Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng identified sixteen of the eighteen Skill Inscriptions in Yuan En’s array and deduced the last two, passing the ninth assessment. Nangong Yun arrived to conduct the final assessment, while the Spirit Prison leaders planned to involve Lu Feng in an urgent matter concerning the Battle Realm.

• Yuan En tested Lu Feng by asking him to identify the Skill Inscriptions in his Eighteen Skill Array, and Lu Feng named sixteen correctly.
• Lu Feng deduced that the remaining inscriptions were for sound-roar and Soul Attack skills, impressing Yuan En and the watching array masters.
• Qiao Mumu celebrated Lu Feng’s success, while Qiao Xuan considered his guarantee fee safe and Ji Tong asked him to recommend Lu Feng to the Azure Sky Array Association.
• The Spirit Void Deputy Prison Master and An Xianglian waited for Hall Master Nangong Yun to conduct the final assessment.
• Nangong Yun arrived and agreed that, if Lu Feng passed, he should join the next day’s effort to address the Battle Realm’s problems.

Lu Feng passed Nangong Yun’s illusion-array assessment by recognizing that the painted black dragon lacked the true aura of one he had encountered before. After earning the chance to take the Teacher Qualification Assessment, Lu Feng faced a new scheme by Xiang Tianming’s group to disqualify him and arrange his death outside the prison.

• Nangong Yun presented Lu Feng with a landscape scroll that drew him into an illusion of a storm and a charging black dragon.
• Lu Feng broke free of the illusion and explained that the painted dragon lacked the authentic ferocity of a black dragon he had seen.
• Nangong Yun tore up the scroll, thanked Lu Feng, and decided to leave after the next day to travel across the continent.
• Spirit Void Deputy Prison Master announced that Lu Feng had passed the Array Verification Assessment and could take the Teacher Qualification Assessment.
• Xiang Tianming and Gu Wuyan planned to exploit the Heart Refinement Institute’s trial to disqualify Lu Feng, while Xiang Tianming also prepared to target him through an outside task.
• Apricot Blossom Rain volunteered to accuse Lu Feng of taking liberties with her and urge Mu Hongfei to raise the Heart Refinement standards.

Lu Feng learned that the Battle Realm had collapsed across multiple Spirit Prisons, leaving a dangerous black vortex that the Grand Prison was sending experts to contain. After inspecting the rupture with Spirit Void Sword Saint, Lu Feng survived its sudden attack and sensed that it had been drawn specifically to him.

• Spirit Void Deputy Prison Master explained that the Battle Realm entrance had collapsed, creating a spreading black vortex, and that the Grand Prison was sending powerful array masters and Martial Masters to restore it.
• Lu Feng learned that the Battle Realm was shared by numerous Spirit Prisons and that abnormalities had appeared at their entrances; the array masters were ordered to gather at Spirit Merit Hall the next day.
• Lu Feng reviewed teacher tasks at Spirit Merit Hall while Spirit Void Sword Saint checked the Battle Realm entrance, then escorted him to view the rupture from a safe distance.
• Lu Feng examined the enormous spatial vortex and wondered whether a battle inside the Battle Realm had caused its collapse.
• The vortex formed a giant black hand and struck at Lu Feng and Spirit Void Sword Saint, but Spirit Void Sword Saint cut it apart with a sword of spiritual energy.
• Spirit Void Sword Saint told Lu Feng to keep the attack secret, and Lu Feng headed back toward the Spirit Residence, stopping at Book Sea on the way.

Lu Feng shared Qu Yanfu’s source stone with Ye Fan, encouraged Ruo Shui about her constitution, and cultivated until he reached the Seventh Stage of Chakra. The next morning, he joined the other newly qualified instructors for the Teacher Qualification Assessment and learned it would evaluate their morality, teaching commitment, and overall qualities.

• Lu Feng gave Ye Fan a source stone and reassured Ruo Shui that his instructor could assess her Five Elements Pure Body.
• Ye Fan resolved to pursue the alchemy instructor assessment, while Lu Feng promised Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui that they could serve as teaching assistants.
• After receiving notice from the Master Hall, Lu Feng refined two source stones and advanced to the Seventh Stage of Chakra.
• Lu Feng arrived at the Master Hall and learned that twenty-three instructors would take the monthly Teacher Qualification Assessment, including two array masters.
• Feng Yanqin gathered the instructors and explained that the assessment would examine their teacherly morality, commitment, and quality.

