Chapter Summaries

Cao Fengqi proposed turning a Soul Perception Disc into a detector, extracting soul fragments himself and reverse-engineering the disc’s blueprint. After the Arsenal’s Smelters dismantled it, he began analyzing its components, while Xu Zhenjiang and Director Xu doubted he could succeed.

• Cao Fengqi presented the Soul Perception Disc as a possible solution, but Director Xu pointed out they lacked a blueprint and soul fragments.
• Cao Fengqi said he could extract soul fragments through his Beast Shepherd Sequence and reverse-engineer the disc after it was dismantled.
• Xu Zhenjiang criticized Cao Fengqi, but Xu Fenghua told her father to let him try.
• Director Xu and the other Smelters dismantled the damaged Soul Perception Disc and handed Cao Fengqi more than two hundred components.
• Cao Fengqi began examining the components and reverse-engineering the level 8 disc while Xu Zhenjiang and Director Xu doubted his chances.

Cao Fengqi deduced the forging blueprint for the level-eight Soul Perception Disc and proved it by helping the Smelters restore the device. After his discovery promised to help Great Xia detect pollutors and evil-god servants, he pressed Xu Zhenjiang for his promised rewards.

• Cao Fengqi realized the Soul Perception Disc could be repaired without soul fragments and asked Xu Fenghua to summon the Smelters.
• Director Xu, Zhu Mingshan, and another Smelter examined Cao Fengqi's calculations, then decided to test his blueprint.
• The three Smelters repaired the disc, confirmed that Cao Fengqi's blueprint worked, and read its ability to sense others of the same kind within five kilometers.
• Xu Fenghua praised Cao Fengqi for creating a device that could help protect Great Xia, while Xu Zhenjiang dismissed his success as luck.
• Cao Fengqi taunted Xu Zhenjiang and demanded his rewards, eager to use the metal to upgrade his shelter or forge a weapon.

Cao Fengqi’s rapid creation of the Soul Perception Disc earned him recognition as an extraordinary Artifact Refiner and the rank of major general. Xu Zhenjiang’s admiration turned to anger after he read a report about Cao Fengqi’s personal relationships.

• Cao Fengqi completed the Soul Perception Disc detector in a few hours, astonishing Xu Zhenjiang, Director Xu, and the Transcendent Arsenal’s staff.
• Xu Zhenjiang promised Cao Fengqi his reward and invited everyone to celebrate his solution to Tianbei Base City’s problem.
• Director Xu praised Cao Fengqi’s knowledge and predicted that he would surpass He Wushuang, while Cao Jianjun celebrated his nephew becoming an 18-year-old major general.
• Xu Zhenjiang read Cao Fengqi’s background report and learned about his closeness to Liu Chunying, his twin fiancées Wang Zhiyan and Wang Zhixue, and his pursuit of Xiao Youya.
• Xu Zhenjiang’s favorable impression of Cao Fengqi vanished, and he decided his daughter should stay away from him.

Cao Fengqi received his honorary major general rank and rewards, then exchanged for a Dimensional Cloak while Xu Fenghua offered to find him protective treasures. Xu Zhenjiang secretly ordered false romantic relationships added to Cao Fengqi’s file and promoted Cao Jianjun to deputy director, rewarding the Cao Family with an Artifact Refiner’s Transcendent Sequence Rune.

• Cao Fengqi received a major general’s medal, a level 6 storage ring, rare materials, and permission to choose a level 8 treasure.
• Cao Fengqi teased Director Xu about his rank, exchanged for a Dimensional Cloak, and asked Xu Fenghua for help finding items to conceal his curse and evade Soul Listener tracking.
• Xu Fenghua offered to find a curse-removing item and told Cao Fengqi to visit her the next day, while Xu Zhenjiang secretly ordered Xiao Ling to add fabricated romantic relationships to Cao Fengqi’s file.
• Director Xu promoted Cao Jianjun to deputy director of the research institute and awarded the Cao Family an Artifact Refiner’s Transcendent Sequence Rune.

Cao Fengqi received two powerful treasures and headed home, while Xu Fenghua’s father tried to discourage her from seeing him by showing her his background. Xu Fenghua remained determined to associate with Cao Fengqi for swordsmanship, leaving Xu Zhenjiang furious and ready to confront him.

• Cao Fengqi accepted a ride home after declining the Transcendent Arsenal elder’s invitation, and admired the Dimensional Cloak and White's Mysterious Cloak he had received.
• Xu Zhenjiang gave Xu Fenghua an altered file about Cao Fengqi, including details of his many relationships and violent past.
• Xu Fenghua agreed that Cao Fengqi was no good but said she would keep seeing him because she wanted him to teach her swordsmanship.
• Xu Zhenjiang became enraged, summoned his Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf, and announced that they were going to confront Cao Fengqi.

