Chapter Summaries

After Feng Jun posted a bounty for the fugitive, suspected to be connected to the Elder Xiong Clan, powerful clans and sects rallied to join it. The Xuanhuang Sect’s Du Liang recognized the suspect as Xiong Nantì, True Immortal Wuyang, but hesitated over whether to accept the bounty until the Fishing Elder issued an edict.

• Feng Jun and his companions failed to catch the fugitive, then Feng Jun learned that the people who had frequently visited the fugitive’s manor had all been killed.
• Qian Zhong told Feng Jun that the Xiong Clan had deep knowledge of space, and Feng Jun decided to list the Elder Xiong Clan as suspected in the bounty.
• Feng Jun offered five Void-entry slots as the reward, and disciples from the Two Sects came to the Mysterious Water Sect to join the bounty.
• The Seven Emotions Dao, the Azure Lotus Sect, and the Luo Clan also sought to post the bounty, with Luo Yuanwu explaining that the Luo Clan would not fear conflict with the Xiong Clan.
• Du Liang recognized the fugitive’s portrait as Xiong Nantì, True Immortal Wuyang, but hesitated to accept the bounty before the Fishing Elder issued an edict.

Feng Jun investigated Xiong Nantì’s holdings, uncovered clues about his age and the surviving Elder Xiong Clan, and changed the bounty to target Xiong Nantì himself. The Xuanyuan Clan then approached Feng Jun to plead for the clan, explaining that Xiong Nantì had attacked Liba Beach because he resented its advantages for sect cultivators.

• True Immortal Du Liang accepted the bounty and identified the suspect as Xiong Nantì, known as True Immortal Wuyang and skilled in spatial techniques.
• True Immortal Huang Qing revealed that Xiong Nantì belonged to the Elder Xiong Clan and helped investigate his holdings.
• Feng Jun, Qian Zhong, and Yi Jue investigated Xiong Nantì’s Spirit Stone Mine and Spirit Medicine Garden, where Qian Zhong traced an image and divined that he was twelve hundred years old.
• Feng Jun changed the bounty to target Xiong Nantì, offering ten Void treasure-hunting quotas for his death or one Void treasure-hunting site for his capture alive.
• The Xuanyuan Clan pursued Feng Jun to request a meeting, and Yi Jue learned that Xiong Nantì had acted alone because he believed Feng Jun favored sect cultivators over family cultivators.

Yi Jue rejected the Xuanyuan Clan’s attempt to mediate the bounty on Xiong Nantì, then discovered his corpse near Earthwater Garden. After the corpse vanished in a trap, Feng Jun proposed using the Heaven-Deriving Mirror to trace the Xiong Clan.

• Yi Jue refused to withdraw the bounty or let the Xiong Clan handle Xiong Nantì’s case internally, despite the Xuanyuan Clan’s mediation.
• Three days later, Yi Jue’s people found Xiong Nantì’s corpse sealed in a Spatial Lock Array near Earthwater Garden and summoned Feng Jun.
• Qian Zhong found that Xiong Nantì’s aura remained but that there was no sign his Nascent Soul had been destroyed.
• Venerable Hanhai tried to seize the corpse, but it split in two and vanished, prompting him to accuse the Xiong Clan of provocation.
• Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Wei Sancai warned that escalating against the Xuanyuan Clan could cause wider conflict and interfere with Yi Jue’s urgent plans.
• Feng Jun said they could use the Heaven-Deriving Mirror to seek another trace of aura.

Feng Jun and the Guardians tracked the Xiong Clan to the outskirts of the Shattered Star Sea, where they fought off local ambushers and confronted Xiong Yijun. Xiong Yijun insisted he had come to clarify the conflict, leaving Feng Jun to challenge the Xiong Clan’s account of its actions.

• Feng Jun returned to Heavenly Zither with Qian Zhong and asked Hanhai True Venerable to use the Heaven-Deriving Mirror, which located the Xiong Clan near the Shattered Star Sea.
• Feng Jun and the others traveled toward the Shattered Star Sea and encountered four cultivators attempting to ambush them.
• Hanhai True Venerable killed three ambushers, while Wei Sancai captured the fourth and forced him to lead the group to their destination before killing him.
• Xiong Yijun emerged from a hazy area and told Hanhai True Venerable and the others that he had come to speak with them.
• Feng Jun challenged Xiong Yijun’s claim that the Xiong Clan had tried to resolve the dispute, questioning whether it had acted against Xiong Nantì voluntarily or only under pressure from the bounty.

Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and the other great powers confronted Xiong Yijun over Xiong Nantì’s attack and demanded severe reparations from the Xiong Clan. Xiong Yijun could not provide the hidden details or accept all the demands, and the confrontation ended with the clan facing the threat of a much stronger Spirit Plant Path.

• Feng Jun demanded that Xiong Nantì’s Nascent Soul die and asked who from the Spirit Wood Dao had involved him, but Xiong Yijun said the relevant memories were sealed and could not be recovered.
• Xiong Yijun claimed Xiong Nantì had used a lost clan technique preserved in an ancient Talisman Treasure and said the Spirit Wood Dao had asked him to kill Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun ordered Xiong Yijun to kill himself, while Yi Jue demanded that three more Xiong Clan Nascent Souls die to settle the Spirit Plant Path’s grievance.
• Yi Jue warned that three or four of her sect’s True Venerables were returning to Heavenly Zither, and Xiong Yijun realized the Xiong Clan could not withstand the Spirit Plant Path’s full strength.

Xiong Yijun used a spatial seal to take Feng Jun after the gathered factions demanded that the Xiong Clan pay for its crimes. Feng Jun escaped and returned less than half a day later, ordering Xiong Yijun to summon the Xiong Clan’s Soul Division ancestor and ask about his injury.

• A Wei Clan kun cultivator demanded that the Xiong Clan execute twenty True Immortals, while Hanhai and Feng Jun outlined further demands from other factions.
• Xiong Yijun produced a bear-paw spatial seal that froze those around him and tried to take Feng Jun back to the Xiong Clan.
• Feng Jun vanished in a streak of white light, and someone meditating in a secret realm spat blood after sensing his power.
• Xiong Yijun argued that taking Feng Jun was the Xiong Clan’s only chance to persuade him and survive the factions’ pressure.
• Feng Jun returned in less than half a day and told Xiong Yijun to summon the Soul Division ancestor, asking whether the ancestor’s injury was serious.

Feng Jun negotiated with a Xiong Clan Spirit Severing cultivator after the clan’s ambush left the True Lord injured and vulnerable. The True Lord agreed to discuss terms, but the Xiong Clan’s claimed poverty was challenged when Yi Jue revealed she carried eight Extreme Spirit Stones.

• Xiong Yijun summoned a Xiong Clan Spirit Severing cultivator, who apologized for the ambush and explained that Xiong Yijun had acted under his instructions.
• Feng Jun said he would change the terms and threatened to attack the factions responsible if negotiations failed.
• Feng Jun demanded access to the Xiong Clan’s hidden home and compensation of one hundred Extreme Spirit Stones; the True Lord offered to show him clan disciples instead of allowing him into the Secret Realm.
• Yi Jue objected to Feng Jun going alone, then revealed that she carried eight Extreme Spirit Stones.
• The Xiong Clan True Lord was astonished by Yi Jue’s wealth and wondered what had happened while his clan remained secluded.

Feng Jun negotiated with the Xiong Clan's True Lord over compensation and an investigation into the Spirit Wood Dao, then insisted that Xiong Nantì and Xiong Yijun must die. The True Lord accepted a ten-year deadline to find the mastermind, but Feng Jun's final demand left Xiong Yijun stunned.

• Feng Jun pressed the Xiong Clan's True Lord to provide one hundred pieces of Extreme Spirit, and the True Lord agreed while asking Feng Jun to keep the others from making further demands.
• Hanhai True Venerable suggested that the Xiong Clan's unusual Secret Realm might be a Heavenly Grotto Minor World, but the True Lord warned him not to interrupt.
• Feng Jun demanded that the Xiong Clan identify the mastermind behind the Spirit Wood Dao within three years, and the True Lord negotiated the deadline to ten years.
• Wei Sancai asked to Soul Search Xiong Nantì, but the True Lord refused and threatened to Soul Search Wei Clan descendants for information about Extreme Spirit.
• Feng Jun named Xiong Nantì and Xiong Yijun as his final condition, demanding that both die, and Xiong Yijun froze at the order.

