Chapter Summaries

Ye Fei flew around Free and Unrestrained Mountain to inspect its homes and empty territory before encountering a tiger pack that recognized Feng Bai as their Tiger King. The pack asked for Feng Bai’s freedom, and Ye Fei and Feimeng suspected they were seeking permission to stay within the Sphere of Influence.

• Lin Xian cleared away the traces of the formation game while Ye Fei continued exploring from the air.
• Ye Fei surveyed the homes on Free and Unrestrained Mountain, noting the residents’ distinct courtyards and the large areas of empty land.
• Ye Fei landed near a tiger pack hunting wild bison and released Eclipse Moon.
• The lead tiger approached Ye Fei, and Feimeng and Qingxue translated that the pack wanted Feng Bai, whom they recognized as Tiger King, to be free.
• Feimeng learned the pack had appeared after the Sphere of Influence was marked out, and Ye Fei realized the lead tiger would be Tiger King if Feng Bai were not Spirit-level.
• Feimeng suspected the tigers were trying to secure permission to live on the Mountain, perhaps by pretending to be ordinary wild beasts.

Ye Fei decided to let a pack of tigers live in his faction territory and made a Beast King-level tiger their king. The tigers joined Eclipse Moon's snow games, while Feng An left to discuss the Heavenly Imperial Sect's seized resources with Water God.

• Feng An explained that Ye Fei could decide whether the tigers stayed in his territory and designate a tiger king.
• Ye Fei asked the faction members what they thought, and they supported keeping the tigers, with several suggesting ways to raise or play with them.
• Ye Fei patted the Beast King-level tiger and named it king, making the pack docile and adding 1 king, 63 adults, and 12 cubs to the faction's species count.
• Eclipse Moon tackled the tiger king and started burying it and the other tigers in snow, while Feng Bai stayed cuddled in Ye Fei's arms.
• Feng An received a private message and left to discuss the distribution of the Heavenly Imperial Sect's resources with Water God.

Ye Fei found Lin Che badly injured at the edge of his territory and gave him Blood-Replenishing Pills while questioning his terrible luck. Lin Che recovered enough to warn Ye Fei about trusting people and suspected Lin Mu was coming to see him.

• Jun Mo accepted his loss to Lu Heng and decided to chop trees at Phoenix Perch.
• Ye Fei received a notification that someone had entered his territory and went to investigate alone.
• Lin Xian learned from Lin Mu that Lin Che was heading there and followed the others while hiding his identity beneath a cloak.
• Ye Fei found Lin Che bleeding, gave him Blood-Replenishing Pills, and teased him about being injured every time they met.
• Lin Che thanked Ye Fei, warned him that good people could be harmed, and asked whether Lin Mu was coming to see him.

Ye Fei rescued Lin Che, who left after recovering enough to walk, while the others discussed the Lin Family and Lin Xian’s affection for the tigers. Ye Fei recruited five hungry wild cattle into the faction and put Lin Xian in charge of them.

• Ye Fei gave Lin Che more Blood-Replenishing Pills, and Lin Che left after regaining his ability to walk, keeping his connection to Ye Fei secret.
• Lu Heng and Jun Mo emerged after Lin Che departed and discussed the Lin Family’s involvement in his injuries.
• Ye Fei told Lin Xian he could visit and feed the tigers when he was not cultivating, then led the others to explore a nearby area.
• Ye Fei and the others found five hungry wild cattle huddled together, and Jun Mo suggested developing animal husbandry and planting.
• Ye Fei recruited the five cattle into the faction and assigned their care to Lin Xian.

After the faction earned an achievement for certifying ten animal species, Ye Fei left Lin Xian to manage them with the new Livestock Worker Editing Card. Lin Xian and the others hurried to prepare pens before the animals’ protection period ended, while Ye Fei returned home to prepare food and await the Immortal Artifact.

• The faction earned the Species Diversity achievement after Ye Fei and the others inspected tigers, cattle, cows, goats, sheep, pheasants, rabbits, ducks, deer, and pigeons.
• Ye Fei examined the Livestock Worker Editing Card and explained that its virtual workers could work no more than eight hours a day.
• Ye Fei left the animals in Lin Xian’s care and warned him through the Faction Chat Channel that the tigers’ protection period would end in an hour.
• Lin Xian, Lu Heng, and Jun Mo harvested herbs and built partitions to separate the livestock before the protection period expired.
• Lingyan visited Ye Fei and told him not to imitate the Wind God’s bullying.

Ye Fei and Lingyan discussed the Wind God being blamed for the attack on the Heavenly Imperial Sect and learned that the Water Domain had formed an alliance with the surviving sect leaders. The chapter left the sect set to keep recruiting players while serving as a resource-supply base for the Water Domain.

