Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu enjoys a lavish dinner, especially a golden egg laid by a Fire Phoenix Bird. Delighted with Zhang Shengcai’s cooking and the risk he took to obtain it, Chen rewards him with a Veined Longevity Pill that grants a thousand extra years of life.
• A flock of Fire Phoenix Birds arrives to avenge the egg. Chen reassures Zhang that he is not to blame, while the holy land’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array easily withstands the birds’ fireball attack.
• Outer Court disciples take to the air to hunt the flock. Ye Qingcheng eagerly joins the fight; Zhang also wants to make amends, but cannot fly.
• Chen gives Zhang a Quick-Learn Sword-Flying Art manual. Zhang masters it almost instantly, taking to the air on two flying butcher knives.
• A system rebate grants Chen the Quick-Learn Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect Art, which he plans to give to the holy land’s disciples.
• Ye, Zhang, and the Outer Court disciples overwhelm the Fire Phoenix Birds. Just as Ye prepares to sheath her sword, she senses a sudden, dangerous change in the atmosphere.

Character developments

• Chen Mu remains calm and generous, rewarding Zhang and treating the incoming attack as no serious threat. He uses the system to help Zhang overcome his lack of flight ability.
• Zhang Shengcai shifts from anxious guilt to determined action. His instant mastery of the flight art lets him join the battle and try to repay Chen’s kindness.
• Ye Qingcheng is eager to fight and demonstrates her immense strength, while briefly marveling at Zhang’s seemingly impossible progress.

Character interactions

• Chen praises and rewards Zhang, then reassures him when the Fire Phoenix Birds arrive.
• Zhang seeks to make amends by joining the fight; Chen enables him with the quick-learning manual.
• Ye questions Zhang’s sudden sword-flying skill and learns that Chen’s gift made it possible. They then fight alongside the Outer Court disciples.

Significant themes

• Generosity and loyalty: Chen’s reward and reassurance inspire Zhang to act for him.
• Unrealistic, system-enabled growth: Zhang rapidly acquires a skill that would ordinarily take considerable training.
• Power and confidence: The holy land’s defenses and fighters make the birds’ revenge seem hopeless—until the chapter ends on an ominous new threat.

• The Fire Phoenix Ancestor attacks Qingyun Prefecture. Drawn by the theft of its egg and the killing of its kin, the 230,000-year-old bird hides above the clouds and opens with a gigantic fireball. The Outer Court elders form a barrier and withstand it.
• Ye Qingcheng takes the fight into the sky. Wielding the Divine Sword Chen Mu gave her, she slices apart the Ancestor’s next three fireballs, then counters its rain of flaming feathers with her self-developed Ten Thousand Sword Phantoms technique. The elders are impressed; Chen Mu watches confidently, judging that Ye will win as she grows more adept with her Quasi-Emperor strength.
• The Ancestor escalates. Realizing it is losing the prolonged battle, it summons magma from deep beneath the earth and absorbs it, temporarily raising its cultivation to nearly 500,000 years. Ye combines her sword phantoms into a massive blade and sends it against the Ancestor’s enormous Heavenly Fireball—but the sword melts and breaks.
• The chapter ends on a cliffhanger: Just as the Fire Phoenix Ancestor celebrates, an eagle’s screech rings across the sky.
  Character developments and interactions: Ye remains composed under mounting pressure and demonstrates both formidable power and ingenuity, while continuing to adapt through combat. Zhang Shengcai is shaken by the Ancestor’s strength but turns his fear into resolve to become powerful himself. Chen Mu stays relaxed and observant, enjoying grapes and recognizing Ye’s potential. Ye challenges the Ancestor’s self-righteous anger, pointing out the suffering it causes humans; the Ancestor answers with greater fury. The elders support the defense and praise Ye’s abilities.
  Themes: Strength developed through experience; the escalation and dangers of revenge; and the contrast between a predator’s grievance over its own losses and the human families it has harmed.

Key plot points and events

• The Thousand-Mile Blood Eagle appears above Tianyuan Holy Land, frightening the defenders with its overwhelming size and presence. The elders mistake it for a million-year demon beast arriving to attack.
• The eagle is actually one of Chen Mu’s tamed beasts. Acting under his command, it seizes the Fire Phoenix Ancestor and cripples it by tearing off its wings.
• Ye Qingcheng takes advantage of the opening. She attacks the Fire Phoenix Ancestor’s fireball with three rune-inscribed sword projections, then finishes countering its strike with a powerful sword slash.
• The Blood Eagle drains the defeated phoenix’s blood and destroys its Demon Core, leaving only a shriveled carcass.
• The defenders consider activating the Holy Land Guardian Formation, fearing the Blood Eagle may attack next. Ye Qingcheng stops them and explains that it came to help, not invade.
• The elders struggle to believe Chen Mu can command such a beast. Ye Qingcheng confirms that his earlier group of ten tamed beasts included eight with million-year cultivation, one with five million, and one with ten million.

Character developments

• Ye Qingcheng demonstrates tactical skill and confidence in battle, then takes charge of calming the defenders and correcting their misunderstanding. She reveals that she knows the Blood Eagle from the Falling Star Great Forest and recognizes Chen Mu’s control over it.
• Chen Mu remains offstage but emerges as an even more extraordinary figure: in addition to his known talents, he is a master beast tamer capable of commanding creatures of immense power.
• The elders and disciples move from terror and suspicion to astonishment and reluctant acceptance, once they realize the Blood Eagle is connected to Chen Mu.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: The Fire Phoenix Ancestor’s temporary breakthrough is insignificant beside the Blood Eagle’s true strength.
• Earned cultivation versus borrowed power: The narration emphasizes that the phoenix’s borrowed cultivation cannot match the eagle’s genuine, superior strength.
• Hidden abilities and escalating reputation: Chen Mu’s many talents continue to exceed expectations, while Ye Qingcheng’s capabilities gain public recognition.
• Misjudgment and trust: The defenders interpret the Blood Eagle as a threat until Ye Qingcheng explains its allegiance.

