Chapter Summaries

After Feng Jun and Yi Jue left Right Capital, they visited the Luan-Nine Galaxy, where Human Race cultivators debated whether to keep exploring or focus on developing its resources. True Venerable Xiaotong arrived to establish rules for the campaign, and Wei Sancai concluded that the Two Sects were finally allowing clan cultivators in because they could no longer manage alone.

• Yi Jue showed True Venerable Half-Fool the damaged Heaven-Deriving Mirror, and he offered the Artifact Refining Path’s help studying and repairing it.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue delivered requested supplies and visited the Luan-Nine Galaxy, where Luan Xiong proposed sweeping other galaxies while Wei Sancai and Tuo Tuo urged the cultivators to develop their current territory.
• Luan Xiong said he would stay to cultivate the galaxy but wanted more Golden Crow cultivators to join, prompting an argument with Wei Sancai over who had the right to exploit its resources.
• Feng Jun proposed inviting True Venerable Xiaotong to settle the dispute, and the True Venerables agreed that rules were needed for the campaign.
• True Venerable Xiaotong approved clan cultivators entering the Insectoid World, and Wei Sancai remarked that the Two Sects could no longer hold on without their help.

Feng Jun helped the Two Sects establish a new toll station in the Luan-Nine Galaxy and transported cultivators between the Insectoid World and Heavenly Zither. After completing divinations, he learned that the Luo Clan had exterminated the Xiao Clan and uncovered evidence connecting the Spirit Wood Dao to the Six-Yao Formation.

• Xiaotong agreed to establish a toll station in the Luan-Nine Galaxy and brought Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators there to manage fees and registration.
• Luan Xiong and Wei Sancai asked Feng Jun to transport them to Heavenly Zither to recruit people, and he later returned Xiaotong to the front line.
• Feng Jun spent five days performing divinations at Liba Beach, then went to the New Desert Sector and found more than a hundred corpses.
• Feng Jun learned that the Luo Clan had used a Soul Search on the Xiao Clan head, found a document identifying Little Winter Melon as the Xiao Clan's Ancestral Patriarch, and exterminated the clan.
• Feng Jun concluded that the Spirit Wood Dao had participated in activating the Six-Yao Formation, while the involvement of other forces remained uncertain.

Feng Jun arranged for cultivators from the Golden Crow Sect, the Seven Emotions Dao, and Wei Sancai to travel to the Luan-Nine Galaxy, then visited Xuan Gao on Right Capital. He told Xuan Gao that the insects had suffered enormous losses and confirmed that his group had killed three King-tier insects, but declined to explain how.

• The Luo Clan refused to wage war against the Spirit Wood Dao but offered Feng Jun support for his investigation and any later retaliation.
• Luan Xiong gathered two hundred Golden Cores and five Nascent Souls from the Golden Crow Sect and the Seven Emotions Dao, and Wei Sancai arrived with another hundred Golden Cores and five Nascent Souls.
• Feng Jun transported the cultivators to the Luan-Nine Galaxy, where disciples of the Two Sects registered them and collected their fees.
• Feng Jun visited Xuan Gao at Right Capital and learned that Brilliant Star had faced little scrutiny despite supplying the city with Energy Stones and other materials.
• Feng Jun told Xuan Gao that the insects had lost enough forces to conquer five similar galaxies and acknowledged that his group had killed three King-tier insects.
• Xuan Gao asked what weapon Feng Jun had used, but Feng Jun declined to explain.

Feng Jun negotiated with Xuan Gao over buying secondhand warships, explaining that his group needed cheaper weapons for ordinary fighting and tactical use. Xuan Gao agreed to arrange warships in exchange for Energy Stones and asked Feng Jun to transport stranded cargo, leaving the number of shiploads unresolved.

• Feng Jun asked Xuan Gao to connect him with sellers of secondhand warships, and Xuan Gao questioned why he needed them.
• Feng Jun explained that his group’s medical and combat capabilities were costly, making cheaper weapons and warships useful.
• Xuan Gao admitted he was reluctant to help because Feng Jun and his allies had unclear origins, but stopped Feng Jun from leaving and proposed a trade.
• Xuan Gao asked whether Feng Jun would trade the rain-making weapon, but Feng Jun refused and said it involved New Energy.
• Xuan Gao offered to trade secondhand warships for Energy Stones and asked Feng Jun to transport stranded cargo aboard ships he would leave behind.
• Feng Jun asked how many shiploads of goods Xuan Gao needed transported.

