Chapter Summaries

An intruder armed with a poisoned bolt broke into Luohua Manor, where Feng Jun and the others captured him after he wounded Gao Qiang. Feng Jun treated Gao Qiang and began questioning the still-dazed captive, leaving the intruder bound and the manor on alert.

• An electromagnetic sensor detected a lone intruder, who deployed electronic jammers and fled as the manor's alarm brought its residents into action.
• Gao Qiang pursued the intruder, but the man shot him with a poisoned bolt that grazed his shoulder.
• Feng Jun ordered the intruder taken alive, while Shen Qingyi launched a streak of white light that knocked branches into the man's path.
• Feng Jun struck and bound the intruder with the Immortal-Binding Cord, then stopped him from rolling over the mountain wall.
• Feng Jun gave Gao Qiang a Detoxification Pill after discovering the poison could cause brain damage.
• Wang Haifeng checked the captive's mouth for hidden poison before waking him with cold water and striking him in anger.

Feng Jun handed the intruder, Zhuang Shuai, over to Elder Yu’s security team after warning them that he had swallowed time-release cyanide. After Zhuang Shuai died and investigators confirmed the poison, Yu Zhiyuan pressed Feng Jun for his source, and Feng Jun claimed he had divined the information.

• Feng Jun searched the battlefield, found electronic jammers, and brought the battered intruder to the mountain gate after suspecting he had time-release cyanide in his stomach.
• Feng Jun refused the short security leader’s request to enter Luo Hua, but handed over the intruder and warned that he was at least seventy percent sure the man had swallowed cyanide.
• Zhuang Shuai died as the ambulance arrived, and Feng Jun told the security leader he had no problem keeping the death out of official channels while they pursued the mastermind.
• An autopsy confirmed that Zhuang Shuai had swallowed a time-release cyanide capsule, and investigators identified him as a man from Cangping City and began following that lead.
• Yu Zhiyuan asked Feng Jun to explain how he knew Zhuang Shuai’s identity and poison, and Feng Jun said he had divined the information.

Feng Jun treated Elder Yu with a Body-Tempering Pill, and the old man’s recovery accelerated enough for him to return to Luohua Manor. Yu Zhiyuan arranged payment and a restricted stay for his father while updating Feng Jun on the search for Zhuang Shuai, whose movements and connections remained unclear.

• Feng Jun told Yu Zhiyuan that the crossbow’s anesthetic was a synthetic neurotoxin and that Gao Qiang had received an antidote.
• Elder Yu endured the Body-Tempering Pill’s intense effects, began speaking more clearly, and recovered enough to take a bath five days later.
• Elder Yu insisted on leaving the sanatorium before dawn, and Yu Zhiyuan persuaded the manor guard to let their vehicle enter so his father could sleep there.
• Yu Zhiyuan offered Feng Jun up to one hundred million for the treatment and asked to keep Elder Yu in the little courtyard with one physician and two guards.
• Yu Zhiyuan told Feng Jun that Zhuang Shuai had visited four cities, used a Mud Country hand crossbow, trained in family martial arts and at Mount Ling Little Forest Temple, and fought underground boxing matches.

Feng Jun investigated Zhuang Shuai’s links to Bai Mu while Elder Yu moved into Luohua Manor under strict security rules. The manor’s growing restrictions caused friction with visitors and officials, leaving Yu Zhiyuan’s daughter waiting at the gate.

• Feng Jun learned from Xu Mansa that Zhuang Shuai, also known as Wang Guang, had smuggled cultural relics and was likely connected to Bai Mu.
• Xu Mansa visited Luohua Manor, where Feng Jun told her Zhuang Shuai had died from cyanide poisoning and asked her to coordinate with Manager Yang.
• Elder Yu moved into the manor after Gazi refused to allow medical equipment and other belongings inside, insisting that visitors follow the manor’s rules.
• Security guards inspected a convoy of Boiler Engines at the mountain gate, angering Gazi even though Xu Leigang persuaded them not to dismantle the cargo.
• Gazi ordered the gatehouse to make Yu Zhiyuan’s daughter wait outside the manor.

