Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng discovered that the Purple Jade Bell was a Half-Spirit Tool and prepared to visit the suspicious Medicine Tower. When Senior Brother Mo spotted him at the entrance and beckoned him inside, Zhou Feng sensed danger and fled.

• Zhou Feng gained the Whetstone passive, which increased his Endurance after qualified battles against opponents of the same level.
• Qian Shang heard that the Han Clan had fallen and that the Witch Worship Cult was gaining ground against the Three Gu Sect.
• Zhou Feng discovered the Spirit Nurturing Method and realized that the Purple Jade Bell was a Half-Spirit Tool that could become a spirit artifact.
• Zhou Feng found several Stealth, Earth Evasion, and Diamond Talismans among Han Ming's belongings.
• Zhou Feng went to the Medicine Tower at night, where Senior Brother Mo recognized him and told him to follow.
• Zhou Feng sensed that the Medicine Tower was dangerous and turned to run, surprising Alchemist Yuan.

Alchemist Yuan revealed that he had been using Medicine Tower disciples as ingredients for a Longevity Pill and tried to capture Zhou Feng when he fled. Zhou Feng defended himself with the Purple Jade Bell and Demon Devouring Armor, while Alchemist Yuan inhaled Zhou Feng’s Carefree Powder and began bleeding from his nose.

• Zhou Feng sensed danger and ran from the Medicine Tower, prompting Alchemist Yuan to reveal that he needed Zhou Feng as the last medicinal catalyst for his Longevity Pill.
• Alchemist Yuan sent two paper figures after Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng dodged their attack and summoned the Purple Jade Bell.
• Alchemist Yuan used Paper Figure Conjuration to switch places with the paper figures and attacked Zhou Feng with Pill Fire.
• Zhou Feng blocked the flames with the Purple Jade Bell, put on the Demon Devouring Armor, and released upgraded Carefree Powder.
• Alchemist Yuan inhaled the Carefree Powder and immediately spurted dark red blood from his nose.

Zhou Feng struggled to survive Alchemist Yuan’s fire attacks by exhausting his stockpile of pills, talismans, and one-use magical artifacts. Just as Alchemist Yuan began to weaken, Leng Man’er appeared and froze him solid with a single attack, then turned to Zhou Feng.

• Alchemist Yuan neutralized Zhou Feng’s Carefree Powder, took pills to restore his strength, and summoned a fire dragon to attack him.
• Alchemist Yuan trapped Zhou Feng inside a furnace formed from the fire dragon, but Zhou Feng broke it with his stored talismans and one-use magical artifacts.
• Alchemist Yuan used the Law of Restraint to contain the battle’s noise and light, while Zhou Feng prepared to outlast the effects of his opponent’s forbidden medicine.
• Alchemist Yuan began coughing, and Leng Man’er appeared, accusing him of killing Three Gu Sect disciples.
• Alchemist Yuan tried to flee, but Leng Man’er froze him and his fire dragon with moonlight, then looked toward Zhou Feng.

Leng Man’er invited Zhou Feng to join the Ice Spirit Gu lineage and left him Alchemist Yuan’s possessions, while ordering him to submit the alchemy inheritance to the sect. Zhou Feng returned to his room unaware that the sect planned to train him, and the next morning, disciples at the Medicine Tower learned that Alchemist Yuan was dead.

• Leng Man’er invited Zhou Feng to join the Ice Spirit Gu lineage as a prospective alchemist and told him to hand over Alchemist Yuan’s alchemy inheritance.
• Zhou Feng found Alchemist Yuan dead, took his Storage Ring, and hurried back to his room.
• Zhou Feng discovered that Alchemist Yuan’s Storage Ring held only a few jade slips and pills, then realized his own strength might not be enough to survive the consequences.
• The chapter revealed that Leng Man’er had investigated Alchemist Yuan’s Longevity Pill and planned for Zhou Feng to copy the alchemy inheritance for the sect.
• Several people arrived at the Medicine Tower the next morning, and their shock at Alchemist Yuan’s death woke Zhou Feng.

