Chapter Summaries

Liu Feng and Ah Yin explored Phoenix Town after agreeing with their companions to meet at the eastern cliff that night to watch Phoenix Bathing in Fire. They sampled local treats and discovered preparations for a town bonfire, then returned to the town center.

• Liu Feng and Ah Yin joined Dugu Bo and Gu Rong for breakfast, where they tried the town's savory flower cake with black tea.
• Dugu Xin and Ning Fengzhi arrived, and Liu Feng proposed that the group explore separately before gathering at the eastern cliff that evening.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin left the hotel and saw a painter organizing workers as they built a large firewood ring around the Wutong Tree for a bonfire party.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin toured Phoenix Town's streets, sampling food and browsing local wares as Liu Feng carried their purchases.
• After several hours, Liu Feng and Ah Yin returned to the town center, where Ah Yin pointed something out to Liu Feng.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin encountered Flender and Liu Erlong at the Fire Phoenix Festival and learned that Yu Xiaogang had been taken back by his clan, leaving Liu Erlong heartbroken. When the festival’s masked blind-date celebration began, Ah Yin persuaded Liu Feng to join her for a dance beneath the Wutong Divine Tree.

• Liu Feng and Ah Yin watched a painter finish Flender and Liu Erlong’s portrait, then greeted them.
• Liu Erlong explained that Yu Xiaogang had broken through the Soul Elder bottleneck and been taken by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for training.
• Flender told Liu Feng that Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang were cousins and had been separated because of their feelings for each other.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin left Flender and Liu Erlong and explored Phoenix Town’s quiet streets until the Fire Phoenix Festival bonfire was lit.
• A young man explained that masked festivalgoers were seeking partners for blind-date dances beneath the Wutong Divine Tree.
• Ah Yin put on a Phoenix Mask and persuaded Liu Feng to join her in the masked crowd for a dance.

Liu Feng and Dugu Bo investigated the Phoenix Flying to Heaven spectacle at the stone wall but found no tangible presence behind the phoenix phantom. Liu Feng suspected the image was a projection created by the bonfire in Phoenix Town and urged everyone to return.

• Liu Feng and Liu Erlong reached the lake and met Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Xin, Dugu Bo, and Bone Douluo, then told them Ah Yin had gone into hiding to investigate a possible threat.
• Bone Douluo vanished to search the area as the full moon reached its peak and a huge phoenix phantom appeared on the stone wall.
• Liu Feng crossed the lake and climbed the wall while Dugu Bo and other Soul Masters followed, but the golden phantom passed through them without revealing anything.
• Liu Feng noticed the bonfire in Phoenix Town had become a towering pillar of light and returned with Dugu Bo, suspecting the phoenix was a projection cast from an enormous object.
• Liu Feng explained that the bonfire might have projected a phoenix-shaped image onto the wall, and Ning Fengzhi wondered whether the fire had been deliberately arranged.

Liu Feng and the others uncovered that Phoenix Flying to Heaven was a projection created by the town’s painter, but Ah Yin revealed that the Wutong Tree still held a mysterious fluctuation. The group decided to investigate the tree further.

• Liu Feng led the group to the town square, where they found the painter working beside a burning Wutong Tree as Phoenix Town’s Soul Masters formed a wary circle around them.
• Dugu Bo revealed his nine Soul Rings, frightening the local Soul Masters into standing down.
• The painter admitted that his family used its Paintbrush Martial Soul and Pinhole Imaging to project the phoenixes, and Liu Feng let him and the townspeople go.
• Bone Douluo and Ah Yin returned without finding an enemy, and Ah Yin explained that she had sensed a strange fluctuation from the ordinary-looking Wutong Tree.
• Liu Feng decided that the group needed to investigate the Wutong Tree again.

During Phoenix Town’s masked festival, Liu Feng and Ah Yin sensed an unfamiliar presence in the crowd and split up to investigate. Liu Feng encountered Liu Erlong amid a sudden surge of Soul Power, and they left the packed square together to head for the eastern cliff and watch the Phoenix Flying to Heaven spectacle.

