Chapter Summaries

Xuanyuan Buqi rejected Guo Xiangding’s attempts to secure a Nascent Soul Condensation Pill and resisted the Tongda Merchant Alliance’s efforts to recruit Feng Jun. After Feng Jun and Yi Jue returned to Liba Beach, Xiong Youshan warned them that the Myriad Illusions Sect had begun targeting the beach and obstructing the search for the bandits.

• Xuanyuan Buqi refused Guo Xiangding’s offer to support Xuanyuan Clan disciples in exchange for the Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• Tongda Merchant Alliance cultivators pressed Feng Jun to cooperate, but he repeatedly told them to discuss business at Liba Beach, and Xuanyuan Buqi finally silenced them.
• Three days later, Xuanyuan Buqi, Yi Jue, and Feng Jun prepared to return, and Xuanyuan Buqi revealed that he had obtained another Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue returned to Liba Beach, where Xiong Youshan delivered fifteen Extreme Spirit Stones and warned that the Myriad Illusions Sect intended to target the beach.
• Grand Void and Golden Crow disciples encountered growing obstruction and hostility from the Myriad Illusions Sect while tracking the bandits, and Qian Zhong suspected someone was concealing the bandits’ heavenly secrets.

The Golden Crow and Grand Void Sects joined forces to investigate bandits at the Myriad Illusions Sect’s secondary mountain gate, but the Myriad Illusions Sect blocked them and appeared determined to shelter the suspects. Xiong Youshan returned to Liba Beach with Extreme Spirit, and Feng Jun reassured him that his plan to establish rules there required force rather than magnanimity.

• Golden Crow disciples grew angry at the Myriad Illusions Sect’s provocations, and the Golden Crow Sect allied with the Grand Void Sect after recorded illusions made them look like aggressors.
• The two sects traced the bandits to the Myriad Illusions Sect’s secondary mountain gate, but patrol disciples barred them from investigating and taunted them while recording the confrontation.
• A Grand Void disciple warned the Myriad Illusions Sect that Elder Yi Jue came from their sect, but the Myriad Illusions Sect replied that the bandits had already returned Extreme Spirit.
• Xiong Youshan asked Ji Wuqing to escort him back to Liba Beach and apologized to Feng Jun for pursuing revenge and drawing him into the conflict.
• Feng Jun explained that decisive measures were necessary to establish Liba Beach’s rules, then told Xiong Youshan to prepare the next family’s Extreme Spirit for refining in a day and a half.
• Xiong Youshan thanked Feng Jun for giving the Xiong Clan a chance to restore its reputation, and Feng Jun dismissed the thanks as unnecessary.

Feng Jun oversaw the crafting of magical treasures for several forces while Liba Beach awaited the Seven Emotions Dao's delivery of Extreme Spirit. Elder Bian Ji of the Alchemy Dao then visited and asked Feng Jun to help deduce a Feign Death Pill formula.

• Xiong Youshan announced that crafting had resumed, while cultivators discussed Liba Beach's influence and the Xiong Clan's failed pursuit of the culprit.
• The Mirror Spirit finished the Xiong Clan's magical treasure, and Yi Jue began crafting another as Feng Jun deduced a fourth set of components for the Seven Emotions Dao.
• The Seven Emotions Dao told Liba Beach that its cultivators would arrive with Extreme Spirit within three days, and Feng Jun agreed to wait.
• Elder Bian Ji arrived at Liba Beach and asked Feng Jun to deduce a Feign Death Pill formula that could preserve injured cultivators until they could be cured.
• Feng Jun questioned why Bian Ji had sought his help with alchemy, and Bian Ji urged him not to hold back from a project that could benefit the world.

Elder Bian Ji asked Feng Jun to help perfect the Feign Death Pill, explaining that he believed it could deter conflicts and protect against alien invasions. Feng Jun made help conditional on the Alchemy Dao cutting off pill sales to the Myriad Illusions Sect, and after learning about their feud, Elder Bian Ji returned with a different answer to discuss.

• Feng Jun questioned Elder Bian Ji about the Feign Death Pill's cost and purpose, and Elder Bian Ji said it could serve as a last-resort weapon and discourage major conflicts.
• Feng Jun agreed to consider helping with divination but demanded that the Alchemy Dao stop selling pills to the Myriad Illusions Sect.
• Elder Bian Ji said he could not unilaterally halt the trade, and Feng Jun withdrew his offer while insisting he would keep striking at the Myriad Illusions Sect.
• Elder Bian Ji asked Yi Jue about Feng Jun's grudge, then learned the history of the conflict after leaving the estate.
• Elder Bian Ji decided he could not meet Feng Jun's condition, but returned to the estate the next day to present another answer.

