Chapter Summaries

As the group discussed the Heavenly Crown Linked Heart Ring, they found a Six-Winged Sand Cicada that could help cure Ruo Shui’s Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine poison. After learning that the insect was a stray and its energy would soon dissipate, they decided to search for its cluster, leaving their hidden friend Xiao Yi to find them if he wished.

• Ye Fan learned more about the Heavenly Crown Linked Heart Ring, and Jiang Ruoyun wondered whether its eighth level had empowered her final strike against Qian Xiao.
• A Six-Winged Sand Cicada landed nearby and absorbed the surrounding spiritual qi, and Ye Fan identified it as a medicinal catalyst for Ruo Shui’s poison.
• Ye Fan explained that the stray cicada would die without returning to its cluster and that only higher-grade Silver or Golden Cicadas could help detoxify Ruo Shui.
• Ye Fan released the cicada’s stored spiritual qi so the group could recover, while explaining that its energy would dissipate without the Mother Plant.
• Lu Feng urged the group to search for a cicada cluster, and Jiang Ruoyun suggested following the direction the earlier storm had come from.

The group traveled through the desert toward the Six-Winged Sand Cicadas, while Fourth Uncle planned to leave them afterward and search for his son, Jiu Er. Ye Fan used flute music to lull a vast colony of cicadas, but as the group approached, Fourth Uncle noticed something wrong with the sand.

• Fourth Uncle gave Lu Feng Third Brother’s cultivation records and said he would leave after helping find the Six-Winged Sand Cicadas to search for Jiu Er.
• Jiang Ruoyun spotted what looked like a leaf, and the group discovered it was a Bi Gu Bird disguised as a tree and carefully went around it.
• Miao Qiuyun urged Fourth Uncle to stay with the group, but Tang Yuan spotted a huge colony of Six-Winged Sand Cicadas before Fourth Uncle could answer.
• Ye Fan played a grating flute tune that lulled the cicadas into stillness, and the group followed him toward the colony.
• Fourth Uncle stopped the group near the cicadas and warned that something was wrong with the yellow sand.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan lured a Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage Fierce-Eyed Spider Python away from their group, but its overwhelming strength and fire-and-earth attacks left them struggling to survive. Tang Yuan landed a counterattack using the Black and White Cloud Qi Mass, exploiting the beast's momentary fear, as the fight remained unresolved.

• A Fierce-Eyed Spider Python erupted from the sand and attacked the group, so Lu Feng and Tang Yuan decided to lure it away while Jiang Ruoyun stayed to protect Old Ye.
• Lu Feng's arrows and the Sanghou Ancient Tree sap failed to seriously injure the python, which chased the two men and cut them off with Source Beast Fire and a devastating tail sweep.
• Lu Feng pulled Tang Yuan out of the tail's path, and the two closed in to limit the python's ability to strike with its tail.
• Tang Yuan leapt onto the python's back and struck it with the Splitting Flame Palm, shattering some scales before its shockwave blasted him into the air.
• Lu Feng's Black and White Cloud Qi Mass gave Tang Yuan a foothold and made the python hesitate, allowing Tang Yuan to attack its head with the Double Shadow Dragon Fist.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan wounded a Fierce-Eyed Spider Python but discovered it could track them through body heat, not sight or scent. When they heard another python attacking Jiang Ruoyun’s group, Lu Feng used the Absolute Spirit Domineering Force to convert an Entrapment Array into a source of heat decoys while Tang Yuan held the beast off.

• Lu Feng’s beads opened a gap in the Fierce-Eyed Spider Python’s defenses, allowing Tang Yuan to strike its eyes with Jade Hook and Xihe’s Beast Power.
• The blinded python continued locating and attacking Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and the Blood-colored War Corpse, so they tested and ruled out sound, aura, and smell as its means of detection.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan heard another Fierce-Eyed Spider Python nearby and realized Jiang Ruoyun’s group needed help, so Tang Yuan stayed to fight while Lu Feng prepared a plan.
• Lu Feng recognized that the python likely sensed their body heat, based on his earlier encounter with an ice lizard that tracked temperature changes.
• Lu Feng activated Xiao Shu’s Entrapment Array and used the Absolute Spirit Domineering Force to replace the puppets’ Earth Element Qi with Fire Essence Qi, making the array’s heat resemble multiple living figures.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan contained one Fierce-Eyed Spider Python with a modified Flourishing Sand Cage Array, then rushed to aid Jiang Ruoyun’s group against a second one. After Jiang Ruoyun wounded and bound the beast, Lu Feng took over Fourth Uncle’s Secret Array: Full Moon Thousand Machines, and Tang Yuan charged into battle.

