Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and his companions reached drought-stricken Convex Island to deliver disaster relief supplies, where they discovered the island’s water and spiritual energy were drying up. Gu Li identified himself as the Island Lord and presented his token, leaving Lu Feng’s group poised to learn more about the disaster.

• Submerged Creek Stronghold’s Second Head led his men to attack Xiang Tianming’s group after evidence linked them to the deaths of the stronghold brothers, and both sides fought under mistaken assumptions.
• Ye Fan registered for the instructor assessment at Eastern Origin Spirit Prison and chose Pill Verification, with the Medicine Hall Master guaranteeing his Spirit Merit.
• Lu Feng’s group traveled from Vaulted Wind City to Thousand Peaks County and hired a boat to reach Convex Island, hearing that a strange drought had driven most residents away.
• The boatman reported that Convex Island’s surrounding water had flowed backward and stopped, and Lu Feng’s group found the silt dried and hardened when they arrived.
• Ruo Shui suffered as though a fire burned inside her and could not summon spiritual energy, prompting Lu Feng to warn that the drought might be draining spiritual energy as well as water.
• Lu Feng’s group followed smoke into a ravine, where desperate islanders surrounded them; Lu Feng said they had come with relief supplies, and Gu Li identified himself as the Island Lord.

Lu Feng investigated the sudden drought on Convex Island and discovered that its water was being drawn underground by a Water-Wither Beast. The beast erupted from a fissure and charged at the group, leaving Lu Feng preparing to sacrifice himself so Gu Li could lead the others to safety.

• Lu Feng delivered Spirit Prison's relief supplies to Gu Li, then learned that the island's remaining residents faced starvation because a sudden drought had dried up every water source.
• Gu Li described how Convex Island's water had vanished within days, and Lu Feng suspected that something beneath the island was absorbing it.
• Lu Feng poured Natural Fruit Wine onto the ground and traced its flow underground toward a steep slope where the water's spiritual energy disappeared.
• Ruo Shui sensed dense water spiritual energy below the slope and sent her spiritual energy through what seemed to be a barrier, triggering an earthquake and a huge fissure.
• A Water-Wither Beast emerged from the fissure, and Lu Feng identified it as a creature at least as powerful as the Five Elements Realm.
• As the beast charged, Lu Feng told Gu Li to evacuate Ruo Shui and the others while he stayed behind to hold it off.

Jun Ziyi trapped the Water-Wither Beast beneath the Heavenly Curtain Rainbow Skirt, but Lu Feng concluded it was hiding underground to break through to the Earth Soul Realm. He proposed flooding the beast with water spiritual energy while it advanced, and asked Jun Ziyi to provide her Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures to help redirect the surrounding waters.

• Jun Ziyi used the Heavenly Curtain Rainbow Skirt to trap the Water-Wither Beast, and explained that the garment could not be used as clothing again once activated.
• Lu Feng warned that the curtain would eventually fail, and Gu Li refused to abandon Convex Island despite the danger.
• Lu Feng noticed the beast had retreated beneath the fissure and inferred that it was guarding something needed for its breakthrough to the Earth Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng proposed overwhelming the beast with excess water spiritual energy while it tried to advance, and Jun Ziyi offered him a flask of pills that he rejected as unsuitable.
• Lu Feng proposed releasing the spiritual energy in Jun Ziyi's treasures to use the barren mountains to redirect water toward the fissure, and Jun Ziyi agreed to provide them after hearing his full plan.

Lu Feng devised a plan to divert water and overwhelm the Water-Wither Beast with water spiritual energy, then began preparing arrays on the barren mountains. After sending Jun Ziyi and Ruo Shui back to Convex Island, he continued alone on the second mountain and realized a powerful beast was likely at its summit.

• Lu Feng asked Gu Li for a map and assigned Gu Li and Tang Yuan to dig water channels and water-storage pits to direct water toward the Water-Wither Beast’s crack.
• Lu Feng explained that he would use Burst Arrays and the barren mountains to bring water ashore, and Jun Ziyi gave him her Storage Rings of pills and array materials.
• Lu Feng, Jun Ziyi, and Ruo Shui set up linked arrays and jade stones around the first barren mountain, creating a glowing ring along its mountainside.
• Lu Feng sent Jun Ziyi and Ruo Shui back to Convex Island, then traveled alone to the second deserted island to prepare more arrays.
• Lu Feng noticed that the beasts fell silent as he climbed the second mountain and concluded that a powerful beast was at its summit.

