Chapter Summaries

Zhang Ruoxi told Chen Qianqian to call her sister-in-law, while Chen Lin received He Daoran after his breakthrough and gave him a Golden Marrow Pill. Chen Lin then left with Academician Zhong to open the Chen Family Benevolence Hospital, leaving Chen Qianqian wondering who her brother really was.

• Chen Lin brought Zhang Ruoxi to the Chen family home, where she kissed his cheek good night and stayed in the guest room.
• Chen Qianqian arrived the next morning and found Zhang Ruoxi in Chen Lin’s T-shirt; Zhang Ruoxi told her to call her sister-in-law.
• He Daoran arrived with Zhang Jinling, knelt before Chen Lin, and announced that he had finally broken through to the immortal path.
• Chen Lin lifted He Daoran to his feet and gave him a Golden Marrow Pill to stabilize his foundation and replenish his vitality.
• Gao Yuliang called Chen Lin about the hospital opening, and Chen Lin left with Academician Zhong in a Hongqi sedan.
• Chen Qianqian watched the car leave and asked Zhang Ruoxi who Chen Lin really was.

Chen Lin attended the opening of Chen Family Benevolence Hospital, where patients began recovering after being treated with spiritual-energy water. After hearing about Japan's plan to rebuild the Yasukuni Shrine, he warned that he would send Lao Qing to Tokyo if provoked, then returned home and told Li Xiaoyue to resign from her job.

• Gao Yuliang, Ji Changmin, and other provincial leaders welcomed Chen Lin to Chen Family Benevolence Hospital, where Academician Zhong became its first director.
• Hundreds of patients moved into the hospital and began showing visible improvement after drinking water infused with spiritual energy.
• Ye Wenjun reported that Takaichi Zaomiao had taken office and announced plans to rebuild the Yasukuni Shrine, prompting Chen Lin to warn that he might send Lao Qing to Tokyo if Japan provoked him.
• Chen Lin returned to the farmhouse courtyard and found Li Xiaoyue and Zhang Ruoxi getting along well.
• Chen Lin told Li Xiaoyue to resign as the resort's finance manager.

Chen Lin told Li Xiaoyue and Zhang Ruoxi to leave worldly work behind and focus on cultivation, then taught Ruoxi Qi Refining and gave her a Storage Bag. He left the women cultivating in the courtyard and instructed Su Mei to find a reliable replacement for Li Xiaoyue, while planning for Song Qiuya to step down later as well.

• Chen Lin explained to Li Xiaoyue and Zhang Ruoxi that cultivation mattered more than their worldly positions, and Li Xiaoyue agreed to hand her duties over to Su Mei.
• Chen Lin formally taught Zhang Ruoxi Qi Refining and guided her through the first level of the Azure Origin Sword Art while checking Li Xiaoyue's cultivation.
• After three hours, Zhang Ruoxi successfully drew qi into her body, received a Storage Bag from Chen Lin, and excitedly tested its powers around the courtyard.
• Chen Lin called Su Mei to arrange Li Xiaoyue's replacement as finance supervisor and instructed her to hire a reliable candidate at twice the market salary.

Chen Lin agreed to let Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia leave their jobs at the Autumn Forest Group, then entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station when the new week began. After sorting the latest garbage drop, he found a transparent Crystal Hard Drive in an armored metal case.

• Chen Lin told Song Qiuya to step down as president of the Autumn Forest Group, and she agreed.
• Qin Chuxia insisted on quitting too and asked to move to Chen Family Village, so Chen Lin promised her a room in the nearly finished Song-Style Courtyard House.
• Song Qiuya sent Qin Chuxia back to her apartment, then spent the night with Chen Lin.
• After making sure Song Qiuya was asleep, Chen Lin opened the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and entered it as the new week began.
• Chen Lin found little of value in the cultivation-world garbage, then retrieved a scorched metal case from the technological-plane debris.
• Chen Lin sliced open the case and discovered a palm-sized transparent Crystal Hard Drive inside.

Chen Lin gave Ye Wenjun complete blueprints for a second-generation miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion reactor and urged Huaxia to use them to challenge the existing energy order. Ye Wenjun left for the Capital, promising to strengthen security at Chen Family Village.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Crystal Hard Drive contained complete blueprints for a second-generation miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion reactor.
• Chen Lin transferred the files to a USB Drive and summoned Ye Wenjun to Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin handed Ye Wenjun the blueprints and told him to deliver them to the state and prepare to challenge the energy empire.
• Ye Wenjun thanked Chen Lin, said he would go to the Capital immediately, and vowed to deploy elite troops to secure Chen Family Village.

