Chapter Summaries

Yi Xuan learned that the Blood Asura Gate’s Soul Star Blood Sea was a hidden hall filled with pools of Essence Blood and a ceiling of blank souls, connected to the massacre of Youyun Kingdom’s villages. He saw the statue of the mysterious Blood Venerable but had not yet learned who or what the figure was.

• Yi Xuan ordered the Blood Asura Gate disciples to surrender their Storage Bags while the Pangu gathered the sect’s resources.
• Yi Xuan questioned a Golden Core cultivator about the Soul Star Blood Sea and the Blood Venerable, whom no one in the sect had seen.
• The cultivator led Yi Xuan, guarded by two Black Tortoise No. 2 units, to the Blood Venerable Hall.
• Inside the hall, Yi Xuan found two pools filled with fresh Essence Blood and learned that the stars on the ceiling were blank souls.
• The cultivator pointed out a statue of the Blood Venerable at the end of the hall’s stone path.

Yi Xuan investigated the Blood Asura Gate’s Soul Star Blood Sea and learned that the Blood Venerable periodically awakened to consume it and leave treasures. When the statue awakened and questioned Lü Huang about a missing object, Yi Xuan’s laser attacks failed, leaving all three Black Tortoise No. 2 units’ emitters ruined.

• Yi Xuan learned from Lü Huang that the Blood Venerable drew essence from the Soul Star Blood Sea and left treasures as rewards.
• Yi Xuan sent drones to collect the blood and soul stars, then asked Lü Huang about the Blood Venerable’s previous awakening.
• The statue’s eyes turned red, its chest formation drained the sea and stars, and Yi Xuan withdrew his drones and took shelter in Black Tortoise No. 2.
• The Blood Venerable awakened and questioned Lü Huang, who said the sect master had not yet found the thing the Blood Venerable sought.
• The Blood Venerable released an overwhelming presence, and Yi Xuan’s three Black Tortoise No. 2 units fired lasers that dissipated before reaching the statue, ruining their emitters.

Yi Xuan faced the Blood Venerable, who offered him rewards if he continued replenishing the Soul Star Blood Sea. Yi Xuan refused indirectly, and the Blood Venerable’s overwhelming presence left him unable to move.

• Lü Huang tried to answer the Blood Venerable’s questions, while Yi Xuan warned him that he might have been tricked.
• The Blood Venerable asked whether the Blood Asura Gate had been destroyed, and Yi Xuan admitted that he had destroyed it.
• The Blood Venerable revealed that the Blood Asura Gate had served him by replenishing the Soul Star Blood Sea and offered Yi Xuan rewards to take over the task.
• Yi Xuan refused to help replenish the Soul Star Blood Sea and secretly issued orders to the mechanical army outside.
• The Blood Venerable unleashed his presence, and Yi Xuan found himself unable to move.

Blood Venerable invaded Yi Xuan’s sea of consciousness and discovered the Book of Technology. Yi Xuan’s attacks failed, and Blood Venerable seized the book while Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense teetered on the brink of collapse.

• Blood Venerable’s presence immobilized Yi Xuan and Black Tortoise No. 2, and Yi Xuan sensed a force emerging from the formation on the statue’s chest.
• Yi Xuan extended his Divine Sense toward the formation, allowing Blood Venerable’s Divine Sense to follow it into his sea of consciousness.
• Blood Venerable overpowered Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense and noticed the Book of Technology floating in his sea of consciousness.
• Yi Xuan attacked Blood Venerable with five Divine Sense Flying Needles, but Blood Venerable destroyed them.
• Yi Xuan used the Spirit Refining Instruction to manifest a Barrett and shot Blood Venerable, but the bullet passed through him without stopping him from seizing the Book of Technology.
• Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense nearly collapsed, leaving him helpless as Blood Venerable held the book and threatened his survival.

After Yi Xuan’s sea of consciousness neared collapse, his fading mind began running countless calculations, and the old man became trapped in the Book of Technology’s knowledge. Yi Xuan’s calculations eventually ended as his mental vision shattered, and he waited for death.

• Yi Xuan realized his sea of consciousness was near collapse, kept intact only by the Book of Technology and the old man’s dispersed Divine Sense.
• As the old man leafed through the Book of Technology, Yi Xuan recalled his life and then drifted into a haze of rapid calculations.
• The old man tried to take the Book of Technology but could not leave Yi Xuan’s sea of consciousness while it remained connected to Yi Xuan.
• The old man absorbed the Book of Technology into his body and began refining it, which pulled his consciousness into a space that forced knowledge into his mind.
• The old man became overwhelmed by the calculations appearing in his mind, while Yi Xuan remained unaware and watched the calculations finish.
• When the final calculation ended and his mental scene shattered, Yi Xuan spread his arms and calmly awaited death.

