Recaps

After settling near Spark Guild, Cao Fengqi declined a place in its core ranks and explored the guild’s trading resources. He found maps of the Lost Land and information on Wraith Remains, and began searching for useful forging blueprints.

• At the banquet, Feng Qinglan and Feng Qingxuan discussed Cao Fengqi’s forging talent, his closeness to Xiao Youya, and his reputation for being ruthless.
• After the banquet, Cao Jiancheng asked to visit his brother’s family, and Cao Fengqi agreed to go with him the next morning.
• Cao Fengqi reflected on declining Feng Yunlong’s offer to join Spark’s core ranks, choosing to keep his independence and put his family first.
• Cao Fengqi inspected Spark’s trading catalog and found Strongman Techniques that could raise some of his skills to the sixth stage.
• Cao Fengqi found maps of the Divine Tower Empire, the Flowing Land, the Nine Witches Domain, and the Ten-Thousand-Li Ice Field, then confirmed that Cangxuan Town belonged to the Divine Tower Empire.
• Cao Fengqi read Spark’s information on Wraith Remains and began searching for weapon-forging blueprints.

Cao Fengqi reviewed the Spark Guild’s trading platform and shared souls with his family, then bonded with Transcendent Source Metal and turned the Cao Family’s shelter into a Transcendent Shelter. He examined its weak defenses and lack of systems, and ended the chapter still seeking a way to defeat the last Wraith Remains.

• Cao Fengqi examined the Spark Guild’s trading platform and decided to keep some souls for forging level 7 arrows.
• Cao Fengqi gave Liu Xiuxiu one level 6 soul and seven level 5 souls so the women could buy useful supplies for the family.
• After dinner, Cao Fengqi bonded with the Transcendent Source Metal and used it to merge with the Cao Family shelter.
• Cao Fengqi inspected the shelter’s information and learned it had level 2 physical defense, no systems, and an overall level 1 rating.
• Cao Fengqi speculated about special shelter buildings and planned to explore the Lost Land and conquer Cangxuan Town for shelter-related treasures.
• Unable to figure out how to defeat the last Wraith Remains, Cao Fengqi went to ask his sister-in-law to discuss it with him.

Cao Fengqi’s family reunited with his father’s relatives at the official transcendent arsenal, where Cao Fengqi discovered an abandoned project to develop a level 7 autocannon. After spotting a flaw in the research, he realized he might be able to help.

• Cao Fengqi and his family took a soul-powered taxi to the official transcendent arsenal to visit Cao Jiancheng’s older brother, Cao Jianjun.
• Cao Jianjun welcomed Cao Jiancheng and his family, then brought them home, where other relatives gathered to reunite with them.
• While the adults talked, Cao Fengqi noticed a document about the arsenal’s failed Transcendent Vulcan Autocannon Research Project.
• Cao Fengqi examined the research and identified a problem with the fire nitrate metal, then had a flash of insight.

Cao Fengqi studied the nearly finished Transcendent Vulcan Autocannon blueprint, hoping to use it to clear Cangxuan Town. When Dabao injured a child during a dispute, Cao Fengqi settled the matter and had Liu Chunying heal him, shocking the assembled relatives with her transcendent ability.

• Cao Fengqi decided he could finish the Transcendent Vulcan Autocannon blueprint himself and continued studying it as more relatives arrived.
• Dabao pushed a boy who tried to take Xiaobao's crystal ball, leaving the boy with a bleeding forehead.
• Cao Fengqi explained that Dabao's constitution of eighty-five made him strong enough to hurt ordinary people and told him to be gentle with other children.
• Cao Fengqi urged the boy's mother to teach him not to snatch things, then asked Liu Chunying to heal the injury.
• Liu Chunying used the Transcendent Holy Fire to close the boy's wound, leaving the relatives stunned.

Cao Fengqi reunited with his extended family and revealed that his household had become a family of Transcendents. When Cao Jianjun urged him to leave the Spark Guild and work at the Transcendent Arsenal, Cao Fengqi handed him revised research documents.

