Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun sought the Supreme Clarity Sect’s Kan-Li Dao-Seeking True Explanation to help improve Nie Chifeng’s divine-sense cultivation, but Guyue made access conditional on Feng Jun improving techniques for the Supreme Clarity Sect too. Feng Jun refused and left the negotiations for Red Phoenix and Supreme Clarity to handle.

• Feng Jun told Nie Chifeng that the Supreme Clarity Sect’s technique could improve her compatibility by five percentage points, and she insisted that he negotiate for it.
• Feng Jun offered one Twinfruit each to Nie Chifeng and himself, then agreed to ask the Supreme Clarity Sect about its technique.
• Yu Pao told Feng Jun that obtaining the foundational art would likely require approval from a Peak Master, so Feng Jun went to see Guyue.
• Guyue initially said the technique could not be bought outright, but Feng Jun explained that he wanted it to help improve Red Phoenix’s core secret method.
• Guyue offered to sell the technique outright if Feng Jun improved some Supreme Clarity Sect techniques as well, and Feng Jun declined, telling him the two sects should negotiate directly.

Feng Jun negotiated the exchange and modification of cultivation methods for Red Phoenix Sect and Supreme Clarity Sect, then prepared to help Nie Chifeng cultivate. He also considered how to establish a Daoist presence in the Blue Star Realm and obtained a quiet mining formation, learning it could be used to secretly mine owned Spirit Stone Mines once he reached Golden Core.

• Feng Jun initially tried to withdraw from discussing the Kan-Li Secret Art, but after Xia Nishang intervened, Supreme Clarity Sect provided its method for him to combine with Red Phoenix Sect's cultivation method.
• Feng Jun modified the two methods for Nie Chifeng, and both sects copied the result and recognized his ability to refine cultivation methods.
• Nie Chifeng began gathering Divine Soul supplements for her Core Embrace, while Feng Jun told her they could begin cultivating after he reached the Seventh Layer of Emergence from Dust.
• Feng Jun and Sophia discussed inviting the True Martial Emperor to preside over her nearly completed Daoist Temple in the Leo Kingdom, and Feng Jun considered a public manifestation of holiness to counter demonic cultivation.
• Feng Jun asked the Big Shot how to mine a Spirit Stone Mine beneath the sea and received a bell-based mining formation that required Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to operate.
• The Big Shot explained that the formation could secretly mine Spirit Stone Mines with owners on Kun Hao, but Feng Jun would need to reach Golden Core to avoid exposure.

Feng Jun helped Sophia establish a Daoist Temple in the Leo Kingdom, outfitting it with formations and arranging guardians as opposition grew among local church leaders and believers. As Daoist Order members from Xia Nation arrived, Feng Jun defended the overseas Spirit-Gathering Formation as Sophia’s due and said its resources had come mostly from abroad.

• The Daoist Temple in Alansmu was completed, and Sophia held its opening ceremony as Xia visitors and local residents came to see it.
• Local priests protested the temple, but Sophia defended her right to study and believe in Daoism, and Minister Wolf approved work visas for Chen Shengwang and Lu Xiaoning.
• Feng Jun disguised himself as Chen Shengwang while the real Chen Shengwang returned to Xia Nation, then established gathering, defensive, and cultivation formations around the temple.
• Lin Beauty sent people to guard the temple and discreetly study spiritual energy, while Daoist Order members from Xia Nation arrived to support Sophia.
• Steward Feng recognized the Spirit-Gathering Formation and questioned Feng Jun about building it abroad, and Feng Jun said Sophia had earned it and most of its resources came from overseas.

Feng Jun weighed whether Xia Nation Daoist lineages should partner with Sophia’s overseas temple after they discovered its Spirit-Gathering Formation. He learned that such exchanges could attract political scrutiny, and the chapter ended with Sophia asking whether he was like the Pope to the Daoist cultivators.

