Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant lured nine Divine Vulture Sect cultivators into an ambush after tracking them from the Sky Flame Mountain Range. As the sect cultivators prepared to kill the disguised pair, Poison Dragon Ascendant unleashed two black humanoid objects at their leader.

• Poison Dragon Ascendant told Qin Fengming he had secretly marked the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators and could track them, and the two planned to ambush them along their route home.
• Qin Fengming used his powerful divine sense to detect the nine cultivators leaving the Sky Flame Mountain Range, and he and Poison Dragon Ascendant moved farther away to wait for them.
• Two days later, the nine cultivators recognized Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant in a forest and decided to kill them before continuing to their sect headquarters.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant pretended to beg the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators for mercy, then sent two black humanoid objects from his sleeve toward their leader.

Poison Dragon Ascendant used two late Core Formation Puppets to kill Feng of the Divine Vulture Sect, then faced the sect’s threats alongside Qin Fengming. Two Peak Core Formation brothers stepped forward to challenge them, and Qin Fengming prepared to fight.

• Cultivator Qi and Feng tried to block Poison Dragon Ascendant’s two Puppets, but their silver-white attacks pierced Feng’s defenses and killed him.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant recalled the Puppets as Elder Qi vowed revenge, while the Divine Vulture Sect members reacted with shock at the two late Core Formation Puppets.
• Two Peak Core Formation cultivators from the Divine Vulture Sect challenged Poison Dragon Ascendant, who stepped aside and told Qin Fengming to deal with them.
• Qin Fengming accepted the challenge and warned the brothers to attack quickly, but they laughed at the early Core Formation cultivator.

Qin Fengming killed two Peak Core Formation cultivators from the Divine Vulture Sect with a beastly roar and white-light talismans, then fled with Poison Dragon Ascendant as the remaining pursuers followed. Qin Fengming revealed the pursuit was a trap, and the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators found themselves surrounded by a boundless expanse of yellow sand.

• Qin Fengming vanished into the forest, stunned the two Cultivator Wangs with a beastly roar, and killed them with white-light attacks.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant mocked the Divine Vulture Sect while Cultivator Qi and the others debated how to attack Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant.
• Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant turned to flee, prompting the six remaining Divine Vulture Sect members to pursue them.
• Qin Fengming vanished during the pursuit, reappeared ahead of the cultivators, and trapped them in a landscape of endless yellow sand.

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant trapped five Divine Vulture Sect cultivators in the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and killed them, but Elder Qi escaped and summoned his sect for help. The two pursued him through the mountains, racing to kill him before reinforcements arrived.

• Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant lured the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators into the formation, but Elder Qi noticed the trap and escaped its range.
• Qin Fengming revealed that the formation had killed the five trapped cultivators and handed their Spirit Beast Pouches to Poison Dragon Ascendant.
• Elder Qi activated a Myriad Miles Talisman to summon help from the Divine Vulture Sect.
• Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant pursued Elder Qi as he fled across the mountains.

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant pursued Elder Qi until Poison Dragon Ascendant used the Sun-Shooting Bow to kill him. After collecting spoils from the earlier corpses, they sensed two powerful cultivators approaching and prepared to flee.

• Qin Fengming warned Poison Dragon Ascendant that their pursuit was becoming dangerous and urged him to stop Elder Qi quickly.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant revealed the Sun-Shooting Bow, drew it with great effort, and fired a murky yellow arrow at Elder Qi.
• Elder Qi tried to evade the arrow, but it followed him and blasted him apart.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant replenished his magic power, then returned with Qin Fengming to collect the Spirit Beast Pouches and other treasures from the corpses.
• Qin Fengming sensed two immense energy fluctuations approaching from more than two hundred li away and warned Poison Dragon Ascendant that they were likely Divine Vulture Sect Nascent Soul cultivators.

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant fled separately after two Early Nascent Soul cultivators arrived in pursuit. Qin Fengming used his Spirit Evasion art to escape in great leaps, but the cultivator surnamed Duan matched his speed with a Spirit Bird and continued the chase.

• Qin Fengming warned Poison Dragon Ascendant that two Nascent Soul cultivators were approaching, and the two split up to flee.
• The cultivators surnamed Wu and Duan arrived, identified the fugitives, and pursued them in separate directions.
• Qin Fengming used Spirit Evasion to travel a hundred miles and briefly gained distance from Duan.
• Duan mounted a gigantic Spirit Bird and used a Body-Fusion secret art to catch up to Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming used Spirit Evasion again as Duan appeared behind him and shouted that escape would be difficult.

