Chapter Summaries

After rescuing Ku Xiaotian, Qiu Ran explained the Xingfeng Sect’s power and took him back to the Heavenly Demon Sect. In the modern world, Chen Feng equipped his researchers with cultivation materials and knowledge, inspected newly arrived DF-41 missiles, and prepared to return to Dragon Country.

• Qiu Ran told Ku Xiaotian that the Xingfeng Sect had forced the Heavenly Demon Sect to pay a hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, then took him back to the sect.
• Chen Feng gave Lin Wei and Harvey’s research team cultivation-world materials and translated books to study for military applications and body-enhancing potions.
• Chen Feng met Jack and the others, learned how much their cultivation had advanced, and inspected two DF-41 launch vehicles and five conventional intercontinental missiles.
• Chen Feng told Jack to prepare pistols, submachine guns, and other supplies for him to transport, and warned him to remain cautious of Eagle Sauce Country.
• After Chen Feng left, Jack agreed to investigate a fifty-million-US-dollar job targeting pirates in the Ten Degree Strait before gathering his people.

Chen Feng checked on Xingfeng Group, then visited Xingfeng Sect and gave Mo Yang a powered mechanical arm to replace the one he had lost. Mo Yang tested it and discovered it could crack stone paving with an ordinary strike.

• Chen Feng asked Li Xiaorou whether anyone was interfering with anti-cancer drug sales, then ate with her and left her pills and Demon Beast meat.
• Chen Feng visited Tuosen at the weapons research institute and inspected the second-generation power armor and the mechanical power arm Tuosen had built.
• Chen Feng went to the Affairs Pavilion and summoned Mo Yang, who had left combat duty after losing an arm.
• Chen Feng anesthetized Mo Yang and operated for three hours to attach the powered mechanical arm.
• Mo Yang woke, moved his restored arm in delight, and cracked the stone paving with a single strike.

Chen Feng assigned Mo Yang to lead the new Azure Dragon Formation and learned that advancing to Golden Core would require enduring a Heavenly Tribulation. A month later, Qu Jing arrived with Luo Yinxue to collect goods and was astonished by Xingfeng City as they went to visit Chen Feng.

• Chen Feng gave Mo Yang a powered arm and appointed him to select two thousand people for the Azure Dragon Formation.
• Zhengjiao told Chen Feng that his cultivation method required surviving nine bolts of Heavenly Tribulation lightning to form a Golden Core.
• Chen Feng refused to give Zhengjiao Divine Souls, keeping the remnant souls in his storage ring so Zhengjiao could not recover his strength.
• Over the next month, Chen Feng cultivated and transported supplies while powered-armor, battery, and military factories began operating.
• Qu Jing and Luo Yinxue arrived in the Northern Border, and Qu Jing marveled at Xingfeng City's lights and modern streets before they landed to visit Chen Feng.

Luo Yinxue visited the Xingfeng Sect to buy satellite phones and warn Chen Feng that the Heavenly Demon Sect’s leader was preparing to break through to Nascent Soul. Chen Feng agreed to join the Luo Clan and the Sword Inquiry Sect in attacking the Heavenly Demon Sect, while the Xingfeng Sect prepared a hydrogen missile for the coming battle.

• Luo Yinxue and Qu Jing arrived at the Xingfeng Sect, where Liu Qian welcomed them and told them Chen Feng was in seclusion.
• Chen Feng met Luo Yinxue after breaking through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage Peak, and sold her ten satellite phones for one hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Luo Yinxue warned Chen Feng that the Heavenly Demon Sect’s sect master was preparing to reach Nascent Soul and asked the Xingfeng Sect to join the Luo Clan and the Sword Inquiry Sect against the sect.
• Chen Feng agreed to cooperate and keep the alliance’s plans secret.
• Chen Feng visited the nuclear factory, where Yue Yao told him the first one-million-ton hydrogen bomb was finished and its warhead was being installed on an intercontinental missile.