Teacher Mei used a talisman to stop a guard who tried to take her walkie-talkie, shocking Elder Yu and his people at Luohua Manor. At the mountain gate, guards pinned down Ren Zhixiang, and a motorcycle rider arrived and recognized him.

• Elder Yu sent someone to meet his granddaughter, but the guards refused to let her through without Feng Jun's approval.
• A guard demanded Teacher Mei's walkie-talkie, and she struck him with a talisman after he lunged at her.
• Elder Yu asked whether Teacher Mei had used a Five-Thunder Talisman, and she denied it before returning to the rear courtyard.
• Elder Yu refused to report Luohua as unusual, then learned that Ren Zhixiang was still being held at the mountain gate.
• Guards stopped Ren Zhixiang, pinned him to the ground, and threatened him as he tried to call the police.
• A woman arrived on a motorcycle, stopped beside the gate, and recognized Ren Zhixiang.

Tang Wenji intervened when Luohua Manor’s guards beat Ren Zhixiang and helped him gain entry. Yu Qingzhu was also allowed inside, but Feng Jun and Gazi refused to admit her companion, so Tang Wenji took Yu Qingzhu with her.

• Tang Wenji confronted the security guards and demanded they release Ren Zhixiang.
• Yu Qingzhu introduced herself and explained that her grandfather, Elder Yu, was inside the manor.
• Tang Wenji offered to take Ren Zhixiang into Luohua Manor, and Gazi approved his entry over the Two-Way Radio.
• Feng Jun authorized Yu Qingzhu to enter after Tang Wenji asked on her behalf.
• Gazi refused to admit Yu Qingzhu’s friend, so Tang Wenji took Yu Qingzhu with her on a motorcycle.

Feng Jun negotiated with Jade Ruins over repairing damaged magical artifacts and learned that Yu Qingzhu had come to the estate. When Elder Yu appeared, Feng Jun’s old feelings for Yu Qingzhu returned, while Ren Zhixiang recognized the old man as another cerebral infarction patient.

• Feng Jun rejected Jade Ruins’ proposed three-for-one artifact exchange unless the sect helped uncover the mastermind behind Zhuang Shuai.
• Shen Qingyi asked Feng Jun about his Immortal-Binding Cord and blue bell, and he said his artifacts surpassed Jade Ruins’ damaged ones.
• Feng Jun learned Yu Qingzhu was at the estate and told Li Shishi to warn the people obstructing its entrance.
• Feng Jun met Ren Zhixiang, discussed land for a Cerebral Infarction Recovery Center, and advised him to seek compensation for his injuries.
• Elder Yu arrived with support, and Ren Zhixiang recognized signs of a cerebral infarction while Feng Jun struggled to hide his feelings for Yu Qingzhu.

Elder Yu apologized to Ren Zhixiang for the guards’ treatment, and Ren explained that he planned to invest in a rehabilitation center near the manor. Feng Jun’s past connection with Yu Qingzhu resurfaced, while Zhang Caixin and Yu Qingzhu met and Elder Yu asked about cultivation.

• Ren Zhixiang told Elder Yu he planned to put most of his money into a rehabilitation center and wanted to run it himself.
• Elder Yu apologized to Ren Zhixiang on behalf of the guards who had stopped him outside.
• Yu Qingzhu told Feng Jun that Xia Xiaoyu had been the person he stopped, and Feng Jun claimed he could not remember her.
• Zhang Caixin arrived and exchanged a tense introduction with Yu Qingzhu, while Feng Jun defended cultivation at the manor as depending on fate.
• Elder Yu asked whether Zhang Caixin's cultivation involved the Thunder Talisman, and she confirmed it was not limited to that.

Zhang Caixin explained that talismans required cultivated spiritual energy, while Feng Jun refused to provide them or take on new disciples. As the Yu family considered whether cultivation could help Elder Yu live longer, Yu Zhiyuan concluded that persuading Feng Jun to teach him would be the main obstacle.

