Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Lin An accepts the second elder’s plan to enlist Great Emperor Lu Xiangtian against whoever killed Lin Zhen and Lin Qianlang. He sees this as both a chance to collect on Lu’s life-debt and to show that the Taixu Holy Land has powerful allies.
• The Taixu disciples feel reassured by the prospect of a Great Emperor’s help. Their forces arrive near the Heavenly Summit Auction and wait outside the city to avoid drawing attention.
• Chen Mu detects the Taixu forces while dining with Ye Qingcheng and Chen Juexin. He chooses to wait rather than confront them, preferring to enjoy the meal.
• Unnoticed by the women, Chen Mu sends Lin Zhen—now raised through Undead Summoning—to investigate.
• Lin An meets Lu Xiangtian, presents the extinguished Soul Lamps of Lin Zhen and Lin Qianlang, and confirms that both died at the auction. Lu agrees to investigate, though he privately wonders how a Great Emperor could have died without his sensing a battle.
• Lin An offers ten thousand elite disciples to join Lu’s effort, partly to make their alliance visible. As the meeting continues, Lu senses an intruder. A shadow rises from a hole in the ground, and Lin An and the elders recognize it as Lin Zhen.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin An shifts from grief and uncertainty to calculated action, using his father’s and son’s deaths to secure Lu’s help and bolster the Holy Land’s standing.
• Lu Xiangtian publicly accepts responsibility for events in his realm, but his confusion about the unexplained deaths reveals that the situation is beyond his understanding.
• Chen Mu remains relaxed and confident, treating the Taixu force as an annoyance rather than a threat, while quietly taking precautions.
• Ye Qingcheng and Chen Juexin trust Chen Mu’s judgment and agree to wait.
• Lin Zhen’s unexpected appearance shocks Lin An and the elders, raising questions about how he could be present after his Soul Lamp went out.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: The Taixu Holy Land seeks a Great Emperor’s protection because its own strength seems inadequate.
• Debt, loyalty, and political image: Lin An frames Lu’s past debt as an obligation and values the public appearance of their cooperation.
• Hidden power and uncertainty: Chen Mu acts behind the scenes, while Lu’s inability to detect a Great Emperor’s death suggests forces operating beyond ordinary expectations.
• Death and return: Lin Zhen’s reappearance challenges the meaning of his extinguished Soul Lamp and sets up a new mystery.

Plot points and events

• Lin Zhen appears before Lin An and the Taixu Holy Land elders as a shadowy, bodiless figure. His aura and pressure are unchanged, so Lu Xiangtian speculates that Lin Zhen may have discovered a way to grow stronger without a physical body.
• Lin An asks about Lin Qianlang. Lin Zhen’s message reveals that Qianlang is dead and that the Taixu Holy Land must submit to a new master. When Lin An doubts him, the message turns into a threat: submit or die.
• Lin An assumes his father has suffered cultivation deviation and asks Lu Xiangtian to help. Lu’s healing technique fails, since Lin Zhen is actually an undead puppet summoned by Chen Mu, not a man corrupted by demonic qi.
• Lu proposes beating Lin Zhen back to his senses, and Lin An agrees. Meanwhile, Chen Mu uses a Great Emperor Experience Pack on Lin Zhen. It raises Lin Zhen from the first to the second layer of the Great Emperor Realm and triggers a hundredfold rebate, giving Chen Mu 100 more packs.
• Lu prepares to fight Lin Zhen, first raising a barrier to protect the city. He launches a powerful punch, but Lin Zhen catches it effortlessly and releases overwhelming killing intent. The chapter ends as Lu realizes the danger he faces.

Character developments

• Lin An is shocked by his father’s demands but remains concerned for him, interpreting his behavior as madness and seeking Lu’s help.
• Lu Xiangtian moves from curiosity about Lin Zhen’s unusual state to earnest efforts to treat him, then to alarm when Lin Zhen proves far stronger than expected.
• Chen Mu discovers that experience packs used on undead can trigger the same hundredfold rebate. He now sees the possibility of rapidly producing Great Emperors.
• Lin Zhen is revealed to be under Chen Mu’s control as an undead puppet. His strength increases during the chapter, making him an even more formidable threat.

Significant themes

• Power and escalation: Chen Mu’s rebate system turns cultivation into a potentially exponential process.
• Misunderstanding and hidden truth: Lu and Lin An mistake Lin Zhen’s puppet state for a breakthrough or mental corruption.
• Submission and control: The Taixu Holy Land faces a forced choice between allegiance to Chen Mu and death.
• The danger of confidence: Lu believes a direct blow may restore Lin Zhen, but his easy defeat of that assumption signals how badly he has misjudged the situation.

