Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun returned from Poland troubled by a newly discovered Spirit Stone Mine and considered using his Earth Spirit to strengthen an Earth Vein. After consulting the Big Shot, he learned that although the Earth Spirit was stronger than it appeared, the Big Shot could teach him a way to control it before he reached Golden Core.

• Feng Jun waited through heavy snowfall in Poland, then used the Drowse Art to carry She Zhijun and the other women back to the parking lot while he and his companions departed by Flying Boat.
• She Zhijun hosted Feng Jun, Dong Zenghong, and Zhang Dongyuan at her villa, where they discussed possible locations for the Daoist Temple before the men left for their flight home.
• Back in Luo Hua, Feng Jun worried about the overseas Spirit Stone Mine and realized that an Earth Spirit might help cultivate an Earth Vein, but he could not find a suitable place to settle it.
• Feng Jun delayed the women’s return to the Phone Plane until after the Spring Festival, then traveled with them through Mingsha Market to Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun asked the Big Shot how to use the Earth Spirit, and the Big Shot explained its former strength and offered to teach Feng Jun a special method for controlling it before he reached Golden Core.

Feng Jun discussed his strange Spirit Stone mine and how to control an Earth Spirit with the Big Shot, then decided to advance his cultivation at his estate. The Big Shot promised to conceal his aura, and Feng Jun began planning whom to bring there.

• Feng Jun showed the Big Shot unusual Spirit Stones from his mine, and it explained that their appearance made Mid-Grade Spirit Stones unlikely, though the mine’s Dharma-Ending Plane might account for the anomaly.
• The Big Shot explained that Feng Jun could bind the infant Earth Spirit with restrictions and sustain its loyalty using essence blood, Spirit Stones, or Earth Veins taken from enemy territory.
• Feng Jun decided to delay placing restrictions until he advanced, and the Big Shot advised him that reaching the Ninth Layer of Emergence from Dust first would reduce the essence blood required.
• Feng Jun asked to advance somewhere secluded, but the Big Shot offered to conceal his aura so he could do it at his estate.
• Feng Jun agreed to announce his plans and make another divination before entering seclusion, then considered bringing Gazi and Yang Yuxin to the estate.

Feng Jun brought several people from the Blue Star Realm to Kun Hao before entering seclusion, where he advanced and helped others improve their cultivation. After leaving seclusion, he stayed to conceal the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit’s scent, while Yan Yuxi waited for news of when he would be available.

• Feng Jun announced his impending seclusion, invited Qu Jianlei to guard the manor, and brought Little Celestial Master, Gazi, Huahua, Yang Yuxin, and Gu Jiahui to Kun Hao.
• Yang Yuxin advised Feng Jun to keep the other world secret from Yu Qingzhu for now, and Nie Chifeng briefly mistook Huahua for a dangerous Gu Insect before Feng Jun explained who it was.
• Huahua panicked at the powerful cultivators in the manor, so Feng Jun sent it back to Luohua.
• Feng Jun spent twenty days advancing to the Ninth Layer of Emergence from Dust, then helped Red Sister, Good Scenery, Zhang Caixin, Little Celestial Master, and Yang Yuxin advance during his fifty-day seclusion.
• Gu Jiahui worried that her mother received special treatment and asked whether Yang Yuxin and the other women were Feng Jun's women.
• At the Red Phoenix Sect's auxiliary residence, Yan Yuxi asked Xiaomeng when Feng Jun would finish his seclusion, since the Teleportation Array on Netherworld Island was ready and people were waiting.

Feng Jun learned a method to bind the Earth Spirit and successfully placed a restriction on it, gaining an obedient Golden Core pet. He left the Earth Spirit alive and planned to make it work for him.

