Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng learned that a Jade Spirit Wood’s fruit could help He Tian Realm cultivators advance and examined a Withered Root whose owner sought a way to revive his deceased Dao companion. After revealing his alchemy skills and approaching the stall, Lin Feng found the root viable for planting, but the sixth-layer He Tian Realm owner was still rejecting another buyer.

• A cultivator told Lin Feng that the Jade Spirit Wood’s fruit could boost cultivation, but its owner demanded a powerful revival pill in exchange for the Withered Root.
• Lin Feng learned that the stall owner was a sixth-layer He Tian Realm cultivator whose Dao companion had died, and he offered to help her as a Spirit Grade Alchemist.
• Lin Feng showed pill receipts to the cultivator, who offered to buy stronger pills at a premium and agreed to discuss the deal later.
• Lin Feng pushed through the crowd and identified the stern middle-aged man as the stall owner, then inspected the jade-green Withered Root and found its rootlets still viable.
• The stall owner refused the elderly man’s offer and told him to leave.

Lin Feng confronted Wang Jingming, a Longevity Valley elder, when he tried to pressure a stall owner into selling a Jade Spirit Wood's Withered Root. After the Righteous Thunder Sect forced Wang Jingming to leave, Lin Feng negotiated with the stall owner, who offered the location of a mature, ninth-level He Tian Realm Jade Spirit Wood in exchange for restoring his Dao companion's soul.

• Lin Feng rebuked Wang Jingming for interfering with his negotiations and threatening the stall owner, who refused Wang Jingming's offer and invited Lin Feng to discuss a trade.
• Wang Jingming invoked his Longevity Valley status to pressure the stall owner, but the Righteous Thunder Sect warned him to leave; Lin Feng mocked him as he departed.
• Lin Feng privately told the stall owner that his Secret Technique had at least an eighty percent chance of restoring the Dao companion's soul, but would require dangerous soul materials and additional payment.
• The stall owner offered to reveal or show Lin Feng a ten-thousand-year-old Jade Spirit Wood that had borne fruit, if Lin Feng saved his Dao companion; he wanted the tree itself, leaving Lin Feng's excitement dampened.

Lin Feng, posing as Xiao Yan, attended the Kong Tian City auction with Shu Heng, who tried to cultivate a relationship with the suspected Spirit Grade Alchemist. After choosing a companion, Lin Feng asked Shu Heng for information about the auction as it was about to begin.

• Lin Feng and Shu Heng reached the auction hall, where Lin Feng noticed VIP rooms occupied by honored guests from major sects and beast clans.
• Shu Heng explained that powerful beast clans would attend and warned Lin Feng that competing with them over prized items could lead to an attack after the auction.
• Lin Feng chose seats in the third row, and Shu Heng offered to arrange a female companion for him.
• Shu Heng summoned a trading house maidservant, who brought three women, and Lin Feng selected Xiao Wan.
• Lin Feng let Xiao Wan sit beside him and asked Shu Heng for details about the auction.

Lin Feng learned how Kong Tian City's auction was organized and why bidding on the Frost Sky Condensing Light could bring trouble from the Ouyang Family. He decided not to pursue the sword, then studied the auction catalog and learned from Xiao Wan that the coveted lot would draw fierce competition.

• Shu Heng explained that the auction's best items appeared around its midpoint so different cultivators could leave at different times and reduce fighting outside the city.
• Shu Heng warned Lin Feng that the seventh-grade Frost Sky Condensing Light had a complicated history and that buying it could invite trouble from both its bidders and the Ouyang Family.
• Lin Feng agreed not to bid on the ice-element sword because it did not suit his cultivation and he lacked the resources to buy it.
• Shu Heng gave Lin Feng the latest auction catalog, and Lin Feng quickly reviewed its lots and the sword's description.
• Xiao Wan revealed that the Frost Sky Condensing Light was the auction's second-most valuable lot and that many forces were interested in it; Shu Heng offered to cover the cost of extending her rental after the auction.