Character interactions

• Lin An questions his father and then appeals to Lu Xiangtian for help.
• Lu treats Lin Zhen as a corrupted former Holy Lord, first attempting spiritual healing and then choosing combat with Lin An’s consent.
• Chen Mu remotely directs Lin Zhen’s development through the system, while Lin Zhen confronts Lu directly.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Zhen uses a mysterious totem and golden rings to unleash overwhelming emperor’s might, forcing Lu Xiangtian to the ground and breaking his arms despite their equal Great Emperor rank.
• Lu Xiangtian surrenders, but assumes Lin Zhen will spare him to avoid political consequences. When he threatens Lin Zhen and the Taixu Holy Land, Lin Zhen increases the pressure.
• Chen Mu arrives through a Teleportation Gate. Lu Xiangtian suspects Chen Mu orchestrated events and begs him to intervene.
• Chen Mu casually waves his hand, reducing Lu Xiangtian to dust. He then uses Undead Summoning to turn Lu into a Great Emperor–rank undead.
• Chen Mu plans to use the undead to covertly control the Profound Realm and Daoxu World, while the Tianyuan Holy Land gradually infiltrates and takes over their institutions.
• Lin An tries to recover from the shock and approach Chen Mu, but a formidable undead shadow appears in front of him.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Zhen reveals strength far beyond what the others expected, decisively overpowering Lu Xiangtian. His restraint ends when Lu threatens him and his allies.
• Lu Xiangtian shifts from arrogant confidence to desperate submission, but his belief that his territory and political standing protect him proves fatal. He recognizes Chen Mu and suspects him of manipulating events.
• Chen Mu remains casual and decisive, treating Lu’s threats as pointless and choosing to kill him rather than risk future trouble. He immediately turns the killing into a strategic advantage.
• Lin An and the elders are stunned by Lin Zhen’s power and then horrified by Chen Mu’s effortless destruction of a Great Emperor. Lin An attempts to negotiate but is interrupted by the undead.
• Chen Juexin and Ye Qingcheng, watching through the Heaven-Peering Mirror, admire Chen Mu’s monstrous strength.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: Even figures of the same rank can be separated by an immense gap in strength.
• Misjudgment and hubris: Lu Xiangtian assumes political consequences will shield him, but his threats only seal his fate.
• Power as a tool of control: Chen Mu’s strength enables not just victory, but a plan to dominate entire worlds through covert political and economic expansion.
• Fear and awe: Witnesses struggle to reconcile what they see with their assumptions about the characters’ abilities.

Plot points and events

• Lin An recognizes Lu Xiangtian, whom Chen Mu had previously killed, now returned as an undead puppet. Chen Mu confirms he killed Lin An’s father, Lin Zhen, and raised his soul as another puppet after Lin Zhen tried to seize his pills.
• Chen Mu demands Taixu Holy Land’s submission. With no real alternative, Lin An and the elders pledge allegiance. Chen Mu orders Lin Zhen to remain there and suppress dissent, while the system will manage routine matters and bring major decisions to Chen Mu.
• After the Taixu group leaves, Chen Juexin tells Chen Mu that she cannot enforce his will herself because her cultivation is too low. Chen Mu uses a Great Emperor Experience Pack on her, instantly raising her through several realms to Great Emperor.
• The heavens display auspicious signs, shocking the Profound Realm, whose powers wonder whether a new Great Emperor has displaced Lu Xiangtian.
• Chen Juexin worries that Chen Mu sacrificed his own cultivation for her. He reassures her that he remains a thirteenth-layer Great Emperor and can recover any lost power quickly. The system then rewards him with a hundred Great Emperor Experience Packs for gifting one.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu consolidates his control with effortless authority, then shows affection for Chen Juexin by sharing power with her. He insists that family should not treat kindness as a debt.
• Chen Juexin moves from modestly acknowledging her limits to astonishment and excitement at becoming a Great Emperor. Her gratitude is complicated by concern that Chen Mu may have harmed himself for her sake.
• Lin An and Taixu’s elders abandon resistance and submit out of fear, recognizing the overwhelming force Chen Mu commands. Lin Zhen accepts his new role as the Holy Land’s enforcer.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Chen Mu’s strength leaves Taixu Holy Land with only the choice between allegiance and destruction.
• Family loyalty and generosity: Chen Mu’s gift to Chen Juexin expresses closeness, while he rejects the idea that family should keep score.
• Effortless advancement and hidden advantage: Chen Juexin reaches the summit in moments, while Chen Mu’s system secretly refunds his generosity many times over.

Key plot points and events

• Lin An submits the Taixu Holy Land to Chen Mu and orders the Flying Boats back to announce the decision. He intends to crush any dissent, believing resistance would bring the holy land’s destruction.
• At the Restaurant, Chen Juexin celebrates her new status as a Great Emperor and realizes Chen Mu can apparently create Great Emperors.
• Chen Mu asks her to use that status to expand the Chen Family’s businesses across the resource-rich Profound Realm, turning it into another Golden Spirit Realm.
• Chen Mu introduces a network of influential local figures—far more extensive than his “small businesses and connections” suggests—and places them under Chen Juexin’s direction. They swear Blood Oaths to obey.
• Chen Mu leaves the business expansion to his sister and returns to Tianyuan with Ye Qingcheng. At home, he relaxes while she massages him, then asks whether she would like to become a Great Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin An chooses submission over defiance and prepares to impose that choice on the Taixu Holy Land.
• Chen Juexin moves from amazement at becoming an Emperor to recognizing Chen Mu’s extraordinary power and business influence. Though overwhelmed, she accepts responsibility for expanding the family enterprise.
• Chen Mu remains casual about his world-shaping abilities, delegates the Profound Realm’s commercial plans to his sister, and returns home to enjoy Ye Qingcheng’s care.
• Ye Qingcheng eagerly attends to Chen Mu and hopes to improve at it; his final question hints that he may offer her the same Emperor-making opportunity.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: The Taixu Holy Land submits because Chen Mu’s power makes resistance seem futile.
• Family and ambition: Chen Mu uses his influence to create opportunities for the Chen Family, while trusting Juexin to lead the effort.
• Hidden influence: Juexin discovers that Chen Mu’s supposedly modest business connections reach the Profound Realm’s most prominent figures.
• Comfort and reward: After dramatic achievements, Chen Mu values home comforts and considers rewarding those close to him.

