Chapter Summaries

Tang Wen attended a packed boxing match against Imperial Boxing Gym champion Chen Zhengming, while Zhao Jun publicly tried to make Tang his master with a priceless Life Cabbage. Tang rejected the gift and the Zhao Lineage’s apparent attempt to recruit him, and the duel was about to begin as the referee and Wang Tianyue arrived.

• Tang Wen entered the Star Fantasy Arena, where Chen Zhengming arrived to cheers and taunted him before they signed a contract accepting responsibility for injuries.
• Zhao Jun arrived, declared Tang his master, and presented a giant Life Cabbage as an apprenticeship gift, but Tang refused to accept it without earning it.
• Tang offered to be Zhao Jun’s brother instead, but Zhao insisted on the apprenticeship; Tang suspected the Zhao Lineage had an agenda and demanded its finest treasure if it was sincere.
• Li Yu and Yun Wuli mocked Zhao Jun and urged him to offer the Zhao Lineage’s Starshine Stone, while Tang recognized Yun Wuli as a likely enemy of the Zhao Lineage.
• Chen Zhengming pressed to begin the duel, and the Life Cabbage was carried away as referee A Luo and witness Wang Tianyue entered the arena.

Tang Wen defeated Chen Zhengming in a televised boxing match, learned from Zhao Jun about the Starshine Sea and its mysterious limits, and acquired modern equipment for future exploration. After returning to the Chu Kingdom, he humbled Shen Gongyang by revealing power far beyond the late-stage Origin-Gathering Realm.

• Tang Wen used Lion's Roar and telekinesis to defeat Chen Zhengming, winning widespread cheers and a major surge in popularity.
• Tang Wen received five Popularity Pearls from the system and learned that his Wealth Index had risen after he earned two billion Star Coins.
• Zhao Jun explained that the Starshine Stones might lead to the Starshine Sea's core or a way beyond it, and agreed to procure batteries, drones, and weapons for Tang Wen.
• Tang Wen guided his family in martial arts, bought a villa and a bankrupt company, and returned to the Chu Kingdom with advanced equipment.
• Shen Gongyang emerged from the Cultivation Tower at late-stage Origin Gathering and bragged about his advancement, but Tang Wen sliced off a distant treetop with a palm strike and left him apologizing.

Tang Wen planned to delay Wei Yang’s transfer and use a staged theft to secure Chen Cang’s help before the battle on Qilin Island. After Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong left, Tang Wen listened to a hidden recording that revealed Chu Cong was struggling to hire a Kongkong Sect expert without surrendering the Holy Spirit Essence.

• Tang Wen showed Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong recordings implicating Ridge-Sea Academy and Wei Yang in collusion with the Sun Kingdom, then argued that Wei Yang’s case should be postponed until after the Qilin Island battle.
• Tang Wen proposed staging a Sun Gate attack and stealing the coastal defense map so Feng Jiuxue would need Chen Cang’s help, giving Qiao Tian grounds to overrule Zhang Shuikang.
• Tang Wen offered a drop of Holy Spirit Essence to hire a Kongkong Sect expert, and Chu Cong volunteered to contact the sect through an acquaintance.
• After Shen Gongyang and Chu Cong left, Tang Wen obtained a recording of their carriage conversation through listening devices hidden in their robes.
• Shen Gongyang told Chu Cong that hiring Three-Handed Tai Sui would require a reward, and Chu Cong decided to ask his father to arrange a performance by Liu Sisi rather than give up the Holy Spirit Essence.

Tang Wen outlined reforms to the Tang household, including paid housing and meals, Tang Currency, and a new bank, while assigning Tang Hao to lead the bank. The chapter ended with Tang Hao revealing that he liked Tang E'yue from Tanlin Commandery, and Tang Wen offering to arrange their marriage despite his own unsettled marriage.

• Tang Wen discussed decorating and allocating the completed buildings, then proposed reforming household pay and requiring members to pay for their own housing, food, and medical care.
• Tang Wen introduced fast food and Tang Currency, explaining how the Tang Family Bank would exchange currency, accept deposits, and issue loans.
• Tang Wen appointed Tang Hao to oversee the Tang Clan Bank and assigned Ge Ziyun to help recruit staff.
• At lunch, Tang Hao admitted that he liked Tang E'yue from Tanlin Commandery.
• Tang Wen offered to propose marriage for Tang Hao, but Liu Qingmei and Tang Yiyi argued that Tang Wen should settle his own marriage first.

