Chapter Summaries

The expedition advanced into a disorienting region, where Si Kongtong and Ge Rong discovered that Wu Ying had secretly joined the team. After Si Kongtong’s compass trick helped them keep their bearings, Phantom Dream Bees attacked and sent members of the group fleeing in hallucinations.

• Ge Rong identified the next map symbol as a dangerous, disorienting region, and Si Kongtong refused to turn back despite her pregnancy.
• The group passed a Climbing Silkworm Rope through the team, allowing Si Kongtong and Ge Rong to recognize the disguised Wu Ying among the Love Tomb disciples.
• Si Kongtong offered Ge Rong a Kernel Boat Water Gourd, whose tiny kernel continued to point in a fixed direction despite the chaotic surroundings.
• The team entered a fragrant forest, where Si Kongtong recognized the warning signs of Phantom Dream Bees and called for everyone to defend themselves.
• Phantom Dream Bees swarmed the group, and hallucinating members mistook their ropes for venomous snakes and fled.

Scarlet Clouds and the others pressed deeper into the Dragon Spine Mountain Range after using the Mind Stabilizing Art on seven poisoned disciples, while Lu Feng and Tang Yuan learned Xia Yiyun had been taken hostage and rode to rescue her. At the map’s final marker, the expedition discovered a forest of enormous Ming Chou Camphor Trees and suspected the legendary Titan Giant Tree lay within.

• Scarlet Clouds ordered the group to protect themselves from the Poison Powder swarm, and Si Kongtong used the Mind Stabilizing Art on seven severely afflicted disciples after the group agreed to keep moving without escorting them back.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan waited near Azure Cloud Stream, where the injured Ru Jijie arrived and told them that Xia Yiyun had been taken hostage by a grandfather and grandson.
• Ru Jijie identified the old man as possibly Dark Moon Cang Lan, and Lu Feng and Tang Yuan rode toward Azure Lake Ridge to rescue Xia Yiyun.
• Jiang Ruoyun, Si Kongtong, and the survivors reached the map’s final marker, where they found a forest of enormous Ming Chou Camphor Trees.
• Si Kongtong concluded that the legendary Titan Giant Tree might be causing the trees’ extraordinary growth, and the group wondered whether it was the treasure recorded on the map.

The group discovered that the Titan Giant Tree’s carved-out core caused deadly life-force surges, and its surrounding trees attacked them. Wu Ying revealed a hidden entrance beneath a Ming Chou Camphor Tree, leading the survivors toward the ancient ruins they had been seeking.

• Scarlet Clouds and the others discussed the Titan Giant Tree’s immense value before finding its stump and floating emerald core.
• Jiang Ruoyun and Si Kongtong reasoned that the core had been carved out and might be redirecting Wood Element Qi.
• Scarlet Clouds sent disciples to test the stump, but two rapidly aged after approaching the core, and the surrounding roots killed them and several others.
• Wu Ying uprooted a Ming Chou Camphor Tree, revealing a fluorescent opening and hanging ladder beneath it.
• Ge Rong urged the survivors to descend through the newly revealed Ancient Ruins Entrance while Scarlet Clouds and Ge Rong held off the roots.

Lu Feng and Tang Yuan arrived at Azure Lake Ridge and learned that the factions had entered a secret realm through a shrinking gateway in the lake. Qu Jiaojao recounted how the gateway was discovered and asked Lu Feng to protect her inside, while the whereabouts of Xia Yiyun remained unresolved.

• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan reached Azure Lake Ridge and found only a few weak disciples from each faction at the camps.
• Lu Feng recognized Qu Jiaojao, who rushed over and begged him to protect her as she entered the secret realm at Azure Lake.
• Qu Jiaojao led Lu Feng and Tang Yuan to Azure Lake, where they saw an eye-shaped gateway surrounded by crimson flowers and learned it was shrinking before dawn.
• Qu Jiaojao asked Lu Feng to kill someone for her if necessary, then explained that Yan Nanqiu had sneaked from camp before she was ambushed and knocked unconscious.
• Qu Jiaojao said she had witnessed three Carefree Pavilion servants arguing and fighting, which led them to trigger an illusion array near the lake.
• Qu Jiaojao recounted that a Qian Tian Sect disciple called Sima entered the gateway, followed by a companion and two women, before the factions agreed to enter and left weaker disciples behind.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Qu Jiaojiao entered the Azure Lake Secret Realm and discovered that it contained a lifeless Crimson Nan City from the distant past. In the Outer City, Qian Xin faced Jiu Ren’s group with an illusion array plate and revealed that Lu Feng had taught her a risky way to use arrays.

• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan concluded that Saint Sect members had likely opened the secret realm and that Xia Yiyun had been abducted to keep its secrets hidden.
• Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Qu Jiaojiao entered the gateway and emerged in an ancient Crimson Nan City preserved within a Sumeru space.
• The three found the city devoid of life and Crimson Nan Flowers, then headed toward its center as a battle erupted in the southern Outer City.
• Jiu Ren, Tian Lingzi, Si Ma Ye, and their allies cornered the wounded Qian Meng, Qian Xin, and Xiao Yixue after breaking Qian Meng’s grand array.
• Qian Meng gave Qian Xin his Storage Ring and urged her and Xiao Yixue to escape, but Qian Xin stayed and deployed the Fleeting Dream Array plate.
• Qian Xin declared that Lu Feng had taught her that inferior array users had to win through risk, and warned that the illusion array was more than it appeared.

Qian Xin used a Fleeting Dream Array fused with the Two Strings Startle Dream Array to injure their pursuers and help Qian Meng and Xiao Yixue escape, but Jiu Ren and Tian Lingzi caught up. Qian Xin deployed an enhanced Eight Gates Binding Array against Jiu Ren’s killing formation, leaving thousands of gates facing the descending Jiu Ren Heavenly Dice.

• Qian Xin triggered a sudden string blast inside the Fleeting Dream Array, forcing Ye Lingfei and Lin Yuhan out of the illusion so violently that they lost their minds while Qian Meng’s group escaped.
• Jiu Ren ordered the uninjured pursuers onward, while Mu Rong Yu paid a disciple two High-Grade Source Stones to carry off Ye Lingfei and Lin Yuhan; then Si Ma Ye and Mu Rong Yu left to pursue the secret realm on their own.
• Qian Xin explained to Qian Meng and Xiao Yixue that she had exposed the array core to distract Jiu Ren, then used the Two Strings Startle Dream Array to abruptly pull people out of the illusion.
• As Jiu Ren and Tian Lingzi caught up, Qian Xin deployed an improved Eight Gates Binding Array among the residences, and Jiu Ren summoned his Jiu Ren Heavenly Dice killing array.
• Qian Xin stopped Qian Meng from fleeing into the path of the attack, and the Eight Gates Binding Array drew the ruins into thousands of gates that formed a barrier against Jiu Ren’s Heavenly Dice.

Qian Xin’s enhanced Gen Mountain Wu Earth Array shielded her, Qian Meng, and Xiao Yixue from Tian Lingzi’s group, while Jiu Ren battered the Eight Gates Binding Array. After the array killed one of Tian Lingzi’s disciples, Jiu Ren turned his Heaven Dice against the Earth Walls protecting Qian Xin and the others.

• The Eight Gates Binding Array created hundreds of rubble-bodied phantoms, but Jiu Ren destroyed those attacking him and Tian Lingzi’s group.
• Qian Xin activated the Gen Mountain Wu Earth Array, and its enhanced Earth Walls stopped Tian Lingzi’s Heaven Soul Realm Spirit Cone attack.
• Qian Meng realized Lu Feng had improved the array discs, and Qian Xin revealed he had enhanced all the ones he gave her.
• Exquisite Pavilion’s arrays broke through the first Earth Wall, but stronger layers rose and drove Tian Lingzi’s group back.
• The Eight Gates Binding Array dragged in and killed a disciple who had strayed too close, while Jiu Ren criticized Tian Lingzi’s group.
• Jiu Ren advanced over Qian Xin and the others and smashed through the outer Earth Walls with his Heaven Dice.

Lu Feng took control of the Gen Mountain Wu Earth Array and turned Jiu Ren’s attack back on him, saving Qian Meng, Qian Xin, and Xiao Yixue. After recognizing Lu Feng’s identity, Jiu Ren withdrew and tried to recruit him, but Qian Xin’s rebuke made clear that Lu Feng would not join him, leaving Jiu Ren to consider a future attack.

• Jiu Ren battered down the array’s defenses and demanded that Qian Meng hand over the key, while Qian Meng refused to bargain until the others were released.
• Lu Feng arrived and took control of the Gen Mountain Wu Earth Array, unleashing its power to blast Jiu Ren and Tian Lingzi’s group away from the array.
• Qian Xin, Qian Meng, and Xiao Yixue greeted Lu Feng with relief, while Jiu Ren and his allies gathered and warned him not to interfere in Qian Tian Sect affairs.
• Lu Feng summoned swords from the Heavenfall Sword Array as Jiu Ren prepared to attack, but Tian Lingzi recognized Lu Feng and whispered his identity to Jiu Ren.
• Jiu Ren withdrew his Heaven Dice Killing Array and offered Lu Feng anything he wanted to win him over, but Qian Xin rejected the offer on Lu Feng’s behalf.
• Jiu Ren abandoned his attempt to recruit Lu Feng and resolved to seek a better opportunity to attack him with more allies.

