Chapter Summaries

At the Lantern Festival, Lu Feng and Qin Tianliang renewed their rivalry with a wager over the Jun Family’s Golden Bell Blessing. As the group headed toward the event, Lu Feng examined an inconspicuous stall while Jiang Ruoyun secretly went to look at couples’ outfits.

• Luo Xiaoxi explained the Golden Bell Blessing, and Qin Tianliang challenged Lu Feng to a wager over who could ring more bells.
• Lu Feng threatened Qin Tianliang for calling Jiang Ruoyun “Yun’er,” and then accepted the wager after learning the bells were struck with Iron Jade Beads.
• Jiang Ruoyun followed a child to her mother’s stall and considered buying couples’ outfits, while Qin Tianliang followed Lu Feng to a stall selling assorted goods.
• Lu Feng tricked Qin Tianliang into demonstrating his bargaining skills, and Qin Tianliang accidentally agreed to buy a dagger for twenty-five Jade Soul Coins.
• Lu Feng examined Red Serpent Nails and then picked up a dusty, tiered jewelry box, prompting Qin Tianliang to mock him for taking an interest in women’s trinkets.

Lu Feng bought an apparently crude jewelry box whose shell inlays proved to be rare Heavenly Shell Crystals, provoking Qin Tianliang to propose a wager for them. Jiang Ruoyun urged Lu Feng to stop, but he accepted Qin Tianliang’s challenge on their behalf, leaving the outcome of their joint Golden Bell Blessing attempt unresolved.

• Lu Feng haggled the stall owner down to six Jade Soul Coins for the jewelry box, while Luo Xiaoxi bought all the Red Serpent Nails for a hundred Jade Soul Coins.
• Qin Tianliang provoked Lu Feng by suggesting he had bought the box for another woman, and Lu Feng shattered it to reveal twenty-four Heavenly Shell Crystals.
• Qin Tianliang challenged Lu Feng to wager the crystals, but Jiang Ruoyun objected, and Lu Feng withdrew the challenge for her sake.
• Lu Feng called the Source Stones Jiang Ruoyun offered their Wife Fund and then agreed to gamble alongside her when Qin Tianliang invited her to join the wager.
• Qin Tianliang accepted, confident that the difficulty of striking the Golden Bell together would cause Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun to lose.

Lu Feng discovered that the Golden Bell Blessing stall was rigged and caught its owner secretly tampering with a cannon after Jiang Ruoyun chose it. The stall owner believed his trick had gone unnoticed, while Lu Feng watched and waited to see what happened next.

• The stall owner explained Golden Bell Blessing and revealed that the grand prize was the Heaven-Grade Treasure Item Frost Binding Cord.
• Lu Feng spotted the Puppet Battle stall owner hiding under the canopy and realized the two stall owners were conspiring.
• The stall owner presented two Blessing Cannons and let Lu Feng and Qin Tianliang choose between them.
• Lu Feng asked Jiang Ruoyun to choose, and Qin Tianliang steered her toward the left cannon.
• The stall owner secretly pushed a disk under the chosen cannon and swapped in three beads, but Lu Feng saw the trick.

Qin Tianliang demonstrated his skill with the Blessing Cannon, while Jiang Ruoyun discovered that several beads had been tampered with to make her miss. Lu Feng comforted her and stood by her as Qin Tianliang pressed her to end the wager in exchange for meals with him.

• Qin Tianliang rang six Golden Bells with the Blessing Cannon and challenged Jiang Ruoyun to match him.
• Red Scorpion arranged for Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng to split the ten beads, and Jiang Ruoyun began her turn.
• Jiang Ruoyun missed with her first two beads as the crowd mocked her, while Lu Feng reassured her.
• Jiang Ruoyun realized the first three beads were flawed and that the tampering made their shots veer away from the Golden Bells.
• Lu Feng calmed Jiang Ruoyun, and Qin Tianliang offered to end the wager if she agreed to dine and talk with him.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun continued the Golden Bell Blessing wager against Qin Tianliang, using their coordinated spiritual energy to catch up after a disastrous shot. When Qin Tianliang seemed to secure victory, Lu Feng made one bead ring two bells by splitting it after it struck Qin Tianliang’s bead.

• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun fired together, but their first bead fell short and drew jeers from the spectators.
• Lu Feng encouraged Jiang Ruoyun to keep going, then guided their next shots to ring several bells and unsettle Qin Tianliang.
• Qin Tianliang fired successfully until he had rung seven bells, then claimed Lu Feng had already lost.
• Lu Feng told Jiang Ruoyun that a single bead could ring two bells and secretly instructed her to wrap it while he aimed toward Qin Tianliang’s bead.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun’s bead collided with Qin Tianliang’s shot, then rang two bells after splitting into two halves.

Lu Feng used his skill with the Blessing Cannon to catch up with Qin Tianliang and continued competing for the Frost Binding Cord, despite the stall owner disputing one of his rings. He prepared to fire Jun Ziya’s specially made final bead, whose hidden spiritual energy he believed he could control.

• Lu Feng used Qin Tianliang’s fired bead to make one bead ring two golden bells, leaving Qin Tianliang with seven rings and Lu Feng with five.
• Qin Tianliang forfeited his remaining beads, while Lu Feng flirted with Jiang Ruoyun and explained that his title of Sect Leader Madam had been an excuse to approach the Qin Family.
• Lu Feng fired another bead, making a golden bell ring before knocking it from its rack; the stall owner ruled that its fall did not count, and Luo Xiaoxi accused him of being a sore loser.
• The stall owner insisted that Lu Feng’s last bead had to remain intact and ring a bell twice for the result to count.
• Lu Feng recognized that Jun Ziya’s final bead carried Wood Element Qi from a Five Elements Pure Body Soulmaster and believed his Eastern Soul Wood would let him control it.
• Lu Feng embraced Jiang Ruoyun as they placed their hands on the Blessing Cannon, then prepared to fire the final bead.

Lu Feng used Jiang Ruoyun’s spiritual energy as a barrier while secretly forming a Sky Evolution Pattern around Jun Ziya’s bead. He fired it at the Golden Bells, where it bounced between two bells and rang repeatedly, stunning the crowd and enraging Qin Tianliang.

• Jiang Ruoyun enveloped Jun Ziya’s bead while Lu Feng secretly wrapped it in Sky Evolution Patterns without altering the bead.
• Jiang Ruoyun yielded control of the bead to Lu Feng after he finished forming the pattern.
• Lu Feng fired the bead and declared that he aimed to win the final prize, not merely defeat Qin Tianliang.
• The bead struck one Golden Bell, then bounced between two bells and rang repeatedly.
• Qin Tianliang demanded to know what trick Lu Feng had used, while Jiang Ruoyun celebrated his success.

Lu Feng accused Qin Tianliang and the stall owner of tampering with a Blessing Cannon, while Qin Tianliang denied the charge and the stall owner produced ordinary pearls to defend himself. The stall owner turned the crowd against Lu Feng by accusing him of slandering the Jun Family, as they waited for Jun Ziya to arrive.

• Lu Feng confronted Qin Tianliang over the suspicious pearls and told the stall owner to summon Jun Ziya.
• Luo Xiaoxi left with Tang Jing and Yin Xiaolou to avoid meeting Jun Zi Shuo, hoping to escape their arranged marriage.
• Qin Tianliang refused to honor his wager of forty High-Grade Source Stones and accused Lu Feng of using underhanded means.
• Lu Feng accused Qin Tianliang of tampering with the Blessing Cannon, then demanded that the stall owner confess to helping him.
• The stall owner removed a small disc from the cannon and displayed its three ordinary pearls alongside three others, then accused Lu Feng of tarnishing the Jun Family's reputation.

Lu Feng realized the stall owner had destroyed the evidence, then watched Jun Ziya arrive and learned why she was called the Number One Beauty of Profound Territory. As crude remarks about Jun Ziya stirred Lu Feng’s thoughts, a man was suddenly sent flying.

