Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun watched Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi sweep away the strongest Yin Souls, then urged them to destroy the remaining Yin Domain despite their view that it could train minor cultivators. After declining their Yin Soul Pearls, he left the two True Lords unsure how to ask for permission to promote the powerful technique they had used.

• Cang Jing asked Yi Jue what to focus on, and Yi Jue told her to watch Feng Jun’s task carefully.
• Feng Jun questioned the Yin Soul Big Shot about whether another fragment soul was present, while Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi killed the Spirit Projection Yin Souls and cleared most of the million-li Yin Domain.
• Feng Jun argued that the remaining Yin Domain should be destroyed, but Yi Jue suggested waiting for the Yin Source and Qian Zhong said the Yin Souls could temper minor cultivators.
• Xuanyuan Buqi offered Feng Jun his Spirit Projection Yin Soul Pearls, and Feng Jun declined, advising him and Qian Zhong to keep their spoils for their families.
• Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi realized the technique they had used was valuable and wanted permission to promote it, but Feng Jun’s refusal of their pearls left them uncertain how to ask.

Feng Jun revealed that the technique could help cultivators restore flaws in their foundations, prompting Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi to negotiate for permission to spread it. They were allowed to teach it to two disciples each for a trial, while Yi Jue hinted that she could secure the technique—and perhaps something better—for Cang Jing.

• Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi tried to bargain over the technique, and Feng Jun explained that its value lay in Foundation Restoration.
• Cang Jing and Yi Jue emphasized the technique’s restorative and combat benefits, but Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi balked at paying Extreme Spirit Stones.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot urged Feng Jun to hold out for Extreme Spirit Stones, and Feng Jun refused Qian Zhong’s offer of Yin Soul Pearls.
• Xuanyuan Buqi asked to test the technique with two disciples, and Feng Jun agreed on the condition that they were below the Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage; Qian Zhong secured the same arrangement.
• As the group flew onward, Cang Jing pressed Yi Jue to obtain the technique for her, and Yi Jue suggested her influence could secure something better before they arrived.

Feng Jun uncovered a hidden cache near a strange Yin Source lake while Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong watched. Draining the lake triggered the emergence of a rare Soul Emergence treasure-seeking serpent, which Feng Jun identified as a soul body that had followed its former owner into death.

• Feng Jun and the others reached the Yin Source lake, and Yi Jue collected most of its pure yin water.
• Feng Jun revealed and opened a hidden cache in a nearby hillside depression, collecting its treasures while the others restrained their greed.
• Feng Jun warned everyone to be careful, and a Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Serpent burst from beneath the drained lakebed.
• Qian Zhong tried to capture the serpent, but her gauzy net passed through its body, revealing that it was a soul body.
• Qian Zhong recognized that the serpent had an owner, and Feng Jun ordered them to kill it, explaining that it had gained Soul Emergence after its original owner died.

Feng Jun and the two True Lords destroyed a Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Serpent whose soul had advanced to Soul Emergence, then chose to wait for whoever had raised it. As they divided the recovered Soul Liquid and agreed to conceal some details, Feng Jun sensed someone approaching before the others did.

• Qian Zhong struck the Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Serpent with a Thunder Pearl, and Xuanyuan Buqi shattered its weakened soul with Mystic Origin Astral Fiend.
• Qian Zhong collected the serpent’s Soul Liquid while she and Xuanyuan Buqi explained that an obsessed soul could be raised through offering methods, possibly using Human Race essence blood.
• Feng Jun, Xuanyuan Buqi, Qian Zhong, Yi Jue, and Cang Jing agreed to wait for the serpent’s raiser rather than flee or alert others.
• Qian Zhong divided the Soul Liquid into five shares, and Xuanyuan Buqi offered to refine it.
• Xuanyuan Buqi urged Cang Jing to keep the group’s other affairs secret, and she agreed to report only the karmic ties involving the serpent.
• Feng Jun announced that someone was approaching, and the two True Lords confirmed his warning despite having sensed no one themselves.

