Chapter Summaries

Sophia received six possible wreck locations from the salvage company, and Feng Jun confirmed that two locations held wrecks before recruiting Lin Heihu to guide the explorers through dreams. The dreams sent the partners toward the Bruchaga and Fernando while warning them away from the Bruce, but their captain insisted on searching for the Bruce despite the others’ objections.

• Sophia accepted the salvage company's six possible wreck locations and gave its three members protective talisman pouches instead of taking their offered money.
• Feng Jun investigated the locations, found wrecks at two of them, and discovered that one held two ships carrying substantial gold and silver.
• Feng Jun brought Lin Heihu from Xia Nation to enter the salvagers' dreams and reveal which wrecks to pursue.
• The Brui Country woman and the Leo Kingdom man dreamed about the wrecks, then argued and reconciled before deciding to search for the Bruchaga.
• The Namako man refused to join them and insisted on searching for the Bruce, while the woman warned that the Daoist Temple had cautioned against the danger.

Feng Jun’s warning and the temple’s talismans persuaded three shipowners to change course and search for the Bruchaga. After surviving repeated storms and waterspouts, they found the wreck, secured a valuable salvage, and went to the temple to fulfill their vows.

• Feng Jun realized the Land Deity’s warning could deter ships from approaching the Spirit Stone Mine, while the shipowners chose to follow Captain Markan’s plan and set sail for the Bruce.
• A hurricane pursued the salvage ship, and the Brui woman and the man from the Leo Kingdom hung up their talismans of peace while Markan initially refused to use his.
• When severe waves and a second, larger waterspout struck, the crew changed course, and Markan finally prayed with his talisman as the waterspout turned away.
• The Brui woman revealed that the True Martial Emperor had shown her the Bruchaga’s location in a dream, and the crew found and raised the wreck five days later.
• The salvage was estimated to be worth at least three or four million, and the bank agreed to extend the shipowners’ loan after inspecting the recovered goods.
• The three shipowners went to the temple to fulfill their vows, where the Brui woman donated a hundred thousand and Sophia urged them to salvage the other ship soon.

After Sophia urged the treasure-hunting trio to salvage the Fernando quickly, they recovered the wreck before rival companies could reach it and credited her guidance for their success. They brought a one-million-dollar vow to the Alansmu Daoist temple, where Sophia exchanged it for three cases of Three Lives Wine, while their bank awaited repayment.

• Sophia urged the Brui Country woman, the Leo Kingdom man, and the Marco man to salvage the Fernando without delay, and they gathered their crew and sailed again.
• After rival companies sought salvage authorizations, the trio located the Fernando and completed the salvage within three days, avoiding Yaxi Country's exclusive economic zone.
• The trio returned ahead of their competitors and credited Sophia with providing the precise wreck location that secured their success.
• After selling the first Bruchaga goods for two million Mairui Dollars, the trio brought a one-million-dollar check to the Alansmu Daoist temple as a second vow offering.
• Sophia refused the check as a direct donation and gave the trio three cases of Three Lives Wine in exchange, but the Marco man placed the check in the Merit box.
• A senior bank executive asked the trio why they had not used the money to repay their loan.

After rumors linked the Fernando’s salvage profits to Sophia’s Daoist temple, she turned the publicity into a growing stream of believers and petitioners. Feng Jun agreed to resolve some petitions at a gathering after a scripture lecture, but after surveying the crowd, he decided one long-paralyzed man could not be treated.

• The bank learned that the salvagers had donated a one-million-dollar check to Sophia’s Daoist temple, and a sailor hinted that the crew had prospered through the Guardians’ favor.
• Reporters flocked to Alansmu Town, but Sophia refused interviews and drove off intruders; her expanded rainfall also discouraged paparazzi hiding near the temple.
• Sophia rejected most petitioners while keeping their hopes alive, then asked Feng Jun to perform a rite for them; he agreed to act after a lecture on the Origin Scripture.
• Three days later, a Daoist from Xuan De Heavenly Grotto lectured to a large crowd, and Sophia announced that devout attendees should wait because some karmic ties might be settled.
• Feng Jun used Divination to assess the petitioners and hesitated over a man paralyzed for years, then decided the man could not be treated.

