Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng discovered that Jin Xuan was linked to the stolen Cloud Silk Cloth Fan while recruitment left his group empty. After Zhou Zhi rejected Shao Yue and offered no firm promise to rescue her brother, she collapsed in despair.

• Lu Feng used the Fallen Heart Plate to locate Jin Xuan as the suspected thief of the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan.
• Bai Bing tried to direct Meng Yuli to Lu Feng's group, but Meng Yuli refused and joined Bai Bing instead.
• Kang Yi mocked Lu Feng, then joined Zhou Zhi after Zhou Zhi invited him to take part in their Instructor Tournament.
• Shao Yue asked Zhou Zhi to accept her and rescue her brother Shao Yang, but Zhou Zhi rejected her and gave only a vague promise to help.
• Shao Yue collapsed after realizing Zhou Zhi might not be able to save her brother.

After the Shao Family refused to help her, Shao Yue nearly gave up hope until Lu Feng accepted her as a student and encouraged her to become strong. He promised to investigate her brother Shao Yang’s condition when the Grand Prison repaired the Battle Realm, leaving Shao Yue grateful and determined to remember his kindness.

• After Zhou Zhi refused to recommend Shao Yue, Lu Feng helped her up and defended her against Zhou Zhi and Kang Yi’s mockery.
• Moved by Lu Feng’s encouragement, Shao Yue asked him to accept her, and Lu Feng asked Ye Fan whether her disabled leg could be treated.
• Ye Fan said Shao Yue’s congenital meridian condition might require a medicine master at the Heaven Soul Realm, but Lu Feng accepted her and promised to seek a cure.
• Shao Yue asked Lu Feng to save her brother Shao Yang, whose cracked soul jade had led the Shao Family to abandon him.
• Lu Feng promised to investigate Shao Yang when the Grand Prison sent people to repair the Battle Realm, and Shao Yue thanked him for helping her.

During the Spirit Prison’s enrollment, Qian Xin joined Lu Feng’s group after recognizing him from the Turbid Elegance Guessing Game. Lu Feng was then summoned to the Master Hall, where Xiao Gu, a Central Prison Overseer from the Grand Prison, questioned him about stabilizing the Battle Realm entrance.

• Qian Xin searched past the higher-ranked groups and stopped at Lu Feng’s Group Thirty-Six, where she recognized him from the Turbid Elegance Guessing Game and completed her enrollment.
• Zhou Zhi challenged Qian Xin’s choice to join Lu Feng, but she defended Lu Feng and revealed she had once contended against ordinary Core Formation Realm soul masters while still in the Chakra Realm.
• An assistant instructor told Lu Feng that Hall Master An Xianglian had summoned him because someone from the Grand Prison specifically wanted to meet him.
• Lu Feng learned that all three Martial Spirit Prison overseers had gathered at the Master Hall and entered a meeting attended by powerful officials.
• Spirit Void Sword Saint introduced the elderly man leading the meeting as Xiao Gu, the Central Prison Overseer sent to repair and bridge the Battle Realm entrance, who wanted to question Lu Feng about stabilizing its disturbance.

Lu Feng gave Xiao Gu an altered Jade Sound Array diagram in exchange for a chance to enter the unstable Battle Realm and rescue one of his student's trapped relatives. After learning Xiao Gu was the fearsome Heaven List expert Soul Snatching Guest, Lu Feng returned to his group and prepared for his coming journey, but a mysterious figure suddenly burst into his courtyard.

• Xiao Gu demanded the Jade Sound Array diagram, and Lu Feng negotiated a chance to rescue a student's elder brother from the Battle Realm.
• Xiao Shu verified Lu Feng's deliberately altered diagram and said Lu Feng would accompany the Grand Prison team, with a chance to enter the Battle Realm during repairs.
• The teaching assistant told Lu Feng that Xiao Gu was Soul Snatching Guest, ranked among the Heaven List's top thirty, and warned of his terrifying soul-searching abilities.
• Lu Feng told Ye Fan about the planned Battle Realm trip, and Ye Fan urged him to be careful while asking him to retrieve a cauldron from the Great Void Secret Realm if possible.
• After enrollment ended without new members joining his group, Lu Feng recorded the group roster, helped Qian Xin and Shao Yue get oriented, and prepared teaching materials.
• That night, as Lu Feng read ancient texts in his courtyard, an unidentified figure rushed inside and shut the door.

