Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun considered how Luo Hua could recruit enough help without exhausting its cultivation resources, and Li Shishi and Yang Yuxin proposed letting current members bring in relatives and friends. The chapter ended with Yang Yuxin barring Li Shishi’s own connections, prompting Li Shishi to challenge her decision.

• Zhang Caixin felt pressured by Yu Qingzhu’s rapid cultivation progress and devoted herself more earnestly to cultivation.
• Li Shishi told Feng Jun that work at the Nursing Center and manor had left her with too many responsibilities, then proposed recruiting through current members’ families and friends.
• Yang Yuxin supported internal recruitment and argued that family-style management could assign responsibility for newcomers and their resources to the people who introduced them.
• Feng Jun considered the proposal, while Yang Yuxin warned that benefits should not be distributed casually and said Li Shishi’s relatives and friends could not be introduced.
• Li Shishi protested that her close friend needed work and asked Yang Yuxin whether she had done something wrong.

Feng Jun set strict rules for Luohua Manor's first round of recruiting through personal connections, prompting an argument over who deserved the few available places. He left the recommenders to choose trustworthy candidates, while Gazi struggled to think of someone suitable.

• Li Shishi accepted Yang Yuxin's warning that she had brought too many of her own people into Luohua Manor and thanked her for the guidance.
• Feng Jun announced that only six senior members could recommend candidates, that entrants would pay and receive no cultivation resources from Luohua, and that only three people would be accepted.
• Wang Haifeng and Xu Leigang argued over whether Wang's wife or Xu's daughter should receive a place, and Feng Jun allowed Wang to pass his Martial Cultivation method to his wife.
• Zhang Caixin asked to use the Immortal Ascension Mirror to assess candidates, but Feng Jun emphasized that trustworthiness and helping the manor mattered more than aptitude.
• Gazi suggested Sanbengzi and Hua Bian'er, but Feng Jun rejected them as unsuitable, then told Gazi to consider someone less familiar with him.

Feng Jun left Luohua’s members to discuss three welfare cultivation slots and urged them to contribute to the manor. Their debate over recommending relatives grew tense, leaving Zhang Caixin storming off to ask Feng Jun while the others reconsidered their priorities.

• Feng Jun told the group to discuss the three welfare slots and asked Zhang Caixin and Li Shishi to establish Luohua’s Contribution Points System.
• Yang Yuxin offered Gazi two hundred million to recommend someone, and Yu Qingzhu raised her offer to five hundred million.
• Zhang Caixin objected that the slots could not be transferred and that Luohua should avoid government entanglements, then left to ask Feng Jun directly.
• Xu Leigang advised Yu Qingzhu not to fight for a slot, while Gazi told her to focus on cultivation instead.
• Good Scenery urged everyone to cultivate well and stop fixating on bringing friends and relatives into Luohua, and Wang Haifeng and Xu Leigang asked for votes for their wives.

Zhang Caixin prevented the welfare slots from being transferred and helped select three new residents for Luohua Manor, though the outcome stirred dissatisfaction and signs of factionalism. Liang Siyu was chosen but delayed her arrival to enjoy Fashion Week with her friends.

• Zhang Caixin complained to Feng Jun about attempts to use wealth and influence to claim welfare slots, and Feng Jun ruled that the slots could not be bought or sold.
• The six recommenders voted, selecting Madam Wang, Liu Yuting, Xu Xiaowei, and Zhang Caixin’s best friend, Liang Siyu, for the three slots; Zhao Hui would accompany her daughter and help manage the manor.
• Good Scenery urged everyone not to vote for her cousin, and all six votes in the final round went to Liang Siyu.
• Gazi remarked that four women would be joining the manor, while Yu Qingzhu, Gu Jiahui, and Yang Yuxin grew dissatisfied with Zhang Caixin and factionalism began to emerge.
• Zhao Hui, Xu Xiaowei, and Liu Yuting moved into the manor, and Liang Siyu received her notice while arriving in the city for Fashion Week.
• Liang Siyu asked Zhang Caixin for two days to enjoy the trip with her friends, while Zhang Caixin urged her to return immediately.

