Chapter Summaries

Du Yuqi trapped Zhang Fang and Wei Ming in his blood-colored ghost mist and overwhelmed them with his Baleful Demon Art. The two men’s escape attempt failed, leaving them surrounded by Du Yuqi’s powerful skeletons.

• Qin Fengming recognized Du Yuqi as the infamous Yinsha Ghost Demon as Du Yuqi attacked Zhang Fang and Wei Ming with blood-colored ghost hands.
• Zhang Fang and Wei Ming summoned magic treasures and secret techniques to defend themselves, but Du Yuqi enclosed them in ghost mist.
• Du Yuqi unleashed blood-red skeletons, and Zhang Fang and Wei Ming destroyed the first wave with their Azure Ling Great Law and giant blood-colored bird.
• Du Yuqi summoned three skeletons that had been late Core Formation cultivators, frightening Zhang Fang and Wei Ming with their ghostly pressure.
• Zhang Fang and Wei Ming tried to break through the ghost mist, but it closed behind their attacks and stopped their escape.

Du Yuqi cornered Zhang Fang and Wei Ming, who agreed to become his subordinates and surrender wisps of their souls. As Du Yuqi began casting a restraint technique on Wei Ming, a tremendous explosion erupted from Zhang Fang and engulfed him.

• Du Yuqi revealed that Li Luo had become one of his skeletons, leaving Zhang Fang and Wei Ming terrified and unable to break through the ghost mist.
• Zhang Fang offered to acknowledge Du Yuqi as his master, and Wei Ming followed by swearing loyalty.
• Du Yuqi accepted them but demanded a wisp of each man's soul and planned to cast the Spirit Restraining Technique on them.
• Du Yuqi ordered Zhang Fang to seal Wei Ming's spiritual power, then began casting the technique on Wei Ming.
• A deafening explosion erupted at Zhang Fang's location, and its destructive energy swept over Du Yuqi as he tried to flee toward Qin Fengming.

Qin Fengming watched Zhang Fang detonate himself and his treasures, then trapped the gravely wounded Du Yuqi in the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation. The chapter ended with Qin Fengming unleashing the formation’s full power against Du Yuqi, who struggled to withstand its attacks.

• Zhang Fang detonated his physical body and possibly his magical treasures, engulfing Wei Ming and Du Yuqi in a powerful explosion.
• Du Yuqi survived by sacrificing a defensive treasure and detonating spirit artifacts, but he emerged grievously wounded and trapped in Qin Fengming’s formation.
• Du Yuqi tried to recover his spiritual power, but Qin Fengming activated the formation’s thunder and revealed that he intended to avenge Zhang Fang and the other fallen man.
• Du Yuqi used his life-bound shield to block Qin Fengming’s first lightning strike.
• Qin Fengming unleashed lightning, ice spikes, wind blades, logs, boulders, and the Giant Sword against Du Yuqi, who feared he could not endure the assault.

Du Yuqi unleashed the power of his wine-cup treasure against Qin Fengming’s Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation, but exhausted his magic power before he could break free. Qin Fengming captured him and took the treasure.

• Du Yuqi activated his wine-cup treasure, which dissolved the formation’s attacks and replaced his failing shield.
• Qin Fengming used the formation’s lightning to stop the treasure’s first wave of radiance from reaching the black clouds.
• Du Yuqi sent more than a hundred streaks of radiance toward the clouds, but his magic power ran out and he collapsed.
• Qin Fengming restrained the unconscious Du Yuqi and collected the wine-cup treasure.
• Qin Fengming examined the badly wounded Du Yuqi and reflected that he might have lost if Du Yuqi had fought at full strength.

Qin Fengming killed the unconscious Du Yuqi, searched the aftermath of Zhang Fang’s self-detonation, and recovered Wei Ming’s mysterious teleportation command token. He followed the treasure map to a hidden cave and entered its maze-like passages, recording each fork as he went.

• Qin Fengming killed Du Yuqi with a red-flame spear, and his Soul Devouring Beast swallowed Du Yuqi’s soul.
• Qin Fengming searched Du Yuqi’s body, burned the corpse, and found Wei Ming’s teleportation command token near Zhang Fang’s explosion site.
• Qin Fengming left the battlefield and flew for a day to the mountain peaks shown on the treasure map.
• After searching for three days, Qin Fengming found a hidden cave and set up the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation at its entrance before entering.
• Qin Fengming discovered restrictions and repeated forks inside the winding cave, marking each junction in a jade slip as he explored.