The Xiong Clan True Lord tried to save Xiong Yijun after Feng Jun insisted that he die, arguing that the young cultivator had done nothing wrong and offering him as an attendant. When Feng Jun refused, the True Lord turned to Yi Jue and proposed sending Xiong Yijun to fight external enemies instead, hinting at a larger campaign.

• Xiong Yijun prepared to kill himself after Feng Jun renewed the demand that he die, but the Xiong Clan True Lord intervened and asked whether Yi Jue would grieve if her own talented junior were killed.
• Feng Jun acknowledged that Xiong Yijun had handled the negotiations well, but said he had to die because the Xiong Clan had come to negotiate only when it had no other choice and had attacked during the talks.
• The Xiong Clan True Lord offered one hundred years of service from Xiong Yijun, along with another Xiong Clan Nascent Soul cultivator, but Feng Jun rejected the offer and insisted that Xiong Yijun still die.
• Xiong Yijun urged his ancestor to preserve his dignity, but the Xiong Clan True Lord asked Yi Jue to let the young man fight external enemies rather than die over the dispute.
• Yi Jue agreed that fighting external enemies was preferable but said Feng Jun had to decide; the Xiong Clan True Lord then clarified that he meant a campaign beyond the Insectoid World, noting that the Spirit Plant Path's True Venerables had returned.

The Xiong Clan True Lord negotiated with Feng Jun and the others over compensation for Yi Jun and the Xiong Clan’s actions. After several private agreements, he prepared to leave with Feng Jun, while Yi Jue reacted uneasily.

• The Xiong Clan True Lord warned Yi Jue that more foreign threats might arise, and Feng Jun agreed to release Yi Jun in exchange for 110 Extreme Spirit Stones.
• Wei Sancai demanded access to the Xiong Clan’s records on spatial comprehension, and the Xiong Clan True Lord accepted the arrangement as compensation.
• Hanhai True Venerable negotiated privately with the Xiong Clan True Lord, followed by Yi Jue, and both reached agreements.
• Qian Zhong declined to demand compensation, saying she had come to build cooperation with Feng Jun, and challenged the Xiong Clan True Lord about his concealed origins.
• The Xiong Clan True Lord asked Feng Jun to set out with him, and Yi Jue’s expression changed.

The Xiong Clan's True Lord took Feng Jun far into the Void and tested the limits of the protections his sect had given him. He brought Feng Jun to a hidden Xiong Clan gathering, where Feng Jun confirmed the people were descendants of the clan but declared that their supposed Secret Realm was not one.

• Before leaving, Feng Jun reassured Yi Jue and the others, while Qian Zhong revealed she had marked the Xiong Clan's True Lord during their earlier encounter.
• The Xiong Clan's True Lord seized Feng Jun and Xiong Yijun and used repeated spatial shifts to travel tens of millions of miles through the Void.
• Feng Jun warned the True Lord that his talismans could cripple or kill him, and the True Lord accepted that Feng Jun's sect had the power to end his cultivation.
• As they traveled, Feng Jun secretly memorized the Footprints of their spatial shift points while discussing his knowledge of spatial, temporal, and karmic rules with the True Lord.
• The True Lord opened a halo he called the Xiong Clan's Secret Realm, and several Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators emerged to greet him.
• Feng Jun used his mobile phone to divine that the cultivators were Xiong Clan descendants, then announced that the place was not truly a Secret Realm.

Feng Jun brought the Xiong Clan True Lord back from the mobile realm, and the group concluded that the Spirit Wood Dao posed no immediate threat. At Earthwater Garden, Yi Jue disclosed that the Spirit Plant Path was preparing for an Asura battle in about five years, while the group debated how to coordinate and allocate cultivators.

• Feng Jun left a mark on the Xiong Clan's mobile realm and used his spatial technique to bring the Xiong Clan True Lord back to their previous location.
• The Xiong Clan True Lord confirmed Xiong Nantì had fallen, distributed compensation in Storage Pouches, and departed.
• At Earthwater Garden, the group agreed the Spirit Wood Dao was unlikely to act soon while the Xiong Clan True Lord faced pressure to solve the case.
• Yi Jue revealed that the Spirit Plant Path was preparing for an Asura battle expected in about five years, and Wei Sancai offered to arrange targeted drills.
• Hanhai True Immortal urged Yi Jue to coordinate preparations, but she and Feng Jun resisted taking charge, so Hanhai planned to assign a disciple as liaison.
• Feng Jun said Nascent Soul True Immortals should prioritize the Insectoid World while Golden Core cultivators could explore the Void, and Qian Zhong asked if he was planning for Heavenly Zither.

