Chapter Summaries

An Yuhong arrived at Mingsha Market with Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang, and their shared Hidden Astral-Wind Gold led the Supreme Clarity Sect disciples to seek Feng Jun’s help with wind-thunder cultivation. Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang set out for Thunder Plains while Feng Jun remained at Liba Beach, but he and Kong Ziyi disappeared with their Traveling Residence and Blessing Courtyard the next morning.

• An Yuhong arrived at Mingsha Market with Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang, and Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang pressed the market to seal off the Bai family residence until Elder Bai submitted to an investigation.
• Tang Shixun, Su Yuanjiang, and An Yuhong explained their Hidden Astral-Wind Gold and their hopes of cultivating wind and thunder together, and Feng Jun confirmed that his method suited them.
• Feng Jun said he could not travel to Thunder Plains for at least three months, so Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang decided to seek cultivation methods there themselves while An Yuhong stayed with Kong Ziyi.
• Kong Ziyi spoke privately with Feng Jun after returning from an outing, and the next morning An Yuhong found that Feng Jun, his Traveling Residence, and the Blessing Courtyard were gone.
• A Chen-surnamed Innate Realm martial cultivator reassured An Yuhong that Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi would return in a couple of days.

Feng Jun brought Kong Ziyi to the Blue Star Realm for treatment, but she remained conscious during the crossing, alerting Sumiao that the planar journey had begun. Feng Jun returned Kong Ziyi and spent two days preparing to load three oil tankers, then pressed Yu Zhiyuan for an advance payment.

• Ji Busheng sent Kong Ziyi a bottle of Azure Heavens Immortal Liquid, and Feng Jun confirmed it could help Venerable Yang recover.
• Feng Jun took Kong Ziyi into the Blue Star Realm, where she stayed conscious until he put her in a Spirit Beast Bag and hurried to send her back.
• Sumiao sensed that Kong Ziyi had crossed planes, then felt that she had returned.
• Feng Jun, Good Scenery, and Zhang Caixin found a secluded coastal site and later toured Fantang City while waiting for tanker locations.
• Yu Zhiyuan told Feng Jun about three oil tankers and sent refueling instructions, and Feng Jun warned him about anyone approaching them before demanding an advance payment.

After a dispute over the delayed advance payment, Feng Jun secured an eighty percent advance and a ten percent price increase before heading to the East Sea. There, he found animals drawn to the Spirit-Gathering Formation and discovered that people were openly watching the oil tankers, so he seized their night-vision binoculars.

• Feng Jun raised the oil price by ten percent after the Yu family failed to deliver the advance payment, then returned to Luo Hua with Zhang Caixin and Good Scenery.
• Yu Zhiyuan arranged payment, but Feng Jun demanded an eighty percent advance; Elder Yu urged Yu Zhiyuan to accept, and the buyers transferred the money that afternoon.
• Feng Jun took Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery to the East Sea, where they found dead birds and snakes near the Spirit-Gathering Formation and living animals gathered nearby.
• Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin flew toward the oil tankers and found people watching them from brightly lit camps and yachts beyond the shoreline.
• Feng Jun used his Divine Sense to knock out the beach observers and took their night-vision binoculars, then seized another pair from the yachts.

Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin sabotaged surveillance equipment and filled an oil tanker while Kong Ziyi recovered from treatment for her Chaos Yin-Yang Curse. Kong Ziyi met her grandmother Sumiao afterward and decided to try Feng Jun’s treatment again once she had recovered further.

• Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin floated above the ships, destroyed cameras, and began filling the oil tanker with crude oil while the watchers failed to reach their unconscious beach team.
• Feng Jun brought Kong Ziyi into the Phone Plane, gave her Spirit Stones, and used a Spirit-Gathering Formation to help her recover as Sumiao watched from a distance.
• After Kong Ziyi’s health recovered to sixty percent, she returned to Liba Beach and told An Yuhong to focus on learning the Thunder Auxiliary Art.
• Kong Ziyi secretly left her residence at midnight and met Sumiao, explaining that the Chaos Yin-Yang Curse had weakened during Feng Jun’s treatment.
• Sumiao supported Kong Ziyi trying the treatment again after recovery, advising her to stop after three attempts and to tell Feng Jun that the decision was hers.

