Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng was ambushed at Night Crow Ridge by thirteen masked men demanding the Divine Map, and he discovered that their leader was acting on a mysterious Young Master’s orders. The men produced the captive Yi Han, whose legs had been severed, leaving Lu Feng facing the extent of the trap.

• Thirteen masked men surrounded Lu Feng at Night Crow Ridge and demanded that he hand over the Divine Map.
• Lu Feng dodged the leader’s attack, fought him back, and taunted the group while probing their identities.
• Lu Feng drew the Night Feather Sword and put on an eye-mask, frightening the attackers, who then rallied themselves by trusting their Young Master’s backup plan.
• Lu Feng realized that a mysterious Young Master had lured him there, though he doubted Yi Han was involved in the scheme.
• The leader opened a Living Creature Pouch and released Yi Han, who was bound, bloodied, and missing both legs.

Lu Feng shattered his seven souls to defeat the Black-Clad Men and protect Yu Yihan, then collapsed under a crow attack after casting the Divine Map from Night Crow Ridge. As his life faded, he resolved to grow stronger if he survived and promised to cherish those beside him in his next life.

• The Black-Clad Men demanded the Divine Map and Lu Feng's seven souls in exchange for Yu Yihan, revealing that they had originally planned to threaten the Clear River Sect's Sect Leader.
• Lu Feng forced his seven souls from his body, but Yu Yihan gathered spiritual energy to self-destruct; a black-clad man struck her and disrupted her attempt.
• Lu Feng exploded his seven souls, broke through, and killed all thirteen Black-Clad Men with the Night Feather Sword.
• Lu Feng carried the unconscious Yu Yihan away from the ridge, collapsed, and shielded her from the crows as they attacked him.
• Lu Feng threw the Divine Map from Night Crow Ridge and, as he lost consciousness, vowed to become stronger and cherish those by his side.

After his spiritual souls shattered at Night Crow Ridge, Lu Feng learned that an old man had rescued him and set seven arrays in his life soul so he could rebuild his cultivation, though the process threatened his life. While Lu Feng remained unconscious, others believed he had died; he awoke after seven days to find the arrays in place and the old man weakened.

• Lu Feng woke inside his life soul sea and learned the old man had returned Yu Yihan to Clear River Sect.
• The old man offered Lu Feng a choice between cultivating anew with a likely seven-year lifespan or living as an ordinary person, and Lu Feng chose to cultivate.
• The old man explained that seven arrays would stabilize and nourish Lu Feng’s spiritual souls, and that he would need to master them and eventually find a rare spiritual treasure to fuse the souls.
• A second person helped set the seven arrays, and Lu Feng lost consciousness as their power poured into him.
• A woman arrived too late at Night Crow Ridge and left carrying Lu Feng’s black flexible sword, while Clear River Sect discovered that his Soul Jade Tablet had shattered and assumed he was dead.
• Seven days later, Lu Feng awoke to find seven dim lights in his life soul sea and heard the weakened old man say that the arrays were complete.

After nearly half a month trapped in darkness, Lu Feng awakened the first of his seven souls and discovered that the Soul-Deriving Array had greatly enhanced his Soul Strength. An old man entered the Bamboo House, explained the array, and gave Lu Feng a stone crystal to test his strength.

• While unable to move, Lu Feng opened the Heavenly Rush Soul Formation and gained the ability to release his Soul Consciousness beyond his body.
• Lu Feng examined his changed appearance and the Bamboo House from within his soul sea, but could not pass his consciousness through the closed door.
• After nearly half a month, Lu Feng woke and met the old man who had saved him; the old man was surprised that Lu Feng had already opened the Soul-Deriving Array.
• The old man explained that he had obtained the Soul-Deriving Array in a desperate place and handed Lu Feng a stone crystal to measure his One Soul Realm strength.
• Lu Feng poured spiritual energy into the stone crystal to test his strength.

Lu Feng learned that unsealing his Seven Souls Arrays briefly granted him strength comparable to the Five-Souls Realm, but using that power risked shattering his fragmented souls again. After months in Exquisite Valley, Old Bai asked Lu Feng to become his disciple, leaving Lu Feng facing an unexpected offer.

• Old Bai briefly unsealed Lu Feng’s Spirit Soul Arrays, raising his strength from nine Stones of Strength to fifty, then warned that prolonged use could shatter his souls.
• Old Bai gave Lu Feng an incantation introducing the Seven Souls Array and explained that mastering it fully required the legendary Dragon Saliva Water.
• Lu Feng spent several months in Exquisite Valley, learning that it was a secluded array sect now inhabited only by Old Bai, Old Hei, and himself.
• Old Hei teased Old Bai about his disciple Liu Su’s talent, prompting Old Bai to decide he needed a disciple of his own.
• Old Bai asked Lu Feng twice whether he was willing to take him as his master, while Old Hei worried that the bond could bring Old Bai grief because Lu Feng had only seven years to live.

