Recaps

After the Xingfeng Sect wiped out the Jiang Household, Liu Qian led its martial artists to seize the household’s wealth in Liuyang Town. The three remaining great households offered Chen Feng an annual share of their profits if the Xingfeng Sect stayed out of town, while Mo Yuandao warned his men not to underestimate the sect.

• News of the Jiang Household’s destruction spread, and Liu Qian arrived at its residence with Xingfeng Sect martial artists to confiscate its valuables.
• Mo Yuandao of the Mo Household met Liu Qian and asked whether the Xingfeng Sect intended to establish itself in Liuyang Town.
• Mo Yuandao offered Chen Feng five hundred thousand taels of silver each year and promised the three households would pay the royal tribute if the sect stayed out of town.
• After Mo Yuandao left, Liu Qian ordered men to watch the three households in case they plotted against the Xingfeng Sect.
• Mo Yuandao rebuked a subordinate for judging the Xingfeng Sect by its members’ martial realms and said its weapons seemed dangerous.

After returning from the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng learned that time passed there nearly five times faster than in the modern world. He then heard Lin Wei’s proposal for collecting Spiritual Qi, and decided he might rob ASML to obtain the necessary equipment.

• Chen Feng returned to the airplane lavatory after about two and a half hours in the Painting Scroll World, though only half an hour had passed in the modern world.
• Chen Feng left the lavatory, returned to his seat, and arrived the next morning to find missed calls from Liu Mu, Li Xiaorou, and Jack.
• Li Xiaorou told Chen Feng that Wound Healing No. 1 had launched and reached hospital pharmacies, but Chen Feng declined to meet patients or appear in the media.
• Lin Wei called Chen Feng and said she had found a way to address his Spiritual Qi problem, so Chen Feng rushed to the Xingfeng Mining laboratory.
• Lin Wei explained that Spiritual Qi might have quantum properties and proposed modifying a superconducting-qubit quantum sensor and building collection equipment to gather it.
• After Lin Wei described the costly equipment required, Chen Feng thought about robbing ASML to obtain an EUV lithography machine.

Chen Feng arranged for Jack to establish himself in the Golden Triangle and funded Lin Wei’s equipment purchases before returning to the Painting Scroll World to raise money. Meanwhile, Wound Healing No. 1’s rapid effects astonished patients, and its popularity spread across Mountain City and beyond, leaving Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals flooded with requests for more orders.

• Chen Feng agreed to visit Liu Mu next week, then learned Jack had reached the Golden Triangle and ordered him to build connections without getting involved in drugs or human trafficking.
• Chen Feng transferred fifty million to Lin Wei for equipment and planned to return to the Painting Scroll World to raise the remaining money he needed.
• A skeptical patient took Wound Healing No. 1 after a doctor prescribed one capsule, then felt his pain lessen dramatically within a minute.
• Patients shared their experiences online, and Li Xiaorou arranged media coverage that helped push Wound Healing No. 1 onto Weibo’s trending searches.
• Hospitals and pharmacies nearly sold out of Wound Healing No. 1, prompting Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals to receive a flood of requests for additional orders, including from other provinces.

Li Xiaorou struggled to meet soaring demand for Wound Healing No. 1 while Huirui Pharmaceuticals prepared to challenge Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals. In the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng received the Jiang Household’s vast assets and realized its gold could fund his needs, though selling it safely would require going abroad.

• Li Xiaorou turned down new orders, ordered ten more production machines, and expanded Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ production as sales of Wound Healing No. 1 surged.
• Lu Mingze learned Huirui Pharmaceuticals’ researchers could not identify the medicine’s ingredients, sent samples to headquarters, and ordered a lawsuit and an investigation into Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ owner.
• After five days of seclusion, Chen Feng emerged as Liu Qian reported that the Xingfeng Sect had taken over the Jiang Household’s businesses and recruited its surrendered martial artists.
• Chen Feng reviewed the Jiang Household’s inventory of silver, gold, pills, manuals, businesses, and resource-rich mountains.
• Chen Feng calculated that selling the household’s sixty thousand taels of gold could raise about 1.4 billion yuan and chose the Golden Triangle as a safer place to sell it.

