Chapter Summaries

Mu Qianqian brought Qin Jiuxiao to Feng Dachui to have his body forged, but the process ended in an explosive failure that left him unconscious and showed signs of a new presence emerging within him. In Mountain and Sea Village, Lu Changzhi viewed Qin Jiuxiao’s recorded opportunity, then asked Mu Fan about mechanism arts and decided to investigate an inheritance himself.

• Mu Qianqian brought Qin Jiuxiao to Feng Dachui, who agreed to forge him despite warning that the process could make him explode.
• Mu Qianqian and the disciples prepared Qin Jiuxiao, and Feng Dachui repeatedly struck him with a huge hammer until he exploded and she was splattered.
• Feng Dachui suggested that Mo Gen and the other disciples try next, but Qin Jiuxiao stopped convulsing and a different presence began growing within him.
• Lu Changzhi learned that Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity information had changed to “break before rebuilding” and spent five hundred experience points to view its record.
• Lu Changzhi decided the method was unsuitable for Gu Chen, messaged Mu Fan about mechanism arts, and resolved to visit an inheritance in the outside world.

As contenders gathered for Wei Chen’s inheritance at Mechanism Holy Island, Qi Zhan arrived hoping to obtain mechanism arts that could replace his missing limbs. Lu Changzhi then brought Mu Fan to the gathering by teleportation, where they surveyed the powerful crowd.

• People gathered among the mountains while Qin Jiuxiao, Mu Qianqian, and Feng Dachui waited for Mechanism Holy Island to appear.
• Qi Zhan arrived, worried about competing with higher-ranked cultivators but resolved to claim Wei Chen’s inheritance using what he knew about it.
• The system told Lu Changzhi that Qi Zhan was in position and would obtain Modest Fortune in ten hours.
• The next day, Lu Changzhi descended to Mu Fan and teleported them both to the gathering near Mechanism Holy Island.
• Mu Fan recognized the teleportation as Greater Spatial Translocation and asked to learn it, then pointed out a huge figure nearby.

Lu Changzhi studied the people gathered near Mechanism Holy Island and watched the island emerge from underground. After its traps killed or injured the first entrants, he led Mu Fan toward it.

• Lu Changzhi noticed Mo Gen’s “Aptitude of a Great Junior Brother” and saw Qin Jiuxiao and his master beside him.
• Lu Changzhi spotted Qi Zhan and judged that he lacked the strength to claim the island’s treasures.
• Mechanism Holy Island rose from a vast pit and assembled into a floating island with eight bridges and open gates.
• People rushed onto the bridges, triggering hidden arrows, spells, and enormous spheres that left many dead or injured.
• When others tried to fly around the bridges, the island’s owner struck one person down and warned them to follow his rules.
• Lu Changzhi told Mu Fan to follow him and walked through the air toward the floating island.

Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan entered Wei Chen’s island by using the Nonhuman Token to bypass its formation, while the other arrivals were thrown back. As Lu Changzhi waited in hiding for the location of Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity to become accessible, he watched the island’s deadly mechanisms injure and deceive explorers, then spotted Qi Zhan.

• Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan passed through the island’s restriction unharmed, prompting others to rush in and get slapped away by the formation’s huge palms.
• Mu Fan used defensive formation plates to search the island while Lu Changzhi surveyed it and considered seeking Wei Chen’s complete inheritance.
• Lu Changzhi asked the system to locate Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity, learned its site was not yet accessible, and concealed himself in the void with the Heaven-Peering Eye.
• As more people explored the island, Lu Changzhi witnessed mechanisms sever one explorer’s foot and nearly impale another after he opened an empty brocade box.
• Lu Changzhi wondered whether Wei Chen’s complete inheritance was elsewhere, then noticed Qi Zhan hurrying past.

Qi Zhan found a piece of Wei Chen's inheritance, but Mu Qianqian mistook him for a former disciple, stripped him, and accidentally caused his storage ring to fall into Qin Jiuxiao's hands. When Qi Zhan demanded it back, Mu Qianqian formed a spear and challenged him to take it.

• Qi Zhan discovered that the island's mechanisms posed little danger to him and believed he had found part of Wei Chen's inheritance.
• Mu Qianqian and her companions blocked Qi Zhan, and she mistook him for a disciple who had undergone forging under her.
• Mu Qianqian's spiritual power tore Qi Zhan's clothes apart, sending his storage ring to the spot where Lu Changzhi had predicted Qin Jiuxiao would find an opportunity.
• Mu Qianqian removed Qi Zhan's mask, realized she had mistaken him for someone else, and mocked his condition instead of apologizing.
• Qi Zhan noticed that his storage ring had disappeared and shouted for it back, so Mu Qianqian formed a spear and told him to take it.