Xu Zhenjiang ambushed Cao Fengqi and beat him for getting close to his daughter, Xu Fenghua, while warning him to stay away from her. After Xu Zhenjiang left, Cao Fengqi messaged Xu Fenghua and plotted to get revenge by asking to kiss or touch her the next time they met.

• Xu Zhenjiang rode up to Cao Fengqi's convoy on the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf and dragged him from his vehicle.
• Xu Zhenjiang beat Cao Fengqi for getting close to Xu Fenghua and warned he would beat him whenever he saw him near her.
• The Night Watchers watched in shock as Xu Zhenjiang left, while Cao Fengqi struggled to his feet and vowed to get revenge.
• Cao Fengqi messaged Xu Fenghua, who apologized and promised to speak to her father.
• Cao Fengqi told Xu Fenghua he wanted revenge and asked to kiss or touch her the next time they met.

Cao Fengqi upgraded his shelter, improved his Spirit Tamer experience, and waited for his Mirage Rats to finish absorbing their gains. With sixteen battle pets and an impressive collection of equipment, he prepared to face the Aberrant Witch Worms.

• Xu Fenghua angrily rejected Cao Fengqi's teasing messages, while Cao decided to keep his distance to avoid another beating from her father.
• Cao returned to the Cao Family shelter and put his Mirage Rats in the Dimensional Cloak to speed up their improvement.
• Cao absorbed five tons of level 7 metal, upgrading his Transcendent Shelter into a bulwark capable of withstanding weak level 7 threats.
• Cao sold a level 7 bone saber and a level 6 sword, then absorbed souls to raise his Spirit Tamer experience to 75%.
• Cao's two Mirage Rats finished improving, reaching level 7 with mental power scores of 1827 and 1305.
• Cao gathered his sixteen battle pets and lavish equipment and set out to confront the Aberrant Witch Worms.

Cao Fengqi returned to the Great Fog Forest to hunt Aberrant Witch Worms, but found a swarm of flying enemies that included five level-seven worms. After a brief fight, he fled and discovered that the Mirage Rat leader could withstand the yellow worm’s attack.

• Cao Fengqi chose to explore the far-left area and set up a carefully crafted Mirage to lure the Aberrant Witch Worms.
• He removed his mysterious cloak, revealing his cursed yellow hair, and attracted the yellow witch worm along with twenty-two other flying worms.
• Cao Fengqi killed a level-six witch worm with his Holy Light Cannon, then realized that four more worms could summon swarms of over thirty moths each.
• Recognizing that five level-seven flying witch worms gave him little chance of winning, Cao Fengqi fled in his level-seven wheelchair.
• The yellow witch worm fired a beam at Cao Fengqi, but the Mirage Rat leader’s Mirage Realm Protection withstood the attack as Cao Fengqi escaped.

Cao Fengqi prepared an ambush for the Aberrant Witch Worms after learning their weaknesses and mapping the remaining threats. He lured the swarm into Mirage, setting up his attack while hidden beneath his mysterious cloak.

• Cao Fengqi identified the Gray Feather Moths’ weaknesses and decided to gather more Mirage Rats before dealing with them.
• Cao Fengqi surveyed the right side of the area, then spent an hour setting Mirage and traps with his eight Mirage Rats.
• Cao Fengqi lured the same group of 25 Aberrant Witch Worms into attacking and killed four with level 7 bullets.
• Cao Fengqi used Gloom Ruins Shadow Splitting to blunt a level 7 witch worm’s bone spike attack.
• Cao Fengqi hid under his mysterious cloak as Mirage created a decoy, drawing the approaching witch worms into the illusion.

Cao Fengqi and his battle pets fought the Aberrant Witch Worms using Mirage traps, ranged attacks, and coordinated skills. He killed a level 7 worm and subdued another, while Xiaotian Dog attacked the Venomous Thorn Vine.

• Cao Fengqi used Mirage Sleep and a barrage of bullets to kill a level 7 Aberrant Witch Worm.
• The Mirage Rats and Nightmare attacked the worms caught in their traps as Plague Rats joined the fight.
• Xiaotian Dog attacked the level 7 Venomous Thorn Vine with help from the Mirage Rat leader's Illusion World.
• Cao Fengqi countered a burrowing worm's ambush, severed its claw, and blasted it with his sword art and autocannons.
• Cao Fengqi used Mirage Sleep to put the wounded worm to sleep and considered forming a contract with it.

Cao Fengqi and Xiaotian Dog defeated the level 7 Venomous Thorn Vine and the remaining Aberrant Witch Worms, then Cao Fengqi contracted a burrowing level 7 worm named Guilou. He worried that his Mirage Rats still could not counter the Gray Feather Moths, but continued gathering resources and hoped to find enough to advance to the Third Sequence.

