Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming recovered in a hidden cave and sorted through the treasures he had seized before discovering a large group of Molten Mountain Sect cultivators on the mountain above him. Their leader, the old man surnamed Wei, revealed that they were seeking a secret palace in Shattered Stone Valley and promised a chance to break through to Core Formation for those who entered.

• Qin Fengming rested for two days in his concealed cave, then sorted the spirit stones, pills, tools, treasures, maps, and books he had taken from the Yun-surnamed cultivator and Wu-surnamed cultivator.
• The red little beast alerted Qin Fengming that cultivators had arrived atop the mountain, and he discovered that two or three dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Molten Mountain Sect were gathered there.
• Qin Fengming initially feared the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators had come to find him, but he saw that they were waiting for someone rather than searching the area.
• The old man surnamed Wei arrived and identified the mountain as their destination, explaining that tornadoes had already killed eight disciples on the way.
• The old man surnamed Wei promised the gathered cultivators a sixty percent chance of breaking through to Core Formation if they entered the secret palace, then ordered fifteen people to guard the route into Shattered Stone Valley.

Qin Fengming secretly followed the Molten Mountain Sect as they searched Shattered Stone Valley for a secret palace said to offer a great chance at Core Formation. After the sect found a likely valley and set up a protective formation, Qin Fengming hid nearby and began recovering his strength.

• Old man surnamed Wei divided the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators into teams to guard the area, then led twelve peak Foundation Establishment cultivators northeast toward the secret palace.
• Qin Fengming learned of the palace’s promise of a chance to advance to Core Formation and decided to follow the sect cautiously, remaining hidden unless a safe opportunity arose.
• Qin Fengming concealed himself and caught up with the Molten Mountain Sect, witnessing a cultivator get torn apart by a tornado hurricane during their journey.
• Old man surnamed Wei searched several locations before identifying a valley whose terrain matched the ancient records of the secret palace.
• Old man surnamed Wei activated the Yin Demon Ten Thousand Souls Formation so the cultivators could recover their spiritual power before searching for the palace entrance.
• Qin Fengming set up the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation nearby and began meditating.

Qin Fengming watched the Molten Mountain Sect locate the hidden cave and break its powerful entrance restriction with formation-breaking banners. After the sect entered and guarded the cave with a formidable formation, Qin Fengming decided to try reaching the secret hall through the mountain with an Earth Evasion Talisman.

• Qin Fengming observed the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators search the valley with banners until one detected a restriction in the rock face.
• The old man surnamed Wei exposed the cave entrance and directed ten cultivators to use formation-breaking banners against its restriction.
• After more than twenty days of effort, the cultivators broke the restriction, and the old man surnamed Wei set up the Yin Demon Ten Thousand Souls Formation while they rested.
• The old man surnamed Wei led the disciples into the cave, leaving two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators to guard the entrance.
• After watching the cave for three days, Qin Fengming decided to use an Earth Evasion Talisman to enter through the mountain.

Qin Fengming secretly reached the hidden hall through an underground passage and Teleportation Array, then found the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators stalled before the Spirit Medicine Hall’s Restrictive Spell. He left the hall’s treasures unopened and concealed nearby as the sect continued trying to break through.

• Qin Fengming used an Earth Evasion Talisman to slip beneath the Molten Mountain Sect’s Restrictive Spell and found a hidden passage underground.
• Qin Fengming followed the passage to a Teleportation Array and, after preparing defensive talismans, used it to enter a beautiful hidden realm.
• Qin Fengming discovered that powerful Restrictive Spells limited his spiritual perception and flight, so he cautiously followed a gravel path.
• Qin Fengming found ten Molten Mountain Sect cultivators attacking the Restrictive Spell at the Spirit Medicine Hall’s archway.
• Qin Fengming recognized the archway’s Restrictive Spell as similar to the one outside and judged that the cultivators would need several days to break through.

Qin Fengming followed the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators through the towering gateway after they broke through two restrictive spells, hoping to reach the Spirit Medicine Hall’s treasures without being discovered. At a junction, the old man surnamed Wei translated the path inscriptions and split the group between the Pill Pavilion and the Thousand Herbs Garden.

• Qin Fengming set up the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation near the Teleportation Array, then returned to watch the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators attack the gateway’s restrictive spell.
• After the cultivators broke through the first spell, the old man surnamed Wei tested the second barrier and ordered the group to keep working on it.
• Two months later, the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators broke through the second barrier, rested, and entered the gateway; Qin Fengming followed them under an Invisibility Talisman.
• Qin Fengming followed the group along a stone path, keeping away from the flowers and herbs protected by restrictive spells.
• At a junction, the old man surnamed Wei translated the inscriptions and identified the Pill Pavilion and Thousand Herbs Garden as their priorities.
• The old man surnamed Wei accepted Gu’s plan to split the group, sending Gu and four others to the Pill Pavilion while he led the rest toward the Thousand Herbs Garden.