Chen Feng reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and decided to test whether he could undergo his Golden Core tribulation on Earth. As he condensed his Spiritual Liquid outside the manor in the Golden Triangle, a terrifying heavenly phenomenon appeared and left Lin Wei rushing to intervene.

• Chen Feng inspected the Azure Dragon Formation’s newly made power armor and encouraged Mo Yang and its members to keep training.
• Qu Jing and Luo Yinxue toured Xingfeng City, where Qu Jing spotted a business opportunity in the sect’s modern goods and asked how to gain access to better weapons.
• After another month of secluded cultivation, Chen Feng reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and told Zhengjiao he intended to pursue Golden Core.
• Chen Feng reasoned that Earth might have a weaker Heavenly Tribulation than Canglan Star and returned to the modern world to test his idea.
• Chen Feng began condensing his Spiritual Liquid outside the manor, shattering his Spiritual Qi bracelet as his power spread and the sky churned with the might of heaven and earth.
• Lin Wei recognized that Chen Feng was causing the phenomenon and ran out of the manor as the people nearby were crushed by the pressure.

Chen Feng halted his premature Core Formation when Lin Wei was endangered, then flew to the Ten Degree Strait after learning Jack and his men had lost contact. Jack and Black Bear were trapped on an island by a force posing as pirates, which Jack suspected was Eagle Sauce Country personnel.

• Chen Feng restrained his Spiritual Power after seeing Lin Wei struggle under the pressure of his Core Formation, then told her he had to leave to complete it.
• Wild Wolf reported that Jack and five thousand men had lost contact at the Ten Degree Strait, and Chen Feng went there alone.
• Chen Feng arrived at the strait and learned that Jack’s force had been lured into a trap by nearly fifty thousand heavily armed attackers who jammed their signals.
• Jack and Black Bear took cover on an island as the attackers bombarded them, while Jack refused to abandon his men and suspected the attackers were Eagle Sauce Country navy personnel.
• A drone flew over the smoke-covered island and ordered Jack to surrender.

Jack and his martial artists fought Eagle Sauce Country’s landing force after General Harold sent four thousand soldiers ashore. Jack revealed his Transformation Realm power by charging through bullets and cutting down soldiers, leaving Harold convinced that he was a superhuman while John wondered if Jack was still hiding his strength.

• Jack recognized the drone operator as CIA director John and shot down the drone rather than surrendering.
• John urged Harold to use long-range firepower against Jack, but Harold dismissed the warning and ordered Formation 72 to land.
• Harold’s fleet bombarded the island, landed nearly four thousand soldiers, and spread them out to surround Jack’s remaining men.
• Jack ordered his men to fight, and he, Black Bear, and the other martial artists used their speed and firepower to attack the fleet soldiers.
• Jack protected himself with Gang Qi, charged through bullets, and killed soldiers with his fists and Blood Demon Saber, throwing their formation into chaos.
• Harold accepted that Jack was a superhuman, while John suspected Jack was hiding some of the abilities described in earlier intelligence.

Jack and his forces were driven into the island’s forest by Harold’s overwhelming fleet, then trapped as helicopters and soldiers tightened the encirclement. Wounded and down to just over two hundred people, Jack rejected surrender and faced what seemed to be certain death.

• Harold sent another formation and special operations troops against Jack, while John warned that Jack might still be hiding abilities.
• Jack and Black Bear fought off fleet soldiers, but grenades, rockets, and incoming reinforcements forced their side to retreat into the forest with only six hundred people remaining.
• Jack led a charge east to break through the encirclement, but attack helicopters arrived and a sniper struck his shoulder with an armor-piercing round.
• The snipers killed martial artists as fleet soldiers closed in, leaving Jack’s group surrounded and reduced to just over two hundred people.
• Jack decided he would not surrender, believing surrender would not save him and refusing to give in.

Chen Feng arrived to rescue Jack and his companions, then revealed overwhelming power against the encircling fleet soldiers. As Chen Feng began his breakthrough, he drew a Heavenly Tribulation and charged into the thunderclouds after surviving its first strike.

