Chapter Summaries

Cheng Zhishu defeated Qu Huai after overcoming his formation-based bead attacks with a spear skill, while Lu Feng became interested in learning Qu Huai’s technique. Jiang Feng then challenged Jiang Ruoyun, framing their match as a contest between Jiang Manor and Water Bamboo Pavilion.

• Qu Huai used the Qu Estate’s Nine Palaces Eight Rings Step to pressure Cheng Zhishu, while Lu Feng recognized the formation aura he had sensed during Jiang Ren’s ambush.
• Cheng Zhishu drew his spear and forced Qu Huai to reveal beads that he controlled as a formation-based weapon.
• Qu Huai used the beads to attack and defend, but Cheng Zhishu broke through them with Wind Sweeps Swift Clouds and held his spear to Qu Huai’s throat.
• Qu Huai left Prison Manor resentful, and Lu Feng resolved to learn the bead-controlling cultivation method.
• Jiang Feng challenged Jiang Ruoyun onstage and emphasized that she represented Water Bamboo Pavilion, prompting the crowd to discuss her recovery and estate.

Jiang Ruoyun fought Jiang Feng at the Banquet Duel, but poison drove her spiritual energy out of control and left her gravely injured. Lu Feng rescued her, then challenged Jiang Feng himself after the Prison Officer confirmed that anyone with an injustice could take the stage.

• Jiang Feng challenged Jiang Ruoyun and mocked her for leaving Jiang Manor, but she matched his palm technique with her bare hand.
• Jiang Feng and Jiang Ruoyun exchanged blows and weapons until both suffered injuries and Jiang Ruoyun's poison began to take effect.
• Jiang Ruoyun swallowed a Qi Gathering Pill to boost her strength, but Jiang Feng took an identical pill, shattered her whip, and caused her rampaging spiritual energy to overwhelm her.
• Lu Feng caught Jiang Ruoyun before she hit the ground and sealed her meridians, while Qiao Xue'er helped take her off the stage.
• Lu Feng accused Jiang Feng and challenged him, and the Prison Officer ruled that there was no rule preventing a slave from entering the Banquet Duel.

Lu Feng used a life-consuming secret technique to defeat Jiang Feng and learned that Jiang Ruoyun needed rare Pixiu Spirit Liquid after being poisoned with a Spirit Burst Pill. He went to Shi Manor seeking help, where Shi Gong accused him of profiteering through Jade Clarity Pharmacy.

• Lu Feng borrowed the Spirit Soul Array's power at the cost of most of his remaining lifespan and overwhelmed Jiang Feng with his Flowing Shadow Swordplay.
• Lu Feng and Qiao Xue'er carried the unconscious Jiang Ruoyun toward Water Bamboo Pavilion while the Banquet Duel continued without anyone challenging him.
• Qiao Xue'er identified Pixiu Spirit Liquid as a possible treatment, and Lu Feng deduced that Jiang Ruoyun had been poisoned with a Spirit Burst Pill, likely through Xiao Rou.
• Lu Feng left Jiang Ruoyun in Qiao Xue'er's care and went to Shi Manor to seek an alchemist's help.
• Shi Gong confronted Lu Feng, accusing him of selling Lotus Insect Grass at inflated prices under the name of Jade Clarity Pharmacy.

Lu Feng sought help for Jiang Ruoyun, whose body had been damaged by a Spirit Burst Pill, and found the alchemist Ye Fan, who agreed to treat her after imposing a delayed poison pill on Lu Feng. Ye Fan discovered Jiang Ruoyun had also taken a Blood Spirit Pill and prepared to draw the Spirit Burst Pill poison into a dying stray dog.

