Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng flew to a cruise ship to get closer to the FBI vessel and rescue Jack before an Eagle Sauce warship arrived. Jack resisted Weiss’s interrogation after the jade pendant’s protection failed, while Chen Feng left the cruise ship to act before the warship reached them.

• Chen Feng flew from the abandoned port to a nearby cruise ship and decided to give Jack a cultivation method and pills after rescuing him.
• The cruise ship’s crew spotted a humanoid radar return, but the captain dismissed their warning as an excuse.
• Weiss learned that an Eagle Sauce littoral combat ship had been dispatched, then confronted the newly awakened Jack about his jade pendant.
• Jack refused to reveal Chen Feng’s identity, and Weiss’s agents shot at him until the pendant’s blue light faded before beating him.
• A Dragon Country enforcement captain turned his vessel back after hearing that the Eagle Sauce warship was coming.
• Chen Feng received news of the warship and left the cruise ship to reach Jack before it arrived, while Weiss held the pendant and threatened Jack with further interrogation ashore.

Chen Feng flew to the FBI vessel and rescued Jack, killing Weiss and the agents who tried to stop him. With Navy helicopters surrounding the ship, Chen Feng planned to take Jack to a cruise ship and draw the Navy away alone.

• Weiss learned that a humanoid flying object was approaching the FBI vessel, and the Navy captain dispatched helicopters to investigate.
• Chen Feng arrived aboard the FBI vessel on his flying sword, killed Jack's guards, and gave Jack a healing pill.
• Weiss and the other agents confronted Chen Feng, but his sword killed Weiss and then the agents after their bullets failed to harm him.
• Navy helicopters surrounded the FBI vessel and ordered everyone to surrender, while a Dragon Country law enforcement captain halted nearby to observe.
• Chen Feng told Jack he would take him to a cruise ship and then lure the Navy away, but first he had to deal with the helicopters.

Chen Feng destroyed the two armed helicopters and tried to escape the warship’s gunfire with Jack, diving beneath the sea before continuing toward the cruise ship. As the passengers and nearby vessels reacted to the battle, Eagle Sauce scrambled fighter jets and dispatched a fleet to support the Littoral.

• Chen Feng carried Jack underwater, lured the armed helicopters closer, and used the Azure Secluded Sword to destroy both of them.
• Chen Feng surfaced with Jack and flew low toward the cruise ship, but the warship detected him and fired its naval gun, forcing him to dive again.
• Passengers aboard the cruise ship watched the explosions, while its captain ordered the vessel to turn away from the battle.
• The Dragon Country law enforcement captain ordered his vessel to retreat after learning that Eagle Sauce had scrambled fighter jets and sent out a fleet.
• Eagle Sauce launched three F-35C fighters and dispatched a fleet led by six T-AOE combat support ships to support the Littoral.

Chen Feng escaped the naval attack by hiding in the Painting Scroll World, while Jack recovered aboard the cruise ship. The incident prompted investigations in Eagle Sauce Country and Dragon Country, and Jack stayed aboard the ship to avoid being captured again.

• Chen Feng left Jack in a room aboard the cruise ship, then drew the warship away before hiding his scroll in a coral reef and entering the Painting Scroll World.
• Eagle Sauce Country’s navy searched the sea for Chen Feng, but its submarine and deep-sea probe found nothing; the country publicly blamed pirates for the incident.
• George and the FBI officials suspected Jack had supernatural powers, while a mysterious Dragon Country department ordered Zhong Shan to investigate Jack’s connection to the incident.
• Jack woke beneath the bed, discovered his phone was ruined, and decided to remain aboard the cruise ship until it reached another country.

Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect after escaping the Eagle Sauce navy and decided to improve the lives and economy of the Northern Territory’s people. After visiting a village, he ordered Liu Qian to plan a city, leaving the sect poised to begin a major development project.

