Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun refused to rescue speculators or accept unwanted equipment as part of Luo Hua’s supplier deals, worsening the collapse in secondhand equipment prices and exposing the fallout from risky investments. He also approved limited treatment for Weiyu Heavenly Grotto and ended the chapter confronting a state-owned factory that threatened to delay production.

• After Elder Guo explained Shangguan Shenxue’s place in the treatment queue, Feng Jun agreed to treat one of the six siblings from her family and told Weiyu Heavenly Grotto to follow the rules for the rest.
• Zhang Dongyuan told Feng Jun that he had bought land and recruited six middle-school students as believers, while Feng Jun told him to build the Daoist temple without expecting further help.
• Feng Jun rejected Xiang Machinery’s request to acquire outdated fertilizer equipment and cables, and speculative funds began collapsing as investors fled and complaints spread.
• Lin Beauty asked Liu Yuting to relay a plea for Luo Hua to support the market, but Liu said Feng Jun would not agree; after an investor committed suicide, Feng Jun went to Bell's Mountain to avoid being disturbed.
• Feng Jun learned that the Earth Vein could be harvested in about half a month and discovered that Allure Sect’s Daoist temple in Lu'er Nation was small.
• When a state-owned steam locomotive engine factory demanded advance payment and offered secondhand equipment in return, Feng Jun ordered a lawyer’s letter after the factory refused to guarantee production.

After Manager Si lost his Luo Hua treatment slot because of his organization’s factory dispute with the center, he pressured the organization to discipline those responsible and resume the contract. The factory restarted work and promised to meet the deadline, but it still avoided paying the breach penalty.

• Liu Yuting canceled Manager Si’s treatment slot, and the Nursing Center confirmed he would not be treated in the upcoming round.
• Manager Si traced the cancellation to his organization’s factory and berated the enterprise’s Boss for jeopardizing his treatment.
• Red Sister refused to negotiate until the factory fulfilled its contract and said the center would not accept mere promises or delay tactics.
• Lin Beauty warned Manager Si that he might be blacklisted and advised him to seek action against the people responsible if he wanted to qualify for a later treatment round.
• Manager Si appealed to the organization’s Boss, and three days later the deputy factory director was transferred while the factory’s main director received a warning.
• The factory resumed work, promised to meet the deadline, and agreed to collect the remaining payment only after delivery, but it did not pay the breach penalty.

Feng Jun arranged for Earth Spirit to modify Luo Hua’s Earth Vein and dangled Spirit Stone tailings as a reward for its work. He warned Earth Spirit that Blue Star held dangers beyond its understanding, leaving it to reconsider how powerful the plane’s hidden inhabitants might be.

• Red Sister agreed to include Steward Si among the next group of care recipients, while Lin Beauty wondered whether Feng Jun had gone soft after hearing how lightly the factory had been dealt with.
• Earth Spirit finished absorbing Bell's Mountain's Earth Vein, and Feng Jun instructed it to preserve Luo Hua’s buildings and terrain while modifying the local vein.
• Feng Jun agreed to provide array materials so Earth Spirit could set up tiered isolation, then mentioned Spirit Stone tailings as a possible reward for good work.
• Earth Spirit questioned Feng Jun about the mines and tried to learn where they were, but he told it to work honestly and warned it not to explore recklessly.
• Feng Jun claimed that a Dao Integration great power might notice Earth Spirit on Blue Star, and Earth Spirit admitted it had sensed something strange about the cultivator who had extracted so many Earth Veins.

Feng Jun brought his group to Pacify Arms Mountain in the Mortal World, where he planned to build a railway from the mountain to Pacify Arms County. He recruited the Supreme Clarity Sect and Red Phoenix Sect disciples to help construct it in exchange for Divination slots.

• Feng Jun persuaded the Earth Spirit to stay put and gathered everyone for a trip to the Phone Plane, while Gu Jiahui remained behind to focus on breaking through.
• Feng Jun brought the group to Pacify Arms Mountain, where he reunited with Liu Feifei and told the locals he would sell goods and equipment there.
• Feng Jun toured the area with his companions, then asked the Tian Family and Mi Family to arrange the purchase of land for a railway to Pacify Arms County.
• Feng Jun demonstrated how to lay railway tracks and offered Divination slots to the sect disciples who would build the line.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect and Red Phoenix Sect accepted the railway work, and Gazi and Little Celestial Master began teaching and supervising construction.