• Lu Feng pleaded with Shi Gong to save Jiang Ruoyun, but Shi Gong refused and directed him to seek an alchemist in the west of the city.
• Lu Feng found Ye Fan, who agreed to help Jiang Ruoyun in exchange for Lu Feng taking a Wrath Heart Pill that would kill him in three months.
• Lu Feng brought Ye Fan to Water Bamboo Pavilion, where Ye Fan discovered Jiang Ruoyun had taken both a Spirit Burst Pill and a Blood Spirit Pill.
• Ye Fan explained that he could draw out the Spirit Burst Pill poison, but Jiang Ruoyun would have to overcome the Blood Spirit Pill addiction herself and use Pixiu Spirit Liquid to heal her meridians.
• Lu Feng brought back a dying stray dog, and Ye Fan instructed Lu Feng and Qiao Xue'er to help guide Jiang Ruoyun's qi while he treated her.

Ye Fan treated Jiang Ruoyun’s Spirit Burst Pill poisoning and warned Lu Feng to delay repairing her meridians until she overcame her Blood Spirit Pill addiction. Later, the addiction flared up, leaving Jiang Ruoyun freezing and weak, and Lu Feng’s spiritual energy eased her symptoms as she clung to him.

• Ye Fan and Lu Feng transferred Jiang Ruoyun’s residual toxin into a stray dog, then Ye Fan explained how to treat her remaining toxin and damaged meridians.
• Jiang Ruoyun woke, learned Xiao Rou had unknowingly given her the Spirit Burst Pill at Jiang Caiyun’s coercion, and forgave Xiao Rou while Lu Feng recounted defeating Jiang Feng.
• Qiao Xue’er left after promising to help if Jiang Ruoyun’s condition worsened, and Lu Feng stayed to care for her.
• Lu Feng returned with food and found Jiang Ruoyun trembling from the Blood Spirit Pill addiction, so he held her and tried transferring spiritual energy to suppress it.
• Jiang Ruoyun absorbed Lu Feng’s spiritual energy until he stopped the transfer, then told him she still felt cold but was doing better.

Lu Feng was attacked by Jiang Ruoyun when her berserk state erupted, but escaped into the Six Paths Coffin as she absorbed his spiritual energy. Meanwhile, Jiang Aotian entered the arrays at Water Bamboo Pavilion while searching for Jiang Feng and became trapped in a bamboo forest array.

• Lu Feng bought medicine for Jiang Ruoyun and returned to find her resting safely inside Water Bamboo Pavilion.
• Jiang Juetian learned that Lu Feng had injured Jiang Feng and discovered Jiang Feng had taken a Spirit Burst Pill; Jiang Caiyun later carried Jiang Feng toward Shi Manor for treatment.
• A black-clad man knocked out Jiang Caiyun and the servants, abducted Jiang Feng, and left Jiang Caiyun with the impression that Lu Feng had disappeared.
• Jiang Ruoyun's eyes turned blood-red as she forcibly absorbed Lu Feng's spiritual energy, so he used the Six Paths Coffin to break free and recover inside it.
• Jiang Aotian led people to Water Bamboo Pavilion demanding Jiang Feng, then entered the arrays and became trapped among bamboo men in an endless forest.

Lu Feng recovered while Jiang Ruoyun returned to her senses, and he learned that her meridians remained too damaged for her to circulate spiritual energy. Outside, Qu Huai broke through Lu Feng’s bamboo illusion array, but Lu Feng attacked the intruders with the deadly array in the Epiphyllum Lotus Pool.

• Jiang Aotian struggled against Lu Feng’s bamboo array until Qu Huai used his beads to disrupt it and let him escape.
• Qu Li Su explained how the Azure Water Bamboo and Secluded Water Bamboo formed an illusion array that could attack, confuse, and restrain intruders.
• Jiang Ruoyun regained consciousness and apologized after Lu Feng explained her transformation, but she could not circulate spiritual energy without unbearable pain.
• Lu Feng sensed the group approaching and left Jiang Ruoyun in the loft before activating the Epiphyllum Lotus Pool array.
• Qu Li Su knocked Qu Huai out of the path of a poisoned Golden Silk Fishing Net, but more nets rushed toward the group as they tried to cross the pool.

