Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng returned to Xingfeng Group, reviewed the company’s growth, and gave Li Xiaorou a Beauty Preserving Pill and a protective jade pendant. After revealing a new anticancer medicine made from a Rejuvenation Pill, he left Li Xiaorou stunned by its promise to save even late-stage patients.

• Chen Feng told Jack to negotiate ransom payments for the Cherry Blossom Country prisoners, offer SpaceX more extraterrestrial metal, and find a site for a research institute.
• Chen Feng returned to Xingfeng Group and reviewed news about the aerospace carrier, the upcoming Yun Province air show, and strong sales of the group’s products.
• Li Xiaorou welcomed Chen Feng and showed him a report revealing that Xingfeng Group had nearly five billion in liquid funds, largely from Phantom Paint and the Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pill.
• Chen Feng gave Li Xiaorou a Beauty Preserving Pill and a protective jade pendant, and she took the pill before showering as it purged grime from her body.
• Chen Feng gave Li Xiaorou a Rejuvenation Pill to process into capsules and said the new medicine could suppress and kill cancer cells, even saving late-stage patients.

Chen Feng arranged for Li Xiaorou to launch the cancer-curing Rejuvenation Pill with income-based pricing and strict domestic sales rules, then showed Lin Wei how Spiritual Qi stabilized her experimental fusion reactor. He agreed to move her research to a Golden Triangle institute and flew her there, where a passenger spotted them in the sky.

• Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou that the Rejuvenation Pill could cure cancer and instructed her to use differential pricing, sell only to Dragon Country citizens, and require patients to take it at company stores.
• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei, who showed him a modified hyperbaric oxygen chamber and a fusion device whose plasma Spiritual Qi had briefly stabilized.
• Lin Wei explained that the experiment had inspired her to develop Spiritual Energy Technology, and Chen Feng offered her an unrestricted research institute in the Golden Triangle.
• Lin Wei agreed to move her research if Chen Feng took her flying, and Chen Feng stored the laboratory equipment in his Storage Bag before setting out with her.
• Chen Feng carried Lin Wei above the clouds toward the Golden Triangle, while a passenger aboard a nearby plane pointed them out and cried that someone was flying in the sky.

Chen Feng brought Lin Wei to the Golden Triangle to establish a research institute, then traveled abroad to recruit leading scientists. He kidnapped several renowned experts and brought them to Lin Wei, who invited them to see the laboratory and learn about Spiritual Energy Technology.

• A passenger on a plane saw Chen Feng and Lin Wei flying, but the passengers and flight attendant dismissed her claim.
• Chen Feng and Lin Wei arrived at the Golden Triangle military base, where Chen Feng asked about the research institute and Lin Wei learned he was behind Jack Security Company.
• Black Bear showed Chen Feng and Lin Wei the estate where the institute would be built, and Chen Feng gave Lin Wei a Beauty Preserving Pill and fifty Spirit Stones.
• Chen Feng left to recruit researchers, and Harvey and other prominent experts woke up confined together after being abducted.
• Lin Wei welcomed the experts to the Golden Triangle and invited them to the laboratory, saying they would understand once they saw it.

Chen Feng arranged another auction and refused an invitation to discuss the aerospace carrier, while Liu Mu assured him that the cancer drug would pass review within seven days and promised official protection. As intelligence agencies investigated the missing scientists, John concluded that Jack’s invisibility could explain how Professor Harvey and the others vanished.

• Chen Feng told Jack to arrange another auction and said he would transport the satellite himself once it arrived.
• Liu Mu praised the J-20’s debut, confirmed the aerospace carrier was real, and invited Chen Feng to a research seminar, which Chen Feng declined.
• Liu Mu said Chen Feng’s cancer drug would pass review within seven days, revealed his promotion, and promised to protect Chen Feng’s group and its pricing plan.
• News reports described the J-20’s color-changing stealth coating and the disappearance of seventeen scientists, including eight from Eagle Sauce Country.
• John told CIA officials to investigate Dragon Country’s coating technology and the missing scientists, then identified Jack’s invisibility as the likely means of abducting Professor Harvey.

