Chapter Summaries

Jack arrived in the Golden Triangle, where Blackwater mercenaries led by Raymond ambushed him on the FBI’s orders. Jack unleashed the Soul-Refining Banner, and the FBI concluded that Jack was X.

• Jack cultivated the Blood Devil Cultivation Method on a smuggling boat and planned to hunt criminal groups in the Golden Triangle to advance his cultivation.
• Jack called his subordinate and learned that two thousand of his men were on their way to meet him.
• Raymond and more than a hundred Blackwater mercenaries surrounded the boat while George watched the operation by video call and sought to confirm whether Jack was X.
• Jack used the Soul-Refining Banner, releasing black Qi and shadows that killed and terrorized the mercenaries.
• Jack jumped into the water with the banner and decided to meet his men and kill the attackers.
• George ordered Raymond to attack the boat, and the FBI executives concluded that Jack was X after witnessing his supernatural power.

Jack and his militia defeated the Blackwater Company mercenaries at the port, and Jack slaughtered them after they surrendered, growing stronger through the Blood Demon Saber. Watching the battle confirmed to George and the FBI that Jack was X, so George planned to enlist Golden Triangle warlords and arrange a military exercise to bring Eagle Sauce Country forces into the region.

• Raymond ordered his mercenaries to destroy the fishing boat, ending the supernatural attacks, but George warned him that Jack would soon return.
• Jack arrived with more than two thousand militiamen, and they defeated the Shadow Guardian Shield after a fierce firefight.
• The remaining Blackwater Company mercenaries surrendered, but Jack killed them and absorbed their blood with the Blood Demon Saber.
• George and the FBI officials watched the recorded battle and concluded that Jack was X.
• George proposed secretly recruiting Golden Triangle warlords and arranging a military exercise to enable Eagle Sauce Country to send forces there.

Chen Feng visited Xingfeng Group’s paint factory, where the first batch of radar-absorbing metal paint was ready, and arranged for Liu Mu to test it. He then went to the research institute to see the new Spiritual Qi Collector, but Lin Wei immediately pulled him into an experiment.

• Chen Feng praised Li Xiaorou for setting up the factory and asked her to buy vehicles, drones, walkie-talkies, and gasoline for the Xingfeng Sect.
• A worker delivered the first batch of metal paint, and Chen Feng told Liu Mu that it could absorb radar signals.
• Liu Mu mobilized experts and security personnel to test the paint and keep the matter secret.
• Chen Feng arrived at the research institute, where Lin Wei took him into the laboratory to help with an experiment.

Chen Feng visited Lin Wei's laboratory, where she showed him a Spiritual Qi Monitor and a large Spiritual Qi Collector. Meanwhile, Liu Mu brought Huo Yuan and other experts to Xingfeng Paint Industry to test Chen Feng's new metallic paint, whose extraordinary color-changing properties astonished them.

• Lin Wei scanned Chen Feng and discovered that his Spiritual Qi was concentrated in one place, then asked him for more Spiritual Qi so she could develop a way to help him control it.
• Chen Feng gave Lin Wei his protective jade pendant and decided to take her large Spiritual Qi Collector to the Painting Scroll World.
• Liu Mu arrived at Xingfeng Paint Industry with Huo Yuan and a group of military experts, who had to wait for him before entering the specially classified enterprise.
• Li Xiaorou showed the experts the metallic paint prepared at the factory, and Huo Yuan saw it instantly match the color of anything it touched.
• Huo Yuan ordered the testing equipment brought in immediately after the paint's color-changing ability left the experts astonished.

The Xingfeng Sect expanded its influence in the Painting Scroll World while Liu Mu’s experts confirmed that Chen Feng’s Phantom Paint had exceptional stealth properties. After emerging from seclusion, Chen Feng learned that Zhao Sha’s older brother Zhao Lie held a position in the Great Yu Dynasty, leaving the sect facing an uncertain threat.

