Chapter Summaries

Luo Hua debated whether Li Shishi should prepare her defensive talisman before the final against Wang Dapeng, weighing the risk of a surprise attack against the dignity and secrecy of Feng Jun’s gift. After Gao Qiang told Wang Dapeng about the talisman, Elder Guo of the Martial Ancestor arrived instead of Wang Dapeng.

• Red Sister warned that Li Shishi might be caught unprepared by a surprise attack, while Gao Qiang considered asking Wang Dapeng not to launch one.
• Yu Qingzhu argued that Luo Hua should not approach the Martial Ancestor first and should let its actions reveal its attitude toward them.
• Wang Dapeng came to speak with Gao Qiang and asked Li Shishi to hold a defensive talisman before the final so he would not have to answer for withholding a surprise attack.
• Gao Qiang told Wang Dapeng that Li Shishi already had a powerful talisman from Boss Feng and left the choice of whether to attack up to him.
• The group debated whether Wang Dapeng would launch a surprise attack, and Red Sister guessed he might return.
• Elder Guo of the Martial Ancestor arrived in Wang Dapeng’s place; he was an old acquaintance of Red Sister and Zhang Caixin.

Li Shishi won the Dragon Gate Assembly, and the Daoist factions settled the distribution of the electric-powered formations. As Luo Hua’s group prepared to leave, Li Shishi reunited with Di Aixin and decided to ask Feng Jun to heal his hidden injuries.

• Li Shishi defeated Wang Dapeng in the final, while Master Wenxu arranged for Luo Hua’s disciples to begin with talismans in hand to preserve relations between the factions.
• Li Shishi took the electric-powered aptitude-testing formation for Luo Hua and lent it to Tang Wangsun of Azure Mountain, while Martial Ancestor received the Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Wang Dapeng chose to return to the Cultivation Courtyard, agreeing to alternate years there and at Martial Ancestor.
• Wang Dapeng found Di Aixin with Luo Hua’s group, and Gao Qiang discovered that the injured fighter had numerous hidden injuries.
• Li Shishi offered to ask Feng Jun to treat Di Aixin after Gao Qiang said he could not heal him himself.

After returning to Luo Hua, Feng Jun arranged care for Di Aixin, who refused to return to the manor despite regretting his departure. The others questioned why Zhong Lijing could cultivate so quickly, and Gazi warned them that Feng Jun’s reason for allowing it had to remain secret.

• The guards stopped Di Aixin from entering Luo Hua, so Feng Jun brought him to a room by Pump One, treated him, and told Gao Qiang to care for him for three days.
• Di Aixin admitted he regretted leaving Luo Hua but refused to return, saying he would repay Feng Jun and Luo Hua’s kindness in the future.
• Yang Yuxin and the others returned to the villa, where they were surprised to learn that Yang Yuxin had reached the Seventh Layer Mortal Transcendence and Zhong Lijing had reached the Peak Second Layer.
• Zhang Caixin challenged Feng Jun over Zhong Lijing’s rapid cultivation, but Yu Qingzhu argued that Luo Hua needed rules even if Feng Jun himself could not be restrained.
• Feng Jun told the others to ask Gazi about Zhong Lijing and not to spread the explanation; Gazi said Feng Jun feared the truth would unsettle people in the manor.

Liang Siyu asked Zhang Caixin to help her enter Mortal Transcendence, and Feng Jun promised her a Beauty-Preserving Pill if she had not advanced within six months. After relaxing her worries, Liang Siyu broke through to the First Layer of Mortal Transcendence, then remembered the pill and blurted out a regretful cry.

• Liang Siyu asked Zhang Caixin whether Feng Jun could help her cross into Mortal Transcendence, and Zhang Caixin promised to seek help if she had not advanced within six months.
• Zhang Caixin told Feng Jun about Liang Siyu’s request, and he offered a Beauty-Preserving Pill if Liang Siyu had not advanced by the deadline.
• Zhang Caixin warned Liang Siyu not to get cosmetic work before cultivating, and Liang Siyu went to practice with a more relaxed mind.
• A week later, Liang Siyu entered the First Layer of Mortal Transcendence, and Dean Mei stood guard while she stabilized her breakthrough.
• The next morning, Liang Siyu confirmed her advancement and, while greeting the other cultivators, blurted out a lament about her Beauty-Preserving Pill.

