Chapter Summaries

Wu Qingfeng’s group entered the Barren Forest while Qin Fengming traveled to the mountain where a cave might hold treasures. He found and effortlessly killed a Red-crowned Blue-eyed Beast guarding the area, clearing his way toward the cave.

• Wu Qinglin warned that hunting the Azure Spirit Beast could cause casualties, but Wu Qingxuan and Wu Qingfeng rejected the idea of searching deeper in the forest and ordered the disciples to proceed cautiously in groups.
• Wu Qinglin sent sound transmission talismans to warn the disciples, and the three elders led their party onward with the Young Master of Juque Fort among them.
• Qin Fengming flew to the mountain linked to the mysterious fragment and searched the area with his divine sense, discovering a Level 1 Red-crowned Blue-eyed Beast beside a pool.
• Qin Fengming summoned a small yellow beast from a banner and attacked the toad with fireballs that pursued it when it leaped away.
• The fireballs killed the Red-crowned Blue-eyed Beast, and Qin Fengming found that its body and demon core had been burned away.

Qin Fengming found a hidden cave and began attacking the restriction on a stone door, while Juque Fort’s cultivators prepared to ambush the Azure Spirit Beast with the Fuli Clear Water Formation. The chapter left Qin Fengming still striking the restriction and Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qingxuan flying toward the beast.

• Qin Fengming found the concealed cave, set up two formations at its entrance, and left the small red beast to guard it.
• Qin Fengming discovered three skeletons inside the cave and continued deeper until he reached a restricted stone door.
• Qin Fengming tested the door’s weakening restriction with spells and magic artifacts, then kept attacking it.
• Wu Qingfeng ordered the Juque Fort disciples to conceal themselves and follow their plan near the Azure Spirit Beast’s lair.
• Wu Qingxuan located the resting Azure Spirit Beast, and Wu Qinglin led the disciples in arranging the Fuli Clear Water Formation.
• Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qingxuan flew toward the Azure Spirit Beast after the formation was ready.

Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qingxuan lured the Azure Spirit Beast into the Fuli Clear Water Formation, where Juque Fort cultivators bombarded it with thousands of talismans. The wounded beast remained alive and was close to breaking the formation as the cultivators feared they would run out of talismans.

• Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qingxuan drew the Azure Spirit Beast toward the Fuli Clear Water Formation, fleeing and slowing it with repeated talisman attacks.
• Wu Qinglin activated the formation at the right moment and trapped the pursuing beast in water mist.
• Wu Qingfeng ordered the Qi Gathering stage cultivators to attack together, and they poured thousands of talismans into the formation.
• The Azure Spirit Beast endured the attacks with its protective radiance and tried to break through the mist and the formation barrier.
• After half an hour, the beast was badly wounded and weakened, but the Fuli Clear Water Formation was on the verge of collapse and the Juque Fort cultivators were running low on talismans.

The Azure Spirit Beast broke through the Juque Fort cultivators’ formation, killed Wu Qingxuan, and fled while Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qinglin pursued it. Meanwhile, Qin Fengming opened the cave’s stone gate, found three Jade Boxes and another sealed passage, and resolved to become stronger.

• The Azure Spirit Beast shattered the Fuli Clear Water Formation and killed more than a dozen Juque Fort cultivators.
• The beast’s demon core pierced Wu Qingxuan, and Wu Qingfeng urged the remaining cultivators to attack it.
• The Azure Spirit Beast escaped the encirclement, and Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qinglin chased after it.
• Qin Fengming broke the restriction on the cave’s stone gate and sent his Puppet beasts inside before entering the hall himself.
• Qin Fengming collected three Jade Boxes and found a second stone gate whose powerful restriction he could not break.
• Qin Fengming examined the skeleton beneath the stone platform and resolved to cultivate until he became stronger.

Qin Fengming discovered an unusual forearm bone among a cultivator’s remains, then found a wounded Grade 5 Azure Spirit Beast trapped in his formation. He attacked the nearly exhausted beast with his formation, a small beast, and the Purple Fire Meteor Sword, breaking its defensive shield.

• Qin Fengming noticed that two magical treasure fragments reacted to a crystal-clear section of the skeleton’s forearm and stored them separately.
• The red little beast alerted Qin Fengming, who emerged from the cave and found the Azure Spirit Beast trapped in his formations.
• Qin Fengming recognized that the wounded beast’s red demon core belonged to a Grade 5 demon beast and activated the Eight-Sided Thunderfire Formation against it.
• Qin Fengming summoned the yellow little beast and the Purple Fire Meteor Sword, then drank liquid from his jade-green gourd to replenish his spiritual power.
• The Azure Spirit Beast’s red shield endured the attacks for a short time before bursting apart.

