Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and Ruo Shui incapacitated the bandits while Tang Yuan and Jun Ziyi fought Wu Xiongkui and Xu Jiaoer. Tang Yuan adapted to Wu Xiongkui’s attacks and, after enduring a punishing battle, found a way to break his strength and seize the advantage.

• Ruo Shui restrained the bandits with white silk while Lu Feng struck their Spirit Absorption Acupoints with arrows, leaving them unable to fight.
• Lu Feng watched Jun Ziyi battle Xu Jiaoer and let her continue so she could learn from the fight.
• Wu Xiongkui gained the upper hand against Tang Yuan, but Tang Yuan studied his attacks and began countering him with more varied techniques.
• Tang Yuan used the Black Dragon Shroud to block Wu Xiongkui’s Tyrant Extension Fist, then rushed into close combat after their fist shadows collided.
• As the battle wore on, Tang Yuan’s Nine Revolutions Undying Art helped him endure Wu Xiongkui’s blows and keep fighting.
• Tang Yuan caught Wu Xiongkui’s wrist and struck beneath his armpit, dispersing his remaining strength as Wu Xiongkui roared in pain.

Tang Yuan, Lu Feng, and Ruo Shui defeated Wu Xiongkui, while Jun Ziyi struggled against Xu Jiaoer and Lu Feng guided her swordplay. Xu Jiaoeri's Blood Clan power and protective treasure kept her dangerous, and the chapter ended with Jun Ziyi admitting she had never learned the move Lu Feng called out.

• Tang Yuan dislocated Wu Xiongkui's arms, but Wu Xiongkui recovered under a blood mist and blasted him away with a powerful sneak attack.
• Ruo Shui bound Wu Xiongkui with her ribbons, and Lu Feng killed him by piercing his heart with Azure Sky Thrust.
• Lu Feng urged Jun Ziyi to rely on the Nearing Immortality Nine Forms, helping her land a strike on Xu Jiaoer's Danling Acupoint.
• Xu Jiaoer revealed that a Spirit Protecting Azure Jade had blocked Jun Ziyi's strike, then charged at Lu Feng while empowered by the Blood Clan.
• Lu Feng called out the seventh form of Flying Spring Jade Song for Jun Ziyi to use against Xu Jiaoer's exposed back, but Jun Ziyi admitted she had never learned it.

Lu Feng helped Jun Ziyi defeat Xu Jiaoer by showing her how to use Qing Tian Raindrop Sword and Three Yuan Qi Sword, then joined the others to watch Ling Tian fight Fu Maotian. Xiang Tianming and his allies appeared at Submerged Creek Stronghold, revealing that the battle had likely been a trap.

• Lu Feng told Jun Ziyi to use Qing Tian Raindrop Sword’s opening stance, which forced Xu Jiaoer to evade and gave him a chance to escape.
• Lu Feng instructed Jun Ziyi in a new way to channel Three Yuan Qi Sword, and her empowered strike pierced Xu Jiaoer’s Spirit Protecting Azure Jade and killed her.
• Jun Ziyi learned that the powerful strike had drained her sea of consciousness, and Lu Feng offered to teach her the rest of her Sword Skills after they returned to Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi found Ling Tian badly wounded but still fighting Fu Maotian, who hesitated when he saw them arrive.
• Fu Maotian called for his hidden allies, and Xiang Tianming, Apricot Blossom Rain, Zhao Wumian, and Gu Wuyan appeared at Submerged Creek Stronghold.
• Lu Feng suspected Xiang Tianming had arranged the battle as a trap and that Gu Wuyan had removed the escape routes.

Ling Tian defeated Fu Maotian with the Vibrating Blade and killed him after Fu Maotian attacked from behind. Xiang Tianming then confronted Lu Feng’s weakened group, but a familiar figure arrived just as they were about to be overwhelmed.

• Xiang Tianming ordered Fu Maotian to kill Ling Tian while he prepared to attack Lu Feng’s group, but Lu Feng activated the Four Sons Array Soldier to block their advance.
• Fu Maotian used the Submerged Creek Blade Technique, but Ling Tian answered with the Vibrating Blade and broke Fu Maotian’s blade with a powerful strike.
• Fu Maotian fired a crossbow at Ling Tian from behind, and Ling Tian split the bolt and killed him with a slash.
• Xiang Tianming sent Gu Wuyan and Zhao Wumian against the Four Sons Array Soldier, then faced Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, Ruo Shui, and Jun Ziyi with Apricot Blossom Rain.
• A familiar voice challenged Xiang Tianming for bullying the weaker group, and Lu Feng and Tang Yuan recognized the approaching figure.

