Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng used Clear River Swordplay to bring Ling Tian out of his demonic state, then helped him escape a Black Demon Palace ambush. After poisoning Elder Cao Fang and driving off the remaining disciples, Lu Feng went to the Soul Gate to meet Lu Qian'er.

• Lu Feng unsealed six Spirit Soul Arrays and used Clear River Sword Intent and encouragement to restore Ling Tian's clarity, then disarmed him with Wind Splitting Hand.
• Ling Tian and Lu Feng supported each other after their battle, but Cao Fang and Black Demon Palace disciples surrounded them as they prepared to leave.
• Lu Feng feigned confidence in an array plate to distract Cao Fang, then killed him with a poisoned Black Needle.
• The remaining Black Demon Palace disciples fled, while Lu Qian'er returned to report what she had witnessed to the Ghost Empress.
• Lu Feng returned to the inn, sent Ling Tian to recover, and told Gu Lingling to care for Yan Xinhui while he went to the Soul Gate.
• Disguised in black clothes and a Fox Mask, Lu Feng arrived at the Soul Gate and sought out Lu Qian'er.

Lu Feng learned that the Ghost Empress would let him handle the Black Demon Palace as he wished and that the Soul Gate would settle any consequences. At Night Feather Hall, he welcomed Phantom Hand Ghost Blade and Night Wanderer Blade, bringing the hall’s first group of soul guards together under his command.

• Lu Qian'er told Lu Feng that the Ghost Empress had dismissed the Black Demon Palace’s complaint and authorized him to act freely with Night Feather Hall.
• Lu Feng arrived at Night Feather Hall, gave Iron Puppet a Living Creature Pouch containing someone who had harmed him, and strengthened Iron Puppet’s loyalty.
• Phantom Hand Ghost Blade joined Night Feather Hall after thanking Lu Feng for killing Li Gongping.
• Night Wanderer Blade arrived after sunset and challenged Lu Feng about Fat Head Butcher’s death, then believed him after seeing his face and hearing that Ling Tian had killed Fat Head Butcher.
• Night Wanderer Blade swore the Soul Oath, completing Night Feather Hall’s initial group of soul guards.

Lu Feng assigned Night Feather Hall to protect his students and accepted Blazing Enchantress as his close guard while Black Demon Palace debated how to respond to the deaths of its elders. Black Demon Palace placed bounties on Lu Feng, Ling Tian, and Fan Linlin, forcing them and their companions to hide in Ghost Performer's courtyard.

• Lu Feng ordered Iron Puppet to manage Night Feather Hall and sent four soul guards to secretly protect his seven students, while Blazing Enchantress volunteered to guard him.
• Deng Jing argued that soul hunters had killed the Black Demon Palace elders over a personal grudge, and Deng Shi ordered She Qingshu to capture them and prepare to destroy Soul Gate if it was involved.
• Lu Feng brought Ling Tian, Gu Lingling, Yan Xinhui, and Fan Linlin to Ghost Performer's hidden courtyard, where he said they would follow their plan and flee if attacked by a group.
• Black Demon Palace issued one-source-stone bounties on Lu Feng, Ling Tian, and Fan Linlin, prompting soul hunters across Black Wind Town to search for them.
• Lu Feng and the others stayed inside the courtyard for three days to recover and avoid the hunt.

Lu Feng devised a wine competition to lure She Qingshu, the Black Demon Palace Grand Elder, into a trap using the potent Cold Poison Jade Ice Burn. She Qingshu took the bait, and Lu Feng entered the crowded Earth Immortal Tavern in disguise as the competition began.

• Lu Feng and Ling Tian improved the Submerged Creek Duo, strengthening its sword and saber techniques.
• Blazing Enchantress reported that She Qingshu had led the Black Demon Palace and posted assassination warrants, so Lu Feng planned to exploit his love of wine.
• Lu Feng tasked Blazing Enchantress with organizing a wine duel featuring Cold Poison Jade Ice Burn, and she offered her source stone as a prize to attract She Qingshu.
• Fan Linlin, Gu Lingling, and Ling Tian worried about the danger, but Lu Feng arranged for his companions to disguise themselves and watch for trouble at the tavern.
• Lu Feng obtained the Cloudstream Soft Sword, then learned She Qingshu had joined the competition after smelling the prize wine.
• As the Earth Immortal Tavern filled for the contest, Lu Feng disguised himself and blended in among the ordinary drinkers.

