Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun led Kong Ziyi, Huangfu Wuxia, and the others to Qiuchen Market, where Chen Junsheng welcomed them back to the Blessing Courtyard. Chen Junsheng reported on Jing Qingyang’s progress and how the courtyard had earned Spirit Stones, while Jing Qingyang had recently entered the Dao.

• Feng Jun’s group traveled to Qiuchen Market, resting in Kong Ziyi’s traveling palace and playing mahjong along the way.
• At Qiuchen Market, Feng Jun returned to his Blessing Courtyard, where Jing Qingyang greeted him and Chen Junsheng welcomed the group.
• Chen Junsheng reported that he had cultivated steadily and kept the courtyard in good order, while visitors had occasionally paid to use its Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Jing Qingyang obtained the Pillar-Piercing the Skies Technique after killing a Qi Refining cultivator and later borrowed Chen Junsheng’s Spirit-Gathering Formation to cultivate.
• After twenty-one days of cultivation, Jing Qingyang broke through and achieved Martial Entry into the Dao.

Feng Jun weighed the growing social obligations at Qiuchen Immortal Market and left with Venerable Yang to begin his experiments in the Blue Star Realm. The chapter ended as Teacher Mei heard someone ask whether Venerable Yang was another replacement.

• Feng Jun received visitors including Steward Yao, Liang Yisi, and President Jiang’s subordinate, and realized his rising fame would bring more social obligations at the market.
• Feng Jun left the market with Venerable Yang before Huangfu Wuxia could stop him, while Kong Ziyi decided not to follow.
• After flying more than two hundred miles, Feng Jun had Venerable Yang set aside his belongings and enter a Spirit-Binding Formation.
• Feng Jun rendered Venerable Yang unconscious and brought him to the Blue Star Realm, where he told Good Scenery he hoped to obtain a Storage Pouch with a capacity exceeding one hundred thousand cubic meters.
• Teacher Mei heard their conversation and asked whether Venerable Yang was another replacement.

Feng Jun dealt with another Mid Emergence from Dust cultivator, gave Zhang Caixin a Defensive Formation, and heard Mud Country had offered lithium batteries at a steep discount. He rejected the offer’s apparent trap and returned to the Phone Plane, where he found people waiting to have telephones installed.

• Zhang Caixin followed Feng Jun and Good Scenery into the grove, guessed that the unconscious cultivator was from another plane, and learned he was another Mid Emergence from Dust.
• Feng Jun stored the Blessing Courtyard and gave Zhang Caixin a Defensive Formation to protect her family from attacks and insects.
• Zhang Caixin told Feng Jun that Mud Country was offering lithium batteries for thirty percent less than Kaiwei, and Feng Jun agreed not to accept the offer.
• Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane and went to the market town’s administrative office, where he learned that people were waiting to have telephones installed.

Feng Jun arranged a cave residence in Qiuchen Market, then hid in the wilderness while Venerable Yang recovered from his injuries. After killing a cultivator who had secretly watched them, Feng Jun suspected the man's Yin Soul Stone concealed a dangerous spirit and tried to destroy it.

• Feng Jun reserved an Emergence from Dust High Stage cave residence for the day after tomorrow and paid ten days' rent in advance.
• Feng Jun slept in the Traveling Residence outside Qiuchen Market and drove away six or seven cultivators who approached it.
• Feng Jun monitored Venerable Yang's recovery until he awakened and regained enough strength to return to Qiuchen Market.
• Feng Jun discovered a concealed Eighth Layer of Qi Condensation cultivator nearby and crushed him with the Mountain-River Seal.
• Feng Jun suspected the dead cultivator's Yin Soul Stone housed a powerful Yin Soul and used the Mountain-River Seal to try to smash it.

Feng Jun discovered that the Yin Soul Stone he recovered could not fit inside an ordinary Storage Talisman, then asked Kong Ziyi and Huangfu Wuxia how to destroy the Yin Soul within it. Their answers left him worried that the soul could be far more powerful than he had feared.

