Recaps

Tang Wen revealed to Cao Wuxin that he had reached the thought-connecting realm peak and helped her advance to the half-step thought-connecting realm. He then stole Russian weapons blueprints and factory equipment, returned with them, and oversaw the launch of the Tang Su Mei Group’s Quantum Batteries.

• Tang Wen demonstrated his long-range control to Cao Wuxin, revealing his thought-connecting realm peak cultivation and dismissing the threat posed by Liu Shanting.
• Tang Wen used a White Jade Radish, a spirit-stone-inlaid bathtub, and the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon to help Cao Wuxin reach the half-step thought-connecting realm.
• Tang Wen traveled to Russia and took AK-47 and small Howitzer blueprints, manufacturing equipment, weapons, and ammunition, leaving an Ancient Jade Buddha as payment.
• Tang Wen inspected a precision steel factory to learn about producing the steel needed for his new weapons.
• The Tang Su Mei Group launched its Quantum Batteries, and Zhao Jiang presented their capacity, safety certifications, availability, and sales restrictions.

Tang Wen expanded his forces and infrastructure while preparing to retake Peacock Island from the Sun Kingdom. After learning about the island’s defenders and nearby reinforcements, he proposed borrowing troops to eliminate the Sun Gate experts and block support.

• Tang Wen’s battery sales surged, bringing the company billions in revenue and silver, and he loaded supplies and equipment for his territories.
• Tang Wen delivered livestock and farming stock to Divine Turtle Island, installed 150 wind turbines, added thirty ships to his fleet, and set up steel and oil equipment on Black Rock Island and Moyun Stockade.
• Tang Wen learned that the Sun Gate had not yet attacked and ordered his spies to intensify efforts to infiltrate and bribe its members and the Sun Kingdom’s officers.
• Wen Jinyuan reported that Peacock Island held over thirty thousand Sun Kingdom troops and more than two hundred Sun Gate disciples, with reinforcements on nearby Rooster Island and Sword Pig Island.
• Tang Wen concluded that a direct assault would fail and said he would borrow troops to eliminate the Sun Gate experts and cut off enemy reinforcements.

Tang Wen uncovered the alliance between the Moving Wood Palace and Ridge-Sea Academy, then gathered troops and marched on the palace to make arrests. He entered the Main Hall with his allies, where the palace elders mocked him before Wei Yixing struck them down.

• Tang Wen and Zhuang Qiyang met the secret agents Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong, who explained the Moving Wood Palace's hidden Inner Palace and its powerful experts.
• Tang Wen's group captured Sun Long, who confessed that he was Zeng Wudao's illegitimate son and revealed Zeng Wudao's plan to ally with Ridge-Sea Academy against Mei Zhenhong.
• Tang Wen recruited Qiao Yi as a retainer and used Holy Spirit Essence to raise Qiao Yi's cultivation before arranging for him to bring troops to Hidden Mountain.
• Qiao Yi arrived with ten thousand soldiers, and Tang Wen's party surrounded the Moving Wood Palace and entered its Main Hall.
• Zeng Wudao and the elders mocked Tang Wen, and Wei Yixing struck them down with a single attack.

Tang Wen exposed Moving Wood Palace’s role in the government grain robbery and forced its elders and disciples to submit to the Tang family and march to the front as government slaves. After rewarding his allies and setting out with the captured sect, he challenged Mei Zhenhong to a wager and used his telekinesis to make her kneel twice.