• Lu Feng realized the stall owner had hidden and destroyed the small round discs, erasing the evidence.
• Jun Ziya arrived with Jun Zi Shuo and a group of young masters and ladies, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Lu Feng recognized Jun Ziya as Jun Ziyi and Zi Mo’s elder sister and compared her beauty with Qing Xue’s.
• Jiang Ruoyun pinched Lu Feng for staring at Jun Ziya, and Lu Feng reassured her that she was more beautiful.
• Two men made lewd remarks about Jun Ziya, and Lu Feng overheard them and briefly imagined possessing her.
• A figure suddenly flew backward while Lu Feng was still lost in thought.

Lu Feng clashed with Jun Ziya after exposing the stall owner's rigged bead game, while Jun Ziya's feared punishments and authority became clear. When she demanded that he return to the Jun Family for investigation, Lu Feng protested and Jun Zi Shuo demanded evidence of his accusations.

• Flame Sparrow struck the lecherous man who insulted Jun Ziya, and Jun Ziya ordered her to slap his mouth.
• Spectators explained that Jun Ziya's three notorious punishments were to slap a person's mouth, take them into custody, or feed them to the dogs.
• The stall owner accused Lu Feng of causing trouble and slandering the Jun Family, but Jun Ziya rebuked him and approached Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng mocked Jun Ziya's claims about the Jun Family's integrity, and she ordered four female guards to surround him and demanded he return for investigation.
• Lu Feng showed his Azure Mountain Sword Sect token, then loudly accused the Jun Family of bullying a commoner when Jun Ziya dismissed his authority.
• Jun Zi Shuo asked Lu Feng to provide evidence of the Jun Family's dishonesty or face the consequences of slander.

Lu Feng exposed the Golden Bell Stall Owner’s tampering with a bead and accused Qin Tianliang of orchestrating the scheme. Jun Ziya questioned the stall owners and learned that Lu Feng had defeated Qin Tianliang at Puppet Battle, while the accusations against Qin Tianliang remained disputed.

• Lu Feng revealed a specially coated bead as evidence that the Golden Bell Stall Owner had sabotaged the Blessing Cannon, and Jun Ziya confronted the man.
• The Golden Bell Stall Owner blamed the scheme on a man from a distant shack, and Jun Ziya sent a guard to bring him in.
• Jun Zi Shuo identified the man as a Qin Family member, prompting Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun to accuse Qin Tianliang of directing the sabotage.
• The Puppet Battle Stall owner claimed he had acted out of resentment after Lu Feng destroyed his jade pedestals, and Jun Ziya learned that Lu Feng had defeated Qin Tianliang.
• The Golden Bell Stall Owner claimed Qin Tianliang had ordered him to cooperate, and Qin Tianliang angrily denied threatening him.

Jun Ziya questioned the stall owners about the Golden Bell incident, while Qin Tianliang killed the Puppet Battle Stall Owner and paid Lu Feng the wager he owed. Lu Feng gave Jiang Ruoyun the Source Stones as betrothal gifts, and Jun Ziya examined the special bead Lu Feng had struck, baffled by how he had controlled it.

• The Golden Bell Stall Owner blamed the Puppet Battle Stall Owner, who confessed that he had acted alone and only used Qin Tianliang's name to intimidate him.
• Qin Tianliang killed the Puppet Battle Stall Owner for causing Jun Ziya to misunderstand him, and Jun Ziya ordered the Golden Bell Stall Owner to recount the bell-striking in detail.
• The Golden Bell Stall Owner explained that Jiang Ruoyun had failed with three defective beads before Lu Feng helped her strike the fourth, prompting Jun Ziya to mock Qin Tianliang for losing despite his advantage.
• Lu Feng demanded the forty High-Grade Source Stones Qin Tianliang owed him, then offered them to Jiang Ruoyun as part of his betrothal gifts; she blushed and told him that betrothal gifts alone would not be enough.
• Jun Ziya examined the special bead Lu Feng had struck and realized its aura remained unchanged despite traces of his domineering spiritual energy, leaving her unable to understand how he had controlled it.