Feng Jun screened people seeking help at the Daoist Temple, admitting only those whose favorability toward Xia Nation met his threshold, and Sophia’s selected guests experienced miracles overnight. The awakened Jack objected to Sophie’s faith in Sophia and the True Martial Emperor, leaving Sophie to explain who Sophia was.

• Feng Jun set an eighty-percent favorability threshold toward Xia Nation and reduced the several hundred applicants to about thirty people with suitable requests.
• Feng Jun told Sophia that he rejected applicants who were insufficiently friendly toward Xia Nation, and he exposed Frederickson’s concealed hostility.
• Sophia arranged for the selected applicants to stay in the Daoist Temple’s guest quarters, while those excluded were told to consider where they fell short.
• Overnight, the blind girl regained her sight, the vegetative patient awoke, and the man searching for his father’s will received clues in a dream.
• Jack questioned why Sophie had brought him to a religious site and offered money to settle matters, but Sophie refused and told him that her faith in Sophia and the True Martial Emperor had sustained her.
• Jack asked Sophie whether Sophia was Xia people.

Jack’s recovery exposed a sharp change in his attitude toward Xia Nation and Sophie’s Daoist faith, leaving Feng Jun puzzled by Jack’s altered favorability. Jack’s compatibility with Mairui Country measured 97 percent, while his compatibility with Xia Nation had fallen to 48 percent.

• Jack objected to Sophie’s faith in the Daoist Temple and called her conversion a betrayal.
• A divorced father criticized Jack’s ingratitude to Sophia, while Feng Jun asked a media heir whether his respect for the Guardians and Daoist Temple was genuine.
• Sophia told Feng Jun about Jack’s hostility, and they questioned whether his favorability rating from when he was vegetative had been accurate.
• After leaving the Daoist Temple, Jack argued with Sophie over treatment fees and condemned her for converting to a Xia religion.
• Jack declared that Sophia was no longer a Mairui person because she believed in a Xia religion, and his compatibility scores showed 97 percent for Mairui Country and 48 percent for Xia Nation.

Jack and Sophie divorced after Jack refused to honor his vow to the Xia Nation Daoist Order, and their public dispute drew sensational media coverage. Jack then became comatose again, while Sophie showed no concern and said God had abandoned him.

• Jack rejected Sophie's faith and refused to fulfill his vow, so the couple argued and decided to divorce.
• Sophie and Jack finalized the divorce in Xue Ni, and their son Martin chose to live with Sophie.
• Jack and Sophie gave contrasting media accounts of the divorce, and one outlet falsely claimed Sophie had been brainwashed and planned to donate family property.
• Sophie sent the outlet a lawyer's letter, but it refused to retract its report or apologize.
• Jack fell into a vegetative state again after sleeping, alarming doctors and the public.
• When the Police Bureau questioned Sophie, she said Jack had betrayed God and deserved to be abandoned.

Sophia became an international sensation after reports linked her to miraculous events, while Feng Jun decided to return to Xia Nation and focus on helping his own countrymen. Back in Luo Hua, he began considering how to earn Merit but realized he had no public Daoist sanctuary.

• The Police Bureau failed to learn much from Sophia, and sensational reports about Jack's awakening and the Daoist temple spread through the media.
• A media heir praised Sophia while clearing the temple's name, drawing widespread attention to her and the temple; reporters later exposed her Jensen family background and citizenship history.
• After two reporters who had received Sophia's lawyer's letters died, the Minister of Immigration publicly softened his account of delays to her citizenship application.
• Sophia declined an invitation from the Xia Daoist Association, while Feng Jun told her he was returning to Xia Nation to help people there.
• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua and decided to build up influence at home, but realized he had no Daoist sanctuary open to the public.

Feng Jun planned a Wish-Granting Tower and cultivation access point in the new town, but his companions resisted taking responsibility for it. Gazi proposed piloting the project at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, leaving Feng Jun to consider whether the arrangement could work.

