Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and his companions discovered that Han Shuo had secretly brought a giant Crimson Scorpion Queen into Nan Gu Town and that swarms of venomous scorpions infested the ruins. After the scorpions devoured the guards, Lu Feng prepared a trap to strike back at Xiao Shu and his allies.

• Lu Feng found a Corrosion Gu Sulfur Stone marked with Crimson Fire Scale Patterns, and he and Miao Qiuyun inferred that an array was suppressing a Crimson Scorpion Queen.
• Miao Qiuping defeated a patrol squad, but a guard died from a Crimson Flare Scorpion sting, and the venom also killed another guard when Miao Qiuping tried to force the survivors to talk.
• A remaining guard revealed that Han Shuo had raised a Crimson Flare Scorpion more than ten meters long and was on the city wall with Xiao Shu, searching for the thief who stole his pill furnace.
• Countless juvenile Crimson Flare Scorpions swarmed the group and devoured the guards' corpses before retreating into the sand.
• Lu Feng recognized the scorpions' movement pattern and gave Tang Yuan a Storage Ring, proposing that they plant radishes to prepare a surprise for Xiao Shu and his allies.

Jun Ziya arranged for Lu Feng’s enemies to pursue him while keeping her own plans flexible, and the gathered forces followed a signal to the ruins where Lu Feng waited. The man they deferred to arrived before Lu Feng, who recognized him with astonishment.

• Jun Ziya ordered Hidden Blade to infiltrate Lu Feng’s pursuers and told Yan Shu that the disobedient boy from the Lian Clan should be driven out of the city with the woman he had chosen to accompany.
• The assembled sects found Nanxiang Street devastated and learned that Lu Feng had escaped; the stern man they followed ordered them to search the town and stopped them from killing Zhu Yizhong.
• A firework and Sword Light revealed Lu Feng’s location, so the man led the crowd toward the ruins while Ji Lanxin followed despite her misgivings.
• The Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect and Crimson Fiend Sword Sect reached Lu Feng but hesitated, wary of the array aura, as the remaining forces gathered around him.
• The crowd made way for the stern man, and Lu Feng stared at him in astonishment.

Lu Feng confronted Wuyi Mingzhi and admitted killing Wuyi Zhiyuan, then used the Four Directions Thunder Array to hold off the surrounding sects. The array’s identity was revealed, and Tian Ji used Tide Thousand Solutions to divert its fire wave as Wuyi Mingzhi watched with covetous intent.

• Lu Feng recognized Wuyi Mingzhi as Wuyi Zhiyuan’s elder brother and admitted killing Wuyi Zhiyuan, naming Night Crow Ridge as the reason.
• Lu Feng inferred that Wuyi Mingzhi had orchestrated the schemes against him and Yu Yihan, then repelled the Nine Ring Sect with lightning from the array.
• Lu Feng activated the Four Directions Thunder Array’s Seal Word and Lock Word techniques, trapping the attacking forces in lightning.
• Lu Feng used Departure Word to unleash a vast wave of thunder fire against the forces rushing to help the trapped fighters.
• Tian Ji identified the formation as the legendary Four Directions Thunder Array, and Wen Guang signaled for him to act.
• Tian Ji used Tide Thousand Solutions to draw away and divert the thunder-fire wave, while Wuyi Mingzhi showed interest in the array.

Lu Feng used the Four Directions Thunder Array to burn and injure the advancing factions, while Tian Ji returned with a replica of the Thousand Year Bodyguard Armor. As the crowd pressed forward behind protective barriers, Lu Feng revealed a massive Fierce Nether Lightning Stone and prepared another attack.

• Lu Feng unleashed fireballs from nearly a hundred Fierce Nether Lightning Stones, and their Southern God Fire traces burned several attackers who tried to stop them.
• Tian Ji dodged the flames and regrouped near Wuyi Mingzhi, while Ji Lanxin remained in the safest part of Lu Feng's formation.
• Wuyi Mingzhi gave Tian Ji a replica of the Thousand Year Bodyguard Armor and sent him back to pressure Lu Feng; Wen Guang worried that the Saint Sect also wanted the formation.
• The Nine Ring Sect elder led the factions forward behind protective spiritual barriers, and Tian Ji advanced beneath the armor's tortoise-shell barrier.
• Lu Feng abandoned his plan to release the Crimson Scorpion Queen and revealed a person-tall, complete Fierce Nether Lightning Stone, shocking the crowd.

