Chapter Summaries

Feng Xiao celebrated the safe return of Shanxi’s medical workers from Wuhan, welcomed with a water salute. She said she would stop asking for monthly votes until next month.

• Feng Xiao explained that her extra updates had usually been spontaneous and that Quan Quan had come up with the patron-leader idea.
• Feng Xiao described Shanxi’s medical workers returning from Wuhan and being welcomed at the airport with a water salute.
• Feng Xiao said Shanxi had taken responsibility for three cities in Hubei and that what mattered was that the workers had returned safely.
• Feng Xiao said she would not ask for monthly votes again until next month.

True Immortal Yi Jue revealed her ties to the Grand Void Sect and let Dou De decide how to handle the dispute. The confrontation exposed Duanmu Lianqin’s connection to Duanmu Zhenghong and a possible plot involving Du Tianxi’s death, and True Immortal Shouzhong handed Duanmu Lianqin over to Feng Jun.

• True Immortal Yi Jue identified herself as a former Grand Void disciple and explained that she had transferred to the Spirit Plant Path after reaching the Fourth-Layer Nascent Soul.
• Dou De decided the Spirit Plant Path could enter and leave Yiyao freely, then demanded that Duanmu Lianqin explain why she and a True Immortal had moved against Feng Jun.
• Duanmu Lianqin admitted she was a collateral member of the Duanmu Family, and Tu Hongyi linked Duanmu Zhenghong to Cheng Shuibian and the City Lord succession rumors.
• Feng Jun suggested Cheng Shuibian’s connection to Duanmu Zhenghong, prompting Dou De to suspect Duanmu Zhenghong was behind Du Tianxi’s death and Duanmu Lianqin’s attack on Feng Jun.
• The barefoot man mocked Dou De, then fled when True Immortal Yi Jue challenged him; True Immortal Shouzhong bound Duanmu Lianqin and gave her to Feng Jun.

Feng Jun returned after dealing with Shan Tianyun and Duanmu Lianqin, while the Spirit Plant Path’s True Immortals headed to East City to confront the Grand Void Sect over the ambush. There, Duanmu Guzhu learned Feng Jun had returned and ordered him summoned.

• Feng Jun refused help from Shouzhong and Yi Jue, then vanished with Shan Tianyun and Duanmu Lianqin before returning alone as the others failed to track him.
• Duanmu Guzhu realized Duanmu Lianqin might be dead and told a servant to summon Duanmu Zhenghong after learning the situation had changed.
• Yi Jue and the others agreed to visit East City and question the Grand Void Sect about sending a Nascent Soul cultivator to intercept Feng Jun.
• The group returned through the Teleportation Array Disc, and a Golden Core disciple recognized Yi Jue and identified Liu Xingyu as East City’s stationed Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Duanmu Guzhu heard Feng Jun had returned, ordered him summoned, and dismissed concerns that Liu Xingyu might discover his presence in East City.

Duanmu Guzhu and Duanmu Zhenghong reconsidered their plans against Feng Jun after learning that True Immortal Yi Jue and three other True Immortals had arrived to protect him. When Liu Xingyu learned Yi Jue was there, he eagerly went to meet her.

• Duanmu Guzhu and Duanmu Zhenghong learned that Yi Jue and three other True Immortals had accompanied Feng Jun, and decided to investigate Feng Jun's background before acting.
• True Adept Mo Ran told Yi Jue that he had hired Feng Jun for Divination and denied coercing him; True Immortal Shouzhong warned Mo Ran that Feng Jun's work benefited all of Heavenly Zither.
• Mo Ran apologized for his negligence and offered to summon the Duanmu Family's representative for questioning if Liu Xingyu authorized it.
• Mo Ran notified Liu Xingyu that Yi Jue and three True Immortals had arrived, and Liu Xingyu immediately left seclusion to meet her.

Liu Xingyu joined True Immortal Yi Jue and the Spirit Plant Path in investigating the Duanmu Family’s suspected role in an attack on their guests. He confronted Duanmu Guzhu in East City and revealed his hard-won mastery of Grand Void’s Void-Breaking Hand as tensions escalated.

