Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng learned that Guan Qiu had been poisoned with the nearly incurable Evil Heart Seven Calamities Pill and suspected Guan Yiwu was behind it. After telling Fan Linlin that he was a triple agent and asking for help, Lu Feng decided to return to the Spirit Prison to question Guan Yiwu and find the antidote.

• Ye Yao and Ye Fan told the Ghost Empress and Lu Feng that Guan Qiu had been poisoned by a mixture of seven toxins and had little chance of surviving.
• Guan Qiu briefly regained consciousness, urged everyone not to blame Lu Feng, and fainted again as Lu Feng promised to find the antidote.
• Lu Feng visited Fan Linlin, told her that Guan Yiwu had helped him rescue the Skull Envoys, and explained that Liu Xing was detained for withdrawal from Crane Immortal Addiction.
• Fan Linlin described the Black Demon Palace’s growing control of Black Wind Town, and Lu Feng considered using the Soul Gate to oppose it.
• Lu Feng revealed that the Soul Gate had used the Seven Apertures Heart Shattering Pill to make him infiltrate the Martial Spirit Prison and rescue Guan Qiu, leaving Fan Linlin to realize he was a triple agent.
• Fan Linlin explained that identifying the batch of Guan Qiu’s Seven Calamities Pill was necessary to find its antidote, and Lu Feng decided to question Guan Yiwu immediately.

Lu Feng returned to Eastern Yuan Martial Spirit Prison, where Guan Yiwu learned that Fan Linlin’s antidote depended on curing Guan Qiu’s Seven Calamities Pill poison. Lu Feng then led his students toward Black Wind Town for dangerous training, while Bai Bing borrowed his classroom’s Spirit Gathering Array to prepare for a breakthrough.

• Lu Feng gave Guan Yiwu Fan Linlin’s letter, and Guan Yiwu learned that Soul Gate was withholding Fan Linlin’s antidote until Guan Qiu was cured of the Evil Heart Seven Calamities Pill.
• Guan Yiwu admitted that the prison had no antidote and agreed to keep Fan Linlin’s poisoning secret, though he later considered reporting it to protect her from harm.
• Lu Feng told his students that Ye Fan needed Ning Xiang’s help, and the students volunteered to accompany him to Black Wind Town.
• Lu Feng accepted tasks to justify taking the students outside the prison, then gave Bai Bing the classroom management talisman and five Low-Grade Source Stones for her and Xue Er’s breakthroughs.
• After the students finished preparing, Lu Feng led them toward Black Wind Town under the moonlight.

Lu Feng brought the students to Black Wind Town for a month of training and taught them that enemies who preyed on innocents deserved no mercy. After killing three bandits, he reached the northern district with the students and left with Ning Xiang, while Fan Linlin worried about their training.

• Shao Yang warned the group that Black Wind Town was lawless and deadly, but Lu Feng led them toward its north gate to avoid the Black Demon Palace's territory.
• Lu Feng tested the students' awareness as three masked Martial Masters followed them, and Qian Xin and Jun Ziyi noticed the pursuers.
• After the bandits admitted to killing and robbing innocents and threatening the girls, Lu Feng killed all three with Jade Pearls, shocking several students.
• The students debated whether Lu Feng had been too ruthless, while Jun Ziyi and Qian Xin concluded the bandits had deserved to die.
• Lu Feng brought the group to Fan Linlin's inn, left with Ning Xiang, and Gu Lingling refused to sell Jun Ziyi her Cold Heart Sword.

Ning Xiang used her gift of smell to identify three poisons afflicting Guan Qiu and began studying Ye Yao’s poison collection to identify more. At dawn, Iron Puppet came to the courtyard to pay his respects to Lu Feng, and Ye Yao revealed that he had chosen the brutal Fire Demon Art after Lu Feng and Qian Er rescued him.

• Ye Fan asked Ning Xiang to smell blood drawn from Guan Qiu, and she identified Silkworm Gu Insect, Arsenic Poison Sand, and Calamity Heart and Poison.
• Ning Xiang detected unfamiliar poisonous scents in the other samples, so Ye Yao offered to teach her about the poisons she had collected, and Ye Fan gave her a Poison-Removing Pill.
• Lu Feng and Ye Fan regretted that Crane Autumn Jade was likely destroyed when Bao Yige self-destructed, leaving the Soul Tempering Pill’s main ingredient difficult to replace.
• At dawn, a heavily armored figure called Iron Puppet arrived, knelt before Lu Feng, and silently indicated Guan Qiu’s room before leaving at Ye Yao’s instruction.
• Ye Yao explained that Iron Puppet was the only surviving member of Guan Qiu’s Night Shadow Hall and the young man Lu Feng and Qian Er had rescued; he had refused treatment and begged the Ghost Empress for the Fire Demon Art.

