Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng met Sun Liuliu, who questioned him about refining the Southern God Fire and used the threats of the Six Harmonies Sect to pressure him. He concealed his anger over her attack on Leng Huaping and left her stunned by claiming Heaven-grade cold poisons might help her refine the fire.

• Sun Liuliu waited for Lu Feng at Jun Man Restaurant, while Huang Helou recognized her middle-aged guard as a formidable expert and reconsidered the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s strength.
• Sun Liuliu sent Uncle Ya and Huang Helou out so she could speak privately with Lu Feng.
• Sun Liuliu asked whether Lu Feng had refined the Southern God Fire and how a human body could endure its power; Lu Feng said his success was a coincidence that could not be taught.
• Sun Liuliu apologized for injuring Leng Huaping and invoked Sang Feichen’s death and the Six Harmonies Sect to pressure Lu Feng into sharing his method.
• Lu Feng concealed his anger and suggested that several Heaven-grade cold poisons might give Sun Liuliu a chance to refine the Southern God Fire, leaving her shocked.

Sun Liuliu asked Lu Feng to use Southern God Fire to prepare Heaven Marrow Ice Crystals that could treat the Yin Force afflicting her. Lu Feng remained suspicious of her motives as she swore she no longer possessed any Southern God Fire.

• Lu Feng told Sun Liuliu that his resistance to cold and yin poisons had helped him neutralize Absolute Yang Powder, while privately remaining uncertain about the cause.
• Sun Liuliu offered Lu Feng a sealed Special Cauldron, which absorbed his Fire Essence Qi when he tested it with Southern God Fire.
• Sun Liuliu said the Gloomy Moon Seven String Claw caused her unbearable suffering at every full moon and asked Lu Feng to use the cauldron to infuse Heaven Marrow Ice Crystals with Southern God Fire.
• Sun Liuliu showed Lu Feng a burn on her wrist and claimed that mishandling Southern God Fire had injured her and cost her nearly a hundred Heaven Marrow Ice Crystals.
• When Lu Feng questioned why the Sun Family could not help, Sun Liuliu swore a soul oath that she no longer possessed any Southern God Fire.

Lu Feng and Sun Liuliu negotiated a deal: she would bid for a Sect Token, while he would forge Heaven Marrow Ice Crystals containing Southern God Fire for her. After agreeing on limits, Lu Feng tested a special cauldron to reduce losses, but sensed something was amiss.

• Sun Liuliu swore to keep Lu Feng's identity secret, and Lu Feng agreed to help her in exchange for one condition.
• Lu Feng asked Sun Liuliu to bid for one Sect Token at the auction, and she hesitated because she needed her resources to save Sun Chengnuo.
• Sun Liuliu agreed to bid in her own name with a limit of one hundred High-Grade Source Stones, while avoiding forces friendly with the Sun Family unless they were evenly matched.
• Lu Feng agreed after narrowing the friendly-force exception, then took out a Heaven Marrow Ice Crystal to demonstrate his forging.
• Sun Liuliu stopped Lu Feng and recommended a special cauldron, which Lu Feng used to forge the crystal with little loss before sensing something discordant.

Lu Feng grew wary of Sun Liuliu’s strange cauldron and learned that powerful experts were watching him in Profound Gold City. At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, he spotted members of the Black Scorpion Gate and Bone Toad Manor, old enemies of his sect, and walked toward them after telling Huang Helou they would not have to endure them any longer.

• Sun Liuliu praised Lu Feng’s forging, left him a cauldron and thirty Heaven Marrow Ice Crystals, and asked him to make more when they were finished.
• Huang Helou examined the cauldron, warned Lu Feng about three powerful auras in Profound Gold City, and chose to stay close to protect him.
• Lu Feng obtained Auction Tokens with Blazing Enchantress and went with Huang Helou to the Qin Family’s Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to seek rare materials and Spirit Source Liquid.
• Huang Helou identified seven approaching visitors as members of the Black Scorpion Gate and Bone Toad Manor, factions that had long harmed their sect’s disciples.
• Lu Feng assured Huang Helou that they would not have to endure their enemies any longer, then strode toward the group.

