Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun divined the arrival route of Rockbreaker True Immortal and worked with Cang Jing True Immortal to plan an ambush. Rockbreaker arrived at Cedar City intending to reinforce the forbidden ground, unaware that Feng Jun had marked his movements.

• Feng Jun used the Stone Ring to divine when True Immortals would arrive near Cedar City, then identified an Early-Stage True Immortal who was Iron Bone Elder's disciple.
• A hostile Divine Sense swept over Feng Jun as he used his phone, but he hid it in time and escaped after the presence vanished.
• The Big Shot revealed that it had shielded Feng Jun from five divinations, and Feng Jun told Cang Jing True Immortal he had found a target's flight route and timing.
• Feng Jun gave Cang Jing True Immortal his divination results, and she scouted the location and discussed how they would escape after the ambush.
• Rockbreaker True Immortal emerged from the teleportation array the next evening to support Iron Bone Elder at the forbidden ground, wary of Feng Jun's strength and ruthlessness.

Feng Jun and Cang Jing ambushed True Immortal Po Yan, then escaped Yi Jue’s defenses when a net dropped over them at her cave. Feng Jun returned alone to the Spirit Wood Dao’s auxiliary mountain gate, where one True Immortal confronted him.

• True Immortal Po Yan left to help Elder Steel Bone but was caught in Cang Jing’s hidden net, knocked unconscious, and restrained.
• Cang Jing handed Po Yan to Feng Jun, who took her to Yi Jue’s cave residence before escaping with her to the Icefield Plane when its defenses activated.
• Yi Jue discovered Feng Jun had vanished and learned he had not gone to Geng-Character Plain.
• Feng Jun returned to the Spirit Wood Dao’s auxiliary mountain gate and found a True Immortal stacking defensive enhancements where he had disappeared.
• The True Immortal angrily confronted Feng Jun and launched a Divine Sense attack, hoping to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

Feng Jun evaded Spirit Wood Dao’s defenses while Elder Donglai organized a hunt and tried to contain the crisis. He then entered through the Void and dragged a Nascent Soul Spirit Wood Dao plant away from the forbidden ground.

• Feng Jun escaped a Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage cultivator, prompting Elder Donglai to strengthen defenses, form hunting squads, and offer a bounty for Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun appeared in Pine City and challenged Elder Steel Bone to leave the forbidden ground, then took away two bounty hunters who tried to seize him.
• Elder Donglai learned that Liba Beach was guarded by three True Immortals and that attempts to contact Feng Jun on the Icefield Plane had failed.
• Feng Jun tested the Spirit Wood Dao’s defenses and discovered he could enter from the Void while partially concealing his Void aura with the Big Shot’s help.
• Feng Jun appeared beside the forbidden ground, seized a Nascent Soul Spirit Wood Dao plant, and used spatial power to drag its entire body away.

Feng Jun captured the Willow Tree Demon and left the Spirit Wood Dao’s elders arguing over how to defend against his Void-based attacks. Iron Bone Elder agreed to act as bait for an ambush, while Feng Jun brought the captured tree to the Hasala Desert, where a distant presence noticed it.

• The Silk Tree and Phoenix Tree feared Feng Jun after he captured the Willow Tree Demon, while Iron Bone True Immortal detected an aura of the Void at the scene.
• Donglai Elder arrived and discussed defenses, including bringing in a Sky-Piercing Vine that could sense the Void.
• Iron Bone Elder argued with the tree demons, then agreed to lure Feng Jun into an ambush and have the Sky-Piercing Vine standing by.
• Feng Jun brought the Willow Tree Demon's true body to the Hasala Desert with the Big Shot, and a distant presence near the Alxa League noticed the Nascent Soul Tree Demon.

Feng Jun returned from the Spirit Wood Dao with the Willow Tree Demon's remains, but the powerful presence above Alxa League frightened the Yin Soul Big Shot when Feng Jun brought it to Blue Star. Back on the Icefield Plane, Feng Jun learned that Yi Jue had exposed a captured cultivator's guilt, and Elder Cang Jing delivered Iron Bone Elder's challenge to meet at the Celestial Star Plains.

