Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun refined the Yin-Yang Mirror and bound its Artifact Spirit, then made clear that he would not fund its repairs or use it except through paid cooperation. The Artifact Spirit accepted that it would have to repay him for any materials, while Feng Jun prepared to take it to the Otherworld Plane.

• Feng Jun told the Guardians he would cross over alone and asked them to watch the Blue Star Realm.
• The Mirror Spirit entered the Yin-Yang Mirror, and Feng Jun refined it using the Ancient Ninefold Refinement Art.
• The Artifact Spirit said it wanted to earn Extreme Spirit Stones, repair the Yin-Yang Mirror, and buy back the Heaven-Deriving Mirror to settle its karma with Feng Jun.
• After returning to Luo Hua, Feng Jun refused to supply the Artifact Spirit with free repair materials or make use of the Yin-Yang Mirror.
• The Artifact Spirit realized their enslavement was temporary cooperation and agreed to put any materials Feng Jun supplied on its account.

Feng Jun opened the Two-Way Door at Liba Beach, where True Lord Qian Zhong sensed the connection and secretly observed him. He brought the Artifact Spirit to his storeroom to plan repairs for the Yin-Yang Mirror, and agreed to provide a Dual Fire Embryo while keeping his Primal Fire Embryo secret.

• Feng Jun and Mi Yunshan activated the Two-Way Door, drawing the attention of the Mirror Spirit and True Lord Qian Zhong.
• True Lord Qian Zhong asked Feng Jun whether the gate led to a major world, and he told her it connected to a Small World belonging to his sect.
• Feng Jun returned through the gate with several people, and True Lord Qian Zhong secretly observed them before the Artifact Spirit detected her Soul Division-level surveillance.
• Feng Jun promised the Artifact Spirit twenty Upper Spirit Stones for detecting Qian Zhong, then took it to his storeroom to assess the materials needed to repair the Yin-Yang Mirror.
• The Artifact Spirit proposed using Golden Flame Stone and a Fire Embryo to improve the mirror, and Feng Jun offered a Dual Fire Embryo while concealing that he also possessed a Primal Fire Embryo.

Feng Jun funded the Artifact Spirit’s repair of the Yin-Yang Mirror and negotiated a low fee for its protection, while keeping the Artifact Spirit’s identity and presence from alarming Qian Zhong and the Yin Soul Big Shot. After the mirror was repaired, Feng Jun and Yi Jue began consulting Qian Zhong on details for an artifact meant for game battles.

• Feng Jun refused to provide one hundred Upper Spirit Stones for the Yin-Yang Mirror’s repair, but eventually lent the Artifact Spirit fifty Upper Spirit Stones and five thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for double repayment and a promise to work for compensation.
• Feng Jun bargained the Artifact Spirit down from ten thousand to one thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per intervention, making the mirror available to protect Luo Hua disciples from Golden Core opponents.
• Qian Zhong questioned Feng Jun about the powerful visitor, and he told her to pretend she had never noticed him.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot complained to Feng Jun about the visitor, then learned Feng Jun had refined the artifact and chose not to press him about the consequences.
• The Artifact Spirit emerged from two days of seclusion with the Yin-Yang Mirror repaired, then discussed forging an artifact for game battles with Feng Jun.
• Yi Jue suggested inviting Qian Zhong to advise on the artifact’s details, and Feng Jun summoned her without revealing the overall concept.

Feng Jun discussed refining a modular True Artifact with Qian Zhong and Yi Jue, explaining that he planned to sell it to major powers. Qian Zhong offered the Yao Clan’s support and artifact refiners, but the discussion ended with Feng Jun questioning how family cultivators could protect his interests.

• Qian Zhong admitted she was not very familiar with artifact refining, and Feng Jun revealed that he wanted to make a True Artifact intended for sale.
• After Qian Zhong secured their conversation with a Spirit-Energy Barrier, Feng Jun explained his plan, and she enthusiastically offered to commission a set for the Yao Clan.
• Qian Zhong realized Feng Jun was describing a Module-Type Artifact, and he explained how its adjustable modules differed from a fixed Formation-Type Artifact.
• Qian Zhong offered to gather artifact refiners from several families, while Feng Jun said he had connections with Half-Fool and believed family cultivators lacked breadth.
• The Mirror Spirit objected to the possibility of a sect claiming Feng Jun’s ideas, and Feng Jun asked how his interests would be protected if family cultivators handled all the refining.

Feng Jun recruited artifact refiners from several factions to begin building a Composite Treasure Artifact, while the refining effort faced repeated failures. He also showed Yi Jue microorganisms from Mars, and she identified them as useful specimens for the Spirit Plant Path to study.

