Recaps

Wang An discovered that a foreign cult was draining the life from a forest near Black Smoke Fork to prepare a ritual with Class Change Stones. He found Zhou Mingyu and his team bound at the ritual site and began investigating the cult’s claim that human sacrifices would earn them professions.

• Wang An decided to postpone the later stages of cultivation until he entered the supernatural realm.
• Wang An noticed Heaven and Earth Qi converging on a node near Black Smoke Fork and went to investigate while his squad continued west.
• Wang An found the forest around the node growing lifeless as the qi gathered at an unusually powerful local aura.
• Wang An saw foreign cultists setting up a high-density qi chamber with Class Change Stones and holding Zhou Mingyu and his teammates captive.
• The blue-robed leader said the cult would sacrifice Zhou Mingyu to a god for powerful professions, and Wang An used Profession Guidance to check the requirements for a cult profession.

The Avatar watched a cult prepare a sacrificial ritual at a node where Heaven and Earth Qi gathered, then attacked when the participants became absorbed in chanting. He quickly overwhelmed several guards, while the ritual and its apparent supernatural birth remained unresolved.

• The Avatar compared religious class requirements and noted that foreign cultivation methods were crude and made raising attributes difficult.
• Three black-robed clerics drew blood from the six captives, painted ritual symbols around the hollow and on their bodies, then prepared the site without killing them.
• The cultists gathered around the Class Change Stones and began chanting, causing the Heaven and Earth Qi, magnetic field, and their fanaticism to intensify.
• The Avatar sensed that something might emerge from the ritual and decided to attack while the cultists were distracted.
• The Avatar shot four arrows at the guards carrying compound crossbows, then rushed in and severed the fingers and arms of three men with his machete.
• The Avatar dodged a dagger attack and kicked another guard in the chest, leaving him gravely wounded.

The Avatar killed the cultists at the node and collected the twelve Class Change Stones just before a terrifying strand of Black-Red Qi formed. The qi distorted and mutated the surrounding forest, then collapsed after the node’s Heaven and Earth Qi dissipated, leaving the Avatar to approach and discover the devastation.

• The Avatar killed the blue-robed priest, the three black-robed cultists, and the guards who were still unable to fight.
• The Avatar sensed that evil, chilling Heaven and Earth Qi was about to form, disrupted the local aura field, and collected the twelve Class Change Stones.
• The Avatar fled up the mountain as the Black-Red Qi formed at the node and twisted the nearby vegetation into grotesque shapes.
• The Black-Red Qi weakened as the node’s Heaven and Earth Qi dissipated, then collapsed and scattered after ten minutes.
• The Avatar returned to the node and found twisted, discolored trees and mutated animals and insects, all of which had died.

The Avatar recovered thirty Class Change Stones and ritual materials from a cult site, while Wang An studied the cult’s sacrificial methods and sold expedition findings. Wang An then flew with other factions’ representatives toward a special zone in the Luoxiao Mountains, nearing a camp under construction.

• The Avatar examined six unconscious ritual participants, concluded the cult’s ritual had enhanced their physical attributes at great cost, and left them alive.
• The Avatar collected thirty Class Change Stones, ritual equipment, and survey data, then sent the spoils to Wang An.
• Wang An reviewed a priest’s research log, considered the Priest class’s Divine Revelation skill, and rejected the class-change requirements as not worthwhile.
• The Avatar sold six Class Change Stones and seven meteorites to the Recovery and Management Department for 6.7 million, while other exploration teams prepared to leave Mount Huaiyu.
• Wang An joined representatives and personnel at Changnan Military Airport and flew by helicopter toward a special camp in the Luoxiao Mountains.

Wang An arrived at the sealed zone’s feng shui center and sensed that its Azure Yang Qi could support a purpose-built cultivation chamber. He decided to study the terrain and develop the chamber independently rather than reveal his research to the authorities.

• Wang An and Zhang Mingqing surveyed the mountains and river around the camp, and Zhang Mingqing identified the site as excellent feng shui suited to a king or marquis’s tomb.
• The military district escort told them that the Han dynasty tomb had been visited by tomb robbers but still held well-preserved relics and murals.
• Second Lieutenant Lin arranged accommodations for the group in the camp, where Wang An sensed Azure Yang Qi gathering much faster than at the monkey cave.
• Wang An cultivated and found that the region’s ambient qi could gradually improve his Essence, while a chamber of concentrated Azure Yang Qi could increase his cultivation efficiency.
• Wang An checked his attributes and concluded they were nearing three points, then decided to study the terrain and build a qi chamber without yet cooperating with the authorities.