Lu Feng and his companions discovered that Qu Jiaojiao’s communication jade talisman had broken and rushed toward the eastern outskirts to find her. There, Ji Lanxin forced Yan Nanqiu to serve her while Qu Jiaojiao watched, until a crash outside interrupted them and Ji Lanxin went to investigate.

• Lu Feng neutralized Jiu Ren’s Heaven Dice Killing Array, then learned Qu Jiaojiao’s communication jade talisman had broken and set out with his companions to find her.
• Ji Lanxin held Qu Jiaojiao captive outside a Private School, with Qu Jiaojiao’s strength sealed and her hands bound while Yan Nanqiu led her by a rope.
• Ji Lanxin ordered Yan Nanqiu to call her Master and crawl to lick the saliva from her clothes as Qu Jiaojiao realized he was not being forced to act against his will.
• Yan Nanqiu asked Ji Lanxin to kill Qu Jiaojiao afterward, and Ji Lanxin whipped him while humiliating him in front of Qu Jiaojiao.
• A guard crashed through the Private School’s wall after a thunderous impact, prompting Ji Lanxin to leave after ordering Yan Nanqiu to strip and whip Qu Jiaojiao.

Lu Feng found Ji Lanxin and Yan Nanqiu dead and deduced that Qu Kan had rescued Qu Jiaojiao. Meanwhile, Jiu Ren cornered Qian Xin, Qian Meng, and Xiao Yixue, but a phantom array puppet appeared and confronted him.

• Lu Feng killed Tian Ji after breaking through his defensive array, then found Ji Lanxin and Yan Nanqiu dead in the Private School.
• Lu Feng recognized the jade beads used to kill Yan Nanqiu and concluded that Qu Kan had rescued Qu Jiaojiao.
• Tang Yuan secretly watched over Qian Xin, Qian Meng, and Xiao Yixue while Jiu Ren blocked their path.
• Qian Xin tried to scare Jiu Ren with a lump of iron, but it triggered an array that blasted apart his attack.
• A phantom formed from array force confronted Jiu Ren and accused him of imprisoning it for seven months, leaving Qian Meng and Qian Xin stunned.

Demon Eagle, empowered by Tang Yuan’s Inviting Immortal Array, fought Jiu Ren and overcame the elder’s secret arts and Heaven Dice. After killing Jiu Ren, Demon Eagle’s strength gave out, and he fled to disperse alone.

• Qian Meng identified the arriving fighter as Demon Eagle, and Jiu Ren recognized him as the enemy he had once trapped in the Black Hell Nether Flame Array.
• Demon Eagle attacked Jiu Ren with his signature techniques, while Jiu Ren strengthened his Heaven Dice with a sinister secret art and a blood-red pill.
• Tang Yuan watched from concealment and realized the Inviting Immortal Array could let a remnant soul use even its former secret techniques.
• The array empowered Demon Eagle to strike Jiu Ren from unexpected angles, leaving him badly wounded and crushing much of his Heaven Dice.
• Jiu Ren tried to escape and offered Demon Eagle resources and help against the Qian Tian Sect, but Demon Eagle rejected the bargain and killed him.
• Demon Eagle’s strength ran out after he dispersed and re-formed through the array, so he fled into the distance to disperse alone.

Tang Yuan explained how Lu Feng succeeded with the Inviting Immortal Array and recounted the tragic history behind Demon Eagle’s hatred of the Qian Tian Sect. The group reached the ruined Private School, where Lu Feng faced Long Tongue Old Monster, who believed Ji Lanxin had been killed and swore to take revenge.

• Tang Yuan said Lu Feng’s Inviting Immortal Array worked because Demon Eagle willingly entered it, though Lu Feng had accidentally dissipated the other remnant souls during earlier attempts.
• Tang Yuan explained that Demon Eagle had become an enemy of the Qian Tian Sect after Jiu Ren’s master injured him during a failed rescue, leading to his beloved’s death and years of revenge.
• Qian Meng recounted how the Old Sect Leader sacrificed himself to appease Demon Eagle, but Demon Eagle broke his word, so the sect later drove him into the Ghost Domain.
• Tang Yuan sensed an array disturbance near the Private School and led Qian Meng, Qian Xin, and Xiao Yixue there, where they found Lu Feng confronting Long Tongue Old Monster amid the ruins.
• Lu Feng told Long Tongue Old Monster that Ji Lanxin had been blasted to pieces, and Long Tongue Old Monster unleashed his killing intent and threatened to kill him.

