Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng learned that Xun Changguan had stolen a perfected Formless Origin Gu, while the Moon Corpses’ self-destruction revealed hidden cultivation arts in their pendants. Mu Yi Ba persuaded Lou Xinlan to join a dangerous hunt for more pendants, then asked Lu Feng to speak privately.

• Mu Yi Ba said Xun Changguan had reserved Lu Feng’s life for someone else and had stolen a perfected Formless Origin Gu from the Moon God Palace.
• Lou Xinlan explained that the Formless Origin Gu was extremely dangerous and that she had refused to use one obtained by her grandfather.
• Three Moon Corpses self-destructed after their strongest member devoured the other two’s soul pellets, injuring the Five Emperors Sect and Ancient Moon Sect disciples.
• The disciples found that the Moon Corpses’ pendants contained cultivation arts that appeared as characters when the pendants were broken.
• Mu Yi Ba urged the injured disciples to hunt more Moon Corpses for their pendants and persuaded Lou Xinlan by invoking her grandfather’s cultivation bottleneck.
• Mu Yi Ba asked Lu Feng to speak with him in private.

Lu Feng resisted Mu Yi Ba’s attempts to manipulate him and learned that Mu Yi Ba coveted Chu Youwei and Xue Zier. After explaining the Domain Realm’s danger, Lu Feng agreed to help the two women find people traveling alone, and Chu Youwei named her childhood friend Lin Liyun.

• Mu Yi Ba pointed Lu Feng toward Xun Changguan and tried to provoke him into seeking revenge, but Lu Feng said he would tell Xun Changguan about Mu Yi Ba’s scheme instead.
• Mu Yi Ba threatened Chu Youwei to provoke Lu Feng, but Lu Feng kept his composure and turned the threat back on him by calling Chu Youwei and Lou Xinlan over.
• Mu Yi Ba took Lou Xinlan away, while his thoughts revealed that he had courted her for political reasons and coveted Chu Youwei and Xue Zier.
• Lu Feng explained the Domain Realm’s danger after Xue Zier asked him to protect her younger brother, Xue Lang, who was training alone.
• Chu Youwei asked Lu Feng to find her childhood friend Lin Liyun, and Xue Zier teased her by asking whether they were only friends.

Lu Feng and Chu Youwei reunited with the Body Sect party, which was fighting two Moon Corpses while Li Weiyun lay grievously injured and Pang Ji stood frozen with Death Qi between his brows. Lu Feng broke the Black-Robed Moon Corpse’s unusual defense with the Lotus Flower Sword Palm, but the White-Robed Moon Corpse still threatened the group.

• Lu Feng led Chu Youwei and Xue Zier back toward his friends, then hurried toward the sounds of battle when he realized the Body Sect party had not appeared.
• Lu Feng found Xiong Yuan’s group fighting a White-Robed Moon Corpse and Wen Ningsi’s group struggling against a Black-Robed Moon Corpse, while Li Weiyun lay injured and Pang Ji stood motionless with Death Qi between his brows.
• Lu Feng’s first attack on the Black-Robed Moon Corpse was dissolved by its strange, gentle qi, and Tang Yuan explained that their attacks could not penetrate its defense.
• Lu Feng used his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes and Qiong Hua’s instruction to trace the qi to its source, then dispersed the Black-Robed Moon Corpse’s misty defense with the Lotus Flower Sword Palm.
• Zhuang Xiaojing and Gu Lingling killed the exposed Black-Robed Moon Corpse and recovered a pendant engraved with “Flicking Sleeve Sword Song.”
• The group turned their attention back to the White-Robed Moon Corpse.

Lu Feng and Xiong Yuan killed the White-Robed Moon Corpse after Xiong Yuan restrained it with Thousand Jun Supporting Thunder and Lu Feng severed its connection to its pendant. The pendant revealed that Pang Ji had died when his sealed acupoints were forcibly undone, while Ji Guyuan might still be saved.

• Lu Feng joined Xiong Yuan against the White-Robed Moon Corpse and learned that its sinister finger technique caused injuries from within and sealed acupoints.
• Xiong Yuan trapped the Moon Corpse with Thousand Jun Supporting Thunder, then bound it with the Thunder-Lifting Lock as Lu Feng cut its throat and severed its link to the pendant.
• Xiong Yuan tore off the Moon Corpse's head, then told Wen Ningsi that Pang Ji and the others were dead while Ji Guyuan might still have a chance.
• Li Weiyun blamed himself and tried to kill himself, but Lu Feng stopped him, and Xiong Yuan said the deaths were not his fault.
• Xiong Yuan shattered the pendant and revealed the Family Extinction Dark Nether Finger's warning that forcibly undoing its sealed acupoints caused death; Wen Ningsi realized she had urged Xiong Yuan to save Pang Ji and felt guilty.

