Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng harvests the Yuan Spirit of a woman in Flower Branch Pavilion, while Tantai Jing tries to attack him but fails.
• Tantai Dongming and Tantai Jing ambush Liu Feng, but he uses Insight Eye to defend himself and counterattack.
• The bedchamber collapses, and a battle ensues, drawing the attention of other Yuanyou Envoys and leading to the destruction of Flower Branch Pavilion.
• Liu Feng encounters Bitter Lamp Dharma King and Jingling, who help him escape.
• Liu Feng is later captured by mountain bandits and taken to their stronghold.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng: He uses Insight Eye to defend against the ambush and gains an early sixth-realm cultivation. He also regains some memories, including recognizing Bitter Lamp Dharma King.
• Tantai Jing and Tantai Dongming: They attempt to assassinate Liu Feng but fail. Tantai Jing is injured, and Tantai Dongming is forced to retreat.
• Bitter Lamp Dharma King: He helps Liu Feng escape, showing that he is still interested in protecting him.
• Shi Qianji: She arrives in Great Dream Ancient City and encounters Old Devil Xiang. She decides to help him at a crucial moment in exchange for cultivation methods.

Significant Themes

• The suppression of cultivation within Great Dream Ancient City and the search for spirituality.
• The struggle for power and resources, as seen in the battle between Liu Feng and the Tantai Clan, as well as the competition among cultivators to refine Mixed Spirit Pillars.
• The consequences of losing one's memories and the struggle to regain them, as experienced by Liu Feng.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Tantai Jing/Tantai Dongming: They engage in a battle of wits and power, with Liu Feng ultimately gaining the upper hand.
• Liu Feng and Bitter Lamp Dharma King: They reunite, and Bitter Lamp Dharma King helps Liu Feng escape, showing a continued interest in his well-being.
• Shi Qianji and Old Devil Xiang: They encounter each other and form an alliance to help each other at a crucial moment.
• Liu Feng and the mountain bandits: Liu Feng is captured by the bandits and taken to their stronghold, where he encounters the Fourth Elder, who recognizes him.

Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng discovers that his Demonic Dao Body was nearly captured by bandits.
• He interrogates Yousu Mu, a white fox demon, and learns about her aunt's involvement with the Tantai Clan and Ye Qing.
• The Yuanyou Divine Tree blooms, but the number of divine fruits is significantly less than previous years.
• Liu Feng and other Yuanyou Envoys chase after Yousu Mu, who was rescued by her aunt, and encounter seventh-realm fiends.
• Liu Feng receives a voice transmission from Yousu Mu's aunt, threatening him and revealing her besotted fool.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng: He becomes more determined to seek revenge against the Tantai Clan and Ye Qing. He also plans to leave Yuanluo City after obtaining a divine fruit.
• Yousu Mu: She is rescued by her aunt and escapes Liu Feng's custody. She vows revenge against Liu Feng.
• Yousu Mu's aunt: She is revealed to be a seventh-realm demon who is besotted with Yousu Mu. She threatens Liu Feng and promises to make him pay for humiliating her niece.

Significant Themes

• The struggle for power and resources, as seen in the competition for divine fruits and the conflict between Liu Feng and the demons.
• The consequences of betrayal, as demonstrated by Yousu Mu's betrayal of the Tantai Clan and the potential backlash against Liu Feng from Yousu Mu's aunt.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Ye Qing: They work together to chase after Yousu Mu, but Liu Feng is still suspicious of Ye Qing's true intentions.
• Liu Feng and Yousu Mu's aunt: They have a tense standoff, with the aunt threatening Liu Feng and vowing revenge.
• Liu Feng and the other Yuanyou Envoys: They work together to chase after Yousu Mu and her rescuers, but some of them are more interested in the potential rewards than the mission itself.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Divine Tree blooms and bears fruit, distributing divine fruits to more Yuanyou Envoys than usual to win people over.
• Over half of the Yuanyou Envoys experience abnormalities due to the awakening of their cultivation in other paths.
• A large-scale exodus occurs as people, birds, and beasts regain their memories and cultivation.
• Yuanyou Palace dispatches a massive force to plug leaks and maintain control over Yuanluo City.
• A swarm of Spirit-Transforming Snakes attacks the army, and an eighth-realm Yuanyou Palace elder is revealed to have been traveling with them, using the Yuanyou Envoys as bait.
• The army splits up, and Liu Feng chooses a stretch of forest where Qiao Bei and his demonic-path avatar are located.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng:
  • Recovers memories related to his Gu path and Buddhist path.
  • Realizes the importance of comprehension in the path of Spirit Refinement.
  • Decides to focus on strengthening his own cultivation rather than relying solely on external aid.
• Bitter Lamp Dharma King:
  • Recovers memories as an avatar of Bitter Lamp Dharma King.
  • Plans to find other avatars of Dharma Kings trapped in Great Dream Ancient City.
• Jingling:
  • Recovers a measure of her Buddhist cultivation.
  • Urges Bitter Lamp Dharma King to leave the forest to avoid being targeted by Yuanyou Envoys.

