Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng humiliated Jun Ziya in battle, forcing her to flee, while Huai Ziyou defeated Luo Tianfu’s guards and showed new insight into swift sword techniques. Afterward, Xue Zier admitted she knew Lu Feng’s disguised identity and asked him to protect her from Purple Cloud Mountain and the Limitless Sect.

• Jun Ziya attacked Lu Feng, but his Wind Splitting Hand tore her clothing and seized her foot, leaving her too humiliated to continue fighting.
• Jun Ziya fled as Huai Ziyou defeated Luo Tianfu’s two guards with a swift fingertip Sword Light attack.
• Huai Ziyou remained absorbed in the sword strike he had just performed, while Xue Zier knelt before Lu Feng and asked him to spare her.
• Xue Zier explained that Purple Cloud Mountain had made her a Jade Furnace and feared sending her to the Limitless Sect.
• Xue Zier asked to give herself to Lu Feng and use his status as Azure Mountain Sword Sect Master to shield her from the Limitless Sect.

Lu Feng refused Xue Zier’s attempts to gain his protection, then found Chu Youwei safe beside a badly injured scholar. He used spiritual energy to draw three hidden silver needles from the scholar’s chest, while Xue Zier suspected Lu Feng recognized something about the wounds.

• Lu Feng rejected Xue Zier’s request for his backing and refused to accept her as a servant or sword attendant.
• Huai Ziyou awakened from his Sudden Enlightenment, glanced coldly at Lu Feng, and left without fighting.
• Lu Feng and Xue Zier searched for Chu Youwei and found her safe near a concealed hollow beside an unconscious, injured scholar.
• Chu Youwei explained that the scholar had emerged wounded and begged her for help, and Lu Feng agreed they should save him.
• Lu Feng identified wounds at the scholar’s Zigong, Zhongting, and Jiuwei acupoints, then used spiritual energy to draw three silver needles from them.

Lu Feng removed the Spirit Void Thirteen Needles from an injured man, then learned that Ye Fan had wounded him near the Divine Palace Ruins. After the man tried to poison and kill them, Lu Feng killed him and suspected Ye Fan had deliberately left clues to reach him.

• Lu Feng explained how he had safely removed the three needles by dissolving their entanglement through nearby acupoints.
• The injured man pretended to wake, thanked Lu Feng, and said a man with an ink-wash folding fan had attacked him at the Divine Palace Ruins.
• The man urged Lu Feng and the others to visit the ruins, then tried to flee and steal Xue Zier's swords.
• When Lu Feng stopped him, the man launched poisoned awls at the group, but Lu Feng killed him with the Pao Xi Dragon Control Art.
• Chu Youwei challenged Lu Feng over the killing, and Lu Feng wondered whether Ye Fan had left the man alive to send him a message about the Divine Palace Ruins.

Lu Feng found Jin Zhaomu and the Golden Thunder Temple group dead, recognized signs that the View Breaking Art had countered their sword techniques, and feared the Blood Clan was targeting Five Elements Pure Body soulmasters. Elsewhere, Jun Ziya changed clothes with Flame Sparrow and heard urgent news from the Sword Stele Forest.

• Lu Feng explained that the Divine Palace Ruins were the former grounds of the Moon God Palace, and Xue Zier wondered why so many people were heading there.
• Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Xue Zier discovered Jin Zhaomu and his Golden Thunder Temple companions dead, their bodies bearing sword wounds.
• Lu Feng examined concealed sword marks and concluded that the View Breaking Art had forced Jin Zhaomu to abandon his techniques midway.
• Lu Feng feared the Blood Clan might be targeting Five Elements Pure Body soulmasters and wondered whether Qiu Ci, Zhu Yizhong, and Old Book were in danger.
• Jun Ziya changed into Flame Sparrow's robe, made Flame Sparrow wear oversized leaves, and then heard Flame Sparrow report news from the Sword Stele Forest.

Jun Ziya heard that a method might help the Five Elements Pure Body break through, while Jin Guan Bai discussed the method and his plans for the Five Elements Sect with Jin Guan Kai and Jin Guan Xuan. Jin Guan Bai left Jin Guan Xuan in charge of the operation, secretly treating him as a disposable pawn, and revealed that he had approached Sun Liuliu for her usefulness to the Sun Family and Six Harmonies Sect.

