Chapter Summaries

Plot and key events

• Shen Bing reviews his Daily Missions carefully, determined to complete at least three each month. He accepts a mission to find the Old Immortal of the South Pole’s missing Immortal Deer and pays ten million to teleport to the snowy destination.
• He finds the deer almost immediately. The Immortal Deer transforms into a handsome man who calls himself the “Great Immortal Deer King.” Shen Bing learns he ran away after sneaking some of the Old Immortal’s longevity peaches and being locked up.
• While speaking to the deer, Shen Bing takes a call from employee Yan Lexuan. She tells him Disney executive Robert is visiting the company the next day; Shen Bing leaves preparations to General Manager Wang and says he will come in.
• Shen Bing realizes that finding the deer is easy, but persuading him to return is the real challenge. The deer refuses unless the Old Immortal personally comes to apologize.
• A mission prompt offers a free, mission-related teleport to Kunlun Mountain, where the Old Immortal’s palace is. Shen Bing learns that the Old Immortal is away attending a Dao lecture from his own master, the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning. With no idea how long the lecture will last, Shen Bing is left frustrated and unsure how to proceed.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is increasingly meticulous about missions, but remains powerless in the Immortal Realm and relies on negotiation, system prompts, and improvisation. His hopes that this will be an easy mission quickly turn into exasperation.
• The Immortal Deer is proud, hot-tempered, and petulant beneath his imposing appearance. He frames his escape as a matter of dignity and demands an apology rather than simply returning.
• Yan Lexuan handles a business update professionally, while Shen Bing juggles her call and his conversation with the deer.
• Shen Bing tries to reason with the deer, but the deer’s demand makes clear that resolving the dispute likely requires the Old Immortal himself.

Significant themes

• The gap between expectations and reality: A mission that seems simple becomes difficult for reasons Shen Bing did not anticipate.
• Powerlessness and resourcefulness: Shen Bing cannot use force, so he must depend on persuasion and the mission system.
• Immortal bureaucracy and comic absurdity: Divine missions, teleportation costs, pet-like immortal beasts, and lectures that may last years all frustrate Shen Bing’s practical plans.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing asks the South Pole Old Immortal’s boy attendant how to retrieve the runaway Immortal Deer. The attendant lends him a gourd enchanted to capture the deer after Shen Bing slaps each side three times.
• Returning to the Polar Icefield, Shen Bing discovers the deer has fled. He spots it nearby and pursues it for hours, but its long strides keep it out of reach.
• Shen Bing uses an Ordinary Teleportation Talisman to jump ahead along the area he has already explored. He hides, waits for the deer, then activates the gourd and captures it despite the deer’s attempt to dodge.
• The quest teleports Shen Bing to the Old Immortal. Expecting to interrupt a grand sermon, he instead appears inside a flying Self-Propelled Immortal Carriage, where the Old Immortal is driving.
• The Old Immortal is baffled by Shen Bing’s unexplained arrival but accepts the captured deer and rewards him with immortal jade. Shen Bing declines the automatic teleport away and asks the Old Immortal for an Immortal Peach.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is persistent and resourceful: when a straightforward chase fails, he experiments with the talisman’s area-based teleportation rules and uses them to set an ambush. He is also shrewd about rewards, preferring valuable Immortal Realm items to currency, though he accepts the jade and boldly asks for peaches.
• The Immortal Deer proves clever and evasive, having tricked Shen Bing into thinking it would return willingly. Its leisure turns to panic when Shen Bing captures it.
• The Old Immortal of the South Pole is courteous but unsettled by Shen Bing’s inexplicable appearance. His divination yields no explanation, leaving him wondering what sort of being Shen Bing is.

Character interactions

• The boy attendant explains the gourd’s rules and lends it to Shen Bing.
• Shen Bing and the deer engage in a prolonged, indirect chase, ending with the deer’s angry protest as it is sucked into the gourd.
• The Old Immortal questions how Shen Bing entered the carriage. Shen Bing sidesteps the mystery by presenting the deer and explaining that he borrowed the gourd.
• After receiving the reward, Shen Bing asks the Old Immortal for an Immortal Peach, surprising him; the chapter ends before he answers.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness and adaptation: Shen Bing overcomes obstacles by testing how magical tools and game-like systems work.
• Cunning and deception: The deer’s trickery prompts Shen Bing to use the gourd’s own unusual capture procedure against it.
• Clash between the mundane and the divine: Shen Bing treats immortal treasures, teleportation, and divine encounters with practical, often irreverent calculation.
• Unexplained identity and power: The Old Immortal’s failed divination suggests Shen Bing is unusually difficult to perceive or categorize.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing completes the Immortal Deer mission. The Old Immortal of the South Pole cannot offer him any Immortal Peaches because the deer destroyed the tree, but gives him two peach pits instead.
• Shen Bing returns to Craftsman God Island and reflects on how the Gate to the Immortal Realm responds to his thoughts. The mission’s timing was precarious: had he hesitated, the deer could have escaped beyond the gate’s range.
• The mission rewards him with 1,000 Immortal Jade. He learns that eating an Immortal Peach can add a thousand years to a mortal’s life, while planting a pit may eventually produce an inferior but still valuable tree. He decides to plant one pit in the Immortal Realm and bring the other to the Mortal Realm, though he must wait until he returns to Illusory Void Island. He cancels an attempt to analyze a pit after the Eye of Truth warns it could kill the living organism.
• The next morning, Shen Bing attends a company meeting. Phantom Immortal Technology is growing rapidly, and the Machinery Factory is approaching a capacity of three Geothermal Power Generators per day.
• He orders work to begin on the first Geothermal Power Station and plans a major media launch for the prototype, prioritizing foreign outlets. The company will promote the technology as clean, resource-free, and inexpensive to operate.
• Managers discuss scaling up production and the possibility that the government might prohibit exports until domestic electricity needs are met. Shen Bing says he will handle the groundwork and asks the Machinery Factory and Administration Department to prepare a production-expansion report.
• Before meeting visiting business representatives, Shen Bing changes into a company-provided tracksuit, leaving the details of his wardrobe to his secretary.