• Jack found Black Bear weakened by a syringe attack from the helicopter and faced the fleet's encirclement with only a few allies remaining.
• Chen Feng appeared, and Jack knelt before him before gathering the survivors behind him.
• Chen Feng killed three hundred fleet soldiers with a Spiritual Power blade, then protected Jack and the others inside a golden dome.
• Chen Feng rose into the sky as dark clouds spread over the island, and the might of heaven and earth forced more than twenty thousand fleet soldiers to the ground.
• A bolt of blue lightning struck Chen Feng and drove him into a crater, but he emerged largely unharmed and found that the tribulation had further compressed his Spiritual Liquid.
• Chen Feng realized the Heavenly Tribulation could help him condense a Golden Core, then charged toward the thunderclouds.

Chen Feng endured the Heavenly Tribulation until a purple lightning bolt struck him and completed his Golden Core formation. He emerged with a purple Golden Core, a transformed body, and greatly increased power, while the warships withdrew and the chapter ended with Chen Feng testing his new abilities.

• Chen Feng withstood twenty-one increasingly powerful lightning bolts, strengthening his body while the soldiers on the island were pinned down by the heavenly might.
• Jack and Black Bear watched Chen Feng cultivate, then saw five destroyers and other warships approach the island.
• Harold ordered three warships to fire on Chen Feng, but lightning intercepted most of the shells and destroyed the attacking ships, prompting the fleet to withdraw.
• Chen Feng endured a purple lightning bolt that left him severely injured, and the dispersing clouds ended the tribulation.
• Chen Feng formed a purple Golden Core, healed, and underwent a transformation that gave him silver blood, a powerful new body, and Spiritual Sense that reached fifty kilometers.
• Chen Feng shook space with a punch, considered why he could do so at Early Golden Core, and then vanished in a streak of light.

After reaching Golden Core, Chen Feng sensed Earth’s Star Energy while the Eagle Sauce Country fleet attacked him with naval shells and missiles. When the weapons failed to hurt him, he stopped the retreating fleet with a single strike that cut ten warships apart.

• Chen Feng tested his Golden Core speed and Spiritual Power, then sensed Earth’s Star Energy and connected it to his body.
• Harold ordered nearly a hundred naval shells fired at Chen Feng, but Chen Feng remained unharmed behind his Body-Protecting Spiritual Light.
• Harold launched three cruise missiles at Chen Feng, and their explosions also failed to injure him.
• Harold ordered the fleet to retreat, but Chen Feng crossed several kilometers in an instant and confronted it.
• Chen Feng swept two fingers toward the fleet, splitting the sea and severing ten warships in a single strike.

Chen Feng slaughtered nearly twenty warships’ crews, then realized his Golden Core realm had deepened his indifference toward ordinary lives. After the painting scroll expanded to cover the Northern Border, he confronted Zhengjiao, who revealed that the Stars Body-Refining Instruction required consuming a planet’s origin and could attract powerful cultivators.

• Chen Feng destroyed the Eagle Sauce Country warships and killed their crews despite their surrender, then ordered Jack to manage the survivors on a destroyer.
• Chen Feng reflected on his growing detachment from humanity, discovered that the painting scroll now covered the Northern Border, and entered the Painting Scroll World to consult Zhengjiao.
• Zhengjiao realized Chen Feng had reached the Golden Core realm and questioned how he had survived the Stars Body-Refining Instruction’s tribulation.
• Chen Feng threatened to destroy Zhengjiao’s Divine Soul for concealing information, and Zhengjiao offered to lead him to his hidden cave abode and its treasures.
• Zhengjiao admitted that cultivating the Stars Body-Refining Instruction required plundering a planet’s origin, which powerful experts could detect, and confessed that he had withheld the danger to preserve his chance of recovering his strength.

