Chapter Summaries

Yi Jue brought Feng Jun and the cultivators following her to the Sky Veil, brushing aside the Yuan Clan’s attempt to stop them and insisting she had come only to observe. At the Sky Veil, Huo Xingyu questioned her group, but Yi Jue denied any responsibility for those who had chosen to follow her, leaving the gathered cultivators speechless.

• Yi Jue intimidated Yuan Wuwen into letting her group pass, and he chose not to risk the Yuan Clan in a fight.
• The flying boats reached the Nine Heavens Astral Gale layer, where Yi Jue showed Feng Jun the Sky Veil and he spotted True Immortal Bi Yun among the gathered cultivators.
• Huo Xingyu greeted Yi Jue and asked why she had come, and she said she only wanted to look at the Sky Veil rather than compete for its resources.
• Huo Xingyu asked Yi Jue to explain why so many Nascent Soul cultivators followed her, and she told him to question them himself.
• When the market manager said Yi Jue had asked him to bring her there, she clarified that she had asked only for directions and had no reason to stop others from following.

Yi Jue and Feng Jun observed the Sky Veil while the gathered cultivators argued over an investment group, then left to pursue the Big Shot's hidden cache. They discovered it lay on the opposite side of Amber Realm and set out under concealed identities, with Yi Jue jokingly taking an appearance similar to Feng Jun's.

• Yi Jue declined to intervene as the gathered forces prepared to fight, and Biyun True Immortal proposed that the Tiantong Merchant Alliance mediate by forming an investment group.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue used Yi Jue's cloud to observe the Sky Veil's changes, then departed after divining its likely closing time.
• Feng Jun discovered that the Big Shot's hidden cache lay across Amber Realm, prompting the Big Shot to prepare for the journey.
• Feng Jun chose a route near the Spirit Plant Lower Sect, and he and Yi Jue changed their appearances to conceal their identities.
• Yi Jue made herself resemble Feng Jun and jokingly introduced herself as Feng Jue, his younger sister, while Feng Jun warned that his identity was sensitive.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled to a hidden cache in Myriad Illusions Sect territory, evading attention and concealing nearby herders while Feng Jun unearthed it. When he tried to open the cache, its side door failed to respond, and Yi Jue offered to try the hand seals herself.

• Yi Jue and Feng Jun bought updated spirit plant illustrations and clan territory charts, then traveled through wilderness and clan lands toward the hidden cache.
• After reaching Myriad Illusions Sect territory, the pair slipped away from the lower branch's surveillance and found the cache site occupied by a clan's herbivore pasture.
• Yi Jue concealed the herders with mist and an illusion while Feng Jun used seals to bring the hidden box out of the ground.
• Feng Jun tried twice to open the box, but its side door did not react, and the Big Shot said the cache was acting up again.
• Yi Jue asked whether she could try opening the cache using the hand seals she had watched Feng Jun perform.

Feng Jun used Yi Jue’s hand seals to divine when the hidden trove’s side door would open, learning that the timing coincided with the Sky Veil closing. Yi Jue proposed that she and Feng Jun return to the Sky Veil, while the Big Shot denied knowing why its hidden troves were connected to it.

• Yi Jue agreed to repeat the hand seals so Feng Jun could use them for Divination, and she performed them at different speeds and with a timed delay.
• After checking the result on his phone, Feng Jun concluded that the side door would open in four and a half months, around the time the Sky Veil closed.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue that he suspected the hidden troves had entered the Sky Veil, while the Big Shot insisted it had nothing to do with the Sky Veil.
• Yi Jue suggested that she and Feng Jun make another trip to the Sky Veil so their own people’s hidden troves would not fall into someone else’s hands.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue discovered that Sky Veil's hidden cache was tied to the Domain Will, so they returned the box rather than forcefully reclaim the treasures. Amber granted Feng Jun a Domain Blessing, and Yi Jue explained how such blessings differed from Domain Favor.

