Recaps

Tang Wen equipped newly qualified martial artists and taught Gu Hanyan to use a computer, showing her modern knowledge and technology. He tried to persuade her to reveal her strength by offering her Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but she remained guarded, and Bu Feng later brought about three hundred refugees to Linghai.

• Tang Wen ordered Li Liao to assess the martial artists and lend equipment to those who met the training requirements.
• Tang Wen taught Gu Hanyan to operate the computer and Whiteboard, and she admired the modern images and knowledge he showed her.
• Tang Wen asked Gu Hanyan about her martial arts strength and tried to coax her into revealing her secrets with the promise of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but she refused.
• Gu Hanyan asked Zhan Junru about Dream of the Red Chamber and steered her into wanting to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
• Bu Feng returned with about three hundred refugees who had fled the warfare in the Northwest.

Tang Wen expanded his holdings around Stone Bridge and planned improvements to his cave retreat and island power supply while waiting for Li Liao and his men to join his household. As Wei Guang and the others urged Li Liao to stay, Song Yuanyuan called Tang Wen a good person, leaving Li Liao’s decision unresolved.

• Tang Wen told Ge Ziyun to buy at least five hundred mu around Stone Bridge and ordered Li Quan and Zhan Zhao to accompany him.
• Zhan Dongwen showed Tang Wen hidden cave passages and a concealed natural terrace, and Tang Wen planned to build out the cavern and consider wind turbines.
• Ge Ziyun returned with deeds and contracts for more than two thousand mu of land around Stone Bridge, bought for thirty thousand taels of silver including relocation costs.
• Tang Wen watched Li Liao’s popularity lean further toward him while Wei Guang, Chen Fei, and the others appeared nearly won over.
• Wei Guang, Chen Fei, and the others urged Li Liao to sell themselves into the Tang household, but Li Liao challenged their loyalty.
• When Li Liao asked what Tang Wen’s greatest virtue was, Song Yuanyuan answered that he was a good person.

Li Liao remained wary of Tang Wen and feared Gu Hanyan’s strength, but Tang Wen’s promise to pay him softened the group’s attitude. When Li Si was brought in with rebar embedded in his thigh, Tang Wen operated on him and removed it, leaving Li Liao and the others stunned by his medical skill.

• Li Liao warned his companions that Tang Wen might be luring them into selling themselves, and showed them a stone Gu Hanyan had cracked with a precise palm strike.
• Tang Wen hosted Li Liao’s group for a farewell meal and insisted on paying the wages they had earned.
• Zhan Zhao and Zhan Dongwen rushed in with the badly injured Li Si, whose thigh had been pierced by rebar.
• Li Liao judged Li Si unsavable, but Tang Wen took him to the medical room and anesthetized him.
• Tang Wen cut open Li Si’s thigh, removed the rebar, stopped the bleeding, and sutured the wound while Li Liao and the others watched in amazement.

Tang Wen recruited Li Liao and his companions into the Tang household, gained enough popularity to advance to the seventh-rank Early Stage, and returned to Yunhai City to buy supplies. At the Orchid Pavilion Club, he met War Dragon Special Forces members and was pressed to spar with instructor Liu Gang.

• Tang Wen treated Li Si, prompting Li Liao, Wei Guang, Chen Fei, and the others to agree to join the Tang household.
• Tang Wen appointed Li Liao to command the Personal Guard Army and gained popularity that advanced his martial arts realm to the seventh-rank Early Stage.
• Tang Wen returned to Yunhai City, sold gold, and ordered silver and equipment through Zhao Jiang, while considering how to obtain military bulletproof helmets.
• Chen Guozhang summoned Tang Wen to the Orchid Pavilion Club, where he introduced deputy team leader Xiao Jinguo and instructor Liu Gang.
• Liu Gang challenged Tang Wen to spar, and Tang Wen warned that he might beat Liu Gang's face into a pig's head.

Tang Wen defeated Liu Gang in a spar and revealed that he could form blade qi, impressing the War Dragon Group. He agreed to consider training their instructors after resolving an urgent need: buying three hundred bulletproof helmets.

