Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng learned the FBI had traced Stone's seized yacht to Jack, but spared Jack after he said he had killed everyone who could identify Chen Feng. After collecting supplies and arranging for Jack to flee abroad and buy weapons, Chen Feng sent the goods to the Painting Scroll World and flew home, where a flight attendant gave him her number.

• Jack told Chen Feng that the FBI had seized Stone's yacht and come to investigate, then revealed he had killed everyone who went aboard with them.
• Chen Feng warned Jack to keep silent and spare no details, then decided to keep him alive for future arms purchases and support.
• Jack showed Chen Feng the photo albums and everyday goods Chen Feng had ordered, along with about a million dollars taken from Stone.
• Chen Feng told Jack to leave Eagle Sauce Country for Southeast Asia or the Middle East and later buy him powerful weapons; Jack agreed.
• Chen Feng sent the supplies to the Painting Scroll World and boarded a flight to Dragon Country.
• A flight attendant slipped Chen Feng her phone number and hinted that she wanted to keep in contact.

Chen Feng realized that time in the Painting Scroll World no longer matched what he expected and planned to investigate after takeoff. Meanwhile, the Jiang Household surrounded the Xingfeng Sect, leaving Wang Tian and Qin Yao fearing its destruction.

• Chen Feng noticed that daytime visits to the Painting Scroll World had not matched the twelve-hour time difference and concluded that its passage of time had changed.
• Chen Feng decided to enter the Painting Scroll World to check the change, but sat back down when the aircraft announced takeoff and the lavatories closed.
• After confirming that Chen Feng had no backing in the imperial city, Jiang Yaotian led more than a thousand Jiang Household martial artists to surround Hengduan Mountain and attack the Xingfeng Sect.
• Jiang Chen volunteered to lead the assault, while Jiang Yaotian ordered him to take two elders and a hundred Postnatal martial artists and await word from Jiang Hong, who had gone alone to capture Chen Feng.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao watched the Jiang Household advance and feared that the Xingfeng Sect would fall, with Wang Tian hoping Chen Feng could escape.

The Xingfeng Sect prepared to resist the Jiang Household after its forces surrounded Hengduan Mountain, and Liu Qian persuaded the sect’s wavering martial artists not to surrender. Wang Hu’s gunmen attacked Jiang Chen’s vanguard with submachine guns, killing more than half its martial artists before reloading.

• The Xingfeng Sect learned that the Jiang Household had surrounded Hengduan Mountain and sent about a hundred men toward its entrance.
• Wang Hu urged the sect to fight while several martial artists called for surrender, and Liu Qian chose to resist and convinced the others the Jiang Household would kill them regardless.
• Wang Hu led a dozen armed men to meet Jiang Chen and his vanguard, while Liu Qian stayed behind to defend the sect headquarters.
• Jiang Chen demanded that Chen Feng appear, but Wang Hu and his men opened fire with submachine guns.
• The gunmen killed more than half of Jiang Chen’s hundred martial artists, while two Mid Xiantian elders shielded Jiang Chen with Gang Qi.
• Wang Hu ordered his men to spread out and reload, with the Jiang Household’s remaining forces still facing them.

Wang Hu used Chen Feng’s powerful firearms to repel Jiang Chen’s attack on the Xingfeng Sect, while Jiang Yaotian’s forces regrouped on Hengduan Mountain. The Jiang Household learned of the weapons’ devastating power, and the chapter left Jiang Chen asking his father what to do next.

• Jiang Chen retreated with the surviving Jiang Household martial artists after Wang Hu’s submachine guns overwhelmed their attack.
• Wang Hu returned to the Xingfeng Sect, credited the weapons to Chen Feng, and ordered everyone to hold the sect until their master emerged from seclusion.
• Qin Yao and Wang Tian saw the Jiang Household retreat and discussed a rumor that it had a Transformation Realm expert.
• Jiang Chen returned to Jiang Yaotian with more than half his force wounded or dead and explained the Xingfeng Sect’s powerful weapons.
• Jiang Yaotian rejected the idea that the weapons were hidden weapons, and Jiang Chen asked what they should do next.

Jiang Hong broke into Chen Feng’s secret chamber while he was away, but Chen Feng returned and confronted her. After recognizing the danger she posed, Jiang Hong launched a full-strength attack.

• Jiang Yaotian took Jiang Chen and four elders to investigate the weapon Jiang Chen had described.
• Jiang Hong entered the Xingfeng Sect, destroyed the surveillance cameras at Chen Feng’s mine, and forced open its reinforced door.
• Jiang Hong searched Chen Feng’s secret chamber but found no one inside and withdrew without touching anything.
• Chen Feng appeared behind Jiang Hong and confronted her about entering his home uninvited.
• Jiang Hong charged at Chen Feng and threw a full-strength punch, trusting her instincts that he was dangerous.

