Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discussed how Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity might advance Mental Strengthening, then tested their ideas while Ren Wuyang was caught in the effects of their mental pressure. The chapter left Ren Wuyang unsure whether he had truly escaped the resulting mental distortion as the two men received a call from people looking for them.

• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou discussed drawing minute energy from Heaven and Earth through Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity to advance Mental Strengthening beyond its seventh chapter.
• Ren Wuyang questioned them about the ability and considered how it might help someone at a Gene Fighting Technique bottleneck reach the Fifth Sequence.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng tested their ideas by exerting intimidating mental pressure, leaving Ren Wuyang nauseated, in pain, and struggling to move.
• Ren Wuyang slowly circulated the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique and regained enough clarity to hear them discuss combining the Realm Technique with Mental Strengthening.
• A call announced that people had come looking for Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng, while Ren Wuyang tested whether he had escaped the mental effects and remained uncertain about what was real.

During a livestream reunion with Western Capital City’s elders, Ren Yisheng saw how badly his weakened condition worried them and how much they were willing to spend to help him. Their support changed his plan: he considered teaching them the Mental Strengthening Chapter and gained confidence that Zhang Xuezhou and his allies could help his group rise in power.

• Zuo Lianguang recognized that New Flying Entertainment Livestream was far inferior to Flying Entertainment Livestream’s advanced, smooth multi-person interactions.
• Changkong Luo and the others awkwardly welcomed Ren Yisheng into the livestream and recalled their past ties to his family.
• Ren Yisheng kept his distance as Zhong Rang and the others offered help with his difficulties and poor health.
• Li Qi, Zhu Bufan, and Changkong Luo offered to pool dozens of X446 treatment allocations to restore Ren Yisheng’s body.
• Ren Yisheng realized the elders’ generosity could benefit him and reconsidered withholding guidance on the Mental Strengthening Chapter.
• Ren Yisheng’s confidence grew as he considered Zhang Xuezhou’s rising influence and his group’s potential to surpass the elders.

After testing their intimidation abilities, Zhang Xuezhou explained to Ren Yisheng why he had cooperated with the Twilight Years Mansion and warned him that disaster was almost certain. Ren Yisheng reconsidered his ambitions, deciding that he needed allies and must prepare to grow stronger.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng tested their intimidation techniques and found themselves evenly matched, though Zhang Xuezhou's killing power remained weaker.
• Ren Yisheng acknowledged that Zhang Xuezhou had helped secure cooperation from Changkong Luo and the other Twilight Years Mansion residents, who were providing advanced X446 medical treatments.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he had allied with the residents as a future line of defense and judged the chance of disaster at ten out of ten.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Ren Yisheng that Puresainuoru was a subordinate of the Devil Lord and described the powerful beings and meteors connected to the threat.
• Ren Yisheng reconsidered his priorities, resolved to pursue strength beyond the seventh sequence, and saw the Twilight Years Mansion and Zhang Xuezhou's Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity Chapter as possible support.

Ren Wuyang struggled to distinguish reality from illusion after being caught in the mental ripples of Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou’s confrontation. He used Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity to break through the Mental Cage, but sensed a powerful presence in the sky beyond.

• Ren Yisheng explained that Ren Wuyang’s keen perception had amplified the mental influence and offered X432 treatment to help him recover.
• Ren Wuyang refused to enter the X432 device, suspecting that his father and the device were part of an illusion.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested Ren Wuyang use Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity as a point of support to identify what was real.
• Ren Wuyang drew in micro-energy through the technique, dispelled the fog in his mind, and felt his mental power grow.
• Ren Wuyang heard a colossal beast’s roar and an unfamiliar voice announce coordinates for a living being in a life-bearing star system.

Ren Wuyang achieved Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity, but it connected him to a powerful extraterrestrial being that tried to influence him. Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng broke the connection by weakening Ren Wuyang’s mental power, leaving them uncertain how many such beings might threaten their world.

• Ren Wuyang triggered Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity, causing his mental power to surge and impressing Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou.
• Ren Wuyang’s resonance strained his body, and Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou detected a powerful mental barrier around him.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized Ren Wuyang had attracted an extraterrestrial being that had locked onto his coordinates and was influencing him.
• Zhang Xuezhou urged Ren Yisheng to weaken Ren Wuyang’s mental power, and they disrupted the connection, forcing the being to retreat.
• Ren Yisheng asked whether the being was like Puresainuoru’s master and how many such entities existed, but Zhang Xuezhou said he did not know.