• Wei Yixing defeated He Junyi, and Tang Wen accused Moving Wood Palace of helping steal government grain while Shen Gongyang revealed his Imperial Clan authority.
• Wen Jinyuan showed Sun Long’s confession and compared his blood with Zeng Wudao’s; Tang Wen used telekinesis and the Heavenly Insect’s poison to make Zeng confess to the robbery and the alliance with Ridge-Sea Academy.
• Mei Zhenhong agreed to dissolve Moving Wood Palace and have its elders and disciples become government slaves in the Tang Family Army, while Shen Gongyang approved Tang Wen’s plan to take them to the front and use the palace’s property for military funding.
• Moving Wood Palace’s people traveled toward Linghai, while Tang Wen gave spatial treasures and supplies to Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong, and Zhuang Qiyang distributed rewards to the Six Fan Division brothers.
• Mei Zhenhong objected when Tang Wen summoned her as his personal maid, so they signed a wager granting her freedom if she could make his blood spill five paces and requiring her loyalty if she lost.
• Mei Zhenhong struck at Tang Wen, but he used telekinesis to make her kneel; when he offered another chance, her next attack blasted the tent into the sky before she knelt again.

Tang Wen subdued Mei Zhenhong, raised her cultivation, and uncovered Ridge-Sea Academy’s ties to the Green Gang before bringing both groups under the Tang household. As the Secret Agent Bureau’s officers warned that treason charges still threatened the academy, Tang Wen signed its disciples’ contracts and offered Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong promotions.

• Mei Zhenhong accepted her role as Tang Wen’s maid, and Tang Wen taught her a cultivation method that raised her to the middle spirit-congealing realm before defeating her in a spar.
• Mei Zhenhong revealed that Ridge-Sea Academy’s Upper Court secretly controlled the Green Gang, so Tang Wen confronted Cui Jindong and summoned the Upper Court’s elders.
• Tang Wen showed Qiu Bingdong and Fan Xiaobai evidence of Ridge-Sea Academy’s treason, and the elders and their disciples agreed to join the Tang household as servants.
• Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong warned Tang Wen that the Secret Agent Bureau could not overlook the treason, but Tang Wen signed the contracts and accepted responsibility for the academy’s people.
• After the others left, Tang Wen offered Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong promotions within the Secret Agent Bureau, and they doubted that he could arrange them.

Tang Wen gained influence and resources by securing promotions, opening academies and a mall, and preparing to retake Peacock Island, while Chu Tiangong plotted to undermine him. The Sun Kingdom’s Sky-Teng Pavilion also planned a trap for Tang Wen at Peacock Island, with Miyata Miko seeking Chu Qiyang’s help.

• Tang Wen persuaded Chu Cong and Shen Gongyang to become his disciples, demonstrated his power, and helped them reach their desired posts as deputy branch master and deputy hall master.
• Tang Wen’s system indexes rose, and the Ridge-Sea Academy scandal was closed with several officials sacrificed while the upper academy escaped blame.
• Ten days later, Tang Wen opened the Tang Clan academies and mall, advertised affordable education and modern facilities, and drew large crowds and congratulatory visitors.
• Chu Tiangong snubbed Tang Wen’s invitation, then privately disparaged him and planned to provoke him while blocking his control over the troops.
• Sky-Teng Pavilion devised a ruse to lure Tang Wen into attacking Peacock Island, and Miyata Miko volunteered to lead the trap while requesting Chu Qiyang’s support.

Tang Wen responded to a rejected marriage proposal by taking his family to Sea Saint City, where he planned to rescue Tang E'yue and undermine the Yu Family. As he prepared for a coming battle involving Chu Qiyang, Tang Wen began a risky treatment to help Zhuang Qiyang advance his martial cultivation.

• Songyuan Hao and Miyata Miko discussed luring Chu Qiyang to Peacock Island, while Tang Wen's servants celebrated the opening of his shops on Su Mei Island.
• Ge Ziyun told Tang Wen that the Tang Family had rejected Tang Hao's proposal for Tang E'yue, driven Ma Fei and the others away, and had them arrested with help from the Six Fan Gate.
• Tang Wen took his party to Sea Saint City, where Zhuang Qiyang revealed that Yu Zhengang was his strongest rival for deputy Command Envoy and Tang Wen devised a plan to use Mei Zhenhong to entrap Yu Feng.
• Wang Haiting reported that Chu Qiyang might join Sky-Teng Pavilion's operation at Peacock Island, and Tang Wen planned to reinforce the northeastern coast while secretly attacking the island.
• Zhuang Qiyang visited Tang Wen, who offered a dangerous drug treatment to help him advance; Zhuang Qiyang agreed, and Tang Wen took out the Ten-Burst Agent.