• Liu Xingyu greeted True Immortal Yi Jue with unusual respect, and the Spirit Plant Path elders explained the Gray-Blue Disease investigation and the ambush to him.
• True Adept Mo Ran asked to question Duanmu Zhenghong, and Liu Xingyu insisted on going with him to the Duanmu Family’s residence.
• Liu Xingyu asked True Immortal Yi Jue to intercept the suspects if they tried to flee, while Deacon Shouzhong and the others stayed behind.
• Liu Xingyu forced his way into the Blessing Courtyard and ordered the Duanmu Family to surrender for investigation.
• Duanmu Guzhu confronted Liu Xingyu and belittled his status as a guest elder, so Liu Xingyu summoned a silver shuttle formed from Grand Void’s Void-Breaking Hand.

Liu Xingyu used his Void-Breaking Silver Shuttle to stop Duanmu Guzhu from escaping, while True Immortal Yi Jue and True Immortal Shouzhong intervened to prevent him from fleeing. Duanmu Guzhu was forced to abandon his escape, but he still refused to accept Liu Xingyu’s victory.

• Liu Xingyu confronted Duanmu Guzhu with the Void-Breaking Silver Shuttle and warned him to stop resisting.
• Duanmu Guzhu tried to flee, but Liu Xingyu struck him with the shuttle and injured him despite his defensive talisman.
• True Immortal Yi Jue and True Immortal Shouzhong disrupted Duanmu Guzhu’s attempt to teleport away and warned him not to escape.
• Duanmu Guzhu gave up fleeing but said he would not accept Liu Xingyu’s victory, while True Immortal Shouzhong urged him to show self-respect.
• Liu Xingyu threatened to execute Duanmu Guzhu if he tried to run again, and True Immortal Yi Jue remarked that Liu Xingyu had advanced the Void-Breaking Silver Shuttle unusually far.

Liu Xingyu and True Immortal Mo Ran arrested the Duanmu Family after Duanmu Zhenghong self-destructed, but the deaths and a survivor’s suicide attempt complicated their effort to hold the clan responsible. Yi Jue took the rescued maid under her protection, and Mo Ran began interrogating the Duanmu clansmen, uncovering the truth.

• Duanmu Guzhu accepted Liu Xingyu’s restriction after realizing Liu’s mastery of the Void-Breaking Silver Shuttle could earn him a place in the Upper Court, while Duanmu Zhenghong tried to flee.
• Duanmu Zhenghong self-destructed his Golden Core, and Duanmu Guzhu showed no sorrow, saying Zhenghong had borne responsibility without implicating the clan.
• A maid whose family the Duanmu Family had exterminated slit her throat and pierced her heart, leaving a note asking Liu Xingyu to keep his promise to punish the clan.
• Duanmu Guzhu revealed that the family had medicine, and a Grand Void disciple revived the maid before Yi Jue took her away for protection.
• The authorities placed the courtyard’s cultivators under restrictions and brought them to True Immortal Mo Ran, who began interrogating the Duanmu clansmen and uncovered the truth.

True Adept Mo Ran interrogated the Duanmu Family’s captured associates, and Feng Jun’s questions helped uncover their secrets and locate Cheng Shuibian. The chapter ended with Cheng Shuibian confessing that Duanmu Zhenghong had ordered him to kill.

• True Adept Mo Ran ordered the execution of a Golden Core cultivator’s relatives after the man’s self-imposed Soul Search restriction turned him into an idiot.
• Feng Jun urged Mo Ran to question lower-level cultivators, and frightened servants and followers revealed the Duanmu Family’s plans and links to Wendao True Immortal.
• A captive identified the hidden refuge where Cheng Shuibian was staying, and cultivators arrested him while he was fishing.
• Liu Xingyu found a Nascent Soul Succubus with suppressed cultivation in Cheng Shuibian’s Spirit Beast Bag.
• Cheng Shuibian knelt before the five True Immortals and confessed that Duanmu Zhenghong had ordered him to kill.

Cheng Shuibian confessed to his role in Du Tianxi’s death and agreed to testify, while the investigation left Duanmu Guzhu’s fate unresolved. As Central City began criticizing True Adept Mo Ran’s handling of the case, Feng Jun warned that Duanmu Guzhu deeply hated Mo Ran and Liu Xingyu, and then urged them to kill him now.

