Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun and Chen Shengwang debated whether to destroy the Yin Spring and the Vengeful Corpse sustaining it, which might eventually become a powerful Drought Demon. Feng Jun rejected Chen Shengwang’s call to destroy it immediately and wanted to observe its intentions first.

• Feng Jun asked Chen Shengwang whether he would accept the Yin Spring being destroyed, and Chen Shengwang said it was his personal opportunity rather than Fanghu property.
• Feng Jun revealed that a Vengeful Corpse more than a hundred meters underground was absorbing the cemetery’s Yin Qi while supplying the spring.
• Feng Jun and Chen Shengwang discussed whether the Vengeful Corpse could become a Drought Demon, with Feng Jun estimating its current cultivation at the Fifth Layer of Mortal Transcendence and warning it might reach Emergence from Dust when it emerged.
• Chen Shengwang urged Feng Jun to destroy the Vengeful Corpse despite the value of the Yin Spring, fearing it could become an uncontrollable threat.
• Feng Jun said he would not destroy the Vengeful Corpse without cause and wanted to observe whether it held goodwill.

Feng Jun investigated the Vengeful Corpse and discovered that a remnant Land Deity was hiding within it. The Land Deity asked to become Feng Jun’s disciple, but Feng Jun refused because he had no ghost cultivation techniques.

• Feng Jun told Chen Shengwang that he would not punish the Vengeful Corpse without cause and would take it with him when he eventually left Blue Star.
• Feng Jun left a Spirit Stone beside the Yin Spring, then sealed the cave entrance and spent two days searching the area with Chen Shengwang.
• When they returned, Feng Jun noticed the Spirit Stone had been used and saw the Yin Spring’s sand form the words “Accept disciple.”
• Feng Jun placed the Spirit Stone in the spring, and a small figure appeared, revealing himself as a Land Deity’s remnant soul living inside the ancient corpse.
• The Land Deity explained how his temple had been destroyed and why he had hidden in the Yin Spring, then asked to join Feng Jun’s school.
• Feng Jun refused to take the Land Deity as a disciple because he lacked ghost cultivation techniques, leaving the Land Deity stunned.

Feng Jun brought the homeless former Land Deity Lin Heihu to Fugu Mountain and arranged for him to stay in the Cinnabar Cloud Heaven Secret Realm with Ma Sanniang. Lin Heihu admired the realm but ended by asking whether he could build a Divine Temple there, upsetting Ma Sanniang.

• Feng Jun offered Lin Heihu a Yin Soul Stone and proposed that he stay with Ma Sanniang in the Cinnabar Cloud Heaven Secret Realm.
• Lin Heihu transferred into the Yin Soul Stone, and Feng Jun stored the ancient corpse before taking Chen Shengwang to Fugu Mountain.
• The cured grilled-skewer patient followed Guan Shanyue to meet Feng Jun, who gave him medicine to help his weakened body recover.
• Guan Shanyue and Feng Jun negotiated with Ma Sanniang, who agreed to admit Lin Heihu to the Secret Realm for two Spirit Stones.
• Lin Heihu entered the Secret Realm, praised it, and asked Ma Sanniang whether he could build a Divine Temple there.

Lin Heihu asked Feng Jun to preserve his body, while Luohua Manor arranged its third batch of cancer patients and accepted Richard, a wealthy Mairui Country philanthropist, for treatment. Xu Leigang’s wife regretted her relative’s withdrawn slot after learning it had gone to Richard, and Xu said he had already signed the relative up for the next batch.

• Lin Heihu asked Feng Jun not to destroy his body unless Feng Jun could find him a spirit cultivator technique.
• Xu Leigang canceled his relative’s treatment slot after the family questioned whether his referral could be trusted, and Li Shishi began looking for a replacement.
• A young man asked Li Shishi to consider Richard, a wealthy Mairui Country cancer patient, and Feng Jun approved him for treatment at a fee of twenty million Mairui currency.
• Richard agreed to Luohua Manor’s rules, surrendered his devices, and joined the third batch of patients beginning treatment.
• Xu Leigang told his wife that Richard had taken the withdrawn slot and said he had already signed her relative up for the next batch.

After the third batch of cancer patients left Luohua Manor, Richard’s examination showed that nearly all his cancer cells had disappeared, though doctors could not confirm he was fully cured. As the fourth batch prepared, wealthy patients from Bai Yue began seeking treatment slots in Yang City, leaving Li Shishi unsure how to handle their attempts to buy places.

