Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun’s group rested at the Endless Sea, then joined forces with Ji Busheng and followed Big Shot’s divination toward the Netherworld Mist. They reached the forbidden zone and began searching for a Netherworld Island, whose shifting, vanishing nature had once driven a Golden Core cultivator to abandon his investigation.

• Feng Jun guarded the Traveling Residence while the Hunting Alliance tried to question the group, but Ji Busheng arrived and sent its cultivators away.
• Feng Jun recruited Ji Busheng to help protect the group, and Yan Yuxi argued with Ji Busheng about their fighting strength.
• Big Shot divined the destination, and the group departed aboard Ji Busheng’s Flying Boat.
• Feng Jun guided the Flying Boat through the hostile Endless Sea and toward the Netherworld Mist without encountering serious trouble.
• Feng Jun directed the group to search for a Netherworld Island after they reached the mist’s edge.
• The story recounted how a Netherworld Island vanished as a Golden Core cultivator approached, leading him never to speak of the Netherworld Mist again.

Feng Jun, Ji Busheng, and Yan Yuxi encountered a Ten Directions Platform War Boat in the Netherworld Mist, where old hostility threatened to reignite. Great Dream Adept questioned Feng Jun about Yan Yuxi and threatened to capture him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Feng Jun's group searched the Netherworld Mist for Netherworld Island until the Big Shot warned him that a War Boat was approaching.
• Feng Jun and Ji Busheng recognized the approaching vessel as a Ten Directions Platform War Boat, and both sides prepared for a possible fight.
• Feng Jun warned Ji Busheng to protect himself, while Yan Yuxi sheltered Good Scenery and readied defensive talismans.
• Great Dream Adept saw Ji Busheng beginning to use Heavenly Heart's Wrath and emerged to question him rather than let the situation escalate.
• Great Dream Adept asked Feng Jun where Yan Yuxi was, but Feng Jun refused to answer, so Great Dream Adept threatened to capture him and take him to Pine-Cypress Peak.

Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi faced down Great Dream Adept after he considered attacking Feng Jun, and Yan Yuxi revealed that Pine-Cypress Peak already knew she was with him. The Ten Directions Platform stayed nearby and used a massive lightning disc to search for Netherworld Island, prompting Feng Jun to bring out a Spirit Stone Generator as Yan Yuxi followed him outside.

• Feng Jun challenged Great Dream Adept, who hesitated to attack because of Feng Jun's strength and the possibility of a powerful Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Yan Yuxi revealed herself from the flying boat, confirmed her identity with Pine-Cypress Peak's emblem, and told Great Dream Adept that her clan already knew she was with Feng Jun.
• Great Dream Adept returned to the Ten Directions Platform's war boat, kept it in place, and sent disciples out to search while two groups watched Feng Jun and Ji Busheng.
• Yan Yuxi suspected the Ten Directions Platform was searching for Netherworld Island, and Ji Busheng explained that Thunder Arts could reveal its location but risked losing their way in the Netherworld Mist.
• The Ten Directions Platform activated a huge lightning disc, and Feng Jun brought out a Spirit Stone Generator after Yan Yuxi urged him to respond; she followed him out of the flying boat.

Yan Yuxi and Feng Jun prepared to test their own lightning artifact despite Da Meng's warnings that it could disrupt the mist and interfere with the Heavenly Thunder Disc. After Da Meng and Yan Yuxi discovered they were both searching for Netherworld Island, they began negotiating how to divide its opportunity.

• Yan Yuxi stepped out of the flying vessel as Feng Jun prepared a lightning generator, and Da Meng warned them that its use could make them lose their way in the Netherworld Mist Zone.
• Feng Jun refused to stop their test or defer to the Ten Directions Platform, and Yan Yuxi sided with him, saying respect had to be mutual.
• Yan Yuxi explained that their artifact was weaker than the Heavenly Thunder Disc but had broad range and endurance, and she declined Da Meng's offer of a talisman to reach his warship.
• Yan Yuxi told Da Meng that they were searching for a Netherworld Island, and Da Meng revealed that his group was searching for one too.
• Da Meng proposed that whoever found the island keep its opportunity exclusive, but Yan Yuxi argued that everyone present should get a share, so he agreed with a condition of his own.

Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi searched for Netherworld Island while Ten Directions Platform used its stronger Heavenly Thunder Disc to follow and outpace them. Great Dream Adept’s two-day exclusive-access proposal was revealed as a ploy to keep them from opening the island’s Golden Core cave dwelling first.

• Great Dream Adept proposed a two-day exclusive period for whoever found Netherworld Island first, and Yan Yuxi agreed after Feng Jun stayed silent.
• Feng Jun tested his Spirit Stone Generator, but its lightning output was much weaker than Ten Directions Platform’s Heavenly Thunder Disc.
• Feng Jun and Ji Busheng moved between search areas to avoid Ten Directions Platform, but the War Boat repeatedly followed them until Feng Jun threatened to wipe them out.
• Ten days earlier, a Ten Directions Platform cultivator had found a treasure map in a rogue cultivator’s wife’s Storage Talisman and brought it back to the sect.
• Ten Directions Platform deciphered the map as pointing to Wenqing Adept’s Golden Core cave dwelling, which could be opened only by a Five-Element Formation of five Golden Cores.
• Great Dream Adept had brought five hidden Golden Cores to open the cave dwelling and set the exclusive period at two days because he believed Feng Jun’s group could not open it in time.

Feng Jun recognized that a spatial rupture and a possible True Immortal made the Netherworld Mist extremely dangerous, so he led his group to retreat and conceal their flying boat. Ten Directions Platform’s warship was caught in the rupture, leaving Great Dream Adept with devastating losses and blaming Ji Busheng.

• Feng Jun warned Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi of the danger, and Ji Busheng retreated after Feng Jun mentioned a possible True Immortal.
• Great Dream Adept realized Ji Busheng’s retreat signaled danger and ordered Ten Directions Platform’s defenses raised, but space ruptured before they could fully prepare.
• Feng Jun told Ji Busheng to activate the flying boat’s invisibility, and the group weathered the shockwave while Yan Yuxi treated Good Scenery with a Mortal-Transcendence Immortal Spirit Reforging Pill.
• The Heavenly Thunder Disc, warship, and escape flying boats were destroyed amid the spatial disturbances, killing or scattering many Ten Directions Platform disciples.
• Great Dream Adept gathered the survivors and, after discovering the scale of the casualties, declared that he and Ji Busheng were irreconcilable.

Ten Directions Platform’s survivors explored Netherworld Island and tried to open the Golden Core cave dwelling, but the restriction trapped the five Golden Core cultivators and began draining their blood essence. Ji Busheng appeared, warned them only by mocking their approach, then vanished as the cultivators struggled to escape.

• Great Dream Adept blamed Ji Busheng for Ten Directions Platform’s losses and decided the group would continue exploring Netherworld Island.
• Great Dream Adept refused to break Ten Directions Platform’s agreement with Pine-Cypress Peak, judging that his injured cultivators could not defeat Feng Jun and his allies.
• Ten Directions Platform’s cultivators tested the cave dwelling’s restriction, and five Golden Core cultivators attacked its designated rocks until a light screen and stone door appeared.
• Ji Busheng appeared in the distance, called their effort foolish, and disappeared without explaining why.
• The five Golden Core cultivators discovered that their hands were stuck to the rocks and their blood essence was draining, so one tried to break free by force.

Ten Directions Platform's adepts discovered that a strange force drained spiritual energy and trapped them with roots, while a Transformation True Demon revealed it had lured them to the island for blood food. Great Dream Adept realized the demon had been injured by someone else, and the survivors remained bound as it threatened to refine them.

• The Second Elder's spiritual energy was drained by the rock, and Four Woods discovered that the same force disrupted his flying sword.
• Great Dream Adept tried to escape by swapping places with an Azure Kui, but the beast appeared in his place and began to shrivel.
• Roots burst from the ground, binding Ten Directions Platform's disciples and five adepts despite their attempts to flee.
• Great Dream Adept called for help and learned that the hidden attacker was a Transformation True Demon that planned to kill them all.
• The demon admitted it had moved Wenqing Adept's belongings, lured Ten Directions Platform with an empty cave estate, and had been injured before setting its trap.
• Great Dream Adept deduced that someone else had injured the True Immortal, while the demon threatened to refine the captives and seek revenge on that person.