Character interactions

• The Blood Eagle follows Chen Mu’s command, restraining and killing the Fire Phoenix Ancestor while Ye Qingcheng uses the opening to attack.
• Ye Qingcheng urges the elders not to waste resources activating the guardian formation and explains the eagle’s purpose.
• The elders warn Ye Qingcheng to stay away from the dangerous beast, then question her claim that Chen Mu can command it. Her account of his other tamed beasts leaves them stunned.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s followers remain stunned by his ten tamed beasts, including multiple million-year beasts and a ten-million-year beast. They conclude that he has surpassed the known limits of Beast Taming—and may have even greater abilities he has not revealed.
• The group learns that Chen Mu had already told the Inner Court not to intervene in Ye Qingcheng’s fight with the Fire Phoenix Bird ancestor. He had used the ancestor as a test for Ye’s swordsmanship and as an opportunity to strengthen the Thousand-Mile Blood Eagle.
• Ye Qingcheng returns to Qingyun Prefecture after resolving the Fire Phoenix Bird matter. There, she meets Wei Jiuming, Tianyuan Holy Land’s Chief Formation Master and its foremost authority on formations.
• Wei explains that he has reached the limits of what he can accomplish alone. He wants to build a powerful formation centered on a million-year Demon Beast; once completed, it could rival the Holy Land’s Guardian Formation and help hold off even a Great Emperor.
• Chen Mu readily agrees to provide a beast. When Wei clarifies that the formation needs a million-year beast, Chen reveals he has several. He uses the system to obtain more, then opens a Teleportation Gate and invites Wei to choose one.

Character developments

• Chen Mu is shown to be generous with his resources and confident in his extraordinary abilities. He treats the crisis and the formation project as manageable opportunities.
• Ye Qingcheng returns after proving herself against the Fire Phoenix Bird ancestor, though the chapter does not dwell on her response to the others’ amazement.
• Wei Jiuming is introduced as a meticulous, dedicated formation expert whose work has greatly strengthened Tianyuan Holy Land. His surprise at Chen Mu’s collection of million-year beasts underscores just how rare they are.
• Chen Tianlin, emerging from secluded cultivation, feels overwhelmed by his son’s accomplishments and retreats back into seclusion, half in despair and half in pride.

Significant themes

• Boundless potential and escalating power: Chen Mu’s achievements repeatedly redefine what others think is possible.
• Humility before overwhelming talent: Those around him feel their own abilities pale in comparison.
• Service and shared strength: Wei’s formations protect the Holy Land, while Chen’s generosity may let Wei extend that protection further.
• Power as practical opportunity: Chen turns exceptional resources into tools for strengthening both his allies and the Holy Land.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu’s followers react with disbelief and awe to his beasts and abilities.
• Chen Tianlin silently compares his own progress with his son’s and withdraws to cultivate again.
• Ye Qingcheng and Wei Jiuming exchange formal greetings before joining Chen Mu.
• Chen and Wei speak respectfully as uncle and nephew; Chen encourages him to ask for help, then offers him a choice of million-year beasts for the formation.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu brings Wei Jiuming into the Hundredfold Cultivation Space, where Wei is astonished by the enormous number of powerful, long-lived demon beasts.
• Chen offers Wei any beast he wants for his Killing Formation. Wei chooses an eight-million-year-old Thunder Qilin, believing its strength and lightning attribute will let the formation threaten even a Great Emperor. Chen compresses the qilin into a small space and teaches Wei how to release it.
• Wei asks whether Chen knows anything about formations. The system unlocks the Formation Compendium, instantly giving Chen comprehensive formation knowledge and access to formations throughout history.
• Wei tests Chen by presenting his Heaven-Prison Formation. Chen adds two strokes that block the formation’s spiritual-energy channels, revealing a simpler way to disable it.
• Wei then asks Chen to demonstrate his own formation-making skill. Chen selects a formation through the system and begins carving it into the ground.

Character developments and interactions

• Wei Jiuming shifts from apprehension to awe as he sees Chen’s resources and abilities. He admires Chen’s formation insight and good-naturedly teases him about being far more powerful than his humble manner suggests.
• Chen Mu remains casual and modest despite his extraordinary abilities. He readily shares a powerful beast with Wei and accepts the formation challenge without boasting.
• Ye Qingcheng accompanies them and lends Wei her sword for his demonstration, though she does not otherwise drive the events.
• The exchange between Chen and Wei is warm and familiar: Wei tests Chen’s knowledge, praises his solution, and then invites Chen to test his in return.

Significant themes

• Power contrasted with humility: Chen’s abilities far exceed what his understated comments suggest.
• Generosity and trust: Chen freely shares extraordinary resources with his uncle.
• Mastery through insight: Chen’s solution succeeds by understanding a formation’s structure rather than overpowering it.
• Escalating revelation: The system’s new feature gives Chen yet another field of expertise, continuing the pattern of hidden, near-unlimited capability.
  The chapter ends as Chen begins constructing his chosen formation; its result is not yet shown.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu finishes a small formation and asks Wei Jiuming, a celebrated formation master, to try to break it. Wei finds that his proposed solutions are all countered by hidden traps. Chen gently urges him to keep trying, and Wei abandons his impending admission of defeat.
• An eagle delivers Chen Mu an invitation from his older sister, Chen Juexin, to the Heavenly Zenith Auction, a prestigious event held once every ten years in Great Cang.
• Ye Qingcheng eagerly wants to attend but has no invitation. Chen Mu agrees to go, and Chen Juexin assures Ye that she can come as her guest.
• Their planned Flying Boat is delayed by a mechanical problem. Since Chen Juexin wants a suitably impressive vessel, the group must wait for a replacement.
• During the wait, Chen Mu receives a system sign-in reward: the Nine-Dragon Supreme Carriage. He wonders whether “Nine-Dragon” is merely its name or describes the carriage itself.

