Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng used Xi Youmeng and Meng Jiuxiang to establish the Two-Phases Looping Array, which connected to the Insect Array and drew its poisonous insects inside. He revealed that the array was meant to disrupt the formation and force its hidden controller to appear, leaving everyone preparing for a confrontation.

• Lu Feng guided Xi Youmeng and Meng Jiuxiang through precise movements to study the Insect Array, then had them set up two incomplete array discs that joined into one formation.
• Liu Chenzhou accused Lu Feng of trying to harm the women, but Lu Feng explained that the discs had been designed to form a complete array when connected.
• Lu Feng identified the formation as the lost Two-Phases Looping Array, and Xi Youmeng recalled its use against a swarm of one hundred thousand Blood Crows.
• The Two-Phases Looping Array began drawing poisonous insects away from the Insect Array, prompting Ji Lanjun to realize that it was disrupting the formation rather than directly breaking it.
• Lu Feng told the group to prepare for battle because the breach should force the person controlling the Insect Array to appear.

Lu Feng and the others faced White Bone Puppets that emerged from the earth and attacked the Two-Phases Looping Array, revealing a sinister force controlling them from afar. As the battle turned against Chen Shuanghua’s group, Lu Feng discovered that damaging the puppets’ runes could hinder them, but the other puppets could repair the damage.

• Lu Feng waited for the force behind the Insect Array to respond, then skeletons crawled from the ground as the ruins shook.
• The White Bone Puppets turned their glowing eyes toward Lu Feng and attacked the Two-Phases Looping Array from inside and out.
• Chen Shuanghua led the others to fight the puppets, while Ji Lanjun ordered Liu Chenzhou to join them.
• Xi Youmeng told Ji Lanjun she planned to leave with Lu Feng, and Ji Lanjun pleaded with her not to go.
• The White Bone Puppets endured powerful attacks and struck back with strength comparable to Heaven Soul Realm experts.
• Lu Feng saw a damaged rune slow a puppet until the other skeletons repaired it, revealing that the runes were their weakness and that they could restore one another.

Chen Shuanghua and Lu Feng discovered how to disable the White Bone Puppets and helped drive them off as the poisonous insects retreated at dawn. Examining a broken bone afterward, Lu Feng suspected the soul-patterns might control the puppets as external incarnations and wondered whether the method could work with his Blood-colored War Corpse.

• Chen Shuanghua discovered that the puppets' dark gold runes concealed soul-level attacks and warned the others to be careful while breaking them.
• Lu Feng used the Red Ripple Blazing Fire Array, enhanced with Extreme Yang Qi and sticky Flame Hell Marsh Raccoon fire, to immobilize two White Bone Puppets.
• Chen Shuanghua dismantled the immobilized puppets, realized the others were trying to recover their bones, and stored the pieces away from them.
• Lu Feng and Chen Shuanghua worked together to dismantle the remaining puppets, after which the poisonous insects retreated as dawn approached.
• Chen Shuanghua showed Lu Feng a broken bone, and he sensed that its soul-patterns let an inscriber track it and might be part of a puppet-control technique.
• Lu Feng wondered whether the bone method was an External Incarnation technique and whether it could be used with his Blood-colored War Corpse.

Lu Feng and the others discovered that a White Bone Puppet bore marks from the Saint Spirit Race’s Bone Splitting Claw, raising fears that the Ancient Underworld Race had established more Insect Arrays. Xi Youmeng hurried toward Spirit Flame Lake to check on her father, and the group crossed the Great Rift through its poisonous hazards before finding a slaughtered party that appeared to belong to the Qin Family; Lu Feng feared Blazing Enchantress might be among the dead.