• Tang Wen gauged Liu Gang's strength from his popularity and evaded Liu Gang's attacks with lightness skills before stomping him to the ground.
• Tang Wen formed blade qi on a saber, and Liu Gang admitted defeat and apologized for his earlier provocation.
• Xiao Jinguo and Chen Guozhang asked Tang Wen to train instructors for the War Dragon Group, and Tang Wen said he could consider it once he handled an urgent matter.
• Tang Wen told the group he needed three hundred bulletproof helmets, and Xiao Jinguo warned that their helmets included classified functions.

Tang Wen traded an earth-rank cultivation method and pills for bulletproof helmets, then arrived at War Dragon’s southern training ground to serve as a temporary senior instructor. After meeting Deputy Leader Qiu Long and receiving his uniform and credentials, Tang Wen explored the base and encountered instructor Song Xuyang.

• Tang Wen agreed to train War Dragon instructors for fifty-five days in exchange for approval to obtain three hundred bulletproof helmets, and promised to provide an earth-rank mid-grade cultivation method and pills.
• Liu Gang took Tang Wen by helicopter to War Dragon’s hidden southern training ground, where Tang Wen examined its extensive facilities and training areas.
• Qiu Long tested Tang Wen’s strength with an iron-palm handshake, then appointed him a temporary senior instructor and issued his uniform and credentials.
• Xiao Jinguo showed Tang Wen to his private courtyard and explained that his trainees would follow his methods as he worked to improve their strength.
• Tang Wen put on his uniform and met Song Xuyang, a second-class instructor demonstrating his agility among the trees.

Tang Wen impressed the Southern Hall instructors with his lightness skill and Sword Qi, then began a fifty-day training course by demonstrating his ability to judge students’ cultivation. The chapter left him testing the class after Wei Yanqing challenged his authority.

• Tang Wen demonstrated a lightness technique, rising several meters and moving through the air, while Qiu Long and Xiao Jinguo watched from the command center.
• At Song Xuyang’s urging, Tang Wen explained swordsmanship and projected Sword Qi from a sword, surprising the team and convincing Qiu Long that he deserved his senior instructor position.
• Qiu Long approved Tang Wen’s requests for equipment and resources, including bulletproof helmets, cultivation methods, and medicinal pills.
• The next morning, Tang Wen arrived to teach a class of instructors, and Xiao Jinguo introduced Zhang Da, Wei Yanqing, and other class officers.
• Wei Yanqing challenged Tang Wen to prove his skills, but Tang Wen identified her cultivation realm and then accurately assessed Chen Qinghua’s and Zeng Yong’s realms.

Tang Wen finished training the War Dragon Sect instructors, returned to the Chu Kingdom, and organized the expansion of his settlement, army, and education programs. After showing Li Liao footage of people stealing from the Tang household’s silver mine, he left the matter poised for action.

• Tang Wen trained the instructors for fifty days, helping them improve their cultivation while he learned their practical skills and advanced to the seventh-rank middle stage.
• Tang Wen returned to the Chu Kingdom, where Bu Feng had brought back over two hundred recruits, bringing the settlement’s population past two thousand.
• Tang Wen ordered more prefabricated houses, expanded the Personal Guard Army to three hundred men, and assigned leaders to training classes, literacy lessons, and preparations for a school.
• Tang Wen told Li Liao that people were stealing from the Tang household’s silver mine and showed him a recording of the theft.

Tang Wen and Li Liao planned a surprise attack on the enemies beyond the man-eating trees, preparing weed killer, covert intelligence gathering, and hired escort fighters. Later, Tang Wen attended Yang Yun’s promotion banquet and brought Champagne to impress the guests.

• Tang Wen showed Li Liao enhanced weed killer that could wither trees, and gave him half a month to train the Personal Guard Army and prepare the attack.
• Li Liao planned to recruit over a hundred skilled fighters from escort agencies, while Tang Wen insisted they be warned of the danger and their families compensated if they died.
• Tang Wen arrived at Constable Yang’s home and learned that Yang Yun was celebrating his promotion to criminal clerk.
• Yang Yun welcomed Tang Wen and introduced him to the assembled officials and guests, while Zhang Hongjiang invited Tang Wen to sit beside him.
• Tang Wen announced that he had brought Champagne for the banquet, and the guests eagerly watched as it was brought in.