Mu Qianqian sent Qi Zhan flying, while Lu Changzhi recovered a vanished storage ring and received Mu Fan’s plea for help. He arrived in a mechanism-filled cage where a blue Mechanism Spirit accused Mu Fan of cheating and began preparing a deadly attack.

• Mu Qianqian struck Qi Zhan with a spear and launched him beyond the island, then led Qin Jiuxiao and the others away after they failed to find the storage ring.
• Lu Changzhi realized the ring had vanished mysteriously, retrieved the ring he had picked up, and received a message from Mu Fan asking for help.
• Lu Changzhi descended to Mu Fan’s location and found him trapped inside a dark, mechanism-filled area as the island’s power gathered around them.
• Mu Fan explained that a blue light had accused him of breaking the rules and threatened to kill him.
• The blue Mechanism Spirit declared that cheaters must die, and the surrounding mechanisms activated as a dangerous force formed.

Lu Changzhi used the Seed of Chaos to capture the mechanism spirit and transfer it into the system space, where the system tried to make it obey. The mechanism spirit resisted the system’s demands, and Lu Changzhi watched as the system prepared to try a new method.

• Mu Qianqian sensed the gathering power reaching the Saint King Realm and warned Mo Gen and the others not to approach.
• The system told Lu Changzhi to put the mechanism spirit into the system space, and he used the Seed of Chaos to seal it off from Mechanism Holy Island’s power.
• Lu Changzhi bound the resisting mechanism spirit and sent it into the system space, then gave Mu Fan Qi Zhan’s storage ring and went to explore elsewhere.
• The system questioned the mechanism spirit about whether its master could break rules or cheat, but the mechanism spirit insisted that rule-breaking deserved punishment.
• Lu Changzhi withdrew his chaos binding after watching the system whip the defiant spirit, and the system ended the whipping and announced it would try a new method.

Lu Changzhi used the system to make the Mechanism Spirit obey him, and it led him and Mu Fan through the Mechanism Holy Island’s traps toward its hidden inheritance. After revealing that the apparent treasure was fake and describing its old master’s cruel motives, the Mechanism Spirit guided them to the bottom of the island, above the vast dark pit.

• The system struck the Mechanism Spirit with a whip-palm and punched a hole through its light until it agreed to let Lu Changzhi do as he pleased.
• The Mechanism Spirit offered to lead Lu Changzhi to the inheritances, and Lu Changzhi summoned Mu Fan before following it toward the island’s center.
• The Mechanism Spirit showed them a fake brocade box, then opened a hidden passage beneath the platform.
• Lu Changzhi channeled spiritual power into a spot near a massive door, activating mechanisms without opening it, and the Mechanism Spirit led them away from the dangerous entrance.
• The Mechanism Spirit explained that its old master had planted traps and false treasures to watch cultivators fight and suffer over imagined gains.
• The Mechanism Spirit led Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan down another passage to the island’s bottom, where they found themselves above the vast dark pit.

Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan reached Wei Chen’s inheritance chamber, where the mechanism spirit stopped the destruction that was supposed to erase the inheritance. Lu Changzhi left Mu Fan to collect it and went outside to rest, but the system warned him that his plans would not go smoothly.

• The mechanism spirit led Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan underground to a chamber containing Wei Chen’s inheritance.
• Wei Chen’s projection revealed that the inheritance was meant to be destroyed, but the mechanism spirit prevented the mechanism from activating.
• The mechanism spirit explained that Wei Chen had expected cultivators who once scorned his mechanism arts to seek his inheritance after his death, and had entrusted it with deciding what to do.
• Lu Changzhi realized the mechanism spirit could let them take the inheritance, then left Mu Fan inside and went outside to rest.
• Lu Changzhi reflected that Qi Zhan’s Modest Fortune had spared him a worse disaster, but the system interrupted his plans by warning him that he could not rest yet.

A group of cultivators descended on Mountain and Sea Village, where one of them seized a sacrificial box and Chen Ye ordered Huni taken away. When Huni's father resisted, the cultivator choked him with spiritual power, and the villagers armed themselves.

• A flying boat carrying Chen Ye, Sister Yao, and other cultivators descended on Mountain and Sea Village to look around.
• A cultivator confronted Shi Qinglin, took the village's sacrificial box, and replaced its contents in an earthen box.
• Chen Ye noticed Huni and ordered a subordinate to take her with them when they left.
• Huni's father refused to let them take her, so the subordinate choked him with spiritual power.
• Shi Sen and the other villagers grabbed weapons and prepared to resist the cultivators.