Feng Jun negotiated with Elder Bian Ji over refusing to supply the Myriad Illusions Sect and restricting access to the Feign Death Pill formula. Their discussion ended as True Immortal Wu Xi arrived with Extreme Spirit and a request for Feng Jun to go to the Insectoid World, while Elder Bian Ji wondered whether to disclose the dispute to him.

• Elder Bian Ji admitted he could not persuade the Alchemy Dao to stop supplying the Myriad Illusions Sect, but offered to refuse commissions and pill sales himself.
• Feng Jun pressed Elder Bian Ji not to treat members of the Myriad Illusions Sect and to let only alchemists who refused to supply them study the Feign Death Pill formula; Elder Bian Ji agreed.
• Elder Bian Ji promised to discuss Feng Jun’s share of the pill profits fairly, with Yi Jue as a witness.
• Mei Yeyu announced True Immortal Wu Xi’s arrival with eighteen pieces of Extreme Spirit and greetings from True Venerable Tuo Tuo, who urged Feng Jun to go to the Insectoid World after the magical treasures were finished.
• True Immortal Wu Xi noticed Elder Bian Ji’s strong medicinal fragrance, and Elder Bian Ji asked Feng Jun whether they should tell him about the Myriad Illusions Sect dispute.

Feng Jun required the Seven Emotions Dao to keep his magic artifacts from the Myriad Illusions Sect, while Elder Bian Ji also announced he would stop selling his pills to them. The Seven Emotions Dao enforced Feng Jun’s condition, and the Myriad Illusions Sect learned that its plans to test the artifacts had been blocked.

• Feng Jun asked True Immortal Wu Xi to ensure the Seven Emotions Dao used its magic artifacts itself and did not let the Myriad Illusions Sect try them, warning that he would not maintain them otherwise.
• Elder Bian Ji said he would tell the Alchemy Dao to stop selling his pills to the Myriad Illusions Sect.
• After the Mirror Spirit finished refining the Seven Emotions Dao’s artifacts, Yi Jue postponed further work so she could help Feng Jun deduce the Feign Death Pill.
• The Myriad Illusions Sect initially dismissed Elder Bian Ji’s declaration, but reconsidered when it learned that the Seven Emotions Dao barred anyone connected to the sect from testing the artifacts.
• A Myriad Illusions Sect sympathizer learned from her Seven Emotions Dao friend that Wu Xi had forbidden attempts to test the artifacts elsewhere and reported the information.

Qian Zhong joined Xuanyuan Buqi at Feng Jun’s manor and questioned him about his recent gains. Xuanyuan Buqi revealed that Feng Jun might have more than two Soul Separation Pills, leaving Qian Zhong intent on claiming the second and competing for any others.

• The Myriad Illusions Sect contacted the Seven Emotions Dao and learned Feng Jun had refused to refine magic treasures unless they agreed to his proposal.
• Qian Zhong arrived at Liba Beach, found the great expert’s aura still guarding Feng Jun’s manor, and exchanged teasing remarks with Xuanyuan Buqi.
• Xuanyuan Buqi hinted that he had obtained something valuable and proposed that Qian Zhong help him pursue Feng Jun’s other pills.
• Qian Zhong insisted the second Soul Separation Pill belonged to her and said she would compete for a third, while Xuanyuan Buqi revealed he had obtained a Nascent Soul Condensation Pill in the Amber Realm.
• After Xuanyuan Buqi explained how Feng Jun was connected to his gain, Qian Zhong questioned his reasoning and asked what Feng Jun was doing inside the manor.

Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and Elder Bian Ji debated how to divine a method for refining the Feign Death Pill, then sought help from Qian Zhong and considered another divination expert. Yi Jue recommended True Immortal Miaomiao, whom Elder Bian Ji recognized as the debtor he had pursued for more than a century.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue argued for four days over whether the Feign Death Pill depended chiefly on refining methods or materials, while Elder Bian Ji listened without choosing a side.
• Qian Zhong divined through the night and said both approaches showed promise but neither offered much hope, so Feng Jun and Yi Jue asked her to choose a direction.
• Xuanyuan Buqi suggested consulting another divination expert, and Yi Jue proposed a skilled but eccentric Nascent Soul cultivator from the Eighteen Daos.
• Feng Jun accepted Yi Jue's suggestion despite Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi's concerns about involving a sect cultivator.
• Elder Bian Ji recognized Yi Jue's proposed expert, True Immortal Miaomiao, and recalled pursuing him for eighty Spirit Stones for more than a hundred years.

