Chapter Summaries

Luohua Manor completed its first Lithium Batteries deal, while Elder Yu’s security personnel failed to stop the goods from disappearing and turned their attention to the next shipment. The manufacturer prepared a second delivery, and its boss rejected a plan to exploit the payment process as a coach arrived at the warehouse.

• The manufacturer’s boss checked the first shipment’s crates and spot-checked the cash, then escorted the 120 million payment away.
• Lu Xiaoning returned the empty heavy trucks, and Gazi drove off toward Chaori County while Elder Yu’s security personnel realized Luohua had moved the Lithium Batteries beyond their reach.
• Zhang Caixin arranged a second transaction for 1,500 Lithium Batteries, and the manufacturer’s female assistant refused to reveal details to Elder Yu’s investigators.
• The manufacturer moved the completed batteries to a suburban warehouse as its boss and vice president Song discussed how to handle payment.
• Vice President Song suggested delaying the exchange to take advantage of the situation, but the boss refused and warned him against provoking Luohua.
• A coach arrived at the warehouse as the boss and Song stood by.

Luo Hua’s people took over a warehouse of lithium batteries, moved the goods into Feng Jun’s Blue Storage Pouch, and foiled an attempt to investigate the shipment. Elder Yu later asked Feng Jun about future purchases, and Feng Jun said he would buy batteries abroad to avoid causing trouble at home.

• Luo Hua sent Wang Haifeng and Xu Leigang with Zhang Caixin and Steward Mei to take delivery of the batteries, while Huahua watched the warehouse.
• Zhang Caixin accepted the warehouse keys, and Good Scenery used Feng Jun’s Blue Storage Pouch to collect the batteries before the group planned to leave by Light-Yin Shuttle that night.
• Two police officers arrived claiming they were investigating an illegal cooking-oil plant, but the empty warehouse exposed their attempt to probe the shipment.
• The people behind the investigation realized the batteries had been removed, and Elder Yu’s security personnel decided not to pursue the matter.
• Elder Yu asked Feng Jun whether he would buy more lithium batteries, and Feng Jun said he would make future purchases abroad.

Feng Jun completed the lithium battery procurement and moved the trainees to Pacify Arms Mountain, while Huangfu Wuxia rejected Tiantong’s attempt to buy appliances for the Yin Sha Sect without his approval. She left a Tiantong emissary with a warning after he suggested pressuring Feng Jun to expand perfume sales.

• Feng Jun accepted Elder Yu’s promise that his people would stop monitoring him unless his goods were used inappropriately, and his lithium battery procurement was completed.
• Feng Jun used Good Scenery’s spatial ability to transport seven trainees to Pacify Arms Mountain, then returned to send three more experts away.
• Feng Jun arrived at Pacify Arms Mountain, where Huangfu Wuxia had sent off the trainees and the Yan Clan’s equipment installation was nearing completion.
• A Tiantong emissary tied to Chairman Jiang asked Huangfu Wuxia to arrange a bulk appliance order for the Yin Sha Sect, whose disciples were demanding the promised summer supplies.
• Huangfu Wuxia refused to pressure Feng Jun, warning that Tiantong could lose its valuable perfume supply if it angered him.
• The emissary suggested restricting Feng Jun’s perfume sales to independent cultivators, and Huangfu Wuxia angrily dismissed the idea and threatened him.

Thunder Plains cultivators traded for Feng Jun’s lithium batteries, then clashed with Baili Adept when the Yinsha Sect delegation arrived. Feng Jun invited Dragon Wanderer and the Thunder Plains visitors into Pacify Arms Mountain for business and further experiments, leaving Baili outside the gate.

• Luo Lieyang’s Thunder Plains group bought the lithium battery sets and accepted five Boiler Engines, then tested the batteries for five days.
• Baili Adept and Dragon Wanderer arrived to negotiate for the Yinsha Sect, and Baili argued with the Thunder Plains adept at Pacify Arms Mountain’s entrance.
• Feng Jun defended the Thunder Plains cultivator as his customer and warned Baili not to gang up on the weaker side.
• Dragon Wanderer calmed the confrontation and explained that Baili had come to discuss business with Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun invited Dragon Wanderer and the three Thunder Plains cultivators inside, while Baili remained outside the gate.

