Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng assembled a nuclear warhead and brought Jack’s heavy equipment to the Painting Scroll World as the Xingfeng Sect prepared to fight Great Yu’s million-man army. The sect marched toward Hengduan Mountain aboard a modernized force, while Northern Border martial forces and Great Jin’s survivors decided to join the battle.

• Chen Feng ordered Yue Yao to increase a missile warhead’s yield, then helped enrich uranium before returning to the modern world.
• Chen Feng took Jack’s tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and other equipment, promising to return them before Cherry Blossom Country’s army arrived.
• Chen Feng addressed ten thousand armed inner sect martial artists and led the Xingfeng Sect’s convoy toward the front, with the modified Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier carrying fighter jets and helicopters.
• Household Head Zhang urged Northern Border martial forces to stand with the Xingfeng Sect, and the Phoenix Dance Pavilion and other groups agreed to fight.
• Ge Yunxuan decided Great Jin would join the battle and went to seek Chen Feng’s approval as the Xingfeng Sect’s forces arrived outside Hengduan Mountain.

Chen Feng led Xingfeng Sect’s technologically equipped army to confront Great Yu’s million-strong invasion, while Ge Yunxuan offered Great Jin’s cultivators to the sect. After Lin Li demanded surrender, Chen Feng ordered an attack, and artillery, bullets, and fighter jets devastated Great Yu’s forces.

• Ge Yunxuan asked to lead Great Jin’s cultivators in joining Xingfeng Sect, and Chen Feng accepted his offer.
• Lin Li ordered Great Yu’s army to refine the Northern Border’s mortals and martial artists into Blood Food Spiritual Qi, then demanded that Chen Feng surrender.
• Chen Feng ordered the Black Tortoise Armored Formation to fire, and its shells shattered the Divine Firmament Army’s formation and caused heavy casualties.
• Great Yu’s soldiers charged under artillery fire as Xingfeng Sect’s fighters opened fire with machine guns, cutting down the front ranks.
• Three JF-17 Thunder Fighters bombed and strafed Great Yu’s army, killing large numbers of soldiers.

The Xingfeng Sect’s modern weapons devastated Great Yu’s advancing army, while Chen Feng confronted the Divine Firmament Thunder Formation to protect the armored forces. After the front lines sent Great Yu’s troop coordinates to Wang Hu, he ordered ten missiles launched, leaving them streaking toward the battlefield.

• Lin Li intercepted autocannon rounds and forced Zhou Jing’s fighter jets to climb, while the Xingfeng Sect’s fire slowed Great Yu’s charge.
• Zhang Xuan directed the armored forces as the Northern Border factions and Ge Yunxuan’s party watched the battle; ten Foundation Establishment elders then formed the Divine Firmament Thunder Formation and destroyed a tank.
• Chen Feng blocked the formation’s lightning with his fist and entered the formation to keep the elders from attacking the heavy equipment.
• True Person Xuanyin watched Chen Feng and the battle, intending to harvest the cultivators’ Spiritual Qi rather than intervene.
• Liu Qian ordered Great Yu’s deployment coordinates sent to Wang Hu, who directed his men to launch ten DF-21 Missiles toward the battlefield.

Chen Feng fought ten Foundation Establishment cultivators while the Xingfeng Sect's weapons battered Great Yu's army. Ten missiles devastated Great Yu's rear, and as Lin Li attacked Chen Feng and five more missiles approached, True Person Xuanyin appeared as a Golden Core cultivator.

• Chen Feng held off ten Foundation Establishment elders while Xingfeng Sect's martial artists fired on Great Yu's advancing army.
• Ten missiles struck the rear of Great Yu's army, killing nearly two hundred thousand people and halting the battle.
• Lin Li charged Chen Feng with his Law Treasure long saber and split Chen Feng's arms with a single blow.
• Five more missiles approached, and Lin Li called on True Person Xuanyin to intervene.
• True Person Xuanyin appeared over the battlefield, and Chen Feng recognized him as a Golden Core cultivator.

Chen Feng’s conventional missiles failed to harm True Person Xuanyin, a Golden Core cultivator, so Chen Feng ordered the Xingfeng Sect to retreat while he escaped aboard Zhou Jing’s fighter. He stayed near the battlefield to relay True Person Xuanyin’s coordinates for a nuclear strike.