Feng Jun arranged for Elder Bian Ji to post a bounty that brought True Immortal Miaomiao to Liba Beach, where Yi Jue and Bian Ji confronted him about refusing their earlier invitation. Miaomiao realized they wanted him to deduce the Feign Death Pill, though he warned that the task might be impossible.

• After True Immortal Miaomiao refused to come to Liba Beach, Feng Jun asked Xuanyuan Buqi to investigate his reputation and learned of his debts, talents, and carefree habits.
• Feng Jun persuaded Elder Bian Ji to post a bounty based on Miaomiao's supposed unpaid interest, and Feng Jun promised to provide the reward.
• The Seven Emotions Dao and Elder Cang Jing offered to pursue the bounty, but Feng Jun stopped Cang Jing from getting involved; five days later, two Seven Emotions Dao True Immortals brought Miaomiao to Liba Beach.
• Miaomiao greeted Elder Bian Ji and agreed to settle the interest after Bian Ji threatened to have him slapped for payment.
• Miaomiao recognized that Bian Ji wanted him to deduce the Feign Death Pill, and Yi Jue appeared and challenged him for refusing her previous invitation.

Feng Jun spent six months helping Elder Bian Ji and Yi Jue divine the Feign Death Pill at Liba Beach, while the Big Shot pressed him to pursue its hidden treasures. When a large-scale casualty incident struck the Insectoid World Passageway, Feng Jun was urged to go help, and Elder Bian Ji learned that Qian Zhong was a Body Integration great power.

• True Immortal Miaomiao joined the Feign Death Pill discussions and ultimately recommended Yi Jue's material-based direction.
• Feng Jun spent the next half year at Liba Beach working on the pill, refining magical artifacts, and helping cultivators, then refused the Formation Dao's request to improve two formations.
• The Big Shot urged Feng Jun to visit Yi Jue's Lower Realms to search for the Soul Separation Pill, but Feng Jun said he could not leave Liba Beach yet.
• Elder Bian Ji told Feng Jun that the Insectoid World Passageway had summoned him to help after cultivators suffered large-scale casualties, and Yi Jue advised Feng Jun to go.
• Feng Jun worried about leaving Liba Beach without a guard, so Qian Zhong proposed Xuanyuan Buqi; Elder Bian Ji then realized Qian Zhong was a Body Integration great power.

Feng Jun brought Yi Jue, Xuanyuan Buqi, and Qian Zhong to the Insectoid World’s front, where a Myriad Illusions Sect patrol tried to detain them. Xuanyuan Buqi annihilated one squad, and True Venerable Wenkui demanded an explanation from Feng Jun on behalf of the sects overseeing the patrol.

• Feng Jun chose Yi Jue, Xuanyuan Buqi, and Qian Zhong to accompany him, while asking Elder Cang Jing to watch True Immortal Miaomiao at Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun teleported the group near the Insectoid World passage, where a Myriad Illusions Sect patrol surrounded them and demanded their cooperation.
• Yi Jue attacked the patrol after its leader threatened them, and the patrol formed battle arrays to suppress the group’s spatial abilities.
• Xuanyuan Buqi struck one squad with a massive thumb phantom, killing its members despite True Venerable Wenkui’s attempt to block the blow.
• True Venerable Wenkui accused Xuanyuan Buqi of attacking disciples sent by the Xuanhuang and Yuangang sects, and Xuanyuan Buqi told Feng Jun to explain.

Feng Jun arrived at the camp to help treat cultivators poisoned by a strange toxin, after a clash with a Myriad Illusions Sect patrol exposed the sect’s hostility toward him. Yi Jue linked the toxin to a microorganism Feng Jun had encountered before, and Feng Jun questioned how she had controlled it.

• Wenkui Venerable recognized Feng Jun, but Xuanyuan Buqi’s account and Fishing Elder Venerable’s divination showed that the Myriad Illusions Sect patrol had provoked the clash.
• Feng Jun blamed Ouyang Beishan for teaching him to fear being located and ambushed, and Wenkui Venerable left with the surviving disciples.
• Feng Jun refused to treat anyone from the Myriad Illusions Sect, then went with Fishing Elder Venerable and Ren Tu Venerable to the main camp.
• The group found several hundred cultivators poisoned by a toxin that corroded flesh and devoured spiritual energy, and Fishing Elder Venerable explained why the Two Sects had summoned Feng Jun.
• Yi Jue’s divination suggested ordinary fire could destroy the toxin and connected it to a microorganism Feng Jun had given her.
• Yi Jue explained that she controlled the microorganisms by putting them in a Spiritless State and restrained them with Wood-Qi Binding, prompting Feng Jun to question how wood qi could restrain them.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue devised a treatment for the poisoned cultivators, then Feng Jun traveled to Xingzheng Star to seek medicine and production equipment. He met Xuan Gao, who questioned the motives and strength of Feng Jun’s civilization, and their discussion ended in an argument over resource claims.

