Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng learned that Chi Yuanqing’s Demonic Nature had supposedly left him unable to cultivate, while Jiang Ruoyun kept the phantom’s covert message to herself. The chapter ended as Chi Yuanqing burst into the sky with powerful Blazing Sun Sword Intent, surprising Lu Feng and Miao Qing.

• The phantom refused to tell Lu Feng more about his origins but helped clear the beast soul remnants from Tang Yuan’s soul sea, while it secretly spoke to Jiang Ruoyun.
• Miao Qing arranged guest rooms and sent Miao Shu to notify Chi Yuanqing, but Yin Feisu ambushed Miao Shu, disguised herself in Chan robes, and swallowed a crimson Red Elixir before heading for Lu Feng’s room.
• The phantom’s help strengthened Tang Yuan’s Soul Strength, while Lu Feng and Tang Yuan worried about their origins and Qiao Xue’er, and Jiang Ruoyun remained troubled by her covert exchange with the phantom.
• Miao Qing told Lu Feng that Chi Yuanqing’s Demonic Nature could only possibly be cured with a second, opposite-yang Formless Origin Gu and that he could no longer circulate spiritual energy.
• A distant house exploded, and Chi Yuanqing shot into the sky wrapped in Blazing Sun Sword Intent, displaying strength that contradicted the Chan healers’ diagnosis and astonished Lu Feng and Miao Qing.

Chi Yuanqing recovered after Yin Feisu’s Spirit Transfer caused his spiritual energy to repair his soul core and seal the Formless Origin Gu. Lu Feng spared Yin Feisu and urged her to rebuild Longevity Valley, while the Zen healers warned Chi Yuanqing that his Demonic Nature could return.

• Chi Yuanqing mastered his surge in strength, reached Heaven Soul Realm Seven Breaths, and learned that his soul core had been repaired and the Formless Origin Gu sealed.
• Chi Yuanqing stopped stones thrown from the Chan House ruins and captured Yin Feisu, who admitted she had mistaken him for Lu Feng and used Spring Powder on him.
• Yin Feisu explained that she had offered herself to Chi Yuanqing, while he confessed that her transfer of spiritual energy had helped stabilize his Demonic Nature.
• Lu Feng decided not to punish Yin Feisu because she had acted for her sect, then told her Longevity Valley’s decline stemmed from its own failure to adapt.
• Chi Yuanqing promised to help Yin Feisu rebuild Longevity Valley, and she left saying he owed her.
• The Zen healers explained how the Formless Origin Gu had absorbed the impact of Yin Feisu’s spiritual energy and warned Chi Yuanqing to avoid becoming weakened.

Lu Feng gave Chi Yuanqing the Azure Mountain Sword Sect's leader token as a temporary measure before departing for Cloud Essence Temple, while Miao Qing wondered why her Spirit Zen could not foresee Lu Feng's fate. Chi Yuanqing then found Yin Feiqiao attacking Yin Feisu and intervened just as her fellow disciples were threatened.

• Lu Feng taught Chi Yuanqing sword intents and the Void Origin Divine Art, entrusted him with the Sect Leader Sword Token as its temporary custodian, and shared a method for suppressing Demonic Nature.
• Lu Feng gave Chi Yuanqing cultivation methods that might help revive Longevity Valley, then departed with his group for Cloud Essence Temple.
• Master Hengyi Chan encouraged Miao Qing to return to the mortal world, and Miao Qing asked why her Spirit Zen could not foretell Lu Feng's fate.
• Chi Yuanqing heard Yin Feisu's cries and found Yin Feiqiao beating her and accusing her of giving away transferred spiritual qi.
• Yin Feiqiao gravely injured Senior Sister Fan and threatened the other disciples until Chi Yuanqing arrived, broke his palm strike with Sword Light, and rescued Yin Feisu.

Yin Feisu rallied Longevity Valley’s disciples after Yin Feiqiao left, while Lu Feng’s group reached the Five Elements Sect and discovered that the Blood Clan had secretly taken control of Star Earth Temple to subdue the Five Views. Lu Feng learned that Ruo Shui had already lost her first match and feared something had gone wrong.