Lu Feng climbed a barren mountain and discovered a wounded Spirit Wind Eagle Vulture guarding a rare patch of Yunzhi Grass. As their fight escalated, he narrowly avoided a deadly feather attack and realized its firing method could transform his archery.

• Lu Feng set a powerful array on the mountainside, then climbed toward the summit using Armor Piercing Arrows as footholds.
• Lu Feng encountered an injured Spirit Wind Eagle Vulture and tried to pierce its wind barrier with an arrow, but the barrier destroyed it.
• Lu Feng circled the eagle vulture and discovered hundreds of Yunzhi Grass stalks, including several that were a thousand years old.
• The eagle vulture attacked Lu Feng with its beak and then launched a sharp feather at his heart.
• Lu Feng used a movement technique inspired by Dragon Step to avoid a fatal wound, though the feather pierced his arm, and he realized its technique could improve his archery.

Lu Feng seized Yunzhi Grass from the Spirit Wind Eagle Vulture, then returned to Convex Island and helped prepare an array to strike the Water-Wither Beast. After the islanders finished digging channels, he began sacrificing longsword soul artifacts to form a sword array beside Jun Ziyi’s Heavenly Curtain Rainbow Skirt.

• Lu Feng studied the Spirit Wind Eagle Vulture’s feather attacks, snatched some Yunzhi Grass under cover of mist, and drove the bird off with a barrage of arrows.
• The Spirit Wind Eagle Vulture carried away several older stalks and destroyed the rest, while Lu Feng transplanted his seized Yunzhi Grass into the Living Spirit Space inside the Kirin Ring.
• Lu Feng returned to Convex Island and helped Tang Yuan, Gu Li, and the others finish channels strengthened with Spirit Blending Powder.
• Lu Feng told Gu Li to lead the islanders to safety, then asked Jun Ziyi and Tang Yuan for longswords to prepare a defense against the Water-Wither Beast.
• Lu Feng carved a Three Talents Spirit Hero Array into three longswords with his Void Spirit Engraving Knife, sacrificing the artifacts to strengthen the array.

Lu Feng used arrays, engineered floods, and the Heavenly Curtain Rainbow Skirt to disrupt the Water-Wither Beast’s breakthrough and weaken it. He launched a sword-array assault on the beast, while Jun Ziyi watched in shock as Lu Feng’s array performed her secret sword art with its flaws corrected.

• Lu Feng finished setting up the Three Talents Heroic Spirit Array and the Azure Wave Ninefold Surge, then joined his companions as the Water-Wither Beast began breaking through.
• Lu Feng fired two Jade Arrows into the arrays on the barren mountains, causing their upper sections to collapse and create a flood that crashed onto Convex Island.
• The trenches and channels directed the water, strengthened with Spirit Blending Powder, into the Water-Wither Beast’s fissure and disrupted its breakthrough.
• The injured Water-Wither Beast tried to force another breakthrough, but Jun Ziyi wrapped it in the Heavenly Curtain Rainbow Skirt and caused its attempt to fail.
• Lu Feng activated both sword arrays and concentrated their attacks on the Water-Wither Beast’s heart, while Jun Ziyi recognized her Flying Spring Jade Echo Thirteen Forms in the swordplay.
• The Water-Wither Beast’s scales began to crack under the repeated strikes, though its defenses still prevented serious injury.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan fought the Water-Wither Beast, but Jun Ziyi ultimately killed it with her one-use Ghost Hairpin Shuttle. After recovering, Jun Ziyi asked Lu Feng to teach her sword techniques so she could improve and prove herself to her older sister.

• Tang Yuan injured the Water-Wither Beast with the Azure Dragon Seal, and Lu Feng used sword arrays and detonated longswords to slow its attack.
• Lu Feng unsealed three Soul Formations and charged the Water-Wither Beast with Tang Yuan’s help, but his strike only pierced its tail.
• Jun Ziyi launched the Ghost Hairpin Shuttle, which struck the Water-Wither Beast in the chest and killed it.
• Lu Feng gave Yunzhi Leaves to Jun Ziyi and Tang Yuan to help them recover, then recognized Jun Ziyi’s attack as the Ghost Hairpin Shuttle.
• Jun Ziyi explained that the shuttle was her last treasure, and Lu Feng urged her not to rely on external objects to improve her strength.
• Jun Ziyi asked Lu Feng to teach her sword techniques so she could surpass her older sister and prove herself.