After Ren Wuyang’s cultivation drew a powerful extraterrestrial being, Zhang Xuezhou explained the invaders’ limits and urged Ren Yisheng to study ways to resist them. Ren Yisheng considered combining the cultivation techniques to communicate with or exploit the beings, while Ren Wuyang feared he would become a regular test subject.

• Ren Wuyang recovered his senses inside the X432 device, and Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou discussed how the cultivation technique had attracted an extraterrestrial being.
• Ren Yisheng questioned Zhang Xuezhou about the beings’ origins, technology, and possible threat to their world.
• Ren Yisheng asked how they could resist an invasion, and Zhang Xuezhou proposed finding and defeating the invaders while they adapted to the world’s rules.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested that combining Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity with Mental Strengthening might allow them to communicate with or use the beings.
• Ren Yisheng considered studying the combination through Ren Wuyang and other cases, while Ren Wuyang realized he might repeatedly be used for experiments.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng considered whether Luo Zhong had pursued the Heavenly God General Plan to prepare for a powerful being that arrived in Pan'an over a century earlier. They decided to question the injured Luo Tianming for clues before launching a wide search.

• Ren Yisheng recalled Luo Zhong’s efforts to create a new path of cultivation and wondered whether a sense of crisis had driven him.
• Zhang Xuezhou suspected a powerful being from a fire meteor might still threaten the Scarlet Alliance State, and Ren Yisheng found a record of a meteor over Pan'an 112 years earlier.
• Ren Yisheng proposed searching Pan'an’s caves and underground passages, while Zhang Xuezhou questioned whether the imperial court had already investigated the area.
• Ren Yisheng recalled droughts and the rise of the Yellow Sect in Pan'an, but neither he nor Zhang Xuezhou could confirm a connection to the suspected being.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested asking Luo Tianming what Luo Zhong had told him, and Ren Yisheng agreed that he might be their only source of information.

Zhang Xuezhou visited the gravely poisoned Luo Tianming, who had given up hope after losing his limbs and strength. Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated a Gene Fighting Technique that expelled heavy metal poison, giving Luo Tianming a possible way to survive.

• Zhang Xuezhou gained permission through Zhou Yueyan to visit Luo Tianming at the Twilight Years Mansion's treatment center.
• Luo Tianming lay near death after his poisoned body had been treated by amputating his right arm and leg.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Luo Tianming about a Gene Fighting Technique that could expel toxins from the body.
• Zhang Xuezhou drank a sample of the α-cesium-137 solution despite warnings from the medical staff.
• Pale pink liquid emerged from Zhang Xuezhou's skin as his body rapidly expelled the heavy metal poison, astonishing Luo Tianming.

Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated that his Gene Fighting Technique could expel heavy-metal poison, prompting Luo Tianming to beg him for treatment. Zhang Xuezhou asked Luo Tianming about Luo Zhong’s connection to a celestial phenomenon over Pan'an in the forty-seventh year of the Great Zheng calendar, and Luo Tianming began recalling the events that followed.

• Zhang Xuezhou tried to leave, but Luo Tianming called him back and let the doctors check his condition.
• Zhang Xuezhou expelled heavy-metal toxins from his body, and Luo Tianming’s hope of surviving returned.
• Luo Tianming offered Zhang Xuezhou the Luo Household’s property in exchange for treatment, but Zhang Xuezhou refused to risk taking it.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked what Luo Zhong thought about the flames that streaked across the sky over Pan'an in the forty-seventh year of the Great Zheng calendar.
• Luo Tianming recalled that droughts and the deaths of three successive emperors had followed the celestial event, and that he had entered palace service during that period.

Zhang Xuezhou questioned Luo Tianming about Huang Daoxian, the Yellow Sect, and Luo Zhong’s warnings about a world-ending disaster. Luo Tianming confirmed that Luo Zhong’s head had been found dead and rotten, while Zhang suspected Huang Daoxian was an extraordinarily powerful Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

• Luo Tianming recalled that Huang Daoxian had given the Luofu Dynasty’s emperor high-yield seeds and that the Yellow Sect worshipped him before the court destroyed it.
• Zhang Xuezhou pressed Luo Tianming about Luo Zhong’s fear of a great disaster, and Luo Tianming said Luo Zhong believed evil seeds would turn people into mindless puppets.
• Luo Tianming shared a palace rumor that poisonous grass had grown from the ears of four dead emperors, though he did not know whether the same had happened to Luo Zhong.
• Zhang Xuezhou revealed that Luo Zhong’s head had been found by the Sequence Committee and had become rotten and foul, shocking Luo Tianming and Zhou Yueyan.
• Luo Tianming suggested digging up the emperors’ tombs for clues, while Zhang Xuezhou considered whether Huang Daoxian had been the source of the seeds and an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Zhang Xuezhou promised to teach the disabled Luo Tianming a poison-expelling technique, giving him hope of recovering some function and surviving. Luo Tianming accepted eagerly and began considering how he might rebuild his strength.