• True Person Xuanyin blocked the first missile with a golden screen, then destroyed the remaining missiles with lightning from his bone mirror.
• Chen Feng ordered Liu Qian to withdraw the Xingfeng Sect’s martial artists and told Zhou Jing to prepare their escape, while he remained behind.
• The Xingfeng Sect’s fighters and allied factions retreated as Great Yu’s forces watched True Person Xuanyin repel the missiles.
• Chen Feng flew toward Zhou Jing’s low-flying fighter, grabbed its landing gear, and escaped as it accelerated beyond the sound barrier.
• At high altitude, Chen Feng told Zhou Jing to circle the battlefield and relayed True Person Xuanyin’s coordinates to Yue Yao, preparing for a nuclear strike.

Yue Yao launched the nuclear missile Chen Feng had prepared, and its detonation annihilated True Person Xuanyin, his Nascent Soul-level Demon Beast split soul, and the Great Yu forces on the battlefield. The blast’s Mach stem spread across the region as the mushroom cloud darkened the sky.

• As the Xingfeng Sect convoy retreated, Zhang Xuan insisted over the radio that Chen Feng would be fine, while Liu Qian told Mo Chen that Chen Feng’s secret preparations involved the nuclear factory.
• Yue Yao received Chen Feng’s coordinates, ordered the nuclear factory staff away, and launched the nuclear missile alone.
• True Person Xuanyin destroyed the missiles sent earlier, then prepared to blast apart the next one as Lin Li and the Great Yu cultivators watched.
• The missile’s nuclear warhead detonated on contact with Xuanyin’s lightning, vaporizing Lin Li, hundreds of thousands of Great Yu soldiers, and True Person Xuanyin.
• Xuanyin’s Nascent Soul Demon Beast split soul appeared but was consumed by the nuclear fireball, while the blast’s Mach stem swept across the battlefield and killed the remaining Great Yu forces.

The nuclear explosion devastated the battlefield and triggered an earthquake across the border region. As the Xingfeng Sect convoy fled, Chen Feng realized the blast’s destruction had erased the battlefield and its spoils.

• The nuclear blast’s flash and shockwave struck the Xingfeng Sect convoy and Northern Border martial artists eighty kilometers away, while a mushroom cloud darkened the sky.
• Ge Yunxuan recognized that the situation had changed, and Mo Chen shielded Liu Qian from the shockwave as Liu Qian tried to contact Chen Feng.
• An earthquake began, and Liu Qian and Ge Yunxuan warned everyone to flee as fissures spread across the borderlands.
• At seven thousand meters, Chen Feng and Zhou Jing saw the ground split and mountains collapse, and Chen Feng ordered Zhou Jing to fly into the Northern Border.
• Chen Feng concluded that the nuclear explosion had triggered the earthquake and burned away the battlefield, leaving no spoils to recover.

Chen Feng discovered Zhengjiao, a weakened Nascent Soul Demon Beast, at the nuclear blast site and made him agree to a contract before sheltering him in a Soul Wood box. While Chen Feng cultivated, Xingfeng City opened, and Ge Yunxuan considered how the Great Jin cultivators could earn a place in the Northern Border.

• Chen Feng found Zhengjiao’s faint Divine Soul in a glass crystal, attacked him, and accepted his offer to teach a Demon Beast contract Law Technique in exchange for a chance to live.
• Zhengjiao entered Chen Feng’s Soul Wood box to recover, where Chen Feng warned him not to harm the mortal Divine Souls inside.
• Liu Qian reported that Wang Hu had captured Great Yu’s treasuries, including six Storage Bags from Lin Li, and Chen Feng said he would inspect them after returning from seclusion.
• Chen Feng returned tanks and armored vehicles to Jack, then entered the Painting Scroll World to cultivate and practice the contract Law Technique.
• Xingfeng City opened, drawing crowds to its modern shops as Yue Yao and Xiao Lian explored the commercial district and Ge Yunxuan’s group examined the city.
• Ge Yunxuan explained that the Great Jin cultivators needed to prove their worth and gradually overcome the Xingfeng Sect’s wariness to gain a firm foothold in the Northern Border.

Yue Yao and the Xingfeng Sect enforced the sect’s laws after Chi Xian maimed a mortal in Xingfeng City, and Ge Yunxuan’s Foundation Establishment companions helped subdue him and Chi Jing’er. The Chi Kingdom’s grand elder arrived and pleaded that their diplomatic ties be considered, while the city’s security deacon contacted Liu Qian for guidance.

