Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin broke through to late Foundation Establishment after mocking Yun Sheng’s lack of resources, while Wang Jin and Wang Lang arrived at Chen Family Village seeking its abundant spiritual energy. The chapter ended with Gu Changfeng confronting the two Core Formation cultivators at the village entrance.

• Yun Sheng and Changqingzi were stunned by the rapid cultivation advances of Chen Lin, his women, and the spirit cats, and Yun Sheng demanded an explanation from Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin told Yun Sheng that people thought cultivation was impossible because they were poor, then ordered her to guard the courtyard while he entered seclusion.
• Chen Lin broke through to late Foundation Establishment inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting, extending his divine sense five thousand meters.
• Wang Jin and Wang Lang arrived outside Chen Family Village, sensed its unusually dense spiritual energy, and claimed the area for Langya Blessed Land.
• Gu Changfeng stepped out to block Wang Jin and Wang Lang, recognizing that both were Core Formation cultivators.

Wang Jin and Wang Lang trespassed into Chen Family Village, where Wang Jin injured Gu Changfeng and threatened Yun Sheng before Chen Lin arrived. After Chen Lin ordered the tourists evacuated, Wang Jin launched a killing attack at him.

• Wang Jin struck Gu Changfeng into a stone monument and continued toward Chen Family Village with Wang Lang.
• Yun Sheng and Changqingzi confronted the intruders, and Wang Jin revealed that his grandfather was Wang Tianhe, the late Nascent Soul King of Langya.
• Wang Jin demanded Chen Family Village and ordered Yun Sheng to become his dual cultivation partner, so Yun Sheng attacked him with her sword.
• Wang Lang blocked Yun Sheng's strike, but Chen Lin appeared and stopped Wang Jin from threatening to cripple her cultivation.
• Chen Lin ordered Zhang Long to evacuate the tourists and establish a five-hundred-meter perimeter, and Wang Jin attacked Chen Lin with a Spiritual Power Spear.

Chen Lin overwhelmed Wang Jin with his physical strength, while Changqingzi revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation to stop Wang Lang. Chen Lin then struck Wang Jin’s dantian as Wang Lang’s threats and pleas failed to stop him.

• Chen Lin punched through Wang Jin’s crimson spear and protective aura, sending the early Core Formation cultivator flying and leaving Yun Sheng and Gu Changfeng stunned.
• Chen Lin attacked Wang Jin at close range, breaking through his fire shields and preventing him from retaliating.
• Wang Lang attacked Chen Lin from behind, but Changqingzi appeared, dispersed his hammer, and gravely wounded him with one palm strike.
• Wang Lang invoked the King of Langya’s power and offered to leave, but Changqingzi refused to let him return for reinforcements.
• Chen Lin continued beating Wang Jin, crushed his prized magic treasure, and pinned him beneath his foot.
• After Wang Jin threatened Chen Lin’s family and allies, Chen Lin punched through his flesh and drove azure true essence into his dantian.

Chen Lin crippled Wang Jin and stopped Wang Lang from sending a distress signal before searching Wang Jin’s memories and uncovering the Langya Blessed Land’s location and its leaders’ horrific crimes. He ordered the two men imprisoned and contacted General Zhao to arrange a secret meeting with Huaxia’s top leadership.

• Chen Lin shattered Wang Jin’s golden core, while Changqingzi sealed Wang Lang’s meridians and took his communication jade slip.
• Chen Lin destroyed the jade slip and used the Soul-Searching Art on Wang Jin to find the Langya Blessed Land’s location.
• Chen Lin discovered that the King of Langya prolonged his life by killing girls and had collaborated with the Japanese army to obtain victims.
• Chen Lin learned that Wang Lang and Wang Jin had secretly abducted girls through controlled orphanages, schools, and human trafficking networks.
• Chen Lin ordered Changqingzi to cripple and imprison Wang Lang and Wang Jin, keeping them alive to witness the Langya Blessed Land’s destruction.
• Chen Lin called General Zhao and demanded a highly secret video conference with Huaxia’s top leadership and the Grand Elder within ten minutes.

Chen Lin told national leaders that the King of Langya had murdered girls for centuries, and the leaders ordered a nuclear strike on Langya Blessed Land. Chen Lin flew with Yun Sheng and Changqingzi toward the East China Sea to watch the attack and finish the King if he survived.

• Chen Lin revealed the King of Langya’s crimes, including the disappearance of 1,247 girls in recent decades.
• The elderly leader declared that the King of Langya had to die, and Chen Lin admitted he could not defeat him in a direct fight.
• Chen Lin proposed striking Langya Blessed Land with nuclear missiles, and the elderly leader ordered ten ten-megaton Truth warheads launched without warning.
• Chen Lin ended the call, summoned Yun Sheng and Changqingzi, and flew toward the East China Sea to watch the strike.