• Zhou Yueyan asked about the ferocious insect in the Thousand Islands Alliance, and Zhang Xuezhou said it had accumulated strength for over a century.
• Luo Tianming pleaded with Zhang Xuezhou for help recovering his body and promised he could still be useful.
• Zhang Xuezhou agreed to teach Luo Tianming the Poison Avoidance Art and explained that it required both an internal cultivation technique and an art.
• Luo Tianming eagerly agreed to learn, despite worrying that his missing arm and leg would make the technique difficult.
• Luo Tianming felt renewed hope and considered relying on his remaining limbs, prosthetics, and Mental Strengthening Chapters to regain power.

Zhang Xuezhou questioned Luo Tianming about Luo Zhong and Huang Daoxian, then told Zhou Yueyan he wanted to investigate the Luofu Dynasty emperors' tombs for signs that a threat might still exist. The chapter left Zhou Yueyan worried that her position as acting chairman could put her in the line of fire.

• Luo Tianming explained that Luo Zhong had been supremely confident after surpassing Huang Daoxian, and he accepted Zhang Xuezhou's help and a private livestream account.
• Zhang Xuezhou offered Zhou Yueyan the Poison Avoidance Art, but she refused because its practice was too complicated.
• Zhou Yueyan questioned Zhang Xuezhou about Huang Daoxian, the vicious insects, and whether he planned to visit the Luofu emperors' tombs.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he wanted to inspect the tombs for clues that might help prevent a wider disaster.
• Zhou Yueyan realized that Zhang Xuezhou's investigation could draw trouble toward her as the Sequence Committee's acting chairman.

Zhou Yueyan persuaded the Sequence Committee to investigate the Luofu Dynasty's imperial tombs after warning that a Ferocious Beast might be causing poisonous grass to grow on emperors' heads. The committee agreed to go, but they still needed to plan the expedition and decide whether to rely on the unstable Qin Wenhan for his knowledge of tomb construction.

• Zhou Yueyan convened an emergency Sequence Committee meeting and described the possible danger connected to the Luofu tombs.
• The committee members debated the risks of investigating the tombs, including their traps, poisonous defenses, and the consequences of damaging them.
• Zhou Yueyan warned that the same threat might affect whoever held her position, prompting the members to agree to investigate together.
• The committee discussed expedition plans and considered putting Rihui on the front line because his body was impervious to blades.
• Qin Wuxuan said his brother Qin Wenhan knew something about tomb construction, though the committee doubted whether they could trust him.

Zhou Yueyan led the Sequence Committee in excavating Emperor Luo Ke’s imperial mausoleum, despite Zhou Rihui’s concern about the political backlash and dangers. After Qin Wenhan identified the correct entrance, the Zuo brothers opened it, revealing a warning inscription and confirming they had avoided a reckless breach.

• Zhou Rihui worried that opening the Luofu Imperial Mausoleums would provoke loyalists and feared leading the operation into a dangerous tomb.
• Zhou Yueyan explained that Zhang Xuezhou had come to record the excavation because he had Sequence strength and press credentials.
• Qin Wenhan chose a gentle slope as the likely entrance to Emperor Luo Ke’s mausoleum, and Zhou Yueyan ordered the Zuo brothers to dig there.
• The excavator struck gray bricks, and Qin Wenhan warned the group that digging in the wrong place could trigger poison-water pipes.
• The Zuo brothers broke through the gray bricks and revealed a warning inscription, confirming they had reached the mausoleum’s proper entrance.

Zhang Xuezhou and the Sequence Committee entered Emperor Luo Ke’s mausoleum, where they encountered unknown purple grass. Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin followed after hearing about it, but the grass attacked them and blocked their escape.

• Qin Wuxuan ventilated the excavated entrance, and Zhou Rihui led the Sequence Committee into Emperor Luo Ke’s mausoleum as Zhang Xuezhou filmed.
• Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin stayed outside until they heard that unknown poisonous grass had grown inside the tomb.
• The brothers put on protective suits and gas masks, entered the mausoleum, and found glowing purple grass growing among scattered bones.
• Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin hurried through the grass, which wrapped around them and pierced their protective suits.
• Zuo Quan cut the grass with his knife, but the severed blades reattached and regrew as more grass surrounded the brothers.

