Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun told Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery that Nie Rongxun was ready to cultivate the Primordial Chaos Kan-Li Secret Method with him, prompting jealousy and a revealing exchange. The Yin Soul Big Shot questioned the customs of Feng Jun’s sect and ended by insisting it wanted to visit, though Feng Jun warned it might never be able to leave.

• Du Wentian learned that Zhan Xiu were reselling Feng Jun’s tokens, warned them to trade discreetly, and Qu Jianlei established a fifty-li exclusion zone around Liba Beach.
• Feng Jun brought Zhang Caixin, Red Sister, and Good Scenery to inspect the oil wells and told them Nie Rongxun wanted to cultivate with him.
• Zhang Caixin complained about Nie Rongxun’s age, but Red Sister stopped her, and the sisters exchanged silent signals while the Yin Soul Big Shot followed them unseen.
• The Big Shot questioned Feng Jun about Zhang Caixin and Red Sister speaking freely despite their lower cultivation, and Feng Jun explained that his sect did not base relationships on rank.
• The Big Shot said it wanted to visit Feng Jun’s sect immediately, and Feng Jun warned that it might never be able to leave once it entered.

Feng Jun followed a steady cultivation routine for five months, then used an unpaid debt at Swordforging Peak as an excuse to take the three Blue Star women out. He traveled with four True Adepts and their disciples, and the group stopped at Ginkgo Market, where Kong Ziyi uncovered the criminal origin of a Divination token.

• Feng Jun maintained his eight-day routine, tempering his Divine Soul with Nie Chifeng while Red Sister and Good Scenery advanced toward the peak of the Eighth Layer of Mortal Transcendence.
• Feng Jun said he needed to collect ten thousand Spirit Stones from Mei Jiushan, and Nie Chifeng insisted on escorting him as part of her sect assignment.
• Red Phoenix and Supreme Clarity Sect sent Qu Jianlei, Nie Chifeng, Xiaomeng, Sumiao, and Guyue to accompany Feng Jun, while Xia Nishang stayed behind to guard Liba Beach.
• The group teleported to Ginkgo Market and decided to rest there before continuing to Swordforging Peak.
• Kong Ziyi found a Qi Refining Stage Divination token offered for fifteen thousand Spirit Stones, questioned the seller, and discovered he had stolen it after killing its owner.

Feng Jun briefly took his companions away to advance their cultivation, then returned to the camp and learned that Mei Jiushan had reached the Emergence from Dust High Stage. The group prepared to travel to Swordforging Peak to confront him over his debt.

• Kong Ziyi bought a token from a gang member for one thousand spirit stones after he admitted how he had obtained it.
• Feng Jun left the wilderness camp with four women, took Mi Yunshan to Qiuchen Market, and brought the other three to the Blue Star Realm to advance their cultivation.
• Feng Jun and the three women spent eighteen days visiting markets before returning to Qiuchen Market and rejoining the others at Ginkgo Market.
• Sumiao told Feng Jun that Mei Jiushan had reached the Emergence from Dust High Stage and had held a large celebration at Swordforging Peak.
• Feng Jun decided the group would visit Mei Jiushan, and Qu Jianlei revealed that a Teleportation Array had already been set up there.

Feng Jun and his companions traveled to Swordforging Peak to seek Mei Jiushan, with Sumiao providing transport and protection. They reached the Mei Family’s Sword-Washing Peak and waited in its guest quarters, where another group of visitors was also waiting.

• Qu Jianlei arranged two teleportations using Sumiao’s Teleportation Array Discs, and Feng Jun’s group traveled onward to Swordforging Peak.
• Sumiao showed her identity at Swordforging Peak’s gate, and the guards let the group pass while notifying the families.
• Feng Jun’s group flew to Sword-Washing Peak, where Feng Jun announced that he had come to see Mei Jiushan.
• Mei Family guards said Mei Jiushan was away making courtesy visits and invited Feng Jun’s group to wait in the guest quarters.
• Another group of four visitors appeared, and their Emergence from Dust High Stage cultivator repeatedly glanced at Nie Chifeng.

