Chapter Summaries

Man Zhongli broke through to the Spirit Gathering Third Realm and defeated Du Qiu with a single punch, while Zhao Yan continued evading Jun Yeying’s palm attacks. As the matches continued, Bai Bing revealed that she still remembered the man who had once saved her, though she believed he was dead.

• Man Zhongli defeated Shi Linzhong but collapsed from exhaustion, then broke through to the Spirit Gathering Third Realm while recovering.
• Gao Liang paired Man Zhongli against Du Qiu and Zhao Yan against Jun Yeying, confident that his students would win.
• Man Zhongli sent Du Qiu flying with one punch after Du Qiu underestimated him and met his attack head-on.
• Zhao Yan resumed fighting Jun Yeying and evaded her palm strikes with his movement technique.
• Bai Bing and Bai Xue recognized the students’ techniques as exceptionally powerful and discussed Lu Feng’s mysterious skill in teaching them.
• Bai Bing admitted she could not forget the man who had saved her, while Bai Xue teased her about her feelings for him.

Zhao Yan defeated Jun Yeying in the exchange competition, and Lu Feng and Ye Fan traveled to Black Wind Town to investigate the Crane Immortal Pill. After learning that Yin Wind Hall sold the addictive, harmful pills and might possess Crane Autumn Jade, they decided to gather information separately, while Yin Wind Hall began watching them.

• Zhao Yan dodged Jun Yeying's attacks, countered her, and accepted her concession of defeat.
• Lu Feng led the group back to the academy, then left the Spirit Prison with Ye Fan and arrived at Black Wind Town by evening.
• Lu Feng and Ye Fan sensed a strength-detecting array at the town gate, and a Yin Wind Hall leader ordered subordinates to investigate them and kill them if they were connected to the Martial Spirit Prison.
• At a Yin Wind Hall tea house, Ye Fan learned that the hall sold Crane Immortal Pills for ten thousand Copper Soul Coins each and explained how the pills caused intense pleasure, dependence, and harm.
• Ye Fan suspected Yin Wind Hall used Crane Autumn Jade to make the pills, and he and Lu Feng decided to investigate the town separately.

Lu Feng gathered information at a theater by asking Li Guiyao about Artisan Hero, then spotted Ling Tian and followed him. Ling Tian mistook Lu Feng for an enemy and attacked, leaving the two powerful Soul Masters fighting in a secluded alley.

• Ye Fan agreed to visit a pleasure house for information, while Lu Feng went alone to the theater.
• Lu Feng learned from Li Guiyao that Artisan Hero had destroyed evil sects and recently appeared in Black Wind Town, but Li Guiyao warned him not to discuss Yin Wind Hall.
• Lu Feng recognized Ling Tian at the theater's rear entrance and followed him into a secluded alley.
• Ling Tian attacked Lu Feng with a Flash Blade strike, and Lu Feng blocked it with Laughing Cang Hai.
• Ling Tian pressed the attack, so Lu Feng unsealed the Heavenly Rush Soul Formation and fought back against Ling Tian's Five Elements Two Qi Realm strength.

Lu Feng and Ling Tian fought to a standstill, discovered each other’s identities, and agreed to train together as Ling Tian shared what he knew about Black Wind Town’s factions. Later, Lu Feng found Ye Fan fleeing Yin Wind Hall soul masters and led him toward Soul Gate territory.

• Lu Feng and Ling Tian exchanged increasingly powerful sword and saber techniques until their masks and hats were cut away, revealing their identities.
• Ling Tian explained that he had mistaken Lu Feng for an assassin from Yin Wind Hall after killing its leader, Pang Jiliang, and the two agreed to train together once a month.
• Ling Tian told Lu Feng about Black Wind Town’s four major factions, Yin Wind Hall’s strength and Crane Immortal Pills, Soul Gate’s relative safety, and Yin Wind Hall’s Young Master.
• Lu Feng went to meet Ye Fan at the Gambling House but found him missing, then rushed toward Purple Beauty Pavilion after hearing a great noise.
• Ye Fan fled toward Lu Feng with poisonous purple-black smoke behind him, and Lu Feng directed him north toward Soul Gate as Yin Wind Hall’s pursuers stopped at the boundary.

After escaping Yin Wind Hall, Lu Feng and Ye Fan were captured by Soul Gate using Sorrowful Soul Clear Dream Powder and taken before the Ghost Empress. Ye Yao revealed that Yin Wind Hall had offered three Source Stones for their capture, and the chapter ended as she presented them to the Ghost Empress.

