Chapter Summaries

Liao Wu avenged Bodhi Temple by killing Xiang Siya, while Feng Zhujun explained how he uncovered her collusion with Shadowless Sect. As Feng Wuhen prepared to face the Nascent Soul Tribulation, Chu Moqing took him away for private training in a secluded valley.

• Liao Wu removed Xiang Siya’s tongue, skinned her, pulled out her bones, and chopped her into a pulp at Bodhi Temple’s ruins.
• Feng Zhujun told Feng Wuhen how his suspicions and investigation revealed Xiang Siya’s collusion with Shadowless Sect and Monk Liao Chi’s imprisonment.
• Feng Wuhen praised Feng Zhujun, and Jiang Xueru stepped on her husband’s foot when he smugly accepted the credit.
• Chu Moqing told Feng Wuhen to undergo special training before his Nascent Soul Tribulation, and Feng Zhujun and Jiang Xueru reluctantly watched them leave.
• Chu Moqing brought Feng Wuhen to a secluded valley and explained that he had built the wooden house there and once broken through to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Feng Wuhen reassured Chu Moqing that his intuition told him he would safely pass the tribulation.

Chu Moqing trained Feng Wuhen in sword techniques for more than half a year to prepare him for his Nascent Soul tribulation. Feng Wuhen broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and began crossing the tribulation, while the Heart Demon Tribulation barely affected him.

• Chu Moqing explained why he had worried about Feng Wuhen's Heart Demon Tribulation and brought him to a valley to learn more sword techniques.
• Chu Moqing sealed Feng Wuhen's meridians and guided him through swordsmanship practice for over half a year, then unsealed them.
• Feng Wuhen absorbed spiritual energy, broke through from the Golden Core Peak Stage to the Nascent Soul Realm, and flew away to face the tribulation.
• Feng Wuhen cut through the lightning with his sword, enduring increasingly powerful strikes as Chu Moqing watched with concern and pride.
• The Heart Demon Tribulation struck Feng Wuhen lightly and ended before he saw anything, so he continued facing the remaining lightning tribulations.

Feng Wuhen overcame his lightning tribulation with the Jade Bone Sword and advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After celebrating with Chu Moqing, he learned about the approaching Sect Grand Tournament and prepared to leave for Mount Grand Mystery.

• Feng Wuhen and the Jade Bone Sword joined forces to destroy the final lightning tribulation, and he advanced two levels to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Chu Moqing welcomed Feng Wuhen after his tribulation and served him chicken soup he had cooked for him.
• Chu Moqing told Feng Wuhen that Qin Che had invited him to enter Mount Grand Mystery's Sect Grand Tournament.
• Feng Wuhen eagerly agreed to attend the tournament, where the top ten would represent the sect in the Dao Discussion Tournament.
• Feng Wuhen packed a few belongings and left the rest behind, expecting to return to the valley.

Feng Wuhen returned to Mount Grand Mystery after half a year away and reunited with his friends, who welcomed him and heard about the upcoming Sect Grand Tournament. The group discussed the tournament’s likely contenders, including Qin Che and Lu Jingyuan.

• Chu Moqing asked Qin Che to register Feng Wuhen for the tournament as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, and Qin Leyan spread the news of his return.
• Bing Ling and Long Siqing learned Feng Wuhen was coming back and prepared to clean his cave dwelling.
• Feng Wuhen returned to the Peak of Purple Firmament, where Shen Ziheng and the others welcomed him; Bing Ling and Long Siqing eagerly threw themselves at him.
• Meng Hongying noticed Feng Wuhen had advanced beyond her cultivation but quickly accepted the difference, while Shen Ziheng joked that he would rely on Feng Wuhen to protect him.
• Feng Wuhen shared the snacks he had brought, and the group discussed whether Qin Che or Lu Jingyuan would be stronger in the Sect Grand Tournament.

Bing Ling explained how he had wagered heavily on Shen Ziheng and the others after Fan Yiqi’s group mocked their recent entry into the Nascent Soul Realm. Feng Wuhen and his companions then placed enormous bets of their own, and Fan Yiqi heard about it while continuing to cultivate ahead of the tournament.

• Bing Ling told Feng Wuhen and the others that he had wagered his spirit stones on them making the top ten, with an additional bet on Feng Wuhen to take first place.
• Meng Hongying and Long Siqing vowed to punish Fan Yiqi, and Qin Leyan gave Shen Ziheng a flower that could be made into a baldness-inducing powder.
• Feng Wuhen led the group to the betting grounds and wagered one million high-grade spirit stones on himself taking first place.
• Shen Ziheng and the others each wagered five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones on reaching the top ten.
• News of their wagers spread across Mount Grand Mystery, and Fan Yiqi heard about it before dismissing their chances as he cultivated.

