Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Phantom Immortal Technology finishes installing the ClearSight Artificial Eyeball production line on Great Gold Island and begins manufacturing the implants.
• The company announces that the implants are available through designated hospitals worldwide. Patients quickly arrive, and news crews gather to witness the first surgeries.
• Jia Luoxin, a former police officer blinded by a gunshot wound, receives the first transplant slot at Xiaxi Hospital in Rongcheng. His former superior, Zhou Changlin, arranges it through Shen Bing and Phantom Immortal Technology.
• The half-hour operation succeeds. Jia emerges walking and, seeing his family and former colleagues for the first time in years, says, “I can see you!”

Character developments

• Jia Luoxin moves from long-standing loss and regret toward renewed hope. He wants both to see his seven-year-old son and to return to the police work he loves.
• Zhou Changlin shows his loyalty and lingering guilt toward Jia by acting quickly to secure the surgery. His emotion comes through in his tearful reaction and teasing scold.
• Jia’s family and comrades share the strain of waiting and then the overwhelming relief of his recovery.

Significant themes

• Technology restoring human possibility: The artificial eyes offer more than medical improvement—they may restore relationships, identity, and careers.
• Personal stakes behind innovation: The public debate about automation is distant and abstract compared with Jia’s intimate wish to see his son.
• Hope after trauma: A life-changing injury that once seemed irreversible is suddenly overcome.

Character interactions

• Jia asks Zhou Changlin for help, and Zhou responds by contacting Shen Bing, who arranges the transplant.
• Jia’s family and police comrades wait together through the surgery, their anxiety easing when the doctor confirms its success.
• After emerging, Jia insists he can walk without help; Zhou answers with affectionate teasing before Jia looks at everyone and announces that he can see them.

Key plot points and events

• Jia Luoxin regains his sight after seven years of blindness through Phantom Immortal Technology’s ClearSight Artificial Eyeballs. He recognizes his daughter and thanks his wife, Bai Hua, though the doctor urges him to rest and avoid straining his newly operated eyes.
• The surgery launches worldwide. About 30,000 people receive implants in one day, with no reported failures. Hospitals are overwhelmed by demand, but patients accept the waiting lists.
• ClearSight generates more than five billion in revenue that day, underscoring Phantom Immortal Technology’s enormous economic power.
• The Immortal Fate Charity Fund expands rapidly, hiring nearly 2,000 workers to investigate patients’ circumstances and determine who needs financial assistance. Shen Bing’s super-AI, Qiuqiu, supports the work, while staff handle necessary in-person checks.
• Shen Bing assigns former underground-base workers to the charity, giving them suitable roles. Since they must operate publicly under new identities, Qiuqiu creates identities for them, and they undergo facial surgery.
• Shen Bing’s father becomes the fund’s head, supported by two professional managers. A new website and Dragon Scale OS services let patients check whether they qualify for aid.
• The fund announces 13,000 recipients, donating over two billion yuan. Shen Bing’s collected wish power rises to roughly twice its usual daily amount.

Character developments and interactions

• Jia Luoxin experiences the emotional joy of seeing his family again; Bai Hua supports him and follows the doctor’s instructions.
• Shen Bing prioritizes both fair aid distribution and the wish power it generates, investing heavily in staff, verification, and administration.
• Shen Bing’s father moves from an uneventful retirement into managing a large charity operation. Though initially daunted by the scale, he commits himself to learning and doing the job well.
• Qiuqiu enables the fund’s global coordination, identity creation, and online services, while human staff provide oversight and verification.

Significant themes

• Technology as a life-changing force: the artificial eyes restore sight across a wide range of causes of blindness.
• Compassion and fairness: the charity fund seeks to direct aid to patients and families in greatest need.
• Scale and responsibility: Phantom Immortal Technology’s wealth and reach bring both extraordinary benefits and complex logistical demands.
• Hope and gratitude: patients accept delays because the prospect of restored sight—and possible financial help—gives them renewed hope.

Plot points and events

• Phantom Immortal Technology’s Immortal Fate Charity Fund has made free ClearSight Artificial Eyeball surgery available to poor recipients, while wealthy customers pay the company’s listed price. This has silenced criticism over the company’s pricing and tax benefits, and boosted its public image.
• Shen Bing reviews a plan to roll out the Body-Strengthening Exercise nationwide. To protect its most powerful movements, he proposes presenting the first set as a new set of Broadcast Calisthenics, then teaching later sets only to selected trainees.
• The exercise’s full five sets are said to increase physical ability tenfold. Shen Bing has reached only the second set, but already finds its effects substantial.
• Shen sends the plan to Secretary Jiang, who quickly calls to confirm it relates to a directive from the Chief. After reviewing it, Jiang questions the claimed tenfold enhancement and worries that the exercises have not been tested or checked for harmful effects. Shen insists the figures are correct and the exercise is safe.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is confident and strategic: he wants the exercise widely adopted while keeping its advanced stages secure. He also trusts his own technology enough to dismiss concerns about testing.
• Secretary Jiang is cautious and increasingly uneasy. He is surprised by the plan’s claims and struggles to reconcile Shen’s assurances with the lack of practical evidence.