Lu Feng and She Qingshu advanced through the wine-tasting convention’s first two rounds and began a three-hour Wine Duel using Fire Cloud Burn. Lu Feng used cold poison to endure the wine longer, but She Qingshu grew suspicious of his concealed face as they continued drinking.

• Lu Feng used information from Blazing Enchantress to identify all ten wines in the first round, matching She Qingshu as the only other participant to do so.
• Lu Feng and She Qingshu both named all ten wines in the second round, while Blazing Enchantress disqualified the remaining contestants.
• She Qingshu demanded rules for a possible tie, and Blazing Enchantress set a three-hour limit for the final round with Fire Cloud Burn.
• Lu Feng secretly used Extreme Yin Extreme Cold Pills to blunt the wine’s effects, and he and She Qingshu each finished ten pots.
• Lu Feng and She Qingshu continued drinking, reaching nineteen and twenty pots respectively, before She Qingshu accused Lu Feng of hiding a trick beneath his bamboo hat.

Lu Feng used the Wine Duel to make She Qingshu drink Cold Poison Jade Ice Burn, then revealed that the Soul Gate had set a trap for him. As the Black Demon Palace surrounded them, Lu Feng and Ling Tian fought together against She Qingshu and the elders.

• She Qingshu recognized Lu Feng as a Soul Hunter and attacked him, but Blazing Enchantress stopped them so the Wine Duel could continue.
• Lu Feng pretended to collapse after drinking his twenty-first jug while She Qingshu drank thirty jugs of Fire Cloud Burn and waited for the incense to burn out.
• Blazing Enchantress gave She Qingshu half a jug of Cold Poison Jade Ice Burn, which ignited his already-rampant spiritual energy and revealed Lu Feng's trap.
• Black Demon Palace disciples and elders surrounded the Soul Gate group, while Lu Feng told Blazing Enchantress to stay back and drew his Cloudstream Soft Sword.
• Lu Feng unleashed the Drunken Sword, joined forces with Ling Tian using the Submerged Creek Duo, and fought She Qingshu and the elders without giving them the advantage.

Lu Feng and Ling Tian defeated She Qingshu’s Black Demon Palace force at the Earth Immortal Tavern, then the palace plotted retaliation while Lu Feng’s students completed their training. The chapter ended with the students returning to the residence, where Lu Feng noticed Jun Ziyi was missing.

• Lu Feng and Ling Tian used their coordinated saber-and-sword attacks to kill She Qingshu’s elders and disciples, then Lu Feng poisoned She Qingshu with Frozen Poison Wine.
• Lu Feng distributed Source Stones to Ling Tian and Blazing Enchantress, then ordered She Qingshu taken to Guan Qiu.
• Deng Shi and Deng Jing learned of the Black Demon Palace’s losses and ordered their remaining elders to lie low while disciples gathered intelligence and sought the enemies’ families and friends.
• Over the next ten-plus days, Guan Qiu’s treatment of She Qingshu ended with his death, while Qian Xin, Shao Yang, Shao Yue, Ning Xiang, Man Zhongli, and Zhao Yan completed their training missions and improved their strength.
• The students rushed back to the residence, and Lu Feng frowned when he saw that Jun Ziyi was not with them.

Lu Feng and the others were ambushed by the Black Demon Palace after Deng Jing tracked them to Blazing Enchantress's residence. Lu Feng and Ling Tian failed to defeat Deng Shi, and Lu Feng was left suppressing the spiritual-energy riot caused by Deng Shi's palm as the group guarded him.

• Lu Feng learned from Qian Xin, Shao Yue, Ning Xiang, and Zhao Yan that Jun Ziyi had left to seek news of someone she loved, then realized someone had led them to the residence.
• Deng Shi and the Black Demon Palace surrounded and stormed the residence after Deng Jing tracked Ghost Performer and Blazing Enchantress to it.
• Lu Feng and Ling Tian attacked Deng Shi with Submerged Creek Duo, but Deng Shi's Black Demon Stellar Array withstood their combined technique.
• Ling Tian's saber strike weakened the barrier, allowing Lu Feng to break through and attack Deng Shi, but Deng Shi seized and crushed his sword and blocked his poison needle.
• Deng Shi struck Lu Feng with Blazing Fire Spirit Burst Palm, causing his spiritual energy to riot; Lu Feng suppressed it by restoring the seal on his soul arrays while Ling Tian and the others gathered to protect him.