Chen Feng revealed his cultivation to Jiang Hong and fought her to test his strength, forcing her to retreat and flee. As Jiang Hong burned her Qi and Blood to fight to the death, Chen Feng stopped holding back and formed a flame in his palm.

• Chen Feng caught Jiang Hong's fist after entering the Transcendent State, and Jiang Hong realized he was a cultivator.
• Jiang Hong told Chen Feng that only the Yue Kingdom's patriarch had attained the Dao through cultivation.
• Chen Feng struck Jiang Hong out of the mine, then intercepted her as she tried to flee the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng suppressed Jiang Hong in their close combat, while she regretted not investigating him more carefully.
• Jiang Hong burned her Qi and Blood and vowed to slay an immortal, so Chen Feng formed a flame in his palm.

Chen Feng defeated Jiang Hong with a spiritual flame and questioned her about the Yue Kingdom and the wider Painting Scroll World. He decided to destroy the Jiang Household but keep Jiang Hong alive to manage contact with the imperial capital, leaving her in despair.

• Chen Feng extinguished the spiritual flames after they burned Jiang Hong, then broke her limbs and demanded to know what she knew.
• Jiang Hong explained that the Yue Kingdom's previous emperor was a Qi Refining Stage immortal cultivator and shared rumors of an immortal island beyond the northern forest.
• Jiang Hong told Chen Feng that the Yue Kingdom was part of Yingzhou, whose wider regions were largely unknown to the kingdom's imperial records.
• Jiang Hong offered to mislead the imperial family by claiming she was traveling abroad if Chen Feng spared the Jiang Household.
• Chen Feng refused to spare the Jiang Household but chose to keep Jiang Hong alive and use her to maintain contact with the imperial capital.

Jiang Yaotian and four Jiang Household elders overwhelmed Wang Hu’s defenders at the Xingfeng Sect entrance, forcing them to retreat inside. As Wang Hu weighed whether to flee north, Chen Feng emerged from seclusion, while Qin Yao and Wang Tian recognized that he had returned.

• Jiang Yaotian sent Jiang Chen to hide, then led four elders toward the Xingfeng Sect entrance, where gunfire struck their Gang Qi.
• Jiang Yaotian held off the bullets while the elders charged the defenders, killing one Xingfeng Sect martial artist and forcing Wang Hu’s group to retreat.
• Jiang Yaotian stopped the elders from pursuing, examined a captured submachine gun, and chose to wait for word from Jiang Hong.
• Wang Hu returned inside the sect, and Liu Qian proposed escaping north into the great forest as the martial artists awaited Wang Hu’s decision.
• Chen Feng emerged from seclusion, and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists greeted him with relief.
• Qin Yao told Wang Tian that Sect Master Chen had returned, while Wang Tian had been ready to abandon Hengduan Mountain.

Chen Feng confronted the Jiang Household after defeating Jiang Hong and revealed her charred body to them. When Jiang Yaotian tried to negotiate, Chen Feng used C4 explosives to kill him and the Jiang Household’s other attackers, leaving the Xingfeng Sect martial artists stunned by his power.

• Jiang Yaotian waited outside the Xingfeng Sect and prepared to enter when Jiang Hong failed to return.
• Chen Feng appeared at the entrance as Wang Hu brought out the severely burned Jiang Hong, who told her elder brother the Jiang Household was finished.
• Jiang Yaotian admitted the Jiang Household was in the wrong and offered compensation, but Chen Feng refused to spare them.
• Wang Hu and the other martial artists hurled C4 at Jiang Yaotian and his group, and Chen Feng detonated the explosives midair.
• The explosions killed Jiang Yaotian, Jiang Chen, the four elders, and the other Jiang Household members, leaving the Xingfeng Sect martial artists in shock.

Chen Feng armed the Xingfeng Sect with modern weapons and ordered Wang Hu to destroy the Jiang Household’s forces on Hengduan Mountain. By daybreak, the Jiang Household had been defeated, leaving the Xingfeng Sect poised to dominate the region.

• Chen Feng killed Jiang Yaotian, taught Wang Hu and the Xingfeng Sect’s inner-sect martial artists to use modern weapons, and sent them to attack the Jiang Household.
• Chen Feng ordered Liu Qian to imprison Jiang Hong and handle the Jiang Household’s remaining affairs, while Liu Qian mobilized the sects on Hengduan Mountain and prepared to seize the Jiang Household’s territory.
• Wang Tian and Qin Yao arrived with reinforcements after learning that the Jiang Household’s Xiantian experts had been killed, and Liu Qian accepted their help.
• Wang Hu led the Xingfeng Sect’s counterattack, using modern weapons to kill Jiang Household martial artists and its remaining Xiantian experts.
• The battle ended at daybreak with the Jiang Household defeated and the Xingfeng Sect suffering several dozen deaths while securing its foothold in the region.

