Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun transported the Xuanyuan Clan’s War Boat into the Kunhao Domain and delivered its newly imprinted Virtual Battle Artifact. After returning to a Secondary Plane, he learned that the Yin Soul Big Shot had a hidden cache there and wanted to retrieve it.

• Feng Jun and his companions entered the Secondary Plane with Xuanyuan Buqi, who brought them to the Xuanyuan Clan’s War Boat.
• Feng Jun transported the War Boat into the Kunhao Domain, where the Xuanyuan Clan set up camp and drew the attention of local family and sect cultivators.
• Feng Jun delivered the Xuanyuan Clan’s imprinted Virtual Battle Artifact, and the clan allowed Liba Beach’s Yun Buyao, Zhang Caixin, and Liu Yiyi to inspect it.
• The Xuanyuan Clan required outside testers to let the clan review and publicly display their battle processes, prompting sect cultivators to consider asking Feng Jun for help.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot told Feng Jun that it had a hidden cache in the Secondary Plane and asked him to help retrieve it, while Feng Jun worried the location might be dangerous.

Feng Jun brought Yi Jue to the Secondary Plane to recover hidden treasures for the Yin Soul big shot, explaining the senior’s connection to the Heaven-Deriving Mirror along the way. As Yi Jue flew them through the void, Feng Jun received directions that led toward a Lava Phenomenon.

• Feng Jun told Yi Jue that a senior had entrusted him with recovering hidden treasures, and she insisted on accompanying him.
• Feng Jun brought Yi Jue to the Secondary Plane, where she asked him to explain why he needed to apologize to the senior.
• Feng Jun explained that the senior was a Natural Spirit from an Ancient Artifact mirror and had taken a liking to the Heaven-Deriving Mirror; Yi Jue accepted his decision to give it up.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue discussed whether the senior’s original mirror was the Yin-Yang Mirror and debated its former power and rank.
• Feng Jun offered Yi Jue an Ancient Artifact Fragment containing laws of slaughter, but the Yin Soul warned him not to take it out.
• The Yin Soul directed Feng Jun to turn right, and Yi Jue recognized that direction as the Lava Phenomenon.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue reached the lava-filled Wan'er Plane to search for the Yin Soul Big Shot’s hidden treasure, but hostile cultivators repeatedly challenged them. After Feng Jun left to bring someone over, Yi Jue faced the Nascent Soul cultivator who had attacked him and threatened her.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue arrived at the lava in Wan'er Plane, where more than a hundred thousand cultivators had gathered.
• Two Nascent Soul cultivators tried to recruit Feng Jun and Yi Jue as companions, but Feng Jun rebuffed them and they withdrew, vowing revenge.
• A Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage cultivator attacked Feng Jun with Divine Sense as he approached the lava, and Yi Jue struck back, damaging the cultivator’s defensive hairpin.
• The cultivator insulted Feng Jun and threatened Yi Jue, so Feng Jun left to bring someone over.
• Yi Jue realized Feng Jun had expected her to act earlier and erupted with killing intent when the cultivator threatened her again.

Feng Jun returned with Wei Sancai, who subdued the cultivators threatening Yi Jue and helped her capture them. After the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators fled, Yi Jue restrained True Immortal Nantian, and Feng Jun left him in her care while he went to retrieve the Big Shot’s hidden treasure.

• True Immortal Nantian summoned three True Immortals, who surrounded Yi Jue in a Three Origins Battle Formation.
• Feng Jun arrived with Wei Sancai, whose appearance silenced the gathered cultivators.
• Wei Sancai immobilized the three True Immortals, and Yi Jue put them in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Wei Sancai ordered the Nascent Soul cultivators to leave and secretly confined True Immortal Nantian, allowing Yi Jue to restrain him.
• Feng Jun asked Yi Jue to watch Nantian while he went to retrieve the Big Shot’s hidden treasure.

Feng Jun opened a Medieval Secret Vault while Wei Sancai protected him from cultivators seeking its treasures. As the vault emerged, Nine Songs True Venerable attacked Wei Sancai and confronted Yi Jue, while Feng Jun vanished before he could retrieve the chest.

