Chapter Summaries

Tang Wen visited the Cloud-Sea Sect to discuss Sky-Stone Island and found the sect prepared for a possible fight. The sect leader offered him the Holy Maiden, Lan Yun'er, as a gift, but she challenged whether he was capable of accepting her.

• Tang Wen decided the town dock was unsuitable for a permanent harbor and arranged a temporary expansion while surveyors planned a better port site.
• Tang Wen traveled with Gu Hanyan, Yan Beixing, and Luo Yiwu to the Cloud-Sea Sect, whose disciples mobilized when he arrived.
• Wang Haiting persuaded the sect elders to receive Tang Wen peacefully and welcomed him at the checkpoint.
• Ximen Taigao presented a pig's head, wine, and the Holy Maiden Lan Yun'er as the sect's guest gifts.
• Tang Wen declined the offer, and Lan Yun'er rose from the platter and challenged his ability to accept her.

Tang Wen accepted the Cloud-Sea Sect’s Three Grand Gifts after Ximen Taigao threatened him with humiliation if he failed. He left the sect elders stunned by defeating their first two tests, while Gu Hanyan realized his strength was far greater than she had believed.

• Lan Yun'er challenged Tang Wen to conquer her, and Ximen Taigao revealed she had reached the Fourth Rank at sixteen.
• Ximen Taigao and his elders mocked Tang Wen’s party and demanded that Tang Wen pass three trials or kneel and sue for peace.
• Wang Haiting and Tang Wen’s companions urged him to leave, but Tang Wen declared he would stay and accept the trials.
• Lin Tianwei served Tang Wen pig’s-head meat, but Tang Wen’s sudden movement sent Lin crashing into a pillar and left his mouth swollen like a pig’s snout.
• Li Liufeng sent a spinning bowl of wine at Tang Wen, who caught it with his teeth, drank the wine in one gulp, and shattered the bowl.
• Gu Hanyan realized Tang Wen’s displayed strength suggested he had reached the Fifth Rank, while Ximen Taigao grew grave.

Tang Wen turned Lan Yun’er’s charm technique against her, using a Lion’s Roar to make her acknowledge him as her master. Ximen Taigao disowned his daughter, while Tang Wen invented a story about a Cat’s Eye to explain his victory and continued bluffing about ancient beasts.

• Tang Wen resisted Lan Yun’er’s charm technique while Luo Yiwu and Gu Hanyan fell under its influence.
• Tang Wen used a Lion’s Roar to make Lan Yun’er kneel and declare herself his maidservant.
• Ximen Taigao expelled Lan Yun’er from the Cloud-Sea Sect and his family, and Wang Haiting revealed her real name was Ximen Lanyun.
• Tang Wen claimed Lan Yun’er had become his maidservant and challenged Ximen Taigao when he threatened her.
• Tang Wen said a Cat’s Eye had protected him from Lan Yun’er’s charms and claimed he had used water techniques to win the drinking contest with Elder Li.
• Tang Wen told Ning Xiaotian and Wang Haiting that ancient beasts had practiced martial arts and could take human form.

Tang Wen negotiated with the Cloud-Sea Sect to secure Sky-Stone Island, protect his cement workshop, and transport its cargo, using modern weapons to demonstrate his power. Ximen Taigao agreed to the arrangement, and Lan Yun'er was welcomed back into the Ximen Family.

• Tang Wen explained the supposed Mountain-Moving Art and warned the elders that it consumed three months of the user's lifespan with each use.
• Tang Wen offered the Cloud-Sea Sect shipping work, wages, land for its headquarters, and responsibility for protecting Sky-Stone Island and helping the Tang family in a crisis.
• Tang Wen had Lin Tianwei shoot Yan Beitian, who survived thanks to his bulletproof vest and helmet, then showed the sect his guards' weapons and a hand grenade.
• Ximen Taigao agreed to Tang Wen's terms and accepted responsibility for managing Sky-Stone Island while Lan Yun'er served Tang Wen.
• Ximen Taigao apologized to Lan Yun'er and welcomed her back into the Ximen Family.