Feng Jun and his companions waited at the Mei Family residence, where they were treated coolly while another group received better hospitality. After they were invited to meet Mei Jiushan, an attacker threatened him, and Mei Jiubao led the assembled guests toward the training ground.

• Nie Chifeng rebuffed Gan Qingfeng, and Qu Jianlei grew dissatisfied when the Mei Family neglected his group.
• Two Flying Boats rushed past the courtyard, and the Mei Family later invited the guests up the mountain to meet Mei Jiushan.
• Gan Qingfeng introduced himself as a South Gan Family cultivator, while Feng Jun announced his arrival from Liba Beach.
• A cultivator sought Feng Jun's divination guidance, but Nie Chifeng and Qu Jianlei intervened as tension rose among the guests.
• A messenger reported that someone was trying to harm Mei Jiushan, and Mei Jiubao led the guests toward the training ground.

Mei Jiushan’s advancement to the Emergence from Dust High Stage revived an old marriage contract linking him to Huang Wanqiu, and Qi Peiyu pressured the Mei Family to enforce it. Mei Jiushan rejected the match because he loved someone else, but he could not bring himself to reveal her identity.

• Mei Qinglian and Qi Peiyu argued over the marriage contract originally made for Mei Old Fourth and Huang Wanqiu, which later extended to the next Mei Family member reaching the Emergence from Dust High Stage.
• After Mei Jiushan advanced, Qi Peiyu demanded that Mei Qinglian settle the marriage arrangement, but he told her to speak with Jiushan directly.
• Mei Jiushan told Qi Peiyu’s messengers that he would not honor a contract made by the Mei Family head and that he already loved someone.
• Qi Peiyu confronted Mei Jiushan, demanded the woman’s name, and declared that he would marry Huang Wanqiu whether he wanted to or not.
• Qi Peiyu considered disrupting Mei Jiushan’s celebration, but the Qi Family’s presence prevented her from making a public scene.

Qi Peiyu tried to force Mei Jiushan to marry her daughter, but Mei Jiushan declared that he loved Yan Yuxi of Pine-Cypress Peak. A Golden Core cultivator named Wu backed Qi Peiyu, leaving the Mei Family under pressure until its Grand Elder demanded help from Swordforging Peak’s other great families.

• Qi Peiyu confronted Mei Qinglian and threatened to take Mei Jiushan away unless the Mei Family settled the marriage.
• Wu revealed that he was a Golden Core cultivator related to the Huang Family and familiar with Pine-Cypress Peak, silencing objections from the Mei Family and Gan Qingfeng.
• Mei Jiushan declared that he loved Yan Yuxi, and Wu questioned whether she returned his feelings.
• Qi Peiyu announced that Mei Jiushan would return to the Huang Family to discuss his marriage to her daughter.
• The Mei Family’s Grand Elder arrived to challenge Qi Peiyu, but Wu seized and threw him aside.
• The Grand Elder urged Mei Qinglian to send a distress signal to the other great families, but she said it was inappropriate to seek help over a private family matter.

Feng Jun demanded repayment from Mei Jiushan just as Qi Peiyu was taking him away, and the dispute revealed Feng Jun’s powerful connections. Qi Peiyu offered to pay the debt, but the chapter ended before Feng Jun answered whether he would stay out of the Mei Family’s affairs.

• Qi Peiyu prepared to take Mei Jiushan away while Wu threatened those who challenged Pine-Cypress Peak’s authority.
• An Emergence from Dust Adept promised to seek help from the Hidden Families, but Wu dismissed the warning.
• Feng Jun stopped Mei Jiushan and demanded repayment, raising the original ten-thousand-Spirit-Stone debt to thirty thousand for the delay and his expenses.
• Qi Peiyu offered fifteen thousand Spirit Stones, but Feng Jun insisted the debt was between him and Mei Jiushan.
• Wu learned Feng Jun was from Liba Beach and recognized Qu Jianlei as a True Adept from the Four Great Sects, so he backed down.
• Qi Peiyu offered to pay thirty thousand Spirit Stones and asked Feng Jun not to interfere further.

