Chapter Summaries

He Daoran led a group of Daoist priests from Dragon-Tiger Mountain to Chen Family Village, hoping to verify reports of spiritual energy. As he crossed the village entrance, he sensed the energy he had sought for eighty years and cried out that he had found it.

• He Daoran recalled his master's prophecy about a place where spiritual energy would return and set out for Chen Family Village after learning of its unusual abundance and healing reports.
• He Daoran and Zhang Jinling left their bus three kilometers from the village and walked through the traffic with the other Daoist priests.
• Zhang Jinling asked whether He Daoran had sensed spiritual energy, and He Daoran said no as they approached the village entrance.
• He Daoran crossed the entrance boundary and felt spiritual energy enter his body and gather in his dantian.
• He Daoran wept and shouted that he had found the land his master had described.

He Daoran and the Daoists from Dragon-Tiger Mountain discovered that Chen Family Village was filled with spiritual energy and realized it was protected by a powerful formation. Chen Lin allowed them into his courtyard, where they were stunned to find the supposed senior was a young man watering orchids.

• He Daoran and the other Daoists entered Chen Family Village and felt spiritual energy flowing into them from the bluestone slabs.
• Zhang Jinling restored order among the kneeling Daoists, while He Daoran recognized the village boundary as a legendary formation.
• Chen Lin sensed the Daoists drawing on the Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation and ordered Zhang Long to let them enter under discreet surveillance.
• He Daoran and Zhang Jinling led their disciples through the village, marveling at its lush plants, fish, and birds as the spiritual energy grew denser.
• Zhang Jinling bowed at Chen Lin's courtyard gate and asked to meet the senior; Chen Lin opened the gate with his will and invited them in.
• The Daoists entered and found Chen Lin, a young man in casual clothes, watering orchids beneath the peach tree, leaving He Daoran speechless.

Chen Lin revealed his ability to control a falling leaf before the kneeling Daoists of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, who explained that true cultivation had been impossible for centuries. He allowed He Daoran and the others to stay at the Resort, and Zhang Jinling offered to bring him their guardian treasure.

• He Daoran and the Dragon-Tiger Mountain Daoists knelt before Chen Lin after seeing him water his flowers with spirit spring water.
• Zhang Jinling explained that spiritual energy had dried up centuries ago, leaving the Daoists unable to cultivate and with only martial arts and breathing exercises.
• Chen Lin silently redirected a falling leaf into a trash can, convincing He Daoran that he had witnessed immortal magic.
• He Daoran begged to remain as Chen Lin's attendant, but Chen Lin told him he could stay at the Resort as a visitor.
• Zhang Jinling offered to fetch Dragon-Tiger Mountain's guardian treasure as a gift for Chen Lin.

Chen Lin received a powerful Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman from Dragon-Tiger Mountain and repaid its representatives with restorative tea, cultivation advice, and Qi-Enhancing Pills. After they left, he considered visiting other famous Daoist ancestral seats in search of more treasures.

• Zhang Jinling presented Chen Lin with an antique box containing a Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman, which Chen Lin recognized as a powerful Talisman Treasure made by a Core Formation cultivator.
• Zhang Jinling explained that Patriarch Zhang Jixian had left the talisman to Dragon-Tiger Mountain and that it could summon divine thunder.
• Chen Lin brewed tea for He Daoran and Zhang Jinling, and its potent spiritual energy rejuvenated them so dramatically that Zhang Jinling's nose began to bleed.
• He Daoran asked Chen Lin about a cultivation difficulty, and Chen Lin's brief advice resolved a problem that had troubled him for most of his life.
• Chen Lin gave the Dragon-Tiger Mountain pair a bottle of Qi-Enhancing Pills, and they departed after thanking him.
• Chen Lin wondered whether other Daoist ancestral seats might possess hidden treasures and considered following Dragon-Tiger Mountain's example.

Chen Lin fed the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman 113 low-grade spirit stones until it fully awakened, then learned the destructive power sealed within it. He stored the talisman, confident it would help him deal with any Stowaway at the Myriad Worlds Garbage Station.

• Chen Lin tried to charge the talisman with his spiritual power, but it barely brightened and consumed nearly thirty percent of his reserves.
• He fed the talisman spirit stones, which it rapidly drained as its crimson patterns grew brighter and its aura alarmed Bright Moon and Bold as Clear Wind.
• When the talisman began siphoning energy from the Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation, Chen Lin separated it from the formation with a spiritual-power barrier.
• Chen Lin spent a total of 113 low-grade spirit stones to fully charge the talisman and awaken its purple-gold glow.
• Chen Lin touched the talisman's sealing layer with his spiritual sense and received an imprint showing forty-nine bolts of divine thunder vaporizing a mountain peak.
• Chen Lin put the talisman in his Storage Ring, cleaned the stone table, and decided it would let him face any Stowaway with confidence.

