Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng reached the Ghost Triangle Domain, where he disguised himself as the rogue cultivator Feng Sanlu to gather news about Ling Tian. After rival saber sects tried to claim his weapon, Lu Feng offered them a lead on a hidden cave, and Lu Yan demanded a soul oath before escorting him into the mountains.

• Lu Feng arrived near the Ghost Triangle Domain and saw camps belonging to disciples of the Ancient Moon Sect, Nine Ring Sect, and Five Emperors Sect.
• Lu Feng disguised himself as Feng Sanlu, a rogue cultivator, and approached the camps carrying a long saber to learn the latest news.
• Li Hu invited Lu Feng to join the Nine Ring Sect camp, but Ruan Gou and Lu Yan questioned his background and mocked his plan to search for Ling Tian.
• Ruan Gou and Li Hu tried to take Lu Feng's saber, while Ruan Gou offered to escort him into the mountains in exchange for it.
• Lu Feng claimed that a cave where he had found the saber might contain another treasured weapon and threatened to offer the lead to rival forces.
• Lu Yan demanded that Lu Feng swear a soul oath, promising to escort him ten li into the mountains if his claim proved true.

Lu Feng manipulated Lu Yan, Ruan Gou, and Li Hu while they escorted him into the Ghost Triangle Domain, learning more about the hunt for Ling Tian. Li Hu secretly offered to let Lu Feng go if he revealed the treasured saber’s cave, leaving Lu Feng to decide how to respond.

• Lu Feng swore to reveal the treasured saber’s origins in exchange for an escort ten li into the mountains, and Lu Yan led the group into the forest.
• Ruan Gou told Lu Feng that the Eight Blade Sects had sent at least twenty late-stage Heaven Soul Realm Soul Masters, more than half of them Heaven List figures.
• Lu Feng provoked distrust among the three escorts; Ruan Gou blocked Lu Yan’s attack, then sealed Lu Feng’s acupoints at Lu Yan’s insistence.
• Lu Feng refused to let Lu Yan or Ruan Gou carry him and persuaded Li Hu to swear not to harm him before Li Hu carried him onward.
• Li Hu told Lu Feng that Ling Tian had escaped the first encirclement because the Illusory Willow Sect and Heavenly Wolf Sect fought over who would capture him, and described Ling Tian’s rapid cultivation and deadly battles.
• Li Hu secretly offered to release Lu Feng if he disclosed the treasured saber’s cave to him alone.

Lu Feng escaped Li Hu and tricked Lu Yan and Ruan Gou into turning against him, then secretly watched their battle while considering how to acquire Li Hu’s Fierce Nether Lightning Stones. Li Hu drove the pair back with his secret technique, but Lu Yan brought down the Dipper Bowl and forced him to the ground.

• Li Hu used Fierce Nether Lightning Stones to block Lu Yan and Ruan Gou’s pursuit, then led Lu Feng into the forest.
• Lu Feng told Li Hu that the treasured blade came from killing Midnight Yaksha Luo, then escaped and claimed he had told Li Hu about the blade and cave.
• Lu Yan and Ruan Gou suspected Li Hu had struck a deal with Lu Feng and demanded the treasured blade, then attacked him when he tried to retreat.
• Lu Feng hid nearby and watched as Lu Yan and Ruan Gou pressed Li Hu with their sect’s blade techniques.
• Li Hu unleashed Nine Rings Thunder to drive Lu Yan and Ruan Gou back, but Lu Yan used the Dipper Bowl to knock him out of the air.

Lu Yan, Ruan Gou, and Li Hu each tried to outmaneuver the others as they fought over the Dipper Bowl and Treasure Blade. After the others departed, Lu Feng revealed his true strength and killed Li Hu.

• Lu Feng studied the Dipper Bowl as Lu Yan used it to suppress Li Hu, and he suspected it was an ancient relic.
• Lu Yan tricked Ruan Gou into attacking Li Hu, but Ruan Gou redirected his strike and blasted Lu Yan away.
• Li Hu broke free, sent the Dipper Bowl to Lu Yan, and tried to divert Ruan Gou by throwing away the Treasure Blade.
• Lu Yan seized the Treasure Blade and fled with the Dipper Bowl, prompting Ruan Gou to pursue him instead of Li Hu.
• Lu Feng confronted Li Hu, effortlessly deflected his attack, and killed him with a sword strike to the throat.

