Chapter Summaries

Qin Shaofeng stayed silent as Geng Can’s furious Fourth Sister blamed him for the trouble with Luo Chaokun and ordered him to stay away from her brother. After Geng Can explained what had really happened, she realized her mistake but immediately blamed Geng Can for not telling her sooner.

• Fourth Miss accused Qin Shaofeng of causing Geng Can to lose his Spirit Chamber slot and told him he was unworthy of being her brother’s friend.
• Fourth Miss stormed out through the shop door, and Qin Shaofeng left unharmed.
• Geng Can arrived, learned Qin Shaofeng was safe, and hurried to find him, but Fourth Miss intercepted him.
• Geng Can explained that Qin Shaofeng had saved him from Fire Demon Foxes and had been drawn into Luo Chaokun’s conflict while protecting his senior sister.
• Fourth Miss understood why Qin Shaofeng had beaten Luo Chaokun, felt ashamed of her assumptions, then blamed Geng Can for not explaining sooner.

Geng Can brought Qin Shaofeng to see his younger sister, Geng Chan, whose mysterious pain was linked to her Innate Spiritual Body. After Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that powerful cultivators would exploit her if her nature became known, Geng Can realized Qin Shaofeng knew something about her condition and followed him aside to talk.

• Geng Can apologized for Fourth Miss and explained that she regretted her recklessness, while Qin Shaofeng said he was not angry.
• Geng Chan suddenly suffered severe pain, so Geng Can carried her to the Geng family shop, and Qin Shaofeng followed.
• Geng Can told Qin Shaofeng that Geng Chan had been frail since birth and suffered recurring pain that required spiritual power to suppress.
• Qiuqiu examined Geng Chan and told Qin Shaofeng that she possessed an Innate Spiritual Body, making her a target for powerful cultivators who would use her as a Cultivation Cauldron.
• Geng Can noticed Qin Shaofeng’s troubled expression, asked whether he knew what was wrong with Geng Chan, and followed him aside when Qin Shaofeng signaled to speak privately.

Qin Shaofeng revealed that Geng Can's little sister Xiao Chan had an Innate Spiritual Body whose coming spiritual qi storm threatened her future, then recognized Fourth Miss's secret Origin Fire Spirit. The chapter ended with Qiuqiu pressing Qin Shaofeng to pursue Fourth Miss, while the solution it had found for Xiao Chan remained to be explained.

• Qin Shaofeng told Geng Can that Xiao Chan's Innate Spiritual Body would cause a dangerous spiritual qi storm, and Geng Can confirmed the suppression method eased her pain.
• Geng Can begged Qin Shaofeng to save Xiao Chan from becoming a Cultivation Cauldron, but Qin Shaofeng said he knew no way to prevent the storm.
• Qiuqiu proposed hiding Xiao Chan in Qin Shaofeng's Origin World for its cultivation benefits, and Qin Shaofeng rejected the idea before forcing Qiuqiu to reveal its other solution.
• Geng Can told Fourth Miss about Xiao Chan, but she doubted Qin Shaofeng until he revealed that she had never condensed an Origin Core.
• Qin Shaofeng identified Fourth Miss's spiritual root as an Origin Fire Spirit, the ideal root for the Pill Scripture, and Qiuqiu hinted that it could help Xiao Chan.

Qin Shaofeng helped Fourth Miss use Xiao Chan’s Innate Spiritual Body to open a world of fire, despite the risks to her future cultivation, and Geng Can left the assessment with them. Qin Shaofeng’s strengthened party set out for Mountain Peak No. 60 as Luo Chaokun began plotting to attack him through others.

• Qin Shaofeng explained the risks of opening Fourth Miss’s world of fire early, but Fourth Miss agreed so Xiao Chan could be helped.
• Fourth Miss, Geng Can, and Xiao Chan departed to seek the Geng Lineage ancestor’s help, and Geng Can gave up the Sect Entry Assessment.
• Qin Shaofeng assessed his party’s increased strength, including Tiger Lord’s advance to the middle stage of the Legend Realm Ninth Layer.
• Qin Shaofeng led Yun’er and the others toward Mountain Peak No. 60, aiming to cross Peaks No. 51 through No. 59 in five days and gain three million Experience Points.
• Luo Chaokun arrived at Mountain Peak No. 50 and, despite his Lineage’s orders, agreed with Luo Yi to have others target Qin Shaofeng during the assessment.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions fought a pack of more than a hundred Black Cloud Leopards at the fifty-seventh mountain peak while Tiger Lord’s presence kept the beasts from overwhelming them. Qin Shaofeng deliberately provoked the pack leader into advancing, then killed it and helped finish the battle in under half an hour.