Feng Jun arranged mining operations on a Mineral Star for Hanhai True Immortal, while spending much of his time trading supplies and information among the capitals and Blue Star. After nearly a hundred days away, he finally reached Geng-Character Plain, where someone had been waiting for him.

• Xuan Gao agreed to provide eight cargo ships and offered secondhand warships carrying substantial ammunition.
• Hanhai True Immortal told Feng Jun about a Mineral Star rich in Energy Stones, and Xiaotong True Immortal authorized cultivators to travel there.
• Feng Jun surveyed the Mineral Star, arranged a hundred mining machines, and transported Blackwater Sect, Yuangang, and Xuanhuang cultivators there.
• Feng Jun spent nearly a hundred days trading supplies and information among Left Capital, Right Capital, Lower Capital, and Blue Star, missing his chance to pick up Yi Jue.
• Feng Jun arrived outside Geng-Character Plain, and a Golden Core cultivator spotted him and crushed a talisman.

Feng Jun sought Hanhai True Venerable’s help in concealing his aura before returning to the Spirit Wood Dao, and learned that the Ancient Yao Clan might aid him because of its feud with the Myriad Illusions Sect. He, Yi Jue, and Hanhai went to find Wei Sancai, but Wei Sancai and Tuo Tuo were away searching for galaxies, leaving them to wait.

• Feng Jun met Yi Jue and told her the Luo Clan had exterminated the Xiao Clan, confirming an attack on the Spirit Wood Dao and his need to investigate it himself.
• Feng Jun recruited two Golden Core cultivators from the Mysterious Water Sect to help Hanhai True Venerable after the sect’s disciples damaged five pieces of equipment.
• Hanhai True Venerable suggested that Feng Jun seek Wei Sancai, whose ties to the Ancient Yao Clan might help him conceal and imitate auras.
• Yi Jue explained how a Yao Clan descendant helped found the Myriad Illusions Sect, leading to conflict that drove the Yao Clan’s main branch into hiding.
• Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Hanhai traveled to the Luan-Nine Galaxy, but found Wei Sancai and Tuo Tuo away searching for galaxies, so they had to wait.

Wei Sancai took Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Hanhai Venerable to the Sancai Galaxy before helping them seek Yao Clan experts who could conceal their auras and use illusions. The envoys arrived in Heavenly Zither and began negotiating with Feng Jun, with Qian Zhong asking about his divination.

• Wei Sancai agreed to help Feng Jun and Yi Jue conceal their auras, and Hanhai Venerable revealed how the Wei Clan’s cooperation with the Yao Clan had become known.
• Wei Sancai showed them the Sancai Galaxy, then disclosed that Yao Clan disciples lived in the Wei Clan Minor Realm and that the Yao Clan had a Spirit-Release Venerable.
• Wei Sancai returned with True Immortal Can Sheng, who excelled at concealing auras, and True Immortal Qian Zhong, who excelled at illusion techniques.
• Yi Jue told the two envoys to name their price, and Qian Zhong asked Feng Jun whether he could perform divination.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue negotiated with the Yao Clan over help concealing their auras during their journey into Spirit Wood Dao territory. Qian Zhong revealed she was a Great Venerable and proposed broader cooperation, leaving Feng Jun to ask whether she could refine artifacts.

• Qian Zhong asked whether Feng Jun could divine destiny, then asked how the group would support the Yao Clan's return; Feng Jun and Yi Jue said they would not take sides in factional conflicts.
• Can Sheng proposed accompanying the group to Spirit Wood Dao territory to replenish the Yao Clan's concealment art, but Feng Jun insisted that they settle the payment in advance.
• Feng Jun inferred that Qian Zhong was a Great Venerable and warned that her presence might trigger Spirit Wood Dao's surveillance; Qian Zhong confirmed her rank and explained why she wanted to accompany them.
• Qian Zhong said she was curious about the three exceptional cultivators and wanted to explore private cooperation with Feng Jun while keeping the Yao Clan's bloodline secret.
• Yi Jue offered a Six-Star Moon Laurel Spirit-Awakening Tree, and Feng Jun accepted Qian Zhong's proposed cooperation before asking if she was skilled in artifact refining.

