Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng used the Pu Yang Flower’s essence to suppress the Absolute Yang Powder poison, but the treatment caused white fur to grow beneath his clothes. Meanwhile, Sun Liuliu learned that Lu Feng possessed the Southern God Fire and planned to approach him rather than seize it by force.

• Lu Feng used his Wood Element Qi to open the Pu Yang Flower and drank its stamen essence, releasing its Lasting Fragrance through the room.
• As the essence suppressed the poison, Lu Feng sensed white hair growing on his chest and back and connected it to a strange white-furred creature he had glimpsed.
• Sun Liuliu received information linking Ruo Shui, Lu Feng, the Azure Mountain Sword Sect, and the Southern God Fire, then killed the servant who brought it.
• Sun Liuliu regretted missing the chance to use the Pu Yang Flower to bargain for the Southern God Fire and rejected Uncle Ya’s suggestion to capture Lu Feng.
• Sun Liuliu decided to approach Lu Feng under the pretext of clearing up their conflict, while remaining determined to obtain the Southern God Fire for the mysterious benefactor she loved.

After absorbing the Pu Yang Flower to expel most of the Absolute Yang Powder poison, Lu Feng discovered that his body emitted a fragrance that could cloud people’s minds, and he learned to suppress it with Soul Consciousness. He then asked Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing to prepare letters to the Sun Family and Luo Family, hinting at a plan to answer those who had wronged him.

• Lu Feng finished refining the Pu Yang Flower and expelled most of the poison, but his new fragrance beguiled those around him and briefly made him act possessively toward Blazing Enchantress.
• Huang Helou called everyone back to their senses, and Lu Feng released Blazing Enchantress and questioned the elders about his strange behavior and scent.
• Blazing Enchantress suggested the fragrance might be linked to a Bewitchment Art, and Lu Feng discovered he could draw it into his skin using Soul Consciousness.
• Huang Helou warned Lu Feng that women with ulterior motives might approach him, and Lu Feng said his heart already belonged to someone; Blazing Enchantress and Chen Shangu then departed.
• Lu Feng ordered Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing to draft letters to the Sun Family and Luo Family, saying he intended to show that some things could not be taken so easily.

Lu Feng prepared to pit the Sun Family and the Luo Family against each other by demanding a jade banyan ornament and the Luo Clan Fragment, then sought Qin Chaose to help consign them at auction. As Lu Feng followed Qin Chaose’s carriage toward Gathering Fragrances Pavilion, the chapter also revealed Jun Ziya’s formidable standing within the Jun Family.

• Lu Feng dictated letters demanding that the Sun Family exchange the Ringed Banyan Tree for Sun Chengnuo and that the Luo Family provide the Luo Clan Fragment; Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing were stunned by his plan.
• Lu Feng explained that he would use the Law Division Building to make the two families compete, and he gave Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing proof to accompany the letters.
• Lu Feng delayed sending the letters because he needed someone to consign the items on his behalf, then left Jun Man Restaurant to find Qin Chaose.
• Lu Feng spotted Qin Chaose driving Qin Tianliang and Qin Taiheng toward Gathering Fragrances Pavilion.
• Qin Tianliang told Qin Taiheng that Jun Ziya had approached him, and Qin Taiheng’s praise prompted Qin Tianliang to warn him not to speak carelessly about her.
• The narration established that Jun Ziya was the Jun Family’s revered jewel and the leading figure among the Civil and Military Twin Swords.

Lu Feng followed Qin Tianliang and Qin Taiheng, learning that Qin Taiheng’s wedding to Pan Lianqing would be postponed because it conflicted with the Jun Family’s wedding plans. While tracking Qin Chaose toward the Pan residence, Lu Feng found a woman suffering from Love Poison, but she mistook him for a threat and plunged into the Moon Mesh River.

• Qin Tianliang told Qin Taiheng that the Jun Family wanted him to postpone his marriage to Pan Lianqing, and warned him not to provoke Jun Ziya.
• Qin Tianliang and Qin Taiheng entered a Flower Boat, while Qin Taiheng sent Qin Chaose to sound out Pan Lianqing and arrange a meeting.
• Lu Feng overheard Qin Chaose’s exchange with Qin Taiheng and followed toward the Pan Family residence.
• Lu Feng heard a woman coughing blood in an alley and recognized that she was suffering from potent Love Poison.
• The woman warned Lu Feng to stay away, then jumped into the Moon Mesh River before he could explain himself.

