Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng killed Bai Suocheng with supernatural powers and escaped before the militia could surround him. Jack then led his men to attack a telecom fraud compound in Northern Shan State after learning Bai Suocheng was dead.

• Chen Feng deflected the bodyguards' pistol bullets, killed them, and severed Bai Suocheng's legs as Bai tried to flee.
• Chen Feng burned Bai Suocheng alive with spirit fire, then messaged Jack and left the villa.
• Militiamen arrived and tried to extinguish the flames, but Bai Suocheng burned to ashes as they watched.
• Jack told his men that Bai Suocheng was dead and led them to seize the northern district's turf.
• Jack opened fire on the guards at the telecom fraud compound's entrance.

Jack and his men captured Bai Suocheng’s three telecom scam compounds after Bai Suocheng was killed. Jack left guards to keep the captive employees inside, following Chen Feng’s order that none of them escape.

• Jack’s forces broke into a compound, and a Dragon Country employee identified the bald enforcer and manager as the people in charge.
• Jack shot the bald enforcer and manager, then took his men to attack the other two compounds.
• Armed forces across the Golden Triangle learned Bai Suocheng was dead, but stayed out of the fighting while they investigated.
• By five in the morning, Jack had captured all three compounds, though his side had lost nearly thirty men.
• Jack ordered his men to guard the compounds’ entrances and exits so none of the employees could escape.

Li Xiaorou met with Lu Mingze, who tried to persuade her to let Huirui Pharmaceuticals invest in Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and used a lawsuit to pressure her. State Security arrived and arrested Lu Mingze, leaving Li Xiaorou's factory secure under the government's protection.

• Li Xiaorou returned to her office and received Lu Mingze and his secretary from Huirui Pharmaceuticals.
• Lu Mingze proposed investing in Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and claimed Huirui could help resolve a lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing the industry.
• Li Xiaorou rejected the investment offer and calmly texted someone while Lu Mingze urged her to reconsider.
• Lu Mingze's legal team called to report that the court had dismissed the lawsuit and State Security had taken the lawyers for questioning over suspected theft of state secrets.
• Five State Security officers entered, accused Lu Mingze of prying into state secrets and smuggling medicine abroad, and took him away.
• Li Xiaorou thanked the officers and knew they guarded the factory around the clock to protect its technology.

Lin Wei successfully detected Spiritual Qi with a modified quantum sensor, and discovered that Chen Feng carried it inside him. Chen Feng took the sensor to the Painting Scroll World to test a conjecture that might resolve his cultivation problem.

• Lin Wei used her final sample of Spiritual Qi and her third modified quantum sensor, and the particle monitor reacted.
• When Lin Wei brought the sensor near Chen Feng, it detected stronger Spiritual Qi fluctuations from him, and he admitted that he had absorbed some.
• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that a collection device would take a few more days to prepare and agreed to make the sensor portable.
• Chen Feng gave Lin Wei an Essence Nourishing Pill, then took the sensor and returned to the Painting Scroll World to test his conjecture.

Chen Feng tested the Painting Scroll World's herbs and discovered that three contained Spiritual Qi, then considered how the Xingfeng Sect might obtain more. Meanwhile, Liu Qian arrived at a meeting in Liuyang Town as the Ning Kingdom's invasion threatened the region.

• Chen Feng used a sensor to confirm that Hengduan Mountain had little Spiritual Qi and began testing herbs, pills, and ores from the Xingfeng Sect's treasury.
• Chen Feng found three herbs containing Spiritual Qi and asked the sect's Alchemists to identify them; they named flame grass, scarlet spirit root, and three crow grass and estimated their value at ten thousand taels each.
• Chen Feng found that the sect had only a few dozen of each herb and decided to ask Liu Qian to buy more, while reflecting that wiping out Lineages brought wealth faster than trading.
• Chen Feng returned to cultivating as he waited for Lin Wei to develop a device that could collect Spiritual Qi from the herbs.
• Liu Qian arrived at the Mo Household with Xingfeng Sect martial artists to attend the three great Lineages' meeting, bringing ten armed inner sect martial artists for protection.

Liu Qian represented the Xingfeng Sect at a meeting called by the Mo Household to organize forces for the imperial family’s campaign against the Ning Kingdom. He announced that the sect would send only ten Postnatal martial artists and one Xiantian expert, claiming each Xingfeng disciple was worth a hundred men, and left the other leaders skeptical.

• Liu Qian arrived at the Mo Household and was welcomed into the main hall as a representative of the famed Xingfeng Sect.
• Mo Chen offered Liu Qian the seat reserved for the Jiang Household, while the Wang Household head questioned why Chen Feng had not come.
• Mo Chen said his household would send five hundred Postnatal martial artists and three Xiantian experts; the Wang and Wei Households each pledged three hundred Postnatal martial artists and two Xiantian experts.
• Liu Qian announced that the Xingfeng Sect would send ten Postnatal martial artists and one Xiantian expert, drawing surprise and mockery from the other leaders.
• Liu Qian declared that one Xingfeng Sect disciple was worth a hundred Postnatal martial artists, and the Wei Household head suggested Chen Feng should join the battle himself.

