Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and Wu Ying triggered the Black Coffin’s linked restrictions while opening the painting scrolls, releasing a swarm of vengeful souls. Lu Feng shoved Wu Ying out of the sealed hall and stayed behind to face the danger alone, leaving the others waiting anxiously outside.

• A vengeful soul ignored Xiao Gu Soul Zombie and charged Wu Ying, but the Soul Zombie captured and drained it.
• Wu Ying explained that the sealed souls sought vessels for rebirth, while he and Lu Feng discovered that opening a scroll loosened one-sixth of the Black Coffin’s restriction.
• A second vengeful soul attacked Lu Feng and was captured, but more scrolls began opening on their own.
• A vengeful soul struck the Black Coffin and vanished, causing every remaining painting scroll to open at once.
• Lu Feng pushed Wu Ying out of the hall and shut the doors behind him as the vengeful souls swarmed inside.
• Wu Ying waited in despair with Shao Yang and the others, then kicked Huo Qiu unconscious after Huo Qiu mocked Lu Feng’s chances of survival.

Wu Ying and Lu Feng’s disciples opened the chamber after the assault of resentful souls, finding Lu Feng alive but afflicted by gray mist and poison. As the Repentance Platforms transferred stored Soul Power toward him, Lu Feng’s eyes turned completely gray, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Ning Xiang offered to enter the chamber first, admitting that she could no longer control her condition, but Man Zhongli silently showed he would stay with her.
• Wu Ying opened the chamber and used blood essence and Soul Power to block the gray smoke, then found Lu Feng sitting motionless amid gray dust beneath six charred characters.
• Lu Feng coughed, but Wu Ying stopped the others from approaching after discovering that the gray mist carried tiny Gadfly Gu that resisted spirit fire.
• Wu Ying sensed that Lu Feng’s soul sea was chaotic and saw a second Lotus Platform transfer stored Soul Power into the Repentance Platform beneath Lu Feng.
• Ning Xiang suggested Lu Feng might be cultivating with the Repentance Platform, but his eyes turned murky gray as everyone watched.

Jiang Ruoyun sensed Lu Feng’s life in danger through their bonded array but stayed in the Love Tomb because of a secret obligation tied to her strength and two items she still needed to find. At Cloud Essence Temple, Ruo Shui’s foreboding distracted her during sword practice, and Senior Sister Qiu Shuang arrived as three disciples mocked her.

• Jiang Ruoyun collapsed after the Mandarin Duck Union Array let her feel Lu Feng nearing death, then calmed when his aura stabilized.
• Red Scorpion questioned why Jiang Ruoyun would not go to Lu Feng, and Jiang Ruoyun revealed that she had to reach the Earth Soul Realm and find two items before she could stay by his side without burdening him.
• Ruo Shui felt an inexplicable dread during sword practice at Cloud Essence Temple and was knocked to the ground by her three sparring partners.
• The three disciples scolded Ruo Shui as she struggled to hold back tears and resolved to master swordplay so she could return to Lu Feng.
• Senior Sister Qiu Shuang entered the courtyard and angrily confronted the three disciples.

Qiu Shuang protected Ruo Shui from bullying, treated her injured hand, and tried to persuade her to stay at Cloud Essence Temple. Ruo Shui insisted she would remain for only one year and revealed that her devotion to Benevolent Heart Academy came from the thirty thousand Soul Coins Lu Feng had given her.

• Qiu Shuang scolded three female disciples for bullying Ruo Shui and ordered them to copy the Cloud Essence Precepts thirty times.
• Qiu Shuang brought Ruo Shui inside, treated her cracked hand with Golden Wind Jade Dew, and asked whether she had settled in at Cloud Essence Temple.
• Qiu Shuang admitted Elder Yu Hong had sent her to persuade Ruo Shui to like the temple and stay willingly.
• Ruo Shui rejected Qiu Shuang's offer of support and insisted she would stay for only one year before returning to Benevolent Heart Academy.
• Ruo Shui showed Qiu Shuang her pouch of thirty thousand Soul Coins and explained that Brother Feng had given them to her.

