Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng helped the gravely injured Shi Ling'er after she defeated Wu Yiqiu, and her identity as one of the Six Evils of Vault Ridge was revealed. As the group prepared to leave, Chu Youren tried to curry favor with her, while Chu Youwei grew increasingly upset watching Lu Feng tend to her.

• Lu Feng soothed Shi Ling'er after she fainted, and Ji Zhi and Lin Xiaowan realized that Ghost Performer was a woman.
• Kong Ru Fu revealed that Shi Ling'er was connected to the Six Evils of Vault Ridge, known as Demon Ridge Yama, and Chu Youren eagerly sought her favor.
• Chu Youren returned Wu Yiqiu's Storage Ring and bundle to Shi Ling'er and handed Lu Feng the Sword Embryos, while Lu Feng refused the completed treasured sword.
• Chu Youwei felt hurt when Lu Feng chose to prioritize Shi Ling'er's injuries, and she walked away with Lin Xiaowan.
• Lu Feng extracted life essence from the three Sword Embryos to protect Shi Linger's wounds, then picked her up and prepared to leave with the group.

As Lu Feng carried the unconscious Ghost Performer away, he sensed several hidden, terrifying presences following them. Kong Ru Fu explained the history, reputations, and uncertain origins of the Qiong Ridge Six Oddities, leaving Ji Zhi wondering whether they were good or bad people.

• Lin Xiaowan reassured Chu Youwei that she would not let anyone take her brother away, then decided she wanted to learn more about Ghost Performer.
• Lu Feng sensed multiple fearsome auras lurking nearby but could not locate them, and Lin Xiaowan asked why Wu Yiqiu had entered the trial alone.
• Ji Zhi explained that powerful forces like the Sun Family received more than their publicly listed trial slots through tributes from weaker groups.
• At Lin Xiaowan's urging, Kong Ru Fu described how the Six Demons of Vault Ridge gained the names Six Evils and Qiong Ridge Six Oddities, and recounted their feared reputation and rumored origins.
• Ji Zhi asked whether the Six Oddities were good or bad people.

Kong Ru Fu recounted how the Six Evils of Vault Ridge destroyed the Juexi Sect and became infamous as Demon Ridge Yama, while Ghost Performer insisted her six mentors were good people. As Lu Feng carried her east, she began telling him how she met the Poison Demon, leaving the stories of the other five untold.

• Kong Ru Fu explained that five of the Six Evils attacked and nearly wiped out the Juexi Sect, prompting the Sun Family to lead a costly campaign against them.
• Kong Ru Fu said the survivors who entered Vault Ridge Mountain Range rarely emerged, and the six later vanished from public knowledge.
• Ghost Performer objected to Kong Ru Fu's account and declared that the Qiong Ridge Six Oddities were better than anyone else in the world.
• Lu Feng reassured Ghost Performer that he valued the person the six had taught and promised to help her find Sun Pingzeng after her injuries healed.
• Ghost Performer told Lu Feng that the Poison Demon had rescued her when she was twelve, frightened her, and brought her to his secluded mountain home.
• Ghost Performer recalled discovering the Poison Demon's tenderness toward rabbits, including the mountain full of rabbits that multiplied after he tried to breed them.

Ghost Performer recounted how the Six Evils of Vault Ridge had trained her, while Lu Feng and the others reached a valley filled with poisonous miasma. As the group waited for dawn, Pu Da and Wu Haoren went to scout the route, and a distress signal from the valley sent Kong Ru Fu rushing to help.

• Ghost Performer told Lu Feng that Poison Third Uncle and the other Evils had taught her poison lore, the Seven Hearts Demonic Art, hidden weapons, sneak attacks, illusion-array principles, and saber arts.
• Kong Ru Fu warned that dense poisonous miasma filled the valley, so the group decided to wait for dawn before crossing.
• Wu Haoren persuaded Ji Zhi to send Pu Da with him to scout the valley while Kong Ru Fu stayed behind to guard the group.
• Lu Feng set up a concealed Four Compartment Cage Array, helped Ghost Performer regulate her energy, and secretly began inscribing the Seven-Colored Scarlet Scale Vulture's beast core.
• Kong Ru Fu heard an explosive distress signal from the valley and rushed toward it after telling the remaining guard to stay with Ji Zhi.

