Chapter Summaries

Chu Youwei revealed that Yan Wentai’s attack was likely tied to the Qin Family Banquet, unsettling Qi Jialue with the possibility that Lin Liyun had powerful backing. Meanwhile, Lu Feng and Lin Xiaowan encountered an Azure Scythe Dark Spider near the Mountain Range Depths, and Lu Feng blocked its advance with three Profound Ice Arrows.

• Chu Youwei connected Yan Wentai’s appearance to the Qin Family Banquet, where Lin Liyun had humiliated Ji Lanxin and Luo Tianfu.
• Qi Jialue grew afraid of provoking Lin Liyun after learning what he had done, while Su Huaijin asked whether he had backing.
• Lu Feng and Lin Xiaowan noticed the Dark Tiger Python had stopped near the Mountain Range Depths, apparently deterred by a danger ahead.
• Lu Feng and Lin Xiaowan followed the sound of falling trees and found a colossal Azure Scythe Dark Spider approaching them.
• Lu Feng used the Netherworld Bow to fire three Profound Ice Arrows in a zigzag formation, raising a wall of frost that stopped the spider.

After Elder Chihuo rescued Lin Xiaowan and Lu Feng, the group examined the battlefield and questioned Lu Feng about the powerful array traces, but he concealed the truth about his archery methods. As they discussed Chihuo’s nearly finished Spirit Porridge, Lu Feng suspected that something deeper in the mountain range had driven the beasts outward.

• Elder Chihuo drove off the Azure Scythe Dark Spider and reunited with Lin Xiaowan and the injured Lu Feng.
• Su Huaijin and Chu Youwei examined the battlefield and connected its traces to Yan Wentai’s death, while Lu Feng hid the arrow fletchings and claimed a damaged array had saved them.
• Lin Xiaowan pretended not to know what had happened, and Lu Feng described the array as a damaged Heavenly Net Cold Heart Array.
• Elder Chihuo scolded Lin Xiaowan for failing to report the danger, then reassured her that his Spirit Porridge would be ready in a few days.
• Elder Chihuo said only the Delicious Immortal Banquet’s first-place winner would receive a small bowl of Spirit Porridge, and Lu Feng suspected the beasts’ migration had a deeper cause.

Su Huaijin overheard Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei discussing Lin Liyun’s possible past with her and the revolutionary archery technique. She followed the disguised Lu Feng into Heavenly Cuisine Villa’s archive, where he revealed his face, and she asked whether he had truly lost his memories or was pretending not to know her.

• Lin Xiaowan told Chu Youwei that Lin Liyun might once have liked Su Huaijin, and Chu Youwei suggested discussing the past with Su Huaijin to help restore his memories.
• Su Huaijin overheard Lin Xiaowan explain that her arrows combined archery with formations, realized the method could transform the villa, and headed toward the new disciples’ courtyard.
• Lu Feng changed into night clothes and infiltrated Heavenly Cuisine Villa’s archive to search for records about the villa’s founding and its possible ties to the Heaven Rain Clan and Northern Essence Water.
• Lu Feng searched the archive’s sixth floor but retreated from the heavily guarded seventh floor, then hid when he sensed someone enter.
• Su Huaijin found Lu Feng on the sixth floor, threatened to call the elders, and prompted him to reveal his face as Lin Liyun.
• Su Huaijin asked Lu Feng whether he had truly lost his memories or was pretending not to know her, leaving him confused by her tender, hurt demeanor.

Su Huaijin recounted her past with Lin Liyun and asked Lu Feng to give her his Revolutionary Archery methods so she could help her family. When he refused, she revealed that she had realized he was not Lin Liyun.

• Lu Feng asked Su Huaijin how they had met, and she described their first encounter in Panxi City and how a training expedition to Strange Gorge Mountain brought them close.
• Su Huaijin explained that she and Lin Liyun had agreed she would marry him if he could support her family, but said she had pursued other powerful men because she thought he was gone and her family needed help.
• Su Huaijin asked Lu Feng to give her his Revolutionary Archery methods, but he refused.
• Su Huaijin turned cold and accused Lu Feng of pretending to be Lin Liyun, and Lu Feng realized she might have detected him through the Emerald Dew Fruits and Moon Glass Wine.

Lu Feng revealed his identity as the Azure Mountain Sect Master to Su Huaijin and traded three Wind Vortex Arrows for what she knew about the Heaven Rain Clan. After learning that Elder Gongxi knew more, Lu Feng offered to teach Su Huaijin part of his archery methods if she completed two tasks for him.