Lu Feng escaped the old man's spear and drew the pursuing factions toward the Four Directions Thunder Array, whose ten forms stirred Wen Guang and Wuyi Mingzhi's greed. Cornered at the ruins, Lu Feng unleashed the array's Suppress Word form, driving his enemies back before a far greater pressure descended from above.

• The old man's Scorpion Tail Spear nearly killed Lu Feng, but a Jun Family Shadow Guard deflected it enough for Lu Feng to escape with a wound on his arm.
• Wuyi Mingzhi and the old man honored Jun Ziya's request to spare Lu Feng for the moment, while Wen Guang raced after the Four Directions Thunder Array and resolved to claim it.
• Wen Guang, Wuyi Mingzhi, Ji Lanxin, and several sects pursued Lu Feng, who stopped at the ruins and demanded to know whether they truly meant to fight him to the death.
• The sects demanded Lu Feng's formation diagrams, and Lu Feng revealed rows of Fierce Nether Lightning Stones before activating the Nine Heavens Suppress Word Attack.
• Lu Feng's array blasted the attackers back in seven waves, then he vanished as the stones ran out and a far more terrifying pressure descended from the sky.

Lu Feng used the Thunder Array’s final attack to escape the ruins, while Jun Ziya discussed his vulnerabilities with Wuyi Mingzhi. After reuniting with Jiang Ruoyun and the others and heading toward the city wall, Lu Feng was confronted by Xiao Shu.

• The ninth wave of Lu Feng’s Suppressing Word Offensive failed to condense, giving the factions trapped by the array time to recover.
• Jun Ziya scolded Wuyi Mingzhi for nearly killing Lu Feng and argued that Lu Feng’s attachments made him easy to manipulate.
• Jun Ziya explained that Lu Feng had deliberately slowed the array’s attack to mislead the old man and preserve his escape route.
• Lu Feng withdrew from the ruins and reunited with Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, and the others before ordering them toward the city wall.
• Xiao Shu appeared and blocked Lu Feng’s group, prompting Lu Feng to recognize him and respond with killing intent.

Lu Feng fought Xiao Shu, using a sword-wielding Giant Elephant Subduing Demon Array to wound him and create a chance to flee. Before they could escape, Uncle Fan arrived dragging Xiao Shu, whose neck had been broken.

• Xiao Shu mistook Lu Feng for the person who had ambushed him and attacked with his Spirit Breaking Pestle.
• Lu Feng recognized Xiao Shu's Nine Twists Flying Flower Array, while Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan defended against its attacks.
• Lu Feng summoned a yellow-sand giant and struck Xiao Shu with a powerful sword slash, wounding him and sending him flying.
• Lu Feng told Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, and the others to leave before Xiao Shu recovered.
• Uncle Fan arrived dragging Xiao Shu, whose neck was broken.

After learning that their father had died to save Uncle Fan, Miao Qiuping and Miao Qiuyun faced the fall of the Miao Clan and fled the city as powerful enemies approached. Lu Feng’s group set out for the deadly Floating Sand Snail Capital, and Miao Qiuyun decided to join them.

• Uncle Fan told Miao Qiuping and Miao Qiuyun that their father had died after giving the only antidote to Rare Poison Tarsal Bone Venom to someone else and using his remaining spiritual energy to help Uncle Fan break through.
• Uncle Fan pledged his strength to the Miao Clan, and Miao Qiuping resolved to reclaim the family estate while the group prepared to escape.
• When the Poison Sand Restriction broke, Uncle Fan sensed two overwhelming auras, suffered severe backlash, and led the group out through the city gate.
• Uncle Fan stopped at the edge of the Floating Sand Snail Capital, and Miao Qiuping gave Lu Feng a terrain map before Lu Feng headed into the sands.
• Zhu Yizhong caught up with Lu Feng’s group, and Miao Qiuyun chose to go with them despite Miao Qiuping’s objections.

Miao Qiuping reluctantly let Miao Qiuyun pursue Lu Feng’s group, giving her supplies and urging her to return alive. Meanwhile, Lu Feng’s group reached the Night Shadow Sand Lizards in Floating Sand Snail Capital and decided to wait until dawn, where Miao Qiuyun caught up and was questioned about following them.