Significant Themes

• The suppression of cultivation in other paths weakening, leading to the awakening of memories and abilities.
• The struggle for power and control between Yuanyou Palace and the people of Yuanluo City.
• The importance of comprehension and self-cultivation in the path of Spirit Refinement.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Ye Qing:
  • Ye Qing tries to gain favor with Liu Feng by giving him three bottles of Spirit-Replenishing Pills.
  • Liu Feng feels disgusted by the Yuanyou Envoys' massacre of Yuanluo Guards.
• Bitter Lamp Dharma King and Jingling:
  • Bitter Lamp Dharma King shares his memories and plans with Jingling.
  • Jingling urges Bitter Lamp Dharma King to leave the forest to avoid being targeted by Yuanyou Envoys.
• Liu Feng and the person carrying his Derived Pupil Child Gu:
  • Liu Feng plans to bring the person carrying his Derived Pupil Child Gu to awaken another portion of his memories.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng, using his Demonic Dao Body, infiltrates Gu Yang Stronghold led by the mad old Daoist, Gu Yangzi.
• Qiao Bei, the Fourth Chief, is suspicious of Gu Yangzi's intentions and fears for her life.
• Liu Feng encounters Gu Yangzi in his cave, where he finds a pill furnace containing a melted body and a Bagua Disk sealing a void rift.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng's true body reaches the perfected sixth realm of Spirit Refining and refines several Primordial Spirits and a spirit entity.
• Qiao Bei becomes increasingly paranoid and fearful due to Gu Yangzi's strange behavior and the disappearance of other chiefs.
• Gu Yangzi's madness deepens, and he begins refining pills from living people.

Significant Themes

• Madness and its consequences (Gu Yangzi's descent into madness)
• Power dynamics and manipulation (Liu Feng's infiltration and Qiao Bei's fear)
• The value of life and its disregard (Gu Yangzi's pill refining)

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng's Demonic Dao Body interacts with Qiao Bei, providing reassurance but ultimately prioritizing his own goals.
• Qiao Bei interacts with Gu Yangzi, displaying fear and hesitation due to his erratic behavior.
• Gu Yangzi interacts with his subordinates, showing no regard for their lives and using them for his own purposes.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The old Daoist, Gu Yangzi, attempts to refine Qiao Bei, Liu Feng, Cao Tianshi, and Zhou Wan into pills.
• Liu Feng's true body arrives and rescues them. Gu Yangzi flees into the demon corpse's head.
• Liu Feng uses the Myriad Spirit Buddhist Bead to extract the demon corpse's blood essence, revealing a strange insect.
• Liu Feng captures the insect and returns to the stone cavern. Yuanyou Envoys approach.

Character Developments

• Gu Yangzi's descent into madness and chaos.
• Qiao Bei's complicated feelings towards Gu Yangzi.
• Liu Feng's growth in power and understanding of the world.
• Cao Tianshi's jealousy and envy of the strange insect.

Significant Themes

• The dangers of pursuing power at any cost (Gu Yangzi's downfall).
• The unknown and mysterious aspects of the world (the strange insect).
• The suppression of certain paths and the need to adapt (the suppression of the Gu Dao and Buddhist Dao).

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Qiao Bei's growing alliance and mutual respect.
• Liu Feng and Cao Tianshi's shared interest in the strange insect and its potential.
• The Yuanyou Envoys' pursuit of Liu Feng, indicating potential conflict.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng encounters two Yuanyou Envoys at the sixth realm of Spirit Refinement who follow him to the stone cave with the void fissure. He kills them to prevent information leakage.
• Yousu Mu and her group learn about the impending descent of a Void Realm fragment and the relocation of the Nine-Tail Yousu Clan and the Ink Qilin Clan. They plan to leave the swamp but are threatened by Yuanyou Palace's elders.
• The Nanmen Clan, along with Lu Xiaolan and other refugees, flee from Yuanyou Palace's elders. Nanmen Zijie receives a message from Liu Feng, who has reached the seventh realm of Spirit Refinement and plans to force his way out.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng demonstrates his growing power and ruthlessness by killing the two Yuanyou Envoys without hesitation.
• Yousu Mu's divine-soul cultivation reaches the early sixth realm, and she reflects on her past encounters with Liu Feng.
• Nanmen Zijie reveals that Liu Feng has reached the seventh realm of Spirit Refinement, shocking the Nanmen Clan members and Lu Xiaolan.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and the struggle for survival in the face of Yuanyou Palace's dominance.
• Liu Feng's rapid cultivation progress and growing threat to Yuanyou Palace.
• The consequences of the impending Void Realm fragment descent and the relocation of demon clans.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng interacts with the two Yuanyou Envoys, revealing his true power and killing them.
• Yousu Mu interacts with her fourth uncle's wife and the evil cultivators, discussing their plans to leave the swamp.
• Nanmen Zijie interacts with Nanmen Zihua and Lu Xiaolan, revealing Liu Feng's cultivation progress and the Nanmen Clan's plans to help refugees find new destinations.