Liu Qian let a Xingfeng Sect inner disciple demonstrate the sect’s hidden weapon, which killed three Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm martial artists from the Wang Household. Mo Chen agreed that the Xingfeng Sect could send ten people to Liuyang Town the next day, but the head of the Wang Household stopped Liu Qian and demanded to know what the weapon was.

• The head of the Wang Household challenged Liu Qian’s claim by sending three Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm martial artists to fight a Xingfeng Sect inner disciple.
• The Xingfeng Sect martial artist fired his submachine gun and killed all three Wang Household martial artists before they could attack.
• The crowd and Mo Chen were stunned by the weapon’s power, while the head of the Wang Household confronted Liu Qian over the deaths.
• Liu Qian asked Mo Chen whether ten Xingfeng Sect martial artists would be enough, and Mo Chen agreed after seeing their strength.
• Mo Chen set the gathering for noon the next day at the entrance to Liuyang Town, but the head of the Wang Household blocked Liu Qian and demanded an explanation of the hidden weapon.

After tensions flared between the Xingfeng Sect and the Wang Household, the Ning Kingdom army approached Liuyang Town, and Wang Hu prepared improvised grenade traps with his disciples. The ambushers split up, leaving Wang Hu and ten inner disciples on a hillside to attack the advancing troops.

• Liu Qian led the Xingfeng Sect away from the Mo Household after refusing to answer the Wang Household head, while the Wei Household head warned Wang not to provoke the mysterious Xingfeng Sect.
• Ten days later, news that the Ning Kingdom army was nearing Liuyang Town spread panic among the surrounding powers.
• Mo Yuandao and Wang Hu led an ambush group of more than seven hundred Postnatal martial artists and eight Xiantian martial artists to block the army's western route.
• Wang Hu and several Xingfeng Sect martial artists buried nearly twenty grenades in the road as improvised traps.
• Wang Hu took ten inner disciples to a hillside and ordered them to attack the approaching soldiers, giving the disciples their first real battle.

Lei Poshan learned that martial artists near Liuyang Town had gathered to ambush the Ning army, while the chapter revealed that the war between Ning and Yue was a scheme to raise martial artists as Spiritual Qi-rich “blood food” for cultivators. Wang Hu spotted the Ning army approaching and warned Mo Yuandao’s group, who retreated as Guo Ming pursued them; several explosions then sounded ahead.

• Lei Poshan ordered Guo Ming to lead twenty thousand soldiers against the martial artists gathered near Liuyang Town.
• Lei Poshan reflected that the Ning and Yue kingdoms’ war was being used by cultivators to raise and slaughter martial artists for their Spiritual Qi.
• Wang Hu spotted Ning soldiers approaching the ambush and warned Mo Yuandao that the eastern group had been surrounded.
• Wang Hu led the Xingfeng Sect martial artists away, and Mo Yuandao ordered his own group to retreat toward Liuyang Town.
• Guo Ming pursued Mo Yuandao’s fleeing group after his soldiers slaughtered the eastern ambush, but several explosions sounded ahead.

Mo Chen and the other Lineage leaders abandoned Liuyang Town as Lei Potian’s army arrived and began its attack. In the modern world, Chen Feng received Lin Wei’s new Spiritual Qi-collecting briefcase and prepared to return to the Painting Scroll World, but Liu Mu called about his visit to the military district.

• Wang Hu refused to help defend Liuyang Town, and Mo Chen and the other Lineage leaders evacuated with their people.
• Lei Potian surrounded Liuyang Town and ordered his army to slaughter everyone there for their Spiritual Qi.
• Guo Ming reported that hidden weapons near Liuyang Town had killed martial artists, so Lei Potian sent him with twenty thousand troops and three Transformation Realm experts to seize them.
• Lin Wei showed Chen Feng a silver briefcase that could detect and collect Spiritual Qi, store it, and compress it into Spiritual Qi liquid.
• Chen Feng offered Lin Wei another five hundred million to improve the device and make more, then prepared to return to the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Mu called Chen Feng about the visit to the military district he had arranged for that day.

Chen Feng tested the Spiritual Qi collector and used its liquid to advance his cultivation, then learned that a twenty-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom force was threatening Xingfeng Sect. He sought to break through before helping Wang Hu, but Liu Mu’s offer to visit a military exercise gave him an idea for handling the crisis.