Zhang Junnian returned to Dragon-Tiger Mountain and discovered that Zhang Jinling and the sect had gone to Chen Family Village in Yicheng for an extraordinary opportunity. After hearing about the village’s miraculous reputation, Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan set off there, while Meng Ruhai began investigating it.

• Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan arrived at an empty Celestial Master Mansion and learned from a novice that Zhang Jinling, He Daoran, and the others had gone to Chen Family Village.
• Zhang Jinling told Zhang Junnian that an extraordinary opportunity awaited in Chen Family Village and ordered him to come at once.
• Meng Yichuan told Zhang Junnian about Chen Family Village’s popular resort and reports of visitors recovering from terminal illnesses.
• Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan drove toward Yicheng, and Meng Yichuan secretly messaged Meng Ruhai about Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s trip.
• Meng Ruhai ordered a disciple to investigate Chen Family Village and watched aerial footage that showed its reservoir and three green hills.

After videos of He Daoran and the Dragon-Tiger Mountain delegation went viral, Daoist leaders across the country recognized Chen Family Village as a possible grotto-heaven blessed land and mobilized to reach Yicheng. The chapter leaves Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan stuck in traffic outside the village as rival sects and crowds converge there.

• Meng Ruhai connected Chen Family Village’s rapid transformation to signs of a revived spiritual vein, identified it as a grotto-heaven blessed land, and ordered his people to go to Yicheng.
• Videos of He Daoran weeping and the Dragon-Tiger Mountain Daoists kneeling spread online, drawing enormous attention to Chen Family Village.
• Li Guangfu watched the footage, found the same prophecy in Wudang’s ancient text, and ordered the elders to assemble and travel to Yicheng with the Black Tortoise Inner Armor.
• Daoist leaders on Mount Mao, Mount Lao, and Mount Qingcheng also reacted to the news, with the Qingcheng elder ordering a lavish gift prepared.
• Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan became trapped in traffic outside Chen Family Village, where Meng told him that Wudang, other sects, and Meng Ruhai’s group had already arrived.

Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan arrived at Chen Family Village, where Zhang Junnian’s disrespectful challenge drew an unseen force that knocked him down and sent the Daoist leaders to their knees. Chen Lin refused visitors to his private residence but left the possibility of a meeting open, prompting the sects to race to offer him their treasures.

• Zhang Junnian and Meng Yichuan crossed into Chen Family Village and felt an extraordinary change in their bodies.
• At the Reservoir, Zhang Junnian mocked the gathered Daoists and demanded to see the master, then an invisible force made him fall flat.
• Zhang Jinling slapped Zhang Junnian and knelt toward Chen Lin’s courtyard, followed by He Daoran, Li Guangfu, and the other Daoist leaders.
• Chen Lin sent Su Mei to tell the Daoists that the Resort was open to visitors, private residences were off limits, and they might meet if fate allowed.
• Li Guangfu gave Su Mei Wudang’s Black Tortoise Inner Armor to pass to Chen Lin, and other sect leaders began urgently summoning their treasures.

General Zhao learned that leaders from all six major Taoist ancestral seats had gathered in Chen Family Village, while Chen Lin calmly dismissed the significance of their visit. After receiving a powerful inner armor and pills, Zhang Junnian tried to investigate Chen Lin’s courtyard but was repelled by an invisible force and fled in fear.

• General Zhao called Chen Lin about the gathering of all six major Taoist ancestral seats, and Chen Lin told him not to worry.
• Su Mei delivered the Black Tortoise Inner Armor, which Chen Lin examined and put on.
• Li Guangfu left Chen Lin’s courtyard with six Essence-Enhancing Pills, prompting Taoist leaders to rush to prepare gifts.
• Zhang Junnian escaped his guards and crept toward Chen Lin’s courtyard to expose what he believed was a trick.
• An invisible force struck Zhang Junnian and flung him into a vegetable plot before he could reach the courtyard gate.
• Clear Wind watched Zhang Junnian flee, then returned to rest with Bright Moon.

The leaders of four Taoist sects visited Chen Lin, who treated them with Spirit Spring Tea and received several powerful gifts. He discovered the gifts included a method for creating three avatars and a jade hairpin that was actually a spatial magic treasure.