Feng Jun hosted Dragon Wanderer at Pacify Arms Mountain, paid him the promised Spirit Stones, and learned about recent events in the Cultivation World. He kept Dragon Wanderer and Baili Adept at the mountain for three days so the Thunder Cultivator and his disciples could leave safely.

• Feng Jun invited the Thunder Cultivator and Dragon Wanderer into Pacify Arms Mountain while Baili Adept remained outside, and the Thunder Cultivator understood that Feng Jun was protecting him.
• Feng Jun received Dragon Wanderer at the Dragon Gate Inn and asked about the Yin Sha Sect's plans for negotiating the trade.
• Dragon Wanderer said he could no longer participate in the procurement and asked Feng Jun to pay his promised reward early, so Feng Jun laid out two thousand Spirit Stones.
• Dragon Wanderer told Feng Jun about the execution of Red Spider Adept, the upcoming auction of the Lovesick Goblet, and the discovery of Spirit Stone Mines near the Endless Sea.
• Feng Jun signaled the Thunder Cultivator to leave, then held Dragon Wanderer and Baili Adept at Pacify Arms Mountain for three days while delaying their negotiations.

Feng Jun and Baili Adept bargained over a massive appliance order, settling their dispute over the markup before completing the sale. Baili then sought air-conditioner installers from Pacify Arms Mountain, but their families warned them against leaving, and the chapter ended with the workers reconsidering the distant promise of cultivation.

• Feng Jun and Baili Adept haggled over the price of one hundred thousand refrigerators and air conditioners, eventually splitting the extra hundred taels per unit so Feng Jun received fifteen taels and Baili received eighty-five.
• Feng Jun and Baili discussed exchanging the gold for Spirit Stones, and Baili offered to trade his gold for twenty-five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Feng Jun and the Yin Sha Sect completed the transaction with Carefree Platform and Tiantong present as witnesses.
• Baili Adept asked to take one hundred mortal air-conditioner installers to the cultivation world, but Pacify Arms Mountain had fewer than fifty people with that skill.
• The installers' family elders warned them that leaving could endanger them and sever their families' connection with Feng Jun, so they questioned whether the opportunity was worth pursuing.

Baili Adept recruited eight young people from the Mortal World to teach electrical technology in the Cultivation World after the Tian Family withdrew two. He then pressed Feng Jun to let the Yin Sha Sect acquire and control a communication system, ending by questioning Feng Jun’s motives for leaving the arrangement to the Tiantong Merchant Alliance.

• Ten young people from the Tian, Mu, and Yu families agreed to follow Baili Adept, while Tian Yang Ni explained that the Mi Family stayed out because it had secured the Mountain Lord’s favor.
• Baili Adept planned to take the recruits to the Cultivation World as instructors, and Feng Jun told their families he could not promise they would return after the ten-year contracts.
• The Tian Family withdrew two recruits, and Baili Adept released them while telling Feng Jun that workers could return after twenty years.
• Baili Adept asked Feng Jun to sell the Yin Sha Sect a communication system for gold or Spirit Stones, but Feng Jun directed him to negotiate with the Tiantong Merchant Alliance.
• Baili Adept insisted the Yin Sha Sect needed control over communications to protect private information, then asked whether Feng Jun had another purpose for keeping the Alliance in charge.

Feng Jun challenged Baili’s proposal for the Yin Sha Sect to control communications distribution, warning that it could harm the supplier and provoke his mysterious sect. After Baili left to discuss the matter with his sect, Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia, who was furious that the Yin Sha Sect threatened the project she hoped to build for the Huangfu Clan.

• Feng Jun questioned whether Baili’s proposal had the Yin Sha Sect’s support and how he would handle resistance from Tiantong and the Huangfu Clan.
• Feng Jun warned Baili that giving the Yin Sha Sect control of distribution would leave the supplier dependent on its decisions and could prompt Feng Jun’s sect to respond.
• Baili acknowledged that Feng Jun’s concerns made sense and said he would return to discuss the matter further with his sect.
• After the Yin Sha Sect delegation departed by flying artifact at night, Feng Jun went to Tiantong’s courtyard and told Huangfu Wuxia about his conversation with Baili.
• Huangfu Wuxia condemned Baili and resolved to protect the Huangfu Clan’s rights to construct, debug, and maintain the communications system.