Chen Feng reorganized the Xingfeng Sect, delegated business affairs to Liu Qian, and agreed to accept annual payments from the three great households rather than expand into Liuyang Town. After handling his modern-world businesses, he set out for the Golden Triangle to convert his gold into cash and help Jack establish an armed foothold.

• Chen Feng ordered the sect’s resources and stipends to be distributed according to merit, then entrusted Liu Qian with the sect’s affairs and the Jiang Household’s businesses.
• Liu Qian advised Chen Feng to accept the three great households’ offer for the sake of stability, and Chen Feng agreed to stay out of Liuyang Town in exchange for their payments.
• Chen Feng gave Wang Hu a sniper rifle and trained him and his men to use modern weapons.
• Chen Feng met the new microscopic physics experts at Xingfeng Mining, left Lin Wei in charge of the metal project, and promised to fund the equipment she needed.
• Chen Feng checked Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ sales, then traveled by car toward Yun Province with the scroll to pursue his plans in the Golden Triangle.

Chen Feng crossed into the Golden Triangle and instructed Jack to buy weapons and arrange the sale of six thousand jin of gold. After reaching Jack’s security company, Chen Feng secretly transported the gold into his room from the Painting Scroll World.

• Jack greeted Chen Feng with a large entourage, and Chen Feng told him not to stage such a display again.
• Jack explained that his men had taken over several entertainment venues in Shan State and that local armed groups sold weapons.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to buy two hundred AKs, three hundred grenades, and ten thousand rounds of ammunition.
• Chen Feng told Jack to sell six thousand jin of gold in batches, and Jack was stunned by the amount.
• Chen Feng arrived at Jack’s security company, sent Jack away, and used the painting scroll to move all the gold into his room.

Chen Feng sold modern goods through the Xingfeng Sect and mastered the Wind Blade Technique while waiting for gold to be sold in the outside world. He learned that the Ning Kingdom had invaded the Yue Kingdom, drawing the royal family’s attention away from the Jiang Household.

• Chen Feng showed Jack a mountain of gold, arranged for the sale proceeds to be transferred through an underground bank, and left the security company.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect, told Liu Qian to buy Healing Pills and sell modern goods, and priced each photo album at two hundred taels of silver.
• Chen Feng practiced the Wind Blade Technique in the forest and mastered it after ten days, though his Transcendent State still lasted only a few minutes.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that the photo albums had sold out and that the three great lineages wanted more to resell in other towns.
• Liu Qian informed Chen Feng that the Ning Kingdom had attacked the Yue Kingdom, leaving the royal family occupied with preparing a counterattack.

Chen Feng rescued the Dragon Country captives, and Jack arrived to take them away. After Jack shot a man from Cherry Blossom Country who demanded to be rescued, he drove to meet Chen Feng, who asked him to identify the attackers.

• Chen Feng waited for Jack after testing the Wind Blade Technique on the black-clad men.
• Zhang Jiajia and the other captives escaped the truck and feared the approaching vehicles were bringing new captors.
• Jack arrived with armed men, identified the people from Dragon Country, and gave them clothes and rides home.
• Jack shot a man from Cherry Blossom Country who demanded help, then sent the Dragon Country captives away.
• Jack drove to Chen Feng and respectfully greeted him, and Chen Feng asked who the attackers were.

After the Yue Kingdom ordered the Xingfeng Sect to help intercept a Ning Kingdom army, Wang Hu volunteered to fight, and Chen Feng agreed while giving him guns and disciples. Chen Feng stayed behind and sent Liu Qian to represent him in Liuyang Town, then collected Qi-and-Blood pills for Lin Wei.