• The leaders of Mount Mao, Mount Sanqing, Mount Lao, and Mount Qingcheng arrived at Chen Family Village and followed Miss Su's rules before meeting Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin served the four leaders Spirit Spring Tea, which purged their impurities and eased their long-standing ailments; they thanked him with three bows and nine kowtows before leaving with Qi-Enhancing Pills.
• Chen Lin examined the gifts and identified Mount Mao's peachwood sword and Mount Lao's Eight Trigrams mirror as Core Formation magic treasures.
• Chen Lin read the Three Purities Mystical Method and learned that, after reaching Foundation Establishment, he could create three independently acting avatars with sixty percent of his cultivation each.
• Chen Lin discovered that Mount Qingcheng's jade hairpin contained storage formation patterns and was a spatial magic treasure.

Chen Lin claimed a hidden cache of spirit stones and awakened a flying boat, then tested it by flying from Chen Family Village to Tokyo. He discovered that the site of the Tomahawk strikes was being rebuilt and watched the construction with a cold gaze.

• Chen Lin opened the restriction inside the hairpin and found over three thousand spirit stones and a small silver-white boat in a sealed chamber.
• Chen Lin counted 3,412 spirit stones, added them to his storage, and bonded the boat with his essence blood.
• Chen Lin activated the flying boat with thirty spirit stones and learned it could carry ten people, travel five thousand li per trip, and conceal itself.
• Chen Lin flew above Chen Family Village, inspected the Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation, and then headed southeast across the Pacific Ocean.
• Chen Lin reached Tokyo and saw that the Kudan-kita site struck by four Tomahawks had been cleared and was being rebuilt.
• Chen Lin hovered three hundred meters above the construction site and watched it with a cold gaze.

Chen Lin unleashed the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman on the Yasukuni Shrine reconstruction site, destroying it and everyone within the strike zone. Japan could find no explanation for the attack, and Ishiba Mao ordered the project suspended.

• Chen Lin surveyed the Yasukuni Shrine reconstruction site and activated the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman from his flying boat.
• Forty-nine purple lightning pillars struck Kudan-kita, erasing the construction site, more than three hundred workers, and forty armed guards, leaving a glass-edged crater.
• Chen Lin put the spent talisman away and flew northwest as the remaining spiritual power over Tokyo dissipated.
• Japan's seismic network recorded a surface-level tremor, but officials found no natural or technological explanation for the crater.
• Ishiba Mao ordered the Yasukuni Shrine Restoration Project suspended until Takaichi took office.

A video showed purple lightning destroying Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, prompting global reactions and drawing the attention of Zhang Junnian, Zhang Jinling, and He Daoran in Chen Family Village. After watching the footage, He Daoran was left to assess the apparent heavenly punishment.

• A video of Yasukuni Shrine's scorched crater went viral, and foreign and Huaxia commenters connected its destruction to the shrine's enshrinement of war criminals.
• Zhang Junnian found the video while scrolling on East Mountain and recognized the Tokyo location as Yasukuni Shrine, which had been destroyed a month earlier.
• Zhang Junnian showed the footage of purple lightning striking the shrine to Zhang Jinling, who watched it repeatedly and became visibly shaken.
• Zhang Jinling called He Daoran over, and He Daoran watched the video of the crater and the purple lightning columns descending from the sky.

He Daoran and Wudang Leader Li Guangfu realized Chen Lin had activated the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman and treated him as a powerful immortal. Chen Lin decided to help his family cultivate and invited Song Qiuya to the courtyard, where she arrived and reunited with him and Li Xiaoyue.

• He Daoran and Zhang Jinling recognized the lightning that destroyed Yasukuni Shrine as the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder summoned by the talisman they had given Chen Lin.
• Li Guangfu ordered Wudang disciples not to approach Chen Lin’s courtyard without permission and threatened to expel anyone who disobeyed.
• Chen Lin decided his family should cultivate as spiritual energy returned to the planet and called Song Qiuya to invite her to the Farmhouse Courtyard.
• Chen Lin watched Clear Wind and Bright Moon cultivate to the qi refinement fourth layer within the Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Song Qiuya arrived at the courtyard after work, and Chen Lin embraced her as Li Xiaoyue watched with a smile.

Chen Lin revealed cultivation to Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue, demonstrating his powers and explaining that true cultivation could lead to immortality. He gave each woman a storage treasure and left them eager to begin cultivating.

• Chen Lin explained spiritual energy, cultivation, and how the Taiyin Breathing Technique only refined the body.
• Chen Lin levitated and moved a heavy stone vat with the Object Manipulation Art, astonishing Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue.
• Chen Lin produced and vanished a Beast-Skin Tome and spirit stones using his storage space.
• Chen Lin gave Song Qiuya a black ring and Li Xiaoyue a Jade Hairpin, saying they could use storage treasures after cultivating spiritual power.
• Song Qiuya grabbed Chen Lin's arm and urgently asked him to teach them cultivation.