• Tiger Lord intimidated the Black Cloud Leopard pack, allowing Yun'er, the other two, Little Wolf, and Big Meng to fight safely while Qin Shaofeng faced five powerful leopards.
• Qin Shaofeng killed several Black Cloud Leopards with his Profound Iron Heavy Sword and Feather Blade, while the pack leader fled and two subordinates tried to hold him back.
• Qin Shaofeng used Chidori Stream to kill the two leopards and Lightning Balls to stop the fleeing leader.
• Qin Shaofeng deliberately provoked the leader until it advanced from the Legend Sixth Layer to the Legend Seventh Layer, then killed it with Heavy Sword Without Edge.
• Qin Shaofeng joined Yun'er and the others, and the group defeated the remaining Black Cloud Leopards in less than half an hour.

After defeating a Black Cloud Leopard pack, Qin Shaofeng learned that several squads were tracking him and led Zhao Yun'er and the others to confront one. The five hunters revealed they had been hired for Qin Shaofeng’s bounty, and after they threatened Zhao Yun'er, he killed Fifth Brother with a single blow.

• Qin Shaofeng and his companions defeated the Black Cloud Leopards, and Du Meng and Tang Qijian said the fight had offered too little challenge.
• Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that four squads were following them, including a nearby five-man team led by a Legend Realm Seventh Layer captain.
• Qin Shaofeng brought Zhao Yun'er and the others out to meet the five brothers, who said they were hunting him for a reward of twenty Ascension Origin Pills.
• The brothers mocked Qin Shaofeng and made vile threats toward Zhao Yun'er, provoking his fury.
• Qin Shaofeng attacked Fifth Brother with his Profound Iron Heavy Sword and killed him instantly.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions defeated several groups hunting them and discovered that Luo Chaokun had likely placed bounties on all four of them. After two days of travel, they found hunters waiting at the entrances to Mountain Peak No. 60, making it too dangerous to enter unnoticed.

• Qin Shaofeng killed the eldest of the five attackers after learning that someone had offered twenty Ascension Origin Pills and three ten-year Cloud Spirit Grasses for his head.
• Qin Shaofeng suspected Luo Chaokun had arranged the bounty, and he vowed to remember the attack.
• Qin Shaofeng, Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian defeated several more groups hunting them and learned that all four had bounties.
• Qin Shaofeng determined that the combined bounties were sixty Ascension Origin Pills and four ten-year Cloud Spirit Grasses, strengthening his suspicion of Luo Chaokun.
• Two days later, Qin Shaofeng found hunters waiting at nearly every entrance and exit of Mountain Peak No. 60 and judged that entering could expose them to a dangerous swarm.

Qin Shaofeng lured the squads hunting him into a trap and wiped them out with his companions, reaching the Legend Realm Seventh Layer after killing an Eighth Layer expert. As Luo Chaokun raised the bounty, the pursuers discovered that hundreds of hunters had disappeared and suspected Qin Shaofeng’s group had killed them.

• Qin Shaofeng devised a plan to mislead his pursuers, then hid on Mountain Peak No. 61 with Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian and secretly ambushed hunting squads.
• Qin Shaofeng's group followed the remaining pursuers through the mountain peaks and killed a ten-man squad on Mountain Peak No. 66, leaving its Eighth Layer captain as the final victim.
• Qin Shaofeng leveled up after killing the captain, while Du Meng and Tang Qijian used Experience Fruits to reach the Legend Realm Sixth Layer and Yun'er continued cultivating.
• Luo Chaokun increased his bounty to one hundred Ascension Origin Pills and five ten-year Cloud Spirit Grass plants for killing Qin Shaofeng's group.
• Hunters arriving at Mountain Peak No. 70 learned that most of the first wave of pursuers had vanished, and news spread that Qin Shaofeng's group had killed them.

