Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng and his companions followed Ye Fan’s traces into a vast stone maze, where they discovered evidence of dangerous creatures and Chui Mei’s hidden weapons. At a strange altar, horned snake pythons opened their crimson eyes and began turning Tang Yuan’s arm to stone.

• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found signs that Ye Fan had fought someone while fleeing, then spotted a small snake beneath the sand.
• The group discovered a lifelike stone eagle that Lu Feng identified as a creature transformed by Earth Element Qi, along with a dead snake python pinned to a wall by Chui Mei’s hidden weapons.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, Jiang Ruoyun, Zhu Yizhong, and the unconscious Ruo Shui reached an eerie altar surrounded by human statues holding stone snakes.
• Several horned snake pythons emerged from the walls, coiled around the statues, and turned outward as if guarding the altar.
• The snake pythons opened their crimson eyes, causing Ruo Shui to cough in agony and leaving Tang Yuan’s arm covered in stone frost as his qi grew heavy.

Lu Feng and his companions fought through swarms of snakes whose red eyes released a force that stagnated spiritual energy, then circled around the altar. At the same time, Strange Python Su Snake awakened, with Third Uncle standing on its head, and it discovered Lian Ankang’s group.

• Lu Feng explained how the snakes’ Earth Element stagnation affected the group differently, while Jiang Ruoyun killed snakes with hidden weapons as more emerged from the walls.
• Tang Yuan urged the group to leave the altar, and Jiang Ruoyun revealed she carried thousands of Love Tomb’s Inhibition Breaking Needles as they cleared a path through the snakes.
• Lu Feng’s group moved away from the altar and took a side path, while Lu Feng remained uneasy about Third Uncle’s pursuit of Ruo Shui.
• Fourth Uncle led Lian Ankang and Miao Qiuyun’s group around the snake-filled area, using poisonous sand to keep the snakes from opening their eyes.
• Strange Python Su Snake rose from the ground, and Lian Ankang spotted Third Uncle standing on its head; Fourth Uncle warned them not to look into its eyes.
• The giant python discovered Lian Ankang’s group, leaving Fourth Uncle and the others terrified.

Lu Feng and his companions encountered the dying soul of an old man who promised a cure for Ruo Shui’s Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine poison in exchange for delivering his last words to his disciple. The old man identified the Pi Yuan Cauldron as the key to making the antidote, then vanished into a pill that slipped into Tang Yuan’s Storage Ring.

• As Su Snake pursued them, Lu Feng’s group found a petrified man whose remaining life ended as his Soul Power formed an elderly phantom.
• The phantom offered a way to save Ruo Shui in exchange for a soul oath to find his disciple, You Xi Guma, and deliver the message inside his Storage Ring.
• Tang Yuan removed the ring from the statue, and the phantom revealed that the Lotus Seed of Bauhinia Water Lily, Thousand-Year-Old Yi Crystal Water Ginseng, and Six-Winged Sand Cicadas could make an antidote in the Pi Yuan Cauldron.
• Lu Feng recognized clues suggesting the phantom was Ku Chensha and learned that a thief had stolen the Pi Yuan Cauldron and died nearby after being struck by the old man’s Poison Palm.
• The phantom condensed into a pill and darted into Tang Yuan’s Storage Ring, leaving Lu Feng and Tang Yuan shocked.

Lu Feng and his companions found Ku Chensha’s traces but no sign of Ye Fan, then discovered an ancient map carved into a stone wall in the Floating Sand Snail Capital. Lu Feng recognized that the map matched one hidden in the Heart Protecting Armor and concluded that it revealed the Heaven Rain Clan’s location.

• Lu Feng examined Ku Chensha’s Storage Ring and confirmed that the Medicine Dao master had died after condensing his Soul Power into a pill for his disciple.
• The group found blackened silver needles and poisoned sludge left by Ye Fan, but Lu Feng sensed no trace of him and realized his trail had gone cold.
• Hidden Blade revealed that Jun Ziya had sent him to protect Lu Feng until he found the final strand of Profound Qi, and Lu Feng explained how disturbed sand had exposed his hiding place.
• The group uncovered an old terrain map on a stone wall and determined that a broken character was part of the character for “arm.”
• Lu Feng recognized the map as matching one hidden in the Heart Protecting Armor and announced that he had found the Heaven Rain Clan’s exact location.