John planned a Navy SEAL mission to investigate Jack and the missing professor, while three cultivators from Moon Luminous Island arrived in Yingzhou to investigate a Spiritual Qi resurgence. At Xingfeng Sect, Chen Feng oversaw the launch of Starlink satellites after managing Zhengjiao and the sect’s preparations.

• John secured approval for a Navy SEAL team to infiltrate the Golden Triangle in three days and investigate Jack, alien technology, and Professor Harvey’s disappearance.
• Luo Yinxue, Jiang Feng, and Ku Xiaotian arrived through an ancient teleportation formation and agreed to seek local factions that could explain Yingzhou’s Spiritual Qi resurgence.
• Zhengjiao defended his work on the Xingfeng Sect’s spirit fields after Chen Feng confronted him about rumors that he resented farming.
• Chen Feng told Mo Chen that Mo Yang’s mechanical arm would have to wait for Lin Wei’s fusion battery research.
• Chen Feng directed the assembly and launch preparations for thirty Starlink low-orbit satellites, then entered the control room as the launch vehicle was readied.

Chen Feng’s satellite network launched successfully, allowing the Xingfeng Sect to monitor Yingzhou and communicate across ten thousand kilometers. After the satellites revealed a Spirit Vein near the Northern Border, Chen Feng arranged for it to be guarded and considered how to extend Wang Hu’s lifespan.

• The Xingfeng Sect successfully launched thirty Starlink satellites, and Liu Qian used a satellite phone to speak with Zhou Jing in the Great Yu Dynasty.
• Chen Feng spotted a blue glow in a ravine west of the Yue Kingdom, and Zhengjiao identified it as a low-grade Spirit Vein that could produce about five hundred Spirit Stones each month.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect and ordered the satellite control center to monitor Yingzhou for more Spirit Veins.
• At the Black Tortoise Formation’s training ground, Wang Hu declared Zhang Xuan’s side the winner of a military exercise and then received Chen Feng’s order to send troops to guard the Spirit Vein.
• Chen Feng learned that Wang Hu had been stuck at the Peak Transformation Realm for a month and told him to come to the secret chamber the next day so Chen Feng could try to help him awaken a Spirit Aperture.

Chen Feng gave Yue Yao plans to equip the aerospace carrier with missile launch tubes and prepare it for a future nuclear engine. Meanwhile, Luo Yinxue and her companions arrived at Xingfeng City, where Ku Xiaotian destroyed Chen Feng’s statue and provoked an armed response from the Xingfeng Sect.

• Chen Feng gave Yue Yao Lin Wei’s plans for modifying the aerospace carrier, and Yue Yao agreed to gather the factory’s senior staff to discuss them.
• Luo Yinxue, Ku Xiaotian, and the Chi Kingdom’s Grand Elder flew over the nuclear blast zone and followed helicopters toward Xingfeng City after Luo requested an audience with Chen Feng.
• At Xingfeng City’s gate, Ku Xiaotian destroyed Chen Feng’s statue because it called him the Nuclear Bomb True Lord, angering the gathered residents.
• When Ku Xiaotian revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and insulted the sect, Xingfeng Sect defenders aimed autocannons and tanks at the three visitors.
• Ge Yunxuan arrived with cultivators from Great Jin and recognized Luo Yinxue’s group as overseas cultivators.

Chen Feng used Zhengjiao’s apparent Nascent Soul power to subdue overseas visitors Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng, punish Ku Xiaotian, and demand compensation from the Heavenly Demon Sect. He arranged for the visitors to explore trade with the Xingfeng Sect, while they decided to report Yingzhou’s Spiritual Qi recovery to their elders.

