Chapter Summaries

Ma Xianhong benefited from practicing Great Luo Cave Observation, while Xiao Tian and the temporary workers discussed the danger surrounding Biyou Village and Chen Duo. Xiao Tian told Ma Xianhong he could help Chen Duo control her Gu poison in a month, and Ma Xianhong agreed to arrange a meeting; they arrived at Chen Duo’s residence as Chen Duo spoke to Chen Junyan.

• Ma Xianhong practiced Great Luo Cave Observation and found that it restored his mental clarity and supported his Divine Machine Hundred Refinements.
• Xiao Tian and the temporary workers discussed warnings that the company might target Biyou Village, along with the village’s puppets and Ma Xianhong’s artifact-refining abilities.
• Ma Xianhong told Xiao Tian that Chen Duo wanted the freedom to choose and that he intended to protect Chen Duo and the villagers.
• Xiao Tian claimed he could help Chen Duo control his Gu poison through cultivation in one month if Chen Duo cooperated.
• Ma Xianhong agreed to arrange a meeting between Xiao Tian and Chen Duo, and they went to Chen Duo’s residence.

Xiao Tian tried to gain Chen Duo’s trust, then secretly followed Ma Xianhong and watched the Self-Cultivation Furnace transform a villager. When the man became trapped in an Inner Landscape, Ma Xianhong arranged for Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing, and Xiao Zhan to help him.

• Ma Xianhong introduced Xiao Tian to Chen Duo, but she distrusted him and left with Chen Junyan.
• Xiao Tian secretly followed Ma Xianhong to his base, where Ma discussed the Self-Cultivation Furnace with Zhuge Qing and offered to introduce Xiao Zhan.
• Guo Liang brought a determined man from his hometown to use the Self-Cultivation Furnace, and Zhuge Qing helped Ma Xianhong operate it.
• The transformed man fell into an Inner Landscape, so Ma Xianhong sent Guo Liang to fetch Zhang Chulan and Xiao Zhan for help.
• Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao returned to their lodgings after finding that Biyou Village’s residents had many puppets and artifacts, and Xiao Tian told them someone would soon arrive with important news.

Xiao Tian and Zhang Chulan met with Ma Xianhong, who revealed that his Self-Cultivation Furnace could transform ordinary people into extraordinary ones and described his ambitions for Biyou Village. Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye, and Zhuge Qing entered Li Kang’s Inner Landscape to try to bring him back to himself.

• Xiao Tian and Zhang Chulan left Feng Baobao behind and met Guo Liang, who escorted them to Ma Xianhong’s secret room.
• Ma Xianhong introduced the Self-Cultivation Furnace and explained that Li Kang had become trapped in his Inner Landscape after a failed transformation.
• Ma Xianhong declared that Biyou Village was a New Jiejiao intended to transform ordinary people and usher in a new era.
• Wang Ye arrived, and Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye, and Zhuge Qing agreed to enter Li Kang’s Inner Landscape while Ma Xianhong watched over their bodies.
• The four entered Li Kang’s Inner Landscape and found him absorbed in a fantasy where he was a triumphant video-game player surrounded by admiring women.

Xiao Tian and the others broke Li Kang out of his Inner Landscape by forcing him to confront his past, and Li Kang chose to return to reality with renewed confidence. When they emerged, they discovered that Wang Ye’s body had been taken, and Ma Xianhong claimed a powerful stranger had abducted him.

• Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye, and Zhuge Qing fought Li Kang’s goddesses and war gods while Zhang Chulan and Xiao Tian crushed Li Kang in a game.
• After Li Kang declared himself immortal and resisted repeated deaths, Xiao Tian used Tsukuyomi to make him relive his life and arranged for his parents to apologize in the illusion.
• Li Kang emerged from the illusion, thanked Xiao Tian, and chose to return to reality; the others then realized Wang Ye’s body had been moved.
• Wang Ye regained consciousness bound inside a dark vehicle, while Ma Xianhong claimed a powerful stranger had wounded him and taken Wang Ye.
• Xiao Tian suspected Ma Xianhong was lying.

Xiao Tian and his companions pursued the people who had captured Wang Ye, while Wang Ye escaped from Chen Jinkui, who wanted to learn Fenghou Qimen. Xiao Tian arrived and took charge of the situation, but Wang Ye pointed Chen toward him for advice about the technique.