Liang Siyu advanced to Mortal Transcendence, drawing congratulations while still hoping Feng Jun might give her cultivation-related gifts. Zhang Caixin later learned Feng Jun had kept his distance because Liang Siyu resembled his ex-girlfriend, Zhang Yunzhen, and apologized for recommending her.

• Yang Yuxi asked Yang Yuxin how Liang Siyu advanced so quickly and learned that Liang Siyu had cultivated on her own after meeting Feng Jun's requirements.
• Feng Jun congratulated Liang Siyu on reaching Mortal Transcendence and gave her a Foundation-Nourishing Pill, while Zhong Lijing presented her with a jade pendant.
• After drinking, Liang Siyu tried to leave and ask Feng Jun for a Storage Talisman, but Zhang Caixin stopped her and put her in the Spirit Beast Bag.
• Zhang Caixin confronted Feng Jun about seeming to dislike Liang Siyu, and Feng Jun explained that she resembled his ex-girlfriend, Zhang Yunzhen.
• Zhang Caixin apologized for recommending Liang Siyu, then kissed Feng Jun and left happily.

Feng Jun tracked the stolen Yin-Yang Fish from Allure Daoist Temple through a chain of intermediaries to a Mairui research institute, where researchers tried to study it. The artifact began glowing and unleashed a catastrophic blast underground.

• Feng Jun discovered that the Yin-Yang Fish had been stolen from Allure Daoist Temple and used Time Reversal to identify Eric as the thief.
• Feng Jun tracked the marked couriers as they moved the box through a church, the Mairui Embassy, and onto a ship bound for Mairui Country.
• The Mairui researchers placed the Yin-Yang Fish in a heavily secured underground laboratory and began testing it.
• On the second day of testing, the Yin-Yang Fish began glowing, and the researchers ordered an evacuation and activated the laboratory's defenses.
• The Yin-Yang Fish exploded, and its shockwave and intense heat tore through the laboratory's defenses.

Feng Jun retaliated against Mairui Country’s attack, restored the Yin-Yang Fish at the Allure Sect Branch Academy, and prepared to bring his companions to the Kunhao Plane. The group arrived at Pacify Arms Mountain, where Yu Qingzhu began discovering the scale of the Cultivation World and its unfamiliar wonders.

• Mairui Country publicly blamed a research institute explosion on methane while secretly tracing the attack, and the Allure Sect Branch Academy displayed a replacement Yin-Yang Fish.
• Officers investigating Eric’s death asked the Daoist Temple to remove the Yin-Yang Fish, but the young Daoist warned them it was a powerful religious artifact and they backed down.
• Feng Jun gathered Luo Hua’s core members for the trip to Kunhao, and Yu Qingzhu persuaded him to let her join after demonstrating her Spirit Realm Language skills.
• Good Scenery transported seven companions in the Soul-Subduing Pagoda while Yu Qingzhu traveled holding her arm, and the group arrived at Pacify Arms Mountain.
• Feng Jun greeted a Supreme Clarity Sect guard, toured his property with the group, and led them toward Pacify Arms Town as Yu Qingzhu learned about the Cultivation World and spotted a train.

Feng Jun brought Yu Qingzhu and the others to Pacify Arms Mountain and Qiuchen Market, where he arranged for more people to live in his territory and planned a Contribution Points system. The chapter ended when Gazi reported trouble at Qiuchen Market, and Feng Jun authorized his people to act if they were in the right.

• Yu Qingzhu observed how Feng Jun's trade and resources had transformed the backward area around Pacify Arms Mountain.
• The Tian, Mi, and Yu Family heads asked about their clansmen, while a Mu Family elder requested places for juniors; Feng Jun agreed to admit another thousand people and refused the elder's offer of twin maids.
• Feng Jun told Liu Feifei he would take her to the cultivation world when she turned fifteen, then learned that Yu Qingzhu had overheard Red Phoenix Sect disciples identify her as having a Profound Yin Physique.
• Feng Jun took everyone to Qiuchen Market, where Yun Buyao asked when he would take her to Liba Beach, and later gave the group time to adjust to their breakthroughs.
• Feng Jun spent two days outlining tasks for a Contribution Points system, then told Gazi he could act against whoever was causing trouble at Qiuchen Market if he was in the right.

