Chapter Summaries

The Wu Clan gave Feng Jun the Beauty-Preserving Grass and allowed him to inspect their secret vault, hoping to avoid the Pan Clan’s fate. Feng Jun left after warning them that he knew about a Blue-Pattern Mushroom from Liba Beach, and Wu Adept considered seeking a closer alliance with him.

• Wu Adept offered the Beauty-Preserving Grass to Feng Jun, and Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi agreed to buy it together for ten thousand Spirit Stones and split the pills made from it.
• Feng Jun entered the Wu Clan’s secret vault, then revealed that he knew it had once contained a five-hundred-year Blue-Pattern Mushroom from Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun left with Chen Junwei and Jing Qingyang after warning the Wu Clan not to hide what it had done.
• Wu Adept and an elder discussed how the Wu Clan had survived the crisis by abandoning the Pan Clan and helping destroy it.
• Wu Adept considered asking Feng Jun whether he would meet the Lu Clan’s three brothers and whether the Wu Clan could take over guarding Liba Beach.

Feng Jun arranged new guards and excavation plans for Liba Beach while Sun Daqi sought a chance for the Sun Clan to resume its role there. After Adept Wu warned him about the three Lu brothers, Feng Jun invited them to meet him in Lantern Town and prepared to secure the area.

• Feng Jun accepted Sun Daqi’s fine but left the question of the Sun Clan guarding Liba Beach unanswered, and Shopkeeper Tang and Huangfu Wuxia offered alternative workers and guards.
• Shopkeeper Tang revealed that the Sun Clan had profited substantially from Liba Beach, and Sun Daqi admitted his clan had gained valuable finds there.
• Adept Wu told Feng Jun that the three Lu brothers had gained protection by presenting an Innate Pure Water female cultivator to a Ten Directions Platform cultivator.
• Feng Jun asked Adept Wu to tell the three Lu brothers to visit him in Lantern Town within half a month, and Shopkeeper Tang offered to contact the market’s battle cultivators.
• Kong Ziyi publicly asked Feng Jun what was happening with Dragon Wanderer from the Yin Sha Sect.

The Lu brothers learned that Feng Jun had destroyed the Pan Clan and planned to summon him to Mingsha Market while preparing to retaliate. Feng Jun reached Liba Beach and began resting there, but Venerable Yang asked to continue his dangerous experiment.

• After learning that the Pan Clan had been wiped out, Eldest Lu ordered Feng Jun to come to Mingsha Market within ten days, while Lu Zhaofeng urged a swift attack.
• Lu Zhaofeng smashed a Wu Clan shop and planned to go after Feng Jun, but an associate persuaded him to wait two days.
• Feng Jun and his companions traveled from Lantern Town to Liba Beach, where he confirmed that oil lay beneath a boulder blocking the insect carcasses.
• Feng Jun set up the Traveling Residence in a wooded area and decided to let Venerable Yang recuperate for two days.
• Venerable Yang asked Feng Jun to take the harvest back to his clan so he could conduct a third experiment, despite nearly failing to awaken after the second.

Feng Jun warned Venerable Yang that the next experiment would be more dangerous, then returned to the Blue Star Realm and arranged to deliver crude oil samples to Elder Yu. After delivering the oil, he visited his old friend Dou Jiahui in Chaori.

• Venerable Yang thanked Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi for helping him profit from the battle, while Feng Jun urged him to focus on recovering before the next experiment.
• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin that Teacher Mei's special ability let her help with dangerous work and encouraged Zhang Caixin to reach the Emergence from Dust Stage.
• Feng Jun called Elder Yu and arranged for crude oil samples to be tested at a site between Ming City and Su City.
• Feng Jun filled five Storage Talismans with crude oil, used an illusion array to conceal himself, and poured the oil into two tankers.
• Feng Jun visited Dou Jiahui's shop in Chaori and gave him a ninety-nine-gram longevity lock for his expected child.

Feng Jun faced Mayor Wu’s pressure to take over Jixiang County’s troubled waterside resort project and donate more money to Yunyuan. After Mayor Wu kept pushing, Feng Jun challenged him to drink for each million yuan donated, leaving Mayor Wu furious and asking whether Feng Jun was humiliating him.