• Xiao Tian, Feng Baobao, Zhang Chulan, and Zhuge Qing rushed out of Biyou Village to search for the captured Wang Ye, while Zhang Chulan alerted Xiao Zizai and the other temporary workers.
• Chen Jinkui held Wang Ye captive on a road outside the village and tried to obtain Fenghou Qimen, but Wang Ye broke free and attempted to escape using his Qimen Array.
• Xiao Tian arrived, and Chen Jinkui eagerly greeted him before claiming that the occupants of a damaged van had kidnapped Wang Ye.
• Zhang Chulan photographed the unconscious people in the van and sent the images to Xu Si to investigate.
• Wang Ye told Chen Jinkui to ask Xiao Tian about learning Fenghou Qimen, leaving Xiao Tian annoyed at being drawn into the matter.

Xiao Tian and Zhang Chulan returned to Biyou Village after finding the van’s occupants dead, while Xiao Tian considered the hidden forces behind Ma Xianhong and the Self-Cultivation Furnace. Guihua arrived to meet Xiao Tian, and Zhang Chulan confronted Ma Xianhong about whether he had protected Wang Ye.

• Chen Jinkui asked Xiao Tian to teach him Fenghou Qimen, but Xiao Tian warned him that he was unsuited to the technique and frightened him.
• Wang Ye told Xiao Tian that he had heard the van’s driver say their target would be delivered soon, and Xiao Tian suspected Ma Xianhong might be a pawn in a larger scheme.
• Xiao Zizai and the others found the three people in the van dead, and Xiao Tian led the group back to Biyou Village as he noticed Ma Xianhong’s Ruhua puppets watching them.
• Xiao Tian received a message from Zhao Fangrui assigning him Dragon Guard work and saying Guihua would meet him in Biyou Village.
• Guihua arrived at the village entrance, and Xiao Tian welcomed her before she and Ma Xianhong introduced themselves.
• Zhang Chulan asked Ma Xianhong whether he had properly protected Wang Ye after inviting him to Biyou Village.

Ma Xianhong decided to oppose the Company and ordered Xiao Tian and the others to leave Biyou Village. Xiao Tian abducted Chen Duo as the Company prepared to move against the village, leaving the others waiting outside with him.

• Zhang Chulan warned Ma Xianhong that the Self-Cultivation Furnace could destabilize the unusual-person world and human society, and Ma Xianhong left to consider his response.
• Xiao Tian shared a special cola with Chen Duo and Chen Junyan, hoping to awaken Chen Duo’s desire to live and experience more of the world.
• Guihua told Xiao Tian that Director Zhao had ordered the Dragon Guard to investigate Biyou Village and capture Ma Xianhong and its other leaders alive.
• Ma Xianhong chose to oppose the Company and ordered Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye, and Zhuge Qing to leave; Wang Ye departed, while Xiao Tian said he would stay.
• After Biyou Village went on alert, Ma Xianhong learned Chen Duo was missing, while Xiao Tian appeared outside the village carrying Chen Duo over his shoulder.

Xiao Tian gave Chen Duo a method to control her gu poison, destroyed Biyou Village’s Ruhua puppets, and rejoined Zhang Chulan’s group as Nadutong prepared to attack the village. The chapter ended with a hamster puppet emerging beneath the Self-Cultivation Furnace.

• Xiao Tian transmitted the Woeful Poison Body cultivation method to Chen Duo, who began using it to gather and control his gu poison.
• Xiao Tian intercepted a rocket and dismantled the Ruhua puppets, while Qiu Rang warned Biyou Village to prepare for an imminent crisis.
• Xiao Tian reunited with Zhang Chulan and the others alongside Xiao Wanwan, and helped Wang Ye get released from Nadutong’s blockade.
• Xu Si ordered Zhang Chulan’s group to cooperate with Nadutong and attack Biyou Village, and Xiao Tian told them to fight head-on.
• Xiao Zizai destroyed several Ruhua puppets, and a hamster puppet emerged beneath Ma Xianhong’s Self-Cultivation Furnace.

Xiao Tian destroyed the Self-Cultivation Furnace’s core, revealing that Ma Xianhong’s sister Qu Tong had made it and prompting her to investigate the mysterious intruder. He also negotiated with Zhao Fangrui over Chen Duo and planned to deal with Biyou Village before visiting the Tang Sect.