Zhang Caixin brought Liang Siyu back to Luo Hua to manage the manor and introduced her to its cultivation and Cancer-care operations. Liang Siyu arrived curious and skeptical, then learned the opportunity was highly coveted and saw Zhang Caixin produce cosmetics seemingly from nowhere.

• Liang Siyu’s friend’s boyfriend urged her to return to Luo Hua after explaining that it had cured his uncle’s Cancer, and Liang Siyu bought a flight back to China.
• Zhang Caixin met Liang Siyu at Yang City Railway Station and explained that Liang would help manage the manor, though she was tied for twelfth in its leadership order.
• Zhang Caixin told Liang Siyu that Elder Yu lived at Luo Hua and that Elder Yu’s granddaughter had offered five hundred million and a favor from the Yu family for Liang’s opportunity.
• When Liang Siyu worried that Zhang had been brainwashed, Zhang produced a large set of cosmetics from nowhere and said the regular military was monitoring them.
• Zhang Caixin showed Liang Siyu Luo Hua’s grounds and Cancer Care Center, explaining that treatment cost five million per person after being reduced from one hundred million.

Liang Siyu settled into her new responsibilities at the manor while Feng Jun waited for the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit’s scent to fade. He offered Yang Yuxin a chance to extend her life through cultivation, then left for Mairui Country after Sophia reported an urgent lead.

• Zhao Hui, Liu Yuting, and Liang Siyu divided the manor’s internal affairs, external reception, finances, bulk goods, and construction duties.
• Liang Siyu saw Gu Jiahui produce crates of communications equipment in the warehouse without a truck and realized the manor’s goods appeared through supernatural means.
• Yang Yuxin asked Feng Jun when he could divine for Gu Jiahui, and he encouraged Yang to cultivate, revealing that he had life-extending pills.
• Feng Jun told Yang Yuxin that a Longevity Pill would be more useful for her than for Elder Yu or her brother-in-law because she could advance through cultivation.
• Wang Haifeng told Feng Jun that Sophia had found a lead and wanted him to come immediately, so Feng Jun used My Footprints to travel to the woods near the Jensen Family in Mairui Country.

Feng Jun found Sophia hiding from Keen, a wanted apostate who claimed to know how to make holy water and had threatened to turn her into a demon. After giving Sophia the gold he owed her, Feng Jun prepared to contact Keen and explore a trade.

• Feng Jun searched for Sophia and found her hiding with a shotgun in an unlit room away from home.
• Sophia told Feng Jun that Keen had offered to sell her the secret of making holy water for ninety million Mairui dollars and threatened her when she could not pay.
• Sophia explained that Keen had tried to locate her through a virus attack, so she had fled and discarded her phone.
• Feng Jun learned that Keen was wanted for blood sacrifices and had summoned an imp with souls, but Sophia did not know where he was.
• Feng Jun put thirty-five gold bars in Sophia's car to repay the gold debt and suggested asking Keen whether he would accept payment in gold.

Sophia and Feng Jun met Keane at an abandoned factory to exchange gold for the goods he had promised, but Keane revealed that he intended to take everything and attacked them. Feng Jun destroyed Keane’s little devil with the Falling Thunder Technique, and Keane retaliated by firing a demon bullet at Feng Jun.

• Sophia drove with Feng Jun to a secluded location, negotiated with Keane online, and arranged to trade three and a half tons of gold at an abandoned factory.
• Feng Jun set out the gold bars and gave Sophia a talisman before Keane arrived and inspected the gold.
• Keane questioned Sophia about her courage, admitted he wanted everything, and confirmed that he knew she could see his little devil.
• Keane summoned a thunderbolt and sent the little devil lunging at Feng Jun, who destroyed it with the Falling Thunder Technique.
• Keane suffered backlash from the little devil’s destruction, then pulled a trigger hidden in his umbrella handle and fired a demon bullet at Feng Jun.

Feng Jun defeated Keane after the Little Demon turned to ashes, captured him with the Soul-Suppressing Bell, and forced him to reveal the Water of Life secret. Feng Jun then used Soul Search to confirm key information, but the search left his own Divine Soul fatigued and revealed how powerful Keane’s was.