Lu Feng and his companions discovered an ancient iron structure beneath Convex Island, but Ruo Shui vanished into it without warning. As Lu Feng waited beside the structure, guilt and desperation drove him to attempt forming a core again.

• Lu Feng invited Jun Ziyi to visit his lectures at the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison, and she agreed to accompany him there.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, Ruo Shui, and Jun Ziyi descended into the fissure and uncovered a blue-black iron structure engraved with unfamiliar symbols.
• Ruo Shui turned into starlight and flowed into the iron structure, leaving Lu Feng unable to find a way to bring her back.
• Lu Feng searched the area and waited beside the immovable iron structure while Tang Yuan and Jun Ziyi went above to eat.
• After the others left, Lu Feng recalled Jiang Ruoyun's disappearance and began circulating spiritual energy to attempt forming a core again.

Lu Feng failed his second attempt at Core Formation before Ruo Shui emerged from the iron relic with a new inheritance, a soul core, and a Black Tortoise Core for Tang Yuan. The chapter left Tang Yuan weighing the core’s benefits against the warning that it would not perfectly complement his Body Refinement Technique.

• Lu Feng’s attempt to condense a spiritual core failed when his life soul disrupted his gathered spiritual energy, and he wondered whether he needed a Nine-Pattern Soul Core.
• After three days underground, the iron lump cracked and Ruo Shui emerged, transformed by the inheritance of a Senior whose soul thought had guided her to condense a soul core.
• Ruo Shui explained that the Senior had passed on a ribbon cultivation method and Luo Ying Cloth, which could store items and grow tougher with its wearer’s cultivation.
• Ruo Shui gave Tang Yuan a Black Tortoise Core from the Senior, and Tang Yuan’s Undying Markings appeared as his spiritual energy reacted to it.
• Ruo Shui warned Tang Yuan that the Black Tortoise Core suited his Beast Art but would not perfectly harmonize with his Body Refinement Technique, leaving him conflicted about refining it.

Tang Yuan learned that a Profound Yin Tortoise Core might help him refine the Black Tortoise Core, but finding its grave required researching old records. After hearing that Submerged Creek Stronghold had lost its lord and was vulnerable, Lu Feng and his companions decided to pursue the mission to eliminate it.

• Ruo Shui told Tang Yuan that a Profound Yin Tortoise Core buried beneath Vaulted Mist Mountain could help improve his Beast Art and Body Refinement Technique.
• Tang Yuan and Lu Feng asked Gu Li about Vaulted Mist Mountain, but its location was absent from recent records, so Gu Li suggested checking older archives in Prison Manor or Spirit Prison.
• Gu Li offered the group a Water-Wither Beast Core and several damaged swords; Lu Feng stored the core and kept the usable swords after Jun Ziyi declined them.
• Lu Feng and his companions helped Convex Island recover, then returned to Vaulted Wind City and heard that a mysterious expert had killed Submerged Creek Stronghold's lord.
• Lu Feng learned that the stronghold still had powerful leaders and that no one had accepted the Soul Hunting Mission, then told his companions about the opportunity to wipe it out.
• Jun Ziyi urged the group to eliminate Submerged Creek Stronghold and protect the people from its bandits.

Lu Feng accepted a Soul Hunting Mission to eliminate three leaders of Submerged Creek Stronghold and prepared his group for the fight. At Turbid Elegance Array Shop, he realized array inscriptions could upgrade weaker Array Soldiers and bought a set of Four Sons Array Soldiers.

• Lu Feng accepted the cyan mission to eliminate at least three Submerged Creek Stronghold leaders within a month for two hundred thousand Copper Soul Coins.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan assessed the group’s chances, and Tang Yuan proposed capturing bandits to question them before they went up Floating Creek Mountain.
• Lu Feng gave Tang Yuan fifty thousand Soul Coins for a weapon and Ruo Shui’s needs, then went with Ruo Shui to Turbid Elegance Array Shop and taught her basic Soul Power techniques.
• Lu Feng saw a Five Elements Realm skeleton Array Soldier whose inscriptions enhanced its power and reasoned that inscriptions might strengthen lower-level Array Soldiers.
• Lu Feng returned to the first floor and bought a set of Four Sons Array Soldiers.

