Chapter Summaries

Lin Heihu’s Cancer Care Center drew growing attention after an influencer’s livestream posts spread online, while authorities tried to suppress its location. Richard’s account of being cured at Luohua Manor sparked an international controversy over the treatment, which left Bairui Pharmaceuticals and Hines’s former fiancée disputing who developed it.

• Lin Heihu’s livestream audience grew as online posts about the Cancer Care Center spread, but authorities blocked posts that revealed its location.
• Guo Junsheng told an emigrant childhood friend that the center was beside Luohua Manor, prompting the friend to post about its supposed divine arts on Twitter.
• Richard reposted the claim, said Luohua Manor had cured his Cancer in under a month, and revealed that he had paid one hundred million Mairui currency.
• Online debate turned to whether Xia Nation had stolen the treatment technology, and Elsa accused Luohua Manor of murdering her late husband Hines and taking his work.
• Bairui Pharmaceuticals denied using Hines’s approach and said Elsa had been his fiancée, received partial compensation, and agreed not to pursue the matter.

Feng Jun negotiated with Lin Beauty over foreign cancer-care applicants, setting high fees and requiring them to queue through Daoist Order recommendations. He later discussed with Steward Feng how foreign donations and conversion would affect admission and the Daoist Order’s overseas expansion.

• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun to explain his cancer treatment and secure foreign applicants special quotas, but he refused to share methods or make exceptions.
• Feng Jun set the foreign care fee at twenty million Mairui currency and said applicants had to wait in line, with any priority access costing at least four hundred million Mairui currency.
• Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that foreign applicants outside official channels needed recommendations through the Daoist Order, and most accepted the requirement.
• Steward Feng reported that a foreigner had offered incense at Baizong Mountain and promised a donation in exchange for a recommendation, but Feng Jun told him to follow the regular queue rules.
• Feng Jun set a five-million-Mairui-currency fee for foreigners who converted to the Daoist Order and encouraged overseas temple-building under Central Land’s leadership.
• Feng Jun and Steward Feng debated whether spreading the Daoist Order abroad was like foreign missionary work, with Feng Jun comparing it to Xia Culture Academies overseas.

Feng Jun and Steward Feng discussed promoting Daoism overseas as a voluntary form of cultural export, prompting Xia Culture Academy to consider highlighting Daoist culture. Meanwhile, Lin Heihu advanced in cultivation and a foreign convert returned home planning to build a Daoist Temple, hoping his conversion would move him up the treatment queue.

• Feng Jun explained to Steward Feng that Xia Nation should export Daoist culture to earn recognition rather than seek control, and urged him to promote overseas temple construction.
• Feng Jun said Luo Hua would generally not teach cultivation to foreigners or let them receive its Dragon Gate Assembly prizes, though exceptional contributions could earn exceptions.
• Xia Culture Academy received instructions to strengthen its promotion of Daoist culture, which officials framed as local mysticism within Xia civilization's inclusive tradition.
• Lin Heihu advanced to the Sixth Layer Qi Condensation, while guards around Luohua Manor posted signs declaring the Holy Guard inviolable.
• Three days later, Baizong Mountain's Xuan De Heavenly Grotto accepted ten more foreign converts, and its first foreign convert returned home intending to build a Daoist Temple.
• After converting, the foreigner asked Steward Feng to move him up in the treatment queue because he had made offerings and joined the Daoist Order.

Director Feng’s refusal to rush foreign converts helped draw more people to the Daoist Order, while Feng Jun strengthened a powerful Earth Vein in Chaori and brought his parents to Luohua by teleportation. The chapter leaves Feng Jun facing Tang Wenji, who arrived seeking help to reach the Innate Realm.

