Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng defied Xian Yang Zun after being blamed for failing to protect Tian Yuan City, while Ye Fan discovered a way to control the Star Fiend Corpse Poison. As Xian Yang Zun insisted the city be destroyed at midnight unless the antidote was finished, a powerful newcomer arrived with Fan Linlin, leaving Lu Feng to suspect the man’s identity.

• Jue Ming blamed Kang Yangyi for the Spirit Prison’s negligence, but Xian Yang Zun still tried to punish Lu Feng for being absent during the crisis.
• Lu Feng threw down his Prison Token and resigned, while Wang Wei and Xing Qi gave up their Prison Disciple Tokens and pledged to follow him.
• Lu Feng confronted Xian Yang Zun as Heaven's Wrath prepared to protect him, but Ice Scythe reminded Xian Yang Zun that Ye Fan’s Prison Heart Pledge bound him to destroy Tian Yuan City if the antidote was not ready.
• Ye Fan announced that he had found a way to control the Star Fiend Corpse Poison, but Xian Yang Zun insisted the Quilt Ice Heaven Chill Array be activated at midnight because the antidote was not yet complete.
• A formidable Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage soul master arrived and challenged Xian Yang Zun, then Fan Linlin joined Lu Feng, who suspected the newcomer was her relative.

Fan Teng arrived in Tian Yuan City, overruled Xian Yang Zun to postpone Ye Fan’s Prison Heart Pledge deadline, and met Lu Feng. After bonding over tea, Fan Teng agreed to warn the Five Elements Sect about the Blood Clan’s theft of the Sect Breaking Art, but refused to discuss the Blood Clan further.

• Fan Linlin introduced Lu Feng to Fan Teng, who judged Lu Feng’s appearance and composure while she privately complained about her father’s strict upbringing.
• Fan Teng overruled Xian Yang Zun, arguing that saving Tian Yuan City mattered more than the Prison Heart Pledge, and postponed its deadline by one day.
• After the crowd dispersed, Lu Feng sent Wang Wei and Xing Qi to assist Ye Fan, while Fan Linlin introduced him to Fan Teng as the man who had saved her in Black Wind Town.
• Fan Teng offered Lu Feng a post in the Grand Prison, but Lu Feng declined; Fan Teng then invited him to call him Uncle Fan.
• Fan Teng and Lu Feng talked over tea, and Lu Feng warned him that the Blood Clan had obtained the Sect Breaking Art; Fan Teng promised to inform the Five Elements Sect but refused to disclose anything about the Blood Clan.

Wang Wei and Xing Qi developed an antidote that ended Tian Yuan City's Star Fiend Corpse Poison crisis, and Lu Feng confirmed that Ma Qiufeng, Luo Yu'er, and Night Feather Hall were safe. As he began planning Night Feather Hall's growth, he ordered the group to investigate Jun Man Restaurant's suspicious silence.

• Wang Wei and Xing Qi told Lu Feng that the antidote worked and that the poisoned men had regained consciousness, and Fan Teng confirmed the cure before leaving with Fan Linlin.
• Lu Feng ordered the antidote mixed into porridge for all Tian Yuan City residents, and Wang Wei organized its distribution as the city returned to order.
• Lu Feng found Ma Qiufeng supporting Luo Yu'er, learned she had only been lightly poisoned, and watched them leave together to travel the jianghu.
• Lu Feng met Blazing Enchantress and the Night Feather Hall members at the silk shop, learned Bai Li had gone to Fortune Source City to seek Grandpa Ghost, and considered expanding the group.
• Lu Feng told Blazing Enchantress and the others to secretly monitor Jun Man Restaurant because its lack of response to the crisis seemed suspicious.

Lu Feng returned to the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison after learning Old Book was gravely injured, only to discover that Old Book had sacrificed his arm to retrieve Central Palace Earth for him. Lu Feng absorbed the Earth Element Qi, while Old Book and Ruo Shui stood guard as he began refining it.

• Tian Yuan City mourned its dead, and the Su Estate absorbed the Zhao, Chai, and Zhou families’ properties as Lu Feng prepared to hand over his prison officer duties.
• Heaven's Wrath rushed Lu Feng to the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison and told him Old Book had been hurt.
• Lu Feng found Old Book’s left arm petrified and initially believed an enemy had injured him, but Old Book explained that he had damaged it himself retrieving Central Palace Earth.
• Old Book revealed that the pure Earth Element Qi could enhance Lu Feng’s Soul Plate and urged him to absorb it, since Lu Feng’s Soul Plate could still take in more Element Qi.
• Lu Feng absorbed the Earth Element Qi from Old Book’s arm, and Old Book’s condition improved as he and Ruo Shui went to guard Lu Feng while he refined it.