Lu Feng passed the Heart Refinement Institute’s Teacher’s Heart assessment despite Mu Hongfei secretly giving him extra Illusion Heart Leaves, and twenty-two prospective mentors remained. Feng Yanqin then explained the rules for forming teaching groups as they headed to the Body Refinement Institute.

• Mu Hongfei distributed Illusion Heart Leaves for the assessment but gave Lu Feng far more than three, and Lu Feng recognized the tampering.
• Lu Feng endured the Illusion Heart Array’s trials, while one prospective mentor lost control in an illusion and was disqualified.
• Lu Feng passed the assessment with the other candidates, and he met Gao Liang, the other array arts mentor.
• Feng Yanqin issued Instructor Prison Tokens to the twenty-two remaining mentors and explained that they could form groups after completing the institutes and halls.
• Feng Yanqin described the regular and Self-Organized Group models, including their membership rules, teaching duties, and rewards or penalties.

Lu Feng faced ridicule from fellow instructors over his Chakra Realm strength and insisted on being tested with the Five Elements instructors. As the crystal pillar tests began, he saved his turn for last, warning that he might break it.

• Feng Yanqin brought the newly appointed instructors to the Body Refinement Institute, where Yan Junhan explained the cultivation test and its two crystal pillars.
• Du Gupeng and two companions mocked Lu Feng for being only at the Chakra Realm, and Lu Feng rebuked them for their limited strength and potential.
• Lu Feng insisted on using the thicker pillar and said he would test last because he feared breaking it; Gong Weihu challenged him to prove it.
• Gong Weihu tested at Five Elements One Qi Realm with 4,100 Stones of Strength, and Yan Junhan recorded his result as barely qualified.
• Duanmu Hong tested at Five Elements Two Qi Realm but registered 4,000 Stones of Strength because her elemental qi was unbalanced.

Lu Feng tested his strength after the instructors, and his first reading of 2,000 Stone of Strength drew mockery. By unsealing four Spirit Soul Arrays in succession, he raised the reading to 4,800, leaving everyone stunned and confirming each array added 700 Stone of Strength; he then reached for the Crystal Pillar again.

• Gao Liang and Du Gupeng completed their strength tests, with Du Gupeng recording 4,900 Stone of Strength.
• Lu Feng first tested at 2,000 Stone of Strength, and the instructors mocked him when the Crystal Pillar remained undamaged.
• Lu Feng unsealed Heavenly Rush Soul Formation and raised his reading to 2,700 Stone of Strength, shocking Yan Junhan and the others.
• Lu Feng unsealed Spirit Wisdom Soul Formation and Qi Soul Array, raising the reading to 3,400 and then 4,100 Stone of Strength.
• Lu Feng unsealed Center Soul Formation and reached 4,800 Stone of Strength, confirming that each array added 700, before pressing his hand against the Crystal Pillar again.

Lu Feng stopped the Crystal Pillar test after proving he could damage it, prompting Gong Weihu and Pu Shuo to resign as instructors and travel the continent. Yan Junhan certified Lu Feng at the Seventh Stage of Chakra, then Feng Yanqin led the new instructors through the Six Halls, where they were invited to choose weapons from the Ancestor Forest.

• Lu Feng's display made Gong Weihu apologize and surrender his instructor token, and Pu Shuo resigned to travel with him.
• Yan Junhan recorded Lu Feng's strength as the Seventh Stage of Chakra, while Lu Feng claimed he had interfered with the Crystal Pillar's formation to explain the changing readings.
• The new instructors completed their Five Elements Qi and Soul Strength tests, while Lu Feng sat out the tests he could not safely fake.
• Feng Yanqin introduced the Martial, Medicine, Formation, Beast, Spirit Food, and Artifact Halls and explained their facilities and uses.
• Feng Yanqin told the instructors they could each claim one weapon from the Ancestor Forest for the duration of their appointment, and they hurried in to choose.