• Director Feng told a foreign lay believer with late-stage Cancer to build a Daoist temple at home and study the Origin Scripture before seeking refuge.
• After Director Feng declined to accept them immediately, the foreign lay believer and twelve others eventually took refuge in the Daoist Order, beginning its overseas cultural outreach.
• Feng Jun discovered that Chaori’s Earth Vein was exceptionally strong, improved it, and established a defensive array over a square kilometer.
• Feng Jun brought Feng Wenhui and Zhang Junyi through a Teleportation Array Disc from Chaori to the Jadeite Tower in Luohua.
• Feng Jun explained the teleportation discs to the women cultivating in the backyard, and Tang Wenji arrived asking him to help her advance to the Innate Realm.

Feng Jun told Tang Wenji that an Innate Martial Dao Pill could help her reach the Innate Realm, but advised her to cultivate at Luo Hua instead of rushing to take it. Tang Wenji struggled to choose between advancing her cultivation and staying at Azure Mountain, and learned that she might be able to reach the Innate Realm without medicine.

• Feng Jun brought out an Innate Martial Dao Pill and used divination to determine that Tang Wenji had only a fifteen percent chance of advancing if she took it now.
• Feng Jun urged Tang Wenji to cultivate at Luo Hua for two years, saying her chance of advancement could rise to at least fifty percent.
• Tang Wenji explained that Azure Mountain depended on her as a popular figure and that she could not freely use its Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Feng Jun warned Tang Wenji that remaining at Azure Mountain could delay her progress by at least ten years.
• Feng Jun advised Tang Wenji to treat the pill as a last resort because advancing through medicine could limit her future achievements, and Tang Wenji asked whether she could reach the Innate Realm without it.

Tang Wenji learned that reaching the Innate Realm could lead to further cultivation and decided to stay at Luo Hua. Feng Jun then investigated a Lung Cancer patient whose body contained innate spiritual energy, discovering that it interfered with the Gu Insects’ treatment.

• Feng Jun told Tang Wenji that she could advance beyond the Innate Realm, and explained why she and the others had begun with Martial Cultivation.
• Tang Wenji decided to cultivate at Luo Hua while remaining Azure Mountain’s Little Celestial Master, and Good Scenery reminded her that Luo Hua would not take another sect’s lineage.
• Feng Wenhui urged Feng Jun to choose a partner and praised Yu Qingzhu, while Feng Jun only promised to consider it.
• Huahua told Feng Jun that a Cancer patient had innate spiritual energy, but Feng Jun refused to use Soul Search and went to investigate the man himself.
• Feng Jun found that Liu Bo’s spiritual energy protected his organs and benefited both the Cancer Cells and Gu Insects, slowing the treatment.

Feng Jun traced Liu Bo’s mysterious illness to a sealed coal mine, where he found faint spirit energy leading to an ancient cave abode. After discovering a powerful energy field far below the chamber, he began descending toward it.

• Feng Jun ordered Liu Yuting to investigate the three patients whose illnesses had resisted treatment, and Liu Bo eventually revealed his past.
• Liu Yuting’s findings led Feng Jun to suspect the coal mine collapse where Liu Bo had survived thirteen days underground by drinking water from a coal seam.
• Feng Jun traveled to Good City and entered the sealed mine, where his Divine Sense detected faint spirit energy escaping through a crack.
• Feng Jun used Turning Stone to Mud to follow the crack deep underground and found an ancient Qi Practitioner’s stone chamber with abundant spirit energy but no apparent treasures.
• Feng Jun’s phone detected a powerful energy field five hundred meters beneath the chamber, and he began descending toward it.

Feng Jun discovered a Spirit Stone Vein hidden beneath a Breath-Concealing Formation, protected by a deadly Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Formation. He restored the concealment and left the vein untouched for now, then returned to Luohua Manor and warned Huahua away from the site.

