Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng answered Earth’s electromagnetic messages by sending a greeting as an apparent alien called Painting, but NASA decoded it too late to reply before he left. He returned to the Golden Triangle, where Lin Wei warned him about the dangers of space.

• Chen Feng asked Lin Wei to decode the electromagnetic signals from Earth and learned that countries were asking whether he was extraterrestrial and why he had come.
• Chen Feng decided to pose as an alien, sent a signal to an Eagle Sauce Country satellite, and introduced himself as Painting.
• NASA received the signal but struggled to interpret it until John suggested playing it through an audio device; the recording greeted them and offered to communicate.
• NASA prepared a reply, but Chen Feng received none in time and left for Earth using the Invisibility Technique.
• Paul and John concluded that the alien would likely contact Eagle Sauce Country again, ordered the participants monitored, and considered the potential benefits of alien technology.
• Chen Feng returned to the estate, where Lin Wei checked him over and cautioned him about unknown radiation in space.

Chen Feng visited the Golden Triangle’s research institutes and checked progress on weapons, power infrastructure, and advanced engines. He approved Tuosen’s improved Gauss rifle for mass production and urged him to begin researching laser weapons.

• Chen Feng explained to Lin Wei that he planned to pose as an alien to obtain scarce materials without exposing the Golden Triangle, then learned her special three-phase bomb could be finished within a week.
• Harvey reported that the Golden Triangle’s second new-energy power station was nearly ready to operate and that fourth-generation fusion engines were already being tested.
• Chen Feng and Lin Wei visited Tuosen’s institute, where Tuosen presented an improved Gauss rifle with a thousand-meter effective range.
• Chen Feng fired the rifle and hit nearly every target, then approved it for mass production and told Tuosen to prepare revised blueprints.
• Tuosen agreed to make laser weapons his next research project after Chen Feng suggested developing them using fusion batteries.

Chen Feng redirected the biological research institute toward developing an artificial Spirit Aperture and arranged to expand the Golden Triangle’s martial artist ranks. Five years of modernization had transformed the Northern Border, where Chen Yinyin used Contribution Points to obtain a basic formation text from the Xingfeng Sect’s AI, Taiyi.

• Chen Feng told Tiya to investigate human body modification as a way to create a device that could absorb and release Spiritual Qi, and Lin Wei explained the Spirit Aperture’s functions.
• Chen Feng instructed Jack to sell more pills to Dragon Country, limit Eagle Sauce Country’s cultivation to the Postnatal Second Layer, and recruit more martial artists.
• Jack reported that the base had eight thousand martial artists, including three at the Transformation Realm, and gave Chen Feng the monthly transaction list.
• Chen Feng prepared to transport the Golden Triangle’s stored supplies to the Painting Scroll World, where five years of development had transformed the Northern Border and Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Yinyin asked Taiyi for formation texts, exchanged one hundred Contribution Points for Formation Fundamentals, and remarked that Sister Xiao Lian had lent her points.

Yinyin learned that Chen Feng had ended his two-year seclusion and hurried to see him at the Cabinet. Chen Feng reunited with his officials, comforted Liu Qian about his lifespan, heard a report on the sect’s growth, and asked how Taiyi had performed.

• Yinyin learned Chen Feng had left seclusion and rushed toward the Cabinet, revealing that she had reached the Transformation Realm.
• Chen Feng spoke with Xiao Lian, who was moved that he remembered her and asked about the Phoenix Dance Pavilion.
• Liu Qian and Wang Hu greeted Chen Feng, and Chen Feng learned that Liu Qian had refused martial arts and life-extending pills.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian he cared about him and promised to find a way to address his lifespan, leaving Liu Qian deeply moved.
• Yue Yao joined them, and Liu Qian reported the sect’s expanded forces, formations, aircraft, and recent changes before Chen Feng asked about Taiyi.

Chen Feng tested Taiyi’s remote control of the Black Sea Branch’s cameras, then reviewed the Xingfeng Sect’s weapons, fleet, and finances. After deciding to allow unrestricted car sales but keep stronger weapons off the market, he set out alone for Moon Luminous Island to inspect its new marketplace.