Lu Feng claimed the Frost Binding Cord and Peach Blossom Tokens from Jun Ziya after winning the Golden Bell Blessing, while Jun Ziya reprimanded Jun Zi Shuo for mishandling the dispute. Lu Feng reconciled with Jiang Ruoyun, but Qin Tianliang remained furious and resolved to kill him if he left Profound Gold City.

• Jun Ziya gave Lu Feng the Frost Binding Cord and Peach Blossom Tokens, then announced that the Golden Bell Blessing stall would be free for the rest of the festival to restore the Jun Family's reputation.
• After the crowd dispersed, Jun Ziya scolded Jun Zi Shuo for his rash remark and ordered him to investigate Lu Feng, then learned that Lu Feng was Zi Mo's sworn elder brother.
• Lu Feng explained the misunderstandings to Jiang Ruoyun and gave away the boxes of rouge, eventually coaxing a smile from her.
• Qin Tianliang watched Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun together and vowed to kill Lu Feng if he found a chance to catch him outside Profound Gold City.

During the Lantern Festival, Lu Feng received a secret meeting invitation from Fan Linlin, which made Jiang Ruoyun jealous. He followed her to the Peach Blossom Stakes stall, where he tried to use their tokens for the game.

• A little girl delivered Lu Feng a letter from a pretty woman, stirring Jiang Ruoyun's jealousy and prompting Qin Tianliang to tease him.
• Lu Feng gave the letter to Jiang Ruoyun, who opened it and found an invitation to meet at Fragrant Cedar Forest at the Chou Hour.
• Lu Feng recognized the handwriting as Fan Linlin's and wondered why she had contacted him secretly.
• Jiang Ruoyun walked away with Red Scorpion, but stopped at the Peach Blossom Stakes stall after Lu Feng followed her.
• Lu Feng asked the stall owner whether they could use their Peach Blossom Tokens to play, and the owner assumed he was trying to cut in line.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun used Jun Family Peach Blossom Tokens to bypass the queue and learned the rules of the Peach Blossom Stakes. Just as they prepared to begin, a servant reported a problem with the question bank, and the stall owner’s strange reaction made Lu Feng wary while Qin Tianliang anticipated Lu Feng’s embarrassment.

• The fat stall owner recognized Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun’s Jun Family tokens, ushered them ahead of the queue, and silenced the protesting customers.
• The stall owner explained the Peach Blossom Stakes, where paired participants answered questions while leaping between seven spiritual-energy jade cakes, with a Ruyi Flower Hairpin as the reward for answering over a hundred correctly.
• A servant summoned the stall owner about the disordered questions in the shed and whispered something that surprised him.
• The stall owner asked Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun to wait while he prepared the question bank, prompting Lu Feng to stay on guard.
• Jiang Ruoyun suspected Qin Tianliang had interfered, but he denied it and admitted he looked forward to seeing Lu Feng tested.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun took part in the Peach Blossom Stakes question-and-answer contest, where Jiang Ruoyun handled the easy questions until a formation question exposed the contest’s unusual source. Lu Feng suspected Jun Ziya was behind it and challenged the stall owner rather than reveal the two obscure repair methods he knew.

• The fat stall owner explained the rules, and Jiang Ruoyun chose Martial Dao while Lu Feng chose formation arts because they could not choose the same branch.
• Jiang Ruoyun answered the first ten basic questions with ease as spectators mocked Lu Feng for letting her answer.
• The stall owner asked for six basic methods of repairing formations, but Jiang Ruoyun could name only the four publicly known methods: mend, release, balance, and adjust.
• Lu Feng suspected the question scroll had come from an expert and connected the contest to Jun Ziya’s interest in his unusual formation technique.
• Lu Feng challenged the stall owner, claiming that only four repair methods were known, and spectators joined him in demanding an explanation.