Lu Feng emerged after successfully refining Central Palace Earth, revealing Earth Element Qi that surpassed the Five Elements Pure Body and harmonized with his Gold Element Qi. Old Book explained the five kinds of Profound Qi and warned that Lu Feng would need to find the remaining three; Southern God Fire might be in the Battle Realm, and Heaven's Wrath offered to help him seek it.

• Heaven's Wrath learned that Old Book believed Lu Feng could become a monster who would overturn the cultivation world's understanding.
• Lu Feng emerged from his room after successfully refining Central Palace Earth and used its Earth Element Qi to soothe Old Book's injured left arm.
• Heaven's Wrath realized Lu Feng's Earth Element Qi exceeded the level of a Five Elements Pure Body and harmonized with his similarly exceptional Gold Element Qi.
• Old Book explained that the five kinds of Profound Qi were Western Soul Gold, Central Palace Earth, Southern God Fire, Eastern Soul Wood, and Northern Essence Water.
• Old Book warned Lu Feng that he would need to find the remaining three kinds of Profound Qi to continue advancing, and said Southern God Fire might be in the Battle Realm.
• Heaven's Wrath asked how they could obtain Southern God Fire and offered to help Lu Feng find it.

Lu Feng learned that the Southern God Fire might be in the Battle Realm and considered seeking the Eastern Soul Wood in the Earth Profound Domain. After Bai Bing visited him to ask him to keep his promise, Bai Xue arrived at his door in the middle of the night.

• Old Book said he only suspected the Southern God Fire was in the Battle Realm, and Heaven's Wrath left to seek updates from nearby spirit prisons.
• Lu Feng suggested the Eastern Soul Wood might be in the Earth Profound Domain and planned to contact Jun Zi Mo before the trial ended.
• Lu Feng saw Old Book leave for Book Sea to keep searching for the Northern Essence Water, then stayed up studying the Dao of arrays.
• Bai Bing visited Lu Feng dressed elegantly, told him she and Xue Er would soon return, and asked him to come to Heaven Lotus Sect as he had promised.
• Lu Feng reaffirmed his promise to serve as Bai Bing's shield and decided he would later speak on her behalf to the great sect.
• After Bai Bing left, Bai Xue came to Lu Feng's door in plain nightclothes, and he asked why she had come.

Bai Xue visited Lu Feng before leaving for the Heaven Lotus Sect, revealing her feelings and offering to take the blame for ruining her arranged marriage. The next morning, Lu Feng learned Qian Xin had sent an urgent distress signal and rushed to the Beast Hall to obtain a mount.

• Bai Xue told Lu Feng she was returning to the Snow Region and learned that he had given Bai Bing the Cold Heart Sword.
• Bai Xue urged Lu Feng to choose Bai Bing, then proposed spreading a story that he had ruined her reputation so she could avoid her own marriage arrangement.
• Bai Xue left Lu Feng's room wearing his outer garment, and Ruo Shui worried about what had happened between them.
• Lu Feng and Ruo Shui went to see the sisters off but learned they had already left the Spirit Prison before dawn.
• Qian Xin's Message Soul Jade shattered, and Lu Feng realized his students were in grave danger in the Eastern Extremity Mountain Range.
• Lu Feng hurried to the Beast Hall to borrow an Iron Winged Sky Eagle, but the attendant demanded an authorization slip.

Lu Feng forced his way into Beast Hall, subdued an untamed Earth Soul Realm Iron Winged Sky Eagle, and escaped Thunder Fire to rush toward the Eastern Extremity Mountain Range. After receiving Shao Yang’s final soul jade transmission, he found his students trapped in a ravine by Zhou Zhi and Beast Taming Manor.

• Lu Feng broke into Beast Hall’s rear courtyard and smashed his instructor token into the Beast Hall plaque when Zhou Qu tried to stop him.
• Lu Feng shattered the Iron Winged Sky Eagle’s cage and cowed the beast into carrying him away.
• Thunder Fire attacked Lu Feng with his Fire Cloud Palm, but Lu Feng broke the attack with the Mo Yuan Sword and flew off without being pursued.
• Lu Feng received Shao Yang’s final transmission and hurried to the Eastern Extremity Mountain Range on the Iron Winged Sky Eagle.
• Lu Feng found Shao Yang, Qian Xin, Jun Ziyi, Shao Yue, Ning Xiang, Man Zhongli, and Zhao Yan injured and surrounded by soul beasts and soul masters led by Zhou Zhi, who had joined Beast Taming Manor.