• Feng Jun followed the Yin Soul Big Shot's directions and performed the hand seals to open the secret vault as Yi Jue watched over him.
• Wei Sancai protected Feng Jun, seized and killed a Xuanyuan Clan son-in-law who accused Feng Jun of stealing the opportunity, and warned the crowd against interfering.
• A huge chest rose from underground, stirring the surrounding cultivators as they waited for someone to make the first move.
• Nine Songs True Venerable attacked Wei Sancai with Heaven-Seeking Sword Intent, and Wei Sancai countered with a punch that shattered the sword light.
• Nine Songs True Venerable claimed authority to keep the Wan'er Plane's resources and threatened Yi Jue over her attack on the Jinse Lineage.
• Unable to retrieve the embedded chest before completing more hand seals, Feng Jun said he would remember the Azure Lotus Sect and vanished.

Feng Jun’s allies intervened when Nine Songs True Venerable threatened him over a hidden treasure, forcing Nine Songs to back down after learning Feng Jun’s identity. The dispute ended with Nine Songs acknowledging Feng Jun’s ownership, but Feng Jun and Wei Sancai demanded an apology.

• Nine Songs True Venerable noticed Feng Jun’s teleportation, while Yi Jue revealed her identity as a Spirit Plant Path Elder and challenged him to a future duel after reaching Soul Emergence.
• Xuanyuan Buqi arrived with Feng Jun, tore through Wei Sancai’s barrier, and drove Nine Songs away with a giant finger attack before Yi Jue persuaded him to stop.
• Nine Songs questioned Yi Jue’s actions, and she said she had defended Feng Jun because Nine Songs had bullied the weak and targeted her friend.
• A cultivator identified Feng Jun as Feng Mountain Lord of the Kunhao Domain, and Nine Songs realized that harming him could damage the Azure Lotus Sect’s interests.
• Nine Songs called the incident a misunderstanding and guaranteed Feng Jun’s ownership of the treasure, but Feng Jun rejected his guarantee and Wei Sancai demanded an apology.

Feng Jun negotiated an end to the conflict with Nine Songs True Venerable after Yi Jue reconsidered pursuing the Soul Emergence battle. He accepted Nine Songs’s apology but turned the promised interventions into a payment, leaving Nine Songs to arrange delivery of ten Extreme Spirit stones to Kun Hao.

• Nine Songs True Venerable explained why he had intervened, then indirectly apologized to Yi Jue and asked to let the grudge go.
• Wei Sancai and Nine Songs argued over Nine Songs’s prejudice against clan cultivators, while Xuanyuan Buqi refused to testify for him.
• Yi Jue asked Feng Jun whether she should cancel the Soul Emergence battle, and Feng Jun agreed that she should not force herself into his dispute with the Azure Lotus Sect.
• Nine Songs asked Feng Jun to let the matter rest, and Feng Jun said he had lost the favors owed to his reinforcements.
• Feng Jun rejected Nine Songs’s offer to act twice and instead asked him to pay ten Extreme Spirit stones; Nine Songs agreed to have them delivered to Kun Hao.

Feng Jun recovered the Big Shot's hidden treasury, negotiated with Nine Songs True Venerable over the captured Nascent Soul cultivators, and left as the lava erupted and revealed another opportunity. Back at Liba Beach, Feng Jun began inventorying the treasury and questioned the Big Shot about its stockpile of pills.

• Feng Jun agreed to let Nine Songs True Venerable mediate ransom exchanges for the captured Nascent Soul cultivators, setting prices by their cultivation stages while refusing to trade the two Myriad Illusions Branch Academy disciples.
• Feng Jun claimed the hidden treasury belonged to a living old acquaintance, prompting Xuanyuan Buqi and Nine Songs True Venerable to reconsider his backing.
• Xuanyuan Buqi argued with Wei Sancai over the death of a Xuanyuan Clan son-in-law, then asked Wei Sancai to reveal Qian Zhong's background, which Wei refused.
• After Feng Jun put away the chest, the lava erupted; Yi Jue whisked him away, and Feng Jun decided to leave rather than compete for the treasures emerging from it.
• Feng Jun left with Yi Jue and Wei Sancai, sent Wei Sancai to the Insectoid World, and returned to Liba Beach with Yi Jue to inspect the hidden treasury.
• Feng Jun found ten drops of Chaos Spirit Fluid and three sets of bottleneck-breaking pills, then asked the Big Shot about a round disk in the treasury.

