Chapter Summaries

A woman in yellow stopped Elder Cheng from forcing Chen Feng to kneel, killed Cheng Du’s original body from afar, and warned the Cultivation Alliance against sending Spirit Transformation cultivators into the Outer Sea. After recovering from his injuries, Chen Feng secured the Outer Sea factions’ allegiance while declining to annex them, and the Cultivation Alliance’s demonic calamity order remained a looming concern.

• The woman in yellow forced Elder Cheng and the woman surnamed Zhuo to kneel, then destroyed Cheng Du’s original body at the Cultivation Alliance headquarters by striking his Primordial Spirit from afar.
• The woman in yellow let the woman surnamed Zhuo go with a warning that the Cultivation Alliance must keep Spirit Transformation cultivators out of the Outer Sea or face the destruction of its lineage.
• At the Black Sea Branch, Chen Feng told Zhengjiao about the demonic calamity in the Southern Region, and Zhengjiao urged him to send only a few people to satisfy the Cultivation Alliance’s order.
• After three days of recovery, Chen Feng met the Outer Sea faction leaders and confirmed they would pay thirty percent of their earnings and obey Xingfeng Sect orders during extraordinary times.
• Chen Feng refused Sect Master Yue’s offer to make the Moonlight Sect a subordinate faction and assured the leaders that Xingfeng Sect would not annex or interfere with their factions.
• Luo Ming and Jian Wuji thanked Chen Feng for treating them as cooperative allies, and Chen Feng said he would rely on their help in the future.

After the Xingfeng Sect defeated Great Zhou in the Outer Sea, its influence spread and the region’s major powers scrambled to respond. Three days later, the sect’s rise to ninth place on the Inner Sea’s Wind and Cloud Ranking drew widespread attention, while Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Feng Qian cautiously moved to appease it.

• Chen Feng promised to help Luo Yinxue form her Nascent Soul and told Haili he would help her when she reached the Late Golden Core.
• The Xingfeng Sect gained nominal control of the Outer Sea as third-tier forces submitted, while True Lord Kongyou abandoned Kongyou City and Xiao Ling prepared to apologize to the sect.
• Three days after the battle, the Xingfeng Sect rose to ninth place on the Wind and Cloud Ranking, surprising cultivators across the Inner Sea.
• Feng Qian refused to disclose why the Xingfeng Sect’s ranking had risen and ordered Yue Qi, who held a grudge against the sect, to be bound and sent to it.
• Feng Qian privately wondered what the Xingfeng Sect was hiding after learning that the Cultivation Alliance had forbidden its members from entering the Outer Sea and that Great Zhou’s Sacred Emperor had not retaliated.

After returning to Xingfeng Sect, Chen Feng prepared for the approaching demonic calamity, investigated Yinyin’s unexplained coma, and gathered the sect’s senior members for a meeting. The chapter ended as he began briefing them on the calamity.

• Zhengjiao went into seclusion to heal, and Chen Feng told Liu Qian about the Spirit Transformation cultivator and the demonic calamity; Chen Feng ordered a meeting in seven days and asked for more satellites to be moved toward the Inner Sea.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Yinyin had been unconscious for three days, and Chen Feng examined her before finding a Jade Slip message in which she said she needed to sleep; he reassured Xiao Lian that Yinyin would wake after a while.
• Chen Feng sorted through Eunuch Li’s belongings, identified the small black sword as the Soul-Slaying Sword, and began comprehending the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger.
• The Xingfeng Sect’s senior members gathered at headquarters, where Zuo Poxing introduced himself to Wang Hu and Yue Yao showed He Menghan revealing outfits on her phone.
• Chen Feng arrived with Liu Qian, opened the meeting by raising the demonic calamity, and told Liu Qian to explain it to everyone.

Chen Feng assigned Zuo Poxing to lead cultivators and newly made cultivation robots to the devil calamity, established the robot-based White Tiger Formation, and ordered Zhang Xuan to deploy the Black Tortoise Formation across the Outer Sea. After an envoy arrived with Yue Qianshan and an invitation from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Chen Feng left Yue Yao to deal with her grandfather and entered seclusion.