Great Dream Adept realized the demon had lied about how long it needed to refine Ten Directions Platform’s cultivators and deduced that Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi had previously injured it. After the demon’s soul searches failed, Great Dream Adept revealed that Feng Jun had entered the Netherworld Mist and that Ji Busheng had been spying on it.

• Great Dream Adept inferred that Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi had injured the demon, and the demon admitted Feng Jun had caught it off guard.
• A Ten Directions Platform Golden Core revealed that the Yan Clan cultivator injured at Pine-Cypress Peak was recovering in Coastal Market, while the demon considered demanding its avatar branch and compensation from Feng Jun.
• A dying Qi Refining Stage disciple told the demon that Feng Jun had come, then killed himself to prevent a soul search; the demon dragged three more disciples underground and searched seven people without finding anything.
• The demon asked whether Feng Jun had reached the Endless Sea, and Great Dream Adept said Feng Jun had entered the Netherworld Mist and had been with them moments earlier.
• Great Dream Adept told the demon that Ji Busheng of Heavenheart Platform had been spying on it and was close to Feng Jun.

Feng Jun and his companions located the injured redwood essence on Netherworld Island and learned that it was attacking Ten Directions Platform disciples to recover its strength. Feng Jun reconsidered his plan to kill it, while Ji Busheng eagerly asked to join the fight.

• Great Dream Adept tried to bluff the redwood demon, but it concluded that Feng Jun had not come to help.
• Ji Busheng returned from scouting Netherworld Island with footage that let Feng Jun’s group identify the redwood essence’s formation and likely location.
• The Big Shot sensed the redwood essence making its move and revealed that multiple Ten Directions Platform disciples had died.
• Yan Yuxi asked whether the redwood essence would grow stronger by absorbing the victims’ blood essence, and Feng Jun said it would recover some of its injuries.
• Feng Jun explained that absorbing blood essence would leave the redwood essence vulnerable while it suppressed the backlash, and Ji Busheng asked to join the battle.
• Feng Jun said he had invited Ji Busheng to protect people, not to fight the True Immortal.

Feng Jun, Ji Busheng, and Yan Yuxi prepared to confront the wounded Redwood Essence on Netherworld Island, deciding to rescue the Ten Directions Platform cultivators before the monster grew stronger. They reached a concealed position near the island, where Feng Jun took Ji Busheng’s Vermilion Owl Gel and prepared to scout ahead.

• Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi revealed their unusual treasures and persuaded Feng Jun to include them in the plan against the True Immortal.
• Feng Jun estimated that the Redwood Essence could kill the Ten Directions Platform cultivators within half a day, so the group agreed to act before it recovered further.
• Yan Yuxi promised to support the Ten Directions Platform cultivators even if her clan refused, while Feng Jun warned he might restart his bounty if they remained hostile after being rescued.
• Feng Jun piloted the Flying Boat to within a thousand li of Netherworld Island, then led the group closer until the Big Shot told them to stop.
• Ji Busheng offered his Vermilion Owl Gel to Feng Jun, who took it before setting out to scout the island.

Feng Jun used the Redwood Essence’s avatar branch as bait to draw it away from Netherworld Island, but the creature delayed its response while draining two Ten Directions Platform disciples. When it finally detected him, it attacked through the seabed, catching Feng Jun off guard.

• Feng Jun hid the avatar branch in the Blue Star Realm, then retrieved it and began divining from a Flying Boat on the seabed.
• The Redwood Essence sensed its branch nearby but suspected a trap and continued absorbing blood essence from two Qi Refining disciples.
• The Redwood Essence drained the two Ten Directions Platform disciples while the Great Dream Adept watched helplessly.
• The Redwood Essence released its Divine Sense, discovered Feng Jun in the Flying Boat, and rushed to attack him.
• Roots burst through the Flying Boat’s hull from below, while branches and leaves skewered sea beasts in the surrounding water.

Feng Jun escaped Redwood Essence’s attack, then used Yan Yuxi’s spirit mirror and the Big Shot’s spatial anchor to locate and reach Redwood Essence’s true body. Little White fixed the True Immortal in place as Feng Jun’s ambush began.