• Feng Jun and Yang Yuxin agreed to set aside part of the new town for a fenced cultivation area with small preaching buildings and a five-story Wish-Granting Tower.
• Feng Jun asked his companions how to operate the tower, but Zhang Caixin objected, while Liang Siyu supported expanding Luo Hua's influence and Yu Qingzhu suggested Gu Jiahui take charge.
• Yu Qingzhu explained that her Yu family ties made her unsuitable to oversee the project in Yang City, and Feng Jun left the discussion after assigning it to Gazi.
• Gazi rebuked the others for delaying Feng Jun's plans, then told Feng Jun that he would handle the project and proposed starting with a pilot at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven.
• Feng Jun considered Gazi's suggestion because Luo Hua and Cinnabar Cloud Heaven already had close cooperation, and wondered whether he was becoming a friend of women.

Feng Jun arranged for the Earth Spirit to upgrade the Earth Vein near his parents and discovered that a powerful white goose had been living by their home. After making the goose promise to protect his parents, he went to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, where someone recognized him at the gate.

• Feng Jun asked the Earth Spirit to upgrade an Earth Vein and invited Lin Heihu to visit Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, but Lin Heihu postponed until his treatment ended.
• Feng Jun visited his parents and arranged a separate Spirit-Gathering Formation for them while the Earth Vein was upgraded.
• Feng Jun discovered that the white goose near his parents was a High Qi Condensation Spirit Beast and negotiated for it to protect them for thirty years in exchange for access to spiritual energy.
• The Earth Spirit agreed to transform the Earth Vein in two months for fifty thousand Spirit Stones and questioned Feng Jun about his parents and mountain gate.
• Feng Jun and Gazi arrived at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven at dawn, where a young Daoist nun challenged them and an unseen voice greeted Feng Jun.

Feng Jun visited Cinnabar Cloud Heaven and asked Guan Shanyue whether the temple would host a request-granting service like Sophia’s in the Leo Kingdom. He left the proposal open for discussion, while Ma Sanniang appeared and pressed him for details.

• Feng Jun arrived at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven before dawn and spoke with the Daoist nuns and Guan Shanyue outside the temple gates.
• Guan Shanyue showed Feng Jun the temple’s new outer courtyard and Ten Directions Platform, explaining their intended uses and the local government’s tourism plans.
• Feng Jun asked whether the Ten Directions Platform could be used and raised the idea of Cinnabar Cloud Heaven granting every request, as Sophia’s temple did in the Leo Kingdom.
• Guan Shanyue froze at Feng Jun’s proposal, and Ma Sanniang appeared in a flower basket to ask how long his planned trial would last.

Feng Jun negotiated with Ma Sanniang and Guan Shanyue to use Cinnabar Cloud Heaven as a temporary site for manifesting miracles and teaching the Origin Scripture while his own sanctuary was built. The chapter left them planning how to test worshippers’ devotion, with Guan Shanyue’s suggestion to use electricity as a power source prompting Feng Jun to consider the idea.

• Feng Jun explained that he wanted to demonstrate Xia Nation’s miracles at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, where he could test the foreign Incense Apotheosis Path while his own sanctuary was under construction.
• Ma Sanniang and Guan Shanyue agreed to host Feng Jun’s pilot project for four or five months, and Feng Jun urged Ma Sanniang to learn from Lin Heihu so she could continue answering requests after he left.
• Cinnabar Cloud Heaven announced that Magu would manifest miracles and that the Origin Scripture would be taught at the Ten Directions Platform on dates ending in five or zero.
• Ma Sanniang asked Feng Jun to devise a way to measure worshippers’ devotion, and Guan Shanyue suggested powering the testing artifact with electricity instead of spiritual energy.
• Feng Jun considered whether electricity could power the artifact and thought that an Immortal Ascension Mirror might be adapted to test devotion.

Feng Jun used divination and extensive testing to develop Spirit Stone and electric versions of a formation that measured devotion, while refining it to prevent reverse engineering. As Cinnabar Cloud Heaven prepared its first sermon in nearly a century, Guan Shanyue sought a prominent speaker, and Feng Jun questioned why other cultivators needed to be invited.