Significant themes

• Wealth and social responsibility: The charity program redistributes access to life-changing treatment and improves the company’s standing.
• Secrecy and national security: The staged release of the exercise aims to spread its benefits without exposing its most powerful elements.
• Innovation versus caution: Shen’s confidence in untested technology clashes with Jiang’s concerns about proof and safety.

Character interactions

• Shen’s charitable policy indirectly silences critics and presents his company as serving the public good.
• In their calls, Shen reassures Jiang about both digital security and the exercise’s projected effects. Jiang remains polite but skeptical, especially when he learns the tenfold enhancement is based on Shen’s calculations rather than completed trials.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing persuades Secretary Jiang to support a government-led rollout of his Body-Strengthening Exercise. He says he has completed the second set and proposes starting with schools and the military, while keeping later sets protected.
• Shen Bing rejects promoting the exercise under Phantom Immortal Technology’s name, fearing foreign countries would quickly copy the program. He offers to teach the first set through a video, despite Secretary Jiang’s concern that people could injure themselves by learning it incorrectly.
• On Gold Island, construction advances rapidly. Factory buildings appear, cargo ships deliver large quantities of ore, and metalworking equipment arrives to produce materials for further expansion.
• Singapore’s officials realize they need to finalize their agreement with Phantom Immortal Technology before the island grows beyond the agreed seven square kilometers. Minister Liang travels to Rongcheng to sign it.
• Liang arrives at the company without advance notice and is refused entry by security, who doubt his identity. He recognizes that his own failure to arrange the visit caused the problem.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing appears confident and strategic: he reassures Secretary Jiang, prioritizes Huaxia’s advantage, and is willing to let the government lead the exercise’s promotion.
• Secretary Jiang initially trusts Shen Bing’s claims, agrees with the rollout plan, but remains uneasy about relying on a video to teach the movements. He ultimately yields to Shen Bing’s assurance.
• Minister Liang shifts from trying to limit Gold Island’s size to urgently seeking an agreement. His embarrassment over Singapore’s position leads him to travel discreetly, but his lack of preparation backfires at the company gate.
• Singapore’s officials move from debating whether the island is too large to worrying that it may expand rapidly and leave them with an unfavorable situation.

Significant themes

• Trust and authority: Secretary Jiang’s confidence in Shen Bing outweighs his usual caution, while the government’s involvement is meant to establish public confidence in the exercise.
• National advantage and secrecy: Shen Bing wants Huaxia to benefit from the exercise before other countries can imitate it.
• Rapid technological change and power shifts: Gold Island’s swift construction leaves Singapore scrambling to secure an agreement.
• Personal responsibility: Liang’s final predicament is presented as the result of his own failure to communicate and plan ahead.

Key plot points and events

• Singapore’s Minister of Commerce, Liang, arrives at Phantom Immortal Technology seeking to sign a previously agreed contract. A security guard refuses to arrange access, so Liang calls Chairman Shen Bing directly.
• Shen teases Liang about arriving late and initially tells him to return another time. He eventually agrees to have General Manager Wang Sheng receive the delegation, with contract terms to be reviewed the next morning and Shen to sign once negotiations are complete.
• Shen suspects Singapore’s urgency is connected to construction on Gold Island, which he has been monitoring. The issue matters greatly to Singapore but little to him.
• Shen then visits the Underground Base to hear about the dark-matter structure in the mecha. Clarence reports that it can receive signals from a gene segment, but the received signal is far weaker than expected.
• Clarence offers two explanations: the signal may have weakened while traveling through space, or the mecha may not be the signal’s true destination—it may have come as a “vanguard.” Shen is startled and asks what that means.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is confident, sarcastic, and willing to use delay as leverage. He has anticipated the Singaporean delegation’s arrival and treats its concerns as relatively unimportant. His focus quickly returns to the more troubling scientific mystery.
• Minister Liang is frustrated by Shen’s mockery and delay, but remains diplomatic and accepts the proposed schedule because a contract requires careful negotiation.
• Clarence presents a cautious hypothesis rather than a firm conclusion, highlighting the uncertainty surrounding the mecha’s signal.
• Shen and Liang’s conversation is marked by teasing and restrained irritation; Shen’s discussion with Clarence shifts to serious concern.

Significant themes

• Power and leverage: Shen’s position lets him control the pace of negotiations, while Liang must accommodate him.
• Personal manner versus diplomacy: Shen acts according to his own preferences, even in a business matter involving a foreign delegation.
• Scientific uncertainty and looming danger: The weak signal raises the possibility that the mecha is only a preliminary arrival and that something else may be coming.

