Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun hid in a mountain cave after escaping the White Jade Python and their pursuers, and the White Jade Demonic Lotus helped seal Lu Feng’s Demonic Nature. With their enemies closing in, they used the flower’s aura to lure the python toward the pursuers, but Lou Yue prioritized avenging his granddaughter and ordered the hunt for Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun.

• Lou Yue and Lou Xinlan offered the Mad Blade Sect disciples a bounty for capturing Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun alive, while Wu Yuanbo’s group joined the pursuit.
• Jiang Ruoyun hid Lu Feng in a concealed cave, where the White Jade Demonic Lotus helped his Demonic Nature subside and his Seven Souls Array return to its sealed state.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun realized the flower had dimmed, and Jiang Ruoyun explained that a powerful expert’s restriction kept outside Demonic Nature from harming her through their Mandarin Duck Union Array.
• After an explosion revealed that their pursuers were nearby, Lu Feng proposed using the Blooming Spirit Breath Array to lure the White Jade Python and create a chance for them to escape with the flower.
• Lu Feng placed the White Jade Demonic Lotus in the array, drawing the enraged python toward it; Sky Shuttle and Wu Yuanbo ordered their groups to pursue the flower, while Lou Yue ordered them to avenge his granddaughter.

Lu Feng used a formation in the mountain cave to take the White Jade Demonic Lotus and escape while Wu Yuanbo was driven mad by its killing intent. As Sky Shuttle’s group pursued Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun, the Nine Vulture Heavenly Wing Array transformed to attack them and the White Jade Python, but the chapter ended as a sudden change occurred.

• Sky Shuttle and Wu Yuanbo raced into the mountain cave, where Lu Feng used the formation to pull the White Jade Demonic Lotus away and provoke Wu Yuanbo with its amplified Demonic Nature.
• Wu Yuanbo attacked Sky Shuttle and the others as the White Jade Python battered the cave, forcing Sky Shuttle to retreat and pursue Lu Feng through another exit.
• Wang Puhe and another Ancient Moon Sect disciple fell to Wu Yuanbo, while Lou Yue escaped with Lou Xinlan.
• Lu Feng reunited with Jiang Ruoyun, and they entered the formations at the valley boundary as Sky Shuttle’s group and the White Jade Python closed in.
• The bearded man activated the Nine Vulture Heavenly Wing Array, transforming its tornadoes into nine wind-shaped vultures that wounded and slowed the White Jade Python.
• A sudden change occurred just as the Mad Blade Sect believed Lu Feng and the White Jade Python could not escape the formation.

Lu Feng used a flaw in the Nine Vulture Heavenly Wing Array to escape with Jiang Ruoyun, then turned the formation against Lou Yue and Sky Shuttle. After they survived the blast and secured the White Jade Demonic Lotus, Lu Feng agreed to continue east with Jiang Ruoyun to search for his friend.

• Lou Yue attacked Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun while Sky Shuttle and the Mad Blade Sect re-formed their array to pursue them.
• Lu Feng exploited an uncontrolled region in the formation to escape the valley with Jiang Ruoyun, then collapsed the array into that gap.
• The resulting blast killed Lou Xinlan, badly injured Lou Yue and Sky Shuttle, and forced Lou Yue to flee.
• Sky Shuttle redirected the Bearded Man’s anger toward Lou Yue and warned that seeking revenge on Lu Feng would disgrace their sect.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun rested after escaping, and Jiang Ruoyun persuaded him to keep traveling east with her.
• Lu Feng promised to protect Jiang Ruoyun as they continued their journey together.

Ji Lanxin falsely accused Lu Feng, whom she believed had impersonated Lin Liyun, of trying to assault her and causing Yang Su’s death, prompting Xian Yang Zun to target him. Unaware that Ji Family Head knew the truth and had arranged for Long Tongue Old Monster to protect her in secret, Ji Lanxin ended the chapter fearing Long Tongue Old Monster while he drank with her grandfather nearby.

