Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Ji Feng considers entering the cellar to investigate the Evil Soul Masters’ spirit, but first leaves some of his blood outside so he can escape through a Blood Gate if trapped.
• Liu Chunmiao scouts the cellar and returns with the sisters’ Storage Soul Tools. Ji Feng refuses to escort the sisters to Shrek Academy, offering them a map instead.
• The sisters explain that they want to return to the academy. Ji Feng insists on staying to eliminate the spirit, arguing that leaving it behind would endanger others and that Shrek should take responsibility for the danger.
• Impressed by Ji Feng’s resolve, Liu Chunmiao leads her sister away. The sisters then discover that the familiar forest has become a vast, barren wasteland. When they turn back, the residence has vanished.
• They attempt to flee, but skeletal hands seize them. Liu Chunmiao uses her Ice Mist skill to break free, only for bone spikes to form cages around both sisters.
• Meanwhile, Ji Feng enters the cellar. He finds sparse furnishings and an elaborate blood-drawn magic array whose center is blank, leaving him to wonder what was meant to go there.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Feng shows caution by preparing an escape route, but also displays a strong sense of responsibility by choosing to confront the spirit rather than leave it to harm others. He bluntly rejects the sisters’ request for an escort.
• Liu Chunmiao admires Ji Feng’s courage and contrasts his willingness to act with Xuan Zi’s failure to protect the sisters. She remains protective of Liu Jieqi, taking the lead when they try to escape.
• Liu Jieqi is more playful and openly clingy with Ji Feng, teasing her sister about possibly liking him. Once the sisters are trapped, however, she grows frightened and briefly doubts her sister’s dependability.
• The sisters’ gratitude toward Ji Feng is mixed with resentment toward Shrek’s leadership, especially Xuan Zi. Their trust in each other remains clear: Liu Jieqi follows her older sister’s lead despite her teasing.

Significant themes

• Responsibility versus neglect: Ji Feng accepts danger to prevent future victims, while the sisters’ predicament highlights the failure of those meant to protect them.
• Courage and admiration: Ji Feng’s actions earn the sisters’ respect despite his youth and low rank.
• Protection and dependence: Liu Chunmiao feels responsible for her younger sister, who trusts her even when their escape attempt goes wrong.
• The supernatural threat: The transformed landscape and bone traps reveal that the spirit can distort its surroundings and isolate its victims.

Key events

• Ji Feng searches the cellar’s occult supplies for something to activate the blood-drawn magic array. A Copper Coin Sword seems promising, but its binding cord snaps and the coins scatter.
• A Bagua Mirror falls from a cabinet and rolls toward him. When Ji Feng points it at the array, bloodlike threads form images inside it, revealing the ritual’s history.
• The images show a robed man taking a young girl, Xiaoyue, to fight a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider. The three-ring Soul Elder is overwhelmed and cocooned, then kept alive with injections while the spider lays eggs inside the cocoon.
• The man uses the same magic array to transform the cocoon into flesh and fuse the girl with the young spider. The resulting Spider-Woman—part girl, part Man Faced Demon Spider, with bat wings—emerges and kills him.
• The Spider-Woman stares at Ji Feng through the mirror and reaches toward him with her hair. Rather than panic, he prepares to fight, hoping to absorb her Soul Power and gain her regenerative ability.

Character developments

• Ji Feng approaches the mystery with comic confidence, jokingly styling himself as a “Daoist Son.” When the mirror reveals the horrific events, he remains bold and turns the danger into an opportunity to gain power.
• Xiaoyue is shown as a vulnerable child forced into a lethal fight by the robed man. Her transformation leaves her a powerful, unsettling hybrid whose gaze suggests she is aware of Ji Feng.
• The robed man is revealed as a cruel, obsessive experimenter who prolongs Xiaoyue’s suffering to create a human–Soul Beast fusion. His triumph ends instantly when his creation kills him.

