Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng refined the Ice Heart Gu and used his remaining spirit stones to draw the Daylight Combat passive skill. With Relay Combat approaching, he hoped to use the new skill to survive longer and gather Soul Power.

• Zhou Feng slowly lured the Ice Heart Gu into his body, where it settled in an insect acupoint and cleared his mind while consuming his Soul Power.
• Zhou Feng decided to spend all the spirit stones in the Storage Ring to draw another Passive Skill.
• Zhou Feng absorbed the spirit stones’ spiritual energy until the Skill Panel’s progress bar filled, leaving the Storage Ring empty.
• Zhou Feng drew Daylight Combat, which increased his speed by ten points beneath sunlight.
• Zhou Feng planned to use Daylight Combat to last longer in Relay Combat and gather Soul Power with Soul Collection before the true prodigies took the stage.

The Three Gu Sect gathered to begin a Relay Combat and discuss choosing a new sect master, with Zhou Feng expected to face challengers seeking revenge. Wei Ling of Five Poisons Peak entered the arena, lured by a promised Fortune Returning Fruit, while Zhou Feng remained unaware that the sect elites had thoroughly studied his abilities.

• The Three Gu Sect’s weakened sect master and declining Leng Clan prompted the elders to consider choosing a successor.
• Disciples gathered around the Life and Death Arena, where they discussed Zhou Feng and the Relay Combat arranged against him.
• Wei Ling of Five Poisons Peak appeared as the first participant after losing much of his cultivation in a failed breakthrough.
• Wei Ling recalled the promise of a Fortune Returning Fruit if he killed Zhou Feng, which could heal his injuries and let him attempt another breakthrough.
• Wei Ling reviewed detailed intelligence on Zhou Feng’s strength and defenses, while Zhou Feng knew nothing about his opponents’ abilities.

Gong Jiu and Ye Zai arrived at the gathering, where their anticipated duel for the next sect master overshadowed Zhou Feng’s relay combat. As Zhou Feng slowly headed to the arena, he killed a lackey who tried to hurry him and considered escaping the Three Gu Sect while its elders were away.

• Gong Jiu arrived with his followers, displaying the cultivation and backing that made him a leading candidate for the next sect master.
• Ye Zai arrived quietly, drawing attention as the sect’s acclaimed genius with a Dragon Blood Gu and a record of surpassing Gong Jiu.
• Attendees wondered why Zhou Feng and the Senior Disciple Sister had not appeared, while Zhou Feng leisurely walked toward the Life and Death Arena to stall for time.
• A lackey tried to hurry Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng activated his techniques and punched the Spirit Platform Eighth Layer cultivator into a cloud of blood.
• Zhou Feng collected Soul Power from the man’s death, then considered whether he could use the elders’ absence to escape the Three Gu Sect.

Zhou Feng arrived at the Life and Death Arena and endured Wei Ling’s Gu insect attacks without striking back. Gong Jiu then personally intervened, crushing Wei Ling with a palm while Zhou Feng dodged the blow.

• Zhou Feng considered leaving the Three Gu Sect but struggled to find a way past its grand formation and the people watching him.
• Zhou Feng reached the arena, where Wei Ling attacked him with a Purple Jade Scorpion and swarms of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes.
• Zhou Feng used his senses and passive skills to evade or withstand Wei Ling’s attacks while deliberately refusing to counterattack.
• Gong Jiu learned that Zhou Feng had killed one of his subordinates and removed his Daoist robe.
• Gong Jiu descended a devastating palm strike that killed Wei Ling and his Gu insects, but Zhou Feng evaded it.

Gong Jiu entered the arena and attacked Zhou Feng, who dodged his first strike before using self-harming techniques to fight him evenly. Gong Jiu unleashed a more powerful attack, and Zhou Feng raised the Purple Jade Bell to meet it.

• Gong Jiu stepped into the arena and formed a giant hand from spiritual energy to attack Zhou Feng.
• Zhou Feng leaped off the arena to evade Gong Jiu's first strike, then returned unharmed.
• Gong Jiu trapped the arena in an invisible force as Zhou Feng activated the Demon Devouring Combat Method, Blood Burning Technique, and Spirit Attachment Method.
• Zhou Feng and Gong Jiu clashed head-on, and their attacks ended in a temporary even match.
• Gong Jiu acknowledged Zhou Feng's strength but declared him no match, then struck with a powerful giant hand.
• Zhou Feng summoned the Purple Jade Bell to block Gong Jiu's attack, and the collision cracked the arena.

Zhou Feng fought Gong Jiu to a standstill, revealing his Purple Jade Bell and enduring Gong Jiu’s strongest attacks. After Zhou Feng struck Gong Jiu in the face, Gong Jiu admitted he had underestimated him and prepared to fight in earnest.