• Yi Jue urged Feng Jun to reclaim the hidden cache from Sky Veil, but he refused to risk exposing their connection to the senior behind it.
• Yi Jue divined enormous karma around the box, and the big shot realized the Domain Will had used its belongings to create an opportunity.
• Feng Jun considered taking the box back by force, but the big shot advised against offending the Kunhao Domain, and Yi Jue warned him not to waste a Soul-Substitution Puppet on a divination.
• Feng Jun used hand seals to return the box, and Amber's Domain Will granted him a Domain Blessing.
• Yi Jue explained that Domain Favor mainly improved luck within a domain, while Domain Blessings could improve physique and remain useful beyond their domain.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled to the Lesser Yang Realm to search for a hidden cache, but a vigilant Ten Thousand Pines disciple recognized Feng Jun's transformation and forced them to explain their visit. After learning that the Big Shot remembered no cache there, Feng Jun worried that he and Yi Jue were incompatible and asked her about it.

• The Big Shot demanded that Feng Jun visit another lower realm, so he took Yi Jue to the Lesser Yang Realm using her spatial anchor.
• A Golden Core disciple guarding the anchor questioned the disguised pair, recognized Feng Jun's transformation with her Insightful Spirit Eye, and let them pass after Yi Jue showed her elder token.
• The disciple escorted Feng Jun and Yi Jue out of Ten Thousand Pines territory, and Yi Jue suggested Feng Jun study better transformation techniques.
• Feng Jun learned from the Big Shot that it had buried no hidden cache in the Lesser Yang Realm because it had foreseen the realm's five elements becoming unbalanced.
• After entering their Traveling Residence, Feng Jun complained that he and Yi Jue might be a little incompatible.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue searched the Lesser Yang Realm for a hidden trove but found nothing, then returned to Liba Beach with Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi. There, an Artifact Refining Path cultivator who had volunteered to take over Feng Jun’s work faced Wei Sancai’s skepticism.

• Feng Jun and the Big Shot argued over their failed search for a hidden trove and agreed to try sensing for treasures before returning to their work.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue stayed near the Ten Thousand Pines Sect for three days, then returned to the Icefield without finding a trove.
• Xuanyuan Buqi recognized Feng Jun’s Domain Blessing, while Feng Jun said the Amber Domain wanted him to put in a good word with one of his elders.
• Feng Jun, Yi Jue, Qian Zhong, and Xuanyuan Buqi returned to Liba Beach, where the delayed magic treasure refinements could resume.
• A Nascent Soul artifact refiner from the Artifact Refining Path volunteered to handle Feng Jun’s integration work, and Wei Sancai challenged him to account for the valuable magic treasure if anything went wrong.

Feng Jun rejected an appeal for a Nascent Soul artifact refiner who had caused trouble at Liba Beach, then clashed with a Ji Clan True Immortal over proxy purchases and the Ji Clan’s status. He offered the Ji Clan a chance to buy artifacts at half price if it posted a bounty to execute the artifact refiner, leaving the True Immortal to consider the demand.

• Feng Jun declared the Nascent Soul artifact refiner unwelcome at Liba Beach despite Wu Xiu’s plea for mercy, and Mei Yeyu said the refiner was not simple.
• The artifact refiner left overnight, leaving Obsidian and promising to create a better Virtual Battle Artifact within ten years.
• A Ji Clan True Immortal demanded to know why the Xiong Clan could use a proxy buyer while the Ji Clan could not, and Feng Jun argued that the Ji Clan should compare itself with the Xiong Clan.
• The Ji Clan True Immortal paid Feng Jun an Extreme Spirit for an explanation, and Feng Jun said the Ji Clan was muddled because it was comparing itself to the wrong clan.
• Feng Jun offered the Ji Clan priority supply of an artifact set at half price in exchange for posting a bounty to execute the Nascent Soul artifact refiner.
• The Ji Clan True Immortal asked whether his clan only needed to post the bounty.

Feng Jun persuaded the Ji Clan True Immortal to post a bounty against an Artifact Refining Path True Immortal, claiming the Virtual Battle Artifact idea belonged to him. The Ji Clan publicized the bounty across several sectors, provoking a major stir among Heavenly Zither cultivators.

