Recaps

After the Xi People’s stele was deciphered, Li Xingkong destroyed Eagle Country’s lunar satellite, making the Xi People’s planned emergence public. Eagle Country blamed Divine Land and prepared to send a nuclear-armed satellite to the moon.

• People on Earth Star deciphered the stele, which described the Xi People, their dwindling clan, and their plan to spread Spiritual Qi to Blue Moon.
• Eagle Country’s satellite approached the moon to investigate the claims, but Li Xingkong appeared in space and smashed it with a rock.
• Li Xingkong deliberately let footage of the attack reach Earth Star to announce the Xi People’s presence.
• Eagle Country’s space agency learned the video had spread online and decided to blame Divine Land for the attack.
• The person in charge ordered the next lunar satellite equipped with a nuclear warhead, saying Eagle Country would destroy whatever was on the moon if it could not claim it.

A viral video showed a person on the moon destroying an Eagle Country satellite, prompting Eagle Country to accuse Divine Land of deploying lunar weapons and drawing Western pressure. Divine Land denied placing weapons on the moon and said the satellite had intruded into another party’s territory despite repeated warnings.

• A video of a figure on the moon hurling a boulder at an Eagle Country satellite went viral, and experts confirmed the footage was authentic.
• Eagle Country claimed its satellite was functioning normally, but viewers found that its panoramic video reused earlier footage.
• Eagle Country accused Divine Land of shooting down the satellite with lunar weapons, intensifying pressure from Western countries, especially Stick Country and Cherry Blossom Country.
• Divine Land’s spokespeople denied deploying offensive weapons or military bases on the moon and condemned Eagle Country’s accusations as baseless.
• Divine Land acknowledged that the satellite attack was real and said the satellite had violated another party’s territory despite repeated warnings.

Divine Land revealed that it had contacted the Xi People, the Moon’s indigenous inhabitants, and announced that their leaders would soon visit Earth Star. At the lunar base, Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng prepared to make the trip back and present themselves as representatives of the Xi People.

• Divine Land’s spokesperson argued that the Moon’s indigenous inhabitants made its sovereignty claim lawful and said Divine Land had established friendly relations with them.
• Reporters challenged whether aliens and their countries were protected by Earth Star’s laws and questioned Divine Land’s account.
• The spokesperson announced that the Xi People’s patriarch and other key figures would visit Earth Star in the coming days.
• News of the planned visit spread worldwide, prompting excitement, condemnation of Divine Land’s secrecy, and fear among some people who fled abroad.
• Li Xingkong told Tang Cheng that only the two of them would return to Earth Star, and Tang Cheng regretted inventing a difficult alien language.

Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng returned to Earth Star in a reentry capsule as the Divine Land’s announcement drew crowds and foreign delegations to the landing site. After arriving in a rough landing, they prepared to make their public entrance, with Li Xingkong projecting the authority of a people’s leader.

• Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng traveled from the moon to Earth Star aboard a cramped Divine Land reentry capsule.
• People and foreign diplomatic delegations gathered near the designated landing site to witness the aliens’ arrival.
• The reentry capsule crashed down at the site, and Tang Cheng emerged nauseated while Li Xingkong floated out unharmed.
• Tang Cheng used a Rejuvenation Technique, and Li Xingkong realized he had failed to operate the capsule’s parachute.
• A Divine Land official greeted Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng and escorted them toward the venue.
• Li Xingkong released a small amount of his Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation as they prepared to meet the crowd.

Li Xingkong used his arrival at Earth Star’s diplomatic meeting to intimidate the representatives and challenge their belief in the law of the jungle. He ended the chapter by hurling a steel bar into space and claiming it had destroyed a Stick Country satellite.

• Tang Cheng and Li Xingkong arrived at the venue, where Li Xingkong used gravity to make the representatives feel his power.
• Stick Country and Cherry Blossom Country challenged Divine Land’s recognition of the Xi People, while Eagle Country said they should accept Earth Star’s guidance.
• Li Xingkong criticized the representatives’ law-of-the-jungle outlook and stepped in to demonstrate the Xi People’s strength.
• Li Xingkong tore a steel bar from a frame and hurled it into the sky with tremendous force, knocking people off balance.
• A bright flash appeared in the sky, and Li Xingkong apologized to the Stick Country representative for smashing one of its satellites.