Lu Feng left his companions behind to hunt Gongsun Che, hoping to uncover whether the Gongsun Family possessed a Breakthrough Fortune Pill. Gongsun Che instead used another pill to boost his strength, and Lu Feng’s attempt to search his guarded soul yielded no answers.

• Ghost Performer set up three defensive arrays while Lin Xiaowan and the others waited for Uncle Kong’s news.
• Chu Youren returned from the valley and reported that seven Gongsun Family Shadow Guards had ambushed it; Lu Feng suspected someone had been signaling them.
• Lu Feng went alone to the other side of the mountain and found Gongsun Che concealed in a tree.
• Lu Feng attacked Gongsun Che, blocked his signal firework, and taunted him into using secret methods and a pill to fight back.
• Lu Feng realized Gongsun Che had not taken a Breakthrough Fortune Pill, leaving his clue about the Gongsun Family unresolved.
• Lu Feng tried to bewitch Gongsun Che and search his soul, but Gongsun Che’s guarded sea of souls prevented him from finding useful memories.

Lu Feng killed Gongsun Che during a soul search, then discovered a mysterious woman who knew his identity and lured him into a dangerous Thorns Array. He fought off its escalating attacks while demanding to know who she was.

• Lu Feng's Soul Searching Technique shattered Gongsun Che's soul sea, and a hidden attack's wooden spears pierced Gongsun Che's heart and lungs, killing him.
• A mysterious woman revealed that she knew Lu Feng was the Azure Mountain Sect Master, then fled into the forest as Lu Feng pursued her to silence her.
• Lu Feng entered the forest despite suspecting an ambush and found the woman looking down on him with disdain.
• The woman activated a Thorns Array, and Lu Feng used six layers of the Seven Souls Array and precise sword strikes to fend off the Heaven Soul Realm thorn branches.
• The severed thorn branches reassembled into a spinning whirlwind of thorns and wind blades around Lu Feng, who again demanded the woman's identity.

Lu Feng fought a mysterious woman who combined powerful vitality arrays with Martial Dao and sword mastery, and her lethal strike left him gravely wounded. He narrowly survived and unleashed his strongest sword attack against her.

• The woman overwhelmed Lu Feng with thorn and wind attacks, and he realized her array was empowered by dense vitality energy.
• Lu Feng broke free of the vines and tried to flee, but the woman blocked his escape with rapidly grown trees and trapped him in rising thorn nets.
• The woman revealed her Martial Dao skill and Swordless Realm sword qi, striking Lu Feng through the heart area and inflicting a grievous wound.
• Lu Feng narrowly dodged the sword strike, then gathered sword intent in his left hand and unleashed a devastating counterattack that shattered space.

Lu Feng escaped the mysterious woman's shattered-space attack, then recovered and uncovered how her Soul Shock had distorted his thoughts during their battle. He regained his confidence and began narrowing down her identity, though he still did not know who she was.

• Lu Feng wounded the woman with a sword strike that opened a Black Vortex, then escaped as it pulverized the forest.
• Lu Feng and the woman withdrew from the expanding vortex, both wounded and wary, and she departed without revealing her identity.
• While recovering, Lu Feng analyzed the woman's unusual Wood Element arrays and Swordless Realm, considering whether she had inherited a lost Array Dao legacy or founded her own school.
• The woman's concealed Soul Shock drove Lu Feng toward despair and nearly released the Demonic Nature sealed within his seventh Spirit Soul, but his Purple Eyes restored his clarity.
• Lu Feng realized the woman had woven her Soul Shock into her Life-Spirit Auxiliary Wood Thorn Grand Array, rejected the inferiority it had induced, and formed a general direction for identifying her.

Lu Feng considered the mysterious woman’s movement technique and tended to his wounds before entering the valley, where he discovered that a battle had left Pu Da dead and Kong Ru Fu and Zhang Jiuyi poisoned. He helped the survivors recover a venomous beast core and guided them toward the entrance, wondering why Ji Zhi’s group had not come to investigate.

