Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng discovered that the mysterious woman could anticipate familiar sword techniques, then used the Flowing Shadow Swordplay to expose her vulnerability and realized she had secretly formed a poisonous flower field with her barefoot steps. After escaping the flowers, he prepared to face her again, but the scent from his body began suppressing the poison and restoring his strength.

• Lu Feng tested the mysterious woman with the Flowing Shadow Swordplay and found that she could not easily counter the unfamiliar techniques, but she still interrupted his next attack as though she had foreseen it.
• The woman’s movements left hidden formation marks that caused countless pale-red flowers to bloom, releasing poison that weakened Lu Feng and sealed his escape routes.
• Lu Feng used a powerful sword strike to shatter the space and escape the flower field, then stopped beneath a mountain peak and arranged three formation discs for a final stand.
• As Lu Feng suppressed the poison, the fragrance produced by the Pu Yang Flower in his body counteracted it and rapidly restored his strength while the woman approached.

Lu Feng lured the mysterious woman into a series of arrays, then unleashed three concealed Sword Lights when she approached to use the Soul Searching Technique. She survived the devastating strikes behind the Spirit Curtain Scarf, revealing herself as a member of the Jun Family.

• Lu Feng used the weakened Soul Beast Return Origin Array to hold the injured woman back, then tested his theories about how she formed arrays beneath her feet.
• The woman probed Lu Feng with vines, but he revealed that he had recovered much of his strength and activated the Flesh Rotting Bone Array against her life-based techniques.
• The woman overwhelmed Lu Feng’s poison array with her powerful life energy and approached him to perform the Soul Searching Technique.
• Lu Feng triggered the Traces Array hidden in the boulder, striking the woman with three Sword Lights as he fled.
• The woman shielded herself with the Spirit Curtain Scarf, and Lu Feng recognized it as the fourth-ranked weapon and realized she belonged to the Jun Family.

Lu Feng defeated the mysterious woman by turning her floral toxin against her and restrained her to discover who had ordered his assassination. When she refused to answer, he began using the Meridian Tracing Finger to uncover the foot-based pattern-forming method she called Lotus Bloom Beneath the Feet.

• Lu Feng recognized the Spirit Curtain Scarf as a Jun Family treasure, but the sword attack and shattered space destroyed it and left the woman exposed and injured.
• The woman rushed at Lu Feng, but he revealed that he had gathered her floral toxin and used it to weaken and immobilize her.
• Lu Feng questioned the woman about the Jun Family and her Young Master, but she refused to identify anyone and insisted she knew no such person.
• Suspecting she was a Jun Family death warrior, Lu Feng demanded that she reveal her foot-based technique, Lotus Bloom Beneath the Feet.
• Lu Feng removed the woman's boot and stocking, then used the Meridian Tracing Finger to trace the spiritual pathways in her foot while she struggled helplessly.

Lu Feng learned that the masked woman who had tried to kill him was Jun Ziya, a powerful cultivator with the Five Elements Pure Wood Body. After finding her oilskin map, he realized she had built a network of Arc Beacon Platforms across the Domain Realm to disrupt space and prevent Soul Masters from taking treasures out.

• Lu Feng tortured the wounded woman’s feet to study her formation technique, and she revealed that the Jun Family’s Floating Cloud Step was its foundation.
• When Lu Feng threatened to punish the Jun Family over Lin Xiaojin, the woman denied that her family had harmed him and broke free by injuring her own acupoints.
• The woman escaped after weakening Lu Feng with Flower Dust, and a tear in her face covering let him recognize her as Jun Ziya.
• Lu Feng connected Jun Ziya’s strength and rapid recovery to the Five Elements Pure Wood Body and wondered why she had such intense hatred for him.
• Lu Feng found Jun Ziya’s oilskin map marked with Arc Beacon Platforms and concluded that she had placed them throughout the Domain Realm to disrupt space and keep its treasures from being taken out.