• Feng Jun bound Keane with the Immortal-Binding Cord after the Demon Bullet failed to harm him, then captured Keane’s escape as black smoke with the Soul-Suppressing Bell.
• Feng Jun refused Keane’s offers and demanded the secret of the Holy Water, while Sophia recovered a paper roll from the silver pistol’s grip.
• Feng Jun translated the paper roll and questioned Keane about its reference to an object that gathered Faith.
• Feng Jun knocked Keane unconscious and used Soul Search, finding that Keane’s Divine Soul held the remnants of his three sons and could set traps against interrogation.
• Feng Jun withdrew from the search after confirming two needed facts, then discovered that Keane’s Divine Soul had left him fatigued and that someone was holding him tightly.

Feng Jun brought Keane back to Luohua Manor and learned from his memories that Keane had once killed two beggars in Xia Nation before fleeing its powerful response. Lin Heihu identified the captive as a minor evil god and prepared to refine it, while Feng Jun confirmed Keane’s crimes.

• Feng Jun stored Keane in the Spirit Beast Bag, and Sophia asked him to teach her cultivation in return for helping uncover the Holy Water secret.
• Feng Jun took Sophia to the Blessing Courtyard, told her what information to seek at the church, and left with the Blood Essence Protective Talisman.
• At Luohua Manor, Feng Jun found that Keane had survived being transported across Footprints and read that a sufficiently intense Divine Descent could leave its vessel with retained memories.
• Lin Heihu recognized the chaotic aura around Keane as that of a minor evil god and said it would soon disperse in Xia Nation.
• Keane’s memories revealed that he had killed two beggars in Xia Nation, fled after being detected by a cultivator and the state, and never returned.
• Feng Jun gave Keane to Lin Heihu to refine, and Lin Heihu sensed that Keane had committed evil in Xia Nation.

Feng Jun showed Lin Heihu the Holy Water method, which Lin Heihu believed suited his cultivation path, and arranged for Li Shishi to translate it. After studying the method through the night, Feng Jun went to find Sophia at a church and contacted her with Divine Sense.

• Lin Heihu agreed to refine Keane’s Incense Faith later and asked Feng Jun to translate the Holy Water method so he could study it.
• Feng Jun first assigned the translation to Liang Siyu, but changed his mind when he noticed she resembled his former girlfriend, Zhang Yunzhen, and gave the task to Li Shishi instead.
• Li Shishi accepted the urgent translation job, while Liang Siyu told Zhang Caixin about Feng Jun’s unexpected rejection.
• Feng Jun and Lin Heihu examined the Holy Water method through the night as Feng Jun worked out how it absorbed faith and transformed it through a formation.
• Feng Jun teleported near Jensen’s home, learned Sophia had gone to the county church, and contacted her with Divine Sense.
• Sophia dropped her book when Feng Jun’s message startled her, then gathered her phone and iPad and went outside to open a car.

Feng Jun raided Keane’s hidden stash and found the Golden Sunflower, a sacred relic Sophia recognized. He offered to help her cultivate using it, but she remained focused on cultivating with him and pointed out that Zhang Caixin also had Western Continent blood.

• Feng Jun used a sleeping drug on Keane’s maid, disabled the surveillance, and took the contents of Keane’s secret stash, including a blackened cross.
• Feng Jun returned to Sophia in the Flying Boat and revealed that the cross contained the Golden Sunflower.
• Sophia identified the Golden Sunflower as a sacred relic and warned that its aura could expose them, so Feng Jun demonstrated how his barrier could contain it.
• Feng Jun offered Sophia a chance to cultivate through Faith using the Golden Sunflower, explaining that he could not pass her his own cultivation technique because of their different genes.
• Sophia rejected the Church and said she only wanted to cultivate with Feng Jun, then noted that Zhang Caixin seemed to have Western Continent blood too.

Feng Jun left Sophia with the Golden Sunflower and returned to find Lin Heihu refining Keane’s aura and launching a reality-show livestream to gather Faith. After Zhang Caixin delivered a million tons of grain, Feng Jun prepared to leave for the Phone Plane, while she passed along Yu Zhiyuan’s request for a long-term oil contract.