Lu Feng searched the Ancestor Forest for a weapon suited to his soft-sword style and chose the flexible silver needle Laughing Cang Hai, amusing the other instructors. He then joined the gathered soul masters outside the Spirit Merit Hall to confront the spreading Black Vortex, where the Deputy Prison Masters outlined a plan to suppress it or build a defensive line.

• Lu Feng searched the jade steles for a suitable sword and chose Cang Haifeng's silver needle, naming it Laughing Cang Hai.
• Gao Liang and Duanmu Hong questioned Lu Feng's choice, and he jokingly called the needle a teaching whip.
• Lu Feng went to the Spirit Merit Hall, where Qiao Xuan warned him to keep his distance from the coming danger and told him he had dealt with the Muddled Sound Array at Black Ice Cliff.
• The Spirit Void Sword Saint and Thunder Fire Deputy Prison Master gathered forty-eight soul masters to address the Black Vortex's threat to the defensive line.
• The Spirit Void Sword Saint called for the group to suppress the Black Vortex, with a fallback plan to build a defensive line, and Lan Yin asked how they would suppress it.

Nangong Yun and the other masters attempted to suppress the Black Vortex with two arrays, but the seemingly dormant vortex broke free and began draining their spiritual energy. As the defenders regrouped behind a second barrier, Lu Feng was mocked for staying out of the fight despite his warning having saved them from greater losses.

• Nangong Yun and Lan Yin organized the Ten Thousand Sources Sealing Appearance Array and the Solidify Spirit Isolate Origin Array to contain the Black Vortex.
• Han Longzi and other martial masters mistook Lu Feng for a Heaven Soul Realm expert, but Lu Feng said he was only a Seventh Stage Chakra array master and they did not believe him.
• Nangong Yun formed a massive seal that trapped the motionless Black Vortex, and Lu Feng warned the group just as it twitched.
• The Black Vortex erupted into a spiked ball, pierced the first array, and wounded several soulmasters before Thunder Fire and Spirit Void Sword Saint led the defenses.
• The black spikes drained the defenders’ spiritual energy, forcing them to retreat behind Lan Yin’s Solidify Spirit Isolate Origin Array as the vortex’s suction intensified.
• Thunder Fire urged everyone to reinforce the defensive line, while Han Longzi invited Lu Feng to help and other martial masters called him a coward.

Lu Feng proposed suppressing the Black Vortex from within using the Jade Sound Array, then gathered the masters’ spiritual energy to build a vast binding array. After completing it, he leaped into the vortex’s center with Laughing Cang Hai, leaving the others anxiously watching.

• Lu Feng explained that he would use the Jade Sound Array inside the Black Vortex and asked the gathered masters to lend him their spiritual energy.
• Spirit Void Sword Saint arranged the materials Lu Feng requested, and Lu Feng began carving Flawless Gathering Jade with two earth-grade engraving knives.
• Lu Feng used Ten Thousand Rivers Converge to the Sea to connect the array patterns while the masters channeled their spiritual energy into his Flawless Gathering Array.
• Thunder Fire and Spirit Void ordered everyone to stop reinforcing the defensive line and give Lu Feng their full support.
• Lu Feng completed the array, binding the Black Vortex with golden patterns, then leaped into its center holding Laughing Cang Hai.

Lu Feng used the crowd’s spiritual energy and the Jade Sound Array to suppress the Black Vortex, then accepted a disaster-relief task in Convex Island, Thousand Peaks County. He planned to travel there with Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui to search for a Black Tortoise Beast Core, while Ye Fan stayed behind to prepare for his Pill Verification assessment and receive Old Book.

• Lu Feng emerged from the Black Vortex and directed the crowd to gather their spiritual energy, while Spirit Void Sword Saint spent a Mid-Grade Source Stone to replenish them.
• Lu Feng formed the Jade Sound Cauldron Formation and pinned the Black Vortex until it shrank into a fist-sized black mass.
• Han Longzi mistook Lu Feng for a Heaven Soul Realm cultivator, but Qiao Xuan explained that Lu Feng was in the Chakra Realm and had used the repaired Jade Sound Array.
• Lu Feng accepted a disaster-relief task in Convex Island, where he hoped to find a Black Tortoise Beast Core for Tang Yuan.
• Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui agreed to leave Group 715 early and accompany Lu Feng, while Ye Fan chose to stay and take the Pill Verification assessment.
• Lu Feng gave Ye Fan a jade bell that would alert him when Old Book entered the Eastern Origin Spirit Prison.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ruo Shui left Eastern Origin Spirit Prison on a disaster-relief mission, but encountered Zhao An and a black-clad attacker in the Purple Maple Forest. After Lu Feng helped defeat the attacker, Tang Yuan reunited with Ma Qiufeng, who had been protecting Yu'er from Zhao An.