Character developments

• Wei Jiuming is humbled by Chen Mu’s skill, realizing he is far from the pinnacle of formation mastery. Rather than becoming resentful, he feels inspired to keep learning and treats the formation as a new challenge.
• Chen Mu remains confident and considerate, inviting Ye Qingcheng along and accepting Wei’s choice to stay and study. His curiosity about the auction is also paired with thoughts of using his limitless wealth.
• Ye Qingcheng openly expresses her admiration for Chen Mu and excitement about the auction, then feels relieved when Chen Juexin grants her access.
• Chen Juexin teases her brother for rarely leaving Qingyun Prefecture and demonstrates her influence by making sure Ye can attend.

Significant themes

• Lifelong learning and humility: Wei’s encounter with Chen Mu reminds him that mastery has no final ceiling.
• Talent and mentorship: Chen Mu’s formation both overwhelms Wei and gives him a renewed goal.
• Wealth and influence: The auction’s exclusivity reflects the power of money and status, while Chen Juexin’s business leverage secures entry for Ye.
• Unexpected opportunity: The travel delay gives the system time to reward Chen Mu with a mysterious, potentially impressive carriage.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu’s patient encouragement keeps Wei focused on the formation rather than letting him give up.
• Ye Qingcheng’s admiration contrasts with Wei’s firsthand awe at Chen Mu’s ability.
• Chen Mu and Chen Juexin exchange affectionate teasing, while Chen Juexin warmly includes Ye in their plans.
• The chapter ends with Chen Mu’s surprise at his new reward, setting up uncertainty about the carriage’s nature.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu retrieves the Nine-Dragon Supreme Carriage, revealing nine enormous black dragons that shake the capital and terrify Great Wu’s soldiers and people.
• Emperor Song Ao considers calling on the Tianyuan Holy Land, but learns the dragons are Chen Mu’s mounts. He concludes that opposing Chen Mu would be hopeless and resolves to remain a compliant puppet emperor.
• Chen Mu, Chen Juexin, and Ye Qingcheng travel in the carriage—actually a luxurious, mountain-and-water estate—toward the Heavenly Summit Auction. Chen Mu claims he tamed the dragons in a secret realm.
• After the dragons depart, Great Wu’s people rise from their knees, convinced Chen Mu is a god.
• During the journey, Chen Mu relaxes on a system-created beanbag sofa while Chen Juexin feeds him fruit and Ye Qingcheng massages him.
• At the auction, attendees admire the impressive mounts arriving with prominent guests. The Azure Thunder Holy Son enjoys the attention his arrival draws and hopes someone will defeat him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu casually displays overwhelming power and remains unconcerned by the awe he inspires. He jokes with his companions and enjoys being pampered.
• Chen Juexin is thrilled by Chen Mu’s grandeur and proud of him, though she finds his explanation for acquiring the dragons hard to believe. Their playful sibling-like exchange shows her affection.
• Ye Qingcheng shares Chen Juexin’s amused acceptance of Chen Mu’s extraordinary claims and helps care for him during the trip.
• Song Ao becomes more fearful and politically cautious, deciding that survival requires submission rather than resistance.
• The Azure Thunder Holy Son takes pride in being the center of attention, though his wish for a worthy opponent hints at confidence and a desire for a challenge.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and awe: Chen Mu’s arrival turns military resistance into helpless reverence.
• Reputation and spectacle: The grand mounts at the auction signal status, but Chen Mu’s nine dragons surpass everyone else’s display.
• Humor and contrast: Chen Mu’s casual explanation and luxurious relaxation contrast with the panic and worship his power inspires.
• Power and political submission: Song Ao’s response shows how overwhelming strength can determine loyalty and rule.

Plot points and events

• The Azure Thunder Holy Son initially feels confident that his two pureblood Qilin will make him the star of the Heavenly Summit Auction. His pride quickly fades as other rare and powerful beasts arrive.
• A sudden pressure forces the Holy Son, his master, and many others to bow. The Holy Son’s Qilin and other powerful creatures submit as well.
• Nine enormous black dragons appear, towing a floating residence. Their arrival terrifies the auction crowd and eclipses every other beast present.
• Auction officials, led by the Quasi-Emperor Liu Tianhao, approach the residence respectfully, assuming its owner must be an exceptional Great Emperor.
• The gate is opened by Ye Qingcheng, and Liu recognizes Chen Juexin inside. Chen clarifies that the nine-dragon carriage belongs not to her, but to her younger brother, Chen Mu, whom she introduces.

Character developments

• Azure Thunder Holy Son: His vanity and dependence on public admiration are exposed. Faced with overwhelming power, he finally accepts his master’s lesson that greater forces exist beyond his own reach.
• The old master: He recognizes that the Holy Son’s pride could obstruct his path to becoming a Great Emperor, and uses the arrival of the dragons to reinforce his warning.
• Chen Juexin: She greets Liu Tianhao as an acquaintance but modestly rejects credit for the spectacular carriage, directing attention to Chen Mu instead.
• Liu Tianhao: He shifts from fear and uncertainty to relief when he recognizes Chen Juexin, while continuing to treat the carriage’s owner with great deference.