• Feng Jun found a powerful Breath-Concealing Formation and used Divination to learn that disabling it would trigger a killing formation capable of erasing a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• After three days of study and a day of rest on the Phone Plane, Feng Jun deactivated the Breath-Concealing Formation and sensed a Spirit Stone Vein beneath the ground.
• The Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Formation contained the released spiritual energy, and Feng Jun decided to leave the vein untouched while keeping the site protected.
• Feng Jun restored the Breath-Concealing Formation, left a Footprint for future visits, and returned to Luohua Manor after seven days away.
• Huahua asked Feng Jun about the ruin, and he warned that it contained a killing formation before telling Huahua to cultivate until Mid Emergence from Dust.

Feng Jun investigated why Sophia's Alt kept asking about Daoist temples and discovered Sophia had disappeared after the Church took her Golden Sunflower. He found her hiding in an abandoned factory, rescued her, and brought her to a Traveling Residence to sleep while they considered what to do next.

• Feng Jun learned from Lin Heihu that Sophia's Alt had been asking about Daoist temples for seven days and traced the account's IP to Brui Country.
• Feng Jun returned to Sophia's shelter cabin and found its formation damaged, several materials missing, and two people waiting in ambush.
• Feng Jun searched Sophia's home and the agreed meeting places, then found her hiding in the abandoned factory where Keane had been killed.
• Sophia told Feng Jun that she had waited eight days, reached the Third Layer of Mortal Transcendence, and that the Church had taken her Golden Sunflower.
• Feng Jun gathered Sophia's belongings, carried her to a forest, and deployed a Traveling Residence so she could rest.

Sophia told Feng Jun how the Holy See had branded her an apostate after finding the Golden Sunflower, forcing her to flee and seek his help. She had escaped with the strange beast bones, and Feng Jun learned that the iron plate she had left behind was no longer there.

• Sophia explained that a Holy See Inquisitor had found the Golden Sunflower hidden in her Mini and declared her an apostate.
• Sophia fled after learning that her secret courtyard had been searched, then contacted a close friend in Brui Country to send Feng Jun a warning through a livestream.
• Sophia said she had spent six days sending flowers to Lin Heihu's livestream, which alerted Feng Jun to her message.
• Feng Jun suspected that church agents, rather than the investigation bureau, had waited at Sophia's courtyard, and Sophia said she had discarded her phone and iPad while fleeing.
• Sophia showed Feng Jun the three strange beast bones and two formation materials she had carried away, and Feng Jun praised her for protecting them.
• Sophia said she had left the iron plate behind the curtains because it was too heavy, and Feng Jun told her it was gone and was only Black Iron.

Sophia told Feng Jun that Mairui Country’s Saint Arbiter David had declared her an apostate over the Golden Sunflower, which Mairui Country and the Papal Court both claimed. Feng Jun decided to take the relic back, and Sophia began seeking David’s whereabouts, unaware that surveillance had located her.

• Sophia explained that Mairui Country and the Papal Court were disputing ownership of the Golden Sunflower, while David had declared her an apostate.
• Feng Jun said he would take the Golden Sunflower back and urged Sophia to cultivate so she could take revenge herself.
• After resting, Sophia and Feng Jun traveled to a small city, where Sophia used a coin-operated phone to call her cousin.
• Sophia asked her cousin for David’s location and learned that he was likely with the Golden Sunflower and temporarily unable to move.
• A surveillance team watching hundreds of screens identified Sophia as Target Z4061 while she spoke on the phone.

Feng Jun protected Sophia as she made calls to learn about the Investigation Bureau and the Golden Sunflower, then set out for Mingsuda to locate David and the flower. He left Sophia asleep in the Spirit Beast Bag and arrived near his destination as night fell.

• Sophia evaded surveillance while making a long call, and Feng Jun learned that the Investigation Bureau—not the police—was behind the pursuit, though the officers did not know where David or the Golden Sunflower were.
• Feng Jun used a university computer to find a seminary student's recent post placing the Golden Sunflower and David in Mingsuda.
• Feng Jun cooked Xia Nation food for Sophia, then prepared a warm bed in their tent when she said she wanted to sleep.
• Feng Jun moved the sleeping Sophia into the Spirit Beast Bag, cleaned up their campsite, and traveled toward Mingsuda without using his Flying Boat.
• Feng Jun reached Mingsuda, more than two thousand kilometers away, as night was falling.