• Feng Jun brought the Willow Tree Demon's remains to Blue Star, where the presence above Alxa League awakened and alarmed the Yin Soul Big Shot.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot accused Feng Jun of deceiving it by bringing it to a home with a mighty expert, so Feng Jun returned with it to the Icefield Plane.
• Feng Jun learned that the Mysterious Water Sect was mining a Spirit Stone Mine and that one True Immortal resented the shares given to Feng Jun and the Golden Crow Sect.
• Yi Jue used divination to confirm the guilt of Iron Bone Elder's captured disciple and prepared to have him Soul Searched.
• Elder Cang Jing returned and told Feng Jun that Iron Bone Elder was waiting for him at the Celestial Star Plains, one hundred thousand li east of Cedar City.

Feng Jun secretly returned to Spirit Wood Dao to investigate Iron Bone Elder’s forces and search for the Heaven-Peering Mirror. He learned that Iron Bone had gathered a formidable group near Celestial Star Plains, then approached the restricted area disguised as a Spirit Plant Apprentice and left without being detected.

• Feng Jun decided to investigate Iron Bone Elder alone after persuading the Golden Crow Sect True Immortals not to seek revenge, and he traveled with True Immortal Cang Jing to Geng-Character Plain.
• True Immortal Yi Jue told Feng Jun that Iron Bone had left the restricted area, but Feng Jun went to Spirit Wood Dao by himself while she waited nearby.
• Feng Jun used the Big Shot’s sensing to discover that Iron Bone’s group included several hidden True Immortals and that an unstable Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul True Immortal was near Celestial Star Plains.
• Feng Jun suspected Iron Bone had left the Heaven-Peering Mirror inside the restricted area, so he approached it cautiously and learned that only two Nascent Soul Tree Demons remained within.
• Feng Jun disguised himself as a Spirit Plant Apprentice and used a Heavenheart Platform guest recruitment token to pass inspection by Spirit Wood Dao disciples.
• When Spirit Wood Dao cultivators ordered him to leave before nightfall, Feng Jun apologized and sped away without revealing himself.

Feng Jun secretly entered Spirit Wood Dao’s forbidden zone to locate the Heaven-Peering Mirror, but a Phoenix Tree Demon mistook him for the Han Clan’s Young Master because of his connection to Big Shot. After clearing up the misunderstanding, he reached a Nascent Soul cave abode and learned its restrictions were extremely powerful.

• Feng Jun returned to the forbidden zone under Big Shot’s concealment and entered its formation without alerting the Tree Demons.
• Feng Jun was immobilized in a nursery, where a woman in green greeted him as the Han Clan’s Young Master.
• Big Shot identified the woman as a member of the Tong Family, and she offered to let Feng Jun take what he had come for.
• The woman mentioned Steel Bone’s plot against the Han Clan’s Young Master, but Feng Jun denied being that Young Master and said he only had a connection to Senior Han.
• Feng Jun followed his phone’s guidance to a huge cave abode and passed its outer defenses with Big Shot’s help.
• Big Shot warned Feng Jun that the cave abode’s internal restrictions were extremely powerful.

Feng Jun found the Heaven-Peering Mirror hidden beneath spirit herbs, then exploited Iron Bone Elder’s defenses to raid his cave residence. He escaped to the Blazing Flame Sector with the elder’s treasures, leaving Iron Bone Elder furious.

• Feng Jun located the Heaven-Peering Mirror beneath the spirit plants in Iron Bone Elder’s garden and took the plants and mirror.
• Feng Jun asked the woman in green how long he would have to loot the cave residence before its destruction alerted others.
• Feng Jun disrupted the cave residence’s restrictions by pulling out a spiritual-energy conduit, then returned to the Sky-Qin Plane after preparing his escape.
• Spirit wood beings and Spirit Wood Dao cultivators hesitated to intervene when Iron Bone Elder’s cave residence came under attack.
• Feng Jun emptied the storage room and reception room, then teleported to the Blazing Flame Sector as the Big Shot concealed the treasures’ imprints.
• Iron Bone Elder sensed the theft on the Celestial Star Plains and roared in rage.