Jiang Ruoyun reunited with Lu Feng and helped turn the ambush at Submerged Creek Stronghold against Xiang Tianming, who escaped with his companions on a spirit beast. Afterward, Lu Feng’s group searched Fu Maotian’s belongings, finding another piece of a hidden map and a cultivation method linked to the Blood Clan.

• Jiang Ruoyun revealed herself to Lu Feng, introduced herself to Ruo Shui and Jun Ziyi, and attacked Xiang Tianming with her whip.
• Xiang Tianming withdrew with Zhao Wumian, Gu Wuyan, and Apricot Blossom Rain, then escaped on a Hyena-Eyed Dog-Hawk and threatened to meet Lu Feng at the Spring Hunt.
• Jiang Ruoyun told Lu Feng that Beast Taming Manor members had been using Savage Beasts to attack villages, and Ruo Shui explained that the Spring Hunt was an annual event.
• Ling Tian refused Lu Feng’s offer to share the Soul Hunting Mission reward and left, while Lu Feng’s group began searching the stronghold for loot.
• Lu Feng found another map fragment hidden in Fu Maotian’s damaged Heart Protecting Armor, and Tang Yuan discovered a cultivation method from the Blood Clan along with two books titled Notes and Account Book.

After destroying Submerged Creek Stronghold, Lu Feng uncovered its crimes and its ties to Tian Yuan City's Prison Manor before heading toward the city with his companions. During a quiet night with Jiang Ruoyun, he learned why she had been gone for three years and established a Union Formation between them, leaving her to tease him about the mark it created.

• Lu Feng read Submerged Creek Stronghold's records, discovered the weapons from the Submerged Creek Ancient Tomb contained powerful sword and saber skills, and found that twenty percent of the stronghold's profits had gone to Tian Yuan City's Prison Manor.
• Lu Feng collected proof of the Soul Hunting Mission and the group's valuables, then traveled with his companions toward Tian Yuan City and stopped in Pine Wood Town for the night.
• Lu Feng spoke privately with Jiang Ruoyun, who explained that three years had passed for her while she cultivated in the Simulated Realm after her master saved her from Blood Demon.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun discussed the Contract Array and agreed to replace it with a Mandarin Duck Union Array, binding their lives and souls together.
• Lu Feng established the Union Formation, which left a red mark on Jiang Ruoyun's forehead that he said she could conceal, and she teased him about worrying that others would mistake them for lovers.

Lu Feng and his companions reached Tian Yuan City, where they rescued Zhao Yan from a brutal beating and learned of his tragic circumstances. Lu Feng then went to the Su Estate to repair its formation, but Su Qing'er’s younger brother accused him of being a fraud.

• Lu Feng promised Jiang Ruoyun that no one would take her away from him, and they spent the night together in the courtyard.
• At a breakfast stall, Lu Feng and Tang Yuan recognized Wu Ying passing through the crowd, and Wu Ying quickly disappeared.
• The group learned that Zhao Yan, a frail and kind-hearted son of the Zhao family, was being beaten by thugs likely sent by Zhao An.
• Jiang Ruoyun struck the leader’s wrist with a Willow Leaf Cone, and Zhao Yan grabbed the fallen dagger and stabbed him before Lu Feng caught Zhao Yan and treated his meridians.
• Tang Yuan took Zhao Yan to receive care while Jiang Ruoyun, Jun Ziyi, and Ruo Shui went shopping, and Lu Feng continued alone to the Su Estate.
• Su Qing’er’s younger brother saw her token in Lu Feng’s hand, questioned his claim that he had come to repair the formation, and suspected him of being a swindler.

Lu Feng met Su Qing'er’s mother and younger brother at the Su Estate, where he demonstrated his array skill by defeating Su Mo with a wooden figure. Grandmaster Lan Yin then arrived and recognized Lu Feng as the Chakra Realm instructor who had stunned everyone at the Array Verification Assessment, leaving the gathered guests astonished.