Key Plot Points

• Four Yuanyou Envoys, led by Li Kuan (seventh realm), arrive at Liu Feng's secluded cultivation ground.
• They suspect Liu Feng discovered a void rift and concealed it.
• Liu Feng reveals the demon corpse's head as the main opportunity, with its horns and eyes valuable for artifact refinement.
• Li Kuan attempts to probe the demon corpse's spirit sea, but two envoys' primal spirits get trapped.
• Liu Feng forces Gu Yangzi (hiding as an old Daoist) out of the demon corpse's head, revealing an evil thing within.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng's cultivation has reached the peak of the sixth realm and can temporarily enter the seventh realm.
• Gu Yangzi, hiding within the demon corpse's head, is revealed to be at the seventh realm of Spirit Refinement.
• Ye Qing, at the peak of the sixth realm, is captured by the evil thing.

Significant Themes

• Greed and ambition, as the envoys covet the opportunities and resources.
• Betrayal and mistrust, as Liu Feng is accused of harming a fellow disciple.
• The dangers of evil things and their suppression by the laws of the world.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng remains calm and composed, refusing to back down from Li Kuan's intimidation.
• Li Kuan and Ye Qing initially try to intimidate and pressure Liu Feng but later turn hostile when things go wrong.
• Liu Feng reveals his true cultivation level and power, catching the envoys off guard.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng encounters a demon corpse in Yuanluo City's western city, which houses an evil creature.
• Liu Feng battles and defeats Ye Qing, Li Kuan, and Gu Yangzi, who were sent by Yuanyou Palace to investigate the demon corpse.
• Liu Feng discovers an altar within the demon corpse's inner world, containing messages about a Chaos Insect and a Void Realm clan.
• A powerful being from the Void Realm projects its divine consciousness through the altar, but Liu Feng destroys it before it can attack again.
• Elder Xiao from Yuanyou Palace arrives, kills the evil creature, and takes the demon corpse's horns and spiritual treasures.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng's cultivation reaches the seventh realm of Spirit Refinement.
• Liu Feng's Demonic Dao Body is captured by Elder Xiao.
• Elder Xiao shows no emotion and maintains a calm demeanor throughout the encounter.

Significant Themes

• The power dynamics between cultivators and the dangers they face.
• The importance of Exotic Gu and their potential value in the Void Realm.
• The consequences of greed and ambition, as seen in the fates of Ye Qing, Li Kuan, and Gu Yangzi.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng manipulates and outsmarts his opponents, using their greed against them.
• Elder Xiao shows no interest in Liu Feng's true body and focuses on the demon corpse's treasures.
• Liu Feng and Elder Xiao maintain a tense but civil interaction, with Liu Feng providing half-truths about the events leading up to the Yuanyou Envoys' deaths.

Interception

Summary

Key Plot Points

• Liu Feng is reassigned by Elder Xiao of Yuanyou Palace to serve directly under him, replacing Li Kuan. Elder Xiao seals the void fissure with twelve banners; Liu Feng complies, hoping Yuanyou Palace will eventually relocate to the greater world.
• Far to the east, Yuanyou Palace patriarchs besiege rogue cultivator Zheng's faction. A ninth-realm peak cultivator (Zheng) is being forced to attempt a breakthrough to True Immortal—doomed whether he fails or succeeds.
• More than two hundred Tantai, Zhuang, and Meng Clan descendants flee the battle. Learning that a Wheel Turning Sect group with two Dharma King avatars is nearby, all eleven seventh-realm cultivators agree to ambush them despite the danger.
• The three families intercept the 24-person Wheel Turning Sect group. Seven attack Bitter Lamp Dharma King; four slaughter the believers. Wu Chen is dismembered and his soul shredded. Moon-Gazing Dharma King flees with Jingling, ignoring the dying.
• Liu Feng abruptly leaves Elder Xiao's treasure carriage and flies toward the battlefield, presumably to intervene.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng shows political acumen: honest about past events, surrenders benefits, and gains Elder Xiao's favor, securing a better position and a possible exit path.
• Tantai Jing's burning hatred of Liu Feng drives her enthusiasm for slaughtering Wheel Turning Sect members and her intent to capture Jingling as leverage.
• Bitter Lamp Dharma King demonstrates selfless sacrifice, choosing to hold off eleven enemies alone.
• Moon-Gazing Dharma King turns pragmatic and cold, abandoning stray souls to protect Jingling.
• Wu Chen appears slaughtered, but eight bulging eyeballs in his torn tiger flesh suggest he survives in some grotesque form.

