Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng limited orders for Xingfeng Mining’s Blazing Sun Iron as he feared the authorities would discover its otherworldly source, then crossed into the painting world and learned the Black Wind Stronghold had demanded an unusually large tribute. The chapter left him facing a possible threat to the Xingfeng Sect’s mining operation.

• Chen Feng told his secretary to refund Mr. Zhang’s advance payment and postpone the shipment, despite Xingfeng Mining having enough ore to fulfill it.
• Chen Feng saw a viral report about a Huaren Motors car surviving a collision and worried that Blazing Sun Iron would attract the authorities’ attention.
• Chen Feng entered the painting that connected modern society to another world and traveled to the Xingfeng Sect’s secret chamber in an abandoned mine.
• Chen Feng met the martial artists guarding the mine and asked whether anything unusual had happened.
• The lead martial artist reported that the Black Wind Stronghold had demanded five thousand taels of silver to let the Xingfeng Sect keep mining Hengduan Mountain.
• Chen Feng frowned because he had paid three thousand taels three months earlier and was supposed to owe only one hundred taels per month afterward.

Chen Feng learned that Black Wind Stronghold had targeted his mining operation after rumors spread about his supposedly immortal artifact-refining method. When Wu Xiong demanded the method as tribute, Chen Feng shot him dead, leaving both sides stunned and the confrontation unresolved.

• Wang Hu told Chen Feng that Black Wind Stronghold had come because rumors claimed he possessed an immortal method for forging weapons.
• Chen Feng ordered the mining operation paused and declined Steward Sun’s offer to find more buyers.
• Wu Xiong arrived at Xingfeng Sect headquarters and demanded additional tribute, insisting Chen Feng surrender the artifact-refining method.
• Chen Feng refused to pay, then drew a hidden handgun and shot Wu Xiong in the forehead.
• Wu Xiong died believing Chen Feng had projected Gang Qi, while the assembled martial artists stared in shock.

Chen Feng killed Wu Xiong, warned Black Wind Stronghold to stay away from the Xingfeng Sect, and returned to the modern world to prepare for trouble. At Black Wind Stronghold, chief He Sandao learned that Wu Xiong was dead and began to consider who could have killed him.

• Chen Feng shot Wu Xiong dead, spared the remaining bandits, and sent them back with a warning for Black Wind Stronghold.
• Chen Feng told Wang Hu he was an Innate expert from a powerful Lineage, then sent Wang Hu home and left Steward Sun in charge of the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng opened the secret passage and returned to the modern world.
• At Black Wind Stronghold, He Sandao practiced the Blood Demon Saber Art using the blood of young girls.
• A bandit told He Sandao that Wu Xiong had been killed, and He Sandao realized the killer was likely an Innate expert or a group of Ninth Layer Acquired Realm fighters.

He Sandao learned that Chen Feng had killed his second-in-command and considered whether the young expert came from a powerful lineage, while Chen Feng returned from the Painting Scroll World to find a major automaker seeking a long-term deal. The chapter ended when State Security agents entered Chen Feng’s factory office and asked for him by name.

• A bandit reported that Chen Feng had killed He Sandao’s second boss with one move, and He Sandao ordered men to watch the Xingfeng Sect while he investigated Chen Feng’s background.
• He Sandao ordered the returning bandits who had failed to bring back the second boss’s body executed and their blood drained.
• Chen Feng left the Painting Scroll World, secured the warehouse, and met his secretary, who told him Zhang Dong of Huaren Group was waiting.
• Zhang Dong offered a long-term partnership and a fifty percent deposit for Chen Feng’s Blazing Sun Iron after demand for Huaren’s new electric car surged.
• Chen Feng learned officials had already taken samples from Huaren’s workshop and worried his fake patent would not withstand scrutiny.
• Two State Security agents entered Chen Feng’s office and asked which person was Chen Feng.

State Security officers brought Chen Feng to meet military and scientific officials, who explained that they wanted a partnership over his Blazing Sun Iron rather than to arrest him. Chen Feng agreed to supply the military exclusively and allow researchers to set up a laboratory at his factory, while keeping them away from the warehouse holding the painting scroll.

• Two State Security officers arrived at Chen Feng’s office and escorted him outside, where Zhang Dong saw soldiers and military vehicles surrounding the factory.
• Liu Mu introduced himself and the two visiting scientists, who told Chen Feng they had come because of the Blazing Sun Iron.
• Li Busheng explained that the metal was unusually light and hard, while Director Hu asked who had developed it.
• Chen Feng said he had developed the metal himself and could produce only a small amount.
• Liu Mu proposed exclusive military supply, a ban on exports, and a laboratory for researchers at the factory, promising support and respect for Chen Feng’s core technology.
• Chen Feng accepted the arrangement and resolved to keep the researchers out of the warehouse containing the painting scroll.