Tang Wen agreed to marry Gu Hanyan as his secondary wife, and the Tang family held a modest celebration amid the ongoing danger. At the gathering, Chu Xiangluo discovered Tang Wen’s rare Star Illusion Wine, while a conversation afterward revealed Chu Xiangluo’s views on the court, Luo Daimei, and the threat facing Duke Haisheng’s family.

• Tang Wen accepted Liu Qingmei’s proposal that Gu Hanyan become his secondary wife, and Gu Hanyan agreed, receiving the Tang family’s ancestral bracelet.
• Gu Hanyan urged the family to keep the wedding celebration small because of the war and the danger of an enemy attack, and Tang Wen promised a larger celebration after the war.
• Wan Hansong, Jiang Xuan, Chu Zhao, Feng Jiuxue, and others came to Su Mei Island, where Chu Cong introduced Chu Xiangluo to Tang Wen.
• Chu Xiangluo praised Tang Wen’s Star Illusion Wine and traded his jade pendant for five bottles, which he stored in a spatial treasure.
• Chu Cong showed Chu Xiangluo the Tang family’s modern buildings and described Tang Wen’s military achievements and the threat from the Sun Kingdom.
• Chu Xiangluo condemned Ridge-Sea Academy and discussed Luo Daimei’s rising influence with Chu Cong, who wondered whether the emperor intended to target his father, Duke Haisheng.

Chu Xiangluo and Chu Cong discussed Great Chu’s political balance, military strength, and Tang Wen’s miraculous Cultivation Tower before Tang Wen learned the truth about Gu Hanyan’s family. Gu Hanyan revealed that Hu Lie had framed her father, Gu Tong, and destroyed her family, leaving her parents’ fate uncertain.

• Chu Xiangluo and Chu Cong discussed the court’s rival factions, Great Chu’s powerful families, and the difficulty of building a strong army.
• Chu Cong led Chu Xiangluo into Tang Wen’s Cultivation Tower, where Chu Xiangluo recognized the Dragon Realm’s effects and heard that Shen Gongyang had advanced with holy spirit water from Tang Wen.
• After the wedding guests left, Gu Hanyan became distressed over her parents’ suffering, and Tang Wen asked her to explain what had happened.
• Gu Hanyan said Hu Lie had retaliated against her grandfather, Qi Tai, after he reported Hu Lie’s rebellious intentions, and had arranged for Gu Tong to be accused of betraying Great Chu.
• Gu Hanyan explained that Gu Tong was exiled to Ningxing Pagoda, her mother Qi Yueying went with him, and Hu Lie’s men slaughtered their family; only Gu Hanyan and her younger brother Gu Yifei escaped.
• Gu Hanyan said her grandfather was stripped of his posts and fined ten million taels, while the rest of his household faced hardship.

Tang Wen recruited Gu Mutong, Chai Junxi, and Wei Yixing into the Tang family and helped them overcome the White Jade Radish’s fire poison with the Nine Paths of Cold Ice. Their cultivation surged, and Tang Wen promised to help them pursue Gong Jiang while they trained in the Tang family’s Half-Level Tower.

• Gu Mutong explained that the White Jade Radish had weakened the three men and that they had sought a chance to escape Gong Jiang; Tang Wen promised to arrange a future chance for revenge and invited them into the Tang family.
• Gu Mutong, Chai Junxi, and Wei Yixing swore loyalty to Tang Wen, then presented him with the remaining White Jade Radish.
• Tang Wen revealed that the White Jade Radish was a fire-aspected Ginseng King and taught the three men, Wen Jinyuan, and Mei Niansu the Nine Paths of Cold Ice.
• After a day and night of enduring alternating cold and heat, Gu Mutong reached the perfection stage of the Thought-Connecting Realm, while Chai Junxi and Wei Yixing reached its late stage.
• Tang Wen promised to help the three men grow stronger than Gong Jiang by letting them cultivate in the Tang family’s Half-Level Tower, which Wen Jinyuan said was comparable to Dragon Realm.

Tang Wen assigned his subordinates housing and explained new rules for the Tang family’s services and wages while Chu Cong and Chu Xiangluo discussed his growing coastal power. After Chu Cong asked to raise his cultivation with Holy Spirit Essence, Tang Wen offered Chu Xiangluo a different medicine, which he recognized as ginseng king.

