Chapter Summaries

Tang Wen treated Hong Xiu’s wet nurse, Zhong Linhong, while absorbing the energy of a Heaven-Born Fruit and advancing his cultivation. After Xifang Kongming confronted him over neglecting the City Lord’s Residence, Hong Xiu’s guard overwhelmed Mo Lifeng, and Hong Xiu gave Tang Wen a Heaven Domain Command Token before he had to face the city lord’s demands.

• Tang Wen met Hong Xiu, whose popularity figure he could not see, and accepted a Heaven-Born Fruit while agreeing to examine her sick wet nurse.
• The fruit’s intense heat nearly overwhelmed Tang Wen, but Shangguan Chuqing and the Heavenly Insect absorbed Hong Xiu’s frost energy as she tried to cool him, helping him advance to late-stage Xiantian.
• Hong Xiu offered Tang Wen rare fruits and Spirit Stones for treating Zhong Linhong, whom he diagnosed with a blood tumor and treated with a Miracle Cancer Drug.
• Xifang Kongming confronted Tang Wen for neglecting his duties at the City Lord’s Residence, and Hong Xiu challenged the city lord’s priorities.
• Hong Xiu’s guard struck Mo Lifeng through a wall, prompting Xifang Kongming to leave after mentioning important business.
• Hong Xiu gave Tang Wen a Heaven Domain Command Token to protect him if Xifang Kongming tried to punish him.

Tang Wen received a supreme-grade spirit stone and learned the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon from Hong Xiu, then profited from her purchases and arranged a villa for her. The chapter ended with Xifang Kongming recognizing the Heaven-Born Fruit Tang Wen had eaten and berating him for wasting a heavenly treasure.

• Hong Xiu gave Tang Wen ten Vermilion Fruit Kings, ten supreme-grade spirit stones, and a huge Void Bag, then taught him the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon.
• Tang Wen arranged for Wu Yunpeng and the workers to build Hong Xiu a modern villa while she stayed to oversee her wet nurse's recovery.
• Wu Zi told Tang Wen that Hong Xiu had bought much of the supermarket's stock, paid generously, and left a mountain-sized lump of silver at Back Mountain.
• Tang Wen rewarded Wu Zi and learned that Xifang Kongming was angry over demands for the City Lord's Residence and its subordinate cities to receive his goods.
• Tang Wen visited Xifang Kongming, described how he had met Hong Xiu, and revealed that he had eaten a fruit she called a Heaven-Born Fruit.
• Xifang Kongming identified the fruit from a picture and scolded Tang Wen for eating such a precious treasure despite his weak cultivation.

Tang Wen negotiated with Xifang Kongming over a large order for the City Lord’s Residence, then joined the elders’ dispute about funding installations for their subordinate halls. The chapter ended with the council making Tang Wen the Eleventh Elder and granting him a million qing of land as a fief.

• Tang Wen told Xifang Kongming that he had eaten Hong Xiu’s Heaven-Born Fruit, then used her Command Token to temper the City Lord’s anger toward him.
• Xifang Kongming asked Tang Wen to supply bathrooms, electric lamps, and kitchen equipment for the residence’s subordinate halls, and Tang Wen recorded an order worth about 980,000 high-grade spirit stones after a five-percent discount.
• The elders argued over the cost and which halls should receive installations until Xifang Kongming silenced them.
• Xifang Kongming raised the vacant Fourth Elder position, and the elders proposed making Tang Wen the Eleventh Elder instead.
• Xifang Kongming ordered a Command Token for Tang Wen and granted him a one-million-qing fief.

Tang Wen became a core elder and received Hundred Spirits City as his million-qing fief, then prepared to travel there and choose a city lord. After Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu warned him that the city’s power struggle could be deadly, they recognized the Heaven Domain Command Token he revealed.

• Tang Wen negotiated for Hundred Spirits City instead of distant Cloudmist City, agreeing to pay 350,000 high-grade spirit stones in compensation and receiving the city as his fief.
• Tang Wen collected his payment, brought gifts for Xifang Kongming’s wives and children, and learned that he would have to choose a city lord from among Hundred Spirits City’s powerful lineages.
• Xifang Kongming arranged for He Jun and a hundred guards to accompany Tang Wen, who then visited Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu before departing.
• Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu warned Tang Wen that He Jun was too weak to control the city’s contenders and that the Council of Elders could be ruthless.
• Tang Wen showed Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu the Heaven Domain Command Token, and both recognized it as an extraordinary object.