Chen Lin inspected the completed Song-Style Courtyard House, where the women chose their courtyards and Song Qiuya asserted her authority over the master suite. He recognized that the five courtyards matched the five elements and planned to establish a spirit-gathering formation there to accelerate the women's cultivation.

• Huaxia announced that it had mastered second-generation miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion, drawing foreign skepticism and widespread national excitement.
• Chen Shuting told Chen Lin that the Song-Style Courtyard House was complete, and he arrived with Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, and Qin Chuxia to inspect it.
• Li Xiaoyue chose the east courtyard, Zhang Ruoxi chose the west courtyard, and Song Qiuya claimed the master suite and ordered enhanced soundproofing for its nearby bedroom.
• Qin Chuxia tried to secure a place in the master bedroom, but Chen Lin assigned her the north courtyard with a gym and yoga studio.
• Chen Lin realized the courtyards followed the five-element directions and planned to spend five hundred low-grade spirit stones on a Five-Element Small Spirit-Gathering Formation.

Chen Lin guided Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, and Qin Chuxia through their first cultivation lesson, helping Qin Chuxia achieve qi induction. He then completed a Five-Element Small Spirit-Gathering Formation around the Song-Style Courtyard House, leaving the women amazed as spiritual energy filled their new home.

• Chen Lin began formally teaching the four women the Azure Origin Sword Art and guided their spiritual energy through their meridians.
• Qin Chuxia struggled to concentrate until Chen Lin helped her redirect her energy, and she achieved qi induction.
• Qin Chuxia tried to make a fallen leaf rise, but it barely trembled, making the others laugh.
• Chen Lin forged five formation flags from cold iron and spirit stones, then buried them at the formation's five-element positions around the courtyard house.
• Chen Lin activated the Five-Element Small Spirit-Gathering Formation, causing spiritual energy to surge and visible mist to fill the house.

Chen Lin welcomed Chen Guofu’s family to his courtyard house, then guided the four women in cultivation with the Five-Element Small Spirit-Gathering Formation. Li Xiaoyue reached the first level of Qi Refining, and Qin Chuxia later came to Chen Lin’s room, revealing the women had arranged their turn with him before he pinned her beneath him.

• Chen Lin invited Chen Guofu’s family to dinner and told them they were welcome to stay at his courtyard house.
• Chen Lin led the four women in cultivating the Azure Origin Sword Art with the formation’s spiritual energy.
• Li Xiaoyue broke through to the first level of Qi Refining, and Chen Lin gave her ten low-grade spirit stones.
• Song Qiuya led the women away, leaving Qin Chuxia to visit Chen Lin in his bedroom later that night.
• Qin Chuxia told Chen Lin the women had arranged their turns with him, then Chen Lin pinned her beneath him.

Chen Lin spent the night with Qin Chuxia, then learned that America had sent a carrier battle group toward the East China Sea. He prepared to go out and confront the threat, revealing a flying boat that astonished the women in the courtyard.

• Qin Chuxia and Chen Lin spent the night together, and a surge of spiritual energy gathered above the Main Courtyard.
• The next morning, Song Qiuya welcomed Qin Chuxia into the group and teased Chen Lin about the women seeking entry to their courtyard.
• Song Qiuya told Chen Lin that America had announced a carrier battle group would patrol in response to exercises in the East China Sea.
• Chen Lin told the women to focus on cultivation and said he was going out to make his opponents suffer.
• Chen Lin enlarged a palm-sized silver boat into a seven- or eight-meter flying boat, and Qin Chuxia asked to ride with him.

Chen Lin sent Lao Qing to confront the Japanese destroyers intruding on Huaxia’s East China Sea exercise zone. Lao Qing hovered above the Maya and struck its hull with the Cloudborne Sword, leaving the result of his attack unrevealed.

• Chen Lin departed aboard the Flying Boat after telling the four women he would take them for a picnic in the clouds.
• The Maya and Haguro entered Huaxia’s restricted exercise zone while the American carrier Volt supported their provocation.
• Commodore McSasser dismissed Huaxia’s protests and expected the Japanese destroyers to test its response.
• Chen Lin gave Lao Qing the Cloudborne Sword and sent him toward the Maya.
• Lao Qing hovered above the Maya, ignored its gunfire, and swung the sword at the ship.
• A faint tearing sound followed Lao Qing’s strike, and the scene fell silent.