• Liu Feng and Ah Yin danced at the bonfire festival until Ah Yin sensed a strange, familiar feeling coming from all around them.
• Liu Feng suggested that Ah Yin leave the crowd to investigate while he stayed behind to watch for danger.
• A sudden frenzy of music and Soul Power swept through the square, and Liu Feng caught Liu Erlong when the crowd knocked her off balance.
• Liu Feng told Liu Erlong about Ah Yin’s strange sensation, but the two found no sign of an enemy in the crowd.
• Liu Feng and Liu Erlong escaped the packed square and headed east toward the cliff viewing spot to see the Phoenix Flying to Heaven spectacle.

Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Xin used their Four-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill to investigate the Wutong Tree and discovered a tiny space bubble containing a drop of dark red blood. When the blood’s heat attacked Ah Yin’s spiritual power, the Azure Dragon fired a powerful blast at the tree.

• Liu Feng proposed using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to help Ah Yin locate the strange force inside the Wutong Tree, and Dugu Bo, Dugu Xin, and Ah Yin agreed.
• Liu Feng decided the group should act immediately, while Bone Douluo promised to evacuate them with a Space Skill afterward.
• Flender arrived, and Liu Erlong left town with him after warning that the coming disturbance would attract dangerous attention.
• Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Xin combined their Martial Souls to form a massive Azure Dragon that flew toward the Wutong Tree.
• Ah Yin found a tiny Space Bubble inside the tree containing a drop of dark red blood, but its scorching force burned away her spiritual power and began attacking her.
• The four gathered their power and enhancement skills, and Liu Feng ordered the Azure Dragon to unleash Dragon Blast at the Wutong Tree.

Liu Feng and his companions uncovered the Phoenix Blood hidden in Phoenix Town’s Wutong Tree, and its flames trapped Liu Feng while badly injuring Ah Yin, Dugu Xin, and Dugu Bo. As Liu Feng endured the fire, he learned that the Phoenix Blood’s hostility toward him came from the Ice Fire Dragon King’s aura he had acquired.

• The Wutong Tree unleashed a vast fireball that struck Azure Dragon and sent Ah Yin, Dugu Xin, and Dugu Bo crashing toward the ground.
• Bone Douluo rescued the falling trio with his spatial power, and Ah Yin used the Blue Silver Domain to stabilize their injuries.
• Ning Fengzhi and the others emerged from Bone Douluo’s small space and saw Liu Feng trapped inside the fireball as a flaming phoenix circled him.
• Ah Yin stopped Bone Douluo from attacking the fireball, fearing that an assault might harm Liu Feng.
• As the flames overwhelmed Liu Feng, he learned that a drop of Phoenix Blood in the Wutong Tree had empowered the tree and nearby Wutong Trees.
• Liu Feng realized the Phoenix Blood Flames had targeted him because he carried the Ice Fire Dragon King’s aura, and that he had remained behind to protect his companions.

Liu Feng survived the Phoenix Blood’s scorching energy by fusing it into his Left Leg Soul Bone, transforming it into a Hundred Thousand Year Phoenix Blood Wutong Wood Left Leg Soul Bone. After the fireball vanished, he flew back to Ah Yin and the others, who welcomed him safely.

• Liu Feng realized his Soul Rings were full and decided to guide the Phoenix Blood’s energy into his ninety-nine-year White Jade Bamboo Left Leg Soul Bone.
• Liu Feng endured the pain and successfully transformed the Left Leg Soul Bone into a Hundred Thousand Year Phoenix Blood Wutong Wood Left Leg Soul Bone.
• Ah Yin, Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo waited for the fireball to change as dawn approached.
• The fireball dissipated, and Liu Feng used the new Soul Bone Skill, Wings of Love, to fly and dress himself.
• Liu Feng located Ah Yin and returned to the inn roof, where Ah Yin rushed into his arms and cried with relief.

