Chapter Summaries

At the Instructor Tournament, Shao Yue accepted Lu Feng’s challenge to face Kang Yi and defeated him with a single, controlled kick, proving how far her training had brought her. The chapter ended with Lu Feng warning Zhou Zhi that Kang Yi’s Fuquan Acupoint was injured and needed immediate treatment.

• Zhou Zhi chose Kang Yi for the opening match and tried to pressure Lu Feng into sending a Core Plate Realm student.
• Shao Yue volunteered to fight Kang Yi, and Lu Feng agreed after she explained that she wanted to answer his earlier humiliation.
• Kang Yi mocked Shao Yue and insulted Lu Feng, prompting Shao Yue to fight without holding back.
• Shao Yue kicked Kang Yi away in a single move, and An Xianglian confirmed her victory.
• Lu Feng shielded Shao Yue from Zhou Zhi’s accusation and told him to get Kang Yi treated for his injured Fuquan Acupoint.

Jun Ziyi fought Apricot Blossom Rain in the Instructor Tournament's second match, where Apricot Blossom Rain used Core Pistil Swordplay to control an insect and gain an early advantage. The Spirit Void Sword Saint recognized Jun Ziyi's Chaotic Sword and realized the Jun Family might have sent her to cultivate under Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng's group chose Jun Ziyi to fight Apricot Blossom Rain, and the two entered the stage as mid-stage Core Plate Realm swordswomen.
• The Spirit Void Sword Saint arrived to watch, while Jun Ziyi and Apricot Blossom Rain began their swordsmanship duel.
• Apricot Blossom Rain used a controlled insect to distract Jun Ziyi, forcing her to reveal Rain Curtain Horizontal Screen and fall behind.
• Apricot Blossom Rain identified her technique as Core Pistil Swordplay, which could let one mind control four beasts at its peak.
• Jun Ziyi countered with several sword forms, and the Spirit Void Sword Saint recognized her moves as the Jun Family's Chaotic Sword.
• The Heaven's Wrath Prison Master suggested that the Jun Family had knowingly sent Jun Ziyi to cultivate with Lu Feng.

Jun Ziyi adapted to Apricot Blossom Rain’s Gold-Eating Insect by switching to a wooden sword and using Lu Feng’s teachings to turn her opponent’s attacks against her. As their battle continued, Spirit Void Sword Saint gained sudden enlightenment from watching Jun Ziyi’s swordsmanship.

• Heaven's Wrath explained why the Jun Family respected Lu Feng while Spirit Void Sword Saint questioned Jun Ziyi’s training under him.
• Apricot Blossom Rain revealed that she had concealed her late Core Plate Realm cultivation, injured Jun Ziyi, and used her Scale Armor Gold Devouring Insect to shatter Jun Ziyi’s soul artifact.
• Jun Ziyi chose a Strange Fate Wood sword and used the Entangling Sword Form to evade Apricot Blossom Rain’s attacks and wound her in return.
• Apricot Blossom Rain raised her strength with a secret art and sent two insects against Jun Ziyi, who remained confident in her ability to handle them.
• Spirit Void Sword Saint understood the principles behind Jun Ziyi’s swordsmanship and broke through his shackles in sudden enlightenment.

Jun Ziyi defeated Apricot Blossom Rain in the second match, giving the Lu Feng Group two consecutive victories. Xiang Tiange challenged Shao Yang for the third match, and the two began their fight after agreeing to battle until death separated them.

• Jun Ziyi used her wooden sword to control Apricot Blossom Rain's sword momentum and sent a venomous insect into her mouth when Apricot Blossom Rain tried to open her Living Creature Pouch.
• An Xianglian stopped the match, and the Medicine Hall treated Apricot Blossom Rain as the Lu Feng Group claimed its second victory.
• Xiang Tiange challenged Shao Yang, and Lu Feng urged Shao Yang to accept the fight he had long awaited.
• Xiang Tiange taunted Shao Yang about Lei Qiqi and proposed they fight until death separated them, and Shao Yang accepted.
• Shao Yang and Xiang Tiange drew their spears to begin the third match, while Zhou Zhi recognized his family's inherited spear in Shao Yang's hands.

