Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun returned to the Kunhao Plane and worked with the Yin Soul Big Shot to remove tracking marks from a War Boat he had taken from the Endless Sea. As they prepared to return to Liba Beach, Feng Jun explained that he had avenged his junior brother Shi Jie.

• Feng Jun found the Yin Soul Big Shot and told it he had advanced, then offered to return to Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun took the War Boat to a remote valley near Celestial Star Market so the Big Shot could remove its tracking marks.
• A Golden Core cultivator approached with three Flying Boats, recognized Feng Jun, and fled after Feng Jun ordered him to stop.
• The Big Shot removed the War Boat's control-console tracking mark, then agreed to help clean and process Feng Jun's Storage Pouches.
• Feng Jun told the Big Shot that Shi Jie had died at the hands of the Endless Sea cultivators, and that he had avenged his junior brother.
• Feng Jun sorted the Storage Pouches, destroyed more than eighty of them, and stored the dead sea beasts inside before destroying them.

After emerging from seclusion, Feng Jun learned that rumors linked him to a missing War Boat and explained that he had seized it to avenge his supposed junior brother, Shi Jie. His warning against the Cangping Tian Family spread, drawing rival sects into a dispute over who would punish them, while Huangfu True Adept warned Master Chang that Feng Jun had begun offering rewards.

• Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach, entered seclusion for more than ten days, and then met Huangfu Wuxia, who asked about the missing War Boat.
• Feng Jun admitted seizing the boat and killing its hunters, claiming he acted to avenge his junior brother Shi Jie, and told Huangfu Wuxia to spread a warning against the Cangping Tian Family.
• Sumiao, Xia Nishang, and Guyue argued over which sect would punish the Tian Family, while Yue Qing noted that Ji Busheng had slipped away.
• News of Feng Jun's actions spread through the Cultivation World, and Huangfu True Adept contacted Master Chang to ask whether Lanshan had encountered Shi Jie.
• Huangfu True Adept warned Master Chang that Feng Jun had started offering rewards, leaving Master Chang alarmed by the claim that Feng Jun had a junior brother.

Master Chang learned that Feng Jun’s bounty against the Cangshan Tian Family had drawn powerful factions to Liba Beach, and Lanshan proposed a way for the Chang Family to profit without competing for the kills. When Tian Jianhe learned what Tian Sanqiang had done, he beat him severely and lamented that he had saved him years earlier.

• Patriarch Huangfu explained to Master Chang that Feng Jun’s bounty targeted the Cangshan Tian Family’s Emergence from Dust cultivators and that powerful sects were already vying for the opportunities.
• Master Chang agreed not to intervene but offered to testify, while Lanshan suggested killing the Tian Family members first and selling the resulting opportunity to the arriving disciples.
• Tian Jianhe emerged from seclusion and demanded to know where Tian Sanqiang was.
• Tian Jianhe repeatedly hurled Tian Sanqiang into rubble, badly injuring him, then complained that he did not know who would come to kill him and regretted saving Tian Sanqiang years earlier.

Tian Jianhe learned that Feng Jun had targeted the Tian Family because Tian Sanqiang had killed the only person who defended Feng Jun’s junior brother, Shi Jie. The family’s leaders were killed and its survivors scattered, while the Hunting Alliance later sent Feng Jun the heads of three adepts from Meng Xiaotian’s family.

• Tian Jianhe beat Tian Sanqiang and explained that Feng Jun had placed a bounty on the Tian Family because Sanqiang killed the only person who spoke up for Shi Jie.
• Tian Sanqiang proposed seeking help from the Hunting Alliance, but Tian Jianhe said the alliance denied responsibility and would not take Feng Jun on; Ji Ping'an also rejected Sanqiang’s offer to pay and sacrifice himself.
• The Tian Family’s two Golden Cores and seventeen Emergence from Dust Adepts broke out, while Tian Jianhe ordered the dispersed heirs to abandon the Cangshan Tian Family name until the main branch rose again.
• Ji Busheng and a Tiantong Merchant Alliance Master killed the two Tian Family Golden Cores, and the family’s remaining adepts suffered further deaths and retaliatory raids.
• Huangfu Wuxia brought two Hunting Alliance representatives to Feng Jun with the heads of three Emergence from Dust Adepts from Meng Xiaotian’s family.

Feng Jun’s refusal to reveal more about Jiao Mengyuan’s death fueled conflict between the Hunting Alliance and the Rogue Cultivators Alliance, while his reputation helped rogue cultivators push back against mistreatment. Nie Chifeng pressed Feng Jun to consider becoming her cultivation partner, admitting she had no other choice as her lifespan waned.

