Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun received Yue Qing of Azuresteel Sect, settled his grievances with the sect in exchange for Earth Vein Art volumes and Teleportation Array Discs, and heard Yue Qing’s request for help. The chapter ended with Yue Qing asking Feng Jun to divine where the Nine Heavens Astral Gale was strongest and weakest so Azuresteel Sect’s cultivators could temper themselves more safely Beyond Heaven.

• Yue Qing arrived with Liang Chao and Huangfu Wuxia, and Yuan Ming and Qu Jianlei joined Feng Jun to meet him at the mountain gate.
• Feng Jun declined Yue Qing’s initial approach because he still had unresolved grievances with Azuresteel Sect, then agreed to discuss matters in Tiantong Courtyard.
• Liang Chao presented eight Earth Vein Art volumes, and Yuan Ming inspected the first six before Yue Qing prevented him from reading the last two.
• Feng Jun accepted the volumes and two pairs of Teleportation Array Discs, declaring his grievances with Azuresteel Sect settled.
• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to divine safe locations and variations in the Nine Heavens Astral Gale, which Azuresteel Sect cultivators entered Beyond Heaven to withstand and use for body tempering.

Feng Jun rejected Yue Qing’s requests to deduce the Nine Heavens Astral Gale and restore a cultivation technique, then agreed to examine a concealed object in private. With the others waiting outside, Yue Qing questioned Feng Jun about his Body-Fixing Technique Talisman Treasure.

• Feng Jun refused to map the Nine Heavens Astral Gale and declined to restore the Azuresteel Sect’s Three Days Around the Beams technique.
• Yue Qing revealed that his first two requests had tested Feng Jun and asked him to divine another item, insisting that the others leave.
• Qu Jianlei proposed that Yue Qing remain in the courtyard while Feng Jun performed the divination through a wall, but Feng Jun chose to stay with Yue Qing and Huangfu Wuxia.
• Yue Qing asked whether Feng Jun carried a Talisman Treasure containing his sect’s Body-Fixing Technique, and Feng Jun replied that the sect had given him more than that technique.

Feng Jun identified Yue Qing’s sealed object as a Treasure Artifact Fragment, but withheld a firm conclusion until he could divine it further. After Yue Qing apologized and explained that the fragment might be linked to his master’s death, Feng Jun kept the matter confidential, while the chapter also revealed the Azuresteel Sect’s scheme involving manuals and progress on a cultivation-method rental agreement.

• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to divine a sealed bluish-black fragment, and Feng Jun used his phone to identify it as a Treasure Artifact Fragment.
• Feng Jun refused to give Yue Qing a definite answer before further divination, then demanded an apology after Yue Qing threatened him; Yue Qing apologized and said the item might be related to his master’s death.
• Feng Jun declined Yue Qing’s invitation to drink and kept the client’s affairs confidential when Qu Jianlei and Yuan Ming True Adept asked about the divination.
• Yue Qing questioned Liang Chao about stirring up tensions between Pacify Arms Mountain and the Supreme Clarity Sect, then warned him against using similar schemes again.
• Huangfu Wuxia reported that Mingsha Tiantong and the Supreme Clarity Sect had nearly finalized a deal to rent fewer than four hundred cultivation methods for eight hundred spirit stones per day.

Huangfu Wuxia sought approval to add more Tiantong cultivation manuals for rent, but Feng Jun declined to appraise them. Later, he and the Big Shot discussed Yue Qing and identified the fragment as fruit from Dragonblood Thornwood, while the Big Shot began narrowing down who had killed its master.

• Huangfu Wuxia told True Adept Yuan Ming that Mingsha wanted to add another three hundred manuals, and he approved the increase in rental fees.
• Huangfu Wuxia tried to involve Feng Jun in the appraisal, but he refused and said his master's sect had methods he could not reveal.
• Feng Jun returned to his Traveling Residence, where Qu Jianlei and True Adept Yuan Ming stayed nearby in case Yue Qing attacked.
• The Big Shot explained that Yue Qing's abundant vitality and blood made him dangerous, even though Xia Nishang was the stronger and more well-rounded cultivator.
• Feng Jun told the Big Shot that divination had identified the fragment as a Treasure Artifact fragment, and the Big Shot identified it as Dragonblood Thornwood fruit and reasoned that the material could help locate its master's killer.

Feng Jun sold Yue Qing information about the Dragonblood Thornwood fragment and confirmed that the Star Awakening Plane was one of the two planes where the tree grew. Yue Qing was left reeling over what the revelation meant for his master's death, while Feng Jun left with Huangfu Wuxia.