Feng Jun intervened after Gazi and Yun Buyao were cornered by cultivators at Qiuchen Market, confronting the adepts who pursued them beyond the market. He captured two Emergence from Dust cultivators and faced Xin Feng, a notorious Golden Core cultivator, who had appeared from the Flying Boat.

• Feng Jun instructed Gazi to lead Yun Buyao and the others out of Qiuchen Market after a dispute over a purchase escalated.
• Two Zhan Xiu helped Yun Buyao's group leave, and they drove to the outskirts as more than a hundred people followed.
• Gazi and the others prepared a defensive array, but two Emergence from Dust Adepts arrived by Flying Boat and demanded they lower it.
• A Zhan Xiu told the adepts that the group had connections to Feng Jun, but one adept threw him aside and dismissed the warning.
• Feng Jun arrived, captured the Mid Emergence from Dust Adept with his folding fan, and struck down the fleeing Early Emergence from Dust Adept with the Yin-Yang Mirror.
• Feng Jun confronted the Golden Core cultivator aboard the Flying Boat, and Xin Feng stepped out after Feng Jun threatened his family.

Feng Jun exposed Xin Feng’s child-abduction and Cauldron trafficking, punished the people involved, and set out to wipe out She Zaidao’s family. He left the market by force and subdued Liu Adept after Liu tried to stop him.

• Feng Jun restrained Xin Feng, killed the High Qi Condensation cultivator who had started the trouble, and punished several others for abusing marketgoers and abducting Cauldrons.
• Feng Jun revealed that Xin Feng had been abducting children with exceptional constitutions and demanded that any accomplices step forward.
• Feng Jun killed or crippled the people he identified as accomplices, including Deng Linpan and She Zaidao.
• Feng Jun took his companions to She Zaidao’s home to wipe out the family, ignoring Liu Adept’s warning that flying was forbidden in the market.
• Feng Jun struck Liu Adept with the Mountain-River Seal, bound him with an Immortal-Binding Cord, and placed restrictions on him.

Feng Jun led Luo Hua’s members in a purge of households connected to cauldron abductions in Qiuchen Market, then summoned Guyue and other allies to deter the market’s authorities. He discovered that the abductors had targeted Yu Qingzhu after identifying her Profound Yin Physique.

• Feng Jun sent Gao Qiang, Gazi, and the others into She Zaidao’s courtyard while he held off the market guards with his reputation and strength.
• Feng Jun’s group slaughtered the household, and Feng Jun stopped an arriving Golden Core True Adept from interfering by invoking his authority.
• After Feng Jun’s group attacked several more households, he returned to Liba Beach and brought Qu Jianlei, Guyue, and Kong Ziyi back to Qiuchen Market as reinforcements.
• Guyue’s arrival frightened off the Golden Core True Adept, and he told the market’s representatives to take their complaints to Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun presented Yun Buyao as the apparent target of the abduction attempt, but his investigation revealed that the abductors had identified Yu Qingzhu’s Profound Yin Physique.

Feng Jun exposed and punished the people running a Cauldron trafficking operation in Qiuchen Market, earning the nickname Feng the Butcher. He then took Yun Buyao with him and led an assault on Xin Feng’s hidden village, leaving his next destination unstated.

• Feng Jun rejected the market’s excuse for its misconduct and began investigating Steward Liu after a woman accused him of abducting her brother as a Cauldron.
• Feng Jun invited public complaints, uncovered a wider trafficking network, and executed Steward Liu’s household and many other participants’ families.
• Feng Jun warned Qiuchen Market’s officials to prevent future abuses, maintained Liba Beach’s bounty on fugitives, and flew toward Xin Feng’s hidden village.
• Feng Jun’s group broke through the village defenses and killed its residents, including the three Emergence from Dust cultivators.
• Feng Jun took Yun Buyao away from Qiuchen Market to protect her from retaliation and said he would teach her to control her killing intent.

Feng Jun’s group raided the Mu Family village, rescued dozens of captive furnace cauldrons, and found a trove of wealth. Back at Liba Beach, Feng Jun offered Yu Qingzhu a longevity treasure, and Nie Chifeng revealed that Yu Qingzhu had a Profound Yin Physique.