Significant themes

• Humility before greater power: The episode dramatizes the idea that no matter how exceptional someone seems, someone stronger may exist.
• Pride and ambition: The Holy Son’s concern with reputation threatens his spiritual growth; humility is presented as essential to overcoming inner trials.
• Power and hierarchy: The crowd’s instinctive submission shows how authority in this world follows strength.
• Spectacle and status: Each impressive beast briefly commands attention, only to be surpassed by the nine dragons.

Character interactions

• The master repeatedly cautions his disciple against arrogance; this time the Holy Son cannot bring himself to argue.
• The dragons’ presence forces even powerful beasts and cultivators into submission, uniting the crowd in fear.
• Liu and the other officials bow to the carriage’s occupant, then recognize Chen Juexin. She exchanges greetings with Liu and introduces Chen Mu, prompting the officials to reassess who commands the dragons.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s overwhelming Emperor’s Might breaks the Quasi-Emperors who challenged him. They realize he is a Great Emperor, kneel, and beg forgiveness. Chen Mu accepts their apology; he had come to enjoy the auction and test his system’s [Infinite Money] ability, not to kill anyone.
• The visitors spread word that Chen Mu arrived in a Nine-Dragon Supreme Carriage, prompting astonishment and debate about the Southern Region’s standing.
• Chen Mu and his sister, Chen Juexin, settle into the auction’s finest heaven-tier VIP box. She notes that the venue is far more lavish than on her previous visit. Liu Tianhao stays outside to guard them.
• Informed of the Southern Region Great Emperor’s arrival, Profound Realm Emperor Lu Xiangtian suspects a possible threat and sets out to confront him, confident in his experience.
• Lin Qianlang, Holy Son of the Taixu Holy Land, arrives expecting the box his sect claims as its own. When Liu Tianhao says it is occupied, Lin demands that its occupants be removed and dismisses the Southern Region’s prestige.
• Liu reveals that a Great Emperor occupies the box. Lin remains contemptuous, insisting that Taixu has a Great Emperor too. He steps aside as a black-robed elder releases Emperor’s Might.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu demonstrates the vast gulf between himself and the Quasi-Emperors, but shows restraint by sparing them.
• Liu Tianhao shifts from fearing Chen Mu to carefully attending him, then struggles to defuse Lin Qianlang’s demands without provoking either side.
• Chen Juexin enjoys the improved hospitality and shares a warm, familial moment with Chen Mu.
• Lin Qianlang is portrayed as arrogant and domineering, relying on Taixu Holy Land’s reputation to intimidate others.
• Lu Xiangtian views the newcomer as a potential rival and prepares for a confrontation.
• The chapter’s conflicts hinge on status: Liu Tianhao tries to protect Chen Mu’s privacy, while Lin challenges the box’s occupants and the Southern Region’s standing.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Emperor’s Might makes the difference between Great Emperors and lesser cultivators unmistakable.
• Regional pride and prejudice: Characters disparage the Southern Region, while its wealth and Chen Mu’s power challenge their assumptions.
• Restraint versus arrogance: Chen Mu exercises mercy; Lin chooses confrontation and invokes his sect’s strength.
• Status and hospitality: The VIP box becomes a symbol of prestige, turning an auction arrangement into a clash of authority.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Qianlang arrives at the auction’s private room and is delighted to find Chen Juexin, whom he hopes to marry. He assumes their families are close and proposes sharing the room.
• Chen Mu rejects Lin’s familiarity and makes clear that he and Chen Juexin are not Lin’s family. Chen Juexin likewise says she barely knows him.
• Lin Qianlang’s grandfather, Lin Zhen, recognizes Chen Mu as a Great Emperor and warns his grandson. Lin Qianlang is shocked that someone his apparent age could possess such power.
• Chen Mu criticizes Lin Qianlang’s entitled behavior and prepares to confront Lin Zhen. Before a fight begins, Lu Xiangtian intervenes, persuades Lin Zhen to leave, and offers the Chen family free purchases at the auction as compensation.
• Lu later describes Chen Mu as “unfathomable.” Afterward, Chen Juexin cautions Chen Mu that Lin Zhen’s thousand years of experience as a Great Emperor make him a dangerous opponent. The auction then begins.
• Watching Chen Mu and Chen Juexin together, Lin Qianlang grows jealous and begins plotting to remove Chen Mu and take his place.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains calm and confident, defending the principle of “first come, first served.” He is eager to test his strength, though he does not challenge Lin Zhen once the conflict is defused.
• Chen Juexin is openly uncomfortable with Lin Qianlang’s advances and later shows concern for Chen Mu’s safety, warning him against underestimating an older Great Emperor.
• Lin Qianlang shifts from eager courtship to humiliation, envy, and hostility when Chen Mu’s power and closeness to Juexin become apparent.
• Lin Zhen is protective of his grandson and initially ready to fight, but recognizes the danger of facing Chen Mu alongside another Great Emperor and withdraws.
• Lu Xiangtian acts as a tactful mediator, settling the dispute and compensating both sides to preserve fairness.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Chen Mu’s youth contrasts with his overwhelming status, leaving even seasoned figures unable to judge his strength.
• Pride and insecurity: Lin Qianlang’s self-image as a genius is shaken by Chen Mu, and his wounded pride turns into possessiveness.
• Restraint and diplomacy: Lu Xiangtian prevents a potentially costly fight through negotiation, while Chen Juexin stresses the importance of recognizing experience as well as raw power.