Ruo Shui resisted Qiu Shuang’s effort to persuade her to pursue Lu Feng, while Qiu Shuang was summoned to discuss Qiu Ci’s whereabouts. In the Abyssal Ancient Tomb, Lu Feng hid the dangerous state of his soul after sealing immense mixed power inside his seventh Spirit Soul Array, leaving himself determined to fight his way through the looming death.

• Qiu Shuang told Ruo Shui that becoming Cloud Essence Temple’s Temple Master could make her a suitable match for Lu Feng, but Ruo Shui said she was content as things were.
• Ruo Shui asked whether Qiu Shuang had ever loved anyone, prompting Qiu Shuang to recall a lecherous thief before a disciple interrupted to report that Qiu Ci’s whereabouts had been found.
• Qiu Shuang hurried away to meet with the elders, while Ruo Shui reflected on the longing she sensed beneath Qiu Shuang’s supposed hatred.
• Lu Feng woke in the Abyssal Ancient Tomb and reassured Ning Xiang, Shao Yang, and the others that he was fine, while Wu Ying noticed he was concealing his injuries.
• Lu Feng recognized that he had sealed chaotic resentful-soul power and other dangers inside his seventh Spirit Soul Array, which could kill him if released or when he advanced to the Heaven Soul Realm.
• Lu Feng accepted that his predicament had no clear solution but resolved not to wait for death.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying discovered that the tomb realm might conceal a secret Death Tomb from the era when Double Gate was whole, but their route back had been sealed by the tomb’s restrictions. As Huo Yuanqiu arrived with Bottle Spirit Sect disciples, Lu Feng prepared a trap and withdrew deeper inside.

• Wu Ying explained that Huo Qiu had tried to attack Lu Feng and died, then identified the wall characters as meaning that a tomb and coffin concealed another tomb and coffin.
• Wu Ying suspected the hidden tomb was a deadly secret built during the era of Double Gate, and Lu Feng persuaded him to leave and return when they were stronger.
• Lu Feng’s group reached the White Bone Skull Passage and found its skulls turned toward them, their sockets emitting gray smoke; the passage back outside was no longer safe.
• Wu Ying found no other viable exit on the map, while Lu Feng spotted Huo Yuanqiu and more than ten Bottle Spirit Sect disciples approaching.
• Lu Feng secretly activated a force in the Stone Gate and withdrew as Huo Yuanqiu recognized the tomb realm’s importance and resolved to claim its gains.

Huo Yuanqiu’s group was devastated by a tide of Yin Qi and awakened iron figurines, while he abandoned his disciples and fled through a hidden gate. In the Main Tomb Chamber, Lu Feng and the others entered the Black Coffin and discovered that it contained eight smaller coffins, which began descending.

• Huo Yuanqiu led his disciples through the White Bone Skull Passage, but a sudden tide of Yin Qi killed most of the group as they fled.
• Huo Yuanqiu and the survivors reached a stone chamber, where awakened iron figurines attacked after the Stone Gate shattered.
• Huo Yuanqiu escaped alone through a hidden Stone Gate, leaving his disciples trapped between the iron figurines and the Yin Qi.
• Lu Feng and the others opened the Black Coffin with Wu Ying’s help and found its unusually large interior marked with narrow slots.
• Black panels rose around the group to form separate compartments, and Lu Feng realized the compartments were small coffins descending inside the Black Coffin.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying were swept into the Eight Thorns Soul Locking Array after descending in elongated coffins through Yin Soul Water. Inside the array’s soul-domain, Lu Feng faced a growing barrage of arrows made from Soul Power, while Wu Ying remained untouched.

• Lu Feng and Wu Ying emerged from their coffins underwater onto a circular platform surrounded by eight coffins arranged like the Eight Trigrams.
• The array activated and transported their consciousness into a desolate soul-domain, where Lu Feng recognized the Eight Thorns Soul Locking Array.
• Lu Feng realized their pool was Yin Soul Water, which sealed soul-fluctuation sensing and made his underwater use of Soul Consciousness a mistake.
• Three Soul Power arrows attacked Lu Feng, repeatedly turning back to pursue him even after he dodged them.
• Three more arrows descended from the clouds and joined the pursuit, leaving Lu Feng dodging six arrows while Wu Ying watched unharmed.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying discovered that the Eight Thorns Soul Locking Array had targeted Lu Feng because of lingering Gadfly Gu aura, and they identified its power as belonging to Potassium Gadfly. When Potassium Gadfly and Black Short Trident appeared, their overwhelming strength left the two facing near-certain death, but Lu Feng’s killing intent surged.