After the Medicine Tower closed, the Three Gu Sect brought Zhou Feng to Blessed Land Valley and gave him one month to refine a first-grade pill. There, Luo Ziyan and Huang Yang assessed him, and Huang Yang warned that Leng Man’er's pursuers might target him.

• With Alchemist Yuan gone, the Three Gu Sect ordered everyone in the Medicine Tower to evacuate and decided to invest in Zhou Feng’s alchemy talent.
• Two sect members told Zhou Feng to refine a first-grade pill within one month, promising to forgive his past if he succeeded and make him repay the resources if he failed.
• The two men brought Zhou Feng through a teleportation formation to Blessed Land Valley, the secluded core of the Three Gu Sect.
• Luo Ziyan recognized the Love Gu’s aura around Zhou Feng and wondered why she found him so attractive.
• Huang Yang asked Zhou Feng whether he had killed the Han brothers and held the Purple Jade Bell, then warned him to follow the valley’s rules and survive three days amid Leng Man’er’s pursuers.

Zhou Feng learned about the Blessed Land’s resources and monthly elimination battles, then decided he wanted to leave the Three Gu Sect and live independently. As he settled on his plan, hostile disciples began targeting him because Leng Man’er had guaranteed his entry.

• Zhou Feng read about the Blessed Land’s cultivation facilities, servants, and monthly battles that removed the ten weakest disciples.
• Zhou Feng considered practicing alchemy and fighting in the Life and Death Arena, but doubted he could become an alchemist through self-study.
• Zhou Feng concluded that the Three Gu Sect exploited him and that leaving would free him from its control and the threat of the Demon Devour Seal.
• Disciples in the Blessed Land discussed Zhou Feng’s connection to Leng Man’er, and some of her admirers prepared to attack him.
• The Three Gu Sect’s rival lineages grew more hostile amid the sect master’s worsening injuries and repeated defeats against the Witch Worship Cult, while Zhou Feng drew scrutiny upon entering the Blessed Land.

Zhou Feng continued using the Life and Death Arena to hone his combat skills, rapidly strengthening himself by stacking his passive abilities. He overwhelmed Qin Xiang and showed how his growing power and endurance made him nearly impossible to defeat.

• Zhou Feng entered the Life and Death Arena again, where spectators remarked on his frequent visits and his apparent abandonment of alchemy.
• Qin Xiang attacked Zhou Feng, hoping to take him hostage and gain leverage against the Three Gu Sect.
• Zhou Feng’s Hunting Master, Soul Collection, and Whetstone passives had accumulated to extraordinary levels, and he neared a breakthrough to the Spirit Platform Third Layer.
• Zhou Feng struck Qin Xiang with Demonic Energy, while Armor-Piercing Spear bypassed Qin Xiang’s defenses and let the Demonic Energy consume his spiritual power.
• Qin Xiang attacked desperately but could not land a hit, as Zhou Feng evaded each strike and left him overwhelmed.

Zhou Feng defeated Qin Xiang without being touched, gained endurance and Soul Power, and neared a breakthrough while observers marveled at his strength. As he prepared to leave the Life and Death Arena, Gong Qu confronted him over Leng Man'er and declared that he was targeting him on someone else's behalf.

• Zhou Feng defeated Qin Xiang using the Demon Devouring Combat Method, and Whetstone and Soul Collection increased his endurance and Soul Power.
• Zhou Feng sensed that he was close to breaking through to the Spirit Platform Third Layer and saw that his Skill Panel progress bar was full again.
• The spectators discussed Zhou Feng's unusually powerful performance and noted that he had won every match without using a Dharma artifact.
• Gong Qu blocked Zhou Feng and asked whether he had been pestering Senior Disciple Sister Leng Man'er.
• Zhou Feng calmly called Leng Man'er by name, and Gong Qu insulted him and said that he would not have targeted him if not for Leng Man'er.