• More than sixty vehicles arrived to take the third batch of patients home, and Richard asked Li Shishi whether other Ma irui patients would also pay twenty million Ma irui currency for treatment.
• Richard underwent an examination in Dragon City, where experts found that his cancer cells had almost completely disappeared but advised him to wait before concluding he was cured.
• A Bai Yue merchant’s account of his treatment spread during the New Year, prompting wealthy Bai Yue patients to seek recommendations from Azure Firmament Master and Tang Celestial Master.
• After Azure Firmament Master warned them not to provoke Feng Jun, three Bai Yue patients went to Yang City and posted a sign offering to buy treatment slots at high prices.
• Li Shishi heard about the attempted slot purchases and hesitated to intervene, while two other cancer patients arrived and posted signs pleading for treatment.

When people tried to buy treatment slots at the Recovery Center, Yang Yuxin and Li Shishi sought help because they feared the signs would draw a crowd. With Feng Jun in seclusion, Chen Shengwang intervened and confronted the patients, leaving the dispute unresolved as he used yin energy to punish the loudest man.

• After two more people posted signs seeking treatment slots, Li Shishi warned Yang Yuxin that the situation could worsen before the authorities acted.
• Yang Yuxin and Li Shishi went to find Feng Jun, but Chen Shengwang told them he was busy performing Divination on a cultivation method.
• After Li Shishi explained the problem, Chen Shengwang offered to handle it and ordered the construction crew to remove the two men without money who had posted signs.
• Chen Shengwang confronted the three patients who claimed they had come through Master Azure Firmament and rejected their attempt to buy treatment slots.
• When Boss Hu refused to leave, Chen Shengwang sent yin energy at him, making him shiver uncontrollably, then warned the others that breaking the rules could mean courting death.

Chen Shengwang drove the terminally ill visitors away from Luo Hua, while Azure Firmament Master explained his standing and age. Meanwhile, Feng Jun began modifying cultivation techniques for Chen Shengwang and Gu Jiahui, then summoned Li Shishi to continue his experiments.

• Chen Shengwang threatened the visitors with the Yin Wind Life-Stealing Art and sent them away from Luo Hua’s construction site.
• Brother Kuang called Azure Firmament Master, who identified Chen Shengwang as a powerful Daoist and revealed that he was eighty-one years old.
• Feng Jun secluded himself with Chen Shengwang and spent nearly half a year in Phone Space modifying the Three Yin Gathering Yang technique, improving its compatibility with Chen Shengwang.
• Feng Jun modified the Azure Wood Art for Gu Jiahui but withheld the revised technique while planning to test it on Mi Yunshan.
• Feng Jun dismissed Gu Jiahui and summoned Li Shishi to examine her cultivation technique.

Feng Jun customized cultivation techniques for Zhang Caixin and several others, then returned to the Phone Plane to seek a cultivation cave. He reached Mingsha Market after taking precautions against pursuit, but the cave administrator refused his request for an Emergence from Dust High Stage cave.

• Feng Jun improved Zhang Caixin’s Fleeting Life Weak Water technique, and she later reported that her cultivation had sped up.
• Feng Jun made minor adjustments to Gazi’s technique and revised the later stages of Gao Qiang’s technique after realizing Xu Leigang and Wang Haifeng had little room to improve.
• Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin he would seek a Golden Core technique and bring her and the other two women to cultivate on his next return.
• Feng Jun entered the Phone Plane at night, ran more than a thousand li before using the Flashstar Boat, and flew toward Mingsha Market as a white-haired old man and his owl watched him.
• Feng Jun asked to rent an Emergence from Dust High Stage cultivation cave, but the administrator said none were available and questioned why an Early Emergence from Dust cultivator needed one.

Feng Jun used a high-grade cave residence in Mingsha Market to make it appear that he had advanced, then reunited with Red Sister and the other women at Liba Beach. Back at his Traveling Residence, he spoke with the Yin Soul, which said it needed three more months to recover and discussed the Secret Realm that Feng Jun had mentioned.