Ye Fan and Ye Yao investigated the remaining poisons afflicting Guan Qiu, while Lu Feng learned that Fan Linlin had been attacked and joined her search for Ling Tian and the others. In Black Wind Town, Lu Feng taught his students not to underestimate an apparently helpless old man as he deftly handled three thugs.

• Ning Xiang identified Sore Scorpion Juice as the fourth of the seven poisons afflicting Guan Qiu, but could not identify the final three.
• Ye Yao planned to test Guan Qiu's Poison Blood on criminals from Soul Gate's prison, and Ye Fan brought Ning Xiang to help her observe the symptoms and practice detoxification.
• Lu Feng learned that three black-clad men had attacked the inn and injured Fan Linlin, and that Ling Tian had left with Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui to investigate.
• When Ling Tian, Gu Lingling, and Yan Xinhui failed to return, Lu Feng took Fan Linlin, Jun Ziyi, and the others to search for them in Black Wind Town.
• Lu Feng noticed an old man whose aura suggested formidable strength, and taught his students not to underestimate anyone as the man silently evaded a thug's grip and back throw.

Lu Feng taught his students lessons about caution and mercy while they confronted a captured attacker tied to the Black Demon Palace. Back at the inn, he uncovered seven powerful rings in the Ten Thousand Skull King's belongings and began testing their ability to enhance strength.

• An old man secretly defeated three hooligans while pretending to be beaten, and Lu Feng used the incident to teach his students not to underestimate anyone.
• Lu Feng's group found Ling Tian, Gu Lingling, and Yan Xinhui escorting the man who had ambushed Fan Linlin; Fan Linlin wounded him, and he threatened them with his brother's Black Demon Palace connections.
• Lu Feng kicked the captive away and chose to let him escape at Shao Yue's request, then warned the students to stay together in case he returned.
• Fan Linlin and Ling Tian's group reported that the Black Demon Palace had grown stronger and issued an assassination mission against Lu Feng's group.
• Lu Feng opened the Ten Thousand Skull King's Storage Ring, found the Seven Fasting Box, and broke the seals on its seven Plain Heart Rings.
• Lu Feng discovered that the Plain Heart Rings were powerful storage artifacts and Array Treasures, then entered the Six Paths Domain to test their strength-enhancing effects.

Lu Feng discovered the seven Plain Heart Rings’ powerful enhancements and accepted Guan Qiu’s offer to take over Night Shadow Hall. Ye Yao and Ye Fan stabilized Guan Qiu’s poison, but the cure cost him his cultivation, while Lu Feng helped Ning Xiang overcome her distress over the poison tests.

• Lu Feng tested the seven Plain Heart Rings, found their separate enhancements and Heaven-grade combined formation, and decided to give them to his students rather than return them to the Qingxiu Chan Sect.
• Lu Feng learned that six poisons in the Seven Calamities Pill had been identified and went to the Soul Gate after Guan Qiu requested to see him before detoxification.
• Guan Qiu entrusted Night Shadow Hall and Iron Puppet to Lu Feng, who agreed to take the hall’s title and use the Soul Gate to investigate Black Demon Palace.
• Ning Xiang told Lu Feng she was horrified that Ye Fan and Ye Yao had tested remedies on living people, and Lu Feng helped her accept their actions by asking what she would do to save those she loved.
• Ye Yao and Ye Fan stabilized Guan Qiu by suppressing the remaining poison, but the toxins left in balance meant he lost his cultivation and could not safely cultivate again.

Lu Feng became the head of the newly named Night Feather Hall and received the Hidden Soul Guard’s intelligence on the Black Demon Palace. After Jun Ziyi was kidnapped to lure him into a trap, he went alone to State Stream Tavern, where he found her bound and an unidentified black-clad man watching from the second floor.