Qin Fengming killed the Azure Spirit Beast, seized its demon core, and watched the little yellow beast devour its soul before hiding the cave. Two Foundation Establishment cultivators, Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qinglin, arrived searching for the beast, and Wu Qingfeng approached Qin Fengming after Wu Qinglin detected its scent.

• Qin Fengming sealed the weakened Azure Spirit Beast's power, beheaded it, and caught and stored its demon core.
• The little yellow beast swallowed the Azure Spirit Beast's soul, while Qin Fengming collected the beast's corpse.
• Qin Fengming sealed the cave entrance with rocks, put away his formation equipment, and saw two cultivators approaching.
• Wu Qingfeng and Wu Qinglin, who had pursued the Azure Spirit Beast, questioned Qin Fengming about whether he had seen it.
• Wu Qinglin detected the beast's lingering scent and threatened Qin Fengming, but Wu Qingfeng calmed him and slowly approached Qin Fengming.

Qin Fengming trapped Wu Qingfeng, the master of Juque Fort, in the Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation and confronted Wu Qinglin outside it. He imprisoned Wu Qinglin with the Five Elements Ring and prepared to attack him with talismans.

• Qin Fengming lured Wu Qingfeng into the Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation, where Wu Qingfeng tried to break free with spiritual artifacts and talismans.
• Qin Fengming used the formation plate to appear outside the formation and block Wu Qinglin from rescuing Wu Qingfeng.
• Qin Fengming attacked Wu Qinglin with the Five Elements Ring and sent the yellow beast after him.
• Wu Qinglin identified himself as Juque Fort's Second Elder and revealed that Wu Qingfeng was his elder brother and the fort's master.
• Qin Fengming taunted Wu Qinglin and brought out dozens of talismans to attack him.

Qin Fengming killed Wu Qinglin with a barrage of fireball talismans, then trapped Wu Qingfeng inside the Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation with the Five Elements Ring. As Qin Fengming prepared to wear Wu Qingfeng down and preserve his soul for the yellow little beast, Wu Qingfeng revealed a Lightning Bead, a devastating treasure that put Qin Fengming in danger.

• Qin Fengming sent dozens of fireball talismans at Wu Qinglin, shattering his defenses and killing him before his soul could escape.
• The yellow little beast returned to Qin Fengming without collecting a soul, and Qin Fengming turned his attention to Wu Qingfeng, who was attacking the Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation.
• Qin Fengming sent the Five Elements Ring into the formation and trapped Wu Qingfeng, whose fury grew as he suspected Qin Fengming had killed the other elders and taken the formation.
• Qin Fengming planned to exhaust Wu Qingfeng's magic power before killing him, hoping to leave his soul intact for the yellow little beast.
• Wu Qingfeng, worried about the Second Elder and unable to break free, produced Juque Fort's Lightning Bead, and Qin Fengming sensed that the sphere posed a grave threat.

Wu Qingfeng used a Lightning Bead to destroy Qin Fengming’s Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation, but survived the blast and learned that Qin Fengming had killed several Juque Fort elders. The two fought on, with Wu Qingfeng attacking with talismans as Qin Fengming defended himself.

• Wu Qingfeng hurled his Lightning Bead at the Five Elements Ring, and Qin Fengming recalled the ring and retreated as the blast annihilated the Eight-faced Fire Thunder Formation.
• Wu Qingfeng survived the explosion with severe injuries, while Qin Fengming recognized the bead as a Lightning Bead.
• Wu Qingfeng flew toward Qin Fengming and demanded to know what had happened to Wu Qinglin.
• Qin Fengming told Wu Qingfeng that he had killed Wu Qinglin and Juque Fort's Fourth Elder, and that he had acted alone.
• Wu Qingfeng attacked with dozens of fire talismans, and Qin Fengming raised ten Five Elements Defense Talismans to shield himself.

Qin Fengming overwhelmed Wu Qingfeng with powerful talismans and trapped him in an endless-seeming web of Immortal Binding Ropes. After two hours of resisting, Wu Qingfeng tried to break free by detonating several magical artifacts.

• Wu Qingfeng’s fire talismans failed to break through Qin Fengming’s defenses, while Qin Fengming’s low-grade talismans shattered Wu Qingfeng’s Diamond shields.
• Qin Fengming sent powerful fire pythons at Wu Qingfeng, who spent more than a hundred mid-grade talismans to dispel them.
• Wu Qingfeng decided to flee, but Qin Fengming sealed his escape routes with durable Immortal Binding Ropes that kept reappearing as he cut them.
• Qin Fengming maintained the restraint for two hours, consuming several hundred Immortal Binding Talismans as Wu Qingfeng’s magic power dwindled.
• Wu Qingfeng summoned Diamond Talismans and several magical artifacts, then detonated the artifacts near the ropes.