• Su Huaijin exposed Lu Feng's disguise by testing his reaction to spirit fruits, then demanded to know who he was and what he wanted.
• Lu Feng swore Su Huaijin to secrecy and revealed his identity as the Azure Mountain Sect Master, prompting her to consider gaining his support for her family.
• Lu Feng asked whether Heavenly Cuisine Villa was connected to the Heaven Rain Clan, and Su Huaijin recognized that he sought Northern Essence Water.
• Su Huaijin traded information about the Heaven Rain Clan for three Wind Vortex Arrows, then admitted that Elder Gongxi knew more and advised Lu Feng to ask him.
• After teasing Su Huaijin about the deal, Lu Feng offered to teach her part of his archery methods in exchange for completing two tasks.

Lu Feng negotiated with Su Huaijin for a map of the Profound Gloom Mountain Range and access to the manor’s spiritual spring, but she tied the spring visit to his teaching her array arts. After he refused to tutor her personally, she revealed another way to reach the spring through the Delicious Immortal Banquet and reminded him of their agreement.

• Lu Feng warned Su Huaijin that the three arrows he gave her required knowledge of arrays, then asked her to find a mountain-range map and take him to the manor’s spiritual spring.
• Su Huaijin refused to bring Lu Feng to the spring, but offered to help if he taught her array arts and part of the Array Fusion into Arrow method.
• Lu Feng offered to recommend Su Huaijin to Azure Cloud Stream and let Xia Yiyun pass on the method after Su Huaijin made progress, upsetting her.
• Su Huaijin questioned Lu Feng about his identity and motives, and he explained that he had impersonated Lin Liyun to repay a favor and protect Miss Chu.
• Su Huaijin showed Lu Feng a vermilion mole and said she remained chaste, but he left without responding to her advances.
• Su Huaijin told Lu Feng that placing among the top three at the Delicious Immortal Banquet would earn three days of cultivation in the Spiritual Spring Pavilion, and he agreed to remember their deal.

Elder Gongxi told Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan how the Lin Family’s secret treasure key and Chu Xuanhe’s scheme led to Chu Youwei’s mother’s death and her father’s final departure. He left Chu Youwei grieving over her parents’ tragic choices and Elder Gongxi’s failure to realize that Chu Xuanyi intended to die.

• Lu Feng drove Chu Youwei, Lin Xiaowan, and Elder Gongxi toward Ken Yu Village while Elder Gongxi recounted how Chu Xuanyi met Meng Qiutong there.
• Chu Youwei asked whether Chu Xuanhe had been involved in her parents’ deaths, and Elder Gongxi warned her not to harbor hatred.
• Elder Gongxi explained that Chu Xuanhe had pressured Meng Qiutong to investigate the Lin Family’s secret treasure, and that she later stole its key under pressure after the Lin Family fell into crisis.
• Chu Xuanyi discovered the theft and fatally struck Meng Qiutong in a rage, but she revealed before dying that she had hidden the key and acted to repay Chu Xuanhe while protecting her children and Chu Xuanyi’s principles.
• Elder Gongxi explained that Chu Xuanyi concealed Chu Xuanhe’s role, left the children with the Chu Family, and departed with Meng Qiutong’s remains, intending to protect them and his moral principles.
• Chu Youwei asked why Elder Gongxi had not stopped her father, and he admitted he had not realized Chu Xuanyi had resolved to die.

Chu Youwei, Lu Feng, and Elder Gongxi reached her parents’ graves at Ingot Mountain, where Chu Youwei resolved not to disturb them for the Lin Family’s secret treasure. A familiar sinister laugh interrupted their mourning.

• Lin Xiaowan apologized to Chu Youwei for her parents’ deaths, and Chu Youwei said her father had died by his own choice and blamed no one.
• Elder Gongxi gave the group pot lids to glide across the mud, while Lu Feng helped Chu Youwei travel steadily on his greatsword; Lin Xiaowan felt jealous seeing them close together.
• At Ken Yu Village, Chu Youwei sensed that Ingot Mountain lay to the southeast, and the group found the collapsed mountain and her parents’ graves.
• Chu Youwei recognized her mother’s gravestone and saw the second mound where her father had buried himself; she refused to disturb their resting place for the Lin Family’s secret treasure.
• Lu Feng suspected the other half of the Thorn Mountain Jade lay in the graves and resolved to seek a way to remove Lin Wanxia’s coercive force from his soul sea.
• A familiar, sinister laugh rang out as the group mourned at the graves.