Tang Wen gained the Cloud-Sea Sect’s cooperation, expanded his workforce, and completed the cement factory, drawing a surge of popularity that advanced his cultivation. He still needed 800 qing of land to activate Crossing Mode, and Chu Zhao offered a plan to counter Ridge-Sea Academy’s scheme.

• Tang Wen offered the Cloud-Sea Sect a heaven-rank high-grade cultivation method in exchange for submission, but Ximen Taigao refused, and Lan Yun'er left with Tang Wen.
• A thousand Cloud-Sea Sect disciples joined Tang Wen’s workshops, and more residents sold themselves to the Tang family as the cement factory began production.
• Tang Wen absorbed a massive surge of popularity, advanced to third-rank mid-stage, and learned he still needed 800 qing of land to activate Crossing Mode.
• Chu Zhao advised Tang Wen to use Garrison Commander Zhao’s authority as cover while dealing with the foul water at Moyun Stockade, countering Ridge-Sea Academy’s scheme.
• Chu Zhao revealed he had reached fourth rank after advancing two stages with Tang Wen’s cultivation resources, and Tang Wen offered him silver and gifts to help with the military authorities.

Tang Wen teased Lan Yun'er about her sea-born cultivation and frightened her with the possibility of turning into a Sea Dragon before Gu Hanyan challenged him to a fight. After Tang Wen gave Gu Hanyan a powerful pill, she attacked him with increasingly deadly techniques, and the chapter ended with her still fighting furiously.

• Chu Zhao took tents, silver, and protective gear from Tang Wen and hurried away, while Tang Wen told Lan Yun'er that Chu Zhao was a Hundred-Household Commander in the Tang family’s service.
• Tang Wen wagered with Lan Yun'er that a general would someday join the Tang family, and they discussed her rapid cultivation and the changes to her hair and eyes after she consumed a Sea Dragon’s blood and gallbladder.
• Tang Wen jokingly frightened Lan Yun'er by suggesting she might grow into a Sea Dragon, and she panicked into his arms before Gu Hanyan arrived and warned her not to trust him around women.
• Tang Wen teased Gu Hanyan into accepting a fight, then drove her to a secluded area, where she swallowed his Superior Grade Great Strength Pill.
• Gu Hanyan attacked Tang Wen with punches and powerful sword techniques, but he easily evaded and countered her strikes.
• Gu Hanyan continued launching lethal sword attacks at Tang Wen, emerging from the smoke and dust with disheveled hair and torn clothes.

Tang Wen provoked Gu Hanyan into unleashing her potential, then risked his strength to transfer cultivation power to her and help her advance. After Gu Hanyan woke and understood his intentions, she offered herself to him, but Tang Wen stopped after kissing her and left her wondering about him.

• At Lan Yun'er's urging, Tang Wen had her use her charm technique while he provoked Gu Hanyan into a frenzy, pushing Gu Hanyan to fight until she was exhausted.
• When Gu Hanyan tried to take her own life, Lan Yun'er rushed to stop her, and Tang Wen knocked the sword aside and caught her.
• Tang Wen used Zhuge Ziliang's Fusion Array to transfer cultivation power to Gu Hanyan, helping her rise three stages to the late fourth rank, but he collapsed from exhaustion.
• After Tang Wen woke, Gu Hanyan told Lan Yun'er she understood his actions and promised to repay him, while Lan Yun'er teased her about warming Tang Wen's bed.
• Tang Wen bathed and entered the room where Gu Hanyan waited; after she offered herself to him, he kissed her but left, telling her to preserve herself until her revenge was complete.

Tang Wen formalized Gu Hanyan’s status as Young Madam, reorganized Su Mei Island’s leadership and allowances, and bought the land deed to Moyun Stockade. After the system confirmed that popularity and land requirements were met for another transmigration, he postponed returning to Yunhai City to pursue a military request at Moyun Stockade.

• Gu Hanyan accepted the title of Young Madam, and Tang Wen put her in charge of Su Mei Academy and the Cultivation Tower while naming Tang Hao Second Island Master.
• Tang Wen raised his subordinates’ allowances, appointed Mo Dachang to command the Personal Guards, and declared that hall positions would depend on ability.
• Mo Dachang sold Tang Wen Moyun Stockade’s land deed for one hundred thousand taels, prompting the system to confirm that Tang Wen could transmigrate again.
• Tang Wen received Chu Zhao’s invitation to discuss requisitioning soldiers to clear Moyun Stockade before an inspection, delaying his return to Yunhai City.
• Tang Wen and his party set out for Moyun Stockade before dawn to pursue the request at the Garrison Commander Camp.