• Feng Jun explained that the Ji Clan could post the bounty, handle the payments, and buy the artifact from whoever claimed the reward.
• The Ji Clan True Immortal said his clan needed a justifiable reason to act, and Feng Jun gave him evidence that the Artifact Refining Path True Immortal planned to develop a new product.
• Feng Jun declared that the Virtual Battle Artifact was his idea and that anyone who developed it would become his enemy.
• The Ji Clan True Immortal agreed to publicize the claim that the new product might involve infringement and arranged to post the bounty.
• Feng Jun returned to divining artifacts while the Ji Clan quickly spread news of the bounty across several important sectors.
• Heavenly Zither cultivators were astonished that a bounty had been placed on a sect True Immortal over a possibly borrowed idea.

Feng Jun’s bounty on an Artifact Refining Path cultivator drew attention across Heavenly Zither and threatened to embroil him in conflict with the Path. Yi Jue considered intervening, while Qian Zhong suggested the intensity of Feng Jun’s reaction came from more than his concern about copying his work.

• Feng Jun’s bounty sparked interest in the Virtual Battle Artifact and prompted sects and cultivators to investigate Liba Beach.
• Six Harmonies True Venerable and Ji Niang True Immortal worried that Feng Jun’s actions could make him choose sides and urged inquiries into the artifact dispute.
• Half-Fool True Venerable learned that an Artifact Refining Path Nascent Soul True Immortal had challenged Feng Jun after his master encouraged him to surpass Feng Jun, and angrily ordered his disciples to repair the situation.
• Half-Fool True Venerable sent a messenger to Liba Beach to contact Yi Jue, who hesitated to help until Cang Jing warned that killing the refiner could leave Feng Jun facing endless retaliation from the Artifact Refining Path’s many customers.
• Qian Zhong advised Yi Jue to understand why Feng Jun had reacted so intensely, suggesting that his lack of security might be involved, but Yi Jue attributed his behavior to careful planning and anger over deliberate imitation.

Yi Jue tried to ease the growing conflict between Feng Jun and the Artifact Refining Path as several factions offered support and urged restraint. Feng Jun was open to compensation in Extreme Spirits but warned that an apology alone would not resolve the matter.

• Qian Zhong told Yi Jue that hostile rumors and attacks might be part of a trend targeting Feng Jun, prompting Yi Jue to seek a way to suppress it.
• True Immortal Ji Niang arrived with goodwill from the Six Harmonies True Venerable, who had also asked Xuanhuang and the Yuangang Sect to pressure the Artifact Refining Path.
• The Alchemy Dao publicly supported Feng Jun, and Xia Nishang returned from the Golden Crow Sect, leading Yi Jue to speak with the Artifact Refining Path's visitors again.
• Yi Jue told Feng Jun that the Artifact Refining Path was willing to compensate him with Extreme Spirits and asked whether compensation and an apology could end the dispute.
• Feng Jun agreed that suppressing the hostile trend was his goal but said an apology alone was not enough.

Feng Jun negotiated with the Artifact Refining Path over its unauthorized imitation of the Virtual Battle Artifact and the damage to his business, insisting on a personal apology and substantial compensation. The dispute ended with the offender apologizing at Liba Beach, the Ji Clan promising to supervise him, and Feng Jun reflecting that his forceful retaliation came from insecurity.

• Yi Jue told Feng Jun the Artifact Refining Path had offered a Nascent Soul artifact refiner at his disposal for two hundred years, but Feng Jun said he wanted the Path publicly held accountable.
• Hua Sheng visited Feng Jun, saw the Obsidian message left on his land, and understood that the Artifact Refining Path had threatened Feng Jun's source of income; he asked him to withdraw the bounty.
• Yi Jue reported that the Artifact Refining Path offered five pieces of Extreme Spirit but refused a public apology, and Ji Niang suggested a personal apology and a period of service instead.
• Feng Jun settled on five pieces of Extreme Spirit and an in-person apology, but the Artifact Refining Path negotiated the compensation down to four pieces.
• The Ji Clan and Artifact Refining Path disciples escorted the True Immortal to Liba Beach, where he apologized and promised not to imitate the Virtual Battle Artifact; the Ji Clan took responsibility for supervising him.
• The Ji Clan publicized the settlement, and Feng Jun recognized that his forceful behavior had stemmed from a deep sense of insecurity.