Lu Feng and the others studied the Profound Nether Finger and Flicking Sleeve Sword Song, weighing their dangers as Li Weiyun and Zhuang Xiaojing chose to sacrifice their potential for strength. The chapter ended with Li Weiyun stabilizing Ji Guyuan’s injuries but failing to find a cure, leaving Blood Exchange Meridian Renewal as Ji Guyuan’s only hope.

• Lu Feng learned that the Profound Nether Finger caused Xiong Yuan’s injuries and that its techniques inflicted severe harm on their users and victims.
• Li Weiyun began studying the Profound Nether Finger to find a way to release the acupoints, while Xiong Yuan recognized the cost to his future cultivation.
• Zhuang Xiaojing revealed the Flicking Sleeve Sword Song and sealed Gu Lingling’s acupoints to stop her from sharing the sacrifice; Lu Feng persuaded Gu Lingling not to cultivate it.
• Li Weiyun failed to discover a way to release the acupoints, but used his understanding of the Profound Nether Finger to stabilize Ji Guyuan’s chaotic energy.
• Lu Feng and the others realized that Blood Exchange Meridian Renewal remained Ji Guyuan’s only chance of recovery.

After the Red Moon faded, Chu Youwei recognized Zi Dai Flower pollen on Li Weiyun and learned where he had found it. Lu Feng went with her to search the mountain hollow, while the others departed or stayed behind as the threat of Beast Valley and rival sects loomed.

• Lu Feng reassured the Body Sect members that a counter to the Profound Nether Finger might exist, while Zhuang Xiaojing memorized and practiced the Flicking Sleeve Sword Song.
• The Red Moon sank, ending its influence, and the group noticed that the red glow and spiritual energy had vanished.
• Chu Youwei found Zi Dai Flower pollen on Li Weiyun's trouser leg and learned that it came from a mountain hollow where rival sects and possibly Beast Valley had gathered.
• Zhuang Xiaojing and Li Weiyun left through the Sky Supporting Token, while Gu Lingling promised to help Lu Feng find Senior Brother Chi.
• Lu Feng entrusted Gu Lingling to Tang Yuan and the others, then set out with Chu Youwei toward the mountain hollow, with Xue Zier refusing to leave.

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Xue Zier searched a mountain hollow for Zi Dai Flowers and found evidence of a powerful fire-element soul beast that had killed Zhou Bubai and his companions. They discovered the flowers near a Grand Yama Demon Lion, but Chu Youwei’s first attempt to harvest one failed when the lion roared.

• Lu Feng let Xue Zier accompany him and Chu Youwei as they searched the mountain hollow for Zi Dai Flowers.
• Xue Zier found charred remains and scattered possessions, including Zhou Bubai’s sword, while Lu Feng sensed traces of a sinister fire-element soul beast.
• Chu Youwei caught the Zi Dai Flowers’ fragrance, and the three followed it deeper into the hollow.
• They found a cluster of Zi Dai Flowers beside a resting Grand Yama Demon Lion and approached carefully without disturbing it.
• Chu Youwei began harvesting a flower, but the lion roared, startling her and snapping the flower in her hand.

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Xue Zier witnessed a Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow emerge from the mountain hollow after its Nether Fire killed the fleeing Soul Masters. The Grand Yama Demon Lion fought the creature to avenge its master, and disappeared behind a shattered earth wall as it prepared a surprise attack.

• The Grand Yama Demon Lion roared at the mountain hollow, and Lu Feng sensed a sinister presence approaching from within.
• Seven or eight Soul Masters fled the hollow, but drifting black ashes ignited them with Nether Fire and killed them.
• The Beast Valley Disciple tried to escape on the Grand Yama Demon Lion, but the lion threw him off; he fled alone after urging it to avenge Second Uncle.
• The Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow emerged, and Lu Feng recognized it as a powerful phoenix-blooded beast whose Nether Fire could consume living creatures.
• The Grand Yama Demon Lion attacked with its Beast Qi and raised an earth wall to block the ash, then vanished behind the wall after the Nether Phoenix shattered its strike.