• Experts measured Phantom Paint’s reflection cross section at 0.02 square meters, and Huo Yuan realized its performance could improve further when applied to a fighter jet.
• Li Xiaorou named the product Phantom Paint and explained that production was limited by its difficult manufacturing process and scarce raw materials.
• The Xingfeng Sect expanded its membership and branches, distributed silver rewards to villagers who had built roadblocks, and continued construction of Xingfeng City with Liu Qian’s wide-road plans.
• Chen Feng tried to teach Wang Hu to fly an attack helicopter, but Wang Hu’s fear of heights made Chen Feng seek another candidate.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that the Zhao Kingdom had contacted Zhao Lie, Zhao Sha’s older brother, who held an unknown position in the Great Yu Dynasty.

Chen Feng taught Zhou Jing to fly a helicopter while learning that Zhao Lie had received news of Zhao Sha’s death and was preparing to return north with the Great Yu heir and a thousand Divine Firmament Army soldiers. Back in the modern world, Chen Feng met Liu Mu, who told him the country intended to appoint him an academician of the Dragon Country Academy of Sciences.

• Chen Feng learned that the distant Great Yu Dynasty had little information about the northern six nations and asked Liu Qian to tell him if Zhao Lie returned.
• Chen Feng began teaching Zhou Jing and Wang Hu to operate a helicopter.
• Zhao Lie learned that Zhao Sha had been killed and asked Elder Lin for permission to return home for revenge.
• Elder Lin approved Zhao Lie’s return with a thousand Divine Firmament Army soldiers and the Great Yu heir, and Zhao Lie vowed to kill Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng returned to the modern world with Essence Nourishing Pills and phantom nether metal, then went to Li Xiaorou’s office to meet Liu Mu.
• Liu Mu told Chen Feng that his Phantom Paint had advanced the country’s radar stealth technology and that the country planned to appoint him an academician of the Dragon Country Academy of Sciences.

Chen Feng told Liu Mu that Phantom Paint production depended on a rare meteorite ore in the Golden Triangle and asked him to protect Lin Wei, setting Dragon Country on a search for the material. After Chen Feng instructed Jack on how to handle the coming contact, Zhong Shan and Colonel Zhang met Jack at the border to discuss his escape and the ore.

• Chen Feng agreed to sell Phantom Paint to Liu Mu for 800,000 yuan per liter and said he could currently produce about two liters a day because a rare raw material was scarce.
• Chen Feng told Liu Mu the material was a special meteorite ore found in the Golden Triangle and that Eagle Sauce Country had heard about it; Liu Mu promised to investigate and arranged protection for Lin Wei.
• Chen Feng called Jack, warned him about the Blackwater Company, and instructed him on how to respond when Dragon Country contacted him.
• Jack refined blood with the Blood Demon Saber, reached the Postnatal Second Layer, and received a call from Zhong Shan asking him to meet at the border.
• Zhong Shan and Colonel Zhang met Jack to ask about his escape from the FBI and discuss locating the special raw material.

Jack told Zhong Shan that Blackwater Company and two Golden Triangle warlords threatened him, and he asked Dragon Country to sell him military equipment in exchange for helping find a special stone. Meanwhile, Chen Feng brought fifty cars to the Xingfeng Sect and began teaching its martial artists how to drive, leaving them astonished by the cars’ speed.

• Zhong Shan and Colonel Zhang questioned Jack about escaping the FBI, but Jack said he had jumped into the sea and been rescued by a cruise ship.
• Jack described the threats from Blackwater Company and two warlord factions, and asked Zhong Shan for equipment he could buy.
• Zhong Shan agreed to report the request and gave Jack documents about the special stone Dragon Country wanted him to find.
• Chen Feng brought fifty Tank 300s to the Xingfeng Sect, where the martial artists gathered to inspect the unfamiliar vehicles.
• Chen Feng explained how to drive the cars, and Liu Qian was shocked to learn they could travel a hundred kilometers in an hour.

Chen Feng brought cars to the Xingfeng Sect and met Jack to collect ammunition while learning that warlords Kun Ning and Luo Han threatened Jack’s forces. After reviewing Dragon Country’s weapons list, Chen Feng decided to use gold to buy a dozen or so DF-21 missiles, leaving Jack stunned by the five billion worth of gold he claimed to have.

