Chapter Summaries

Li Chen set a high launch price for the first crystal chip phones, planning later releases to recover costs and keep the Eternal Day Empire ahead of imitators. He then visited the Tang Family for a banquet, where Tang Hongxiu served him wine but remained shy.

• The Minister of Works reported that crystal mines in the Sasanian Region had reached full capacity and that more than three hundred prototype phones had been produced.
• Li Chen told the court to price the first phone model beyond the reach of ordinary people, then release improved premium and affordable versions after a few seasons.
• The officials praised Li Chen’s strategy, and the court continued discussing the phones’ potential wealth until Li Chen dismissed them at noon.
• Dai's Mother and Tang Shan's Mother invited Li Chen to the Tang Family for a meal and century-old Jade Immortal Vintage, and he agreed to visit incognito.
• Tang Hongxiu and the Tang household welcomed Li Chen, and Tang Zhen opened the wine jar at a banquet in the rear garden.
• Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe urged Tang Hongxiu to be more forward with Li Chen, but she remained reserved as she poured his wine.

Tang Yue and the Tang Family tried to get Li Chen and Tang Hongxiu drunk so they would grow closer, but Tang Hongxiu remained sober while her sisters-in-law passed out. Tang Yue mistakenly sent Li Chen to Tang Hongxiu’s room, where he found the two sleeping women, and rushed back when he realized his error, but the sounds inside suggested it was too late.

• Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe persuaded Tang Yue and Tang Zhen to get Li Chen and Tang Hongxiu drunk, and the family took turns offering Li Chen wine.
• Li Chen and Tang Hongxiu stayed sober while the others became thoroughly drunk, and Tang Hongxiu carried her sisters-in-law away to rest.
• Tang Yue found Tang Hongxiu apparently asleep in her room and persuaded Li Chen to rest in the Flowing Cloud Pavilion, then left him with a maid.
• Li Chen entered Tang Hongxiu’s bedchamber and found two beautiful mature women sleeping there.
• Tang Hongxiu returned from preparing sobering soup and told Tang Yue and Tang Zhen that she had left her sisters-in-law in her room.
• Tang Yue raced back to the room, but heard sounds of a fierce battle coming from inside.

Tang Yue hid the mistaken encounter between Li Chen and Liu Yuran from Tang Hongxiu, then spent the night guarding the courtyard while Li Chen remained inside. By morning, Tang Yue promised Liu Yuran he would make the Tang Family rise to greatness, while Liu Yuran secretly remembered Li Chen’s promise to meet again.

• Tang Yue sent Tang Hongxiu to oversee the Imperial Merchant Escort shipment so she would not discover Li Chen with Liu Yuran.
• Tang Yue stopped Tang Zhen from entering the room, warning that confronting Li Chen would ruin the Tang Family.
• Tang Yue guarded the courtyard for hours as the sounds inside continued, then arranged the Evening Banquet while telling the kitchen not to disturb Li Chen.
• Li Chen left at dawn refreshed, and Tang Yue later found Tang Zhen drunk and unconscious in the Wine Cellar.
• Tang Yue apologized to Liu Yuran, who reassured him that she had endured the encounter for the Tang Family while privately recalling Li Chen’s words about meeting again.

Tang Shan's Mother told Tang Yue that Li Chen was the emperor and would return to the Tang Residence that night, forcing Tang Yue to break his promise to Liu Yuran. Li Chen arrived and spent the night with Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe, while Tang Yue could only endure the situation.

• Tang Shan's Mother told Li Chen that Tang Yue had mistaken Liu Yuran for Tang Hongxiu, and Li Chen announced he would visit the Tang Residence again that night.
• Tang Yue refused to let Liu Yuran be involved again until Tang Shan's Mother revealed that Li Chen was the emperor, after which Tang Yue agreed to arrange the visit.
• Tang Yue told Liu Yuran that Li Chen was coming again, and she accepted the news with mixed feelings.
• Li Chen arrived at the Tang Residence and dined with Tang Hongxiu while Tang Yue arranged for Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe to meet him.
• Li Chen went to the courtyard and began an affair with Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe while Tang Yue remained unable to sleep.