Yi Xuan recovered after Blood Venerable’s Divine Sense collapsed, and he learned that the Book of Technology had preserved fragments of the old man’s memories. After confronting Lü Huang for insulting Black Tortoise No. 2, Yi Xuan heard his explanation and realized Lü Huang had used him as a spear.

• Vapor from Blood Venerable’s collapsing Divine Sense restored Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense and sea of consciousness, and the Book of Technology returned to its place.
• Yi Xuan learned from the Book of Technology’s light that his vast knowledge had overwhelmed Blood Venerable, and he stored the old man’s fragmented memories for No. 01 to organize.
• Lü Huang assumed Yi Xuan had been defeated, insulted Black Tortoise No. 2, and tried to leave.
• Yi Xuan spoke to Lü Huang, seized him with Black Tortoise No. 2, and smashed Blood Venerable’s statue with one punch.
• Lü Huang broke down, then explained what had happened, and Yi Xuan realized he had used him as a spear.

Lü Huang recounted how the Blood Asura Gate killed his family, driving him to infiltrate the sect and spend a century seeking revenge. When Yi Xuan broke through the sect, Lü Huang led him to the Blood Venerable Hall, hoping Yi Xuan could defeat the Blood Venerable and fulfill his long-awaited vengeance.

• At twelve, Lü Huang returned from gathering herbs to find his parents and villagers murdered by the Blood Asura Gate.
• After an immortal master identified the Blood Asura Gate as the culprit, Lü Huang traveled there and entered as a menial, later becoming a disciple.
• Lü Huang secretly arranged the Blood Asura Gate's massacre of righteous disciples in the Artifact Ruins, hoping to provoke a war that would destroy the sect, but the conflict fizzled out.
• After years of waiting, Lü Huang learned the Blood Venerable was his true enemy and that the Blood Asura Gate served him.
• When Yi Xuan's mechanical army attacked and broke through the Blood Asura Gate, Lü Huang led him to the Blood Venerable Hall, hoping he would kill the Blood Venerable.

Yi Xuan spared Lü Huang and placed him under Soul Control, then claimed the Blood Asura Gate’s vast resources and prepared for the threat of the Blood Venerable. He left Lü Huang in charge of the sect and arranged for it to relocate to the Xia Kingdom, where Zhuo Ning assigned it a mountain range.

• Yi Xuan realized Lü Huang had engineered his conflict with the Blood Venerable, but decided that killing Lü Huang would solve nothing and used the Soul Control Technique on him instead.
• No. 01 inventoried the Blood Asura Gate’s resources, which Yi Xuan found abundant enough to fund the Starlink Project many times over.
• Yi Xuan left the Blood Asura Gate with Lü Huang and ten Black Tortoise No. 2 units, and Lü Huang became the sect master.
• Following Yi Xuan’s instructions, Lü Huang led Blood Asura Gate disciples to the Xia Kingdom.
• Zhuo Ning complained to Yi Xuan about receiving another sect, then assigned the Blood Asura Gate a mountain range in the Xia Kingdom.

Yi Xuan learned that Mu Anqing had vanished at the Eternal Sea after a tsunami swallowed her and four fellow disciples. The account ended before revealing what happened to the group after the wave receded.

• A disciple told Yi Xuan that Mu Anqing had disappeared at the Eternal Sea, and Cui Yan and Xiao Anhe could not explain what had happened.
• Mu Anqing had accepted a mission to clear sea demons from a coastal kingdom in exchange for a Law Artifact, joined by four Grain Avoidance Realm disciples.
• After clearing the kingdom's coast, Mu Anqing wanted to return to the sect, but her companions persuaded her to stay and help at another kingdom's coast.
• More than ten days before the report, a massive tsunami rose from the calm Eternal Sea while the five disciples searched the shore for sea demons.
• The tsunami swallowed Mu Anqing and her companions before they could react.

After Mu Anqing vanished into the Eternal Sea, Yi Xuan and the Azure Cloud Sect tried to determine what had happened and how to find her. Yi Xuan’s search failed when the sea drained the power from his machines, and he ended the chapter asking Xiao Anhe what the Eternal Sea was.

• A disciple reported that Mu Anqing released a blue light that forced the tsunami back into the Eternal Sea before she disappeared.
• Elder Huang and Xiao Anhe suspected that Mu Anqing had either been Soul Controlled or had her body taken over, and Xiao Anhe ordered a search near the coast.
• Yi Xuan secretly sent Firmaments and drones to investigate, but the Eternal Sea drained their power and consumed the Spirit Stones in their equipment.
• Yi Xuan went to Xiao Anhe’s residence, where Xiao Anhe warned him that entering the Eternal Sea could kill even a Spirit Transformation expert.
• Yi Xuan asked Xiao Anhe what kind of place the Eternal Sea was.