• Yun Buyao fought Mu Family members who cursed Feng Jun while his allies supported her, and Feng Jun defended their retaliation as justice.
• Feng Jun’s group found thirty-two people imprisoned as reserve furnace cauldrons, including several who had resisted being bound by contracts.
• Feng Jun used Divination to locate the Mu Family’s two treasure vaults, where they found five Longevity Pills and other valuables.
• Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach with the Luo Hua members and Yun Buyao, then offered Yu Qingzhu a choice between a Longevity Pill and an Evergreen Fruit.
• Nie Chifeng recognized Yu Qingzhu’s Profound Yin Physique, and Yu Qingzhu chose the Evergreen Fruit before asking how Nie Chifeng had identified her physique.

Feng Jun refused Nie Chifeng’s offer to guide Yu Qingzhu into the Red Phoenix Sect and arranged for the thirty-two rescued reserve Cauldrons to choose whether to stay at Luo Hua. The chapter ended with fifteen choosing to remain under Luo Hua’s rules, while the rest left or stayed temporarily to work.

• Nie Chifeng recognized Yu Qingzhu’s Profound Yin Physique and offered to guide her into the Red Phoenix Sect, but Feng Jun refused, warning that its cultivation methods were too dangerous for her.
• Feng Jun asked Nie Chifeng to publicize the rescued reserve Cauldrons, while she cautioned that Red Phoenix might not accept them because of concerns about their temperament and backgrounds.
• After the thirty-two people were released, Feng Jun asked Mei Jiushan to manage them, but disagreed with his view that the five who had resisted their Cauldron agreements were too risky to recruit.
• Mi Yunshan, Yun Buyao, Yu Qingzhu, and Zhang Caixin volunteered to help manage the group, and Feng Jun’s people agreed that everyone could leave or stay by accepting Luo Hua’s rules.
• Nine of the seventeen ordinary people and two of the five Cauldrons who had resisted their agreements chose to stay; eight ordinary people stayed temporarily at Liba Beach to work, and the other three Cauldrons left.

Feng Jun received True Adept Qi Yu, a former cauldron trader who came to apologize and ask for mercy after hearing about Xin Feng’s family. Feng Jun accepted his decision to quit and let him leave, warning that he would not tolerate harm to mortals.

• Zhang Caixin organized Liba Beach’s new residents, while Mi Yunshan and Yun Buyao advanced in cultivation.
• Red Sister considered managing Shijie Island, but Zhang Caixin persuaded her to stay at Liba Beach.
• True Adept Qi Yu shut down his cauldron business after learning Feng Jun had destroyed Xin Feng’s family and that his own name was known to Feng Jun.
• Qi Yu came to Liba Beach through Hong Adept and offered Feng Jun a Longevity Pill as a meeting gift.
• Feng Jun told Qi Yu to stop selling cauldrons and said he would not interfere with cauldron practices confined to the Cultivation World, then returned the pill and let him go.

Qi Yu asked Feng Jun to spare him for his past Cauldron business, and Feng Jun told him to guard the gate at Liba Beach while leaving victims free to seek justice. Qi Yu accepted the arrangement and established an estate nearby; meanwhile, Guan Hongxiu arranged to attempt Core Embrace at Liba Beach, with Red Phoenix agreeing after Feng Jun estimated it would raise her chances of success by three percentage points.

• Qi Yu admitted he had accumulated karmic debts through his Cauldron business, and Feng Jun said he would not pursue future dealings but would support victims seeking justice for past harms.
• Feng Jun offered to spare Qi Yu if he guarded the gate at Liba Beach, and Qi Yu asked whether he could continue his Cauldron business under that arrangement.
• Feng Jun allowed Qi Yu to continue the trade nearby rather than inside Liba Beach, and Qi Yu's people arrived days later and began building an estate three hundred-odd li away.
• Guan Hongxiu invited Feng Jun to witness her Core Embrace attempt, but he declined because he feared it would affect his state of mind.
• Guan Hongxiu proposed attempting Core Embrace at Liba Beach, and Xia Nishang agreed after Feng Jun said he could raise her chance of success by three percentage points.