Tang Wen rescued Zhuang Qiyang from a dangerous breakthrough, then reported to the Sea Saint King that Chu Qiyang was heading to Peacock Island. After securing Chu Xian'gang’s agreement to a favor in exchange for help advancing his cultivation, Tang Wen learned about former Blue Moon Manor followers now freed from exhausted mines, leaving him with a possible new source of men.

• Tang Wen gave Zhuang Qiyang Ten-Burst Agent and Heaven-Born Fruit, then saved him with Life Pearl powder after Shangguan Chuqing revealed its healing power; Zhuang Qiyang survived and reached the Thought-Connecting Realm.
• Tang Wen went to the Sea Saint King’s residence, where Mei Zhenhong fought Tie Zhen after Chu Wang obstructed them and Tang Wen struck him for his insolence.
• Tang Wen showed Chu Xian'gang his Tiger Tally and reported that Chu Qiyang was going to Peacock Island, then received Chu Qiyang’s portrait.
• Tang Wen offered to help Chu Xian'gang advance beyond half-step Spirit-Congealing in exchange for a favor, and requested land in Sea Saint City for the Tang Lineage.
• Chu Xian'gang described Blue Moon Manor’s former lands and revealed that its surviving followers had been enslaved and sent to Heyang’s mines, which had now been exhausted.

Tang Wen bought the people and land of Heyang from Chu Xian'gang using silver, weapons, and modern goods, triggering the system's traversal requirements. After Mei Zhenhong injured Yu Feng when he tried to assault her, Tang Wen fought the Yu Family and faced a political dispute that Chu Xian'gang ultimately agreed to handle by the rules.

• Tang Wen agreed to buy the Heyang land, its people, and copper mine for thirty million taels, paying partly with firearms, cannons, and modern goods, and the system announced that traversal could be activated.
• Tang Wen refined popularity for Mei Zhenhong, who broke into the Divine Sense Realm, while his system indices rose after the acquisition.
• Yu Feng had Song Shao drug Mei Zhenhong and her maid, but Mei Zhenhong woke and castrated Yu Feng; Yu Wentong then ordered an attack on Tang Wen, whose men shot him.
• Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang heard witness testimony and saw evidence that Yu Feng had ordered the drugging, so Chu Guang assigned Zhuang Qiyang to investigate and try the case.
• Chu Xian'gang angrily confronted Tang Wen over the violence, but Tang Wen challenged him to go to the front himself, leaving their argument unresolved.

Tang Wen strengthened his alliance with Chu Xian'gang, then went to take possession of Blue Moon Manor and found that the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion also claimed it. Their confrontation escalated into an armed standoff, and Zhuang Qiyang arrived as the pavilion gathered its forces.

• Tang Wen used the Heaven-Born Fruit to help Chu Xian'gang break through to middle Spirit-Congealing, and Chu Xian'gang ordered an investigation into the Yu Family and sent Zhuang Xiong and Chu Cong to join Tang Wen at the front.
• Wen Jinyuan told Tang Wen that the Yu Family had attacked Tang Yaocheng's household, so Tang Wen arranged protection for Tang E'yue and plotted to make her family seek his help.
• Tang Wen arrived at Blue Moon Manor and discovered the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion had occupied it; both sides produced apparently genuine property deeds claiming ownership.
• Gu Mutong defeated the pavilion's fighters, while Liu Huaijun ordered her disciples to surround Tang Wen's group and called reinforcements.
• Tang Wen's guards arrived with firearms and cannons, destroyed an artificial hill and a grove to demonstrate their weapons, and faced more than a thousand pavilion members.
• Zhuang Qiyang entered with his subordinates, declaring that the Haisheng Six Fan Office was investigating a case.

