Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun evaluated Ranyun’s chances of Nascent Soul Formation, but she resisted his recommendation to use costly Spirit Origin Crystal Sand. Jiangxia then brought her companion, Huang Shu, to ask Feng Jun to divine the value of an Ancient Dao Stele Fragment, leaving Huang Shu to explain how he had inherited it from the dying Sheng Hua True Immortal.

• Feng Jun raised Ranyun’s Nascent Soul Formation probability to sixty-nine percent with Spirit Origin Crystal Sand and other treasures, but she preferred to consult her master and seek alternatives.
• Huang Shu arrived with Jiangxia and presented a sealed, human-head-sized object whose ancient aura drew Yi Jue True Immortal to the Blessing Courtyard.
• Jiangxia asked Feng Jun whether the Ancient Dao Stele Fragment could help her Nascent Soul Formation, and Feng Jun recognized it and worried the Golden Crow Sect might keep him there.
• Huang Shu said he had obtained the fragment fifty years earlier while secretly watching Peak Nascent Soul cultivators fight, then agreed to return it to the Golden Crow Sect at Sheng Hua True Immortal’s request.
• Sheng Hua entrusted Huang Shu with the hidden Great Dao Fragment and dispersed his Nascent Soul after Huang Shu promised to bring it back.

True Immortal Huang Shu acquired the Dao Stele fragment after its former owner failed Soul Emergence, then brought it to Feng Jun so Jiangxia could divine her chances of forming a Nascent Soul. Jiangxia accepted the costly preparations, while Huang Shu refused to sell the fragment to True Immortal Yi Jue, who questioned his estimate of its value.

• An elder injured True Immortal Huang Shu by mistake while investigating the theft of the Dao Stele fragment, and he later advanced to the Fourth-Layer Nascent Soul during his recovery.
• After the elder failed Soul Emergence and left the fragment to Huang Shu, the Golden Crow Sect Master gave it to him and warned him that its power was dangerous.
• Huang Shu refused to lend the fragment to two Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul cultivators, but brought it to Feng Jun when Jiangxia asked to use it for a Divination.
• Feng Jun calculated that Jiangxia could reach an eighty-nine percent Nascent Soul Formation rate and the Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage within a century if she spent over eight hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Jiangxia agreed to the expense, and Feng Jun warned Huang Shu that he would die if he tried to use the fragment to open his crown.
• True Immortal Yi Jue asked to buy the fragment, but Huang Shu refused and challenged her to consider how much Jiangxia would save by advancing sooner.

Feng Jun helped arrange support for several cultivators preparing for Nascent Soul Formation, while the Red Phoenix Sect and Golden Crow Sect weighed the costs and staffing around Xia Nishang’s attempt. The chapter ended with two Ninth-Layer Golden Cores arriving at the Red Phoenix Sect to seek Mortal World Tempering at Liba Beach.

• Yi Jue accepted that Huang Shu would not sell the Dao Stele Fragment, and Ranyun told Feng Jun that Spirit Origin Crystal Sand might help her condense her aura.
• The Golden Crow Sect decided to provide Xia Nishang, Ranyun, and Jiangxia with treasures worth one hundred and fifty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones each.
• Feng Jun took the group to East City in Yiyao, then returned to Liba Beach as Xia Nishang prepared for Nascent Soul Formation and requested another High-Grade Golden Core from her sect.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect offered Guyue materials worth one hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for his unrestricted insights on Nascent Soul Formation.
• Mushi and Wanyang, two Ninth-Layer Golden Cores from the Golden Crow Sect, arrived at the Red Phoenix Sect seeking Mortal World Tempering at Liba Beach.

Mushi and Wanyang observed Liba Beach while Feng Jun hosted divinations, and True Adept Guyue secured support for his Nascent Soul Formation preparations. Grand Void Sect approved two secret arts for divination by True Immortal Yi Jue, and Guyue completed his purchases in the Sky-Qin Plane.

• Mushi and Wanyang settled at Red Phoenix's Branch Academy without registering for thirty years of guard duty, while Feng Jun continued performing divinations.
• True Adept Guyue told True Adept Yuan he no longer needed to borrow fifty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones because the Supreme Clarity Sect had supported him.
• After learning about the sect's support, True Adept Yuan gave Guyue ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and asked him not to tell Mo Ran.
• Grand Void Sect approved Binding Qi into Force and One Tree Makes a Forest for True Immortal Yi Jue's divinations and delivered the materials two days later.
• True Adept Guyue finished buying supplies in the Sky-Qin Plane and gathered the treasures needed for his Nascent Soul Formation.