Lu Feng confronted the Black Scorpion Gate and Bone Toad Manor at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, proving his strength and warning them against harming Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples. The confrontation ended with Yu Ruyan, the Qin Family’s Second Madam and the Pavilion’s person in charge, arriving to address him.

• Lu Feng blocked Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad’s parties and challenged them over their sects’ past attacks on his disciples.
• Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad mocked Huang Helou and claimed Lu Feng was a puppet Sect Leader, but Lu Feng rejected their interference and warned them to stop harming his sect.
• When Iron Toad threatened to kill any Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciple he encountered, Lu Feng’s spiritual energy forced him back several steps.
• Lu Feng threatened to destroy a hall or an entire sect if his disciples were killed, and Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad held back rather than fight.
• Yu Ruyan descended from the Second Floor Pavilion, praised Lu Feng with evident displeasure toward the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and was identified as Qin Bu’er’s wife and the person in charge of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

Lu Feng left the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion after increasing his listing for Spirit Source Liquid, then headed toward the Law Division Building while Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad followed. There, he recognized Luo Tianfu’s cosmetics stall and suspected it was promoting new products at the auction with Jun Ziqian’s approval.

• Yu Ruyan confronted Lu Feng and Huang Helou at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and a gray-robed expert released a warning aura after they stirred up trouble.
• Lu Feng increased his listing for Spirit Source Liquid from one portion to two so Xiao Gu’s soul corpse could grow stronger.
• After Lu Feng and Huang Helou left the pavilion, they noticed Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad following them toward the Law Division Building.
• Poison Scorpion and Iron Toad guessed that Lu Feng wanted the Sect Token at the auction and vowed to prevent the displaced force from returning.
• Lu Feng arrived at the Law Division Building and recognized Luo Tianfu’s White Jade Cream and Skin-Soothing Green Spring cosmetics display as a promotional stall.

Lu Feng and Huang Helou entered the Law Division Building for an auction, where Lu Feng recognized Qi Zhao secretly attending in disguise. When Luo Xiaoxi arrived, Lu Feng realized Qi Zhao had come to study Jun Zi Shuo so he could assassinate him and prevent their marriage.

• The Luo Family's Maids gave Lu Feng and Huang Helou boxes of rouge, and the two entered the Law Division Building with their Auction Token.
• A guard explained the auction rules and led Lu Feng and Huang Helou to the Second Floor Pavilion.
• Lu Feng saw Chu Youren angrily berating the Luo Family's rouge stall before guards drove him away.
• Lu Feng recognized the masked Qi Zhao in the Second Floor Pavilion and noticed him concealing his identity.
• When Luo Tianci, Luo Tianfu, and Luo Xiaoxi arrived, Qi Zhao stared at Luo Xiaoxi, and Lu Feng suspected he had come because of her.
• Qi Zhao planned to learn Jun Zi Shuo's appearance and aura so he could assassinate him and stop Luo Xiaoxi's marriage.

At the Law Division Building auction, Luo Tianci and Lu Feng noticed Sun Liuliu arriving with a mysterious young man, while Luo Xiaoxi revealed she had spent time with Lu Feng at the Lantern Festival. Lu Feng’s plan to have Blazing Enchantress appear alongside Qin Su and greet Sun Liuliu began to take shape, leaving him wondering why Qin Su had cooperated so readily.

• Luo Tianci urged Luo Xiaoxi to meet her future husband after the auction, but she planned to leave early once she won the long spear.
• Luo Tianci saw Sun Liuliu arrive with Uncle Ya and an unfamiliar young man, then learned that Luo Xiaoxi had strolled with Lu Feng at the Lantern Festival.
• Lu Feng and Huang Helou could not identify the young man accompanying Sun Liuliu, and Lu Feng suspected the Sun Family had formidable foundations.
• Qin Su arrived with Blazing Enchantress, who greeted Sun Liuliu warmly as part of Lu Feng’s plan to borrow influence.
• Lu Feng noticed Qin Su welcomed Blazing Enchantress’s company and wondered why she had cooperated so readily.

Lu Feng questioned why Qin Su had repeatedly helped him as the delayed auction finally began under Jun Ziqian’s supervision. Jun Ziqian revealed that the Qin Family had consigned two Sect Tokens, and the first token went up for bidding as Lu Feng recognized the Jun Family’s Floating Cloud Step.