Qin Fengming followed the maze to a hidden chamber and discovered an ancient Teleportation Array along with a scroll explaining its origins and use. The array could let him escape the Ancient Battlefield, but after considering his valuable gains, he hesitated to activate it.

• Qin Fengming traversed the secret passages for three days and found a vast empty cavern with a concealed stone door.
• Qin Fengming used a humanoid puppet to open the door and discovered a smaller cavern containing a Teleportation Array and a skeleton.
• Qin Fengming found a white scroll and learned that the cavern had been a Tianxuan Sect outpost during the Three Realms War and that his teleportation talisman could operate the array.
• Qin Fengming realized the array could take him out of the Ancient Battlefield without waiting decades for it to close.
• Qin Fengming examined the array and considered his Spirit Stones, then hesitated because he had already gathered valuable treasures and spiritual herbs.

Qin Fengming reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and decided to remain in the Ancient Battlefield rather than risk using the Teleportation Array. While flying back, he encountered a mid Core Formation elder from the Molten Mountain Sect and the elder’s fifth-level Golden-Eyed Kui, which pursued him even underground.

• Qin Fengming buried the skeleton, concealed the cave entrance, and found little of value in Du Yuqi's storage ring besides boxes of unknown blood.
• Qin Fengming put away the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and flew cautiously toward the Foundation Establishment cultivators’ region.
• A Molten Mountain Sect elder and his Golden-Eyed Kui attacked Qin Fengming in a pine forest, and the elder demanded to know why he was there.
• Qin Fengming dodged the Kui, used Wind Blade Talismans and an Earth Evasion Talisman to escape underground, and fled through the rocks.
• The Kui tracked Qin Fengming’s movement beneath the ground and attacked again when he surfaced thirty li away.

Qin Fengming remained trapped underground for three months while a Core Formation cultivator and the Golden-Eyed Kui watched for him. He activated a Teleportation Array to escape, and the chapter ended as the old man reached the cave and Qin Fengming started the array.

• Qin Fengming evaded the old man and the Golden-Eyed Kui underground, but after three months he decided to flee through a Teleportation Array a hundred li away.
• Qin Fengming left the rocks and entered a cave, losing sight of the old man and the demon bird inside a Restrictive Spell.
• The old man broke through the Restrictive Spell, followed Qin Fengming into the cave, and sent a venomous scorpion and a small white beast through its passages.
• Qin Fengming placed eight mid-grade Spirit Stones in the Teleportation Array and activated it.
• The old man appeared at the cave entrance, and Qin Fengming entered the array and began operating it.

Qin Fengming escaped the Ancient Battlefield through an ancient Teleportation Array and emerged in an unfamiliar land. After destroying the array and flying in search of information, he discovered five young cultivators preparing to capture a Yellow Fox Beast.

• Qin Fengming teleported away as the old man’s attacks were blocked by a five-colored barrier, then the old man watched the array’s far end collapse and left after waiting five days.
• Qin Fengming destroyed part of the array at his destination, explored the concealed cave, and flew off to learn where he had arrived.
• Qin Fengming crushed and burned his Luoxia Sect identity token and flew cautiously for a day through the unfamiliar region.
• Qin Fengming found five young cultivators discussing their plan to capture a valuable Yellow Fox Beast using a Five Directions Dragon Trapping Formation.

Qin Fengming followed five cultivators as they tried to capture a Yellow Fox Beast with a formation. After the beast was caught, it suddenly collapsed, leaving the cultivators anxious and Qin Fengming suspecting it was pretending.

• Qin Fengming decided to shadow the five cultivators and help them before introducing himself.
• Senior Disciple Brother Wang led the group to a valley, used Angelica Herb as bait, and had everyone hide around it with the five-gate Dragon Trapping Formation.
• The Yellow Fox Beast took the herb and was bounced back into the formation, where Senior Disciple Brother Wang trapped it in a net after a pursuit.
• The Yellow Fox Beast suddenly collapsed, alarming the five cultivators, while Qin Fengming recalled seeing a cunning glint in its eyes just before it was caught.
• The cultivators gathered anxiously around Senior Disciple Brother Wang and urged him to check what had happened to the beast.

Qin Fengming captured the escaped Yellow Fox Beast and returned it to the five Golden Talisman Gate disciples, then disguised himself as a lone rogue cultivator. After learning he was in Quzhou, he faced an invitation to join their sect while reflecting on why the Tianxuan Sect had placed its Teleportation Array there.

