Chapter Summaries

Yi Xuan followed Lin Li to Zhuo Ning's immortal abode, where he revealed a mysterious flight ability powered by Xia Kingdom's Force Field Controller. There he learned Zhuo Ning had been captured by the Fourteenth Prince's people, and his blunt remark angered Zhuo Ning's elderly Attendants.

• Lin Li scrutinized Yi Xuan's unexplained flight and, impressed by the ability, led him into Zhuo Ning's immortal abode.
• Yi Xuan's narration explained that the Force Field Controller manipulated gravity but was crude, limited to acting on its user, and difficult to control.
• Lin Li and Yi Xuan reached a courtyard, where seven or eight elderly men arrived and demanded to know Zhuo Ning's whereabouts.
• Lin Li told the men that Zhuo Ning had been captured after the three Attendants protecting him were killed by the Fourteenth Prince's people from the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Yi Xuan asked who the elderly men were, then called them ancestors, provoking their anger and threats.

Lin Li tried to keep Yi Xuan and Zhuo Ning’s Attendants from clashing, but Yi Xuan’s insults provoked them into attacking. Lin Li took the old men’s palm strike for Yi Xuan and urged everyone to focus on rescuing Prince Ning.

• Lin Li stepped between Yi Xuan and the Attendants and asked them to set aside their anger for Prince Ning’s sake.
• One of the old men demanded an explanation for Yi Xuan’s disrespect, and Yi Xuan called the Attendants parasites for failing to search for or rescue Zhuo Ning.
• The Attendants grew furious, and the leading old man struck at Yi Xuan.
• Lin Li rushed in front of Yi Xuan and took the palm strike, spitting blood but holding his ground.
• Yi Xuan called off his planned Black Tortoise defense and Starlink strike, while Lin Li asked both sides to let the matter go and focus on rescuing Prince Ning.

Yi Xuan promised Lin Li that he would rescue Zhuo Ning and learned that Zhuo Ning had to reach Autumn Leaf City in ten days. He revealed a screen showing Zhuo Ning and spoke to him directly, leaving the old men stunned as Zhuo Ning recognized him.

• Lin Li recovered after the old men gave him a pill, and Yi Xuan promised him that Zhuo Ning would be safe.
• Yi Xuan learned that Zhuo Ning had gone to receive the Liang Kingdom's emperor and princess in ten days at Autumn Leaf City.
• Yi Xuan calculated that he would have to travel from the Blazing Sun Immortal Dynasty to the Clear Wind Pavilion and then to Autumn Leaf City, a journey the old men considered impossible.
• When an old man challenged Yi Xuan to show how he would rescue Zhuo Ning, Yi Xuan conjured a screen showing Zhuo Ning held inside a barrier with two guards.
• Yi Xuan addressed Zhuo Ning through the screen, and Zhuo Ning recognized him while the old man's confidence turned to alarm.

Yi Xuan learned that Zhuo Ning was trapped behind a protective formation established by a Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal and devised a rescue plan. With Liang Shi’s Biochemical Mosquitoes, Yi Xuan’s forces began infiltrating the Clear Wind Pavilion.

• Zhuo Ning told Yi Xuan that a Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal had placed a protective formation around him in the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Yi Xuan found that the Attendants were unwilling to risk a rescue, then told Zhuo Ning to wait while he put an idea into action.
• The Aerospace Mothership hovered above the Clear Wind Pavilion, where Liang Shi operated its controls.
• Yi Xuan praised Liang Shi’s Biochemical Mosquitoes, which had passed through the protective formation and enabled him to contact Zhuo Ning.
• Liang Shi released a swarm of Biochemical Mosquitoes from the mothership, and they flew toward the Clear Wind Pavilion through its mountain-protecting formation.

Li Tong’s attempt to break through to the Golden Core stage was interrupted by sudden diarrhea, which spread through the Clear Wind Pavilion’s outer sect. The sect master sought help from the third elder and sent for a mortal physician, then went to the back mountain where Zhuo Ning was imprisoned.

• Li Tong’s True Essence began forming a Golden Core, but an unnoticed mosquito-borne substance disrupted his breakthrough and caused him to have diarrhea.
• Li Tong found no toilet in the Clear Wind Pavilion and relieved himself in a vessel in his bedroom, while the foul smell spread through the outer sect.
• Xuanxuanzi learned that every outer disciple had diarrhea and summoned the third elder for a solution.
• The third elder reported that the illness was ordinary diarrhea and suggested inviting a mortal physician, so Xuanxuanzi sent a disciple down the mountain to find one.
• Xuanxuanzi went to the back mountain, where the eight supreme elders and Loose Immortals guarded the hall imprisoning Zhuo Ning.

