Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng arranged for two sects to produce Healing Pills exclusively, then set up Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals to turn them into capsules in the modern world. As the factory renovations continued, Li Xiaorou voiced concern about the medicine’s clinical trials, but Chen Feng assured her they would go smoothly.

• Chen Feng met with Wang Tian and Qin Yao and proposed that their sects sell all their Healing Pills to the Xingfeng Sect.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao agreed to refine only Healing Pills and supply their stock to Chen Feng at the usual price.
• Chen Feng spent three days establishing Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, renting a factory near Xingfeng Mining and preparing an automated capsule production line.
• Li Xiaorou told Chen Feng that the medicine had been submitted to the drug regulatory authority for clinical trials and worried about the results.
• Chen Feng assured Li Xiaorou that the drug trials would have no problems.

Chen Feng named his new medicine Wound Healing No. 1 and appointed Li Xiaorou general manager of Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, raising her annual salary to 300,000. He then received the hyperbaric oxygen chamber he planned to use for cultivation in the Painting Scroll World.

• Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou he would handle the drug approval process and named the medicine Wound Healing No. 1.
• Chen Feng promoted Li Xiaorou to general manager of Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and raised her annual salary to 300,000, leaving her overwhelmed and in tears.
• Chen Feng learned that the hyperbaric oxygen chamber he had ordered had arrived and hurried to Xingfeng Mining to receive it.
• The sentries stopped the delivery truck at Xingfeng Mining's guarded entrance until Chen Feng arrived and identified himself.
• The equipment manager showed Chen Feng the chamber and explained how to operate it; Chen Feng had it moved inside, intending to take it to the Painting Scroll World that night.

Chen Feng used a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to increase his Spiritual Qi absorption and cultivate in the Painting Scroll World. He reached the First Layer of Qi Refining, but his Spirit Aperture glowed an unexpected purple and a blast destroyed the chamber and nearby furnishings.

• Lin Wei recognized the hyperbaric oxygen chamber and told the researchers that Chen Feng had bought it to experiment with absorbing radiation.
• Chen Feng used the scroll to move the chamber into the Painting Scroll World and asked Wang Hu to guard the abandoned mine entrance while he cultivated.
• Chen Feng set the chamber's oxygen concentration to fifty percent and began absorbing Spiritual Qi with the Qi Induction Art.
• After hours of cultivation, Chen Feng's Spirit Aperture shone with a purple glow, unlike the pale blue light described in the Qi Induction Art.
• The chamber and the furnishings around Chen Feng exploded, but he was unharmed and discovered that his senses and body had changed.
• Wang Hu called out from beyond the abandoned mine, and Chen Feng dressed and left the secret chamber to answer him.

Chen Feng’s cultivation to the Qi Refining First Layer transformed his appearance and abilities, but he discovered that the changes faded when he drew Spiritual Qi back into his Spirit Apertures. After returning to the modern world, he found Lin Wei improving Blazing Sun Iron and came to ask her about his condition.

• Chen Feng emerged from the mine with silver hair, an altered appearance, and extraordinary speed, then returned to the secret chamber to find that controlling his Spirit Apertures restored his former looks.
• Wang Hu ordered the Xingfeng Sect martial artists to keep Chen Feng’s transformation secret and explained that a surge of force had damaged buildings and trees during his seclusion.
• Chen Feng told Wang Hu he was still trying to cultivate into an immortal, then continued his seclusion after the secret chamber was cleaned.
• Lin Wei examined her improved Blazing Sun Iron when Chen Feng entered the laboratory and asked whether he had absorbed radiation.
• Chen Feng denied absorbing radiation and said he had come to ask Lin Wei about his condition.

Chen Feng discussed the dangerous effects of excess Spiritual Qi with Lin Wei, who theorized that it caused a temporary “Transcendent State.” After half a month of cultivation, Chen Feng reached the Second Layer of Qi Refining and learned the Fireball Technique, but he discovered that the state was difficult to control and could harm his body.

• Chen Feng told Lin Wei that an animal exposed to energy in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber had improved physically but mutated, and Lin Wei proposed that excess energy had triggered a Transcendent State.
• Chen Feng concluded that he had absorbed too much Spiritual Qi and decided to be more careful, while keeping his cultivation secret from Lin Wei.
• Chen Feng ordered a replacement hyperbaric oxygen chamber, then spent half a month cultivating in the Painting Scroll World and reached the Second Layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Feng used the Fireball Technique to reduce a tree to ash, demonstrating the power of his Spiritual Qi.
• Chen Feng found that activating his Spirit Aperture spread Spiritual Qi throughout his body, but he could sustain the Transcendent State for only three minutes before exhausting himself and straining his organs.
• Wang Hu and the Xingfeng Sect guards greeted Chen Feng, whose cultivation allowed him to see that Wang Hu had reached the Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm.