After Qin Shaofeng’s group survived the first bounty hunters, Luo Chaokun raised the reward to include three Condensing Origin Pills, drawing powerful cultivators into the hunt. On Mountain Peak No. 3, Xu Yang agreed to join Zhang Zhentao and Zhu Zichen in pursuing Qin Shaofeng’s group.

• News that Qin Shaofeng’s group had killed most of a force of more than five hundred people spread, causing weaker bounty hunters to abandon the chase.
• Luo Chaokun ordered the bounty increased to one hundred Ascension Origin Pills, ten stalks of ten-year Cloud Spirit Grass, and three Condensing Origin Pills.
• The new reward stirred up experts who had been cultivating on the early mountain peaks, including cultivators at Legend Realm Ninth Layer and Tenth Level.
• Zhang Zhentao told Xu Yang about the bounty and proposed that they hunt Qin Shaofeng’s group together with Zhu Zichen.
• Xu Yang agreed to join the hunt, tempted by the Condensing Origin Pills.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions left Mountain Peak No. 70 after he refused Geng Houyun’s offer to help them enter the Thousand Mountain Sect without the assessment. A sharply increased bounty led more than a hundred pursuers to attack them on Mountain Peak No. 71, and Qin Shaofeng’s group prepared to turn the chase into a fight.

• After collecting over five hundred Thousand Mountain Token fragments, Qin Shaofeng noticed people still watching him and decided his group could not safely stay on Mountain Peak No. 70 to cultivate.
• Geng Houyun escorted Qin Shaofeng, Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian to the edge of the mountain region, but Qin Shaofeng declined his offer to use the Geng family's connections to enter the sect.
• After Geng Houyun learned that the bounty had risen to three Condensing Origin Pills, one hundred Ascension Origin Pills, and ten ten-year-old Cloud Spirit Grasses, he feared that powerful assessors would pursue the group.
• On Mountain Peak No. 71, more than a hundred Legend Realm Sixth Layer experts and over a dozen Legend Realm Eighth Layer experts surrounded and chased Qin Shaofeng's group.
• Qin Shaofeng blamed Luo Chaokun for raising the bounty and urged his companions to treat the pursuers as training partners; Du Meng welcomed the fight, Tang Qijian readied his sword, and Zhao Yun'er clasped Qin Shaofeng's hand.

Qin Shaofeng lured the pursuing force onto Spiritless Peak, where spiritual energy was blocked, and split his companions into separate teams to ambush their enemies. After three search teams were attacked, the pursuers realized Qin Shaofeng’s group had divided and prepared to respond.

• More than a hundred pursuers chased Qin Shaofeng’s group toward Spiritless Peak, believing Tiger Lord was only a Legend Realm Eighth Layer War Beast.
• Qin Shaofeng led his companions into Spiritless Peak, and the three leaders sent their force after them while sealing the entrances.
• Qin Shaofeng divided the group into three teams, assigning Du Meng and Tang Qijian to Tiger Lord and Big Meng, Zhao Yun'er to Little Wolf, and himself to act alone.
• Qin Shaofeng told the others to kill without holding back and bought fivefold experience Bonus Cards for the prolonged fight.
• Three search teams came under attack, and Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng concluded that Qin Shaofeng’s group had split up.

Qin Shaofeng and his allies destroyed three enemy squads on Spiritless Peak, winning their first clash. Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng responded by deciding to lead everyone into the mountain and capture one of Qin Shaofeng’s people.

• Qin Shaofeng used Communication Talismans to coordinate attacks with Yun'er and the others as they fought three squads in separate locations.
• Qin Shaofeng killed a Legend Realm Eighth Layer squad leader and defeated the rest of his ten-man squad within three minutes.
• The squads at the other two battlefields were also wiped out, leaving Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng furious and stunned.
• Lu Mo suspected Qin Shaofeng’s group had hidden strength, while Zou Xinfeng urged them to lead the next attack themselves.
• Zhao Zifa proposed bringing everyone guarding the mountain entrance to capture a member of one squad and draw out the others, and Lu Mo and Zou Xinfeng agreed.

Qin Shaofeng lured a twenty-five-person squad into an illusory array and led his allies in wiping them out. He gained a large amount of experience, bringing his total to 1,126,690 as the hunt continued.

