Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng planned how the Five Veins could break the Guardian Sect Battle Array at the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s former site. When the group arrived, Wu Yin triggered the array’s defenses, and a glowing formation talisman appeared at the mountain gate.

• Xia Yiyun showed Lu Feng her questions about the Twilight Heart Derangement Array, and he gave her its formation diagram while explaining its limits.
• Lu Feng learned that hundreds of disciples from the Five Veins would come to witness the array’s breaking, then devised a plan to open a gap through their combined strength.
• Sun Fu argued with Huang Helou over the Twilight Heart Derangement Array but chose to continue with the group so he could meet Lu Feng and see the Sword Sect Battle Array.
• Lu Feng and the Five Elders led the formation masters and Soul Masters to the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s former site, where its immense mountain gate and ancient buildings stood behind an unseen defense.
• Wu Yin probed the gate with his aura, suffered a backlash, and caused a curtain of sword light to cover the mountain ridge.
• Ru Jijie spotted a pale, patterned object appearing at the gate, and Lu Feng and Huang Helou identified it as a formation talisman.

Lu Feng and the formation masters investigated the Guardian Sect Battle Array, whose formation talisman was trapped inside it, and tested a suspected weak point. The test revealed the point was likely a deliberate trap, and Lu Feng began to understand how the array worked.

• Huang Helou explained that the formation talisman had been placed inside the battle array before the Five Veins split, while the formation masters debated how to enter the mountain gate.
• Sun Fu challenged Lu Feng’s formation knowledge, but Huang Helou and Gu Tianlao calmed Sun Fu after he took Lu Feng’s modest comment as an insult.
• Wu Yin used the Dividing Profound Mist Realm to probe the light screen and discovered a possible weak point, which Huang Helou marked with black cloth.
• After the masters debated whether the weak point was a trap, Sun Fu tested it with a Sun Thrust Array, and Lu Feng told Huang Helou to help him and the others to prepare for a rescue.
• The spear shattered against the light screen and dragged Sun Fu and Huang Helou forward, but Xia Yangzhou and the others pulled them back; Lu Feng sensed a change in the array and the masters suspected the weak point was deliberately left there.

Tian Lingzi and Ru Jijie uncovered eight apparent weak points in the Half Saint-grade battle array, but a powerful strike against one of them vanished without affecting the screen. Lu Feng revealed that he had sensed a better way to break the array and asked the departing array masters to stay and try his method.

• Tian Lingzi and Ru Jijie combined their arrays and found seven weak points, bringing the total with Wu Yin’s discovery to eight.
• Wu Yin and the other array masters proposed attacking a weak point together, but Lu Feng warned that the marked locations would not break the battle array.
• Ru Jijie formed the Azure Dragon Out to Sea Array, and the array masters and Huang Helou’s group unleashed a powerful strike at one weak point.
• The strike vanished into the light screen without leaving a mark, leaving Ru Jijie, Wu Yin, and the others despairing of breaking the array by force.
• Lu Feng used his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes to study the spiritual-energy paths and conceived a better plan.
• After Lu Feng had the source stones distributed, he invited the array masters to stay and try his method.

Lu Feng explained that the Guardian Sect Battle Array’s weak points stored energy, then linked his own array to the battle array and directed the elders and array masters to charge them. With everyone caught in the array’s momentum, Song Silei appeared to challenge Lu Feng, who reassured Xia Yiyun that he would not be easily killed.

• Lu Feng explained that the eight weak points were traps designed to store energy, and Ru Jijie and the other array masters confirmed his insight.
• Lu Feng set up an earth-grade high-tier array and instructed the assembled experts to channel spiritual energy through jade stones at the weak points.
• The array linked to the Guardian Sect Battle Array’s momentum, leaving the experts unable to withdraw their energy safely.
• Song Silei emerged from the crowd and challenged Lu Feng, while Huang Helou and the others were unable to intervene.
• Xia Yiyun urged Lu Feng to run, but he stayed to protect the newly established Azure Mountain Sword Sect and told her he could defend himself.

Lu Feng battled Song Silei while the Five Elders and their allies gathered spiritual energy through his formation. As Song Silei reached six breaths of the Heaven Soul Realm and took to the air to evade Lu Feng’s sword, he taunted Lu Feng from above.