Chen Feng strengthened the Xingfeng Sect and bought a large batch of Healing Pills, expecting to sell them after his modern medicine received approval. The chapter ended as drug-trial researchers learned that Wound Healing No. 1 supposedly treated all external injuries without side effects.

• Chen Feng praised Wang Hu for reaching the Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm and urged him to break through to Xiantian.
• Chen Feng considered buying modern weapons for the Xingfeng Sect but worried about his lack of money and the risks of selling valuable pills.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao delivered about twenty thousand Healing Pills, and Chen Feng agreed to buy them all.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng the sect had spent around forty thousand taels on thirty thousand pills, and Chen Feng said they would soon be sold.
• At the drug administration, a staff member told Gao Deming that Wound Healing No. 1 claimed to treat all external injuries without side effects, startling the laboratory staff.

Gao Deming's laboratory found that Wound Healing No. 1 healed wounds rapidly and treated more than thirty external-injury diseases with almost no side effects, so Gao Deming volunteered to take the first human-trial dose. At Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, Li Xiaorou learned that drug administration officials had arrived in person, leaving the medicine's approval uncertain.

• Gao Deming ordered researchers to test Wound Healing No. 1 and fed some of its powder to a wounded laboratory mouse.
• Researchers reported that they could not identify the medicine's ingredients, and Gao Deming saw that the mouse's wound had scabbed over within hours.
• Gao Deming and the researchers found that Wound Healing No. 1 worked against more than thirty external-injury diseases with almost no side effects.
• Gao Deming dismissed the researchers' objections and swallowed a Wound Healing No. 1 capsule as the first human-trial subject.
• Li Xiaorou heard that drug administration officials had arrived at Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals in person.

Ministry of Health officials inspected Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals after confirming Wound Healing No. 1 was safe and effective, and they approved it for sale. Their attempt to investigate its developer, Chen Feng, ended when they learned his records were classified as top secret.

• Gao Deming brought Jiang Lihua and a group of officials and pharmaceutical experts to inspect Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and learn about Wound Healing No. 1.
• Li Xiaorou told the officials that Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals had no technical department and that Chen Feng had developed the drug alone.
• Li Xiaorou said Chen Feng was unavailable, so Jiang Lihua sent a staff member to investigate him while the group toured the factory.
• The head of the Drug Administration told Li Xiaorou that Wound Healing No. 1 had approval to go on sale in a couple of days.
• The staff member returned and told Jiang Lihua that Chen Feng's records were top secret and required military authorization to view.

Jiang Lihua’s attempt to investigate Chen Feng and Wound Healing No. 1 was blocked after the military declared Chen Feng and his companies military secrets. Meanwhile, Chen Feng struggled to advance his cultivation and realized he needed better resources and a proper cultivation site.

• Li Xiaorou told Jiang Lihua that Chen Feng also founded Xingfeng Mining, a military-industrial enterprise whose employees had signed confidentiality agreements.
• At the Western Military Region, Liu Mu learned that the Ministry of Health wanted to investigate Chen Feng and decided to seek the commander’s help protecting him.
• Jiang Lihua learned that the military had classified Chen Feng, Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals, and Xingfeng Mining as military secrets, so he gave up trying to meet Chen Feng that day.
• Chen Feng reflected that scarce Spiritual Qi was slowing his progress toward the Third Layer of Qi Refining and that cultivators needed wealth, companions, techniques, and land.

Chen Feng learned that the Jiang Household had come to investigate Jiang Xiao’s death and the rumor that he possessed an immortal’s treasure. After sending them away, he decided to prepare modern equipment and strike first to wipe out the Jiang Household.

• Wang Hu and Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Jiang Chen and a group of Jiang Household fighters had arrived at Xingfeng Sect.
• Jiang Chen questioned Chen Feng about Jiang Xiao’s death, while a Mid Xiantian clan elder warned that the Jiang Household would investigate the matter.
• Jiang Chen raised the rumor that Chen Feng possessed an immortal’s treasure, then left without starting a fight.
• Liu Qian and Chen Feng concluded that the Jiang Household was mainly interested in the rumored treasure, and Chen Feng ordered them to watch for unusual movements.
• Chen Feng decided to attack the Jiang Household after preparing modern equipment, then returned to the modern world to buy supplies and outfit a squad.

Chen Feng discovered that his painting scroll now depicted Hengduan Mountain and negotiated with Liu Mu over Wound Healing No. 1 and a major Blazing Sun Iron order. The chapter ended with Liu Mu questioning whether Chen Feng could afford the raw materials needed to meet the military’s production demand.