Lu Feng rescued a woman afflicted by Love Poison after she tried to drown herself, then hid from Chu Youren and the approaching Luo Family. He gave her a Clear Heart Pill, but it barely helped, and she again became feverish and began stripping at his clothes.

• The woman sank to the riverbed to die, and Lu Feng chased after her and carried her back to shore.
• Lu Feng spotted Chu Youren searching nearby and saw Luo Tianfu and other Luo Family members approaching, so he fled with the woman and hid in an alley.
• Lu Feng forced water from the woman's lungs, and she mistook him for a lecherous attacker and slapped him before the Love Poison overwhelmed her again.
• Lu Feng fed the woman a Clear Heart Pill, which briefly restored some clarity but appeared to intensify the poison.
• The woman begged Lu Feng to give it to her, licked his neck, and began tearing at his clothes and reaching toward his lower body.

Lu Feng confronted Qin Chaose and Pan Lianqing while carrying a woman afflicted by a soul-rooted Love Poison. After overpowering Qin Chaose, he forced him to take two Sect Tokens to the Law Division Building for auction and used the threat of exposing his affair to secure his obedience.

• Lu Feng recognized that the woman's Love Poison might target her soul, but delayed giving her the Snow Feather Pill when Qin Chaose and Pan Lianqing arrived.
• Lu Feng identified himself as the Mystic Wind Scavenger, exposed Qin Chaose and Pan Lianqing's secret relationship, and struck them down with the Zen Heart Palm.
• Pan Lianqing fled while the afflicted woman broke free and clung to Lu Feng, leaving Qin Chaose at his mercy.
• Lu Feng gave Qin Chaose two Sect Tokens and ordered him to consign them for auction without revealing his identity.
• Lu Feng threatened to use Soul Transfer to expose Qin Chaose's affair to the Qin Family, and Qin Chaose knelt and agreed to obey.

Lu Feng rescued a woman afflicted by the Love Poison and took her to Blazing Enchantress's courtyard, where Blazing Enchantress mistook their encounter for intimacy. The woman fell asleep, and Blazing Enchantress ended the chapter confused after discovering she was still untouched.

• Lu Feng took the poisoned woman to a nearby courtyard, gave her a Snow Feather Pill, and helped her recover as she fell asleep in his arms.
• Lu Feng brought the unconscious woman to Blazing Enchantress and asked her to care for her before leaving to handle other matters.
• Blazing Enchantress saw the woman's flushed face and Lu Feng's lingering scent on her lips and concluded they had kissed.
• While changing the woman's wet clothes, Blazing Enchantress discovered she was still untouched and questioned whether anything had happened between her and Lu Feng.

Qin Chaose concealed Lu Feng’s involvement in Chu Youwei’s disappearance, then brought Lu Feng to the Law Division Building to meet Jun Ziqian and arrange the sale of two Sect Tokens. Jun Ziqian was shocked when Qin Chaose revealed the tokens.

• Qin Chaose lied to Luo Tianfu and Chu Youren about seeing Chu Youwei, then watched them leave without revealing Lu Feng’s involvement.
• Lu Feng returned and asked Qin Chaose who had accompanied Luo Tianfu; Qin Chaose identified Chu Youren, and Lu Feng recognized the rescued woman as likely Chu Youwei.
• Lu Feng disguised himself and went with Qin Chaose to the Law Division Building to consign two Sect Tokens.
• Qin Chaose asked to seek Jun Ziqian’s help, and Lu Feng agreed when he learned Jun Ziqian was at the building.
• Jun Ziqian recognized Qin Chaose despite his disguise, dismissed the servants and guards, and listened as Qin Chaose presented the two Sect Tokens for sale on his elder brother’s behalf.

Lu Feng and Qin Chaose consigned two Sect Tokens and a Ringed Banyan Tree at the Law Division Building, where Jun Ziqian arranged a profitable auction and underestimated the sculpture. Lu Feng left with the three Consignment Tokens, anticipating that the supposedly worthless item would surprise Jun Ziqian at the auction.