Key events

• Shen Bing learns that the alien mecha has no control core. Clarence explains that a dark-matter gene sequence may be an early form of its “brain,” potentially capable of developing intelligence and controlling the machine.
• Though cultivation could attract alien attention or create an uncontrollable mecha, Shen Bing approves a cautious experiment. They will remove the mecha’s limbs and weapons, shield its signals, and ask Master Qiao to help investigate how those signals work.
• Shen Bing signs the contract with Singapore’s Minister Liang, capping Gold Island’s area at seven square kilometers.
• In the Gate to the Immortal Realm, Shen Bing has been accepting quests to map new locations and meet gods. He also spreads word that the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven is meditating on Mount Huaguo, hoping to expose the Six-Eared Macaque impersonator and turn sightings into quests.
• A new quest appears: the Queen Mother wants the theft of Peaches of Immortality investigated. Shen Bing knows he stole the peach himself, but worries that confessing would cost him the reward. He teleports to the Jade Pool, intending to try another approach, and is challenged by two angry fairies for trespassing.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing balances curiosity with caution: he agrees to investigate alien technology but insists on safeguards.
• Clarence is enthusiastic and proactive, having already consulted Rox and proposed ways to limit the mecha’s danger.
• Minister Liang leaves relieved after the contract is signed, though he remains alarmed by Gold Island’s continued growth.
• Shen Bing uses diplomacy and strategic networking in the Immortal Realm, building familiarity with many gods while pursuing the Six-Eared Macaque.
• The Queen Mother’s anger is rooted in the earlier destruction of the Peach Garden by Sun Wukong. Her past grievance makes her especially suspicious of renewed rumors about the Great Sage—and determined to catch whoever stole a peach.
• Shen Bing’s thoughts about the fairies prompt him to compare their beauty and bearing with Yun Xue and Yuan Wei.

Significant themes

• Curiosity versus risk: Shen Bing is drawn to alien technology despite the possibility of catastrophic consequences.
• Strategy and safeguards: Both the mecha experiment and Shen Bing’s quest tactics rely on controlling risks and turning systems to his advantage.
• Grudges and suspicion: The Queen Mother’s lingering resentment shapes her response to the theft, while rumors make her suspect Sun Wukong again.
• Appearance and status: The fairies’ immortal bearing, rather than beauty alone, distinguishes them in Shen Bing’s eyes.

Plot points

• Shen Bing reaches the Jade Pool Immortal Palace and persuades a wary fairy to announce him by claiming he can find the thief who stole the Peaches of Immortality.
• The Queen Mother asks him to identify the culprit. Shen Bing refuses to help until they agree on a reward, arguing that he has no protection if she reneges afterward.
• He asks for two Peaches of Immortality, but the Queen Mother refuses and offers instead one item from her treasury.
• Shen Bing calls the offer stingy and argues that finding the thief could protect the entire Peach Garden. He then claims he could bring the culprit in person, leaving the Queen Mother surprised and doubtful.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows himself to be bold, opportunistic, and skilled at bargaining. He stays calm when the fairies distrust and scold him, and presses his advantage with the Queen Mother.
• The Queen Mother is authoritative and initially confident, but Shen Bing’s unusual terms and claims unsettle her. She agrees to pay in advance, then resists giving up her peaches.
• The fairies act as wary gatekeepers: one challenges Shen Bing, while another loses her temper during his negotiation. Shen Bing ignores their hostility and addresses the Queen Mother directly.

Significant themes

• Trust and power: Shen Bing seeks payment upfront because the Queen Mother’s superior status would make it difficult for him to enforce a promise.
• Bargaining and self-interest: Both parties weigh the value of the reward against the service offered.
• Appearance versus confidence: Though treated as a suspicious outsider, Shen Bing’s composure and certainty make the Queen Mother consider that he may truly know more than he lets on.

Key plot points

• Shen Bing refuses the Queen Mother’s offer to pay only for identifying the Peach Garden thief, insisting that all rewards be paid in advance.
• When the Queen Mother threatens him and orders him taken to the Immortal Execution Platform, Shen Bing remains completely unafraid—even inviting the executioner to strike. The execution is halted by a fairy carrying the Queen Mother’s order to spare him for now.
• Shen Bing returns to the hall and is released. His defiance succeeds because he knows the Queen Mother needs his help to find the thief, while he himself does not fear death.
• The Queen Mother offers him two treasures if he captures the thief and threatens to pursue him if he fails. Shen Bing stalls until she asks him to state his conditions.
• While browsing his quest list, Shen Bing finds “Lovers Reunited,” which asks him to help Cowherd and Weaver Girl remain together. Completing it would help him reach the twenty quests needed to upgrade the Gate to the Immortal Realm.
• Shen Bing accepts the quest and begins steering the negotiation toward Cowherd and Weaver Girl’s upcoming Qixi reunion. The chapter ends as he calls their plight tragic in front of the Queen Mother, who caused their separation, and she demands that he get to the point.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing proves calculating as well as irreverent: his apparent fearlessness is a deliberate way to exploit the Queen Mother’s need for information. He also uses humor and provocation to keep control of the conversation.
• The Queen Mother is furious at Shen Bing’s insolence but repeatedly restrains herself because she needs his help. Her hesitation at the execution platform signals that she is already reconsidering her threat.
• The fairy and Heavenly Soldiers are first taken aback by Shen Bing’s composure, then frustrated by his teasing. The fairy’s order to spare him reflects the Queen Mother’s reluctant compromise.
• Shen Bing and the Queen Mother’s exchange becomes a contest of leverage: she has authority and force, while he holds the information she needs. Their discussion of Cowherd and Weaver Girl further needles her, since she is responsible for their separation.