• Cao Fengqi took Dabao, Xiaobao, and Liu Chunying inside after Cao Fengqi’s relatives reacted with surprise to the children’s abilities and constitution.
• Cao Fengzhi welcomed Cao Fengqi and led him to a family meal arranged by Cao Jianjun.
• Cao Jiancheng told the family that he, his wife, his son, and his daughter-in-law had become Transcendents with Cao Fengqi’s help.
• Cao Fengqi said he was an Artifact Refiner in the Mystic Artificer sequence and had joined the Spark Guild.
• Cao Jianjun urged Cao Fengqi to join the Transcendent Arsenal, but Cao Fengqi gave him revised documents for the discarded Transcendent Fire God Autocannon project.

Cao Fengqi showed Cao Jianjun his revisions to the abandoned Transcendent Vulcan Autocannon project, and Cao Jianjun realized the design might now be complete. The chapter ended with Cao Jianjun learning that Cao Fengqi was a perfected ninth-stage Mystic Artificer and praising him as the real master.

• Cao Fengqi handed Cao Jianjun the revised autocannon documents, and Cao Jianjun examined the changes to the design.
• Cao Fengqi explained how burst silver, additional souls, and different bullet metals could address the autocannon's flaws and costs.
• Cao Jianjun read the full design, concluded it was likely perfected, and asked Cao Fengqi how he had done it.
• Cao Fengqi said he had fixed the abandoned project on a whim, leaving Cao Jiancheng and the family stunned.
• Cao Fengqi revealed that he was a perfected ninth-stage Mystic Artificer, and Cao Jianjun exclaimed that he was the real master.

At the Cao Family dinner, Cao Fengqi stunned his relatives by revealing craftsmanship that surpassed even Cao Jianjun’s and the Transcendent Arsenal’s experts. After Fengqi agreed to advise the arsenal on its final forging stage, Cao Jianjun hurried him there, while the family reconsidered their view of their country relative.

• Cao Fengzhi and the other relatives reacted with shock when Cao Jianjun praised Cao Fengqi’s perfected ninth-stage Mystic Artificer craftsmanship.
• Cao Fengqi said he had joined the Spark Guild, declined a core position, and offered to help Cao Jianjun if he could.
• Cao Jianjun asked Fengqi to advise the Transcendent Arsenal on the final forging stage of the Vulcan autocannon, and Fengqi agreed while considering the arsenal’s materials.
• After the meal, Cao Jianjun took Fengqi to the arsenal, leaving the younger relatives impressed and newly respectful toward Liu Chunying and the others.

Cao Fengqi visited the Transcendent Arsenal and began forging components for the Vulcan Autocannon, astonishing Director Chen with his skill and modified design documents. The chapter ended with Cao Jianjun and Cao Fengzhi joining him to forge level 7 metal bullets.

• Cao Jianjun showed Cao Fengqi the Arsenal's forging operations and explained the state's metal mines and the dangers of the Lost Land.
• Cao Fengqi asked Cao Fengzhi to prepare extra materials and twenty-two level 6 souls before inspecting the institute's level 8 forging equipment.
• Director Chen arrived and questioned Cao Jianjun's work on the Vulcan Autocannon, but Cao Jianjun handed him the modified documents and began forging with Cao Fengqi.
• Cao Fengqi's flawless forging technique astonished Director Chen, who also struggled to understand the changes in the documents.
• Cao Fengqi told Cao Jianjun and Cao Fengzhi to forge level 7 metal bullets and asked Director Chen to help, prompting Cao Jianjun and Cao Fengzhi to begin.

Cao Fengqi completed a perfect-grade level 7 Vulcan Autocannon at the Transcendent Arsenal, impressing its staff and earning his uncle Cao Jianjun credit. He took the remaining materials and souls with him, while Director Duan recognized his talent and tried to recruit him.