Feng Jun warned Huangfu Wuxia that the communications business faced a threat beyond the Yin Sha Sect’s bid: powerful sects might seek control of the system and its secrets. He proposed a Communications Management Committee to divide territories among the major factions and coordinate their networks.

• Huangfu Wuxia insisted that the Huangfu Clan retain construction and debugging rights, and Feng Jun raised communications security as a more serious concern.
• Feng Jun explained that the other major sects would eventually oppose the Yin Sha Sect monopolizing the communications trade, and Huangfu Wuxia agreed the profits could be divided among them.
• Feng Jun argued that the major sects would not trust anyone else to handle communications, and Huangfu Wuxia asked him to explain his plan.
• After Huangfu Wuxia teased Feng Jun, he proposed establishing a Communications Management Committee.
• Feng Jun suggested notifying the Four Sects and Five Platforms and assigning each a territory, and Huangfu Wuxia noted that this could connect their communications systems into a network.

Feng Jun advised Huangfu Wuxia on organizing the Communications Management Committee, and the Patriarch Huangfu agreed that Tiantong should lead while securing control over core technology. While Huangfu Wuxia was away, Feng Jun opened a radio station on Pacify Arms Mountain, whose storytelling broadcasts drew a huge crowd and forced him to restrict entry and relocate renters.

• Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia that Tiantong should lead the Communications Management Committee, but he refused to join it himself.
• Huangfu Wuxia summoned the Patriarch Huangfu, explained Yinsha's plans and the communications system's importance, and received his support for Tiantong to seek authority over its core technology.
• Huangfu Wuxia left Pacify Arms Mountain with a group, and she returned a month and a half later to find the mountain in midsummer.
• Feng Jun opened shops and launched a radio station that broadcast serialized storytelling, attracting listeners from far away.
• Pacify Arms Mountain's permanent population rose to fifty thousand, so Feng Jun restricted access to the mountain gate and relocated about three thousand renters outside his territory.

Huangfu Wuxia returned to Pacify Arms Mountain, revealed that she had reached the Emergence from Dust Stage, and told Feng Jun that the Orderless Plane wanted to resume trading. The Orderless Plane’s leaders faced mounting hunger and agreed to cautiously seek other trading partners after their Graphene stockpile failed to secure grain.

• Huangfu Wuxia ordered Tiantong personnel to reclaim land around their courtyard by compensating local buyers double and invoking her connection to Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun came out to meet Huangfu Wuxia, recognized her breakthrough, and heard that the Orderless Plane wanted to continue the previous trade agreement.
• Huangfu Wuxia explained that the Orderless Plane had grown anxious after four months without grain shipments.
• Hout confronted Wu Jia over raising the price of Graphene and failing to secure food despite the Orderless Plane’s growing stockpile.
• Wu Jia agreed to cautiously contact traders from other planes about selling Graphene.

Huangfu Wuxia told Feng Jun how the Communications Management Committee was established and renamed the Mortal Communications Council. Ji Ping'an then warned Feng Jun that the Xue Family had likely ambushed his merchants, killing Zhou Linghai and seriously injuring Liang Yisi, and Feng Jun took the attack personally.

• Huangfu Wuxia explained that Tiantong and the Four Sects and Five Platforms had responded differently to the proposed communications committee, and she returned to Pacify Arms Mountain after advancing in seclusion.
• Huangfu Wuxia said the Yin Sha Sect had renamed the committee the Mortal Communications Council, and Feng Jun found the choice of name revealing.
• Ji Ping'an arrived with deep facial scars and reported that Zhou Linghai had been killed and Liang Yisi seriously injured in an ambush while transporting goods.
• Ji Ping'an said the Zhan Xiu had traced the likely attackers to the Xue Family and warned Feng Jun that they might target him again.
• Feng Jun accepted that the accusation lacked direct evidence but said the stolen goods counted as his, regardless of how much belonged to him.

Feng Jun helped Ji Ping'an prepare to pursue the people who had robbed him, then guarded Yun Buyao as she advanced. Huangfu Wuxia warned him that unrest in the Orderless Plane could disrupt Graphene supplies, and grew furious after hearing what happened to Ji Ping'an.