Wang An chose an abandoned quarry as the site for a feng shui field and Clear Yang Qi chamber, with plans to conceal it inside a resort hotel. After selling five Class Change Stones to fund the project, he learned that acquiring and approving a quarry would take at least three months.

• Wang An returned from the restricted zone and decided he needed a private place to build a feng shui field that gathered Clear Yang Qi.
• Wang An chose an abandoned open-pit mine, planning to develop a resort hotel there while using the quarry's terrain, water, and Earth Vein Qi.
• Wang An's Avatar sold five Class Change Stones in separate transactions to wealthy class holders, raising an estimated twenty to thirty million yuan.
• Lawyer Liu warned Wang An that quarry hotel projects required substantial funding and explained the main challenges involved in choosing a site.
• Lawyer Liu estimated that screening and purchasing a quarry and completing approvals would take at least three months.

Wang An arranged to speed up the mine-hotel approval process and commissioned Deep Realm Ecological Resort Co., Ltd. The Avatar obtained professional certification while the company prepared to expand and strengthen its exploration team, leaving its plans for future expeditions underway.

• Wang An agreed to pay Lawyer Liu five million to shorten the mine purchase approval process to one month.
• Wang An commissioned Lawyer Liu to register Deep Realm Ecological Resort Co., Ltd., using a structure designed to keep the new business separate from Changnan Interstellar.
• The Avatar applied for profession certification under Wang Quan’s identity, received approval, and went to the Changnan branch for in-person certification.
• Chen Yanshan and Liu Tingquan trained with compound bows as Manager Hu recruited hunters and compound-bow experts for the exploration team.
• The company continued gathering information on Jinggang Mountains entrances while Wang An worked to improve his compound crossbow’s range and power.

Avatar went to the Changnan Special Resources Recovery and Management Department to certify Wang Quan’s classes, where Ji Fangmei explained how scarce combat class holders were and how the state trained them. He registered as an archer and martial artist, and the chapter left him preparing for the department’s certification assessments.

• Ji Fangmei received Avatar at the department and escorted him to the class certification area.
• Avatar recalled Wang Quan’s background and considered how his leadership had helped Changnan Interstellar thrive.
• Ji Fangmei explained that the state allocated few combat class holders to each province and deployed them against dangerous mutant creatures.
• Avatar selected the combat category on the tablet and registered the archer and martial artist classes.
• Ji Fangmei noted that Wang Quan had three classes and described the skill and attribute requirements for taking additional classes.

Wang Quan’s Avatar completed certification for his [Martial Artist] and [Archer] classes, despite Ji Fangmei’s invitation to join the Special Recovery Squad. His certification was approved, giving him access to the circle of combat-class professionals, while a research institute secretly stored data about his unusual blood.

• Ji Fangmei invited Wang Quan’s Avatar to join the Special Recovery Squad, but he declined and said he would think it over.
• The Avatar demonstrated Basic Taijiquan and used [Repair] to heal a cut as Ji Fangmei assessed his [Martial Artist] class.
• Ji Fangmei sensed a fragrance from the Avatar’s blood, while the certification device transmitted its recorded data to a research institute.
• The Avatar completed the [Archer] assessment and received confirmation that both classes were valid.
• The Avatar acknowledged the Professional Management Regulations, signed the certification documents, and gained access to the combat-class professional circle.

Wang An and Lawyer Liu inspected a former bauxite mine near Changnan as a potential site for a mine pit hotel. Wang An found the property too small for expansion and noticed strong Earth Vein Qi rising from the pit, leaving its suitability for his plans in doubt.

• Wang An considered how professional classes were managed and speculated that more Class Change Stones might arrive, or that he could eventually create a way to grant classes himself.
• Lawyer Liu told Wang An that the firm had selected three nearby mine pits and described Jinghe, an inexpensive, abandoned bauxite site.
• Wang An and Lawyer Liu met Director Li at Jinghe, where he offered policy support if they redeveloped the mine.
• Wang An surveyed the sparse, heavily mined terrain and judged the pit too small for significant expansion.
• Wang An sensed a large amount of Earth Vein Qi rising from the pit and noted that, unlike most long-abandoned mines, it had not filled with water.

Wang An chose the Anping Iron Mining Area for his mine-pit resort after finding its terrain and qi suitable, and Lawyer Liu secured the transfer for twelve million. Wang An then outlined how he would build the Green Yang Qi Chamber, leaving the filtering structure and stable operation still to be worked out.