Chu Youwei’s last surviving Zi Dai Flower was endangered by the battle between the Grand Yama Demon Lion and the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow, so Lu Feng entered the fight to draw the Nether Phoenix away. He wounded it with his Dragon Tiger Sword Intent, and the Grand Yama Demon Lion prepared a desperate, Heaven Soul Realm-level attack.

• Chu Youwei spotted a surviving Zi Dai Flower and tried to rush out for it, but Lu Feng pulled her back from the battling soul beasts.
• Lu Feng offered to draw the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow away, and Chu Youwei gave him the Vitality Sword and Five Elements Sword Array formation disc; he accepted only the sword.
• Lu Feng intervened when the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow attacked the Grand Yama Demon Lion, but the lion escaped and then attacked Lu Feng as well.
• Lu Feng dodged the lion’s Beast Qi attack and the Nether Fire, then used his Dragon Tiger Sword Intent to cut through the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow’s Black Scale Feather Armor.
• The Grand Yama Demon Lion charged again with a greatly strengthened Beast Qi attack, apparently prepared to fight the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow to the death.

Lu Feng tried to protect the Grand Yama Demon Lion from the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow, but the phoenix overwhelmed him and burned his sword away. After Nether Fire wounded him, Lu Feng’s Killing Heart Art awakened, and its aura froze both beasts in fear.

• Lu Feng used a gust of wind to save the exhausted Grand Yama Demon Lion from the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow’s fire, enraging the phoenix.
• The Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow attacked Lu Feng, who threw the Vitality Sword at its exposed chest, but it melted the sword and shattered his shield with a charge.
• Lu Feng searched for a weakness as the phoenix briefly hesitated, then dodged its Nether Fire until a flame struck his left arm.
• Lu Feng cut away the burning skin and flesh from his arm, then secretly circulated the Killing Heart Art as pain recalled Blood Demon’s torture beneath Azure Dragon Town.
• Lu Feng’s eyes turned completely black and his killing aura halted the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow, while the Grand Yama Demon Lion curled up in fear.

Lu Feng brutally killed the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow, then discovered its beast core was building toward Nirvana and sealed it. When he returned, he found a Beast Valley Disciple holding Chu Youwei hostage and demanding the core, and Lu Feng offered it in exchange for her release.

• Lu Feng awakened Dragon's Cry Thirteen Swords and drove Return to Dust into the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow, then killed it by piercing its heart.
• Lu Feng realized his Seventh Soul's Demonic Nature might have taken over during the slaughter, while the Grand Yama Demon Lion tore into the fallen creature.
• Lu Feng recognized signs that the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow's beast core was preparing for Nirvana and sealed the core with formation patterns.
• Lu Feng hurried back after sensing Xue Zier fighting and found the Beast Valley Disciple holding Chu Youwei hostage.
• The Beast Valley Disciple demanded the beast core and ordered Lu Feng to seal his acupoints, but Lu Feng offered him the core and demanded that he release Chu Youwei.

Lu Feng rescued Chu Youwei from the Beast Valley disciple, but the struggle destroyed the last Zi Dai Flower and left her injured and despairing. After discovering a green mountain ridge beyond the scorched hollow, he set out with her to investigate, while Chu Youwei offered him a gauze scarf and then hesitated over its unusual history.

• Lu Feng tricked the Beast Valley disciple with a beast core carrying Nether Fire, but the Grand Yama Demon Lion blocked his sword and helped the man escape.
• Chu Youwei discovered that the last Zi Dai Flower had been crushed, and Lu Feng realized her despair stemmed partly from its loss.
• Xue Zier explained how Beast Valley disciples used beast cores to cultivate, while Lu Feng suspected the group had been pursuing something deeper in the hollow.
• Lu Feng detected a verdant ridge beyond the scorched landscape and suggested they investigate, so Xue Zier left to retrieve the Extraterrestrial Treasure Swords while Chu Youwei asked Lu Feng for support.
• Chu Youwei noticed Lu Feng's arm wound and reached for a gauze scarf, then blushed when she remembered it had been beneath her on the wedding-chamber bed with "Lin Liyun."