Elder Iron Bone discovered Feng Jun had taken the Heaven-Peering Mirror, a damaged treasure he had secretly kept, and grew furious when Feng Jun also broke into his cave abode. After learning the guard had no casualties to report, Iron Bone rejected an attempt to blame the Spirit Woods and warned against provoking them further.

• Elder Iron Bone recalled how he had acquired the Heaven-Peering Mirror and learned it might be a damaged Supreme True Artifact capable of becoming a Spirit-Release True Treasure if repaired.
• Elder Iron Bone realized Feng Jun had taken the mirror after its marks stopped responding, then sensed that Feng Jun had breached his cave abode.
• The forbidden grounds guard told Elder Iron Bone that Feng Jun had escaped without injuring anyone, and suggested he might have slipped in because the Combat Spirit Woods had restrained their senses.
• Elder Iron Bone rebuked the guard for blaming the Spirit Woods, warning him not to create conflict with Fellow Daoist Willow.

Feng Jun gathered True Immortal Wunan and Golden Crow Sect elders Qing Huang and Qingji to pursue the suspects in True Immortal Wanqing’s death. He brought them to Yi Jue at the Spirit Plant Path, where he revealed that he had entered Steel Bone’s forbidden-ground cave abode and obtained the Heaven-Peering Mirror.

• The Big Shot erased the marks on Feng Jun’s seized items, and a Golden Crow Sect cultivator invited him to meet Elder Qing Huang.
• Feng Jun encountered newly advanced True Immortal Wunan, who offered to help avenge True Immortal Wanqing, and Qing Huang and Qingji joined them.
• Feng Jun told the group that Spirit Wood Dao was another group of suspects and teleported them to the Spirit Plant Path to seek Yi Jue’s help.
• At Yi Jue’s gathering, Feng Jun explained that he had entered Steel Bone’s cave abode in the forbidden ground to take items and remove their marks.
• Feng Jun revealed that he had obtained the Heaven-Peering Mirror.

Feng Jun and his allies examined the Heaven-Peering Mirror and secured the Spirit Plant Path Supreme Elder’s support to confront Steel Bone. The group began assembling powerful fighters for an attack on the Spirit Wood Dao’s secondary mountain gate, and Yi Jue was expected to provide reinforcements.

• Feng Jun revealed that the Heaven-Peering Mirror had belonged to True Immortal Jiu Cai and explained its spying ability, while the gathered True Immortals examined it.
• Feng Jun asked Yi Jue to have the Spirit Plant Path Supreme Elder use Divination to verify the mirror’s history, and Yi Jue agreed to seek the Supreme Elder’s help.
• Yi Jue returned with the mirror and reported that the Supreme Elder supported confronting Steel Bone, leaving clashes between Venerables to the Supreme Elder.
• Qingji and Qing Huang discussed the difficulty of attacking the Spirit Wood Dao’s secondary mountain gate and chose additional Golden Crow Sect fighters to join the effort.
• Qingji invited Qingqu and Wanshan, while Qing Huang invited Qingmai and Qingqing; the group then looked to Yi Jue to provide capable allies.

Yi Jue gathered support from the Spirit Plant Path, the Grand Void Sect, the Mysterious Water Sect, and the Golden Crow Sect before arriving at the Celestial Star Plains to challenge Iron Bone. The gathering drew a crowd of True Immortals, and the Spirit Wood Dao's alleged attack on Wanqing became the focus of rumors as the two sides faced off.

• Yi Jue recruited Elder Withered Wood and Moon Vine, then arranged for elders from the Grand Void Sect and Mysterious Water Sect to support her.
• Elder Withered Wood announced that Yi Jue would challenge Elder Iron Bone at the Spirit Wood Dao's secondary mountain gate, and the news drew large crowds of cultivators.
• The Spirit Wood Dao closed its Teleportation Array after more than a hundred True Immortals gathered, while rumors spread that Iron Bone had attacked Yi Jue and the Spirit Wood Dao had harmed Wanqing.
• Yi Jue arrived near Pine City with Spirit Plant Path, Mysterious Water Sect, and Grand Void Sect supporters, while Feng Jun brought the Golden Crow Sect's War Boat and its eighteen True Immortals.
• Elder Donglai and Elder Qingji clashed verbally after the boats landed, and spectators began moving farther away as the rumors about Wanqing's ambush gained credence.