• Feng Jun recovered a Yin Soul Stone from a dead robber, stored the corpse and its belongings, and found that only Kong Ziyi's Spirit Beast Bag could hold the stone.
• Feng Jun brought Venerable Yang back to his residence, where Kong Ziyi offered to pay for a cultivation cave so Yang could recover.
• Feng Jun told Kong Ziyi and Huangfu Wuxia that he wanted to advance to Emergence from Dust, Third Layer, then asked them about Yin Soul Stones behind a Spirit-Energy Barrier.
• Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi urged Feng Jun to sell any Yin Soul Stone he had rather than keep it for his distant cultivation needs.
• Kong Ziyi explained that lightning could manage a Nascent Soul Yin Soul but might not harm more powerful souls, and asked Feng Jun what he was really trying to find out.

Feng Jun discussed the Yin Soul Stone with Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi, who hoped it might contain an ancestor or elder from their respective factions. After consulting Sumiao, they learned the soul was likely only an incomplete Remnant Soul, and Feng Jun released the stone so they could test it.

• Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi argued over who should examine the Yin Soul Stone first, while Feng Jun explained that it was stored in an Emergence from Dust Spirit Beast Bag.
• Kong Ziyi contacted Sumiao, who said an Emergence from Dust cultivator could not use a Yin Soul Stone and suggested testing it with a Qi Refining Spirit Beast Bag.
• Kong Ziyi asked whether Feng Jun would sell the stone, but he refused to offer it to Sumiao's martial uncles since he had martial uncles of his own.
• Kong Ziyi suggested testing whether a Qi Refining Spirit Beast Bag could hold the stone, and Feng Jun released it as she and Huangfu Wuxia watched.

Feng Jun examined the loot from the hostile cultivator and found two useful cultivation arts and a rare Scarlet-Forged Snake. He gave the snake to Kong Ziyi, leaving Huangfu Wuxia disappointed but acknowledging the difference in their resources.

• Feng Jun stored the weak Yin Soul Stone and told Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi he would keep it rather than sell it.
• Feng Jun discovered the manuals Swift Flash and Three Yin Gathering Yang Art, and Kong Ziyi explained how the latter differed from the evil Hundred Yin Gathering Yang art.
• Feng Jun opened the cultivator's Spirit Beast Bag and caught a fleeing Scarlet-Forged Snake before it could escape.
• Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi explained the snake's value for artifact refinement, and both offered to buy it.
• Feng Jun gave the Scarlet-Forged Snake to Kong Ziyi in return for the valuable Storage Pouch she had promised him, while Huangfu Wuxia accepted that she could not match Kong Ziyi's generosity.

Feng Jun traded the Yin Soul Stone to Huangfu Wuxia for a Golden Core Warship, but warned her that it might be more dangerous than it seemed. Huangfu Wuxia investigated the dead cultivator Xu Shengzhi and learned that he had come from the Burning Desert and advanced unusually quickly.

• Kong Ziyi accepted Feng Jun's Scarlet-Forged Snake as payment for her help and offered to assist him with difficult matters.
• Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia that the dead High Qi Condensation cultivator was named Xu Shengzhi and seemed connected to White Horse Manor, prompting her to investigate.
• Feng Jun examined the Yin Soul Stone and, after checking his phone, offered to sell it to Huangfu Wuxia while cautioning that it might involve great interference.
• Huangfu Wuxia offered a Golden Core Warship for the Yin Soul Stone, then hesitated and asked to have it appraised after Feng Jun warned her.
• Kong Ziyi arranged for Venerable Yang to cultivate in Feng Jun's cave abode at her expense.
• Huangfu Wuxia's investigation found that Xu Shengzhi had come from the Burning Desert, rapidly advanced from the Second Layer Qi Refining to the Eighth Layer of Qi Condensation, and claimed to cultivate the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art.

Huangfu Wuxia discovered that the Yin Soul Stone might contain a being with cultivation beyond Nascent Soul, but she and Kong Ziyi managed to store it in a stronger Spirit Beast Bag. Feng Jun finished advancing to Emergence from Dust, Third Layer and returned to find Venerable Yang nearly recovered, preparing to leave and first check on Huangfu Wuxia’s Golden Core Warship.

