Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng emerged from nearly a year of seclusion, prompting excitement across Xingfeng Sect and the Northern Border as Outer Sea forces learned of his return. After reviewing Liu Qian’s report on the sect’s growth, he heard that Luo Yinxue had become the Luo Clan’s first cultivator to reach Golden Core before age one hundred.

• Liu Qian and Mo Chen discussed winter migration, air conditioner sales, and the sect’s affairs while Wang Hu reported that Xingfeng Sect’s branches were in order.
• The sect bell rang to announce Chen Feng’s emergence, and Yinyin, Zhengjiao, Yue Yao, Mo Yang, and others hurried toward headquarters or prepared to go there.
• News of Chen Feng’s return spread through the Northern Border and Outer Sea, where powerful forces prepared to visit; Mo Wuxie dismissed the news and resolved to reach Nascent Soul before Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng met Liu Qian, Wang Hu, and Mo Chen outside his secluded chamber, then examined Liu Qian’s Jade Slip detailing the sect’s progress and finances.
• Chen Feng learned that Luo Yinxue had broken through to early Golden Core three months earlier, and Liu Qian said she had contacted him while Chen Feng was still in seclusion.

After a year of peace, Chen Feng met with Xingfeng Sect’s leaders and approved plans to earn resources, produce three-phase bombs, and sell satellite phones. Before returning to seclusion to pursue the Late Golden Core realm, he rejected a public birthday banquet, warning Liu Qian that it could attract dangerous attention from powerful cultivators.

• Chen Feng learned that True Lord Kongyou and Mo Wuxie remained in Kongyou City, then welcomed Yinyin and asked Zhengjiao about his recovering Divine Soul.
• Mo Yang reported that 3,000 Azure Dragon Formation members had Gauss rifles, and Chen Feng approved sending a group to guard merchant ships and gain experience.
• Chen Feng gave Yue Yao equipment to begin producing a limited batch of three-phase bombs and instructed Liu Qian to sell 20,000 satellite phones to Qu Jing for 800 High-Grade Spirit Stones each.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian he would enter seclusion to cultivate toward the Late Golden Core realm and agreed to accept Xiao Ling’s birthday invitation.
• Liu Qian proposed a banquet for Chen Feng’s thirtieth birthday, but Chen Feng refused, warning that publicizing his cultivation speed could draw the attention of powerful experts and endanger the Xingfeng Sect.

After warning Liu Qian to be cautious with powerful cultivators, Chen Feng’s Xingfeng Sect successfully tested a three-phase bomb and debated how to fund and control its production. Meanwhile, Mo Yang’s escort mission for the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce began at Glazed Glass Island, where the local manager worried that replacing the Glazed Glass Sect could cause trouble.

• Liu Qian accepted Chen Feng’s warning about the cultivation world and agreed to hold a small feast instead of a birthday banquet.
• Yue Yao detonated the first successful three-phase bomb, which released energy equivalent to a two-hundred-thousand-ton nuclear explosion within a twenty-meter blast area.
• Liu Qian limited Yue Yao’s initial budget to fifty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and ordered that all completed bombs be stored until Chen Feng approved their use.
• Liu Qian told Wang Hu that Mo Yang and three hundred men were escorting the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce’s cargo from Glazed Glass Island to Kongyou City as a trial run.
• On Glazed Glass Island, Song Cheng confirmed that Xingfeng Sect martial artists would guard the Glazed Glass Crystal shipment, while another manager worried that the Glazed Glass Sect would resent losing the escort work.

Mo Yang and the Xingfeng Sect's Azure Dragon Formation arrived to escort the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce's cargo, where Liu Xiao and Elder Liu of the Glazed Glass Sect tried to challenge their appointment. After Liu Xiao attacked Mo Yang and Elder Liu intervened, Mo Yang ordered his soldiers to fire, leaving Elder Liu under the aerospace carrier's sustained attack.

• Song Cheng rejected the Glazed Glass Sect's demand to keep the escort contract and explained that the Xingfeng Sect had been recommended for the mission.
• Mo Yang arrived in powered armor and began boarding the cloudship with the Azure Dragon Formation's soldiers, while Liu Xiao insulted and then attacked him.
• Mo Yang's armor withstood Liu Xiao's Law Treasure strike, and Mo Yang nearly killed Liu Xiao with a plasma blade before Elder Liu struck him and sent him flying.
• The Azure Dragon Formation surrounded Elder Liu and the Glazed Glass Sect party, then opened fire with Gauss rifles after Mo Yang ordered them to kill.
• Elder Liu defended himself and Liu Xiao while the soldiers' shots killed other Glazed Glass Sect disciples, then faced a barrage from the aerospace carrier's close-in defense guns.
• Song Cheng and the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce's cultivators watched the Xingfeng Sect suppress Elder Liu, and Song Cheng said the Glazed Glass Sect had brought the trouble on itself.