Qin Fengming struggled to escape the Nascent Soul cultivator surnamed Duan, whose Spirit Bird kept pace with his movement technique. After an hour of pursuit, Duan closed the distance while Qin Fengming remained able to flee, and Qin Fengming’s frustration began to turn into anger.

• Qin Fengming used Spirit Evasion twice in succession to flee more than two hundred li, but the strain left him staggering.
• Duan expanded his divine sense, found Qin Fengming’s energy disturbance, and pursued him aboard his Spirit Bird.
• Qin Fengming continued fleeing in unpredictable directions, while Duan failed to interrupt his brief bursts of Spirit Evasion with a magic treasure.
• Qin Fengming and Duan chased each other for an hour and flew more than a hundred thousand li, with Duan gradually narrowing the gap.
• Duan wondered whether Qin Fengming had a pill that restored magic power, while Qin Fengming realized Duan relied on his Spirit Bird to keep up.
• Qin Fengming grew increasingly anxious and aggrieved, then felt anger rising within him.

Qin Fengming ambushed the pursuing old man surnamed Duan with four Mountain Breaking Talismans, killing Duan’s Spirit Bird but failing to kill Duan. With the two facing off, Duan vowed revenge and prepared to attack, while Qin Fengming remained trapped within his reach.

• Qin Fengming turned to face the approaching old man surnamed Duan and unleashed four Mountain Breaking Talismans as Duan appeared on his Spirit Bird.
• Duan dodged the fatal blows, but the talismans struck and killed his Spirit Bird.
• Qin Fengming fled a short distance with the Profound Sky Evasive Steps, then faced Duan without showing fear.
• Duan grieved for his longtime Spirit Bird and threatened to tear Qin Fengming apart.
• Duan mocked Qin Fengming’s talismans and warned that he could no longer escape, then locked him beneath his impending attack.

Qin Fengming faced Duan of the Divine Vulture Sect, who demanded he surrender and answer for killing nine sect members. Duan attacked with a massive magical treasure, and Qin Fengming’s Sun-Shooting Talismans failed to stop it as he launched two more talismans.

• Duan questioned Qin Fengming about killing the Divine Vulture Sect disciples and offered to spare his soul if he answered truthfully.
• Qin Fengming refused to submit and said the sect’s cultivators had attacked him and his Senior Brother first.
• Duan summoned a huge red magical treasure and demanded Qin Fengming bind himself and return to the sect.
• Qin Fengming raised three yellow barriers and prepared talismans, but Duan’s treasure overwhelmed his first two Sun-Shooting Talismans.
• Qin Fengming leaped backward and fired two more talismans as the red treasure continued toward him.

Qin Fengming escaped the Nascent Soul cultivator surnamed Duan after surviving his attacks with the Ding Jia Talisman and using Spirit Evasion. He fled for three days to a secluded forest to recover, while Duan found the Wu-surnamed cultivator and learned he had also returned empty-handed.

• The old man surnamed Duan attacked Qin Fengming with a giant palm and a magic treasure, but Qin Fengming survived and used Spirit Evasion to escape beyond Duan's reach.
• Duan failed to pursue Qin Fengming after his spirit vulture was killed and the cultivator vanished beyond his divine sense.
• Qin Fengming recalled how the final Ding Jia Talisman had endured Duan's palm strike, letting him use the force to escape with Spirit Evasion.
• Qin Fengming fled for three days, covered more than a hundred thousand li, and rested inside the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation in a secluded forest.
• Duan found the Wu-surnamed Nascent Soul cultivator, whose despondent expression showed that he had also failed to achieve his goal.

Qin Fengming recovered from the Divine Vulture Sect’s pursuit and set out for Minzhou to attend the Green Snake Valley trade fair, hoping to obtain materials for his life-bound magic treasure. Meanwhile, Zhuang Daoqin waited at the Sky Flame Mountain Range exit, puzzled by Qin Fengming’s survival and expecting him to emerge before the range closed.