• Liu Qian explained that the Cultivation Alliance had ordered Xingfeng Sect to help suppress the devil calamity at Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, where an earlier expedition had been devastated.
• Haili, He Menghan, and Zuo Poxing volunteered to lead the mission, and Chen Feng chose Zuo Poxing, equipping him with talismans, Three-Phase Bombs, Aerospace Carriers, cultivators, and one hundred cultivation robots.
• Yue Yao revealed that the robots were inexpensive to produce, and Chen Feng established the White Tiger Formation under Taiyi, ordering Zuo Poxing to test the robots during the mission.
• Chen Feng ordered Zhang Xuan to establish Black Tortoise Formation bases throughout the Outer Sea, beginning in the Boundary Sea Region, while Liu Qian briefed the assembly on plans for the Northern Border.
• An envoy named Liu Si announced that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had captured Yue Qianshan and invited Chen Feng to meet its deputy pavilion master; Chen Feng declined the invitation and left Yue Qianshan to Yue Yao.
• Wang Hu warned Yue Yao about Yue Qianshan's past betrayal, but she said she would handle him herself; Chen Feng entered seclusion to study the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger Divine Ability.

Yue Yao executed her grandfather Yue Qianshan after the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion delivered him to the Xingfeng Sect. Three months later, cultivators trapped by powerful Devil Creatures in the Southern Region were rescued by an unknown force using artillery.

• Liu Si delivered the bound Yue Qianshan to Yue Yao, who refused his pleas for forgiveness and killed him with a Gauss rifle.
• Yue Yao left with the Aerospace Carrier, while an Azure Dragon Formation soldier warned Liu Si to leave Yingzhou.
• Three months later, Wang Fangming and his team encountered a False Core Devil Creature while transporting Devil-Purging Pills into the Devil Domain.
• More than a hundred Devil Creatures surrounded the team, leaving the cultivators close to despair.
• After Wang Fangming called for help, a group of streaks of light changed course and destroyed the black behemoth with artillery shells.

Zuo Poxing escorted Wang Fangming and Hu Juan to Falling Rosy Cloud City, where Southern Region forces learned that Spirit Transformation cultivators would soon lead an expedition into Falling Rosy Clouds Valley. As the forces discussed preparations, Zuo refused demands to share Xingfeng Sect’s weapons and defended the sect’s higher prices, provoking Ma Household’s ancestor.

• Zuo Poxing’s fleet destroyed the Devil Creatures attacking Wang Fangming and Hu Juan, then escorted them to Falling Rosy Cloud City.
• A representative of Moon-Gazing City invited Zuo to a meeting with Southern Region forces, where Liu Qingqing announced that Spirit Transformation cultivators would enter Falling Rosy Clouds Valley within a month.
• Liu Qingqing and Luo Qian urged the gathered forces to unite and send reinforcements, and Zuo agreed that Xingfeng Sect would bring more ammunition, weapons, and five hundred puppets.
• Ma Household’s ancestor demanded that Xingfeng Sect share its weapons, but Zuo insisted they were for sale and that the sect master had set the prices.
• Ma Household’s ancestor unleashed spiritual pressure against Zuo, but Luo Qian intervened, prompting Ma to accuse Xingfeng Sect of profiteering from the war.

Luo Qian and Zuo Poxing navigated the tense operation against the devil calamity as the Xingfeng Sect exchanged supplies and intelligence. Nangong Wanyue asked to negotiate with Chen of the Northern Territory over advancement to Spirit Transformation, while a dazzling light erupted from the Xingfeng Sect’s headquarters.

• Luo Qian learned from Liu Qingqing that Great Zhou’s expedition to the Outer Sea had vanished and that the Cultivation Alliance had forbidden travel there, then asked about Hua Xuanzi.
• Zuo Poxing reported the day’s events to Liu Qian, who told him to send battle-merit supplies to Ge Yunxuan and warned him that Falling Rosy Clouds Valley could be dangerous.
• Nangong Wanyue visited Zuo Poxing and asked him to arrange a meeting with Sect Master Chen, offering a deal concerning advancement to Spirit Transformation.
• Chief Manager Qi refused to reveal the Cultivation Alliance secret behind the devil cultivators in Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, and Nangong Wanyue hoped her deal would succeed.
• A brilliant beam of light erupted from the Xingfeng Sect’s headquarters on Hengduan Mountain, and Wang Hu, Mo Yang, and other cultivators hurried toward it.

Chen Feng mastered the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger, learned of developments in the Inner Sea, and agreed to meet Nangong Wanyue about a deal involving Spirit Transformation. As Nangong Wanyue and Chief Manager Qi traveled to the Outer Sea, Chen Feng appeared behind them.

• Chen Feng’s cultivation of the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger drew on Canglan Star’s Star Energy, but he stopped before it could cause a backlash.
• After leaving seclusion, Chen Feng learned that the Cultivation Alliance had barred its members from the Outer Sea and that Nangong Wanyue wanted to discuss a deal concerning advancement to Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Feng agreed to meet Nangong Wanyue and prepared supplies, including Aerospace Carriers and low-level Cultivation Methods, to take back to the modern world.
• Seven days later, Nangong Wanyue and Chief Manager Qi sailed through the Storm Sea Region toward the Xingfeng Sect.
• As Chief Manager Qi prepared to speed up their ship in the Boundary Sea Region, Chen Feng’s voice announced that there was no need to travel farther because he was already there.

