rain going, but Feng Jun said even Xingzheng Star could not afford it.
• He Runxian returned to the production base, where Commander Muller, the governor of Left Dragon City, and the military chief strategist argued over the new supplies and questioned him about Feng Jun and Yi Jue.
• Feng Jun refused requests from the governor's office and the Left Capital military to meet, warning that he would leave and take the supplies with him if they kept pressing him.
• At dawn, an observation post reported multiple insect swarms, including a force of over thirty thousand insects approaching the junction where the convoy was traveling.
• The military ordered the convoy to form an Eggshell Vehicle Formation rather than flee, explaining that the Energy Stones had to be protected and that they had to trust their partners.

Yi Jue and Feng Jun eliminated three insect teams that entered the rain zone, then killed two military scouts who entered the white mist to investigate. As two large swarms of Nascent Soul Insects approached Xingzheng Star, Ren Tu and Half-Fool agreed to help Yi Jue confront them.

• Yi Jue killed the Insects that entered the rain zone while Feng Jun collected their corpses and concealed the area with rain and white mist.
• When two military scouts entered the white mist, Feng Jun ordered Yi Jue to kill them, and the base later classified them as missing in action.
• Commander Muller speculated that the white mist was a Warp Jump method, while Feng Jun warned Yi Jue that the Insect Race would probe them again.
• Ren Tu reported that two large swarms of Nascent Soul Insects were gathering above Left Dragon City, and Half-Fool joined the plan to help Yi Jue fight them.
• The two insect swarms approached Xingzheng Star, drawing the Space Fleet's attention as battleships fired their main cannons.

Two insect swarms descended toward Left Capital, but Yi Jue, Ren Tu, and Half-Fool used the white fog and rain to eliminate the marshal-level insects and weaken the attackers. As the military struggled to contact Shi Jie's force, He Runxian asked whether they could keep Left Dragon City District under rain the next day and received a dismissive reply.

• The military tracked two high-level insect swarms heading for Left Capital and warned the city to prepare for its final defense.
• Ren Tu and Half-Fool ambushed the swarms in the white fog, killing their Nascent Souls and leaving fewer than a hundred Golden Core insects to emerge.
• Yi Jue used Yearning for Sweet Rain to stop the remaining insects, while Feng Jun collected their corpses.
• Commander Muller refused to send soldiers into the fog after two scouts vanished there, and the military superior ordered him to contact Shi Jie's force once the fog cleared.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue strengthened the rain with Spirit Stones, and He Runxian later asked Shi Jie to make it rain over Left Dragon City District the next day.
• Shi Jie answered that he could not make it rain every day and asked whether the military expected such an easy bargain.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue defended the production base from probing insect attacks and used divination to assess how their intervention had changed the war’s course. They decided the conflict would continue for months, then planned to return to Heavenly Zither so Yi Jue could restore her spiritual energy while Feng Jun stayed behind to handle matters in the Insectoid World.

• He Runxian accepted five hundred soldiers from the Left Capital military, though more than half were wounded, and the military supplied weapons on the condition that the base provide Energy Stones.
• Rain fell across Left Dragon City, and four insect swarms tested the rainy zone before Yi Jue’s Yearning for Sweet Rain and white mist destroyed them.
• Feng Jun killed five people who entered the mist and discovered they were Insect God Cult followers and underground resistance spies.
• The Insect Race besieged Hesheng’s production base with four Nascent Soul insects, but Feng Jun and Yi Jue judged the attack was limited and possibly meant to save face.
• Feng Jun divined that the war would not end within three months, and Yi Jue predicted the insects might launch one fierce assault before withdrawing.
• Feng Jun insisted that Yi Jue return to the Spirit Plant Path to recover for at least ten days, while he stayed in the Insectoid World.

Feng Jun went to Lower Capital after learning that Chen Jiu's men had asked Hesheng for help contacting him. He found Chen Jiu critically injured in the hospital and began preparing medicine, leaving his chances of recovery unresolved.

• Yi Jue agreed to go to the major planet with Feng Jun and help him oversee the mines while she recuperated.
• He Huiqing received a monitored call from people seeking Feng Jun, but he denied knowing what they meant and ended the call.
• Feng Jun decided to scout Lower Capital and found Chen Jiu's men waiting at the scrap metal company.
• Shuanzi told Feng Jun that Chen Jiu was near death and had asked him to pass on an apology about the unfinished production line.
• Feng Jun went to the hospital, examined Chen Jiu's severe injuries, and began matching medicines after learning he had been hurt covering his men's retreat from an insect ambush.

Feng Jun treated Chen Jiu’s corrosive poison with an injection, and Chen Jiu awakened after two standard hours. Chen Jiu recognized Feng Jun as his rescuer and sent his wife away so they could speak privately.