Lu Feng investigated the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan and began guiding his students at Living Spirit Academy, encouraging Man Zhongli and Zhao Yan to cultivate according to their strengths. The chapter left Zhao Yan facing a painful path of repeatedly rebuilding his meridians to strengthen them and reach the limits of each realm.

• Wu Ying learned from Lu Feng that the Fallen Heart Plate had linked Jin Xuan to the Cloud Silk Cloth Fan, then hurried to Jin Xuan's residence.
• Lu Feng gave Zhao Yan an annotated copy of the Grand Ancestor Profound Scripture and told him to focus on building a solid foundation.
• Lu Feng encouraged Man Zhongli to cultivate diligently so he could protect Ning Xiang, prompting Man Zhongli to take cultivation seriously.
• Lu Feng explained that Zhao Yan could use his meridians' ability to rebuild as a strength, despite their weakness and poor toughness.
• Lu Feng told Zhao Yan that repeatedly enduring the pain of torn meridians could strengthen them and let him absorb spiritual energy closer to each realm's limit.

Lu Feng taught Zhao Yan and Man Zhongli cultivation methods suited to their unusual physiques and talents, then went to the Formation Hall after Ruo Shui sent a distress message. There, he found Qian Xin had lost a carving knife to Si Kongyan in a formation contest and began examining the shattered jade fragments.

• Lu Feng warned Zhao Yan that reshaping his blocked meridians would be painful, gave him a Warm Gold Pill, and Zhao Yan resolved to endure the cultivation method.
• Lu Feng explained that Man Zhongli's unusually solid Strength Soul made him suited to martial cultivation and instructed him to restart with double spiritual qi infusion.
• Lu Feng told Zhao Yan and Man Zhongli to cultivate together, then left after receiving Ruo Shui's message through the Prison Token.
• Lu Feng arrived at the Formation Hall and saw Ruo Shui and Shao Yue facing Jun Ziyi, Qian Xin, Su Qing'er, and Si Kongyan.
• Qian Xin handed Si Kongyan a carving knife after losing their contest, and Lu Feng studied the broken jade fragments to reconstruct what had happened.

Lu Feng challenged Si Kongyan’s confidence in her array skills and arranged for Qian Xin to face her again, teaching Qian Xin by engraving array inscriptions with a longsword. The onlookers watched in astonishment as Qian Xin and Jun Ziyi tried to follow his technique.

• Lu Feng identified insufficient spiritual energy in Qian Xin’s array and challenged Si Kongyan’s reliance on brute force to break it.
• Si Kongyan proposed an engraving contest, and Lu Feng lent Qian Xin the Void Spirit Engraving Knife before naming her as his competitor.
• Lu Feng asked Qian Xin to combine the Spirit Locking Array, Spirit Trapping Array, and Spirit Driving Array, then began engraving patterns with Jun Ziyi’s longsword.
• Qian Xin copied Lu Feng’s unfamiliar inscriptions while Jun Ziyi studied the sword intent of his Qing Tian Raindrop Sword.
• Si Kongyan, Su Qing'er, and the array masters watched Lu Feng’s precise sword engraving in amazement.

Lu Feng guided Qian Xin in creating a Composite Array that absorbed Si Kongyan’s spiritual energy and strengthened itself, leaving her trapped. After Instructor Fang Xinping explained a way to attack the array’s weaknesses, Si Kongyan gathered nearly all her remaining spiritual energy for one decisive strike.

• Lu Feng had Qian Xin inscribe twenty jade stones until she memorized their patterns, then showed her how to assemble them into overlapping array inscriptions.
• Qian Xin arranged the stones into a Composite Array with Spirit-Gathering Patterns at its center and activated it with incomplete Spirit Infusion.
• Si Kongyan entered the array and attacked an apparent weak point, but the array absorbed some of her spiritual energy and used her attack to complete its own Spirit Infusion.
• Su Qing'er fetched Instructor Fang Xinping, who identified the array’s weaknesses and advised Si Kongyan to attack them separately.
• Si Kongyan split her remaining spiritual energy into four attacks and prepared to strike the array’s weak points.

Lu Feng helped Qian Xin and Jun Ziyi improve their formation and swordsmanship, then returned to the academy and taught Zhao Yan the basics of cultivation. The chapter ended with Zhao Yan opening his first spirit and Man Zhongli reaching the Two Soul Realm.