• Zhou Feng blocked Gong Jiu’s strongest strike with the Purple Jade Bell, and Gong Jiu revealed his Five-Colored Dao Robe and Dao Sword.
• Gong Jiu’s Radiant Dao Sword pierced Zhou Feng’s shoulder, but Zhou Feng’s wound rapidly healed as his abilities activated.
• Zhou Feng attacked with a pitch-black fist, and his spirit artifact clashed with Gong Jiu’s Five-Colored Dao Robe.
• Zhou Feng’s Armor-Piercing Spear struck Gong Jiu in the face, disrupting his composed appearance.
• Gong Jiu admitted he had underestimated Zhou Feng, then transformed his robe into armor and prepared to go all out.

Zhou Feng endured Gong Jiu’s assault, replenished his strength with the Medicine Gourd, and discovered that recovering from severe injuries had activated his Old Skin passive again. Gong Jiu offered to let him leave so he could focus on Ye Zai, but Zhou Feng stayed to keep testing his limits, provoking Gong Jiu’s anger.

• Gong Jiu battered Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng’s Armor-Piercing Spear passive let some of his attacks break through Gong Jiu’s defenses.
• Zhou Feng drank the medicinal liquid from the Medicine Gourd and used Level 2 Gluttony to restore his strength, astonishing the onlookers and Ye Zai.
• Gong Jiu acknowledged Zhou Feng’s strength and offered to let him leave the arena while he turned his attention to Ye Zai.
• Zhou Feng realized that surviving and recovering from severe injuries had activated his Old Skin passive, and decided to continue fighting Gong Jiu to strengthen his body.
• Gong Jiu grew angry when Zhou Feng refused to leave and declared that he was courting death.

Zhou Feng provoked Gong Jiu during their fight, but a Witch Worship Cult attack abruptly shattered the Three Gu Sect’s formation and threw the sect into chaos. As the divine statue targeted Gong Jiu and Ye Zai, Zhou Feng suspected Leng Man’er and the Ice Spirit Gu lineage had betrayed the sect, and he faced an uncertain future amid the sect’s apparent collapse.

• Zhou Feng mocked Gong Jiu for repeating the same taunts, enraging him as Ye Zai watched.
• A bewitching chant from the Witch Worship Cult spread through the Three Gu Sect, and a divine statue smashed through the formation protecting the blessed land.
• Zhou Feng tried to flee and found Lakeheart Island silent, with the Sect Master and other experts nowhere to be seen.
• The divine statue recognized Gong Jiu’s Immortal Slaying Gu and Ye Zai’s mutated Dragon Blood Gu as targets.
• Zhou Feng suspected Leng Man’er had helped the Witch Worship Cult enter the sect so the Ice Spirit Gu lineage could escape the struggle for succession.
• As the statue pursued Gong Jiu and Ye Zai, Zhou Feng weighed the possibility of the Three Gu Sect’s destruction and his own fate as a hunted disciple.

As the Witch Worship Cult, Five Ghosts Sect, and White Bone Monastery attacked the Three Gu Sect, Zhou Feng decided to exploit the chaos rather than flee immediately. After recovering, he began hunting isolated cultivators for Soul Power and resources while planning an escape route.

• Ye Zai and Gong Jiu fought the Witch Worship Cult’s divine statue as the Three Gu Sect’s disciples fled, and Zhou Feng escaped the blessed land amid the chaos.
• Zhou Feng recognized that the White Bone Monastery and Five Ghosts Sect had joined the assault and chose to stay in the sect to gather resources and seek more Soul Power.
• A hidden Purple Mansion Realm expert from the Three Gu Sect confronted the divine statue, but Purple Mansion Realm experts from the Five Ghosts Sect and White Bone Monastery soon joined the battle.
• Zhou Feng hid in a room to recover, then killed intruding disciples from the Five Ghosts Sect and White Bone Monastery with the Purple Jade Bell and gained Soul Power.
• After recovering most of his strength, Zhou Feng set out to hunt isolated disciples from the Three Gu Sect and the invading sects while searching for a way to escape.

As Three Gu Sect descended into chaos, Zhou Feng hunted in secret, replenished his Soul Power, and gained the Heart of Tenacity passive. He used the Purple Jade Bell and his speed to break through a guarded exit, escaping into unfamiliar territory.

• Zhou Feng hunted isolated cultivators near the edge of Three Gu Sect and gathered enough Soul Power to fill his skill progress bar.
• Zhou Feng drew the Heart of Tenacity passive, which restored his health after combat when his condition allowed it.
• Zhou Feng decided to escape rather than risk approaching the Scripture Repository, and prepared to use Daylight Combat and the Purple Jade Bell.
• Zhou Feng stunned a Five Ghosts Sect guard with the Purple Jade Bell and raced through the exit before the guards could react.
• Zhou Feng ran into unfamiliar surroundings and realized that he had escaped Three Gu Sect.