• Qin Shaofeng devised a plan with Qiuqiu and coordinated with Yun'er and the others to exploit the enemy teams’ reduced search coverage.
• Tang Qijian drew Zhao Zifa’s trusted subordinate and twenty-four others into a boulder field without letting them send a signal.
• Qin Shaofeng and Zhao Yun'er appeared inside the illusory array, and Qin Shaofeng killed a Legend Realm Eighth Layer expert with his Feather Blade.
• Tiger Lord revealed his Legend Realm Ninth Layer strength, while the trapped squad lost its will to fight and Qin Shaofeng’s group attacked.
• Qin Shaofeng’s group annihilated all twenty-five enemies, and his experience total reached 1,126,690.

Qin Shaofeng used an illusion formation and Tiger Lord as bait to wipe out two more enemy teams on Spiritless Peak, then paused so Zhao Yun'er could break through. Zhao Zifa realized his teams had been defeated and drew up a plan to let a crowd gather before forcing Qin Shaofeng's group down the mountain into a waiting ambush.

• Qin Shaofeng led his group in an illusion formation ambush, where Tiger Lord lured a twenty-eight-person team to its deaths and Qin Shaofeng gained 960,000 experience points.
• Qin Shaofeng stopped hunting the remaining teams when Zhao Yun'er showed signs of breaking through, and Qiuqiu found a hidden place for her to advance to the Legend Realm Sixth Layer.
• Zhao Zifa, Zou Xinfeng, and Lu Mo realized that their other teams had likely been wiped out and concluded that Qin Shaofeng's group was stronger than their reports suggested.
• Zhao Zifa arranged for his forces to seal Spiritless Peak against the first arrivals, intending to lift the blockade once enough people gathered to drive Qin Shaofeng's group down the mountain.
• Zhao Zifa planned to wait at the mountain entrance and ambush Qin Shaofeng's group when they came down.

With hundreds of cultivators closing in on Spiritless Peak, Qin Shaofeng set up a large illusion array to trap them and protect his group. Zhao Zifa and the others kept their distance and waited for the array to weaken, while Qin Shaofeng remained confident it would hold.

• Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng decided to gather allies and attack Spiritless Peak before stronger experts arrived.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that more than two hundred people had gathered at the mountain’s foot, and Zhao Yun’er broke through to the Legend Realm Sixth Layer.
• Qin Shaofeng spent one million points on one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones and set up a large illusion array on the mountainside.
• Zhao Zifa lifted the blockade, sending more than four hundred people up Spiritless Peak to search for Qin Shaofeng’s group.
• The searching crowd entered the illusion array, and their flames vanished; Zhao Zifa recognized the array and chose to wait until dawn rather than go up himself.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that the three leaders were waiting for the array to weaken and dismissed their plan, confident in its strength.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions annihilated the more than four hundred people who pursued them, using an illusion array to split them into groups and defeat them. After the battle, Qin Shaofeng reached Legend Realm Eighth Layer and strengthened his team, while Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng waited below the mountain for their chance to attack.

• The illusion array separated the pursuing crowd into groups, and Qin Shaofeng and his companions killed a group of more than twenty people, including its sole Legend Realm Eighth Layer expert.
• Qin Shaofeng noticed that the other groups were attacking the mist and consuming the array’s spiritual qi, so he led his companions through the illusion array to attack them in turn.
• At the foot of the mountain, Zhao Zifa decided that he, Lu Mo, and Zou Xinfeng would wait one more hour before climbing up, calling it their last chance.
• Qin Shaofeng and his companions finished annihilating the pursuing force of more than four hundred people, though several teammates were injured and they used nearly all their Thousand Spirit Pills.
• Qin Shaofeng advanced to Legend Realm Eighth Layer, Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian reached Legend Realm Seventh Layer, and Little Wolf and Big Meng reached Legend Realm Eighth Layer.

Zhao Zifa led Lu Mo, Zou Xinfeng, and fifty subordinates into Qin Shaofeng’s illusion array, intending to use an Illusion Dust Pearl to overcome it. Qiuqiu strengthened the array, but Zhao Zifa protected those within a hundred meters of him and ordered his force to attack Qin Shaofeng’s group as the array’s Spirit Stones rapidly drained.