Significant themes

• Leverage and power: Apparent authority does not guarantee control; Shen Bing’s valuable knowledge gives him bargaining power over a much more powerful ruler.
• Fear and defiance: Shen Bing’s refusal to fear execution unsettles the guards and undermines the Queen Mother’s threats.
• Self-interest and opportunity: He pursues the lovers’ reunion not only out of sympathy but because the quest advances his larger goal of upgrading the Gate.
• Comic irreverence: Shen Bing’s jokes and the Queen Mother’s barely contained anger turn a life-or-death confrontation into a battle of wills.

Key plot points

• Shen Bing asks the Queen Mother to let Cowherd and Weaver Girl be together. Though she agrees immediately, he distrusts her and insists on a precise oath sworn on the Heavenly Dao, with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder as the penalty for breaking it.
• The Queen Mother swears to permit their marriage—provided Shen Bing finds the thief who stole the Peaches of Immortality and brings them to the Jade Pool Immortal Palace.
• Shen Bing then asks to choose two treasures as his reward. The Queen Mother sends Fairy Yaoxuan to escort him to the Immortal Armory.
• The armory resembles a modern supermarket. Yaoxuan explains several powerful items, including a Hurricane Talisman that annihilates life across a thousand-li radius, an axe that can cleave mountains, a cage that can imprison any living being, and a fruit that gives beasts human-level intelligence.
• Shen Bing is tempted by the treasures but keeps browsing without choosing, considering their potential value for humanity and the advancement of his Gate to the Immortal Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is shrewd and persistent: he anticipates the Queen Mother might exploit vague promises, so he forces her to make a binding, specific oath. He is also curious and increasingly excited by the Immortal Realm’s resources, imagining how they could be reproduced through science.
• The Queen Mother appears composed but is inwardly irritated by Shen Bing’s demands. She agrees because opposing him would be disadvantageous, and has to suppress her frustration throughout the negotiation.
• Fairy Yaoxuan escorts Shen Bing and explains the armory’s contents. She regards him as an ignorant country bumpkin and grows increasingly exasperated as he makes her describe item after item without choosing anything.
• Shen Bing does not react to Yaoxuan’s contempt; he cares more about securing the promised treasures than winning her approval.

Significant themes

• Trust, accountability, and power: Shen Bing uses the Heavenly Dao oath to guard against a powerful figure’s broken promise.
• The value of knowledge and technology: The armory’s magic inspires Shen Bing to imagine transferring Immortal Arts into human technology.
• Ambition and restraint: Though extraordinary weapons tempt him, Shen Bing delays choosing, recognizing that the Queen Mother’s collection may hold even better options.
• Cultural contrast and humor: Shen Bing’s modern, practical comparisons—such as likening the armory to a supermarket and the talisman to a nuclear weapon—underscore the gap between his worldview and the Immortal Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing chooses the Spirit-Conversion Orb, hoping its ability to convert spiritual energy between attributes can help him obtain or produce rare forms of dark energy on Earth, and a pair of Voice Transmission Talismans, whose unlimited range and instant communication could inspire new communications technology.
• Fairy Yaoxuan privately considers his choices unimpressive, but hands over both treasures. Shen Bing accepts them and heads to the Queen Mother, as promised.
• Asked to identify the thief who took a Peach of Immortality, Shen Bing reveals that he himself took it. He argues that picking one while passing by was merely “helping himself,” not stealing—and jokes that a real thief would have taken the entire garden.
• The Queen Mother rejects his story, pointing out that her garden is heavily guarded and off-limits. Yaoxuan and another fairy ready their magical weapons, but Shen Bing remains composed.
• Shen Bing realizes the quest may require not only revealing the truth but persuading the Queen Mother to believe him. He offers to steal another peach as proof, while considering whether to expose Thousand-Mile Eye, who may also be implicated.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shows his practical, technology-focused priorities: he values what the treasures’ abilities might yield in the real world more than their standing in the Immortal Realm. He remains confident under accusation and begins thinking strategically about how to satisfy the quest.
• Fairy Yaoxuan is disdainful of Shen Bing’s selections and suspicious of his motives, though she keeps her judgment to herself. She is briefly struck by his apparently heroic departure before dismissing the impression.
• The Queen Mother is stern and unconvinced, treating Shen Bing’s confession as an absurd excuse.
• Yaoxuan and the other fairy shift from surprise to readiness to confront Shen Bing when he admits taking the peach.