• Chen Feng introduced fifty cars to the Xingfeng Sect, and its martial artists spent the afternoon learning to drive, with Zhou Jing mastering them fastest.
• Jack told his underlings to scatter and hide after Kun Ning and Luo Han demanded his surrender, then hurried to meet Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng killed several people he suspected were Blackwater Company followers who had been tracking Jack, and Jack reported that he had bought ammunition and rockets.
• Jack told Chen Feng that Dragon Country had offered to sell heavy weapons, and Chen Feng focused on buying DF-21 ballistic missiles.
• Chen Feng told Jack to ask whether Dragon Country would accept gold and said he had about five billion worth; Jack stopped the car in shock.

Chen Feng emptied the Xingfeng Sect’s warehouse, arranged a future arms purchase through Jack, and entered seclusion to attempt a Foundation Establishment breakthrough. A month later in the Painting Scroll World, Great Yu’s heir apparent Lin Xuantian arrived in the Yue Kingdom and demanded guidance to the Great Forest, while Yue Qianshan offered him Yue Yao as a cultivation vessel.

• Chen Feng had Jack wait outside while he emptied the warehouse, then told him to send the equipment list to Dragon Country and keep hidden until the gold transaction.
• Black Widow found her slain intelligence operatives and ordered her people to investigate Jack, while George pressed her to help target him alongside local warlords.
• Zhong Shan told Colonel Zhang that Jack had ordered more than three billion in military equipment, including DF-21 missiles, and Colonel Zhang directed him to seek Liu Mu’s approval.
• After a month in the Painting Scroll World, Lin Xuantian and Zhao Lie arrived at the Yue Kingdom aboard a magic ship.
• Lin Xuantian told Yue Qianshan that his lifespan was short and ordered him to guide the Great Yu party to the Great Forest.
• Yue Qianshan introduced Yue Yao as a cultivation vessel for Lin Xuantian, pleasing the third prince, who saw her removal as clearing his path to the throne.

Yue Yao was handed over to Lin Xuantian as a cultivation furnace, while Yue Qianshan received a Soul-Cleansing Pill. Lin Xuantian’s party encountered Mo Yang and the Mo Household on the road, and Lin Xuantian slaughtered the group after using a Soul Control Technique to turn Mo Yang against his companions.

• Lin Xuantian accepted Yue Yao from Yue Qianshan and gave him a Soul-Cleansing Pill in return.
• Yue Yao guided Lin Xuantian’s Dharma boat toward the Cold Nether Pool, and they spotted Mo Yang’s SUVs on the road.
• Mo Yang and the Mo Household disciples confronted Lin Xuantian’s group, but Zhao Lie killed two disciples and the Divine Firmament Army withstood their gunfire.
• Lin Xuantian controlled Mo Yang with his Soul Control Technique, forcing him to shoot several Mo Household disciples before Lin Xuantian killed the rest.
• Mo Yang remained unable to control his body as Lin Xuantian made him kneel, leaving him devastated by the deaths of his companions.

Lin Xuantian spared Mo Yang and learned about the Xingfeng Sect’s weapons, while Zhao Lie’s party carried off the sect’s vehicles and firearms. After Mo Yang returned with the news that the Great Yu Dynasty had slaughtered the Mo Household’s younger generation, Mo Chen led the grieving household toward the Xingfeng Sect’s inner sect to demand a response.

• Zhao Lie severed Mo Yang’s arms, but Lin Xuantian stopped him and questioned Yue Yao about the Xingfeng Sect and Chen of the Northern Territory.
• Yue Yao described Chen of the Northern Territory routing an army of six hundred thousand with a flying treasure and metal cylinders, and Lin Xuantian examined an AK rifle before ordering his soldiers to load the Law Ship.
• Yue Yao persuaded Lin Xuantian to let Mo Yang return so he could report the Great Yu party’s strength to the Xingfeng Sect.
• Wang Hu and Wu Xing brought Mo Yang and the bodies of more than a dozen Mo Household youths to Hengduan Mountain, where Mo Chen learned that the Great Yu Dynasty had killed them.
• Mo Chen ordered the Mo Household to carry the bodies to the inner sect, and Wang Hu followed the procession.

After the Mo Household’s third-generation bloodline was nearly wiped out, Mo Chen brought his people to the Xingfeng Sect to demand revenge. With Chen Feng in seclusion and the sect’s rules forbidding unauthorized use of heavy weapons, Wang Hu led an armed force to confront the Great Yu cultivators anyway, while Liu Qian let him take the blame; the force set out as Liu Qian worried about their powerful opponents.