Summary

• Ye Qingcheng becomes a Great Emperor: Chen Mu decides to help Ye Qingcheng ascend, both because he trusts her and because doing so will trigger his system’s reward. Ye Qingcheng worries that he might sacrifice his own cultivation, but he reassures her. He uses a Great Emperor Experience Pack on her, and the system grants him a hundred more packs in return. Ye Qingcheng ascends instantly amid vast auspicious clouds and purple qi.
• The Southern Region reacts: Tianyuan Holy Land’s disciples marvel at Ye Qingcheng’s rapid rise and credit Chen Mu. His father, Chen Tianlin, is interrupted in seclusion but feels renewed hope for his own breakthrough. News spreads across the region: the Great Wu emperor is speechless, while the Sky Sword Sect regrets having sent Ye Qingcheng away merely because of her beauty. Chen Mu’s reputation grows, and the idea that joining Tianyuan can lead to becoming a Great Emperor draws a flood of applicants. Admission standards rise sharply.
• Chen Juexin expands in the Profound Realm: She arrives with a hundred Flying Boats bearing Tianyuan’s emblem and aggressively takes over major industries. Chen Mu’s businesses and connections make her campaign easier. Her success leaves her curious about the full extent of her younger brother’s hidden ventures.
• The Tianqing Dynasty turns hostile: Chen Juexin’s expansion threatens the profits of powerful figures in Tianqing. One of Emperor Zheng Cheng’s relatives urges him to stop Tianyuan’s people. Enraged by what he sees as betrayal and encroachment, Zheng orders General Zhao Tianci to drive them out. Zhao leads more than ten thousand cavalry toward Chen Juexin, setting up a confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qingcheng grows more devoted to Chen Mu, vowing to protect him with her life; her new status gives her confidence and standing beside him.
• Chen Mu demonstrates trust in Ye Qingcheng and continues using his system to strengthen allies while benefiting from its rewards.
• Chen Tianlin remains focused on his own cultivation, encouraged by the possibility of a breakthrough.
• Chen Juexin proves herself an ambitious, effective business strategist, while becoming increasingly intrigued by Chen Mu’s influence.
• Zheng Cheng shifts from anger at economic losses to military action, encouraged by his relative’s demand for a forceful response.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes loyalty and patronage, as Chen Mu’s generosity earns Ye Qingcheng’s fierce devotion; the compounding influence of power, with each new Great Emperor raising Chen Mu’s fame and attracting followers; and the conflict between expansion and established interests, as Tianyuan’s commercial growth provokes a threatened dynasty to resort to force.

Plot points and events

• Chen Juexin anticipates the Tianqing royal family’s opposition to her growing influence, but decides that her Great Emperor power makes elaborate plans unnecessary.
• Prince Zheng Jin and General Zhao Tianci arrive with more than ten thousand troops, surround her residence, and impose a curfew. From her window, Zheng Jin demands that she come out and submit.
• Zheng Jin is struck by Chen Juexin’s beauty and proposes marriage, promising her a powerful position. When she ignores him, he draws his sword to threaten her.
• Chen Juexin severs Zheng Jin’s arm in an instant. Zhao Tianci then charges her, hoping to capture her and earn the prince’s favor.
• Chen Juexin destroys Zhao Tianci and his horse with a single glance, reducing them to dust and bloody mist. The troops panic, and Zheng Jin falls from his horse. Chen Juexin appears before him, cold and expressionless.

Character developments

• Chen Juexin demonstrates confidence in her newly understood Great Emperor power. She treats the royal force as no threat and responds to aggression with effortless, overwhelming violence.
• Zheng Jin shifts from arrogant commander to lustful suitor, then to a terrified and injured victim when Chen Juexin rejects his control.
• Zhao Tianci reveals himself as opportunistic: his attack is motivated not only by loyalty to the prince but by a desire to regain favor by delivering Chen Juexin to him.
• Chen Mu watches through the Heaven-Peering Mirror, amused and proud of his sister, and believes the troops will help her test her strength. Ye Qingcheng remains protective of Chen Mu and is stunned by Chen Juexin’s power.

Themes

• Power and status: Chen Juexin’s Great Emperor rank makes conventional military force and political authority seem insignificant.
• Arrogance and its consequences: Zheng Jin’s entitlement and Zhao Tianci’s ambition lead them to underestimate Chen Juexin.
• Violence as effortless dominance: The title’s “killing with a single glance” captures the gulf between Chen Juexin and her opponents.
• Beauty and objectification: Zheng Jin’s admiration quickly becomes a possessive marriage demand, which Chen Juexin answers with indifference and force.

Character interactions

• Zheng Jin openly treats Chen Juexin as someone he can command and claim; she refuses to engage with his proposal and then disarms him.
• Zhao Tianci attacks Chen Juexin to curry favor with Zheng Jin, but is instantly annihilated.
• Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng observe the confrontation remotely. Chen Mu declines to intervene, while Ye Qingcheng recognizes that Chen Juexin is testing her own strength.

Key plot points and events

• Zheng Jin offers Chen Juexin a place of power if she marries him, promising she would rank just below the emperor. She replies that neither he nor his emperor brother is worthy of that authority.
• Chen Juexin unleashes a tiny fraction of her spiritual power, killing Zheng Jin, General Zhao Tianci, and all ten thousand cavalrymen in an instant.
• Emperor Zheng Cheng receives a report of the massacre. Learning that a single woman caused it and is believed to be a Great Emperor, he panics and seeks protection from Great Emperor Lu Xiangtian.
• Chen Mu uses his Space Saint Body to project his voice into the imperial palace, while Lu Xiangtian’s shadow emerges from a black hole in the floor. Zheng Cheng mistakes the shadow for Lu himself.
• Zheng Cheng begs Lu to stop the supposed foreign threat. Chen Juexin enters, ignores Lu’s oppressive aura, and reveals that Chen Mu is her “little brother,” leaving Zheng Cheng stunned.