Lu Feng struggled to find a way to survive his conflict with Jun Ziya and asked Chu Youwei for advice without revealing that he was speaking about himself. After Ji Lanxin’s Soul Jade broke, he and Chu Youwei headed toward her location, where Chu Youwei advised Lu Feng’s hypothetical friend to seek protection from a stronger force.

• Lu Feng concluded that Jun Ziya’s resentment could not be dispelled and considered killing her before leaving the Domain Realm.
• Lu Feng returned to Chu Youwei, who warned him about the poisons on her arrows and offered to teach him archery.
• Lu Feng and Chu Youwei heard Ji Zhi’s Soul Jade crack, and Chu Youwei suggested Ji Lanxin might have broken it deliberately to summon her brother.
• The two headed southeast to check on Ji Lanxin, and Chu Youwei reassured Lu Feng that Elder Wei was likely protecting her.
• Lu Feng asked Chu Youwei how a friend could survive a powerful enemy, and she advised him to seek a stronger force’s protection by offering his value or a rare treasure.

Lu Feng devised a way to make Jun Ziya believe he could help her break through the Five Elements Pure Body, then traveled with Chu Youwei to the Sword Stele Forest. There, Wu Jinglei confronted Lu Feng over an old feud with the Lin Family, while Ji Lanxin ignored them until she noticed Lu Feng’s treasured swords.

• Lu Feng decided to present himself as the key to Jun Ziya’s breakthrough and hoped to use the Jun Family to find the Northern Essence Water.
• Lu Feng and Chu Youwei reached Crotch Mountain and discovered the famed Sword Stele Forest and its many imprisoned swords.
• Wu Jinglei confronted Lu Feng and threatened the Lin Family, blaming Lin Bairu for his elder sister’s death.
• Ji Lanxin ignored Chu Youwei and Lu Feng when they first called to her, then approached after Lu Feng’s swords were knocked to the ground.
• Ji Lanxin recognized Nightspring Nether and the Vitality Sword, and Chu Youwei squeezed through the guards to answer her.

Lu Feng and Chu Youwei followed Ji Lanxin into the Sword Stele Forest while she kept the swords they had brought. As Ji Lanxin sent her guards toward Crotch Mountain to claim better swords, she taunted Lu Feng to enter the forest himself.

• Chu Youwei told Ji Lanxin that Ji Zhi had left the Domain Realm and that only Kong and Zhang had survived among his companions, both gravely injured.
• Ji Lanxin stopped Wu Jinglei from attacking Lu Feng, then took the swords and claimed she would safeguard them until their ownership was clear.
• Yan Nanqiu approached and addressed Chu Youwei, prompting Ji Lanxin to pull him away; she then released his sleeve when Sun Liuliu's group appeared.
• Lu Feng and Chu Youwei followed Ji Lanxin's group to the Sword Stele Forest, where Chu Youwei demanded the swords back and Ji Lanxin refused.
• After Lu Feng mocked Ji Lanxin, she ordered Aunt Miao and two guards to enter the forest and find high-quality swords near Crotch Mountain.
• Ji Lanxin taunted Lu Feng about his swordsmanship and asked whether he was afraid to enter the forest.

Lu Feng defended Chu Youwei against Ji Lanxin and Wu Jinglei, then entered the Sword Stele Forest after the formation’s pressure shifted inward. He chose a stele bearing the Dragon Tiger Sword Immortal’s name and declared that he could match Ouye Longping, leaving Chu Youwei alarmed by his confidence.

• Lu Feng took Chu Youwei’s hand and rebuked Ji Lanxin for invoking Luo Tianfu, while Chu Youwei stopped him from provoking Luo further.
• Wu Jinglei’s guard reported that the Sword Stele Forest tested sword comprehension, and Yan Nanqiu asked Ji Lanxin to help repair its ancient formation.
• Wu Jinglei demanded that Lu Feng help him capture Lin Bairu, but Chu Youwei challenged his vendetta and warned that she would expose his conduct.
• After Ji Lanxin went to inspect the formation, its pressure withdrew toward the inner circle, and Lu Feng entered the forest with Chu Youwei.
• Lu Feng identified the Dragon Tiger Sword Immortal’s stele as a sword he had lost to Ouye Longping in his youth and claimed he could defeat it too, unsettling Chu Youwei.