Feng Jun transported crude oil to the Blue Star Plane while Zhang Caixin confronted him about hiding his ability to travel between planes and asked to accompany him. After cultivating for more than three days, he met the returning Supreme Clarity Sect disciples, including Guo Xiaosong, who had helped Tang Shixun seek Thunder Cultivator techniques at Thunder Plains.

• Feng Jun loaded crude oil into the Storage Pouch, charged his Stone Ring, and used night-vision goggles to track Kong Ziyi before leaving the plane from inside his Defensive Formation.
• Zhang Caixin realized Feng Jun could travel to another plane, argued that he had excluded her, and asked to go with him, but he refused because of the danger.
• Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin filled three oil tankers with crude oil while distant observers speculated about how they were transferring it so quickly.
• Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane, cultivated for more than three days, and woke when Chen Junwei told him the visitors had returned from Thunder Plains.
• Feng Jun welcomed Guo Xiaosong, Meng Xinghun, and the others, then learned that Tang Shixun had asked Guo Xiaosong to help find Thunder Cultivator techniques in hopes of reaching Core Embrace.

Feng Jun matched Thunder Arts to Tang Shixun, Su Yuanjiang, and An Yuhong, who chose techniques suited to their attributes and circumstances. Guo Xiaosong then brought Meng Xinghun to Feng Jun for help after the youth’s cultivation began regressing.

• Tang Shixun borrowed more than sixty sealed Thunder Arts, and Feng Jun matched them to find the most suitable techniques for the three Supreme Clarity Sect cultivators.
• Feng Jun advised Su Yuanjiang to cultivate the Five Elements Thunder Scripture after dispersing his cultivation, and recommended the Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture for Tang Shixun and the Yin-Floating Thunder Technique for An Yuhong.
• An Yuhong arranged to buy the Yin-Floating Thunder Technique, while Tang Shixun planned to obtain Spirit Stones for the discounted Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture and escort Guo Xiaosong back to the Thunder Plains.
• Su Yuanjiang decided to accompany his senior brother to the Thunder Plains before returning to the mountain to seek his master’s guidance about dispersing his cultivation.
• Guo Xiaosong introduced Meng Xinghun to Feng Jun and explained that the youth’s cultivation had stalled at the Seventh Layer of Mortal Transcendence and then begun to regress.

Feng Jun and the Supreme Clarity Sect disciples investigated Meng Xinghun’s connection to the long-dead Golden Core Thunder Cultivator Meng Xiaofei. After Meng Xinghun revealed an inherited pill bottle that had brought him dreams and cultivation guidance, Sumiao identified the method as the Soul-Vesting Secret Art, while Feng Jun warned that Meng Xiaofei’s lingering resentment could hinder Xinghun’s Core breakthrough.

• Feng Jun asked Meng Xinghun about Meng Xiaofei and told Guo Xiaosong that Xinghun bore traces of the notorious Thunder Cultivator.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect disciples suspected body snatching, while Feng Jun questioned Meng Xinghun about strange objects and recent changes in his cultivation.
• Tang Shixun pressed Guo Xiaosong to address the suspicion, and Guo warned Meng Xinghun that he could not protect him if he stayed silent.
• Meng Xinghun admitted that he had found an ancestral Body-Tempering Pill bottle half a year earlier and had since received cultivation advice in his dreams.
• Sumiao recognized the Soul-Vesting Secret Art, and Feng Jun warned that Meng Xiaofei’s resentment could make Xinghun’s Inner Demon trial difficult.

Feng Jun explained that Meng Xinghun’s medicine bottle contained a Vengeful Soul Crystal, which could recognize the Meng Family bloodline and hold a Golden Core cultivator’s consciousness and stored cultivation. The others examined it and left gifts for Meng Xinghun, who later asked the ancestor in his mind whether it was Meng Xiaofei and whether he would face Inner Demons.

• Kong Ziyi corrected Guo Xiaosong’s assumption, explaining that the crystal selected aptitude rather than granting a Blood Kin Gift, while Tang Shixun apologized after Feng Jun refused to explain it for free.
• Feng Jun explained that a Vengeful Soul Crystal could retain a Golden Core cultivator’s consciousness and cultivation, and that Meng Xiaofei’s crystal could help Meng Xinghun advance while keeping its power concealed.
• Kong Ziyi took the bottle from Meng Xinghun to inspect it, then returned it after Feng Jun estimated its energy could provide several Peak Emergence from Dust strikes; Tang Shixun and the others examined it and gave Meng Xinghun small gifts.
• Kong Ziyi reassured Meng Xinghun that only someone with the Meng Family bloodline could gain the Vengeful Soul’s recognition, and Su Yuanjiang warned him to prepare for a possible Inner Demon at Core Embrace.
• That night, Sumiao regretted not studying the crystal longer, while Meng Xinghun asked the presence in his mind if it was Meng Xiaofei and whether he would face Inner Demons; the ancestor told him to temper his body with lightning and overcome any such trials.