Feng Jun showed Qian Zhong True Immortal the damaged Heaven-Deriving Mirror and arranged for his group to investigate the Spirit Wood Dao under concealed identities. As they set out, Feng Jun and Yi Jue wondered whether the mysterious Kun cultivator was a Spirit Severing or Body Integration expert, and Yi Jue asked whether Feng Jun had divined anything about the cultivator's main body.

• Feng Jun told Qian Zhong True Immortal that his sect's Heaven-Deriving Mirror needed repair, and she examined it after sensing a powerful aura on it.
• Qian Zhong True Immortal and Yi Jue argued over whether Feng Jun's cautious probing was proper, then the group agreed that Hanhai True Venerable and Wei Sancai would support them while the other four searched the regions.
• Can Sheng True Immortal altered Feng Jun and Yi Jue's auras, while Hanhai True Venerable gave them Yuangang Sect identity badges and Qian Zhong True Immortal concealed Yi Jue's cultivation.
• Feng Jun used the bus function to bring the group near a Spirit Wood Dao region, and Hanhai True Venerable and Wei Sancai discussed the mysterious Kun cultivator and the Yao Clan's hidden strength.
• Yi Jue asked Feng Jun about the Kun cultivator's cultivation, and Feng Jun said the figure was certainly a Spirit Severing but might have a Body Integration main body.
• Yi Jue asked Feng Jun whether he had divined anything about the Kun cultivator's main body.

Feng Jun, Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Can Sheng entered Spirit Wood Dao territory to search for clues connected to an assassination, while Qian Zhong’s secret arts helped them avoid notice. After five days without finding a suspect, they teleported to another region, where Feng Jun questioned whether Qian Zhong’s clan planned to visit the Insectoid World.

• Yi Jue admitted she was jealous of Qian Zhong’s approach to Feng Jun, but Feng Jun chose not to divine Qian Zhong’s origins and let the dispute pass.
• Qian Zhong and Can Sheng presented themselves as cultivators from Yuangang Branch Academy, and the four obtained passage tokens to travel through the region.
• Feng Jun repeatedly divined for people and objects connected to him, while Qian Zhong explained that her clan’s Mind-Confounding Art could evade the region’s aura-locking mechanism.
• Can Sheng wondered whether Feng Jun might break the deadlock Qian Zhong had long sought to resolve, but Qian Zhong dismissed the idea and focused on the Yao Clan’s opportunities.
• After searching for five days and nights without finding anyone connected to the assassination, the group used a Teleportation Array to reach another region.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue questioned how Qian Zhong’s true intent had evaded the Teleportation Array, and Feng Jun asked whether her clan intended to visit the Insectoid World.

Feng Jun and his companions searched six likely planting regions and the Spirit Wood Dao Sub-Mountain Gate for clues to his enemy, but found nothing. As Feng Jun prepared to infiltrate the main gate, he warned Yi Jue against provoking a war before the approaching Asura crisis, and Qian Zhong offered to assess his escape route.

• Feng Jun chose to investigate the Spirit Wood Dao Sub-Mountain Gate after the first six regions yielded no leads, then spent ten days searching it without success.
• Feng Jun selected the Golden Core disciple Han Feng as a potential impersonation and asked Yi Jue to help capture and search him; Yi Jue also wanted to take Han Ling.
• Feng Jun persuaded Yi Jue not to attack the Spirit Wood Dao main gate because retaliation could expose her and a war would be badly timed.
• Feng Jun revealed that the Asura could descend in about five years, prompting Yi Jue to reconsider starting a war with the Spirit Wood Dao.
• Qian Zhong offered to analyze whether Feng Jun could escape the Spirit Wood Dao using the Qi-Machine Guidance left by an elder.

Feng Jun and his allies abducted Han Feng, and Yi Jue searched his memories so Feng Jun could impersonate him. Feng Jun met Han Ling in disguise and learned that Spirit Wood Dao’s gathering place was supposed to withstand an attack for ten breaths, but she insisted he return with her.

• Qian Zhong examined Feng Jun’s Qi-Machine Guidance and advised him to abduct Han Feng discreetly, while Feng Jun revealed that his mysterious elder was probably above the Body Integration Stage.
• Qian Zhong ambushed Han Feng as he returned drunk at midnight, and Yi Jue performed a Soul Search and organized his memories for Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun struggled to absorb the memories and disguise himself as Han Feng before Han Ling came looking for her missing junior brother.
• Feng Jun met Han Ling in disguise and questioned whether their gathering place could withstand an attack by him and Yi Jue for ten breaths.
• Han Ling released her aura and demanded that Feng Jun return with her, threatening to use force if he refused.