• Yi Jue suggested using wood qi to redirect the microorganisms, and Feng Jun deduced a treatment plan that successfully reduced the toxins in the cultivators.
• Two injured cultivators fully expelled the toxins, and the Yuangang and Xuanhuang Sects paid Feng Jun and Yi Jue two hundred Upper Spirit Stones.
• Feng Jun went to Xingzheng Star with Fishing Elder, Ren Tu, and Yi Jue, but found He Runxian bedridden and Chen Jiu under close surveillance.
• Feng Jun met Xuan Gao at the docks and asked for medicine and pharmaceutical production lines, while Xuan Gao offered to sell him standard fleet equipment instead.
• Xuan Gao asked about the energy in Feng Jun’s people and worried that Feng Jun’s civilization might invade; Feng Jun called the Human Federation baggage and challenged its claim to resources.

Feng Jun negotiated with Xuan Gao for warships and medical supplies while refusing to promise the Human Federation access to cultivation knowledge. As they set out to collect the ships, Yi Jue and Xuanyuan Buqi warned Feng Jun about the risks of teaching outsiders, but he insisted his conscience was clear.

• Xuan Gao proposed cooperation against the Insect Race, but Feng Jun said neither man could speak for their civilizations and warned that his side had little regard for the Human Federation.
• Xuan Gao offered to gather low-level resources in exchange for future help, and Feng Jun rejected the arrangement while agreeing to consider benefits for Xuan Gao's child at double the Energy Stone price.
• Feng Jun and Xuan Gao agreed that Xuan Gao would obtain nanobots and seek a limb regeneration production line and Life Potions, then arranged a location to deliver the warships.
• Feng Jun left and deposited the Energy Stones again at dawn before heading with Yi Jue, Xuanyuan Buqi, and Qian Zhong to collect the warships.
• Yi Jue and Xuanyuan Buqi cautioned Feng Jun against teaching cultivation techniques to the Human Federation, citing the danger of ambition, but Feng Jun said his conscience was clear because he was paying double.

Feng Jun resumed trade with the Insectoid World and traveled to Xingzheng Star with Yi Jue and Liu Yiyi to collect Nanorobots. He left Xuan Gao with a large new order, while the Myriad Illusions Sect’s accusations heightened the danger surrounding his travels.

• Feng Jun helped Elder Bian Ji with the Divination of the Feign Death Pill, then learned that the Myriad Illusions Sect had accused the Grand Void and Golden Crow Sect of slaughtering its disciples.
• The Grand Void and Golden Crow Sect disciples withdrew from the Myriad Illusions Sect’s headquarters and learned that Xuanyuan Buqi had killed a Golden Core battle team led by a Nascent Soul cultivator in the Insectoid World.
• Xuanyuan Buqi urged Feng Jun to take precautions, and Feng Jun decided to travel to Xingzheng Star with Yi Jue and Liu Yiyi rather than rely on the two True Lords’ protection.
• Feng Jun met Xuan Gao and said he could supply up to fifty million doses of Nanorobots, prompting Xuan Gao to continue buying them at double the Energy Stone price.
• Feng Jun asked Xuan Gao to purchase thirty to fifty holographic diagnostic devices, and Xuan Gao explained that Xingzheng Star had only about a hundred units available.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue unearthed one of the Big Shot’s hidden treasures in the Amber Realm, then traveled to the damaged Qingchuan Realm in search of another. Feng Jun sensed a hidden treasure there and learned it might be connected to the World Domain and the Heavenly Demon invasion.