• Mayor Wu arrived at Chaori and tried to draw Feng Jun into supporting Yunyuan’s cultural tourism development.
• Dou Jiahui returned with hotel owner President Gao, and the group gathered for dinner and drinks with Mayor Wu.
• Mayor Wu urged Feng Jun to take over Jixiang County’s stalled waterside resort project, but Feng Jun refused and offered to donate money instead.
• Mayor Wu continued pressing Feng Jun, prompting Feng Jun to line up liquor mugs and offer a million yuan per mug if Mayor Wu drank them without vomiting.
• Feng Jun rebuked Mayor Wu and his secretary, then raised the offer to two million yuan per bottle of liquor.
• Mayor Wu slammed the table and demanded to know whether Feng Jun was humiliating him.

Feng Jun rebuffed Mayor Wu after the deputy mayor tried to pressure him, then learned that Elder Yu was arranging storage for exceptionally high-quality crude oil and would look into the dispute. Back at the mountain retreat, Feng Jun revealed his cultivation had advanced to the Emergence from Dust, Third Layer, and began studying the Swift Flash movement technique.

• Feng Jun refused to let Mayor Wu leave without drinking, but Mayor Wu walked out and ordered Little Li to investigate Feng Jun’s project and funds before realizing the dispute had gone badly for him.
• Dou Jiahui stood by Feng Jun despite the possible effect on his bid, while Good Scenery warned him to consider local sentiment before seeking help against Mayor Wu.
• Elder Yu told Feng Jun that tests had identified the oil as unusually high-quality, low-sulfur crude and that he was arranging storage tanks, possibly including large ones with disputed ownership.
• Elder Yu agreed to investigate Mayor Wu after Feng Jun described the conflict, and he told his secretary to find out about him.
• Feng Jun returned to the mountain retreat, told Zhang Caixin he had reached the Emergence from Dust, Third Layer, and studied Swift Flash until midnight while Good Scenery waited for him.

Feng Jun arranged Kaiwei’s battery shipment, accepted Elder Yu’s offer of more wheat, and ordered an investigation into Mayor Wu. He learned that Mayor Wu had come to the construction site, drunk two bottles of liquor to beg forgiveness, and fallen ill, and Feng Jun decided to find out who had leaked the news before deciding what to do.

• Feng Jun sent Zhang Caixin to Kaiwei Company to handle the completed batteries and told Luo Hua to receive Yuan Lao and Mr. Peng.
• Feng Jun confirmed that lithium battery restrictions had been lifted and negotiated with Elder Yu over a possible purchase of five hundred thousand tons of wheat.
• Elder Yu offered to investigate Mayor Wu, and Feng Jun chose that option over having Yuan Zihao’s eldest son warn him.
• Mayor Wu visited the construction site, drank two bottles of liquor, begged Feng Jun to spare him, and collapsed after vomiting.
• Feng Jun rejected Zhang Junyi’s suggestion to take Mayor Wu to the hospital and called Li Shishi to ask how news of the investigation had leaked.

Yuan Huakun’s attempt to keep others from interfering accidentally alerted Mayor Wu to Feng Jun’s plans, but Wu took sick leave and withdrew from his position. After returning to Lantern Town in the Phone Plane, Feng Jun was preparing to accept the Du Clan’s offer to guard Liba Beach when news arrived from Mingsha Market.

• Yuan Huakun told Feng Jun that Classmate Zhu had leaked their conversation to Mayor Wu, and Feng Jun lamented that the leak had disrupted his plans to make an example of Wu and another official.
• Yuan Huakun confessed his mistake to Yuan Lao, and the next morning Mayor Wu took sick leave; Feng Jun suspected Classmate Zhu had helped prompt Wu’s retreat.
• Rumors spread that Feng Jun had driven Mayor Wu from power, while Zhang Junyi denied to Chao Ying that Feng Jun had quarreled with local officials.
• After practicing Flash Step by the lake, Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane and traveled with the others from Liba Beach to Lantern Town.
• Du Fanghui offered to have Du Clan disciples guard Liba Beach, and Feng Jun was about to accept when someone announced a reply from Mingsha Market.

Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia gathered allies in Lantern Town after the three Lu brothers provoked them, preparing to confront the brothers and their supporters. Adept Qiu arrived to join them just as Lu Zhaofeng reached town with a guest cultivator.

• Wu Adept reported the Lu brothers' provocation to Feng Jun, who said they should wait for a just cause before acting.
• Huangfu Wuxia discussed Tiantong's possible support with Shopkeeper Tang and asked him to invite Adept Qiu to Lantern Town.
• Du Fanghui agreed to join the fight against the Lu brothers, despite warning that they were dangerous and vindictive.
• Shopkeeper Tang contacted Adept Qiu, who switched his assignment and hurried to Lantern Town after confirming Huangfu Wuxia had requested him.
• Adept Qiu arrived in Lantern Town, and Lu Zhaofeng arrived shortly afterward with his guest cultivator.

Lu Zhaofeng and Dong Liuye ambushed Feng Jun’s group to seize the courtyard artifacts, but Feng Jun and the other adepts caught them and turned the attack against them. The chapter ended with both attackers captured and Lu Zhaofeng accusing Du Fanghui of betraying them.

• Lu Zhaofeng and Dong Liuye decided to ambush Feng Jun’s group without telling the other Lu brothers, hoping to claim a courtyard artifact for themselves.
• Chen Junwei spotted the pair watching from nearby, and Feng Jun warned the others before planning to confront them.
• Lu Zhaofeng attacked Feng Jun with a Divine Soul strike while Dong Liuye followed with Gui Water Yin Thunder and poison powder, but Feng Jun evaded the attacks by using Swift Flash and switching planes.
• Kong Ziyi absorbed the poison powder, while Huangfu Wuxia and the other adepts joined the fight against the attackers.
• Feng Jun slowed Dong Liuye with a Stasis Talisman and bound her with the Soul-Suppressing Bell, while Huangfu Wuxia captured Lu Zhaofeng.
• Lu Zhaofeng realized they had attacked six adepts and accused Du Fanghui of betraying them.

After Lu Zhaofeng was killed, Feng Jun and his allies decided to strike the Lu Clan before their agreed appointment, using Kong Ziyi’s grandmother’s token to attack their residence in Mingsha Market. Their force gathered more Adepts along the way and reached the market at night, where Adept Tu offered to join them.

• Du Fanghui beheaded Lu Zhaofeng after Huangfu Wuxia confirmed that he had no life plaque, and Venerable Yang placed a restriction on Dong Liuye before Feng Jun stored her in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Huangfu Wuxia proposed using Kong Ziyi’s grandmother’s token to attack the Lu Clan residence in Mingsha Market, and Kong Ziyi agreed to set out at dusk.
• Huangfu Wuxia arranged participation terms, while Wu Adept and Du Wentian joined the expedition seeking revenge against the Lu Clan.
• Feng Jun’s group traveled to Mingsha Market at night, where Adept Tu revealed he had located the Lu brothers and asked to join the attack.

Feng Jun’s group reported their planned attack to Chief Steward Gao, then lay in ambush outside the Lu residence until dawn. Their assault began with Du Wentian confronting Lu Zhaoshan and Lu Old Second behind the residence’s Defensive Formation, while Du Fanghui and another ally joined the fight.

• Adept Tu led Huangfu Wuxia, Feng Jun, and the others to Chief Steward Gao’s secondary residence, where Gao sobered up and agreed to guide them to the Lu residence.
• Chief Steward Gao led the group toward the Lu residence, but Adept Tu reminded him to wait until dawn before attacking.
• At dawn, Du Wentian killed the two guards at the front gate and smashed through the gate and adjacent walls.
• Lu Old First activated the Defensive Formation, trapping the attackers outside while he and Lu Old Second prepared to fight from within.
• Lu Old First fired a signal arrow and shot a tracking arrow at Du Wentian, but a shield blocked it.
• Lu Old First recognized Du Fanghui among the attackers, and another voice asked what would happen if he joined them too.