• Wang An and Lawyer Liu inspected several mining areas before Wang An found the Anping Iron Mining Area suitable for a resort and Green Yang Qi compound qi field.
• Wang An asked Lawyer Liu to check the transfer price, and Lawyer Liu later negotiated a contract for twelve million.
• Wang An learned that construction could begin in about twenty days once the remaining procedures and approvals were handled.
• Wang An divided the Green Yang Qi Chamber setup into steps involving gathering qi, combining it into Clear Yang Qi, and enclosing it to filter Green Yang Qi.
• Wang An identified the need to prevent other Heaven and Earth Qi from entering and to make the feng shui qi field run steadily with less dependence on the Class Change Stone.

Wang An devised a Law Principle Rune System to help control the Green Yang Qi chamber’s feng shui aura, then tested how law-principle talismans worked. His first experiments revealed that the talismans could produce their intended effects but quickly wore out, leaving him to improve their structure and energy efficiency.

• Wang An considered using talismans to absorb and channel Heaven and Earth Qi, and proposed improving their materials and runic structures to withstand the energy.
• Wang An planned to use meteorite as talisman material and combine law-principle runes with runes for guiding, storing, and circulating energy.
• Wang An drew a Spirit-Nurturing law-principle rune and an energy-guiding rune, then powered them with true qi to produce a faint spirit-nurturing effect.
• Wang An added an energy-storage rune and found that the talisman worked for only one hour before its effect ended.
• Wang An compared his rune with a home-protection talisman and realized the latter used additional runes to reduce energy loss and extend its duration.

Wang An tested and refined his Spirit-Nurturing Rune System, then registered Deep Realm Ecological Resort Co., Ltd. and tasked its new manager with preparing the Anping Mining Area project. He listed his improved Spirit-Nurturing Talismans for sale and planned to seek official certification.

• Wang An carved a Spirit-Nurturing Rune into a meteorite and tested it with true qi and different kinds of Heaven and Earth Qi, recording which runes needed improvement.
• Wang An refined the rune design over several days as Deep Realm Ecological Resort Co., Ltd. completed registration and hired Qian Minsheng as its legal representative and general manager.
• Wang An told Qian Minsheng to recruit essential staff, pursue approval to purchase the Anping Mining Area, and find experienced sinkhole-hotel construction companies.
• Wang An explained that he had invested 20 million in the company and wanted a preliminary plan for a hotel accommodating 100 guests, with construction ready to begin once approval came through.
• Wang An drew 10 improved Spirit-Nurturing Talismans and listed them on the official exchange platform for 100,000 each, planning to seek official certification.

Wang An prepared to have his Spirit-Nurturing Talismans certified after advertising their fast effects and discussing their unusual runes with Daoist Zhang Mingqing. He arrived at the authorities’ certification room, where the examination was about to begin.

• Wang An listed his Spirit-Nurturing Talismans for sale, limited production to five a day, and said he would accept payment before shipment.
• An Ran answered questions on the trading platform, and Zhang Mingqing said he could not understand the talismans’ central runes.
• Wang An applied for official certification and continued cultivating while his attributes increased slowly and his command of wondrous methods improved.
• Wang An practiced Tai Chi Chuan on a mountaintop and demonstrated strength that let him evade ordinary firearms.
• Wang An arrived at the Special Resources Administration and Recovery Department, where Zhang Mingqing and Daoist Mingxin eagerly took him to the certification area.
• Wang An opened his case to reveal three talismans as Ji Fangmei prepared the certification machine.

Wang An demonstrated the Greater Yin Spirit-Nurturing Talisman to Zhang Mingqing and the others, and Daoist Mingxin used one to recover his exhausted mental energy. Zhang Mingqing negotiated with Wang An for the rune, and Wang An traded an illustrated explanation for access to Mount Longhu’s talisman inheritances.

• Zhang Mingqing and Daoist Mingxin examined Wang An’s talismans and discovered their core rune was difficult to remember and could exhaust a viewer’s mental energy.
• Wang An named the talisman the Greater Yin Spirit-Nurturing Talisman and had Daoist Mingxin test it after he had depleted his mental energy.
• Daoist Mingxin activated the talisman, which sent silvery-white moonlight into his mind and accelerated his recovery.
• Wang An and Zhang Mingqing left the certification room to discuss a deal, and Zhang Mingqing offered Mount Longhu’s inheritances except the Orthodox Five Thunder Method.
• Wang An asked to borrow the sect’s talisman inheritances and gave Zhang Mingqing a booklet explaining the core rune and his understanding of the Dao of Greater Yin.