• At a tea stall, Ye Fan told Lu Feng that he had poisoned Yin Wind Hall's Young Master while escaping Purple Beauty Pavilion.
• At Yin Wind Hall, Bao Zitu found Bao Yige near death and sent a message to Soul Gate demanding that it hand over the culprit.
• Lu Feng and Ye Fan spent the night at an inn, where Sorrowful Soul Clear Dream Powder rendered them unconscious.
• Ye Yao questioned the captives and told them Yin Wind Hall had offered three Source Stones for their capture.
• Ye Fan began breaking Ye Yao's seal, but she noticed and reinforced it with silver needles; Lu Feng and Ye Fan then followed her to the Ghost Empress.

Lu Feng and Ye Fan were interrogated by the Ghost Empress’s subordinates about their conflict with Yin Wind Hall, while Lu Qian’er recognized Lu Feng and persuaded the Ghost Empress to spare him. In Eastern Origin Spirit Prison, Shao Yang resolved to live for his sister, as Zhou Zhi faced exposure for abusing female disciples and plotted to frame Zhao Quansong.

• The Ghost Empress shattered Lu Feng and Ye Fan’s Fox Masks, then relented after Lu Qian’er identified Lu Feng as the man who had saved her.
• Lu Qian’er and Ye Yao questioned Lu Feng and Ye Fan separately about their backgrounds and their conflicts with Yin Wind Hall.
• Shao Yang, shaken by Lu Feng’s warning and his concern for Shao Yue, left Gao Liang’s group and knelt outside Lu Feng’s classroom to prove he would protect his sister.
• Zhou Zhi learned that rumors about his abuse of female disciples had drawn the Spirit Prison’s attention and suspected the Thunder Fire Sect was behind them.
• Zhao Quansong had uncovered Zhou Zhi’s abuses, and Zhou Zhi forced a female disciple to wear a sachet and seduce Zhao Quansong.

The Ghost Empress forced Lu Feng to become Soul Gate’s agent inside Martial Spirit Prison, while keeping Ye Fan as a hostage. After a poisoned seduction killed Zhao Quansong and a female prison disciple, Fan Linlin took the assignment to investigate the deaths and considered using someone from Civil Spirit Prison for her plans in Black Wind Town.

• The Ghost Empress ordered Lu Feng to infiltrate Martial Spirit Prison and rescue an unnamed prisoner, threatening his companions and poisoning him with a Seven Apertures Heart Shattering Pill when he agreed.
• The Ghost Empress kept Ye Fan as a hostage, and Ye Yao took him to the medicinal garden as a test subject while Lu Feng prepared to leave wearing a Fox Mask.
• A woman sent by Zhou Zhi used a fragrant sachet to seduce Zhao Quansong, and both died after their hearts and soul hearts failed.
• An Xianglian sent the suspicious deaths to Martial Spirit Prison for investigation after Lin Chen pointed out the unlikely circumstances.
• Fan Linlin took the assignment from Fan Shaobo’s prison officer and considered using someone from Civil Spirit Prison to infiltrate Black Wind Town.

Fan Linlin investigated Zhao Quansong's death and identified the substances that caused it, then recruited Lu Feng to assist with a case. Meanwhile, Lu Feng accepted Shao Yang into his group, and Shao Yang began recovering at the academy before Fan Linlin brought Lu Feng to discuss her request.

• Fan Linlin found that Deer Ginseng Yang Huo Pill and Morinda Long Yun Incense had caused Zhao Quansong's death, and she submitted a report implicating the dead woman while hinting at Zhou Zhi's involvement.
• Fan Linlin reviewed the records of newly appointed instructors in search of a suitable person to help with a case.
• Lu Feng returned to the Spirit Prison, accepted Shao Yang into his group, and warned that Shao Yue would share any punishment if Shao Yang failed his training.
• Lu Feng told Shao Yang to recover at the academy, where Shao Yang was astonished by the Spirit Gathering Array and Source Stones.
• Lu Feng offered to revise Shao Yang's Day Hidden Spear Technique and privately considered whether to resign from teaching before entering the Martial Spirit Prison.
• Fan Linlin met Lu Feng and asked him, in her capacity as a Martial Spirit Prison envoy, to assist with a case.

Lu Feng agreed to infiltrate Black Wind Town for Fan Linlin in exchange for access to a case file from Northern Nether Spirit Prison, then headed toward Skull Fiend Gate to investigate. He witnessed Skull Fiend Gate disciples fighting Soul Hunters over the Seven Fasting Box and saw one disciple’s corpse-like body revealed.