• Lu Feng suspected the woman’s movement technique resembled Hai Mountain Sword Sect’s Celestial Bloom Butterfly Shadow Step, then treated his injured shoulder and entered the valley as its poisonous miasma receded.
• Lu Feng found one of Gongsun Che’s guards dead from a powerful fist strike and discovered Pu Da’s corpse, whose wounds suggested an ally had stabbed him in the back.
• Lu Feng found Wu Haoren bound and bleeding, then hurried to Zhang Jiuyi and Kong Ru Fu after hearing Zhang’s warning.
• Lu Feng saw that a poisonous Ghost Bat Poison Lizard had killed Gongsun Family guards and badly injured Kong Ru Fu and Zhang Jiuyi.
• At Zhang Jiuyi’s request, Lu Feng extracted the lizard’s corrosive beast core, wrapped it in soft armor, and helped Kong Ru Fu and Zhang Jiuyi head for the entrance.

Lu Feng learned that Lin Baijian had abducted Lin Xiaowan while he was away, and he rushed southeast to rescue her. He suspected the mysterious woman had helped arrange the kidnapping to pursue the Lin Family’s Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure.

• Kong Ru Fu and his companions fought the Gongsun Family’s Shadow Guards, while Wu Haoren betrayed Pu Da and Pu Da was killed in the chaos.
• The Ghost Bat Poison Lizard awakened and attacked the fighters; Kong Ru Fu and the Shadow Guards eventually killed it, but the poison in their bodies flared up.
• Kong Ru Fu killed all six remaining Shadow Guards in a rage over Pu Da’s death, leaving himself gravely wounded.
• Lu Feng emerged from the valley and learned that Lin Baijian had tricked his companions and taken Lin Xiaowan.
• Ghost Performer told Lu Feng that Lin Baijian had fled southeast, and Lu Feng set off alone to pursue him.

Lu Feng reached Thunder Viewing Pavilion and found Lin Xiaowan brutally tortured, then fought Lin Baijian while protecting her. As Lin Baijian tried to use Lin Xiaowan as a hostage, he rushed into the pavilion and was caught between a formation’s crimson attack and Lu Feng’s sword.

• Lu Feng crossed the lake to Thunder Viewing Pavilion and saw Lin Xiaowan hanging inside, wounded and unconscious.
• Lu Feng placed Lin Xiaowan safely on the floor, then confronted Lin Baijian, who mistook him for someone seeking the Lin Family’s secret treasure or the marriage contract.
• Lu Feng and Lin Baijian fought across the lake, and Lin Baijian’s Heaven-grade sword and Lu Feng’s injured arm gradually gave Lin Baijian the advantage.
• Lin Baijian rushed toward the pavilion to threaten Lu Feng with Lin Xiaowan, but Lu Feng used the Half Moon Leg Technique to block his route with columns of water.
• Lin Baijian broke through the pavilion doors and activated his inner armor as a crimson formation attack descended, while Lu Feng stabbed at him from behind.

Lu Feng’s Soul Beast Return Origin Array failed to kill Lin Baijian when Lin Baijian unleashed his Heaven Soul Realm strength, and both men discovered the pavilion was tied to a gathering storm and lightning beneath Azure Lake. Lu Feng reached the third realm of Exquisite Steps and fought Lin Baijian with his left hand, while the charged clouds above them threatened to unleash their power.

• Lu Feng’s array unleashed crimson feathers and a sword strike against Lin Baijian, but Lin Baijian suppressed his strength and survived.
• Lu Feng recognized the storm clouds and glowing stones beneath Azure Lake as signs that Thunder Viewing Pavilion could channel heavenly lightning, and Lin Baijian fled the pavilion.
• Lu Feng pursued Lin Baijian across the lake and reached the third realm of Exquisite Steps, White Dew Across the River.
• Lin Baijian mocked Lu Feng and attacked from above, but Lu Feng formed an invisible sword with his left hand and unleashed Buddha’s Wrath Sword.
• Lu Feng’s sword blasted Lin Baijian toward the thunderclouds, forcing him to release the sword force before he reached them; Lin Baijian’s hair crown shattered.