Li Xingkong used his personal firepower to silence the Earth Star representatives, and the Eagle Country representative accepted the Xi People’s arrival and called for cooperation. The reception continued with Divine Land presenting Li Xingkong a gift, leaving him ready to offer his own in return.

• Li Xingkong demonstrated his strength by destroying a satellite, alarming the gathered representatives.
• The Stick Country representative threatened to take Li Xingkong to international court, but Li Xingkong rejected the court’s legitimacy.
• Li Xingkong threatened to demonstrate a strike on a moving target, prompting the Eagle Country representative to welcome the Xi People and propose cooperation.
• The representatives resumed the reception proceedings, while Li Xingkong waited and pondered his cultivation.
• The Divine Land representative presented Li Xingkong with an exquisite piece of porcelain, and Li Xingkong recalled that he had prepared a gift in return.

At a public exchange, Li Xingkong gave the Divine Land a gene dictionary that could guide genetic modification and potentially help humanity overcome disease. The Divine Land’s representative rushed to secure the highly valuable gift, while the chapter left its safe transport from the landing site uncertain.

• Li Xingkong accepted a porcelain gift, then presented a tiny USB drive as his gift in return to the Divine Land.
• Li Xingkong explained that the drive contained a gene dictionary covering gene combinations and their functions, which could support genetic modification.
• The Divine Land’s representative accepted the drive and hurried backstage with it.
• People seeking longevity saw the dictionary as a possible route to extending life, while the Divine Land regarded immortal cultivation as the more mature path.
• The Divine Land recognized the need to protect the gift, but worried that moving it safely from the landing site would be difficult.

After the gathering with the visitors from outer space ended, Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng decided to return home now that their public duties were over. They left the venue by flying toward the horizon, while the spokesman watched them go.

• Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng rested after the exhausting negotiations and discussed how difficult the gathering had been.
• The spokesman arrived and offered to arrange their travel, and Li Xingkong asked him only to file a flight plan.
• The spokesman told Li Xingkong that his technical document on genetic adjustment had frightened him because it could be used immediately and was highly valuable.
• Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng received flight approval, said goodbye to the spokesman, and flew away from the venue.

Li Xingkong met with Old Tang and Divine Land officials to review a plan for distributing Earth Veins and beginning spiritual qi revival in a controlled way. The first locations were selected, including Li Xingkong’s hometown, and implementation was ready to proceed.

• Li Xingkong enjoyed a week at home with his parents, who were protected by undercover guards sent by the Divine Land.
• Old Tang told Li Xingkong that the Earth Vein placement plan was complete and asked him to discuss it.
• Li Xingkong chose to cooperate with the authorities so spiritual qi revival would not cause social turmoil.
• Li Xingkong flew from Hedong to the Earthly Capital and met Old Tang to review the plan.
• Old Tang presented the first cities selected to receive Earth Veins, including major cities across the Divine Land and Li Xingkong’s hometown.

Li Xingkong approved the authorities’ detailed plan for deploying Earth Veins across the Divine Land and prepared to begin the first installations. Before leaving, he formally gave Old Tang the preliminary Qi Refining Method, opening the way for the authorities to cultivate.

• The authorities completed a ranked plan for deploying Earth Veins across more than three hundred cities, accounting for city size, geography, and competing interests.
• Li Xingkong accepted that refining enough Earth Veins would take about a year and resolved to complete the work rather than give up.
• Old Tang explained how the first batch of Earth Veins would be placed at carefully selected sites that combined local geography with cultural and religious significance.
• Li Xingkong approved the locations and praised the plan for linking the revival of Spiritual Qi with the preservation of Divine Land culture.
• Li Xingkong gave Old Tang a token containing the preliminary Qi Refining Method and offered to help develop further methods and explain its theory.

Li Xingkong traveled to Mount Tai to install Earth Star’s first Earth Vein while Divine Land officials evacuated the area and recorded the process. The Earth Vein merged into the Great White Pagoda and began releasing Spiritual Qi, but the people nearby saw no obvious changes.