Zhou Feng struck Gong Qu during a moment of lowered vigilance and used his Armor-Piercing Spear to bypass Gong Qu’s defenses. Gong Qu unleashed the power of his Peerless Gu, but Zhou Feng evaded his attacks and continued pressing him.

• Gong Qu taunted Zhou Feng as onlookers recognized that he was trying to intimidate the other sect master candidates on behalf of his backer.
• Zhou Feng waited until Gong Qu turned his attention away, then attacked him with a spear formed from Demonic Energy.
• Gong Qu’s Peerless Armor blocked the spear, but the Armor-Piercing Spear’s passive effect sent Demonic Energy into his body.
• Gong Qu activated his Peerless Gu and charged Zhou Feng with overwhelming physical power, but Zhou Feng dodged his punch.
• Zhou Feng pierced Gong Qu’s defenses again, leaving Gong Qu alarmed as he swung wildly without landing a hit.

Zhou Feng used Combat Instinct, the Purple Jade Bell, and Carefree Powder to withstand Gong Qu's stronger attacks. After shattering Gong Qu's strongest strike, Zhou Feng trapped him in the Demon Devour Seal, leaving the watching crowd convinced Gong Qu was finished.

• Zhou Feng dodged Gong Qu's attacks with Combat Instinct and struck back when Gong Qu paused to taunt him.
• Gong Qu summoned the Mountain Moving Rings and used their gravity to attack Zhou Feng, but the Purple Jade Bell protected him.
• Zhou Feng secretly poisoned Gong Qu with Carefree Powder, which Gong Qu expelled with his vitality.
• Gong Qu unleashed the Power of Mountain Moving, but Zhou Feng shattered its mountain phantom with the Purple Jade Bell.
• Zhou Feng activated the Demon Devour Seal, enveloping Gong Qu in a Demonic Cocoon as the spectators recognized the Grand Elder's ultimate technique.

Zhou Feng used the Demon Devouring Method to consume Gong Qu, breaking through to the Spirit Platform Third Layer despite nearly losing himself to the technique’s mental side effects. After weighing its dangers against its rapid gains, he decided to pursue the Spirit Platform Ninth Layer by going all out.

• Zhou Feng activated the Demon Devouring Method and refined Gong Qu in a Demonic Cocoon while onlookers let the victor proceed unchallenged.
• Zhou Feng absorbed Gong Qu’s Demonic Energy and fled, then learned that the method’s side effects had left Old Demon Gu deranged and trapped in the Purple Mansion Realm.
• After returning to his room, Zhou Feng nearly lost his identity to Gong Qu’s lingering thoughts as the absorbed energy broke his bottleneck and transformed his cultivation.
• Zhou Feng steadied his mind and discovered he had reached the Spirit Platform Third Layer, with his Soul Power also accelerating the Purple Jade Bell’s transformation.
• Zhou Feng chose to risk using the Demon Devouring Method for rapid advancement and set his target at the Spirit Platform Ninth Layer.

Zhou Feng planned to use the Demon Devouring Method to raise his cultivation and sought an Ice Heart Gu to limit its side effects. As he began preparing to refine Gu, news of his abilities spread through the blessed land, drawing both plots against him and offers of recruitment.

• Zhou Feng recalled that an Ice Heart Gu could suppress the Demon Devouring Method’s side effects and identified a hundred-year Ice Lotus and a purebred Blood Gu as its key ingredients.
• Zhou Feng saw that using the Demon Devouring Method had advanced his Skill Panel progress bar, strengthening his resolve to pursue cultivation and passive skills despite the risks.
• Zhou Feng made the Ice Heart Gu his top priority and decided to refine a purebred Blood Gu using a Gu Rearing Pool, materials, and instructions found in the Han brothers’ Storage Rings.
• Zhou Feng began preparing to refine Gu while news spread that he had killed Gong Qu and knew the Demon Devouring Method.
• People in the Three Gu Sect began plotting against Zhou Feng or considering recruiting him amid the sect master succession struggle.