Key plot points and events

• At a grand auction, Chen Mu notices Lin Qianlang’s jealousy and anger. Chen Juexin firmly promises to protect her younger brother, regardless of the consequences.
• The first auction item is a Beauty-Preserving Stone necklace, said to preserve a woman’s youthful appearance and carry a trace of a Great Emperor’s might.
• Lin Qianlang bids ten million spirit stones, hoping to impress Chen Juexin and persuade her to marry into the Taixu Holy Land.
• Chen Mu outbids him repeatedly, ultimately offering one hundred million. Lin cannot match the price, and Chen Mu wins the necklace.
• The purchase triggers Chen Mu’s hundredfold cashback system, earning him ten billion high-grade spirit stones. The system confirms that gifts can trigger cashback too.
• Chen Mu places the necklace around Chen Juexin’s neck, earning admiration from women in the crowd and comic dismay from one jealous husband.

Character developments

• Chen Mu is confident, generous, and protective of Chen Juexin. He treats the bidding contest lightly and is pleased to profit from the system’s cashback.
• Chen Juexin shows fierce loyalty toward Chen Mu, then accepts his gift warmly.
• Lin Qianlang is revealed as an arrogant, possessive suitor whose attempt to impress Chen Juexin turns into a public defeat.

Significant themes

• Family loyalty and protection: Chen Juexin’s devotion to her brother outweighs status or political consequences.
• Wealth and power: The auction’s extravagant bids display the vast resources of powerful realms, while Chen Mu’s casual spending surpasses them.
• Generosity with a hidden reward: Chen Mu’s gift is sincere, but the cashback system makes it financially advantageous as well.
• Pride and humiliation: Lin’s desire for admiration leaves him frustrated when Chen Mu effortlessly eclipses him.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu teases Chen Juexin about Lin’s anger; she responds with an emphatic promise to defend him.
• Lin tries to use the necklace as a courtship gift, but Chen Mu’s bids turn the contest into a direct rivalry.
• Chen Mu gives the necklace to Chen Juexin and puts it on her himself, while onlookers interpret the gesture as exceptionally attentive.

Plot points and events

• Jealous of Chen Mu’s growing closeness with his sister, Chen Juexin, Lin Qianlang resolves to win the next auction and recover his pride.
• The second item is the Rebirth Through Flame Technique, a one-time cultivation technique that revives its user after death, though it does not extend their lifespan.
• Lin Qianlang bids 100 million high-grade spirit stones, but Chen Mu immediately offers one billion. Lin Zhen stops Lin Qianlang from bidding further, judging the technique worth only a few hundred million. Chen Mu wins, triggering his hundredfold rebate and earning him 100 billion spirit stones.
• Chen Mu gives the technique to Chen Juexin, then reveals that he has several copies. Using his rebate ability again, he gives one to Ye Qingcheng as well.
• The third item is the saint-rank Sea God Spear, especially useful to water-attribute cultivators. Lin Qianlang thinks it suits him perfectly, but before he can bid, Chen Mu again offers one billion, leaving the room stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu shows that his immense wealth—and the rebate system behind it—lets him bid extravagantly without hesitation. He prioritizes rewarding his sister and helping Ye Qingcheng, while treating Lin Qianlang’s rivalry as unimportant.
• Chen Juexin appreciates Chen Mu’s gift but, since she rarely fights, suggests Ye Qingcheng should have the resurrection technique instead.
• Ye Qingcheng is delighted when Chen Mu gives her a copy, allowing her to protect him with fewer worries.
• Lin Qianlang becomes increasingly jealous and humiliated. His confidence falters after Chen Mu outbids him, and he grows wary when the Sea God Spear appears.
• Lin Zhen displays restraint and practical judgment, preventing Lin Qianlang from wasting the Taixu Holy Land’s resources on an item he considers overpriced.
• The auctioneer and crowd are repeatedly overwhelmed by Chen Mu’s bids and unexpected supply of manuals.

Significant themes

• Wealth and power: Chen Mu’s extravagant spending turns the auction into a public display of his overwhelming resources.
• Family and loyalty: Chen Mu’s generosity toward Chen Juexin reflects their close sibling bond, while her concern for Ye Qingcheng shows her trust in her bodyguard.
• Jealousy and rivalry: Lin Qianlang’s desire to outdo Chen Mu is repeatedly undermined by Chen Mu’s effortless dominance.
• Generosity enabled by advantage: Chen Mu uses his rebate ability to acquire more than he needs and share valuable items with those close to him.

Chapter summary

• Chen Mu dominates the auction. After Lin Qianlang is left with no chance to bid, Chen Mu repeatedly offers one billion high-grade spirit stones for every item. The bidding becomes a spectacle: wealthy lineages, merchants, and nobles cannot compete, and Chen Mu eventually stops paying attention to the lots, treating the auction as a way to trigger his system’s hundredfold rebates.
• Chen Juexin questions his wealth. Astonished by his spending, she asks where he got so many spirit stones. Chen Mu says he has been using her funds to run businesses, and she believes him. Rather than resent his success, she is delighted by how capable her younger brother has become. Chen Mu privately justifies the claim by reasoning that the system will make it true.
• The system unlocks a new feature. After repeated failed attempts, the system upgrades and binds the One-Click Idle Commerce Module, along with a “beginner’s gift” called the Ten-Thousand-Draw Industry Lottery. Chen Mu uses it while continuing to bid. The draws grant him businesses and resources across the Great Cang World—including alchemy and artifact-refining facilities, markets, taverns, and spirit-stone lodes. His holdings become so extensive that he effectively controls major parts of the region’s commerce, surpassing the dream Chen Juexin had spent her life pursuing.
• A new rival arrives. News of the mysterious bidder spreads quickly. Su Baoqing, heir to the famously wealthy Su Family, hears of Chen Mu and heads to the auction with his attendant, Uncle Fu. Su Baoqing is not motivated by hostility: he enjoys spending and bidding, and hopes someone will finally defeat him. In twenty years of auctions, however, he has never lost.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu grows even more confident in his extraordinary wealth, using the auction to farm rebates while the lottery unexpectedly gives him a vast commercial empire.
• Chen Juexin is surprised by her brother’s achievements but responds with trust and pride, not jealousy.
• Lin Qianlang is stunned and frustrated by Chen Mu’s financial power and his own inability to participate.
• Su Baoqing is introduced as a wealthy, competitive bidder who welcomes the prospect of a genuine challenge.
• Themes: overwhelming wealth and power, the absurdity of unchecked spending, sibling trust, and competition among the rich.