• Zhang Caixin told Elder Yu that talismans required cultivated spiritual energy, and Feng Jun said current technology could not be assumed to reproduce their supernatural effects.
• Yu Qingzhu asked Zhang Caixin to teach her cultivation, but Zhang Caixin declined to answer, and Feng Jun had Xia Xiaoyu admitted to the manor.
• Yang Yuxin and Ren Zhixiang discussed building a Recovery Center, and Elder Yu offered to stay there and promote it once it was built.
• Yu Qingzhu asked Xia Xiaoyu to find out what the manor's cultivators practiced, and Gao Qiang explained the difference between martial arts and Daoist cultivation.
• Yu Qingzhu told Yu Zhiyuan that Daoist cultivation might help Elder Yu stay healthy, and Yu Zhiyuan said Feng Jun would be difficult to persuade because his closest followers had known him before he became successful.

Yu Zhiyuan and Elder Yu tried to persuade Feng Jun to treat Qi Wukui, whose body contained a potentially invasive species of gu worms, but Feng Jun demanded five hundred million in cash and refused to guarantee a cure. Elder Yu also learned that Zhuang Shuai had been funded by Mud Country's Overseas Wanderers Society to target Luohua Manor, while Shen Qingyi arrived at the manor with news about Zhuang Shuai.

• Yu Zhiyuan warned Yu Qingzhu that her Third Uncle's illness might have been caused by Feng Jun and advised Elder Yu to approach him about treatment.
• Elder Yu asked Feng Jun to treat Qi Wukui, and Feng Jun agreed to attempt it only if Qi Wukui's family paid five hundred million in cash.
• Elder Yu told Yu Qingzhu that Feng Jun was difficult to reason with, then refused to visit the Jadeite Tower when she expressed interest in it.
• A security guard reported that Zhuang Shuai had received funding from Mud Country's Overseas Wanderers Society to target Luohua Manor, possibly for its supernatural aspects.
• Shen Qingyi entered Luohua Manor and messaged Feng Jun that she had news about Zhuang Shuai.

Feng Jun learned that Ito and Bai Chuanmu were linked to the Overseas Wanderers Society and argued with Elder Yu over whether he should retaliate. The chapter ended with a security officer revealing that Bai Chuanmu had been missing for a long time.

• Shen Qingyi told Feng Jun that Ito was suspected of arranging the incident, that he had fled to the Black Continent, and that Bai Chuanmu belonged to the Overseas Wanderers Society.
• Feng Jun asked Jade Ruins to compile information on the society and said he would not let the matter go.
• Elder Yu's security officer told Feng Jun that technical evidence placed Ito in Yang City on the night of the incident, though Ito had since fled Xia Nation.
• The security officer explained that the Overseas Wanderers Society included factions with varying loyalties, including members who could be won over by Xia Nation.
• Feng Jun rejected Elder Yu's appeal to prioritize the bigger picture, arguing that his interests had been harmed and that retaliation could deter future attacks.
• The security officer challenged Feng Jun by mentioning Bai Chuanmu, a Mud Country native with foreign citizenship who had been missing for a long time.

Feng Jun arranged for Qi Wukui to be brought to Luo Hua for treatment after agreeing to receive the payment through Yang Yuxin. Huahua arrived dressed as a healer and went into the coach to treat him, leaving the others stunned by the sight.

• Elder Yu agreed to give Feng Jun three days before he left and ordered Qi Wukui's family to pay five hundred million for treatment.
• Qi Wukui's family arranged the payment through Yang Yuxin, who received the money the next day.
• Qi Wukui was brought to Luo Hua by coach, and Feng Jun insisted that he come to the estate rather than be treated at the provincial hospital.
• Huahua flew into the courtyard carrying an iPad and wearing a tiny cap with a red cross, causing Qi Wukui's wife to faint.
• Huahua told Feng Jun she wanted to treat Qi Wukui and change people's prejudices about Enchantresses, then went into the coach while Feng Jun invited the others inside.

Feng Jun used Huahua to cure Qi Wukui’s parasitic worms, then refused to speed his recovery with a costly pill. After the Yu family accepted the lesson and investigated the butterfly’s work, Feng Jun turned his attention to choosing a target among the Overseas Wanderers Society.

