Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng negotiated with Shen Tu Jiangshan for the Xinmu Core, explaining its value and securing it alongside a valuable long whip as compensation for using the Four Phases Source Array. He concealed the core’s true worth from the watching crowd, while Miao Qiuyun resolved to seek Lu Feng’s guidance.

• Lu Feng explained the hidden Four Phases Ignorance force in his array, and Shen Tu Jiangshan agreed to compensate him for using it.
• Ru Jijie affirmed the Four Phases Source Array’s rarity, prompting Shen Tu Jiangshan to offer a long whip and the black wooden lump.
• Lu Feng identified the lump as a Xinmu Core that could pass down an array inheritance using a special array and Fire Essence Qi.
• Lu Feng claimed the damaged core held only a speed-enhancing array and might yield no complete inheritance, easing the crowd’s interest in it.
• Miao Qiuyun was impressed by Lu Feng’s knowledge and composure and resolved to seize the chance to learn from him.

Lu Feng learned that the Azure Mountain Sword Sect had nearly been exterminated in a night raid that killed two elders and wounded three, then discovered that the Black Scorpion Gate had arrived at Beast Valley. After Bai Li brought him news of the attack and named several responsible factions, Lu Feng led her to confront the Black Scorpion Gate for answers.

• Shen Tu Jiangshan learned that an infiltrator had possessed a fierce beast, breached the Iron Halberd Tower, and likely killed White Eagle Elder.
• A messenger reported that a Black Scorpion Gate elder had come to Beast Valley, while another visitor identified herself as Lu Feng's subordinate Bai Li.
• Bai Li told Lu Feng that the Azure Mountain Sword Sect had lost Gu Tianlao, Xia Yangzhou, Di Yuhu, and Chen Shangu, while Huang Helou, Bi Kongjing, and Tian Jishu were severely wounded.
• Bai Li identified five major attacking forces and said Old Huang suspected the sixth came from the Black List or Ghost Domain.
• After learning that Black Scorpion Gate members were at the mountain gate, Lu Feng led Bai Li to confront them and seek answers about the raid.

Lu Feng learned that the Azure Mountain Sword Sect had suffered devastating losses in the night raid, and that reinforcements summoned by disciples from his Sect Founding Assembly had forced the attackers to withdraw. Bai Li urged him not to take the sect leader position, but Old Huang offered him the sword token and war array talisman, leaving Lu Feng torn between accepting responsibility and fearing he would bring the sect further calamity.

• Lu Feng found Shen Tu Jiangshan had killed three Black Scorpion Gate members on suspicion that they were connected to the destruction of Iron Halberd Tower.
• Bai Li recounted how Zhai Kui's Six Harmonies Sect used hostages to force the Azure Mountain Sword Sect's elders out of their war array, leading to deaths and severe injuries.
• Bai Li explained that Chi Yuanqing's Demonic Nature led him to kill his master, Xia Yangzhou, before Old Huang subdued him.
• Disciples from Lu Feng's Sect Founding Assembly sent pleas for aid, and the forces behind them arrived and drove the attackers away.
• Bai Li asked Lu Feng to relinquish the Azure Mountain Sword Sect leader position, while delivering Old Huang's message that the sect would not perish, retreat, or fear and offering him its sword token and war array talisman.
• Lu Feng hesitated over whether to accept the authority, fearing that his enemies would bring further disaster upon the sect.

Lu Feng learned that numerous sects and families had placed massive bounties on him, blaming him for deaths he had not caused and exposing him to danger across the Soul Master Realm. He left the Azure Mountain Sword Sect’s leadership question aside and decided he and Jiang Ruoyun had to leave Beast Valley before pursuers arrived.

• Lu Feng considered whether Chi Yuanqing could recover from the Formless Origin Gu’s demonic influence and help unite the Azure Mountain Sword Sect.
• Bai Li showed Lu Feng bounty notices from several forces, and he suspected Ji Lanxin had stirred up the Ji and Wu Families against him.
• Lu Feng discovered that the Luo Family and Sacred Domain Saint Sect had also placed bounties on him, and he accepted that Wuyi Zhiyuan’s death had been blamed on him.
• Tang Yuan brought news that more sects, including the Five Emperors Sect, Illusory Willow Sect, Nine Ring Sect, and Ancient Moon Sect, had joined the bounties, bringing the total rewards to over a thousand High-Grade Source Stones.
• Jiang Ruoyun sought Shen Tu Jiangshan’s promised help, but Lu Feng declined to involve Beast Valley and resolved to leave quickly before bounty hunters found them.

