Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ruoyun broke ties with Jiang Manor and chose to leave with Xiao Rou, while she and Lu Feng went to Qu Estate to investigate the Poisonous Miasma Qi. They met Qu Qianli, who explained how he and his grandson Qu Huai had been poisoned, and Qu Kan arrived after hearing an array expert was visiting.

• Jiang Ruoyun declared that she would have nothing more to do with Jiang Manor, and Jiang Juetian ordered a servant to investigate Lu Feng.
• Jiang Ruoyun told Xiao Rou to stay behind, but Xiao Rou confessed that Jiang He and Jiang Feng had once sent her to watch Jiang Ruoyun and begged to follow her; Jiang Ruoyun agreed.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun left Xiao Rou at an inn and went to Qu Estate, where Lu Feng saw through its false entrance and led Jiang Ruoyun past an Illusory Sound Array.
• Qu Qianli welcomed Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun, thanked Lu Feng for helping him recover with jade, and described how Poisonous Miasma Qi at Sky Wolf Mausoleum had harmed him and Qu Huai.
• Qu Kan arrived after hearing that an expert in the Dao of arrays had come to Qu Estate.

Lu Feng competed against Qu Kan in array inscription and decisively proved his skill, leaving Qu Kan stunned by a nine-star pattern despite his Three Soul Realm strength. After collecting the wager, Lu Feng returned to the inn with Jiang Ruoyun and Xiao Rou, saying he had somewhere else to go for the night.

• Qu Kan challenged Lu Feng to an array-inscription contest, and Lu Feng proposed a wager of three Tier Four beast cores.
• Lu Feng quickly inscribed three jade stones while Qu Kan completed only one and a half before the incense burned out.
• Qu Kan examined Lu Feng's work and discovered flawless patterns, including a six-angle Star Activation Pattern and a nine-star array.
• Qu Kan accepted his defeat and handed Lu Feng three beast cores, while Qu Qianli wondered about Lu Feng's resources and background.
• Lu Feng returned with Jiang Ruoyun to the inn where Xiao Rou was staying, and Jiang Ruoyun silently wondered why she cared where he would spend the night.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun harmonized their spiritual energy, strengthening both of them, before meeting Tang Yuan and Yan Mingchi to investigate attacks on the Eight Manors. They confirmed a powerful group was targeting the manors and planned to investigate Shi Manor and Sky Wolf Mausoleum the next day.

• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun harmonized their spiritual energy, purified it, and helped Jiang Ruoyun approach a breakthrough toward the fourth soul.
• Xiao Rou misunderstood the situation after seeing Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng in the disheveled room, and Jiang Ruoyun tried to explain.
• At Gathering Fragrance Garden, Tang Yuan reported that Cheng Zhishu had been badly wounded by a Six Soul Realm attacker and Ma Haofeng had been poisoned and attacked in the pleasure district.
• Lu Feng told Tang Yuan and Yan Mingchi about the trouble at Qu Estate, and the group concluded that someone was secretly plotting against the Eight Manors.
• Tang Yuan proposed that he and Yan Mingchi investigate Sky Wolf Mausoleum while Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun visited Shi Manor the next day.

Lu Feng suppressed Tang Yuan’s beastified arm with a Spirit Suppression Array and learned from Tang Xuan that Tang Yuan’s cultivation combined body refinement with a Beast Art inherited from his mother. The conversation ended with Lu Feng asking whether a true dragon core could replace the chaotic Beast Power in Tang Yuan’s body.

• Lu Feng returned to Tang Manor with Tang Yuan and learned that Tang Xuan had founded the manor after destroying Wang Manor.
• Lu Feng used a Spirit Suppression Array to restore Tang Yuan’s beastified arm to normal, overcoming the Body Refinement Technique’s resistance after Tang Yuan lowered his protective pattern.
• Tang Xuan summoned Lu Feng and revealed that he had taught Tang Yuan body refinement, while Tang Yuan’s Beast Art had come from his mother.
• Tang Xuan explained that he had hoped the two cultivation arts would let Tang Yuan absorb stronger beast cores, but Tang Yuan’s mismatched cores had left chaotic Beast Power in his body.
• Lu Feng suggested that a powerful beast core might replace the chaotic energy and asked whether the true dragon once said to exist in Azure Dragon Town could provide one.