Elder Bai’s attempted apology to Kong Ziyi ended with True Adept Sumiao killing him, prompting Mingsha Market to punish the Bai family and compensate Kong Ziyi. Tang Shixun returned to discuss his cultivation with the Inaction Peak Lord, who acknowledged Feng Jun’s skill but questioned whether Tang should train in Lantern Town.

• Meng Xinghun learned from his ancestor that Feng Mountain Lord was more dangerous than the Golden Core cultivator who had watched them, and that a powerful being was inside Feng Jun’s Spirit Beast Bag.
• Elder Bai offered Kong Ziyi Spirit Stones for forgiveness, but True Adept Sumiao killed him and warned Master Hua not to interfere with Supreme Clarity Sect’s licensed disciples.
• Master Hua agreed to relay Kong Ziyi’s message to Mingsha Market, which arrested the Bai family members at the Qi Refining Stage or above and froze their assets.
• The Liu Clan exiled Liu Yongjia for five years and offered Feng Jun gifts to apologize for his offense.
• Mingsha Market gave Kong Ziyi fifty thousand Spirit Stones, while Tang Shixun returned and reported that the Inaction Peak Lord had approved the Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture for him.
• Tang Shixun proposed cultivating in Lantern Town so Feng Jun could help test him, but the Inaction Peak Lord objected that the sect needed to oversee his cultivation.

Tang Shixun chose to return to Inaction Peak so its lord could observe his cultivation, while Feng Jun continued juggling An Yuhong’s training and the crude-oil deliveries. After the tankers were filled, Feng Jun watched the officials investigate their cargo and prepared to resume his work with Kong Ziyi.

• Tang Shixun declined to cultivate at Liba Beach, explained that Inaction Peak’s lord wanted to monitor him, and left after spending a night there.
• Duan told Feng Jun that the Bai family had spread rumors blaming the Yin Sha Sect for coveting Liba Beach’s treasure, and An Yuhong began training her body with electricity.
• Feng Jun delivered the third batch of crude oil to Zhang Caixin, filling three tankers, then hid with the others to watch officials approach them.
• Yu Zhiyuan refused to compensate the officials for their missing surveillance equipment and rejected their speculation that an infrasonic weapon had knocked out their people.
• Feng Jun and the three women stayed hidden through the day while ships tested the oil, then Feng Jun returned to the Phone Plane after dark.
• Kong Ziyi left with Feng Jun and agreed when he proposed using more force during their next session.

Feng Jun brought Kong Ziyi to Blue Star for another treatment of her Chaos Yin-Yang Curse while Sumiao secretly watched. After returning to the Phone Plane, he found that the curse remained as a latent danger and prepared to let Kong Ziyi recover in his Traveling Residence.

• Feng Jun used the Spirit-Binding Formation to bring Kong Ziyi to Blue Star, where he checked her vitality and placed her in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery discovered Kong Ziyi and learned that Feng Jun had been testing treatments to cure her curse.
• Feng Jun ordered Zhang Caixin to begin indexing cultivation materials for a scripture repository.
• Teacher Mei carried Kong Ziyi's Spirit Beast Bag to the Phone Plane, where Sumiao mistook her sudden appearance for an Artifact Spirit.
• Feng Jun spotted Sumiao watching from the woods, and she retreated after realizing he had noticed her.
• Feng Jun released Kong Ziyi in his Traveling Residence and learned that her Chaos Yin-Yang Curse was no longer weak but remained a latent danger.

Feng Jun treated Kong Ziyi on a cliff prepared with a Spirit-Gathering Formation, but the treatment did not remove the root cause, and she quickly recovered. Back at Luohua Manor, cultivation and manuscript work continued before Feng Jun attended the Cinnabar Cloud Heaven gathering, where he refused to entertain cultivators begging for help; meanwhile, several visitors arrived at the manor.