Chen Feng secured the state’s support for Xingfeng Mining, which became a military-industrial enterprise supplying Blazing Sun Iron to tank manufacturers. With production awaiting his return, Chen Feng went abroad to buy stronger weapons for the Painting Scroll World, while Liu Mu investigated his background.

• Liu Mu told Chen Feng that the state would support him and planned to use Blazing Sun Iron for new tanks.
• State security had the factory workers sign confidentiality agreements, while Zhang Dong learned that Xingfeng Mining had become a military-industrial enterprise and that Blazing Sun Iron was now a strategic resource.
• Liu Mu finished discussing cooperation with Chen Feng, left guards at the factory, and departed with his team.
• Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou to give the workers two days off and arrange for visiting technicians while he went abroad to meet friends.
• Chen Feng returned to the secret room, retrieved the painting scroll, and prepared to buy weapons abroad for the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Mu reviewed Chen Feng’s file after ordering an investigation into his background.

Liu Mu and the researchers decided not to interfere with Chen Feng after he booked a flight to Eagle Sauce, where he claimed he was meeting metal researchers. Chen Feng arrived abroad and went to a black market to buy more powerful weapons.

• Liu Mu's team found no evidence that Xingfeng Mining had secretly mined the material in Blazing Sun Iron, and Li Busheng and Director Hu argued over which institute should recruit Chen Feng.
• Liu Mu learned that Chen Feng had booked a flight to Eagle Sauce and called him; Chen Feng said he was going to meet friends in the metals field.
• Liu Mu let Chen Feng travel, reasoning that stopping him would damage their trust.
• Chen Feng arrived in Eagle Sauce, took a taxi to a black market, and greeted Jack, a gang leader he knew.
• Chen Feng told Jack he wanted more powerful weapons as well as bullets, then waited with other prospective buyers in a bar's private room.

Chen Feng visited Jack’s black-market armory and bought a full set of high-end weapons and protective gear for $100,000. Jack handed over the equipment and dismissed his men’s concerns about Chen Feng’s intentions.

• A tattooed foreigner questioned Chen Feng about his origins and gun purchase, but Jack defended Chen Feng and told the man not to bother him.
• Jack led Chen Feng and the other buyers to the gang’s basement armory, where Chen Feng asked Jack to assemble the best handgun, grenades, bulletproof vest, and sniper rifle available.
• Jack showed Chen Feng a Taran 2011 Combat Master Pistol, an Interceptor vest, and a Remington 700, then offered ammunition and tactical gear for a total of $100,000.
• Chen Feng agreed to the price, withdrew the cash at a nearby bank, and received the packed equipment from Jack.
• After Chen Feng left, one of Jack’s men worried that the weapons might cause trouble, but Jack said he trusted Chen Feng and believed he would not take them back to Dragon Country.

He Sandao and Jiang Xiao led Black Wind Stronghold’s forces to attack the Xingfeng Sect, hoping to seize Chen Feng’s supposed immortal artifact-refining method. They captured the sect while Chen Feng was absent, then discovered a strange machine at an abandoned mine.

• He Sandao assembled more than a thousand bandits and persuaded Jiang Xiao to help him attack the Xingfeng Sect and obtain Chen Feng’s method.
• Black Wind Stronghold reached the Xingfeng Sect, and its lone mine guard fled to warn the sect’s martial artists.
• Steward Sun tried to speak with He Sandao, but He Sandao killed him and ordered the bandits to seize everyone.
• The Xingfeng Sect’s martial artists surrendered, and the bandits took control of the sect.
• A bandit led He Sandao and Jiang Xiao to an abandoned mine, where Jiang Xiao examined a stopped conveyor belt and wondered what it was.

He Sandao and Jiang Xiao discovered Chen Feng’s strange secret room and fought over its glowing tablet, then used a surviving Xingfeng Sect martial artist’s information to send bandits after Wang Hu. Chen Feng returned to the secret room through the painting with a bag of equipment, planning to move it into the Painting Scroll World before returning to his home country.

