Chapter Summaries

Wang Hu arrived in Pingxi City with Xingfeng Sect martial artists to collect Spiritual Qi and learned that the Iron Sword Hall had seized the Illusory Concealment Nether Metal Chen Feng wanted. After the Iron Sword Hall mocked and refused to answer for injuring Xingfeng Sect spies, Wang Hu recalled Chen Feng's advice and stood ready to act against them.

• Chen Feng returned to the modern world, hoping to obtain more weapons by eliminating Khun Sa and taking over his territory and forces.
• Wang Hu led Xingfeng Sect inner sect martial artists into Pingxi City to collect Spiritual Qi, then met spy Li San, who reported that the Iron Sword Hall had monopolized the Illusory Concealment Nether Metal and injured Xingfeng Sect members.
• Wang Hu led his group to the Iron Sword Hall despite Li San warning that its branch had at least six Xiantian experts.
• Wang Hu kicked the Iron Sword Hall guard aside and announced his arrival, drawing the attention of the Wang Household and Wei Household heads, who hoped the Iron Sword Hall would defeat him.
• Yun Tianxiang, the Iron Sword Hall branch master, dismissed the complaint, while his subordinates mocked Wang Hu and his men; Wang Hu recalled Chen Feng's advice to kill those who refused to listen.

Wang Hu used grenades and rifles to defeat Iron Sword Hall in Pingxi City and take its Illusory Concealment Nether Metal, while the royal forces chose not to intervene. In the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng discovered that the scroll made the Azure Secluded Sword’s Spiritual Sense disappear in the modern world and restored it when he returned.

• Wang Hu attacked Iron Sword Hall with grenades and rifle fire, killing several martial artists and forcing Yun Tianxiang to surrender the Illusory Concealment Nether Metal.
• Yun Tianxiang handed over the metal, and Wang Hu led his men out of Pingxi City with the chests loaded onto carriages.
• A royal commander revealed that he had held back because Princess Yue Yao’s disappearance might be connected to the Xingfeng Sect.
• Wang Hu sent Li San to escort the metal to the sect, then began using the Spiritual Qi Collector outside the city.
• Chen Feng found that the Azure Secluded Sword’s Spiritual Sense vanished in the modern world and returned when he traveled back to the Painting Scroll World.

Chen Feng tested the Azure Secluded Sword and learned its limits before heading to Jack’s battle with Ang Shanzhi. After Ang Shanzhi withdrew under Khun Sa’s orders, Chen Feng told Jack to pursue, intending to take their autocannon and equipment.

• Chen Feng linked his Spiritual Sense to the Azure Secluded Sword, learned to fly it within an eight-hundred-meter range, and realized he needed the Sword Control Technique to use it fully.
• Chen Feng tried to call Jack for information about Khun Sa, then learned that Jack’s men were fighting Ang Shanzhi’s militia outside Shan State.
• Ang Shanzhi’s autocannon devastated Jack’s forces, but Khun Sa ordered Ang Shanzhi to return to the main camp immediately, forcing him to withdraw.
• Chen Feng appeared near Jack’s men, ordered Jack to pursue Ang Shanzhi, and said he would handle the autocannon.

Chen Feng used the Azure Secluded Sword to slaughter Ang Shanzhi’s militia, allowing Jack and his men to defeat them and seize their equipment. The battle ended with Ang Shanzhi dead and Chen Feng ordering Jack to strip the area of its weapons and drug operations as he continued his plan to take Khun Sa’s territory.

• Ang Shanzhi stopped his convoy and prepared to fight Jack, but his autocannon gunner was suddenly decapitated by the Azure Secluded Sword.
• Chen Feng controlled the sword with his Spiritual Sense as it killed militiamen, while Jack’s men arrived and opened fire on Ang Shanzhi’s force.
• Ang Shanzhi fired a rocket at the sword, but it survived the blast and pierced his forehead.
• Ang Shanzhi’s remaining militiamen panicked and surrendered, and Jack’s men gathered the survivors and spoils.
• Chen Feng told Jack to collect the equipment and clear out the local drug factory and growing areas.