Feng Jun refused to help Li Chengqiong prepare for Core Embrace beyond divining for him, but Yi Jue predicted that his steady progress would eventually accelerate. As Li Chengqiong’s Core Embrace reached its decisive stage, a Heavenheart Platform cultivator struggled to wait and observe the full process before attempting their own.

• Feng Jun agreed that cultivators from Buzui True Adept and Qingya True Adept’s groups could begin preparing to attempt Core Embrace, then worked with Yi Jue True Immortal to divine incomplete secret techniques.
• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to find Cauldron candidates to help Li Chengqiong, but Feng Jun refused and said he would only divine for him.
• Li Chengqiong began Core Embrace, and Yi Jue True Immortal predicted that his slow, steady progress would turn into a rapid advance.
• On the twenty-sixth day, Li Chengqiong’s Core Embrace aura intensified, then surged forward until it peaked and began to recede.
• A Peak Emergence from Dust cultivator at Heavenheart Platform told Buzui True Adept that their own opportunity had arrived, but Buzui urged them to wait and observe Li Chengqiong’s full Core Formation.
• Li Chengqiong’s aura vanished and Tribulation Clouds appeared above Liba Beach as the Heavenheart Platform cultivator said they could no longer hold back.

Repeated Core Embrace attempts followed Li Chengqiong’s successful breakthrough, prompting Feng Jun to warn the sects about damage to the Six Harmonies Earth Vein. When Yan Yuxi asked for another divination, Feng Jun discovered her chance of success had risen to ninety-six percent, possibly because of a Fellow-Path Aura.

• Li Chengqiong endured three waves of tribulation lightning and successfully formed his core, while True Adept Buzui made a Heavenheart Platform disciple wait until the next day before beginning Core Embrace.
• A Carefree Platform disciple and then a Supreme Clarity Sect cultivator attempted Core Embrace, with Feng Jun advising the latter to use Cauldron candidates after a setback so he could form his core safely.
• True Immortal Yi Jue explained that frequent Core Embrace attempts could damage the Six Harmonies Earth Vein, and Feng Jun said he would arrange repairs after Li Chengqiong stabilized his cultivation.
• After three successful breakthroughs, Yan Yuxi asked Feng Jun to divine whether she should attempt Core Embrace, and Yi Jue suggested that a Fellow-Path Aura was influencing her.
• Feng Jun performed the divination and found that Yan Yuxi’s chance of success had risen to ninety-six percent.

Yan Yuxi chose to embrace the core at Feng Jun’s estate after divination showed that Liba Beach’s Fellow-Path Aura raised her odds. The news alerted other sects to the possible aura, and Buzui began taking Liba Beach’s significance seriously.

• Yan Yuxi’s clan agreed to let her embrace the core at Feng Jun’s estate after divination put her chances there at ninety-six percent, compared with ninety-one percent on Pine-Cypress Peak’s land.
• Yan Yuxi’s plans spread through Liba Beach, and the Yan Clan offered a public explanation for why she would use Feng Jun’s estate.
• Sumiao questioned Yi Jue about the Fellow-Path Aura, and Yi Jue advised Supreme Clarity Sect to share its divination opportunities with subordinate sects that lacked suitable cultivators.
• Busheng the Real Person inferred that Liba Beach might have a Fellow-Path Aura and told Buzui that Pine-Cypress Peak’s actions supported the suspicion.
• Qingya overheard Buzui and Busheng discussing Pine-Cypress Peak and the possible Fellow-Path Aura.

Xiaodong confirmed that a Fellow-Path Aura might have appeared at Liba Beach, and Yan Yuxi’s rapid Core Embrace attempt helped the news spread among Red Phoenix merit cultivators. The Dantai Family, seeking the same advantage for Dantai Shenmian, failed to secure a place at Liba Beach and watched Yan Yuxi contain her core successfully.

• Xiaodong told Sumiao that his divination suggested a Fellow-Path Aura might be present at Liba Beach and that the Supreme Clarity Sect needed to verify it.
• Feng Jun told Qu Jianlei that Yan Yuxi’s swift Core Embrace was due both to her talent and to the Fellow-Path Aura, and Qu Jianlei secretly informed Red Phoenix’s Glory Merit Hall partners.
• Red Phoenix merit cultivators arrived at Liba Beach and saw that Yan Yuxi had formed her core in ten days and was nearing the Tribulation Lightning stage.
• The Dantai Family asked Feng Jun for a suitable place where Dantai Shenmian could attempt Core Embrace, but Feng Jun refused to lend his Earth Vein or other land.
• Yan Yuxi successfully contained her core, leaving the Dantai Family’s True Adepts jealous as they watched from afar.

