Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun helped Yue Qing obtain Demon-Repelling Incense for Mingyang, whose Core Embrace had stalled because of an Inner Demon, and Mingyang successfully endured Tribulation Lightning. After disputes between cultivators attempting Core Embrace exposed the disorder at Liba Beach, Feng Jun called a meeting to establish rules for using its resources.

• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to help Mingyang, and Feng Jun’s Divination revealed that an Inner Demon had slowed Mingyang’s Core Formation.
• Yue Qing obtained Demon-Repelling Incense from Wunan, and Mingyang’s Core Formation momentum recovered as its fragrance spread.
• Fifteen days later, Mingyang passed through Tribulation Lightning, while the Ten Directions Platform cultivator’s Core Formation momentum also reached its peak.
• A Golden Crow Sect cultivator decided to enter seclusion for Core Embrace, but Mei Jiushan delivered Feng Jun’s request that cultivators report to him before beginning.
• After tensions between Yue Qing and Ten Directions Platform nearly escalated, Feng Jun invited cultivators to discuss lasting rules for Core Embrace at Liba Beach.

Feng Jun organized Liba Beach’s Core Embrace rules, including limits on simultaneous breakthroughs and mandatory identity registration, while the major powers agreed to his arrangements. The chapter ended when a Dantai Family disciple used an Earth-Shaking Talisman to summon Feng Jun, provoking a beam of white light from his manor.

• Representatives of the major powers gathered at Feng Jun’s manor and agreed to coordinate Core Embrace opportunities across Liba Beach.
• Yan Yuxi proposed isolation measures for the Six Harmonies Earth Vein, and the Earth Spirit warned that the veins could support only twelve simultaneous breakthroughs.
• Feng Jun required outside cultivators to report before Core Embrace and decided to use a scheduling system that publicly disclosed their identities; True Adept Wanyang and True Immortal Wanqing supported the rule.
• The Dantai Family watched the meeting with resentment, and its Low-Grade Golden Core disciple used an Earth-Shaking Talisman to order Feng Jun to greet their elder.
• Elder Dantai tried to stop the disciple, but a beam of white light shot from Feng Jun’s manor toward the Dantai Family members.

After a Dantai cultivator attacked Feng Jun’s estate, Yi Jue and Wanqing restrained the family and forced Dantai Weilai to punish the offender. Weilai later admitted the failed Core Embrace was caused by a problem inside the family treasury, apologized to Feng Jun, and asked for a Fellow-Path Aura slot before tribulation clouds drew the True Immortals’ attention.

• A Dantai Golden Core cultivator used an Earth-Shaking Talisman, and Yi Jue countered with a Nascent Soul sword talisman while warning Dantai Weilai to stop attacking her residence.
• Wanqing demanded that the attacker be handed over, and Dantai Weilai struck the Golden Core cultivator down after hearing his accusations against Feng Jun and the Yan Clan.
• Feng Jun refused to discuss matters privately until the Dantai Family clarified its earlier slander, and Weilai admitted the failed Core Embrace had nothing to do with him.
• Dantai Weilai punished the offender, apologized to Feng Jun, and presented one hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for the damage caused by the talisman.
• Weilai asked Feng Jun for a Fellow-Path Aura slot, but the Golden Crow Sect True Immortals noticed tribulation clouds and said another cultivator had begun a lightning tribulation.

Feng Jun defended the Fellow-Path Aura’s rules and rebuked Dantai Weilai, who sought to understand how it worked. As Mei Yeyu said she might be ready for Core Embrace, a figure suddenly cut through the second bolt of Tribulation Lightning.

• True Immortal Wanqing proposed limiting access to the Fellow-Path Aura to cultivators with at least a sixty percent chance of Core Embrace, and Dantai Weilai warned Feng Jun against favoring Golden Crow Sect.
• Feng Jun told Dantai Weilai that the aura radiated beyond Liba Beach and had helped Dantai Shenmian, then refused to explain its rules in detail.
• True Immortal Jiu Wei used Zhu Shells to divine the Fellow-Path Aura while True Immortals Yi Jue and Wunan observed the tribulation.
• Mei Yeyu told Feng Jun that she might be ready for Core Embrace, and Dantai Weilai returned to the Dantai Family’s territory.
• Dantai Weilai told another True Immortal to watch over and placate Feng Jun, then saw a white figure pass through the second bolt of Tribulation Lightning.