• Yue Yao, Xiao Lian, and the other women discovered that Liu Qian’s shop sold explicit photo books before hearing a commotion in the street.
• Chi Xian cut off an old mortal man’s arm after the man accidentally bumped into him, and Chi Jing’er told the man and his granddaughter to leave.
• Yue Yao gave the injured man a pill and condemned Chi Xian, while Xingfeng Sect martial artists arrived to arrest the pair.
• Chi Xian summoned his Law Artifact sword, but two Foundation Establishment cultivators from Great Jin disarmed and subdued him and Chi Jing’er.
• Ge Yunxuan asked Yue Yao about the punishment, and she cited the sect’s sixty-fifth law requiring their limbs to be crippled and both to be imprisoned.
• The Chi Kingdom’s grand elder pleaded for leniency and offered compensation, but the security deacon rejected his appeal and contacted Liu Qian.

The Xingfeng Sect punished Chi Xian and Chi Jing'er despite the Chi Kingdom’s ties to the sect, while Ge Yunxuan realized that Great Jin could earn a foothold in the Northern Border by serving its people. Chen Feng learned Zhengjiao’s origins, advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and asked whether Zhengjiao knew any cultivation methods or powerful Law Techniques.

• The Xingfeng Sect deacon severed ties with the Chi Kingdom, ordered Chi Xian’s limbs cut off, and had Chi Xian and Chi Jing'er taken away for punishment.
• Ge Yunxuan concluded that Great Jin should earn recognition from both the Xingfeng Sect and the Northern Border’s people by helping maintain order and doing good deeds.
• Chen Feng learned that Zhengjiao was a divided soul of one of the three Nascent Soul Peak Demon Kings of the Azure Mountain Range, hunted by the other two after preparing to advance to Spirit Transformation.
• Zhengjiao explained that Yingzhou had become an abandoned land after a war ten thousand years earlier, when cultivators from beyond the domain invaded Canglan Star.
• Chen Feng absorbed Spiritual Qi and reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, then decided to gather more Spiritual Qi across Yingzhou.
• Chen Feng asked Zhengjiao whether he had any cultivation methods or powerful Law Techniques.

Chen Feng learned and quickly mastered the Stars Body-Refining Instruction, gaining greater strength and control over his Spiritual Power while Zhengjiao warned him that the Devil Cultivator sect would hunt practitioners of the method. After Wang Hu returned with the Great Yu treasury, Chen Feng discovered that its Rejuvenation Pills could treat mortal illnesses and considered how to obtain more.

• Zhengjiao taught Chen Feng the Stars Body-Refining Instruction, explaining its benefits, its dangerous heavenly tribulations, and the risk of being hunted by the Devil Cultivator sect.
• Chen Feng cultivated the method for three days, transforming his skin and increasing his strength, speed, defense, and ability to attack with Spiritual Power.
• Chen Feng promised to help repair Zhengjiao's Divine Soul, then learned from Liu Qian that Wang Hu had returned to the abandoned mine.
• Wang Hu brought the Great Yu treasury to Chen Feng, who examined its pills and learned that Rejuvenation Pills could cure serious illnesses in mortals.
• Zhengjiao told Chen Feng that Rejuvenation Grass was easy to grow and could be cultivated to produce more Rejuvenation Pills.

Chen Feng launched a satellite to establish communications and survey the Painting Scroll World, revealing the immense scale of Canglan Star. When the satellite’s camera showed a distant landmass, a powerful voice condemned the intrusion and destroyed the launch vehicle.

• Chen Feng found spirit medicines and seeds among the spoils of Great Yu, then ordered Zhengjiao to teach the sect how to cultivate them.
• Chen Feng opened Lin Li’s Storage Bags and gained Spirit Stones, spirit medicines, and Foundation Establishment talismans.
• After seven days, Chen Feng and the Xingfeng Sect technicians prepared to launch a satellite while the Northern Border developed roads and spirit fields.
• Chen Feng ordered the launch, and the rocket entered space as the sect members and Zhengjiao watched in amazement.
• The satellite revealed Yingzhou surrounded by vast black seas, enormous islands, and a distant landmass on Canglan Star.
• A majestic voice accused the satellite of spying, destroyed the launch vehicle, and left the control room’s screens black.