Khun Sa summoned his forces after fearing an unknown enemy, then ordered West and Blackwater to raise his security after learning Ang Shanzhi had been killed. Chen Feng prepared to attack Khun Sa’s headquarters, and Zhong Shan warned Jack that Blackwater reinforcements would arrive within three hours and offered help from the undercover agent Rattlesnake.

• Li Ya heard Liu Meng and Sister Li discuss their drug operations, then secretly reported Khun Sa’s sudden summons to her agency as Rattlesnake.
• West arrived with Blackwater mercenaries, and Khun Sa hired him to strengthen security after Sister Li reported that Jack had killed Ang Shanzhi.
• Zhong Shan learned of Ang Shanzhi’s death and Khun Sa’s mobilization, while Chen Feng ordered Jack to send the rescued Dragon Country victims home and kill everyone at the heroin factory.
• Jack reported Khun Sa’s heavily guarded headquarters and its weapons to Chen Feng, who decided to go to Chiang Rai and prepare an attack.
• Zhong Shan warned Jack that Blackwater reinforcements would arrive in three hours and offered Rattlesnake’s assistance, which Jack agreed to contact.

Li Ya gave Jack information about Khun Sa’s radar, allowing Chen Feng to fly into the camp’s perimeter and begin eliminating its watchtower guards. Meanwhile, Li Ya was exposed as an undercover agent and brought before Khun Sa, who ordered her killed as Chen Feng’s attack began.

• Li Ya received orders to assist Jack, then gave him Khun Sa’s radar locations, blind spots, and patrol details.
• Chen Feng used Li Ya’s information to avoid detection, flew toward Khun Sa’s camp, and sent the Azure Secluded Sword to kill guards in the watchtowers.
• Liu Meng and Sister Li identified Li Ya as a member of the Sixth Narcotics Enforcement Detachment and took her to Khun Sa’s house.
• Khun Sa asked West when his reinforcements would arrive, then told Li Ya that she had to die.
• Liu Meng asked Khun Sa to let him take charge of Li Ya.

Chen Feng attacked Khun Sa’s headquarters to rescue the captured undercover agent Li Ya, but Khun Sa threatened to detonate explosives and then ordered his forces to fire on them. Chen Feng escaped through the roof with Khun Sa and Li Ya as autocannon fire destroyed the building, and a tank shell raced toward them.

• Liu Meng showed interest in Li Ya, but Khun Sa rebuked him and Sister Li for selling heroin on the mainland against his orders.
• Chen Feng reached the roof, learned that Li Ya was an undercover agent, and decided to keep her alive while concealing his identity.
• Khun Sa ordered West to have Li Ya killed, but Chen Feng’s Azure Secluded Sword burst through the ceiling, killed Sister Li, and stopped inches from Khun Sa’s chest when Khun Sa threatened to detonate a thousand kilograms of TNT.
• Chen Feng descended in the open, and Li Ya recognized him as the Silver-Haired Immortal she had seen in an online video.
• Khun Sa knelt and offered Chen Feng his wealth, but Chen Feng immobilized him and declared that he would not die.
• Khun Sa ordered his forces to fire; Chen Feng grabbed him and Li Ya and escaped through the roof as autocannon rounds destroyed the building, then a tank fired a shell at them.

Chen Feng rescued Li Ya from Khun Sa’s camp, killed Khun Sa, and escaped before the explosives beneath the camp detonated. After reuniting with Jack, Chen Feng reflected on the danger caused by his overconfidence, while Zhong Shan waited for news at the Border Bureau.

• Chen Feng used his jade pendant to block a tank shell, then flew away from Khun Sa’s camp with Li Ya and Khun Sa as the militia prepared to pursue them.
• Chen Feng ignored Khun Sa’s threat that killing him would trigger the buried explosives and snapped his neck before fleeing with Li Ya.
• The explosives detonated and devastated Khun Sa’s camp, killing most of the militia and destroying much of the surrounding area.
• After receiving a message confirming Khun Sa’s death, Jack led his men to the camp, ordered them to secure the area, and found Chen Feng in the jungle with the unconscious Li Ya.
• Chen Feng told Jack to hold Li Ya, identified her as the Dragon Country undercover agent Rattlesnake, and decided to return to the Painting Scroll World to heal.
• Zhong Shan waited at the Dragon Country Border Bureau for news from Jack.

