Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng ordered Jack to establish an auction company and secretly marked him with a Soul Seal before returning to the Xingfeng Group. Lin Wei gave Chen Feng a Spiritual Qi Regulator that improved his control of Spiritual Power, and after he demonstrated his fire ability, he turned their discussion back to nuclear weapons.

• Chen Feng told Jack to arrange an auction within seven days, using meteorites from outer space as publicity for rare metals from the Painting Scroll World.
• Chen Feng planted a Soul Seal in Jack to sense danger and protect his secrets, then flew back to the Xingfeng Group.
• Chen Feng used the Spiritual Qi Monitor at Lin Wei's laboratory and learned that his Spiritual Qi had begun turning liquid.
• Lin Wei fitted Chen Feng with a Spiritual Qi Regulator, letting him control where his Spiritual Power flowed and use the Transcendent State more efficiently.
• Lin Wei proposed modifying the hyperbaric oxygen chamber to speed Chen Feng's cultivation and asked whether he had caused the Funiao Nuclear Power Plant incident and why he was researching nuclear weapons.
• Chen Feng admitted causing the nuclear plant incident, demonstrated a fireball to confirm Lin Wei's Spiritual Qi hypothesis, and insisted they discuss nuclear weapons first.

Chen Feng learned about nuclear weapons and arranged for Lin Wei to modify uranium enrichment centrifuges and build a small reactor for the Xingfeng Sect. He then ordered Li Xiaorou to expand the group’s pill production and buy nearly ten billion yuan in infrastructure, vehicles, and construction equipment, leaving her to arrange a huge loan.

• Lin Wei explained nuclear fission and fusion to Chen Feng, who considered whether materials from the immortal cultivation world could withstand controlled fusion.
• Chen Feng asked Lin Wei to modify centrifuges for highly enriched uranium and build a small nuclear reactor, and she agreed to complete the modifications in five days.
• Lin Wei gave Chen Feng two Spiritual Qi Collectors, and he discussed the equipment and protective supplies needed to make nuclear weapons.
• Chen Feng visited Li Xiaorou, reviewed the Xingfeng Group’s financial report, and told her to prepare for two million each of Essence Nourishing Pills and Healing Pills.
• Chen Feng gave Li Xiaorou a list of electrical infrastructure, ten thousand vehicles, fuel, engineering equipment, and building materials costing nearly ten billion yuan, and told her to arrange a bank loan.
• Li Xiaorou agreed to contact suppliers and gave Chen Feng several custom-made winter outfits before he left.

Chen Feng prepared rare items for Jack’s Golden Triangle auction while advancing the Xingfeng Sect’s infrastructure, then traveled there with Li Xiaorou and a special operations squad. He arrived to find Jack’s militia welcoming the Xingfeng Group.

• Chen Feng secured the warehouse for himself and Lin Wei, then confirmed with Liu Mu that Phantom Nether Metal could be used for Phantom Paint and learned about the Golden Triangle auction.
• After seeing Jack’s alien wreckage publicity campaign, Chen Feng arranged to attend the auction, and Li Xiaorou agreed to accompany him.
• Chen Feng selected Cold Stone, Gang Crystal, and three unusual medicinal herbs from the Xingfeng Sect’s treasury to sell at the auction.
• Chen Feng moved electrical supplies into the Painting Scroll World, helped establish Xingfeng City’s power grid, and took modified uranium centrifuges to a remote site for a nuclear plant.
• Chen Feng and Li Xiaorou traveled to the Golden Triangle with a special operations squad, discussing SpaceX’s Starships and satellites along the way.
• Jack’s militia stopped the convoy and welcomed Chen Feng and the Xingfeng Group with applause and ceremonial salutes.

Xingfeng Group arrived in Shan State for Jack's auction, while Chen Feng secretly delivered the auction lots and learned that the CIA planned to capture Li Xiaorou. At the auction, a confrontation between Kimura Nobuo and Li Xiaorou's guards escalated when Jack threatened him at gunpoint.

• Jack welcomed Li Xiaorou and Xingfeng Group's party with a militia escort, while Chen Feng concealed his identity as an ordinary employee.
• Chen Feng secretly met Jack and delivered the auction items, setting a minimum opening price of one hundred million US dollars per lot.
• Jack told Chen Feng that he had hired international appraisal agencies and spotted skilled unidentified people in Shan State.
• CIA director John ordered Neo to capture Li Xiaorou and told him that Sakata Ichiro and Cherry Blossom Country's agents would cooperate.
• At the Mianlan Hotel auction, Kimura Nobuo approached Li Xiaorou about her company's pill, but the special operations captain blocked him.
• When Kimura Nobuo insulted the captain and Cherry Blossom Country's agents surrounded Li Xiaorou and Chen Feng, Jack's militiamen aimed their rifles at them and Jack pressed an AK-47 to Kimura Nobuo's head.