• Xiao Tian sent his puppet hamster into the Self-Cultivation Furnace, evaded Ma Xianhong’s puppets, and burned away the lump of flesh at its core with the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Ma Xianhong discovered the core had been destroyed and suspected that his second brother’s Great Luo Cave Observation might be involved.
• Qu Tong felt the core’s destruction, learned what had happened from Ma Xianhong, and began investigating Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, and the others.
• Xiao Tian returned to Zhang Chulan and teased him by assigning him the task of destroying the Self-Cultivation Furnace, which Xiao Tian had already ruined.
• Xiao Tian called Zhao Fangrui to argue that Chen Duo could be cured and recruited into the Dragon Guard; Zhao Fangrui said the case would need discussion but promised favorable consideration if Xiao Tian proved he could help her.
• Xiao Tian decided to accelerate his progress with the Eight Impure Techniques and Pill Devouring, then visit the Tang Sect after dealing with Biyou Village.

Ma Xianhong’s improving mental state made him question Qu Tong and abandon his plan to defend Biyou Village, while Chen Duo returned with the primordial Gu under control. As the Company’s operation began, Xiao Tian tracked down the fleeing Ma Xianhong, who explained that he no longer wanted to be a pawn.

• Chen Duo returned to Biyou Village with the primordial Gu under control and urged Ma Xianhong to surrender or flee, but he refused to abandon the villagers.
• Ma Xianhong ordered the villagers to prepare for a breakout rather than stay in Biyou Village, and many villagers fled in panic.
• Xiao Tian’s team began its planned assault, while Zhang Chulan destroyed the Self-Cultivation Furnace again and learned from Bi Yuan that Ma Xianhong had escaped.
• Xiao Tian used a hidden locating mark in the cultivation method he had given Ma Xianhong to pursue him in spirit form.
• Xiao Tian confronted Ma Xianhong in the mountains, and Ma Xianhong said the furnace’s destruction had shown him he was only a pawn and that he wanted to leave.

Xiao Tian fought Ma Xianhong to stop him from escaping, using Kamui to neutralize Ma Xianhong’s artifacts and take control of Empty Crying Roar. As Ma Xianhong defended his plan to use the Self-Cultivation Furnace to advance human evolution, Xiao Tian challenged his motives and destroyed the black puppet that came to his aid.

• Ma Xianhong trapped Xiao Tian with the Six Harmonies Beads, escaped Xiao Tian’s swamp-like restraint, and attacked him with his Soul-Shaking Bell and Empty Crying Roar.
• Xiao Tian’s Kamui swallowed Empty Crying Roar, and Ma Xianhong mistook the space-warping ability for a powerful form of Great Luo Cave Observation.
• Ma Xianhong charged Xiao Tian in his Black Battle Armor, but Xiao Tian used Kamui Intangibility to avoid his punch and later took control of Empty Crying Roar.
• Ma Xianhong urged Xiao Tian to join his plan to create a cultivation civilization, while Xiao Tian mocked his reliance on artifacts and accused him of abandoning the villagers for his own agenda.
• Ma Xianhong admitted he had left the villagers to verify his suspicions, then ended the argument as his black puppet attacked Xiao Tian with Ghost Gate Needles.
• Xiao Tian phased through the needles, struck the black puppet’s head, and shattered it, horrifying Ma Xianhong.

Xiao Tian held Ma Xianhong off while the temporary workers defeated the remaining Biyou Village fighters and searched for him. When Ma Xianhong finally fled, Xiao Tian was forced to return to his body, leaving Ma Xianhong to wonder if he had been tricked.

• Xiao Tian destroyed Ma Xianhong's Black Puppet and used Kamui Intangibility to evade the upgraded Black Battle Armor's attacks.
• Old Meng defeated Qiu Rang by communicating through Qi with bacteria in his body, while Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao defeated Zhang Kun and Fu Rong, and Wang Zhenqiu captured Jin Meng and Guo Liang.
• Er Zhuang sent the temporary workers a terrain map showing Ma Xianhong's location, and Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the others converged on the northern forest.
• Xiao Tian provoked Ma Xianhong until Ma Xianhong spat blood and earned an achievement, but Ma Xianhong then fled as Xiao Tian sensed trouble with his physical body.
• Xiao Tian teleported back to his body and found Guihua performing cardiac resuscitation; Zhang Chulan admitted he had urged her to do it and then left with Feng Baobao to pursue Ma Xianhong.
• Ma Xianhong prepared a puppet ambush while waiting for Xiao Tian, then suspected Xiao Tian had been forced to return to his body and had deliberately stalled him.