Qin Fengming left the others to search the Pill Pavilion and Thousand Herbs Garden and entered Hidden Immortal Cave, where he found a trove of ancient items. After collecting scrolls, jade slips, herbs, and two powerful magical treasures, he left the cave.

• Qin Fengming read the writing left by the old man surnamed Wei and chose to search Hidden Immortal Cave rather than follow the others to the Pill Pavilion or Thousand Herbs Garden.
• Qin Fengming reached the Hidden Immortal Cave after an eight-hour journey and found that his Fire Python Art instantly dispelled the stone gate's exhausted restriction.
• Qin Fengming sent his ape beast to open the gate and explored the cavern, finding a study, a spirit-medicine room, and an armory behind three inner stone doors.
• Qin Fengming collected the study's scrolls and jade slips and placed the spirit herbs from the medicine room into Jade Boxes.
• Qin Fengming found that most weapons in the armory had lost their spiritual energy, but he discovered a Ruyi-shaped treasure and a Chao Wu-shaped treasure that released immense pressure.
• Qin Fengming searched the chambers again to make sure he had missed nothing, then left Hidden Immortal Cave with his finds.

Qin Fengming searched the upper Cave Abodes of Hundred Cultivators Pavilion and found a few scrolls and jade slips, then reached Cloud Dew Grand Hall and found its entrance sealed by a powerful Restrictive Spell. After seeing the Molten Mountain Sect’s barrier would take a long time to break, he decided to attack the hall’s restriction alone.

• Qin Fengming found several scrolls on cultivating spirit herbs and collected twenty or thirty scrolls and jade slips from the upper levels of Hundred Cultivators Pavilion.
• Qin Fengming concluded that the Spirit Medicine Hall’s people had withdrawn methodically, taking all useful items with them.
• Qin Fengming reached Cloud Dew Grand Hall but could not enter because a powerful Restrictive Spell blocked the three halls.
• Qin Fengming watched the old man surnamed Wei and four Foundation Establishment cultivators attack a similar barrier, which they had already spent several days trying to break.
• Qin Fengming returned to Cloud Dew Grand Hall and decided to break through its Restrictive Spell himself.

Qin Fengming spent twenty-five days breaking the Cloud Dew Grand Hall’s Restrictive Spell, then searched the hall and its side chambers for treasures. He found only a jade slip beside a skeleton and began examining it from the central stone chair.

• Qin Fengming tested the area around the Cloud Dew Grand Hall, found a spot without a Restrictive Spell, and set up the Four Symbols Pure Spirit Formation as a hiding place.
• Qin Fengming released the red little beast to keep watch, then attacked the Restrictive Spell with six Puppets, spirit artifacts, and fire pythons.
• Qin Fengming continued his assault for twenty-five days until the Restrictive Spell shattered, spending thousands of spirit stones, more than a thousand Fire Python Talismans, and dozens of drops of liquid from the little gourd.
• Qin Fengming entered the Cloud Dew Grand Hall and found a skeleton seated on a stone chair, with only a jade slip left beside it.
• Qin Fengming searched the skeleton and the empty side halls, then buried the remains in a pit in the main hall.
• Qin Fengming sat on the central stone chair and took out the jade slip to examine its contents.

Qin Fengming read Zhu Yuanshan’s jade slip and learned how the traitor Zang Tianxing had led Yin Ghosts to the Spirit Medicine Hall during the Three Realms War. Zhu Yuanshan destroyed the hall’s stores and left instructions for True Person Yinlong, while the reason the Yin Ghosts later abandoned Shattered Stone Valley remained unknown.

• Qin Fengming learned that Zhu Yuanshan, the Spirit Medicine Hall’s Grand Elder, had left the jade slip for True Person Yinlong during the Three Realms War.
• Zhu Yuanshan described how Zang Tianxing betrayed the Spirit Medicine Hall to the Yin Ghosts in exchange for a chance to reach the Integration realm.
• After the Yin Ghosts found the hall and attacked, Zang Tianxing poisoned its cultivators with Luo Hexiang, but Zhu Yuanshan captured him before he could sabotage the protective formation.
• Zhu Yuanshan burned the Spirit Medicine Hall’s pills, medicines, treasures, and corpses, then recorded his account and told True Person Yinlong to reopen the hall.
• Qin Fengming understood the purpose of the two Restrictive Spells at the ceremonial archway, but the jade slip did not explain why the Yin Ghosts left Shattered Stone Valley.

Qin Fengming learned that the Spirit Medicine Hall’s treasures had been destroyed, then fled as the Molten Mountain Sect arrived and pursued him toward the Teleportation Array. He was nearing escape when a newly arrived cultivator blocked his path, and Wei ordered that cultivator to stop him.