Feng Jun refused to involve himself in the Mei and Qi families’ dispute, but Qu Jianlei’s intervention brought several powerful Golden Cores into the confrontation. As the Mei Family prepared to settle matters, Huang Wanqiu tried to kill herself and revealed her despair over being forced into repeated marriages.

• Feng Jun said he would collect his debt and leave, while Mei Jiushan accepted responsibility and offered to repay the Spirit Stones through service to Qu Jianlei.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to hire Mei Jiushan, provoking True Person Wu, but True Person Xiaomeng and True Person Guyue intervened and forced the confrontation to subside.
• Mei Jiubao revealed that True Person Sumiao was also present, and Mei Qinglian rebuked Qi Peiyu for treating Swordforging Peak as though it belonged to outside powers.
• Huang Wanqiu suddenly tried to stab herself, but an early-stage Emergence from Dust cultivator stopped her and Mei Qinglian pulled away her sword.
• Huang Wanqiu sobbed that the Qi and Mei families had ignored her wishes and repeatedly arranged marriages for her, while blood continued to spill from her wound.

The chapter marked the arrival of the third watch and noted that they did not celebrate foreign holidays. League Leader Qian Xun Dao Tong wished Spirit Fox a happy birthday.

• The third watch arrived.
• The narrator said they did not celebrate foreign holidays.
• League Leader Qian Xun Dao Tong wished Spirit Fox a happy birthday.

After Huang Wanqiu’s marriage plans collapsed, Mei Qinglian stopped Qi Peiyu from striking her, and True Adept Xiaomeng offered Huang Wanqiu a place in her service. Huang Wanqiu chose to stay with her mother, while the departing True Adepts were greeted by Swordforging Peak cultivators.

• Qi Peiyu tried to slap Huang Wanqiu, but Mei Qinglian restrained her and criticized her treatment of her daughter.
• Qu Jianlei offered Huang Wanqiu a position handling miscellaneous matters for True Adept Xiaomeng, but Huang Wanqiu declined because she did not want to leave her mother.
• Mei Yeyu warned Qi Peiyu to restrain herself, and Qi Peiyu fell silent after learning Mei Yeyu was alive.
• Qu Jianlei told Mei Jiushan that they would wait for him outside the mountain gate, and the four True Adepts left.
• Xie Chaoqun and Qu Yingfeng greeted the departing group, and Qu Yingfeng recognized Guyue as a senior he had not seen for more than two hundred years.
• True Adept Xiaomeng said the group had come to collect debts, while three Mei Family Flying Boats approached to see them off.

Xiaomeng took Huang Wanqiu in as an assistant, while Feng Jun and the others learned that Mei Yeyu’s ruined meridians could not be healed because he no longer wished to live. After the group traveled onward, Feng Jun cultivated with Nie Chifeng, and the others teased Mei Jiushan and Huang Wanqiu about their romantic prospects.

• Huang Wanqiu begged Xiaomeng to take her in, and Xiaomeng accepted her only as an assistant rather than a Red Phoenix Sect member.
• Qu Yingfeng and Xie Chaoqun criticized the Qi Family for backing Huang Wanqiu’s excessive conduct, while Xie Chaoqun recalled Mei Yeyu’s former reputation.
• Sumiao identified Mei Yeyu’s destroyed and reconnected meridians, and Feng Jun divined that he had suffered backlash while saving a Kun cultivator and no longer wished to live.
• Feng Jun told Guyue that Mei Yeyu could not be cured and suggested that Guyue’s own heart was unsettled.
• Feng Jun cultivated with Nie Chifeng for two days, then Zhang Caixin, Kong Ziyi, Yu Pao, and Huang Wanqiu discussed Mei Jiushan’s interest in Yan Yuxi.

Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot debated Yan Yuxi’s talent and whether to visit Pine-Cypress Peak, while the Big Shot briefly considered taking her body. When Yan Yuxi arrived at Liba Beach the next day, Feng Jun’s people made her wait until his Divination day, and she sought out Yue Qing instead.

• Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot argued over whether Yan Yuxi’s cultivation came from awakened Past-Life Wisdom or extraordinary talent, and the Big Shot considered Body Snatching her.
• Feng Jun offered the Big Shot a different Pure Yin Physique body, and the Big Shot decided not to go to Pine-Cypress Peak.
• Yan Yuxi arrived at Liba Beach the next day, but Zhang Caixin said the visitors could not approach the manor and would have to wait four days to see Feng Jun.
• Yan Yuxi released two Traveling Residences beyond the restricted area and sent a calling card to Yue Qing of Azuresteel Sect.
• Yue Qing postponed meeting Yan Yuxi until evening, and she returned to visit him that evening.

Yan Yuxi met Feng Jun to ask about her chances of forming a Core and to seek help for a poisoned attendant, but she challenged his divination when he said her chances remained below ninety percent. Feng Jun dismissed her and demanded payment, leaving their meeting on hostile terms.

• Yan Yuxi asked Yue Qing how she could meet Feng Jun early, but Yue Qing told her that her reason for rushing would not persuade Feng Jun.
• Yan Yuxi waited four days, then met Feng Jun after he finished divining for seventeen people.
• When Sister Qiu's Soul-Testing Disk reacted, Feng Jun ordered her to put it away, and Yan Yuxi explained that she wanted a divination about Core Embrace and help for her poisoned attendant.
• Feng Jun advised Yan Yuxi not to attempt Core Embrace for three to five years and asked for two hundred Spirit Stones.
• Yan Yuxi offered valuable items, including Chaotic Astral Gale, and asked Feng Jun to divine again, but he said her chances still fell short of ninety percent.
• Yan Yuxi questioned whether Feng Jun recognized her Obsidian, so he told her to leave and demanded two hundred Spirit Stones.

Feng Jun treated Yan Yuxi’s attendant and attended a lively banquet where he deliberately let himself become drunk. He then sensed an unseen woman in white approaching and realized his companions were in danger, leaving him struggling to warn them.

• Yan Yuxi brought Zhao Revered One to Feng Jun, who identified the cause of her lingering poison and prescribed a treatment that began working that afternoon.
• Yan Yuxi hosted a banquet to thank Feng Jun, and cultivators performed, drank, and played Liar’s Dice.
• Feng Jun relaxed his senses and became increasingly drunk while talking with Yan Yuxi.
• Feng Jun noticed a woman in white approaching, though the other cultivators seemed unable to see her, and sensed her thoughts dismissing them as unworthy of speaking with him.
• Feng Jun realized his four women were beside him and sent Good Scenery a Divine Sense message to put the other three away.

A Heavenly Demon and its master abducted Feng Jun, Yan Yuxi, and others by combining mental confusion with time and spatial abilities. Stranded in the Void, Feng Jun protected the women with him and prepared to confront the unseen enemy.

• A white-clad Heavenly Demon overcame the guests’ senses and used white mist to take Feng Jun, Yan Yuxi, and their companions away.
• Yue Qing and the other cultivators identified the abduction as involving spatial power, then argued over whether Feng Jun or Yan Yuxi had been the target.
• The group planned to locate the captives through Divination while Feng Jun’s companions worried about the women he had been unable to leave behind.
• Feng Jun emerged in the Void with four women, Yan Yuxi, Sister Qiu, and a Yan Clan cultivator, while the Heavenly Demon remained nearby.
• Feng Jun recognized that the Heavenly Demon had a master and handed Good Scenery two Spirit Beast Bags so she could protect the Zhang sisters and Mi Yunshan.
• An unseen voice challenged Feng Jun to fight, and he raised the possibility of using his space attribute.

Feng Jun confronted a Heavenly Demon that had targeted him and Yan Yuxi, using a Body-Fixing Talisman Treasure to immobilize its white-clad form. As Sister Qiu tried to capture it, the Heavenly Demon struck back, and Feng Jun was sent flying by its green light.