The railway between Pacify Arms Mountain and Pacify Arms County opened, bringing passengers, goods, and new business opportunities while unsettling local transport merchants. Feng Jun left management and fares to the Tian Family, Yu Family, and Mi Family, and the chapter ended with crowds boarding the trains for the return journey.

• The disciples of the two sects completed more than two hundred kilometers of double-track railway after forty days of construction.
• Feng Jun's people tested the steam locomotive, and the railway from Pacify Arms Mountain to Pacify Arms County officially opened a month and a half later.
• The first train hauled passengers and stone into Pacify Arms County, where locals marveled at it and carriage operators worried about losing their livelihoods.
• Feng Jun gave the Tian Family, Yu Family, and Mi Family twenty percent of the profits to manage the service, with the Mi Family receiving the largest share.
• A second train arrived with passengers and daily necessities, and crowds boarded the return trains while the families controlled access and loaded cargo.

After an Advanced Martial Master illegally boarded a train, Little Celestial Master spared him but sentenced him to guard duty, and the railway’s operators began considering intermediate stations. As equipment sales approached, someone stole more than a hundred meters of track during a rainy night, leaving Feng Jun’s railway in danger.

• Little Celestial Master caught an Advanced Martial Master jumping onto a moving train, then spared him and sentenced him to guard the railway for three months after learning he wanted a ride and hoped to request a station near Maplewood Town.
• Red Sister advised the Mi Family, Yu Family, and Tian Family to survey the route before choosing intermediate stations, explaining that population, commerce, geography, transport links, and resources all mattered.
• Visitors flocked to ride the trains, forcing the operators to increase service from three daily departures to four as more than fifty thousand people arrived for Feng Jun’s equipment conference.
• Before equipment sales began, a railway duty worker discovered that more than a hundred meters of track had been stolen, and rain threatened to conceal the thieves’ trail.

After rails were stolen from Feng Jun’s railway, he used Divination to identify the Dong Family Stockade as the culprits and sent Zhang Caixin, Wen Ji, and Gazi to destroy it. They slaughtered the stockade’s inhabitants but found no rails, leaving Gazi to ask whether Feng Jun should divine again.

• Feng Jun arrived at the missing rails and had Tian Lewen’s group investigate, while Gazi argued that Feng Jun should use Divination rather than seize suspects for Soul Search.
• Feng Jun used his phone and declared that the Dong Family Stockade had stolen the rails, ordering its inhabitants exterminated.
• Zhang Caixin, Wen Ji, and Gazi flew to the stockade with Tian Lewen’s group and attacked its residents with their weapons and abilities.
• The three cultivators killed many people and searched the stockade, but they found no stolen rails.
• Gazi suggested asking Feng Jun to divine again, but Little Celestial Master rejected the idea and proposed claiming the survivors had hidden the rails.

Feng Jun's search revealed that Dong Family Stockade had hidden the stolen railway rails in a Storage Talisman, raising suspicions that another cultivation faction was involved. As the captured villagers were interrogated, Brother Shui Sheng explained how the Dong Family had found the talisman, and a captured outsider claimed he knew why they had stolen the rails.

• Feng Jun directed the hunters to the riverbank tunnels and revealed that a Storage Talisman near Dong Family Stockade contained the stolen rails.
• Little Celestial Master found the rails inside the talisman, while Zhang Caixin questioned how a remote village had acquired one and suspected outside involvement.
• Zhang Caixin ordered the captives interrogated, and Tian Lewen questioned the wounded Advanced Martial Master Brother Shui Sheng.
• Brother Shui Sheng said Dong Family members had found the Storage Talisman after discovering the aftermath of a fight between two experts more than ten years earlier.
• A skinny captured man who was not surnamed Dong claimed he knew why the clan had stolen the rails.

After Feng Jun’s forces destroyed the Dong Family Stockade for stealing railway tracks, they repaired the line and searched the village for valuables and cultivation resources. Feng Jun’s soul searches revealed that the theft had been instigated and that the Dong Family had once spent many Spirit Stones trying to cultivate a talented clan member.