• Yin Feiqiao tried to recruit Chi Yuanqing into a plot against his Sect Leader, but Chi Yuanqing refused and threatened him; Yin Feiqiao left after warning that he would return.
• Longevity Valley’s disciples asked Yin Feisu to lead them, and she accepted their support in rebuilding the sect and pursuing cultivation together.
• Lu Feng and his companions arrived at the Five Elements Sect and learned from Zuo Fangming that the Five Views War Array had been activated because of an internal conflict, not an attack by the Blood Clan.
• At Cloud Essence Temple, Lu Feng discovered that Star Earth Temple was acting as the Blood Clan’s puppet in an attempt to control the Five Views.
• Lu Feng learned that the other three temples had been defeated and that Ruo Shui had already lost her first match, leaving him worried about what had happened to her.

Lu Feng learned that Ruo Shui had been poisoned with Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine and rushed to Cloud Essence Temple’s rear mountain, where Elder Yu Hong was preparing to sacrifice her to save the temple. He stopped the apothecaries and defended Ruo Shui, while Qiu Shuang revealed that he knew the lost portion of the Cloud Essence Pure Spirit Art.

• Star Earth Temple’s disciples challenged Cloud Essence Temple, and Elder Qiu Ying told Lu Feng that Ruo Shui had been poisoned.
• Cloud Essence Temple’s apothecaries diagnosed Ruo Shui with incurable Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine, and Yu Hong ordered them to use golden needles to restore her strength so she could fight.
• Qiu Shuang led Lu Feng to the recovery chamber, where a disciple exposed Yu Hong’s plan to sacrifice Ruo Shui; Yu Hong struck the disciple, and Lu Feng forced his way inside.
• Lu Feng drove off the apothecaries and the Temple Master, then guarded Ruo Shui and threatened to tear down Cloud Essence Temple.
• Qiu Shuang revealed that Lu Feng had cultivated the lost portion of the Cloud Essence Pure Spirit Art, and Lu Feng blamed Yu Hong for the temple’s crisis.

Lu Feng discovered that Cloud Essence Temple had mistreated and poisoned Ruo Shui, killed three disciples, and threatened Elder Yu Hong before leaving with Ruo Shui. At the Martial Arts Arena, he refused to help the Five Temples resist Star Earth Temple’s takeover, but Hua Chen provoked him as Lu Feng’s killing intent surged.

• Temple Master Liu Yan offered the three disciples as suspects, and Lu Feng killed them after learning they had bullied Ruo Shui.
• Lu Feng ordered Elder Yu Hong to kill herself, then left Cloud Essence Temple with Ruo Shui, Jiang Ruoyun, and Tang Yuan.
• Chun Xue lost to a Star Earth Temple disciple, while Jin Guan Xuan expected Star Earth Temple to unify the Five Temples using the View Breaking Art.
• Elder Yan Ming asked Lu Feng to challenge Star Earth Temple, but Lu Feng refused and condemned the Five Temples for poisoning their own disciple.
• Hua Chen insulted Lu Feng, and Lu Feng’s killing intent surged toward the Martial Arts Arena.

Lu Feng overwhelmed Star Earth Temple with complete techniques from the Five Views and offered to pass them on in exchange for curing Ruo Shui’s poisoning. As the temples’ apothecaries rushed to help, Jin Guan Xuan hoped that Ruo Shui would still die from the supposedly incurable poison.

• Lu Feng defeated Hua Chen with a sword form Hua Chen recognized as part of the lost Star Earth Purple Cloud Art, then revealed complete techniques from the Five Views as he defeated Star Earth Temple’s elders.
• Zhu Yizhong realized Ruo Shui had likely been poisoned and rushed toward her, while Elder Yu Hong recognized that her decision to take Ruo Shui from Lu Feng had cost Cloud Essence Temple its chance to obtain the lost art.
• Hua Chen and leaders of the other temples tried to recruit Lu Feng and offered him rewards for their complete cultivation arts, but Lu Feng refused to join any temple.
• Elder Qiu Ying urged Temple Master Liu Yan to expel Elder Yu Hong, and Elder Yu Hong regretted taking Ruo Shui from Lu Feng on QuFu Mountain.
• Lu Feng asked each temple to send its apothecaries and promised to give them their complete cultivation arts unconditionally if they cured Ruo Shui.
• Jin Guan Xuan hoped Ruo Shui would succumb to the supposedly incurable poison of the Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine and deepen Lu Feng’s hatred.

Lu Feng promised four temples the lost portions of their techniques but refused to give Cloud Essence Temple its complete art after Elder Yu Hong poisoned Ruo Shui. Yu Hong sacrificed her life to atone, and Temple Master Liu Yan revealed that Northern Essence Water might save Ruo Shui.