Character developments

• Chen Juexin is shown as merciless toward enemies but deeply affectionate and protective toward Chen Mu. Her immense power makes the Tianqing court helpless.
• Chen Mu remains unconcerned with titles or hierarchy and lets Chen Juexin take the dominant, protective role.
• Zheng Jin dies after mistaking Chen Juexin’s question about power for willingness to marry him.
• Zheng Cheng shifts from imperial confidence to terror and desperation when confronted with a Great Emperor’s overwhelming strength.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Political rank and military force are meaningless against overwhelming personal power.
• Misjudgment: Zheng Jin mistakes Chen Juexin’s words for negotiation, while Zheng Cheng misunderstands both the source of the threat and the identity of Lu’s shadow.
• Family loyalty and protection: Chen Juexin’s tenderness is reserved for Chen Mu, contrasting sharply with her coldness toward everyone else.

Character interactions

• Chen Juexin rejects Zheng Jin’s proposal and kills him and his army.
• Zheng Cheng questions his covert agent, then begs the apparent Lu Xiangtian for help.
• Chen Juexin addresses Chen Mu as her little brother, and Zheng Cheng realizes that the woman he asked Lu to subdue may be connected to the unseen voice controlling the encounter.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu, through the controlled Great Emperor Lu Xiangtian, violently attacks Tianqing’s emperor, Zheng Cheng. Chen Juexin explains that Lu is now Chen Mu’s puppet.
• Zheng offers to tolerate the newcomers’ actions in exchange for his life, but Chen Mu kills him anyway.
• Chen Juexin declines the throne and installs a Tianyuan Holy Land Outer Court disciple as Tianqing’s new ruler. The dynasty is renamed Tianyuan, with the people accepting the change because they receive a share of the benefits.
• The other empires’ rulers, Zhao Qihai of Heavenly Martial and Lin Qiuyue of Great Moon, discuss whether to resist Tianyuan or submit.
• Lu Xiangtian appears and delivers Chen Mu’s ultimatum: both nations must submit within the time it takes an incense stick to burn or be destroyed. Faced with Lu’s power and the revelation that he serves a hidden master, both rulers immediately surrender.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Juexin shows herself to be decisive and politically pragmatic: she kills Zheng, installs a convenient ruler, and secures popular cooperation through material benefits. She has no desire to rule personally.
• Chen Mu remains the power behind events, directing Lu and endorsing his sister’s ruthless consolidation of power.
• Zheng Cheng shifts from confusion to attempted bargaining, but his surrender fails to save him.
• Zhao Qihai and Lin Qiuyue begin by weighing military resistance against compromise, then choose submission when confronted with the threat and Lu’s apparent allegiance to an even greater power.
• Ye Qingcheng praises Chen Juexin; Chen Mu casually returns the compliment, making her blush.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Military superiority rapidly turns political resistance into surrender.
• Pragmatic rule and loyalty: Chen Juexin uses both force and shared prosperity to secure control.
• Escalating power: Lu’s obedience to Chen Mu reveals that even a Great Emperor is subordinate to a greater force.
• Consolidation through fear and incentives: Tianyuan expands through threats at the top and benefits for the populace.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Moon Dynasty and Heavenly Martial Dynasty send letters of surrender to the Heavenly Celebration ruler, Chen Juexin, before she has taken military action.
• Chen Juexin meets their envoys, Empress Lin Qiuyue and Zhao Qihai, and uses her imperial aura to intimidate them. They submit, believing her to be the supreme power who defeated Great Emperor Lu Xiangtian.
• Lu Xiangtian briefly emerges from Zhao Qihai’s shadow. Chen Juexin tells him to report back to the mysterious person who sent him, deepening the envoys’ fear of the force behind her.
• Chen Juexin learns that Lin Qiuyue is a young, beautiful empress who has never had a male consort. She becomes excited and contacts her younger brother, Chen Mu, through a Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• Chen Juexin shows Chen Mu Lin Qiuyue and openly tries to arrange a marriage between them. Lin Qiuyue sees Chen Mu, is immediately attracted to him, and realizes Chen Juexin hopes to make her a sister-in-law.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Juexin shifts from handling the surrendered kingdoms’ diplomacy to matchmaking, enthusiastically promoting her brother to Lin Qiuyue.
• Lin Qiuyue begins wary and deferential toward Chen Juexin, but becomes receptive to the proposed match after seeing Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu is initially suspicious of his sister’s “something good,” then understands her intentions and falls silent rather than immediately responding.
• Zhao Qihai and Lin Qiuyue interpret Chen Juexin’s display of power—and her reference to someone behind her—as evidence of an even greater hidden authority.
• Lu Xiangtian appears only briefly, confirming that he is operating under orders from Chen Mu.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: The two rival states surrender without battle, while Chen Juexin’s aura and the hint of a stronger figure reinforce the scale of her authority.
• Misunderstanding and hidden influence: The envoys misread the hierarchy behind the surrender, growing more frightened as they speculate about Chen Juexin’s unseen ally.
• Romance and matchmaking: The political audience turns unexpectedly into a marriage proposal, with Lin Qiuyue’s attraction to Chen Mu quickly complicating the formal proceedings.