• Si Kongyan failed to escape Lu Feng's layered formation, and Fang Xinping realized a second strike might release gathered spiritual energy that could endanger her, so she conceded the contest.
• Lu Feng returned Qian Xin's Void Spirit Engraving Knife and told her to practice reverse inscription, while he explained to Jun Ziyi that sword intent was not limited by sword-art grades.
• Lu Feng advised Jun Ziyi to study the origins of the Qing Tian Raindrop Sword and promised to have Ye Fan examine Shao Yue's congenital leg disability.
• Back at the academy, Lu Feng patiently explained cultivation principles to Zhao Yan, and his detailed teaching also helped Jun Ziyi and Qian Xin understand their own cultivation more deeply.
• After several hours of instruction, Zhao Yan opened his first spirit, while Man Zhongli advanced to the Two Soul Realm.

Ye Fan confirmed that Shao Yue’s right leg had an inborn defect that was extremely difficult to cure, while Lu Feng recognized similarities to a technique in the Profound Sky Treasure Mirror and considered risking his own leg to adapt it. Later, Ning Xiang used her new medicinal knowledge to demonstrate how she could defeat Jun Ziyi without a fight.

• Ye Fan examined Shao Yue and concluded that her congenital leg condition had only a slim chance of being cured.
• Lu Feng found that Shao Yue’s meridians resembled a reversed version of the Crippled Leg Technique, and he asked Ye Fan about altering his own meridians to test it; Ye Fan refused.
• Lu Feng promised to seek Shao Yue’s brother, Shao Yang, after the Grand Prison Bridge connected to the Battle Realm.
• Ye Fan instructed Ning Xiang to share her medicinal studies, while Jun Ziyi complained about learning Medicine Dao and agreed to test Ning Xiang’s skills.
• Ning Xiang used a flower, a vine, and a pill to trick Jun Ziyi into gripping a vine coated with a painful substance, leaving Jun Ziyi stunned and reaching for the antidote.

Ning Xiang explained how she used medicinal knowledge to poison Jun Ziyi, while Lu Feng prepared the academy for his trip to the Battle Realm. At the Battle Realm entrance, Lu Feng recognized that Xiao Shu had placed him in a deadly formation and heard Xiao Shu admit that he intended to sacrifice him.

• Ning Xiang revealed that Fir Cherry Vine and Amber Coral Pill caused Jun Ziyi’s poisoning, with Asparagus Ixia serving as a stronger-effecting smokescreen.
• Lu Feng gave Ye Fan the Nine-Pattern Core Condensation method and instructed him to keep Jun Ziyi from learning it for now.
• Lu Feng visited Ruo Shui and the Silver Moon Demon Bear, then spent two days preparing the academy before leaving for the Battle Realm.
• At the Battle Realm entrance, Xiao Shu directed Lu Feng to stand in the formation’s Life Gate and gave him three Source Stones to place beneath his feet.
• Lu Feng recognized the circle as a Life-and-Death Same Gate, with a Jade Sound Array that could trap him, and grew suspicious of Xiao Shu’s intentions.
• Xiao Shu told Xiao Gu that the formation would sacrifice Lu Feng to preserve the formation and avoid losing a Heaven Soul Realm formation master.

Lu Feng discovered that Xiao Shu and Xiao Gu had trapped him as a sacrifice to seal the Battle Realm entrance, but he unsealed six souls and broke through the Jade Sound Array. He opened a gap in the entrance and let its deadly suction pull him toward the Battle Realm, leaving Xiao Shu and Xiao Gu behind.

• Xiao Shu directed the prison officials to activate the Seven Sealing Chime Array while Lu Feng released spiritual energy from the Source Stones.
• Lu Feng realized Xiao Shu had trapped him inside the array and intended to sacrifice him to seal the Black Vortex.
• Xiao Gu refused Heaven's Wrath's objections, arguing that sacrificing Lu Feng was worthwhile to protect Heaven Soul Realm array masters.
• Lu Feng unsealed six souls, broke through the Jade Sound Array, and caused the array masters to suffer backlash.
• Xiao Shu split Lu Feng's redirected impact, which tore open a gap in the Battle Realm entrance.
• Lu Feng leaped backward into the entrance's suction, waving at Xiao Shu and Xiao Gu as it pulled him away.

Xiao Shu deliberately let Xiao Gu be sucked into the Battle Realm, where Xiao Gu captured Lu Feng and searched his soul for the secret behind his sudden strength. Lu Feng was saved from a second search by Jiang Ruoyun’s soul shadow, but the arrival of Blood Clan members left him and Xiao Gu trapped in a tense standoff inside the unstable realm.