• Tang Wen assigned Gu Mutong to stay with him, Chai Junxi to guard Su Mei Island, and Wei Yixing to take new recruits to Qilin Island ahead of battle.
• Tang Wen told Mei Niansu that Gu Hanyan had entered the Thought-Connecting Realm, then encouraged Mei Niansu to keep her competitive spirit.
• Tang Wen allocated townhouses to his core subordinates and announced new arrangements for housing, renovations, food, expenses, medical care, and wages.
• Chu Xiangluo and Chu Cong discussed Tang Wen’s coastal defenses and the Imperial Court’s view of his growing force.
• Chu Cong reported that Wei Yang would remain imprisoned in Linghai’s Six Fan Hall and asked Tang Wen for a half-floor to raise his cultivation.
• Tang Wen offered Chu Xiangluo medicine for cultivation, and Chu Xiangluo opened the bottle and identified its contents as ginseng king.

Tang Wen helped Chu Xiangluo break through to the Mind-Penetration Mid-Stage and helped Chu Cong reach the Qi Nourishing Realm. Chu Cong and Chu Xiangluo planned to seek Peacock Island for Tang Wen after a victory on Qilin Island, while Tang Wen began modernizing the Tang Residential Complex with advanced batteries.

• Tang Wen prepared an ice pool for Chu Xiangluo, who broke through to the Mind-Penetration Mid-Stage after enduring the fire poison and frost.
• Chu Xiangluo used the ice pool to help Chu Cong enter the Qi Nourishing Realm, then urged him to cultivate further to protect the Chu Family’s title.
• Chu Cong suggested that Chu Xiangluo seek Peacock Island for Tang Wen after a victory on Qilin Island, so Tang Wen could retake and defend the royal fishing grounds.
• Tang Wen’s workers began renovating the Tang Residential Complex, where Tang Wen replaced his planned electrical wiring with Star Illusion Empire storage batteries and prepared to install more Wind Turbines.

Tang Wen’s forces annihilated the Sun Kingdom army at Qilin Island, capturing Iga Eikyū and Liu Santeng. News of the victory spread through Jiangzhou and raised Tang Wen’s popularity, activating the Great Landlord System’s absorption and repair function.

• Tang Wen arranged an ambush on Qilin Island, using hidden troops, cannons, snipers, and the Heavenly Insect to defeat the Sun Kingdom’s forces and capture Liu Santeng.
• Tang Wen and Ximen Taigao attacked Iga Eikyū’s fleet from both sides, sank its warships, and captured Iga Eikyū alive.
• Chu Xiangluo agreed to travel to Sea Saint City and persuade her imperial granduncle to entrust Tang Wen with guarding the coast.
• The Linghai Six Fan Hall posted the victory results, and news of Tang Wen’s exploits spread through Jiangzhou and the surrounding prefectures.
• The Great Landlord System told Tang Wen he had gained 1,820,300 strands of popularity and offered to activate its absorption and repair function.

Tang Wen boosted Gu Mutong, Chai Junxi, and Wei Yixing into the Spirit-Congealing Realm, then assigned them to guard his family’s holdings. Meanwhile, Ridge-Sea Academy’s elders suspected Tang Wen had anticipated the Sun Gate attack, and Chu Luoxiang presented Star Illusion Wine to the Sea Saint King, whose reaction was striking.

• Tang Wen taught Gu Mutong, Chai Junxi, and Wei Yixing the Heaven Domain Three Dragons Canon and infused them with popularity, raising Gu Mutong to the middle Spirit-Congealing stage and the other two to the Early Spirit-Congealing Stage.
• Tang Wen assigned Chai Junxi to guard Su Mei Island, ordered Wei Yixing to guard Qilin Island before taking charge in Jiangzhou City, and kept Gu Mutong by his side.
• Lin Zhi and Ridge-Sea Academy’s elders discussed the Sun Kingdom’s defeat and suspected Tang Wen had prepared an ambush, then decided to warn the Sun Gate and escort Wei Yang to Sea Saint City.
• Chu Luoxiang met with Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang at the Sea Saint King's Residence and served them Star Illusion Wine.
• Chu Xian'gang sipped the wine, and his gaze immediately froze.

Chu Luoxiang told Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang how Tang Wen had defeated a Sun Kingdom army of fifty thousand and exposed Ridge-Sea Academy's alleged treason. The three agreed to seek secret investigators and considered awarding Tang Wen Peacock Island and greater military authority, while Chu Xian'gang chose to wait to meet him until after he defeated the enemy.