Lu Feng trapped the intruders at Water Bamboo Pavilion and confronted Qu Li Su, Qu Huai, Jiang Aotian, and Jiang Caiyun over their demand to search for Jiang Feng. He captured Jiang Caiyun and accused her and Jiang Feng of poisoning Jiang Ruoyun, leaving Qu Li Su uncertain about whom to believe.

• Lu Feng activated the Golden Bell and the poisoned nets, leaving most of Qu Estate’s party trapped in the pool while Qu Li Su and Qu Huai escaped.
• Jiang Aotian and Jiang Caiyun crossed to the open ground, where Lu Feng confronted the four survivors and denied that Jiang Feng was at the pavilion.
• When the visitors tried to press forward, Lu Feng activated the weapon formations and used Spirit Rods to separate Jiang Caiyun from the others.
• Lu Feng struck Qu Huai with a Soul Extinguishing Rod, then trapped Jiang Caiyun and threatened her while Jiang Aotian demanded her release.
• Lu Feng accused Jiang Feng and Jiang Caiyun of conspiring with Xiao Rou to poison Jiang Ruoyun and asked whether Qu Huai and Jiang Caiyun had used a formation to harm people near Worryfree Village.
• Qu Huai realized Jiang Caiyun had deceived him, while Qu Li Su remained uncertain as Jiang Aotian threatened Lu Feng with his ring-bladed saber.

Prison Manor intervened in Lu Feng’s confrontation with Jiang Aotian and learned that several cultivators had vanished near the end of the Banquet Duel, with clues leading to Sky Wolf Mausoleum. Lu Feng revealed the Poisonous Miasma Python as his true killing move and demanded two million Copper Soul Coins to let the four intruders leave alive, leaving their departure unresolved.

• Prison Manor officials arrived, and Yue An explained that Jiang Feng and several other cultivators had disappeared around the end of the Banquet Duel.
• Jiang Aotian proposed gathering forces to search Sky Wolf Mausoleum, while the prison official urged caution and asked Lu Feng to release Jiang Caiyun.
• Lu Feng demanded that Jiang Aotian and Qu Li Su restore Water Bamboo Pavilion’s destroyed arrays, but Qu Li Su estimated the work would cost four or five hundred thousand Copper Soul Coins.
• Lu Feng released Jiang Caiyun and summoned the Poisonous Miasma Python from the well, frightening Jiang Aotian, Qu Li Su, Jiang Caiyun, and Qu Huai.
• Lu Feng demanded five hundred thousand Copper Soul Coins per person as payment for their lives, and Jiang Aotian and Qu Li Su agreed to pay the next day.
• Lu Feng blocked their departure with the Poisonous Miasma Python, and the prison official suggested they leave their storage items as collateral.

Lu Feng heard the prison officer’s suspicions that Qiao Manor might be behind the spread of Blood Spirit Pills and the disappearance of Jiang Feng and others. After the officer left, Lu Feng used a Spirit Fusion Array to secretly access the group’s storage items.

• Lu Feng took Jiang Aotian, Qu Li Su, Qu Huai, and Jiang Caiyun’s storage items, while the prison officer sent Yue An and the others away to speak with him privately.
• The prison officer revealed that Blood Spirit Pills had made roughly one-third of Azure Dragon Town’s cultivators blood-addicted, and that Yue An had been ambushed and force-fed one while investigating their sellers.
• The prison officer suspected Qiao Manor might be behind the pills, but Jiang Ruoyun defended Qiao Xue'er; he said Jiang Feng and the others’ disappearance might expose the real force at Sky Wolf Mausoleum.
• Lu Feng declined to guide the prison officer to Sky Wolf Mausoleum, provided him with a route map, and resolved to use the gathering of experts as an opportunity to steal Pixiu Spirit Liquid.
• After Jiang Ruoyun went to sleep, Lu Feng placed the four storage items in a Spirit Fusion Array so he could access their contents without breaking their sealing inscriptions.