The Dantai Family failed to secure a place for Dantai Shenmian to attempt Core Embrace near Liba Beach, and he began forming his core before they could move him. As his attempt stalled, Li Zhishen began forming a Sword Core, while Supreme Clarity arranged nearby Traveling Residences for its other disciples to pursue Core Embrace.

• Feng Jun refused the Dantai Family's request to let a disciple attempt Core Embrace near Liba Beach and told them to discuss it with the other five families.
• Xiaomeng and Su Miao argued over which sect deserved priority, while the families debated who should get the next Core Embrace slot.
• A Dantai True Adept asked Feng Jun to let Dantai Shenmian move to Liba Beach, but Feng Jun said Shenmian had already begun forming his core and could not change locations.
• On the fifteenth day of Core Formation, Dantai Shenmian's aura stagnated, and the Dantai Family sought Feng Jun's help.
• Li Zhishen began attempting to form a Sword Core, prompting Supreme Clarity to place two Traveling Residences ten li from the separate courtyard for three disciples.
• The Dantai Family accused Feng Jun of humiliating them over the Traveling Residences, but he said they could arrange the same with the other four families' agreement.

Feng Jun saved Dantai Shenmian from a fatal Core Embrace attempt by directing the Dantai Family to stop the process, then demanded payment and identified Shenmian’s Yellow Essence Pills as the cause of the failure. He left Shenmian suspecting the pills had been misrepresented when he received them years earlier.

• Feng Jun divined that Dantai Shenmian’s chance of completing Core Embrace had fallen below five percent and warned the Dantai Family to prepare for his death.
• Feng Jun persuaded the Dantai Family to stop Shenmian’s Core Embrace, and he guided them through reversing the process with Cauldron candidates.
• Dantai Shenmian emerged furious, but Feng Jun explained that the family True Adepts had chosen to interrupt the attempt and warned Shenmian not to disrespect him.
• Feng Jun told Shenmian that another Core Embrace might be possible after twenty years and demanded two thousand Spirit Stones for saving his life.
• Feng Jun blamed the Yellow Essence Pills for the collapse in Shenmian’s chances and questioned whether the pills had truly been made from five-thousand-year Yellow Essence.
• Shenmian confirmed that he had received the pills from the family treasury more than ten years earlier, and Feng Jun suggested that inferior ingredients might have been passed off as genuine.

Feng Jun warned the Dantai Family that its failed Core Embrace might stem from a flawed Yellow Essence Pill, while Li Zhishen advanced to Golden Core at Liba Beach. As the Dantai Family's new cultivators considered confronting Feng Jun, Real People Wanyang and Mushi debated reporting Liba Beach's Core Embrace aura and ultimately considered registering for the thirty-year guard duty.

• Feng Jun collected two thousand Spirit Stones from the Dantai Family Real People, repeated his warning about the Yellow Essence Pill for their Recording Stone, and left.
• The Dantai Family Real People decided to report the matter to the clan and return to the secret realm, while that night Li Zhishen successfully advanced to Golden Core.
• The Dantai Family replaced its cultivators at Liba Beach, and its Low-Grade Golden Core argued for demanding an explanation from Feng Jun despite the High-Grade Golden Core's warning not to offend him.
• Real Person Wanyang and Real Person Mushi discussed whether to report Liba Beach's Fellow-Path Aura for Core Embrace to the Golden Crow Sect or lower branches.
• Real Person Wanyang proposed registering for the thirty-year guard duty mission first, while Real Person Mushi remained uncertain about informing the sect.

True Adept Wanyang registered to guard Liba Beach and negotiated terms for bringing Golden Crow Sect cultivators there to embrace their cores. Feng Jun offered her a management role and a share of the fees, giving her a way to earn Spirit Stones while supporting her search for Core Embrace opportunities.

• True Adept Wanyang decided to register as a guard after discussing the choice with True Adept Mushi.
• At Feng Jun's estate, Yu Qingzhu agreed to count Wanyang's service from that day and allowed her to divide the thirty years into three ten-year terms, with limited absences.
• Wanyang asked whether Heavenly Zither Peak Emergence from Dust cultivators could use Liba Beach's Fellow-Path Aura, and Feng Jun set the fee at three hundred Spirit Stones per day.
• Wanyang tried to negotiate the fee for her fellow sect members, then explained that she needed Spirit Stones and treasures for Core Embrace.
• Feng Jun proposed that Wanyang recruit and manage Golden Crow Sect cultivators in exchange for ten percent of the Spirit Stones collected.