Chen Lin taught Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue the Azure Origin Sword Art, helped them achieve qi induction, and gave them storage treasures. After guiding them through more cultivation, he carried both women into the bathroom for the night.

• Chen Lin guided Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue through the Azure Origin Sword Art’s meridian route and helped them capture spiritual energy.
• Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue achieved qi induction, then bound their blood to a ring and a Jade Hairpin and tested their storage abilities.
• Song Qiuya proposed using the treasures for business, but Chen Lin warned her not to expose their abilities or use cultivator possessions for mundane purposes.
• Chen Lin guided the two women through the Taiyin Breathing Technique until late at night, strengthening their foundations.
• When Song Qiuya said she should return home, Chen Lin told her this was her home and carried her upstairs, bringing Li Xiaoyue into the bathroom with them.

Zhang Ruoxi came to say goodbye to Chen Lin before returning home, and they shared their first kiss. Before she left, Chen Lin gave her a handwritten copy of the first half of the Taiyin Breathing Technique, and she promised to practice it.

• Zhang Ruoxi arrived at Chen Lin’s courtyard with a suitcase and told him she was returning home because her mother had recovered.
• Chen Lin embraced Zhang Ruoxi and kissed her, and she admitted she would miss him.
• Chen Lin promised to visit when Zhang Ruoxi missed him, and they sealed the promise with their little fingers.
• Chen Lin copied the first half of the Taiyin Breathing Technique and gave the manual to Zhang Ruoxi.
• Zhang Ruoxi tucked the manual into her suitcase and vowed to practice hard.

After seeing Zhang Ruoxi and Yang Yuting off at the station, Chen Lin received a call from Qin Churan, who said her grandfather Ye Zhentian wanted to thank him and had something to pass along. Chen Lin went to meet her at the Criminal Police Brigade, where Qin Churan got into his car, leaving him poised to hear what Ye Zhentian had sent.

• Chen Lin drove Zhang Ruoxi and Yang Yuting to the station, where Zhang Ruoxi told him she would miss him before leaving.
• Qin Churan called Chen Lin and said her parents and her grandfather, Ye Zhentian, wanted to thank him in person.
• Chen Lin declined to meet Ye Zhentian, but agreed to come after Qin Churan said her grandfather had given her something for him.
• Chen Lin drove to the Criminal Police Brigade, where Qin Churan got into his Bentley.
• A trainee police officer saw Qin Churan enter Chen Lin's car, and a veteran detective warned him not to gossip about them.

Chen Lin discovered that the antique jade pendant Ye Zhentian had sent Qin Churan was a magic treasure with traces of spiritual power, suggesting another cultivator or a source of spiritual energy might exist on Blue Star. He arranged to meet Ye Zhentian the next day, then inspected the construction of his new residence and decided it was time to move.

• Qin Churan gave Chen Lin a wooden box from Ye Zhentian, and Chen Lin sensed a dormant formation and spiritual power inside its jade pendant.
• Chen Lin reasoned that the pendant must have been charged or kept somewhere with spiritual energy within the past hundred years, raising the possibility that he was not Blue Star's only cultivator.
• Chen Lin asked Qin Churan to bring Ye Zhentian to Chen Family Village the next morning so he could question him about the pendant.
• Chen Lin visited the Song-Style Courtyard House construction site, approved its water-feature design, and toured the developing residence with Chen Shuting.
• Thinking about how cramped his current Farmhouse Courtyard was for Li Xiaoyue, Chen Muyao, and Li Jiaojiao, Chen Lin decided it was time to move.

Chen Lin tested the Peace-and-Safety Disc Pendant and felt pressure to grow stronger as powerful forces gathered in Chen Family Village. In Yicheng, Ye Pianran urged Qin Churan to admit her feelings for Chen Lin, leaving Qin Churan to wonder whether she could accept anyone else.

• Chen Lin used twelve low-grade spirit stones to activate the Peace-and-Safety Disc Pendant and discovered it was a Core Formation defensive magic treasure.
• Chen Lin worried about the Six Great Daoist Ancestral Courts and Ye Zhentian's unknown magic treasure, then resumed cultivating to break through the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Ye Pianran noticed Qin Churan's changed appearance and demeanor and connected the changes to Chen Lin.
• Qin Churan admitted Chen Lin was great, then protested that he already had Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue and that Qin Chuxia liked him too.
• Ye Pianran asked whether Qin Churan could accept another man after meeting Chen Lin, and Qin Churan pictured Chen Lin as the other men's faces blurred away.