• Senior Disciple Brother Wang and the others thought the Yellow Fox Beast was dead, but it revived, escaped their grasp, and fled into the brush.
• Qin Fengming used his Profound Sky Evasive Steps to intercept the beast, bind it, and seal its magic power.
• Qin Fengming returned the Yellow Fox Beast to Senior Disciple Brother Wang, avoiding a confrontation with the five disciples.
• Senior Disciple Brother Wang learned Qin Fengming was a rogue cultivator and invited him to join the Golden Talisman Gate.
• Qin Fengming claimed he had learned cultivation from an old cultivator and considered the Tianxuan Sect's reasons for placing its Teleportation Array in Quzhou.

Qin Fengming agreed to join the Golden Talisman Gate and traveled with Wang Xuan and the others to Phoenix Breath Mountain. After passing through the sect’s protective formation, he entered the mountain as the gate’s newest recruit.

• Qin Fengming accepted Wang Xuan’s invitation to join the Golden Talisman Gate and asked for a place to cultivate.
• Wang Xuan introduced Qin Fengming to the Falling Phoenix Mountain Range and explained the rivalry between the Golden Talisman Gate and the Black Wind Gate.
• The Wei family cultivator parted from the group before they reached Phoenix Breath Mountain.
• Wang Xuan presented a jade tablet at the sect’s barrier and vouched for Qin Fengming when Senior Brother Liu questioned him.
• Senior Brother Liu let Qin Fengming pass through the formation, then remarked that Wang Xuan would earn another reward for recruiting a ninth-level cultivator.

Qin Fengming sought entry into Golden Talisman Gate and impressed Elder Liu with his Qi Gathering Stage Nine cultivation. Du Wanqing, the sect master’s daughter, took charge of him and led him away to collect his items and find a cave abode.

• Wang Xuan brought Qin Fengming to Elder Liu’s hall and recommended him for entry into Golden Talisman Gate.
• Elder Liu asked Qin Fengming about his background and explained the sect’s rules and monthly spirit-stone allowance.
• Du Wanqing arrived, noticed Qin Fengming’s cultivation level, and offered to handle his remaining arrangements.
• Du Wanqing tugged Qin Fengming toward the hall’s exit, and Elder Liu told him to follow her while he recorded Qin’s name later.

Qin Fengming joined the Golden Talisman Gate and was escorted by Du Wanqing to collect his entry items and choose a cultivation cave. Du insisted on sparring with him, and the chapter ended as she unleashed a swarm of powerful ice blades that he easily dodged.

• Du Wanqing introduced herself to Qin Fengming and said he had to spar with her after collecting his entry items and choosing a Cave Abode.
• Du Wanqing took Qin Fengming to a pavilion, where he received disciple robes and fifty spirit stones.
• Wei Junhao confronted Du Wanqing, but she dismissed him and flew off with Qin Fengming.
• Du Wanqing brought Qin Fengming to Phoenix Feather Mountain, where he chose an unoccupied cave.
• Du Wanqing began their sparring match by launching ice blades at Qin Fengming, who dodged every attack.

Qin Fengming evaded Du Wanqing’s attacks, rested in a temporary Cave Abode, and set out to learn about the local Cultivation World. Du Wanqing joined him after using him to fend off Wei Junhao, and she offered to take him to the Marketplace to find books about the Yuanfeng Empire.

• Qin Fengming dodged Du Wanqing’s ice-blade attacks until she gave up and left, then rested overnight in a Cave Abode protected by a simple illusion formation.
• Qin Fengming returned toward the mountain he believed was the Golden Talisman Gate’s headquarters and encountered Du Wanqing again.
• Du Wanqing asked Qin Fengming to act according to her wishes when Wei Junhao arrived, then rebuked Wei Junhao for pestering her about marriage.
• After Du Wanqing led Qin Fengming away, Wei Junhao vowed that the Wei Family’s plans would let him force her to become his wife, concubine, or cauldron.
• Qin Fengming agreed to let Du Wanqing accompany him and asked where he could find books about the Yuanfeng Empire; she suggested the Marketplace.

Qin Fengming left the Golden Talisman Gate with Du Wanqing to visit a nearby Marketplace and learn about the Yuanfeng Empire’s cultivation world. After buying every relevant book and jade slip at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, he left with the information he sought.