• Yu Qingzhu asked Feng Jun whether Huahua could cure Qi Wukui, and Feng Jun insisted the diagnostic fee still had to be paid.
• Huahua removed the worms from Qi Wukui, and Feng Jun told the family that the parasites were gone but that recovery was their responsibility.
• The healthcare doctor asked Feng Jun to give Qi Wukui half a green pill, but Feng Jun refused because Qi could recover slowly and would have less chance to harm others.
• Third Aunt complained about the five-hundred-million fee to Yu Zhiyuan, who reminded her that Qi Wukui had tried to seize Luohua Manor’s land and had provoked the Yu family’s benefactors.
• Elder Yu’s associates studied Qi Wukui’s medical records and wondered whether Huahua had used a form of gu technique, while Feng Jun learned that the hospital had obtained several worm eggs for research.
• Feng Jun reviewed Jade Ruins’s information on the Overseas Wanderers Society and chose Ming City as his likely target, judging its Mud people especially deserving of attention.

Feng Jun took Zhang Caixin, Good Scenery, Gazi, and Gao Qiang to Ming City to investigate concealed business support for harmful influence operations. After visiting his parents in Chaori County, he began tracking a Mud Country cultural-company founder whose adaptations quietly inserted favorable portrayals of Mud Country characters and unflattering depictions of Xia people.

• Feng Jun chose Zhang Caixin, Good Scenery, Gazi, and Gao Qiang for the trip to Ming City, while Xu Leigang stayed at Luo Hua and the Little Heavenly Master prepared to train in Cinnabar Cloud Heaven.
• Feng Jun and the group flew to Chaori County, where he saw his parents’ mountain construction project and secretly gave Feng Wenhui the Soaring Dragon Taming Phoenix Harmony Manual.
• Zhang Caixin arranged a riverside villa through her classmate Ling Yajuan, and the group spent the day touring Ming City in a business vehicle.
• At midnight, Feng Jun flew the Light-Yin Shuttle to investigate Jieke Mo, a Mud Country cultural-company founder who altered exported works to insert subtle propaganda.

Feng Jun and his disciples abducted Jieke Mo and Xiangxue from their apartment, then escaped by shuttle with money and documents. As they traveled toward Pudi, Feng Jun discussed another trip to Star Luo and prepared to investigate Rimu Group.

• Feng Jun chose Jieke Mo, a member of the Return-to-Roots Faction, as the target and sent Zhang Caixin and Good Scenery to abduct her.
• Feng Jun disguised himself as a delivery man and got the group into the apartment building, then used Thought Moves the World to unlock Jieke Mo's door.
• Zhang Caixin and Good Scenery knocked out Jieke Mo and Xiangxue, and Feng Jun identified Xiangxue as a Mud person before Good Scenery placed both women in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• The group searched the apartment, took the women's documents and clothes, and Feng Jun recovered a black bag containing Mairui Currency and Mud Notes.
• The five reunited and flew toward Pudi aboard the Light-Yin Shuttle, where Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin to advance so she could help transport goods.
• Feng Jun decided to visit Rimu Group after noting that it was already two o'clock.

Feng Jun and his companions landed on the roof of Luo Hao’s villa and discovered an incomplete formation summoning human apparitions and a two-headed serpent-like shadow. After Feng Jun subdued the shadow and attacked someone inside, a caller outside the Blessing Courtyard grew suspicious.

• Feng Jun landed the Light-Yin Shuttle on the roof of Luo Hao’s villa as spring rain began to fall.
• The group noticed a sudden chill and watched white mist rise from an outdoor exercise area.
• Feng Jun identified the scene as a Child-Mother Yin-Yang Remnant Formation borrowing the restraints of a Dragon-Trapping Formation.
• Human figures appeared in the mist, and a two-headed serpent-like shadow emerged and began sucking them in.
• The shadow noticed the group, so Feng Jun bound it with the Immortal-Binding Cord and struck down someone inside the house with Divine Sense.
• Zhang Caixin understood a caller outside the Blessing Courtyard asking if help was needed and warned Feng Jun that someone had become suspicious.