Tang Wen sold all three thousand bottles of champagne at Yang Yun’s banquet, then learned about the desperate Twin Swords Sect and traveled to Yuling Commandery to recruit its members. After discovering that the Gu Family’s lost jade Guanyin shipment seemed suspicious, Tang Wen decided to secretly kidnap Gu Qi and interrogate him.

• Tang Wen sold three thousand bottles of champagne to the banquet guests for fifteen hundred taels of gold.
• Yang Yun told Tang Wen about the Twin Swords Sect’s debts, its stolen jade Guanyin shipment, and its hundreds of remaining disciples.
• Tang Wen and Li Liao’s party traveled to Yuling City, where Li Liao learned that wealthy Gu Qi had hired the Twin Swords Sect to escort the statue.
• Tang Wen suspected Gu Qi knew why the shipment had been stolen and proposed kidnapping him for a secret interrogation.

Tang Wen abducted Gu Qi and interrogated him over the Jade Guanyin scheme, forcing him to confess and sign a statement. Gu Qi admitted that he had leaked the artifact’s secret to make the Water-Moon Stronghold rob Luo Yiwu’s shipment and secure compensation, and the chapter ended with Tang Wen admitting he had guessed the truth.

• Tang Wen sent Gu Hanyan and Li Liao to abduct Gu Qi, then confronted him in a cave with his Personal Guard Army.
• Tang Wen accused Gu Qi of spreading the Jade Guanyin rumor and scheming to make the Water-Moon Stronghold rob Luo Yiwu’s shipment.
• Tang Wen threatened Gu Qi by ordering his guards to cut off Gu Yong’s hand, prompting Gu Qi to confess that he had tipped off the Water-Moon Stronghold.
• Gu Qi explained that the Feng Family had pressured him to sell the Jade Guanyin cheaply, so he arranged the scheme to avoid giving it to them and collect compensation from Luo Yiwu.
• Tang Wen had Gu Qi sign a confession, then told Li Liao, Tang Jun, and Gu Hanyan that he had guessed the truth.

Tang Wen persuaded the Twin Swords Sect to join the Tang household in exchange for recovering their losses and securing justice against Gu Qi. After absorbing the sect members’ Popularity and reaching Seventh-Rank Perfection, Tang Wen confronted Gu Qi with demands for compensation, but Gu Qi refused to pay beyond waiving the remaining debt.

• Tang Wen showed Luo Yiwu Gu Qi’s confession and offered to resolve the Twin Swords Sect’s dispute, then insisted the sect members join the Tang household in return for his help.
• Li Liao demonstrated his Outer Astral Realm strength and explained why he had chosen to serve Tang Wen, convincing Luo Yiwu and Qiu Kui to sell themselves and leading most of the sect to follow.
• The system counted more than five hundred new members, and Tang Wen absorbed their Popularity, raising his cultivation to Seventh-Rank Perfection and updating his land and wealth totals.
• Tang Wen led the Twin Swords Sect to demand that Gu Qi return the original five hundred thousand taels, pay three hundred thousand taels in compensation, and publicly apologize to Luo Yiwu.
• Gu Qi refused the demands and offered only to waive the remaining five hundred thousand taels of debt, while Luo Yiwu and Qiu Kui blamed him for ruining the sect.

After relocating the Twin Swords Sect to Su Mei Island, Tang Wen settled a brawl by proving that a wildcat had stolen the fish soup and wondered whether his improved eyesight helped him spot the clues. Zhan Junru suggested creating a constabulary to handle everyday disputes.

• The Gu Family paid the Twin Swords Sect eight hundred thousand taels, and Tang Wen moved the sect to Su Mei Island after renting out its former compound.
• Tang Wen’s group found the island equipped with guarded access and modern facilities, while Li Liao and Luo Yiwu reorganized the Personal Guard Team and Ge Ziyun left to buy land.
• Zhan Junru brought Tang Wen the families involved in a brawl over missing fish soup, and Tang Wen threatened to dismiss them if they kept fighting.
• Tang Wen spotted claw marks that others could barely see, then used a magnifying glass to show that a wildcat had knocked over the pot and eaten the fish.
• Zhan Junru proposed establishing a constabulary to maintain order at the camp.