The Tang Family used its ties to Li Chen and the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce to impress Imperial Capital merchants and strengthen its influence. After a lavish gift from the Chamber’s chairman, Tang Yue worried that Li Chen was visiting less often and asked Liu Yuran how to bring him around more.

• Tang Yue and Tang Zhen welcomed merchants who sought their help, while Liu Yuran and Su Qinghe impressed the merchants’ wives with gifts and connections.
• At the banquet, Tang Zhen boasted that he could introduce Boss Liu to Young Master Li, and Tang Yue clarified that their sister only had a slight acquaintance with him.
• Shopkeeper Chen arrived with ten hu of Southern Sea pearls from the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce’s chairman, prompting the merchants to curry favor with the Tang Family.
• After the guests left, Tang Yue reflected on the price behind the family’s new wealth and asked Liu Yuran whether Li Chen had visited that day.
• Tang Yue told Liu Yuran he feared Li Chen’s visits were becoming less frequent and asked how they could persuade him to come more often.

Tang Yue and Liu Yuran arranged a banquet to bring beautiful wives and concubines into Li Chen's company, hoping to make him visit the Tang Residence more often. After Madam Zhang Liu and Cui Yuniang were sent to a side room, Tang Yue pretended Li Chen was drunk and prepared to take him away as well.

• Tang Yue proposed inviting merchants' beautiful wives and concubines to the Tang Residence to attract Li Chen, while keeping Tang Hongxiu's future entry into the palace as their long-term plan.
• After learning Li Chen would visit that evening, Tang Yue invited Master Zhang and Boss Liu, each accompanied by a woman from his household.
• At the banquet, Li Chen arrived and impressed Madam Zhang Liu and Cui Yuniang, while Tang Yue and Liu Yuran encouraged everyone to toast him.
• As Madam Zhang Liu and Cui Yuniang grew drunk, Liu Yuran took them to a side room to rest with their husbands' approval.
• Tang Yue claimed Li Chen could not hold his liquor and winked at him, preparing to take him away from the banquet.

Li Chen drank Squire Zhang and Boss Liu under the table while Tang Yue arranged for him to meet two women in a secluded courtyard. Liu Yuran stayed behind with Li Chen as Tang Yue put the merchants in the adjoining guest room.

• Li Chen accepted the merchants’ toasts and drank until Boss Liu and Squire Zhang collapsed.
• Tang Yue steered the conversation toward the merchants’ wives and watched Li Chen approve of the women he had arranged for him.
• Tang Yue led Li Chen to a secluded courtyard, where Liu Yuran said the two women were resting.
• Tang Yue left Li Chen with Liu Yuran and ordered the steward to put the merchants in the next room.
• Liu Yuran’s voice drifted from the courtyard as she praised Li Chen’s strength and mentioned what she had learned.

Li Chen approved Tang Yue’s request to join the mobile phone business after staying at the Tang Residence, and Liu Yuran persuaded Cui Yuniang and Madam Zhang Liu to accept their encounters with him as benefiting their families. The chapter ended with Liu Yuran giving the women valuable earrings and hinting that they could recruit others to satisfy Li Chen.

• Tang Yue asked Li Chen to let the Tang Family become a mobile phone distributor, and Li Chen authorized him to contact the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Li Chen left the Tang Residence, while Tang Yue celebrated the family’s new opportunity and Master Zhang and Boss Liu gained business connections.
• Liu Yuran asked Cui Yuniang what she thought of Li Chen and reminded her that Boss Liu had helped her family when its winery was failing.
• Madam Zhang Liu admitted that her experience with Li Chen had changed her feelings, and Liu Yuran gave both women earrings set with top-grade spirit stones.
• Liu Yuran hinted that Cui Yuniang and Madam Zhang Liu could recruit more women to satisfy Li Chen and bring further benefits to the Tang Family.