• The Heavenly Demon revealed that it wanted Yan Yuxi for her Flawless Spirit Body and Feng Jun for his Divination, then offered to spare Feng Jun if he divined its identity.
• Feng Jun refused, drew Yan Yuxi and Sister Qiu into a plan to escape, and used his remaining Body-Fixing Talisman Treasure to freeze the white-clad figure.
• The figure began reverting to its Heavenly Demon form, and Sister Qiu moved to capture it with a Yin Soul Stone while Good Scenery held Feng Jun steady.
• The Heavenly Demon struck Sister Qiu with green light, and Feng Jun collected Yan Yuxi in his Life-Cage folding fan before the next attack came.
• Feng Jun blocked the green light with Nie Chifeng's Flame Wall Talisman, but it pierced the fire and knocked him several meters away.

Feng Jun let the Redwood Essence capture him so he could escape its independent space and bring the Big Shot out, though Good Scenery was badly injured protecting him. The Big Shot revealed that it had marked the Redwood Essence’s lair near the Endless Sea, and Feng Jun replenished his Energy Points before returning to the Phone Plane.

• Feng Jun endured the Redwood Essence’s capture, struck its Divine Soul, and grabbed one of its green tendrils to escape with Good Scenery to Blue Star.
• Feng Jun took Good Scenery to Alansmu, treated her injuries, and released the Zhang sisters while keeping Mi Yunshan and Yan Yuxi in the Life-Cage Folding Fan.
• Feng Jun confronted the Big Shot, which explained that it had stayed hidden because a Heavenly Demon and a True Immortal threatened it.
• The Big Shot revealed it had set a Space Anchor Point near the Endless Sea to locate the Redwood Essence’s lair.
• Feng Jun returned with the Big Shot to Luohua Manor, replenished his Energy Points, and entered the Phone Plane again.

Feng Jun evaded the injured Redwood Essence while investigating the bounties on himself and Yan Yuxi. He brought Yan Yuxi back to the Thunder Plains, where she learned Sister Qiu was alive and prepared to contact her clan as Feng Jun and his companions planned to leave.

• Feng Jun evaded the Redwood Essence’s pursuit by moving between the Phone Plane, Celestial Star Market, a town near the Ten Directions Platform, and the Thunder Plains, where the lightning kept its consciousness at bay.
• Feng Jun learned that Pine-Cypress Peak had placed a bounty on Yan Yuxi and that Red Phoenix, Supreme Clarity Sect, Azure Steel, and Tiantong had jointly placed one on him.
• After Good Scenery recovered enough to return to the Phone Plane, Feng Jun released Yan Yuxi from the Life-Cage near the Thunder Plains and told her the True Immortal was gravely injured.
• Yan Yuxi thanked Feng Jun and Good Scenery, activated her clan plaque, and learned that Sister Qiu was alive but in poor condition.
• Feng Jun, Good Scenery, Yan Yuxi, and Zhang Caixin withdrew the bounties through Tiantong, and Yan Yuxi prepared to contact her clan.
• When Feng Jun said he and his companions would leave, Yan Yuxi anxiously told them not to go.

Yan Yuxi insisted on joining Feng Jun’s revenge against a True Immortal, and he agreed to bring her along only if she kept her family out of it. Feng Jun took the group from the Thunder Plains to Coastal Market, where Yan Yuxi learned that Sister Qiu and an injured Yan Clan disciple had also escaped nearby.

• Yan Yuxi offered to travel with Feng Jun and asked to join his plan to take revenge on the True Immortal who had harmed his people.
• Feng Jun refused to let Yan Yuxi involve her family, but agreed to bring her along after she promised to go alone.
• Yan Yuxi told her family she was with Feng Jun, removed her tracking hairpin, and set out with the group.
• Feng Jun transferred everyone from the Thunder Plains to a wilderness near Coastal Market, a journey of about seven million li without teleportation.
• Yan Yuxi learned through Tiantong that Sister Qiu and an injured Yan Clan disciple had escaped nearby and were recovering in Coastal Market.