On QuFu Mountain, Ye Fan’s disciples worried that they were too weak to help him and considered seeking support from other factions. The Sword Hall Master arrived with proof that Ye Fan had arranged protection for Man Zhongli, who agreed to go cultivate at the Weapon Sect, while the others grew determined to find ways to support their Master.

• Shao Yang, Qian Xin, Jun Ziyi, Shao Yue, Man Zhongli, Ning Xiang, and the Silver Moon Demon Bear agonized over Ye Fan’s danger and their inability to help him.
• Qian Xin proposed seeking support from other factions, and the disciples discussed possible destinations while worrying that no one would risk protecting Ye Fan.
• Feng Yuan brought the Sword Hall Master of the Weapon Sect and Rose of Flower Fairy Valley to meet the disciples.
• The Sword Hall Master showed Man Zhongli a note in Ye Fan’s handwriting and explained that Ye Fan had asked him to protect Man Zhongli and bring him to the Weapon Sect if danger arose.
• Man Zhongli agreed to leave with the Sword Hall Master as his teacher, and the other disciples resolved to borrow support from outside factions for Ye Fan.

Shao Yue accepted Rose's invitation to join Flower Fairy Valley, while Man Zhongli and others prepared to leave the mountain, and Ning Xiang chose to remain behind. At Beast Valley, Lu Feng activated the Burning Xin Array to examine the Xinmu Core's inheritance, but its fragmentary array vein struck him with overwhelming force and left him motionless.

• Shao Yue spoke with Rose about Hua Li'er and accepted her invitation to Flower Fairy Valley, becoming the second person to leave her master's sect.
• Ning Xiang decided to stay on the mountain as a messenger and care for Little Silver, while Man Zhongli agreed to leave for the Weapon Sect.
• Shao Yang, Qian Xin, and others settled on their own plans to leave, and a handsome middle-aged man arrived whom Jun Ziyi recognized as her master's senior brother from the Yu Qinghe Sect.
• At Beast Valley, Lu Feng prepared the Burning Xin Array while he waited for the Second Valley Master, intending to examine the Xinmu Core's inheritance.
• Lu Feng activated the array and revealed an extremely incomplete, powerful array-vein fragment; Miao Qiuyun fainted after trying to memorize it, and Lu Feng stood frozen with clouded eyes.

Lu Feng recovered from a memory in the Xinmu Core that revealed secrets about the Outer Domain and the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern. The Azure Crow Six-Headed Flood Dragon broke through, forcing the factions gathered outside Beast Valley to delay their attempt to capture Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng awoke from the memory and asked Shen Tu Jiangshan and Hong Cang Zhenren about the Ji Family Outer Clan, but they warned him that such secrets were restricted and tied to strength and status.
• Lu Feng identified the revealed pattern as an incomplete Ancient Startling Goose Pattern from the Great Archer Startling Goose Array, and concealed how valuable it could be.
• The Azure Crow Six-Headed Flood Dragon broke through and transformed, releasing an aura that alarmed even Shen Tu Jiangshan.
• The Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect and Crimson Fiend Sword Sect led dozens of Heaven Soul Realm Soul Masters to Beast Valley to seize Lu Feng, but the Flood Dragon's presence stopped them at the mountain gate.
• The Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect's Sect Leader considered forcing his way into Beast Valley, then backed down after the Crimson Fiend Sword Sect elder warned that the valley could retaliate.

Lu Feng found that the claw marks linked to Zhao Yan’s disappearance belonged to a half-beast-blooded man who had left Beast Valley for the Ghost Domain. The Second Valley Master revealed that Lu Feng also had a half-beast bloodline and began recounting the man’s past as the chapter ended with Lu Feng asking about his origins.

• Lu Feng recognized the claw marks in Beast Valley’s back-mountain Deep Valley as traces left by the person who had taken Zhao Yan.
• Lu Feng chose to ask about the marks rather than his own abnormality, and the Second Valley Master told everyone else to leave.
• The Second Valley Master said the marks belonged to a Beast Valley member who had left twenty years earlier and might now be in the Ghost Domain.
• The Second Valley Master revealed that the man, like Lu Feng, had half a beast bloodline, and explained how the First Valley Master had identified Lu Feng’s concealed beast aura.
• The Second Valley Master described how Old Hu had been abandoned in a mountain hollow and raised among Evil Eye Demon Wolves before joining the valley.
• Lu Feng asked whether the Second Valley Master knew Old Hu’s specific origins.

Lu Feng learned that Old Hu came from the Beast Clan and considered seeking him and Nie Mingfei to uncover the truth about his origins. As bounty hunters gathered outside Beast Valley, Lu Feng prepared to leave for the Qingxiu Chan Sect, while Shen Tu Jiangshan arranged for him to travel through a Teleportation Array.