• Huangfu Wuxia consulted Patriarch Huangfu, who sensed that the Yin Soul Stone’s remnant soul might have cultivation beyond Nascent Soul and warned that the Huangfu Clan could not bear the karma.
• Huangfu Wuxia found that she could not store the Yin Soul Stone in her Qi Refining Stage Spirit Beast Bag, so she told Kong Ziyi what had happened.
• Kong Ziyi suggested trying an Emergence from Dust Stage Spirit Beast Bag, and Huangfu Wuxia successfully stored the stone in one borrowed from Tiantong.
• Kong Ziyi decided to wait for Feng Jun’s return before pursuing more Yin Soul Stones for her martial uncles.
• Feng Jun completed his advancement in twelve days, returned to find Venerable Yang mostly recovered, and planned to visit Huangfu Wuxia about her Golden Core Warship before leaving.

Feng Jun’s deal to sell the Yin Soul Stone to Huangfu Wuxia fell through after Kong Ziyi judged the unusual Spirit Projection Stage remnant soul too risky and the price too high. After discovering the stone could enter Qi Refining Stage Spirit Beast Bags after all, Feng Jun set off with his companions toward his territory, planning to pass through the Red Phoenix Sect and Supreme Clarity Sect lands.

• Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi told Feng Jun that they would not buy the Yin Soul Stone because its remnant soul might be a Spirit Projection expert and a Golden Core Warship cost too much.
• Feng Jun found that his Qi Refining Stage Spirit Beast Bag could take in the Yin Soul Stone, and Huangfu Wuxia confirmed the same worked when she tried it.
• Feng Jun stored the Yin Soul Stone in his Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and agreed to resume their journey.
• Kong Ziyi persuaded Feng Jun to route through Supreme Clarity Sect territory so she could arrange delivery of a huge-capacity Storage Pouch.
• Feng Jun’s group left Qiuchen Market with the market’s supply convoy, traveling by road rather than using the teleportation array.

Feng Jun’s group encountered Guo Family Village, whose cultivators demanded a toll before learning the travelers included powerful figures from Tiantong and the Supreme Clarity Sect. After the group settled for the night, Huangfu Wuxia heard the villagers’ proposal for a Tiantong branch, while Feng Jun prepared a Spirit-Binding Formation for the next experiment.

• Three Guo Family Village adepts stopped Feng Jun’s group and sought a toll or escort fee for crossing their land.
• The Qiuchen Market cultivators identified Feng Jun, Huangfu Wuxia, and Kong Ziyi, and the villagers dropped their toll demand and invited the group to stay overnight.
• Feng Jun’s group camped in a remote wasteland, where Feng Jun, Kong Ziyi, and Huangfu Wuxia brought out their Traveling Residences.
• Guo Family Village’s cultivators asked Huangfu Wuxia to open a Tiantong branch, but she said the village was outside her area of responsibility.
• Feng Jun set up a Spirit-Binding Formation in his Blessing Courtyard, and Venerable Yang asked whether it was ready.

Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi treated Venerable Yang’s severe divine-sense damage with a Free and Easy Soul-Replenishing Pill, which quickly began restoring him. As Venerable Yang neared waking, Huangfu Wuxia explored selling the pills, while Feng Jun warned that the formula was hallucinogenic and might not originate with Supreme Clarity Sect.

• Kong Ziyi learned that Feng Jun was delaying their departure to treat Venerable Yang’s damaged soul and offered to help.
• Kong Ziyi examined Venerable Yang with silver threads and identified external-force damage that could be treated with her Free and Easy Soul-Replenishing Pills.
• Kong Ziyi gave Feng Jun a bottle of pills, and Jing Qingyang administered one to Venerable Yang.
• Venerable Yang’s breathing and divine-sense activity intensified, and Huangfu Wuxia discussed gaining sales rights to the pills with Kong Ziyi.
• Feng Jun suspected the pill formula did not follow Supreme Clarity Sect’s methods and warned Huangfu Wuxia that it was hallucinogenic.

Feng Jun and his companions left Guo Family Village and traveled through the Red Phoenix Sect’s territory to Thunder Plains. There, Luo Lieyang welcomed them, Venerable Yang began recovering in a cultivation residence, and the group prepared to explore the stormy plain.