• Feng Jun agreed to treat Chen Jiu after learning he had been injured while covering for others, and Shuanzi promised to keep the matter secret.
• Feng Jun injected Chen Jiu with medicine and told Shuanzi to contact him when Chen Jiu woke.
• While waiting, Feng Jun learned about Sister-in-law Jiu’s prosthetic leg and the injuries and deaths among Chen Jiu’s children.
• Two standard hours later, Shuanzi reported that Chen Jiu had awakened and asked Feng Jun to come downstairs.
• Chen Jiu recognized Feng Jun as the person who had saved him, then ordered Sister-in-law Jiu to leave so they could talk privately.

Feng Jun saved Brother Jiu from the brink of death and promised to treat his poison again the next day. Later, he and Yi Jue discussed the True Venerables’ repeated battles against the Insect Race, and Feng Jun urged her to follow her own wishes rather than worry about outside pressure.

• Feng Jun told Brother Jiu that another injection would deal with the poison and joked that he still had to repay his debt.
• Ninth Sister-in-law learned that Brother Jiu expected to recover after another injection, while he warned her not to ask too many questions about Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun restored his spiritual energy outside Lower Dragon City instead of divining what had happened to the missing little fat boy and his family.
• Yi Jue joined Feng Jun in his Spirit-Restoring Formation and explained that another swarm of more than thirty Nascent Souls had arrived, leaving her exhausted from collecting corpses.
• Feng Jun inferred that the True Venerables wanted to keep drawing in and killing Insect Race Nascent Souls, and Yi Jue admitted she resented being pressured to take part.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue to withdraw if she wished and discuss the matter with the True Venerables, then urged her not to worry about outside opinions.

Feng Jun set up a Rain-Praying Array near Lower Capital to make its military believe a mysterious force had shifted its focus there, while the military moved to forcibly awaken the gravely injured Chen Jiu. Ninth Sister-in-law blocked the order and threatened to call on the Chen Clan Kinship Association, leaving the military facing a public and legal risk.

• Feng Jun established a Rain-Praying Array in a ruined stadium, and Lower Capital's military detected the unusual rain clouds.
• After testing the rainwater and learning that the rain over Left Capital had stopped, Lower Capital's military suspected that the mysterious force had turned its attention to them and investigated possible contacts.
• The military went to the hospital and presented an order to forcibly awaken Chen Jiu, despite the risk that he would die within hours.
• Ninth Sister-in-law refused to let the military awaken her husband and challenged the military doctor's blunt prognosis.
• Ninth Sister-in-law threatened that the military would have to step over her and her children, then told Old Eleventh to ask the Chen Clan Kinship Association for help.

The military investigated a possible link between a call to Hesheng Production Base and the mysterious force protecting Lower Capital, while insect swarms repeatedly tested the rain clouds. After the rain stopped and insects attacked Lower Dragon City, Feng Jun reduced the Rain-Praying Array’s output to pressure the military to abandon its hospital surveillance, but an insect discovered the exposed observers.

• The military reconsidered a call from Lower Capital to He Huiqing and investigated the Qin Family, but found no evidence implicating Sister Qin.
• A swarm of more than a thousand insects charged into Lower Capital and vanished beneath the rain clouds, where white mist appeared; the military debated how to secure Energy Stones through cooperation.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue weathered repeated insect probes, including eight daytime attacks, none of which involved Nascent Soul insects.
• When the rain stopped at night, insects attacked Lower Dragon City, and five Nascent Soul Insect Race creatures appeared outside the rain clouds.
• Yi Jue told True Venerable Ren Tu that they would reactivate the Rain-Praying Array and leave the five Nascent Souls to the Great Venerables while they handled other matters.
• Feng Jun minimized the rain while keeping the clouds in place, forcing the military to choose whether to keep its observation posts around Chen Jiu’s hospital; an Emergence from Dust Stage insect spotted the exposed personnel.

The hospital guards fought off the Insect Race while clashing with military observers who had drawn the bugs to the area. After treating Chen Jiu, Feng Jun discussed his plan to acquire a Limb Regeneration production line and prepared to leave, leaving Chen Jiu wondering why he had come to the Lower Capital.

• The hospital guards refused to provide the military observers with full firepower support, and the observers suffered casualties before reinforcements arrived and withdrew with their wounded.
• The guards found most of the nearby surveillance equipment while the bugs changed targets after the observers left.
• Feng Jun visited Chen Jiu in the recovery pod, treated him, and heard his request to restore his face to strengthen negotiations for a Limb Regeneration production line.
• Feng Jun told Chen Jiu to focus on recovering and said his medical methods could not be learned by the locals.
• Feng Jun announced that he was leaving, and Chen Jiu asked whether he had come to the Lower Capital for something beyond saving his life.

Chen Jiu arranged for Feng Jun to transport Energy Stones and other supplies to Lower Capital and Right Capital in exchange for several ships. Meanwhile, Yi Jue resumed the rain and helped Ren Tu and Half-Fool eliminate the Nascent Soul Insects threatening Lower Dragon City.