• Sophia reluctantly accepted the Golden Sunflower cultivation method and agreed to gather more information about Church cultivators before visiting Feng Jun in Luo Hua.
• Lin Heihu finished refining Keane’s evil god aura, absorbed Keane’s Vitality completely, and explained that he planned to gain Incense Faith through a reality-show livestream.
• Lin Heihu began livestreaming with a filter that made him resemble Xu Xiaofu, but the show drew few viewers despite support from Tang Wenji and other familiar IDs.
• Feng Jun told Lin Heihu that traffic would not appear on its own, then called Zhang Caixin to collect the Storage Pouches containing one million tons of grain.
• Zhang Caixin asked whether she could accompany Feng Jun, but he said the situation at his destination was delicate and promised to return for her if possible.
• Zhang Caixin told Feng Jun that Yu Zhiyuan wanted a five-year contract for another fifty million cubic meters of oil, and Feng Jun tapped his phone to leave.

Feng Jun emerged from seclusion at Emergence from Dust, Fifth Layer and returned to Liba Beach, where he faced new negotiations and requests from the gathered sects. The chapter ended with a Red Phoenix Adept reminding him that their Merit Honoree was still recovering from her injuries.

• Feng Jun caught a Qi Refining cultivator spying on him for Myriad Blessings Platform, took the man's Storage Talisman, and warned him not to earn money from him again.
• Qu Jianlei congratulated Feng Jun on advancing and told him that Dragon Wanderer had been executed by a Thunder Plains cultivator during a bounty mission.
• Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach with Qu Jianlei, where Kong Ziyi, Li Zhishen, Bai Luan, and others congratulated him on reaching Emergence from Dust, Fifth Layer.
• Wang Wuji presented Feng Jun with the Mountains and Rivers Feng Shui secret tome and said Azuresteel Sect could provide Teleportation Array Discs but not the requested Teleportation Array.
• Bai Luan asked Feng Jun to lower his divination fees for Red Phoenix disciples and said the sect could help him in return; Feng Jun agreed to consider it.
• A Red Phoenix Adept told Feng Jun that their sect's Merit Honoree was still recovering from her injuries.

After Feng Jun celebrated his advancement, he consulted the Yin Soul Big Shot about Holy Water and a Faith Apotheosis method for two friends. Their discussion of how to gather Faith ended with the Big Shot erupting in anger over a low-cost Sky Veil.

• Qu Jianlei defended Glory Merit Hall’s protectors, and Feng Jun resolved to treat them as people rather than take their sacrifices for granted.
• Feng Jun hosted a large celebration, where Qu Jianlei and Sumiao stopped Li Zhishen from challenging Wang Wuji to a duel.
• Feng Jun showed the Yin Soul Big Shot Holy Water, and it identified the Faith inside as Wild Worship that was useless to it.
• Feng Jun shared a Holy Water production process, and the Yin Soul Big Shot pointed out hidden back doors and questioned how his friends would distribute Faith-gathering tokens.
• Feng Jun suggested that ordinary performers could reach hundreds of millions of people through a low-cost Sky Veil, and the Yin Soul Big Shot flew into a rage about a woman who had left it in its miserable state.

Feng Jun and the Big Shot refined the Faith cultivation art through Divination, then Feng Jun visited Sun Rongxun to divine her prospects and investigate her Golden Crow Nirvana Art. The Big Shot warned him that Golden Crow Nirvana was a secret transmission capable of reaching Soul Division Stage.

• The Big Shot helped Feng Jun divine the Faith cultivation art, seal two loopholes, and clarify how its followers could cultivate.
• Feng Jun asked the Big Shot whether a four-hundred-and-twenty-year-old at Peak Emergence from Dust could achieve Core Embrace, then realized others regarded his Divination as expert guidance.
• Feng Jun visited the Red Phoenix Sect estate and offered Sun Rongxun a Divination, promising to reduce the sect's fee depending on whether he could provide useful advice.
• Feng Jun discovered Sun Rongxun had Innate Pure Fire and asked to match her Golden Crow Nirvana Art, but she refused to reveal the sect's supreme cultivation art without permission.
• The Big Shot summoned Feng Jun and pointed out that Golden Crow Nirvana was a secret transmission capable of reaching Soul Division Stage.

Sun Rongxun explained how an interrupted Golden Crow Nirvana left her Divine Soul incomplete and a Soul Lure in the Red Phoenix Sect’s Glory Merit Hall. Feng Jun learned how the Glory Merit Drum worked, then turned to business with Huangfu Wuxia, who had come to discuss his new oil and grain trade.