Jack forced Kida Nobuo to apologize to Li Xiaorou after he tried to approach her, and Chen Feng refused to request reinforcements. The auction’s first item, a strange cold metal called cold stone, tested positive for unknown non-terrestrial elements and reached a $2 billion bid before Liu Mu told Chen Feng to win it at any cost.

• Jack held Kida Nobuo at gunpoint, then made him apologize to Li Xiaorou before allowing him and his people to leave.
• Sakata Ichiro warned Kida Nobuo not to provoke the armed force again, while Chen Feng reassured Li Xiaorou and declined the special forces captain’s offer to request reinforcements.
• The auction opened with cold stone, a white metal that remained at minus three degrees Celsius and showed traces of non-terrestrial elements during preliminary tests.
• Technology company representatives bid for cold stone, and SpaceX raised the price to $2 billion, leaving the Samsung Group out of the competition.
• Liu Mu called Chen Feng and ordered him to win the metal, telling him there was no limit on what he could bid.

Chen Feng’s auction of items from the Painting Scroll World earned 5.6 billion dollars, including 2.1 billion for the Gang Crystal bought by Xingfeng Group on the country’s behalf. After the auction, Sakata Ichiro’s agents joined forces with CIA operations chief Neo to pursue Chen Feng’s group, but Neo stopped them before they could move.

• SpaceX bought the Cold Stone for two billion dollars, and Xingfeng Group won the Gang Crystal for 2.1 billion after Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou to bid for the country.
• Pharmaceutical companies bought the three medicinal herbs, while Xingfeng Group refrained because Chen Feng knew they would soon wither outside the Painting Scroll World.
• The auction ended with Chen Feng earning 5.6 billion dollars, and he left with Li Xiaorou, pleased that he could use the money for supplies and weapons.
• Sakata Ichiro and Kida Nobuo gathered more than five hundred agents to intercept Chen Feng’s group as they prepared to return to Dragon Country.
• Neo arrived with over a hundred CIA agents, agreed to cooperate with Sakata Ichiro in exchange for half the Gang Crystal, then halted the operation before they could move.

Chen Feng directed Jack to buy satellite-launch equipment and weapons, then ordered him to eliminate agents stalking the convoy. Jack’s forces captured the pursuers, and he killed Sakata Ichiro with the Blood Demon Saber, leaving the others in terror.

• Chen Feng told Jack to buy SpaceX’s satellite-launch equipment, transfer him two billion dollars, and spend the remaining funds on arms and fighter jets.
• Chen Feng detected agents following the convoy and ordered Jack to kill them all; Jack split off most of his forces to pursue them.
• Neo and Sakata Ichiro waited near the border, planning to attack the convoy, until Jack’s drones and troops exposed and surrounded them.
• Jack’s men routed the agents and took Neo, Sakata Ichiro, and the others into custody after an armed helicopter arrived.
• Sakata Ichiro revealed his intelligence-chief identity and threatened Jack, but Jack stabbed him with the Blood Demon Saber and drained his blood.
• Kimura Nobuo collapsed in terror when he saw Sakata Ichiro’s dried corpse.

Jack killed Kimura Nobuo, Neo, and the other agents after they threatened the Xingfeng Group, while the auction’s alien artifacts drew worldwide attention. The CIA learned Cherry Blossom Country would lead a joint military exercise in the Golden Triangle in one month, and Xingfeng Group continued receiving massive purchases, including ten thousand cars.

• Jack beheaded Kimura Nobuo and the Cherry Blossom Country agents, then killed Neo despite his plea for mercy.
• People worldwide debated the auction’s five extraterrestrial items, while Cherry Blossom Country and Dragon Country netizens argued over the violence and Jack Security Company.
• John concluded Neo was likely dead and linked Jack to the Xingfeng Group; the CIA learned Cherry Blossom Country had arranged a joint military exercise in the Golden Triangle with three Southeast Asian countries.
• John ordered CIA personnel to investigate Jack’s bases and prepare intelligence for Cherry Blossom Country’s operation.
• News of the planned exercise stirred anger among Dragon Country netizens and excitement among Cherry Blossom Country supporters and businesses hoping Jack Security Company would be removed.
• Xingfeng Group received delivery after delivery of new cars, and truck drivers said the company had bought ten thousand vehicles.