Tang Wen told Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu about his Heaven Domain Command Token and the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon, then made the two old men formally become his disciples so he could teach them the technique. After examining Tang Wen’s evolved Heavenly Insect and giving the elders a Vermilion Fruit King, he asked Duanmu Hongxiu for help advancing them to the Concentrating Spirit Realm, and she demanded something that would please her.

• Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu explained the rival domains behind the Mysterious Heaven Continent and discussed the unknown significance of Tang Wen’s jade Command Token and his Heavenly Insect.
• Tang Wen revealed that Duanmu Hongxiu had taught him the high-grade yellow-rank Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon, which he could teach only to his disciples, so Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu knelt and accepted him as their master.
• Tang Wen arranged a public discipleship banquet for that evening and showed the elders his evolved Heavenly Insect, which Gu Elder judged to be about as strong as they were.
• Tang Wen promised Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu a Vermilion Fruit King as their discipleship gift and went to ask Duanmu Hongxiu to help them reach the Concentrating Spirit Realm.
• Duanmu Hongxiu said she could advance the two elders immediately if Tang Wen offered her something she liked, and Tang Wen presented her with a tablet computer.

Tang Wen gave Hong Xiu a tablet, used a Heaven-Born Fruit to help Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu reach the Concentrating Spirit Realm, and publicly amazed the guests at his apprenticeship ceremony with an extraordinary Lightness Technique. He then gathered his disciples and allies in the Underground Secret Chamber to absorb the powerful martial artists’ admiration, where Shangguan Chuqing awoke hungry for energy.

• Tang Wen gave Hong Xiu a tablet and received spirit marrow from Zhang Chang in return.
• Tang Wen taught Gu Elder and Tu Qianqiu the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon, then split a Heaven-Born Fruit between them, helping both break through to the Concentrating Spirit Realm.
• Xifang Kongming and Zhou Quan discussed Tang Wen’s Heaven Domain Command Token and decided not to offend him, while considering how to draw him to their side.
• At the Cloud Garment Workshop ceremony, Tu Qianqiu and Gu Elder became Tang Wen’s disciples, and Zhang Taiben was recognized as their eldest senior brother.
• When Grand Elder Wan Fuyuan challenged him to demonstrate his abilities, Tang Wen remained in midair for thousands of breaths and strolled through the air, astonishing the guests.
• Tang Wen took his disciples and allies to the Underground Secret Chamber to absorb the gathered martial artists’ admiration, and Shangguan Chuqing awoke demanding energy.

Tang Wen’s rapid cultivation drew attention, and he secretly used his telekinesis to prank Duanmu Hong Xiu, who then followed him to Hundred Spirits City. The chapter ended as Tang Wen arrived at the city and began meeting its leaders and prominent families.

• Tang Wen’s disciples broke through several cultivation levels after absorbing power from the dried corpse, while Tang Wen advanced to early Qi Nourishing and gained stronger telekinesis.
• Duanmu Hong Xiu spied on Tang Wen with her Heavenly Eye, so he stroked her face with his telekinesis until she suspected someone was haunting her.
• Duanmu Hong Xiu asked Tang Wen about her strange sensations, then joined his party on the journey to Hundred Spirits City.
• Tang Wen and his companions arrived at Hundred Spirits City, where Zhou Bingzhong greeted them and began introducing the city’s four great families.

Tang Wen entered Hundred Spirits City after Duanmu Hongxiu froze and defeated the four family heads and their formation. He secretly learned the first level of her Nine Paths of Cold Ice and then planned to use a rumor linking them as childhood betrotheds to bring the four great families under control.

• The four family heads demanded that Tang Wen pass through their Hundred Spirits Formation before entering the city, but Duanmu Hongxiu froze them and the formation’s martial artists.
• Tang Wen beat the frozen family heads until they acknowledged that he had passed, and he entered the city with his companions.
• Duanmu Hongxiu agreed to teach Tang Wen the Nine Paths of Cold Ice, and he secretly copied the technique’s transmission method.
• After a day of instruction, Tang Wen released icy energy and froze a passing cat, astonishing Duanmu Hongxiu.
• Tang Wen told Tu Qianqiu to spread a rumor that he and Duanmu Hongxiu had been betrothed as children so he could use her reputation to subdue the four great families.

The four great lineages visited Tang Wen to apologize and win his favor with valuable gifts. Wan Tiemu mistakenly called Duanmu Hongxiu Tang Wen’s childhood betrothed, provoking her, while Tang Wen denied any engagement and the gathering ended awkwardly.

