Chapter Summaries

After learning that True Immortal Wanqing might have romantic feelings for him, Feng Jun left Blazing Flame by a cautious route. He told True Immortal Yi Jue that Jiu Cai had used a Heaven-Peering Mirror to observe their ambush, and they planned to identify whoever possessed it.

• Elder Qing Huang and True Immortal Yi Jue told Feng Jun that Wanqing liked him, leaving Feng Jun shocked and reluctant to save Wanqing.
• Feng Jun avoided returning directly to Blazing Flame and traveled through Three Gates Town to Lantern Town to guard against another ambush.
• Feng Jun told True Immortal Yi Jue that he had sensed a Heaven-Peering Mirror at the site of True Immortal Jiu Cai's ambush.
• Feng Jun concluded that Jiu Cai had watched them from a cave abode ten thousand li away using the mirror, which had concealed the operation from their senses.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue reasoned that whoever possessed the Heaven-Peering Mirror was connected to the ambushers and discussed seeking a powerful diviner to locate it.
• Feng Jun agreed to describe the mirror more fully after returning to the Branch Academy, where he would divine it again.

Feng Jun asked the Big Shot about the damaged Heaven-Peering Mirror and learned it was actually the Heaven-Deriving Mirror, a treasure above the Spirit Severing level whose last owner vanished tens of thousands of years ago. The Big Shot warned him not to reveal it carelessly, then offered to teach Feng Jun a method to find its whereabouts himself.

• Feng Jun entered the Big Shot's formation and explained how he and Liu Yiyi had survived being banished into the Void.
• The Big Shot said Feng Jun had been lucky to escape after two years and explained why spatial attributes were found only in Kun Cultivations.
• Feng Jun showed the Big Shot the Heaven-Peering Mirror, and it identified the damaged artifact as the Heaven-Deriving Mirror, once owned by a Soul Division cultivator who vanished during Tribulation Transcendence.
• The Big Shot urged Feng Jun not to disclose the treasure's name or seek repairs yet, then examined the staff and Great Freedom Stone he had brought back from the Void.
• Feng Jun prepared to ask Yi Jue to arrange a divination, but the Big Shot offered to teach him a method to search for the Heaven-Peering Mirror himself.

Feng Jun discussed an aura-gazing formation with the Big Shot to search for the concealed Heaven-Deriving Mirror, then returned to divinations and received Yan Yuxi at his manor. Yan Yuxi explained why she had arrived late, while Feng Jun prepared to ask her something.

• Feng Jun rejected the Big Shot’s suggestion to cultivate in the Void and agreed to use a formation to search for the Heaven-Deriving Mirror through aura-gazing.
• The Big Shot explained that the mirror’s nature defied Heaven’s Dao, allowing Feng Jun to search for its aura within a million li, though he would have to investigate suspected factions individually.
• Feng Jun began divinations at the manor and confirmed that Gao Qiang’s breakthrough and Zhang Caixin’s impending breakthrough were secure.
• Yan Yuxi arrived with gifts and apologized for being late, explaining that her Core Embrace celebration had kept her occupied with the Yan Clan.
• Feng Jun let Yan Yuxi into the manor and said he had something to ask her.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled undercover into Heavenly Zither to investigate the culprit behind the attack on Feng Jun. They suspected the culprit might be an enemy of Wanqing within the Golden Crow Sect, and their furtive departure toward the wilderness drew attention.

• Yan Yuxi visited Feng Jun with gifts on behalf of Pine-Cypress Peak, but Feng Jun refused them and asked the Yan Clan to help purchase materials instead.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue that he was divining a Fortune-Gazing formation to locate the thing he sought, and she offered to help investigate.
• Feng Jun divided the materials he needed among Pine-Cypress Peak, Yi Jue, Red Phoenix, and the Supreme Clarity Sect, then left Liba Beach with Yi Jue for Heavenly Zither.
• Yi Jue disguised herself and Feng Jun as ordinary Golden Core cultivators and gave him an identity token for a Spirit Plant Path medicinal herb apprentice.
• Feng Jun suspected that the culprit might be an enemy of Wanqing within the Golden Crow Sect, and Yi Jue urged him to use the Fortune-Gazing Art.
• As Feng Jun and Yi Jue hurried toward the wilderness, nearby cultivators noticed their suspicious behavior.