Tang Wen confronted Zhang Zhongyuan and the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion over the sale of Blue Moon Manor, then learned that Chu Xian'gang had used the dispute to draw him into a struggle for influence. He returned to the manor with the prince’s command token, where a standoff erupted into a battle and assassins targeted him.

• Zhuang Qiyang brought Tang Wen and Liu Huaijun to Zhang Zhongyuan, who claimed the Governor’s Office had owned Blue Moon Manor and sold it to the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion.
• Tang Wen refused Zhang Zhongyuan’s demand to leave the manor and sent Gu Mutong to display his imperial Tiger Tally seal.
• Chu Guang advised Tang Wen that the prince might be using the dispute to win his trust, while Tang Wen resolved to reclaim the manor from the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion.
• Chu Xian'gang admitted he had arranged the sale and gave Tang Wen his command token to requisition three Black Cavalry battalions.
• Tang Wen learned Yu Wentong had hired assassins to kill him, then returned to Blue Moon Manor and ordered his men to defend the Tiger Tally as Governor’s Office troops and Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion disciples attacked.
• Mei Zhenhong and Gu Mutong drove back the attackers’ experts, while Tang Wen shot an assassin who lunged toward him.

Tang Wen forced the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion to negotiate over Blue Moon Manor, uncovered the Yu Family’s role in hiring Black Dragon Society assassins, and secured Qiao Tian’s order to investigate them. The chapter left the Yu Family facing a Six Fan Division raid while Qiao Tian remained unmoved by Tang Wen’s attempted inducements.

• Tang Wen captured Liu Huaijun, negotiated with Li Yongyuan over Blue Moon Manor, and learned that Mei Zhenhong had joined the Tang family.
• Tang Wen tortured Zeng Tong into confessing that Yu Zhengang had hired four Black Dragon Society assassins to kill him for three million taels.
• Tang Wen punished Tang Yaocheng’s party for rejecting Tang Hao’s marriage proposal, then welcomed Tang E'yue and arranged for her to marry his brother.
• Zhang Zhongyuan told Li Yongyuan and Liu Huaijun to accept a settlement and predicted that Chu Xian'gang would soon lose his princely title.
• Tang Wen and Zhuang Qiyang interrogated Yu Zhengang, then Tang Wen presented the evidence to Qiao Tian, who ordered a raid on the Yu Residence.
• Tang Wen showed Qiao Tian a Void Bag and mentioned Heaven-Born Fruit, but Qiao Tian refused to accept his offerings and criticized him after he left.

Tang Wen faced a Human Realm threat from the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, gathered new allies and troops for the coming war, and arranged to expand into the great desert. After helping Chu Xiangluo and Chu Zhuangxiong advance their cultivation, he received a system notification that new land and servants had been acquired.

• Tang Wen and Wen Jinyuan watched Qiao Tian's hidden-camera recording and learned that he feared the Yu Family's powerful backer and the political consequences of the case.
• Li Yongyuan threatened Tang Wen, and an unseen Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion expert's sound attack badly injured Tang Wen, Mei Zhenhong, and Gu Mutong before Tang Wen identified the attacker as a Human Realm expert.
• Chu Zhuangxiong challenged Tang Wen, lost the bout, and asked to become his disciple; the Prince sent a letter entrusting his son to Tang Wen and ordering three Black Cavalry battalions to join him in Linghai.
• Chu Xiangluo agreed to Tang Wen's test of obtaining desert land and people, while Tang Wen used the Prince's command token to secure the three battalions from Ma Qian.
• Tang Wen planned to help Chu Luoxiang compete with Chu Jiangnan and used intensive cultivation training to advance Chu Xiangluo and Chu Zhuangxiong.
• The system reported that Tang Wen had acquired 23,450 household servants and 8,900 qing of land, and he went to refine the popularity and make more Popularity Pills.