Lu Feng investigated the strange events in Azure Dragon Town, found a mysterious stone stool linked to a possible true dragon, and learned that Sky Wolf Mausoleum’s wolves had badly injured Shi You. After selling Shi Manor a healing prescription, he prepared supplies and arranged to consign Lotus Insect Grass as Tang Yuan and Yan Mingchi headed toward the mausoleum.

• Tang Xuan told Lu Feng that Prison Manor had once ordered him to preserve Wang Manor’s black stone stool because it could save Azure Dragon Town, and Lu Feng sensed it was connected to a true dragon.
• Lu Feng stayed the night at Tang Manor, then met Tang Yuan, Jiang Ruoyun, and Yan Mingchi; Tang Yuan and Yan Mingchi set off for Sky Wolf Mausoleum while Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun went to Shi Manor.
• Lu Feng sold Old Man Shi the Blood Return Powder prescription for one hundred thousand Copper Soul Coins and learned that Shi You had been mauled by a pack of wolves at Sky Wolf Mausoleum.
• Lu Feng gave Jiang Ruoyun money to rent a house and asked her to consign his Lotus Insect Grass for eight hundred Copper Soul Coins per stalk.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun prepared for their journey into Sky Wolf Mausoleum, where they searched for Tang Yuan and discovered that he was confronting a dangerous mass of miasma. Tang Yuan and Yan Mingchi escaped into the foggy forest as the chapter ended.

• Lu Feng collected the completed special arrow fletchings, bought poison and array materials, and met Jiang Ruoyun after she consigned Lotus Insect Grass.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun entered Sky Wolf Mausoleum and chose a detour around a mudslide to avoid leaving traces that might attract wolves.
• As fog thickened, Lu Feng gave Jiang Ruoyun a Black Jade Cloud Stone inscribed with array patterns to protect them from miasma.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun reached the place where Qu Estate and Shi Manor had been injured, but found no wolves or miasma there.
• Tang Yuan used a golden object to suppress the miasma while retreating with Yan Mingchi, and both fled into the foggy forest.

Lu Feng entered the deadly miasma with Tang Yuan’s Ocean Stabilizing Golden Bell and discovered a sinister array, which he repurposed to absorb the miasma into cloud jade. After the miasma cleared, Lu Feng reunited with Tang Yuan, Yan Mingchi, and Jiang Ruoyun, only for them to be surrounded by an enormous, apparently controlled pack of blood-eyed wolves.

• Yan Mingchi was stricken by the miasma, and Lu Feng found that ordinary Atractylodes Lancea Root could barely repel it.
• Tang Yuan mapped the route through the miasma and lent Lu Feng the Ocean Stabilizing Golden Bell so he could investigate the array.
• Lu Feng found that a second-tier Auxiliary Array had been altered into a sinister miasma array, then sealed its core and used the Flowing Cloud Spirit Array to draw the miasma into cloud jade.
• The miasma dissipated, but a pack of blood-eyed wolves appeared and surrounded Lu Feng as he returned to Tang Yuan, Yan Mingchi, and Jiang Ruoyun.
• Tang Yuan and Lu Feng realized that the wolves were moving in an orderly formation and seemed to be under someone’s control.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and their companions defeated a pack of drug-frenzied wolves and discovered evidence that someone was secretly refining vicious pills in Sky Wolf Mausoleum. As the group returned to Azure Dragon Town, Qiao Xue'er appeared, and Lu Feng urged Tang Yuan to stop avoiding her and face his feelings.

• Tang Yuan's eagle cry disrupted the wolves' control, and Lu Feng used a Sound Arrow to scatter the pack and help the group defeat it.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan concluded that sound controlled the wolves and that the beasts had likely been fed a violent medicinal pill.
• The group found a hidden cave full of wolf bones, pill-making remnants, and marks where a Medicine Cauldron had stood, but discovered no culprit.
• Yan Mingchi invited the group to attend Xiao He's burial the next day, and Lu Feng decided he could ask Old Man Shi about his doubts there.
• At the town gate, Jiang Ruoyun recognized Qiao Xue'er, and Lu Feng urged Tang Yuan not to avoid her if he truly wanted to be with her.