Feng Jun reconsidered how Liba Beach should handle its growing influence, then declined the Ji Clan’s attempt to draw him closer while continuing to refine magic treasures. When Formation Dao cultivators brought him a formation for converting Energy Stones into spiritual energy, he realized it might address Blue Star’s shortage of spiritual energy and agreed to examine their design.

• Feng Jun consulted the Yin Soul Big Shot about whether he was becoming overconfident, and the Big Shot said his powerful supporters made caution unnecessary.
• Feng Jun offered the Ji Clan one magic treasure set at half price, refused to refine a second set outside the rules, and declined to take sides between the major powers.
• Feng Jun completed six magic treasure sets and refused the Yin Soul Big Shot’s suggestion that he travel to other Lower Realms, citing his remaining enemies and the risk of an ambush.
• Artifact Refining Path and Formation Dao visitors brought Feng Jun a Golden Core cultivator’s formation design, which converted Energy Stones into spiritual energy, and asked him to review it.
• Feng Jun learned that the formation could convert purified Energy Blocks only marginally better, then asked about its usefulness for Blue Star’s spiritual-energy shortage.

Feng Jun used Divination to improve the Formation Dao’s energy-conversion formation, then consulted the Yin Soul Big Shot and Yi Jue about how spirit plants turned energy into growth. The chapter ended with him asking Yi Jue whether the Spirit Plant Path used special fertilizers, provoking the Big Shot’s familiar irritation.

• Feng Jun spent three days and nights divining the Formation Dao’s formation and devised an alternative that improved its efficiency by about ten percent, but he sensed a flaw remained.
• Feng Jun asked the Yin Soul Big Shot for advice, but the Big Shot admitted it did not understand formations and objected when Feng Jun brought up fertilizing.
• Feng Jun clarified that he wanted to understand how energy became branches and leaves, and the Big Shot identified several flaws in his design.
• The Big Shot suggested Feng Jun consult someone from the Spirit Plant Path, so Feng Jun asked Yi Jue about how spirit plants were grown.
• Feng Jun asked Yi Jue whether the Spirit Plant Path used special fertilizers, and the Big Shot reacted angrily to the word.

Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and the Mirror Spirit worked together to improve an ore-based spiritual energy conversion plan, using experiments with spirit plants to develop a new design. They left the Dantai Family waiting while they made progress, and the Mirror Spirit ended by comparing its abilities unfavorably to the Guardian’s.

• Yi Jue revealed that she had tested Energy Stone fragments on more than six hundred and eighty spirit plants and identified thirteen promising candidates for further deductions.
• Feng Jun agreed to divide the thirteen plants with Yi Jue, while the Mirror Spirit offered to help improve their energy conversion plan.
• Feng Jun warned the Mirror Spirit not to reveal sensitive information about Blue Star, then apologized after it reminded him to keep its mastery of the Life-and-Death Law secret.
• Mei Yeyu reported that the magic treasure for the Dantai Family was finished, but Feng Jun told her to make them wait while he and Yi Jue studied formations.
• Over three days, Feng Jun and Yi Jue developed a new design concept with the Mirror Spirit’s help controlling energy loss, and the Mirror Spirit retorted that the Guardian was no better than it.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue presented an improved formation that doubled its energy conversion efficiency, prompting the Formation Dao cultivators to seek a collaboration. Feng Jun agreed to exchange ideas on the formation, and the chapter ended with the Golden Core kun cultivator asking whether she could participate.

• Feng Jun brought the completed magic artifact and the altered formation to the waiting cultivators from the Artifact Refining Path and Formation Dao.
• Feng Jun said his and Yi Jue's divination indicated the formation's energy conversion efficiency would exceed twenty percent, and the Formation Dao cultivators examined its unfamiliar design.
• Yi Jue explained that Feng Jun had connected energy conversion to how spirit plants transform sunlight and other resources as they grow.
• The Formation Dao True Immortal proposed inviting elders to Kun Hao to jointly deduce the formation, and Yi Jue deferred to Feng Jun because he held key knowledge.
• Feng Jun agreed to exchange ideas for the formation, and the Golden Core kun cultivator asked him whether she could join the effort.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue negotiated recognition for their formation improvements, then Feng Jun sought help from the Guardians while Yi Jue began testing whether spirit plants could convert Energy Stones into spiritual qi. Dian Jing Elder arrived at Liba Beach to examine the modified formation and waited to meet its creators.