Feng Jun negotiated with Qian Zhong over Void-entry spots and arranged for the Star-Devouring Demon corpse to be opened for public inspection. At Liba Beach, Qian Zhong began using her power to accelerate the formation of Feng Jun’s Earth Vein, asking whether he would accept her help.

• Feng Jun offered Qian Zhong five free Void-entry spots, then settled on ten free and five paid spots after she agreed to help him before visiting the Void.
• Yi Jue decided to invite the Seven Sects, Eighteen Paths, and major clans to discuss procedures for viewing the Star-Devouring Demon corpse, using it as a pretext to address the Asura matter.
• Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach after the others departed to make arrangements for the discussion.
• Qian Zhong criticized the slow Earth Vein Pulling Art and manifested a giant hand to accelerate the Earth Vein’s formation.
• Feng Jun asked whether Qian Zhong was adjusting the Earth Vein, and she offered to speed it up if he agreed.

Qian Zhong rapidly reshaped Liba Beach’s Earth Vein, silencing doubts by relying on the Earth Spirit to mend any hidden damage. Feng Jun then entered the Blue Star Realm and was pulled into the Guardians’ space, where the Guardian demanded the promised hundred Extreme Spirits.

• Qian Zhong said she could guide the Earth Vein in less than half a day, and Wu Xiu and an Azure Lotus Sect True Immortal warned that rushing could leave hidden dangers.
• Qian Zhong pointed out that the Earth Spirit could repair flaws, then finished reshaping the Earth Vein and ordered the spirit to tend it.
• Wu Xiu asked Yi Jue about Qian Zhong, but Yi Jue warned him not to provoke or inquire about her and told him to notify Grand Void about the Star-Devouring Demon’s corpse and Feng Jun’s next trip into the Void.
• Feng Jun entered the Void on his way to Bell's Mountain, where the Guardian drew him into the Guardians' space.
• The Guardian said it had sensed the aura of Extreme Spirit and asked whether Feng Jun had brought back the promised one hundred Extreme Spirits.

Feng Jun gave the Guardians the hundred Extreme Spirit Stones he had secured and negotiated to keep future stones for research, while the Guardians agreed to support his cultivation and protection. After they sent him to Chaori County, he learned that his uncle’s family and his mother’s cousin were joining Ask Immortal Manor.

• Feng Jun handed the Guardians the hundred Extreme Spirit Stones and offered them the last one he carried in exchange for being allowed to keep a few future stones for research.
• The Guardians accepted his offer, urged him to advance beyond Fifth-Layer Golden Core, and recognized that their support could help protect him while he sought more Extreme Spirit Stones.
• The Guardians returned Feng Jun to the surface in Chaori County, where he checked with his parents and learned that nothing urgent had happened.
• Feng Wenhui told Feng Jun that his uncle’s wife and son had transferred their household registrations to Ask Immortal Manor, and Feng Jun decided not to provide their cultivation resources himself.
• Feng Jun’s mother told him that her younger cousin, who had been assigned to work in the Northeast, had applied to move back to Ask Immortal Manor.

Feng Jun set rules for his Fourth Aunt's village registration and access to cultivation, then returned to Luo Hua and discussed the Dragon Gate Assembly and national security. He offered Lin Beauty five Short-Acting Longevity Potions after learning she had guarded his manor for seven years.

• Zhang Junyi asked Feng Jun about allowing Fourth Aunt to register in the village, and he approved it while requiring his consent for cultivation methods and Xiaoying's training.
• Feng Jun ordered wire fencing around the village and required his approval for future household registrations after Zhang Junyi mentioned a wealthy man offering fifty million for a village slot.
• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua and told Zhong Lijing she could attend the fourth Dragon Gate Assembly, but warned that no one should travel abroad because the situation was unsettled.
• Feng Jun summoned Lin Beauty, learned she had guarded his manor for seven years, and offered her five Short-Acting Longevity Potions.