• Wang Hu and Liu Qian praised Taiyi, and Chen Feng used it to access the Black Sea Branch’s cameras and locate Haili cultivating in her bedroom.
• Taiyi explained that Haili had installed the bedroom camera herself and restricted access to Chen Feng, prompting Yue Yao to suspect Haili had a scheme.
• Yue Yao reported that the nuclear factory had made 100 megaton-range bombs and 300 smaller bombs; Chen Feng ordered her to stop producing them and discussed the 300 aerospace carriers.
• Liu Qian reported the sect’s Spirit Stone reserves and monthly income and expenses, warning that expansion could make its finances unsustainable.
• Chen Feng agreed to allow the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce to buy cars without restriction but refused to sell it rifles or heavy weapons.
• After Liu Qian said Moon Luminous Island’s marketplace was opening that month, Chen Feng vanished from the room to visit it alone.

Xiao Lian told the Xingfeng Sect martial artists that Chen Feng had left the Cabinet, while Yinyin waited for a chance to see him. In the Black Sea, Mo Yang led the Azure Dragon Formation in a live combat exercise against the Demon Beasts until the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier arrived.

• Xiao Lian told the waiting martial artists that Chen Feng had left the Cabinet and reassured Yinyin that she would see him later.
• Mo Yang and the Azure Dragon Formation began a live combat exercise against more than ten thousand Demon Beasts in the Black Sea.
• The Black Flood Dragon attacked Mo Yang, and their exchange showed that his strength could overwhelm Mo Yang's powered armor.
• Haili observed the battle and discussed the Demon Beasts' prospects and the possibility of equipping them with powered armor.
• Haili sensed an approaching presence, and the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier appeared near the exercise.

Chen Feng visited the Black Sea Branch after advancing to Middle Golden Core, watched the Azure Dragon Formation lose a training battle to the Demon Beast army, and invited Haili to accompany him to Moon Luminous Island. There, branch head Ge Yunxuan worried that a Heart Demon would ruin his Golden Core breakthrough, just as Yan Ying came to see him.

• Chen Feng arrived at the Black Sea Branch, doubled the winning side’s Contribution Point rewards, and watched the Demon Beast army defeat Mo Yang’s Azure Dragon Formation.
• Chen Feng praised Mo Yang’s response to the loss, awarded the Demon Beasts, and departed for Moon Luminous Island with Haili.
• Ge Yunxuan, head of the Moon Luminous Island Branch, considered seeking help from the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce because Blood Food Spiritual Qi threatened to trigger a terrifying Heart Demon during Core Formation.
• Yan Ying appeared at the meeting hall and called out to Ge Yunxuan.

Ge Yunxuan prepared for Xingfeng Market’s opening amid fears that Azure Sky Island would cause trouble, then learned Zhang Jin would surrender only if the sect master agreed to kill Mo Wuxie. Three days later, Xingfeng Market opened to the attention of Moon Luminous Island’s cultivators.

• Yan Ying warned Ge Yunxuan that Azure Sky Island might disrupt Xingfeng Market’s opening, so he arranged defenses and summoned the branch’s Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Ge Yunxuan checked the branch’s production records with Taiyi, considered contacting Liu Qian, and then received Ge Tianli, who reported Zhang Jin’s offer to surrender.
• Zhang Jin offered his Divine Soul in exchange for Mo Wuxie’s death, and Ge Yunxuan said he would refer the demand to the sect master.
• Ge Yunxuan rebuked Ge Tianli for treating Zhang Jin’s surrender as a chance to benefit the Ge Household and insisted that the sect’s interests came first.
• Three days later, Xingfeng Market opened, drawing attention from cultivators across Moon Luminous Island, especially Rogue Cultivators seeking a safer place to trade.

Xingfeng Sect opened its market on Moon Luminous Island, but Weng Sheng and Lady Snake and Scorpion arrived from Azure Sky Island and provoked the sect. Ge Yunxuan avoided fighting at the market, and Weng Sheng demanded to test his strength against the Xingfeng Sect's body-cultivator sect master.