• Feng Jun met Yue Qing outside his Traveling Residence and charged him fifteen Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to identify the Treasure Artifact fragment as coming from Dragonblood Thornwood.
• Feng Jun charged Yue Qing five more Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to confirm the tree was not native to the plane, then named two planes as its only sources.
• Yue Qing offered more Spirit Stones for the plane names, but Feng Jun refused, saying Yue Qing already knew one name and would need to investigate the rest himself.
• Yue Qing paid twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to ask whether the Star Awakening Plane was one of the two, and Feng Jun confirmed that it was.
• Qu Jianlei interrupted as Yue Qing sat in stunned silence, and Feng Jun departed with Huangfu Wuxia after telling Yue Qing he could divine no more.

Yue Qing confronted Han Ji over his false divination about a treasure fragment and its connection to True Person Nanmen’s death. Han Ji admitted he had concealed the truth to protect Yue Qing from stronger rivals, leaving the circumstances of Nanmen’s fall unresolved.

• Yue Qing waited for Han Ji near the Yinsha market, then secretly followed him and persuaded him to travel far from both sects.
• Yue Qing met Han Ji in his Traveling Residence, raised the subject of True Person Nanmen, and accused Han Ji of lying about a fragment.
• Yue Qing revealed that the fragment was a Treasure Artifact refined from Dragonblood Thornwood, which grew on the Xingqi Plane, and said someone had divined its origin.
• Han Ji admitted he had recognized the fragment but concealed the truth because Yue Qing had been too weak to oppose Broken Blade and Feng Yishu after Nanmen fell.
• Yue Qing and Han Ji’s dispute centered on Feng Yishu, who had been with Nanmen on the expedition where Nanmen died.

Yue Qing confronted Han Ji over his suspicions that Feng Yishu had caused his master Nanmen’s death, but Han Ji admitted he had concealed the truth and trapped him with a Binding Array. As Han Ji prepared to deal with him, Yue Qing revealed that Feng Jun had divined the truth and that he possessed a talisman treasure with a Golden Core Peak Body-Fixing Technique, then unleashed a fierce aura.

• Yue Qing recalled how his investigation into Nanmen’s death uncovered suspicious circumstances and an unidentified object, but he lacked evidence and kept his findings secret.
• After Feng Jun’s Divination confirmed that Dragonblood Thornwood existed on only two planes, Yue Qing questioned Han Ji about his earlier claim that the Star Awakening Plane had none.
• Han Ji admitted he had concealed what he knew about Star Awakening and accepted a thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones from Feng Yishu, saying he had feared the Feng Family’s power.
• Han Ji trapped Yue Qing in a Binding Array, sealed his Mud Pill Palace, and said he intended to imprison or cripple him to prevent him from acting against Feng Yishu.
• Yue Qing told Han Ji that Feng Jun had performed the Divination and that he carried a talisman treasure containing a Golden Core Peak Body-Fixing Technique.
• Yue Qing’s major acupoints erupted with explosive cracks, and a fierce aura burst from his body.

Yue Qing escaped True Adept Han Ji’s trap by breaking through with the Nine-Palace Explosive Qi method and poisoning Han Ji, then killed him after hearing his advice about secretly sabotaging Feng Yishu’s Nascent Soul Formation. After covering his tracks and establishing an alibi in Azuresteel Marketplace, Yue Qing set off for Qiuchen Market.

• True Adept Han Ji sealed Yue Qing inside a Binding Array, but Yue used the Nine-Palace Explosive Qi Breakthrough method to shatter the array and escape the Mystic Ice.
• Yue Qing revealed that he had poisoned Han Ji through the wine cup, sealed Han Ji’s Mudball Palace, and discussed his plans concerning Feng Yishu.
• Han Ji suggested recruiting Feng Jun to secretly disrupt Feng Yishu’s Nascent Soul Formation, and Yue Qing agreed the idea was worth considering.
• Yue Qing killed Han Ji with Finger Wind after pretending he might spare him, then burned the corpse and destroyed the Traveling Residence and other traces.
• Yue Qing spent five days resting in a rented Golden Core Cave Dwelling in Azuresteel Marketplace to create an alibi, then flew toward Qiuchen Market.

Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach with Xia Nishang’s collection of more than sixty thousand poisons and Divined a regimen that gave Sun Rongxun a thirty-seven percent chance of Core Embrace. Sun Rongxun accepted the odds and received instructions to take more than two thousand selected poisons.

