Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun arranged for the Earth Spirits to establish the Six Harmonies Earth Vein Cluster and entrusted Yun Buyao with their Spirit-Control Token. He then encouraged her to extort benefits from the Earth Spirit, leaving her to seek Gao Qiang’s advice on how to do it.

• Feng Jun gained the five factions’ agreement to let the Earth Spirits adjust and combine their Earth Veins, while Supreme Clarity Sect asked to observe the work.
• Feng Jun gave Yun Buyao the Spirit-Control Token and told her to monitor the Earth Spirits.
• Yun Buyao questioned whether she was the right person to hold the token, but Feng Jun insisted she keep it and guided her to pursue her chosen cultivation path with a clear mind.
• Feng Jun told Yun Buyao to make things difficult for the Earth Spirits and extort benefits from them, using her Pure Metal Physique as leverage.
• Yun Buyao asked Gao Qiang how to extort the Earth Spirit, and he asked her to explain the situation.

Gao Qiang and Red Sister helped Yun Buyao learn how to deal with the Earth Spirit, while Feng Jun enforced her authority as token holder. Yun Buyao eventually persuaded the Earth Spirit to provide metal qi, though it resented being extorted.

• Gao Qiang told Yun Buyao a manipulative communication technique, leaving her wary of Blue Star people and reluctant to speak with the Earth Spirit.
• Yun Buyao complained that the Earth Spirit was ignoring her, so Feng Jun punished it and warned it to respect the token holder.
• Feng Jun took Zhang Caixin and the others back to Liba Beach, then continued working on the Three-in-One Contract.
• Red Sister advised Yun Buyao to leave the Earth Spirit alone for a few days, then ask whether it appreciated her consideration.
• Yun Buyao implied that Feng Jun gave her the Spirit-Control Token because she had Innate Pure Metal, and the Earth Spirit agreed to provide metal qi while privately resenting her.

Yun Buyao extorted the Earth Spirit, which then deliberately slowed construction of the Six Harmonies Combined Earth Vein while Feng Jun worked on a new three-in-one secret art. After discovering the delay, Feng Jun confronted the Earth Spirit and invoked his upcoming Golden Core celebration and guests from the Sky-Qin Plane, leaving it panicked and unable to justify its conduct.

• Yun Buyao followed Red Sister’s advice and demanded compensation from the Earth Spirit for being excluded from supervising construction.
• Twenty days later, the Earth Spirit had completed only half the Six Harmonies Combined Earth Vein, though the other groups praised its progress.
• Feng Jun continued developing his three-in-one secret art while limiting Divination and Core Embrace services to clients with proper qualifications.
• After completing the secret art, Feng Jun summoned the Earth Spirit and demanded it declare under contract that it had worked hard enough.
• The Earth Spirit admitted that it had been distracted and had deliberately worked cautiously, delaying construction while helping Yun Buyao temper her body.
• Feng Jun told the Earth Spirit that his Golden Core celebration was one month away and that he had invited cultivators from the Sky-Qin Plane, then challenged its excuse for the delay.

Feng Jun punished Earth Spirit for delaying the Six Harmonies Earth Vein project and ordered it to finish within twenty days while continuing Yun Buyao’s metal-energy work. Meanwhile, Zhang Caixin and Yan Yuxi discussed Spirit Vein shares and a possible alliance, leaving Yu Qingzhu to propose dividing the shares into A and B classes.

• Feng Jun extracted thirty thousand units of spiritual energy from Earth Spirit for neglecting the Earth Vein project and gave it twenty days to finish without pausing Yun Buyao’s work.
• Zhang Caixin and Yan Yuxi struggled to settle the Spirit Vein shares and agreed that Liba Beach could let the other parties negotiate among themselves.
• Yan Yuxi offered the Yan Clan’s unconditional support in exchange for help with the Spirit Vein and advised Zhang Caixin not to sell her land.
• Zhang Caixin told Red Sister and Yu Qingzhu about Yan Yuxi’s offer, and Red Sister warned that Feng Jun valued security.
• Yu Qingzhu proposed dividing the shares into A and B classes.

Feng Jun and his allies arranged the Spirit Vein's shareholding and voting rights, giving Tiantong a small voting stake after negotiations with the Yan Clan. Yu Qingzhu then structured Liba Beach's extraction deal to retain control while using the other parties' investment to secure Divination quotas, leaving the seven powerful shareholders poised to help Liba Beach withstand pressure.