• Chen Feng collected ambient Spiritual Qi and reached the Peak of the Second Layer of Qi Refining after cultivating with a drop of Spiritual Qi liquid.
• Chen Feng discovered that the collector could also absorb Spiritual Qi from medicinal herbs, though it took many herbs to produce a drop.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Wang Hu and the inner disciples were intercepting twenty thousand Ning Kingdom soldiers, including four Transformation Realm grandmasters, and needed reinforcements.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to organize the inner disciples, then absorbed Spiritual Qi from dozens of herbs and began cultivating with the four resulting drops.
• Chen Feng called Liu Mu to cancel his military district visit, but changed his mind when he learned a military exercise was underway and saw a possible way to help Xingfeng Sect.

Chen Feng went to a military exercise after breaking through to the Third Layer of Qi Refining, bringing the painting scroll with him. At the exercise site, Liu Mu introduced him to military-industry representatives, who learned that Chen Feng had developed Blazing Sun Iron.

• Chen Feng retrieved the painting scroll and left his phone behind before traveling to the military exercise site with the military.
• Chen Feng arrived at the base, where Liu Mu showed him the assembled military equipment and explained that tanks made with Blazing Sun Iron would take part in the exercise.
• Chen Feng asked Liu Mu which technologies the country lacked, and Liu Mu identified anti-radar stealth technology as a major weakness.
• Liu Mu introduced Chen Feng to five military-industry representatives in a tent, including Han Fengrui and Zhao Qiming.
• Liu Mu told the representatives that Chen Feng had developed Blazing Sun Iron, and Zhao Qiming greeted Chen Feng with admiration.

Chen Feng inspected Zhao Qiming’s lightweight Blazing Sun Iron tank at a military exercise and decided he could borrow one to help Wang Hu and the others in the Painting Scroll World. As the exercise was about to begin, Chen Feng worried that ten hours had passed there and did not know whether his allies had survived.

• Liu Mu brought Chen Feng and the other experts to the exercise grounds, where the blue-side commander greeted them.
• Zhao Qiming showed Chen Feng the six-ton Blazing Sun Iron tank and explained its speed, protection, and controls.
• Chen Feng asked to learn to drive, and Zhao Qiming showed him the tank’s driver’s compartment and described its automated fire-control system.
• After noticing that some tanks remained unattended and the area lacked comprehensive surveillance, Chen Feng planned to borrow one during the exercise and take it into the Painting Scroll World.
• At the watchtower, Chen Feng told the group he was developing another metal, while keeping his goal of finding radar-blocking metal private.
• Chen Feng worried that Wang Hu and the others might have fallen to the Ning Kingdom’s army during the ten hours that had passed in the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng watched the modern exercise before slipping away to the Painting Scroll World, where Wang Hu and nine Xingfeng Sect martial artists prepared to delay a Ning Kingdom army. Guo Ming caught Wang Hu’s sniper bullet between two fingers, revealing the army’s danger to the sect.

• Chen Feng watched red-side helicopters and armored forces attack during the exercise, and Zhao Qiming explained the Blazing Sun 01 Main Battle Tank to him.
• Chen Feng told Liu Mu he was going to the bathroom, then entered the Painting Scroll World.
• Wang Hu led nine Xingfeng Sect martial artists through the jungle to stop a twenty-thousand-strong Ning Kingdom army from reaching Hengduan Mountain and its villages.
• Wang Hu ordered the martial artists to spread out and stall the army until Xingfeng Sect reinforcements arrived, while he planned to provide cover with his sniper rifle.
• Guo Ming sensed an approaching attack and caught Wang Hu’s 7.62-millimeter sniper bullet between two fingers.

Wang Hu tried to fight off the Ning Kingdom army with his sniper rifle, but even his attacks could only injure Transformation Realm martial artists. As he prepared to sacrifice himself rather than surrender his weapon, Liu Qian arrived with more than a hundred Xingfeng Sect fighters to save him.

• Wang Hu shot Guo Ming from a tree, but Guo Ming caught the bullet and ordered the Ning Kingdom soldiers to pursue him.
• Xingfeng Sect fighters ambushed the Ning Kingdom army with guns and grenades, killing soldiers and injuring a Transformation Realm martial artist at the cost of several of their own lives.
• Guo Ming redirected the pursuit toward Wang Hu, while the Ning Kingdom army counterattacked the scattered Xingfeng Sect fighters.
• Two Transformation Realm martial artists caught up to Wang Hu, struck him down, and demanded his weapon and treasure.
• As Wang Hu reached for a grenade to keep the sniper rifle from falling into enemy hands, Liu Qian arrived with more than a hundred armed Xingfeng Sect fighters and opened fire on his pursuers.

Wang Hu and Liu Qian used a rocket launcher and C4 to kill two Ning Kingdom Transformation Realm martial artists, but Guo Ming arrived with a massive army and surrounded the Xingfeng Sect fighters. As Guo Ming prepared to crush them and wondered why Chen Feng had not appeared, a distant rumble interrupted him.