Liu Yuran recruited Cui Yuniang and Madam Zhang Liu to help establish the Tang Family Chamber of Commerce as a way to find new beauties for Li Chen. Back in the palace, Tang Shan's Mother and Dai's Mother received lavish rewards and agreed to avoid conflict with the other consorts.

• Liu Yuran persuaded Cui Yuniang and Madam Zhang Liu to join the planned Tang Family Chamber of Commerce and recruit merchant families with attractive female relatives.
• Liu Yuran and Tang Yue drafted admission rules requiring merchant families to have substantial assets and poised female relatives, intending to use a tea gathering to select candidates for Li Chen.
• Tang Yue told Liu Yuran that Tang Zhen remained proud and that Tang Zhen's wife was eagerly practicing her dancing for Li Chen's arrival.
• Li Chen sent lavish rewards to Tang Shan's Mother and Dai's Mother, raising their standing in the Imperial Harem.
• Dai's Mother warned Tang Shan's Mother that their favor could provoke envy and urged her to yield rather than compete with the other consorts.

Dai's Mother and Tang Shan's Mother discovered that the Imperial Harem was more harmonious than they expected, while Li Chen managed the booming demand for mobile phones. The chapter ended with Li Chen watching a dance by a hundred Northern Region consorts and deciding to take them one at a time.

• Chu Ruoyan warmly welcomed Dai's Mother and Tang Shan's Mother in the Imperial Garden, and other consorts greeted them without hostility.
• Li Chen learned that the first batch of mobile phones had drawn huge demand and ordered sales limited by official rank and noble title.
• Li Xueying brought Li Chen pastries and told him about tribute wine and a new dance performed by the Northern Region consorts.
• Li Chen watched the hundred consorts dance, drank Northern Region Tribute Wine, and resolved to spend the night with them one at a time.

The Heavenly Strategy Dynasty became obsessed with Li Chen’s crystal-chip phones, and the Tang Family used its new phones to attract merchants and impress guests. Li Chen then arrived at the Guixu Boundless Sect, where Yun He and Yue Shuang were chosen to accompany him to the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range, despite the Jade-Washing Fairy’s doubts that they could keep up.

• Young masters, officials, and guests at the Tang Residence showed off and marveled at their phones as the craze spread across the dynasty.
• Tang Yue and Tang Zhen used their phones to impress banquet guests, while the drunken brothers promised to arrange phones for them.
• Li Chen arrived at the Guixu Boundless Sect with three glowing Immortal Tokens to select two disciples for the expedition.
• Daoist Baichuan chose Yun He and Yue Shuang instead of Jun Zhantian to accompany Li Chen to the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range.
• Yun He and Yue Shuang promised to protect Li Chen, and the Jade-Washing Fairy doubted they could do anything but stay out of his way.

Li Chen traveled with Yun He and Yue Shuang to the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range, where the two disciples tried to guide and protect him. When a Thunderbolt Leopard ambushed them, Li Chen’s body knocked it away on instinct, leaving Yun He and Yue Shuang stunned.

• The Jade-Washing Fairy welcomed Li Chen at the Guixu Boundless Sect, and he gave her a mobile phone before setting out with Yun He and Yue Shuang.
• Li Chen and the two disciples entered the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range, where Yun He and Yue Shuang gathered herbs and guided him toward the Immortal Ruins.
• Yue Shuang spotted a mature Shadowglow Blood Orchid, and Yun He asked her to investigate it with him while Li Chen waited.
• A Thunderbolt Leopard emerged and lunged at Li Chen as Yun He and Yue Shuang rushed to defend him.
• Li Chen’s body counterattacked instinctively, blasting the Thunderbolt Leopard through more than a dozen trees and leaving Yun He and Yue Shuang gaping.