Feng Jun confirmed that the Golden Sunflower was stored in a private museum in Mingsuda and prepared to retrieve it with Sophia. Before they could act, Holy Inquisitor David arrived at the museum as snow began to fall, forcing them to hurry to avoid leaving tracks.

• Feng Jun investigated Saint Luo Church and a private museum, confirming that the Golden Sunflower was in the museum while David remained at the church.
• Feng Jun woke Sophia, told her he had found the relic, and agreed to let her join him in recovering it.
• Feng Jun and Sophia traveled to her secret courtyard, where he knocked out two watchers and took them away in the Spirit Beast Bag.
• Feng Jun brought Sophia to a street near the museum, where they waited for the security guards to leave.
• David arrived with two other people, and Sophia recognized him as the Holy Inquisitor involved in the Golden Sunflower affair.
• Snow began falling heavily, so Feng Jun and Sophia decided to advance their plan before tracks could be left behind.

Feng Jun killed David and raided the museum, recovering the Golden Sunflower and Black Cross before escaping with Sophia. The Church covered up David’s death, then learned that two clergy members guarding Sophia had mysteriously appeared in Mingsuda.

• Feng Jun attacked David with Divine Sense, destroyed his protective cross, and killed him before incapacitating the two people beside him.
• Feng Jun broke into the museum, overcame its security systems, and stole the Golden Sunflower, Black Cross, and several other exhibits.
• Feng Jun escaped using a flying device, returned invisibly to collect Sophia, and abandoned two infiltrators on a roadside lawn.
• Feng Jun told Sophia that they had recovered the Golden Sunflower and Black Cross, and they decided to hide in the wilderness while he analyzed the cross.
• The police and Mairui Church closed David’s case, with the Church portraying him as a defender of the faith despite his death and the loss of the sacred artifact.
• Believers in the Mairui Church reported that two clergy members guarding Sophia had vanished and appeared in Mingsuda, more than two thousand kilometers away.

Feng Jun and Sophia dealt with the fallout from the museum robbery as the Investigation Bureau pressured the Jensen Family and Feng Jun prepared a box to protect the Golden Sunflower. After learning the museum owner planned to offer a reward for their capture, they abducted him from his home and left him stranded in the snow.

• The museum owner demanded that the police solve the case within five days, but his younger brother warned him that confronting the thief could get them both killed.
• The younger brother argued that the thief had taken the Golden Sunflower and Black Cross, while the missing Xia Nation artifacts could make the museum owner seem like a thief to Xia people.
• The Investigation Bureau issued the Jensen Family an ultimatum about Sophia and detained a family member who challenged its claim that she was involved in national security matters.
• Feng Jun made a rosewood box that could shield the Golden Sunflower and preserve its spiritual energy for Sophia to use for decades.
• Feng Jun and Sophia heard that the museum owner planned to offer a reward for their capture, so Feng Jun abducted him from his home and carried him into the snow.
• The museum owner woke outdoors and told the unseen man that he would comply with all his demands.

Feng Jun and Sophia confronted the museum owner over the bounty and discovered that the Investigation Bureau had extensively surveilled Sophia’s home. Feng Jun removed the surveillance and its nearby operators, but the Bureau called Sophia demanding to know where its three subordinates had gone.

• Feng Jun and Sophia warned the museum owner not to revive his bounty, and he promised to keep quiet about their encounter.
• Feng Jun and Sophia returned to Sophia’s home and found dozens of cameras and listening devices in her courtyard and nearby residences.
• Sophia chose to confront the people behind the surveillance, and Feng Jun found the signal vehicle and incapacitated its three occupants before taking the vehicle.
• Feng Jun returned with Sophia and removed nearly eighty surveillance devices from her home while her bodyguard and maid watched.
• An Investigation Bureau agent called Sophia and demanded to know where she had taken his three subordinates.