• The Ghost Empress appointed Lu Feng Hall Master of the newly formed Night Feather Hall and ordered the Hidden Soul Guard to investigate the Black Demon Palace.
• Lu Qian'er delivered intelligence on the Black Demon Palace, and Lu Feng learned that Hall Master Guan Qiu had awakened.
• Lu Feng discovered that Wu Han had kidnapped Jun Ziyi and demanded he come alone to State Stream Tavern.
• Lu Feng reassured Shao Yue and the others, then studied information identifying Wu Han’s brother Wu Zhongyuan as an elder of the Black Demon Palace.
• Lu Feng told Ling Tian he intended to deal with the Black Demon Palace after rescuing Jun Ziyi and quietly gave Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui instructions.
• Lu Feng arrived alone at State Stream Tavern, found Jun Ziyi bound upstairs, and noticed a silent black-clad man in a hidden corner.

Lu Feng went to the tavern to rescue Jun Ziyi, but after Wu Han apparently sealed his cultivation, he revealed that he had been hiding his strength and slaughtered the Black Demon Palace disciples. Wu Han activated the Black Sacrifice Demon Calamity Array, turning the remaining disciples into sacrifices as the battle continued.

• Lu Feng confronted Wu Han and agreed to let him seal his cultivation in exchange for Jun Ziyi’s release.
• Wu Han struck Lu Feng with Eight Imprints Meridian Locking and freed Jun Ziyi, who refused to leave him behind until Lu Feng sent her outside.
• Wu Han mocked Lu Feng, but Lu Feng killed a Black Demon Palace disciple with a coin and revealed that his cultivation had not been sealed.
• Lu Feng charged into the Black Demon Palace disciples with the Fu Xun Engraving Knife and Blood Killing Skill, killing more than half of them.
• Wu Han activated the Black Sacrifice Demon Calamity Array and ordered the disciples to use the Black Demon Art, making them stronger and turning them into living sacrifices.

Lu Feng rescued Jun Ziyi from Wu Han and the Black Demon Palace, killing their men and confronting the consequences of the massacre. After the group escaped to the inn, Lu Feng rewarded his trainees with seven Plain Heart Rings and presented them with training targets.

• Lu Feng slaughtered Wu Han's subordinates, foiled Wu Han's ambush, crippled him, and dragged him out of the State Stream Tavern.
• Lu Feng freed Jun Ziyi, then Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui arrived with the wounded Wu Zhongyuan; Jun Ziyi killed Wu Han, and Lu Feng killed Wu Zhongyuan as he tried to escape.
• Lu Feng and the others left before the Black Demon Palace arrived, while Jun Ziyi told the trainees that she had killed someone and they reassured her.
• Li Gongping ordered the tavern and the corpses burned, while the Ghost Empress praised Lu Feng's actions and instructed the Hidden Soul Guards to keep watching him.
• The next morning, Lu Feng gathered Qian Xin, Jun Ziyi, and the others and presented seven Plain Heart Rings as training rewards alongside their training targets.

Lu Feng gave his seven students Plain Heart Rings and sent them on trials meant to test both their combat ability and their judgment. He then visited Guan Qiu at the Soul Gate, where they discussed Lu Feng’s future hall and set out for Hundred Refinements Spring to find recruits.

• Lu Feng distributed seven Plain Heart Rings suited to each student’s abilities, then warned that they would keep the rings only if they completed their trials.
• Lu Feng explained that the students had to judge their targets for themselves, balancing a benevolent heart with the resolve to punish evil; he sent Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui to protect them in secret.
• Lu Feng left for the Soul Gate and reunited with Guan Qiu, who was recovering from his injuries and planned to help train newcomers at Hundred Refinements Spring.
• Guan Qiu urged Lu Feng to form his hall and asked him to capture She Qingshu, whom Guan Qiu blamed for his current condition.
• Guan Qiu took Lu Feng toward Hundred Refinements Spring to find recruits and revealed that its mysterious masked manager possessed Heaven Soul Realm strength.

Lu Feng learned that former Hundred Refinements Spring graduates who became lone Soul Guards could be recruited, and Guan Qiu took him to meet Ghost Performer. At the opera house, Jun Ziyi and the others intervened when their Black Demon Palace training target attacked Xiao Lan, and they escorted her home after Ghost Performer drove him away.

• Guan Qiu explained that lone Soul Guards completed monthly Soul Gate missions and would return to defend the Soul Gate if it faced trouble.
• Guan Qiu brought Lu Feng to an opera house to meet Ghost Performer, where Lu Feng spotted Jun Ziyi and the other students watching their Black Demon Palace targets.
• Ghost Performer performed as the Qiong Ridge Six Oddities while a Black Demon Palace man assaulted Xiao Lan after she spilled tea on him.
• Jun Ziyi stepped in, but Ghost Performer stopped her from fighting inside the opera house and threatened the man until he left.
• Jun Ziyi and Qian Xin comforted Xiao Lan, learned where she lived, and decided to escort her home.