• Jack escaped on the cruise ship and planned to hide until he could contact Chen Feng, worried about his boss’s fate.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect and ordered Wang Hu to retrieve the Blood Demon Saber Art and Blood Demon Saber for Jack.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that roughly five hundred thousand mortals and seventy thousand martial artists lived in the Northern Territory, and Chen Feng abolished the villages’ annual tribute.
• Chen Feng visited Liu Village, promised the Xingfeng Sect would protect the villagers, and offered to accept children with good Root Bones for martial arts training.
• After leaving the village, Chen Feng told Liu Qian to recruit nearby mortals and build a city to restore trade and develop the Northern Territory.

Chen Feng gave Liu Qian plans for managing Xingfeng City, then entered seclusion while construction began and the Northern Border’s factions sought shops. When Xueyangzi, Zhao Sha, and Qingfengzi plotted to kill Chen Feng, the Ning Kingdom demanded his surrender and threatened invasion, leaving the Xingfeng Sect debating its response as Yue Yao arrived.

• Chen Feng handed Liu Qian documents on city planning and taxation before entering seclusion to restore his Spiritual Qi.
• Liu Qian announced that Xingfeng City’s shops would be leased rather than sold, while the Mo Household oversaw construction and Mo Chen warned its disciples to put the sect first.
• Xueyangzi recruited Zhao Sha and Qingfengzi to help kill Chen Feng and agreed to their demands for his Spiritual Qi, treasures, and blood food.
• The Ning Kingdom issued an ultimatum demanding that Chen Feng kneel and surrender the Xingfeng Sect, threatening to invade the Northern Border with six hundred thousand troops within seven days.
• Wang Hu urged the Xingfeng Sect to fight, but Liu Qian and Mo Chen held him back until they could consider their options.
• Yue Yao requested an audience at the Xingfeng Sect, and Wang Hu agreed to wait and hear her out.

Yue Yao warned the Xingfeng Sect that the Ning Kingdom had assembled a huge army and two allied cultivators, prompting Liu Qian to organize a campaign to delay the invasion. Meanwhile, Chen Feng surfaced in the modern world and was targeted by three Eagle Sauce frigates searching for the mysterious figure codenamed X.

• Yue Yao told Liu Qian and the others that the Ning Kingdom had mobilized six hundred thousand troops and enlisted Qingfengzi and Zhao Sha, while the Yue Kingdom would remain neutral.
• Liu Qian sent Wang Hu to slow the Ning Kingdom army at Yunxiong Pass and ordered Wu Xing to lead three hundred martial artists on a raid toward the Ning Kingdom's capital.
• Liu Qian instructed Mo Chen to rally the Northern Border's martial forces, while the Xingfeng Sect armed its fighters and Xiao Lian helped distribute pills.
• Chen Feng returned to the modern sea, spotted three Eagle Sauce frigates and circling helicopters, and flew away on the Azure Secluded Sword.
• Roberts ordered his frigates to lock onto Chen Feng, prepare naval guns, and ready torpedoes in case he entered the water.
• The frigates fired shells toward Chen Feng as Roberts watched to see whether X would reveal supernatural power again.

Chen Feng narrowly escaped a torpedo by entering the Painting Scroll World, then learned that the Xingfeng Sect faced an invasion by Ning Kingdom and devised a risky plan to steal ammunition from an Eagle Sauce Country warship. Meanwhile, Liu Mu discovered Chen Feng had gone missing in Eagle Sauce Country, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chen Feng escaped the torpedo by entering the Painting Scroll World, and Roberts ordered the frigate to keep searching for him.
• Chen Feng learned from Liu Qian that Ning Kingdom planned to attack the Northern Border with six hundred thousand soldiers and three cultivators, and told him to carry out his plan while Chen Feng handled the rest.
• Chen Feng decided to sneak aboard the frigate and take shells and missiles from its ammunition magazine for use in the Painting Scroll World.
• Li Xiaorou showed Lin Wei the new research institute, and Lin Wei decided to live there while overseeing its preparations.
• Liu Mu learned that Chen Feng had flown to Eagle Sauce Country two days earlier and worried about his disappearance.

Ning Chen brought the Ning Kingdom’s army to the border and offered Wang Hu’s Xingfeng Sect a chance to surrender. The Northern Border’s martial forces then arrived and surrendered to Ning Chen, leaving the Xingfeng Sect facing the Ning army without their support.