After a powerful cultivator destroyed Chen Feng’s satellite, Chen Feng learned that the device had glimpsed a forbidden land and resolved to strengthen the Xingfeng Sect. In the modern world, Cherry Blossom Country’s brigade advanced on Jack’s forces, and Chen Feng flew to aid them with the upgraded Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier.

• Chen Feng learned from Zhengjiao that the attacker was at least at Spirit Transformation and had destroyed the satellite after sensing it observe a forbidden land.
• The middle-aged cultivator searched space and Canglan Star, noticed signs of Spiritual Qi reviving in Yingzhou, and concluded that the planet’s protective formation remained intact.
• Mitsui Kazuo led Cherry Blossom Country’s Fourteenth Brigade toward the Golden Triangle and told CIA Director John that his forces would defeat Jack’s men.
• Jack divided his forces into three formations and left the military base to meet the advancing brigade, while his men reported the enemy’s overwhelming equipment advantage.
• Chen Feng returned to the modern world, learned Jack had already departed, and flew toward the battlefield with the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier, planning to use it to bring his forces into close combat.

The Fourteenth Brigade used drones to jam Jack Security Company's communications and radar, then attacked its separated formations with aircraft and artillery. Meanwhile, Zhang Jiajia and members of the Immortal-Seeking Society heard the fighting and set out to watch, hoping they might find the Silver-Haired Immortal.

• Jack realized the Fourteenth Brigade had jammed his radar and communications, while Wild Wolf's vanguard came under air and artillery attacks.
• Mitsui Kazuo ordered the Fourteenth Brigade to keep suppressing Wild Wolf's five thousand men and refused to accept Jack's surrender.
• Black Bear's second formation fired tracer rounds and self-propelled guns at three F16s, forcing the aircraft to retreat after bombing the ground.
• Mitsui Kazuo learned the second formation had five self-propelled guns, three infantry fighting vehicles, and six tanks, then ordered his tank regiment to surround it.
• Zhang Jiajia told the Immortal-Seeking Society about meeting the Silver-Haired Immortal and said she could not reach Jack at his military base.
• After hearing the distant cannon fire, Zhang Jiajia and the others set off toward the fighting to watch from a safe distance.

Chen Feng arrived to help Jack’s Third Formation and revealed the Luan Bird Space Carrier, ordering Jack’s five thousand men aboard to attack the Cherry Blossom Country command post. Meanwhile, John led CIA agents toward Mitsui Kazuo’s command post, preparing to capture Jack and counter his invisibility.

• Jack learned that Cherry Blossom Country’s armored regiment had surrounded Black Bear’s Second Formation, but hesitated to launch missiles because doing so could expose his position.
• Chen Feng appeared, learned that Jack’s Third Formation had five thousand men, and ordered them to gather.
• Chen Feng transformed a small boat into the Luan Bird Space Carrier, then ordered Jack’s men aboard for an attack on the enemy command post.
• Chen Feng assured Jack the carrier could evade detection and withstand ordinary weapons, and said he would rescue the surrounded Second Formation later.
• John’s CIA team monitored the fighting with a night-vision drone and prepared a special tranquilizer to capture Jack.
• John learned Mitsui Kazuo’s infantry regiment was near the command post and led his agents there with a thermal imager to counter Jack’s invisibility.

Chen Feng ambushed Cherry Blossom Country’s forces with an aerospace carrier, then sent Jack and his militiamen into the chaotic battlefield to fight them hand to hand. The chapter ended with Jack leading his men in an attack on the stunned infantry regiment.

• Zhong Shan learned that Jack had begun fighting Cherry Blossom Country’s troops, while Colonel Zhang secretly headed toward the Golden Triangle in case Jack needed rescuing.
• Zhang Jiajia and her group watched the distant battle and argued over whether Jack could defeat Cherry Blossom Country’s army.
• Mitsui Kazuo’s headquarters was surprised by Chen Feng’s aerospace carrier, whose guns killed soldiers and whose shield blocked their return fire.
• Chen Feng dropped a missile to throw the infantry regiment into disarray, then told Jack to lead his militiamen into close combat so they could capture the regiment’s equipment.
• Chen Feng lowered and dismissed the carrier, and Jack led his armed militiamen in a charge against the Cherry Blossom Country soldiers.