After Jack destroyed Khun Sa’s headquarters, Zhong Shan celebrated the drug lord’s fall and planned to ask Jack to destroy the heroin factories. As Blackwater mercenaries withdrew and Li Ya awoke in Jack’s custody, she suspected that the silver-haired immortal was the power behind Jack.

• A staff member told Zhong Shan that Khun Sa’s headquarters had been destroyed and several thousand militiamen had died or been captured; Zhong Shan ordered Jack to destroy the heroin factories.
• Golden Triangle bosses investigated Jack and began directing business to his two entertainment venues, while Dragon Country’s online commenters argued over who had killed Khun Sa.
• Zhang Jiajia attributed Khun Sa’s death to the silver-haired immortal and decided to return to the Golden Triangle to find him.
• Raymond led Shadow Guardian Shield to the ruined headquarters, learned that Jack’s faction had defeated Khun Sa, and withdrew after deciding Jack’s bounty was too small to pursue.
• Li Ya woke in Jack’s custody without her phone or signal receiver and suspected that the silver-haired immortal was Jack’s powerful backer.

Jack told Li Ya that Khun Sa was dead but that she had to remain under surveillance in the Golden Triangle to protect Chen Feng’s identity. In the Painting Scroll World, Wang Hu returned to the Xingfeng Sect as the third prince arrived to demand Yue Yao, while Yue Qianshan watched and considered testing or killing the sect’s immortal cultivator.

• Jack told Li Ya that Khun Sa was dead and that she could not return to her country because she knew about Chen Feng.
• Wang Hu returned to the Xingfeng Sect, learned that Chen Feng had given Wu Xing a Gatling, and asked whether Chen Feng had left seclusion.
• A messenger warned Wang Hu that the royal family had arrived, and the third prince came to exchange goods for Yue Yao.
• Yue Qianshan observed the Xingfeng Sect from a tree, suspected Chen Feng was the immortal cultivator he had met, and considered taking his wealth and Spiritual Qi if he proved weak.
• Wang Hu confronted the third prince’s party at the mountain gate, and the third prince demanded to know why the Xingfeng Sect’s master had not appeared.

The third prince arrived at the Xingfeng Sect to trade for Yue Yao, but Liu Qian refused to release her until the royal family handed over all the goods. A fight broke out, and just as Wu Xing turned his Gatling gun on the third prince, an old man appeared in the sky and intervened.

• The third prince demanded that the Xingfeng Sect hand over Yue Yao, while Liu Qian insisted the royal family provide all the goods first.
• The third prince proposed a contest, and Elder Jiang faced Wu Xing, who killed him with a Gatling gun.
• The third prince ordered his Transformation Realm martial artists to seize Wu Xing's weapon, but Wu Xing and the Xingfeng Sect fighters killed three of them.
• Wu Xing aimed his Gatling gun at the third prince, but a streak of blue light broke Wu Xing's arm and knocked the weapon away.
• An old man appeared hovering in the sky, and the third prince and his companions knelt and greeted him as their Ancestor.

Yue Qianshan intervened when the Yue Kingdom’s third prince was in danger, but Chen Feng emerged from seclusion and revealed himself as an immortal cultivator. After Chen Feng overpowered Yue Qianshan in a brief fight, Yue Qianshan called off the conflict and suspected Chen Feng was an ancient Qi refiner.

• Yue Qianshan stopped the third prince from being struck by a deadly weapon, then demanded that Liu Qian explain the Xingfeng Sect’s actions and asked for Chen Feng.
• The third prince urged Yue Qianshan to destroy the Xingfeng Sect, but Chen Feng flew out from the inner sect and confronted him.
• Chen Feng and the Xingfeng Sect’s martial artists revealed their strength as cultivators, and the sect’s members knelt to greet their master.
• Chen Feng challenged Yue Qianshan over their deal, then struck him twice and withstood his Ice Arrow Technique with his body protected by Spiritual Qi.
• Yue Qianshan asked Chen Feng to stop fighting, said their deal still stood, and suspected that Chen Feng was an ancient Qi refiner.

Chen Feng negotiated with Yue Qianshan after revealing enough power to make the Yue Kingdom’s ancestor wary, then returned to the Xingfeng Sect with tribute and a Storage Bag. He discovered a Sword Control Technique inside and planned to strengthen his cultivation before Xueyangzi came looking for the Azure Secluded Sword.