• He Sandao and Jiang Xiao entered Chen Feng’s secret room and were astonished by its unfamiliar furnishings and appliances.
• Jiang Xiao picked up Chen Feng’s glowing tablet, but He Sandao refused to let him claim it before they dealt with Chen Feng.
• He Sandao ordered five Xingfeng Sect martial artists executed to draw Chen Feng out, and the Blood Demon Saber absorbed their blood.
• A surviving martial artist revealed that Wang Hu was Chen Feng’s trusted subordinate, so He Sandao sent bandits to capture him.
• Chen Feng appeared in the secret room through the painting, carrying equipment he intended to deliver to the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng returned to the secret chamber and discovered that Black Wind Stronghold had invaded Xingfeng Sect, so he killed six guards and learned that He Sandao had brought another Xiantian expert. He left the mine to confront the crisis as He Sandao questioned the captured Wang Hu at Xingfeng Sect’s headquarters.

• Chen Feng noticed that someone had broken into his secret chamber and heard Black Wind Stronghold bandits discussing their invasion of Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng put on his bulletproof vest, approached six guards at the mine exit, and shot them, leaving one wounded survivor to question.
• The surviving bandit told Chen Feng that Black Wind Stronghold had brought all its men and an allied Xiantian expert to Xingfeng Sect’s headquarters.
• Chen Feng killed the bandit after questioning him, reloaded his pistol, and left the mine.
• Black Wind Stronghold’s men held Wang Hu before He Sandao, who remarked on Wang Hu’s martial talent while Wang Hu glared at the Xingfeng Sect martial artist who had betrayed his location.

Chen Feng ambushed He Sandao with a sniper rifle while He Sandao tortured Wang Hu for information about him. Jiang Xiao charged toward Chen Feng but was caught in a grenade trap, leaving him wounded as the fight continued.

• He Sandao tortured Wang Hu with the Blood Demon Saber and demanded to know where Chen Feng was, but Wang Hu refused to betray him.
• Chen Feng fired his sniper rifle from a distant mountaintop, striking He Sandao’s Gang Qi and forcing him back.
• He Sandao used a bandit as a human shield, and the next shot killed the bandit; he called on Jiang Xiao to attack Chen Feng.
• Jiang Xiao charged toward Chen Feng while hoping He Sandao would be weakened enough for him to claim the secret-room treasures.
• Jiang Xiao triggered a grenade trap, and the blast damaged his clothes and embedded fragments in his body despite his protective Gang Qi.

Chen Feng used sniper fire and grenade traps to kill He Sandao and wound Jiang Xiao, an Innate expert. After Jiang Xiao struck him, Chen Feng survived and shot Jiang Xiao in the head.

• Jiang Xiao was injured by Chen Feng's first grenade trap, then sent bandits ahead, and three more traps killed them.
• Chen Feng kept firing at He Sandao until his Gang Qi shattered, then killed him with a shot to the chest.
• Jiang Xiao flew toward Chen Feng and struck him with Gang Qi, sending him flying.
• Five grenades exploded beneath Jiang Xiao, blowing off one of his legs and badly wounding him.
• Chen Feng stood up despite his injuries and emptied his pistol at Jiang Xiao's head.

Chen Feng killed He Sandao after defeating Jiang Xiao and searched the two Xiantian experts’ possessions. He gave Wang Hu the Mystic Yellow Art and left for the modern world to treat his injuries, taking Jiang Xiao’s mysterious jade pendant with him.

• Chen Feng checked his damaged bulletproof vest, searched Jiang Xiao, and found Wang Hu badly injured but alive.
• Chen Feng ignored He Sandao’s warning about the Jiang Household and shot him dead, then searched his belongings.
• Wang Hu identified some pills as remedies, and Chen Feng shared them with him to help their injuries.
• Chen Feng found the Blood Demon Saber Art and the Mystic Yellow Art, then gave the Mystic Yellow Art to Wang Hu to cultivate.
• Chen Feng found a dark green jade pendant with a pale blue light inside and put it away for later study.
• Chen Feng told Wang Hu to hide and heal, arranged to meet him again, and returned to the modern world for medical care.

Chen Feng went to an Eagle Sauce hospital to check his injuries and discovered that his broken ribs were rapidly healing, then hurried back to Dragon Country. He returned to find the state had made him a professor and fortified his plant, where Li Xiaorou was preparing plans for its expansion.

• Chen Feng called an ambulance and went to the hospital, where a CT scan showed three shattered ribs healing without signs of internal bleeding.
• The doctors called Chen Feng’s recovery a medical miracle and asked to test his blood, but he refused and left for Dragon Country.
• Chen Feng returned to Mountain City and learned from the soldiers guarding Xingfeng Mining that he had been registered as a professor with the Dragon Academy of Sciences.
• Chen Feng met Li Xiaorou at the plant office and learned she was drafting production and development plans to handle a large state order and expand the plant.