Lu Feng discovered that Li Hu had hidden an entire Fierce Nether Lightning Stone vein and records linking the Dipper Bowl to the ancient figure Gongyi Jing. After finding Ruan Gou dead and Lu Yan missing, Lu Feng was ambushed by a Netherworld String Spider and spotted its concealed web blocking his escape.

• Lu Feng took Li Hu’s Fierce Nether Lightning Stones and other belongings, then found a map fragment and ancient records connecting the Dipper Bowl to Gongyi Jing.
• Lu Feng left Li Hu’s body for vicious beasts and hurried toward the sounds of Lu Yan and Ruan Gou fighting.
• Lu Feng found Ruan Gou dead, saw signs that an unknown third person had intervened, and took Ruan Gou’s storage device.
• A concealed Netherworld String Spider attacked Lu Feng with blade-like limbs, tough silk, and poisonous mist.
• Lu Feng recognized the spider as a juvenile Netherworld String Spider and discovered hidden strands of silk blocking his attempt to escape.

Lu Feng broke through the Netherworld String Spider’s poisonous webbing and escaped, then found the Dipper Bowl Lu Yan had used to evade the beast. After discovering the bowl caused unexplained pain and a disturbing reaction to spiritual energy, he stored it in the Kirin Ring and continued deeper into the Ghost Triangle Domain.

• Lu Feng used the Blazing Sun Thirty-Six Swords to break through the Netherworld String Spider’s webs and Poison Mist, wounding it as he escaped.
• Lu Feng found signs of Lu Yan’s battle and a hidden underground passage that Lu Yan had used to conceal himself from the spider.
• Lu Feng discovered the Dipper Bowl beneath webbing and realized Lu Yan had used it to hide his aura and escape pursuit.
• Lu Feng felt sharp pain when touching the Dipper Bowl without spiritual-energy protection, and sensed danger when he tried to activate its patterns.
• Lu Feng put the Dipper Bowl in the Kirin Ring, erased traces of his aura, and continued into the Ghost Triangle Domain.

Yin Feiqiao persuaded the Luo Family to help him corner Lu Feng, whom he accused of killing Luo Tianfu. Meanwhile, Yin Zhongshuo urged Yin Feisu to use her beauty and a secret method against Lu Feng to keep her brother from seeking revenge himself.

• Yin Feiqiao told the Luo Family Head and elders that he had witnessed Lu Feng kill Luo Tianfu and swore a soul oath to his claim.
• Luo Tianci hesitated to accuse Lu Feng, but Yin Feiqiao revealed his grudge and asked the Luo Family to help prevent Lu Feng from escaping during his revenge.
• Several Luo elders interrupted Luo Tianci and agreed to support Yin Feiqiao, boosting his confidence in killing Lu Feng.
• Yin Feisu warned Yin Zhongshuo that Yin Feiqiao had gone to seek revenge before his newly inherited strength had settled.
• Yin Zhongshuo asked Yin Feisu to approach Lu Feng and gave her a manual for a method that could harm him during intimacy.
• Yin Feisu accepted her father's request but grew bitter and suspected he had planned her Spirit Transfer to sacrifice her for Yin Feiqiao's revenge.

Ji Lanxin was trapped by Long Tongue Old Monster in her bath while her grandfather left after hearing alarming news from Heavenly Cuisine Villa. She accepted a wager over whether her grandfather had gone to help Long Tongue Old Monster or protect the Ji Family, hoping to win her freedom from his harassment.

• Ji Lanxin repeatedly bathed to scrub away the memory of Long Tongue Old Monster, but he entered her room and hid on a ceiling beam when her maids arrived.
• Long Tongue Old Monster dropped into the bath behind Ji Lanxin after the maids left, while she feared calling for help and alerting him.
• Ji Zhi reported that Long Tongue Old Monster had attacked Heavenly Cuisine Villa, and Ji Lanxin's grandfather hurried away without realizing Long Tongue Old Monster was in her bath.
• Long Tongue Old Monster claimed Ji Lanxin's grandfather had gone to sever ties and protect the Ji Family, but Ji Lanxin defended her grandfather and agreed to wager on his motives.
• Ji Lanxin and Long Tongue Old Monster swore soul oaths: if she won, he would stay a hundred meters away and keep her humiliation secret; if she lost, she would serve him as a slave.
• Long Tongue Old Monster pulled Ji Lanxin into his arms and threatened to break the agreement if she did not keep him company while they awaited the result.