Lu Feng fought Lin Baijian amid lightning strikes that battered the lake, learning to use the bolts’ pattern to his advantage. After Lin Baijian lost his sword and attacked with a palm technique, Lu Feng answered with a sword-infused palm art and maneuvered him beneath a descending bolt, leaving Lin Baijian realizing Lu Feng had mastered the lightning’s pattern.

• A lightning bolt struck the lake, and Lin Baijian tried to flee, but Lu Feng blocked him and continued the fight.
• Lin Baijian used the White Rainbow Dragon Snake secret technique, forcing Lu Feng back while lightning repeatedly struck the lake.
• Lu Feng studied the lightning’s paths and adapted to Lin Baijian’s strange sword attacks as the fight moved toward the lake’s center.
• Lu Feng forced Lin Baijian into a lightning strike, causing him to throw away his sword; Lin Baijian then attacked with the Raging Wind Serpent Demon Slash.
• Lu Feng countered with a palm technique learned from a senior sister, which gained the qualities of a Sword Palm and drove Lin Baijian backward.
• A lightning bolt struck above Lin Baijian, who realized Lu Feng had figured out how to use the lightning pattern against him.

Lu Feng killed Lin Baijian with Azure Lake’s lightning and rescued Lin Xiaowan, who recovered memories revealing a masked Young Master’s role in her family’s suffering. As Lin Xiaowan fell unconscious again, the Ancient Desolation Altar emerged from the Kirin Ring, suggesting the fifth level was about to open.

• Lu Feng used the lightning over Azure Lake to destroy Lin Baijian’s defenses, strike through his heart, and erase his remnant soul.
• Lu Feng reached the Thunder Viewing Pavilion and found Lin Xiaowan hiding beneath a table, then comforted her as she clung to him and called him Brother Li Yun.
• Lin Xiaowan regained her memories and told Lu Feng that Lin Baijian’s masked Young Master had arranged the attack on her sister and tortured her for information about the Lin Family’s Gourd Ruins.
• Lin Xiaowan’s lingering foreign Soul Consciousness caused her to panic and attack herself, so Lu Feng calmed her soul sea and treated her wounds before she lost consciousness.
• As the lightning subsided, the Kirin Ring released the Ancient Desolation Altar, which floated above the water and led Lu Feng to suspect that the fifth level was opening.

Lu Feng watched the Ancient Desolation Altar draw a mysterious multicolored ball and countless Origin Thunder Lights from beneath Azure Lake, only for the ball to consume the thunder and occupy the third-layer ring. He discovered a powerful lightning sword in Thunder Viewing Pavilion and unleashed its might, but the Strange Ball then lunged toward the sword.

• The Ancient Desolation Altar shattered black jade stools beneath Azure Lake, drawing out the Four Directions Plate and a mysterious multicolored ball.
• The altar gathered the Origin Thunder Lights into its third-layer ring, but the Strange Ball rushed in and devoured them, leaving Lu Feng unable to control it.
• Lu Feng heard thunder from Thunder Viewing Pavilion and found a blue-gold longsword rising through a hole in its floor.
• Lu Feng took the sword and swung it, splitting the clouds and sending towering waves across Azure Lake.
• The Strange Ball suddenly shot out of the altar's third-layer ring and lunged at the longsword in Lu Feng's hand.

Lu Feng tested the Strange Ball with swords and thunder-charged objects, discovering that it rejected Lin Baijian’s damaged sword and ignored the Four Directions Plate. The plate revealed the Supreme Thunder Array beneath Azure Lake, and just as Lu Feng finished studying it, a weak voice called to him from the pavilion.

• Lu Feng’s sword was swallowed by the Strange Ball, which shattered its hilt with a metallic aura before retreating into the Ancient Desolation Altar.
• Lu Feng drew out the Strange Ball by ringing Lin Baijian’s damaged sword, but it spat the blade back as a twisted knot.
• Lu Feng tested the Four Directions Plate with its thunderous power, but the Strange Ball showed no interest and the Ancient Desolation Altar withdrew into the Kirin Ring.
• The Four Directions Plate lit up with patterns showing the lightning’s paths beneath Azure Lake, revealing the Supreme Thunder Array to Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng deduced the array’s structure and considered replicating it, then heard a weak voice from within the pavilion.