Li Chen guided Yue Shuang and Yun He through the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range, displaying overwhelming strength and helping them improve their techniques. The trio encountered a fleeing nun pursued by a demon spider, and Li Chen rescued her as Li Xian and Chet remained on the run elsewhere in the forest.

• Yue Shuang and Yun He watched Li Chen instantly kill a heavenly abyss realm Red-Eyed Demon Bear and realized his cultivation might exceed Jun Zhantian's.
• Li Chen gave Yun He the bear's gallbladder and offered both cultivators guidance that helped Yue Shuang master Sword-Circling Heaven and loosened Yun He's bottleneck.
• Yue Shuang and Yun He began treating Li Chen as a senior and followed his lead through the forest, where they noticed fewer demon beasts than expected.
• Li Xian led the Holy See's pursuers toward a Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast's lair and escaped with Chet while the beast fought the Red-robed Cardinal.
• A nun fleeing a Purple-Patterned Demon Spider stumbled upon Li Chen, Yue Shuang, and Yun He, and Li Chen knocked the spider away with an invisible blast of force.

Li Chen rescued Lina, a Holy See Holy Maiden, and continued with Yue Shuang and Yun He to the Immortal Ruins. After opening the entrance with three Immortal Tokens, he entered the ruins and shattered their Saint Realm immortal soldier in one strike, leaving Yue Shuang and Yun He stunned.

• Lina thanked Li Chen for saving her and explained that she had come to the Fallen Immortal Mountain Range to apprehend Prince Chet, a fugitive from Everlasting Day.
• Lina gave Li Chen a silver cross pendant that would allow him to enter the cathedral in Holy Light City, then left to recover from her injuries.
• Yue Shuang scolded Yun He for looking at Lina, and the three continued their journey to the Immortal Ruins.
• Li Chen placed the three Immortal Tokens into a black-and-gold platform, which opened a staircase leading beneath the ground.
• Li Chen, Yue Shuang, and Yun He entered a cavern with three halls and a gigantic statue; the statue awakened and released its killing intent.
• Yue Shuang identified the statue as a Saint Realm immortal soldier and began explaining how to evade it, but Li Chen shattered it with one palm strike.

Li Chen explored the Main Hall of the Immortal Ruins after defeating an immortal soldier and generously sharing the spoils with Yue Shuang and Yun He. He discovered an immortal maiden in a crystal coffin and faced the projection of Immortal Venerable Taixing, whom he treated without deference.

• Yue Shuang and Yun He marveled at Li Chen's strength after he killed an immortal soldier, then gathered its rare materials and offered them to him.
• Li Chen took a small piece of heavenly mystic gold and gave the rest to Yue Shuang and Yun He to divide between themselves.
• Li Chen sent Yue Shuang and Yun He to explore the secondary halls while he opened the Main Hall's formation with a flash of golden light.
• Li Chen disabled the Main Hall's mechanisms and discovered a beautiful immortal maiden resting in a floating crystal coffin.
• Immortal Venerable Taixing appeared beside the coffin and announced his identity, but Li Chen remained standing and waited for him to continue.

Li Chen ignored Immortal Venerable Taixing’s offer and took his treasures and sleeping wife, then exploited her amnesia to convince her that he was her husband. He emerged the next day while Taixing’s fading phantom cursed him helplessly.

• Immortal Venerable Taixing offered Li Chen one of three treasures if he helped his injured wife return to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Chen broke the crystal coffin’s seal, touched the immortal woman to provoke Taixing, and seized all three treasures.
• Li Chen carried the unconscious woman into a side chamber as Taixing watched helplessly and threatened revenge.
• The woman woke with severe memory loss, and Li Chen used a soundproof barrier before claiming he was her husband, the Emperor of the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty.
• Li Chen spent a day and night persuading the woman, who remembered only that her name was Ruoyu, that they were married.
• Li Chen emerged the next day and told Taixing that he had done everything Taixing imagined.