• Feng Jun and Qian Zhong agreed that both family cultivators and sects would receive portions of the artifact-refining work.
• Feng Jun sent more than a hundred cultivators into the Void, collected recommendations for artifact refiners, and later gathered eleven refiners to sign confidentiality contracts; two refused and left.
• Nine artifact refiners began making modules for the Composite Treasure Artifact at Liba Beach, while Feng Jun continued helping Human Race cultivators in the Insectoid World.
• After a month of trial and error had ruined nearly a hundred components, Feng Jun reassured the refiners that the failures were not entirely their fault.
• Feng Jun showed Yi Jue the Martian microorganisms, and she contained them with a Drunken Spirit Formation before explaining that the Spirit Plant Path wanted to study similar organisms for cultivation.

Feng Jun transported six hundred cultivators to the Third Battlefield, where Qian Zhong drew Xiaotong’s attention while quietly suppressing Insect Race fighters. Back at Liba Beach, Yu Qingzhu’s breakthrough was disrupted by an unlikely resonance, leaving Feng Jun lamenting the need to develop the Virtual Combat System.

• Yi Jue explained that the Spirit Plant Path hoped to cultivate useful variants of a dangerous organism, and Xiaomeng arrived with word that You Xuan wanted Feng Jun to take Golden Crow Sect cultivators to the Insectoid World.
• Feng Jun agreed to meet You Xuan in the Blazing Flame Sector, where he found six hundred cultivators from several factions waiting, then transported them to the Third Battlefield in three trips.
• Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Qian Zhong visited the First Battlefield, where Xiaotong noticed Qian Zhong and inferred that she was a powerful senior; she later wandered the front lines and suppressed several Nascent-Soul Insect Race members.
• Qian Zhong asked Feng Jun to take her to the Giant Planet, but his Blood Essence Protective Talisman activated, prompting him to return to Liba Beach with Yi Jue and Xiaotong.
• Mei Yeyu reported that Zhang Caixin had raised the alarm about Yu Qingzhu, and Feng Jun discovered that a resonance caused by Tribulation Lightning and an artifact-refining explosion had disrupted her breakthrough to the Emergence from Dust Stage.

Feng Jun and the others determined that Yu Qingzhu’s failed breakthrough was caused by her misaligned karma in the Kunhao Realm, but her injuries were minor and Feng Jun expected her to succeed next time. After True Adept Yan Dun apologized for the refining accident that disrupted her breakthrough, Feng Jun told him to continue the work without moving the refinement site.

• Yi Jue and Qian Zhong used Causal Divination to learn that Yu Qingzhu’s breakthrough had failed partly because she was not a cultivator of the Kunhao Realm.
• Qian Zhong sensed Yu Qingzhu’s Profound Yin Body and questioned whether Feng Jun could predict interference from the World Domain, while Feng Jun remained confident she would succeed after recovering.
• Feng Jun stopped Zhang Caixin from entering Yu Qingzhu’s cave abode and told her to let Yu Qingzhu grieve in peace.
• Mei Yeyu reported that True Adept Yan Dun had come to apologize for the refining accident that affected Yu Qingzhu.
• Feng Jun refused compensation and told True Adept Yan Dun to finish refining the artifact, assuring him that his promised guidance would remain unchanged.
• True Adept Yan Dun asked whether he should move the refinement site, but Feng Jun told him to keep working there and finish as soon as possible.

After Yu Qingzhu failed to break through to Emergence from Dust, Feng Jun explained the possible World Domain risks and urged her to strengthen her state of mind. Two months later, Yun Buyao reached Emergence from Dust and prepared to seek revenge on those who had harmed her, with the Du Clan offering support.

• Yu Qingzhu cried over her failed breakthrough and her fear of becoming the first among Luo Hua's members to fail, while Feng Jun urged her to control her emotions and explained the possible risks of an incompatible World Domain.
• Yu Qingzhu asked whether Gu Jiahui might face the same risk and learned that breaking through in Kun Hao at a lower cultivation level could benefit future development.
• After two months, Feng Jun exchanged groups of people between the Void and Blue Star while cultivators from the Giant Planet returned to Liba Beach to recuperate.
• Two months later, Yun Buyao broke through to Emergence from Dust, healed her facial scars, regained her balance, and asked Feng Jun to help her take revenge in Qiuchen Market.
• Feng Jun agreed to Yun Buyao's request and directed her to borrow a High Qi Condensation cultivator from Du Wentian, who offered four Du Clan cultivators and a thousand Spirit Stones.