Shao Yang and Xiang Tiange fought using their revised versions of the Day Hidden Spear Technique, and Shao Yang outmaneuvered Xiang Tiange by correcting a flaw Xiang Tiange thought was unavoidable. Enraged by the setback and the crowd’s praise of Shao Yang, Xiang Tiange unleashed the Blood Soul Spear Art and attacked with killing intent.

• Shao Yang and Xiang Tiange began their duel with similar versions of the Day Hidden Spear Technique, while the crowd noticed how much both techniques had changed.
• Xiang Tiange tried to exploit an opening in Shao Yang’s Daylight Night Condensation, but Shao Yang had transformed the move and countered with a spear strike to Xiang Tiange’s chest.
• Xiang Tiange grew furious as the crowd mocked him and praised Shao Yang, then released the Blood Soul Spear Art and surged toward the Five Elements Realm.
• An Xianglian watched without intervening as Xiang Tiange attacked Shao Yang at extreme speed, leaving Shao Yang startled by the sudden assault.

Shao Yang defeated Xiang Tiange with an advanced spear technique, leaving him mentally and physically ruined as Lu Feng Group won the Instructor Tournament. After Zhou Zhi quit teaching, Mu Hongfei challenged Lu Feng, who was too injured to fight, and accused him of being a Heretical Cultivator.

• Shao Yang countered Xiang Tiange’s Blood Soul Spear and defeated him with Daylight Night Shadow, piercing his shoulder and sending him into a deranged state.
• An Xianglian sealed Xiang Tiange’s acupoints and explained that backlash from his secret art had violently disrupted his spiritual energy and reason.
• An Xianglian declared Lu Feng Group the tournament winner after its students claimed three consecutive victories across realms.
• Meng Yuli regretted rejecting Bai Bing’s attempt to recommend her to a better instructor, while Zhou Zhi paid Lu Feng the three source stones and announced he would never teach again.
• Mu Hongfei challenged Lu Feng and offered to leave Spirit Prison if he lost, but Lu Feng refused because his injured Soul Plate could not withstand a fight.
• Mu Hongfei accused Lu Feng of hiding his cultivation and suggested he belonged to the Heretical Cultivators.

Lu Feng defended his students from Mu Hongfei as Ruo Shui revealed her breakthrough to the Five Elements Realm, but a disturbance near the Eastern Origin Mountain Range drew Lu Feng away with Wu Ying. They headed toward the newly discovered secret realm, where Lu Feng found a route map hidden by Ma Qiufeng and learned the Blood Clan had been following a deadly false path.

• Shao Yang, Jun Ziyi, Qian Xin, and the others defended Lu Feng from Mu Hongfei, and Ruo Shui broke through to the Five Elements Realm.
• A powerful disturbance shook the area, and Wu Ying summoned Lu Feng before leading him toward the Eastern Origin Mountain Range.
• Wu Ying told Lu Feng that the secret realm was likely the grave of Sword Madman Dugu Mo and that the Blood Clan had entered it.
• Lu Feng admitted that he had spread news of the Tomb of the Mad Thief to bring more factions into the conflict, and Wu Ying warned that the secret realm was dangerous.
• Lu Feng found a map hidden in a tree and recognized Ma Qiufeng's claw marks; Wu Ying explained that the Blood Clan's route map showed a false path explored at the cost of hundreds of human lives.

Wu Ying led Lu Feng into the tomb secret realm through a hidden route that avoided the dangerous doors and formations. Beneath a concealed entrance in the coffin, they reached a dark chasm, where Wu Ying prepared to use the Thief Sect Heaven Ascending Step to cross it together.

• Wu Ying showed Lu Feng the fissure and led him down sword hilts to the secret realm entrance.
• They passed through a cleared passage to a burial chamber with three false routes, and Wu Ying revealed that the safe path was hidden inside the coffin.
• Wu Ying opened the secret entrance beneath the coffin with his blood, and he and Lu Feng jumped down to a narrow ledge above a dark chasm.
• Wu Ying explained the Thief Sect Heaven Ascending Step and gave Lu Feng one end of a hemp rope for their crossing.
• Wu Ying swore a Soul Oath that he would not harm Lu Feng, and Lu Feng listened as Wu Ying explained how to coordinate the technique.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying crossed the suspended passage using the Ascension Steps and continued through a route Wu Ying said was safe for most of the way. They reached a chamber occupied by powerful soulmasters, where a woman recognized Lu Feng and asked whether Xue Er had come with him.

