Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun diagnosed Yan Beifeng’s damaged five-element system and prescribed a treatment sequence for ten thousand spirit stones. Yan Beifeng trusted the prescription and left with renewed hope, while his companion noted its similarities to another treatment method.

• Feng Jun explained how Yan Beifeng’s fire arts and encounter with Yinsha had caused his five elements to collapse.
• Feng Jun charged Yan Beifeng ten thousand spirit stones for selecting and sequencing the medicinal ingredients, and Yan Beifeng paid through Kong Ziyi.
• Yan Beifeng and his companion departed on a Flying Boat, and he said Feng Jun’s recommended sequence gave him hope.
• Yan Beifeng’s companion reviewed the prescription and questioned whether they should compare it further with the He Family’s method from Springwatch Valley.

Yan Beifeng chose Feng Jun’s treatment plan after realizing his long-standing injury had been difficult to treat partly because he was a man in the Red Phoenix Sect. The physician judged Feng Jun unusually capable, and Yan Beifeng took the first dose while the others waited to see how he responded.

• Yan Beifeng explained to Yajuan that the Red Phoenix Sect’s treatments had been developed with female cultivators in mind, leaving his case caught between conflicting plans.
• Yan Beifeng chose Feng Jun’s prescription, saying he would rather gamble than keep waiting, and went into seclusion to take the medicine.
• Yajuan consulted a sect physician, who said the plan would not kill Yan Beifeng and praised Feng Jun’s apparent skill.
• The physician realized they could learn within half a day whether the first dose had caused the worst outcome, so he and Yajuan went to wait outside Yan Beifeng’s door.
• Kong Ziyi asked Feng Jun why Yan Beifeng’s gender mattered, and Feng Jun explained how his divination and medicine matching had led him to that conclusion.
• Kong Ziyi’s two friends were impressed by Feng Jun’s insight and underwent examinations, which found no serious problems.

Feng Jun rejected the Yin Soul’s pressure to pursue power and kept his distance from Kong Ziyi, while the Red Phoenix Sect investigated his unusual connections and medical skills. Scarlet Luan decided to visit him and asked whether he could handle matching Flame Marrow Pills.

• Feng Jun refused the Yin Soul’s offer of the Myriad Transformations Gourd and insisted he would follow his own sect’s cultivation arrangements.
• Kong Ziyi told her friends she would safeguard the Spirit Stones and later use them to buy storage and cultivation items from the Red Phoenix Sect.
• A Golden Core True Adept assessed Yan Beifeng’s condition and predicted that his treatment would proceed smoothly.
• Bai Luan’s master alerted Scarlet Luan, who investigated Feng Jun and recognized that Kong Ziyi’s token and his connections suggested he had powerful backing.
• Scarlet Luan contacted Kong Ziyi’s friends to arrange a visit, then asked whether Feng Jun could handle matching Flame Marrow Pills.

At the Thunder Plains, Scarlet Luan asked Feng Jun to assess whether he could divine how many Flame Marrow Pills Red Phoenix Sect disciples needed to advance. Kong Ziyi explained the pill’s importance and negotiated a trial arrangement, leaving Feng Jun questioning whether the plan was appropriate.

• Scarlet Luan arrived at the Thunder Plains and asked Kong Ziyi whether she or Feng Jun was leading their travels and why they had stayed.
• Scarlet Luan asked Feng Jun whether Yan Beifeng could recover, and Feng Jun said he would recover unless another mishap occurred.
• Scarlet Luan brought up the Flame Marrow Pill, and Kong Ziyi explained that Red Phoenix Sect wanted Feng Jun to divine how many pills disciples needed for breakthroughs.
• Kong Ziyi negotiated with Scarlet Luan, who offered three thousand Spirit Stones per disciple and proposed buying one hundred divination slots if the trial succeeded.
• Feng Jun asked whether the arrangement would be inappropriate.

Feng Jun refused Scarlet Luan’s proposal to buy a hundred divination slots but agreed to prioritize Red Phoenix Sect disciples when he had time. After two disciples successfully advanced using his divination, Scarlet Luan arranged forty more slots, while Kong Ziyi warned her friends that Feng Jun was too dangerous to visit the sect without guarantees of safety.