Chen Feng finished moving thousands of cars into the Painting Scroll World, then learned that Cherry Blossom Country planned to send a brigade to the Golden Triangle and reassured Jack. Back at the Xingfeng Sect, he checked on the electrical installation, arranged for the new cars to be put to work, and asked about construction of the nuclear factory.

• Chen Feng cleared the cars from the warehouse grounds and moved them into the Painting Scroll World.
• Jack warned Chen Feng that Cherry Blossom Country planned a military exercise in the Golden Triangle with about twenty thousand troops, and Chen Feng told him to focus on training his soldiers.
• Chen Feng learned that Jack had ordered two billion US dollars' worth of arms from Zhong Shan and that satellite equipment was due to arrive in three days.
• At the Xingfeng Sect, Liu Qian told Mo Chen that electrical installation was seventy percent complete and explained the transformer being installed.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to have people move the ten thousand cars from the mine entrance so they could help with construction.
• Chen Feng asked Liu Qian how work on the nuclear factory was progressing.

Chen Feng prepared for the Golden Core Secret Realm and arranged treatment for Mo Yang, while the Xingfeng Sect continued moving supplies into the Painting Scroll World. At the research institute, experts struggled to study the Gang Crystal as Chen Feng went to Lin Wei’s laboratory to collect the nuclear reactor.

• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Great Yu had invited him to a gathering about the Golden Core Secret Realm, and Chen Feng sent Wang Hu’s representative to attend and report back.
• Chen Feng promised to treat Mo Yang, who doubted his arms could be fully restored, while Mo Chen and Mo Yuandao discussed the Mo Household’s standing and the rising inner-sect talent Zhang Xuan.
• Chen Feng transported ten thousand cars and several hundred tons of gasoline to the Painting Scroll World, and Li Xiaorou reported that building materials and machinery were next.
• Experts and professors at Xingfeng Group’s research institute failed to preserve the Gang Crystal’s yellow energy after extracting it.
• Chen Feng brushed aside the experts’ invitations to study the Gang Crystal and entered Lin Wei’s laboratory.

Chen Feng inspected the nuclear reactor Lin Wei had built and planned to find her secret research assistants. In the Painting Scroll World, Wu Xing represented the Xingfeng Sect at Great Yu’s gathering to divide the Golden Core Secret Realm’s entry slots, while Lin Qishuang and Lin Li discussed the sect’s threat.

• Lin Wei showed Chen Feng the Blazing Sun Iron nuclear reactor, explained its fuel capacity, and said she had not yet studied using Spiritual Qi for fusion.
• Chen Feng promised to find Lin Wei helpers, put the reactor away, and left to transport satellite and military factory equipment from the Golden Triangle.
• Wu Xing and several Xingfeng Sect inner disciples arrived in Great Yu Imperial City to attend the Golden Core Secret Realm gathering at Lin Qishuang’s invitation.
• Lin Qishuang welcomed Wu Xing aboard her flying vessel and explained that the major powers would negotiate how to divide the secret realm’s entry slots.
• Lin Qishuang told Lin Li that she had invited the Xingfeng Sect hoping Chen Feng would kill Great Jin’s genius, Ge Yunxuan, but Lin Li warned her that the sect’s strength made such schemes dangerous.

The powers of Great Jin, Great Yu, and Ten Thousand Beasts Valley gathered at the Earth Abyss to divide the spoils of a Golden Core secret realm, with the Xingfeng Sect joining them. As the secret realm’s array neared breaking, Ge Yunxuan approached the Xingfeng Sect’s Wu Xing, and Shou Heng challenged his decision to befriend a martial artist.

• Lin Li told Lin Qishuang they would focus on the Golden Core secret realm while leaving the origins of the special weapons for later investigation.
• Ge Tianqing and Ge Yunxuan met Valley Master Shou at the Earth Abyss, where they discussed the Xingfeng Sect’s mysterious power and its claim to a share of the secret realm’s spoils.
• Lin Li arrived and confirmed that the Xingfeng Sect was powerful, but he kept its details private as the three False Core cultivators agreed to let it participate.
• Wu Xing brought Xingfeng Sect martial artists to the secret realm entrance, where cultivators watched them and discussed the sect’s reputation.
• Ge Yunxuan introduced himself to Wu Xing and asked when Master Chen would arrive, but Shou Heng rode up and mocked him for befriending a martial artist.
• Ge Yunxuan reminded Shou Heng of his defeat in their previous spar, leaving Shou Heng visibly humiliated.