• The Second Valley Master refused to explain Old Hu's past but told Lu Feng that he came from the Beast Clan, prompting Lu Feng to consider searching for him in the Southern Ghost Domain.
• Shen Tu Jiangshan suggested that Nie Mingfei of the Light Feather Sect might know about Old Hu, and Lu Feng wondered whether she knew his origins and bore a grudge against him.
• Lu Feng told Qiu Shuang and Chun Xue that the View Breaking Art had reappeared, and they realized the Five Elements Sect might face a Blood Clan attack because the warning had not reached it.
• Shen Tu Jiangshan sent Xiao Jiao'er to help the Five Elements Sect, and Lu Feng suggested that Jiang Ruoyun accompany her while he traveled to the Qingxiu Chan Sect.
• Xiao Jiao'er revealed that Beast Valley had a Teleportation Array connected to the Qingxiu Chan Sect, but more than half the Bounty Hunters arrived outside the mountain gate, so Shen Tu Jiangshan gave Lu Feng an ancient array talisman and sent Jiao'er to guide him.

Lu Feng practiced a new, extremely fast inscription technique while Xiao Jiao'er led the group toward the Teleportation Array to Qingxiu Chan Sect. Their journey ended when the Iron-Masked Man ambushed them with three Heaven Soul Realm beasts, and Tang Yuan prepared to confront him.

• Xiao Jiao'er took Lu Feng, Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, Chun Xue, and Qiu Shuang by carriage toward Beast Valley's hidden Teleportation Array.
• Qiu Shuang and Chun Xue watched Lu Feng inscribe Spirit Wind Patterns on Azure Firm Jade at astonishing speed, while Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan realized he was mastering a new technique.
• Lu Feng's inscription grew faster and more powerful until the Azure Firm Jade shattered; he stopped because he had understood the technique and feared the fragments would damage the carriage.
• Xiao Jiao'er stopped the carriage when a Blue Armor Centipede, a Four-Eyed Scarlet Scorpion, and an Eight-Armed Black Ape King blocked the path.
• Tang Yuan recognized the Iron-Masked Man as a remnant of Spirit Offering Sect seeking revenge, and Lu Feng understood why she felt such hatred toward him.
• Tang Yuan asked to kill the Iron-Masked Man herself, and Lu Feng agreed to hold back the three beasts.

Jiang Ruoyun used the Immortal Silk Five-Petal Brocade to fight three Heaven Soul Realm beasts while Tang Yuan battled the Iron-Masked Man. When the Iron-Masked Man tried to retreat, Lu Feng and his allies stopped the beasts from reaching him, leaving Tang Yuan free to press the attack.

• Jiang Ruoyun charged the three beasts with her new whip, and Lu Feng identified it as the Immortal Silk Five-Petal Brocade, an ancient weapon that formed sharp threads from spiritual energy.
• The Eight-Armed Black Ape King charged into the suction of Jiang Ruoyun's whip vortex and was bound by its threads, while the Four-Eyed Scarlet Scorpion attacked her from the side.
• Jiang Ruoyun caught the scorpion's tail with her whip and twisted it off, alarming the Iron-Masked Man as his plan to keep Lu Feng occupied failed.
• The Iron-Masked Man called the beasts to his side and began retreating, but Jiang Ruoyun blocked the Blue Armor Centipede and Lu Feng trapped the Eight-Armed Black Ape King beneath the Dipper Bowl.
• Qiu Shuang, Chun Xue, and Xiao Jiao'er finished off the wounded Four-Eyed Scarlet Scorpion, while Tang Yuan continued attacking the Iron-Masked Man and the women wondered about Lu Feng's bowl.

Lu Feng subdued the Eight-Armed Black Ape King with the Dipper Bowl, then used a modified Spirit Wind Array to propel Tang Yuan into the fleeing Iron-Masked Man. When the Iron-Masked Man invoked Spirit Offering Heavenly Punishment, Lu Feng prepared another array and began using the Extreme Star Sky Evolution Art to confront the danger.

• The Dipper Bowl bound the Eight-Armed Black Ape King with scarlet Blood Rings and absorbed it, astonishing Qiu Shuang and Xiao Jiao'er.
• Lu Feng threw a Spirit Wind Array plate along the Iron-Masked Man's escape route, and Tang Yuan used its boost to ram him into a mountainside.
• Tang Yuan emerged battered by the array's immense force and assumed the Iron-Masked Man could no longer fight.
• The Iron-Masked Man invoked Spirit Offering Heavenly Punishment, and Tang Yuan warned Lu Feng to take Sister Ruo Yun and the others away.
• Lu Feng stayed to counter the heavenly punishment and took out another array plate as he activated the Extreme Star Sky Evolution Art.