• Lu Feng and Wu Ying coordinated the Ascension Steps to cross the hundred-meter gap, and Lu Feng sensed his Exquisite Steps nearing the third realm.
• They found that the passage’s roadblocks had been destroyed and learned that the Southern School Bottle Spirit Sect might have crossed using its Parallel Tile Art.
• Wu Ying warned that the safe route would soon merge with the upper passages, where fighting had begun, and said they needed to reach the final section first.
• Lu Feng collected most of the small weapons scattered across a burial chamber after he and Wu Ying deduced that a traitor had triggered its formation during a massacre.
• Lu Feng and Wu Ying entered a rest chamber with ten powerful soulmasters, and a woman there recognized Lu Feng and asked whether Xue Er was with him.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying met Si Kongtu and the Bottle Spirit Sect survivors, who recognized Wu Ying as a Descendant of the Mad Thief after he showed them the Black Gold Thief King Token. As they prepared to pursue the people ahead through the Mist Shadow Eight Gates Array, Lu Feng challenged the sect members’ understanding of how it worked.

• Si Kongtong recognized Lu Feng and learned that Bai Xue had not come, then introduced him and Wu Ying to her injured father, Si Kongtu.
• Wu Ying presented the Black Gold Thief King Token, convincing Si Kongtu that he was a Descendant of the Mad Thief and establishing that the visitors were not Huo Biao’s allies.
• Rong Wenxuan and Si Kongtu explained that Huo Biao had betrayed the Bottle Spirit Sect and activated the route’s defensive mechanisms, while Wu Ying worried they could not catch the people ahead.
• Lu Feng encouraged Wu Ying to keep pursuing them and claimed the Mist Shadow Eight Gates Array could be crossed without spending half a day.
• After Rong Wenxuan and Si Kongtong disputed his description of the array, Lu Feng explained that its Shadow Soldiers were illusions that exhausted intruders by making them believe they were fighting and being injured.

Lu Feng explained how to pass through the Mist Shadow Eight Gates Array, then emerged first and waited on a stone platform. Si Kongtong eventually joined him, confronted him over his relationship with Bai Xue, and entered a glowing cave despite his warning, where the crystals suddenly blazed with light.

• Lu Feng explained that entrants should ignore the array’s illusions, calm their minds, and sense its spiritual energy, while Rong Wenxuan admitted he might have to force his way through gate by gate.
• Rong Wenxuan entered the Mist Shadow Eight Gates Array first to protect Si Kongtu, and the others followed before Lu Feng and Wu Ying entered behind them.
• Lu Feng used his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes to see through the array and its Shadow Soldiers, then reached the stone platform and waited for the others.
• Si Kongtong emerged and accused Lu Feng of refusing responsibility for Bai Xue, but he denied having a relationship with her and rebuffed Si Kongtong’s advances.
• Si Kongtong grew impatient, ignored Lu Feng’s warning, and entered the crystal-filled cave; the crystals suddenly illuminated it with brilliant light.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong were trapped in a crystal-lined cave where powerful black vines suppressed their cultivation and tightened whenever they struggled. Wu Ying discovered that the vines fled from fresh blood, freeing them and leaving Si Kongtong’s father to wonder whether she had grown fond of Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong found that the cave’s crystals suppressed their cultivation while black vines attacked them and resisted their blows.
• Si Kongtong shattered one crystal, but the vines multiplied, wrapped around both of them, and squeezed them tightly together.
• Lu Feng warned Si Kongtong to stop struggling, and she bit his shoulder after accusing him of behaving like a lecherous rogue.
• Si Kongtong discovered that the vines reacted to blood, and Wu Ying sprayed fresh blood into the cave, making the vines retreat.
• Wu Ying teased Lu Feng about his closeness with Si Kongtong, while Si Kongtu asked his blushing daughter whether Lu Feng had bullied her.

