Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming stayed behind after the other four cultivators escaped and fought the demon birds with mutated Fire Python Talismans and a copper bell magic treasure. He destroyed several birds and disrupted their sound-wave attacks, leaving the birds exposed in the shattered fog.

• The four cultivators recalled their spiritual tools and used Earth Evasion Talismans to flee, leaving Qin Fengming alone as the demon birds turned on him.
• Qin Fengming surrounded himself with mutated fire pythons, recalled his spiritual tools, and prepared a huge copper bell to counter the birds’ sound-wave attacks.
• The fire pythons pursued the demon birds through their dense fog and killed several before the birds broke away and gathered to attack with sound waves.
• Qin Fengming powered the copper bell and released a sound wave that clashed with the birds’ attack, protecting the fire pythons and driving the fog backward.
• Qin Fengming sent four more sound waves into the fog, dispersing it and revealing the demon birds.

Qin Fengming drove off the demon birds with his bronze bell, reunited with the four cultivators, and collected the promised spirit stones for helping them escape. Elder Zhang then revealed a concealed flying boat to carry the group through the dangerous region, and they boarded it.

• Qin Fengming stunned the demon birds with sonic attacks, then let them flee and flew to rejoin Elder Zhang and the others.
• Elder Ouyang and Elder Zhang told Cultivator Wen and cultivator surnamed Xu about Qin Fengming’s reputation and his two Grade 4 spirit beasts.
• Qin Fengming demanded the promised reward, and all four cultivators gave him thirty thousand spirit stones each.
• Elder Zhang proposed using his fast, concealed flying treasure and revealed a white boat that the group boarded.

Elder Zhang led Qin Fengming and the others toward a cave abode aboard a swift but spiritually costly flying boat. During a rest stop, they encountered an injured Grade 5 Lingli Beast and decided to attack it together.

• Elder Zhang piloted the White Swift Boat while the five travelers took turns supplying it with spiritual power on their journey through Demon Beast Valley.
• Qin Fengming discovered how rapidly the boat consumed spiritual power before the group reached a mountain and stopped to rest.
• A Lingli Beast burst from the rocks, and Qin Fengming recognized it as a Grade 5 demon beast.
• Cultivator Wen noticed that the beast had a badly injured hind leg, and Elder Zhang proposed killing it for its valuable materials.
• Elder Zhang, Qin Fengming, and the other three took positions around the Lingli Beast and attacked with their spirit artifacts.

The five men battled the wounded fifth-level Lingli Beast, exhausting its demon power with Fire Python Talismans until it launched its demon core at Elder Zhang. Elder Zhang’s shield shattered, but he summoned a powerful gray-white ring to meet the attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• The Lingli Beast’s armor repelled the five men’s attacks, and it matched their speed as they struggled to contain it.
• After an hour of fighting, Elder Zhang urged the group to use Fire Python Talismans, and their fire pythons surrounded and weakened the beast.
• The Lingli Beast used its powerful tongue to destroy fire pythons, but the five men kept it trapped and depleted its demon power.
• The Lingli Beast launched its demon core at Elder Zhang, who tried to evade as Qin Fengming and the others scattered.
• The demon core shattered Elder Zhang’s spiritual shield, but Elder Zhang sent a gigantic gray-white ring to intercept it.

Qin Fengming trapped the escaping Lingli Beast with a Turn Ground into Steel talisman, helping Elder Zhang and the others kill it after a fierce battle. Once they agreed on how to divide the beast, Qin Fengming chose its tongue over its demon core.

• The Lingli Beast broke free of the Fire Python Talismans and tried to escape, but Qin Fengming blocked its path with a Turn Ground into Steel talisman.
• Elder Zhang and the others surrounded the trapped beast and fought it for an hour, with Elder Zhang using his Chaos Ring to repel its demon core until the Lingli Beast died.
• Elder Zhang proposed that he and Qin Fengming each choose one item from the corpse before the others divided the rest, and the three other cultivators agreed.
• Elder Zhang offered Qin Fengming the choice between the Lingli Beast's demon core and its tongue, with twenty thousand spirit stones as compensation if he chose the tongue.
• Qin Fengming chose the Lingli Beast's tongue because he needed it more than the demon core.

After the group divided the fifth-level demon beast’s remains, Elder Zhang led them deeper into Demon Beast Valley toward the Cave Abode shown on his treasure map. Elder Zhang found a phantom formation, and the group gathered to investigate it, though Qin Fengming could not see through its concealment.