• Feng Jun agreed to let Formation Dao cultivators study the improved formation, while insisting that the contributors to its modifications be acknowledged and compensated.
• Feng Jun returned to his manor to divine magical artifacts, then visited the Guardians, who proposed raising the formation’s conversion rate from twenty-one percent to twenty-seven percent.
• Yi Jue began an experiment at Liba Beach to see whether spirit plants could absorb Energy Stones and release spiritual qi.
• After seeing Feng Jun’s modifications and hearing his reasoning, Dian Jing Elder decided to travel to the Kunhao Realm and meet him and Yi Jue.
• Dian Jing Elder waited at the Branch Academy of Heavenheart Platform after Yi Jue said she could not meet him yet.

Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Elder Dian Jing examined Feng Jun’s revised formation diagram, whose design incorporated energy recovery. As Elder Dian Jing’s blunt critiques clashed with Feng Jun’s insistence that his strength lay in ideas rather than formation craft, Feng Jun warned him to stop rebuking his design or he would criticize Dian Jing’s ideas in return.

• Elder Dian Jing demanded to see the revised formation diagram, and Feng Jun handed it to Yi Jue while asking her to negotiate the profits.
• Yi Jue and Elder Dian Jing examined the diagram together, and Dian Jing questioned Feng Jun about its changes.
• Feng Jun explained that one alteration formed a circuit to recover leaked energy, impressing Elder Dian Jing and drawing support from an Artifact Refining Path cultivator.
• Elder Dian Jing repeatedly complained about the design, so Feng Jun told him he was not proficient in formations and objected to being lectured.
• Feng Jun explained that another alteration used a curved channel to increase contact with converted energy, then warned Elder Dian Jing that he would criticize Dian Jing’s ideas if the rebukes continued.

Feng Jun tested Elder Dian Jing’s ability to accept criticism before agreeing to divine his prospects for Soul Emergence, while Dian Jing and Yi Jue continued debating formation modifications. After seven days, Feng Jun completed a top-tier magical artifact for the Jiang Clan, and the Luo Clan arrived to request another artifact.

• Elder Dian Jing offended Feng Jun by ignoring him, so Feng Jun left and returned to the manor.
• Yi Jue told Feng Jun that Dian Jing regretted his behavior and wanted to apologize, but Feng Jun initially refused to meet him.
• Dian Jing admitted he hoped Feng Jun would divine his opportunity for Soul Emergence, and Feng Jun challenged his self-centered standards before agreeing to help for a fee.
• Dian Jing and Yi Jue spent seven days and nights discussing formation modifications while Feng Jun completed the Jiang Clan’s top-tier magical artifact.
• A True Immortal from the Jiang Clan told Feng Jun that the Formation Dao and Spirit Plant Path had argued fiercely, and cultivators from the Luo Clan asked him to make another magical artifact.

The Luo Clan struggled over whether to order a second Virtual Battle Artifact, balancing its members’ needs and pride against the cost. Feng Jun discovered that their supposed top-tier order contained only fifteen Extreme Spirits and was meant to be standard configuration, leaving him pressing Luo Tianxiang about the clan’s finances.

• The Luo Clan delivered a box for a second Artifact, and Feng Jun noticed it contained only fifteen Extreme Spirits instead of the twenty required for top-tier configuration.
• Hua Sheng objected to the Luo Clan cutting ahead in the queue, but Luo Tianxiang showed Feng Jun a private message from Ancestor Seventeen.
• Feng Jun and Luo Tianxiang spoke outside the estate, where Luo Tianxiang admitted the second Artifact was meant to have standard configuration while being publicly presented as top-tier.
• Luo Tianxiang explained that the Luo Clan’s branches had pressed for a second Artifact because one would not meet the clan’s needs, despite the expense and risk of ridicule.
• Feng Jun questioned whether the Luo Clan truly lacked Extreme Spirits, and Luo Tianxiang faced his demand for an honest answer.