• Lu Feng handed Xia Yiyun the formation talismans, then forced Song Silei down to the ground and fought him with six Soul Arrays unsealed.
• Song Silei abandoned his concealment and unleashed Heavenly Thunder Swordplay, but Lu Feng answered with the lethal Life-Taking Swordplay and wounded him.
• Song Silei secretly raised his strength to six breaths of the Heaven Soul Realm, forcing Lu Feng to draw the battle toward the sect gate as Huang Helou and the others accelerated the formation.
• Song Silei targeted Huang Helou and the Five Elders, and Lu Feng shielded them while they and their allies gathered spiritual energy and source stones for the formation.
• Lu Feng threatened Song Silei with the Great Compassion Sword, but Song Silei evaded its reach by flying into the air and taunted him from above.

Lu Feng used the battle array and a Heaven-grade Treasure Item to defeat Song Silei, recover the array talisman, and secure the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s recognition of him as Sect Leader. He explained how he had drawn out the talisman and thanked the allies who had helped, while recovering from his injuries.

• Song Silei gathered thunder for a deadly strike, but Lu Feng used the array’s stored energy and the Vast Sea Soul Heart Cover to survive it.
• Lu Feng guided the Thunder Sword Momentum into the array’s saturated energy storage, whose dragon-shaped blast killed Song Silei.
• Lu Feng and Xia Yiyun controlled the array’s forces and retrieved its array talisman, though Lu Feng was badly injured.
• Huang Helou, the Five Veins’ leaders, the elders, and the disciples knelt and acknowledged Lu Feng as Sect Leader.
• Lu Feng explained that his Whirlpool Tide Return Array had been designed to draw out the unmastered array talisman, and thanked the gathered allies for their help.

Lu Feng reorganized the Azure Mountain Sword Sect and strengthened ties with nearby forces, then promised to help Xia Yiyun retrieve her uncle’s remains. He offered Bai Li the chance to rebuild the One United Sword Sect within Azure Mountain Sword Sect.

• Wu Yin, Ru Jijie, and other leaders declined Lu Feng’s source stones and pledged friendly relations with Azure Mountain Sword Sect, while Lu Feng welcomed Sun Fu’s Sun Ring Manor as an ally.
• Lu Feng refined an array talisman, resealed the Guardian Sect Battle Array, and learned how the Sword Sect’s formations worked as disciples spread exaggerated tales of his accomplishments.
• Lu Feng and the elders established an Inner Sect at the headquarters and reorganized the former five sects into Outer Sect mountain peaks.
• Xia Yiyun asked to retrieve Xia Feihong’s remains, and Lu Feng offered to accompany her to Vine Abyss Forest once she was ready.
• Bai Li delivered finished items from Grandpa Ghost, and Lu Feng offered her a mountain peak where she could rebuild the One United Sword Sect and pass down One United Swordplay.

Lu Feng arranged for Bai Li to develop the One United Sword Sect under the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s protection, then learned that he had been ranked tenth on the Azure List as the Benevolent Heart Asura. As Lu Feng prepared to return to Spirit Prison, he assigned Zhuang Xiaojing and Gu Lingling tasks to support the sect and explained that they needed to acquire a Sect Token without making enemies.

• Lu Feng told Bai Li that the Azure Mountain Sword Sect would protect the One United Sword Sect while allowing it to develop independently, and Bai Li agreed to establish a mountain peak before eventually returning to Night Feather Hall.
• Lu Feng found a letter saying Jun Ziyi, Zhuang Xiaojing, Gu Lingling, and two others had gone down the mountain, then saw the Azure List Jun Ziyi brought back and discovered he was ranked tenth as the Benevolent Heart Asura.
• Jun Ziyi said the information about Lu Feng’s identity and past had vanished, and Lu Feng suspected Jun Zi Mo had hidden his identity and arranged the ranking.
• Lu Feng told the women he would return to Spirit Prison and urged Gu Lingling and Zhuang Xiaojing to take up greater roles in the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.
• Lu Feng assigned Gu Lingling and Zhuang Xiaojing to buy mounts and suitable Battle Beasts at Beast Valley and serve as messengers between him and other sects.
• Lu Feng explained that the sect needed a Sect Token but could not seize one by force, leaving Gu Lingling wondering how they would obtain it.