• Xiao Shu strengthened the suction force, then delayed helping Xiao Gu until Xiao Gu was pulled into the Battle Realm and sealed the opening behind him.
• Lu Feng searched the desolate Battle Realm for Xiao Gu and clues about the Grand Prison’s sealing operation, but Xiao Gu ambushed him and tied him to a tree.
• Xiao Gu invaded Lu Feng’s soul to uncover his secrets, discovering his prominent identities and Jiang Ruoyun’s soul shadow before its essence blood forced him out.
• Lu Feng slipped off his Kirin Ring while recovering, but Xiao Gu prepared to search his soul again before three Blood Clan members arrived.
• The Blood Clan members guarded Xiao Gu and Lu Feng as neither side dared attack in the unstable space.

Xiao Gu fought off the Blood Kings surrounding Lu Feng, using soul attacks that revealed his ability to strip souls from their bodies. As Blood Demon Gong Du sent more Blood Kings to capture him and steal his technique, Lu Feng realized Xiao Gu might be refining their souls to replenish his strength.

• Ten Blood Kings surrounded Xiao Gu and Lu Feng, but Xiao Gu initially agreed to leave Lu Feng behind until Lu Feng revealed that Xiao Gu was a Grand Prison officer.
• The Blood Kings attacked Xiao Gu, who silently destroyed several of them with soul attacks and later blasted other Blood Kings’ souls from their soul seas.
• The surviving Blood King leader used a Soul Strengthening Pill to resist Xiao Gu’s soul attack, while Xiao Gu sent Lu Feng flying aside.
• Blood Demon Gong Du arrived with reinforcements and ordered them to capture Xiao Gu and obtain his soul technique for the Holy Son.
• As Xiao Gu fought the arriving Blood Kings without tiring, Lu Feng suspected he was refining their souls to replenish himself.

Lu Feng followed Xiao Gu to the Blood Clan’s Blood Sacrifice and discovered more than fifty captured human soul masters, including Shao Yang. After Lu Feng opened a gap in the venomous snakes’ enclosure and the captives fled, he promised to remove Shao Yang’s Soul Binding Pattern, drawing an urgent question from another prisoner.

• Xiao Gu fled toward the Blood Clan’s reinforcements and attacked the Blood Sacrifice, while Lu Feng’s Ancient Desolation Altar absorbed the remains of dead Blood Kings and formed a blood-colored skeleton.
• Lu Feng followed the battle to a Blood Clan altar, where Gong Run directed a sacrifice involving more than fifty bound human soul masters enclosed by Crimson Bone Demon Snakes.
• Lu Feng used his Netherworld Bow to break the snakes’ outer boundary, prompting the trapped captives to flee before the Snake King stopped the swarm with Heavenly Yellow Ox Powder.
• Lu Feng recognized Shao Yang among the captives, showed him Shao Yue’s portrait, and offered to remove his Soul Binding Pattern and suppress the Blood Array.
• Shao Yang doubted that Lu Feng could help him, but a middle-aged captive hurried over and asked whether Lu Feng could undo the Soul Binding Pattern.

Lu Feng struggled to free imprisoned Soul Masters as the Snake King attacked, while Xiao Gu disrupted the Blood Sacrifice and killed the trapped prisoners with Poison Mist. The Snake King and Blood Kings then sacrificed themselves to trap Xiao Gu in an expanding cloud of poison, leaving everyone waiting to see what happened.

• Lu Feng removed the Soul Binding Patterns from Shao Yang and Huang Yao, then freed several more Soul Masters as the Snake King approached.
• Huang Yao dragged Shao Yang toward the prison exit, while the Snake King attacked Lu Feng and poisoned his leg with a Crimson Bone Demon Snake.
• Several freed Soul Masters abandoned their comrades, and the Snake King defeated the defenders, captured Lu Feng, and returned the remaining prisoners to their cells.
• Xiao Gu broke through the Blood Clan blockade and attacked the altar, but his Poison Mist killed both the Crimson Bone Demon Snakes and the trapped Soul Masters.
• Gong Run ordered the Blood Kings to continue the ritual by sacrificing themselves, and the Snake King prepared to detonate his Poison Pill.
• The Blood Kings detonated their dantians to trap Xiao Gu and the Snake King together, and the Snake King's poison engulfed the barrier.