Lu Feng stole the Star Evolution Art from Qu Li Su’s Storage Ring, learned its basic techniques, and infiltrated Qu Estate during an attack by masked men while searching for Pixiu Spirit Liquid. He found the underground passages and the full technique carvings, then approached the passage where the Pixiu was imprisoned as the attackers fought their way in.

• Lu Feng found the Star Evolution Art cultivation method in Qu Li Su’s Storage Ring and learned to control four jade shards before dawn.
• Qu Li Su and Jiang Aotian paid Lu Feng two million soul coins and retrieved their storage items, and Lu Feng left Water Bamboo Pavilion after protecting Jiang Ruoyun with arrays.
• Lu Feng bought array materials and headed to Qu Estate, where masked men attacked while searching for the Awakening Dragon Stone.
• Lu Feng used the battle as cover to enter Qu Estate’s rear courtyard, broke through its illusion array, and discovered Star Evolution Art techniques carved into the underground passage walls.
• Lu Feng reached a fork leading toward the Pixiu’s prison as Qu Huai and Qu Estate’s guards struggled to keep the masked men from entering.

Lu Feng broke the array imprisoning the sixth-tier Pixiu Beast and used Beast Moss Powder to turn it against the black-clad attackers. He pursued their leader toward White Bone Wolf Cave, where a Mystic Stone Array helped the man disappear, and a familiar longsword suddenly flew at the Pixiu Beast.

• Lu Feng used five Jade Shards to break the Pixiu Beast's sealing array despite Qu Huai's warnings.
• Lu Feng threw Beast Moss Powder at the black-clad men, redirecting the freed Pixiu Beast toward them, then collected a black chunk and followed the beast.
• The Pixiu Beast killed the black-clad men except their leader, who fled through the wilderness with Lu Feng and Qu Huai in pursuit.
• Lu Feng shot another powder-laced arrow to keep the Pixiu Beast tracking the leader, who called for help from the east side of Sky Wolf Mausoleum.
• Boulders from White Bone Wolf Cave blocked the Pixiu Beast, but it smashed them apart and the black-clad man vanished in the dust.
• A familiar longsword flew toward the Pixiu Beast's right eye as it rushed toward the wolf cave.

Lu Feng and Ye Fan confronted the Pixiu Beast and the men refining pills in the wolf cave, but an explosion left the beast unconscious and destroyed the Medicine Cauldron’s owner. Ye Fan claimed the cauldron and revealed his heavenly lightning, while Lu Feng’s question suggested he had seen similar cauldrons before.

• Jiang Feng, Yan Mingchi, and six others attacked the Pixiu Beast while Lu Feng knocked Qu Huai unconscious and prepared a powder-laden arrow to lure the beast into the cave.
• The black-robed alchemist ordered the black-clad man to guard the cave, while Ye Fan ambushed the guard and Lu Feng waited for a chance to trap the Pixiu Beast.
• The plump youth knocked the Pixiu Beast aside to save Yan Mingchi, and Lu Feng’s arrows redirected the beast into the wolf cave.
• An explosion erupted inside the cave, leaving the Pixiu Beast unconscious and killing the black-robed alchemist; Ye Fan claimed the blackened cauldron.
• Lu Feng asked whether the cauldron had counterparts, prompting Ye Fan to ask where he had seen similar ones, then Ye Fan demonstrated his heavenly lightning on the Pixiu Beast.

Lu Feng learned that the Prison Official’s banquet had been a massacre that left Azure Dragon Town’s manors devastated, then returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion to tell Jiang Ruoyun and help her recover. As the town faced imminent chaos, he began strengthening the pavilion’s defenses.