Qin Che gathered Mount Grand Mystery’s elders to choose thirty disciples for the Peerless Secret Realm, and they agreed to send the top ten from the Spirit Transformation, Nascent Soul, and Golden Core stages. After Lu Changfeng unknowingly gave Feng Wuhen a meeting gift, Chu Moqing realized his disciple was waiting outside and hurried out, followed by the others.

• Qin Che summoned the elders and peak masters to discuss the Peerless Secret Realm opening in one month and its revised tournament rewards.
• Yan Ke proposed sending the top ten competitors from each of three cultivation stages, and the gathering approved his suggestion.
• Qin Che told Chu Moqing about the wager involving Feng Wuhen and the others, and Chu Moqing assured Fan Wenquan that the elders should let the disciples settle their own affairs.
• Lu Changfeng met Feng Wuhen outside the hall and gave him an array disc as a meeting gift before learning he was Chu Moqing’s disciple.
• Chu Moqing heard Feng Wuhen’s thoughts and hurried outside, while the others who could hear them followed.

Feng Wuhen’s inner voice revealed that the Devil Race planned to lure Lu Changfeng to a wedding banquet and kill him, beginning a wave of assassinations against righteous-path leaders. Lu Changfeng accepted Feng Wuhen’s warning and agreed not to attend any wedding banquets.

• Feng Wuhen thanked Lu Changfeng again for his gift while Chu Moqing teased Lu Changfeng.
• Feng Wuhen’s inner voice revealed that Lu Changfeng had once resented Chu Moqing over a shared love interest, though Lu Changfeng was a good person.
• Feng Wuhen revealed that the Devil Race planned to lure Lu Changfeng home with a wedding invitation and poison him through his elder brother and the Devil Race’s saintess.
• Feng Wuhen’s inner voice described the Devil Race’s backup plan and the brutal treatment of Lu Changfeng’s corpse, which would precede further assassinations of righteous-path leaders.
• Feng Wuhen warned Lu Changfeng to avoid wedding banquets, and Lu Changfeng promised to heed the warning.

Chu Moqing explained why Lu Changfeng trusted advice from younger relatives, and Feng Wuhen turned to Xu Kuang’s secrets to cheer himself up. Xu Kuang’s embarrassing past was revealed, including his disguise as a beauty and the legend of a chicken-eating monster that still drew new disciples into the woods.

• Chu Moqing told Feng Wuhen that a remnant soul had foretold Lu Changfeng must heed a child of the younger generation to escape a death calamity.
• Feng Wuhen became curious about the Peerless Secret Realm, then chose to uncover Xu Kuang’s secrets for a distraction.
• Chen Tianze and Zheng Zefang stopped Xu Kuang from fleeing as Feng Wuhen revealed that he had once used Disguise Pills to test a Beauty Mirror while dressed as a woman.
• Feng Wuhen revealed that a junior disciple had mistaken Xu Kuang, disguised and covered in chicken blood, for a monster and spread the story of a benevolent chicken-eating monster.
• The tale persisted, and new disciples of Artifact Refining Peak still searched the woods for the supposed monster.

Feng Wuhen and his companions entered the grand competition and fought off a large group of opponents in the crowded opening round. As the remaining contestants attacked, Feng Wuhen abandoned his duel to rescue Qin Leyan from a two-sided assault.

• Chu Moqing warned Feng Wuhen that the grand competition's opening round would be chaotic and that other disciples might target him and his companions.
• Feng Wuhen and his three companions faced a crowd of opponents on the arena when the match began.
• Feng Wuhen's tornadoes and sword strikes, Shen Ziheng's barrier and sound waves, and Meng Hongying's Dawnlight helped the group eliminate more than a hundred contestants.
• With forty-two contestants still on the arena and only thirty places available, Feng Wuhen and his companions spread out to eliminate more opponents while staying close enough to support one another.
• Feng Wuhen defeated his opponent and rushed to help Qin Leyan when two contestants attacked her from the front and rear.

Feng Wuhen’s inner thoughts exposed Chen Qiu as a murderer who harvested and ate victims’ organs, prompting Yang Yifan to brutally defeat him in their match. Chen Qiu was left badly injured and abandoned by his fellow disciples, but eventually managed to take pills from his storage ring.

• Feng Wuhen and the others rested after drawing lots, then watched Yang Yifan fight Chen Qiu.
• Feng Wuhen’s inner thoughts revealed that Chen Qiu had murdered servant disciples, harvested their organs, and planned to target fellow disciples.
• Yang Yifan learned of Chen Qiu’s crimes and attacked him fiercely, beating him until his limbs could not move.
• Chen Qiu’s fellow disciples ignored him after he was carried off the stage, and he struggled to reach his medicine.
• Chen Qiu opened his storage ring himself, took pills, and avoided being tortured to death by his injuries.