Significant Themes

• Memory and identity (recovered memories driving old grudges)
• Pragmatic survival (Liu Feng's maneuvering, Moon-Gazing's cold calculations)
• Sacrifice vs. self-preservation (Bitter Lamp vs. Moon-Gazing)
• The brutality and futility of cultivator faction warfare
• Hidden deception and lingering menace (Wu Chen's watchnig eyes)

Character Interactions

• Elder Xiao and Liu Feng: a mutually beneficial arrangement based on Liu Feng's candor; Xiao rewards sensibility.
• Tantai Jing and Tantai Dongming: Jing's vendetta vs. Dongming's detachment; she intends to capture Jingling to use against Liu Feng.
• Bitter Lamp and Moon-Gazing: willingness to sacrifice the weaker for the group vs. prioritizing the strongest.
• Jingling and Wu Chen: Jingling's desperate plea for his soul is refused by Moon-Gazing; her cry marks her helplessness and Wu Chen's hidden survival.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng's true body escapes from the treasure carriage, revealing his seventh-realm spirit refinement cultivation.
• He uses the Myriad Spirit Buddhist Bead to unleash a bloodline divine ability, killing over a hundred people, including six seventh-realm spirit refiners, in a single strike.
• Liu Feng pursues and kills Tantai Jing, the Tantai Clan's inheriting saintess, after she attempts to threaten him.
• Liu Feng and the Yuanyou Envoys arrive at a battle between Yuanyou Palace and evil demons, where they witness an artifact's internal space being torn open.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng's strength has grown to the seventh realm of spirit refinement, allowing him to easily defeat opponents of the same and even higher realms.
• Liu Feng's ruthlessness and lack of fear toward the older generation increase as his strength grows.
• Tantai Jing's death marks a significant loss for the Tantai Clan and a demonstration of Liu Feng's growing power.

Significant Themes

• Strength and power dynamics: Liu Feng's growing strength allows him to dominate battles and strike fear into his enemies.
• Ruthlessness and cruelty: Liu Feng's willingness to kill without hesitation, even against powerful opponents, sets him apart from other characters.
• The consequences of underestimating one's opponent: Tantai Jing's attempt to threaten Liu Feng leads to her own demise.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Tantai Jing: Their confrontation ends with Liu Feng killing Tantai Jing, demonstrating his growing power and ruthlessness.
• Liu Feng and the Yuanyou Envoys: Liu Feng joins the Yuanyou Envoys in battling evil demons, showcasing his prowess and earning their respect.
• Liu Feng and Elder Xiao: The two work together to combat the evil demons, with Elder Xiao leading the eighth-realm cultivators and Liu Feng handling opponents below the eighth realm.

Key Plot Points and Events

• A ninth-realm Primordial Spirit cultivator (fiend patriarch) attempts to break into the immortal and Buddha realm using a turbid river from the void.
• Liu Feng, an envoy of Yuanyou Palace, witnesses this event and speculates about the patriarch's success.
• The patriarch retreats, and the remaining fiends are slaughtered by the Yuanyou Palace patriarchs.
• Liu Feng is selected to scout for suitable locations in the Greater World for Yuanyou Palace's relocation.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng: He gains insight into the attempt to break into the immortal and Buddha realm, and is chosen for an important mission by Yuanyou Palace.
• Fiend Patriarch: He attempts to break into the immortal and Buddha realm but fails, becoming a half-step immortal instead.

Significant Themes

• The struggle to break into the immortal and Buddha realm, and the consequences of failure.
• The importance of spiritual energy-rich locations for cultivators and sects.
• The power dynamics between different factions and their responses to threats.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng observes the fiend patriarch's attempt to break into the immortal and Buddha realm.
• Liu Feng is chosen for a mission by Elder Xiao of Yuanyou Palace.
• The fiend patriarch and the Yuanyou Palace patriarchs clash, leading to the patriarch's retreat.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng, after leaving Great Dream Ancient City, encounters and defeats multiple forces, including the Dantai family, Zhuang Clan, and Blood Immortal Cult members.
• He infiltrates the Blood Immortal Cult's strongholds, killing seventh-realm elders and destroying their bases.
• Liu Feng's avatar is taken out of the Azure Sky Continent by Lu You, a Blood Asura, and hidden within a secret realm on another continent.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng's cultivation advances rapidly, and he enters the seventh realm in multiple paths (demonic, Buddha, Gu, and soul-refining).
• He gains a group of powerful cultivators to assist him, including Yuanyou Envoys and other subordinates.
• Liu Feng's reputation as a formidable figure spreads, instilling fear in his enemies and even his allies.