• Su Qing'er introduced Lu Feng to her mother, Fang Xiu, and her younger brother, Su Mo, who mocked Lu Feng for being a Chakra Realm array master.
• Su Mo challenged Lu Feng to a fight, and Lu Feng used a controlled wooden figure to evade his sword and hold a strike at the back of his head.
• Su Mo admitted defeat and gained respect for array masters, while Lu Feng asked Fang Xiu to take him to the estate’s damaged array.
• Grandmaster Lan Yin arrived with two women and greeted Lu Feng, revealing that he recognized him from the Array Verification Assessment.
• The guests were astonished to learn that Lu Feng was the instructor who had passed the assessment despite being only at the Chakra Realm.

Lu Feng examined the Su Estate’s damaged Manor Defense Array and deduced how it could be repaired, but recognized that the gap had been deliberately created. The chapter ended with him asking Fang Xiu who had broken the array before he would consider fixing it.

• Lan Yin introduced Lu Feng to his two disciples, and Su Qing'er learned that Lu Feng had become a Spirit Prison Instructor.
• Fang Xiu led the group to the rear courtyard and explained that the Su Estate’s array had developed a gap after a bolt of heavenly lightning struck a month earlier.
• Su Qing'er's Grandma activated the array, revealing deadly wind blades pouring through the gap and scratches carved into the courtyard paving.
• Lan Yin said repairing the array would likely require three Earth Soul Realm array masters, then suggested Lu Feng might know another method.
• Lu Feng finished deducing a repair method but told the group that the array had been deliberately destroyed and asked Fang Xiu who had broken it.

Lu Feng uncovered how the Su Estate’s array had been broken and agreed to help find the culprit, then promised Zhao Yan he would seek a cure for his blocked meridians. He learned Jiang Ruoyun had left after sending him a recording, and her farewell left him determined to reunite with her.

• Lu Feng explained that an array could summon heavenly thunder to break another array, advised Fang Xiu to find the culprit, and accepted her offer of jade materials in return for helping the Su Estate.
• Lan Yin invited Lu Feng to join the Azure Sky Array Association, and Lu Feng agreed to visit after settling his affairs.
• Lu Feng identified Zhao Yan’s condition as an acquired Blocked Meridians constitution and offered to seek treatment for him at Spirit Prison.
• Zhao Yan revealed his desire for revenge, but gave it up for his mother’s safety, convincing Lu Feng that he deserved a chance to be cured.
• Lu Feng sensed Jiang Ruoyun’s soul shadow had weakened, and Ruo Shui gave him the Soul-Recording Jade Jiang Ruoyun had left behind.
• In the recording, Jiang Ruoyun explained that her Master had made her test Lu Feng with the Mandarin Duck Union Array and asked him to cultivate diligently and come take her home.

After establishing his group, Lu Feng returned to the Spirit Prison and prepared a residence for its members. Ye Fan began treating Zhao Yan’s Blocked Meridians, leaving the group watching as he sealed the meridians in Zhao Yan’s right arm.

• Lu Feng accepted a third-grade badge from Lan Yin at the Azure Sky Array Association and agreed to help at an upcoming exchange gathering.
• Lu Feng returned to the Spirit Prison, registered his group and its new members, and learned that Ye Fan had become an instructor.
• Lu Feng and Ye Fan registered their joint group and collected its Spirit Residence and Living Spirit Academy.
• Lu Feng renovated the group’s residence and used a source stone to fill it with dense, gentle spiritual energy.
• Ye Fan explained that Zhao Yan could undergo a dangerous treatment immediately or wait three years, and Zhao Yan chose immediate treatment because of his mother’s uncertain circumstances.
• Ye Fan began repairing Zhao Yan’s Blocked Meridians by sealing the meridians in his right arm.

Ye Fan repaired the meridians in Zhao Yan’s right arm, but warned Lu Feng that Zhao Yan would need Luan Earthworm Fruit to withstand spiritual energy throughout his body. Old Book arrived to reunite with Lu Feng and revealed that Lu Feng’s apparent death had led the Clear River Sect to challenge the Ice Spring Sect, while Lu Feng’s Senior Brother broke his vow and drew his sword.