The array guarding a Golden Core cave abode opened, releasing the corpse’s Divine Soul, which possessed Valley Master Shou and began devouring cultivators. After consuming Shou Heng and Ge Tianqing, the Golden Core being spared Lin Li because of his ties to the Expansion Divine Sect and turned its attention to the remaining cultivators.

• Wu Xing fired the Gatling gun at Shou Heng’s Demon Beast, but Shou Heng dodged before Valley Master Shou arrived and stopped the confrontation.
• The cave’s array dissipated, revealing a cramped abode and a desiccated corpse surrounded by Divine Soul-related array flags.
• A black light flew from the corpse into Valley Master Shou, whose eyes turned black as he killed Shou Heng and devoured his Divine Soul and the souls of nearby Ten Thousand Beasts Valley cultivators.
• The possessed Valley Master Shou pursued Lin Li and Ge Tianqing, subdued them, and heard Lin Li plead for his life by invoking the Expansion Divine Sect.
• The possessed Valley Master Shou spared Lin Li, destroyed Ge Tianqing’s body, devoured his Divine Soul, and surveyed the remaining cultivators for more souls.

True Person Xuanyin slaughtered fleeing cultivators with a bone mirror and ordered Lin Li to gather a hundred million living souls. After the mirror killed Wu Xing and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists, Ge Yunxuan arranged for their Divine Souls to be preserved, while Xuanyin returned to a damaged teleportation array and planned to recover his strength and repair it.

• True Person Xuanyin sent his bone mirror after the fleeing cultivators, killing many and absorbing their Divine Souls, while Lin Li agreed to gather a hundred million living souls and march on Great Jin.
• True Person Xuanyin left the Earth Abyss, and Lin Qishuang worried that the Xingfeng Sect members might be killed by his treasure.
• Wu Xing and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists fired guns and a rocket at the bone mirror, but it destroyed their bodies with lightning before flying away without absorbing their Divine Souls.
• Ge Yunxuan and Uncle Yuan found the Xingfeng Sect martial artists’ fading Divine Souls, preserved them in Soul Wood, and left to inform the Xingfeng Sect.
• True Person Xuanyin reached a damaged teleportation array in the Great Forest, revealed his weakened state after taking possession of the Beast Valley Master's body, and planned to recover before repairing the array.

At the Xingfeng Sect outpost, news arrived that Wu Xing and eighteen inner sect martial artists had died in the Golden Core Secret Realm, and Wang Hu sent Yue Yao to bring their souls to Chen Feng. Meanwhile, Chen Feng inspected a large cache of military equipment in the Golden Triangle and awaited the arrival of a satellite.

• Yue Yao adjusted missile flight paths while Wang Hu told her they could not test them until later.
• A messenger reported that Wu Xing and eighteen inner sect martial artists had been killed by a Golden Core cultivator in the Golden Core Secret Realm, and delivered their souls in a wooden box.
• Wang Hu stopped the martial artists from seeking revenge and sent Yue Yao back to the sect with the box for Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng inspected tanks, artillery, weapons, and ten JF-17 Thunder Fighters at Jack's base, and arranged to take half the equipment to the Painting Scroll World.
• Jack told Chen Feng that a transport plane carrying the satellite had arrived, and they went to see it.

Chen Feng received satellite equipment from SpaceX and rapidly learned the knowledge needed to build a launch pad. After learning that Wu Xing and eighteen inner sect martial artists had been killed by a Golden Core cultivator’s Divine Soul, Chen Feng resolved to prepare a nuclear bomb and take revenge.

• Wei'er delivered SpaceX’s satellite equipment and technicians to Jack, then asked him to contact the mysterious seller about buying more extraterrestrial material.
• Chen Feng told Jack to store the satellite equipment and moved tanks and armored vehicles into the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Qian and Yue Yao informed Chen Feng that Wu Xing and eighteen inner sect martial artists had died in the Golden Core secret realm, and gave him their Divine Souls in a wooden box.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to have Wang Hu gather information, then privately decided to strike the Golden Core cultivator before he could attack the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng concluded that a nuclear bomb was needed to kill a Golden Core cultivator and returned to the modern world to bring over equipment.
• After three days in the modern world, Chen Feng had moved everything from the Golden Triangle and quickly mastered the knowledge needed to build a satellite launch pad.