Significant themes

• Cruel ambition and its consequences: The man’s attempt to create a powerful being succeeds, but the creature turns on him.
• Exploitation and bodily horror: Xiaoyue is treated as material for experimentation and as nourishment for the spider’s offspring.
• Power amid danger: Ji Feng’s first response to a terrifying threat is to consider what abilities he might gain from it.
• Clashing belief systems: The ordinary Daoist objects contrast with the blood ritual, underscoring the strange mixture of traditions surrounding the array.

Character interactions

• The robed man controls and sacrifices Xiaoyue, abandoning her to the spider and later keeping her alive for his experiment.
• Xiaoyue’s hybrid form kills the man who created her.
• Through the Bagua Mirror, the Spider-Woman fixes her attention on Ji Feng and reaches toward him, turning the revealed past into an immediate confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Ji Feng realizes the spider woman’s hair-combing scene was being shown through the bagua mirror, which is part of the magical array. She asks if she is beautiful and whether Ji Feng knows her name, promising to become his if he keeps looking at her and says it.
• The spider woman reveals that the house was once an Evil Soul Master’s hideout and recounts what happened after his death: his remains became a skeleton that served her, but she eventually smashed it apart.
• The array later ensnared a couple. The young man became enchanted by the spider woman and offered his flesh to her, while his girlfriend was seized by bones and killed by the skeletal man. The spider woman then explains that the curved saber is a class-five Soul Tool she modified to heal its wielder and convert blood and flesh into Soul Power.
• Ji Feng challenges her account, pointing out that the old woman already knew how the saber worked. The spider woman admits she taught her, explaining that the old woman had made an offering and awakened her after she had lain unconscious in the array.
• The spider woman says the Holy Spirit Cult’s array keeps her trapped in the cellar and prevents her from killing anyone or leaving. She proposes that Ji Feng move the array into the new space connected to his Blood Gate, which would let her accompany him and assist with combat and cultivation.
• The bagua mirror moves to the array’s center and releases blood-red threads that form the spider woman’s true body. She urges Ji Feng to speak her name and accept her as his believer, declaring him her “Master.”

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Feng remains cautious and analytical, questioning the spider woman’s claims and uncovering her limits and motives. He hides his surprise when she reveals she can see his Blood Gate.
• The spider woman presents herself as seductive and devoted, but her history is marked by manipulation, violence, and dependence on others to escape her confinement. She now frames herself as Ji Feng’s willing follower.
• Their conversation shifts from her beauty and identity to a negotiation over her freedom and usefulness. Ji Feng probes her story; she answers while trying to persuade him to take her with him.
• The couple’s story illustrates the spider woman’s power to inspire obsession and turn victims into offerings, as well as the lethal consequences for those drawn into the array.

Significant themes

• Seduction and manipulation: The spider woman uses beauty, promises, and selective honesty to influence Ji Feng.
• Power and dependence: Though dangerous, she is confined by the array and needs Ji Feng’s Blood Gate to leave.
• Devotion and sacrifice: Victims surrender flesh and life to her under the illusion that doing so is desirable or honorable.
• Knowledge as leverage: Ji Feng’s questions expose the gaps in her story, while her knowledge of the Blood Gate changes the balance between them.

Plot points and events

• Ji Feng rejects Spider-Woman’s seductive offers and refuses to trust her. He agrees to take her out of the Holy Spirit Cult’s magic array, but carries her Bagua Mirror into his Undead Demiplane, hoping the realm’s light will suppress her and let him study her regenerative powers.
• Spider-Woman’s apparent willingness to cooperate is a deception. She is actually a peak Soul Emperor—far stronger than Ji Feng—and has spent decades growing by consuming Soul Masters and soul beasts.
• The Undead Demiplane weakens her only slightly because Ji Feng is too inexperienced to draw on its full power. Spider-Woman reveals her true, monstrous form and traps him in an Eight Trigrams Formation.
• As Ji Feng approaches the fire-producing li position, a dragon corpse unexpectedly roars. It disperses the flames, enraging Spider-Woman, who then summons the thunder of the zhen trigram against both Ji Feng and the corpse.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Feng remains wary and resourceful, but underestimates the disparity between his strength and Spider-Woman’s. His attempt to contain her becomes a trap.
• Spider-Woman shifts from flirtation and feigned compromise to open hostility. She has been manipulating Ji Feng to escape the array, using his caution against him by persuading him to carry her mirror away.
• The dragon corpse unexpectedly intervenes to counter Spider-Woman’s fire attack, becoming an apparent ally—or at least an obstacle to her.