• Feng Jun approved shares for the Three Sects and Two Platforms, the Yan Clan, and Tiantong, while keeping control of Liba Beach's voting rights.
• Ji True Adept argued that Tiantong needed voting rights, and Yan Yuxi eventually transferred 1 percent of the Yan Clan's voting rights to Tiantong.
• The parties finalized the Spirit Vein ownership: the seven outside parties held 37 percent of its shares and 30 percent of its voting rights, while Liba Beach retained the rest.
• Yu Qingzhu set Liba Beach's stake at 63 percent of the shares and 70 percent of the voting rights, with the other parties' investment converted into Divination quotas.
• Yu Qingzhu reasoned that the powerful shareholders would hoard their Divination quotas rather than sell them cheaply, helping Liba Beach withstand pressure.

Yu Qingzhu persuaded Red Sister to prioritize Liba Beach’s long-term security when allocating Spirit Vein shares, while the Earth Spirit completed its Six Harmonies Earth Vein ahead of schedule and attended the Carefree Platform Branch Academy’s celebration. Feng Jun later scolded it for failing to leave the celebration with him and threatened to take its spiritual energy, leaving the Earth Spirit trying to shift blame to Yun Buyao.

• Yu Qingzhu convinced Red Sister that strengthening seven factions would reduce pressure on Liba Beach and support its sustainable development.
• The Earth Spirit finished drawing the Six Harmonies Earth Vein two and a half days early and went to celebrate the Carefree Platform Branch Academy’s completion.
• Feng Jun attended the celebration with Zhang Caixin, Gazi, and Mi Yunshan, gave the academy one hundred Two-Way Radios, and left after a little over an hour.
• The Earth Spirit stayed overnight at Carefree Courtyard and returned to the manor the next morning, where Feng Jun questioned it about the celebration.
• Feng Jun reprimanded the Earth Spirit for not asking permission before attending and for failing to leave when he did, then threatened to take fifty thousand units of its spiritual energy.
• The Earth Spirit blamed Yun Buyao for failing to supervise it, and Feng Jun rebuked it for shifting responsibility onto his young disciple.

Feng Jun pressured the Earth Spirit into accepting a new Threefold Seizure Unity contract by making Spirit Seizure seem frightening and negotiating a discount. After the contract succeeded and the Earth Spirit recovered some spiritual energy, True Adept Qingya asked Feng Jun what contract he had signed.

• Feng Jun asked the Earth Spirit to take responsibility for the disruption and proposed replacing its contract with a combination of Spirit Seizure, Soul Seizure, and Lifespan Seizure.
• The Earth Spirit bargained over the deal, and Feng Jun agreed to waive ten thousand units of spiritual energy if it accepted the new contract.
• Feng Jun paused Spirit Vein guidance and sealed the Earth Spirit while changing the contract; the new contract succeeded a day later.
• Feng Jun tested the contract’s functions, then released ten thousand units of spiritual energy so the Earth Spirit could absorb it.
• True Adept Qingya asked Feng Jun what contract he had signed with the Earth Spirit.

Feng Jun revealed that he had devised the Threefold Seizure Unity contract, which Guyue wanted to obtain to secure his future in the Grand Void Sect. After learning Guyue’s reasons, Feng Jun offered to help improve a Supreme Clarity Sect secret art instead, though Qu Jianlei doubted the sect would agree.

• Feng Jun told Qingya, Gongyang Youyu, and Guyue that he had combined the three Seizure Formula seizures into a contract he devised through Divination, and refused to sell it for now.
• After the others dispersed, Kong Ziyi explained that Guyue wanted the contract to help him gather resources and remain in the Grand Void Sect after forming his Nascent Soul at an advanced age.
• Nie Chifeng and Guan Hongxiu objected to Guyue seeking Feng Jun’s secret art, while Kong Ziyi asked Feng Jun not to blame him for planning his future.
• Feng Jun said he held no grudge and offered to improve a Supreme Clarity Sect secret art Guyue chose instead of giving him the Threefold Seizure Unity contract.
• After Kong Ziyi left, Qu Jianlei told Feng Jun that the Supreme Clarity Sect would never let an outsider revise its secret arts.