• Feng Jun rejected Scarlet Luan’s offer to buy a hundred slots because he did not want to owe obligations or have his time tied down, but he agreed to give Red Phoenix Sect disciples priority when available.
• Scarlet Luan gave Feng Jun a Super-Large Storage Pouch in return for his promise, and Feng Jun divined for two Peak Qi Condensation disciples who needed Flame Marrow Pills.
• Scarlet Luan sent the two disciples to attempt breakthroughs, and both successfully advanced to Emergence from Dust within four days.
• Scarlet Luan asked Feng Jun to select forty candidates from more than two hundred Peak Qi Condensation disciples, but he refused to choose among them and offered to divine for up to twenty a day if all attempted breakthroughs.
• Kong Ziyi’s friends urged her and Feng Jun to visit the Red Phoenix Sect, but she asked whether they could guarantee their safe return and warned that Feng Jun could stand against a Golden Core True Adept.
• Kong Ziyi’s friends wondered whether Feng Jun could identify the likeliest candidates to succeed, and she said his divination was extremely powerful.

Feng Jun explained how Scarlet Luan had maneuvered their agreement, then matched Flame Marrow Pills for forty Red Phoenix Sect disciples at Thunder Plains. Scarlet Luan learned that Feng Jun could estimate their breakthrough success and decided to bring him to the Red Phoenix Sect, by force if necessary.

• Feng Jun explained to Kong Ziyi how Scarlet Luan had used sect resources and a Storage Pouch to shape their agreement, and Kong Ziyi agreed to handle the matching at Thunder Plains.
• Yan Beifeng visited Feng Jun to express gratitude as his Five Elements began rebuilding, and Feng Jun advised him on his recovery.
• Scarlet Luan arrived at Thunder Plains with forty Peak Qi Condensation disciples and accepted Feng Jun's refusal to conduct the matching at Red Phoenix Sect.
• Feng Jun spent two days matching the forty disciples with Flame Marrow Pills, and Scarlet Luan gave the promised Spirit Stones to Kong Ziyi.
• After the disciples departed, Feng Jun predicted that eight or nine of them would break through, and Scarlet Luan resolved to take him to the Red Phoenix Sect even if she had to force him.

Feng Jun explained to Scarlet Luan why precise divination could not account for cultivators’ choices, persuading her to abandon plans to forcibly recruit him. While he waited for Red Phoenix Sect’s Flame Marrow Pill trials to conclude, Red Sister advanced and the sect received its first breakthrough results.

• Feng Jun told Scarlet Luan that Golden Core cultivators avoided precise predictions because cultivators’ hearts and decisions could defy calculated odds, and she gave up on forcibly bringing him to Red Phoenix.
• Scarlet Luan continued trying to persuade Feng Jun to join the sect, but he refused and asked whether she would compensate him for her earlier intentions.
• Red Sister advanced to the Seventh Layer Mortal Transcendence, while Chen Junwei asked Feng Jun for a cultivation technique and decided to consult his brother before choosing his path.
• Red Phoenix Sect reported that five of the twenty Peak Qi Condensation cultivators with results had advanced, bringing the sect’s recent total to seven new Emergence from Dust Adepts.
• The breakthrough reports showed that no cultivator had died from taking too many Flame Marrow Pills, though one cultivator who had taken four succeeded and another who gradually increased his dose still failed.

Scarlet Luan and Cai Luan considered asking Feng Jun to examine the Red Phoenix Sect adepts’ cultivation problems, but he refused to set a uniform fee and insisted on charging according to the severity of each person’s injuries. Scarlet Luan proposed paying five thousand Spirit Stones per adept through discounted supplies, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• The Flame Marrow Pill trials supported Feng Jun’s divinations, and several Red Phoenix disciples postponed their breakthroughs to prepare more carefully.
• The Grand Elder ordered Cai Luan to bring Feng Jun to her, but Cai Luan first consulted Scarlet Luan and reviewed information about him.
• After learning Feng Jun had also divined for Supreme Clarity Sect adepts, Cai Luan abandoned the idea of forcibly inviting him and suggested asking him to analyze Red Phoenix Sect’s Crystal Flame problems.
• Scarlet Luan flew to the Thunder Plains and asked Feng Jun about divining for Red Phoenix adepts, but he said he would charge according to the severity of their injuries.
• Scarlet Luan offered Kong Ziyi five thousand Spirit Stones per adept, payable in Storage Pouches and High-Stage Emergence Spirit-Gathering Formations at seventy percent of market price.