Significant themes

• Practical value versus prestige: Shen Bing judges magical objects by their potential applications beyond the Immortal Realm.
• Technology transfer and adaptation: He imagines improving one-to-one, unlimited-range talismans into a broader communications system.
• Truth, proof, and belief: The quest may depend not merely on confessing what happened but on convincing the Queen Mother.
• Self-serving justification: Shen Bing humorously reframes taking a peach as “helping yourself,” exposing the gap between his logic and the Queen Mother’s view of theft.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and Yaoxuan exchange a transactional farewell: he accepts the treasures and promises to identify the thief.
• Shen Bing openly provokes the Queen Mother with his confession and sarcastic remark about her intelligence. She responds with disbelief and anger.
• Yaoxuan and the other fairy prepare to defend the Queen Mother, while Shen Bing stays calm and offers a demonstration to support his claim.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing avoids implicating Thousand-Mile Eye, then demonstrates that he can seemingly vanish and return with a freshly picked Peach of Immortality. The Queen Mother accepts this as proof that he stole the peaches.
• His quest has changed: he must help solve the theft and bring the culprit before the Queen Mother for judgment. Since Shen Bing himself is the culprit, simply confessing is no longer enough.
• The Queen Mother demands back the two treasures Shen Bing obtained from her and threatens punishment. When he refuses, she orders him executed. Shen Bing allows himself to be beheaded, knowing death will return him to Illusory Void Island.
• The quest disappears from his list, confirming completion. The Queen Mother, believing him dead, is left bound by her oath to arrange a marriage alliance for Cowherd and Weaver Girl—but plans to seek a way around it.
• Back in the modern world, Shen Bing calls Secretary Jiang about an “arrived package,” meaning the alien spaceship. They arrange for a ship to collect it in international waters, with delivery postponed until the day after tomorrow.
• Shen Bing returns to the underground base. Master Qiao has mapped the spaceship and its mecha; meanwhile, Clarence and the research team prepare a shielded laboratory to test whether a signal from a gene segment can be transmitted outside.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains audacious and resourceful, using his teleportation and ability to return after death to complete a dangerous quest. He is also cautious about revealing too much, both to the immortals and to Secretary Jiang.
• The Queen Mother shifts from disbelief to wary recognition, then to fury when Shen Bing admits no remorse and refuses to surrender his gains. Though she believes his execution has solved the problem, she remains troubled by the oath he forced her to swear.
• Secretary Jiang quickly understands Shen Bing’s coded reference to the spaceship and coordinates a discreet collection with the chief’s approval.
• Master Qiao and Clarence’s team demonstrate progress on alien technology, preparing the next stage of research.

Significant themes

• Power, deception, and control: Shen Bing’s mobility and unusual relationship with death undermine the Queen Mother’s authority.
• Quests and unintended consequences: Shen Bing’s attempt to negotiate for greater rewards changes the quest conditions, forcing him to improvise.
• Oaths and obligation: The Queen Mother’s vow remains binding even after Shen Bing’s apparent death.
• Secrecy and technological advancement: Shen Bing balances public caution with rapid investigation of alien technology.

Key plot points and events

• The alien gene sequence has finished developing into a new life-form. Master Qiao says the cultivation was safe, but the researchers still do not know whether it transmitted signals.
• Shen Bing visits the sealed laboratory to inspect the result: a complex, brain-like organ suspended in a specialized vessel. Its structure suggests the alien life-form may be carbon-based, though Shen Bing treats this as an unconfirmed and relatively unimportant possibility.
• To avoid exposing the organism—or risking further signal transmission—Shen Bing decides to bring the mecha into the laboratory rather than carry the brain to it.
• The mecha has been deliberately disabled, missing both arms and one foot, so it can be tested with reduced risk. Shen Bing retrieves it using Lu Xian, who transforms into a cauldron-like storage vessel, and brings it to the lab.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is cautious and methodical, prioritizing containment and controlled testing over Clarence’s eagerness to try the organism immediately.
• Clarence accepts Shen Bing’s safety reasoning and is thrilled when the mecha appears in the laboratory, guessing that Shen Bing used “space-folding technology.”
• Two researchers studying the mecha acknowledge their limits but have learned from its joints and design, especially for potential use in intelligent robots. Shen Bing sends them away and points them to the base’s database for further information.
• Shen Bing and Lu Xian work together to transport the mecha without moving it through ordinary means.

Significant themes

• Scientific curiosity balanced with caution: The alien brain is fascinating, but uncertainty about its capabilities calls for strict containment.
• Limits of knowledge: The brain raises questions about extraterrestrial biology, but the characters recognize that their evidence is incomplete.
• Technological superiority and secrecy: Shen Bing’s advanced storage method astonishes the others and reinforces the gap between his capabilities and theirs.

Key plot points and events

• Clarence is impressed by the Demon Puppet Artisan’s ability to store a nearly ten-meter mecha inside a small incense burner. Shen Bing explains that it resembles space-folding technology, but the team has not mastered it.
• Shen Bing asks Clarence to connect the cultivated “Brain Flower” to the mecha. Clarence suspects the connection will transmit fixed commands, unlike the richer consciousness-transmission technology.
• When the cultivation chamber opens, the mecha unexpectedly rises, crashes into the ceiling, and falls. It has only one leg, so it cannot balance.
• Master Qiao rapidly transforms and pins the struggling mecha down with one hand, revealing strength that astonishes Clarence and the assistants.
• Shen Bing orders Master Qiao to remove the mecha’s remaining leg. Once it is immobilized, Shen Bing asks whether it can speak.
• The mecha answers in Huaxia, asking who Shen Bing is and why he is harming it. The team realizes the Brain Flower is speaking through the machine—and is concerned that it has somehow learned their language despite being only a clone.

