Chapter Summaries

Li Bufan bought the third-grade Blazing Sun Alchemy Furnace and explored the Cloud Stream Mountain Range, where he discovered the Land of Flowing Water. There, he learned that the area nourished divine sense by temporarily confining it within the body.

• Li Bufan paid 1,100 taels of gold for the Blazing Sun Alchemy Furnace at the Hundred Refinements Pavilion.
• Li Bufan stored the furnace in his Storage Bag and left the pavilion, planning to return to pill refining after familiarizing himself with it.
• Li Bufan wandered through the Cloud Stream Mountain Range and entered the Land of Flowing Water.
• Li Bufan found that he could not extend his divine sense beyond his body inside the Land of Flowing Water.
• A woman at the counter explained that the area nourished divine sense and that its formation confined it within the body to help visitors return to their original state.

Li Bufan selected incense, tea, and soup at Ruoshui, paying for them with gold. In Room C-3, an Outer Disciple prepared the items and explained that he could begin whenever he wished.

• Li Bufan examined Ruoshui’s incense, tea, and soup offerings and chose Ice Soul Incense, Blue Rhyme Heart Tea, and Ice Heart Body Cleansing Fluid.
• Li Bufan paid eleven Essence Stones’ worth with 1,210 taels of gold and went to Room C-3.
• An Outer Disciple delivered his order and lit the Ice Soul Incense.
• The Outer Disciple filled the pool, added the Ice Heart Body Cleansing Fluid, and prepared the tea with chilled water.
• The Outer Disciple told Li Bufan that everything was ready and that he could begin whenever he wished.

Li Bufan relaxed and improved his cultivation at Ruoshui, then climbed Cloud Stream Mountain to explore the pavilion at its summit. Inside, he found a vast space containing a Five Elements formation and encountered a tall figure.

• Li Bufan used the Ice Heart Body Nourishment Liquid, Ice Soul Incense, and Blue Rhyme Heart Tea to recover and increase his cultivation while he rested at Ruoshui.
• Li Bufan awoke after six shichen, paid the attendant six hundred taels, and discovered that his divine sense had gained a faint icy quality and reached sixty zhang.
• Li Bufan left Ruoshui and climbed Cloud Stream Mountain beneath the moon, reaching its summit.
• Li Bufan found a spring beside a massive pavilion and entered the pavilion to investigate.
• Li Bufan saw a huge, brightly lit interior with a Five Elements formation across the floor, then noticed a tall figure emerge.

Li Bufan visited the Building Outside the Building and learned it was a vast trading establishment with goods and services across ten floors. He bought an Ice Glaze Fruit and a Crimson Sun Fruit for body tempering, spending nearly all his funds, then headed toward the Space Array.

• Li Bufan paid a senior brother to explain the Building Outside the Building and learned that its fourth and fifth floors specialized in ice- and fire-attribute treasures.
• Li Bufan used the Space Array to reach the fourth floor, Heavenice Tower, and bought an Ice Glaze Fruit for eleven hundred taels of gold.
• Li Bufan traveled to the fifth floor, Heavenflame Tower, and bought a fourth-grade Crimson Sun Fruit for the same price.
• Li Bufan realized the purchases had nearly exhausted his funds and walked toward the Space Array.

After drinking alone, Li Bufan accidentally wandered into a warm lotus pond on Azure Lotus Peak and slept there. When he woke, a white-clad woman attacked him for trespassing and seeking the Azure Lotus Fairy, leaving him to defend himself against her accusations.

• Li Bufan passed Cloud Rain Residence, bought five jars of Beauty's Knee, and drank while recalling his past and the people he missed.
• Drunk, Li Bufan reached a winter lotus pond, skipped a pebble across the water, laughed, and fell asleep beside it.
• Li Bufan woke refreshed, noticed his Five Elements Heaven Skill had gained proficiency, and explored the springlike pond.
• A white-clad woman confronted Li Bufan, accused him of trespassing on Azure Lotus Peak to glimpse the Azure Lotus Fairy, and attacked him with her sword.
• Li Bufan blocked her strikes, insisted he had wandered there by mistake, and angrily prepared to fight back.

Li Bufan defeated a woman guarding the lotus pool, but she mistook him for a lecherous intruder and refused to believe his explanation. After she fired a signal flare to summon help, white figures rushed toward them.

• Li Bufan overcame the woman's sword techniques and discovered that her apparent body was a true qi phantom while she hid behind a boulder.
• Li Bufan used six arrows to shatter the boulder, then suppressed the woman with his Surging Waves Palm and held his saber to her shoulder.
• The woman insisted Li Bufan was not qualified to meet the Azure Lotus Fairy, while he denied knowing her and turned to leave.
• The woman launched a signal flare and attacked Li Bufan again, declaring that he could not leave until he explained himself.
• White figures swept in from every direction as Li Bufan faced the woman's summoned reinforcements.