• Jun Ziya learned from Flame Sparrow that a Five Elements Pure Body breakthrough method involved gathering all five types of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi.
• Jin Guan Bai said the method could not help the Young Emperor but might aid Pei Pei, and scolded Jin Guan Xuan for failing to find the Luo Clan Fragment and Ghost Monarch's Daughter and for bringing back only half of the View Breaking Art.
• Jin Guan Bai ordered Jin Guan Xuan to monitor the woman with the Five Elements Pure Water Body and eliminate her if she tried to ally with a branch of the Five Elements Sect.
• Jin Guan Bai assigned Jin Guan Xuan full responsibility for dealing with the Five Elements Sect while he went to Profound Gold City, then told Jin Guan Kai he intended to make Jin Guan Xuan take the blame if the plan failed.
• Jin Guan Bai told Jin Guan Kai he had placed him near Sun Liuliu to cultivate using the Sun Family's resources and said he had approached her because she was useful to the Sun Family and Six Harmonies Sect.

Lu Feng searched for the Azure Mountain Sword Sect and found traces suggesting Bai Li and Zhu Qingyue had been in danger. An ambusher struck him with a Spirit Dispersion Cone, leaving his spiritual energy suppressed as the attacker revealed his connection to Poison Scorpion.

• Lu Feng followed sword marks through a stone forest, then found signs of the Azure Mountain Sword Sect and several other sects fighting nearby.
• Lu Feng climbed a mountain path and recognized the One United Sword Art marks and Zhu Qingyue’s Light Serene Sword embedded in a boulder.
• Five ghostly figures formed the Five Ghosts Falling Mountain Array around Lu Feng, but he realized its power had long since dissipated.
• An attacker used a hidden Spirit Dispersion Cone to spread poison and suppress Lu Feng’s spiritual energy.
• A middle-aged man with a scorpion pattern on his face emerged and told Lu Feng that the poison would take hours to wear off.

Lu Feng was poisoned and weakened by Flower Scorpion, who revealed the Black Scorpion Gate’s plot against the Azure Mountain Sword Sect. Lu Feng’s surprise attack failed to finish him, but Bai Li arrived in time to save Lu Feng after surviving a fall from the peak, while Zhu Qingyue remained missing.

• Flower Scorpion told Lu Feng that the Spirit Dispersion Cone and the report of danger at the Azure Mountain Sword Sect had been used to lure him into a trap.
• Lu Feng learned that Flower Scorpion was Poison Scorpion’s brother and that the Black Scorpion Gate planned to frame the Azure Mountain Sword Sect at the Sect Founding Assembly.
• Lu Feng pretended to surrender his Kirin Ring, then attacked Flower Scorpion with the Ancient Desolation Altar, Heaven Nurturing Rare Essence, and a Jade Pearl.
• Flower Scorpion survived the strike with help from his blood-feeding Flower Scorpion and prepared to attack the weakened Lu Feng.
• Bai Li charged Flower Scorpion and saved Lu Feng, and Lu Feng realized from her injuries and Flower Scorpion’s remark that she had fallen from the mountain peak.

Bai Li fought Flower Scorpion while protecting the badly injured Lu Feng, using her secret art and several sword styles to keep him at bay. After she thrust at Flower Scorpion’s dantian, he countered with Black Scorpion Gate’s Scorpion Descends the Mountain, leaving Lu Feng to warn her of the deadly follow-up.

• Lu Feng recognized that Bai Li had climbed from beneath the cliff despite her severe injuries, and Flower Scorpion attacked her to prevent Lu Feng from recovering.
• Bai Li traded blows with Flower Scorpion and took a dangerous strike head-on because she feared he would turn his attack on Lu Feng.
• Bai Li activated One Union Huan Yuan and used the One United Sword Art to drive Flower Scorpion away from Lu Feng.
• Bai Li mixed in Four Seasons Swordplay’s Bamboo Sword and Orchid Sword techniques, then exploited Flower Scorpion’s opening to thrust toward his dantian.
• Flower Scorpion countered with Scorpion Descends the Mountain, and Lu Feng warned Bai Li that the move could lead into the deadly Scorpion Waves Tail.