Character developments

• Clarence sees Master Qiao’s strength as a goal for his own genetic research. Shen Bing’s casual remark gives Clarence a lasting motivation that will shape his future achievements.
• Shen Bing remains focused on investigating the brain–mecha connection and responds to the unexpected movement with controlled experimentation.
• Master Qiao shifts in the team’s eyes from an enigmatic scholar to a physically formidable figure, while demonstrating precise control as well as power.
• The Brain Flower reveals apparent agency, communication ability, and unexplained learning.

Significant themes

• The gap between apparent technology and what has actually been understood: the team possesses spatial technology but cannot yet extract or master it.
• The boundary between machine and living intelligence, raised by the Brain Flower’s control of the mecha and its ability to speak.
• Scientific ambition and inspiration: Clarence’s encounter with Master Qiao gives his research a new direction.
• The mystery of acquired knowledge, especially how a cloned brain learned Huaxia without anyone noticing.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing guides Clarence through the brain–mecha experiment, while Clarence contributes technical deductions about their connection.
• Master Qiao protects the group by restraining the mecha, then obeys Shen Bing’s instruction to dismantle it.
• Clarence and the assistants react with awe to Master Qiao’s transformation.
• Shen Bing directly questions the immobilized mecha, prompting the Brain Flower’s first clear verbal response and leaving the group unsettled.

Key plot points and events

• Master Qiao confirms that the strange “brain” in the cultivation chamber had been controlling the Mecha by projecting its consciousness through a connection. The Mecha’s strike damaged part of the chamber, but the brain had not sent signals elsewhere.
• The brain attempts to control Shen Bing mentally. His strong will resists it, leaving the brain severely weakened. Shen orders Master Qiao and Lu Xian to rebuild the Mecha’s interface so it can no longer be controlled by the brain, retaining only its audio functions. The Mecha will be given to Thorne and ultimately to the authorities for research.
• Shen decides the brain should be treated as an experimental specimen. He suspects its genes carry inherited consciousness, information, or directives, and refuses to let it control the Mecha again.
• On the Mongolian prairie, Yuan Wei reflects on her feelings and future. Influenced by Sun Juan’s advice to pursue her own happiness, she decides to return to Rongcheng. She also realizes Shen Bing may be protecting her from afar, which reassures her that she matters to him.
• In international waters, a heavily guarded Huaxia cargo ship waits for a scheduled object to surface. A sonar scan detects a cube nearly twenty meters wide rising from the seabed. The ship’s captain maintains strict precautions, supported by a submarine and five Stealth Fighters. The object finally emerges and floats on the surface.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows caution and resolve: after surviving the brain’s mental attack, he prioritizes security over extracting information from it.
• Master Qiao and Lu Xian carry out Shen’s orders to modify and reassemble the Mecha; Clarence is reluctant to see it handed over but accepts Shen’s decision.
• Yuan Wei shifts from resignation toward taking responsibility for her own happiness. Her conversations with Sun Juan, who candidly advocates pursuing what one wants, help prompt that change.
• Sun Juan acts as Yuan Wei’s informal mentor, encouraging her not to give up on love simply because the situation is complicated.
• The cargo-ship captain demonstrates disciplined caution, while his crew follows orders as they approach the mysterious object.

Significant themes

• Security versus curiosity: Shen chooses containment and research safeguards over risking further contact with the alien intelligence.
• Willpower and mental autonomy: Shen’s resistance prevents the brain from controlling him.
• Inherited identity and hidden agendas: The possibility that the brain’s genes carry alien memories or directives makes it dangerous even when weakened.
• Choosing one’s own happiness: Yuan Wei begins to reconsider self-denial and act on what she wants.
• National advancement and secrecy: The Mecha is valued for its potential to strengthen Huaxia’s industries, while the sea mission’s extensive security signals the importance of the newly surfaced object.

Plot and key events

• A Chinese naval team locates a mysterious blue object at sea. Gao Jian discovers its outer layer is Styrofoam, but its great weight suggests something substantial is hidden inside.
• Rather than risk letting it sink, the captain orders the crew to secure and uncover it. After nearly three hours of work, they reveal a large, flying-saucer-shaped craft and hoist it aboard the cargo ship, which heads back to Huaxia.
• The chapter shifts to the rapid spread of artificial intelligence developed by Phantom Immortal Technology. AI is increasingly being used in production, allowing companies to replace workers and prompting growing unemployment worldwide.
• The United States announces it has built and test-flown a sixth-generation fighter. Its claimed ability to defeat more than ten F-22s, combined with hypersonic speed and AI assistance, alarms observers and bolsters confidence in U.S. military strength.
• Chinese online commentators worry that Huaxia’s stealth fighters cannot match the new aircraft’s speed and urge Phantom Immortal Technology’s founder, Shen Bing, to help develop a comparable fighter.
• Less than two days after the announcement, two U.S. fighters arrive at a military base in Japan, heightening regional concern.

Character developments and interactions

• Gao Jian moves from dismissing the object as a lump of plastic to recognizing that it conceals a heavy core. He follows the captain’s cautious orders and works with the soldiers to uncover it.
• The captain prioritizes securing the object over simply digging it out, wary of letting it sink and making the crew responsible.
• The crew remain disciplined and discreet despite their shock at discovering a craft resembling a flying saucer.
• Shen Bing does not appear directly, but online users cast him as someone who should use Phantom Immortal Technology’s resources to address China’s military disadvantage.