• Chen Feng confronted Ku Xiaotian over the Xingfeng Sect member he had killed, and Ku Xiaotian boasted that the Heavenly Demon Sect had ten Golden Core cultivators.
• Zhengjiao revealed a powerful Divine Soul fluctuation, convincing Luo Yinxue, Jiang Feng, and Ku Xiaotian that he was a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Feng ordered Ku Xiaotian’s arms and legs broken and had him taken away, then told Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng to demand compensation from the Heavenly Demon Sect if it wanted Ku Xiaotian returned.
• Luo Yinxue explained that she and Jiang Feng had come to investigate signs of Spiritual Qi recovery, and Chen Feng asserted the Xingfeng Sect’s authority over Yingzhou and requested one hundred thousand Spirit Stones for Ku Xiaotian.
• Chen Feng invited Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng to explore trade with the Xingfeng Sect, and they agreed to stay in Yingzhou for a few days.
• Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng concluded that they could not pursue the Spirit Vein without risking conflict with the Xingfeng Sect, so they decided to report their findings to their elders.

Chen Feng tested a modified hyperbaric oxygen chamber and absorbed Spiritual Qi while cultivating. Meanwhile, Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng toured Xingfeng City, where its cars and modern goods impressed them and prompted Luo Yinxue to consider buying a car for the Luo Clan.

• Chen Feng examined Ku Xiaotian's Storage Bag, took its Law Treasures, Spirit Stones, talismans, and pills, then used a Spirit-Gathering Pill in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber to cultivate.
• Merchants saw Ku Xiaotian chained to Xingfeng City's wall for destroying Chen Feng's statue, while he silently vowed revenge.
• Ge Yunxuan took Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng around Xingfeng City, and they rode an SUV to the commercial district.
• Luo Yinxue bought an LED lighted mirror with Ge Yunxuan paying in gold, then asked whether the Xingfeng Sect sold cars.
• Jiang Feng watched a television drama in a shop and was captivated by the armored man's sword strikes.

Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng finished shopping in Xingfeng City and bought cars and handguns from the Xingfeng Sect, opening the way for possible trade with their sects. Before leaving, Luo Yinxue told Ku Xiaotian that his release would cost the Heavenly Demon Sect one hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones, leaving him afraid that his sect might abandon him.

• Jiang Feng and Luo Yinxue watched a staged sword battle on television in a Xingfeng Sect shop, and the shop martial artist explained that the device was not for sale there.
• After seven days of shopping, Luo Yinxue presented Liu Qian with a list of goods and discussed trade cooperation, including prices for cars and handguns.
• Luo Yinxue bought ten cars and a hundred handguns, while Jiang Feng bought one car and ten handguns; Liu Qian also provided gasoline and bullets.
• Luo Yinxue told Liu Qian about a teleportation array near Yingzhou before she and Jiang Feng left the Xingfeng Sect.
• At Xingfeng City, Luo Yinxue told the imprisoned Ku Xiaotian that the Heavenly Demon Sect could secure his release by paying one hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Ku Xiaotian feared his sect might refuse.

Luo Yinxue returned from Yingzhou and told the Luo Clan about a Nascent Soul True Lord at the Xingfeng Sect, then demonstrated the sect’s cars and handguns. The Luo Clan decided to buy the goods in bulk and preserve its relationship with the Xingfeng Sect, leaving Luo Yinxue to notify the Heavenly Demon Sect and warn the Xingfeng Sect if it sent anyone to Yingzhou.

• Luo Yinxue returned to the Luo Clan and reported that she had found no cause for Yingzhou’s Spiritual Qi resurgence but had encountered a Nascent Soul True Lord at the Xingfeng Sect.
• The Luo Clan leader and elders considered exploiting Ku Xiaotian’s imprisonment, but Luo Yinxue warned that the Xingfeng Sect might resent the clan and described their trade cooperation.
• Luo Yinxue showed the Luo Clan the goods she had bought, and the clan leader tested a car while an elder demonstrated a handgun.
• The Luo Clan leader recognized the cars and handguns’ value and put Luo Yinxue in charge of purchasing them in bulk.
• The Luo Clan leader told Luo Yinxue to reveal the Nascent Soul Cultivator to the Heavenly Demon Sect and inform the Xingfeng Sect if the sect sent anyone to Yingzhou.

Chen Feng inspected the aerospace carrier’s refit, decided it needed close-in defense guns and radar, then used a fighter to travel toward the Black Coast. There, Zhang Xuan prepared the Black Tortoise Formation to face another Demon Beast attack.