• Chen Zhendong and Song Lin decided to befriend Tang Wen and give him their ancestral Dragon-Nurturing Wood.
• Wan Tiemu and Wan Lao'er chose the Golden Scale Jade Garment as a gift for Hong Xiu, while Luo Feiyang and Chai Zhao prepared gifts for Tang Wen.
• Chen Zhendong, Wan Tiemu, Luo Feiyang, and Chai Zhao arrived together at the City Lord's Residence to present their gifts to Tang Wen.
• Luo Feiyang gave Tang Wen a Spirit Stone chair, Chen Zhendong presented Dragon-Nurturing Wood that Shangguan Chuqing requested, and Chai Zhao offered Life Liquid.
• Wan Tiemu presented the Golden Scale Jade Garment to Hong Xiu and called her Tang Wen's childhood betrothed, so Duanmu Hongxiu slapped him and threatened him.
• Tang Wen denied any childhood engagement with Hong Xiu, who then left in anger as the gathered clan heads traded barbs.

Tang Wen arranged for the four great lineages to take turns ruling Hundred Spirits City, then gained control of the city and triggered the Great Landlord System’s upgrade to version 6.0. The upgrade expanded his crossing abilities and indicators, while leaving him eager to eventually transport people between planes.

• Tang Wen proposed that Chen Zhendong, Luo Feiyang, Chai Zhao, and Wan Tiemu take five-year turns as city lord, and they agreed to a public drawing of lots.
• Hong Xiu confronted Tang Wen over spreading a rumor about their childhood betrothal, and Zhang Chang beat Tang Wen and his protectors before Hong Xiu stopped him.
• Duanmu Hongxiu explained that she had spared Tang Wen because he might cure her wet nurse and revealed that her Command Token was one of only three in the world.
• At a public gathering, Wan Tiemu drew the first term as city lord, while Tang Wen appointed the other three men as deputy city lords and elders.
• The city’s residents hailed Tang Wen as Eleventh Elder, and a million birds gathered over him as their bird qi strengthened his Heavenly Insect.
• The Great Landlord System upgraded to 6.0, adding inter-plane crossing and a living-creature space, and Tang Wen reviewed his increased indicators and the new restrictions on carrying creatures.

Tang Wen returned to Yunhai City to prepare supplies for the war, expand his business, and meet his transmigration requirements. He obtained the deed to Spirit Immortal Island, which the system counted as far larger than its recorded area, just as Xiao Jinguo arrived with bad news.

• Tang Wen left Duanmu Hongxiu at the Cloud Garment Workshop and instructed Wu Zi to develop a medicinal herb and grain farm before returning to Yunhai City.
• Tang Wen ordered Zhao Jiang to collect payment from sect customers and banned sales to the Kongtong Sect, prompting Liu Zhiliang to threaten him with a challenge.
• Tang Wen helped Cao Wuxin, Luo Xue, and Zhao Jiang improve their cultivation, then told Zhao Jiang to invest in the Tang Su Mei Group and promote spirit fish and spirit rice.
• Tang Wen studied oil refining and extraction while planning to stockpile fuel and military supplies for the Chu Kingdom.
• The system announced that Tang Wen had fulfilled his land requirement, and the map identified Spirit Immortal Island as the source of five thousand qing.
• Xiao Jinguo delivered the deed listing Spirit Immortal Island at eight thousand mu, agreed that any concealed extra land belonged to Tang Wen, then warned that he had bad news.

Tang Wen accepted Liu Zhiliang’s challenge and traveled to Dragon Gate Mountain, where thousands gathered to watch. Before the fight began, Yang Xiao’s identity as a Heaven Ranking expert was revealed, shifting the crowd’s attention to him.

• Xiao Jinguo and Cao Wuxin urged Tang Wen to avoid Liu Zhiliang, but Tang Wen accepted the challenge and arranged to fight at the Dragon Gate Sect in five days.
• Tang Wen’s party arrived at Dragon Gate Mountain, where he welcomed the enormous crowd as a chance to gain the Popularity needed to return to the Chu Kingdom.
• Yang Zhao and Zeng Kui greeted Tang Wen and overlooked Yang Xiao until Zhuang Sheng recognized him as the senior who had once instructed him.
• Tang Wen revealed that he had stolen and eaten the Millennium Ginseng King while Yang Xiao guarded it, prompting the crowd to laugh.
• Zhuang Sheng announced that Yang Xiao ranked twenty-eighth on the Heaven Ranking, shocking the Dragon Gate Sect and drawing everyone’s attention to him.

Tang Wen secured Gu Dongguo’s support by teaching Gu Junfeng the yellow-rank Flood Dragon Lure technique, which rapidly raised Gu Junfeng’s cultivation. As Tang Wen prepared for his challenge against Liu Zhiliang, he learned Liu had the Kongtong Sect’s dangerous Flying Sky Disc, while the chapter ended with Luo Xue and Cao Wuxin admiring the five-hundred-year-old Tianshan Snow Lotus.