• Chen Feng confronted Yue Qianshan, who apologized for injuring Wu Xing and agreed to provide compensation and texts about Yingzhou’s immortal cultivators.
• Yue Qianshan yielded the Yue Kingdom’s northern region to Chen Feng, while Chen Feng promised the Xingfeng Sect would not invade the kingdom and later released Yue Yao.
• The Third Prince delivered tribute and Healing Pills to the Xingfeng Sect, while Wang Hu had the heads of the Wang Household and Wei Household arrested for targeting the sect.
• Chen Feng examined the treasures and spiritual liquid in the secret chamber, then found a twenty-cubic-meter Storage Bag containing a Jade Slip.
• Chen Feng learned the Sword Control Technique and resolved to improve his cultivation so he could fully control the Azure Secluded Sword before Xueyangzi came for it.

Chen Feng returned from the Golden Triangle with weapons and communication equipment for the Xingfeng Sect, empowering Wang Hu and Liu Qian to strengthen the sect’s forces and coordination. He then left the sect’s affairs to them and went into seclusion, planning to move his businesses to Yun Province and form a group.

• Chen Feng learned that Jack had looted Khun Sa’s arms, taken in militia, and built the strongest armed group in the Golden Triangle; he approved Jack’s plan to establish a military company named after him, provided it did not harm Dragon Country.
• Chen Feng instructed Jack to cooperate with Dragon Country and confirmed that Li Ya remained in custody, then transported a large cache of rifles, ammunition, grenades, rocket launchers, security equipment, and walkie-talkies to the Painting Scroll World.
• Chen Feng distributed the new rifles to the Xingfeng Sect’s inner sect martial artists and gave Wang Hu the Barrett sniper rifle, warning him to conserve its twenty armor-piercing rounds.
• Chen Feng demonstrated the walkie-talkies to Wang Hu, Liu Qian, and Wu Xing, and Liu Qian recognized their value for coordinating the sect’s businesses and spies; Chen Feng assigned half of the devices to the inner sect and half to Liu Qian.
• Chen Feng left the sect’s affairs to Liu Qian and Wang Hu, returned to the secret chamber to go into seclusion, and planned to move his businesses to Yun Province and establish a group.

After Chen Feng defeated the Yue Kingdom's patriarch, the Yue Kingdom ceded its northern territory to the Xingfeng Sect, and the kingdom's major martial forces began treating Chen as a formidable immortal. In the modern world, Chen told Li Xiaorou to move Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and its mining business to Yun Province and merge them into a group.

• Liu Qian released Yue Yao after the Yue Kingdom's patriarch made a deal with Chen Feng, and the third prince's men escorted her away.
• Yue Yao learned that Chen Feng had suppressed her grandfather, while the third prince blamed her for the imperial family's loss of face.
• The Yue Kingdom's imperial family ceded its entire two-hundred-li northern territory to the Xingfeng Sect, prompting rumors about Chen Feng's power.
• The Iron Sword Hall's chief hall master told Yun Tianxiang that Chen Feng had defeated the Yue Kingdom's patriarch and ordered him to deliver more illusory concealment nether metal as an apology.
• Chen Feng told Li Xiaorou to relocate Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals and the mining business to Yun Province and merge them into a group.

Chen Feng promoted Li Xiaorou to general manager of Xingfeng Group and tasked her with launching metallic paint production and promoting a new pharmaceutical product. At Xingfeng Mining, he discussed the Spiritual Qi Collector’s delayed chip and told Lin Wei he planned to move to Yun Province and establish a research institute for her.

• Chen Feng assigned Li Xiaorou to establish a metallic paint company and asked about the Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pill, whose trials had passed.
• Chen Feng appointed Li Xiaorou general manager of Xingfeng Group, raised her annual salary to three million, and left her to prepare for the product’s press conference.
• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei’s laboratory, where Professor Zhou and the other experts said the Spiritual Qi Collector needed only a chip; Chen Feng promised to credit them as researchers on his new metal project.
• Chen Feng told Lin Wei he could not obtain lithography machines, then offered another fifty million to speed up chip manufacturing.
• Chen Feng proposed moving to Yun Province and building Lin Wei a dedicated research institute, and Lin Wei agreed while insisting on high standards.

At Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ press conference, Li Xiaorou unveiled the Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pill and demonstrated its immediate effects, winning over skeptical reporters and viewers. She announced its price and launch date, then defended the company’s decision to sell its products only in Dragon Country.

• Li Xiaorou announced that Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals’ new product was the Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pill, which she said boosted immunity, improved cardiovascular health, relieved fatigue, and increased metabolism.
• Li Xiaorou invited an exhausted reporter to take a pill, and the reporter’s fatigue and dark circles disappeared within seconds.
• Several more reporters took the pill, and tests showed improved physical readings, convincing the audience that its effects were real.
• Li Xiaorou announced that each pill would cost two thousand, go on sale in three days, and qualify for tenfold compensation if consumers experienced no effect; she also said it had no side effects.
• When a foreign reporter accused Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals of selfishness for not selling abroad, Li Xiaorou pointed to restrictions on lithography machines and declared that the company served Dragon Country, drawing applause.

Li Xiaorou announced Xingfeng Group’s expansion as foreign officials investigated its medicines and Jack’s rise in the Golden Triangle. Meanwhile, Xueyangzi emerged from seclusion, learned of a mysterious cultivator in the Yue Kingdom’s northern territory, and discovered he could no longer sense his Azure Secluded Sword.

• Li Xiaorou announced that Xingfeng Pharmaceuticals would become Xingfeng Group, including Xingfeng Mining and Xingfeng Paint Industry, prompting domestic praise and foreign skepticism.
• George ordered the FBI to investigate Xingfeng Group’s technology and assigned Weiss to bring Jack back from the Golden Triangle.
• Chen Feng extracted spiritual liquid from twenty thousand treasures and spent a month cultivating in the Painting Scroll World.
• Ning Chen and his companions waited for Xueyangzi to emerge from seclusion while worrying about General Lei’s disappearance and the rumors about Chen of the Northern Territory.
• Xueyangzi emerged at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and learned that an unknown cultivator had appeared in the Yue Kingdom’s northern territory.
• Xueyangzi tried to recall the Azure Secluded Sword but could not sense it, then asked Ning Chen for details about the mysterious cultivator.

Xueyangzi learned about Chen Feng and planned to confront him, while Chen Feng advanced to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and discovered that the painting scroll now allowed him to teleport across Hengduan Mountain. The chapter left Chen Feng returning to the Xingfeng Sect as the Mo Household’s leaders watched him go.

• Ning Chen told Xueyangzi about Chen Feng, and Xueyangzi decided to investigate him because Chen Feng had the Azure Secluded Sword.
• Xueyangzi questioned Yue Qianshan about Chen Feng, then left intending to cause him trouble; Yue Qianshan told Yue Yao they would stay out of the conflict.
• Chen Feng broke through to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer after a month of cultivation and returned to the modern world to inspect the painting scroll.
• Chen Feng found that the scroll now depicted the Yue Kingdom’s northern territory and let him teleport anywhere within the colored Hengduan Mountain region, while the time difference had increased to sevenfold.
• Chen Feng met Mo Chen and Mo Yuandao while they were patrolling, then declined Mo Chen’s offer to show him around and headed back to the Xingfeng Sect.

Chen Feng learned that the FBI had secretly taken Jack and was transporting him across the Pacific, so he flew to Eagle Sauce Country to intercept them. Jack's protective jade pendant blocked the agents' attacks, while the coast guard followed the FBI ship without authority to intervene.

• Chen Feng agreed to sell the military Essence Nourishing Body Strengthening Pills at a thirty percent discount and told Liu Mu he would soon finish making a new metal.
• Chen Feng sensed Jack's protective pendant weakening, learned Jack had disappeared, and ordered Jack's men to ask authorities for help investigating.
• Jack's men discovered that the FBI had taken Jack from the Golden Triangle and was transporting him by ship across the Pacific.
• Weiss and the FBI agents saw Jack's jade pendant create a blue shield that stopped bullets, and Weiss ordered them to keep attacking until the light faded.
• A coast guard ship followed the FBI vessel, but its captain told Zhong Shan that he could not stop them without orders from superiors.
• Chen Feng flew overnight to a remote port in Eagle Sauce Country, where the FBI ship was still about two hundred nautical miles away.