• Manager Feng questioned whether Spirit Stones existed overseas, and Feng Jun concealed that he had obtained some abroad.
• Dong Zenghong, Tang Wangsun, Zhang Dongyuan, and Elder Guo discovered the Spirit-Gathering Formation and asked Feng Jun to let their lineages partner with Sophia’s temple.
• Avril explained that religious exchanges were permitted in Leo Kingdom but Xia Nation’s influence could make the Daoist Order a target for surveillance.
• Feng Jun told Sophia that the Daoist cultivators had discovered her Spirit-Gathering Formation and that they might help guard the temple.
• Sophia asked Feng Jun whether the Daoist cultivators were his subordinates and whether he was like the Pope.

Sophia hosted the Daoist Temple’s celebration, where a storm revealed that the temple grounds were protected by a formation she could control. The demonstration left the visitors awed and made Feng Jun’s plan to manifest divinity before the people seem successful.

• Sophia agreed to exchange disciples with the Daoist Order branches and showed particular interest in the Martial Ancestor lineage.
• A localized morning rain let the celebration proceed, and Sophia charged visitors for rice dumplings rather than giving food away for free.
• Fourth Master Lin confronted a Western Continent man who accused a girl buying rice dumplings of being a hired actress.
• A drugged-driving accident blocked the parking lot as a major storm approached, and a tourist bus returned to the temple after encountering dangerous winds and rain outside.
• Sophia briefly withdrew the protective force, exposing the visitors to the storm, then signaled Chen Shengwang to reactivate the Nurturing Array.
• The visitors reacted in shock to Sophia’s control over the weather, while Chen Shengwang reflected that Feng Mountain Lord’s plan had not been in vain.

After a mountain storm, Daisy discovered that a zongzi from the Daoist Temple had relieved her menstrual cramps, and her sister Kate experienced the same effect. The sisters returned to buy more, only to learn that the remaining zongzi had been frozen and were now in high demand.

• Daisy offered Kate a zongzi after Kate's menstrual cramps returned, and Kate's pain disappeared within ten minutes of eating it.
• Kate refused to pay Daisy the promised fifty dollars, but the sisters agreed the next morning to drive to the Daoist Temple for more zongzi.
• On the way, Kate and Daisy saw police taking away Brook, who had been caught driving under the influence of drugs after knocking down a pillar.
• At the Daoist Temple, Ruth told the sisters that the zongzi had been frozen for the celebration and that someone had offered one hundred dollars for each.

On the day of the Daoist temple celebration, visitors sought to buy more of the healthful rice dumplings, but Sophia initially refused because supplies were limited. After learning that the dumplings would lose their value over time and hearing that Daisy suffered from menstrual cramps, Sophia allowed Daisy and Kate to buy two each.

• Visitors praised the rice dumplings’ effects, but Sophia refused a company owner’s offer to buy them in bulk.
• Daisy asked Fourth Master Lin to persuade Sophia to sell rice dumplings to sincere temple believers, and he agreed to ask.
• Sophia considered keeping the dumplings as scarce resources and recalled Feng Jun’s advice not to give away favors casually.
• Avril learned that Daisy had menstrual cramps and asked Sophia about the dumplings’ shelf life.
• Chen Shengwang told Sophia that frozen rice dumplings kept their value for about half a year, so Sophia let Ruth sell two dumplings each to Daisy and Kate for twenty yuan apiece.

After Kate and Daisy completed four months of volunteering at the Daoist Temple, the Zongzi cured their menstrual pain, and news of their effects spread. As the Temple gained popularity and drew volunteer applicants, the CIA tested Zongzi and military observers watched the Temple, leaving its surroundings calm only on the surface.

• Kate and Daisy volunteered at the Daoist Temple, and Sophia told Daisy to eat one more Zongzi before ending her treatment the following month.
• Kate sold her two remaining Zongzi to a wealthy classmate, who investigated their source and helped the news spread.
• People criticized Daisy for volunteering at a Daoist Temple despite her Church Faith, and Daisy explained that the Temple welcomed people of other Faiths.
• More Alansmu residents applied to volunteer as the Daoist Temple grew popular, while Sophia carefully managed the program.
• The CIA tested Zongzi on two agents, found that their health improved, and rejected research institutes' requests for samples.
• Mairui Country's military watched the Daoist Temple's storm defenses as various forces continued observing it.