Plot points and events

• Through the Heaven-Peering Mirror, Chen Juexin tells Lin Qiuyue and Zhao Qihai that Chen Mu is a Great Emperor—and that he granted Chen Juexin her own Great Emperor cultivation. They are stunned, and conclude that Chen Mu must be the power behind the events they have witnessed.
• Chen Juexin tries to arrange a match between Lin Qiuyue and Chen Mu. Chen Mu declines, claiming he already has a Dao partner, then identifies Ye Qingcheng as that partner and pulls her onto his lap to make the story convincing. He soon ends the call.
• Chen Juexin accepts that the match is impossible and turns to discussing Tianyuan’s business alliance with Lin Qiuyue and Zhao Qihai.
• In Qingyun Prefecture, Chen Mu admits he used Ye Qingcheng as a shield against matchmaking and gives her a Vein-Pattern Divine Enlightenment Pill as thanks. The system grants him a hundred pills in return.
• Ye Qingcheng accepts the gift, which may help her break through to the second layer of the Great Emperor Realm. As she begins to speak, a knock at the door interrupts her.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains relaxed and teasing. He avoids an unwanted match by inventing a relationship with Ye Qingcheng, then compensates her with a valuable pill. His thoughts reveal that he prefers an uncomplicated, unmarried life over a large harem.
• Ye Qingcheng is shy and flustered by being held on Chen Mu’s lap, but does not resent him for using her as cover. She is grateful for the pill and believes she has already gained much from him.
• Chen Juexin is astonished by Chen Mu’s power and eagerly attempts to arrange his marriage. When he refuses, she gives up and returns to practical matters.
• Lin Qiuyue is attracted to Chen Mu but accepts that she cannot compete with Ye Qingcheng, whom she regards as his equal in status and beauty. She then joins the alliance discussion.
• Zhao Qihai is shocked by the revelations and carefully keeps his doubts to himself, mindful of the immense power involved.

Significant themes

• Power and awe: Chen Mu’s ability to grant Great Emperor cultivation reshapes others’ understanding of who controls events.
• Romance and embarrassment: A sham relationship creates awkward intimacy, especially for Ye Qingcheng, while Chen Mu treats the situation lightly.
• Reciprocity and growth: Chen Mu’s gift both rewards Ye Qingcheng and supports her next cultivation breakthrough.
• Personal choice versus matchmaking: Chen Mu resists pressure to marry, preferring to remain unattached, while Chen Juexin’s plans give way to business and political cooperation.

Plot points and events

• Chen Tianlin abruptly visits Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng, having learned that they are supposedly becoming Dao companions.
• Chen Mu realizes his older sister, Chen Juexin, has spread the news. His cousin Jiang Sheng arrives to offer congratulations and gives the pair a Divine-Rank Five Elements Divine Sword, suited to Chen Mu’s five spiritual roots.
• Ye Qingcheng tries to correct Jiang Sheng’s misunderstanding, but Chen Mu puts an arm around her and encourages her to accept the gift rather than prolong the awkwardness.
• Chen Tianlin, outdone by Jiang Sheng’s present, offers Chen Mu the position of Holy Lord. Chen Mu refuses, and Tianlin rushes off to find a better gift.
• Chen Mu’s godfather, Li Xuanyuan, arrives with books containing his life’s knowledge for the couple. He also assumes that a grandchild will soon follow, leaving Ye Qingcheng even more uncomfortable.
• More relatives and disciples arrive to congratulate the pair, turning the courtyard into a noisy celebration.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu recognizes how far the rumor has spread and tries to manage the situation with humor and quick compromises. He shields Ye Qingcheng from the pressure by having her accept gifts.
• Ye Qingcheng remains courteous but is increasingly embarrassed and frustrated as everyone treats the supposed marriage as settled. She tries to explain, but the misunderstandings keep multiplying.
• Chen Tianlin is eager to celebrate his son’s union and prove his affection through a gift, but his offer of the Holy Lord position is rejected.
• Jiang Sheng enthusiastically congratulates his cousin and presents an unusually thoughtful gift, reinforcing the family’s assumption that the match is real.
• Li Xuanyuan joins in with heartfelt congratulations and already imagines holding a grandchild.
• Relatives and disciples quickly join the festivities, showing how rapidly family news—and assumptions—can spread.

Significant themes

• A lie gathering momentum: Chen Mu sees that one false impression requires more and more evasions to sustain it.
• Family affection expressed through gifts: The relatives’ generosity is sincere, even as it deepens the misunderstanding.
• Social pressure and awkward comedy: Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng are swept into public congratulations before they can clarify matters, with Ye Qingcheng especially unable to voice her objections.

Plot and events

• Chen Mu surveys the enormous pile of gifts from visitors and decides to deal with the awkwardness of their false marriage arrangement later. Ye Qingcheng, meanwhile, has become adept at welcoming his relatives and elders.
• Chen Mu’s system unexpectedly launches a flood of congratulatory sign-ins, granting thousands of valuable treasures and pills. When Chen Mu asks it to stop, it halts the rewards and adds sorting and filtering functions to its inventory.
• After two exhausting hours of visitors, Chen Mu closes the gate. He thanks Ye Qingcheng for her help and tells her they can end their pretense if it ever becomes uncomfortable. She accepts his explanation, though her expression briefly suggests mixed feelings.
• Ye Qingcheng covers Chen Mu with a blanket and then begins refining the high-grade Divine Enlightenment Pill he gave her.
• In the Golden Spirit Realm, Su Baoqing rushes home from the Heavenly Summit Auction to tell his sister, Su Mingyue, about a rival spender who outbid him by a staggering 200 billion high-grade spirit stones. He identifies the man as the “Golden Spirit’s God of Wealth.”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu is weary of the attention surrounding the supposed marriage and tries to be considerate toward Ye Qingcheng, while remaining exasperated by his system’s antics.
• Ye Qingcheng shows social poise, attentiveness, and devotion to Chen Mu, but her fleeting reaction to his offer to end the pretense hints at more complicated feelings.
• The system behaves like an overeager celebrant, rewarding Chen Mu without warning and then improving its features in response to his complaint.
• Su Baoqing is excited and impressed by the auction’s enormous spender, and eager to share the news with Su Mingyue. Su Mingyue initially teases and dismisses him, but becomes intrigued by the identity and wealth of the man he describes.

