Chapter Summaries

Azure Sun Adept and a Rogue Cultivators Alliance retainer fought to mutual defeat before Hong Yao Adept called for a death match on behalf of her ancestor. Aman then fought the Alliance’s high-grade Golden Core and survived a self-destruction by revealing himself to be a Stone Giant, leaving the battle’s result unresolved.

• Azure Sun Adept burned his essence blood and forced the Rogue Cultivators Alliance retainer into mutual defeat, damaging both their foundations.
• Hong Yao Adept announced that she sought a death match to repay a favor on behalf of her ancestor.
• Aman stepped in to fight the Alliance’s high-grade Golden Core after Moving Mountain Adept told him to stand down.
• The high-grade Golden Core trapped Aman with Marsh Art and attacked him with a Woodfire Talisman, prompting Aman to self-destruct.
• Blue River Adept stopped an Alliance cultivator from intervening and revealed that Aman was a Stone Giant who could recover from the blast.

After the duel left Aman and his opponent critically injured, Moving Mountain Adept tried to stop the fighting but chose to challenge the Rogue Cultivators Alliance when Aman insisted he could still fight. Liu Er then tried to turn the duel into a melee, and Great Dream Adept’s side intervened against the rule-breaking attack.

• Great Dream Adept and others debated whether the duel was over, while Blue River Adept insisted the Rogue Cultivators Alliance would fight on and Jin Dadao warned that the Golden Core opponent would be crippled.
• Moving Mountain Adept explained that Aman had twice saved his life and urged him to stop, but Aman weakly declared that he could still fight.
• Moving Mountain Adept challenged Liu Er, then swore to kill the opposing Golden Cores and their families if he was not allowed to leave.
• Liu Er ordered his people to surround Moving Mountain Adept and asked Great Dream Adept to abandon the one-on-one rules and permit a melee.
• Great Dream Adept rejected the request and summoned Elder Lü, who used a flying sword to sever the arm of an opposing second-level Golden Core.

The Rogue Cultivators Alliance tried to withdraw from its confrontation with the Hunting Alliance, but Ten Directions Platform refused to let its Adepts leave without resolving the fight. Zou Bufan arrived and discovered the opposing forces were far stronger than he expected, while Feng Jun accused the alliance of ordering Adept Jiao to kill his junior brother.

• Liu the Second Adept tried to end the battle and leave, but Moving Mountain Adept, Adept Ling Yun, and Elder Lü refused to let the Rogue Cultivators Alliance walk away.
• Zou Bufan emerged from hiding and asked Great Dream Adept and Adept Ling Yun to avoid a costly fight.
• Adept Wenji, Adept Shangqing, and Adept Motong revealed their true Golden Core cultivation levels, leaving Zou Bufan badly outnumbered.
• Zou Bufan recognized Feng Jun's role in bringing Ten Directions Platform and its allies to the Hunting Alliance's aid, then asked why Feng Jun was involved despite their supposed peace.
• Feng Jun accused the Rogue Cultivators Alliance of ordering Adept Jiao to kill his junior brother, Adept Shi Jie, and said Adept Jiao had confessed before Feng Jun killed him.

Feng Jun confronted the Rogue Cultivators Alliance over Jiao True Person’s attack and watched Moving Mountain Adept fight Liu Er True Adept. He then approached Zou Bufan, who denied responsibility for the scheme and asked Feng Jun to spare him from fighting.

• Feng Jun rejected Zou Bufan’s offer to investigate later and backed Wutai’s demand for an explanation.
• Liu Er True Adept challenged Moving Mountain Adept, and the two fought with a treasure disk and heavy weapons.
• Feng Jun used Flash Step to approach Zou Bufan and asked why Jiao True Person had claimed he resented him.
• Zou Bufan denied plotting against Feng Jun and explained that he could not openly blame the Liu brothers.
• Feng Jun suggested that the Liu brothers had tried to frame Zou Bufan, and Zou Bufan asked him to avoid making him fight.

Moving Mountain Adept defeated Liu Er True Adept in their life-and-death duel, forcing Liu Er to flee with a Teleportation Talisman. He challenged the Rogue Cultivators Alliance’s remaining fighters, but no one stepped forward.