Lin Feng examined the auction offerings and took interest in the Azure Heaven Spirit Control Curse, but lacked the money to buy it. At the trading convention, Ms. Feng tried to claim him for herself, and Lin Feng struck back with overwhelming soul pressure.

• Lin Feng read about the Azure Heaven Spirit Control Curse, and Shu Heng explained its power to draw on nearby vegetation’s Origin Energy.
• Lin Feng dismissed the other auction items and admitted he could not afford the curse, prompting Ms. Feng to insult him.
• Shu Heng introduced Ms. Feng and learned she hoped to buy the Frost Sky Condensing Light to earn the Ouyang Family’s favor.
• Ms. Feng set her sights on Lin Feng and threatened Shu Heng when he tried to shield him.
• Lin Feng stood up, warned Ms. Feng to leave, and attacked her mind with his soul pressure, forcing her to stagger backward.

Lin Feng’s spiritual power forced Feng Meng to retreat, drawing the attention of powerful guests at the Righteous Thunder Sect’s trading convention. As the auction began, Xiao Wan suggested that Lin Feng pursue its host, Elder Yao Tang.

• Lin Feng’s spiritual attack drew notice from a Supreme Elder, Elder Fei, Liu Jin, and other guests, who assessed his cultivation and unusual strength.
• Feng Meng abandoned her confrontation with Lin Feng and left with her companions after realizing she might not defeat him.
• The auction bells rang, and Shu Heng praised Lin Feng while the guests returned to their seats.
• Elder Yao Tang appeared on the platform to host the auction, and Shu Heng identified her as a ninth-layer He Tian Realm elder of the Righteous Thunder Sect.
• Xiao Wan told Lin Feng that Elder Yao Tang was unmarried and offered to introduce them as potential Dao companions.

Lin Feng ignored Xiao Wan’s offer to join the Righteous Thunder Sect and paid little attention to the auction until Yao Tang presented two unusual pills. The Bodhi Pill’s possible power to help Ying Tian Realm cultivators break through to He Tian Realm sparked fierce bidding, which remained unresolved.

• Lin Feng refused Xiao Wan’s attempt to recruit him into the Righteous Thunder Sect, and she kissed him while Yao Tang resumed the auction.
• Yao Tang auctioned two fifth-grade Town Mountain Talismans, which sold for three hundred and twenty drops of Mid-grade Spirit Liquid.
• As the auction progressed through dozens of items, Lin Feng turned his attention to Yao Tang’s pills, the Yi Shi Dan and the Bodhi Pill.
• Yao Tang explained that the Yi Shi Dan could improve a child’s talent and that the Bodhi Pill might help peak Ying Tian Realm cultivators advance toward He Tian Realm.
• Several bidders competed for the pills, and after a He Tian Realm expert offered two thousand eight hundred drops of Mid-grade Spirit Liquid, another elderly man raised the bid to three thousand six hundred.

Two Bodhi Pills sold for an unexpectedly high price after rival He Tian Realm experts bid against each other for their descendants. The auction then moved on to higher-tier items, and a black-robed bidder traded an Origin Technique for the Meteor Sword Talisman while Lin Feng decided to wait before pursuing a Spirit Beast cub.

• Two He Tian Realm experts drove the bid for the Bodhi Pills up to 6,800 drops of Mid-grade Spirit Liquid, and one withdrew from the contest.
• Yao Tang awarded the Yi Shi Dan and Bodhi Pills to the winning bidder in exchange for Spirit Liquid.
• Yao Tang began the He Tian Realm auction and offered the Meteor Sword Talisman in exchange for a speed-related Origin Technique.
• A black-robed cultivator obtained the Meteor Sword Talisman by trading an ancient book containing an Origin Technique.
• Lin Feng considered bidding on an upcoming Spirit Beast cub but decided to wait because its origins or quality might be questionable.

Lin Feng learned that the Mysterious Nether Demonic Evil Ape was an experimental creature bred by the Earth Origin Sect to fight Outer Realm Demons, whose energy could assimilate the continent’s Origin Energy. As Yao Tang revealed the ape’s origins and the Earth Origin Sect leader’s involvement, the auction crowd erupted in shock and speculation.