Chen Feng met Nangong Wanyue and traded Nangong Yanyue’s release and bonded Law Treasure for a Void Heaven Token, which could let him enter a secret realm containing Spirit Transformation spiritual objects. He decided to cultivate toward Nascent Soul Late Stage and enter the realm when it opened in five years, leaving Zhengjiao’s search for his main soul until later.

• Chen Feng appeared aboard Nangong Wanyue’s Law Ship and agreed to hear her proposed trade.
• Nangong Wanyue explained that Spirit Transformation required a rare spiritual object found in the Void Heaven Realm, which would open in five years to qualified cultivators under two hundred.
• Nangong Wanyue offered Chen Feng a Void Heaven Token in exchange for releasing Nangong Yanyue and returning her bonded Law Treasure, and Chen Feng agreed.
• Nangong Wanyue tried to improve relations between Great Zhou and the Xingfeng Sect, but Chen Feng warned that her wishes did not represent all of Great Zhou before departing.
• Chen Feng told Zhengjiao about the trade and said he would enter the Void Heaven Realm after aiming to reach Nascent Soul Late Stage within five years.
• Chen Feng postponed helping Zhengjiao find his main soul so he could focus on cultivation and other preparations.

Chen Feng returned to the Golden Triangle institute, where Lin Wei showed him advances in cultivation robots and learned of the Spiritual Qi appearing in space. After discussing preparations for possible changes in the Solar System, Chen Feng took Lin Wei into space, while Jack and Wild Wolf dealt with the Aerospace Carriers at the military base.

• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei and discovered she had reached Foundation Establishment by using a pill to advance her research into cultivation robots.
• Lin Wei gave Chen Feng programs for eight Qi Refining Law Techniques and showed him a new Artificial Spirit Aperture that could store Spiritual Qi comparable to a Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivator.
• Chen Feng told Lin Wei about Spiritual Qi found in space and asked her to arrange a meeting at the institute for the next day; Lin Wei eagerly asked to accompany him to collect some.
• Chen Feng visited Tuosen, urged him to develop more powerful weapons, and approved experiments with antimatter on another planet rather than Earth.
• Chen Feng encouraged Tiya and her colleagues, then took Lin Wei into space; meanwhile, Jack struggled to store the Aerospace Carriers as Wild Wolf suggested moving them to the underground base and admitted he had tried on the power armor.

Jack tested Wild Wolf’s power armor and prepared to expand the Golden Triangle’s martial artists, while Chen Feng investigated growing berserk Spiritual Qi in space and mastered the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger on the moon. The next morning, Golden Triangle researchers gathered for a meeting, expecting Chen Feng to announce plans for developing in space.

• Jack attacked Wild Wolf’s power armor, which withstood his blows, and Wild Wolf sent him flying with one punch.
• Jack ordered the group to move the Aerospace Carriers to the underground base and told Wild Wolf to recruit more martial artists for pills.
• Chen Feng and Lin Wei examined an asteroid field where berserk Spiritual Qi had spread rapidly, and Lin Wei collected samples for research.
• Chen Feng returned Lin Wei to Earth, then used the Heavenly Star Annihilation Finger on the moon and created a crater about ten kilometers across.
• Chen Feng resumed absorbing Star Energy, while Jack and several researchers gathered at a meeting where Tuosen guessed Chen Feng planned to send them to develop in space.

Chen Feng gathered the Golden Triangle’s researchers to plan a space-based planetary defense system against possible alien cultivators and arranged for Xingfeng Group to handle international sales. He then went to Spring City to search for mortals with cultivation aptitude, where a woman in a McLaren approached him.

• Harvey presented a proposal for building a lunar space city, but Chen Feng prioritized space stations and military bases for a planetary defense system.
• Chen Feng told the researchers that Spiritual Qi had appeared in space and aliens might come, then assigned Jack to help develop the defense plan.
• Tiya raised concerns about the Outer Space Treaty, but Chen Feng insisted that no one could stop them from building the system.
• Chen Feng decided to sell civilian technology abroad through a branch of Xingfeng Group, which Lin Wei said she would arrange with Li Xiaorou.
• Chen Feng left the Golden Triangle and traveled to Spring City, where he scanned the crowds for people with cultivation aptitude.
• A woman in a red McLaren stopped in front of Chen Feng and asked whether he wanted to get milk tea.