After learning that the Eternal Sea rapidly drained spiritual power and made most Spirit Stones unusable, Yi Xuan realized his technology could not search there for Mu Anqing and began planning a new power source. Unaware that Mu Anqing was already in the sea people's largest city, Yi Xuan mobilized No. 1 Base while the sea people welcomed her as their returning ancestor.

• Xiao Anhe explained that the sea people lived in the Eternal Sea and that humans called it the Land Forsaken by Heaven because spiritual power was consumed rapidly there.
• Yi Xuan learned that Mid-Grade and higher Spirit Stones could not be used in the Eternal Sea, while spiritual power in anything flying high above it was drained especially quickly.
• Yi Xuan realized those conditions had caused the Firmament and his drones to fail, and that his existing technology could not search for Mu Anqing there.
• Back at No. 1 Base, Yi Xuan focused on researching nuclear power and ordered the base to begin preparations.
• Mu Anqing, unbeknownst to Yi Xuan, received the prostrations of countless sea people in their largest city as they welcomed their ancestor's return.

Unable to find uranium-235, Yi Xuan turned from nuclear fission to controllable nuclear fusion and began building a plant in the Xia Kingdom. As the Southern Frontier investigated the Blood Asura Gate’s disappearance, Yi Xuan took Shi Zhenghao and Zhuo Ning to a facility marked with a symbol Shi Zhenghao would later learn represented nuclear power.

• After failing to find uranium-235, Yi Xuan arranged to extract deuterium and tritium and build a nuclear fusion plant in the Xia Kingdom.
• The Blood Asura Gate’s disappearance became known, prompting rumors that someone had wiped out the sect and an emergency meeting of the Azure Cloud Sect’s upper echelon.
• Shi Zhenghao privately asked Yi Xuan whether he had killed everyone in the Blood Asura Gate, then wondered where its remaining disciples had gone.
• Yi Xuan invited Shi Zhenghao to find out and took him aboard the Firmament to a strange building in western Xia Kingdom.
• Zhuo Ning joined them, and he and Shi Zhenghao joked about Zhuo Ning’s role as emperor before the three entered the building.
• Shi Zhenghao noticed a symbol at the entrance that he would later recognize as the symbol for nuclear power.

Yi Xuan started the nuclear power plant, bringing electricity to Xia Kingdom. When the capital’s streetlights illuminated the city, people hailed Zhuo Ning as a celestial god, and rumors spread across the kingdom.

• Yi Xuan showed Zhuo Ning and Shi Zhenghao the nuclear power plant, where human technicians apprenticed under robots.
• Yi Xuan ordered the robots to start the plant, and the successful fusion reaction marked Xia Kingdom’s entry into the electrical age.
• At eight in the evening, the capital’s electric streetlights turned on, drawing astonished residents into the streets.
• Villagers traveled to the capital to see the lights and knelt before them, crying, “Long live the emperor!”
• By the next day, rumors portrayed Zhuo Ning as a celestial god who had brought the sun down into the capital.

Yi Xuan used the new power supply system to bring streetlights and free home lighting systems to cities throughout the Xia Kingdom. As the people grew curious about electricity, he introduced radios to help enlighten them, and households discovered music and news broadcasts.

• Yi Xuan had the artificial intelligence build the power supply system needed to connect the nuclear power plant to the streetlights.
• Mechanical puppets installed streetlights throughout the Xia Kingdom’s cities, and the lights switched on one evening, prompting nationwide celebrations.
• Royal shops began offering free home lighting systems, and households across the country had them installed.
• Yi Xuan introduced radios in the royal shops, and buyers discovered they could tune them to hear a woman sing.
• Neighbors gathered in homes with radios to enjoy broadcasts, including stories, songs, operas, and news about the Xia Kingdom.

Radio broadcasts opened the people of Xia Kingdom to accurate weather forecasts, government policies, and scientific knowledge, accelerating modernization and public demand for new technology. Yi Xuan left the capital after Liang Shi agreed to oversee his development plan, while Fatty Lin’s oil business grew into a major beneficiary of the kingdom’s transformation.

• Radio weather forecasts attracted rural listeners, and broadcasts helped people learn court policies and practical scientific knowledge.
• Xia Kingdom’s scholars began buying basic science books as the emperor’s planned examination reforms made classical learning less decisive.
• Yi Xuan struggled to keep modernization aligned with public demand and turned to Liang Shi for help after Liang Shi’s bioengineering research reached a milestone.
• Yi Xuan handed Liang Shi Xia Kingdom’s future development plan and fled the capital, leaving Liang Shi to carry it out with Shi Zhenghao and Zhuo Ning nearby.
• Under Liang Shi, factories and modern products spread through Xia Kingdom, while Fatty Lin’s oil profits surged as oil became essential to daily life.