• The Hunting Alliance killed the Zhang Family’s remaining three adepts and told Feng Jun that Meng Xiaotian’s plot had not involved them; Feng Jun identified the dead Golden Core as Jiao Mengyuan but refused to be drawn into the alliances’ feud.
• News that Feng Jun had killed Jiao Mengyuan triggered accusations between the Hunting Alliance and the Rogue Cultivators Alliance, and the Hunting Alliance began suppressing Clear Sky Mountain’s forces around the Endless Sea.
• Rogue cultivators used Feng Jun’s name and their connections to the Zhan Xiu to deter abuse, while Feng Jun confirmed he had the War Boat and planned to return to the Endless Sea.
• Nie Chifeng invited Feng Jun to the Scarlet Phoenix Retreat celebration and asked him to divine whether they were compatible as cultivation partners after rejecting another group of candidates.
• Feng Jun discouraged Nie Chifeng from pursuing him, but she returned and admitted that she did not dislike him and had no other choice as her lifespan neared its end.

Feng Jun received a formal calling card from Broken Blade Adept and welcomed the Azuresteel leader at Liba Beach, where the two discussed building a retreat. At the Scarlet Phoenix Retreat’s moving-in feast, tensions rose when Azuresteel disciples made assumptions about Sun Rongxun and Dong Qianjun.

• Nie Chifeng left after Feng Jun rejected her, and the Big Shot told him that a Soul Division cultivator could divine himself with a Holographic Clone Talisman.
• Xia Nishang delivered Broken Blade Adept’s Black Crystal calling card, and Feng Jun declined to travel to Lantern Town to receive him.
• Broken Blade Adept accepted Feng Jun’s response and went to Liba Beach, where Feng Jun arranged lodging and gave Azuresteel permission to build a retreat.
• Broken Blade Adept encouraged Yue Qing to attend to Azuresteel’s affairs and mentioned that Feng Jun could inspect oil-transformed insect carcasses on Azuresteel territory.
• At the Scarlet Phoenix Retreat’s moving-in feast, Ji Busheng asked about building a Heavenheart Platform retreat, and Feng Jun said they could discuss it.
• Yue Qing arrived with Dong Qianjun and Sun Rongxun, and Qu Jianlei rebuked an Azuresteel disciple for implying Sun Rongxun was Dong Qianjun’s companion.

Broken Blade Adept tried to recruit Feng Jun into helping Azure Steel’s cultivators and offered him the sect’s cultivation insights, but Feng Jun politely refused the recruitment while agreeing to treat Wind Poison cases. After Broken Blade inferred that Feng Jun might help improve the chances of Core Embrace, he privately asked whether Yue Qing had sought a divination about Nascent Soul Formation, leaving Feng Jun wary of his intentions.

• At the Scarlet Phoenix Retreat gathering, Broken Blade Adept noticed Dong Qianjun’s Wind Poison had improved, and Yue Qing credited Sun Rongxun’s treatment.
• Broken Blade Adept visited Feng Jun and thanked him for using Divination to help Dong Qianjun, then raised the Azure Steel disciples suffering similar problems.
• Broken Blade Adept offered Feng Jun Azure Steel’s materials and ancestral insights into the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, but Feng Jun declined to join the sect and agreed to help its disciples with Wind Poison.
• Broken Blade Adept asked whether Feng Jun could assess or improve Guan Hongxiu’s chances of Core Embrace, and Feng Jun answered cautiously.
• Broken Blade Adept privately asked whether Yue Qing had ever asked Feng Jun to divine when he would achieve Nascent Soul Formation, and Feng Jun suspected the question concerned a particular matter.

Broken Blade Adept asked Feng Jun to divine Feng Yishu’s chances of Nascent Soul Formation, but Feng Jun refused to travel and said he would wait until Feng Yishu came to him. Yue Qing sought reassurance that Feng Jun would not help Feng Yishu, and Feng Jun left him uncertain by refusing to accept his Spirit Stones.