• Yan Yuxi sought Feng Jun's help positioning the teleportation formations between Coastal Market and Netherworld Island, but found that he was occupied with the Earth Spirit.
• The Big Shot taught Feng Jun a restriction technique requiring 361 hand seals, which he practiced for eleven days.
• The Big Shot helped Feng Jun prepare a Spirit-Binding Formation and used Mi Yunshan, Gu Jiahui, and Little White during the attempt to subdue the Earth Spirit.
• Feng Jun completed the hand seals and used his blood essence to bind the Earth Spirit, which emerged as a yellow hamster-like creature.
• The Earth Spirit agreed to work for Feng Jun, returned to the Yin Soul Stone when ordered, and the Big Shot told Feng Jun to get lost after he asked whether the hand seals could be simplified.

After capturing a juvenile Earth Spirit, Feng Jun brought the Luo Hua group back to Blue Star and arranged a day at Bell's Mountain while Gazi prepared to advance. As Zhang Caixin explained Luo Hua's standing on Kun Hao, Yang Yuxin and Gu Jiahui learned how much the group depended on Feng Jun's strength.

• Feng Jun told Gu Jiahui that the yellow hamster was a juvenile Golden Core Earth Spirit and said the White Fox had been at Golden Core Peak.
• Feng Jun gathered the Luo Hua members, waited for Gazi to finish cultivating, and returned to Blue Star with Good Scenery through a Footprint in Bell's Mountain Range.
• Feng Jun concealed the group in a mountain valley, released everyone from the Traveling Residence, and offered them a day to hunt and explore Bell's Mountain.
• Feng Jun gave Little Celestial Master, Red Sister, and Good Scenery Storage Pouches and flying and other magic artifacts.
• Zhang Caixin told Yang Yuxin and Gu Jiahui that Luo Hua was like a middle-income family without Feng Jun, and revealed that Feng Jun had killed many Golden Core cultivators and harmed the Ten Directions Platform.

Feng Jun and the women tested their new magical artifacts while hunting on Bell's Mountain, then Lu Xiaoning broke through to the Innate Realm under Feng Jun's guidance. The chapter ended with Lu Xiaoning stabilizing his new realm as Feng Jun sent the others back.

• Zhang Caixin explained the dangers of the Kunhao Plane and revealed that Feng Jun possessed nearly ten thousand tons of gold.
• Feng Jun made Tang Wenji return her Storage Talisman and warned her against giving Luo Hua resources to Azure Mountain; she agreed to bring them pills instead.
• The women hunted on Bell's Mountain to test their magical artifacts, returning with game and practicing with their new abilities.
• Feng Jun urged the group to leave Bell's Mountain, but Zhang Caixin and Tang Wenji stayed behind to cultivate.
• Lu Xiaoning took an Innate Martial Dao Pill, broke through the Innate Realm before dawn, and soared nearly forty zhang into the air.
• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin that Lu Xiaoning would need at least eight days to stabilize his realm and sent her back.

Feng Jun took the Earth Spirit to the Hasala Desert and ordered it to absorb the nearly nonexistent Earth Veins there. The Earth Spirit complained about the barren land, and the chapter ended when an off-road vehicle crashed into Feng Jun’s Defensive Formation.

• Feng Jun learned that the Earth Spirit had been called Glutton by the Redwood Essence and ordered it back into the Yin Soul Stone.
• After Gazi consolidated his cultivation, Feng Jun left him at the Traveling Residence and traveled to the Hasala Desert with the Earth Spirit.
• Feng Jun built a hardened shelter in the desert and summoned the Earth Spirit, which complained that the land had almost no Earth Veins.
• Feng Jun named the Earth Spirit Little Yellow and ordered it to survive by absorbing the local Earth Veins.
• The Earth Spirit questioned Feng Jun’s plan and warned that the barren Earth Veins would be difficult to absorb.
• An off-road vehicle slammed into Feng Jun’s Defensive Formation.

Feng Jun rescued four people whose off-road vehicle had been swept into his shelter by a massive Sahara storm, while warning Earth Spirit not to kill humans without his say. The shaken survivors began communicating with him, and Feng Jun revealed that they had entered his territory; Fernandez apologized as the chapter ended.

