Chapter Summaries

At a Lin Family meeting, Lin Baijian questioned whether the returned Lu Feng was really Lin Liyun, and the clan arranged to test him in the Martial Arts Arena. The chapter ended with Zhong Sanxiao ordering three young Lin Family members to face Lu Feng together, while Lin Wanshan offered to join them.

• Lin Baijian told the gathered Lin Family members that the amnesiac Lu Feng might not truly be Lin Liyun and said he had summoned him for a martial arts test.
• Lin Wanshan and the younger collateral-branch members recognized Lu Feng at the Martial Arts Arena and resolved to challenge him.
• Lin Wanshan sent Lin Baige forward to test Lu Feng, while Lin Xiaojin watched with concern.
• Zhong Sanxiao ordered Lin Manjiang and Lin Jinran to join Lin Baige, insisting that one fighter would not be enough to test Lu Feng.
• Lin Wanshan volunteered to join the three fighters, appearing eager to expose Lu Feng's identity.

Lu Feng faced Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige to prove his identity and establish his standing in the Lin Family. He easily avoided their attacks and identified serious flaws in their incomplete Little Three Elements Sword Array as they attacked him from both sides.

• Zhong Sanxiao explained to Lin Xiaojin that the battle would help Lin Liyun establish prestige, and she stopped objecting to the arrangement.
• Lu Feng challenged Lin Wanshan to join the fight, but Zhong Sanxiao insisted he first defeat Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige.
• Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige attacked Lu Feng, who dodged them and tapped their swords with his scabbard without drawing his weapon.
• Lin Jinran ordered the three to form the Little Three Elements Sword Array, but Lu Feng evaded their coordinated thrusts and criticized their timing.
• Lin Jinran intercepted Lu Feng with help from Lin Manjiang and Lin Baige, then all three attacked with Double Wood Swordplay as Lu Feng recognized flaws in their incomplete array.

Lu Feng fought Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige, uncovering the danger of their improved sword array before countering it with Little Burial Flower Swordplay. He wounded Lin Manjiang and Lin Baige, but Zhong Sanxiao warned that the fight was not over because the trio had not yet used their full strength.

• Lin Jinran revealed the alternating left- and right-handed techniques of Double Wood Swordplay, forcing Lu Feng to evade with a step modeled on Tang Yuan's Dragon Step.
• Lin Manjiang and Lin Baige joined Lin Jinran's attack, and Lu Feng drew his sword to break their coordination and repel them.
• Zhong Sanxiao told Lin Xiaojin that Lu Feng's greater strength had helped him and warned that the incomplete Little Three Elements Sword Array still had a hidden threat.
• Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige formed a triangular formation and attacked Lu Feng together.
• Lu Feng used Flower Piercing Willow Sweeping to slip through their formation, tear Lin Jinran's clothes, and leave bloody wounds on Lin Manjiang and Lin Baige.
• Lin Xiaojin praised Lu Feng, while Lin Wanshan argued that the trio had not used their true strength and the outcome remained uncertain.

Lu Feng fought Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige in the Martial Arts Arena, revealing the second move of the Little Burial Flower Swordplay but struggling against their coordinated Little Three Elements Sword Array. As the battle continued, Zhong Sanxiao judged that Lu Feng still had not shown his true ability, leaving his identity unproven.

• Lin Jinran changed his order from attack to kill, and he and the other two used secret techniques to raise their strength to the Five Elements Three Qi Realm.
• Lu Feng countered their united assault and forced Lin Jinran to give up his sword, but Lin Manjiang and Lin Baige disrupted his follow-up with the Little Three Elements Sword Array.
• Lu Feng used Fragrant End, Red Extinguished, and nearly slashed Lin Jinran's throat before the other two intercepted his attack.
• When Lu Feng tried to knock all three swords away at once, the trio let go, caught one another's weapons, and immediately resumed their coordinated assault.
• Lin Xiaojin asked Zhong Sanxiao whether Lu Feng's two sword moves proved his identity, and Zhong Sanxiao said Lu Feng still seemed to be holding back.

Lu Feng continued fighting Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige while probing the strange aura he had sensed around the Lin family. As he revealed more of the Little Burial Flower Swordplay, Lin Xiaojin feared for his meridians, Zhong Sanxiao admired his sword talent, and Lin Baijian reacted with concealed hostility.

