Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng escaped a Golden Silk Leopard by trapping it in an array, but a black-clad Five Elements Realm soul master confronted him over his ties to Yang Lan and Xiang Tianming. Lu Feng unsealed four souls and launched a surprise attack, leaving the two locked in battle.

• Tang Yuan led the Flame Griffon away, while Ye Fan drew off the Black Fiend Hedgehog and Lu Feng faced the Golden Silk Leopard.
• Lu Feng used his Heroic Soul Array and the Chaotic Stone Forest to trap the Golden Silk Leopard in an Entrapment Array.
• A black-clad Five Elements Realm soul master confronted Lu Feng and accused him of injuring Yang Lan and killing Yang Wu.
• Lu Feng blamed Xiang Tianming for Yang Lan's injury, but the black-clad man grew furious when he connected Xiang Tianming to Jia Tingxi and the Jia Family.
• Lu Feng unsealed three more souls and thrust at the black-clad man, who dodged and struck back with his palm.

Lu Feng fled the black-clad man into the mountain range and lured soul beasts toward them with Beast-Attracting Powder. When his Spirit Soul Array failed and he was nearly killed, he escaped into the Six Paths Coffin, leaving the black-clad man surrounded and five powerful soul beasts watching the coffin.

• Lu Feng wounded the black-clad man’s Floating Spirit Acupoint, but the man swallowed a pill and used an insect to suppress the injury before pursuing him.
• Lu Feng scattered Beast-Attracting Powder to draw high-level soul beasts, then led the black-clad man deeper into the mountain range.
• A Five Elements Realm vulture and a horde of soul beasts cornered Lu Feng, and his Spirit Soul Array expired, leaving him too weak to fight.
• Lu Feng threw out the Six Paths Coffin and hid inside as soul beasts attacked the black-clad man, who fled while gravely injured.
• Five high-level soul beasts remained around the Six Paths Coffin, watching the container where Lu Feng had hidden.

Trapped inside the Six Paths Coffin, Lu Feng discovered that the Six Paths Domain could fuse beast cores, and he learned that cores with matching attributes could combine into higher-tier cores. He remained surrounded by soul beasts outside as night fell, while wondering whether stronger coordination might let him improve mismatched cores too.

• Lu Feng recovered inside the Six Paths Domain while soul beasts continued attacking the coffin and eventually settled around it.
• Lu Feng fused a Yama Tyrant Bear Core with a Great Strength White Tiger Core, creating a sixth-tier core, but adding a Silver Jade Fox Core caused the result to fall to fourth tier.
• Lu Feng found that fusing a Wind Shadow Leopard Core with a Gold Devouring Wolf Core produced a fourth-tier core carrying both beasts' attributes.
• Lu Feng sorted the beast cores by attribute and discovered that matching types, including defense-focused cores, fused gently into sixth-tier cores.
• Lu Feng tested most of his beast cores and concluded that mismatched cores might also advance if he had enough strength to balance their fusion.
• Night fell, and four soul beasts still surrounded the Six Paths Coffin after one of the five had left.

Lu Feng activated the Profound Sky Treasure Mirror in the Six Paths Domain and learned the hidden, more complete forms of several powerful arts. After mastering the Profound Gate Five Elements Art, he began learning the Ant Soft Palm, whose gentle appearance concealed tremendous force.

• The Profound Sky Treasure Mirror released a demonstration of Nine-Pattern Core Condensation, revealing flaws in the method Lu Feng had used and showing a more powerful core formed with three drops of Origin Blood Essence.
• The golden phantom demonstrated the complete Profound Gate Five Elements Art, and Lu Feng quickly memorized and mastered its five cultivation arts.
• Lu Feng decided to keep the complete Profound Gate Five Elements Art secret until he had enough strength to protect it.
• The third Golden Light Paper revealed the Ant Soft Palm, and its phantom struck Lu Feng with overwhelming force despite using a gentle-looking palm.
• Lu Feng practiced the Ant Soft Palm and learned that it relied on internal force, self-defense, and misleading softness rather than explosive power.

Lu Feng learned the nine techniques stored in the Profound Sky Treasure Mirror, including the powerful but elusive Floating Pagoda Three Swords, while waiting for the soul beasts outside the Six Paths Domain to leave. After the Shadow Wolf King departed, he emerged at dawn and faced the remaining Three-Eyed Demon Serpent, choosing to fight rather than flee.