Significant themes

• Deception and manipulation: Spider-Woman’s seductive, cooperative persona conceals a calculated escape plan.
• Power and overconfidence: A powerful artifact or realm is only as effective as its user’s ability to wield it; Ji Feng’s low cultivation prevents him from controlling the danger.
• Trust and survival: Ji Feng’s caution helps him avoid some of Spider-Woman’s schemes, but cannot compensate for the vast gap in strength.
• Unexpected resistance: The seemingly dead dragon corpse’s intervention interrupts Spider-Woman’s attack and changes the immediate balance of the confrontation.

Ji Feng watched the dragon corpse destroy Spider-Woman and escaped the Undead Demiplane after obeying its strange demand to take out the trash. Back in the cellar, he was surrounded by skeletons, but the shattered Bagua Mirror made them retreat, giving him a chance to fight through them.

• The dragon corpse's mental storm shattered the Bagua Mirror, killed Spider-Woman, and absorbed the white smoke from her remains.
• A young girl's voice came from the dragon corpse and ordered Ji Feng to clean up the trash, so he gathered the refuse and left through the Blood Gate.
• Ji Feng returned to the cellar and found skeletons emerging from the ground, including the blade-wielding man from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Cornered by the skeletons, Ji Feng used Dragon Shadow Strike to charge toward the manor gate, but the skeletons blocked his escape.
• The blade-wielding skeleton struck Ji Feng's discarded trash, exposing Bagua Mirror fragments that frightened the skeletons into retreating.
• Ji Feng picked up a Kun trigram fragment and charged at the skeletons, but they stopped retreating and stared at him.

Ji Feng escaped a horde of skeletons with the Dragon Corpse’s help, then collected wealth from the abandoned estate. After discovering that the Dragon Core had swallowed a valuable Soul Tool scimitar, he encountered the Auspicious Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King.

• Ji Feng used the Kun Trigram Mirror Fragment to distract a skeleton, but a mass of skeletons pursued him through the Blood Gate into the Undead Demiplane.
• The Dragon Corpse woke and destroyed more than a thousand skeletons with a roar, swallowing their spirit bodies.
• The Dragon Core absorbed the skeletons’ bones and a Soul Tool scimitar while Ji Feng considered the Dragon Corpse’s motives.
• Ji Feng searched the abandoned estate and collected gold, valuables, household goods, and clothing worth about 130,000 gold soul coins.
• Ji Feng discovered that the Dragon Core had swallowed the scimitar, then emerged from the Blood Gate and found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King waiting at the estate.

Ji Feng faced the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Scarlet King after destroying the murderous inn the Auspicious Beast had kept as entertainment. He persuaded her to let him share memories of the human world, then seized the opening when she relinquished control of her Soul Power.

• The Scarlet King explained that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had preserved the inn to watch humans kill one another, and Ji Feng mocked her for treating it as a treasured toy.
• The Scarlet King attacked Ji Feng, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion stopped him and demanded that Ji Feng tell her about the human world.
• Ji Feng asked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to connect her Eye of Destiny with the space between his brows so she could experience his memories.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion pressed her forehead to Ji Feng's, but nothing happened because he could not draw out her power of fate.
• Ji Feng taunted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into relaxing, and she relinquished control over her Soul Power as his eyes lit up and he activated the Northern Darkness Divine Skill.

Ji Feng held the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hostage and bargained with Scarlet King for a Dragon-Type Soul Beast and Rare Metals. After the Golden Lion’s destiny power exchanged their memories, Ji Feng learned it could not see his past life and told it to find him in the Sun Moon Empire in Nagi Hikaru’s appearance; Scarlet King returned with a Dragon-Type Soul Beast.