Feng Jun, Scarlet Luan, and Kong Ziyi settled on a token system for Red Phoenix Sect disciples seeking Divination, allowing Feng Jun to leave after half a month. Scarlet Luan realized Feng Jun’s Flame Marrow Pill guidance had changed a disciple’s fate, but decided the sect could not publicize the revelation because it exposed flaws in its cultivation system.

• Kong Ziyi and Scarlet Luan argued over the cost and timing of Divination for Red Phoenix Sect’s Emergence from Dust Adepts.
• Feng Jun proposed that the sect issue tokens, which disciples could later exchange for Divination, and Scarlet Luan agreed.
• Nineteen Emergence from Dust Adepts sought Divination slots within three days of Scarlet Luan promoting the arrangement.
• Scarlet Luan’s junior sister asked whether a disciple had truly broken through after taking four Flame Marrow Pills at once.
• Scarlet Luan recognized that the breakthrough exposed how the sect’s customary cultivation guidance could prevent disciples from advancing, and decided not to publicize it.

Feng Jun completed a new round of injury assessments and Flame Marrow Pill matching for Red Phoenix disciples, while Scarlet Luan uncovered and detained an Adept from Netherworld Mountain. The detained man explained that he had left Netherworld Mountain as a child and claimed he had been wronged.

• Scarlet Luan organized treatment and matching for twenty-seven Red Phoenix Adepts and twenty-nine Qi Condensation disciples, while Feng Jun negotiated to receive sect tokens and discounted supplies.
• Feng Jun spent ten days assessing the disciples, matching all twenty-nine Qi Condensation cultivators, and determining that he could cure twenty-one Adepts, alleviate three others, and only delay the decline of two.
• Feng Jun identified the twenty-seventh Adept as a man from Netherworld Mountain, and Scarlet Luan used a Discipline Hall artifact to imprison him and suppress his abilities.
• Red Phoenix disciples surrounded the suspected spy and demanded an explanation as Feng Jun watched him skeptically.
• The male Adept admitted he was born in Netherworld Mountain but said his mother took him away when he was three, and that he later became an orphan.

After the Red Phoenix Sect exposed a suspected Yin Sha Sect spy, Feng Jun prepared to leave Thunder Plains for Giant Wood Market and the Endless Sea. The Yin Soul resisted being left behind and revealed that the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art had many incomplete branches, then questioned whether Feng Jun’s sect’s continuation was best for him.

• Cai Luan accepted Scarlet Luan’s judgment that the male cultivator was likely a Yin Sha Sect spy and ordered a Soul Search despite his protests.
• Feng Jun ended his plans with the Red Phoenix Sect and prepared to travel with his companions to Giant Wood Market, near the Endless Sea.
• The Yin Soul objected to Feng Jun’s destination and protested when he said they should part ways, so he offered to leave her Yin Soul Stone behind.
• The Yin Soul asked whether Feng Jun’s Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art had a Golden Core Stage version and explained that no standard continuation existed, even in the upper realm.
• Feng Jun claimed his sect had follow-up cultivation arts, but the Yin Soul asked whether he knew they were the most suitable for him.

Feng Jun agreed to retrieve the Yin Soul’s hidden cache in the Bewitching Soul Forest after learning it might lead to valuable cultivation methods. He brought Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery toward the destination, then ordered Director Mei to put two of them away before they left.