• Du Wanqing told Qin Fengming that the Golden Talisman Gate had no books about the Yuanfeng Empire, then offered to take him to a nearby Marketplace.
• Du Wanqing secured a jade token from Senior Brother Liu and accompanied Qin Fengming out of the sect.
• On the way, Du Wanqing explained the rivalry between the Golden Talisman Gate and the Black Wind Gate and the scarcity of resources in the Falling Phoenix Mountain Range.
• At the Marketplace, Qin Fengming entered the Myriad Treasures Pavilion while Du Wanqing waited outside.
• Qin Fengming bought all the books and jade slips available about the Yuanfeng Empire’s cultivation world for eighty spirit stones.

Qin Fengming and Du Wanqing were followed by five Black Wind Gate disciples who planned to capture Du Wanqing for her Ice Soul Physique. When the disciples ambushed them on the way back to the Golden Talisman Gate, Qin Fengming swiftly subdued all five.

• Qin Fengming returned to Du Wanqing, and the two flew toward the Golden Talisman Gate as five Black Wind Gate disciples secretly followed them.
• The Black Wind Gate disciples recognized Du Wanqing and sent a Thousand Mile Talisman to alert their sect master before continuing the pursuit.
• Qin Fengming noticed the pursuers but continued onward with Du Wanqing until the five intercepted them more than two hundred miles from the Golden Talisman Gate.
• Senior Brother Wu pretended that the five wanted to borrow spirit stones, but Qin Fengming treated the demand as a real loan and asked for collateral.
• The five attacked, with two targeting Du Wanqing and three targeting Qin Fengming, but Qin Fengming quickly captured all five.

Qin Fengming effortlessly defeated and plundered five Black Wind Gate cultivators before returning safely to the Golden Talisman Gate with Du Wanqing. At the Black Wind Gate, its leaders questioned the five men about Qin Fengming, just as a Foundation Establishment cultivator arrived with news of a more urgent matter.

• Qin Fengming captured five Black Wind Gate cultivators, took their storage rings and magical artifacts, then released them after Du Wanqing suggested sparing their lives.
• Qin Fengming spotted two approaching Foundation Establishment cultivators, gave Du Wanqing concealment talismans, and flew with her back to the Golden Talisman Gate.
• Qin Fengming rested in his cave abode and began examining the books and jade slips he had purchased.
• At the Black Wind Gate, Duan Yanfang questioned Wu Peng and the other four cultivators about their encounter with Qin Fengming and ordered an investigation into his origins.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator called Brother Wei entered the hall, saying he had come to discuss a crucial matter, and Duan Yanfang asked whether Old Man Du had discovered something.

The Wei family, Black Wind Gate, and their allies plotted to attack the Golden Talisman Gate, while the sect's leaders questioned Du Wanqing about her trip with Qin Fengming. The chapter ended with Sect Master Du asking who Qin Fengming was.

• The Wei family cultivator told the Black Wind Gate elders that the Golden Talisman Gate was seeking reinforcements, and urged them to act before Du Wanqing reached Foundation Establishment.
• Duan Yanfang agreed to approach Evil-Faced Monk by telling him about Du Wanqing, and the Wei family cultivator explained that Qin Fengming was a newly joined Qi Gathering Stage Nine cultivator.
• The black-faced middle-aged man asked about Qin Fengming, and the Wei family cultivator said Qin had swiftly captured a Yellow Fox Beast but seemed otherwise unremarkable.
• At a Golden Talisman Gate meeting, Liu Guangming's report prompted the leaders to question Du Wanqing about leaving the sect with Qin Fengming.
• Du Wanqing recounted how Qin Fengming captured five Black Wind Gate cultivators, and Sect Master Du asked who Qin Fengming was.

The Golden Talisman Gate’s leaders discussed the threat from Black Wind Gate and ordered surveillance of Wei Junhao, while Qin Fengming studied the history and power structure of the Yuanfeng Empire. He concluded that remote Quzhou was the safest place for him to remain for now.

• Sect Master Du ordered Du Wanqing into seclusion for leaving the sect with Qin Fengming, and she reluctantly obeyed.
• Sect Master Du and the other leaders discussed Black Wind Gate’s efforts to recruit allies and their concern about the Evil-Faced Monk.
• Sect Master Du ordered the leaders to watch the disobedient disciples, especially Wei Junhao, and seize him if he showed signs of misconduct.
• Qin Fengming read his books and jade slips and learned that Quzhou was a remote, resource-poor prefecture with weak sects and frequent conflicts.
• Qin Fengming decided that Quzhou was the safest place for him because his treasures could attract powerful enemies elsewhere.