• Liu Er True Adept released poison and attacked Moving Mountain Adept with short swords, but Moving Mountain’s clone took the strike while his true body evaded it.
• Moving Mountain Adept struck Liu Er with a Blood-Burning Needle, then smashed him with his heavy mace, leaving him badly injured.
• Liu Er used a concealed Great Teleportation Talisman to escape, leaving behind the Three-God Disc.
• Zou Bufan claimed Liu Er had fled through a passively activated Teleportation Ring, and Moving Mountain Adept accepted the explanation and kept the disc.
• Moving Mountain Adept announced that Liu Er would need at least a hundred years to recover, drawing cheers from the Hunting Alliance and dark expressions from the Rogue Cultivators Alliance.
• Zou Bufan declined to fight while wearing his ring, so Moving Mountain Adept challenged the other members of the Rogue Cultivators Alliance.

Moving Mountain Adept reconsidered the deathmatch after Zou Bufan proposed ending it, and the gathered factions weighed whether to spare the Hunting Alliance. Feng Jun exposed that Zou Bufan belonged to a Hidden Family, leaving Wenji Adept defending his choice to protect him despite the old enmity between the Hidden Families and Wutai and Four Sects.

• Master Chang challenged Blue River Adept, but Zou Bufan supported the challenge and argued against letting Moving Mountain Adept keep fighting one opponent after another.
• Moving Mountain Adept weighed Zou Bufan's proposal to stop the deathmatch because the Hunting Alliance needed Blue River Adept to survive.
• Great Dream Adept consulted Ling Yun Adept, and several factions supported Feng Mountain Lord's decision to end the fighting without killing Moving Mountain Adept.
• Feng Jun questioned whether Zou Bufan was truly a rogue cultivator, prompting Zou Bufan to realize Feng Jun had tried to divine his identity.
• Wenji Adept asked the gathered factions to protect Zou Bufan, and Feng Jun revealed that Zou Bufan was a native-plane cultivator from one of the Hidden Families.
• Shangqing Adept condemned Wenji Adept for sheltering a Hidden Family member, while Wenji argued that the old feud between the Hidden Families and Wutai and Four Sects no longer mattered.

Feng Jun explained that he opposed the Hidden Families’ alliance with rogue cultivators because their ruthless expansion could destabilize the Kunhao Plane and weaken its defenses against the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons. Great Dream Adept agreed to release Zou Bufan but moved to impose rules and supervision on the Hunting Alliance, leaving the other True Adepts facing demands to reveal their identities.

• Wenji Adept and Great Dream Adept argued that the Hidden Families’ past ties with the sects and platforms gave reason to reconsider their conflict, and Zou Bufan asked Feng Jun why he opposed them.
• Feng Jun said the Hidden Families’ cooperation with rogue cultivators could drive violent resource redistribution, cause mass deaths, and damage the plane’s strength against future invasions.
• Great Dream Adept praised Feng Jun’s broader perspective and allowed Zou Bufan to stay and observe, while forbidding the Hidden Families from further involvement with the Rogue Cultivators Alliance.
• When Zou Bufan asked for the other True Adepts to be released, Great Dream Adept said their fate was tied to the Hunting Alliance and ordered the Endless Sea’s rules and oversight to be established.
• A True Adept complained that they had been promised anonymity, but Elder Lü demanded that the attackers reveal their identities and killed a Golden Core cultivator when another asked whether Ten Directions Platform would protect them from retaliation.

Elder Lü’s Ten Directions Platform killed Chaoxi Adept after evidence of his vile harvesting art was found, prompting the True Adepts to cooperate. Moving Mountain Adept agreed to leave the Rogue Cultivators Alliance but urged the Ten Directions Platform to trust Blue River; as Blue River arrived, an unexpected event occurred.

• Elder Lü identified the slain Chaoxi Adept as a cultivator of a vile harvesting art and asked Feng Mountain Lord to divine the truth.
• Hong Yao Adept and Master Chang inspected Chaoxi Adept’s Storage Pouch and found harvesting artifacts, convincing the True Adepts that the Ten Directions Platform had judged correctly.
• The remaining True Adepts became more cooperative, and a High-Grade Golden Core approached their gathering.
• Elder Lü told Moving Mountain Adept that he had to leave the Hunting Alliance, and Moving Mountain Adept agreed while asking them not to abandon Blue River.
• Moving Mountain Adept learned that Master Chang had a blood feud with Blue River but lacked evidence, then failed to persuade Master Chang to stand down.
• Blue River Adept arrived before Elder Lü, and something unexpected happened.