As the Yin Domain dissipated, Cang Jing questioned the Wuji Sect’s Numu True Immortal about its origins and whether anyone had enshrined a soul body. She revealed that three Spirit Projection Stage Yin Souls had been present, prompting Du Wohan to swear that the Du Clan had enshrined none.

• The Yin Domain began dissipating, and several Flying Boats carrying Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators arrived outside it.
• Numu True Immortal recognized Cang Jing and Yi Jue, then explained that the Yin Domain had formed thousands of years earlier and was guarded by the Qin Family and the Du Clan under the Wuji Sect’s supervision.
• Cang Jing pressed Numu about whether anyone had enshrined a soul body, and he said he knew of no such case.
• Cang Jing revealed that the area had contained three Spirit Projection Stage Yin Souls, alarming the assembled cultivators.
• Du Wohan, head of the Du Clan, swore that his clan had never enshrined a soul body or Yin Soul and asked Cang Jing to investigate.

Cang Jing uncovered that the Qin Family’s sacrifices had nurtured the Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Serpent’s soul body without using human essence blood. A Wuji Sect cultivator accused the Du Clan of concealing the Yin Domain’s history, and Xuanyuan Buqi sided with him after Du Wuhan invoked the Xuanyuan Clan.

• Qin Wudi explained that the Qin Family had sacrificed Spirit Beasts to Qin Wuqi for three thousand years, and Cang Jing concluded that the rites had nurtured the soul body without human essence blood.
• Xuanyuan Buqi revealed that the slain Soul Emergence soul body was a Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Serpent, and Qin Wudi recalled that Qin Wuqi had once kept one as a companion.
• A Wuji Sect cultivator accused the Du Clan of occupying the Yin Domain for centuries and hiding the deaths that had accumulated there.
• Cang Jing rebuked the Wuji Sect cultivator for making accusations without evidence, while Xuanyuan Buqi challenged True Immortal Fierce-Eyes for failing to control his disciple.
• Du Wuhan invoked the Xuanyuan Clan and other Secret Realm Families, and Xuanyuan Buqi declared that he would not let the Du Clan be bullied.

Feng Jun helped settle the dispute over the Yin Domain, and the gathered cultivators left after Cang Jing checked Furious-Eyed True Immortal and Feng Jun put Qin Wudi in his place. As Xuanyuan Buqi cleansed the soul fluid, Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot discussed losses from the secret trove and whether to sell ancient secret arts for Spirit Stones.

• Cang Jing warned Furious-Eyed True Immortal not to divide sects from clans and reminded him that Great Venerable Hanhai could punish the Infinite Sect; he apologized and agreed to reflect on his conduct.
• Feng Jun said the Yin Domain would disappear with the Spirit-Devouring Treasure-Seeking Snake, and Cang Jing identified him to Qin Wudi as a respected cultivator close to True Lords, prompting Qin Wudi to apologize.
• Du Wuhan thanked Feng Jun for speaking fairly for the Du Clan, then left; Furious-Eyed True Immortal and the Qin Family group departed afterward.
• Xuanyuan Buqi cleansed the snake's soul fluid while Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot noted that the secret trove held only one Soul Separation Pill and five Extreme Spirits.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot proposed selling ancient secret arts to earn Spirit Stones for Extreme Spirits, and Feng Jun wondered whether using it this way was the right approach.

Feng Jun recognized that the Big Shot’s ancient knowledge and secret arts could attract powerful allies and provide security, then returned to Liba Beach after Xuanyuan Buqi purified Soul Liquid. As Feng Jun secluded himself and Yi Jue brought Cang Jing to inspect the Virtual Combat System, the impatient Mirror Spirit ordered Zhang Caixin to take it to Kun Hao.

• Feng Jun realized he could turn the Big Shot’s ancient secret arts into practical benefits and draw powerful figures to his side.
• Xuanyuan Buqi purified the Soul Liquid, divided it into five portions, and distributed them among the group.
• Feng Jun led everyone back to Liba Beach, where he entered seclusion, while Yi Jue persuaded Cang Jing to stay and inspect the Virtual Combat System.
• Mysterious Water Sect disciples asked Cang Jing to bring her fellow sect members to view the system, but Yi Jue refused.
• The Mirror Spirit grew impatient with Feng Jun’s delay and told Zhang Caixin to take it to Kun Hao.