• Feng Jun used a Three Yang Fire Talisman and a Water-Fire Talisman to escape Redwood Essence’s encirclement, while Redwood Essence inferred that he had a spatial divine ability.
• Feng Jun returned to Good Scenery, Teacher Mei, and Yan Yuxi, took the spirit mirror, and used its light to reveal Redwood Essence’s true body through the fog.
• Redwood Essence was caught by the mirror’s soul-fixing effect and believed Feng Jun could not cross the distance before it recovered.
• The Big Shot used its spatial anchor to bring Feng Jun and Little White directly to Redwood Essence’s true body.
• Little White ignored Redwood Essence’s plea and used a talisman treasure to unleash a Body-Fixing Technique.

Feng Jun used Little White’s help to seize the Redwood Essence’s enormous underground body and brought it to Mairui Country, where he began extracting its hidden treasures. He discovered sealed Heavenly Demons and an Innate Earth Spirit among the Yin Soul Stones, but his efforts to harvest them were slow and caused the redwood’s spiritual energy to leak away.

• Little White immobilized the Redwood Essence while Feng Jun gripped its tree body and used the Vermilion Owl Gel to escape with it to Mairui Country.
• Feng Jun searched the redwood’s body and found eight Yin Soul Stones, including three sealed Heavenly Demons and a sealed Innate Earth Spirit.
• Feng Jun discovered that the redwood’s underground body was enormous and too large for his Storage Pouch or Spirit Beast Bag as a whole.
• Feng Jun tried to chop open the roots with a Treasure Artifact-grade axe but struggled to penetrate the Nascent Soul-level wood.
• Feng Jun finally extracted one Yin Soul Stone, while the redwood’s spiritual energy rapidly dissipated and he continued working in Mairui Country.

Feng Jun realized the redwood essence’s true body was losing spiritual energy and that its materials would be downgraded, so he decided to transport it to the Phone Plane aboard a War Boat. Its sudden reappearance drew the attention of Mairui and Saro, while Feng Jun left an alibi at Luohua Manor and disappeared again.

• Feng Jun noticed that the redwood essence’s secondary root was turning cloudy as its spiritual energy leaked away, risking the downgrade of its Nascent Soul materials.
• Feng Jun decided to stop processing the redwood in Mairui Country and use the War Boat to carry its true body away.
• Feng Jun released the War Boat, bound the redwood with the Immortal-Binding Cord, and hauled it into the lower hold as a drone recorded the event.
• Mairui’s National Guard reported the War Boat to the National Aerospace Administration, which identified it as resembling the spacecraft previously seen near Venus.
• Feng Jun returned to Luohua Manor through Footprint, called Yu Zhiyuan to establish an alibi, then put away his phone and left.

Feng Jun returned to Netherworld Island after killing the Redwood Essence and found the Ten Directions Platform cultivators still fighting its uncontrolled roots. Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi joined the battle after Great Dream Adept surrendered the island’s spoils, but a fresh assault of roots and branches struck before the danger had passed.

• Feng Jun piloted the War Boat across the Atlantic, submerged it, and later used Footprint to return to the Phone Plane beside Yan Yuxi and Good Scenery.
• Feng Jun brought Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to Netherworld Island, where the Ten Directions Platform cultivators were overwhelmed by the Redwood Essence’s rampaging roots.
• Ji Busheng challenged Great Dream Adept over the former agreement, and Great Dream Adept apologized and canceled the Ten Directions Platform’s exclusive claim to the island.
• Yan Yuxi secured the Nascent Soul materials for Feng Jun, then joined Ji Busheng in cutting roots and rescuing the trapped cultivators.
• Ji Busheng gathered severed roots as he fought, while the rescued cultivators began turning the battle around.
• A new wave of roots and branches attacked, and a Ten Directions Platform Adept was pierced through the shoulder.

After the Redwood Essence fell, Feng Jun collected its scattered Nascent Soul materials while the Ten Directions Platform disciples finished fighting the enlightened tree demons. He shared the work and spoils with Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi, whose helpers joined the excavation.