• Lu Feng collected disaster-relief supplies, forged three Jade Arrows, and left Eastern Origin Spirit Prison with Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui.
• The three traveled through Tian Yuan City toward Thousand Peaks County, but lacked enough soul coins to pay for the next teleportation.
• In the Purple Maple Forest, they spotted Zhao An watching a middle-aged attacker fight a young man and woman, and Tang Yuan recognized the attacker as one of the black-clad men who had ambushed them before.
• Lu Feng shot the middle-aged attacker with a Jade Arrow, and the young woman finished him with her silver sword, while Zhao An escaped.
• Lu Feng recognized the injured young man as Ma Qiufeng, who explained that Zhao An had pursued Yu'er and arranged the attack after Ma Qiufeng drove him away.

Lu Feng and his companions found a Blood Pill among the spoils from Zhao An’s subordinate, revealing that the Blood Clan had resurfaced near Tian Yuan City. Ma Qiufeng and Luo Yu'er stayed behind to investigate, while Lu Feng gave Ma Qiufeng a powerful claw technique before the group parted.

• Ma Qiufeng and Luo Yu'er explained how a fortunate encounter in a ravine had increased their strength, and Lu Feng divided the recovered soul coins among the group.
• Lu Feng found a Blood Pill in the storage ring and warned that its stronger Blood Clan aura suggested a more powerful hidden force than the one in Azure Dragon Town.
• Ma Qiufeng vowed to confront the Blood Clan, and Lu Feng urged him to investigate secretly and report the threat to the Spirit Prison once confirmed.
• Luo Yu'er agreed to stay with Ma Qiufeng, and Lu Feng exchanged Soul Jades with him so they could call for help.
• Lu Feng gave Ma Qiufeng Disguise Paste and Jade Slips containing an Iron Claw Spirit Skill, and Ma Qiufeng and Luo Yu'er headed toward Tian Yuan City to investigate the Zhao Residence.

Lu Feng’s group rescued a young woman from Submerged Creek Stronghold bandits, but she took her own life after learning her family had been killed. Xiang Tianming’s party planned to use the stronghold against Lu Feng, so Lu Feng disguised himself as a bandit, killed Jia Tingxi, and buried him beneath a marker calling him a dear friend.

• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ruo Shui killed five bandits who were attacking a young woman, but she later killed herself in grief over her family’s deaths.
• Xiang Tianming’s group found the bodies, recognized Lu Feng’s arrows, and planned to make Submerged Creek Stronghold blame Lu Feng for killing its men.
• Lu Feng sent Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui to follow Xiang Tianming’s group while he disguised himself as a bandit and approached Jia Tingxi.
• Jia Tingxi offered to take Lu Feng to the stronghold lord, and Lu Feng pretended to accept while concealing his identity.
• Lu Feng struck Jia Tingxi by surprise, killed him, took his jade pendant and Storage Ring, and buried him beneath a marker reading “Grave of Dear Friend Ting Xi.”

Lu Feng entered Pine Wood Town through a hidden passage and discovered that the town might be a vast Simulated Realm. While he and his companions investigated, they encountered a white-robed woman dressed like Lu Feng’s former Night Feather Sword Master persona, pursuing a thief.

• Lu Feng staged Jia Tingxi’s death and the bandits’ deaths to make Xiang Tianming’s group and Submerged Creek Stronghold blame each other, then joined Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui outside Pine Wood Town.
• Lu Feng found a concealed entrance in the town wall and led Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui into Pine Wood Town’s Simulated Realm.
• Lu Feng and his companions checked Bright Moon Inn, learned Xiang Tianming’s group was not there, and set off toward Vaulted Wind City.
• A white-robed, masked woman chased a thief through town, and Lu Feng recognized her outfit as an imitation of his former Night Feather Sword Master appearance.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan rescued a masked young woman from three thieves who poisoned her with powder and tried to assault her. After Tang Yuan crippled and disarmed the thieves, Lu Feng recognized signs that the woman might be a wealthy young miss, and she asked them to retrieve medicine from her Storage Ring.