Chen Feng started the nuclear reactor at the Xingfeng Sect’s secret factory, bringing electricity to the sect and Xingfeng City. As the people marveled at the lights, nearby martial forces began heading toward the city to investigate.

• Zhang Xuan impressed the inner sect martial artists by mastering tank driving, while Chen Feng and Liu Qian watched and agreed he was worth nurturing.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to have the lights switched on after the nuclear factory was ready to power the Xingfeng Sect and Xingfeng City.
• Yue Yao and her team loaded nuclear fuel into the reactor, and Chen Feng inspected the equipment before ordering everyone to evacuate five kilometers away.
• Chen Feng started the reactor and opened a teleportation passage as the fuel began glowing and the generator produced electricity.
• Electric lights illuminated the nuclear factory, the Xingfeng Sect, and Xingfeng City, astonishing their residents and laborers.
• People from nearby martial forces saw the lights and hurried toward Xingfeng City to find out what had happened.

As True Person Xuanyin demanded the Blood Food Spiritual Qi of a billion people, Lin Li mobilized Great Yu’s forces to destroy Xingfeng Sect and gather it. Xingfeng Sect learned of the invasion as Zhou Jing prepared to take off in a JF-17 Thunder Fighter.

• Crowds gathered outside Xingfeng City to marvel at its electric lights, while Patriarch Zhang explained that the lamps used electricity and local leaders discussed the city’s shops.
• Chen Feng started the nuclear reactor, then led Yue Yao and the others into the arms factory to teach them to operate its equipment.
• Ge Yunxuan and Uncle Yuan found Great Jin’s imperial city ruined by Great Yu’s slaughter and decided to take their people to Xingfeng Sect for safety.
• True Person Xuanyin ordered Lin Li to collect Blood Food Spiritual Qi from a billion people within three months and dismissed Xingfeng Sect’s weapons as no threat.
• Lin Li assembled Great Yu’s army and cultivators to march on Xingfeng Sect, while the sect’s spies hurried to report the invasion.
• At Xingfeng Sect’s newly built airport, Zhou Jing radioed Chen Feng to request permission to take off in a JF-17 Thunder Fighter.

Zhou Jing made her first test flight in a JF-17 Thunder Fighter as Ge Yunxuan arrived at Xingfeng Sect seeking refuge for the remnants of Great Jin. Chen Feng agreed to let them settle in the Northern Border and set his sights on the Golden Core cultivator responsible for killing Wu Xing and the others.

• Chen Feng approved Zhou Jing's first test flight, and she took off successfully in the JF-17 Thunder Fighter, astonishing the people of Hengduan Mountain.
• Ge Yunxuan led Great Jin's surviving imperial family members and cultivators to Xingfeng Sect, where they encountered Xingfeng City's modern defenses and Zhang Xuan's tank formation.
• Chen Feng met Ge Yunxuan and asked what he knew about the Golden Core cultivator, who Ge Yunxuan said was linked to the Expansion Divine Sect of High Antiquity.
• Ge Yunxuan offered five thousand Spirit Stones and Great Jin's Heavenly Cloud Boat in exchange for a place where his people could settle.
• Chen Feng declined the gifts but approved their settlement in the Northern Border, then reaffirmed that the Golden Core cultivator was on his must-kill list.

Ge Yunxuan secured permission for the Great Jin imperial family to settle near the Xingfeng Sect, while Chen Feng claimed their Heavenly Cloud Boat and planned to turn it into an aerospace carrier. After learning that Great Yu was sending a million soldiers and hundreds of cultivators to invade, Chen Feng prepared the sect for battle and ordered Wang Hu to advance with missile launch vehicles as a nuclear warhead neared completion.

• Liu Qian allowed Ge Yunxuan and his people to settle near the Xingfeng Sect, provided they obeyed its rules and did not oppress or kill mortals without cause.
• Chen Feng examined the Heavenly Cloud Boat, renamed it the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier, and considered modifying it with modern engines and weapons.
• Mo Chen reported that Great Yu had sent a million soldiers and hundreds of cultivators toward the Northern Border, and Chen Feng ordered the sect to train and prepare to meet them at the border in half a month.
• Chen Feng ordered Wang Hu to take ten missile launch vehicles within two thousand kilometers of Great Yu’s army and await further instructions; Wang Hu set out with a convoy.
• At the nuclear factory, Yue Yao and the workers installed a nuclear charge in a DF-21 missile warhead and worked on its detonation control system.