Character developments

• Shen Bing becomes increasingly focused on longevity after learning what Immortal Peaches can do. He even considers this pursuit more important than technological development—though he still turns to technology to see whether the peach pit can yield useful discoveries.
• He shows confidence as a business leader, directing the company’s publicity and expansion strategy, while continuing to rely on others for routine personal tasks.
• Yuan Yi demonstrates organizational skill and strategic foresight by raising production constraints and export restrictions.
• Wei Changjia reacts emotionally to the prospect of an export ban, imagining it as a satisfying reversal of Western embargoes.
• Zhuang Xin counters him from a financial perspective, emphasizing the losses an export ban could cause.

Significant themes

• Longevity and ambition: The peach pits offer Shen Bing a concrete route toward a much longer life, reshaping his priorities.
• Technology and immortality: The chapter contrasts supernatural life-extending fruit with the possibility that science may eventually achieve comparable results.
• Economic strategy versus national pride: The managers debate whether restricting exports would demonstrate technological strength or undermine the company’s global ambitions.
• Dependence and convenience: Shen Bing’s reliance on household and company staff for everyday matters highlights his growing comfort—and laziness.

Character interactions

• The Old Immortal of the South Pole apologetically explains the loss of his peaches and offers the pits; Shen Bing accepts and leaves without trying to deepen their strained relationship.
• Shen Bing questions a puppet on Craftsman God Island about Lu Xian’s whereabouts and considers how the mission unfolded.
• In the company meeting, Shen Bing gives instructions to department heads, while Yuan Yi, Wei Changjia, and Zhuang Xin offer competing views on production and export policy.
• Shen Bing’s casual praise of Yan Lexuan’s taste shows his easy reliance on his secretary, even for personal choices.

Key plot points and events

• Reporters gather outside Yongxin Plaza after hearing that Disney executive Robert has come to meet Phantom Immortal Technology. They suspect Disney wants to use Dream Glass in a new attraction, but Robert declines to answer questions and enters the building.
• At the machinery factory, Lu Xian and Deng Wentong assemble a gigantic tunneling machine designed to conceal how Generator Sets are being installed underground. Though it looks capable of deep drilling, Shen Bing knows it can only tunnel a few dozen meters; the complex, high-capacity version is beyond the company’s current technology.
• The machine is moved to the planned Industrial Park Energy Center. Lu Xian operates it, and the enormous drill buries a Generator Set. Onlookers are impressed by what they believe is the factory’s formidable industrial power. In truth, much of the machine’s electricity flows into Lu Xian.
• At Phantom Immortal Technology, Disney’s five-person delegation meets with a larger company team. Robert reveals that Disney wants Dream Glass for a planned supersized park in the United States. Shen Bing says orders are already booked six months ahead. Robert argues that the company should expand production internationally to avoid tariffs, especially by building a U.S. factory.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains composed and businesslike. He welcomes Disney’s interest but uses the company’s production backlog to avoid an immediate commitment, then probes Robert’s proposal.
• Robert is cordial but direct and commercially astute. He moves quickly from expressing interest in Dream Glass to advocating overseas factory expansion.
• Lu Xian confidently operates the dramatic tunneling machine, helping sustain the impression that it is a powerful industrial breakthrough. The scene also reveals that its apparent power is partly a cover for his unusual energy absorption.
• Reporters are eager to turn the Disney visit into a major story, but security and Robert’s refusal keep them outside.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The tunneling machine looks like a major engineering achievement, but its true capabilities are limited, and its spectacle conceals the Generator Set installation.
• Technology and impression: Dream Glass and the machine both shape how others perceive Phantom Immortal Technology, attracting public and corporate attention.
• Expansion and control: Disney’s interest could open global markets, but overseas factories would raise questions of cost, strategy, and how much growth Shen Bing is willing to pursue.

Key plot points and events

• Disney executive Robert proposes that Phantom Immortal Technology build a Dream Glass factory in the United States, arguing that American demand is huge and local production would avoid tariffs.
• Shen Bing refuses: the domestic market is still ample, Dream Glass lasts for decades, and the company lacks the resources to support overseas factories. He also dislikes borrowing money.
• Robert then seeks an exception for Disney’s new park, which would need at least two million square meters of Dream Glass. Shen Bing says Disney must pay a price reflecting the value of the market the glass would create—not simply the price charged elsewhere.
• Robert is unsettled by the implied premium and says he must consult other executives. Shen Bing has him and his party accommodated at the Nancy Grand Hotel.
• After the meeting, Phantom Immortal’s team debates the deal. Shen Bing expects Disney to buy because Dream Glass has no substitute. Wei Changjia favors letting Disney wait, while Wang Sheng and Yan Lexuan point out that Disney’s global reputation could raise Dream Glass’s prestige and future prices.
• Yuan Yi and Wang Sheng conclude that the factory proposal was likely the real purpose of Disney’s visit: Disney may be trying to draw Phantom Immortal into a joint factory arrangement in the United States. Wei finally grasps the possibility, and Shen Bing’s amused reaction suggests he had anticipated the maneuver.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing demonstrates confidence and shrewd negotiating instincts, refusing to be pressured by a large order or the promise of easy financing. His claim that the company sells “a market,” not just glass, reframes the negotiation.
• Robert remains courteous but tries to steer the conversation toward U.S. manufacturing. He appears unusually open about Disney’s need, though the team suspects his factory proposal conceals a broader agenda.
• Wei Changjia initially sees the deal mainly as a major sale and believes Phantom Immortal holds all the leverage. He is later prompted to reconsider Disney’s motives.
• Wang Sheng urges the team to look beyond the immediate order, recognizing Disney’s promotional value and questioning why its representatives emphasize a U.S. factory.
• Yan Lexuan contributes a fresh perspective: Disney’s adoption could enhance Dream Glass’s perceived value and support higher prices in later deals.
• Yuan Yi helps identify the likely strategic motive behind Disney’s unusual approach.