• Lu Feng used the Absolute Spirit Domineering Force to enhance the Flourishing Sand Cage Array, which blinded and restrained one Fierce-Eyed Spider Python while Tang Yuan lured it inside.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Jiang Ruoyun’s group struggling to defend themselves from a second Fierce-Eyed Spider Python as Fourth Uncle’s array weakened and Miao Qiuyun ran low on Source Stones.
• Fourth Uncle poured the array’s remaining power into Jiang Ruoyun, who used her six iron dice to sever two of the beast’s spider-spear limbs and bind its body before it broke free.
• Lu Feng deflected the beast’s explosive attack and took over Fourth Uncle’s Secret Array: Full Moon Thousand Machines, while Tang Yuan took Jiang Ruoyun’s position and charged at the beast.

Tang Yuan’s failed attack left the group exposed to the Fierce-Eyed Spider Python, so Ye Fan sacrificed his left arm and used the Undead Gu to destroy the beast. Afterward, he urged everyone to absorb the remaining Six-Winged Sand Cicadas, while Jiang Ruoyun hinted that she needed more spiritual energy than the others.

• Tang Yuan tried to fuse his two fist forces against the Fierce-Eyed Spider Python, but they burst apart and only knocked the beast partly aside.
• As the Fierce-Eyed Spider Python prepared a devastating tail sweep, Ye Fan appeared behind it and injected Undead Gu through a gap in its scales, sacrificing his left arm to kill it.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan found Ye Fan badly injured, but he told them to recover and collect the remaining Six-Winged Sand Cicadas before they awakened.
• Ye Fan explained that he had preserved the Mother Plant and over a hundred high-quality cicadas, while the remaining cicadas’ spiritual energy would dissipate if left unused.
• Jiang Ruoyun asked Ye Fan to release all the cicadas’ spiritual energy, then admitted that the available amount did not seem sufficient for her to absorb alone.

Jiang Ruoyun explained how the Ancient Foundation Establishment Scripture let her refine the spiritual energy suppressed within her Soul Plate, then outpaced everyone else in absorbing the gathered energy. The Bi Gu Bird ambushed the group, injured Ruo Shui, and carried Miao Qiuyun skyward as Fourth Uncle grabbed her ankle.

• Jiang Ruoyun explained the origins and methods of the Ancient Foundation Establishment Scripture to Ye Fan, Tang Yuan, and Lu Feng.
• Ye Fan awakened the remaining Six-Winged Sand Cicadas, and Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, Ye Fan, and Lu Feng began absorbing the dense spiritual energy.
• Jiang Ruoyun absorbed spiritual energy so quickly that Miao Qiuyun had to move away, while Tang Yuan and Lu Feng struggled to keep pace.
• Ruo Shui sensed danger and used her white silk to stop spiritual-energy hook-ropes from reaching Lu Feng and the others, but the effort made her spit blood.
• The Bi Gu Bird revealed itself after seizing Miao Qiuyun with a hook-rope and flew skyward, while Fourth Uncle grabbed her ankle.

The group survived the Bi Gu Bird’s attack, but Fourth Uncle died after using Black Demon Sand to escape its claws, while Ruo Shui remained near death from her poison. When they heard the injured Bi Gu Bird had fallen nearby, Miao Qiuyun urged everyone to kill it and avenge Fourth Uncle.

• Fourth Uncle severed the rope holding Miao Qiuyun, then took the Bi Gu Bird’s claw strike while protecting her and was captured in midair.
• Fourth Uncle corroded the Bi Gu Bird’s talons with Black Demon Sand, and Lu Feng drove it away with an arrow as Tang Yuan caught the falling Miao Qiuyun.
• Ye Fan used spiritual energy to contain Ruo Shui’s worsening poison, but said he could keep her condition stable for at most a day.
• Jiang Ruoyun admitted her Saint Breath had come from a pill but said she had none left, while privately fearing its secrets could burden Lu Feng.
• Tang Yuan explained that Fourth Uncle had been struck by his own Black Demon Sand and chose to end his life rather than become a burden; he entrusted Tang Yuan with his belongings and companions’ ashes.
• Miao Qiuyun heard the Bi Gu Bird’s scream and realized it had fallen behind a dune, then urged the group to kill it for Fourth Uncle’s sake.