Hua Sheng of the Yuangang Sect arrived at Liba Beach and asked Feng Jun to divine strange fluctuations near the sect, but his interference with a Core Embrace triggered golden tribulation lightning. As Hua Sheng was expelled and the auras he brought were destroyed, the Dantai Family discussed changing its approach to Feng Jun and sending Dantai Yuhu to meet him.

• Hua Sheng appeared inside the Core Embrace tribulation, interrupted its lightning with Binding Qi into Force, and set up the Seven-Star Causality Formation while offering a Golden Core Recasting Pellet as compensation.
• Hua Sheng introduced himself to Feng Jun and asked him to investigate abnormal fluctuations near the Yuangang Sect; Feng Jun said he could not leave Liba Beach, so Hua Sheng gave him a Storage Pouch containing auras to divine.
• Golden tribulation lightning struck Hua Sheng and the Carefree Courtyard, but a Plane Barrier blocked the strike aimed at the person undergoing Core Embrace, while Hua Sheng was rejected by Kun Hao's Plane Will.
• A small branch of golden lightning destroyed the Storage Pouch, and True Immortal Wunan reported that Hua Sheng had said the tribulation would end and someone should retrieve the formation flags.
• Dantai Weilai and another Dantai Family True Immortal decided to stop pressuring Feng Jun and proposed sending Dantai Yuhu to approach him rather than giving him the family's Golden Core cultivation method.

After Hua Sheng True Immortal’s failed visit, Chenxi True Immortal of the Xuanhuang Sect arrived at Liba Beach and asked Feng Jun to divine the origins of the other space. He revealed that his sect understood how the Fellow-Path Aura worked and sought a favor for its junior cultivators, prompting Wanqing True Immortal to challenge the Xuanhuang Sect’s involvement in Kunhao.

• The Golden Core Recasting Pill helped the Ten Directions Platform disciple recover after four bolts of Tribulation Lightning, and Mei Yeyu later requested Feng Jun’s Golden Core cave abode to attempt Core Formation.
• Chenxi True Immortal arrived with several Xuanhuang Sect cultivators after Feng Jun had finished partitioning the manor’s cave abodes.
• Wanqing True Immortal joined Feng Jun to receive Chenxi, who explained that the Xuanhuang Sect and Yuangang Sect were cooperating over the other space near their territories.
• Chenxi told Feng Jun that a True Immortal entering the center of Tribulation Lightning could weaken Liba Beach’s Fellow-Path Aura, and that Hua Sheng had ignored his warning.
• Chenxi asked Feng Jun to divine the origins of the other space and said the divination fee was payment for a favor to Xuanhuang Sect juniors.
• Wanqing True Immortal questioned why the Xuanhuang Sect was involving itself in the Kunhao Plane.

Dawn True Immortal negotiated with Feng Jun over Xuanhuang Sect cultivators using Liba Beach’s Fellow-Path Aura, agreeing to its rules after learning the value of guarding the site. Buzui True Adept explained that Feng Jun might divine the chances of Nascent Soul Formation, leaving Dawn True Immortal doubtful and asking for proof of success.

• Dawn True Immortal and Wanqing True Immortal disputed which sects had a claim to the alternate space and whether the Golden Crow Sect could share in its development.
• Feng Jun welcomed Dawn True Immortal’s group and discussed how Fellow-Path Aura could benefit cultivators while remaining difficult to control.
• Dawn True Immortal agreed that Xuanhuang Sect cultivators would need a sixty-percent chance of Core Embrace and would pay Spirit Stones, but questioned Feng Jun’s demand for a Golden Core Peak guardian to serve for thirty years.
• Feng Jun insisted on the thirty-year requirement and hinted that the guardian might receive a rare opportunity for Nascent Soul Formation.
• Buzui True Adept told Dawn True Immortal that Feng Jun might divine the odds of Nascent Soul Formation, citing Guyue and Xia Nishang’s recent preparations, but Dawn asked whether anyone had succeeded.

True Immortal Chenxi tested Feng Jun’s deductions and found that Feng Jun’s treatment plans surpassed the Xuanhuang Sect’s, while his Core Embrace estimates also impressed three cultivators. Chenxi then invited Feng Jun, True Immortal Jiuwei, and True Immortal Yi Jue to investigate an alternate space using an Aura-Locking Ring.