• Chen Feng visited the nuclear factory, where Yue Yao reported that the carrier’s three missile launch tubes and automatic ammunition system were installed, though its nuclear power room was unfinished.
• Chen Feng decided the carrier also needed high-rate-of-fire close-in defense guns and radar, then left to obtain more equipment from the modern world.
• Chen Feng boarded a JF-17 Thunder Fighter by grabbing its landing gear and had the pilot take him toward the forest in southern Yingzhou.
• At the Black Coast outpost, a martial artist told Zhang Xuan that more than thirty Demon Beasts had returned and were facing the guards.
• Zhang Xuan took up an AK-47 and ordered the tanks and self-propelled artillery into position.

Zhang Xuan and the Xingfeng Sect fought a group of Demon Beasts at their Black Coast outpost, but White Ape overwhelmed them and seized Zhang Xuan. As White Ape prepared to kill him, an unseen arrival warned him not to lay a hand on Zhang Xuan.

• The leopard Demon Beast demanded that Zhang Xuan surrender the Xingfeng Sect’s weapons, and Zhang Xuan opened fire when the Demon Beasts refused to negotiate.
• The Xingfeng Sect’s guns and artillery killed several Demon Beasts, but White Ape emerged from the forest and withstood the shelling.
• White Ape questioned Zhang Xuan about the Xingfeng Sect, then demanded that the humans surrender their weapons or call their elders.
• White Ape charged through the renewed barrage, grabbed Zhang Xuan by the throat, and surrounded him with the Demon Beasts.
• As White Ape prepared to snap Zhang Xuan’s neck, an unseen person approached and warned him not to touch Zhang Xuan.

Chen Feng arrived at the Black Coast, saved Zhang Xuan, and killed White Ape and the other Demon Beasts with overwhelming force. After investigating the Black Sea and collecting a sample of its water, he returned to the forward base to share the cooked Demon Beast meat with the Xingfeng Sect martial artists.

• Chen Feng struck White Ape and taught Zhang Xuan that he should have acted ruthlessly against hostile enemies from the start.
• White Ape transformed into a giant ape and unleashed his full strength, but Chen Feng killed him with the Ink Poison Blade.
• Chen Feng killed the fleeing Demon Beasts with Spiritual Power blades, and White Ape dissolved into a pool of blood.
• Chen Feng collected White Ape's inner core and sampled Black Sea water to take back for Lin Wei to study.
• Chen Feng returned to the forward base and invited the nervous Xingfeng Sect martial artists to sit and eat Demon Beast meat with him.

Chen Feng left the Black Coast after giving Zhang Xuan weapons to defend the Xingfeng Sect's outpost, while the Great Forest's Demon Beasts decided not to provoke the sect. In the modern world, an auction raised eight billion US dollars, the CIA prepared to investigate Jack's estate, and a brilliant light suddenly shone from Professor Lin and Harvey's work area.

• Chen Feng gave Zhang Xuan the Ink Poison Blade and three talismans, then left for the modern world.
• Azure Scale Lizard and Spirit Rock Beast decided against avenging White Ape and ordered the Great Forest's Demon Beasts to avoid the Xingfeng Sect and its Black Coast outpost.
• Representatives at a Golden Triangle auction spent eight billion US dollars on ten lots, including one bearing extraterrestrial writing.
• John warned Chris to reconnoiter Jack's heavily guarded estate rather than confront him, but Chris left with his men while John set out to follow them.
• Black Bear and the other militiamen continued cultivating as a brilliant light flared from the estate's work area.

Chen Feng returned to the estate as Lin Wei and the experts achieved stable Spiritual Energy Fusion, then ordered Tuosen to develop power armor. The chapter ended with Chen Feng sensing someone approaching the estate entrance and dismissing the visitor as no threat.

• Lin Wei and the experts demonstrated a fusion apparatus that had kept its plasma stable for over seven hours using Spirit Stones.
• Chen Feng asked the researchers to develop fusion batteries and power armor, overruling Harvey and Igor when they objected to weapon research.
• Tuosen agreed to build a power armor prototype within three days in exchange for having the armor named after him, and recruited several weapons experts as assistants.
• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that fusion batteries required Spirit Stones, and he gave her five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones that contained over a hundred times more Spiritual Qi than Low-Grade ones.
• Chen Feng asked about the team's tritium supply, then sensed someone nearing the estate entrance and decided not to worry about it.