After the Xingfeng Sect wiped out the Jiang Household, Liu Qian led its martial artists to seize the household’s wealth in Liuyang Town. The three remaining great households offered Chen Feng an annual share of their profits if the Xingfeng Sect stayed out of town, while Mo Yuandao warned his men not to underestimate the sect.

• News of the Jiang Household’s destruction spread, and Liu Qian arrived at its residence with Xingfeng Sect martial artists to confiscate its valuables.
• Mo Yuandao of the Mo Household met Liu Qian and asked whether the Xingfeng Sect intended to establish itself in Liuyang Town.
• Mo Yuandao offered Chen Feng five hundred thousand taels of silver each year and promised the three households would pay the royal tribute if the sect stayed out of town.
• After Mo Yuandao left, Liu Qian ordered men to watch the three households in case they plotted against the Xingfeng Sect.
• Mo Yuandao rebuked a subordinate for judging the Xingfeng Sect by its members’ martial realms and said its weapons seemed dangerous.

After returning from the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng learned that time passed there nearly five times faster than in the modern world. He then heard Lin Wei’s proposal for collecting Spiritual Qi, and decided he might rob ASML to obtain the necessary equipment.

• Chen Feng returned to the airplane lavatory after about two and a half hours in the Painting Scroll World, though only half an hour had passed in the modern world.
• Chen Feng left the lavatory, returned to his seat, and arrived the next morning to find missed calls from Liu Mu, Li Xiaorou, and Jack.
• Li Xiaorou told Chen Feng that Wound Healing No. 1 had launched and reached hospital pharmacies, but Chen Feng declined to meet patients or appear in the media.
• Lin Wei called Chen Feng and said she had found a way to address his Spiritual Qi problem, so Chen Feng rushed to the Xingfeng Mining laboratory.
• Lin Wei explained that Spiritual Qi might have quantum properties and proposed modifying a superconducting-qubit quantum sensor and building collection equipment to gather it.
• After Lin Wei described the costly equipment required, Chen Feng thought about robbing ASML to obtain an EUV lithography machine.

Chen Feng arranged for Jack to establish himself in the Golden Triangle and funded Lin Wei’s equipment purchases before returning to the Painting Scroll World to raise money. Meanwhile, Wound Healing No. 1’s rapid effects astonished patients, and its popularity spread across Mountain City and beyond, leaving Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals flooded with requests for more orders.

• Chen Feng agreed to visit Liu Mu next week, then learned Jack had reached the Golden Triangle and ordered him to build connections without getting involved in drugs or human trafficking.
• Chen Feng transferred fifty million to Lin Wei for equipment and planned to return to the Painting Scroll World to raise the remaining money he needed.
• A skeptical patient took Wound Healing No. 1 after a doctor prescribed one capsule, then felt his pain lessen dramatically within a minute.
• Patients shared their experiences online, and Li Xiaorou arranged media coverage that helped push Wound Healing No. 1 onto Weibo’s trending searches.
• Hospitals and pharmacies nearly sold out of Wound Healing No. 1, prompting Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals to receive a flood of requests for additional orders, including from other provinces.

Li Xiaorou struggled to meet soaring demand for Wound Healing No. 1 while Huirui Pharmaceuticals prepared to challenge Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals. In the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng received the Jiang Household’s vast assets and realized its gold could fund his needs, though selling it safely would require going abroad.

• Li Xiaorou turned down new orders, ordered ten more production machines, and expanded Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ production as sales of Wound Healing No. 1 surged.
• Lu Mingze learned Huirui Pharmaceuticals’ researchers could not identify the medicine’s ingredients, sent samples to headquarters, and ordered a lawsuit and an investigation into Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ owner.
• After five days of seclusion, Chen Feng emerged as Liu Qian reported that the Xingfeng Sect had taken over the Jiang Household’s businesses and recruited its surrendered martial artists.
• Chen Feng reviewed the Jiang Household’s inventory of silver, gold, pills, manuals, businesses, and resource-rich mountains.
• Chen Feng calculated that selling the household’s sixty thousand taels of gold could raise about 1.4 billion yuan and chose the Golden Triangle as a safer place to sell it.

Chen Feng reorganized the Xingfeng Sect, delegated business affairs to Liu Qian, and agreed to accept annual payments from the three great households rather than expand into Liuyang Town. After handling his modern-world businesses, he set out for the Golden Triangle to convert his gold into cash and help Jack establish an armed foothold.