• Mo Chen brought the Mo Household’s corpses to the inner sect and knelt with 761 relatives, asking the Xingfeng Sect to avenge the nearly destroyed third generation.
• Liu Qian said Chen Feng was in seclusion and refused to authorize firearms or heavy weapons without the sect master’s orders.
• Wang Hu had Wu Xing take Liu Qian to the main hall, then gathered weapons and led the Xingfeng Sect’s martial artists toward the enemy.
• Zhou Jing prepared to fly the helicopter as the armed force boarded vehicles and set out on foot.
• Liu Qian explained that he had acted opposed to the expedition to preserve the sect’s rules, but said he would still ask Chen Feng to punish Wang Hu for having him dragged away.

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, Chen Feng completed an arms trade with Dragon Country, obtaining a DF-21 missile launcher and other equipment for Jack. He returned to the Painting Scroll World, where Liu Qian reported that the Mo Household’s attack had left the Xingfeng Sect vulnerable, and Chen Feng learned how much had changed during his brief absence.

• Chen Feng reached Foundation Establishment, gaining greater Spiritual Sense, speed, strength, and physical toughness, then returned to the modern world for the scheduled trade.
• Chen Feng instructed Jack to deliver gold bars to Dragon Country in exchange for tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, and missiles; Jack accepted the missile-system documents instead of technical support.
• After the trade, Chen Feng kept one missile launcher vehicle and sent Jack away with the remaining equipment to gather his men and prepare to use it.
• Chen Feng drove the missile launcher vehicle into the Painting Scroll World, sensed that the Xingfeng Sect had fewer inner sect martial artists, and went to the main hall.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that Mo Household disciples had been killed and that Wang Hu and others had gone to battle, leaving the sect exposed; Liu Qian asked Chen Feng to punish him for failing to control the sect.

Chen Feng used Zhou Jing’s helicopter to locate Lin Xuantian’s group in the great forest and prepared to attack them with a ballistic missile. After setting the missile launcher to ignite automatically, he left it standing in Xingfeng Sect’s square as its members watched.

• Chen Feng told Liu Qian not to recall Wang Hu’s group and ordered them to report the Great Yu party’s location so Zhou Jing could search from the helicopter.
• Wang Hu learned Chen Feng had come out of seclusion and was told to locate the enemy without approaching them.
• Lin Xuantian arrived at a cold pool, ordered the surrounding Demon Beasts killed, and told Yue Yao she would cultivate with him as his cauldron.
• Zhou Jing spotted Lin Xuantian’s group from the helicopter and relayed their location to Wang Hu and Liu Qian.
• Chen Feng received the location, drove the missile launcher into Xingfeng Sect’s square, and raised its launch tube while the sect members watched.
• Chen Feng set the missile launcher to ignite automatically after thirty seconds and stepped away.

Chen Feng launched a DF-21 missile from the Xingfeng Sect, stunning martial artists and mortals across the region. After checking its flight data, he adjusted its path as Wang Hu and his men watched the missile streak across the sky toward their position.

• Chen Feng launched the DF-21, and Xingfeng Sect martial artists and people near Hengduan Mountain watched it rise into the sky.
• The missile broke the sound barrier, producing a terrifying sonic boom that startled people across Hengduan Mountain.
• Chen Feng checked the missile's monitoring screen, realized its programmed path would take it far higher than needed to reach its target, and changed the flight path.
• Wang Hu and his men waited in the Great Forest for Chen Feng's orders as the missile's rumbling reached them.
• Wang Hu sent up a drone, saw the missile trailing a long white contrail across the sky, and recognized it.

A missile strike by the Xingfeng Sect devastated the Divine Firmament Army at the cold pool, but Lin Xuantian survived and fled under helicopter pursuit. Chen Feng intercepted him near the Northern Border and attacked with the Azure Secluded Sword.