• Feng Jun returned to Qiuchen Market with Lang Damei, Lang Dadi, Mu Fengtang, and a Tian Family boy, then sent them to begin cultivation at Chen Junsheng’s Blessing Courtyard.
• Feng Jun hurried to Liba Beach, where Xia Nishang had gathered more than sixty thousand kinds of poison for him.
• After Feng Jun emerged from his room, he told Sun Rongxun that her odds of Core Embrace were thirty-seven percent unless he could Divine the Glory Merit Drum.
• Sun Rongxun rejoiced at the odds, and Xia Nishang arrived and asked whether the result was for Guan Hongxiu.
• Feng Jun gave Sun Rongxun an Obsidian listing the order for taking more than two thousand selected poisons, and revealed that he had Divined all the poisons.

Xia Nishang and the Red Phoenix Sect assessed Feng Jun’s poison divination and debated taking the Glory Merit Drum to Liba Beach so he could help other Merit Honorees. The chapter left the Sect Master announcing that Han Ji of Yinsha had disappeared.

• Xia Nishang asked Sun Rongxun to delay her poison cultivation while she brought Feng Jun’s Obsidian back to the sect for assessment, and Sun Rongxun agreed to copy it and obtain the listed poisons herself.
• Xia Nishang showed Feng Jun’s results to the Sect Master, who learned that Guan Hongxiu’s chance of Core Embrace was about thirty-seven percent and considered whether the Glory Merit Drum could help other Merit Honorees.
• The Sect Master and Xia Nishang summoned the Red Phoenix Sect’s divination experts, who spent two days tracing Feng Jun’s method and agreed to continue studying it despite being unable to reproduce his results.
• At an emergency Council of Elders meeting, Xia Nishang represented Xiaomeng, and a majority approved taking the Glory Merit Drum out; the Grand Elder demanded that thirty-six Merit Honorees guard it.
• Xia Nishang opposed bringing so many Merit Honorees, warning that unequal divination results could divide the Glory Merit Hall and that Feng Jun might be assassinated by Yinsha.
• The Sect Master received a flying-crane message and announced that Han Ji of Yinsha had disappeared.

Red Phoenix’s elders debated Yin Sha Sect’s missing True Adept Han Ji and whether Feng Jun should risk divining for the Merit Honorees. The sect leader decided Feng Jun must be protected, then led Red Phoenix’s delegation and the Glory Merit Drum to Liba Beach, where she arrived and admired its brilliant lights.

• The sect leader told the Council of Elders that Han Ji had missed a sect assignment and had been missing for over twenty days, prompting Yin Sha Sect to demand information from Red Phoenix.
• Xia Nishang warned that having Feng Jun divine for every Merit Honoree could get him killed and draw his master’s sect into a conflict with Red Phoenix.
• The sect leader ruled that the Merit Honorees would stay put and that Feng Jun had to survive because matching the Flame Marrow Pills was vital to the sect.
• Red Phoenix sent a Large Flying Boat carrying the Glory Merit Drum, two hundred Peak Qi Condensation disciples, the sect leader, Xia Nishang, Qu Jianlei, and Xiao Meng to Liba Beach.
• The delegation arrived at Red Phoenix’s completed estate, and the sect leader admired the brightly lit grounds.

The Red Phoenix Sect leader was drawn to Liba Beach’s lively lights and sent disciples to Feng Jun for group Divination. Yue Qing visited Feng Jun after advancing, then privately revealed that he had identified his master’s killer within the Azuresteel Sect and asked Feng Jun to hear his case.

• The Red Phoenix Sect leader reflected on her loneliness at Liba Beach and cautioned Xiaomeng that too much noise could unsettle one’s Dao Heart.
• Two hundred Red Phoenix Sect disciples gathered at Feng Jun’s Traveling Residence for Divination, and Yue Qing arrived while Feng Jun was still working.
• Qu Jianlei and Yue Qing exchanged courteous but wary words as Yue Qing waited to meet Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun welcomed Yue Qing and learned that Yue Qing had advanced; Yue Qing credited Feng Jun’s Divination and asked him to perform another for someone who could not come to Liba Beach.
• After Feng Jun refused to travel, Yue Qing privately told him that he had identified his master’s killer as a member of the Azuresteel Sect.
• Feng Jun asked Yue Qing through Divine Sense whether he planned to kill him to silence him.