Lu Feng broke the Dragon Tiger Sword stele by dispersing its sword-intent attack and obtained the treasured sword, while concealing how easily he had recognized its flaws. He and Chu Youwei encountered the Frostlight Sword Sect’s Nie brothers, and Lu Feng recognized that their chosen Heart-Grinding Sword Intent stele was connected to the Swordless Realm.

• Lu Feng entered the sword stele’s white space, dispelled the Dragon Tiger Sword’s immature sword intent, and retrieved the sword as Chu Youwei watched in surprise.
• Nie Yuanbai, Nie Wushuang, and their companions passed by, and Nie Yuanbai noticed the sword intent Lu Feng had released.
• Chu Youwei explained the Nie brothers’ standing and wondered whether Lu Feng had learned a sword move, while Lu Feng said the stele had shown him only an attack.
• Chu Youwei urged Lu Feng to continue deeper into the Sword Ruins, and they approached the Nie brothers as they considered a stele containing a rotten wooden sword.
• Nie Wushuang realized the Heart-Grinding Sword Intent might relate to the Swordless Realm, and Lu Feng used his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes to confirm the connection.

Lu Feng learned how Rong Jiuyan’s battle with Ouye Longping had revealed the path to the Swordless Realm, then witnessed several Soul Masters lose control while comprehending sword steles. The chapter ended with Jin Chengmu killing the crazed A Hu, as Lu Feng recognized his Five Elements Pure Gold Body.

• Lu Feng read Ouye Longping’s account of Rong Jiuyan and inferred that Rong Jiuyan’s father had meant to lead him toward the Swordless Realm.
• A Bao went mad among the sword steles and was killed by guards from Giant Sword Manor, prompting Lu Feng to recognize Han Fengao’s group.
• Chu Youwei explained that she knew prominent Soul Masters through Spirit Chef Mountain Villa’s Delicious Immortal Banquet.
• A Hu lost control after comprehending a sword stele and attacked a nearby Soul Master.
• Jin Chengmu severed A Hu’s sword and killed him with the broken blade, and Lu Feng identified the youth as a Soul Master with the Five Elements Pure Gold Body.

Nie Wushuang and Nie Yuanbai advanced their Sword Dao after breaking open a sword stele, while Lu Feng chose to risk another attempt and comprehended the Cloud Sea Sword Intent. As Lu Feng returned from the vision, violent shaking in the outside world interrupted his meditation.

• A Hu died without breaking the sword stele, while Ji Lanxin focused on Miao Ying's progress.
• Nie Wushuang caught a falling wooden sword and pierced the stele with the power of a Heaven-grade treasured sword, then Nie Yuanbai used it to slice off the stele's peak before the sword disintegrated.
• Despite Chu Youwei's concern about the danger, Lu Feng decided to comprehend another sword stele, and Hongye warned him not to risk his life.
• Lu Feng touched the Cloud Sea Sword Stele and experienced its vast, gentle yet surging sword intent without losing his composure.
• As Lu Feng recalled the Cloud Sea Sword Intent, the outside world began to shake violently.

As Ji Lanxin’s array repairs linked the sword steles and unleashed countless Sword Intents, Lu Feng became trapped inside the chaos while Chu Youwei tried to persuade Ji Lanxin to delay the repairs and protect him. Ji Lanxin demanded that Chu Youwei kneel and beg, leaving her humiliated and desperate as Lu Feng struggled to break free.

• The Frostlight Sword Sect party passed Lu Feng and Chu Youwei on their way to Crotch Mountain, while Xi Hongye and Nie Wushuang warned that Lu Feng could die when the sword melee began.
• Chu Youwei decided to ask Ji Lanxin to slow the array repairs, but new tremors made Soul Masters immersed in the sword steles collapse.
• Countless Sword Intents flooded Lu Feng’s white space, preventing him from leaving the stele as he urgently began comprehending them to break free.
• Wu Jinglei ordered a guard to disguise himself and find a place to attack Lu Feng without witnesses.
• Chu Youwei asked Ji Lanxin to delay the final repairs, and Ji Lanxin used the treasured swords as leverage before secretly demanding that Chu Youwei kneel and beg.