Feng Jun captured Luo Hao and uncovered a Child-Mother Yin-Yang Formation that had been feeding on Vengeful Souls buried near the factory. He found three mass graves, including one containing about a thousand soldiers, and prepared to deal with the dead before pursuing anything else.

• Feng Jun used a Divine Sense attack to knock out a watcher, captured the serpent-bodied shadow in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, and ordered his companions to take Luo Hao alive.
• Gao Qiang and Gazi searched Luo Hao’s residence while Feng Jun dismantled the formation by uprooting four camellias.
• Feng Jun explained to Zhang Caixin and the others that the shadows were Vengeful Souls, likely left behind by people killed in war.
• Feng Jun searched the factory grounds and located three mass graves, one holding roughly a thousand civilians and another holding roughly a thousand soldiers.
• Feng Jun recognized that Luo Hao had planted pines and cypresses over the soldiers’ grave to suppress their Baleful Energy, and decided to cleanse the civilian graves with Sweet Rain Talismans.

Feng Jun excavated a mass grave of wartime soldiers and uncovered evidence that a veteran had shielded a child soldier when they were buried alive. Unable to finish before dawn and worried about Luo Hao's disappearance, he went to the Phone Plane to seek a way to search a soul, where Huangfu Wuxia offered him Soul-Search Talismans.

• Feng Jun used Sweet Rain Talismans to reduce resentment at two civilian burial sites and break the formations trapping the souls.
• Gao Qiang proposed moving the soldiers' remains to the Martyrs' Memorial Garden, and Feng Jun began excavating the mass grave with the others.
• Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin uncovered bones arranged as if a veteran with a broken leg had sheltered a child soldier from being buried alive.
• Gao Qiang realized they could not move the remains while Luo Hao's disappearance might be exposed, so Feng Jun took Good Scenery to the Phone Plane.
• Feng Jun asked Huangfu Wuxia for a Soul Search Cultivation Method, and she offered Qi Refining Stage Soul-Search Talismans for five thousand Spirit Stones each, with a buy-two-get-one-free deal.

Feng Jun asked Bai Bahuang and Leng Qionghua to identify the black shadow he had captured, learning that it was a weak Incense Faith Yin Soul with the potential to grow. He kept it rather than handing it to Pine-Cypress Peak, then returned to deal with Luo Hao.

• Feng Jun visited Bai Bahuang and Leng Qionghua after nightfall to ask whether the captured black shadow came from an evil cultivator.
• Feng Jun released the black shadow inside a Spirit-Binding Formation, and Bai Bahuang and Leng Qionghua identified it as a weak Incense Faith Yin Soul that could grow stronger by feeding on resentment and soul energy.
• Bai Bahuang asked Feng Jun to give the Yin Soul to Pine-Cypress Peak, but Feng Jun refused because he wanted to find its master.
• Feng Jun gave Bai Bahuang and Leng Qionghua jars of Lovesick Dream, and Leng Qionghua offered to help repair his Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and other artifacts for a fee.
• Feng Jun returned to handle Luo Hao after learning what the black shadow was.

Feng Jun questioned Luo Hao on Pacify Arms Mountain about the resentful souls, the Overseas Wanderers Society, and the formation used to nurture Shikigami. Luo Hao revealed his family background and disputed Feng Jun and Good Scenery’s accusations, leaving the interrogation in a heated argument over which country plagiarized the other.

• Feng Jun released Luo Hao from the Spirit Beast Bag into the snow and waited for the cold to wake him.
• Luo Hao woke and asked where he was, while Feng Jun confronted him about feeding resentful souls to Shikigami and the three burial pits.
• At Good Scenery’s urging, Feng Jun gave Luo Hao two down jackets, and Luo Hao realized Feng Jun was a Daoist.
• Feng Jun asked about the Overseas Wanderers Society and the Child-Mother Yin-Yang Formation, and Luo Hao said his ancestors were yin-yang masters and his father had set up the formation.
• Luo Hao said the formation was called the Offering-Nurtured True Formation and that he did not know how to build it himself.
• Feng Jun and Good Scenery accused Mud Country of stealing and plagiarism, and Luo Hao retorted that Rimu Company had been forced to build factories in Xia Nation because Xia Nation had plagiarized its technology.