Zhou Feng learned that a secret realm contained the Ice Lotus he needed to refine the Ice Heart Gu. Sensing Leng Yan’s malice despite his offer to recruit him, Zhou Feng attacked and killed him.

• Zhou Feng finished the first stage of building the Blood Pool and realized he still needed materials and fresh blood.
• Leng Yan came to Zhou Feng’s home, falsely claiming Leng Man’er had sent him to congratulate Zhou Feng before revealing that a secret realm held Ice Lotus.
• Leng Yan explained that his lineage had found a pool of Ice Lotus in the secret realm ten years earlier, and Zhou Feng suspected others knew about his need for it.
• Zhou Feng suddenly attacked Leng Yan with Demonic Energy and the Purple Jade Bell, severely wounding and suppressing him.
• Zhou Feng killed Leng Yan, who died confused about why Zhou Feng had attacked him.

After killing Leng Yan and using his body to fuel the Blood Pool, Zhou Feng broke through to the Spirit Platform Fourth Layer. He suppressed the Demon Devouring Method’s worsening side effects and realized he might be able to draw another Passive Skill.

• Zhou Feng killed Leng Yan, whose information about the secret realm and Ice Lotus he distrusted, and gained endurance and Soul Power from his Passive Skills.
• Zhou Feng placed Leng Yan’s body in the Blood Pool, causing it to boil, and added gu insects to adapt to the pool.
• Observers learned that Zhou Feng had killed Leng Yan and discussed the trouble he might face from Leng Man’er’s admirers and the person behind Gong Qu.
• Zhou Feng broke through to the Spirit Platform Fourth Layer, but strange whispers and visions returned as the Demon Devouring Method’s side effects worsened.
• Zhou Feng drank from the Medicine Gourd, recalled the layered tests in Alchemist Yuan’s inheritance, and considered drawing another Passive Skill from the Skill Panel.

After breaking through and gaining Tough Skin, Zhou Feng visited the Blessed Land Market to rest and gather information. There, he learned the sect was at war with the Witch Worship Cult and heard about the prodigious Ye Zai before Ye Ying singled him out and called Chen Jin over to confront him.

• Zhou Feng drew Tough Skin, which reduced incoming damage by two points, and saw that the Blood Pool had begun producing Blood Gu.
• Zhou Feng decided to explore the blessed land and went to its market to ask about the century-old Ice Lotus and the secret realm.
• At the market, Zhou Feng heard that the Three Gu Sect was fighting the Witch Worship Cult and that he might be conscripted.
• Zhou Feng overheard people praising Ye Zai, a fifteen-year-old genius who had reached the Spirit Platform Ninth Layer with a high-grade Spirit Platform.
• Ye Ying approached Zhou Feng, questioned him, and then called Chen Jin over to show care for the new disciple.

Zhou Feng refused to hand over his Medicine Gourd or take the bait when Chen Jin and Ye Ying tried to provoke him into a fight. Chen Jin finally began gathering spiritual power as Ye Ying demanded that he attack.

• Ye Ying demanded Zhou Feng's Medicine Gourd, but Zhou Feng firmly refused.
• Ye Ying ordered Chen Jin to teach Zhou Feng a lesson, while onlookers recognized Zhou Feng as the one who had defeated Gong Qu.
• Chen Jin proposed taking the dispute to the Life and Death Arena, but Zhou Feng ignored him and refused to engage.
• Chen Jin and Ye Ying's scheme was revealed: they targeted new Blessed Land disciples below the Spirit Platform Fifth Layer to obtain valuable items through coercion and persuasion.
• Ye Ying angrily ordered Chen Jin to attack, and Chen Jin gathered spiritual power in his right hand.

Zhou Feng killed Chen Jin and Ye Ying after they ambushed him and tried to threaten him with Ye Zai’s name. Their deaths drew Chen Feng, who vowed to break Zhou Feng’s bones, setting up a confrontation.