Bai Li and Lu Feng faced Flower Scorpion, who badly injured Bai Li and forced Lu Feng to shield her from an attack. Tang Yuan and another ally arrived, and Tang Yuan surprised Flower Scorpion by surviving his palm strike.

• Bai Li threw her sword to evade Flower Scorpion's lethal kick, but he fractured her breastbone and sent her flying to Lu Feng.
• Bai Li secretly gave Lu Feng her sleeve arrow, intending to sacrifice herself to create an opening against Flower Scorpion.
• Lu Feng returned the sleeve arrow, turned Bai Li around, and took Flower Scorpion's attack on himself as she fired Flame Whisker Needles at their enemy.
• Tang Yuan arrived and confronted Flower Scorpion, but his palm strike sent Tang Yuan flying several meters.
• Tang Yuan emerged from the dust with only a bruised arm, and a fat ally descended beside Lu Feng and greeted him.

Lu Feng’s mysterious aura frightened Flower Scorpion’s pet scorpion, allowing the Body Sect to capture Flower Scorpion. Lu Feng spared him for a reason and asked the group to rescue Zhu Qingyue from beneath the cliff, where a hulking Body Sect woman volunteered to go.

• Xiong Yuan and the Body Sect disciples surrounded Flower Scorpion, who tried to escape with hidden weapons but was blocked by their bodies.
• Flower Scorpion sent Little Flower toward Lu Feng, but Lu Feng’s sudden aura made the scorpion flee into the soil, where Bai Li killed it with a nail.
• The Body Sect restrained Flower Scorpion, and Tang Yuan used the Bone Removal Technique on him before Lu Feng stopped Tang Yuan from killing him.
• Bai Li explained that Zhu Qingyue remained injured beneath the cliff after the two women jumped to escape the Black Scorpion Gate.
• Xiong Yuan’s hulking junior sister volunteered to retrieve Zhu Qingyue, surprising Lu Feng with her sweet voice and massive build.

Lu Feng and the Body Sect disciples discussed the Spirit Dispersion Cone and Tang Yuan’s family troubles while they waited for Wen Ningsi. Wen Ningsi arrived carrying the unconscious Zhu Qingyue, leaving the group to face whatever had happened to her.

• Tang Yuan examined Lu Feng’s unstable aura, and Lu Feng explained that the Spirit Dispersion Poison from the Spirit Dispersion Cone would wear off soon.
• Xiong Yuan offered Bai Li healing pills, which she accepted after Lu Feng nodded and then quietly tucked herself behind him with the collected weapons.
• Lu Feng asked about Tang Yuan’s father, and Tang Yuan explained that the Old Valley Master of Beast Valley demanded his father kneel and travel there to plead guilty.
• Tang Yuan said he had come to the Sword Ruins Domain to find a Five Elements Extreme Gold beast core and help his father earn Beast Valley’s recognition.
• Wen Ningsi bounded back carrying the unconscious Zhu Qingyue in both hands.

Lu Feng enlisted the Body Sect to help rescue the Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples, while Zhu Qingyue and Bai Li insisted on coming along despite their injuries. Flower Scorpion revealed that the missing disciples were at Fallen Moon Canyon.

• Lu Feng ordered Tang Yuan to crush Flower Scorpion’s left forearm after learning Zhu Qingyue’s arm had been shattered.
• Zhu Qingyue woke and urged Lu Feng to save Senior Brother Mei and the others, while Lu Feng attributed the scorpion’s retreat to the aura of a Silkworm Abyss Fruit.
• Lu Feng bowed as Sect Leader of the Azure Mountain Sword Sect and asked the Body Sect to rescue his disciples, and Xiong Yuan and the others agreed to help.
• Zhu Qingyue and Bai Li asked to remain with the rescue party, and Xiong Yuan agreed to let them come along.
• Tang Yuan frightened Flower Scorpion into answering Lu Feng’s questions, and Flower Scorpion identified Fallen Moon Canyon as the disciples’ location.

Lu Feng learned that the Azure Mountain Sword Sect had been ambushed by several sects and led his companions toward Fallen Moon Canyon, where they found Zhuo Shixin dead after being tortured and drained of blood. Lu Feng realized Zhuo Shixin had stayed behind and unleashed the Blazing Sun Thirty-Six Layered Sword to give the other disciples a chance to escape.