• Chu Guang and Chu Xian'gang learned from Chu Luoxiang that Tang Wen had killed tens of thousands of Sun Kingdom soldiers and made a military pledge to Ridge-Sea Academy.
• Chu Luoxiang recounted how Tang Wen uncovered Ridge-Sea Academy's plot and lured the Sun Kingdom army into a trap, where he wiped out fifty thousand enemies.
• Chu Luoxiang showed Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang recordings from a Western Magic Mirror, and Chu Xian'gang agreed that witnesses and physical evidence were still needed to prosecute Ridge-Sea Academy.
• Chu Xian'gang and Chu Guang agreed to have secret agents investigate the alleged treason, since the Six Fan Division was implicated through Zhang Shuikang.
• Chu Luoxiang proposed granting Tang Wen Peacock Island and authority over coastal forces, and Chu Guang argued that the reward would help defend the southeastern provinces.
• Chu Luoxiang described Tang Wen's Cultivation Tower and gifts, including Holy Spirit Essence that advanced Chu Cong's cultivation, and Chu Xian'gang decided to wait until Tang Wen defeated the enemy before summoning him.

Tang Wen intercepted the four elders of Ridge-Sea Academy as they attacked a prison cart, then was appointed deputy marshal and given command of the troops in two provinces. Chu Guang warned him that the appointment was a test and that commanding the provincial forces would require powerful backing.

• Chu Guang and Chu Luoxiang proposed making Tang Wen deputy marshal and granting him Peacock Island, and Chu Xian'gang agreed to seek the emperor's approval.
• Tang Wen and his allies defeated the four elders of Ridge-Sea Academy when they attacked the Six Fan Division prison cart, and Chu Cong and Shen Gongyang took custody of the prisoners.
• Eunuch Li delivered the emperor's decree appointing Tang Wen deputy marshal, granting him Peacock Island, and placing Linghai and Youhai provinces under his command.
• Chu Guang told Tang Wen that the appointment tested whether he could earn a marquisate by driving the Sun Kingdom's forces from Great Chu.
• Chu Guang warned Tang Wen that the provincial commanders might resist his orders and that he needed powerful backing; Tang Wen named Chu Guang as his backer.

Tang Wen used the Popularity benefit to advance Chu Guang into the Concentrating Spirit Realm, securing the Chu Family’s ducal position and making Chu Guang his junior martial brother. Afterward, Chu Guang tested Tang Wen’s strength and was quickly subdued by his Telekinesis Threads.

• Chu Guang told Tang Wen that he feared losing his ducal title and urged him to help him grow stronger.
• Tang Wen offered to transmit power on behalf of his master, and Chu Guang agreed to become his fellow disciple if the breakthrough succeeded.
• Tang Wen completed the power transmission, advancing to Middle Spirit-Congealing while Chu Guang reached Late Spirit-Congealing.
• Chu Guang bowed to Master Otherworlder through Tang Wen, then greeted Tang Wen as his senior brother.
• Chu Guang challenged Tang Wen outside Jiangzhou City, but Tang Wen bound him with Telekinesis Threads and pressed a knife-hand to his neck.

Tang Wen defeated Chu Guang and discussed the military and political obstacles to controlling Linghai and Youhai, then returned to Yunhai City to launch a powerful new battery and expand his business plans. The chapter ended with Cao Wuxin warning him that the Kongtong Ancestor had returned and challenged him.

• Tang Wen used mental force to make Chu Guang lose control and crash into a tree, then explained that he had disrupted Chu Guang's true qi with hidden force.
• Chu Guang gave Tang Wen his Command Token and warned him about Qiu Zhaohai and Zhou Kuohai, whose ties to Consort Xue could obstruct Tang Wen's control of the provincial troops.
• Tang Wen inspected Zhan Dongwen's expanding fishponds on Divine Turtle Island before returning to Yunhai City.
• Tang Wen told Zhao Jiang to seek a patent and arrange testing and a press conference for his tiny Quantum Battery, which he said could store four or five thousand kilowatt-hours.
• Tang Wen discussed pricing the batteries, selling them to wealthy customers and businesses, and exchanging some sales revenue for silver.
• Cao Wuxin warned Tang Wen that the Kongtong Ancestor had returned and declared he would challenge him, but Tang Wen dismissed the threat.

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.