Chris led Navy SEALs into Jack’s manor to find Professor Harvey and arrest Jack, but they were overwhelmed by the manor’s martial artists. Black Bear captured Chris after the failed raid and revealed that he was a martial artist.

• Chris left a hundred Navy SEALs outside for support and led the rest over the manor wall, avoiding gunfire as they silently killed guards and advanced toward the inner villa.
• Chris found thirty-two people meditating in the garden clearing and ordered his men to surround and kill them.
• Black Bear and Wild Wolf detected the SEALs, and the martial artists fought back, killing several soldiers while Black Bear broke one attacker’s hand and ribs and Wild Wolf dislocated Chris’s arm.
• Chris ordered a retreat and threw smoke grenades, but Black Bear caught him, kicked him down, and broke his arm as the manor raised the alarm and militia assembled.
• Chris asked whether Black Bear and the others were superhumans, and Black Bear answered that he was a martial artist.

Jack arrived during the Navy SEALs’ assault on the estate, demonstrated his Xiantian strength by cutting down soldiers and blocking bullets, and helped his forces defeat the attackers. John learned that Jack had thirty-two superpowered individuals at his base and withdrew, concluding the CIA would need military force to confront them.

• Jack flew from his villa, killed three Navy SEALs soldiers with a Gang Qi blade, and blocked a barrage of bullets with his Gang Qi.
• Chris radioed that the estate had thirty-two superpowered individuals, and Black Bear killed him before he could escape.
• Hundreds of militiamen joined Black Bear and the other martial artists, and they killed the Navy SEALs who had infiltrated the estate while the surrounding forces were sealed in.
• John learned that Chris was dead, the Navy SEALs were surrounded, and thirty-two superpowered individuals were at the estate.
• John ordered his agents to leave and decided that the CIA would need heavy firepower and military support to face Jack and his people.

Chen Feng arranged for Jack to offer Dragon Country an extraterrestrial book in exchange for conventional-warhead intercontinental missiles, while Harvey proposed setting up tritium production for future fusion batteries. Colonel Zhang accepted Jack’s book for study and promised to report the missile request to his superiors, leaving the sale undecided.

• Jack reported that more than two hundred Navy SEALs had attacked the estate and that over twenty billion worth of Dragon Country’s supplies had arrived.
• Chen Feng told Jack to contact Colonel Zhang about buying conventional-warhead intercontinental missiles, offering books from the Painting Scroll World as a condition.
• Chen Feng declined Li Xiaorou’s invitation to attend Xingfeng Group’s cancer-drug launch and told her to make sure it went well.
• Harvey explained that he could produce tritium by bombarding lithium with neutrons, and Chen Feng put him in charge of building a production facility.
• Colonel Zhang’s researchers found a possible missile fragment at the battlefield, and Jack offered Colonel Zhang a book from an extraterrestrial civilization.
• Colonel Zhang said he would report Jack’s request to his superiors and give him an answer the next day, while Jack handed over the book regardless.

Xingfeng Group’s heavily guarded launch drew worldwide attention, while Huirui Pharmaceuticals’ Gao Rong expected another health supplement and discussed the company’s inability to reproduce its existing pill. The chapter left the crowd waiting to discover the new product.

• Xingfeng Group’s announcement of a new product launch drew reporters, pharmaceutical representatives, and viewers from around the world.
• Reporters noticed soldiers and plainclothes personnel guarding the launch venue, prompting speculation that the product was significant.
• Gao Rong and his secretary discussed Xingfeng Group’s likely launch, and Gao Rong said he was curious but expected no threat to Huirui’s high-end drug business.
• Gao Rong’s secretary said Huirui’s laboratory could not reproduce the Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pill and wanted raw materials from Xingfeng Group.
• Gao Rong refused to seek the raw materials, warning that doing so could land him in prison like Lu Mingze.