• Cao Fengqi coached Cao Jianjun as he forged and assembled the Vulcan Autocannon, infusing its parts with eleven level 6 souls.
• The finished level 7 Vulcan Autocannon proved to be perfect-grade, with a five-kilometer range and powerful armor-piercing effects.
• Cao Fengqi took the remaining materials and souls to study, and Cao Jianjun arranged an arsenal vehicle to take him home.
• Cao Jianjun told Director Duan how Cao Fengqi had completed the weapon, and Director Duan declared his Artifact Refiner talent the best in the country and asked Cao Jianjun to recruit him.
• Cao Jianjun explained that Cao Fengqi had joined Spark but avoided its core ranks, so Director Duan postponed the recruitment effort and credited Cao Jianjun for the project.
• Outside the arsenal, Cao Fengzhi told Cao Fengqi that Cao Jianjun had won their mother's love by being a simp, then said his own courtship was nearly paying off.

Cao Fengqi returned home, forged a machine gun, and strengthened himself before heading back to Desolate Town to confront the Wraith Remains. He opened fire on the wizard Wraith Remains, which escaped his first barrage, but his cheat revealed its location and he fired at it again.

• Cao Fengqi forged a machine gun and absorbed fifteen level 6 souls, raising his attributes before deciding to clear Cangxuan Town.
• Cao Fengqi arrived in Desolate Town and summoned seven level 6 Nightmares and Xiaotian Dog, whose growth had granted him a new burst skill.
• Cao Fengqi targeted the wizard Wraith Remains from seven hundred meters away and unleashed a barrage from his Spatial Pattern Firepower Box.
• The wizard Wraith Remains shielded itself, vanished, and ordered twenty Wraith Remains to attack Cao Fengqi.
• Cao Fengqi's cheat revealed the wizard Wraith Remains' new position, and he swung his weapon around and fired at it again.

Cao Fengqi used the Vulcan Autocannon and Holy Light Cannon to kill the Wraith Remains wizard and the twenty Wraith Remains attacking him. He collected their weapons and discovered a Fatefall Space Seal containing a sword art, though he found the loot less useful than he had hoped.

• Cao Fengqi repeatedly interrupted the Wraith Remains wizard's spellcasting, destroyed its crimson clone with a Holy Light Cannon, and blasted the wizard to death with another shot.
• Cao Fengqi gunned down the three level 7 Wraith Remains at the front of the charging group, then used the Vulcan Autocannon to kill the remaining attackers.
• Cao Fengqi collected the Wraith Remains' battered weapons and inspected the wizard's Fatefall Witch's Staff and ruined robe.
• Cao Fengqi found the Fatefall Space Seal on the wizard and discovered that its ten-cubic-meter storage space contained only a book.
• Cao Fengqi identified the book as the Five Elements Spirit-Invoking Sword Art, which could teach him tenth-stage swordsmanship, but he was disappointed that it was not a movement manual or a Transcendent Sequence Rune.

Cao Fengqi searched Lord An's Wizard Tower and found powerful treasures, including an inheritance key to the Fate Witch Grand Church's ancient wizard assessment. He left Cangxuan Town resolved to seek the inheritance and find a way to reach its distant headquarters.

• Cao Fengqi searched the wizard tower's first three floors but found no diaries or other notable items.
• Cao Fengqi found a Witch's Love Crystal necklace in a room with a skeleton, learned it benefited women only, and took the usable items.
• Cao Fengqi reached the tower's fifth floor and collected the Wizard Tower Orb, a second piece of Source Metal, and an inheritance key.
• Cao Fengqi learned the key could start the ancient great wizard's inheritance assessment at the Fate Witch Grand Church headquarters, but the site was far from Cangxuan Town.
• Cao Fengqi looked over Cangxuan Town, declared his first campaign stop complete, and vanished.

Cao Fengqi mistook Wang Zhiyan for her twin sister Wang Zhixue and became intimate with her before realizing the mistake. After Wang Zhiyan explained that she and her family would join the Tianbei Base City authorities, they made a Spirit Medium Contract, and Cao Fengqi gave her valuable items as she prepared to leave.