Chen Lin halted his flying boat a hundred kilometers from Langya Blessed Land and chose to attack with overwhelming force rather than break its formation. As ten nuclear warheads plunged toward the blessed land, Wang Tianhe sensed the danger and fled with Wang Chan.

• Huaxia announced a routine intercontinental missile test, and the Dongfeng Express launched from a concealed Rocket Force base in the northwest.
• Chen Lin told Changqingzi and Yun Sheng that he would use brute force against Langya Blessed Land from a hundred kilometers away.
• Wang Tianhe drained the heart essence blood of forty-nine girls in an attempt to suppress his heavenly five decays and extend his life.
• Wang Chan sensed danger, searched the surrounding sea with his divine sense, and dismissed the warning when he found no approaching threat.
• Ten nuclear warheads entered terminal guidance and fell toward Langya Blessed Land at Mach 30.
• Wang Tianhe interrupted his cultivation, suffered severe internal damage, and fled with the bewildered Wang Chan using the Blood Escape Technique.

Chen Lin’s nuclear strike destroyed the Langya Blessed Land and left Wang Tianhe and Wang Chan gravely wounded. Chen Lin then sent Changqingzi to fight Wang Tianhe while he and Yun Sheng attacked Wang Chan, and Changqingzi focused on surviving Wang Tianhe’s assault.

• Ten nuclear warheads shattered the Primordial Illusion Array and vaporized the Langya Blessed Land and its inhabitants.
• Chen Lin, Yun Sheng, and Changqingzi survived the blast aboard the silver flying boat, while Wang Tianhe and Wang Chan escaped badly injured.
• Chen Lin found Wang Tianhe and Wang Chan on his radar and led the others to confront them.
• Wang Tianhe attacked the flying boat, and Changqingzi blocked his blood-red blade with a shield of vines.
• Chen Lin and Yun Sheng went after Wang Chan as Changqingzi trapped himself inside a Wooden Prison to withstand Wang Tianhe’s Blood Skeletons.

Changqingzi held Wang Tianhe back while Chen Lin, Yun Sheng, and Lao Qing defeated Wang Chan. Chen Lin killed Wang Chan with the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman, and Changqingzi laughed as Wang Tianhe’s rescue failed.

• Changqingzi reminded Wang Tianhe of their encounter in the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm and taunted him while keeping him trapped in a wooden cage.
• Chen Lin summoned Lao Qing, who restrained Wang Chan and gave Yun Sheng an opening to pierce Wang Chan’s blood protective aura with the Cloudborne Sword.
• Chen Lin unleashed the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Talisman as Wang Tianhe broke free and rushed to save Wang Chan.
• Changqingzi bound Wang Tianhe with an Azure Giant Net, delaying him long enough for the forty-nine bolts of divine thunder to destroy Wang Chan and his Nascent Soul.
• Changqingzi fell toward the sea, then laughed at Wang Tianhe after his revenge was complete.

Wang Tianhe burned his origin essence to unleash a deadly late nascent soul attack, but Chen Lin escaped with Changqingzi and Yun Sheng into a spatial treasure. Inside, they found Chen Lin’s companions cultivating in a realm of astonishing spiritual energy, and Yun Sheng realized she could form her nascent soul there.

• Wang Tianhe burned his origin essence, regained his strength, and raised his cultivation to late nascent soul before attacking Chen Lin, Changqingzi, and Yun Sheng.
• Chen Lin used an ancient scroll to send Changqingzi and Yun Sheng away, then escaped through a Black Portal as Wang Tianhe’s strike hit the sea.
• Wang Tianhe found no trace of the three and rampaged across the sea in frustration.
• Changqingzi and Yun Sheng arrived in an isolated space filled with exceptionally dense spiritual energy and recognized it as a spatial spirit treasure capable of holding living people.
• Yun Sheng saw Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, Qin Churan, and Chen Qianqian cultivating alongside two spirit cats, then concluded that a month of cultivation there could let her form her nascent soul.

Chen Lin returned after Wang Tianhe died from exhausting his origin essence, but Wang Tianhe's corpse was swallowed by a mysterious Giant Turtle beneath the East China Sea. Chen Lin returned to Chen Family Village and entered the Mountains and Rivers Painting to cultivate, while Yun Sheng resolved to earn merit before asking to train inside it.