• Realman Bu Zui told True Immortal Chenxi that several Golden Core Peak cultivators, including Realman Mo Ran, had sought Feng Jun’s help.
• Feng Jun diagnosed four Realmen and proposed treatment plans that True Immortal Yi Jue and True Immortal Jiuwei judged superior to Chenxi’s plans.
• Feng Jun estimated that three Emergence from Dust Peak cultivators had good chances of Core Embrace and gave them detailed conditioning plans.
• True Immortal Jiuwei said he could verify Feng Jun’s deductions but could not improve on them, and True Immortal Yi Jue told Chenxi he was not qualified to evaluate Feng Jun’s work.
• True Immortal Chenxi presented an Aura-Locking Ring and asked Feng Jun to deduce the nature of an alternate space, while True Immortal Jiuwei and True Immortal Yi Jue joined the investigation.

Dawn True Immortal brought Feng Jun a Qi-Locking Ring containing the aura of an alternate space, and Feng Jun judged the space to be a Small World. After the ring was activated, Jiu Wei True Immortal’s divination suggested the opposite, leaving Feng Jun to explain his conclusion.

• Dawn True Immortal revealed that the Qi-Locking Ring held the aura of an alternate space, and Yi Jue True Immortal confirmed it was not the one she feared.
• Feng Jun divined that the alternate space was not a Secret Realm or Immortal Cache and might be an ownerless Small World.
• Yi Jue True Immortal could not divine the space without activating the ring, so Feng Jun agreed to proceed with its activation.
• Dawn True Immortal activated the Qi-Locking Ring, and Feng Jun, Jiu Wei True Immortal, and Yi Jue True Immortal began divining the released aura.
• Jiu Wei True Immortal concluded that the stable, even fluctuations came from an alternate space rather than a Small World and asked Feng Jun why he had judged otherwise.

Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue confirmed that an anomalous space was likely a Small World and negotiated a fee with Dawn True Immortal for the divination. True Immortal Wunan then asked Feng Jun to divine his advancement, revealing a Domain Curse tied to his return to the Qingping Domain and a long-buried vendetta.

• True Immortal Yi Jue divined that the spatial fluctuations had repeatedly occurred within a limited range, supporting Feng Jun's conclusion that the anomaly was a Small World.
• Feng Jun charged Dawn True Immortal two thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for his rough divination, with double payment due if it proved accurate, and agreed to visit the site when his schedule allowed.
• Dawn True Immortal agreed that True Immortal Yi Jue and True Immortal Jiu Wei could accompany the expedition, provided they followed his rules.
• True Immortal Wunan asked Feng Jun to divine his advancement, and Feng Jun identified a Domain Curse originating in the Qingping Domain.
• True Immortal Wunan explained that he had returned to Qingping to repay his benefactor, learned that his former gang and promised Dao companion had been killed, and fled after two Nascent Soul cultivators attacked him.
• True Immortal Wunan said he had spent decades cultivating and preparing before returning to the lower realm to take revenge.

True Immortal Wunan explained how his repeated revenge killings in the Qingping Realm earned him a Domain Curse that halted his cultivation. After Feng Jun discovered the curse, Wunan asked him to remove it, but Feng Jun said the key was finding others willing to share its karma, leaving the Golden Crow Sect elders to consider the cost.

• Wunan repeatedly descended into the Qingping Realm to kill his enemies, and the realm eventually cursed him with a restriction that prevented further advancement.
• True Immortal Jiu Wei confirmed the Domain Curse and gave Wunan a talisman that concealed it from others.
• After more than a century stuck at Nascent Soul, Third Layer, Wunan joined True Immortal Wanqing to ask Feng Jun whether the curse could be removed.
• Feng Jun detected the hidden curse, while True Immortal Jiu Wei revealed that his talisman had concealed it from True Immortal Yi Jue.
• Feng Jun asked who would bear the curse's karma, and Wunan offered to bear it himself while True Immortal Wanqing volunteered to share it.
• Feng Jun said Wanqing alone lacked sufficient weight, and True Immortal Yi Jue urged the Golden Crow Sect to understand that the sect's upper ranks could share the immense karma.

Feng Jun consulted the Big Shot on how to lift Wunan’s Domain Curse and prepared a way to approach Qingping Domain. The Golden Crow Sect’s three True Immortals chose a measured strategy, and Feng Jun began arranging a method tailored to communicating with Qingping Domain.