Sophia’s temple faced a coordinated probe that exploited its shortage of defenders, while Sophia, Gazi, and Zhang Caixin discussed how to respond without losing the moral high ground. Zhang Caixin emerged from the Spirit-Gathering Formation and dismissed the crisis as simple, leaving her response to come.

• Sophia advanced to Mortal Transcendence, Fourth Layer, and one of Chen Shengwang’s women later reached Mortal Transcendence, leaving Chen unable to keep guarding the temple.
• Feng Jun sent Zhang Caixin secretly to Leo Kingdom through the Teleportation Array Disc, where she stayed inside the temple’s Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• More than forty young people camped near the temple while additional people approached from other directions, overwhelming the small security team with a coordinated probe.
• Sophia suggested waiting for the intruders, but Gazi argued that they needed to deter further harassment without attacking first.
• Gazi proposed consulting Zhang Caixin, who emerged from the formation and said the problem was simple.

Zhang Caixin defended Sophia’s Daoist Temple from intruders, using rain, illusions, and poison to foil a covert operation. Days later, two Xia officials confronted Gazi and asked Luo Hua to transport goods through its secret means of entering and leaving the country, but Gazi refused.

• Zhang Caixin activated the Rain-Praying Array, trapped three intruders in Illusion Formations, and used the rain to poison four people approaching the Daoist Temple.
• Sophia and Zhang Caixin drove off four infiltrators; one trapped East Continent man later died by suicide, while the others were eventually found or treated after the rain ended.
• Zhang Caixin disposed of the dead man’s body, and the four poisoned intruders suffered severe consequences without revealing the Daoist Temple’s involvement.
• Fourth Master Lin brought a Xia man and woman to meet Lu Xiaoning, but Gazi refused to confirm Zhang Caixin’s presence or help them.
• The man revealed that his group urgently needed to transport goods home through Luo Hua’s secret travel methods, and Gazi refused while the woman demanded cooperation.

Zhang Caixin agreed to rescue four endangered agents for a steep fee, then used her invisibility and Mirage King Bracer to extract them from a hotel and a hiding place. She also attacked two snipers watching the hotel, despite being told there was no need to kill them.

• Zhang Caixin told the officials she would transport their people only under her conditions, and agreed to rescue four for 400 million, payable within half a month.
• After night fell, Zhang Caixin entered the hotel invisibly, signaled the two trapped stand-ins, and placed them in her Spirit Beast Bag.
• Zhang Caixin went to the other pair's hiding place and rescued them as well, completing the extraction in under two hours.
• Zhang Caixin called the officials to ask whether she should eliminate the snipers across from the hotel, but the man told her to let them go.
• Zhang Caixin returned to the hotel area and threw the sniper and his spotter from the high-rise building.

Zhang Caixin delivered four people and sensitive cargo from overseas while Feng Jun surveyed the waters near Leo Kingdom and arranged a bell’s placement. After returning, Feng Jun rejected Dou Jiahui’s offer of free shares in his lighting factory, then learned his former school had invited him to its centennial anniversary.

• Zhang Caixin admitted taking four people and questioned the man who asked whether she had killed the two gunmen, then accepted a box of cargo and a USB drive for delivery.
• The four unconscious people and the cargo appeared in a guest room at the Penglai Grand Hotel, where Lin Beauty secured them and received credit for handling the matter.
• Feng Jun spent nearly nine days surveying the seabed near Leo Kingdom and determined where to place the bell while Mairui searchers and fishing boats combed the area.
• Feng Jun called Dou Jiahui and refused twenty percent of the lighting factory as non-contributing shares, offering instead to invest for a ten-percent stake.
• Lin Beauty refused to exploit Feng Jun’s connection to Dou Jiahui and told her staff to help people connected to Feng Jun if they encountered trouble.
• Feng Jun stared at his phone after learning that his former school had invited him to its centennial anniversary.

Feng Jun declined to attend Jiangxia University's centennial celebration and arranged for Tang Wenji to travel to the Leo Kingdom to support Luohua's operations. He also allowed Luohua's people to continue limited courier work for Lin Beauty's organization, while refusing to promise that he would personally serve as its backup.