• Chen Lin returned to Yun Sheng and Changqingzi, then told them Wang Tianhe should be dead by the time they went outside.
• Wang Tianhe's origin essence ran out, and he died over the East China Sea before his corpse sank into the water.
• A Giant Turtle swallowed Wang Tianhe's corpse and disappeared into the deep sea.
• Chen Lin, Yun Sheng, and Changqingzi found that Wang Tianhe's corpse was missing, so Chen Lin returned with them to Chen Family Village.
• Changqingzi left to eliminate Langya Blessed Land's remnants and businesses, while Yun Sheng decided to earn merit before requesting access to the Mountains and Rivers Painting.
• Chen Lin entered the Mountains and Rivers Painting to cultivate.

After defeating the attackers, Chen Lin returned to the Mountains and Rivers Painting and resumed cultivation with the six women. Meanwhile, a video of the East China Sea battle spread worldwide, exposing the existence of cultivators and leaving the public speculating about their power.

• Chen Lin reunited with the six women in the Mountains and Rivers Painting and told them he had dealt with the attackers.
• Chen Lin began cultivating with the women again, circulating spiritual energy through their connected meridians.
• A video of the East China Sea battle appeared on the Dark Web and showed the legless man being destroyed by divine thunder, followed by an old man's enormous blood-colored hand sweeping away the sea.
• The Pentagon confirmed that the video was real but could not trace its uploader or stop its spread.
• The video went viral across American and Chinese platforms, and viewers connected the battle to recent events including Mount Fuji's eruption and lightning striking the War Shrine.

As online attention focused on Chen Family Village, Chen Lin decided to relocate its resort so the village could become a cultivation base. He revealed his identity as an immortal cultivator to Su Mei and left her in charge of the move.

• At Rice Technology headquarters, Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk recognized Chen Lin's bodyguard in the video and realized Chen Lin had summoned lightning to destroy the aircraft carrier.
• As online discussion connected the immortal to Chen Family Village, Chen Lin rejected Changqingzi's suggestion to silence people and decided the resort had to move.
• Chen Lin told An Changlin to relocate the resort beside the reservoir near Chen Family Benevolence Hospital, and An Changlin promised to fast-track the plan.
• Su Mei brought Chen Lin the resort's financial reports and objected when he announced the relocation, citing its enormous revenue and popularity.
• Chen Lin levitated the reports and poured tea through the air, then told Su Mei he was an immortal cultivator and assigned her responsibility for relocating the resort.

After Chen Lin ordered Chen Family Village Resort closed and relocated, the announcement sparked a frenzy as people guessed he was clearing the area for immortal cultivators. Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk visited Chen Lin, who confirmed the village would be sealed but granted them and their families limited access in return for their past support.

• Su Mei drafted a closure announcement, and the resort posted that it would close in three days and relocate.
• Netizens speculated that the closure was meant to clear Chen Family Village for immortal cultivators, prompting a rush to visit before it closed.
• Lei sped toward Chen Family Village, while Jiaolong Guard members blocked reporters and fans from entering.
• Lei, Yu the Big Mouth, and Elon Musk met Chen Lin and learned that the village would be sealed to outsiders.
• Chen Lin granted the three men and their families permission to enter, allowing each man to bring up to three relatives per visit if they kept the secret.

As crowds overwhelmed the outskirts of Chen Family Village, Chen Lin shut himself away to cultivate with six women inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting. He later entered the refreshed Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and found a dead Core Formation cultivator’s Storage Bag, whose contents included ores, ancient books, and jade bottles.

• More than a hundred thousand people gathered outside Chen Family Village, where An Changlin and the military enforced a five-kilometer perimeter as the crowds prayed for access to the village’s spiritual energy.
• Chen Lin brought Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, Qin Churan, and Chen Qianqian into the Mountains and Rivers Painting to cultivate.
• After three days, Chen Lin returned alone to the Song-Style Courtyard House and activated the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station at midnight.
• A massive wave of wreckage poured into the Transfer Station, and Chen Lin searched it for valuable items.
• Chen Lin discovered a Core Formation cultivator’s jade-hued skeleton and removed the black Storage Bag hanging at its waist.
• Chen Lin erased the Storage Bag’s divine sense imprint and emptied it, finding glowing ores, ancient books, and white jade bottles; the fragrance from one bottle stirred his true essence.

Chen Lin obtained the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation and began refining its Formation Flags to conceal and protect Chen Family Village. Because the work required more magical power than he possessed, he enlisted Changqingzi to provide core fire and power, and the refinement continued inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting.

• Chen Lin found Dust-Settling Pills, cultivation pills, formation manuals, and rare Formation Flag materials among the recovered items.
• Chen Lin chose the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation, which could conceal an area, displace intruders, and withstand attacks from cultivators below late nascent soul.
• Chen Lin asked Changqingzi to supply magical power for refining the Formation Flags, and the two entered the Mountains and Rivers Painting.
• Chen Lin told Song Qiuya and the other women to continue cultivating, then directed Changqingzi to melt the star-pattern steel with his core fire.
• After three hours, Chen Lin formed thirty-six unfinished Formation Flags and ordered Changqingzi to continue with the illusory-heart sand.