After learning that his rapid rise to Golden Core had unsettled his state of mind, Chen Feng regained his composure and seized the defeated fleet’s warships for the Painting Scroll World. Eagle Sauce Country responded to the fleet’s destruction by placing its military on level-two combat readiness while preparing to negotiate, as Chen Feng left to explore outer space and absorb stellar energy.

• Chen Feng asked Zhengjiao about the Stars Body-Refining Instruction and his changed temperament, and Zhengjiao attributed the problem to Chen Feng’s cultivation advancing faster than his state of mind.
• Chen Feng returned to Jack and ordered him to take the surrendered soldiers back to the Golden Triangle while Chen Feng sent the remaining warships into the Painting Scroll World.
• John escaped by speedboat and sent footage of Chen Feng destroying the fleet to Eagle Sauce Country’s leaders.
• At an emergency meeting, the Speaker and Commander Qiefusi agreed to place Eagle Sauce Country’s army, navy, and air force on level-two combat readiness while attempting to negotiate with Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng sent the warships into the Painting Scroll World, then flew into space to absorb stellar energy from the Solar System’s planets.

Chen Feng cultivated the first stage of the Star Body at the Kármán Line, creating a luminous object that drew worldwide attention before he returned to the Golden Triangle. He used Lin Wei’s new Spiritual Power Bracelet to suppress his power and learned that the aerospace carrier’s upgraded engines were ready for stronger materials.

• Chen Feng reached the Kármán Line, absorbed Star Energy from the moon and Venus, and cultivated there while his body shone with stellar light.
• NASA and other space agencies detected the expanding luminous object, analyzed it, and publicized it as an unknown substance that affected magnetic fields and blocked electromagnetic signals.
• The luminous object vanished after ten days, leaving its origin unexplained, and Chen Feng returned to the Golden Triangle after completing the first stage of the Star Body.
• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei’s laboratory and put on the Black Gold Spiritual Power Bracelet, which suppressed eighty percent of his Spiritual Power and restored his ordinary appearance.
• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that the aerospace carrier’s engines could sustain Mach 3 and reach Mach 5 briefly, but the carrier needed to be refitted with Azure Gold Stone.

Chen Feng tested the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier’s new Spiritual Sense controls, helped Lin Wei begin cultivating, and took a newly developed plasma pistol from Tuosen. The chapter ended when Jack told Chen Feng that visitors from Eagle Sauce Country had arrived to hold peace talks.

• Lin Wei showed Chen Feng that one person could control the Aerospace Carrier’s engines and close-in defense guns with Spiritual Sense.
• Chen Feng helped Lin Wei sense her Spirit Aperture, and she began cultivating with Spirit Stones in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
• Tuosen showed Chen Feng a plasma pistol powered by fusion batteries, and Chen Feng took the pistol and its batteries.
• Jack told Chen Feng that Eagle Sauce Country had raised its readiness to level two after Chen Feng destroyed its fleet.
• Jack received word that representatives from Eagle Sauce Country had arrived to hold peace talks.

Lisa led an Eagle Sauce Country delegation to negotiate with Chen Feng, who demanded nuclear materials and compensation while warning he could meet their president in person. After sending the diplomats away with Spiritual Power, Chen Feng explained that he sought leverage without provoking a nuclear strike; meanwhile, the Northern Border’s roads and Spiritual Qi drew migrants from across Yingzhou.

• Lisa introduced herself to Jack and followed him to meet Chen Feng, who kept his back turned and rejected her description of the deaths as a misunderstanding.
• Chen Feng demanded five tons each of uranium-235 and tritium, plus twenty billion US dollars, and Jack briefly choked a diplomat who objected.
• Chen Feng told Lisa to deliver his demands to the House of Representatives within seven days and threatened to visit the White House if they refused, then used Spiritual Power to move the delegation outside.
• Chen Feng told Jack he had pursued negotiations to avoid provoking Eagle Sauce Country into a nuclear strike and because he needed nuclear materials.
• In the Painting Scroll World, roads connected every Northern Border city as migration increased, and Liu Qian began controlling entry while Wang Hu continued his campaigns across Yingzhou.