Lu Feng and his allies faced Deng Shi and the Black Demon Palace until Soul Gate reinforcements arrived, led by the Ghost Empress, who destroyed the attackers. Afterward, the Ghost Empress warned Lu Feng that his Soul Plate was badly cracked and said he would not be able to see Old Ye.

• Deng Shi tried to strike Lu Feng again, but Ling Tian and the others stood in his way to protect their mentor.
• Blazing Enchantress, Ghost Performer, Phantom Hand Ghost Blade, and Ghost Flute joined the defenders, while Iron Puppet returned with Ghost Seclusion and two other Soul Gate Hall Masters.
• Deng Jing reported that Soul Gate forces had surrounded them, and the Ghost Empress descended to the residence.
• The Ghost Empress sensed Lu Feng's cracked Soul Plate and burned the Black Demon Palace members to ashes with Heavenly Dao Soul Fire.
• The Ghost Empress warned Lu Feng that his injuries needed treatment, then awkwardly told him he would not be able to see Old Ye.

Lu Feng saw Soul Gate withdraw from Black Wind Town, said goodbye to his friends, and prepared to return to Spirit Prison with his students. Ye Fan returned to join them, bringing source stones Yao Yao had given him to help the group cultivate.

• Ghost Empress explained that Soul Gate was leaving Black Wind Town, ordered three hall masters to protect Lu Feng, and withdrew the order after he refused their protection.
• Lu Feng arranged for Fan Linlin to report Black Wind Town's successes to Spirit Prison, then promised Gu Lingling he would visit Azure Peak Sword Sect and gave her a Soul Warming Pill.
• Lu Feng and Ling Tian parted ways, and Lu Feng spent two days settling Soul Gate's affairs and assigning tasks to Night Feather Hall.
• Lu Feng left Black Wind Town with Qian Xin and his students, who worried that Zi Yi had not returned.
• Ye Fan rejoined Lu Feng and the students, explaining that he had come back after hearing Lu Feng needed him and offering them more than twenty source stones from Yao Yao.

Lu Feng learned that the Ghost Empress had taken the Crane Spirit Jade needed for the Soul Tempering Pill and heard that someone was using the Night Feather Sword Master's identity in the Southern Continent. He headed south to find Jun Ziyi and investigate, suspecting the impostor's appearance was meant to distract the Blood Clan.

• Ye Fan apologized to Lu Feng for revealing the Soul Tempering Pill formula, which led the Ghost Empress to take the Crane Spirit Jade, and gave him source stones and dozens of pills.
• Ye Fan reported that Jun Ziyi might have gone south after the Night Feather Sword Master, whose reported feat of killing seven Heaven Soul Realm Blood Demons had confirmed his place at the top of the Azure List.
• Lu Feng suspected Qing Xue might be the person wielding the Night Feather Soft Sword and decided to head south to find Jun Ziyi before she encountered danger.
• At Living Spirit Academy, Lu Feng learned that Bai Xue had reached the Earth Soul Realm and that Bai Bing had also gone south to seek the Night Feather Sword Master.
• Lu Feng upgraded the academy's Spirit Gathering Array, then left for the Southern Continent and learned that the supposed Night Feather Sword Master had reached the Half-Step Saint Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng suspected the impostor's appearance had been orchestrated to draw attention and tie down the Blood Clan.

Lu Feng reached Profound Wind City and investigated the sword scars left by someone impersonating the Night Feather Sword Master, suspecting they might have been made by Qing Xue. He went to Worship Heart Pagoda hoping to find her, but hesitated because he feared his weakened state would disappoint her before learning about the physician the pagoda honored.

• Lu Feng saw the Night Feather Swordplay scars on Profound Wind City's wall and noticed that someone had deliberately altered them to conceal some of the sword forms.
• Lu Feng recognized moves he had taught only to Qing Xue and his former sword attendant, and suspected Qing Xue had left the marks.
• Lu Feng asked a city guard where he could find the city's highest point and headed for Worship Heart Pagoda.
• Lu Feng recalled how he and Qing Xue had first met and agreed to meet at high places to fight whenever they crossed paths.
• Lu Feng hesitated beneath Worship Heart Pagoda, fearing he was too weak to face Qing Xue, then read its stele and learned of Heaven Worship Saint Physician's life and deeds before stepping forward.