Kong Ziyi and her allies attacked the Lu brothers’ compound, while Elder Bai arrived to stop the fight and challenged the authority of the Supreme Clarity Sect token. Kong Ziyi refused to let him inspect it and ordered Venerable Yang to break the formation, escalating the confrontation.

• Kong Ziyi, Venerable Yang, Huangfu Wuxia, Feng Jun, and Venerable Tu confronted Lu Eldest and began attacking the compound’s Defensive Formation.
• Venerable Tu denied acting on Tiantong’s behalf, and Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia identified the barrier as a Mid Emergence from Dust formation.
• Chief Steward Gao ordered the patrols to stay back, declaring that Supreme Clarity Sect disciples were conducting business under an overseeing True Adept’s token.
• Elder Bai arrived and challenged the attackers, but Gao Tao explained that the token authorized their actions.
• Kong Ziyi showed Elder Bai the token, refused his request to inspect it, and ordered Venerable Yang to break the formation and kill anyone who interfered.

Lu Zhaoshan and Lu Zhaoshui tried to flee after Venerable Yang destroyed their defensive barrier, but Feng Jun killed Lu Zhaoshan and Lu Zhaoshui’s desperate teleportation ended in his death. Chief Steward Gao claimed Lu Zhaoshui’s Storage Ring, leaving the market inspectors demanding a celebration.

• Venerable Yang shattered the Lu residence’s Defensive Formation, and Lu Zhaoshan and Lu Zhaoshui fled in opposite directions.
• Feng Jun struck Lu Zhaoshan with a Divine Sense attack and then cut him in half, taking his Storage Pouch.
• Lu Zhaoshui used a Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape into a private courtyard and grabbed a little girl as a hostage.
• The courtyard’s Red Phoenix Sect woman and Yin Sha Sect man attacked Lu Zhaoshui, forcing him to activate his last Minor Teleportation Talisman.
• Lu Zhaoshui reappeared beside his own headless corpse, and Chief Steward Gao took his Storage Ring as market inspectors called for him to treat them.

Feng Jun, Kong Ziyi, and their allies pressed the marketplace to answer for the Lu Clan’s attack and Elder Bai’s interference, then spent the next day dismantling the Lu Clan’s forces and businesses. Elder Bai withdrew from the dispute, while the marketplace’s chief elder later sought a meeting with the group and was turned down.

• Gao Tao killed Lu Second Brother after the latter appeared beside him, and Elder Bai accused Gao Tao of overstepping.
• Feng Jun proposed tracing the battle aura at Lantern Town, while Huangfu Wuxia offered to bring in a True Adept; Elder Bai refused to take responsibility for investigating.
• Kong Ziyi and Feng Jun challenged Elder Bai over his treatment of the Lu Clan and warned him of the consequences of opposing the Supreme Clarity Sect.
• Du Wentian charged into a Lu Clan gambling house, and Feng Jun’s group spent the following day purging the clan’s forces and businesses as Gao Tao’s patrol inspectors suppressed looting.
• The marketplace’s chief elder invited Feng Jun, Huangfu Wuxia, and Kong Ziyi to dinner, but they declined and asked Du Fanghui to handle contact.

After the Lu Clan brothers were defeated, Feng Jun returned to Lantern Town and took Dong Liuye to the Blue Star Realm to assess her injuries. He later traveled to Jinzhou to inspect an oil storage facility, while Red Sister intercepted his group on the way.

• Feng Jun left Du Fanghui to handle matters in Mingsha Market and divided the Lu Clan brothers’ movable wealth among the group, keeping their cultivation techniques and Soul-Condensing Liquid.
• Feng Jun flew into the wilderness, released Dong Liuye, and brought her to the Blue Star Realm, where he discovered that her sea of consciousness and Divine Soul were severely damaged.
• Feng Jun told Teacher Mei that Dong Liuye might be left vegetative, then waited while she and the others cultivated for several days.
• After Elder Yu reported securing an oil storage facility in Jinzhou, Feng Jun left Chaori to inspect it and called Luo Hua to check on the estate.
• Red Sister drove after Feng Jun’s group and intercepted them near Yang City, so Gazi returned to Luo Hua to watch over the estate.
• Feng Jun and the three women inspected the halted oil storage project, whose private owners and the government were still disputing its price.