Feng Jun secretly brought Nie Chifeng to Blue Star to divine a suitable version of the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, while Red Phoenix prepared Guan Hongxiu to attempt Core Embrace at Liba Beach. After handling Luo Hua’s equipment purchases, Feng Jun returned to Bell's Mountain and released Nie Chifeng in a Spiritless Land.

• Red Phoenix installed Guan Hongxiu’s Golden Core Cave Dwelling in the Branch Academy, and Xia Nishang rejected Guyue’s offer of a different Earth Vein.
• Feng Jun asked Nie Chifeng to swear secrecy and invited her to join him for divinations; she agreed and entered his Spirit Beast Bag for protection.
• Feng Jun traveled to Blue Star and spent more than ten days divining 71,642 versions of the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art, finding one suitable for his cultivation.
• Feng Jun returned to Luo Hua, approved Liu Menglong’s purchases of stockpiled industrial equipment at twenty percent above scrap prices, and continued transporting supplies.
• Feng Jun returned to Bell's Mountain and released Nie Chifeng, who realized they were in a Spiritless Land.

Feng Jun used the Soul-Substitution Puppet to divine his cultivation path and Nie Chifeng’s chances of Core Embrace, then returned with her to Kun Hao. He guided Guan Hongxiu into her Golden Core attempt, which stalled at a possible bottleneck, prompting Xia Nishang to ask for his advice.

• Feng Jun matched cultivation arts with the Soul-Substitution Puppet, confirmed he could reach Golden Core without being rejected by the Blue Star Plane, and learned Nie Chifeng had a seventy-nine percent chance of Core Embrace.
• Nie Chifeng argued that the puppet’s remaining use should go toward another Divination, but Feng Jun put her in the Spirit Beast Bag and returned with her to Kun Hao.
• After Guan Hongxiu said her Golden Core Cave Dwelling had stabilized, Feng Jun divined that she should enter in ten days, and she followed his advice.
• Feng Jun regularly visited the Scarlet Phoenix Retreat and helped Nie Chifeng prepare while Guan Hongxiu attempted Core Embrace.
• After more than two months, Guan Hongxiu’s aura surged; Feng Jun divined that she could begin, and she intensified her absorption of spiritual energy.
• When Guan Hongxiu’s momentum stopped rising and remained unchanged for three days, Xia Nishang asked Feng Jun whether he had advice for her apparent bottleneck.

Feng Jun devised a way to help Guan Hongxiu through her Core Embrace by having selected cultivators generate the qi she needed. He prepared two earth-element cultivators to advance, while Xia Nishang identified their breakthrough qi as the safest choice.

• Feng Jun divined that Guan Hongxiu risked wasting energy and becoming stuck during Core Embrace, so Xia Nishang asked him to help.
• Feng Jun brought twenty-one former Cauldron prisoners and asked who would accept a task cultivating nearby to guide Guan Hongxiu's qi.
• After addressing their concerns about Cauldron-like treatment and tribulation, Feng Jun selected three earth-element cultivators, including two ordinary people with Pure Earth Constitutions.
• Feng Jun set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation and prepared cultivation techniques for the two ordinary cultivators.
• Xia Nishang suggested that the safest qi for the Other Shore qi induction would come from the two ordinary cultivators advancing into Mortal Transcendence.

Feng Jun used two Enlightenment Pills and carefully timed withdrawals to create faint fluctuations in the Golden Core Cave Dwelling’s aura, guiding Guan Hongxiu’s Core Embrace attempt. Guan Hongxiu’s aura surged, leaving the gathered factions to recognize Feng Jun’s extraordinary ability while Guyue failed to contain the news.

• Xia Nishang gave Feng Jun two Enlightenment Pills, and he handed them to the two ordinary people so they could quickly enter Mortal Transcendence.
• When one person’s breakthrough faintly disturbed the Golden Core Cave Dwelling’s aura, Feng Jun withdrew the others and left the cultivator behind as a catalyst.
• Feng Jun moved the second person into the Spirit-Gathering Formation, then removed the first just before Guan Hongxiu’s aura erupted violently.
• Yue Qing, Guyue, Xia Nishang, Yan Yuxi, and Scarlet Luan discussed how Feng Jun had guided Guan Hongxiu’s Core Embrace, though none understood why his method worked.
• Guyue tried to prevent the gathered factions from spreading the news, but Yue Qing pointed out that the secret could no longer be contained.