Feng Jun learned that the Yin Soul Big Shot had amassed numerous secret caches and was using the Mystery-Unraveling Origin-Tracing Disk to search for fragments of its true body. He offered to help, but the Big Shot warned that the fragments might lie beyond the Heavenly Zither Plane, leaving Feng Jun alarmed about the scale of the undertaking.

• Feng Jun questioned the Yin Soul Big Shot about its secret cache, and it revealed that it had more than a hundred such caches and treasured its Mystery-Unraveling Origin-Tracing Disk.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot explained that it had studied Merit as a way to offset karmic causality and that its Extreme Spirit Stones also supported its recovery and the disk.
• The Big Shot told Feng Jun that the disk could unravel the mystery within the womb and trace fragments of its true body, though it could not locate the complete body.
• Feng Jun offered to protect the Big Shot while it searched for its true-body fragments, but it said it trusted him more than powerful outsiders.
• The Big Shot revealed that the fragments might be outside the Heavenly Zither Plane, and Feng Jun protested that he was only a Golden Core cultivator.

Feng Jun took Yi Jue to the Spirit Plant Path with a Soul Separation Pill so he could divine her chances of achieving Soul Emergence without damage. While they were away, Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi pieced together that Feng Jun had obtained a treasure that could improve those chances, and Qian Zhong warned Xuanyuan Buqi not to provoke him.

• The Yin Soul Big Shot gave Feng Jun a Soul Separation Pill for Yi Jue and returned to recovering while Feng Jun worked on his cultivation.
• Feng Jun brought the pill to Yi Jue, who agreed to let him divine her chances of achieving Soul Emergence without damage.
• Qian Zhong asked Feng Jun to obtain another Soul Separation Pill, but Yi Jue took Feng Jun to the Spirit Plant Path before Qian Zhong could accompany them.
• Xuanyuan Buqi told Qian Zhong about the Fire Essence King and learned from her account that Feng Jun and Yi Jue had gone to the Spirit Plant Path together.
• Xuanyuan Buqi deduced that Feng Jun had found a treasure that could improve Yi Jue's chances of Soul Emergence, and Qian Zhong warned him not to do anything foolish.

Feng Jun gave Yi Jue the Soul Separation Pill after she decided to use it herself, then accompanied her to the Insectoid World. There, Xiaotong True Venerable explained that a Human Federation warship had identified the Heavenly Zither cultivators as members of a separate civilization, and the Federation had warned them to disengage after the battle.

• Feng Jun divined Yi Jue's chances of reaching the Spirit Projection Stage and refused to let her transfer the Soul Separation Pill to Elder Withered Wood.
• Yi Jue explained that helping Elder Withered Wood reach the Spirit Projection Stage could make it easier for the Spirit Plant Path to annex the Spirit Wood Dao, which threatened Feng Jun's safety.
• Yi Jue accepted the Soul Separation Pill for her own breakthrough, and Feng Jun took her to the Insectoid World.
• Xiaotong True Venerable told Feng Jun and Yi Jue that the battle on the First Battlefield was expected to end in about half a month.
• Xiaotong True Venerable explained that a Human Federation warship had rescued an injured Yuangang Sect disciple and captured some of his tissue, revealing that the Heavenly Zither cultivators belonged to a different Humanoid civilization.

The Human Federation issued the Heavenly Zither cultivators an ultimatum, while Feng Jun and Yi Jue returned Elder Withered Wood from the Insectoid World for a divination. Feng Jun’s calculations revealed that a Soul Separation Pill and rare treasures could raise Withered Wood’s chance of Soul Emergence to seventy-three percent, leaving him shocked by the cost.

• The Human Federation demanded that the Heavenly Zither cultivators leave Federation territory after the battle, but Spirit-Release Venerable Xiaotong disregarded the ultimatum and planned to limit future contact.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue discussed the risks of the Federation obtaining cultivators’ bloodlines and arranged to bring injured cultivators, including Elder Withered Wood, back from the Insectoid World.
• Feng Jun brought nearly twenty cultivators to the passage entrance, then returned with Yi Jue and Elder Withered Wood to the Spirit Plant Path.
• Yi Jue arranged a divination in the Soul Emergence Spirit Land, and Feng Jun calculated that Withered Wood’s prospects could rise from eight percent to seventy-three percent with a Soul Separation Pill and heavenly treasures.
• Yi Jue kept the full result from Withered Wood and offered to help him obtain resources, but he scoffed at her wealth before realizing how many treasures the plan required.

