Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng sacrificed himself to send Si Kongtong away from Lu Kui and the other pursuers, then plunged into the Nether Void Liquid to attack them. Si Kongtong believed he had died and wanted to join him at the Yellow Springs; afterward, Chi Yuanqing withdrew, while Qing Huanzi and Lan Gu fell into the pool.

• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong found a chamber filled with Nether Void Liquid, where Lu Kui and four other disciples cornered them.
• Lu Feng sealed Si Kongtong’s movements, used the Four Scenery Screen to hold off the pursuers, and threw her through an opening to safety.
• Lu Feng sent Nether Void Liquid flying at Lu Kui’s group, then leaped into the pool as Si Kongtong watched in despair.
• The Four Scenery Screen shattered, and the Nether Void Liquid injured Lu Kui’s group; Chi Yuanqing chose to leave the secret realm.
• Qing Huanzi burst into the chamber and grappled with Lan Gu, then both fell into the pool while Lu Kui made no effort to save them.

Lu Feng survived the Misty Void Pool, where energy from a stone stool repaired his Soul Plate and greatly strengthened his Gold Element Qi. After collecting treasures from Qing Huanzi and Lan Gu, he returned to find Si Kongtong waiting for him, and she embraced him in relief, though her feelings remained troubled by Bai Xue.

• Qing Huanzi died from his injuries, and Lan Gu died after her Spiritual Qi Shield failed in the Nether Void Liquid.
• The Blood-colored War Corpse protected Lu Feng while it absorbed Nether Void Qi, and Lu Feng absorbed the stone stool’s energy, restoring his Soul Plate and reaching the Five Elements One Qi Realm with exceptionally powerful Gold Element Qi.
• Lu Feng discovered he could control Gold Element Qi to the point of producing lightning, then stored the Nether Void Liquid and nearly a thousand treasured swords.
• Lu Feng searched Qing Huanzi and Lan Gu’s storage artifacts, finding the complete Poison Scripture, the Supreme Purity Saint Origin Art, and the Spirit Void Thirteen Needles.
• Lu Feng returned to the Stone Chamber and found Si Kongtong still there; she rushed to embrace him and pleaded with him not to risk his life for her again, while feeling conflicted because of Bai Xue.

Lu Feng recovered his strength and joined Si Kongtong in seeking revenge, but they found Lu Kui, Xing Luan, and Lei Hu confronting Jin Xuan and his Blood Clan allies in a hall filled with skeletons. Jin Xuan let Lu Kui leave while demanding that Xing Luan and Lei Hu stay, and Lu Feng watched the confrontation turn violent.

• Si Kongtong broke through to the threshold of the Heaven Soul Realm, while Lu Feng recovered his strength to the Five Elements One Qi Realm.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong followed sounds of fighting into a vast hall filled with skeletal remains and found Lu Kui, Xing Luan, and Lei Hu facing Jin Xuan, Zhuo Heng, Zhao Qian Shan, and Chai Yin Fang.
• Jin Xuan dismissed Xing Luan's appeal to Beast Taming Manor and agreed to let Lu Kui leave because he represented Limitless Sect, but ordered Xing Luan and Lei Hu to remain.
• Lu Kui abandoned Xing Luan and Lei Hu, who attacked him in anger as Lu Feng and Si Kongtong watched.
• Jin Xuan directed Zhuo Heng and the others to guard the exits while the fighting continued.

Lu Feng cornered Lu Kui and overwhelmed him with his Gold Element Qi and Night Feather Swordplay, then tried to learn about the Heartless Sutra. Lu Kui escaped when a flash disrupted Lu Feng, but Si Kongtong intercepted and killed him, avenging her father.

• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong pursued Lu Kui through the passage, and Si Kongtong yielded the chance to fight him to Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng used Clear Radiance Night Feather to sever Lu Kui’s fingers and wound him, then broke his Shadow Shield with Glittering Thousand Waves.
• Lu Feng demanded that Lu Kui explain the Heartless Sutra, but Lu Kui insulted Jiang Ruoyun and offered a pill in exchange for his life.
• Lu Kui used a flash that interfered with the soul to escape from Lu Feng, but Si Kongtong cut off his head with cross-shaped Saber Qi.
• Si Kongtong saw Lu Kui’s wounds and was astonished that Lu Feng remained unscathed.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong searched Lu Kui’s belongings, then hurried toward a disturbance in the secret realm and found Jin Xuan and three residence heads fighting Xing Luan. The chapter ended with Jin Xuan killing Xing Luan’s Earth Flame Python, leaving Xing Luan devastated.