Yi Jue challenged Elder Steel Bone to a fight to the death and revealed that the Heaven-Peering Mirror found in his cave residence was a usable Broken True Treasure. Its revelation drew the attention of powerful figures, including Fellow Daoist Ziji, who was intercepted before he could reach the mirror.

• More than a hundred and fifty True Immortals gathered for the coming battle, while Yi Jue explained that the Spirit Wood Dao had ambushed her and Wanqing and demanded that Steel Bone open his Divine Soul for questioning.
• At dawn, Yi Jue challenged Steel Bone to a fight to the death, and Elder Donglai questioned her evidence on Steel Bone’s behalf.
• Yi Jue revealed that her side had found the Heaven-Peering Mirror in Steel Bone’s cave residence and identified it as a Broken True Treasure.
• Fellow Daoist Ziji tried to reach the Spirit Wood Dao headquarters, but a chubby infant trapped him inside a Small World and prepared to play a tune.

Iron Bone challenged Yi Jue to a fight and brought his powerful Guardian Spirit Wood, forcing her to reveal the Spirit Plant Path’s Jade Spore Skyworm as a counter. The two prepared to battle, while the Spirit Wood Dao’s onlookers realized the conflict had escalated.

• Iron Bone waited for his Ziji Venerable to arrive, then accepted that he would have to face the crisis himself and declared his intent to fight Feng Jun’s side.
• Yi Jue and Iron Bone each declared that they sought to execute the other as a traitor to their respective Dao lineages.
• Iron Bone summoned his Nascent Soul High Stage Dragon-Scale Tree Guardian Spirit Wood, giving himself a two-against-one advantage against Yi Jue.
• Withered Wood criticized Iron Bone for using his Guardian Spirit Wood against Yi Jue, but Iron Bone defended the advantage as a result of his years of cultivation.
• Yi Jue summoned an avatar of the Jade Spore Skyworm, alarming Iron Bone and horrifying the Spirit Wood Dao True Immortals.

Yi Jue and Iron Bone True Immortal began fighting while the Jade Spore Skyworm battled the Dragon-Scale Wood. The spirit plants traded attacks as Yi Jue and Iron Bone escalated the confrontation, leaving nearby spectators caught in the effects of Iron Bone’s Reincarnation Chime.

• Iron Bone Elder summoned the Dragon-Scale Wood, which attacked the Jade Spore Skyworm with spinning leaves, but its glow deflected them.
• The Jade Spore Skyworm used underground mycelium to evade, poisoned the Dragon-Scale Wood’s roots, and then sprayed spores that forced it to sever branches.
• Yi Jue unleashed Yearning for Sweet Rain across a vast area, restricting Iron Bone and the Dragon-Scale Wood.
• Steel Bone struck the Reincarnation Chime, unleashing an area-wide sound and Divine Sense attack that disrupted spectators and shattered some Golden Core-level Defensive Formations.

Feng Jun divined the battle as Yi Jue and Iron Bone Elder fought alongside the Dragon-Scale Tree and Jade Spore Skyworm. On the fourth day, Yi Jue caught Iron Bone in a brief spatial spell and revealed a new binding technique, leaving him surprised by its unfamiliar nature.

• Feng Jun spent three days divining the battle while Yi Jue and Iron Bone Elder fought without a clear victor, and their spirit plants began to tire.
• Iron Bone Elder tried to bind the Jade Spore Skyworm as the Dragon-Scale Tree attacked its mycelium, intending to eliminate the Skyworm before joining forces against Yi Jue.
• Yi Jue used Calming the Storm to freeze Iron Bone for an instant, then trapped him with her newly devised Azure Wood Entangling Bind.
• Moon Vine Elder recognized Yi Jue's spell as a blend of Grand Void Sect and Spirit Plant Path techniques, while Iron Bone's defenses failed to make it behave like ordinary Vine Entangling Bind.