• A masked woman fought three thieves in an alley, but they trapped her with a poisonous net and stole her soul artifact-grade longsword.
• The thieves knocked off the woman’s mask and prepared to assault her, but Lu Feng stepped in with Tang Yuan and the others.
• Tang Yuan fought the thieves while Lu Feng used Jade Shards to disrupt their poisonous nets, allowing Tang Yuan to dislocate the arms of all three.
• The woman demanded that Tang Yuan kill the thieves, but Lu Feng told him to destroy their cultivation and let them go.
• Unable to summon spiritual energy, the woman asked Lu Feng to retrieve medicine from her Storage Ring, and he noticed her fine clothes and weapon suggested she came from a wealthy family.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Ruo Shui discovered they were trapped in a Simulated Realm populated by array soldiers, and Lu Feng helped the mysterious woman find the bearded bandit she was hunting. After defeating the bandit, the woman attacked Lu Feng, and the chapter left them facing off as she unleashed her most powerful sword technique.

• The woman recovered her strength with Earth-grade pills, killed the three bandits, and gave Lu Feng their Soul Artifacts as thanks before leaving to search for an Infamous Bandit.
• Lu Feng discovered the dead bandits were array soldiers and warned Tang Yuan and Ruo Shui that they were inside a dangerous Simulated Realm.
• Lu Feng found the bearded man from the woman's portrait fighting gray-clothed array soldiers, and the woman arrived to challenge him.
• Lu Feng pointed out the man's Jue Pan Acupoint, allowing the woman to defeat him, but she then turned on Lu Feng for meddling.
• Lu Feng countered the woman's Soul-grade sword techniques with his teaching whip, and she escalated to the Qing Tian Raindrop Sword, convinced he could not withstand it.

Lu Feng defeated Jun Ziyi and explained that they were trapped in a Simulated Realm, while its creators investigated his identity and recognized his unusual abilities. The group discussed how to escape, but Lu Feng warned that the available method would be difficult.

• Lu Feng used his swordsmanship and Exquisite Steps to defeat Jun Ziyi, who questioned how he had countered her skills.
• Lu Feng learned that Jun Ziyi had entered the realm through Pine Wood Town to complete a mission and told her they were inside a Simulated Realm.
• Jun Ziyi broke down in tears after learning the truth, while Qian Yuan and Yao Xuan watched the scene and ordered Qian Xin to investigate Lu Feng.
• Qian Yuan read Lu Feng's records, learned he had passed the Array Verification Assessment, and told Qian Xin to study under him at the Spirit Prison.
• Qian Yuan and Yao Xuan agreed to withdraw the Simulated Realm and considered bringing Jun Ziyi to the Spirit Prison.
• Lu Feng, Jun Ziyi, Tang Yuan, and Ruo Shui discussed escaping, and Lu Feng said he knew a way out but that it would be difficult.

Lu Feng used Jun Ziyi’s rare array materials and the Burst Array to tear open the Simulated Realm and free the group, surprising its creators. Jun Ziyi joined Lu Feng’s party as they set out for drought-stricken Convex Island.

• Jun Ziyi gave Lu Feng a Storage Ring filled with rare array materials, and he confirmed that her family had trapped her in the Simulated Realm for training.
• Qian Yuan planned to lift the Simulated Realm during Lu Feng’s attempt to break it, hoping Jun Ziyi would believe Lu Feng had freed them himself.
• Jun Ziyi learned Lu Feng was an array master, and he used the Burst Array to tear a gap in the realm’s barrier and lead the group out.
• Qian Yuan abandoned the remaining Simulated Realms after Lu Feng’s array broke through, while Jun Ziyi decided she wanted to travel with Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng refused Jun Ziyi’s offer to take another mission with her, but agreed to bring her along to help with disaster relief on Convex Island after she pleaded to see the world.