• Cao Fengqi woke in the afternoon, found his family away, and opened the door to Wang Zhiyan.
• Cao Fengqi mistook Wang Zhiyan for Wang Zhixue and became intimate with her, then promised to marry her and gave her two Witch's Love Crystals.
• Wang Zhiyan told Cao Fengqi that she and her sister had agreed to join the authorities and go to Tianbei Base City with their family.
• Wang Zhiyan and Cao Fengqi made a Spirit Medium Contract that allowed telepathic communication and emergency teleportation.
• Cao Fengqi gave Wang Zhiyan level 5 cigars and level 6 Heavenly Bone Liquid and Marrow-Cleansing Liquid.

Wang Zhiyan agreed to become Cao Fengqi’s fiancée, while her family prepared to join the authorities. Cao Fengqi bought a level 7 wheelchair to use as a mount for his journey to the Fate Witch Grand Church and planned to improve it with formations.

• Wang Zhiyan told her family that Cao Fengqi would visit weekly and had invited them to dinner before they left for the authorities.
• Wang Zhixue felt unsettled about her sister’s engagement, but her mood improved when Wang Zhiyan gave her a Witch’s Love Crystal from Cao Fengqi.
• Cao Fengqi searched the Spark Guild trading platform for a way to travel over difficult terrain and found Mage Okra’s Wheelchair.
• Cao Fengqi negotiated with the seller and bought the wheelchair for nine level 6 souls, then planned to ask Sister Youya to add formations.
• Cao Fengqi’s mother asked him to invite the Wang Family over for a proper get-together before they left the next day.

The Cao and Wang families officially engaged Cao Fengqi and Wang Zhiyan, and Cao Fengqi later met Feng Qinglan and Feng Qingxuan at the Xiao family home. He gave Xiao Youxiu a level-six saber, offered Xiao Youya a level-seven treasure, and asked her to set up formations on his new mount before his long journey.

• Liu Xiuxiu and Yang Yuanyuan finalized Cao Fengqi and Wang Zhiyan's engagement, though they did not set a wedding date.
• Cao Fengqi encountered Feng Qinglan and Feng Qingxuan outside the Xiao family home and followed them inside to see Xiao Youya.
• Xiao Youxiu asked Cao Fengqi to forge him a level-six saber, and Cao Fengqi gave him one he already had.
• Cao Fengqi offered Xiao Youya a level-seven treasure, but she rejected his sweet talk and told him to get to the point.
• Cao Fengqi asked Xiao Youya to set up level-seven acceleration, concealment, and defense formations on his new mount.

Cao Fengqi asked Xiao Youya to install an acceleration array and the Wizard Tower Orb on his wheelchair, while Feng Qingxuan decided to improve his forging skills to compete for her attention. After Xiao Youya finished the work, Cao Fengqi gave her the Witch's Love Crystal by groping her and fleeing.

• Cao Fengqi gave Xiao Youya his level 7 wheelchair and Wizard Tower Orb and asked her to install an acceleration array.
• Feng Qinglan failed to persuade Xiao Youya to go shopping and arranged to have dinner with her that night.
• Feng Qingxuan decided to skip dinner and train until he reached the peak of the Mystic Artificer realm so he could prove himself to Xiao Youya.
• Xiao Youya knocked Xiao Youxiu out of the room after he suggested Cao Fengqi pursue her.
• Xiao Youya finished installing the array, rejected Cao Fengqi's offer of a massage, and refused his Witch's Love Crystal.
• Cao Fengqi placed his hand on Xiao Youya's butt, squeezed it, and ran away.

Xiao Youya privately acknowledged that the crystal Cao Fengqi gave her could greatly aid her cultivation, while warning Xiao Youxiu not to accept favors from others. Cao Fengqi finished preparing for his journey to the Fate Witch Grand Church and set out to begin a new challenge.

• Xiao Youya felt embarrassed and angry about Cao Fengqi's advances but kept the crystal after recognizing its powerful cultivation benefits.
• Xiao Youya warned Xiao Youxiu not to accept gifts or owe favors, and he explained that he had earned his saber through hard work and refused Feng Qingxuan's help.
• Cao Fengqi admired his upgraded wheelchair and planned to use its speed and water-travel abilities to reach the Fate Witch Grand Church.
• Cao Fengqi bought a compass, replenished supplies, and traded his level 7 bow and arrows for a perfect-grade sword.
• After using most of his level 6 souls to improve his strength and equipment, Cao Fengqi declared himself ready to journey to the Fate Witch Grand Church.