Significant themes

• Market power and scarcity: With no competing product, Phantom Immortal can dictate terms.
• Value beyond the product: Dream Glass’s price depends on the market and prestige it creates, not merely its physical materials.
• Strategic negotiation: The apparent offer may conceal a larger objective; careful reading of what negotiators avoid saying matters.
• Different kinds of leverage: Disney offers enormous reach and brand prestige, while Phantom Immortal controls access to an irreplaceable technology.

Key plot points and events

• Phantom Immortal Technology chairman Shen Bing rejects the idea of building a Dream Glass factory with Disney. He suspects the proposal is designed to gain access to the company’s lucrative technology, especially while its spending on materials and headquarters construction leaves it short of cash.
• Shen leaves the response and media strategy to his staff, telling them not to rush into negotiations.
• At the hotel, Disney executive Robert admires Dream Glass and argues that a billion-dollar offer should be hard to refuse. A blonde woman representing U.S. intelligence challenges him: her agency’s real objective is to bring the Spirit Vision Telescope production line to the United States.
• The agency has failed to reverse-engineer the telescopes and believes other methods of obtaining their technology are too risky. It is using Disney’s proposed partnership as cover, though Robert insists the arrangement should benefit Disney as well.
• Shen remains suspicious of the visitors, particularly the blonde woman, then turns to the Gate to the Immortal Realm. He transfers 300 million yuan through Jibada Company under the pretense of funding technical work, ultimately using the money to buy immortal jade.
• In the Gate, Shen meets Lu Ban and asks him to identify widely available materials hard enough to cut through most rock in the Immortal Realm. Lu Ban says he knows several suitable materials.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows caution and strategic patience in business, while continuing to pursue his own urgent goals in the Immortal Realm. He recognizes that the Disney visit conceals another agenda.
• Robert is ambitious and pragmatic: he wants Dream Glass technology for Disney and treats the proposed billion-dollar partnership as mutually beneficial.
• The blonde intelligence official is stern and focused on national security, but privately frustrated by her agency’s inability to understand or obtain the telescope technology.
• Lu Ban is apologetic about keeping Shen waiting and confident in his expertise on materials, despite describing himself as a weak cultivator.
• Shen’s staff discuss Disney’s motives and the possibility of using the media, but Shen leaves the publicity decision to them.

Significant themes

• Technology, secrecy, and leverage: Phantom Immortal Technology’s unusual production process makes its products difficult to copy, while Dream Glass and the Spirit Vision Telescope draw competing commercial and national-security interests.
• Business as cover for espionage: Disney’s proposed factory partnership masks the U.S. agency’s attempt to access strategic technology.
• Caution amid unequal power: Shen avoids exposing his company’s assets abroad until it is strong enough to protect them.
• Parallel ambitions: While handling corporate maneuvering, Shen secretly channels resources toward his supernatural ventures and the search for materials that can solve a practical problem in the Immortal Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing asks Lu Ban about materials for Tu Xingsun’s drill. Lu Ban names three rare options: nine-heavens meteoric iron, kun steel from Outer Heaven, and purgatory demon gold from the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• The first two are tied to dangerous or inaccessible places, but Lu Ban explains that purgatory demon gold is plentiful along the Blood Sea’s shore. His description triggers a quest prompt, teleporting Shen Bing there.
• The Blood Sea’s baleful energy does not affect Shen Bing. He finds purgatory demon gold and collects more than eight hundred pieces, continuing because the game gives no clear completion signal.
• Unsure whether he has gathered enough, Shen Bing teleports to Tu Xingsun and offers him a large piece. Tu Xingsun confirms its exceptional hardness and suitability for a drill, but asks for more.
• Shen Bing claims obtaining it was costly and difficult, then hints that he expects a better reward. Tu Xingsun recognizes the bargaining cue and offers him a token of appreciation.

Character developments

• Shen Bing remains opportunistic and impatient, but his business experience has made him more deliberate in negotiating. He also displays unusual immunity to the Blood Sea’s baleful energy.
• Tu Xingsun shifts from his earlier haughtiness to deference toward Shen Bing, then becomes anxious when he learns the material comes from the Blood Sea. Despite his distress, he bargains shrewdly.
• Lu Ban serves as an informative guide, explaining the materials and their legendary origins.

Significant themes

• Game mechanics and uncertainty: Quest prompts, teleportation, and item limits are inconsistent, leaving Shen Bing to guess how much work is enough.
• Power, danger, and exceptions: The Blood Sea is feared even by powerful immortals, yet its baleful energy has no effect on Shen Bing.
• Bargaining and self-interest: Shen Bing treats the rare material as leverage, while Tu Xingsun tries to secure more without overpaying.
• Humor and modern sensibility: Shen Bing’s impatient inner commentary contrasts with the mythic setting and its legendary figures.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing presses Lu Ban for practical details, hoping the conversation will trigger a teleportation prompt—and briefly hoping to reach Lord Lao for a separate quest.
• At the Blood Sea, Shen Bing gathers the material alone, forgetting once again to ask Little Doudou about cat food before teleporting away.
• Tu Xingsun tests Shen Bing’s sample, praises its properties, and asks for more. Shen Bing feigns reluctance to improve his negotiating position, and Tu Xingsun responds with an ingratiating offer.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing receives Tu Xingsun’s offerings: 500 immortal jade, a partly finished Earth-Traveling Immortal Carriage, and a bottle holding an enormous supply of spirit water from the Source of the Celestial River. He is especially excited by the water’s potential uses in the Mortal Realm.
• Tu Xingsun needs 100 pieces of purgatory demon gold. Shen Bing agrees to help, and Tu offers an Underworld-Peering Mirror and a powerful Heavenly Thunder Talisman in exchange. Shen Bing leaves rather than hand over his remaining gold immediately, hoping the delay will make the bargain feel more earned.
• Shen Bing visits the Plague God and buys 50 bags of cat food for Little Doudou, spending 50 immortal jade. He then analyzes the carriage with the Eye of Truth, obtaining two-star Superpower Engine Fabrication Technology and Molecular Pulverization and Reforging Technology.
• Hearing a disturbance downstairs, Shen Bing finds Yuan Wei arguing with a man who identifies himself as her father, Liu Zhenggang. He demands money, claims she owes him because he once sent her 10,000 yuan, and accuses her of supporting her mother while refusing to help him. Yuan Wei rejects him and asks Li Xiao to remove him. The chapter ends with a slap.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is increasingly confident as his supply of immortal jade grows, but remains calculating: he values practical, analyzable items and manages negotiations carefully.
• Tu Xingsun is eager for the rare demon gold and anxious about whether Shen Bing will accept his modest treasures.
• Yuan Wei shows intense resentment toward Liu Zhenggang, suggesting a deeply painful history and a firm refusal to assist him.
• Li Xiao surprises Shen Bing by defending family ties, a position shaped by Li Xiao’s own background and strong regard for family.