Lao Qing split the Japanese destroyers Maya and Haguro with his sword, while Chen Lin destroyed the Volt carrier battle group with divine thunder. The Huaxia fleet witnessed the devastation, and its commander ordered a connection to Line One.

• Lao Qing cut the Maya in half, and Xiao Lin Jiro drowned as the destroyer sank.
• Lao Qing ran across the sea through the Haguro's barrage and split the second Japanese warship apart.
• Huaxia East Sea Fleet officers watched drone footage of the destruction and recognized the mysterious figure from a classified video.
• Rear Admiral McSasser lost contact with the Japanese ships, then watched as black clouds and lightning disabled the Volt battle group's electronics.
• Chen Lin summoned forty-nine bolts of purple-gold divine thunder that destroyed the carrier battle group and its officers.
• Chen Lin left aboard the Flying Boat, while the Huaxia fleet commander ordered a connection to Line One.

After Chen Lin destroyed the American carrier strike group and Japan’s destroyers, Huaxia, America, and Japan each moved to contain the crisis. Chen Lin returned to Chen Family Village, where Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, and Qin Chuxia awaited him.

• General Zhao reported that the American carrier strike group had vanished in a burst of heat and electromagnetic energy, and Huaxia’s elder ordered officials to blame a test of climate control technology.
• Trump learned that Chen Lin was likely responsible, canceled exercises against Huaxia, and ordered the remaining Seventh Fleet vessels to withdraw to Guam.
• After America refused Japan’s request for help, Takaichi Zaomiao ordered Japan to suspend operations in disputed waters and publicly apologize to Huaxia.
• People around the world reacted to footage of the purple flash and speculated about the force behind the attack.
• Chen Lin returned to Chen Family Village with Lao Qing and told Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, and Qin Chuxia that he had swatted away a few flies.

After destroying an American aircraft carrier, Chen Lin ordered the women in his household to cultivate in seclusion while he advanced to the twelfth Qi Refining layer. Six days later, Chen Qianqian discovered Zhang Ruoxi’s newfound strength and realized she had been cultivating behind her back.

• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun that he would enter seclusion and ordered the women to cultivate until they reached the first Qi Refining layer.
• Song Qiuya reached the first Qi Refining layer on the second night, and Zhang Ruoxi and Qin Chuxia followed on the fourth morning.
• Chen Lin consumed two hundred spirit stones and reached the twelfth Qi Refining layer.
• Chen Qianqian visited the courtyard and saw Zhang Ruoxi lift a heavy White Jade Stone Lion with one hand.
• Chen Qianqian confronted Zhang Ruoxi and accused her of cultivating behind her back.

Chen Qianqian persuaded Chen Lin to give her cultivation techniques, then Chen Lin sensed an unusual old man absorbing spiritual energy at the entrance to Chen Family Village. The man, Changqingzi, revealed he was twelve hundred years old and had reached early Nascent Soul before Blue Star’s spirit veins were severed.

• Chen Qianqian begged Chen Lin to let her cultivate, and he gave her introductory sections of the Taiyin Breathing Technique and Azure Origin Sword Art.
• Chen Lin sensed an old man drawing spiritual energy from the village formation and went to confront him with Lao Qing.
• Changqingzi recognized Chen Lin’s cultivation and Lao Qing as an early Core Formation puppet, while Chen Lin demanded to know his name.
• Changqingzi said he had lived for about twelve hundred years and had reached early Nascent Soul more than eight hundred years earlier.
• Changqingzi began describing how a sudden upheaval had changed the world after a time when spiritual energy was abundant.

Changqingzi told Chen Lin how spiritual energy had vanished from the world and begged to live near Chen Lin’s Spirit-Gathering Formation. Chen Lin bound Changqingzi with a life-and-death pact and took him in as a gatekeeper, while considering what he could learn from the ancient cultivator.