Liu Feng and his companions escaped Phoenix Town, where he concealed the true nature of his Soul Bone while revealing that he had reached level 75. Seven days after the Fire Phoenix Festival, Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire began investigating the town and tracking Dugu Bo and Son.

• Bone Douluo used his Space Dragon skill to take Liu Feng and the others out of Phoenix Town to a grassland.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned Liu Feng about his Flame Wings, and Liu Feng said energy from the Wutong Tree had raised his Soul Power to level 75 while hiding that his Soul Bone had evolved.
• The group continued southeast toward the Hercules River after Bone Douluo admitted he did not know their exact location.
• Seven days after the Fire Phoenix Festival, Qing Luan Douluo and White Tiger Douluo questioned people in Phoenix Town about the Azure Dragon and fireball.
• Qing Luan Douluo and White Tiger Douluo argued over who should control the investigation, then separately ordered their subordinates to monitor Dugu Bo and Son.

Liu Feng and his companions reached the grasslands near Wolf City and discovered North Wind Demon Wolves, ice-wind variants that raised questions about the region’s connection to the God of Strength. When a fifty-thousand-year-old wolf king surrounded a merchant caravan, Liu Feng charged in to fight it and found himself locked in a contest of strength.

• Ning Fengzhi said the group was nearing Wolf City and the Hercules River, while Liu Feng agreed they could rest after reaching the city.
• The group heard wolves howling, and Ning Fengzhi explained that North Wind Demon Wolves were ice-wind variants of Gale Demon Wolves despite the Wolf Kingdom having no Snow Mountains.
• Liu Feng and the others found two to three hundred North Wind Demon Wolves surrounding a merchant caravan defended by ten Soul Masters, including a Soul King.
• Dugu Bo and Bone Douluo offered to intervene, but Ah Yin warned that revealing themselves could expose them to the Star Luo Empire and Spirit Hall, so Liu Feng chose to face the wolf king himself.
• Liu Feng’s level-75 Soul Power disrupted the pack, and the wolf king ordered the lower-level wolves to withdraw before charging Liu Feng.
• Liu Feng and the fifty-thousand-year-old North Wind Demon Wolf Leader collided without either being knocked back, and Liu Feng realized the wolf was protected by a layer of Profound Ice.

Liu Feng defeated the North Wind Demon Wolf Leader after surviving its pack’s healing ability and clashing his Dragon Blast against its Absolute Freezing Bomb. The merchant caravan thanked him, and he and his companions continued toward Wolf City.

• Liu Feng used Nine Bends Vine Dragon Transformation to fight the North Wind Demon Wolf Leader, eventually smashing its jaw and knocking it down.
• The remaining North Wind Demon Wolves sent their energy to their leader, healing its injuries, so Liu Feng activated Blue Silver True Body.
• The leader gathered the pack’s power to form an Absolute Freezing Bomb, while Liu Feng prepared Dragon Blast through Ring Fusion.
• Liu Feng’s Dragon Blast overwhelmed the Absolute Freezing Bomb and killed the Demon Wolf Leader, scattering the surviving wolves.
• Ah Yin healed Liu Feng, and the merchant caravan invited him and his companions to a feast in gratitude.
• Liu Feng found no Soul Bone in the wolf’s corpse, then feasted with the merchants before the caravan set out for Wolf City.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin explored Wolf City, where Ah Yin bought seeds and a puppy from two orphaned siblings. The boy revealed that he had a Soul Bone and asked Liu Feng to avenge his parents, and Liu Feng agreed to confront their enemy that night.