Cao Fengqi traveled from Cangxuan Town toward the Fate Witch Grand Church, encountering the deadly dangers of the Lost Land along the way. He reached the Great Fog Forest and prepared to approach the church’s territory at the foot of the Fangelan Mountains.

• Cao Fengqi left Cangxuan Town in his level 7 wheelchair, carrying refined grain and heading toward the Fate Witch Grand Church.
• Cao Fengqi crossed scarred, lifeless terrain and detoured around a vast red-warning area.
• Cao Fengqi approached an enormous level 8 resource, but fled when a massive claw struck the ground near him.
• Cao Fengqi passed more restricted zones, a ruined city, and other humans before stopping to rest after traveling over a thousand kilometers.
• Cao Fengqi set out again the next day and reached the Great Fog Forest, beyond which lay the Fangelan Mountains and the Fate Witch Grand Church.

Cao Fengqi reached the Fate Witch Grand Church and learned that its inheritance lay at Heavenly Fate Remains Burial Mountain, eighty kilometers away. When he recognized enemies from Dragon Head Mountain, he attacked first, and Liu Dongyi was overwhelmed by his weapons.

• Cao Fengqi scanned the Great Fog Forest and found a resource-rich area crowded with people exploring the Fate Witch Grand Church.
• Cao Fengqi learned that the inheritance site was at Heavenly Fate Remains Burial Mountain and prepared to continue toward it.
• Guo Hao and Liu Dongyi recognized Cao Fengqi as the one who had ruined their Dragon Head Mountain plan.
• Cao Fengqi recognized the pair as enemies and opened fire with his Vulcan Autocannon.
• Guo Hao defended himself with an earthen wall and a witch talisman while Liu Dongyi attacked with blood shadows.
• Cao Fengqi struck at Liu Dongyi with a Holy Light Cannon and Mental Smite, then continued firing until Liu Dongyi's blades and armor began to break.

Cao Fengqi killed two Dragon Head Mountain transcendents at the Fate Witch Grand Church, then discovered a level-seven Storage Witch Ring buried beneath a collapsed statue. Liu Dongyi and Guo Hao sought revenge through Dragon Head Mountain, while Cao Fengqi found the ring contained more treasures.

• Cao Fengqi killed Liu Dongyi and Guo Hao with his Holy Light Cannon and Vulcan Autocannon, then shot a red-glowing Dragon Head Mountain member who challenged him.
• Cao Fengqi collected the surviving equipment from the two transcendents and continued deeper into the Fate Witch Grand Church, leaving the terrified ordinary members alive.
• Liu Dongyi revived in Tianbei Base City, complained about losing his equipment and a life, and contacted Deputy Mountain Lord Li to arrange revenge against Cao Fengqi.
• Cao Fengqi scanned the ruins and detected a level-seven resource buried beneath a collapsed witch statue.
• Cao Fengqi dug up a finger bone bearing a level-seven Storage Witch Ring and discovered that the ring held more treasures.

Cao Fengqi explored deeper into the Fate Witch Grand Church, gaining two level 7 items and learning Gu Thought Shadow Possession. After detecting abundant high-level resources and approaching eerie, intact palace-like structures, he sent Nightmare ahead to scout.

• Cao Fengqi consumed the Spirit Gu Poison Pill and used the memory crystal to learn Gu Thought Shadow Possession, which let him share senses with and remotely control Nightmare.
• Cao Fengqi examined a wizard's books about Gu insects and evil creatures, then continued exploring and collected a level 6 Soul-Slaying Poison.
• Cao Fengqi detected three transcendents fighting unknown creatures nearby but avoided them and pressed onward.
• Cao Fengqi's cheat detected many resources, including a level 8 resource near the twenty-six-kilometer mark, and he realized the Fate Witch Grand Church held an immense trove of treasures.
• Cao Fengqi spotted eerie palace-like structures and used Gu Thought Shadow Possession to send Nightmare ahead as a scout.