Shao Yang and his companions were cornered by Soul Beasts and Beast Taming Manor, but they joined their Plain Heart Rings to fight back. Lu Feng arrived just as Jun Ziyi was about to be killed and showed a new level of power, leaving Zhou Zhi terrified.

• Shao Yang led Shao Yue, Jun Ziyi, Qian Xin, Ning Xiang, Man Zhongli, and Zhao Yan in forming an array with their Plain Heart Rings, creating a powerful phantom that fought the Soul Beasts.
• The middle-aged Beast Taming Manor commander sent Five Elements Soul Beasts against them, and the array collapsed after Shao Yang killed several beasts and the group was overwhelmed.
• Jun Ziyi tried to challenge the commander to buy time, but a giant python advanced on her, so Shao Yang stepped in to take her place.
• Lu Feng's sheathed Mo Yuan Sword fell from the sky and pinned the giant python, then Lu Feng descended and confronted Zhou Zhi and Xing Hu.
• Xing Hu sent Soul Beasts to attack Lu Feng, but Lu Feng killed the charging beasts with earthen spears and revealed power at the Five Elements Two Qi Realm.

Lu Feng defeated Xing Hu and Zhou Zhi after they attacked him and his students, then used Ghost Control Patterns to subdue the surviving soul beasts. As the students recovered, a Heaven-Earth Spirit Tide began gathering around them, rapidly nourishing their cultivation.

• Lu Feng slaughtered Xing Hu's enhanced Five Elements Realm soul beasts with basic sword forms, then killed Zhou Zhi as he tried to escape on a black eagle.
• Xing Hu pleaded for mercy and offered Lu Feng a place in Beast Taming Manor, but Lu Feng revealed that Xing Hu was Xing Luan's brother and rejected his attempt to bargain.
• Xing Hu tried to flee after attacking Lu Feng with his scabbard, but Lu Feng killed him with a sword strike from his finger.
• Lu Feng took the storage artifacts, marked the surviving soul beasts with Ghost Control Patterns, and prepared to store them in the Kirin Ring.
• A Heaven-Earth Spirit Tide formed around the recovering students, and their cultivation began rising as the spiritual qi nourished them.

During the Spiritual Qi Tide, Lu Feng helped his students break through and realized how to make better use of the array beasts. After the tide ended, he gave Jun Ziyi the Mo Yuan Sword, leaving her astonished and reluctant to accept it.

• Lu Feng stored the dead soul beasts for feed, then guided Zhao Yan and Man Zhongli through Core Formation Realm cultivation and helped Shao Yue and Ning Xiang break into the Core Plate Realm.
• Lu Feng stopped Shao Yang from attempting the Five Elements Realm without Five Elements Qi, while Qian Xin and Jun Ziyi continued cultivating on their own.
• After the Spiritual Qi Tide strengthened the array beasts, Lu Feng heard their roars and realized a new arrangement for them.
• By daybreak, the students had stabilized in the Core Plate Realm, and the Iron Winged Sky Eagle remained in the gorge at the middle-to-late Earth Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng showed Jun Ziyi the Mo Yuan Sword and told her it would be her personal sword, but she tried to return it because she considered it too precious.

After resigning as prison officer, Lu Feng visited Su Estate and discovered that Su Qing'er had carefully preserved mementos of him and copied down his words. He realized she might have feelings for him just as Su Qing'er rushed in and caught him reading her private collection.

• Lu Feng gave Jun Ziyi the Mo Yuan Sword, then returned to Tian Yuan City while Jun Ziyi and the others continued their trial journey.
• Lu Feng ordered Night Feather Hall to investigate Beast Taming Manor and prepare to confront it over its alliance against his students.
• Lu Feng completed his handover at Prison Manor, thanked Wang Wei, Dan Wu, Zheng Ba, and Xing Qi, and left his post.
• Lu Feng visited Su Estate and found his own old shackles, bloodstained robe, broken jade zither, and an unfinished portrait in Su Qing'er's room.
• Lu Feng read passages Su Qing'er had copied from his words and realized the objects and writing showed her feelings for him.
• Su Qing'er hurried into the room and screamed when she saw Lu Feng looking through her private things.