Mo Yang’s Aerospace Carrier drove off Elder Liu and Liu Xiao, while the Glazed Glass Sect punished them and chose not to retaliate against the Xingfeng Sect. A black-robed Heavenly Secrets Pavilion envoy warned the sect of an approaching war and ordered it to store Glazed Glass Crystal, leaving the Glazed Glass Sect Master preparing for troubled times.

• Elder Liu used his Law Treasure boots to evade the carrier’s attacks and strike back, but Mo Yang’s Aerospace Carrier dodged his lightning and returned to bombard him.
• Elder Liu fled with Liu Xiao, and Mo Yang declined to pursue him before resuming the merchant caravan escort.
• The Glazed Glass Sect Master refused to retaliate against the Xingfeng Sect, sentenced Elder Liu to three years in the Blade Cave, and ordered Liu Xiao detained as well.
• A black-robed Heavenly Secrets Pavilion envoy warned the Glazed Glass Sect Master that Chen would destroy the sect if it harmed Xingfeng Sect members, then urged the sect to prepare.
• The Glazed Glass Sect Master learned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion wanted a century’s supply of Glazed Glass Crystal and ordered the sect to devote its resources to strengthening its disciples.

Mo Yang led the Azure Dragon Formation in escorting merchant ships and fighting bandit cultivators while the Xingfeng Sect expanded its influence across the Outer Sea. After two years in seclusion, Chen Feng broke through to Late Golden Core, leaving the sect’s cultivators to benefit from the Spiritual Qi around his chamber.

• Mo Yang ordered the Azure Dragon Formation to defeat a group of Bandit Cultivators, then agreed to escort the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce’s cargo on its return trip.
• Song Cheng told Mo Yang that the Glazed Glass Sect had punished Elder Liu and that its master planned to visit the Xingfeng Sect to apologize.
• Over the next two years, the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce sold more than ten thousand satellite phones, and the Azure Dragon Formation became known throughout the Outer Sea.
• Liu Qian and Mo Chen discussed Mo Yang’s latest Spirit Stone delivery and deferred requests from Zhang Xuan and Zhou Jing to take their formations out for experience.
• Chen Feng’s Golden Core breakthrough created a Spiritual Qi phenomenon, and Liu Qian allowed the Xingfeng Sect’s cultivators to cultivate nearby while Zhengjiao watched over the chamber.
• After three days, Chen Feng emerged from seclusion at Late Golden Core and resolved to cultivate the third stage of the Star Body.

Chen Feng emerged from two years of seclusion having reached the Late Golden Core stage, then celebrated with the Xingfeng Sect and reviewed its affairs. After learning the sect’s finances and military projects had grown substantially, he agreed to attend Senior Xiao Ling’s birthday banquet, where an important matter involving the Inner Sea might be discussed.

• Chen Feng completed his breakthrough to the Late Golden Core stage and replaced his damaged Spiritual Qi Bracelet before leaving seclusion.
• Liu Qian and the Xingfeng Sect’s senior members welcomed Chen Feng, and Chen Feng ordered a celebratory banquet for the sect.
• At the Cabinet banquet, Yue Yao toasted Chen Feng, and Chen Feng invited Xiao Lian to join the gathering.
• Liu Qian and Wang Hu briefed Chen Feng on satellite phone sales, Mo Yang’s activities with the Azure Dragon Formation, and the sect’s weapons production and reserves.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Senior Xiao Ling had invited Outer Sea factions to a birthday banquet to discuss a matter possibly connected to the Inner Sea, and Chen Feng agreed to attend.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Feng learned that Elder Liu had escaped and that someone from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion knew him well. Meanwhile, Elder Liu and Liu Xiao infiltrated the Northern Border and entered a restricted testing area, where Liu Xiao began having trouble breathing.

• Chen Feng toured Xingfeng City with Zhengjiao and discussed the value of mortals and the dangers facing the Xingfeng Sect.
• Lü Kong of the Glazed Glass Sect warned Chen Feng that Elder Liu had escaped and might seek revenge, then relayed a warning about a person from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion who knew Chen Feng well.
• Zhengjiao explained that the mysterious organization sent Heavenly Secrets Envoys to gather intelligence, and Chen Feng returned to seclusion with renewed urgency.
• Elder Liu and Liu Xiao secretly entered the Northern Border using an Aura-Concealing Butterfly, intending to raid the Xingfeng Sect for revenge.
• The two men discovered a restricted testing area filled with scorched craters, and Liu Xiao began coughing and struggling to breathe as they ventured farther inside.