• Chen Jiu offered Feng Jun three transport ships carrying nine million tons of Energy Stones, and Feng Jun agreed to take the ships as payment while Chen Jiu sought storage locations.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue to resume the rain, and Ren Tu and Half-Fool swiftly captured seven Nascent Soul Insects as Yi Jue drove back the insects above Lower Dragon City.
• Lower Dragon City celebrated when the Mysterious Force remained to protect it, despite renewed military surveillance around Chen Jiu.
• Chen Jiu sent his son Chen Xiao'er to tell Feng Jun that seven ships carried over twenty million tons of supplies and that their owner would give up the ships if Feng Jun transported the cargo, most of it to Right Capital.
• Chen Xiao'er identified the shipowner as Xuan Gao, whose Brilliant Star Shipping company was a major local carrier on Xingzheng Star.

Chen Jiu and Chen Xiao'er negotiated with Xuan Gao to move his Energy Stone stockpiles to Right Capital, and Feng Jun went to meet him. Feng Jun reached Brilliant Star’s headquarters amid the ongoing insect attacks and stopped near Xuan Gao’s defensive bunkers to call him out.

• Chen Jiu had earlier offered to transport Xuan Gao’s cargo, and Xuan Gao proposed sending it to Right Capital in exchange for an eighty-percent handling fee.
• After Chen Jiu recovered from his coma, Chen Xiao'er discussed arranging the deal with Xuan Gao and judged that he was unlikely to be working for the military.
• Feng Jun questioned Chen Xiao'er about Xuan Gao’s ties and required that surveillance be shut down and no one observe the meeting.
• Feng Jun evaded a military scout, traveled to Right Capital, and saw its defenses struggling amid scattered insect attacks and dwindling Energy Stones.
• Feng Jun found Xuan Gao at Brilliant Star’s headquarters, entered the site, and called for him near the defensive bunkers.
• A blinding searchlight swept over Feng Jun as he waited for Xuan Gao to respond.

Feng Jun met with Xuan Gao to arrange the transfer of seven cargo ships’ supplies, then traveled with Yi Jue to retrieve them from a concealed asteroid. The ships were ready and unwatched, leaving Feng Jun and Yi Jue free to handle the cargo.

• Feng Jun entered Brilliant Star’s compound and persuaded Xuan Gao to meet him, then negotiated the transport of seven ships’ cargo.
• Xuan Gao agreed to dock the ships at an asteroid, with Feng Jun taking four ships’ worth of cargo and Chen Jiu receiving three, while they also negotiated food and medicine shares.
• After Feng Jun left, Xuan Gao’s staff discovered he had slipped through a flaw in the compound’s defenses without detectable scans, and Xuan Gao concluded he belonged to a formidable faction.
• Half a day later, Xuan Gao sent Feng Jun the asteroid’s location, and Feng Jun asked Yi Jue to take him there while he put away the Rain-Praying Array.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue reached the Seville Asteroid Belt and found the seven camouflaged cargo ships, with access codes provided and surveillance disabled.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue defended Lower Dragon City from the insects, while Feng Jun secretly delivered supplies and learned that the military had discovered Chen Jiu’s contact with the Mysterious Force. He left the goods at the Qin Family’s shelter and announced their delivery to the shopping mall, leaving Sister Qin wondering if he meant her.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue used the Rain-Praying Array and Spirit-Restoring Formation to drive insects from Lower Dragon City and kill those that could not escape.
• The military confronted Chen Jiu about his recovery and contact with the Mysterious Force, but he refused to reveal details and urged them to follow Left Capital’s example and wait.
• Feng Jun watched the military leave Chen Jiu under guard, then used Footprint to stock the Qin Family’s shelter with supplies.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue left the white mist in a Space Mecha, and Feng Jun announced that Chen Jiu’s goods had been placed with the shopping mall’s owner.
• Sister Qin heard the announcement and wondered whether Feng Jun had been referring to her.

Sister Qin and Lower Dragon City’s officials inventoried and began distributing the supplies that had appeared in her family’s shelter, while Chen Jiu could only speculate about the mysterious force’s intermittent rain. Two days later, mist and rain appeared around Right Dragon City, where Xuan Gao found more than ten million tons of supplies in four underground docks, leaving the military wondering where the Energy Stones had gone.

• Sister Qin told Lower Dragon City officials that the goods might have been brought into her family’s shelter, where they found the supplies and began dividing and transporting them.
• Lower Dragon City’s military asked Chen Jiu how long the rain would last, and he advised them to ask the mysterious force to warn them if it might stop.
• Xuan Gao waited anxiously for supplies to reach Right Capital while the city’s usual drizzle continued and the insects kept attacking.
• Two days later, Feng Jun activated the Rain-Praying Array near Right Dragon City, and Yi Jue swept away insects fleeing the rising white mist.
• Xuan Gao rushed to the warehouses and found more than ten million tons of goods in four underground docks.
• Right Capital’s military wondered which family had bought its Energy Stones.