• Yao Tang presented the Mysterious Nether Demonic Evil Ape for auction, and Lin Feng noticed the crowd’s eagerness and the ape’s unusual intelligence, black mist, and buried killing intent.
• Lin Feng asked Shu Heng about the ape, and Shu Heng explained that the Earth Origin Sect bred creatures combining Magical Beast and Outer Realm Demon bloodlines to counter the demons’ energy.
• Shu Heng told Lin Feng that the Earth Origin Sect and Heavenly Origin Sect had split from the former Origin Sect, and that major factions sought the creatures for research and possible military advantage.
• Lin Feng suspected the ape’s brutality made the Earth Origin Sect’s experiment dangerous, while Yao Tang announced that the sect leader had spent thousands of years and vast resources developing it.
• Yao Tang explained that the ape had been created by fusing a Mysterious Nether Ape cub with another entity, prompting the crowd to question the Earth Origin Sect’s identity and power.

At the trade fair, Yao Tang auctioned a Mysterious Nether Demonic Evil Ape that the Earth Origin Sect had turned into a living dead beast, then introduced a section of Ming Xin Bamboo Whip. Lin Feng grew uneasy about the Earth Origin Sect’s experiments, while the chapter ended with a bidder challenging the bamboo whip’s value.

• Several bidders offered cultivation methods, pills, and treasures for the Mysterious Nether Demonic Evil Ape, while Lin Feng worried that the Earth Origin Sect’s imprisoned Outer Realm Demons might escape.
• Black-robed members of a beast clan recognized the ape as a lost descendant of the Mysterious Nether Ape Clan, and their elder ordered them to notify the clan while warning that they could not oppose the Earth Origin Sect.
• Yao Tang selected the winning bid, and the buyer exchanged an ancient cultivation book for the ape and received the blood-red control talisman after Yao Tang verified the book.
• Yao Tang introduced a Ming Xin Bamboo Whip section and explained its benefits for resisting illusions and surviving Soul Tribulations and Mind Tribulations.
• A black-clothed man argued that the bamboo section would take thousands of years to mature and was worth no more than seventy percent of genuine Ming Xin Bamboo.

At the Righteous Thunder Sect auction, Lin Feng offered his growing Emperor Spirit Flame for a Ming Xin Bamboo Whip, and Yao Tang accepted it for consideration despite uncertainty about its value. The flame was chosen over the other bids, leaving an old man in a private room curious about its unusual properties.

• Yao Tang subdued a black-robed bidder who questioned the value of the Ming Xin Bamboo Whip, then opened bidding for fire-related items and treasures that could improve He Tian Realm cultivation.
• Lin Feng sent his Emperor Spirit Flame as a bid, and Yao Tang found its potential to grow and strengthen itself difficult to value.
• Yao Tang consulted the consignor, then told Lin Feng the flame would need testing if it won; Lin Feng agreed to exchange it before the trading convention ended.
• After comparing the submissions with the consignor’s requirements, Yao Tang selected Lin Feng’s flame and returned the other items.
• An old man in a private room wondered what information Lin Feng had provided about the flame, and the girl beside him asked what it said.

Lin Feng easily won the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip auction with Emperor Spirit Flame, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators who might target him afterward. The auctioneer then unveiled the seventh-grade sword Frost Sky Condensing Light, and Lin Feng noticed that its history did not match what the auction booklet claimed.

• A young girl from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion noticed Lin Feng, while her great-grandfather warned her not to provoke He Tian Realm cultivators.
• Lin Feng won the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip auction after no one else matched his Emperor Spirit Flame, and several cultivators began considering him an easy target.
• Shu Heng congratulated Lin Feng and cautioned him about the powerful bidders, but Lin Feng said he was prepared.
• The auctioneer revealed Frost Sky Condensing Light, a seventh-grade sword whose cold air chilled the venue.
• Lin Feng recalled the sword's history in the booklet and questioned why it had changed hands, suspecting the trading house knew something was wrong.