Jun Ziya tested Lu Feng with questions designed to expose his knowledge, while Lu Feng realized the Peach Blossom Stakes questions had been prepared in advance. His answer about the Nine Ghosts Soul Snatching Array made Jun Ziya question whether she had correctly identified his affiliations.

• The fat stall owner dismissed the dispute over the formation question as a mistake, but Qin Tianliang recognized the expensive Fan Wood Incense Paper and suspected Jun Ziya had arranged the test.
• Lu Feng noticed the stall owner had turned the scroll’s page and realized the earlier questions might all have been prepared by Jun Ziya.
• Jun Ziya watched Lu Feng from a distant shack with records of his past activities beside her.
• At question thirty-one, the stall owner asked how many pieces of jade formed the core of the Nine Ghosts Soul Snatching Array, a formation Lu Feng had previously discussed at Eastern Origin Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng said the usual number was nine but that powerful formation masters had used six or three, prompting Jun Ziya to question whether he was connected only to Exquisite Pavilion.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun answered the Peach Blossom Stake questions while growing closer, and Lu Feng correctly declared that Black Essence Stone and Pupil Flower Crystal could coexist in one array. Jun Ziya left, apparently having obtained the answer she wanted regardless of how Lu Feng answered.

• Jiang Ruoyun nearly fell when her Peach Blossom Stake dissolved, and Lu Feng caught her and pulled her onto another stake.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun stood together on the last remaining stake, and Lu Feng swore his devotion until Jiang Ruoyun forgave him.
• Lu Feng lifted Jiang Ruoyun into his arms as the spectators teased him for deliberately missing questions to share a stake with her.
• Jiang Ruoyun reasoned that the Withered Sea Essence Stone could be turned from waste into treasure, and Lu Feng answered that it could, earning a correct verdict.
• Lu Feng said Black Essence Stone and Pupil Flower Crystal could coexist in the same array, and Jun Ziya left, satisfied that she had obtained the answer she wanted.

Jun Ziya’s visit unsettled Lu Feng, who resumed answering the stall owner’s questions after she left. Meanwhile, Bi Kongjing and Huang Helou delivered Lu Feng’s messages, and Luo Tianfu learned that obtaining the Luo Clan Fragment might require him to win an auction lot called the Ringed Banyan Tree.

• Jun Ziya left after giving Lu Feng a cold glance, and he suspected she had learned what she wanted from his behavior.
• The fat stall owner returned to his original questions, and Lu Feng answered more than forty correctly while Jiang Ruoyun teased him for deliberately getting the earlier questions wrong to hold her.
• Bi Kongjing and Huang Helou delivered Bamboo Tubes containing Lu Feng’s Notice Letters to Luo Tianfu and Sun Liuliu.
• Luo Tianfu found a message offering the Luo Clan Fragment in exchange for the Ringed Banyan Tree and recognized the attached rubbing as proof of the fragment.
• After learning that the Ringed Banyan Tree was a lot in the Law Division Building auction, Luo Tianfu ordered Uncle De to gather the clan’s resources and secure it.

Luo Tianfu changed his plans after receiving a mysterious message, prompting Uncle De to report his suspicions to Luo Tianci. Luo Tianci and his hidden master considered who might be guiding Tianfu and decided that the next day’s auction could reveal the truth.

• Luo Tianfu told Uncle De to mobilize resources for the Ringed Banyan Tree while he went to ask Jun Ziqian for advice.
• Uncle De discovered a hole in the Flower Boat’s window, then met Luo Tianci and reported Tianfu’s unusual behavior and the possibility that someone was guiding him.
• Luo Tianci and Uncle De discussed whether the Qin Family or the Sun Family might be behind the message, and Luo Tianci ordered Uncle De to proceed with Tianfu’s instructions.
• Luo Tianci’s hidden master emerged and agreed that someone was advising Tianfu, though she cautioned that the night’s events might not involve the Qin Family or the Sun Family.