• Feng Jun rented an Emergence from Dust High Stage cave residence for five days, collected his remaining Spirit Stones, and left Mingsha Market before his pursuers caught up.
• Qu Jianlei and another merit holder followed Feng Jun, found him hunting Yellow-Earth Rabbits with three women, and kept their distance.
• Feng Jun spent five days in the wilderness with Red Sister and the other women before bringing them to Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun returned to his Traveling Residence, checked the formations, and asked the Yin Soul how much longer its Divine Soul needed to recover.
• The Yin Soul said it needed three more months and invited Feng Jun to visit and chat; Feng Jun then asked about the Incense Apotheosis Path and described a Secret Realm that nourished Divine Souls.
• The Yin Soul wanted access to the Secret Realm, but Feng Jun explained that its limited capacity would not allow the Yin Soul to repair its Divine Soul there.

Feng Jun learned that purifying the Land Deity’s Incense Faith would likely destroy his spirit body, while Big Shot offered an alternative Incense Faith Apotheosis method in exchange for the Pseudo-Heavenly Corpse. After Feng Jun agreed to seek the corpse, the chapter ended with Tang Shixun arriving at Liba Beach to consult Feng Jun about his cultivation.

• Big Shot identified the resentful corpse as a Pseudo-Heavenly Corpse and asked Feng Jun to give it to him in exchange for a favor.
• Big Shot warned Feng Jun that removing the Land Deity’s Incense Faith would leave him without a cultivation foundation and likely cause his spirit body to disperse.
• Big Shot offered to find the Land Deity a wild-cult Incense Faith Apotheosis method, and Feng Jun agreed to try to obtain the corpse while considering the risks to Blue Star.
• Big Shot suggested that Feng Jun ask the Red Phoenix Sect to improve cultivation methods, but Feng Jun worried that this would deepen the sect’s hold over him.
• Tang Shixun persisted in tempering his body with lightning for over two months and learned through Divination that the process might eventually loosen his cultivation Bottleneck.
• Tang Shixun confirmed through Kong Ziyi that Feng Jun would be staying at Liba Beach and went there with Supreme Clarity Sect companions to discuss cultivation methods.

Tang Shixun brought Feng Jun several cases of possible Wind-Thunder Concealed Metal Bodies, and Kong Ziyi set divination fees using Red Phoenix Sect’s pricing as a model. Feng Jun confirmed the Rising Sun Peak disciple’s condition and identified a suitable Thunder Arts technique, but refused to sell the secret art himself.

• Tang Shixun contacted True Adept Yuan Ming, whose divination identified two Radiant Peak Qi Refining cultivators as likely Wind-Thunder Concealed Metal Bodies and revealed a similar case at Rising Sun Peak.
• Tang Shixun asked Feng Jun to investigate the cases, and Feng Jun raised the question of a divination fee.
• Kong Ziyi established fees of three thousand Spirit Stones for Qi Refining cultivators and four thousand for Emergence from Dust cultivators, then privately explained Red Phoenix Sect’s token system to Tang Shixun.
• Tang Shixun and Kong Ziyi agreed that the two Emergence from Dust Adepts would pay four thousand Spirit Stones each while Feng Jun eased the fees for the Qi Refining disciples.
• Feng Jun confirmed that the Rising Sun Peak disciple was a Wind-Thunder Concealed Metal Body and matched him with a Thunder Arts technique, but refused to sell the technique.

Feng Jun offered to tailor the Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture to Tang Shixun so he might have a chance to achieve Core Embrace. He asked Tang Shixun to kill someone in return if the modification helped him succeed, leaving Tang and the others pondering Feng Jun’s claim about balancing Heaven’s Dao.

• Feng Jun matched Thunder Arts and prescribed conditioning plans for two Radiant Peak disciples, charging Tang Shixun four thousand spirit stones for them.
• After divining Tang Shixun, Feng Jun said the Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture did not suit him well and offered to modify it specifically for him.
• The Rising Sun Peak Adept doubted Feng Jun could improve such a renowned cultivation method, but Feng Jun argued it was not truly Tang Shixun’s primary method and the Adept apologized.
• Tang Shixun agreed to let Feng Jun try, accepting the uncertainty because he wanted another chance to break through to the Golden Core.
• Feng Jun proposed that Tang Shixun pay nothing if the attempt failed but kill someone if he achieved Core Embrace; Tang Shixun and the others were left contemplating Feng Jun’s reasoning about Heaven’s Dao.

Feng Jun customized Tang Shixun’s Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture, improving its compatibility enough that Tang’s sect experts approved the changes and Tang confirmed they worked. As Tang reported his progress to the Peak Master of Inaction Peak, the Peak Master of Voidwalk Peak arrived to investigate breakthroughs among wind-attribute cultivators.