• Miao Qiuping remembered how Miao Qiuyun had twice stood firm in pursuing the Dao of Arrays, then accepted that he could not stop her from going after Lu Feng’s array methods.
• Miao Qiuping and Uncle Fan gave Miao Qiuyun their storage artifacts, and she handed Miao Qiuping a Blood Rock Jade before leaving.
• Lu Feng’s group crossed the dunes and found the partly buried ruins of Floating Sand Snail Capital, where numerous Night Shadow Sand Lizards slept on the surface.
• Zhu Yizhong urged the group to push onward because Ruo Shui was badly injured, but Lu Feng ordered them to rest until dawn and prepare for the dangers ahead.
• Zhu Yizhong shouted after learning that his Fire Essence Qi could help Ruo Shui, stirring dust that suggested he had awakened several lizards; the group stayed still until the disturbance passed.
• Tang Yuan noticed Miao Qiuyun approaching and asked why she had followed the group again.

Miao Qiuyun sought to learn Nimble Fingers from Lu Feng, and he taught her its foundational methods using Gang Sand and Circling Finger Breeze. After she left with resources, Lian Ankang pursued her beyond the city despite the dangers of the Floating Sand Snail Capital.

• Miao Qiuyun asked Lu Feng to take her as a disciple so she could learn Nimble Fingers and help Nan Gu Town overcome its array-setting difficulties, but he refused because of his enemies.
• Miao Qiuyun demonstrated Circling Finger Breeze with Gang Sand, and Lu Feng judged it could achieve only part of Nimble Fingers' power but still make array-setting more than ten times faster.
• Lu Feng transmitted Nimble Fingers' foundational cultivation methods to Miao Qiuyun, but her Soul Strength could not withstand the full technique, so he urged her to return home.
• Miao Qiuyun gave Lu Feng Gang Sand and other resources before departing, while Zhu Yizhong suffered through a pill-fueled recovery and Lu Feng's group sorted their supplies.
• Lian Ankang learned that Miao Qiuyun had left the city and told Lian Hesheng he would bring her back, then leaped over the city wall as Lian Hesheng ordered death warriors to follow and protect him.

The factions sent soulmasters into Floating Sand Snail Capital to retrieve Lu Feng’s presumed corpse, while the Miao Clan plotted to capture Miao Qiuping or Miao Qiuyun to control Old Man Fan. Lu Feng’s group fled deeper into the city as pursuers closed in, and the chapter ended with three creatures bursting from the sand ahead.

• The Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect and other factions dispatched soulmasters into Floating Sand Snail Capital, while Wen Guang went to seek the Four Directions Thunder Array and Jun Ziya sent Hidden Guards.
• Miao Yongcai decided to capture Miao Qiuping or Miao Qiuyun as leverage against Old Man Fan and possibly the Lian Clan.
• Miao Qiuyun returned to Lu Feng’s group as Liao Ankang and his guards warned that the factions were pursuing them.
• Lu Feng’s group chose to venture deeper into Floating Sand Snail Capital to avoid fighting near the Night Shadow Sand Lizards and risking an early Attack Tide.
• Lian Ankang’s guards laid poisonous smoke to delay the pursuers, while Fifth Uncle embarrassed Miao Qiuyun by calling her Lian Ankang’s wife.
• Fifth Uncle warned the group as three gray creatures burst from the sand ahead.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and their companions crossed the sand while facing attacks from Sand-Lurking Thorn Lizards and Night Shadow Sand Lizards. When Sixth Uncle was surrounded by powerful beasts, Lu Feng subdued them with his Black and White Cloud Qi, leaving the guards stunned by the travelers’ strength.

• Fifth Uncle used Sand Armor to defend the group from Sand-Lurking Thorn Lizards, and Tang Yuan caught and crushed one that attacked with Earth Soul Realm Late Stage power.
• Sixth Uncle charged among the Night Shadow Sand Lizards and used heavy shackles to restrain them, but his actions awakened stronger beasts beneath the sand.
• Several powerful Night Shadow Sand Lizards encircled Sixth Uncle, and he told Lian Ankang and the others to leave him behind.
• Fifth Uncle prepared to rescue Sixth Uncle, but Lu Feng rushed past him while Tang Yuan stayed back to protect Jiang Ruoyun and Ruo Shui.
• Lu Feng surrounded the beasts with his Black and White Cloud Qi and used Gravity Suppression to quiet them, stunning Sixth Uncle and Fifth Uncle.