• Liu Qian reported that the royal family had ordered the Xingfeng Sect and other factions near Liuyang Town to intercept a hundred-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom army.
• Wang Hu explained that refusing the order would be treated as treason and volunteered to go because the Ning Kingdom had killed his father.
• Chen Feng allowed Wang Hu to lead inner disciples and take guns, after making him promise to return alive.
• Chen Feng declined the Mo Household's invitation to Liuyang Town and sent Liu Qian in his place, with Wang Hu assigning inner martial artists to accompany him.
• Chen Feng went to the sect treasury and took Qi-and-Blood pills for Lin Wei.

Chen Feng planned to help Jack seize Bai Suocheng’s territory by taking out Bai Suocheng and capturing his telecom scam compounds. He reached Bai Suocheng’s villa and confronted him, announcing that he had come to kill him.

• Chen Feng asked Jack about Bai Suocheng’s three compounds, which held nearly ten thousand employees and were guarded by about five hundred militiamen.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to prepare his men to take control of the compounds and keep the employees safe for his instructions.
• Jack gathered more than a hundred armed men and led them toward the compounds in a convoy.
• Bai Suocheng learned that Jack’s gang had seized his kidnapped workers and ordered his men to bring Jack to him.
• Chen Feng appeared on Bai Suocheng’s balcony despite the villa’s security and told him he had come to kill him.

Chen Feng killed Bai Suocheng with supernatural powers and escaped before the militia could surround him. Jack then led his men to attack a telecom fraud compound in Northern Shan State after learning Bai Suocheng was dead.

• Chen Feng deflected the bodyguards' pistol bullets, killed them, and severed Bai Suocheng's legs as Bai tried to flee.
• Chen Feng burned Bai Suocheng alive with spirit fire, then messaged Jack and left the villa.
• Militiamen arrived and tried to extinguish the flames, but Bai Suocheng burned to ashes as they watched.
• Jack told his men that Bai Suocheng was dead and led them to seize the northern district's turf.
• Jack opened fire on the guards at the telecom fraud compound's entrance.

Jack and his men captured Bai Suocheng’s three telecom scam compounds after Bai Suocheng was killed. Jack left guards to keep the captive employees inside, following Chen Feng’s order that none of them escape.

• Jack’s forces broke into a compound, and a Dragon Country employee identified the bald enforcer and manager as the people in charge.
• Jack shot the bald enforcer and manager, then took his men to attack the other two compounds.
• Armed forces across the Golden Triangle learned Bai Suocheng was dead, but stayed out of the fighting while they investigated.
• By five in the morning, Jack had captured all three compounds, though his side had lost nearly thirty men.
• Jack ordered his men to guard the compounds’ entrances and exits so none of the employees could escape.

Li Xiaorou met with Lu Mingze, who tried to persuade her to let Huirui Pharmaceuticals invest in Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and used a lawsuit to pressure her. State Security arrived and arrested Lu Mingze, leaving Li Xiaorou's factory secure under the government's protection.

• Li Xiaorou returned to her office and received Lu Mingze and his secretary from Huirui Pharmaceuticals.
• Lu Mingze proposed investing in Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and claimed Huirui could help resolve a lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing the industry.
• Li Xiaorou rejected the investment offer and calmly texted someone while Lu Mingze urged her to reconsider.
• Lu Mingze's legal team called to report that the court had dismissed the lawsuit and State Security had taken the lawyers for questioning over suspected theft of state secrets.
• Five State Security officers entered, accused Lu Mingze of prying into state secrets and smuggling medicine abroad, and took him away.
• Li Xiaorou thanked the officers and knew they guarded the factory around the clock to protect its technology.

Lin Wei successfully detected Spiritual Qi with a modified quantum sensor, and discovered that Chen Feng carried it inside him. Chen Feng took the sensor to the Painting Scroll World to test a conjecture that might resolve his cultivation problem.