Lu Feng and the others discussed the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s new rules and preparations before the Azure Thunder Drum announced visitors at the mountain gate. They suspected someone from the Azure List had come to challenge Lu Feng, and the chapter ended with Jun Ziyi identifying the original tenth-ranked person as Yu Hou of the Heaven Night Sword Sect.

• Xia Yiyun showed Gu Lingling and Zhuang Xiaojing the sect’s new rules, explaining that Inner Sect disciples were engraving bamboo scrolls with weighted swords as training.
• Lu Feng told the women he planned to leave for the Spirit Prison within days, after dismantling the formations he had set up to guard against the Five Elders.
• The Azure Thunder Drum sounded three times, and Xia Yiyun explained that the visitors were likely people from the Azure List who had come because Lu Feng entered its top ten.
• Lu Feng recalled that Yin Xiaolou had been ranked below him and worried that he had provoked her again.
• Jun Ziyi checked the Azure List and announced that Yu Hou of the Heaven Night Sword Sect had originally held tenth place.

Lu Feng met three Azure List challengers at the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s gate and used the rules to make Qi Zhao pay the sect six High-Grade Source Stones. Yin Xiaolou watched him with growing curiosity, while Lu Feng left the encounter still ranked tenth after conceding the first challenge.

• Jun Ziyi and Zhuang Xiaojing teased Lu Feng about Yin Xiaolou, so he put on Zhuang Xiaojing’s grotesque mask before reaching the mountain gate.
• Huang Helou explained that Yin Xiaolou, Tang Jing, and Qi Zhao had come to challenge Lu Feng’s Azure List ranking, and Lu Feng recognized Qi Zhao as a member of the Phantom Sword Sect.
• Qi Zhao paid three High-Grade Source Stones to challenge Lu Feng, but Lu Feng immediately conceded and gave up his tenth-place ranking.
• When Qi Zhao insisted he had wanted a real fight, Lu Feng demanded another three Source Stones and refused his challenge after Qi Zhao’s new ranking placed him above Lu Feng.
• Yin Xiaolou urged Qi Zhao to pay again, and Huang Helou accepted the additional three Source Stones for the sect’s treasury.

Lu Feng fought Qi Zhao inside a half-finished, half-step Heaven Grade array, letting Qi Zhao believe he had the upper hand before revealing an astonishing movement technique. The duel continued with Qi Zhao wounded and wary, while Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing questioned what Lu Feng had just done.

• Lu Feng led Qi Zhao to the central plaza and revealed that he had prepared a half-finished array around the battle platform.
• Lu Feng activated the array’s nine pillars and struck Qi Zhao with a punch powerful enough to force him back.
• Qi Zhao unleashed the seven phantoms of his Phantom Swordplay and suppressed Lu Feng, making the onlookers think Lu Feng was losing.
• Lu Feng met Qi Zhao’s attacks with an ordinary Earth Grade sword and appeared to be struck on the shoulder.
• Lu Feng vanished after Qi Zhao’s sword hit him, then appeared behind Qi Zhao and wounded his shoulder with a sudden thrust.
• Qi Zhao used a secret art to raise his cultivation and warned Lu Feng, while Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing struggled to identify Lu Feng’s movement technique.

Lu Feng used the Dragon Slaying Array to trap Qi Zhao while concealing his true location, and the spectators gradually realized that Qi Zhao was fighting phantoms. After Qi Zhao swallowed a Heaven-grade pill and strengthened his aura, Lu Feng condensed the array’s power into a massive sword and sent it straight at him.

• Lu Feng provoked Qi Zhao, who burned his blood essence to strengthen himself and unleashed Phantom Swordplay with seven phantoms.
• Lu Feng formed nine phantoms, prompting Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing to realize that he was using an array rather than swordplay.
• Yin Xiaolou deduced that Qi Zhao had been trapped from the start, while Lu Feng watched from a concealed corner as the Dragon Slaying Array’s phantoms fought Qi Zhao.
• The spectators, including Xia Yiyun, Jun Ziyi, and Gu Lingling, recognized that Qi Zhao was caught in the array, but Qi Zhao continued fighting without understanding his predicament.
• Qi Zhao swallowed a Heaven-grade pill, raising his aura toward the fourth breath of the Heaven Soul Realm, so Lu Feng merged his phantoms and gathered the array’s power.
• Lu Feng condensed the Dragon Slaying Array’s force into a massive sword and sent it toward Qi Zhao.