• Cheng Shuibian explained that Duanmu Zhenghong had lent him the succubus, which he sold to Du Tianxi before the succubus backlashed and he killed Du Tianxi.
• Cheng Shuibian asked to live long enough for good meals and agreed to testify in Central City in exchange for wine, food, and Kun Cultivators.
• The interrogations revealed that Duanmu Guzhu had known about the crimes but had not handled their details, leaving it unclear whether he had suppressed the succubus’ level.
• Yi Jue True Immortal advised Liu Xingyu to advance to the Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage, while True Adept Mo Ran learned that Central City was criticizing him and Liu Xingyu.
• Feng Jun warned that Duanmu Guzhu bore deep hatred toward Mo Ran and Liu Xingyu, and Mo Ran proposed hiring someone to kill him after the situation settled.
• Liu Xingyu agreed to help eliminate Duanmu Guzhu, and Feng Jun asked why they would not kill him immediately.

Liu Xingyu and his allies settled on killing Duanmu Guzhu and disguising the death as suicide, then asked Feng Jun to help conceal the Heavenly Mechanism. Feng Jun agreed in exchange for a future favor, while Yi Jue set out for the Geng-Character Plain to prepare a teleportation Waymark.

• Feng Jun suggested making Duanmu Guzhu appear to have committed suicide, and Liu Xingyu and True Adept Mo Ran approved the plan.
• Liu Xingyu realized killing Duanmu Guzhu would create a real Immortal-Fall Aura and asked Yi Jue to conceal the Heavenly Mechanism, but she directed him to Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun resisted taking on another Immortal-Fall Aura, but agreed to help after Liu Xingyu argued that Duanmu Guzhu already threatened him.
• Feng Jun asked True Adept Mo Ran to owe him one condition, to be fulfilled later or exchanged for help killing a Nascent Soul High Stage cultivator.
• Shouzhong True Immortal hinted that Feng Jun might be capable of killing Nascent Soul High Stage cultivators, but declined to explain further.
• Yi Jue told Shouzhong True Immortal to stall the others and traveled to the Geng-Character Plain to prepare a teleportation Waymark.

Yi Jue returned just as Feng Jun and True Adept Mo Ran went to confront the imprisoned Duanmu Guzhu. After Mo Ran confirmed Duanmu Guzhu would seek revenge, Feng Jun carried him out and began using his phone, leaving the onlookers curious about whether a formation could banish someone into the Void.

• Yi Jue traveled by Teleportation Arrays to set a Waymark at Geng-Character Plain, then returned to the gathering with little vitality left.
• Steward Shouzhong's stories about Yi Jue delayed Feng Jun and True Adept Mo Ran until Yi Jue returned.
• Feng Jun and True Adept Mo Ran visited Duanmu Guzhu in his cell, where Mo Ran asked whether he would return and seek revenge.
• Duanmu Guzhu refused to promise he would stay away, so Mo Ran sealed his Six Consciousnesses and Feng Jun carried him out.
• Feng Jun swiped his phone while discussing Void-banishing formations, and True Adept Mo Ran challenged him to demonstrate one as the onlookers watched.

Feng Jun killed Duanmu Guzhu and brought his corpse back to East City, leaving True Immortal Yi Jue impressed but unable to uncover his methods. As she considered Feng Jun’s proposed treatment for the Gray-Blue Disease, Yi Jue suspected it might be connected to the Asura Plane and questioned True Immortal Shouzhong.

• Feng Jun evaded True Immortal Yi Jue by moving Duanmu Guzhu between the hunting site and Blue Star, then spent time at Pacify Arms Mountain before returning to East City with the corpse.
• Adept Mo Ran and Liu Xingyu confirmed Duanmu Guzhu was dead, and Feng Jun refused to explain how he had killed him.
• True Immortal Yi Jue examined the corpse, found only a faint trace of spatial power, and praised Feng Jun’s feat as impressive.
• True Immortal Yi Jue stayed behind to tie up loose ends while Sumiao took Kong Ziyi and Yan Yuxi shopping and Feng Jun remained in the Traveling Residence.
• True Immortal Yi Jue connected Feng Jun’s treatment theory for the Gray-Blue Disease with Asura fertilizer and asked True Immortal Shouzhong whether the disease was related to the Asura Plane.

Liu Xingyu and True Adept Mo Ran resisted Central City’s efforts to take over the Duanmu Family case, reporting that Duanmu Guzhu had died by suicide. Elder Yunfei investigated the death, questioned True Immortal Yi Jue and Liu Xingyu, and discovered that Liu Xingyu had erased the Heavenly Mechanism before the chapter ended with him explaining that he wanted to keep East City’s turmoil from growing.