• Jun Ziqian believed Qin Chaose's explanation that a mysterious Senior had entrusted him with two Sect Tokens, then accepted Qin Chaose's Source Stones and decided to auction them immediately.
• Jun Ziqian planned to publicize the Sect Tokens among nearby forces, draw in potential bidders, and stir opposition against the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.
• Lu Feng consigned the Ringed Banyan Tree and explained that it concealed a lost Ringed Inscription technique, but Jun Ziqian's aide judged it unlikely to sell for much.
• Qin Chaose left the Law Division Building and entrusted Lu Feng with collecting the Consignment Tokens, while Jun Ziqian assumed Lu Feng was merely his subordinate.
• Jun Ziqian gave Lu Feng three Consignment Tokens, two for the Sect Tokens and one for the Ringed Banyan Tree, which had been classified as a low-grade Sin Category item.
• After Lu Feng left, Jun Ziqian decided to tell his elder sister about the auction later and invite her to attend.

Lu Feng resisted Blazing Enchantress’s advances and left her courtyard, then encountered Chu Youwei on a bridge with Lin Xiaowan. Chu Youwei confessed that she had done something that betrayed Lin Xiaowan’s brother, leaving Lin Xiaowan demanding to know who had bullied her.

• Blazing Enchantress told Lu Feng that the woman he had rescued had left without thanking them and had asked about her rescuer’s identity.
• Lu Feng explained the Sect Token auction preparations to Blazing Enchantress, then resisted her seduction and hurried away.
• Lu Feng found Chu Youwei standing on a bridge late at night and recognized Lin Xiaowan, the woman he had saved during the journey into the Battle Realm, as her friend.
• Lin Xiaowan reached Chu Youwei and asked whether she was hurt after hearing that Chu Youwei’s younger brother had been searching for her.
• Chu Youwei sobbed that she had done something that betrayed Lin Xiaowan’s brother, and Lin Xiaowan demanded to know who had bullied her.

Chu Youwei confided in Lin Xiaowan about the lust poison and her encounter with a stranger while hiding Chu Youren and Luo Tianfu’s betrayal. Lin Xiaowan grieved over her missing brother Lin Liyun and offered to dissolve their betrothal; meanwhile, Lu Feng cleared the poison and began cultivating the Pao Xi Dragon Control Art.

• Lin Xiaowan checked Chu Youwei and reassured her that she had not been violated, and Chu Youwei decided to explain what happened.
• Chu Youwei concealed Chu Youren and Luo Tianfu’s plot, claiming that a villain had poisoned her and a passing stranger had saved her.
• Lin Xiaowan mourned Lin Liyun’s disappearance and offered to help Chu Youwei end their betrothal, but Chu Youwei rejected the idea of marrying Luo Tianfu.
• Lu Feng left before hearing Lin Liyun’s name, then cleared the remaining Absolute Yang Powder poison at Jun Man Restaurant.
• Lu Feng began cultivating the Pao Xi Dragon Control Art, using his experience with the Extreme Star Sky Evolution Art to master its pattern-condensing methods quickly.

Lu Feng practiced the Pao Xi Dragon Control Art and considered how to strengthen its vulnerable control marks. On the Lantern Festival, he set out from Jun Man Restaurant hoping to see Jiang Ruoyun, but ran into Yin Xiaolou, Tang Jing, and Luo Xiaoxi, who persuaded him to join them.

• Lu Feng successfully condensed a Dragon Control Mark, found it powerful but vulnerable to being dispelled, and considered modifying the technique.
• Lu Feng left Jun Man Restaurant for the Lantern Festival after giving Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing instructions.
• Lu Feng met Yin Xiaolou, Tang Jing, and Luo Xiaoxi outside their guest room and tried to avoid them.
• Yin Xiaolou questioned Lu Feng about the Night Feather Sword Master, but Lu Feng denied knowing anything and urged her to seek him at the border battlefield.
• Tang Jing and Yin Xiaolou cited their sects' interest in befriending Lu Feng, leaving him little choice but to explore the Lantern Festival with them.