Tang Yuan reunited with Qiao Xue'er, learned that his father Tang Xuan had left, and chose to pursue the Dragon Core to cleanse his chaotic Beast Power. Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun secured a residence at Water Bamboo Pavilion with money from the Lotus Insect Grass sale, and the group ended the day teasing Jiang Ruoyun about her closeness with Lu Feng.

• Tang Yuan and Qiao Xue'er reunited, and she discovered his beastified arm and heard about the unrest in Azure Dragon Town.
• Qiao Xue'er explained how Yan Jingjing helped secure her release from Prison Manor, then agreed to negotiate the purchase of a residence for Jiang Ruoyun.
• Tang Yuan found a farewell letter from Tang Xuan, who had left to face his past and urged his son to continue the arduous path of dual cultivation of beast and body.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan restored Tang Yuan's arm with the Spirit Suppression Array, and Tang Yuan asked whether dragons really existed in Azure Dragon Town.
• Qiao Xue'er negotiated the residence price down to 230,000 Soul Coin, while Jiang Ruoyun reported that the Lotus Insect Grass sale had earned 780,000 Soul Coin.
• At Gathering Fragrance Restaurant, Qiao Xue'er teased Jiang Ruoyun about Lu Feng, and Xiao Rou reminded them that Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng were master and servant.

Lu Feng set up a Fifth Order Spirit Gathering Array at Water Bamboo Pavilion, giving Jiang Ruoyun a powerful place to cultivate. She broke through to the Four Soul Realm, and their harmonization strengthened both her meridians and Lu Feng’s cultivation as they prepared to attend Yan He's funeral.

• Lu Feng toured Water Bamboo Pavilion with Jiang Ruoyun and helped prepare the residence for them to move into.
• Lu Feng arranged a Fifth Order Spirit Gathering Array in the third-floor Cultivation Room, astonishing Jiang Ruoyun and Xiao Rou.
• Jiang Ruoyun cultivated in the array and broke through to the Four Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun harmonized their spiritual energy, stabilizing her breakthrough and loosening Lu Feng's Qi Soul Array.
• Lu Feng reminded Jiang Ruoyun that they would attend Yan He's funeral the next morning, then meditated on the unusual path of her spiritual energy.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun attended Yan He’s funeral, where they saw Yan Jingjing’s newly awakened strength and learned that Tang Yuan’s relationship with Qiao Xue’er faced opposition. The funeral procession was interrupted by Ma Qiufeng, who arrived dressed as a woman to honor his sworn friend.

• Lu Feng failed repeatedly to inscribe Jiang Ruoyun’s spiritual-energy pathways onto jade, exhausting the jade in his Storage Ring.
• Jiang Ruoyun shared her umbrella with Lu Feng as they walked to Yan Manor, where Tang Yuan explained that Qiao Xue’er’s family opposed their relationship because Tang Manor had fallen in status.
• Lu Feng recognized that Yan Jingjing had reached the Spirit Gathering Realm and explained that her seven souls had been connected from birth.
• Ma Qiufeng, dressed in women’s clothes, poured wine before Yan He’s coffin and led the funeral procession after Tang Yuan explained their vow that the survivor would die with his friend or attend his funeral dressed as a woman.

At Yan He's funeral, Ma Qiufeng revealed his hidden Spirit Gathering Realm cultivation while vowing to avenge him, and Yan Jingjing cut off her hair, took the name Yan Qing, and promised to protect the Yan Family. Later, Jiang Ruoyun faced threats from Jiang Feng and Jiang Caiyun, accepted their challenge at the Prison Official's Birthday, and Lu Feng visited Qu Qianli to buy array materials.

• Ma Qiufeng mourned Yan He, revealed his Spirit Gathering Realm strength, and swore to kill his friend's murderer.
• Yan Jingjing cut off her hair, renamed herself Yan Qing, and vowed to take on Yan He's responsibilities and protect the Yan Family.
• Tang Yuan gave Lu Feng a Spirit-Sensing Jade before choosing to continue training in the mountains, and Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun left for Water Bamboo Pavilion.
• Jiang Caiyun attacked Jiang Ruoyun, but Jiang Ruoyun repelled her and revealed that she had recovered to the Four Soul Realm; Jiang Feng and Jiang Caiyun challenged her to face them at the Prison Official's Birthday.
• Jiang Ruoyun said she might reach the Five-Souls Realm with Lu Feng's help, while Lu Feng considered a dangerous array and went to the Array Core As You Wish Shop to meet Qu Qianli.