Lu Feng tried to recruit Ghost Performer into Night Feather Hall by promising to help avenge her grudge against the Sun Family. She agreed on three conditions, including that he kill Sun Pingzhen within five years, leaving Lu Feng to decide whether to accept them.

• Guan Qiu warned Lu Feng about Ghost Performer's unpredictable temper, then introduced him to her and waited outside.
• Ghost Performer rejected Lu Feng's offer to recruit her, but he said he could help her take revenge.
• Ghost Performer named the Sun Family as her enemy and revealed that she wanted to kill Sun Pingzhen.
• Lu Feng told Ghost Performer he had already killed members of the Sun Family and said he could help her.
• Ghost Performer offered to join Night Feather Hall if Lu Feng promised not to harm Soul Gate, kill Sun Pingzhen within five years, and never become enemies with the Qiong Ridge Six Oddities.

Lu Feng recruited Ghost Performer into Night Feather Hall after swearing to help her take revenge on Sun Pingzhen, and discovered that Sun Pingzhen had afflicted her with Affection Thread Entanglement. As they discussed recruiting another Soul guard, Ghost Performer recommended Blazing Enchantress, whose father belonged to the Qin Family.

• Lu Feng swore on his soul that he would help Ghost Performer avenge her family, and Ghost Performer swore to join Night Feather Hall.
• Ghost Performer recounted how Sun Pingzhen and his followers had killed her family, and Lu Feng suspected Sun Pingzhen had deliberately spared her.
• Lu Feng explained Affection Thread Entanglement, and Ghost Performer tested herself by embracing him and felt pain in her soul core.
• Ghost Performer accepted that Sun Pingzhen had afflicted her and vowed to avenge her family even if she could not kill him herself.
• Lu Feng told Ghost Performer that Night Feather Hall had only Iron Puppet as another Soul guard and planned to recruit more.
• Ghost Performer recommended Blazing Enchantress, revealing that her father belonged to the Qin Family.

Lu Feng recruited Ghost Performer and Blazing Enchantress into Night Feather Hall after promising to investigate Blazing Enchantress’s grievance against the Qin Family. He then directed them to find soul guards with grudges against the Black Demon Palace, while Guan Qiu reacted with disbelief and envy at the new hall’s recruits.

• Lu Feng told Ghost Performer he would investigate what happened to Blazing Enchantress but would not help her kill her father, Qin Bu'er.
• Blazing Enchantress emerged from a hidden room, agreed to join Night Feather Hall, and revealed that Tang Lu was her alias.
• Lu Feng resisted Blazing Enchantress’s charm arts and questioned her history as a Spirit Prison wanted criminal; Ghost Performer vouched for her, and Blazing Enchantress swore an oath to join the hall.
• Lu Feng promised to stand up for Blazing Enchantress if the Qin Family had wronged her, then asked her and Ghost Performer to seek soul guards with grudges against the Black Demon Palace.
• Guan Qiu was stunned when Lu Feng told him that both Ghost Performer and Blazing Enchantress had joined Night Feather Hall.

Lu Feng visited Bai Li and told her that he had killed the Six-Spiral Swordsman, her sworn enemy, leaving her to verify his claim. After returning to the inn, Lu Feng learned that Zhao Yan had been gravely injured and that his students had been betrayed by Xiao Lan’s parents.

• Guan Qiu told Lu Feng about Bai Li’s blood feud, and Lu Feng went with him to meet her.
• Lu Feng said he had killed the Six-Spiral Swordsman four years earlier and asked Bai Li to investigate before reporting to Night Feather Hall; Bai Li doubted him but was shaken by the possibility that her revenge was complete.
• Lu Feng learned that the Old Man who had taught some thugs a lesson was a Soul Gate watcher, then asked Guan Qiu to help Iron Puppet learn soul communication.
• Lu Feng returned to the inn and found that Zhao Yan had been carried back with shattered meridians and nearly crippled cultivation.
• Qian Xin explained that Xiao Lan’s parents had drugged the group’s meal with Spirit-Dispersing Poison and secretly alerted Yao Jin and the Black Demon Palace after the students escorted Xiao Lan home.