• A powerful storm swept an off-road vehicle carrying two men and two women into Feng Jun’s area, and Earth Spirit asked whether it should kill them.
• Feng Jun rebuked Earth Spirit and raised the defensive array around the vehicle, then righted it and checked that all four passengers were alive.
• Feng Jun broke the driver-side window and left the survivors to recover; the driver and the two women soon helped the injured passengers out.
• Fernandez approached Feng Jun for water, and Feng Jun gave him two bottles after stopping him from touching the humidifier.
• Selena found an iPad so Fernandez could use translation software, and Feng Jun told the group in Brui Country language that they had intruded on his territory.
• Fernandez apologized and insisted the group had not entered Feng Jun’s territory on purpose.

Feng Jun sheltered the foreign survivors from a sandstorm but refused to treat Paul because he was from Mairui Country. As the group’s vehicle and phones failed in the cold, Fernandez asked to sit in Feng Jun’s SUV, and Feng Jun agreed on the condition that they were not from Mairui Country.

• Feng Jun let Fernandez’s group shelter from the storm without payment and asked them not to tell anyone they had seen him.
• Laura woke injured and cold, while Fernandez and Selena argued over blankets for her and the unconscious Paul.
• Feng Jun diagnosed Paul’s dislocated hip and other injuries, then identified Laura’s sprains and kidney stones.
• Feng Jun refused to treat Paul because he was from Mairui Country, and he rejected Selena’s accusation of racial discrimination.
• Fernandez failed to start his SUV or get a phone signal, so he asked to sit in Feng Jun’s vehicle, which Feng Jun allowed unless they were from Mairui Country.

Feng Jun sheltered the stranded travelers from the storm and learned how they had been swept into his Defensive Formation. After Paul woke, Feng Jun agreed to treat his dislocated hip for the sake of Paul's Xia sister, but they had not settled on payment.

• Fernandez told Feng Jun how Paul and Selena had led their group into the Sahara storm, which swept their SUV into Feng Jun's Defensive Formation.
• Feng Jun used a tent and an electric radiator to warm Laura and Selena while Fernandez warned that the storm and dusty weather could last for days.
• Paul woke and asked to speak with Feng Jun, showing him a photo of his Xia sister and asking for help with his hip.
• Feng Jun agreed to treat Paul because of his sister, then asked how Paul would pay; Paul offered a watch, liquor, and Xia antiques, but Feng Jun rejected the first two offers.

Feng Jun secured Paul’s promise to donate his family’s Xia Nation antiques to Sophia’s Daoist Temple, then treated Paul’s injuries after his hip was reset and a shoulder wound reopened. Paul recovered and realized Feng Jun’s medicine was extraordinarily valuable, while Feng Jun made clear that Sophia’s help could not be measured in money.

• Feng Jun told Paul to send his Xia Nation antiques to Sophia’s Daoist Temple in Alansmu, and Paul agreed to donate them all after recognizing Sophia’s reputation.
• Feng Jun reset Paul’s dislocated hip and warned him to rest, but Paul limped into the tent and reopened a wound near his collarbone.
• Laura called for help as Paul bled heavily, while Selena fetched the first-aid kit and Feng Jun brought Paul outside for treatment.
• Feng Jun stopped Paul’s bleeding with acupoint taps and gave him medicinal liquid that helped him recover within minutes.
• Paul thanked Feng Jun and asked about the medicine’s price, and Feng Jun said it was not for sale even at two million Mairui Dollars before comparing its value to Sophia’s help.

Feng Jun sheltered and helped Fernandez, Paul, Laura, and Selena through a three-day sandstorm, then sent them off with repaired vehicles and supplies. After they left, the Earth Spirit tried to persuade Feng Jun to relocate, and he revealed that he knew its former cultivation level.

• Feng Jun shared a hotpot with Fernandez and Paul, then heard Fernandez explain the dangers of establishing a Daoist Temple in North Africa.
• After Laura caught a cold during the sandstorm, Feng Jun gave her medicine and a massage, easing her back pain.
• When the sandstorm ended, Feng Jun repaired the group’s vehicles and gave them food, water, and gasoline before they departed.
• Fernandez, Paul, and Laura discussed returning to thank Feng Jun, while worrying that he might leave the desert.
• The Earth Spirit urged Feng Jun to relocate to avoid his enemy discovering him, and Feng Jun hinted that it had once reached Mid-Grade Golden Core.