• Ye Fei admitted he had left out that the other animals would still be protected when the tiger's protection period ended, and Lingyan said the Wind God could bear the blame.
• Ye Fei explained that the Heavenly Imperial Sect had fallen from seventh place to below three hundred after the attack, while its players blamed the Wind God and exposed the sect's harsh treatment.
• Lingyan suggested the Wind God had spared the three surviving leaders after receiving enough resources, but Ye Fei said Feng An's message indicated the debt was not yet paid.
• Ye Fei revealed that the Heavenly Imperial Sect and the Water Domain had formed an alliance after the battle.
• Lingyan saw the Water God announce that the Heavenly Imperial Sect could continue developing without restricting players by race or cultivation category, while supplying resources to the Water Domain.

Feng An brought Heavenly God Remnant Souls for Ye Fei to check as materials for Long Heng’s Immortal Artifact Set, and Spirit woke to consume them. Spirit ate a remnant soul while leaving its Divine Power for Feng An, and Feng An watched in alarm as it digested the soul.

• Feng An told Ye Fei that Water God had supplied the Heavenly Imperial Sect with resources, including several Heavenly God Remnant Souls.
• Ye Fei confirmed he could destroy the remnant souls, and Feng An agreed to let Spirit consume them as long as it did not control or assimilate Spirit.
• Ye Fei woke Spirit and instructed it to eat the remnant souls while leaving their Divine Power for Feng An.
• Spirit ate one Heavenly God Remnant Soul over more than two hours, then returned to normal and prepared to eat another.
• Feng An watched Spirit devour the remnant soul and realized why gods instinctively feared it.

Ye Fei returned the last Heavenly God Power to Feng An after Spirit consumed six remnant souls and fell asleep while waiting for the Artifact Refining Furnace. Feng An and Lingyan discussed their plans and Long Heng’s mixed heritage, while Feng An admitted he was deliberately blaming Ye Fei for trouble because he enjoyed watching the boy’s luck shine.

• Ye Fei returned the remaining Heavenly God Power to Feng An, then carried the resting Spirit Sword inside and fell asleep.
• Feng An and Lingyan agreed that the queen and Feng An would each contribute three hundred thousand points to the Faction Core Building, while Lingyan would cover sixty thousand.
• Lingyan told Feng An he had gathered materials to strengthen his new human body and intended to explore the Human Race’s changeable potential.
• Lingyan and Feng An discussed Long Heng’s ties to three races, including how his human connection interfered with awakening True Dragon Qi.
• Feng An suggested Lingyan could use Ye Fei’s help too, and Lingyan challenged his claim that Ye Fei had caused his troubles.
• Feng An admitted he knowingly blamed Ye Fei because he enjoyed seeing the boy’s luck and life shine brighter, and Lingyan acknowledged the Wind God’s schemes.

The Elf Queen confronted Feng An over the cultivation debt he had led players into, while Feng An suspected someone had uncovered it through a scheme targeting Free and Unrestrained Mountain. Feng An left to bring Ye Fei back for the Immortal Artifact Set’s tribulation, and the queen stayed behind with Little Fox.

• The Elf Queen accused Feng An of dragging players into debt, and Feng An argued that they had chosen to learn and use the cultivation method.
• Feng An and the Elf Queen concluded that a player plotting against Free and Unrestrained Mountain had likely exposed the debt through a Karmic scheme.
• Lingyan pointed out that his Combat Power was only 2, so Feng An would have to handle the trouble himself.
• Feng An left to bring Ye Fei back and prepare for the Immortal Artifact Set’s tribulation.
• The Elf Queen picked up Little Fox and asked about her progress toward a Third Tail.

Ye Fei learned that Qingxue had leveled up after the Elf Queen helped her recover from overeating Life Tree leaves. As Feng An brought back a defeated God-level Player’s mecha, Ye Fei began examining the Artifact Refining Furnace to prepare an Immortal Artifact set for Long Heng.

• Ye Fei found Qingxue asleep after leveling up and thanked the Elf Queen, who explained that Qingxue would evolve into her Three-Tailed Complete Form after resting.
• Ye Fei asked about the God-level Players in the Snow Mountain region, and Lingyan estimated that 78 were present, with one about to die.
• Feng An returned with Long Heng and a Gleaming Mecha, explaining that the Thunder God had tricked its owner into challenging him.
• Lingyan inspected the mecha and discarded it, while Feng An gathered materials for refining Long Heng’s Immortal Artifact set.
• Ye Fei carried Long Heng to the Artifact Refining Furnace and used his Spiritual Awareness to inspect it and plan equipment that would fit both of Long Heng’s forms as he grew.

Ye Fei paused the Artifact Refining Furnace to add materials for a set of Immortal Artifacts while Feng An supplied rare resources and Spiritual Energy. The furnace resumed after receiving a Nine-Colored Nine Lives Spirit Heart, and Ye Fei warned Long Heng to prepare for his turn in the process.