Ma Xianhong tried to escape but was surrounded by Nadutong's temporary workers and fought them with his artifacts. Xiao Tian stopped the Stealing and Devouring Beast's explosion and helped capture Ma Xianhong, who passed out from anger; Xiao Zizai then asked Xiao Tian what he planned to do about Chen Duo.

• Ma Xianhong activated the Black Battle Armor and tried to break through Xiao Zizai, Old Meng, Black Pipe, and Comrade Zhenqiu as they surrounded him.
• Ma Xianhong used the Stealing and Devouring Beast and Six Harmonies Beads to fend off the temporary workers, while Zhenqiu, Zhang Chulan, and Feng Baobao joined the attack.
• Feng Baobao enlarged the Azure Dragon Precious Saber and damaged Ma Xianhong's Black Battle Armor, and the others attacked until the Stealing and Devouring Beast swelled toward an explosion.
• Xiao Zizai, Black Pipe, and Comrade Zhenqiu tried to pull Ma Xianhong away, but Ma Xianhong released Ruhua puppets to stop them.
• Xiao Tian opened a spatial maw and swallowed the swelling Stealing and Devouring Beast, after which the workers restrained Ma Xianhong and sealed his Qi.
• Xiao Tian teased Ma Xianhong about their earlier encounter, and Ma Xianhong spat blood and passed out from anger; Xiao Zizai asked Xiao Tian about his plan for Chen Duo.

After Biyou Village, Xiao Tian convinced Nadutong's directors that Chen Duo could control the Primordial Gu Poison and secured her release into the Dragon Guard, with conditions tied to her past actions. As the company prepared to test temporary workers for Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, Xiao Tian assured Xu Si that he would handle the matter.

• On the ride to Nadutong headquarters, Xiao Tian explained that Chen Duo could control the Primordial Gu Poison but remained dangerous, and Chen Duo demonstrated it by dissolving a sofa.
• Xiao Tian told Zhao Fangrui, Bi Youlong, and Huang Boren that Spirit Binding and General Dispatch let him control the Primordial Gu's spirit, then vouched for Chen Duo and brought him into the Dragon Guard.
• The directors agreed Chen Duo would help quell the South China region's unrest and assist regions with difficult missions without pay for two years.
• Xiao Tian took Chen Duo shopping and to entertainment venues, where Chen Duo happily tried on clothes and spent the day with him.
• The directors decided to use a special machine to test temporary workers for Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, prompting Xu Si to visit Zhao Fangrui's office.
• Xiao Tian assured Xu Si that he would handle the examination, and Zhao Fangrui confirmed it.

Xiao Tian helped the temporary workers pass Nadutong's questioning and arranged for Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing to avoid interrogation over Biyou Village. After returning to Jinzhou, he placated Chen Jinkui, while Zhang Chulan decided to investigate the Tang Sect for clues about the Jiashen Rebellion.

• Bi Youlong and his colleagues questioned the temporary workers and Feng Baobao, while Xiao Tian's substitute handled the questioning of Zhang Chulan and left the real Bi Youlong unaware of the deception.
• Xiao Tian asked Er Zhuang to hide Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing's information, then warned them to disappear for a week; Zhuge Qing left for the mountains, and Wang Ye agreed to go into hiding despite Chen Jinkui watching him.
• Xiao Tian met Chen Jinkui in Jinzhou and persuaded him not to make trouble for Wang Ye by promising him a gift the next day.
• After the feast, Xiao Tian reassured Xu Si that Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing's questioning would soon be handled, and Zhang Chulan asked Xiao Tian to accompany him to the Tang Sect to investigate the Jiashen Rebellion.

Xiao Tian impersonated Ma Xianhong after the Yaoxing Society rescued him, then met the society’s president, Qu Tong, while probing her motives. The chapter ended as Xiao Tian revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to Qu Tong.

• Guihua asked Xiao Tian about the Jiashen Rebellion, and he warned that Ma Xianhong’s escort might not go smoothly.
• Xiao Tian impersonated Wang Ye during Nadutong’s interrogation, while Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing both appeared to pass questioning.
• Mysterious attackers abducted Ma Xianhong from his escort, and Nadutong ordered a search for him and the rescuing force.
• Xiao Tian tracked Ma Xianhong to a Yaoxing Society estate, used Tsukuyomi to capture him, and took his place in disguise.
• Qu Tong arrived and ordered the fake Ma Xianhong to make a secure remote-communication artifact; Xiao Tian resisted her drugged soup and questioned her about his memories.
• Xiao Tian rested on Qu Tong’s shoulder and revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to her.