Yan Ke stopped Chen Qiu from escaping punishment after the Enforcement Hall disciples discovered his crimes. Feng Wuhen then began a difficult match against the body cultivator Sun Chao, whose earth technique split the arena beneath him.

• Yan Ke arrived with Enforcement Hall disciples, who beat Chen Qiu after finding the corpses of his murdered fellow disciples.
• Yan Ke stopped the disciples from beating Chen Qiu to death and sealed his meridians when he tried to kill himself.
• Feng Wuhen entered the arena to fight Sun Chao and briefly wondered whether he should train to become more muscular.
• Feng Wuhen traded attacks with Sun Chao for half an hour, while Sun Chao grew concerned about his dwindling spiritual power.
• Sun Chao struck the arena with his hammer, turning the ground into rolling waves and opening a huge crack beneath Feng Wuhen.
• Feng Wuhen leaped into the air just before the crack swallowed the spot where he had been standing.

Feng Wuhen defeated Sun Chao, then drew a bye in the next round as the tournament narrowed to its top eight. Shen Ziheng began his match against Fan Yiqi by striking with his Wood Spirit, and Fan Yiqi’s hair started falling out after he inhaled a strange fragrance.

• Feng Wuhen faced Sun Chao’s ground-chasing spell with The Great Wind Rises and won their match.
• Shen Ziheng, Meng Hongying with Dawnlight, and Qin Leyan each won their matches as the first day’s bouts determined the top fifteen.
• Feng Wuhen drew the blank lot and received a bye, while Shen Ziheng drew Fan Yiqi as his opponent.
• Shen Ziheng opened his match with Fan Yiqi by sending vines from his Wood Spirit to attack him.
• Fan Yiqi resisted with talismans, but after smelling the vines’ fragrance, his scalp itched and clumps of his hair fell out.

Shen Ziheng trapped Fan Yiqi with a poisonous net after Fan Yiqi complained about losing hair, then Bing Ling explained that Shen Ziheng was still angry about admirers seeking Feng Wuhen. Feng Wuhen declared that he planned to focus on cultivation and gossip rather than romance, while Chu Moqing remembered that Feng Wuhen’s unusual eyes had to remain a secret.

• Fan Yiqi complained that Shen Ziheng’s prank might leave him bald and ruin his chances of pursuing a romantic bond.
• Shen Ziheng attacked Fan Yiqi with the Wood Spirit, trapping him in a thorny net that injected poison.
• Bing Ling told Feng Wuhen that admirers had confronted Shen Ziheng the day before, making him fear they might lure Feng Wuhen away.
• Feng Wuhen thought that he wanted to cultivate, ascend, and seek out gossip rather than pursue romance or form a contract.
• Chu Moqing rebuked the elders for doubting Feng Wuhen’s resolve, then remembered that the origin of his eyes had to stay secret.

Shen Ziheng defeated Fan Yiqi with his poisonous, regenerative spell, leaving him bald and covered in red blotches. Fan Yiqi apologized and received an antidote, while Feng Wuhen reassured his companions that he intended only to cultivate and ascend.

• Shen Ziheng revealed that his green-cloth spell, Lush Greenery, had poisoned Fan Yiqi and made his hair fall out.
• Shen Ziheng exposed Fan Yiqi’s bald, red-blotched appearance, and the audience mocked his transformation.
• Fan Yiqi charged at Shen Ziheng, but thorny vines bound him and flung him away.
• Feng Wuhen told Shen Ziheng he had no interest in romance and looked forward to ascending to the Immortal Realm.
• The female cultivator who had liked Fan Yiqi rejected him after seeing his appearance, and he apologized to Shen Ziheng.
• Shen Ziheng gave Fan Yiqi an antidote and told him to wash with it for two days to heal the blotches.

Su Weiran told Xie Biyun that he was dating Xie Xingzhi, and she enthusiastically praised her nephew on the drive home. After Fang Huijuan arrived at the Lu Family villa and taunted Xie Biyun about her husband’s condition, Xie Biyun hinted that Lu Zhenan had fathered a child with his first love, leaving Fang Huijuan shaken.

• Xie Biyun offered to find Su Weiran a partner, and Su Weiran revealed that he was dating Xie Xingzhi.
• Xie Biyun realized Xie Xingzhi was Su Weiran’s boyfriend, learned that Su Weiran had confessed first, and criticized Xie Xingzhi before praising him all the way home.
• Xie Biyun and Su Weiran ate breakfast at the Lu Family villa after returning.
• Fang Huijuan arrived and made a cutting remark about Xie Biyun’s husband, but Xie Biyun calmly warned her about Lu Zhenan.
• Xie Biyun told Fang Huijuan that Lu Zhenan had allegedly fathered a child with his first love, and Fang Huijuan’s expression changed.