• Yan Yuxi asked why the Emergence from Dust tree demons attacked only after the Redwood Essence died, and Feng Jun explained that he had killed some while gathering materials, driving the others toward the Ten Directions Platform.
• Ji Busheng identified the dead demon as a Redwood Essence and reminded Great Dream Adept that the Nascent Soul materials belonged to Feng Jun and his allies.
• Feng Jun gathered roots with Big Shot and Little White while the Ten Directions Platform defeated the remaining tree demons, then paused as the disciples crowded around the valuable materials.
• Great Dream Adept urged his disciples to respect Feng Jun, recalling that the Nascent Soul demon had begged him for mercy, and most of the disciples returned to recovering or clearing the battlefield.
• Feng Jun invited Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to collect a share, and Yan Yuxi produced thirty-six Engineering Puppets to excavate the roots.
• Ji Busheng continued digging at an unhurried pace, saying Heavenheart Platform cultivators followed their hearts and knew when to stop.

After exploring Wenqing Adept's empty cave abode, Feng Jun lent Ten Directions Platform his warship so its wounded cultivators could leave Netherworld Island. He stayed behind with two of their Emergence from Dust cultivators, officially to consider a teleportation array and privately to pursue Big Shot's nearby treasure site.

• Feng Jun and the others found little in Wenqing Adept's cave abode beyond a dying Golden Core array spirit, while Ten Directions Platform moved elsewhere on Netherworld Island.
• Great Dream Adept asked Ji Busheng to lend Ten Directions Platform a flying boat, but Ji Busheng refused and advised him to ask Feng Jun for the warship.
• Feng Jun agreed to lend his warship after Great Dream Adept provided a huge Spirit Beast Bag for the Redwood Essence's trunk, and Great Dream Adept warned him about possible retaliation from the Redwood Essence's kin.
• Feng Jun told Great Dream Adept he was considering a teleportation array linking the island to Coastal Market, and Great Dream Adept agreed that the island could become a valuable base.
• Ten Directions Platform departed aboard Feng Jun's warship, leaving Four Woods and Qinglan behind while Feng Jun remained on the island.

Feng Jun decided to build a Teleportation Array on Netherworld Island after discussing the idea with Red Sister, Good Scenery, and Zhang Caixin. After returning to the island, he brought out the Redwood Essence’s main body so Little White could retrieve its Yin Soul Stones for the Big Shot.

• Feng Jun held a meeting with Red Sister, Good Scenery, and Zhang Caixin, and they discussed whether to establish a Teleportation Array and a service base.
• Red Sister argued that the venture could give Luo Hua its own territory and force, while Zhang Caixin worried it would distract Feng Jun and Red Sister from cultivation.
• Feng Jun agreed to build the Teleportation Array and reassured Red Sister that he would be able to return at the Golden Core Stage.
• The Big Shot said it needed two days to recover before opening the treasure vault, then asked Feng Jun to retrieve Yin Soul Stones from the Redwood Essence’s sealed Heavenly Demons.
• Feng Jun brought out the Redwood Essence’s main body, startling Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi, and released Little White to search for the Yin Soul Stones.
• Little White struggled to cut through the Redwood Essence’s dense roots, so Feng Jun gave it a Treasure Artifact-grade axe.

Feng Jun and Little White uncovered seven Yin Soul Stones and several Heavenly Demons from the Nascent Soul Redwood Essence, then shared stones with Yan Yuxi and Ji Busheng. After Feng Jun left, Ji Busheng warned Yan Yuxi that she might fall behind Feng Jun, while Feng Jun worried that advancing too quickly could leave him without friends.

• Little White dug Yin Soul Stones out of the redwood while the Big Shot identified sealed Heavenly Demons and a weak Earth Spirit inside them.
• Feng Jun put the redwood back into the Spirit Beast Bag and let Yan Yuxi and Ji Busheng each choose a Yin Soul Stone as their share of the gains.
• Yan Yuxi accepted a stone and said the Yan Clan would later settle the debt for Feng Jun saving her life, while Ji Busheng joked that he could afford to buy his.
• After Feng Jun left, Ji Busheng told Yan Yuxi that Feng Jun hoped she could keep pace with his cultivation, and she struggled to accept how quickly he was advancing.
• Feng Jun told the Big Shot that moving too fast could leave him without friends, but the Big Shot argued that others were responsible for failing to keep up.