Feng Jun, disguised as Han Feng, evaded Han Ling’s suspicions and secured permission from Wang Yue to stay out at night while he investigated. After learning that Enshrined Elder Longyang’s life plaque had shattered, he met Yi Jue and asked what she knew about him.

• Feng Jun challenged Han Ling’s certainty that Feng would attack, then claimed he had business to handle and refused to travel back to the sect gate with her.
• Yi Jue intervened to cloud Han Ling’s judgment, and Han Ling left for the sect gate after ordering Feng Jun to return to the settlement each night.
• Feng Jun met Wang Yue, argued against being confined to the settlement, and gained permission to stay out at night while being warned not to wander far.
• Wang Yue revealed that Enshrined Elder Longyang’s life plaque had shattered and warned Feng Jun to keep the information secret.
• Feng Jun stayed in the settlement overnight, then met Yi Jue the next day and asked whether she knew anything about Longyang.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue investigated the Songzhan Plane as a possible lead in their search for the missing Longyang. With Qian Zhong’s help, Feng Jun infiltrated the guarded base and she retrieved several pills from Longyang’s cave residence, leaving the group with a potential trace of his alchemy and cultivation.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue chose to investigate the Songzhan Plane, delaying their plan to enter the Spirit Wood Dao’s mountain gate because Han Ling was there.
• Can Sheng and Qian Zhong helped devise a plan to disguise their auras and enter the Spirit Wood Dao base.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue ambushed two Golden Core disciples leaving Songzhan, performed Soul Searches, and took their identities.
• Feng Jun entered Songzhan disguised as a Fifth-Layer Golden Core disciple and surveyed the base while Qian Zhong covertly reached Longyang’s cave residence.
• Qian Zhong retrieved several pills from Longyang’s belongings, and she and Feng Jun reunited outside the plane after he left Songzhan.

Feng Jun divined that the medicinal pills offered by Longyang were connected to him, so Yi Jue and the Mysterious Water Sect gathered Longyang’s relatives and friends for investigation. After the group was brought to Icefield, Feng Jun’s next divination singled out Ge Xiling, and the Mysterious Water Sect began questioning him about Longyang.

• Feng Jun agreed to perform the divination at Yi Jue’s Earthwater Garden after Qian Zhong and the others discussed how to investigate the medicinal pills.
• Yi Jue discovered the Jade Spore Skyworm demanding its promised Dao intent and persuaded it to wait until she reached Soul Emergence.
• Feng Jun’s divination linked Longyang’s medicinal pills to him, and Yi Jue found that Longyang had few relatives but several friends.
• True Venerable Hanhai arranged for the Mysterious Water Sect to bring Longyang’s friends and their primary family members to Icefield, offering void treasure-hunting quotas as rewards.
• Five days later, the Mysterious Water Sect had gathered more than three thousand people, and Feng Jun’s divination identified Ge Xiling as strongly connected to him.
• Mysterious Water Sect disciples questioned Ge Xiling about which of his friends knew True Immortal Longyang.

A Mysterious Water Sect disciple questioned Ge Xiling about his friendship with the deceased True Immortal Longyang, leading Ge Xiling to identify his cousin Ge Xilai as their mutual connection. The search revealed that Ge Xilai had been missing for about a year, and Hanhai True Venerable ordered his disciple to find information on him while Feng Jun promised Yi Jue five free Void treasure-hunting slots for the Insectoid World.

• Ge Xiling told the Mysterious Water Sect disciple that Longyang had invited him to evaluate a carving, their last contact, and recalled that Longyang had been working on an intricate piece.
• Ge Xiling remembered that his cousin Ge Xilai had introduced him to Longyang after showing Longyang a sculpture Ge Xiling had carved to achieve Core Embrace.
• Ge Xiling explained that Ge Xilai had used connections in the Spirit Wood Dao to trade in spirit wood scraps, but had been out of sight for about a year.
• Hanhai True Venerable learned that his disciple had failed to bring in Ge Xilai because he had been missing, and berated him for overlooking the matter.
• Yi Jue asked whether a Void treasure-hunting slot was the reward for the task, and Feng Jun promised five free slots for the Insectoid World.
• Hanhai True Venerable ordered his disciple to gather every scrap of information on Ge Xilai within two days or be expelled from the sect.