• Meng Jiuxiang identified Bone Splitting Claw marks on a White Bone Puppet, and Chen Shuanghua and Meng Jiuxiang concluded that its bones likely belonged to an ancient enemy slain by a Saint Spirit Race member.
• Xi Youmeng feared similar Insect Arrays might threaten her father and led Shadow Pavilion toward Spirit Flame Lake; Lu Feng secretly placed a Yin Soul Curse Seal on the puppet before leaving.
• The group crossed the Great Rift on foot, where Xi Youmeng, Chen Shuanghua, and Meng Jiuxiang warned them about poisonous insects and Sawtooth Demon Eagles.
• Song Wenbai found seven or eight recently killed bodies, and Lu Feng recognized Qin Family weapons and traces of their saber technique.
• Lu Feng worried that Blazing Enchantress, who was with the Qin Family, might be among the corpses.

Lu Feng and Shadow Pavilion’s group found evidence that the Qin Family had hunted a mysterious poisonous insect and abducted a Black Crocodile Thorn Lizard’s young, then reached Spirit Flame Lake. Xi Youmeng reunited with her father, pavilion master Xi Buwei, and Lu Feng asked what injury had left him so frail.

• Ji Lanjun ordered Liu Chenzhou and the others to search the corpses of the dead Qin Family guards, and they found strange miniature beast cages but no other clues.
• Xi Youmeng and the others speculated that the Qin Family had come to capture a poisonous insect king, and Xi Youmeng warned the group to beware of survivors carrying unknown insects.
• A Black Crocodile Thorn Lizard charged at the group, and Chen Shuanghua killed it after Song Wenbai discovered it had been injured and its young were missing.
• Xi Youmeng concluded that the Qin Family had taken the beast’s blood and abducted its young, and Chen Shuanghua buried the dead mother before the group continued.
• The group reached Spirit Flame Lake, where Lu Feng recognized members of the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect and Flowing Fire Temple and concealed his face with Shadow Pavilion’s mask.
• Xi Youmeng saw her father, Xi Buwei, in the lake, and Lu Feng asked what injury had left him bloodless and haggard.

Xi Youmeng revealed that her father, Xi Buwei, was near death from the Inconstant Devil Hand’s poison, and a Crimson Fiend Sword Sect disciple’s attack sent his healing out of control. Lu Feng stepped onto Spirit Flame Lake to confront the sect, and Ji Lanjun recognized the Evil Heart Life-Reaping Array that had killed her Second Uncle.

• Xi Youmeng explained that Xi Buwei had spent two years struggling with the Inconstant Devil Hand’s Yin Yang Tribulation poison and had come to Spirit Flame Lake to try to purge it.
• A Crimson Fiend Sword Sect disciple, Huo Jiyuan, attacked Xi Buwei and sent him into the dangerous inner ring, worsening his injuries before his guards brought him back.
• Xi Youmeng rushed to her father, learned that his condition had spiraled out of control, and accused Huo Jiyuan and his father, Huo Xingxiu, of endangering him.
• Huo Xingxiu dismissed the attack as a misunderstanding, while Xi Buwei stopped Xi Youmeng from retaliating and risking a conflict between their sects.
• Lu Feng appeared on the lake wearing a black cloth mask and walked toward the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect as ripples formed an array beneath his feet.
• Ji Lanjun recognized the pattern spreading across the water as the Evil Heart Life-Reaping Array, the array that had killed her Second Uncle.

Lu Feng used the Evil Heart Life-Reaping Array’s Slowing Force to trap Huo Xingxiu, Huo Jiyuan, and the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect members, while Flame Demon and Azure Nether escaped. As Lu Feng pressed Huo Xingxiu for the reason his sect targeted Shadow Pavilion, Ji Lanjun’s resolve to kill him hardened.