• Zhuang Daoqin waited with Manghuang Mountain cultivators at the Sky Flame Mountain Range exit while Shu Jingliang suggested Qin Fengming might still be inside.
• Zhuang Daoqin learned that the six cultivators assigned to protect Qin Fengming had emerged safely but had never reunited with him inside the range.
• Qin Fengming fully recovered, mounted Gliding Light, and headed toward Minzhou to honor his agreement to attend the Green Snake Valley trade fair.
• Qin Fengming planned to seek materials for the Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword, his preferred life-bound magic treasure, whose Frost Soul Flash attack could strike an opponent’s soul.

Qin Fengming traveled toward Minzhou by air, searching Marketplaces for rare treasure materials and records about the Three Realms War while tempering himself. Near Minzhou, he reached the Flying Locust Alliance Marketplace and learned that it was hidden inside a mountain.

• Qin Fengming flew toward Minzhou, stopping at Marketplaces along the way to look for materials and information about the Three Realms War.
• Groups of Core Formation cultivators ambushed Qin Fengming during his journey, but he defeated them and grew more confident in his strength.
• Qin Fengming sent a message to his five masters at Manghuang Mountain, explaining that he had advanced to Core Formation and was traveling to temper himself.
• After nearly a year of travel, Qin Fengming stopped before a barren mountain and wondered whether it was the Flying Locust Alliance Marketplace.
• Two nearby Rogue Cultivators, Su and Wei, told Qin Fengming that the Marketplace was inside the mountain, surprising him.

Qin Fengming learned that the Flying Locust Alliance was notorious for selling female cultivators as cultivation cauldrons, though it also hosted a major treasure exchange. He left his companions to browse the market plaza, then paid the entry fee and entered the Alliance’s cavern market.

• The Wei-surnamed cultivator explained that the Flying Locust Alliance was the only merchant alliance that sold female cultivators as cultivation cauldrons.
• The cultivator surnamed Su told Qin Fengming that the Alliance’s treasure exchange would begin in three days and described the Foundation Establishment cultivators available for purchase.
• Qin Fengming flew with the two cultivators to a crowded plaza, then parted from them to look around on his own.
• Qin Fengming found nothing of interest among the plaza’s stalls and headed for the cavern entrance.
• Three Foundation Establishment women told Qin Fengming that Core Formation cultivators needed a bright-red jade token and had to pay one hundred spirit stones to enter.
• Qin Fengming paid the fee, took a bright-red jade token, and entered the cavern market.

Qin Fengming entered the Flying Locust Alliance’s mountain Marketplace and learned how its jade tablet opened the cave’s Restrictive Spells. After Ji Rou brought him to the Core Formation Cave Abodes, he chose an unoccupied room and opened its stone door.

• Qin Fengming used his jade tablet to pass through the cave’s Restrictive Spell and entered the busy Marketplace inside the mountain.
• Qin Fengming walked through the Marketplace to Tongtian Hall, where he saw Foundation Establishment cultivators feasting and drinking.
• Ji Rou offered to guide Qin Fengming to a Cave Abode, then took him through a Teleportation Array to the Core Formation Cave Abode area.
• Qin Fengming explored a passage lined with Cave Abodes and chose one whose Restrictive Spell barrier was calm.
• Qin Fengming infused his red jade tablet with spiritual power, causing the barrier to glow and the stone door to open.

Qin Fengming learned that Ji Rou was bound by the Flying Locust Alliance’s rules to attend him, so he let her stay and sent her to search the Marketplace for materials needed to refine the Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword. After resting in his cave abode, he heard news from Ji Rou that shook him to the core.

• Qin Fengming learned from Ji Rou’s jade slip that the Flying Locust Alliance required her to attend honored guests and punished disciples who left without permission.
• Qin Fengming allowed Ji Rou to remain in the lower cave chamber, gave her five spirit stones, and went upstairs to settle in and prepare for the trading fair.
• Qin Fengming gave Ji Rou a jade slip listing materials for his Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword and entrusted her with one hundred thousand spirit stones to search the Marketplace.
• Qin Fengming meditated for three days while Ji Rou searched the Marketplace, then heard startling news when she returned two days later.

Ji Rou told Qin Fengming that she knew of an Ice Radiance Crystal Stone and asked for his help in exchange for revealing what she knew. She explained that she belonged to the declining Ji Family in the Qingyun Mountain Range and described the crisis facing her Lineage, leaving Qin Fengming to consider her request.