• Lu Feng mastered the Crippled Leg technique, temporarily altering his left leg before restoring it and discovering the power of its explosive kick.
• Lu Feng studied the Assassination Art, a domineering fist technique, a spear technique, and a joint attack technique from the remaining Golden Light Papers.
• The ninth Golden Light Paper revealed the Floating Pagoda Three Swords, but its phantom vanished before demonstrating the sword technique; the treasure mirror was destroyed and its techniques entered Lu Feng's mind.
• Lu Feng spent two days mastering and integrating the techniques, but he could not discover how to properly wield the Floating Pagoda Three Swords.
• After the Shadow Wolf King left, Lu Feng waited until dawn, then exited the Six Paths Coffin and was wounded by the supposedly sleeping Three-Eyed Demon Serpent.
• Lu Feng evaded the serpent's earth attacks, decided against fleeing, and drew the Netherworld Bow to fight it with his Poison Arrows.

Lu Feng poisoned and killed the Three-Eyed Demon Serpent, but Wu Ying stole its beast core before Lu Feng identified him and chased him into the mountain range. Lu Feng abandoned the chase after finding Luan Earthworm Fruits, and Wu Ying returned the core when Lu Feng called him by name, then asked how he had recognized him.

• Lu Feng used poison arrows and the Hidden Arrow tactic to weaken the Three-Eyed Demon Serpent until its poison took effect and it collapsed.
• As Lu Feng harvested the serpent, Wu Ying swept in and stole its beast core, then challenged Lu Feng to catch him.
• Lu Feng recognized Wu Ying's Shadowy Steps, unsealed one soul, and pursued him deeper into the mountain range.
• Lu Feng tried concealing his figure and aura to catch Wu Ying, but Wu Ying detected him from the wind stirred by his approach.
• Lu Feng spotted a cluster of Luan Earthworm Fruits and stopped chasing Wu Ying to inspect the area for guarding soul beasts.
• After Lu Feng addressed him as Wu Ying, Wu Ying returned the beast core, removed his disguise, and asked how Lu Feng had recognized him.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying competed to harvest Luan Earthworm Fruits, but the Green-Striped Poisonous Python attacked and poisoned Lu Feng. Wu Ying drew the python away to save him, and Lu Feng then heard a Silver Moon Demon Bear roar in distress and cautiously approached.

• Lu Feng recognized Wu Ying’s Shadowy Steps, and they agreed to compete to harvest the Luan Earthworm Fruits beneath a Green-Striped Poisonous Python’s tree.
• Wu Ying used thrown weighted bags to distract the python, then harvested four fruits before fleeing as it gave chase.
• Lu Feng sealed the three remaining fruits and moved them into his Kirin Ring, but the python’s poison spread through his body despite the Detoxification Pill.
• Wu Ying returned to help Lu Feng escape, mistook his poisoned state for a selfless sacrifice, and attacked the python with hidden weapons before luring it away.
• Lu Feng realized he had reached the Mountain Range Depths and heard a furious Silver Moon Demon Bear roar, so he quietly approached to investigate.

Lu Feng discovered that a Silver Moon Demon Bear was fighting the Dark Poison Spider to avenge its dead cub, while its newborn cub lay helpless nearby. After rescuing the newborn and finding an injured woman, Lu Feng heard her ask him to apply an antidote, but he remained concerned about the poison.

• Lu Feng found the Silver Moon Demon Bear and Dark Poison Spider battling fiercely, then realized the bear was avenging its cub, which the spider had killed.
• The Dark Poison Spider trapped itself and the weakened Silver Moon Demon Bear inside a cocoon of silk, while Lu Feng discovered and rescued the bear's newborn cub.
• Lu Feng found an unconscious woman nearby and suspected she had caused the fight, but reconsidered after seeing her deep wound and hearing her ask for help.
• The woman told Lu Feng that the Dark Poison Spider's poison had been sealed and that Soft Jade Fragrant Balm in her belt could treat her wound.
• Lu Feng found the balm in the woman's disorganized storage artifact, and she asked him to apply it as he questioned whether it could counter the poison.

Lu Feng removed the poison from Bai Xue’s back, then carried her and the Silver Moon Demon Bear cub out of the mountains. Rumors spread that he and Bai Xue were lovers, and a jealous man ordered someone to uncover Lu Feng’s identity.