• Flower Scorpion named the Heavenly Thunder, Crimson Fiend, and Phantom Sword Sects as the leaders of the encirclement, with several Blade Sects joining them, and identified Xun Changguan as the one who ordered the ambush.
• Lu Feng knocked Flower Scorpion unconscious and took him along as he led the group toward Fallen Moon Canyon, telling Tang Yuan about Lian Taihe's death on the way.
• As the group approached the canyon, Zhu Qingyue recognized Zhuo Shixin's scorching Fire Essence Qi, and they hurried inside.
• The group found Zhuo Shixin dead, nailed to a cliff with his limbs mutilated and his blood drained, while Fire Essence Qi still burned in his body.
• Lu Feng concluded that Zhuo Shixin had used the Blazing Sun Thirty-Six Layered Sword to hold off their attackers and help the remaining Azure Mountain disciples escape.

Lu Feng’s group searched Fallen Moon Canyon for the missing Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples while Lu Feng recovered from the Spirit Dispersion Poison. They found Chen Duxiao and the battered survivors hiding in a cave filled with deadly, apparently man-made poisonous miasma.

• Zhu Qingyue reflected on how her time with the Benevolent Heart Academy group and Ruo Shui had freed her from her unrequited feelings for Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng said he had recovered only twenty to thirty percent, then slowly regained strength as the group searched the caves of Fallen Moon Canyon.
• Wen Ningsi spotted dense, unnatural poisonous miasma at a cave entrance, and Pang Ji investigated before warning the group that a Poison Master might be nearby.
• Chen Duxiao emerged from the cave, recognized Lu Feng, and called to the others that the Sect Leader had arrived.
• The Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples came out of the cave wounded and crippled, and Lu Feng’s expression darkened at their condition.

Zhu Qingyue and Lu Feng learned how Azure Mountain's party had been hunted, badly injured, and rescued from a desperate battle by Ye Fan. After discovering that Ye Fan had lured their pursuers away, Lu Feng realized Ye Fan had likely gone to the Moon God Palace and was signaling for help.

• Zhu Qingyue saw that Mei Zisu had lost his right arm and learned how badly the Azure Mountain disciples had been injured, while Li Weiyun and Chi Yuanqing were still missing.
• Gu Lingling and Zhuang Xiaojing recounted how five factions and three major Blade Sects pursued Azure Mountain's party, leading Zhuo Shixin to sacrifice himself at Fallen Moon Canyon.
• Mei Zisu, Chen Duxiao, Xuan Yurong, and Xuan Yusu were injured while trying to rescue Zhuo Shixin, before Zhuang Xiaojing, Gu Lingling, and Lan Youyou returned to help them survive.
• Gu Lingling explained that Ye Fan saved the group by filling the mountain cave entrance with poisonous miasma and ordering them to hide inside for two days.
• Lu Feng learned that a scholar-like Young Sect Master from Black Scorpion Gate had pursued the group and realized Ye Fan had likely lured their enemies to the Moon God Palace as a signal for help.

Lu Feng rescued the injured Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples but held back from taking revenge to avoid provoking the other sects and harming his own. As Zhuang Xiaojing and Gu Lingling remained to help search for Li Weiyun and Chi Yuanqing, a blood moon and violent tremors signaled a new upheaval in the Divine Palace Ruins.

• Lu Feng prepared to retaliate against the factions that had attacked the Azure Mountain Sword Sect, but Mei Zisu warned that the sect leader's intervention would violate the rules and damage the sect's standing.
• Mei Zisu urged the group to prioritize finding Li Weiyun and Chi Yuanqing, while Chen Duxiao and Zhuang Xiaojing disagreed over who should escort the injured disciples back.
• Lu Feng ordered the seriously injured disciples to leave, gave them Sky Supporting Tokens, and sent Zhuo Shixin's corpse and the captive Flower Scorpion back with them.
• Zhuang Xiaojing and Gu Lingling stayed behind with Lu Feng to search for Li Weiyun and Chi Yuanqing.
• Before Lu Feng could decide how to divide the search, tremors shook the ridges and the moon turned blood-red, prompting Xiong Yuan to warn of a crisis in the Divine Palace Ruins.