Significant Themes

• Liu Feng's relentless pursuit of power and cultivation, driven by his desire to protect his loved ones and avenge his past life.
• The struggle between different factions and long-lived races, leading to conflict and slaughter.
• The consequences of Liu Feng's actions, which stir unrest among the Blood Immortal Cult and other powers.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng leads a group of Yuanyou Envoys, instilling fear in them due to his formidable strength and ruthless methods.
• Miaoyun Dharma King and Yu Qiongzi work together to track Liu Feng's movements and investigate the Blood Immortal Cult's activities.
• Liu Feng's subordinates, including Zhou Wan and the blue-armored men, carry out his orders and help him eliminate Blood Immortal Cult strongholds.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Demon Suppression Guards, led by Tao Shiyu, infiltrate Dry Mountain City, a Blood Immortal Cult stronghold.
• They witness the arrival of an eighth-realm alligator-dragon demon, which begins slaughtering blood demons within the city.
• The city's defenses are activated, and a two-hundred-zhang tall blood demon, Gan Shantian's shadow blood slave, emerges to combat the demon.
• Hundreds of cultivators from Great Dream Ancient City, led by Liu Feng and his demonic incarnation, arrive to join the battle.

Character Developments

• Tao Shiyu: She leads the Demon Suppression Guards, seeking merit and rewards to aid her cultivation. She is now a sixth-realm dual cultivator, still affected by her past life's memories of Liu Feng.
• Liu Feng: He has become a formidable cultivator, capable of slaughtering Blood Immortal Cult elders. He leads the Great Dream Ancient City cultivators to massacre the blood demons in Dry Mountain City.

Significant Themes

• Power and Ambition: Tao Shiyu seeks power and merit to advance her cultivation, while Liu Feng demonstrates his ambition and strength by leading the attack on the blood demon city.
• Loyalty and Betrayal: The blood demons' loyalty to their cult is tested as they face annihilation, while the Demon Suppression Guards grapple with their loyalty to their mission and their fear of death.

Character Interactions

• Tao Shiyu and Liu Feng: Their past relationship is hinted at, with Tao Shiyu still affected by her memories of Liu Feng. They do not interact directly in this chapter.
• Demon Suppression Guards: The guards interact with Tao Shiyu, expressing their concerns about the danger they face and their desire to report the situation to the Bureau.
• Blood Demons and Great Dream Ancient City Cultivators: The blood demons and the Great Dream Ancient City cultivators are poised for a major conflict, with the blood demons defending their city and the cultivators intent on destroying them.