Significant themes

• The gap between public appearances and private reality, especially in Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng’s pretend relationship.
• Generosity and material excess, reflected in both the mountain of gifts and the system’s extravagant rewards.
• Care and consideration amid comedy: Chen Mu acknowledges Ye Qingcheng’s effort, while she quietly looks after him.
• Wealth as a source of awe and social power, setting up interest in the mysterious “God of Wealth.”

Plot points and events

• Su Baoqing tells his sister, Su Mingyue, that he met Chen Mu and describes him as handsome, young, extraordinarily wealthy, and a Great Emperor—as well as the Tianyuan Young Master. He shows her Chen Mu’s handwritten signature as proof.
• Su Baoqing argues that Chen Mu is an unusually good match for Mingyue and encourages her to pursue him. She is initially amused and defensive, but privately admits the suggestion may have merit.
• Mingyue turns the conversation back on Baoqing, reminding him that he is expected to become head of the Su Family. He complains that he wants freedom; she says she does too and shuts the door on him.
• Elsewhere, Chen Mu notices that Ye Qingcheng is close to a cultivation breakthrough and learns that Zhang Shengcai has perfected the Golden Bell Tyrant Body Art.
• Chen Mu gives Zhang Shengcai the Heavenly Demon Tyrant Body manual. The gift triggers a hundredfold rebate, granting Chen Mu the more advanced God-Devil Tyrant Body Art, which he quickly comprehends.
• Zhang Shengcai immediately grasps the first level of his new manual. Impressed, Chen Mu proposes testing his strength, and Zhang eagerly agrees.

Character development and interactions

• Su Mingyue shifts from skepticism about Chen Mu’s reputation to genuine interest, though she conceals it behind teasing and a stern older-sister manner.
• Su Baoqing admires Chen Mu and sincerely wants his sister to find happiness, while resisting his own expected role as family head.
• Chen Mu remains confident and generous, rewarding Zhang’s progress and anticipating the chance to test his newly acquired technique.
• Zhang Shengcai shows humility and loyalty, but his rapid progress reveals greater talent than Chen Mu expected.
• Ye Qingcheng is mentioned as diligently cultivating near a breakthrough.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent and status inspire both admiration and romantic interest.
• Family duty clashes with the desire for personal freedom.
• Mentorship and cultivation rewards drive advancement, while Chen Mu’s gift-and-rebate system continually escalates his power.

Plot and key events

• Chen Mu brings Zhang Shengcai to the Tianyuan Holy Land’s Martial Arts Arena to test the strength of his body-refining techniques. Chen Mu avoids sparring with him himself, since his immense power could kill Zhang with a misjudged blow.
• Chen Mu offers a thousand ninth-grade pills to anyone who can defeat Zhang or knock him off the platform. Inner Court prodigy Chen Langxing accepts.
• Chen Langxing’s sword cannot penetrate Zhang’s Golden Bell Tyrant Body Art; the force of Zhang’s counterattack shatters his first sword and drives him to the platform’s edge.
• With a better sword, Chen Langxing attacks repeatedly, but his strikes leave only scratches that quickly heal. Zhang then strengthens his offense with spiritual-qi armguards and overwhelms Chen Langxing with powerful punches.
• Chen Langxing yields before either has to use dangerous techniques. Zhang stops his final punch in time, and the two exchange courteous thanks.
• The watching disciples are astonished by Zhang’s strength. When an elder assumes Zhang must be an important figure in Chen Mu’s household, Chen Mu casually reveals that he is “just a cook.”

Character developments

• Zhang Shengcai demonstrates that his training has made him both exceptionally durable and powerfully offensive. His victory deepens his gratitude and loyalty to Chen Mu.
• Chen Langxing begins the match confident in his skill and eager to win the reward, but Zhang’s defenses and strength humble him. He recognizes how much further he must progress and wonders whether serving under Chen Mu could help him grow.
• Chen Mu remains confident in Zhang’s abilities and treats the bout as a practical test. His understated description of Zhang contrasts with the spectators’ awe.

Themes

• Training and transformation: Zhang’s growth shows the extraordinary results of dedicated cultivation.
• Strength and humility: Chen Langxing accepts defeat rather than risk serious harm, while Zhang uses his strength responsibly.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Zhang’s success reinforces his devotion to Chen Mu.
• Reputation versus appearances: The Holy Land’s disciples are impressed by Zhang’s Qingyun Prefecture origins, while Chen Mu’s “just a cook” remark playfully undercuts their assumptions.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu guides and encourages Zhang, setting up the match while carefully choosing others to test him.
• Zhang and Chen Langxing fight earnestly but with restraint, then end the bout respectfully.
• The disciples react with admiration and envy, while the elder tries to learn Zhang’s importance in Chen Mu’s household.