• Wang Hu joined Liu Qian, then used a rocket launcher and C4 to grievously wound two Ning Kingdom Transformation Realm martial artists before finishing them with an AK.
• Liu Qian urged Wang Hu to retreat, but Wang Hu insisted on saving the Xingfeng Sect fighters holding off the army.
• Guo Ming arrived with Ning Kingdom soldiers, revealed that they had killed the fighters holding them back, and surrounded Wang Hu's group.
• Guo Ming offered to spare the Xingfeng Sect fighters if they surrendered, but Wang Hu refused and prepared to fight.
• Guo Ming asked why the sect master, Chen Feng, had not appeared, then heard a low rumble in the distance.

Chen Feng drove the Blazing Sun 01 Main Battle Tank into the Ning Kingdom army and devastated its soldiers with cannon fire, machine-gun fire, and its crushing tracks. As the Xingfeng Sect fighters rallied to counterattack, Chen Feng blasted Guo Ming and killed the two Transformation Realm martial artists beside him.

• Chen Feng drove the tank out of the forest and fired high-explosive shells into the Ning Kingdom soldiers.
• Guo Ming ordered his troops to surround the tank, but Xiantian martial artists failed to damage its armor with their weapons.
• Chen Feng fired the coaxial machine gun, killing nearby martial artists and soldiers, then drove the tank through the fleeing troops.
• Liu Qian recognized the tank as the sect master's work, and Wang Hu led the Xingfeng Sect fighters in a counterattack.
• Guo Ming dodged a shell, but it struck where he had been standing and killed the two Transformation Realm martial artists beside him.

Chen Feng drove off the Ning Kingdom army with a tank, then learned that its soldiers had slaughtered everyone in Liuyang Town. In the town, Ning Kingdom ancestor Xueyangzi harvested the dead for a cultivation breakthrough before Yue Yao ordered him and the army to withdraw, and Lei Potian discovered the badly wounded Guo Ming.

• Chen Feng used the tank to rout the Ning Kingdom soldiers, then returned to the Xingfeng Sect and learned that the Yue Kingdom imperial family had not responded to the crisis.
• Lei Potian cleared the street of soldiers and welcomed Xueyangzi, who harvested Spiritual Qi from the corpses in Liuyang Town.
• Xueyangzi demanded two hundred thousand more living souls, but Yue Yao arrived and told him that he had to leave the Ning Kingdom after refining three of its cities.
• Xueyangzi departed, and Yue Yao ordered Lei Potian to withdraw his troops.
• Ning Kingdom soldiers brought in Guo Ming, whose body had been devastated, and Lei Potian hurried to him.

After the Xingfeng Sect routed the Ning Kingdom's forces, Yue Yao halted Lei Potian from attacking it and investigated its rise. The Mo Household chose to seek the sect's protection, while Yue Yao decided to visit it herself and grant it authority over nearby martial forces.

• Guo Ming died after soldiers reported that the Xingfeng Sect had routed the twenty-thousand-man force and killed its Transformation Realm fighters, and Lei Potian ordered his army to assemble.
• Yue Yao reminded Lei Potian that the Ning Kingdom's deal with Yue Kingdom was complete and threatened to summon the Yue army, forcing him to withdraw.
• After learning the Ning Kingdom's army had retreated because of the Xingfeng Sect, Mo Chen abandoned his plan to flee to Pingxi City and decided the Mo Household would seek the sect's protection.
• Yue Yao reviewed the report on Chen Feng and the Xingfeng Sect, learned that Jiang Hong had disappeared before the Jiang Household was destroyed, and chose to investigate personally.
• Yue Yao ordered rewards for the forces that resisted the invasion and placed the martial forces within two hundred li of the border under the Xingfeng Sect's jurisdiction.

After the Yue Kingdom rewarded the Xingfeng Sect with jurisdiction over the border region, Chen Feng returned the tank to the modern military exercise grounds. The military discovered missing ammunition and unexplained combat marks on the tank, but its investigation failed to identify Chen Feng and the square-faced man ordered the ammunition recorded as expended.

• The Yue Kingdom's royal family granted the Xingfeng Sect jurisdiction over martial arts factions and settlements within two hundred li of the border, replacing the four great Lineages as tribute collectors.
• Chen Feng returned the tank through the scroll, inspected its faint combat marks, and went back to watch the military exercise.
• After the exercise, Liu Mu prepared to take Chen Feng and the others home, but a square-faced man reported that a tank was missing three high-explosive shells and a thousand rounds of ammunition.
• The square-faced man questioned Chen Feng and the visitors, while Chen Feng concealed his involvement and said he had only gone to the restroom during the visit.
• The square-faced man showed his adjutant photographs of the tank's combat marks, but, unable to explain them, ordered the ammunition recorded as expended during the exercise.