The Clear Wind Pavilion struggled to contain a wave of diarrhea that had spread from its outer sect into the inner sect, while its elders and summoned physicians searched for a cure. Watching from the Zhuo Ning Immortal Abode, Yi Xuan praised the virus bomb and let Liang Shi decide whether to activate more viruses.

• Xuanxuanzi told the eight grand elders that the third elder had caught the same illness as the outer disciples, prompting them to fly to the outer sect and investigate.
• The illness spread through the inner sect, where disciples prepared vessels as a foul stench filled the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Xuanxuanzi summoned renowned mortal physicians and offered them a chance to enter the immortal sect if they could treat Fang Yuan.
• The physicians diagnosed Fang Yuan with diarrhea and prescribed treatment after Xuanxuanzi ordered them to follow their diagnosis.
• Yi Xuan praised the virus bomb as Liang Shi asked whether to activate other viruses, and Yi Xuan told him to use his own judgment.

Xuanxuanzi enlisted mortal physicians to stop the Clear Wind Pavilion disciples’ diarrhea, and their folk remedies worked after the doses were increased. Liang Shi revealed that the symptoms came from a controllable, Spiritual Qi-compatible virus complex, and as new illnesses spread through the sect, Xuanxuanzi began coughing too.

• Xuanxuanzi summoned mortal physicians and more than a hundred disciples to test remedies for diarrhea.
• The physicians increased their doses, and the disciples who took the livestock remedies recovered from their diarrhea fastest.
• Yi Xuan observed the tests while Liang Shi explained that the Virus Bomb contained controllable viruses compatible with Spiritual Qi.
• The infected disciples developed new symptoms, including coughing and sneezing, even as their diarrhea stopped.
• Xuanxuanzi coughed, and the disciples realized that the sect master might have been infected too.

Clear Wind Pavilion was overwhelmed by a wave of illnesses, and its supreme elders suspected Zhuo Ning was responsible. Zhuo Ning unknowingly bluffed his way into making them fear what he might do next.

• Nearly everyone in Clear Wind Pavilion fell ill, while the mortal physicians remained unharmed and struggled to treat the growing number of symptoms.
• The eight supreme elders returned and questioned Xuanxuanzi, then heard from a physician that the illnesses were treatable but multiplying as patients took medicine.
• The grand supreme elder wondered whether the outbreak was connected to Zhuo Ning, so the supreme elders hurried to the back mountain.
• Zhuo Ning mistook the elders' visit for a possible threat but confidently claimed his methods were only tricks and could have been better.
• The supreme elders interpreted Zhuo Ning's words as a threat, while Yi Xuan and Liang Shi exclaimed that a blind cat had stumbled upon a dead mouse.

The Clear Wind Pavilion’s elders realized the disciples’ recurring illnesses could threaten the sect, but feared Zhuo Ning might reach Autumn Leaf City if they released him. Liang Shi and Yi Xuan escalated their attack by fully activating the viral bombs inside the disciples.

• A report that an outer sect disciple had fainted from severe diarrhea shattered the elders’ confidence that the illnesses were harmless.
• The first grand elder concluded that mortal physicians could only suppress the symptoms and proposed releasing Zhuo Ning, but the elders feared he could reach Autumn Leaf City with Greater Teleportation Talismans.
• The Clear Wind Pavilion’s elders decided to keep Zhuo Ning imprisoned for the remaining nine days until the appointed date.
• The household Attendants watched Yi Xuan nervously after seeing Xuanxuanzi’s suffering and realizing Yi Xuan’s power.
• Liang Shi learned of the elders’ decision through the Biochemical Mosquito, and he and Yi Xuan fully activated the viral bombs inside the Clear Wind Pavilion’s disciples.

Liang Shi confronted the Clear Wind Pavilion grand elders, whose disciples were being ravaged by the Virus Bomb, and cured the guards in exchange for Zhuo Ning’s release. With only four days left to reach Autumn Leaf City, Liang Shi sent Zhuo Ning off in a towering cylinder after Yi Xuan ordered it ignited.

• As sickness spread through the Clear Wind Pavilion and a Spirit Transformation cultivator died, the first grand elder decided to release Zhuo Ning rather than let the sect’s disciples keep suffering.
• Liang Shi arrived at the mountain gate and admitted responsibility for the sect’s afflictions, demanding that the grand elders release Zhuo Ning.
• Liang Shi cured the sick guards, and the first grand elder dispelled the formation holding Zhuo Ning.
• Liang Shi reunited with Zhuo Ning, then placed him inside a towering cylindrical object.
• Yi Xuan ordered the cylinder ignited, and it soared into the sky with Zhuo Ning inside.