The Mirror Spirit worried that Feng Jun’s advancement would leave it short of resources, but the Guardians and Feng Jun pushed it to cooperate and wait. Feng Jun then entered seclusion to advance, while Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong stood guard and discussed whether to try his cultivation art.

• Zhang Caixin told the Mirror Spirit that Feng Jun was about to advance and could not attend to it, prompting the Mirror Spirit to demand more resources.
• The Guardians warned the Mirror Spirit not to pressure Feng Jun and explained that his Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art advanced quickly.
• Feng Jun told the Mirror Spirit that refining its next set of magic treasures would be a favor, then discussed the damaged White Qi Realm treasury and the loss of its Soul Seizure Talisman Treasure with the Yin Soul Big Shot.
• Feng Jun informed Yi Jue and entered seclusion in the manor to advance after recovering for several days.
• Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong realized Feng Jun was breaking through and stood guard outside the manor.
• Xuanyuan Buqi asked Qian Zhong about the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, then admitted that he wanted to try it.

After advancing, Feng Jun offered to help Yu Qingzhu reach Emergence from Dust, and she accepted after admitting she feared another failure. She advanced to Emergence from Dust, while Feng Jun reached Sixth-Layer Golden Core Peak; afterward, he returned to Blue Star to refine the Yin-Yang Mirror and found the Mirror Spirit eager to obtain his Soul Liquid.

• Feng Jun asked Yu Qingzhu whether she wanted his help advancing, and she eventually agreed to practice the yoga cultivation art with him.
• Yi Jue watched Yu Qingzhu enter Feng Jun's cave dwelling, while Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi discussed her reaction and the benefits of her Profound Yin Physique.
• Feng Jun emerged from seclusion at Sixth-Layer Golden Core Peak, and Yu Qingzhu later emerged at Emergence from Dust, First-Layer Peak.
• Zhang Caixin grew jealous of Yu Qingzhu's advancement and went to find Feng Jun, but he had left to exchange people in the Void.
• Feng Jun returned to Blue Star to retrieve the Yin-Yang Mirror and refine the artifact, and the Mirror Spirit asked for his Soul Liquid and offered to handle his matters.

Feng Jun confronted the Mirror Spirit for putting its own needs ahead of his livelihood, and it accepted the situation and resumed refining artifacts. As demand for Virtual Battle Artifacts grew, the Gongyang Clan’s proxy purchases for other families provoked a dispute with the Grand Void Sect and the Ji Clan.

• Feng Jun refused to spend his Soul Liquid on the Mirror Spirit and told it that he would not sacrifice his own business to serve it.
• The Mirror Spirit took Feng Jun’s complaints to heart, stopped arguing, and continued refining artifacts for the Spirit Plant Path, Qian Zhong, and the Wei Clan.
• Wei Sancai arrived from the Insectoid World to obtain a Virtual Battle Artifact, while competition among major clans pushed the price toward top-tier configurations.
• The Gongyang Clan added four artifact purchases for other families to its order, prompting a Grand Void Sect cultivator to accuse it of provoking the sect.
• A Ji Clan True Immortal defended the Gongyang Clan’s proxy purchases, while Gongyang and Ji Clan cultivators privately blamed one another for the dispute.

Feng Jun realized the Grand Void Sect was pushing him to defend Liba Beach’s interests against line-cutting and the threat of piracy. He limited the Gongyang Clan to one Virtual Battle Artifact, prompting the Ji Clan and Gongyang Clan to confront him.

• Feng Jun concluded that the dispute over the Ji Clan cutting in line was mainly a matter of pride and that the Grand Void Sect wanted him to take responsibility as host.
• True Immortal Wu Xiu warned Feng Jun that the Ji Clan might use an artifact for piracy, and Feng Jun recognized the warning as an open scheme to make him defend his interests.
• Feng Jun accepted that ignoring the dispute could set a bad precedent and decided he had to intervene.
• Feng Jun returned eighty Extreme Spirit Stones to the Gongyang Clan and limited its purchase to one set, reserving the next artifact for the Grand Void Sect.
• The Ji Clan's True Immortal and the Gongyang Clan's True Immortal arranged to meet Feng Jun and demand an explanation.