After escaping Three Gu Sect, Zhou Feng settled in Fierce Tiger Village while he waited to learn whether the sect had survived the Witch Worship Cult. When the villagers poisoned him as part of a scheme to seize the village chief’s position, he killed everyone in the stockade with the Purple Jade Bell.

• Zhou Feng decided to delay leaving the Southern Border so he could seek a cultivation technique and find out what happened to Three Gu Sect.
• Zhou Feng traveled east and settled in Fierce Tiger Village, planning to leave if Three Gu Sect repelled the Witch Worship Cult or look for spoils if it fell.
• Zhou Feng realized the villagers had poisoned his food with a sleeping drug, but his Immunity to Poisons prevented it from incapacitating him.
• Zhou Feng rang the Purple Jade Bell and killed every villager in Fierce Tiger Village.
• The poisoner died believing the plan would let him kill the old village chief and claim the position for himself.

After learning that Three Gu Sect had fallen, Zhou Feng followed a merchant caravan toward Tianxing City and its rumored Sword God Inheritance. There he found Qian Shang and Qian Qianqian threatened over their Treasure Seeking Rat, and revealed his Spirit Platform Ninth Layer aura to intervene.

• Zhou Feng overheard merchants discussing Three Gu Sect's breached headquarters and learned that Tianxing City held a Sword God Inheritance.
• Zhou Feng decided to follow the caravan to Tianxing City and avoid the surviving experts of Three Gu Sect.
• Qian Qianqian had persuaded Qian Shang to sell most of their goods and leave Three Gu Sect before it was attacked.
• Qin Wan's caravan surrounded Qian Shang's caravan and pressured Qian Qianqian to hand over her Treasure Seeking Rat.
• Zhou Feng recognized Qian Shang and Qian Qianqian, then revealed his Spirit Platform Ninth Layer aura and challenged Qin Wan's threat.

Zhou Feng stopped a confrontation between the Qian Shang Caravan and the Qin Clan Caravan, accepting a Mountain-Driving Spirit Hound pup as an apology. After he said he would leave the Qian family in Tianxing City, Qian Qianqian offered him nearly all their caravan earnings in exchange for his protection.

• Qian Shang recognized Zhou Feng and called him Young Master, making Qin Wan reconsider his confrontation with the Qian Shang Caravan.
• Zhou Feng pressured Qin Wan with his Spirit Platform Ninth Layer aura, and Qin Wan apologized by giving him a newborn Mountain-Driving Spirit Hound.
• Zhou Feng accepted the puppy and let the dispute end so he could continue traveling with the joint caravan to Tianxing City.
• Zhou Feng told Qian Shang he would leave the caravan upon reaching Tianxing City, and Qian Shang begged him to stay as their backer.
• Qian Qianqian offered Zhou Feng ninety percent of the caravan's monthly earnings and access to its services in return for borrowing his name and protection.

Zhou Feng agreed to protect Qian Shang and Qian Qianqian’s caravan in exchange for the benefits they offered. As they traveled toward Tianxing City, he learned about the dangers ahead and began raising the Mountain-Driving Spirit Hound he had acquired.

• Zhou Feng accepted Qian Qianqian’s proposal and became the caravan’s protector, relieving Qian Shang.
• Qian Shang gave Zhou Feng his carriage and explained that Tianxing City was a major Southern Border city ruled by the Divine Ability Realm Ancestor Tianxing.
• Qian Shang warned Zhou Feng that the caravan’s route passed through the dangerous Withered Wood Forest, where Spirit Platform Realm Poison Eagle Beasts lived.
• Qian Shang explained the Mountain-Driving Spirit Hound’s tracking abilities and its thin Sky Dog bloodline, and told Zhou Feng it could eat spirit stones.
• Zhou Feng fed the puppy a spirit stone, named it Big Yellow, and saw it eagerly gnawing on the stone.

While traveling toward Tianxing City, Zhou Feng decided to revive his alchemy skills to earn the resources needed to reach the Purple Mansion Realm. The caravan settled in the wilderness for the night, where a demonic wolf pack surrounded them.

• Zhou Feng reflected on the threat from the Three Gu Sect and concluded that he needed to grow stronger and pursue immortality.
• Zhou Feng recalled Alchemist Yuan's inheritance and decided to study alchemy again so he could trade pills for cultivation resources.
• The combined caravan repelled several minor demonic beast attacks, and Zhou Feng gave Big Yellow another spirit stone.
• The caravan placed Qian Shang's group near its center because Zhou Feng was with them, drawing envy from smaller caravans.
• A series of howls warned the caravan that a disciplined pack of demonic wolves was approaching.

Zhou Feng drove off a Howling Moon Wolf Pack that threatened the joint merchant caravan, then returned to his carriage after quickly recovering from the effort. By morning, the smaller caravans had begun to view him as a potential leader, though Zhou Feng only wanted to reach Tianxing City without delay.