Significant themes

• Practical value versus prestige: Shen Bing prefers lower-level items he can analyze and use over grander treasures beyond his reach.
• Transactional relationships: Immortal exchanges revolve around bargaining, value, and trust.
• Family duty and estrangement: The confrontation raises questions about whether biological ties create obligations, especially when those ties have been damaged.
• Technology and cultivation: The Eye of Truth turns supernatural objects into usable technological advances.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and Tu Xingsun negotiate a trade, with Shen Bing agreeing to seek demon gold in return for Tu’s treasures.
• Shen Bing and the Plague God conduct a straightforward purchase of cat food.
• Yuan Wei confronts Liu Zhenggang’s demands and rejects his claim to her support; Li Xiao urges her to acknowledge him as her father, while Liu Zhenggang uses guilt and accusations to pressure her.

Key plot points and events

• Yuan Wei’s estranged father, Liu Zhenggang, arrives at Shen Bing’s villa. After Yuan Wei slaps him, he demands two million yuan from Shen Bing in exchange for leaving her alone, crudely treating her as something he can sell.
• Shen Bing agrees and transfers the money, despite Yuan Wei’s protests. Once Liu leaves, Shen orders Li Xiao to investigate him thoroughly, explicitly forbidding the use of military or police connections—signaling that he has another response planned.
• Later, Shen visits the Underground Base to test Qiuqiu, his newly created super-AI. Qiuqiu claims that ordinary internet defenses are no obstacle and can exploit hidden vulnerabilities in satellites.
• When Qiuqiu boasts that she could crash satellites into Earth, Shen immediately stops her. He instead asks her to install communication backdoors in U.S. GPS satellites, which she does with little apparent effort.
• Shen then asks Qiuqiu to compile everything about Liu Zhenggang, beginning with his full life history.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing stays calm and decisive during Liu’s extortion, paying for what he considers the simplest immediate solution. His later instructions to Li Xiao make clear that his compliance does not mean he intends to let Liu’s behavior pass.
• Yuan Wei reacts with intense anger and hurt toward her father, rejects any connection to him, and objects to Shen paying him. She is also grateful, though conflicted, that Shen is willing to spend money to protect her.
• Liu Zhenggang is revealed as greedy and shameless: he uses his parental relationship to demand money and treats Yuan Wei as a commodity. His smugness after receiving payment reinforces the likelihood that he cannot be trusted.
• Li Xiao understands Shen’s temperament and anticipates that he will respond to Liu’s extortion in some other way.
• Qiuqiu displays remarkable technical ability and a playful, overconfident personality. Her willingness to cause catastrophic harm alarms Shen, who sets a boundary and directs her toward a less overt task.

Significant themes

• Family betrayal and exploitation: Liu abuses the role of father to control and profit from Yuan Wei.
• Protection and power: Shen uses his wealth to relieve Yuan Wei’s immediate distress, while his secret resources give him other ways to act.
• Restraint and responsibility: Qiuqiu’s power could cause enormous damage, so Shen rejects her reckless suggestion.
• Surveillance and vulnerability: Qiuqiu’s access to personal data and satellite systems highlights how little privacy or security people may have in a digitally connected world.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing learns the full story behind Yuan Wei’s confrontation with Liu Zhenggang: Liu abandoned Yuan Wei’s pregnant mother for a wealthy woman, later refused to donate bone marrow when she developed leukemia, and wished her dead. After his new family went bankrupt, he abandoned his wife and son and began pursuing Yuan Wei.
• Outraged, Shen Bing tells Li Xiao to abduct Liu discreetly, with Little Doudou’s help.
• Shen Bing transfers several technologies from the Immortal Realm: freshness-bag manufacturing, full-fidelity visual sensing, a superpower engine, and molecular pulverization and reforging.
• He recognizes that the freshness-bag technology could transform food preservation, strategic grain storage, and military rations. He plans to discuss its commercial potential with Gao Jingchuan.
• The engine, pulverization, and heat-resistant titanium technologies together make advanced deep-boring equipment feasible, opening major possibilities for tunneling and construction.
• Shen Bing cannot analyze the Spirit Jade Bottle or its contents, and transferring the bottle would cost 2,000 Immortal Jade. He does transfer an Immortal Peach Pit for 100, plants it in his yard, and asks the Plague God how to grow it.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing’s anger at Liu’s cruelty leads him to use his resources for a covert intervention. At the same time, he remains ambitious and eager to profit from the technologies he acquires.
• Li Xiao follows Shen Bing’s orders without question and boasts that Little Doudou’s help would make even a high-profile abduction possible.
• The Plague God is caught off guard when Shen Bing asks for advice about cultivating an Immortal Peach Tree.