Chen Feng followed a suspected immortal-cultivation prospect to a park, where he confirmed that Xiao Ning had a Spirit Aperture despite her spinal injury. He eased her pain, gave her a cultivation method, and told her to find him at Xingfeng Group if she reached the first level.

• Zhang Qian offered Chen Feng a ride, and he accepted before directing her to a park outside the city center.
• Chen Feng found Xiao Ning in a wheelchair and learned from her mother that a car accident had damaged her spinal cord.
• Chen Feng claimed to be a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and examined Xiao Ning's pulse.
• Chen Feng discovered Xiao Ning's Spirit Aperture and used Spiritual Power to ease her pain and repair some internal damage.
• Chen Feng sent Xiao Ning a cultivation method and told her to visit him at Xingfeng Group if she cultivated to the first level.

Chen Feng returned to Xingfeng Group and entrusted Li Xiaorou with representing the Jack Security Company in international trade. The chapter left Li Xiaorou awaiting approval to travel to the Golden Triangle after Liu Mu endorsed the plan and revealed that Jack planned to sell controlled nuclear fusion products worldwide.

• Chen Feng eased Xiao Ning's pain, advised her mother to buy Wound Healing No. 1, and exchanged WeChat contacts with Zhang Qian before leaving.
• Chen Feng returned to Xingfeng Group, apologized to Li Xiaorou for not calling, and told her he might leave again soon.
• Chen Feng revealed that he controlled the Jack Security Company and described its operations in the Golden Triangle, including Lin Wei's work at the research institute.
• Chen Feng asked Li Xiaorou to establish a Golden Triangle branch and represent Jack in international trade, and she agreed.
• Li Xiaorou called Liu Mu, who approved the plan and disclosed that Jack was preparing to sell products using controlled nuclear fusion technology worldwide.

Eagle Sauce Country sent John to negotiate with the Jack Security Company, while Chen Feng took its nuclear materials and helped Qiefusi evolve nearly four hundred people. More than a hundred countries gathered in Shan State for the trade talks, where John publicly apologized before Jack Security Company martial artists stopped his escorts from entering.

• John agreed to travel to the Golden Triangle with evolvers and trade goods after Eagle Sauce Country's leaders chose him to negotiate.
• Chen Feng answered Qiefusi's prayer, collected the stored nuclear materials, and agreed to help five hundred people evolve.
• Chen Feng transformed the five hundred candidates at Qiefusi's base; nearly four hundred survived and evolved, and Chen Feng warned Qiefusi not to attack the Golden Triangle.
• Representatives from more than a hundred countries arrived in Shan State for the controlled nuclear fusion trade talks, including Cherry Blossom Country's prime minister and cabinet ministers.
• John apologized publicly for Eagle Sauce Country's past accusations against the Jack Security Company when reporters questioned him.
• Jack Security Company martial artists barred John's evolver escorts from entering, leaving them outside as reporters photographed the confrontation.

Li Xiaorou rejected Cherry Blossom Country’s trade delegation, and Wild Wolf struck its prime minister before the talks proceeded with most countries accepting her terms. Back in the Xingfeng Sect, Chen Feng gave Yue Yao new robot designs and learned that the expedition to Falling Rosy Clouds Valley had vanished, including its Spirit Transformation cultivators.

• Li Xiaorou refused to sell to Cherry Blossom Country, and Wild Wolf slapped its prime minister and had the delegation removed from the venue.
• John agreed to Eagle Sauce Country’s purchase of ten flying cars, and roughly ninety percent of the countries accepted Li Xiaorou’s trade terms by the end of the talks.
• Cherry Blossom Country condemned Li Xiaorou and Jack Security Company and warned that it would defend its national dignity.
• Chen Feng gave Yue Yao new immortal-cultivation robot and Artificial Spirit Aperture blueprints, spell programs, and instructions to stop producing the old robots.
• Yue Yao told Chen Feng that she had killed Yue Qianshan, and Chen Feng told her to focus on her work in the sect.
• Chen Feng read Liu Qian’s messages and learned that all expeditions into Falling Rosy Clouds Valley had disappeared, while satellite images showed black demonic Qi obscuring the valley.

Chen Feng spent five years cultivating in seclusion while the Xingfeng Sect expanded its forces and adjusted production to rising costs and falling weapon orders. When Spiritual Qi gathered into a sea above Hengduan Mountain, Liu Qian recognized Chen Feng’s breakthrough and secured the sect as Zhengjiao guarded his secret chamber.