Lu Feng reunited with Qing Xue at the Worship Heart Pagoda and learned why she had been impersonating the Night Feather Sword Master to mislead the Blood Clan. As they discussed his past and the threat of a Blood Clan Half-Step Saint Soul expert, Lu Feng unknowingly described the night Qing Xue had saved him, and she realized he still did not know she was the woman he had bitten.

• Lu Feng sensed the Night Feather Sword on the seventh floor of the Worship Heart Pagoda and reunited with Qing Xue.
• Lu Feng told Qing Xue that his seven souls had been destroyed three years earlier and that he was cultivating Soul power anew.
• Qing Xue explained that the Soul Lords had chosen to impersonate Lu Feng to steady human Soul Masters and disrupt a Blood Clan expert's attempt to reach sainthood.
• Lu Feng let Qing Xue keep the Night Feather Sword and told her about his ties to the Clear River Sect and his promise to help Yin Xiaolou's sect.
• Lu Feng recounted how an unknown woman had saved him from poison and how he had bitten her shoulder while out of control; Qing Xue recognized herself as that woman and stayed silent.

Lu Feng received Qing Xue’s saved Source Stones and learned the Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes before heading to Jun Man Restaurant in search of Jun Ziyi. There, he encountered Bai Bing and Sun Anguang, then discovered Jun Ziyi was staying nearby with Jun Zi Mo and overheard them discussing him.

• Qing Xue gave Lu Feng a Storage Ring filled with Source Stones and warned him that Jun Zi Mo and the Sun Family were in Profound Wind City.
• The Heaven Worship Saint Physician’s statue imparted the Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes to Lu Feng, who realized the art could strengthen his Purple Eyes.
• At Jun Man Restaurant, Lu Feng met Bai Bing, who showed him information claiming Night Feather Sword Master had appeared in the Ridge Valley Mountain Range.
• Sun Anguang arrived at the restaurant, and Lu Feng pretended to be timid before secretly following him to his guest room.
• Lu Feng sensed Jun Ziyi and Jun Zi Mo in a nearby room, then listened as they began discussing him.

Jun Zi Mo discovered that Lu Feng was alive and reunited with him in Profound Wind City. They discussed the Blood Clan’s infiltration and Qing Xue’s disguise, while Jun Zi Mo decided to let Jun Ziyi remain at Eastern Origin Spirit Prison with Lu Feng as her instructor.

• Jun Zi Mo insisted that Jun Ziyi return home, but she refused and said she wanted the Night Feather Sword Master to teach her.
• Lu Feng’s laugh alerted Jun Zi Mo, who entered his room and held a sword to his throat for spying.
• Lu Feng proved his identity by recalling private details, and Jun Zi Mo dropped his sword and embraced him.
• Lu Feng explained that the Blood Clan likely attacked him three years earlier and that its forces had infiltrated the Ice Spring Sect.
• Jun Zi Mo explained that he and Jun Wenxin were helping Qing Xue conceal her identity, and Lu Feng gave him a letter for the Clear River Sect.
• After learning that Lu Feng was Jun Ziyi’s instructor, Jun Zi Mo abandoned his plan to take her home and celebrated that she could study swordsmanship with him.

Jun Zi Mo accepted Lu Feng’s decision to stay with Jun Ziyi, gave him cultivation resources, and recounted the Night Feather Sword Master’s past to his family. Lu Feng hurried toward Ridge Valley Mountain Range after learning Sun Anguang planned to pursue a woman who might be Bai Bing.

• Jun Zi Mo gave Lu Feng a Storage Ring of Source Stones and another containing high-grade array materials, then left to rejoin Jun Ziyi and Jun Wenxin.
• Lu Feng overheard Sun Anguang order his men to go to Ridge Valley Mountain Range after a powerful woman, and he rushed there, fearing she was Bai Bing.
• Jun Zi Mo allowed Jun Ziyi to remain in Eastern Origin Spirit Prison and promised to ask the Night Feather Sword Master to teach her swordsmanship.
• Jun Zi Mo told Jun Ziyi that the Heaven Night Sword Sect had tried to force the Night Feather Sword Master to join its sect and later claimed he had to marry its Saintess, Yin Xiaolou.
• Jun Wenxin explained that the Night Feather Sword Master earned his title after fighting major powers in the Earth Profound Domain, where he had saved a woman.