Feng Jun brought the Earth Spirit from the desert to Bell's Mountain, where it began assessing the mountain range's damaged Earth Veins. After discovering that someone had plundered them before, Feng Jun agreed to support the Earth Spirit's plan to repair them before absorbing their power.

• Feng Jun agreed to take the Earth Spirit back to Bell's Mountain, then waited until night to travel there through the Footprint.
• Three days later, Fernandez's helicopter rescue team found Feng Jun's tent in the Hasala Desert, but its occupants were gone.
• Feng Jun found Gazi cultivating at Bell's Mountain and let him stay to help with his work.
• Feng Jun introduced the Earth Spirit to the mountain range and told it to collect the Earth Vein.
• The Earth Spirit mapped Bell's Mountain and discovered evidence that someone had plundered its Earth Veins before.
• Feng Jun chose to support the Earth Spirit's plan to repair the Earth Veins before absorbing them.

Feng Jun chose to restore the Earth Vein before absorbing it and returned to Luo Hua with Gazi, while Little Hamster calculated the Spirit Stone cost. Back in Luo Hua, Feng Jun agreed to help Liu Menglong buy obsolete factory equipment, leaving Liu startled by Red Sister’s offer to arrange private financing.

• Feng Jun chose to restore the Earth Vein, and Little Hamster said it needed a day and a night to calculate the Spirit Stone cost.
• Feng Jun took Gazi back to Luo Hua and warned him to keep his advancement to the Innate Realm secret; Gazi agreed.
• Feng Jun discussed Red Sister’s equipment orders and decided to place them gradually to avoid overwhelming manufacturers.
• Feng Jun went to meet Liu Menglong, who proposed buying outdated equipment from two struggling factories in his hometown.
• Feng Jun agreed to buy any equipment Liu Menglong acquired at a twenty percent markup and told him to negotiate carefully.
• Red Sister offered to connect Liu Menglong with private lenders, and he asked whether she meant loan sharks.

Liu Menglong agreed to use private lending to fund equipment deals with Feng Jun, but after leaving Luo Hua, Team Leader Lin intercepted him and questioned him about his plans. She urged him to borrow from the state instead, leaving him wary that the authorities wanted influence over his business.

• Red Sister persuaded Liu Menglong that private lending could safely finance his deals, and Feng Jun assured him that lenders would not dare mistreat him.
• Liu Menglong agreed to borrow money, planned how to minimize the risks, and then left Luo Hua after speaking with Feng Jun.
• Team Leader Lin had Liu Menglong taken to a farmhouse and questioned him about the loan and his cooperation with Feng Jun.
• Liu Menglong admitted that he planned to acquire and sell more factory equipment, including intact used equipment.
• Team Leader Lin said the authorities had plans to phase out outdated production capacity and suggested Liu Menglong borrow from the state instead.
• Liu Menglong suspected that Lin wanted to use capital to control him, and Lin challenged whether he dared borrow private money so casually.

Lin Beauty pressured Liu Menglong to accept outside help for his business, and he contacted President Li about a private loan after leaving. Feng Jun discussed the precautions with Red Sister, then went to Bell's Mountain, where Earth Spirit reported that repairing the Earth Vein was possible at different speeds and costs.

• Lin Beauty urged Liu Menglong to accept support and warned him not to tell Feng Jun about their discussion, while Liu Menglong said he would think it over.
• Liu Menglong called President Li using a number Red Sister had provided and learned that President Li could lend far more than the twenty million he had considered borrowing.
• Feng Jun accused Red Sister of trying to deter Liu Menglong from cheating Luohua, and Red Sister defended her precautions as a way to protect their business and friendship.
• Feng Jun left for Bell's Mountain, where he found Earth Spirit scouting far away in the form of pale yellow mist and began cultivating while he waited.
• Earth Spirit returned in a larger form and told Feng Jun that repairing the Earth Vein would take from one to six months, depending on the Spirit Stone cost.