• Si Kongtong suspected Lu Feng was a Five Elements Pure Body, and Lu Feng gave her the resources he found in Lu Kui’s Storage Ring.
• Si Kongtong confiscated the Yin Yang Joyous Union Sutra and forbade Lu Feng from secretly practicing it.
• Lu Feng sensed a hidden aura and heard a thunderous blast; he and Si Kongtong realized Lei Hu had self-detonated with a Thunder Fire Pearl.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong reached the hall and saw the three residence heads wounded after Lei Hu’s desperate attack, while Jin Xuan confronted Xing Luan and his Earth Flame Python.
• Lu Feng recognized Jin Xuan as an Initial Heaven Soul Realm Soul Master, and Jin Xuan killed the Half-Step Heaven Soul Realm Earth Flame Python with his palm technique.
• Xing Luan roared in grief because he had raised the Earth Flame Python for nearly twenty years and treated it like his child.

Xing Luan used the Earth Flame Python’s beast core to form a phantom with Beast Taming Breath Shadow, but Jin Xuan killed him before Lu Feng and Si Kongtong wounded Jin Xuan. Jin Xuan then turned his poison attack against Si Kongtong, who redirected the flames into a fire dragon and sent it toward him.

• Jin Xuan extracted the Earth Flame Python’s beast core, and Xing Luan burned his life force to attack him and reclaim it.
• Xing Luan used the beast core to condense a snake phantom with Beast Taming Breath Shadow and launched his final strike at Jin Xuan.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong ambushed Jin Xuan; he killed Xing Luan but suffered a deep shoulder wound from Si Kongtong’s blade.
• Jin Xuan distracted Lu Feng and attacked Si Kongtong, but Lu Feng warned her and she dispersed Jin Xuan’s Poison Powder with Spirit Shaking Ripple.
• Jin Xuan turned the scattered Poison Powder into a cloud of fire, and Si Kongtong used Dragon Shifting Pull to shape it into a fire dragon and send it toward him.

Lu Feng ignored Jin Xuan’s escape to treat Si Kongtong’s injured eyes with two drops of Spirit Source Liquid, then gave her the spoils taken from Xing Luan and others. As Lu Feng and Si Kongtong discovered a Blood Clan force surrounding the hall, Zhuo Heng and a Heaven Soul Realm stranger entered with their allies.

• Jin Xuan was wounded by Lu Feng and Si Kongtong’s attacks, then fled toward the hall’s exit while poisoned by the toxic powder he had scattered.
• Si Kongtong’s eyes were injured, but Lu Feng stayed beside her and used two drops of Spirit Source Liquid to heal them instead of pursuing Jin Xuan.
• Lu Feng gave Si Kongtong Xing Luan’s storage bracelet, which contained the possessions of Zhou, Chai, and Zhao, and told her he had taken the Beast Taming Breath Shadow technique for a friend.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong sensed a Blood Clan force closing in, including three Earth Venerables and one Heaven Venerable.
• Zhuo Heng entered through one Stone Gate with Blood Clan disciples, while an unfamiliar Heaven Soul Realm man entered through the other.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong faced a Blood Clan ambush in the tomb and coordinated their attacks using Lu Feng’s Cosmic Synchronization style. They gained the upper hand against the Heaven Venerable, leaving him overwhelmed by their tightly linked assault.

• Lu Feng recognized the blood-marked Heaven Venerable as a Blood Demon and prepared to fight alongside Si Kongtong.
• Zhuo Heng and three Earth Venerables used a formation that drained the Five Elements Realm disciples and raised their own strength to the Half-Step Heaven Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong coordinated their attacks, using Dragon Shifting Pull to redirect the enemy’s combined strike and letting Lu Feng kill an Earth Venerable.
• After the Heaven Venerable ordered his group to spread out, Lu Feng and Si Kongtong stood back-to-back, and Si Kongtong trusted him to defend her while she attacked.
• Lu Feng’s swordplay disrupted the Heaven Venerable’s counters and created an opening for Si Kongtong’s follow-up attack, leaving the Heaven Venerable unable to respond.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong worked together to defeat Zhuo Heng and his companions, but the Heavenly Venerable remained and a golden barrier sealed one escape route. With the other passage guarded, Lu Feng began setting up a formation while Si Kongtong protected him.

• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong redirected the Heavenly Venerable's attack into Zhuo Heng and the two Earth Venerables, badly wounding them.
• Zhuo Heng absorbed his companions' power with a forbidden art, but Lu Feng's Lone Goose Flash severed both his hands, and the backlash killed him.
• Si Kongtong blocked the Heavenly Venerable's sneak attack while Lu Feng trusted her to cover his defenseless strike.
• A distant disturbance drew Lu Feng and Si Kongtong toward an exit, but a golden Treasure Item sealed the right passage.
• Lu Feng asked Si Kongtong to cover him as he took out two formation plates, while the Heavenly Venerable watched with disdain.

Lu Feng used poisonous smoke and prepared arrays to trap and mislead the Heavenly Venerable while he and Si Kongtong escaped through an open passage. The Heavenly Venerable broke the Bewildering Mist Realm too late and was left engulfed by the released smoke.

• Lu Feng distracted the Heavenly Venerable with a Jade Pearl while his thrown Jie Kong Bottle released poisonous smoke and concealed him and Si Kongtong behind an auxiliary array.
• Lu Feng explained that the Bewildering Mist Realm combined with the smoke to confuse the Heavenly Venerable, then waited for the right moment to act.
• Lu Feng shot arrows to test the Heavenly Venerable's defenses and draw him toward the Gold Net Barrier, but the Heavenly Venerable stayed near the open passage.
• Lu Feng sent a smoke figure toward the barrier, lured the Heavenly Venerable away, and led Si Kongtong through the open passage.
• Lu Feng severed his connection to the array as he escaped, and the Heavenly Venerable broke the array core, releasing the poisonous smoke throughout the hall.

Lu Feng and Si Kongtong reached the final burial chamber of Sword Fool Dugu Mo, where Si Kongtong opened a tomb passage with one of three bells. After Lu Feng was pulled into a strange space by the sword, he met Dugu Mo’s voice and learned the mysterious qi he had refined was Western Soul Gold; Dugu Mo then discovered Lu Feng had comprehended the Swordless Realm.

• Lu Feng and Si Kongtong found a giant sword structure and a strange stone that Si Kongtong identified as the tomb entrance.
• Si Kongtong infused the strange stone with Five Elements Qi, causing a bell’s clapper to fall and revealing a passage that she entered with the clapper.
• After Si Kongtong left, Lu Feng touched the strange stone with his Gold Element Qi and was pulled into a white space, where a sealed letter appeared.
• Dugu Mo’s voice asked whether Lu Feng was a descendant of the Mad Thief and recognized that Lu Feng had refined Western Soul Gold.
• Lu Feng learned that the voice belonged to Dugu Mo and prepared to demonstrate his swordplay, but Dugu Mo realized Lu Feng had comprehended the Swordless Realm.

Dugu Mo explained how Western Soul Gold and Yin Lightning Qi had enabled him to reach the Earth Soul Realm, then taught Lu Feng about the sword realms and passed on the Killing Heart Art. He began recounting how the Five Views and Half Saint-level Soul Masters joined the forces hunting him.

• Dugu Mo revealed that he was a Five Elements Pure Gold Body and that comprehending the extreme of gold and merging yin and yang lightning had let him break through to the Earth Soul Realm.
• Dugu Mo described the sword realms, told Lu Feng he had touched the threshold of the Swordless Realm, and warned him to follow his own sword heart.
• Dugu Mo sent Lu Feng the Killing Heart Art and explained that he had comprehended it while hiding beneath a cliff after fighting off a force of Heaven Soul Realm Soul Masters.
• Dugu Mo began explaining the Sect Breaking Art, saying that the Five Views had joined forces to hunt him and that Half Saint-level Soul Masters had appeared.

Lu Feng learned Dugu Mo’s history, received the Killing Heart Art, and agreed to deliver Dugu Mo’s letter to Mad Thief’s descendants. After breaking out of the Formless Sword Domain, he found Jin Xuan and the Heavenly Venerable confronting Si Kongtong and Wu Ying beneath the giant sword.