Lu Feng bought a set of Four Sons Array Soldiers at Turbid Elegance Array Shop and joined its monthly guessing game. He correctly identified several materials and gave Ruo Shui a Qin Mountain Sea Jade teardrop, while the game continued toward a second round for its best guessers.

• Lu Feng bought four Golden Phoebe Wood Four Sons Array Soldiers and learned that Turbid Elegance Array Shop was holding its monthly guessing game.
• Lu Feng paid the entry fee and received plaque number seventeen; the manager announced new rules limiting participants to three guesses and adding a qualifying second round.
• The guessing began, and Number Nineteen won Sulfur Stone Jade while Number Twenty correctly identified Wu Lake Light Jade.
• Lu Feng correctly guessed Xiu Ling Rock Jade, then began pursuing three correct answers to qualify for the second round.
• Lu Feng quickly identified Qin Mountain Sea Jade and gave its teardrop-shaped piece to Ruo Shui, while a veiled woman watching them stopped approaching.

Lu Feng and the woman at number twenty-seven advanced through the Turbid Elegance Guessing Game by identifying array materials with astonishing speed, leaving them evenly matched. They agreed to settle the contest with rare high-grade materials, and Lu Feng changed their wager so that the loser would join his group at the Spirit Prison.

• Lu Feng correctly guessed the twenty-fifth and twenty-eighth materials in the first round, becoming one of six contestants to advance.
• The woman at number twenty-seven also advanced, and she and Lu Feng identified the first three materials of the second round in unison.
• After number eleven accused them of cheating, the manager revoked his competition qualification, while the other contestants yielded the contest to Lu Feng and the woman.
• When their scores remained tied after nine materials, the manager paused the game and proposed using rare high-grade materials to decide the winner.
• The woman challenged Lu Feng to wager that the loser would become the winner's disciple, but Lu Feng refused to take disciples.
• Lu Feng proposed instead that the loser join his group at the Spirit Prison, and the woman accepted while concealing a sly gleam.

Lu Feng defeated Qian Xin in a contest to identify rare array materials, then chose Ender Remnant Jade as his reward and prepared Jade Arrows. After Tang Yuan bought a staff and the group collected their arrow fletchings, Lu Feng and his companions left Vaulted Wind City and reached the foot of Floating Creek Mountain.

• Lu Feng identified Fox Fragrance Enchanting Jade and Wine Spring Spirit Crystal before their light barriers were removed, then correctly distinguished Secluded Cloud Ink Jade from Secluded Cloud Black Jade.
• Qian Xin conceded defeat, revealed her name, and promised to find Lu Feng at the next Spirit Prison special recruitment; she had been ordered by Qian Yuan to follow him and learn about his inheritance.
• Lu Feng claimed Ender Remnant Jade as his prize, bought ordinary jade, and had a smith forge it into Jade Arrows and make arrow fletchings.
• Lu Feng suggested that Tang Yuan use a staff, and Tang Yuan decided to find one suited to his fighting style.
• Tang Yuan bought a Black Wood Staff, while Lu Feng, Jun Ziyi, and Ruo Shui discussed Core Formation Realm combat and cultivation in a tavern.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, Jun Ziyi, and Ruo Shui collected the finished arrow fletchings and traveled by carriage to Floating Creek Mountain.

Lu Feng and his companions encountered Submerged Creek Stronghold bandits abusing and killing a merchant caravan, then fought them and faced their Third Head, a skilled archer with deadly poison arrows. After signaling for help, the Third Head abandoned his escape and challenged Lu Feng to follow him into the woods.

• Lu Feng's group found bandits burying caravan victims and assaulting the surviving women, so Jun Ziyi, Tang Yuan, and Ruo Shui attacked while Lu Feng covered them with his bow.
• Tang Yuan, Jun Ziyi, Ruo Shui, and Lu Feng quickly defeated the bandits, but their Third Head dodged Lu Feng's arrow and signaled for help.
• The Third Head saw blood-red smoke rising from Submerged Creek Stronghold, signaling that the stronghold had been breached, and tried to return there.
• Tang Yuan and Lu Feng blocked the Third Head's escape, and Lu Feng shot down a poison arrow aimed at Jun Ziyi before its toxic head could strike her.
• The Third Head threw three black balls toward Tang Yuan and the others, shot an arrow into the tree hiding Lu Feng as a provocation, and challenged Lu Feng to follow him into the woods.