• Lu Feng used Nether Ghost Hell to deflect repeated waves of soul arrows, then destroyed them when their power ran low.
• Wu Ying explained that Gadfly Gu aura from the earlier hall had marked Lu Feng, and that the arrows were tracking him through it.
• Wu Ying recognized the array’s Soul Power as belonging to Potassium Gadfly, one of the four generals under Evil Ghost King Butcher.
• Wu Ying warned that the array likely held further dangers, and two figures emerged from a cloud gate as its possible core or soldiers.
• Lu Feng sensed that the figures were at least Heaven Soul Realm Seven Breaths and identified them as Potassium Gadfly and Black Short Trident.
• As Wu Ying gave up hope of resisting, Lu Feng’s killing intent erupted.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying survived the Eight Thorns Soul Locking Array after its guardians bowed to Lu Feng’s transformed killing intent. They discovered the Striped Coffins led to the true tomb below, and entered them to search for Lu Feng’s missing disciples.

• The two guardians knelt before Lu Feng, then vanished and left behind the array talismans after his killing intent seemed to remind them of Evil Ghost King Butcher.
• Lu Feng opened the Life Gate and explained that dismantling the array could release its power and collapse the space.
• Lu Feng and Wu Ying found that every Striped Coffin was empty, and Lu Feng began investigating the stone platforms for clues.
• Wu Ying discovered hollow platforms covered in patterns, and Lu Feng identified Reverse Source Markings that formed a passage into the true tomb.
• Lu Feng told Wu Ying to enter the coffins, and Wu Ying chose to accompany him despite the danger.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying entered a hidden chamber beneath the Striped Coffins, where strange black-and-white beasts trapped them and Lu Feng’s disciples in cocoons. Lu Feng rescued Shao Yang and the others, but froze when he saw Wu Ying inside his cocoon.

• Lu Feng and Wu Ying fell through the Striped Coffins into a bright cave containing a giant Yin Yang Fish Pattern and five floating Black White Cocoons.
• Black-and-white qi attacked Wu Ying and Lu Feng, and Wu Ying identified the creatures as Strange Beast Qiong Gou and Cloud Beast Xi He, which could only be frightened by soul fire.
• Lu Feng used the Wind Splitting Hand to disperse the cloud qi and peel away the cocoons, rescuing Shao Yang, Qian Xin, and the other disciples.
• Lu Feng noticed the dispersed qi flowing toward the Yin Yang Fish Pattern instead of gathering back into the beasts.
• Lu Feng opened Wu Ying’s cocoon and froze at the sight of him inside.

Wu Ying warned Lu Feng and the others about the Cloud Beasts’ power as Cloud Beast Xihe emerged and advanced on them. Lu Feng’s attacks failed to stop it, and the chapter ended with Wu Ying’s theory that it was a remnant being challenged by Lu Feng’s discovery that it still had the aura of life.

• Wu Ying explained that the earlier cloud forms were only auras and that Cloud Beast Xihe and Jade Hook feared Heavenly Dao Soul Fire.
• Cloud Beast Xihe emerged from the white eye of the Yin Yang Fish Pattern and began drawing the Yin Yang Two Qi from Wu Ying.
• Lu Feng shielded Wu Ying and tried to stop Xihe with the Wind Splitting Hand, Sword Light, and Five Elements Profound Origin Shield, but only managed to halt its advance.
• Wu Ying proposed that Xihe was a remnant left after its death and could be defeated by destroying its beast core or exhausting its remaining momentum.
• Lu Feng rejected Wu Ying’s theory, saying Xihe still possessed the aura of life and its momentum had not weakened.