• Qin Fengming read the jade slip and concluded that Zhu Yuanshan had destroyed the Spirit Medicine Hall’s treasures before leaving everything else behind.
• Qin Fengming prepared to leave the Cloud Dew Grand Hall, but the red little beast warned him that the Molten Mountain Sect was approaching.
• Qin Fengming hid as Wei and the other Molten Mountain Sect cultivators reached the hall, then Wei spotted him and gave chase.
• Qin Fengming fled toward the Teleportation Array while Wei pursued him, keeping pace despite Qin Fengming’s efforts to conceal his speed.
• A Foundation Establishment peak cultivator emerged from the Teleportation Array, and Wei shouted for Martial Nephew Hong to stop Qin Fengming and seize the treasures.

Qin Fengming tried to reach the Teleportation Array while the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators closed in, then trapped Martial Uncle Wei in the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation and charged at the cultivator surnamed Hong. The chapter ended with Hong’s massive blade striking Qin Fengming’s Five Elements barrier, which held against the blow.

• The cultivator surnamed Wei and the cultivator surnamed Hong intercepted Qin Fengming near the Teleportation Array and demanded that he hand over what he had obtained in the Cloud Dew Grand Hall.
• Qin Fengming pretended to be frightened as Wei advanced, then activated the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation and trapped him.
• Qin Fengming fired dozens of talismans into the formation, forcing Wei to fend off the fire pythons while Hong attacked him.
• Qin Fengming charged at Hong after spotting the cultivator surnamed Gu and several Molten Mountain Sect cultivators approaching.
• Hong’s massive black blade struck Qin Fengming’s Five Elements barrier, but the barrier stabilized and stopped the blow.

Qin Fengming escaped the Molten Mountain Sect by killing two pursuers with the red-thread spirit artifact and hiding underground beneath the Yin Demon Ten Thousand Souls Formation. He reflected on his gains and the coming Three Realms War, then discovered that the two magic treasures he had recovered were extraordinary.

• Qin Fengming killed the cultivator surnamed Hong and teleported away just as the old man surnamed Wei broke through the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation.
• At the destination array, Qin Fengming killed another Molten Mountain Sect cultivator and escaped through a stone wall before the old man surnamed Wei arrived.
• The old man surnamed Wei searched unsuccessfully for Qin Fengming, then ordered the Molten Mountain Sect to seal off the area and learned that Qin Fengming was the man who had killed Junior Brother Feng.
• Qin Fengming hid fifty zhang underground, considered the losses and gains of his trip, and resolved to focus on reaching the Core Formation realm.
• Qin Fengming examined the two magic treasures he had found in the cave dwelling and saw that they radiated faint white light and a hidden primordial aura.

After escaping Shattered Stone Valley, Qin Fengming entered the Black Stone Mountain Range on his way to the White Jade Mountain Range. He killed a Lizard Beast and continued deeper into the dangerous mountains.

• Qin Fengming examined the wishful-shaped magic treasure, resisted its rune's strange influence, and put it away without attempting to refine it.
• Qin Fengming identified the other treasure as the Spirit Dawn Ruler and spent half a year in underground seclusion, cultivating and refining treasures while avoiding the Molten Mountain Sect cultivators.
• Qin Fengming emerged near Shattered Stone Valley, confirmed no cultivators were nearby, and flew northeast to escape the area.
• Qin Fengming crossed into the Black Stone Mountain Range after more than ten days of travel and continued through its restricted airspace toward the White Jade Mountain Range.
• Qin Fengming killed a third-level Lizard Beast, collected its useful parts, and flew farther into the mountain range.

Qin Fengming secretly observed four Rogue Cultivators arguing over a mineral deposit before they began fighting. As their spirit artifacts and a demonic beast clashed, Wang prepared to use a sound-wave artifact, leaving Sun and Hu bracing for its attack.

• Qin Fengming spotted four cultivators confronting one another and approached under concealment to learn what had happened.
• Qin Fengming discovered that Hu had found a mineral deposit, but Wang had driven him away; Hu returned with Sun to reclaim it.
• Sun and Hu refused to surrender the deposit, and all four cultivators unleashed top-grade spirit artifacts against one another.
• Wang and Li brought out an azure-python artifact and a second-level rhinoceros, which Sun and Hu managed to hold back.
• Wang produced the Spirit Shocking Drum and warned Li to stay close; Sun and Hu recognized the coming sound-wave attack and guarded their spiritual platforms.

Qin Fengming intervened when Sun family cultivator and Hu family cultivator were trapped by Cultivator Wang and Cultivator Li, bargaining for half the smoke crystal stones in a hidden mine. He killed the two enemies swiftly and took their spiritual artifacts and storage rings, leaving the two allied cultivators shocked.