Lu Feng used the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern to wound Xuan Ba and drive him away, then turned to save Tang Yuan from the yin-yang heavenly punishment. As Lu Feng considered sacrificing his legs to contain the power, a strange white cat-fox creature appeared and watched him.

• The Iron-Masked Man abandoned his body, but Xuan Ba rescued his life soul in an Ink Jade Soul Storage and prepared to attack Tang Yuan.
• Lu Feng launched a Jade Pearl through his array, blasting through Xuan Ba's arm and body with a single devastating strike.
• Xuan Ba fled rather than risk another attack, while Lu Feng's unstable array exploded after he discarded it.
• Lu Feng reached Tang Yuan, whose Nine Revolutions Undying Markings were struggling to withstand the yin-yang heavenly punishment, and considered sacrificing his legs to seal it.
• A fluffy white cat-fox-like creature appeared on a rock wall and turned its curious gaze toward Lu Feng.

Cheng Huang rescued Tang Yuan by separating the turbulent Yin Yang Two Qi, then returned to Lu Feng and sought refuge in the Red Carved Hand-Held Furnace. The group discovered that Cheng Huang had condensed the remaining aura, and Jiang Ruoyun approached it to see whether it could aid her cultivation.

• Cheng Huang leaped into the chaotic Yin Yang Two Qi around Tang Yuan and used its swift circling movements to separate and stabilize the two forces, freeing him from their pressure.
• Cheng Huang returned to Lu Feng, rubbed against his leg, and seemed to communicate that it needed the Red Carved Hand-Held Furnace because it was dangerously weak.
• Lu Feng retrieved the furnace from the Iron-Masked Man’s storage item, and Cheng Huang happily returned inside to rest; Tang Yuan then insisted that it belonged with Lu Feng rather than Beast Valley.
• Xiao Jiao'er questioned why Cheng Huang favored Lu Feng, then agreed to let the group pause and cultivate when Qiu Shuang and Chun Xue noticed the unusually pure Yin Yang aura.
• Xiao Jiao'er, Qiu Shuang, and Chun Xue found that the condensed aura was difficult to absorb and offered little cultivation benefit, while Jiang Ruoyun approached it with renewed interest.

Jiang Ruoyun absorbed a vast mass of compressed Yin Yang Two Qi, demonstrating how her six years of re-cultivation had strengthened her foundation and how a mysterious aura helped contain the energy. As the group resumed its journey toward the Teleportation Array, Lu Feng explained that the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern had powered the Spirit Wind Array and his Jade Pearl attack, though its full potential remained untapped.

• Jiang Ruoyun ignored Xiao Jiao'er, Qiu Shuang, and Chun Xue’s warnings and absorbed the dense Yin Yang Two Qi in moments.
• Lu Feng explained that Jiang Ruoyun’s six years re-cultivating the Seven Souls had strengthened her meridians, while a sinister aura likely suppressed and contained the energy she absorbed.
• Jiang Ruoyun returned to the carriage and began refining the Yin Yang Two Qi as the group traveled toward the Teleportation Array.
• Tang Yuan asked about the Spirit Wind Array, and Lu Feng revealed that he had replaced part of its pattern with the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern.
• Lu Feng explained that his Jade Pearl attack used directly activated array patterns and had exploded because he could not fully integrate the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern.

Shen Tu Jiangshan, Ru Jijie, and Miao Qiuyun investigated the battlefield and discovered that Lu Feng had used the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern with Nimble Fingers to create a devastating Spirit Wind Array. The chapter ended with Shen Tu Jiangshan wondering whether Lu Feng had really mastered the lost technique and where he had learned it.

• Shen Tu Jiangshan arrived at the battlefield, found the Iron-Masked Man dead, and suspected a traitor had leaked Beast Valley's defenses to Lu Feng's group.
• Ru Jijie and Miao Qiuyun examined the shattered jade fragments and recognized traces of the Spirit Wind Pattern in the array plate.
• Ru Jijie identified the Ancient Startling Goose Pattern and concluded that its inclusion had increased the Spirit Wind Array's speed by more than tenfold.
• Ru Jijie reasoned that Lu Feng must have used Nimble Fingers, a lost inscription technique, to reproduce the pattern and deploy it so quickly.
• Ru Jijie explained Nimble Fingers' power and demanding cultivation requirements, leaving Miao Qiuyun's hopes of learning it discouraged.
• Shen Tu Jiangshan questioned whether Lu Feng had truly mastered Nimble Fingers and where he had learned it.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan agreed to face the Six Harmonies Sect together, while Tang Yuan explained the public Epoch Agreement set by the Beast and Body Sects. After the group teleported away, Jin Guan Peipei pursued her own plans, and Shen Tu Jiangshan discovered that someone had stolen Beast Valley’s captured ferocious beasts.