Jun Zi Mo recounted how Qi Wansu became the Night Feather Sword Master's sword attendant, while Lu Feng followed Sun Anguang through the Ridge Valley Mountain Range as he hunted a woman. Sun Anguang's group found Bai Bing and surrounded her beneath a boulder, and the chapter ended as she struck at him and cut his robe.

• Jun Zi Mo told Jun Ziyi that the Night Feather Sword Master saved Qi Wansu, killed Sun Huan, and later took Qi Wansu as his sword attendant.
• Lu Feng searched the Ridge Valley Mountain Range for Bai Bing and secretly followed Sun Anguang's group after seeing them enter the forest.
• Sun Anguang learned that his slave had marked a woman's clothing with Beast Taming Musk and ordered the group to follow her scent.
• Sun Anguang's group found Bai Bing resting beneath a boulder and surrounded her before she could escape.
• Bai Bing refused Sun Anguang's advances and swung her sword at him, slicing off part of his robe as he dodged.

Lu Feng tried to save Bai Bing from Sun Anguang’s group by luring an Earth Soul Beast into their fight. The Affection Entangling Ghost Spider threw the guards into chaos, allowing Lu Feng to escape while Bai Bing remained injured and Sun Anguang still approached her.

• Bai Bing used the White Lotus Swordplay to fend off Sun Anguang and his subordinates, but she was wounded and her sword was shattered.
• Lu Feng searched for a soul beast to draw toward Sun Anguang’s group and found an Earth Soul Beast, the Affection Entangling Ghost Spider.
• Lu Feng burned the spider’s web with Fire Phosphorus Arrows, enraged the ghost spider, and led it toward Sun Anguang’s group.
• The Affection Entangling Ghost Spider attacked the group, ensnaring a guard whose poisoned mind turned him against those nearby.
• Lu Feng escaped amid the chaos while the guards fought the ghost spider and Sun Anguang continued toward the injured Bai Bing.

Lu Feng rescued Bai Bing from Sun Anguang, but the Affection Thread Entanglement Palm Strength left her unable to dissolve the attack without help from a stronger soulmaster or a breakthrough to the Heaven Soul Realm. While they rested in a cave, Bai Bing began telling Lu Feng about her family’s plans to marry her and her sister to emissaries from a super sect.

• Sun Anguang struck Bai Bing with Affection Thread Entanglement, and Lu Feng used arrays and poisonous smoke to help her escape.
• Lu Feng and Bai Bing fled to a cave, where he made a fire from a piece of unusually hard wood stored in the Kirin Ring.
• Bai Bing tried to dissolve the affection thread but failed, and Lu Feng explained the risks and the ways it could be removed.
• Bai Bing revealed that her father had agreed to marry her and her younger sister Xue Er to emissaries from a super sect.
• Bai Bing asked Lu Feng whether he had any wine as she prepared to tell him more about her troubles.

Bai Bing told Lu Feng that she and Bai Xue had agreed to marry into a great sect to repay its protection, though she hoped to buy her sister time to grow stronger. Lu Feng gave her the Cold Heart Sword, and discovering it was her sect’s lost treasured sword gave Bai Bing a way to refuse the marriage and made her feelings for him undeniable.

• Bai Bing told Lu Feng that her father had promised her and Bai Xue in marriage to a great sect in exchange for its protection of their sect.
• Bai Bing resolved to marry into the great sect to buy Bai Xue three years to cultivate, while Lu Feng urged her to grow strong enough to change their fate.
• Lu Feng gave Bai Bing the Cold Heart Sword, hoping its value would persuade the great sect to delay the marriage.
• Bai Bing felt a painful flutter of emotion at Lu Feng’s gift, and Lu Feng set formations to keep Sun Anguang from sensing her spiritual energy.
• Bai Bing drew the sword and recognized it as the Cold Heart Sword, which her father had declared would make its finder the next Sect Leader and his daughter’s spouse.
• Bai Bing realized the sword gave her a way to refuse the great sect’s marriage and that Lu Feng had already taken a deep place in her heart.