• Feng Jun realized the Yin Soul might possess Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivation methods and questioned its claims.
• The Yin Soul promised ten Golden Core cultivation methods if Feng Jun helped find the Myriad Transformations Gourd, then proposed retrieving a cache in the Bewitching Soul Forest to build trust.
• The Yin Soul revealed that the cache contained Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, Heavenly Fragrance Fruits, and possibly cultivation methods, and advised Feng Jun to go alone.
• Feng Jun persuaded the Yin Soul to let Kong Ziyi accompany him, but later brought Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery instead.
• After traveling about fifty li from the Blessing Courtyard, Feng Jun ordered Director Mei to put two of the girls away so they could leave immediately.

Feng Jun learned that the Yin Soul might be a Soul Division Stage Remnant Soul and prepared to protect the Blue Star Realm while continuing to deal with it. After absorbing five hundred Spirit Stones and testing lightning in the Thunder Cultivators' settlement, he returned to the Traveling Residence, where the Yin Soul asked why he had come back alone.

• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery that a powerful Remnant Soul, possibly at the Soul Division Stage, had noticed him, but he still intended to return to its plane.
• Feng Jun warned the women to guard their Spirit Stones and be wary of Chen Shengwang, Shen Qingyi, and the authorities, while they reflected on the sacrifices behind their cultivation.
• Feng Jun absorbed Spirit Stones to replenish Energy Points, eventually using five hundred as he prepared to face the Yin Soul and protect the Blue Star Realm.
• Feng Jun returned to the Thunder Plains, tested lightning-strike data at the Thunder Cultivators' settlement, and came back to the Traveling Residence two days later.
• The Yin Soul asked Feng Jun why he had returned alone.

Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi traveled to Phoenix Song near the Bewitching Soul Forest, where locals reacted warily to their arrival and a confrontation followed. The chapter left them meeting Fang Wenping, who brought a valuable gift after learning Kong Ziyi belonged to the Supreme Clarity Sect.

• Feng Jun told the Yin Soul that he had sent Good Scenery and the others away because of a problem at his sect, and he and the Yin Soul discussed the unstable basis of their cooperation.
• Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi took their attendants to Phoenix Song, where residents avoided them and they learned the nearest market town was over a hundred thousand li away.
• After Feng Jun put out his Traveling Residence, Kong Ziyi struck down a Qi Condensation cultivator who had challenged them, and they waited through a quiet night for the locals to respond.
• Fang Wenping arrived with several cultivators and offered to meet Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi; after learning Kong Ziyi was from the Supreme Clarity Sect, he presented ten Kirin Squirrels.
• Kong Ziyi recognized the Kirin Squirrels as valuable delicacies and refused to accept the gift.

Fang Wenping explained how local cultivators protected their livelihood and territory around the Forest of Bewildered Souls. Kong Ziyi and Feng Jun planned to explore the area, while Fang revealed that several Emergence from Dust families stood behind the local villagers.

• Fang Wenping offered Kong Ziyi Pine Squirrels, but she refused because they lacked the friendship to exchange valuable gifts.
• Kong Ziyi asked why Fang Wenping was hostile toward outsiders, and he explained that locals resented visitors who disregarded their rules and exploited their hard-won knowledge.
• Fang Wenping described how local cultivators had kept the Tiantong Merchant Alliance from establishing a branch near the Forest of Bewildered Souls.
• Kong Ziyi said she and Feng Jun wanted to explore nearby unusual places, and Fang offered to arrange a guide.
• Feng Jun asked what Fang Wenping meant by his side, and Fang revealed that several Emergence from Dust families lived nearby.

Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi hired a local adept named Yuan to guide them through Pine Sea Forest, where he hoped they would help him hunt a Gold-Pattern Flying Bear. After entering the forest, they killed a Cloud-Treading Leopard, exposing the difference between their concern for safety and Yuan’s focus on the value of the hunt.

• Two Supreme Clarity Sect disciples arrived, and Feng Jun chose to hire local guides rather than rely on the elderly disciple’s clansmen.
• Yuan offered to guide Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi in exchange for help killing a Gold-Pattern Flying Bear guarding Blue-Leaf Pearl Plants, and Feng Jun agreed to go without claiming the plants.
• The group entered Bewitching Soul Forest, camped behind defensive formations, and Yuan explained why the forest’s trees were left standing as protection from Wild Beasts.
• The next day, Feng Jun stunned a Cloud-Treading Leopard with a Falling Thunder Technique, and Kong Ziyi killed it, ruining its valuable pelt.
• Yuan contrasted their hunt for profit with Feng Jun’s experience fighting Spirit Beast tides, while Kong Ziyi insisted that human lives should come first.