• Liu Feng accepted Gold Soul Coins from the merchant caravan, then decided to rest in Wolf City for three days before heading to the Hercules River.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin visited the Flower and Grass Market, where Ah Yin bought seeds and a snow-white puppy from a poor boy and his younger Sister.
• The boy followed Liu Feng and Ah Yin to North Wind Tower and revealed that he would offer a Soul Bone in exchange for help avenging his parents, who had disappeared during a Soul Hunting trip three years earlier.
• The boy explained that a thousand-year North Wind Demon Wolf had entrusted the puppy to his family, and Liu Feng agreed to meet the boy's enemy that night.
• The boy brought his Sister to the table, and Liu Feng and Ah Yin helped the children eat with them.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin spent the afternoon with Li Hu and Li Mei before agreeing to help Li Hu kill Jack, the Soul Master who murdered his parents. That night, they reached Jack’s estate in East City, with Li Hu and his sister accompanying them under orders to stay beside Ah Yin.

• Liu Feng asked Li Hu to identify Jack’s home on a map, and Li Hu explained Jack’s location, abilities, and habits.
• Liu Feng agreed to attack Jack that night, while Ah Yin spent the afternoon with Li Mei and the puppy.
• After nightfall, Liu Feng told Li Hu and Li Mei to return home, but Li Hu insisted on witnessing Jack’s death, so Liu Feng allowed them to come along and ordered them to stay with Ah Yin.
• Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Li Hu, and Li Mei traveled through East City and arrived near Jack’s estate.

Liu Feng and his companions broke into Jack's estate to confront him over Li Mingbo and his wife's Soul Bones. After Jack denied having them, Liu Feng killed him and burned his body, but the Soul Bones remained unfound.

• Ah Yin spread Blue Silver Grass around Jack's estate to monitor the surroundings as Liu Feng and the others slipped inside.
• Liu Feng scattered Sleeping Pill powder through the estate, putting the guards and servants to sleep while leaving Jack's room unaffected.
• Liu Feng and his companions found Jack torturing a maidservant, who died as they entered the room.
• Li Hu identified his father's message accusing Jack of killing him and demanded the Soul Bones, but Jack denied everything.
• Liu Feng crushed Jack's neck, searched his Soul Tool without finding the Soul Bones, and burned Jack's corpse with Blood Flame.

Liu Feng and his companions searched Jack's hidden chamber, found an Eight Hundred Year Soul Bone and treasure, and took in the orphaned Li Hu Siblings. After arranging for them to travel to Heaven Dou City with Ning Fengzhi's help, Liu Feng and Ah Yin continued exploring Wolf City.

• Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Domain to locate a tunnel beneath a study room in Jack's estate, and Liu Feng opened its concealed entrance.
• Liu Feng searched the secret chamber and found Gold Soul Coins, valuables, and an Eight Hundred Year Soul Bone, then stored the loot in his Soul Tool.
• Li Hu and Li Mei refused Liu Feng's Gold Soul Coins and asked him to take them in, and Liu Feng agreed.
• Liu Feng asked Ning Fengzhi to arrange safe passage for the Li Hu Siblings to Ah Yin's Mansion in Heaven Dou City, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.
• After the siblings departed, Liu Feng and Ah Yin spent two days exploring Wolf City without any disturbance over Jack's disappearance.

Liu Feng and his companions traveled from Wolf City to the Hercules River and followed its banks downstream to a port. There, Ning Fengzhi's contact Xia Yang prepared their ship, the Shunfeng Hao, for an early departure, and the group entered a tavern for the night.

• Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo set out from Wolf City for the Hercules River.
• After three days of travel, the group reached the river and paused to rest.
• Dugu Bo reasoned that the port lay downstream, and the group hurried along the river to find it before nightfall.
• Ning Fengzhi met Xia Yang at the port, and Xia Yang confirmed that the ship and supplies were ready.
• Ning Fengzhi postponed departure until morning, and Xia Yang led the group to the tavern beside the Shunfeng Hao.
• Liu Feng and the others entered the tavern and discovered that it was more impressive inside than it appeared from outside.