• Ye Fei opened the Artifact Refining Furnace midway through refining, and Immortal Artifact auras summoned Thunder Tribulation clouds above his home.
• Ye Fei directed Feng An to add materials across multiple attributes, including lightning, fire, and the other common categories.
• When Ye Fei called for Space materials, the Elf Queen gave Feng An a branch, and he added it with a Seven-Colored Mingkong Stone to meet the requirement.
• Feng An added a Nine-Colored Nine Lives Spirit Heart for the Life attribute, causing the furnace door to close and refining to resume.
• Ye Fei pulled Feng An over to supply Spiritual Energy and told Long Heng to prepare for his later turn, while the furnace continued demanding more energy.

Ye Fei threw Long Heng into the Artifact Refining Furnace to complete the Immortal Artifact’s final step and, after Feng An supplied Divine Dragon materials, began evolving him at the same time. The process neared completion, and Feng An revealed that the Dragon God had cheated him by selling him depleted materials.

• Ye Fei tossed Long Heng into the Artifact Refining Furnace to complete the Immortal Artifact’s final step.
• Ye Fei asked Feng An for the materials to advance Long Heng into a Divine Dragon, and Feng An handed them over.
• Ye Fei transferred the sealed materials into the furnace, woke Long Heng, and combined his Divine Dragon advancement with the Immortal Artifact’s owner recognition and fusion.
• Ye Fei borrowed Life Tree branches from the Elf Queen to replenish his spiritual energy while controlling the process.
• Ye Fei finished the refinement and learned that the Divine Dragon materials’ energy had already been extracted.
• Feng An admitted that the Dragon God had cheated him by selling him an incomplete set of materials.

As Long Heng underwent a perilous transformation in the Artifact Refining Furnace, the Elf Queen traded the Dragon God's blood Feng An had received as compensation for a Life Tree fruit. Ye Fei fused the fruit with Long Heng and his Immortal Artifacts, while ominous clouds gathered and Feng An proposed using Ye Fei to test the coming Thunder Tribulation.

• Lingyan suspected the materials would not affect Long Heng's transformation, while Feng An demanded answers and compensation from the Dragon God.
• The Dragon God sent Feng An a drop of his blood as a birth gift, but Ye Fei warned that using it would mark Long Heng with the Dragon God's bloodline.
• The Elf Queen traded a Life Tree fruit for the Dragon God's blood, and Feng An handed the fruit to Ye Fei.
• Ye Fei fused the Life Tree fruit with Long Heng and the Immortal Artifact set, then sensed that a dangerous Thunder Tribulation was coming.
• Feng An suggested throwing Ye Fei into the Thunder Tribulation to strengthen his thunder spiritual root, and Ye Fei warned that this could increase Feng An's debt.
• The Elf Queen joked about collecting the Wind God's body materials someday and explained that his scales concealed information about him.

Lin Mu arrived to celebrate with Ye Fei but found the courtyard full of seniors, while Ye Fei prepared Long Heng to face a Thunder Tribulation after Long Heng’s evolution left him as a Dragon Egg again. The tribulation began as Ye Fei planned to use Long Heng as a channel for lightning to refine his own body.

• Lin Mu entered Ye Fei’s courtyard to brag, then awkwardly greeted the seniors and was told to find somewhere to sit.
• Ye Fei asked Senior Lingyan to protect his home from stray tribulation lightning before opening the Artifact Refining Furnace.
• Long Heng emerged as a Silver Orb, rushed into Ye Fei’s arms, and accompanied him into the sky to face the tribulation.
• Feng An questioned Ye Fei’s plan to take Long Heng through the tribulation while he was still an egg, but Ye Fei kept hold of him.
• Long Heng messaged Ye Fei to hand him over to Feng An after hatching, while Ye Fei revealed he intended to channel the lightning through Long Heng for body refinement.
• Golden tribulation lightning appeared overhead as Feng An moved farther away from Ye Fei.

Ye Fei used the ninety-nine bolts of golden tribulation lightning to protect Long Heng and temper his own body, while Feng An’s debt unexpectedly shrank. After the tribulation ended, Long Heng remained asleep in his transformed egg, and Ye Fei celebrated his gains and received a promised gift from Lingyan upon reaching Nascent Soul.

• Ye Fei endured the golden tribulation lightning passing through Long Heng’s Dragon Egg and began absorbing it to strengthen his body and cultivate.
• The Elf Queen and Lingyan observed Ye Fei adapting to the lightning, while the Elf Queen noted that Feng An’s debt would grow and Lingyan concluded the process benefited the Wind God.
• Ninety-nine bolts struck before the Tribulation Clouds vanished, and Ye Fei continued cultivating in midair for more than half an hour.
• Ye Fei found Long Heng asleep in a mottled, multicolored egg, while Feng An discovered that his debt had fallen to less than a third of its previous amount.
• Phoenix Perch dropped Ye Fei after he called it cute, and Lingyan praised him and promised a gift when he reached Nascent Soul.
• Ye Fei sat down to drink tea and checked his improved condition, pleased with his gains.