Tang Wen returned to the Black Tortoise Domain, learned the Heaven Domain Six Dragons Canon from Duanmu Hongxiu’s beating, and found the City Lord’s Residence under pressure to supply goods cheaply to the Black Western Domain. He took twenty billion taels to negotiate with Zhang Xiaotian, while Xifang Kongming arranged to seize Sumei Supermarket if Tang Wen failed.

• Tang Wen returned to the Black Tortoise Domain, where Duanmu Hongxiu beat him and secretly taught him the Heaven Domain Six Dragons Canon, advancing his cultivation and that of several others.
• Tang Wen brought goods to Sumei Supermarket, learned of the mine’s profits, and gave Duanmu Hongxiu a tablet and giant-screen television to watch translated shows.
• At a Council of Elders meeting, Xifang Kongming and the elders told Tang Wen that Zhang Xiaotian of the Black Western Domain demanded a huge shipment at half price and threatened war if refused.
• Wan Fuyuan attacked Tang Wen, and Xifang Kongming made Wan compensate him with Sun Moon Manor after Tang Wen threatened to abandon the deal.
• Tang Wen accepted twenty billion taels to settle the dispute with Zhang Xiaotian, while Xifang Kongming ordered Sumei Supermarket sealed and made it collateral if Tang Wen failed.

Tang Wen used Duanmu Hongxiu’s authority to make Zhang Xiaotian buy his goods at full price, then took control of Sun Moon Manor and gained strength from its birds and beasts. He returned to the Chu Kingdom with powerful spirit beasts and flying eagles, carrying a present for Gu Hanyan.

• Tang Wen showed Zhang Xiaotian Duanmu Hongxiu’s Command Token and persuaded the princess to meet him, prompting Zhang Xiaotian to buy the supermarket’s goods at full price and offer Tang Wen a branch site in Western Black City.
• Tang Wen and Zhang Xiaotian arranged a commission and exchanged guest tokens, while the Council of Elders wrongly assumed Tang Wen had sold the goods at a loss and debated whether he planned to leave Black Tortoise City.
• Tang Wen took possession of Sun Moon Manor, absorbed its Bird-and-Beast Qi, advanced to Late Divine Sense, and watched his Heavenly Insect evolve into a powerful double of himself.
• Duanmu Hongxiu lent Tang Wen a large Void Bag and suggested he eventually trade in the Heaven Domain, while Tang Wen agreed to bring her more entertaining things.
• Tang Wen returned to the Chu Kingdom with black eagles and fierce beasts, then called Gu Hanyan to the cave abode to give her a present.

Tang Wen distributed contracted spirit beasts, investigated the theft of machinery, and strengthened his forces by raising his allies’ cultivation. The chapter ended with Tang Wen confronting Black Cavalry officers who resisted his authority and threatened to attack his household.

• Tang Wen gave Gu Hanyan and his companions spirit beasts, then discussed the cost of feeding them and the growing popularity of Tang Currency and the bank.
• After learning that thieves had stolen Trucks and Excavators, Tang Wen ordered tighter security and agreed to move into the more fortified Tang Family Villa.
• Chu Xiangluo gave Tang Wen the deeds to the Sea of the Desert and exchanged a residence in Capital City for a Space Bag; Tang Wen injected him with Ten-Burst Agent to help him advance.
• Tang Wen defeated Ye Qian and the other guards who challenged him, then used extreme jade to raise their cultivation and that of his allies; Chu Xiangluo reached the early Divine Sense Realm and became Tang Wen’s disciple.
• Tang Wen assigned his newly strengthened forces to defend the islands and accompany him on business.
• Zhu Yuan arrived with three Black Cavalry battalions, but Tang Wen questioned their numbers and ordered him seized after Zhu Yuan called for an attack; Ye Qian knocked Zhu Yuan down, and Tang Wen challenged the advancing Guerrilla Generals.