Yi Jue and Feng Jun were followed by cultivators who accused them of stealing a Fire Seed, prompting Yi Jue to capture the group and conceal their tracks. She brought the captives to a hidden Mountain Cave and confronted True Immortal Dou Pi over his threat to Soul Search a Spirit Planter.

• A Sixth-Layer Golden Core cultivator followed Yi Jue and Feng Jun, then demanded their identities while claiming to be a town inspector.
• Yi Jue showed her Spirit Planter token and challenged the inspector to produce his warrant, while he accused her companion of being involved in a stolen Fire Seed.
• True Immortal Dou Pi arrived and threatened to capture Yi Jue for a Soul Search, so she overwhelmed him with Azure Vine Prison and seized six more cultivators from afar.
• Yi Jue restricted the captives, concealed their auras and tracks, and escaped with them through the Void to a place a hundred thousand li away.
• Yi Jue hid the captives in a Mountain Cave and pressed Dou Pi for threatening a Spirit Planter, while he begged her to spare his life.

True Immortal Yi Jue questioned Dou Pi about threatening to Soul Search a spirit planter, then used Divination on the Fire Seed’s aura and followed its direction with Feng Jun. They reached a wilderness town and identified a marketplace backed by the Mystic-Realm Qin Family as the aura’s likely destination.

• Dou Pi explained that he had been accompanying Golden Crow Sect patrolmen after a retainer lost a Fire Seed, and Yi Jue confirmed he was telling the truth.
• Yi Jue took the Fire Seed’s aura from one of Dou Pi’s companions and divined that it lay north-northeast; Feng Jun left the search to her judgment.
• Yi Jue took the group’s Spirit Stones, planted Soul-Controlling Spirit Seeds in all eight people, and ordered Dou Pi to guide them north-northeast.
• After flying roughly seventy or eighty thousand li, the group reached a small town, where Yi Jue traced the aura to a large courtyard.
• Dou Pi warned Yi Jue that the courtyard belonged to a marketplace backed by the Mystic-Realm Qin Family, where rare treasures were bought and sold.

Yi Jue and Feng Jun tracked down the Tong siblings, who possessed the Fire Seed and had been framed by a Golden Crow Sect guest elder. The siblings explained how the elder tried to seize the Fire Seed, leaving Yi Jue to decide what to do with them and their claim.

• Feng Jun deduced that the Fire Seed was outside the Qin Family estate, and Yi Jue recognized a disguised Tong sibling posing as a tea-stall waiter.
• Yi Jue subdued the disguised woman, and Feng Jun identified the young man who confronted them as her brother, Fellow Cultivator Tong.
• The Tong siblings surrendered and said a Golden Crow Sect guest elder had framed them after trying to take their Fire Seed.
• The siblings explained that they had obtained the Fire Seed in Honggu and sought to smuggle it out, but the guest elder claimed it as stolen property after they refused his arrangement.
• The Tong siblings hid near the Qin Family estate and ran a tea stall while seeking a buyer, but Yi Jue and Feng Jun found them within two days.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue left Honggu with the Tong siblings and searched Chess Dao territory for the Heaven-Peering Mirror. After finding no mirror in Chess Dao’s third sector, Feng Jun recruited the siblings to help infiltrate its secondary mountain gate, where the risk prompted them to demand better terms.

• Feng Jun agreed to escort the Tong siblings out of Honggu in exchange for their help, while True Immortal Dou Pi and the others promised to keep quiet.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue took the siblings to Chess Dao territory and spent four days searching its third sector, where Feng Jun collected three ownerless heaven-defying objects but found no Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• Feng Jun released the Tong siblings and asked them to use their connections and experience to help him enter Chess Dao’s second sector.
• After Feng Jun named Chess Dao’s secondary mountain gate as their target, the Tong girl called the risk high and asked to renegotiate their payment.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue abandoned their attempt to search the Chess Dao after its cultivators nearly detected them, then investigated the Spirit Wood Dao instead. After weeks of searching without finding their target, Feng Jun discovered something at the Spirit Wood Dao's subsidiary mountain gate.