• Ji Feng stopped absorbing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s soul power but kept it trapped, forcing Scarlet King to negotiate.
• Ji Feng demanded a twenty-thousand-year-old Dragon-Type Soul Beast and ten kilograms of Rare Metal in exchange for releasing the Auspicious Beast.
• Ji Feng and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion exchanged memories, flooding Ji Feng with the beast’s memories and strengthening his spiritual power.
• Ji Feng asked whether the Three-Eyed Golden Lion knew the origin of his cultivation technique, and it said he had been born knowing it in Dragon-Sighting Village.
• Ji Feng showed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion a picture of Nagi Hikaru and told it to find him in the Sun Moon Empire if it entered the human world.
• Scarlet King returned carrying a Dragon-Type Soul Beast.

Ji Feng escaped Scarlet King with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s help, then absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring from a Golden-Thread Black Flood Dragon and reached rank 29. After sleeping for a day and night, he woke to a resentful voice from the Undead Demiplane complaining of hunger.

• Ji Feng demanded that Scarlet King swear not to harm him and retreat ten kilometers, then vanished into the Blood Gate with the Golden-Thread Black Flood Dragon and rare metal.
• Scarlet King returned and found Ji Feng gone, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion agreed to keep the encounter secret from Di Tian.
• Ji Feng killed the Golden-Thread Black Flood Dragon and absorbed its twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, overcoming its energy and spiritual resistance with help from the Shanzhong vortex and his spiritual power.
• The new Soul Ring raised Ji Feng’s Soul Power to rank 29, and he credited Mu En’s gifts and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s blessing for his success.
• Ji Feng slept for a day and night, then woke when a voice from the Undead Demiplane complained that it was hungry again.

After getting lost in the Star Dou Great Forest, Ji Feng returned to Shrek City and found that no public wanted notice had been issued for him. He bought a Storage Soul Tool from a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect shop and left Ning Yu astonished by his payment.

• Ji Feng fled the Dragon Corpse and wandered the forest for ten days before arriving back at Shrek City's east gate.
• Ji Feng checked the wanted board and learned that Shrek City had no public notice for him.
• Ji Feng visited Soul Tool Street and chose a shop run by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Yu showed Ji Feng a third-generation Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night, which he bought for sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ji Feng gave Ning Yu seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins, and she pointed out that he had overpaid by ten thousand.

Ji Feng learned that Tang Ya was being starved and abused by the Xiang Family Pill Shop, and considered rescuing her while waiting for the Dragon Core to finish crafting a Soul Tool. The chapter ended with Ji Feng wondering how the Dragon Core had learned to make Soul Tools.

• Ji Feng paid Ning Yu ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to alert him about Shrek's secret missions, and Ning Yu told him about Tang Ya's plight.
• Ning Yu explained that Tang Ya had angered the Xiang Family Pill Shop by selling sect pills and was being guarded by a newly advanced Soul King with a Red Poison Fire Lizard Martial Soul.
• Tang Ya, starving in Shrek City's lower district, was kicked into wastewater by a green-robed Soul King from the Xiang Family Pill House after a passerby offered her bread.
• Ji Feng considered whether to save Tang Ya and wondered if her predicament was a setup involving Shrek and Bei Bei.
• Ji Feng waited in the Undead Demiplane while the Dragon Core fused a scimitar with bones to craft a Level 5 Soul Tool, then questioned how it had learned to make one.

Ji Feng rescued Tang Ya from the green-robed man and defeated him with his dragon abilities. As colorful light surrounded Ji Feng, the wounded man recognized Ning You as the one behind the attack.

• The green-robed man threatened Tang Ya and demanded she kowtow before he would give her food.
• Ji Feng offered Tang Ya a dumpling, but the green-robed man knocked it away and attacked him.
• Ji Feng used his red and black soul rings and Dragon Rend Strike to blast the green-robed man through the sheet-metal walls.
• The green-robed man unleashed his Fire-Poison Hot Mist, but Ji Feng charged through it and knocked him down with Dragon Tornado Sevenfold Rift.
• Colorful light enveloped Ji Feng, and the green-robed man cried out that Ning You had arranged for him to come.