Ye Fan and the others found the Bi Gu Bird drained of life by an unknown fire-element soul beast and followed its immense Yang aura and strange claw prints. As the beast’s heat swept over them, Cheng Huang warned Lu Feng of danger, and the group faced scorching sand suspended in the air.

• Ye Fan, Tang Yuan, and the others found the Bi Gu Bird’s shriveled corpse and sensed an extraordinarily powerful Yang aura lingering over it.
• Miao Qiuyun uncovered a blazing crystal-like object that Tang Yuan suspected was the soul beast’s excrement, and the group continued toward the Heaven Rain Clan.
• Tang Yuan and Lu Feng found a huge claw print in the sand and judged that the beast had rushed onward, possibly with Heaven Soul Realm strength.
• Cheng Huang stirred inside Lu Feng’s Kirin Ring and urgently warned him not to proceed, but the group continued along the only route ahead.
• Ruo Shui began to suffer from the rising heat, and Lu Feng and Tang Yuan shielded her as the beast’s scorching aura made the sand tremble and float like flames.

Lu Feng and his companions faced the pure-blooded Yi Huo Yang Dou, whose overwhelming yang aura destroyed their defenses and threatened Ruo Shui’s life. Cheng Huang opened a gap in the beast’s aura, and Lu Feng and the others chose to fight together, but they remained trapped in a desperate battle.

• Lu Feng told Tang Yuan and Ye Fan to endure the heat until the hidden beast revealed itself, and the Yi Huo Yang Dou descended when Lu Feng had spent most of his strength.
• Tang Yuan and Lu Feng recognized the beast and feared that its immense yang aura meant it was a pure-blooded Yi Dou rather than a weaker Huo Dou.
• The Yi Huo Yang Dou’s aura shattered Lu Feng’s Fire Essence Qi barrier, scorching the group and causing Ruo Shui’s spiritual energy to dissipate.
• Cheng Huang charged the beast, scattered the surrounding sand, and opened a gap in its yang aura while urging Lu Feng to flee.
• Lu Feng attacked with the Great Compassion Sword, and Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan joined the fight rather than abandon him.
• The Yi Huo Yang Dou suffered a sword wound, melted Jiang Ruoyun’s hidden weapons, and left the group facing its terrifying aura with little hope of survival.

A black-robed Soul Gouging Lord killed Yi Huo Yang Dou, then attacked Lu Feng and tried to search his soul for the source of his Soul Control Clan technique. Lu Feng claimed Qiao had taught him the Dharma and revealed that Ji Lanxin held the remaining Weapon Forging Insights, but his claim that Qiao had also taught him the Grand Dream of Three Lifetimes made the woman suspicious again.

• Nine radiant spheres and a black staff struck down Yi Huo Yang Dou, and the black-robed woman collected the Soul Collection Vessel and Enforcement Staff.
• The woman surrounded Lu Feng with radiant spheres and attempted to search his soul, but he defended himself with the Six Ding Spirit Gang, ten thousand ghosts lie hidden technique.
• Lu Feng claimed that Senior Qiao had taught him the Spirit Gang Exorcism Dharma in the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins and promised to accept him as a disciple.
• Lu Feng told the woman that Ji Lanxin held the remaining half of the Weapon Forging Insights, prompting her to offer him the Grand Dream of Three Lifetimes.
• Lu Feng claimed Qiao had already taught him the Grand Dream of Three Lifetimes, and the woman raised six radiant spheres around him as her suspicion returned.

Lu Feng and his companions defeated a powerful Soul Control Clan woman with help from Lan Tianyiqi, who reunited with Lu Feng after three years apart. They discovered Mu Yuan Sea King Ginseng among the woman’s stored treasures, while Ye Fan realized it could not heal him until he dealt with the Undead Gu in his body.

• A strange halo linked to Lan Tianyiqi’s Heavenly Crown Linked Heart Ring empowered Lu Feng, allowing Yi Huo Yang Dou and Jiang Ruoyun to wound the woman.
• The woman abandoned her body and tried to escape as a sphere of source Soul Power, but Lu Feng’s Ancient Desolation Altar stopped her and Xiao Gu swallowed her soul.
• Lan Tianyiqi reunited with Lu Feng, embraced him, and listened as Lu Feng recounted what had happened since the battle at Night Crow Ridge.
• Tang Yuan and the others discovered that the woman’s wrist curse mark concealed stored treasures, and Ye Fan found Mu Yuan Sea King Ginseng among them.
• Tang Yuan hoped the ginseng could restore Ye Fan’s arm, but Ye Fan stored it away because the Undead Gu in his body would consume its life aura.
• Lu Feng asked Lan Tianyiqi what he had endured over the past three years and how he had come to look so different.