Jin Fugui intervened when the Chen Clan tried to take Huniu from the village, protecting her and the villagers from Chen Ye’s attacks. After Jin Fugui defeated Chen Ye with a broom, a Chen Clan elder attacked him, but an unseen force stopped the killing blow.

• Jin Fugui challenged the Chen Clan to ask Huniu whether she wanted to leave, and Huniu refused to go with them.
• Shi Meng stood up for Huniu, so Chen Ye attacked him with a spear of spiritual power; Jin Fugui blocked the attack and activated an array.
• Chen Ye tried to seize Huniu, while Jin Fugui activated more array plates and fought Zhou Xun with a broom.
• Jin Fugui knocked Chen Ye’s spear aside and wounded his hand, prompting a Chen Clan elder to attack Jin Fugui with Dao Comprehension Realm power.
• A voice asked whether the strong were bullying the weak, and the elder’s strike stopped in midair.

Lu Changzhi arrived to protect Jin Fugui and Shi Meng from the Chen Clan, killing one attacker and overpowering Chen Yu and Chen Ye. He began punishing Chen Ye for his arrogance while Chen Yu tried to negotiate and secretly plotted revenge.

• Lu Changzhi appeared and enclosed the Mountain and Sea Village group in an illusion formation.
• Lu Changzhi redirected an attacker’s spiritual power, killing the middle-aged Chen Clan expert.
• Lu Changzhi repelled Chen Yu and pulled Chen Ye before him, restraining the fifth young master.
• Chen Yu offered cultivation resources and asked Lu Changzhi to release Chen Ye, while Chen Ye threatened him and the Chen Clan plotted revenge by voice transmission.
• Lu Changzhi rejected the compensation, pulled out Chen Ye’s hair, and slapped him twice while asking what consequences a bad attitude could bring.

Lu Changzhi killed Chen Ye after Chen Ye ordered his men to attack, and Chen Yu left with the Chen Clan group after promising not to seek revenge. Lu Changzhi warned Jin Fugui that the Chen Clan might return and sent Sun Yi a message about the danger; in Gold City, an urgent report interrupted a banquet between Chen Tianyang and Huang Pi.

• Lu Changzhi slapped Chen Ye, who lost control and ordered his men to kill him.
• Lu Changzhi killed Chen Ye with a strike to the forehead, and Chen Yu took the corpse and promised the Chen Clan would not trouble him.
• Lu Changzhi told Jin Fugui that he hoped the Chen Clan would return, then messaged Sun Yi that a force was preparing to raze his place.
• Chen Tianyang toasted Huang Pi at a banquet in the Chen Clan's main hall and asked about his plans.
• A figure hurried into the hall and announced bad news to Chen Tianyang.

After Chen Ye’s soul jade broke, Chen Tianyang set out with Huang Pi to investigate, while the Extreme Arms Holy Land sent reinforcements after hearing Lu Yuan’s son was in trouble. At Mountain and Sea Village, Lu Changzhi promised the attackers would return and learned they had stolen the village’s sacrificial items.

• A messenger told Chen Tianyang that Chen Ye’s soul jade had shattered, and Chen Tianyang left with Saint King Huang Pi to find out what happened.
• Sun Yi told Chen Kun that Lu Yuan’s son faced serious trouble, and they arranged for nearby branch pavilions to send experts.
• Lu Changzhi reassured Shi Qinglin that the attackers would return and recorded the village chief’s request to recover the stolen sacrificial items.
• Lu Changzhi sensed several groups approaching and met Sun Yi, identifying the Gold City Chen Clan as the source of the trouble.
• Sun Yi recognized that the Gold City Chen Clan was only a local force compared with the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s branch pavilion.

Sun Yi promised that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would protect Mountain and Sea Village, retrieve its sacrificial object, and deal with the Chen Clan. As the pavilion’s experts hid in wait to use the coming confrontation to gain compensation, Chen Yu met the Chen Clan’s group and revealed that the young man who killed Chen Ye was surnamed Lu, making Huang Pi uneasy.

• Sun Yi assured Lu Changzhi that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would handle the Chen Clan and recover Mountain and Sea Village’s sacrificial object.
• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s experts hid around the village, planning to ambush the Chen Clan and use the confrontation to negotiate compensation.
• Chen Yu met the Chen Clan members and explained that he had not saved Chen Ye because the young man was too powerful and too close.
• Chen Tianyang demanded an explanation for his son’s death, while the others wondered whether the young man had a powerful background.
• Chen Yu said the village children had called the young man Lu, and Huang Pi reacted with a twitch of his eyelid.