Zhong Sanxiao arrived with two allies, and Lin Xiaowan recognized the young man who had killed her sister; their combined attack left her near death. As Lu Feng fought to save her and stop the attackers from taking the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead, he struck the young man with a strange fire-and-ice arrow, leaving him injured and fascinated by the weapon.

• Zhong Sanxiao arrived with a white-robed elder and a young man whom Lin Xiaowan recognized as her sister's killer.
• Lin Xiaowan charged the young man, but his and the elder's auras blasted her away and grievously damaged her meridians.
• Lu Feng caught Lin Xiaowan and poured spiritual energy into her while the young man attacked Elder Gongxi and then turned toward Chu Youwei's parents' graves.
• The young man shattered Meng Qiutong's grave and found the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead inside the coffin.
• Lu Feng fired a strange arrow that shifted between fire and ice, then rushed in and seized the bead while its attack wounded the young man.
• The young man defended himself from the arrow's sudden burst of flame and became more interested in obtaining the weapon than recovering the bead.

Lu Feng and Elder Gongxi tried to hold off Zhong Sanxiao and the white-robed old man while Chu Youwei protected the critically injured Lin Xiaowan. Lu Feng drew Zhong Sanxiao away to a waterfall and offered him the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lu Feng wounded the young man with his Flowing Fire Freezing Frost arrow, and Zhong Sanxiao and the white-robed old man forced Elder Gongxi down from the sky, gravely injuring him.
• Elder Gongxi used a secret technique and attacked the young man to occupy the white-robed old man, while Lu Feng agreed to hold Zhong Sanxiao back for one incense stick's time.
• Lu Feng gave Chu Youwei an array plate and fled with Zhong Sanxiao in pursuit; Chu Youwei stayed with the badly wounded Lin Xiaowan and activated the Nine Gates Thick Earth Array around them.
• Zhong Sanxiao intercepted Lu Feng at a waterfall, where Lu Feng deflected his sword strike using the Swordless Realm and Zhong Sanxiao recognized him as Lin Liyun, the Azure Mountain Sect Master.
• Lu Feng denied seeking the Lin Family's secret treasure and offered Zhong Sanxiao the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead in exchange for sparing their lives.

Lu Feng fought Zhong Sanxiao with the Ice Sword and Night Feather Swordplay, using Frost Bloom Sword Intent to survive against the stronger swordsman. Zhong Sanxiao’s first two Innocence Swords failed to break Lu Feng’s resolve, and the chapter ended with Lu Feng’s counterattack reaching Zhong Sanxiao’s heart.

• Lu Feng drew his Ice Sword and used Night Feather Swordplay to wound Zhong Sanxiao and evade his counterattack.
• Zhong Sanxiao recognized Lu Feng’s Frost Bloom Sword Intent and charged with his Innocence Sword.
• Zhong Sanxiao used Greedless Sword Intent to weaken Lu Feng’s fighting spirit, but Lu Feng resisted it with the Killing Heart Art and suffered only a light chest wound.
• Zhong Sanxiao followed with Hateless Sword Intent, but Lu Feng’s killing intent remained unchanged and his sword struck toward Zhong Sanxiao’s heart.
• Zhong Sanxiao realized Lu Feng’s killing intent did not stem from hatred or anger, but Lu Feng’s attack had already reached him.

Lu Feng escaped Zhong Sanxiao’s killing blow and prepared his strongest counterattack, but the Jun Family intervened and Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan underwent a forced transformation. The chapter ended with Lu Feng sensing the Lin Family bloodline in Chu Youwei.

• Jun Ziya ordered Bai Ju and Ping Yang to help Lu Feng when he neared defeat, while declaring that Zhong Sanxiao would die for betraying her.
• Lu Feng used the Turtle Breath Divine Dragon Secret Art and a fake Thorn Mountain Jade Bead to interrupt Zhong Sanxiao’s attack and lure him toward the waterfall.
• After Zhong Sanxiao wounded him, Lu Feng withdrew to a stone forest and prepared a supreme killing array and other hidden weapons.
• Bai Ju and Ping Yang confronted Zhong Sanxiao, prompting Lu Feng to rush back to check on Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan.
• Lu Feng found Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan bound in a strange blood-qi array, with Lin Xiaowan’s failing life temporarily sustained as Chu Youwei’s aura weakened.
• As the array’s blood qi entered both women, Lu Feng sensed the Lin Family bloodline in Chu Youwei.