Tang Yuan and Lu Feng realized that Arm Cloud Mountain could lead them to the Heaven Rain Clan and Northern Essence Water, but the Trapping Stone Array drove their group toward an altar. Lu Feng followed Miao Qiuyun’s protective array through the surging stone walls, and both groups survived as the formation collapsed.

• Tang Yuan connected the Heart Protecting Armor map and the desert clues to Arm Cloud Mountain, while Lu Feng realized the clues might reveal the Heaven Rain Clan and Northern Essence Water.
• Tang Yuan, Lu Feng, Zhu Yizhong, and Jiang Ruoyun set Arm Cloud Mountain as their destination and prepared to follow the Profound Extremity Mountain Range.
• Stone walls surged through the desert and herded the group toward the altar, where a silver pillar revealed a Teleportation Array.
• Lu Feng sensed another array and led his companions toward an oncoming group that included Miao Qiuyun and Lian Ankang.
• Lu Feng and Miao Qiuyun stopped at the same moment, allowing the two surges to pass without harming either group.
• Miao Qiuyun revealed that Ru Shi’s Two Elements Heavy Origin Array had protected her group, and the Trapping Stone Array collapsed.

Lu Feng explained how the Two Elements Heavy Origin Array had saved the group, and the parties split up after sharing warnings and Poisonous Miasma Smoke Pouches. Lian Ankang's group was then captured by three Blood Clan members disguised as Crimson Fiend Sword Sect elders, who forced them to take pills and lead the way to Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng explained that the Two Elements Heavy Origin Array had diverted the clashing forces and protected the group, while Zhu Yizhong said he would head for the Boundless Underworld Sea to seek Ye Fan or the Northern Essence Water for Ruo Shui.
• Lian Ankang and Miao Qiuyun chose to return with Fifth Uncle and Sixth Uncle, and Miao Qiuyun warned Lu Feng's party about Old Ge and the death warriors who had entered the Teleportation Array.
• Sixth Uncle gave Lu Feng's party Poisonous Miasma Smoke Pouches, and the groups parted ways outside the Floating Sand Snail Capital.
• Chi Fo, Flame Demon, and Azure Nether intercepted Lian Ankang's group, and Chi Fo wounded Fifth Uncle when he tried to refuse them.
• Miao Qiuyun recognized the three as likely Blood Clan members, and Lian Ankang and Miao Qiuyun agreed to lead them to Lu Feng.
• Flame Demon forced the group to swallow crimson pills that he claimed would become deadly poison if they disobeyed.

Lu Feng and his companions found the Profound Extremity Mountain Range deliberately erased beneath the sand and were attacked by a swarm of giant ants. They escaped, while Lian Ankang’s captured group realized Chi Fo and the others likely intended to kill them after using them.

• Fourth Uncle left Lu Feng’s group to pursue his own destination in the Floating Sand Snail Capital.
• Lu Feng’s group found black Poison Blood and discovered that the Profound Extremity Mountain Range had been flattened and deliberately cut off.
• A giant ant erupted from the sand and attacked Zhu Yizhong, who drove it away with Poison Powder from a Poison Sac.
• Lu Feng warned that ant-type exotic beasts lived in groups, and the companions fled a swarm of ants emerging from the sand.
• Lian Ankang’s captured group suspected Chi Fo and the other two sought more than Lu Feng’s bounty and began to fear they would be killed once they were no longer useful.

Lian Ankang's group escaped Chi Fo's pursuit, but Miao Qiuyun was overcome by a Spring Poison pill while Sixth Uncle stayed behind to divert their pursuers. Meanwhile, Lian Hesheng proposed an alliance with Miao Qiuping and Uncle Fan, until Blood Rock Jade revealed Lian Ankang assaulting Miao Qiuyun and stirred Miao Qiuping's fury.