• Lu Feng remained puzzled by Qin Su’s repeated assistance, while Huang Helou suggested it might stem from her old friendship with Brother Bu Er.
• Jun Ziya and Jun Zi Shuo arrived at the Law Division Building, and Jun Ziya ordered Jun Ziqian to begin the overdue auction.
• Jun Ziqian opened the auction, endured criticism from the crowd, and announced that two Sect Tokens would be sold separately.
• Jun Ziya learned that the Qin Family had consigned the tokens and questioned whether Mystic Wind Scavenger might be from the Qin Family.
• Two veiled women displayed the first Sect Token using the Jun Family’s Floating Cloud Step, and Jun Ziqian announced its starting bid of twenty High-Grade Source Stones.

At the auction, Qin Tianliang provoked Blazing Enchantress and recognized that Lu Feng’s group was concealing their identities to bid on the Sect Token. Lu Feng let Huang Helou decide whether to use the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s reserves, while making clear that he would not contribute more of his personal resources.

• Jun Ziqian expected the Sect Token auction to fetch a huge price, while Jun Ziya grew increasingly uneasy about the catalog and the Qin Family’s absence.
• Qin Tianliang arrived late, greeted Qin Su, then flirted with Blazing Enchantress, who told him that her husband was surnamed Lu and asked to be called Madam Lu or Sect Leader Madam.
• Qin Su rebuked Qin Tianliang for criticizing Blazing Enchantress, and he noticed Lu Feng seated separately across the auction hall.
• Qin Tianliang realized that Lu Feng and Blazing Enchantress were hiding their identities to influence the bidding, then raised his plaque and bid thirty to provoke Lu Feng.
• Huang Helou asked Lu Feng whether the Azure Mountain Sword Sect should bid, and Lu Feng said the sect could use its own source stones but that he would reserve his personal resources for his students.

Huang Helou struggled to win the Sect Token as rival forces drove up its price, until Qin Tianliang entered the bidding and forced Azure Mountain Sword Sect to give up. Just as Qin worried about his costly purchase, another bidder raised the price to one hundred and fifty.

• Huang Helou raised his bids against hostile sects and manors, pushing the Sect Token's price to one hundred and twenty High-Grade Source Stones.
• Lian Taihe bid one hundred and twenty-five, and Huang Helou answered with one hundred and thirty-five, the most he could afford.
• Poison Scorpion urged Lian Taihe to borrow Black Scorpion Gate's Source Stones, but Lian Taihe hesitated to become indebted to them.
• Qin Tianliang bid one hundred and forty after Blazing Enchantress rejected his advances, forcing Lian Taihe and Huang Helou to withdraw.
• Qin Tianliang realized Blazing Enchantress had influenced him to bid and worried about explaining the purchase to his family.
• An unidentified bidder called out one hundred and fifty, drawing every gaze in the Law Division Building.

Luo Tianci bought the first Sect Token for 150 High-Grade Source Stones, leaving others guessing at his motive while Luo Xiaoxi worried about the cost. Jun Ziya uncovered Jun Ziqian’s scheme to inflate the auction price, then received urgent news that something had happened at West Sheep Mountain.

• Luo Tianci outbid Qin Tianliang for the Sect Token, and Luo Xiaoxi learned he had acted partly at her suggestion.
• The Law Division Drum marked the Sect Token sold, while Luo Tianfu expected the purchase to hinder Luo Tianci’s plans to compete for the Ringed Banyan Tree.
• Jun Ziya realized Jun Ziqian had manipulated the auction to raise the price and ordered him and the middle-aged guard to plead guilty at the Hall of Affairs.
• Flame Sparrow showed Jun Ziya a shattered soul jade and reported that something had happened at West Sheep Mountain.

Jun Ziqian introduced three ancient Spirit Dispersion Cones at auction, prompting Lu Feng to drive up the price against Poison Scorpion. Lu Feng suspected Poison Scorpion knew how to use the cones or possessed their missing formulas.