• Tang Shixun agreed to Feng Jun’s terms and gave him the Blazing Sun Heavenly Thunder Scripture to modify within twenty days.
• Feng Jun raised the technique’s compatibility from seventy-seven percent to eighty-nine percent and returned the improved version to Tang Shixun after five days.
• Poison Crane used Divination to confirm that the customized technique suited Tang Shixun better, and the Peak Master of Inaction Peak examined it and approved its soundness.
• Tang Shixun cultivated the modified technique and confirmed within two days that it worked better, then reported his findings to the Peak Master of Inaction Peak.
• The Peak Master of Voidwalk Peak arrived to investigate recent breakthroughs among disciples with Hidden Astral-Wind Gold, including the renowned Tang Shixun.

Xiaosong and Yuan Ming sent disciples to invite Feng Jun to Supreme Clarity Sect after learning that his individualized cultivation methods had helped Tang Shixun. The group learned that Kong Ziyi held Sumiao’s token and had fought alongside Feng Jun in the market, leaving their invitation more complicated.

• Tang Shixun reported that Feng Jun’s customized cultivation method was effective, prompting Xiaosong to ask Yuan Ming about Feng Jun.
• Xiaosong and Yuan Ming agreed to send disciples from Voidwalk Peak and Radiant Peak to invite Feng Jun and learn about his methods.
• Lu Wanfeng joined the delegation after hearing they planned to bring Feng Jun back, and he offered to persuade Kong Ziyi.
• At Mingsha Market, the group learned that Kong Ziyi held Sumiao’s token and that she and Feng Jun had helped kill three Emergence from Dust Adepts.
• Lu Wanfeng questioned how Kong Ziyi had obtained Sumiao’s token, Li Zhishen suspected it was forged, and Sun Wufeng set off by flying boat to handle the matter privately.

Kong Ziyi met Sun Wufeng and other Supreme Clarity Sect disciples, who questioned her authority to act with Purple Cloud Peak's Elder Token and probed Feng Jun's abilities. After she described Feng Jun's strength, connections, and Divination, she revealed that Senior Sister An was training in the Thunder Plains, prompting the Voidwalk Peak disciples to react to the news that lightning could temper metal.

• Kong Ziyi welcomed Sun Wufeng and the Supreme Clarity Sect party at Liba Beach, and Lu Wanfeng demanded to see the Elder Token she was authorized to use.
• Kong Ziyi confirmed that she acted with the token on behalf of Purple Cloud Peak's master and warned the visitors to respect Feng Jun's private land while he was away.
• Sun Wufeng asked Kong Ziyi to assess Feng Jun, and she described his formidable combat power, mysterious origins, strong Divination, unusual items, and extensive connections among Zhan Xiu.
• Kong Ziyi told Sun Wufeng that she had arranged Divination for Senior Sister An, who was tempering her metal attribute with Thunder Cultivator techniques in the Thunder Plains.
• The four Ninth Layer Qi Refining disciples from Voidwalk Peak, who believed they possessed Hidden Astral-Wind Gold, erupted in surprise at the news that lightning could temper metal.

Sun Wufeng and the other Supreme Clarity disciples argued over whether to bring Feng Jun into the sect, then visited him to offer him a guest elder position. Feng Jun received their gifts and heard their invitation, which left the conversation poised for his response.

• Sun Wufeng told Kong Ziyi that Feng Jun’s ability to alter cultivation techniques made him too important to remain outside Supreme Clarity, while Li Zhishen suggested using force if persuasion failed.
• Kong Ziyi warned the disciples that Feng Jun had refused a Talent-Recruiting Token from Ji Busheng and nearly fought him, then defended her support for Feng Jun with her genuine Elder Token.
• Feng Jun returned with the three women and found that the Supreme Clarity disciples had set up a Traveling Residence outside his grounds.
• Sun Wufeng visited Feng Jun with three adepts, presented Single-Leaf Jade Belt Tea, and received eight pairs of night-vision goggles in return.
• Sun Wufeng invited Feng Jun to Supreme Clarity as a guest elder, and Feng Jun questioned why the group had brought so many adepts; Lu Wanfeng replied that Kong Ziyi could not invite him herself.

Feng Jun rejected Sun Wufeng’s effort to recruit him into Supreme Clarity, and the dispute escalated toward a forced confrontation. Qu Jianlei of the Red Phoenix Sect appeared to protect Feng Jun, leaving Sun Wufeng alarmed that the Glory Merit Hall might be involved.