Key plot points and events

• News spreads that the man who defeated a top Inner Court prodigy, Chen Langxing, is merely a cook from Qingyun Prefecture. Tianyuan’s disciples are so impressed that they eagerly offer to become Chen Mu’s servants. Chen Mu declines to recruit anyone.
• Chen Mu notices that Chen Langxing’s sword is cracked and gives him a Saint Rank Shadowless Sword. The system’s hundredfold rebate grants Chen Mu one hundred Saint Rank weapons.
• Zhang Shengcai defeats successive challengers, but Chen Mu ends the exhibition before the next match. He scatters a thousand ninth-grade pills for the disciples to compete over; elders join in, and Chen Mu receives a hundred thousand pills through the rebate.
• Chen Mu takes Zhang Shengcai to a lethal combat arena, where fighters rise through iron, bronze, silver, and gold ranks by winning. They see a towering, bronze-skinned fighter kill his opponent with one punch. Zhang Shengcai volunteers to challenge him and claims he is certain to win.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu shows generosity toward his followers, rewarding Chen Langxing for his service and sharing pills with the crowd. His gifts also strengthen his influence at Tianyuan.
• Chen Langxing responds with gratitude and vows to cultivate harder for Tianyuan.
• Zhang Shengcai is eager for a venue where he can fight without restraint and confidently steps forward to face a dangerous opponent.
• Tianyuan’s disciples and even its elders abandon their usual dignity in their eagerness for Qingyun Prefecture’s favor and resources.

Significant themes

• Talent and status are overturned: Even a cook from Qingyun Prefecture can defeat celebrated prodigies, making the prefecture an object of awe.
• Generosity builds loyalty and power: Chen Mu’s gifts earn gratitude and admiration while enhancing his standing.
• Competition for opportunity and resources: Disciples and elders alike scramble for service positions and pills, revealing how strongly ambition and scarcity shape their behavior.
• Violence as spectacle: The combat arena contrasts with Tianyuan’s controlled sparring, presenting fighting as dangerous entertainment where death is possible.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Shengcai enters a life-or-death arena and easily overpowers a contemptuous barbarian. The barbarian secretly takes a pill, but Zhang continues to dominate him.
• After surrendering, the barbarian tries to stab Zhang in the back. Zhang dodges and kills him. A second challenger then attacks; Zhang kills him too, and proceeds to defeat and kill a string of further barbarian challengers.
• Once the arena falls quiet, Zhang cleans the blood from himself and returns to Chen Mu, asking whether his performance met his approval.
• Chen Mu praises Zhang’s effectiveness and advises him to deal with enemies swiftly and decisively. The crowd, startled by Zhang’s deference, realizes Chen Mu must be someone important.
• Yi Ge, crown prince of the Roaring Tiger Kingdom, arrives with a large entourage and accuses Chen Mu’s guard of killing his people. When Yi Ge’s whip-wielding attendant attacks, Chen Mu destroys her and the whip in an instant.
• Yi Ge, shaken but still arrogant, identifies himself and demands that Chen Mu kneel and beg for mercy. A voice from behind him asks whether he knows who Chen Mu is, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character developments

• Zhang Shengcai reveals overwhelming strength and composure. He initially honors an opponent’s surrender, but after the attempted betrayal, he becomes ruthless toward subsequent challengers. Despite his fearsome reputation, he remains obedient and respectful toward Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu remains calm amid violence and intimidation. He treats the arena’s rules pragmatically, supports Zhang’s decisive conduct, and effortlessly demonstrates his own superior power when the attendant attacks.
• Yi Ge enters expecting his status and numbers to intimidate Chen Mu. The sudden destruction of his attendant exposes his fear, though he continues to rely on his royal title and threaten his opponent.

Significant themes

• Strength as authority: In the arena, power—not appeals to fairness or status—determines outcomes.
• Betrayal and mercy: Zhang’s opponent exploits his willingness to accept surrender, reinforcing Chen Mu’s warning against misplaced compassion.
• Power and reputation: The crowd’s awe at Zhang’s strength shifts into alarm and curiosity about Chen Mu, whose authority appears even greater.
• Arrogance before an unknown power: Yi Ge assumes his rank gives him control, but the chapter hints that he has badly underestimated Chen Mu.

Character interactions

• Zhang ignores the barbarian’s taunts, defeats him, and is nearly betrayed after accepting his surrender.
• The Southern Region spectators cheer Zhang as he avenges their wounded pride, then react with shock when he calls Chen Mu “young master.”
• Chen Mu instructs Zhang after the fights, strengthening their master–retainer dynamic.
• Yi Ge confronts Chen Mu over the deaths of his guards; his attendant attacks, prompting Chen Mu to intervene. The final unseen speaker challenges Yi Ge’s assumption that his title makes him the most powerful person present.

Key events

• The masked Pavilion Master of the Killing God Pavilion arrives at the Martial Arena with formidable guards. Prince Yi Ge arrogantly demands compensation for seven dead guards and insults the Pavilion Master.
• The Pavilion Master strikes Yi Ge away. When Yi Ge’s Barbarian Tribe fighters move to retaliate, they are killed instantly by the Pavilion’s people.
• Humiliated and furious, Yi Ge uses a tiger-shaped black jade artifact to summon his seventy-three-thousand-year-old Golden-Striped Black Tiger.
• Chen Mu answers by summoning a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon. Its overwhelming presence frightens the crowd and makes the tiger submit.
• Yi Ge calls the fox a demigod and panics for Chen Mu’s safety when Chen stands on its head. The fox then addresses Chen as “Master,” saying it is far beneath him.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi Ge shifts from arrogant and entitled to enraged, then terrified as his power and status prove useless against the Pavilion and Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu remains calm and amused throughout, revealing that his strength—and his bond with the Nine-Tailed Fox—far exceeds what the crowd or Yi Ge expects.
• The Pavilion Master responds to Yi Ge’s threats with contempt and force, establishing the Killing God Pavilion’s dominance.
• The crowd first cheers the Pavilion’s decisive defense of the Southern Region, then becomes terrified by the fox’s arrival.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox’s respectful address to Chen Mu reveals their master-servant relationship and hints at Chen Mu’s extraordinary standing.