• The Tong siblings entered the Chess Dao subsidiary mountain gate, then proposed that Feng Jun and Yi Jue disguise themselves as the siblings to investigate it.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue searched the Chess Dao sector for three days, nearly got discovered, and decided to postpone their search of the Chess Dao's main sector.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue moved on to the Spirit Wood Dao, where the Tong siblings helped them investigate outer sectors and they found a damaged Brocade Cloud Cover.
• Yi Jue traded three Heavenly Fragrance Fruits to the Wood Envoy, who used his aura to smuggle Feng Jun and Yi Jue into a Spirit Wood Dao cultivation sector.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue searched most of the Spirit Wood Dao cultivation sectors without finding clues, then reached its subsidiary mountain gate, where Feng Jun made a discovery on their first day.

Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue discovered that someone in the Spirit Wood Dao wanted to seize Feng Jun for his Soul-Binding Art, and they investigated the restricted areas while trying to identify the Heaven-Peering Mirror’s holder. After Yi Jue failed to investigate the guarded site, Feng Jun proposed using the Qi-Watching Formation to provoke a reaction from the mirror and find its holder.

• Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue used the Qi-Watching Formation to locate the Heaven-Peering Mirror and noticed that it reacted when they named it.
• Yi Jue concluded that an individual in the Spirit Wood Dao wanted Feng Jun’s Soul-Binding Art, and she and Feng Jun agreed to identify a specific target rather than confront the sect.
• After their questions drew a Nascent Soul True Immortal’s attention, Feng Jun and Yi Jue left the Spirit Wood Dao and sent the Tong siblings to gather information.
• The Tong siblings mapped the restricted areas and identified the guarded site where Combat Spirit Woods were grafted and repaired, but Feng Jun and Yi Jue could not determine who held the Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• After Yi Jue failed to investigate the site and considered asking a Grand Void Sect senior brother for help, Feng Jun decided to call the mirror by name repeatedly to alert its holder.

Feng Jun repeatedly called out the Heaven-Peering Mirror and triggered a True Immortal’s Divine Sense sweep, while Yi Jue concealed herself nearby and identified the likely suspect. She escorted Feng Jun to the Hot Spring Sector and revealed that the suspect was Iron Bone True Immortal, who remained unaware of the mirror’s disturbance.

• Yi Jue left Feng Jun’s Traveling Residence, hid in a grove, and watched him through a strand of Divine Sense.
• Feng Jun repeatedly said “Heaven-Peering Mirror,” then sensed a True Immortal sweep the area with Divine Sense and hid his Qi-Watching Formation.
• Yi Jue told Feng Jun that she knew the suspect’s identity and advised him to leave at daybreak; she later joined him and monitored their escape.
• Yi Jue and Feng Jun traveled to the Hot Spring Sector, where she identified Iron Bone True Immortal as a powerful, cautious Spirit Wood Dao elder who might have ambushed Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun explained that he had been unable to sense the mirror’s fluctuations, and Yi Jue advised him to bring a spatial-attribute cultivator the next time he visited Heavenly Zither.
• Iron Bone True Immortal told a junior cultivator that he had swept the area after feeling uneasy, but he did not know that the Heaven-Peering Mirror had been disturbed.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue weighed how to capture Iron Bone True Immortal without revealing the Heaven-Peering Mirror, then chose to lure him away from the Spirit Wood Dao. They recruited allies and negotiated with the Wood Envoy for help, but their plan remained unresolved over the price of his assistance.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue concluded that exposing the Heaven-Peering Mirror would give them grounds to attack Iron Bone True Immortal, but risk losing the treasure.
• Feng Jun rejected Yi Jue's proposal to lure Iron Bone True Immortal herself and took the task, arguing that he was better at escaping.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue released the Tong siblings and returned to Yi Jue's region, where she contacted a small group of True Immortals and the Wood Envoy.
• Yi Jue told the Wood Envoy that Iron Bone True Immortal was a major suspect, and he demanded one hundred Heavenly Fragrance Fruits to help monitor him.
• Yi Jue offered fifteen Heavenly Fragrance Fruits after Feng Jun refused the Wood Envoy's demand for thirty.