Plot and events

• At the Heavenly Zenith Auction, Chen Mu bids one billion high-grade spirit stones for Divine Rank armor. Su Baoqing of the famously wealthy Su Family enters and raises the bid to five billion.
• The two escalate dramatically: Chen Mu reaches 100 billion, Su Baoqing answers with 110 billion, and Chen Mu jumps to 200 billion. Su Baoqing recognizes defeat and withdraws.
• The auction crowd is astonished, and organizer Liu Tianhao realizes the bidding has brought the auction unprecedented attention.
• Chen Mu’s system grants him 20 trillion high-grade spirit stones through hundredfold cashback on his 200-billion bid—wealth enough, he realizes, to help the entire Tianyuan Holy Land advance to the Human Immortal Realm.
• After the auction, Su Baoqing seeks Chen Mu out to make his acquaintance, but feels he has seen Chen Mu’s face before.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains outwardly casual while revealing immense wealth. He enjoys having a genuine rival in the bidding, but quickly overwhelms Su Baoqing and is stunned by the size of his cashback.
• Su Baoqing begins confidently, representing his family’s status, but ultimately accepts defeat gracefully and approaches Chen Mu with respect and an interest in friendship.
• Lin Qianlang, who had hoped Su Baoqing would humble Chen Mu, is crushed by the outcome and realizes he was never a real challenger. He asks his grandfather whether their Taixu Holy Land can compete with Tianyuan.
• Lin Zhen concedes that Taixu cannot match Tianyuan financially, but remains confident that martial strength—not wealth alone—determines power.

Significant themes

• Wealth and status: Chen Mu’s fortune eclipses even the Su Family, overturning assumptions about who holds the title of Great Cang’s richest.
• Appearances versus reality: Lin Qianlang mistakes Chen Mu for a rival he might defeat, while Chen has never taken him seriously; Su Baoqing’s public prestige also proves insufficient against Chen’s resources.
• Money versus strength: The chapter contrasts Tianyuan’s seemingly limitless wealth with Lin Zhen’s belief that cultivation and martial power ultimately rule the world.

Plot points and events

• Su Baoqing recognizes Chen Mu as the God of Wealth, a figure worshipped in the Golden Spirit Realm, and shows him a popular portrait depicting Chen Mu as a golden, divine being.
• Chen Mu and Chen Juexin are bewildered; Juexin bursts out laughing when she realizes the deity’s face is her brother’s.
• The system explains that Chen Mu’s vast business holdings—acquired through his ten thousand draws—led people to regard him as a god of wealth. His success has made him as rich as the powerful Su Family.
• Su Baoqing openly admires Chen Mu, asks for his autograph, and begins treating him as a personal role model. Chen Mu agrees but asks him to call him “Brother Chen” or “Young Master Chen” instead.
• From a nearby private room, Lin Qianlang and his grandfather witness Su Baoqing’s deference. Qianlang is stunned, since Su Baoqing is renowned for his ability to ruin entire economies.

Character developments

• Chen Mu learns that his wealth has inspired widespread worship. He remains modest and uncomfortable with the divine title, while privately considering whether to reveal the even greater reach of his businesses.
• Chen Juexin moves from amusement to astonishment and pride as she realizes the scale of her younger brother’s achievements.
• Su Baoqing shifts from a wealthy heir meeting Chen Mu to an earnest admirer who sees him as an example to follow.
• Lin Qianlang is shaken by the sight of a feared, influential figure humbling himself before Chen Mu.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu and Juexin share a humorous reaction to the portrait, though Chen Mu is embarrassed by it.
• Su Baoqing explains Chen Mu’s reputation, praises his business success, and seeks his autograph; Chen Mu responds politely but tries to discourage the grandiose title.
• Juexin congratulates Chen Mu with mixed amusement and pride.
• Lin Qianlang asks his grandfather to make sense of what they have witnessed, but Lin Zhen remains silent.

Significant themes

• Wealth becoming legend: Chen Mu’s business success has grown into religious-style popular devotion.
• Achievement versus inheritance: Su Baoqing contrasts his inherited privilege with Chen Mu’s seemingly self-made rise.
• Modesty and status: Chen Mu resists worshipful treatment, even as others place him far above themselves.
• The system’s unintended consequences: Chen Mu’s effortless gains have reshaped society and created a reputation he never consciously sought.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Zhen tells Lin Qianlang how Su Baoqing helped destroy the Cloud Lang Kingdom after it opposed the Jin Family, explaining the danger of crossing powerful families—though neither knows why Su treats Chen Mu with such deference.
• The auction’s grand finale is revealed: a God Rank Divine Enlightenment Pill, beyond ninth grade. Lin Zhen believes it could help him advance beyond his current level and rebuild Taixu Holy Land.
• Chen Mu learns that Xiao and his wife refined the pill using Top-Grade Enlightenment Tea that originally came from him. They made better, pill-vein-grade versions for his future breakthroughs; the auction’s top-grade pill was considered unsuitable for him and was donated to promote the two families.
• Lin Zhen orders Lin Qianlang to obtain the auction pill at any cost. Lin Qianlang initially thinks Chen Mu has run short of funds and can be beaten.
• Bidding escalates dramatically. Lin Qianlang reaches 200 billion high-grade spirit stones, but Chen Mu counters with 10 billion Supreme Spirit Stones—equivalent to one trillion high-grade spirit stones. The chapter ends on this staggering bid.