• Lin Wei used her final sample of Spiritual Qi and her third modified quantum sensor, and the particle monitor reacted.
• When Lin Wei brought the sensor near Chen Feng, it detected stronger Spiritual Qi fluctuations from him, and he admitted that he had absorbed some.
• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that a collection device would take a few more days to prepare and agreed to make the sensor portable.
• Chen Feng gave Lin Wei an Essence Nourishing Pill, then took the sensor and returned to the Painting Scroll World to test his conjecture.

Chen Feng tested the Painting Scroll World's herbs and discovered that three contained Spiritual Qi, then considered how the Xingfeng Sect might obtain more. Meanwhile, Liu Qian arrived at a meeting in Liuyang Town as the Ning Kingdom's invasion threatened the region.

• Chen Feng used a sensor to confirm that Hengduan Mountain had little Spiritual Qi and began testing herbs, pills, and ores from the Xingfeng Sect's treasury.
• Chen Feng found three herbs containing Spiritual Qi and asked the sect's Alchemists to identify them; they named flame grass, scarlet spirit root, and three crow grass and estimated their value at ten thousand taels each.
• Chen Feng found that the sect had only a few dozen of each herb and decided to ask Liu Qian to buy more, while reflecting that wiping out Lineages brought wealth faster than trading.
• Chen Feng returned to cultivating as he waited for Lin Wei to develop a device that could collect Spiritual Qi from the herbs.
• Liu Qian arrived at the Mo Household with Xingfeng Sect martial artists to attend the three great Lineages' meeting, bringing ten armed inner sect martial artists for protection.

Liu Qian represented the Xingfeng Sect at a meeting called by the Mo Household to organize forces for the imperial family’s campaign against the Ning Kingdom. He announced that the sect would send only ten Postnatal martial artists and one Xiantian expert, claiming each Xingfeng disciple was worth a hundred men, and left the other leaders skeptical.

• Liu Qian arrived at the Mo Household and was welcomed into the main hall as a representative of the famed Xingfeng Sect.
• Mo Chen offered Liu Qian the seat reserved for the Jiang Household, while the Wang Household head questioned why Chen Feng had not come.
• Mo Chen said his household would send five hundred Postnatal martial artists and three Xiantian experts; the Wang and Wei Households each pledged three hundred Postnatal martial artists and two Xiantian experts.
• Liu Qian announced that the Xingfeng Sect would send ten Postnatal martial artists and one Xiantian expert, drawing surprise and mockery from the other leaders.
• Liu Qian declared that one Xingfeng Sect disciple was worth a hundred Postnatal martial artists, and the Wei Household head suggested Chen Feng should join the battle himself.

Liu Qian let a Xingfeng Sect inner disciple demonstrate the sect’s hidden weapon, which killed three Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm martial artists from the Wang Household. Mo Chen agreed that the Xingfeng Sect could send ten people to Liuyang Town the next day, but the head of the Wang Household stopped Liu Qian and demanded to know what the weapon was.

• The head of the Wang Household challenged Liu Qian’s claim by sending three Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm martial artists to fight a Xingfeng Sect inner disciple.
• The Xingfeng Sect martial artist fired his submachine gun and killed all three Wang Household martial artists before they could attack.
• The crowd and Mo Chen were stunned by the weapon’s power, while the head of the Wang Household confronted Liu Qian over the deaths.
• Liu Qian asked Mo Chen whether ten Xingfeng Sect martial artists would be enough, and Mo Chen agreed after seeing their strength.
• Mo Chen set the gathering for noon the next day at the entrance to Liuyang Town, but the head of the Wang Household blocked Liu Qian and demanded an explanation of the hidden weapon.

After tensions flared between the Xingfeng Sect and the Wang Household, the Ning Kingdom army approached Liuyang Town, and Wang Hu prepared improvised grenade traps with his disciples. The ambushers split up, leaving Wang Hu and ten inner disciples on a hillside to attack the advancing troops.