• Fifth Uncle and Sixth Uncle led Lian Ankang's group away from Chi Fo's party as Mengkue Elephant Ants erupted from the sand and attacked the pursuers.
• Miao Qiuyun succumbed to a Spring Poison pill, and Sixth Uncle warned that releasing himself could be fatal before Chi Fo's group approached again.
• Sixth Uncle drew Chi Fo's group away with a false party of four while Fifth Uncle protected Lian Ankang.
• Lian Hesheng awoke in an underground room in Nan Gu Town and told Miao Qiuping and Uncle Fan that Jun Ziya had used their clans as pawns.
• Lian Hesheng proposed that the Lian and Miao survivors join forces against Jun Ziya, and Miao Qiuping considered the offer.
• Miao Qiuping's Blood Rock Jade showed Lian Ankang forcing himself on Miao Qiuyun, leaving Miao Qiuping furious and Lian Hesheng ashamed.

Lian Hesheng learned that Lian Ankang was dead and that the Lian Clan’s bloodline had been wiped out, while Miao Qiuping argued that Miao Qiuyun could not have killed him. In the Boundless Underworld Sea, Lu Feng’s group found the gravely wounded Sixth Uncle, who urged them to save his Young Master before succumbing to a deadly poison.

• Lian Hesheng confronted Miao Qiuping over the Blood Rock Jade’s image of Lian Ankang and Miao Qiuyun, but Miao Qiuping suspected that something had influenced his sister.
• Lian Hesheng discovered that Lian Ankang’s Soul Jade had shattered and accused Miao Qiuyun of killing his son, but Miao Qiuping and Uncle Fan argued that she was unlikely to be responsible.
• Lian Hesheng checked the Lian Clan’s Ancestral Tablet and saw that every direct bloodline marker except his own had gone dim.
• Chi Fo’s group caught up to Sixth Uncle and severely wounded him, but they abandoned their pursuit when a powerful spiritual aura appeared in the distance.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan recovered from their battle with a sand wyrm while Zhu Yizhong harvested its scales, then the group turned back after hearing Sixth Uncle’s scream.
• Lu Feng’s group found Sixth Uncle missing his lower body and an arm, and he showed them a poisoned sword wound before pleading with them to save his Young Master.

Lu Feng’s group escaped a giant sand spider after Sixth Uncle sacrificed himself, then found Lian Ankang dead and Miao Qiuyun stranded with the injured Fifth Uncle. Fourth Uncle arrived with a key and revealed the secret history of the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion, leaving the group wondering whether they could locate it.

• Sixth Uncle gave Lu Feng two Storage Rings, was swallowed by a giant sand spider, and destroyed himself to give the group time to escape.
• Lu Feng led the group away from the spider with a Poison Sac, and they found Lian Ankang dead beside Miao Qiuyun and the wounded Fifth Uncle.
• Lu Feng handed the Storage Rings to Fifth Uncle, while Miao Qiuyun asked to travel with the group and refused to accept the Lian Clan Young Madam identity.
• Fourth Uncle arrived, learned how Lian Ankang had died protecting Miao Qiuyun, and revealed that he had recovered memories of the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion.
• Fourth Uncle explained that the key opened the ancient kingdom’s hidden treasure vault, where his former companions had vanished, and Tang Yuan asked whether the key could help them find it.

Tang Yuan and his companions encountered a Yellow Sand Phantom, then clashed with Ge Lianhuan and his death warriors when they arrived to seize Miao Qiuyun. After realizing the phantom had misled both groups, they paused their fight as dozens of phantoms surrounded them.

• Fourth Uncle detected the direction of the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion, and the group traveled toward it for nearly three days before finding fresh footprints from Nan Gu Town.
• A Yellow Sand Phantom appeared behind the group, endured Lu Feng's attacks, and fled after threatening to call someone to beat them.
• Ge Lianhuan arrived with three death warriors and attacked Miao Qiuyun, but Tang Yuan, Lu Feng, and Jiang Ruoyun stopped his strikes.
• Tang Yuan questioned whether Ge Lianhuan had created the phantom, and both groups realized they had encountered the same mysterious creature.
• Fourth Uncle and fifth uncle proposed setting aside their conflict, as more than thirty Yellow Sand Phantoms gathered around them.

A giant head made of black smoke appeared above the Yellow Sand Phantoms and revealed that it had ruined Fourth Uncle's life for fun. It demanded payment for the seven Sand Puppets Ge Lianhuan's group had killed, leaving Ge Lianhuan facing a choice between saving his younger brother and accepting the head's offer.