Li Bufan fought off eight women using the Moonfall Star Array, then faced a Qi Sea Realm expert before the Azure Lotus Fairy intervened. She recognized him as Senior Xie’s new disciple, and he introduced himself as Li Bufan of Blade Peak.

• One of the eight women accused Li Bufan of trespassing and disrespecting the Azure Lotus Fairy, then led the others in forming the Moonfall Star Array.
• Li Bufan broke the array with his saber intent, Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art, and Surging Waves Palm, knocking all eight women down.
• A Qi Sea Realm expert attacked Li Bufan, who countered with his strongest Greedy Wolf Saber Technique strike.
• The Azure Lotus Fairy caught Li Bufan’s saber between two fingers and stopped both his attack and the expert’s confrontation.
• The Azure Lotus Fairy asked whether Li Bufan was Senior Xie’s new disciple, and Li Bufan saluted her and gave his name and sect.

Azure Lotus Fairy trapped Li Bufan in a series of formations, and he fought to break them by locating and disrupting the Vital Energy stones sustaining them. He destroyed one stone and knocked another out of place, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Azure Lotus Fairy praised Li Bufan’s talent, then activated the Flying Flower Formation and challenged him to escape it.
• Li Bufan dodged the petals and vines, used Spirit Sense to locate the formation’s Vital Energy stones, and burned through the vines with Crimson Fire Flowing Paste.
• Azure Lotus Fairy added the Snowfall Formation and Lost Track Formation, filling the pond with sharp snow and Spirit Sense-suppressing fog.
• Li Bufan escaped above the fog and fired five arrows at Azure Lotus Fairy, then sent a fire-wrapped arrow toward a Vital Energy stone while charging another stone himself.
• Li Bufan used Nine Yang Body Protection and Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art to withstand the vines as his arrow destroyed one Vital Energy stone and he knocked another out of place.

After passing Azure Lotus Fairy’s formation trial, Li Bufan returned to Blade Peak and used his new furnace to greatly improve his alchemy. He then swallowed a Crimson Sun Fruit, whose scorching power erupted inside him as he tried to withstand it with his cultivation arts.

• Azure Lotus Fairy praised Li Bufan, punished Blue Moon and the other seven women for attacking him, and allowed him to visit Azure Lotus Peak with permission.
• Li Bufan left Azure Lotus Peak, reflected on his limited true qi, and returned to Blade Peak.
• Li Bufan tested the Blazing Sun Alchemy Furnace and refined up to twelve Great Qi and Blood Pills in one batch.
• Li Bufan chose to refine the Crimson Sun Fruit before the Ice Glaze Fruit and swallowed it.
• The Crimson Sun Fruit’s intense heat surged through Li Bufan, who activated Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art and circulated Five Elements Heaven Skill at full force.

Li Bufan risked swallowing the Crimson Sun Fruit and Ice Glaze Fruit together, survived their clashing powers, and greatly strengthened his cultivation. After three days of training left him nearly penniless, he went to Scripture Peak to ask Wang Mingxuan how to obtain resources at Songhe Gate.

• Li Bufan swallowed the Ice Glaze Fruit while refining the Crimson Sun Fruit, and endured their violent clash by circulating his cultivation arts and guarding his mind with the Constant Stillness One Scripture.
• After surviving the ordeal, Li Bufan found that his dantian had expanded and his Five Elements Heaven Skill and Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art had advanced substantially.
• Li Bufan spent three days practicing martial techniques and refining pills, stabilizing his true qi as the fruits' remaining power further improved his cultivation.
• Li Bufan realized the spirit fruits had exhausted his fortune and decided to ask Wang Mingxuan and the others how to obtain resources at Songhe Gate.
• Li Bufan arrived at Scripture Peak, found Wang Mingxuan's courtyard, and called out to him.

Li Bufan learned from Wang Mingxuan that disciples could earn resources through the Mission Hall, then accompanied him to Body Peak to visit Zheng Haonan. They found Zheng badly injured after a rugged disciple struck him and threw him from a room.

• Li Bufan visited Wang Mingxuan and explained that he needed a steady source of income.
• Wang Mingxuan told Li Bufan about the Mission Hall and explained the Songhe Gate's disciple ranks and advancement requirements.
• Li Bufan and Wang Mingxuan went to Body Peak to visit Zheng Haonan.
• A rugged disciple confronted them, struck Zheng Haonan, and sent him crashing into the courtyard.
• Li Bufan rushed to Zheng Haonan and saw that he was badly bruised and bleeding from severe internal injuries.