• Chen Feng noticed that his painting scroll had changed to show Hengduan Mountain and nearby towns, and wondered whether the change came from taking over the mountain or reaching the Second Layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Feng found Liu Mu at the factory, where Liu Mu explained that Wound Healing No. 1 had drawn scrutiny from the Ministry of Health and said he had protected Chen Feng from further inquiries.
• Liu Mu agreed to help put Wound Healing No. 1 on the market if Chen Feng kept it from being sold abroad and made it available through medical insurance, and Chen Feng accepted.
• Liu Mu told Chen Feng that tanks made with Blazing Sun Iron had passed testing and that the military wanted at least ten thousand tons within a month; Chen Feng promised to meet the order.
• Liu Mu asked Chen Feng whether he could afford the raw materials for the expanded Blazing Sun Iron production after borrowing ten million to establish the pharmaceutical company.

Chen Feng received a fifty-million-yuan deposit from Liu Mu, then gave Lin Wei Spiritual Qi to study and arranged the launch of Wound Healing No. 1. In the Painting Scroll World, Jiang Yaotian's household debated how to deal with Chen Feng, while Jiang Chen realized his earlier questions had warned Chen Feng to prepare.

• Liu Mu told Chen Feng that the finance department had transferred a fifty-million-yuan deposit and offered to handle any further approaches from the authorities.
• Chen Feng told Lin Wei that Spiritual Qi levels had fallen, then gave her a bottle containing some of the energy for research.
• Chen Feng called Li Xiaorou to prepare Wound Healing No. 1 for launch and headed to Eagle Sauce Country to buy weapons.
• Jiang Chen urged Jiang Yaotian to send three elders to wipe out Hengduan Mountain, claiming Chen Feng must have a secret treasure.
• Jiang Yaotian rebuked Jiang Chen, and Jiang Yao warned that Chen Feng might possess an immortal's supreme treasure and had been alerted by Jiang Chen's earlier question.

Jiang Yaotian revealed the brutal truth behind Yue Kingdom’s founding and prepared the Jiang Household to seize Chen Feng’s supposed immortal treasure. Meanwhile, Chen Feng met Jack in Eagle Sauce to arrange a large weapons purchase and was taken to meet the gang’s boss aboard a harbor boat.

• Jiang Yaotian told Jiang Chen that the founding emperor had won an Immortal Method by sacrificing his family and three cities to heal an injured Daoist.
• Jiang Yaotian said the Jiang Household would commit its full strength to taking Chen Feng’s treasure, and the elders agreed to follow his arrangements.
• Jiang Yaotian revealed that he had summoned Jiang Chen’s aunt from the imperial city, and Jiang Chen agreed to gather the household’s people while keeping the plan secret.
• Chen Feng refused the barwoman’s advances and met Jack, who explained that his boss needed to approve Chen Feng’s large order of equipment.
• Jack took Chen Feng toward a boat in the harbor where the gang boss and other important clients were waiting.

Chen Feng accompanied Jack to a meeting where Stone sought a major arms deal with the Blackwater Company. Blackwater’s William revealed that the company had been hired to eliminate Stone, and after the resulting shootout, Chen Feng refused to let the survivors be handed over to the FBI.

• Chen Feng followed Jack to a remote port and boarded a ship where Stone’s clients, including Miss Park and three Middle Easterners, were waiting.
• Stone introduced the arms dealer William, and Chen Feng learned that Stone had brought his clients to demonstrate the gang’s strength and secure a large order.
• William announced that Blackwater would stop working with the Crips and Bloods because a federal legislator had paid the company to eliminate Stone.
• Blackwater’s mercenaries shot Stone dead, and a brief gunfight left the gang members in the reception room dead.
• William said he would send Chen Feng, Jack, Miss Park, and the Middle Easterners to the FBI, but Chen Feng resolved not to let them take him.

Chen Feng revealed his overwhelming strength when he killed William and the armed mercenaries who threatened him. After the fight, he examined the bullet mark on his arm and reflected on how Spiritual Qi had transformed his body, while Jack struggled to recognize him.

• A Middle Easterner pleaded with William, who shot him dead and dismissed the arms buyers as insignificant.
• Miss Park begged William for mercy and identified Chen Feng as a Dragon Country citizen to make him a valuable target for the FBI.
• Chen Feng appeared beside William and crushed his head against the table with one hand.
• The mercenaries opened fire, but Chen Feng dodged their bullets and killed them all in a little over ten seconds.
• Chen Feng examined a fading bullet mark on his arm and concluded that Spiritual Qi had made his body stronger than that of a Xiantian martial artist.
• Jack stared at Chen Feng's changed appearance and asked whether he was Chen.