• Liu Qian led the Xingfeng Sect away from the Mo Household after refusing to answer the Wang Household head, while the Wei Household head warned Wang not to provoke the mysterious Xingfeng Sect.
• Ten days later, news that the Ning Kingdom army was nearing Liuyang Town spread panic among the surrounding powers.
• Mo Yuandao and Wang Hu led an ambush group of more than seven hundred Postnatal martial artists and eight Xiantian martial artists to block the army's western route.
• Wang Hu and several Xingfeng Sect martial artists buried nearly twenty grenades in the road as improvised traps.
• Wang Hu took ten inner disciples to a hillside and ordered them to attack the approaching soldiers, giving the disciples their first real battle.

Lei Poshan learned that martial artists near Liuyang Town had gathered to ambush the Ning army, while the chapter revealed that the war between Ning and Yue was a scheme to raise martial artists as Spiritual Qi-rich “blood food” for cultivators. Wang Hu spotted the Ning army approaching and warned Mo Yuandao’s group, who retreated as Guo Ming pursued them; several explosions then sounded ahead.

• Lei Poshan ordered Guo Ming to lead twenty thousand soldiers against the martial artists gathered near Liuyang Town.
• Lei Poshan reflected that the Ning and Yue kingdoms’ war was being used by cultivators to raise and slaughter martial artists for their Spiritual Qi.
• Wang Hu spotted Ning soldiers approaching the ambush and warned Mo Yuandao that the eastern group had been surrounded.
• Wang Hu led the Xingfeng Sect martial artists away, and Mo Yuandao ordered his own group to retreat toward Liuyang Town.
• Guo Ming pursued Mo Yuandao’s fleeing group after his soldiers slaughtered the eastern ambush, but several explosions sounded ahead.

Mo Chen and the other Lineage leaders abandoned Liuyang Town as Lei Potian’s army arrived and began its attack. In the modern world, Chen Feng received Lin Wei’s new Spiritual Qi-collecting briefcase and prepared to return to the Painting Scroll World, but Liu Mu called about his visit to the military district.

• Wang Hu refused to help defend Liuyang Town, and Mo Chen and the other Lineage leaders evacuated with their people.
• Lei Potian surrounded Liuyang Town and ordered his army to slaughter everyone there for their Spiritual Qi.
• Guo Ming reported that hidden weapons near Liuyang Town had killed martial artists, so Lei Potian sent him with twenty thousand troops and three Transformation Realm experts to seize them.
• Lin Wei showed Chen Feng a silver briefcase that could detect and collect Spiritual Qi, store it, and compress it into Spiritual Qi liquid.
• Chen Feng offered Lin Wei another five hundred million to improve the device and make more, then prepared to return to the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Mu called Chen Feng about the visit to the military district he had arranged for that day.

Chen Feng tested the Spiritual Qi collector and used its liquid to advance his cultivation, then learned that a twenty-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom force was threatening Xingfeng Sect. He sought to break through before helping Wang Hu, but Liu Mu’s offer to visit a military exercise gave him an idea for handling the crisis.

• Chen Feng collected ambient Spiritual Qi and reached the Peak of the Second Layer of Qi Refining after cultivating with a drop of Spiritual Qi liquid.
• Chen Feng discovered that the collector could also absorb Spiritual Qi from medicinal herbs, though it took many herbs to produce a drop.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Wang Hu and the inner disciples were intercepting twenty thousand Ning Kingdom soldiers, including four Transformation Realm grandmasters, and needed reinforcements.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to organize the inner disciples, then absorbed Spiritual Qi from dozens of herbs and began cultivating with the four resulting drops.
• Chen Feng called Liu Mu to cancel his military district visit, but changed his mind when he learned a military exercise was underway and saw a possible way to help Xingfeng Sect.