Tang Wen planned a Police Officer Hall for Su Mei Island and appointed Luo Yiwu chief steward. Dongfang Ming arrived with his followers, toured the island, and proposed terms for joining, but Tang Wen said he did not intend to hire anyone.

• Tang Wen decided to establish a Police Officer Hall, with separate roles for public security, criminal, and traffic police, and named Dongfang Ming as his intended deputy head.
• Tang Wen appointed Luo Yiwu chief steward of Su Mei Island and promised him a monthly salary of ten taels and five mid-grade spirit pills.
• Dongfang Ming arrived with his family and more than twenty disciples, and Luo Yiwu arranged for them to tour the island and see its facilities and machinery.
• After the tour, Dongfang Ming told Tang Wen he wanted to join as a police officer for four thousand taels a year and two hundred mid-grade spirit pills.
• Tang Wen refused Dongfang Ming's proposed arrangement, saying he did not intend to hire anyone.

Tang Wen persuaded Dongfang Ming and his disciples to join the Tang household after Gu Hanyan demonstrated her strength, then organized Su Mei Island’s growing administration and medical staff. He expanded the island’s land and used his modern-world business to fund construction and obtain medical supplies and equipment.

• Luo Yiwu defended his decision to serve Tang Wen, and Gu Hanyan proved she outclassed Dongfang Ming by shattering a wine jar from four zhang away, prompting Dongfang Ming and his group to sign contracts of servitude.
• Tang Wen appointed Dongfang Ming deputy head of the Police Hall and assigned several of Dongfang Ming’s disciples to the Medical Room for training.
• Tang Wen appointed Luo Yiwu chief steward and gave other followers roles overseeing administration, security, construction, education, medicine, and production.
• Ge Ziyun bought another two thousand mu of land around Su Mei Island’s checkpoint, expanding the estate.
• Tang Wen returned to Yunhai City, sent Zhao Jiang to sell silver in Dongfang City, and allocated money to Su Mei Group, construction materials, and medical equipment.

Tang Wen trained his doctors to use modern medical equipment before receiving a visit from Tie Wenjing, a fellow examination graduate serving as Assistant Prefect of Jiangzhou Prefecture. Their reunion left Tang Wen wondering why Zhan Junru had lately been absent.

• Tang Wen installed medical equipment and taught Ding Xian, Lin Jiaojiao, and other doctors how to use it, including showing them a heart transplant video.
• Tang Wen spent ten days training the doctors and left Ding Xian in charge of continued practice with the equipment.
• Luo Yiwu told Tang Wen that a visitor from Jiangzhou Prefecture had arrived, and Tang Wen recognized him as Tie Wenjing, his former examination cohort.
• Tang Wen and Tie Wenjing exchanged greetings and discussed Tang Wen’s estate and Tie Wenjing’s official post.
• Tang Wen asked where Zhan Junru was, and Luo Yiwu said she had been difficult to find and promised to investigate.

Tang Wen confronted Tie Wenjing and Master Qin, who sought a donation for Jiangzhou Prefecture by pointing out that half of Su Mei Island fell under its jurisdiction. Tang Wen agreed to consider donating only after Qiao Xiao was released, then led the visitors to inspect his tents.

• Tie Wenjing and Master Qin argued that Tang Wen should donate to Jiangzhou Prefecture because half of Su Mei Island lay within its jurisdiction.
• Tang Wen reminded them that Jiangzhou Prefecture had failed to protect his family from pirate attacks and asked for help freeing Qiao Xiao from prison in Yanling Commandery.
• Tie Wenjing and Master Qin pressed Tang Wen to donate three hundred thousand taels and promised to report his petition seeking help with Qiao Xiao's case.
• Tang Wen said he would donate after Qiao Xiao was released, and Tie Wenjing accepted his written petition.
• Tang Wen invited Tie Wenjing and Master Qin to inspect the unusual tents beside the lakeside road.