Lu Feng used the Three Talents Creation Array to fight Long Tongue Old Monster, concealing his stamina and feigning injury until the old monster destroyed the array’s three phantoms. Lu Feng then revealed a Three Talents Combined phantom, while his allies hoped it could defeat Long Tongue Old Monster and Lu Feng’s plan to eliminate his pursuers was revealed.

• Long Tongue Old Monster approached Lu Feng with suppressive footwork, but Lu Feng escaped the pressure and retreated behind the Private School ruins.
• Lu Feng’s Three Talents Creation Array manifested three sword-wielding phantoms that drove Long Tongue Old Monster back and wounded his arm.
• Lu Feng concealed the array’s low energy expenditure and let Long Tongue Old Monster believe that he was winning a battle of endurance.
• Long Tongue Old Monster destroyed the three phantoms with his Serpent Art, while Lu Feng feigned severe injury to lower his guard.
• Lu Feng formed a new phantom carrying all three swords in a Three Talents Combined stance as Qian Meng recognized its offensive and defensive power.
• Lu Feng’s thoughts revealed that he had deliberately stayed to hunt Long Tongue Old Monster and intended to eliminate the bounty hunters one by one.

Lu Feng struggled to withstand Long Tongue Old Monster’s attacks, then used the Three Talents Creation Array’s shifting forms to deceive him and land a devastating wound. Long Tongue Old Monster realized Lu Feng had anticipated that he would dodge the apparent hammer strike.

• Long Tongue Old Monster relentlessly attacked Lu Feng’s Three Talents phantom, forcing it back despite having already been weakened by the array traps.
• Lu Feng used a pit to reverse the battle’s momentum, but Long Tongue Old Monster countered his twin swords with a serpent-like technique and knocked them away.
• After Long Tongue Old Monster seized the phantom’s weapons and overwhelmed it, Lu Feng unsealed five souls and dissolved the phantom while keeping the Three Talents Creation Array active.
• Long Tongue Old Monster tested Lu Feng with poisoned Serpent Awls, then charged when Lu Feng used the array to evade them.
• Lu Feng formed a giant hammer behind Long Tongue Old Monster, made him dodge, and transformed the attack into a sword strike that cut him nearly in half.
• Long Tongue Old Monster fell and asked whether Lu Feng had known he would avoid taking the hammer head-on.

Lu Feng defeated Long Tongue Old Monster but nearly died from his soulfire counterattack, then reflected on his reckless tactics. After Tian Lingzi’s group took Qian Meng and the others hostage, Lu Feng turned their Black White Mysterious Nether Array against them and demanded to know where Exquisite Pavilion had learned it.

• Lu Feng pierced Long Tongue Old Monster with a spear, but Long Tongue Old Monster struck his sea of soul with Nether Dragon Soul Devour; Lu Feng sacrificed most of his recovered Soul Power to expel the attack.
• Lu Feng dissolved his axe attack after noticing his companions arriving, and Tang Yuan killed Long Tongue Old Monster with a pebble before giving Lu Feng pills to recover.
• Lu Feng resolved to fight more cautiously, but Tian Lingzi and Exquisite Pavilion members arrived with Qian Meng and the others held hostage and demanded their storage tools.
• Tian Lingzi’s group deployed the Black White Mysterious Nether Array, but Lu Feng seized control of it and made its hands attack the array’s operators.
• Lu Feng spared the terrified Tian Lingzi temporarily and asked where Exquisite Pavilion had learned the Black White Mysterious Nether Array.

Lu Feng questioned Tian Lingzi about the Black White Mysterious Nether Array, accepted Qian Meng’s Array Soldier Puppets, and learned that a Heavenly Curtain blocked the way into the city. As the group set out to search for an entrance, Lu Feng explained how he had seized control of the array and encouraged Qian Xin to learn to do the same.