• Feng Jun warned Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi that the Carefree Soul-Replenishing Pill was a hallucinogen that could cause brain damage and addiction, and Venerable Yang eventually awoke and began meditating.
• Feng Jun’s group left Guo Family Village after its people saw them off and promised to cooperate in business with the Martial Warriors.
• After flying through the Red Phoenix Sect’s territory, Feng Jun’s group passed between two battling forces and continued on to Thunder Plains.
• Feng Jun reached Thunder Plains with Huangfu Wuxia, Kong Ziyi, and Venerable Yang, while the people from Qiuchen Market continued onward.
• Luo Lieyang welcomed the group, arranged a cultivation residence for Venerable Yang, and showed Feng Jun the improved generators and a new conductive material.
• Luo Lieyang planned to take Feng Jun’s group into the middle of Thunder Plains after the weather proved fair on their first day.

Feng Jun and his companions crossed the stormy Thunder Plains under Luo Lieyang’s protection and learned that its central region held lightning powerful enough to threaten even Golden Cores. After they reached a settlement and received a warm welcome, Kong Ziyi asked Feng Jun whether he intended to use the Thunder Plains to eliminate the remnant soul.

• Luo Lieyang sheltered the group beneath a Lightning-Deflecting Umbrella and explained the Thunder Plains’ dangers and safety measures.
• Feng Jun learned that powerful lightning in the central region could strike down Golden Cores, while Luo Lieyang kept the Thunder Cultivators’ Thunderstone-charging locations secret.
• Feng Jun asked whether the Thunder Plains could destroy a Nascent Soul Stage Yin Soul, and Luo Lieyang recalled that a Yin Sha Sect Nascent Soul had once intended to attack the region but was driven back by the Red Phoenix Sect.
• Luo Lieyang advised the group to wait out the changing weather, and they eventually reached a large settlement after dark.
• Adept Meng welcomed Feng Jun and his companions, gave them Thunderstones and Thunder Pearls, and Kong Ziyi asked Feng Jun whether they planned to use the Thunder Plains to eliminate the remnant soul.

Feng Jun and his companions toured the Thunder Plains before leaving for Supreme Clarity Sect, while Kong Ziyi arranged a private handover and Venerable Yang continued recovering. When they reached Lantern Town, Feng Jun discovered that cultivators were wagering over Liba Beach, the land where he had bought oil, and turned back to investigate.

• Meng Adept showed Feng Jun and the others the Thunder Plains' settlements, lightning equipment, and Thunderstone charging process.
• Feng Jun led the group to the core region, and their difficult return extended Venerable Yang's stay in the cave residence to six days.
• Kong Ziyi paid Venerable Yang's cultivation expenses and asked Feng Jun whether the core region's lightning could destroy a Spirit Projection Stage remnant soul.
• Feng Jun's group left the Thunder Plains and traveled to Peach Blossom Town, where Kong Ziyi handed a Storage Pouch to Senior Brother Tong.
• After passing through Ten Directions Platform territory, Feng Jun reached Lantern Town and heard that a duel's next wager was the southwest corner of Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun recognized Liba Beach as the oil-producing land he had purchased and walked over to confront the wager.

Feng Jun discovered that the Wu and Pan Clans were fighting over resources at Liba Beach, which he owned, and forced them to answer for trespassing. After Venerable Yang brought the Sun Clan head to him, another Adept arrived, leaving Feng Jun surrounded by powerful cultivators as he began hearing the Sun Clan’s explanation.

• Feng Jun watched the Wu and Pan Clans settle their dispute over Liba Beach through brutal matches, with the Pan Clan winning three victories.
• Feng Jun revealed that Liba Beach belonged to him, and Jing Qingyang and Chen Junwei blocked the clans from escaping.
• Feng Jun demanded to know what the clans had found and where the Sun Clan was, threatening to wipe out the clans if they refused to answer.
• Venerable Yang brought the Sun Clan head and a young man to Feng Jun, and the Sun Clan head knelt to apologize for failing his duty.
• Venerable Pan arrived and asked Feng Jun to wait, but Feng Jun insisted on hearing the Sun Clan’s account first.
• A gaunt Emergence from Dust Adept arrived as Venerable Pan ordered unrelated onlookers to disperse.

The Pan and Wu Clans tried to take control of Liba Beach, the land Feng Jun had purchased, while the Sun Clan guarded it. After Feng Jun confronted the Wu Clan, the Pan Clan trapped Sun Daqi’s youngest son and pressured the Sun Clan into withdrawing from the dispute.