Lu Feng accompanied Yin Xiaolou, Tang Jing, and Luo Xiaoxi through Profound Gold City, where he bought Chu Family rouge for Jiang Ruoyun while the women teased him. Luo Xiaoxi explained that her second brother, Luo Tianfu, was preparing to challenge the Chu Family’s rouge business, and Lu Feng suspected his real target was Chu Youwei.

• Huang Helou and Bi Kongjing joked about Lu Feng’s popularity with women and worried that his romantic entanglements could draw other sects into trouble.
• Luo Xiaoxi took the group to a Chu Family rouge stall, where Lu Feng chose three products for a woman who rarely wore makeup.
• Luo Xiaoxi paid for the rouge, and Yin Xiaolou and Tang Jing teased Lu Feng about whom he intended to give it to.
• Luo Xiaoxi revealed that Luo Tianfu had studied the rouge trade and planned to enter it with products that could undercut the struggling Chu Family.
• Lu Feng connected Luo Tianfu’s business plans to what he had learned about Chu Youwei and suspected that Luo Tianfu’s true aim was the Chu Family’s Young Miss.

Jiang Ruoyun and Red Scorpion planned to use Qin Tianliang against Lu Feng, but they abandoned their assassination plan when they saw the Lantern Festival guards. At the Puppet Battle stall, Lu Feng tried to reconcile with Jiang Ruoyun, but Qin Tianliang challenged him to settle their dispute through the game.

• Jiang Ruoyun grew angry seeing Lu Feng with other women, and Red Scorpion persuaded her to attend the festival and consider using Qin Tianliang against him.
• Jiang Ruoyun and Red Scorpion saw Qin Tianliang approaching, but dropped their plan to kill him after spotting the guards protecting Profound Gold City.
• Qin Tianliang invited the two women to claim a lantern, and they followed him to the Puppet Battle stall, where Lu Feng and his companions were gathered.
• Lu Feng tried to approach Jiang Ruoyun and explain himself, but she treated him coldly while Red Scorpion criticized his company of women.
• Qin Tianliang mocked Lu Feng and challenged him to a Puppet Battle, confident that his practice would give him the advantage.

Lu Feng joined Qin Tianliang and the others in a Little Puppet contest, where Qin Tianliang agreed to stake ten High-Grade Source Stones against him. After the matches were drawn and the rules explained, Lu Feng recognized the puppets’ markings as the Thousand Thread Markings and realized the contest would be easy for him.

• Sun Liuliu arrived, completing the ten players needed for the Puppet Battle.
• Lu Feng challenged the stall owner’s entry fee, and Qin Tianliang paid for the group before proposing a wager of ten High-Grade Source Stones against Lu Feng.
• The group agreed that if neither Lu Feng nor Qin Tianliang won the contest, the wager would go to the overall victor.
• The stall owner assigned the first-round matches: Qin Tianliang faced Qin Taiheng, Lu Feng faced Qin Chaose, Jiang Ruoyun faced Red Scorpion, and Luo Xiaoxi faced Yin Xiaolou.
• The stall owner demonstrated how spiritual energy controlled the Little Puppets and explained the defeat conditions.
• Lu Feng recognized the puppets’ Thousand Thread Markings and recalled his extensive experience with the Thousand Thread Puppet Array.

Lu Feng defeated Qin Chaose in the puppet contest, then used Fire Essence Qi against Sun Liuliu and lost their match. Sun Liuliu realized he had refined the Southern God Fire, overturning her plan to reclaim it.

• Qin Tianliang, Red Scorpion, and Luo Xiaoxi conceded, leaving Lu Feng and Qin Chaose to compete while Sun Liuliu defeated Tang Jing.
• Lu Feng sent Qin Chaose's puppet off the pedestal, and the stall owner drew the second-round matches, giving Jiang Ruoyun a bye.
• Qin Tianliang challenged Yin Xiaolou as Lu Feng and Sun Liuliu prepared to face each other.
• Sun Liuliu attacked Lu Feng with Gold Element Qi, prompting him to use Fire Essence Qi to pin her puppet.
• Sun Liuliu gave up resisting and let Lu Feng win, realizing that he had refined the Southern God Fire she had hoped to reclaim.