• Qin Fengming chose the demon beast’s tongue, while the cultivator surnamed Zhang took its core and gave Qin Fengming twenty thousand spirit stones.
• Elder Zhang used his Chaos Ring to cut up the demon beast, and the five cultivators divided its remains among themselves.
• Elder Zhang warned the group to flee from further demon beasts, and they avoided several more as they traveled toward the Cave Abode.
• Elder Zhang stopped at a towering mountain and told the others to search east for the phantom formation described on his treasure map.
• Elder Zhang sent a voice-transmitting talisman after finding a phantom formation, and Qin Fengming joined the others there.
• Qin Fengming examined the dense forest below and found that even his powerful divine sense could not see through the formation.

Qin Fengming noticed faint formation fluctuations near Elder Zhang, then learned that Zhang planned to use a replica of the legendary Myriad Silence Disk to break the illusion formation. The group received Spirit Excitation Disks for activating it, and the chapter left them preparing to operate the device.

• Qin Fengming detected faint formation fluctuations below and judged that Elder Zhang's setup posed little threat to his own formation skills.
• Elder Zhang demonstrated the illusion formation's strength and said a formation-breaking instrument would require five cultivators to operate.
• Elder Zhang revealed that the instrument was a replica of the Myriad Silence Disk, astonishing Cultivator Xu and the others.
• Cultivator Xu explained that the original Myriad Silence Disk had destroyed the Yan Yin Sect's protective formation in an ancient battle.
• Elder Zhang explained that the replica needed Five Elements energy and distributed Spirit Excitation Disks that could draw power from spirit stones.

Elder Zhang and the others used the imitation Myriad Silence Disk to break the illusory formation concealing a cave abode. Afterward, Qin Fengming noticed that the three mid-grade Spirit Stones powering his Spirit Excitation Disk had lost more than half their energy.

• Elder Zhang explained that he had gathered eighteen rare mid-grade Spirit Stones to power the Myriad Silence Disk and distributed three to each person.
• The five cultivators activated their Spirit Excitation Disks and channeled energy into the Myriad Silence Disk.
• Elder Zhang drove the spinning disk’s energy vortex into the illusory formation, opening a black hole in the mountain forest and breaking the restriction.
• Elder Zhang retrieved the Spirit Excitation Disks and proposed that they enter the cave abode together.
• Qin Fengming returned his disk and sensed that his three mid-grade Spirit Stones had lost more than half their energy.

Elder Zhang and the others entered the cavern, where Qin Fengming discovered that an apparently ordinary stone wall concealed a powerful Restrictive Spell. As the group prepared to exhaust its energy with talismans, Qin Fengming said he knew something about the spell.

• Elder Zhang led the group into the cavern, and Qin Fengming secretly sent a red object into the shrubs by the entrance.
• The group searched the cavern but found no signs of a cultivator's Cave Abode.
• Qin Fengming tested a stone wall with a fireball, revealing that it concealed a Restrictive Spell that struck back with a water sword.
• Elder Zhang's superior-grade magical artifact was nearly drained when the wall repelled its attack with a powerful sword light.
• Cultivator surnamed Xu proposed exhausting the spell with Fire Python Talismans, but Qin Fengming stopped the group and claimed he knew about the Restrictive Spell.

Qin Fengming identified the barrier as a modified Returning Origin Restriction and explained that it drew power from a hidden source. He led Elder Zhang and the others to seek a spirit stone deposit whose energy connection could be severed to bring the restriction down.

• Elder Zhang and the others asked Qin Fengming how to break the restriction, and he identified it as the ancient Returning Origin Restriction.
• Qin Fengming tested the stone wall with spells and a spirit artifact, and the restriction automatically countered and destroyed all three attacks.
• Qin Fengming said he could not break a complete Returning Origin Restriction without its command token, but explained that this barrier was an incomplete, modified version.
• Qin Fengming reasoned that the restriction relied on a hidden energy source, likely a spirit stone deposit, and proposed finding it and severing its connection.

Qin Fengming and the others used Cultivator Wen’s Corrosion Beetles to investigate the ancient Restrictive Spell and discovered a mysterious space beneath the ore deposit. They agreed to descend, bought Earth Evasion Talismans from Qin Fengming, and were ambushed as they emerged into an underground cavern.