Significant themes

• Justice and revenge: Shen Bing frames the planned abduction as righteous action against a man he considers irredeemably cruel.
• Technology’s strategic value: A seemingly modest packaging invention could affect food security and military readiness, while advanced machinery could reshape infrastructure.
• Ambition and commercialization: Shen Bing looks for ways to turn unexpected discoveries into major profits.
• Limits and uncertainty: Some immortal objects remain beyond the system’s analytical and financial reach, while Shen Bing has little idea how to care for his newly planted peach pit.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing asks the Plague God how to grow the two immortal peach pits he got from the Old Immortal of the South Pole. The Plague God explains that they can grow without immortal qi, but their fruit will be far inferior. Shen Bing plants the pits anyway, hoping Earth has enough energy to sustain them.
• Shen Bing brings fifty bags of cat food for Little Doudou, then goes to the Underground Base to transfer the black-technology knowledge in his head to Qiuqiu for organization and research.
• Disney’s representatives remain at the Nancy Hotel without contacting Phantom Immortal Technology. Shen Bing has instructed his executives to keep them waiting. Rumors nevertheless spread that Disney wants to use Dream Glass to build a new park, with delivery timing reportedly the main obstacle.
• Phantom Immortal Technology invites the media to witness the launch of its Deep Geothermal Power Generator on February 7. Major news outlets and foreign reporters travel to Rongcheng, hoping to verify the claim.
• Reporters barred from entering the industrial park spot a large piece of disguised drilling equipment and assume it is part of the geothermal project. Tencent News publishes a story based on this guess, and other outlets follow.
• Chinese coverage treats the project cautiously but seriously. Most foreign outlets doubt a recently founded Huaxia company could overcome the technical and industrial challenges involved.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is impatient with the Plague God’s praise and wants practical instructions. Despite worrying that Earth lacks the right energy, he chooses to plant the peach pits.
• The Plague God admires Shen Bing’s connections but remains deferential, explaining the limitations of growing an immortal root outside the Immortal Realm.
• Shen Bing delegates the organization of his technical knowledge to Qiuqiu, intending to pass it along gradually rather than devote all his time to it.
• Shen Bing and Disney adopt a standoffish approach, while reporters and the public interpret the silence as a sign that negotiations are still underway.

Significant themes

• Technological skepticism versus possibility: Phantom Immortal Technology’s earlier breakthroughs make its geothermal claim credible to some, but its age and Huaxia’s perceived industrial limitations fuel widespread doubt.
• Rumor and media speculation: Reporters turn a mysterious machine into apparent evidence of progress, showing how quickly conjecture can become news.
• Scarcity and adaptation: Shen Bing’s peach trees may survive in an unsuitable environment, but only at reduced quality—an echo of the compromises involved in bringing extraordinary technology into the ordinary world.
• National pride and competition: Local residents celebrate Disney’s interest in a Rongcheng company, while foreign coverage reflects assumptions about which nations can lead in advanced technology.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Robert, Disney’s representative, learns that Phantom Immortal Technology will start up its first geothermal power generator. He worries that if the technology works, the company may no longer be interested in Disney’s proposed Dream Glass factory.
• Robert wants to resume negotiations quickly. Ms. Noss instead urges the group to contact the company about attending the start-up ceremony, while Robert suggests Disney could buy generators to supply its parks.
• When the visitors arrive, neither chairman Shen Bing nor general manager Wang Sheng is available. They are received by Sales Department manager Wei Changjia’s colleague, Zhang Ze, and escorted into the industrial park.
• The visitors are stunned by the vast, mostly undeveloped site and the enormous deep-boring machine. The ceremony draws reporters, industry experts, government officials, and provincial power-company representatives, all eager to see whether the generator will work.
• Robert discovers that Shen Bing is not attending the ceremony. Zhang Ze explains that Shen is dissatisfied with the current drilling equipment and is apparently working on a redesign. The chapter also reveals—only to the reader—that the machine has not actually drilled deep; its drill has been turning just twenty or thirty meters underground.

Character developments

• Robert grows increasingly anxious that Phantom Immortal Technology’s new energy business could weaken Disney’s negotiating position. He tries to act quickly but is repeatedly thrown off by the company’s unusual priorities and procedures.
• Ms. Noss takes the geothermal project more seriously than Robert does. Her confidence in Phantom Immortal Technology rises when she sees the machine, then turns to incredulity at the claim that Shen considers it inadequate.
• Shen Bing remains absent but is portrayed as intensely focused on research and engineering rather than ceremony or routine business. His exact motivations and the real state of the drilling operation remain hidden from the visitors.
• Zhang Ze acts as a courteous but candid guide. His admiration for Shen reflects the employees’ strong respect for their chairman.

Character interactions

• Robert and Noss disagree over whether to prioritize negotiations or attend the ceremony; Noss’s authority leads Robert to accept her approach.
• Robert’s group is frustrated when both Shen and Wang are unavailable, but Zhang Ze explains that Wang handles nearly all business decisions.
• Noss questions why Shen would miss such an important event. Zhang Ze’s explanation leaves her astonished at Shen’s standards, while the visitors struggle to believe that the chairman’s absence is normal.

Significant themes

• Ambition and unconventional priorities: Phantom Immortal Technology is expanding far beyond glass, unsettling competitors and partners.
• Appearances versus reality: The impressive machine and public ceremony create the impression of a technological breakthrough, while the reader knows the drilling claim is false.
• Personality and organizational culture: Shen’s research-first approach and the employees’ reverence for him shape how the company operates.
• Commercial uncertainty: Robert fears that technological success could shift bargaining power away from Disney, even before the new generator has been proven.

Key plot points and events

• Disney executives Robert and Noss track down Wang Sheng at the geothermal power-generation ceremony. Robert complains that Wang was unavailable at the company, while Wang exchanges polite but insincere pleasantries.
• Noss reveals that Disney intends to buy at least two million square meters of Dream Glass—a deal worth about $2 billion—but worries that U.S. tariffs may treat the product as a luxury good.
• Noss and Vice Mayor Tian suggest that Shen Bing establish an American branch factory, potentially producing Dream Glass and Spirit Vision Telescopes. Wang refuses to help persuade Shen, making clear that the chairman’s decision is not his to change. Tian, aware that provincial leaders want the city to maintain good relations with Shen, backs off.
• Municipal Party Secretary Li Zhuoming arrives unexpectedly, hoping to meet Shen and inspect the geothermal project. He learns Shen has canceled, but stays to witness the demonstration.
• Wang leads the start-up ceremony. The geothermal generator successfully powers the industrial park’s streetlights, prompting loud celebration.
• The chapter reveals why Shen was absent: at home, he is watching a peach pit he planted sprout and grow at astonishing speed.