• Feng Jun promised to offer a bounty if anything happened to Ji Ping'an and gave him Mid-Grade Blood-Qi Pills.
• Huangfu Wuxia summoned Feng Jun in the rain and asked him to bring the Lovesick Goblet.
• Feng Jun sensed that Yun Buyao had reached the Sixth Layer of Mortal Transcendence and stood guard while her aura stabilized.
• Huangfu Wuxia told Feng Jun that unrest in the Orderless Plane could cut off Graphene, but he said he could seek another supplier.
• Feng Jun recounted Ji Ping'an's robbery to Huangfu Wuxia, who angrily asked whether the attackers were trying to frame Tiantong.

Huangfu Wuxia decided Tiantong would take a public stance against the Xue Family, while Feng Jun let the Zhan Xiu handle their own affairs. Ji Ping'an returned to Qiuchen Market, then joined his companions in striking the Xue Family, leaving the family to suspect the attack was revenge for its ambush.

• Huangfu Wuxia learned the Xue Family had attacked the Zhan Xiu and insisted Tiantong would intervene to prevent the Xue Family from turning the conflict against them.
• Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia he wanted the Zhan Xiu to seek their own revenge, while she maintained that Tiantong still needed to make its position clear.
• Elder Liao escorted Ji Ping'an to Qiuchen Market and advertised Feng Jun's Gu poison treatment services along the way.
• Ji Ping'an rebuffed Qi Wusheng's questions and warnings, then disappeared with several companions after two days at home.
• Ji Ping'an and his companions slaughtered all seventeen members of a Xue Family household and its Azureback Oxen, leaving a message that those who killed would be killed in turn.
• The Xue Family investigated the massacre and suspected it was connected to Zeng Jing's participation in the ambush against the Zhan Xiu.

Ji Ping'an and the Zhan Xiu retaliated against the Xue Family by ambushing a Flying Boat carrying one of the killer’s relatives. After bringing it down and attacking its passengers, they faced a wounded cultivator who signaled for help and turned to fight rather than surrender.

• The Xue Family failed to identify the attackers and, despite increasing its guard, lost another household of seven relatives that night.
• Ji Ping'an and his group set an ambush for a killer’s brother-in-law, while an Emergence from Dust Adept watched over them from a distance.
• Ji Ping'an activated a flight-ban array as the target’s Flying Boat approached, and three armor-piercing arrows struck it before it crashed.
• The Zhan Xiu’s military formation split the Flying Boat with a Blood-Red Slaughter Blade, killing one passenger and severing another’s legs.
• A wounded Martial Entry into the Dao cultivator fled the wreck, but arrows and two Innate Realm Martial Cultivation cultivators blocked him; he sent up a signal and charged at them.

Ji Ping'an and his battle cultivators wiped out Xue Family members while a protector from Tiantong drove off the hired sword cultivator Sima Mingyao. After the Xue Family withdrew to its ancestral residence and began seeking help, Feng Jun learned from Yun Buyao that Huangfu Wuxia had come about an unexpected development involving Ji Ping'an.

• Ji Ping'an's battle cultivators killed the defenders aboard a Xue Family Flying Boat, and the gray-clad protector stopped Sima Mingyao from intervening.
• The battle cultivators later wiped out another Xue Family household, prompting the Xue Family to suspend its businesses, withdraw to its ancestral residence, and send out people to seek support.
• Luo Lieyang asked Feng Jun to sell Thunder Plains ten thousand more sets of storage batteries, but Feng Jun knew he could not supply that many.
• Yun Buyao told Feng Jun that Huangfu Wuxia had arrived with news of an unexpected development involving Ji Ping'an.

Nangong Youjiu visited Pacify Arms Mountain to deliver the 290,000 Spirit Stones from the Lovesick Goblet auction, then raised the Xue Family’s conflict with Feng Jun’s Zhan Xiu. He explained that the dispute had become entangled in the rivalry between the Nangong Family and the Huangfu Clan, leaving Feng Jun to hear his position.