• Ge Yunxuan and Yan Ying welcomed cultivators and representatives of the Luo Clan, the Sword Inquiry Sect, and other powers to Xingfeng Market's opening.
• Lu Yan offered the Azure Flame Sect's Spirit Vein as a gift, but Ge Yunxuan refused it and praised his concern for the sect's future.
• Weng Sheng and Lady Snake and Scorpion arrived with their followers, pressured Lu Yan, and challenged Ge Yunxuan while presenting corpses they claimed belonged to bandits who had attacked the Xingfeng Sect's spirit fish farm.
• Lady Snake and Scorpion insulted Ge Yunxuan, but he restrained his people and planned to wait until the Azure Sky Island group left before acting.
• Weng Sheng asked Ge Yunxuan to summon the Xingfeng Sect's body-cultivator sect master so he could test his skills.

Ge Yunxuan accepted Weng Sheng’s challenge to defend the Xingfeng Sect, but Chen Feng arrived and effortlessly killed the Weng Household elder. The chapter ended with Chen Feng’s overwhelming strength revealed before the gathered cultivators.

• Weng Sheng challenged Ge Yunxuan to a three-move spar, and Ge Yunxuan accepted despite warnings from Jian Wuji and Luo Ming.
• Weng Sheng injured Ge Yunxuan with his first punch, then prepared to attack him again as Ge Yunxuan refused to concede.
• Chen Feng and a woman in green appeared, and the woman used an illusion to rescue Ge Yunxuan from Weng Sheng’s strike.
• Chen Feng confronted Weng Sheng, shattered his Glazed Glass Gold and Stone Body, and pressed him to his knees.
• Chen Feng ignored pleas to spare Weng Sheng and killed him with a slap to the head.

Chen Feng killed Weng Sheng and ordered the Azure Sky Island cultivators killed, then explained that he had deliberately let Lady Snake and Scorpion escape so the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect would learn of his strength. With the Xingfeng Sect victorious, Xingfeng Market opened, and Chen Feng left Ge Yunxuan to recover from his injuries.

• Chen Feng killed Weng Sheng, and Haili killed a Weng Household disciple who insulted the sect master with an illusion technique.
• Chen Feng ordered Ge Yunxuan and the Xingfeng Sect to leave no Azure Sky Island cultivators alive, and the Azure Dragon Formation's soldiers helped kill all thirty-seven.
• Luo Ming and Jian Wuji warned Chen Feng that the Weng Household might seek revenge, but Chen Feng said he had let Lady Snake and Scorpion escape to deter the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect from joining a war.
• Chen Feng announced a twenty-percent discount for Xingfeng Market's opening, and Moon Luminous Island cultivators entered the market.
• After Luo Ming and Jian Wuji departed, Chen Feng told the injured Ge Yunxuan to recover and leave the market to someone else.

Chen Feng toured Xingfeng Market with Yan Ying and Haili, then met Qu Jing, who invited him to the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce’s once-in-fifty-years grand auction. The chapter ended with Chen Feng learning that the auction would feature a rare spiritual item for forming a Nascent Soul.

• Chen Feng told Ge Yunxuan not to sacrifice practical action for the sake of appearances, then asked Yan Ying to show him Xingfeng Market.
• Yan Ying explained that the market had 250 shops, including 50 operated by the Xingfeng Sect, while Haili learned that Manager Qu had declined an invitation to open an Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce shop there.
• Chen Feng, Haili, and Yan Ying visited a shop selling modern goods, where Haili asked about the erotic lingerie and then questioned Chen Feng about who designed it.
• Qu Jing met Chen Feng, explained that her cooperation with the Xingfeng Sect had advanced her career, and presented him with a golden invitation to the chamber’s grand auction.
• Qu Jing told Chen Feng that the auction would take place in one month and include a spiritual item that could aid a cultivator in forming a Nascent Soul.

Chen Feng declined to attend the Outer Sea auction in person and sent Ge Yunxuan and Haili to represent the Xingfeng Sect, while Zhang Jin submitted to him in exchange for a chance to kill Mo Wuxie. After Chen Feng left Moon Luminous Island, Lady Snake and Scorpion returned to Azure Sky Island and told the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s leader that Chen Feng had killed Weng Sheng and everyone else in their party.