• Li Xingkong noticed Mount Tai had been cleared of most visitors and met Qi Mingyang, the officer in charge of the site.
• Qi Mingyang explained that officials had sealed off the mountain under the pretext of a military exercise and evacuated visitors and pilgrims.
• Li Xingkong went with Qi Mingyang to the Great White Pagoda, where staff prepared to film the installation.
• Li Xingkong unfolded the Earth Vein and sent it into the Great White Pagoda, where its golden light shone for nearly five minutes before fading.
• Li Xingkong told Qi Mingyang the installation was complete, leaving Qi Mingyang puzzled that the surroundings and people seemed unchanged.

Li Xingkong confirmed that the Earth Vein he had placed on the mountain was releasing Spiritual Qi, and Qi Mingyang went to investigate when monks began sensing it. Li Xingkong then traveled to the imperial capital and installed a second Earth Vein beneath the city, where few people were likely to notice or sense it.

• Li Xingkong told Qi Mingyang that the Earth Vein had begun releasing Spiritual Qi, though it was invisible to those without a cultivation method.
• A messenger reported that monks had noticed something unusual, and Li Xingkong explained that one had likely sensed Spiritual Qi while meditating.
• Qi Mingyang went to investigate the monks as Li Xingkong departed for the next location.
• Li Xingkong traveled to the imperial capital, where elderly staff kept watch around a mountain in the city.
• Li Xingkong installed an Earth Vein beneath the imperial capital, but no one sensed Spiritual Qi immediately.

Researchers in Earthly Capital examined Tang Cheng’s body and the Qi Refining Method, finding that cultivation rapidly changed the body while Spiritual Qi could transform technology and society. The discussion left them considering how widespread cultivation might reshape work and daily life.

• Researchers reviewed Tang Cheng’s physical examination results and displayed a model of his body with his Mana Circuit.
• A researcher explained that cultivation rapidly improved physical abilities but could cause unintended changes without knowledge and clear goals.
• The researchers discussed Spiritual Qi’s advanced technological potential, including its uses as a weapon and in noninvasive medical treatment.
• The participants considered how widespread cultivation and inedia could reduce the consequences of unemployment and change society’s priorities.

Researchers and Old Tang assessed the limitations and dangers of the simplified Qi Refining Method, then discussed how to prepare the Divine Land for cultivation as Spiritual Qi resurged. They proposed education and military pilot programs before a wider rollout, pending consultation with Li Xingkong.

• A researcher estimated that the simplified Qi Refining Method produced less than one percent of Li Xingkong’s mana at the same realm and noted that Tang Cheng’s physical fitness lagged far behind Li Xingkong’s.
• The researchers suspected that Li Xingkong had practiced Body Refining and that Body Tempering Grass was key to it, while warning that incomplete knowledge could lead to monstrous transformations.
• Old Tang and the researchers concluded that cultivation required a stronger scientific understanding and could not safely be introduced to everyone at once.
• The group proposed adding cultivation-related human-body courses and forming official cultivation teams, with selected military units serving as pilot programs.
• The researchers decided to delay public cultivation until a new organizational framework was established and planned to consult Li Xingkong before finalizing their approach.

Li Xingkong finished setting up the first batch of Earth Veins and prepared to refine the rest before entering seclusion. Before disappearing for a while, he began using his mana to establish cultivation in his parents, starting with Father Li.

• Li Xingkong completed the first batch of Earth Veins, returned to his village, and saw Spiritual Qi spreading nearby.
• Li Xingkong planned to refine the remaining Earth Veins in one session and decided to arrange important matters before entering seclusion.
• Li Xingkong chose to begin his parents’ cultivation by building Mana Circuits inside them, allowing their bodies to cultivate before they learned the Qi Refining Method.
• Li Xingkong messaged Old Tang that the Earth Veins were in place, then brought Father Li and Mother Li to the kang for the procedure.
• Li Xingkong built a stable Qi Refining circuit and Qi Sea in Father Li, leaving him ready to become a Qi Refining Stage cultivator after adjusting to it.

Li Xingkong gave his parents Qi Refining cultivation and explained that they would need to cultivate if they wanted to remain with him through centuries of seclusion. After leaving home, he visited his old squad leader Wu Ting and found his office packed with well-used martial arts books.