• Ji Zhi asked Ji Lanxin whether Lin Liyun had died in the Secluded Scarlet Mountain Range, and Ji Family Head brought Xian Yang Zun to question her about Yang Su.
• After learning Ji Family Head had refused to help Long Tongue Old Monster, Ji Lanxin decided to conceal her humiliation and accused Lu Feng, disguised as Lin Liyun, of trying to assault her and killing Yang Su.
• Ji Zhi challenged Ji Lanxin’s accusation, but she claimed the Azure Mountain Sect Master had impersonated Lin Liyun; Xian Yang Zun connected the claim to his grudge with Lu Feng and resolved to capture and interrogate him.
• Ji Lanxin spent the night fearing Long Tongue Old Monster would come to claim the wager, while he secretly drank with Ji Family Head in the family courtyard.
• Ji Family Head revealed that he had learned Long Tongue Old Monster had protected Ji Lanxin and understood her evasions as an attempt to hide her humiliation; he had pretended to sever ties to protect both her reputation and Long Tongue Old Monster.

Long Tongue Old Monster exploited Ji Lanxin’s fear and the wager to humiliate and assault her through the night. By morning, he had left, and Ji Lanxin resolved to turn her humiliation into something of value.

• Long Tongue Old Monster entered Ji Lanxin’s room and forced her to crawl over and remove his shoes, threatening to take her to Profound Sun Street and displaying Elm Powder.
• Long Tongue Old Monster smeared grime on Ji Lanxin’s hands, then pressed his filthy, foul-smelling bare foot against her face until she vomited.
• Long Tongue Old Monster made Ji Lanxin remove his clothes and crawl into bed with him, then told her that her grandfather had personally served him Excellent Jade Lai Fine Wine.
• Long Tongue Old Monster kissed and assaulted Ji Lanxin, intimidating her until she stopped resisting and tried to comply so the torment would end sooner.
• After waking to find Long Tongue Old Monster gone, Ji Lanxin wiped away her tears and resolved to turn her humiliation into something of value.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun found Ling Tian’s revenge message and continued through the Ghost Triangle Domain, where Lu Feng recognized a grove of poisonous Sanghou Ancient Trees. As they prepared to collect the trees’ deadly sap, Jiang Ruoyun pinned a strange creature to a trunk, leaving Lu Feng troubled by what it was.

• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun found Ling Tian’s carved vow to avenge his Beloved Wife against the Five Emperors Sect, Nine Ring Sect, and Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Lu Feng comforted Jiang Ruoyun, promising to stay beside her and defend her if his elders ever objected to their relationship.
• Lu Feng identified the forest’s trees as Sanghou Ancient Trees and explained that their falling white flakes were poisonous residue.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun waited for the flakes to stop and the poisonous miasma to disperse before preparing to collect the trees’ lethal sap.
• Jiang Ruoyun threw hidden weapons at a strange bug-like creature and pinned it to a tree, while Lu Feng watched with a troubled expression.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun discovered that the forest was inhabited by dangerous Cen Hou and entered it to evade Nie Mingfei’s approaching party. After finding signs that Heaven List powerhouses Du Lehu and Mu Yi Ji had fallen to an unknown threat, they fled as a devastating shockwave tore through the forest.

• Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng discovered that the strange insects were Cen Hou, learned that their spider-like upper bodies were their weakness, and decided the swarm-filled forest was too dangerous to enter.
• A strange jade-green phenomenon and violent rumblings revealed a battle in the distance, while Nie Mingfei and the Light Feather Sect party approached from behind, so Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun rushed into the forest.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun entered the forest as the Cen Hou hid in the canopy, and the Light Feather Sect party flew past before something dragged them down.
• Lu Feng identified a damaged Nine Ring Blade as Du Lehu’s and found the corpse of Mu Yi Ji nearby, realizing that a nonhuman threat had likely struck down powerful fighters.
• A devastating shockwave collapsed a stand of ancient trees, and Lu Feng grabbed Jiang Ruoyun and fled the forest.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun escaped the Cenhou Swarm only to encounter the enormous Cen Hou King, which had killed Mu Yi Ji and wounded other sect fighters. As they fled deeper into the forest, Lu Feng realized the king was injured and attacked it with Fierce Nether Lightning Stones, whose stray sparks began disrupting the smaller Cen Hous.

• Jiang Ruoyun used Love Tomb's Flower Washing Flying Leaves to kill the Cen Hous rushing at her and Lu Feng, but a much larger swarm soon forced them to flee deeper into the forest.
• The Cenhou Swarm changed direction after a piercing cry, and Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun saw the enormous Cen Hou King approaching with countless smaller Cen Hous around it.
• Jiang Ruoyun whipped up earth to cover the pursuing swarm, then led Lu Feng deeper into the forest after another mass of Cen Hous blocked their escape.
• Lu Feng recognized wounds on the Cen Hou King and concluded that Mu Yi Ji, Du Lehu, and possibly Nie Mingfei had inflicted them, giving him hope of counterattacking.
• Lu Feng attacked the Cen Hou King with Fierce Nether Lightning Stones, and sparks from the lightning whips struck down smaller Cen Hous and caused the swarm to fall into disorder.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun were trapped in the Cen Hou King’s web-covered lair and forced to fight it. Lu Feng pierced the king’s eye with a jade bead in a strike that seemed to reveal the Sky Piercing Realm, but the wounded beast was still raging around them.