Chu Youwei publicly kowtowed to Ji Lanxin, begging her to slow the array repair so Lu Feng could be saved, while Ji Lanxin humiliated her before the crowd. Jin Chengmu intervened and most array masters agreed to pause, but one elderly man objected as only the final repair spot remained.

• Chu Youwei overcame her hesitation and knelt and kowtowed to Ji Lanxin, bloodying her forehead as she begged her to slow the array repair.
• Ji Lanxin pretended Chu Youwei had acted willingly while the crowd insulted her, and Lu Feng remained trapped in a Sword Stele, unable to help.
• A seductive woman in purple guarded Lu Feng from a would-be attacker and planned to break apart his relationship with Chu Youwei.
• Jin Chengmu confronted Ji Lanxin, who claimed Chu Youwei had not been forced and agreed to pause the repair for her sake.
• Most array masters accepted the pause, but an elderly man protested that only the final spot remained to be repaired.

Ji Lanxin’s effort to repair the array was derailed when the sword steles shattered and a giant sword emerged, revealing a freezing tomb entrance. Lu Feng regained consciousness and found Chu Youwei gravely injured, while she urged him to leave rather than seek revenge.

• Ji Lanxin refused to help the wounded Chu Youwei, and Chu Youwei’s attempt to attack her was stopped by a woman’s palm strike.
• The sword steles began breaking, and Nie Wushuang and the other soul masters rushed to seize the treasured swords.
• A giant sword rose from Crotch Mountain, and Ji Lanxin and Yan Nanqiu recognized the entrance to what might be Ouye Longping’s Zheng Qin Tomb.
• Ji Lanxin and Sun Liuliu’s group raced toward the tomb entrance as freezing ice spread across the giant sword and the Sword Stele Forest fell quiet.
• Lu Feng’s sword stele cracked, releasing him from his comprehension; he saw Chu Youwei’s injuries and searched for Ji Lanxin, but Chu Youwei urged him to leave.

While Lu Feng and Chu Youwei left the Sword Stele Forest, the treasured swords were drawn toward the giant sword, and Chu Youwei sensed her ancestor’s aura within it. As the spreading frost made entry dangerous, a mysterious young Soul Master appeared, reminding Lu Feng of a senior brother from the Clear River Sect.

• Lu Feng covered Chu Youwei with his outer garment, thanked Xue Zier for saving him, and left with Chu Youwei despite her warning that Xue Zier cultivated Siphoning Yang to Nourish Yin.
• Chu Youwei asked whether she looked ugly, then revealed that her Source-Guiding Jade sensed her ancestor’s aura inside the giant sword.
• Lu Feng offered to search the giant sword for the Chu Family’s Ancestor’s Remains, but Chu Youwei insisted on going herself and Lu Feng refused to abandon her.
• The swords in the Sword Stele Forest flew toward the giant sword’s hilt as frost spread, and the gathered Soul Masters rushed after them to reclaim their weapons.
• A young Earth Soul Realm Soul Master arrived asking about the commotion, and Lu Feng recognized the design of his three-sword case as resembling one carried by a senior brother from the Clear River Sect.

Lu Feng and Chu Youwei met a boy from the Clear River Sect and asked him to break open the frozen entrance beneath the giant sword. After the formation sealed it again, the boy grew suspicious of them, and Lu Feng explained that he recognized the boy’s movement technique.

• Chu Youwei told the boy about the secret realm and asked whether he could break through the ice blocking its entrance.
• The boy used Clear River Steps to reach the giant sword and shattered the ice mountain with a sword strike.
• A powerful formation force surged from the entrance, freezing the ice again and forcing the boy to retreat.
• Chu Youwei explained that the entrance had frozen after the formation activated, while Lu Feng said the formation had likely sealed Giant Sword Mountain.
• Lu Feng asked where the boy’s Clear River Sect companions were, and the boy claimed they had been separated.
• The boy demanded to know how Lu Feng recognized his sect, and Lu Feng identified his movement technique as Clear River Steps.