Qin Fengming trapped Wu Qingfeng with the Five Elements Ring, but Wu Qingfeng self-detonated rather than surrender and was killed. After recovering what he could and resting overnight, Qin Fengming resumed his journey cautiously, wary of demon beasts.

• Wu Qingfeng escaped the Immortal Binding Rope but found himself trapped by Qin Fengming's Five Elements Ring.
• Wu Qingfeng admitted defeat, then self-detonated; Qin Fengming dodged the blast, though the Five Elements Ring lost most of its spiritual energy.
• The yellow little beast devoured Wu Qingfeng's soul, while Qin Fengming collected the damaged ring, Wu Qinglin's spirit artifact, and Wu Qinglin's storage ring.
• Qin Fengming surveyed the battlefield, judged his losses greater than his gains, and flew away after memorizing the location.
• Qin Fengming rested in a mountain cave overnight, then set off at dawn while using his divine sense to watch for demon beasts.

Qin Fengming encountered two female cultivators fleeing a Blazing Beast in the Barren Forest and swiftly killed the demon beast. The women were left astonished by his strength.

• Qin Fengming sensed two familiar cultivators being pursued and concealed himself to see what was happening.
• Qin Fengming recognized one of the two women as someone he had encountered before and identified their pursuer as a powerful Blazing Beast.
• Qin Fengming stepped in to confront the Blazing Beast while the women warned him about its strength.
• Qin Fengming used talismans containing powerful explosions to wound the Blazing Beast and destroy one of its foreclaws.
• Qin Fengming summoned the Huntian Halberd and decapitated the Blazing Beast, leaving the two women stunned.

Qin Fengming saved Gongsun Jingyao and Gongsun Jiayan from a Blazing Beast and discovered that Jingyao was the woman he had rescued before at Yellow Sparrow Mountain. After learning the sisters had wandered into the Barren Forest, he agreed to escort them back toward the Marketplace.

• Qin Fengming killed the Blazing Beast and reassured the two young women that they were safe.
• Gongsun Jiayan introduced herself and her elder sister, Gongsun Jingyao, as disciples of the Hundred Skills Gate.
• Gongsun Jingyao recognized Qin Fengming as the masked cultivator who had saved her at Yellow Sparrow Mountain, and Qin Fengming gave them his name.
• Gongsun Jiayan explained that she and Jingyao had come to the Barren Forest with their great-grandfather, then explored its outskirts on their own.
• Qin Fengming offered to travel with the sisters back to the Marketplace, and Gongsun Jingyao accepted.

After leaving the Barren Forest with the Gongsun sisters, Qin Fengming tried to part ways, but their Nascent Soul-stage great-grandfather, Gongsun Shangwen, arrived. Qin Fengming identified himself as a Luoxia Sect disciple, while Gongsun Jiayan quietly began explaining the encounter to her great-grandfather.

• Qin Fengming and the Gongsun sisters left the Barren Forest and traveled to the Marketplace exit without incident.
• Qin Fengming told the sisters he needed to return to his sect, and they persuaded him to let them call him Brother Qin.
• Qin Fengming sensed an overwhelming pressure approaching from the east, and Gongsun Shangwen appeared before the three cultivators.
• Gongsun Shangwen scolded Gongsun Jingyao and Gongsun Jiayan for secretly entering the Barren Forest, then asked Qin Fengming who he was.
• Qin Fengming introduced himself as a Luoxia Sect disciple, and Gongsun Jiayan took her great-grandfather's arm to explain the situation.

Qin Fengming returned to the Marketplace, sold two demon beast corpses and other loot, then traveled toward Zhui Feng Valley to report Gongsun Shangwen’s interest in the Ancient Battlefield. After resting in a secluded cavern and inspecting an ancient jade slip, he discovered it contained a cultivation method called the Doukui Heart Method.

• Gongsun Shangwen dismissed Qin Fengming’s debt as settled and took Gongsun Jingyao and Gongsun Jiayan back to Zhui Feng Valley.
• Qin Fengming sold the Red-crowned Azure-eyed Toad, the wolf beast’s corpse, and other loot, earning a total of two thousand three hundred spirit stones.
• Qin Fengming flew toward Zhui Feng Valley, planning to tell the Luoxia Sect that the Ancient Battlefield would reopen in two years.
• Qin Fengming found a secluded cavern, concealed its entrance with the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation, and prepared to rest and inspect the treasures from the cavern.
• Qin Fengming opened a Jade Box and found an ancient jade slip whose writing he partially understood.
• Qin Fengming discovered that the jade slip contained a cultivation method called the Doukui Heart Method.