• Ye Fan reopened and reshaped the meridians in Zhao Yan’s right arm while Zhao Yan endured the pain and stayed conscious.
• Ye Fan told Lu Feng that Zhao Yan’s fragile meridians would need Luan Earthworm Fruit, which might be found in the Eastern Origin Mountain Range during the Spring Hunt.
• Lu Feng sensed Old Book’s arrival, rushed to meet him, and tearfully reunited with his master after three years apart.
• Lu Feng told Old Book about the attack at Night Crow Ridge, the destruction of his cultivation, and his use of a secret art to self-destruct his seven souls.
• Old Book explained that Lu Feng’s junior sister had demanded revenge, prompting Sect Leader Yu to challenge the Ice Spring Sect, and that Lu Feng’s Senior Brother had drawn his buried sword.

Lu Feng learned that the Blood Clan had orchestrated the ambush that destroyed most of the Azure List’s top ten and threatened the human race. After catching Old Book up on his recovery and companions, Lu Feng revealed a dangerous change in his eyes, prompting Old Book to ask whether he had reached the Heaven Soul Realm three years earlier.

• Old Book told Lu Feng that his friends had left Northern Nether to grow stronger and planned to return in five years to destroy Ice Spring Sect.
• Old Book revealed that the Blood Clan had ambushed the Azure List’s top ten, killing seven, including Lu Feng, and suggested it sought to eliminate anyone who could become a Saint Soul cultivator.
• Lu Feng learned that Qing Xue had survived, recovered through her bloodline power, and was keeping his Night Feather Sword until he could take it back by force.
• Lu Feng explained his recovery in Exquisite Valley and his later travels, and Old Book invited Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui to visit him the next day.
• Lu Feng described how his Purple Eyes let him see through illusions but caused burning pain and fainting, and Old Book asked whether he had broken through to the Heaven Soul Realm three years earlier.

Lu Feng received the Profound Sky Treasure Mirror and its Nine-Pattern Core Condensation method, but the Seven Souls shattered the nine-marked Soul Core he formed. He decided to seek his own path to Core Condensation while Old Book planned to search the Book Sea and Lu Feng prepared to recruit disciples at the Spring Hunt.

• Old Book gave Lu Feng an ocular arts method and the Profound Sky Treasure Mirror, which contained the lost Nine-Pattern Core Condensation method and eight other unusual cultivation methods.
• Old Book warned Lu Feng to keep the mirror's contents secret, and Lu Feng said he wanted to share the Nine-Pattern method with Ruo Shui and the others.
• Using Old Book's two High-Grade Source Stones, Lu Feng condensed a Soul Core with nine Core Markings, but the Seven Souls shattered it before it could solidify.
• Old Book comforted Lu Feng and offered to search the Book Sea for another way to condense a core, while Lu Feng resolved to create his own method.
• Old Book told Lu Feng to recruit promising Spirit Prison disciples during the upcoming Spring Hunt, and Lu Feng asked whether Old Book would help teach them.

As the Spring Hunt approached, Lu Feng prepared his group for the dangerous search for stone cotton and the Luan Earthworm Fruit needed to save Zhao Yan. Jia Family and its allies plotted to kill Lu Feng and the others during the hunt, while Lu Feng, Ye Fan, and Tang Yuan prepared to enter the mountains.

• Old Book began teaching Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui, while Lu Feng prepared Living Spirit Academy for the Spring Hunt and studied the dangers of the Eastern Origin Mountain Range.
• Zhao Wumian, Gu Wuyan, Apricot Blossom Rain, and Xiang Tianming agreed to target Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and their allies during the Spring Hunt.
• Jia Renxi met Jia Yong, who planned to secretly kill Lu Feng and the others by erasing their life souls.
• Lu Feng tried to guide Jun Ziyi's sword training, but she refused to acknowledge him as her mentor until he defeated her again.
• Ye Fan agreed to join the Spring Hunt to find medicinal herbs and the Luan Earthworm Fruit, while Ruo Shui stayed to care for Zhao Yan and Tang Yuan faced Old Book's demand that he fight fourth-tier soul beasts without Treasure Items.
• Lu Feng realized that only he, Ye Fan, and Tang Yuan from their group would participate in the Spring Hunt.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan entered the Eastern Origin Mountain Range for the Spring Hunt and intervened when prisoners bullied Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang. Lu Feng offered the pair a place in their group, then revealed that he and his companions were its instructors, leaving them stunned.