Wu Ying, Si Kongtu, Si Kongtong, and Lu Feng crossed the Yanling Ghost Vines and faced the Mystic Heart Ladder, whose trials sent them along different paths. Lu Feng passed the ladder and was teleported into a Stone Chamber occupied by the Blood Clan, where Ma Qiufeng appeared in disguise and attacked his captors.

• Wu Ying explained that the Yanling Ghost Vines could be driven back with blood, and Si Kongtu chose to proceed with Wu Ying while leaving markers for Rong Wenxuan and the others.
• The group crossed the vines and found the Mystic Heart Ladder, whose thirteen steps tested people's emotions and desires.
• Wu Ying vanished at the eighth step, Si Kongtu at the sixth, and Lu Feng and Si Kongtong both entered trials of love.
• Lu Feng passed the ladder's trials, reached its thirteenth step, and was hurled through a Stone Gate into a chamber of Blood Clan soulmasters.
• A Five Elements Realm soulmaster began probing Lu Feng's soul, but Ma Qiufeng, disguised as a Core Plate Realm soulmaster, attacked the Blood Clan captors.

Ma Qiufeng told Lu Feng that the Blood Clan had a vast force inside the secret realm, then left to protect Luo Yu'er after receiving a warning through their Three Jade Agreement. Lu Feng followed Ma Qiufeng’s map and was captured by disciples from seven sects, where Lu Kui threatened him over Jiang Ruoyun before sparing him to use his formation skills.

• Ma Qiufeng led Lu Feng through a hidden door into a Stone Chamber and revealed that the Blood Clan had at least one Heaven Venerable, five Earth Venerables, and twenty or thirty Blood Kings in the secret realm.
• Ma Qiufeng explained that he had killed a Blood Clan squad with the secret realm’s mechanisms, then showed Lu Feng the shattered Azure Soul Jade and said he was returning to protect Luo Yu'er.
• Ma Qiufeng gave Lu Feng his terrain map and left, while Lu Feng followed the map deeper into the secret realm.
• Disciples from seven sects intercepted Lu Feng, and he recognized Xing Luan, Lan Gu, and the powerful Lu Kui among them.
• Lu Kui forced Lu Feng to the ground and demanded that he lure Jiang Ruoyun to him, but Lu Feng refused and prepared to fight back.
• Chi Yuanqing asked Lu Kui to spare Lu Feng, and Lan Gu and Xing Luan urged Lu Kui to use Lu Feng’s formation skills to clear the way; Lu Kui relented and considered Lan Gu with wicked intent.

Lu Kui tried to capture Si Kongtong for his Yin-Yang Replenishment technique, but Lu Feng protected her and led the group into a dangerous stone chamber. After surviving the falling, corrosive Jade Pearls, Lu Feng smiled when a wall compartment opened, hinting that his plan was underway.

• Lu Kui attacked the injured Si Kongtong and tried to force her to follow him, but she threatened to kill herself rather than let him defile her.
• Lu Feng shielded Si Kongtong, and she agreed to trust his plan after he warned that her injured father, Si Kongtu, might be unable to defeat Lu Kui.
• Lu Feng pretended to be frightened as he entered the stone chamber, then used Exquisite Steps and thrown jade chunks to evade the falling, corrosive Jade Pearls.
• Lu Kui sent Xing Luan and Lei Hu into the chamber to test whether it was safe, then followed with the others after they found no further danger.
• Qing Huanzi opened a wall compartment with a throwing knife and dismissed it as storage, while Lu Feng smiled because he knew it was not a storage compartment.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong escaped their pursuers with Si Kongtu’s help, but Si Kongtu died from his grievous injuries after entrusting his daughter to Lu Feng. Si Kongtong vowed revenge, and Lu Feng promised to protect her and take vengeance for her father.