Yun Buyao returned from a revenge mission, while Feng Jun and Yi Jue prepared to finish refining a composite magical treasure. As the final assembly began, Feng Jun recruited Zhang Caixin, Liu Yiyi, and Lin Heihu to help supply it with Spirit Stones.

• Yun Buyao left for Mingsha Market with cultivators who volunteered to support her and had their teleportation costs covered by the Tantai and Gongyang families.
• Yun Buyao returned a month later after three thousand people were killed in the Mortal World, and her party forced Qiuchen Market to identify those responsible.
• The Spirit Plant Path displayed the Star-Devouring Demon's corpse, and Feng Jun transported Yi Jue there before she returned a month later.
• Feng Jun checked the treasure's components with Divination, and Qian Zhong was caught using her Divine Thought to spy on the manor and agreed to compensate him.
• Feng Jun began the treasure's final assembly with the Artifact Spirit, then summoned Zhang Caixin, Liu Yiyi, and Lin Heihu to help scatter Spirit Stones.

Qian Zhong and Yi Jue waited while Feng Jun refined a magic artifact, with Qian Zhong estimating the work could take weeks. When the manor’s defensive formation weakened, Feng Jun confirmed the refining was complete and invited Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Yan Yuxi inside to test the artifact before announcing the result.

• Qian Zhong and Yi Jue failed to divine how long Feng Jun’s artifact refinement would take, and Qian Zhong warned that it could last ten or twenty days.
• The manor’s defensive formation weakened to Low-Grade Golden Core, prompting a cultivator to ask Yi Jue whether Feng Jun had finished refining the artifact.
• Yi Jue contacted Feng Jun, who said the refining was complete and asked the women to wait before Mei Yeyu invited Yi Jue and Qian Zhong inside.
• Yan Yuxi objected that the Yan Clan had contributed an artifact refiner, and Feng Jun explained that he wanted to test the artifact before announcing anything.
• Yan Yuxi insisted on joining them, and Feng Jun let her enter with Yi Jue and Qian Zhong while declaring that no fourth person would be admitted.

Feng Jun and his companions completed the exhausting refinement of a massive magical artifact using more than 1.3 million Ordinary Spirit Stones. After guarding the artifact’s secrets from Qian Zhong, Feng Jun offered to let her watch its testing in exchange for five Extreme Spirit Stones.

• Feng Jun, Zhang Caixin, Liu Yiyi, and Lin Heihu struggled through the artifact refinement, with Feng Jun coordinating nearly a hundred Spirit Stone stations.
• The Artifact Spirit told Feng Jun that roughly three hundred thousand more Spirit Stones were needed, and Feng Jun took over stations from the exhausted Zhang Caixin and Liu Yiyi.
• After the refinement finished, Lin Heihu escorted the Yin-Yang Mirror back to Blue Star while Zhang Caixin and Liu Yiyi recuperated.
• Feng Jun asked the Big Shot Yin Soul whether the Artifact Spirit had deliberately made the work difficult, and it advised him to use Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for future refinements.
• Qian Zhong noticed that some components had not been refined at Liba Beach, and Feng Jun explained that he had protected his intellectual property by having the Guardians refine the core components.
• Feng Jun refused to let Qian Zhong watch the artifact’s testing until they discussed compensation, then asked her for five Extreme Spirit Stones.

Feng Jun negotiated with Qian Zhong and Yan Yuxi over purchasing and contributing information to his artifact, setting a price of at least ten Extreme Spirit Stones per set. Qian Zhong agreed to provide her knowledge and take the third set, then began recording information as Feng Jun demonstrated how the artifact read Obsidian.

• Qian Zhong agreed to pay five Extreme Spirit Stones and contribute information about the Human Race's enemies, on the condition that she could buy the third set once the artifact passed testing.
• Yi Jue claimed the second set for the Spirit Plant Path, and Yan Yuxi requested the fourth set for Pine-Cypress Peak.
• Feng Jun told Yan Yuxi that a set would cost at least a double-digit number of Extreme Spirit Stones, so she left to consult her elders.
• Qian Zhong warned Feng Jun that his high price could encourage people to crack the artifact, but he said he would tolerate private copies and oppose resale.
• Feng Jun activated the artifact with sixty-four Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and explained that Qian Zhong could infuse Divine Thought into Obsidian for the artifact to read.

Feng Jun had Qian Zhong record creature data onto Obsidian for his Virtual Battle Artifact and negotiated a discount in exchange for her work. He explained the artifact’s heavy Spirit Stone costs to Yi Jue, who questioned whether ordinary cultivators could afford to use it.