• Cultivator Wen sent Corrosion Beetles into the stone wall, where they revealed the Restrictive Spell’s range and located an open space beneath the ore deposit.
• Cultivator Wen reported that dozens of his beetles had vanished inside the space, and the group decided to investigate despite the unknown danger.
• Qin Fengming charged each companion twenty thousand spirit stones for Earth Evasion Talismans, and Elder Zhang distributed two to each person.
• The group activated their talismans and descended underground toward the ore deposit.
• As Qin Fengming and the others emerged in a vast mine cavern, two gray-white ribbons of light shot toward them before they could activate their spirit artifacts.

Qin Fengming and the others fought two Phantom Rock Beasts in a mine cavern after one killed Cultivator Wen, then discovered an ancient Spirit Gathering Array that appeared to power the Returning Origin Array. When Elder Zhang tried to destroy it, a sword blade emerged from the array and shattered his spirit tool.

• The Phantom Rock Beasts ambushed the group, killing Cultivator Wen, while Qin Fengming survived behind his Five Elements barrier.
• Elder Zhang and the others attacked the beasts with spirit tools and Fire Python Talismans, killing them and dividing the remains and Cultivator Wen's belongings.
• The group explored the cavern and found a five-colored Spirit Gathering Array that Qin Fengming recognized as the source of energy for the Returning Origin Array.
• Elder Zhang sent a spirit tool to destroy the array, but a sword blade shot out and broke the weapon.

Qin Fengming explained that the Spirit Gathering Array powered the Returning Origin Array and proposed two ways to cut off its energy. After Xu’s concealment array failed, the group began mining the cavern’s Spirit Stones to weaken the formation.

• Qin Fengming identified the formation as a modified Spirit Gathering Array and explained that it fed on the cavern’s dense spiritual energy.
• Qin Fengming proposed removing the Spirit Stones or isolating the spiritual energy, and Xu offered to try his aura-concealing array.
• Xu activated his array and briefly hid the Spirit Gathering Array, but its sword attacks shattered his array disk.
• Elder Zhang concluded that the group would have to collect the Spirit Stones and assigned each person a direction.
• Elder Zhang, Qin Fengming, and the other two cultivators began cutting Spirit Stones from the cavern walls with their spirit artifacts.

Qin Fengming devised a way to weaken Phantom Venerable’s Returning Origin Array by surrounding it with four Spirit Gathering Arrays. After refining enhanced arrays and setting them up, he and the three cultivators launched a coordinated attack, with only half an hour before the arrays stopped operating.

• The four cultivators failed to weaken the Returning Origin Array by removing Spirit Stones from the mine shaft.
• Qin Fengming realized that four additional Spirit Gathering Arrays could drain the energy gathered by Phantom Venerable’s array.
• Qin Fengming concealed himself with the Four Symbols Pure Spirit Formation and refined four Spirit Gathering Arrays.
• The four cultivators activated the arrays, which rapidly drew spiritual energy into a powerful vortex.
• Qin Fengming and the three cultivators attacked the Returning Origin Array together using talismans and fire jiaos.

Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, Elder Ouyang, and cultivator Xu broke the ancient Returning Origin Array after a prolonged attack, then returned to the mountain cave to search for the cave abode’s entrance. As they began examining the stone wall, Qin Fengming sensed danger and shielded himself with three talismans.

• Qin Fengming and the other three attacked the Returning Origin Array with Fire Python Talismans, but the array’s blades initially destroyed the fire pythons with ease.
• As the array weakened, Elder Ouyang and cultivator Xu ran out of talismans, so Qin Fengming told them to attack with their spiritual artifacts while he and Elder Zhang continued firing talismans.
• The four maintained their assault and replaced depleted spirit stones until the array’s multicolored barrier shattered and the Spirit Gathering Array was destroyed.
• Elder Zhang celebrated the array’s destruction, and Qin Fengming retrieved the formation implements before the group used Earth Evasion Talismans to return to the mountain cave.
• Elder Zhang blasted a depression into the stone wall and urged the others to search for the entrance, but Qin Fengming sensed something ominous and surrounded himself with three multicolored barriers.

Qin Fengming and the others opened a hidden stone gate and entered a chamber containing Phantom Venerable’s belongings, where an Azure Winged Mantis attacked and trapped Cultivator Xu. The three survivors prepared to fight the Grade 5 demon beast in the cramped passage.