Li Bufan discovered that Zhou Cangshi had ordered a group of disciples to torture Zheng Haonan and force him to reveal Li Bufan’s whereabouts. After defeating and interrogating them, Li Bufan sent Wang Mingxuan to care for Zheng and set out to uncover the truth about Zhou Cangshi.

• Zheng Haonan told Li Bufan that disciples had repeatedly questioned him about Li Bufan and attacked him after he refused to help them.
• Li Bufan defeated the group, broke the burly man’s fingers, and learned that Core Disciple Zhou Cangshi had ordered them to gather information on him.
• Li Bufan discovered that the group had targeted Zheng Haonan because he was close to Li Bufan and refused to lure him out.
• Li Bufan examined Zheng Haonan’s injuries and reassured Wang Mingxuan that Zheng would recover.
• Li Bufan sent Wang Mingxuan to take Zheng Haonan to safety and remained behind, determined to investigate Zhou Cangshi.

Li Bufan confronted Zhou Cangshi at his residence on Body Peak and fought him after Zhou attacked. Li Bufan was forced to draw the Azure Scale Saber, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Li Bufan made the bound disciples lead him to Zhou Cangshi's residence and warned them not to harm his brother.
• Zhou Cangshi came out to meet Li Bufan, then struck him with a punch that sent him crashing into the courtyard wall.
• Li Bufan stood up and challenged Zhou Cangshi, who attacked again with the pressure of the Qi Sea Realm.
• Li Bufan activated the Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art and clashed with Zhou Cangshi, but remained at a disadvantage.
• Zhou Cangshi used Stone Shatters the Heavens against Li Bufan's Sixteen Layers of Stacked Force and blasted him away.
• Li Bufan landed and drew the Azure Scale Saber.

Li Bufan used his spiritual attack and saber techniques to wound Zhou Cangshi, but their final clash left him gravely injured and his Azure Scale Saber broken. As Zhou Cangshi approached to finish the fight, Li Bufan calmly said it was over.

• Zhou Cangshi used Mountain Pressing Seal and Rolling Stone Fist to slow Li Bufan and batter him, while Li Bufan endured the blows and studied his movements with Spirit Sense.
• Li Bufan dodged a punch, struck Zhou Cangshi with Spirit Stab, then wounded his shoulder with three Thunderclap Saber forms and Surging Waves Palm.
• Both fighters paused to recover, and Zhou Cangshi recognized Li Bufan's spiritual martial skill before attacking with Five Peaks Collapse Heaven Palm.
• Li Bufan met Zhou Cangshi's palm with Greedy Wolf Saber Technique, but Zhou Cangshi blocked his second Spirit Stab and overpowered him, breaking the Azure Scale Saber and smashing him into the courtyard wall.
• Zhou Cangshi approached the weakened Li Bufan and declared the fight over, and Li Bufan calmly agreed.

Li Bufan defeated Zhou Cangshi, then used the spirit fruits’ remaining medicinal power to break through to the Eighth Revolution of the Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art. After recovering from his injuries, Li Bufan heard Zhou Cangshi groan as he awoke.

• Li Bufan dodged Zhou Cangshi’s palm and used Spirit Control to drive five fragments of the Azure Scale Saber into him, bringing him down.
• The spirit fruits’ remaining medicinal power rampaged through Li Bufan after his true qi ran out, and he used the Nine Revolutions Golden Wall Art to refine it.
• Li Bufan’s body neared collapse as the technique’s proficiency rose, but he broke through to the Eighth Revolution and rapidly healed.
• Li Bufan removed the fragments from Zhou Cangshi, stopped his bleeding, and then took pills to recover his own injuries and true qi.
• One day and one night later, Li Bufan finished recovering, and Zhou Cangshi groaned as he woke.

After defeating Zhou Cangshi, Li Bufan learned that True Disciple Zhou Huoyun had arranged the attack and decided to report the matter to Punishment Peak. Though Zheng Haonan and Wang Mingxuan warned him against confronting a True Disciple, Li Bufan left for Punishment Peak, and they followed.

• Li Bufan defeated Zhou Cangshi, who confessed that Zhou Huoyun had promised him passage through the Core Disciple mountain-descending trial in exchange for attacking Li Bufan.
• Li Bufan said he would report Zhou Cangshi to Punishment Peak but warned that Zheng Haonan would settle the score for the bullying himself.
• Onlookers at Body Peak were shocked that Li Bufan had defeated Core Disciple Zhou Cangshi after only a few months in the sect.
• Li Bufan told Zheng Haonan and Wang Mingxuan about Zhou Huoyun's involvement, but they urged him not to risk opposing a True Disciple.
• Li Bufan rejected their warning and rushed toward Punishment Peak, declaring that he would pursue martial cultivation without regret or resentment.
• Zheng Haonan decided to go with Li Bufan, and Wang Mingxuan carried him toward Punishment Peak.