Lin Wanxia saved Lin Xiaowan by linking her life force with Chu Youwei’s, then left to pursue Elder Gongxi. Lu Feng surrendered the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead under a soul oath, but when it joined the other half, the pair transformed into a gourd-shaped entrance to the Gourd Ruins.

• Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei told Lu Feng that Lin Wanxia had used a bloodline secret method and linked their lives to restore Lin Xiaowan, then left for Elder Gongxi’s direction.
• Elder Gongxi fell back severely poisoned and injured as two white-robed elders and a young man confronted Lu Feng’s group and demanded the Thorn Mountain Jade key.
• Lu Feng threatened to destroy the key unless the white-robed elder swore not to harm them, then handed over the Thorn Mountain Jade Bead.
• The young man brought out the other Thorn Mountain Jade Bead, and the two keys revealed the map to the legendary Gourd Ruins.
• The jade beads joined and formed a gourd shape, prompting the young man to realize that the keys themselves were the entrance to a sealed Domain Realm; Lu Feng wondered why Chu Youwei had urged him to hand over the key.

Lu Feng and the others witnessed the Thorn Mountain Jade Beads form a Gourd Gate that drained the surrounding land of spiritual energy. After the young man sacrificed Zhong Sanxiao to feed the Gourd Ruins, the gate stabilized as the apparent entrance to the Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure.

• The Thorn Mountain Jade Beads formed a huge spiritual-energy gourd that stripped the surrounding region of spiritual energy and revealed the Gourd Ruins’ destructive power.
• The young man fed the Gourd Ruins High-Grade Source Stones, but it continued absorbing spiritual energy without reaching saturation.
• Zhong Sanxiao returned gravely wounded, and the white-robed elder attacked him at the young man’s signal, cracking his Soul Core and draining his natal spiritual energy into the Gourd Ruins.
• Zhong Sanxiao dispersed his remaining spiritual energy and launched a Soul Attack at the young man, but the elder intercepted it after it damaged the young man’s soul sea.
• The Gourd Ruins absorbed Zhong Sanxiao’s spiritual energy, compressed into a gourd-shaped gate, and the young man recognized it as the entrance to the Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure.

Lin Wanxia seized the Thorn Mountain Jade Beads after the Gourd Ruins’ Saint aura killed Ping Yang, but a masked Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage soul master and the others trapped her. Wounded and surrounded, she offered to hand the secret key to the Jun Family on one condition.

• Bai Ju and Ping Yang arrived and agreed with the young man and the white-robed old man to send one person from each side into the Gourd Ruins.
• The Gourd Ruins’ Saint aura killed Ping Yang and severely injured the white-robed old man when they tried to enter.
• Lin Wanxia appeared, reclaimed the Thorn Mountain Jade Beads with the Iron Ring, and fled while leaving Lin Xiaowan behind.
• A masked Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage soul master ambushed Lin Wanxia, and Bai Ju and the white-robed old man joined the attack.
• Jun Ziya demanded that Lin Wanxia give the secret key to the Jun Family, while the white-robed old man and the masked soul master wounded her.
• Lin Wanxia accused the Jun Family of conspiring with the masked attacker and offered to surrender the secret key on one condition.

Lin Wanxia sacrificed herself to help Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei enter the Gourd Ruins, which then vanished and could no longer be opened. Jun Ziya failed to seize the secret treasure and turned her attention to Lu Feng, who escaped into a powerful array.

• Jun Ziya swore to protect the Lin Family, and Lin Wanxia summoned the Gourd Gate for her.
• Lin Wanxia revealed that the Gourd Ruins held a method capable of turning an entire continent into a dead zone, along with a Saint Soul Realm inheritance.
• Jun Ziya sent the masked Soul Master to test the entrance, but the Yin Yang Glass Ring triggered a blast that killed him.
• Lin Wanxia threw Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan toward the entrance, then detonated her Soul Core to drive back Jun Ziya and Bai Ju and give Lin Xiaowan time to enter.
• The Gourd Ruins vanished, leaving behind two shattered Thorn Mountain Jade Beads, and Lu Feng escaped using the Nine Gates Thick Earth Array.
• Bai Ju failed to capture Lu Feng and warned Jun Ziya that his array might attack with power comparable to the Heaven Soul Realm Seven Breaths level.