Chen Feng killed Miss Park and two Middle Eastern men, then ordered Jack to gather their equipment and vanished from the cruise ship. Back at the Xingfeng Sect, he ordered Liu Qian to recruit five thousand miners and buy Blazing Sun Stone, leaving Liu Qian worried the sect would soon run out of money.

• Chen Feng burned Miss Park and the two Middle Eastern men to ashes, then spared Jack and told him to collect the dead men’s equipment for pickup the next day.
• Jack agreed, arranged for his men to send a boat, and realized Stone’s death could give him a chance to take control of the gang.
• Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World and asked Liu Qian whether the Jiang Household had made any moves; Liu Qian said he had sent people to watch Liuyang Town.
• Chen Feng ordered Liu Qian to recruit five thousand mortal miners and open new mines, assuring him the sect would soon have money.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to buy as much Blazing Sun Stone as possible while keeping enough money for normal expenses, then returned to the secret chamber to cultivate.

FBI investigators found a lounge full of dead Blackwater personnel whose injuries suggested an impossibly powerful attacker, then Chen Feng finished cultivating in the Painting Scroll World and saw the newly recruited miners and their families. The investigators prepared to report the inexplicable scene, while Chen Feng remained unable to advance his cultivation and hoped Lin Wei could find a solution.

• FBI investigator and officers boarded a cruise ship and found a lounge filled with corpses, many missing their heads.
• A forensic examiner concluded that most victims had been killed by blade strikes powerful enough to send their heads flying, and an officer identified them as Blackwater personnel.
• Another examiner found a skull smashed into fragments against an undamaged wooden table, leaving the investigator frightened and determined to report the findings.
• Chen Feng finished cultivating, saw that his Spirit Aperture had not changed, and considered leaving Xingfeng Sect if Lin Wei could not help him progress.
• Chen Feng walked out of the secret chamber and saw hundreds of miners Liu Qian had recruited, many gathered with their families.

Chen Feng accepted a large weapons haul from Jack, who had taken over Stone’s gang and pledged his loyalty. Chen Feng ordered Jack to keep quiet about the previous night and buy goods for the Painting Scroll World, then prepared to send the weapons through the scroll.

• Chen Feng returned to the black market bar, where Jack and his underlings knelt and called him Lord God.
• Jack showed Chen Feng more than a dozen MP7 submachine guns, ammunition, grenades, tactical gear, thirty C4 charges, two RPG launchers, and ten rockets.
• Jack explained that he had taken over the Crips and Bloods after Stone’s death and obtained the heavy weapons from the gang’s stockpile.
• Chen Feng warned Jack to keep the previous night’s events secret and allowed him to serve as his subordinate.
• Chen Feng gave Jack a list of consumer goods to buy and prepared to send the weapons into the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng armed the Xingfeng Sect’s inner disciples with submachine guns and taught them how to use the weapons to defend the sect. Meanwhile, the Jiang Household prepared to attack the Xingfeng Sect and welcomed its Transformation Realm backer, Jiang Hong.

• Chen Feng brought submachine guns to the Xingfeng Sect’s training ground and demonstrated their power to Wang Hu and the inner disciples.
• Wang Hu and the others swore to defend the Xingfeng Sect, learned to use the guns, and began practicing under Wang Hu’s orders.
• The Jiang Household secretly summoned its martial artists and gathered its leaders to await Jiang Hong, a Forbidden Martial Guard commander and Transformation Realm expert.
• Jiang Hong appeared in the main hall, where the Jiang Household members bowed and greeted her as a grandmaster.

Jiang Hong learned about Chen Feng and ruled out the possibility that he possessed an immortal's treasure, but she planned to investigate his other secrets before attacking. Meanwhile, Chen Feng returned to Jack's office in Eagle Sauce Country and asked whether Jack had come back.

• Jiang Yaotian told Jiang Hong that Chen Feng might possess an immortal's treasure, and Jiang Hong arranged for the imperial capital to investigate his background.
• Jiang Hong explained that only Qi Refining immortal cultivators could activate immortal treasures and concluded that Chen Feng could not have one.
• Jiang Hong decided to wait for the imperial capital's reply before making a move against Chen Feng, while Jiang Yaotian asked whether the Jiang Household could relocate to the imperial capital.
• Jiang Hong told Jiang Yaotian that her standing was not enough to protect the household in the capital, then left to send a secret letter.
• Chen Feng returned to Jack's office, where an underling told him Jack had already come back and began notifying him.