• Jin Guan Xuan planned to have Lu Feng killed and sent a disciple to notify the Bounty Hunters while a Star Earth Temple pharmacist withdrew his hidden poison needle.
• Pharmacists from Golden Thunder Temple, Rotten Wood Temple, and Flowing Fire Temple described ways to prolong Ruo Shui’s life, but the Flowing Fire treatment would destroy her cultivation and Pure Water Body, which she rejected.
• Lu Feng promised to deliver the lost techniques to the four temples within a month but withheld Cloud Essence Temple’s art, blaming Elder Yu Hong for Ruo Shui’s condition.
• Zhu Yizhong confirmed that Lu Feng had already taught him part of the Flowing Fire Inverse Flame Art, reassuring the temples that Lu Feng’s promises were credible.
• Elder Yu Hong crippled her cultivation and severed her heart meridians to atone, but Lu Feng remained unwilling to forgive Cloud Essence Temple.
• Temple Master Liu Yan told Lu Feng that Northern Essence Water might dissolve Ruo Shui’s poison, and Lu Feng’s resolve shifted.

Lu Feng, Jiang Ruoyun, and Tang Yuan set out to seek a way to save Ruo Shui, but bounty hunters tracked them and forced them to flee into the Iron Thorn Sinking Wood Forest. Ji Lanxin and allies gathered to pursue Lu Feng, while two Exquisite Pavilion elders prepared to enter the forest after hearing he was there.

• Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan insisted on accompanying Lu Feng to find a cure for Ruo Shui, and they entrusted farewell letters to Xiao Jiao'er.
• Lu Feng decided to travel first to Nan Gu Town and seek Old Ye's help, while planning to keep Ruo Shui's condition from him.
• Tang Yuan detected pursuers overhead, so Lu Feng directed the carriage toward the Iron Thorn Sinking Wood Forest to escape their aerial tracking.
• Ji Lanxin and Wu Hong brought their Heaven Soul Realm soulmasters to hunt Lu Feng, but Wu Hong led the Wu Family into the forest before the Exquisite Pavilion arrived.
• Wen Guang and Tian Ji arrived in place of Yan Nanqiu, and Ji Lanxin used their mistaken belief that she was close to Yan Nanqiu to win their support.
• After learning Lu Feng had entered the forest, Tian Ji showed his killing intent and Ji Lanxin eagerly confirmed it.

Ji Lanxin’s party pursued Lu Feng through the Iron Thorn Sinking Wood Forest and found signs of a devastating array attack on Wu Hong’s group. They reached the wounded Wu family members, who revealed that Lu Feng had stopped them alone, leaving the array’s nature uncertain.

• Ji Lanxin’s party found fresh blood and severed trees, while Wen Guang and Tian Ji struggled to identify the array that had caused the damage.
• Tian Ji and Wen Guang discovered jade fragments containing an Ancient Startling Goose Pattern mixed into Spirit Wind Patterns, leaving them confused about the array’s true nature.
• The party found Wu Hong and his badly wounded companions, including one man with a severed arm and another near death.
• Wu Hong told Ji Lanxin and the elders that Lu Feng had anticipated their pursuit and ambushed them after they entered the forest.
• Wu Hong said Lu Feng had stopped the group alone with something that seemed to be an array, though it did not entirely resemble one.

Wu Hong, Tian Ji, and Wen Guang analyzed how Lu Feng used Spirit Wind Arrays, the forest’s suppression, and Iron Thorn fragments to attack and evade them. They followed the carriage’s blood essence mark, then sensed a Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array ahead.

• Wu Hong described how Lu Feng’s sword strikes suddenly accelerated and how Iron Thorn fragments became a barrage of flying blades.
• Tian Ji and Wen Guang deduced that Lu Feng had combined Spirit Wind Arrays with an Ancient Startling Goose Pattern and the forest’s suppression to create his attacks.
• Ji Lanxin realized Lu Feng had arranged a self-replenishing storm of flying blades with extraordinary precision, while the others struggled to grasp how he had done it so quickly.
• Wu Hong sensed that the carriage had stopped, and the group hurried after it to prevent Lu Feng from preparing another trap.
• After traveling seven or eight li, Tian Ji called for the group to slow down, and Wen Guang sensed the aura of a Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array ahead.

Lu Feng revealed that he had used source stones and the local environmental forces to create a true Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array, giving his pursuers hours to fall behind. As Tian Ji tried to break it using the familiar method, the array reversed yin and yang and left him shocked.