Yi Jue’s fight with Steel Bone turned against her when he used a causality talisman to reflect her Imprisonment strike and unleashed a hidden Sky-Piercing Vine. Feng Jun, whose divinations had revealed the danger but who could not warn her from outside the battle, left the Golden Crow Sect’s Defensive Formation.

• Yi Jue used Azure Wood Cage and Imprisonment against Steel Bone, who activated a Causal Feedback talisman to return the strike and wound her.
• Steel Bone endured the Imprisonment strike and commanded the hidden Sky-Piercing Vine to attack Yi Jue.
• Elder Moon Vine recognized the Sky-Piercing Vine and tried to intervene, but Elder Withered Wood stopped her and insisted they trust Yi Jue.
• Elder Withered Wood explained that Feng Jun had left the Defensive Formation after divining that Yi Jue’s battle would turn unfavorable.
• Feng Jun had discovered the concealed vine during his on-site divinations but, unable to send a warning, stepped onto the battlefield himself.

Feng Jun left the defensive formation to support Yi Jue as she faced Steel Bone and the Sky-Piercing Vine. Yi Jue survived the vine’s attack by invoking Vitality, but the resulting surge empowered the spirit plants and sent the Jade Spore Skyworm charging at the vine.

• Feng Jun stepped outside the defensive formation, and Elder Qingji followed to protect him as he signaled that he would support Yi Jue.
• Yi Jue let the Sky-Piercing Vine wrap around her and invoked Vitality, causing its growth to surge and knocking her away instead of binding her.
• The Vitality also restored the Dragon-Scale Tree and strengthened the Jade Spore Skyworm, which used its aura to frighten the tree away.
• The Jade Spore Skyworm charged the Sky-Piercing Vine, which feared the worm’s attacks on roots and hesitated to sink its consciousness underground.

Yi Jue used two strikes of Dao intent to overwhelm Sky-Piercing Vine with uncontrolled vitality, allowing the Jade Spore Skyworm to wound and entangle it. The battle left Dragon-Scale Wood hesitating to help, while Elder Steel Bone tried to direct its attack.

• Yi Jue concluded Sky-Piercing Vine had been damaged by compressing its spiritual qi and used two strikes of Vitality to intensify its injuries and disrupt its control.
• The Jade Spore Skyworm sprayed spores into cracks in Sky-Piercing Vine's swollen branches, then entangled its roots with mycelia.
• Elder Steel Bone ordered Dragon-Scale Wood to attack the Jade Spore Skyworm, but Dragon-Scale Wood hesitated after seeing Sky-Piercing Vine's suffering.
• The Jade Spore Skyworm sent an illusion toward Dragon-Scale Wood, which flashed away and chose to hold off the apparent threat instead of aiding Sky-Piercing Vine.
• Elder Steel Bone recognized the attacker as an illusion and berated Dragon-Scale Wood, which insisted that restraining it was still useful.

The Jade Spore Skyworm poisoned and enraged the Sky-Piercing Vine until it went berserk, while Elder Steel Bone and the Dragon-Scale Tree fought Yi Jue. The berserk vine turned on the Dragon-Scale Tree, leaving Steel Bone’s forces in greater danger.

• The Jade Spore Skyworm strangled the Sky-Piercing Vine’s main root with poisonous fungal threads, then evaded its attacks while continuing to inject poison.
• Elder Steel Bone ordered the Dragon-Scale Tree to join the battle, but the Skyworm used feints to keep the tree at a distance before attacking the vine again.
• The Sky-Piercing Vine’s vitality and the poison overwhelmed its Divine Sense, causing it to go berserk and lash out indiscriminately.
• Elder Steel Bone and the Dragon-Scale Tree attacked Yi Jue together, while she defended and challenged Steel Bone for using the Sky-Piercing Vine in their duel.
• The Skyworm launched another attack on the Sky-Piercing Vine’s roots, and the crazed vine mistook the Dragon-Scale Tree for its attacker and struck at it.