Ye Fan and Tang Yuan learned that Lu Feng had likely gone alone to the Ghost Triangle Domain and resolved to follow him, while Night Feather Hall organized efforts to support him. In the domain, Lu Feng rescued a trapped man and secretly followed him, hoping to learn more about Ling Tian.

• Ye Fan told Tang Yuan that Lu Feng might have gone to the Ghost Triangle Domain after learning that Ling Tian had become the successor of Blood Butcher Three Sabers.
• Tang Yuan and Ye Fan agreed to go after Lu Feng, and Ye Fan realized Tang Yuan's strength had greatly increased after fusing a beast core.
• Ghost Performer took charge of Night Feather Hall's response, assigning Iron Puppet to seek reinforcements, Night Wanderer Blade to wait for Lu Feng, and Ghost Flute to investigate Profound Gold City.
• Ghost Performer promised to seek an apothecary who could help restore Phantom Hand Ghost Blade's beastified hands.
• Lu Feng reached a marsh in the Ghost Triangle Domain and rescued a man trapped in a Netherworld String Spider's cocoon.
• The rescued man hurried toward a direction behind him, and Lu Feng followed, hoping to find out about the Eight Blade Sects and Ling Tian.

Lu Feng followed Fang Ji to the Light Feather Sect, where Nie Mingfei heard Fang Ji and Gong Liangbai accuse each other of causing their fellow disciples’ deaths. Nie Mingfei killed Gong Liangbai and spared Fang Ji, then sensed someone nearby and demanded they reveal themselves.

• Lu Feng followed Fang Ji to a grove, where Fang Ji asked Nie Mingfei to punish Gong Liangbai for betraying the sect and harming their fellow disciples.
• Fang Ji and Gong Liangbai gave conflicting accounts of how Old Zhu and Guan Yuanjie died, with each swearing a soul oath and accusing the other.
• Fang Ji said a young man had rescued him from the Netherworld String Spider’s cocoon, while Gong Liangbai mocked the claim and urged Nie Mingfei to kill him.
• Nie Mingfei struck Gong Liangbai and declared that she would kill both men to end the dispute, but then identified Gong Liangbai as the villain and spared Fang Ji.
• Fang Ji asked why Nie Mingfei believed him, and she said he was more pleasing to the eye; moments later, she sensed someone hiding nearby and ordered them to show themselves.

Lu Feng was attacked by Nie Mingfei after she recognized his Swordless Realm, but Jiang Ruoyun arrived and helped him escape. The two reunited and agreed to search for Ling Tian together, while Nie Mingfei's companions questioned her sudden fury.

• Lu Feng revealed himself to Nie Mingfei's group, and Nie Mingfei identified his swordsmanship as the Swordless Realm.
• Nie Mingfei suddenly attacked Lu Feng with earth dragons and a massive uprooted tree root, forcing him to flee.
• Jiang Ruoyun arrived, uprooted another tree stump to deflect the falling root, and led Lu Feng away from Nie Mingfei.
• Lu Feng learned that Jiang Ruoyun had reached the Earth Soul Realm and nearly completed the Heartless Sutra.
• Jiang Ruoyun said Wang Chonghu had escorted her into the region, then offered to accompany Lu Feng as he searched for Ling Tian.
• Nie Mingfei stopped pursuing Lu Feng, and her companions asked why she had attacked him and then abandoned the chase.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun followed traces of Ling Tian through the Ghost Triangle Domain and discovered that someone had moved an Ancient Moon Sect Contact Symbol to misdirect its forces. After correcting it and heading north, they left the sect’s pursuing group to realize the deception and follow the same route.