• Fan Linlin asked Lu Feng to investigate Black Wind Town, and he agreed after she promised that, if she became a Prison Director, he could review a Northern Nether Spirit Prison case file.
• Fan Linlin described Black Wind Town’s five factions and advised Lu Feng that Skull Fiend Gate or Soul Gate would be the most promising to infiltrate.
• Lu Feng returned to Black Wind Town in disguise and headed for Skull Fiend Gate’s territory.
• Lu Feng watched Skull Fiend Gate disciples demand the Seven Fasting Box from three Soul Hunters, who had recovered the artifact and tried to escape Black Wind Town.
• A Skull Fiend Gate disciple struck a Soul Hunter with Nether Qi, and the ensuing clash revealed the disciple’s gaunt, corpse-like body.

Lu Feng used the Skull Fiend Gate’s interest in his blood-colored war corpse to obtain a chance to study their cultivation method and pose as an ally against the Eastern Yuan Martial Spirit Prison. The Fire Skull Envoy gave him the entry chapter and Nether Spirit Stones, unaware that Lu Feng had recognized the danger of the method.

• Lu Feng released the blood-colored war corpse and claimed he had come seeking the Skull Fiend Gate’s bone-tempering method.
• When the Skull Fiend disciples attacked, Lu Feng made the war corpse display its strength and persuaded them that he wanted revenge against the Eastern Yuan Martial Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng learned that the Skull Fiend Gate had a grudge against the prison because one of its Skull Envoys had been captured, and offered to investigate the captive while infiltrating the prison.
• The Wood Skull Envoy and Fire Skull Envoy met Lu Feng at the inn, where he introduced himself as Blood Skull and showed them the war corpse.
• The Fire Skull Envoy agreed to lend Lu Feng the Skull Fiend Heart Sutra’s entry chapter on the condition that he help locate and rescue the captured Skull Envoy.
• Lu Feng recognized that the entry chapter would make him absorb Nether Qi and endanger the war corpse, while the Fire Skull Envoy gave him three Nether Spirit Stones.

Lu Feng joined Martial Spirit Prison while claiming he had infiltrated Skull Fiend Gate, then persuaded Fan Linlin to let him act as a double agent. He left with a plan to earn merit and gather information for both sides while hiding his ties to Soul Gate.

• Lu Feng studied the Skull Fiend Heart Sutra but decided not to cultivate it without the full method.
• Lu Feng applied to become a Prison Disciple, and he convinced Guan Yiwu that joining Martial Spirit Prison would help him prepare his students for real dangers.
• Fan Linlin and Fan Shaobo met Lu Feng at Guan Yiwu's courtyard, where Lu Feng claimed Skull Fiend Gate had recruited him and forced him to take the Seven Apertures Heart Shattering Pill.
• Fan Linlin advised Lu Feng to act as a double agent, while Guan Yiwu warned that he could not claim public merit for secret intelligence work without exposing himself.
• Fan Linlin told Lu Feng to take ordinary merit missions and capture fugitives in Black Wind Town, and Lu Feng suggested Skull Fiend Gate might have been connected to the deaths of previous prison officials.

Lu Feng used the Skull Fiend Gate’s help to capture wanted criminals, verified their crimes through soul-searching, and submitted them to the Martial Spirit Prison to earn merit toward promotion. After receiving Fan Linlin’s next risky plan involving a possible new prison official for Black Wind Town, he sensed Tang Yuan had emerged from seclusion.

• Lu Feng asked the Skull Fiend Gate to help capture fugitives, while its Skull Envoys agreed to assist but kept him under suspicion.
• The Skull Fiend Gate delivered Tao Li Ming, Jiang Kai Sheng, and Song Tai Ju to Lu Feng, but Tang Lu was missing.
• Lu Feng searched the captives’ memories, confirmed their crimes, and learned that the Six Harmonies Sect had expelled Jiang Kai Sheng despite knowing his nature.
• Lu Feng brought the three captives to the Martial Spirit Prison, where Guan Yiwu registered his merit and praised his work publicly.
• Lu Feng received Fan Linlin’s letter outlining a risky plan based on the possible appointment of a new prison official in Black Wind Town.
• Lu Feng sensed Tang Yuan had returned from seclusion after refining two beast cores and wondered whether he had reached the Five Elements Realm.

Lu Feng returned to Black Wind Town as an Intermediate Prison Disciple and learned that the Skull Fiend Gate planned to involve him in an operation against a newly appointed prison officer, disrupting Fan Linlin’s scheme. Fan Linlin adjusted the scheme by assigning suspicious Prison Disciples to accompany Fan Shaobo when he took the post.