• Lu Feng triggered the Stone Chamber’s traps, letting him and Si Kongtong escape while Lan Gu and Qing Huanzi fought amid the falling Jade Pearls and Flesh Rotting Sand.
• Lu Kui and the other pursuers caught up with Lu Feng and Si Kongtong, but Si Kongtu arrived and fought to help them escape.
• Lu Kui overwhelmed Si Kongtu, and Tian Feng struck him with Hong Tang Fist; Si Kongtu used his final strength to cover Lu Feng and Si Kongtong’s escape.
• In a hidden Stone Chamber, Si Kongtu gave Si Kongtong his Storage Ring and entrusted her to Lu Feng before dying.
• Si Kongtong vowed to avenge her father, and Lu Feng promised to protect her and take vengeance in her place.

Lu Feng used the Wandering Dragon Arrow to poison two members of Lu Kui’s group, showing Si Kongtong how the strange weapon could curve around obstacles. After Lu Kui detected their position, Lu Feng pulled Si Kongtong into an uncharted area as they fled.

• Lu Feng told Si Kongtong he would take revenge himself and prepared to ambush Tian Feng with a Wandering Dragon Arrow.
• Lu Feng fired two arrows around a corner, striking a Tian Hong Sect disciple and an unknown target despite the second arrow being intercepted.
• Lu Feng explained that the arrows carried deadly poison, and the first victim soon attacked wildly before his companions killed him.
• Lu Feng realized Lu Kui had sensed their location and fled with Si Kongtong beyond the mapped area.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong escaped Lu Kui’s pursuit only to fall into a sealed chamber containing two peerless formation patterns. As the Four Phases Spirit Severing Formation suppressed their spiritual energy and the chamber froze around them, Lu Feng found a possible way to fight back by drawing on the energy in each other’s bodies.

• Lu Feng followed Si Kongtong down the same path to protect her from Lu Kui, and both fell through a collapsing floor into a sealed stone chamber.
• Lu Feng recognized the Ice Fire Yin Yang Pattern and Four Phases Spirit Severing Pattern carved into the chamber walls and explained that activating the formation might reveal a way out.
• Lu Feng activated the formation with a jade pearl, awakening frigid flying insects and causing the walls to glow and turn to ice.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong discovered they could no longer access their storage items or mobilize their own spiritual energy.
• After studying the Four Phases Spirit Severing Pattern, Lu Feng realized they could draw on the spiritual energy inside each other’s bodies.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong reversed the Four Phases Spirit Severing Pattern and used the released spiritual energy to recover, while Si Kongtong broke through to the Earth Soul Realm Late Stage. As the Stone Chamber warmed, they discovered its ancient insect-powered formation and realized the falling dew was affecting their desires, leaving both in danger of losing control.

• Lu Feng linked his spiritual energy with Si Kongtong's and guided her in tracing patterns across the Stone Chamber walls.
• Lu Feng reversed the Four Phases Spirit Severing Pattern, releasing stored spiritual energy that healed them and helped Si Kongtong reach the Earth Soul Realm Late Stage.
• Lu Feng explained that Ice Fire Ghost Pigs powered the Yin Yang Two Elements Array, and Si Kongtong recognized the insects and the surrounding walls as Earth Fiend Underworld Stone.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong discovered that the falling herbal-scented droplets were potent desire-inducing fluid from dead Ice Fire Ghost Pigs.
• Lu Feng succumbed to the droplets and turned toward Si Kongtong with uncontrolled desire as she struggled to keep her own thoughts clear.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong succumbed to the effects of the array’s poison, and Si Kongtong later concealed what happened from him. They searched the Stone Chamber for a way out, with Lu Feng unaware of the truth and Si Kongtong hiding her pain and changed feelings.

• Lu Feng lost control and attacked Si Kongtong, and they became intimate while under the poison’s influence.
• Si Kongtong recovered first, sealed Lu Feng’s memories of what happened, and discovered that his aura had restricted her spiritual energy.
• Lu Feng woke with no memory beyond the falling droplets, and Si Kongtong told him that the array had knocked him unconscious.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong searched the chamber after the insects fell asleep and the extreme heat and cold vanished.
• Lu Feng noticed Si Kongtong limping, and she claimed that she had twisted her ankle.