• Lu Feng learned from Tian Lingzi that the Black White Mysterious Nether Array had been a core array of Exquisite Pavilion for generations, then made him apologize to Qian Xin and swear off wrongdoing before letting him go.
• Qian Meng gave Lu Feng five Ink Gold Heavy Iron Array Soldier Puppets, while Tang Yuan found the Divine Prison Azure Cloud Steps manual in the Long Tongue Old Monster’s Storage Ring.
• Qian Meng explained that a Heavenly Curtain surrounded the city and suggested searching for an opening; he led the group south, toward where Si Ma Ye and his companions had gone.
• As the group traveled, Lu Feng admitted that his Soul Power was overdrawn and told Qian Xin that he had taken control of the Black White Mysterious Nether Array rather than merely disrupting it.
• Lu Feng told Qian Xin that her Five Elements Qi and his teachings could let her seize control of a similar array in the future, leaving her delighted.

Lu Feng and the others found Lin Yuhan badly violated and learned that Demon Eagle may have possessed Ye Lingfei to pursue the keys. As the realm’s sky shifted and the group entered a vast graveyard, they discovered an old Thick Earth Thorns Array that may have been set by the Saint Sect pair.

• Tang Yuan led the group to Lin Yuhan, who attacked Xiao Yixue, and they found a dead Exquisite Pavilion disciple nearby.
• Qian Meng recognized Demon Eagle’s lingering aura on the corpse, and Lu Feng concluded he had likely possessed Ye Lingfei.
• Lu Feng noticed the sky had not changed for an hour, then the group saw it shift as a spatial array moved through a fixed interval.
• The group hurried toward Crimson Nan City but found a vast cemetery blocking their route, so Tang Yuan led them into it.
• After traveling deeper among the gravestones, Qian Meng sensed a settled Thick Earth Thorns Array, and Lu Feng identified it as likely belonging to the Saint Sect pair.

Lu Feng and his companions rescued Feng Li from a deadly formation and learned that Li Taiyuan’s group had attacked Sun Ring Manor’s people before entering a mysterious passage. Conflicting reports of night and day in different parts of the secret realm led Lu Feng and Qian Meng to suspect the passage might appear after nightfall.

• Tang Yuan smashed through the Thick Earth Thorns Array and rescued the wounded Feng Li, whose companions lay dead nearby.
• Feng Li recognized Qian Meng and asked Lu Feng to seek justice for Sun Ring Manor; Sun Fu arrived and vowed to demand an explanation from the Saint Sect.
• Feng Li identified Li Taiyuan’s group as the attackers and said they had entered a whirlpool-like passage, while Lu Feng promised to destroy them if he found them.
• Feng Li and Sun Fu described conflicting times of day, and the group reasoned that different areas of the secret realm might experience separate sky changes.
• Lu Feng and Qian Meng wondered whether they needed to wait until nightfall for the passage to appear.

Lu Feng and the others uncovered a Gathering Yin Jade and triggered the appearance of thirty-six Soul Puppets guarding the newly revealed entrance. Lu Feng recognized their formation as the Universe Binding Spirit Hand, but realized the technique might bind the entire space rather than the puppets themselves.

• Song Yiqing pointed out a corpse beneath a tombstone, and Tang Yuan opened its coffin, causing the corpse to vanish and reveal a Gathering Yin Jade.
• The ground and sky shifted as the grand array reset the graveyard, night fell, and a spiritual energy vortex entrance appeared.
• Thirty-six Soul Puppets emerged from the tombstones, and one invaded Song Yiqing's soul sea when she moved backward.
• Tang Yuan used his yang aura to shield the group while Lu Feng recognized the Soul Puppets' formation as the Universe Binding Spirit Hand.
• Tang Yuan's Splitting Flame Palm struck several Soul Puppets back into their tombstones, and Lu Feng suspected the technique bound the entire space.

Lu Feng realized the Grave Area was an illusion array and led Tang Yuan to destroy its thirty-six tombstones, but they removed them one at a time and triggered a dangerous mutation. As a Soul Puppet gathered the fleeing Sun Ring Manor members into deadly rings, Lu Feng also sensed that Jiang Ruoyun had suffered a grave injury through their contract array.

• Lu Feng realized the Grave Area was an illusion array after Song Yiqing disappeared beneath a tombstone, while Sun Fu warned that the Soul Puppets were real.
• Lu Feng proposed uprooting thirty-six tombstones, and Tang Yuan began smashing the ones Lu Feng marked as Qian Meng protected them with his Qiankun One Qi Array.
• Lu Feng sensed through the contract array that something had happened to Jiang Ruoyun, and Tang Yuan urged the group to escape quickly.
• Lu Feng realized the tombstones had to be destroyed simultaneously, but their piecemeal destruction caused the Soul Puppets to merge into a more substantial phantom.
• The phantom created smoke-like Soul Puppets that killed the fleeing Sun Ring Manor members, then arranged them around two rings and beckoned to the group.