As Feng Jun’s Core Embrace celebration approached, Zhan Xiu and powerful sect and platform leaders gathered at Liba Beach, while Feng Jun’s allies managed access and diplomacy. The Myriad Blessings Platform leader arrived hoping to repair the relationship and promote cooperation after repeatedly missing chances to work with Feng Jun.

• Guyue considered Sumiao’s suggestion to seek secret arts awaiting completion in the Upper Sects as a path to greater merit, and they agreed to make inquiries.
• Nearly two thousand Zhan Xiu reached Qi Yu’s territory, and Feng Jun sent Zhang Caixin and Mei Yeyu to bring them into Liba Beach and house them in the Azuresteel Sect’s former Blessing Courtyards.
• Sun Wufeng and Kong Ziyi turned away a Yin Sha Sect Adept who asked whether Nine Fiends could attend Feng Jun’s celebration, stating that Feng Jun had entrusted the Red Phoenix Sect with authority over Yin Sha matters.
• Great Dream Adept entered Liba Beach with tokens and a delegation, seeking to establish cooperation between the Ten Directions Platform and Feng Jun.
• The Myriad Blessings Platform leader arrived to promote cooperation after realizing the platform had repeatedly underestimated Feng Jun and missed opportunities to work with him.

Feng Jun prepared to host a Core Embrace celebration at Liba Beach, where a busy marketplace drew cultivators from major powers. The arrival of Yuan Fu, a True Immortal of the Five Pillars Realm, led to a confrontation with Ji Busheng over the invitation rules.

• Broken Blade, Xie Chaoqun, and other guests arrived for Feng Jun's celebration, while the leaders of Supreme Clarity Sect and Red Phoenix sent congratulatory gifts.
• At Qu Jianlei's suggestion, Liba Beach ran a temporary marketplace where Huangfu Wuxia appraised items for cultivators from visiting powers.
• Yuan Fu arrived at the marketplace on a cloud couch carried by two giants and ordered the master of Liba Beach to receive him.
• Ji Busheng stopped Yuan Fu's party and demanded an invitation or a token from Feng Jun, refusing them entry without one.
• A woman in green attacked Ji Busheng, who dodged her strike, drew the Profound Ruler, and ordered her to surrender.

Feng Jun confronted True Immortal Yuan Fu over his presumptuous arrival and refused to agree to an undisclosed favor, despite Yuan Fu's status. After Feng Jun offered rare Nascent Soul materials in return for a congratulatory gift, Yuan Fu reconsidered his influence but ended by warning that he would question Feng Jun directly if he persisted in refusing.

• Green Vine attacked Ji Busheng, but Buzui and the masters of the other platforms arrived to defend Heavenheart Platform and challenge Yuan Fu.
• Yuan Fu ordered Green Vine to apologize to Ji Busheng, then asked to speak with Feng Jun, who invited him to a nearby Traveling Residence.
• Yuan Fu congratulated Feng Jun on his Golden Core Embrace and said he had come to ask a favor, but Feng Jun refused to hear the request because Yuan Fu had arrived and spoken arrogantly.
• Yuan Fu offered one hundred jin of Shapeshifting Demon Yu Dragon meat as a congratulatory gift, and Feng Jun accepted it while producing two pieces of Nascent Soul Tree Demon wood as a return gift.
• Yuan Fu recognized Feng Jun's influence and acknowledged that he had misjudged him, but he asked whether Feng Jun was sure he wanted to continue refusing him.

Yuan Fu True Immortal interrogated Feng Jun about his Divination for Feng Yishu, but Feng Jun exposed the Feng Family’s attempt to have a cultivator from another plane form a Nascent Soul in Kun Hao. As the crowd turned against Yuan Fu, he tried to pressure Feng Jun, until a Ninth-Layer Golden Core True Adept intervened.

• Yuan Fu True Immortal revealed his Feng Family origins and questioned Feng Jun about Feng Yishu’s Divination, while Broken Blade confirmed that Feng Jun’s process had shown nothing unusual.
• Yuan Fu asked Feng Jun to help Feng Yishu form a Nascent Soul, but Feng Jun declared that Feng Yishu was doomed to fail and refused to return the Spirit Stones.
• Guyue defended Feng Jun and challenged Yuan Fu’s attempt to pressure him over the Divination fee.
• Feng Jun pointed out that Feng Yishu had come from the Void Awakening Plane to form a Nascent Soul in Kun Hao, prompting the gathered cultivators to condemn the Feng Family for taking Kun Hao’s resources.
• Yuan Fu set aside Feng Yishu’s case but accused Feng Jun of hiding something and began to exert pressure on him.
• A Ninth-Layer Golden Core True Adept stepped forward and told Yuan Fu that he would accomplish nothing.