Chen Feng visited Xingfeng City to experience mortal life and improve his State of Mind, but an encounter with Murong Yue interrupted his meal. He recognized Wang Tian and Qin Yao as they arrived to negotiate with Murong Yue, then secretly used his Spiritual Sense to listen in.

• Chen Feng ate at the Yingke Restaurant while reflecting on his former ordinary life and listening to news of Wang Hu's conquests.
• Murong Yue and Elder Ming arrived to meet the Medicine Pavilion and discussed seeking territory for the Murong Household.
• Murong Yue offered Chen Feng three valuable herbs for his Spiritual Power bracelet, but he refused and asked her to leave him alone.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao arrived, and Murong Yue greeted them as the leaders of the Medicine Pavilion before taking them upstairs.
• Chen Feng recognized Wang Tian and Qin Yao, then extended his Spiritual Sense to listen to their discussion.

Murong Yue sought the Medicine Pavilion’s help securing territory for the Murong Household in West Flower Forest, where Wang Tian and Qin Yao had displaced the local villagers. After Chen Feng rescued a surviving girl from the Medicine Pavilion martial artists, he left the fate of the village and the perpetrators unresolved.

• Murong Yue offered Wang Tian and Qin Yao gifts and immortal cultivation methods in exchange for help obtaining land in West Flower Forest.
• Wang Tian showed Murong Yue a riverside site and assured her that the local villagers had been moved elsewhere.
• At the village, Elder Ming discovered a surviving girl, while Wang Tian ordered his martial artists to search for every remaining villager.
• After Murong Yue and the others left, Medicine Pavilion martial artists threatened the girl to learn where the villagers were hiding.
• Chen Feng appeared, immobilized the martial artists, and comforted the girl before asking if she came from the village.

Chen Feng learned that Northern Border factions had slaughtered villages in West Flower Forest to seize land, and recognized that the Xingfeng Sect’s weak oversight made him partly responsible. After destroying a damaged statue of himself and accepting his failure, he escorted Stream Village’s survivors out, where Wang Tian and hundreds of armed martial artists confronted them.

• Yinyin told Chen Feng that factions led by the Medicine Pavilion had massacred five villages after residents refused to abandon their ancestral land.
• Chen Feng found his damaged statue at Stream Village, destroyed it, and realized that his neglect of the Xingfeng Sect’s governance had contributed to the deaths.
• Liu Qian learned Chen Feng had emerged from seclusion, summoned Mo Yang with the Azure Dragon Formation, and ordered Mo Chen to arrest the Medicine Pavilion’s members.
• Chen Feng gave healing pills to Yinyin’s injured grandfather, and the village chief recognized him as True Lord Chen.
• Chen Feng led the survivors out of the village, where Wang Tian and hundreds of martial artists blocked their way and Murong Yue recognized Chen Feng.

Chen Feng confronted Wang Tian and the Medicine Pavilion over their massacre of mortals, killing a Transformation Realm attacker without revealing how he struck. As Wang Tian recruited nearby forces to attack, Liu Qian arrived by helicopter with an armored force that surrounded the village.

• Chen Feng challenged Wang Tian for massacring mortals, and Wang Tian admitted he believed Xingfeng Sect would protect the Medicine Pavilion.
• Wang Tian sent a Peak Transformation Realm guest elder to test Chen Feng, but the attacker was suddenly decapitated while Chen Feng held Yinyin's hand.
• Elder Ming sensed a faint fluctuation of Spiritual Power and warned Murong Yue that Chen Feng's strength was unfathomable; Murong Yue declined Wang Tian's offer to help kill him.
• The Jiang, Lin, and Ma household heads arrived, and Household Head Ma agreed to attack Chen Feng after Wang Tian promised to introduce them to Liu Qian.
• Liu Qian arrived by helicopter as dozens of warriors in power armor charged from the forest and surrounded everyone at the village entrance.