Feng Jun prepared to explore the Void again to test whether he could reliably return from it and protect Luo Hua from being stranded in Kun Hao. He chose Liu Yiyi to accompany him, while Good Scenery and the Big Shot joined as extra safeguards, and True Immortal Yi Jue prepared to go as well.

• Feng Jun asked Yu Qingzhu and Liu Yiyi to accompany him into the Void; Yu Qingzhu declined because she feared fighting, while Liu Yiyi volunteered after advancing her cultivation.
• Feng Jun chose Liu Yiyi, made her a member of the manor, and agreed to pay her five thousand Spirit Stones for each Void trip.
• Feng Jun told the Luo Hua group he planned to explore the Void so they would not be stranded in Kun Hao if his retreat to the Blue Star Realm failed.
• Good Scenery insisted on joining Feng Jun, and he put her in the Spirit Beast Bag before returning to Kun Hao.
• The Big Shot agreed to accompany Feng Jun and asked to be carried inside his chest, while True Immortal Yi Jue said she was ready to enter the Void and asked whether he would notify the Guardians.

Feng Jun tested entering the Void alone, then returned and brought Yi Jue into it after making arrangements at Liba Beach. He discovered that transporting her cost only about five hundred Spirit Stones’ worth of Energy Points, suggesting he could bring her in and out without a spatial cultivator.

• Feng Jun entered the Void alone, chased the drifting Big Rock, charged the Stone Ring, and returned after about an hour in Blue Star time.
• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin and the others he had gone to the Void, while Zhang Caixin worried about him and admitted she was jealous of Mei Jin.
• Feng Jun informed the factions at Liba Beach that he was leaving again, lent Wanyang a Great Freedom Stone for Wanqing, and asked everyone to maintain order in his absence.
• Feng Jun brought Yi Jue’s physical body into the Void and moved her to the large pit beside the Big Rock.
• Feng Jun measured the energy cost of bringing Yi Jue into the Void and found it took only about five hundred Spirit Stones’ worth of Energy Points.

Feng Jun, True Immortal Yi Jue, Liu Yiyi, and Good Scenery rested in the Void while Yi Jue tested its dangers and searched for treasures. Yi Jue accepted Feng Jun’s warning against reckless exploration, and the group stayed at their rocky base as she resolved to wait before seeking revenge.

• Feng Jun sealed the shelter and had Liu Yiyi activate a defensive formation before releasing Good Scenery, whose spatial attribute surprised Yi Jue.
• Good Scenery set up tea and household items, and Yi Jue tested a Spirit-Restoring Formation before retrieving a large beast bone drifting through the Void.
• Yi Jue proposed traveling through the Void with Feng Jun and the two women, but Feng Jun warned her that even Spirit Severing True Lords acted cautiously there.
• Yi Jue acknowledged her overconfidence and agreed to use the rock as a base while exploring the surrounding area carefully.
• After spending half a day without seeing anything else, Yi Jue asked about the Void’s time flow and decided they could wait a few more days before going out to seek revenge.

Feng Jun improved his Binding Qi into Force after the Big Shot suggested routing it through the Baihui Acupoint, prompting Yi Jue to begin perfecting the technique through Divination. When the Big Shot spotted a fist-sized Chaos Origin Crystal five thousand miles away, Feng Jun set out to retrieve it, and Yi Jue’s excitement left him wondering whether she would let his sect keep it.

• After a day and a half without finding worthwhile debris, Yi Jue suggested that Feng Jun practice Binding Qi into Force, and his improved technique produced smoother spiritual energy and a faint trace of the true meaning of force.
• The Big Shot asked why Feng Jun had not routed the technique through the Baihui Acupoint, and Yi Jue realized the idea could complete her Divination and began working to perfect the secret art.
• While replenishing his spiritual energy, Feng Jun watched Yi Jue collect an Ice Meteor Crystal and heard the Big Shot boast that its divine sense could detect treasures thousands of miles away.
• The Big Shot identified a fast-moving, fist-sized Chaos Origin Crystal five thousand miles away, and Feng Jun decided to retrieve it despite the distance.
• Yi Jue offered to go herself, but Feng Jun told her the crystal was useful to him; she then explained that bringing it back to the Spirit Plant Path would count as a contribution.
• Feng Jun asked whether Yi Jue would be put in a difficult position because his sect needed the crystal.

