Chapter Summaries

The Avatar killed the white-haired boar and explored the herd’s lair, where he discovered Savage Earth Qi and collected meteorites and Class Change Stones. Meanwhile, the other exploration teams fought or avoided boars as they continued toward their objectives.

• The Avatar drove off the white-haired boar’s guards, chased the leader down, and killed it while the Chen Martial Arts School fought the remaining herd.
• Zhou Mingyu and Ye Xingchen disagreed over the pace of Chunhe Aluminum’s archers, then increased their firing rate slightly against the boars surrounding them.
• Chen Yanshan, Liu Tingquan, and Mo Yuemei encountered few boars and hurried ahead to collect meteorites before the other teams.
• The Avatar entered the boars’ lair, refined the circulating Heaven and Earth Qi into Savage Earth Qi, and noticed Earth Vein Qi gathering underground.
• The Avatar found two used meteorites and three Class Change Stones, then followed the agreed route to catch up with the exploration team.

After the boar attack, Chen Sen split his injured team and continued the search, while the Avatar caught up with Mo Yuemei and the others. Mo Yuemei revealed that she had changed class, and the Avatar invited her to join Changnan Interstellar as they discussed how rare class holders were and the paths open to them.

• Chen Sen decided to send four less seriously injured members back with the two worst-wounded while the remaining four continued their search.
• The Avatar caught up with Liu Tingquan, Mo Yuemei, and their teammate, and Liu Tingquan reported that Mo Yuemei had collected a meteorite.
• Mo Yuemei told the Avatar she had suspected the Avatar was also a class holder and asked whether the Avatar had changed class.
• The Avatar confirmed being a class holder and invited Mo Yuemei to join the Changnan Interstellar exploration team, giving her the duration of the mission to decide.
• The Avatar explained that class holders were rare, that governments usually trained them for research careers, and that Changnan Interstellar let them choose between research and developing their abilities.

At the South China Sea Launch Site, Wang An discovered how sunlight, human crowds, and metal qi from a rocket launch combined to form Metal Yang Qi. He gathered five strands before exhaustion forced him to stop.

• Wang An visited the spaceflight science center and traced unusual heaven and earth qi through the exhibits and surrounding terrain.
• Wang An concluded that the special qi involved Extreme Yang Qi, human Spirit Yang Qi, and metal-attribute qi.
• Wang An watched the crowd’s Spirit Yang Qi change as anticipation for the rocket launch grew, then saw it mingle with the sun’s Extreme Yang Qi.
• Wang An observed the rocket’s metal-attribute qi fuse with the two kinds of yang qi, forming Metal Yang Qi infused with humanity’s faith in spaceflight.
• Wang An gathered five strands of Metal Yang Qi from a distance, expending substantial mental energy until a nearby tourist noticed his pallor and asked if he needed help.

Wang An developed a ritual-based method for creating the Heavenly River Water Dao foundation, then gathered and refined water qi into Innate Gui Water Sweet Rain Moistening Mystic Qi. Its wondrous art washed away distracting thoughts, soothed his body and mind, and raised his spirituality.

• Wang An compared the birth of Metal Yang Qi and Clear Yang Qi, concluding that new qi required an energy supply, a target, a catalyst, and a matching aura and atmosphere.
• Wang An outlined how to compound and sublimate Star Qi, Greater Yin Qi, water qi, and Metal Yang Qi under Heavenly River imagery, with a matching feng shui aura to stabilize the Dao foundation.
• Wang An called the process a ritual and planned to refine Star Qi to learn how to arrange the needed feng shui aura.
• At four in the morning, Wang An went to an aura node near the dam to gather water qi, drawing on the mist-filled feng shui aura he had strengthened around the villa district.
• By six o'clock, Wang An had refined the 108th wisp of water qi and formed Innate Gui Water Sweet Rain Moistening Mystic Qi.
• Wang An circulated the mystic qi through his body and found that it eased his mind, replenished his spirituality, and continued to increase it.

Wang An met Zhang Mingqing, a high-ranking elder of Mount Longhu sent by the Special Administration Bureau to investigate the strange mist near the dam. After discussing the area's abnormalities, Wang An proposed exchanging information about taking classes for Daoist methods, and Zhang Mingqing agreed to consider the trade under clear terms.

• Wang An sensed a powerful class holder approaching the dam and collected the Class Change Stones he had used to gather water qi.
• Zhang Mingqing arrived, examined the feng shui, and recognized Wang An as someone who had achieved foundation establishment and a body without leakage.
• Zhang Mingqing introduced himself as a [Mighty Covenant Master] investigating the area for the Special Administration Bureau, and Wang An described the mist growing thicker toward the depths.
• Wang An asked to exchange class information for Daoist cultivation methods, talismans, or spells, explaining that he wanted to develop a tested method of internal refinement.
• Zhang Mingqing said the trade depended on the information's value, and Wang An offered to provide a class Mount Longhu had not recorded.