After a year away, Yi Xuan returned to a modernized Xia Kingdom and learned that Imperial University was replacing the old path through the Hanlin Academy. He took the university’s entrance examination, and the story left him waiting for the results alongside Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong.

• Yi Xuan entered the bustling imperial city and met Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong, who told him about Imperial University’s upcoming entrance examination.
• Li Lin warned Yi Xuan that the university tested modern subjects rather than the classics he had studied, but Yi Xuan decided to try anyway.
• Yi Xuan completed the preliminary examination in fifteen minutes, while Li Lin and his companions assumed he had handed in a blank paper.
• Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong drank with Yi Xuan after the exam and worried over their mistakes on the paper.
• The three companions packed to leave before the results came out, but Yi Xuan’s confidence persuaded them to stay and wait.

Yi Xuan checked his first-round results with Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong, then joined them for the second-round examination at Imperial University. When Liang Shi recognized Yi Xuan’s handwriting on an exam paper, he went to the imperial palace to find Zhuo Ning, while Yi Xuan astonished an examiner by completing his formula.

• Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong found out they had passed the first round, and Yi Xuan’s score of 213 was higher than all three of theirs.
• Yi Xuan and his friends were assigned to the same examination room for the second round, where Huang Ju lent Yi Xuan a basic physics book.
• Liang Shi recognized Yi Xuan’s handwriting on a first-round exam paper and hurried to the imperial palace to find Zhuo Ning.
• During the second-round examination, Yi Xuan completed and expanded an examiner’s formula on the blackboard.
• The examiner admired Yi Xuan’s work and told him not to call him teacher.

Yi Xuan reunited with Zhuo Ning and Liang Shi after impressing Teacher Niu during Imperial University's entrance exam. At the imperial palace, he revealed an Arc Reactor that proved Niu Keli's theory of miniaturized nuclear fusion was correct.

• Yi Xuan completed Teacher Niu's formula, astonishing the teachers and the other exam candidates.
• Zhuo Ning and Liang Shi arrived, and Liang Shi greeted Yi Xuan as his master and reported that his bioengineering work was progressing well.
• Yi Xuan praised the changes in Xia Kingdom, recommended Li Lin, Huang Ju, and Han Yong for admission, and invited Teacher Niu to the palace.
• At the palace, Teacher Niu explained that his formula suggested miniaturized nuclear fusion was possible but that he had been unable to develop it further.
• Yi Xuan showed Niu Keli the Arc Reactor and confirmed that it was a successful application of miniaturized nuclear fusion.

Yi Xuan showed Niu Keli the Arc Reactor and offered him a chance to continue advancing nuclear technology in his place. Niu Keli eagerly agreed, and Yi Xuan proposed using Soul Control to ensure his loyalty.

• Yi Xuan showed Niu Keli the palm-sized Arc Reactor, and Niu Keli marveled at the achievement.
• Niu Keli suggested Yi Xuan become dean, but Liang Shi explained that Yi Xuan was his teacher and refused to take a university post.
• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi praised Niu Keli’s nuclear research, and Yi Xuan offered him an alternative to becoming dean.
• Niu Keli agreed to follow Yi Xuan before hearing the details, and Yi Xuan asked him to take over nuclear research while he attended to other matters.
• Yi Xuan explained that his technology could transform the immortal cultivation world and said he required absolute loyalty.
• Yi Xuan offered Soul Control as a way to secure Niu Keli’s loyalty.

Yi Xuan gave Niu Keli access to advanced nuclear technology after placing him under a gentler form of Soul Control, then revealed a helicarrier equipped with optical camouflage and formations. He planned to use it and the Starlink Project to operate in the dangerous Eternal Sea, where he was also seeking news of Mu Anqing.

• Yi Xuan placed Niu Keli under Soul Control, assigned him to the nuclear power plant, and granted him the highest clearance to study the miniaturization technology.
• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi discussed the Azure Cloud Sect’s unsuccessful search for Mu Anqing and the caravan’s limited progress in the Eternal Sea.
• Yi Xuan explained that the caravan had been sent to learn about the sea race and gather news of Junior Sister Mu, rather than to enter the sea race’s market.
• Yi Xuan used his wristband to reveal an island that vanished under optical camouflage, exposing a huge ship beneath it.
• Yi Xuan showed Zhuo Ning and Liang Shi that the ship was a helicarrier lifted by four enormous rotors, reinforced with formations and intended to work with the Starlink Project.