Lu Feng persuaded Liu Chu to search Giant Sword Mountain and discovered a concealed breach in its formation behind a thin layer of ice. He prepared to use the Sky Supporting Token to reveal and reopen the old tunnel entrance, despite Chu Youwei’s concern about risking their only token.

• Lu Feng convinced Liu Chu of his connection to Han Su, accepted Liu Chu’s greeting as Little Martial Uncle, and sent him to find a thin section of ice on Giant Sword Mountain.
• Liu Chu found a suitable spot, and Lu Feng carried Chu Youwei up the icy mountain using the Clear River Steps, startling Liu Chu with his mastery of the sect’s movement technique.
• Lu Feng sensed a man-made breach in the grand formation behind the ice and explained that someone had once made and concealed a tunnel entrance into the giant sword.
• Lu Feng took out the Sky Supporting Token and told Liu Chu to break the ice so he could use its spatial force to reveal and repair the tunnel entrance formation.

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Liu Chu entered a hidden chamber inside Giant Sword Mountain and discovered that it was one of ten chambers marked by the Heavenly Stems. As Liu Chu tested the chamber’s floor pattern for a passageway, his spiritual energy began to heat dangerously.

• Liu Chu broke through the ice while Lu Feng used the Sky Supporting Token to restore the hidden formation and open an entrance in Giant Sword Mountain.
• Lu Feng tested the opening with stones, then led Chu Youwei and Liu Chu into a vast stone chamber, where the entrance soon disappeared.
• Chu Youwei found no trace of her ancestor, and Liu Chu suggested searching for other chambers and treasures.
• Chu Youwei and Lu Feng recognized a mural showing Giant Sword Mountain divided into Ten Heavenly Stems chambers, and Lu Feng inferred that the hilt and grip contained another world.
• Lu Feng had Liu Chu activate the eight directions of a rice-shaped floor pattern, and Liu Chu felt his spiritual energy being drawn in and becoming dangerously hot.

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Liu Chu were trapped above a magma pool inside Giant Sword Mountain, where Lu Feng realized the stone platform was part of a mechanism controlled by Innate Eight Trigram patterns. After calculating how to align them, he began turning the platform and asked Chu Youwei why she was not afraid.

• Lu Feng rescued Liu Chu from the formation's energy drain and pulled him back as scorching heat erupted from the floor.
• A stone platform, eight stone strips, and an outer ring rose above a chamber filled with magma.
• Lu Feng studied the broken Innate Eight Trigram patterns and discovered that the central platform could rotate to reconnect them.
• Magma surged upward and burned a hole through Liu Chu's cold-iron sword case after Lu Feng's first slight turn disturbed the formation.
• Chu Youwei and Liu Chu recognized that the stone structure resembled a ship's wheel, and Lu Feng inferred it controlled ascent and descent.
• After calculating the correct alignment, Lu Feng began turning the platform and asked Chu Youwei, “You... aren't you afraid?”

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Liu Chu escaped the Ji Chamber’s magma by climbing iron chains through Giant Sword Mountain’s abyss. Lu Feng and Chu Youwei ended up clinging closely together on a chain that continued upward, leaving them embarrassed and arguing as they rose.

• Lu Feng aligned the eight patterns on the central platform, lowering the western wall and revealing iron chains over the abyss.
• Liu Chu climbed the first chain, while Lu Feng realized the Stone Chambers lay within Giant Sword Mountain’s sword blade and the chains ran through its unpartitioned sheath.
• As the wall began rising and the magma boiled, Chu Youwei clung to Lu Feng, who leaped to a chain and began climbing with her in his arms.
• The jolting chain forced Lu Feng and Chu Youwei into an awkwardly intimate position, and both blushed when they noticed how closely they were pressed together.
• Chu Youwei shifted against Lu Feng, prompting him to tell her not to move; she accused him of being shameless and yelling at her.