• Li Xingkong awakened his parents with Qi Refining cultivation, restored their vigor, and gave them the simplified Qi Refining Method.
• His mother agreed to cultivate after Li Xingkong warned that his future seclusion might last hundreds of years, and his father promised to make sure she did.
• Li Xingkong decided to visit Wu Ting, whom he had not seen in several years, and used Divine Sense to enter his old workplace unnoticed.
• Wu Ting recognized Li Xingkong, welcomed him, and exchanged greetings with him.
• Li Xingkong noticed the office was filled with annotated martial arts books and asked Wu Ting if he had read them all.

Wu Ting told Li Xingkong how he mastered the Hibernating Dragon Technique and developed it through years of study into a way to spar with knowledge-based figures in his dreams. After the system explained Wu Ting’s unusual comprehension, the two friends agreed to test their martial arts in a spar.

• Wu Ting explained that he had mastered the Hibernating Dragon Technique on his own and spent years studying martial arts manuals, Buddhist and Daoist texts, and ancient classics.
• Wu Ting said his Hibernating Dragon Technique began turning what he read into figures he could fight in his dreams, and that he had reached a martial arts bottleneck.
• Li Xingkong asked the system about Wu Ting’s ability, and the system credited Wu Ting’s extraordinary comprehension and independent innovations.
• Wu Ting challenged Li Xingkong to spar, and Li Xingkong agreed to fight without spells or extraordinary methods.

Wu Ting and Li Xingkong walked beyond town to a clearing so they could practice their abilities. Wu Ting demonstrated his mana-powered movement, and the two arrived at a site where villagers had stolen soil.

• Wu Ting explained to Li Xingkong that ancient cultivation texts described only superficial traces of the systems behind their spells and methods.
• Wu Ting showed Li Xingkong how he used mana to strengthen his body and leap through the air.
• Li Xingkong flew after Wu Ting as he raced across treetops to a clearing beyond town.
• Wu Ting told Li Xingkong that villagers had reported soil theft at the clearing, where loaders had left marks on the mountainside.
• Li Xingkong expressed dismay that people would steal soil for profit.

Li Xingkong and Wu Ting sparred in a clearing, with Li Xingkong limiting his strength to match Wu Ting. Wu Ting unleashed his strongest move, but Li Xingkong withstood it, and the spar ended with Wu Ting exhausted and Li Xingkong unharmed.

• Li Xingkong and Wu Ting took positions across the clearing and began their spar after preparing themselves.
• Li Xingkong attacked with a straightforward punch, and Wu Ting redirected it with tai chi, but Li Xingkong's physical strength still drove Wu Ting back.
• Wu Ting recognized that Li Xingkong's physical abilities outweighed his technique and announced he would use his ultimate move.
• Wu Ting unleashed Fierce Tiger Pushes the Mountain, surrounding himself with mana shaped like a fierce tiger as he charged Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong protected himself with a mana membrane and took the attack head-on, creating a huge crater and damaging the nearby mountainside.
• Li Xingkong remained standing and unharmed while Wu Ting sat exhausted, and Li Xingkong acknowledged that Wu Ting could beat him at the same realm if he did not use spells.

Li Xingkong recognized Wu Ting’s unusual talent and explained that Spiritual Qi had returned, giving him the chance to cultivate properly. He gave Wu Ting the Rising Sun Guide and embedded advanced cultivation manuals in his mind, leaving him ready to explore the orthodox path alongside the techniques he had developed himself.

• Li Xingkong examined Wu Ting’s mana control as Wu Ting explained how he had combined several cultivation and martial arts systems to create Fierce Tiger Pushes the Mountain.
• Li Xingkong praised Wu Ting’s talent and explained that the world had lacked Spiritual Qi, but that he had returned to create a Spiritual Qi revival.
• Li Xingkong gave Wu Ting a copy of the simplified Rising Sun Guide so he could begin sensing Spiritual Qi and cultivate.
• Li Xingkong sent Wu Ting protected knowledge seeds containing the Sun and Moon Qi Refining Method and A Brief Explanation of Spell Structures.

Li Xingkong arrived at the Earthly Capital and met with Old Tang, who had prepared a cultivation room for him. Li Xingkong announced that he planned to enter seclusion to refine Earth Veins across the Divine Land, leaving Old Tang to ask how long he would be gone.