• Liu Mu ordered embassy staff to investigate where Chen Feng had gone after reaching Eagle Sauce Country.
• Ning Chen arrived at the border with the Ning Kingdom’s army and warned his generals not to underestimate the Xingfeng Sect’s hidden weapons.
• Wang Hu ordered Mo Yang to set an ambush, then prepared the Xingfeng Sect’s fighters for battle as Ning forces approached.
• Ning Chen offered to spare the Xingfeng Sect if it surrendered, while Wang Hu refused to send for the sect master.
• Thousands of Northern Border martial artists arrived, bypassed Wang Hu’s group, and surrendered to Ning Chen.
• Mo Yang berated Qin Liefeng for abandoning the Xingfeng Sect, but Qin Liefeng and other representatives blamed the sect and demanded Chen of the Northern Territory surrender.

Northern Border martial factions surrendered to Ning Chen, leaving the Xingfeng Sect seemingly isolated, but nearly two hundred thousand villagers arrived to stand with them. Ning Chen withdrew to Yunxiong Pass and prepared to contact Xueyangzi to attack before the deadline.

• Qin Liefeng and the Northern Border martial factions surrendered to Ning Chen, and Wang Hu refused to waste words on them.
• Nearly two hundred thousand villagers arrived at the border and declared they would live and die with the Xingfeng Sect.
• Ning Chen withdrew his forces toward Yunxiong Pass, while Wang Hu thanked the villagers and organized them to build obstacles and prepare defensive positions.
• Liu Qian and Mo Chen watched the villagers gather and recognized their resolve to protect their homeland.
• At Yunxiong Pass, Ning Chen decided to contact Xueyangzi and launch the attack before the seven-day deadline.

Xueyangzi, Qingfengzi, and Zhao Sha completed the Yin Sha Formation, and Zhao Sha used it to slaughter the Northern Border martial artists who had surrendered. As the Ning Kingdom army invaded the Northern Border, Wang Hu’s gunfire killed several powerful martial artists, but the advancing enemy forced him to order a grenade-backed retreat.

• Xueyangzi and Qingfengzi completed the Yin Sha Formation with Yin Qi from Zhao Sha’s Soul-Refining Banner.
• Ning Chen surrounded Qin Liefeng and the surrendered Northern Border martial artists, and Zhao Sha’s Yin souls attacked them as Ning Kingdom soldiers slaughtered them.
• Ning Chen led the Ning Kingdom’s six-hundred-thousand-strong army across the border toward Xingfeng Sect’s roadblocks.
• Wang Hu shot the royal Attendant dead with the Barrett, but Ning Chen survived because his protective object stopped the bullet.
• Wang Hu and other Xingfeng Sect fighters opened fire from the hills, while Ning Chen ordered his army to spread out and send martial artists to attack their positions.
• Wang Hu killed two martial artists with one Barrett shot, then ordered his fighters to throw grenades, retreat while firing, and take turns attacking.

The Xingfeng Sect used rockets, grenades, and a Gatling gun to hold off the Ning Kingdom’s high-level martial artists, while Yue Qianshan and the three immortal cultivators watched and discussed the sect’s weapons. Chen Feng returned from the seabed and flew toward a patrolling warship, where Roberts spotted his signal again.

• Wang Hu ordered the Xingfeng Sect martial artists to retreat while firing rockets and grenades, killing many Ning Kingdom martial artists and slowing their advance.
• Mo Yang sent the Northern Border mortals to the rear to build more barricades, then used a Gatling gun to kill more than a dozen Ning Kingdom Transformation Realm martial artists who had broken through.
• Yue Qianshan told Yue Yao that the Xingfeng Sect’s weapons likely came from an overseas artifact refinement sect, while Xueyangzi, Zhao Sha, and Qingfengzi agreed to wait for Chen Feng before acting.
• Chen Feng emerged from the scroll pinned beneath seabed rocks, concealed his face, and flew toward the nearest patrolling warship.
• Roberts’s monitoring soldier reported that the target had reappeared, and Roberts saw Chen Feng’s signal source on the monitor.