• Broken Blade Adept told Feng Jun that Feng Yishu’s state of mind had unsettled him and asked for a Divination, but Feng Jun refused to leave Liba Beach and insisted on seeing Feng Yishu first.
• Broken Blade Adept arranged for Yue Qing to remain at Liba Beach to help disciples seek Divinations and told him that Feng Yishu would come to Feng Jun for advice.
• Yue Qing confronted Guyue about Feng Jun’s ability to divine Nascent Soul Formation, then used the exchange as a pretext to visit Feng Jun.
• Yue Qing asked Feng Jun whether he would help Feng Yishu and offered twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for a clear answer, but Feng Jun said he only accepted Spirit Stones when confident.
• Broken Blade Adept heard that Yue Qing had questioned Feng Jun and assumed Yue Qing was anxious about Feng Yishu’s prospects.

Feng Yishu asked Feng Jun to divine his chances of forming a Nascent Soul, and Feng Jun discovered that he was an outsider to the plane. Feng Jun could not predict the outcome and advised him to form his Nascent Soul elsewhere, leaving Feng Yishu uncertain whether to trust the advice.

• Feng Yishu arrived at Liba Beach, spoke with Broken Blade, and toured the area while expressing interest in Azure Steel's cooperation over petroleum.
• Guyue refused Feng Yishu's invitation to a banquet and hosted his own gathering, which Huangfu Wuxia attended.
• Feng Yishu visited Feng Jun and asked him to divine his Nascent Soul Formation, so Feng Jun secured the Traveling Residence against observation.
• After nearly six hours, Feng Jun told Feng Yishu he was not native to the plane and described injuries from his youth, but said he could not divine the outcome of his Nascent Soul Formation.
• Feng Jun advised Feng Yishu to form his Nascent Soul on another plane, and Feng Yishu questioned whether that advice could be trusted.

Feng Yishu rejected Feng Jun’s warning and left the Kunhao Plane, while Nie Chifeng brought Feng Jun a Soul-Substitution Puppet to request a compatibility deduction. Feng Jun realized the puppet could let him deduce his own cultivation path, but persuaded Nie Chifeng to save its limited uses.

• Feng Jun returned Feng Yishu’s Spirit Stones, and Feng Yishu left the next morning with Master Broken Blade.
• Feng Jun’s estate and the Supreme Clarity Annex were completed, and he later returned from the Blue Star Realm.
• Nie Chifeng visited Feng Jun privately and presented a wooden doll that the Big Shot identified as a Soul-Substitution Puppet.
• Feng Jun learned the puppet could enable self-deduction and considered using it to determine how his cultivation technique should develop beyond the Golden Core Stage.
• Nie Chifeng asked Feng Jun to check their compatibility, but he argued that since the result would not change her decision, they should save the puppet’s limited uses.

Feng Jun helped a Springwatch Valley cultivator identify and treat his poisoned nephew, prompting the valley to recognize the power of his Divinations. Two more Springwatch Valley Golden Core cultivators then asked to hunt Feng Jun’s enemies, and he considered how to give them opportunities despite powerful groups monopolizing his bounties.

• Feng Jun asked Nie Chifeng for Red Phoenix spiritual sense cultivation techniques before agreeing to Divine for her, while Big Shot criticized his motives.
• A Springwatch Valley Golden Core cultivator brought Feng Jun the head of a Cangshan Tian Family Adept and asked him to treat his nephew.
• Feng Jun determined that the young man had been poisoned before advancing, gave a detoxification plan, and analyzed how the poison had been administered.
• After the nephew recovered, the Golden Core cultivator identified an outside plotter and began retaliating, spreading word throughout Springwatch Valley about Feng Jun’s abilities.
• Two Springwatch Valley Golden Core cultivators asked Feng Jun for secret targets to hunt, explaining that the Four Sects and Five Platforms kept taking all his public bounty work.
• Feng Jun considered breaking the information monopoly so that loose cultivators and other groups could get opportunities.

Feng Jun sent two Golden Core cultivators to Clear Sky Mountain to kill a Rogue Cultivators Alliance Golden Core cultivator because the alliance had not addressed Shi Jie’s death. After the two exposed their identities and escaped, Clear Sky Mountain realized Feng Jun still expected an explanation.

• Feng Jun told the two Golden Core cultivators to target any Rogue Cultivators Alliance Golden Core cultivator and to avoid indiscriminately killing low-ranking rogue cultivators.
• Ji Busheng stopped the two visitors and hinted that he might help with their task, but they left Liba Beach without accepting his offer.
• The two Golden Core cultivators traveled to Clear Sky Mountain in disguise, where alliance members recruited and surveilled them; they killed an Adept while escaping and were identified as Golden Core cultivators.
• Ge told Wang that Feng Jun had commissioned them to hunt two Golden Core heads because the Rogue Cultivators Alliance had not addressed Shi Jie’s death, then fled.
• The Rogue Cultivators Alliance realized that Feng Jun had not considered the matter settled, while the Hunting Alliance returned to Clear Sky Mountain’s public campaign against it.