• Nie Mingfei explained that Lu Feng resembled the person who killed her elder sister, but she stopped pursuing him after sensing a powerful outsider’s aura.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun found saber marks among slain Black Armor Crocodiles that appeared to point toward Ling Tian.
• Jiang Ruoyun spotted an Ancient Moon Sect Contact Symbol on a boulder and noticed that the stone had been moved; she turned it toward the north branch to disrupt the apparent scheme.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun followed the north branch, where fresh saber marks suggested Mad Blade Sect had moved the boulder.
• Lou Yue’s group found the boulder, and Lou Xinlan mistakenly read its altered direction before noticing the stone had been moved.
• Lou Xinlan corrected the Contact Symbol, and Ancient Moon Sect’s group headed north after destroying the boulder.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun encountered Sky Shuttle in Stone Forest Valley, where Lu Feng used his connection to Hong Cang Zhenren to keep the powerful Mad Blade Sect expert from attacking them. Sky Shuttle questioned Lu Feng about his identity and friendship with Hong Cang, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun followed a cleared path into Stone Forest Valley and found shed snake skin that suggested a serpent had left the fishy stench.
• Sky Shuttle descended, rebuked the couple, and proposed that Jiang Ruoyun marry his son; Lu Feng said she was already his wife and refused.
• Sky Shuttle challenged Lu Feng after he answered rudely, but Lu Feng recognized him as a renowned Mad Blade Sect combatant and invoked his friendship with Hong Cang Zhenren.
• Lu Feng provoked Sky Shuttle by insulting him and warning that an attack would look like revenge against Hong Cang's younger brother, then eased his tone when Sky Shuttle relented.
• Sky Shuttle asked about Lu Feng's identity and his friendship with Hong Cang, and Lu Feng argued that friendship should not depend on a person's status.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun followed the Ancient Moon Sect into Stone Forest Valley, hoping to rescue Lu Feng’s friend from Sky Shuttle and the Mad Blade Sect. With Heaven-grade arrays blocking their way, Lu Feng began using the Dao of Mending Arrays to open a path, leaving the success of his costly method uncertain.

• Sky Shuttle put away his flying dagger and let Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun leave, then set arrays around the entrance to Stone Forest Valley.
• Lu Feng comforted Jiang Ruoyun and explained that he intended to rescue his friend despite the danger.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun watched Lou Yue and Lou Xinlan’s Ancient Moon Sect group enter the valley, and Lu Feng suspected the sects had reached an agreement.
• After the groups departed, Lu Feng recognized the arrays blocking the valley as nearly all Heaven-grade and chose not to break them directly.
• Lu Feng used Heaven-grade jades and source stones to inscribe patterns and began leveling the arrays’ force to create a narrow path through.

Lu Feng used the Bone Blade carving knife to open a narrow passage through the grand formation and entered Stone Forest Valley with Jiang Ruoyun. They discovered that the Mad Blade Sect and Ancient Moon Sect were gathering near a Shooting Star White Jade Python, while Lu Feng planned to pursue its accompanying treasure instead.

• Lu Feng used the Bone Blade carving knife and Red Jade to alter the grand formation, opening a narrow passage into Stone Forest Valley.
• The carving knife stirred killing intent in Jiang Ruoyun, and Lu Feng steadied her before they continued into the valley.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun sensed an unnatural chill and concluded that a powerful serpent python was changing the environment.
• Lu Feng spotted a huge Shooting Star White Jade Python coiled around a stone pillar and saw figures from the Mad Blade Sect and Ancient Moon Sect nearby.
• Lu Feng explained that the two sects had likely joined forces to hunt the python and told Jiang Ruoyun that their target was its accompanying treasure.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun watched the Ancient Moon Sect and Mad Blade Sect battle the White Jade Python, then slipped around the mountain hollow and captured Lou Xinlan. As Wu Yuanbo hurried to check on her, Lu Feng still had not learned where Ling Tian was.

• Lu Feng explained that the White Jade Demonic Lotus was the White Jade Python's companion lifeform and described the python's deadly venom.
• The Ancient Moon Sect and Mad Blade Sect attacked the White Jade Python, but its rapid recovery and venomous Shooting Star barrage made the battle perilous.
• Lou Yue ordered the group to cut down the stone pillar, and their combined attacks brought the python down to the ground.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun used the battle's distraction to circle behind the mountain hollow, where Lu Feng found and captured Lou Xinlan.
• Lou Xinlan said she did not know where Ling Tian was, and Lou Yue sent Wu Yuanbo to check on her after someone broke a restriction.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun fled while the sect groups fought the White Jade Python, and Jiang Ruoyun’s clever trick sent Lou Xinlan into the battle, disrupting the encirclement. As Peng Tian pursued them, Jiang Ruoyun spotted a hidden cave in the frosted rock wall, but Peng Tian separated the pair and attacked her, provoking Lu Feng to counter with a powerful sword strike.