• Tang Yuan explained that Old Book had limited his cultivation to the peak of the Core Plate Realm and asked Lu Feng to watch for news about the Earth Profound Domain.
• Lu Feng told Tang Yuan about Ye Fan’s capture and his informant role, then persuaded Tang Yuan to stay behind and train.
• The Ten Thousand Skull King learned Lu Feng’s identity and ordered Wood Skull Envoy to watch him and threaten the Civil Spirit Prison students if he showed disloyalty.
• Lu Feng reported to Wood Skull Envoy that a new prison officer would arrive in Black Wind Town at the end of the month, and Wood Skull Envoy ordered him to join the operation against the officer.
• Wood Skull Envoy requested more wanted fugitives’ names from Lu Feng, while Lu Feng worried that the Skull Fiend Gate’s operation would disrupt Fan Linlin’s plan.
• Fan Linlin selected suspicious Prison Disciples and arranged for them to accompany Fan Shaobo as he took the Black Wind Town prison officer post.

Lu Feng learned the Skull Fiend Gate planned to assassinate the incoming prison officer, whom he knew was Fan Shaobo in disguise, and was ordered to help finish the job. Fan Linlin accompanied Fan Shaobo to Black Wind Town, where the ambush began; Lu Feng watched from a distance and recognized one of the accompanying prison disciples as strangely familiar.

• After three days at the inn, Lu Feng grasped the Soul Tempering Pill’s power to restore soul strength and resolved to obtain Crane Autumn Powder.
• The Wood Skull Envoy told Lu Feng that the Skull Fiend Gate would ambush the new prison officer, and ordered him to kill the target if the main ambush failed.
• Lu Feng went with the Skull Fiend Gate to the official road and hid at the fork while Fan Linlin and Fan Shaobo traveled toward Black Wind Town in a sedan chair.
• The Wood Skull Envoy and seven Skull Fiend Gate disciples blocked Fan Shaobo’s party, and the ensuing fight revealed the Envoy’s bone-tempered strength.
• Fan Linlin joined the battle and used her Five Elements Five Qi Realm strength to keep the Wood Skull Envoy occupied while Fan Shaobo fought alongside the prison disciples.
• From a distant fork, Lu Feng watched the battle and found one of Fan Shaobo’s prison disciples strangely familiar.

Fan Linlin’s group captured Water Skull Envoy and a masked attacker after Lu Feng intervened with his war corpse, while Wood Skull Envoy escaped. The black-clad man’s ambush led Fan Linlin to suspect that Yang Jiekang had leaked her plan.

• Fan Linlin tried to retreat, but another group blocked the way; Fan Shaobo used a Treasure Item to attack the Skull Envoys’ souls, giving Fan Linlin and Fan Shaobo a chance to injure them.
• Wood Skull Envoy ordered a withdrawal, but a masked man in black ambushed him and Water Skull Envoy and urged Fan Linlin to keep fighting.
• Lu Feng sent his blood-colored war corpse to attack the masked man and joined forces with Wood Skull Envoy; Fan Linlin then struck the masked man and helped capture him alongside Water Skull Envoy.
• Wood Skull Envoy escaped, while Fan Linlin bound the captured soul masters and sent two Prison Disciples to request reinforcements.
• Lu Feng recognized Yang Jiekang’s connection to Soul Rest City and learned that he was among the few told about Fan Linlin’s plan; Fan Linlin ordered Fan Shaobo to investigate him.

Fan Linlin and Fan Shaobo faced punishment for their unauthorized prison operation while Guan Yiwu investigated the captured black-clad assassin. Lu Feng learned the assassin served Yin Wind Hall, then entered the Water Skull Envoy’s cell disguised as Blood Skull to warn him of an imminent interrogation.

• Fan Linlin rejected using Soul Hypnosis on Yang Jiekang without evidence, and the group planned to bait him with information from the captured suspects.
• Guan Yiwu summoned Fan Linlin and Fan Shaobo to answer to Guard Prison Overseer Wei Xian, while Lu Feng joined Guan Yiwu to interrogate the prisoners.
• Guan Yiwu used Soul-Bewitching Powder and Soul Hypnosis on the black-clad man, who revealed that Yin Wind Hall sent him to assassinate the prison official and was planning to annex the Skull Fiend Gate.
• Guan Yiwu asked Lu Feng to question the Water Skull Envoy, reasoning that Lu Feng’s Skull Fiend Gate identity could earn the prisoner’s trust.
• Lu Feng entered the Water Skull Envoy’s cell as Blood Skull and warned him that the black-clad assassin had been identified as an agent of Yin Wind Hall and that Guan Yiwu would soon interrogate him.

Lu Feng used Soul Hypnosis and soul search on the Water Skull Envoy, learning about Skull Fiend Gate and its weakness to soul attacks. After Fan Linlin was assigned to serve as prison official in Black Wind Town, she prepared to return there with Liu Xing’s support while Lu Feng planned to help from the shadows.