• Lu Feng held back his killing moves and taunted Lin Jinran and Lin Manjiang about their increasingly feminine mannerisms, provoking Lin Jinran to attack.
• Lu Feng used the third stance, One Inch of Fragrant Heart, to pierce the coordinated sword array and slash Lin Jinran's clothing; the three men grew more convinced he was Lin Liyun.
• Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige abandoned the Double Wood Swordplay and combined three different sword styles in an improved Little Three Elements Sword Array, which Lu Feng recognized as Zhong Sanxiao's work.
• Lu Feng charged at Lin Jinran with Flower Piercing Willow Sweeping and the fourth stance, Begonia's Surprise, burning spiritual energy to increase his speed despite the danger to his meridians.
• Lin Xiaojin watched in anguish, Zhong Sanxiao sensed the Little Burial Flower Swordplay's sorrowful sword intent and admired Lu Feng's talent, and Lin Baijian showed faint killing intent.

Lu Feng defeated Lin Jinran, Lin Manjiang, and Lin Baige in the Martial Arts Arena, exposing their swordplay flaws while leaving only precisely controlled skin-deep wounds. After the three collapsed, Lin Wuhu and Zhong Sanxiao examined them and reacted with incredulous horror at the injuries.

• Lu Feng outmaneuvered the three Lin swordsmen, criticized their techniques, and disarmed Lin Jinran and Lin Manjiang while turning Lin Manjiang’s heavy sword against Lin Baige.
• Lu Feng snapped his fingers and opened identical one-inch wounds across all three fighters, forcing them to their knees and ending the spar.
• Lin Wanshan recognized One Inch of Fragrant Heart, and Zhong Sanxiao explained that Lu Feng had combined it with Fragrant End, Red Extinguished.
• The Lin Family elders praised Lu Feng’s mastery of Little Burial Flower Swordplay, and many became willing to accept him as Lin Liyun.
• Lin Wuhu demanded justice for his son, but Lin Jinran and the other two collapsed unconscious before he and Zhong Sanxiao rushed to inspect them.
• Lin Wuhu and Zhong Sanxiao sensed the aura from the three men’s wounds and stared in incredulous horror.

Lu Feng fought Lin Wanshan after Zhong Sanxiao diverted him from confronting the Lin family about his suspicions. Lin Wanshan's heavy swordplay drove Lu Feng to the arena's edge as Lin Xiaojin brought the blind grandmother to watch.

• Zhong Sanxiao signaled Lin Wuhu to hold back, led Lin Jinran and the others away, then called Lin Wanshan down to fight Lu Feng.
• Zhong Sanxiao sent Lin Xiaojin to fetch the blind grandmother and moved closer to Lin Baijian to speak with him.
• Lin Wanshan challenged Lu Feng with the Luan Ying Sword, and Lu Feng used the fifth form of the Little Burial Flower Swordplay to force him to retreat.
• Lin Wanshan unleashed Ninefold Mountain Barrier, whose growing weight overwhelmed Lu Feng's counterattacks and pushed him toward the weapon rack.
• Lin Xiaojin returned with the blind grandmother just as Lin Wanshan launched another attack at Lu Feng.

At the Lin Family contest, Lu Feng turned Lin Wanshan’s stronger attacks against him and used Burial Flower Lament to break through his sword force. Lin Wanshan recognized Lu Feng as Lin Liyun, and almost everyone present came to believe the same.

• Lin Baijian greeted the blind elder Lin Wanxia with false respect while displaying his disgust toward her.
• Lin Xiaojin asked Zhong Sanxiao to help Lu Feng, but Lin Wanxia reassured her as Lu Feng reversed Lin Wanshan’s attack and forced him outside the arena.
• Lu Feng taunted Lin Wanshan, who launched scattered weapons at him and attacked with six layers of Ninefold Mountain Barrier sword force.
• Lu Feng used Flower Piercing Willow Sweeping to evade and arrange the flying weapons, then unleashed Burial Flower Lament to appear behind Lin Wanshan and disrupt his sword force.
• Lin Wanshan blocked Lu Feng’s final strike and recognized him as Lin Liyun, leaving almost everyone present convinced of his identity.