Chen Feng met Lin Wei and the research team at his factory, then used their microscope to decipher the jade pendant and uncover the immortal cultivation method called the Qi Induction Art. He failed to sense Spiritual Qi in the modern world, planned to try again in the Painting Scroll World, and prepared to return there the next day.

• Li Xiaorou led Chen Feng to the factory lab, where he met Lin Wei, a researcher from the Dragon Academy of Sciences, and learned that her team was studying Blazing Sun Iron.
• Chen Feng borrowed a microscope and discovered tiny glowing characters inside the jade pendant, which he copied down.
• Chen Feng recognized the copied text as the Qi Induction Art, an Immortal Method that could be cultivated to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and included minor Law Techniques.
• Chen Feng tried cultivating for an hour but sensed no Spiritual Qi, so he decided to try again in the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Mu called to ask when the factory would begin producing Blazing Sun Iron, and Chen Feng said production would start within a few days.
• After deciding to return to the Painting Scroll World the next day, Chen Feng went to sleep.

Wang Hu led the Xingfeng Sect survivors to take over Black Wind Stronghold and accepted Liu Qian’s offer to serve the sect pending Chen Feng’s decision. Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World, learned that Wang Hu had secured the stronghold, and heard an update on Hengduan Mountain.

• Wang Hu learned that most of Black Wind Stronghold’s bandits had fled and led the Xingfeng Sect survivors to occupy the stronghold.
• Liu Qian told Wang Hu that the remaining bandits would not resist and wanted to join the Xingfeng Sect; Wang Hu postponed the decision until Chen Feng returned.
• Liu Qian showed Wang Hu Black Wind Stronghold’s accounts, including fifty thousand taels of silver, three thousand taels of gold, cultivation methods, and medicinal pills.
• Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World and found dozens of martial artists guarding the secret chamber entrance on Wang Hu’s orders.
• The lead martial artist told Chen Feng that Wang Hu had taken over Black Wind Stronghold and explained the situation on Hengduan Mountain.

Chen Feng returned to the Black Wind Stronghold, accepted its bandits into the Xingfeng Sect, and ordered the stronghold’s people and supplies moved to the sect. He set mining in motion again and learned that the Jiang Household might seek revenge for Jiang Xiao’s death, then began cultivating the Qi Induction Art.

• Chen Feng arrived at the Black Wind Stronghold, where Liu Qian and the bandits knelt to greet him.
• Chen Feng accepted the bandits into the Xingfeng Sect and told Liu Qian to transfer the people and supplies to the sect.
• Chen Feng ordered mining to resume that day and had Wang Hu arrange for the Blazing Sun Stone to be sent along the conveyor belt.
• Liu Qian warned Chen Feng that the Jiang Household might retaliate for Jiang Xiao’s death, and Chen Feng ordered someone to watch the household.
• Chen Feng sat down in the main hall and began cultivating the Qi Induction Art.

Chen Feng failed to activate his Spirit Aperture with ordinary Qi absorption, but he decided that absorbing more Spiritual Qi might still let him cultivate. After Lin Wei suggested using a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to increase the body’s absorption of energy, Chen Feng left determined to test the idea in the Painting Scroll World.

• Chen Feng tried the Qi Induction Art, but the Spiritual Qi passed through his body without activating his Spirit Aperture.
• Chen Feng reasoned that he might need to absorb more Spiritual Qi and left the Black Wind Stronghold for Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei at the Xingfeng Mining research lab and asked how the body could absorb energy faster.
• Lin Wei described how high oxygen levels could increase metabolism and suggested a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
• Chen Feng thanked Lin Wei and decided to obtain a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to try in the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng ordered a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and checked on production at Xingfeng Mining before inspecting the treasures seized from Black Wind Stronghold. After finding a supply of Healing Pills, he decided to establish a modern pharmaceutical company and sought help from alchemists.

• Chen Feng ordered a one-million-yuan hyperbaric oxygen chamber to support his cultivation.
• Chen Feng visited the workshop, where Old Zhang oversaw night-shift production of Blazing Sun Iron, and told him to direct any requests for ore to Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World and learned from Wang Hu that Liu Qian had moved Black Wind Stronghold's treasury to the Xingfeng Sect headquarters.
• Chen Feng inspected the treasury's pills, including hundreds of Healing Pills and six bottles of Life-Prolonging Pills.
• Chen Feng decided to start a pharmaceutical company with Healing Pills and told Wang Hu to summon the pill-making sect masters the next day.