• Feng Jun told Mou Miao he would not attend Jiangxia University's centennial celebration and asked him to donate one million on his behalf, while the university's invitation remained blocked outside Luohua Manor.
• Feng Jun learned that Gazi had been named one of Yunyuan Province's Ten Outstanding Young People and asked Tang Wenji whether her work visa for the Leo Kingdom had been approved; she said it had and that her companions' visas were nearly ready.
• Lin Beauty told Feng Jun that Zhang Caixin had earned four hundred million, and Feng Jun said the money should be discussed with Zhang Caixin but warned that he would not stand by if she were mistreated.
• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun whether he could deliver packages for her organization in an emergency, and he refused to make a promise while allowing Luohua's people to help at appropriate times.
• Lin Beauty told Feng Jun that the recovered goods were highly traceable and that losing them, along with the covert network, would have been an unacceptable failure.

Feng Jun returned to the Leo Kingdom and spoke with Zhang Caixin about her recent actions and his upcoming breakthrough. Three days after he began advancing in the Daoist Temple’s backyard, a powerful fragrance stirred nearby animals and drew Avril toward the misty woods, where Little Celestial Master stopped her.

• Feng Jun arrived in the Leo Kingdom, met Tang Wenji, and reminded her to focus on cultivation as Gazi began to pull ahead.
• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin that her high-profile killings and four-hundred-million charge could bring unwanted attention to Luo Hua, then reassured her that she should not regret defending her allies.
• Zhang Caixin embraced Feng Jun’s joking description of her as a Noble, Ice-Cold Female Assassin and offered to protect him during his breakthrough.
• Three nights later, Feng Jun began his breakthrough in the backyard woods, and an unusual fragrance spread beyond the strengthened concealment formation.
• The fragrance agitated Avril’s hamsters and the Daoist Temple’s guard dogs, and Little Celestial Master stopped Avril from approaching the mist-covered woods.

Feng Jun broke through to the Seventh Layer of Emergence from Dust after lowering the Breath-Concealing Formation and enduring two days of rain from Zhang Caixin’s Rain-Praying Array. He emerged with an unstable aura, then went with Zhang Caixin into a Small Traveling Residence to rest, where the Little Celestial Master later noticed his fragrance still lingered.

• Feng Jun reduced the Breath-Concealing Formation’s intensity when it impeded his breakthrough, releasing a strong fragrance that agitated the dogs and hamsters.
• Sophia came toward the temple, but Zhang Caixin stopped her and told her to keep the temple secure.
• After Tang Wenji warned Zhang Caixin that a military air-molecule collector was on its way, Zhang Caixin activated the Rain-Praying Array to wash away the fragrance.
• Feng Jun reached the Seventh Layer of Emergence from Dust after two days of rain, and the fragrance eventually stopped drifting beyond the temple.
• After spending eight days in the Spirit-Gathering Formation, Feng Jun ate and went with Zhang Caixin into a Small Traveling Residence to rest.
• The Little Celestial Master greeted Feng Jun when he emerged and asked why he still smelled fragrant.

Feng Jun helped Zhang Caixin advance to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining while Tang Wenji cultivated with him and neared the Innate Realm. Back in Luo Hua, Feng Jun helped his companions progress, arranged a replacement guardian for the Leo Kingdom Daoist Temple, and prepared to collect Spirit Stone Mine ore.

• Feng Jun explained that his Heavenly Fragrance Fruit scent accelerated female cultivators’ cultivation, and Tang Wenji insisted on cultivating with him after feeding him ten rice dumplings.
• Zhang Caixin broke through to the Mid Qi Refining Stage while Feng Jun and Tang Wenji guarded her; Feng Jun later advised her to stop at the middle of the Fourth Layer.
• Zhang Caixin reached the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining, while Tang Wenji approached the Innate Realm but gained little from the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit.
• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua, where Yang Yuxin advanced to the Third Layer of Mortal Transcendence, Red Sister and Good Scenery reached the Eighth Layer, and Gu Jiahui reached the Ninth Layer.
• Feng Jun and Sophia invited Guo Dadao to replace Tang Wenji as guardian, and Chen Shengwang arrived at the Daoist Temple with two women.
• Feng Jun’s Seventh Layer of Emergence from Dust stabilized and his scent weakened, so he decided to collect Spirit Stone Mine ore in the ocean.