Feng Wuhen won the final match of Mount Grand Mystery’s tournament, and all thirty top-ranked disciples learned they would enter the Peerless Secret Realm before representing the sect at the Dao Discussion Tournament. As the group traveled to the Beast-Taming Sect, Meng Hongying struggled with returning home, and Qin Leyan understood why she had left.

• Feng Wuhen defeated a Peak Nascent Soul spell cultivator, securing his place at the top of the rankings as Mount Grand Mystery’s tournament concluded.
• Qin Che announced that all thirty tournament representatives would enter the Peerless Secret Realm, where Feng Wuhen sensed an extraordinary opportunity awaiting him.
• Qin Che, Chu Moqing, and Zheng Zefang led the thirty disciples toward the Beast-Taming Sect for the Dao Discussion Tournament.
• Meng Hongying acted restless and uneasy about returning to her home sect, and Feng Wuhen recalled that she had left after her father gave most of the Ancient Phoenix True Blood to her older sister’s Spirit Beast.
• Qin Leyan sympathized with Meng Hongying’s pain over her father’s favoritism, while Meng Hongying remembered his dismissive words when she had left home.

Meng Hongying returned to the Beast-Taming Sect for the Dao Discussion Tournament and faced her estranged father, Sect Master Meng. She heard his apology but refused to forgive him, then left to join her friends while Meng Hongyun quietly visited her old room.

• Sect Master Meng recalled driving Meng Hongying away years earlier and regretted that she had not returned home since.
• At the Beast-Taming Sect, Qin Che encouraged Meng Hongying to speak with her father, while Qin Leyan, Feng Wuhen, and the others offered to stay with her.
• Meng Hongying told her friends to go ahead and promised to join them after talking with Sect Master Meng.
• Sect Master Meng apologized for his past words and for the Phoenix True Blood, but Meng Hongying said she understood and would not forgive him yet.
• Meng Hongying retrieved hidden wine jars from her old room, and Meng Hongyun entered afterward with Azure Cloud and left without disturbing anything.

Feng Wuhen cooked a feast for Meng Hongying and his friends before they visited Starlight City, where he reunited with Hua Yichen. The group remained in the lively city as the Dao Discussion Tournament approached.

• Meng Hongying and Feng Wuhen's friends ordered dishes, and Feng Wuhen promised Shen Ziheng two extra special ones.
• Feng Wuhen cooked for the group and Chu Moqing, who gave him two storage pouches filled with spirit stones.
• Feng Wuhen returned to find Shen Ziheng and the others eating, and they invited him to join them.
• After eating, Feng Wuhen and the others went to Starlight City and saw many visitors, including members of the Demon Race.
• Feng Wuhen ran into Hua Yichen, who recognized him and remarked on how much he and his companions had changed.

Feng Wuhen and his companions reunited with Hua Yichen and Xia Jingcheng in Starlight City, then went to Xunzhi Auction House, where a dispute with Bai Shiyan escalated into a confrontation. The auction house manager withdrew after Feng Wuhen showed his token, and Hua Yichen asked what it was.

• Feng Wuhen reunited with Hua Yichen and Xia Jingcheng, and the six of them spent the day exploring Starlight City.
• Hua Yichen brought the group to Xunzhi Auction House, where Feng Wuhen went to the jewelry section with Long Siqing.
• Bai Shiyan snatched a neck ornament from Feng Wuhen, and Long Siqing bit her when she tried to slap him.
• Feng Wuhen seized and crushed Bai Shiyan's bloodstained whip, and both sides summoned their senior brothers for support.
• Feng Wuhen showed the auction house manager his token, prompting the manager to clear the third floor and leave them alone.
• Hua Yichen asked Feng Wuhen why the manager obeyed him so readily.

Feng Wuhen explained that he had found his biological parents and that Xunzhi Auction House belonged to his family, while Hua Yichen and Xia Jingcheng confronted Cui Yongchang after he insulted them. Cui learned that Feng’s thoughts could be heard, but Xia warned him not to reveal the secret.

• Feng Wuhen showed Hua Yichen his Young Master token and explained that he had found his biological parents, whose family owned Xunzhi Auction House.
• Cui Yongchang arrived after Bai Shiyan summoned him and mocked Xia Jingcheng and Hua Yichen.
• Hua Yichen insulted Cui, and Xia Jingcheng drew his sword; Xia and Hua attacked Cui as he dodged their strikes.
• Feng Wuhen’s inner thoughts exposed Cui’s promiscuity and criticized Yueyang Sect, while Cui realized he could hear those thoughts.
• Hua Yichen punched Cui in the stomach, and Xia Jingcheng warned him not to reveal that he had heard Feng’s inner voice.