True Immortal Yi Jue helped Feng Jun capture a Chaos Origin Crystal in the Void, then accepted his reasoning for not pursuing a valuable Myriad Gravelstone. Back at Big Rock, Feng Jun tested the Qi-Watching Formation and discovered numerous tiny heaven-defying objects nearby.

• Yi Jue insisted on retrieving the Chaos Origin Crystal for Feng Jun, caught up with him, and carried him toward its location.
• The crystal changed course after colliding with a boulder, but Yi Jue captured it and collected a small fragment of Myriad Gravelstone.
• Feng Jun advised against chasing the larger stone, and Yi Jue followed his judgment and agreed that the risks were not worth the cost.
• Yi Jue handed the Chaos Origin Crystal to Feng Jun, while he discussed with the Big Shot whether to lend or trade it.
• Good Scenery activated the Qi-Watching Formation, and Feng Jun detected many tiny heaven-defying objects among the nearby fragments.

Feng Jun tested the modified Binding Qi into Force art in the Void and discovered it produced lightning, confirming the secret phrase “Void-Born Lightning.” As Yi Jue mourned the loss of her Qi-Watching Formation Disk and the end of her scavenging, the Big Shot urged Feng Jun to fire the art at nearby fragments.

• Yi Jue derived Binding Qi into Force, then took Feng Jun’s place scavenging the Fragment Belt and found a cracked Mirage Dragon Life Orb.
• Feng Jun recognized the orb as a Mirage Dragon Life Orb and explained that it could be used in a mountain gate grand formation.
• Feng Jun tested the modified art, sending a white beam through the Void that produced faint arcs of electricity.
• Yi Jue explained that “Void-Born Lightning” was written on the secret-art fragment, and Feng Jun repeated the technique to confirm the lightning appeared again.
• Yi Jue lamented that she could not continue scavenging without another Qi-Watching Formation, and the Big Shot told Feng Jun to fire Binding Qi into Force at the fragments.

Feng Jun discovered that Binding Qi into Force could annihilate weak Void debris and reveal valuable remnants, then returned to the Golden Crow Sect to lend Wanqing a Great Freedom Stone. After giving it to True Immortal Qingji, he learned Wunan had reached the Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage and was asked whether he had found any leads on the mastermind.

• Feng Jun used Binding Qi into Force on the debris field, and he and True Immortal Yi Jue realized the technique could sift out valuable remnants by annihilating weaker material.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue spent ten days in the Void, recovered a damaged Dao Crown, and agreed that Feng Jun would keep it because it carried Dao resonance.
• Feng Jun returned to Luohua Manor, left Good Scenery on Blue Star for her safety, and then traveled back to the Blazing Flame Sector.
• Feng Jun offered the Great Freedom Stone to Elder Qing Huang for Wanqing, and after consulting the sect, True Immortal Qingji accepted it on Wanqing's behalf.
• True Immortal Qingji told Feng Jun that Wunan had advanced to the Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage and asked whether he had found leads on the mastermind.

Feng Jun publicized his loan of the Great Freedom Stone and used a high-profile marketplace stunt to attract the attention of a suspected mastermind. After Blazing Flame restricted his sales plans, he moved with Liu Yiyi to the Yiyao Sector to hold an auction on Grand Void Sect territory.

• Feng Jun asked True Immortal Qingji to publicize his loan of a Great Freedom Stone to Wanqing, hoping to draw out a suspected enemy, and Qingji agreed to support his investigation.
• True Immortal Qingji confirmed the news throughout the Blazing Flame Sector and assigned two Nascent Soul True Immortals to protect Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun sold lottery plaques for Celestial Star Purple Sand at the independent cultivators' marketplace, but Blazing Flame authorities prohibited him from holding further lotteries.
• After a True Immortal from the Grand Void Sect invited him to auction his void materials on its territory, Feng Jun left Blazing Flame with Liu Yiyi and arrived in the Yiyao Sector.
• Feng Jun chose to stay in Central City rather than East City.