• Feng Jun gave Qian Zhong standard-sized Obsidian, and she quickly filled the pieces with Divine Thought data before asking for more.
• Feng Jun offered Qian Zhong half the Spirit Stones earned from selling data, but she proposed that he instead discount her artifact purchase in exchange for her work.
• Feng Jun agreed to charge Qian Zhong five Extreme Spirit Stones for the artifact if she provided enough data, and she continued recording creatures.
• Yi Jue asked about the Virtual Battle Artifact’s Spirit Stone consumption, and Feng Jun explained its costs and reserve supply.
• Yi Jue concluded that ordinary Qi Refining Stage cultivators could not afford to battle with the artifact, and Feng Jun suggested that sects subsidize them.

Feng Jun completed the Virtual Combat System’s data and demonstrated its magic treasure to Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Yan Yuxi. After Yun Buyao, Zhang Caixin, and Liu Yiyi tested it, Qian Zhong recognized its training value, while Yan Yuxi worried that Pine-Cypress Peak could not afford to run it continuously.

• Yan Yuxi secured Pine-Cypress Peak’s place in the purchase by arranging to borrow Extreme Spirit Stones, and Feng Jun insisted the magic treasure must remain there or be sold to someone else.
• Feng Jun recruited ten True Adepts to help Qian Zhong compile and proofread the monster data, completing the work in four days.
• Feng Jun activated the magic treasure, and Yun Buyao entered its light gate to fight Purple-Gold Eagles, dying after attempting to battle four at once.
• Zhang Caixin and Liu Yiyi tested the system next, fighting cautiously before withdrawing with injuries.
• Qian Zhong saw how the system could help assess and guide cultivators, then asked whether its capacity could be expanded; Feng Jun explained that extra components cost Spirit Stones and continuous use would wear it out and consume many resources.
• Yan Yuxi said Pine-Cypress Peak could not afford to use the system year-round, and Yi Jue and Qian Zhong dismissed her concern.

Feng Jun tested the Virtual Combat System with Golden Core cultivators and opened paid trials to the public, drawing thousands of participants. As cultivators discovered new ways to use the system, demand remained high and even death-match features were requested, though they were not yet available.

• Feng Jun tested the system with cultivators, including Mei Yeyu, and invited sects and clans to send Golden Cores for trials.
• After twenty Golden Cores tested the system, Sumiao asked to buy one, while Feng Jun discussed its high price and Yi Jue defended the value of innovation.
• Feng Jun accepted the Gongyang Clan into the ordering queue after Qian Zhong clarified that its place was fifth, and announced paid public trials.
• More than three thousand cultivators queued to try the system, with many choosing to hide their battle footage after seeing stronger fighters.
• Thousands returned for further trials to test talismans, artifacts, and pills, while Liba Beach said paired deathmatches were planned but not yet available.
• More than a hundred cultivators were forcibly ejected after dying in virtual battles, but they asked whether trials would continue the next day.

During the Virtual Battle Artifact trials at Liba Beach, Feng Jun discovered that cultivators were using the system to divine cultivation techniques and expelled them to prevent dangerous rule chaos. A Wei Clan True Adept argued that the artifact might lead to one capable of stabilizing cultivation deviations, just as the Xuanyuan Clan arrived to visit Feng Jun.

• Yun Buyao noticed cultivators meditating after defeating Demon Beasts and alerted Zhang Caixin, who urged her to report the matter to Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun ordered the artifact to expel anyone conducting Divination on cultivation techniques, explaining that the virtual battle system could not safely handle interference with rules.
• A Wei Clan True Adept questioned Feng Jun about the ban and learned that exploiting the loophole could cause cultivation deviation that the artifact could not prevent.
• The Wei Clan True Adept declared that an artifact able to interfere with rules and save cultivators from deviation could bring forth countless cultivation techniques, and Feng Jun dismissed his excitement.
• The Xuanyuan Clan announced its arrival to visit Feng Jun.

Feng Jun negotiated with Xuanyuan Buqi, a Spirit Severing True Lord of the Xuanyuan Clan, who paid twenty Extreme Spirit to jump the queue for a magic treasure. The testing arrangements were agreed upon, but Xuanyuan Buqi reappeared after Feng Jun returned to the manor and recognized Qian Zhong as a Yao Clan True Lord.