Lu Feng reunited with Lin Xiaowan, who had forgotten him again, and brought her back to the injured group. They discovered the Sky Supporting Tokens could not teleport people carrying the Domain Realm’s aura, and Lu Feng stayed behind while Ji Zhi prepared to leave with the others.

• Lu Feng found Lin Xiaowan in Azure Lake; she clung to him, forgot their past again, and fell unconscious before he carried her out.
• Lu Feng returned to the group, where Chu Youwei tended Lin Xiaowan and the others were still recovering from their injuries.
• Lu Feng tested a Sky Supporting Token and sent a strand of hair through its pillar of light, showing that the passage could teleport something without the Domain Realm’s aura.
• Kong Ru Fu and Zhang Jiuyi concluded that the passage rejected people and items carrying the Domain Realm’s aura, and that covering their internal poison with origin spiritual energy might let them escape.
• Ji Zhi agreed to leave with the others after Lu Feng chose to stay, and Lu Feng urged him to go care for the injured group outside.

After Zhang Jiuyi proved the Sky Supporting Token could teleport someone carrying concealed poison, Chu Youren’s attempt to take a Sword Embryo through the pillar failed, and the survivors divided the remaining tokens and left. Lu Feng and Chu Youwei stayed behind to search for the Zi Dai Flower, and the Mysterious Ball reacted to Sword Thirteen as if it wanted to consume it.

• Zhang Jiuyi concealed his deadly poison with origin spiritual energy and successfully left through the pillar of light, but Chu Youren’s concealed Sword Embryo shattered when he tried to teleport it.
• Chu Youren left without saying farewell to Chu Youwei, and Lu Feng distributed the remaining Sky Supporting Tokens so the injured Ghost Performer, Lin Xiaowan, Ji Zhi, Kong Ru Fu, and Chu Youwei could leave.
• Ji Zhi gave Lu Feng his younger sister’s soul jade, and Lin Xiaowan returned Nightspring Nether to Lu Feng before departing.
• Chu Youwei chose to remain with Lu Feng and revealed that she had deliberately kept her theory about the Domain Realm’s altered space from Chu Youren because he could not handle the treasured swords.
• Lu Feng and Chu Youwei set out to find the Zi Dai Flower, and the Mysterious Ball on the third level of the Ancient Desolation Altar reacted when Lu Feng touched Sword Thirteen.

Lu Feng and Chu Youwei fled east through Poisonous Miasma Valley, where Lu Feng used arrays to delay the mysterious woman pursuing them. The woman entered the valley despite the traps, while Lu Feng and Chu Youwei continued toward the Zi Dai Flowers.

• Lu Feng concealed the Strange Ball’s interest in the Vitality Sword and gave Chu Youwei an excuse for his injuries.
• Lu Feng sensed the mysterious woman pursuing them, so he and Chu Youwei hurried toward Poisonous Miasma Valley.
• Lu Feng used the Heart-Devouring Mad Beast Array to enrage the corpse insects and block the valley passage, then set a second array at the exit.
• Lu Feng and Chu Youwei escaped the valley and continued east as Chu Youwei suggested using the sword’s vitality qi to heal his shoulder.
• The mysterious woman entered Poisonous Miasma Valley, her wounds healed and poisonous miasma unable to reach her.

The mysterious woman crossed Lu Feng’s Heart-Devouring Mad Beast Array and caught up with him and Chu Youwei. Lu Feng drew her away from Chu Youwei and fought her in the rocky wilderness, where he launched a lethal assault as she continued to evade him.

• The mysterious woman passed through Lu Feng’s array and the poisonous miasma, leaving a trail of dead Stiff Insects behind her.
• Lu Feng sensed the woman approaching the ravine, concealed Chu Youwei with an illusion array, and went out to confront her.
• Lu Feng drew the woman away from the ravine and realized her wounds had healed and her Soul Consciousness could launch hidden attacks.
• Lu Feng chose the rocky wilderness as their battlefield, but the woman kept her distance and dodged his sword strikes.
• Lu Feng used Flying Swallow Entangling Sword to close in, while the woman threw tiny seeds at him and evaded his attacks.
• Lu Feng abandoned his probing swordplay and attacked the woman’s vital points with Life-Taking Swordplay.