Feng Jun inspected the Jinzhou oil storage base, and Elder Yu arranged for it to be taken over so Feng Jun could supply crude oil. After searching Bingzhou for clues about the Stone Ring, Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane and revealed the unconscious Dong Liuye to his allies, who recognized that he had anticipated their suspicions.

• Feng Jun inspected the oil storage base and told Elder Yu that its facilities were suitable for storing crude oil despite its limited capacity.
• Elder Yu arranged for the company to lend the base, and a security team took it over before he asked Feng Jun to begin supplying oil that night.
• Feng Jun searched Bingzhou for clues about the Stone Ring but found nothing, then returned to the Phone Plane to practice Swift Flash and study the Teleportation Array.
• Feng Jun released the Traveling Residence Blessing Courtyard and joined Kong Ziyi, Huangfu Wuxia, Venerable Yang, and Du Wentian for a meal.
• When Du Wentian warned that Dong Liuye remained dangerous, Feng Jun released her unconscious body from the Spirit Beast Bag, and Kong Ziyi and Venerable Yang understood what he had done.

After Dong Liuye was taken away for study, Feng Jun arranged for the Huangfu and Du Clans to patrol Liba Beach and collect Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses. The oil operation expanded with plans for more wells, a warehouse, and hired workers, leaving Feng Jun to realize that his simple setup was becoming a much larger business.

• Kong Ziyi took Dong Liuye away to study whether she could be cured after agreeing that the Carefree Soul-Replenishing Pill might not help.
• Huangfu Wuxia's people and Du Clan disciples arrived at Lantern Town, and Feng Jun assigned them patrol duties and carcass collection at Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun calculated that paying Spirit Stones for crude-oil collection was worthwhile and had the cultivators begin extracting oil.
• Du Wentian proposed opening five or six more wells and building a warehouse, and Feng Jun approved both plans.
• Du Wentian argued that hired Mortal Transcendence cultivators should do the extraction work instead of the Du Clan's elite patrol members, and offered to cover the workers' costs.

Du Wentian recruited workers for Liba Beach, while Wu Adept negotiated to send Wu Clan members despite Du Wentian’s reluctance to entangle himself in the Wu Clan’s dispute with Feng Jun. The chapter ended with Huangfu Wuxia inspecting a shipment of Graphene and confirming that more than thirty tons were substandard.

• Du Wentian recruited a dozen honest Du Clan members and sought workers in Lantern Town, where hundreds of applicants gathered for the limited positions.
• Wu Adept arrived after learning about the jobs and asked Du Wentian to hire Wu Clan members so he could build a connection with Feng Jun.
• Du Wentian refused to involve himself in the Wu Clan’s grudge with Feng Jun but agreed to register thirty Wu Clan workers, with the Wu Clan paying their wages.
• Feng Jun considered the oil extraction and wondered why Dragon Wanderer of the Yin Sha Sect was interested in Liba Beach.
• Huangfu Wuxia examined the remaining 260 tons of Graphene from the Orderless Plane and confirmed that more than thirty tons were inferior quality.

Feng Jun oversaw the crude-oil harvest in the Orderless Plane, discussed Venerable Yang’s wish to target Elder Bai with Kong Ziyi, and returned to Blue Star. There, Zhang Caixin persuaded him to consider taking her to the Jinzhou base by offering to learn how to help.

• Huangfu Wuxia planned to use the defective Graphene as leverage against the Nangong Family, while Feng Jun agreed to make up a few tons of genuine goods.
• Venerable Yang asked Feng Jun about attacking another family and suggested Elder Bai as a possible target, but Feng Jun deferred the decision to Kong Ziyi.
• Kong Ziyi said Elder Bai was unsuitable for abnormal testing methods, and Feng Jun decided to wait a few more days before testing Venerable Yang.
• After the Oversized Storage Pouch was filled with crude oil, Feng Jun returned to Blue Star with Red Sister, Zhang Caixin, and Good Scenery.
• Zhang Caixin offered to learn the equipment procedures and help Feng Jun at the Jinzhou base, so Feng Jun called Elder Yu to ask whether its surveillance could be turned off at night.