Lu Feng reunited with the dying Lan Tianyiqi, who explained how he had survived in the Boundless Underworld Sea through his bond with Cloud Eater. Lan Tianyiqi revealed that the Heaven Rain Clan’s entrance was hidden in a mountain’s Cloud Pool Immortal Spring, giving Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun their next lead.

• Lan Tianyiqi told Lu Feng that he had spent his last vital essence and would soon die, despite Lu Feng’s attempt to examine him.
• Lan Tianyiqi explained that Cloud Eater was a Mirage Beast, described how they had formed a Beast Contract, and recounted how it had rescued him and merged with him.
• Cloud Eater contradicted Lan Tianyiqi’s account from within his Sea of Consciousness, while Lan Tianyiqi revealed that he had secretly driven away the lurking Hidden Blade.
• Lan Tianyiqi asked Lu Feng to leave before he died, but Jiang Ruoyun and Lu Feng explained that they needed Northern Essence Water for Ruo Shui and Lu Feng.
• Lan Tianyiqi learned they were seeking the Heaven Rain Clan and told them its entrance lay in the Cloud Pool Immortal Spring on a mountain.

Lan Tianyiqi stayed behind in the desert so Lu Feng could leave without worrying about him, while the others gathered Soul Control Clan treasures and traveled by Black Leaf Boat. They reached the mapped vicinity of Arm Cloud Mountain, but found only endless sand and no sign of the mountain.

• Lan Tianyiqi admitted to Cloud Eater that he had lied to Lu Feng about his fate so Lu Feng would leave, and said he would never let Cloud Eater harm his friend.
• Tang Yuan gave Lu Feng ancient Soul Control Clan texts that might help him control Xiao Gu's soul corpse, and the group gathered black Soul Power crystals and other treasures.
• Ye Fan fed Ruo Shui an Ying Xiang Spirit Stabilizing Pill, which stabilized her conflicting water and fire auras for a few hours but could not cure her Porcelain Spirit Ghost Vine poison.
• Lu Feng and the others used black crystals to activate the black leaf, which expanded into a Black Leaf Boat, and Tang Yuan chose not to pursue the wounded Yi Huo Yang Dou.
• The group traveled rapidly by Black Leaf Boat and reached the mapped vicinity of Arm Cloud Mountain, but saw only yellow sand and no mountain.

Lu Feng and the others followed the Su Snake’s scent to four giant stones, where they found Third Uncle riding the serpent. They split the pair apart and began fighting them separately, but Jiang Ruoyun suspected Third Uncle had gained memories or consciousness that let him control the Su Snake.

• After failing to find Arm Cloud Mountain, Lu Feng and the others tracked the Su Snake, hoping to recover Ye Fan’s Pi Yuan Cauldron and preserve a chance to save Ruo Shui.
• The group found four giant stones and approached them, then Third Uncle attacked with Sand Balls and appeared atop one of the stones.
• The Su Snake emerged from beneath the sand and carried Third Uncle toward them, while Ye Fan noticed the serpent’s aura had weakened.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan decided to separate Third Uncle from the Su Snake, and Jiang Ruoyun volunteered to hold the serpent back.
• Tang Yuan engaged the Su Snake while Lu Feng forced Third Uncle off its head, allowing Jiang Ruoyun to separate them with the Immortal Silk Five-Petal Brocade.
• Jiang Ruoyun restrained the Su Snake with her whip and suspected Third Uncle had a consciousness or memories that allowed him to command it, while Lu Feng and Tang Yuan fought him amid a barrage of Sand Balls.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan used Ye Fan’s Azure Wave Nine Dragons Array and Chaotic Spirit Powder to weaken Third Uncle, then defeated him with mixed energies. The smoke leaving Third Uncle merged with Su Snake, which overwhelmed Jiang Ruoyun, and Lu Feng and Tang Yuan rushed to confront it.

• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan lured Third Uncle into Ye Fan’s Azure Wave Nine Dragons Array, where Ye Fan’s Chaotic Spirit Powder disrupted his spiritual energy.
• Third Uncle expelled the chaotic energy and formed Sand Armor, but Tang Yuan’s Braided Dough Twist Fist and Lu Feng’s mixed Five Elements Qi shattered it and left Third Uncle unable to move.
• A wisp of gray smoke fled Third Uncle’s body and merged with Su Snake, whose aura turned blood-red and stopped Jiang Ruoyun’s attacks.
• Jiang Ruoyun broke free of Su Snake’s petrifying force with her tyrannical aura but collapsed from exhaustion and blood loss.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan rushed toward Su Snake as its power continued to rise.