• Feng Jun collected several billion tons of Energy Stones from the Giant Planet, and Yi Jue proposed sending Spirit Plant Path disciples to mine there.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue uncovered a meager hidden treasure in the Amber Realm, including two Nascent Soul Condensation Pills and three Heavenly Fragrance Fruits, which embarrassed Feng Jun and enraged the Big Shot.
• Yi Jue told Feng Jun about Qingchuan Realm’s past Heavenly Demon invasion and its weakened cultivation limit, and Feng Jun decided they should investigate it.
• Yi Jue recruited disciples to mine in the Insectoid World, then brought Feng Jun and Liu Yiyi to Qingchuan Realm, where she found that someone occupied land near a forming Spirit Vein.
• Feng Jun sensed another hidden treasure in Qingchuan Realm, and the Big Shot said it had considerable karma with the World Domain and seemed to reject him.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue uncovered the senior’s hidden cache near the Demon Battlefield, where a mutated strand of the senior’s soul attacked them. After Feng Jun and the senior subdued it and escaped to Blue Star, the guardian identified the strand as the cause of Qingchuan’s calamities and demanded payment before helping the senior absorb it.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue reached the barren lava plain and uncovered the senior’s hidden cache nearby.
• A strange aura struck Yi Jue unconscious, and Feng Jun used the guardian’s talisman while the senior summoned a giant shadow and ordered him to use the Soul-Binding Art.
• Feng Jun completed the hand seals and trapped the aura in the shadow, then collected the cache and took Yi Jue and Liu Yiyi to Luohua Manor.
• The guardian identified the aura as a mutated strand of the senior’s soul consciousness that had caused the Sorrow of Qingchuan and drawn Heavenly Demons to the realm.
• The senior asked the guardian to help deal with the strand, and the guardian demanded to know how much of the senior’s thirty Extreme Spirit it would offer.

The Guardian erased the Heavenly Demon aura and split soul’s consciousness in exchange for thirty Extreme Spirits, while Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach with the exhausted Yi Jue. After Yi Jue recovered enough to awaken, Feng Jun asked Elder Bian Ji to appraise a Soul-Fixing Pill, and the elder wondered if it was a standard Nascent Soul pill.

• The yin soul gave the Guardian thirty Extreme Spirits, and the Guardian quickly erased the split soul’s consciousness and the Heavenly Demon aura.
• Feng Jun chose to let Yi Jue sleep, retrieved the thirty Extreme Spirits, and waited before returning to Liba Beach with Liu Yiyi.
• The Big Shot returned to its hidden cache to recover, while Feng Jun arranged for Yun Buyao to watch over Yi Jue and planned to ask Elder Bian Ji about a Soul-Fixing Pill.
• Yi Jue awakened at dawn and began restoring her spiritual energy in the manor’s Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Feng Jun invited Elder Bian Ji to appraise the pill, and the elder suspected it might be a standard Nascent Soul Soul-Fixing Pill.

Feng Jun asked Elder Bian Ji to appraise an Emergence Soul-Stabilizing Pill, which the elder identified as a rare Great Flourishing-type pill with effects lasting roughly fifty to three hundred years. After the Mirror Spirit warned Elder Bian Ji against taking the pill, Feng Jun learned that half might treat a Soul Emergence cultivator and revealed the pill was for the injured Yi Jue.

• Elder Bian Ji explained that Nascent Soul Soul-Fixing Pills had become rare because Qingming Nine-Jointed Lotus Root was scarce, and Feng Jun clarified that he had an Emergence Soul-Stabilizing Pill.
• Feng Jun showed Elder Bian Ji a crystalline pill, and the Mirror Spirit intimidated the elder when he tried to draw it closer.
• Elder Bian Ji identified the pill as a Great Flourishing-type Soul-Fixing Pill and estimated that its effects would last between fifty and three hundred years.
• Elder Bian Ji said half a pill might treat a Soul Emergence Initial Stage cultivator, but he would need to scrape off powder to estimate its effects more precisely.
• Feng Jun refused to let him test the pill and said he would give the whole pill to Yi Jue, who had been injured while they were away.

Feng Jun secured another talisman from the Guardians after delivering the promised stones, while the True Lords at Liba Beach learned that Yi Jue was recovering and began seeking a rare soul-fixing pill for their clan. He returned to Luohua Manor with nanobots and asked Li Shishi to arrange their sale to her friends.

• Elder Bian Ji told Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong that Feng Jun intended to give Yi Jue an Emergence Soul-Stabilizing Pill, and they pressed him for information about the pills.
• Xuanyuan Buqi and Qian Zhong agreed to wait before visiting Yi Jue, while Xuanyuan Buqi insisted he needed at least one pill for the injured members of his clan.
• Feng Jun crossed the Two-Way Door to meet the Guardians, delivered thirty Extreme Spirit Stones and two hundred Upper Spirit Stones, and received a new talisman.
• The Guardians teased Feng Jun for prioritizing Yi Jue's safety over his talisman and told him to bring back anyone he could not defeat.
• Feng Jun returned to Luohua Manor with more nanobots and told Li Shishi to inform Team Leader Lin; Li Shishi asked for a discount for her friends, and Feng Jun told her to pay for them herself.