Lin Feng left the auction, settled into a superior room, and used his Heavenly Flame to make two women believe they were being tested by an elder of the Righteous Thunder Sect. Xiao Wan explained how the ancient Origin Sect split into the Earth Origin Sect and Heavenly Origin Sect, then described the war that followed the Origin Sect’s experiments on Origin Beasts.

• Lin Feng left the auction with Xiao Wan and had a maid take them to a superior room.
• Lin Feng asked the maid to send two more women, then secretly sent Xiao Ling to refine pills while he was occupied with the women.
• After the women fainted, Lin Feng used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to make Xiao Wan and another woman believe they had fallen asleep during work and faced an elder’s examination.
• The elder asked Xiao Wan what the Earth Origin Sect was and where it came from, and she said it had split from the ancient Origin Sect alongside the Heavenly Origin Sect over conflicting philosophies.
• Xiao Wan explained that the radical faction’s capture and study of Origin Beasts led to a war between humans and beast clans, after which surviving forces demanded an explanation from the Origin Sect.

Lin Feng learned how the Earth Origin Sect split from the Origin Sect, developed Demon Art, and became locked in a long stalemate with the mainland factions. Yao Tang arrived with the concealed owner of the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip and presented Lin Feng with his Emperor Spirit Flame to begin their discussion.

• Xiao Wan recounted how the Origin Sect split into the Heavenly Origin Sect and Earth Origin Sect, while another woman described the Earth Origin Sect's return, its Demon Art, and its later retreat overseas.
• Lin Feng used illusions to send the women away and planned to refine pills with Xiao Ling for Shu Heng before the trade convention ended.
• Yao Tang arrived with a black-robed companion whom she introduced as the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip's owner.
• Lin Feng asked what they wanted before handing over the whip, and Yao Tang brought out his scarlet Emperor Spirit Flame.

Lin Feng proved the Emperor Spirit Flame could grow by absorbing fire-attribute treasures and received the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip in exchange. After Shu Heng recounted the auction, Lin Feng became suspicious that Feng Meng had obtained Frost Sky Condensing Light despite being only an eighth-level He Tian Realm cultivator.

• Yao Tang asked Lin Feng to demonstrate the Emperor Spirit Flame absorbing fire-attribute treasures, and he showed her and the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip's owner how it worked.
• After Yao Tang verified the flame's growth and tested the method herself, she gave Lin Feng the Bright Heart Bamboo Whip, which sharpened his spirit and mind.
• Xiao Ling returned with the requested items, and Lin Feng spanked her before sending her back into his body when he sensed someone approaching.
• Shu Heng visited Lin Feng and said Feng Meng had won Frost Sky Condensing Light, while the Azure Heaven Spirit Control Curse had also drawn fierce bidding.
• Lin Feng wondered how Feng Meng, an eighth-level He Tian Realm cultivator, could afford to outbid powerful Upper Three Tribulations cultivators for Frost Sky Condensing Light.

Lin Feng learned more about the auction’s unusual outcomes, collected payment for pills he had Xiao Ling refine, and used his Spirit Liquid to break through to the fourth layer of the He Tian Realm. On the final day of the trading convention, he went to his unused stall, where he found He Tian Realm cultivators at both neighboring stalls.

• Shu Heng told Lin Feng that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had won the Azure Heaven Spirit Control Curse, despite the Guang Xu Sect’s recent influx of funds.
• Lin Feng gave Shu Heng a Heaven Mending Pill and several other pills, accepted eight thousand portions of mid-grade Spirit Liquid, and arranged to collect the remaining payment later.
• After Shu Heng left, Lin Feng collected more Spirit Liquid from the trading house and spent two days cultivating, advancing from the third to the fourth layer of the He Tian Realm.
• On the convention’s final day, Lin Feng told Xiao Wan and the other attendants to return before the hour of the Rooster, then headed to his rented stall.
• Lin Feng reached First Class, Number Twenty-One, and noticed that both neighboring stallholders were He Tian Realm cultivators displaying goods suited to their level.