After the Greater Yin Spirit-Nurturing Talisman was certified, Wang An sold it to cultivators while government officials and Taoist leaders made plans to respond. The chapter ended with orders and payments pouring in, bringing Wang An closer to funding construction at the sinkhole.

• Zhang Mingqing struggled to understand the Spirit-Nurturing Method booklet, while Daoist Mingxin recovered his spiritual energy after using the talisman.
• Old Yuan sent reports about An Ran and the talisman to the Recovery Department headquarters and the National Crisis Response Group, then arranged for two talismans to be taken to a military district.
• Zhang Mingqing told Abbot Zhang Mingyuan about the talisman and An Ran's proposed exchange, and Zhang Mingyuan planned to gather the Celestial Master Mansion's talisman inheritances and invite An Ran to Mount Longhu.
• Daoist Mingxin raised his spirit attribute by 0.01 after a day of cultivation, and the authorities officially confirmed the talisman's effects.
• Wang An ignored requests for discounts, pinned instructions limiting purchases to one talisman per person per day, and received two million from twenty buyers.

The National Crisis Response Group investigated Wang An’s disguised identity as An Ran and discussed the value of his Greater Yin Spirit-Nurturing Talismans. The group decided not to force him into government service, but to purchase talismans and establish a research group to study them.

• Shi Jianjun and Li Zhonghua briefed the National Crisis Response Group on An Ran and the talisman he had created.
• State Security presented evidence linking An Ran’s disguise to Wang An and detailed Wang An’s background and business activities.
• The group leader decided not to force Wang An to join the state system, ordered close monitoring, and approved purchasing talismans from him.
• Li Zhonghua explained that the Greater Yin Spirit-Nurturing Talisman could raise the spirit attribute by 0.01 per day when it was below two points.
• After discussing the talisman’s scarcity and potential benefits for professionals, the group leader established the Special Resources Research Group.

Wang An visited the Celestial Master Mansion under An Ran’s identity to study its talisman inheritance and position himself for future cooperation with the authorities. He began examining the mansion’s collection, which preserved many talisman designs but little practical instruction.

• Wang An considered how the state might mass-produce Spirit-Nurturing Talismans and why he needed to protect his deeper knowledge of feng shui aura fields and Heaven and Earth Qi.
• Wang An visited the Celestial Master Mansion with Daoist Zhang Mingqing, keeping a low profile and asking to see its talisman inheritance.
• Zhang Mingqing introduced Wang An to Abbot Zhang Mingyuan, who welcomed him and invited him to stay and exchange insights on talismans.
• Wang An examined the mansion’s low-, middle-, high-, and supreme-grade talisman books and found that many listed powers could no longer be used and their methods were not recorded.

Wang An studied talisman knowledge and examined the Celestial Master Mansion’s Qi-gathering layout for ideas for his quarry hotel. Back in Changnan, he began negotiating with the Recovery Department over cooperation on the Spirit-Nurturing Talisman, rejecting personal instruction and objecting to their proposed purchase share.

• Wang An memorized the talisman books at the Celestial Master Mansion and studied how its buildings gathered Heaven and Earth Qi around the Ancestral Altar of Ten Thousand Dharmas.
• Wang An passed his quarry hotel design ideas to Manager Qian and returned to Changnan after Yuan Ping, director of the Recovery Department’s Changnan branch, called to propose cooperation.
• Wang An met Yuan Ping at the Recovery Department, and Yuan Ping questioned whether Daoist An Ran was his real identity.
• Yuan Ping offered to buy ninety-five percent of Wang An’s Spirit-Nurturing Talismans at 100,000 yuan each, provide access to sect talisman inheritances, and have Wang An train selected people.
• Wang An refused to teach people personally, offered a detailed explanation of the talisman instead, and said the department’s proposed purchase share was too high.

Wang An negotiated a larger state purchase of Spirit-Nurturing Talismans, then expanded Changnan Interstellar’s exploration team by having Mo Yuemei sign a professional cultivation contract and begin training. He also inspected the Anping Mining Area and chose a site above its lake for combining Azure Yang Qi.

• Wang An insisted on a larger purchase share at a higher unit price, and Yuan Ping accepted his terms while agreeing not to interfere with his life.
• Mo Yuemei returned to Changnan Interstellar, reviewed the cultivation contract, and signed it to join the exploration team.
• The Avatar gave Mo Yuemei a Spirit-Nurturing Talisman, three Five Fulfillments Nourishing Pills, and three cultivation manuals, then began teaching her their methods.
• Wang An instructed Manager Chen to have the mining-area design follow his plans and be completed quickly ahead of construction approval.
• Wang An surveyed the Anping Mining Area and selected the area above the lake as a suitable location for combining Azure Yang Qi.