As Lu Feng’s group crossed the open sands, Fourth Uncle used an unfamiliar array to hide them from a Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk. Lu Feng could not identify the array patterns and suspected the technique came from a lost array diagram.

• Lian Ankang eagerly asked Lu Feng about his Yin Yang Two Qi and the lightning array, learning that it had consumed enough Fierce Nether Lightning Stones to fill two rooms.
• The group heard fighting behind them and hurried across the open expanse, assuming their pursuers had caught up after dealing with the poisonous miasma.
• Fifth Uncle spotted a shadow in the clouds, and Tang Yuan identified it as a Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk.
• Fourth Uncle formed an array that drew sand overhead into a covering mound, concealing the group’s figures and auras from the hawk.
• Lu Feng asked what kind of array Fourth Uncle had used, but could not recognize its patterns and suspected it came from a lost array diagram.

Lu Feng's group escaped the Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk beneath Fourth Uncle's Profound Shadow Bulwark Array and learned about Fourth Uncle's lost companions, missing memories, and recurring dream. As an ancient city rose around them and the array's foundation began to fail, Lu Feng claimed they could still cross the territory, though Fourth Uncle dismissed him.

• Fourth Uncle used the Profound Shadow Bulwark Array to conceal Lu Feng's group from the Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk, creating multiple moving earthen mounds that confused the beast.
• Lian Ankang explained that Fourth Uncle had learned the array from a corpse's Storage Ring in the Floating Sand Snail Capital, where his Soul Hunter team had perished and he had lost part of his memory.
• Fourth Uncle recalled an ink-black monster, a training journal, and recurring dreams of a floating three-story pavilion filled with array diagrams, but he had no clues about what happened to his companions.
• As dawn broke, a sand tornado rose where the Night Shadow Sand Lizards had been, while an ancient city emerged from the sand and the ground threatened to collapse Fourth Uncle's array.
• Third Uncle offered to stay behind so the others could escape, but Lu Feng said the array could hold long enough for them to cross the territory, and Fourth Uncle scorned his claim.

Lu Feng stabilized Fourth Uncle’s Profound Shadow Bulwark Array by leveling its weakening force, then the group faced two Bloodthirsty Demon Hawks attacking nearby pursuers. When the Little Demon Hawk struck an earthen mound, Lu Feng’s altered array unleashed a powerful blast that sent the pursuers and the hawk flying.

• Lu Feng used his knowledge of Fourth Uncle’s array layout to level its failing force, astonishing Fourth Uncle and Miao Qiyun.
• Three people escaped the Night Shadow Sand Lizards, but two Bloodthirsty Demon Hawks attacked them, killing one and trapping the other two.
• The group continued cautiously toward the edge of the hawks’ territory while the smaller hawk attacked the two survivors.
• The two survivors drew the Little Demon Hawk toward Lu Feng’s group, and Fifth Uncle offered to hold them off.
• Lu Feng stopped Fifth Uncle and watched as the Little Demon Hawk struck an earthen mound; the mound exploded with force, blasting the two men away and crashing the hawk into the sand.

Lu Feng and the others witnessed Nine Abyss and Cui Ying being swallowed by a mysterious sand vortex, then rising again possessed by Ghost Conchs. The possessed men killed the Little Demon Hawk, while the Great Demon Hawk began unleashing a terrifying new power.

• Lu Feng explained that he had used Solidifying Momentum techniques to keep the formation's earthen extensions suspended at the point before collapse.
• The Great Demon Hawk and Little Demon Hawk attacked the Nine Ring Sect and Illusory Willow Sect elders, while a vortex opened beneath the severed corpse and swallowed Cui Ying and Nine Abyss.
• A sand hand seized the Little Demon Hawk, and sand spikes battered both hawks as Cui Ying's blade pierced the Great Demon Hawk's wing.
• Nine Abyss and Cui Ying emerged from the vortex with Ghost Conchs attached behind their heads, and Fourth Uncle said the Ghost Conchs had possessed them.
• The possessed Nine Abyss and Cui Ying killed the Little Demon Hawk with sand attacks, and the Great Demon Hawk's body became wreathed in black smoke as its aura rose.