• The Yin Soul Big Shot explained that Sun Rongxun’s interrupted nirvana likely caused her accumulated vitality and incomplete recovery.
• Sun Rongxun told Feng Jun that she had forced nirvana during a crisis in the Endless Sea, was later attacked while recovering, and had been left with an incomplete Divine Soul.
• After the sect granted permission, Sun Rongxun revealed that her Soul Lure was kept in the Glory Merit Hall and that the Glory Merit Drum could be activated by senior sect members.
• Sun Rongxun explained that only a small number of Red Phoenix Sect cultivators practiced the Golden Crow Nirvana Art, including Tang Rongxun, whose damaged foundation prevented Core Embrace.
• Feng Jun told Du Wentian to resume oil extraction and entered seclusion, but Huangfu Wuxia came to discuss trade and asked about his wheat and the Graphene.

Feng Jun negotiated a grain trade and limited communications equipment with Huangfu Wuxia, then received Soul-Search Talismans from Sun Rongxun and discussed her prospects for reaching Core Embrace. Their conversation was interrupted by the Supreme Elder, whom Feng Jun asked to enter through the door so he could preserve his Divine Doctor persona.

• Feng Jun brought up grain with Huangfu Wuxia before discussing the limited communications equipment he had brought, and she asked him to help meet the Council's staffing needs.
• Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia he would provide instructional videos rather than train hundreds of technicians himself.
• Sun Rongxun gave Feng Jun more than a hundred Soul-Search Talismans and warned him not to use them too often.
• Sun Rongxun asked Feng Jun whether she could reach Core Embrace, and he suggested that she might fuse with the Glory Merit Drum or become its Artifact Spirit.
• The Supreme Elder appeared in the air and agreed with Feng Jun's remarks about Artifact Spirits, and Feng Jun asked her to use the door.

Feng Jun negotiated with Xia Nishang over Sun Rongxun’s cultivation after she became an Artifact Spirit, then began drafting a Spirit Cultivation method that avoided Incense Faith. Xia Nishang recognized the method’s unusual origins and realized Feng Jun’s knowledge and connections were even more remarkable than she had assumed.

• Xia Nishang introduced herself to Feng Jun and Sun Rongxun, confirmed that Kun Hao cultivators could reach Nascent Soul Formation, and discussed Sun Rongxun’s future as an Artifact Spirit.
• Xia Nishang produced Red Phoenix’s Soul Seal Method but withheld it, then gave Feng Jun one thousand Spirit Stones after he argued that even speculative ideas deserved payment.
• Feng Jun proposed a Spirit Cultivation method that would let Sun Rongxun cultivate without being tainted by Incense Faith, and Xia Nishang agreed not to pass it on.
• Xia Nishang briefly released her Divine Sense inside Feng Jun’s Traveling Residence, alerting Feng Jun that someone might sense the Yin Soul Big Shot’s presence.
• Feng Jun drafted the method, explaining that it drew on Wild Worship from other planes, and Xia Nishang recognized its unconventional principles and reconsidered how highly she should regard him.

Feng Jun and Xia Nishang debated the cultivation theory he had written, and she eventually realized that his unexplained arguments came from guidance by a Spirit Projection expert. Xia Nishang accepted that Sun Rongxun’s cultivation should remain Feng Jun’s responsibility, though her curiosity about his secret knowledge remained.

• Feng Jun and Xia Nishang argued over his cultivation theories, with Xia Nishang winning most disputes because Feng Jun could not reveal the advanced knowledge behind his reasoning.
• Xia Nishang praised Feng Jun’s ideas, gave him a blood essence protective talisman, and offered to guide Sun Rongxun’s cultivation.
• Feng Jun insisted that Sun Rongxun’s cultivation plan was his responsibility and told Xia Nishang to discuss one disputed point after she reached the Spirit Projection Stage.
• Xia Nishang realized Feng Jun might have received guidance from a Spirit Projection expert and asked him to explain, but he refused to reveal knowledge restricted from the Kunhao Plane.
• Xia Nishang asked whether his earlier silences meant she had not actually stumped him, and Feng Jun again implied that he should handle Sun Rongxun’s matters.