• Wang Hu ordered the Xingfeng Sect warriors to retreat as Zhou Jing spotted a missile; it redirected toward the cold pool, where it killed many Divine Firmament Army soldiers and left Zhao Lie and Lin Xuantian gravely wounded.
• Zhou Jing tracked Lin Xuantian from the helicopter and fired at him, while he used pills and Law Artifacts to escape the barrage.
• Yue Yao returned to the devastated cold pool, stabbed the helpless Zhao Lie to death, and was restrained by Xingfeng Sect martial artists when Wang Hu arrived.
• Mo Chen chose to stay with the Mo Household and leave Yue Yao for the sect master, while Wang Hu led the others after Lin Xuantian.
• Lin Xuantian prepared to use the Lightning Summoning Technique against the helicopter, but Chen Feng appeared behind him and revealed himself as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Chen Feng told Lin Xuantian he had come to kill him and sent the Azure Secluded Sword slashing toward him.

Chen Feng defeated Lin Xuantian in close combat, revealed himself as an ancient Qi cultivator, and killed him despite Elder Lin's threats. He left planning to strike Great Yu first with missiles rather than wait for retaliation.

• Chen Feng transformed and overwhelmed Lin Xuantian's techniques with his powerful physique, then battered him despite Lin Xuantian's defensive armor.
• Wang Hu and Wu Xing arrived but stayed back, unable to safely intervene as Chen Feng fought Lin Xuantian.
• After Chen Feng knocked Lin Xuantian down, Lin Xuantian identified him as an ancient Qi cultivator and threatened him with Great Yu's power.
• Elder Lin appeared as a Spiritual Sense phantom and warned Chen Feng against harming the heir, but Chen Feng crushed Lin Xuantian's head beneath his foot.
• Elder Lin vowed revenge and disappeared, while Chen Feng decided to attack Great Yu first with missiles and told Wang Hu and the others to return.

After Chen Feng killed the Great Yu heir, the Six Nations feared Great Yu’s retaliation, while Yue Qianshan and the Zhao Kingdom sought peace with the Xingfeng Sect. Great Yu dispatched Lin Qishuang to investigate, and Chen Feng examined the rich haul of artifacts and treasures from his fallen enemies.

• Yue Qianshan learned that Chen Feng had killed the Great Yu heir and ordered the Third Prince to bring gifts to the Xingfeng Sect and courteously retrieve Yue Yao.
• The Zhao Kingdom’s emperor decided to surrender to the Xingfeng Sect and ordered the kingdom’s leaders to bring its treasury’s treasures.
• News spread across the Six Nations: martial arts factions fled the Northern Border, while mortals moved there seeking safety under the Xingfeng Sect.
• Great Yu’s ancestor ordered Lin Qishuang to investigate Lin Xuantian’s death and destroy the Six Nations if Great Yu was not avenged; Lin Qishuang questioned Elder Lin and set out to learn more.
• At the Xingfeng Sect’s graves, Liu Qian promised Mo Chen that Mo Household descendants could join the inner sect and said Chen Feng might heal Mo Yang, while Wang Hu and the others accepted responsibility for breaking the sect rules.
• Chen Feng searched Lin Xuantian’s and Zhao Lie’s Storage Bags, finding over a thousand Spirit Stones, including ten likely High-Grade stones, healing pills, and three Law Artifacts.

Chen Feng secured cultivation techniques and arranged to raise funds and weapons for the Xingfeng Sect as it faced possible retaliation from Great Yu. After tending to Mo Yang, accepting Yue Yao as a disciple, and receiving the Zhao Kingdom’s surrender, he returned to the modern world and asked Lin Wei whether she could make a nuclear bomb.

• Chen Feng punished Wang Hu and the other disciples involved in Liu Qian’s imprisonment by stripping Wang Hu of his elder position and sending them to help build the city.
• Chen Feng ordered Liu Qian to sell the sect’s pills and assets to fund missiles, then learned the Zhao Kingdom had surrendered with two hundred thousand taels of gold and the Yue Kingdom’s third prince had brought gifts.
• Chen Feng promised to find a way to help Mo Yang after examining his missing arms, and Yue Yao asked to join the Xingfeng Sect as an outer disciple.
• Liu Qian accepted the Zhao Kingdom’s gifts and said the sect would establish tax policies, while telling the third prince that Yue Yao had joined the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng returned to the modern world, replied to Lin Wei’s message about his test results, and asked whether she could make a nuclear bomb.