• Chen Feng set aside his concerns about Zuo Poxing and Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, then used pills and the Stars Body-Refining Instruction to cultivate toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Over five years, the Xingfeng Sect expanded its formations, built up its Aerospace Carrier fleet and cultivation robots, and established Kongyou City as a defensive line.
• Liu Qian and the Cabinet discussed falling demand for ordinary weapons, shifting factories toward bullet production, possible satellite phone sales, and halting recruitment of martial artists while leaving the Black Sea Branch unchanged.
• As the Cabinet meeting ended, Spiritual Qi gathered into a sea above Hengduan Mountain, revealing that Chen Feng was breaking through; Liu Qian ordered the sect-protecting formation activated and barred others from approaching.
• Liu Qian and Mo Chen reached Chen Feng’s secret chamber and found Zhengjiao guarding its entrance, where he explained he had been there for two years.

Nangong Yanyue left for the Void Heaven Realm with an Innate Spirit Treasure after Nangong Wentian warned her about the mysterious expert protecting Xingfeng Sect and her Heart Demon over Chen of the Northern Territory. Chen Feng entered the realm, followed Dabao to a pool, killed the serpent guarding it, and went into the cave beneath the water.

• Nangong Wentian told Nangong Yanyue and Nangong Wanyue that a mysterious woman in Xingfeng Sect had killed Cheng Du and was powerful enough to make him wary of confronting the sect.
• Nangong Wentian gave Nangong Yanyue an Innate Spirit Treasure for protection, and she departed for the Void Heaven Realm despite his concern that Chen of the Northern Territory had become a Heart Demon for her.
• Chen Feng refused to take Zhengjiao with him, and the Void Heaven Token transported him into the Void Heaven Realm as entrants across the Weiyang Star Domain were summoned.
• Chen Feng arrived on the Cloud Void Grassland, disguised himself, and had Dabao the Treasure-Seeking Rabbit lead him east to a pool.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage serpent attacked Chen Feng after he struck the pool, but Chen Feng killed it with a single slap.
• Dabao indicated that the treasure lay in a cave beneath the pool, and Chen Feng entered the cave.

Chen Feng found several valuable spiritual treasures while exploring the grasslands, then met Ye Yuting, who invited him to join the journey to Holy Son Jiang's gathering at an ancient cultivator's cave abode. As they flew toward the Savage Wilderness, Ye Yuting explained the wider Weiyang Star Domain and showed Chen Feng how to use a Message-Transmitting Treasure Mirror.

• Chen Feng found a three-thousand-year-old Profound Spirit Fruit in the giant serpent's lair and later collected a Nascent Soul-level green vine while escaping a swarm of mosquito-like strange beasts.
• Near the Savage Wilderness, Chen Feng met Ye Yuting, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator from Profound Firmament Star, and learned that Holy Son Jiang had invited young talents to explore an ancient cultivator's cave abode rumored to contain Spirit Transformation spiritual treasures.
• Chen Feng accepted Ye Yuting's invitation and flew with her toward the Savage Wilderness, learning about the major and minor cultivation stars of the Weiyang Star Domain and its ongoing wars with other star domains.
• Ye Yuting contacted her companions with a Message-Transmitting Treasure Mirror, and Chen Feng asked her to teach him how to use his own.
• Ye Yuting explained that Chen Feng's mirror bore its previous owner's mark and that he could erase it with his Divine Sense, though doing so would impair its functions.

Chen Feng and Ye Yuting joined Liu Qi and Xu Heng in the Savage Wilderness, where Chen Feng concealed his strength while helping them fight exotic beasts. They reached the gathering for Holy Son Jiang’s invitation, and the arrival of Holy Maiden Caixia suggested that the rumored High Antiquity cultivator’s cave abode was genuine.

• Chen Feng broke the flame mark on Ye Yuting’s Message-Transmitting Treasure Mirror, added her as a friend under the name Hua, and traveled with her into the Savage Wilderness.
• Chen Feng used his Divine Sense to briefly disrupt a berserk exotic beast, allowing Liu Qi to bind it with a Lightning Light Chain and the group to defeat it.
• Ye Yuting introduced Chen Feng to Liu Qi and Xu Heng of the Mystic Heaven Sect, and Xu Heng privately warned her that Chen Feng carried heavy Sha Qi.
• Chen Feng traveled with the three for several days, helping them face beasts and collect spirit medicines before they reached the valley where Holy Son Jiang had called a gathering.
• Chen Feng and the others found more than twenty high-level Nascent Soul cultivators waiting in the valley, and more cultivators arrived as they waited for Holy Son Jiang.
• On the second day, Holy Maiden Caixia arrived in seven-colored light, prompting the gathered cultivators to discuss her presence and the likely truth of the cave-abode rumors.