Li Bufan reported Zhou Huoyun to Punishment Peak for sending disciples after him, and Wang Mingxuan and Zheng Haonan arrived as witnesses. The Enforcement Hall gathered those involved, but the accused denied the charges and blamed Li Bufan, leaving the investigation contested.

• Li Bufan went to the Enforcement Hall and accused Zhou Huoyun of ordering Zhou Cangshi to send people after him.
• Wang Mingxuan brought the injured Zheng Haonan, who testified that Zhou Huoyun had targeted Li Bufan after Zhou Huofeng lost their arena match.
• When an Enforcement Disciple asked whether they were jointly reporting the case, Li Bufan declared that he alone would bear responsibility if the accusation was false.
• The Enforcement Hall summoned Jiang Boyang, Zhou Cangshi, Zhou Huofeng, and the two Inner Disciples who had accompanied Zhou Huofeng.
• Zhou Huofeng and the Inner Disciples denied sending anyone after Li Bufan, while Zhou Cangshi and the Inner Disciples accused Li Bufan of assaulting them.
• Wang Mingxuan angrily challenged the Inner Disciples' account before the Enforcement Hall.

Li Bufan challenged the Enforcement Hall to use the Heart-Questioning Formation to settle the accusations against him and his companions. As the group prepared to enter, Zhou Huoyun arrived, confronted Li Bufan, and secretly tampered with the formation.

• Wang Mingxuan demanded that the group enter the Heart-Questioning Formation, and Li Bufan defended him and accepted the Enforcement Disciple's terms.
• The Enforcement Disciple led Li Bufan, Wang Mingxuan, Zheng Haonan, Zhou Cangshi, Zhou Huofeng, Jiang Boyang, and the others to the Third-Grade Heart-Questioning Formation.
• Zhou Huofeng feared the formation would expose their lies, but Zhou Huoyun descended and questioned why the dispute had reached this point.
• Zhou Huoyun pressured Li Bufan with his aura, then withdrew it and allowed the test to proceed.
• Zhou Huoyun secretly slipped two origin stones into the formation and formed hand seals, leaving the group unaware of his tampering.

The Heart-Questioning Formation confirmed the Inner Disciples’ account that Li Bufan had been forced to help find Zhou Cangshi, but Cheng Wei ordered their arrest anyway. Li Bufan defeated Cheng Wei, then faced Zhou Huoyun’s attempt to cripple him, and the chapter ended as his protective light began to crack.

• The Inner Disciples repeated their account inside the Heart-Questioning Formation, and each test glowed green.
• Cheng Wei ordered Li Bufan, Wang Mingxuan, and Zheng Haonan seized, but Li Bufan knocked down the Enforcement Disciples who attacked him.
• Li Bufan dodged Cheng Wei’s sword strike, countered with arrows and his strongest blade technique, and shattered Cheng Wei’s sword before beating him down with Surging Waves Palm.
• Zhou Huoyun accused Li Bufan of slander and resisting enforcement, then fired a crimson strike at his dantian to cripple his cultivation.
• Li Bufan countered with Crimson Fire Flowing Paste, but Zhou Huoyun’s strike pierced it and cracked Li Bufan’s Nine Yang Body Protection.

Li Bufan nearly died when Zhou Huoyun attacked him, but the Azure Lotus Fairy intervened and exposed Zhou Huoyun’s tampering with the Heart-Questioning Formation. Elder Ling arrived after the True Disciples confronted each other and announced that the Peak Master had informed him of the dispute.

• Li Bufan used his Great Sun Golden Yang Flame and Spirit Stab against Zhou Huoyun, but Zhou Huoyun’s overwhelming palm attack left him helpless.
• The Azure Lotus Fairy stopped Zhou Huoyun’s attack and removed two tampered essence stones from the Heart-Questioning Formation.
• Zhou Huoyun acknowledged testing the formation and invoked sect rules against Li Bufan, while sealing Zhou Huofeng’s mouth and attempting to strike Zheng Haonan.
• The Azure Lotus Fairy blocked Zhou Huoyun’s attack on Zheng Haonan and challenged him to a fight if he continued.
• Elder Ling arrived, ended the confrontation between the True Disciples, and said the Peak Master had informed him of the matter.