• Zhao Zifa led Lu Mo, Zou Xinfeng, and fifty subordinates up Spiritless Peak, believing the exhausted illusion array would be easy to break and planning to claim the Condensing Origin Pills for himself.
• Xu Yang, Zhang Zhentao, and Zhu Zichen arrived at Mountain Peak No. 70, learned that Qin Shaofeng’s group was on Mountain Peak No. 71, and flew there to pursue the pills.
• After Zhao Yun’er and the others completed their breakthroughs, Qin Shaofeng brought them to wait inside the illusion array for Zhao Zifa’s group.
• Zhao Zifa entered the array with his force and took out an Illusion Dust Pearl, which Qiuqiu identified as a tool for breaking illusion arrays.
• Qiuqiu narrowed and reinforced the illusion array, while Zhao Zifa’s pearl protected a hundred-meter area around him and the array’s Low-grade Spirit Stones began rapidly depleting.
• Zhao Zifa ordered Lu Mo, Zou Xinfeng, and the others to charge Qin Shaofeng’s group.

Qin Shaofeng drew Zhao Zifa away from the others while Tiger Lord and the rest fought Zhao Zifa’s group inside the illusion array. After countering Zhao Zifa’s ice techniques, Qin Shaofeng used the Nine Swords of Dugu to dispel his strengthened Ice Profound Palm, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Tiger Lord revealed his Legend Realm Ninth Layer strength and blocked Zhao Zifa’s charging group.
• Qin Shaofeng and his allies engaged Zhao Zifa, Lu Mo, Zou Xinfeng, and the fifty followers while Tiger Lord, Little Wolf, and Big Meng held off the followers.
• Qin Shaofeng examined Zhao Zifa’s strength, activated Sharingan, and fought back against his Ice Profound Palm with Heavy Force and Chidori Stream.
• Qin Shaofeng lured Zhao Zifa more than a hundred meters away, leaving the others trapped in the illusion array and isolated in separate battles.
• Zhao Zifa unleashed a stronger Ice Profound Palm, and Qin Shaofeng answered with Palm Breaking Style, dispelling the cold Qi.

Qin Shaofeng used the Nine Swords of Dugu to destroy Zhao Zifa’s attacks and Ice Armor, then killed him and helped finish off Lu Mo. As the battle continued, Tang Qijian struck down the newly advanced Zou Xinfeng with his Sword Control Technique.

• Qin Shaofeng used Arrow Breaking Style to disperse Zhao Zifa’s Ice Soul Arrows and Qi Breaking Style to shatter his Ice Armor.
• Qin Shaofeng trapped Zhao Zifa with Heavy Force and killed him with the Profound Iron Heavy Sword, earning 20,000 Experience Points.
• Qin Shaofeng found Zhao Yun’er had pierced Lu Mo’s chest, then delivered the final blow and earned another 20,000 Experience Points.
• Qin Shaofeng saw that Zou Xinfeng had advanced to Legend Realm Ninth Layer and was beginning to overpower Du Meng as Du Meng’s spiritual qi ran low.
• Tang Qijian pierced Zou Xinfeng through the chest with a sword controlled from afar and identified the technique as Sword Control Technique.

Tang Qijian killed Zou Xinfeng just before Du Meng could finish him, and Qin Shaofeng’s group left after their illusion formation collapsed. Three Legend Realm Tenth Level experts arrived seeking Qin Shaofeng, and the chapter ended as Qin Shaofeng faced Zhang Zhentao and threatened to kill him and his companion.

• Tang Qijian killed Zou Xinfeng with his Sword Control Technique, angering Du Meng, who complained that Tang had stolen his opponent.
• Qin Shaofeng’s illusion formation dissipated after the Illusion Dust Pearl drained its Spirit Stones, and Qiuqiu warned that experts were approaching.
• Xu Yang, Zhang Zhentao, and Zhu Zichen arrived, and Qin Shaofeng identified them as powerful Legend Realm experts who had come for him.
• Xu Yang demanded that Qin Shaofeng’s group take their own lives, then fought Du Meng and Tang Qijian as Big Meng joined the battle.
• Qin Shaofeng sent Tiger Lord to follow the fight and told Zhang Zhentao that Xu Yang would be dealt with soon.
• Zhang Zhentao challenged Qin Shaofeng about what he would do to the remaining two, and Qin Shaofeng said he would kill them.