• Yang Xiao revealed that he was ranked twenty-eighth on the Heaven Ranking and warned Tang Wen that Liu Zhiliang had advanced to the late Xiantian stage.
• Gu Dongguo offered Tang Wen the Tianshan Snow Lotus and five billion in exchange for teaching Gu Junfeng a yellow-rank cultivation technique, and Tang Wen agreed on the condition that the Tianshan Sect support his family.
• Tang Wen taught Gu Junfeng Flood Dragon Lure and gave him a Vermilion Fruit King, helping him reach the transcendent grade late stage.
• Gu Dongguo and Gu Junfeng told Tang Wen that Liu Zhiliang possessed the Flying Sky Disc, a hidden weapon that could greatly increase his combat power.
• Luo Xue admired the five-hundred-year-old Tianshan Snow Lotus while Cao Wuxin recalled a story about a snow lotus and corrected her about the Udumbara Immortal Flower.

Tang Wen defeated Liu Zhiliang at the Dragon Gate Sect’s Heavenly Terrace and forced the Kongtong Sect to pay five billion to spare him. After the crowd’s praise activated Crossing Mode, Tang Wen brought Yang Xiao to the underground cultivation chamber and gave him a powerful technique and the gathered popularity to help him advance.

• Tang Wen gave Cao Wuxin a five-hundred-year-old snow lotus, then attended the challenge gathering at the Heavenly Terrace the next morning.
• Liu Zhiliang challenged Tang Wen to a fight to the death, while Dugu Yijian served as adjudicator and Mo Gu threatened Tang Wen.
• Tang Wen caught Liu Zhiliang’s Flying Sky Disc, struck him down, and pinned him to the platform.
• Tang Wen demanded five billion from the Kongtong Sect in exchange for Liu Zhiliang’s life, then kicked Liu Zhiliang toward Mo Gu and injured Mo Gu as he caught him.
• The crowd’s praise activated Crossing Mode, and Tang Wen hurried Yang Xiao to the underground chamber and transmitted the Flood Dragon Lure technique to him.
• Tang Wen gathered the spectators’ popularity in the Spirit Gathering Array, and Yang Xiao began absorbing it in hopes of reaching the Origin-Gathering Realm.

Tang Wen gained wealth and allies, recruited security for the Tang Su Mei Group, and prepared White Crane Island for an attack. He arrived as Sun Kingdom forces besieged the island and turned the battle around by resupplying his troops and killing the Sun Gate experts.

• Yang Xiao thanked Tang Wen for helping him reach the Origin-Gathering Realm, and he and Dugu Yijian agreed to call Tang Wen their brother.
• Gu Junfeng formally took Tang Wen as his master, while Gu Dongguo declared that the Tianshan Sect would protect the Tang Su Mei Group.
• Tang Wen advertised security positions and sold goods to martial artists, increasing his wealth by fifty tons of gold.
• Tang Wen returned to Su Mei Island with supplies, delivered construction materials to Jiangzhou and Moyun Stockade, and acquired four decommissioned warships and two cargo ships.
• Tang Wen found White Crane Island surrounded by Sun Kingdom warships as Sun Gate experts overwhelmed He Tian, Luo Kun, and the Tang Family Army.
• Tang Wen replenished the island's supplies, sank or drove off the enemy ships with renewed bombardment, and killed the Sun Gate experts with his sword and poison.

Tang Wen’s forces defeated a Sun Kingdom assault on White Crane Island, and Duke Haisheng Chu Guang arrived in Linghai to oversee the war. After Commander-in-Chief Qiu Zhaohai revealed the victory, Chu Guang summoned Tang Wen to appear before him.

• Tang Wen and Li Liao attacked the Sun Kingdom fleet from both sides, routed its forces, and returned to White Crane Island after pursuing the fleeing ships.
• Tang Wen ordered care for his casualties and urged Luo Yiwu to acquire land and people so he could recruit more powerful experts.
• Intelligence agents Chu Cong and Shen Gongyang witnessed the victory, and Chu Cong reported it to Duke Haisheng Chu Guang.
• Chu Guang arrived in Linghai two days later and challenged Qiu Zhaohai over his handling of the war, threatening to remove him from command.
• Qiu Zhaohai and Feng Jiuxue described Tang Wen’s victory to Chu Guang, who ordered Tang Wen summoned; Tang Wen arrived from the Mei Residence.