Ji Feng defeated Ma Chuwen and left Ning Yu to settle their old grievances, then took Ma Chuwen’s body into the Undead Demiplane. There, Ji Feng discovered a strange curved blade and prepared to test it on Ma Chuwen, who was secretly still alive.

• Ji Feng defeated Ma Chuwen with Dragon Tornado Sevenfold Rift, and Ning Yu confronted him over his past crimes against her family and business.
• When Ma Chuwen invoked the Xiang Family Pill Shop’s connections and underworld rules, Ji Feng severed his limbs and killed him despite Ning Yu’s hesitation.
• Ning Yu told Ji Feng she had rescued the girl and would take him to see her at the soul tool shop the next morning, while Ji Feng carried Ma Chuwen’s corpse away.
• Ji Feng brought Ma Chuwen into the Undead Demiplane, where the Dragon Core’s halo disappeared and a golden pill transformed into a black curved blade.
• Ji Feng asked Ma Chuwen to identify the blade and slashed at his chest, unaware that Ma Chuwen had survived using a one-time soul tool.

Ji Feng discovered that the Dragon Core had transformed Ma Chuwen’s scimitar into the bone-manipulating Bone Spirit, then woke to find the Dragon Core and his looted items missing from the Undead Demiplane. Touching a strange blood gate triggered his Spatial Martial Soul and revealed a 25,000-year soul ring.

• Ji Feng let the Dragon Corpse torment Ma Chuwen, whose blood and bones were absorbed by the scimitar and Dragon Core.
• Ji Feng learned that the scimitar could imitate soul skills with bone spikes and named it Bone Spirit after the Dragon Corpse communicated with it.
• Liu Chunmiao and Liu Jieqi arrived at Shrek and decided to seek out Yan Shaozhe before Elder Xuan.
• Ji Feng woke to find the Dragon Core and the items from the Old Madam’s room missing, then discovered a new blood gate marked with the Roman numeral I.
• Ji Feng touched the blood gate, and his Spatial Martial Soul appeared alongside a 25,000-year black soul ring.

Ji Feng received a spatial soul ring from the Dragon Corpse, which also expanded the Undead Demiplane, then traveled with Ning Yu to Inkstone Village to visit Tang Ya. The chapter left Tang Ya still weakened and unable to move her lower body, while Ning Yu hid from the Xiang Family after Ma Chuwen’s death.

• The Dragon Corpse gave Ji Feng a twenty-five-thousand-year soul ring with the Spatial Perception skill and created another room in the Undead Demiplane.
• Ji Feng learned that Spatial Perception sharpened his senses and let him perceive everything within space except people’s thoughts.
• Ning Yu took Ji Feng by carriage to Inkstone Village, explaining that she was lying low after she and her allies killed Ma Chuwen and the Xiang Family might retaliate.
• Ji Feng asked Ning Yu about reaching the Sun Moon Empire, but she said border restrictions made travel difficult.
• Ji Feng followed Ning Yu to Tang Ya’s room in Inkstone Village and found her pale, with obstructed meridians and her lower body still stuck in a kneeling position.

Ji Feng used the Bone Spirit Scimitar to remove the meridian blockage that had left Tang Ya unable to walk, refusing to pay Elder Zhuang’s demand for rare metal. The next morning, he found two dozen shop clerks gathered in the courtyard, though their purpose was unclear.

• Ning Yu told Ji Feng that Elder Zhuang would treat Tang Ya only for two catties of rare metal, and Tang Ya thanked Ji Feng despite expecting to remain disabled.
• Ji Feng entered the Undead Demiplane and asked his younger sister for help, then spoke with the Spider-Woman trapped in the Bone Spirit Scimitar.
• The Spider-Woman recognized Tang Ya’s condition as a technique the Holy Spirit Cult had studied and told Ji Feng to place the scimitar on Tang Ya.
• Ji Feng placed the Bone Spirit Scimitar on Tang Ya, and its bone-white tendrils unblocked her meridians and straightened her legs.
• Tang Ya named Ji Feng a Lifetime Guest Elder of the Tang Sect, and the next morning Ji Feng found twenty or thirty soul tool shop clerks gathered in the courtyard holding ordinary weapons.