Character developments

• Lin Zhen sees the pill as a chance to surpass his current cultivation and restore Taixu Holy Land’s strength, becoming willing to spend its entire fortune.
• Lin Qianlang grows increasingly confident and aggressive, believing Chen Mu is financially exhausted, then is blindsided by Chen Mu’s vastly higher bid.
• Chen Mu remains relaxed and confident. He knows the auction item ultimately benefits his family and that spending heavily will bring him a hundredfold rebate.
• Chen Juexin reveals her practical role in arranging the pill’s auction, while conveying Xiao and his wife’s care for Chen Mu.

Significant themes

• Power and political consequences: The Cloud Lang Kingdom’s fall illustrates how wealthy, influential families can ruin their rivals through economic and military pressure.
• Wealth as power—and spectacle: The auction turns financial strength into a public contest, with bids reaching unprecedented levels.
• Hidden advantage and irony: Chen Mu appears to be bidding against rivals, but the pill was placed in the auction by his own family, and the bidding system makes the contest potentially profitable for him.
• Care and loyalty: Xiao and his wife’s superior pills were prepared specifically to support Chen Mu’s future cultivation.

Character interactions

• Lin Qianlang questions why Su Baoqing respects Chen Mu, but Lin Zhen cannot explain it.
• Chen Juexin gives Chen Mu the pills from Xiao and his wife and explains their quality and purpose; Chen Mu gratefully accepts them.
• Lin Zhen encourages Lin Qianlang to keep raising his bids, while Chen Mu calmly outbids him by an enormous margin.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Qianlang confirms that Chen Mu paid one trillion high-grade spirit stones for the Divine Enlightenment Pill. The price crushes his hopes of competing, while Chen Mu receives a hundredfold rebate: one hundred trillion spirit stones.
• Chen Mu casually gives the pill to Ye Qingcheng, triggering another rebate of one hundred top-grade Divine Enlightenment Pills. Ye is stunned by the gift and recognizes that it could greatly strengthen her.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Qianlang suspect Chen Mu has humiliated the Taixu Holy Land. More importantly, Lin Zhen wants the pill to advance his cultivation, so he orders his men to follow Ye and seize it when she is alone.
• Ye deliberately leaves on her own and leads the pursuers to a sparsely populated area. When the ambush reveals itself, she calmly identifies the attackers’ strength.
• A white-robed Martial Saint appears and tries to crush Ye with his aura. Instead, an unseen power sends him flying through several walls. He realizes a Quasi-Emperor is present.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains indifferent to the enormous cost, treating both the purchase and the gift as trivial. His actions astonish the crowd, Chen Juexin, and Su Baoqing.
• Ye Qingcheng shifts from stunned recipient to composed, confident fighter. She appears to have anticipated the ambush and is not intimidated by the attackers.
• Lin Qianlang moves from despair over losing the auction to anger and a desire to restore the Taixu Holy Land’s face.
• Lin Zhen prioritizes gaining power over reputation, directing the theft of the pill as a path to a breakthrough.
• Su Baoqing is humbled by Chen Mu’s wealth, realizing that even his own reputation as the Golden Spirit Realm’s great benefactor pales by comparison.
• The chapter contrasts the scheming Lin family with Chen Mu’s effortless generosity and Ye’s quiet confidence.

Significant themes

• Unfathomable wealth and power: Chen Mu’s spending and rebates make ordinary measures of fortune meaningless.
• Generosity versus greed: Chen Mu gives away a priceless pill, while Lin Zhen and Lin Qianlang plot to steal it for personal gain.
• Pride and humiliation: The Lin family interprets Chen Mu’s casual actions as an insult and lets wounded dignity fuel its schemes.
• Hidden strength: The pursuers underestimate Ye, while the sudden appearance of a Quasi-Emperor reveals that the apparent ambush may be far more dangerous than they expected.