• Lu Feng’s lightning stone scattered the Cenhou Swarm, leaving him and Jiang Ruoyun to face the Cen Hou King alone.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun found their escape routes blocked by webs and fought the Cen Hou King, while its tail and silk repeatedly thwarted their attempts to flee.
• Jiang Ruoyun’s whip was severed as the Cen Hou King pressed its attack, leaving her in immediate danger.
• Lu Feng instinctively used the Yin-Yang Dragon Shadow Step and launched a jade bead that pierced the Cen Hou King’s eye.
• Lu Feng realized the attack might have reached the Sky Piercing Realm as the wounded Cen Hou King screamed and wildly swept its tail through the forest.

Lu Feng used Fluorine Rust and Blood Nether Powder to slow the Cen Hou King and escape with Jiang Ruoyun, who was injured by its venomous tail. In a mountain cave, he discovered her medicine had only suppressed the poison, and Jiang Ruoyun warned that trying to draw it out could make it spread.

• Lu Feng used arrows carrying Fluorine Rust and Blood Nether Powder to slow the Cen Hou King and improve their chances of escape.
• The Cen Hou King severed its own tail and sent it sweeping toward Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun, whose counterattack shattered the tail and left Jiang Ruoyun wounded by venom.
• Lu Feng pressed Jiang Ruoyun's acupoints and carried her away from the Cen Hou King, then fled deeper into the forest to avoid the Cenhou Swarm.
• Lu Feng carried Jiang Ruoyun out of the Sanghou Forest and found a mountain cave where he examined her injury and saw that her pill had only suppressed the poison.
• Jiang Ruoyun warned Lu Feng that the poison had entered her meridians and that trying to draw it out could break the pill's effect and let it spread.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun hid in a mountain cave as three Nine Ring Sect members arrived, including the injured Du Lehu and Miao Ziyu. Lu Feng attacked them and tricked Du Lehu into believing Gong Hongting had set them against each other, then escaped the cave with Jiang Ruoyun as Miao Ziyu charged after him.

• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun hid behind a concealed wall when they heard people approaching, and recognized the newcomers as Nine Ring Sect Saber Wielders.
• Gong Hongting sensed someone hiding nearby, left the injured Du Lehu and Miao Ziyu in the cave, and went outside.
• Lu Feng struck Miao Ziyu with a ricocheting jade bead, then claimed he had attacked Du Lehu to obtain an antidote for Jiang Ruoyun.
• Lu Feng staged a fight against Du Lehu and convinced him that Gong Hongting might be using them against each other.
• Miao Ziyu became distracted by Jiang Ruoyun, then rushed after Lu Feng when Du Lehu was sent flying from the cave.
• Lu Feng brought Jiang Ruoyun to the cave entrance as Miao Ziyu charged at him, ignoring Lu Feng's explanation.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun escaped Gong Hongting’s trap, unaware that he had killed Du Lehu and framed Lu Feng for the murder. They reached the site of a devastating battle and found Ling Tian’s blade pinning a charred corpse to a boulder, leaving Lu Feng to wonder what had become of its owner.

• Lu Feng struck Miao Ziyu, and Gong Hongting appeared as Du Lehu prepared to ambush him.
• Gong Hongting severed Du Lehu’s arm, forced Miao Ziyu to help kill his master, and confessed that he resented Du Lehu for surpassing him after finding the Life Source Hoop.
• Gong Hongting ordered Miao Ziyu to blame Du Lehu’s death on the Cen Hou King and Lu Feng, then planted Soul Consciousness in his soul to make the false story seem true.
• Lu Feng brought Jiang Ruoyun to the battle site and recognized Ling Tian’s black saber, which he had once wrapped in black gauze.
• Jiang Ruoyun worried that Ling Tian might have fallen into demonic madness, but refused to give up the White Jade Demonic Lotus she had saved for Lu Feng.