• A captured laborer told Tian Lewen that the Dong Family Stockade had planned to steal railway tracks, and Feng Jun ordered his people to deal with the village and repair the line.
• The three families repaired the railway in time for the morning train, then searched the destroyed stockade but initially found no cultivation manuals.
• Zhang Caixin asked Feng Jun to help locate hidden resources, and he uncovered the Dong Family’s concealed treasury, including Spirit Stones, manuals, talismans, weapons, and a Spirit-Gathering Formation Plate.
• Zhang Caixin, Tang Wenji, and Lu Xiaoning kept the best finds while sharing some medicinal pills with the disciples who had helped.
• Feng Jun began soul-searching the Dong Family’s survivors and learned that the clan had once used more than twenty Spirit Stones in an unsuccessful cultivation effort.
• Feng Jun discovered that someone had instigated the Dong Family’s theft of the railway tracks.

Feng Jun learned that the Victorious Duke had ordered the Dong Family to steal railway tracks to obtain steel, and he had Tiantong secure an explanation from Donghua Kingdom. After the duke’s head was delivered and displayed at Dong Family Stockade as a warning, Bao’er asked Feng Jun to supply a small train and equipment for a cement plant.

• Feng Jun learned that the Victorious Duke’s Estate had pushed the Dong Family to steal railway tracks so it could obtain steel for weapons.
• Zhang Caixin wondered if a cultivation force had manipulated the duke, but Feng Jun said Donghua Kingdom should answer for the theft and asked Red Sister to summon Tiantong.
• Three days later, Donghua Kingdom sent the Victorious Duke’s head to Pacify Arms Mountain, and Feng Jun agreed with Yang Yuxin’s suggestion to hang it at Dong Family Stockade as a deterrent.
• The magistrate of Pacify Arms County was told that the Dong Family had stolen the rails, while news of the duke’s death spread through Donghua Kingdom.
• Bao’er asked Feng Jun to sell him a railway for his estate, so Feng Jun offered him a small train and equipment to make cement railroad ties.

Feng Jun arranged new industrial projects with Bao'er and several powerful families, then received a railway proposal from Qingning Prefecture. The prefect sought Pacify Arms Mountain's help building a railway from Xiyin City to Pacify Arms County, and Red Sister agreed to assist if he paid.

• Feng Jun sold agricultural vehicle assembly plants to the Yuntai Chen Family, the Zheng and Mu Families, and the capital-region Gao Family, while declining to approve the Gao Family's request to refine petroleum.
• Bao'er returned after North Garden Earl urged her to secure more contracts, and Feng Jun offered her a crude-oil fractionation project in partnership with the Phoenix-Calling Su Family.
• Feng Jun planned for Bao'er and the Su Family to establish the fractionation plant near the Gao Family's Ancestral Land, with the Gao Family possibly joining as a minor shareholder.
• Deng Old Escort brought the Qingning Prefecture assistant prefect to discuss buying a railway, but Pacify Arms Mountain said the prefect himself needed to come.
• The prefect asked Red Sister for help building a railway from Xiyin City to Pacify Arms County, and she said Pacify Arms Mountain could provide assistance and ordinary labor for a sufficient payment.

The Qingning Prefecture prefect tried to arrange a barter deal with Pacify Arms Mountain to fund a railway, offering local resources in exchange for rails and supplies. After Red Sister brought Feng Jun samples of the prefecture’s copper and iron ores, Feng Jun discovered they contained platinum-group elements.

• The prefect explained that he had raised one-third of the railway funds and proposed bartering local goods for the rest, hoping the project would attract the Ministry of War’s attention.
• Red Sister rejected silver and initially refused barter, but asked what raw materials the prefecture could offer after hearing his claim that the railway might benefit both sides.
• The prefect offered timber, a copper mine, and an iron mine, while Feng Jun warned Red Sister not to accept wood because its grain patterns could reveal too much.
• The prefect gave Red Sister samples of copper and iron ore, and she carried them to Feng Jun for inspection.
• Feng Jun examined the samples on his phone and was shocked to find platinum-group elements in them.