After Nine Abyss and Cui Ying defeated the Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk, the possessed Nine Abyss pursued Lu Feng’s group while Cui Ying was held up fighting others. As Third Uncle’s guards battled Nine Abyss, Lu Feng studied Third Uncle’s compressed spiritual-energy attacks, and Jiang Ruoyun leaped to strike Nine Abyss’s sand sphere.

• The Great Demon Hawk absorbed the Little Demon Hawk’s blood and became the Bloodthirsty Demon Hawk, but Nine Abyss and Cui Ying defeated it with sand attacks and a giant handprint.
• Fourth Uncle warned that the Demon Soul Ghost Snail could preserve the possessed bodies’ obsessions, and Third Uncle tried to separate his group from Lu Feng’s.
• Nine Abyss emerged alone and attacked Lu Feng’s group, while Third Uncle, Fourth Uncle, Fifth Uncle, and Sixth Uncle coordinated to fight him.
• Lu Feng realized Third Uncle compressed spiritual energy into sand balls that struck Nine Abyss with explosive force.
• Nine Abyss shielded himself inside a massive sand sphere and descended toward the group, and Jiang Ruoyun leaped up to lash the sphere despite Third Uncle’s warning.

Jiang Ruoyun broke Nine Abyss’s Protective Sand Shield and struck the Ghost Conch, leaving him dazed. With Fourth Uncle’s formation boosting his speed, Third Uncle struck Nine Abyss and destroyed the vessel, convincing everyone that the Demon Soul Ghost Snail had been controlling him.

• Jiang Ruoyun split Nine Abyss’s sand shield with her whip and caught the unconscious Ruo Shui.
• Jiang Ruoyun revealed that her whip had tapped the Ghost Conch, disrupting its connection to Nine Abyss.
• Third Uncle charged Nine Abyss with a fist wrapped in hollow sand while Fourth Uncle completed an Auxiliary Array.
• Fourth Uncle’s formation ring boosted Third Uncle’s speed, allowing him to evade Nine Abyss’s palm and land a punch.
• The force from Third Uncle’s punch bored through Nine Abyss’s head and sent the Ghost Conch flying.
• Third Uncle destroyed Nine Abyss’s body, leading everyone to conclude that the Demon Soul Ghost Snail had been orchestrating events.

Fourth Uncle explained that Demon Soul Ghost Snails and their resident souls had caused Third Brother’s death, then described the Sand Dust Technique and its Yin and Yang branches. The group feared a deeper upheaval in Floating Sand Snail Capital, but a mound suddenly rose from the sand, raising hope that Third Brother might have survived.

• Fourth Uncle explained that Sixth Uncle’s attack had enraged the demon soul in the shattered Ghost Conch, while the other Ghost Snails had joined in to protect themselves.
• Fourth Uncle said Third Brother had likely been swept into a Ghost Conch’s inner chamber and had little chance of survival, then blamed himself for not remembering the danger sooner.
• Fourth Uncle warned that the Ghost Snails might have migrated outward because a major upheaval had occurred in the depths of Floating Sand Snail Capital.
• Fourth Uncle explained the Sand Dust Technique’s Yang Branch, which formed solid weapons, and Yin Branch, which shaped flexible hand seals and beasts.
• Lian Ankang said Third Uncle had created the technique Exploding Ball in memory of his daughter, but a mound abruptly rose from the sand before he could finish his story.
• Lian Ankang wondered whether Third Uncle might still be alive, and the group tensely watched the mound.

Third Uncle, possessed by the Demon Soul Ghost Snail, pursued Lu Feng’s group while sparing the others, and the group escaped using Soul Aversion Powder. As stone walls and pillars rose around them, Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Ye Fan’s Spirit Void Thirteen Needles and realized he had been there.

• Third Uncle emerged possessed and attacked Fifth Uncle and Sixth Uncle, then chased Lu Feng’s group while ignoring the others.
• Fourth Uncle, Fifth Uncle, and Sixth Uncle followed, but Third Uncle’s Exploding Balls drove them back; they later learned Lu Feng had warned Lian Ankang and Miao Qiuyun to stay away.
• Fourth Uncle said a place from his memories had surfaced, but an underground quicksand current interrupted the group and stone structures rose around them.
• Lian Ankang recognized the area as possibly the Eternal Stone Domain, while Lu Feng’s group escaped Third Uncle with Soul Aversion Powder.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Ye Fan’s Spirit Void Thirteen Needles pinned to a stone pillar and realized Ye Fan had been there.