Feng Jun attended Ji Niang’s gathering in the Mountains and Seas sector after considering the risks of offending Azure Lotus Sect disciples by staying away. At the celebration, Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi accompanied him, while Six Harmonies True Venerable quietly approached them in disguise.

• The Ji Clan and Gongyang Clan learned Feng Jun had left Liba Beach to witness Ji Niang’s advancement to Nascent Soul High Stage.
• Cang Jing advised Feng Jun through Yi Jue to attend Ji Niang’s gathering and use Six Harmonies True Venerable’s backing to avert trouble within Azure Lotus Sect.
• Feng Jun left Wei Sancai to guard the Mirror Spirit and traveled with Yi Jue to the Mountains and Seas sector.
• Ji Niang held a small gathering at her family’s Branch Academy, where a Nascent Soul High Stage cultivator gave a lecture on the Dao before music and dancing.
• Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi entered the gathering with Feng Jun and Yi Jue, and Six Harmonies True Venerable approached them in disguise.

At True Immortal Ji Niang’s celebration, Feng Jun and Yi Jue heard about a Sky Veil expedition and discussed its investment terms. Feng Jun then sought out Ji Niang, who recognized him despite his disguise and asked why he was in such a hurry to see her.

• Feng Jun listened to cultivators discuss a Secret Realm, but Yi Jue told him it had already been stripped clean and offered to accompany him if he still wanted to go.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue heard Nascent Soul cultivators discuss investments in a monopolized Sky Veil expedition, and Yi Jue asked about its dividends and location.
• When the expedition organizer demanded a powerful guarantor, Yi Jue said she would try asking Six Harmonies True Venerable, then left with Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun identified the organizer as True Immortal Bi Yun, whose real name was Zhu Huanran and who belonged to the Tiantong Merchant Alliance.
• Feng Jun approached True Immortal Ji Niang while disguised, and she recognized him as Feng Mountain Lord and asked what he needed.

Feng Jun discussed the Limang Secret Realm and the Sky Veil with True Immortal Ji Niang, but he rejected her practical offer to buy information because it would draw suspicion to his real reason for visiting Lower Realms. Yi Jue joined him, and they went to meet the Six Harmonies Great Venerable.

• True Immortal Ji Niang said the Limang Secret Realm had been explored many times and offered to pay for information about the Sky Veil’s location.
• Feng Jun explained that he did not want to invest in Sky Veil expeditions, since he needed a plausible reason to visit Lower Realms while searching for the Big Shot’s hidden caches.
• Feng Jun reflected that Ji Niang’s easygoing way of handling problems felt familiar but did not suit his circumstances.
• Yi Jue returned and asked Feng Jun why he was unhappy; after he said Ji Niang’s suggestion did not suit him, she proposed they meet the Six Harmonies Great Venerable.
• The Six Harmonies Great Venerable beckoned Feng Jun and Yi Jue over, while True Immortal Ji Niang wondered why Feng Jun had waived her divination fee if he was not short of Spirit Stones.

Six Harmonies True Venerable helped Feng Jun and Yi Jue learn the location of the Sky Veil gathering, and the group avoided revealing their identities while traveling through the Mountains-and-Seas Sector. Feng Jun slipped away with Yi Jue to the Spirit Plant Path, where she returned the Virtual Battle Artifact and learned that the Path had a branch in the Amber Realm.