• Tian Ji, Wen Guang, Wu Hong, and Ji Lanxin dismissed the Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array and entered it, confident they could break through.
• Lu Feng explained to Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan that he had spent source stones to reverse the array's flow and create its Primal Chaos core.
• Tian Ji identified the Qian Palace and tried to break the array, but his attack consumed much more spiritual energy than expected.
• At Wu Hong's request, Ji Lanxin sent several Ji Family soul masters to lend Tian Ji their strength.
• Tian Ji broke through seven palace positions before spitting blood and warning Wen Guang that the Nine Palaces were in chaos and yin and yang had reversed.

Wen Guang, Tian Ji, and Wu Hong’s group suffered severe losses after Tian Ji’s attempt to break Lu Feng’s array triggered a devastating backlash. Wen Guang and Tian Ji realized it was a genuine Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array that differed from their understanding, and they suspected their own method had empowered the counterattack.

• The array drained the spiritual energy of the Ji Family soul masters and Tian Ji until Wen Guang pulled them out of its grasp.
• A wave of array force struck the group, shattering their defenses, killing or gravely injuring many guards, and severely wounding Ji Lanxin and Wu Hong.
• Tian Ji explained that the force he had used to break the supposed central palace had been swallowed and sent back through the path he opened.
• Ji Lanxin doubted Tian Ji’s claim that the array was a disguise, while Wen Guang confirmed that it was the Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array, but different from the one they knew.
• Tian Ji recognized that the array borrowed the power of heaven and earth, and Wen Guang and Tian Ji concluded their mistaken method had caused its apparent might.
• Tian Ji asked whether Wen Guang had figured out why their method failed.

Wen Guang and Tian Ji realized Lu Feng’s array had transformed the Nine Palaces Primal Chaos Array into a trap that absorbed their attacks, leaving them to wait for its power to fade or for outside forces to weaken it. At Azure Cloud Stream, Miao Qiuyun left the sect to seek Lu Feng and return to her troubled family, parting from Ru Jijie with gifts and a final warning.

• Wen Guang and Tian Ji concluded that the array’s Primal Chaos force had turned the usual method of breaking the Nine Palaces against them and trapped the group inside.
• Wen Guang explained that attacks were absorbed by the array and that its source-stone supply would eventually run out; Tian Ji expected pursuing forces to help wear it down.
• Miao Qiuyun told Ru Jijie she would leave Azure Cloud Stream because her family needed her and she saw hope in Lu Feng.
• Miao Qiuyun ended her master-disciple bond with Ru Jijie, who gave her three array discs and directions for finding Lu Feng.

Lu Feng's group learned that Nan Gu Town was sealed after a treasure was stolen from the Sand Doctor, and suspected Ye Fan was involved. After discovering the post station guards planned to ambush them, they seized the Teleportation Array and went to Nan Gu Town despite the danger.

• At a remote post station, Lu Feng's group heard that Nan Gu Town was sealed and that a thief had stolen a treasure from the Sand Doctor.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan suspected the thief was Ye Fan and hurried to arrange teleportation, while the old guard offered them a free trip.
• Lu Feng sensed formation energy and found that the old guard had left to report to the Prison Master in Nan Gu Town and arrange an ambush.
• Lu Feng revealed Gongsun E's Central Prison Master's token, and Tang Yuan subdued the two young guards until one confessed to the plot.
• Lu Feng restored the Teleportation Array, and the group teleported to Nan Gu Town as the surviving guard killed his companion to shift the blame.

Lu Feng's group reached the desert outpost near Nan Gu Town, where Guan Zhongyu and Spirit Prison disciples ambushed them with a killing array. After defeating them, the group learned that Xiao Shu was in Nan Gu Town, where Lu Feng hoped to settle their old grudge.

• Ruo Shui suffered as the desert's abundant Earth Element Qi stirred the poison in her body.
• Guan Zhongyu and the post station's old man used the Illusory Demon Shadow Killing Array to attack Lu Feng's group and demanded their resources.
• Tang Yuan shattered the sand puppets, Jiang Ruoyun struck down the old man, and the group subdued Guan Zhongyu despite his threats invoking Xiao Shu.
• Miao Qiuping asked Lu Feng's group to kill Xiao Shu, then cut down the Spirit Prison disciples and Guan Zhongyu.
• A firework from Nan Gu Town revealed Xiao Shu's assembly signal, and Lu Feng recalled Xiao Shu's betrayal and resolved to confront him.