Chapter Summary: Shadow-Splitting Blood Slave

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nearly three hundred Yuanyou Envoys gather outside Dry Mountain City to raid the Blood Demon stronghold. Liu Feng negotiates their cooperation, allowing them to keep the Blood Demons’ Primordial Spirits and treasures while he claims the Blood Crystals.
• Liu Feng splits his forces: his Demonic Dao clone enters through the eastern gate with Buddha Bone Puppets, while his main body enters through the southern gate with a massive swarm of gu insects and Womb Grafting flesh cocoons.
• Liu Feng forcibly drives Tao Shiyu and the Demon-Hunting Guards away, secretly warning them that the Blood Venerable Gan Shantian may soon arrive. Tao Shiyu realizes that he is protecting them from being caught in the coming battle.
• The Yuanyou Envoys overwhelm the Blood Demons throughout the city. Liu Feng’s insect cocoons drain and control many enemies, while Cao Tianshi, Ji Qiu, Lu Yao, and Qiao Bei harvest the possessed Blood Demons.
• At the city’s center, Liu Feng and his forces battle Gan Shantian’s Shadow-Splitting Blood Slaves. He discovers that Liu Luo is not among the slaves, though Gan Shantian hints that Liu Luo is still in his possession.
• Gan Shantian begins sealing the entire city inside a blood-colored Daoist palace, sacrificing the Blood Demons’ essence to strengthen the barrier. His goal is to trap the raiders until his true body arrives.
• Liu Feng kills one of the eighth-realm Blood Slaves with the Wheel Nirvana Sutra’s Wheel-Turning Seal, sacrificing much of his remaining Past-Life Golden Body. The Buddha Lamp and Myriad Spirit Buddhist Bead absorb and refine the Blood Demon’s essence.
• Realizing he cannot defeat Gan Shantian’s late-stage eighth-realm true body, Liu Feng prepares to escape. Twelve perfected seventh-realm Yuanyou Envoys arrive to reinforce him.
• Liu Feng spends most of the Demonic Dao clone’s stored demonic qi to empower the crocodile-dragon demon puppet. Together with the Yuanyou Envoys, he destroys the remaining Shadow-Splitting Blood Slaves.
• The surviving cultivators gather at a city gate, only to find every exit sealed by Gan Shantian’s blood barrier. Liu Feng’s forces then return to the gate, having exterminated nearly every powerful Blood Demon in the city, and prepare to break out.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng demonstrates overwhelming growth. He now commands a main body, Demonic Dao clone, demon puppets, Buddha Bone Puppets, insect formations, and powerful defensive and offensive Buddhist techniques simultaneously.
• He remains calm and strategically minded despite Gan Shantian’s provocation concerning Liu Luo. Although emotionally shaken by the possibility that Liu Luo has been corrupted, Liu Feng ultimately prioritizes the survival of his forces and escape.
• Liu Feng’s use of the Past-Life Golden Body becomes more costly: after unleashing the Wheel-Turning Seal, only a limited portion remains, emphasizing the danger of facing Gan Shantian directly.
• Tao Shiyu gains a clearer understanding of Liu Feng’s intentions and recognizes that he has surpassed her by an enormous margin. Her anger toward him remains, particularly because of the arrangement involving Yu Qiongzi and Zhou Wan, but she also recognizes his attempt to save her.
• Zhou Wan is stunned by Liu Feng’s transformation from a junior disciple into a terrifying powerhouse. She focuses on collecting resources from the city while remaining resentful of Liu Feng and Yu Qiongzi’s “bargain.”
• Gan Shantian is revealed as a cruel and calculating Blood Venerable who treats both Blood Demons and cultivators as expendable resources. His Shadow-Splitting Blood Slaves are effectively incarnations controlled by his own consciousness.
• Liu Luo’s fate becomes more tragic: Liu Feng suspects that Gan Shantian has erased or replaced Liu Luo’s original true spirit, leaving little of Liu Luo himself behind.

Significant Themes

• The strong consuming the weak: Both sides view the battle as a harvest. The Yuanyou Envoys slaughter Blood Demons for Blood Crystals, Primordial Spirits, and treasures, while Gan Shantian views cultivators as ingredients for his own cultivation.
• Loss of identity and corruption: The Shadow-Splitting Blood Slaves demonstrate the destruction of individual consciousness. Gan Shantian’s method is compared to Yu Qiongzi’s treatment of Zhou Wan, but is shown to be even more complete and brutal.
• Power versus emotional attachment: Liu Feng’s concern for Liu Luo threatens to cloud his judgment, but he forces himself to act rationally. The chapter emphasizes the tension between compassion and survival.
• The cost of power: Liu Feng can defeat eighth-realm enemies, but only by expending precious resources such as the Past-Life Golden Body and accumulated demonic qi.
• Transformation and hierarchy: Zhou Wan’s reaction highlights Liu Feng’s dramatic rise in status and strength. Former seniors and peers now recognize that he has entered a far higher level of power.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and the gray-haired Yuanyou Envoy establish a pragmatic alliance based on mutually agreed spoils rather than loyalty.
• Liu Feng silently protects Tao Shiyu and the Demon-Hunting Guards by forcing them away from the battlefield; Tao Shiyu eventually understands his warning.
• Gan Shantian taunts Liu Feng by promising that he will soon meet Liu Luo, provoking Liu Feng’s concern and anger.
• Liu Feng questions Gan Shantian about whether Liu Luo’s true spirit survives, but Gan Shantian refuses to answer directly.
• The Yuanyou Envoys later join Liu Feng against the remaining eighth-realm Blood Slaves, turning the battle decisively in their favor.
• Zhou Wan and Cao Tianshi independently loot the city’s apothecaries, meeting briefly without forming any real cooperation.
• By the end, Liu Feng leads the surviving forces toward the sealed city gate, preparing for a final escape while Gan Shantian’s true body remains an imminent threat.

Summary

Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng decides to go to the Mist-Hidden Sea to obtain spiritual treasures from the Void Realm to reach the eighth realm quickly.
• The group encounters Blood Venerable Gan Shantian's true body at the late eighth realm of royal blood, who blocks their escape with blood monsters and spiritual-treasure banners.
• Liu Feng faces Gan Shantian while the others try to escape. Liu Luo, now a blood slave, is tossed towards Liu Feng by Gan Shantian.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng: Shows determination to face Gan Shantian and save Liu Luo, despite the risk of losing his Past-Life Golden Body.
• Liu Luo: Has been fully transformed into a blood demon, with no trace of his true spirit remaining.