Elder Withered Wood agreed to gather the resources Feng Jun had divined and pay him in Top-Grade Spirit Stones for a treasure that could aid Soul Emergence. Back at Liba Beach, Xuanyuan Buqi tried to acquire the treasure from Yi Jue, who insisted it belonged to her and refused to promise its resale.

• Yi Jue told Elder Withered Wood that Feng Jun required many Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the Soul Emergence treasure, and Withered Wood agreed to recuperate and seek the remaining resources.
• Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach, confirmed the Xuanyuan Clan's combat magic treasure had passed its test, and prepared to enter seclusion.
• Xuanyuan Buqi guessed Feng Jun had found a treasure that could aid Soul Emergence and offered to exchange his Fire Essence King for one.
• Yi Jue arrived and told Xuanyuan Buqi that Feng Jun had found the treasure for her and that she had placed it within the Spirit Plant Path.
• Xuanyuan Buqi asked Yi Jue to sell the treasure to the Xuanyuan Clan if she did not use it, offering twice what she had paid, but Yi Jue refused to disclose the price.

Feng Jun revealed that a Soul Separation Pill was available and negotiated its sale with Xuanyuan Buqi, while Qian Zhong arrived to challenge Buqi’s claim. The Yin Soul Big Shot then explained that its missing Origin-Locking Essence-Refining Arrays had caused the eruptions at the secret hoard, leaving Feng Jun to question how much the disaster was its fault.

• Yi Jue refused to name her treasure, but Feng Jun revealed that it was a Soul Separation Pill, angering her because Spirit Severing True Lords might seek a trade.
• Xuanyuan Buqi offered Extreme Spirit Stones for the pill, and Feng Jun said a purchase would also require completing tasks because only two pills existed.
• Qian Zhong shattered Buqi’s Spirit-Energy Barrier, demanded respect for the order in which she had met Feng Jun, and argued with Buqi over who should get the pill.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot told Feng Jun that an Origin-Locking Essence-Refining Array had gone missing from its secret hoard and likely caused the Fire Crystals and Fire Essence King to emerge.
• Feng Jun asked the Yin Soul Big Shot whether the trouble at the secret hoard’s location had largely been caused by it.

Feng Jun negotiated with Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong over a Soul Separation Pill, then received ten Extreme Spirits from True Immortal Ji Niang on behalf of the Azure Lotus Sect. After learning Ji Niang hoped to advance to the Seventh Level of Nascent Soul, Feng Jun offered to divine her breakthrough in the Icefield Plane.

• Feng Jun offered a Soul Separation Pill to Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong for fifty Extreme Spirits and their protection during three expeditions, and both True Lords accepted the terms.
• Xuanyuan Buqi warned Feng Jun that Ji Niang of the Azure Lotus Sect had arrived, and Feng Jun invited her into the estate.
• Xuanyuan Buqi confronted several divine thoughts spying on the estate and pressed Ji Niang about the ten Extreme Spirits offered as compensation by Nine Songs True Venerable.
• Ji Niang delivered the ten Extreme Spirits and told Feng Jun she wanted a divination to help her advance from Nascent Soul, Sixth Layer.
• Feng Jun accepted the box of Extreme Spirits and told Ji Niang that Kun Hao was unsuitable for divining her breakthrough, inviting her to the Icefield Plane instead.

Feng Jun divined True Immortal Ji Niang’s advancement obstacle and negotiated with the Yin Soul Big Shot over Soul Separation Pills and hidden caches. He then returned to the Insectoid World, where Xuanyuan Buqi uncovered the Federation’s attempt to use the critically injured He Runxian to contact the cultivators’ civilization.

• Feng Jun divined that True Immortal Ji Niang’s advancement was hindered by a small karmic tie in a Lower Realm, and Six Harmonies True Venerable appeared to question her.
• Feng Jun left with Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Xuanyuan Buqi, then told the Yin Soul Big Shot that he needed the ten Extreme Spirits to search its hidden caches.
• Feng Jun returned to the Insectoid World after the First Battlefield battle had ended, sent cultivators through the passage, and led a new campaign against two discovered Insect Race star systems.
• Feng Jun learned that Xuan Gao and Chen Jiu were alive and that He Runxian was gravely injured; Xuanyuan Buqi discovered the Federation was deliberately delaying He Runxian’s treatment to draw out the other civilization.
• Feng Jun defended the value of learning from the Federation’s technology, while Yi Jue noted that its design concepts had influenced the Virtual Battle Artifacts.