Lu Feng discovered that Ling Tian's saber contained mysterious soul-gathering patterns, which Jiang Ruoyun recognized from a Love Tomb scroll possibly connected to Ling Tian's parents. As the two continued through the mountains, a giant creature revealed itself as the Azure Light Stone Toad.

• Lu Feng pulled Ling Tian's saber from the stone wall and found that its patterns reacted to his Soul Consciousness, drawing it toward a powerful lingering presence.
• Jiang Ruoyun recalled seeing the saber-hilt pattern on an old Love Tomb scroll about a faithless person, and she offered to check the registration records for the scroll's commissioner.
• Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun joked affectionately about their future children as they traveled, easing the tension between them.
• A nearby boom shook the ground, and Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun saw a mountain rise into the shape of a giant stone toad with a glowing mouth.
• Lu Feng identified the creature as the Azure Light Stone Toad.

Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun watched the Azure Light Stone Toad battle the gathered sects and learned that it had swallowed Ling Tian, whose Blood Butcher Three Sabers drew the factions to the beast. Lu Feng decided to risk helping Ling Tian, and Jiang Ruoyun supported him while preparing to follow if he was in danger.

• Lu Feng warned Jiang Ruoyun that the Azure Light Stone Toad's reckless attacks and adhesive Qing Yan made it too dangerous to sneak past.
• The Azure Light Stone Toad hurled a mountain at the assembled sects, and Lu Feng recognized the surviving forces gathering to fight it.
• Elders revealed that the toad had swallowed Ling Tian and urged Sky Shuttle to help cut it open for the Blood Butcher Three Sabers.
• The toad unleashed Qing Yan, forcing the soulmasters to scatter and burning an Illusory Willow Sect elder's arm until another elder cut it off.
• Lu Feng hesitated between protecting Jiang Ruoyun and trying to save Ling Tian, but Jiang Ruoyun encouraged him to act and helped him prepare his plan.
• Lu Feng left after giving Jiang Ruoyun array discs and instructions, while she resolved to undo the restriction on her injured leg and join him if something happened.

Lu Feng watched the forces besiege the Azure Light Stone Toad and concluded that entering its belly was his only chance to rescue Ling Tian. When the beast’s mouth was free of azure flame, he struck its head and let himself be swallowed, leaving the fighters stunned before they resumed their assault.

• Lu Feng concealed himself near the battlefield and watched the Azure Light Stone Toad’s attacks while waiting for a chance to get swallowed and find Ling Tian.
• Nie Mingfei and Sky Shuttle attacked the beast but failed to penetrate its stone-like hide, and the Azure Light Stone Toad blasted Nie Mingfei away before repairing a deep depression in its back.
• Nie Mingfei urged the fighters to use Wood Element Qi to damage the beast internally, and the attackers’ blade forces eventually made it bleed azure blood.
• Seeing no azure flame gathering in the beast’s mouth, Lu Feng rushed past Mu Yi Ba and Xiang Chang, struck its head, and slipped through its opening mouth.
• The fighters called Lu Feng an idiot for getting swallowed, while Nie Mingfei reacted with regret and anger before joining the renewed assault.

Lu Feng found Ling Tian’s Blood Cocoon inside the Azure Light Stone Toad and tried to reach him, while Ye Fan and Tang Yuan tracked down Lu Yan to learn what had happened. The chapter left Lu Feng searching for a way to rescue Ling Tian and Lu Yan helpless under Ye Fan’s attack.

• Lu Feng entered the Azure Light Stone Toad’s belly, found Ling Tian’s aura inside a Blood Cocoon, and tried to connect with him amid the creature’s violent movements.
• Ye Fan and Tang Yuan overheard Lu Yan’s false account of what had happened in the Ghost Triangle Domain and secretly followed him away from the camp.
• Lu Yan bragged to his Fellow Disciples that Li Baxiang and Ruan Gou had died and showed off Lu Feng’s longsword.
• Ye Fan and Tang Yuan confronted Lu Yan, incapacitated his Fellow Disciples, and knocked him down when he tried to flee.
• Lu Yan accused Ye Fan of poisoning them, but Tang Yuan explained that the Perilla Bamboo Forest had caused their numbness.
• Lu Yan tried to kick Ye Fan by surprise, and Ye Fan struck his leg with the Nine Dragons Severing Meridians Finger, leaving him writhing in pain.