Significant Themes

• The power of ancient monsters and the dangers of underestimating them.
• The importance of cultivation speed and realm in survival and combat.
• The consequences of losing one's Past-Life Golden Body.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Gan Shantian: Engage in a tense standoff, with Liu Feng showing no fear despite the vast difference in their realms.
• Liu Feng and Liu Luo: Liu Feng tries to save his younger brother, but Liu Luo has been completely transformed into a blood demon.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng uses the Wheel-Turning Seal to wound Gan Shantian, but the Blood Venerable's regenerative abilities are too strong.
• Liu Feng exhausts his Past-Life Golden Body using the Divine Nirvana Zen Finger and the Chan Du Forbidden Art, but fails to kill Gan Shantian.
• Gan Shantian pursues Liu Feng, while the Yuanyou Envoys and other cultivators flee the battlefield.
• Liu Feng receives a voice transmission from the Miaoyun Dharma King, who asks for his help to defeat Gan Shantian.
• The Miaoyun Dharma King appears and uses her Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect to wound Gan Shantian, destroying his true body.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng demonstrates immense power and ruthlessness, crushing Liu Luo's body and vowing to kill Gan Shantian within a hundred years.
• Gan Shantian underestimates Liu Feng and suffers heavy wounds, but his regenerative abilities allow him to continue pursuing Liu Feng.
• The Miaoyun Dharma King reveals her Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect, showing that she possesses great power and is willing to help Liu Feng.

Significant Themes

• The theme of power and its consequences is further explored, as Liu Feng's immense strength allows him to wound Gan Shantian but also leads to the destruction of his Past-Life Golden Body.
• The theme of revenge and its cost is highlighted, as Liu Feng's desire to avenge his family and Liu Luo leads him to make ruthless decisions.
• The theme of alliances and cooperation is shown, as the Miaoyun Dharma King offers her assistance to Liu Feng in order to defeat Gan Shantian.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Gan Shantian engage in a fierce battle, with Liu Feng using all his strength to wound the Blood Venerable but ultimately failing to kill him.
• Liu Feng and the Miaoyun Dharma King communicate through voice transmission, with the Dharma King asking for Liu Feng's help to defeat Gan Shantian.
• The Miaoyun Dharma King and Gan Shantian face off, with the Dharma King using her Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect to wound the Blood Venerable and destroy his true body.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gan Shantian, a blood demon, is severely weakened after losing 80% of his Blood Crystal and many Shadow-Splitting Blood Slaves.
• Miaoyun Dharma King and Liu Feng escape with a portion of Gan Shantian's Blood Crystal.
• Gan Shantian vows revenge and heads towards Mist-Hidden Sea.
• Miaoyun Dharma King leads Liu Feng and others to the Insect Abyss in the Forest of No Return for cultivation.
• Liu Feng's demonic-path avatar heads to a cave estate left behind by a peak eighth-realm cultivator.
• Yu Qiongzi leaves the group to join the Wheel Turning Sect's elders at Mist-Hidden Sea.
• In the Great World, Yuanyou Palace elders, including Xiao Zhongsheng, emerge from the forbidden ground, planning to relocate to the Great World.

Character Developments

• Gan Shantian's power is significantly reduced, making him more vengeful and desperate.
• Miaoyun Dharma King remains calm and composed, focused on her mission and Liu Feng's cultivation.
• Liu Feng gains confidence in his abilities and decides to help Yu Zhenzi with a cave abode formation.
• Yu Qiongzi feels inferior to Liu Feng's cultivation progress and seeks opportunities in the Void Realm.
• Xiao Zhongsheng acknowledges Liu Feng's strength and decides to be more courteous towards him.

Significant Themes

• The consequences of overconfidence and underestimating enemies (Gan Shantian).
• The importance of cultivation and self-improvement (Liu Feng, Yu Qiongzi).
• The power dynamics and alliances within the cultivation world (Yuanyou Palace, Wheel Turning Sect, Blood Immortal Cult).

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and Miaoyun Dharma King work together to escape from Gan Shantian.
• Liu Feng and Yu Qiongzi part ways, with Yu Qiongzi feeling a mix of envy and admiration for Liu Feng.
• Xiao Zhongsheng tries to contact Liu Feng but receives no response, indicating Liu Feng's growing power and independence.

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the possession of Great Dream Ancient City, many Gu Masters and descendants of royal bloodlines flee.
• Shi Qianji, now possessing the aura of the Gu path, leads a group of demonic cultivators, including Old Devil Xiang, towards the Mist-Hidden Sea.
• A Gu Immortal avatar attacks them, killing Old Devil Xiang and his descendants, and possessing Shi Qianji.
• Five Chaos Clay Statue longevity species appear, devouring the Gu Immortal avatar and saving Shi Qianji.
• Meanwhile, at the Mist-Hidden Sea, a Void Realm fragment is about to descend, attracting numerous major powers, including the Wheel Turning Sect.