Sophia refused the Investigation Bureau’s demands while Feng Jun removed the surveillance equipment, and they left before rescuers arrived. The three missing agents were found and treated, but the Investigation Bureau discovered that its signal vehicle had vanished.

• Sophia rejected calls from Jason, Old Jensen, and Macbeth, denying knowledge of the missing agents and refusing to help search for them.
• At Feng Jun’s instruction, Sophia suggested that Macbeth ask the Jensen Family for help, then ended the call and left with Feng Jun.
• Johnson and the maid stayed behind to watch the house as Sophia and Feng Jun disappeared into the snow.
• The National Guard, police, and thirty Jensen Family members found the three agents and brought them to Old Jensen’s residence for treatment.
• Responders found that Sophia and Feng Jun had left the courtyard and removed its surveillance equipment.
• Macbeth learned that the signal vehicle was missing and grew alarmed.

Sophia used her ability to disrupt the Bureau of Investigation’s surveillance and expose its agents, then faced the Bureau when it surrounded her courtyard. After incapacitating Jason and revealing personal details about Macbeth and Jason, she claimed the Golden Sunflower had granted her power.

• Macbeth left two Bureau of Investigation employees to monitor the Jensen family, but Sophia abducted them and returned them in the snow with their equipment gone.
• Sophia removed the Bureau’s surveillance devices, collected her passport from Old Jensen, and warned that she would no longer show mercy.
• The Bureau of Investigation surrounded Sophia’s courtyard the next morning, and Johnson checked the agents’ credentials before letting them in.
• Jason punched Johnson and charged at Sophia, but Sophia declared him guilty and knocked him down; she then warned the others not to help him.
• Sophia recognized Macbeth and identified Jason as Redneck William, then told Macbeth that the Golden Sunflower had given her the ability to obtain information.

Sophia was questioned by Macbeth and used her strange powers to deter the Investigation Bureau, though she ultimately agreed to be taken to a remote base. She intended to leave Mairui Country, but agents who searched her room while she was away also collapsed, leaving Macbeth to ask whether they would recover.

• Macbeth questioned Sophia about a missing signal vehicle, her rented room, and the young man from the Western Continent, but she denied knowing about the vehicle and refused to cooperate with a search.
• Sophia declared that searching without a specific warrant was guilty, and Macbeth dropped the search after an agent reported that the house was empty.
• When a Moon-Worship Church follower challenged her, Sophia struck him with lightning, then was escorted to a vehicle despite warning the agents against harming her.
• Sophia planned to leave Mairui Country and intimidate the Investigation Bureau into letting her depart without trouble; Jason remained unconscious, while the lightning-struck follower recovered.
• Two agents later entered Sophia's yard to search her room and collapsed, prompting Macbeth to ask Sophia whether they would wake up soon.

Sophia was taken to an Investigation Bureau hub, where guards and agents mistreated her and tried to confiscate her talismans. Feng Jun intervened invisibly after the situation escalated, and the chapter ended with news that Guard Xilai had awakened an idiot.

• The convoy reached an Investigation Bureau hub, where Guard Xilai harassed Sophia and tried to slap her; she declared him guilty, but her power did not immediately affect him.
• Sophia passed several checkpoints, where a female agent found her Thunderclap Talisman and Blood Essence Protective Talisman and refused to return them.
• When Sophia protested, Feng Jun used his Divine Sense, causing the agent to fall and tear Sophia’s skirt; other agents restrained Sophia until surveillance confirmed she had not attacked anyone.
• The Investigation Bureau placed Sophia in a monitored room and avoided questioning her overnight.
• The next morning, the Investigation Bureau learned that Xilai had awakened as an idiot.