Liang Shi used a bioroid decoy to cure the Clear Wind Pavilion’s disciples while escaping the elders’ attempt to kill him. Zhuo Ning was launched toward Yi Xuan, who hinted that the journey might still arrive in time for the succession contest.

• Zhuo Ning escaped the Clear Wind Pavilion aboard a rocket, while its elders surrounded Liang Shi and demanded he solve their problem.
• Liang Shi contacted Yi Xuan, then pretended to perform a technique as the Pavilion’s disciples began recovering.
• The first grand elder offered Liang Shi an elder’s position, then beheaded him when he refused.
• Liang Shi’s severed head spoke before going still, and the elders learned too late that he had sent a bioroid in his place.
• Yi Xuan contacted Zhuo Ning in the crew capsule, and Zhuo Ning worried they would miss the contest with only four days remaining.
• Yi Xuan asked Zhuo Ning whether he had heard the saying, “DF Express, mission guaranteed.”

Yi Xuan arranged for Zhuo Ning to travel to Autumn Leaf City by rocket while he and Lin Li used Greater Teleportation Talismans to reach the city. Zhuo Ning landed safely in a crew capsule, and Yi Xuan's display of Divine Sense left the other Attendants too intimidated to challenge him.

• Yi Xuan told Zhuo Ning to wait and assured him there would be enough time, then ended the video link.
• Yi Xuan bet Lin Li that Zhuo Ning would reach Autumn Leaf City within four days and traveled there with Lin Li and several Attendants using Greater Teleportation Talismans.
• The group arrived outside Autumn Leaf City on the morning of the fourth day without seeing Zhuo Ning, and the Attendants assumed Yi Xuan had failed.
• Yi Xuan used his Divine Sense to carry the Attendants' senses high into the sky, where they saw Zhuo Ning's crew capsule descend and land.
• Zhuo Ning stepped out of the capsule, and the frightened Attendants lowered their heads and stood obediently aside.

Zhuo Ning explained to Yi Xuan that he was the old Immortal Emperor’s only biological son and had been added to the succession contest as the emperor’s final, selfish wish. The chapter left Yi Xuan wondering whether Zhuo Ning’s former Martial Dao ideals had been abandoned as he competed for the throne.

• Zhuo Ning accompanied the Liang Kingdom’s imperial family to the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom, and the journey passed without incident.
• Zhuo Ning told Yi Xuan that the old Immortal Emperor had relied on a stand-in to father most of his many children, but had fathered Zhuo Ning himself by accident.
• Zhuo Ning explained that his mother died when he was young and that his low-grade Spirit Root left him bullied in the Heavenly Palace, leading him to leave and cultivate the Martial Dao.
• The old Immortal Emperor added Zhuo Ning to the list of throne contenders because he could not bear to pass his life’s work to someone unrelated to him.
• Yi Xuan asked whether Zhuo Ning would compete for the throne to fulfill the old Immortal Emperor’s wish and wondered whether Zhuo Ning’s old ideals had changed.

Zhuo Ning told Yi Xuan he wanted to seize the throne to transform the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom into a second Xia Kingdom, where technology could empower ordinary people. Yi Xuan agreed to help and resolved to make the entire Cultivation Realm a foundation for future exploration of the stars.

• Yi Xuan doubted Zhuo Ning could avoid being corrupted by the throne, but Zhuo Ning said he sought power to bring change, not to serve his father.
• Zhuo Ning explained that the Xia Kingdom and Yi Xuan's technology had shown him ordinary people could stand tall before cultivators.
• Yi Xuan recognized that he had spread technology through the Southern Frontier mainly to support the Xia Kingdom, and decided to prepare the entire Cultivation Realm for interstellar exploration.
• Yi Xuan agreed to help Zhuo Ning turn the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom into a second Xia Kingdom.
• Zhuo Ning reminded Yi Xuan of his promise to help him reach the pinnacle of the Martial Dao, then said the pinnacle of a single planet was too low.

After returning with the Liang Kingdom's royal family, Zhuo Ning gained national fame and married the Liang princess before introducing his friend Yi Xuan to his assembled subordinates. Wu Xingyan belittled Yi Xuan and lectured Zhuo Ning, leaving Zhuo Ning increasingly displeased.