• Cao Fengqi joined Xiaotian Dog in killing the Venomous Thorn Vine, while Mirage Rats and Nightmares helped eliminate the remaining Aberrant Witch Worms.
• Cao Fengqi contracted the level 7 Aberrant Witch Worm Guilou and learned it could grow by devouring other worms or bloody, poisonous, or dark-type items.
• Cao Fengqi realized that his Mirage Rats had few spirit-type worms to absorb and still lacked a good way to fight the Gray Feather Moths.
• Cao Fengqi considered feeding the worm corpses to Xiaotian Dog and helping Guilou recover, and decided to harvest the worms' souls if his next resources could not advance him to the Third Sequence.
• Cao Fengqi collected the corpses and began inspecting the resources, finding a level 6 staff and a level 7 bone blade before noticing another item.

Cao Fengqi found a level 8 Witch Worm Blood Heart and fed it to his Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu, then discovered a massive red alert surrounding fourteen level 9 resources that he was not yet able to enter. He returned from the Lost Land with his haul and prepared to meet Wang Zhiyan the next day.

• Cao Fengqi found a Soul Potion Recipe Memory Crystal and decided to sell it.
• Cao Fengqi opened a level 7 Blood Spring Stone toad and discovered a level 8 Witch Worm Blood Heart inside.
• The Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu absorbed the Witch Worm Blood Heart, and Cao Fengqi put it away to digest.
• Cao Fengqi's scan revealed fourteen level 9 resources inside a huge red-alert zone, so he decided not to enter it yet.
• Cao Fengqi collected a damaged witch statue, returned from the Lost Land, and fed Aberrant Witch Worm corpses to Xiaotian Dog and Guilou.
• Cao Fengqi remembered his plan to meet Wang Zhiyan the next day and went to sleep.

Cao Fengqi asked Cao Jiancheng to trade three items for souls, then left for Talent Home after Liu Xiuxiu urged him and Wang Zhiyan to have another child. He arrived to find the complex heavily guarded and reunited with Wang Zhiyan, who explained that she and her sister had sharing turned on.

• At breakfast, Cao Fengqi gave Cao Jiancheng three items to trade for souls and said he did not want to earn souls by forging weapons or brewing potions.
• Liu Xiuxiu urged Cao Fengqi and Wang Zhiyan to have another child, but Cao Fengqi refused and left after telling his mother to find something else to do.
• Cao Fengqi traveled by level 7 wheelchair to Talent Home, where he noticed its arcane tower, artillery emplacements, and guards.
• Wang Zhiyan greeted Cao Fengqi and explained that she and her sister were training with sharing turned on.
• Cao Fengqi teased Wang Zhiyan that kissing her would let her sister enjoy it too, and Wang Zhiyan warned him that her sister could hear him.

Cao Fengqi visited Wang Zhiyan and Wang Zhixue at Talent Home, where he learned about their training and met their friends. After hearing that Wang Zhiyan had a fiancé, Kong Feiyun vanished from the group, apparently preparing to approach Cao Fengqi.

• Cao Fengqi accompanied Wang Zhiyan to Talent Home and watched her and Wang Zhixue train in the cultivation room.
• Wang Zhiyan introduced Cao Fengqi to Yueming, Zhizhi, and Wenwen, and Wang Zhixue bragged that the sisters had reached the Second Sequence.
• Wang Zhiyan told Cao Fengqi that the sisters were doing well, while Wang Zhixue complained about persistent suitors and matchmaking attempts.
• Liu Wenwen and the others confirmed to Kong Feiyun that Wang Zhiyan was engaged to Cao Fengqi, and Zhang Yueming urged Kong Feiyun to give up pursuing her.
• Kong Feiyun clenched his fist, watched Cao Fengqi talking with Wang Zhiyan, and eerily vanished from sight.

Cao Fengqi reacted to a sudden warning of killing intent and killed Kong Feiyun with his summoned beasts and weapons. When the teachers tried to seize him, he claimed they lacked the authority and produced a Medal of Honor.

• Cao Fengqi sensed his script's red alert and noticed Kong Feiyun vanish as the onlookers watched him mockingly.
• Kong Feiyun appeared behind Cao Fengqi, who warned Wang Zhiyan and her sister to retreat and attacked with his Mirage Rats, Nightmares, Holy Light Cannons, and Vulcan Autocannons.
• The teachers and trainees realized Cao Fengqi had killed Kong Feiyun and demanded that he stop and be seized.
• Cao Fengqi tossed out a Medal of Honor and told the teachers they had no authority to seize him.

Cao Fengqi killed Kong Feiyun after the prodigy ambushed and frightened Dayun, then revealed his honorary major general rank to the instructors at Talent Home. The instructors reported the incident to their superiors, while Wang Zhiyan and the other prodigies struggled to take in Cao Fengqi’s status.