• Liu Xingyu refused Central City’s demand to bring the Duanmu Family suspects there for a retrial and said Duanmu Guzhu had died without visible wounds.
• Liu Xingyu and True Adept Mo Ran gave Central City no firm commitment to hand over the case, while Mo Ran described the Spirit Plant Path’s presence as protection for a guest.
• Elder Yunfei contacted True Immortal Yi Jue, criticized her move to the Spirit Plant Path, and asked whether she had killed Duanmu Guzhu; Yi Jue denied involvement.
• Elder Yunfei inspected Duanmu Guzhu’s body through Divine Thought and accused Liu Xingyu of erasing the Heavenly Mechanism.
• Liu Xingyu told Elder Yunfei that he had erased the Heavenly Mechanism to keep East City’s disorder from worsening.

Liu Xingyu persuaded Elder Yunfei that Feng Jun’s extraordinary record made an impartial investigation necessary, while Yi Jue revealed the possibility of a valuable campaign in an Otherworld Plane. The next morning, You Xuan led a cautious inquiry that largely dismissed Duanmu Guzhu’s death, and Liu Xingyu refused to explain himself to another investigator.

• Liu Xingyu told Elder Yunfei that Feng Jun carried traces of Immortal-Fall Aura from killing several True Immortals, and claimed Wendao True Immortal was among them.
• Elder Yunfei proposed investigating Duanmu Guzhu’s death and Feng Jun, but Yi Jue True Immortal objected to investigating the Spirit Plant Path’s important guest.
• Yi Jue hinted that Feng Jun’s work might help secure a valuable campaign in an Otherworld Plane, so Elder Yunfei agreed to send You Xuan with two Nascent Souls and protect Feng Jun.
• The next morning, You Xuan and three other True Immortals arrived, reviewed testimony, and found no reason to pursue Duanmu Guzhu’s death further.
• A Branch Academy cultivator questioned Liu Xingyu about the interference with Heavenly Mechanism, but Liu Xingyu refused to explain it to him.

Liu Xingyu’s account of Duanmu Guzhu’s death satisfied You Xuan, and Feng Jun’s group left for Geng-Character Plain, where Feng Jun announced his deduction of the Asura Plane’s coordinates. True Immortal Yi Jue gave Feng Jun two Golden Core cultivation manuals, and the chapter ended with True Immortal Shouzhong asking whether Feng Jun’s teleportation could cross planar barriers.

• Liu Xingyu defended disrupting the heavenly secrets, and You Xuan ended the investigation after learning Elder Yunfei had accepted Liu Xingyu’s explanation.
• You Xuan visited Elder Yi Jue, then Feng Jun and his group left with True Immortal Shouzhong for Geng-Character Plain.
• Feng Jun announced that the Asura Plane could be reached in roughly twenty-five to thirty years and accepted ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones from True Immortal Shouzhong as partial payment.
• True Immortal Yi Jue offered two Upper Spirit Stones for a Heavenly Fragrance Fruit, then gave Feng Jun two Golden Core manuals for the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art.
• True Immortal Shouzhong pulled Feng Jun aside and asked whether his teleportation divine ability could pierce planar barriers.

Feng Jun and his companions returned from the Sky-Qin Plane to the Burning Desert, where a dispute with the Nine Dragons Association over a hunting ground forced him to decide whether to spend his time pursuing a petty grievance. He left the decision to Sumiao, who seized a Golden Core Adept and demanded a Sandworm Demon Beast be sent to Liba Beach.

• True Immortal Shouzhong offered Feng Jun refuge at Geng-Character Plain if the Duanmu Family pursued him, and asked him to bring a Heavenly Fragrance Fruit for Elder Yi Jue.
• True Immortal Shouzhong sent Feng Jun and his five companions back to the Burning Desert, where Qu Jianlei said he wanted to return to Liba Beach.
• Sumiao caught a Nine Dragons Association cultivator who accused the group of trespassing in a forbidden zone and warned them that Secret Realm Families supported the alliance.
• Feng Jun immobilized one of four arriving Golden Core Adepts, and the group learned the Nine Dragons Association had cordoned off the area to protect two Demon Beast Sandworms.
• Feng Jun let Sumiao decide how to handle the dispute, and she took the immobilized Adept and demanded that a Sandworm Demon Beast be delivered to Liba Beach.
• After the group flew out of sight, Sumiao put the captured Adept in a Spirit Beast Bag and asked Feng Jun to teleport them to Liba Beach.