• Feng Jun demanded that Wu Adept hand over the disciples who had beaten Sun Clan patrolmen, then warned him of the consequences of challenging Feng Jun’s authority.
• The Wu Clan stopped openly bullying the Sun Clan but continued secretly exploring Liba Beach, while the Pan and Wu Clans fought after discovering each other’s interest in the land.
• The Pan and Wu Clans agreed to consider jointly taking Liba Beach, believing Feng Jun’s long absence meant they could act without serious repercussions.
• The Pan Clan lured Sun Daqi’s youngest son into gambling with musical instruments and sheet music, and he lost a large debt.
• The Sun Clan accepted the Pan Clan’s demand to stop interfering in Liba Beach’s affairs.

Feng Jun confronted the Sun, Wu, and Pan Clans over their conduct at Liba Beach and demanded compensation and accountability. The Pan Clan’s Lord invoked a mysterious Ten Directions Platform cultivator, while Huangfu Wuxia openly identified herself and challenged him to pass on her message.

• Sun Daqi offered to repay the Sun Clan’s collected fees tenfold, but Kong Ziyi ordered the clan to return them at double the amount and pay double its gambling debt to Feng Jun.
• Lord Wu presented eight Wu Clan disciples who had beaten people and had their left arms broken; Feng Jun accepted the punishment but warned Lord Wu against a repeat offense.
• Lord Wu claimed the Wu Clan had gained nothing from Liba Beach and offered one thousand Spirit Stones, but Feng Jun demanded to inspect its hidden treasury.
• Lord Pan offered to buy Liba Beach for twice Feng Jun’s purchase price and said the dispute would end if Feng Jun refused.
• Lord Pan said he worked for an Emergence from Dust cultivator from the Ten Directions Platform but would not name the person, so Huangfu Wuxia identified herself as Tiantong branch president and challenged him to report her words.

Feng Jun confronted Venerable Pan over the Pan Clan’s deception and its ties to a scheme against the Sun Clan. After Sun Daqi identified the three Lu brothers as the culprits, Kong Ziyi used her master’s Elder Token to authorize their arrest, while Huangfu Wuxia arranged Tiantong support.

• Venerable Pan learned that Huangfu Wuxia represented Tiantong and that Kong Ziyi was True Adept Sumiao’s disciple from the Supreme Clarity Sect.
• Shopkeeper Tang warned Huangfu Wuxia about Venerable Pan’s uncertain claim of ties to Ten Directions Platform and said the Pan Clan dealt with the Yin Sha Sect.
• Feng Jun questioned Venerable Pan about the scheme against the Sun Clan, and Venerable Pan admitted that Pan Clan juniors had spread word about the Sun Clan’s wealth.
• Sun Daqi identified the three Lu Clan brothers of Mingsha Market as the people behind the scheme.
• Kong Ziyi gave Fellow Cultivator Yang her master’s Elder Token and ordered him to arrest the Lu brothers, while Huangfu Wuxia offered Tiantong’s help and asked Shopkeeper Tang to accompany them as a witness.

Feng Jun backed the Wu and Sun Clans as they destroyed the Pan Clan after Wu Adept killed Venerable Pan. After dividing the spoils, Feng Jun questioned Wu Adept about Liba Beach, and the mention of Beauty-Preserving Grass caught Huangfu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi’s attention.

• Feng Jun offered to call in Ji Ping'an’s combat cultivators, and Wu Adept knelt to deny the Wu Clan’s involvement in the Pan Clan’s schemes.
• Wu Adept killed Venerable Pan with the Near-and-Far Horizons Sword, then the Wu Clan attacked the Pan Clan while Feng Jun and his companions joined in killing its fighters.
• Wu Adept and Sun Daqi led their clans against the Pan Clan, whose main fighting force was destroyed within three hours.
• Wu Adept presented the Pan Clan’s secret-treasury loot, and Feng Jun took most of the Spirit Stones and all the cultivation manuals while Venerable Yang claimed many other valuables.
• Feng Jun asked what the Wu Clan had gained from Liba Beach, and Wu Adept admitted it had a stalk of Beauty-Preserving Grass.
• Huangfu Wuxia asked Wu Adept to bring out the Beauty-Preserving Grass so she and the others could inspect it.