Tang Wen joined Zhao Zhilong and mobile warfare officer Ding Zhendong to inspect Moyun Stockade after a foul, spreading liquid made the settlement uninhabitable. Tang recognized the substance as petroleum, while the officers worried it would reach the river and threaten the garrison camp; the chapter ended with them discussing how they lacked soldiers to contain it.

• Tang Wen arrived at Zhao Zhilong's camp and met Ding Zhendong, who agreed to stay for dinner and sample Tang Wen's foreign goods.
• Zhao Zhilong told Ding Zhendong that a foul liquid had ruined Moyun Stockade and that Tang Wen had taken in its displaced residents.
• Ding Zhendong rode with Zhao Zhilong and Tang Wen to inspect Moyun Stockade, where they found the dark, sticky liquid had contaminated houses and farmland.
• Tang Wen recognized the liquid as petroleum bubbling up from underground.
• Chu Zhao warned that the spreading petroleum might reach the river, while Zhao Zhilong and Ding Zhendong discussed the shortage of troops to contain it.

Tang Wen was maneuvered into signing a military pledge to help preserve the Skyhawk Valley Garrison Commander Camp, then discovered a rich petroleum pool at Moyun Stockade. After transporting and selling oil, he exchanged gold for silver and bought equipment for his next return to the Chu Kingdom.

• Ding Zhendong, Zhao Zhilong, and Chu Zhao persuaded Tang Wen to provide workers to clear the foul water at Skyhawk Valley, offering double Merit Points in return.
• Ding Zhendong and the others got Tang Wen drunk, tricked him into signing a military pledge, and promised him ten Black-Clad Cannons and double Merit Points; Chu Zhao was assigned to escort provisions and horses.
• Tang Wen returned to Moyun Stockade, found a clean petroleum pool, and stored 7,000 tonnes of oil before directing Luo Yiwu to recruit workers.
• Tang Wen returned to Yunhai City, sold the petroleum for thirty million, then exchanged gold in the Miluo Kingdom for silver and sold the rest in the Great Eastern Country.
• Tang Wen used his funds to buy rebar, trucks, excavators, stone crushers, and other equipment for his next trip.

Tang Wen completed his steelworks training before returning to the War Dragon Sect’s Southern Hall, where he learned that Hall Master Qiao and Deputy Hall Master Qiu had disappeared. He joined a mission briefing about a mysterious bead that appeared over Lousha and prepared to investigate the dangerous Moon Ancient City.

• Tang Wen spent over two months learning steelmaking and then discovered dozens of missed calls from Xiao Jinguo and hundreds from Luo Xue.
• Xiao Jinguo urged Tang Wen to return to the Southern Hall, and Luo Xue told him that Hall Master Qiao and Deputy Hall Master Qiu had disappeared.
• Tang Wen asked Zhao Jiang about wind turbines and port equipment, then traveled to the Southern Hall training grounds.
• Xiao Jinguo showed the group footage of a huge bead over Lousha, and Tang Wen noticed that it resembled the beads on his wooden bracelet.
• Feng Lingxiao warned the group about Moon Ancient City’s dangers and revealed that he had reached the early stage of the fourth rank.

Tang Wen was appointed to lead a War Dragon Sect mission to find two missing leaders and their disciples in Moon City, after proving stronger than Feng Lingxiao in a hand-grip contest. He prepared for the mission by arranging to trade supplies for two thousand bulletproof vests and helmets.

• Luo Xue revealed that Tang Wen was younger than the other elders, and Feng Lingxiao challenged him by squeezing his hand.
• Tang Wen calmly endured Feng Lingxiao’s grip and overpowered him, prompting Feng Lingxiao to admit defeat and agree to follow his orders.
• Xiao Jinguo appointed Tang Wen to lead the team, with Luo Xue and Feng Lingxiao assisting, and ordered them to leave for Lousha Ancient City in three hours.
• Xiao Jinguo told Tang Wen the mission’s main goal was to find Hall Master Qiao, Deputy Hall Master Qiu, and more than a dozen missing disciples in Moon City.
• Tang Wen asked for two thousand bulletproof vests and helmets in exchange for elixirs, Spirit Stones, sabers, and swords, and Xiao Jinguo agreed.