• Jun Ziya left to handle West Sheep Mountain and ordered Jun Zi Shuo to stay behind, while Jun Ziqian continued the auction.
• Jun Ziqian explained that the Spirit Dispersion Cones were ancient single-use weapons whose poison could weaken Five Elements Realm Soul Masters.
• Poison Scorpion bid six Low-Grade Source Stones for the cones, and Lu Feng raised the bid to sixty to provoke him.
• Poison Scorpion bid sixty-five and tried to disguise his interest as wounded pride, but Lu Feng recognized his eagerness.
• Lu Feng reasoned that Poison Scorpion must have a practical use for the cones and might possess their missing formula or method of use.

Lu Feng baited Poison Scorpion into winning the Spirit Dispersion Cone, then deliberately provoked Iron Toad over the Blood Eye Crystals. A mysterious young man from the Sun Family entered the bidding with a steep offer, leaving Lu Feng suspicious of his cultivation.

• Lu Feng raised the bid on the Spirit Dispersion Cone to ninety, but withdrew after Poison Scorpion bid ninety-five, allowing Poison Scorpion to win it.
• Jun Ziqian changed the auction order, bringing out the Blood Eye Crystal before the Ringed Banyan Tree and explaining its value to Bone Toad Manor.
• Lu Feng learned that Bone Toad Manor used Blood Eye Crystals to strengthen its Ancient Flame Toads and began outbidding Iron Toad to provoke him.
• A mysterious young man beside Sun Liuliu bid fifty Source Stones, prompting Iron Toad to stop bidding, and Lu Feng answered with fifty-one.
• The young man bid ten Mid-Grade Source Stones, and Lu Feng wondered whether he followed an evil cultivation path.

Lu Feng drove up the bids for the Blood Eye Crystal, prompting speculation about why the Sun Family wanted it, then used the Blazing Underworld Swift Goose Bow auction to provoke Qin Tianliang into overspending. The chapter ended with Qin Tianliang realizing Lu Feng had withdrawn deliberately and left him stuck with the high price.

• Lu Feng raised his bids for the Blood Eye Crystal until the Law Division Drum settled the auction, while the young man beside Sun Liuliu declined to continue bidding.
• Jun Ziqian introduced the Blazing Underworld Swift Goose Bow with a minimum bid increment, and Lu Feng immediately offered thirty Low-Grade Source Stones.
• A soulmaster from Beast Valley bid on the bow, but Lu Feng continued bidding after Huang Helou identified him.
• Qin Tianliang entered the bidding to provoke Lu Feng and impress Blazing Enchantress, and Lu Feng kept raising the price.
• Lu Feng stopped bidding when Qin Tianliang offered thirty Mid-Grade Source Stones, leaving Qin Tianliang to realize he had been tricked into paying far too much.

Lu Feng concealed his lack of interest in the Blazing Underworld Swift Goose Bow while keeping up his reckless-bidder act at the auction. When a formation master bid on the Ringed Banyan Tree, Lu Feng prepared to raise the price, but another bidder stunned the room with an offer of fifty Mid-Grade Source Stones.

• Lu Feng reflected on the Netherworld Bow's mysterious resilience and realized it was far more extraordinary than he had assumed.
• Qin Tianliang gloated that Lu Feng had failed to obtain the Blazing Underworld Swift Goose Bow, while Blazing Enchantress mocked his costly purchase.
• Jun Ziqian introduced the Ringed Banyan Tree, and Huang Helou recognized it as important before Lu Feng warned him to keep up their act.
• A middle-aged formation master from the Evolution Sky Sect bid fifty Jade Soul Coins for the Ringed Banyan Tree, drawing wary looks from Sun Liuliu, Luo Tianfu, and Luo Tianci.
• Lu Feng raised his bidding plaque, but a bidder on the third floor immediately offered fifty Mid-Grade Source Stones, silencing the auction hall.

Luo Tianfu and Sun Liuliu fiercely bid against each other for the Ringed Banyan Tree, each suspecting hidden motives behind the auction. As the price climbed into High-Grade Source Stones, Jun Ziqian and Jun Zi Shuo realized the supposedly worthless lot had become a serious problem.