Miao Qiuping reunited with Tang Yuan and Lu Feng’s group as they hurried into Nan Gu Town to find Ye Fan, who was being hunted by Xiao Shu. After Lu Feng drove off Miao Jinxiang and his powerful ally at the gate, the group learned Ye Fan had been forced toward Floating Sand Snail Capital, a place Miao Qiuping feared he would not escape alive.

• Miao Qiuping recognized Tang Yuan’s group, explained that Ye Fan had defeated Xiao Shu’s Sand Doctor, and rushed with them toward Nan Gu Town.
• At the town gate, Miao Qiuping encountered his younger brother Miao Jinxiang, who tried to seize Jiang Ruoyun and Ruo Shui and boasted that he would take control of Nan Gu Town.
• Miao Jinxiang’s Heaven Soul Realm Second Breath ally attacked Miao Qiuping, but Lu Feng wounded the man with a sudden sword strike, forcing him to flee with Miao Jinxiang.
• Miao Qiuping questioned the terrified gate guards and learned that Xiao Shu was gathering forces to encircle Ye Fan at Floating Sand Snail Capital.
• Miao Qiuping warned Tang Yuan that Floating Sand Snail Capital was a place people entered alive and left dead, and feared Ye Fan’s chances were grim.

Lu Feng’s group entered a powerful Yin-Yang Mirror Image Array in Nan Gu Town, and Lu Feng suspected it was a Simulated Realm created by the Jun Family. At the liaison headquarters, Jun Ziya revealed that she had orchestrated events across the town and prepared to lure bounty hunters to Nanxiang Street.

• Miao Qiuping approached a stall, where an old woman turned into sand, and Tang Yuan’s approach to another stall triggered a deadly attack from its dried goods.
• Lu Feng identified the illusion-and-weapon array as a Yin-Yang Mirror Image Array and suspected an array master from the Jun Family had trapped them in a Simulated Realm.
• Jun Ziya’s companions confirmed that Lu Feng, Miao Qiuping, and their group had entered the array exactly as she had predicted.
• Lian Hesheng and Lian Ankang knelt before Jun Ziya, who ordered them to direct the people seeking Lu Feng’s group to Nanxiang Street.
• Jun Ziya told Lian Ankang he could pursue Miao Qiuyun, then invited Yan Shu to watch the coming spectacle as bounty hunters were lured toward Nan Gu Town.

Lu Feng and his companions escaped the Simulated Realm after a distant grand array disrupted it, then reunited with Miao Qiuyun, who had returned to Nan Gu Town to help protect them. Lu Feng learned that bounty hunters were gathering and resolved to lure them into a trap, while Miao Qiuping began explaining the town’s situation.

• Lu Feng and his companions prepared the Giant Elephant Subduing Demon Array, but tremors from a battle near another town gate destabilized the Simulated Realm and let them break free.
• Lu Feng recognized the Otherworld Fire Sky Burning Array outside the Simulated Realm, and Miao Qiuyun led the group away from the market to a deserted area.
• Miao Qiuyun told Miao Qiuping that she had learned their family was in trouble and rebuked him for hiding their father’s situation from her.
• Miao Qiuyun explained that Liao Ankang had leaked Lu Feng’s whereabouts to her and that Zhu Yizhong had helped her delay the bounty hunters with the fire array.
• After hearing that nearly thirty Heaven Soul Realm bounty hunters had come to Nan Gu Town, Lu Feng decided to lure them in and wipe them out.
• Tang Yuan asked Miao Qiuping about the people who had mocked him and about Liao Ankang.

Miao Qiuping told Miao Qiuyun how Xiao Shu and Miao Yongcai destroyed their family, while Ye Fan cured Qiuping’s poison and prepared antidotes for their father and Uncle Fan. As the siblings considered the Jun Family’s role in the upheaval and the danger facing Nan Gu Town, a Crimson Flare Scorpion appeared in the barren sands.

• Miao Qiuping explained that Xiao Shu’s corruption and Miao Yongcai’s betrayal led to their father’s capture, his own poisoning, and the seizure of the Miao Clan’s power.
• Qiuping recounted how Ye Fan cured his Wither Meridian Powder and gave their father and Uncle Fan antidotes, while choosing to save their father over reclaiming the clan or curing himself.
• Qiuping warned that Xiao Shu’s control of the wall guarding Nan Gu Town had weakened its defenses and said the Jun Family was behind the clan’s ruin.
• Qiuyun condemned Miao Yongcai and the Lian Clan’s involvement, then kicked the sand and uncovered a Crimson Flare Scorpion.
• Qiuping cried out in shock at the scorpion’s appearance in the barren land.