• Six Harmonies True Venerable learned that the Sky Veil was in the Amber Domain, but refused to join the gathering when True Immortal Bi Yun would not accept his Spirit Stones.
• True Immortal Bi Yun offered Feng Jun and Yi Jue generous investment terms, but they declined to give their names and left the banquet with Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong.
• Feng Jun and the others spent two days shopping in the Mountains-and-Seas Sector, then flew away to evade the people True Immortal Bi Yun had sent to track them.
• Feng Jun took the group to the Icefield Plane, where Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong stayed behind while Feng Jun took Yi Jue to the Spirit Plant Path.
• Yi Jue returned the Virtual Battle Artifact after demonstrating it to the Path's disciples for three days, and told Feng Jun that the Spirit Plant Path had a branch in the Amber Realm.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue entered the Amber Realm using Shou Liu’s identity, then found that the realm’s unusual clan-and-sect structure left them without an obvious place to buy intelligence. They decided to seek information by offering a reward at a large market.

• Yi Jue contacted Shou Liu, a Spirit Plant Path genius, and arranged to use her identity and interrealm pass to enter the Amber Realm with Feng Jun.
• Yi Jue and Feng Jun arrived at the Spirit Plant Lower Sect’s teleportation site, where a guard recognized Shou Liu and later grew suspicious of her behavior.
• After leaving the Lower Sect, Feng Jun suggested investigating the Sky Veil, but Yi Jue said sensing it would take days unless they invited a True Lord.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue learned that the Amber Realm had no ordinary markets, with trade controlled by clans, sects, and limited gang territories.
• Feng Jun decided they should find a large market and offer a reward for information.

Yi Jue sought information about the Sky Veil by posting bounties at an Amber Realm marketplace, but the search led to a deadly confrontation with two informants. After she killed a Golden Core cultivator tied to the Wei Clan, she stopped the marketplace manager from pressing her by saying she would explain the matter to Sancai the Great Venerable.

• Yi Jue posted a bounty for information about the Amber Realm’s largest and best-informed marketplaces, and the marketplace manager shared what he knew in exchange for the reward.
• Yi Jue offered five Upper Spirit Stones to anyone who could identify the Sky Veil and lead her there, and a Nascent Soul cultivator arrived with a different account of the major family marketplaces.
• When the Nascent Soul informant refused to give his identity, Yi Jue rejected his claim; she then killed a High-Grade Golden Core informant whom she suspected the manager had sent to probe her.
• The manager demanded Yi Jue identify herself after revealing that the dead cultivator had backing from the Wei Clan, but Yi Jue found his badge and said she would explain the matter to Sancai the Great Venerable.
• The manager recognized that Yi Jue could reach Wei Sancai and became too intimidated to pursue the dispute.

Yi Jue and Feng Jun agreed to travel with the market manager to the Sky Veil after he arranged a group of cultivators to accompany them. Feng Jun secretly brought the Yin Soul Big Shot as a lookout, and the group set off with Yi Jue’s Flying Boat between the others.

• The market manager admitted that he had arranged for bounty hunters to investigate Yi Jue and offered to guide her and Feng Jun to the Sky Veil, which would open in four days.
• Yi Jue asked Feng Jun what to do, and he agreed to go after briefly leaving with her to make preparations.
• The next morning, the manager arrived with five Nascent Soul cultivators and more than twenty Golden Core cultivators, and Yi Jue refused to let an unfamiliar Qian cultivator board her Flying Boat.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue to accept the other cultivators’ plan to place her Flying Boat between theirs, saying they had no current intention of plotting against them.
• The previous day, Feng Jun had secretly returned to Liba Beach and brought the Yin Soul Big Shot as a long-range lookout against hidden dangers in the Amber Realm.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled toward the Sky Veil through Amber Realm territories, where local clans repeatedly stopped and questioned them. The Yuan Clan intercepted their group, and Yi Jue revealed her Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul cultivation before demanding to know whether they were on Yuan Clan territory.

• Yi Jue let Feng Jun handle inspections by local clans, and he identified their Flying Boat as an Artifact Refining Path product and said they were heading to the Sky Veil.
• After local clans delayed their passage, two more Nascent Soul Flying Boats began following their group.
• The Yuan Clan intercepted the five Flying Boats with six Nascent Soul cultivators because it was one of the three forces controlling the Sky Veil.
• Yi Jue confronted the Yuan Clan's Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator, revealed her Ninth-Layer cultivation, and asked whether they were in Yuan Clan territory.