Significant themes

• Technological disruption: AI promises new capabilities but threatens employment as businesses replace human labor.
• Military competition and uncertainty: The U.S. fighter’s announcement shifts perceptions of global power and exposes concerns about China’s ability to respond.
• Secrecy and the unknown: The recovered craft’s origins and purpose remain unexplained, while the crew keeps the discovery confidential.

The chapter consists of a brief author’s notice rather than story events:

• Key events: The author says they worked a shift until 11 p.m. and felt completely exhausted. They are preparing a leave notice for Immortal Realm Technology and ask readers to wait and refresh the page once the update is available.
• Characters and interactions: No story characters appear or interact; the author addresses readers directly.
• Themes: Fatigue, work demands, and communication with readers about a delayed update.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• The United States brings a sixth-generation fighter technology demonstrator to conduct flight tests, but its arrival is widely seen as a show of military strength.
• Huaxia responds by publicly revealing its fifth-generation stealth fighter’s extraordinary ability to become invisible to the naked eye as well as evade detection. The announcement sparks widespread debate over whether it or America’s developing sixth-generation fighter is superior.
• The U.S. President takes comfort in his fighter’s advanced speed, weapons, maneuverability, stealth, and experimental short-range detection system based on disturbances in airflow. With American public opinion turning against him over the country’s exclusion from Phantom Immortal Technology’s Health Cure No. 1 exports, he decides it is time to act against the company.
• Shen Bing, aware that the Americans remain a threat but unconcerned with their plans for now, enters the Gate to the Immortal Realm to look for a way to finish his last quest before Qixi Festival.
• He finds a quest from Thousand-Mile Eye, Gao Jue, who fears being exposed as the recipient of the Peach of Immortality Shen Bing stole. Shen Bing accepts the quest and teleports to Gao Jue’s residence.
• Gao Jue, already on edge and afraid the Queen Mother has sent for him, hears someone at his door. When he opens it, he finds Shen Bing—the man everyone believes was beheaded.

Character developments and interactions

• The U.S. President regains confidence in America’s technological position and shifts from frustration to determination to confront Phantom Immortal Technology.
• Shen Bing remains confident and focused on his own objectives. He also sees Gao Jue’s quest as an opportunity to retaliate for having been pressured into the peach theft and poorly compensated.
• Gao Jue is consumed by fear that his role in the theft will be discovered. His anxiety makes Shen Bing’s sudden appearance especially alarming.
• The chapter contrasts the President’s calculated response to Huaxia’s public reveal with Shen Bing’s amused, opportunistic response to Gao Jue’s predicament.

Significant themes

• Technological rivalry and deterrence: Huaxia’s astonishing invisibility technology challenges American confidence, while America seeks ways to detect or counter it.
• Power, secrecy, and public image: Both governments use technological disclosures to shape perceptions, and the American President’s political troubles influence his decisions.
• Consequences and leverage: Shen Bing’s apparent punishment has placed Gao Jue at risk, allowing Shen Bing to turn their earlier exploitative relationship to his advantage.
• Suspense through reversal: Gao Jue expects an arrest, but instead faces someone presumed dead—setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Key plot points and events

• Gao Jue, also known as Thousand-Mile Eye, is startled to find Shen Bing—the Mist-Ethereal Adept—alive after hearing the Queen Mother had beheaded him. He suspects Shen Bing can return from death, though not in the same way as the immortal Great Sage Sun.
• Shen Bing admits he personally confessed to stealing the Peaches of Immortality, claiming his conscience compelled him. Gao Jue privately finds this absurd: Shen Bing stole the peaches, then voluntarily exposed himself.
• Shen Bing hints that he might still reveal more about the theft, including Gao Jue’s involvement. Fearing execution, Gao Jue realizes Shen Bing is pressuring him for compensation.
• Shen Bing frames his apparent death as repayment for their shared “karmic debt,” then asks Gao Jue for an offensive Magic Treasure or Divine Ability.
• Gao Jue reluctantly offers the Blinding Flame, a pearl-like treasure he made himself. When activated, it blinds all living creatures within a hundred-mile radius for two to four hours.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains calm, playful, and brazen. He uses his apparent return from death, his unpredictable honesty, and the threat of exposing Gao Jue to gain leverage, all while dressing his extortion in spiritual language.
• Gao Jue shifts from shock and relief to fear and resignation. He tries to flatter Shen Bing and conceal his anxiety, but eventually recognizes the shakedown and agrees to pay with a treasure.
• Their conversation is a tense, comic contest: Shen Bing probes and threatens indirectly, while Gao Jue tries to protect himself and keep the Queen Mother from learning of his role in the theft.

Significant themes

• Karma and consequences: Shen Bing presents his “death” as repayment for their shared offense, though he also uses the idea to justify extracting a price from Gao Jue.
• Hypocrisy and self-interest: Shen Bing’s claims of conscience contrast with his shameless conduct; Gao Jue’s concern for justice is largely driven by fear of punishment.
• Power and leverage: Shen Bing’s apparent ability to return from death gives him confidence, while Gao Jue’s vulnerability makes him easy to pressure.
• Comic irreverence: Grand ideas about morality and karmic justice are undercut by Shen Bing’s blunt opportunism and Gao Jue’s exasperated inner commentary.