After refusing to become Old Bai’s disciple, Lu Feng accepted his offer to study the Array Dao as an instructor, since his crippled seven souls made that path his best chance to survive. Old Bai introduced Exquisite Valley and the basics of array deployment, then began teaching Lu Feng how to engrave an inscription.

• Lu Feng refused Old Bai’s offer to take him as a disciple, but agreed to learn arrays from him as an instructor after Old Hei warned that his crippled seven souls left him little choice.
• Lu Feng bowed twice to thank Old Bai for saving his life and teaching him, and Old Bai brought him into the Bamboo House to begin his instruction.
• Old Bai explained Exquisite Valley’s two branches, the differences between Array Masters and Martial Masters, and why Array Masters needed to master the Exquisite Steps movement technique.
• Old Bai gave Lu Feng the book Array Dao Essence and explained the components of an array, including its diagram, core, Array Jade, and inscriptions.
• Old Bai began demonstrating the Spirit Locking Inscription on Jade Shards, instructing Lu Feng to study the knife’s path and the flow of the patterns.

Old Bai taught Lu Feng the basics of array deployment, then trapped him in an Entrapment Array and set him a three-hour deadline to escape. Lu Feng broke the array through careful study and reverse engraving, earning a Kirin Ring Wrist Guard from Old Hei, though claiming it subjected his soul to a painful test.

• Old Bai demonstrated the steps of array deployment and trapped Lu Feng in an Entrapment Array, ordering him to escape within three hours.
• Lu Feng studied Old Bai’s books, failed to break the barrier with a normal engraving, and found a tiny note explaining that he needed to overcome the array force or target the array’s foundation.
• Lu Feng realized he could reverse the engraving, successfully carved the Spirit Locking Inscription backward, and shattered the array.
• Old Bai collected a Kirin Ring Wrist Guard from Old Hei after winning their wager and gave it to Lu Feng as his first gift.
• Lu Feng put on the Wrist Guard and endured a painful soul test before Old Hei explained that it would happen again each time Lu Feng wore it.

After three years of training in Exquisite Valley, Lu Feng learned that Dragon Saliva Water might be found in Azure Dragon Town and prepared to leave in search of it. He departed for the town while Old Bai and Old Hei stayed behind, uncertain whether he would survive long enough to return.

• Lu Feng spent three years studying arrays and the Exquisite Movement Technique under Old Bai and Old Hei, while remaining in the One Soul Realm and facing fewer than four years of life.
• Old Hei found a possible lead on Dragon Saliva Water in Azure Dragon Town, where he had sensed a fleeting trace of threatening true dragon aura.
• Old Bai and Old Hei urged Lu Feng to travel to Azure Dragon Town, warned him that unknown enemies had killed other geniuses, and told him not to reveal his old skills or contact former acquaintances.
• Lu Feng thanked the elders, accepted Old Bai's route map, and left Exquisite Valley through its Teleportation Array.
• After Lu Feng vanished, Old Bai and Old Hei worried about his chances of survival and hoped he would one day return to meet Liu Su.

After teleporting into a remote village, Lu Feng helped Huo Yu and Huo Niu catch the Black Green Snake they needed for their mother's illness, then protected them from a wolf. Huo Gen brought the injured Lu Feng into the welcoming village, where he met Bai Ji and the villagers.

• Lu Feng emerged from the Teleportation Array, accidentally scared away Huo Yu and Huo Niu's Black Green Snake, then used Beast Moss Incense to lure it back.
• Huo Niu caught the snake, and Huo Yu thanked Lu Feng because its gallbladder could help cure Bai Ji's cold illness.
• A wild wolf attacked the group, and Lu Feng shielded Huo Yu and Huo Niu before Huo Gen killed the wolf with an arrow.
• Huo Gen praised Lu Feng for protecting the siblings, carried the wolf, and took him to the village to have his arm bandaged.
• Lu Feng met the villagers, while Huo Niu went to find Grandpa Mu Tong and Huo Yu reunited with Bai Ji.

Lu Feng recovered quickly in Worryfree Village and taught Huo Niu the basics of Soul Cultivation, while realizing the Seven Souls might guide his understanding of the remaining formations. The chapter ended with Lu Feng joining the villagers’ feast and looking forward to seeing Huo Gen hunt.

• Huo Gen brought Lu Feng to Mu Tong, who examined his wound and found it was healing unusually fast.
• Lu Feng learned about Worryfree Village and its residents, including that Huo Niu had been found abandoned as an infant.
• Huo Niu asked Lu Feng to teach him cultivation so he could protect Huo Yu, and Mu Tong tacitly approved.
• Lu Feng explained the Life Soul, the Seven Souls, and the early stages of Soul Cultivation, then gave Huo Niu a cultivation manual.
• While teaching, Lu Feng connected the Seven Souls’ functions to the formations he hoped to comprehend.
• Lu Feng joined the villagers for a bonfire feast and became interested in watching Huo Gen hunt the next day.