During the inspection, Feng Jun’s warning helped prompt a coordinated attack that killed Blue River Adept, whom Wenji Adept identified as a demonic cultivator. Moving Mountain Adept learned of Blue River’s crimes and questioned Wenji’s silence, while Feng Jun denied that his vague remark had been a deliberate hint.

• Great Dream Adept arranged for Ten Directions Platform cultivators to divine behind Elder Lü, and one gave Feng Jun a mind-focusing spirit fruit as an apology.
• Blue River Adept claimed he was the sole survivor of a sea beast attack on Blackwood Cliff Village, and Feng Jun confirmed only that account.
• After Feng Jun said, “That’s all,” Blue River Adept reached for his Storage Pouch; Jin Adept attacked him, Wenji Adept pierced his chest with the Slaughterheart Sword, and Feng Jun struck him with a stone as Elder Lü took his head.
• Moving Mountain Adept tried to retaliate, but Great Dream Adept restrained him; Wenji Adept declared Blue River Adept a demonic cultivator and said he had watched him for twenty years.
• Yan Yufeng explained the demonic origins of the Blood-Burning Needle, and Master Chang revealed that he had fought Blue River Adept over a grievous personal loss.
• Moving Mountain Adept challenged Wenji Adept for withholding his evidence, while Feng Jun explained that he had sensed danger but had not intended his words as a specific hint.

Elder Lü and Wenji Adept disputed who had killed Blue River Adept, while Feng Jun revealed that his enormous Yin Soul Stone contained a Heavenly Demon that had helped keep the demonic cultivator at bay. The gathered cultivators pressed Feng Jun for details, but he refused to identify the Heavenly Demon.

• Wenji Adept demanded Blue River Adept’s head from Elder Lü, claiming his Slaughterheart Sword had killed the demonic cultivator first.
• Elder Lü argued that he had delivered the fatal blow, and Ling Yun Adept backed him by saying Blue River Adept was still alive after Wenji Adept pierced his heart.
• Ling Yun Adept called on Feng Jun to show his Yin Soul Stone, and Feng Jun briefly displayed the enormous stone before putting it away.
• Feng Jun explained that something inside the Yin Soul Stone frightened demonic cultivators, then said it contained a Heavenly Demon.
• Zou Bufan asked what kind of Heavenly Demon was inside the stone, but Feng Jun did not answer.

After the Hunting Alliance was defeated, the Ten Directions Platform restored order in the Endless Sea while other sects arrived to contest influence. Feng Jun returned to Netherworld Island and found that Little White and the Phantom Heavenly Demon had captured a missing Ten Directions Platform True Adept and two companions.

• Zou Bufan asked Feng Jun about his Heavenly Demon, but Feng Jun refused to lend or sell it and reminded him of the Dantai Family’s attack.
• Shangqing Adept claimed Chaoxi Adept’s head, and Master Chang thanked Feng Jun for exposing the demonic cultivator.
• The Golden Core cultivators put Fury Adept in charge of the Hunting Alliance temporarily, while Zou Bufan received a warning and Moving Mountain Adept set out to hunt Boss Liu.
• The Ten Directions Platform suppressed unrest around the Endless Sea as representatives of other sects arrived to pursue their interests and Luo Shi Adept searched for Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun used his spatial ability to travel alone to Netherworld Island while the others followed by War Boat.
• Feng Jun found that Little White and the Phantom Heavenly Demon had captured a missing Golden Core True Adept, an Emergence from Dust Adept, and a Qi Condensation disciple.

Feng Jun left three Ten Directions Platform cultivators stranded on his island after Little White took their Storage Pouches, then gave them formation discs and departed. After finding hidden markers confirming peace with Feng Jun, the two senior cultivators discovered a message saying he had killed a Nascent Soul True Immortal and reacted with shock.