Feng Jun let Real Person Ge and Springwatch Valley continue handling the Clear Sky Mountain mission, while insisting that rogue cultivators receive more opportunities. As the Rogue Cultivators Alliance came under attack and Liba Beach gathered reinforcements, four unfamiliar Golden Cores arrived claiming to be from a reclusive Lu Family, and Guyue challenged their claim.

• Clear Sky Mountain sealed its gates after rumors spread that Feng Jun had placed a bounty on its members, while Real Person Ge considered asking the Four Sects and Five Platforms for help.
• Real Person Ge confirmed to the Myriad Blessings Platform that Feng Jun's counterattack targeted specific people rather than the entire Rogue Cultivators Alliance.
• Feng Jun told Real Person Ge and his partner to remain responsible for the mission and leave more opportunities for rogue cultivators, a decision Guyue accepted.
• The Hunting Alliance attacked a Rogue Cultivators Alliance gathering point near the Endless Sea, mistaking Feng Jun's mission for a bounty against all of Clear Sky Mountain.
• Four Golden Cores arrived at Liba Beach, and Lu Qitian introduced himself as a member of the reclusive Lu Family before Guyue questioned whether the family existed.

Feng Jun and the Golden Cores confronted Lu Qitian and his companions, who claimed to be members of a Hidden Family despite coming from another world. Lu Qitian offered Feng Jun a cultivation method but left the meeting threatening to summon reinforcements, while the others challenged him to do so.

• Guyue questioned Lu Qitian’s claim that his group belonged to a Hidden Family, and Yue Qing and Xia Nishang identified their Otherworld Plane auras.
• Lu Qitian admitted that they came from another world but insisted they were also a Hidden Family, then argued with Guyue and Xia Nishang about being allowed to visit Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun invited Lu Qitian’s group to Yue Qing’s Traveling Residence, where he ignored Lu Qitian’s greeting and said he already had the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art method.
• Lu Qitian offered Feng Jun a copied Golden Core cultivation method in exchange for conditions, but Feng Jun refused and told him to leave.
• Lu Qitian threatened to summon more than twenty True Adepts with a Boundary-Breaking Teleportation Array Disc, and Yue Qing challenged him to do it within five breaths.

Lu Qitian tried to persuade Feng Jun to visit his brother, then threatened to take him away, but Feng Jun refused and exposed him as a member of the Dantai Family. The Dantai group fled when recognized, and Xia Nishang explained the history of the Three Hidden Surnames before Guyue hinted that he had heard a different account.

• Lu Qitian offered to destroy Clear Sky Mountain in exchange for Feng Jun examining his brother, but Feng Jun refused to leave his territory or divine at someone’s door.
• Lu Qitian revealed that he intended to take Feng Jun to a realm from which he might not return, prompting Xia Nishang and Guyue to prepare for a fight.
• A Mid-Grade Golden Core cultivator lunged at Feng Jun, but Yue Qing blocked him with a barrier, and Lu Qitian declared Clear Sky Mountain under his protection.
• Feng Jun identified Lu Qitian as a member of the Dantai Family, and the four Golden Core cultivators fled after Guyue and Xia Nishang recognized the Three Hidden Surnames.
• Xia Nishang described the Three Hidden Surnames’ history and suggested the Dantai Family had been forbidden from appearing openly, but Guyue said his account differed.

Feng Jun learned that the Dantai Family might return to attack Liba Beach, but the Big Shot revealed that Little White could frighten them away because their family owed its creator's lineage a great debt. Feng Jun planned to bring disciples to the manor in five days, unaware that dozens of figures had already arrived that night.

• Guyue and Xia Nishang explained that the Dantai Family had fled to avoid being pestered and might be able to gather many Golden Core cultivators.
• Feng Jun considered placing a bounty on the Dantai Family, but Guyue said bounties were ineffective against Hidden Families.
• Feng Jun asked the Big Shot about finding Secret Realms and learned that showing Little White would terrify the Dantai Family.
• The Big Shot revealed that the Dantai Family had once offended Little White's creator's lineage, which killed two of its Soul Emergence cultivators before sparing the family.
• Feng Jun decided to bring disciples to Liba Beach in five days, expecting the Dantai Family to seek revenge quickly.
• That night, dozens of figures appeared in a forest at Liba Beach as space twisted around them.

