Recaps

Tang Wen strengthened Su Mei Island, confronted Blood Slaughter Hall, and acquired Divine Turtle Island through a trade with Xiao Gai. After securing major bridge projects and expanding his household, he began organizing the island’s new labor force and met the abandoned expert Yan Beitian.

• Tang Wen brought Tian Guiyun and the Tiger Mountain refugees to Su Mei Island, tested their leaders, and appointed them to guard roles after they agreed to serve his household.
• Tang Wen caught Six Fan Gate’s Blood Killing Branch Hall operatives trespassing, refused to surrender them, and later won Jiang Xuan’s support with military supplies and a saber.
• Tang Wen completed the Crouching Dragon Lake dam, planned bridges linking Su Mei Island to the mainland and nearby islands, and brought construction equipment and materials to the sites.
• Tang Wen met Xiao Gai and traded wine, food, and modern goods for Divine Turtle Island and ten thousand taels of gold.
• At Ridge-Sea Academy, Qiao Xiao defeated Tie Gu, and Tang Wen shot Mo Yungang after he challenged him, and Tang Wen later traded goods with local elites for more than a thousand slaves.
• Tang Wen returned to Su Mei Island with Tang Hao, where the Great Landlord Space upgraded after the slave trade and the bridge projects began with large, rotating work crews.
• Tang Wen organized public-relations, sanitation, and school plans for the growing settlement, then visited the temporary hospital and met Yan Beitian, a fifth-rank expert abandoned by the Wu Family.

Tang Wen strengthened himself and built a thriving supermarket in Black Tortoise City with help from powerful cultivators, craftsmen, and unusual goods from his world. After returning to Su Mei Island, he found Zhao Shilong threatening the residents, and Yan Beitian arrived to demonstrate his power.

• Tang Wen removed the Gu afflicting Yan Beitian and set out for Black Tortoise City to find elixirs and help him recover.
• Tang Wen secured Redbeard’s cultivation transfer, reached the Fourth Rank, and began selling food, drinks, and goods through Ku Mutong’s connections.
• Tang Wen recruited craftsmen, taught them steel-frame construction, and opened Tang’s Sumei Supermarket with support from cultivators and local allies.
• Tang Wen treated Qi Hengjiang’s leg and Heavenly Tears Elder’s eyes, while Tu Qianqiu traded pills and his worn furnace for modern goods and instruction.
• Tang’s Sumei Supermarket sold out much of its stock, and Tang Wen negotiated with Fan Ni and Fan Dongfeng over the Mystic Treasure Pavilion’s sword trade.
• Tang Wen traded grenades for a Synthesis Pill, advanced to the late Fourth Rank, and left Redbeard and Tu Qianqiu to protect his business before returning to Su Mei Island.
• Tang Wen found that Tang Hao had reached the Fifth Rank and learned that Zhao Shilong and Ridge-Sea Academy had threatened the island unless he appeared within ten days.
• Tang Wen confronted Zhao Shilong, and Yan Beitian arrived and shattered a wooden post with a distant fist strike.

Tang Wen expanded his power by recruiting workers and allies, exposing Ridge-Sea Academy’s plots, and acquiring Sky-Stone Island for a cement factory. The arc ended with the Cloud-Sea Sect holding Qiao Xiao and Tian Hao as Tang Wen’s forces prepared to confront the sect on the island.

• Tang Wen rallied Su Mei Island’s workers, recruited Lin Dongguo’s family and other laborers, and rescued Lin Xian'er from Huang Sanlang’s debt scheme.
• Tang Wen confronted Ridge-Sea Academy over Tang Hao’s expulsion and traveled to Jiangzhou, where he learned Zhao Shilong had arranged the punishment.
• Tang Wen bought Sky-Stone Island from Gui Wusong and began planning a cement factory, harbor, and communications network.
• Tang Wen welcomed Zhao Zilong and the Moyun Stockade villagers, recruited Chu Zhao, and persuaded Mo Dachang to join the Tang family.
• Tang Wen used the Traversal Gate to gather money, equipment, and machinery, then returned months later to install wind turbines and establish a camp on Sky-Stone Island.
• The Cloud-Sea Sect detained Qiao Xiao and Tian Hao and refused Tang Wen’s order to leave the island.
• Tang Wen’s crew installed turbines and factory machinery and built prefab houses overnight as Mo Dachang arrived with his guards.
• Tang Wen ordered his leaders to assess the Cloud-Sea Sect’s strength, and Dongfang Ming described its riverside base inside a vast fissure.

Tang Wen won control of Sky-Stone Island by offering work and defeating the Cloud-Sea Sect’s challenges, then used petroleum profits and his growing influence to prepare for larger ventures. In Moon City, he found a mysterious bead that strengthened him and his system, before accepting new Southern Hall honors and returning to the Chu Kingdom.

• Tang Wen revealed his deed to the Sky-Stone Island residents, hired and bought workers, treated Yu Chang, and began building support for his workshops.
• Tang Wen accepted the Cloud-Sea Sect’s trials, defeated its elders’ challenges, and negotiated shipping work and protection duties while Lan Yun’er became his maidservant.
• Tang Wen expanded his island operations, advanced his cultivation, and helped Gu Hanyan rise to the late fourth rank before appointing her to lead Su Mei Academy and the Cultivation Tower.
• Tang Wen joined Zhao Zhilong and Ding Zhendong at Moyun Stockade, identified the foul liquid as petroleum, and extracted and sold thousands of tonnes to fund equipment purchases.
• Tang Wen led the Southern Hall mission to Moon City, where his team fought Black Eagle Sect fighters and encountered Corpse Toads and a Corpse Infant.
• Tang Wen entered an underground palace, found a Mysterious Bead, absorbed its energy, advanced to late Third Rank, and upgraded the Great Landlord System to 4.0.
• Tang Wen reunited with Qiao Jingtian’s group, taught Luo Xue a cultivation art, and learned that her grandmaster was dying from poison.
• The War Dragon Sect promoted Tang Wen to Core Elder and Deputy Hall Master, while Tang Wen expanded his businesses and supplies before returning to the Chu Kingdom.