Chen Tianyang led the Chen Clan to Mountain and Sea Village to confront the person who killed his son, while Lu Changzhi waited inside until Chen Tianyang’s pressure threatened the village. Lu Changzhi emerged and recognized Huang Pi aboard the flying boat, leaving Huang Pi scrambling to hide as Lu Changzhi greeted him.

• Chen Yu guided the Chen Clan’s flying boat to Mountain and Sea Village, where Chen Tianyang demanded that the person who killed his son come out.
• Lu Changzhi stayed inside his house and used the system to inspect the newcomers, recognizing Huang Pi’s name and confirming his identity.
• Chen Tianyang intensified his pressure toward the village, while Sun Yi told Chen Kun to control the formation and allow some houses to be damaged.
• Lu Changzhi emerged and stopped the pressure from reaching the village, prompting Chen Yu to identify him.
• Huang Pi recognized Lu Changzhi as the Purple-Gold Guest who had robbed him three times and hurriedly concealed his presence.
• Lu Changzhi said he had not expected them to meet again after changing locations.

Lu Changzhi summoned Huang Pi, whose fearful deference revealed his connection to Lu Changzhi and ended the Chen Clan’s hopes of pursuing Chen Ye’s killer. After seeing the image of Chen Ye’s conflict, Huang Pi demanded the corpse and declared that he would personally see justice done.

• Lu Changzhi called Huang Pi out of the Chen Clan’s flying vessel, and Huang Pi reluctantly appeared, addressing him as Young Master Lu.
• Sun Yi suspected Lu Changzhi had deliberately arranged Huang Pi’s arrival because of what happened at the Extreme Arms Holy Land.
• Huang Pi told Lu Changzhi he had not found anything good and asked what had happened with the Chen Clan.
• The Chen Clan members realized they could not pursue Chen Ye’s death without offending Huang Pi, and some wondered whether Lu Changzhi had even greater backing.
• Lu Changzhi showed Huang Pi an image of Chen Ye’s earlier conflict in Mountain and Sea Village.
• Huang Pi asked where Chen Ye’s corpse was and said he would personally see that justice was done.

Huang Pi declared Chen Ye’s attempt to take the mortal girl a serious offense and destroyed his corpse, then asked Lu Changzhi whether the Chen Clan should pay compensation. Chen Tianyang accepted Huang Pi’s judgment, while Chen Yu realized the clan had suffered losses and might now owe Lu Changzhi as well.

• Chen Tianyang took out Chen Ye’s corpse and hoped Huang Pi would obtain an apology from Lu Changzhi’s side.
• Huang Pi condemned Chen Ye’s conduct, praised Lu Changzhi for removing a scourge, and declared that Chen Ye had gotten what he deserved.
• Huang Pi tore apart Chen Ye’s corpse, burned the flesh, and filed down the bones as Chen Tianyang objected.
• Huang Pi warned Chen Tianyang against challenging his judgment, and Chen Tianyang reluctantly accepted it.
• Huang Pi asked Lu Changzhi whether the Chen Clan should offer compensation, leaving Chen Yu shocked at the prospect of further losses.

Lu Changzhi demanded another robbery from Huang Pi, who feared the consequences of refusing and surrendered his storage ring. Lu Changzhi dismissed its contents as too meager and insisted on robbing Huang Pi more thoroughly, leaving Huang Pi searching for a way out.

• Lu Changzhi told Huang Pi that he wanted to review a lesson by robbing him again.
• Huang Pi worried that refusing would bring trouble, so he offered Lu Changzhi his storage ring.
• Lu Changzhi inspected the ring and found its contents poor compared with what Huang Pi had given up before.
• Lu Changzhi said he needed to rob Huang Pi more thoroughly, and Huang Pi fell silent as he considered how to avoid another beating.
• Huang Pi suddenly thought of a way to solve his predicament.

At Lu Changzhi’s suggestion, Huang Pi redirected the robbery toward the Chen Clan experts and demanded all their possessions. Chen Tianyang tried to comply with a storage ring, but Huang Pi insisted on everything and moved to act as Chen Tianyang prepared to object.

• Huang Pi proposed that Lu Changzhi rob the Chen Clan instead of him, and Lu Changzhi agreed to let Huang Pi do it.
• Huang Pi unleashed his Saint King Realm pressure on the Chen Clan experts and demanded they hand over everything they carried.
• Sun Yi watched from the trees and began preparing an IOU for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Chen Tianyang, overwhelmed by his clan members’ questions, offered Huang Pi his storage ring while trying to remain composed.
• Huang Pi rejected the storage ring and demanded everything, then moved as Chen Tianyang drew breath to object.