Lu Feng overwhelmed Lin Wanshan by combining the Little Burial Flower Swordplay with improvised techniques and disarmed him despite Lin Wanshan’s attempt to seize his sword. The chapter ended with Lu Feng standing unarmed, one finger at Lin Wanshan’s throat, while Lin Wanshan realized he may have been outmaneuvered from the start.

• Lin Xiaojin worried over the strain Lu Feng endured, while Lin Wanxia comforted her and Zhong Sanxiao recognized Lu Feng’s swordplay and intentions.
• Lu Feng pressed Lin Wanshan with the Little Burial Flower Swordplay, and Lin Wanshan waited for his speed to falter before counterattacking.
• Lu Feng redirected Lin Wanshan’s strike with a disarming technique that resembled moves by Lin Baige and Lin Manjiang, astonishing the onlookers.
• Lu Feng followed Lin Wanshan’s retreat with Sword Flicks and knocked his sword from his hand.
• Lin Wanshan used a ring’s protective energy to grab Lu Feng’s blade and recover his sword, but Lu Feng discarded his weapon and placed a finger against Lin Wanshan’s throat.

Zhong Sanxiao stopped Lin Baijian from killing Lu Feng, and Lin Baijian exposed his plot to ruin the Lin Family in pursuit of its ancestral Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure. After throwing an object toward Zhong Sanxiao, Lin Baijian fled toward the Lin Residence walls, leaving the secret treasure and the family’s crisis unresolved.

• Zhong Sanxiao intervened with a wooden strip to stop Lin Baijian from attacking Lu Feng, then refused to stand aside despite Lin Baijian’s commands.
• Lin Wuhu confronted Lin Baijian about the Bloodline Array’s damage to Lin Jinran and accused him of harming the younger generation.
• Lin Baijian admitted that he had murdered Lin Baixu to learn the Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure’s location and discovered a clue pointing to the Gourd Ruins.
• Lin Baijian revealed that he had ruined the Bloodline Array to force Zhong Sanxiao or Lin Wanxia to disclose more about the secret treasure, but neither had any information.
• Zhong Sanxiao drew his crude iron sword as Lin Baijian urged everyone to seek the treasure, threw an object toward him, and fled toward the walls of the Lin Residence.

Lin Baijian fled after attacking the Lin Family’s Bloodline Array, but Zhong Sanxiao was stopped from killing him by a hidden old woman. The survivors salvaged the array’s pure bloodline power to strengthen Lin Jinran and two others, while Lin Wanshan asked to share in it and Li Yun refused.

• Lin Baijian threw away the Family Head Token and escaped, using the Lin Family’s arrays to block Zhong Sanxiao’s sword and damage the Bloodline Array.
• Zhong Sanxiao’s next attack was disrupted by a cough from the old woman, allowing Lin Baijian to escape.
• Zhong Sanxiao gathered the pure residual bloodline power and had Lin Jinran and two others prepared to receive it through Lu Feng’s sword-mark patterns.
• Lin Wanshan asked Lu Feng to remove the sinister bloodline aura from his body, then asked Zhong Sanxiao to share the residual power with him.
• Lin Wuhu invited Li Yun to cultivate with the bloodline power, but Lu Feng declined, saying he had his own path.

After Lu Feng exposed the Bloodline Array, Lin Wanxia saw through his disguise and revealed that her cough could disrupt a powerful soulmaster’s sword intent. She offered him the Lin Family’s inherited secret treasure, but he refused, and the chapter left its significance unresolved.

• Lu Feng went with Lin Xiaojin to the rear courtyard, where Lin Wanxia asked what reward he wanted.
• Lin Wanxia said she knew Lu Feng was not her real grandson, and Lu Feng realized she had seen through his disguise.
• Lin Wanxia’s cough reminded Lu Feng that she had disrupted Zhong Sanxiao’s sword intent during the fight.
• Lin Wanxia explained that her body could no longer endure battle, though her strength still deterred the Lin Family’s enemies, and said she had let Lin Baijian escape because he belonged to the direct bloodline.
• Lin Wanxia offered Lu Feng the Lin Family’s inherited heaven-and-earth secret treasure, but he declined to covet it.