Lin Feng sold pills and treasures at the trade convention, then heard Shu Heng’s request for a breakthrough pill and negotiated terms for refining one. Elsewhere, Yun An’s great-grandfather warned that strange events at the auction might signal trouble after the convention.

• Lin Feng sold most of his pills and many of his treasures, earning tens of thousands of Mid-grade Spirit Liquid.
• Shu Heng paid Lin Feng the remaining four thousand Mid-grade Spirit Liquid and said he would visit that evening to discuss something.
• Yun An demanded that her great-grandfather take her out, but he refused because he feared the auction’s strange events foreshadowed danger.
• Yun An accepted her great-grandfather’s warning that the Guang Xu Sect’s behavior at the auction had been suspicious.
• Shu Heng asked Lin Feng to refine a pill to help him break through and offered one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Liquid.
• Lin Feng agreed in principle, provided Shu Heng supplied the pill ingredients and found herbs, seedlings, and seeds as additional payment.

Lin Feng offered to refine a strength-increasing Mid-grade Spirit Pill for Shu Heng, who agreed to seek the costly ingredients and payment despite the risk of spending his fortune. After Shu Heng left, Lin Feng considered how the Frost Sky Condensing Light Sword had escaped battle damage during an ancient invasion.

• Lin Feng gave Shu Heng the pill’s ingredient list and promised a chance to advance two levels, while asking for half the payment upfront and the rest after the pill’s effects were confirmed.
• Shu Heng was shocked by the rarity and cost of the ingredients but decided to proceed, hoping to gain more lifespan and time to cultivate his descendants.
• Lin Feng and Shu Heng agreed that Lin Feng would not collect the remaining payment if the pill failed, but would bear no responsibility for the failure.
• Shu Heng left to seek Spirit Liquid from friends and his sect and to gather the ingredients.
• Lin Feng worried about powerful Upper Three Tribulations experts at the convention and speculated about why the Frost Sky Condensing Light Sword showed no signs of battle damage.

Lin Feng and Shu Heng left Kong Tian City after Shu Heng gathered the materials and paid for Lin Feng to refine a pill. Lin Feng discovered that a group of cultivators was following them and set up black stone pillars in a remote mountain range, leaving Shu Heng to realize they were surrounded by powerful pursuers.

• Shu Heng brought Lin Feng the Medicinal Herbs he had gathered, and Lin Feng confirmed they were sufficient for pill refinement.
• Shu Heng paid Lin Feng fifty thousand portions of Mid-grade Spirit Liquid, and the two flew out of Kong Tian City toward a remote mountain range.
• Lin Feng sensed a group following them and learned that they intended to ambush him for his wealth as an alchemist.
• Lin Feng and Shu Heng reached the remote mountain range, where Lin Feng swept the area with his Soul Power and detected the pursuers.
• Lin Feng released black stone pillars covered in blood red runes, prompting the followers to prepare for battle and Shu Heng to realize they had been followed.

Lin Feng’s Bloodthirsty Spirit Transformation Array trapped the trackers, and he slaughtered nearly all of them with his overwhelming physical strength. He confronted the last survivor for information, but the man threatened him and demanded to be released.

• Lin Feng raised the Bloodthirsty Spirit Transformation Array as the trackers unleashed their Origin Techniques, and Shu Heng fled before the blasts knocked him away.
• The trackers mistook Lin Feng’s disappearance in the explosions for his death, but the unchanged array revealed he might still be alive.
• Lin Feng burst from the Origin Energy shockwaves and killed the trackers one by one, while their blood and souls were drawn away from their bodies.
• Lin Feng dispersed the remaining attacks and killed every tracker except their eighth-level He Tian Realm leader.
• Lin Feng asked the last tracker for information and offered to spare him, but the man warned that his faction would hunt Lin Feng if he did not return and offered compensation in exchange for release.