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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Chen Feng arranged for two sects to produce Healing Pills exclusively, then set up Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals to turn them into capsules in the modern world. As the factory renovations continued, Li Xiaorou voiced concern about the medicine’s clinical trials, but Chen Feng assured her they would go smoothly.

• Chen Feng met with Wang Tian and Qin Yao and proposed that their sects sell all their Healing Pills to the Xingfeng Sect.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao agreed to refine only Healing Pills and supply their stock to Chen Feng at the usual price.
• Chen Feng spent three days establishing Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, renting a factory near Xingfeng Mining and preparing an automated capsule production line.
• Li Xiaorou told Chen Feng that the medicine had been submitted to the drug regulatory authority for clinical trials and worried about the results.
• Chen Feng assured Li Xiaorou that the drug trials would have no problems.

Chen Feng named his new medicine Wound Healing No. 1 and appointed Li Xiaorou general manager of Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, raising her annual salary to 300,000. He then received the hyperbaric oxygen chamber he planned to use for cultivation in the Painting Scroll World.

• Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou he would handle the drug approval process and named the medicine Wound Healing No. 1.
• Chen Feng promoted Li Xiaorou to general manager of Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and raised her annual salary to 300,000, leaving her overwhelmed and in tears.
• Chen Feng learned that the hyperbaric oxygen chamber he had ordered had arrived and hurried to Xingfeng Mining to receive it.
• The sentries stopped the delivery truck at Xingfeng Mining's guarded entrance until Chen Feng arrived and identified himself.
• The equipment manager showed Chen Feng the chamber and explained how to operate it; Chen Feng had it moved inside, intending to take it to the Painting Scroll World that night.

Chen Feng used a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to increase his Spiritual Qi absorption and cultivate in the Painting Scroll World. He reached the First Layer of Qi Refining, but his Spirit Aperture glowed an unexpected purple and a blast destroyed the chamber and nearby furnishings.

• Lin Wei recognized the hyperbaric oxygen chamber and told the researchers that Chen Feng had bought it to experiment with absorbing radiation.
• Chen Feng used the scroll to move the chamber into the Painting Scroll World and asked Wang Hu to guard the abandoned mine entrance while he cultivated.
• Chen Feng set the chamber's oxygen concentration to fifty percent and began absorbing Spiritual Qi with the Qi Induction Art.
• After hours of cultivation, Chen Feng's Spirit Aperture shone with a purple glow, unlike the pale blue light described in the Qi Induction Art.
• The chamber and the furnishings around Chen Feng exploded, but he was unharmed and discovered that his senses and body had changed.
• Wang Hu called out from beyond the abandoned mine, and Chen Feng dressed and left the secret chamber to answer him.

Chen Feng’s cultivation to the Qi Refining First Layer transformed his appearance and abilities, but he discovered that the changes faded when he drew Spiritual Qi back into his Spirit Apertures. After returning to the modern world, he found Lin Wei improving Blazing Sun Iron and came to ask her about his condition.

• Chen Feng emerged from the mine with silver hair, an altered appearance, and extraordinary speed, then returned to the secret chamber to find that controlling his Spirit Apertures restored his former looks.
• Wang Hu ordered the Xingfeng Sect martial artists to keep Chen Feng’s transformation secret and explained that a surge of force had damaged buildings and trees during his seclusion.
• Chen Feng told Wang Hu he was still trying to cultivate into an immortal, then continued his seclusion after the secret chamber was cleaned.
• Lin Wei examined her improved Blazing Sun Iron when Chen Feng entered the laboratory and asked whether he had absorbed radiation.
• Chen Feng denied absorbing radiation and said he had come to ask Lin Wei about his condition.

Chen Feng discussed the dangerous effects of excess Spiritual Qi with Lin Wei, who theorized that it caused a temporary “Transcendent State.” After half a month of cultivation, Chen Feng reached the Second Layer of Qi Refining and learned the Fireball Technique, but he discovered that the state was difficult to control and could harm his body.