• Huo Jiyuan attacked Lu Feng, but the Slowing Force froze his palm strike and left him unable to evade Lu Feng’s array spike.
• Huo Xingxiu shielded Huo Jiyuan, while the masked Flame Demon and Azure Nether broke free and fled toward Spirit Flame Lake’s shore.
• Lu Feng’s array spread over Huo Xingxiu and the other Crimson Fiend Sword Sect members, slowing their spiritual energy and movements as Huo Jiyuan urged his father to block the spike.
• Huo Jiyuan revealed that he knew Xi Youmeng’s father had been badly injured, and Huo Xingxiu tried to excuse his son’s actions as childish impulsiveness.
• Ji Lanjun watched Lu Feng use the array and resolved to kill him, while Lu Feng taunted his captives and claimed he had carved out children’s hearts for his array.
• Lu Feng strengthened the spike against Huo Xingxiu and demanded to know why the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect had targeted Shadow Pavilion.

Lu Feng killed Huo Jiyuan, Huo Xingxiu, and the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect elders after uncovering the Blood Clan’s plan against Clear River Sect, then approached Xi Buwei while maintaining the array. Xi Buwei mistook Lu Feng for a threat to his daughter and attacked, but Lu Feng seized him and rushed with him toward the center of Spirit Flame Lake.

• Huo Jiyuan revealed that Huo Xingxiu and others had ordered him to kill the Old Man, and Lu Feng killed him after Huo Xingxiu was wounded by the array.
• The elders disclosed that Flame Demon and Azure Nether served the Blood Clan’s plan to target Clear River Sect by crippling Shadow Pavilion, and Lu Feng redirected Huo Xingxiu’s self-destruction to kill the remaining elders.
• Lu Feng approached Xi Buwei, who rejected him as a Heretical Cultivator until Xi Youmeng explained that Lu Feng had helped her and healed her injuries.
• Liu Chenzhou claimed Lu Feng had forced Xi Youmeng into his room, enraging Xi Buwei and prompting him to charge at Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng seized Xi Buwei, then rushed toward the center of Spirit Flame Lake as Xi Youmeng and the onlookers feared they would die there.

Lu Feng revealed his identity to Xi Buwei and healed the Shadow Pavilion Master’s injuries at Spirit Flame Lake. Xi Buwei emerged alive, but Lu Feng appeared to be missing, with a charred corpse resembling him in his hand.

• Lu Feng revealed that he was Su Chen by calling Xi Buwei “Tumbler Uncle,” and Xi Buwei recognized his former junior.
• Xi Buwei questioned Lu Feng about Xi Youmeng and his Heretical Cultivator identity, then trusted him to treat his injuries.
• Outside the lake, Xi Youmeng refused to let anyone enter the core region, while Ji Lanjun and others urged her to save her father.
• Lu Feng used Yin Yang Two Qi to remove the remaining power from Xi Buwei’s Poison Palm wounds and considered faking his death to escape.
• An explosion erupted at Spirit Flame Lake, and Xi Buwei emerged with a powerful aura, carrying a charred corpse dressed like Lu Feng.
• Xi Youmeng saw the corpse and feared that Lu Feng had died.

Xi Buwei pretended Lu Feng had died, but Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun discovered his lie and learned that he had escaped. Lu Feng headed toward the Soul Burning Saint Fire Tower to pursue Jun Zi Shuo, then stopped in surprise at an ancient site.

• Xi Buwei claimed Lu Feng had died and explained that the heretical cultivator’s power had restored his strength.
• Xi Youmeng suspected her father was concealing the truth, and Ji Lanjun’s questions revealed that Xi Buwei had lied about Lu Feng’s death.
• Xi Buwei learned Lu Feng had carried Xi Youmeng and persuaded both women to perform a Gentle Dance, then teased them about marrying him.
• Lu Feng retreated through the mist and set out for the Soul Burning Saint Fire Tower, expecting Jun Zi Shuo to seek its soul power.
• Lu Feng noticed a solemn martial aura near an ancient sect ruin and reached the place where it was strongest, where the sight left him stunned.