• Old Book warned Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan to watch out for beasts and other prisoners before they joined the Spring Hunt.
• The trio entered the mountain range and passed through the crowded outer area, where prisoners struggled to collect stone cotton.
• Tang Yuan struck the leader of a group who were threatening Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang and demanding their harvest.
• Lu Feng recognized that Man Zhongli was concealing his Six Soul Realm strength and urged him not to endure bullying in silence.
• Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang worried that their group would retaliate against them, so Lu Feng invited them to join his group.
• When Man Zhongli asked who their instructor was, Lu Feng said that he and his companions were the instructors, leaving the pair astonished.

Lu Feng recruited Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang into his self-organized group, while Ye Fan took an interest in Ning Xiang’s extraordinary sense of smell. As the group continued through the mountain range, Xiang Tianming used a flute to send three soul beasts after them, and Lu Feng revealed that the hidden attacker had struck his life soul.

• Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang accepted Lu Feng’s invitation to join his group after leaving their current group, and Ning Xiang retrieved a Red Tendon Grass by scent.
• Ye Fan decided to teach Ning Xiang medicine, and Lu Feng set out with Ye Fan and Tang Yuan to recruit more prison disciples.
• Ye Fan sensed a hidden threat, while Xiang Tianming played a flute at Jia Yong’s direction to send three soul beasts toward Lu Feng’s group.
• Lu Feng, Ye Fan, and Tang Yuan each faced a soul beast, but Lu Feng briefly released a terrifying killing aura before killing the Gale Wolf with an arrow.
• Lu Feng told Tang Yuan that the hidden attacker had struck his life soul and caused it pain.

Lu Feng survived Jia Yong’s Soul Attack, forcing Jia Yong to retreat with severe soul damage, while Xiang Tianming continued plotting against the group. Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan identified the Ironclad Rhinoceros as controlled by a Beast Taming Pattern, then hurried toward the boundary of the inner circle as they raced through the mountains.

• Lu Feng explained that his Killing Intent had repelled Jia Yong’s Soul Attack and damaged Jia Yong’s soul, prompting Jia Yong to abandon the attack and leave the group to Yang Biao.
• Xiang Tianming ordered Apricot Blossom Rain to continue bringing stronger soul beasts to attack Lu Feng and his companions.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan discovered that Ye Fan had immobilized the Ironclad Rhinoceros by severing its meridians, and Ye Fan identified a Beast Taming Pattern on it.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan decided to stay together and travel toward the junction of the outer perimeter and inner circle to avoid being ambushed.
• The three began racing through the mountain range, and Lu Feng struggled to keep pace as he studied Ye Fan’s and Tang Yuan’s movement techniques.

Lu Feng advanced the Clear River Steps to the realm where motion and stillness transformed into each other, then prepared with Tang Yuan and Ye Fan for a possible night attack. At dawn, Xiang Tianming’s group ambushed them at the inner circle’s crossing, but they escaped the trap and discovered a beast tide approaching.

• Lu Feng combined movement techniques to reach the third realm of movement, letting him pass obstacles without losing speed and catch up to Tang Yuan and Ye Fan.
• At the boundary of the inner circle, Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan fortified their camp and took turns resting and keeping watch.
• Xiang Tianming’s group continued taming soul beasts, and Xiang ordered Apricot Blossom Rain to trap Lu Feng’s group on their route into the inner circle.
• After an uneventful night, Lu Feng left concealed formations behind, and the three crossed the stream toward the inner circle.
• Apricot Blossom Rain and Gu Wuyan’s ambush sent arrows and flying swords at the trio, while a quicksand passage blocked their retreat; Tang Yuan used the Golden Bell to shield them, and they escaped back across the stream.
• A beast tide emerged within the inner circle, raising dust across the landscape.

Lu Feng used the Muddled Sound Array to freeze the soul beasts Xiang Tianming had sent against him, then destroyed the array and collected their beast cores. As Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan tried to leave, a Flame Griffon drawn by Beast-Attracting Smoke blocked their path.

• Xiang Tianming sent the tamed soul beasts to surround Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan among the trunks they had piled up.
• Lu Feng activated the Muddled Sound Array, freezing all the attacking soul beasts while Tang Yuan and Ye Fan stood on upright trunks.
• Lu Feng used a Water-Wither Beast Core to break the array, causing the frozen beasts to shatter, and the three gathered forty-six beast cores.
• Xiang Tianming and Apricot Blossom Rain retreated after the destruction of their tamed beasts damaged the Beast Taming Pattern Spear.
• A Flame Griffon appeared in the trio's path, and Ye Fan identified Beast-Attracting Smoke rising across the stream as the reason it had come.