Li Chen looted Taixing’s ruins, then guided Yue Shuang through a dangerous sword-intent trial and helped Yun He defeat a Thunder Beast. Yun He offered Li Chen the lightning bracers he had earned as a reward.

• Li Chen ignored Immortal Venerable Taixing’s furious projection and searched the Main Hall, finding a spirit pearl and a body-tempering cultivation art.
• Li Chen found Yue Shuang struggling against the hall’s sword intent and told her, “The sword is me, and I am the sword.”
• Yue Shuang entered a state of clarity, mastered the attacking sword intent, and thanked Li Chen for his guidance.
• Li Chen entered the right hall, where Yun He was near defeat against a Thunder Beast despite trapping it in his Return-to-Ruin Thunder Array.
• Li Chen instructed Yun He to adjust the array, enabling its lightning spikes to kill the Thunder Beast.
• Yun He claimed the lightning bracers that appeared after the trial and offered them to Li Chen.

Li Chen revealed his imperial identity to Yun He and Yue Shuang, who pledged to serve him, while he continued humiliating Immortal Venerable Taixing and deepening Ruoyu’s attachment to him. On the tenth day, Li Chen left the ruins with Ruoyu, who dismissed Taixing as a lunatic and chose to go with the emperor.

• Yun He recognized Li Chen as the Saint Realm Emperor, and he and Yue Shuang knelt, apologized, and vowed to serve Heavenly Strategy.
• Li Chen returned to the Main Hall and tormented Immortal Venerable Taixing by making him listen to—and later watch—his nights with Ruoyu.
• Li Chen trained Yue Shuang in swordsmanship and Yun He in the Thunder Arts while Ruoyu learned court etiquette and grew dependent on him.
• Yun He and Yue Shuang bid farewell on the sixth day and left the ruins to return to their sect and cultivate.
• On the tenth day, Ruoyu rejected Taixing’s claim that he was her husband, called him a lunatic, and departed with Li Chen.

After returning from the secret realm, Li Chen helped Ruoyu settle back into palace life and rewarded his consorts with treasures for their performances and support. At court, he controlled the rollout of mobile phones, ordered harsh punishment for black-market resellers, and kept development of the second generation on schedule.

• Ruoyu briefly wondered why the Imperial Capital felt familiar, but Chu Ruoyan, Wu Nanzhi, and the palace staff welcomed her home until she accepted the palace as her home.
• Li Chen displayed the treasures he had brought from the secret realm and let Li Meng, Elissa, Mu Qingrou, and Shi Yingying choose rewards after performing for him.
• Li Chen gave Chu Ruoyan and Wu Nanzhi two precious treasures in recognition of their work maintaining peace in the Imperial Harem.
• Liu Minghan reported that the first hundred thousand mobile phones had sold out and black-market prices had surged, but Li Chen ordered the court to delay the next release.
• Pang Jin reported illicit phone reselling and official involvement, and Li Chen ordered repeat offenders executed, stripped of their property, and exiled.
• The Minister of Works reported progress on the second-generation phone, and Li Chen ordered development to continue on schedule until the technology was mature.

After court, Li Chen approved Li Ji’s request to join the Northern Army and gave Li Sining several rare treasures while asking her to keep them secret. He then visited Consort Yi’s palace to discuss Li Sining’s recent progress.

• Li Chen heard reports on government affairs and issued instructions before court adjourned.
• Li Ji asked to join the Northern Region campaign after losing money on mines, and Li Chen approved his request and told him to learn from Han Wu.
• Li Chen recalled how Li Ji had earned military merits by staying out of the way during past campaigns.
• Li Chen showed Li Sining an Immortal Spirit Root awakening opportunity, a Grand Void Sword Canon fragment, and five Space Law Fragments, presenting them as treasures from the Immortal Ruins.
• Li Sining promised to keep the treasures secret, and Li Chen later visited Consort Yi’s palace to discuss her.