• Qin Fengming acted cautiously as Elder Zhang opened the concealed stone gate, and the four cultivators entered the passage after Elder Ouyang sent flying ants ahead.
• The four discovered a furnished stone chamber with three Jade Boxes, books, and materials, then sensed a powerful demon beast’s aura.
• An Azure Winged Mantis burst from an opening and attacked; Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, and Elder Ouyang escaped, while Cultivator Xu remained trapped inside.
• Qin Fengming identified the beast as a Grade 5 Azure Winged Mantis, and Elder Zhang questioned whether it could be Phantom Venerable’s spirit beast.
• Elder Ouyang urged the survivors to fight in the cramped passage, and Elder Zhang handed him a thousand Fire Python Talismans.

Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, and Elder Ouyang faced the powerful Azure Winged Mantis and tried to trap it with talismans and an array. The beast resisted their attacks, and the chapter ended as Elder Zhang’s magic ring struck it without causing harm.

• The Azure Winged Mantis appeared at the passage entrance, and Qin Fengming identified it as a fifth-grade demon beast.
• Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, and Elder Ouyang unleashed hundreds of Fire Python Talismans, but the Mantis Beast blocked and destroyed them.
• Elder Ouyang set up an array near the cave entrance while Qin Fengming and Elder Zhang held the beast’s attention.
• The Mantis Beast emerged from the passage but stopped before entering the array, seemingly sensing the danger.
• At Qin Fengming’s suggestion, Elder Zhang attacked with his ring magic treasure, but the Mantis Beast knocked it away unharmed.

Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, and Elder Ouyang trapped the Azure Winged Mantis in a formation, but the beast's attacks threatened to break through. As the two elders faced likely death, Qin Fengming offered to kill it with a powerful talisman in exchange for keeping its corpse.

• Elder Zhang attacked the Azure Winged Mantis with his ring-shaped magic treasure while restoring his strength with a mid-grade Spirit Stone.
• The Azure Winged Mantis charged the three cultivators, and Elder Ouyang activated his formation just in time to trap it behind a multicolored barrier.
• Elder Ouyang controlled the formation while Qin Fengming and Elder Zhang sent fire pythons at the beast, but it dodged and destroyed them.
• The Azure Winged Mantis repeatedly struck the barrier, leaving the three cultivators afraid that it would break through and kill them.
• Qin Fengming offered to kill the beast with a powerful talisman if Elder Zhang and Elder Ouyang agreed to give him its corpse.

Qin Fengming killed the Level Five Azure Winged Mantis with a Sun-Shooting Talisman after its magic formation broke and it charged Elder Zhang and Elder Ouyang. The two elders thanked him, and Elder Zhang upheld his promise to give Qin Fengming the demon beast’s corpse.

• Elder Zhang promised Qin Fengming the Azure Winged Mantis’s corpse if Qin Fengming could slay it.
• The Azure Winged Mantis broke through the formation and attacked Elder Zhang, Elder Ouyang, and Qin Fengming.
• Elder Zhang and Elder Ouyang tried to block the beast with their spiritual weapons, but it shattered both weapons and nearly struck them.
• Qin Fengming unleashed a Sun-Shooting Talisman from his sleeve, piercing the Azure Winged Mantis’s head and killing it.
• Elder Ouyang thanked Qin Fengming for saving them, while Elder Zhang asked about the talisman.
• Qin Fengming said his master had bestowed the talisman upon him, and Elder Zhang confirmed that the corpse belonged to Qin Fengming.

Qin Fengming, Elder Zhang, and Elder Ouyang returned to Phantom Venerable's secret cave and found the dead cultivator surnamed Xu and a woman's skeleton. They gathered the cave's treasures and opened three Jade Boxes, revealing two jade slips and a pitch-black magic treasure fragment.

• Elder Ouyang agreed that Qin Fengming should keep the slain fifth-level Mantis Beast, and Qin Fengming collected its corpse.
• The three men returned to the chamber and found cultivator surnamed Xu dead; Elder Ouyang collected his belongings for his family.
• Elder Zhang proposed that they search the cave and divide the useful items, and the three men found a woman's skeleton with three storage rings and a token.
• The men pooled the chamber's treasures, including rare materials, three magic treasures, and two red pills, then agreed that Elder Zhang and Qin Fengming would choose first.
• Qin Fengming suggested opening the three Jade Boxes, and Elder Zhang revealed two jade slips and a pitch-black magic treasure fragment.