• Sun Wufeng offered Feng Jun the treatment of a consecrated elder if he joined Supreme Clarity, but Feng Jun refused and praised Busheng’s more respectful invitation from Heavenheart Platform.
• Kong Ziyi and Lu Wanfeng argued over whether Supreme Clarity had the right to compel Feng Jun to join, while Sun Wufeng pressed him to reconsider.
• After Feng Jun refused again, Sun Wufeng threatened to take him for his own protection, and Li Zhishen prepared to fight him; Kong Ziyi warned that she had a Golden Core talisman treasure.
• Qu Jianlei appeared outside the Traveling Residence and condemned the Supreme Clarity cultivators for threatening a Red Phoenix Sect guest.
• Xie Qingyun identified Qu Jianlei, and Sun Wufeng asked whether he was acting privately or on behalf of the Red Phoenix Sect’s Glory Merit Hall.

Sun Wufeng and the Supreme Clarity cultivators backed down after Qu Jianlei revealed Red Phoenix’s protection of Feng Jun, then promised to offer compensation. Kong Ziyi later hinted that Feng Jun’s help for Tang Shixun had involved more than Spirit Stones, leaving Sun Wufeng questioning what he had missed.

• Qu Jianlei confronted Sun Wufeng and Li Zhishen for trying to take Feng Jun, and Sun apologized and withdrew the Supreme Clarity group.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had been watching Feng Jun, and Feng Jun offered to perform Divination for him once for free.
• The Supreme Clarity cultivators debated how to repair relations with Feng Jun, while Lu Wanfeng insisted her master would support her.
• Kong Ziyi joined the group and challenged Sun Wufeng’s understanding of Feng Jun’s help for Tang Shixun.
• Kong Ziyi asked what Tang Shixun had paid Feng Jun to modify his cultivation technique, and Sun Wufeng guessed it had been Spirit Stones.

Kong Ziyi explained that Feng Jun had offered to help Tang Shixun achieve Core Embrace in exchange for killing one person, revealing the danger and significance of his divination. Sun Wufeng realized that Red Phoenix was protecting Feng Jun, leaving the Supreme Clarity Sect unable to force him to return without risking war.

• Sun Wufeng learned that Feng Jun had asked Tang Shixun to trade human lives rather than Spirit Stones, and Kong Ziyi clarified that Feng Jun had promised to kill someone if Tang Shixun passed Body Tempering and achieved Core Embrace.
• Kong Ziyi explained that Feng Jun had not chosen a target and would not put Tang Shixun in an unrighteous position, while Li Zhishen dismissed the arrangement as an empty show.
• Sun Wufeng and Xie Qingyun connected Feng Jun's importance to his exceptional Divination ability and the Flame Marrow Pill, and Kong Ziyi hinted that Red Phoenix had let him leave because it could protect him in secret.
• Kong Ziyi said Red Phoenix disciples could be targeted by Feng Jun's method, and Li Zhishen pointed out that he could instead choose Azure Steel Sect disciples.
• Sun Wufeng concluded that Red Phoenix's Glory Merit Hall made it impossible to force Feng Jun back without starting a war, and worried that his master would scold him for returning empty-handed.

Sun Wufeng tried to make amends to Feng Jun after the Supreme Clarity Sect had offended him, and Feng Jun agreed to divine for the sect in exchange for a new Traveling Residence. During the divinations, Liu Fuyu asked whether Thunder Arts could help other Hidden Astral-Wind Gold cultivators, prompting Xie Qingyun to realize there might be another way to save them.

• Kong Ziyi told Sun Wufeng that Feng Jun would expect compensation, and Sun offered to eliminate Dragon Wanderer, but Feng Jun refused to make that a condition for helping the sect.
• Kong Ziyi relayed Feng Jun's request for a new Traveling Residence, which Sun Wufeng agreed to provide, and arranged for Feng Jun to divine for disciples the next morning without Sun present.
• Feng Jun found that only Liu Fuyu among the five Supreme Clarity Sect disciples could advance by tempering his Wind-Thunder Concealed Metal Body with Thunder Arts, and he charged Liu three thousand Spirit Stones for the divination and suitable arts.
• Liu Fuyu asked whether other Hidden Astral-Wind Gold constitutions could be tempered with Thunder Arts, and Feng Jun said it was theoretically possible but dangerous; Xie Qingyun immediately understood the implication.