• Feng Jun asked the Yin Soul Big Shot about testing devotion, then realized he could use divination to develop a testing formation.
• Feng Jun dismantled several artifacts and tested contracted beasts with help from Nie Chifeng and local cultivators, gathering data for his design.
• Feng Jun built and tested a Spirit Stone-powered formation with believers in Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, then developed an electric version and added security features.
• Zhang Caixin arrived from Luo Hua and asked Feng Jun whether he had stayed away because of their argument, but he explained that he needed local believers for testing.
• Guan Shanyue discussed plans for Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s first sermon with Feng Jun and suggested Tang Wenji as the speaker; Feng Jun objected to inviting fellow cultivators to observe.

Feng Jun agreed to help Yang Yuxin use his iron ore supply to strengthen Xia Nation’s steel companies in their price negotiations. He decided to reveal only part of his six hundred million tons of stockpile at a time, leaving the rest in reserve to keep the suppliers guessing.

• Feng Jun told Guan Shanyue to hold Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s Origin Scripture lecture on Saturday and send notices Thursday, keeping the gathering focused on the Heaven’s manifestation.
• Feng Jun agreed to test formations for Sophia and planned to install an electricity-powered Spirit-Gathering Formation at her monastery once its power supply was ready.
• Yang Yuxin told Feng Jun that foreign suppliers were stalling negotiations and threatening to suspend iron ore deliveries to Xia Nation’s steel companies.
• Yang Yuxin asked Feng Jun to supply enough ore to support the steel companies for six months, and he agreed to move his six hundred million tons of mined ore to Xia Nation while continuing production.
• Feng Jun advised Yang Yuxin to reveal only one or two hundred million tons at first and release more gradually, and Yang Yuxin agreed that this would unsettle the suppliers.

Yang Yuxin’s plan to conceal Feng Jun’s enormous iron ore stockpile failed, prompting foreign suppliers to agree to price cuts and Xia Nation to consider balancing imports with Feng Jun’s supply. After settling on an electricity-driven Spirit-Gathering Formation, Feng Jun prepared to travel to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven with several companions, while the Little Celestial Master suggested inviting Sophia.

• Yang Yuxin told Feng Jun that the iron ore price reduction was essentially settled after steel companies discovered far more than the publicly claimed fifty million tons in freight yards across the country.
• Yang Yuxin explained that foreign suppliers had learned Xia Nation had a powerful new source and were seeking talks, while Elder Gu urged her to leave them room to survive.
• Yang Yuxin supported relying primarily on imports and treating Feng Jun’s iron ore as a supplementary source, partly because his future ability to return from the Kunhao Plane was uncertain.
• Feng Jun said he would mine another two billion tons of iron ore, then continued testing the electricity-driven Spirit-Gathering Formation until he had a plan and a successful Divination.
• Feng Jun agreed to bring Zhang Caixin, Yu Qingzhu, and Gu Jiahui with him to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, and the Little Celestial Master suggested inviting Sophia too.

Feng Jun arrived at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, where Daoist leaders gathered hoping to learn why he had come. The next morning, Guan Shanyue delivered a sermon on the Origin Scripture that unexpectedly offered useful insights to cultivators, and a Jade Sect disciple received a hint about her cultivation.

• Feng Jun arrived at Ten Directions Platform with his group, and the little Daoist nun told him that influential figures from several Daoist branches had come because they expected him to attend.
• Azure Firmament Master and Master Feng of White Sect visited Feng Jun, but he avoided explaining his purpose and introduced Yu Qingzhu as a rising talent from his manor.
• Guan Shanyue began explaining the Origin Scripture to Daoists and nearly a thousand believers, drawing on insights she had learned from Ma Sanniang.
• A Jade Sect female disciple recognized that Guan Shanyue's teaching challenged aspects of her sect's doctrine and asked her a question after the sermon.
• Guan Shanyue said the disciple's question concerned Cinnabar Cloud Heaven's secret inheritance, then offered a hint that the difference between Qian Cultivation and Kun Cultivation was neither right nor wrong, though Cinnabar Cloud Heaven favored Kun Cultivation.

Guan Shanyue’s sermon drew a large crowd, and Cinnabar Cloud Heaven used the gathering to measure believers’ devotion. Wang Ke’er sought to transfer from Jade Sect to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, while the chapter ended with the Young Celestial Master explaining what the measuring instrument recorded.