Lu Feng and the others encountered a bizarre battle corpse in Fallen Moon Canyon and learned that the Red Moon’s light seemed to draw its attacks. After Linghu Ze was suddenly consumed by blue-green flames, Linghu Fei offered to lead them to the Young Sect Master, who had ordered the attacks on the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.

• Lu Feng discovered that the Red Moon’s light enveloped most of the group in a red mist, while he and Tang Yuan were unaffected.
• Lu Feng led the group out of a mountain cave as a crimson-clad figure pursued fleeing Sword Sect disciples, then intercepted it and escaped the spatial collapse caused by their clash.
• Lu Feng identified the figure as a battle corpse using a poisonous fist technique and suspected the Red Moon’s light had caused it to attack those it sensed.
• Xiong Yuan captured Linghu Ze and Linghu Fei, but Linghu Ze was suddenly consumed by blue-green flames and burned to ashes.
• Linghu Fei begged for his life and offered to lead the group to the Young Sect Master, whom he accused of ordering attacks on the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.

Lu Feng learned that more than three hundred Moon Corpses had been released and that their appearance had disabled the Sky Supporting Token. After Linghu Fei died from the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm, Lu Feng captured a Black Moon Corpse and discovered that its pendant released a vast surge of spiritual energy bearing written characters.

• Linghu Fei revealed that more than three hundred Black, White, and Red Moon Corpses had escaped the Moon God Palace ruins, and that the Sky Supporting Token no longer worked beneath the Red Moon.
• Xiong Yuan identified Linghu Fei's palm injury as the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm, and Lu Feng's warning prompted Linghu Fei to aggravate the poison and die in green flames.
• Lu Feng recognized the pursuing Black Moon Corpse as the one that had injured the Linghu brothers and restrained it after its Red Moon aura left him untargeted.
• The Black Moon Corpse broke free of Lu Feng's control and attacked, but Lu Feng severed its limbs and rendered it harmless.
• Xiong Yuan removed and shattered the corpse's black crescent pendant, releasing a large surge of spiritual energy as characters appeared within it.

The group uncovered the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm method and learned that its cultivation relied on human bones and damaged the practitioner. Lu Feng memorized the method to prepare for further Moon Corpses, then realized Chu Youwei and Xue Zier were in danger and hurried to find them.

• Zhuang Xiaojing, Gu Lingling, and Wen Ningsi condemned the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm after reading that it required human bones and could turn its practitioner into a monster.
• The spiritual characters formed a small figure that demonstrated the palm method, and Xiong Yuan sensed two remnants of Soul Consciousness within it.
• Lu Feng said he had memorized the method to help counter other Moon Corpses, but warned that its qi circulation irreparably damaged the meridians.
• Lu Feng reflected on Tang Yuan's cultivation talent and kept secret that Qiao Xue'er had become the Soul Spirit of a mysterious Soul Control Clan woman.
• Lu Feng realized Chu Youwei and Xue Zier could not survive an encounter with the Moon Corpses, and Tang Yuan gave him a Message Soul Jade and urged him to find them.
• Lu Feng accepted the Soul Jade and rushed off to search for Chu Youwei and Xue Zier.

Lu Feng found Chu Youwei and Xue Zier safe with Mu Yi Ba and Lou Xinlan, but his arrival exposed old grudges between their sects. After Lu Feng threatened Lou Xinlan over his injured disciple, she promised to consider marrying Mu Yi Ba if he killed Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng followed several Black-Robed Moon Corpses east and discovered Chu Youwei and Xue Zier sheltering with soul masters near a cave.
• Lu Feng recognized Mu Yi Ba of the Five Emperors Sect and Lou Xinlan of the Ancient Moon Sect, then assumed they had captured Chu Youwei and Xue Zier.
• Chu Youwei and Xue Zier explained that Mu Yi Ba and Lou Xinlan's people had saved them from danger.
• Lou Xinlan recognized Lu Feng as the Azure Mountain Sword Sect's new sect master, and Lu Feng demanded to know whether she had blinded his disciple.
• Mu Yi Ba explained that the Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect had injured Lu Feng's disciple and backed away from fighting him.
• Lou Xinlan told Mu Yi Ba she would consider marrying him if he killed Lu Feng.