• Big Yellow finished a spirit stone, and Zhou Feng gave him another before leaving the carriage to investigate the wolf howls.
• Qian Shang told Zhou Feng that a Howling Moon Wolf Pack led by a Spirit Platform Realm wolf king had surrounded the caravan and could exploit the smaller caravans' vulnerability.
• Zhou Feng activated the Blood Burning Technique and Spirit Attachment Method, then confronted the Howling Moon Wolf King with his aura.
• The Howling Moon Wolf King failed to suppress Zhou Feng and withdrew its pack, sparing the caravan from an attack.
• Zhou Feng deactivated his techniques, and Heart of Tenacity healed his injuries within moments before he returned to his carriage.
• By morning, small caravans sent gifts to Qian Shang, and the joint caravan's authority began shifting toward Zhou Feng, who had no desire to lead.

Zhou Feng and the joint caravan reached Tianxing City after safely crossing the Withered Wood Forest, and he settled into a remote courtyard. With his Skill Panel ready, Zhou Feng finally began drawing a new Passive Skill.

• Zhou Feng let Qian Shang handle the caravans seeking to join his side while he studied alchemy and fed Big Yellow flawed pills.
• After another month and a half of travel, the joint caravan entered the dangerous Withered Wood Forest, but all the caravans passed through safely.
• Zhou Feng told Qian Shang to hurry straight to Tianxing City, and the group reached the city without trouble.
• Zhou Feng paid the entry tax and bought a small courtyard in a remote part of Tianxing City, leaving Qian Shang and Qian Qianqian to make their own way.
• Zhou Feng opened the Skill Panel and started drawing a new Passive Skill.

After drawing the Treasure Appraisal Eye, Zhou Feng tested its ability to identify a medicinal herb and the Blood Cicada Jade Pendant, then headed to Treasure Hunting Street to try stone gambling. He reached the Stone Gambling House without enough spirit stones for its deposit, but Li Rong'er offered to vouch for him, to Wang Shu's visible dismay.

• Zhou Feng drew the Treasure Appraisal Eye and used it to identify Spirit Awakening Grass, learning it could awaken a spirit beast's intelligence.
• Zhou Feng appraised the Blood Cicada Jade Pendant and learned it was a drop of Blood Cicada blood that could strengthen vitality when worn over time.
• Zhou Feng went to Treasure Hunting Street after hearing that the Stone Gambling House had yielded a piece of Spirit Marrow.
• Zhou Feng discovered he lacked the thousand-spirit-stone deposit needed to enter the Stone Gambling House, and Wang Shu mocked him for being poor.
• Li Rong'er arrived and offered to vouch for Zhou Feng, while Wang Shu stared at her and she showed her disgust for him.

Zhou Feng entered the Stone Gambling House with Li Rong'er and used his Treasure Appraisal Eye to inspect the stones, while Wang Shu grew jealous and arranged to investigate Zhou Feng. The appraisal worked on the waste rock outside, and Wang Shu headed into the inner hall as his servants watched Zhou Feng.

• Li Rong'er took Zhou Feng's hand into the Stone Gambling House despite Wang Shu's protests, and Zhou Feng released her hand and told them to settle their quarrel themselves.
• Wang Shu grew jealous of Li Rong'er’s reaction to Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng intimidated them both and warned Li Rong'er that her personality would not let her live long.
• Zhou Feng used the Treasure Appraisal Eye on a piece of spirit stone mine waste rock and confirmed that it could identify the stones.
• Wang Shu mocked Zhou Feng for inspecting obvious waste rock, while Li Rong'er went into the inner hall nearly in tears.
• Wang Shu entered the inner hall and sent servants to watch Zhou Feng and investigate his background, planning to apologize if Zhou Feng had powerful backing or target him if he did not.

Li Rong'er worried that her timid personality would lead to her death within ten years, while her aunt Li Manya tried to comfort her and investigate what had happened. Meanwhile, Zhou Feng bought a stone that the Treasure Appraisal Eye said contained an Aperture Stone, and the chapter ended as the Stone Gambling House began cutting it open.

• Li Rong'er asked Li Manya whether she was doomed to die within ten years, and Li Manya assured her that the Li Family would protect her.
• Li Manya called for an investigation, but Li Rong'er tried to stop her from retaliating.
• Zhou Feng found that the last stone outside the Stone Gambling House contained an Aperture Stone and decided to buy it for three hundred spirit stones.
• Wang Shu mocked Zhou Feng for choosing the ordinary-looking stone as Zhou Feng entered the inner hall, where Li Manya watched him and sensed that she could not fully see through him.
• Zhou Feng paid to have the stone cut, and Wang Shu declared that he would eat shit and kill himself if it contained anything.