Lu Feng, Chu Youwei, and Xue Zier found a mountainside covered in Zi Dai Flowers amid a spreading yin chill, and Chu Youwei finally picked one with its roots intact. Lu Feng entered a nearby cave to investigate the chill and froze at what he found inside.

• Lu Feng used an ominous Embroidered Handkerchief to bandage his arm, and the three continued deeper into the mountain hollow.
• Lu Feng sensed that a frigid yin force blocked his Soul Consciousness as the group entered a lush mountain ridge where flowers inexplicably thrived.
• Lu Feng suspected that a recent formation or damaged restriction had caused the yin chill, and the group found a vast patch of Zi Dai Flowers.
• Chu Youwei joyfully picked a Zi Dai Flower with its roots intact while Lu Feng withheld his doubts about whether it could leave the Domain Realm.
• Lu Feng approached a cave that seemed to be the source of the yin chill, found that his Gold Element Qi suppressed it, and entered alone.
• Lu Feng suspected the cave contained a Five Elements Extreme Gold-type soul beast's core, then froze at the sight inside.

Lu Feng discovered a strange black metal sphere in a mountain cave and awakened it while examining its lotus-shaped pieces. The sphere unfolded into a sword-leaved Black Lotus that pursued him outside, where he struggled to protect Chu Youwei and Xue Zier from its attack.

• Lu Feng found a cracked black iron ball and examined its flexible lotus-shaped leaves, discovering that their dark gold lines absorbed spiritual energy and stirred a fierce killing intent.
• A leaf Lu Feng had probed suddenly attacked him, and the iron ball unfolded into a gigantic Black Lotus with spinning, sword-like leaves.
• The Black Lotus pursued Lu Feng out of the cave, shredding Zi Dai Flowers as he warned Chu Youwei and Xue Zier to hide.
• The Black Lotus turned toward Chu Youwei and Xue Zier, forcing Lu Feng to block its attack; its gusts tore his sleeve and left layered cuts on his arms.
• Lu Feng realized that meeting the Black Lotus head-on was dangerous and prepared to fight it without holding back.

Lu Feng fought the relentless Blue White Sword Lotus, but its defenses and pursuit left him badly wounded and unable to escape. Chu Youwei identified it as the Spirit Controlling Heavy Gold Luan, revealing how it tracked Lu Feng and leaving him searching for a way to break its pursuit.

• Lu Feng tested the Sword Lotus with stones, then attacked with a powerful sword strike, but it evaded the collapsing space and wounded him with its wind blades.
• Lu Feng fled through the wilderness, but the Sword Lotus absorbed surrounding spiritual energy and kept pace, growing stronger as it pursued him.
• Lu Feng returned to the Zi Dai Flowers intending to send Chu Youwei and Xue Zier to safety, but they emerged from the mountain cave.
• Chu Youwei recognized the creature as the Spirit Controlling Heavy Gold Luan, and Lu Feng realized its leaves used Heavy Gold Luan feathers to absorb spiritual energy and lock onto his aura.
• Lu Feng understood that dispersing his spiritual energy or redirecting the Sword Lotus toward another person would be difficult, while no suitable soul beast was nearby to take his place.

Lu Feng and Chu Youwei subdued the Golden Luan Sword Lotus so he could take its Heavy Gold Luan beast core, but Chu Youwei was left weak from helping him. After the Message Soul Jade signaled danger, Lu Feng hurried back to the Body Sect group and found them surrounded by corpses bearing traces of Chi Yuanqing’s aura.

• Chu Youwei used the Cotton Cloud Technique to mask Lu Feng’s hostile aura, allowing the Golden Luan Sword Lotus to calm down.
• Chu Youwei spent over seventy percent of her spiritual energy to contain the sword lotus, and Lu Feng removed its Heavy Gold Luan beast core for Tang Yuan.
• Xue Zier urged Lu Feng to personally bring Chu Youwei restorative pills, but a disturbance from Tang Yuan’s Message Soul Jade made him rush toward the Body Sect group.
• Chu Youwei used a Sky Supporting Token to leave with the Zi Dai Flowers and entrusted her friend’s sword to Lu Feng to take out later.
• Lu Feng reached the Body Sect group and found corpses marked by Fire Essence Qi, while Gu Lingling said Chi Yuanqing’s aura seemed to remain on all of them.

Lu Feng learned that Tang Yuan and Xiong had gone east to rescue Ye Fan from the underground caverns of Moon God Palace, and he set off after them. Along the way, he and Xue Zier found her brother Xue Lang, whose story about a Taoist nun drew Lu Feng's attention before Xue Lang insulted him.