• Changqingzi explained that spiritual energy had drained away in thirty years, leaving cultivators to lose their power and lifespans, and that he had survived for eight hundred years in seclusion using the Evergreen Art.
• Changqingzi revealed that he had followed the aura of Chen Lin’s Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman and begged Chen Lin to let him stay in the Spirit-Gathering Formation’s spiritual energy.
• To address Chen Lin’s concern that he might become dangerous if he regained his strength, Changqingzi offered a Life-Bound Divine Soul Blood Pact.
• Chen Lin used the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station to appraise the pact, then refined it and gained control over Changqingzi’s life and death.
• Chen Lin asked whether Changqingzi could teach the Evergreen Art to ordinary people, then took him into Chen Family Village to serve as a gatekeeper and tend the plants.

Chen Lin gave Changqingzi three thousand spirit stones to restore his Nascent Soul cultivation and prepared the household for the return of other cultivators. He left the women to cultivate and went with Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia to the master bedroom.

• Changqingzi told Chen Lin that Blue Star's strongest cultivators had once reached late Nascent Soul, and surviving old masters might still be hidden.
• Chen Lin planned to build defensive, trapping, and killing formations across the hills surrounding his home.
• Chen Lin gave Changqingzi three thousand low-grade spirit stones and ordered him to recover his cultivation within ten days.
• Chen Lin told the women that spiritual energy was resurging, assigned them cultivation priorities, and learned Chen Qianqian could sense spiritual energy.
• Chen Lin took Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia to the master bedroom, while Zhang Ruoxi and Li Xiaoyue went to cultivate.

Chen Lin found a Storage Bag in the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and discovered spirit stones, an Earthshaker Talisman, and the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art inside. After learning that the technique could help both partners cultivate, he sat thinking about his discovery.

• Chen Lin left his bedroom and entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station to sort the incoming garbage.
• Chen Lin found a legless corpse of a cultivator at least at Core Formation and broke the divine sense seal on its Storage Bag.
• Chen Lin emptied the Storage Bag and counted over twenty-one thousand low-grade spirit stones, bringing his total to more than fifty thousand.
• Chen Lin identified an Earthshaker Talisman capable of causing a devastating earthquake and placed it in his Advanced Storage Ring.
• Chen Lin read the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art and learned that it was an orthodox dual cultivation technique that could strengthen both partners.

Chen Lin decided to replace the Azure Origin Sword Art with the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art because its sword formation required hundreds of flying swords that would be impossible to obtain on Earth. When the women rejected the new art as an excuse for group intimacy, he began explaining the dangers posed by ancient cultivators and the impracticality of their current technique.

• Chen Lin realized that the Azure Origin Sword Art required seventy-two flying swords per practitioner and resolved to teach the women the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art instead.
• Chen Lin returned from the transfer station to the bedroom, then met with Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi the next morning.
• Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi saw the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art's illustrations and accused Chen Lin of using cultivation as a pretext for group intimacy.
• Chen Lin warned the women that other ancient cultivators like Changqingzi might emerge as spiritual energy revived, then explained that their Azure Origin Sword Art required hundreds of supreme-grade flying swords.

Chen Lin persuaded Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi to learn the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art, and they quickly mastered its introductory principles. That night, he entered Song Qiuya’s Master Bedroom to begin the first practical lesson despite the women’s objections.

• Chen Lin argued that the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art would help the four women cultivate faster and protect themselves, and they reluctantly agreed to learn it.
• Chen Lin taught the women the technique, and all four soon learned to circulate energy through their meridians.
• Chen Lin proposed pairing Song Qiuya with Qin Chuxia while Li Xiaoyue and Zhang Ruoxi observed, but Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia rejected his plan and the women left the pavilion.
• That night, Chen Lin sensed the four women gathered in Song Qiuya’s Master Bedroom and entered the unlocked room.
• Chen Lin locked the door, announced that the first practical lesson was beginning, and pounced onto the bed as the women cried out.

Chen Lin used the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art with Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi, drawing on a powerful surge of spiritual energy. By dawn, all four women had reached the second qi refining layer, while Chen Lin’s true essence had condensed and his combat power had increased; he expected further practice to bring him to the thirteenth layer.

• Chen Lin guided Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi through the cultivation art, forming a circuit that refined and circulated their spiritual power.
• The formation drew spiritual energy from the Song-Style Courtyard House and the Three Mountain Peaks, startling Changqingzi in the storage room.
• Changqingzi recognized the power of the art, renewed his reverence for Chen Lin, and returned to secluded cultivation.
• After cultivating through the night, Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi each broke through to the second qi refining layer.
• Chen Lin found his true essence condensed and his combat power increased by at least thirty percent, and he estimated that continued practice could bring him to the thirteenth qi refining layer.