• Dugu Mo recounted how the righteous sects betrayed him, how his father sacrificed himself to help him escape, and how he created the Sect Breaking Art while trapped in the tomb.
• Dugu Mo asked Lu Feng to retrieve the Sect Breaking Art and judge whether to reveal or destroy it based on the Five Elements Sect’s conduct.
• Dugu Mo explained that Lu Feng could leave the Formless Sword Domain by comprehending the Killing Heart Art, and offered to guide Jun Ziyi alongside Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng accepted Dugu Mo’s letter for Mad Thief’s descendants and quickly comprehended the Killing Heart Art, reaching its second level, Killing Will.
• Dugu Mo warned Lu Feng not to let the killing heart control him, then faded away as his lingering regret disappeared.
• Lu Feng used his killing will to open a passage out of the domain and emerged to find Jin Xuan and the Heavenly Venerable confronting Si Kongtong and Wu Ying.

Lu Feng rescued Si Kongtong and Wu Ying, killed Tianzun, and learned that Jin Xuan was a high-ranking Blood Demon who escaped with the Sect Breaking Art. After the group discussed their plans to restore the Bottle Spirit Sect, Lu Feng claimed Senior Sword Fool’s treasured sword.

• Lu Feng killed Tianzun with one sword, but Jin Xuan escaped with the Sect Breaking Art.
• Lu Feng searched Tianzun’s remnant soul and learned that Jin Xuan likely had innate blood markings above Fifth Grade before Tianzun destroyed his soul to protect the Blood Clan’s secrets.
• Wu Ying revealed that he had reached the Earth Soul Realm, and Si Kongtong explained that she had found Bottle Spirit Sect treasures in her burial chamber.
• Lu Feng asked Wu Ying to help Si Kongtong restore the Bottle Spirit Sect, and Wu Ying agreed while sharing the letter’s clue about the true Tomb of the Mad Thief.
• Wu Ying destroyed the recovered half of the Sect Breaking Art, and Lu Feng retrieved Senior Sword Fool’s pale white longsword from behind the wall.

Lu Feng claimed the Mo Yuan Sword and left the sealed secret realm with Wu Ying and Si Kongtong. After Si Kongtong asked him not to forget her, Lu Feng found Jiang Ruoyun injured by Jin Xuan and discovered her unusual method of cultivating all five elements at once.

• Lu Feng learned that the Mo Yuan Sword held Dugu Mo’s remnant soul and that its Domain Realm could no longer be opened after it left the formation.
• Wu Ying and Lu Feng parted, and Lu Feng promised Si Kongtong he would visit her sect in Profound Gold City.
• Si Kongtong gave Lu Feng her peachwood hairpin, asked him not to forget her, and walked away.
• Lu Feng found Jiang Ruoyun unconscious beneath a fallen tree with a palm mark from Jin Xuan, but chose to treat her instead of pursuing him.
• As he healed Jiang Ruoyun, Lu Feng discovered that her Soul Plate let her refine five kinds of elemental qi simultaneously and realized how powerful she might become once they were saturated.

Lu Feng reunited with Jiang Ruoyun after her memories returned, but learned she had cultivated the Heartless Sutra and needed to return to the Love Tomb. They promised to reunite in one year, when Lu Feng would come to bring her home.

• Lu Feng held Jiang Ruoyun as she woke, and after a kiss she admitted that memories of him had returned when she saw their fruit-brewed wine.
• Lu Feng killed a giant python that approached them, and Jiang Ruoyun explained that Fan Yi and the others had come to eliminate him.
• Jiang Ruoyun warned Lu Feng that the Love Tomb could use deadly assassination methods and revealed that she had cultivated the Heartless Sutra.
• Jiang Ruoyun explained that the Heartless Sutra and a terrifying aura had shaped her unusual meridians and Soul Plate, making her cultivation system impossible to replicate.
• Jiang Ruoyun decided to return to the Love Tomb, and she and Lu Feng promised to reunite in one year, when he would bring her home.

Lu Feng reached Tian Yuan City and found it sealed by Spirit Prison under a heaven-grade Quilt Ice Heaven Chill Array after a calamity had left many residents violently mad. He reunited with Zhao Yan, learned that Zhao An had killed the people in the alley, and suspected the city’s madness came from Star Fiend Corpse Poison.