• Zhuo Ning returned to Blazing Sun's immortal court with the Liang Kingdom's royal family, and their reception, submission, and marriage alliance proceeded smoothly.
• The immortal nation celebrated its acquisition of the Liang Kingdom, and Zhuo Ning's wedding to the Liang princess brought the festivities to a close.
• Zhuo Ning summoned his subordinates and introduced Yi Xuan, whose low cultivation led many of them to mock him through Divine Sense.
• Wu Xingyan warned Zhuo Ning against complacency and criticized his choice of friends, while the Attendants watched with knowing smiles.
• Zhuo Ning kept a receptive expression as Wu Xingyan continued lecturing, but his face grew increasingly dark.

Yi Xuan exposed Wu Xingyan and Zhuo Ning’s other subordinates for failing to search for Zhuo Ning when the Clear Wind Pavilion held him captive. When Wu Xingyan attacked Yi Xuan, the Black Tortoise crushed him, leaving Zhuo Ning’s hall in shock.

• Yi Xuan mocked Wu Xingyan’s self-important speech, then questioned him about failing to search for Zhuo Ning while he was held by the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Zhuo Ning realized that most of his subordinates had done nothing to find him and warned them not to take advantage of his past lenience.
• Wu Xingyan accused Yi Xuan of misleading Zhuo Ning and charged at him with his Integrated Body Realm strength.
• The Black Tortoise seized Wu Xingyan and crushed him into a rain of blood, horrifying everyone in the hall.

Zhuo Ning demonstrated the upgraded Black Tortoise by killing Wu Xingyan in one blow, revealing the weapon’s overwhelming strength. He and Yi Xuan discussed how to raise Zhuo Ning’s National Fortune before the ailing Immortal Emperor died.

• Zhuo Ning learned that the Black Tortoise had far exceeded his expectations and crushed Wu Xingyan with a single strike.
• Zhuo Ning’s subordinates, awed and frightened by the display, advised him to win over more powers, recruit experts, and gain influence in the court and army.
• Yi Xuan asked Zhuo Ning how National Fortune was gained and measured.
• Zhuo Ning explained that National Fortune came from contribution and control, and that an annual ancestral ceremony revealed each contender’s fortune through the National Fortune Great Sun.
• Zhuo Ning revealed that he had ranked last in previous years and that the Immortal Emperor’s worsening health left little time to surpass the other princes.

Yi Xuan put a plan in motion by sending Zhuo Ning and his bionic double into the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom, where men from the Southern Frontier watched farmers and claimed they could grow over a thousand jin of grain per mu without human labor. Old Man Liu, desperate to afford medicine for his sick son, stayed behind to ask whether the claim was true.

• Yi Xuan told Zhuo Ning to follow his men’s suggestions, then revealed a bionic man made to look exactly like him.
• Yi Xuan taught Zhuo Ning to operate the double and took him out of the immortal dynasty, leaving the bionic Zhuo Ning in the immortal residence.
• A month later, strange Southern Frontier men appeared in the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom’s fields, each accompanied by a steel giant.
• One young man told curious villagers that Southern Frontier farming needed no people and yielded over a thousand jin per mu, prompting them to laugh at him.
• Old Man Liu asked the young man if the claim was true because his family needed a good harvest to pay for his sick son’s medicine.

On Zhuo Ning’s orders, an Imperial University student demonstrated a steel giant’s plowing machine and offered farmers improved seeds in Blazing Sun. The villagers rushed to bring their seeds for treatment, while similar demonstrations spread across the Immortal Kingdom.

• A young agricultural student told Old Man Liu that Prince Ning had sent students to help farmers and offered him high-yield seeds.
• The student’s steel giant transformed into a machine and plowed Old Man Liu’s field in moments.
• The villagers mistook the machine’s work for an immortal’s power, and Old Man Liu accepted the seeds.
• The student offered to double the yield of the villagers’ own seeds, prompting many to hurry home and fetch them.
• Agricultural students from Imperial University traveled from village to village across the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom on Zhuo Ning’s orders.

Yi Xuan and Zhuo Ning sent Xia Kingdom students and specialized robots across the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom to win ordinary people’s support through agriculture, medicine, and education. The villagers welcomed Prince Ning’s students, and Old Man Liu’s son recovered, prompting the family to pray for Zhuo Ning to win the throne.

• Yi Xuan persuaded Zhuo Ning to focus on ordinary people, arguing that they vastly outnumbered immortal cultivators and could become the foundation of his influence.
• Zhuo Ning returned to the Xia Kingdom with Yi Xuan and recruited agricultural, medical, and education students from Imperial University.
• Agricultural students and their robots helped villagers improve farming and solve problems across the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom.
• Yi Xuan and Zhuo Ning sent medical and education students from village to village, where people welcomed their services.
• Medical students and robots treated Old Man Liu’s son, and Old Man Liu’s family set up a longevity tablet for Zhuo Ning and prayed for his victory.