Significant themes

• Arrogance brought low: Yi Ge’s belief that his rank makes him untouchable collapses before greater strength.
• Power and reputation: The Pavilion’s reputation is confirmed by its swift, overwhelming action.
• Hidden hierarchy: What Yi Ge considers a supreme being is merely Chen Mu’s servant, suggesting an even higher level of power beyond the world’s known ranks.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s Nine-Tailed Fox Demon reveals itself as a demigod with ten million years of cultivation—and calls Chen Mu “master,” stunning the crowd and making them assume he must be a god.
• The Killing God Pavilion’s masked leader, Lu Yang, casually calls Chen Mu “Brother Mu,” deepening the crowd’s shock.
• Chen Mu recognizes the Pavilion Master as his childhood friend. They reunite warmly, trading jokes and teasing each other about Lu Yang’s long absence from home.
• Their conversation reveals Chen Mu is the Tianyuan Holy Land’s Young Master and a Great Emperor—the youngest in history, said to have defied the natural order to reach that realm. The onlookers kneel in respect.
• Prince Yi Ge repeatedly begs Chen Mu for forgiveness. When Chen Mu shows little interest, Lu Yang orders a subordinate to kill Yi Ge. The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon also kills the Golden-Striped Black Tiger and absorbs its cultivation.
• Chen Mu joins Lu Yang in a VIP room, while Zhang Shengcai remains behind to fight and gain experience.
• Lu Yang admits he had sent the Killing God Pavilion to kill those who mocked Chen Mu. He warns that the Roaring Tiger Kingdom will likely retaliate, and asks how Chen Mu intends to respond.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu is revealed to possess extraordinary authority and power, but remains relaxed and familiar with Lu Yang. He neither celebrates Lu Yang’s revenge nor condemns it.
• Lu Yang is exposed as Chen Mu’s loyal childhood friend, despite his formidable reputation as head of the Killing God Pavilion. He fears his mother, misses home, and is ready to stand by Chen Mu in the coming conflict.
• Yi Ge shifts from arrogance to terror and desperate submission, but is killed before gaining Chen Mu’s attention.
• The crowd moves from disbelief to awe and reverence as Chen Mu’s status becomes clear.

Significant themes

• Hidden identity and escalating power: Each revelation about Chen Mu raises the perceived scale of his status.
• Loyalty and friendship: Lu Yang’s affection and fierce protectiveness toward Chen Mu shape their reunion.
• Power and fear: The crowd and Yi Ge respond to overwhelming strength with submission, while Chen Mu’s companions enforce his authority.
• Personal freedom and family duty: Lu Yang enjoys life away from the holy land but agrees to return because his mother misses him.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu assesses the Roaring Tiger Kingdom: its army is less advanced than Great Wu’s, but its fearless, powerful tamed beasts make it a serious military force. He nevertheless decides the kingdom is no threat to him.
• To prevent the kingdom from becoming a future danger, Chen opens a portal into Emperor Yi Kuang’s palace. He shows Yi Kuang the bloodied Tiger Tally, signaling that Yi Ge is dead, and asks how Yi Kuang intends to respond.
• Yi Kuang declares that he must fight to avenge his son and preserve his authority. He believes he has powerful reserves: ten demon beasts with a hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Chen’s confidence rests on having beasts far stronger than Yi Kuang’s supposed trump cards. He sends his ten-million-year Nine-Tailed Fox Demon into the kingdom’s Ten Thousand Beasts Garden, where it begins slaughtering the tamed beasts.
• Reports of the fox’s immense power shake Yi Kuang. He assumes Chen found the beast and sent it through a portal to destroy the kingdom, unaware that the fox is Chen’s own tamed beast.
• Chen takes Lu Yang through another portal to the devastated garden. Yi Kuang arrives with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, but, seeing the fox, realizes there is no prospect of victory. He then notices Chen and Lu standing beside it.

Character developments

• Chen Mu is calculating and self-assured. He offers Yi Kuang a chance to settle matters peacefully, but once Yi Kuang chooses conflict, Chen uses overwhelming force while also letting the fox absorb demonic power.
• Yi Kuang shifts from an emperor confident in his military “trump cards” to a ruler convinced his kingdom cannot win. His grief and duty to avenge Yi Ge drive his initial defiance.
• Lu Yang remains loyal to Chen and follows him into danger despite his fear of the gigantic fox.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and misjudgment: Yi Kuang’s formidable forces are insignificant beside Chen’s hidden strength.
• Fear and hierarchy: The fox’s power—and the beasts’ instinctive respect for bloodline dominance—renders conventional military courage useless.
• Choices and consequences: Yi Kuang chooses war rather than accepting Chen’s opening to negotiate.
• Misleading appearances: Yi Kuang attributes the fox’s arrival to Chen’s spatial ability but fails to understand that Chen controls it.

Character interactions

• Chen directly confronts Yi Kuang with evidence of Yi Ge’s death and asks him to choose how to proceed.
• Yi Kuang responds with a clear threat of retaliation, prompting Chen to demonstrate the gap between their forces.
• Chen reassures the frightened Lu Yang and brings him close to the fox.
• Yi Kuang’s soldiers report the fox’s appearance; when Yi Kuang reaches the garden, his confidence collapses as he sees it—and then spots Chen and Lu beside the beast.