Tang Wen sold Feng Lingxiao a Void Bag and a Treasure Sword before joining the team’s mission to Moon City. As the group crossed the Peacock River, river beasts attacked, and Tang Wen rescued Tan Xiong by pulling him safely to the far bank.

• Tang Wen sold Feng Lingxiao a Void Bag for a hundred million and a Superior Grade Treasure Sword for another hundred million.
• Xiao Jinguo reminded Tang Wen to declare the taxes, and Tang Wen grumbled about the deduction.
• Several days later, Feng Lingxiao led the team from the Peacock River toward the Gulou Desert and warned them about dangers and foreign sects.
• Luo Xue organized the team’s crossing using floating foam pieces, while Feng Lingxiao led the way across the river.
• A black river beast attacked Tan Xiong, and Tang Wen used a silk sash to pull him out of the river and fling him safely onto the opposite bank.

Tang Wen held off a dozen Desert Crocodiles so the team could cross the river, then recovered and learned that Luo Xue considered him a half-step Third-Grade expert. The team reached the mysterious woods near Moon City and entered cautiously in pairs, with Feng Lingxiao leading, Tang Wen supporting the middle, and Luo Xue guarding the rear.

• Tang Wen fought off more than a dozen Desert Crocodiles while the team crossed the river, then swallowed a Spirit Pill and rested.
• Feng Lingxiao identified the creatures as Desert Crocodiles, and Luo Xue explained that Tang Wen's range and force suggested he was near Third Grade; Tang Wen said he was only half a step there.
• Tang Wen wondered why Luo Xue had crossed the river so easily and questioned her claim that she did not know martial arts.
• Feng Lingxiao warned the team about the mysterious woods near Moon City and described its ruins, bones, strange sounds, and unreliable communications.
• Feng Lingxiao assigned positions and ordered the team to move in pairs, and the fifteen members cautiously entered the woods.

Tang Wen led the War Dragon Sect team through the woods toward Moon City, using his Popularity Eye to expose hidden Black Eagle Sect fighters. In Moon City’s ruins, Corpse Toads poisoned Zhao Fang, but Tang Wen’s Antidote Pill stopped the poison from spreading.

• Tang Wen used Secret Voice Transmission to guide the team in locating concealed Black Eagle Sect fighters, and the team killed many before the survivors fled.
• Feng Lingxiao sent the wounded Zhang Yun back with Li Qing and Ning Mei, then led the team onward toward Moon City.
• Tang Wen used his Popularity Eye to spot another Black Eagle Sect group, and the team killed most of them before two escaped.
• In Moon City’s ruins, Li Xian fell through the ground, and Luo Xue crashed into jars while rescuing him, releasing a swarm of Corpse Toads.
• A Corpse Toad bit Zhao Fang and blackened his arm, but Tang Wen gave him an Antidote Pill that stopped the poison from spreading.

Tang Wen fled the Corpse Infant through a mysterious doorway that appeared in an earthen wall, then followed the Great Landlord Space’s signal through an underground passage. He reached a cavern where dozens of people were fighting amid ancient symbols.

• Tang Wen’s group encountered a Corpse Toad Legion, and Feng Lingxiao ordered them to kill the bitten victims to end their suffering.
• Feng Lingxiao spotted a Corpse Infant and told the others to flee while he kept it occupied, but Tang Wen attacked it with a crushed Antidote Pill and drew its pursuit.
• Tang Wen used Antidote Pills, Spirit Pills, grenades, and a machine gun against the Corpse Infant, but it evaded his attacks and chased him toward a towering earthen wall.
• Tang Wen’s Wooden Bracelet revealed a doorway in the wall, and he escaped through it while the Corpse Infant crashed into the wall.
• Tang Wen recovered in a dark underground passage, followed the Great Landlord Space’s signal, and found a cavern where dozens of people fought beneath ancient carvings.