Wang An planned the Anping Mining Area’s hotel and Green Yang Qi Chamber while the Avatar prepared the Changnan Interstellar exploration team for a journey to Leidashi Camp. The team arrived at the camp and began settling in, with the Avatar intending to explore away from the top-ranked Tianqi Club.

• Wang An planned the mine-pit hotel, Green Yang Qi Chamber, Class Change Stone nodes, and a lotus-planting experiment at Anping Mining Area.
• The Avatar trained and equipped Old Zhao and Old Cao, then assembled a six-member exploration team with compound bows.
• The Avatar reviewed Leidashi Camp’s meteorite sites and learned that Qi Tianheng’s Tianqi Club was one of the few teams exploring deep in the southern region.
• Wang An found official notices saying villages near restricted zones were being relocated as wild animals grew more active and threatened settlements.
• The exploration team reached Leidashi Camp, registered, set up camp, and had Chen Yanshan and Liu Tingquan ask about other teams.

Avatar’s exploration team set out for Bazi Water to hunt mutated creatures and collect meteorites, but a swarm of hundreds of cat-sized rats ambushed them among the abandoned homes. Avatar led the team to a rooftop and held the swarm back, though the rats began gnawing at the steel door as the chapter ended.

• Huasheng and the others learned that Tianqi Club had explored the north, so Avatar chose to search the less-explored area around Bazi Water for beast packs led by mutated creatures.
• The team traveled for three days, ambushed two small herds of wild boars, and collected three Class Change Stones and two meteorites.
• At Bazi Water, several hundred unusually large rats poured out of the abandoned homes and surrounded the exploration team.
• Avatar led everyone into a nearby house, fought off the rats with his machete, and guided the team up to the rooftop.
• The team shut the steel rooftop door behind Avatar, but the rats began scratching and gnawing at it.

The Avatar found and killed the rat king, but its cries drove the rat swarm into a frenzy. As he rushed back to the exploration team, the rats pushed through a Molotov fire and advanced on them.

• The Avatar spotted the rat king directing rats from a nearby rooftop and gave Liu Tingquan Molotov cocktails to defend the team’s entrance.
• The Avatar charged up to the rat king’s rooftop, fought off its guards, and killed it with his machete as it fled down a drainpipe.
• The remaining rats shrieked and attacked the Avatar, who raced back toward the exploration team.
• Old Zhao and Old Cao stabbed at rats squeezing through holes in the stainless-steel door while Liu Tingquan threw a Molotov cocktail at the swarm.
• The flames burned many rats, but the swarm pushed through the fire and continued toward the team.

Wang An returned to the exploration team and slaughtered the rats attacking them before tracking the survivors to their nest. He collected Savage Earth Qi, Class Change Stones, and meteorites, then showed the team the spoils as they waited near the village exit.

• Liu Tingquan ran out of Molotov cocktails as the rats surrounded the exploration team, and Mo Yemei encouraged everyone to hold out until the captain returned.
• Wang An arrived and cut down the charging rats, then helped the exploration team drive the remaining rats into flight.
• Wang An followed the wounded rats to a cave behind Bazi Water, where he found five strands of Savage Earth Qi and a haphazard arrangement of Class Change Stones.
• Wang An killed the rats in the nest, collected the Qi, and found fifteen Class Change Stones and five meteorites.
• Wang An returned to the exploration team with ten items in his backpack, and Mo Yuemei counted them as the group celebrated.

Wang An’s Avatar collected blood spirit qi from the rat corpses while leading the exploration team onward, and Wang An refined 108 wisps of star qi into Innate Ding Fire Star Morning Radiance Spirit-Illuminating Wondrous Qi. He began using its method to enhance his spirituality and planned to gather the remaining metal yang qi to complete the Green Yang Qi Chamber.

• The Avatar gathered three wisps of blood spirit qi from the dead rats, then collected three wisps of death spirit qi and rejoined the exploration team.
• The Avatar led the team onward from Bazi Water along its route toward camp.
• Wang An set up a star-drawing qi field on Meteor Mountain and refined 108 wisps of star qi over five days.
• Wang An formed Innate Ding Fire Star Morning Radiance Spirit-Illuminating Wondrous Qi and activated its method to gradually enhance his spirituality.
• Wang An gathered the newly drawn star qi and noted that metal yang qi remained before he could finish the Green Yang Qi Chamber.