• Ge Lianhuan's group and Miao Qiuyun's party stopped fighting, but a black cloud formed overhead and became a terrifying giant head.
• The head recognized Fourth Uncle and admitted it had ruined him twenty years earlier for fun; it also stopped him from activating his formation discs.
• The head threatened Ge Lianhuan's group for killing seven Sand Puppets and severed the Short Man's arm as the first of seven cuts.
• Ge Lianhuan asked Qiu Long and Mo Yu to take the remaining cuts, but they refused, so he prepared an Ink Jade Soul Storage for his younger brother.
• The Short Man volunteered to bear the six cuts, but the head reduced them to two if Ge Lianhuan would take them; Ge Lianhuan remained cold and did not agree.

The giant head killed Ge Lianhuan and the short man, then tested Lu Feng and Tang Yuan’s brotherhood by forcing them to choose who would die. Lu Feng sacrificed himself to save Tang Yuan, and Jiang Ruoyun rushed toward him as the chapter ended.

• The short man rejected Ge Lianhuan after Ge Lianhuan refused to take the remaining slashes for him, and the giant head killed them both.
• The giant head condemned Qiu Long and Mo Yu for praying to gods, then turned its attention to Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Jiang Ruoyun.
• Lu Feng prepared to die, but Tang Yuan struck him unconscious; Lu Feng recovered and told Tang Yuan to care for Jiang Ruoyun.
• Lu Feng tried to appeal to the giant head’s loneliness, but it demanded proof of their brotherhood and threatened to kill whoever stood farther from the corpses.
• Tang Yuan sent the corpses toward Lu Feng, who sealed Tang Yuan’s acupoints and placed himself farther away before the giant head struck him through the chest.
• Jiang Ruoyun cried out and flew toward Lu Feng as his wounded body was thrown backward.

Lu Feng survived the giant head’s attack, but the head invaded his Soul Consciousness to test whether his bond with Tang Yuan was genuine. Jiang Ruoyun’s uncontrolled aura disrupted the soul search, and Lu Feng drove the invader back with the Soul-Fixing Art. The head’s two inner voices then wagered over whether the group could survive the Ghost Pavilion.

• Tang Yuan rushed to Lu Feng and discovered that the wound was healing, though Lu Feng’s Seventh Soul Array had been damaged by the Blood Demon aura.
• The giant head restrained Lu Feng and sent a shadow into his Sea of Consciousness to search his soul and seize his body.
• Jiang Ruoyun’s aura disrupted the soul search, allowing Lu Feng to activate the Soul-Fixing Art and repel the shadow.
• Lu Feng calmed Jiang Ruoyun before she lost control, and the group saw that the giant head had become strangely motionless.
• The head’s gentler inner voice won control for a year after confirming Lu Feng and Tang Yuan’s brotherhood, then agreed to wager against the gloomy voice over the Ghost Pavilion.
• The inner voices wagered that surviving more than seven days in the Ghost Pavilion would favor the gloomy voice, while the gentler voice demanded ten years of control if the group escaped alive.

After the strange head left, Qiu Long and Mo Yu tried to capture Miao Qiuyun, but Fourth Uncle’s formations drove them off. The group followed the Nine Directions Plate and watched the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion rise from beneath the desert sand.

• Qiu Long trapped Miao Qiuyun with sand pillars while Mo Yu attacked, and Fifth Uncle died protecting her from their ambush.
• Fourth Uncle preserved Fifth Uncle’s remnant soul in the black jade and used hidden formation plates to repel Qiu Long and Mo Yu.
• Miao Qiuyun resolved to live, and the group agreed to recover before seeking the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion.
• Fourth Uncle led the group toward the pavilion using the Nine Directions Plate, while Qiu Long and Mo Yu followed them from a distance.
• The Nine Directions Plate sank into the pavilion’s roof as the three-story Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion emerged from the churning sand, leaving Fourth Uncle trembling with excitement.

Lu Feng and the others discovered that tiny living algae supported the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion, then entered it to escape the approaching strange head. The head transformed into a cloaked, half-human, half-ghost figure, which watched Lu Feng enter with a trace of sorrowful recognition.