Roberts identified Chen Feng as human and ordered an attack, but Chen Feng escaped into the Painting Scroll World and left the scroll behind for the warship crew to retrieve. Back in the scroll world, Chen Feng learned that the Xingfeng Sect was holding the Ning Kingdom’s army at bay, though its ammunition was running low and three immortal cultivators had yet to appear.

• Roberts used the warship’s electro-optical tracking system to capture images of Chen Feng flying on a sword and ordered the fleet to fire when he approached.
• Chen Feng entered the Painting Scroll World as shells struck the sea, leaving the scroll floating where the warships had attacked.
• A patrol helicopter found the scroll, and Roberts ordered it retrieved, believing it was a divine artifact that had survived the explosions.
• Roberts took the scroll aboard the warship and headed back while the other ships continued patrolling.
• Chen Feng asked a Xingfeng Sect martial artist about the border battle and learned that Elder Wang Hu was holding the Ning Kingdom’s army in check, but the sect’s ammunition was running low.
• Chen Feng returned to the secret chamber to cultivate and recover before returning to the modern world.

Chen Feng used the scroll to reach a warship, forced Admiral Roberts to help him access its systems and ammunition depot, then killed him and began taking missiles. The soldiers gathered on deck, unaware of what was happening below.

• Roberts prayed to the scroll, and Chen Feng emerged from it, disabled Roberts’s pistol, and demanded information about the ammunition depot.
• Chen Feng used Roberts’s face to enter the command center, killed its personnel with the Azure Secluded Sword, and disabled the warship’s surveillance and alarms.
• Chen Feng ordered Roberts to gather the ship’s soldiers on deck, then used the warship map to reach the ammunition depot.
• Chen Feng found a hidden missile room containing four missile types, killed Roberts, and started a conveyor belt beside the scroll.
• Soldiers waited on the main deck without further orders and wondered why Roberts had assembled them.

Officers discovered that Chen Feng had slaughtered the warship’s command room, and he destroyed the vessel with an explosion before escaping into the Painting Scroll World. As the Xingfeng Sect’s ammunition ran low and immortal cultivators joined the attack, Wang Hu refused to retreat, and a helicopter carrying three enormous cylinders approached the battlefield.

• Warship officers found the command room filled with blood and corpses, raised the alarm, and searched for the infiltrator as reinforcements and a naval response mobilized.
• Chen Feng ignited a missile in the ammunition magazine and entered the Painting Scroll World, causing explosions that broke the warship apart and sent it sinking into the sea.
• Mo Yang told Wang Hu that the Xingfeng Sect was nearly out of ammunition, but Wang Hu refused Liu Qian’s advice to retreat without Chen Feng’s order.
• Yue Qianshan and Yue Yao watched the Xingfeng Sect lose ground, while Xueyangzi, Qingfengzi, and Zhao Sha arrived and joined the battle against them.
• Xueyangzi and Qingfengzi flew toward the Xingfeng Sect’s fighters as Wang Hu spotted an approaching helicopter carrying three massive metal cylinders.

Chen Feng arrived above the battlefield in a helicopter and detonated a tactical cruise missile among the Ning Kingdom army, killing or wounding nearly fifty thousand soldiers. As the army fell into chaos, Chen Feng flew away to prepare his next move.

• Chen Feng ordered Wang Hu and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists to withdraw while Ning Chen warned the Ning Kingdom army not to pursue them.
• Chen Feng dropped a missile over the Ning Kingdom army, and Zhao Sha fled as Xueyangzi and Qingfengzi examined it.
• Chen Feng used the Fireball Technique to ignite the missile after it failed to explode on impact.
• The explosion killed Xueyangzi, Qingfengzi, and thousands of soldiers, while the shockwave killed or wounded nearly fifty thousand troops.
• Chen Feng steered the helicopter away as the Ning Kingdom army descended into chaos.

Chen Feng used missiles, artillery shells, and a helicopter gun to rout the Ning Kingdom’s six-hundred-thousand-strong army and save the Xingfeng Sect. He killed Zhao Sha despite warnings about Zhao Sha’s powerful brother, then ordered the sect to seize the Ning Kingdom’s resources as news of the battle spread across the six kingdoms.