Wang An agreed to join the Special Administration Bureau after Zhang Mingqing explained its light obligations and access to cultivation resources. Zhang Mingqing brought him to the Changnan branch, while Wang An reviewed the Celestial Master Mansion’s talisman teachings and considered which rare professions suited his plans.

• Zhang Mingqing told Wang An that cultivation professionals mainly had to attend a monthly exchange meeting and could receive support from the authorities.
• Wang An asked Zhang Mingqing to introduce him to the Special Administration Bureau, and Zhang Mingqing agreed.
• Zhang Mingqing surveyed the forest’s magnetic field and feng shui, then sent Wang An a list of cultivation techniques, talisman arts, and professions available for exchange.
• Wang An compared the internal refinement techniques with his own abilities and considered studying the Orthodox Unity School’s talisman inheritance.
• Wang An and Zhang Mingqing arrived at the underground museum entrance marked Special Management Bureau Changnan Branch.

The Avatar’s exploration team encountered Chunhe Aluminum’s team in the mountains and learned that they had already searched the route ahead. After collecting their terrain data, the Avatar changed course toward Yellow Bamboo Mountain and Black Smoke Fork.

• The Avatar’s team finished surveying the northern mountains after collecting four Class Change Stones and four meteorites.
• The Avatar’s team met Ye Xingchen’s six-person Chunhe Aluminum exploration team and questioned why they had entered the Chen Martial Arts School’s usual territory.
• Lin Wanxing challenged the Avatar, but Qian Kaige apologized and the others pulled her back.
• The Avatar asked Chunhe Aluminum’s team to share their meteorite locations and terrain data, and they handed over their records.
• The Avatar compared the data with his route and led his team toward Yellow Bamboo Mountain and Black Smoke Fork to avoid retracing explored ground.

Wang An joined the Special Administration Bureau and exchanged information about the [Martial Artist] class for Zhengyi Talismans before attending a cultivation exchange meeting. Zhang Mingqing introduced Wang An’s self-taught cultivation to the attendees, then began introducing the other participants.

• Wang An learned that nearby Class Change Stones were running out and that Changnan Interstellar planned to explore the Jinggang Mountains.
• Wang An became an official member of the Special Administration Bureau and agreed to exchange [Martial Artist] class information for Zhengyi Talismans.
• Wang An visited the Bureau’s underground library and attended a cultivation exchange meeting with Taoists, monks, and a Confucian scholar.
• Zhang Mingqing introduced Wang An’s self-taught cultivation, drawing the attendees’ attention to his solid foundation and potential.
• Zhang Mingqing began introducing Daoist Mingxin of the Jingming Sect and his disciple, Daoist Jingling.

At a gathering of cultivation leaders, Zhang Mingqing explained that ordinary creatures in restricted zones were growing beyond their natural limits, and asked the cultivators to help uncover the cause. Wang An suspected strengthened feng shui energy fields were producing Heaven and Earth Qi, and considered how to use it to advance his [Feng Shui Master] class.

• Zhang Mingqing introduced Wang An to Daoists and representatives of several cultivation schools before opening a discussion about Heaven and Earth energy fields.
• Zhang Mingqing reported that ordinary creatures in restricted zones were exceeding their species' physiological limits, and said the authorities had established quarantine zones while investigating.
• Wang An connected the creatures' growth to feng shui energy fields and Clear Yang Qi, and considered creating a high-density qi chamber to develop his [Feng Shui Master] class.
• Wang An reasoned that intelligence and physical laws made transcendence difficult, and that creatures capable of becoming intelligent could pose a danger to humanity.
• Daoist Jingling suggested spiritual qi recovery, Daoist Mingxin challenged the idea, and Wang An proposed that an undetected substance or energy might be strengthening living beings.

Wang An and the cultivators discussed why creatures in sealed zones had grown stronger, then agreed to investigate the areas firsthand. After exchanging knowledge with Zhang Mingqing, Wang An studied higher cultivation stages and concluded that transcending the universe’s rules required creating a power of equal rank.

• Zhang Mingqing invited the cultivators to investigate the strengthened creatures, and each sect agreed to send an accomplished cultivator to the special areas.
• Wang An and Daoist Priest Zhang Mingqing exchanged the talisman inheritance and information on assuming a position, agreeing not to trade them to other factions.
• Wang An studied Daoist texts and refined his methods while considering the vague stages and mental attainments of [Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness] and [Refining Emptiness and Joining the Dao].
• Wang An concluded that a cultivator had to make the human body into a world capable of opposing the universe’s rules, and he saw the rule rune fragment and transcendent Dao foundation as essential to that path.
• Wang An deduced a method that crudely imitated the universe.

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.