Tang Wen tried to secure help for Qiao Xiao’s release by donating Western tents to Tie Wenjing, while Gu Hanyan grew angry at his cautious approach. The chapter ended with Zhan Junru and Fan Zhili caught together, leaving Tang Wen to decide their punishment.

• Tang Wen gave Tie Wenjing fifty Western tents for Jiangzhou Prefecture, and Tie hurried back to seek Qin Botong’s help with Qiao Xiao’s case.
• Gu Hanyan urged Tang Wen to kill Kang Qingfeng or break Qiao Xiao out, but Tang rejected both as immediate solutions and refused to yield to Kang’s demands.
• Dongfang Ming brought in Zhan Junru and a disheveled man after catching them meeting, and Zhan Junru begged Tang Wen to punish her instead of the man.
• Zhan Dongwen explained that the man was his sister’s former husband, Fan Zhili, whom the family had believed dead, and said Junru had secretly met him.
• Zhan Junru admitted she had wronged Tang Wen, Fan Zhili claimed responsibility for their affair, and Dongfang Ming ordered a pig cage prepared as the Zhan family pleaded for mercy.

Tang Wen spared Zhan Junru and Fan Zhili by allowing them to marry, on the condition that Fan Zhili become a servant of the Tang household. After discussing a Heaven-Rank Cultivation Method and welcoming Shen Xihe to Su Mei Island, Tang Wen was surprised that the shopkeeper already knew about his champagne.

• Fan Zhili explained that his father had intercepted his letters to Zhan Junru, and admitted that he had pressured her into an illicit encounter.
• Tang Wen offered Fan Zhili a choice between death and becoming a Tang household servant; Fan Zhili chose servitude, and Tang Wen arranged his marriage to Zhan Junru that night.
• Gu Hanyan rejected Tang Wen's flirtation, prompting him to ask Dongfang Ming about obtaining a Heaven-Rank Cultivation Method.
• Tang Wen reasoned that Sea Saint City's difficult conditions for the Heaven-Rank method were a publicity tactic, then declined to choose a new personal maid in haste.
• Shen Xihe praised Su Mei Island's machinery and dam, then asked Tang Wen about his shipment of champagne, leaving Tang Wen surprised by how the news had reached him.

Tang Wen sold Shen Xihe a large shipment of goods, then prepared to attack the pirates guarding the silver mine at Crouching Dragon Lake. His forces launched a surprise assault, and Tang Wen killed a Fifth Rank Expert with a concealed pistol before Gu Hanyan accidentally injured him.

• Shen Xihe bought champagne, cola, mirrors, and lipstick from Tang Wen, then admired Tang Wen's off-road vehicle.
• Tang Wen trained Luo Yiwu and Dongfang Ming to drive and organized greenhouse farming on Su Mei Island.
• Luo Yiwu, Li Liao, and Dongfang Ming used drones to locate spies, while Tang Wen's forces prepared to attack the pirates.
• Tang Wen led hundreds of guards through the pirates' defenses and launched a surprise assault at the silver mine.
• Gu Hanyan confronted a Fifth Rank Expert, and Tang Wen lured him away before shooting him with a concealed pistol.
• Gu Hanyan tried to help Tang Wen when he pretended to collapse, then kicked him and injured his leg.

Tang Wen defeated a pirate force, shared the military credit with Tie Wenjing, and used the victory to seek a privately controlled defense force for Su Mei Island. After welcoming rescued laborers, he gained popularity and advanced to the sixth-rank early stage, then prepared to open the Second Spacetime-Travel Gate.

• Tie Wenjing told Tang Wen that the pirates’ defeat earned them military merit, and Tang Wen offered him credit for planning the operation.
• Li Liao reported 389 pirates killed, 208 captured, 783 laborers rescued, and 180,000 taels of silver and 508 firearms seized; Tang Wen donated 300,000 taels to the court and gave Tie Wenjing the prisoners and a report naming him military strategist.
• Tang Wen told Tie Wenjing he wanted a defensive force under his own control rather than court naval troops, and Tie Wenjing promised to find a solution.
• The rescued laborers arrived at Tang Wen’s camp, and nearly six hundred chose to stay, including veteran smelting craftsmen.
• Tang Wen absorbed the newcomers’ popularity, advanced his cultivation to the sixth-rank early stage, and decided to open the Second Spacetime-Travel Gate.