• Ye Fan killed the poisoned Pixiu Beast, gave its core to Lu Feng, and told him to meet at the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng learned that Qu Huai’s grandfather and many manor experts had been killed at the Prison Official’s banquet, while Jiang Feng died from his injuries.
• Lu Feng returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion, confirmed Jiang Ruoyun was safe, and told her that Third Manor Lord Jiang was dead and the other Jiang Manor leaders were missing.
• Lu Feng extracted Pixiu Spirit Liquid from the beast core and gave it to Jiang Ruoyun so she could recover her strength.
• Lu Feng repaired the pavilion’s entrance arrays and prepared to build stronger defenses against the coming crisis.

Lu Feng completed the Eternal Desolation Array at Water Bamboo Pavilion as Jiang Ruoyun advanced into the Spirit Gathering Realm, then learned from Yue An that the Blood Clan had seized control of Prison Manor and was hunting Awakening Dragon Stones to release a Blood Demon beneath Azure Dragon Town. Lu Feng revealed he had the remaining stones, while Yue An’s behavior raised suspicion and the Blood Clan’s threat remained unresolved.

• Lu Feng inscribed the Eternal Desolation Array around Water Bamboo Pavilion, and Jiang Ruoyun told him that the strange aura within her had helped her break through into the Spirit Gathering Realm.
• Tang Yuan arrived at the pavilion, followed by Yue An, who reported that the prison governor had been poisoned and Prison Manor had fallen under the Blood Clan’s control.
• Yue An explained that the Blood Clan had imprisoned Azure Dragon Town’s powerful Soul Masters and sought Awakening Dragon Stones to break the seal and free the Blood Demon beneath the town.
• Jiang Ruoyun learned that her grandfather was imprisoned and Jiang Aotian had been killed, while Yue An said most of the manors had been devastated and Qiao Manor had secretly aided the Blood Clan.
• Tang Yuan revealed that he possessed one Awakening Dragon Stone, and Lu Feng disclosed that he had the stones from Qu Estate and Jiang Manor.
• Yue An left after Lu Feng questioned him, and Tang Yuan and Jiang Ruoyun agreed that something was wrong with him.

Lu Feng lured the Blood Clan to Water Bamboo Pavilion with a false claim about an Awakening Dragon Stone, then used the pavilion’s arrays to repel Qiao Gaoyao’s attacking force. He left the attackers surrounded by his array constructs and warned that anyone who advanced would die.

• Lu Feng explained that he had fabricated the rumor about Jiang Manor’s Awakening Dragon Stone to lure the Blood Clan to Water Bamboo Pavilion, and Tang Yuan chose to stay.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan discussed Tang Yuan’s beastification and cultivation, while Jiang Ruoyun recalled no clue about Jiang Manor’s Awakening Dragon Stone.
• The Blood Clan surrounded Water Bamboo Pavilion with flames and arrows, but Lu Feng redirected the arrows into a well with the pavilion’s arrays.
• Qiao Gaoyao demanded the Awakening Dragon Stone, and Lu Feng told him to leave and have the Blood Clan release the people from the estates.
• Lu Feng used Heavenly Thunder Hammers and Soul Extinguishing Rods to defeat two assaults, forcing Qiao Gaoyao’s surviving force to halt.
• Lu Feng activated the Eternal Desolation Array, drew poisonous miasma into dragon-shaped currents, and warned the Blood Clan that anyone who advanced would die.

Lu Feng drove Qiao Gaoyao’s Blood Clan forces from Water Bamboo Pavilion, and Jiang Ruoyun recalled that the third Awakening Dragon Stone might be hidden in a cottage on Jiang Manor’s back mountain. After the Blood Clan set a meeting for three days later, Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun went to find the stone, where Jiang Ruoyun revealed the story of her grandparents’ forbidden love.