Tang Wen exposed Ma Qian’s removal of the Black Cavalry’s elite troops, took control of the battalions, and recruited the thieving Mechanism King Gongsun Wuji to study his modern technology. When the Sun Kingdom advanced toward Leihuo Island, Tang Wen confronted commanders who refused to reinforce it, arrested Chu Tiangong, and ordered troops mobilized from Linghai.

• Tang Wen used the Tiger Tally to punish Zhu Yuan and the battalion leaders, learned Ma Qian had withdrawn the elite troops and weapons, and appointed Chu Zhao to lead the four Black Cavalry battalions.
• Tang Wen and Dongfang Ming tracked a thief to Skyward Peak, where Tang Wen discovered that Gongsun Wuji was stealing and dismantling his machines; he invited Gongsun and his disciples to study at the Tang household in exchange for a year of service.
• Ximen Taigao reported that a large Sun Kingdom force was moving toward Leihuo Island, and Tang Wen decided to requisition troops from Linghai and Youhai Provinces.
• At the Linghai Commander-in-Chief’s Office, Chu Tiangong refused to deploy troops, so Tang Wen arrested him and ordered him beaten before appointing Tang Xunze temporary commander-in-chief and directing him to send fifty thousand troops to Leihuo Island.
• Tang Wen left for Youhai to mobilize more troops, while Chu Tiangong was sent to Six Fan Hall Prison pending an investigation for possible treason.

Tang Wen seized control of Youhai’s military command after confronting Governor-General Zhou Kuohai, then prepared reinforcements and recruited Gongsun Wuji’s disciples for the coming fight against the Sun Kingdom. After Zhuge Cangxiao joined the Tang, Tang Wen showed him the wider world and learned that the Gongsun Lineage’s Mechanism Arts cultivation method strengthened practitioners through invention and study.

• Tang Wen arrived at the Youhai Commander-in-Chief’s Office, where Zhou Kuohai tried to assert his authority and obstruct the deployment of troops to Leihuo Island.
• Tang Wen used the Tiger Tally to force the officials to obey, staged a sword wound, and let Chu Luoxiang and others beat Zhou Kuohai before ordering reports sent to the prince, duke, and Zhuang Qiyang.
• Tang Wen ordered Wu Zhaoyang to muster seventy thousand soldiers to join Linghai’s fifty thousand troops bound for Leihuo Island, then outlined a secret Frogmen attack on Peacock Island.
• Tang Wen persuaded Gongsun Wuji and his disciples to help capture Chu Qiyang by offering him a robot, then used the Cultivation Tower to raise their strength.
• Zhuge Cangxiao completed his apprenticeship and pledged himself to Tang Wen, who showed him images of outer space and explained that their world was spherical and immense.
• Zhuge Cangxiao told Tang Wen that the Gongsun Lineage’s Mechanism Heavenly Canon advanced practitioners through studying and developing Mechanism Arts.

Tang Wen expanded his influence by teaching Zhuge Cangxiao and Ma Qian, then rallied the Black Cavalry with a staged display of power. As his fleet set out to attack Peacock Island, Sun Kingdom leaders debated the incoming force and Yi Weilong challenged their caution.

• Tang Wen taught Zhuge Cangxiao the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon, gave him a Void Bag and a Little Aircraft to study, and ordered him to stay nearby.
• Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang forced Ma Qian to bring his withheld troops and reinforcements to Tang Wen, who welcomed the twenty thousand soldiers and used a dramatic display of flight to earn their admiration.
• Tang Wen offered Ma Qian a path to promotion and accepted him as a disciple, then used popularity to raise Ma Qian to the early Human Realm while reaching Divine Sense Perfection himself.
• Wen Jinyuan briefed Tang Wen on the enemy buildup at Peacock Island and the planned hidden attack, and Tang Wen's fleet sailed out toward the island the next morning.
• Songyuan Hao received a report of the Chu fleet and convened the Sun Kingdom elders, but Yi Weilong accused them of inflating the enemy's ambition and diminishing their own strength.