• Qu Jing gave Chen Feng a golden invitation to the Outer Sea auction and told him every major force would attend, so he decided not to go himself.
• Chen Feng praised the Moon Luminous Island branch, assigned Ge Yunxuan and Haili to attend the auction and livestream it, and accepted Zhang Jin’s Divine Soul in exchange for a future chance to kill Mo Wuxie.
• Lu Yan knelt outside the meeting hall to praise Chen Feng, who complimented him before departing Moon Luminous Island aboard an aerospace carrier.
• Lady Snake and Scorpion returned alone to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and told her senior brother that Chen Feng had killed Weng Sheng and all the others who went to Moon Luminous Island.

After Chen Feng killed Weng Sheng, High Person Poison considered how the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect could benefit from the Weng Household’s revenge while pursuing a Nascent Soul breakthrough. A month later, as the Outer Sea’s major auction approached, Chen Feng joined Qu Jing and Ge Yunxuan by video from the Northern Border, astonishing the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce.

• Lady Snake and Scorpion told High Person Poison that Chen Feng had killed Weng Sheng with one move, and High Person Poison judged Chen Feng’s strength close to Nascent Soul level.
• Weng Bufan urged High Person Poison to join a war against the Xingfeng Sect, but High Person Poison proposed targeting Chen Feng at the upcoming auction instead.
• High Person Poison planned to let the Weng Household confront Chen Feng first, joining the fight only if it seemed advantageous, while also seeking the spirit item he needed to form a Nascent Soul.
• A month passed, and cultivators across the Outer Sea prepared for the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce’s once-every-fifty-years auction on Moon Luminous Island.
• Qu Jing boarded Ge Yunxuan’s aerospace carrier to travel to the auction and was surprised when Chen Feng appeared on Ge Yunxuan’s phone from the Northern Border.

Chen Feng arranged for the Xingfeng Sect to auction Gatling Machine Guns and satellite phones through the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce, while planning to use future phone sales to gather intelligence. He then visited Yinyin’s village, where the villagers welcomed him with gratitude, and Zhengjiao urged him to seek a method for cultivating the Power of Faith.

• Chen Feng agreed to provide three Gatling Machine Guns and twenty satellite phones for the upcoming auction, and Ge Yunxuan delivered them to Qu Jing.
• Chen Feng planned to sell satellite phones through the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce and use their recordings to spy on powerful factions.
• Chen Feng took Yinyin and Xiao Lian to Stream Village, where the villagers recognized him and gathered to welcome him.
• Zhengjiao explained that ancient powers cultivated the Power of Faith, but he did not know whether their methods had survived.
• The village chief escorted Chen Feng and the others into the village, and Yinyin asked whether he had distributed the gifts she sent home.

Chen Feng visited Stream Village, then the story shifted to Commerce Island as powerful figures gathered for the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce's auction. Shi Bao personally welcomed the Xingfeng Sect, while Weng Bufan waited to confront Chen Feng and Mo Wuxie searched for him.

• Chen Feng approved the villagers' rebuilt statue, gave Yinyin and Xiao Lian time off, and left Stream Village.
• At Commerce Island, Xiao Ling arrived and was welcomed by President Shi, followed by True Lord Kongyou and his entourage, including Mo Wuxie.
• Weng Bufan and High Person Poison waited outside the auction, with Weng Bufan saying he wanted to meet Chen of the Northern Territory; Lie Xiao and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance also arrived and discussed searching for Haili.
• Three aerospace carriers brought the Xingfeng Sect delegation to the auction, including Ge Yunxuan, Luo Ming, and Jian Wuji.
• Shi Bao personally welcomed Ge Yunxuan and the Xingfeng Sect to the commercial city.

Ge Yunxuan represented the Xingfeng Sect at the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce auction, while Chen Feng watched remotely and worried about the Weng Household and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. As the auction proceeded, Luo Ming bought a Core Formation treasure, and the chamber introduced the Xingfeng Sect’s Gatling Machine Guns as an item capable of holding off a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators.