• Wunan and the other True Immortals agreed to seek the Golden Crow Sect’s help, while Feng Jun said he could not divine Wunan’s chances of advancing in the Kunhao Plane.
• Yi Jue questioned Feng Jun about contacting Qingping Domain and noticed a strange ripple in the teahouse, but Feng Jun firmly stopped her from prying.
• Feng Jun consulted the Big Shot, who promised to teach him secret arts for communicating with Domain Consciousnesses; that night, it taught him methods involving formations and incantations.
• Mei Yeyu entered seclusion to attempt Core Embrace, and Feng Jun presented the three True Immortals with upper, middle, and lower strategies for approaching Qingping Domain.
• The three True Immortals chose the middle strategy, and Feng Jun offered to devise a communication method specifically for Qingping Domain.

Wunan prepared to use Feng Jun’s Soul-Binding Art to communicate with the Qingping Realm and seek an end to its curse. After choosing a Golden Crow Blood-Weeping Stone for the ritual, the group arranged to travel with Feng Jun to Blazing Flame, where Dawn True Immortal would join them on the way to the Heavenly Zither.

• Wunan accepted Feng Jun’s formation method for contacting the Qingping Realm, and Jiu Wei, Wanqing, and Yi Jue examined the Soul-Binding Art.
• Yi Jue identified the formation’s central component as a power source, and Feng Jun refused to reveal the crucial formation talisman.
• Wunan decided to bring a Golden Crow Blood-Weeping Stone after Feng Jun suggested temporarily restricting it so it could not return to the mountain gate.
• Wunan invited Feng Jun to accompany him to the Qingping Realm, but Feng Jun refused because he did not want to take on more karmic consequences.
• Wanqing asked Feng Jun to take the Golden Crow Sect group to Blazing Flame, and Feng Jun agreed after divining that no one at Liba Beach would soon achieve Core Embrace.
• Dawn True Immortal agreed to travel with Feng Jun to Blazing Flame first, and Feng Jun said he would need two trips to transport the five True Immortals.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue True Immortal arrived with Dawn True Immortal at a barren sector near the Alternate Space, where they sought permission to divine its spatial fluctuations up close. Dawn went to consult Hexu True Immortal after Yi Jue insisted she would leave with Feng Jun if the Xuanhuang Sect could not provide suitable conditions.

• Feng Jun left Golden Crow Station after agreeing to return for the three Golden Crow Sect True Immortals, while Wanqing True Immortal arranged to visit Red Phoenix within twenty days.
• Dawn True Immortal questioned Feng Jun about Xia Nishang’s chances of forming a Nascent Soul and the reason he had brought the Golden Crow cultivators to Blazing Flame, but Feng Jun avoided revealing private information.
• Dawn brought the group to a desolate rocky sector near the Alternate Space and explained that its strongest spatial fluctuations were about a hundred thousand li away and occurred every eight or nine days.
• When Dawn said the cultivators would normally wait at their base until the next fluctuation, Yi Jue objected and threatened to leave with Feng Jun unless the Xuanhuang Sect allowed closer Divination.
• Dawn consulted Hexu True Immortal, who told him to inform the other cultivators performing Divination.

True Immortal Hexu struggled to manage the investigation of the Alternate Space as rival diviners argued over whether it could be a Small World. Feng Jun declined to join their wager and instead asked Dawn True Immortal to move their divination position forward.

• True Immortal Hexu sought opinions from the diviners while Dawn True Immortal arrived with Feng Jun and Yi Jue.
• The diviners questioned why Dawn True Immortal had invited a Golden Core cultivator, but he said Feng Jun had already deduced from afar that the anomaly was a Small World.
• Yi Tian and Rongyang challenged Yi Jue’s presence and her belief that the Alternate Space could be a Small World, while Yi Jue refused to explain her reasoning.
• Yi Tian challenged Yi Jue to wager on the Alternate Space’s appearance, and Yi Jue turned to Feng Jun for support.
• Feng Jun ignored Yi Jue and asked Dawn True Immortal whether their divination position could be moved forward.

Feng Jun challenged the True Immortals’ doubts and received permission to investigate spatial fluctuations aboard a War Boat. After three days of surveying locations and gathering data, he returned without explaining what he had learned, while Yi Tian continued to question his claims.