After Su Mo exposed Su Qing'er’s private feelings and pressed Lu Feng to say what he thought of her, Lu Feng gave only a polite, noncommittal answer. Later that night, encouraged by recent losses and Su Mo’s words, Su Qing'er slipped into Lu Feng’s room, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Su Mo secretly arranged for Lu Feng to see the strange objects in Su Qing'er's side room, and Su Qing'er hurried him away when he found her there.
• At dinner, Su Mo thanked Lu Feng for saving the siblings, helping Su Estate, and protecting Tian Yuan City before asking what he thought of Su Qing'er.
• Embarrassed, Su Qing'er left the table, while Lu Feng described her as thoughtful and capable without answering whether he had feelings for her.
• Su Qing'er's mother invited Lu Feng to stay and attend Jun Man Restaurant’s reopening, and he accepted so he could investigate Earth Profound Domain.
• After reviewing his plans to obtain the Southern God Fire and Eastern Soul Wood, Lu Feng opened his door near midnight and Su Qing'er slipped into his room.

Su Qing'er confessed her feelings to Lu Feng, but he rejected her because he already had a partner, and she left for Spirit Prison before dawn. At Jun Man Restaurant’s reopening, Lu Feng reunited with his students and learned that the Sacred Domain and major sects had driven the Blood Clan into the Western Continent, while the new Azure List ranked Hundred Swords Qi Su second.

• Su Qing'er undressed and confessed that she liked Lu Feng, but he refused her and told her his partner would mind; she left his room in tears, determined to become stronger.
• Su Qing'er returned to Spirit Prison before dawn because sect forces had arrived there to select disciples.
• Lu Feng reopened Jun Man Restaurant with Su Xiu, and Jun Ziyi, Shao Yang, Qian Xin, and the others arrived to ask about recent events.
• Lu Feng and his students examined the restaurant’s news plaques and read that the Sacred Domain and major sects had declared war on the Blood Clan, forcing it into the Western Continent.
• Lu Feng and the others learned that Hundred Swords Qi Su had recreated the Night Feather Sword Master’s former glory and ranked second on the new Azure List.

Lu Feng and his students learned that Hundred Swords Qi Su, a rogue array master, had caused a bloody upheaval in the Earth Profound Domain by commanding a hundred swords. Lu Feng also confirmed that no news of the Eastern Soul Wood had surfaced and prepared to return to the world he had left three years earlier.

• Qian Xin worried that the Blood Clan had retreated to the Western Continent for a purpose, while Lu Feng suspected they were buying time for their Half-Step Saint Soul Realm expert to break through.
• Jun Ziyi bought the Azure List roster and discovered that Hundred Swords Qi Su had risen to second place within three years.
• Jun Ziyi gathered reports describing Qi Su as an array master who controlled a hundred Earth-grade swords and overwhelmed the soulmasters in the Earth Profound Domain.
• Jun Ziyi explained that Qi Su’s slaughter began after repeated attacks on him and his soulmate, and that he killed those who ambushed him and destroyed several forces.
• Lu Feng reasoned that Qi Su had likely developed his unprecedented sword array himself, then bought information about recruiting factions and other events in the Earth Profound Domain.
• Lu Feng learned that the Eastern Soul Wood had not been reported found and distributed faction information to his students as he prepared to return to the world he knew.

Lu Feng and the students learned that many powerful sects would recruit at Eastern Origin Spirit Prison, and he planned to help them choose suitable paths before they parted. After learning of Qu Kan’s violent revenge and sensing a watcher on the road, Lu Feng returned to the Spirit Prison, where Ruo Shui joyfully reunited with him and the others.

• Shao Yang explained that the Night Feather Sword Master’s appearance in Profound Wind City had drawn many sect forces to recruit graduates at Eastern Origin Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng encouraged Zhao Yan, Man Zhongli, Shao Yang, and the others to prepare for recruitment, while Jun Ziyi said she wanted to watch the sword sect tournament hosted by Azure Peak Sword Sect.
• Lu Feng agreed to accompany Jun Ziyi to the tournament after recruitment and planned to help the students select sects suited to their cultivation styles.
• Lu Feng read that Qu Kan had avenged Qu Qianli by killing Qu Quan and destroying the Jia Family’s and City Lord’s Mansion’s foundations, and that the Spirit Prison had issued a wanted order for him.
• Lu Feng sensed a concealed gaze following him as he led the students back to the Spirit Prison.
• Ruo Shui, who had been waiting at the gates after earning her graduation prison badge, reunited happily with Lu Feng, Shao Yue, Ning Xiang, and the others.