• Feng Jun asked Big Shot about its recovery and let it calibrate the Illusory Heavenly Demon while learning how the Ten Directions Platform cultivators had attacked the Traveling Residence.
• Feng Jun confronted the Qi Condensation disciple, gave the group two formation discs, and told them the island belonged to him.
• After resting, the Ten Directions Platform cultivators sent the Qi Condensation disciple to find hidden markers and learned that their leader had made peace with Feng Jun and Heavenheart Platform.
• Feng Jun put away the Traveling Residence and vanished before the Emergence from Dust Adept could speak with him.
• The Qi Condensation disciple showed the two seniors a hidden symbol accompanying a message that Feng Jun had killed a Nascent Soul True Immortal, and the Golden Core cultivator cursed in disbelief.

Feng Jun helped the Big Shot find and enter her hidden treasury in the Endless Sea, only to discover it had been thoroughly looted. Inside a concealed chamber, she reunited with a dormant Soul Division and prepared to merge with it, explaining her fear that it might become the primary personality.

• Feng Jun and the Big Shot searched the seabed, where he dug through the sand and broke the seal on the hidden stone cavern.
• Feng Jun found the outer cavern empty, then followed the Big Shot’s instructions to open a concealed door and enter the inner residence.
• The Big Shot manifested a white figure and asked Feng Jun to release Mei Jin and retrieve the contents of a white sachet.
• Feng Jun found a second Yin Soul Stone in the sachet, and the Big Shot’s white figure disappeared after confirming it was safe.
• The Big Shot revealed that the Yin Soul Stone contained her Soul Division, which appeared to be asleep and ready for a smooth merger.

After merging its divided soul, the Big Shot revealed its Golden Core cultivation method and explained why it had carefully hidden its main consciousness. Feng Jun and the Big Shot sorted the cavern’s treasures and agreed that he could copy its manuals, while war boats were already approaching.

• The Big Shot spent five days merging its divided soul, and Feng Jun found that its two Yin Soul Stones had fused into one.
• The Big Shot gave Feng Jun the Golden Core cultivation method for the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art and explained that it had hidden memories in its divided soul.
• The Big Shot admitted that it had made its main Yin Soul Stone small and its divided soul’s stone large to protect its main consciousness and avoid being noticed.
• Feng Jun and the Big Shot sorted the cavern’s treasures, and the Big Shot wanted to reserve half of them, including manuals, for a possible return.
• The Big Shot agreed to let Feng Jun copy its cultivation methods and secret arts after he promised not to return without permission, as war boats from Heavenheart Platform and Pine-Cypress Peak approached.

Feng Jun returned to Netherworld Island after acquiring hundreds of cultivation books, and the arriving factions learned that he had killed a Nascent Soul True Immortal. He agreed to let the others develop the island while preparing to return to Liba Beach, where Sister Qiu would receive a divined treatment plan for her injuries.

• Feng Jun considered how the more than four hundred volumes expanded Luo Hua Library and decided not to get carried away despite his growing standing.
• Feng Jun spent two days copying more than thirty cultivation methods and secret arts, then flew back toward Netherworld Island.
• Yan Yufeng and Ji Busheng told Ten Directions Platform’s True Adept that Feng Jun had saved their people by killing a Nascent Soul True Immortal, and Yan Yuxi confirmed she had witnessed it.
• Feng Jun arrived and said the island was stable and would be developed, then approved Yan Yuxi’s renovation plan and left the management to her and the others.
• Yan Yuxi asked Feng Jun to take her to Liba Beach, but he refused and performed Divination to give Sister Qiu a treatment plan for her injuries.

Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach and managed the growing crowds seeking divinations, asserting his authority over who received priority. After refusing Ten Directions Platform a branch courtyard and confronting a Black Yan Plane cultivator over the queue, he learned Huangfu Wuxia had come to explain Thunder Plains’ production of imitation generators and buy Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses.

• Feng Jun left Coastal Market before the Red Phoenix Sect's Grand Elder could meet him, then returned to Liba Beach, where Heavenheart Platform and Ten Directions Platform had arrived.
• Feng Jun rejected Ten Directions Platform's request to build a branch courtyard within his territory and directed them to build beyond Tiantong Branch Courtyard instead.
• Feng Jun resumed divinations, prioritizing major sects, Tiantong, and people he knew while crowds waited at Liba Beach.
• A Low-Grade Golden Core from the Black Yan Plane demanded first-come, first-served treatment, but Feng Jun ordered him to wait and later gave people priority over his Horned Peng.
• Feng Jun learned that Huangfu Wuxia had brought fifty imitation generators from Thunder Plains to explain their production and had come to buy Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses.