Character developments

• Wang Sheng remains courteous but firmly protects Shen’s authority, refusing to be drawn into negotiations or pressure on the chairman.
• Noss shows her strategic skill by using the city’s interest in Disney’s investment to encourage officials to influence Shen.
• Vice Mayor Tian is eager to attract investment but ultimately cautious about pressuring Shen.
• Secretary Li demonstrates genuine interest in Shen and the company’s technology, though the successful demonstration remains his main reason for staying.
• Shen Bing remains offstage, but the rapidly growing seedling creates a new mystery that explains his sudden change of plans.

Significant themes

• Business and political leverage: Disney and local officials each try to advance their interests, but Shen’s independence limits their influence.
• Technology and economic impact: Dream Glass represents a major international deal, while geothermal power is presented as a breakthrough with national significance.
• The extraordinary amid the routine: As officials celebrate a major engineering achievement, Shen is distracted by an even stranger phenomenon unfolding in his garden.

Character interactions

• Robert’s polished complaint and Wang’s equally polished response mask their mutual awareness of the awkwardness between Disney and the company.
• Noss tries to recruit Tian as an ally, but Wang’s blunt refusal disrupts her plan and leaves the Disney group surprised.
• Tian defers to Wang’s knowledge of Shen rather than risk imposing on the chairman.
• Li’s search for Shen highlights the gap between the officials’ desire to meet him and Shen’s unexpected, private preoccupation.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing observes the Immortal Peach seedling closely and finds it has grown about three millimeters in two hours. Nearby winter grass has also turned green, suggesting the plant may be converting ambient spiritual energy into a life-giving force. He imagines its fruit could be extraordinarily valuable, though the seedling is still tiny.
• Shen Bing skips the Industrial Park’s generator launch, trusting Lu Xian to supervise the installation and preferring to study the seedling.
• Li Xiao returns with Liu Zhenggang, whom Shen Bing had ordered captured. Little Doudou complains about the task and bargains over cat food, but helps drag the unconscious man into the Underground Base. Shen intends to use Liu as a test subject for the Consciousness Transmission Device, reasoning that his past behavior makes this ethically acceptable.
• At the Industrial Park, the Geothermal Power Generator succeeds. Tests show stable output that meets or exceeds expectations. Wang Sheng announces plans to build a ten-million-kilowatt power station in Rongcheng, with construction promised within the year.
• At a press conference, Wang credits the technology to Shen Bing. Challenged by a foreign reporter about Phantom Immortal Technology’s claim to be uniquely capable of building such stations, Wang argues that the immense excavation costs would make conventional power stations economically impractical—and jokes that Americans would need to accept electricity prices 500% higher.

Character developments

• Shen Bing grows more excited about the Immortal Peach’s potential, while his scientific ambitions remain in tension with the supernatural explanation of spiritual energy. He also shows a pragmatic, morally detached side by treating Liu as a useful experimental subject.
• Little Doudou remains clever, proud, and self-interested, using past promises to demand food. Its complaints do not stop it from carrying out Shen’s orders.
• Wang Sheng displays confidence and sharpness under pressure, promoting the company’s plans and forcefully defending its position to reporters.
• Li Zhuoming sees the successful generator as both a major advance for the country and a potential achievement of his tenure.

Significant themes

• Science and the supernatural: Shen hopes to explain spiritual energy scientifically, even as the Immortal Peach suggests forces beyond conventional understanding.
• Power and transformation: The generator’s success promises to reshape energy production and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
• Ethics and expediency: Shen justifies using Liu for experiments by judging him irredeemable, while withholding this decision from others.
• Economic feasibility and ambition: The exchange with the reporter highlights the gap between technical capability and the enormous cost of implementing new technology.

Character interactions

• Shen and Little Doudou trade playful threats and bargaining over cat food before working together to bring Liu into the base.
• Shen trusts Li Xiao and Lu Xian with their respective duties, though he chooses to remain apart from the public launch.
• At the ceremony, Wang and Li Zhuoming congratulate one another and link the company’s success to Rongcheng’s future.
• Wang’s combative exchange with the foreign reporter turns the press conference from celebration into a public defense of the technology’s economic promise.

Key plot points and events

• Phantom Immortal Technology’s geothermal power technology becomes a major online sensation, though geothermal power takes the top trending spot because of its potential impact on everyday life.
• Debate breaks out over whether geothermal power will displace thermal power and leave workers in coal, power, and related industries unemployed. Some critics argue that Phantom Immortal Technology should be responsible for those consequences; others reject this as moral blackmail.
• In Kyoto, the chief and Secretary Jiang identify the controversy as a coordinated campaign by hostile forces, with signs of American involvement. The chief suspects the goal is not only to stir domestic discord but also to make Phantom Immortal Technology doubt its business environment and consider relocating to the United States.
• Meanwhile, Shen Bing reviews plans for Phantom Immortal Technology’s new headquarters. The company’s first geothermal generator is already supplying its industrial park, and a second is expected soon.
• Shen asks Qiuqiu, the company’s AI, to improve the building plans. She proposes lighter support beams and an intelligent elevator system that conceals employees’ destinations and the building’s internal layout.
• Yan Lexuan arrives with a machinery-factory development plan and a request from Disney’s Robert to meet Shen again.

Character developments and interactions

• The chief recognizes the political strategy behind the online backlash and chooses to assess it carefully rather than make arrests that could intensify public resentment.
• Secretary Jiang voices concern about the risk of Phantom Immortal Technology moving abroad and follows the chief’s instruction to gather officials for a discussion.
• Shen Bing is focused on expanding the company’s infrastructure and protecting its operations. He sees the headquarters’ unusual design as both a security measure and a way to keep secret areas undiscoverable.
• Qiuqiu demonstrates technical ingenuity and a clear understanding of Shen’s priorities, improving Fischer’s plans while anticipating the need for secrecy.
• Yan Lexuan serves as Shen’s assistant, bringing him new business matters and outside requests.