Feng Jun weighed the enormous cost of using Earth Spirit to repair Bell's Mountain's Earth Vein and asked it to assess Luo Hua's needs. Earth Spirit could not precisely manage the small area Feng Jun wanted, but its suggestion led him to a new idea for handling the Earth Vein.

• Earth Spirit quoted Feng Jun up to three million six hundred thousand Spirit Stones to repair Bell's Mountain's Earth Vein, then explained the additional nurturing and absorption costs.
• Feng Jun took Earth Spirit to Luo Hua and asked whether it could replenish the Earth Vein in the carefully marked areas around Luohua Manor and Yang Yuxin's land.
• Earth Spirit admitted it could not control the Earth Vein with the precision Feng Jun required, and Feng Jun decided not to proceed with Bell's Mountain either.
• Earth Spirit suggested upgrading a larger top-grade Earth Vein and containing it with tiered formations, but Feng Jun accused it of taking all the benefit from the costly absorption.
• After considering Earth Spirit's suggestion, Feng Jun suddenly realized a different solution and said he had it.

Feng Jun decided to sell the troublesome Earth Spirit and sought Earth Spirit Pearls from the Yin Soul Big Shot. After ending his seclusion at the Ninth Layer of Emergence from Dust, he met the long-waiting Yan Yuxi and offered her a juvenile Earth Spirit.

• Feng Jun proposed building an underground Earth Vein, but when Earth Spirit resisted his preferred scale, he imprisoned it in the Yin Soul Stone and decided to sell it.
• Feng Jun asked the Yin Soul Big Shot for three High-Grade Golden Core Earth Spirit Pearls in exchange for Earth Spirit, but the Big Shot warned that they were exceptionally rare.
• The Big Shot told Feng Jun that Yan Yuxi had waited outside for nearly a month, so Feng Jun ended his seclusion and invited her in.
• Yan Yuxi told Feng Jun that the teleportation array was ready and the next phase of work was stalled, then noticed he had reached the Ninth Layer of Emergence from Dust.
• Feng Jun quietly asked Yan Yuxi whether she wanted a juvenile Earth Spirit.

Feng Jun tried to sell the Earth Spirit to Pine-Cypress Peak, but the Yan Clan could not quickly gather the requested payment. He took it to Tiantong for an auction, where Qu Jianlei pointed out that Swordforging Peak might bid, leaving the terrified Earth Spirit pleading with Feng Jun not to sell it.

• Feng Jun offered the Earth Spirit to Yan Yuxi for three High-Grade Golden Core Earth Spirit Pearls and twenty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and Yan Yuxi left to consult her family.
• The little hamster questioned Feng Jun's decision, but Feng Jun said Pine-Cypress Peak was the only faction able to afford the price.
• Yan Yuxi returned and explained that Pine-Cypress Peak could not gather the requested Earth Spirit Pearls quickly, so Feng Jun decided to take the Earth Spirit to Tiantong.
• Huangfu Wuxia inspected the Earth Spirit and agreed to arrange an auction, while Qu Jianlei said Swordforging Peak's families could unite to buy it.
• The Earth Spirit feared being sold to metal-element cultivators at Swordforging Peak and begged Feng Jun to stop bargaining with it.

Feng Jun spared the Earth Spirit from being sold to Swordforging Peak, then linked the Teleportation Array between Coastal Market and Netherworld Island. On the island, he named it Shijie Island and asked the factions to consider mass-producing Mortal goods, leaving them intrigued by the prospect of Spirit Stone-powered technology.

• Feng Jun accepted the Earth Spirit's promise to behave and warned that he would sell it to Swordforging Peak if it caused trouble again.
• Feng Jun linked the Teleportation Array between Coastal Market and Netherworld Island, and the group spent three days testing and adjusting it before people could safely travel.
• Feng Jun visited the island, rejected Ji Busheng's suggestion to call it Heavenheart Island, and named it Shijie Island.
• Feng Jun asked who wanted to industrialize Mortal products, prompting the factions to discuss the usefulness of communications devices and Spirit Stone Generators.