Lu Feng defeated Qi Zhao by evading his strongest attacks and breaking his confidence, then accepted Tang Jing’s challenge after she paid the required source stones. Tang Jing faced him on the stage and demanded that he remove his mask, but Lu Feng questioned her choice of clothing for a fight.

• Lu Feng’s Dragon Slaying Array attack clashed with Qi Zhao’s Seven Illusions Absolute Kill, and Qi Zhao mistakenly believed he had destroyed Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng revealed himself unharmed, evaded Qi Zhao’s next attack, and drove him into a breakdown until he fled Azure Rock Mountain.
• Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing discussed Qi Zhao’s defeat, then agreed Tang Jing would test Lu Feng after Huang Helou relayed the challenge and payment terms.
• Tang Jing paid six source stones and challenged Lu Feng to fight without relying on the array.
• Tang Jing asked Lu Feng to remove his mask, and Lu Feng replied that her Ru Skirt was ill-suited for combat.

Lu Feng fought Tang Jing in a duel and defeated her with the Butterfly Transformation Entangling Sword, though the spectators could not understand how she had lost. Jun Ziyi explained his technique and decided she wanted to learn it.

• Tang Jing challenged Lu Feng, and he drew the Hua Xin Sword to fight her flexible-sword style.
• Tang Jing used her Gentle Cloud Maiden Sword and Soft Flowing Cloud aura to slow and entangle Lu Feng, but he adapted and began weaving spiritual energy around her sword.
• Tang Jing realized Lu Feng had trapped her in a losing position and admitted defeat to protect her flexible sword.
• Yin Xiaolou and the spectators questioned how Tang Jing had lost, while Huang Helou mistakenly attributed it to a contest of spiritual-energy reserves.
• Jun Ziyi explained that Lu Feng had used the Butterfly Transformation Entangling Sword to coil spiritual-energy threads around Tang Jing's sword and resolved to learn the technique.

Yin Xiaolou challenged Lu Feng after Tang Jing warned her that he was stronger than his cultivation suggested, and Lu Feng delayed the fight to collect more Source Stones and prepare to face her without exposing his identity. The battle began with Yin Xiaolou’s relentless sword assault, leaving Lu Feng to defend and search for an opening.

• Tang Jing told Yin Xiaolou that Lu Feng’s qi was unusually continuous and dense, though she believed he had not reached the Earth Soul Realm and speculated that his technique might carry a heavy cost.
• Yin Xiaolou confronted Lu Feng on the battle stage, and he sent her six High-Grade Source Stones to Huang Helou before claiming he needed several days to recover.
• Lu Feng persuaded Yin Xiaolou to give him another Source Stone and one incense stick to recover, then drank strong liquor to prepare to use Drunken Sword.
• Lu Feng drew the Hua Xin Sword and challenged Yin Xiaolou, who attacked him with a series of exceptionally fast strikes.
• Lu Feng focused on defending against Yin Xiaolou’s reckless, relentless swordplay while watching for a chance to counterattack.

Lu Feng disrupted Yin Xiaolou’s relentless sword assault by revealing that he had comprehended the Swordless Realm, then alarmed her by knowing a secret weakness of her sect’s ultimate secret art. Yin Xiaolou suspected he was connected to the Night Feather Sword Master and continued plotting to expose him as their match remained unresolved.

• Lu Feng and Yin Xiaolou fought at blinding speed, while Huang Helou and Zhuang Xiaojing guessed that Lu Feng was concealing his true strength to attract more challengers.
• Lu Feng threw his earth-grade Hua Xin Sword at Yin Xiaolou, then stopped her counterattack with a sword-shaped force formed through the Swordless Realm.
• Tang Jing realized Lu Feng’s swordsmanship was extraordinary and regretted challenging him, while Yin Xiaolou recovered and considered using her sect’s secret art.
• Lu Feng warned Yin Xiaolou that the secret art’s final level would leave her unable to move, prompting her to ask whether the Night Feather Sword Master had revealed the secret to him.
• Yin Xiaolou revealed that only she and her father knew the secret art’s final level, and Lu Feng realized his words had implicated him with the Night Feather Sword Master.
• Lu Feng called out Yin Xiaolou for stalling to recover her spiritual energy, while she continued suspecting his identity and plotting to tear off his mask.