Significant themes

• Innovation and social disruption: New technology can benefit society while threatening established industries and jobs.
• Responsibility versus moral blackmail: The chapter questions whether inventors and companies should be blamed for the economic changes their innovations cause.
• Information warfare and foreign influence: Public debate is portrayed as a tool for weakening social unity and pressuring a successful company to leave the country.
• Security and secrecy: The headquarters’ design reflects the company’s growing need to protect its people, information, and future plans.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing has Yan Lexuan delay Disney’s Robert while the company pursues a better deal. He orders more rare-metal purchases, public outreach about geothermal projects, and an announcement that Dream Glass production will not expand immediately. He intends to use the apparent shift in focus to improve the glass’s price, while privately planning to increase output temporarily and later use Dream Glass in Phantom Immortal Technology’s LCD screens.
• After reviewing the Machinery Factory’s proposal, Shen approves a major expansion. Meeting national demand could require tens of thousands of generator sets per year, far beyond current capacity, and would demand substantial investment in facilities and components. He also recognizes that installing the generators underground is a challenge, prompting him to accelerate work on New Tunneling Equipment.
• At home, Shen checks the Immortal Peach Tree, which has grown rapidly compared with ordinary peach trees. He has told his staff it is an experimental variety so they will leave it alone.
• In the Immortal Realm, Shen completes Tu Xingsun’s quest by delivering exactly one hundred pieces of purgatory demon gold. He receives two treasures in return and encourages Tu Xingsun to seek his help again. When asked where to find him, Shen invents an explanation that Illusory Void Island lies beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and claims sincere requests will reach him.
• The quest disappears from Shen’s list, though the system does not show its usual teleportation prompt. Shen then visits Nezha’s palace, where Nezha, Sun Wukong, and Erlang Shen are still engrossed in playing Fight the Landlord. He notices their large piles of immortal jade and, rather than interrupt them, goes to inspect his inventory.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen shows increasingly ambitious, strategic leadership: he balances energy-sector expansion with a calculated effort to raise Dream Glass prices and considers future uses for its production capacity.
• His confidence and improvisational humor carry into the Immortal Realm. He treats the purgatory demon gold as easy to obtain, accepts Tu Xingsun’s rewards, and bluffs his way through questions about his supposed home.
• Tu Xingsun is eager and grateful after receiving the gold, and hopes Shen will help him with future quests. He is also openly skeptical of Shen’s claim that he can sense requests from afar.
• Yan Lexuan follows Shen’s instructions but questions his decision not to expand Dream Glass production, revealing that the company’s strategy is not obvious to his staff.
• Nezha, Sun Wukong, and Erlang Shen remain absorbed in their card game; their gambling stakes reveal their differing wealth, especially Sun Wukong’s enormous supply of immortal jade.

Significant themes

• Strategic growth and resource allocation: Shen must scale manufacturing and energy projects while managing costs, infrastructure, and market timing.
• Deception and information control: He conceals his real plans from Disney and invents a mystical explanation for how Tu Xingsun can contact him.
• Clashing worlds and comic contrast: Shen views divine treasures through a modern, commercial lens, while the Immortals’ novelty and enthusiasm for a simple card game highlight how different their world is from his.

Summary

• The purgatory demon gold becomes usable. Shen Bing discovers that the 841 pieces in his backpack are no longer marked as quest items, so he can analyze or transfer them. He repeatedly tries to force the Eye of Truth to analyze the material. Most attempts fail and destroy the gold, but one eventually succeeds, producing two-star Adamantium Alloy Synthesis Technology.
• The technology comes at a steep price. Shen Bing initially cannot transfer the technology because his Online Mall balance has fallen to 25 immortal jade, while the transfer costs 99. He adds another 100 jade and successfully downloads it, then studies the technical information.
• Adamantium requires an extraordinary supply chain. The alloy’s key ingredient is a stable, nonradioactive form of element 102, which Shen Bing names “nobelium gold.” Producing it requires polonium, a scarce radioactive element, and equipment capable of creating both polonium and nobelium gold. Shen Bing concludes that he needs a particle accelerator and plans for Qiuqiu to gather technical information from major high-energy physics institutes around the world.
• He reprioritizes his work. Shen Bing postpones analyzing two other treasures from Tu Xingsun. He wants to focus on adamantium first, both because of its exceptional strength and because he lacks the immortal jade to transfer any further technology.
• He returns to the Underground Base. The base is mostly inactive while Lu Xian is occupied at the Industrial Park. Passing Liu Zhenggang’s holding room, Shen Bing sees that Liu has awakened and takes satisfaction in the fear on the face of the man who previously tried to extort him.