Character Developments

• Shi Qianji: Possesses the aura of the Gu path and is later possessed by a Gu Immortal avatar. She is saved by the Chaos Clay Statue longevity species.
• Old Devil Xiang: Dies along with his descendants after being attacked by the Gu Immortal avatar.
• Yu Qiongzi: Arrives at the Mist-Hidden Sea with Zhou Wan, planning to wait for opportunities from the descending Void Realm fragment.
• Zhou Wan: Feels terrified about the Void Realm fragment and the creatures emerging from it.

Significant Themes

• The power and danger of Gu Immortals and their avatars.
• The desperation of cultivators seeking opportunities in the Void Realm fragment.
• The cruelty and indifference of the greater world towards cultivators.

Character Interactions

• Shi Qianji interacts with Old Devil Xiang and the Chaos Clay Statue longevity species.
• Yu Qiongzi and Zhou Wan discuss their plans at the Mist-Hidden Sea.

Summary

Plot Points and Events

• Zhou Wan and Yu Qiongzi observe the Void Realm fragment, witnessing humanoid magical treasures emerging.
• The Wheel Turning Sect explores the Void Realm fragment, led by the Third Heavenly King.
• A Gu Master transforms into a Seven-Life Body in the Insect Nest, attracting Gu Masters to attack.
• Liu Feng successfully transforms into a Seven-Life Body and deals with the attacking Gu Masters.

Character Developments

• Zhou Wan: Discerns the purpose of the humanoid magical treasures and witnesses the Wheel Turning Sect's exploration.
• Yu Qiongzi: Joins the Wheel Turning Sect's exploration of the Void Realm fragment.
• Liu Feng: Successfully transforms into a Seven-Life Body, becomes more indifferent to human life, and considers upgrading his Exotic Gu.

Significant Themes

• The Void Realm's influence on the greater world.
• The ruthlessness and indifference of powerful cultivators.
• The pursuit of stronger Gu arts and cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Zhou Wan and Yu Qiongzi: Zhou Wan shares her thoughts with Yu Qiongzi about the humanoid magical treasures.
• Liu Feng and his followers: Liu Feng considers upgrading his Exotic Gu, while Cao Tianshi, Ji Qiu, Lu Yao, and Qiao Bei await his orders.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Feng encounters two Gu Masters infested with Gu Immortal Cloud Dream's flesh and blood.
• Liu Feng joins the Miaoyun Dharma King and two other cultivators to head to Mist-Hidden Sea.
• Liu Feng receives a message from Zhou Wan, indicating that Yu Qiongzi is in danger and possessed by a Heavenly Soldier.
• Liu Feng sends his Demonic Dao Body to investigate the situation in Mist-Hidden Sea.
• The Baize Ancestral Land's insect tide, led by the three ninth-life patriarchs of the Bai Ze Lineage, approaches Mist-Hidden Sea.
• Gu Masters from various factions, including some who escaped from Mist-Hidden Sea, gather outside the Mist-Hidden Sea.

Character Developments

• Liu Feng: Advances to the early seventh realm, becomes a formidable cultivator who can eliminate seventh-realm cultivators with ease.
• Yu Zhenzi: Successfully obtains a puppet path inheritance, reaches the seventh realm, and becomes more confident and friendly toward Liu Feng.
• Zhou Wan and Yu Qiongzi: Both are in danger, with Yu Qiongzi possessed by a Heavenly Soldier.
• Yuan Caihe: Trapped by Gu Immortal Cloud Dream's flesh and blood, she becomes a puppet and is forced to follow the Bai Ze Lineage into the virtual realm fragment.
• Xing Ziping: Despite his dire situation, he manages to cultivate to the late stage of the Seven-Life Body.

Significant Themes

• The power of Gu Immortals and their influence on the greater world.
• The dangers and opportunities presented by virtual realm fragments.
• The struggle for survival and the consequences of being caught between powerful forces.

Character Interactions

• Liu Feng and the Miaoyun Dharma King: They cooperate and make arrangements for the two infested Gu Masters.
• Liu Feng and Yu Zhenzi: They join forces to explore a cave dwelling and decide to work together in the Mist-Hidden Sea.
• Liu Feng and Zhou Wan: Liu Feng sends his Demonic Dao Body to investigate Yu Qiongzi's situation after receiving Zhou Wan's message.
• Yuan Caihe and Xing Ziping: Both are captives of the Bai Ze Lineage, and they observe the gathering of Gu Masters outside the Mist-Hidden Sea.