After refining the tribulation lightning, Ye Fei discovered that his attributes and combat power had risen dramatically, though he remained at Foundation Establishment third stage. Long Heng finally hatched, but his appearance and weapons left him crying and protesting.

• Ye Fei reviewed his enhancement notifications and saw that his combat power had reached 408.8 while he remained at Foundation Establishment third stage.
• Ye Fei told Feng An and Lin Mu that he might reach the eighth or ninth stage of Foundation Establishment, but needed time to adjust before advancing.
• Lin Mu called for Long Heng to break out of his egg, and cracks spread across its shell.
• Long Heng emerged on Ye Fei's lap, complained that Ye Fei had bullied him, and cried over his human-like baby form.
• Long Heng noticed his weapons had become bracelets and other rings, and his crying stopped in surprise.

After Long Heng hatched with 5,000 combat power, he struggled with his childish appearance and learned he would remain a young dragon for a very long time. The Elf Queen sought to study his blood, but Feng An refused, and Long Heng reluctantly admitted his dragon form looked ugly.

• Ye Fei compared Long Heng’s newly hatched combat power and Divine Cultivation status with his own, while Long Heng blamed his inflated stats on his equipment.
• Long Heng complained that his armor looked nothing like the imposing gear he had expected, and Ye Fei teased him about staying cute until he grew older.
• Feng An explained that the Dragon God considered Divine Dragons young for a hundred years, adolescent after a thousand, and eligible for the Adult Trial only after ten thousand.
• The Elf Queen revealed that she used collected blood to cultivate branches of her Life Tree, and she asked to test Long Heng’s blood; Feng An refused.
• Ye Fei asked Long Heng to transform into a Divine Dragon, and Long Heng admitted that he disliked his ugly, scaleless dragon form.

Long Heng’s evolved dragon form was revealed to be an underdeveloped cub, so he stayed in human form while he grew. Feng An and the others began completing the Player Faction’s Core Building, and Lingyan explained how divine positions could be created.

• Feng An relayed the Dragon God’s explanation that Long Heng’s missing scales were a normal part of his evolution and needed time to grow in.
• Long Heng chose to remain in human form, while Lin Mu and Ye Fei called him a premature dragon cub and advised him to cultivate.
• Feng An turned the group’s attention to activating the nearly completed Player Faction Core Building.
• The Elf Queen contributed Life Tree branches worth three hundred thousand points of building progress, and Feng An supplied spiritual energy for his share.
• Ye Fei asked about spiritual energy limits, and Lingyan explained the difference between reaching god-level, receiving a divine position, and wielding divine power.
• Lingyan said he had considered creating a divine position himself but had set the idea aside, prompting the Elf Queen to warn him against becoming overconfident.

Ye Fei gathered Free and Unrestrained Mountain’s members to configure their Faction Core Building, explaining how their contributed materials would shape its territory. The group discussed their preferred homes and settings, while Long Heng revealed the distant location and vast size of Feng An’s home.

• Lingyan filled in the remaining progress and energy, then Ye Fei called the others over to adjust the Faction Core Building.
• Ye Fei explained how the five-element materials, divine dragon and phoenix bones, Life Tree Branches, and God-level Spiritual Energy would affect the territory.
• Lin Xian nearly compared Long Heng’s appearance to a cartoon protagonist, but Lin Mu covered his mouth before he could finish.
• Ye Fei switched the virtual template to Projection Mode and asked everyone to choose their homes’ locations and surrounding settings.
• The Elf Queen chose Grassland around her Life Tree, Lingyan kept his home on the Mountain Peak, and Feng An said his home would be included when the faction territory expanded.
• Long Heng told Ye Fei that Feng An’s home lay over a hundred li away in a gorge protected by a Strong Wind Formation, covering more than three times the faction’s current territory.

Ye Fei and the others finished designing their new territory and deployed the Free and Unrestrained Mountain faction core building. Lingyan named the core Jianmu, and the chapter ended with its level-one effects awaiting activation.

• Ye Fei invited Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and the others to suggest areas for cultivation, rest, planting, and breeding.
• Lin Mu proposed placing the planting area near Lin Xian's home, while Jun Mo and Long Heng requested a large seawater area for their aquatic needs.
• Ye Fei adjusted the simulated territory to include the planting and breeding areas, homes, snowy peak, and a large seawater region, then replaced their territory with the Free and Unrestrained Mountain template.
• Ye Fei deployed the faction core building and asked what to name it.
• Lingyan suggested Jianmu, explaining that it was a core building made of wood, and Ye Fei finalized the name.