Jack’s forces attacked Mitsui Kazuo’s command post while Black Bear’s militia remained surrounded by Cherry Blossom Country’s armored regiment. As the tanks prepared to finish them off, a silver-haired young man appeared and stood unharmed after a tank shell struck him.

• Mitsui Kazuo ordered his soldiers to fight Jack’s men and learned that they suspected Jack had alien technology.
• Zhang Jiajia’s group and John’s CIA agents saw and recorded the aerospace carrier, and John hurried toward the battlefield hoping to capture Jack and the alien technology.
• Black Bear’s militia ran low on ammunition while surrounded by Cherry Blossom Country tanks, and Black Bear urged his men to prepare for a final fight.
• The armored regiment’s commander ordered a tank to fire on a lone young man who had appeared in the open battlefield.
• The shell exploded around the young man, but he remained unmoved, his silver hair and shining skin visible as the dust settled.

Chen Feng single-handedly attacked the Cherry Blossom Country armored regiment while Black Bear's militia escaped, and Jack used the Soul-Refining Banner to turn the fighting at the Fourteenth Brigade's command post in his side's favor. Mitsui Kazuo learned that the armored regiment had been held up by one man, but refused to believe the report.

• Chen Feng told Black Bear to support Jack, then punched a tank onto its side and killed its driver.
• Chen Feng fired a Spiritual Qi blade from two kilometers away, splitting the regiment commander and his infantry fighting vehicle in half.
• Chen Feng attacked the armored regiment at close range, forcing its vehicles to scatter and opening a gap for Black Bear and the militia to escape.
• At the Fourteenth Brigade's command post, Jack released more than ten thousand Yin souls from the Soul-Refining Banner, which attacked the Cherry Blossom Country soldiers and shifted the battle.
• A signalman told Mitsui Kazuo that one man had held up the armored regiment, and Mitsui Kazuo kicked him and demanded that he repeat the report.

Jack’s forces captured Mitsui Kazuo’s troops and moved to seize the armored regiment’s vehicles, while Jack kept Chen Feng’s role in the victory secret from Colonel Zhang. After a reporter’s photo of the aerospace carrier surfaced online, Colonel Zhang suspected Jack might possess alien technology and planned to report his concerns.

• Jack ordered Mitsui Kazuo and his men taken away, then led militiamen toward the armored regiment after receiving Chen Feng’s message.
• John withdrew with his agents, while Colonel Zhang’s scouts reported that the armored vehicles and tanks were still standing but their drivers were dead.
• Jack ordered his men to collect the equipment, saw a tank’s armor dented by Chen Feng’s punch, and told Black Bear to keep the incident secret.
• Jack met Colonel Zhang, claimed his forces had defeated Cherry Blossom Country’s troops in close combat, and asked where he could buy Colonel Zhang’s night-vision goggles.
• Colonel Zhang’s convoy found Dragon Country tourists in the combat zone and discovered that a reporter had posted a photo of the aerospace carrier online.
• Colonel Zhang suspected Jack had alien technology and decided to verify the photo and report his concerns to his superiors.

After Cherry Blossom Country’s failed operation in the Golden Triangle, Jack Security Company demanded compensation while a photo of a suspected aerospace carrier fueled speculation about alien technology. At the military base, Chen Feng distributed captured equipment, recruited new martial artists, strengthened Jack, and assigned him further purchases for the Xingfeng Sect.

• Cherry Blossom Country announced that Jack Security Company had captured its troops, and Jack’s company claimed its forces had acted to protect residents and demanded compensation for the damage caused by the exercise.
• A Dragon Country reporter posted a blurry photo of an enormous vessel over the battlefield, prompting public debate and renewed interest from research institutions in the Golden Triangle’s suspected alien technology.
• Jack told Chen Feng that his forces had seized heavy equipment, ammunition, and an air defense system, and Chen Feng took half the spoils and ordered the air defense system installed at the base.
• Chen Feng gave Meridian Opening Pills to thirty-five fighters selected by Jack, Black Bear, and Wild Wolf, intending to train them as martial artists and later place Soul Seals on them.
• Chen Feng gave Jack a Great Rejuvenation Pill and used Spiritual Power to help him advance from Postnatal to Early Innate, then entrusted him with cultivation methods and pills.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to buy another satellite and purchase industrial equipment and building materials from Dragon Country for the Xingfeng Sect’s expanding territories.