Cao Fengqi probed a church mirage and battled seven Mirage Rats, learning that their mental attacks could permanently injure his Nightmares. He then received a warning that seven people were approaching to kill him and flew toward them, recognizing two enemies he had shot before.

• Cao Fengqi entered an illusory church and discovered red alerts marking hidden dangers, including every supply item.
• He attacked the seven Mirage Rats with his Nightmares, but they evaded his attacks and struck his Nightmare with mental nets, permanently reducing its mental power by 15 points.
• The Mirage Rats sent more than a hundred projections at Cao Fengqi, but he and his Nightmares dispersed them with area attacks before he fired into the church and saw the rats take cover.
• Cao Fengqi decided not to risk entering the church and resolved to seek information about the dangers inside the Fate Witch Grand Church.
• The script warned Cao Fengqi that seven people were approaching, and he judged that Dragon Head Mountain had sent them to kill him.
• Cao Fengqi flew toward the group and recognized two people he had previously riddled with bullets, along with an elderly man and a middle-aged mystical-type transcendent.

Cao Fengqi escaped Dragon Head Mountain after Elder Chen’s attack severely injured his spirit, then returned home and met with his uncle, who asked him to decipher a level 7 compass. The chapter ended with Cao Fengqi interested in the chance to earn an honorary position that would let him exchange merit points for items in the authorities’ treasury.

• Elder Chen used Soul Plucking to kill Cao Fengqi’s Nightmare, but Cao Fengqi escaped by withdrawing his spiritual power and fleeing on his wheelchair.
• Cao Fengqi fled more than a hundred kilometers to the Great Fog Forest, while Elder Chen and the others failed to catch up and abandoned the pursuit.
• Cao Fengqi left the Lost Land and rested at home, recovering from the mental injury caused by Elder Chen’s attack.
• Cao Jianjun offered to obtain Cao Fengqi an honorary position with the authorities if he deciphered a level 7 compass.
• Cao Jianjun explained that an honorary position would let Cao Fengqi earn merit points and exchange them for items in the authorities’ treasury.

Cao Fengqi dismantled a level-seven energy disc and quickly deduced its forging blueprints, earning his uncle’s amazement and a promised position at the authorities’ armaments factory. He looked forward to using the authorities’ resources to find information on the Fate Witch Grand Church and Dragon Head Mountain’s Transcendents.

• Cao Jianjun brought Cao Fengqi a Wind, Fire, Thunder and Lightning Energy Disc that the authorities had failed to crack, hoping he could study it.
• Cao Fengqi dismantled the disc and its anti-tampering mechanism with Emberfire, spiritual sense, and precise insight.
• Cao Fengqi drew the forging blueprints, including the anti-tampering device, while Cao Jianjun and Cao Fengzhi watched in astonishment.
• Cao Jianjun promised to apply for a nominal armaments factory position for Cao Fengqi and have the merit points for cracking the disc credited to him.
• After Cao Jianjun left, Cao Fengqi agreed to help him and considered using his new position to obtain information about the Fate Witch Grand Church and Dragon Head Mountain’s Transcendents.

Cao Fengqi encouraged Liu Chunying to leave the Lost Land and open a healing clinic, then accepted an honorary position at the Transcendent Arsenal after his exceptional work on powerful equipment. He received his credentials as an honorary captain and was about to be shown the institute’s research project.

• Liu Chunying apologized for dying in the Lost Land and losing Cao Fengqi’s equipment, then said she planned to open a medical clinic using her Healing Spell.
• Cao Fengqi agreed with Liu Chunying’s plan and privately decided he should move out of his parents’ home.
• Cao Jianjun reported that Cao Fengqi deciphered the Wind, Fire, Thunder and Lightning Energy Disc and reverse-engineered its forging blueprint in less than half an hour, and Director Duan approved an honorary position for him.
• Cao Jianjun brought Cao Fengqi level 6 medicines and took him to the Transcendent Arsenal to complete his formalities.
• Director Duan gave Cao Fengqi his credentials and named him an honorary captain, with no actual authority or responsibilities.