• Luo Tianfu bid fifty Mid-Grade Source Stones for the Ringed Banyan Tree, believing Lu Feng would back down and leave him to win it.
• A disguised Cloth-Clad Guest bid sixty, making Luo Tianfu suspect that someone was manipulating the auction.
• Sun Liuliu bid seventy, and Luo Tianfu and Sun Liuliu continued raising the price to eighty and ninety.
• Jun Ziqian worried that the soaring price would expose his mishandling of the lot, which Qin Chaose had consigned.
• Jun Zi Shuo learned that the Qin Family had consigned the Ringed Banyan Tree and feared that a more formidable schemer might be behind the bidding.

The bidding war over the Ringed Banyan Tree sculpture escalated as the Sun, Luo, and Qin Families competed, while Lu Feng identified the Cloth-Clad Guest as Luo Tianci’s proxy. The Chu Family arrived, Chu Youwei was left behind with growing hostility toward Luo Tianfu, and Chu Youren tried to attack Lu Feng before Huang Helou stopped him.

• The Cloth-Clad Guest bid ninety High-Grade Source Stones, and Lu Feng deduced that Luo Tianci was signaling him by opening and closing his teacup lid.
• Qin Tianliang entered the bidding at one hundred, provoking Sun Liuliu and Luo Tianfu as the price climbed toward two hundred Heaven-Grade Source Stones.
• Jun Zi Shuo grew suspicious of Qin Tianliang, while Jun Ziqian worried that the auction for the sculpture was spiraling out of control.
• Chu Xuanhe and Chu Youren brought Chu Youwei to the auction; after they went upstairs without her, she began to regard Luo Tianfu as the chief target of her resentment.
• Chu Youren charged at Lu Feng and threw a teapot, but Huang Helou deflected it, splashing hot tea onto Chu Youren’s face.
• Chu Xuanhe calmed the guards and warned Chu Youren that he would hire a Black List expert to deal with Lu Feng when Lu Feng was alone.

Sun Liuliu won the Ringed Banyan Tree for 330 High-Grade Source Stones after Luo Tianfu withdrew, while Lu Feng watched calmly as his plan unfolded. During the recess, Jun Zi Shuo questioned Jun Ziqian about the bidding spectacle, and Jun Ziqian realized Sun Liuliu and Luo Tianfu had a reason to value the tree.

• Chu Youwei saw Lu Feng calmly facing Chu Xuanhe and began to feel that she might be able to rely on him.
• Sun Liuliu bid 330 High-Grade Source Stones for the Ringed Banyan Tree, and Luo Tianfu gave up after reaching his limit.
• The Law Division Building entered a brief recess, and Jun Ziqian went to consult Jun Zi Shuo and the Warehouse Elders.
• Jun Ziqian proposed questioning Qin Chaose, but Jun Zi Shuo stopped him because the consignment had followed the rules.
• Jun Zi Shuo guided Jun Ziqian to recognize that Sun Liuliu and Luo Tianfu valued the Ringed Banyan Tree for reasons beyond its apparent worth.

Jun Ziqian was restrained from pursuing the mystery behind the Ringed Banyan Tree consignment until the auction ended, while Jun Zi Shuo warned him that the mastermind was beyond Qin Chaose and Qin Tianliang. Meanwhile, Luo Tianfu demanded that Chu Youwei come to him without marriage, and Chu Xuanhe and Chu Youren weighed her humiliation against the chance to save the Chu Family.

• Jun Zi Shuo stopped Jun Ziqian from investigating immediately and reminded him that the Law Division Building had to protect its rules and reputation.
• Jun Ziqian proposed ambushing whoever came to collect the Consignment Gold, but the Warehouse Elders condemned the idea and Jun Zi Shuo doubted the mastermind would appear in person.
• Jun Zi Shuo told Jun Ziqian to finish the auction before questioning Luo Tianfu and Sun Liuliu, and Jun Ziqian returned to hosting.
• Chu Youren asked Luo Tianfu why he had put Hua Ying Hall's rouge up for sale, while Chu Xuanhe raised the proposed marriage to Chu Youwei.
• Luo Tianfu told Chu Xuanhe that Chu Youwei must come to his residence within days if she wanted to join the Luo Family, and offered to place Hua Ying Hall under her management.
• Chu Xuanhe and Chu Youren considered accepting Luo Tianfu's offer because the Luo Family's support could keep the Chu Family among the noble families.