Chen Lin completed and activated a formation that sealed Chen Family Village from the outside world, then gathered the villagers to explain his decision. The chapter ended with Changqingzi demonstrating his cultivation by floating above the crowd.

• Chen Lin and Changqingzi finished engraving the thirty-six Formation Flags, and Chen Lin deployed them around Chen Family Village.
• The formation concealed the village in thick mist, erased its buildings from the view of the crowd outside, and cut off phone and power connections.
• Chen Lin entered the Village Committee courtyard as villagers demanded to know what had happened, then ordered a meeting at the Ancestral Hall square.
• Chen Lin told the gathered villagers that he had closed the Resort and sealed the village, while Changqingzi restored power to the loudspeaker with lightning-aspect true essence.
• Chen Lin told Changqingzi to demonstrate his abilities, and Changqingzi rose into the air as the stunned villagers watched.

Chen Lin demonstrated his and Changqingzi’s powers, then ended Chen Family Village’s tourism business and began turning it into an immortal-cultivating clan. After binding the villagers to the village’s protective formation, he received a call on his encrypted private line.

• Changqingzi drenched a skeptical young man with summoned rain, and Chen Lin displayed his flying sword to awe the crowd.
• Chen Lin announced that Chen Family Village would cultivate immortality and gave Chen Guoguang three Core Formation cultivation methods to distribute among clan members.
• Chen Lin forbade villagers from sharing the methods with outsiders or harming fellow clan members, threatening harsh punishment for violations.
• Chen Lin registered the villagers’ bloodline auras with the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation so they could enter and leave while outsiders remained barred.
• Chen Lin returned to the Song-Style Courtyard House, considered the growing incense and prayer power around the Imperial Seal, and answered a call on his encrypted private line.

Chen Lin agreed to advise the newly formed Primordial Mist Special Operations Brigade while requiring its recruits to train at a base near Chen Family Village. He then offered cultivation techniques to the thirty Jiaolong Guard members, who swore lifelong loyalty to him and received the techniques.

• General Zhao told Chen Lin that Primordial Mist would become a one-hundred-person special operations brigade and asked him to serve as chief guest adviser.
• Chen Lin accepted, provided cultivation techniques, and directed the recruits to train at a new base near Chen Family Village under someone he would send.
• Chen Lin summoned Zhang Long and the other twenty-nine Jiaolong Guard members and asked whether they wanted to learn cultivation.
• Chen Lin set rules for receiving the techniques, and the thirty guards swore blood oaths of lifelong loyalty to him.
• Chen Lin sent each guard a Jade Slip containing the Purple Thunder Heavenly Scripture and Wind-Riding Art.

Chen Lin reorganized Chen Family Village’s training and security, appointing Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue to train its new cultivators and Yun Sheng to protect and teach the women cultivating in the Mountains and Rivers Painting. He left Yun Sheng stunned with joy after assigning her the role.

• Chen Lin ordered the thirty Jiaolong Guards to practice the Taiyin Breathing Technique and attempt qi induction overnight, while Changqingzi watched over them.
• Chen Lin summoned Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue and appointed them to supervise and train the villagers, Jiaolong Guards, and incoming Primordial Mist Special Forces.
• Chen Lin gave Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue Storage Bags containing three hundred low-grade spirit stones each per month and told them to prepare lessons for the next morning.
• Chen Lin appointed Yun Sheng to protect Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and the other women in the Mountains and Rivers Painting and teach them her killing techniques.

Chen Lin arranged for Yun Sheng to cultivate in the Mountains and Rivers Painting while Changqingzi guarded Chen Family Village, promising him a turn inside once Yun Sheng reached Nascent Soul. He then told his mortal relatives that he had called them over to teach them to cultivate immortality.

• Yun Sheng eagerly accepted Chen Lin's offer to cultivate in the Mountains and Rivers Painting, and he ordered her to teach Song Qiuya and the others properly.
• Chen Lin explained that Changqingzi had to guard Chen Family Village against hidden enemies, but promised he could enter the painting after Yun Sheng reached Nascent Soul.
• Changqingzi wept with gratitude and vowed to keep every intruder out of Chen Family Village as he returned to his chores.
• Chen Lin served tea to Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, Chen Muyao, and Li Jiaojiao, reassuring them that he was still family and introducing Changqingzi as his security guard.
• Chen Lin told his relatives that he had called them to teach them to cultivate immortality, leaving them stunned.