Chapter Summaries

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.

Wang An oversaw the first construction work at the Anping Mining Area while Changnan Interstellar’s exploration team returned with a valuable haul. Back at the company base, Mo Yuemei took the student class and began following a training plan devised by Wang An.

• Wang An ordered Manager Qian and the construction project leader to prioritize the planned feng shui nodes and the waterfront villa, aiming to complete their basic construction within twenty days.
• Changnan Interstellar’s exploration team returned to Leidashi Camp with ten publicly declared Class Change Stones and seven meteorites, while the Avatar secretly retained twenty Class Change Stones and ten meteorites.
• Other exploration teams, eager to find meteorites after hearing about the haul, set out in quick succession.
• The exploration team returned to the Changnan Interstellar company base, where the Avatar selected a new target and the others rested and trained.
• Wang An gave Mo Yuemei a Class Change Stone, and she successfully took the student class in less than an hour.
• Wang An recommended that Mo Yuemei take a martial artist or fighter class next to improve her cultivation, and she agreed to follow the company’s plan.

Wang An comprehended the [Qi] and [Refine] principles and combined them into an independent [Qi Refining] rune that forged mental power into Spirit Qi. He tested its abilities and limits through his Avatar, then began using True Qi to enhance his body and jumped from a third-floor window.

• Wang An identified the [Qi] and [Refine] runes within the profession law rune and connected them to the principles behind [Qi Refining].
• Wang An used his Avatar to condense and combine the two runes, then discovered that the resulting rune forged his mental power into Spirit Qi.
• Wang An tested Spirit Qi’s scanning range and learned that it could observe distant surroundings, distinguish different kinds of qi, and help refine lower-quality qi, but was difficult to replenish.
• Wang An found that Essence Qi dissipated outside the body while briefly altering nearby materials, and that True Qi made his Avatar’s body feel lighter.
• Wang An’s Avatar checked that no cameras were watching, opened a third-floor window, and jumped down after enhancing his body with True Qi.

Wang An combined essence, qi, and spirit through the [Qi Refining] rune to create Law Qi, which destroyed his Avatar and was corrected by the world's laws. He then tested Law Qi in his space, where it could persist and be produced repeatedly, confirming that the space drew energy from outside.

• Wang An tested how True Qi moved objects and recorded the differences among Spirit Qi, Essence Qi, and True Qi.
• Wang An combined the three kinds of qi in the [Qi Refining] rune and created a wisp of Law Qi that assimilated his Avatar and the room before the world's laws erased it.
• Observers at the outskirts of the solar system detected the new law and ordered preparations for a second deployment of profession stones, while the Trial Officer directed them not to interfere.
• Wang An concluded that Law Qi required a transcendent Dao foundation to contain it and suspected his space could store and control it temporarily.
• Wang An repeatedly forged Law Qi in the space, where his Avatar revived after being assimilated and the accumulating energy confirmed that the space drew power from outside.

Wang An discovered that his Avatar space produced Life Primordial Qi, which strengthened the Avatar and could gradually enrich food and pills, giving him another source of energy for cultivation. After the exploration team rested, he sent them to Jiuzhaigou to collect Class Change Stones and search for a site to perform the [Heavenly River Water] ritual, where other teams had already arrived.

• Wang An watched his Avatar cultivate in the space and found that the space's energy rapidly increased its attributes; he named the energy Life Primordial Qi.
• Wang An failed to remove Life Primordial Qi directly, but found that it enriched objects in the space and decided to absorb it by eating the food and pills.
• Wang An used Life Primordial Qi to support his cultivation and found that Spirit Qi improved his learning speed as he studied for his class changes.
• After the exploration team rested, Wang An chose Jiuzhaigou for its uncollected Class Change Stones and as a possible ritual site near the Yangtze River's sources.
• The exploration team traveled to the camp at Jiuzhaigou's entrance, where they learned that the scenic area was closed and several other exploration teams were already active.

The Avatar’s team arrived at the Jiuzhaigou camp and learned that dangerous weather and magnetic interference made deep mountain exploration risky. After gathering intelligence on rival teams, the Avatar planned a cautious search along two rivers and assessed the strength of nearby class holders.

• An exploration team brought two teammates suffering from hypothermia into camp after a sudden blizzard trapped them deep in the mountains.
• Chen Yanshan and Liu Tingquan reported that the leading teams belonged to Shenzhou Mining, Chunhe Aluminum, and Tianqi Club, whose captains included Ye Xingchen and Qi Tianheng.
• The Avatar planned to explore the first and fourth rivers along the outskirts before deciding whether to venture deeper.
• The Avatar used Spirit Qi to scan the camp and found Ye Xingchen and Qi Tianheng had unusually strong life magnetic fields.
• The Avatar compared Mo Yuemei’s life magnetic field with ordinary people’s and estimated her level at around 1.2.