Chen Feng went to a military exercise after breaking through to the Third Layer of Qi Refining, bringing the painting scroll with him. At the exercise site, Liu Mu introduced him to military-industry representatives, who learned that Chen Feng had developed Blazing Sun Iron.

• Chen Feng retrieved the painting scroll and left his phone behind before traveling to the military exercise site with the military.
• Chen Feng arrived at the base, where Liu Mu showed him the assembled military equipment and explained that tanks made with Blazing Sun Iron would take part in the exercise.
• Chen Feng asked Liu Mu which technologies the country lacked, and Liu Mu identified anti-radar stealth technology as a major weakness.
• Liu Mu introduced Chen Feng to five military-industry representatives in a tent, including Han Fengrui and Zhao Qiming.
• Liu Mu told the representatives that Chen Feng had developed Blazing Sun Iron, and Zhao Qiming greeted Chen Feng with admiration.

Chen Feng inspected Zhao Qiming’s lightweight Blazing Sun Iron tank at a military exercise and decided he could borrow one to help Wang Hu and the others in the Painting Scroll World. As the exercise was about to begin, Chen Feng worried that ten hours had passed there and did not know whether his allies had survived.

• Liu Mu brought Chen Feng and the other experts to the exercise grounds, where the blue-side commander greeted them.
• Zhao Qiming showed Chen Feng the six-ton Blazing Sun Iron tank and explained its speed, protection, and controls.
• Chen Feng asked to learn to drive, and Zhao Qiming showed him the tank’s driver’s compartment and described its automated fire-control system.
• After noticing that some tanks remained unattended and the area lacked comprehensive surveillance, Chen Feng planned to borrow one during the exercise and take it into the Painting Scroll World.
• At the watchtower, Chen Feng told the group he was developing another metal, while keeping his goal of finding radar-blocking metal private.
• Chen Feng worried that Wang Hu and the others might have fallen to the Ning Kingdom’s army during the ten hours that had passed in the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng watched the modern exercise before slipping away to the Painting Scroll World, where Wang Hu and nine Xingfeng Sect martial artists prepared to delay a Ning Kingdom army. Guo Ming caught Wang Hu’s sniper bullet between two fingers, revealing the army’s danger to the sect.

• Chen Feng watched red-side helicopters and armored forces attack during the exercise, and Zhao Qiming explained the Blazing Sun 01 Main Battle Tank to him.
• Chen Feng told Liu Mu he was going to the bathroom, then entered the Painting Scroll World.
• Wang Hu led nine Xingfeng Sect martial artists through the jungle to stop a twenty-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom army from reaching Hengduan Mountain and its villages.
• Wang Hu ordered the martial artists to spread out and stall the army until Xingfeng Sect reinforcements arrived, while he planned to provide cover with his sniper rifle.
• Guo Ming sensed an approaching attack and caught Wang Hu’s 7.62-millimeter sniper bullet between two fingers.

Wang Hu tried to fight off the Ning Kingdom army with his sniper rifle, but even his attacks could only injure Transformation Realm martial artists. As he prepared to sacrifice himself rather than surrender his weapon, Liu Qian arrived with more than a hundred Xingfeng Sect fighters to save him.

• Wang Hu shot Guo Ming from a tree, but Guo Ming caught the bullet and ordered the Ning Kingdom soldiers to pursue him.
• Xingfeng Sect fighters ambushed the Ning Kingdom army with guns and grenades, killing soldiers and injuring a Transformation Realm martial artist at the cost of several of their own lives.
• Guo Ming redirected the pursuit toward Wang Hu, while the Ning Kingdom army counterattacked the scattered Xingfeng Sect fighters.
• Two Transformation Realm martial artists caught up to Wang Hu, struck him down, and demanded his weapon and treasure.
• As Wang Hu reached for a grenade to keep the sniper rifle from falling into enemy hands, Liu Qian arrived with more than a hundred armed Xingfeng Sect fighters and opened fire on his pursuers.