Mo Ran intervened when Yuan Fu the True Immortal challenged Feng Jun over the Feng Family’s plan to borrow Azure Steel’s spiritual energy for Nascent Soul Formation. Feng Jun ended the confrontation by refusing future divinations for the Feng Family, while Yuan Fu learned that Feng Jun had slain a Nascent Soul tree demon before embracing his core.

• Mo Ran revealed that he was Grand Void Sect’s Administrator of East City and condemned the Feng Family’s plan to form a Nascent Soul in an Otherworld Plane, saying he would report it to Yuangang Sect.
• Yuan Fu announced that the Feng Family would write off its grievances with Liba Beach, and Feng Jun agreed while declaring he would never perform divinations for any Feng Family descendant.
• Yuan Fu threatened Feng Jun, but Mo Ran reminded him that Feng Jun had killed a Nascent Soul tree demon before embracing his core.
• Feng Jun taunted Yuan Fu about failing to sense the Immortal-Fall Aura on him, then left without answering Yuan Fu’s question about how he had slain the tree demon.
• Guyue and Sumiao approached Mo Ran, and Sumiao explained that he had hosted her and Feng Jun during their visit to Yiyao.

Yuan Fu withdrew after Broken Blade Adept and Mo Ran warned him against provoking Feng Jun, while the Azuresteel Sect faced public criticism over its dealings. Feng Jun brought the Yu Dragon meat to Xia Nishang for advice on serving it at the next day’s ceremony, but she questioned whether the guests could handle it.

• Broken Blade Adept warned Yuan Fu not to challenge Yue Qing and explained that the local forces backed Feng Jun because he was drawing in a Spirit Vein.
• Yuan Fu offered a hundred jin of Yu Dragon meat as a gesture, and Mo Ran privately urged him to investigate East City in Yiyao District before making trouble for Feng Jun.
• Yuan Fu left with his puppets and maidservant, and Feng Jun felt relieved as the crowd mocked him and questioned the Azuresteel Sect.
• Yue Qing said he had opposed the Azuresteel Sect’s actions, leaving Broken Blade Adept unable to respond without further damaging the sect’s reputation.
• Feng Jun asked Xia Nishang how to prepare the Yu Dragon meat for the ceremony, and she warned that ordinary cultivators might not withstand it.

At his Core Embrace celebration, Feng Jun lectured on the Dao and explained how he had improved the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art. His listeners struggled to follow his deepest insights, and the chapter ended as he prepared to continue speaking.

• Qu Jianlei simmered Yu Dragon meat into a huge pot of soup and reserved its condensate for Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun delivered a Dao lecture at his estate, while True Adepts across the area listened in silence.
• A battle cultivator asked Feng Jun about improving the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, and Guyue, Yue Qing, Xia Nishang, and Great Dream Adept supported the request.
• Feng Jun explained his divination methods and personal insights, prompting Huangfu Wuxia to record his words.
• Gongyang Youqing and Gongyang Youyu discussed how Feng Jun's profound insights seemed simple to him but were difficult for them to comprehend.
• Gongyang Youyu noticed Feng Jun had finished drinking water and was about to speak again.

Feng Jun’s lecture was interrupted by Ouyang Beishan of the Myriad Illusions Sect, who tried to mediate between Liba Beach and the Yin Sha Sect. Xia Nishang challenged Ouyang’s interference, and the chapter ended as Mo Ran stepped in to support her.

• Feng Jun’s lecture grew more fluent as his listeners followed his insights.
• Ouyang Beishan arrived at Liba Beach with Yin Sha Sect members and asked to bring them inside.
• Feng Jun allowed Ouyang to enter but said the Yin Sha Sect members would not be welcome again after that day.
• Ouyang urged Feng Jun to reconcile with Yinsha, but Feng Jun refused to make peace permanent.
• Xia Nishang confronted Ouyang over his interference and explained Yinsha’s suspected role in Blood-Red Adept’s attempt to worsen Feng Jun’s tribulation.
• Mo Ran appeared and told Ouyang that Xia Nishang had only meant to caution him against interfering in the lower realm.