Lu Feng and his companions discussed the missing Little Silver and Tang Yuan's demanding path to the Five Elements Realm, while planning for Ruo Shui's future and their own departure from the Spirit Prison. The chapter ended with Ye Fan warning that reaching the Grand Illusionary Realm through the reopened Battle Realm would be harder than before.

• Lu Feng learned that Little Silver was still missing, and he and Ye Fan suspected the Blood Clan or Beast Taming Manor; Lu Feng vowed to destroy Beast Taming Manor if it had harmed the bear.
• Tang Yuan showed Lu Feng the Extremely Nether Sand Serpent beast core Old Book had obtained, and Tang Yuan agreed to seek four more pure-element cores before attempting to break through.
• Lu Feng urged Ruo Shui to consider joining Cloud Essence Temple, and Ye Fan explained that he and Lu Feng would eventually leave the Spirit Prison too.
• Ye Fan returned Lu Feng's instructor identity prison token and said the Battle Realm entrances would reopen after the visiting forces departed, with entry costing one hundred thousand spirit merits.
• Lu Feng explained that graduation rewards from his disciples could cover the entry cost, but Ye Fan warned that reaching the Grand Illusionary Realm inside the Battle Realm would be much more difficult.

Lu Feng learned about the Heaven and Earth Gates and prepared his disciples for the upcoming recruitment, while discovering that many of his former enemies had arrived at the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison. He failed to meet Chu Yunjing and learned that Luo Qingqiu had stopped playing the xiao after his apparent death, but found out she was staying with the Wonder Sound Sword Sect.

• Ye Fan explained that the Heaven and Earth Gates would control entry to the Grand Illusionary Realm, with different requirements for soul masters of different cultivation levels.
• Lu Feng trained Man Zhongli, Zhao Yan, and the others in the Martial Hall, and sent Shao Yang, Qian Xin, and Jun Ziyi to the Five Elements Pagoda to prepare for breakthroughs.
• Lu Feng learned that many sects that had once besieged him had arrived at the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison, while the Clear River Sect was expected the next day.
• Lu Feng visited the Battle Sect courtyard but learned Chu Yunjing had not come with them.
• A Phantom Sound Valley disciple told Lu Feng that Luo Qingqiu had not played the xiao for three years, ever since her friend died after returning from the Northern Nether Spirit Prison.
• The disciple told Lu Feng that Luo Qingqiu was at the Wonder Sound Sword Sect, and he left hopeful that he would see her at the upcoming sword sect tournament.

Lu Feng brought his students to the sect recruitment convention after helping several of them break through to the Five Elements Realm. At the plaza, he recognized the Clear River Sect representative as his senior brother Rui Ye, then spotted Yin Xiaolou, the woman who had pursued him over the Night Feather Sword and a forced marriage.

• Lu Feng helped Shao Yang, Jun Ziyi, and Qian Xin stabilize their new Five Elements Realm cultivation, while Shao Yue, Ning Xiang, Man Zhongli, and Zhao Yan continued to improve.
• Lu Feng led his students to the recruitment convention, where the first pressure screening eliminated all but a few dozen Core Formation Realm participants and exposed a Core Plate Realm Soul Master who had infiltrated the test.
• Heaven's Wrath Prison Master invited Rui Ye of Clear River Sect to test the Core Plate Realm participants, and Lu Feng recognized his old senior brother, who had reached the Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage.
• Fewer than thirty Core Plate Realm Soul Masters endured Rui Ye's pressure for an incense stick's time, while Tang Yuan, Ning Xiang, and Lu Feng's other students remained standing.
• Lu Feng saw Yin Xiaolou among the Eight Great Sword Sects and recalled how she had pursued him after he fled her demand that he marry her for taking the Night Feather Sword.

Lu Feng advised his students on which sects suited their talents, then left the recruitment grounds with Jun Ziyi to attend the Azure Peak Sword Sect tournament. On the road, he sensed a powerful hidden presence following them and hurried on through the night.

• Lu Feng warned the students that the next day's recruitment assessment would be the real test and recommended sects suited to each of them.
• Lu Feng told Zhao Yan to consider Hidden Edge Valley and advised the other students about sects matching their skills and circumstances.
• Lu Feng said he would not take part in the remaining recruitment assessments and left the students in Ye Fan's care.
• Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi bought horses and rode toward the Azure Peak Mountain Range after the Beast Hall refused to lend them an Iron Winged Sky Eagle.
• Jun Ziyi learned that Lu Feng had been invited to represent the Azure Peak Sword Sect at its tournament.
• Lu Feng sensed a hidden figure with strength at least at the Heaven Soul Realm and decided that he and Jun Ziyi would travel through the night.