Ning Yu led her shop assistants to meet Xiang Li, hoping to settle their dispute, while Ji Feng questioned her willingness to risk her life for the sect’s reputation. At Taotao Residence, Xiang Li demanded a share of her shop profits and proposed taking her as his concubine; Ning Yu asked to hear his third condition.

• Ning Yu explained to Ji Feng that she had to attend Xiang Li’s banquet to protect the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s reputation, then led her shop assistants away.
• Ji Feng stayed behind to watch Tang Ya as Ning Yu brought forty-two assistants to Taotao Residence.
• Xiang Li told Ning Yu that their grievances could be settled if she accepted his conditions, while Xiang Keshu and the wounded shop employees were present.
• Xiang Li demanded four tenths of the profits from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect shops and proposed making Ning Yu his seventh concubine.
• Ning Yu rejected neither condition aloud and asked Xiang Li to state the third.

Ning Yu’s negotiation with Xiang Li erupted into a battle that left half her shop employees dead, while the Xiang Family’s fighters displayed terrifying regenerative powers. After retreating to Inkstone Village, Ning Yu feared Xiang Li would kill her the next day, but Ji Feng questioned the value of her rules and remained unafraid because the Xiang Family could not compare to Shrek.

• Xiang Li demanded a share of the shop’s earnings, Ning Yu as his concubine, and the right to whip her, then ordered his guards to attack when she refused.
• Ning Yu and her guards fought Xiang Li’s men, but the attackers rapidly healed from severe wounds while the dagger wielder shattered one guard’s shield.
• The Xiang Family and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect fought throughout Taotao Residence, and Ning Yu’s group retreated after twenty-one of her forty-two employees died.
• At Inkstone Village, Ning Yu mourned the dead and told Ji Feng she expected Xiang Li to attack again and urged him and Tang Ya to flee.
• Ji Feng challenged Ning Yu’s faith in Jianghu rules, then asked how the Xiang Family Pill Shop compared to Shrek and concluded there was nothing to fear.

Ji Feng discovered that the blood on the weapons from the battle at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s soul tool shop was monkey blood, suggesting that the Xiang Family Pill Shop had used blood puppets supplied by someone from the Body Sect. With the sect unable to face such an enemy and Shrek possibly occupied, Ji Feng urged them to consider retreating.

• Bai Xuesong asked Ning Yu to let him keep his dead sister Xiaoyu’s Class 5 Soul Tool Longsword, and Ji Feng detected monkey blood on it.
• Ji Feng examined the weapons used in the battle and confirmed that the dried blood on them was not human blood.
• He Jingquan suggested that someone from the Body Sect had made blood puppets, and Ning Yu questioned why the sect would assist the Xiang Family.
• Ning Yu and the others looked to Ji Feng for help, but he admitted he was not confident against the Body Sect and asked where they could go besides Inkstone Village.

Ning Yu and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s wounded shop assistants fled Inkstone Village for the Rainbow Mountain Soul Zone, while Ji Feng stayed behind to investigate Xiang Li. Xiang Li arrived with Monkey-Blood People and prepared them for a massacre, leaving Ji Feng hiding nearby as one of the men entered his kitchen.

• Ji Feng persuaded Ning Yu and the old warehouse keeper that fleeing was wiser than dying to preserve the sect’s reputation, and Ning Yu agreed to leave for the Rainbow Mountain Soul Zone.
• Ning Yu explained how soul lands formed and urged Ji Feng to pack, but Ji Feng told her to take Tang Ya and go without him.
• Ning Yu left Inkstone Village with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s shop assistants at one in the morning.
• Xiang Li arrived at two thirty with around a hundred people, including blank-faced Monkey-Blood People who received injections and released their soul rings.
• Xiang Li and the Xiang Family Pill Shop’s soul masters drank foul, bloody tea before Xiang Li ordered the Monkey-Blood People to kill anyone who smelled of human blood.
• Ji Feng silently slipped from his hiding place into a kitchen, where a man pushed open the door and entered.