Elder Liu and Liu Xiao infiltrated the Xingfeng Sect’s nuclear testing zone, mistook its factory and military camp for a vulnerable treasure site, and were discovered and surrounded. Elder Liu believed the defenders were all mortals and prepared to attack.

• Elder Liu reassured Liu Xiao that the Northern Border was safe from nuclear weapons, and the two entered the testing zone without scouting with Spiritual Sense.
• Xingfeng Sect soldiers found Elder Liu and Liu Xiao on drone footage, escorted them out of the testing zone, and gave them anti-radiation medicine.
• After the soldiers left, Elder Liu ordered Liu Xiao to follow their jeeps, and they tracked them to the nuclear factory and its military camp.
• Elder Liu and Liu Xiao hid near the camp as Elder Liu became eager to seize its aerospace carriers, but Wu Liang’s forces mobilized and surrounded them.
• Yue Yao arrived with a three-phase bomb, while Elder Liu laughed after using Spiritual Sense and finding no cultivators among the defenders.

Yue Yao used the three-phase bomb to kill Elder Liu when he attacked the nuclear factory, though its flash and sound waves injured nearby Xingfeng Sect soldiers. Chen Feng watched from hiding and recognized that the weapon needed improvement before ordinary people could safely use it.

• Elder Liu released Golden Core pressure at the nuclear factory, but Yue Yao refused Wu Liang's advice to retreat and challenged him to fight her one-on-one.
• Elder Liu suspected an ambush, while Yue Yao approached him and then threw a three-phase bomb at him.
• The bomb exploded, vaporized Elder Liu, and left a crater; its flash and sound waves injured nearby soldiers, whom Yue Yao ordered carried away.
• Xingfeng Sect soldiers restrained Liu Xiao as he grieved for his father, and Yue Yao told Wu Liang to report the weapon's first combat use and investigate the two men.
• Chen Feng watched from above the factory and concluded that the three-phase bomb's effects on mortals and ordinary martial artists needed to be addressed with Lin Wei.

After the nuclear plant attack, Liu Qian punished its soldiers and reinforced its defenses, while Chen Feng completed his seclusion and set out for Xiao Ling’s birthday banquet. He stopped at Xingfeng Sect’s Black Sea Branch before continuing toward Moon Luminous Island, where Ge Yunxuan and the branch’s leaders waited to welcome him.

• Liu Qian fined Wu Liang and the soldiers three months of Contribution Points, identified the attackers as Golden Core cultivators from the Glazed Glass Sect, and ordered Liu Xiao kept in custody.
• Liu Qian warned Yue Yao not to use three-phase bombs without permission and said Chen Feng would remain in seclusion for another month.
• Chen Feng traveled toward Jade Island for Xiao Ling’s birthday banquet after consolidating his Late Golden Core cultivation, bringing Zhengjiao with him.
• Haili and the Black Sea Branch’s Demon Beasts welcomed Chen Feng, who praised the branch and ordered Haili to strengthen its defenses before he departed.
• Haili told the Black Flood Dragon to summon the branch’s senior members because she suspected the birthday banquet would bring major trouble.
• Ge Yunxuan and the Moon Luminous Island Branch’s senior members waited aboard their aerospace carriers for Chen Feng to arrive.

Chen Feng arrived at Moon Luminous Island and reunited with Luo Yinxue before touring the expanded Xingfeng Market with Ge Yunxuan. After inspecting the bustling stalls and learning about the market’s layout, Chen Feng reached the crowded shop area.

• Ge Yunxuan told Yan Ying that Chen Feng would stop at the Black Sea Branch before reaching Moon Luminous Island, and Yan Ying remarked on his Late Golden Core cultivation.
• Luo Yinxue arrived aboard a Luo Clan ship and waited with Ge Yunxuan for Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng arrived on an aerospace carrier, greeted Luo Yinxue, and invited her to accompany him to Xingfeng Market.
• Ge Yunxuan showed Chen Feng the market’s stall, shop, and exchange areas and explained its fees and services.
• Cultivators recognized Ge Yunxuan and speculated that Chen Feng was the Xingfeng Sect’s famous sect master as he entered the shop area.

Chen Feng toured Xingfeng Treasure Tower on Moon Luminous Island, praised Ge Yunxuan’s management, and promised to help him obtain a Core Formation spiritual item. As Chen Feng traveled with Luo Yinxue toward Jade Island, she revealed that a conflict between Inner Sea Spirit Transformation powers could drag the Outer Sea into war.

