Chapter Summaries

Lu Li sensed Chen Feng’s attempt to assassinate him and revealed that he knew Chen Feng worked for the prefectural commandant. Lu Li overwhelmed Chen Feng with a powerful strike, but Chen Feng unleashed a secret art and his strength surged.

• Lu Li advanced his cultivation with the All-Things Creation Technique and sensed someone approaching his room.
• Chen Feng sneaked into Lu Li’s courtyard wearing a fierce-ghost mask, but Lu Li appeared behind him in a Blood Ghost Mask.
• Lu Li exposed Chen Feng’s identity and offered him surrender or capture, while Chen Feng boasted that he could still kill Lu Li.
• Lu Li’s claw struck Chen Feng in the chest, badly injuring him despite both being at the fifth layer of the Xiantian Realm.
• Chen Feng refused to surrender and used a secret art to make his strength surge.

Lu Li defeated Chen Feng and tortured him until he revealed that the Commandery Commandant had ordered him to spy on the prefect. Chen Feng explained that his rapid cultivation came from a life-consuming technique, and Wu Ziyuanxiu arrived furious at the betrayal and demanded that Lu Li torture him further.

• Chen Feng used a secret technique to fight Lu Li, but Lu Li blasted him into a crater with an explosive ball of light.
• Lu Li healed Chen Feng enough to question him, then tortured him with an ice pillar until he begged for mercy.
• Chen Feng admitted that the Commandery Commandant had ordered him to secretly monitor the prefect and said his cultivation technique traded lifespan for power.
• Wu Ziyuanxiu arrived, learned that Chen Feng served the Commandery Commandant, and demanded to know whether there were other moles.
• Chen Feng insisted he knew of no other spies, but Wu Ziyuanxiu told Lu Li to torture him again.

Lu Li helped Wu Ziyuanxiu break Chen Feng’s resolve and uncover the formation disks linking him to Ye Cangming. Wu Ziyuanxiu confronted Ye Cangming and defeated him, while Ye blamed Lu Li for the failed assassination and grew even more intent on killing him.

• Chen Feng begged Wu Ziyuanxiu for mercy, and Lu Li advised that further questioning would reveal nothing because Ye Cangming likely had other preparations.
• Wu Ziyuanxiu and Lu Li searched Chen Feng’s room and found Sound Transmission Disks, which Wu recognized as valuable ancient relics.
• Lu Li suggested Wu confront Ye Cangming even without proof, and Wu left to challenge him.
• Wu returned with injuries and told Lu Li that he had beaten Ye Cangming after provoking him with the disks and Chen Feng’s exposure.
• Ye Cangming raged in his military camp, blamed Lu Li for Chen Feng’s failure, and vowed revenge after losing to Wu.