Lu Feng learned how Huo Qiu and the Bottle Spirit Sect had betrayed the tomb expedition, while Ning Xiang explained how she escaped the poisonous miasma and reached safety. He and Ning Xiang arrived at the Abyssal Ancient Tomb, found its concealed entrance, and prepared to go inside to rescue the others.

• Ning Xiang told Lu Feng that Huo Qiu had used the Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples to scout dangerous chambers, then admitted to leading Qu Chengan and Jiang Yingyu to their deaths and trying to kill the survivors.
• Ning Xiang explained that she drew poisonous miasma away from her companions, got swept through a deep pool, and emerged outside the mountain tomb.
• Lu Feng suspected that Huo Qiu's actions meant the Bottle Spirit Sect had slipped beyond Si Kongtong's control and resolved to visit the sect again.
• Lu Feng carried Ning Xiang to the Abyssal Ancient Tomb, where she showed him the hidden entrance in the cliff wall.
• Lu Feng opened the concealed wooden door, checked the passage for danger, and carried Ning Xiang to the entrance.

Lu Feng and Ning Xiang entered an ancient tomb through a passage made from coffins and discovered that someone had cleared the traps ahead of them. They found a hidden Yin-Yang entrance and continued along the safe route, leaving Lu Feng to search for his missing disciples and learn who was buried in the tomb.

• Ning Xiang warned Lu Feng that her poison-filled body could endanger him, then followed him into the coffin-lined passage.
• Lu Feng recognized the passage as a Coffin Path and brought Ning Xiang safely into a stone chamber, where they found broken spears and a Heavy Character Tablet.
• Lu Feng deduced that someone had entered after Ning Xiang’s group and learned that Huo Qiu had recognized the tablet and won the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s trust.
• Ning Xiang told Lu Feng to turn the tablet twice, revealing a dangerous false entrance and a safe passage; Lu Feng chose the safe route.
• Lu Feng studied carvings of a civil official and a military general, took Ning Xiang’s stored treasures, and continued onward to search for his disciples and Jiang Yingyu’s group.

Lu Feng and Ning Xiang discovered that the skull-lined passage housed a Thousand Corpses Gathering Qi Array, and Ning Xiang revealed that Huo Qiu had tricked Zhu Dong into dying there. They reached a chamber of chained Iron Humanoid Figures, where Lu Feng suspected a hidden danger and wondered whether the closed Stone Gate had kept the array from activating them.

• Lu Feng and Ning Xiang entered a vast passage lined with tens of thousands of skulls, and Lu Feng recognized the danger of a sinister array.
• Ning Xiang told Lu Feng that Huo Qiu had identified the array as a Yang-Devouring Soul Sacrifice array and warned the group not to disturb it.
• Lu Feng found Zhu Dong's corpse, demonstrated how its Yin Qi caused it to jerk upright, and identified the formation as the Thousand Corpses Gathering Qi Array.
• Ning Xiang explained that Zhu Dong had attacked a skull, then surrendered to the array after Huo Qiu falsely claimed his death was needed to save the others.
• Lu Feng and Ning Xiang reached a stone chamber containing chained Iron Humanoid Figures, and Lu Feng suspected their restraints and the closed Stone Gate concealed a greater threat.

Lu Feng and Ning Xiang tried to open a passage beneath a chamber covered in murals depicting an Evil Ghost Mask man's massacres, but a mistaken turn sent the room sliding and dropped them into a deep pit. They survived the fall and the stone insects, only to discover they had landed amid the bones of countless dead.

• Lu Feng examined the Narrative Murals and concluded that the masked man had been a brutal military leader, but could not identify him or his dynasty.
• Ning Xiang explained how the Bottle Spirit Sect had opened the passage by turning the four Illuminating Jade Pillars, but she did not know how many turns they had made.
• Lu Feng turned two pillars, causing the chamber to slide before its floor collapsed and sent him and Ning Xiang into a dark abyss.
• Lu Feng spotted stone insects on the wall and used repeated Sword Light strikes to slow their fall, then landed safely with Ning Xiang.
• Lu Feng and Ning Xiang saw the shattered Jade Pearl illuminating heaps of bones and realized they were in a mass grave beneath the White Bone Skull Passage.