Feng Jun learned that Lin Beauty was about to be reassigned and warned that he would downgrade his dealings with Xia Nation if she no longer handled them. He confirmed that the time had come for the people who drew the portraits to act, leaving Lin Beauty aware that her guess was right.

• Lin Beauty told Feng Jun that she might soon be reassigned, and he guessed the Longevity Potion had caused the pressure on her.
• Lin Beauty explained that others claimed she had won too little for Xia Nation, and Feng Jun objected that their demands showed endless greed.
• Feng Jun threatened not to personally receive Lin Beauty's replacement and said he would downgrade the authority of whoever dealt with him.
• Lin Beauty asked why Feng Jun had offered her grandmother a Short-Acting Longevity Potion, then guessed the time had come.
• Feng Jun confirmed that Lin Beauty was right and praised the people who had drawn the portraits.

Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that he deliberately controlled the pace of sharing his resources and would not let Xia Nation dictate his plans. He said he might support a future cultivation program for soldiers in about ten years, and Lin Beauty asked whether he could provide cultivation techniques in advance.

• Lin Beauty argued that Feng Jun’s slow release of important resources, including the Longevity Potion, might not meet Xia Nation’s needs, but Feng Jun insisted that he alone would set the pace.
• Feng Jun said he had only five doses of the Longevity Potion available and rejected pressure to distribute it widely, arguing that rushing could harm humanity overall.
• After receiving a request from higher-ups, Lin Beauty asked whether Luo Hua’s cultivation could eventually be promoted across Xia Nation, and Feng Jun said nationwide cultivation was impossible without enough resources.
• Lin Beauty promised that most resources would go to soldiers, and Feng Jun said he would consider helping once the timing was right, estimating that it would be around ten years.
• Feng Jun agreed that Lin Beauty’s people could gather soldiers and prepare, provided he was not involved in their selection process.
• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun to provide cultivation techniques in advance so Xia Nation could study them.

Feng Jun negotiated with Lin Beauty over cultivation techniques and hospital equipment, then discussed the dangers and differences between the cultivation and technological civilizations. He remained wary of Xia Nation’s interest in him and his family as Lin Beauty asked whether his pursuit of longevity meant he posed little threat.

• Feng Jun agreed to provide six representative Martial Cultivation techniques but warned Lin Beauty not to ask for more until the time was right.
• Lin Beauty told Feng Jun that construction had begun on a pilot hospital in Ming City and asked him to help obtain missing equipment; he agreed to provide materials but urged Xia Nation to rely on itself.
• Feng Jun discussed the two civilizations with Lin Beauty, arguing that Blue Star should learn from both rather than blindly copy either, and refused to predict which would win a conflict.
• Feng Jun explained that cultivation resources were controlled by powerful groups and that obtaining them was dangerous, while Lin Beauty acknowledged his risks and offered to have her personnel analyze the civilizations.
• Feng Jun expressed concern that being understood made him feel less secure and cited Shen Wansan’s lesson; Lin Beauty dismissed the story as rumor and asked whether his pursuit of longevity meant Xia Nation had little reason to fear him.

Lin Beauty pressed Feng Jun about cultivation, longevity, and whether Luo Hua might share technological advances, while Feng Jun set firm limits and asked her to deal with the provincial richest man who had troubled his parents. After giving Lin Beauty five Short-Acting Longevity Potions with strict instructions for their use, Feng Jun reiterated that he might emigrate and refused to speak with her superior.

• Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that cultivation pursued transcendence and warned that qi deviation killed many cultivators, while he favored technological ways of extending life.
• Feng Jun said he would not interfere with technological achievements he shared, then asked Lin Beauty to teach the provincial richest man surnamed Qi to behave because he had disturbed Feng Jun's parents.
• Yu Qingzhu delivered six sets of Martial Cultivation manuals, and Feng Jun gave Lin Beauty five Short-Acting Longevity Potions, requiring at least four to go to her grandmother.
• Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that anyone disputing the potions could come to him and said only homesickness kept him on Blue Star.
• When Lin Beauty said her superior wanted to speak with him, Feng Jun refused and said he had no time for her Boss.