• Lu Feng used Soul-Bewitching Powder to control the Water Skull Envoy, searched his soul, and learned about Skull Fiend Gate’s remaining forces, the Skull Fiend Heart Sutra, and its vulnerability to soul attacks.
• Lu Feng discovered that Skull Fiend Gate had seized the Seven Fasting Box from Qingxiu Chan Sect and that the Ten Thousand Skull King possessed it.
• Fan Linlin was punished for forging a prison order and assigned to serve indefinitely as Black Wind Town’s prison official with only four accompanying prison guards.
• Fan Linlin suspected Yin Wind Hall and Skull Fiend Gate could be turned against each other and feared an insider from Black Demon Palace would target her.
• Lu Feng declined to accompany Fan Linlin openly and offered to help from the shadows, while Guan Yiwu promised to send Liu Xing with her.
• Fan Linlin regained her resolve and announced that she would set out for Black Wind Town in three days.

Lu Feng returned to the Skull Fiend Gate, joined as the Blood Skull Envoy, and proposed using an incoming prison envoy to curb Yin Wind Hall. The Ten Thousand Skull King accepted the plan, leaving Lu Feng to handle the prison envoy, while Lu Feng wondered whether the King had really killed the previous prison officers.

• Lu Feng learned that Jun Ziyi had gone home to fetch an Azure List roster because she admired a swordsman on it, and he found that the Silver Moon Demon Bear had reached the soul beast level.
• Lu Feng told the Skull Fiend Gate that the Water Skull Envoy had suffered severe soul damage and revealed that the black-clad assassin had served Yin Wind Hall.
• The Ten Thousand Skull King invited Lu Feng to join the Skull Fiend Gate and gave him a jade slip of the Skull Fiend Heart Sutra; Lu Feng accepted the title of Blood Skull Envoy.
• The Skull Fiend Gate discussed Yin Wind Hall’s growing threat, and Lu Feng revealed that Bao Yige had survived his injuries and was now focused on expanding the Hall’s power.
• Lu Feng proposed using the incoming prison envoy to pressure Yin Wind Hall, and the Ten Thousand Skull King agreed to let Lu Feng manage the envoy’s side.
• Lu Feng wondered whether the Ten Thousand Skull King had truly killed the previous prison officers.

Fan Linlin changed her route to take office as Prison Envoy, but the Black Demon Palace ambushed her on the road after a spy revealed her plans. Lu Feng found the attack and watched as Zhang Yaohu and Yang Jiekang abandoned her, leaving her group outmatched by the Demon Sky Black Scythe Array.

• Bao Yige ordered Green Wolf to attack Fan Linlin and arranged another scheme to make her addicted to Crane Immortal Pills so he could control her.
• Lu Feng used the Skull Fiend Heart Sutra to strengthen the battle corpse with Nether Qi, forming protective inscriptions on its surface.
• Lu Feng waited for Fan Linlin at Black Wind Town, realized she was late, and rode out to search for her.
• Lu Feng found Fan Linlin and her four prison disciples fighting Black-Clad Men from the Black Demon Palace, who formed the Demon Sky Black Scythe Array.
• Fan Linlin recognized Zhang Yaohu as a likely spy when he refused her command and abandoned the fight, and Yang Jiekang soon followed him.

Fan Linlin and her companions survived the Demon Sky Black Scythe Array after Lu Feng secretly disrupted its formation, but a powder attack exposed Yang Jiekang and Zhang Yaohu as traitors. The Crane Immortal Pills overwhelmed Fan Linlin, and she drifted into a hallucination where a man who had infiltrated the Skull Fiend Gate asked her for a reward.

• Fan Linlin accused Zhang Yaohu and Yang Jiekang of being moles, prompting Yang Jiekang to attack Zhang Yaohu.
• Fan Linlin used a soul Treasure Item to daze the Black-Clad Men, while Liu Xing killed two and Lu Feng secretly eliminated a key member of their array.
• The remaining Black-Clad Men retreated, leaving Zhang Yaohu and Yang Jiekang behind.
• A cloth bag burst into Crane Immortal Pill powder after Zhang Yaohu and Yang Jiekang struck it, and the drug exposed Yang Jiekang's allegiance to Yin Wind Hall.
• Fan Linlin killed Yang Jiekang and Zhang Yaohu after their drug-induced confessions, while Liu Xing and Guan Zhongshu tried to resist the pills.
• Under the Crane Immortal Pills' influence, Fan Linlin hallucinated that a man who had infiltrated the Skull Fiend Gate asked her for a reward.