Feng Jun negotiated with Yue Qing, who wanted a divination to help thwart Feng Yishu’s Nascent Soul Formation, and agreed to consider it after Yue Qing repaired his Earth Vein-seeking compass. A dispute with Xiaosong over the compass eased after the Red Phoenix leader mediated, and Xiaosong offered Feng Jun Earth Vein manuals before asking whether he had helped Yue Qing advance.

• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to divine a way to make Feng Yishu’s Nascent Soul Formation fail, offering compensation and promising to respect Feng Jun’s judgment.
• Feng Jun refused to learn Supreme Clarity Sect secret arts and asked Yue Qing to repair his damaged Earth Vein-seeking compass as a prerequisite to any divination.
• Xiaosong objected to Feng Jun working with Yue Qing and warned that Supreme Clarity Sect could repair the compass, but Feng Jun insisted that it was his property to handle.
• Xia Nishang and the Red Phoenix leader arrived, and the Red Phoenix leader defended Feng Jun’s right to research Earth Vein arts.
• Yue Qing agreed to bring the person needing divination to Liba Beach after the compass was repaired, then left without greeting the others.
• Xiaosong offered Feng Jun a volume of Earth Vein manuals as an apology and asked whether Feng Jun had helped Yue Qing advance.

Feng Jun completed the Red Phoenix Sect’s matching divinations and discovered that the Glory Merit Drum raised Sun Rongxun’s chance of achieving Core Embrace to 51 percent. The Sect Leader arranged for Sun to cultivate under the new plan and asked her to help guide future Merit Honorees sent to Feng Jun in rotation.

• Xiaosong promised Feng Jun a Supreme Clarity Sect manual, while Xia Nishang asked what Yue Qing had wanted divined; Feng Jun said Yue Qing had asked about the Red Phoenix Sect’s divination.
• After four days, Feng Jun finished matching the Red Phoenix disciples and went to the Red Phoenix Sect’s residence to divine for Sun Rongxun with the Glory Merit Drum present.
• Feng Jun found that the drum reduced the number of poisonous substances in Sun’s plan but added two highly toxic ones, raising her chance of Core Embrace to 51 percent.
• The Red Phoenix Sect decided Sun would cultivate at Feng Jun’s territory, while a Merit Honoree would help guard him against possible trouble from Yinsha.
• The Sect Leader and Xia Nishang asked Sun to help advise and comfort Merit Honorees who would take turns visiting Feng Jun each year, and Sun warned that unequal chances of Core Embrace could cause resentment.

Feng Jun received a practical Earth Vein manual from the Supreme Clarity Sect and watched their disciples improve the retreat’s Earth Vein, while their secrecy and hostility left him determined to learn by observing. The chapter ended with Adept Wu forced to tolerate Red Phoenix disciples watching the work on Feng Jun’s property.

• Sun Rongxun agreed to guide the Glory Merit Honorees toward a chance at Core Embrace, while Xia Nishang entrusted her with the Glory Merit Drum.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect arrived with disciples seeking divinations, including two Adepts whose foundations had been harmed by accumulated drawbacks.
• Feng Jun received Analysis of Earth Vein Lifeforms from Xiaosong and thanked him with a Celestial Mechanism Stone.
• Yuan Ming began improving Feng Jun’s Earth Vein, then left six Supreme Clarity Sect workers to make adjustments while refusing to explain their methods to Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun watched the workers despite their coldness, and invited arriving Red Phoenix disciples to observe them as well.
• Adept Wu objected to the onlookers, but Feng Jun asserted his right to let them watch, and Wu suppressed his anger.

Nie Chifeng joined the Red Phoenix disciples guarding Feng Jun and discovered Yue Qing secretly entering his Traveling Residence. After Yue Qing showed Feng Jun the repaired Treasure-Seeking Disc and explained his feud with Feng Yishu, Feng Jun realized the matter involved serious karmic entanglements and questioned whether he could still refuse to help.

• The Red Phoenix disciples began guiding the Earth Vein beneath Feng Jun's residence, and Nie Chifeng arrived to join the protection detail.
• Nie Chifeng spotted Yue Qing entering Feng Jun's Traveling Residence and summoned Xiaomeng, Qu Jianlei, and Sun Rongxun for support.
• Feng Jun revealed that he had detected Yue Qing from five li away, and Yue Qing agreed to meet him after dark with the repaired Treasure-Seeking Disc.
• Yue Qing showed Feng Jun the repaired disc and asked for help dealing with Feng Yishu, but Feng Jun first asked him to explain their feud.
• Yue Qing described his karmic entanglement with Feng Yishu and his killing of True Adept Han Ji, prompting Feng Jun to ask whether refusing him would now be difficult.