The Dantai Family attacked Feng Jun’s manor in Liba Beach, but Little White’s appearance stopped them and forced their leader, Dantai Youqing, to negotiate. Feng Jun demanded compensation for the attempted kidnapping and damage to his Defensive Formation, and the chapter ended with Dantai Youqing proposing payment in Ordinary Spirit Stones.

• More than forty Dantai Family cultivators arrived at Liba Beach and attacked Feng Jun’s manor while others blocked reinforcements.
• Nie Chifeng raised the alarm and fought off a Golden Core cultivator as the Dantai Family assailed the Defensive Formation.
• Feng Jun told Nie Chifeng to call Little White, whose powerful aura and appearance as a giant White Fox shocked the attackers.
• Dantai Youqing recognized Little White as a Puppet Beast and ordered the Dantai Family cultivators to stop fighting.
• Feng Jun challenged Dantai Youqing over the attempted kidnapping and demanded ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for his value, plus compensation for the formation’s wear and use.
• Dantai Youqing disputed the requested currency and offered to pay for the formation damage in Ordinary Spirit Stones at a ratio of one to two hundred.

Feng Jun settled the Dantai Family’s attack by demanding Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and compensation for the three sects, then the Dantai Family began investigating the White Nine-Tailed Fox’s origins. Their inquiries found no one willing to identify who had refined it, leaving the fox’s provenance unknown.

• Feng Jun rejected Ordinary Spirit Stones and refused Guyue’s offer of twenty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, settling with Dantai Youqing for ten thousand five hundred instead.
• Feng Jun insisted that the Dantai Family compensate Supreme Clarity Sect, Red Phoenix, and Azure Steel, and Dantai Youqing paid each sect five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones before leaving.
• Feng Jun saw Nie Chifeng meditating outside the manor and realized he would have to delay returning to the Blue Star Plane while she recovered.
• Dantai Youqing recognized the White Nine-Tailed Fox and ordered his people to investigate its origins rather than seek revenge against Feng Jun.
• The Dantai Family’s contacts could not identify who had refined the fox, and their lineage’s disciples were unwilling to investigate further.

Feng Jun heard Clear Sky Mountain’s plea for reconciliation after the Rogue Cultivators Alliance was devastated by the Hunting Alliance, but he refused its offer of an unverified Nascent Soul favor and agreed only to approach the Hunting Alliance. After Adept Yu learned of Liba Beach’s hidden strength, Red Phoenix Sect disciples arrived with Yang Xiaofan, who brought Feng Jun a core cultivation method.

• Adept Yu met Feng Jun at Du Wentian’s request and asked him to give Clear Sky Mountain a chance to make amends.
• Feng Jun questioned Adept Yu about his junior brother’s fate, and Adept Yu blamed the late True Person Jiao’s ambitions for the incident.
• Adept Yu offered a favor from a Nascent Soul True Immortal, but Feng Jun rejected the offer and agreed to speak with the Hunting Alliance.
• Feng Jun refused to intervene in the Springwatch Valley conflict, saying he had already allowed them to hunt one Golden Core.
• Du Wentian told Adept Yu about Liba Beach’s confrontation with more than twenty Golden Cores, and Adept Yu left alarmed by its hidden backing.
• Yang Xiaofan arrived with Red Phoenix Sect disciples and delivered the Primordial Chaos Kan-Li Secret Method to Feng Jun.

Yang Xiaofan learned that Feng Jun might help Nie Chifeng restore her foundation and raise her chance of Core Embrace. Feng Jun’s divinations raised Nie Chifeng’s chance to forty-five percent, though a test with Yue Qing produced a lower result.

• Yang Xiaofan arrived at Liba Beach to deliver the Primordial Chaos Kan-Li Secret Method and fought Nie Chifeng for two days before Nie Chifeng revealed the possibility of achieving Core Embrace.
• Feng Jun used the Soul-Substitution Puppet and divination to find that the secret method raised Nie Chifeng’s chance of Core Embrace to thirty-two percent.
• Feng Jun combined the method with a Supreme Clarity Sect secret art, the Twinfruit, and other soul-supporting supplements, increasing Nie Chifeng’s chance to forty-five percent.
• Feng Jun derived a semi-finished Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art and invited Yue Qing to help test compatibility.
• Feng Jun told Yue Qing that Nie Chifeng’s chance with him was thirty-eight percent, and Yue Qing acknowledged that this was substantial given her circumstances.