• Ji Rou returned Qin Fengming's storage rings after failing to find the rare materials he had requested.
• Ji Rou revealed that she knew something about the Ice Radiance Crystal Stone, astonishing Qin Fengming.
• Ji Rou said she needed Qin Fengming's help before she would share what she knew, and Qin Fengming accused her of trying to blackmail him.
• Ji Rou insisted that capturing and soul-searching her would not reveal the crystal's location, and Qin Fengming agreed to help if she could lead him to it.
• Ji Rou identified herself as a member of the declining Ji Family and explained her origins and request to Qin Fengming.

Qin Fengming learned how the Ji Household faced a threat from two Core Formation cultivators and agreed to help defeat them in exchange for information about its Ice Radiance Crystal Stone. He left the matter contingent on the Household providing a detailed account of the stone afterward.

• Ji Rou told Qin Fengming that the Ji Household possessed an Ice Radiance Crystal Stone and promised to reveal its location if he resolved the Household’s crisis.
• Ji Rou explained that two early Core Formation cultivators and their late Foundation Establishment disciple had settled nearby, and the disciple threatened the Ji Household after Ji Rou refused his marriage proposal.
• Ji Rou proposed luring the two Core Formation cultivators into the Ji Household’s defensive formation so Qin Fengming could attack them while they were trapped.
• Qin Fengming questioned why the Ji Household’s Old Ancestor could not kill the intruders himself, and Ji Rou explained that the formation could trap enemies but lacked strong offensive power.
• Qin Fengming agreed to take action, warning that he would be ruthless if the Ji Household failed to give him a detailed account of the Ice Radiance Crystal Stone.

Qin Fengming agreed to help Ji Rou’s Household in exchange for its Ice Radiance Crystal Stone, then accompanied her to the Flying Locust Alliance’s Treasure Trading Fair. The chapter left him seated in the trading venue, surveying the enormous cave.

• Qin Fengming agreed to visit the Ji Household after the Treasure Trading Fair and help resolve its crisis in exchange for the Ice Radiance Crystal Stone.
• Ji Rou told Qin Fengming she could leave the Flying Locust Alliance because she was not one of its disciples, and gave him a jade slip map to her Household.
• Qin Fengming changed his appearance before leaving with Ji Rou for the trading venue.
• Qin Fengming and Ji Rou traveled through a Teleportation Array to the enormous trading hall, where Qin Fengming sat at a stone table and examined the cave.

Qin Fengming attended the Flying Locust Alliance’s three-year trading fair, where Li Shuqing opened the auction by presenting a rare Meteorite Gold Stone. The stone was offered for spirit stones or in exchange for Tin Crow Stone or Blue Yue Stone, and the bidding was about to begin.

• Qin Fengming observed that the cavern held hundreds of cultivators and that Nascent Soul seniors watched from restricted caves in the stone wall.
• Li Shuqing introduced the Flying Locust Alliance’s trading fair and its three renowned treasure appraisers, Elder Ji, Elder Wei, and Elder Yan.
• Li Shuqing explained that the alliance’s treasures could be won with spirit stones or exchanged for requested materials, while other cultivators could offer their own treasures after the alliance’s items were traded.
• Li Shuqing presented a fist-sized Meteorite Gold Stone, which Qin Fengming recognized as a rare material for refining metal-element magic treasures.
• Li Shuqing set the Meteorite Gold Stone’s starting price at one hundred thousand spirit stones and offered priority exchange to anyone with Tin Crow Stone or Blue Yue Stone.

At the Flying Locust Alliance trade fair, Qin Fengming watched rare materials and cultivation pills sell for enormous sums before a Lightning Flood Dragon scale was revealed. The Alliance demanded an entire Phoenix Dance Grass at least thirty thousand years old in exchange, leaving the gathered cultivators protesting the price.

• A Meteorite Gold Stone sold for two hundred and seventy thousand spirit stones, and two cultivation pills later sold for three hundred and sixty thousand.
• After sitting through the auction, Qin Fengming saw the woman surnamed Li unveil a Lightning Flood Dragon scale that blocked his divine sense.
• Qin Fengming recognized the scale as belonging to a humanoid-transformed Lightning Flood Dragon, and a Nascent Soul cultivator called Master Ma asked what the Alliance wanted for it.
• The woman surnamed Li said the Flying Locust Alliance would exchange the scale only for an entire Phoenix Dance Grass at least thirty thousand years old, prompting uproar among the cultivators.