• Lu Feng explained that living microalgae beneath the pavilion held it aloft, and the group approached after it showed no further signs of danger.
• A spiritual-energy entrance formed in the pavilion, and Fourth Uncle entered first while announcing that only three people could pass.
• Qiu Long and Mo Yu rushed into the pavilion, while Lu Feng realized Fourth Uncle had used himself as bait to lure them inside.
• Lu Feng called Hidden Blade out of hiding, but the group delayed entering until the strange head's baleful aura forced them to flee into the pavilion.
• Lu Feng entered last and saw the strange head transformed into a cloaked figure with a half-human, half-ghost face, which watched him with sorrowful recognition.

Lu Feng defeated three puppets inside the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion and found a Domain Realm filled with sword manuals that seemed tied to a trial array. After Tang Yuan joined him, they realized the pavilion’s spaces were connecting, but the fate of the dead figures and the way out remained unclear.

• Lu Feng destroyed three puppets and emerged into a room filled with sword cultivation manuals.
• Lu Feng discovered that taking a manual triggered a strange reaction in his Wood Element Qi, then found that the compartments and lighting jades were connected to the array.
• Lu Feng tried to open a spiritual-energy exit, but it vanished before it could form.
• Tang Yuan appeared and told Lu Feng that a silent figure had crumbled into dust when he touched it.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan compared their experiences and concluded that their different combat paths had led them to rooms containing matching cultivation manuals.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan discovered that taking technique manuals in the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion caused a dangerous aura to spread, driving Qiu Long into madness before he turned to dust. They found a white-haired figure wearing Ye Fan’s clothes, but the chapter ended with a voice identifying him as Old Ye.

• Lu Feng recognized the dead Liu Huangjiang and suspected that the technique manuals had caused his death; Tang Yuan found an unusual iron sphere in Liu Huangjiang’s Storage Ring.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan encountered Qiu Long, who threatened them while greedily collecting manuals and searching for the rest of an incomplete technique.
• Qiu Long suddenly froze and turned to dust after the manuals in his area reset, and Lu Feng sensed a faint Beast Qi lingering there.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan hurried through the pavilion and found a white-haired man wearing Ye Fan’s clothes, prompting a hoarse voice to declare that he was Old Ye.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Ye Fan aged and weakened by the Undead Gu in the Medical Texts Area, where he had risked his life to study rare medical books. After explaining how a Wasted Dantian had contained the Gu and revealing that the Pi Yuan Cauldron had been swallowed by a giant python, Ye Fan learned that Yun Meizi and Ruo Shui had also entered the danger-filled area.

• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Ye Fan among the medical texts and learned that he had survived the Undead Gu by containing them in a Wasted Dantian.
• Ye Fan explained that the Wasted Dantian had become a vessel for the gaseous Gu, though the infestation could threaten his life if disturbed.
• Ye Fan told Lu Feng and Tang Yuan that he had endured the attack to read medical texts, including a tome recording Saint Realm pills.
• Tang Yuan told Ye Fan that Yun Meizi and Ruo Shui had entered the area after Ruo Shui was poisoned by the Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine.
• Ye Fan explained that the Pi Yuan Cauldron could detoxify the poison but had been swallowed by a giant python after he used it to escape Ku Chensha.

Ye Fan and his companions reached the formation area of the Floating Sand Ghost Pavilion and learned that the only exit required them to comprehend every formation scripture. Fourth Uncle and Miao Qiuyun revealed that the task was nearly impossible because they lacked enough Gu vessels to withstand the Undead Gu.

• Ye Fan explained that the group needed a token to leave the Ghost Pavilion, but without one they had to find the original exit hidden in the formation area.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan found Fourth Uncle and Miao Qiuyun studying books while a Gu vessel drew in the Undead Gu.
• Ye Fan told Fourth Uncle that people reduced to ash by the Undead Gu could not be saved, confirming the deaths of his former companions.
• Fourth Uncle and Miao Qiuyun explained that finding the exit required understanding every formation scripture, each of which tested the reader through a painful illusion.
• Fourth Uncle warned that the group did not have enough Gu vessels to handle the Undead Gu in all the compartments, making escape practically impossible.