Lin Wanxia revealed that the Lin Family had guarded a powerful Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure for generations, but it had slipped beyond their control. A letter from Lin Baixu connected the treasure’s key to Lin Liyun’s family, drawing Lu Feng deeper into the secret, while he considered whether Lin Bairu could lead the weakened Lin Family.

• Lin Wanxia told Lin Xiaojin and Lu Feng that the Lin Family’s ancestor had been entrusted with guarding the Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure, which could both threaten the continent and avert a regional crisis.
• Lin Wanxia revealed that the treasure was no longer under the Lin Family’s control and that they might be unable to open the Gourd Ruins to retrieve it.
• Lin Wanxia warned Lu Feng that coming to the Lin Family under Lin Liyun’s identity had already drawn him into the treasure’s tangled affairs.
• Lin Xiaojin read Lin Baixu’s letter and learned that he had used Lin Baisu to give away the key to the Gourd Ruins, hoping to keep the secret from Lin Baijian.
• Lin Xiaojin lamented that the family had lost its chance to recover through the treasure, and she and Lin Wanxia doubted Lin Bairu could help because he avoided cultivation and family affairs.
• Lu Feng reflected that Lin Bairu might change and saw him as the Lin Family’s only remaining path to recovery.

Lu Feng and Lin Xiaojin reached the Martial Arts Arena, where Wu Jinglei challenged Lu Feng and mocked the Lin Family. Lin Wanshan and the others offered to fight in Lu Feng’s place, and Wu Jinglei noticed the Lin Family had dismantled its Bloodline Array.

• Lu Feng considered how Lin Bairu’s bloodline might preserve the Lin Family before metallic crashes from the Martial Arts Arena interrupted him.
• Lin Xiaojin identified the newcomer as Wu Jinglei and explained his old grudge against Lin Liyun and Lin Lifeng.
• Lu Feng and Lin Xiaojin arrived to find Lin Wanshan and three others recovering from the Bloodline Array while facing Wu Jinglei.
• Wu Jinglei challenged Lu Feng, but Lin Wanshan and the others offered to fight him instead because Lu Feng had not recovered.
• Wu Jinglei detected the dense bloodline aura in Lin Wanshan and the others, realized the Lin Family had dismantled its Bloodline Array, and mocked their strength.

Lu Feng, posing as Lin Liyun, accepted Wu Jinglei’s challenge to defend the Lin Family’s honor despite warnings that he was depleted. Wu Jinglei activated a Profound Mystery Array to restrict their strength, and Lu Feng entered the arena as Lin Xiaojin worried about his safety.

• Wu Jinglei mocked Lin Wanshan and challenged him to compare Azure List rankings, while Lin Xiaojin defended her brother and Wu Jinglei mistook her for Lin Xiaowan.
• Wu Jinglei offered to suppress his strength and fight Lu Feng, but Lin Wanshan and Lin Jinran urged Lu Feng not to accept because he was exhausted.
• Zhong Sanxiao warned Wu Jinglei that the Lin Family would not tolerate trouble, and Lu Feng accepted the challenge to protect the family’s honor.
• Wu Jinglei set up a Profound Mystery Array that restricted everyone inside it to Five Elements Realm strength.
• Lin Xiaojin asked Wu Jinglei not to use Water Essence Qi, and Lu Feng reassured her before walking into the arena.

Lu Feng entered the arena to fight Wu Jinglei, while Zhong Sanxiao wagered three full-strength sword strikes against Wu’s Snow Peak Jade Dragon Steed. Wu opened with a fierce hammer attack, but Lu Feng turned the exchange against him with a precisely aimed sword sheath.

• Zhong Sanxiao wagered three of his full-strength sword strikes if Wu Jinglei lost to Lu Feng, and Wu accepted the bet for his Snow Peak Jade Dragon Steed.
• Zhong Sanxiao encouraged Lu Feng before he entered the arena, where Lu Feng sensed that the Profound Mystery Array did not suppress him.
• Wu Jinglei threw one hammer at Lu Feng and charged with another, warning him that leaving the array would count as defeat.
• Lu Feng advanced toward the flying hammer and flung his sword sheath at Wu Jinglei, targeting the opening beneath his raised arm.
• Wu Jinglei realized the sheath could break his attack and disrupt the spiritual energy in his arm, but he dismissed its accuracy as coincidence.