Zhang Xuezhou discovered that the purple flower on Luo Ke’s coffin distorted what people saw, then removed the crystal inside it. The crystal showed him reflections of Huang Daoxian, who appeared equally displeased with him.

• Zhou Rihui and the others fought through the hall’s seemingly endless poisonous grass, which fired arrows and could only be destroyed by flame.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed that the camera showed the emperor’s coffin in a different direction from his own vision, while the others struggled in the hall.
• Zhang Xuezhou tested the discrepancy by throwing a recording pen and concluded that the purple light distorted spatial perception rather than causing him to hallucinate.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the camera to locate a purple crystal inside the flower bud, pried it loose, and saw reflections of an old man resembling Huang Daoxian.

Zhang Xuezhou destroyed the crystal chip that was projecting a hallucination and helped the Sequence Committee recover from the purple gladiolus’s mental attack. The group decided to investigate the plant, and Zhou Rihui’s attempt to uproot it pulled the coffin lid and Emperor Luo Xiao’s bones out with it.

• Zhang Xuezhou used Stone Transformation to grind the crystal chip into powder, ending its eerie purple light and freeing Qin Wenhan from the hallucination.
• Qin Wenhan covered the purple gladiolus with an explosion-proof shield and warned the others to keep their masks on.
• Zhou Yueyan and the committee members discussed the plant’s danger and decided to investigate the other imperial tombs as well.
• The group prepared a screen and flamethrowers before Zhou Rihui reached under the shield and yanked up the purple gladiolus.
• Zhou Rihui pulled the coffin lid and the dried bones from the imperial coffin out, wrapped in the plant’s roots.

The explorers survived the purple gladiolus grass’s hallucinogenic effects by using light-blocking cloth and a camera, then Wang Yi'an cut the plant and freed Zhou Rihui. After Zhang Xuezhou quietly warned Zhou Yueyan, she changed plans and urged the group to investigate the other imperial tombs that same day.

• The group shielded their eyes from the grass’s light, while Zhang Xuezhou used a camera to observe it without triggering hallucinations.
• Wang Yi'an struck the grass’s weak junction between its leaves and rootstalk, cutting it and ending its glow.
• Zhou Yueyan declined the temporary committee chair and agreed to seal the grass for laboratory study.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested the grass might be useful in medicine, and Zhou Yueyan understood that he wanted her to secure it.
• After Zhang Xuezhou whispered a warning, Zhou Yueyan pushed the group to explore the other three imperial tombs immediately, using cameras and protective coverings.

Zhang Xuezhou and the task force hurried to investigate Emperor Luo Ren’s mausoleum after learning that the purple gladiolus grass could move. They captured another plant, but its light-bending chip was missing, and the group rushed onward to find the remaining grasses before they escaped.

• Zhang Xuezhou realized the purple gladiolus grass could twist and move, so he urged Zhou Yueyan to investigate the other imperial mausoleums quickly.
• Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin discussed whether to enter Luo Shan’s mausoleum, suspecting that Zhou Yueyan had gained some benefit from the first tomb.
• Zhang Xuezhou sensed energy in Emperor Luo Ren’s mausoleum and the group found a larger purple gladiolus grass burrowing into the compacted ground.
• Wang Yi'an’s blades failed to cut through the plant’s tough leaves, but Zhou Rihui pulled it out and sealed it in a dark bag.
• Zhang Xuezhou searched the mausoleum for a purple crystal chip but found only stone powder from the chip in Luo Ke’s tomb.
• The committee members hurried between tombs, worried that the remaining purple gladiolus grasses would flee before they could capture them.

Zhang Xuezhou and the committee decided to leave a livestream device in Luo Yan's mausoleum to monitor the elusive purple gladiolus grass while they searched Luo Zhong's tomb. The group headed for the final mausoleum, leaving Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin outside to watch the feed.

• The committee searched four imperial mausoleums and found the purple gladiolus grass had vanished from Luo Yan's tomb.
• Zhang Xuezhou proposed using Zuo Quan's visual device to monitor the mausoleum while the group searched Luo Zhong's tomb.
• Zhou Yueyan approved the plan, and the committee hung the visual device on a pillar before leaving.
• Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin complained about the interrupted livestream, then agreed to guard the mausoleum and watch the feed.
• The Zuo brothers settled into a tent with tea and snacks while the group drove toward Luo Zhong's mausoleum.