• After Guan Shanyue’s sermon, Cinnabar Cloud Heaven served a vegetarian meal and asked believers to fill out evaluation forms as they passed an instrument.
• Sophia appeared at the gathering to hand out forms, prompting Daoist elders to speculate about her connection to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven and Luo Hua.
• Wang Ke’er asked Guan Shanyue whether she could transfer to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, and Qingfeng reluctantly said he would not obstruct her despite raising concerns about her assets.
• Ma Sanniang told Guan Shanyue that Wang Ke’er possessed an innate Dao seed and strong potential, so Guan promised Cinnabar Cloud Heaven would handle the asset issue.
• As Sophia posed for photos, Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s nuns recorded the instrument’s readings, and the Young Celestial Master told the Daoists that it measured devotion to their order and to Cinnabar Cloud Heaven.

Cinnabar Cloud Heaven prepared to test Granny Ma’s Blessing, discussing how devotion might relate to manifesting divine power. After selecting highly devoted believers and asking them to stay overnight, the temple dealt with a leak caused by one woman who read her invitation aloud.

• Guan Shanyue said Cinnabar Cloud Heaven would recruit disciples and protectors gradually and confirmed that the Devotion Level investigation was an attempt to manifest divine power through Granny Ma’s Blessing.
• Guan Shanyue refused the Daoist visitors’ request to witness the blessing and said Ma Sanniang, the Supreme Elder, did not receive outside guests.
• Guan Shanyue lowered the selection threshold to ninety percent after only nine believers reached ninety-five percent, and the disciples identified twenty-nine wishes that might be fulfilled.
• Feng Jun asked the disciples to include Zhang Xiaoli, who had wanted to end her life, among those selected.
• Cinnabar Cloud Heaven contacted the chosen believers and asked them to stay overnight, but one woman read her message aloud and caused other believers to suspect a blessing was being arranged.
• The Daoist nun refused the woman’s request to join the selected group after she had exposed the secret, while Zhang Xiaoli stayed with her mother.

After receiving Granny Ma’s Blessing, Zhang Xiaoli dreamed of lives shaped by survival and a future in which her suicide destroyed her parents, then woke determined to live and care for her mother. As other visitors discovered their illnesses had improved, Feng Jun explained that he had intervened because Xiaoli was someone who should not have died.

• Zhang Xiaoli dreamed of several past lives and a future where her suicide drove her mother and father to their deaths, then woke and promised her mother she would never try to kill herself again.
• Zhang Xiaoli refused to let her mother contact her uncle and urged her to live well, while her mother realized the blessing had changed her daughter.
• Zhang Xiaoli and her mother heard that the art student’s facial condition had improved and saw Baldy celebrating his returned hair.
• A middle-aged man said his renal failure felt better, and a Daoist nun announced that the temple gates and cafeteria were open.
• Feng Jun sensed the visitors’ joy, and Lin Heihu asked why he had entered Zhang Xiaoli’s dream and healed her; Feng Jun said she was someone who should not have died.

Feng Jun planned to save Zhang Xiaoli from suicide by having Lin Heihu create a dream that revealed the consequences of her death. As the newly blessed visitors gathered at Cinnabar Cloud Heaven, they discussed their experiences and Sophia carefully distinguished her blessings from Magu’s.

• Feng Jun reflected on Zhang Xiaoli’s impending suicide and asked Lin Heihu to preside over Luo Hua’s Blessing Courtyard, which Lin eagerly accepted.
• Feng Jun planned to return everyone to Luo Hua that evening so Sophia could make another appearance and gain more Faith.
• The recipients of Granny Ma’s Blessing stayed together at the Ten Directions Platform, sharing their experiences while Cinnabar Cloud Heaven’s disciples listened.
• Zhang Xiaoli described feeling physically better, and a young Daoist nun revealed that Magu had personally selected her for the blessing.
• Sophia answered questions about her blessings in the Leo Kingdom and distinguished them from Magu’s, while Gu Jiahui questioned her description of what local worshippers sought.