Lu Feng bought array materials and a suspiciously cheap Qi Gathering Pill, then returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion and began fortifying it with arrays. He completed several setups and turned to the pavilion’s two wells to establish a rare Twin Spirit Array.

• Qu Qianli told Lu Feng that he and Qu Huai had recovered, then sold him array weapons and materials for more than two hundred thousand Copper Soul Coins.
• Lu Feng collected his remaining arrows and jade pendant, then bought a Qi Gathering Pill for five hundred Copper Soul Coins from a suspicious stranger.
• Lu Feng returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion, where Xiao Rou said Jiang Ruoyun was cultivating, and began planning defenses for the grounds.
• Lu Feng set up an array among the front water bamboo pools and used seven golden bells to create another array around the stone stools.
• Lu Feng concealed a Staff Array among weapon racks in the central clearing and began setting up a Twin Spirit Array using the two water wells.

Lu Feng completed the defensive arrays around Water Bamboo Pavilion and created the One Qi Tempering Spirit Array to help Jiang Ruoyun advance her cultivation. As Jiang Ruoyun used it to temper her spiritual qi, Lu Feng watched closely and began studying the qi pathways in her body.

• Lu Feng tested the Threefold Brahma Spirit Disturbance Array on Jiang Ruoyun, whose spiritual qi became disordered and left her restrained by the staffs.
• Lu Feng explained how the array’s Spirit Disturbance Pattern disrupted spiritual qi, then showed Jiang Ruoyun a suspicious Qi Gathering Pill he had bought.
• Lu Feng fortified Water Bamboo Pavilion with arrays and developed the One Qi Tempering Spirit Array using Poisonous Miasma Qi.
• Jiang Ruoyun cultivated in the new array while Lu Feng observed the miasma’s path through her body and studied her spiritual qi.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun both broke through after the miasma clashed with the mysterious aura inside her, and Lu Feng later returned alone to the desolate Worryfree Village. He began excavating the ruins of the ancestral hall, convinced that its buried chamber could explain his memories and the village’s disappearance.

• Lu Feng tried to draw the miasma out of Jiang Ruoyun, but her protective aura absorbed it and nearly devoured his spirit qi before he escaped.
• Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng discovered that they had both advanced, and Jiang Ruoyun told him that the strange aura and her cultivation technique had appeared after her Seven Souls regressed.
• Lu Feng decided to visit Worryfree Village alone while Jiang Ruoyun stayed behind to stabilize her strength before fighting Jiang Feng.
• Two days later, Lu Feng reached Worryfree Village and found it desolate, overrun with Death Qi, and covered in rotten wood and withered trees.
• Lu Feng searched the ruins for Huo Niu, Huo Yu, and the others, then began digging through the debris at the ancestral hall to uncover the buried passage.

Lu Feng returned to the passage beneath Worryfree Village and found the villagers’ corpses in a chamber full of coffins. After Huo Gen struck him, the coffins broke apart and the dead villagers gathered around an altar, leaving Lu Feng unsure whether he was witnessing an illusion or something real.

• Jiang Caiyun and Jiang Ren arranged for an array master to set an illusion array on the road Lu Feng would take back to Azure Dragon Town, and Jiang Ren vowed to kill him.
• Lu Feng entered the passage beneath Worryfree Village, found the earlier array missing, and discovered deep scratches covering the Stone Chamber walls.
• The Stone Gate opened while Lu Feng practiced archery, revealing coffins in place of the altar he remembered.
• Lu Feng recognized Bai Ji, Hibiscus, Mu Tong, Huo Yu, and Huo Gen among the dead villagers, then realized Huo Niu was missing.
• As Lu Feng searched Huo Gen’s body, Huo Gen struck him, and the coffins began shaking and breaking apart.
• The villagers rose from their coffins, reassembled the altar, and knelt around it while Lu Feng watched.

Lu Feng discovered that Worryfree Village had been an illusion formed from Huo Niu’s memories and learned the truth of the village’s destruction and Huo Niu’s pursuit of the Blood Clan. Huo Niu gave Lu Feng the Ancient Desolation Altar and Six Paths Coffin, leaving Lu Feng with a duty to defend the continent as his soul grew faint.