Huo Gen taught Lu Feng archery on a hunt, and the two encountered a first-rank Netherworld Leopard. They wounded it through teamwork, but Lu Feng struck its eye without stopping its leap, leaving the beast poised to attack him.

• Huo Gen demonstrated how to use prediction and conceal an archer's position, and Lu Feng quickly improved with his bow.
• Lu Feng and Huo Gen found a Netherworld Leopard, a first-rank spirit beast, and decided to fight it together.
• Lu Feng missed his first shot, but Huo Gen wounded the leopard's hind leg and then struck it again with a Three-Arrow Bow.
• As the leopard charged at Lu Feng, he shot its left eye, but it continued lunging over him with a raised claw.

Lu Feng and Huo Gen killed a Netherworld Leopard, and Huo Gen gave Lu Feng its beast core and crafted him a Netherworld Bow. When Huo Niu ran into the ancestral hall in despair over his failure to awaken his life soul, the hall suddenly collapsed, leaving a vast, seemingly bottomless pit.

• Lu Feng mastered the second level of Exquisite Steps, dodged the Netherworld Leopard, and helped Huo Gen bring it down with arrows.
• Huo Gen gave Lu Feng the leopard's beast core and used its materials to craft him a bow, which Lu Feng named the Netherworld Bow.
• Lu Feng continued hunting and practicing archery with Huo Gen while trying to help Huo Niu awaken his life soul, but nothing changed.
• Huo Niu became distraught over his failure to awaken and ran into the village ancestral hall.
• The ancestral hall collapsed with a tremendous boom, and Lu Feng and Huo Gen found a massive, steep-sided pit where it had stood.

Lu Feng and Huo Gen searched beneath Worryfree Village’s ancestral hall for Huo Niu, breaking an Entrapment Array and uncovering the village’s ancient archery techniques. A hidden passage led Lu Feng to a sacrificial altar, where an Ancient Desolation Pattern began draining his strength, leaving him trapped and in danger.

• Huo Gen and Lu Feng descended into the cave to look for Huo Niu and discovered they were trapped in an Entrapment Array.
• Lu Feng disrupted the array with Spirit Suppression Pattern jade shards and opened a passage to a hidden stone chamber.
• Lu Feng and Huo Gen found archery techniques carved into the walls and learned most of them, causing another stone gate to open.
• Lu Feng and Huo Gen entered a larger chamber and climbed a seven-tiered stone structure, but Lu Feng reached the top alone.
• Lu Feng recognized the structure as a sacrificial altar and became trapped on its top platform as an Ancient Desolation Pattern activated and began draining his strength.

Lu Feng awoke in Jiang Manor after surviving a vision of Worryfree Village’s destruction, only to learn that the village had vanished hundreds of years earlier. He discovered Jiang Ruoyun had bound his life soul with a Contract Spirit Array, leaving his life in her hands.

• Lu Feng saw Worryfree Village burning and its villagers dead, then was shot through the heart and collapsed.
• Jiang Ruoyun revealed that she had found Lu Feng wounded beneath a barren mountain and brought him to Jiang Manor.
• Lu Feng learned that Worryfree Village had disappeared hundreds of years ago and resolved to return to investigate.
• Lu Feng discovered Jiang Ruoyun had placed a one-way Contract Spirit Array on him, allowing her to destroy his life soul with a thought.

Lu Feng kept Jiang Ruoyun’s Contract Spirit Array in place and learned how her Seven Souls had collapsed after heavenly lightning struck the Ancient Banyan Tree. As Jiang Ruoyun faced pressure to leave her courtyard, Lu Feng stepped in after she whipped Jiang Ren for insulting her.

• Lu Feng discovered he could undo Jiang Ruoyun’s contract mark but chose to remain her slave in Azure Dragon Town.
• Jiang Ruoyun played the zither beneath the Ancient Banyan Tree until a string snapped, and Xiao Rou told Lu Feng that lightning had caused Jiang Ruoyun’s cultivation to fall from the Seven Souls Realm to the One Soul Realm.
• Jiang Caiyun and several Jiang Manor youths arrived to tell Jiang Ruoyun that Jiang Feng had petitioned to reclaim her courtyard.
• Jiang Ruoyun said she would leave but would not be driven out, then whipped Jiang Ren when he made an insulting accusation about her and Lu Feng.
• Jiang Caiyun mocked Lu Feng for being Jiang Ruoyun’s slave, but Lu Feng stopped Jiang Ruoyun from striking again and calmly said he was only earning a meal.