Feng Jun secured rich platinum-group metal, molybdenum, and rhenium ore samples from the Phone Plane, while Yang Yuxin tried to turn the discovery into a business on Luo Hua. Her plans to build an extraction plant met regulatory resistance, so she shifted to selling ore and began procuring equipment.

• Feng Jun and Red Sister inspected the mine, found substantial platinum-group metal reserves along with molybdenum and rhenium, and arranged for ore samples to be sent from Qingyuan Prefecture.
• Feng Jun repeatedly crossed between the Phone Plane and Luo Hua, unsettling the Earth Spirit, then returned to Luo Hua with the ore samples after staying at Pacify Arms Mountain for several days.
• Yang Yuxin asked Gu Jiahui to learn platinum-group metal extraction, and they traveled to Dragon City to study the process and recruit experts.
• A state-owned mining company offered to help build an extraction plant, but Yang Yuxin's effort was blocked because the rare-earth industry fell outside Elder Gu's jurisdiction and officials sought to control the ore supply.
• Yang Yuxin offered iron and copper ore to buyers willing to help extract platinum-group metals, agreed to sell the platinum-group ore directly if a deposit was paid, and began buying extraction equipment.

Liu Menglong took on equipment-inspection work for Red Sister while Luo Hua expanded its production plans. Feng Jun searched Donghua Kingdom for undiscovered mineral deposits, found several promising sites, and returned to negotiate Duke Yongyi’s railway purchase and payment.

• Red Sister asked Liu Menglong to lend his freight yard to Luo Hua and inspect new equipment, and he agreed to keep his team working.
• Luo Hua brought new industrial equipment to Pacify Arms Mountain, and Feng Jun handed the work to Red Sister before setting out to search for mines.
• Feng Jun found an undiscovered Platinum-Group Metals area, a large lithium deposit, and high-quality iron ore with estimated reserves of three to five hundred million tons.
• Duke Yongyi met Feng Jun to arrange the purchase of five thousand li of railway, locomotives, and train cars for transporting supplies to the capital.
• Duke Yongyi said some officials might delay payment, and Feng Jun was surprised that the deal would depend on the Ministry of Revenue.

Feng Jun agreed to barter with Duke Yongyi for trains in exchange for access to mines, then traveled with Zhang Caixin and a large group of cultivators to inspect the iron mine in Rong territory. The group reached the mine, where Feng Jun confirmed the ore was high quality and told Zhang Caixin to begin working.

• Duke Yongyi offered Feng Jun three iron-mine locations and agreed to investigate deposits of Platinum-Group Metals ore.
• Feng Jun said he would inspect the mines and agreed to barter, provided he also received access to a mine producing the other ore.
• Feng Jun chose Zhang Caixin to accompany him, while Gu Jiahui stayed behind to help refine Platinum.
• Cultivators from Red Phoenix, the Supreme Clarity Sect, Tiantong, and other factions arrived seeking Feng Jun's Divination services, but he postponed them to go mining.
• Feng Jun and the cultivators flew to Rong territory, reached the iron mine, and confirmed its ore was high quality.
• Feng Jun set Zhang Caixin down outside the mine and told her to get to work.

Zhang Caixin announced that Pacify Arms Mountain was requisitioning a vast iron mine, but a Rong People leader and the mine’s resident cultivator challenged her claim. After the resident cultivator and the leader threatened to resist together, Zhang Caixin asked whether they were sure they would not regret it.

• Zhang Caixin flew around the mine and announced that Pacify Arms Mountain was requisitioning it, ordering everyone to leave.
• A burly Rong People Innate Expert confronted Zhang Caixin and insisted that the mine belonged to the Rong People.
• Zhang Caixin attacked the burly man with a Thunderclap Talisman and then the Sword-Qi Gourd after he challenged her claim.
• A middle-aged Fifth Layer Qi Condensation cultivator blocked the sword light and identified himself as the mine’s resident cultivator.
• The resident cultivator and the burly man threatened to resist Zhang Caixin together, but she questioned whether they would regret their choice.

Feng Jun’s group seized the Rong iron mine, freed its slaves, and defeated a Rong army that tried to retake it. After several days of mining, Donghua Kingdom’s army arrived nearby while Duke Yongyi requested an audience with Feng Mountain Lord.