Tang Wen passed through the 1,000-point gate, absorbed Earth Glow that raised his cultivation, and entered a dangerous high-martial world. He bluffed a group of fighters into fleeing, then treated the wounded Wu Zi, who asked for his name.

• Tang Wen opened the 1,000-point gate and absorbed Earth Glow, advancing his Fish-Dragon Nine-Turn Art to the fourth turn and his cultivation to the sixth-rank middle stage.
• Tang Wen endured a brutal, freezing journey through space-time and arrived above a battlefield in a high-martial world.
• Tang Wen pretended to be a powerful flying master, frightening the black-clad fighters into fleeing and leaving Wu Zi behind.
• Tang Wen fell onto the battlefield, then used his first-aid kit to stop Wu Zi’s bleeding and bandage his wounds.
• Wu Zi thanked Tang Wen and asked his name, and Tang Wen claimed he had cultivated in remote mountains for decades.

Tang Wen questioned Wu Zi about the Black Tortoise Domain and learned that people mistook him for a powerful cultivator because he had flown. After hearing about the region’s cultivation ranks, Spirit Stones, and martial arts, Tang Wen accepted Wu Zi’s invitation to visit the Wu Family Fort.

• Tang Wen asked who ruled the Black Tortoise Domain, and Wu Zi explained that its lord, Western Invincibility, was a Divine Sense Realm expert.
• Wu Zi outlined the continent’s domains, cultivation ranks, and Spirit Stone economy, and Tang Wen considered how the stronger arts and rare stones might benefit him.
• Wu Zi gave Tang Wen a low-grade Spirit Stone and demonstrated how to draw spiritual energy from it.
• Wu Zi described his Lineage’s cultivation art and guessed that Tang Wen’s Fish-Dragon Nine-Turn Art was a yellow-rank method.
• Wu Zi invited Tang Wen to the Wu Family Fort, and Tang Wen agreed to go.

Tang Wen and Wu Zi reached Black Tortoise City, where Tang Wen sought a reward for treating a sick member of the Li Family. After Tang Wen intimidated the gate guards with a trick involving a mirror, Zhang He went to announce him to Li Guangqi.

• Tang Wen fed Wu Zi instant noodles, and Wu Zi mistook Tang Wen’s Great Landlord Space for a Void Bag.
• Wu Zi drove Tang Wen by carriage to Black Tortoise City, where they learned the Li Family was offering twenty low-grade Spirit Stones for a divine physician.
• Tang Wen decided to seek the reward despite Wu Zi questioning why he needed the money.
• Li Ding insulted Tang Wen and Wu Zi at the Li Family gates, but he and Zhang He became respectful after Tang Wen produced and put away a small mirror.
• Zhang He told Li Guangqi that an expert had come to treat the young lady, and Li Guangqi questioned whether Tang Wen had proved his abilities.

Tang Wen treated Li Yue’s painful, ulcerating leg tumor with anesthesia and surgery, then agreed to stay with the Li Family for a while. At the evening banquet, he impressed Li Guangqi and Tang Hanyun with champagne from his storage space.

• Li Guangqi invited Tang Wen into his household after learning he had a void bag and asked him to treat his daughter’s leg tumor.
• Tang Wen privately negotiated for Li Guangqi’s upper-grade heaven-tier Heavenly River Divine Wood Art and the promised spirit stones.
• Tang Wen examined Li Yue, assured her he could prevent pain during the operation, and anesthetized her with an injection.
• Tang Wen removed Li Yue’s tumor and prescribed medicine, while Li Yue felt no pain during the surgery.
• Tang Wen agreed to stay at the Li Family’s Fragrant Pavilion and examine its immediate family members while he remained there.
• Tang Wen served champagne at Li Guangqi’s banquet, and Li Guangqi eagerly asked for more after tasting it.