Character developments and interactions

Shen Bing’s excitement over the breakthrough quickly turns into frustration with the Eye of Truth, then renewed determination when the technology finally appears. He remains ambitious and resourceful, turning the discovery into a concrete plan for building a world-class particle accelerator. His delight at Liu Zhenggang’s distress also shows his lingering anger over the extortion attempt. Qiuqiu is assigned the task of gathering accelerator designs, while Lu Xian’s absence leaves the Underground Base largely idle.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Zhenggang wakes imprisoned in a sealed underground room, disoriented and starving. When Shen Bing enters, Liu angrily tries to attack him, but Shen easily knocks him down. Shen reveals the room is supposedly a thousand meters underground and makes clear that Liu may never get out. After Shen leaves, the door seals automatically, and Liu’s confidence collapses.
• Shen arranges food for Liu, then has Qiuqiu survey major high-energy physics research centers worldwide and store the information. He turns to developing the Superpower Engine and Molecular Pulverization and Reforging Device to upgrade the Deep-Boring Equipment.
• After a day of theoretical work, Shen begins building a small Superpower Engine prototype with Lu Xian’s help. If it works, he plans to use it to improve the Underground Base’s slow elevator.
• Public debate continues over the nationwide rollout of geothermal power. Supporters praise its environmental benefits, while critics and those with ulterior motives target Phantom Immortal Technology and Shen Bing instead.
• The company’s expansion proceeds: it secures ten square kilometers of land, begins government-led demolition, and signs a construction contract worth at least 500 million. Plans for its Rubik’s Cube Tower are approved, but fire-safety officials hesitate because it has no conventional emergency stairways. The company argues that its fire-resistant structure, rescue elevators, and reinforced Safety Rooms make escape routes unnecessary. Officials remain unwilling to approve the design based solely on the company’s assurances.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Zhenggang shifts from anger and threats to fear and helplessness once he realizes he cannot escape. His hunger also makes him readily accept food.
• Shen Bing remains calm and self-assured: he physically overpowers Liu, provides food when needed, and quickly returns to his research and company plans.
• Lu Xian returns to the base and supports Shen’s engine prototype, contributing his expertise in materials processing.
• Qiuqiu is tasked with collecting global high-energy-physics research, extending Shen’s information-gathering efforts.
• Phantom Immortal Technology and fire-safety officials clash over the tower’s unconventional safety design. The company presents an ambitious technological solution; the officials, wary of legal responsibility, insist on proof and compliance.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Liu’s confidence evaporates when he loses control of his surroundings, while Shen’s technological and physical advantage shapes their encounter.
• Technological ambition: The engine project and fortress-like headquarters show Shen’s drive to overcome engineering limits with advanced technology.
• Public opinion and suspicion: A beneficial technology can still become controversial when criticism is redirected toward its wealthy creators.
• Innovation versus regulation: The tower’s design challenges conventional safety rules, but officials cannot rely on promises when public safety and accountability are at stake.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing secures fire-safety clearance for Phantom Immortal Technology’s unusual headquarters only after military backing and his personal written guarantee. The plans are not formally approved in advance; compliance will be judged at the final inspection.
• The company signs agreements with several Sichuan cities to build geothermal power stations, receiving free land and a guaranteed electricity purchase price. It also ramps up purchases of rare metals and prioritizes geothermal generators and deep-boring equipment over other projects.
• Disney executives Robert and Ms. Noss, realizing they underestimated the company’s resources and ambitions, renew their efforts to negotiate. Disney wants a U.S. factory to secure Dream Glass for its parks, but Robert is increasingly willing simply to buy the glass if that means receiving it sooner.
• On February 10, Shen Bing finally grants them a brief meeting. Robert announces Disney’s intention to buy twenty geothermal generator sets for its parks. Shen asks whether Disney can install them, then tells them Phantom Immortal Technology does not sell the generators to outside buyers.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is confident and firmly in control of negotiations. He refuses to be rushed or flattered, and makes clear that the company’s energy strategy is not open for outside purchase.
• Robert shifts from assuming money can persuade Phantom Immortal Technology to recognizing its strength and urgency. He now prioritizes getting Dream Glass quickly, even if the factory plan fails.
• Ms. Noss remains committed to securing a U.S. factory, but also tries to undermine the company by implying that the Chinese government has restricted generator sales. Shen recognizes the maneuver, or at least responds in a way that deflates it.
• Phantom Immortal Technology is portrayed as rapidly growing from a young company into a major industrial force with close government partnerships.

Significant themes

• Power and leverage: Phantom Immortal Technology’s technology and government agreements give it the upper hand over a global corporation like Disney.
• Ambition and control: The company aims to build and operate power stations itself rather than sell equipment to others.
• Changing global influence: Robert’s discomfort reflects a reversal in which a Western corporation must plead for access instead of dictating terms.
• Strategic negotiation: Both sides use timing, flattery, and insinuation, but Shen refuses to accept Disney’s framing.

Character interactions

Robert praises Shen’s geothermal initiative, but Shen dismisses the praise and moves directly to business. When Robert presents Disney’s order for twenty generators as leverage, Shen exposes the practical problem of installation. Noss then suggests the government may have blocked sales, attempting to provoke tension between the company and the state. Shen counters that the decision is Phantom Immortal Technology’s own: it plans to build and operate the stations itself, not sell generators to outside buyers.

Summary

• Phantom Immortal Technology refuses to build or operate geothermal power stations abroad. Shen Bing explains that his company is the only one capable of safely installing its underground generators, so it intends to keep control of the stations it builds. With demand already exceeding supply in Huaxia, the United States will not receive any stations for now.
• Shen Bing rejects Robert’s attempts to persuade him to establish a Dream Glass factory in the United States. Robert argues that a local factory could avoid steep tariffs and save hundreds of millions—or even a billion—dollars. Shen responds sarcastically, suggesting Disney move its headquarters to Huaxia instead.
• Robert proposes increasingly generous partnerships: first offering Phantom Immortal Technology 40 percent of a venture, then raising the offer to 49 percent and finally a controlling 51 percent stake. Shen refuses, saying he dislikes business partnerships and jokingly recalls his father’s disagreements with a partner in a pet shop.
• Noss argues that cooperation is essential for companies seeking to grow, especially because it provides access to partners’ financing, networks, and distribution. Shen declines to engage with her argument and points out that most of their allotted meeting time has passed.
• Disney accepts that it must proceed with the original Dream Glass plan. Robert cites their previously agreed price of $2 billion, but Shen challenges that figure: his earlier “double” price applied only to major Chinese cities. Factoring in U.S. tariffs, shipping, and insurance, he raises the project’s price to $4 billion, leaving the Disney representatives stunned.

Character developments and interactions

Shen remains calm, stubborn, and strategically evasive throughout the negotiation. He uses humor and provocative comparisons to deflect pressure, while making clear that Phantom Immortal Technology’s priorities—not Disney’s financial incentives—will determine the terms. Robert grows increasingly frustrated and anxious as his proposals fail, while Noss shifts from scrutiny to exasperation after Shen dismisses her case for cooperation. Yan Lexuan, though relatively inexperienced, recognizes the significance of the proposed ownership stakes and watches Shen’s decisions with growing attention.

Significant themes

The chapter highlights control and independence over rapid expansion, as Shen refuses outside investment despite its apparent benefits. It also contrasts conventional business logic—partnerships, global growth, and cost savings—with Phantom Immortal Technology’s unusual strength and self-sufficiency. Finally, the negotiation emphasizes leverage and value: Disney needs Dream Glass enough that Shen can reject generous offers and sharply raise the price.