• Shi Bao welcomed Ge Yunxuan and his companions, and the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce gave the Xingfeng Sect a pavilion alongside those reserved for Nascent Soul factions.
• Weng Bufan wanted to confront the Xingfeng Sect, but High Person Poison persuaded him to wait because Chen Feng had not appeared and the chamber would intervene.
• Ge Yunxuan and Haili used phones to speak with Chen Feng, who watched the auction remotely and told them to be cautious of the Weng Household and Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Qu Jing opened the auction, and Luo Ming won the Heavenly One Sha Water for two thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to help his daughter reach Golden Core.
• Qu Jing presented three Gatling Machine Guns and announced that even a mortal could use one to hold off a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators.

At the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce auction, the Xingfeng Sect’s Gatling guns sold for 2,200 Spirit Stones, and bidding for a rare Five-Flame Fan exposed tensions between Xiao Ling and True Lord Kongyou. The chapter ends as Shi Bao unveils a satellite phone as the next finale lot, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Qu Jing demonstrated a Gatling machine gun by killing five Golden Armor Tigers, and the three guns sold for 2,200 Spirit Stones.
• Chen Feng reflected that the guns could not be sold in large quantities and bought Inner Sea materials and spirit medicines for Lin Wei to research.
• Shi Bao introduced the Five-Flame Fan, a Pseudo Spirit Treasure, and Linghu Heng’s bid provoked Xiao Ling to rebuke him.
• True Lord Kongyou added 3,000 Spirit Stones to the Fan’s price, while Linghu Heng resented Mo Wuxie for receiving the chance to pursue Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Luo Ming told Chen Feng that Mo Wuxie had become True Lord Kongyou’s disciple, and Zhang Jin watched Kongyou’s private room with clenched fists.
• Shi Bao unveiled a satellite phone as the second finale lot, and the auction hall’s attention turned to it.

Shi Bao auctioned the Xingfeng Sect’s satellite phones, which drew fierce bidding and revealed the sect as their source. After learning that Haili was a Xingfeng Sect elder and hearing reports of the sect’s possible Nascent Soul-level strength, Lie Xiao abandoned plans to target it.

• Shi Bao demonstrated that satellite phones enabled real-time communication anywhere in the Outer Sea, and Xiao Ling bought the first pair for a thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lie Xiao and other factions bid for the phones, while Chen Feng refused Luo Ming and Jian Wuji’s offers to pay more for the phones they had previously bought from him.
• Chen Feng observed that the phones’ location function could help the Xingfeng Sect track the Weng Household and Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, while Haili left the auction after warning him that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance was investigating her.
• The remaining phones sold for about twenty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones in total, and Shi Bao revealed that the Xingfeng Sect had refined them.
• After learning about the Xingfeng Sect’s rumored Nascent Soul-level combat power and discovering that Haili was one of its elders, Lie Xiao gave up on targeting the sect.

The auction’s final lot, a drop of ten-thousand-year azure milk that could increase the chance of forming a Nascent Soul, was exchanged in secret after True Lord Kongyou and Xiao Ling each offered a fourth-tier treasure. Someone else won it, and the chapter ended with the auction over, Chen Feng’s winning item due to be delivered to the Xingfeng Sect, and trouble brewing among the departing bidders.

• Lie Xiao ordered the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to search for the woman involved in their dispute with the Xingfeng Sect and consider probing the sect’s strength.
• Shi Bao offered the ten-thousand-year azure milk for barter, while True Lord Kongyou prepared a fourth-tier Pill Formula and Xiao Ling offered a fourth-tier formation.
• Chen Feng instructed Ge Yunxuan to submit an offer, though the chapter did not reveal what he offered.
• Shi Bao announced that the exchange had been completed, disappointing Mo Wuxie and surprising True Lord Kongyou when he learned Xiao Ling had not won the prize.
• True Lord Kongyou concluded that an unknown bidder had beaten both his Pill Formula and Xiao Ling’s formation, then planned to learn the winner’s identity.
• Qu Jing told Chen Feng that the winning item would be delivered to the Xingfeng Sect and offered to deliver the auction proceeds of twenty-two thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones as well.