Feng Jun diverted the ships watching the Spirit Stone Mine by staging sightings of a giant sea creature and a massive seabed impact, then placed and activated the eight-bell formation. The formation began drawing in Spirit Stones, but suppressing its central bell drained over sixty percent of his spiritual energy.

• Feng Jun carefully placed the bells near the Spirit Stone Mine, then dragged a Broadback Python through the sea to lure fishing boats away from the area.
• Feng Jun dropped a thousand-ton rock into the sea at night, creating another mystery and clearing the mine waters so he could place all eight bells.
• Boats searching the other sites reported crews falling unconscious after hearing bell sounds, and the Mairui Country military suspected a sonic weapon.
• Feng Jun returned to the formation, activated it with intricate hand seals, and suppressed the central bell as the seven outer bells began transferring Spirit Stones to it.
• Feng Jun spent more than half an hour stabilizing the formation and was left with less than forty percent of his spiritual energy.

Feng Jun checked the mining array’s first harvest, then considered traveling abroad to search for more Spirit Stone Mines, though he abandoned the idea of leaving through normal channels. Yu Zhiyuan later asked him to supply crude oil for Xia Nation’s plan to build reserves and promote settlement in Xia Currency, leaving Feng Jun asking how much storage capacity they had.

• Feng Jun inspected the mining array after twenty days and found about three thousand raw Spirit Stones, but no Mid-Grade Spirit Stones; he added more power stones and decided to check again in two months.
• Feng Jun tried to arrange a trip to the Western Continent, but an official warned that he could not leave under his own identity and offered to arrange a new one; Feng Jun declined.
• Feng Jun researched strange happenings and possible Spirit Stone Mine locations while preparing for future travels.
• Yu Zhiyuan asked Feng Jun to supply crude oil in advance of payment so the higher-ups could build reserves for promoting settlement in Xia Currency.
• Feng Jun agreed to help and asked Yu Zhiyuan how much crude oil storage capacity was available.

Feng Jun agreed to sell Xia Nation crude oil in batches and went to the Leo Kingdom to bring Zhang Caixin back. He found her mingling with Hongmen, learned how she had met them, and returned to Luohua before she did.

• Feng Jun agreed to sell one hundred million tons of crude oil, and Yu Zhiyuan arranged for payments to arrive in installments.
• After nearly ten billion had been transferred, Feng Jun went to the Leo Kingdom to fetch Zhang Caixin and prepare to extract oil in the Phone Plane.
• Feng Jun found Zhang Caixin at a banquet hosted by Fourth Master Lin, where she urged the Hongmen members to support one another and defended Feng Jun from criticism.
• Zhang Caixin told Feng Jun that Tang Wenji had introduced her to Hongmen after she intervened when two men harassed Ruth over rice dumplings.
• Fourth Master Lin had invited Zhang Caixin to the banquet after learning she was at the Daoist temple and had helped resolve its recent troubles.

Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane with three women, handled the risks of their Heavenly Fragrance Fruit cultivation, and ramped up oil production at Liba Beach. After transporting ten million tons of oil to Blue Star, he learned that the Little Celestial Master was ready to attempt a breakthrough into the Innate Realm.

• Zhang Caixin met with Hongmen representatives, then agreed to accompany Feng Jun to the Phone Plane with the other women.
• Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach, where Qu Jianlei noticed his breakthrough and the Big Shot warned him that Heavenly Fragrance Fruits were dangerous for the women at their current cultivation levels.
• Feng Jun ordered Du Wentian to run all twenty oil wells at full capacity, and they produced about 550,000 tons of oil in a day and night.
• Yu Zhiyuan arranged funding, oil depots, and security support on Blue Star, while Feng Jun transported ten million tons of oil there.
• The Little Celestial Master sent word through Azure Mountain that he felt ready to attempt a breakthrough into the Innate Realm.