Feng Jun tried to divine Feng Yishu’s condition for Yue Qing, but Yue Qing’s old hair sample was useless. The Big Shot proposed a simplified curse array, leaving Feng Jun to test its plan while Yue Qing waited at a distance.

• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun to help investigate Feng Yishu, and Feng Jun said he needed to get within thirty zhang of him.
• Yue Qing supplied a strand of Feng Yishu’s hair, but realized it had been collected when Feng Yishu was at the Eighth-Layer Golden Core and could no longer help.
• Feng Jun recommended luring Feng Yishu to Azuresteel Marketplace with the Dragonblood Thornwood fruit so he could divine nearby, and Yue Qing agreed to try.
• Yue Qing traveled five hundred li away and asked Feng Jun to divine using his own hair, but Feng Jun could only learn basic information from it.
• The Big Shot suggested using a curse and offered to design a simplified array that Feng Jun could divine to test.
• Yue Qing’s Divine Sense returned to ask whether the time was up, and Feng Jun told him to stay where he was.

Feng Jun tested a concealed curse formation on Yue Qing and agreed to help him use it against Feng Yishu in exchange for three favors. After Yue Qing promised to gather the formation materials, Feng Jun asked him to obtain several Earth Vein Guiding Formations as well.

• Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot spent the night designing a concealed formation that could slowly affect a target's soul.
• Yue Qing returned to Feng Jun's Traveling Residence, where Feng Jun tested the curse formation with Yue Qing's hair and confirmed that Yue Qing noticed no threat.
• Yue Qing revealed that he had obtained Feng Yishu's hair to use a curse technique, and Feng Jun agreed to consider helping him in exchange for three favors.
• Feng Jun gave Yue Qing a list of materials for the curse formation and assured him that even a Nascent Soul cultivator might not detect its effects.
• Yue Qing promised to gather the materials within two days, and Feng Jun asked him to help obtain several Earth Vein Guiding Formations.

Feng Jun asked Yue Qing to procure advanced Earth Vein traction arrays and other supplies, then divined a treatment for Yue Qing’s injured disciple, Dong Qianjun. He found a poison-based cure that could restore Dong Qianjun within about forty years, but its cost was high, and the chapter ended with Feng Jun summoning Sun Rongxun.

• Feng Jun asked Yue Qing to bring advanced Earth Vein traction arrays and supplies for hatching his Flood-Dragon-Whisker Azure Carp Egg.
• Yue Qing returned five days later with his disciple Dong Qianjun, who apologized to Feng Jun for the War Hall’s past offense.
• Feng Jun divined that Dong Qianjun’s astral-wind injuries would take at least eighty years to heal using the Azuresteel Sect’s current treatment.
• Yue Qing offered the Azuresteel Sect’s body-tempering art and True Spirit Nine Qi Art so Feng Jun could search for another treatment.
• Feng Jun used his poison database to find a cure that could heal Dong Qianjun within thirty years, followed by more than ten years of recuperation, though it would cost even more.
• Dong Qianjun accepted the treatment, and Feng Jun asked Yunshan to invite Sun Rongxun.

Feng Jun’s Divination revealed that Sun Rongxun could absorb the Wind Poison afflicting Dong Qianjun, allowing him to recover and improving her chances of Core Embrace. The chapter ended with Yue Qing agreeing to discuss Feng Jun’s Divination fee while Sun Rongxun offered to help without charge.

• Nie Chifeng sent Mi Yunshan to summon Sun Rongxun to Feng Jun’s Traveling Residence.
• Feng Jun told Dong Qianjun that he could recover within eight years if Sun Rongxun helped expel his poison.
• Feng Jun privately told Sun Rongxun that absorbing Dong Qianjun’s Wind Poison would raise her Core Embrace chances to fifty-nine percent, and she agreed to help.
• Feng Jun arranged a test in the Spirit-Gathering Formation, where Sun Rongxun successfully absorbed Dong Qianjun’s Wind Poison.
• Yue Qing revealed that he had used Dong Qianjun as a cover and worried that his recovery would cause upheaval in the Azuresteel Sect.
• Feng Jun quoted a reduced fee of two thousand Spirit Stones, but Sun Rongxun offered to help without charging anything.