• After talking about cultivation with Wu Ting, Li Xingkong said goodbye and headed to the Earthly Capital for the first time.
• Li Xingkong toured the underground base and was shown the former aerospace laboratory that had been cleared out for his use.
• Old Tang greeted Li Xingkong and praised him for making cultivation available to the people of the Divine Land.
• Li Xingkong and Old Tang entered the prepared cultivation room, where they talked over tea about life on the moon.
• Li Xingkong told Old Tang he planned to enter seclusion and refine Earth Veins for the Divine Land.
• Old Tang asked how long Li Xingkong would be in seclusion, concerned about the demands of cultivation and government work.

Li Xingkong told Old Tang that refining the Earth Vein would keep him in seclusion for about a year, and Old Tang showed him the Rosy Clouds Ascension Plan for spreading cultivation across the Divine Land. Li Xingkong approved the proposal before returning to seclusion, leaving the plan to proceed while he refined the Earth Vein.

• Li Xingkong estimated that refining the Earth Vein would take about a year, and Old Tang said the revival of Spiritual Qi would move forward within that time.
• Old Tang presented the Rosy Clouds Ascension Plan, which divided the spread of cultivation into three stages projected to take ten years.
• The plan called for training cultivators in military regions, teaching stillness practice, introducing cultivation to the public, and adjusting national policies as cultivation transformed society.
• Old Tang proposed using Body Tempering Grass as the cultivation world's circulating currency because it could greatly increase cultivation speed.
• Li Xingkong said he saw no problem with the plan and sent the document back to Old Tang.

Li Xingkong gave Old Tang a collection of foundational cultivation books and urged the Divine Land to develop Qi Refining methods suited to Earth Star. Old Tang accepted the materials and supported the plan, while Li Xingkong remained unconcerned about the scrutiny and suspicion directed at him.

• Li Xingkong told Old Tang that the Rosy Clouds Ascension Plan faced few obstacles amid the world’s current situation.
• Li Xingkong gave Old Tang several cultivation volumes covering Qi Refining, spells, and Body Refining.
• Li Xingkong asked the Divine Land to develop Qi Refining methods that drew on local characteristics, and Old Tang agreed that the people’s imagination could help.
• Old Tang praised Li Xingkong as the Teacher of the Divine Land and arranged to store the tokens nearby rather than take them away.
• Li Xingkong had already searched online for opinions about himself but paid little attention to them because his strength surpassed everyone else’s.

Li Xingkong completed his public appearances as the Xi People's representative while preparing to slip away and resume cultivating. After the visitors supposedly returned to the moon, he was left relieved and resolved to learn a clone technique for future obligations.

• Li Xingkong followed his public itinerary for about a week, using a gravity field to control the crowds that gathered around him.
• Li Xingkong staged his return to the moon, appearing to board the spaceship before quietly slipping away through a camera trick.
• Tang Cheng referred private approaches from foreign reporters and diplomats to the Divine Land's spokesperson, making the Divine Land the sole political link to the moon.
• Li Xingkong reflected that technological and military strength mattered more than diplomatic maneuvering while the Divine Land absorbed his cultivation knowledge.
• Li Xingkong watched the spaceship depart for the moon, felt relieved, and decided he should learn a clone technique to handle future public duties.

After a year in seclusion, Li Xingkong finished refining 334 Earth Veins and emerged with stronger divine sense. He discovered that the Rosy Clouds Ascension Plan’s stillness-exercise courses had reached schools but faced public criticism, and he wondered why the plan’s second stage had stalled.

• Li Xingkong completed his 334th Earth Vein and added it to the pile he had refined during his year in seclusion.
• Li Xingkong found that his Divine Sense Seed had doubled in size and that his divine sense could extend a few inches beyond his body.
• Li Xingkong cleaned the dusty cultivation room and contacted Old Tang, but received no immediate reply.
• Li Xingkong checked the internet and saw that stillness-exercise courses had drawn criticism, especially after replacing Eagle Language as a core subject.
• Li Xingkong learned that military-district teachers had brought the courses to schools, but the plan’s second stage had failed to win public support, leaving him puzzled.