After Zhao Yan was badly injured protecting his companions from the Black Demon Palace, Lu Feng learned that his meridians could heal and discovered that Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui had also been wounded by a powerful Saber Wielder. He killed Yao Jin, identified the pursuer as Li Gongping, and began arranging revenge through Night Feather Hall’s soul guards.

• Qian Xin explained that Xiao Lan’s parents had poisoned the group and alerted the Black Demon Palace, while Zhao Yan had bought them time to recover by enduring the attackers alone.
• Ning Xiang discovered that Zhao Yan’s Blocked Meridians constitution let his damaged meridians heal, and she estimated he could recover with medicine in ten days to half a month.
• Shao Yang and Jun Ziyi killed the Black Demon Palace disciples, Yao Jin fled, and Lu Feng later killed Yao Jin in a brothel.
• Gu Lingling reunited with Lu Feng and explained that she and Yan Xinhui had been injured while stopping a powerful Black Demon Palace Elder; Yan Xinhui returned to the alley wounded.
• Lu Feng identified the Saber Wielder as Li Gongping, escorted Gu Lingling and Yan Xinhui back to the inn, and decided to retaliate against the Black Demon Palace.
• Lu Feng met Ghost Performer at the Soul Gate and learned that several soul guards, including Phantom Hand Ghost Blade, would join Night Feather Hall if he avenged them.

Lu Feng and his companions planned an attack to draw Black Demon Palace away from Black Wind Town, with Ling Tian assigned to challenge Li Gongping. Ling Tian lured Li Gongping to the State Stream Tavern ruins and began their duel, discovering his opponent was stronger than expected.

• Lu Feng decided to use Soul Gate’s name to frighten Black Demon Palace out of Black Wind Town and assigned Ling Tian to kill Li Gongping while he and Gu Lingling delayed reinforcements.
• Lu Feng gave Gu Lingling array disks to help block one road to State Stream Tavern, while Fan Linlin and Yan Xinhui stayed behind to guard the inn and recover.
• Ling Tian stormed Li Gongping’s courtyard, defeated its guards, destroyed a black saber sculpture, and challenged Li Gongping to meet him at the tavern ruins.
• Li Gongping arrived with a large group, revealed that he had reached the Five Elements Five Qi Realm, and confronted Ling Tian at the ruins.
• Ling Tian used his sixth-level Demon Blade Slash, overpowering Li Gongping’s first saber clash and numbing the hand holding his saber.

Ling Tian fought Li Gongping while Lu Feng and Gu Lingling prepared to intercept the Black Demon Palace reinforcements. Li Gongping called for help, and Lu Feng used the Spirit Puppet to delay Fat Head Butcher and his troops as Gu Lingling moved to join him.

• Li Gongping used Black Demon Art to strengthen himself and continued his fierce saber battle with Ling Tian.
• When Black Demon Palace disciples moved to surround Ling Tian, he unleashed Thousand Man - Horizontal Slash and sent them flying.
• Li Gongping launched a Signal Firework Pellet to summon the other elders, while Ling Tian pressed him with a reckless, wound-for-wound assault.
• Gu Lingling headed toward Lu Feng to intercept the reinforcements, and Lu Feng deployed the Spirit Puppet across their route.
• Lu Feng's Spirit Puppet killed three disciples with a swift sword strike, then evaded Fat Head Butcher and weaved among the troops to stall them.

Lu Feng used the Spirit Puppet to hold off the Black Demon Palace disciples while Gu Lingling captured one of them, but the puppet was destroyed after wounding Fat Head Butcher. Ling Tian killed Fat Head Butcher while half-demonized, then turned on Lu Feng, who drew the Cold Heart Sword to fight him.

• Gu Lingling joined Lu Feng and blocked the Black Demon Palace disciples sent to attack him, while Lu Feng told her to capture the man who had abused Iron Puppet.
• Lu Feng changed the Spirit Puppet's sword and used the Fallen Leaf Revolving Flower Sword to stop Fat Head Butcher from escaping to aid Li Gongping.
• The Spirit Puppet's spiritual energy turned chaotic, and it self-destructed at close range, leaving Fat Head Butcher badly injured as he fled.
• Ling Tian appeared holding the Ghost Fang Saber, and Lu Feng realized he had killed Li Gongping and was succumbing to demonic deviation.
• Ling Tian killed Fat Head Butcher with Demon Blade Slash, severing his arm and cutting him in half.
• As Ling Tian turned his killing gaze on Lu Feng, Lu Feng sent Gu Lingling back, drew the Cold Heart Sword, and began clashing with him.