• Kong Ziyi woke soon after Feng Jun treated her, sensed the dense spiritual energy around her, and learned that the treatment had not cured the root cause.
• Feng Jun told Kong Ziyi not to seek him out for another treatment, then returned with the three women to Luohua Manor.
• Zhang Caixin began cataloguing manuals from a Storage Pouch, and twenty days later Gu Jiahui advanced to the Seventh Layer Mortal Transcendence.
• Feng Jun asked Yu Zhiyuan about crude oil demand, and Yu Zhiyuan assured him he would not rush Feng Jun to deliver it.
• At the Cinnabar Cloud Heaven gathering, Feng Jun told Guan Shanyue to stop introducing cultivators who wanted to meet him and beg for money or resources.
• Seven or eight people arrived at the entrance of Luohua Manor and asked whether they had found the right place.

Feng Jun refused to meet the crude oil buyers who had angered Yu Zhiyuan and insisted they pay in advance for a new, massive order. The buyers grudgingly accepted, but after Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin delivered the first load and received the remaining payment, a problem arose with the next tanker shipment.

• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua and turned away the buyers waiting at the mountain gate, telling them to negotiate crude oil business through Yu Zhiyuan.
• Yu Zhiyuan explained that the buyers had delayed the previous balance payment and asked Feng Jun to resume selling crude oil; Feng Jun agreed to a large order but demanded full payment upfront.
• Feng Jun refused to meet the buyers, who eventually paid in advance for the crude oil destined for the Haizhou Oil Storage Base.
• Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin transported the first load, and two days later the buyers inspected the goods, paid the second balance, and asked them to refill the three tankers.
• A problem arose as Feng Jun and Zhang Caixin continued the crude oil delivery.

After Feng Jun punished men who violated the tanker’s exclusion zone, Yu Zhiyuan ended crude-oil sales to their side for six months. Yang Yuxin returned and advanced her cultivation, then asked Feng Jun whether he could treat a cancer patient; Huahua suggested the cancer cells might feed Gu worms.

• Feng Jun spotted two motorboats spying near the oil tanker, capsized them, and injured two of the six men aboard.
• Yu Zhiyuan rejected demands to hand over Feng Jun and suspended crude-oil sales to the other side for six months, earning Feng Jun’s approval.
• Yang Yuxin returned to Luo Hua and advanced to the Second Layer of Mortal Transcendence that evening.
• Yang Yuxin told Feng Jun that Elder Gu had asked whether he could treat a cancer patient, and Feng Jun doubted the Foundation-Nourishing Pill would help.
• Huahua sent Feng Jun the thought that cancer cells might be suitable for feeding Gu worms.

Feng Jun visited Clearwind Ridge with Huangfu Wuxia, inspected its oil well, and learned that Dragon Wanderer had taken an interest in the estate. He challenged the Black Clan’s patriarch over withholding information, but Hegel asked him to spare the neighbors who had passed it along.

• Feng Jun decided to investigate whether Gu Insects could help treat cancer after Huahua suggested the idea, and Huangfu Wuxia told him that medicinal Gu Insects that ate tumors were available.
• Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia traveled to Clearwind Ridge, where Hegel and the Black Clan welcomed them.
• Feng Jun inspected the oil well and judged its crude oil to be better than the oil at Liba Beach.
• Hegel revealed that Dragon Wanderer of the Yin Sha Sect had taken an interest in Clearwind Ridge, and Huangfu Wuxia asked who had told him.
• Feng Jun rebuked Hegel for favoring the neighbors over the people guarding his estate, but Hegel asked him to spare them.

After learning that Feng Jun owned Clearwind Ridge, the Zhu Family apologized for considering buying the land and he let the matter end with a warning. Huangfu Wuxia then arranged to invest in the site by providing workers to supervise it, and Feng Jun agreed to give her a share of the benefits.

• The Black Clan told Feng Jun that the Zhu Family had asked about buying Clearwind Ridge, and he decided to speak with them about coveting his property.
• Feng Jun and the Black Clan inspected Clearwind Ridge and found no evidence of large-scale crude oil extraction.
• A Zhu Family Adept brought Spirit Wine to apologize to Feng Jun, who accepted the gift, returned a jar of Three Parts Longing, and warned them not to repeat the matter.
• Huangfu Wuxia offered to invest in the crude oil operation and provide people to supervise the area.
• Feng Jun agreed that Huangfu Wuxia could put up a thousand Spirit Stones as wages for her people, who would watch the site for ten years.

Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia searched Tasselwash Market for medical Gu that could treat cancer and met the Gu cultivator Gong Yannan. Gong Yannan promised he could find the needed Gu, and Huangfu Wuxia judged that his Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu was worth pawning to Feng Jun for two thousand Spirit Stones.

• Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia traveled to Tasselwash Market and bought three Pericardial Gu eggs from the Tiantong Merchant Alliance.
• Gong Yannan objected when Tiantong required him to seal the Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu he wanted to pawn, and Feng Jun confirmed that the Gu did not need sealing.
• Gong Yannan learned that Feng Jun wanted Gu to devour malignant tumors and recalled records of a Gu insect that could treat the disease.
• Gong Yannan said he could find the needed Gu after returning home to check his records, but asked Feng Jun for Spirit Stones because he had run into trouble.
• Gong Yannan offered to pawn his Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu for two thousand Spirit Stones, and Huangfu Wuxia checked her records and approved the price.

Feng Jun bought gu insects from Gong Yannan and arranged to obtain more, then welcomed Kong Ziyi as a companion while she recovered from a curse. Gong Yannan later arrived at Liba Beach with gu insects that could treat Kong Ziyi’s condition, and Feng Jun agreed to buy them.

• Feng Jun accepted Gong Yannan’s Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu as collateral and warned him that its weakening meant it was close to evolving.
• Feng Jun and Huangfu Wuxia searched three Gu Cultivator shops in Tasselwash Market, found their stock unreliable, and returned to Liba Beach.
• Kong Ziyi told Feng Jun that her curse was stable for thirty years and asked to travel with him while monitoring her recovery.
• Gong Yannan arrived at Liba Beach with a Ninth Layer Qi Refining Gu Cultivator and offered Feng Jun Meridian Worms and Gray-Mist Needle Worms.
• Feng Jun confirmed the gu insects could treat Cuckoo Takes the Magpie’s Nest Syndrome and agreed to pay six thousand Spirit Stones for the insects and feeding methods.

Gong Yannan sold Feng Jun two medical Gu insects and their breeding methods, then asked him to divine which Gu would best suit his grandnephew Gong Leisure Cloud’s advancement. An Yuhong and Kong Ziyi discovered that Gong Yannan had greatly inflated the price, and Feng Jun confronted him as the chapter ended.

• Gong Yannan explained why he had pawned his Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu and how he had chosen to sell Feng Jun two obscure medical Gu insects for three thousand Spirit Stones each.
• Feng Jun inspected the Gu insects and books, returned Gong Yannan’s Spirit Beast talisman, and paid another four thousand Spirit Stones.
• Gong Yannan asked Feng Jun to divine which of several Gu insects would best suit Gong Leisure Cloud’s advancement, and Feng Jun agreed to calculate with the items present for a fee.
• An Yuhong checked the Gu insects’ prices with fellow disciples, learned they were worth about a hundred Spirit Stones each, and told Kong Ziyi that Gong Yannan had overcharged Feng Jun.
• After Kong Ziyi alerted Feng Jun, he confronted Gong Yannan about the inflated price and reminded him that he had treated him fairly when he pawned the Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu.

Feng Jun charged Gong Yannan six thousand Spirit Stones for advice about his grandnephew, and Gong Yannan returned after recognizing Pacify Arms Mountain’s connection to the Gu King incident. Feng Jun revealed that Gong Yiyun’s Fire Poison had not been fully purged, leaving Gong Yannan to confront the concealed injury and his grandnephew’s deception.

• Gong Yannan defended the price he had charged for the Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu, and Feng Jun accepted that his secret medical knowledge was worth the cost.
• Feng Jun offered to reveal a possible danger to Gong Yiyun for a high fee, but Gong Yannan left without hearing his advice.
• After remembering that the Liao Brothers had been captured at Pacify Arms Mountain, Gong Yannan turned back and agreed to Feng Jun’s six-thousand-Spirit-Stone price, paying five thousand five hundred and owing the rest.
• Feng Jun asked Gong Yiyun whether he would explain his problem, then revealed that Fire Poison still remained in his body.
• Gong Yannan connected the Fire Poison to an incident twelve years earlier, and Gong Yiyun admitted he had believed the injury healed while concealing its severity and secretly treating it.