Lu Feng fought Wu Jinglei with Lin Wanshan’s Luan Ying Sword, but Wu’s coordinated Double Hammers forced him into a dangerous position. As Wu brought a hammer down from above, Lu Feng was left with little room to evade.

• Wu Jinglei caught his flying hammer and taunted Lu Feng, who had been badly shaken while trying to block it.
• Lin Wanshan threw his Luan Ying Sword to Lu Feng, surprising Lin Jinran and the others with his willingness to lend it.
• Lu Feng fought Wu Jinglei with the Luan Ying Sword, and the repeated hammer clashes visibly damaged the blade.
• Wu Jinglei threatened to tear off Lu Feng’s arm and charged; Lu Feng used the Little Burial Flower Swordplay to take the initiative.
• Wu Jinglei threw one hammer through Lu Feng’s sword force, then leaped and brought his remaining hammer down on Lu Feng, who could not safely dodge.

Lu Feng used subtle force-deflecting techniques and alternating upward and downward thrusts to keep Wu Jinglei responding with his Double Hammers. As the fight continued, Lin Wanshan and Lin Jinran noticed that Wu Jinglei’s right hammer had slowed and his hammer coordination had deteriorated, while Lu Feng’s thrusts had also slowed.

• Wu Jinglei struck Lu Feng with his giant hammer, but Lu Feng deflected most of the force and kept hold of his sword.
• Lu Feng abandoned the Little Burial Flower Swordplay and began using simple upward thrusts to draw Wu Jinglei into repeated hammer clashes.
• Lu Feng shifted each upward thrust into a downward thrust, dodging Wu Jinglei’s counterattacks while making him repeatedly press down and raise his hammers.
• After hundreds of clashes, Lin Wanshan and Lin Jinran noticed that Wu Jinglei’s right hammer had grown slower and his Double Hammers had lost their earlier coordination.
• Lin Wanshan observed that Lu Feng’s thrusts had slowed as well, matching the change in Wu Jinglei’s hammer speed.

Lu Feng defeated Wu Jinglei by matching the pace of his hammer strikes before unleashing the final form of the Little Burial Flower Sword Canon, Red Silk Soul Return. After Zhong Sanxiao explained how Lu Feng struck Wu Jinglei’s acupoint without injuring him, Lu Feng revealed that repeated hammering had also caused the numbness in Wu Jinglei’s arm.

• Lin Baige mistook Lu Feng and Wu Jinglei’s slowing attacks for exhaustion, while Zhong Sanxiao recognized that Lu Feng was deliberately matching Wu Jinglei’s pace.
• Lu Feng unleashed Red Silk Soul Return and struck Wu Jinglei’s jianjing acupoint, causing him to drop both hammers and concede defeat without suffering a wound.
• Wu Jinglei asked how Lu Feng had defeated him, and Zhong Sanxiao explained that Lu Feng had mastered the sword form’s ability to channel qi until its sharpness became blunt.
• Wu Jinglei noticed his right arm had begun to go numb before Lu Feng’s final strike, and Lu Feng explained that repeated high-intensity hammer motions had impaired its circulation.
• Lu Feng revealed that his method came from applying the Clear River Sect’s Weapon Disarming principle through Wind Splitting Hand, and warned that it would not work again if Wu Jinglei prepared for it.

After Lu Feng refused to become Lin Family Patriarch, Lin Wanxia pressured him to marry Lin Xiaojin and have a son, then offered one final alternative: marrying into the Chu Family. Her demand left Lu Feng and Lin Xiaojin stunned.

• The Lin Family branches urged Lu Feng to become their next Patriarch, but Zhong Sanxiao interrupted and summoned him and Lin Xiaojin to the rear courtyard.
• Lin Baijian fled east from the Lin Residence while Lin Wanxia asked Lu Feng to reconsider becoming Patriarch.
• When Lu Feng refused, Lin Wanxia overwhelmed him with her aura, but he remained firm despite being injured.
• Lin Wanxia ordered Lu Feng and Lin Xiaojin to share a room and have a son, but both pleaded with her to stop.
• Lin Wanxia rejected Senior Lin Bairu as a suitable Patriarch and gave Lu Feng one final choice: marry into the Chu Family.