Tang Wen’s forces destroyed Yi Weilong’s flying-eagle interception squad, captured Yi Weilong, and killed Murakami Sanki before advancing toward Peacock Island. After Chu Xian'gang ordered Sea Saint City to commit troops to the campaign, Tang Wen infiltrated the island and approached Chu Qiyang’s hidden cave to scout the powerful enemy.

• Yi Weilong led more than five hundred Sun Kingdom experts on flying eagles to attack Tang Wen’s fleet, but Tang Wen’s Flying Beast Army used machine guns and AK rifles to devastate them.
• Tang Wen poisoned and captured Yi Weilong, while Zhuge Cangxiao killed Murakami Sanki; Tang Wen then ordered his troops to shoot down the fleeing survivors.
• Chu Xian'gang overcame opposition from Zhang Zhongyuan and other officials, ordered 150,000 troops north, and demanded that Tang Wen take Peacock Island and strike the forces attacking Leihuo Island.
• Tang Wen reached Peacock Island with Zhuge Cangxiao and other experts, used diving suits to evade the defenses, and joined Mei Zhenhong’s frogmen.
• After learning that Chu Qiyang was hiding in a concealed cave and was stronger than Gongsun Wuji, Tang Wen transformed into a tiny Heavenly Insect and slipped inside to scout.

Tang Wen exposed Chu Qiyang’s double, helped defeat the forces on Peacock Island, and killed the real Chu Qiyang as he tried to escape. After learning that killing powerful opponents granted enemy-slaying baleful intent, Tang Wen found the double still alive and began treating him, leaving his fate undecided.

• The Heavenly Insect identified the Chu Qiyang under surveillance as an impostor, and Tang Wen warned his allies that the real Chu Qiyang was missing.
• Tang Wen’s forces destroyed the enemy fleet and batteries, stormed Peacock Island, and routed its defenders while Chu Qiyang’s forces tried to escape.
• Tang Wen pursued the real Chu Qiyang, whose poison-weakened body was shot down after he attacked Chu Luoxiang; Chu Qiyang died after giving Tang Wen a ring linked to his Dragon-Killing Hall.
• The system credited Tang Wen with enemy-slaying baleful intent for killing powerful opponents, and his martial arts realm rose to mid Human Realm.
• Gongsun Wuji told Tang Wen that Chu Qiyang’s double had survived the bombardment and hidden him nearby, so Tang Wen gave the dying man Life Powder and examined him.

Tang Wen rescued Hu Chuan and led the Tang Family Army to crush the Sun Kingdom’s forces, reclaiming the Whale Island Archipelago. As Tang Wen’s military victories won acclaim, officials challenged his treatment of Chu Tiangong, and Qiao Tian’s investigation revealed that Chu Tiangong had repeatedly obstructed Tang Wen’s efforts to mobilize troops.

• Tang Wen revealed Hu Chuan’s true identity, promised to save him, and recruited him to return to the Desert North and gain Hu Lie’s trust.
• Tang Wen operated on Hu Chuan, removed the bullets and shrapnel from his body, and welcomed him and his family into the Tang household.
• Tang Wen’s forces ambushed and destroyed the Sun Kingdom fleet near Peacock Island, then joined the battle at Leihuo Island and routed the enemy.
• Tang Wen led the army to reclaim the Whale Island Archipelago, while the Sea Saint King credited him for the victories and faced officials’ objections over Tang Wen’s conduct.
• Qiao Tian reported that Chu Tiangong had repeatedly refused to meet Tang Wen and had obstructed his request for troops, prompting Tang Wen to have him seized and investigated for possible treason.