• Lu Feng used the Water Bamboo Pavilion formation and an arrow to defeat Qiao Gaoyao’s men, then ordered them to tell the Blood Clan to release the captives from every manor.
• Jiang Ruoyun remembered a thatched cottage on the back mountain as a possible hiding place for the Awakening Dragon Stone, while Lu Feng warned that breaking the seal could release the Blood Demon.
• Qiao Xue'er visited Water Bamboo Pavilion and delivered the Blood Clan’s demand that Lu Feng bring the three Awakening Dragon Stones to North Mountain Cliff in three days in exchange for the surviving captives.
• Qiao Xue'er planned to secretly watch the captives and steal an antidote if the Blood Clan poisoned them, despite Tang Yuan’s concern.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun traveled to the cottage, where Jiang Ruoyun explained that her grandfather had built it after his family opposed his love for her grandmother.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun discovered a hidden mausoleum containing martial techniques and recovered its closing mechanism, then returned to Water Bamboo Pavilion after Lu Feng failed to undo their contract array. There, Yan Jingjing and the others gathered to oppose the Blood Clan, while Yan Mingchi revealed that Blood Spirit Pills were still suppressing his blood-addiction poison.

• Jiang Ruoyun found the Awakening Dragon Stone beneath her grandmother’s candlestick, and removing it opened a passage to Jiang Batian’s hidden mausoleum.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun discovered techniques for the Dragon Play Whip and hidden weapons, and Jiang Ruoyun used a Copper Soul Coin to close the tomb entrance.
• Lu Feng carved jade bells for a special array, but his attempt to break the Contract Pattern failed when a terrifying aura shook his soul sea.
• Jiang Ruoyun proposed changing their contract into a Mandarin Duck Union Array, but Lu Feng hesitated because he believed agreeing would endanger her.
• At Water Bamboo Pavilion, Yan Jingjing asked Lu Feng to call her Yan Qing, and Ma Qiufeng explained that the Blood Clan had destroyed his family and Yan Manor.
• Yan Mingchi told Lu Feng that Blood Spirit Pills were suppressing his blood-addiction poison, and Lu Feng asked how much longer he could endure.

Lu Feng negotiated the release of the captives at Northern Mountain Ridge, but the Blood Clan betrayed the agreement and ambushed the group. He used a jade bell array to teleport the others to safety and remained alone to face Peng Xing and the Blood Clan.

• Lu Feng and his companions confronted Peng Xing at Northern Mountain Ridge and traded Awakening Dragon Stones for the captives’ release.
• Peng Xing ordered Qiao Gaoyao to steal the stones while a hidden spy attacked the rescued captives, but Qiao Xue'er intervened and was struck over the cliff; Tang Yuan leaped after her.
• Qiao Gaoyao escaped with two stones, while Lu Feng recovered the third and killed the subdued spy.
• Peng Xing ordered the Blood Clan to attack, and Lu Feng used a jade bottle and Yan Jingjing’s flute music to stall them as he activated his jade bell array.
• Lu Feng teleported Jiang Ruoyun, Jiang Batian, and the others to safety, then stayed behind and threw Peng Xing the last, corroded Awakening Dragon Stone.

Lu Feng escaped the Blood Clan by agreeing to restore the Awakening Dragon Stone, then found Tang Yuan grieving over Qiao Xue'er and revealed that her soul had been extracted, leaving a chance she could be sensed again. As Lu Feng and Tang Yuan planned resistance, Jiang Batian told the refugees at Water Bamboo Pavilion that Azure Dragon Town’s statue sealed the Blood Demon beneath the town.

• Lu Feng agreed to restore the Awakening Dragon Stone in three days and swallowed three Blood Spirit Pills to secure his release from Peng Xing.
• Lu Feng found Tang Yuan holding Qiao Xue'er’s body and determined that her soul had been extracted; he told Tang Yuan that awakening all three souls might let him sense her.
• Tang Yuan buried Qiao Xue'er, accepted Lu Feng’s hope, and agreed to help resist the Blood Clan as Lu Feng planned to seek aid from the Spirit Prison and unite the survivors.
• At Water Bamboo Pavilion, Jiang Batian and Qu Li Su urged the gathered refugees to unite against the Blood Clan, while Jiang Batian revealed that the Azure Dragon statue was an ancient Treasure Item sealing the Blood Demon.