Lu Feng fought Third Head in an archery duel through the forest, using specialized arrows to wound him and outmaneuver his cover. Third Head lured Lu Feng into a hunting trap, where bamboo-spiked beds and an arrow attacked him from three directions.

• Lu Feng chased Third Head into the forest while Tang Yuan, Ruo Shui, and Jun Ziyi searched for other bandits.
• Lu Feng and Third Head traded arrows as they raced uphill, and Lu Feng seized the high ground with predictive shots.
• Third Head used Soul Consciousness to locate Lu Feng, while Lu Feng prepared a Black Silver Arrow to strike through the terrain.
• Lu Feng wounded Third Head with a Black Silver Arrow and then hit him with a Bamboo Split Arrow as Third Head fled through the smoke.
• Third Head led Lu Feng into a hunting trap, where two bamboo-spiked beds lunged from the sides as an arrow flew at him from ahead.

Lu Feng killed Third Head by exploiting a hunting trap, then ambushed Mouse and used a signal flare to lure the remaining bandits toward him. The chapter ended as Grey Dog and Howling Pig discovered the bodies in the concealed pit, while Lu Feng waited in a tree to attack them.

• Lu Feng dodged Third Head's traps and shot him through the throat with an arrow while swinging from a hanging snare.
• Lu Feng hid in a tree, killed Mouse with a surprise arrow, and concealed both bodies in a pit.
• Lu Feng sent Mouse's signal flare toward the other bandits and returned to the tree to prepare an ambush.
• Fourth Head Evil Tiger led Grey Dog, Howling Pig, and Old Wolf into the forest to investigate the flare.
• Grey Dog found blood near the pit, and Howling Pig uncovered the bodies as Lu Feng waited for the bandits to take their positions.

Lu Feng killed Howling Pig, Grey Dog, and Evil Tiger with poisoned arrows, then trapped and questioned Old Wolf to learn Submerged Creek Stronghold’s true strength. After regrouping with Tang Yuan, Ruo Shui, and Jun Ziyi, he prepared for the assault while worrying Xiang Tianming’s group might be behind a larger trap.

• Lu Feng killed Howling Pig and Grey Dog with one poisoned arrow, then changed hiding places and prepared a Spirit Wind Arrow for Evil Tiger.
• Evil Tiger rushed to investigate the corpses and was killed by Lu Feng’s Jade Arrow, while a poisoned hunting net trapped Old Wolf.
• Old Wolf revealed that Fu Maotian, Wu Xiongkui, and Xu Jiaoer remained at Submerged Creek Stronghold, and that the extermination mission was a trap to lure weaker Soul Hunters.
• Lu Feng joined Tang Yuan, Ruo Shui, and Jun Ziyi, compared their prisoners’ information with Old Wolf’s, and warned that Xiang Tianming might be plotting against them.
• Jun Ziyi showed the group the stronghold’s blue, yellow, and red signal tubes, and Lu Feng said the brief red smoke likely did not indicate an ongoing attack.

Lu Feng and his companions reached Submerged Creek Stronghold, where Soul Hunter Ling Tian was already fighting its lord, Fu Maotian. As Lu Feng’s group battled the remaining bandits and he prepared an array, Ruo Shui gained combat experience, and Lu Feng’s arrow flew toward a bandit caught in her silk.

• Lu Feng and his companions found fresh bandit corpses and two figures fleeing down the mountain after destroying his arrays.
• At Submerged Creek Stronghold, Lu Feng recognized Ling Tian, the Soul Hunter they had met at Maple Forest Ferry, fighting Fu Maotian.
• Ling Tian attacked Fu Maotian instead of letting him turn to Lu Feng’s group, while Fu Maotian ordered Wu Xiongkui and the others to kill them.
• Wu Xiongkui and Xu Jiaoer confronted Lu Feng’s group over the death of Old Five, and Lu Feng secretly began setting up an array as the fighting started.
• Tang Yuan fought Wu Xiongkui, Jun Ziyi faced Xu Jiaoer, and Ruo Shui used her white silk to hold off the other bandits while Lu Feng prepared his array.
• As a bandit caught in Ruo Shui’s silk tried to tear free, Lu Feng fired a silent arrow at him.