• Lu Feng realized the groups had followed the moved Contact Symbol in different directions, while Wu Yuanbo and two elders charged toward him and Jiang Ruoyun.
• Jiang Ruoyun whipped Lou Xinlan off course into the White Jade Python’s path, causing Lou Yue to abandon his position and allowing the python to break the sects’ encirclement.
• Lou Yue caught the unconscious Lou Xinlan, and Peng Tian pursued Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun while Lu Feng noticed the python kept trying to head north.
• Jiang Ruoyun spotted a cave hidden behind frost on a rock wall, but Peng Tian’s Moon Radiance Slash separated her from Lu Feng and he attacked her.
• Lu Feng unleashed the Seven Souls Array and Buddha’s Wrath Sword against Peng Tian’s Three Clear Moons, after which Peng Tian resumed targeting Jiang Ruoyun.

Lu Feng unsealed his final Spirit Soul Array after Jiang Ruoyun was badly hurt, gaining overwhelming strength but losing control to his murderous impulses. As he fought Peng Tian, Jiang Ruoyun rushed toward the cave for help, while Lu Feng's sword intent advanced during the battle.

• Jiang Ruoyun redirected Peng Tian's first saber attack with her Dragon Play Whip, then tried to help Lu Feng stop his next strike and was wounded when her whip shattered.
• Lu Feng unsealed his final Spirit Soul Array, shattered Peng Tian's attack, and drove him back, but the unleashed power and killing intent began consuming his consciousness.
• Peng Tian attacked the unstable Lu Feng, and Jiang Ruoyun stepped in to protect him before Lu Feng regained a moment of clarity and threw her out of danger.
• Lu Feng unleashed a relentless assault that overwhelmed Peng Tian, while Jiang Ruoyun ran toward the mountain cave, hoping to return in time to help him.
• Peng Tian struggled against Lu Feng's evolved Wrathful Intent and realized that Lu Feng's sword understanding had advanced.

Lu Feng’s uncontrolled Sea’s Wrath Sword Intent overwhelmed Peng Tian as he brutally attacked him. In the mountain cave, Jiang Ruoyun secured the White Jade Demonic Lotus and escaped, while its poison weakened Wang Puhe and the White Jade Python collapsed the cave entrance.

• Lu Feng’s Buddha’s Wrath Sword evolved into Sea’s Wrath, leaving Peng Tian despondent as Lu Feng continued to wound him under the influence of killing intent and Demonic Nature.
• Jiang Ruoyun found the White Jade Demonic Lotus and confirmed it could suppress the Demonic Qi within her body.
• Wang Puhe struck Jiang Ruoyun aside and uprooted the lotus, but it released the White Jade Python’s poisonous miasma, badly poisoning him and blinding Lou Xinlan.
• Jiang Ruoyun escaped with the lotus in her Living Creature Pouch and mocked Lou Xinlan before fleeing.
• The White Jade Python’s rampage sent a boulder into the cave and collapsed its entrance, trapping Lou Xinlan and the weakened Wang Puhe.

Jiang Ruoyun escaped with the White Jade Demonic Lotus and found Lu Feng demonized after he had brutally killed Peng Tian. The lotus helped calm Lu Feng, while the White Jade Python escaped the battle after Lou Yue abandoned the encirclement to reach Lou Xinlan, leaving the Mad Blade Sect wary of its coming revenge.

• Jiang Ruoyun realized the White Jade Demonic Lotus had been linked to the White Jade Python’s sealed poison and fled as the python’s rage and aura surged.
• Jiang Ruoyun returned to find Lu Feng standing over Peng Tian’s flesh-stripped skeleton, deep in a murderous state of demonization.
• The White Jade Demonic Lotus released a white aura that suppressed Lu Feng’s demonic nature, and Jiang Ruoyun’s reassurance helped him find a measure of calm.
• Jiang Ruoyun led Lu Feng away from the battlefield, while Wang Puhe and the badly disfigured Lou Xinlan escaped the collapsed cave.
• Lou Yue left the fight to rush to Lou Xinlan, allowing the White Jade Python to poison the Ancient Moon Sect’s fighters and escape through the weakened encirclement.
• The Mad Blade Sect members blamed Lou Yue and his group as they feared the recovering White Jade Python would return for revenge.