Lu Feng witnessed a Blood Clan ritual summon the Soul Refining Cauldron and a powerful demon soul, which fought Xiao Gu over the chance to seize his body. After Lu Feng secretly redirected the snake venom into his right leg and forced the two spirits to help expel it, the demon soul bound Xiao Gu and entered Lu Feng’s soul sea.

• The barrier shattered, and Xiao Gu emerged as a soul shadow while Gong Run and the Blood Kings completed their Blood Sacrifice.
• Jiang Ruoyun sensed Lu Feng’s life force fading and agreed to the women guarding her conditions so she could leave.
• A Half-Step Saint Soul Realm Blood Clan soul master summoned the Soul Refining Cauldron, but a demon soul emerged from it and shattered the teleportation beam.
• The demon soul and Xiao Gu both tried to seize Lu Feng’s body, so Lu Feng persuaded them to help expel the snake venom and secretly left his right leg disabled.
• The demon soul bound Xiao Gu, then plunged into Lu Feng’s soul sea as the Ancient Desolation Altar flew from the Kirin Ring.

Lu Feng survived a demon soul’s attempted possession when the Purple Eyes transformed it into an exceptionally powerful Soul Core, allowing him to break through to the peak of the Core Formation Realm. Outside the Battle Realm, Old Book returned to find everyone worried about Lu Feng, and they began searching other Spirit Prisons for news of him.

• Lu Feng used the Kirin Ring to disrupt the demon soul’s possession, and the Purple Eyes condensed the demon soul into a purple Soul Core within his life soul.
• Lu Feng discovered that the Purple Eyes remained in his left eye, while the Ancient Desolation Altar absorbed Xiao Gu’s soul and granted him soul-manipulation arts and control of Xiao Gu’s soul corpse.
• Lu Feng collected supplies, recovered in hiding, and used Mid-Grade Source Stones to advance to the peak of the Core Formation Realm before beginning to cultivate toward the Core Plate Realm.
• Old Book returned to the Spirit Prison with Tang Yuan seven days after Lu Feng entered the Battle Realm, and learned that Lu Feng’s fate was unknown.
• Tang Yuan offered to refine two beast cores to become strong enough to help Lu Feng, but Old Book refused and sent him to check other Spirit Prisons for news.
• Ye Fan joined Tang Yuan in searching Eastern Ping Spirit Prison, Eastern Meng Spirit Prison, and East Swirl Spirit Prison for another Battle Realm exit.

Old Book learned that Lu Feng was his prized disciple and prepared to free him from the Battle Realm with help from Feng Sen, while Lu Feng advanced toward the Five Elements Realm inside. The chapter ended with Ye Fan returning from the Eastern Ping Spirit Prison with bad news about Old Lu but good news concerning Shao Yue.

• Old Book questioned Heaven's Wrath about the sealing of the Battle Realm and learned that Lu Feng had entered it because of the Grand Prison's actions.
• Old Book visited Black Ice Cliff and spoke with Ghost Doctor Song Ci, who said Feng Sen could recover enough to break the entrance seal in at most three days.
• Lu Feng reached the peak of the Core Plate Realm and searched for a mineral vein where he could refine Gold Element Qi.
• Lu Feng sensed a recently established array nearby, suspected the Blood Clan might remain in the Battle Realm, and set up defenses before beginning his cultivation.
• Ye Fan returned from the Eastern Ping Spirit Prison and told Old Book that news about Old Lu was bad, though he had good news about Shao Yue.

Ye Fan told Old Book that Lu Feng might be trapped in the Battle Realm, and Old Book prepared to enter and rescue him. Inside the Battle Realm, Lu Feng’s Soul Plate absorbed too much Gold Element Qi and blocked further cultivation, but he developed a stronger leg technique before investigating a cluster of mysterious arrays.

• Ye Fan reported that Lu Feng had likely saved Shao Yang and was now missing in the Battle Realm, so Old Book decided to go in and search for him.
• Old Book gave Ye Fan jade bottles of Heavenly Yellow Ox Powder and told him to stop Tang Yuan from recklessly refining two beast cores at once.
• Lu Feng’s Soul Plate autonomously absorbed Gold Element Qi until it reached fifty-five, then rejected other elemental qis and left him unable to continue cultivating normally.
• Lu Feng adapted the Crippled Leg Technique to his right leg, developing a more powerful version that gradually eased the injury in his meridians.
• A tremendous boom shook the Battle Realm, and Lu Feng went to investigate several arrays concealing an unknown place and its occupant.