Tang Wen’s beating of Zhou Kuohai stirred trouble at court, while the Sun Kingdom’s leaders considered peace and plotted to rescue Yi Weilong. After a half-step Earth Realm attacker wounded Hu Chuan at the Tang residence, Tang Wen went to the Four Beauties Palace seeking protection and impressed its palace masters with his extraordinary clothes.

• Qiao Tian revealed that Chu Luoxiang, who had beaten Zhou Kuohai, was the Seventh Prince, and Zhang Zhongyuan abandoned his demand to arrest him.
• Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang discussed defending Tang Wen at court, reporting his military achievements, and seeking a promotion that would bind him to the Whale Island Archipelago.
• Songyuan Hao and the Sky-Teng Pavilion leaders weighed peace negotiations and hostage-taking after the Sun Kingdom’s losses, then requested experts to rescue Yi Weilong or seize Tang Wen’s family.
• Tang Wen learned that enemies planned to target his family, and a half-step Earth Realm attacker wounded Hu Chuan before Mei Zhenhong drove the enemy away.
• Tang Wen traveled with Zhuge Cangxiao to the Four Beauties Palace to seek expert protection, where Wang Junxue recognized him as the shabby licentiate who had received her silver.
• Tang Wen demonstrated his clothes’ flying and underwater abilities to the Four Beauties Palace, and Li Xian'er asked whether they could withstand fire.

Tang Wen secured Four Beauties Palace and imperial protection for his family, then crossed to the Star Illusion Empire and discovered that a devastating Sea Clan attack had ravaged Star Radiance City. He reunited with Tang Yu, learned that his family had survived with help from Zhao Jun, and began caring for her amid the aftermath of the war.

• Tang Wen demonstrated his fire resistance to Li Xian'er and offered Spirit Stones, a Spirit Gathering Array, and Void Bags in exchange for an Earth Realm protector; Qiu Mei agreed to guard the Tang family for a year, and Wang Junxue accompanied her.
• Tang Wen gave Hu Chuan a Popularity Pill, and Hu Chuan advanced to the middle Earth Realm and went to protect Tang Wen's eldest brother; Zhuge Cangxiao also advanced to the mid Human Realm.
• Duke Chu Guang, Luo Kai, Ding You, and Ning Shen visited Su Mei Island; Tang Wen gave them firearms, received an imperial decree naming him Third-Class Sea-Quelling Marquis, and accepted first-class guards Mi Yang and Mo Yingzhu.
• At a banquet, Gongsun Wuji rebuked Ning Shen for his arrogance, and Tang Wen learned from Chu Cong that Luo Kai was a Command Envoy in the Secret Agent Bureau and that the bureau had many powerful experts.
• Tang Wen crossed to the Star Illusion Empire and found Star Radiance City badly damaged; Tang Yu told him the Sea Clan had attacked after a conflict over a pearl, killing or injuring hundreds of thousands and disrupting food supplies.
• Tang Wen comforted Tang Yu and served her food from his Void Bag; she told him Zhao Jun had sent experts to protect their family and rice to help them.

Tang Wen sold seafood and livestock to Star Radiance City during a food shortage, and the government hailed him as a hero after mistaking his stock for Sea Clan he had captured. At a public commendation ceremony, he received Dragon-Slaying Island, a medal, and a cash prize.

• Tang Wen opened his supermarket and sold live seafood and livestock to the crowds, imposing purchase limits after the government warned against hoarding.
• The citizens and Deputy City Lord He Gang praised Tang Wen as the man who had captured hundreds of millions of Sea Clan, earning him a surge of popularity from the system.
• Tang Wen returned home, reassured his family, and taught them martial arts techniques that greatly improved their abilities overnight.
• At the city government's awards ceremony, Tang Wen watched Tan Junfeng and other fighters receive honors before officials called him to the dais.
• Luo Kaicheng and Kang Dongzhi recognized Tang Wen's contributions and awarded him Dragon-Slaying Island, the Imperial Star Illusion First-Level Medal, and ten million Star Illusion Coins.