• Chen Feng explored Xingfeng Treasure Tower, learned that modern-world fruits had become cultivation-boosting Variant Fruits, and asked Ge Yunxuan to prepare some for him.
• Cultivators gathered to greet Chen Feng outside the market and offered him disciples, companions, and other connections before Luo Yinxue silenced them with her Golden Core pressure.
• Chen Feng promised Ge Yunxuan a spiritual item for Core Formation and agreed to take Luo Yinxue with him to Jade Island.
• As the Aerospace Carrier traveled toward Jade Island, Luo Yinxue told Chen Feng that two Inner Sea Spirit Transformation powers were in conflict and that the Outer Sea could be pulled into the war.
• Luo Yinxue recalled that a similar war six thousand years earlier had forcibly conscripted Outer Sea powers and caused many of them to disappear.

Chen Feng arrived at Jade Island for Xiao Ling's birthday banquet and met the Xiao Household's leaders and guests, including Jiang Lan of the Hehuan Sect. He entered the Jadeite Hall to meet Xiao Ling, who appeared before him at astonishing speed.

• Luo Yinxue told Chen Feng that cultivators had been forced to join the great war six thousand years earlier, and they hoped Xiao Ling's gathering would prevent a similar conflict.
• Chen Feng and Luo Yinxue reached Jade Island, where Xiao Jingchuan welcomed Chen Feng and escorted him past the island's formation.
• Chen Feng learned about the Xiao Household's Heaven-Supporting Six Pillars Formation and spoke with Jiang Lan, the Hehuan Sect's master, about the sect's dual-cultivation methods.
• Xiao Ling'er brought Chen Feng to the Jadeite Hall, where he entered cautiously with his Aerospace Carrier stored and twenty three-phase bombs at hand.
• Xiao Ling greeted Chen Feng and instantly appeared before him, saying he had long felt a kinship with him.

Chen Feng met Xiao Ling at the Jade Hall, where the two discussed Chen Feng’s artifact-refining and formation techniques. At Xiao Ling’s birthday banquet, True Lord Kongyou learned that the Xingfeng Sect faced threats from the Beast Taming Sect and Inner Sea factions, while Mo Wuxie regarded Chen Feng’s rapid cultivation as a growing danger.

• Chen Feng produced a Three-Phase Bomb when Xiao Ling appeared, but Xiao Ling explained that a spatial formation had enabled his speed and invited Chen Feng to talk.
• Xiao Ling questioned Chen Feng about his satellite phone and the formations on the Aerospace Carrier, and Chen Feng explained what he could.
• Luo Ming and Jian Wuji arrived at the Jade Hall, where Qian Xinzi asked them to introduce him to Chen Feng so he could build ties with the Xingfeng Sect.
• True Lord Kongyou arrived with Mo Wuxie and Linghu Heng, took offense that Xiao Ling was speaking with Chen Feng, and said the Xingfeng Sect would soon face trouble from the Beast Taming Sect and Inner Sea factions.
• Xiao Ling and Chen Feng emerged and took seats together, while Xiao Ling ignored True Lord Kongyou and Mo Wuxie watched Chen Feng with wary interest.

At Xiao Ling’s birthday banquet, Outer Sea powers debated whether to support Moon-Gazing City or the Expansion Divine Sect as war loomed. Yan Huayang arrived to recruit them for the Expansion Divine Sect, while Chen Feng considered stealing the sect’s complete Soul Control Technique; the chapter ended with Yan Huayang turning his attention to Chen Feng.

• Xiao Ling and True Lord Kongyou nearly fought over Xiao Ling’s speech before Kongyou backed down to avoid weakening the Outer Sea ahead of the coming upheaval.
• Xiao Ling revealed that the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City were preparing for war and urged the Outer Sea powers to support Moon-Gazing City, while Kongyou argued for the Expansion Divine Sect.
• Three young Expansion Divine Sect disciples entered Jade Island after one of them tested and breached its grand formation, and Yan Huayang introduced himself to Xiao Ling and Kongyou.
• Chen Feng recognized the Expansion Divine Sect’s connection to his fragmentary Soul Control Technique and considered robbing the newcomers to obtain the complete art.
• Yan Huayang offered rewards, including Nascent Soul formation spirit items, to recruit Outer Sea powers against Moon-Gazing City, and the Glazed Glass Sect deferred to Xiao Ling and Chen Feng.
• Yan Huayang noticed that Chen Feng, despite having only Golden Core cultivation, was seated on the raised platform among the Outer Sea’s leading powers.