• Bai Xue asked Lu Feng to cut away the poisoned flesh, but she screamed and fainted when he applied Soft Jade Fragrant Balm, biting his calf in the process.
• A silver light from the shattered cocoon enveloped the Silver Moon Demon Bear cub, putting it to sleep; Lu Feng found the mother bear and Dark Poison Spider dead and took the spider’s beast core.
• Lu Feng carried the unconscious Bai Xue and the cub through the night, avoiding soul beasts and returning toward the mountain range’s inner circle.
• Spirit Prison inmates recognized Bai Xue and spread rumors that she and Lu Feng were lovers who had a child together.
• A jealous man watched Lu Feng carry Bai Xue past and ordered his companion to identify him within one day.

Lu Feng returned from the mountain range after rescuing Bai Xue and a young Silver Moon Demon Bear, then learned that Tang Yuan had tamed a Flame Griffon and left with Old Book to seek the Profound Yin Tortoise Core. As Lu Feng’s Azure Vine Poison worsened, Ye Fan returned and began treating the poison while Ruo Shui agreed to care for the bear.

• Fang Xinping took the unconscious Bai Xue from Lu Feng, verified that he was an instructor, and carried her away after he explained that a Dark Poison Spider had poisoned her.
• Lu Feng left the mountain range, went to Old Book’s courtyard, and learned from Ruo Shui that Old Book and Tang Yuan had left to pursue news of the Profound Yin Tortoise Core.
• Ruo Shui told Lu Feng that Tang Yuan had returned with a tamed Flame Griffon, which Old Book had exchanged at the Beast Hall for more than ten thousand Spirit Merit.
• Lu Feng asked Ruo Shui to care for the sleeping young Silver Moon Demon Bear and explained that its mother’s essence power had entered its body before she died fighting the Dark Poison Spider.
• Ye Fan returned with dozens of Living Creature Pouches filled with spirit herbs and fruits after Spirit Prison officials drove him out of the mountain range.
• Lu Feng showed Ye Fan the Luan Earthworm Fruit contaminated with venom and revealed his own Azure Vine Poison, so Ye Fan collected the Poison Mist and prepared to treat him.

Lu Feng stabilized his poisoning and prepared a medicinal bath while Bai Bing went looking for the mentor she believed had wronged her sister. When Bai Bing confronted him at night, Lu Feng subdued her briefly and let her leave unharmed, then continued his treatment.

• Ye Fan gave Lu Feng medicine to halt the Green-Striped Poisonous Python’s poison and instructed him to take medicinal baths for three days.
• Ruo Shui returned to the Spirit Residence, and Lu Feng arranged to register Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang while preparing a constant-temperature bath.
• Bai Bing learned that Lu Feng had brought Bai Xue back and, believing rumors that he had damaged her reputation, tracked him to his room.
• Bai Bing entered Lu Feng’s room and pointed her sword at him, accusing him of concealing his strength and harming Bai Xue.
• Lu Feng used the Bewitching Eye Technique to daze Bai Bing, sealed her acupoints, and threatened her before deciding not to search her for Water Foam Ice Crystal darts.
• Lu Feng told Bai Bing her acupoints would soon recover and resumed his medicinal bath; she fled in embarrassment after spotting his underpants over the screen.

Lu Feng visited Zhao Yan as he recovered and then demonstrated his skill by defeating Jun Ziyi in a spar. He left Jun Ziyi ready to learn from him and took Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang to the Master Hall to join his group.

• Lu Feng found that thirty percent of the Azure Vine Poison had left his body, while Ye Fan treated Zhao Yan with Luan Earthworm Fruit ointment until Zhao Yan could sense spiritual energy.
• Jun Ziyi challenged Lu Feng to a sword spar, and Lu Feng told her to gather Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang at the academy.
• Lu Feng encouraged Zhao Yan to consider his future path and reassured Ning Xiang about Ye Fan’s treatment for her skin.
• Lu Feng effortlessly countered Jun Ziyi’s sword attacks and struck her with his teaching whip when she hesitated.
• Jun Ziyi asked Lu Feng to teach her swordsmanship, and he told her to reflect on why she had lost.
• Lu Feng led Man Zhongli and Ning Xiang to the Master Hall to register their transfer into his group.