After completing the Xuanyuan Clan’s artifact tests, Feng Jun agreed to accompany True Immortal Ji Niang to the White Qi Realm to seek a trace of karma. Yi Jue, the Six Harmonies True Venerable, Qian Zhong, Xuanyuan Buqi, and True Immortal Cang Jing joined the trip, which ended with Cang Jing giving Feng Jun a defensive talisman as travel expenses.

• Feng Jun delivered the third set of artifacts to the Xuanyuan Clan, which passed testing, and he argued with the Mirror Spirit over its share of Extreme Spirit Stones.
• True Immortal Ji Niang asked Feng Jun to visit the White Qi Realm for causal divination, and he accepted one hundred Upper Spirit Stones to make the trip.
• Feng Jun set out with Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Xuanyuan Buqi, then met True Immortal Cang Jing at the Mysterious Water Sect’s Icefield Plane branch.
• The Six Harmonies True Venerable joined them, and Cang Jing asked to come along after learning they were headed to the White Qi Realm.
• Cang Jing returned with a Nascent Soul High Stage defensive talisman for Feng Jun as travel expenses.

Feng Jun and his companions traveled to the White Qi Realm to investigate True Immortal Ji Niang’s karmic entanglement, which Six Harmonies True Venerable and Ji Niang resolved through their lineage’s methods. Afterward, Feng Jun divined on the Icefield Plane and found that Ji Niang’s breakthrough had moved up to next month.

• Feng Jun brought the Yin Soul Big Shot to the White Qi Realm, where Xuanyuan Buqi guided the group and Six Harmonies True Venerable led them to Sword-Qi Mountain.
• Yi Jue and Qian Zhong traced Ji Niang’s karmic connection to a city, and the Yin Soul Big Shot told Feng Jun that she had killed a reincarnated form there.
• Ji Niang recalled killing three beings in the area, and Six Harmonies True Venerable explained how karma could remain through reincarnation.
• Six Harmonies True Venerable and Ji Niang performed procedures to remove the karmic strand, and Feng Jun confirmed that it was resolved.
• Feng Jun returned the group to the Icefield Plane and divined that Ji Niang could attempt her next breakthrough next month with an eighty-eight percent chance of success.

Feng Jun brought Yi Jue, Cang Jing, Xuanyuan Buqi, and Qian Zhong to the White Qi Realm to locate a hidden treasury. When they found it guarded by two Spirit Projection Yin Souls, the True Lords debated how to defeat them without damaging the World Domain, and Feng Jun offered a suggestion.

• Cang Jing asked to join Feng Jun and Yi Jue on their trip, and Feng Jun agreed to take both True Lords along for the first task.
• Feng Jun and the others traveled through the White Qi Realm, avoiding powerful presences and resting overnight in his Nascent Soul Traveling Residence.
• The Big Shot located the hidden treasury among four peaks, where Xuanyuan Buqi sensed two Spirit Projection Yin Souls.
• Qian Zhong and the others discussed how to counter the Yin Souls, whose strange abilities made them difficult for the True Lords to fight safely.
• Xuanyuan Buqi suggested asking Luan Xiong for Golden Crow Sect techniques, angering Qian Zhong, and Feng Jun began proposing another way to handle the fight.

Feng Jun taught Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi a secret art that used golden needles to lock twisted Meridians and limit their cultivation. After testing it, the group approached the four peaks and discovered a Yin Domain, leaving the two True Lords to investigate its Soul Emergence-level threat while the others waited outside.

• Feng Jun proposed using a golden-needle art to prevent Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi from instinctively unleashing their full strength, and they negotiated the value of the inheritance.
• Feng Jun gave Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi the formula on Obsidian, and they studied it before preparing to test it.
• Qian Zhong twisted her Meridians and inserted eighteen golden needles, while Xuanyuan Buqi fashioned and inserted his own needles.
• Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi led Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Cang Jing toward the four peaks, then stopped after discovering a Yin Domain.
• Xuanyuan Buqi identified a likely Soul Emergence-level Yin Source and told Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Cang Jing to remain outside while he and Qian Zhong went on.