Lu Feng explored the ruined No Form Buddhist Sect and found a dead Grand Prison investigator whose notebook described White Bone Puppets at Camel Ridge. The notes strengthened Lu Feng’s suspicion that the Ancient Underworld Race had arranged a far-reaching puppet network, but their account of the investigator’s death suggested the danger at the sect ruins had another explanation.

• Lu Feng crossed the valley of shattered Buddhist statues and inspected the headless temples of the No Form Buddhist Sect.
• Lu Feng found a neatly dressed corpse in a side hall and identified the dead man as a Prison Enforcer of the Grand Prison’s Investigation Division.
• Lu Feng read the investigator’s notebook and learned that he had witnessed three powerful White Bone Puppets at Camel Ridge.
• Lu Feng connected the puppets to the ones behind the Insect Array and suspected the Ancient Underworld Race could control them through a chain of relay points.
• Lu Feng continued reading the notebook and discovered that the investigator’s death did not appear to have a simple explanation.

Lu Feng investigated the Faceless Marrow Souls and uncovered a perilous remnant of the No Form Buddhist Sect’s protective formation, which revealed itself after he used a three-element qi combination. After destroying the formation’s golden Buddha, he sensed Liu Chenzhou, Liu Zhongshu, and Hu Buzui approaching and prepared to use the remnant formation against them while concealing his presence; more auras then appeared in the valley.

• Lu Feng read the Prison Enforcer’s notebook and learned that the man had searched the Buddha platforms for Faceless Marrow Souls and tried to investigate the sect’s protective formation.
• Lu Feng tested the notebook’s elemental-qi formulas, and a six-fire, four-earth combination triggered a dangerous spiritual attack from a Faceless Marrow Soul.
• Lu Feng used a four-fire, three-earth, three-gold combination and saw golden formation patterns assemble inside an illusion of the No Form Buddhist Sect’s grand hall.
• Lu Feng realized the formation had likely lured the Prison Enforcer into trying to control it, then shattered the formation diagram before it could ensnare him.
• A golden Buddha appeared and demanded that Lu Feng serve it, but Lu Feng cut off its head, changing the message to say that only those who slew the Buddha would see the true Buddha.
• Lu Feng sensed Liu Chenzhou, Liu Zhongshu, and Hu Buzui approaching, planned to use the remnant formation against them while feigning death, and then detected several more auras in the valley.

Yin Feiqiao and two Black List experts learned from Liu Chenzhou that Lu Feng was heading toward Ten Thousand Buddha Remnant Valley, then prepared to ambush him. Liu Chenzhou agreed to guide them to the No Form Buddhist Sect and offered a plan to help kill Lu Feng.

• Yin Feiqiao confronted Liu Chenzhou, Liu Zhongshu, and Hu Buzui, then questioned them about Lu Feng, the Benevolent Heart Asura.
• Liu Chenzhou identified Lu Feng as the heretical cultivator from Spirit Flame Lake, and Yin Feiqiao decided to wait for him with the Black List experts Du Guji and his saber-wielding companion.
• Yin Feiqiao ordered Liu Chenzhou and his companions to serve as the vanguard against Lu Feng, but Liu Chenzhou claimed Lu Feng had wronged Ji Lanjun and the Shadow Pavilion Young Pavilion Master.
• Yin Feiqiao stopped Du Guji from killing the three men and ordered Liu Chenzhou to lead them toward the No Form Buddhist Sect's headless Great Buddha.
• Liu Zhongshu recognized Du Guji as the Black List's fifty-seventh-ranked expert and feared the group could defeat Lu Feng and his allies.
• Liu Chenzhou offered Yin Feiqiao a plan to help him personally kill Lu Feng.