Lu Feng faced the combined power of Strange Beast Qiong Gou and Cloud Beast Xi He as their yin and yang auras overwhelmed his shield. To protect Wu Ying and the disciples, he absorbed the Black and White Cloud Qi Mass himself and fell to the ground, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Strange Beast Qiong Gou emerged from its Beast Core, and Wu Ying realized both beasts were manifestations of power released from shattered Beast Cores.
• Qiong Gou pressed Lu Feng with far greater force than Xi He because the yin-heavy environment had depleted Xi He more than Qiong Gou.
• Xi He joined Qiong Gou, and their intertwined yin and yang auras unleashed Creation Power that broke through Lu Feng's Profound Origin Shield.
• Lu Feng leapt into the Black and White Cloud Qi Mass and used his absorption power to keep it from harming Wu Ying, Shao Yang, and the other disciples.
• Wu Ying rushed to the fallen Lu Feng as the disciples watched in grief, believing Lu Feng had sacrificed himself to save them.

Lu Feng’s attempt to build an Unstable House with the Yin Yang Two Qi nearly killed him, so he redirected the power into his feet and began forming an array with his body. Meanwhile, Huo Yuanqiu discovered Lu Feng’s Thousand Corpses Gathering Qi Array and faced its attack with the Nether Crow Fan.

• Lu Feng tried to guide the Yin Yang Two Qi into his Soul Plate, but their pressure threatened to destroy his body and soul sea.
• Remembering Jun Ziya’s body-based array technique, Lu Feng redirected the Black White Dual Qi into his feet and began carving array markings into their soles.
• Huo Yuanqiu entered the mass grave and used five Night Nether Gu to shield himself from the surrounding Yin Qi.
• Huo Yuanqiu tested a bone pile with one Night Nether Gu, whose essence fire was extinguished when Lu Feng’s Thousand Corpses Gathering Qi Array ignited the bones.
• Huo Yuanqiu recognized the recently arranged array and suspected its creator had killed Huo Qiu and the Bottle Spirit Sect party.
• The Thousand Corpses Gathering Qi Array condensed the Yin Qi and sent thousands of skeletal phantoms lunging at Huo Yuanqiu.

Lu Feng survived sealing the origins of Qiong Gou and Xihe in his legs, leaving him unable to feel or use them, while Shao Yang vowed to carry him. Wu Ying led the group through a hidden stairway to a mysterious manor-like gateway deep underground.

• Huo Yuanqiu used the Nether Crow Fan to absorb the Death Yin Qi, sacrificing his essence blood and lifespan as he pushed onward, unwilling to relinquish his treasures or sect leadership.
• Lu Feng’s struggle to seal Qiong Gou and Xihe’s origin power ended, but he lost all sensation below his knees.
• Shao Yang embraced Lu Feng, then offered to carry him; Lu Feng accepted, and Man Zhongli’s playful argument to take a turn eased the group’s tension.
• Wu Ying revealed that he had opened a dark stairway by adjusting the Double Gate mechanisms beneath the Yin Yang Fish Pattern.
• Wu Ying led the group down the stairway, where they discovered an imposing manor-like gateway carved into a mountain wall, made with materials that felt like Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures.

Wu Ying and Lu Feng found the Butcher King Battle Axe and the Four Generals' weapons in a hidden chamber, learning that the five weapons were keys connected to a deadly tomb. After checking the stone platform for traps, Lu Feng allowed Man Zhongli to begin moving the weapons, leaving the group poised to uncover what lay beneath them.

• Wu Ying explained that the plaque marked a Xie Dynasty victory over the Ji Dynasty, though he and Lu Feng questioned why the battle had been commemorated underground.
• Before opening the door, Wu Ying asked Lu Feng to deliver his Storage Ring to the Bottle Spirit Sect if he died and urged him to visit Si Kongtong after reaching the Heaven Soul Realm.
• Wu Ying opened the door and discovered the Butcher King Battle Axe and the weapons of the Four Generals displayed on a stone platform.
• Wu Ying identified the weapons and revealed that they were the five keys suppressing a deadly calamity in a great tomb.
• After Wu Ying found no visible restrictions and Lu Feng checked the platform, Man Zhongli climbed onto it to try moving the weapons.