• Cultivator Wang used a war-drum-shaped spiritual artifact to batter Sun family cultivator and Hu family cultivator with powerful sound waves.
• Sun family cultivator discovered Qin Fengming hiding nearby and called out, offering a share of the smoke crystal stones in exchange for help.
• Qin Fengming emerged and negotiated for half the crystals, and Sun family cultivator agreed before Hu family cultivator could answer.
• Cultivator Wang and Cultivator Li mocked Qin Fengming, but he launched several top-grade spiritual artifacts and closed in with his movement technique.
• Qin Fengming killed Cultivator Wang and Cultivator Li with a red thread, then took their spiritual artifacts and storage rings as Sun family cultivator and Hu family cultivator watched in shock.

Qin Fengming rescued Sun and Hu from two hostile cultivators, then joined them to explore a smoky crystal mine. The three reached a vast underground cavern and began searching its depths.

• Qin Fengming killed the two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators who had attacked Sun and Hu.
• Sun and Hu thanked Qin Fengming, who asked them to show him the secret smoky crystal deposit.
• Hu led Qin Fengming and Sun to a cave entrance and showed them a piece of smoky crystal he had found nearby.
• Sun, Hu, and Qin entered the mine, traveling cautiously through its winding tunnels for three hours.
• The three reached a large cavern, where Sun suggested it had once been used to process ore, and they surveyed its depths.

Qin Fengming, the Sun family cultivator, and the Hu family cultivator explored a chain of vast mine caverns before a Grade 4 Black Spider ambushed them. The spider killed the Hu family cultivator and blocked their way out, leaving Qin Fengming and the Sun family cultivator to fight it as the Sun family cultivator prepared a sword talisman.

• Qin Fengming found several matching mine passages, and the three cultivators followed them through a series of enormous caverns.
• A Black Spider ambushed the group, killed the Hu family cultivator, and blocked the entrance behind them.
• Qin Fengming and the Sun family cultivator recognized the spider as a Grade 4 demon beast and attacked it with spirit tools, but their strikes failed to injure it.
• The Sun family cultivator trapped the spider in a silk-cloth spirit tool and asked Qin Fengming to protect him while he prepared a sword talisman.

Qin Fengming let the Sun family cultivator activate his sword talisman, then evaded the man’s attack and freed the black spider. The spider killed the Sun family cultivator, while Qin Fengming’s magic treasure restrained the golden blade.

• The Sun family cultivator activated a golden sword talisman while Qin Fengming watched the black spider struggle inside its spirit tool.
• The spider corroded its silk-cloth-like prison with dark-green liquid, and the Sun family cultivator fired the golden blade at Qin Fengming instead of the beast.
• Qin Fengming dodged the attack and tore open the spider’s prison, freeing it to charge at the Sun family cultivator.
• Qin Fengming used an azure-and-white disc to trap the golden blade while the Sun family cultivator fought the spider.
• The Sun family cultivator begged Qin Fengming to save him, but Qin Fengming refused, and the spider killed him.

Qin Fengming weakened and subdued a black spider demon beast, then bound it to him with the Spirit Control Art. The newly tamed Grade 4 high-grade spider accepted him and became docile after he restored its demonic power.

• After the black spider killed the Sun family old man and swallowed his head, Qin Fengming decided to subdue it rather than attack it outright.
• The spider sealed the cave entrance with a web and attacked Qin Fengming, who kept it at bay with waves of fiery flood dragons.
• After two hours of fighting, Qin Fengming bound the exhausted spider and sealed its demonic power.
• Qin Fengming offered to spare the spider if it accepted the Spirit Control Art, and the spider submitted.
• Qin Fengming completed the Spirit Control Art and gave the spider a drop of liquid, restoring its strength and prompting it to nuzzle him docilely.

Qin Fengming searched an immense maze of underground caverns for the source of a lingering aura, only to discover that he could not escape using earth evasion. After half a month of wandering, he encountered a cavern that terrified his black spider and found a gigantic beetle with a trace of life remaining.

• Qin Fengming looted the Sun and Hu family cultivators’ belongings, burned their corpses, and learned through the black spider that it had entered the area within the past three years.
• Qin Fengming searched the caverns with the spider, becoming convinced that ancient cultivators had deliberately hollowed out the vast underground maze.
• After searching for three days, Qin Fengming tried to escape through the ceiling with an Earth Evasion Talisman, but the stone blocked him, leaving him to search for the entrance on foot.
• Qin Fengming wandered the caverns for half a month, marking passages as new caverns and routes continued to appear.
• When the black spider refused to enter a cavern, Qin Fengming approached alone, broke through an invisible barrier, and felt a powerful prehistoric aura that quickly vanished.
• Qin Fengming examined the cavern with his divine sense and found a house-sized beetle lying at its center, apparently dead but still faintly alive.