• Chen Feng ordered the sect’s resources and stipends to be distributed according to merit, then entrusted Liu Qian with the sect’s affairs and the Jiang Household’s businesses.
• Liu Qian advised Chen Feng to accept the three great households’ offer for the sake of stability, and Chen Feng agreed to stay out of Liuyang Town in exchange for their payments.
• Chen Feng gave Wang Hu a sniper rifle and trained him and his men to use modern weapons.
• Chen Feng met the new microscopic physics experts at Xingfeng Mining, left Lin Wei in charge of the metal project, and promised to fund the equipment she needed.
• Chen Feng checked Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ sales, then traveled by car toward Yun Province with the scroll to pursue his plans in the Golden Triangle.

Chen Feng crossed into the Golden Triangle and instructed Jack to buy weapons and arrange the sale of six thousand jin of gold. After reaching Jack’s security company, Chen Feng secretly transported the gold into his room from the Painting Scroll World.

• Jack greeted Chen Feng with a large entourage, and Chen Feng told him not to stage such a display again.
• Jack explained that his men had taken over several entertainment venues in Shan State and that local armed groups sold weapons.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to buy two hundred AKs, three hundred grenades, and ten thousand rounds of ammunition.
• Chen Feng told Jack to sell six thousand jin of gold in batches, and Jack was stunned by the amount.
• Chen Feng arrived at Jack’s security company, sent Jack away, and used the painting scroll to move all the gold into his room.

Chen Feng sold modern goods through the Xingfeng Sect and mastered the Wind Blade Technique while waiting for gold to be sold in the outside world. He learned that the Ning Kingdom had invaded the Yue Kingdom, drawing the royal family’s attention away from the Jiang Household.

• Chen Feng showed Jack a mountain of gold, arranged for the sale proceeds to be transferred through an underground bank, and left the security company.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect, told Liu Qian to buy Healing Pills and sell modern goods, and priced each photo album at two hundred taels of silver.
• Chen Feng practiced the Wind Blade Technique in the forest and mastered it after ten days, though his Transcendent State still lasted only a few minutes.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that the photo albums had sold out and that the three great lineages wanted more to resell in other towns.
• Liu Qian informed Chen Feng that the Ning Kingdom had attacked the Yue Kingdom, leaving the royal family occupied with preparing a counterattack.

Chen Feng rescued the Dragon Country captives, and Jack arrived to take them away. After Jack shot a man from Cherry Blossom Country who demanded to be rescued, he drove to meet Chen Feng, who asked him to identify the attackers.

• Chen Feng waited for Jack after testing the Wind Blade Technique on the black-clad men.
• Zhang Jiajia and the other captives escaped the truck and feared the approaching vehicles were bringing new captors.
• Jack arrived with armed men, identified the people from Dragon Country, and gave them clothes and rides home.
• Jack shot a man from Cherry Blossom Country who demanded help, then sent the Dragon Country captives away.
• Jack drove to Chen Feng and respectfully greeted him, and Chen Feng asked who the attackers were.

After the Yue Kingdom ordered the Xingfeng Sect to help intercept a Ning Kingdom army, Wang Hu volunteered to fight, and Chen Feng agreed while giving him guns and disciples. Chen Feng stayed behind and sent Liu Qian to represent him in Liuyang Town, then collected Qi-and-Blood pills for Lin Wei.

• Liu Qian reported that the royal family had ordered the Xingfeng Sect and other factions near Liuyang Town to intercept a hundred-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom army.
• Wang Hu explained that refusing the order would be treated as treason and volunteered to go because the Ning Kingdom had killed his father.
• Chen Feng allowed Wang Hu to lead inner disciples and take guns, after making him promise to return alive.
• Chen Feng declined the Mo Household's invitation to Liuyang Town and sent Liu Qian in his place, with Wang Hu assigning inner martial artists to accompany him.
• Chen Feng went to the sect treasury and took Qi-and-Blood pills for Lin Wei.

Chen Feng planned to help Jack seize Bai Suocheng’s territory by taking out Bai Suocheng and capturing his telecom scam compounds. He reached Bai Suocheng’s villa and confronted him, announcing that he had come to kill him.

• Chen Feng asked Jack about Bai Suocheng’s three compounds, which held nearly ten thousand employees and were guarded by about five hundred militiamen.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to prepare his men to take control of the compounds and keep the employees safe for his instructions.
• Jack gathered more than a hundred armed men and led them toward the compounds in a convoy.
• Bai Suocheng learned that Jack’s gang had seized his kidnapped workers and ordered his men to bring Jack to him.
• Chen Feng appeared on Bai Suocheng’s balcony despite the villa’s security and told him he had come to kill him.