At Xiao Ling’s birthday gathering, the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City competed for the Outer Sea powers’ support, while Chen Feng refused to join either side. As Chen Feng left Jade Island, the Xuanming Giant Turtle released its Nascent Soul pressure, and a Demon Beast phantom appeared behind him and ordered it to back off.

• Yan Huayang offered Chen Feng a Pseudo Spirit Treasure to bring the Xingfeng Sect into the Expansion Divine Sect’s conflict with Moon-Gazing City, while Xiao Ling warned him against accepting.
• Jiang Jiu arrived on a Xuanming Spirit Turtle with Moon-Gazing City’s Divine Armor Army and confronted Yan Huayang after his junior sister attacked with an eye technique.
• Xiao Ling and roughly half the gathered powers sided with Moon-Gazing City, while True Lord Kongyou and his followers supported the Expansion Divine Sect.
• Chen Feng declared that the Xingfeng Sect would remain neutral, and the Luo Clan, Sword Inquiry Sect, and other powers followed his choice.
• Chen Feng led his allies away from Jade Island, but the Xuanming Giant Turtle released its pressure at him, prompting a Demon Beast phantom behind Chen Feng to shout, “Scram!”

Chen Feng formed an offensive and defensive alliance between the Xingfeng Sect and several Outer Sea forces as the Expansion Divine Sect prepared for war. The chapter left him searching for the Expansion Divine Sect’s envoys while Moon-Gazing City considered recruiting him and True Lord Kongyou pushed for the Xingfeng Sect’s elimination.

• Chen Feng’s hidden Demon Beast frightened the Xuanming Giant Turtle into retreating, and Xiao Ling explained to Jiang Jiu that the Xingfeng Sect’s weapons could let mortals fight cultivators.
• Jiang Jiu decided to visit Chen Feng and seek the Xingfeng Sect’s support, while True Lord Kongyou urged Yan Huayang to eliminate the Xingfeng Sect if it could not be recruited.
• True Lord Kongyou predicted that the Expansion Divine Sect would target the Xingfeng Sect if its weapons entered the war, then ordered Linghu Heng and Mo Wuxie to gather people in Kongyou City.
• Chen Feng proposed an offensive and defensive alliance to Luo Ming, Jian Wuji, Qian Xinzi, and two other forces, and they agreed to establish it with the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng told the allied leaders to stay in contact by satellite phone, then departed to find the Expansion Divine Sect’s envoys before they left the Outer Sea.

Chen Feng pursued the Expansion Divine Sect cultivators to learn their Soul Control Technique, then attacked them when they refused to trade. The battle began with Chen Feng caught by the Second Peak disciple’s eye illusion and Lu Guo’s Soul Control Technique.

• After the factions departed, Chen Feng sent Luo Yinxue back with Luo Ming and pursued the Expansion Divine Sect cultivators, hoping to obtain their secret method.
• Yan Huayang, Lu Guo, and Junior Sister Ruan discussed the Xingfeng Sect and learned from her Heavenly Spirit Eye that Chen Feng was under thirty and a powerful body cultivator.
• Junior Sister Ruan spotted a fast-approaching ship, and Chen Feng arrived aboard the Aerospace Carrier after using Starlink satellites to find the three cultivators.
• Chen Feng asked to trade for the Soul Control Technique, but Lu Guo refused and said only Expansion Divine Sect disciples could learn it.
• Chen Feng attacked, but Junior Sister Ruan’s eye Technique distorted his perception and caused him to miss; Zhengjiao warned him not to look into her eyes.
• Lu Guo used the Soul Control Technique to bind Chen Feng’s Divine Soul with red threads, stiffening his body and slowing his movements.

Chen Feng defeated Yan Huayang, Lu Guo, and the aloof woman with five Three-Phase Bombs, but a spatial treasure preserved their Divine Souls. He brought them to the Xingfeng Sect and demanded the Expansion Divine Sect's Secret Methods, leaving them captive after dismissing their warning that killing them would let the sect track him.

• Yan Huayang used two golden-armored puppets while Lu Guo and the aloof woman restrained Chen Feng, but Chen Feng remained unharmed and forced them onto the defensive.
• Chen Feng threw five Three-Phase Bombs at the trio, and their spatial treasure protected their Divine Souls even as their physical bodies were destroyed.
• Chen Feng broke the cracked barrier, collected its jade bead, and ordered Zhengjiao to preserve the trio's Divine Souls in the Soul Coffin.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect headquarters and demanded that Yan Huayang, Lu Guo, and the aloof woman reveal the Expansion Divine Sect's Secret Methods.
• Yan Huayang warned Chen Feng that killing them would brand him for the sect's experts to track, but Chen Feng said he was not afraid.