Lu Feng fired the Emperor Arrow with help from Ruo Shui and the others, killing Su Snake, but the group was left badly weakened. Ye Fan found Ruo Shui suffering from rampant poison and a dangerous imbalance of water and fire, and judged her condition beyond saving.

• Tang Yuan used the Black Tortoise Beast Core’s defensive power to hold off Su Snake while Lu Feng prepared the Emperor Arrow.
• Ye Fan, Miao Qiuyun, Jiang Ruoyun, and Tang Yuan supplied source stones, and Lu Feng poured his Element Qi into the arrow as Su Snake grew stronger.
• Ruo Shui used her white silk to distract Su Snake, allowing Lu Feng to release the Emperor Arrow and blast away its head.
• Lu Feng collapsed from the arrow’s backlash, while Tang Yuan suffered severe strain from exceeding his limits with the Black Tortoise power.
• Miao Qiuyun warned the group to deal with Su Snake’s corpse, and Ye Fan found Ruo Shui’s poison raging amid a dangerous clash of water and fire powers.

Lu Feng and the others discovered that the five giant stones were the buried remains of Arm Cloud Mountain and that the Heaven Rain Clan’s entrance lay in its palm. With Ruo Shui dying and the entrance still sealed, they decided to use the Six-Winged Sand Cicadas to try to produce the spiritual water needed to open it.

• Ruo Shui pointed Lu Feng toward the giant stones, and Ye Fan used pills and silver needles to keep her alive for half an hour.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan recognized the stones as cultivation platforms and uncovered a fifth pillar, confirming that the formation was Arm Cloud Mountain’s five-fingered hand.
• Lu Feng found a sealed entrance in the palm that reacted to the mysterious qi on his Soul Plate, while the group concluded that Su Snake had tried to stop them from entering the Heaven Rain Clan.
• The group reasoned that spiritual water might activate the entrance, but they lacked enough source stones and feared that Su Snake’s blood would provoke the restriction.
• Ye Fan proposed releasing their Six-Winged Sand Cicadas to draw out enough spiritual water, and Lu Feng agreed to take the chance despite the risk to Ruo Shui.

Ye Fan and the others gathered spiritual liquid to activate the palm’s hidden entrance, but a black eagle attacked before the restriction responded. They entered the pool as the entrance opened and were pulled into its depths, where they lost consciousness.

• Miao Qiuyun and Jiang Ruoyun used Water Essence Qi to gather spiritual liquid in the giant palm, causing its azure patterns to glow and form a spiritual essence lotus.
• A black eagle nearly at the Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage descended, and Ye Fan prepared to sacrifice himself to protect the group.
• Lu Feng struck the eagle with a sword infused with four strands of profound qi, wounding its claw before falling with his Soul Plate close to breaking.
• Jiang Ruoyun spotted the pool forming a vortex beneath the blooming lotus, and the group plunged into it as the eagle dove again.
• The pool’s force singled out Ruo Shui, so Jiang Ruoyun pulled her back and the group linked together before being swept into the restriction.
• The group descended through darkness, lost their grips, and fell unconscious.

Lu Feng woke imprisoned in a chamber that suppressed his cultivation and learned the Heaven Rain Clan planned to make him die before Ruo Shui so she would accept treatment. He agreed to the plan after securing his companions’ safety, but the old woman’s explanation about the writing supplies made him suspect she was hiding something.

• Lu Feng woke in a dark sealed chamber, discovered his spiritual energy and Soul Consciousness were suppressed, and found Spirit-Severing Thorns enclosing him.
• An elderly Heaven Rain Clan woman told Lu Feng that the remaining Northern Essence Water could save Ruo Shui but leave none for him to refine, and he chose to prioritize Ruo Shui’s life.
• The old woman revealed that Ruo Shui had refused treatment until she knew Lu Feng was safe, and said the clan wanted him to die before her so she would remain with them without guilt.
• Lu Feng agreed to swallow the clan’s pill and asked to write last letters in exchange for the old woman’s promise to protect and restore his companions.
• Lu Feng noticed the writing brush was still moist and grew suspicious when the old woman explained it had been used to record the Saintess’s return.