Jiang Ruoyun revealed her extraordinary recultivation talent and asked Lu Feng to reach the Three Soul Realm so he could help her. Lu Feng discovered that the Netherworld Bow and archery diagrams from Worryfree Village were real, and he and Jiang Ruoyun planned to buy him a bow in town.

• Jiang Caiyun warned Lu Feng to leave Jiang Ruoyun, but Lu Feng told Jiang Ruoyun to ignore the slander unless her enemies crossed the line.
• Jiang Ruoyun said she needed Lu Feng's help, then explained that she had not truly regressed and gained roughly three times the usual power from reconnecting each soul.
• Jiang Ruoyun invited Lu Feng to learn Martial Dao, but he insisted on following Formation Dao, and she promised to protect him.
• Lu Feng found the Netherworld Bow and rubbings of archery diagrams in his Kirin Ring, though the Netherworld Beast Core was missing.
• Jiang Ruoyun agreed to take Lu Feng into town the next day to buy a bow and arrows.

Lu Feng settled into Jiang Ruoyun’s courtyard and learned more about her family situation before accompanying her to the back mountain, where she demonstrated her Dragon Play Whip. After they returned, Jiang Ruoyun prepared to meet her friend Qiao and gave Lu Feng money to buy a bow.

• Lu Feng made a bed in the storeroom and learned that Xiao Rou had been assigned to Jiang Ruoyun by Jiang He, partly to keep watch on her.
• At dawn, Lu Feng practiced Exquisite Valley footwork while sweeping the courtyard, and Jiang Ruoyun invited him to watch her train.
• Jiang Ruoyun practiced the powerful Dragon Play Whip, broke a whip with her strikes, and revealed a technique Lu Feng suspected was not from Jiang Manor.
• Lu Feng practiced inscribing formations on loose stones while Jiang Ruoyun trained, then returned with her to the manor.
• Jiang Ruoyun told Lu Feng she planned to meet her friend Sister Qiao at Gathering Fragrance Garden and gave him soul coins to buy a bow.

Jiang Ruoyun arranged an inexpensive place to live with Qiao Xue'er while Lu Feng bought arrows and explored Azure Dragon Town. After learning about the town’s statue, Lu Feng visited an array shop, where the clerks mistook his appearance for wealth and quietly mocked him when he browsed the cheapest materials.

• Jiang Ruoyun introduced Lu Feng to Qiao Xue'er, who asked him to protect her, and he promised to do so.
• Jiang Ruoyun chose a detached residence where the homeowner’s son had drowned, and paid Qiao Xue'er six thousand Copper Soul Coins for four months of rent.
• Lu Feng bought the weapon shop’s remaining arrows, then visited the Azure Dragon Statue and found no spiritual aura in it.
• Lu Feng bought clothes and went to Array Core As You Wish to browse materials priced below one hundred Copper Soul Coins.
• The shop assistants looked down on Lu Feng and whispered that he was all show and no substance.

Lu Feng bought array materials and identified an emerald Mystic Cloud Cold Stone that could draw miasma from an old shopkeeper’s body. He traded the explanation for a neglected carving knife and returned toward Jiang Manor, where he heard Jiang Ruoyun’s familiar voice near a jewelry shop.

• Lu Feng selected low-cost materials at the array shop, then went upstairs and found an emerald jade stone.
• Lu Feng told the old shopkeeper that the stone was a Mystic Cloud Cold Stone and bargained for one item in exchange for explaining it.
• Lu Feng chose a dusty carving knife, explained how the stone could absorb miasma through a Qi Gathering Spirit Drawing Array, and received a fifty-percent discount on his purchases.
• Lu Feng recognized the carving knife as Void Spirit Refined Iron and headed back toward Jiang Manor after finding Jiang Ruoyun and Qiao Xue'er had left Gathering Fragrance Garden.
• Lu Feng heard Jiang Ruoyun’s voice near a jewelry shop and hurried toward it.

Jiang Ruoyun and Qiao Xue'er were harassed by Yan He, but Jiang Ruoyun defeated his servant and Lu Feng drove Yan He away. On the way back to Jiang Manor, Jiang Feng attacked them by dropping a wine jar, and Lu Feng answered by shooting an arrow at his heart.

• Yan He harassed Qiao Xue'er and insulted Jiang Ruoyun, prompting Jiang Ruoyun to fight his Three Soul Realm servant and break his hand.
• Yan He threw hidden weapons at Jiang Ruoyun, then attacked Lu Feng, who dodged him and kicked him flying.
• Yan He fled with his servant, and Qiao Xue'er remarked that Lu Feng was no ordinary contract servant.
• Jiang Feng, accompanied by Jiang Caiyun and Jiang Ren, dropped a wine jar toward Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun and mocked Jiang Ruoyun.
• Lu Feng stopped Jiang Ruoyun from rushing at Jiang Feng, drew the Netherworld Bow, and shot an arrow toward Jiang Feng's heart.