Tang Wen was trapped in a coffin amid a swarm of Corpse Toads and a Corpse Infant, but found a vast Mysterious Bead inside and absorbed its energy. The energy strengthened him and upgraded the Great Landlord System before the coffin crumbled and the bead’s powder drove the Corpse Infant away.

• Tang Wen found Qiao Jingtian and Qiu Long among the fighters in the underground palace and gave Qiao Jingtian’s group Antidote Pills to deter the Corpse Infant.
• Gao Tian led the team toward the coffin, but the Corpse Infant’s poison and a swarm of Corpse Toads forced everyone to retreat.
• Tang Wen turned back to distract the Corpse Infant, then escaped into the coffin as the Corpse Toads overwhelmed the people outside.
• Tang Wen killed the rotting survivors inside the coffin and discovered a Mysterious Bead like the one on his wrist.
• Tang Wen absorbed the bead’s purple energy, reaching late Third Rank, advancing his Popularity Eye to Fourth Rank, and upgrading the Great Landlord System to 4.0.
• The coffin crumbled, and Tang Wen blasted the Corpse Infant with the bead’s remaining powder, making it flee.

Tang Wen escaped the underground palace with weapons after driving off the Corpse Toads, then reunited with Qiao Jingtian's group, who had believed him dead. Back at the Southern Hall, he confronted Luo Xue about hiding her martial skill and teased her with claims that his divine eye could see through her clothes.

• Tang Wen scattered a substance that made the Corpse Toads flee, then collected dozens of modern firearms and stored them in his Void Bag.
• Tang Wen found Qiao Jingtian's group preparing to search for his remains and revealed that he had survived the underground palace.
• Tang Wen told the group that a grenade had destroyed the coffin and its contents, and they accepted that nobody had obtained whatever was inside.
• Two days later, Tang Wen accused Luo Xue of concealing her martial arts and suspected she had been assigned to monitor him.
• Luo Xue denied spying on him and explained that she had become his secretary to help his teaching and learn from him.
• Tang Wen claimed he had seen through Luo Xue's clothes with his innate divine eye, provoking her anger and causing her to retreat beneath a quilt.

Tang Wen taught Luo Xue the Profound-Rank Heavenly Wood Star-Pegasus Art and learned that her grandmaster was poisoned and nearing death. He offered to examine the grandmaster, while Southern Hall leaders discussed how to recruit Tang Wen and speculated about the mysterious source of his abilities.

• Tang Wen explained cultivation realms to Luo Xue, then teased her before teaching her the Heavenly Wood Star-Pegasus Art after several days of her caring for him.
• Luo Xue revealed that her grandmaster had given her thirty years of cultivation power and was dying from poison contracted in the Southern Barbarians.
• Tang Wen offered to examine Luo Xue's grandmaster, and she said she would bring him over in a few days.
• Qiao Jingtian, Qiu Long, Xiao Jinguo, and Gao Tian discussed Tang Wen's talents and the treasures he had supplied to the Southern Hall.
• Gao Tian and Qiao Jingtian suspected that an unseen expert stood behind Tang Wen's mysterious abilities.

Tang Wen received a promotion to Core Elder and Deputy Hall Master of the Southern Hall, along with substantial rewards and new privileges. He expanded his business plans and prepared vast supplies before returning to the Chu Kingdom.

• Gao Tian explained that the War Dragon Sect planned to accommodate Tang Wen’s reasonable demands to draw him in, and described Luo Xue’s exceptional senior sister, Cao Wuxin.
• Tang Wen learned that Song Qingyang had arranged production of improved firearms and Black-Clad Cannons in Afghanistan, while Zhao Jiang established Security and Salvage Companies and selected a site for the group’s new headquarters.
• The War Dragon Sect promoted Tang Wen to Core Elder and Deputy Hall Master of the Southern Hall, awarded him one thousand merit points, and offered him equipment, reimbursement, and a villa.
• Tang Wen traded elixirs, spirit stones, blades, and swords to the hall, then invested the proceeds in the Tang Su Mei Group and planned new businesses for spiritual crops and herbs.
• Tang Wen stocked tens of thousands of tonnes of supplies over four months and transmigrated back to the Chu Kingdom.