Feng Jun treated a Golden Core Demon Beast’s loss of appetite, then heard Huangfu Wuxia’s proposal to jointly develop an Oil-Transformed Insect Carcass mine. He accepted that Thunder Plains had acted out of necessity but remained concerned about generator production, and left Huangfu Wuxia curious about modern industry.

• Feng Jun learned from the Big Shot that Horned Peng was listless because it had outgrown the Black Yan Plane, and he sold a treatment formula to its owner for five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qu Jianlei offered to deal with the resentful Golden Core cultivator, but Feng Jun told him to let the man go.
• Feng Jun decided that Huangfu Wuxia’s use of Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses was acceptable, though he wanted to prevent Thunder Plains from freely manufacturing diesel generators.
• Huangfu Wuxia proposed that Feng Jun take a forty-percent share in a newly purchased mine in exchange for technical consulting, and Feng Jun questioned why the Huangfu Clan wanted to develop his resources first.
• Huangfu Wuxia explained that she wanted Feng Jun’s forgiveness for the generator imitation and said the Huangfu Clan would rely on him to develop the mine.
• Feng Jun called Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses the foundation of modern industry, and Huangfu Wuxia asked what modern industry was.

Feng Jun discussed developing basic industry in Kun Hao with Huangfu Wuxia, while learning how the Huangfu Clan had secured its graphene supply from the chaotic Orderless Plane. He planned to explore industrial projects with Red Sister and others, leaving Huangfu Wuxia to seek another graphene supplier and prepare for competition over the new market.

• Feng Jun explained that he wanted to improve production efficiency in Kun Hao through gradual industrial development rather than introduce modern industry all at once.
• Huangfu Wuxia told Feng Jun that the Huangfu Clan had obtained over five hundred tons of graphene and described the Orderless Plane’s attempts to seize their trade channel.
• Patriarch Huangfu and two Golden Core cultivators pressured the Orderless Plane, which surrendered several cultivators after refusing to hand over the culprits behind the supply disruption.
• Huangfu Wuxia said the Huangfu Clan had arranged two hidden graphene supply channels, and Feng Jun urged her to find another supplier to avoid dependence on one source.
• Feng Jun told Huangfu Wuxia that he would seek partners beyond the Huangfu Clan to develop industry, then asked whether she had brought the graphene.

Feng Jun proposed bringing basic industry to the Kunhao Plane, prompting debate about the risks of deindustrialization and the need to control the pace. He asked Yu Qingzhu to bring Yu Zhiyuan to Luo Hua to discuss the plan, while Yu Qingzhu began suspecting Feng Jun’s country might exist in a Small World.

• Feng Jun discussed developing basic industry in the Kunhao Plane, and Red Sister warned him to control its pace.
• Feng Jun decided to consult Yu Zhiyuan and asked Yu Qingzhu to pass along the message, mentioning a lead on more Graphene.
• Feng Jun asked Yu Qingzhu to estimate the industrial needs of hypothetical countries ranging from thirty million to one billion people.
• Yu Qingzhu suspected Feng Jun’s plan involved a country outside Blue Star and agreed to deliver the message.
• Yu Zhiyuan heard about the hypothetical foreign-aid plan and dismissed it as boring.

Feng Jun discussed a hypothetical plan to help a Third World country build an industrial system with Lin Beauty, arguing that Xia Nation should focus on improving itself rather than fearing technological competition. The discussion ended with Lin Beauty asking what would happen if the aid project's products flowed back into Xia Nation, and Feng Jun objecting to her probing.

• Zhang Caixin found old grain mixed into a Grain Depot's rotated grain and stopped the transfer, prompting Feng Jun to complain to Yu Zhiyuan.
• Yu Zhiyuan arranged a new Grain Depot address and asked Feng Jun for details about his proposed aid to a Third World country.
• Lin Beauty visited Feng Jun with a professional aid plan, and Feng Jun outlined a hypothetical project to establish an initial industrial system.
• Lin Beauty asked about the project's motive and compared it to Princess Wencheng bringing technology to the Tibetan Empire, while Feng Jun argued that internal stability and continued progress mattered more than sharing low-level technology.
• Lin Beauty asked what would happen if the project's products flowed back into Xia Nation, and Feng Jun said the plan would be pointless if that happened.