Lu Feng completed his students’ transfer and began his second detoxification, but Bai Bing’s attempt to confront him ended with her being poisoned and subdued. When Zhao Quansong arrived to threaten Lu Feng over Bai Xue, he found Bai Bing in the room and misread the situation, leaving with his suspicions intact.

• Zhao Quansong learned that Lu Feng was a newly appointed instructor with Chakra Realm strength and ordered Zhao Kesong to keep watch on him.
• Lu Feng finished planning his teaching schedule and began his second detoxification in a medicinal bath while Bai Bing secretly waited on the roof to attack him.
• Bai Bing burst into Lu Feng’s room, but her strength failed after she entered the toxin-filled mist, and Lu Feng gave her a Detoxification Pill and took her weapons.
• Lu Feng and Bai Bing hid behind the bed curtains when a stranger entered, but the visitor was Zhao Quansong, who cut the curtains and found them together.
• Bai Bing warned Zhao Quansong not to spread rumors, but he left still convinced that something had happened between her and Lu Feng.

After the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan was stolen from the Master Hall, An Xianglian questioned the Self-Organized Group instructors and focused suspicion on Bai Bing after a Flying Snow Dart was found at the scene. Bai Bing could not account for her whereabouts, and just as Lu Feng tried to speak for her, Kuang Liang proposed a way to test her story.

• An Xianglian announced that the Master Hall had been robbed and revealed that the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan, said to record the location of the Tomb of the Mad Thief, was missing.
• An Xianglian showed the instructors a Flying Snow Dart, and suspicion fell on Bai Bing before Xu Ye explained that he had collected darts in the mountains and returned them to her.
• Xu Ye said Cao Min could confirm he had treated him in his courtyard during the theft, while Kuang Liang testified that Bai Bing had returned from outside the prison after midnight.
• An Xianglian asked Bai Bing where she had been, and Bai Bing said she had gone out alone to clear her mind but had no witness.
• As An Xianglian prepared to detain Bai Bing, Lu Feng tried to intervene, but Bai Bing denied knowing him and dismissed his testimony.
• Kuang Liang proposed a way to determine whether Bai Bing had truly gone out to clear her mind or had committed the theft.

An Xianglian investigated Bai Bing’s possible role in the theft from Master Hall using a Time-Sniffing Rat, which led the instructors to Lu Feng’s courtyard. When Zhou Zhi threatened Lu Feng over Bai Bing, Lu Feng answered with a confidence that stunned the witnesses.

• Kuang Liang proposed using a Time-Sniffing Rat to trace Bai Bing’s movements, and Bai Bing admitted to stealing from Master Hall.
• An Xianglian had the rat follow Bai Bing’s scent from the willow tree to Lu Feng’s courtyard and room.
• The rat settled on Lu Feng’s bed, prompting gossip that Bai Bing had spent the night with him; An Xianglian dismissed the instructors and set the theft investigation aside.
• Zhou Zhi accused Bai Bing of shameless behavior and demanded to know whose room it was, so Lu Feng revealed that it belonged to him.
• Zhou Zhi drew his spear and threatened Lu Feng, who warned him that he could die there, leaving Bai Bing and the other instructors stunned by Lu Feng’s composure.

After Bai Bing claimed Lu Feng was her partner to deter Zhou Zhi, Zhou challenged Lu Feng to an Instructor Tournament, and Lu Feng accepted a three-month match for three source stones and a twenty-one-year teaching suspension for the loser. Bai Bing warned him about Zhou Zhi's powerful group, but Lu Feng remained confident in the two Seven Souls Realm prisoners he had recruited.

• Bai Bing declared that Lu Feng was her partner, prompting Zhou Zhi to challenge Lu Feng to prove his strength.
• Jin Xuan steered Zhou Zhi toward an Instructor Tournament, and Zhou offered source stones to persuade Lu Feng to accept.
• Lu Feng demanded three source stones and set the tournament for three months later; he and Zhou also agreed that the loser could not teach for three terms.
• Zhou Zhi obtained two source stones by trading his ancestral spear art, while Jin Xuan left with a sinister smile.
• Bai Bing warned Lu Feng about Shao Yang, Xiang Tiange, and Xiang Tianming, and explained that the Battle Realm had become impossible to escape.
• Lu Feng told Bai Bing his new prisoners were only at the Seven Souls Realm, but insisted they could grow strong enough and questioned whether Core Plate Realm strength was necessary.