Feng Jun and the group escaped a Hunting Bee swarm, then traveled by air to hunt a Gold-Pattern Flying Bear. After a second bear appeared, Kong Ziyi knocked it down and Feng Jun bound it, leaving the group in control of the fight.

• Feng Jun fought off a Hunting Bee swarm until Yuan explained that medicinal liquid could repel the bees, and the group applied it before continuing.
• Kong Ziyi chose to fly above the forest, while two Qi Refining Stage men tracking the group with a Tracking Moth stopped pursuing them and discussed the Liu Clan's involvement.
• Feng Jun landed the group near the Gold-Pattern Flying Bear's territory and released the Traveling Residence so they could rest before hunting.
• Yuan prepared to capture a Gold-Pattern Flying Bear alive, but a second one appeared and he told Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi to attack it freely.
• Kong Ziyi struck the second bear with a giant palm, and Feng Jun used the Immortal-Binding Cord to bind it.

Feng Jun, Kong Ziyi, Yuan, and the others explored the Bewitching Soul Forest, hunting Wild Beasts and gathering rare resources. After Kong Ziyi acquired two Earthwalking Beast eggs, Feng Jun warned that their continued hunting might attract Demon Beasts.

• Yuan took extra time to capture a Gold-Pattern Flying Bear, then shared Blue-Leaf Pearl plants with Feng Jun and the others.
• Yuan guided the group around the forest, where Kong Ziyi found and collected two Earthwalking Beast eggs after they killed the mother beast.
• Feng Jun declined the Earthwalking Beast’s essence blood and eggs, leaving the valuable materials to Kong Ziyi.
• The group spent several days exploring and fighting Wild Beasts, while Yuan gathered resources for his family.
• Kong Ziyi asked Yuan about other places where Wild Beasts gathered, and Feng Jun cautioned that further hunting could draw out Demon Beasts.

Feng Jun’s group learned that Cypress Slope was a Wood-Baleful Land controlled by the Wen Clan, where the Yin Soul had hidden a cache. They arrived at the Wen Clan’s settlement, leaving Feng Jun wondering how its small enclosure towers could house so many people.

• Yuan explained that the Wen Clan had claimed Cypress Slope after defeating the sentient trees and defended it against Demon Beasts with a powerful formation.
• Kong Ziyi learned that the Wood-Baleful Land might have been artificially created and invited Feng Jun to inspect it.
• The Yin Soul told Feng Jun that it had created the land while trying to cultivate a tree demon to guard its hidden cache.
• Feng Jun’s group traveled to Cypress Slope and found the Wen Clan’s settlement surrounded by trading stalls and inns.
• Yuan explained that the Wen Clan’s nearly twenty thousand direct descendants lived partly in the settlement and partly on land outside the forest.

Feng Jun and Kong Ziyi visited Wen Manor to investigate its Wood Baleful Qi and defensive formation. The Yin Soul discovered that the Wood Baleful Qi was being drained and recognized the Six Harmonies Unification Formation, while Feng Jun learned that its hidden vault was inside a Little Enclosure Tower.

• Fang Wenping met Kong Ziyi and Feng Jun, denied pursuing them with the Wen Clan's banner, and offered to let them experience the Wood Baleful Qi where it leaked out.
• Kong Ziyi asked about the Wen Clan's Wood Baleful Qi, and Feng Jun asked Fang Wenping why he disliked the Burning Desert before agreeing to inspect the cultivation site.
• The Yin Soul sensed that much of the Wood Baleful Qi had been maliciously extracted from the Ten-Thousand-Year Wood Marrow Amber and suspected a demon beast was responsible.
• Fang Wenping secretly considered killing Feng Jun and possibly Kong Ziyi to protect himself and his family.
• The Yin Soul identified the Wen Clan's Six Harmonies Unification Formation, judged it difficult to break without its insight, and revealed that its hidden vault was inside a Little Enclosure Tower.