Lu Feng and Yin Xiaolou resumed their duel, and he eventually disarmed her with a trick before she pretended to harm herself and pulled off his mask. Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing saw Lu Feng’s handsome face, leaving both stunned.

• Lu Feng used Ruffian Drunken Sword to suppress Yin Xiaolou, while she tried unsuccessfully to bait him into attacking her protected Yuhuan Acupoint.
• Lu Feng withdrew when Yin Xiaolou deliberately exposed her waist, then resumed the duel after she challenged his hesitation.
• Lu Feng distracted Yin Xiaolou with scraps of cloth and used Wind Splitting Hand to snatch her sword.
• Yin Xiaolou pretended to strike herself, making Lu Feng rush to stop her, then seized his mask and pulled it off.
• Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing stared in shock at Lu Feng’s handsome, refined face.

After Lu Feng ended the challenge, Yin Xiaolou stayed at the Azure Mountain Sword Sect, curious about his connection to the Night Feather Sword Master and increasingly attracted to him. She and Tang Jing confided in each other about their lost loves, and Tang Jing revealed that her former companion, Teacher Yue, had vanished after their planned reunion failed.

• Lu Feng returned Yin Xiaolou's mask and told her and Tang Jing to leave, but Huang Helou welcomed them to stay and sought their support for the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.
• Yin Xiaolou resolved to investigate Lu Feng and his connection to the Night Feather Sword Master while Tang Jing teased her about being interested in him.
• Yin Xiaolou declared that her heart had room for no one else, prompting Tang Jing to remember the schoolteacher she had fallen for during a journey two years earlier.
• Tang Jing told Yin Xiaolou that she had arrived a month late for their planned reunion and found their Private School burned down, learning that Teacher Yue had left to wander the world.
• Yin Xiaolou learned that Tang Jing knew only her former companion's name as Teacher Yue, and Tang Jing changed the subject by revealing that Xiao Xi faced a political marriage to the Jun Family.

Yin Xiaolou learned that Lu Feng had abruptly left Azure Rock Mountain, while Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi returned to the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison and discovered that his students had already departed after winning places with powerful forces. The chapter left Lu Feng proud of their success but wistful that they had gone.

• Yin Xiaolou learned Lu Feng had left Azure Rock Mountain and wondered why she had thought he was avoiding her again.
• Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi traveled toward the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison, and Jun Ziyi resolved to enter the Battle Realm to pursue the Grand Illusionary Realm.
• Lu Feng learned Wang Wei and the other three had resigned and left Tian Yuan City, so he left them a message offering help.
• Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi returned to the Spirit Prison and found students watching them before Gao Liang and Du Gupeng approached to praise Lu Feng's teaching.
• Gao Liang told Lu Feng that half of the thirteen students selected at the recruitment fair had been his students, who had impressed the various forces with their cultivated strengths.
• Lu Feng realized his students had left the Spirit Prison with their new forces and felt both happy for them and wistful.

Lu Feng returned to find his students had chosen to stay with him despite the lack of cultivation resources, and he agreed to guide them. As they prepared to enter the Battle Realm together, he learned that Tang Yuan had left with the Body Sect.

• Lu Feng and Jun Ziyi returned to the courtyard and found Qian Xin, Shao Yang, Shao Yue, Man Zhongli, Ning Xiang, Zhao Yan, and Ruo Shui still there.
• The students knelt before Lu Feng and insisted they wanted to keep cultivating under him, despite his warning that scarce resources could hinder their progress for years.
• Moved by their resolve, Lu Feng agreed to let them stay and told them he and Ye Fan would enter the Battle Realm before they all left the Spirit Prison together.
• The students explained that they qualified to enter the Battle Realm early, and Lu Feng agreed that they could go together, with different passages for those who had not reached the Five Elements Realm.
• Ning Xiang persuaded Ruo Shui to enter the Battle Realm to avoid a persistent suitor, and Lu Feng learned that Tang Yuan had left with people from the Body Sect.