• Lu Feng found Tian Yuan City surrounded by black clouds and sealed by a heaven-grade array that allowed entry but prevented escape.
• Two Spirit Prison Prison Officers tried to arrest Lu Feng, but he forced his way into the city and headed toward Prison Manor.
• Lu Feng found Zhao Yan confronting Zhao An and Zhao An’s mother in an alley, where numerous people had been killed.
• Zhao Yan spared Zhao An and explained that he had been delayed in the city after arriving to seek revenge.
• Zhao Yan told Lu Feng that many residents had gone mad, felt no pain, and attacked others, leading Lu Feng to suspect Star Fiend Corpse Poison.

Lu Feng learned that the Star Fiend Corpse Poison had spread through Tian Yuan City and helped Zhao Yan escape the city before confronting Grand Prison officers who sought to arrest him. Heaven's Wrath secured Lu Feng an hour before he had to meet Xian Yang Zun, then revealed that Ye Fan’s Prison Heart Pledge had so far prevented the city from being frozen and destroyed.

• Lu Feng understood that the poison outbreak was tied to Zhou Zhi’s theft, while Zhao Yan thanked Zhao Yan for saving his mother and stopping the poison from spreading to him.
• Zhao Yan asked whether he had betrayed his mother by sparing Zhao An; Lu Feng reassured him, and Zhao Yan’s resolve advanced him into the Core Formation Realm.
• Lu Feng broke through the Quilt Ice Heaven Chill Array long enough to send Zhao Yan outside Tian Yuan City, then faced four Grand Prison Prison Master Lords who tried to arrest him.
• Heaven's Wrath arrived to protect Lu Feng and persuaded the four officers to give them one hour to report to Xian Yang Zun.
• Heaven's Wrath told Lu Feng that the city had nearly been frozen by the array and that Ye Fan’s Prison Heart Pledge had delayed that order.

Lu Feng returned to Tian Yuan City and learned that the Chai, Zhao, and Zhou Residences had helped spread Star Fiend Corpse Poison, leaving the city devastated. Ye Fan was close to finding an antidote, and Lu Feng gave him two medical texts before going to meet the arriving Grand Prison forces.

• Heaven's Wrath showed Lu Feng the many infected people in the Prison Manor and explained that Ye Fan had been treating them without rest.
• Xing Qi told Lu Feng that the Chai and Zhao Residences had distributed poisoned food, while Zhou Zhi and the Blood Clan had helped set the outbreak in motion; the poison had been refined beneath the Old Zhou Manor Site.
• Wang Wei reported that the captured human conspirators, including Zhuo Fu Nan and Zhuo Jing Xiong, had already been taken away by the Grand Prison, while the Blood Clan members had escaped or killed themselves.
• Ye Fan said he had nearly developed an antidote but still lacked its final poison catalyst, and Lu Feng learned that the sect disciples had nearly been wiped out and the Blood Clan had taken the Sect Breaking Art.
• Lu Feng gave Ye Fan the Qing Ding Sect's Poison Scripture and Spirit Void Thirteen Needles, then went outside to meet the approaching Grand Prison forces.

Lu Feng confronted Xian Yang Zun and the Grand Prison’s Heaven Soul Realm Soul Masters over Tian Yuan City’s disaster, arguing that the Spirit Prison had ignored his warning about the Blood Clan. He left Jue Ming a way to avoid blame by suggesting Prison Director Kang Yangyi may have failed to pass on the report.

• Xian Yang Zun accused Lu Feng of incompetence, but Lu Feng calmly challenged him and accused the Grand Prison of wrongdoing.
• Lu Feng revealed that Zhuo Heng and the Chai, Zhao, and Zhou households had colluded with the Blood Clan and used Star Fiend Corpse Poison to distract the Spirit Prison while pursuing treasure in the Tomb of the Mad Thief.
• Ice Scythe accused Lu Feng of negligence, and Lu Feng replied that he had reported the poison months earlier and requested reinforcements.
• Lu Feng named Prison Envoy Fan Shaobo as a witness, drawing the scrutiny of Prison Lord Jue Ming, who denied receiving any report.
• Lu Feng suggested Fan Shaobo had reported the matter to Prison Director Kang Yangyi, leaving open the possibility that Kang Yangyi was responsible for the failure to act.