Lu Feng overheard Liu Chenzhou’s plan to betray Ji Lanjun and Xi Youmeng while he worked to control the No Form Buddhist Sect’s remnant array. As the Defend the Dao Alliance and Shadow Pavilion arrived at the ruins, Xi Buwei realized that Xi Youmeng had feelings for Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng learned that Liu Chenzhou planned to lure Ji Lanjun and Xi Youmeng into a trap for Yin Feiqiao, then resolved to kill Liu Chenzhou.
• Du Guji and Luo Yue meditated on the Buddha statue’s saber-cut surface, and a tremor caused them to falsely claim they had gained major insights.
• Yin Feiqiao ordered Liu Chenzhou to lead the approaching alliance members into his trap while he waited in a side hall.
• Ji Lanjun, Xi Youmeng, and their companions explored Ten Thousand Buddha Remnant Valley, where Chen Shuanghua warned that fresh traces and the sect’s grand array could pose dangers.
• Xi Buwei teased Xi Youmeng about once whipping Lu Feng and realized from her shy reaction that she had fallen for him.

Ji Lanjun and the others learned that Lu Feng was the Benevolent Heart Asura, though they doubted he had died at Spirit Flame Lake. Liu Chenzhou led them to investigate a possible Great Faceless Heart Sutra inscription, then an attack erupted in a hall where Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun were inspecting Buddhist statues.

• Ji Lanjun suspected the Heretical Cultivator was the Azure Mountain Sect Master, and Liu Chenzhou revealed that he was the Benevolent Heart Asura.
• Liu Chenzhou questioned whether Lu Feng was truly dead, and Ji Lanjun inferred that Lu Feng had helped Xi Buwei at Spirit Flame Lake.
• Liu Chenzhou showed the group a headless Buddhist statue and claimed inscriptions across several statues formed a line from the Great Faceless Heart Sutra.
• Ji Lanjun ordered the Defend the Dao Alliance members to search the halls, while Xi Youmeng sent Shadow Pavilion members to inspect the statues.
• Chen Shuanghua and Meng Jiuxiang discussed the complications of dealing with Lu Feng, who was also Su Chen of Clear River Sect.
• Several figures attacked Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun inside a nearby hall, collapsing its gates and eaves as Xi Buwei and Chen Shuanghua watched in horror.

Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun were captured after Liu Chenzhou betrayed their group, while Xi Buwei and the others fought Du Guji and Luo Yue. A strange formation summoned golden Buddhas across the No Form Buddhist Sect, interrupting Yin Feiqiao’s attack and leaving him fearful of the power judging him.

• Xi Buwei was blasted back by Du Guji and Luo Yue, then led his followers into battle as Chen Shuanghua and Meng Jiuxiang confronted Luo Yue.
• Yin Feiqiao and Liu Chenzhou held Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun captive, and Yin Feiqiao tried to remove Xi Youmeng’s mask.
• Ji Lanjun offered herself to protect Xi Youmeng, but Yin Feiqiao struck her down after Liu Chenzhou slapped her.
• A golden phantom Buddha appeared in the hall, allowing Ji Lanjun to break her seals and shove Xi Youmeng out of Yin Feiqiao’s reach.
• As the hall shook and Xi Youmeng fled outside, golden phantom Buddhas appeared across the No Form Buddhist Sect, filling Yin Feiqiao with a sense of impending judgment.

Lu Feng rescued Ji Lanjun from Liu Chenzhou and helped her kill Liu Chenzhou, Hu Buzui, and Liu Zhongshu. Outside the hall, Ji Lanjun and Xi Youmeng realized the awakened No Form Buddhist Sect formation was manipulating the battlefield, and Xi Youmeng questioned Ji Lanjun about what she knew.