• Nie Chifeng and Kong Ziyi attacked the mine’s guards, and Feng Jun ordered the cultivators to spare unarmed people and mine slaves.
• The cultivators subdued the guards and freed the mine slaves, while Zhang Caixin used the Soul-Locking Bell to capture an Innate Expert who had concealed his aura.
• Feng Jun surveyed the iron deposits, estimated that they held at least ten billion tons of ore, and established a camp with Traveling Residences.
• When a Rong army of more than ten thousand men approached, the cultivators killed its negotiators, routed the force, and pursued the survivors for over a hundred miles.
• Feng Jun began Divination for the cultivators, then started mining the iron after the Rong army abandoned the mine.
• On the eighth day of mining, Tiantong Merchant Alliance sentries reported that Donghua Kingdom’s army had arrived nearby, and Duke Yongyi requested an audience with Feng Jun.

Feng Jun arranged further iron-ore mining at Pacify Arms Mountain, moved the extracted ore to Liba Beach, and discussed industrial systems and mineral processing with Huangfu Wuxia. After the mine’s affairs temporarily concluded, he waited for news about platinum-group minerals until Qu Jianlei told him Yan Yuxi had arrived with an urgent matter.

• Duke Yongyi negotiated with Zhang Caixin, agreed to keep Imperial Court troops fifty li from the mine, and reported that the court had a lead on another kind of ore.
• After twenty days of mining, Feng Jun stopped work and arranged for the Sun Clan and Wu Clan to continue extracting iron ore in exchange for Kill One, Save One tokens.
• Feng Jun transported the mined ore to Liba Beach and later showed cultivators production equipment, prompting Huangfu Wuxia to discuss complete systems and their possible effects on cultivation.
• Bao'er, the Su Family, and the Gao Family finalized cooperation on crude oil fractionation, and Huangfu Wuxia asked Feng Jun to sell her two sets of the equipment.
• Qu Jianlei told Feng Jun that Yan Yuxi had arrived and urgently wanted to speak with him.

Yan Yuxi warned Feng Jun that visitors from the Heavenly Zither Plane were coming, but he delayed returning while gathering platinum-group ore and helping establish a refining workshop. The visitors eventually appeared near Azuresteel Sect, including its leader, Broken Blade Adept, leaving their purpose unknown.

• Yan Yuxi told Feng Jun that Heavenly Zither visitors were coming and urged him to return, but he questioned whether he needed to seek an invitation.
• Feng Jun thanked Yan Yuxi for the warning and agreed to return to Liba Beach after gathering platinum-group ore from two locations.
• Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi returned to Liba Beach, where Yang Yuxin and Gu Jiahui began building a platinum-group metal refining workshop.
• Feng Jun told the Big Shot about the visitors, and it warned him that a Spirit Projection cultivator might conceal their aura and use divine sense.
• After about twenty days, two Flying Boats appeared near Azuresteel Sect's new manor, followed by three people, including two Golden Core cultivators and Broken Blade Adept.

Shouzhong True Immortal arrived at Liba Beach with Broken Blade Adept and Hu Yun, but Feng Jun challenged his attempt to place a Traveling Residence on Feng Jun’s land and draw on its Earth Veins. Shouzhong agreed to stay at the Azuresteel Estate, leaving Feng Jun unimpressed by his indecisive response.

• Feng Jun sensed the newcomers and strengthened his Defensive Formation and Breath-Concealing Formation as Azuresteel Sect disciples came out to greet Shouzhong True Immortal.
• Broken Blade Adept introduced Shouzhong and Hu Yun to the local cultivators, and Shouzhong asked to meet Feng Jun before deciding to rest.
• Hu Yun tried to release Shouzhong’s Traveling Residence, but Feng Jun objected that it would draw on the spiritual energy and Earth Veins of his property without permission.
• Shouzhong explained that Azuresteel’s spatial coordinates had brought him there and offered to adjust his formation to High-Grade Golden Core, but Guyue confronted him over an old stolen Demon Beast kill.
• Feng Jun told Shouzhong to behave like a guest, and Shouzhong chose to stay at the Azuresteel Estate.