• Chen Jin ambushed Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng blocked the attack and tore off Chen Jin’s right arm.
• Ye Ying invoked her cousin Ye Zai’s name, but Zhou Feng seized her with Demonic Energy and twisted off her head.
• Zhou Feng twisted off Chen Jin’s head as well, triggering his Soul Collection and Whetstone passives.
• Chen Feng descended before Zhou Feng and calmly threatened to break every bone in his body.

After killing Chen Jin and Ye Ying, Zhou Feng ignored Chen Feng’s challenge and learned from Huang Yang about the Four Symbols Secret Realm, its powerful legacy, and the dangers facing his cultivation. He returned to his residence determined to advance quickly and find a way to remove the Demon Devouring Seal before Old Demon Gu turned against him.

• Chen Feng challenged Zhou Feng to the Life and Death Arena, but Zhou Feng disposed of Chen Jin and Ye Ying’s bodies and left without accepting.
• Huang Yang gave Zhou Feng a jade slip about the Four Symbols Secret Realm and invited him to join forces against Ye Zai.
• Chen Feng waited at the Life and Death Arena and grew furious when Zhou Feng did not appear.
• Zhou Feng checked that the Blood Pool was producing Gu insects, then read Huang Yang’s information about the secret realm’s Top-grade Spirit Tool and cultivation legacy.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Three Gu Sect’s methods only reached the Purple Mansion Realm and realized Old Demon Gu would devour him once he reached the Spirit Platform Ninth Layer.
• Zhou Feng resolved to reach the Spirit Platform Ninth Layer within a month, seek a chance to remove the Demon Devouring Seal, and keep using the Demon Devouring Method for now.

Zhou Feng decided to enter the secret realm and grew bolder about defying the Three Gu Sect as he planned to use its disciples to raise his cultivation. Before he could act, Chen Feng attacked him in retaliation for Chen Jin’s death, destroying Zhou Feng’s Blood Pool and trapping him with the Blazing Sun Eight Trigrams Mirror.

• Zhou Feng concluded he needed to enter the secret realm before Old Demon Gu returned, while continuing to seek a way to remove the Demon Devour Seal and relying on the Demon Devouring Method to advance.
• Zhou Feng realized the Demon Devouring Gu no longer threatened his life and believed he could escape most of the Three Gu Sect’s current forces, so he considered killing disciples to increase his cultivation and leave the blessed land.
• Chen Feng attacked Zhou Feng after Zhou Feng ignored his summons to settle their dispute at the Life and Death Arena over Chen Jin’s death, destroying Zhou Feng’s residence and Blood Pool.
• Chen Feng invoked the Human-Gu Union and the Blazing Sun Eight Trigrams Mirror, using his Blazing Sun Gu and pillars of sunlight essence to trap Zhou Feng as onlookers feared the attack would draw the Enforcement Team.

Zhou Feng fought Chen Feng, whose greater cultivation and powerful artifacts initially gave him the advantage. Despite being burned and battered, Zhou Feng kept recovering and counterattacked, leaving Chen Feng shocked by his abundant spiritual power and resilience.

• Zhou Feng broke through Chen Feng's Blazing Sun Great Cage and charged into battle, while the watching disciples wondered why the Enforcement Team had not arrived.
• Chen Feng used his flight-granting Blazing Sun Eight Trigrams Mirror to knock Zhou Feng through buildings, but Zhou Feng rose with only minor injuries thanks to his defenses and Self-Healing Physique.
• Chen Feng formed a Sun Sword from Blazing Sun Fire and focused the mirror's light on Zhou Feng, burning him until he looked like charcoal.
• Zhou Feng's aura remained vigorous, and he suddenly punched Chen Feng, jolting him until blood flowed from his mouth and nose.
• As Zhou Feng's injuries began to recover, he counterattacked with his passives while Chen Feng struggled to understand his abundant spiritual power.