Feng Jun watched his cultivation forces grow and attended the opening of Bao'er's railway at Pacify Arms Mountain. Duke Yongyi agreed to arrange a polluted-metal processing factory, but worried that the metals might attract other cultivators.

• Feng Jun returned to Lantern Town, kept his teleportation ability secret, and refused Guyue and Xia Nishang's questions about his trip to the Sky-Qin Plane.
• Over the next two months, Yun Buyao and Mi Yunshan reached the Qi Condensation Stage, while other members of Feng Jun's forces also advanced in cultivation.
• Mi Yunshan asked to visit her family, and Feng Jun arranged to travel with her and Chen Junwei to Pacify Arms Mountain for Bao'er's railway opening.
• Feng Jun learned that railway thieves had been caught and executed, then attended the opening ceremony alongside officials and nobles.
• Duke Yongyi offered to arrange processing of Feng Jun's Platinum-Group Metal ores, and Feng Jun warned him that the factory would cause pollution.
• Duke Yongyi agreed to find a remote site and provide workers, but asked whether the metals would attract other cultivators.

Feng Jun and Yang Yuxin advanced plans for Platinum-Group Metal extraction while the Earth Spirit completed its work on Luohua Manor's Earth Vein. The chapter ended with Sophia arriving at a cultivation bottleneck and asking Feng Jun for help gathering Faith.

• Duke Yongyi found a remote plateau with a river suitable for a hydroelectric station, and Feng Jun began traveling between planes to oversee construction.
• Yang Yuxin secured industrial land for a Platinum-Group Metal plant, and ore samples drew competing companies eager to buy the high-grade deposits.
• The Earth Spirit finished organizing the Earth Vein, making Feng Jun's temporary residence the manor's strongest spiritual-energy site and creating two smaller branches for cultivation.
• Feng Jun realized the Earth Spirit was unusually compliant because it sensed the heavy Baleful Energy around him and feared he could destroy it.
• Sophia came to Luohua Manor after reaching the Ninth Layer of Mortal Transcendence and asked Feng Jun for help gathering more Faith.

Sophia pressed Feng Jun to help her grow the Daoist temple’s influence in the West and advance her cultivation, arguing that the temple needed more public attention. Feng Jun agreed to assist with a sensational shipwreck salvage near Leo Kingdom, and Sophia then asked whether he could extend elderly people’s lives.

• Feng Jun explained that Sophia’s Faith had fallen because the Daoist temple drew believers away from the church, and urged her to be patient with her cultivation.
• Sophia said her dream was to defeat the Church and return openly to Mairui Country, and she hoped to speak with Lin Heihu.
• Feng Jun offered Sophia Three Lives Wine to sell in Alansmu, and she warned him that Xia Nation’s liquor had limited appeal overseas.
• Sophia argued that the Daoist temple should answer striking personal requests to gain attention, while Feng Jun questioned whether it needed external authority.
• Sophia revealed that someone wanted her blessing of good luck for a shipwreck salvage near Leo Kingdom, and Feng Jun agreed to help make the salvage a public spectacle.
• Sophia thanked Feng Jun and asked whether he could help elderly people extend their lifespans.

Feng Jun refused to give outsiders life-extending medicine and told Yu Qingzhu to focus on cultivation, while she asked to enter the separate space and advance so she could help her grandfather. At the Daoist Temple in Alansmu, a salvage company’s representative explained that its debts had driven it to gamble on finding a valuable shipwreck.

• Feng Jun rejected Sophia’s suggestions about life-extending medicine and speculative investments, and Sophia returned to her residence that night.
• Yu Qingzhu asked Feng Jun about her stalled cultivation and her grandfather’s remaining years; he estimated five to six years and told her to cultivate seriously.
• Yu Qingzhu asked to enter the separate space and advance to the Emergence from Dust Stage within five years, and Feng Jun put off his decision.
• Feng Jun visited the Daoist Temple in Alansmu, refused to let Earth Spirit improve its Earth Vein, and later returned to the Spirit Stone Mine to collect stones and excavate.
• A salvage company delegation visited the temple, and a Brui Country woman offered donations while asking Sophia for guidance.
• Sophia learned that the salvage company faced imminent loan repayments and was hoping to find a valuable shipwreck to ease its debts.