Ouyang Beishan disrupted Feng Jun’s lecture and threatened him, but True Immortal Yi Jue killed his manifestation and drove him away. Feng Jun could not resume the lecture, so he began the celebratory feast while guests wondered whether Yi Jue would join them.

• Mo Ran challenged Ouyang Beishan for causing trouble in the lower realm, and Feng Jun demanded that he stop threatening people on his estate.
• Ouyang Beishan prepared to attack Feng Jun, but Yi Jue warned him to leave or die and cut off his manifestation’s head.
• Ouyang Beishan declared his ties to Yi Jue severed, and Yi Jue threatened to destroy his true body if he spoke again before he left.
• Yi Jue vanished after the Gongyang siblings greeted her, and Mo Ran warned others not to speculate about her joining the Spirit Plant Path.
• Feng Jun failed to recover his lecture’s rhythm and announced the feast instead, while guests returned to their places and shared the prepared food.

True Immortal Yi Jue attended Feng Jun’s Core Embrace celebration, bought Heavenly Fragrance Fruits, and stayed to discuss divination with him. After Feng Jun endured thousands of toasts and watched the fireworks, Yi Jue proposed discussing the Threefold Seizure Unity Contract.

• True Immortal Yi Jue arrived with True Adept Mo Ran, accepted Heavenly Fragrance Fruits and their cultivation manual from Feng Jun, and bought more fruit.
• Yi Jue explained that she had intervened against Ouyang Beishan to protect Mo Ran after Ouyang threatened to take him back to the Grand Void Sect.
• Yi Jue stayed at the celebration to discuss Feng Jun’s divination approach, questioning him for more than three hours.
• Feng Jun offered drinks to more than five thousand guests, using the Rain-Praying Array to help endure the five-hour round of toasts.
• Feng Jun watched fireworks with Yi Jue, declined to discuss his self-divination methods, and heard her suggest discussing the Threefold Seizure Unity Contract instead.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue negotiated an exchange involving his Threefold Seizure Unity Contract, a Soul-Substitution Puppet, and Mirror Image Talismans before preparing to travel to the Spirit Plant Path. Yi Jue discovered that Mo Ran had come hoping Feng Jun would divine the prospects of his Nascent Soul Formation, and she offered to join the divination on the Sky-Qin Plane.

• Feng Jun offered Yi Jue a copy of the Threefold Seizure Unity Contract, and asked her to find him Mirror Image Talismans instead of Soul-Substitution Puppets.
• Yi Jue insisted Feng Jun accept one Golden Core Stage Soul-Substitution Puppet to protect his subordinates, and he agreed to collect it on their trip.
• Yi Jue arranged to leave after the fireworks and promised Feng Jun she would make it rain at Liba Beach when they returned.
• Yi Jue prepared to take Mo Ran back with her, but Mo Ran admitted he wanted Feng Jun to divine his chances of Nascent Soul Formation.
• Feng Jun proposed divining for Mo Ran in both Kun Hao and the Sky-Qin Plane and comparing the results, and Yi Jue offered to perform her own divination as well.

True Immortal Yi Jue waited for Feng Jun after securing valuable resources and a copy of a Spirit Projection expert’s notebook for him. When Feng Jun finally saw the notebook about the Taotie Divine Ability and the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, he was stunned by its author.

• Feng Jun left True Immortal Yi Jue waiting at Geng-Character Plain while he returned to the lower realm to attend to his companions and give a lecture.
• True Immortal Shouzhong found Yi Jue waiting for Feng Jun and teased her about her unusual patience and explanations.
• Feng Jun returned with True Adept Mo Ran, and Yi Jue left with them for Kunhao Realm.
• Yi Jue gave Feng Jun a Golden Core Soul-Substitution Puppet, fifty Golden Core Mirror Image Talismans, five Nascent Soul Stage Mirror Image Talismans, and a copied miscellaneous notebook.
• Yi Jue explained that the notebook discussed the Taotie Divine Ability and the limited potential of the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art.
• Feng Jun reacted with astonishment when he saw the notebook and asked what kind of person could have written it.