Plot points and events

• Gao Jue (Thousand-Mile Eye) gives Shen Bing a Blinding Flame, a device he claims can blind anyone below Sage level—even through defensive treasures or formations. Shen Bing initially dismisses it as a glorified flashbang but accepts it after hearing how powerful it is.
• Shen Bing promises to take sole responsibility for stealing the Peaches of Immortality, hoping to complete Gao Jue’s quest. Gao Jue appears relieved, but the quest remains unfinished. Shen Bing suspects Gao Jue still fears the Queen Mother may punish him and will need more than verbal reassurance.
• Yun Xue returns and invites Shen Bing to visit Yuan Wei’s mother, hinting that Yuan Wei has come back. She learned this through the artificial intelligences in their Phantom Spirit Phones.
• Shen Bing and Yun Xue travel to the apartment where Yuan Wei’s mother lives. Li Xiao leaves to attend to his upcoming wedding.
• Two men wearing baseball caps follow Shen Bing and Yun Xue into the elevator. One acts aggressively while the other apologizes, then suddenly tries to stab Shen Bing with a concealed needle. Shen Bing catches his hand, revealing the attack.

Character developments

• Shen Bing remains confident and pragmatic, but is frustrated when his promise fails to complete the quest. He also considers giving Yun Xue an Aperture-Opening Pill and placing her in charge of research, recognizing her growing abilities.
• Gao Jue seems grateful for Shen Bing’s promise but is apparently still too worried about the Queen Mother’s reaction to truly feel safe.
• Yun Xue shows composure about visiting Yuan Wei despite her romantic feelings for Shen Bing. She also uses her friendship with Yuan Wei—and their phones’ AI—to keep informed.
• Li Xiao is comfortable with Shen Bing’s relationship with both women, viewing it through his belief that strength commands respect.

Significant themes

• Trust and reassurance: Shen Bing learns that promises alone may not ease Gao Jue’s fear; confidence depends on what happens next.
• Power and utility: Shen Bing judges the Blinding Flame by its practical value and imagines uses far beyond its original purpose.
• Romantic rivalry and generosity: Yun Xue’s willingness to visit Yuan Wei reflects both emotional tension and an effort to handle the situation openly.
• Unexpected danger: The elevator encounter abruptly shifts the chapter from domestic and romantic concerns to a concealed attack.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and Gao Jue exchange a valuable artifact for a promise of protection, though Gao Jue’s gratitude may not indicate genuine peace of mind.
• Yun Xue teases Shen Bing about meeting Yuan Wei, while he recognizes that the visit is emotionally complicated for her.
• Shen Bing and Yun Xue banter during the drive; Li Xiao silently tolerates their flirting.
• In the elevator, Shen Bing confronts the two suspicious men. One tries to provoke him, while the other disguises an attack as an apology.

Plot points and events

• Two armed men ambush Shen Bing in an elevator. He quickly restrains one and knocks the other down with a controlled kick before either can seriously hurt him.
• Yun Xue asks what trouble Shen Bing has attracted. He jokes that the attackers might be jealous of his looks, but one attacker’s plea that they “lost their heads” convinces them neither man is innocent.
• Shen Bing calls for his nearby bodyguards, Fei Tianluo and Gao Silun, who ruefully note that their work mostly involves removing people after Shen Bing has dealt with them. The attackers are taken to the underground base for questioning.
• Shen Bing and Yun Xue then visit Yuan Wei and her mother. Yuan Wei is surprised to see them and especially pleased to see Shen Bing, though she is uneasy about the complicated situation between the three.
• Yun Xue cheerfully insists that they be let in, even teasing that Shen Bing should at least be welcomed. Yuan Wei’s mother appears from the kitchen, looking dramatically younger and healthier than when Shen Bing last saw her.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains calm and confident during the attack, showing both formidable skill and restraint. He treats the attackers as a minor inconvenience and quickly turns his attention to visiting Yuan Wei.
• Yun Xue is concerned for Shen Bing but not surprised by his ability to handle danger. Her teasing, welcoming manner toward Yuan Wei suggests she is trying to ease the awkwardness between them.
• Yuan Wei is still working through her feelings and the consequences of the letters she left behind. Though she had decided to return to Rongcheng, she is unsure how to face Shen Bing and Yun Xue.
• Fei Tianluo and Gao Silun are capable bodyguards who feel underused because Shen Bing usually resolves threats himself.
• Yuan Wei’s mother appears transformed after recovering from her illness, a change attributed to her cure and the Immortal Peach.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: The attackers arrive armed and threatening, but Shen Bing subdues them almost instantly.
• Loyalty and unresolved feelings: The visit highlights the delicate emotional ties among Shen Bing, Yun Xue, and Yuan Wei.
• Transformation and recovery: Yuan Wei’s mother’s renewed health and appearance underscore the dramatic effects of her treatment.