• Feng Jun asked about the ongoing discussion, and Yi Tian and other True Immortals dismissed his ability to conduct close-range divination.
• Yi Tian threatened Feng Jun, but Elder Hexu stopped him and Yi Jue warned that she would kill him if he harmed Feng Jun.
• Xuanhuang Sect and Yuangang Sect approved Feng Jun’s request to use a War Boat, and Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and five divination experts traveled to the spatial-fluctuation sites.
• Feng Jun directed the War Boat among the coordinates for three days while Yi Jue recorded the locations and collected Obsidian.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue that he had improved the Big Data, then rejected Yi Tian’s offer to bet on whether the phenomenon was a Small World.

Feng Jun agreed to verify that the overlapping space was a Small World by predicting spatial fluctuation points, negotiating a half-li margin of error and payment in Upper Spirit Stones. As he returned aboard the War Boat to check his predictions, Yi Jue warned him not to reveal too many points and expose his abilities.

• Feng Jun told Dawn True Immortal that the alternate space was a Small World, and offered to identify five fluctuation points as proof.
• Elder Hexu agreed to pay the divination fee if at least four points fell within half a li of Feng Jun’s predictions, then offered one Upper Spirit Stone for each additional point.
• Feng Jun warned the Xuanhuang Sect that actions involving karma could alter the points or their timing, and said he needed to verify his predictions.
• Elder Hexu sent the War Boat out again and barred cultivators outside the Two Sects from boarding, explaining that their verification must not be affected by karma.
• Yi Jue privately urged Feng Jun to report only a few points, warning that revealing too many could expose his abilities and endanger him.

Feng Jun’s predicted spatial fluctuations appeared at the locations and time he had divined, confirming his skill and revealing that his selected points were relatively safe. As the observation continued, Yi Jue explained that shorter fluctuations did not contradict the overall trend toward spatial fusion, while Chenxi asked Feng Jun to divine another round.

• Feng Jun divined eight spatial points, insisting on reduced payment for the one whose location had a wider margin of error.
• Xuanhuang Sect and Yuangang Sect sealed off the area and stationed three True Immortals to watch selected points as the predicted time approached.
• Spatial fluctuations appeared at more than two hundred points, and observers confirmed that Feng Jun’s eight predictions matched, with one slightly off.
• Observers noticed Feng Jun’s predicted points were in relatively safe areas, and Hexu thanked him for choosing them.
• When the fluctuation period proved shorter than before, Yi Jue explained that fluctuations could vary even as their overall duration increased.
• Chenxi agreed to pay Feng Jun’s divination fee and asked whether he could divine another round before his twenty-day arrangement with Wanqing ended.

Feng Jun negotiated payment for his Divination and insisted on leaving the Xuanhuang Sect’s territory for Blazing Flame with Yi Jue True Immortal. Dawn True Immortal tried to delay him until Hexu Elder arrived, while Feng Jun remained determined to make a first trip away.

• Feng Jun asked the Xuanhuang Sect to settle the Spirit Stones it owed and said he was eager to return to Liba Beach.
• Yi Jue True Immortal argued that Feng Jun’s Divination was worth more than the fee paid to other diviners and explained the significance of a Small World with the spatial tension of an Otherworld Plane.
• Dawn True Immortal agreed that the fee could be negotiated, and Yi Jue True Immortal proposed a hundred Upper Spirit Stones; Feng Jun accepted payment after delivery in exchange for one more Divination.
• Feng Jun asked to travel to Blazing Flame with Yi Jue True Immortal, but Dawn True Immortal tried to persuade him to wait until the results were compiled and the fee settled.
• Feng Jun firmly said he would leave despite the travel expense, and Dawn True Immortal suggested waiting for Hexu Elder to arrive first.

Feng Jun revealed that he had devised a method to completely cure Wunan True Immortal’s Domain Curse without bearing its karmic backlash. The revelation about the lost Soul-Binding Art led Yi Tian to seek permission to accompany Feng Jun to Golden Crow Sect, but Chenxi True Immortal said only Elder Hexu could approve it.

• Chenxi True Immortal tried to delay Feng Jun and Yi Jue True Immortal from leaving, so they let his Divination masters investigate the matter at Golden Crow Sect.
• Yi Tian connected the matter to Wunan True Immortal’s Domain Curse, and Feng Jun confirmed that he had devised a method to remove it completely.
• Feng Jun explained that Wunan could carry out the cure himself, avoiding Feng Jun’s involvement in the karmic backlash.
• Yi Jue described Feng Jun’s method as resembling a Soul-Binding Art, prompting Yi Tian to ask to accompany Feng Jun to Golden Crow Sect.
• Chenxi True Immortal refused to approve Yi Tian’s request and told him to discuss it with Elder Hexu.