• Feng Jun detected Xuanyuan Buqi approaching and greeted him before the cultivators gathered at Liba Beach.
• Xuanyuan Buqi asked to buy Feng Jun's magic treasure, and Feng Jun let him jump the queue in exchange for full payment.
• Xuanyuan Buqi paid twenty Extreme Spirit for one top-configuration magic treasure and asked for Xuanyuan Clan disciples to test it.
• A hidden True Lord warned Xuanyuan Buqi not to press his advantage, and Xuanyuan Buqi agreed to let other cultivators join the testing while keeping veto power.
• Xuanyuan Buqi asked Feng Jun to help transport Xuanyuan Clan disciples to the testing, and Feng Jun agreed to discuss the arrangements.
• After Feng Jun returned to the manor, Xuanyuan Buqi recognized Qian Zhong as a Yao Clan True Lord and asked whether Fellow Daoist Wuya was still around.

Xuanyuan Buqi visited Feng Jun's manor, where Qian Zhong and Yi Jue challenged his questions and uncovered that he was buying an artifact for the Xiong Clan as well as the Xuanyuan Clan. The chapter ended with Yi Jue warning that Feng Jun would sell him only one artifact unless he could confirm the other two were not intended for the Spirit Wood Dao or the Myriad Illusions Sect.

• Feng Jun rebuked Xuanyuan Buqi for probing his manor with Divine Thought, then allowed him to inspect the Space Gate while warning him not to enter its dangerous Small World.
• Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi traded barbs about True Lord Wuya, True Lord Canglang, and their clans, and Xuanyuan Buqi admitted that the Xuanyuan Clan had suffered grievous casualties.
• Yi Jue deduced through divination that Xuanyuan Buqi was buying an artifact for the Xiong Clan, and he admitted the Xiong Clan had entrusted him with the purchase.
• Xuanyuan Buqi explained that the Xiong Clan was working on Feng Jun's behalf, while Qian Zhong criticized the Xuanyuan Clan's evasive conduct.
• Yi Jue said Feng Jun would sell Xuanyuan Buqi only one artifact unless he confirmed the remaining two were not for the Spirit Wood Dao or the Myriad Illusions Sect, and Feng Jun agreed with her.

Xuanyuan Buqi learned that Feng Jun intended to bind the artifacts to Xuanyuan bloodlines, threatening the Xuanyuan Clan’s plan to resell one to the Xiong Clan, so he admitted that one purchase was for the Xiong Clan. The Yin-Yang Mirror then appeared through the Two-Way Door, and Xuanyuan Buqi angrily demanded an explanation from Qian Zhong.

• Xuanyuan Buqi promised to buy the remaining artifacts for the Xuanyuan Clan, while Feng Jun asked how many Extreme Spirits the Xiong Clan had given him.
• Feng Jun proposed binding all three artifacts to the Xuanyuan Bloodline, disrupting Xuanyuan Buqi’s plan to pass one artifact on to the Xiong Clan.
• Feng Jun offered to let outsiders use one artifact while reserving its highest authority for someone with Xuanyuan Bloodline, and Xuanyuan Buqi realized he could not resell it as planned.
• Xuanyuan Buqi admitted that one artifact was being purchased on the Xiong Clan’s behalf and asked Feng Jun not to count it as the Xuanyuan Clan’s purchase.
• Zhang Caixin brought the Yin-Yang Mirror through the Two-Way Door, and Xuanyuan Buqi sensed its aura and demanded to know what Qian Zhong meant by it.

Xuanyuan Buqi learned that Feng Jun’s sect contained powerful beings and completed the purchase of the first two modified magical treasures. As the Xuanyuan Clan arranged for Feng Jun to collect its disciples from a secret realm, the Mirror Spirit offered to accompany him for three hundred Upper Spirit Stones.

• Qian Zhong warned Xuanyuan Buqi that a powerful being connected to Feng Jun’s sect was not from the Yao Clan, and the Mirror Spirit demanded thirty Extreme Spirit Stones for three treasures before accepting Feng Jun’s refusal to change the agreed price.
• Xuanyuan Buqi thanked Qian Zhong for the warning, recognized Feng Jun’s unusual standing, and asked whether he should turn down the Xiong Clan; Feng Jun said the Xiong Clan must fulfill its promise before he would refine treasures for them.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue and Qian Zhong that the Mirror Spirit was more like a persistent passerby than a friend or enemy, then worked with Yi Jue to complete the second magical treasure a month later.
• The Mirror Spirit split the twenty Extreme Spirit Stones from the second set with the Guardians, while Feng Jun delayed work on the third set to evaluate the results.
• Xuanyuan Buqi gave Feng Jun the location of the Xuanyuan Clan’s disciples in a Secondary Plane secret realm and offered him one thousand Upper Spirit Stones to collect them.
• The Mirror Spirit offered to accompany Feng Jun on the trip for three hundred Upper Spirit Stones.