Lu Feng suspected Instructor Jin Xuan had helped steer the events around the theft and learned more about the Self-Organized Groups while considering how far his own students lagged behind. The chapter ended with Ye Fan reporting that the Fallen Heart Plate and Butterfly Scorpion Rope had also been stolen alongside the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan.

• Lu Feng suspected Jin Xuan had deliberately redirected suspicion between Xu Ye and Bai Bing and had helped provoke the Instructor Tournament.
• Ye Fan visited Lu Feng, who told him about the Master Hall robbery and his agreement to join Zhou Zhi's Instructor Tournament.
• Ye Fan explained that the stolen Cloud Silk Cloth Fan was likely connected to the Tomb of the Mad Thief, then recounted Sword Madman Dugu Mo's history and his Sect Breaking Art.
• Lu Feng agreed to take responsibility for teaching most of Ye Fan's students while Ye Fan focused on refining pills and mentoring Ning Xiang.
• Lu Feng studied the Self-Organized Groups' rankings and found that Xu Ye's group ranked second, while his own students were far behind the leading groups.
• Ye Fan returned and told Lu Feng that the Fallen Heart Plate and Butterfly Scorpion Rope had also been stolen.

Lu Feng met Qin Su in the Spirit Prison after she cured her hidden ailment using his treatment method. Qin Su rewarded him with five Source Stones, Spirit Source Liquid, and a Qin Family token, leaving him with a valuable connection in Profound Gold City.

• Ruo Shui received Qin Su’s request to meet Lu Feng and found him after he left the Master Hall.
• Lu Feng and Ruo Shui met Qin Su, whose appearance had changed dramatically after her hidden ailment was cured.
• Qin Su explained that she had followed Lu Feng’s treatment method after consulting other array masters and deciding to trust him.
• Qin Su gave Lu Feng five Source Stones and an additional vial of Spirit Source Liquid, which he accepted.
• Qin Su offered Lu Feng a Qin Family token and invited him to visit her in Profound Gold City, and Lu Feng accepted her gesture of friendship.

After Wu Ying summoned Lu Feng to Bitter Bamboo Forest, he revealed that he had tried to steal treasures from the Master Hall and wanted Lu Feng’s help finding the thief who took the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan. Lu Feng learned Wu Ying was a descendant of the Mad Thief and agreed to help locate the fan.

• Lu Feng deflected a concealed weapon sent at him and found a midnight meeting invitation engraved on it.
• Lu Feng went to Bitter Bamboo Forest and met Wu Ying, who said their Luan Earthworm Fruit wager had ended in a draw.
• Wu Ying told Lu Feng that the Master Hall had been robbed while he was stealing arrays and talismans, and that the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan was already missing.
• Wu Ying gave Lu Feng the Fallen Heart Plate, explaining that it could sense the fan nearby and that the thief was likely a Self-Organized Group instructor.
• Wu Ying revealed that the Mad Thief was Wu Xing and that he was Wu Xing’s descendant, then asked Lu Feng to help recover or destroy the fan.
• Lu Feng agreed to help and learned to signal Wu Ying by placing three four-bladed darts at his courtyard entrance.

Lu Feng and Ye Fan attended Spirit Prison’s final recruitment of the year, where Lu Feng hoped to use the Fallen Heart Plate to locate the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan. After Ye Fan set an unusually strict recruitment requirement and Zhou Zhi tried to provoke Lu Feng, the new prisoners began arriving.

• Ye Fan agreed to accompany Lu Feng to recruitment after learning that Self-Organized Group instructors had to attend or lose Spirit Merit.
• Lu Feng and Ye Fan saw that Group One, led by Lin Chen, Yao Ling, and Si Kongxiu, was recruiting one Core Formation Realm candidate under eighteen.
• Lu Feng considered his current students’ needs, while Ye Fan offered to teach Ning Xiang and help treat any cultivation problems.
• Ye Fan wrote a sign recruiting only Core Formation Realm candidates under seventeen, drawing Zhou Zhi’s mockery and a sharp reply from Lu Feng.
• Bai Bing watched the exchange without intervening, and the new prisoners began emerging from Spirit Prison as recruitment officially started.