Feng Jun and the others investigated Ge Xilai’s disappearance and used his belongings to divine what had happened. They learned he had been killed shortly before Feng Jun was attacked, while Qian Zhong warned that the case involved Soul Emergence cultivators and reached beyond the Spirit Wood Dao.

• Hanhai Venerable agreed to accompany Qian Zhong, Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Wei Sancai to investigate the Ge Clan.
• The group reached the Ge Clan’s Ancestral Land and learned Ge Xilai had left the previous year without telling his family where he was going.
• Feng Jun asked for Ge Xilai’s belongings after discovering the clan had no Life Tablet for him, and Qian Zhong declared that Ge Xilai was dead.
• Qian Zhong found Ge Xilai’s aura in his woodworking workshop, and Feng Jun, Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, Hanhai Venerable, and Wei Sancai performed divinations.
• Feng Jun concluded Ge Xilai had been silenced three days before Feng Jun was attacked, while Yi Jue connected his death to his work.
• Qian Zhong said the matter involved Soul Emergence cultivators, carried great karma, and extended beyond the Spirit Wood Dao.

Feng Jun and the others debated tracing Ge Xilai’s route to uncover who had orchestrated the attack, while Hanhai True Venerable ordered the Ge Clan detained. Their investigation stalled over the danger of an ambush, but a Golden Core cultivator arrived with an obsidian message Ge Xilai had left behind to protect his clan.

• Qian Zhong could not identify the suspected Soul Emergence cultivators, while Hanhai True Venerable argued that the Seven Sects and Eighteen Paths had the most to lose if Feng Jun died.
• Qian Zhong and the others discussed Ge Xilai’s role in the Six-Yao Formation, and Hanhai True Venerable ordered his disciple to detain the Ge Clan and seal its territory for a year.
• The Mysterious Water Sect seized Ge Clan members and assets across multiple sectors, explaining that Ge Xilai had nearly caused the deaths of cultivators from several factions.
• Feng Jun, Qian Zhong, Yi Jue, Wei Sancai, and Hanhai True Venerable debated retracing Ge Xilai’s route, but Wei Sancai’s warning about a possible ambush halted the discussion.
• A Third-Layer Golden Core cultivator named True Adept Liu followed the Ge Clan’s transport and revealed that Ge Xilai had entrusted him with an obsidian bearing Divine Soul patterns as a safeguard for the clan.

Ge Xilai’s account revealed how an impostor posing as True Adept Nan An pressured him into meeting a powerful Xiong Clan representative and carrying an Obsidian to True Immortal Longyang. He had prepared for danger and arranged for True Adept Liu to expose the Obsidian if his family was threatened, but he left for the Songzhan Plane without knowing who the scheme targeted.

• True Adept Liu explained that only Ge Xilai’s eldest son knew how to unravel Ge Xilai’s Divine Soul imprint, so Qian Zhong chose to ask the son rather than risk forcibly breaking it.
• The group deciphered Ge Xilai’s Obsidian and learned that he suspected an impostor had impersonated the deceased True Adept Nan An to recruit him for a hidden operation.
• Ge Xilai secretly investigated the person he had been ordered to meet and discovered that the representative likely belonged to the powerful Xiong Clan.
• The Xiong Clan representative gave Ge Xilai an Obsidian and ordered him to have True Immortal Longyang handle its contents.
• Ge Xilai arranged for True Adept Liu to produce the Obsidian if anyone went after his family, then headed to the Songzhan Plane while fearing the scale of the plot.

After Ge Xilai’s Obsidian confirmed the Xiong Clan cultivator’s involvement, Yi Jue and the others found his residence destroyed and tried to trace his escape. Their divinations revealed only a Nascent Soul High Stage man who had fled through space, so the group decided to offer rewards for his portrait and pursue the lead.

• Ge Xilai’s eldest son unlocked the Obsidian, and True Adept Liu confirmed it had come from Ge Xilai, prompting the group to hurry after the Xiong Clan cultivator.
• Yi Jue and the others reached the cultivator’s ruined estate, where they found a crater covered in dense demonic energy.
• Yi Jue cleared the demonic energy with Yearning for Sweet Rain, allowing the group to divine the traces left behind.
• Feng Jun’s divination showed that a Nascent Soul High Stage man had torn open space and escaped, but the group could not determine where he had gone.
• Qian Zhong concluded that the man used a limited-range Carefree Escape, and True Venerable Hanhai and Yi Jue announced rewards for his portrait.