• Nangong Youjiu arrived at Pacify Arms Mountain, where Huangfu Wuxia challenged his visit but arranged guest rooms for him.
• Feng Jun agreed to meet Nangong Youjiu after Huangfu Wuxia warned that he likely had another purpose.
• At dinner, Huangfu Wuxia counted the 290,000 Spirit Stones Nangong Youjiu delivered, and Feng Jun later invited him to tour Pacify Arms Mountain.
• Nangong Youjiu told Feng Jun that the Xue Family had appealed to the Nangong Family over casualties caused by Feng Jun’s Zhan Xiu comrades.
• Nangong Youjiu acknowledged the Xue Family had started the conflict but argued that the deaths of many Xue Family members, including innocents, should have ended the feud.
• Nangong Youjiu said the Nangong Family could not ignore the Xue Family’s appeal because the Huangfu Clan was backing the Zhan Xiu and refusing to act would make the Nangong Family appear afraid.

Feng Jun rejected Nangong Youjiu’s proposal to train communications experts for the Nangong Family, insisting that his promise to cooperate exclusively with the Huangfu Clan bound him. Nangong Youjiu warned that the Nangong Family might intervene on the Xue Family’s behalf, then returned to Tiantong without securing a deal.

• Feng Jun disputed Nangong Youjiu’s claim that weakness justified the Xue Family’s actions and said the blood debt could not be settled through negotiation.
• Nangong Youjiu offered to pay Feng Jun to train communications experts for his family, but Feng Jun refused because of his exclusivity agreement with the Huangfu Clan.
• Nangong Youjiu explained that the Nangong Family had recognized the communications system’s business potential and pressed Feng Jun to reconsider, but Feng Jun stood by his promise.
• Nangong Youjiu proposed that the Xue Family’s Emergence from Dust cultivator fight an opponent from Pacify Arms Mountain, and warned that the Nangong Family could intervene if Feng Jun refused.
• Feng Jun challenged Nangong Youjiu to fight him, but Nangong Youjiu instead warned that the Xue Family might target the Zhan Xiu if the Nangong Family acted.
• Nangong Youjiu returned to Tiantong, where he found Huangfu Wuxia relaxing with tea.

Feng Jun learned that Nangong Youjiu wanted him to fight an Emergence from Dust High Stage cultivator, while Huangfu Wuxia explained the long feud between the Huangfu Clan and the Nangong Family. After Huangfu Wuxia's patriarch said he had arranged everything, Nangong Youjiu returned to the Cultivation World and met with President Qu.

• Huangfu Wuxia told Feng Jun how generations of grievances and retaliations had deepened the feud between the Huangfu Clan and the Nangong Family.
• Feng Jun repeated Nangong Youjiu's proposal for a deathmatch and warned that he could take his business to other sects and platforms if Tiantong failed to protect him.
• Huangfu Wuxia promised to report Feng Jun's potential to Tiantong's higher-ups, while Nangong Youjiu overheard their conversation from behind a wall.
• Huangfu Wuxia detected a fluctuation from her Obsidian statue, contacted Patriarch Huangfu, and was told that he had arranged everything and that she should inform Feng Jun.
• Nangong Youjiu returned to the Cultivation World and met President Qu at Tiantong in Qiuchen Market.

After the Huangfu Clan destroyed the Xue Family’s Emergence from Dust forces under Feng Jun’s sect’s name, Nangong Youjiu’s plans collapsed and Xue Jingxiang fled Giant Wood Market. Feng Jun accepted the Huangfu Clan’s support but worried about retaliation, just as Lu Wanfeng summoned him to receive an honored guest who might be Sumiao.

• Nangong Youjiu learned that attackers had killed the Xue Family ancestor, seized its Mid Emergence from Dust cultivator, and looted the ancestral residence.
• Nangong Youjiu recognized the attackers’ slogan as the Huangfu Clan’s doing and realized their strike had ruined his plans.
• Nangong Youjiu learned that Xue Jingxiang had closed his shop and fled Giant Wood Market rather than seek the Nangong Family’s help.
• Huangfu Wuxia told Feng Jun that the Huangfu Clan had attacked the Xue Family in his sect’s name, and Feng Jun thanked her while anticipating possible retaliation.
• A Qi Refining cultivator told Feng Jun that Lu Wanfeng had summoned him to receive an honored guest, leading Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia to suspect Sumiao had arrived.