Feng Jun arranged for Wanyang to manage outside cultivators seeking Fellow-Path Aura at Liba Beach in exchange for a share of their fees. Wanyang gathered Kun Hao’s major powers to establish restrictions on outsiders, and the meeting ended with discussion of the fee and conditions for upper sects to send cultivators.

• Feng Jun offered Wanyang a commission to manage outside cultivators seeking to form their cores at Liba Beach, and she negotiated for twenty percent.
• True Immortal Yi Jue advised that outside-domain cultivators must get Wanyang’s consent after that day, while Feng Jun allowed those already present to remain.
• Wanyang convened representatives of Kun Hao’s major powers and announced that outsiders could no longer enter Liba Beach freely, with Golden Crow Sect cultivators admitted under her supervision.
• Yue Qing supported charging a high fee for access to Fellow-Path Aura, and Wanyang said Golden Crow Sect cultivators would pay three hundred Spirit Stones per day.
• Xiaodong asked whether Grand Void Upper Sect could send cultivators if it provided a True Immortal, and Wanyang said it could if the True Immortal was at Golden Core Peak and agreed to guard Liba Beach.

A Nascent Soul Tree Demon confronted Feng Jun over the death of the Redwood Essence, but Yi Jue intervened and challenged it. After learning Yi Jue had created Yearning for Sweet Rain, the demon agreed not to pursue Feng Jun, but demanded its clansman’s corpse; Feng Jun refused.

• Xiaodong and Sumiao discussed how other sects doubted that Kun Hao could sustain a Fellow-Path Aura, while Ji Busheng and Buzui's leader debated which Upper Sect to notify.
• A giant tree shadow appeared over Kunhao, and the Nascent Soul Tree Demon demanded that Feng Jun be handed over for killing its junior.
• Feng Jun admitted that he had fought back because the Redwood Essence had tried to kill him, and Yi Jue struck the demon’s distant incarnation when it targeted the Earth Spirit.
• Yi Jue challenged the demon to reveal its true body’s location, and it recognized her as the creator of Yearning for Sweet Rain.
• The demon agreed not to pursue Feng Jun but demanded the corpse of its clansman, and Feng Jun refused to return it.

Feng Jun refused to return any of the Redwood Essence’s remains, rejecting the Nascent Soul Tree Demon’s demand because it had attacked the Earth Spirit and Liba Beach with contempt. The Tree Demon withdrew into the interstitial space to lie in wait, while Yan Yuxi emerged after stabilizing her Golden Core and challenged it over its attack on Human Race cultivators.

• Feng Jun refused True Immortal Yi Jue’s suggestion to return part of the Redwood Essence’s remains, and told the Nascent Soul Tree Demon to leave Kun Hao’s skies.
• The Nascent Soul Tree Demon threatened to seal off the space and wait for True Immortal Yi Jue to leave before killing Feng Jun, then faded from view while keeping its aura nearby.
• True Adept Wanyang and True Adept Mushi urged Feng Jun to settle matters peacefully, but he said he would not indulge the Tree Demon’s reckless attack and was willing to let it wait.
• The Dantai Family’s two Golden Core cultivators discussed watching Feng Jun’s backer rather than calling their Nascent Soul ancestor to capture the Tree Demon.
• Yan Yuxi emerged after stabilizing her Golden Core, greeted the Tree Infant True Immortal, and challenged it for attacking cultivators at a place where the Human Race underwent Core Embrace.

Feng Jun used the Yin Soul Big Shot to repeatedly lock onto the Nascent Soul Tree Demon's incarnation, then asked True Immortal Yi Jue to help him pursue it. The tree demon grew suspicious and searched the manor, prompting Yi Jue to confront it.

• The Yin Soul Big Shot located the tree demon's incarnation in the Interlayer Space, but the demon sensed the surveillance and repeatedly changed locations.
• Feng Jun prepared a Golden Core Beast Soul puppet and asked True Immortal Yi Jue to help him catch the incarnation.
• Yi Jue agreed to give Feng Jun a ride and suggested harassing the tree demon until its vigilance weakened, but Feng Jun refused to let her watch him locate it.
• Feng Jun repeatedly locked onto the tree demon from the manor, making it shift locations while it tried to identify the source.
• The tree demon swept its Divine Sense toward the manor, and True Immortal Yi Jue locked onto it and demanded to know whether it was done.