Sun Liuliu concealed her hostility toward Lu Feng and invited him to a banquet, hoping to gain access to whoever could wield the Southern God Fire. As Jiang Ruoyun struggled with jealousy and a disturbed Heartless Sutra, Lu Feng was drawn into a match with Qin Tianliang, while Lin Xiaowan supported him despite the crowd’s mockery.

• Sun Liuliu invited Lu Feng to a banquet at Jun Man Restaurant, and he accepted while suspecting she wanted his ability to wield the Southern God Fire.
• Jiang Ruoyun’s emotions destabilized her Heartless Sutra, so Red Scorpion urged her to return to the sect and cultivate at the Heartless Tomb.
• Lu Feng tried to explain himself to Jiang Ruoyun, but she rejected his reassurance as Qin Tianliang defeated Yin Xiaolou’s Little Puppet and challenged him to a match.
• Luo Xiaoxi opened a betting table for the match, and Tang Jing and Yin Xiaolou wagered on Lu Feng.
• Lin Xiaowan bet her saved Soul Coins on Lu Feng, endured the crowd’s mockery, and received his assurance that her coins would not be wasted.

Lu Feng fought Qin Tianliang in a Jade Puppet match, uncovered the advantages Qin Tianliang had gained through the stall owner and Qin King Blood, and broke the jade platform to disrupt his opponent’s assault. After rejecting Qin Tianliang’s proposed draw, Lu Feng sent his puppet onto the remaining platform half to continue the match, where Qin Tianliang attacked him.

• Lu Feng began the Puppet Battle against Qin Tianliang and was quickly overwhelmed by Qin Tianliang’s faster, stronger Jade Puppet.
• Lu Feng suspected the stall owner had given Qin Tianliang a superior Jade Puppet, then used Gold Element Qi to regain control of the fight.
• Qin Tianliang empowered his Jade Puppet with Qin King Blood and Fire Essence Qi, suppressing Lu Feng as he tried to outlast the enhancement.
• Lu Feng used his knowledge of formations to split the jade platform, but Qin Tianliang proposed a draw and the crowd blamed Lu Feng for the damage.
• Lu Feng refused the draw, moved his Jade Puppet onto Qin Tianliang’s intact half of the platform, and Qin Tianliang charged to destroy it.

Lu Feng used a Thousand Thread Puppet Array to control his Jade Puppet after its pedestal shattered, then defeated Qin Tianliang’s attack with a sword strike through the puppet. After Qin Tianliang paid their wager, Lu Feng prepared to face Jiang Ruoyun in the next match.

• Lu Feng lifted his Jade Puppet above its shattered pedestal using a miniature Thousand Thread Puppet Array, astonishing Qin Tianliang and the spectators.
• Qin Tianliang destroyed his own pedestal and Jade Puppet with Qin King Slash, but Lu Feng controlled his puppet to unleash a sword strike that dispersed the attack and wounded Qin Tianliang’s hands.
• Qin Tianliang grudgingly tossed Lu Feng ten High-Grade Source Stones and urged Jiang Ruoyun to fight him, leaving her hesitant and Lu Feng in an awkward position.
• Lu Feng rejected the stall owner’s demand for compensation for the broken pedestal, reminding him that the entry fee covered such damage.
• Qin Tianliang told the stall owner to charge the loss to the Qin Family, earning praise from the spectators.

Lu Feng helped Jiang Ruoyun win the Jade Puppet contest, making her question whether she had misunderstood him, and she accepted a splendid lantern while they teased each other about marriage. As the Lantern Festival officially began, the stall owner, having lost his chance to profit, urged the group to visit the Auspicious Fortune Stall.

• Lu Feng inspected the last jade pedestal, then used his Jade Puppet to let Jiang Ruoyun defeat him and demonstrate her strength to the onlookers.
• Jiang Ruoyun realized Lu Feng had deliberately made her victory look real and began to doubt her suspicions about him; Lu Feng told Qin Tianliang that he and Jiang were family.
• Jiang Ruoyun chose the Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness Gilded Ruyi Lantern, blushing when Lu Feng suggested it could be used at their wedding.
• The Auspicious Fortune Bell rang and fireworks illuminated Profound Gold City, marking the start of the Lantern Festival.
• The stall owner, lamenting the damage and lost profits, suggested that the group visit the Auspicious Fortune Stall to pray for good luck.