• Liu Chenzhou, Liu Zhongshu, and Hu Buzui trapped Ji Lanjun and prepared to use Dewdrop Passion Mist on her.
• Lu Feng burst into the hall, struck Liu Chenzhou, and made Liu Zhongshu and Hu Buzui inhale the mist.
• Lu Feng freed Ji Lanjun and gave her a short sword; when Liu Chenzhou launched a desperate counterattack, Lu Feng guided her strike that killed him.
• Ji Lanjun used a formation attack infused with Heavenly Dao Soul Fire to kill Hu Buzui and Liu Zhongshu.
• Lu Feng left after saying he had saved Ji Lanjun on a whim, and Ji Lanjun saw the golden Buddhas filling the sky.
• Xi Youmeng appeared beside Ji Lanjun and explained that the formation had pulled her from her losing fight with Yin Feiqiao while leaving an illusion of her battling in her place; she then asked Ji Lanjun what she knew about the formation.

Lu Feng separated Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun inside the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Stupa Deliverance Formation, explaining that the Ancient Underworld Race and its White Bone Puppets were contesting his control. While he moved each woman into a separate hall, he professed his love and proposed marriage to both, leaving them flustered and confused.

• Ji Lanjun told Xi Youmeng that Lu Feng had saved her, and Xi Youmeng defended him as Ji Lanjun teased her about her feelings for him.
• Lu Feng called the women to follow him when the formation changed, and Buddhist chanting separated them into different halls.
• Lu Feng told Xi Youmeng that the Ancient Underworld Race was using White Bone Puppets to seize control of the formation and asked her to trust him.
• Lu Feng held Xi Youmeng's hand and touched her waist, then said he would ask his family to approve their marriage.
• Lu Feng told Ji Lanjun that he preferred spending time with her and promised to marry her out of love.
• Lu Feng pulled Ji Lanjun into his embrace, and she remained in his arms despite her embarrassment and confusion.

An old woman from the Ancient Underworld Race told a young woman that Lu Feng had repaired the No Form Buddhist Sect’s formation and planned to bring him to her, after using the formation to ensnare him in romantic illusions. Lu Feng exposed the deception and explained that an unknown enemy had seized part of the formation, leaving Xi Buwei and the Defend the Dao Alliance in danger.

• The old woman told the young woman that Lu Feng had repaired the ancient formation and that she wanted the girl to bring him back, then revealed she had used the formation to create romantic illusions for him.
• Lu Feng regained control of the formation and realized someone had impersonated him; Ji Lanjun and Xi Youmeng woke from their illusions, unsettled by what they had experienced.
• Lu Feng proved to Xi Youmeng that he was real by displaying Extreme Yang Qi and Extremely Yin Energy, then warned that the enemy had used White Bone Puppets to activate the formation.
• Xi Youmeng explained the No Form Buddhist Sect’s alleged betrayal and its historical ties to the Ancient Underworld Race, while Lu Feng said the enemy had seized only limited control of the formation.
• Lu Feng revealed that Yin Feiqiao, Du Guji, Luo Yue, Xi Buwei, and the Defend the Dao Alliance were affected by different formation layers, and he hesitated to intervene for fear of losing control.

Lu Feng killed Yin Feiqiao inside the Floating Pagoda Du'e Grand Array, then warned Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun after losing track of Du Guji and Luo Yue. At the Karma Prison, Du Guji tried to extort Xi Buwei and the Defend the Dao Alliance, whose leaders refused to yield.

• Yin Feiqiao broke free of the Anger Illusions by creating a separate domain of life, but Lu Feng used the formation and the Blood-colored War Corpse to overwhelm him.
• Lu Feng disrupted Yin Feiqiao's surge of strength with the Buddha phantoms' Sanskrit chants, struck him down, and killed him after recalling Xiao Tao's death.
• Lu Feng searched Yin Feiqiao's empty storage artifact, then cautioned Xi Youmeng and Ji Lanjun when he could no longer sense Du Guji and Luo Yue.
• At the Karma Prison, Du Guji demanded IOUs for thousands of High-Grade Source Stones from Xi Buwei, Chen Shuanghua, and Meng Jiuxiang in exchange for the trapped groups' lives.
• Chen Shuanghua and Meng Jiuxiang rejected Du Guji's demands and declared that the Defend the Dao Alliance would fight rather than surrender its resources.