Xiao Tian used his disguise as Ma Xianhong to manipulate Qu Tong into fleeing the company’s search, then set out to exploit her weakened state and uncover her secrets. Qu Tong trapped him with armed guards, but Xiao Tian remained confident that he could overcome them.

• Xiao Tian’s Tsukuyomi failed to fully capture Qu Tong, so he posed as Ma Xianhong and warned her that the company was closing in.
• Qu Tong withdrew with the real Ma Xianhong, whose memories she had erased, and told him to make a remote communication artifact while Xiao Tian’s transformed company agents vanished.
• At the North China base, Zhang Chulan told Xiao Tian about Mei Jinfeng, but Xiao Tian declined to investigate; Barron later invited him to join Xia Liuqing on an outing, which Xiao Tian refused.
• Ma Xianhong accessed the memories Xiao Tian had sealed in his mind and considered hiding tracking and monitoring capabilities in the communication artifact he was making for Qu Tong.
• Xiao Tian disguised as Ma Xianhong confronted Qu Tong while she was exhausted, and her mental technique failed against him.
• Qu Tong summoned armed black-clad guards and threatened to die alongside Xiao Tian, but he dismissed the threat and challenged her confidence in them.

Xiao Tian outmaneuvered Qu Tong and tried to force her to reveal the secrets of Double Hands, but her defenses and self-treatment thwarted his methods. Qu Tong identified him as a possible immortal tied to an old meteorite incident and bargained for his cooperation, leaving the two at an impasse.

• Xiao Tian used Kamui Intangibility to evade Qu Tong's gunfire and electromagnetic grenades while Qu Tong escaped his grasp and exposed his disguised form.
• Qu Tong captured Xiao Tian in a woman's form, but he broke free, knocked her unconscious, and repeatedly woke her with ice water as he tried to obtain Double Hands.
• Xiao Tian's conquest progress on Qu Tong reached 80%, but Tsukuyomi failed when Qu Tong restored her body and mental state with Double Hands.
• Qu Tong guessed Xiao Tian was connected to the mysterious meteorite incident near Mount Longhu and suggested he might be an immortal who had failed to ascend.
• Xiao Tian demanded Qu Tong's Double Hands and threatened to take over Yaoxing Society, while Qu Tong refused to yield and challenged him to imprison her.

Xiao Tian coerced Qu Tong into giving him Double Hands, quickly mastered it, and left with money and an SUV to travel to the Tang Sect. After overpowering the Tang Sect’s outer campus, he demanded to see its leader so he could teach him Pill Devouring.

• Xiao Tian threatened to expose Qu Tong’s connection to Lü Huan until she gave him notes on Double Hands, then learned the technique almost instantly and demonstrated its power by restoring his severed arm.
• Qu Tong found Xiao Tian back at her home the next morning, gave him five million and an SUV, and watched him depart for the Tang Sect in Western Shu.
• Xiao Tian ignored Zhang Chulan’s invitation to join the trip to Wu Gensheng’s treasure site and blocked him after Zhang guessed that finding Brother Little Ma would be easy for him.
• Xiao Tian drove through the Tang Sect martial arts school’s gates and defeated the outer-campus teachers and students who attacked him.
• A powerful old man appeared, and Xiao Tian asked him to bring out the Tang Sect leader, saying he had come to teach him Pill Devouring.

Xiao Tian disguised himself as Wang Cailong and forced his way into the Tang Sect, insisting that he would teach Tang Miaoxing Pill Devouring. After fighting off the sect’s experts, he claimed that Feng Tianyang had mastered Spirit Binding and General Dispatch with his guidance, leaving everyone stunned.

• Xiao Tian provoked Zhang Wang and the Tang Sect experts, then used Spirit Binding and General Dispatch to restrain their attacks and claimed to be Wang Cailong of the Wang Family.
• Tao Tao attacked Xiao Tian with explosive Qi bubbles, but he emerged unharmed and popped the remaining bubbles before she arrived.
• Tang Miaoxing met Xiao Tian and brought him into the office, where Xiao Tian sat in the sect leader’s chair and insisted he could teach Pill Devouring.
• Zhang Wang attacked Xiao Tian, but Tang Miaoxing intervened and then fought Xiao Tian himself; Xiao Tian blocked his knife-hand strike with a black-flame shield.
• Xiao Tian told Tang Miaoxing that Feng Tianyang had learned Spirit Binding and General Dispatch from his guidance, shocking everyone present.