• Cao Fengqi told Wang Zhixue to stay calm after killing Kong Feiyun and explained that the man had hidden in the grass to scare Dayun.
• The lead instructor verified Cao Fengqi’s medal and confirmed that he was an honorary major general, prompting all five instructors to salute him.
• Cao Fengqi ordered the instructors to investigate whether anyone had put Kong Feiyun up to the attack and joked that he deserved compensation for emotional distress.
• The lead instructor explained that Kong Feiyun was a Talent Home prodigy recruited by the Second Shelter and said the matter had to be reported to higher officials.
• Cao Fengqi told Wang Zhiyan that he had earned his honorary rank through his own strength, leaving her and the surrounding prodigies stunned.

After Cao Fengqi killed a prodigy who attacked him, Tianbei Base City officials investigated and confirmed the dead man had struck first. Cao Fengqi was cleared, while his teasing of Xu Fenghua prompted Director Hu to withdraw from a possible feud with General Xu Zhenjiang.

• Deputy Director Xu Fenghua and Director Hu arrived at Talent Home after learning that Cao Fengqi had killed a prodigy.
• Director Hu reassured Cao Fengqi that his achievements and talent would protect him from serious consequences, shocking the gathered instructors and prodigies.
• Xu Fenghua ordered Captain Guo to use his Soul Listener ability to examine the dead prodigy's soul.
• Captain Guo confirmed that the prodigy attacked Cao Fengqi first over a romantic matter and had harbored killing intent.
• Xu Fenghua warned Cao Fengqi to avoid trouble, and Cao Fengqi joked that the Law Enforcement Bureau could help him get revenge on Xu Zhenjiang.
• Director Hu awkwardly left rather than get involved, and Xu Fenghua snorted at Cao Fengqi before leaving.

Cao Fengqi impressed everyone at Talent Home with his status and defended the Wang sisters before taking them to the Wang Family home. There, a visitor offered to introduce Wang Zhixue to a young man more outstanding than him, and Zhixue challenged her to prove it after showing Cao’s major general medal.

• Cao Fengqi reassured the Talent Home youths that he would protect the Wang sisters, and the person in charge ended training early.
• Wang Zhiyan and Wang Zhixue went home with Cao Fengqi, teasing him about his medal and their plans for the evening.
• Yang Yuanyuan and Wang Binggao warmly welcomed Cao Fengqi when the three arrived at the Wang Family home.
• A visitor named Sister Huang offered to introduce Wang Zhixue to an outstanding young man, despite Yang Yuanyuan’s polite refusal.
• Wang Zhixue presented Cao Fengqi’s honorary major general medal and urged Sister Huang to arrange a meeting with someone more impressive, leaving the family stunned.

Huang Xiufen recognized Cao Fengqi as Great Xia’s youngest major general and stunned the Wang family by revealing the scale of his achievements. The family accepted their good fortune and decided to be content, though Yang Yuanyuan briefly worried that Fengqi’s closeness with County Magistrate Xiao might complicate things.

• Huang Xiufen recognized Cao Fengqi’s medal and recalled reports that he had become an honorary major general at eighteen and was close to Deputy Director Xu.
• Wang Zhixue tried to show off Cao Fengqi, but Huang Xiufen instead praised him and teased Zhixue about having such an outstanding brother-in-law.
• Wang Binggao, Yang Yuanyuan, and Wang Qixiao were stunned to learn that Cao Fengqi was a major general, and Cao confirmed his rank casually.
• After Huang Xiufen left, Yang Yuanyuan and the others discussed how fortunate they were to have Fengqi as a son-in-law.
• Yang Yuanyuan worried that Fengqi’s good relationship with County Magistrate Xiao could pose a concern, but Wang Qixiao urged the family to be content as long as their daughters were happy.

Cao Fengqi used the Wang sisters’ gift to strengthen the Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu, then absorbed souls to break through to the Beast Shepherd’s Third Sequence, Herder. His battle-pet capacity rose to fifty-four, and he discovered the new skills Spirit Communication and Return to the Herd.

• Wang Zhiyan and Wang Zhixue gave Cao Fengqi level 8 Heavenly Eagle essence blood, which he later fed to the Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu after seeing its dramatic growth from a Witch Worm Blood Heart.
• Cao Fengqi checked his battle pets’ progress and found Xiaotian Dog and Guilou had absorbed several Aberrant Witch Worm corpses.
• Cao Jiancheng told Cao Fengqi that the family’s items had sold for thirty level 6 souls and five level 5 souls, and Cao Fengqi gave him the level 5 souls as an errand fee.
• Cao Fengqi absorbed thirty-seven level 6 souls and advanced to the Beast Shepherd’s Third Sequence, Herder.
• Cao Fengqi learned that Herder let him contract fifty-four battle pets and granted him Spirit Communication and Return to the Herd.