• Wen Ningsi told Lu Feng that Tang Yuan had followed a dying survivor's directions east to find his trapped brother, with Xiong secretly following him.
• Lu Feng examined the corpses, suspected a powerful killer had left a trace resembling Blazing Sun Swordplay, and hurried east, saying Ye Fan was his brother too.
• Xue Zier followed Lu Feng, and they found Xue Lang stripped, tied up, and hanging from a tree.
• Xue Lang said a man and a Taoist nun had beaten him, robbed him of the Emperor Dragon Art, and left him hanging after he teased them.
• Lu Feng asked Xue Lang who the Taoist nun was, and Xue Lang angrily rebuked him as Xue Zier looked embarrassed and alarmed.

Lu Feng learned that Xiong Yuan was fighting a powerful soul master and rushed to help, while Xue Zier and Xue Lang followed. Lu Feng joined the battle as Xue Lang watched, and the fight’s sudden change left him stunned.

• Xue Lang told Lu Feng that he had heard a man call a woman “Sister Xin,” leading Lu Feng to suspect Ye Fan and Pu Xin had been together nearby.
• After a mountain collapsed in the southeast, Lu Feng sensed the familiar Fire Essence Qi of the person behind Chi Sha’s death and rushed toward the battle.
• Xue Zier followed Lu Feng, explaining that she had placed her hopes in him, and Xue Lang reluctantly came along to protect her.
• Lu Feng found Tang Yuan trapped in Xiong Yuan’s protective formation, gave Tang Yuan the Spirit Controlling Heavy Gold Luan’s beast core, and told him where the Six Paths Coffin was.
• Tang Yuan secretly followed Lu Feng to the battle, while Xue Zier and Xue Lang caught up and saw that Xiong Yuan had been badly burned by the powerful enemy.
• Lu Feng joined the battle, and the sudden change in the situation left Xue Lang frozen in disbelief.

Lu Feng found Chi Yuanqing demonized after his strength surged, and tried to subdue him without killing him. He discovered a worm gnawing at Chi Yuanqing’s Soul Core, then sealed his meridians and acupoints as Chi Yuanqing regained clarity.

• Lu Feng recognized Chi Yuanqing as the attacker who had nearly killed Xiong Yuan and realized that Qi Deviation had driven him into a demonic frenzy.
• Lu Feng approached Chi Yuanqing to suppress his chaotic aura, but Chi Yuanqing blasted him away and attacked again.
• Lu Feng dodged Chi Yuanqing’s devastating strikes and tried calling him back to his senses, but was burned by a palm strike.
• Lu Feng examined Chi Yuanqing with his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes and saw that a worm had eaten away half of Chi Yuanqing’s Soul Core.
• Chi Yuanqing briefly resisted his Demonic Nature, allowing Lu Feng to seal his meridians and acupoints until his eyes cleared.
• Xiong Yuan recognized Chi Yuanqing as the man Lu Feng had been searching for and questioned how he had become so powerful.

Lu Feng restrained Chi Yuanqing’s Demonic Nature and learned that Xun Changguan’s torture and a strange Green Pill had transformed him, with a Formless Origin Gu eating his soul pill. Chi Yuanqing feared becoming a monster but chose to remain in the Azure Mountain Sword Sect, while Lu Feng suspected his Black Eyes could intimidate the gu and considered testing that theory.

• Lu Feng sealed Chi Yuanqing’s meridians and used the Pao Xi Dragon Control Art to suppress his Demonic Nature, though the mutated arm and soul-pill worm remained.
• Chi Yuanqing said Xun Changguan had tortured him and fed him strange Green Pills, then fell silent when Lu Feng told him his brother had died protecting his Fellow Disciples.
• Lu Feng urged Chi Yuanqing to live and seek revenge with his own consciousness, and Chi Yuanqing pleaded for help rather than risk harming the sect.
• Chi Yuanqing recounted how a worm emerged after he swallowed a Green Pill, devoured part of his soul pill, transformed his arm, and drove him to kill.
• Lu Feng identified the worm as a Formless Origin Gu and suspected Xun Changguan was experimenting on Chi Yuanqing with an imperfect specimen.
• Lu Feng realized his Black Eyes might be what frightened the gu and decided that another test could verify his suspicion.