Plot points and events

• Ye Qingcheng confirms that Lin Zhen’s men were sent to seize the Divine Enlightenment Pill. She kills the group with a single sword strike after revealing her Quasi-Emperor-level strength.
• Back with Chen Mu and Chen Juexin, she reports what happened. Chen Mu says they will first kill some of the Taixu Holy Land’s people as a warning, and destroy the group if they continue. He confidently says he can defeat Lin Zhen.
• Lin Zhen and his grandson, Lin Qianlang, learn that their guards are dead. Lin Zhen decides to act rather than wait, intending to take the pill without being harmed.
• Their room is swallowed by a chaotic extradimensional space. Chen Mu, Chen Juexin, and Ye Qingcheng appear through a teleportation gate.
• Chen Mu restrains Lin Qianlang with iron chains. Lin Zhen attacks to protect him, but halts when Chen Mu manifests marks for all ten of the highest-ranked saint bodies.
• Chen Mu then unleashes thirteen layers of Emperor’s might, intensified by his cultivation-increasing ability. The chapter ends as a vast, radiant formation appears beneath him.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qingcheng’s mild appearance proves misleading: she is a formidable Quasi-Emperor, and she acts decisively against the Taixu Holy Land’s men. She remains respectful toward Chen Mu, accepting tea from him and reporting back.
• Chen Mu is calm and assured, answering Chen Juexin’s concerns with a direct plan and confronting Lin Zhen with overwhelming power.
• Chen Juexin is angry at the Taixu Holy Land’s underhanded tactics but worries that challenging Lin Zhen could put Chen Mu at risk.
• Lin Zhen moves from cautious determination to shock and helplessness when confronted by Chen Mu’s abilities. Lin Qianlang, already frightened by the spatial disturbance, becomes more panicked when bound and has to be scolded by his grandfather.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Ye Qingcheng’s beauty hides immense strength, while Lin Zhen dismisses Chen Mu’s extraordinary abilities as illusions.
• Power and escalation: The conflict grows from an attempted theft to a confrontation involving spatial manipulation, multiple supreme physiques, and overwhelming Emperor-level pressure.
• Pride versus fear: Lin Zhen’s confidence and Lin Qianlang’s status give way to disbelief and panic when faced with Chen Mu’s power.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu reveals thirteen rings of manifested Emperor’s Might, explaining that each represents a layer of the Great Emperor Realm. His power overwhelms everyone present.
• Lin Zhen, the former lord of Taixu Holy Land, realizes Chen Mu is far beyond his strength and begs for mercy, offering lifelong service in exchange for his life and the Holy Land’s survival.
• The system upgrades and unlocks Undead Summoning: Chen Mu can resurrect the dead at their former strength, but without independent thought and with absolute loyalty.
• Chen Mu kills Lin Zhen with a flick of his fingers. Lin Qianlang, still chained, watches in horror.
• Chen Mu uses the new function to summon Lin Zhen back as an obedient undead. Chen Juexin and Ye Qingcheng mistake the summoned figure for a threat until Chen Mu explains that it now follows his commands.

Character developments

• Chen Mu demonstrates overwhelming power and chooses guaranteed obedience over accepting Lin Zhen’s uncertain offer of service. The new system ability gives him a way to turn defeated enemies into loyal assets.
• Lin Zhen shifts from confident Great Emperor to desperate supplicant, then is killed and returned as a mindless servant.
• Lin Qianlang is consumed by regret and terror as he sees his grandfather killed effortlessly.
• Chen Juexin and Ye Qingcheng are astonished by Chen Mu’s strength and initially react defensively when Lin Zhen reappears.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Chen Mu’s thirteen Great Emperor layers make ordinary measures of strength seem meaningless.
• Fear and regret: Lin Zhen and Lin Qianlang recognize too late the consequences of provoking Chen Mu.
• Control versus trust: Chen Mu rejects a living servant he cannot trust and instead uses the system to guarantee loyalty beyond death.
• The system’s growing influence: Its upgrade changes Chen Mu’s options, turning a moral and political dilemma into a new form of power.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu explains the meaning of his Emperor’s Might to Chen Juexin, Ye Qingcheng, Lin Zhen, and Lin Qianlang.
• Lin Zhen begs Chen Mu to spare him and Taixu Holy Land, but Chen Mu chooses to kill him.
• Chen Juexin and Ye Qingcheng prepare to defend themselves when Lin Zhen’s undead returns; Chen Mu calms them and explains its obedience.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu tests his summoned undead, Lin Zhen, by ordering him to kill Lin Qianlang. Lin Zhen obeys without hesitation, crushes Lin Qianlang’s heart, then destroys his soul so he cannot be reincarnated.
• Chen Mu, Chen Juexin, and Su Muxue leave the space where the killing took place. Chen Mu remains remarkably relaxed and asks Chen Juexin to take them to find good food.
• At Taixu Holy Land, elders learn that the soul lamps of both the Holy Son, Lin Qianlang, and the former Holy Lord, Lin Zhen, have gone out.
• The Holy Land mobilizes more than ten thousand elite disciples and sets out for the Heavenly Summit Auction. Holy Lord Lin An fears he has lost both his father and his son, but the Second Elder suggests enlisting the help of the Profound Realm Great Emperor, Lu Xiangtian, who owes Lin An a favor.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu confirms that Lin Zhen’s loyalty as an undead is absolute. He treats the killings as routine and decides that people will either submit to him or be killed and then made to submit.
• Lin Zhen displays complete obedience to Chen Mu, killing his own grandson without hesitation and erasing his soul.
• Chen Juexin and Ye Qingcheng are shocked by Lin Zhen’s ruthlessness and by Chen Mu’s composure. Chen Juexin nevertheless puts aside her concern and cheerfully offers to guide Chen Mu to the region’s best food.
• Lin An is anxious about his father and son, yet recognizes that the killer may be too powerful for Taixu Holy Land to defeat alone.
• The Second Elder weighs the danger pragmatically and proposes calling in Lu Xiangtian. The hot-tempered elder initially refuses to believe the soul lamps’ warning, but accepts the possibility after the Second Elder challenges his assumptions.

Significant themes

• Absolute loyalty and control: Lin Zhen’s obedience demonstrates the power and horror of Chen Mu’s undead summoning.
• Power and helplessness: Taixu Holy Land’s large force may still be powerless against an opponent who defeated its former Holy Lord.
• Composure after violence: Chen Mu’s casual return to everyday concerns highlights how far removed he is from ordinary reactions to death.
• Retaliation and alliances: Taixu Holy Land prepares to pursue answers and considers relying on an indebted outsider rather than facing the threat alone.