Lu Feng and his companions removed several ancient weapons from the stone platform, discovering how extraordinarily heavy they were and how much strength it took to move them. When Lu Feng lifted the Butcher King Battle Axe, the platform rumbled from below, and he reached for Potassium Gadfly’s Soul Shadow Bow to investigate further.

• Man Zhongli used the Plain Heart Ring’s strength to lift Owl Vulture’s Mountain Sea Chain and store it, while Wu Ying recognized the ring and Man Zhongli explained why he had hidden its origin.
• Lu Feng sat beside the Butcher King Battle Axe and, after unsealing the Six Souls Array, barely moved it and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• The stone platform rumbled as soon as the battle axe was removed, but Lu Feng could not sense what lay beneath it.
• At Wu Ying’s urging, Lu Feng reached for Potassium Gadfly’s Soul Shadow Bow and realized its construction explained the general’s skill with archery.

Lu Feng and Wu Ying uncovered a hidden, water-filled chamber beneath the stone platform and found a coffin containing a skeleton and an ancient tortoise shell. Wu Ying identified the shell as the Ji King Armor, which recorded the location of the Ji Dynasty’s hidden treasury, and concluded the skeleton was Ji Heaven Lord.

• Lu Feng and Wu Ying examined Potassium Gadfly’s heavy Soul Shadow Bow and discovered Gadfly Gu inside its arrows.
• Wu Ying guided the Gadfly Gu into Lu Feng’s hollow arrows, warning that the insects would die within two or three months without proper care.
• After Lu Feng removed the remaining artifacts, he and Wu Ying traced a faint sound of water to a hollow section of the eastern wall.
• Wu Ying’s Mad Thief Token was pulled to the floor by a powerful magnetic force, leading him to suspect that Magnet Essence Fine Iron lay beneath the chamber.
• Lu Feng broke through the eastern wall, revealing a flooded chamber with a gold-patterned coffin and a skeleton inside.
• Wu Ying recovered a damaged tortoise shell from the coffin, identified it as the Ji King Armor, and said the skeleton was Ji Heaven Lord.

Lu Feng and his companions escaped the Abyssal Ancient Tomb after learning why the Xie Dynasty had hidden the Ji Dynasty’s treasure map and how the tomb’s submerged chambers worked. They emerged at a lake and were stunned to see Bottle Spirit Sect’s Second Head, Huo Yuanqiu, on the shore.

• Wu Ying explained that the Xie Dynasty had sealed away the Ji Dynasty’s treasury map as a reserve and that Corrosion Crystal Powder had destroyed half of it.
• Wu Ying revealed that removing the weapons had shifted the Magnet Essence Fine Iron chambers, causing water to flood the Stone Chamber, and Lu Feng divided the recovered resources among the Bottle Spirit Sect and Azure Mountain Sword Sect.
• Jiang Ruoyun asked Red Scorpion to find out how Lu Feng was doing, and Red Scorpion asked her to help piece together an ancient tomb map while she was away.
• Lu Feng and the others waited for the chambers to fill with water, opened the submerged exit, and followed Wu Ying upstream through the Underground River.
• Lu Feng and his companions surfaced at a broad lake and saw Huo Yuanqiu walking along the shore.

After emerging from the tomb realm, Wu Ying and Lu Feng met Huo Yuanqiu, who tried to learn what they had discovered before attacking them. Lu Feng fought off Huo Yuanqiu’s hidden weapons, but Huo Yuanqiu escaped into the air and launched three Nether Crow Black Feathers at him.

• Huo Yuanqiu encountered Wu Ying and Lu Feng by the lake and questioned them about the tomb realm, while Lu Feng concealed what had happened inside.
• When Wu Ying gave him no useful answers, Huo Yuanqiu attacked the group with flying knives, and Lu Feng narrowly evaded his first volley.
• Huo Yuanqiu concealed a sixth knife behind his other five, but Wu Ying stepped in front of it and pretended to be poisoned to spur Lu Feng into action.
• Lu Feng attacked Huo Yuanqiu with Sword Light, but Huo Yuanqiu widened the distance and fled into the air after realizing he was outmatched.
• Huo Yuanqiu scattered a rain of hidden weapons to stop Lu Feng’s pursuit, then launched three Nether Crow Black Feathers at him from the air.