Liu Feng and his group rested at a lavish tavern before boarding the Shunfeng Hao to investigate legends of the Hercules River and its Golden Scale Dragon Fish. After Ning Fengzhi explained how the fish might gain the God of Strength’s blessing by surviving their migration, the group planned several ways to study them.

• Xia Yang arranged for Liu Feng and the others to dine at the tavern and stay at a nearby inn before their voyage.
• Liu Feng and his group boarded the Shunfeng Hao, captained by Xia Yang, and gathered in the captain’s room to discuss their route.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Golden Scale Dragon Fish migrated upstream every four years, and that survivors might gain blessings that could eventually transform them into dragons.
• Bone Douluo proposed investigating the river with spatial powers, while Ah Yin offered to use Blue Silver Grass along the riverbed.
• Dugu Bo proposed marking fish upstream with poison so he and Dugu Xin could study them downstream and capture some for examination.
• Liu Feng had no special plan, and Ning Fengzhi told everyone to prepare their proposed investigations as the group looked out over the Hercules River.

Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Xin investigated the Hercules River underwater while Bone Douluo and Ah Yin searched the upper reaches. When a swarm of fish Soul Beasts attacked, Liu Feng used his Blue Silver Grass to shield himself and Ning Fengzhi.

• Bone Douluo and Ah Yin traveled to the Hercules River Source to investigate, while Liu Feng and the others waited aboard the Shunfeng Hao.
• Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Xin decided to explore the riverbed and had Xia Yang prepare chains and ropes for their descent.
• The three entered the river and used their own abilities to sense the underwater surroundings as the ship pulled them along.
• A large swarm of fish Soul Beasts attacked Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Xin at the riverbed.
• Liu Feng used his First Soul Skill, Deep Roots, to form a defensive barrier and protect himself and Ning Fengzhi from the attackers.

Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Xin overcame attacks from fish Soul Beasts and continued exploring the Hercules River as Dragon Gate Festival approached. At the river mouth, Liu Feng caught a powerful Golden Scale Dragon Fish, giving the group a chance to examine the creature tied to the river’s mysteries.

• Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Xin returned to the ship after fish Soul Beasts began biting through their ropes, and they agreed to use Dugu Bo’s poison to protect the lines.
• Dugu Bo coated the chains and ropes with poisonous Soul Power, allowing the three to resume their riverbed exploration with fewer attacks.
• Over the next half year, Liu Feng continued exploring and cultivated his Soul Power to level 76 as the ship traveled toward the river mouth.
• Ning Fengzhi returned to the ship when a pack of Nine Hundred Year Fish Soul Beasts surrounded the explorers, while Dugu Xin caught several fish and left as well.
• A Golden Scale Dragon Fish knocked Liu Feng from the rope, but Liu Feng seized and subdued it before returning to the ship.
• Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Xin examined Liu Feng’s Golden Scale Dragon Fish and remarked that it might be connected to the Hercules River’s secrets.

Liu Feng and the others cooked and tasted a Golden Scale Dragon Fish while Ah Yin and Bone Douluo reported that their search of the Hercules River had uncovered nothing. As Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo prepared to mark fish at the upper reaches, a swarm attacked the Shunfeng Hao, forcing the crew to maneuver away from its charge.

• Liu Feng agreed to have the Golden Scale Dragon Fish butchered, and David prepared it as sashimi, grilled fish, and soup for the group.
• Ah Yin and Bone Douluo returned after searching the entire Hercules River and reported that they had found nothing unusual.
• Liu Feng reassured Ah Yin that the approaching Golden Scale Dragon Fish Migration might reveal more, and everyone sampled the fish dishes together.
• Dugu Xin arrived with sacks of Dugu Bo's adhesive marking toxins at the Golden Scale Dragon Fish spawning lake, where he and Bone Douluo waited for the fish to arrive.
• A Golden Scale Dragon Fish Swarm struck the Shunfeng Hao, and Ning Fengzhi ordered Xia Yang to steer the ship away from its frontal assault.