• Chen Feng bombarded the Ning Kingdom army from the helicopter, killing Ning Chen and devastating the battlefield as the soldiers fled or surrendered.
• Yue Qianshan and Yue Yao watched the bombardment, while Wang Hu and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists waited for Chen Feng’s orders to return.
• Chen Feng landed, ordered the battlefield cleaned up, and had the surrendered soldiers gathered as Wang Hu and the others welcomed him.
• Chen Feng took Zhao Sha’s Storage Bag and ordered Wang Hu to kill him despite Yue Qianshan’s warning that Zhao Sha’s brother would seek revenge.
• Chen Feng ordered Liu Qian and Wang Hu to retrieve the Ning Kingdom’s treasury, and the account of his victory spread fear across Yingzhou’s six kingdoms.

Wu Xing’s force reached the Ning Kingdom and found its royal family submitting after Chen Feng routed its army and killed its patriarch; the Xue Kingdom also surrendered, while the Zhao Kingdom prepared its defenses. Back at the Xingfeng Sect, Chen Feng studied a cultivation manual that included a Foundation Establishment method, then heard that Liu Qian had returned with spoils from the two kingdoms.

• Wu Xing arrived at the Ning Kingdom’s capital, where the emperor and soldiers knelt and submitted after learning Chen Feng had defeated their army of six hundred thousand and killed their patriarch.
• The Ning Kingdom emperor led Wu Xing and the Xingfeng Sect martial artists toward the imperial palace treasury.
• The Xue Kingdom’s emperor agreed to submit to the Xingfeng Sect, and sent Qingfengzi’s younger brother to make the surrender official.
• The Zhao Kingdom’s emperor ordered troops to the border and sent investigators to learn what had happened, leaving the decision about war to Patriarch Zhao Lie.
• Five days later, the Ning Kingdom and Xue Kingdom became vassal states of the Xingfeng Sect, and other nations sought friendly relations with Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng cultivated with Spirit Stones, studied the Mystic Origin Instruction’s Foundation Establishment method, and received Liu Qian’s call announcing his return.

Chen Feng returned to the modern world after arranging the Xingfeng Sect’s spoils, rewards, and ammunition, while the FBI began hunting for X through Jack. He reached land in Maine and learned that Jack was safe in Mexico, where he planned to meet him.

• Liu Qian reported that the Xingfeng Sect had seized a vast haul from the Ning and Xue kingdoms and secured the five illusory concealment nether metal sites; Chen Feng ordered rewards and future taxes instead of further plunder.
• Chen Feng told Wang Hu to use Spiritual Qi Collectors on the medicinal herbs and promised to supply new ammunition after Wang Hu reported that the sect had run out.
• George concluded that X had sunk the frigate and ordered the FBI to investigate Jack in the Golden Triangle, with Blackwater forces supporting the operation.
• Chen Feng emerged from the Painting Scroll onto a beach in Maine and called Jack after seeing his missed calls.
• Jack told Chen Feng he was safe in Mexico, and Chen Feng said he would come find him.

Chen Feng returned to Mexico, gave Jack cultivation resources and a Soul-Refining Banner for protection, and told him to buy weapons before returning to the Golden Triangle. Meanwhile, FBI Director George hired Blackwater’s Shadow Guardian Shield squad to capture Jack, but commander Raymond underestimated the danger and led his men toward the Mekong River port.

• Chen Feng called Liu Mu and Li Xiaorou, promised to return home in two days, and learned that Xingfeng Group’s relocation was nearly complete and Lin Wei had finished a large Spiritual Qi Collector.
• Chen Feng met Jack at a motel in Mexico and gave him the Blood Demon Saber, the Blood Devil Cultivation Method, cultivation pills, and the Soul-Refining Banner.
• Chen Feng told Jack to return to the Golden Triangle, buy weapons and ammunition, and use the banner if he faced danger.
• FBI agents learned that Jack was returning and reported the news to George while hundreds of Jack’s armed men gathered to welcome him.
• George hired Raymond’s 170 Shadow Guardian Shield mercenaries to capture Jack at the Mekong River port, but Raymond dismissed George’s concerns and set out confidently.