The Nascent Soul Tree Demon tried to negotiate its departure with True Immortal Yi Jue after Feng Jun’s unseen tracking made it fear danger. As Feng Jun considered the demon’s demands, True Immortal Wanqing broke through the space-locking barrier, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• True Immortal Yi Jue warned the Nascent Soul Tree Demon to stop probing her, and the demon withdrew its spiritual sense.
• Over the next five days, Feng Jun’s intermittent probing made the tree demon increasingly uneasy, and it asked True Immortal Yi Jue to negotiate its departure.
• The tree demon offered to end its grudges in exchange for taking some remains, reclaiming the Earth Spirit, and learning who had tracked it and how.
• True Immortal Yi Jue rejected the tracking demand and doubted Feng Jun would agree to surrender any remains; Feng Jun refused to reveal his method.
• A cold snort announced that someone had broken through the space-locking barrier, and Feng Jun recognized True Immortal Wanqing.

A Redwood Clan Nascent Soul Tree Demon confronted Feng Jun at Liba Beach, but True Immortal Wanqing and the Golden Crow Sect intervened after the demon’s spatial seal disrupted cultivators embracing their cores. Feng Jun spared the demon to learn how it found him, and its revelations linked the attack to Ouyang Beishan before the demon prepared to leave.

• True Immortal Wanqing arrived with Golden Crow Sect cultivators, broke the Nascent Soul Tree Demon’s spatial seal, and challenged it for targeting Feng Jun and disrupting core embracements.
• Yue Qing and Real Person Buzui pointed out that the demon’s interference had affected the Fellow-Path Aura, and Li Zhishen confirmed he had successfully embraced his core.
• True Immortal Wanqing and two other True Immortals used Causal Chains to trap the demon, then offered to spare it if Feng Jun wished.
• Feng Jun chose to spare the demon so he could confirm who had led it to Liba Beach, and the demon named Ouyang Beishan and his disciple.
• Feng Jun revealed that Ouyang Beishan’s incarnation had been slain at Liba Beach, while True Immortal Yi Jue confirmed Ouyang’s death and left any revenge to Feng Jun.
• The Nascent Soul Tree Demon, unsettled by what it learned, announced that it would leave.

The Nascent Soul Tree Demon took the Redwood Essence root Feng Jun offered and declared their debt settled, while True Immortal Wanqing arrived to oversee Xia Nishang’s coming Nascent Soul Formation and investigate Liba Beach’s Fellow-Path Aura. Feng Jun confirmed the aura remained and demonstrated that it could significantly improve Mei Yeyu’s chances of embracing the Core.

• Feng Jun gave the Nascent Soul Tree Demon a piece of the Redwood Essence’s main root, and the demon declared before Yi Jue that they were even.
• True Immortal Wanqing explained that he had come to watch Xia Nishang’s Nascent Soul Formation and organize Golden Crow disciples to use Liba Beach’s Fellow-Path Aura.
• True Immortal Wanqing brought True Immortal Wunan and True Immortal Jiu Wei, released his Traveling Residence, and asked Feng Jun whether the aura had survived the disturbance.
• Feng Jun took Mei Yeyu to Thunder Plains and back to test the aura, then confirmed that it remained at Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun told Mei Yeyu that her Core Embrace chance was twenty-eight percent at Liba Beach and twelve percent at Thunder Plains, prompting Wanqing to ask how much the aura improved the odds.

Feng Jun divined the Core Embrace chances of Golden Crow Sect cultivators and discussed whether he could help Xia Nishang during her upcoming Nascent Soul Formation. After the Fellow-Path Aura appeared to benefit cultivators, Mingyang began attempting Core Embrace, and another cultivator soon followed at Carefree Platform.

• Feng Jun confirmed that Xia Nishang could enter seclusion for Nascent Soul Formation, then divined the Core Embrace chances of Golden Crow Sect cultivators at her request.
• Wunan persuaded the reluctant Golden Crow Peak Emergence from Dust cultivators to share their chances, and Feng Jun spent two days divining for them.
• Feng Jun returned to Lantern Town with the Golden Crow cultivators and revealed that his spatial travel ability depended on places he had visited.
• Feng Jun divined the Golden Crow cultivators' chances again, finding that the Fellow-Path Aura increased their odds by an average of twelve percent.
• A Golden Crow cultivator whose chance rose from seventy-nine to eighty-eight percent decided to attempt Core Embrace at Liba Beach.
• Mingyang began attempting Core Embrace at the Azuresteel Sect, and a few days later someone at Carefree Platform began an attempt as well.