• Chen Feng told Lin Wei that an animal exposed to energy in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber had improved physically but mutated, and Lin Wei proposed that excess energy had triggered a Transcendent State.
• Chen Feng concluded that he had absorbed too much Spiritual Qi and decided to be more careful, while keeping his cultivation secret from Lin Wei.
• Chen Feng ordered a replacement hyperbaric oxygen chamber, then spent half a month cultivating in the Painting Scroll World and reached the Second Layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Feng used the Fireball Technique to reduce a tree to ash, demonstrating the power of his Spiritual Qi.
• Chen Feng found that activating his Spirit Aperture spread Spiritual Qi throughout his body, but he could sustain the Transcendent State for only three minutes before exhausting himself and straining his organs.
• Wang Hu and the Xingfeng Sect guards greeted Chen Feng, whose cultivation allowed him to see that Wang Hu had reached the Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm.

Chen Feng strengthened the Xingfeng Sect and bought a large batch of Healing Pills, expecting to sell them after his modern medicine received approval. The chapter ended as drug-trial researchers learned that Wound Healing No. 1 supposedly treated all external injuries without side effects.

• Chen Feng praised Wang Hu for reaching the Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm and urged him to break through to Xiantian.
• Chen Feng considered buying modern weapons for the Xingfeng Sect but worried about his lack of money and the risks of selling valuable pills.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao delivered about twenty thousand Healing Pills, and Chen Feng agreed to buy them all.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng the sect had spent around forty thousand taels on thirty thousand pills, and Chen Feng said they would soon be sold.
• At the drug administration, a staff member told Gao Deming that Wound Healing No. 1 claimed to treat all external injuries without side effects, startling the laboratory staff.

Gao Deming's laboratory found that Wound Healing No. 1 healed wounds rapidly and treated more than thirty external-injury diseases with almost no side effects, so Gao Deming volunteered to take the first human-trial dose. At Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, Li Xiaorou learned that drug administration officials had arrived in person, leaving the medicine's approval uncertain.

• Gao Deming ordered researchers to test Wound Healing No. 1 and fed some of its powder to a wounded laboratory mouse.
• Researchers reported that they could not identify the medicine's ingredients, and Gao Deming saw that the mouse's wound had scabbed over within hours.
• Gao Deming and the researchers found that Wound Healing No. 1 worked against more than thirty external-injury diseases with almost no side effects.
• Gao Deming dismissed the researchers' objections and swallowed a Wound Healing No. 1 capsule as the first human-trial subject.
• Li Xiaorou heard that drug administration officials had arrived at Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals in person.

Ministry of Health officials inspected Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals after confirming Wound Healing No. 1 was safe and effective, and they approved it for sale. Their attempt to investigate its developer, Chen Feng, ended when they learned his records were classified as top secret.

• Gao Deming brought Jiang Lihua and a group of officials and pharmaceutical experts to inspect Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and learn about Wound Healing No. 1.
• Li Xiaorou told the officials that Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals had no technical department and that Chen Feng had developed the drug alone.
• Li Xiaorou said Chen Feng was unavailable, so Jiang Lihua sent a staff member to investigate him while the group toured the factory.
• The head of the Drug Administration told Li Xiaorou that Wound Healing No. 1 had approval to go on sale in a couple of days.
• The staff member returned and told Jiang Lihua that Chen Feng's records were top secret and required military authorization to view.

Jiang Lihua’s attempt to investigate Chen Feng and Wound Healing No. 1 was blocked after the military declared Chen Feng and his companies military secrets. Meanwhile, Chen Feng struggled to advance his cultivation and realized he needed better resources and a proper cultivation site.

• Li Xiaorou told Jiang Lihua that Chen Feng also founded Xingfeng Mining, a military-industrial enterprise whose employees had signed confidentiality agreements.
• At the Western Military Region, Liu Mu learned that the Ministry of Health wanted to investigate Chen Feng and decided to seek the commander’s help protecting him.
• Jiang Lihua learned that the military had classified Chen Feng, Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, and Xingfeng Mining as military secrets, so he gave up trying to meet Chen Feng that day.
• Chen Feng reflected that scarce Spiritual Qi was slowing his progress toward the Third Layer of Qi Refining and that cultivators needed wealth, companions, techniques, and land.