• Tang Yuan asked Lu Feng to let him join the fight against the Six Harmonies Sect to avenge his mother, and Lu Feng agreed to notify him when they acted.
• Tang Yuan told Lu Feng that the Beast and Body Sects required him to reach the Heaven Soul Realm, cultivate the Nine Revolutions Undying Art to its sixth layer, and enter the Heaven List within the First Epoch.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan suspected that the Black Scorpion Gate and the force behind it had separate motives, then Xiao Jiao'er announced that the Teleportation Array was ready and the group traveled to the Qingxiu Chan Sect.
• Jin Guan Peipei took the black jade from Xuan Ba, learned that Lu Feng had wounded him with a fast jade pearl, and decided to travel toward the Five Elements Sect herself.
• Shen Tu Jiangshan learned that all the ferocious beasts stored after Iron Halberd Tower’s collapse had vanished and suspected Jin Peipei, but lacked evidence to confront her.

Lu Feng’s group arrived in Demon Suppression Forest, where hostile beast-soul shadows attacked and surrounded them, leaving them trapped behind a Soul Defense Array. Meanwhile, Miao Qing sensed the disturbance and went to investigate after Master Hengyi Chan suggested her fated connection might be involved.

• Lu Feng’s group emerged from the Teleportation Array into a blue-black landscape and were attacked by a wolf-shaped shadow that invaded Xiao Jiao’er’s sea of souls.
• Tang Yuan used Soul Power and the Nine Revolutions Undying Art to draw the beast-soul remnant out of Xiao Jiao’er and identified it as a Shadow Jackal’s soul.
• Qiu Shuang spotted hundreds or possibly thousands of black shadows closing in, so Lu Feng set up a Soul Defense Array while he and Tang Yuan considered how to escape.
• Miao Qing felt an unexplained unease, sensed a disturbance in Demon Suppression Forest, and told Master Hengyi Chan about it.
• Master Hengyi Chan said Miao Qing’s fated person might have appeared there and urged her to investigate, so Miao Qing left the Chan House.

Miao Qing found Lu Feng and his companions trapped in Demon Suppression Forest and used Contemplating Heart Release to protect them from the beast souls. Tang Yuan remained in danger from souls already inside his Soul Sea, but a message from the Soul Control Clan Senior offered hope; the chapter ended with Lu Feng learning that Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan had recently visited.

• Miao Qing entered Demon Suppression Forest and shielded Lu Feng and Tang Yuan from the attacking beast shadows with Contemplating Heart Release.
• Miao Qing explained that she could not remove the beast souls from Tang Yuan’s Soul Sea, and warned that his Life Soul might become permanently sealed if they remained there too long.
• A Blazing Feather Cat arrived and sent Lu Feng a strand of Soul Consciousness from the Soul Control Clan Senior, easing his concern about Tang Yuan.
• Miao Qing revealed that two women had brought the cat to help Lu Feng’s adopted younger sister recover and had waited for him before leaving.
• Lu Feng recognized the two visitors as Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan, while Jiang Ruoyun looked at him with renewed curiosity.

Lu Feng received a clue linking the Heaven Rain Clan and Northern Essence Water to the deadly Boundless Underworld Sea, but decided not to risk going there unprepared. At the clam shell, the Soul Control Clan senior revealed that Lu Feng’s mother came from the Outer Domain and hinted at her close connection to his father.

• Lu Feng read Su Huaijin’s clue about the Heaven Rain Clan and the Boundless Underworld Sea, then resolved not to enter the perilous region until he was prepared.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Jiang Ruoyun entered the clam shell’s hidden space after the Soul Control Clan senior summoned them.
• The senior rebuked Lu Feng for failing to fulfill their agreement and questioned why he had not advanced beyond the Five Elements Four Qi Realm.
• Lu Feng told the senior that he had learned about Senior Hu and his own origins in Beast Valley, prompting her to ask whether his parents’ disappearance was connected to the Outer Domain.
• The senior admitted that she did not know what had happened to Lu Feng’s parents, but said his father had promised to return for her and revealed that Lu Feng’s mother came from the Outer Domain.