Tang Wen gained support for his victories, advanced his allies through the Popularity Indicator, and secured a promotion and a campaign to recover the coastal islands. Chu Guang assigned Ridge-Sea Academy three thousand troops to match Tang Wen’s gains, while Chu Zhao was ordered to join Tang Wen with the Eight Battalions of the Sea Saint Black Cavalry.

• Chu Guang tested Tang Wen’s strength, praised his victories, and recommended him as an assistant commander while Qiu Zhaohai accepted the decision.
• Tang Wen used the Popularity Indicator to help Feng Jiuxue reach Transcendent Grade and He Tian and Luo Kun advance in cultivation.
• Feng Jiuxue and Chu Zhao challenged Ridge-Sea Academy to contribute to the war, and Chu Guang ordered Gao Qiu to send three thousand men to recover the coastal islands within three days.
• Tang Wen and Gao Qiu agreed to a military pledge requiring Ridge-Sea Academy to recover as many islands as Tang Wen did, and Feng Jiuxue volunteered to supervise the campaign.
• Qiu Zhaohai refused to spare his troops, so Chu Guang assigned Chu Zhao to lead the Eight Battalions of the Sea Saint Black Cavalry in support of Tang Wen.

Chu Guang assigned the Tang family and Ridge-Sea Academy to fight the Sun Kingdom, while Tang Wen prepared to rescue Qilin Island and reinforce his army. Chu Zhao arrived at White Crane Island commanding the Sea Saint Black Cavalry Eight Battalions, accompanied by a dissatisfied military supervisor.

• Chu Guang rejected Gao Qiu’s demand for troops, assigned the Tang Family Army and Ridge-Sea Academy to fight the enemy, and ordered daily public records of their results.
• Chu Zhao demonstrated that he had reached the first-rank realm, and Feng Jiuxue revealed her transcendent-grade strength after Gao Qiu challenged her qualifications.
• Tang Wen learned that Luo Yiwu had bought Qilin Island and chose it as the Tang family’s first battlefield, hoping its residents would join them in exchange for rescue.
• Tang Wen crossed to the Mi Kingdom, brought back ships and weapons, and began installing wind turbines, artillery, and steel-framed barracks on White Crane Island.
• Chu Zhao arrived at White Crane Island with over forty warships and command of the Sea Saint Black Cavalry Eight Battalions, while military supervisor Zhang Dai regarded him with dissatisfaction.

Tang Wen received an imperial promotion and unified command of the forces defending Linghai, then impressed Ma Qian and the Black Cavalry Eight Battalions with his ships and weapons. The chapter ended with Gao Qiu and Wei Yang meeting Ridge-Sea Academy’s guardian elder Lin Zhi to request inner-court experts against the growing Tang family.

• Tang Wen reprimanded Zhang Dai for disrespecting him, and Ma Qian revealed that Tang Wen was a First-Rank Earl before reading the imperial decree promoting him and placing the forces in Linghai under his command.
• Tang Wen took Ma Qian and the Black Cavalry Eight Battalions aboard his steam-powered warship and demonstrated its speed, cannons, and firearms.
• Tang Wen promised weapons and supplies to Ma Qian’s men, while Ma Qian pledged to record their equipment and achievements as military merit at triple the usual rate.
• Tang Wen appointed Chu Zhao commander-in-chief of the Tang Family Army as his factories began producing gunpowder, cannons, and firearms.
• Gao Qiu brought Wei Yang to meet Lin Zhi, Ridge-Sea Academy’s guardian elder, and asked him to lend inner-court experts to fight the Tang family.

Lin Zhi, Gao Qiu, and Wei Yang plotted to use Ridge-Sea Academy’s inner-court experts and the Sun Gate against Tang Wen, while Tang Wen secretly traveled to Qilin Island to recruit Shen Wu. Shen Wu refused to join the fight, and Tang Wen ended the chapter by insulting him as the two men faced off.

• Lin Zhi agreed to give Gao Qiu five hundred inner-court experts, while he planned to secure ten thousand troops for Wei Yang and exploit Tang Wen’s purchase of Qilin Island.
• Tang Wen ordered Wang Haiting to monitor the noodle shop and gather evidence, then planned with He Tian to visit Qilin Island and prepare its people for an attack.
• Tang Wen used his Heavenly Insect wings to fly with He Tian to Qilin Island, where they found Shen Wu’s thatched cottage among the ruins of Kirin Town.
• Shen Wu’s zither music struck He Tian and Tang Wen with a powerful sound wave before Shen Wu recognized He Tian.
• He Tian introduced Tang Wen and asked Shen Wu to fight the Sun Kingdom, but Shen Wu refused and told them to leave.
• Tang Wen criticized Shen Wu for refusing to protect the island’s people, and Shen Wu threatened to kill him.