• The villagers’ seven kowtows activated the altar, and Lu Feng was drawn into the Six Paths Coffin inside the beast statue.
• Jiang Caiyun slapped Xiao Rou and forced her to take a Spirit-Suppressing Pill for Jiang Ruoyun, threatening her father to ensure she obeyed.
• Huo Niu told Lu Feng that Worryfree Village had vanished over a century earlier and that its villagers and events were memories recreated by his Worryfree Illusion Formation.
• Huo Niu recounted how he survived the massacre, pursued the Blood Clan’s force, destroyed one of its branches, and returned to the village mortally wounded.
• Lu Feng told Huo Niu that the Blood Clan had been driven into the Endless Desolate Domain but not destroyed, and Huo Niu explained the Six Paths Coffin’s power.
• Huo Niu gave Lu Feng the Ancient Desolation Altar and Six Paths Coffin in exchange for protecting the continent from the Blood Clan, then grew faint as Lu Feng asked why he had chosen him.

Lu Feng emerged from Worryfree Village with the Ancient Desolation Altar and Six Paths Coffin, having reached the Five-Souls Realm and opened the Spirit Wisdom Soul Formation. After turning Jiang Ren’s ambush against him, Lu Feng returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion, where Jiang Ruoyun questioned him about a prison official’s invitation and his sudden breakthrough.

• Huo Niu revealed that he had tested Lu Feng’s character and said he was fortunate to meet him before fading away, then Lu Feng was transported to Worryfree Village’s entrance.
• Lu Feng acquired the Ancient Desolation Altar and Six Paths Coffin, reached the Five-Souls Realm, and opened the Spirit Wisdom Soul Formation.
• After Worryfree Village was partly buried by a collapsing mountain, Lu Feng left and noticed a Third-Order Spirit Array set along the path.
• Jiang Ren tried to kill Lu Feng in the array, but Lu Feng reversed control and trapped Jiang Ren in terrifying illusions until his mind gave way.
• Lu Feng returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion, where Jiang Ruoyun showed him an invitation bearing his name and reacted with disbelief when he said he had reached the Five-Souls Realm.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun attended the Prison Official’s birthday banquet, where Jiang Caiyun and Jiang Feng expected Ruoyun to suffer after taking a poisoned dumpling. Lu Feng presented Natural Fruit Wine as Water Bamboo Pavilion’s gift, and the Prison Official accepted it with unusual nervousness, drawing the guests’ attention.

• Xiao Rou secretly mixed a pill Jiang Caiyun had ground into powder into Jiang Ruoyun’s favorite dumpling, then left Water Bamboo Pavilion after urging Lu Feng to protect her.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun arrived at Prison Manor without a gift, so Lu Feng decided to offer their Natural Fruit Wine.
• Jiang Batian, Jiang Feng, and Jiang Caiyun arrived with the Jiang Manor party, and Jiang Caiyun recognized Lu Feng and feared Jiang Ren had met with danger.
• Qiao Xue'er and Yan Jingjing arrived, and Yan Jingjing noticed Lu Feng but he pretended not to see her.
• The Prison Official delivered a long speech before guests presented their gifts.
• Lu Feng offered the Natural Fruit Wine directly to the Prison Official, whose nervous acceptance prompted the Ma Manor head and other guests to wonder who Lu Feng was.

At Prison Manor’s Banquet Duel, Luo Yutang challenged Ma Qiufeng, and their fight ended with Ma saving her from taking her own life and discovering she was a woman. The duel continued as Qu Huai challenged Cheng Zhishu, fueled by resentment over a woman’s attention to Cheng.

• Luo Yutang of Qingxuan Pavilion challenged Ma Qiufeng, and the two fought as she attacked fiercely while he mostly evaded her.
• Ma Qiufeng disarmed Luo Yutang, but she tried to cut her throat after declaring she could not kill him; he stopped the blade with his bare hand.
• Luo Yutang left the platform, revealing herself as a woman, while Ma Qiufeng realized he had fallen for her and the crowd noted his Spirit Gathering Realm speed.
• After the duel resumed, Qu Huai stepped forward to challenge Cheng Zhishu, while Jiang Feng yielded his place to Qu Huai.
• Qu Huai saw a woman watching Cheng Zhishu and, his resentment rising, asked Cheng to offer him guidance.