Qin Fengming examined three jade slips from the cave and discovered a valuable cultivation method, a lost-formation manual, and the history of their former owner, Venerable Beidou. He left with treasures that could provoke a fierce struggle if revealed, while uncertain whether he would ever practice Beidou’s demonic cultivation art.

• Qin Fengming examined the first jade slip and found the Doukui Heart Method, then studied a second slip containing an extensive manual on Ancient Formation and Restrictive Spell.
• Qin Fengming read the final slip and learned that the cave’s former owner, Venerable Beidou, had been a powerful unaffiliated cultivator who wielded the Beidou Yinmo Formation.
• The jade slip recounted how righteous and demonic cultivators hunted Venerable Beidou, who trapped an Integration-stage cultivator before escaping gravely wounded and dying in the cave.
• Qin Fengming realized the cave had remained hidden for over a hundred thousand years and congratulated himself for having recorded its location earlier.
• Qin Fengming worried that revealing the jade slips could endanger his life and decided to focus on raising his cultivation before choosing whether to practice the Doukui Heart Method.

Qin Fengming broke the restriction on the white-jade forearm bone with the Yin Yang Pagoda and released Venerable Beidou’s soul. After learning that centuries or more had passed and that he was in the Great Liang Kingdom, Qin Fengming cautiously asked the soul for guidance.

• Qin Fengming used the Yin Yang Pagoda’s flames to destroy the restriction on the forearm bone.
• Venerable Beidou’s soul emerged from the bone and confronted Qin Fengming, demanding to know whether Old Monster Bixia was nearby.
• Qin Fengming prepared his defenses and identified himself, while Venerable Beidou assumed that he was only a Qi Gathering cultivator.
• Venerable Beidou questioned Qin Fengming about the era and location, then inferred that a long time had passed since his own age.
• Qin Fengming confirmed they were in the Great Liang Kingdom on the Qingyuan Continent and asked whether Venerable Beidou would answer a question.

Qin Fengming questioned the remnant soul of Venerable Beidou while staying ready to activate his formation if attacked. After learning about Beidou’s survival, the sealed inner cave, and a fragment’s identity, he left Beidou demanding to know where he had found it.

• Qin Fengming presented Venerable Beidou with a jade slip, and Beidou threatened him for the treasures from his former cave abode.
• Qin Fengming asked three questions before his expected death, and Venerable Beidou agreed to answer them.
• Venerable Beidou explained that he had split off one-fifth of his soul with the Great Yin Transformation Art and sealed it in his forearm before the rest entered the Netherworld.
• Venerable Beidou told Qin Fengming that the mountain cave’s inner chamber held rare materials and his cultivation insights.
• Qin Fengming showed Venerable Beidou a spiritual fragment, and Beidou identified it as part of the spirit treasure Primordial Chaos Cymbals and demanded to know where it came from.

Qin Fengming learned that Venerable Beidou’s fragment came from the spiritual treasure Primordial Chaos Cymbals, then fought to keep the remnant soul from devouring him. He trapped Venerable Beidou in a formation and gained the upper hand with the Soul Devouring Beast, the Yin Yang Pagoda, and a barrage of unexpectedly powerful fireballs.

• Qin Fengming asked Venerable Beidou about the Primordial Chaos Cymbals and learned that the other fragments had been taken by cultivators who pursued him.
• Qin Fengming asked how much strength Venerable Beidou retained, and Venerable Beidou declared that he would devour him and regain his former power.
• Venerable Beidou vanished to strike Qin Fengming, but Qin Fengming dodged and trapped him in the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation.
• Qin Fengming released the Soul Devouring Beast, which Venerable Beidou recognized as a natural threat to his soul.
• Qin Fengming trapped Venerable Beidou with the Yin Yang Pagoda and attacked with talismans whose fireballs shattered his protective shield and cost him soul power.

Qin Fengming used the Yin Yang Pagoda and a stream of powerful talismans to keep Venerable Beidou’s remnant soul trapped and on the defensive. Venerable Beidou’s attempts to break free failed, and he realized his plan to possess Qin Fengming’s body was in serious danger.

• Venerable Beidou strengthened his gray shield and struck the Yin Yang Pagoda with a black palm, making the tower shake.
• Qin Fengming sent more than a dozen Fire Flood Dragon talismans against Venerable Beidou’s next black palm, weakening it before it could harm the pagoda.
• Venerable Beidou conserved his soul essence and waited for the fire flood dragons to disappear, then attacked again.
• Qin Fengming immediately released another dozen fire flood dragons, which swallowed Venerable Beidou’s black palm.
• Venerable Beidou realized Qin Fengming had abundant powerful talismans and reconsidered his plan to capture him and possess his body.