Ye Fan killed Lu Yan and his two companions after learning that Lu Feng had entered the Ghost Triangle Domain, then found a fragmentary Dipper Bowl control method and prepared to clear the route back. Meanwhile, Lu Feng contacted Ling Tian from inside the Azure Light Stone Toad as its Qing Yan erupted against the besieging Soul Masters, killing and injuring many.

• Lu Yan confessed that Lu Feng had deliberately concealed his strength, and Ye Fan killed Lu Yan and his two companions after recovering Lu Feng's saber.
• Ye Fan found a fragmentary map and notes about controlling the Dipper Bowl in Lu Yan's Storage Ring, and he and Tang Yuan suspected Lu Feng had taken the artifact.
• Ye Fan planned to use a costly poison pill to deal with the people guarding the way out of the Ghost Triangle Domain.
• Lu Feng seeped a thread of aura from inside the Azure Light Stone Toad and made contact with the weakened Ling Tian in the Blood Cocoon.
• Nie Mingfei sensed Qing Yan building inside the Azure Light Stone Toad, but the other Soul Masters continued their siege.
• The Azure Light Stone Toad unleashed a Qing Yan shockwave strengthened by Wood Element Qi, killing many attackers and burning a hole through Yong Ye's chest.

Lu Feng used Southern God Fire to force the Azure Light Stone Toad to vomit him and Ling Tian out, then escaped with Ling Tian as the beast attacked its besiegers. Mu Yi Ba, Xiang Chang, and Yong Ye pursued them while the other factions were trapped fighting the enraged toad.

• Lu Feng provoked the Azure Light Stone Toad with Southern God Fire, forcing it to retch, but an attack on its eye interrupted its first attempt to vomit them out.
• The toad vomited stomach acid at the crowd, and Lu Feng waited near its esophagus rather than risk landing among the besiegers; Ling Tian watched him warily from his damaged cocoon.
• The Azure Light Stone Toad retched again, and Lu Feng used the surge of air to launch himself and Ling Tian through its mouth into the sky.
• Sky Shuttle and the others recognized Lu Feng and tried to pursue, but the enraged toad leaped at them and sealed off their escape with cyan haze and Qing Yan.
• Mu Yi Ba, Xiang Chang, and Yong Ye left the battlefield and flew after Lu Feng and Ling Tian.

Lu Feng pursued the badly wounded Ling Tian and used their old fighting partnership to bring him back to himself. When Mu Yi Ba, Xiang Chang, and Yong Ye Honored One attacked, Lu Feng protected Ling Tian so he could face Mu Yi Ba, while Xiang Chang recognized Lu Feng’s Night Feather Swordplay.

• Lu Feng followed Ling Tian to a broken mountain, returned his saber, and tried to stop him from going farther despite Ling Tian’s warnings.
• Lu Feng and Ling Tian fought with the Submerged Creek Duo, and Ling Tian gradually responded to their shared techniques and old bond.
• Mu Yi Ba, Xiang Chang, and Yong Ye Honored One arrived, and Ling Tian charged Mu Yi Ba with furious killing intent.
• Lu Feng told Ling Tian to fight without worry and intercepted Xiang Chang while Ling Tian battled Mu Yi Ba.
• Lu Feng used Wandering Dragon Circling the Moon to block Xiang Chang, who recognized the move as Night Feather Swordplay.

Lu Feng used taunts and precise swordplay to keep Xiang Chang occupied, but Yong Ye joined the fight and formed the Illusory Willow Sect’s Thousand Transformations Blade Array with him. After surviving their coordinated attacks and recognizing the array’s patterns, Lu Feng was driven toward the Broken Mountain Flatland as Yong Ye prepared the Thousand Sound Illusory Willow technique.

• Lu Feng provoked Xiang Chang over his changed appearance and fighting style, drawing his furious attacks away from Ling Tian.
• Yong Ye abandoned his attack on Lu Feng to save Xiang Chang from Lu Feng’s sword strikes, then joined him in fighting Lu Feng.
• Yong Ye ordered Xiang Chang to form the Thousand Transformations Blade Array, forcing Lu Feng to retreat as their saber forces covered his avenues of attack.
• Xiang Chang used Flying Catkins to conceal Yong Ye’s Wood Element Qi killing move, but Lu Feng sensed the trap and countered it with Fire Essence Qi, injuring his arm only briefly.
• Yong Ye and Xiang Chang used their Double Willow formation to drive Lu Feng toward the Broken Mountain Flatland, and Yong Ye then called out Thousand Sound Illusory Willow.